The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
snork!
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They’ve voted themselves into Socialism. Unfortunately, they’re just realising they can only shoot their way out.
Petition for General Elections in the UK Surges Past 2 Million Signatures, as Leftist PM Starmer Keeps Sinking in the…
She woke me up at 0330 this morning, howling outside the bedroom door that her bowl was empty. I ignored…
I keep pointing out that people always choose the better option. The same goes for renewables, if wind turbines and…
Sancho – I don’t dispute that Mulkearns was rotten. Nor that AB Little was “asleep at the wheel.”
We know lots went to the cops regarding many institutions who also did nothing.
I think, like a “social disease” like drug or alcohol abuse, most institutions (if not all) did their best to fix it by moving the creeps, get rid of it, cover it up, just not talk about it and try to forget about it.
These days, if I sacked you because you were a “Minor Attracted Person,” I’d prolly be the one going to gaol!!!
Not at all. I’ve never thought their territorial ambitions were as grand as you believe and they certainly don’t extend to Western Ukraine. So far as the costs are concerned, all we are dealing with are estimates.
Belarus Drafts Every Male 18 to 60 for the Inevitable War
This is very disturbing if true !!!!
From Armstrong Economics –
“Belarus has issued a Draft for all men 18 to 60 years old. This war that our leaders are determined to create is going to be beyond anything previously contemplated. Even the US will most likely adopt a draft and it will be highly probably will be to at least age 45 but perhaps even higher.
The Ukrainian people are FOOLS! Zelensky has been paid off to sacrifice his entire country. He is the modern-day Judas betraying his own people for a handful of silver. The West wants this war and they are using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder to weaken Russia before they make their invasion to seek justice and retribution for Ukraine. There was a Donbas Referendum of 1994, in which the whole world turned a blind eye to those people who have been denied basic human rights because they are ethnically Russian. This is a premeditated war that they need to collapse the monetary system and get to create Bretton Woods II with digital currencies and sovereign debt will all simply evaporate.
Welcome to the real world that these people are openly trying to create where they solidify their authoritarian control and the end of any right to vote.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/belarus-drafts-every-male-18-to-60-for-the-inevitable-war/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
the west is very very sick
Another thing worth remembering is that there woulda been a control group for the Vax.
Betting that you’ll be in the Control Group for Vax 2.0 is a risk I wouldn’t be taking.
Judge was probably Peter Kelly an eccentric
I’m sorry, did he ask Putin to invade?
What a load of cobblers.
“Be a good servant of the people and Christ like, be just like Vidkun Quisling!”
Blast from the past.
Why time-traveling tachyons probably don’t exist (3 Jan)
They feature in Haldeman’s Forever War, which is one of the finest and most prophetic SFs ever written. Indeed it seems we’re living in it, except for the lack of aliens.
Mulkearns simply placed the reputation and standing of the Church above the prevention of child rape.
It’s that simple.
You’re being a bit harsh on Ronny, who can’t defend himself, by the way!
I’d be looking more at the attitudes of the Laity, even parents of victims played 3 wise monkeys.
Her hit was “I will always love you”. Full of bum notes and others only dogs can hear, mandatory listening at nineties bogan weddings the world over. With the off key shrieking of the crackhead I pronounce thee man and wife.
J Rotten
I thought (?) Belarus already had military conscription up to 27 years of age anyway and that some back channeling for Russian military backup support wasn’t going so well?
Dunno the truth but thought I’d read somewhere about Belarus gaoling folks who didn’t already join?…
Well, the first thing I want to say is, I’m really loving the latest manifestation of Gerbil Worming in Sydney in what would normally be high summer.
17 degrees, overcast and feeling even colder thanks to the high wind chill factor. The (very recently foretold) demise of La Niña appears to have been somewhat exaggerated.
Obviously, what’s left of the electrickery grid can’t be dynamited soon enough.
An interesting comic. The Joker’s ‘pregnant’ belly is displayed just like the real pregnant bellies served up to the media, endlessly. It’s just not a good look. It’s never been a good look.
Correct; what wasn’t known was how deep the rot had set in.
Always disliked Whitney/ Uretha and that whole howling at the moon style of singing.
Hooting and caterwauling
Watching Joe Biden Causes Eye Cancer.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/jill-biden-lesion-removed-skin-cancer-screening-rcna64359
In Haldeman’s Forever War the hero comes back home to an Earth where everyone has been made by the UN to turn homosexual. He and his companions are very out of it as they don’t wear makeup, and are still heterosexual.
Are we living in a book?
You can line up people from the 90s that would say that a series of actions had the effect of an invitation.
The warm weather appears to have nicked off to Europe for a break, Rabz.
Indeed – emergency wards across the country have been overwhelmed with casualties presenting with gnawed off limbs. 😕
Sancho – I do enjoy your company at the Cat but are we going to be seeing more of you?
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/7054317/artificial-intelligence-defend-a-human-in-court-first-time/
JCsays:
January 5, 2023 at 4:47 pm
The whole Gerbil Worming crapola is nothing to do with Klimate or CO2, and everything to do with political control.
True somewhat, but if say there’s some catch up technology in further upgrading super-critical coal fired stations, they won;t be able to stop the use globally. Once a few adopt it then it becomes irresistible to the rest.
