Open Thread – New Year’s Weekend 2023


The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840


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Robert Sewell
January 6, 2023 12:49 pm

Calli:

Thanks for posting this. There may be details that you don’t agree on, but she’s right on the money with media suppression now compared to media coverage back then. And also the dismissal of “lockdown”.

I went to post this on my Gargantuan FB site – readers 1 – occasional readers -2, only to find out I’ve been blocked from posting!
All because I said that the Canadian PM was a dirty faggot without a dick, and no standing!
How Rude!

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 12:52 pm

I’m not saying Ukraine isn’t long term effed.

Putin has “met his Vietnam”.

Here’s a question: How many dead Ukrainians and Russians does it take to stop degeneracy in the West?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 6, 2023 12:54 pm

EXCLUSIVE: Colonel Richard Kemp slams Prince Harry’s ’25 kills’ claim as security threat

Colonel Richard Kemp, a former British Army commander in Afghanistan, has said Prince Harry’s claim of killing 25 Taliban fighters is a security threat and “undermines” the “good work” he did in the Armed forces

Now Col Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, has told the Mirror: “All the good work Prince Harry did on behalf of the Armed forces has been undermined by his comments.

“Not only has he gone too far in talking about this in terms of himself but it may have repercussions for others.

“As a member of Royal Family he has to accept being something of an ambassador for the UK – so his comments may effect the security of his former comrades on foreign operations …”

Most soldiers are unaware of exactly how many opposition forces they kill but Harry wrote that he knew his exact body count because of top-of-the-range military technology.

He explained that he fought “in the era of Apaches and laptops.”

But he added that: “…it seemed essential not to be afraid of that number. So my number is 25.

“It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me.”

The explosive revelation in his book Spare is the first time he has revealed how many deaths in Afghanistan he was responsible for.

His deadly deployment came after he retrained on Apaches in the Army Air Corps, having begun his career as a cavalry officer.

How to Paint a Target on Your Back – Hairy Harry does lack Brains

MAUREEN CALLAHAN: So now we know! Harry hasn’t only recently become small-minded, spoiled, jealous, narcissistic and enraged at his brother for merely existing. He’s ALWAYS been that way

The Harry we have come to know, the Duke of Dishonor and Disgrace, is just that petty.

For all his name-calling and score settling (William pushed me!), no one in these pages looks worse than Harry himself.

No slight is too slight to go unrecorded: William took the better bedroom at Balmoral, the bigger one with a view. ‘My half was smaller and less luxurious,’ our fallen prince writes, because – wait for it —

‘Willy was the Heir, while I was the Spare.’

We know. We got the memo long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cassie of Sydney says: January 6, 2023 at 9:08 am
Hmm, so the ISIS scum were dumped out west, dumped way way out west. No, not in urban western Sydney Labor electorates but rather in a rural National electorate, the electorate of Riverina, currently held by Mr Personality of the Year, Michael McCormack.

Plentyfella of my ‘lations live in that electorate, including some in the town where “Koran Mary” was resettled.
They’ll be ropeable upon discovering Anal surreptitiously dropped a nest of vipers into their towns.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 1:07 pm

Question for the constitutional lawyers…

If the Voice recognises indigens in the constitution, is there a potential for this to “destabilise” the ’88 Mabo decision? Or is this a question for the lawyers who look forward to making lots o’ money on these issues in the courts over the next few years?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 6, 2023 1:07 pm

Its why i hope the much vaunted “hypersonic missiles” end up being duds, if they work as claimed they China is likely to think its nullified the USAs naval advantage and Taiwan will look like a good target.

Struggling with the whole ‘hypersonic nuclear missile as game changer’ concept. Let’s imagine China (or Russia) uses one to vaporise an aircraft carrier group.

What happens next?

And how is that dramatically different from using a ballistic missile to start whatever exchange takes place?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 6, 2023 1:08 pm

I went to post this on my Gargantuan FB site – readers 1 – occasional readers -2, only to find out I’ve been blocked from posting!

You’re not allowed to say no to the holy voice Winston.

‘Engaging in censorship’: Former prime minister Tony Abbott blasts tech giants for pulling anti-Voice advertisements (5 Jan)

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has rallied against social media giants after a series of paid advertisements opposing the Voice to Parliament were pulled.

Advance Australia’s ads pushing people to reject the upcoming referendum were removed by Facebook over what it labelled “misinformation”, according to the lobby group’s chief Matthew Sheahan.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Mr Abbott accused the government and big tech of slanting the playing field in favour of the “yes” vote.

Says everything you need about the Voice. It’s a voice of fascism.

calli
calli
January 6, 2023 1:09 pm

Ahaha! It’s an UpTick-off!

Must be Friday.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 1:11 pm

Mr Personality of the Year, Michael McCormack

Lol!!! I was sitting next to this guy a few years ago at a funeral and I kept saying to the missus “This guy looks kinda familiar” which kind of spoke for itself…. 😛

calli
calli
January 6, 2023 1:11 pm

He may have rallied, but he probably railed.

miltonf
miltonf
January 6, 2023 1:15 pm

The dirty diana dog sure popped out a nasty one there

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 1:16 pm

Putin has “met his Vietnam”.

public opinion is not something putin is going to lose sleep over

the russian economy is already in war production, the borders are about to close for the second mobilisation, even though the first hasn’t been fully rolled out to the front yet. Russia is reversing their no first strike nuclear policy. there is no possibility of a colour revolution in russia or any uprising against putin. most russians agree that something needed to be done about uke aggression against russian speakers in donbass.

its very likely that the SMO will be shortly upgraded to total war status.

If I was in russian high command I would focus on cutting off the supply of weapons from the west, without which ukraine would collapse in a couple of months.

zelensky made a joke about nato vs russia and heavy russian losses, the punch line was nato hasnt arrived yet.

these people are all madmen, perverts and satanists

DaFisk
DaFisk
January 6, 2023 1:24 pm

most russians agree that something needed to be done about uke aggression against russian speakers in donbass.

The fecking Donbass is like the holy land for Putinist cranks, just as Teh Russian Winter is either the Holy Spirit that delivers miracles (or the Second Coming of Christ that never arrives). This has become fundamentally a religious expedition for fringe nutballs. Even the “realists” who thought Putin could somehow be recruited into an anti-China coalition have given up on this failed crusade!

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 1:25 pm

these people are all madmen, perverts and satanists

Of course. Good people invade countries all of the time! Their hands were forced, I tells yas!

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 1:26 pm

Tucker on McCarthy’s 11th loss to get Speaker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSiK4J8GPxI

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 1:29 pm

most russians agree that something needed to be done about uke aggression against russian speakers in donbass.

I thought Putin didn’t care about vox pops?

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 1:29 pm
Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 1:30 pm

Swindon data
Dr. John Campbell

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 1:31 pm

I thought Putin didn’t care about vox pops?

I think you need to look at the issue of russian red lines, unlike obama red lines.

