The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
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I see the leading Presidential candidate in Romania is ‘pro-Russian’, according to the FT, because he believes Ukraine is none…
I find it amusing that someone took the trouble to downtick my response to Zippy’s link to Dore and the…
Note how God spoke the world into being at creation in Genesis 1. God continues to speak through creation (Psalm…
doverObeach Maybe the genesis is a little bit earlier – February 9 1990 https://x.com/dmills3710/status/1861086202310336688
The Sri Lankans I know are very pissed off what’s been going down but they still wanna stay.
Good that they’re very pissed off, more people need to get very pissed off.
Daily Telegraph:
A lawyer who was ruled out as a Liberal candidate despite being the frontrunner has lashed out at the party for hiring an “intelligence” firm to undertake “background research” on him.
In a sign the recriminations from this year’s messy preselection process may not yet be over, long-serving, right-wing party member Noel McCoy is demanding Liberal Party bosses resign for what he claims have been breaches of “procedural fairness”.
Mr McCoy had been the favourite to win preselection for the blue-ribbon seat of Castle Hill, until he failed to pass the party’s vetting process, which had included a panel interview by the internal Nomination Review Committee (NRC).
It can now be revealed the NSW Liberal Party hired a firm called Aletheia Intelligence Pty Ltd to undertake research on Mr McCoy, with the report used in questions by the NRC.
The firm was founded by Luke Bennett, a former military officer who most recently held the role of senior adviser in the office of ex-prime minister Scott Morrison until the May federal election
Mr Bennett is the sole director of the firm and is also a shareholder, along with David Hughes, who was a director of strategy and research in Mr Morrison’s office.
Mr McCoy believes factional operatives unhappy at having an outspoken right-wing candidate led to the hiring of Aletheia to give justification to his elimination.
In a scathing letter to NSW Liberal Party president Maria Kovacic and NSW Liberal state director party Chris Stone, Mr McCoy said allowing party officials to question him about items in the Aletheia dossier without him having a copy was a “breach of procedural fairness”.
Having since obtained the dossier, he declared its contents, which included public statements he had also made on issues ranging from euthanasia to national service over the past 20 years, were “amateur” and “misleading”.
Mr McCoy, who previously obtained a reference from Premier Dominic Perrottet when running for the Senate, said his policy positions, “particularly those expressed in good faith and in defence of core Liberal values”, were for the preselectors to judge, not party officials.
A NSW Liberal Party spokesman said it “strongly refuted” Mr McCoy’s claims.
Aletheia Intelligence said the firm brought “decades of combined experience” from across government, the military, professional services, and law enforcement “to inform our clients with factual reports based on publicly available information which could be relevant in a future role”.
A beautiful young woman.
Second ABC News Producer Dies Suddenly by Undisclosed Causes
Talking sense.
Maj Toure
@MAJTOURE
Dear Black America:
These influencers/pundits are LYING to you. Even the ones PRETENDING their NOT aligned with the Democrats.
They getting phone calls from them people to influence you to vote in your OWN DISINTEREST.
Self-appointed elites want far fewer people in the world and they have wanted this for a long time
Lawmaker says Hollande’s words confirm West’s deception of Russia
For the love of all that is holy, Indolent, can’t you please take a day off posting flurries of links from strange, exotic, and obscure corners of the Internet. Links with smoking-gun headlines but damp-squib contents.
Just one.
It is New Years Day. Guaranteed to only happen once a year.
I know a lot of people like them, which is why I normally say nothing, but seriously, take a day off. Reach out to friends. Ponder the old year and the new. Breathe deeply the aroma of a fresh coffee and gaze over the world beyond your computer.
Please!
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
C0VID was introduced from a lab.
Vaccine injuries were introduced from a lab.
In 2023, I want those responsible introduced to a jail.
Amen
Lt Col John Matrix was his former company commander (and now a Commando).
Like Bennett sports a mo’ and wears mesh chain mail armour.
He’s a buff, butch, dude, but he won’t hear how it looks…kinda gay.
He was the designated driver once for his gay friends who are married and felt out of place and tense. A regular of Stonewall remarked: Hey Bennett, let off some steam!
The heckler is reported to be 6’3” of a very solid build, athletic, brown hair and with a southern German accent with a tan and a gap between his upper front teeth. The heckler is rumoured to look like his old company commander.
Good to have some figures put on it.
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Prior to 2021, studies showed the average number of athlete sudden deaths per year was 29-71/year.
Since Jan 2021, over 1,000 athletes have “died suddenly”.
What caused this massive increase?
The full list of deaths can be found here: https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
Backtracking: WHO Director Walks Back Statement That Countries Use Covid-19 Vaxx-Boosters to “Kill Children”
Good advice.
I’m sipping on coffee, gazing over my flower-filled garden towards the lake and beyond. A gentle breeze is occasionally ruffles its mirror-like surface, and a parent peewee sits perched on one of the garden seats, searching for something…anything to satisfy its young. The sky is a washed out blue, wisps and billows of cloud making shadows on the ground, then out it comes again to heat up the basil and rosemary just behind me, filling the air with the scents of the Med.
And the sound of summer has finally begun – cicadas in the stand of melaleucas chirping their short-lived chorus.
Life is good.
Dot
January 1, 2023 at 8:54 am
Golf clap sir, well played lol
Rosie:
No, not beyond belief. These people are cultists and will do whatever they like to mutilate their victims – even if they are their own children. And this is only the midpoint of this lunatic cult. There is no social mechanism in the cult stopping them from even more extreme expressions of their loyalty to the insanity.
Consider the Jim Jones Cult. Nearly everyone killed themselves and their children to prove their love and loyalty to the ideology.
When it is acceptable to murder your and others families, then nothing is forbidden.
An example – extreme, but aren’t they all?
Child is brainwashed into believing it is a fish. No one can guarantee there isn’t a Dr Mengele who will amputate its arms and fuse its legs together into a tail and call it “Species Affirming Care”.
rosie, you haven’t seen anything yet.
2023 is going to see horrors you cannot even imagine.
It’s hard to tell what the truth is with Tate. If it is a real prosecution I find the cam girls difficult to believe. What’s in their bank accounts?
That bloke is an arsehole though.
There’s a good chance he’s full of it.
He owns 33 Supercars and just happens to live practically next door to a supercar dealership?
If you believe his stats his “courses” pay him millions per month.
What’s his advice?
1. Get a job.
2. Have a shower.
3. Go to the gym.
4. Don’t get but hurt and work on social skills.
5. You can make money on your own if you do extra work on the side.
6. Make 5. replace 1.
He charges thousands of dollars a year for this shit and calls men shit if they’re not “successful” like him.
He also off handedly mentioned once his father was in the CIA.
It was pretty funny when he went on Fat and Fraud (also a glowie) and said BJJ is shit. Rogan tees off on that shit.
He’s as dumb as Michael Bisping (“ninjutsu isn’t real because BJJ and there were frauds…).
I don’t even think his profile pics are real. The cat makes out he’s got jacked arms then you see another photo of the cat and he’s got no chin. Plus when it’s a photo he hasn’t taken he looks way smaller.
He’s a complete fraud and he was signal boosted to make criticism of feminism look bad. There’s a fairly good chance he’s a glowie and his whole op is a false flag.