High Efficiency/Low Emissions (HELE) technology already offers this, and is in use, IIRC, in Japan. Claimed emissions reductions (if such really matter) are around 30 to 35%. The Klimate Kultists oppose it whenever it is mentioned.
Some years ago, a Klimate Kultist, when asked what his position would be if a source of cheap, emissions-free, electricity was invented, described it as equivalent to giving loaded machine guns to children. The Klimate Kult does not want emissions-free electricity, it wants much less electricity.
Damar Hamlin – Commotio Cordis or Something Else?
drbeen
That must be why Putin hasn’t ever attacked Kyiv. Oh wait…
Lysander.
Are you suggesting I am likely to be a defendant?
Or a robo-lawyer?
Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls Republicans opposed to Kevin McCarthy ‘terrorists’ and ‘clowns’
The story was that the SU was going nowhere in the Twenties and Wall Street offered to industrialise the Country, which had been in the doldrums since the Bolsheviks had murdered everyone with a brain.
The price was issuing of shares and the Deed to Crimea, which Stalin agreed to.
Fast forward to Operation Barbarossa, Wall Street lent on FDR to invoke LendLease, which involved letting the Soviets have whatever they wanted from America’s factories.
That was a success, and coupled with Stalin deporting the Tatars from Crimea, Wall Street was expecting Stalin to meet his part of the bargain.
However, the wily Georgian had no intention of giving away Crimea, so Wall Street declared the Cold War thru it’s stooge Winston Churchill.
Stalin then started what looks now like persecutions, Molotov’s wife was sent to the Gulag, that ended when Stalin was [probably] poisoned in 1953.
Anyway, Wall Street still expected to get what they paid for, but Krushchev stymied them by transferring Crimea to the Ukraine SSR in 1954.
So, why Putin retook Crimea is anyone’s guess, but it looks like Wall Street is going to get it by military means now.
From Fartin’ Legstrong, somewhere on the Internet
Lol Sancho…neither! Just that automation tends to do people out of jobs… 🙂
the west is very very sick
Understatement.
Monty is a Vogon, seems obvious.
Lysandersays:
January 5, 2023 at 5:25 pm
Worse, though, was the prevailing thought (in seminaries and other educational institutions) was that men having sex with boys was ok. It was a Greek tradition after all!
A tradition supported by no less a luminary than the Chairman of Their ABC in 1975 (which seems to be a period with many problems in this matter).
From ZMan.
I don’t think he is a fan.
I recall seeing a chart of congress critters that showed Dan Crenshaw outdoing the Pelosi’s in terms of his stock trading acumen last year.
Yes, Zelenskiy, EU and NATO did everything they could to provoke an invasion. From 2014 on. Why? You are witnessing it now.Untold Billions sloshing around with a shot at busting up Russia.
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Precisely.
CO2: a proxy for human life.
It’s humans they are agin, not some bloody gas.
mole
The past is a different place, and it was the same years that one of the big nudie magazines was putting an underage Brooke Shields as the centrefold. Bizarre as that seems now.
And, as mentioned yesterday, an underage Olivia Hussey and her male co-star, also underage, were appearing in a sex scene in Romeo and Juliet.
Or failing that, hideously uglee enough to be an honorary one.
Lysandersays:
January 5, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Sancho – I don’t dispute that Mulkearns was rotten. Nor that AB Little was “asleep at the wheel.”
We know lots went to the cops regarding many institutions who also did nothing.
Yet there have been no calls for Royal Commissions into the studied inactivity of the police in any state.
You mean, AFTER Putin started an insurgency with organised crime warlords (now “separatist” “governments”) working with his special forces?
The Putinistas always forget that part.
Bust up Russia
Translation: Give back all of the land they have stolen since 2008.
Imagine this happening during high fire risk days.
I can. But then it wouldn’t be reported.
Roger:
I prefer to think it’s because we (as in the vast majority of Australians) are powerless to stop them.
F People:
Bloke putting up shed on farm. Finished foundations a couple of days before Christmas, asked for a progress payment as was low on $ for Christmas. He got the $ within the hour.
Stripping the formwork off the footings. If it wasn’t for Dad running around with the Makita cordless vibrator they would have been shit. The one he missed was shit, bonyness all over it and a massive cavity between the cast in hold down bolts.
Comes to put up the shed on the footings and Dad and my sister realise that he’s F up the offset on the middle portal by 35mm. They turn up with my girder drill to fix the problem and the C refuses to fix his F up and puts the frame up anyway.
If I had of been there I would have thrown the P off the job and finished putting it up with my BIL.
Long before the Ukraine conflict it was known the Russian military had pronounced personnel and hardware problems.
War has a way of sorting these out. The Russians now have had the opportunity to use up about to be timex ammo, crank up the production lines (if they ever truly shut down) for more, good data on the performance of their weapons and organisational systems against a near peer adversary, partly armed with western weapons and officers and men who have experience of being shot at. Along with captured western weaponry. I won’t bet that the lessons won’t be swiftly incorporated.
Not in my neck of the woods, TE.