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 6, 2023 1:37 pm

+1
Recruiting coppers who have no affinity for the population they’re policing.

I was watching the news last night and a story about some sandgropers trying to save a shark came on. Everybody that was interviewed was a fing pom!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Diogenes says: January 6, 2023 at 1:37 pm
+1
Recruiting coppers who have no affinity for the population they’re policing.
I was watching the news last night and a story about some sandgropers trying to save a shark came on. Everybody that was interviewed was a fing pom!

Yeah. I feel the pain.
Kiwis & Poms in QPlod have made a most memorable contribution to police/public relations.

Cassie of Sydney
January 6, 2023 1:45 pm

“Teh Russian Winter is either the Holy Spirit that delivers miracles”

Poor old DaStink, always scoffing and sneering. That “Holy Spirit” called the Russian winter most certainly delivered miracles against King Charles XII, Napoleon and Hitler.

Arky
January 6, 2023 1:45 pm

Australia’s average life expectancy fell for the first time in a generation in 2021-22 and is expected to fall again this year because of a temporary spike in deaths from COVID-19 and other causes.
The life expectancy for women and men is projected to have fallen by nearly five months in the year ended June 30, while life expectancy this year is expected to fall a further 3.6 months for women and 2.5 months for men.
Australians have taken a hit to their life expectancy. Michele Mossop
However, the drop will only be temporary, says the government’s Population Statement 2022, released on Friday.

..
It’s a transitory drop in life expectancy.

Arky
January 6, 2023 1:46 pm

-from the fin review.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 6, 2023 1:47 pm

Struggling with the whole ‘hypersonic nuclear missile as game changer’ concept.

Im thinking conventional hypersonic not nuclear.

The subs is a good point though, but how well can they operate if the surface fleet has copped a hiding from those missiles?

And as for oil being piped, Im sure this pipeline is a major target 5 seconds after crap kicks off.

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/ci/research-analysis/espo-crude-oil-pipeline.html

Im not saying China would win with the speculation, just that they might think they can.

local oaf
January 6, 2023 1:49 pm

Don’t worry, I’m sure the government has a plan to flatten the curve of our declining life expectancy.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 1:49 pm

Dotsays:
January 6, 2023 at 12:40 pm
It was Kyiv that started the war by sending troops to attack the Donbas in 2014

1. WHY DID THEY DO THAT!?

2. WHOM WERE THEY FIGHTING???!

Once again, you are are Dotty Dot reverting to upper case letters. Get a grip.

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 1:51 pm

Mole

I read somewhere that the Chinese Naval fleet can only operate within a radius of about 1600 miles. If it’s true it would be impossible for them to protect their skinny sea lanes.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 1:53 pm

They’ll be ropeable upon discovering Anal surreptitiously dropped a nest of vipers into their towns.

Load them onto buses and dump them on the steps of Parliament House. It’s probably a mutually agreeable, the rural folk don’t want the vipers, the vipers don’t want to be so far from Jihad central.

How rooted is Australia?

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 1:54 pm

And how is that dramatically different from using a ballistic missile to start whatever exchange takes place?

my take is the US is confident in their ability to shoot down incoming icbm waves, which explains their belligerence towards russia. hypersonic missile not so much.

Putin deploys warship with Zircon hypersonic missile, Russian state media says

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 1:55 pm

The Raad family is not new to the town of Young.
They’ve been nesting there a while.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 1:55 pm

It’s a transitory drop in life expectancy.

Just like the Fed said that the Inflation was transitory………….before it exploded………….LOL

And maybe the RBA too…………

m0nty
m0nty
January 6, 2023 1:56 pm

monty scrapping the bottom of the barrel for excuses for the Squad’s caving 2 years earlier.

The Squad would have achieved nothing if they did what the Gaetz mob are doing now. What is it now, ten, eleven failed votes?

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 1:57 pm

I read somewhere that the Chinese Naval fleet can only operate within a radius of about 1600 miles. If it’s true it would be impossible for them to protect their skinny sea lanes.

Could be fuel and provision capacity. British warships were designed to be able to patrol the empire, most of their potential foe’s vessels weren’t. It has a down side, costlier vessels and less space available for the primary mission.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 6, 2023 1:58 pm

Budget surpluses still matter to voters.

Budget surpluses are dead to the voters and our rulers – if we *ever* see one again it will only be via sleight of economic hand.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 6, 2023 1:58 pm

Recruiting coppers who have no affinity for the population they’re policing.

Roman policing!

I remember reading they made a point of not stationing legions in areas they were recruited from.

m0nty
m0nty
January 6, 2023 1:59 pm

Another rock-ribbed conservative Seppo in a spot of bother.

Herschel Walker Staffer: Matt Schlapp ‘Groped’ My CrotchAmerican Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp allegedly groped the crotch of a male staffer for Herschel Walker’s campaign in October.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 1:59 pm

Wowee, Gaetz really hates McCarthy:

“I will never vote for that person”

miltonf
miltonf
January 6, 2023 2:00 pm

Budget surpluses are dead to the voters

as they should be- give us our money back

bespoke
bespoke
January 6, 2023 2:00 pm

Farmer Gezsays:
January 6, 2023 at 7:34 am
Not to mention the compression toll on my lower back vertebrae due to the crap roads.

Get to a chiropractor before it’s to late.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 6, 2023 2:00 pm

life expectancy fell for the first time in a generation in 2021-22 and is expected to fall again this year because of a temporary spike in deaths from COVID-19 and other causes

Those baffling ‘other causes’ again eh?

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 2:01 pm

However, the drop will only be temporary, says the government’s Population Statement 2022, released on Friday.

Planning on stopping MRNA vaccination?

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 2:02 pm

Fatboy,

I don’t understand why you think a messy democratic process is a negative. Democracy is messy and if there are reps who don’t want McCarthy as speaker then it’s their right to vote against. The US isn’t like the Chinese CCP where at their last big meeting a dissenter was spirited out of the room. Republics and democracies are messy. You need to get used to it.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 2:03 pm

Here’s a link to the solid Republicans who didn’t back McCarthy today:

Andy Biggs of Arizona
Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Eli Crane of Arizona
Paul Gosar of Arizona
Matt Gaetz of Florida
Byron Donalds of Florida
Bob Good of Virginia
Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
Chip Roy of Texas
Keith Self of Texas
Andrew Clyde of Georgia
Andy Harris of Maryland
Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Matt Rosendale of Montana
Mary Miller of Illinois
Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Michael Cloud of Texas
Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The Raad family is not new to the town of Young.
They’ve been nesting there a while.

& that’s not the only NSW town inside the ‘doctor belt’ that’s been ‘enhanced‘ by unsolicited & unwanted diversity.

My ‘lations have been stewing about this for quite a while. They don’t vote for Anal’s team anyway, which will be the reason Anal & TanyaTrotter are rubbing their noses in it.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 2:05 pm

Does anyone really recall the economic state of the country when Howard took over? It felt like a poor country coming over and visiting.

