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He wants to spend the money more sensibly than on the military.
So you can never overcapitalize?
And if that were true, the South would have won the civil war, Ford wouldn’t have built the River Rouge…
Hard to make sense of the proposal then.
Headed South from Tenterfield today, stopped for a toilet break at a tiny place off the New England Highway called Bendemeer.
Spied a war memorial gate and took a few photos, in this small town in WW1 48 enlisted, 44 went to war with 6 killed and 2 who later died.
It’s hard to imagine how tiny this place must have been back then and having so many young men go away.
Seriously?
It is that easy to get rid of Labor?
they could give it to the AI
The Israeli Ministry of Health hid COVID serious adverse event data from the public
MIT Professor Retsef Levi talks about the Israeli vaccine safety study
RS
If Defence did issue the invitation, it was almost certainly under instructions from Turdballs.
Part 2……….
We ended the day at Muswellbrook, and visited some old haunts.
Got some photos of St Albans Church where i did my confirmation in 1976, visited the train station (a beautiful old building) and got some photo’s of the war memorial.
Restaurant wise, don’t hang by your nuts, this ain’t Flinders or Kobe.
I’d outbid you then, but Satp would outbid both of us. I think she looks gorgeous as is, and she sounds intelligent, but Sal can have her. I’ve been married twice, and that’s enough for anyone.
Brenda in real life is very friendly and cheerful but carries also an air that surrounds Vera – of ‘don’t mess with me’. She has a simlar accent. She is the end sibling of about eight of them from a very ordinary British working family and has forged an impressive career. We think her best role was as Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, the one with Kiera Knightley. Brenda is thus very family oriented and was so helpful to the mother-in-law we have in common, who was a lady of unarguable determination in letting you know exactly how she felt and a biting self-deprecating humour, all of which Brenda recalled well in anecdote at the funeral. I’ve read one of the novels on which Vera is based, showing a character Brenda captures so well, given to me by someone ‘starstruck’ like Dot, and I’ve watched one of her Vera episodes, but neither Hairy nor I go much for crime series. Obviously many do, for Brenda has just finished what she now says is ‘the last’ series, number twelve, which keeps ITV both rich and happy. You always say that each series is ‘the last’, comments her unassuming husband. They have no children, so our stepgranny could lavish affection on those of Hairy and me and the two children of his brother and wonderful wife who stepped in as carers in those final years, always there, as Brenda and her husband were also, after Hairy’s father died. We would catch up with Granny and the family every few years of our children’s childhood and adolescence during visits to the UK, often missing Brenda as she was busy filming. There were occasional return visits of Granny and Granddad to Australia inbetween. This is what widespread families do across the world try to do, something which Covid knocked on the head badly.
She doesn’t mention if she’s able to cook & sew, but at least a bloke wouldn’t have to put up with being lectured with woke drivel all day.
Bendemeer. Crikey Carpe, you’re bringing back memories. That’s about the coldest place in New England. I’m getting chilled knuckles just thinking about it.
Water freezes such that sheep can’t break into the dams & you gotta slip along & smash a hole in the ice for them, stuff like that.
Came across a potted bio of Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper in a computer manual ..
sooo how many of us know “amazing ‘” Grace AKA Grandma COBOL .. she not only served 39 years in the US Navy but programmed MARK 1 the 1st super computer ( she also wrote the user manual all 500pages of it!) and programmed UNIVAC before developing COBOL ..!
she, finally, retired from the Navy at 79 after 43 years after twice being recalled to active duty cos no one else could get around super computers the way she could … amazing woman .. she also created mini-codes, more commonly called “subroutines” as well as the 1st “compiler” program ..
50 years after she wrote it .. COBOL is still in use today …….
We went through there about 10am, it was 30C then. Strangely there were no flies, unlike Bundy where i ended up buying 3 flytraps and a mortein mozzie coil.
I led in bed thinking last night of my stepmother-in-law and also my mother’s sister in Louisiana. Both were old ladies of particular strength, and as the celebrant at the funeral said yesterday, ‘the last of an era’.
My aunwho died aged 99 raised six boys and a girl in a two bedroom house by the Bayou, fronted outside by an American flag and dominated inside by the strong Catholicism of her conversion on marriage. She used Cajan folk medicine and an iron rod to rule the unruly and create successful adults during the three weeks away every month her husband had to take working on the Gulf oil rigs as a poorly paid rigger. Similarly, my stepmother-in-law was a teenage girl during WW11, and like Her Majesty became a volunteer driving in some women’s corps, where also like Her Majesty, she learned to disassemble a combusion engine to trouble shoot it. Yet in the time I knew her she was the essence of coifed and fingernail-polished femininity, having put such things long behind her. She also went with Hairy’s father, a research chemist, to live in Germany in the 1960’s while he worked for a German chemical company. She loved it, although her Jewish relatives said it was something they would not have been able to do. She saw it as necessary to just get on with life.
Definitely, the end of an era and we shall as we know never see their like again.
Just a thought too. Princess Anne is stated in Tina Brown’s Palace Papers, which I am still reading, as thought of in The Palace as being ‘The best King that Britain never had”. Another lady of stern demeanour and brisk British no-nonsense.
The Times (here every morning on the dot) has pages of stuff now on the ‘Harry’ phenomenon.
You wouldn’t think that there was a major transport strike on, notes Hairy’s brother ascerbically.
Yes. It’s a very timely distraction.
Today we’ve hired a car and will drive up to stay overnight with my archaeologist friend in Saffron Waldon. Hairy will also buy a new pair of shoes there. It always takes travel for a pair of shoes that seemed ok to develop a dodgey heel. We had to do a sticky repair job on his good ones for the funeral.
