The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
Mr Kool Aid?
Open Thread – New Year’s Weekend 2023
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Some clown pulled this stunt after being elected to the WA Parliament. Went through the courts and resigned. Not sure…
JC April 27, 2024 3:38 pm For what purpose? Each state has its own registry but there is little coordination…
Recent or not, it’s a real difference to us in its social effects.
Err, Roger was right. Well this is embarrassing.
Dot no kidding, you really need to lay off the money supply view as the correlation just isn’t there. Add in velocity and perhaps. The Fed began to use money supply targeting in the 80s and had to let it go because they couldn’t find the relationship.
I don’t think the Pope would clean his own pool. Def a job for a Cardinal or someone.
No, setting the requirements for usefulness as a human being as being able to build something with your hands was the stupid comment.
Civilisation means occupationally we can be highly specialised.
Waste of time for most people to be able to turn their hand to anything and everything.
Makes you sound like some greenie hippy who idolises living off grid.
rosiesays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:38 pm
Rotten uses exactly the same argument as that silly turbaned muslima Yassmin Able-Magpie
Johnny Rotten does not need to use arguments. As usual, you are deluded.
No.
I think it’s just a man-crush.
Lub is lub, after all.
Speaking of which, this year’s Australian Lamb ad has just been released.
A step into PC, with an Aboriginal star (lamb having been a staple of the pre-settlement diet) and a lot of softball targets (e.g. eating a pie with a knife and fork) plus ‘groovy’ ad manbuns using primitive special effects. Oh, and it turns out that ‘un-Australian’ is nonsense, because everything that happens here is Australian. What a mess.
Not a patch on its classic predecessors.
Sigh.
Another one bites the dust.
Armstrong served 11 years at Fort Dix, but 7 was Contempt of Court for not handing over a Gold Plated toga worn by Julius Caesar?
He still ran his newsletter while in the slammer though?
I’m thinking Spook.
Oh dear. Referring to yourself in the third person is the slipperiest of slopes.
I don’t think the Pope would clean his own pool.
He don’t need no stinking pool. He has an entire Holy Sea
I don’t think the Pope would clean his own pool. Def a job for a Cardinal or someone.
Someone like a fit young dago from the boonies?
Sancho takes note.
The Holy Roman Emperor as King of the Romans had responsibilities as the Bishop of Rome’s (now get this right!) Chamberlain of the Papal Goldfish Ponds.
This is why Charlemagne did not build a capital on the Seine or Wurm. He hated water!
Got any jokes, Rotten?
even the comments are fake on Armstrong’s blog
One of my earliest celebrity spots on moving to Melbournibad circa 2007 was Sam Kekovich. And Geelong CEO Brian Cook who was having breakfast at an adjoining table.
On Royals and psychics: I seem to remember Diana had a consultation with one a few days before she and Dodi hit that wall. Inviting malevolence into your life is not a goood idea.
Hahahaha!
It’s just SAD!
Now, for all you bigots, please don’t read this as it may upset your view of the World…………………..
The Real Cost of War
COMMENT: Good Morning Mr. Armstrong, a long-time reader and client of Socrates and your conferences. I just read your entry for Belarus drafting 18 to 60-year-olds. I had a feeling that eventually, that would take place here in the states. I can tell you without a doubt, I will never comply. My family has served in WWII and Vietnam. We have given enough. I absolutely despise our government. I am wondering if this is part of the continued collapse of the government. With such low recruitment levels and the political fallout from the past few years, they must realize people will not be forced to serve. Especially those with the means to defend themselves. Is this a main component of civil unrest here with separatist movements? Just curious if you can elaborate on what you think will happen when they institute a draft here.
All the Best.
J
REPLY: My family has fought in every war since the American Revolution. My cousin still has the musket on his wall from the American Revolution. I lost half of my high school friends to Vietnam and my father and his three brothers were all in World War II and my grandfathers on both sides of the family were in World War I. There is no question that in a time of war, the first shot fired is both silent and never against an enemy. It is always against any truthful reporting of events.
The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contain records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. The government propaganda site, Wikipedia also directed by the Deep States, has low-balled the casualties claiming in total, all US and allied military deaths reached 282,000. We claim that is a victory for the VC lost 444,000 to possibly 666,000. The civilians who died have been low-balled with estimates of 405,000 up to 627,000. Just turn to Britannica and you get:
“In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides and some 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.”
President Lydon Johnson knew there was no reason to enter Vietnam. He knew we could not get out easily. Still, he committed the country to war because the Neocons wanted it.
