1,683 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023”
Little Johnny Howard’s protege Mick Trumble said as much- the laws of Australia supersede the laws of mathematics.
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Can someone do some rough calculations on the joules involved with cooking and the implications for the grid if everything is electric?
never though of doing that.
in Aust, one cubic meter of Nat Gas is about 38 MJ/m3 -> about 10kWh
how much gas does Aust use every year ?
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But, but, how about those Catholics!!!
Here are some numbers from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission report, which finds Australians living in disability group homes have been involved in more than 7000 reportable incidents in the past four years.
More than 1700 of those incidents involved a serious injury to a participant, more than 1200 involved neglect, while there were 960 cases of unlawful physical contact and 112 of unlawful sexual contact, AAP reports.
The figures are startling given fewer than 20,000 Australians live in disability group homes.
NDIS minister Bill Shorten said the government was supporting changes to regulation and monitoring of supported accommodation on ABC RN this morning. The Albanese government’s first budget included $167 billion in NDIS funding across four years.
I expect the head of the NDIS will be called to account and Vicpol will run ads in local papers trawling for allegations of past misdeeds?
In keeping with apparently standard practices of institutional abuse.
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“We have to make sure that it (the Voice) recognises that there are cultural differences between different mobs and different families,” he said.
You’ll have 24 delegates representing 300+ mobs.
Good luck.
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The links by Indolent at 08.08 and 08.18 are particularly interesting.
The military one is based on article by Oz Dr Phillip Altman and is a collation of information from many sources. The other relates to Drs arguing against continued boostering of US Uni students at risk of more harm from the vaccine.
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Linda Burney: Voice our next historic and proud chapter Linda Burney
12:00AM January 16, 2023
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There are moments in history when people come together to stand for something important, and a massive wave of goodwill builds that moves us all forward.
I was 10 years old, in a little town called Whitton in southwestern NSW, when Australians voted in the 1967 referendum, so for the first decade of my life I wasn’t counted as part of the Australian population.
I was raised by my great aunt and uncle. They were of Scottish heritage and were in their 60s when I was born.
Taking on an Aboriginal child in the small country town would not have been easy for them, but this incredibly generous act of love and courage laid the foundations for who I am today.
The 1967 referendum was a critical turning point for our country – for the relationship between Indigenous people and the wider community. It was a moment when Australians united.
Australians are right to be proud of what we have achieved since then, when more than 90 per cent of the population voted yes.
But change has been too slow. Decades of government policies haven’t worked. We’ve made barely any progress on reducing the gaping divide in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We are dying nearly a decade earlier than other Australians.
It’s time to do things differently and finally shift the dial.
Later this year all Australians will have the opportunity to have their say at a referendum on a voice to parliament – a referendum that is fundamentally about improving the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and finally recognising our rightful place in Australia’s Constitution.
Like the 1967 referendum, everyone will have the opportunity to be part of this historic moment.
A voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is the best chance we have to create the much-needed structural change that will create a better future – a better future that will improve the lives of Indigenous Australians – by making more effective policies in areas like health, education and housing.
There is much work that still needs to be done before the referendum, and we are not complacent about the scale of the challenge that lies ahead.
We have the right processes in place to ensure we are getting the best possible advice on the way forward.
The Referendum Working Group and Engagement Group includes the likes of Professor Megan Davis, Pat Anderson, former Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt, Professor Marcia Langton, Noel Pearson, Pat Turner and Professor Tom Calma – people who have made incredible contributions to the decade-long journey to constitutional recognition.
The Referendum Working Group has agreed to a set of principles for the voice. They state that the voice will be a representative body that provides independent advice to parliament and government.
It will be chosen by First Nations people, be gender-balanced and include young people.
It will be accountable and transparent.
The voice will not administer funding. It will not deliver programs. It will not have a veto power.
Recent calls for a voice to be legislated instead of constitutionally enshrined ignore the wishes of the more than 1200 First Nations leaders who took part in nationwide consultations that led to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
They also ignore the mandate the government has from the Australian people.
The Prime Minister went to the last federal election with a clear commitment to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including holding a referendum on the voice to parliament. He declared his commitment to implement the Uluru Statement at almost every speech and rally during the election campaign.
Australians voted for change.
It begs the question: If the opposition is so set on a legislated voice – why didn’t it do this during its nine years of government?
We now know the former minister for Indigenous affairs, Ken Wyatt, took a report on the voice to cabinet twice during the Morrison government.
Was it ever genuinely considered?
Enshrining a voice in the Constitution will make sure it’s protected and cannot be abolished at the whim of government.
Updating our Constitution finally to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in our nation’s birth certificate will be a moment of great pride.
The voice is an idea whose time has come. By building consensus, and working together, we can take this truly historic step.
Australia’s collective story has always been a work in progress. With every generation there is a greater understanding and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, our history and our culture.
Let’s write the next chapter in Australia’s history by voting yes for the voice in 2023.
Linda Burney is the federal Minister for Indigenous Australians and the member for Barton. She is Wiradjuri.
Linda Burney, repeating the same tired old bullsh!t about how Aborigines weren’t counted in the population until the 1967 referendum.
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But his bid to topple the premier — who has thus far managed to garner sympathy from the Opposition and his colleagues and the forgiveness of prominent Jewish leaders — may be unsuccessful with both the Greens and Labor resisting support.
Tee hee. I bet they’re sweating. Not just over the Che and Mao t-shirts either. There must be reams of photos hiding in cupboards under the stairs.
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ADF running recruitment campaign for last 2 months.
Warmongering on Sky News Global Affairs:
* ‘Highly desirable’: Calls for Australia to ‘step up’ support for Ukraine and send tanks
* Ukraine winning war is ‘in the interest of Australians’
It’s. Beginning. To look a lot. Like. Blitzmas.
Miiiiiines in every porrrrrt.
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Upthread, someone mentioned Elton and his current final waltz with Matilda.
WTF was Molly’s pants dropping all about ?
Has dementia got to him ? Or was it climate change ?
Perhaps the silly old poof just didn’t like being called a National Treasure. Neither would I when you look at the other old broken down treasures we have spawned here.
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Memo to Mr Dutton, I think “you’re showing cowardice in not standing up and saying NO to the Voice.
I wonder if he is not being careful not to expose himself to the reflexive accusations of raaaaacism from the left, which would play into the hands of the left because that would become how they characterise – across all their platforms and bully-pulpits – any opposition. This is all the more important because the rest of the Liberal team are such a lamentably craven lot who would gladly cede some of our sovereignty and a shedload of our children’s, their children’s, their children’s (ad infinitum) money to avoid bad press for a day.
Normal people who do not want to be branded raaaaacist will be able articulate the objections in the terms that Albo and Burnie are being so very cagey about what we would get.
It may also appeal to people who are in favour of the voice in principle, but balk at the lack of detail and what it will produce. ATSIC 2.0?
It would be very much uncommon form for any of the Libs to think so strategically, but maybe they serendipitously bumped into the idea while they were not watching where they were going and are beginning to perceive it is might work. The Voice seems not to be the pushover Albo and the rest of the Animal Farm thought it would be.
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Gruinaid testing the waters of
“Yes there is excess deaths, but its the nasty Tories, not the vax” defense.
IMHO much of the excess deths is due to the governments reaction to covid, fearmongering, shutting hospitals restricting social interactions etc, designed to make people sicker before they even get near a medic.
According to the Office for National Statistics, there have been about 170,000 excess deaths in England and Wales since the pandemic began. Most of these can be directly attributed to Covid-19 itself: after all, the virus’s name is scrawled on the death certificates of more than 212,000 UK citizens. Some of those who died may have been vulnerable or infirm, but in other circumstances years away from death. As the pandemic waned, we could have expected excess deaths to shift to below average levels over time. This has not happened.
By the beginning of last year, the number of deaths was similar to 2019. As the actuary Stuart McDonald points out, we had been through the worst of a pandemic in which many frail members of society died, and normally mortality falls year on year, so to only equal the death toll of 2019 was already indicative of a worrying trend.
Even this data uncovered something disturbing – higher death rates among relatively young adults, and as spring came, more dying than in 2019. And here’s the thing: while the dreadful Covid death toll continues to mount, many of these excess deaths are driven by other factors.
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WTF was Molly’s pants dropping all about ?
Has dementia got to him ?
He has an acquired brain injury.
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The NDIS.
A $167 bn rape train, I tells a yas!
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I was 10 years old, in a little town called Whitton in southwestern NSW, when Australians voted in the 1967 referendum, so for the first decade of my life I wasn’t counted as part of the Australian population.
Hang on…didn’t she grow up with white family members?
Why, yes…a white great aunt and uncle raised her.
Did they not include her on the census form because she was of mixed race?
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Matrix, from googling consumption, it’s roughly 3,984,180 cubic metres.
Multiply by 10 and you get 39,841,800 kWh.
I assume that includes big users like brickworks and other manufacturing. The domestic only use is a little harder to find.
I can’t recall the “gas is bad” being on the drawing board pre Covid.
It was bad, but not as bad as coal.
Then we had an “Oh, shit!” moment and it became a “transitional fuel”.
Now it is bad again.
Can someone do some rough calculations on the joules involved with cooking and the implications for the grid if everything is electric?
Electricity is like anything else. If you create demand and choke supply, the price will go up.
A lot.
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WTF was Molly’s pants dropping all about ?
At first glance at the photo, I thought he was wearing long-johns that were three sizes too big.
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An invitation?
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Did they not include her on the census form because she was of mixed race?
Aborigines, including those of mixed race, have been counted in the census, ever since the first was taken in 1911. Linda Burney has gotten away with that claim, before, and never been called to account for it.
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Big Nambas said:
In a series of 121 deaths primarily after the whole virus CoronaVac (Sinovac) injection, 57% were classified as sudden cardiac death and the pathologies included myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, and in few cases with no cardiac pathology assumed primary arrhythmic death. Pulmonary embolism, another accepted complication comprised 21% of the cases.
Please remember the deonominator. Hundreds of millions of Sinovac jabs have been jabbed and so a small number of cardiac deaths will randomly co-occur with jabbing, not necessarily causal.
Assuming these cases have had jab attributed as cause properly, that implies it is not the mRNA that is the problem with the Sudden Deaths wave. It’s probably the spike protein of covid, so any method that supplies the whole spike to the body would have this side-effect.
This was the safety advantage of the protein subunit vaccines, which would only supply the Receptor Binding Domain of the spike, for immune system recognition, not the rest of the payload too.
Thanks Diogenes. The one I saw had consumption in cubic feet, so had to do a bit of simple division and metric conversion. I would show you my workings but my iPad ate them. 😀
Shine it up too much and it loses value.
All those hours spent with Brasso, an old toothbrush
and a pair of Pusser’s crappies wasted.
Aborigines, including those of mixed race, have been counted in the census, ever since the first was taken in 1911. Linda Burney has gotten away with that claim, before, and never been called to account for it.
Yes, prior to 1967 the Commonwealth relied on estimates of their indigenous populations from the states. Her claim is questionable at best, but the personal embellishment is the icing on the cake. The circumstances of her early life weren’t ideal, but she wasn’t growing up in a humpy by a creek outside the town limits. By her own account she didn’t meet her aboriginal family until 1984, when she was in her 30s.
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Australia’s wokest prison now the most expensive and the most violent:
The new jail is the brainchild of former Labor ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, who was forced to defend the cost of the $130million facility which didn’t accept its first prisoners until 2009 despite being opened six months earlier in 2008.
Mr Stanhope described the Centre as ‘the most human rights-compliant, rehabilitation-focused prison in the world’.
The jail is the first in Australia purpose-built to meet human rights obligations and is also environmentally sustainable using recycled water, solar power and energy efficient insulation.
With such noble aims can come a hefty price tag, in early 2010 it was reported the cost of housing an inmate at the centre was $504 per day, which was twice the amount NSW was charging the ACT to take prisoners….
Perhaps most galling for a jail that has the express purpose of rehabilitation are the high rates of reoffending, causing some to label it a ‘revolving door’ prison with the same cohort of inmates repeatedly entering and leaving.
This is especially so for Indigenous prisoners, which the jail was set up to be culturally appropriate for, with 94 per cent of released Aboriginal detainees ending up back in the cells, according to a recent report.
Kelvin Brown, of the Gamilaraay Nation at Inverell, said a constitutionally enshrined Voice would benefit his community but felt more work needed to be done to get local communities on board.
“We have to make sure that it (the Voice) recognises that there are cultural differences between different mobs and different families,” he said.
“What we don’t want and what we’ve always been getting is someone else making decisions on our behalf because they think they know what is best for us.”
Kelvin seems to have missed the point that “someone else making decisions on our behalf because they think they know what is best for us” is exactly* what Uncle Luigi is proposing. Once the Voice gets up and Parliament starts making up the rules to give it effect, the Buyer’s Remorse around the communities will be endless.
(* The only slight qualifier is that Albanese is trying to do what is best for his politics.)
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In Soyboy Lashes Out noos, Daily Telegraph:
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has hit out at the person who leaked there was a photo of Premier Dominic Perrottet dressed in a Nazi uniform on his 21st birthday, branding them a “horrible coward”.
Perhaps Matt realises that without Perrottet decoy operation people will see the Liberals as being made up of Matt Kean – and he knows that won’t end well. Why vote for Labor/Green Lite when you can vote for the real thing.
I shall dip my toe into the ethical pool here. What is the big deal? A bloke at the age of 21, at a party with his mates, dressed up in what will have been seen as a shocking costume – precisely the effect all his mates would have been going for. Point was that it was with his mates, people he knew, whose opinions he knew, and had a pretty good idea how they would take it. Did he use it as a talking point to espouse Nazi ideas? Or did everyone gasp and snicker, then get drunk? He might have made a few jokes demanding people show him ‘zer papers’ and such.
Is there any indication he would have worn it to a public event, among people whose reactions he would not know?
And he was 21! Everyone has been a bit of a dag at that age. I don’t know how much he knew of history – that would be something to take up with his teachers and parents.
Why is everyone expected to apologise for what they did in private (for which I would include among friends) when they were 21?
Tell you what, though. I bet some of the people complaining wore Che T-shirts knowing full well what a monster he was.
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Dr King.
Porn star. By now, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new Boston sculpture “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple.
safe for work, but seriously, this is a tragic “sculpture”.
Why is everyone expected to apologise for what they did in private (for which I would include among friends) when they were 21?
Well, not quite everyone…yet.
But I can see the woke warming to struggle sessions.
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thefrollickingmole says:
January 16, 2023 at 10:32 am
I’m seeing it, but not believing it.
How would one know it’s about M L King?
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So the elites mock your lack of participation in public life but lock you up for the common cold?
I’m pretty sure what was considered public life in ancient Greece to be a bit different from today’s grifter class. And they didn’t take everyone’s money to dole out to mates for votes all while claiming compassion for their theft, grift and extortion.
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Close then. My starting figure was from 2019.
safe for work, but seriously, this is a tragic “sculpture”.
Lordy! No wonder the lady is upset.
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Looks like Wagner Group has thrown enough convicts at Soledar to take it. The piles of Russian bodies would be higher than the rubble at this point.
Another good day for Russian generals to fight amongst themselves.
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Looks more like a sweet potato. What was his pet name for his wife? 😀
Lordy! No wonder the lady is upset.
Oops…no wonder the gentleman is upset.
safe for work, but seriously, this is a tragic “sculpture”.
A bunch of white cat ladies love black men, but only their notorious penises. They think of them still as slaves but with a bit of side action to keep the ladies happy.
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Bourne1879 at 12:49 – have got a mate who works for Twiggy (ostensibly on another project, not Sun Cable). As I essentially worked for/with a one man band entrepreneur we both have a few laughs when we catch up. Half the time they don’t even know where he is. You suspect this won’t be the last one to fall over. He’s got a lot of balls in the air.
On Friday, January 13th, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent out a press release announcing something-or-other having to do with the Pfizer COVID vaccine and ischemic strokes. I say “something-or-other” because most Americans have no idea what the CDC was trying to say. Most Americans do not get press releases from the CDC, they find out about these things through the news media.
And look what happened here:
. Reuters headlined their story U.S. FDA, CDC see early signal of possible Pfizer bivalent COVID shot link to stroke
. The New York Post said CDC investigating whether Pfizer COVID vaccine increases stroke risk for people over 65
. POLITICO had it that CDC, FDA see possible link between Pfizer’s bivalent shot and strokes
. CNBC’s version was Pfizer Covid booster likely doesn’t carry seniors’ stroke risk: CDC
. Yahoo News was definitive: CDC and FDA find no increased risk of ischemic stroke for elderly who get Pfizer’s bivalent booster
. In Santa Ana, the OC Register told its readers Pfizer bivalent COVID vaccine investigated for possible link to strokes
. Covering all the bases, CNN said that CDC identifies possible safety issue with Pfizer’s updated Covid-19 vaccine but says people should still get boosted
I went to the CDC site and read their press release so that you don’t have to.
Forbes probably had the closest approximation to what the CDC intended with CDC Exploring Possible But Unlikely Link Between Covid-19 Bivalent Booster And Strokes. RedState’s Teri Christoph got close with CDC Finally Admits to ‘Safety Concern’ Over COVID Vaccines which is neither particularly alarming nor definitive.
The CDC obviously missed the mark with this announcement since they caused a small army of Professional Journalists with degrees and stuff to scatter in all directions and tell the public totally contradictory things.
My question is: How many times has this happened?
I tripped over this because some clown on Twitter was trying to say that the CDC announced an investigation, and then published their conclusions, on the same day. Looking at the headlines above, I can see how somebody could think that. But I spent too many years working around government bureaucrats to believe that they did anything that fast. I went looking to find out what was going on.
This is horrible. No wonder the public is confused. We have a news media peopled by “reporters” who don’t understand what they are reading and do not realize that and so do not ask questions. They just go right ahead and say that the vaccine is linked to stroke. Or it isn’t. Or maybe it is but you should get it anyway.
And when they get done making a hash of the news from the medical front, they’ll tell us how the economy works.
According to a new study, ‘beetleburgers’ made from mealworms will hit mass production to help feed the world.“Mixed with sugar, the beetles supposedly taste just like real meat. They could also become alternatives to sausages or chicken nuggets.” – researchers say.
Tofu is so last millennium.
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MatrixTransform says:
January 16, 2023 at 9:55 am
in Aust, one cubic meter of Nat Gas is about 38 MJ/m3 -> about 10kWh
how much gas does Aust use every year ?
At what pressure?
How would one know it’s about M L King?
Like most works of contemporary “art”, it requires an “interpreter” to explain the artist’s intent.
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Just piss off you elderly cock fondler.
Who can resist the siren sounds of Boomer geriatric rock revenue. Got sent a link for $130 standing room tickets to clapped out junkie Paul Kelly (for a laugh).
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Beetleburgers are next big thing Dot.
Presumably “mealworm burger” didn’t go down well with the marketing focus groups.
In Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest,” the main character’s search for his true name comes to a head when he finally demands “would you kindly inform me who I am?” In an astonishing filing this week, Hunter Biden answered that question for his four-year-old daughter Navy Joan and effectively declared “you are no Biden.”
Hunter Biden’s disgraceful treatment of his daughter has long been on display in Arkansas where he long denied being her father, fought paternity, and was threatened with contempt of court over his failure to supply needed documents. After DNA testing was forced by a court, Hunter was found to be the father but he continued to resist efforts to force him to pay child support and supply financial records.
Recently, Lunden Roberts sought to have a surname change for her daughter to Biden. Even after his long and abusive treatment of his daughter in court, Hunter Biden’s opposition is breathtaking. He opposes his daughter using his name and says that, if she does, she will never have a “peaceful existence.”
