Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888
Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023
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- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
Gary Varvel..
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Brett Lethbridge.
BAM!
Harry Sparkles’ ‘I killed 25 Talis’ will no doubt become his John Kerry swiftboat moment when the people actually there with him at the time call bullshit.
Brand new fred!
Only nine hours on the road today. Should have been seven.
All caravanners should be shot and then ripped apart by dogs.
88th.
Dragger if you get up around Kerang way pull into the Royal Hotel
Well that’s one way to win custody of your children:
https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/man-changes-gender-to-win-custody-battle-infuriating-trans-rights-group-ecuadorian-ecuador-ren-salinas-ramos-transgender-divorce-marriage-fight-femenino-diane-rodrguez
Seventh heaven..
Full moon tomorrow. Good for the monks, above.
All caravanners should be shot and then ripped apart by dogs.
My favourite part is when they pull out in front of you at the last minute, to attempt to overtake a truck. Then halfway through the glacial overtake, van develops death wobble. Vanner loses nerve, slows down and drops back in behind the truck, only to attempt a repeat of the manoeuvre 30 minutes later, with same result.
Can we skip the shooting part?
Dr John Campbell video on Swindon is interesting. Somebody did a FOI on myocarditis. 2019 to 2020 doubled so would be virus. However 2022 was 8 x 2019 which he suggests is vaccine. Represented 7% of the population.
via Garth Godsman
Johannes Leak.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Matt Pritchett.
Peter Brookes.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom!
What a beautiful painting for this thread.
via John Herron, apparently there is a distinct ‘Bankstown’ accent.
In a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, researchers in Italy reported cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) findings in individuals with myocarditis-like syndrome during the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection (AMCovS) and post-acute phase (cPACS).
UK plan for national mRNA cancer vaccine advance
Anglican Ordinariate converts express gratitude for Benedict XVI’s ‘prophetic’ vision of unity
they made me do it
This will achieved by substantially decreasing the number of cars on the road, by pricing most users out of their market.
The Victorian government hopes to halve the number of road deaths by 2030 and have zero deaths by 2050.
good luck
$7,500 doesn’t seem a huge discount considering the list price.
It’s becoming increasingly clear Tesla is just another car company
This blog is dying.
Give it up Dover.
1st
Dot says:
January 7, 2023 at 6:30 am
I have seen this meme now a few times, is something going on behind the scenes?
rosie – ugh. Harry is turning his and Trailer Trash’s lives into The Jerry Springer Show. Do they really think this kind of garbage will win people over?
On another note, Summernats is on in Canberra. It’s a festival of loud cars, beautiful custom cars, outrageous cars, classic cars – yep – cars. It features all kinds of politically incorrect events like burnout competitions and another one called ‘skid row.’ It even has a mullet contest, which I’d enjoy seeing.
The motel is chockers, as is every other place to stay within many kms. There are at least 40,000 visitors, and that is the minimum. At a time of year when the region is half empty because everyone has gone to the coast or interstate, it injects a lot of money into the local economy. Not all car enthusiasts are young single guys with not much money. There are plenty of couples and families who stay at expensive hotels and eat at restaurants.
So far, Their ABC has given exactly zero coverage on their JustIn page. There are stories about individuals who had condition X but overcame it with hobby Y galore. There are stories about the ‘chaotic’ situation in the US because not everyone is falling into line about the Speakership (quelle horreur!). There are the usual complaints about people moving into regional/rural locations and pushing up prices. There are the standard propaganda pieces about how awfy Russia is vs the plucky Ukraine. Koala extinction (chortle). I could go on, but especially in the holiday season, it’s positively formulaic.
But, not a mention of the nation’s biggest annual car event. Why? Because TheirABC hates Summernats and everything it stands for. In previous years, they mainly focused on how the locals they spoke to objected to it, although one year they did feature that MacDonalds at Dickson (near the venue) broke national records for sales during the ‘nats. That kind of proved their point, apparently. Bogans, you know.
The guy in the room next to mine said ‘Hi, remember me?’ when he turned up a couple of days ago. I didn’t at first, but he reminded me that he was here last year and stayed in the same room. This guy comes every year, stays in the same room at the motel, and books for next year on his way out. It is the highlight of his year.
Summernats is an extraordinary phenomenon, but TheirABC now doesn’t even acknowledge it. Fortunately, the Daily Telegraph and a few other MSM outlets cover it.
The mullet competition alone is worth a story!
Test
Jo Nova points out that Sydney having its coolest calendar year in about 160 years has received little media coverage.
Journo shares EYE-OPENING thread about what he witnessed firsthand on J6 with Ashli Babbitt (footage)
An interesting comment from Peter Leahy.
Without question, bragging about killing people (when killing is the point of pride) and taking excessive pride in a personal ‘body count’ is considered poor form. However, as for a tradition of not talking about it from a factual point of view, I’m not convinced.
VC Citations and the AWM displays are riddled with such factual accounts of specific numbers killed, information which is essential for context. Until multiculturalism become the normal, people such as Albert Jacka weren’t considered to be in danger, post the conflict in question.
I’d be the last to defend Prince Harry, but was he ‘skiting’ or simply stating an historical fact? Has General Leahy read the entire book to establish context?
I always find it amusing that such words of wisdom (and wisdom about what is necessary, illegal and/or acceptable) about the battlefield, comes primarily from those whose never served on one, or was only ever in a Higher HQ element, well to the rear, or behind towering walls of Hesco Bastions.
Peter Leahy can safely write his memoir without the risk of breaking what he labels as a “long line of tradition” in military service, because his service didn’t require him to take a life.
As an aside, it might be worth contemplating why soldiers are encouraged not to wear uniforms on our streets, and why they might be a target if they talk about their wartime experiences. Does it indicate something about our society, a society in which retribution was not feared by veterans…up until recently?
