Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888
Linky no work. Goes to msn generic news page…
Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023
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Noice.
Plus infinity KD. Vic Pol if want some support for their wage rise demand, from family there’s none ATM from…
I strongly suspect that if Israel was annihilated the Disrupt Wars people (probably Marxists) would dance on its grave.
Cockatoos need to eat stones at certain times of year, hence the digging for pebbles.
classic fabian marxism, death by a thousand cuts
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11609081/Prisons-boss-calls-healing-rehabilitation-centres-crime-spree-kids.html
It’s about time.
The Heiner Inquiry into Westbrook was 33 years ago.
Yeah, 10% of youngsters are Psychopaths, they’re going to have to be locked up for life, but what about the other 90%, why haver they gotta be locked up with murderous scum?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/virginia-tech-soccer-player-benched-refusing-follow-coachs-woke-orders-reaches-100000-settlement/
Virginia Tech Soccer Player Benched For Refusing to Follow Coach’s Woke Orders Reaches $100,000 Settlement
We were meant to be in awe because from ‘murica.
Commenting issues fixed.
By ‘gratis’, Roger, I meant the installation company can replace the entirety of the panels or out something else better in.
I don’t want Joe Taxpayer to fork out. I want the faceless men of Big Glass Pool Fences to.
Bruce/ Roger, will look into it in the morning.
I’ll say it.
Both Don Lane and Graham Kennedy were meh.
Whaddabout Bert?
Meh?
Just heard from a mate who just landed in Perth from the East. Cop with serious looking machine gun stalking around terminal with two other coppers in tow. Apparently disconcerting for the passengers who just arrived.
Yes.
Bert Newton was meh as well. All saccharine, no substance.
Although Ernie Sigley did pave new pathways for members of the severely brain damaged Ozzie community, just as the Fetterlump is doing for drug addled braindead neanderthals in impoverished communidees across the States, even as we speak.
Were they all subsequently shepherded through a gate with “Arbeit Macht Frei” emblazoned across the top?
Here’s the story of another person killed on Jan 6 2021.
This is a mostly gaslighting Vanity Fair story, but other sources say Roseanne Boyland was brained by a black
cop’s baton.
But enough about my family’s views on the “pathway” undertaken by a “controversial individual” they no longer wish to acknowledge.
Thanks, Eddles.
No wukwuks, Rabzy baby.
Yeh, she was brained by Officer SheBoon.
This is Mary, the plain one, from our Jane’s 2005 movie version of Pride and Prejudice.
This is a mostly gaslighting Vanity Fair story, but other sources say Roseanne Boyland was brained by a black cop’s baton.
It’s true crotchless; she and Ashley were the only ones murdered during the worst catastrophe since God farted. Both women killed by cops. The poor wallopers who restrained the scumbag floyd got murder charges and the flogs who killed the 2 women got medals.
Radio check, over.
The democrat narrative about Jan 6th looks awfully thin and implausible. The only insurrection in history where nobody was armed. And the only deaths were among the insurrectionists.
It tells you a lot about human nature that anybody buys the narrative. But I know they exist. Lies and propaganda work because ppl are happy to believe what they want to.
Rabz, your rellies appear to belong in with these credulous nongs. You’re better off without them.
When large numbers of ppl want desperately to believe in something, rational sceptics get a hard time. And as the evidence for scepticism gets stronger, the true believers get more loony and intransigent.
We’re a pathetic species.
commentary on body language and Russell Brand pulling some MSNBC hosts to pieces
quiet nice to watch … the end is awesome
Blancolirio on Gold Coast helicopter collision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2FBWa_yTtw
Interesting that the 130’s were recent fleet acquisitions and have the pilot in the LH seat, as distinct from the more common RH seat.
It’s very cold and bleak in London today. With the rellies we tried to go for a walk around the kitchen gardens, winter gardens, and formal gardens of Ham House, another National Trust property, which is nearby to Richmond Great Park where Henry V111 used to ride to the hunt. Ham House is on still fairly expansive grounds, although the entrance driveway has been considerably shortened. It was built in 1610 and due to a careful woman in charge it managed to survive the depredations of the Civil War of that century, as she subtly kept both sides on side. The House itself was closed, and then the rain started, so we retired to the open coffee shop for hot chocolate. Then, venturing outside again, under umbrellas we stood admiring two statues of a naked Hermes and likewise Aphrodite, white marble figures cavorting on display at the end of the long view from the house. They looked pretty cold and wet to me to me as the rain intensified. Oviously it was setting in.
So we all went home for soup, leaving a large number of the local population still out walking their dogs or riding horses in the rain. British life.
Johannes Leak.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Graeme Bandeira.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Um, what is Rowe’s all about?
Um, what is this? Hun:
Even David Warner himself admitted surprise that he had been judged player of the series … but now it can be revealed how and why it happened.
Warner, Travis Head and Usman Khawaja were locked in a three-way tie for player of the series following a rigid Brownlow/Dally M Medal style 3-2-1 voting system.
Broadcasters Fox Sports, Channel 7, SEN, ABC Radio and Triple M were all asked to provide a 3-2-1 vote per organisation on the three individual Test matches, which was then added up to determine the player of the series.
Steve Smith and Pat Cummins had consistent series but under the 3-2-1 system, they couldn’t even get a look in because of the unanimous three-point votes Warner, Head and Khawaja compiled respectively in each of the three Tests.
Ultimately, the tie-breaker to reward Warner with the award over Head and Khawaja was based on his man-of-the-match award from the MCG being deemed the best individual man-of-the-match performance for the series.
“He said it himself, ‘that’s surprising,’” Cummins said of Warner’s own reaction when his name was read out.
“I heard someone saying it was a joint between a few different players and Davey got it in the end. It’s not first thing you put on the mantelpiece. It’s what it is.”
And one more before I try get another couple hours sleep. Bolt:
How telling. Anthony Albanese sure doesn’t like being asked to explain how his radical Aboriginal-only “Voice” will actually work.
“People are over cheap culture war stunts,” the Prime Minister snapped on Sunday, blind to his hypocrisy.
Albanese was cross with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton for publicly releasing 15 questions to him about his race-based advisory parliament, written into our constitution.
How would the Voice be run, asked Dutton. Why was the government keeping those details secret from voters ahead of this year’s referendum?
Dutton called this secrecy “a catastrophic mistake”, but it’s actually a deliberate strategy. Just a week ago, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney defended keeping voters in the dark: “What people really want to know is not the nitty-gritty detail.”
This is the true “cheap culture war stunt”. Labor is keeping the details secret because the more you know about this Voice, the more likely you’ll vote against it.
But the problems go way beyond mere “details”. Here are the top eight reasons why this Voice is immoral, useless and dangerous.
THIS IS APARTHEID
Giving Aborigines their own de facto Parliament – albeit advisory – is saying they are so different to other Australians that they must have their exclusive race- based political body.
The next demand is logically inevitable. You hear it already: a treaty, with Aboriginal sovereignty on the table. Apartheid.
Indeed, I once took Burney to the so-called Yidindji Aboriginal “nation” around Cairns, meeting its “Prime Minister”. I asked Burney if she supported this model and she said “yes”.