If you were an American British millionaire (worth tens or hundred of millions) would you really be making porn in Romania and claim you were a Muslim? Seems somewhat schizophrenic to me.
Invited lotsa neighbours for New Years Eve . It turned out neighbour three doors up was a County Court Judge in Vic.
Lots of interesting talk about juries, (do they get it right) Three judge panels no good (would never agree) Talked about Britney trial He thought she had her knickers around her ankles so ….
I said it was unusual that the police didn’t want to proceed but the DPP did and he agreed.
Very interesting. I’ve never met a judge before
Apologies, rosie.
It were Doot I were referring back to.
Given this appears to be driven by his ex wife, surely the solution is for him to ‘persuade’ her to desist?
chrisl
The funny thing is Shane Drumgold is now claiming victimhood status.
Never heard Tate before.
His loyal fans are Tatertots.
Frank:
Yes, F2 or F12. or maybe F10. All my boot sequence options are unavailable.
But it still starts into Dell boot.
chrisl
The funny thing is Shane Drumgold is now claiming victimhood status.
grotesque- I wonder what sort of six figure salary a canbra DPP gets
“What’s his advice?
1. Get a job.
2. Have a shower.
3. Go to the gym.
4. Don’t get but hurt and work on social skills.
5. You can make money on your own if you do extra work on the side.
6. Make 5. replace 1.
He charges thousands of dollars a year for this shit and calls men shit if they’re not “successful” like him.”
I think Tate is another version of that con artist Jack Murphy. Both scammers who prey on young disaffected men. Murphy even pimped his own wife.
Ha!
I watched Commando a couple of days ago.
Bennett was played by an actor called Vernon Wells, who is Australian.
He was only given the part at the last moment when the director fired Wings Hauser. There was no time to make new costumes and that is why Bennett’s clothes are so tight. Wells would later describe his character as ‘Freddy Mercury on steroids’.
Hauser, of course, would go on to become half of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personality in Total Recall.
Shatterz:
A valid assumption, apart from the fact the ability to access backup/repair is a couple of steps further into the boot sequence and remains unavailable.
I was able to get enough web access with the USB ISO that MT sent me, enough to get into Dell support and download all the drivers, but it won’t allow me to install them to Win7 from Linux Mint. And Linux Mint got me to the partitioning setup then refused to go any further.
Guys, I think I’ll just dismantle the whole damn thing, remove the hard drives, and access the files as an external drive on the other computer.
(And I’ll accept the fact I wreck more of my computers because I’m a born tinkerer without the sense to know when to stop.)
Thanks everyone.
What model Dell, Robert.
The legendary Cuck Pokémon, Jack Murphy of the Semenal Order.
I want my slippy slide!
rosiesays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:53 am
No chance Chinese are travelling to get access to medical treatment overseas is there?
rosie,
just go to NSW Hospital Outpatients clinics to see the number of very old Chinese – China is exporting it’s aging and health problems to Australia
Persuade or permanently change her mind.
Believe it or not, I can do all of that and still share a few links I think might be of interest.
And if we stuck with the mainstream media we still wouldn’t be aware of the Twitter files and utter corruption of government and institutions, would believe that the 2020 elections were the fairest ever, that the mRNA shots were safe and effective and that climate change would destroy the planet unless we immediately gave up all our rights and returned to a feudal state.
Is that what you want?
the silent last eight years of the life of Benedict XVI bore mute witness to the fact that something is deeply wrong within the Catholic Church.
‘I don’t have time for egomaniacs who take notes’
Amanda Vanstone lifts the lid on her time in cabinet, including her dealings with John Howard and disdain for ministers more concerned with publishing memoirs than serving the community.
If anyone has time to post Article from Today’s OZ – would be interesting to read .
Thanks in advance
the silent last eight years of the life of Benedict XVI bore mute witness to the fact that something is deeply wrong within the Catholic Church...take two
but it won’t allow me to install them to Win7 from Linux Mint.
I’ve got an HP laptop that, apparently, hates Win .. no matter what version I’ve tried it would crash after a coupla days .. installed Mint about a year ago and never had a problem with it since …
I asked. I pleaded.
But it appears the avalanche of indiscriminate links will not be forestalled.
I tried.
First the Queen and now Pope Benedict.
Coincidence?
I think not…
Happy New Year and best wishes to all for 2023.
Same to you Dover and thank you again
Indolentsays:
January 1, 2023 at 9:29 am
I know a lot of people like them, which is why I normally say nothing, but seriously, take a day off. Reach out to friends. Ponder the old year and the new. Breathe deeply the aroma of a fresh coffee and gaze over the world beyond your computer.
Believe it or not, I can do all of that and still share a few links I think might be of interest.
Indolent,
I read your links & everyone’s links because people post them for a reason, usually good and I agree with your statement
And if we stuck with the mainstream media we still wouldn’t be aware of the Twitter files and utter corruption of government and institutions, would believe that the 2020 elections were the fairest ever, that the mRNA shots were safe and effective and that climate change would destroy the planet unless we immediately gave up all our rights and returned to a feudal state.
For instance I watched the 16 Mins 23 Secs Video, posted earlier of The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained, and enjoyed it so much I put the link up on Family Facebook page for Older Grandkids to enjoy
Why?
Why?
Is joke.
Someone will purport a nefarious connection, and Indolent will link to it.
Happy New Year dover0beach and all the New Cat Crew.
Happy new year cats.
Thanks for your help yesterday Arky.
New Years Day – bright eyed, bushy-tailed and no hangover. Hummmmm
They key word is ‘indiscriminate’.
Happy New Year and best wishes to all for 2023.
And to you with thanks for the blog, dover.
here you go mUnty … have another che guavara t-shirt
just go to NSW Hospital Outpatients clinics to see the number of very old Chinese – China is exporting it’s aging and health problems to Australia
Quite a few age-ing SE Asians amongst the plethora of migrant hordes in this “houso” estate and some days the place resembles the off -loading ambulance ramp at the local hospital .. but no matter how many repeat calls these folk get none are ever taken to hospital (which is at the top of the street) .. Viets next door to me had ambulance call-outs 10 out of 14 days not so long ago ..
Depending on the problem it would be quicker to walk/drive (5 minutes) to the local hospital from here than call an ambulance but when your used to gummint free stuff .. I suppose ….!
And to you.
And thanks for keeping this place largely free of riff-raff.
Bespoke:
XPS 2710.
The only reason I want to keep it going is the 27″ screen.
Quite… 😉
I was wondering about that. some machines can be a pain in the proverbial
also the partitioning software isn’t always kind if you don’t have un-allocated space already.
second drive is the prolly the way to go as theyre pretty cheap these days
First the Queen and now Pope Benedict.
Coincidence?
I think not…
Both well into their 90s but I’m fairly certain old age had nuttin’ to do wiv it .. BAT FLU! .. LOL!
Shut up and enjoy the 3rd anniversary of Muellerween.
Noisy Miners are a bunch of bad-mannered bullies. They see off every Rosella that comes around, but the Rainbows and Scalies don’t knuckle under to them.
Thanks for that appreciation of Ratzinger/Benedict XVI by Pell, Frank (last night, 9.36pm, see above).
“His speech at Regensburg exploring the links between Islamic teaching and violence eventually produced orchestrated waves of protest, ironically validating his central thesis.”
Truth-telling is becoming difficult to impossible in this corrupt world.