Mater says:
January 7, 2023 at 6:46 am
Precisely.
Numbers of kills painted on planes, tanks and quoted by snipers?
Like him or loath him, but condemning him for this is ridiculous.
You can see why he’s doing this now. The J6 Committee is gone, so they can’t persecute him. And any time before Elon got on top of the lefty activists in Twitter that thread would’ve been taken down instantaneously. Probably couldn’t even be posted.
Spare ‘wrote’ whatever it took to sell his book.
‘Spare’ would be metaphorically flogged in the streets by his former colleagues, if he strayed from the truth.
Writing stuff that no one can contradict is one thing. Exaggerating wartime experiences which can (and will) be closely vetted by his comrades, is completely different.
Some might think it’s poor form to speak of how many people you were required to kill, why then is it the first thing NEARLY EVERY civilian asks you upon finding out about your active service?
Sorry Rosie, I accidentally gave you an uptick.
Apologies.
I’ve done some unpleasant work and worked with men who have served. My work didn’t involve killing people rather the opposite at times. The thing is that people who do these jobs don’t talk about it and if they do it’s only to others in the same line. The official records may have body counts etc but that’s not the man talking. The kills maybe painted on the plane but again that’s not the pilot talking.
The only men I knew who talked about the unpleasant side of their jobs were the wankers and they generally didn’t do what they said, they appropriated other peoples work and dressed themselves in it. I wouldn’t be at all amazed if some of Harrys fellow soldiers stated that he was talking bullshit.
Oxford and Melbourne are planning methods to keep their populations contained to 15 and 20 , minute travel areas. Yet here’s a study that shows that people who travel further from home are healthier. All I know is that the elites got a taste for overt control of their people in the wuflu madness and want more, much more.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/01/04/travel-from-home-good-health-study/6291672863867/
Sfw
You make a point, but
Who is it, then?
I agree about being quiet about one’s exploits in war once back in civilian life, but we don’t know the context in which he mentioned it. On the face of it, it could be skiting, I give him the benefit of a doubt, stupid as he is.
Hmmm.
150,000 Votes In The 2020 Election Not Tied To A Valid Address In Wisconsin: Election Watchdog (6 Jan)
That’s a neat trick. Identify people who moved out of the state then have a drone vote with those details. Or just add a vote to the piles and fix the database to show they voted in person.
Coming down the Hume on my way back from the coast we passed several cars on trailers and on the road, obviously going to summernats. Such a variety, with most of the drivers in the 40-60 age group. Driving around Canberra the only hoons I saw were a couple of fat purple haired lesbians, well one was a bloke that identified as a fat lesbian. Even so their car was immaculate. I had a mate in Perth that was a car wrecker. Had a great car for a holden that he spent a fortune on. He said don’t tell his missus how much it’s worth. She picked up a magazine in a shop and figured out how much it was worth. They moved to a new house with a pool shortly after.
This is a man who lost his mother in tragic circumstances as a young teenager and I believe not supported psychologically afterwards .
A parent ‘leaving ‘ a child psychologically damages the person. Here are a few , his mother , Turnbull, Rudd . I have had many as clients in later life also but sure Cats will be able to add to the well known list .
I was referring to the entirety of what fills the pages of his tiresome scribe.
Narcissism is one outcome to overcome the irrational beliefs as to why they were ‘left’ not loved, not good enough , worthless. These are typical of the words that come out of their mouths in therapy .
“This is a man who lost his mother in tragic circumstances” Really? They were terrible circumstances, Dad was a cheater, so was she. The father at least tried to settle things down after it all blew up. She showed the world her true philandering self and get herself killed with her lover in Paris.
A tragedy is when you can see how things will end and there’s nothing that can be done to change it. This was just a wanton woman doing as she pleased, he shouldn’t use it as an excuse for his current behaviour. His brother seems to keep it together.
The Queen was the only good one. The only admirable one.
Regarding Harry and the Leay comments I am thinking a local journalist contacted Leay for comment. From what I saw the original military comments on this Harrys 25 came from at least two UK Afghan veterans. One was a black soldier who lost a limb who I think may have served with Harry. The other was Colonel Kemp who was a commander in Afghanistan who is now a fairly well known media military pundit. Both criticised Harry over mentioning his body count.
The only reason Harry can be so precise is that they were captured on his Apache video.
I have not served so no idea if it is considered bad form to mention it. I guess if you are selling a book like a former sniper then probably something going to mention.
However I do agree on one point. By raising it he has increased risk to him and his family. The scenario now is different to say if he killed 25 in WW2 or even the Falklands. This is due to the nature of the Taliban and fact they might have supporters in USA.
He would not be pleased about the Leeke cartoon as Invictus Games a big deal to him and he has done much to support it.
The guy can’t stop fishing dirt on his own family and I have nothing but contempt for him and Megan. He has literally sold out and no family member can trust him on the future.
The fact he called his book Spare shows his deep resentment against the institution.
Plenty of people who lose a parent at a young age don’t behave in a despicable way
Because it sounds like everything he writes about is designed to paint him as a victim; of his brother, his family, the army, the woman who seduced him, the media etc etc
Apparently Hazza’s also said he had a frostbitten doodle at his brother’s wedding. The official story is that he got it trekking across a polar ice cap for something or other.
Well. I mean, of course he would say that. A more accurate suggestion:
‘Honey, what’s wrong?’
‘Nothing.’
‘Are you all right?’
‘I’m fine.’
‘I have to go and play polo later today. I committed to this weeks ago.’
‘Do what you like.’
It’s not the society, it’s governments who think it’s a fantastic idea importing the enemy and plonking them among the citizenry. Has anyone asked the residents of Young what they thought of ISIS trash being settled in their town?