Dotsays:
January 5, 2023 at 5:27 pm
I can’t even..
https://thedirect.com/article/joker-pregnant-dc-comics-photos
This’ll cheer you up:
https://gellerreport.com/2022/10/go-woke-go-broke-dc-comics-cancels-gay-superman-due-to-lack-of-sales.html/?lctg=125336260
Quickest way to get Zelensky to the negotiating table. It worked for a time until Johnson’s visit in late March ended the negotiations in Istanbul.
I don’t read as much as I should but I’m pretty sure the only guys winning in UKR Vs RSS are Raytheon and Co.
“Baddies Vs Baddies” will always be an opportunity for someone.
They have been involved in prior military campaigns and it appears they haven’t learnt the lessons.
Calli:
So she was 35 when she got divorced.
In all that time she didn’t think that there were plenty of men available but she’d have to put a bit of effort into it, and perhaps not settle for Mr Perfect?
What kind of ego demands, despite the abject failure of this policy (apparently) first time around?
Probably one that is looking for failure along with the attendant excuse for failing.
Sympathy from your friends won’t warm your bed sweetheart – but ten cats will.
Does anyone know how to reset a bigpond email account password? It’s a sub-account of the main email account. Previously, I tried to change the password but have stuffed it up. I can still access the main account.
If the majority of Australians refused to vote for the uniparty they’d soon get the message, Bob.
Interesting to see that the Reform party has been reconvened and intends to field candidates in every seat at the next UK election, targeting the Tories. With 8% support according to polls, they won’t win a seat, but they’re providing an opportunity for Conservative voters to register a protest.
I think the old centre left/centre right political consensus model is slowly breaking up in a number of Western countries.
Whoa whoa whoa… we’ll have none of that around here lol 😛
The Beloved and I have decided. Next year we’ll be on the Elvis Express to Parkes. Daggy but fun.
He can be a Bodgie and I’ll be his Widgie. 😀
Or a handbag dog.
You are supporting a fetid western abortion dotty. Ukraine , until the 2014 coup , was a shithole of corruption and thuggery. A sewer where the Biden’s and Nuland et al wallowed in corruption and graft. Ukes are Nazi worhshippers whose Jew killing hero Stepan Bandera was given official state honors. Ukraine has been murdering it’s own citizens for near a decade. in it’s efforts to cleanse Ukraine of Russian ethnics. Now suddenly, Ukraine is holier than the Vatican? A pristine land of only victims in white hats. GMAFB. You really should stop promoting your BS by painting Ukes as victims. It’s stupid. You are buying into the MSM propaganda hook line and sinker. Ukraine (plus NATO) courted this Russian action and they were successful. That is what has happened.
No one yet knows the outcome of this war. What we do know is that every western leader is using it is as a bs excuse for the inflation they have created with their ineptitude and ridiculous policies. Ruinous. We know that untold billions are being fed into Ukraine ending up in many different corrupt accounts. Perfect CIA rivers of dark money. Perfect cover for the Bidens. We know that the stupid naive effeminate LGBTQI+ obsessed west has created the perfect conditions for Russia and China + Saudi and others to become much more closely aligned and collaborative at the expense of the west- a major geopolitical blunder.
So, maybe you shouldn’t forget that part , while you grovel to kiss US /NATO/UK arse.
Sorry if already spoken of. The Hun:
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has accused social media giants of trying to “censor” the case against an Aboriginal Voice to Parliament after Facebook pulled ads urging people to vote “no” in the upcoming referendum because it would give “special rights” to one group of people based on their race.
The ads, which were paid for by conservative lobby group Advance Australia, urged people to oppose a “yes” vote in the referendum because if successful, “we’ll have one race of people with special rights handed to them”.
However, Advance Australia chief Matthew Sheahan said that Facebook’s decision to pull the ads on the basis of “misinformation” – because a fact check by the RMIT FactLab relied on by Facebook said that “the claim that the voice will provide ‘special rights’ … has been rejected by leading constitutional experts” – was incorrect.
Mr Abbott said that Big Tech was joining with the government in trying to force the voice through without a debate.
“The government is hoping to push this through on the ‘vibe’, relying on people’s good will and reluctance to be thought ungenerous to Aboriginal people,” Mr Abbott said.
“But it’s doing its best to slant the playing field against the ‘no’ case by not funding either side, by giving tax deductible status to the ‘yes’ case only, and now by relying on woke public companies to push the ‘yes’ case while relying on Big Tech to censor the ‘no’ case.”
“The fact that voice supporters are already engaging in censorship is yet another reason to be deeply suspicious of making this a forever body by enshrining it in the constitution,” he said.
The accusations come as social media giants come under increasing scrutiny for their role in the 2020 US presidential election.
Last year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his company restricted a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop that contained damaging allegations of corruption against the Biden family in the weeks before the vote.
Mr Sheahan said that the fact checkers had gotten it wrong in this case.
“The activists behind this should check their own biases before masquerading as impartial fact checkers,” he said.
“Why aren’t they fact checking the blatant lie that Indigenous Australians have no voice and no say on matters than affected them, found in they ‘yes’ campaign’s first campaign ad?”
“The truth is you can’t fact check the voice because it has no detail … it is a blank cheque payable to future politicians who can make up the rules as they go along,” he said.
While Advance Australia said its ads have been censored, other pro-voice groups have run ads stating that a voice to parliament will mean that “First Nations people … can have a say” despite 11 members of the current parliament identifying as Aboriginal.