Of course, Biden did not feel that way with his other four children. They are all true Bidens and living peaceful existences. It is only Navy Joan who he does not want to bear the family name.
Hunter’s concern for Navy Joan’s peaceful existence is a bit odd since he has reportedly never even seen his daughter after fighting for years to deny his paternal status and child support.
While living in a luxurious mansion in Malibu, Hunter continued to fight his obligations under child support and requested in September 2022 to have the payments lowered, bemoaning how his “financial circumstances” were difficult for him. The public pays more for his security in his mansion than he does in monthly support for his daughter.
Hunter is asking Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer to deny Navy Joan the ability to use her father’s surname and claiming that it is in her best interest. The filing is so self-serving and transparently dishonest that it does what was once thought impossible: reach a new low for Hunter. All of his reported selfies having sex and doing drugs with prostitutes were shocking. His attacks on his former sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, widow of the deceased brother (with whom Hunter later had a romantic relationship), were appalling. However, the craven effort to deny this child his name reaches a level of cad that stands unrivaled.
The position of Hunter in court has been disgraceful, but the media has largely ignored the matter. It has also ignored the utter lack of support from President Joe Biden and the First Lady, who tellingly omitted a stocking for Navy Joan as one of their grandchildren. (The dog and cat did receive stockings).
There is no record that Joe or Jill Biden have ever sought to meet, let alone embrace, their grandchild. The President has, however, sought to deny the child security protection (despite his son’s concern for her “peaceful existence”).
Joe Biden has long campaigned against “deadbeat Dads” but when a Fox reporter asked about Hunter’s refusal to pay child support, President Biden snapped at him and refused to answer the question on the “personal matter.” (The media also ignored Hunter’s deadbeat dad record in fawning interviews about this “bravery” in writing a book on his life).
Household gas consumption is a big deal in chilly Victoria – more than 70% of homes are connected to mains gas and average residential gas consumption in Victoria is around 50 GJpa, as compared to NSW (18 GJ), SA (16 GJ), and Qld (7 GJ). Given rapidly developing gas supply constraints (Bass Strait production and Eastern Australian pipeline capacity limits) and the looming need for massive amounts of gas to prop up renewables – a political disaster awaits unless [ahem] ‘demand management’ is applied.
So, rather than allowing citizens to burn gas and complain at the ballot box about huuuge bills and ‘no gas days’ (hi, ‘smart’ gas meters) because renewables – it’s much less transparent much better to have them buy electricity generated by the same molecules being burned, just as inefficiently, by backup OC gas turbines.
Virtue signaling is a bonus.
Problem first sighted in 2007.
In good hands.
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“Mixed with sugar, the beetles supposedly taste just like real meat. They could also become alternatives to sausages or chicken nuggets.”
Mixed with sugar?
Mixed with sugar!!!?
What devilry is that?
Will nobody think of the children…
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Weird how it went from Soledar is the rock that’ll break the Orcs
to Soledar isn’t that important
to withdrawing from Bakhmut before the MSR comes under direct fire might be prudent.
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Sugar for “health” foods.
I’m done, after yesterday’s “alleged potential witnesses”, my BS meter is broken.
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Victoriastan has already has experience of gas substitution when the Lonreach gas plant “didn’t” blow up.
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Yahoo News was definitive: CDC and FDA find no increased risk of ischemic stroke for elderly who get Pfizer’s bivalent booster
Which means if you’re not elderly your risk of stroke just went through the roof. Soz.
Rugby Australia, “We’re sorry Eddie. Will this help?” *Shuffling sounds in background*
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At what pressure?
in Aust consumer Nat Gas is regulated to ~1.1 kPa
anyways, we’re only guessing here
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Sugar for “health” foods.
Is there a processed food made in USA that isn’t mixed with a sweetener?
Iirc a dietitician in Oz recently pointed out, citing the label information, that a lot of processed “health” foods and meat substitutes are demonstrably worse for the consumer’s health than whole foods or meat.
First chance of a “big breakfast” since being down at Horsham.
Ordered eggs beni with a side of hash browns only to be told there’s a world wide shortage of potatoes and hash browns are being rationed as a side offering.
I could have them with a “big breakfast” because they are part of the list of items for that dish but not as a side with any other.
No further proof that the end of days is upon us is needed, IMHO.
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Comment, from the Oz, on the subject of the “Voice.”
PLMO
41 minutes ago
Pesky Details.
Minister is this your preferred model?
Page 18 of the Langton – Calma Report their Voice model:
24 National Voices 35 Regional Voices ( 24 for hundreds of tribes PLUS 11 for tens of mainly urban tribes) Plus unspecified LOCAL Voices Local & Regional Voices collectively determine the National Voice members for their state, territory and the Torres Strait. This is the default option.
Transparency mechanisms
• A statement would be included with bills that would explain consultation with the National Voice.
• The National Voice would be able to table formal advice in Parliament.
• A parliamentary committee would consider tabled advice and engagement with the National Voice, and enable parliamentarians to hear directly from the National Voice
Two permanent committees, separate to the membership:
• A Youth Permanent Advisory Group
• Disability Permanent Advisory Group
The National Voice would be able to establish other committees.
The National Voice would be a new, independent Commonwealth entity.
The National Voice members would be supported by its own Office of the National Voice.
Members would have four-year staggered terms (maximum two consecutive terms).
There would be an independent Ethics Council.
If not, then which other do you prefer?
For ease of reference current organisations offering ATSI a voice include:
Federal Department (and 8 equivalent State & Territory Departments).
National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA)
Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA)
Council of Peaks (80+ organisations)
Registration of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC)
About 700 Regional and Local Organisations.
Most if not all align with your Ministerial responsibilities.
Which of these failures are you going to disband?
How is the ‘Voice’ going to actually make any difference?
Details please – Minister!
PLMO
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“mealworm burger”
Bug Mac
Very good.
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A large area, of what was potato farms in my youth, is now hobby farms.
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Rugby Australia, “We’re sorry Eddie. Will this help?” *Shuffling sounds in background*
Five year contract.
Fool me once…
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Ross Lyon says the parachuting of star coaches is always a good idea. Even if you have to pay them out again in a few years. In fact, he recommends it.
better to have them buy electricity generated by the same molecules being burned, just as inefficiently, by backup OC gas turbines.
Replacing pipes with cables for the transfer of energy.
My question is will the grid cope?
Then add on the EV demand.
I know the short answer but would be nice to see the figures.
The war in Ukraine, it’s clear by now, won’t end soon. The bet in Moscow—and the fear in Kyiv—is that the West will lose stamina before Russia suffers a decisive defeat.
So far, Russia’s expectations of discord among Ukraine’s backers haven’t materialized. Europe has severed its dependence on Russian energy with limited pain and no political cataclysms. As all major Western economies grew in 2022 despite the disruptions, the consensus behind supplying weapons to Kyiv has only solidified.
Yet, with Russia announcing a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in September and switching its economy to a war footing, time could be on Moscow’s side. So far, neither the U.S. nor Europe has made the adjustments, especially in military production, that are necessary for sustaining Ukraine in a war that could potentially drag on for several years. Neither are they immune to pain from further energy shocks.
“The idea that a major classic conventional war in Europe could last as long as one of the two world wars is not something we are yet ready for,” says Bruno Tertrais, deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, a Paris think tank. “Even though the resilience of European societies has been remarkable, it cannot be taken for granted.”
The same goes for the U.S. While the lame-duck Congress in December authorized $44.9 billion in funding to support the war in Ukraine, probably enough for the next nine months, new Republican control of the House means that further military and civilian aid packages for Kyiv may be more complicated to fund.
If time works to Moscow’s advantage, it’s in the West’s interest to dramatically increase support for Ukraine in coming months, abandoning the excessive caution that characterized weapons deliveries until now, says retired Air Marshal Edward Stringer, former head of operations at the British Defense Staff.
“By continuing to drip-feed just enough for Ukraine not to lose, what the West is doing is just prolonging the war,” Air Marshal Stringer says. “Whether we realize it or not, Russia has thrown a gauntlet to the West. And, even though our own troops aren’t fighting there, we are thoroughly invested in this conflict, and we have to provide the materiel to win it.”
Ukraine’s own once-significant defense industry has been decimated by Russian airstrikes in the 11 months of war, and the country now is almost wholly reliant on Western-provided weapons and ammunition to survive. While Russia’s economy, roughly the size of Spain’s, is a minnow compared with the combined might of the U.S. and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, Western defense procurement and manufacturing—unlike Russia’s—is largely continuing to follow peacetime procedures and schedules.
“The West, in general, naturally overshadows Russia in economic potential and defense-industrial capacity, and that should make you believe that, in a protracted war, Ukraine with Western support stands a much better chance of winning the conflict,” says Michael Kofman, director of Russia studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, a think tank that advises the U.S. military. “But that is not a predetermined outcome. Potential is just that. It takes a great deal of will, and wars are fundamentally a contest of wills.”
Manpower math
Before last fall’s mobilization, Russia—which began the invasion using mostly full-time contract troops—suffered from manpower shortages in Ukraine while relying on an overwhelming advantage in artillery firepower. Now that Russia has mobilized 300,000 reservists, it has solved its manpower problem just as it’s starting to run low on ammunition and materiel.
Long term, the arithmetic of manpower works to Moscow’s advantage as Russia has 3.5 times Ukraine’s population. Even if Russia loses two soldiers for every one Ukrainian service member killed, it still improves its relative strength. So far, Western officials say, Russia’s battlefield fatalities—numbering in several tens of thousands—are comparable to Ukraine’s.
The calculus on ammunition and weaponry is more complicated. Ukraine uses up Western-supplied 155 mm artillery shells at roughly twice the rate that they are being manufactured by the U.S. and allies, military analysts say. At this rate of fire, Kyiv could draw down U.S. and European reserves to critical levels at some point this summer or fall.
By then, Russia—with its single-minded focus on the war—may be able to expand its own ammunition production to keep pace with the tempo of the fighting. The U.S. and allies are also investing in new ammunition production lines, but these are unlikely to make a major difference until next year, creating a potentially dangerous gap between Ukraine’s and Russia’s firepower in the second half of 2023.
“We should not underestimate Russia. They are mobilizing more troops, they are working hard to acquire more equipment, more ammunition, and they have shown willingness to actually suffer but to continue the war,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says. “There is no indication that President Putin has changed the overall aim of his brutal war against Ukraine. So we need to be prepared for the long haul.”
An existential fight
The mobilization has already allowed Mr. Putin to stabilize the front line, and to launch a counteroffensive around the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region. Possibilities of a negotiated settlement are remote in the foreseeable future.
“Any notion of the peace process is out because Putin is doing everything to make clear that this is existential for him,” says Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO who heads the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “He is preparing his population for a long war, and I don’t think he’s ever going to give up on his imperial ambitions for controlling Ukraine.” With no end to the conflict in sight, he says, the U.S. and allies should already start preparing to integrate the government-controlled majority of Ukraine into Western institutions, without waiting for the war’s conclusion.
Ukraine says that its war aim is to oust Russia from all territories conquered in the past year and the areas it lost to Russia in 2014, including Crimea. Ukraine regaining even part of these areas would endanger Mr. Putin’s hold on power at home.
Russia seeks, at a minimum, to conquer the Ukrainian-held parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Mr. Putin declared to be part of Russia in October. Currently, almost the entire front line runs across what Russia considers to be its own sovereign soil.
Ukrainian officials warn that Moscow’s initial war goal, the occupation of Kyiv and the entirety of the country, hasn’t changed—and that any pause in the conflict would be used by Mr. Putin to regroup and strike again.
“They are preparing for new battles, for new offensive operations, not for talks. Nothing speaks in favor of Russia being ready to talk,” says Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “I know Russia, I see what is happening in Russia. And I think it’s either them or us. There is nothing in between now anymore.”
Mr. Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Bug mac and a drink of Sumade.
Sumade is refreshing sports drink made from an extract of basket players socks and sumo wrestlers jock straps.
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Bug Mac
“Always be making fun of the Kiwis eh bro?”
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Ukrainian officials warn that Moscow’s initial war goal, the occupation of Kyiv…
Pfft…that was merely a feint, masterfully executed.
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Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls… Dumb Things.
Who knew he was singing about people paying 130 bucks for standing room 35 years into the future?
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Sure glad I’m not in politics, I went to a fancy dress ball, when I was 28, dressed as a “fancy dress ball”.
My costume comprised some coloured foil and tinsel, wrapped around my scrotum, and nothing else.
Think that would have triggered the woke?
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Rogersays:
January 16, 2023 at 9:43 am
Grifters and hucksters.
Aka ‘Big Sport.’
Feeds off Big Government.
Leads to Big Fascism.
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Aka ‘Big Sport.’
Feeds off Big Government.
Leads to Big Fascism.
I think we’re already there…just in a “soft” form.
Peter Dutton is not being picky to ask for more details when Labor’s record at getting referenda over the line is so abysmal.
Dean Smith Liberal Senator
There is more truth to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s claim last week that the Prime Minister is setting up the Voice to parliament referendum to fail than many care to acknowledge.
Australia’s history with constitutional referendums is well known – since federation in 1901, 44 referendum proposals have been put to the vote and just eight have succeeded.
On each occasion when the “Yes” vote has won, it has been carried in all six states.
None of the eight referendums since 1977 has been successful, making it almost five decades since Australians last felt it necessary to amend our founding document.
But there is one historical fact that is less talked about.
And it lies at the core of Labor and Anthony Albanese’s capacity to deliver a successful referendum outcome this year.
Despite the Australian Labor Party having been in existence for more than 120 years, and having governed nationally for about a third of that time, it has only ever secured one successful referendum outcome.
Of the eight referendums that have passed, two were carried in the first decade following federation, proposed in 1906 and 1910 by the anti-Labor governments of Alfred Deakin.
It was not until 1928 that the next successful referendum was held, ending the system of per capita payments made to states by the Commonwealth.
The proposal, put by prime minister Stanley Bruce’s government, also restricted the ability of each state to borrow for its own development.
Labor enjoyed its first and only successful referendum 77 years ago, in 1946.
It transferred to the Commonwealth the power to legislate on a range of social welfare matters.
The “Yes” vote nationally was 55.4 per cent, still significantly lower than the support shown for the seven other successful referendums.
It is worth noting that on the same day in 1946, Australian voters rejected Labor prime minister Ben Chifley’s two other proposals.
Labor failed again in 1948, when the Chifley government attempted to amend the Constitution to gain control over rents and prices.
Even Labor icons Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke could not muster enough confidence and trust from Australian voters to achieve constitutional change.
The Whitlam government’s 1973 proposals regarding prices and powers to legislate on income received a rejection of historic proportions, with no majority support in any state.
Another four referendums were defeated in 1974. Under Bob Hawke, no less than six unsuccessful referenda were put to Australians.
Then there was Labor’s referendum that wasn’t. Its dismal record on Constitutional reform is capped by the aborted 2013 referendum on local government recognition.
In May that year, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard committed to holding the referendum simultaneously with the Federal election on 14 September.
‘Elite-driven process’
The Constitution Alteration (Local Government) Bill 2013 was passed in June and the official “Yes” and “No” cases were submitted to the Australian Electoral Commission, but the referendum was abandoned with the return of Kevin Rudd and the election brought forward to September 7.
It was later characterised by the University of New South Wales Law Series as “an elite-driven process” suffering deficiencies including “poor public engagement, government delay and mishandling and the failure to justify a funding allocation that gave a massive advantage to the ‘Yes’ campaign”.
As local government minister at the time, Anthony Albanese doubtless still carries the scars of this ramshackle reform pitch – not to mention the profound disappointment of the many local councils across Australia that had put their faith in him.
So, history is not on Labor’s side when it comes to referendums.
The prime minister’s rebuke that Peter Dutton, in reasonably requesting further detail on the Voice proposal, is playing “cheap culture war stunts” is simply camouflage from Labor’s underwhelming track record on constitutional change.
It is a point Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis concedes in her book Everything you need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, observing that Labor’s referendum success rate of just 4 per cent “contrasts unfavourably” with that of Australia’s non-Labor governments.
No wonder, then, that Anthony Albanese has repeatedly said that he “doesn’t want it to be the government’s proposal”.
Senator Dean Smith is a Liberal senator for Western Australia and shadow assistant minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury. In 2013 he was the convener of the parliamentary “No” case for the referendum on local government recognition in the Constitution.
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m0ntysays:
January 16, 2023 at 10:07 am
WTF was Molly’s pants dropping all about ?
Has dementia got to him ?
He has an acquired brain injury.
Being a leftard?
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He fell out of a tree years ago putting up party lights. Lucky to have survived.
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Rugby Australia Mission Statement
1. Make Cricket Australia look good;
2. …
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According to a new study, ‘beetleburgers’ made from mealworms will hit mass production to help feed the world.“Mixed with sugar, the beetles supposedly taste just like real meat.
“Mixed with sugar”! Sugar! Sugar! Are they even reading this crap before they release it?
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You know they are just leaving room for a “No Added Sugar” version from the Product Development guys?
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Dr F
Snap re sugar!
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“Kelvin seems to have missed the point that “someone else making decisions on our behalf because they think they know what is best for us” is exactly* what Uncle Luigi is proposing.”
Also misses the point that this is what the rest of us get too.
But even ignoring that, Aboriginals have had “self determination” for funding for at least 30 years, and the money doesn’t appear to be any better spent anyway – at least, they STILL keep saying they need more cash, and that things are still bad. $30B p.a. is not insignificant, if you haven’t been able to fix something in that time, then you are no better than GovCo anyway! At least when GovCo decides where to spend it, there is oversight and accountability.
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Mixed with sugar”! Sugar! Sugar! Are they even reading this crap before they release it?
That’s so they can tax you.
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Big_Nambassays:
January 16, 2023 at 11:32 am
Sure glad I’m not in politics, I went to a fancy dress ball, when I was 28, dressed as a “fancy dress ball”.
My costume comprised some coloured foil and tinsel, wrapped around my scrotum, and nothing else.
Think that would have triggered the woke?
This man went to a fancy dress party with a condom on his nose. He knocked on the front door of the house and the Lady of the house opened the front door. “What have come here dressed as then?”. He said f*ck knows………………….
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In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
– Groucho Marx
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He fell out of a tree years ago putting up party lights. Lucky to have survived.
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Off a ladder cleaning gutter.
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132andbush I hope you walked out like I did when a similar thing happened to me. They got rather miffed too, making a smart comment as we left. I never went back though I do believe they have changed hands. To be seen.
Kneel it really is doubtful about oversight and accountability. Senate estimates is usually political in nature even as far as factional point scoring. In recent times Senators Antic and Roberts doing the only scrutiny. There may be others but not many. The Audit Office tried doing over my Wife till she pointed out the only things they were concerned about were in fact current and had been officially carried over as the project was for 3 years and possibly longer. Oh!
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Crack down on “sides” is a market phenomenon. No making a breakfast of “sides” at the cafe I go to on weekends, not that that was what you were trying to do. Used to slip in a couple of Colesworth deli hash browns from time to time. And the Maccas ones were a no brainer with your preferred McMuffin.
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when I was 28, dressed as a “fancy dress ball”.
My costume comprised some coloured foil and tinsel, wrapped around my scrotum, and nothing else.
Madi Gras season?
I once went with my dick stuck in a trifle.
I was f^&cking Dis-custard.
Having lost my Bickfords apple cordial to market forces (shout out to Spudshed who still seem to have some out the back) shout out to Cadburys product development guys for Old Gold Peanut Brittle which appears on the green version of Colesworths from time to time. The market at work.
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*note to self*
Never accept costume party invitation from any Cat. 😀
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“In recent times Senators Antic and Roberts doing the only scrutiny. There may be others but not many.”