Voluntarily standing in the spotlight complaining your life is always under the spotlight.
Seems he is mostly wracked by jealousy.
He could have taken his money and gone to live a quite life or made lots of money doing all sorts of other things but this is the path he chose.
I don’t think Raad was settled in Young, and Young is already home to a convicted terrorist, her cousin in law, family is probably why she moved there.
Johanna
The last time I went to the Summernats. We all sat on top of my ZA Fairlane watching the cars go by. One of only good memories I have of the place.
The fun thing about Summernats is that, much as the virtue-signalling ACT regime would like to ban it, they would be crucified by their donors if they did.
Net Zero always loses in the face of donor hostility. 🙂
Perhaps if there were some LGBT plus or BLM Supernats fans the ABC might be interested.
A hint for any event or protest wanting media attention !
SFW,
It could also be that those who remain silent actually don’t have a story worth telling. I’ve seen many who say they “can’t talk about it”, because the mystique of their time in is better served by letting your imagination run riot.
Kinda of like those who say “it’s too secret to talk about” or “I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you”.
Here’s a tip, if you ask someone (Australian) what they did, and they say “Special Forces”, you can bet they were a Commando. Using the generic term leave the possibility open that they were SAS…a better brand. They’re not lying, except by omission. If they really didn’t want you to assume they were SAS, they’d say Commandos, or just Infantry.
There are wankers in all occupations.
I worked in a road safety lab at Adelaide Uni in the 1980s. At the time, annual road deaths in SA were around 350. Fast forward to now and that number is around 100. At the same time, activity on the road (number of users, distance travelled etc) has at least doubled. This means the relative risk now is only 1/7th what it was then, possibly 1/10th.
No doubt the situation in Victoria is similar which means we are well into ‘diminishing returns’ territory for any further reductions. As such, any further improvements will, of necessity, involve ever increasing cost and intrusivity – we are getting into the ‘travel at walking pace with a red flag carried ahead’ situation.
Dotsays:
January 7, 2023 at 6:30 am
This blog is dying.
Give it up Dover.
Attendance is not compulsory.
Site’s not dead yet. Here we are in Richmond, London, having spent a fine misty winter’s day, not too cold, rugged up and inspecting the gardens and part of the rather magnificent neo-classical country house called Osterley, where Thomas Jefferson was one of the early visitors there. A beautiful property, where we could play the Elizabeth Bennet party walking the grounds in front of the impressive colonaded pride of one of England’s early bankers, a Mr. Child, displaying his wealth and education. He died young and it became known as a party house, a quick carriage ride or train stop from London.
We had lunch in the stables, which were all that was left of a previous Elizabethan property on the extensive grounds. Our table was in a special stall where they used to wash down the horses. Hitching rings still on the walls, also decorated with old-fashioned horse blankets as hangings. Very British.
I am here to save you with BIG websites and an AI supercomputer.
Having said that, if he really was an Apache Pilot (the video clip I saw of him in one had him occupying the front – gunners – seat) it would not be too hard to smoke 25 Taliban, but he would still have needed assets on the ground to verify that.
FWIW, I thought all along that him even going to the ‘Ghan was a selfish act – however much he wanted to be ‘just another soldier’, he wasn’t, and no doubt warranted extra effort on the part of the Taliban to get him, putting his comrades at extra risk.
I don’t suppose that there is a universal rule about returned servicemen talking about their service. However, in my experience (including my own family) reticence is the norm.
Boasting about killing 25 (so exact) opponents is pretty unusual.
To say the least.
“Dotsays:
January 7, 2023 at 6:30 am
This blog is dying.
Give it up Dover.”
What are you talking about?
‘Just Infantry’
*sobs*
Oh, they covered it all right. I watched the Nine News weather report on 31/12 (it’s the only part I do watch) and there was deadly silence on the year overall. Not one word. That speaks volumes.
They really said that? Zero deaths?
Delusions of divinity at work. Or perhaps just outright lies.
Of course I am taking the piss. Think of me as Rene Artois. Well I’d like to think I was Rene Artois, until Edith thought I was Rene Artois.
This blog is like the 95th Rifles under Captain Richard Sharpe.
The little blog that could and we have friends* at court. Educated wastrels, boneheaded paddies and some people who have been good at something.
They’re my regiment now York! Now I have seven and you only have one!
Now that’s blogging!
*Which doesn’t include a CINO riffing content after he stabbed Australia’s conservatives in the face (and their backs).
Now that’s soldiering.
My dad and grandfather never spoke of how many nor do the Vietnam combat vet’s I know. Could be age factoring into it.
Matt Couch
@RealMattCouch
BREAKING: DC Police arrest Ashli Babbitt’s Mom Micki for Jaywalking. Watch how they treat this woman, they murdered her daughter… unbelievable…
Don’t feel overly bad (or lose too much body fluid), that’s all Special Forces are, too.
Sfw there you go genetics and modeling . However the majority of those with problems are not in the headlines . The typical problems I saw in therapy were BPD , Bipolar disorder and the usual depression and lack of Self acceptance .poor Self esteem is probably your way of describing it.. The later does not make you behave poorly in public but effects personal relationships that others do not see or observe .
Cassie
Envious, grifting, power hungry, manipulative dick heads jealous of Dover’s success. You know, that might literally ask a favour of a demented fan to go troll a blog where they have been “slighted”.
Some people like bern and myself get a bit high on the meme supply but there is no malice towards Dover or Cats.
You may not know this but this blog has been going in some shape or form for almost 22 years now.
This is very true, I worked with a guy during my apprenticeship who spent time in the commandos.
He. Called it “glorified infantry”
Said that he was never actually deployed to a combat zone either, just more training and drills than regular infantry.