THIS IS UNNECESSARY
Aboriginal Australians already have many voices to Parliament: a Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, more than 30 land councils, more than 2700 Aboriginal corporations and the Council of Peaks, representing 70 top Aboriginal organisations.
Most importantly, 11 federal politicians now identify as Aboriginal. That’s nearly 5 per cent of MPs, when Aborigines make up no more than 3.7 per cent of our population.
THIS ENCOURAGES FRAUDS
Suzanne Ingram, a board member of the NSW Aboriginal Housing Office, complained on SBS last year that 300,000 of the 810,000 Australians now claiming to be Aboriginal were fakes.
In fact, just the past two censuses – 2016 and 2021 – had more than 130,000 people calling themselves Aborigines who hadn’t in the census before.
How can we create an Aboriginal-only advisory parliament when up to a third of the people it represents are actually white pretenders?
THIS DIVIDES, NOT UNITES
This “reconciliation” movement has already failed. After three decades, race relations seem more poisonous than ever. Example: Greens MP Lidia Thorpe.
No wonder. When you give activists power because of their “race”, they must exaggerate racial division to survive and keep the money flowing. Assimilationists get nowhere, and separatists prosper. The Voice will just make that worse.
THIS DISEMPOWERS
Supporters of the Voice must paint Australia as racist and deaf to Aboriginal demands. Else why have this Voice?
But such race propaganda teaches young Aborigines that other Australians hate them, and to get ahead they can just complain and get handouts. How does that help anyone?
THIS IS PERMANENT
This Voice will be written into our constitution, making it almost impossible to remove. It could fail horribly, like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and we cannot sack it.
THIS COULD HAVE POWERS YOU CAN’T IMAGINE
Albanese claims this Voice can’t hold up our real Parliament, but his proposed amendment includes no words to guarantee that.
It just says this Voice may “make representations to parliament and the executive government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.
But doesn’t every matter before Parliament affect Aborigines, from tax to education? And doesn’t a constitutional right to give advice imply a constitutional duty of the government to consider it?
You can bet this will go to the High Court, which will say, yes, the government cannot act before heeding the Voice.
DETAILS, DETAILS
Then there are the details we don’t yet know, but could make a bad idea even worse.
How will representatives on the Voice be chosen? How can any crooks be sacked?
If it has just 24 representatives, as a working paper suggests, how can they represent the 500 or so different tribes?
What powers will the Voice have? What practical good will it do that isn’t being done already? And what can our Parliament do if it’s a failure?
I’ve listed just eight of the worst problems with the Voice, and it is not a “cheap political stunt” to demand the government give answers.
Black Ballsays:
January 9, 2023 at 4:45 am
Um, what is Rowe’s all about?
The Voice Vote needs the details first. Leak does it brilliantly………………..
Thanks Tom.
BB, I think Rowe is saying that yes, the devil is in the details, but it’s being pointed out by Rowe’s idea of satan so doesn’t count.
I understand Johnny but it’s like Rowe has Dutton as the villain for asking.
The litmus test for the success of these GOP holdouts will be the rules committee.
Doesn’t need a house vote (how many of those commitments will die when put to a house vote and selected GOP members play spoiler).
McCarthy has agreed to 3 spots to the Freedom caucus.
Based on the previous few Congresses the committee has had 13 members with the majority party having 8-9 slots & the minority having 4-5.
Time will tell if McCarthy gives them those slots.
And this Church Committee 2.0 can be delayed if McCarthy wants to.
He can tie it up at range other committee stages & have the age old fall back line “it’s currently at the committee stage & we’ll be moving forward on that as soon as we can”.
Time will tell if McCarthy makes any attempt to deliver.
Time will tell if the GOP hold outs do anything if McCarthy runs dead on any of his commitments.
I find the idea of an aboriginal voice mildly disgusting. Just as I would an Anglo Saxon voice, or a Jewish voice. The only difference between me and (real) aborigines is that we were brought up on a different brand of bullshit. I got Drake’s Drum and they got the rainbow serpent. So bloody what! We’re just people. Anything that distracts from our common humanity and tries to split us into tribes for the benefit of activists is fundamentally vile.
Jack Hellner at American Thinker pings the media for only now deciding to call Congress messy and dysfunctional. They had no problems with what went on under Pelosi’s fiefdom, even the corrupt January 6 Committee which has done awful things to a lot of innocent people while ignoring the real culprits.
We see something similar in media behaviour here. The examples are many, but in particular I recall that when Gillard faced some deserved criticism during her PMship, the media suddenly decided to say that “ politics had become too nasty”.
Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia
Dilbert
even more Dilbert #1
Dilbert#2
If Apartheid was immoral, so is the squawk.
…aaand I will be boycotting Mars for the stupidity and wokeness of their position.
I wonder if Gillette ever made up the ground they lost by their woke trans ads?
what Murray said
like watching a session in a holy roller tent
dead man speaks
apparently the race for Republican nominations is all about who is surrounded by the hottest chicks.
Correct. “The Dutton is in the Detail” simply replaces “Devil”. Puerile halfwittery.
Rowe knows the truth but refuses to admit it, even though some cartoons hint at it. The Devil is in the detail. Up is down, dry is wet, good is bad. Such people become caricatures of themselves, while retaining an urbane exterior and accepting their pay packet with alacrity. I’m reminded of Devine in That Hideous Strength.
For the duk and his cockie observations: Duk, if you have onion weed in your paddocks, then that’s what they are probably digging up. They get stuck into the little bulbs and bulblets. Noxious weed, so cockies are doing God’s work!
I’ve touched on this with a few leftie acquaintances, all have a hard time or are not very strong in support.
Given it’s Rowe the hardest thing to understand re that cartoon is Dutton not being naked.
I found Luigi the Unbelievable’s little hissy fit about Dutton hilarious too. That new dental work was strained to the max.
How dare Dutton not speak to the Unbelievable One in person, but have his questions published instead?
For someone to whom backroom deals are the Labor Way, no wonder he was caught wrong-footed. Shame Dutton was asleep at the wheel over the industrial relations bills.
What were they thinking? Who puts something like that in a memoir that’s intended to make them look good? Is the guy actually all there, did he not read it the proofs? Can he actually read?
Just as well no one hunts in the New Forest any more. Wouldn’t want history repeating itself.
Will the yes campaign for the Voice feature Farnham’s Voice song?
Taking bets.
Speaking of scams and scam artists, a top read from Tony Thomas at Quadrant: How Can Anyone Take This Charlatan Seriously?
Only Australia — the global headquarters of the scam industry with its corrupted government institutions like the University of Melbourne and the ABC — could deliver an old white bloke pretending to be a blackfella book contracts and riches paid for by taxpayers.
Surely ‘The Devil is in the detail’, as normally meant as a warning to people to not let themselves be blinded by pretty language or heart-warming sentiments. It is the details that count. They define what the reality is to be.
For a supposedly business oriented paper such as the AFR is meant to be its target demographic would understand intuitively through their experience of contracts and legislation just how critical a definition, a schedule, or a reading down can be.