Work colleges who visited the US at this time made this very comment to me. “When I visited the USA, I realised how poor we were!” This was made in the context of comparison to Australia at the end of the Howard era.

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 2:06 pm
Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 2:06 pm

1. WHY DID THEY DO THAT!?

given that merkel said about the minsk agreements being a ruse to buy time for ukraine to build up an army. my take was the plan was to enroll ukraine into nato, but first it needed to be able to protect itself as russia would have invaded at any hint this was even on the cards. so putin struck first well ahead of schedule. the uke neo-nazis also got ahead of themselves given they were trained and weaponised by nato and planned to invade the donbass, more grounds for russia to step in.

ukes are now working on a further mobilisation as they are about to be swamped by russian forces

Cutting off supply routes is imo going to be the name of the game.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 2:07 pm

JC – 100%.
An Eastern States friend of mine who is a fairly well known Perfessor in Politics and definitely aligned with Labor did confess to me that “the Labor Party is the least democratic party in the Western sphere.”

He pointed out various sacking and deregistering of members and MPs who do not tow the party line. He doesn’t like the SFLs but he said “at least you’re allowed to cross the floor.”

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 2:15 pm

Sorry for not being clear, seems to me Mariam Raad moved to Young because some of her extended family lives there.
Nothing in particular to do with Team Elbow.

An electrician, from the regional NSW town of Young, has been jailed for at least six years and nine months for researching and designing long-range guided missiles and laser warning devicesfor Islamic State via the internet

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 2:20 pm
Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 2:23 pm

So the ISIS bride got bail.

Ugh…

miltonf
miltonf
January 6, 2023 2:23 pm

Australia is actually a very wealthy country cf. the Philipines, Indonesia. Marxists have wormed their way into key positions to destroy our wealth (not theirs of course).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 2:27 pm

lotocotisays:

January 6, 2023 at 11:31 am

My UK soshuls tell me …

He’s lost The Sunday Sport too.

Now that is funny.
As for the “psychic”, I am totally sceptical of any such story unless the “reading” is totally blind and in a sterile environment.
The psychic was “introduced by good friends”. What odds the story being fed back to Ginge had leaked to the psychic via Whinger’s network.

shatterzzz
January 6, 2023 2:28 pm

Recruiting coppers who have no affinity for the population they’re policing.
When I was kid growing up in County Durham during the 1950s one of my uncle’s, for some unfathomable reason, joined plod and after training was stationed locally .. in 4 years he never arrested or booked anyone because everyone knew him and he knew the consequences of getting the ‘neighbours” offside .. LOL!

m0nty
m0nty
January 6, 2023 2:31 pm

I don’t understand why you think a messy democratic process is a negative. Democracy is messy and if there are reps who don’t want McCarthy as speaker then it’s their right to vote against. The US isn’t like the Chinese CCP where at their last big meeting a dissenter was spirited out of the room. Republics and democracies are messy. You need to get used to it.

db and others are trying on the talking point that they are hearing from their favourite grifter content creators, which is that Matt Gaetz is using his supposed leverage to extract concessions that the Squad never got. Except… the problem is that Gaetz has not extracted any concessions yet. No deal has been done. The McCarthy camp keeps on leaking that a deal is imminent, but it hasn’t arrived yet and the failed votes are into double figures now.

It didn’t help that McCarthy leaked details of Gaetz’s list of demands, which has now led to Gaetz throwing a tanty in front of reporters and promising to never vote for McCarthy… thus losing all his leverage. Either Gaetz backs down on his own word, or he is not a part of the solution any more.

It’s not as if there is any policy at stake here anyway, this is all about power. Gaetz is employing a veto, which is very much a part of the American political system but doesn’t achieve anything except removing your influence on the outcome.

The Squad were right not to pull this kind of stunt, because it wouldn’t have gotten them anywhere. It certainly wouldn’t have magicked up Medicare For All out of thin air, just like Gaetz is not going to come out of this smelling like roses.

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 2:32 pm

the fake dairy section at woolies/coles just seem to grow with every visit… how long before they price real dairy out of reach of anyone but the uber wealthy?

shatterzzz
January 6, 2023 2:33 pm

So the ISIS bride got bail.

I’m more surprised, given the lettuce leaf of Oz justice, that a bail application was needed .. I would have expected her to have gotten a, comlimentary, lift home from plod ..

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 6, 2023 2:33 pm

What is it now, ten, eleven failed votes?

For Gaetz that’s 11 successful votes Monty.
He only fails if Swampy McSquishy gets up.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 6, 2023 2:37 pm

A majority of Republican voters incidentally don’t want McConnell or McCarthy.

A Significant Majority of Republican Voters Agree With the GOP Rebels (4 Jan)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 6, 2023 2:39 pm

Here we have it.
Putins Dr Evil plan..
He wants to control the spice!

Putin ally fighting to control salt and gypsum mines near Ukraine city of Bakhmut, says US.

This seems to me to be the stupidest take on the war.

Salt is about $20 a tonne. Gypsum (95%) $67…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/06/putin-ally-fighting-to-control-salt-and-gypsum-mines-near-ukraine-city-of-bakhmut-says-us
A close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is interested in taking control of salt and gypsum from mines near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, according to a White House official.

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the founder of Russia’s most powerful mercenary force, the Wagner Group. Wagner has played a key role in the Russian offensive against Bakhmut.

There were indications that monetary motives were driving Russia’s and Prigozhin’s “obsession” with Bakhmut, the US official said.

The United States has previously accused Russian mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere to help fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine – a charge Russia rejected as “anti-Russian rage”.

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 2:40 pm

The McCarthy camp keeps on leaking that a deal is imminent, but it hasn’t arrived yet and the failed votes are into double figures now.

time for mcarthy to pack up his bag if cant even negotiate in good faith with his own side

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 2:41 pm

This “mess” in the US that some Catters are referring to is exactly why I love and admire US politics any day over Australian politics.

I love the fact that Senators from the same party, for example, will publicly go toe-for-toe to look after their own States. The Australian Senate is party-based and hardly any, if any, Senator truly looks after their own State over their party affiliation.

The same can be said for the US HoRs.

Yet, grifters like Munt say its embarrassing. I disagree. Its democracy at work and publicly at work instead of shady backroom deals.

Let’s remember the Munt supported Gillard in giving Australia its worst Speaker ever in Slipper through backroom deals and politicking….how “representative” is that?

US Politics any day over Australian.

shatterzzz
January 6, 2023 2:42 pm

Sorry for not being clear, seems to me Mariam Raad moved to Young because some of her extended family lives there.
Nothing in particular to do with Team Elbow.

There’s another one living in Blacktown, NSW because that’s where the rest of the family live .. so they weren’t “forced” to go anywhere they didn’t want (Biloela put the “houseful” sign up)……. besides it would have been sooo “unAustralian” to hinder their free choice(s) and “Akubra houso” doesn’t do “unAustralian” ..
I knoze cos he often tellz me sooo ..!