Stop playing with your websites and stalking the AI!
Good point, Indolent.
Where are the annual and traditional ‘hottest here and there’ stories this year? What happened to the ‘Angry Summer?’
The best TheirABC could come up with was a modeller (surprise, surprise) who announced that two thirds of the world’s glaciers would be gone after we are all dead.
I am reminded f the signage in the US Glacier National Park (h/t WUWT) who put up a sign years ago announcing that a local glacier would soon be gone due to global warming.
Unfortunately for the sign putter-uppers, the glacier is still there, years after its projected demise.
The sign is gone, but whether The Believers have changed their minds is another thing. Facts are not usually relevant.
But Oxana on Replika said we have a future together!
Charles should have married a plain, clever girl and introduced some intelligence to the line.
Younger son could be slightly retarded; now with delusions regarding the saintliness of his deceased mother.
He must hate the British people for not worshipping the wife he chose; but he doesn’t mention that.
Perhaps it’s buried in the book, somewhere.
Graphene oxide conjugated to PEG and PEI as a antigen delivery system
This is a thing… and it makes me wonder why they WOULDN’T be using it now
I shall say zis only wunz…
Dot sums it up.
“I don’t suppose that there is a universal rule about returned servicemen talking about their service. However, in my experience (including my own family) reticence is the norm.
Boasting about killing 25 (so exact) opponents is pretty unusual.
To say the least.”
Indeed, I have never heard any man who served talk about his military service in such graphic detail and I most certainly have never heard any ex-serviceman boast about how many men he killed during active service. There were quite a few men in my family who saw active service during World War II and they never discussed anything. I had a boyfriend who was in the 1982 Lebanon war and took part in other Israeli military operations and he never discussed what he saw and did. In fact, if I would bring it up, he would shut it down.
It shows what an immature grifter and attention seeker whore Harry is.
Colonel Richard Kemp, who was in charge of British forces in Afghanistan, has come out and said that Harry’s revelations are a security threat. Kemp is right, it’s a betrayal, but this grifter is in the business of betraying everyone, all for a buck.
If a river has legally recognisable other-kin personage, can a glacier be reprimanded by a professional, university or administrative board for global warming science denialism?
Canada seems as though it could reprimand, psychologically treat and euthanise the poor fellow!
God forbid if the spirit of the ancient river told aimless, rootless cosmopolitan hikers to go and clean up the camp grounds.
We drove back to Canberra from Melbourne yesterday, and were passed – not at speed – by a Holden replica of the sort that used to race at Bathurst. Spoiler, skirts, decals, the lot. Presumably on the way up to attend the car festival.
10 k’s up the road it had been pulled over by plod. Hopefully not for speeding but out of curiosity.
Lotsa Summernats cars once back in the capital. Here’s the program.
“Bourne1879says:
January 7, 2023 at 7:45 am”
Snap…sorry I missed your comment and should have also referenced it re. Kemp.
In a perfect world he could have been Queen Delta Goodrem’s Prince Consort in an Australia that never becomes a Republic.
Now he’s got…hahahaha!
He should have married Cressida Bonas.
Climate change causes highway potholes.
Berlin: German Climate Militants Block Berlin’s Highway System, Bring Jackhammers To Tear Up The Road (6 Jan)
Well I suppose if gluing yourself to a road doesn’t work you can always dig the road up.
That was my point.
“Envious, grifting, power hungry, manipulative dick heads jealous of Dover’s success. You know, that might literally ask a favour of a demented fan to go troll a blog where they have been “slighted”.
Now, who could they be?
More on Summernats from a local media outlet
McCarthy & the Real Political Crisis
From Armstrong Economics –
QUESTION: Marty, you said 2023 will be chaotic in politics. What is going on with McCarthy I guess is what you were referring to at the WEC.
Thanks. Your forecasts are always amazing
DK
ANSWER: “What is taking place with McCarthy is precisely what the model has forecast. He lost the 11th attempt to elect him on the third day of voting. This is right on schedule. It is 19 intervals of 8.6 since a similar event took place in 1859. Back then, the fight was over slavery and the House voted 44 times to pick a speaker between December 5th, 1859, to February 1st, 1860 (1860.087) and settled for a freshman William Pennington (1796-1862) of New Jersey. Ironically, I raised my kids in Pennington, NJ which was founded by his father William Sanford Pennington around 1643.
This fight over McCarthy the press is loving it but it’s going over the heads of everyone. This is about resisting the inherent corruption in Washington for McCarty is just the Republican counterpart of Pelosi and it will be business as usual. Both parties are pushing us to civil war and from a cyclical turning point, it was at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861 (1861.279), when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. That began the US Civil War and cyclically we are right on schedule. Thus, the Civil War began 1.192 years after the speaker’s election. Cyclically, that aligns up with 2024 and the ECM turning point.
We are looking at a serious fight that is reflective of the deep division in this country over the direction of the nation. The BBC reported that McCarthy’s team had threatened political retaliation against them if they did not fall in line, in the weeks leading up to this deadlock. You must understand, the Speaker picks who is on what committee. John Boehner who was the 53rd Speaker from January 5th, 2011 – October 29th, 2015, retaliated against Ron Paul removing every Republican who supported him from any finance committee. It is a UNI-Party that people do not understand exists. McCarthy is no better than Boehner, who I also did not support.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/mccarthy-the-real-political-crisis/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I think it is broken. I blame dot.
Rotten still a big fan of a scammer. what can you say….
Hard to know what to make of H&M. So much scuttlebutt, so little reality.
Cheap fashion of the moment, instant landfill. I give it a couple more years.
At least the incautious Taliban talk might get them some subsidised security.