Well, sure – but they aren’t even allowed to question where the Aboriginal councils spend their dosh.
So back under GovCo would mean “we don’t bother” rather than “we can’t”.
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123&B,
a world wide shortage of potatoes
If I may make a modest proposal.
From now on tater tots will be made 100% only with genuine tots.
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One should leave both party lights and gutters to your man. I’ll leave it up to your imagination whom Molly could have left it up to.
Just to flaunt my wealth and status…I’m about to boil five potatoes to make salmon rissoles.
Envy me peasants!
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Knuckle Dragger says: January 16, 2023 at 7:49 am
Woollies in Alice Springs’ largest shopping centre has got to the point where theft and being dickheads in public – by the usual suspects – resulted in them closing all the roller doors at the store entrance with the exception of a small one, now used as both an entry and exit.
Would this be the same Alice Springs Woolworths where there was a machete incident yesterday?
Or is there another Alice Springs Woolworths?
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Did Molly Meldrum fall off a ladder?
On 15 December 2011, Meldrum had a life-threatening fall from a ladder in the backyard of his Melbourne home. He was placed under intensive care in a critical condition at the Alfred Hospital and had surgery for his head and spinal injuries.
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The Sun Cable article didn’t make sense.
Everything said by Twiggy’s minions pointed to a scale-back to supply Darwin only.
But the article still contains reference to “export renewballs”.
Export to where?
PNG?
Indonesia?
Unless it was just PR boilerplate which goes in every press release.
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Rene Rivken always ensured there was a number of young men on hand (no pun intended) to help umm … polish the boat.
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But whatever!
Cassie of Sydney:
Oh and note the silence from the always feeble and wimpish Liberals and Nationals on this, they have nothing to say so presumably they agree. I’m reminded of how, two and a half years ago, I confronted a then sitting Liberal with the question “are the Liberals going to sit back and allow gas to be demonised the way they sat back for over a decade and allowed coal to be demonised?” His response? He nodded in agreement with me, but he had nothing to say about the Liberal’s supineness, inertia and cowardice.
Cassie, the Liberals are nothing more than a block of Party Members who sit on the pot, denying – by their position and their refusal to either shit or get off the pot – the Right a voice in Parliament.
That is their function and explains the presence of the Leftist intransigents who never seem to pass anything other than progressive legislation.
Imagine what would happen if the Right actually had a voice in Parliament. The Liberals are there to deny that voice.
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Shrinkflation* hits the Big Brekkie!
….
* Shrinkflation. Keeping the price the same but cutting quantity and/or quality.
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Calli:
“When in danger or(when) in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
It’s from “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long” originally.
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Gaborsays:
January 16, 2023 at 12:28 pm
Did Molly Meldrum fall off a ladder?
Yes.
He was trying to get a look at next door’s pool boy.
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calli says:
January 16, 2023 at 12:26 pm
Just to flaunt my wealth and status…I’m about to boil five potatoes to make salmon rissoles.
Envy me peasants!
Snap – Perennial Daily Question to Wife just now “Whats for Dinner tonight”
Answer – Salamon Patties, followed by discussion re lack of potatotes at Maccas, Coles, Wollies & ALDI
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GreyRanga says:
January 16, 2023 at 12:02 pm
132andbush I hope you walked out like I did when a similar thing happened to me
Thought about it for a sec but too pushed for time.
I went the big breakfast so I could get me some hash browns.
A victim of “Big Spud”.
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The rissoles are for tomorrow night. I like to allow the flavour, like a good wine, to develop overnight.
Fancy schmansy.
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I hope the tots you are intending to use in place of spuds are the finest Irish ones.
Irish Tots taste best!
The Lieborals have always been much more effective at fighting other Lieborals. Even they make the point from time to time, typically in an election loss review.
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I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl, before twelve years old, is no saleable commodity, and even when they come to this age, they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds and half a crown at most, on the exchange; which cannot turn to account either to the parents or kingdom, the charge of nutriments and rags having been at least four times that value.
I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
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“I went the big breakfast so I could get me some hash browns.
A victim of “Big Spud”.”
Might have been interesting to have the following conversation:
[no hash browns side order stuff]
“Hmmm… well, if I order the Big Brekkie and don’t want the bacon, do I have to pay full price, or can I get a discount?”
“Oh, we’ll give you a discount if you remove an item, Sir, no problem!”
“OK, then I’ll have the Big Brekkie with no bacon, no eggs, no sausage, no tomatoe, no mushroom and no toast. And I’ll also have the eggs benedict please.”
“But sir, that is the same as ordering eggs benedict with a side of hash browns and a coffee!”
“Yes, I know, but I DID order the Big Brekkie, so I can get it, can’t I? And pay the same price, right?”
You can still walk away at worst…
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Interesting lesson learnt today – had ordered Chemist Warehouse Click & Collect – came back with number of items not available – had ticked will wait reorder – with a week having gone but with no update, and no obvious way to move to delivery (free over $50 currently) online, rang Chemist Waregouse and was told that I had to deal with the specific Click & Collect Shop as all shops were franchised.
They put me through to shop and they were unable to change Click & Collect to Delivery – so cancelled Order and went back online and reordered all Items and went for Delivery and Paid $10 for express – about the same as petrol & time driving down to Click & Collect shop
Will stick with Online and Express Delivery in future
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Fancy schmansy.
Watching too much Masterchef.
A brain-damaged national treasure drops his daks on stage.
Take that, Putin !
Kapow, Xi !
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“The rissoles are for tomorrow night.”
As long as Death doesn’t turn up, point a boney finger and say “It was the salmon rissoles!”, that sounds just peachy.
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When Death turns up at my place, he’s usually after something else.
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If we are on food, a most unusual dish last night.
A seafood hotpot, squid/salmon & prawns with herbs and spices , cabbage and a few other greens in it.
The base for the stock it was cooked in?
Passionfruit.
A bit of crunch from the seeds but a delicious dish.
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Just got 2023 Land Tax NSW assessment – jumped from $15,000 to $20,000 in one year
Will lodge Objection based on land value increases, but still have to pay assessed amount whilst they review, and given there are no NSW Public Servants actually working in their offices (every time I have called a NSW Govt Department recently, the person answering is working from home juding by background sounds), so I may get a Refusal Reply by next year if I am lucky.
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“When Death turns up at my place, he’s usually after something else.”
LOL – Calli the black thumb!
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“…a most unusual dish…”
Nice salsa style salad –
blackened sweet corn, finely diced onion, a touch of chilli, mint, oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Yum!
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H B Bearsays:
January 16, 2023 at 11:50 am
You know they are just leaving room for a “No Added Sugar” version from the Product Development guys?
But without the sugar, it just tastes like ass. No one wants to eat that, right?
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Just got 2023 Land Tax NSW assessment – jumped from $15,000 to $20,000 in one year
Those writers festivals aren’t going to pay for themselves you know.
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Salmon Rissoles is one of the few things and I do mean a few things my mother could cook. She called them salmon cakes. They were good.
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“But without the sugar, it just tastes like ass. No one wants to eat that, right?”
Ask a dog – they seem to enjoy it.
Well, either that, or they need to get rid of the taste of the dog food…
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So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?
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Bottom line is the potato shortage is due to the rain that was never going to be enough to fill our dams and river systems, filling our dams and river systems.
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So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?
As a Biden??
Cue Monty salivating over a “9 Hog!
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“So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?”
So no costume at all then? 🙂
Put a rubber band on each ear, and go as a mintie!
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I know of a Govt department where the time to reply was 30 days. Now not uncommon for it to be 6 months. If only Govt audit offices could look into it. Oh wait, they are probably working from home as well.
“and given there are no NSW Public Servants actually working in their offices (every time I have called a NSW Govt Department recently, the person answering is working from home juding by background sounds)”.
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132andBush says:
January 16, 2023 at 1:12 pm
Bottom line is the potato shortage is due to the rain that was never going to be enough to fill our dams and river systems, filling our dams and river systems.
You mean the Water we won’t have
because we have never built new dams, because it was not going to Rain/Flannery,
but as sure as Night follows Day, in Australia Drought follows Floods, and the Dumb Labor Party/Greens/TEALS/Liberal Greens are to thick to understand that reality
H B Bearsays:
January 16, 2023 at 12:57 pm
Just got 2023 Land Tax NSW assessment – jumped from $15,000 to $20,000 in one year
Those writers festivals aren’t going to pay for themselves you know.
But, but, but……….the latest CPI figure was a heck of a lot less than that extortionate % increase………….
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The Powers that be are now trying to persuade us that Gas is bad for us so that we will happily fall in line by ridding ourselves of Gas appliances.
John Nolte from Breitbart, has written an excellent article on the History of Gas usage, (it goes back two hundred years), and the fact that we use less gas now than we did then.
Also, if Gas usage sickened us as much as the latest scaremongering would have us believe, wouldn’t there have been massive outcry over the thousands, nay, millions of deaths that would have occurred from the use of Gas over the last two hundred years? If Gas was so deleterious to our health, you can bet there would have been massive lawsuits ala Big Tobacco.
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Old Ozzie:
but as sure as Night follows Day, in Australia Drought follows Floods, and the Dumb Labor Party/Greens/TEALS/Liberal Greens are to thick to understand that reality
They’ve been using that excuse for 40 years now.
Perhaps it’s because they are just refusing to do their jobs?
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Dot says:
January 16, 2023 at 1:06 pm
So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?
Been reading Liar’s Poker have we?
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Bottom line is the potato shortage is due to the rain that was never going to be enough to fill our dams and river systems, filling our dams and river systems.
Now they’re saying that global warming causes endless rain and terrible droughts simultanously.
In 2022, a third La Niña year brought much rain to Australia and Southeast Asia and dry conditions to the other side of the Pacific. These patterns were expected, but behind these variations there are troubling signs the entire global water cycle is changing. … The findings are contained in a report released today.
The key conclusion? Earth’s water cycle is clearly changing. Globally, the air is getting hotter and drier, which means droughts and risky fire conditions are developing faster and more frequently.
He’s a professor at the ANU so it must be true that we’re getting these droughts and flooding rains due to dastardly humans. It’s all very poetic.
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faster and more frequently.
He can say that again.
On a more sciencey note, they do realise it’s a closed system, don’t they?
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I was 10 years old, in a little town called Whitton in southwestern NSW, when Australians voted in the 1967 referendum, so for the first decade of my life I wasn’t counted as part of the Australian population.
In the general presentation of population statistics derived from the
Census full-blood Australian Aboriginals are excluded because the Commonwealth
Constitution (Section 127) provides that “In reckoning the numbers of the people
of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal
natives snall not be counted”. Consequently they are excluded from Tables 1 and
2 of this bulletin. However, at the Census of 1961, as at previous Censuses, .
collectors were instructed to ascertain as fully as possible, by means of the
ordinary schedule, detailed information concerning full-blood Australian
Aboriginals who were either in employment, or living On reserves, camps, etc.
in proximity to settlements.
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Alice Springs Woolworths yesterday:
< < < Well done Woolworths Supervisor & staff.
You should not have to be subjected to todays events whilst going about your duties.
We applaud you.
I would like to acknowledge the staff of Woolworths Alice Springs for reacting fast to what had happened tonight.
I would like to also that the supervisor Kay for spotting out the machete & warning her managers as fast as possible.
Thanks to woolies extraordinary staff we felt safe for their fast reactions. > > >
Housewives & other shoppers feel safe quite like knowing that whenever a machete is brandished in woolies the staff will respond swiftly.
NT is an ALP government – in case anybody can’t tell.
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Housewives & other shoppers feel safe quite like knowing that whenever a machete is brandished in woolies the staff will respond swiftly.
I’d feel safer if the manager pulled out his or her Glock and put 3 rounds in the center of mass of said machete wielder.
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This man went to a fancy dress party carrying a naked lady on his back. He knocked on the front door of the house and the Lady of the house opened the front door. “What have come here dressed as then?”. He said “I’ve come as a snail”.
Lady of the house points to lady on his back and says “And who is that?”
The man says “Oh, that’s Michelle”.
Looks like Wagner Group has thrown enough convicts at Soledar to take it. The piles of Russian bodies would be higher than the rubble at this point.
That certainly is the ointment currently being used.
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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 16, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Alice Springs Woolworths yesterday:
< < > >
And the Voice will make it all better now………………………
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In the general presentation of population statistics derived from the
Census full-blood Australian Aboriginals are excluded because the Commonwealth
Constitution (Section 127) provides that “In reckoning the numbers of the people
of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal
natives snall not be counted
Section 127 referred to “reckoning the numbers” – these were the population figures used to calculate seats in the House of Representatives, and funding to the States. These were calculated per head of population. At the time the Constitution was drawn up, Western Australia and Queensland had populations of nomadic Aborigines, and the concern was that these scheming Queenslanders and West Australian would “fiddle the figures” to gain extra seats in the Lower House, and extra funding.
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Needed in Australia for All Government Federal/State/Council Public Servants
House Republicans have introduced a bill that would command legions of federal employees to stop teleworking and return to the office.
The Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act — or “SHOW UP Act” — was introduced by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
“Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats,” said Comer. “President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs.”
The bill gives federal employees who worked in person prior to the pandemic 30 days to get back to the office. A November Federal News Network survey found that 60% of feds were working in a “hybrid” environment, with a third working entirely remotely.
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Looks like Wagner Group has thrown enough convicts at Soledar to take it. The piles of Russian bodies would be higher than the rubble at this point.
The Russian convicts that survived allegedly got free pardons. Maybe the Ukrainians should do the same with their convicts as they are running out of troops. A Russian Spring Offensive is not far off now to cut the Ukraine in two. Then comes the settlement. Game over soon IMHO..
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House GOP Bill Would Order Federal Workers Back To Office
So long as we all agree to ignore their licences/decrees/requirements etc I’m good with paying them to stay home and do nothing. The country will be better off.
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The other problem with Burney’s statement is, of course, that she is 50% Scottish.
So she was always counted, not being a ‘full-blood’ Aboriginal.
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The other problem with Burney’s statement is, of course, that she is 50% Scottish.
Strange how that’s usually ignored, in the same way that Pat Dodson’s father was an Irish shearer, is similarly ignored.
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this is interesting. Seems Burney holds a unique position – being a descendent of both the oppressed (Aboriginal) and colonial oppressors (American slavery) via the Sinclair family line.
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Does that mean Burney must give herself a brutal uppercut?
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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 16, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Does that mean Burney must give herself a brutal uppercut?
More likely a Welcome to Country Glasgow Kiss………………………..
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This might be of interest to WA grain farmers looking for somewhere to store all their harvest money this year.
Or for South Australians feeling a little homesick.
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Immunology of mRNA vaccines with Prof Robert Clancy
Very good video. He makes the argument that there was no good reason to go the mRNA route for the COVID vaccines, that the traditional vaccines given the century long or more experience would have been better and deliver more control to the immunologist, while avoiding the problems we’ve long discussed on this blog like the inflammatory response, original antigenic sin, and so on.
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On a more sciencey note, they do realise it’s a closed system, don’t they?
Not on a planetary scale.
Hydrogen and Helium escape the atmosphere.
Stuff lands on Earth. The earths mass is increasing.
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What passes for news on the radio this morning in Canberra was a freak suggesting composting of the dead. A gaia worshipping fruitcake. Burial takes up land space, cremation uses fossil fuels, shriek horror faint. I for one would love to introduce her to a woodchipper. I have this warm inner glow knowing this abomination is not going to reproduce therefore having a surfeit of cats when she dies alone is going to be eaten by said cats. Am I being excessively mean to wish this upon anyone? Why do these sorts of people get any sort of recognition except finger pointing at the clinically insane. Once upon a time the insane were locked up for their own and societies safety, now they are not only on the loose but promoted publicly as having sound ideas. FMD
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How jolly, the ATO have just texted to tell me i have a $60,465 refund available if i just click on a link to “verify my information to process”
Im guessing it includes my bank details/passwords/ first born children/ tissue type and number of kidneys. etc…
Just after i post about South Australians and a bank vault..
Coincidence?
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Maybe the Ukrainians should do the same with their convicts as they are running out of troops.
They’ve been doing it since the beginning, I believe. They are now turning on Ukrainians overseas, considering the conscription of 16-17 year old boys, and are also now encountering significant resistance to mobilization, with apps indicating where teams are scouring the urban centres for recruits for the front.
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The Russian convicts that survived allegedly got free pardons.
The current survival rate of this adult version of Squid Game would be interesting. How many of them last six months inside the Ukraine meat grinder?
this is interesting. Seems Burney holds a unique position – being a descendent of both the oppressed (Aboriginal) and colonial oppressors (American slavery) via the Sinclair family line.
That website has done a lot of good work – they ran one post about the lack of any evidence of any “Frontier Wars”, and they’ve got an article in the making about “Frontier massacres that never happened.”
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What is it with greenies that they imagine a fairytale world where the weather is the same all the time, and everything is in perfect harmony? Watching too many movies and video games?
Migratory birds from around the world flock to South Australia’s internationally important Coorong region made famous by the movie Storm Boy.
Key points:
High flows from the Murray have led to flooded nesting sites, increased nutrients and lower salinity than usual
Scientists say water flows into the wetlands should be better regulated
The flooding is expected to be good for some larger birds and sea grasses
But scientists say the River Murray flood has been “disastrous” for the region’s bird species, prompting urgent calls for better management and intervention of the river system.
Nesting sites of the region’s rarest and most vulnerable bird species have been flooded, while an algal bloom is also limiting the food source for migratory shorebirds that flock to the region near the Murray Mouth to feed over summer.
University of Adelaide ecologist David Paton said the impact of the flood could have been prevented.
“We’re probably sitting at a third of the numbers we counted last year and that’s probably more like one 10th of what it should be,” Dr Paton told ABC News.
“That’s a direct result of the high water.
“Very few of the birds using this Coorong are not declining and this just adds another little nail in their coffin.
“There’s not enough flow coming down in all the intervening years before these big floods that then protect it a little bit from over-flooding which is happening this year.”
So much for ‘nature, red in tooth and claw.’
Now we have ‘over-flooding’ and presumably ‘under-flooding’. Idiots.
The floods that have been coming down at intervals for thousands of years were all good, but suddenly they’re not. These people would try to convert lions to vegetarianism. They have NFI about the real world.
But ‘scientists say’, according to TheirABC.
Question: are ‘scientists’ above or below ‘experts’ in the ABC hierarchy?
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The other problem with Burney’s statement is, of course, that she is 50% Scottish.
What is the other 25%? She is definitely only a quarter or less Abo.
If they really want to go the “we must bow to Indigenes”, route, I believe only the full bloods should have any say. After all, once you add milk to black coffee, it is never black coffee anymore. 😉
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Wait till the Huguenots get their class action going!
None of the “adults in the room” apart from Macron seem to have made any sort of effort to negotiate a settlement or even put out feelers for peace.
Instead both mobs are happy to grind away slaughtering thousands, nearly a year into a “limited 2 week operation” by Vlads mob.
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“…prompting urgent calls for better management and intervention of the river system.”
NOW you want better management? So all those changes where GovCo was buying water rights for environmental flows were bad then? We should have been keeping behind dams for farmers and only when it got really full, empty the dam some for environmental flows, is that it? Like we wanted all along and you said “No”?
“It it doesn’t rain we’ll be rooned!”
“If it doesn’t stop raining, we’ll be rooned!”
This “scientist” isn’t perchance named Hanrahan, is (s)he?
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It’s all happening in the Alice:
Two employees of a Braitling business have been assaulted following an armed aggravated robbery, police say. One of the workers gave chase to the group of suspects before his car collided with the alleged offenders’ vehicle.