Rose calls this “blah, blah, blah…”
I begin to wonder who actually reads the AFR. Different pages seem to be designed for different people. Some columnists are for Economics students being indoctrinated by socialist teachers, stories that allow business people to follow what is happening in the business world – and a few low info bits like Rowe as a sop to prevent HR and secretarial staff from cancelling the subscription.
Rowe calls it…
Damn Auto-corrupt!
If the solution is as simple as adding quicklime, then it changes everything, including the scourge of concrete cancer. It also might have some implications for coverage depth and therefore the amount of material used.
Fascinating stuff.
Autobiographies are fun. A minister in Macron’s government has written one, and what she says about Brigitte Macron is rather raunchy…and the MSM have resolutely decided not to mention it. Daily Mail and Breitbart have the story but the lefty orifices are saying nuffin about their gal’s interesting fetish.
I have no idea if the story is true, but it’s entertaining that Harry’s wildest comments get headlines and this one doesn’t.
Nemesis follows Hubris.
“did he not read the proofs”
Brigitte Macron is rather raunchy
I take it you’ve already had breakfast BoN.
Well, Bruce. Perhaps that’s what was drawn on ballot papers across the country in the most recent elections*.
Front of mind for most normal people when imagining a church spire, non?
* tee hee
Luigi the Unbelievable of the Immaculate Dentata has a ring to it. The connotations of the name are apt.
Hi ho, hi ho….
Once more into the breech.
Brigitte Macron raunchy, que. Can’t say I’ve ever seen her before. Thank goodness. Looks like she’s got vomit in her mouth.
Black Ballsays:
January 9, 2023 at 5:05 am
I understand Johnny but it’s like Rowe has Dutton as the villain for asking.
In Rowe’s eyes, Dutton is the villain for asking. The serfs should just trust Albosleazy and the many “aboriginal” activists and vote “Yes” is his line.
I don’t think it’s peculiar to Australia.
It’s rather a certain side of human nature that some people have no shame about displaying.
We’ve just got a particularly rich vein of gold for them to tap into.
I remember reading in some text or other that ‘Nemesis’ had the original meaning of ‘due enactment’ – or as we would say ‘just deserts’.
Thing is that the errant human creates the occasion and style of their punishment by their very misdeed and Nemesis restores the order of the world they damaged.
Like they trusted him to cut power bills & immigration.
He wouldn’t lie to the Australian people.
Seth was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune. One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away. “I may look like just an ordinary guy” he said to her “but in just a few years, my father will die and I will inherit $200 million”. Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother. Women are so much better at financial planning than men.
Franksays:
January 8, 2023 at 9:09 pm
Cockatoos need to eat stones at certain times of year, hence the digging for pebbles.
Frank,
where is that statement from?
My Daughter-in-law and Son have been driven mad by Cockatoos taking pebbles off their flat concrete roof, but they tend to drop the pebbles on pedestrians passing by – not sure that they eat them
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
– Adam Smith
If it was anywhere else except France she would have been charged as a pedophile and a groomer as she snagged Macron when she was his teacher at school.
UK excess deaths increase
Dr. John Campbell
Fossil fuel energy the foundation for thriving human life
NICK CATER
Five children died from heatstroke after being admitted to the Adelaide Children’s Hospital at the height of the January 1939 heatwave. Staff draped wet sheets over beds to relieve the suffering of 19 more children, seven of whom were in a serious condition.
Hydrocarbons came to the rescue. The hospital took up an offer from Kelvinator Australia Ltd to install an electric airconditioner for free. Five hours later, cool air was pumping through Rose Ward. “The authorities reported that the machine noticeably benefited the children when it began to operate at 11.50pm,” The Advertiser reported.
This snatch of history serves as a corrective to the catastrophist narrative that frames most of our discussion about climate and energy. The consequences of burning fossil fuel are not all bad. Thanks to its benefits, we can spend less time worrying about the fickleness of nature and more time enjoying fulfilling lives. Before airconditioning, deaths from prostration or sunstroke were common. In the sweaty, un-airconditioned first four decades of the last century, the death rate from extreme heat was 1.3 per 100,000. From 1940-99 it was 0.2. We are safer from the extremities of climate than we ever were.
Far from making the world “unliveable”, as the eco-pessimists fear, ultra-cost-effective fossil fuel energy has transformed a harsh, unyielding and sometimes dangerous continent into an unnaturally liveable place. No other source of energy, with the exception of nuclear, is anywhere close to competing with low-cost, on-demand versatile scalable hydrocarbons. Energy from fossil fuels has empowered humans to heat and cool their homes. Industrial processes and free trade have made warm clothes so cheap our ancestors would be astounded. They would look with envy at our food.
That’s the argument put by US philosopher Alex Epstein in Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas –Not Less. He argues the surest path to human catastrophe would be to follow the advice of climate catastrophists by switching suddenly to renewable energy. No one has come close to finding a cost-effective way of powering a modern economy using sunlight, wind and biomass alone. Not only are they inherently dilute and intermittent, but it is difficult to locate them at any scale close to centres of population and industry. Renewable energy infrastructure requires enormous amounts of mining and takes up vast amounts of space that could otherwise be farmed or dedicated to wildlife. To state wind and solar are at a competitive disadvantage to fossil fuels is to put it mildly. Despite two decades of generous subsidies and mandates, renewable energy only provides 3 per cent of global energy; fossil fuels deliver 80 per cent and use is growing faster than renewables in absolute terms.
In Epstein’s view, “a total ‘green’ replacement of fossil fuels should be viewed as a total crackpot idea until definitively proved otherwise”. He confronts the engineering challenge of eliminating fossil fuels from modern life and concludes it is impossible to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050 without a catastrophic loss of life and a sharp decline in prosperity. We have nothing in our kitbag to replace the energy-dense, transportable, available and reliable resource of solid, liquid and gaseous carbon upon which modernity was built.
In the unlikely event we succeed in creating an emission-free electricity network in that time frame, we will have solved only a small part of the problem. Transport and agriculture are more challenging still. There is no viable replacement source of energy for the production of industrial fertiliser, without which we would lose our capacity to produce half the world’s food. Nuclear technology is the only other source of naturally stored, concentrated and abundant energy capable of generating relatively low-cost, extremely reliable electricity. What’s more, it emits no air pollution or CO2 and has the best safety track record of any form of energy. The outright hostility to nuclear of influential eco-advocates leads Epstein to question their true motives. He concludes today’s ecological movement is no longer content to reduce waste and pollution but is opposed to human flourishing full stop. It is opposed not just to human activity that damages the environment but any human activity. Influential US climate advocate Bill McKibben, for example, advocates a “humbler world, one where we have less impact on our environment and human happiness would be of secondary importance”.
A liveable planet in their thinking in not one that is safer and kinder to human beings but an un-impacted planet closer to the natural paradise they wrongly imagine existed before humans came along. The myth has become so deeply embedded in modern thinking that the threat to the existence of an obscure earthworm or insect can be enough to block a new mine or industrial plant that would empower and enrich human beings.