This is a famous photograph from Vietnam that is probably the most memorable of all time. You see South Vietnamese forces following terrified children. At the center is 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phùc, as she and other children are running from an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. The plane accidentally dropped napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. As always, just the collateral damage of war. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. This photo was taken by Nick Ut of The Associated Press that captured the horror of Vietnam worldwide. It was 1972 when President Nixon said enough and promised to bring the troops home.
This 9-year-old make girl running from napalm, Phan Thi Kim Phúc, had profoundly changed her forever. Such people are tormented for a lifetime. They wake up at night dreaming over and over about the horror of those events for the rest of their lives. Kim Phúc was bitter and full of hatred she said. Later, she picked up the Bible and converted to Christianity. Today, she lives in Toronto with her family and helps other children victims of war around the world. It is those who survive who are profoundly tortured for the remainder of their lives. That is the real cost of war that nobody cares about.
The official estimate of civilian deaths in World War II stands at An estimated total of 70–85 million. The actual military deaths were 21,000,000 to 25,500,000. There is ALWAYS an equal amount of civilian deaths in times of war. Those in power never want to talk about that.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-real-cost-of-war/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I got hold of Zoltan’s latest in full from CS of 22 Dec. He’s not making the case that the USD will lose reserve status. What he’s saying is that with the formation of the alternate trading blocks (BRICS+) there will be a reduction in demand for USD’s. That will support a lower dollar which will be commodity inflationary.
Slowly perhaps at first but when sentiment gets a roll on and moves to be more universally USD bearish, commodities generally will catch a substantial bid (sell excess USD to buy commodities). Z is saying for years and that’s what it’s looking like- China opening , our commodity your problem, US spending Bills etc etc.
US jobs tonight might shed some light but the peak rate might be higher than anticipated and stay there longer with very small cuts behind that- as Z’s commodity narrative takes hold. The Fed doesn’t give a shit about stocks, it’s the bond market that rattles them. Fugly few years ahead in equities I’d say.
Also dot, I dunno how the hell we can undo all the shit that happened in the past 3 years and figure out what is inflation in the true sense.
What’s the impact of the following:
1. supply chain issues
2. QE combined with massive spending which Trump started incidentally.
3. The war and impact on energy and basic commodities
4. reduction in the labor force and therefore wage increases.
5. commencement of re-shoring
6. green new deal.
A large part of price rises was as a consequence of a change in relative prices due to 5 of those 6 points which isn’t necessarily inflation as we understand it.
Be wary, US manufacturing has entered a recession.
Only Rotten Jokes
Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, says America is already balkanising.
You would be correct.
Except that is not what I did.
You have misread my comment. Badly.
Sorry about that.
Grievous doesn’t like that!
Here’s one for Groogs on pool boys:
Maude Lebowski:You can imagine where it goes from here.
The Dude: He fixes the cable?
Maude Lebowski:Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
This makes a great deal of sense. It’s easier to lose weight if you don’t have to dramatically cut the amount of food you eat, simply change the combination. Unfortunately for me, I’m a bit of a carbohydrate junkie.
Volumetrics again ranked as one of the nation’s best diets
11 year Leavenworth veteran
If he asks to show you his scars… just say no.
Journalist never fail to disappoint. Channel 7 has branded Harry as an exile, he is a runaway. You would think the dictionary has been banned.
Taking up that point…it is valid, of course, but can we become too specialised?
I linked to an article in Nature this morning that presents evidence for a decline in scientific innovation, which has profound significance for our future.
One of the causes postulated was the highly specialised nature of contemporary scientific research which results in a closed groupthink within those specialties and the reluctance or even the ability to engage in cross-disciplinary work which might disrupt accepted paradigms and stimulate new discoveries.
An analogy might be a musical group where each player is a virtuoso on his own instrument but nobody knows how to play in time with the others, resulting in dissonance rather than collaborative creativity.
Ratzinger was Chair of the Commission (of 12 Cardinals) who wrote the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Without doubt, one of the most complex undertakings that incorporated a wealth of biblical knowledge as well as synthesising of texts from Saint writings, exegeses, ancient documentation, past ecumenical councils and the like.
With all of its references, footnotes and passages – and the fact that anyone can look up almost any topic in it, and what the Church teaches on it in plain language, is quite the feat.
Be wary, US manufacturing has entered a recession.
Rubbish comment. This is Stagflation.
Unfortunately for me, I’m a bit of a carbohydrate junkie.
Stopping consuming carbs is exactly like coming off a drug!
Volumetrics again ranked as one of the nation’s best diets
I don’t recommend anyone click on your links.
Oh, no particular reason.