It just about lasted. And his black woollen ‘gillet’ waistcoast was also moth-eaten when he unfolded it. Didn’t you check? I say.
We must have moths. Or silverfish.
Oh, before we set off. I hope Helen that you were ok after that earthquake which also affected Darwin.
It sounded like a few moments of real fright. Never something you’d wish to experience.
Haven’t caught up with most of the Cat yet. Busy times and still needing an arvo nap for jetlag.
Also, the Palace Papers is a long, engaging, indeed riveting read, by insider Tina Brown, past editor of Vanity Fair the New Yorker, married to the editor of The Times (London). It’s definitely written from what in the US would be called ‘inside the Beltway’, so has some alarming views re ‘far-right’ things, but it is very good on the whole issue of phone tapping which brought down some of the Murdoch empire in the early millenium. It does show how Harry was totally hounded by the press, but also notes that he lacked the resilience of others to ignore it.
Honestly, you would pass The Duchess of Whinge in the street without thinking twice about her colour.
To me, she looks like she has the dark complexion of a Spaniard or Italian. I wouldn’t pick her out of a line-up as African-American.
In other words, the whole racism thing is confected.
Spied a war memorial gate and took a few photos, in this small town in WW1 48 enlisted, 44 went to war with 6 killed and 2 who later died.
Similar but different, I came across a few war cemeteries outside villages when hiking in southern Germany.
What a waste.
Carpe earlier.
The catchment for these small towns would have been different back then. A lot of smaller family farms in the surrounding area.
And larger families too.
But, even so, the attrition rate was huge.
The back road from Manilla to Bendemeer is the only road where I have gotten carsick driving.
Just had a squiz at it on googleearth.
I see what you mean.
Carpe,
The Infantry museum has been completely rebuilt in Singleton. Had some serious dollars spent on it.
Well worth a look if you’re at a loose end. Very good indeed.
The former museum possessed one of two Gatling guns on display, anywhere in the world. The museum at West Point sent emissaries, with a blank cheque, to buy said Gatling and were told where to go, and how to get there…
Carpe,
The Infantry museum has been completely rebuilt in Singleton. Had some serious dollars spent on it.
Well worth a look if you’re at a loose end. Very good indeed.
Seconded, the entrance is outside the front gate on Range rd as well so unlike the School of Armour in Vic civvies like us don’t need to be signed on base. Access is best though Whittingham from NE Hwy.
I don’t remember an infantry museum at Singo.
I do remember pits, full ammo crates, thirty foot-high horizontal ropes, bastard assault courses, flies, pits and more goddamned pits.
And the boozer.
I’ll second the flies, and add…BLOODY BIG BULL ANTS ?
School of Armour
Whoops meant Tank Museum at School of Armour
‘BULL ANTS’
Stop it.
In the pits as well.
Grace Hopper:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Michael Mansell still whingeing about his yacht.
He’ll be calling himself Commodore and opening a quiet little club next.
On claimed land of course.
Sooky la-la.
Did you ever break a necklace in a scuffle?
Diamond of Diamond and Silk has died. I went over to twatter where some grub twatted she deserved it because she wasn’t vaxxed. I suggested he play in the traffic and was banned for a week. How will I survive.
‘Did you ever break a necklace in a scuffle?’
I did, as it happened.
Gave it to a colleague by the name of B.A. Baracus.
Carpe,
if you heading into Newcastle, and you haven’t seen it previously, make sure to head up to the ANZAC bridge.
Pity the fool who breaks my necklace.
“You’re a pretty guy for a soldier…”
Hmmm I’m also a mean one!
Verbatim.
I’ll bet good money that Michael Mansell sees himself as part of any “Voice.”
Robert,
(I’m happy to be corrected) but I doubt there would have been a previous policy failure RC that would have adversely affected more Australians than what happened in this country over the last three years.
Pulling the wool over our eyes with a “mirror” RC or limited inquiry won’t go down well with the electorate. It must have wide terms of reference, cover every aspect on the response to covid-19, and be able to investigate every public policy f-up that we saw unfold as well as those that were kept from the public. The list of witnesses is long but all are known…
How will I survive.
Here or on 2HD
race is on
US Tests Hypersonic Missile 5 Times Faster Than Speed Of Sound
RIP Diamond, rona got her. If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is offer you my LOL.
Oops, I meant love, how did that get in there, sorry about that.
For a short time, the defence of this great nation rested in these hands.
Worrying.
Currently, the age is legislated at 10 years across Australia, with the Northern Territory set to increase it to 12 later this year and the ACT committed to lifting the age to 14 in 2027.
Let them go first – it’ll give the rest a base line of what not to do.
Net Zero Will Lead to the End of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist
A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists. In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said it would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power he argued it would be especially tragic “when not only will this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary”. The stakes, he added, “are enormous”.
So, I’m changing doctors – first appointment was today
New receptionist asks “Do you have a concession card?” Patient produces his Gold Card.
“I’ve never seen one of these, how do you become entitled to this?”
there it is
and I’ll go step further.
they bloody-well know it too
… those who sup at the highest tables
It’s difficult to find good help these days.
Manheimer points out that before fossil fuel became widely used, energy was provided by people and animals. Because so little energy was produced, “civilisation was a thin veneer atop a vast mountain of human squalor and misery, a veneer maintained by such institutions as slavery, colonialism and tyranny
I would argue that Rome’s civilisation was underpinned by their water engineering projects, energy and energy saving:
1) Released vast amounts of labour that had previously been devoted to carrying water from source to point of use. (Still a major drain on labour in the third world).