According to RMIT, “Leading legal and constitutional experts have rejected the claim that the proposed Voice to Parliament will provide “special rights” to one race of people.”
However other experts and commentators have disagreed and said that the voice could lead to special rights on the basis of race.
Chris Merritt, vice president of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia, said that if the voice passed, “it would send a permanent message that this country is no longer committed to equal rights for all.”
“Equal citizenship rights means we are all treated equally by the state and not singled out for special treatment, but that’s exactly what’s going to happen with the voice.”
Asked about their work on the issue, a spokesman for RMIT said that “the fact check still stands” despite differing views on the subject.
A spokesman for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said: “Meta partners with independent fact checkers in Australia to help reduce the spread of misinformation online, and the fact checkers themselves decide which posts to review. We also reject ads that have been rated as false by fact checkers.”
RMIT independent fact checking. I think I may have seen some porcine flesh drifting through the air.
Oh, right…well, that’s settled then.
Why have a referendum at all?
Just poll the constitutional “experts.”
RMIT fact check is using some fairly dodgy ‘logic’.
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/factlab-meta/the-proposed-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-will-not-confer–spe
Professor Anne Twomey, a member of the Constitutional Expert Group that provides the government with legal support on constitutional matters relating to the referendum, told RMIT FactLab that “the proposed constitutional amendment does not confer any special rights”.
Professor Twomey added: “It just requires the establishment of a body with the function of making representations to parliament.”
She said that any individual or organisation can make representations to parliament by way of petitions, which are tabled in parliament, or by making representations to their local member of parliament.
Bodies with collective interests, such as unions, community groups, charities and business organisations, can also make submissions to parliamentary committees to point out problems or propose changes to bills being debated in parliament, she said.
“People with similar interests often band together in groups in their hope that their collective voice will be more influential than their individual submissions,” she said. “The Voice would be one such group.”
Professor Twomey likened the Voice to other statutory bodies that can make representations to parliament through reports, reviews or recommendations, such as the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Productivity Commission.
“The fact that the majority of people appointed to those bodies are lawyers and economists cannot be treated as giving members of those bodies ‘special rights’ and discriminating against doctors and plumbers,” she said.
The reason particular professionals dominate those bodies is due to their expertise and relevant experience, she said.
“The same can be said of a group of Indigenous Australians who have expertise and experience in how laws directed towards them are likely to affect them,” she said.
Professor Twomey said it was up to parliament to decide how the Voice would be composed and what its powers, procedures and other functions would be.
Im sorry miss Twomey, but do lawyers/doctors etc have a role for their representative bodies written into the constitution?
Assigning expertise in matters based solely on race, that seems a little … racist? Should we (to use the oldest stereotype) assign Jewish people special representation on money lending based on race?
…
The verdict
False. The proposed Voice to Parliament will not provide “special rights” to anyone, nor will it change or reduce the rights of non-Indigenous people, according to leading legal and constitutional experts. The proposed Voice provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with an opportunity to make representations to the parliament and the executive on matters that impact them.
OVER AND ABOVE THE ABILITY OF OTHER AUSTRALIANS.
French Interior Minister Mocked After Saying “Only” 690 Cars Torched On New Year’s Eve
Does anyone take the idea of “fact checkers” to be a serious construct? It doesn’t seem likely. If so, isn’t it an implicit admission that the press are not to be trusted since initially it was meant to be their job.
Factcheckers are employed by the Ministry of Truth.
I do. They are a division of the Ministry of Truth.
I regard Facefilth as probably the greatest abomination of the 21st century after the Bush-hoWARd-bLIAIR illegal war.
Snap!
Trump got nowhere in draining the swamp.
It was a nice sentiment though.
Friendly reminder:
You don’t have to support Victoria Nuland if you don’t like Putin.
You don’t have to believe that Putin is the saviour of Christendom if you have an objective and rightly cynical & very critical view of Ukraine.
“Nayzee hero, Stevie Banderiski”
Do I need to mention Winston “Shooting ragheads” Churchill?
We knew this was coming. There’s no end to their perversion and perversity.
World Economic Forum Declares Pedophiles ‘Will Save Humanity’
How the COVID vaccines can kill athletes
You’d think Crenshaw would be the last person to use the word terrorists so flippantly.
I mean, England literally had a war to stop a dynasty of (ahem, French) Steves from ruling.
Hungary? Terrible people!
DiedSuddenly
@DiedSuddenly_
“If you decline Moderna and are “waiting” for Pfizer you are a piece of garbage. Take the f**king vaccine you are able to get.“
– Liam Coward, June 2021
Liam Coward #diedsuddenly one week ago of “unknown causes” at the age of 27.
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1610713573914820628
It seems that more European leaders are going to want to join the winning side before it’s too late! Think of all the Latin American and Arab countries that were lining up to issue formal declarations of war in 1944-45 against Hitler so as not to be left out. Putey is going to get f—— curb-stomped bigly!
WHO recently labelled covid vax sceptics “terrorists”.
Seems “mentally ill” passes aren’t so easy to obtain these days.
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
“This is Basically a Smoking Gun”
Dr. John Campbell Summarizes Peer-Reviewed Autopsy Results of Sudden Deaths Following COVID Vaccination
The study he’s discussing was linked –
Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination
Haha! When are they going to start doing that?