Here’s a top health tip:
Don’t eat Protein [Milk/Eggs/Meat] after 3 P.M..
[Digression]
Had Chicken Chow Mein outta uh Bain Marie the other day.
It had a rib bone in it, which I avoided swallowing.
Anyway, I was thinking later on:
Chickens don’t have rib bones like that
This seems relevant. Gist of it is one of the reasons for the success of the western world is tolerance for the eccentric. That truly disruptive ideas tend to come from those who’re not the societal norm.
And no, that doesn’t mean pedos or drag queens, it means out of the box thinkers.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/02/02/new-industries-come-from-crazy-people/
Careful! You’ll have Zulu in here proclaiming his 84th iteration that, “Anyone who stoops to devour portions of the ghastly ovine should be braised in their own juices with a stake of rosemary through his heart!… or something.
I tend to scroll The (very) Many Iterations of Zulu.
Is Alec Baldwin at it again?
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/french-montana-more-than-ten-people-reportedly-shot-on-rappers-music-video-film-set-c-9373393
rickw:
That would be funny if it wasn’t so bloody tragic.
It makes me want to race out and buy a drone.
Perhaps, even temporarily, you could benefit from not scrolling Zulu for a little while.
For I’ve no recollection of him ever objecting to the sale/consumption of Aussie grown food. Ever.
Either that or from exceptional team work.
The classic example of the former is Einstein; as is well known, he couldn’t get a job in academia and was working in the Swiss patent office when he wrote four of his landmark papers, including on special relativity and mass-energy equivalence, which could be said to have initiated a Copernican revolution in modern physics.
An ex army mate reckons MH17 was shot down by semi literate Russian rebels likely with Spetsnaz handlers and possibly half cut. Ukrainians had been conducting operations above the MANPAD envelope in the period around the incident. That’s what got the Buks involved. From what he told me most Russian equipment has like the Buk have 2 modes, illiterate peasant mode and trained operator mode. The former allows the to launch an anti aircraft missile that can touch targets to around 90,000ft at screen blips with minimal recognition of the target. The latter allows a radar operator to identify the aircraft type but involves much more training. Washington Post report sort of supports his theory:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/18/did-the-ukrainian-rebels-even-know-they-were-shooting-at-a-civilian-aircraft/
My mate was training at Singleton at the time it came down. He said it was the subject of a fair amount of discussion. Hence his opinion.
From what I have seen at the time, poor luck for the Malaysians after MH370 but 2 Singapore Airlines flights bracketed the Malaysian flight on the same vector. If the rebels had launched 5 min earlier or later could have easily been an SQ tagged flight. Either way no airline should have probably been transiting that route with the nature of the hardware kicking round there and the kinetic nature of the action below the flight path. Sadly takes something like this to make people wise I suppose as procedures were changed after.
Forcing a vote you know you will lose seems pointless, but I am sure it makes sense in some 13-dimensional sense of which you are aware.
Yes, if the Squad withheld their vote to make Pelosi Speaker until she acceded to their demands… that is pure blackmail.
I find the meat kind of greasy with a stringy texture, kind of like dog or monkey.
🙂
I don’t have a horse in the Ukraine/Russia stoush, but perhaps the Ukrainians have grounds for hating the Russians?
LOL, show us on the doll where the bad GOPers hurt you, Uncle Dan Crenshaw is here to hold your……………………….Hand
That foul brain damaged rotting political carcass is actually burying itself in something else, as the braindead lamestream meeja might just reveal in the fullness of time, once the figurative red hot pokers up the latter’s’ fundament can no longer be ignored – but only after a j’ismist actually doing their bloody job (e.g. Joe Aston) blows the whole sordid business wide open.
Remember, you heard it here first, Cats.
Monty still pining for the glory days of his feminist icon installing Mr Mussel Jar in the speakers position?
The offending text messages, revealed as part of court proceedings against Slipper, described female genitalia as looking like “a mussel removed from its shell”.
“Look at a bottle of mussel meat! Salty Cnuts in brine!” he continued in his text message to former staffer James Ashby. “Been to thw (sic) fish shop yet to buy the bottle of shell less mussells (sic)?”
Ed Casesays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:51 pm
Got any jokes, Rotten?
Yes, Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment. When you lead with your weak chin it is so easy to have a pop. You are the Joke. LOL
Compliments to you Carpe, you’re assimilating very well.
You’ve still got a way to go, as most Japanese aren’t near that complimentary about lamb meat.
Well that’s enough about his missus, what happens in the home dungeon, stays in the home dungeon.
As Bill is fond of saying, “It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again” .
I think there is something profound in that for all of us.