Robert.
I think the computer may have fallen victim to the little known Y2.023 K bug.
Old Ozzie:
Same at Prince Charles in Brisbane.
Not so many in Renal or Cardiac transplant, but there’s been a change over the last six months.
Skin Clinic is overwhelmed. I can’t get in, Asian/Sub Continental are 80%
It would be good if they were all paying their own way, but I suspect that’s not the way its going down.
Old mate has had a heart murmur since he was 65, became a problem when he was 70, refused valve replacement when he was 80 after they spent 10 years stuffing him around with medications. He thinks it was deliberate and I have to agree with him.
Good I was just about to call for a health check.
XPS 2710.
The only reason I want to keep it going is the 27? screen.
dear me! .. I thought we wuz talking about a laptop but being a desktop just yank the old HD out and throw a newie in .. you can get a new 29″ screen from Kogan for under $200 these days, as well ..!
Just watching the Parisian fireworks. The Arc De Triomphe is rather measly compared to our Coathanger.
just go to NSW Hospital Outpatients clinics to see the number of very old Chinese – China is exporting it’s aging and health problems to Australia
Son of a friend married a Chinese national. Predictably, she brought out her elderly parents from China to live with them. They were repeatedly availing themselves of health checks on Medibank to an almost ridiculous extent.
Doot:
Any attempt by the bloke to change her mind, from the story so far, will criminalise him – she’s got a lot of systemic backup.
Any made up story of him ‘stalking’ her will immediately see the boy made a Ward of the State if she falls down a flight or ten of stairs.
I’ll pay that one, very funny, as good as Johnny Rotten’s.
What ElbowSleezy Labor Party & the Greens/TEALS/NSW Liberals want for you in 2023
Blame it on our family reunion policy that most of those million+ Chinese students we gave permanent residency and citizenship took advantage of.
Harrrrrumph!
Some of us put the “riff” back into “raff” I’ll have you know!
Just to annoy the ABBA Haters – ABBA – Happy New Year (Video)
Commenter at the Age says we have so much to learn from the oldest living continuous civilization
– how to make pharting noices blowing down a hollow log is the only skill I can think of……….
I remember well that Pope Benedict was very popular with the young people within the Church. There is markedly little enthusiasm from young Catholics for Pope Francis.
I suspect they’re a good income stream for a cash strapped public health system.
Don’t forget the returnable stick.
Matrix Transform:
I don’t use the Windows disc management system – I find the Seagate Disk Partition Tools does the job and I’m used to it. It does tie you to Seagate discs but you can always slip a spare one into the USB External Drive slot and it accepts the non Seagate even if you don’t touch the Seagate one.
filthy and overcrowded. You havn’t seen crowds till you have been to china and thats just day to day normality over there.
David Maddison
January 1, 2023 at 6:37 am · Reply
For civil purposes most of us here are subject to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar to replace the Julian calendar in England and its colonies including British America as the US was then known, which was adopted in 1752.
https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar
Changes of 1752
In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament, England and its colonies changed calendars in 1752. By that time, the discrepancy between a solar year and the Julian Calendar had grown by an additional day, so that the calendar used in England and its colonies was 11 days out-of-sync with the Gregorian Calendar in use in most other parts of Europe.
England’s calendar change included three major components. The Julian Calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the legal new year was moved from March 25 to January 1. Finally, 11 days were dropped from the month of September 1752.
The changeover involved a series of steps:
-December 31, 1750 was followed by January 1, 1750 (under the “Old Style” calendar, December was the 10th month and January the 11th)
-March 24, 1750 was followed by March 25, 1751 (March 25 was the first day of the “Old Style” year)
-December 31, 1751 was followed by January 1, 1752 (the switch from March 25 to January 1 as the first day of the year)
-September 2, 1752 was followed by September 14, 1752 (drop of 11 days to conform to the Gregorian calendar)
SEE LINK FOR REST
In other places beyond the British colonies the Gregorian calendar was adopted in the following years (from Wikipedia).
1582 Spain, Portugal, France, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Italy, Catholic Low Countries, Luxembourg, and colonies thereof
1584 Kingdom of Bohemia, some Catholic Swiss cantons
1610 Prussia
1648 Alsace
1682 Strasbourg
1700 Protestant Low Countries, Norway, Denmark, some Protestant Swiss cantons
1752 Great Britain, Ireland, and the “First” British Empire (1707–1783)
1753 Sweden and Finland
1873 Japan
1875 Egypt
1896 Korea
1912 China, Albania
1915 Latvia, Lithuania
1916 Bulgaria
1917 Ottoman Empire
1918 Russia, Estonia
1919 Romania, Yugoslavia
1923 Greece
1926 Turkey (common era years; Gregorian dates in use since 1917 Ottoman adoption)
2016 Saudi Arabia
Amanda Vanstone lifts the lid on her time in cabinet, including her dealings with John Howard and disdain for ministers more concerned with publishing memoirs than serving the community
I don’t know whether Vanstone includes Peter Costello as one of the giant egos in the Cabinet. But I have always blamed him for the mess that followed with the Rudd years and the decline of the Liberal Party to this very day.
Costello spat the dummy after Howard refused to anoint him. Had he had the intestinal fortitude to stay on in Opposition, he would surely have won the next election. We would also have been spared the later Abbott administration, which was so disappointing.
When I said “riff-raff” I was thinking of people like Bird, that bat-shit crazy woman from Sinc-Cat (we dare not speaketh her name), ussr, Annie, and the Vulgar Boatman (who Hath No Boat).
I mentioned my BiL the ABC devotee the other day.
Mueller was another example of his being duped by the ABC.
I remember talking to him before the final report was issued. He was adamant, even gleefully so, that within a week Trump would be doing a perp walk in an orange jumpsuit on his way to a prison reserved for America’s most infamous traitors.
My take was that while there were plenty of rumours, gossip, and leaks swirling around, none of them gelled with what was submitted to the inquiry, and it was only that stuff that could be used in the eventual findings as having been tested. There was a chance something would emerge in sudden histrionic fashion, but there was absolutely no evidence of such.
He simply wouldn’t hear it.
And when Mueller’s nothing burger was delivered he had to start talking about the strings the Republicans were secretly pulling and that Mueller himself might have been secretly protecting Trump.
Now the Jan 6 committee is a busy, and the tax returns a nothing burger.
How much money have they wasted trying to get rid of him – and never by appealing to Americans with policies.
All sticks do that.
You just need a labrador.
Dingoes are shit at fetch.
Happy New Year to Dover and many thanks for providing such an excellent site which, in fact, is a community service as it keeps us lot off the streets.
Happy New Year Tom and thanks for all the toons and media reports.
Happy New Year to all the wise and witty Kittehs, with special kudos to Tinta for, “as far as I could spit a grand piano”. Top effort! (Best wishes also to that other virtuoso of the adjective, Rabz. Hope 2023 is a better year for you.)
Happy New year to Chef Matrix… and I’m still waiting for a dinner invitation.
Happy New Year to all our funny, naughty Boy Cats – you know who you are – including ‘the sneerers’ who crack me up with their cutting ripostes. No-one shall ever get the better of you lot.
Finally, *sigh*, to the few perpetually grumpy, whiney, cynical old buggers: I wish you the ability to perceive happiness and beauty in this world, to realize that you could be part of it, disregarding race, politics, wealth or social station. Happy New Year.