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 2:46 pm

I’m more surprised, given the lettuce leaf of Oz justice, that a bail application was needed .. I would have expected her to have gotten a, comlimentary, lift home from plod ..

and a 24/7 security detail, ya know, in case of far right extremists

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 2:49 pm

If you ever needed further proof that Hannity is an Establishment RINO man:

https://youtu.be/zJx0bSdx1S4

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 2:50 pm

And where’s St.Ruth gone? Been a while since we’ve been “blessed” with a rant?

Vax death? 😛

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 2:51 pm

Harry seeing a psychic just underscores what a gullible dope he is.
His biography should have been called
Cringe
(By Whinge)

Siltstone
Siltstone
January 6, 2023 2:52 pm

Did I see the word gypsum?!

shatterzzz
January 6, 2023 2:53 pm

Whenever you think the goodness in folk is past tense
there are always folk somewhere to prove you wrong ..!
https://ibb.co/4Sv3Z9q

Cassie of Sydney
January 6, 2023 2:54 pm

“His biography should have been called
Cringe
(By Whinge)”

Perfect, Rosie.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 2:57 pm

there are always folk somewhere to prove you wrong ..!

That’s genuinely excellent.

calli
calli
January 6, 2023 3:02 pm

Funny the way “embarrassing” is the descriptor for the deadlock over the Speaker’s job. It’s voting, nothing could be more democratic. If there are nefarious reasons for the way they vote…that is another thing altogether. It seems to be all out in the open though. The protagonists can’t wait to put their cases and that of the others out there.

And of course it’s about power. It’s politics.

You know what’s embarrassing…the former Speaker craftily unpicking the staples from a SOTU address and tearing it up straight after delivery just for the cameras.

Roger
Roger
January 6, 2023 3:03 pm

time for mcarthy to pack up his bag if cant even negotiate in good faith with his own side

As I mentioned this morning, his first meeting with conservative House Republicans ended with him saying, “I’ve earned this job, so f*** you.”

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 3:04 pm

60 minutes America gave good old Paul Ehrlich some face time. Ehrlich, of the Population Time Bomb from back in the early 80s.

This swine has been indirectly responsible for the deaths of , by some estimates, 50 million people by peddling horseshit. Still wrong and unrepentant.

Ehrlich, extravagantly wrong.

The interview.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 6, 2023 3:05 pm

The next 7 or so days is going to be consistently below freezing in Ukraine and in many places below -10C. Just checked the temp in Moscow, -23C. St Petersburg, -12C; always helps to be close to the sea.

Bout time! I thought ‘fighting season’ would never get under way.

calli
calli
January 6, 2023 3:05 pm

attempting a quid pro quo for Pelosi as Speaker

Gosh I’m becoming jaundiced about politics American style.

I read that as squid pro quo.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 6, 2023 3:07 pm

JCsays:
January 6, 2023 at 2:02 pm
Fatboy,

I don’t understand why you think a messy democratic process is a negative. Democracy is messy and if there are reps who don’t want McCarthy as speaker then it’s their right to vote against. The US isn’t like the Chinese CCP where at their last big meeting a dissenter was spirited out of the room. Republics and democracies are messy. You need to get used to it.

That well known Austrian/German leftard would agree with the Fat Boy. Governance is sooooo much easier if there is no need for messy negotiations. Just pass the Enabling Act, then get those fussy elected representatives out of the way.

calli
calli
January 6, 2023 3:08 pm

I spotted him over at C.L.’s blog, Lysander. He might be having a bit of time out.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 6, 2023 3:13 pm

the fake dairy section at woolies/coles just seem to grow with every visit… how long before they price real dairy out of reach of anyone but the uber wealthy?

Coming to you in 3-2-1…..

BTW, they are going to try this for meat too, telling us its killing the planet and we need to learn to love ‘plant based meat’ *

Pro tip, my grass fed beef and lamb is *already* plant based!

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 6, 2023 3:14 pm

Lysandersays:
January 6, 2023 at 2:50 pm
And where’s St.Ruth gone? Been a while since we’ve been “blessed” with a rant?

Vax death? ?

He’s popped up over at CL’s a couple of times recently.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 3:14 pm

Ah thanks Calli.

I thought with the new “deadly” chinaflu variant he’d be posting cray thoughts again..

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 3:15 pm

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) on Tuesday in her first official act as governor moved to strengthen worker protections for LGBTQ state employees and contractors, signing an executive order that expressly prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

DIE is the number one priority always and everywhere

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 6, 2023 3:16 pm

Calli

Snap.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 3:20 pm

Jordan Peterson sentencing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-DbwFWE60I

Roger
Roger
January 6, 2023 3:23 pm

Headline spotted today:

‘The Taliban must purge itself; it’s moderate wing can still save Afghanistan’

I post it here as illustrative of Western liberal stupidity. Carry on.

Roger
Roger
January 6, 2023 3:23 pm

Damn that apostrophe.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 3:26 pm

Will definitely be showing the Little Bloke this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMU0goBWRjY

m0nty
m0nty
January 6, 2023 3:27 pm

A Significant Majority of Republican Voters Agree With the GOP Rebels (4 Jan)

Trafalgar Group LOL. Remind me how they did in the mid-terms again. Rasmussen must be pissed, there’s a new partisan lickspittle on the block.

Blatant attempt to rationalize the Squad licking DNC boots against their earlier bravado. The point of attempting a quid pro quo for Pelosi as Speaker then was get MFA on the floor of the House so people could declare their support or opposition openly, not so as to guarantee its passage. The DNC opposed this and strong-armed the Squad because while they pretend to support MFA they are fact against it. That the Squad didn’t even try indicates how seriously they take the concerns of their purported constituency.

The Squad didn’t have the numbers for MFA. You can’t conjure numbers out of thin air, db. You may think that forcing doomed votes as a signalling tactic via blackmail is worth something, but that’s not generally how politics works in a party of government.

Gaetz doesn’t have the numbers to do anything but block. Which is not doing anything, but refusing to do. That is the nature of veto: you leave a vacuum for others to act.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 3:28 pm

Here’s a question: How many dead Ukrainians and Russians does it take to stop degeneracy in the West?

Dotty Dot you are blind. The degeneracy started many years ago. Wake up you Dotty person. You are now losing points here for being too Dotty.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 6, 2023 3:32 pm

Everybody that was interviewed was a fing pom!

If the beach was north of Hillarys I wouldn’t be surprised. A Pommy ghetto, just with sunshine and better landscaping.

Bill P
Bill P
January 6, 2023 3:34 pm

Oi, Tom

Lots of shady types used to migrate there to dig opals

I resemble that. Did that for a year (in the ’70’s).
OK well, yes, there a few shady characters. Not in my circle of course.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 3:38 pm

When all these dickheads (left wing nut jobs) talk about diversity, it is only on their terms. Which means that they have no idea about adversity. A similar word but just leave out the ‘di’ and add ‘ad’ and you will get it.