Police believe the events started after a group of up to five males entered the business on Herbert Heritage Drive, Braitling, at 11am Sunday. They allegedly threatened a female employee with an edged weapon before physically assaulting her and stealing her phone, along with alcohol.
The group then fled the scene in a red Holden commodore.
A male employee gave chase to the suspects in his white Toyota ute, soon colliding with the commodore on the Stuart Highway near the intersection of Basso Road. Police say the commodore’s occupants threatened the man with an edged weapon before assaulting him with a blunt weapon.
They fled the area on foot while the man was treated for facial injuries.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Janice Kershaw said the business was unlawfully entered on Saturday night.
and
A woman will undergo surgery after suffering multiple stab wounds in an alleged domestic violence attack in Alice Springs.
Police said the incident occurred just after 10pm on Van Senden Ave.
The man and woman were known to each other, police said, with the alleged stabbing being treated as a domestic violence incident. Police said the woman’s injuries were serious.
The man was expected to be charged upon his release from hospital for treatment of wounds believed to be self-inflicted.
and
Police are holding out hopes a 30-year-old woman last seen running into bushland along an outback highway a week ago is still alive, as they continue to search an area north-west of Alice Springs.
Angie Fuller, 30, was last seen along the Tanami Road north-west of Alice Springs on Monday
Her boyfriend is assisting police with their inquiries
Helicopters, a drone and 20 police officers have so far searched 240 square kilometres of bushland
Angie Fuller was last spotted along the Tanami Road, 15 kilometres west of the intersection with the Stuart Highway, on Monday by her boyfriend.
A search and rescue operation comprising of 20 police officers, as well as helicopters and a drone, has been underway since Wednesday.
Acting Superintendent Rob Engels on Sunday said the search-and-rescue team had already scoured 240 square km of scrubland looking for her.
and in Darwin:
Darwin ice cream shop owner Johnn Koenig said he and his staff have had their lives threatened, been sworn at and been spat on while at work.
NT retail workers have seen an 85 per cent increase in abuse directed at them in the last 12 months
Frustrated by his current situation , Mr Koenig is considering an unlikely adjustment to his business
“I’d be the only gelati shop in the world to have security on premises,” he said.
For Mr Koenig, the anti-social behaviour is getting to a point that is out of control.
“People get spat on, abused, knives pulled out on them — it’s pretty scary at times,” he said.
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The current survival rate of this adult version of Squid Game would be interesting. How many of them last six months inside the Ukraine meat grinder?
I know, right. Let’s think about anything apart from what this is costing the Ukrainians.
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ALP government:
Two employees of a Braitling business have been assaulted following an armed aggravated robbery
A woman will undergo surgery after suffering multiple stab wounds
he and his staff have had their lives threatened, been sworn at and been spat on while at work.
NT retail workers have seen an 85 per cent increase in abuse directed at them in the last 12 months
I’d be the only gelati shop in the world to have security on premises
NZ:
An alleged mass brawl on a Wellington bus has sparked calls for a dedicated team of transport officers to keep commuters safe.
Multiple people were injured in an aggravated robbery on a Wellington bus on Friday.
Keep voting Labor.
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After all, once you add milk to black coffee, it is never black coffee anymore
It was explained to me, by a very patronizing “activist” that Aboriginality is like tea – no matter how much milk you add, it’s still tea. I remembered the biting scorn of “full bloods” for “yellafella’s”
and kept my own counsel.
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m0ntysays:
January 16, 2023 at 3:03 pm
The Russian convicts that survived allegedly got free pardons.
The current survival rate of this adult version of Squid Game would be interesting. How many of them last six months inside the Ukraine meat grinder?
Hop over there, and research the matter, as your contribution to the Great War on Wussian Imperialism which you called for a while ago.
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Shaken and stirred.
Yesterday, while walking in Lappland down a snowy pathway from the rather wonderful reindeer-drawn sleigh ride in a classic wooden sleigh through a small almost mystic forest of birch and fir I took a tumble on an icy patch and landed on my rear end coccyx and banging my head head against the downward slope.
I saw stars and had ringing in my ears, just as depicted in the cartoons. A weird feeling, in a split second knowing you were falling, copping the fall, and then thwack, coshed hard on the back of the head. I was interested to note that only a minute or two later a similar tumble on the same spot was achieved by a large young man in his twenties, so it wasn’t just me, at eighty, taking a wrong step. Later the staff came and chipped up that icey peril, a hazard on overused snowy paths at Santa’s village in Rovanieme beyond the Arctic Circle. I have been very careful to watch the path when walking since that. Meanwhile, Hairy ushered me into Santa’s Post Office for somewhere to sit recovering, where we eventually wrote postcards to the grandchildren.
Prior to this we had entered a large teepee and sat on reindeer skins in a circled group of benches around a welcome log fire flaring in a large stone hearth. The chimney over it was a non-traditional invention, replacing the open hole to the sky of the original Sami huts. A Shaman then inducted us into the Arctic Circle; a piece of commercial theatre of course, but he was a genuine Sami who took it fairly seriously. Dressed in an authentic reindeer hide outfit, he had used his hand drum to lead us into the tepee, then he annointed each of us with soot on our foreheads between our eyes, for luck, and sang a rather touching love song in Sami with his far-away eyes to the further beat of his drum.
Using soot as a facial ritual is very authentic indeed. I have known it in my researches as a tradition long-held across Scotland and in all of the cultures of the European ice-age hunters. Fire is of course the essence of life in these cultures. Our shaman said that the wood is the food of the fire, the orange glow is the heart of it, the flames are the brain of the fire, and the smoke was the spirit of the fire. That all rang fairly true as well.
I am always struck in such places, as I was in the Mayan site in Guatemala, of the way in which the old religious rituals still have a place and meaning in continual practice to those long-since Christianised. Rovaneime is a case in point with its ‘Christmas all year’ commercialisation that recalls the myths turned fairy tales of a previous cosmology. Here the ancient god Paternus Redrut (the red-coated father, as the Romans called him) lives on in the Santa imagery, with his array of elves, during the winter period, where as Hairy puts it, there are two forms of light: dark, and almost dark. Given that we were less than a month away from the mid-winter solstice, the Christmas period of the northern region, it was still a delight to experience the array of lights in the darkening skies that this site produced in all of its modern glory with LED lights threaded through a myriad of trees, including the grand fir at the entrance. Everything was lit and sparkling and one could see in the children’s delight the wonder of it all. The clientele were thoroughly international – Germans, Swiss, French, a few Brits, a strong Spanish/South American contingent, Danes and other Nordics, and Americans. We flew in from Helsinki with a roistering group of German males headed for the ski slopes, who had hit the airport schnapps before boarding, and who didn’t desist even during the safety talk as the air hostess gamely carried on. The airport was decked out as an eternal Christmas, and excited children ran around in pretty snow gear. Take the grandies and enjoy, was our feeling about it all.
For our part, we love the northern climes and experiences. Dog sledding today with genuine huskies, and a visit to an Arctic Zoo. The food in our hotel ‘half board’ has been excellent too, fish and meat and many salads and vegetable patties, with warming soups.
I am up early having had wild dreams most of the night as my assaulted neurones resort themselves. I see my eyes rather glossy in the bathroom mirror, intensely blue with a, to me, noticable black centre pupil; Hairy doesn’t think my pupils were unresponsive last night, but I think they may still be a little enlarged. Perhaps I have been slightly concussed, mildly nauseous before dinner last night, but I think I am AOK to go now. The Shaman says his sooty mark will bring me luck, and I am putting my faith in that today.
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I can’t recall the “gas is bad” being on the drawing board pre Covid.
Not sure of the exact timeline, but banning gas stoves has been on the agenda in California for quite a while. At least a couple of years – and it didn’t spring out of nowhere. These moves are part of strategies planned well in advance.
I remember commenting a couple of years ago that the California glitterati wouldn’t appreciate their favourite restaurants being unable to produce their fave yummies, which require gas stoves. But, no doubt, exemptions (e.g. grandfathering) would be granted to those in the charmed circle.
As is common, the Left have backed off from the ambit claim, but there are many sneaky ways to keep moving forward. RINOs will be going along to get along.
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these people would convert lions to vegetarianism.
This is from a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide a few days ago…
Overall, it seems the jury is still out on whether feeding our carnivorous four-legged friends vegan diets is actually safe.
What we can be certain about is that both strong pro- or anti vegan pet feeding arguments are potentially misguided, and not backed by evidence.
For now, owners committed to feeding their pets a vegan diet should take a cautious approach. Use a complete and balanced commercial vegan diet formulation, and schedule regular health checks with a veterinarian.
My cautious approach to this topic is to think this lady and her colleagues are nuts.
The village of Lucerat near Cologne should be evacuated and destroyed, because lignite is to be mined there (by the way: they suddenly forgot the “green” agenda). Residents came out to protest, and the police DECIDEDLY decided to prevent them from doing so.
This video is hilarious.
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Not sure of the exact timeline, but banning gas stoves has been on the agenda in California for quite a while.
Shills for ‘Big Electric Stove’.
Once everyone has changed over Big Gas Range and Hood will send their lobbyists off to Sacramento with their pockets bulging with cash.
You read it here first, folks!
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Hey Driller, you nincompoop. This doesn’t stand out as odd?
NT retail workers have seen an 85 per cent increase in abuse directed at them in the last 12 months
None of the “adults in the room” apart from Macron seem to have made any sort of effort to negotiate a settlement or even put out feelers for peace.
Instead both mobs are happy to grind away slaughtering thousands, nearly a year into a “limited 2 week operation” by Vlads mob.
It’s a bit hard to negotiate peace between two sides as far apart as these. They have both convinced themselves that they are fighting an existential war.
It has all the hallmarks of a very long campaign, unfortunately. On the Russian side, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of men. On the Ukraine side, a seemingly inexhaustible (American) supply of materiel to kill them with.
Absent a successful Operation Valkyrie, it’s hard to see how it will end soon. For those rumbling about Putin’s deposer being worse, I doubt they could keep the Potemkin state apparatus together without Putin.
Liz
Should old folk be hanging around Lappland in the middle of winter? Just asking for a friend. What the hell are you doing in that external freezer? Get out of there. Jump on a plane and head to warmer climes.
Tell me you’re not chasing some long lost ancestry from 2000 years ago ?
You’re not kidding. Love it when the monk gets pushy at the end.
Wait till the Huguenots get their class action going!
I should be first in line. My paternal Huguenot ancestors fleeing persecutions from the killing sprees of the Spanish Duke of Alba in Flanders in the late C16th and early C17th were hounded by the burning of their new homes in Norfolk, with murder and other violence, by the local peasantry. They’d had the hide to settle on land they had helped legally to create by fen draining and were sent scurrying down in fear of their lives to an Abbey in Essex for safety. They lost everything.
Compo. Compo. Compo. It’s only fair.
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Addit:
Everyone gets representation, except for the Canbra Aboriginal Mob – they are demanding two. And they are demanding the second voice based on race, and their own self selection.
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JCsays:
January 16, 2023 at 4:11 pm
Hey Driller, you nincompoop. This doesn’t stand out as odd?
NT retail workers have seen an 85 per cent increase in abuse directed at them in the last 12 months
85% ?
These “stats” usually come from a union survey, and aimed at some sort of payday.
They never record empirical evidence of actual cases of abuse.
Absent a successful Operation Valkyrie, it’s hard to see how it will end soon. For those rumbling about Putin’s deposer being worse, I doubt they could keep the Potemkin state apparatus together without Putin.
Without saying anything good about Putin, youd hope if he was deposed someone could hold the shit show together.
Im not sure a balkanized Russia with a new fleet of “‘Stans” abound its edges would be an improvement.
Both “sides” need to be induced to cut their losses.
The longer it goes on the more existential the war becomes to both of them.
Its unfortunate but the only “side” it appears (short of NATO actually intervening, and by a miracle nukes not getting lobbed) able to be pressured appears to be Ukraine.
If there is a pressure point for Russia which hasnt been pressed yet then press those as well.
Ending up with a North/South korea style DMZ would be preferable to continuing slaughter and the risks of nuclear brinkmanship.
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For those rumbling about Putin’s deposer being worse, I doubt they could keep the Potemkin state apparatus together without Putin.
m0nty=fa, BEc (Failed), BJ’ism, world renowned geopolitical eggspurt, Henry Kissinger’s favourite acolyte, has delivered his judgement.
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Sanchez
Whenever I see yuge scary percentages without the background raw number I always call bullshit. It’s a scare tactic meant to energise innumerates . And of course they caught one.
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mole
Ending up with a North/South korea style DMZ would be preferable to continuing slaughter and the risks of nuclear brinkmanship.
The usual UN solution, but for some strange reason, the UN has been very silent on this occasion.
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A day of contrasts:
12:00 At the Bunnings service desk, listening to Mr & Mrs Maggot trying to return Christmas lights – apparently unused, but strangely packed and overflowing the boxes.
12:45 At the Bahn Mi Corner – a family run business – a sign:
Due to the staff shortage our new hours are
9:00am to 8:30pm Mon to Sun
Thank you for your understanding
My understanding is who I’d prefer to share Australia with.
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Shills for ‘Big Electric Stove’.
Once everyone has changed over Big Gas Range and Hood will send their lobbyists off to Sacramento with their pockets bulging with cash.
So.
We are moving cars from petrol to electric.
We are moving cooking from gas to electric.
And we a blowing up coal power stations.
Going to get interesting when everyone arrives home at 6:00 pm on a still, overcast day, plugs in the Tesla, sets the air-con to “Lapland”, flicks on the 96″ flat screen TV and puts a lamb roast on.
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Both “sides” need to be induced to cut their losses.
The longer it goes on the more existential the war becomes to both of them.
Its unfortunate but the only “side” it appears (short of NATO actually intervening, and by a miracle nukes not getting lobbed) able to be pressured appears to be Ukraine.
Russia adds pressure by adding more troops. America adds pressure by adding more guns. I reckon Russia might run out of troops before the Yanks run out of guns.
Either way, Russia’s future is screwed for at least a generation. Ukraine’s also, but at least they will have Western money pouring in for their rebuild. The Chinese will have a gay old time turning Russia into a client state.
Housewives & other shoppers feel safe quite like knowing that whenever a machete is brandished in woolies the staff will respond swiftly.
Machetes? Aisle 3.
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I have Nordic ancestry JC but not chasing it here. Tell your friend, lol. I simply love to travel, and I love the landscapes of Finland and the Arctic. You are never too old for that. I am wrapping up warm in my furry hooded coat and fortunately I am still pretty flexible – you can’t clamber in and out of sleighs or take a fall like I had if you are not, and thankfully the few Kovid Kilos on my rear over the dance-toned butt came in useful in protecting me from the worst of the fall. My head is also pretty firmly protected in a skull still hard-boned enough to survive as my bones are in very good nick too.
I will toss away all such adventures when I feel I can no longer do them. And I do moderate things: not doing long walks across frozen snowy icefields in snowshoes any more. Nope, I said to Hairy when he suggested it. Did it in Canada five years ago, not up to it now. We are doing a sedate tour this time, all travel is by comfortable snow-tyred bus – eighty km to go this morning, so I am off to brekky first now!!
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So.
We are moving cars from petrol to electric.
We are moving cooking from gas to electric.
We put induction in the NY pad. It’s not bad and I love how it boils shit without a flame or the appearance of any heat. Call me inducted. 🙂 Not that I cook.
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Liz
You sound fit, but you’re going to kill the dude in that freezer. Get out of there. You shouldn’t be traveling there in the winter. And how gloomy when it’s 24 hour night time, which is would be great if someone is contemplating suicide. 🙂
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But even ignoring that, Aboriginals have had “self determination” for funding for at least 30 years, and the money doesn’t appear to be any better spent anyway – at least, they STILL keep saying they need more cash, and that things are still bad.
The Closing The Gap reforms rarely look likely to achieve anything that would meet such criteria. Building the community controlled sector puts more money into land councils, but that’s it. How does that close gaps?
The only way to get improvement is to get rid of career jobs, which only ever succeed in perpetuating the status quo. You need initiatives with strict timetables, strict funding and strict outcomes, all highly measurable.
I could fix just about any problem, but they would never let me because I might actually fix their problems. And they’d be out of work. And they can’t have that!
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2nd hand stuff out of California can be a bargain. A Pommy mate of mine picked up a cheap marine diesel that was made illegal and shipped it to the UK where it continues to kill polar bears to this day.
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We put induction in the NY pad. It’s not bad and I love how it boils shit without a flame or the appearance of any heat. Call me inducted. ? Not that I cook.
Don’t enable the bastards.
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City of Joondalup unreservedly apologises after complaints over family friendly Ziggy Ramo concert
Sarah MaksePerthNow – Joondalup
January 16, 2023 12:00PM
The City of Joondalup has “unreservedly” apologised to audience members of a free family friendly concert who “were offended by the language used and comments made” by headlining rapper and activist Ziggy Ramo at the weekend.
Ramo took to the stage at Mawson Park in Hillarys on Saturday night as part of the City’s Music in the Park series, a free summer event popular among local families.
The award-winning Perth-raised Indigenous hip-hop artist is known for his unflinching social commentary and raw lyrics on the injustices facing First Nations people.
His rendition of Paul Kelly’s From Little Things Big Things Grow went viral, reworking the Australian classic to address colonisation, systemic racism, genocide and Indigenous deaths in custody from a First Nations perspective.
Music in the Park attendees took to social media across the weekend to share their thoughts on the choice of performer for a concert promoted as a family friendly event.
Megan Phillipson posted her family left the event after a few songs.
“We love a diverse range of cultural and musical styles. Maybe having an ‘activist’ wasn’t the best choice for a family music event,” she wrote.
Bryan Archers posted the performance was “a total waste of ratepayers money”.
“I thought the lyrics of your star rapper were inappropriate for a family event . . . not the kind of music for most of the audience made up of young children, parents and grandparents,” he wrote.
Jessica Harvie posted her family “left early and disappointed”.
“Not appropriate or enjoyable music choices . . . for a family friendly event,” she wrote.
“My girls couldn’t dance to this music like we normally do at these wonderful family events.”
One attendee criticised the inclusion of Ramo’s song, April 25th, which questions how the country can celebrate parts of its history, like the Anzacs, while ignoring the decades of injustice endured by Aboriginal people.
One line urges people to “learn to love our blacks the way you love the Anzacs”.
In a statement posted to its Facebook page on Sunday, the City of Joondalup said it “unreservedly apologises to anyone who had a negative experience” at Saturday’s concert.
An aspiring activist and rapper……
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
January 16, 2023 at 4:21 pm
Wait till the Huguenots get their class action going!
I should be first in line. My paternal Huguenot ancestors
And on it goes, predictably. This working class bint blessed with good looks and a few brains has been going on and on about it for decades. Like nobody else ever made good, or had hard times.
You should be the first in line? Your usual view of the world. It’s all about me.
Tell us again why you should be first in line.
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The Critical Drinker (Piss Be Upon Him) put up a video about the deliberate denigration of manhood in movies and TV.
I would have liked to have simply put it in the comments on Cassie’s post It’s time to celebrate men and masculinity but worry that perhaps not many people are perusing posts all of 5 days old – and that would be a shame.
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JCsays:
January 16, 2023 at 4:26 pm
Sanchez
Whenever I see yuge scary percentages without the background raw number I always call bullshit.
It’s a survey tactic used by unions, HR consultants and anyone with a barrow to push.
They often don’t ask for an empirical rating (say, a score out of ten) because eventually it can’t go lower than 1. But if they frame questions as much worse-worse-same-better-much better as against last year, they can produce “much worse” results ad infinitum.
Which will require the remedy they have prepared earlier.