Such thinking is at odds with our history. Indigenous Australians unempowered by almost any form of energy beyond human muscle were forced to devote much of their time to protecting themselves from the dangerous forces of nature and procuring mediocre nourishment. The timing of European settlement coincided with the transition from the era of organic energy to mineral energy, which led to rapid human flourishing in Australia as it has almost everywhere in the world. The laborious, unpredictable and low-yielding farming of the early days of settlement evolved into the high-yield, efficient agriculture of the modern era using the power unleashed by fossil fuels. Czech-Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil calculates the amount of human labour needed to produce a kilogram of grain has been reduced from 10 minutes to less than two seconds in the last 200 years.
Epstein concludes: “Without fossil fuels or their equivalent, food production would collapse and today’s ‘unnaturally’ large population could not possibly survive. With more fossil fuels or their equivalent, billions more people can have the opportunity to acquire the nourishment they need in small amounts of time instead of devoting huge portions of their lives to procuring mediocre nourishment.”
Wise decisions about energy, like any other area of policy, are impossible without a proper understanding of benefits as well as costs.
Nick Cater is executive director of Menzies Research Centre.
Oz
What’s all this stuff about don Lane being a TV hit just because he was American? Next you’ll be saying the same hurtful things about Tommy Leonetti, Tommy Hanlon Jnr, Bob Dyer, Marcia Hines….and more.
FFS, the cream always rises to the top. Here’s the proof…https://www.google.com/search?q=my+city+of+sydney&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU8OCH87j8AhVH9zgGHXIPD3wQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1396&bih=656&dpr=1.38#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:412af432,vid:K-hDTMKBgyQ
From Tom’s Quadrant link:
Well, that would take care of Australia’s “excessive eating” problem.
Don’t know about the other places but, having lived in Dural for many years, I have never seen a dead kangaroo roadside. Or pretty much anything else. (I did once stop my car to check out a rosella that looked dead, but it flew away as I approached).
The guy’s a ridiculous liar, and anyone who believes him is a pathetic loser. As for the bandicoot solution, it might be a way of ridding us from the scourge of ticks.
As Nietzsche said, “You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you nonetheless tell the truth.”
The truths that Luigi reveals with his lies are becoming more obvious by the day.
KRudd 2.0?
And here it is, the ad or coordinated attacked on Albo and his Voice spruiking. All Dutton and team need to do is say “Albo promised you cheaper electricity and then delivered phenomenal increases. Do you trust him with the constitution?” But that’s not who they are, they are losers.
With the role of Julia Gillard to be played by Tanya Plibersek.
It could be that Albanese has never had any real belief that the Voice will get over the line. By not funding a “no” side as has previously been done with proposals relating to changes to the constitution and by not providing any details he forces Dutton and the Libs into seeming like the nasty (racist) opposition to the Voice. But Dutton hasn’t taken the bait and has instead concentrated on the lack of detail. This will be an interesting game of cat and mouse.
And this is where Nick Cater loses me. If you have to say this then you agree with the greens and are just special pleading. I want no apologies for the best, cheapest and most convenient energy sources.
Top Ender:
A Nephew of mine, a sparky by trade, believes renewables will cause the reduction of power prices when the last coal power station is turned off, because renewables will no longer have to subsidise coal.
Against stupidity and ignorance of this level, the Gods themselves struggle in vain.
A good read:
Life in plastic perfect for a model child
A childhood on the move meant frequent changes of locale and school, but the fascination with Airfix models was unchanging.
By STEVE WATERSON
Not long out of university, I was sharing a house in London with a barrister mate when his sharply uniformed brother came to visit for the weekend.
Tim was an officer in the RAF Regiment, in charge of one of the Rapier surface-to-air missile teams assigned to protect allied airfields in Germany during the dying days of the Cold War.
After a few drinks he offered to give us a taste of how challenging his role was, and produced a small flipboard of laminated cards, each featuring a tiny black aircraft silhouette, drawn from various angles. All his men had to study and memorise these images, because instant identification of friend or foe could literally mean life or death to them, or to the pilot in their sights.
Without wishing to seem immodest now, I aced the flash cards. Phantoms and Tomcats were no trouble at all, but picking the MiG-29 and Sukhoi SU-27 “Flanker”, at a three-quarter angle from behind and below, left Tim seriously impressed and wondering where I had done my military training.
“In my bedroom,” I said, for I had spent hundreds of childhood hours assembling every model aircraft I could get my hands on. It was a very special kind of love affair, and although it was supplanted by other enthusiasms as the years went by, I was never completely cured.
My favourite manufacturer was Airfix, with its enormous range of models. As a young boy I could save up my pocket money for a small-scale Supermarine Spitfire, whose parts came in a clear plastic bag, with instructions featuring a dramatic illustration of the hallowed fighter soaring into the Battle of Britain.
By the time I was 10, I think I’d built pretty well everything that had ever taken to the air, from Louis Bleriot’s 25-horsepower monoplane that first crossed the English Channel in 1909, through World War I’s Fokker triplanes and Sopwith Camels, the Hawker Hurricanes and Messerschmitt 109s of World War II to the latest fighter jets.
And supplementing pocket money with odd jobs, I advanced to the larger models: Lancaster and Wellington bombers, and even, in the spirit of reconciliation, the Dorniers and Heinkels that had flattened great swathes of my home town before I was born.
I must have been the easiest kid to buy presents for. There was always a need for another model, more glue, some miniature tins of Humbrol paint, which, now I come to think of it, was probably more expensive by volume than the fine armagnac I now like to play with. But how could you complete an Afrika Korps Fieseler Storch reconnaissance plane without the correct shade of khaki to camouflage it over the Libyan Desert?
After his national service in the British Army driving a Scammell tank transporter (yes, of course I built one!), my father studied at night school to become a pharmacist. He joined national chain Boots the Chemist and we followed his postings around the country. I wasn’t a particularly solitary child, reasonably sporty and outdoorsy, but seven different schools between six and 11 meant new friendships were sometimes hard to establish and made my plastic world an agreeable retreat.
My parents tolerated but, I assumed, never quite understood my obsession, allowing me the privilege of sticking drawing pins in my bedroom ceiling where, dangling on lengths of cotton, the finished models would be engaged in ludicrously anachronistic dogfights – a delta-wing Dassault Mirage from the 1960s hunting a 1915 Bristol Scout, cotton-wool “smoke” pluming from the loser.
Then one magical evening my dad came home from work, opened his bag and handed me a carefully wrapped box. Inside was the model I had been dreaming of, but that was so far beyond my resources I had given up any idea of owning: James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 from the Goldfinger film released a few years earlier. But I was puzzled. My birthday and Christmas were ages away, so why this extraordinary surprise?
My dad beamed. “I got a bonus from work,” he said. That was good enough for me, although I’d never heard the word “bonus” before (come to think of it, I haven’t heard it too often since).
The next Saturday I bought metallic gold paint and lovingly began to put this complex machine together, with its retractable tyre-shredders, machineguns and an ejector seat, painting a microscopic yet flamboyant bow tie on the little 007 in the driver’s seat.