QED

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 6, 2023 3:39 pm

Trafalgar Group LOL. Remind me how they did in the mid-terms again.

Remind us of the rigging, ballot box stuffing and software “problems” in the mid-terms again Monty.
Which I forshadowed long beforehand.

I was interested that Hammer and Scorecard got a mention in one of the Twitter files drops, which we talked about roughly two days after the 2020 election. The evidence that the CIA was all over and through Twitter, as well as the FBI, does rather add to that lil’ aspect.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 3:42 pm

H B Bearsays:
January 6, 2023 at 3:32 pm
Everybody that was interviewed was a fing pom!

If the beach was north of Hillarys I wouldn’t be surprised. A Pommy ghetto, just with sunshine and better landscaping.

Yes, and was so nice to be welcomed to Convicts Paradise.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 6, 2023 3:43 pm

Gaetz doesn’t have the numbers to do anything but block. Which is not doing anything, but refusing to do. That is the nature of veto: you leave a vacuum for others to act.

Yep. Isn’t it fun!

It’s not as if there aren’t 220 other possible candidates. Perhaps one of the others might do better? And that’s even without seeking a Speaker from outside the House. Did you notice how Gaetz nominated Donald Trump? I though it was quite delicious trolling.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

flyingduk says: January 6, 2023 at 10:13 am

“Covid took a massive toll on the force – we were not only dragged from pillar to post, manning state and regional borders to being thrust at protest after protest, but then we were expected to stop toddlers playing on slides and grannies sitting on benches in the park,” one senior constable, who left last year, said.

Too little too late Mr Plod – I said ‘no’ at the time, you could have too. If enough of us had, it would have ended within a week.

The same police who’ve managed to organise three (difficult to keep count) ‘speeding fine strikes‘ – where they seem to be able to coordinate well enough to not issue any traffic fines for a week or two at a time, yet they had no choice but to get brutally kinetic with Gran & normies.

Yeah, sure. Pull the other one fellers.

calli
calli
January 6, 2023 4:00 pm

Well, that was fun. At least I know the smoke detectors work. Fortunately just crispy crackling, not a burnt offering. 😀

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
January 6, 2023 4:01 pm

I tried and failed earlier to post a link to Mikhaila Petersen’s youtube – less than 6 minutes – describing what is happening to Jordan Petersen well worth watching.

“They Are Attempting to Take Jordan Peterson’s Clinical Psychology License”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qN96lgyMWc&t=2s

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 6, 2023 4:03 pm

I have previously asked why people live in Sydney? Why do they try and play cricket there?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 6, 2023 4:05 pm

These Fitzroy Crossing floods would be a bonus if Emperor Barney’s canal had got up.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 6, 2023 4:08 pm

rickwsays:
January 6, 2023 at 3:26 pm
Will definitely be showing the Little Bloke this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMU0goBWRjY

My number 9 Grandson (soon to be 6 Years) has been crop farming oats on neighbours farm 56, using rented equipment, to earn some extra cash, after having harvested his own wheat in his Elm Creek Farm on X Box X Farming Simulator 22 on 65″ Big Screen W7 OLED Wall TV

Says better that Flight Simulator

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 4:09 pm

Arky says:
January 6, 2023 at 12:04 pm

Sancho of the upticks back at his old games.
Not at all obvious, eh, you tech genius you.
25

Look Who’s talking. The Flouncer of the self-upticks, the self described Steve Jobs of the site calling other others tech genius. Oh my.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
January 6, 2023 4:11 pm

Frolicking Node 10:10am
I feel a spirit – I played KiKi Dees “Amerouse”
“Strains of light on a bedroom floor”.
My mum told my medium to eff off and leave her alone – she was reading a good mag at the time.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 4:15 pm

H B Bearsays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:03 pm
I have previously asked why people live in Sydney? Why do they try and play cricket there?

Stupid question. Because they want to.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:15 pm

but then we were expected to stop toddlers playing on slides and grannies sitting on benches in the park,” one senior constable, who left last year, said.

Dopey prick realises that it’s impossible being a policeman when everyone f’cking hates you.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 6, 2023 4:16 pm

miltonfsays:
January 6, 2023 at 1:15 pm
The dirty diana dog sure popped out a nasty one there

Is Hairy Harry Really the “Spare”?

Where is Major James Hewitt now as Harry addresses ‘sadistic’ paternity claims

Former Army officer Major James Hewitt had a five-year affair with Princess Diana, which sparked cruel rumours that he is Prince Harry’s real father, which the Duke of Sussex has now denied

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:17 pm

farming oats on neighbours farm 56, using rented equipment, to earn some extra cash, after having harvested his own wheat in his Elm Creek Farm on X Box X Farming Simulator 22

That’s a way lot less itchy than the real thing!!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 6, 2023 4:18 pm

Good song Louis

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 4:18 pm

JCsays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:09 pm
Arky says:
January 6, 2023 at 12:04 pm

Sancho of the upticks back at his old games.
Not at all obvious, eh, you tech genius you.
25

Look Who’s talking. The Flouncer of the self-upticks, the self described Steve Jobs of the site calling other others tech genius. Oh my.

Yes and Stencho Pantyhose and jerkoff at their best. Happy New Year as I am sure that their shite will continue on………………………

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:22 pm

The dirty diana dog sure popped out a nasty one there

I don’t think he’s nasty, just profoundly dumb!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:24 pm

rosiesays:

January 6, 2023 at 2:51 pm

Harry seeing a psychic just underscores what a gullible dope he is.
His biography should have been called
Cringe
(By Whinge)

As I say, I am uber-sceptical of any psychic story where the reading isn’t done cold and in a totally sterile environment.
Often these people already know why the target (and that is the correct term) is visiting them – death of a relative, unlucky in love, yada, yada.
Even if they don’t, they start asking a series of general but leading questions.
“I sense you have experienced a separation”.
(Separation. This could mean anything. A death, a divorce, a child moving away).
The subject then starts filling in gaps, and the psychic refines the leading questions/statements.
But here’s the thing. People like Ginge and Whinge will happily swallow whole the idea that Diana’s spirit is communicating from the grave via a medium. But they would scoff and sneer – yes, scoff and sneer – at a devout Christian who says they believe in the afterlife.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:25 pm

The bureaucrats think they aren’t answerable to anyone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFx2C93cBmo

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 6, 2023 4:26 pm

Good mates old man was a copper at a port town. Tried to stop after hours opening. Got told on no uncertain terms his house would be burnt down with him and his family inside. Not a problem. He’d pick up out of towners DD. Kept his arrests in the plus category.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:27 pm

But they would scoff and sneer – yes, scoff and sneer – at a devout Christian who says they believe in the afterlife.