For example, if the hospitality union want to bash up hotel proprietors, they survey union members asking if bullying by management is the same, worse or much worse than last year.
And get the answer they want.
Russia adds pressure by adding more troops. America adds pressure by adding more guns. I reckon Russia might run out of troops before the Yanks run out of guns.
Reports from the US (and also from the UK and EU) suggest that your reckoning is incorrect.
Guns there might be (or might not – depends on whether the west are collectively willing to disarm their own armed forces while provoking Wussia), but ammunition is a growing (or, rather, shrinking) problem.
Stick to fantasy fooball.
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Aboriginality is like tea – no matter how much milk you add, it’s still tea.
I’ve had that crap pulled on me, usually by a cunning, well rehearsed, very bigoted but pedestrian intellect activist.
A cup that is 7/8 milk is definitely milk.
After that, try 15/16 milk & compare to a cup of tea.
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And on it goes, predictably. This working class bint blessed with good looks and a few brains has been going on and on about it for decades. Like nobody else ever made good, or had hard times.
The bonhomie and good humour continues unabated.
And to think you were advising Cassie about dinner party etiquette.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
January 16, 2023 at 4:35 pm
I have Nordic ancestry
FFS. How aristocratic! 🙂
Sad.
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Now now, Johanna.
My kidding around wasn’t meant to cause a ruckus. Let’s keep things nice. We need to be nice to each other.
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Queanbeyan Cow goes moo, predictably.
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The Beer whisperer says:
January 16, 2023 at 4:49 pm
We put induction in the NY pad. It’s not bad and I love how it boils shit without a flame or the appearance of any heat. Call me inducted. ? Not that I cook.
Don’t enable the bastards.
Dude,it was 3 plus years ago. How they hell did I know they were going to pull a ban. It’s really cool though. You can move the pot anywhere and keeps it boiling.
Wifey is impressed but you need new pots though so we wouldn’t get it here.
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I am up early having had wild dreams most of the night as my assaulted neurones resort themselves. I see my eyes rather glossy in the bathroom mirror, intensely blue with a, to me, noticable black centre pupil; Hairy doesn’t think my pupils were unresponsive last night, but I think they may still be a little enlarged. Perhaps I have been slightly concussed, mildly nauseous before dinner last night, but I think I am AOK to go now. The Shaman says his sooty mark will bring me luck, and I am putting my faith in that today.
Wonderful imagery, Lizzie! Love the stories of dog-sledding and shamans. Have sledded in Colorado and just loved it. Few of the mad skiers take the time – I know of one couple who have made the ski pilgrimage for 30 years and have never gone dog sledding.
As for shamans, came across one in Northern Thailand and we drank corn whiskey with him. He scared the life out of me.
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A lot of Cats show signs of sniffing nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves and ingesting lead from paint on their toys in their childhoods.
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Expect an announcement any day that ideological double agent Steve Price will quit the 10 Network’s leftard talking points current affairs show The Project after he was hired to present the 5pm hour on Sky News Australia.
As TV stars return from their holiday breaks, Price replaces Chris Kenny, who has been shafted into the 8pm hour, where Sky’s other ratings failures, like Piers Morgan, go to die (though Morgan retains his multi-squillion-dollar contract to present a daily show on Ruperdink Mudrock’s global TV stations).
Price’s daily radio current affairs show on the Triple M regional network has also just been cancelled.
Peta Credlin’s 6pm show and Andrew Blot’s 7pm hour resume tonight on Sky, while the network is trying out a new opinion show at 10pm called the Late Debate hosted by James McPherson, Liz Storer and Caleb Bond after Paul Murray’s 9pm hour.
Meanwhile, 10’s US owners are determined to stick with the network’s money-losing tax dodge formula targeting millenials, a commercial disaster because they hate spending money on the consumer white goods that advertisers flock to 7 and 9 to flog.
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Will we be getting a new thread soon, Dover? The stitching’s almost complete now.
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lot of Cats show signs of sniffing nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves and ingesting lead from paint on their toys in their childhoods.
Never deviate from the narrative, no matter how f’cking dumb it is.
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Tuesday midnight is the new ditching hour, I think.
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Aboriginality is like tea – no matter how much milk you add, it’s still tea.
I have heard that trope before also. Whichever way they try to spin it though, it’s called white tea or white coffee.
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Machetes? Aisle 3.
Price check on a Uzi sub machine gun.
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I should say midnight Tuesday morning. Like, in 6 1/2 hours.
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Okay. I’ll do a bit more. Whirrrr…whirrrrr. Ooops!
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Stick to fantasy fooball.
Don’t discourage him! His military analysis is hilarious! Narrative laden with a heavy sprinkling of tank stupidity!
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At the risk of causing a major eruption … JC, what odds the privatised Sydney Airport will be put up for IPO* at, say, $12-$13 a share (equivalent)?
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Can it be an IPO, given it has been floated once before?
Significant drop last year from statistical average…
Anyone with any theories?
I have a few… some sort of infertility side effect I suspect…
If this trend remains, it is extremely worrying.
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Monty – what you know of chemistry could be written on the back of a small postage stamp.
If you’ve worked out who I am by now, which is likely, and if you’ve seen my publications you’ll know why I’m more than usually amused by your ignorance.
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Anybody listening to Indigenous hip hop deserves to be offended.
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Sancho Panzer says:
January 16, 2023 at 5:31 pm
At the risk of causing a major eruption … JC, what odds the privatised Sydney Airport will be put up for IPO* at, say, $12-$13 a share (equivalent)?
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Can it be an IPO, given it has been floated once before?
STFU sanchez.
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Don’t discourage him! His military analysis is hilarious
mUnty and Groogs on international geopolitics usually brings the LOLs.
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STFU sanchez.
Shall we put you on the mailing list for a prospectus?
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Bear
You need to ease up on Eddles. He’s the best spook and flamer detector we have. He’s irreplaceable.
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Guys
You are kidding right, about Syd?
At the risk of causing a major eruption … JC, what odds the privatised Sydney Airport will be put up for IPO* at, say, $12-$13 a share (equivalent)?
Sancho. Sydney airport is a licence to print money, which is why JC has shares.
It’ll make little difference to SACL’s profitability when the new Sydney west airport opens in 2026. The new airport will simply provide the capacity for the Sydney market to expand, retarded until now by Sydney airport’s monopoly price-gouging.
I’m not sure how a new IPO would work, but my guess is that it would be a raging success.
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JCsays:
January 16, 2023 at 5:51 pm
Guys
You are kidding right, about Syd?
Totally based on nothing.
Just idle speculation.
But it would be a tasty earn for all involved, buying it for $8.50 and floating it for $12.
Of course, they would ‘pea and thimble’ it by issuing twice as many shares at $6.
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You are kidding right, about Syd?
Yep. Why would you sell it?
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Expect an announcement any day that ideological double agent Steve Price will quit the 10 Network’s leftard talking points current affairs show The Project after he was hired to present the 5pm hour on Sky News Australia.
Price is ok; when he was on radio with bolta he’d hang up on me regularly and apologise later after other callers called him out. He’s arguably the ugliest man on tele.
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Sancho. Sydney airport is a licence to print money, which is why JC has shares.
Not any more he doesn’t, says Sancho, emptying the salt cellar into the gaping wound.
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H B Bearsays:
January 16, 2023 at 6:00 pm
You are kidding right, about Syd?
Yep. Why would you sell it?
If you were forced to by a Scheme of Arrangement to take it private.
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Hang on…didn’t she grow up with white family members?
Why, yes…a white great aunt and uncle raised her.
Did they not include her on the census form because she was of mixed race?
Who cares, Roger?
It’s Linda Burney.
I’d like to hear someone speak up for the Constitution of 1901.
Why was the Federal Government allowed to make laws for any Race, excluding Aborigines?
Was that a clause that was helpful to Aborigines?
Why weren’t Full Blooded Aborigines counted in the Census?
Was that a good thing?
Because all we’re bombarded with is bullshit about the 1967 referendum, which hasn’t had any positive outcomes for Aborigines that I’m aware of?
I see Bain Capital is thinking about re-floating Virgin.
That was what got me thinking about Sydney Airport.
If you were forced to by a Scheme of Arrangement to take it private.
Yep, just reminding JC of his Corps Law obligations.
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Tom
They took it away from my cold hands. I was heading to the afterlife with that stock and that piece of shit , Gonsky gave it away to his union buddies. I knew the day he was made chairman it was going to be a terrible ride. He’s a corrupt arsehole. I hope he chokes on a lettuce leaf.
I’m not bignoting as this is the closest thing that’s brought me to tears when the accountant called to tell me my tax bill payable by 15th June this year.
It’s an extraordinary thing that you’re forced to cough up tax when you’ve owned the stock for 15 plus years- went through the GFC , covid and the ATO wants a cut of the vig.
Tears!
It was a very emotional time for me.
Little Johnny Howard’s protege Mick Trumble said as much- the laws of Australia supersede the laws of mathematics.
never though of doing that.
in Aust, one cubic meter of Nat Gas is about 38 MJ/m3 -> about 10kWh
how much gas does Aust use every year ?
But, but, how about those Catholics!!!
Here are some numbers from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission report, which finds Australians living in disability group homes have been involved in more than 7000 reportable incidents in the past four years.
More than 1700 of those incidents involved a serious injury to a participant, more than 1200 involved neglect, while there were 960 cases of unlawful physical contact and 112 of unlawful sexual contact, AAP reports.
The figures are startling given fewer than 20,000 Australians live in disability group homes.
NDIS minister Bill Shorten said the government was supporting changes to regulation and monitoring of supported accommodation on ABC RN this morning. The Albanese government’s first budget included $167 billion in NDIS funding across four years.
I expect the head of the NDIS will be called to account and Vicpol will run ads in local papers trawling for allegations of past misdeeds?
In keeping with apparently standard practices of institutional abuse.
You’ll have 24 delegates representing 300+ mobs.
Good luck.
The links by Indolent at 08.08 and 08.18 are particularly interesting.
The military one is based on article by Oz Dr Phillip Altman and is a collation of information from many sources. The other relates to Drs arguing against continued boostering of US Uni students at risk of more harm from the vaccine.
Linda Burney, repeating the same tired old bullsh!t about how Aborigines weren’t counted in the population until the 1967 referendum.
Tee hee. I bet they’re sweating. Not just over the Che and Mao t-shirts either. There must be reams of photos hiding in cupboards under the stairs.
ADF running recruitment campaign for last 2 months.
Warmongering on Sky News Global Affairs:
* ‘Highly desirable’: Calls for Australia to ‘step up’ support for Ukraine and send tanks
* Ukraine winning war is ‘in the interest of Australians’
It’s. Beginning. To look a lot. Like. Blitzmas.
Miiiiiines in every porrrrrt.
Upthread, someone mentioned Elton and his current final waltz with Matilda.
WTF was Molly’s pants dropping all about ?
Has dementia got to him ? Or was it climate change ?
Perhaps the silly old poof just didn’t like being called a National Treasure. Neither would I when you look at the other old broken down treasures we have spawned here.
I wonder if he is not being careful not to expose himself to the reflexive accusations of raaaaacism from the left, which would play into the hands of the left because that would become how they characterise – across all their platforms and bully-pulpits – any opposition. This is all the more important because the rest of the Liberal team are such a lamentably craven lot who would gladly cede some of our sovereignty and a shedload of our children’s, their children’s, their children’s (ad infinitum) money to avoid bad press for a day.
Normal people who do not want to be branded raaaaacist will be able articulate the objections in the terms that Albo and Burnie are being so very cagey about what we would get.
It may also appeal to people who are in favour of the voice in principle, but balk at the lack of detail and what it will produce. ATSIC 2.0?
It would be very much uncommon form for any of the Libs to think so strategically, but maybe they serendipitously bumped into the idea while they were not watching where they were going and are beginning to perceive it is might work. The Voice seems not to be the pushover Albo and the rest of the Animal Farm thought it would be.
Gruinaid testing the waters of
“Yes there is excess deaths, but its the nasty Tories, not the vax” defense.
IMHO much of the excess deths is due to the governments reaction to covid, fearmongering, shutting hospitals restricting social interactions etc, designed to make people sicker before they even get near a medic.
Britain’s excess death rate is at a disastrous high – and the causes go far beyond Covid
Owen Jones
According to the Office for National Statistics, there have been about 170,000 excess deaths in England and Wales since the pandemic began. Most of these can be directly attributed to Covid-19 itself: after all, the virus’s name is scrawled on the death certificates of more than 212,000 UK citizens. Some of those who died may have been vulnerable or infirm, but in other circumstances years away from death. As the pandemic waned, we could have expected excess deaths to shift to below average levels over time. This has not happened.
By the beginning of last year, the number of deaths was similar to 2019. As the actuary Stuart McDonald points out, we had been through the worst of a pandemic in which many frail members of society died, and normally mortality falls year on year, so to only equal the death toll of 2019 was already indicative of a worrying trend.
Even this data uncovered something disturbing – higher death rates among relatively young adults, and as spring came, more dying than in 2019. And here’s the thing: while the dreadful Covid death toll continues to mount, many of these excess deaths are driven by other factors.
He has an acquired brain injury.
The NDIS.
A $167 bn rape train, I tells a yas!
Hang on…didn’t she grow up with white family members?
Why, yes…a white great aunt and uncle raised her.
Did they not include her on the census form because she was of mixed race?
Matrix, from googling consumption, it’s roughly 3,984,180 cubic metres.
Multiply by 10 and you get 39,841,800 kWh.
I assume that includes big users like brickworks and other manufacturing. The domestic only use is a little harder to find.
A $167 bn rape train, I tells a yas!
There are no budgetary restraints on the rape train!
It was bad, but not as bad as coal.
Then we had an “Oh, shit!” moment and it became a “transitional fuel”.
Now it is bad again.
Electricity is like anything else. If you create demand and choke supply, the price will go up.
A lot.
At first glance at the photo, I thought he was wearing long-johns that were three sizes too big.
An invitation?
Aborigines, including those of mixed race, have been counted in the census, ever since the first was taken in 1911. Linda Burney has gotten away with that claim, before, and never been called to account for it.
Big Nambas said:
Please remember the deonominator. Hundreds of millions of Sinovac jabs have been jabbed and so a small number of cardiac deaths will randomly co-occur with jabbing, not necessarily causal.
Assuming these cases have had jab attributed as cause properly, that implies it is not the mRNA that is the problem with the Sudden Deaths wave. It’s probably the spike protein of covid, so any method that supplies the whole spike to the body would have this side-effect.
This was the safety advantage of the protein subunit vaccines, which would only supply the Receptor Binding Domain of the spike, for immune system recognition, not the rest of the payload too.
Fill yer boots.
https://www.energy.gov.au/data/energy-consumption#:~:text=Fossil%20fuels%20%28coal%2C%20oil%20and%20gas%29%20accounted%20for,gas%20%2827%25%29.%20Renewable%20energy%20sources%20accounted%20for%207%25.<b
the CO2 emission factors are varied from time to time.
The ones here are from like 2015 so they may be a little different in 2023.
Elec Emission Factors (scope 2 + scope 3) -> 1.35 kg CO2-e/kWh
Gas Emmission Factor (scope 1 + 3) —–> 55.2 kg CO2-e /GJ
for 1 m3 of gas we get -> 0.001 x 38 x 55.2 -> 2.0976 kg.co3-e
for 10kWh of electrocity -> 10 x 1.35 -> 13.5 kg.co2-e
wow, I though CO2 was an evil disaster gas … asthma must be a really big problem
Quick! Cancel the Sydney Dance Company!
Environmental vandals! Reeeeeeee!
Thanks Diogenes. The one I saw had consumption in cubic feet, so had to do a bit of simple division and metric conversion. I would show you my workings but my iPad ate them. 😀
All those hours spent with Brasso, an old toothbrush
and a pair of Pusser’s crappies wasted.
Yes, prior to 1967 the Commonwealth relied on estimates of their indigenous populations from the states. Her claim is questionable at best, but the personal embellishment is the icing on the cake. The circumstances of her early life weren’t ideal, but she wasn’t growing up in a humpy by a creek outside the town limits. By her own account she didn’t meet her aboriginal family until 1984, when she was in her 30s.
Australia’s wokest prison now the most expensive and the most violent:
The new jail is the brainchild of former Labor ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, who was forced to defend the cost of the $130million facility which didn’t accept its first prisoners until 2009 despite being opened six months earlier in 2008.
Mr Stanhope described the Centre as ‘the most human rights-compliant, rehabilitation-focused prison in the world’.
The jail is the first in Australia purpose-built to meet human rights obligations and is also environmentally sustainable using recycled water, solar power and energy efficient insulation.
With such noble aims can come a hefty price tag, in early 2010 it was reported the cost of housing an inmate at the centre was $504 per day, which was twice the amount NSW was charging the ACT to take prisoners….
Perhaps most galling for a jail that has the express purpose of rehabilitation are the high rates of reoffending, causing some to label it a ‘revolving door’ prison with the same cohort of inmates repeatedly entering and leaving.
This is especially so for Indigenous prisoners, which the jail was set up to be culturally appropriate for, with 94 per cent of released Aboriginal detainees ending up back in the cells, according to a recent report.
And violent too – Daily Mail
1 568.2 [PJ] -> 4.356111 ×10^11 [kWh]
Kelvin seems to have missed the point that “someone else making decisions on our behalf because they think they know what is best for us” is exactly* what Uncle Luigi is proposing. Once the Voice gets up and Parliament starts making up the rules to give it effect, the Buyer’s Remorse around the communities will be endless.
(* The only slight qualifier is that Albanese is trying to do what is best for his politics.)
Perhaps Matt realises that without Perrottet decoy operation people will see the Liberals as being made up of Matt Kean – and he knows that won’t end well. Why vote for Labor/Green Lite when you can vote for the real thing.
I shall dip my toe into the ethical pool here. What is the big deal? A bloke at the age of 21, at a party with his mates, dressed up in what will have been seen as a shocking costume – precisely the effect all his mates would have been going for. Point was that it was with his mates, people he knew, whose opinions he knew, and had a pretty good idea how they would take it. Did he use it as a talking point to espouse Nazi ideas? Or did everyone gasp and snicker, then get drunk? He might have made a few jokes demanding people show him ‘zer papers’ and such.
Is there any indication he would have worn it to a public event, among people whose reactions he would not know?
And he was 21! Everyone has been a bit of a dag at that age. I don’t know how much he knew of history – that would be something to take up with his teachers and parents.
Why is everyone expected to apologise for what they did in private (for which I would include among friends) when they were 21?
Tell you what, though. I bet some of the people complaining wore Che T-shirts knowing full well what a monster he was.
Dr King.
Porn star.
By now, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new Boston sculpture “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple.
safe for work, but seriously, this is a tragic “sculpture”.
Eat the bugs…err, soylent charms?
https://www.goodranchers.com/blog/new-government-funded-foodpyramid-says-lucky-charms-are-healthier-than-steak
Well, not quite everyone…yet.
But I can see the woke warming to struggle sessions.
thefrollickingmole says:
January 16, 2023 at 10:32 am
I’m seeing it, but not believing it.
How would one know it’s about M L King?
I’m pretty sure what was considered public life in ancient Greece to be a bit different from today’s grifter class. And they didn’t take everyone’s money to dole out to mates for votes all while claiming compassion for their theft, grift and extortion.
Close then. My starting figure was from 2019.
Lordy! No wonder the lady is upset.
Looks like Wagner Group has thrown enough convicts at Soledar to take it. The piles of Russian bodies would be higher than the rubble at this point.
Another good day for Russian generals to fight amongst themselves.
Looks more like a sweet potato. What was his pet name for his wife? 😀
Oops…no wonder the gentleman is upset.