Republican and Liberal parties singing off the same hymn sheet it seems. No care for the constituents who voted them in, all stamping on each other to climb the greasy pole of power (possible phrasing) whilst voting for abominable Bills that decimate the ordinary man.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Pandemic of denial.
Sudden Cardiac Death In Athletes:
? 2.4 per month (1966-2004)
? 46.4 per month (2021-2022)
In Overnight Vote, Buffalo Guy Elected Speaker Of The House
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a shocking overnight vote held by the House of Representatives, the QAnon Shaman, aka “The Buffalo Guy” has received the majority of votes required to become Speaker of the House.
Robert Sewell, Seems I’m not the only one who thinks the same about Whitney. I was wondering how she would’ve gone in opera with some training, she had a great range, not much discipline. probably would’ve still been alive too. If she could be half as good as this pair, she would’ve been very very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrm59zqCKEU
Anna Netrebko & El?na Garan?a
You’re brainwashed , dotty. Lost to western MSM propaganda. Putin is no savior of Christendom by any stretch. Repeating that garbage sounds like you pilfered mOron’s daily leftist shit sheet.
You need to ask yourself; Are the costs (yet more debt) , the losses and the risk (of nuke exchange) worth it?
Or, is something else afoot here? After all, we were treated to 2+ years of Covid lies, propaganda , conspiracy , outrageous debts and outright statist brutality by these grubs. Are you saying now you actually buy their pro-Ukraine bullshit?
AI Has Come to Save the Arts from Themselves
ChatGPT and DALL-E have hastened the day when artists must evaluate themselves against higher standards, above all those of originality and creative bravery.
Mockers! Disbelievers! I’ve got Pemulwuy’ greatest hits on CD. It’s a bit scratchy because of the transfer from vinyl but great driving music.
Reports claim he had a ‘tragic accident’ then died after being placed in a medically induced coma.
rickw “If I had of been there I would have thrown the P off the job and finished putting it up with my BIL.”
My wife can’t understand why I prefer to do as much of our projects as possible, but the few times I’ve used contractors or subbies I end up with poor work from them, there are exceptions but I only use people I now know their work to be good. Takes longer but I don’t get a shit job and pay twice or more what it was worth.
I doubt that.
Delusional. Just stop.
Interesting op-ed piece in the WSJ
All for a shithole no one ever cared about , like Ukraine?
Huh?
Much of WW1 and WW2 was fought in Ukraine.
The soil in parts is the best in the world.
The problem is that Stalin promised Wall Street Crimea in 1929 and reneged on the deal.
The present war is all about closing out that deal.
Is Zelensky a good guy?
No.
Is Putin a good guy?
Well, he’s lost a lot of men and equipment with not much to show for it, so probably no.
Not silly, since AOC was trying yesterday to get herself elected as Speaker.
As a “unity candidate” no less. Stop laughing.
AOC inserts herself into GOP speakership drama, floats ‘coalition government’ (4 Jan)
Spike protein does not agree with whatever they juice themselves with these days.
Enjoying a magnificent sunset just now.
Over and out.
Calling this human garbage evil is an understatement
You owe the signals platoon sergeant a carton……..
That dirty old woman, the mafia princess from Baltimore.
I called this from the start – a toasty warm winter it is! And we all know what that means…lots of ‘splodey weapons being sent Ukraine’s way….Kaboom!
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Epo to increase red blood cell counts?
My wife can’t understand why I prefer to do as much of our projects as possible, but the few times I’ve used contractors or subbies I end up with poor work from them, there are exceptions but I only use people I now know their work to be good.
I had one bastard build a house extension. I checked his work every night. Was hitting most dimensions within a mm so started to relax oversight. He put up the steelwork for the mezzanine and said he “had a few problems”. Well the few problems came from the fact he had it’s location 100mm out. Instead of working out what went wrong, he ploughed on. This led to some massive clearance issues later on.
It’s one thing to make a mistake on a job. But it’s an entirely different thing to hide it, ignore it, etc. which is what most of these bastards seem to do.
Unscrewing life from overseas absence, tick.
Picking up mail from post office this morn noticed shuttered doors, LOL welcome home I suppose.
Just now 40-50mm of rain in an hour & half sprinkled with sheet lightning and rumbles lubricated with a goldy, noice.
Wrong problem Arky. If widespread red blood cell was the loss anemia rates would be soaring. Actually boost red blood cells beyond the norm places increased loading on the cardiovascular system. Just ask a few, or perhaps many, professional cyclists!
Anyone with real estate expertise in Chiang Mai?
Looking at some stuff in Saraphi and Mae On. Saraphi is actually quite doable, Mae On, great views but bigger $. Contingency plan for Australia’s pending Winter 2023 insanity. (Farang can’t buy land, but the Little Bloke isn’t Farang!)
Zipster:
…and the correction* will be horrible.
* there’s always a correction back to the mean. Just because some refuse to believe it will make no difference.
I would have torn him a new arse for being outside RL (Reference Level) and FFL (Finish/Final Floor Level), shit like that can be done off a string line from a hurdle on the RL. Not only would i have not paid for work i would be back-charging for remedial work.
For those who say a 100ml isn’t much, that is true until it’s your property.