2) Made energy available for grain milling, releasing vast amounts of labour that had previously been devoted to this task.
3). Made energy available for weapon and tool production. Power hammers and grinders.
They are not even hiding the corruption. From Gateway Pundit.
Pfizer Gives $1 Million to Kentucky GOP to Expand Its Headquarters – The “Mitch McConnell Building”
From Courier Mail.
“Why are we getting sick? Diseases are playing catch-up after Covid, expert reveals
A top infectious disease expert warns it could be as long as three years before Queenslanders are fully able to regain their immunity, as a number of vicious bugs are spreading through the community like wildfire”
The hypocrisy of the climate change mob, no nuke but new coal mine is fine
Germany. They are demolishing whole villages to open up new open cut mines. Crazy, man.
John Spooner.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks, Tom.
XXXX in this case means GWGB:
Crikey! Aussie Beer Drinkers Lectured to ‘Give a XXXX’ for the Environment (10 Jan)
I don’t give a XXXX for woke corporations like you and I won’t be buying your beer.
“RIP Diamond, rona got her. If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is offer you my LOL.”
You’re a sicko. Celebrating the death of someone all because she had different politics to your own.
Oh and Diamond was a black woman, a very black woman. Your adolescent gushing over her death clearly outs you as a racist.
To me, she looks like she has the dark complexion of a Spaniard or Italian.
She looks nothing like an Italian or a Spaniard.
I wouldn’t pick her out of a line-up as African-American.
Okaaaay.
She’s still an Octoroon though.
She’s still an Octoroon though.
Someone’s been re-reading his tattered and moist copy of Mandingo.
How is this ‘corrupt’?
Kentucky has a Democrat government yet a public donation by a public company that’s been around since 1849 to a Republican building fund is bad, very bad.
Pfizer gives $1 million to Republican Party of Kentucky to expand its headquarters
Ed Case says:
January 11, 2023 at 6:43 am
She has no distinctive Afro features, same as a lot of claimants of aboriginal ancestry here in Aus.
The inscrutable dry cleaners’ ambassador to Australia was apparently cracking at us for being allied to Japan, according to the picture wireless this morning.
He said we shouldn’t like them because they were on the other team 80 years ago, bombed Darwin and so on.
The ambassador failed to mention Chai-nerr’s extensive backing of the NVA 30 years after that.
Cheeky bugger.
She has no distinctive Afro features,
Apart from head shape, nose shape face shape, general anthropometry, ar, no.
same as a lot of claimants of aboriginal ancestry here in Aus.
Well, of course not.
They’re not Africans, or did that escape your attention?
Gabor,
the only distinct feature she has is her frizzy hair which she straightens to the nth degree. Have a look at her childhood photos. They are easy to find.
Ed Case says:
January 11, 2023 at 7:08 am
same as a lot of claimants of aboriginal ancestry here in Aus.
Apologies, I gave you credit for more intelligence that you possess.
Of course, I meant aboriginal features, not Afro.
I seem to remember thousands of Chinese soldiers killed by Commonwealth troops as they tried to overrun our positions in Korea.
Japan is not the Japan of the forties but China remains the same communist dictatorship threat to democracy.
Penfold’s Albowong Shiraz is a shit drop.
A bit more about the Pfizer donation :
A report filed by Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund last week with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance listed the $1 million from Pfizer along with five other big corporation contributions in the final quarter of 2022 totalling $1.65 million.
That is an extraordinarily large haul for the fund which had raised only $6,000 during the first three quarters of 2022.
The other large corporate donors to the fund in late 2022 were:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, $300,000;
Altria Client Services LLC, of Richmond, VA., $100,000;
Comcast Corp., of Philadelphia; $100,000;
AT&T, of St. Louis; $100,000;
Delta Air Lines, of Atlanta, $50,000.
State and federal campaign finance laws set limits on how much a person or political action committee can give to the executive committee of either political party. (A person can give no more than $15,000 per year.) And corporation contributions to a party’s executive committee are prohibited…
I guess nothing to see here.
M0nty echoes the claim that “Diamond” Lynette Hardaway died of Covid made on a single site last year and trumpeted around by people who hate her for her politics.
The fact is her cause of death has not been determined/released.
This sort of stuff should give people pause when quick to ascribe cause of death to one thing or another. People die, and sometimes they die far too young.
The complete moral exhaustion, emptiness and evil of the left on display yet again.
Sorry. The first sentence was not clear. A site claimed Hardaway was hospitalised with Covid last year. That has since been taken down, but not before it travelled around the usual whispering campaigners. The claim was strongly rejected by the woman herself.
From what I understand, she died at home.
Then…
We all know you meant it but the reality is your stupid attempt at what you obviously considered wit, falls flat as when one considers “autocorrect” does not correct fully capitalised words.
It was just a lie, following a malicious gloat.
It recalls to mind the breaking news of Thatcher’s death and a snide “and here’s me without champagne” on an ABC panel.
“It recalls to mind the breaking news of Thatcher’s death and a snide “and here’s me without champagne” on an ABC panel.”
Yep, we also see it when right of centre commentators and politicians are physically attacked.
The left, including the fat fascist effwit here, thinks such attacks are a hoot.
Racial health problems are real and interesting phenomenon.
Indian people suffer from skin conditions I’d they don’t get enough green vegetables in their diet.
The reason Diamond and Silk were so hated was pretty simple. They were considered tame house n….s by the Dems and had the cheek to jump ship and support Trump.