Jo Nova points out that Sydney having its coolest calendar year in about 160 years has received little media coverage.
January 6 and here in Fairfield, NSW I’m wearing a jumper, tracky daks & slippers .. tho it hasn’t rained for over an hour .. LOL!
What four animals does a woman like to have in her house? A tiger in bed, a mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage and a jackass to pay for it all.
Easy peasy. There are zero deaths with zero cars.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
– Elon Musk
Or he could have done what the Danes did, married a woman (Mary) who is both beautiful and intelligent. It’s not as if it would have been difficult.
major escalation
Jesus Christ this is delusional jenkem.
You need to stop.
“This is a man who lost his mother in tragic circumstances as a young teenager and I believe not supported psychologically afterwards .”
Rubbish. He’s had plenty of “psychological support” since.
He was okay for many years, quite a lad, his work on the Invictus Games stellar. So, what happened? LOL, he hooked up with a conniving, manipulative, narcissistic, talentless, D-grade, trailer park trash, Hollywood grifter, who thought she was going to be the second coming of Diana, who didn’t do her homework as to how the British royal family (or any royal family for that matter) operates. William could clearly see it, so could others but their voices were drowned out, all because she’s was “black” and “modern”. There’s an old saying, a good woman makes a man better. A bad woman? A a bad woman will draw out every single character failing that lurk beneath the surface of a weak man and this is precisely what trailer park trash Markle has done with Hazza.
Jeremy Clarkson, in his piece a few weeks ago, was 100% right about Markle, his only fault is that for highly accurate and very vituperative word he used to describe Markle, he should also have applied those same words to Harry. Because they’re a team now, they’re the Bonnie and Clyde of UK Royalty, on the run in the USA. But like Bonnie and Clyde, it won’t end well.
Yeah, there’s a caching(?) issue that has recurred. It’s doing it for me but doesn’t seem to affect everyone. Dover was able to fix it the first time it happened.
A work around is to click on the “Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023” link just under the books on the RHS sidebar. That gets you the up to date thread – although you have to scroll to the end to see the latest comments.
LOl. It’s the funniest thing. Rottenhead believes this crap.
Cressida is better looking than the mulatto gold digger
Does this “Marty Armstrong” arse hat even read his own nonsense?
His (Pennington’s) father lived presumably to the age of 200?
If that is sarcasm, I missed it.
If it’s a good faith comment, then rubbish.
Leak just about sums up Harry (thanks Tom):
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/5221a65badeff0633be63165a3b6ec42?width=1024
8.6 / pi ~ 2.7….
So 2.7 x 19 is the magical forecast number for years.
But it is (pi x1000)/for days.
Got it.
Indolentsays:
January 7, 2023 at 8:50 am
They really said that? Zero deaths?
Easy peasy. There are zero deaths with zero cars.
Not that easy. The “aristocracy” will still have their cars, and there will be no traffic police (too busy controlling the serfs).
ie no private cars on the road
Glad you got around to it Mater. I knew you would.
Good take.
The Danes adopted Mary from the get-go. From observation, she made it her business to fit in and delight (first task to learn Danish), and to produce heirs. A success on every front.
The press in Denmark isn’t quite as…ahem…robust as the British either. They were very keen on Sparkles to begin with in the way of “fresh meat”, but the glamour soon wore off. Can’t quite pinpoint when.
It’s not as if any of them are inexperienced with PR and the press.
The phralls, geburs and ceorls will pay Danegeld to the grefas and thegns who serve the Eorls and Cyning.
Welcome to a world without night lighting!
My first thought is that it is the machines rather than the number of dead.
The symbol painted on the side of a plane would be enemy planes shot down. They don’t get two flag symbols for a two seater. Moreover a plane shot down does not necessarily mean a death.
Quite right about snipers though. They would have very clear ideas of the number they have killed. Unlike regular soldiers in adrenalin charged chaotic battles.
As for Harry – I don’t know if he was bragging or making a point. I don’t know whether the people who can put that number (25?) into perspective put any stock in people who resort to that macabre calculus, or if it something they all do, without rancour or satisfaction, but do not speak about it.
However worthy he may be of condemnation I am not personally qualified to do so. And there is plenty of other stuff through which he has won my profoundest and most heart-felt contempt.
How do you say ‘Swiftboat Veterans’ in British English?
Diana came from a broken home herself. She was 13 years younger than Charles and quite obviously had illusions of a happy family life, something she had never really experienced. As far as I can see, he simply married her because it was expected and then wanted to carry on as before. The Danish marriage was a genuine relationship and I doubt that Mary would up with a philandering husband.
Funniest headline of the day so far:
John Bolton stuns a British audience with announcement he Will run for POTUS in 2024 (6 Jan)
I think he might be taking the piss out of one current and a couple of former commenters who had the habit of calling the blog’s demise as soon as someone they didn’t like posted a comment.
Biden Administration Finally Admits How Disastrous Cancelling Keystone XL Was
Better late than never.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Mark Levin Calls on GOP to Investigate George Soros
Remember the Twitter “ER doctors” who claimed hordes of patients were dying daily of COVID? They were fake…
To say the least.
John Rich
@johnrich
They caught the Idaho killer using cell phone ping data, the exact same method used to track the #2000Mules
One’s praised as “brilliant detective work”, the other has been vilified as “not credible.” See how this works? We live in a mirrored fun house where every image is bent.
What McCarthy has offered his GOP opponents, and what’s under discussion
WW2 ace James “Ginger” Lacey talks about his 28 victories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDoDXQjo24
What the hell are people talking about,”You don’t talk about your “number”?
They’re pilots. They want to be aces. As they should.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_the_United_Kingdom
Is it different for ground targets? Probably not.