Mockers! Disbelievers! I’ve got Pemulwuy’ greatest hits on CD. It’s a bit scratchy because of the transfer from vinyl but great driving music.
Dude! It’s VERY scratchy after:
Bark Disk -> Wax Cylinder -> Vinyl -> 8 track -> CD !!!!
From Indolent’s link …
Aspiration!
I’m not sure I believe this. I do believe that our “leaders” are sick, and that they have fixed things so we can’t replace them. And yes, they will get their just desserts in due course.
I don’t believe it. Leadership is woeful. As I have previously mentioned when leaders everywhere are failing it says more about the times than the leaders. Perhaps but modern democracies seem to heading downhill on leadership quickly. Fortunately, the West is more than leaders. Sorry Doc but I don’t believe that will get their just desserts.
Aspiration!
I got a kick up the arse at previous job for warning my crew that should they decide to get vaccinated, that they should confirm/insist upon correct aspiration of the syringe….
an RHS on the wrong side of a chalk line?
measure twice, cut … oooh, smoko time!!
Bespoke:
Crenshaw rapidly lost his protective colouring as a ‘seeker-of-Truth’ to become just another RINO, IMHO.
Disappointing.
He could have just said, the Governor who abandoned her child.
The infestation is very widespread, it’s not just confined to the leadership. It will take a least a generation or a major war to swing it back. The later will probably arrive first.
article by Janet Albrechtsen has over 1400 comments – not many in support of corporatism.
Bar Beach Swimmer says: Does anyone know how to reset a bigpond email account password?
It’s the same password as your Telstra.com.au account. You go into that and there is a section called “Profile” – change the password in there.
Carpe and all.
One of the problems I have seen is the “she’ll be right” factor, and the “bump it to the next trade”.
The framing guys think the plasterers should true-up the studs and joists. The plasterers think the painter can fill the Grand Canyon. The painter is an artist who won’t fill a gap wider than a hair. The sparkie doesn’t wash his hands doing fit-off after the painter has been.
And so it goes.
Having said that, we have got a great builder. The answer is always “we can do anything”, but will explain knock-on effects and suggest alternatives.
He could have just said, the Governor who abandoned her child.
Her daughter married peanuthead, you idiot.
By the way, it’s Reduced Level, not Reference Level.
An interesting interview about the multiverse and touches on string theory
GAETZ: McCarthy Has No Ideology. He’s a Vessel for Lobbyists.
That’s no secret.
McCarthy is the Repubs best fundraiser.
He’s their Nancy Pelosi.
So, if they wanna have any hope in 2024, they’ve gotta elect him.
This is lousy, posturing science, telling ppl what they want to believe, Tinta. It’s just the argument from design tarted up. And very threadbare by now.
Indolentsays:
January 5, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Dr John Campbell, really feeling the burden of these latest findings. From blue pilled to red pilled in a little over a year. To paraphrase him, it’s not mild when the result is death.
Today I learned that the Cleveland Clinic has over 50,000 employees in the US & more overseas.
I had no idea of the size of their operations.
From one of those John Campbell youtube vids, I should add.
That’s not a criticism it is a requirement of being in the House.
I think someone is getting her mixed up with Triggs.
Ed Casesays:
January 5, 2023 at 9:05 pm
He could have just said, the Governor who abandoned her child.
Her daughter married peanuthead, you idiot.
By the way, it’s Reduced Level, not Reference Level.
Another loss of Google-fu, Richard Cranium. Try again.
I called this from the start – a toasty warm winter it is! And we all know what that means…lots of ‘splodey weapons being sent Ukraine’s way….Kaboom!
You’re an A grade creep
One thing from spending a bit of time travelling over the break. Jetstar get a bad rap, deservedly so mostly. However one thing I noticed was how junior their people seem, just the PA announcements at MEL Terminal 4 the other day were far from polished. One girl had a loud over the top voice that came across as boganish (If she was trying emulate what Virgin does please don’t, it irritates me there as well when use them). The other kept pausing mid sentence to think what to say next and mispeaking only to correct afterwards. The onboard crew weren’t bad but I have been told the aviation industry has been doing a lot of training after COVID.
I haven’t done much air travel since COVID but have noticed even on the Qantas Queensland routes that none of the regular flight crew that I used to come across in the past are around anymore. Made me start to ponder about the pilot hours and training…
TE, thanks for answering my question. Unfortunately, I had to change my passwords because of the Medibank security debacle. However, when I did I stuffed up the sub account email password. The main account is ok.
Before I can put in a new password, it wants to know the old one. So at this stage I’m in a no-win holding pattern. I’ve logged a problem with Telstra, it just remains to be seen how long it will take them to answer it and hopefully fix the problem. That’s if I can’t find another, quicker way.
On Jetstar’s Hawaii round trip, they are currently using exclusively asian on-board staff (except for the pilots who are thankfully aussies ).
It feels like flying Singapore Airlines. The hosties are very competent, but English is distinctly a second language to them.
I wonder if they’re just cheaper, or if there is a general shortage.
Indeed
I’ve seen Jetstar referred to as the ‘ bogan rocket’. Agree about the youth, the poor lass who was by herself at the counter at Maroochydore Airport on the Friday before Christmas looked like she couldn’t have been much older than 18.