But even more…they were sassy, funny and they connected with other black voters. Can’t have that. They also had the nerve to have a differing opinion on the Covid “crisis” and so were sacked by Fox. Free, their own women with their own views…and black. Can’t have that either.
Someone’s been re-reading his tattered and moist copy of Mandingo.
Kyle Onstott a name revered by umpteen thousand “male” readers of 1970s pulp fiction ..
wow …
CO2 absorbs and re-emits energy and is an evil greenhouse abomination
O3 absorbs and re-emits energy too … but it’s a benevolent invisible angel
dipole moments are tricky things
How’s the ticker mUnter?
Still chugging along like an epileptic hamster?
Insipid little Fanta pubes.
I really enjoyed Diamond and Silk during the Trump campaign.
51 is too young.
m0ntysays:
January 10, 2023 at 11:10 pm
RIP Diamond, rona got her. If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is offer you my LOL.
m0nty=fa demonstrates that he is fully on board with leftard hate speech.
But we already knew that.
I thought Diamond and Silk weren’t involved in politics until their Trump videos went viral.
Monty is just as nasty as those celebrating the deaths of pro vaxxers.
A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists. In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said it would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power he argued it would be especially tragic “when not only will this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary”. The stakes, he added, “are enormous”.
Dr. Manheimer holds a physics PhD from MIT and has had a 50-year career in nuclear research, including work at the Plasma Physics Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He has published over 150 science papers. In his view, there is “certainly no scientific basis” for expecting a climate crisis from too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the next century or so. He argues that there is no reason why civilisation cannot advance using both fossil fuel power and nuclear power, gradually shifting to more nuclear power. Read more here:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/10/net-zero-will-lead-to-the-end-of-modern-civilisation-says-top-scientist/
Whoops didn’t mean to swear. How did that get in there?
Possibly right about man-made.
Diamond and Silk suggest Fox News is racist for dumping them over COVID-19 conspiracies that were also embraced by white hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity
Surely that just means pissing on people’s lawns rather than against a wall as you work through your slab.
Good reason to support renewables – if the fences are electrified they won’t be charged by renewables.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
January 11, 2023 at 6:42 am
“RIP Diamond, rona got her. If I could I would give you the world, but all I can do is offer you my LOL.”
You’re a sicko. Celebrating the death of someone all because she had different politics to your own.
This is by no means the first time that m0nty=fa has celebrated the death or illness of someone with whose politics he disagrees. Had he the power, it is extremely likely that he would favour “active measures” to increase the death toll, and then send the survivors to a Gulag. He is a fascist through and through.
Oh and Diamond was a black woman, a very black woman. Your adolescent gushing over her death clearly outs you as a racist.
As you note, he is also a racist.
Gaborsays:
January 11, 2023 at 6:54 am
Ed Case says:
January 11, 2023 at 6:43 am
She has no distinctive Afro features, same as a lot of claimants of aboriginal ancestry here in Aus.
Much like the ABC woman, with blond hair, pale skin and fine features, who was recently complaining about bogus “aborigines”?
This won’t backfire…not at all:
Chris Bowen to consider tarrif wall against “dirty” imports.
Perhaps we should begin with anything made in China?
“Monty is just as nasty as those celebrating the deaths of pro vaxxers.”
Absolutely correct. I have no time for either, both are as squalid as each other.
for cult-members like mUnty, empathy and sympathy are more or less equal and interchangeable
like the rest of his cohort, he’s emotionally broken at a fundamental level
My understanding is that both were registered Democrats prior to the Trump campaign. Possibly the extent of their political activity up until that time.
The claim that Covid *anything* was being used to damage Trump is a fair call too. The entire thing was used to wedge him and enable the 2020 result. I have no doubt at all that numbers and the deceitfully suppressed “with” not “from” distinction were also weaponised against his campaign.
We know that the pandemic was used to usher in a new and easily manipulated regime of postal votes.
Those ladies were right on the money and had a voice to what was once considered a dead cert voting bloc. No wonder they lost their jobs.
Rogersays:
January 11, 2023 at 8:13 am
This won’t backfire…not at all:
Chris Bowen to consider tarrif wall against “dirty” imports.
Perhaps he should read up on “modern slavery” as well, and take action on that also?
New Zealand is attempting to pass a Bill that will restrict and prohibit the use of natural health products
And that’s nothing. The Biden admin is trying to ban gas stoves.
Biden admin moves to ban gas stoves in war against fossil fuels
Celebrating the death of one’s ideological foes, eh?
The thought is father to the deed.
Ryan Cunningham
@rycunni
I wish I was a COVID conspiracy theorist early on instead if getting vaccinated. I’m in heart failure. The conspiracy theorists are doing just fine.
Undercover Video: Pfizer Scientist Expressed Concern Over Covid Vaccines Causing Heart Inflammation in 2021
Carpe Jugulum:
We used to tell new chums that Qld grew our bananas straight but Southerners wouldn’t buy ’em straight, so we sent them to Bendemeer to have a curve put in ’em.
Beware the Plot Behind Interest Rates
From Armstrong Economics –
“Sometimes you need to look behind the curtain before you understand the real trend. It is true that Federal Reserve officials are committed to fighting inflation and expect higher interest rates to remain in place until more progress is made, according to minutes released from the central bank’s December meeting. Also what has been reported is that at that meeting, policymakers expressed the importance of keeping the restrictive policy in place while inflation holds unacceptably high.