A bunch of white cat ladies love black men, but only their notorious penises. They think of them still as slaves but with a bit of side action to keep the ladies happy.
Bourne1879 at 12:49 – have got a mate who works for Twiggy (ostensibly on another project, not Sun Cable). As I essentially worked for/with a one man band entrepreneur we both have a few laughs when we catch up. Half the time they don’t even know where he is. You suspect this won’t be the last one to fall over. He’s got a lot of balls in the air.
The CDC Says What?
On Friday, January 13th, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent out a press release announcing something-or-other having to do with the Pfizer COVID vaccine and ischemic strokes. I say “something-or-other” because most Americans have no idea what the CDC was trying to say. Most Americans do not get press releases from the CDC, they find out about these things through the news media.
And look what happened here:
. Reuters headlined their story U.S. FDA, CDC see early signal of possible Pfizer bivalent COVID shot link to stroke
. The New York Post said CDC investigating whether Pfizer COVID vaccine increases stroke risk for people over 65
. POLITICO had it that CDC, FDA see possible link between Pfizer’s bivalent shot and strokes
. CNBC’s version was Pfizer Covid booster likely doesn’t carry seniors’ stroke risk: CDC
. Yahoo News was definitive: CDC and FDA find no increased risk of ischemic stroke for elderly who get Pfizer’s bivalent booster
. In Santa Ana, the OC Register told its readers Pfizer bivalent COVID vaccine investigated for possible link to strokes
. Covering all the bases, CNN said that CDC identifies possible safety issue with Pfizer’s updated Covid-19 vaccine but says people should still get boosted
I went to the CDC site and read their press release so that you don’t have to.
Forbes probably had the closest approximation to what the CDC intended with CDC Exploring Possible But Unlikely Link Between Covid-19 Bivalent Booster And Strokes. RedState’s Teri Christoph got close with CDC Finally Admits to ‘Safety Concern’ Over COVID Vaccines which is neither particularly alarming nor definitive.
The CDC obviously missed the mark with this announcement since they caused a small army of Professional Journalists with degrees and stuff to scatter in all directions and tell the public totally contradictory things.
My question is: How many times has this happened?
I tripped over this because some clown on Twitter was trying to say that the CDC announced an investigation, and then published their conclusions, on the same day. Looking at the headlines above, I can see how somebody could think that. But I spent too many years working around government bureaucrats to believe that they did anything that fast. I went looking to find out what was going on.
This is horrible. No wonder the public is confused. We have a news media peopled by “reporters” who don’t understand what they are reading and do not realize that and so do not ask questions. They just go right ahead and say that the vaccine is linked to stroke. Or it isn’t. Or maybe it is but you should get it anyway.
And when they get done making a hash of the news from the medical front, they’ll tell us how the economy works.
Beetleburgers are next big thing Dot.
‘Tastes Just Like Real Meat’ – Beetleburgers to Hit Mass Production to Help Feed the World (15 Jan)
Tofu is so last millennium.
MatrixTransform says:
January 16, 2023 at 9:55 am
how much gas does Aust use every year ?
At what pressure?
Like most works of contemporary “art”, it requires an “interpreter” to explain the artist’s intent.
Who can resist the siren sounds of Boomer geriatric rock revenue. Got sent a link for $130 standing room tickets to clapped out junkie Paul Kelly (for a laugh).
Presumably “mealworm burger” didn’t go down well with the marketing focus groups.
Anyway…would you like fries with that?
The Importance of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached a New Low in Seeking to Bar Daughter From Using His Name
In Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest,” the main character’s search for his true name comes to a head when he finally demands “would you kindly inform me who I am?” In an astonishing filing this week, Hunter Biden answered that question for his four-year-old daughter Navy Joan and effectively declared “you are no Biden.”
Hunter Biden’s disgraceful treatment of his daughter has long been on display in Arkansas where he long denied being her father, fought paternity, and was threatened with contempt of court over his failure to supply needed documents. After DNA testing was forced by a court, Hunter was found to be the father but he continued to resist efforts to force him to pay child support and supply financial records.
Recently, Lunden Roberts sought to have a surname change for her daughter to Biden. Even after his long and abusive treatment of his daughter in court, Hunter Biden’s opposition is breathtaking. He opposes his daughter using his name and says that, if she does, she will never have a “peaceful existence.”
Of course, Biden did not feel that way with his other four children. They are all true Bidens and living peaceful existences. It is only Navy Joan who he does not want to bear the family name.
Hunter’s concern for Navy Joan’s peaceful existence is a bit odd since he has reportedly never even seen his daughter after fighting for years to deny his paternal status and child support.
While living in a luxurious mansion in Malibu, Hunter continued to fight his obligations under child support and requested in September 2022 to have the payments lowered, bemoaning how his “financial circumstances” were difficult for him. The public pays more for his security in his mansion than he does in monthly support for his daughter.
Hunter is asking Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer to deny Navy Joan the ability to use her father’s surname and claiming that it is in her best interest. The filing is so self-serving and transparently dishonest that it does what was once thought impossible: reach a new low for Hunter. All of his reported selfies having sex and doing drugs with prostitutes were shocking. His attacks on his former sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, widow of the deceased brother (with whom Hunter later had a romantic relationship), were appalling. However, the craven effort to deny this child his name reaches a level of cad that stands unrivaled.
The position of Hunter in court has been disgraceful, but the media has largely ignored the matter. It has also ignored the utter lack of support from President Joe Biden and the First Lady, who tellingly omitted a stocking for Navy Joan as one of their grandchildren. (The dog and cat did receive stockings).
There is no record that Joe or Jill Biden have ever sought to meet, let alone embrace, their grandchild. The President has, however, sought to deny the child security protection (despite his son’s concern for her “peaceful existence”).
Joe Biden has long campaigned against “deadbeat Dads” but when a Fox reporter asked about Hunter’s refusal to pay child support, President Biden snapped at him and refused to answer the question on the “personal matter.” (The media also ignored Hunter’s deadbeat dad record in fawning interviews about this “bravery” in writing a book on his life).
The Victorian Gas Substitution Roadmap is a rare instance of Gummint strategic planning.
Household gas consumption is a big deal in chilly Victoria – more than 70% of homes are connected to mains gas and average residential gas consumption in Victoria is around 50 GJpa, as compared to NSW (18 GJ), SA (16 GJ), and Qld (7 GJ). Given rapidly developing gas supply constraints (Bass Strait production and Eastern Australian pipeline capacity limits) and the looming need for massive amounts of gas to prop up renewables – a political disaster awaits unless [ahem] ‘demand management’ is applied.
So, rather than allowing citizens to burn gas and complain at the ballot box about huuuge bills and ‘no gas days’ (hi, ‘smart’ gas meters) because renewables – it’s
much less transparentmuch better to have them buy electricity generated by the same molecules being burned, just as inefficiently, by backup OC gas turbines.Virtue signaling is a bonus.
Problem first sighted in 2007.
In good hands.
Mixed with sugar?
Mixed with sugar!!!?
What devilry is that?
Will nobody think of the children…
Weird how it went from Soledar is the rock that’ll break the Orcs
to Soledar isn’t that important
to withdrawing from Bakhmut before the MSR comes under direct fire might be prudent.
Sugar for “health” foods.
I’m done, after yesterday’s “alleged potential witnesses”, my BS meter is broken.
Victoriastan has already has experience of gas substitution when the Lonreach gas plant “didn’t” blow up.
Which means if you’re not elderly your risk of stroke just went through the roof. Soz.
Fun Site – https://portal.spatial.nsw.gov.au/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2536c8e4882140eb957e90090cb0ef97
Rugby Australia, “We’re sorry Eddie. Will this help?” *Shuffling sounds in background*
in Aust consumer Nat Gas is regulated to ~1.1 kPa
anyways, we’re only guessing here
Is there a processed food made in USA that isn’t mixed with a sweetener?
Iirc a dietitician in Oz recently pointed out, citing the label information, that a lot of processed “health” foods and meat substitutes are demonstrably worse for the consumer’s health than whole foods or meat.
Bug Mac
WSJ paywalled
The War in Ukraine Will Be Long. Is the West Ready?
Time could be on Russia’s side if the U.S. and its allies don’t adjust to a prolonged conflict
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls… Dumb Things.
First chance of a “big breakfast” since being down at Horsham.
Ordered eggs beni with a side of hash browns only to be told there’s a world wide shortage of potatoes and hash browns are being rationed as a side offering.
I could have them with a “big breakfast” because they are part of the list of items for that dish but not as a side with any other.
No further proof that the end of days is upon us is needed, IMHO.
Comment, from the Oz, on the subject of the “Voice.”
Very good.
A large area, of what was potato farms in my youth, is now hobby farms.
Five year contract.
Fool me once…
Ross Lyon says the parachuting of star coaches is always a good idea. Even if you have to pay them out again in a few years. In fact, he recommends it.
Replacing pipes with cables for the transfer of energy.
My question is will the grid cope?
Then add on the EV demand.
I know the short answer but would be nice to see the figures.
Zipster says:
January 16, 2023 at 11:16 am
WSJ paywalled
The War in Ukraine Will Be Long. Is the West Ready?
Time could be on Russia’s side if the U.S. and its allies don’t adjust to a prolonged conflict
The war in Ukraine, it’s clear by now, won’t end soon. The bet in Moscow—and the fear in Kyiv—is that the West will lose stamina before Russia suffers a decisive defeat.
So far, Russia’s expectations of discord among Ukraine’s backers haven’t materialized. Europe has severed its dependence on Russian energy with limited pain and no political cataclysms. As all major Western economies grew in 2022 despite the disruptions, the consensus behind supplying weapons to Kyiv has only solidified.
Yet, with Russia announcing a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in September and switching its economy to a war footing, time could be on Moscow’s side. So far, neither the U.S. nor Europe has made the adjustments, especially in military production, that are necessary for sustaining Ukraine in a war that could potentially drag on for several years. Neither are they immune to pain from further energy shocks.
“The idea that a major classic conventional war in Europe could last as long as one of the two world wars is not something we are yet ready for,” says Bruno Tertrais, deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, a Paris think tank. “Even though the resilience of European societies has been remarkable, it cannot be taken for granted.”
The same goes for the U.S. While the lame-duck Congress in December authorized $44.9 billion in funding to support the war in Ukraine, probably enough for the next nine months, new Republican control of the House means that further military and civilian aid packages for Kyiv may be more complicated to fund.
If time works to Moscow’s advantage, it’s in the West’s interest to dramatically increase support for Ukraine in coming months, abandoning the excessive caution that characterized weapons deliveries until now, says retired Air Marshal Edward Stringer, former head of operations at the British Defense Staff.
“By continuing to drip-feed just enough for Ukraine not to lose, what the West is doing is just prolonging the war,” Air Marshal Stringer says. “Whether we realize it or not, Russia has thrown a gauntlet to the West. And, even though our own troops aren’t fighting there, we are thoroughly invested in this conflict, and we have to provide the materiel to win it.”
Ukraine’s own once-significant defense industry has been decimated by Russian airstrikes in the 11 months of war, and the country now is almost wholly reliant on Western-provided weapons and ammunition to survive. While Russia’s economy, roughly the size of Spain’s, is a minnow compared with the combined might of the U.S. and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, Western defense procurement and manufacturing—unlike Russia’s—is largely continuing to follow peacetime procedures and schedules.
“The West, in general, naturally overshadows Russia in economic potential and defense-industrial capacity, and that should make you believe that, in a protracted war, Ukraine with Western support stands a much better chance of winning the conflict,” says Michael Kofman, director of Russia studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, a think tank that advises the U.S. military. “But that is not a predetermined outcome. Potential is just that. It takes a great deal of will, and wars are fundamentally a contest of wills.”
Manpower math
Before last fall’s mobilization, Russia—which began the invasion using mostly full-time contract troops—suffered from manpower shortages in Ukraine while relying on an overwhelming advantage in artillery firepower. Now that Russia has mobilized 300,000 reservists, it has solved its manpower problem just as it’s starting to run low on ammunition and materiel.
Long term, the arithmetic of manpower works to Moscow’s advantage as Russia has 3.5 times Ukraine’s population. Even if Russia loses two soldiers for every one Ukrainian service member killed, it still improves its relative strength. So far, Western officials say, Russia’s battlefield fatalities—numbering in several tens of thousands—are comparable to Ukraine’s.
The calculus on ammunition and weaponry is more complicated. Ukraine uses up Western-supplied 155 mm artillery shells at roughly twice the rate that they are being manufactured by the U.S. and allies, military analysts say. At this rate of fire, Kyiv could draw down U.S. and European reserves to critical levels at some point this summer or fall.
By then, Russia—with its single-minded focus on the war—may be able to expand its own ammunition production to keep pace with the tempo of the fighting. The U.S. and allies are also investing in new ammunition production lines, but these are unlikely to make a major difference until next year, creating a potentially dangerous gap between Ukraine’s and Russia’s firepower in the second half of 2023.
“We should not underestimate Russia. They are mobilizing more troops, they are working hard to acquire more equipment, more ammunition, and they have shown willingness to actually suffer but to continue the war,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says. “There is no indication that President Putin has changed the overall aim of his brutal war against Ukraine. So we need to be prepared for the long haul.”
An existential fight
The mobilization has already allowed Mr. Putin to stabilize the front line, and to launch a counteroffensive around the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region. Possibilities of a negotiated settlement are remote in the foreseeable future.
“Any notion of the peace process is out because Putin is doing everything to make clear that this is existential for him,” says Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO who heads the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “He is preparing his population for a long war, and I don’t think he’s ever going to give up on his imperial ambitions for controlling Ukraine.” With no end to the conflict in sight, he says, the U.S. and allies should already start preparing to integrate the government-controlled majority of Ukraine into Western institutions, without waiting for the war’s conclusion.
Ukraine says that its war aim is to oust Russia from all territories conquered in the past year and the areas it lost to Russia in 2014, including Crimea. Ukraine regaining even part of these areas would endanger Mr. Putin’s hold on power at home.
Russia seeks, at a minimum, to conquer the Ukrainian-held parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Mr. Putin declared to be part of Russia in October. Currently, almost the entire front line runs across what Russia considers to be its own sovereign soil.
Ukrainian officials warn that Moscow’s initial war goal, the occupation of Kyiv and the entirety of the country, hasn’t changed—and that any pause in the conflict would be used by Mr. Putin to regroup and strike again.
“They are preparing for new battles, for new offensive operations, not for talks. Nothing speaks in favor of Russia being ready to talk,” says Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “I know Russia, I see what is happening in Russia. And I think it’s either them or us. There is nothing in between now anymore.”
Mr. Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. He can be reached at [email protected].
Bug mac and a drink of Sumade.
Sumade is refreshing sports drink made from an extract of basket players socks and sumo wrestlers jock straps.
“Always be making fun of the Kiwis eh bro?”
Pfft…that was merely a feint, masterfully executed.
Who knew he was singing about people paying 130 bucks for standing room 35 years into the future?
Sure glad I’m not in politics, I went to a fancy dress ball, when I was 28, dressed as a “fancy dress ball”.
My costume comprised some coloured foil and tinsel, wrapped around my scrotum, and nothing else.
Think that would have triggered the woke?
Rogersays:
January 16, 2023 at 9:43 am
Grifters and hucksters.
Aka ‘Big Sport.’
Feeds off Big Government.
Leads to Big Fascism.
I think we’re already there…just in a “soft” form.
The odds are stacked in vote for the Voice
Peter Dutton is not being picky to ask for more details when Labor’s record at getting referenda over the line is so abysmal.
Dean Smith Liberal Senator
There is more truth to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s claim last week that the Prime Minister is setting up the Voice to parliament referendum to fail than many care to acknowledge.
Australia’s history with constitutional referendums is well known – since federation in 1901, 44 referendum proposals have been put to the vote and just eight have succeeded.
On each occasion when the “Yes” vote has won, it has been carried in all six states.
None of the eight referendums since 1977 has been successful, making it almost five decades since Australians last felt it necessary to amend our founding document.
But there is one historical fact that is less talked about.
And it lies at the core of Labor and Anthony Albanese’s capacity to deliver a successful referendum outcome this year.
Despite the Australian Labor Party having been in existence for more than 120 years, and having governed nationally for about a third of that time, it has only ever secured one successful referendum outcome.
Of the eight referendums that have passed, two were carried in the first decade following federation, proposed in 1906 and 1910 by the anti-Labor governments of Alfred Deakin.
It was not until 1928 that the next successful referendum was held, ending the system of per capita payments made to states by the Commonwealth.
The proposal, put by prime minister Stanley Bruce’s government, also restricted the ability of each state to borrow for its own development.
Labor enjoyed its first and only successful referendum 77 years ago, in 1946.
It transferred to the Commonwealth the power to legislate on a range of social welfare matters.
The “Yes” vote nationally was 55.4 per cent, still significantly lower than the support shown for the seven other successful referendums.
It is worth noting that on the same day in 1946, Australian voters rejected Labor prime minister Ben Chifley’s two other proposals.
Labor failed again in 1948, when the Chifley government attempted to amend the Constitution to gain control over rents and prices.
Even Labor icons Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke could not muster enough confidence and trust from Australian voters to achieve constitutional change.
The Whitlam government’s 1973 proposals regarding prices and powers to legislate on income received a rejection of historic proportions, with no majority support in any state.
Another four referendums were defeated in 1974. Under Bob Hawke, no less than six unsuccessful referenda were put to Australians.
Then there was Labor’s referendum that wasn’t. Its dismal record on Constitutional reform is capped by the aborted 2013 referendum on local government recognition.
In May that year, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard committed to holding the referendum simultaneously with the Federal election on 14 September.
‘Elite-driven process’
The Constitution Alteration (Local Government) Bill 2013 was passed in June and the official “Yes” and “No” cases were submitted to the Australian Electoral Commission, but the referendum was abandoned with the return of Kevin Rudd and the election brought forward to September 7.
It was later characterised by the University of New South Wales Law Series as “an elite-driven process” suffering deficiencies including “poor public engagement, government delay and mishandling and the failure to justify a funding allocation that gave a massive advantage to the ‘Yes’ campaign”.
As local government minister at the time, Anthony Albanese doubtless still carries the scars of this ramshackle reform pitch – not to mention the profound disappointment of the many local councils across Australia that had put their faith in him.
So, history is not on Labor’s side when it comes to referendums.
The prime minister’s rebuke that Peter Dutton, in reasonably requesting further detail on the Voice proposal, is playing “cheap culture war stunts” is simply camouflage from Labor’s underwhelming track record on constitutional change.
It is a point Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis concedes in her book Everything you need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, observing that Labor’s referendum success rate of just 4 per cent “contrasts unfavourably” with that of Australia’s non-Labor governments.
No wonder, then, that Anthony Albanese has repeatedly said that he “doesn’t want it to be the government’s proposal”.
Senator Dean Smith is a Liberal senator for Western Australia and shadow assistant minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury. In 2013 he was the convener of the parliamentary “No” case for the referendum on local government recognition in the Constitution.
m0ntysays:
January 16, 2023 at 10:07 am
WTF was Molly’s pants dropping all about ?
Has dementia got to him ?
He has an acquired brain injury.
Being a leftard?
He fell out of a tree years ago putting up party lights. Lucky to have survived.
Rugby Australia Mission Statement
1. Make Cricket Australia look good;
2. …
According to a new study, ‘beetleburgers’ made from mealworms will hit mass production to help feed the world.“Mixed with sugar, the beetles supposedly taste just like real meat.
“Mixed with sugar”! Sugar! Sugar! Are they even reading this crap before they release it?
You know they are just leaving room for a “No Added Sugar” version from the Product Development guys?
Dr F
Snap re sugar!