Will believe anything except that which is the truth.

Vicki
Vicki
January 6, 2023 4:31 pm

Yes – they are really going out after Jordan Peterson again. This just reinforces my reluctant belief that we are indeed living in a very perilous age as powerful forces move to dismantle the freedoms that we once believed were “a given” in western societies.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/dr-jordan-peterson-accused-of-heresy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=94858153&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:32 pm

Boambee Johnsays:

January 6, 2023 at 3:14 pm

Lysandersays:
January 6, 2023 at 2:50 pm
And where’s St.Ruth gone? Been a while since we’ve been “blessed” with a rant?

Vax death? ?

He’s popped up over at CL’s a couple of times recently.

And is St Ruth launching into long abusive tirades over there?
Or is it all bonhomie and good humour?
He claims to be banned from here.
Can’t get around the abuse filter, more like.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:33 pm

Speaking of bonhomie and good humour ……. heeeeerrrreee’s Johnny!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

JC says: January 6, 2023 at 10:56 am
Oh look who it is. Dickhead is again trying to control the blog. A few days ago he was telling us he’s the reincarnated Steve Jobs. He “built” a computer in his garage. Built means adding software.

Correct. He should have known better. He didn’t know his place.
Only one person is allowed to try to control the blog, because magnificence.

On the second point, it would be helpful, just for context, if you could post details of anything you’ve built with your hands.
Even a lego house would do.

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:35 pm

It’s interesting what Government is focused on getting out of the hands of the public:

Guns
Drones

A little piece on drones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tImxQkZV4Zg

rickw
rickw
January 6, 2023 4:37 pm

This just reinforces my reluctant belief that we are indeed living in a very perilous age as powerful forces move to dismantle the freedoms that we once believed were “a given” in western societies.

What they will do is only limited by what it will take to get you to back down.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 4:37 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:33 pm
Speaking of bonhomie and good humour ……. heeeeerrrreee’s Johnny!

Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, you deserve nothing better after all those many words of shite that you have spoken on so many times.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 4:39 pm

Brrrrrrrrr after reaching a max of 32 degrees (forecast was for 37) in Perth at 850am this morning it is positively a breezy and chilly 24 in Perth now…(apparent temp is 21).

Crossie
Crossie
January 6, 2023 4:39 pm

calli says:
January 6, 2023 at 10:27 am
I liked Coober Pedy. It reminded me of the prairie derg city at the base of Devil’s Tower, but with bigger mounds.

We were at Devil’s Tower in the northern summer of 2014 and I loved it all. We walked all the way around the monolith, I filmed the prairie dogs going about their business right by the roadside and then we had lunch at a nearby restaurant with giant cowboy boots on a fence. The boots were placed in such a way to frame the Devil’s Tower, great photos.

To top it all off the restaurant seemed to be a meeting place that day for drivers with classic American cars, mostly from the 50s and the 60s, more than a 100 cars. My late husband took more photos of the cars than the extinct volcano.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 6, 2023 4:40 pm

rickwsays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:17 pm
farming oats on neighbours farm 56, using rented equipment, to earn some extra cash, after having harvested his own wheat in his Elm Creek Farm on X Box X Farming Simulator 22

That’s a way lot less itchy than the real thing!!

rickw,

it is an interesting very comprehensive learning tool (look at the list of topics on the left on this link)

Farmer Gez and 132bush would be interested in your thoughts on what they cover

– soon to be 6 year old is the Grandson/Granddaughter most interested in mechanical things, though taking How to Lock Pick Book, Kits & Tools with clear practice locks for 13 year old GrandDaughter to Melbourne next week, for her to play with in school holidays

Eldest Grandson, Swiss Red Ski Instructor St Moritz and is his Sister, during Swiss school holidays, but aiming to do Medicine and has sat German Medical Entrance Exam (Austria & Italian Med Entrance Exams to come) & his Sister looking at AI in London – here in OZ , year 12 Grandson got his Recreational Pilots Licence in Year 11 – No 9, 6 year old could be a Great Tradie.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 6, 2023 4:40 pm

hzhousewifesays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:01 pm

Id like to leave a comment on that youtube of the Petersen persecution.
But as Im subject to AHPRA in Australia I wont do so to protect my Paramedic certification.

Dr Duck can give you a little more detail on them.

8 board members, no doctors.
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/About-Ahpra/Who-We-Are/Agency-Management-Committee/Member-Profiles.aspx

What if I have a conscientious objection to being vaccinated?
In the case of a conscientious objection about receiving COVID-19 vaccination, practitioners must inform their employer and/or other relevant colleagues (where necessary) of their objection as soon as reasonably practical.

While some health practitioners may have a conscientious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, all practitioners, including students on placement, must comply with local employer, health service or health department policies, procedures and guidelines relating to COVID-19 vaccination. Any queries about these should be directed to the individual employer, health service, state or territory health department and/or education provider for registered students.

sfw
sfw
January 6, 2023 4:41 pm

It’s been rather pleasant and low key on this blog of late. I thought that some people had made resolutions to be nicer and not say anything at all rather than say something nasty. I was wrong. Some people just can’t control themselves.

Crossie
Crossie
January 6, 2023 4:42 pm

Lysander says:
January 6, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Brrrrrrrrr after reaching a max of 32 degrees (forecast was for 37) in Perth at 850am this morning it is positively a breezy and chilly 24 in Perth now…(apparent temp is 21).

Here in Western Sydney it’s still about 20, rainy and windy. Quite chilly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:44 pm

Rotten!
C’mon man!
Where’s the bonhomie and good humour?

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 4:46 pm

Ukraine & Fake News

And more stuff for Jerkoff and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and Dotty Dot……………………

From Armstrong Economics –

COMMENT: Marty, I am impressed. Your contacts are unsurpassable. You put out two months ago that Ukraine lost 100,000 soldiers. Some did not believe you. It turns out that was classified information. Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, had released a video and then edited it deleting that very information at the request of Zelensky. All this is to hide the fact that Ukraine has been losing the war as you said. With its armed forces down at least one-third.

Here is the video that is now going around. You also said that Bucha was another false flag where Ukraine killed Russian Ukrainians and left their bodies on the streets to blame Russia. You said there were videos that NATO had and was hiding. My hat is off to you. You really do have reliable sources.

REPLY: You have to understand that creating false flags is the #1 occupation of Ukraine. They shot down the Malaysia fight and tried to blame the Russians. They shot a missile into Poland and claimed it was a Russian attack on NATO.

On March 31, 2022, the mayor of Bucha was joyful in announcing that the settlement had been liberated. He does not talk about any corpses on the roads and the terrible destruction of mass graves. It was two days later when suddenly photos and videos of people lying along the road appear and horrendous stories about hundreds of dead being thrown in mass graves. These reports did not surface until two days after the Russians left. The Ukrainians were staging another false flag. Why did the mayor appear joyous and made no mention at first of these atrocities?