Now let’s look behind the curtain for just a peek. War ALWAYS impacts interest rates and they traditionally rise in periods of such conflict. After Europe kept rates NEGATIVE from 2014, that means every bond they sold for 8 years is now losing money. This was the bond crisis in London and then you had Janet Yellen come out and revealed the real silent worry.
Yellen came out and proposed that the Treasury buy in long-term debt and swap it for short-term. Some were out there claiming the Fed was competing with the Fed as a second central bank. That just illustrated how much they do not understand what is going on or even how the monetary system works. The proposal was NOT another QE. The Treasury cannot create money as can the Fed. She was talking about a SWAP because the long-term debt is in crisis mode with the coming war. Smart player was to swap that for the short-term.
China has been dumping bonds since late 2021 as Biden has been claiming the US will defend Taiwan. I can confirm that under EVERY possible military play, the US will lose. I have reported this before. The US cannot defeat China – PERIOD! With China now selling off US debt and shifting to gold, they are seeking to insulate themselves from any Western currency since Biden violated every international law to impose sanctions on Russia. China elected Xi Jinping because Pelosi when to Taiwan just before the election confirming that we are headed to war.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/bonds/beware-the-plot-behind-interest-rates/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
American Heart Association Study from Harvard medical researchers establish link between C0VID mRNA shots and heart inflammation.
Boambee John:
Sounds about right.
A married couple in their early 60’s are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.
Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table. She said “For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish”.
The wife answered “Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband”.
The fairy waved her magic wand and *POOF* two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands.
The husband thought for a moment “Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I’m sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me”.
The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish.
So the fairy waved her magic wand and *POOF* the husband became 92 years old.
The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful shites should remember that fairies are female……….
Much like the ABC woman, with blond hair, pale skin and fine features, who was recently complaining about bogus “aborigines”?
This is one of the greatest con-jobs of the Woke brigade. The logic goes:
1) if I am black I am discriminated against etc
2) Therefore give me stuff
3) I am black if I say I am
4) so even if I don’t look black, but say I am black, I am discriminated against
5) therefore I get $$$ AND don’t really get people being nasty to me ‘cos I’m black AND of course you are not allowed to say I’m not black.
WIN WIN WIN!
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
– Ted Nelson
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity:
I heard the Greens were going to offer subsidies for solar power water heaters so the sheep would be able to have a hot drink out of the troughs when they woke up in the morning.
Is that correct?
🙂
Lizzie:
I disagree. Even if the shit hits the fan, and some bug wipes out 90% of the human species, the survivors will get on with the important stuff like getting food, fighting off predators, and scoring a root on Friday night. It’ll be a merciless sorting process but – unless the survivors are all members of the Greens – it will teach us what is important in life, like growing food, fighting off predators, and getting a root on Friday night.
Yeah, Monty is a pretty crappy human being.
Has to think an awful lot of badness in other people so he can feel ‘at least I am not as bad as …’
Possibly why he is a lefty. The right thinks the left is wrong. The left think the right are evil personified. The right believes there is hope that people on the left will learn something. The left think the universe demands the right be obliterated from existence. They are wrong, of course.
Monty could never be satisfied thinking other people are wrong because there is no way he can say “at least I am right”, for obvious reasons.
Besides, the left make it easy. They are so prolific in their vituperation, which like vomit surges up to the mouth and is ejected with force, putrid, stinking, ugly, unwelcome – and the very sign its illness.
To be fair, there was a lot of wishing death on the anti vax too.
Five cruise liners banned from entering NZ ports because of strict bio-security laws.
Far from me being a conspiracy theorist, but this whole emphasis on “biofouling remediation” smacks of an increasingly totalitarian government.
How several different cruise lines can all get regulatory requirements so wrong is the key to analysing this issue. Not that any journalist will investigate.
Sancho Panzer:
Of course – she’s trying on the ‘poor me – I’m a victim’ shtick.
And not doing it very well either. The more she pushes it, the more people are seeing through her bullshit.
Victorians can look forward to a 20% price hike on their gas bills by February.
Next…cruise companies announce NZ is off their itinerary.
the grass is always greener.. and government is seen to be ‘doing something’.
We always seem to be behind the curve – agitating for the closure of mines and new discussion on nuclear.
Personal diagnostics kit, save on medical costs;
https://substack.com/redirect/588041bd-345b-4307-b2b0-626cfeb78682?j=eyJ1IjoiaG85YmoifQ.bMnuNm5GLk5MFSCvcs0G5r0y-jYhpNwjaZVrL0QBwGM
That’s a good spooner today.
If I am black I’m discriminated against.
If you point out I’m not black you’re discriminating against me.
Therefore I’m black.
Millenial syllogism.
German states remove public transport mask mandates…no increase in covid transmission.
Diamond was, unfortunately and I say this with no malice, overweight and possibly obese.
Death at this age from health complications is not to be unexpected.
She would have been at risk from any complications from respiratory disease, pre existing cardiovascular conditions, cancer (obesity can drive this) or vaccine adverse events.
I hope everyone here weighs themselves weekly, exercises routinely, moderates smoking etc.
Mother Lode
No argument there.
Friendly reminder that COVID 19 was detected in waste water in Spain from March 2019.
Four years later being globally pandemic…time to give it up, Branch COVIDIANS.
I tried watching a few episodes of ‘Suits’ after having people tell me it was clever and so on.
Only thing that struck me was that she had a nose and chin like Bob Hope. I don’t mean that she looks like a bloke. I find the beauty of many beautiful women seems to reside not in them having ‘perfect’ features (which would look as soulless and remote as a barbie doll) but the features that don’t.