We were on an Iceland bound cruise when the news came of the plane being shot down. Our Singapore Airlines flight to London took that route a few days earlier and I specifically remember the flight app showing that we were flying over the Donbas region. How close is a close call?
Followed by a tale of local ne’er do well Aboriginal yoofs who made the mistake of trying to steal a stud ram from the farm of a retired Rhodesian commando, who then proceeded to beat them all silly with a military issue string singlet.
Oh god, now i have the mental image of peanut head doing this…
Make it stop.
Carpes – Peanut Head has gone free range.
No more comments on this matter from me.
……………………………………………….. LOL!
Followed by Sancho of the upticks posting a juvenile reframing of Zulu’s remark, in an attempt to trivialise it.
…. simultaneously giving himself eleven upticks, & possibly another eleven upticks to Zulu.
Actually Sal, i have never like Lamb. My Father would have lived on Lamb Chops if he could, i hated the greasy bits of crap on a bone that not even a great gravy could improve.
As for the latter in my missive, i have eaten them in Djarkarta 1982 when i was a young junior sailor, actually, quite nice in chilli plum sauce.
Come to the Dark Side…………..we have cake.
Every nation having been imprisoned in the former Soviet Union has a reason to hate the Russians.
Frolics its a pity munty isn’t “pining for the Fjords”. H/T Monty Python.
By Free Range you mean Chicken or Gimp?
You do mean chicken, Don’t You?
Don’t You?
Carpe.
Thats not icing sugar on that cupcake..
Carpe, was it dog or monkey you ate in Djakarta? (Like your spelling with a D).
Crossiesays:
January 6, 2023 at 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.
You walked around a ancient tree.
..
Bingo!
Or should that be: Bing Bing!
…bong.
Don’t eat lamb from NZ it’s even fattier. I like lamb curries. Made one once that was like Rendang. I’d turned the burner down instead of off. Never could reproduce the flavour.
With you on that.
Coming from cattle country I encountered lamb only well into adulthood.
The moniker of “stinking meat” is justified, and deserved.
It’s Ok, that isn’t ‘white sauce’ on your corned beef.
Enjoy.
Fresh lamb with some pepper is delicious.
Mmm…I’ll pass, but goat tastes much better than I expected. Tender, too.
Lamb in NZ was also much better than what you tend to get here.
Wow!
How popular is Steve Jobs?
Has he gone the full Keating?
You should never go the full Keating.
https://www.afr.com/politics/michaelia-cash-threatens-to-name-bill-shortens-female-staffers-the-subject-of-rumours-20180228-h0wr8y
Innovation and Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash has withdrawn comments deemed highly offensive by Labor after she repeatedly threatened to name “every young woman” in Bill Shorten’s office about whom she has heard rumours.
Responding to repeated demands by Labor senator Doug Cameron in a Senate estimates hearing to name her new chief of staff, Senator Cash shot back that it was a “dangerous road” Senator Cameron was walking.
“If you want to start discussing staff matters be very, very careful. Because I’m happy to sit here and name every young woman in Mr Shorten’s office about which rumours in this place abound,” she told the hearing.
Sancho diagnoses PUS – Paranoid Uptick Syndrome.
I was alongside for 10 days, and had both, dog was in a sauce and it was monkey on a stick (skewer), on that deployment i ate rat, bat, dog, cat, i think it was some form of lizard, and some kind of bird with a huge rib cage.
Fish was ok because – fish, this was in the days before cigatera poisoning
And just for Head Case while he works out where his double chin ends…………..
A couple, both age 78, went to a sex therapist’s office. The doctor asked “What can I do for you?” The man said “Will you watch us have sexual intercourse?” The doctor looked puzzled, but agreed. When the couple finished, the doctor said “There’s nothing wrong with the way you have intercourse” and charged them $50. This happened several weeks in a row. The couple would make an appointment, have intercourse with no problems, pay the doctor, then leave. Finally the doctor asked “Just exactly what are you trying to find out?” The old man said “We’re not trying to find out anything. She’s married and we can’t go to her house. I’m married and we can’t go to my house. The Holiday Inn charges $90. The Hilton charges $108. We do it here for $50, and I get $43 back from Medicare”.
Same with camel. Surprisingly tender and tasty but not gamey. My fave in Nth Africa- camel schawama with tahini. Yum!
The LGM Buk guys had shot down a Ukrainian transport jet at about 30,000 feet two or three days earlier. So when the MH flight came through the same area they drew the logical conclusion.
Once they worked out exactly who they shot down there was a lot of oh shitting. Much of that phone conversation was recorded, it made for interesting reading. The Buk launcher then took off like a scalded rabbit over the border to the east.