It was the final credits that done me in, OldOzzie.
My Waterloo.
When a former Hitler Youth AA gunner can make it to Pope anything’s possible!
Daily Mail. Anybody here be ordering a copy? Naaah, me neither.
You might care to revise that list after the ABBA clip. 😀
I got this picture from somewhere.
It reminds me of some sort of baby feeding device but I just can’t place it…
Gee, these Barstool ‘conservatives’ dudes are genuine.
Blame it on our family reunion policy that most of those million+ Chinese students we gave permanent residency and citizenship took advantage of.
Australian politicians are as dumb as a bag of rocks when it comes to seeing the potential to grift.
The Kardashians with crowns.
Happy New Year to all the Kökksmökers out there.
Robert Sewell, why stuff around with Linux? Win 11 works great.
Just bought a new PC for the office as the old ASUS all in one was 12 years old and noticeably slow now and 12 years of relying on spinning rust was probably pushing my luck.
New Lenovo all-in-one with i5 processor, 8 Gb RAM, 512 Gb SSD drive for $1000 from Officeworks. Put on an external 1Tb for all my data and a couple of spinning rust drives for backup. Brilliant. From power up, 8 seconds to ready to go. Quiet. Win 11 installed all apps we use without a hitch, including some 20+ year old ones. Save yourself some grief. I’ve got enough projects to customise without screwing with an office PC.
Crossiesays:
January 1, 2023 at 8:33 am
… and look – here comes another variant from the worlds arsehole – China. And our governments are letting them through the gates because to resist ‘racist’.
Why is it that almost every flu originates in China? Have they got some conditions there that are absent everywhere else?
There is a theory that the 1918 Spanish Flu originated there, and was brought to Europe by Chinese labourers recruited to work behind the Western Front. And from there off round the world with repatriated troops.
Cue much huffiness from Richard Cranium in 3, 2, ….
Who needs the Sussexes when we’ve got Davey and Candy Warner.
For at least the last year of the pandemic, perhaps earlier, I have followed the sub stack of a German academic called Eugypius. No doubt many Cats have similarly followed his remarkable
observations. I offer the following extract from yesterday. Only this morning husband and I remarked upon the transformation of the media over the last couple of years. Let’s face it, the Australian media, with some exceptions, has never been “top drawer”. But, to my horror, I find that even the ABC is preferable to the pap that comes out of commercial TV media news coverage. And it is astonishingly uniform in its content – especially on breakfast TV. There MUST be directions from the company owners. But, in view of the remarks of Eugypius, this must be common right across the western world. If this is a “conspiracy theory”, then I must be a conspiracy theorist.
The pre-pandemic world is gone forever. If the past year has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that much. Mass containment has permanently transformed our societies and our cultures. It has cemented the cooperative relationship between the regime and the press, and it has changed the content and the tenor of our media. Drama and panic have always sold newspapers, but our new era is characterised by an unending self-reinforcing cyclone of hyperventilation journalism, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. For the foreseeable future, I think, we will careen from one crisis to the next.
The pandemic has also changed politics. We have all learned that our alleged liberal rights and freedoms are quaint fictions, which will evaporate in the face of any false emergency. This is one reason that the unceasing hysteria of the press is so ominous, for it represents a continual attempt to restore those extraordinary conditions in which the managers wield absolute power. Under the pretence of emergency, everything is permitted. The government can seal you inside your home, forbid you from seein friends, and outlaw all protest. It can banish all criticism from the media, and with a bit more hyperventilation, it can probably even force-medicate you. In the pre-2020 world, of course, our governments could do all of these things as well. What is different now, is merely that many more people know that they can, and approve nevertheless.
Finally, it is now clear that the pandemic has changed our society in dramatic ways. Anything that you do for more than a few weeks becomes a part of you, and in Germany we locked down for seven months, and endured the deranged paroxysms of the vaccinators for even longer. Surveys show that the Corona era has left people fatter, sicker, and suffering from far higher rates of substance abuse. Many report drastic reductions in the quality of their social life. Rates of loneliness and depression will be elevated for decades. All of this was predicted, but what’s more astonishing is the apparent disappearance of vast numbers of people from public life and the economy. Home office – which, particularly in the bureaucracy, is a euphemism for doing as little as possible while continuing to collect a salary – has changed the professional world in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
My life has changed too. Colleagues I once admired have totally discredited themselves in my eyes, and I’ll never get over it. My institute is now years deep into mask mandates and other tiresome rules that make working there an exercise in quotidian absurdity and humiliation. I would’ve left earlier if the home office provisions hadn’t provided an out, but increasingly I see that it’s time to leave forever.
Old Ossie,
thanks for the ABBA Happy New Year clip. I have never heard it before.
Robert, i remember that contraption which eventually led to our bathroom renovations.
Hard to argue.
Not wanting to start the new year by making new enemies. My earlier suggestion that Bill Gates would be put in jail this year was tongue-in-cheek and was the result of randomly selecting any well-known billionaires who typically feature in conspiracy theories simply to be contrary to m0nty, not because I’m aware of any evidence about Mr Gates that would actually secure a conviction with a jail sentence.
The objective failure that several Covid jabs became was not instigated by Mr Gates though his moolah was a significant accelerant in their deployment. Funding multiple teams to save time, not money, was a noble thing for a billionaire to do. One should note that nobody is complaining about the Covid19 vaccine development efforts he funded that did not result in any deployed product. If he had malicious motives he could have spent a lot less cash in fewer places and gotten an even more devastating result than the relatively rare number of adverse events reported so far.
Strange! I went over to the Age article saying “the voice” referendum would be this winter (tactical mistake there), and the majority of the comments don’t support it.
NSW Libs are going backwards on numbers in preselecting women, not to mention anti-abortion crusaders like this ambulatory pavlova. Blue ribbon seats like Castle Hill are ripe for teal sniping, and the Libs aren’t helping themselves.
A public holiday is an excellent opportunity to rev up the old ones.
People with vaginas are the least of the NSW Lieboral’s problems. Mrs Perrottet should start measuring the curtains in the Opposition party room.
2022 Same Shit, Different Year: 55 Years Of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions
SUMMARY
Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today.
None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.
What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science.
More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science.
While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited.
– 1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’
– 1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’
– 1970: Ice age by 2000
– 1970: ‘America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.’
– 1971: ‘New Ice Age Coming’
– 1972: New ice age by 2070
– 1974: ‘New Ice Age Coming Fast’
– 1974: ‘Another Ice Age?’
– 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’
– 1976: ‘The Cooling’
– 1978: ‘No End in Sight’ to 30-Year Cooling Trend
– 1980: ‘Acid Rain Kills Life in Lakes’
– 1988: James Hansen forecasts increase regional drought in 1990s
– 1988: Washington DC days over 90F to from 35 to 85
– 1988: Maldives completely under water in 30 years
– 1989: Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000
– 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway underwater by 2019
– 1995 to Present: Climate Model Failure
– 2000: ‘Children won’t know what snow is.’