My point is that I never noticed in suits that she was black. Or half black. Or whatever. I did think she was sort of cute.
One other thing helped her. Her personality on the show was likeable.
She does not have that going for her anymore.
Rogersays:
January 11, 2023 at 8:24 am
Celebrating the death of one’s ideological foes, eh?
The thought is father to the deed.
I suspect that m0nty=fa would cheerfully order the deaths of his political foes, but would shrink from pulling the trigger himself. He has poor health doncha know.
Just as he calls for Ante-fa to “punch a Nazi”, while declining to do so himself, and refused to go to Malmo, but calls for an unlimited war on “Wussian imperialism”, he is the ultimate chickenhawk.
FFS.
How about unplugging and get outside.
Things change. They get hallucinations now.
Sounds like there’s a not entirely remote chance of WW3 being started by a mad computer.
Millenial:
What’s a syllogism?
Remember when the experts said your pets were going to be super spreaders.
File under educated fuckwittery.
Via Johnny Rotten
China has been dumping bonds since late 2021 as Biden has been claiming the US will defend Taiwan. I can confirm that under EVERY possible military play, the US will lose. I have reported this before. The US cannot defeat China – PERIOD!
The US does not have to defeat China to prevent it taking Taiwan, it only has to defeat the relatively small part of the PLA that would be involved in the invasion.
Zipster:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/10/net-zero-will-lead-to-the-end-of-modern-civilisation-says-top-scientist/
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Sun Tzu
‘the ultimate chickenhawk’
You could take off the ‘hawk’ bit and it would still be as accurate.
ALPBC Summer B Team member Kim Landers and The Green-Left Weekly Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM particularly moist for Turtlehead’s latest carbon dioxide initiative.
Get your jab jab booster……………………….
I have said on national TV throughout the COVID-19 vaccine campaign that no young person should receive a shot because the risks far outweigh the benefits. Chiu et al. published a report where both cardiac symptoms and ECG changes were recorded after the first and second injections. The results are alarming. After the second injection of mRNA, 17.1% of students reported cardiovascular symptoms
In summary, according to this physician’s understanding of the unfolding science, the best way to protect both children and parents from this unnecessary nightmare is to decline COVID-19 vaccination and thereby eliminate the risk of iatrogenic heart disease.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/explosive-increase-in-cardiac-symptoms-after-second-injection-b9b925f9
Who cares about Hazza and Megs, but well summed up by Janet A:
Royal tell-all enough to drive one spare
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
Over-sharing is one of the curses of modernity, for the talker and the listener. Too many people admire over-sharers, make money from them, and otherwise aid and abet the practice.
Celebrity victim couple the Sussexes are not even close to drawing a line under the publication of their perceived grievances. They can expect a few more years of celebrity and more money along the way. What they will not receive is respect. That’s how this modern affliction turns on its own.
Harry might imagine that by publishing Spare, along with his promotional television interviews to spruik the book this week, he is doing something that will, finally, earn him some respect.
It is hard to disagree with The Guardian’s Gaby Hinsliff that “there is something deeply unhealthy about hereditary power”, even if the power these days is more symbolic than real. It can’t be easy being the “spare” in a hierarchical system where, as Hinsliff wrote last week, the “goal of the monarchy is its own survival, which means its instinct is to protect the heir at all costs”.
(A member of staff sticks “half price” stickers on “Spare”,at the WH Smith bookstore, at Victoria Station in London. Picture: AFP.)
The aggrieved duke could have written an absorbing book about the future of monarchy, the difficulties of being part of this institution and the escalating media intrusion. Instead, Harry opted for self-absorption and embarked on a crusade to rip down his family.
Hereditary power dynamics aside, plenty of families suffer tragedy and have brawls. A parent dies; a child pushes back against a new stepmother; one brother pushes another, one lands in a dog bowl, there is yelling; the same brother dresses up as a Nazi, then blames his older brother; a sister-in-law called Kate is not happy about sharing her lip gloss with another sister-in-law named Meg; Meg accuses Kate of having baby brain; Harry accuses Will of switching seating cards at his marriage to Meghan; Harry takes drugs; and a period of estrangement ensues. All pretty standard stuff.
Most people deal with family fights in private. And before you ask, no, I don’t share my lip gloss with women I barely know and, yes, I have swapped seating cards.
Harry is not a man in youthful revolt. He is a 38-year-old man with a family. His over-sharing in Spare points to a sad sack of a man who needs a purpose because right now, and for the insufferable future, Harry can only talk about himself.
Many who previously have been sympathetic to the Markles are just as repelled by the over-sharing as those more suspicious of them. In this sense the Markles have brought people together. It is barmy that he wants the world to know that his penis was ridden like a stallion’s by an older woman in a field behind a noisy pub; how he spoke to a clairvoyant about his dead mum, and sang with seals in Scotland; that he is circumcised, and he had frostbite on his penis; and on and on and on.
We get that Harry hasn’t grown up in a house known for sharing. But like a kid who grew up in some weird sugar-free household, Harry now can’t regulate his desire for sharing everything about him to every single person.
The Markles have come to symbolise a phenomenon that goes beyond wondering about the future of monarchy in the 21st century. They are the pin-up over-sharing celebrity victim couple whose chosen path is not going to plan. Their celebrity is global, their bank balance is growing. And respect for them is tanking. Harry’s book has given a glimpse into a sad, messed-up man whose relationship with his wife borders on creepy. Does he think he has married his mother?