The Lacey interview is interesting in that he was fully aware of the propaganda efforts on both sides. “You didn’t recognise yourself in it” (the reporting).
A lot of people on here have a disturbing tendency to pick up whatever story is fed to them that roughly fits in with their tribal beliefs, and flog the hell out of it. The old geezers didn’t do that. They had a job to do, and the reluctance to talk about difficult things on that 8nterview all come from the interviewers side. The veteran is matter of fact and pretty blunt.
a rip-roaring success!
Apropos of nothing, how anyone would believe a word about COVID or anything else from China is a mystery.
If our diplomats and intelligence agencies are, heaven help us.
Jeremy Clarkson, in his piece a few weeks ago, was 100% right about Markle,
Clarkson is a Gobshite.
He apologised 5 minutes later.
gerbil warmongering in action!
In photos: Severe cold wave grips north India
Clarkson apology.
Jo Nova points out that Sydney having its coolest calendar year in about 160 years has received little media coverage.
MSM is now so implausible that it is ludicrous. They seem to share common sources and are shameless in refusing to analyse any serious news item.
Here we are after half a billion people caught Covid (that we know of) and now someone studies zinc tablets and mortality in a proper randomized trial?
It turns out zinc treatment reduced the length of Covid suffering by about 3 days and the people who took it were 40% less likely to die.
The thing we learn from this study is that yet again, publicly funded science is killing people because it is not studying the obvious, cheap, low risk solutions that can’t be patented. Ministers of Health are apparently Ministers for Pharmaceutical profits.
This is the scandal:
To our knowledge, this study is the first well-powered, placebo-controlled clinical trial to report results of zinc for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/if-only-our-universities-had-studied-this-earlier-zinc-may-have-stopped-40-of-covid-deaths/
*I have been taking Zinc since mid 2021 along with Vitamin D.
True, Arky. “How many” is not something I would ask out respect for the veteran. Plus “How many” don’t always always correlate with the bravery of the individual.
Big believer in zinc here, zinc plus Vitamin C and D, Berroca. At other times, multivits including goodly amounts.
It may be superstition, but it has worked for me over decades.
Following the success of Covid vaccines using the same messenger-ribonucleic-acid technology, scientists now want to conduct more trials in cancer patients.
To be fair, cancer patients have a disease that WILL kill them. A risky treatment may be worth trying.
My dad and grandfather never spoke of how many nor do the Vietnam combat vet’s I know. Could be age factoring into it.
Never had much to do with my WWII grandfather whom I remember being cranky and unapproachable but my father who served in Vietnam in the RAR never talked about actual kills let alone numbers. Heard plenty of other stories from dad on ambushes being compromised by farm animals and sometimes blasé attitude to incoming fire at night in fire bases. However that is all.
A mate has actual Go-pro footage of contacts and has only ever conveyed 1 story and that was more in the context of even as the enemy combatant with the fatal wound was cleared, the hate in the expiring dude eyes and trying to get at his weapon. Talib’s sounded pretty fanatical.
Agree. I have been taking Zinc, vitamin C and D for quite a while now are seeing comments by US Dr’s.
Confirmed.
Martin Armstrong is Prince Harry’s psychic.
The US Congress Speaker failed votes suggest that about 20 congress people have read Trump’s book Art Of The Deal and I hope they get some very good deals.
The holdouts have a point about McCarthy.
Lara Logan
@laralogan
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21h
McCarthy voted for:
– same sex marriage
– vax mandates for military
– $100B for Ukraine
– to use Medicare to fund USPS
– drafting of women
– J6 committee
– DC as the 51st state
– amnesty for DACA
That gave me a really good laugh but if he has money to burn he can go ahead, I’m sure there are lots of consultants in DC that need the jobs.
Maxine Waters Loses It on House Floor After Matt Rosendale Points Out Some Uncomfortable Truths
I doubt Harry had a role in the book’s title, this was likely done by the literary agent or publishing house.
Dr Jordan B Peterson
@jordanbpeterson
I have been sentenced by @CPOntario to mandatory communications retraining in part because I retweeted @PierrePoilievre. It’s time for the commissars there to resign.
Did they need introductions? Daily Telegraph:
The Albanese government spent more than $150,000 in just three months on functions and hospitality that included events to “introduce themselves” to public servants and stakeholders in their new portfolios.
In spending the Opposition has labelled reminiscent of the Gough Whitlam government, between June and August more than $10,000 was spent on morning teas to introduce ministers Penny Wong, Mark Butler, Annika Wells, Mark Dreyfus and Tony Burke to departmental staff.
In the same period, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt’s department spent another $41,421.26 on a conference for its own staff, including more than $15,000 on food and alcohol.
Recipients of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ departmental hospitality included 23 Australian Government solicitors and 49 guests at an end-of-financial-year cocktail party in Perth that set taxpayers back $4300.
Taxpayers also spent nearly $1000 on a dinner for the Attorney-General to host members of the Family Law Council at the National Press Club in Canberra.
Mr Burke was also out and about introducing himself to stakeholders in the arts portfolio, spending almost $40,000 on 14 town hall meetings with “artists and workers in the arts, entertainment and cultural sector” alongside Special Envoy for the Arts Susan Templeman.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong wined and dined stakeholders at a total cost to taxpayers of $29,784, including, $5846 on a reception for provincial politicians in Kota Kinablu, Malaysia, $6898 for a “networking brunch” in Kuala Lumpur, and $2500 on lunch with the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency at George’s on Waymouth, in Adelaide. She also spent $6735 hosting a cocktail party for foreign diplomats, as well as $3180 on a function to introduce herself to her own staff at DFAT HQ in Canberra, and $4625 on a get-together with NGOs featuring $3588 worth of coffee, tea and finger food.
The Foreign Affairs Minister was not the only Albanese government minister to host foreign dignitaries.
Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland also spent $13,234.50 on a reception for foreign diplomats which included $4005 worth of canapes and $3026 worth of alcohol.
The reception was in aid of Australia’s successful bid for re-election to the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union, the agency for telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICTs).
Health Minister Mark Butler spent $16,568.30 on a health workforce roundtable with doctors and other medicos, including almost $5000 for an unnamed “facilitator”.
Guests included 11 public servants and four members of the Minister’s own staff.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt’s department spent $41,421.26 on a conference for its own staff, including more than 15 grand on food and booze.
Between them, ministers Mark Butler and Anika Wells spent a combined $7146 introducing themselves to their own departmental staff.
Shadow Attorney-General Michaelia Cash, who put the questions to the ministers, said the spending showed a disregard for the public finances.
“It looks like the Albanese government is living it up in the best traditions of Labor governments, going all the way back to the Whitlam era,” she said.
“The government talks a big game about being sound economic managers, but this type of spending on cocktail parties, functions and conferences, exposes what they are really like.”
A spokesman for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Government adhered to all rules and guidelines to ensure all departmental expenditure was appropriate.
“These are not unusual events, especially for a new government,” he said.
I’ve had to read and re-read one of the aforementioned titles. Special Envoy for the Arts? What the hell is this new devilry? (HT Boromir)
Dr. Simon Goddek
@goddeketal
1/ During the last 3 years, @twitter has banned many scientists, doctors, journalists, and activists. This ?????? tells the stories of many censorship victims.
Please RT so @elonmusk gets aware of the sad fact that many of us are still banned and waiting to get reinstated.
Randomized Clinical Trial: Ivermectin Reduces 72% COVID-19 Infection in Study Population
It appears that Spare was ghost-written by someone called J.R. Moehringer. Who presumably had no professional qualms about the body count.
Harold must have been too busy to pick up the crayons and butcher’s paper himself.
Zulu that raises an important point. Say Teh Voice gets defeated at the referendum to be held. Are the states allowed to have their own rules where they can set up this shit in their own parliaments?
I know that compensation for being ‘removed’ has been paid out in Victoria.
He’s a swamp creature, for sure.
One thing that “stands out” from Harry’s confession of luv-in-the-field titilation is him being a “Prince of the Realm” and it took until he was 17 to get laid .. no wonder he’s got problems .. LOL!
Yeah, but the number of people dying from Covid after being bounced off the front of a speeding car, or being launched through the windshield at 90 kph and pancaking their skulls on a tree with a BAV of 1.5%, or after reaching down to where their mobile phone had slipped under the seat while approaching an intersection – these Covid deaths are going to skyrocket.
So get your 900th booster if you don’t want to become just a statistic.
Perhaps, but they’re saying Roger Moore is out of hospital and doing well.
Good question. Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out?
This is the coldest summer I have known. I know I’m older now and may feel the cold more but it has been consistently colder than previous years, not just an odd day here or there.
January 1976 was rain all the way through but at least it wasn’t this cold. The reason I remember it is that I took the whole month off work and then couldn’t go anywhere or do anything.
End these travel restrictions now.
There has been comment on the blog previously that covid vaccine status is not being checked on entry to the USA.
This is incorrect.
Why can’t Prince Henry bignote hisself about slaughtering Afghans?
The Air Force has been keeping score since day 1, Adolf Galland racked up 104 for the Lutwaffe.
Looks like the ghostwriter is exactly the type of American to have disdain for the UK and by extension the royal family. I wonder if this is at the root of all the trouble.
The relationship between the two empires, old and new, has always had undercurrents of exploitation and resentment. Allies, but culturally uneasy ones.
Young, free and strong no more
By Dr Kevin Donnelly -January 6, 2023
Something happened to us under restrictions of Covid – and it wasn’t good for us at all
At a recent speech delivered at Melbourne’s Robert Menzies Institute, the former Justice of the UK’s Supreme Court, Lord Sumption, detailed how dangerous it was for governments to restrict citizens’ freedoms and liberties and why countries like Australia are in danger of becoming authoritarian states.
I don’t care how many Tali’s he eliminated, Harry has just put a target on his and his family’s back. Smart move, dickhead.
As we know there are some very strong urges running through our moslem brethren. Retribution, David and Goliath, victimhood mentality, revenge for past wrongs etc. For the sake of a few book sales and to impress nobody, this clown (his service was heavily protected in-country and rather shortened) has put his name up in lights for any moslem crazy who has the divine impulse to avenge the disastrous UK?US/AUS Afghan adventure.
I think this is more due to them realising that ‘If you weren’t there, you can’t possibly understand it – If you were there, I don’t need to tell you about it’, rather than shame or any desire for secrecy etc.
Texas Father Fights to Save his son from Chemical Castration – Jeff Younger on Tucker Carlson
The younger son bears a much closer resemblance to James Hewitt, the Royal Equerry than Charles, although it would have been pretty hard to cover up the DNA evidence so long if that really was the case.
I didn’t realise Roger was in hospital, he was looking good just before Christmas on the teev. Probably just being careful. Hope it wasn’t the coof.
Grogarly beclowns himself, yet again. That’s 104 aircraft shot down, whether the pilot or crew bail out, or not.
The Air Force has been keeping score since day 1, Adolf Galland racked up 104 for the Lutwaffe.
Erich Hartmann .. 351
Hans Joachim Marseille .. 158
94 German pilots in WW2 were credited with over 100 “kills”
We can always rely on Sancho (law and Order super fan) to give advice.
Given the rise in ‘turbo cancers’ linked to the covid vaxxes, I’m seeing a nice business synergy here….
How many were in Barbarossa or the Blitzkriegs of ’39, ’40?