– 2002: Famine in 10 years
– 2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020
– 2008: Arctic will be ice-free by 2018
– 2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013
– 2009: Prince Charles says only 8 years to save the planet
– 2009: UK prime minister says 50 days to ‘save the planet from catastrophe’
– 2009: Arctic ice-free by 2014
– 2013: Arctic ice-free by 2015
– 2013: Arctic ice-free by 2016
– 2014: Only 500 days before ‘climate chaos’
– And bringing us up to date in 2022…
References for all above
The Bottom Line:
There is not a single natural disaster, nor trend in any type of natural disaster that can be credibly linked with emissions or whatever gradual “climate change” may be occurring for whatever reason, including natural climate change. Attributing natural disaster damages to emissions and climate change is without a factual or scientific basis. And that certainly goes for 2022.
A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. As he enters, he asks St. Peter “I have a question that’s haunted me all of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?”
St. Peter said “That’s a question only God can answer”.
So the zebra went off in search of God. When he found Him, the zebra asked “God, please – I must know… am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?”
God simply replied “You are what you are”.
The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked him “Well, did God straighten out your query for you?” The zebra looked puzzled. “No sir, God simply said “”You are what you are””.
St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra “Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes”.
The zebra asked St. Peter “How do you know that for certain?” “Because” said St. Peter “If you were black with white stripes, God would have said “You is what you is…”
‘The Lion’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’
– C. S. Lewis
ahh … that’s next level.
I found this on the interwebs from Dell – How to Change Boot Order
sounds like they’ve stitched something up in the UEFI
bloody computers
I had an awful time with two Lenovo servers last year.
I dont do servers very often. so many traps
no, you cant just buy any old HDDs
no, you cant just put a generic SSD in that pcie slot.
no, when you finally get the right HDDs, you can’t install the first one in that drive bay
try running the server without a screen attached and getting it to display a remote desktop in any sensible resolution.
in the end had to buy a HDMI screen emulator off Amazon — a ghost dongle to trick into thinking an actual screen was present
I believe my enemies are self-revving, plus there is always the chance they can be promoted to non-enemy status. Stranger things have happened.
Salacious know nothing bigotry.
Ratzinger’s record was not perfect – he himself confessed that – but to state that he was the prime architect of the cover up of clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is a lie, much like the similar allegations directed against Pell here. In fact, when Ratzinger led the response there was an almost 100% “conviction” rate (so to speak) of the some 3400 cases that came before his office for investigation, resulting in “defrocking” or other canonical penalties. Hardly a cover up.
I should add I am not a Roman Catholic so I have no particular interest in defending the man out of loyalty. I am, however, interested in getting at the truth, as we should all be.
This is the way of it. We have always been at war with Eastasia and no one can, or dare, deny it.
Also, OldOzzie’s Klimatecstastrophe link above.
The Vagvote
Robert Sewellsays:
January 1, 2023 at 10:23 am
I got this picture from somewhere.
It reminds me of some sort of baby feeding device but I just can’t place it…
Posting with Wife to the UK in 1970 for 9 Months – 2 Bedroom Flat in Grovewood Kew Gardens with Lock up Garage (for Harry Potter Ford Anglia we purchased to travel around UK/Europe and did short motor change in said garage bringing Hydraulic Engine Hoist used, back as part 163 Kg checked baggage) – actually quite luxurious as Company was paying – Overlooked District Line out window and bridge over railway line at Kew Gardens and was on flight path to Heathrow, but with one foot spaced double glazing no noise penetrated- not one place we looked at came with Shower, so we had one of those over the 2 taps to the bath – water pressure was so bad that you could not lift the shower head above the level of the top of the taps – so you had to lay on your back to hose yourself down, to clean the hard water sludge off yourself before getting out of the bath
Pommy showers always leave a lot to be desired. Always a pleasure to get across to Spain and find yourself blasted across the bathroom. Their wiring was a bit haphazard but the plumbing was top shelf.
Benedict XVI — Priest, Prefect, Pope, Rest in Peace
National Catholic Register – Edward Pentin, Joan Frawley Desmond
The ABC uses New Years Eve to celebrate mainstream Australia.
Sunday, 01 January 2023
Once again the ABC found a way to turn its New Years Eve fireworks presentation into activism.
This time it was all about Pride Day described as the biggest event in Australia in 2023 – I dare say the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Aus might challenge that (but anyway).
There was an hour long dedication complete with drag queen singing.
The ABC can’t help itself.
ABC slammed for ‘woke’ coverage of Sydney’s 9pm New Year’s Eve fireworks and accused of ‘excluding the majority’ of viewers: ‘What an absolute disgrace’
“No hangover”
The British tourists will be stirring from their slumbers, face down in the sands of Bondi with a nasty sunburn on their backs by now. Goes well with one of those hangovers that monsters you from all angles.
H B Bearsays:
January 1, 2023 at 11:11 am
Pommy showers always leave a lot to be desired. Always a pleasure to get across to Spain and find yourself blasted across the bathroom. Their wiring was a bit haphazard but the plumbing was top shelf.
A tin bath in front of the coal fire on a Sunday night as a boy was pure luxury. Could watch the black and white telly programmes as well.
Just watched a video from Dave Ramsay’s lackeys, advising a young pup NOT to use family connections to go straight into management after working in a factory for one year.
Absolutely terrible advice.
How can you become debt free quickly if you refuse better paying jobs?
“Nah, do another five years, pay your dues”
Yeah because in five years time, whomever senior management will be will really care about how honourable you were.
Who the buggery is KFC barstool?
watching the missus in her new shoes
trying frantically to colour-match her fake tan
on the parts she missed in her old shoes
my first real chuckle of 2023.
she loves me even when I’m taking the p155
🙂
“I should add I am not a Roman Catholic so I have no particular interest in defending the man out of loyalty. I am, however, interested in getting at the truth, as we should all be.”
Excellent comment.
I couldn’t agree more, Dover. John Campbell gives an accurate account, although one has to read the paper itself to get the full methodology and to appreciate what this review does do, and what due to data insufficiency it can not do. Some release of Moderna’s individual data would mean fewer statistical problems some of which the researchers have tried to overcome by widening intervals that provide levels of significance. Also it is a study for that time, as John Campbell appreciates, and it is not a study that can pick up later presenting injuries nor can it assess the utility years later of ongoing vaccination against widespread natural immunity and definite older age specific susceptibility to Covid. The now-accepted rise in cardiac events allied to mRNA vaccination is clearly underexpressed in this early trial. That the blinding was ended as soon as emergency authorisation happened also affects randomisation in results. As I’ve noted throughout using Swine Flu vaxx as the best example, other urgent or useful vaccinations have been much more rigorously tested and have been removed if side effects warranted that, for good epidemiological assessments were made which kept public support high for safe vaccination. As Covid vaxx side effects seemed anecdotally to be widespread and some were officially recognised, I have mistrusted the Covid vaxxes and avoided the mRNA ones myself.
For those who think a proper epidemiological analysis is easy, I suggest they read this paper. Everyone should read it. It shows that scientifically demonstrating a set of genuine vaxx effects as separate from the general population incidence involves many factors and rigorous comparisons. It also demonstrates how top data analysts use biostatistics to compensate for possible data errors. This study, which of course is open to challenge and needs release of more data to mine further, which the authors admit may alter their results somewhat, nevertheless highlights the rushed nature of the stage 111 assessment processes, because even the data which is available and secure is indicative of some serious vaxx effects which were ignored. Particularly egregious (John Campbell has to restrict himself to ‘disappointing’) is that there has been no follow up in further studies. Even worse, in my view, is that children are stll being given these vaxxes when the known incidence of harm in children is clearly less than harm from a poorly tested and studied vaccination. This is what happens when science becomes politicised and it is a disgrace.
mUnty, you really need to dodge the linseed bread and soy lattes
Pommy showers always leave a lot to be desired.