“Kelvin seems to have missed the point that “someone else making decisions on our behalf because they think they know what is best for us” is exactly* what Uncle Luigi is proposing.”
Also misses the point that this is what the rest of us get too.
But even ignoring that, Aboriginals have had “self determination” for funding for at least 30 years, and the money doesn’t appear to be any better spent anyway – at least, they STILL keep saying they need more cash, and that things are still bad. $30B p.a. is not insignificant, if you haven’t been able to fix something in that time, then you are no better than GovCo anyway! At least when GovCo decides where to spend it, there is oversight and accountability.
That’s so they can tax you.
Big_Nambassays:
January 16, 2023 at 11:32 am
Sure glad I’m not in politics, I went to a fancy dress ball, when I was 28, dressed as a “fancy dress ball”.
My costume comprised some coloured foil and tinsel, wrapped around my scrotum, and nothing else.
Think that would have triggered the woke?
This man went to a fancy dress party with a condom on his nose. He knocked on the front door of the house and the Lady of the house opened the front door. “What have come here dressed as then?”. He said f*ck knows………………….
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
– Groucho Marx
2
Off a ladder cleaning gutter.
132andbush I hope you walked out like I did when a similar thing happened to me. They got rather miffed too, making a smart comment as we left. I never went back though I do believe they have changed hands. To be seen.
Kneel it really is doubtful about oversight and accountability. Senate estimates is usually political in nature even as far as factional point scoring. In recent times Senators Antic and Roberts doing the only scrutiny. There may be others but not many. The Audit Office tried doing over my Wife till she pointed out the only things they were concerned about were in fact current and had been officially carried over as the project was for 3 years and possibly longer. Oh!
Crack down on “sides” is a market phenomenon. No making a breakfast of “sides” at the cafe I go to on weekends, not that that was what you were trying to do. Used to slip in a couple of Colesworth deli hash browns from time to time. And the Maccas ones were a no brainer with your preferred McMuffin.
when I was 28, dressed as a “fancy dress ball”.
My costume comprised some coloured foil and tinsel, wrapped around my scrotum, and nothing else.
Madi Gras season?
I once went with my dick stuck in a trifle.
I was f^&cking Dis-custard.
Party lights.
Having lost my Bickfords apple cordial to market forces (shout out to Spudshed who still seem to have some out the back) shout out to Cadburys product development guys for Old Gold Peanut Brittle which appears on the green version of Colesworths from time to time. The market at work.
*note to self*
Never accept costume party invitation from any Cat. 😀
“In recent times Senators Antic and Roberts doing the only scrutiny. There may be others but not many.”
Well, sure – but they aren’t even allowed to question where the Aboriginal councils spend their dosh.
So back under GovCo would mean “we don’t bother” rather than “we can’t”.
123&B,
If I may make a modest proposal.
From now on tater tots will be made 100% only with genuine tots.
One should leave both party lights and gutters to your man. I’ll leave it up to your imagination whom Molly could have left it up to.
Just to flaunt my wealth and status…I’m about to boil five potatoes to make salmon rissoles.
Envy me peasants!
Would this be the same Alice Springs Woolworths where there was a machete incident yesterday?
Or is there another Alice Springs Woolworths?
Did Molly Meldrum fall off a ladder?
On 15 December 2011, Meldrum had a life-threatening fall from a ladder in the backyard of his Melbourne home. He was placed under intensive care in a critical condition at the Alfred Hospital and had surgery for his head and spinal injuries.
The Sun Cable article didn’t make sense.
Everything said by Twiggy’s minions pointed to a scale-back to supply Darwin only.
But the article still contains reference to “export renewballs”.
Export to where?
PNG?
Indonesia?
Unless it was just PR boilerplate which goes in every press release.
Rene Rivken always ensured there was a number of young men on hand (no pun intended) to help umm … polish the boat.
But whatever!
Cassie of Sydney:
Cassie, the Liberals are nothing more than a block of Party Members who sit on the pot, denying – by their position and their refusal to either shit or get off the pot – the Right a voice in Parliament.
That is their function and explains the presence of the Leftist intransigents who never seem to pass anything other than progressive legislation.
Imagine what would happen if the Right actually had a voice in Parliament. The Liberals are there to deny that voice.
Shrinkflation* hits the Big Brekkie!
….
* Shrinkflation. Keeping the price the same but cutting quantity and/or quality.
Calli:
It’s from “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long” originally.
Yes.
He was trying to get a look at next door’s pool boy.
calli says:
January 16, 2023 at 12:26 pm
Just to flaunt my wealth and status…I’m about to boil five potatoes to make salmon rissoles.
Envy me peasants!
Snap – Perennial Daily Question to Wife just now “Whats for Dinner tonight”
Answer – Salamon Patties, followed by discussion re lack of potatotes at Maccas, Coles, Wollies & ALDI
Thought about it for a sec but too pushed for time.
I went the big breakfast so I could get me some hash browns.
A victim of “Big Spud”.
The rissoles are for tomorrow night. I like to allow the flavour, like a good wine, to develop overnight.
Fancy schmansy.
I hope the tots you are intending to use in place of spuds are the finest Irish ones.
Irish Tots taste best!
/apologies to Johnathan Swift
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
We all have to immigrate to America.
The Lieborals have always been much more effective at fighting other Lieborals. Even they make the point from time to time, typically in an election loss review.
I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl, before twelve years old, is no saleable commodity, and even when they come to this age, they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds and half a crown at most, on the exchange; which cannot turn to account either to the parents or kingdom, the charge of nutriments and rags having been at least four times that value.
I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
“I went the big breakfast so I could get me some hash browns.
A victim of “Big Spud”.”
Might have been interesting to have the following conversation:
[no hash browns side order stuff]
“Hmmm… well, if I order the Big Brekkie and don’t want the bacon, do I have to pay full price, or can I get a discount?”
“Oh, we’ll give you a discount if you remove an item, Sir, no problem!”
“OK, then I’ll have the Big Brekkie with no bacon, no eggs, no sausage, no tomatoe, no mushroom and no toast. And I’ll also have the eggs benedict please.”
“But sir, that is the same as ordering eggs benedict with a side of hash browns and a coffee!”
“Yes, I know, but I DID order the Big Brekkie, so I can get it, can’t I? And pay the same price, right?”
You can still walk away at worst…
Interesting lesson learnt today – had ordered Chemist Warehouse Click & Collect – came back with number of items not available – had ticked will wait reorder – with a week having gone but with no update, and no obvious way to move to delivery (free over $50 currently) online, rang Chemist Waregouse and was told that I had to deal with the specific Click & Collect Shop as all shops were franchised.
They put me through to shop and they were unable to change Click & Collect to Delivery – so cancelled Order and went back online and reordered all Items and went for Delivery and Paid $10 for express – about the same as petrol & time driving down to Click & Collect shop
Will stick with Online and Express Delivery in future
Watching too much Masterchef.
A brain-damaged national treasure drops his daks on stage.
Take that, Putin !
Kapow, Xi !
“The rissoles are for tomorrow night.”
As long as Death doesn’t turn up, point a boney finger and say “It was the salmon rissoles!”, that sounds just peachy.
When Death turns up at my place, he’s usually after something else.
If we are on food, a most unusual dish last night.
A seafood hotpot, squid/salmon & prawns with herbs and spices , cabbage and a few other greens in it.
The base for the stock it was cooked in?
Passionfruit.
A bit of crunch from the seeds but a delicious dish.
Just got 2023 Land Tax NSW assessment – jumped from $15,000 to $20,000 in one year
Will lodge Objection based on land value increases, but still have to pay assessed amount whilst they review, and given there are no NSW Public Servants actually working in their offices (every time I have called a NSW Govt Department recently, the person answering is working from home juding by background sounds), so I may get a Refusal Reply by next year if I am lucky.
“When Death turns up at my place, he’s usually after something else.”
LOL – Calli the black thumb!
“…a most unusual dish…”
Nice salsa style salad –
blackened sweet corn, finely diced onion, a touch of chilli, mint, oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Yum!
But without the sugar, it just tastes like ass. No one wants to eat that, right?
Those writers festivals aren’t going to pay for themselves you know.
Salmon Rissoles is one of the few things and I do mean a few things my mother could cook. She called them salmon cakes. They were good.
“But without the sugar, it just tastes like ass. No one wants to eat that, right?”
Ask a dog – they seem to enjoy it.
Well, either that, or they need to get rid of the taste of the dog food…
So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?
Bottom line is the potato shortage is due to the rain that was never going to be enough to fill our dams and river systems, filling our dams and river systems.
So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?
As a Biden??
Cue Monty salivating over a “9 Hog!
“So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?”
So no costume at all then? 🙂
Put a rubber band on each ear, and go as a mintie!
I know of a Govt department where the time to reply was 30 days. Now not uncommon for it to be 6 months. If only Govt audit offices could look into it. Oh wait, they are probably working from home as well.
“and given there are no NSW Public Servants actually working in their offices (every time I have called a NSW Govt Department recently, the person answering is working from home juding by background sounds)”.
132andBush says:
January 16, 2023 at 1:12 pm
Bottom line is the potato shortage is due to the rain that was never going to be enough to fill our dams and river systems, filling our dams and river systems.
You mean the Water we won’t have
because we have never built new dams, because it was not going to Rain/Flannery,
but as sure as Night follows Day, in Australia Drought follows Floods, and the Dumb Labor Party/Greens/TEALS/Liberal Greens are to thick to understand that reality
Be a Hero – Eat Meat
More succinct and to the point compared to – The Australian Day Lamb Ad
H B Bearsays:
January 16, 2023 at 12:57 pm
Just got 2023 Land Tax NSW assessment – jumped from $15,000 to $20,000 in one year
Those writers festivals aren’t going to pay for themselves you know.
But, but, but……….the latest CPI figure was a heck of a lot less than that extortionate % increase………….
The Powers that be are now trying to persuade us that Gas is bad for us so that we will happily fall in line by ridding ourselves of Gas appliances.
John Nolte from Breitbart, has written an excellent article on the History of Gas usage, (it goes back two hundred years), and the fact that we use less gas now than we did then.
Also, if Gas usage sickened us as much as the latest scaremongering would have us believe, wouldn’t there have been massive outcry over the thousands, nay, millions of deaths that would have occurred from the use of Gas over the last two hundred years? If Gas was so deleterious to our health, you can bet there would have been massive lawsuits ala Big Tobacco.
Old Ozzie:
They’ve been using that excuse for 40 years now.
Perhaps it’s because they are just refusing to do their jobs?
Dot says:
January 16, 2023 at 1:06 pm
So, should I go to this soirée as a big swinging dick?
Been reading Liar’s Poker have we?
Now they’re saying that global warming causes endless rain and terrible droughts simultanously.
New report shows alarming changes in the entire global water cycle (Phys.org, 15 Jan)
He’s a professor at the ANU so it must be true that we’re getting these droughts and flooding rains due to dastardly humans. It’s all very poetic.
He can say that again.
On a more sciencey note, they do realise it’s a closed system, don’t they?
poor old Linda needs to explain page 7 of the 1961 census – Bulletin No 36 – Race of the Population – Australia, States and Territories, and the explanatory note on page 3:
Alice Springs Woolworths yesterday:
< < < Well done Woolworths Supervisor & staff.
You should not have to be subjected to todays events whilst going about your duties.
We applaud you.
I would like to acknowledge the staff of Woolworths Alice Springs for reacting fast to what had happened tonight.
I would like to also that the supervisor Kay for spotting out the machete & warning her managers as fast as possible.
Thanks to woolies extraordinary staff we felt safe for their fast reactions. > > >
Housewives & other shoppers feel safe quite like knowing that whenever a machete is brandished in woolies the staff will respond swiftly.
NT is an ALP government – in case anybody can’t tell.
Housewives & other shoppers feel safe quite like knowing that whenever a machete is brandished in woolies the staff will respond swiftly.
I’d feel safer if the manager pulled out his or her Glock and put 3 rounds in the center of mass of said machete wielder.
This man went to a fancy dress party carrying a naked lady on his back. He knocked on the front door of the house and the Lady of the house opened the front door. “What have come here dressed as then?”. He said “I’ve come as a snail”.
Lady of the house points to lady on his back and says “And who is that?”
The man says “Oh, that’s Michelle”.
If we do end up with the Voice, I will identify as Aboriginal. We can be anyone we want to be these days.
That certainly is the ointment currently being used.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 16, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Alice Springs Woolworths yesterday:
< < > >
And the Voice will make it all better now………………………
Section 127 referred to “reckoning the numbers” – these were the population figures used to calculate seats in the House of Representatives, and funding to the States. These were calculated per head of population. At the time the Constitution was drawn up, Western Australia and Queensland had populations of nomadic Aborigines, and the concern was that these scheming Queenslanders and West Australian would “fiddle the figures” to gain extra seats in the Lower House, and extra funding.
Needed in Australia for All Government Federal/State/Council Public Servants
House GOP Bill Would Order Federal Workers Back To Office
House Republicans have introduced a bill that would command legions of federal employees to stop teleworking and return to the office.
The Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act — or “SHOW UP Act” — was introduced by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
“Americans have suffered from the federal government’s detrimental pandemic-era telework policies for federal bureaucrats,” said Comer. “President Biden’s unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of departments and agencies to fulfill their responsibilities and created cumbersome backlogs.”
The bill gives federal employees who worked in person prior to the pandemic 30 days to get back to the office. A November Federal News Network survey found that 60% of feds were working in a “hybrid” environment, with a third working entirely remotely.
Looks like Wagner Group has thrown enough convicts at Soledar to take it. The piles of Russian bodies would be higher than the rubble at this point.
The Russian convicts that survived allegedly got free pardons. Maybe the Ukrainians should do the same with their convicts as they are running out of troops. A Russian Spring Offensive is not far off now to cut the Ukraine in two. Then comes the settlement. Game over soon IMHO..
House GOP Bill Would Order Federal Workers Back To Office
So long as we all agree to ignore their licences/decrees/requirements etc I’m good with paying them to stay home and do nothing. The country will be better off.
The other problem with Burney’s statement is, of course, that she is 50% Scottish.
So she was always counted, not being a ‘full-blood’ Aboriginal.
Strange how that’s usually ignored, in the same way that Pat Dodson’s father was an Irish shearer, is similarly ignored.
this is interesting. Seems Burney holds a unique position – being a descendent of both the oppressed (Aboriginal) and colonial oppressors (American slavery) via the Sinclair family line.
Does that mean Burney must give herself a brutal uppercut?
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 16, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Does that mean Burney must give herself a brutal uppercut?
More likely a Welcome to Country Glasgow Kiss………………………..
This might be of interest to WA grain farmers looking for somewhere to store all their harvest money this year.
https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/property/30-winfield-street-morawa-wa-6623-2017817375
Just what you need in the photo
Or for South Australians feeling a little homesick.
Immunology of mRNA vaccines with Prof Robert Clancy
Very good video. He makes the argument that there was no good reason to go the mRNA route for the COVID vaccines, that the traditional vaccines given the century long or more experience would have been better and deliver more control to the immunologist, while avoiding the problems we’ve long discussed on this blog like the inflammatory response, original antigenic sin, and so on.
Not on a planetary scale.
Hydrogen and Helium escape the atmosphere.
Stuff lands on Earth. The earths mass is increasing.
What passes for news on the radio this morning in Canberra was a freak suggesting composting of the dead. A gaia worshipping fruitcake. Burial takes up land space, cremation uses fossil fuels, shriek horror faint. I for one would love to introduce her to a woodchipper. I have this warm inner glow knowing this abomination is not going to reproduce therefore having a surfeit of cats when she dies alone is going to be eaten by said cats. Am I being excessively mean to wish this upon anyone? Why do these sorts of people get any sort of recognition except finger pointing at the clinically insane. Once upon a time the insane were locked up for their own and societies safety, now they are not only on the loose but promoted publicly as having sound ideas. FMD
How jolly, the ATO have just texted to tell me i have a $60,465 refund available if i just click on a link to “verify my information to process”
Im guessing it includes my bank details/passwords/ first born children/ tissue type and number of kidneys. etc…
Just after i post about South Australians and a bank vault..
Coincidence?
They’ve been doing it since the beginning, I believe. They are now turning on Ukrainians overseas, considering the conscription of 16-17 year old boys, and are also now encountering significant resistance to mobilization, with apps indicating where teams are scouring the urban centres for recruits for the front.
The current survival rate of this adult version of Squid Game would be interesting. How many of them last six months inside the Ukraine meat grinder?
That website has done a lot of good work – they ran one post about the lack of any evidence of any “Frontier Wars”, and they’ve got an article in the making about “Frontier massacres that never happened.”
What is it with greenies that they imagine a fairytale world where the weather is the same all the time, and everything is in perfect harmony? Watching too many movies and video games?
For example:
So much for ‘nature, red in tooth and claw.’
Now we have ‘over-flooding’ and presumably ‘under-flooding’. Idiots.
The floods that have been coming down at intervals for thousands of years were all good, but suddenly they’re not. These people would try to convert lions to vegetarianism. They have NFI about the real world.
But ‘scientists say’, according to TheirABC.
Question: are ‘scientists’ above or below ‘experts’ in the ABC hierarchy?
The other problem with Burney’s statement is, of course, that she is 50% Scottish.
What is the other 25%? She is definitely only a quarter or less Abo.
If they really want to go the “we must bow to Indigenes”, route, I believe only the full bloods should have any say. After all, once you add milk to black coffee, it is never black coffee anymore. 😉
Wait till the Huguenots get their class action going!
Johanna,
these people would convert lions to vegetarianism.
How to investigate excess deaths
Dr. John Campbell
version of Squid Game
Yet you barrack for every conscript killed.
None of the “adults in the room” apart from Macron seem to have made any sort of effort to negotiate a settlement or even put out feelers for peace.
Instead both mobs are happy to grind away slaughtering thousands, nearly a year into a “limited 2 week operation” by Vlads mob.
“…prompting urgent calls for better management and intervention of the river system.”
NOW you want better management? So all those changes where GovCo was buying water rights for environmental flows were bad then? We should have been keeping behind dams for farmers and only when it got really full, empty the dam some for environmental flows, is that it? Like we wanted all along and you said “No”?
“It it doesn’t rain we’ll be rooned!”
“If it doesn’t stop raining, we’ll be rooned!”
This “scientist” isn’t perchance named Hanrahan, is (s)he?
It’s all happening in the Alice:
Two employees of a Braitling business have been assaulted following an armed aggravated robbery, police say. One of the workers gave chase to the group of suspects before his car collided with the alleged offenders’ vehicle.
Police believe the events started after a group of up to five males entered the business on Herbert Heritage Drive, Braitling, at 11am Sunday. They allegedly threatened a female employee with an edged weapon before physically assaulting her and stealing her phone, along with alcohol.
The group then fled the scene in a red Holden commodore.
A male employee gave chase to the suspects in his white Toyota ute, soon colliding with the commodore on the Stuart Highway near the intersection of Basso Road. Police say the commodore’s occupants threatened the man with an edged weapon before assaulting him with a blunt weapon.
They fled the area on foot while the man was treated for facial injuries.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Janice Kershaw said the business was unlawfully entered on Saturday night.
and
A woman will undergo surgery after suffering multiple stab wounds in an alleged domestic violence attack in Alice Springs.
Police said the incident occurred just after 10pm on Van Senden Ave.
The man and woman were known to each other, police said, with the alleged stabbing being treated as a domestic violence incident. Police said the woman’s injuries were serious.
The man was expected to be charged upon his release from hospital for treatment of wounds believed to be self-inflicted.
and
Police are holding out hopes a 30-year-old woman last seen running into bushland along an outback highway a week ago is still alive, as they continue to search an area north-west of Alice Springs.