I’d be interested if Col. Igor Girkin had a hand in the planning, since he was closely involved in the 2014 campaign. His comments about the current fiasco have been very interesting reading also. He’s not at all happy with the RGS about their handling of the war, no sirree.
Dude!
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
– Mark Twain
If it’s dead that’s ok
If it’s live you are a sick puppy
A Nepalese Goat Curry is the best………………………
Bing bong – I think!
Would Australian camels taste different, I wonder?
“Mutton curry” on the sub-continent is actually goat…& very tasty too.
Libel lawyers would be looking at bigger beach houses if Cash opened that particular Pandora’s box.
Unlike Monty, I have been to the fjords and, even more importantly, quite a few times to Malmo, I have family there. The most recent visit was an eye-opener. The city centre was still overrun with bicycle riders but a large proportion of them were Middle Easterners. The corner shops were operated by Indians and Pakistanis. My relatives were not concerned so neither was I and nothing happened while I was there. We have an agreement not to discuss political matters as they are fairly leftie so I don’t know their opinion about the recent election results in Sweden.
Carp, I think lamb in early summer is about the only time to eat it. 6 hour slow cooked lamb is amazing.
Barbecued Lamb chops
Barbecued three colored capsicum
Barbecued onion and tomatoes.
clean it all up after the concoction is barbed then stick it in a bowl and and olive oil and oregano.
It’s delicious.
The Pilgrims ate Fido.
Remains of ancient, indigenous dogs found at Jamestown, as well as proof people ate them (5 Jan)
Maybe for Thanksgiving the Americans should really be eating something other than turkeys…
Carpe, I admire your intestinal fortitude.
Are committee hearings covered by privilege?
(I assume it was in a committee sitting).
More likely there was a hastily convened Uniparty meeting and dirty laundry carefully stowed away.
Speaking of dirty laundry. Sal, isn’t the 6th of the month sheets and towels changeover at the motel?
We ate lamb probably 3 times a week growing up; consequently, I didn’t touch a morsel of it for about 10 years afte leaving home!
Best done on marinaded and on the BBQ with excess fat trimmed off, although I do a delicious Lancashire hot pot in winter time which has no “lambiness” at all.
From what I have seen at the time, poor luck for the Malaysians after MH370 but 2 Singapore Airlines flights bracketed the Malaysian flight on the same vector. If the rebels had launched 5 min earlier or later could have easily been an SQ tagged flight. Either way no airline should have probably been transiting that route with the nature of the hardware kicking round there and the kinetic nature of the action below the flight path. Sadly takes something like this to make people wise I suppose as procedures were changed after.
Rockdoctor, I think it was around Christmas 1980 when husband, myself and daughter mad e our first trip to Europe on QANTAS – on the very long flight(“red -eye”?) that took us over India and the Middle East and eastern Europe. When we were over the Middle East in the early evening after dinner, as I recall, most of the passengers were preparing for some sort of snooze in Economy. Husband, however, was fascinated with the flight itself, and continued to look out the window at what was darkness below with occasional lights. He then became aware of intermittent explosions of light. Suddenly, he saw what he thought was a MIG jet alongside of our aircraft. He beckoned the “hostie” over & she straight away said to pull the shade down and that there was a “storm”. Later on our trip we became aware that the Iran/Iraq war had escalated & husband was convinced that what he saw was a battle below.
On our return flight home at the end of our trip, QANTAS changed the route and I recall us having a very rough landing in Damascus in Syria. Our pilot subsequently apologised and implied this was an unusual landing at that airport. In retrospect, we reckon that QANTAS and probably other airlines for the duration of that 10 year war took precautions and changed flight routes.
The initial reaction of husband to the tragic destruction of the Malaysian airline over Ukraine was “why the bloody hell were they flying over an activated warzone?”
Like the first attempt at impeaching Trump? The point of the vote is for those for and against to put their cards on the table. Why would Pelosi oppose that?
It isn’t blackmail in the slightest. Apprise yourself of the meaning of words.
Sal, both my husband and I come from pork and poultry people so when we got married we though we will diversify. We tried beef first and loved it. It took much longer to get used to lamb but eventually leg of lamb roast was my husband’s signature dish.
When I was in Melbournibad and a lot less price sensitive about my weekly shopping used to throw a couple of lamb back straps on the bbq like steaks pretty regularly. Wouldn’t like to cost doing a similar exercise these days. Cutlet chops are virtually prohibitive now too. Arguably the best meat to bbq (grill).