I was staying at a hotel in Dorking mid winter. No one at front desk seemed particularly perturb that I had no hot water for 5 days. Made me very grumpy!
Roger Moore must be nearing the end.
mUnty, you really need to dodge the linseed bread and soy lattes
Yeah, but it makes his breasts smaller!
I say I feel a little queer now dopey, where is Dr Goodhead? She’ll force this thing once and for all.
“Blue ribbon seats like Castle Hill are ripe for teal sniping,”
Geez, we’re only a few hours into the New Year and the resident dickhead can’t help himself, babbling on about something he knows zilch about. Dickhead knows nothing about the demographics of Castle Hill, Baulkham Hills and other suburbs of Sydney’s north-west. The demographics of these suburbs are completely different to the demographics of Warringah, Wentworth, North Sydney and Mackellar. Castle Hill is part of the Sydney suburban bible belt, solidly Christian, solidly conservative and full of aspirational families, many with small and medium sized businesses. There ain’t any chance a Teal might pick up the seat, however a Christian independent might.
Now eff off grub.
bringing Hydraulic Engine Hoist used, back as part 163 Kg checked baggage
Epic!
The death of Ratzinger brings to a close a shameful era in Catholicism. Hopefully that will put a full stop to it, and we can all move on.
There, that’s the nicest thing I can say about it.
last 3 new years are like playing Snakes ‘n’Ladders.
back at the start on Jan 1
after landing on 99 the day before
“close a shameful era in Catholicism”
Yeah, calling an innocent man a rock spider was also shameful. I note that you have never retracted that description you despicable hypocrite.
When a former Hitler Youth AA gunner can make it to Pope anything’s possible!
IIRC he was a “flak helper” a lugger of ammo.
Meghan Markle tops poll of celebrities people are sick of – with her husband Prince Harry in second, Oprah third, Amber Heard fourth and James Corden fifth
. Harry and Meghan Markle have been named the most annoying celebs of 2022
. The couple – whose exit from Buckingham Palace made waves last year – each snagged a spot on . . . Ranker’s recently released ‘Celebrities You’re Sick of in 2022′
. Other names to round out the top ten included Oprah Winfrey – who interviewed the couple last year – as well as Amber Heard, James Corden, and Kanye West
for years, I don’t believe I’ve read anything from mUnty that was even remotely ‘a nice thing’
you westerners must kneel and suck communist dick
I thought cranky Frankie was pretty thick with McCarrick. Not to mention his involvement in the dirty war and inviting an abortion campaigner to the vatican. Cranky Franky has all the appeal of a fart in a lift.
Fair enough. I see there was an 8% swing at federal level against the LNP but it’s still a 10-point safe seat there, and 25 points at state level.
We haven’t seen any Christian independents be really successful in a lower house in the modern era, have we? I wonder if that prospect will attract the attention of rich bastards looking to recreate the Holmes a Court effect from a different angle.
OldOzziesays:
January 1, 2023 at 11:39 am
Meghan Markle tops poll of celebrities people are sick of – with her husband Prince Harry in second, Oprah third, Amber Heard fourth and James Corden fifth
. Harry and Meghan Markle have been named the most annoying celebs of 2022
. The couple – whose exit from Buckingham Palace made waves last year – each snagged a spot on . . . Ranker’s recently released ‘Celebrities You’re Sick of in 2022?
. Other names to round out the top ten included Oprah Winfrey – who interviewed the couple last year – as well as Amber Heard, James Corden, and Kanye West
Now that’s what I call a really accurate Poll. Just for a change, they must have polled the right (normal that is) people.
if a naaazi can be Pope, then there’s hope for Martin Armstrong (he does have beady eyes though)
hey mUnty … I know it was like sooo last year but
have you got any updates on Bernie Finn or the nasty old prostitute in the Vic Northern Metro?
… gawd … what was her name?
Many ex Liberals there became LDP years ago.
Ah yes, a Teal stronghold full of aspirationals with two working parents and cars.
Castle Hill, and the entire Hills District, has changed. It was once leafy, triple fronted large block suburbia surrounded by semi rural and market gardens.
It is now solidly built out and houses a massive cohort of migrants, mainly from the sub-continent and China. It is home to a number of mosques and Islamic schools. While the old “Bible Belt” descriptor applies loosely, that is withering away rapidly.
I have no doubt migrant families are aspirational, but their aspirations may fit in better with Labor than Liberal, particularly in the anticipation of loads of Free Stuff. If the Teals can dilute their Klimate messaging with handouts, they might be onto a good thing. I doubt whether Klimate alone will suffice.
I would have thought a retraction might have been in order given the evidence I presented of Ratzinger’s actions when he was in a position to do something about the issue on a church wide basis.
Can’t be many Nazis left now. Just the Grampian kind.
The Greens got 3.76% in Mitchell in 2022, Hawke got over 52% primary vote.
The Teals!
LOL
rickwsays:
January 1, 2023 at 11:32 am
bringing Hydraulic Engine Hoist used, back as part 163 Kg checked baggage
Epic!
Plus 5 Radial Tyres for Mitsubishi Colt 1100F Fastback back in Australia as Radials UK really cheap.
Was sad to say goodbye to Harry Potter Ford Anglia that had taken us around UK and Europe – after new short motor a great little car – superb manual gearbox
mUnty doesn’t do facts.
“sub-continent and China. “
There are a lot of Evangelical churches in the area. Many Chinese and Koreans attend these churches. Sure the ethnicity of the area has changed but it’s solidly conservative.
I’ll have a look but I suspect the swing against the Liberals in May didn’t go to Labor but to Palmer’s UAP and PHON. Oh and parts of Castle Hill, federally, sit in that grub Alex Hawke’s federal seat.
“sub-continent and China. “
There are a lot of Evangelical churches in the area. Many Chinese and Koreans attend these churches. Sure the ethnicity of the area has changed but it’s solidly conservative.
I’ll have a look but I suspect the swing against the Liberals in May didn’t go to Labor but to Palmer’s UAP and PHON. Oh and parts of Castle Hill, federally, sit in that grub Alex Hawke’s federal seat.
You’re just trolling because you’re not this stupid.
He cleaned house yet you repeat know nothing, wrong and ignorant bigotry.
If you had any sense of decency you would apologise.
You despise that some Catholics are not social democrats first and Catholics second. They’re not obedient to the party.
mUnty turns the wrongology dial to psephology.
That being said, there’s only a bee’s appendage between Labor Free Stuff and Liberal Free Stuff these days.
The indoctrination of the massive numbers of school children currently enrolled in NW Sydney schools will probably mean it will take a few more years for Klimate religion to percolate through to the ballot box.
Josh Frydenberg was on 58% primary vote in Kooyong in 2016. Things change.
And OldOzzie here is another famous Quote –
In the early 1940s, IBM’s president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: “I think there is a world market for about five computers.”
And I have one of them. I wonder where the other four are?…………………LOL
Yes, these guys and LDP.
None of whom would vote Green, ever.