It is to the advantage of Zelensky who appears before every parliament he can ask for money. In Italy, he claimed Russians were capturing children and torturing them. That allegation vanished. He says whatever he can to get money. He could have just complied with the Belgrad and Minsk Agreements but he is determined to lead the world into war. The US Pentagon has come out and even said that they CAN NOT independently verify what took place in Bucha. There is no way to verify anything in Bucha and there are videos that show people laying in the street pretending to be dead with no blood and then there are videos showing they get up when the camera passes.

The Ukrainians are out to create World War III. They are desperately trying to get the West to invade Russia and their goal is to utterly destroy Russia and the Russian people who they hate passionately. Look at this propaganda video they used to tell the world Russians killed Ukrainian civilians. In this video, the bodies are people just laying down. You see no blood. , the “corpse” on the right is moving his arm At the 30th second, look in the rearview mirror. The “corpse” sits up! This is why the Pentagon remains silent. NATO has videos also confirming Bucha was a Ukrainian false flag. The rumor is that when the Ukrainians did enter Bucha, they themselves killed any ethnic Russian Ukrainians there.

All of this propaganda is to enrage the people to call for World War III. Zelensky has even called on NATO to launch nuclear weapons and wipe out Russia . Zelensky will destroy the Ukrainian people with this insanity. He is lying to the world about the devastation of the losses and is searching for a way to get NATO to invade Russia. He uses this propaganda to gain support worldwide. The US has handed him $113 billion when Russia’s annual military budget is at best $65 billion and Germany’s is $56 billion. The US is spending untold amounts of money for the total destruction of Russia.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/ukraine-fake-news-2/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:48 pm

sfwsays:

January 6, 2023 at 4:41 pm

It’s been rather pleasant and low key on this blog of late. I thought that some people had made resolutions to be nicer and not say anything at all rather than say something nasty. I was wrong. Some people just can’t control themselves.

I know, right?
I blame excessive hubris from building a computer from the ground up out of spare lawnmower parts and an old microwave.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:50 pm

Oh, and Martin Armstrong is still a crook.
A thief.
A charlatan.
A c**t.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 4:51 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Rotten!
C’mon man!
Where’s the bonhomie and good humour?

When you try good humour is the day that your so called heart freezes over…………………………Never.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 6, 2023 4:51 pm

Sancho

And is St Ruth launching into long abusive tirades over there?
Or is it all bonhomie and good humour?

I haven’t bothered to read what he posts, but it takes a while to scroll past, if that helps.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 6, 2023 4:52 pm

They shot down the Malaysia fight and tried to blame the Russians.

Well here it is.
Historical revisionism in real time.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 6, 2023 4:52 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Rotten!
C’mon man!
Where’s the bonhomie and good humour?

Serrat 2020 Shiraz Viognier

2020: showing the cool late year, black pepper and spice plenty of graphite like tannins, needs a couple of years in the cellar to show it’s best 2026+

Drunk last night – definitely tasted the Pepper

Tonight Lamb Stew with 1998 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz – previous bottles have been excellent

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 4:55 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 6, 2023 at 4:50 pm
Oh, and Martin Armstrong is still a crook.
A thief.
A charlatan.
A c**t.

You T W A T. Like Dotty Dot, go and email him and ask him. No good bellyaching on here like a pork chop. That will not get you anywhere. Except being a bore. Which you are BTW.

Lysander
Lysander
January 6, 2023 4:55 pm

I should’ve set up a live cam on a lettuce to see if it would outlast McCarthy…. damn!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 4:57 pm

BJ at 4:51.

I haven’t bothered to read what he posts, but it takes a while to scroll past, if that helps.

Proving the old adage:
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Zipster
Zipster
January 6, 2023 4:59 pm

The Case for We-before-Me | Brad Wilcox
John Anderson

0:00 Intro
00:14 Introducing Bradford (Brad) Wilcox
01:46 The F Word
05:17 The cost of troubled childhood
08:48 How married couples thrive in the pandemic
14:50 Determinants of a stable family structure
18:17 The case for marrying young
23:25 Irony of the sexual liberation movement
30:33 Toxic masculinity
36:45 How religious virtues translate into higher quality relationships
39:33 Social media’s impact on mental health
44:10 The 5 Cs

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 5:00 pm

Like Dotty Dot, go and email him and ask him. 

I have.
He admitted (in strict confidence) that he is a convicted crook, and confirmed he is still at it.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:00 pm

Brevity is the soul of wit.”

And in the words of Dr Spooner, you are a shinning Wit. Mrs Stencho Pantyhose…………..

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:04 pm

I have.
He admitted (in strict confidence) that he is a convicted crook, and confirmed he is still at it.

LOL. Nice try Stencho. And as Jerkoff would say – Show me the evidence or the Link or whatever. BS from you always.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 5:05 pm

C’mon Rotten.
Why can’t we be friends?
For the sake of the kids, at least.

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:08 pm

Johnny Rotten says:
January 6, 2023 at 4:46 pm
Ukraine & Fake News

How much is this convicted cocksucker being paid to plant these pro Russia stories?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

thefrollickingmole says: January 6, 2023 at 4:57 pm
Time for the annual Lamb Ads.
Not a bad one at all.

Yep, that’s a beauty.
About time there was a lamb ad that makes you want to eat some lamb.

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:09 pm

Show me the evidence

Of Marty Armstrong ever meeting Paul Keating except in fantasy land.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 5:11 pm

LOL. Nice try Stencho. And as Jerkoff would say – Show me the evidence or the Link or whatever. BS from you always.

Bzzzt.
Yeah, nah.
I give you the details of the communications, you email Armstrong and he divulges my details.
I don’t trust him.
And, with the greatest respect, nor do I trust you.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:11 pm

I know, right?
I blame excessive hubris from building a computer from the ground up out of spare lawnmower parts and an old microwave.

And for that amazing comment Mrs Stencho Pantyhose you got not one uptick. Even from yourself. Tosser.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 6, 2023 5:12 pm

Dotsays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:09 pm

To save you polluting your sensory organs, i read that little fraudster piece above.
Its where this claim is snuck in.

They shot down the Malaysia fight and tried to blame the Russians.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 6, 2023 5:13 pm

Kevin McCarthy is Bi/Gay, despite being married to a chick?
Looks that way.
Matt Gaetz is also rumored to be a Flamer?

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:14 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:11 pm
LOL. Nice try Stencho. And as Jerkoff would say – Show me the evidence or the Link or whatever. BS from you always.

Bzzzt.
Yeah, nah.
I give you the details of the communications, you email Armstrong and he divulges my details.
I don’t trust him.
And, with the greatest respect, nor do I trust you.

You are as weak as piss as you would not want to email him and report back here. And I don’t trust you either.

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 5:14 pm

I know, right?
I blame excessive hubris from building a computer from the ground up out of spare lawnmower parts and an old microwave.