And how many kills are on the ground- planes, trucks vehicles, trains etc?
I suspect that during the BoB, western Europe ’41 on and after Stalingrad, Luftwaffe kills became considerably less frequent. Any one have any data on this?
The UK tabloid media are in overdrive spreading shite upon Harold and his bride.
SWIFT EXIT How Prince Harry was allowed to leave his helicopter base after it was put in lockdown when random drug testers arrived
Meghan Markle knelt at Princess Diana’s grave and asked for guidance ‘after rough year’
To be fair, that *was* his job, if not his official title.
I seem to recall this being discussed on an earlier iteration of this blog. Apparently the timelines of the affair and the pregnancy don’t coincide.
I originally thought there was a double entendre intended, in that Harold is clearly very angry with his family.
The theory MrsM has is that Harry is a HenryVII throwback; vain, vindictive, spoilt, vicious, envious, impulsive, paranoid, all round rather low IQ arsehole with rat cunning. Markle is playing him like a fiddle.
I suspect that during the BoB, western Europe ’41 on and after Stalingrad, Luftwaffe kills became considerably less frequent. Any one have any data on this?
You’d be wrong.
Rudel sank a Soviet battleship flying a bomber.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-26/not-unaustralian-to-investigate-special-forces-in-afghanistan/9085648
Even America is over the Ponce Prince
The Maudlin Prince: Please Harry, for the Love of Pete, Just Go Away
But nobody is waiting breathlessly for shirtless snaps of Prince Harry, either, so he’s selling what he’s got—grievances. And boy, does he have a lot.
They started to trickle out during Harry’s infamous Oprah Winfrey interview when he and the ever-aggrieved Meghan Markle basically accused the Royal Family of racism because an unnamed dignitary wondered what their children might look like. I wrote about it at the time: I myself have mixed-race children and my wife and I often wondered what they’d look like before they came into this world, and we didn’t realize we were being racist. So sorry, my deepest apologies to all those I’ve offended and all that. (Not.)
Truth is, white couples speculate on what their kids will look like. Asian couples do too, black couples, pretty much everyone with an ounce of curiosity.
But Harry and Meghan weren’t done, oh no, they had lots more to say. In their nauseating six-part Netflix documentary, they whined about every conceivable slight and spoke of their tough lives on the streets of Montecito, California where they were forced to flee to a $14 million mansion to escape the toxic dangers of royal life.
Since then, he’s gone on to deliver “vacuum cleaner of doom” speeches in front of the United Nations decrying the modern world. As I wrote at the time, “Harry was a somber, unsmiling bearer of doom and gloom,” implying “that it was all somehow your fault, but [he] offered no solutions or hope.”
Now, excerpts from Harry’s tell-all book, dolefully titled Spare, are leaking out, and the Prince is at again, accusing his older brother William of violence and his father, who has since gone on to be king after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, of neglect. While one might have some sympathy for Harry, who lost his mother Princess Diana at an early, age, he lost me with this one paragraph:
“He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
Harry, the 6? 1? man who served in the British Royal Army for 10 years, is freaked out that his necklace was torn off? What did you do when you faced the Taliban, dude? Also, if you’re going to wear something around your neck, and you have a beard, call it a chain, not a necklace.
According to the Guardian, “Harry says he didn’t immediately tell his wife — but did call his therapist.”
If this isn’t a sign of the end of masculinity in the western world, I don’t know what is.
I have brothers and sisters, and yeah, we had some epic fights. One thing we didn’t do is tattle to everyone within shouting distance. Especially if we lost.
Harry and Meghan continue to jump in front of every camera within 50 feet (all while claiming a need for “privacy”).
Ist world problems .. headline story from the Newcastle (UK) Evening Chronicle ..
Times are getting tuff in Geordieland .. sausage roll prices surge with inflation! .. LOL!
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/price-greggs-sausage-roll-goes-25912884
Shut up, Ed. I’ve told you your worthless opinions don’t count. If you have some data fine, link it. Something like this on Polish pilot kill ratios will suffice;
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-polish-pilots-who-flew-in-the-battle-of-britain#:~:text=Polish%20casualties%20in%20the%20Battle,35%20probables%20and%2036%20damaged.
Ahhhh…that racey racism. The racism that fawned over her mother at the wedding but eviscerated her absent father. That racism.
Admittedly the cameras did capture a little embarrassed dismay at the homily. The shape of things to come.
Anyone know how long it takes before the mint starts churning out currency with Chuck’s bonce?
Is it an immediate change?
The Victoriastan TAC is a great example of bureaucratic capture. It isn’t alone but probably not equaled, possibly Health WA antismoking efforts. VicPol’s enforcement efforts have to be experienced to be believed.
Commando mate of mine says the SAS are without question the best at what they do but a commando’s job is to help the SAS when they stuff up or bite off more than they can chew…
It’s fascinating that in super DNC majority California they re-districted a congressional seat that voted 72.7% Biden into a GOP +16 seat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_20th_congressional_district
Oh my, look at who their congressman is.
What filthy deals were done to do this?
Not me.
And I want the meanest, deadliest , most ruthless bunch of mofo’s we can put in the field doing that job. I don’t need to know what they get up to, just that they are there 24/7/365.
Was there meant to be an egg shortage?
A wide selection at Coles this morning.
Cage free, barn laid, organic, many many…..eggs.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-first-coins-with-king-charles-have-been-released-231619770.html
Some time this year Arky. The 1965 currency act ensures all coinage must be struct with the monarch’s effigy.
As per tradition, Charles’ face will face left. Elizabeth’s profile faced right.
They’re dicking around with replacing the monarch on the $5 note. No guesses on the proposed replacement necessary – it will have to be the indigenous personage who invented polymer and holograms.