*I was wrong. Greens got 11+ % but ALP got 25%. Three minor righties got 9-10% all up.
Possibly 63% 2PP, this won be Teal.
I know. I lived in NW Sydney for 35 years. One of my children still lives there. The change has been immense.
“I had this problem several years ago with Dell – they really don’t like you moving away from their propriety OS…”
IIRC, turn off UEFI (“secure boot”), then enter the BIOS “boot menu” (F12?) during POST.
You should then be able to boot from an already inserted bootable USB mass storage device.
No point in changing the BIOS “boot order” – not only is there no USB option without a connected USB mass storage device, it will permanently dump any USB boot option the first time it is booted with no USB mass storage device connected.
monty
Did people vote got the Teals or against weak conservatives like Sharma and the like?
The idea that Teals have mass appeal is ludicrous. They’ve got no Senate seats, haven’t lasted a term and no local government or State level seats IIRC.
The Liberals will get shitcanned next State election.
There is no motivation to vote Teal.
What have they done Federally for:
Climate change (no nuclear power)
Civil liberties and free enterprise (they purport to be classical liberals with the environment close to their heart)
The ALP just ignored them.
I was staying at a hotel in Dorking mid winter. No one at front desk seemed particularly perturb that I had no hot water for 5 days. Made me very grumpy!
When i was a kid growing up in County Durham hot water was never a problem in winter but in summer .. duuuh! .. our hot water tank was heated from a coal fired pot belly in the kitchen so to have hot water the fire had to be on ……..
Dotsays:
January 1, 2023 at 10:56 am
KFC @KFCBarstool
Who on earth are these people defending Pope Ratzinger. Dude was like THE guy when it came to covering up sexual abuse. He was the highest member of the church dealing directly with those cases. You gotta be a real loser to have any sort of loyalty to that guy. Prob a Top G
Salacious know nothing bigotry.
Probably why the pseudo-Catholic m0nty=fa supported the statement.
monty’s blogging year is not off to a very auspicious start.
Good thing summer only lasted…what, a week or maybe two?
(Sorry, couldn’t help myself!)
The idea that Teals have mass appeal is ludicrous.
The “teals” had a one off election success due to lotza publicity and “feelz good newness” .. that won’t be around for the NSW or next Fed elections so they might still have the financial backing but it won’t translate into more seats ..
The recent Victorian State election:
All 3 independents in LA wiped.
All minor left wingers wiped in LC.
Is Simon Holmes a Court actually building a network in NW Sydney? Nope. (?)
Now if the swing went far enough against Jughead to have him lose office, how would have that made the Teals get up?
Via OldOzzie
The ABC can’t help itself.
ABC slammed for ‘woke’ coverage of Sydney’s 9pm New Year’s Eve fireworks and accused of ‘excluding the majority’ of viewers: ‘What an absolute disgrace’
Rather than using passive language (“excluding”), use the language of political correctness, the broadcast was “potentially offensive to the majority, causing trauma to many”.
Well here comes the WA summer, the next week or so forecast to be mid to high 30’s in Perth.
Now during the 80’s and 90’s this was called SUMMER, and enjoyed by most people.
Now during the 2020’s it is called a climate catastrophe and the end of the world is near. The thing that I find weird about this is that nobody complained much about SUMMER in the 80’s and 90’s but now nearly every person I speak to complains about the “heat”!
Also note that there were far more days over 40C in the 90’s than there have been for the last 10 or more years.
Benedict jump-started the process to discipline and defrock pedophile priests, and he ordered an inquiry into sex abuse by priests in Ireland that led to a shake-up in the top ranks of the nation’s clergy
Good thing summer only lasted…what, a week or maybe two?
True .. summer was the occasional day(s) the North sea gales let up enuf to take your jumper off .. a whole two weeks would have been wonderful .. LOL!
memories ….. https://ibb.co/yBN3KCg
Remember, it was expected that Teals or Teal like candidates would win up to 10 seats in the Vicco LA last November.
Maybe this is more proof that Jughead cheated.
Last night we partied like it was 1985 on the upper Northern Beaches, and to similar music in the last hours, with some frenetic dancing by the fifteen women from our dance group who were present. What a great time! We circled the large downstairs room where the music thumped and we danced together in and out and round and about choo-chooing and whoo-hooing and having a great time as each girl (two over eighty including me, none under sixty but all fightin’ fit) pretty in her party dress had her turn in the middle, some straight in to hoots of approval as she did a shimmie or a hip walk or for the one in the gorgegous Alexander frilly voile dress, a can can, while more shy others were pushed in to the middle to display their ooopmha. We did ‘fireball’ with arms outflung, and ‘it’s raining men’ with huge glee, and all then shrieked out ‘gimme a man after midnight’. The men, of course, were all congregated upstairs in the kitchen or further up on the balconies overlooking the bush and the water below. We dare not enter, said Hairy, until we dragged them down for the TV show of Sydney’s harbour celebrations, probably the best fireworks ever with the bridge pylons turned into amazing waterfalls.
I drove us home, of course, as I’d danced enough champagne off. The sticky tape bandage on the Sporty Beamer’s wounded rear tail light was only just surviving the rain that marred some people’s evening around the harbourside. And what crowds there were still, at 2am all streaming in from the higher points near us of Dover Heights and Vaucluse, as well as in the harbourside parks and beaches or the gun-barrel view down from Watsons’ Bay. Such crowds the like of which we’ve never seen there before at this time. Our street was still blocked off so we had to drive around the top to get home.
Sydney, it’s been a long time between drinks, murmers a well-oiled Hairy as we marvel at the scene while waiting for faffing cars doing pickups to disperse and let us through.
Just saw this picture of Zelensky’s new defense minister and foreign minister.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fju3hvFXEAYk6w5?format=jpg&name=medium
At least I think I’ve linked to the right picture. 😉
Lewis Hamilton’s ‘inappropriate’ Christmas post that led to public apology resurfaces
The seven-time world champion previously found himself on the receiving end of abuse after his remarks about his nephew on Christmas Day.
While Hamilton will now kick back with his family and friends over the festive period, the 37-year-old once courted controversy over Christmas when he made a remark about his nephew.
Five years ago, after clawing back the world title he lost out to Nico Rosberg in 2016, Hamilton posted on Instagram about his family’s Christmas meal, recording himself saying: “I’m so sad right now. Look at my nephew.”
He then moved the camera to his young nephew, who was wearing a pink and purple dress while showing off a toy wand. He asked the youngster: <em>”Why are you wearing a princess dress? Is this what you got for Christmas? Why did you ask for a princess dress for Christmas? Boys don’t wear princess dresses!”
The comments were condemned by some groups on social media, with many trolls arguing they went against the LGBTQ+ community. Among those to make their fury known was artist Travis Alabanza.
“Yesterday I was playing around with my nephew and realised that my words were inappropriate so I removed the post.
“I meant no harm and did not mean to offend anyone at all. I love that my nephew feels free to express himself as we all should. My deepest apologies for my behaviour as I realise it is really not acceptable in the world today for anyone, no matter where you are from, to marginalise or stereotype anyone.
m0nty=fa
How are you going with the Twatter Files? Would you like fries and sauce with your nothingburger? Maybe a side serving of hog?