Instead of releasing a book and doing interviews that may have earned him sympathy, even respect, he has gone big on the cringe factor. At the time of writing, the cringe winner was when he told ITV’s Tom Bradby this week: “I hope what I say to my father and brother remains private.” Is this man bonkers or is he gaslighting us? Harry, you are the one making private conversations public.
For all the people around Mr Markle – agents, publicists, ghost writers, so-called friends and other hangers-on – there is, patently, not a single person who can advise him not to play the whining, hypocritical, deluded and entitled royal who blames others for his unhappiness. He would have been better off speaking about his book plans to the person who cleans his house or delivers the groceries rather than the myriad grifters who are making money from his perceived grievances.
No one expects Harry to be clever. But he should have been clever enough to seek advice before talking about the number of people he killed as a soldier in Afghanistan. “My number is 25,” Harry says, recounting how he was taught to think of the victims as “chess pieces”.
His safety, and that of his family, has not been enhanced by that piece of over-sharing.
The Markles eventually will run out of material about themselves; we will grow bored, even from laughing at them. In fact, Harry’s over-sharing may help to reboot admiration for those who do not talk about themselves. The more he talks, the more admiration the rest of the royal family will receive for staying quiet, for not airing their dirty family laundry in public.
Queen Elizabeth’s motto of “never complain, never explain” has never been more admirable.
It is a godsend that QE2 is not here to witness how Harry is exploiting his royalness, not just to make pots of ill-gotten money as a celebrity victim but with a series of attacks that he knows his family will not respond to.
On that note, Prince William’s friends, those speaking anonymously to The Times and other newspapers about the prince’s reaction to Spare, would do well to stay quiet too. We know William is, understandably, fuming inside. But less is often more.
This over-sharing business is not exclusive to celebrities either. We have all wasted untold hours at dinners and parties, in meetings and assorted gatherings, with people who talk too much and say very little.
Granted, 2023 is on track to be another year of public blabbering by the Markles, who believe a life shared in the media and social media is a life well lived. But Harry’s next book might traverse how over-sharing is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Oz
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZbrqE1CF4
This one is for all you aging hippies, who can still remember your late teenage years, sitting on a hill watching the sun rise!
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will investigate whether psilocybin therapy could help treat patients with methamphetamine addiction.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/psilocybin-therapy-to-treat-methamphetamine-addiction-dfa1612b
“To me, she looks like she has the dark complexion of a Spaniard or Italian.”
French perhaps, but with a touch of the Moors.
Reports that George Pell has died.
Gabor:
If you can’t distinguish a persons race by their appearance, how can they be victims of racism?
Or is it just about being seen as a victim?
The Spooner today is great.
I miss the John Spooner.
Dot, “Diamond” was strongly anti-vaxx. I doubt it was a vaxx injury.
The other points about obesity and underlying conditions are well made. Trouble is we live in a Covid dominated bubble and forget that there are many, many other things people can die from, even relatively young people.
We have to avoid being tarred with the Stupid brush and reflexively assuming Vaxx! every time someone dies.
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Cardinal George Pell dies, aged 81
By Staff writers
9:31AM January 11, 2023
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Cardinal George Pell has died after complications from a hip replacement surgery, the Vatican has announced.
He was 81 years old.
R.I.P. George Pell. A life well-lived, promoted now to glory.
I’m quite upset. Cardinal Pell is now with God and the angels.
Kol hakavod Cardinal Pell.
Cue the celebrations from the usual suspects.
The problem with adverse reactions to drugs is that doctors are not eager to report an adverse reaction to something that they have prescribed. It makes them look bad.
I have personal experience of this.
e.g. You severe xxxxxxx cannot be directly attributed to the injection/dosage of yyyyyy. It was just an unfortunate coincidence.
I pity the poor sap behind Pell in the line for the Pearly Gates. St Peter has a lot to get through.
That did not take him long.
And so the cockroach appears. Dover, there’s no report button anymore but given Cardinal Pell’s death, can you delete the vicious comment by……
m0ntysays:
January 11, 2023 at 9:46 am
I find it entirely inappropriate and in poor taste.
Thank you.
Pell cleaned up the church and got blamed for abuse at the hands of others through a perjerous, grifting drug addict.
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
Haven’t had a chance to watch this yet but it looks interesting and I’m afraid, at this point, quite credible.
THE LUCIFERIAN ROOTS OF THE FBI – THE REVEALING WITH SHAVON AYALA AND MATT EHRET
XXXX in this case means GWGB:
Been going a while now Bruce. They need to sack their advertiser, young trendy types wouldn’t be seen with a XXXX and their target base generally tradesman/guys with a filthy Landcruiser/Patrol trayback who generally don’t give a siht about woke causes.
Brought up here a few months back. SATP mentioned how much Great Northern was running out the door compared to XXXX Gold. I have mentioned it to 2 bottle o owners recently and they have mentioned the same with them.
Whaaat, I was merely saying that Peter would have to spend a long time listing all of Pell’s good works!! Geez, tough crowd.
Australia 2008
Cue the celebrations from the usual suspects.
They will be worse than feral. Almost demonic. Their will be a race to the bottom with his passing. Which will be first off the blocks with a wretched tweet?
Cardinal Pell, brown bread. Very sad, he was a good bloke I believe.
Hardly a topic appropriate for trolling, monty.
“There” not “their”
Stick to carrying water for kiddy fiddlers, Monty. It is more your speed.
Surprising re Cardinal Pell. He seemed in good health when interviewed at Benedict’s funeral. When was the hip operation, I wonder. After the funeral, I’m guessing. Quite a shock. RIP.