Model-making kept me happy almost into my teens. It taught me patience and fine motor skills – try sliding a flimsy Luftwaffe cross from a moist transfer sheet on to a 1/24-scale tailfin, or locating a cockpit windscreen from inside without smearing the glass opaque with glue – which would have come in handy if I’d been an eye surgeon, a career I later understood was incompatible with my fondness for strong drink.
Even today I find it hard to pass a hobby shop without popping in and scanning the kits available. They seemed to go out of fashion for a while, but I’m heartened to see them filling the shelves again.
Oh, I’m tempted, I admit, to try just a simple one, a Tiger Moth, say, but I know where that would lead. Like most early loves, it probably shouldn’t be revisited.
From the Telegraph…
Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters storm national congress
A replay of the US Capitol horror is playing out in Brazil, where supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro have stormed Congress, and the presidential palace.
The supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro have invaded the National Congress Building after months of protests against the October elections. The protesters have also reportedly stormed the federal Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace. Police are deploying tear gas to subdue the rioting. Bolsonaro supporters have refused to accept the election result, calling for the military to overthrow new President Lula da Silva.
World
Hundreds of supporters of Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke through police barricades and stormed into Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in a dramatic protest against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration last week.
A sea of protesters dressed in the green and yellow of the flag flooded into the seat of power in Brasilia, invading the floor of Congress and scaling the iconic building’s roof to unfurl a banner with an appeal to Brazil’s military: “INTERVENTION.”
Social media footage showed rioters breaking doors and windows to enter the Congress building, then streaming inside en masse, trashing lawmakers’ offices and using the sloped speaker’s dais on the floor of the legislature as a slide as they shouted insults directed at the absent lawmakers.
One video showed a crowd outside pulling a policeman from his horse and beating him to the ground.
The shocking images were reminiscent of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol building by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, a Bolsonaro ally.
Police, who had established a security cordon around Brasilia’s Three Powers Square, home to the classic modernist buildings of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court, fired tear gas in a bid to disperse the rioters, to no avail.
Protester Sarah Lima told AFP they were demanding a review of veteran leftist Lula’s October 30 runoff election win over Bolsonaro.
Lula, who took office Sunday, narrowly won the vote by a score of 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent. Bolsonaro, who left for the US state of Florida on the second-to-last day of his term, has alleged he is the victim of a conspiracy against him by Brazil’s electoral authorities.
He condemned the invasion by what he called “fascist fanatics”.
“We need to reestablish order after this fraudulent election,” said Lima, a 27-year-old production engineer wearing the yellow jersey of the Brazilian national football team – a symbol Bolsonaro backers have claimed as their own – and protesting with her young twin daughters.
Don’t you just love the journalistic screams of “far-right”, “far-right”, “far-right”.
Vaxx strikes again
Deraney told The Associated Press that Rich suffered from a type of depression that defied treatment and that he had tried to erase the stigma of talking about mental illness. He unsuccessfully tried experimental cures over the years and had remained sober.
Journalism is dead.
We’re living in the post-journalism age.
It’s OK, MP says there is nothing to worry about.
Richard Vobes
brazil
does this look like hundreds??
Out in the garden (where I do my best thinking) tying up a floppy dahlia that succumbed to wind an rain on the weekend and reflecting on Pascoe’s proposition that Dural in Sydney would be an ideal place to find roadkill…enough to feed a city.
He must have looked at a map and thought…outer suburb, must be plenty of large wildlife. And maybe, just maybe, filled with toothless hillbillies searching for succulent roadside treats. He can never have actually visited the place. A quick glance at Google maps, satellite filter, would have told him the story. Street view might have been even better.
So much for the “Professor’s” research skills.
Correct.
We have established what Nick is. Now we are just haggling over the price.
Heresy!
It’s true though.
How is Cater haggling about price?
The thrust of his piece is that humanity will continue to depend on fossil fuels regardless of the so called climate emergency and those that would eliminate them will be happy to see millions die of starvation.
With Wife. last night, finished watching SBS On Demand on Big Screen
Hampstead Romantic Comedy, Film, Romantic Comedy
1h 39m 2017 English
Expires in 3 weeks
An American widow forms an unlikely bond with a man living in a ramshackle hut on Hampstead Heath when his home is threatened by greedy property developers.
Cast: Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, Lesley Manville, Jason Watkins, James Norton, Hugh Skinner, Simon Callow, Alistair Petrie, Rosalind Ayres, Brian Protheroe
Bit slow!
Followed that with Netflix Emily in Paris Series – short around 25 Mins each episode and a right hoot – have a number of French Friends, nails the French approach to life vs Americans perfectly!
In Episode 1, we both learnt something new – Only, as she does the phone rings and it’s Doug. While the two engage in cyber sex, the line goes dead prompting Emily to go it alone…where she blows all the electrics in the building. Woops!
Finished 4 Episodes so far, and very enjoyable
Hampstead Romantic Comedy, Film, Romantic Comedy
After the CO2 klimate theory is debunked on “Home and Away”, will the loonies retreat to a position of “okay, CO2 has nothing to do with it, but we still need to fix the klimate and waste vast sums of money on renooables”.
What a time to be alive.
The worst kind of heresy.
alwaysright
If the present cooling trend continues for another year or so, watch for “new research” and “studies” by “researchers” to demonstrate with “new, refined” models that CO2 actually causes cooling, and to avoid a new ice age, we need to speed up the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Top Ender at 8:38.
Have you seen the TV show where James May gets a whole bunch of kids to assemble a full size Airfix model of a Spitfire?
I see that the HUN in Melbourne is running an article that the Brazilian far right are repeating the “horror” of Jan 6.
FMD
Not to mention Cater’s audience is the climate true believers who believe that allowing a 1000 third worlders to die of starvation now is worth it if it saves one childless green fanatic’ life in twelve years or whatever date they’ve set on their doomsday clock this week.
(Us vaxxies only have seven to whatever months or 2030 depending on who’s spitting abuse so we don’t care.
Eat drink and be merry!)
I believe that theory has already been proposed, BJ.
NASA recently observed cooling in the upper atmosphere. What that means for the lower atmosphere & the earth is debated. Seems the science isn’t settled after all!
On Friday night I went to a relative’s home for dinner. At the table was a mutual friend, someone who gets his news directly from the MSM, who thinks Albo doing an okay job..yada, yada, yada. He’s always been somewhat scared of me but it doesn’t stop him from mouthing off moronic platitudes that he reads in the daily MSM (he loves news.com.au). I always squash and verbally smash him down, it’s like using a fly squat to flatten a blowfly, very satisfying. He usually knows better than to take me on, contradict me, rebut me or question me, but on Friday night he couldn’t help himself.
At the table the hostess was talking about the three years of Covid and I started talking about how some countries, such as Sweden, and some states in the US like Florida, handled Covid. I started talking about Governor Ron DeSantis. Those Cats who know me also know how articulate I am. I continued talking about Governor DeSantis’ handling of the Covid epidemic and this person butted in and excitedly said the following to me…
“Oh, your friend, your friend, he’s been found out lying about his military service and his family history….whadda you think about that, your friend is a liar”
I sipped some wine and whilst retaining some composure, my skin paled somewhat and I said…..