Or something. Something that generates years of real grinding hardship, that focuses the west again on what truly matters to their future prosperity. To have the common sense to elect reps that actually act responsibly, rather than like bandits with keys to the bank.
The best bit on Bryce is that she is the only Sex Discrimination Commissioner ever to have been successfully accused of sex discrimination.
I’ve seen Jetstar referred to as the ‘ bogan rocket’.
Indeed because it is cheap. Should have seen what used to come off the Denpasar flight in Darwin. Saw it first hand when I have flown from Singapore to Darwin and it was very much an eyeopener of the ugly Australian.
However there’s another demographic you forget, the “Hyacinth Bucket” type that abounds too…
Something about a file note “ANOTHER male, wasting our time with trivialities!!!!!” Also, wasn’t she involved in the infamous Heiner affair?
Ed uses RL’s a lot in his gypsum mine.
“Dame Quentin Bryce “
Who offered to resign as GG when her son-in-law, Billy Boy Shorten, was elected Labor leader in October 2013.
Tone Abbott, always the gentleman, refused to accept her resignation. It didn’t bode well for the Abbott government. It was only a little over a month since his landslide election and the rot quickly began.
“You’re an A grade creep”
A generous description, Milton.
Ah yes, Tone Deaf Abbott, who within weeks of his landslide election appointed Stott Despoiler to a cosy government role and refused to accept Bryce’s resignation.
I look back and now think that the Liberal years are akin to a recurring nightmare, a nightmare that went on for almost nine years, of disappointment, of hopelessness, of bewilderment, of anger, of despair and of fury.
From blue pilled to red pilled in a little over a year.
Must be tough slowly realising that you profession is responsible for the most monstrous f’ck up in the history of mankind.
Stott Despoiler to a cosy government role and refused to accept Bryce’s resignation.
She’s genuinely vile, as are most in her profession.
On Jetstar’s Hawaii round trip, they are currently using exclusively asian on-board staff (except for the pilots who are thankfully aussies ).
That’s a pretty good combination.
And every day for a while I was silly enough to think it was going to get better Cassie, what an optimistic fool was I.
Discussion on an old thread about the best history of the battle of Jutland.
When John Jellicoe – the victorious British commander died, in 1935 – the flags of three nation’s navies –
including that of Hitlers Kriegsmarine – were lowered in salute.
Sitting by the pool, great weather, beer in hand, not in Australia!!
Pretty good!
Discussion on an old thread about the best history of the battle of Jutland.
The Little Bloke recommends “Famous Sea Battles”, may not be the best reference but he likes it! 🙂
“And every day for a while I was silly enough to think it was going to get better Cassie, what an optimistic fool was I.”
You weren’t the only optimistic fool. But now, I’m now so damaged by the last nine years of Liberal do nothing governments that not only do I have zero expectations from the Liberals, I’ll no longer vote for them!
Encourage him to read!
You weren’t the only optimistic fool.
The flag that they were actually a bunch of treacherous f’cking communist dogs was 1996.
Was thinking the other day that Joe Rogan had been fairly quiet in relation to Covid and interviewing Dr’s etc.
Well he is back on the subject big time in latest interview with Bret Weinstein. Am only half way though the three hour interview but a few points so far.
They discuss the Jordan Peterson issue of having to undergo some media training because critical of PM Trudeau.
Detailed discussion on the more vaccinated the more vulnerable you are (ie. recent studies).
Rough quotes
“exaggerated case fatality rate is not one that should have caused us to vaccinate billions”.
About vax “Undeniable pattern of danger to young people”.
“somehow whatever it is driving this policy is comfortable with the deaths” when talking about health authorities not changing policies.
Bret then discusses “black budgets” where so much money is generated off the books that funds can be used for other things. He makes a case for people knowing early (ie. at time of Wuhan games) but that there may have been reasons why it was beneficial to some to delay the knowledge about the virus as gave them time to plan to benefit (ie, share buying etc). He uses the term “time travelling money printer” (ie. they slowed time of knowledge spread to make money).
Now getting onto myocarditis and both highly complimentary of Dr John Campbell and his approach. Talking about aspiration that John mentioned long time ago. Mentioned unluckier if injection hit blood vessel. Now talking about Chris Martinsen and batch issues (this has definitely been covered by Aussie Twitter guy Jikkyleaks in past week).
Encourage him to read!
He’s in Grade 1 but his reading level is assessed as Grade 3. I actually get home to read books like this to me. His favourite part of this book is the diagrams that show the routes of the vessels with time stamps. He understands how it works.
He also understands the importance of “crossing the T” and on our set piece manoeuvres he comes up with some innovative ways of doing this.
Unfortunately I can’t find a waterline series of warships I made out of fruit crates when I was a kid, coated in grey enamel paint. Perfect for these exercises!
(I was given Famous Sea Battles by the shire council on completing Grade 6, I’m certain shit like this doesn’t happen anymore!)
He uses the term “time travelling money printer” (ie. they slowed time of knowledge spread to make money).
Interesting: see the good in everything and use it to your advantage.
1500km.
With a rescue dog.
Knackered. Half as much again tomorrow (750ish) and it’s done.
Knackered. Half as much again tomorrow (750ish) and it’s done.
What the heck are you doing?!