Haha, Sky:
ABC blasted over ‘woke snooze fest’ fireworks coverage (Sky News mainpage headline)
It’s fun that the ABC is now so bad that they can’t even cover the New Year’s fireworks without being terminally ghastly.
You could absolutely predict Monty’s response to the death of a saintly man.
So far zero difficulty sticking to new year resolution. 🙂
OldOzziesays:
January 1, 2023 at 12:12 pm
Re: Nigel Hamilton’s comment.
Maybe Dame Edna could make a considered comment.
Dotsays:
January 1, 2023 at 11:51 am
There, that’s the nicest thing I can say about it.
You’re just trolling because you’re not this stupid.
You will need more evidence to support the “not this stupid” assertion Dot. Everything that m0nty=fa posts suggests that he is both “this stupid”, and malicious as well.
My New Year’s resolution is to be more like Clubber Lang.
It’s fun that the ABC is now so bad that they can’t even cover the New Year’s fireworks without being terminally ghastly.
The ABC is run by ‘Not Normal People’ – That’s why.
Love the jokes JR, keep posting please! 🙂
2023 Chevy Corvette Z06 Pops Engine after Only 52 Miles
The car’s LT6 V-8 began to rattle and smoke after losing power on the highway.
As exciting as the wider bodywork and refined aerodynamics of the new Chevrolet Corvette Z06 are, the 5.5-liter flat-plane LT6 V-8 engine sitting behind the driver is the star of the show. Unfortunately for new Z06 owner Marco Garcia, the motorsport-derived engine in his Corvette Z06 failed after traveling just 52 miles on the initial delivery drive.
Garcia purchased the black-over-red Corvette Z06 1LZ on December 23 from Covina Hills Chevrolet in Covina, California, according to his YouTube videos. The in-demand sports car carried a sticker price of $113,975, but documentation fees and dealer charges saw the final sales price reach $182,457.38.
Garcia has owned two Stingrays at this point, and he arrived to purchase the Z06 in his modified C8. With the purchase process complete, one of the salesmen at the dealer offered to follow Garcia back to his construction yard with said Stingray. Garcia took them up on this offer and agreed to drop the salesman back at the dealership following the exchange.
After dropping the Stingray at the yard, the salesman jumped into the Z06 for the relatively short trek back to the dealership. Garcia noted in his follow-up video that the two enjoyed a few gentle pulls on the ride but didn’t push the car too hard. Garcia further noted that he is already quite familiar with the break-in procedure for the C8 platform due to his previous ownership experiences. Shortly after he returned the salesman to the dealership, things went horribly wrong.
Garcia noticed a lack of power coming from the engine and opted to pull off the highway to investigate. A check-engine light and some aggressive rattling noises accompanied the issue, which began with just 52 miles on the odometer, Garcia says. After walking into town to charge his phone, Garcia was told by the dealer that he couldn’t tow the car back there that evening. Furthermore, OnStar struggled to help as they didn’t have the proper warranty information yet for such a new car. Garcia was forced to tow the Z06 back to his construction yard that night.
A new year has dawned.
But Martin Armstrong is still a crook.
You think he’s a crook?……………………….. LOL.
……………………………………………………………..LOL
Sancho Panzersays:
January 1, 2023 at 12:24 pm
A new year has dawned.
But Martin Armstrong is still a crook.n
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose at her/its/whatever worst as usual.
Trump hints at third-party run in 2024
The former president has shared an article suggesting that he should split from Republicans if they don’t support his candidacy
Former US President Donald Trump has signaled a possible disaster for the Republican Party, floating a suggestion that he might divide conservative votes in the 2024 presidential election by running as a third-party candidate.
Trump shared an article this week on his social media platform, Truth Social, that called for him to launch a third-party campaign if Republican leaders don’t support his 2024 bid to reclaim the White House. The article, The Coming Split which was published on Tuesday in a conservative journal called American Greatness, argued that Republican leaders intend to defy the will of voters by blocking Trump from winning the party’s presidential nomination.
“They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump,” the article’s writer, Dan Gelernter, said. He argued that even though an establishment candidate would be better than electing a Democrat, caving into such expedient choices has allowed “the uniparty” to control and ruin the country.
“Do I think Trump can win as a third-party candidate? No,” Gelernter said. “Would I vote for him as a third-party candidate? Yes, because I’m not interested in propping up this corrupt gravy-train any longer.”
Trump reportedly flirted with forming his own party in 2021, after losing to Democrat nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. He told Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel that he was “done” with the party, according to ‘Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show,’ a book by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl. McDaniel reportedly replied, “You cannot do that. If you do, we will lose forever.” Trump shot back, “Exactly – you will lose forever without me. I don’t care. This is what Republicans deserve for not sticking up for me.”
Big Nambas,
when we were young we were told “the older you grow, the smarter and wiser you become”.
Obviously memory was never included in this Homily. The amount of “older” people I have come across in recent years who moan in a frightened voice, “I don’t EVER remember it being this hot, cold, rainy, when I was young”.
It’s as if Australia was a temperate Paradise from Federation through to the late 1990’s.
And don’t get them started on bushfires, floods or Cyclones.
Absolutely typical of progressives to beat the Catholic Church about the head over the wrongs of the past while continuing their campaign of exposing children to every kind of sexual deviacy.
Happy New Year
From Armstrong Economics –
“Remember, the future may be in turmoil, but to reach the promised land of reform, we first must go through the crisis that opens the door for the opportunity to create a whole new world. As Einstein said, the ONLY source of knowledge is experience. We must learn from these events to improve the future for ourselves and our children. It is not that the whole world is doomed. Civilization will reemerge and with some luck, we will enter a new world of enlightenment.
The best we can do is educate people for we will have the opportunity to redesign our environment and we need to learn from these mistakes. I believe Schwab have have looked at our model and what he is trying to do is he sees the real Great Reset which is 2032 and he is trying to force the tree to fall in his direction of total control. That failed for Marx and Lenin. It would fail again because it is against human nature.
Yes, there is a Great Reset coming. It is up to us to make this come out the way to freedom and enlightenment. This is no time to get depressed. We have a lot to do. We will survive.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/happy-new-year-6/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Well I’m off to a good start this New Year. I finished my doggo-proof fence a couple of weeks ago. Today I placed four Snake Repellers around the yard. Hopefully the ferals will be safe when I have to leave them for the day on the rare occasion when I can’t take them with me.
Normally, I never worried about dogs crossing snakes, but this is the first time in my life that I have had a dog who will actively hunt a snake. Silly little bugger.
That’s great, why didn’t he experimentally prove everything he learnt before he did postgraduate studies?
Then maybe he could have started his career at 85. Yes, the world would have been better for it.
“Absolutely typical of progressives to beat the Catholic Church about the head over the wrongs of the past while continuing their campaign of exposing children to every kind of sexual deviacy.”
What Rosie said.
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Yes true but I speak to plenty of young people and they complain about the heat way more than the over 65 crowd I am from.
What Einstein really said
In Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein said, “Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.”
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.”
Yeah right. He looked at a secret model and got results from it.
Sure.
Well.
It’s not just me.
It’s the US justice system and the thousands of people he ripped off.
So yeah.
A crook.
………………………………………………………………….. LOL!
Off out again. Just got time to say:
Happy New Year to all Cats and Kittehs.
Come on, Rotten!
How about a bit of Auld Lang Syne bonhomie and good humour?
There’s a good chap!