Lamb is what you eat when there isnt enough mutton left.
flesh of the gods.
Heathen!
The Coming Revolution – The End of Brazil
From Armstrong Economics –
“The leftist press immediately claims that any assertions of a rigged election in Brazil are as baseless as the Hunter Biden laptop. Our model shows that the election was in fact bogus and it was in a series of global elections that are being rigged to create this global leftist agenda. For any newspaper to immediately proclaim Bolanaro left the country amid “baseless” claims shows that they are just propaganda and part of the agenda.
Our model showed a serious Directional Change would take place in 2023, but we are looking at the complete collapse of Brazil and a major revolution unfolding in 2030. Leftist governments have ALWAYS, and without exception, resulted in declining economic growth. NEVER has even just one ever produced any economic benefit to the whole of any nation. Brazil has sealed its fate and it will take the rest of the continent with it. South and Central America have been plagued with Marxism and that is why the continent has been unable to rise from its knees. Even the Pope has been infected with this philosophy which is why he is always commenting on the economy rather than religion. This has led to many Catholics now saying – He Ain’t My Pope.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/central_america/the-coming-revolution-the-end-of-brazil/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
You’re exhibiting a commendable degree of self-awareness with that comment.
Dust the mutton with gypsum before BBQ.
Gets rid of the fatty taste.
We’re on the same page re lamb, JC.
Dotsays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:30 pm
At least China will build roads and make the trains run on time.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/06/us-senators-urge-joe-biden-not-to-sell-scarce-nuclear-submarines-to-australia
I knew it. Mongrels. Can we have some ICBM’s then? At least we can hide them. Under Ayer’s Rock would do. Make sure we get the codes with them.
Can we dig up the F111’s?
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The sale of lamb? Fine.
The concumption of same? Ask your buddy.
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I think that’s illegal with sheep.
Vicki- that’s a fascinating and frightening story. The flight from oz to Europe is as fascinating as it is exhausting. You really see some amazing stuff from your window.
Only 4,500 comments.
This place is dying on the vine.
Okay. If someone is gaming the Upticks, I want some. Even if they’re Pity Upticks.
Just served roast pork plus all the trimmings including the crackliest of crackling (as attested by the smoke detectors…twice) to four adults, two teenage boys and two small munchkins. Gobbled up the lot plus seconds.
Now they’ve all nicked off and left me with the cleaning up! 😀
I’m pretty sure BA used to fly over Iran on its way to and from Sydney.
in the 90s I meant to add
What have the Russians ever done for the Ukraine?
External treaties, covenants and such like do not become Australian law unless legislated for domestically in our parliament.
Technically a Georgian (Stalin) caused the famine. Is that what you mean?
He then became aware of intermittent explosions of light. Suddenly, he saw what he thought was a MIG jet alongside of our aircraft. He beckoned the “hostie” over & she straight away said to pull the shade down and that there was a “storm”.
Possibly an Iraqi fighter jet? Sadam Hussein was pretty thick with the Soviets in those days.
I think if the Ukrainians had a choice between Russians and Romans they’d choose Romans.
I have a bag of ocelot spleens please.
They were the single hump variety and youngish. Bred for the meat. I once got stuck up-river in Borneo and was fed bear in a Korean camp. Kim-chee and bear for near a week. The bear wasn’t too bad but the kim-chee was absolutely disgusting. Poor bloody bear came down with a tree being cleared for mine haul road. They were drying out his pelt over the radiator of camp gen set!
I’ve given you an uptick just for that.
Begging for upticks.
Sad.
The mole gets it. The report he linked to is almost five years old, BTW.
Nothing has changed, except Teats going increasingly “free range”.
In order to “find savings in the NDIS” of course.
There’s a reason he’s near the top of my very lengthy “list”, Cats.
De gustibus non est diusputandam and all that…but I don’t know how non-Koreans who haven’t grown up with it eat that stuff!
johannasays:
January 6, 2023 at 5:46 pm
Tonight Lamb Stew with 1998 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz – previous bottles have been excellent
Speaking of which, this year’s Australian Lamb ad has just been released.
johanna,
thought the same – “Spot The Aussie”
Diversity gone Mad – Vale Australia & Australia Lamb
Indeed. An Indian woman colleague came into work soon after it happened. She’d been away for a few days and had been booked on MH 370 for return but changed the flight the day before. Her experience made it all very real. We think flying is safe and it is, but you just never know.
Mackay, was it a sun bear?
Oh please stop the incessant bloody lying.
No econometric or AI model can show these sorts of assertions to be true or not.
Honey bear, if IIRC. It was the early 80’s.
Makka!