“firstly, what the EFF are you talking about?”, and secondly, “whose friend?”.
He started getting excited and he started yelling at me “your friend Santos, your friend Santos, your friend Santos”, “your friend Santos is a liar”, “your friend Santos has lied about his education”, “your friend Santos has lied his military service”.
Retaining my composure, I said…
“Who’s Santos?”. I knew exactly who he was talking about and I then turned to him and said, in slow words..
“Read my lips, I’m not talking about “George Santos”, I’m talking about Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, and I’m 99% sure that Governor Ron DeSantis has never lied about his military service or his university education. They’re completely different names, there’s a big difference between Santos and DeSantis, or do you get confused about Hispanic sounding names and you think they all sound the same? So, do you think all Hispanics look the same? Well if you do, here’s some advice, it’s offensive, and secondly, you might want to do some homework before you come here and make a fool of yourself because Santos is a Hispanic name from Spain and Portugal and “DeSantis” is an Italian name from Italy. Governor Ron DeSantis comes from an Italian family.”
The hostess, who was enjoying the exchange, piped in and said to the man, “well, if you’re so worried about liars, what about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden?”
Knowing he’d been caught out as a bald-faced fool, he meekly apologised and I cleared my throat and I said to him…
“next time you decide to interrupt me, contradict me, rebut me, disprove me, and try to prove me wrong make sure you get all your facts right or preferably, keep your mouth shut.”
He didn’t say much for the remainder of the evening. You don’t need a fly squat when I’m around.
I took Cater’s phrasing as a rhetorical device used to get a sceptical reader to let down their defences.
Heres a prime example of insurance “running’ a business.
From a company email, Ive changed it enough to protect the guilty (me)
In short, ABC insurance has started placing penalties (300% existing premiums) on companies that are not properly enforcing D&A checks, and/or not unable to show that they are enforcing it (ie, documenting it properly).
What this means is:
– Every employee needs to be Alcohol tested before every shift – and we need to have a record of their negative test result (either digital or on paper)
– We need to have an effective* random drug test
– Every person involved in any incident needs to be D&A tested immediately after such event
Lets tack on costs.
Alcohol is cheap and easy – couple of breathos and some training.
Drug tests.
Take supervisor and up to 5 personnel offline for up to an hour – travel to med centre- test- travel back.
Minimum $250 of wages plus lost production.
Plus $15 a kit is $75, god forbit theres a positive, costs quickly spiral up.
Every day for a year.
More than $100,000 a year.
Speaks volumes about Melbourne Uni that they would even entertain making such a fabulist a perfessa
Cassie of Sydneysays:
January 9, 2023 at 9:19 am
“next time you decide to interrupt me, contradict me, rebut me, disprove me, and try to prove me wrong make sure you get all your facts right or preferably, keep your mouth shut.”
He didn’t say much for the remainder of the evening. You don’t need a fly squat when I’m around.
Go Girl – should rent you out for some of my Family Dinners, as a Professional Fly Squat!
Middle management in hell
And it is the middle where the most damage can be done — exploding numbers of education administrators, never-ending assistant deputies and vice presidents, mushrooming human resources departments, the creation of an entire industry — Diversity, Inclusion, Equity — to recreate the cudgel of racism and corrupted law enforcement and the security state and foundations and non-governmental organizations and the social economy and media flacks and the billions and billions of dollars funneled into the system to feed the beast, all intertwining to service a power structure intent on enshrining its future in amber.
The people doing these jobs today are the same people who were attorneys at Stalin’s show trials, copying basement confessions in triplicate, and going home with a glow from the knowledge that they did their job well that day.
The woke state claims everything it is doing is to protect, purify, preserve, perpetuate, and promote that which society truly needs and desires and that the rest of us must have faith that is true.
We have all seen where that fetid and foolish faith led to in the past — the outcome will be not at all different this time.
It’s now called “climate variability” dontcha know.
“Climate Variability” (7 Jan)
Dr Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
This is because of increased “climate variability.” Remember: you read it here first. This will be the next pivot term–global warming, superseded by climate change, replaced by climate variability. Same apocalypse, though 🙂
4:50 AM · Jan 8, 2023
In Episode 1, we both learnt something new – Only, as she does the phone rings and it’s Doug. While the two engage in cyber sex, the line goes dead prompting Emily to go it alone…where she blows all the electrics in the building. Woops!
I doubt it can top this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emh75AYxnzk
Bolsonaro outraged the French by saying Mrs Macron was considered quite plain by Brazilian men who were surrounded by hotpots.
Of course, Macron had to respond to this insult to French honour but this was one occasion when Bolsonaro was right – far right.
thefrollickingmolesays:
January 9, 2023 at 9:32 am
In Episode 1, we both learnt something new – Only, as she does the phone rings and it’s Doug. While the two engage in cyber sex, the line goes dead prompting Emily to go it alone…where she blows all the electrics in the building. Woops!
I doubt it can top this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emh75AYxnzk
Very similar
I think that Prince Ginger is telling stories against his boyhood self to support the narrative that the Royal Family breeds little shits as a matter of course, and it has taken a Herculean task by Ginger and Megs to break away and overcome this upbringing.
Pity the poor j’ismists who didn’t have their cyclone wear with them.
But she’s not
Shy Ted
Longnose tribe.
A bunch of rich old farts meet once a year to plot their take-over of the world. Episode no 50.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/08/great-reset-redux-wef-prepares-robust-globalist-agenda-for-davos-2023/
Agreed.
If he mounted an argument on the premise that fossil fuels (used properly) are not harmful the zealot and the acolyte will treat the whole column as a claim that CO2 is harmless, pull some clunky counterclaim from their butts (like warmer temperatures cause birds to crap more on people’s clotheslines) and, thus, the entire article is refuted.
It reads like Cater is trying to neutralise that reflex so he can keep going.
I don’t normally go in for conspiracy theories, but Albo can’t lose, when it comes to the voice. If the referendum is passed, he has achieved his aim. If it fails, he can paint Australians as a pack of racists and rednecks, who will need firm leadership and a guiding hand to see the error of their ways.
Germany dodges a bomb.
Seems to be a self winding jihadi rather than an Iranian backed boofhead.
German police arrest Iranian man suspected of planning chemical attack
German police have arrested an Iranian man suspected of planning a chemical attack motivated by Islamic extremism.
The 32-year-old was seized at his flat shortly before midnight on Saturday in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, close to Dortmund in western Germany. The arrest followed a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency that the man had obtained toxins, including cyanide and ricin, with which he planned to carry out a terror attack, authorities said on Sunday.
Another man, believed to be the man’s brother, was also detained. He was known to police but not for his links to terrorism, and it is as yet unclear whether he was involved in the plot.
The brothers are believed to have lived in Germany since 2015.
lunatics
Secretary General: Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership will make us all safer
That was the premise of the film “The Day After Tomorrow”.
Perhaps it will age better than I thought.
The 55th Speaker: Kevin McCarthy is no Nancy Pelosi — and that’s a good thing
BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
Moreover, many in the media were honest about what they consider his greatest shortcoming: “Kevin McCarthy is no Nancy Pelosi.”