I know an American dude, who I met here. His dad ran or a part of the Reg Livermore Lab when they were nuke testing in the Mojave. He reckons they had the oldest tv’s and radios in the house because his father would always repair them when they broke down.

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:14 pm

He is lying to the world about the devastation of the losses and is searching for a way to get NATO to invade Russia.

Wait one moment. You said Armstrong has impeccable sources; Russia and Armstrong know their losses are much higher, Zelensky & von Leiderhosen have censored and edited news etc.

So why would he need to or then lie about it? Armstrong and his Russian handlers aren’t making any sense here.

He uses this propaganda to gain support worldwide. The US has handed him $113 billion when Russia’s annual military budget is at best $65 billion and Germany’s is $56 billion.

Poor Russia, always playing victim!

Oh no it’s not fair when countries have more money than our guns and butter economy!

Oh no it’s not fair when they fight back!

Oh no it’s not fair that they interdicted our special forces who created fake separatist governments in the Donbas!

Robert Sewell
January 6, 2023 5:15 pm

Doc Faustus:

Struggling with the whole ‘hypersonic nuclear missile as game changer’ concept. Let’s imagine China (or Russia) uses one to vaporise an aircraft carrier group.
What happens next?

Especially if China or Russia strenuously denies using a nuclear weapon and insist piss poor security and storage of one of the US own nukes was responsible. Then demand the US remove the remainder of the fleets from major sea lanes. “Remember what happened when the US last stopped essential materiel from being traded with the last Asian power?”
It’s not about the reality – it’s about the way the story can be spun, and you can bet the Media and the Democrats will bring on the ‘voice of rationality’ and back down. Especially if they have treasonous pricks like Milley in charge who has sworn to alert China of any offensive actions by the US, and has deliberately sabotaged US defence efforts by hiding the ‘football’/ codes for retaliation in case of a nuclear strike by an enemy.

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 5:16 pm

Ed Case says:
January 6, 2023 at 5:13 pm

Kevin McCarthy is Bi/Gay, despite being married to a chick?
Looks that way.
Matt Gaetz is also rumored to be a Flamer?

Eddlesly, I’d never considered that angle. Thanks.

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:16 pm

They shot down the Malaysia fight and tried to blame the Russians.

LOL

Old man farque face Greta Pokémon Armstrong is almost certainly on the FSB payroll.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:18 pm

Dotsays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Johnny Rotten says:
January 6, 2023 at 4:46 pm
Ukraine & Fake News

How much is this convicted cocksucker being paid to plant these pro Russia stories?

Dotty Dot, you are as charming and sweet talking as ever. Wash your mouth out with soap and water and never bleat on again…………………………….You are such a Dotty Dot.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:20 pm

I now have more Armstrong stuff to post here. So Bigots, please get ready………………LOL

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 6, 2023 5:20 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:12 pm
Dotsays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:09 pm

To save you polluting your sensory organs, i read that little fraudster piece above.
Its where this claim is snuck in.

They shot down the Malaysia fight and tried to blame the Russians.

Wait?
What?
Martin Armstrong is a thief and a liar.
Not to mention the suggestion that he might also be a kokk-smoker.

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:22 pm

He also looks like a post HRT Greta Thunberg.

Arky
January 6, 2023 5:25 pm

Something has disturbed Sancho of the Upticks.
Cheer up matey, give yourself some ticks.

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 5:28 pm

On the second point, it would be helpful, just for context, if you could post details of anything you’ve built with your hands.
Even a lego house would do.

Oh, I cleaned the pool a few years ago as we were in lockdown and the cleaner was an obvious no show. That would be more times than you, right? Right 🙂

I know my limitations driller. I don’t want to burn the house down.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 6, 2023 5:30 pm

Is Rotten on commission?

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:30 pm
JC
JC
January 6, 2023 5:31 pm

Severance I’d say.

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 5:31 pm

I’m sure there are lots of people here who hang off every pearl that forms at the hands of Martin Armstrong.
If only they’d comment and tell the rest of us how valuable his content is.

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:31 pm

H B Bear says:
January 6, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Is Rotten on commission?

I think it is piecework. Dollars per X amount of of words.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:32 pm

If you bigots don’t like Martin Armstrong on this so called Free Speech Bog, I mean Blog, then don’t read the posts. That is a very simple message for you bigots. Otherwise, STFU. Free Speech rules on this so called Libertarian Bog. I mean Blog…………………..

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:33 pm

Free speech means we get a right of reply.

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 5:34 pm

By satp logic Pope Benedict wasn’t worth a hill of beans because he didn’t build things with his hands.

Not that I’m comparing JC to the late Pope.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Oh, I cleaned the pool a few years ago as we were in lockdown and the cleaner was an obvious no show. That would be more times than you, right?

Are you completely retarded?
Serious question.
I’ve never cleaned your pool. Of course you’ve cleaned it more times than I have. FMD, how slow are you, dude?

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:35 pm

Big biggoty bigots!

Err, please stand up, “squired and other-kin personage”…I yell as yas!

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 5:35 pm

The remarkable thing about Marty’s 32% inflation rate for 22 was that no one caught on. No large hedge fund, no bond funds nor equity players. No one picked up on the fact that the US suffered hyperinflation in 2022 and the only person who knows was an 11 year Leavenworth veteran convicted of massive fraud charges. Incredible.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

By satp logic Pope Benedict wasn’t worth a hill of beans because he didn’t build things with his hands.

What a stupid comment.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:36 pm

And here are more jokes that you may not like with your clicky club on this Bog, I mean Blog……………..

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 6, 2023 5:37 pm

I think it is piecework. Dollars per X amount of of words.

Could he just provide hand relief for bulls and AI or something more productive?

rosie
rosie
January 6, 2023 5:38 pm

Rotten uses exactly the same argument as that silly turbaned muslima Yassmin Able-Magpie

JC
JC
January 6, 2023 5:38 pm

By satp logic Pope Benedict wasn’t worth a hill of beans because he didn’t build things with his hands.

He wrote 40 plus books, but he wasn’t handsie. Huge minus.

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:39 pm

A delightful angelic little boy was waiting for his mother outside the ladies room of the gas station.

As he stood there, he was approached by a man who asked “Sonny, can you tell me where the Post Office is?”

The little boy replied “Sure! Just go straight down this street two blocks and turn to your right. It’s on the left”.

The man thanked the boy kindly, complimented him on how bright he was and said “I’m the new pastor in town. If you and your mummy come to church on Sunday, I’ll show you how to get to Heaven”.

The little boy replied with a chuckle “You’re fu*king me, right? You can’t even find the Post Office!”

Dot
Dot
January 6, 2023 5:39 pm

JC

Shadow Stats, whom I trust, say about 17%.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data

Johnny Rotten
January 6, 2023 5:40 pm

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

Roger
Roger
January 6, 2023 5:40 pm

That is a very simple message for you bigots. Otherwise, STFU.

Free speech, I say!

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