And most of them are fuelled by the anti-establishment fervour that accompanied Trump’s rise to power in the first place.
Indeed, far-right congressman Matt Gaetz even nominated Trump to be Speaker, thanks to bizarre House rules allowing anyone to be named as a candidate, regardless of whether they are in office.
“If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise,” Gaetz said of his refusal to back McCarthy.
Makka, if in Borneo, it would have been a sun bear. Not real big.
I find this bear eating stuff in very bad taste.
The video is amazing and instructive.
thats because its bat rib bones
Ok Stilt. Yes that’s right it wasn’t big. Black pelt. They called them honey bears then because they were always up the trees after you know what. Those Koreans had all manner of skins; big pythons, deer, monkey. Fkers ate anything that breathed.
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As one hungry peasant said to another, Mater artium necessitas .
Lamb suffers the same deficiency as suckling pick: too young for a decent texture. Hogget is the shot, which is why butchers sell it to you as “lamb”.
On a further meaty note, the last old fashioned butcher (‘G’day, love, don’t you look lovely today’ Whack! Whack!) went out of business in the local Pier Street strip about eight years back. Been Coles or IGA ever since. Anyway a new artisan butcher — if he had sawdust on the floor it would be from minced Chipendales — and so far only disappointment.
No black pudding, duck with an anorexic layer of breast fat, and pricey too.
Yet he seems to be doing well. Can Coles’ crappy meat cabinet and deli counter (no black pud there either and, most often, smoked cod) be so resented that people will pay more for less? Mind you, the typical customer seems to be a Beemer-driving wife in form-fitting athletic attire who happily pays more for less tasty low-fat mince.
Madness surrounds us.
they keep all the hookers employed
This may be surprising but Russian history preceded the 1930s.
areff, we make the long round trip to an outlet next to the abbs to avoid Colesworths when we can.
areff, for black pudding at colesworths check the chiller boxes where they keep the Italian sausages etc.
In which case it perhaps should be the other way ’round.
Kievan Rus is the motherland of Russia.
The new trend of wearing running shoes with dresses is an abomination, particularly when the dress is fancy enough to need more than casual sandals. I have observed it a few times now on television. Whoever is advising these women is having a laugh behind their backs.
How is that relevant?
$100k from Nike usually soothes the pain.
This has been linked by Sarah Hoyt: Spoiled children.
As she says, how long will civilization tolerate the tantrums of the spoiled children of the rich? I don’t think there is any will to stop them. As far as these brats are concerned, roads are for the peasants, they fly where they want to go.
Kevin McCarthy Loses 11th Ballot, FINALLY Willing to Make Concessions
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Get his signature in blood.
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So is this all a natural phenomenon? Are there more secrets behind it?
I doubt the Kievan Rus were Ukrainian.
It’s clearly relevant given my first statement.
I ask for black pudding and sometimes – sometimes – they have it
Nor were they Russian.
Someone please advise Vlad of this.
The initial reaction of husband to the tragic destruction of the Malaysian airline over Ukraine was “why the bloody hell were they flying over an activated warzone?”
It was meant to be OK above FL320 (32000 feet). However if a large twin has an engine failure I’m told it will certainly have trouble maintaining much above 20,000 feet. Utterly irresponsible of the airlines to fly there and doesn’t say much for national aviation authorities who are teeth suckingly sanctimonious about “aviation safety”. See CASA.
This must be lies, I heard Malmo was a war zone and you couldn’t step outside your door without being strung up as an infidel.
In my neck of the woods they stock a locally made product – Gold Coast hinterland producer run by a Dutchman actually – and an Irish import. The local version is better. Not like the home made stuff but then beggars can’t be choosers.
Both of them should immediately turn their countries over to the Scythians.
Or maybe the Kazak Horde and Crimean Tartars. Native title!
I get confused about who owns what sometimes.
If I may be so bold to ask – what do you intend to use it for?
Boudin noir is much nicer than black pudding
I guess we’ll never know. Our prospective Malmo correspondent is a fat numpty.
Not something I consume, but I will do a reccy around my area for le puddingue noir.
There are a few little smallgoods places here and there, and one of them must do it.
Though as Roger indicates, it might be pricey.
The Trump impeachments were defending a principle, and the Democrat caucus was united in voting for it. No operant analogy there.
Putting cards on table is a bit useless, unless you are going to primary opponents based on their vote. That sort of thing is de rigueur in the GOP at the moment as part of its ongoing civil war, but there’s not much of that going on among the Democrats.
As for Pelosi, she didn’t take crap from anyone, particularly not people like you who wanted to wreck stuff and didn’t care about governing.