Some of us sincerely hope so.
While Pelosi (D-Calif.) remains the ideal of many in the media, she tolerated little public debate or dissent. She thrilled her base with such infamous performative acts as tearing up a State of the Union Address of then-President Trump. As an all-powerful speaker, she oversaw a series of party-line votes with little opportunity for amendments or even to read some bills.
Many Republicans did not want the Pelosi model of an all-powerful speaker. For these members, the agreement with McCarthy is a type of Magna Carta.
The original Magna Carta, of course, was honored primarily in the breach by King John, who immediately asked the pope to annul it. Yet it was an impressive statement of rights.
No one is seriously suggesting that the GOP agreement is the new Magna Carta, but it is meant to redefine legislative rights — and it could have tangible improvements for the House.
Some of these concessions may change that status quo. There are provisions I do not support — yet, we should acknowledge that these changes could also improve the process to allow greater dissent and debate.
He’s certainly nasty enough to have planned that, but if that’s the case, I don’t think it’s going to work out the way Mr. 32% imagines it will.
Sorry, on re-reading I can see I did not type my actual thoughts properly.
Should be:
If he mounted an argument which included an incidental assertion premise (not core to his argument) that fossil fuels (used properly) are not harmful the zealot and the acolyte will treat the whole column as a claim that CO2 is harmless, pull some clunky counterclaim from their butts and, thus, the core claim of the entire article is refuted.
There must be some academics at that institution who feel his presence demeans their calling.
I suspect it’s quite a cynical ploy on the part of administrators. Universities have been under financial pressure since covid undid their business model. As Pascoe is flavour of the month, the thought would be that his presence will attract students & increase revenue.
Yep. Waffleworth tried that one on Howard over the Republic. In typical Waffleworthian fashion it failed.
Who’s George Santos?
What do you mean
Santa does not existCO2 is harmless ?Tell me it isn’t so!
Thanks for the post – hot mix; fascinating for concrete tragics.
One thing that pops out is how difficult it must have been for the Romans shipping quicklime around the Empire. Legendary logistics and stock control.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.719750/full
Fasting is key.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pharmacol., 30 September 2021
Sec. Inflammation Pharmacology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.719750
Intermittent Fasting Inhibits High-Fat Diet–Induced Atherosclerosis by Ameliorating Hypercholesterolemia and Reducing Monocyte Chemoattraction
Senate Republican Los Santos Claws, Senator for CA, residences in San Diego, Beverly Hills and secretly having a dual citizenship of and the evil despotic drug lord President for Life of the People’s Republic of Val Verde.
He also knows Major Bennett and Col. John Matrix.
Mark Steyn is unwell, he has had a couple of heart attacks.
The governor of Florida, silly.
Is he the one who’s related to George Clooney?
Rosie.
Who’s George Santos?
The repub candidate that got elected and was uncovered as a fantasist as far as his bio goes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html
I mean its obviously worse than claiming Indian hearitage to advance your career or marrying your brother.
Sitting in line to deliver lentils and watching canola being out-loaded from the old style concrete silos.
Under gravity and through a pipe it takes only a few minutes put forty six tonne into a B double. I’m not sure how the weight gauges keep up with this flow.
Don’t know the trucking company, the drivers seem to be all Sikhs.
Trying to detect shit dropping though the floors of the trucks but no dice yet. Maybe there’s toilet paper trapped under the suspension.
One of the great lines in cinematic history:
‘Let off some steam….. Bennett.’
Try to snaffle a samosa.
On workplace drug testing:
They certainly do; costs on a lollipop positive test result suddenly rear up like a tsunami.
Independent blood sample and analysis – then the IR issues (my partner smoked a joint last night, I must have picked up the side stream), then the issues with your insurance on keeping a valuable, but busted, employee on the books (hello monitored rehab program).
Who’s George Clooney?
New US House chief makes pledge on Ukraine aid – media
Kevin McCarthy has reportedly agreed to cap aid to Kiev to win support from colleagues who were blocking his election as speaker
Newly elected US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reportedly won over the final few votes needed to secure the gavel by promising conservative lawmakers that he will help pass legislation that would limit future economic and military aid to Ukraine.
The Kiev compromise was one of the key concessions that McCarthy, a California Republican, accepted to win over recalcitrant colleagues who had opposed his election as speaker, the UK’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Saturday. Republicans won back control of Congress in November’s midterm elections, but it took five days and 15 rounds of voting for speaker – the most since 1860 – to reach enough consensus on who will shepherd the party’s legislative agenda.
Since Russia began its military offensive against Ukraine last February, Congress has approved $100 billion in US aid to Ukraine – much to the chagrin of ‘Freedom Caucus’ lawmakers, such as Republicans Matt Gaetz (Florida) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado). Gaetz led a group of about 20 representatives in opposing McCarthy’s election, at one point nominating former President Donald Trump for the job.
After McCarthy failed to win enough support from fellow Republicans in the first three rounds of voting on Tuesday, Gaetz said, “Today the House didn’t organize. Biggest loser: [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky. Biggest winner: US Taxpayers.” He had opposed previous aid requests for Kiev, including a $45-billion package approved last month, saying, “Hemorrhaging billions in taxpayer dollars for Ukraine while our country is in crisis is the definition of America last.”
McCarthy, who occasionally wears a Ukrainian flag pin on his lapel, also agreed to congressional rule changes, limits on defense spending and the creation of a committee to investigate “weaponization” of the federal government. In addition, conservatives won a pledge to allow votes on several of their top issues, including border security, congressional term limits and a balanced budget amendment. The new speaker agreed to give Freedom Caucus members key seats on House committees.
Among those panels is the House Rules Committee. As the Telegraph noted, giving Freedom Caucus members leadership roles on the Rules Committee could create “immense hurdles” to passage of additional aid packages for Ukraine.
Interesting thread at Jo Nova. Seems cardiologist and now anti Vax campaigner Dr Aseem Malhotra has got a 2 page spread in the UK Daily Telegraph.
George Clooney is a well known thief once active in Las Vegas. I think he also likes coffee.
Drug testing on work sites depends on what you (the employer/insurer) want to achieve and how much you want to splash.
Saliva and urine testing will get you the Big Five (opiates, cannabinoids, amphet, meth and benzos) in up to a 72 hour window. Then, as mentioned, lab costs for presumptive positive test analysis can be straight out piracy.
Hair testing will get you the same results, but is far more accurate and can get a month’s window per inch of hair (from anywhere on the rig, not just the bonce). Hair testing also absolves the company of its need to make sure the employees aren’t using the fake cocks with tubes leading to somebody else’s piss in a bag under the armpit, and which delivers the non-genuine wee when squeezed.
As the bloke said in Trainspotting – ‘It’s a f***ing tightrope, man.’
So he would have seen the inside of a paddy wagon then.
Famous marketer of fat free grills and coffee machines.
A small appliance man.
A character on Seinfeld?
No, that is his sister Rhonda.
Feels like half the drivers who come through my work are Sikhs now.
Despite the tenants of their religion most of them have the same cultural issues as many of the other Indians I’ve dealt with. Quite happy to screw you over for a short term gain, but longer term loss. Glad I’m not having to make the deals.