Frank:
Oh great, Frank.
Next week she’ll discover she’s Islamic – another victim group.
Vale Cardinal Pell. You were a good man. Bless you.
I will take that under advisement on a site where “died suddenly” is apparently code for “it was totally vaxx injury you guys”.
RIP Cardinal Pell.
I disagree.
Don’t delete it. Let it stand.
This place is only small beer in the scheme of things, anyway. The comment has been recorded elsewhere by an everlasting hand.
mUnty proves he cannot be underestimated.
Thanks P for that photo. It’s lovely.
Discussion of Muswellbrook calls to mind the two best community created memorial parks in Oz – in my rarely humble opinion.
Certainly the Muswellbrook park is very impressive, but the king and queen of them all is the WW1 memorial at Emu Park on the coast from Rocky.
They have landscaped and memorialised the coastal path featuring units fought in by locals; erected transparent plate glass panels featuring ANZAC Cove with the shoreline matched to the visible Emu Park shoreline, a beautifully done semi-open air photo and history gallery featuring locals who fought, and the whole foreshore precinct has been gardened, memorialised and plaqued. All the buildings nearby have been painted and integrated into the park precinct.
The background relates to a fellow who devoted his life to attempting to create a memorial to the local WW1 effort. When he died the community adopted his project in his memory and pulled out all the stops.
Worth a glance on the web, but the atmosphere created by being located on the rugged shoreline can’t be recreated with pictures.
Very sad about the Cardinal.
Very sad, in a different way, about Monty.
I do hope (and a hope is best I can muster) that Victoria doesn’t decide they can now unleash all their worst instincts to make the most of Pell’s inability to respond in their endless crusade to cover up the appalling state of the state.
A “bloke” who does nothing should just keep his fat trap shut wrt a bloke who did a lot and sacrificed even more.
Despite the grievous wrongs committed against Pell at least they were righted in his lifetime. In many cases even that does not occur.
I’ve written against that too.
No selfie?
The operation was yesterday – cardiac arrest after coming out of the anaesthetic.
A tragedy that he was forced to spend the last years of a productive life defending himself against corruption and spite. As a precaution I’m going to avoid the Love Media today.
Yes.
We should not forget the unedifying spectacle of Ms Judd QC pleading with the High Court justices to alter the timeline of events advanced by her own office in evidence at trial so the frame would fit.
Sort of like the prosecution in OJ Simpson calling for a larger glove.
But, yes, at least that was eventually put right.
Seven-nil I believe.
First Benedict now Cdl Pell in less than a fortnight. Vale. Not a good start to the year.
Only m0nster, St Ruth and Indolent seem to consistently take delight in the death of someone if it is perceived to provide some support for their warped beliefs.
Indolent
What are you babbling about now?
Luciferian roots of the FBI?
It was a joke, Hoover, the power hungry weirdo he was gave it a veneer of credibility, now it’s a joke again.
There is nothing occultic about it.
Some people and institutions are crap, get over it.
Perjury.
George Card. Pell 8 June 1941 – 10 January 2023.
REQUIEM aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
They can no longer hurt him with their false accusations and villifications.
May he rest in peace.
“Only m0nster, St Ruth and Indolent seem to consistently take delight in the death of someone if it is perceived to provide some support for their warped beliefs.”
Correct, as usual Monty Pox is deflecting from his bad taste comment.
From the “I should have known better!” files, and apropos of Shatterzzz useful summaries of TV series (spoiler alert):
I have just completed watching the 2 seasons of “Nasdrovia“, advertised as a comedy-crime and given a favourable review by a commenter here some days ago.
Made by Spanish Movistar+, which I downloaded from SBS on-Demand.. so that, at least, I didn’t have to suffer through their appalling woke ad-wanks.
From a mildly amusing comedic plot, it evolved into a florid celebration of drag queening. But not just any drag, this was full-on sexual perversion, totally enjoyed and supported by the hard (yeah, I know.. phrasing..) men of the Russian Mafia.
Yep, super clever, edgy and totally believable.. just like Putin told us.
To top it all off, the ending was very unclear, I couldn’t find any explanation online.. maybe a sop to a potential Series 3?
All in all, a total and complete insult and a waste of time.
Eating ingrown toenails would have been more useful.
Finally, a quick perusal of the SBS 0n-Demand TV listings shows several series proudly sucking-off the woke-gods… I should have known better!
And you have been warned.
Yes, Cassie. That’s why I think the original vomment should stand.
Otherwise a casual reader would not know what it was and why the disgust and dismay.
Let’s wait and see what Q and Martin Armstrong have to say about this.
Time for something beautiful to wash away the transient nastiness.
Gab’s comment reminded me of it. Thank you.
On SBS , take a look at the Scandinavian series “Beforeigners” its mildly pro refugee but spends most of its time sending up woke culture mixed in with vikings and a murder plot
One tiny positive.
The balance of probability stool has been kicked away – leaving 7:0 as the final word on the Pell accusations. J’s junkie mate’s daddy will be kicking the cat around the bondage dungeon.
Nice link, calli.
Amen.
I would have thought flowers would have been appropriate?
Anthony Albanese has acknowledged the 60,000 Australians who served in Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/after-snubbing-vietnam-veterans-albanese-doesnt-know-if-hell-mark-remembrance-day-.html
Hmmmm and no kiddy jismist called him out for it.
I just hope Pell is buried in Rome.
I can’t imagine what sort of shit-show would be unleashed if there was a funeral in Ballarat or Melbourne.
Gerald Ridsdale still lives.
Only the good die young.