Driving from D-Town to Mongyang rickw.
Be here till the end of Feb. Will need to get around a fair bit – I had the old man’s car after he died last August but that’s not around now, so driving it is.
1000km Day 1, 500 yesterday and 1500 today.
So far, it’s been emotional. Farther time for now.
Driving from D-Town to Mongyang rickw.
Pure insanity! Take care!
Jet lag is fun stuff. Still wide awake. Another day or two it should settle down.
Wowee, seas west of Solomon Is & Fiji looks like it is going to brew a potential monster in 2 weeks if GFS is correct right where Yasi formed up. Upper level ridge building south of it by the last run too.
2 weeks is an eternity in weather terms and the GFS model overstates everything.
Waiting for the back end of that tropical depression over NQ to move through, currently have a northerly flow. Once that swings SE we should get a drenching in the early hours of tomorrow.
Jet lag is fun stuff. Still wide awake. Another day or two it should settle down.
The last couple of days before flight you need to run on 50% normal sleep so you develop the ability to sleep up a hollow log at mid day!!
Cohenite would love it here, some muscular Eurotrash chick showing everyone on table next door how small her bikini is. 🙂
red eye express
1000km Day 1, 500 yesterday and 1500 today.
Nice. 10 to 15 hundred usually has been my usual when driving south from the ‘ville. Sometimes north bound I have been adventurous when getting the other side of Emerald at night and just pushing through. Not really much north of Injune but even less north of Clermont.
Safe trip.
Looks like it’s nap time for everyone!
Really is nap time for everyone….
I think, you are using the wrong approach, instead of ‘resetting’ use ‘forgot password’
If resetting, it’s assumed you know your old one, this does not apply to forgotten passwords.
Interesting. Just finished listening to Joe Rogan interview on Spotify and then goes straight into TNT news which I have listened to before. Spotify automatically gone into it.
TNT news is 24 hours and hosts are from USA, Ireland and Australia.
I showed CCP my boot sole repair.
“You guys are like Chinese of old, you can do everything!”
This is a post made on Twitter today by Prof Peter Docherty (the Docherty Institute guy who won a Noble prize). He was replying to a moron asking about more jabs.
“Up to policy makers, advized by the CMO, & to ATAGI who will have access to whatever data sets are out there. Just giving adults 4 doses of vaccine in relatively short succession has been a massive experiment. Detailed immunology analysis will come through, but that takes time”.
There you have it. Exactly what Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said almost 2 years ago about being in a clinical trial.
Detailed immunology analysis will come through, but that takes time
You f’cking negligent arrogant bastards, explain to me why you shouldn’t be hung your necks until dead.
Johannes Leak.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Bob Gorrell.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis #2.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
Indeed, I suspect the ‘Rebels’ know McConnell will get the job but are
trying to force some concessions.
Is Canadas suicide program diverse enough?
Bret then discusses “black budgets” where so much money is generated off the books that funds can be used for other things.
One of the most shameful acts that happened under the Trump administration was the seizing of Venezuelan assets.
What Venezuela did to contracts & assets that negatively impacted US companies wasn’t dissimilar to what the Saudi’s did with all contracts & assets that were agreed to before the US showed up.
Something about a file note “ANOTHER male, wasting our time with trivialities!!!!!” Also, wasn’t she involved in the infamous Heiner affair?
No.
Doesn’t seem that routine.
$50,000 boat seized over Aussie fishermen’s ‘illegal’ act
Also
How you mispell Peter?
9news link
Whoa, there RickW. Pull yourself together. I think we have been through this before. It is “hanged” not “hung”
Tele paywalled
ATO vows to crack down on glam ‘influencers’ and their ‘gifts’
The ATO is targeting Australia’s multimillion-dollar ‘influencer’ industry, vowing to tax social media stars’ ‘gifts’ from companies, make them pay GST, and stamp out bogus deductions
Dilbert
Dilbert 2
A golfer is in a competitive match with a friend, who is ahead by a couple of strokes. “Boy, I’d give anything to sink this putt” the golfer mumbles to himself.
Just then, a stranger walks up beside him and whispers “Would you be willing to give up a quarter of your sex life to sink the putt?”
Thinking the man is crazy and his answer will be meaningless, the golfer also feels that maybe this is a good omen, so he says “Sounds good to me” and promptly sinks the putt!
Two holes later, he mumbles to himself again “Gosh, I wish I could get an eagle on this one”.
The same stranger is suddenly at his side again and whispers “Would it be worth giving up another quarter of your sex life to make an eagle?”
Shrugging, the golfer replies “Okay” and, amazingly, he makes the eagle.
On the final hole, the golfer needs another eagle to win. Without waiting for him to say anything, the stranger quickly moves to his side and says “Would winning this match be worth giving up the rest of your sex life?”
Definitely” the golfer replies, and, sure enough, he makes the eagle and wins the match!
As the golfer is walking to the club house, the stranger walks along beside him and says “I haven’t really been fair with you because you don’t know who I am. I’m Satan, and from this day forward you really will have no sex life at all”.
“Nice to meet you” the golfer replies “I’m Father Gleason”.
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
– Wernher von Braun
I just worked out I’ve trucked four thousand tonne of grain and travelled five thousand kilometres this harvest so far.