Rosemary Clooney’s nephew.
A coffee salesman with a side-hustle as a bit part actor.
Working from home is only going to get more popular.
As for industrial sites, there won’t be any.
Drug testing on work sites depends on what you (the employer/insurer) want to achieve and how much you want to splash.
I’m with the French Foreign Legion on this: Drink what you want but it will not be accepted as an excuse for failure to perform.
Ah…the Kentucky songstress.
Well, this week we will have doomsday headlines regarding the weather.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday all slated for 40. Whether it gets there or not is another matter. Rather warm right now however.
Sancho Panzersays:
January 9, 2023 at 10:39 am
Rogersays:
January 9, 2023 at 10:23 am
Is he the one who’s related to George Clooney?
Who’s George Clooney?
A coffee salesman with a side-hustle as a bit part actor.
Sancho,
you forgot to mention Rich!
George Clooney just sold his tequila business for up to $1 billion
https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/sttdaz/thoughts_on_this_it_should_be_legal_to_park_half/
The comments are total cringe.
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
@P_McCulloughMD
What caused them to drop all protocols (assuming shots) despite continued cases? Why are they not coming clean on blood clots, arrhythmias, and other problems in players? Boosters for any? Why no press questions?
This is NOT a meme
New Study proves Covid Vaccines are Ineffective & Dangerous: Triple-Vaccinated Australians are 35x more likely to be Hospitalised
Uncle Tony has bent himself over for a pineapple insertion, implying that the Calma-Langton report contains the detail of how the Voice to Parliament might work. His statement to Parliament (including tabling the executive summary) is either deliberately misleading or commits to accepting the Co-design process.
Linda Burney has been a bit more circumspect – but not much:
They are jammed. The Local and Regional Voice – which would require formal buy in by all levels of government to consult and receive advice from one (or more) of 35 local advisory groups – is central to the operation of the Voice under the proposal.
This is political and constitutional nightmare territory.
We are watching Albanese tippy toeing away from the Voice model which has the blessing of much of the influential part of the aboriginal community.
Hence the spittle-flecked anger.
Sacre bleu!
Quite happy to screw you over for a short term gain, but longer term loss. Glad I’m not having to make the deals.
Why India is stuck where it is. They’re impossible to deal with, the bullshit is so thick on the ground.
That’s the point. It’s exactly what they want. I’ve been saying for years that the Greens LOVE every pie in the sky energy production mirage, right up to the point where it actually starts to work – and then they hate it. Case in point fracking.
Migrants plead with El Paso cops as they’re rounded up ahead of Biden visit: Video
From the Comments
Looking towards 2024, CNN reports that Joe Biden is still very popular in a number of important battleground states, including Russia, China, Ukraine, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Canada, Venezuela, North Korea, and Iran.
From over at Bolta. Anybody heard anything?
First for the summer though.
Just checked the BOM app and no “Heat wave” warnings (yet), I wonder if that hysterical nonsense from a few weeks ago has been quietly dropped?
Miltonfsays:
January 9, 2023 at 9:25 am
Speaks volumes about Melbourne Uni that they would even entertain making such a fabulist a perfessa
Hence my reference to the “former” University of Melbourne. Like many such western institutions, it has ceased to be a university, and become a propaganda dissemination centre.
“The white man’s salvage laws do not apply because this is sovereign Aboriginal territory and our laws override those of the white man.”
They want one third the value of the yacht before allowing salvage or 100% possession.
This is chortle worthy.
I’m sure Albo is on the line to the Cape Barren PM or sending the Wong chap to deal with their Foreign Minister for the extraction of the boat.
Just checked the BOM app and no “Heat wave” warnings (yet), I wonder if that hysterical nonsense from a few weeks ago has been quietly dropped?
For sure Bushie. That December was one of the coldest I’ve had.
As for the hysterical nonsense, will be ramped to eleventy.
Via OldOzzie
The woke state claims everything it is doing is to protect, purify, preserve, perpetuate, and promote that which society truly needs and desires and that the rest of us must have faith that is true.
Mussolini on fascism: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Extortion.
I believe we’re coming up to FIVE YEARS without a summer day of 40C or more — once the staple of the December-to-February months — in the southern Victoria region.
No wonder the diseducated zombies have discovered climate variability — the truth about the global weather system that has followed warm-cool cycles of roughly 60 years’ duration for centuries.
Ask any of the Cat farmers: weather cycles are in their bones.
PS: as a farmer’s son, I remember sitting on tractors in white frosts in July-August in the 1960s. We still haven’t returned to those cold winters but, as sure as clockwork, they’ll show up in the next decade.
mole
The brothers are believed to have lived in Germany since 2015.
Now, what event happened in 2015? Oh, yes, Mutti Merkel opened the borders of Chermany to any and all comers from the Islamic world. Top decision, Mutti.
Ooh!
Truck envy.
Lovely new Kenny with new Hamalex tippers at the back in front of me.
You could shave by the polish.
So on the one hand they claim sovereignty but on the other they refuse to abide by international law.
Sounds like we’ve got a rogue state on our doorstep!
The greenies will certainly try and then we will see if the scientific establishment is all charlatans or if they will decide that enough is enough.
Rogersays:
January 9, 2023 at 10:06 am
Speaks volumes about Melbourne Uni that they would even entertain making such a fabulist a perfessa
There must be some academics at that institution who feel his presence demeans their calling.
There might well be, but those will also remember the defenestration of Melbourne Uni’s most distinguished (actual) Professor, Geoffrey Blainey, for some remarks about immigration that have since proven to have been remarkably prescient. In modern academia, being both politically incorrect and actually correct is the road to damnation.
‘our laws override those of the white man.’
No worries.
Whistlecocking all round and no more Sennalink. Still want that boat?
I jest, but anyone remember when Michael Mansell was pursuing an alliance with Gaddafi?
This is where the balkanisation of Australia will end up.
Sov Citizens?
Are these Monty’s infamous ‘Cookers’?
Shouldn’t those claiming “sovereignty” fund their own health, medical and welfare services?
thefrollickingmolesays:
January 9, 2023 at 10:20 am
Rosie.
Who’s George Santos?
The repub candidate that got elected and was uncovered as a fantasist as far as his bio goes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html
I mean its obviously worse than claiming Indian hearitage to advance your career or marrying your brother.
How does it rate alongside the DemonRat Senator Blumenthal, who wrongly claimed to have served in Vietnam?
That be reparations.
Of course they’ll want Reparations to go with their reparations once the Voice gets up.
You don’t need a fly squat when I’m around.
Man I enjoyed reading that!!
m0ntysays:
January 9, 2023 at 10:34 am
Who’s George Santos?
The governor of Florida, silly
No, that is his sister Rhonda.
The new, angry, “meatsuit” m0nty=fa is as wet as an old dishrag.
Without fossil fuels or their equivalent, food production would collapse and today’s ‘unnaturally’ large population could not possibly survive
It would certainly clean the gene pool seeing as most of the idiots pushing this agenda have no earthly hope of feeding themselves.