I reckon you could sell boudin noir in Double Bay for heaps more than black pudding.
You…you…you linguist you!
mOnty, please…the discussion has moved on to black pudding.
(Can’t take him anywhere.)
The best ones are so noir, that even the blanc bits are noir.
Thanks for the Pity Upticks! Here, I’ll flick you all some virtual pavlova. Mango and passionfruit.
Boudin noir is much sweeter than a Scottish black pudding.
I like both.
I fully intend to buy some in a few weeks.
Iirc there was a Scottish butcher in Altona a long time ago that sold such delicacies, square sausage or somesuch as well.
Not on Pier St, Railway St South iirc.
That’s joyously funny Monty.
Have you thought of auditioning for SNL?
I haven’t tried boudin blanc.
I have had andouillette though.
I must be thick as I couldn’t work out the joke in the new lamb ad.
The Trump impeachments were defending a principle
Yep, the principle of dicklessness.
I forgot to add…home made pav. Non of that shop bought muck.
What’s this about indigenous lamb? Surely they don’t mean joeys? The horror!
And also…not enough meat.
Latest from the whacky world of islam which dickless lefties support:
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If you say so… but you know the Left has no principles it wouldn’t betray for the sake of “the cause”. This has been proven time and again in modern history. That’s the terminus ad quem of all philosophies that declare atheism to be a first principle.
Yes, if the Squad withheld their vote to make Pelosi Speaker until she acceded to their demands… that is pure blackmail.
That’s a funny way to spell “politics”, m0nty=fa.
there isn’t one
… they’re kissing arse feet
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I don’t think you can definitively argue that.
Laferrari 370km/h on Autobahn
Ecky thump maybe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Kapers
Expect to see this place wither and desiccate away at the end of the month.
New season of Married at first sight starting.
From the ad the criteria for entry was to have spent a years wages on tattoos.
This must be lies, I heard Malmo was a war zone and you couldn’t step outside your door without being strung up as an infidel.
Bug the curiosity that a good j’ismist should have was not adequate to get you there to check the truth? Stay int the basement, dying a thousand deaths before you finally choke on a donut.
The Trump impeachments were defending a principle, and the Democrat caucus was united in voting for it. No operant analogy there.
Putting cards on table is a bit useless, unless you are going to primary opponents based on their vote. That sort of thing is de rigueur in the GOP at the moment as part of its ongoing civil war, but there’s not much of that going on among the Democrats.
As for Pelosi, she didn’t take crap from anyone, particularly not people like you who wanted to wreck stuff and didn’t care about governing.
ROFLMAO. So many leftard talking points in a single comment, great work m0nty=fa!
Rockdoctor, I thought of Ecky Thoomp, but I wasn’t sure if it was Monty Python or Goon Show.
Wrong either way.
Goodies.
Explains Gez’s rush to get all the grain carted.
Donbass is Macedonian mate, okay?
I recently watched a new genetic study on the European occupation by the Yamnaya. The migrations were mostly male and almost completely displaced the existing earlier Anatolian migration and hunter gatherer male populations in Europe. Took all the women, mass graves showing violent death peppered across Europe.
Return Europe to the Basque, the Sami, and Turkey!
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Champagne Comedy, well done Sir
Sancho,
I giggled as soon as I saw your reference. I was a child in the early ’80’s seeing the same episode rerun on the ABC and it has stuck since for some reason.
Sure, sure, but interesting to see you declare that MFA isn’t a principle worth pursuing or defending, and that the Dem caucus was not united in supporting it. This perfectly demonstrates the force of the analogy.
Monty declares that knowing who actually opposed MFA might be too embarrassing for the party and individual members, and that it might lead to candidates standing against sitting members opposed to MFA.
Fair chance he was escorted to a safe location to shoot up 25 sandbags dressed up in beach towels and dressing gowns.
MAFS back.
I didn’t know but obviously some people around here have a dirty little secret.
Don’t be shy.
Rosie is a cunning linguist? Who knew!
Is the site working?
fact check: false
Radio check, over.
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I think we all know someone who resembles that.
Just spotted this report on the latest UK census which shows that self-claimed LGBTQI+ etc etc are 1.5 percent of the population:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64176039
Yes, 1.5 percent. Yet the rest of us are bullied into silence and made to feel we’re on the wrong side of history. Self-identified Christians, for example, outnumber them by more than thirty to one.
It’s a miracle that this got reported. Our ABC (GayBC) would send it straight down the memory hole.
Presumably not of Mediterranean appearance.
But presumably all Australian nationals or residents.
via Garth Godsman