Angie Fuller, 30, was last seen along the Tanami Road north-west of Alice Springs on Monday
Her boyfriend is assisting police with their inquiries
Helicopters, a drone and 20 police officers have so far searched 240 square kilometres of bushland
Angie Fuller was last spotted along the Tanami Road, 15 kilometres west of the intersection with the Stuart Highway, on Monday by her boyfriend.
A search and rescue operation comprising of 20 police officers, as well as helicopters and a drone, has been underway since Wednesday.
Acting Superintendent Rob Engels on Sunday said the search-and-rescue team had already scoured 240 square km of scrubland looking for her.
and in Darwin:
Darwin ice cream shop owner Johnn Koenig said he and his staff have had their lives threatened, been sworn at and been spat on while at work.
NT retail workers have seen an 85 per cent increase in abuse directed at them in the last 12 months
Frustrated by his current situation , Mr Koenig is considering an unlikely adjustment to his business
“I’d be the only gelati shop in the world to have security on premises,” he said.
For Mr Koenig, the anti-social behaviour is getting to a point that is out of control.
“People get spat on, abused, knives pulled out on them — it’s pretty scary at times,” he said.
I know, right. Let’s think about anything apart from what this is costing the Ukrainians.
ALP government:
NZ:
Keep voting Labor.
It was explained to me, by a very patronizing “activist” that Aboriginality is like tea – no matter how much milk you add, it’s still tea. I remembered the biting scorn of “full bloods” for “yellafella’s”
and kept my own counsel.
m0ntysays:
January 16, 2023 at 3:03 pm
The Russian convicts that survived allegedly got free pardons.
The current survival rate of this adult version of Squid Game would be interesting. How many of them last six months inside the Ukraine meat grinder?
Hop over there, and research the matter, as your contribution to the Great War on Wussian Imperialism which you called for a while ago.
Shaken and stirred.
Yesterday, while walking in Lappland down a snowy pathway from the rather wonderful reindeer-drawn sleigh ride in a classic wooden sleigh through a small almost mystic forest of birch and fir I took a tumble on an icy patch and landed on my rear end coccyx and banging my head head against the downward slope.
I saw stars and had ringing in my ears, just as depicted in the cartoons. A weird feeling, in a split second knowing you were falling, copping the fall, and then thwack, coshed hard on the back of the head. I was interested to note that only a minute or two later a similar tumble on the same spot was achieved by a large young man in his twenties, so it wasn’t just me, at eighty, taking a wrong step. Later the staff came and chipped up that icey peril, a hazard on overused snowy paths at Santa’s village in Rovanieme beyond the Arctic Circle. I have been very careful to watch the path when walking since that. Meanwhile, Hairy ushered me into Santa’s Post Office for somewhere to sit recovering, where we eventually wrote postcards to the grandchildren.
Prior to this we had entered a large teepee and sat on reindeer skins in a circled group of benches around a welcome log fire flaring in a large stone hearth. The chimney over it was a non-traditional invention, replacing the open hole to the sky of the original Sami huts. A Shaman then inducted us into the Arctic Circle; a piece of commercial theatre of course, but he was a genuine Sami who took it fairly seriously. Dressed in an authentic reindeer hide outfit, he had used his hand drum to lead us into the tepee, then he annointed each of us with soot on our foreheads between our eyes, for luck, and sang a rather touching love song in Sami with his far-away eyes to the further beat of his drum.
Using soot as a facial ritual is very authentic indeed. I have known it in my researches as a tradition long-held across Scotland and in all of the cultures of the European ice-age hunters. Fire is of course the essence of life in these cultures. Our shaman said that the wood is the food of the fire, the orange glow is the heart of it, the flames are the brain of the fire, and the smoke was the spirit of the fire. That all rang fairly true as well.
I am always struck in such places, as I was in the Mayan site in Guatemala, of the way in which the old religious rituals still have a place and meaning in continual practice to those long-since Christianised. Rovaneime is a case in point with its ‘Christmas all year’ commercialisation that recalls the myths turned fairy tales of a previous cosmology. Here the ancient god Paternus Redrut (the red-coated father, as the Romans called him) lives on in the Santa imagery, with his array of elves, during the winter period, where as Hairy puts it, there are two forms of light: dark, and almost dark. Given that we were less than a month away from the mid-winter solstice, the Christmas period of the northern region, it was still a delight to experience the array of lights in the darkening skies that this site produced in all of its modern glory with LED lights threaded through a myriad of trees, including the grand fir at the entrance. Everything was lit and sparkling and one could see in the children’s delight the wonder of it all. The clientele were thoroughly international – Germans, Swiss, French, a few Brits, a strong Spanish/South American contingent, Danes and other Nordics, and Americans. We flew in from Helsinki with a roistering group of German males headed for the ski slopes, who had hit the airport schnapps before boarding, and who didn’t desist even during the safety talk as the air hostess gamely carried on. The airport was decked out as an eternal Christmas, and excited children ran around in pretty snow gear. Take the grandies and enjoy, was our feeling about it all.
For our part, we love the northern climes and experiences. Dog sledding today with genuine huskies, and a visit to an Arctic Zoo. The food in our hotel ‘half board’ has been excellent too, fish and meat and many salads and vegetable patties, with warming soups.
I am up early having had wild dreams most of the night as my assaulted neurones resort themselves. I see my eyes rather glossy in the bathroom mirror, intensely blue with a, to me, noticable black centre pupil; Hairy doesn’t think my pupils were unresponsive last night, but I think they may still be a little enlarged. Perhaps I have been slightly concussed, mildly nauseous before dinner last night, but I think I am AOK to go now. The Shaman says his sooty mark will bring me luck, and I am putting my faith in that today.
Not sure of the exact timeline, but banning gas stoves has been on the agenda in California for quite a while. At least a couple of years – and it didn’t spring out of nowhere. These moves are part of strategies planned well in advance.
I remember commenting a couple of years ago that the California glitterati wouldn’t appreciate their favourite restaurants being unable to produce their fave yummies, which require gas stoves. But, no doubt, exemptions (e.g. grandfathering) would be granted to those in the charmed circle.
As is common, the Left have backed off from the ambit claim, but there are many sneaky ways to keep moving forward. RINOs will be going along to get along.
This is from a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide a few days ago…
Are vegan pet diets as unhealthy as they’re claimed to be? Here’s what the evidence says (13 Jan)
My cautious approach to this topic is to think this lady and her colleagues are nuts.
This video is hilarious.
Shills for ‘Big Electric Stove’.
Once everyone has changed over Big Gas Range and Hood will send their lobbyists off to Sacramento with their pockets bulging with cash.
You read it here first, folks!
Hey Driller, you nincompoop. This doesn’t stand out as odd?
85% ?
Can ChatGPT Program Your CNC Machines?
It’s a bit hard to negotiate peace between two sides as far apart as these. They have both convinced themselves that they are fighting an existential war.
It has all the hallmarks of a very long campaign, unfortunately. On the Russian side, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of men. On the Ukraine side, a seemingly inexhaustible (American) supply of materiel to kill them with.
Absent a successful Operation Valkyrie, it’s hard to see how it will end soon. For those rumbling about Putin’s deposer being worse, I doubt they could keep the Potemkin state apparatus together without Putin.
Liz
Should old folk be hanging around Lappland in the middle of winter? Just asking for a friend. What the hell are you doing in that external freezer? Get out of there. Jump on a plane and head to warmer climes.
Tell me you’re not chasing some long lost ancestry from 2000 years ago ?
from the bumper sticker lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQo4D7NRNoY
The Voice will be Aboriginal Second Voice in Parliament.
Everyone gets representation, except for the Canbra Aboriginal Mob – they are demanding two.
This video is hilarious.
You’re not kidding. Love it when the monk gets pushy at the end.
I should be first in line. My paternal Huguenot ancestors fleeing persecutions from the killing sprees of the Spanish Duke of Alba in Flanders in the late C16th and early C17th were hounded by the burning of their new homes in Norfolk, with murder and other violence, by the local peasantry. They’d had the hide to settle on land they had helped legally to create by fen draining and were sent scurrying down in fear of their lives to an Abbey in Essex for safety. They lost everything.
Compo. Compo. Compo. It’s only fair.
Addit:
Everyone gets representation, except for the Canbra Aboriginal Mob – they are demanding two. And they are demanding the second voice based on race, and their own self selection.
These “stats” usually come from a union survey, and aimed at some sort of payday.
They never record empirical evidence of actual cases of abuse.
Absent a successful Operation Valkyrie, it’s hard to see how it will end soon. For those rumbling about Putin’s deposer being worse, I doubt they could keep the Potemkin state apparatus together without Putin.
Without saying anything good about Putin, youd hope if he was deposed someone could hold the shit show together.
Im not sure a balkanized Russia with a new fleet of “‘Stans” abound its edges would be an improvement.
Both “sides” need to be induced to cut their losses.
The longer it goes on the more existential the war becomes to both of them.
Its unfortunate but the only “side” it appears (short of NATO actually intervening, and by a miracle nukes not getting lobbed) able to be pressured appears to be Ukraine.
If there is a pressure point for Russia which hasnt been pressed yet then press those as well.
Ending up with a North/South korea style DMZ would be preferable to continuing slaughter and the risks of nuclear brinkmanship.
For those rumbling about Putin’s deposer being worse, I doubt they could keep the Potemkin state apparatus together without Putin.
m0nty=fa, BEc (Failed), BJ’ism, world renowned geopolitical eggspurt, Henry Kissinger’s favourite acolyte, has delivered his judgement.
Sanchez
Whenever I see yuge scary percentages without the background raw number I always call bullshit. It’s a scare tactic meant to energise innumerates . And of course they caught one.
mole
Ending up with a North/South korea style DMZ would be preferable to continuing slaughter and the risks of nuclear brinkmanship.
The usual UN solution, but for some strange reason, the UN has been very silent on this occasion.
A day of contrasts:
12:00 At the Bunnings service desk, listening to Mr & Mrs Maggot trying to return Christmas lights – apparently unused, but strangely packed and overflowing the boxes.
12:45 At the Bahn Mi Corner – a family run business – a sign:
My understanding is who I’d prefer to share Australia with.
So.
We are moving cars from petrol to electric.
We are moving cooking from gas to electric.
And we a blowing up coal power stations.
Going to get interesting when everyone arrives home at 6:00 pm on a still, overcast day, plugs in the Tesla, sets the air-con to “Lapland”, flicks on the 96″ flat screen TV and puts a lamb roast on.
Russia adds pressure by adding more troops. America adds pressure by adding more guns. I reckon Russia might run out of troops before the Yanks run out of guns.
Either way, Russia’s future is screwed for at least a generation. Ukraine’s also, but at least they will have Western money pouring in for their rebuild. The Chinese will have a gay old time turning Russia into a client state.
Machetes? Aisle 3.
I have Nordic ancestry JC but not chasing it here. Tell your friend, lol. I simply love to travel, and I love the landscapes of Finland and the Arctic. You are never too old for that. I am wrapping up warm in my furry hooded coat and fortunately I am still pretty flexible – you can’t clamber in and out of sleighs or take a fall like I had if you are not, and thankfully the few Kovid Kilos on my rear over the dance-toned butt came in useful in protecting me from the worst of the fall. My head is also pretty firmly protected in a skull still hard-boned enough to survive as my bones are in very good nick too.
I will toss away all such adventures when I feel I can no longer do them. And I do moderate things: not doing long walks across frozen snowy icefields in snowshoes any more. Nope, I said to Hairy when he suggested it. Did it in Canada five years ago, not up to it now. We are doing a sedate tour this time, all travel is by comfortable snow-tyred bus – eighty km to go this morning, so I am off to brekky first now!!
We put induction in the NY pad. It’s not bad and I love how it boils shit without a flame or the appearance of any heat. Call me inducted. 🙂 Not that I cook.
Liz
You sound fit, but you’re going to kill the dude in that freezer. Get out of there. You shouldn’t be traveling there in the winter. And how gloomy when it’s 24 hour night time, which is would be great if someone is contemplating suicide. 🙂
The Closing The Gap reforms rarely look likely to achieve anything that would meet such criteria. Building the community controlled sector puts more money into land councils, but that’s it. How does that close gaps?
The only way to get improvement is to get rid of career jobs, which only ever succeed in perpetuating the status quo. You need initiatives with strict timetables, strict funding and strict outcomes, all highly measurable.
I could fix just about any problem, but they would never let me because I might actually fix their problems. And they’d be out of work. And they can’t have that!
2nd hand stuff out of California can be a bargain. A Pommy mate of mine picked up a cheap marine diesel that was made illegal and shipped it to the UK where it continues to kill polar bears to this day.
Don’t enable the bastards.
An aspiring activist and rapper……
And on it goes, predictably. This working class bint blessed with good looks and a few brains has been going on and on about it for decades. Like nobody else ever made good, or had hard times.
You should be the first in line? Your usual view of the world. It’s all about me.
Tell us again why you should be first in line.
The Critical Drinker (Piss Be Upon Him) put up a video about the deliberate denigration of manhood in movies and TV.
See it here!
I would have liked to have simply put it in the comments on Cassie’s post It’s time to celebrate men and masculinity but worry that perhaps not many people are perusing posts all of 5 days old – and that would be a shame.
It’s a survey tactic used by unions, HR consultants and anyone with a barrow to push.
They often don’t ask for an empirical rating (say, a score out of ten) because eventually it can’t go lower than 1. But if they frame questions as much worse-worse-same-better-much better as against last year, they can produce “much worse” results ad infinitum.
Which will require the remedy they have prepared earlier.
For example, if the hospitality union want to bash up hotel proprietors, they survey union members asking if bullying by management is the same, worse or much worse than last year.
And get the answer they want.
Steve Hilton: Americans are tired of the Democrats’ brazen hypocrisy and double standards
m0nty=fa
Russia adds pressure by adding more troops. America adds pressure by adding more guns. I reckon Russia might run out of troops before the Yanks run out of guns.
Reports from the US (and also from the UK and EU) suggest that your reckoning is incorrect.
Guns there might be (or might not – depends on whether the west are collectively willing to disarm their own armed forces while provoking Wussia), but ammunition is a growing (or, rather, shrinking) problem.
Stick to fantasy fooball.
I’ve had that crap pulled on me, usually by a cunning, well rehearsed, very bigoted but pedestrian intellect activist.
A cup that is 7/8 milk is definitely milk.
After that, try 15/16 milk & compare to a cup of tea.
The bonhomie and good humour continues unabated.
And to think you were advising Cassie about dinner party etiquette.
FFS. How aristocratic! 🙂
Sad.
Now now, Johanna.
My kidding around wasn’t meant to cause a ruckus. Let’s keep things nice. We need to be nice to each other.
Queanbeyan Cow goes moo, predictably.
Dude,it was 3 plus years ago. How they hell did I know they were going to pull a ban. It’s really cool though. You can move the pot anywhere and keeps it boiling.
Wifey is impressed but you need new pots though so we wouldn’t get it here.
I am up early having had wild dreams most of the night as my assaulted neurones resort themselves. I see my eyes rather glossy in the bathroom mirror, intensely blue with a, to me, noticable black centre pupil; Hairy doesn’t think my pupils were unresponsive last night, but I think they may still be a little enlarged. Perhaps I have been slightly concussed, mildly nauseous before dinner last night, but I think I am AOK to go now. The Shaman says his sooty mark will bring me luck, and I am putting my faith in that today.
Wonderful imagery, Lizzie! Love the stories of dog-sledding and shamans. Have sledded in Colorado and just loved it. Few of the mad skiers take the time – I know of one couple who have made the ski pilgrimage for 30 years and have never gone dog sledding.
As for shamans, came across one in Northern Thailand and we drank corn whiskey with him. He scared the life out of me.
A lot of Cats show signs of sniffing nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves and ingesting lead from paint on their toys in their childhoods.
Expect an announcement any day that ideological double agent Steve Price will quit the 10 Network’s leftard talking points current affairs show The Project after he was hired to present the 5pm hour on Sky News Australia.
As TV stars return from their holiday breaks, Price replaces Chris Kenny, who has been shafted into the 8pm hour, where Sky’s other ratings failures, like Piers Morgan, go to die (though Morgan retains his multi-squillion-dollar contract to present a daily show on Ruperdink Mudrock’s global TV stations).
Price’s daily radio current affairs show on the Triple M regional network has also just been cancelled.
Peta Credlin’s 6pm show and Andrew Blot’s 7pm hour resume tonight on Sky, while the network is trying out a new opinion show at 10pm called the Late Debate hosted by James McPherson, Liz Storer and Caleb Bond after Paul Murray’s 9pm hour.
Meanwhile, 10’s US owners are determined to stick with the network’s money-losing tax dodge formula targeting millenials, a commercial disaster because they hate spending money on the consumer white goods that advertisers flock to 7 and 9 to flog.
Will we be getting a new thread soon, Dover? The stitching’s almost complete now.
lot of Cats show signs of sniffing nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves and ingesting lead from paint on their toys in their childhoods.
Never deviate from the narrative, no matter how f’cking dumb it is.
Tuesday midnight is the new ditching hour, I think.
Aboriginality is like tea – no matter how much milk you add, it’s still tea.
I have heard that trope before also. Whichever way they try to spin it though, it’s called white tea or white coffee.
Price check on a Uzi sub machine gun.
I should say midnight Tuesday morning. Like, in 6 1/2 hours.
Okay. I’ll do a bit more. Whirrrr…whirrrrr. Ooops!
Stick to fantasy fooball.
Don’t discourage him! His military analysis is hilarious! Narrative laden with a heavy sprinkling of tank stupidity!
At the risk of causing a major eruption … JC, what odds the privatised Sydney Airport will be put up for IPO* at, say, $12-$13 a share (equivalent)?
…
Can it be an IPO, given it has been floated once before?
Australian Births for the last 10 years
Significant drop last year from statistical average…
Anyone with any theories?
I have a few… some sort of infertility side effect I suspect…
If this trend remains, it is extremely worrying.
Monty – what you know of chemistry could be written on the back of a small postage stamp.
If you’ve worked out who I am by now, which is likely, and if you’ve seen my publications you’ll know why I’m more than usually amused by your ignorance.
Anybody listening to Indigenous hip hop deserves to be offended.
STFU sanchez.
mUnty and Groogs on international geopolitics usually brings the LOLs.
Shall we put you on the mailing list for a prospectus?
Bear
You need to ease up on Eddles. He’s the best spook and flamer detector we have. He’s irreplaceable.
Guys
You are kidding right, about Syd?
Sancho. Sydney airport is a licence to print money, which is why JC has shares.
It’ll make little difference to SACL’s profitability when the new Sydney west airport opens in 2026. The new airport will simply provide the capacity for the Sydney market to expand, retarded until now by Sydney airport’s monopoly price-gouging.
I’m not sure how a new IPO would work, but my guess is that it would be a raging success.
Totally based on nothing.
Just idle speculation.
But it would be a tasty earn for all involved, buying it for $8.50 and floating it for $12.
Of course, they would ‘pea and thimble’ it by issuing twice as many shares at $6.
Yep. Why would you sell it?
Expect an announcement any day that ideological double agent Steve Price will quit the 10 Network’s leftard talking points current affairs show The Project after he was hired to present the 5pm hour on Sky News Australia.
Price is ok; when he was on radio with bolta he’d hang up on me regularly and apologise later after other callers called him out. He’s arguably the ugliest man on tele.
Not any more he doesn’t, says Sancho, emptying the salt cellar into the gaping wound.
If you were forced to by a Scheme of Arrangement to take it private.
Hang on…didn’t she grow up with white family members?
Why, yes…a white great aunt and uncle raised her.
Did they not include her on the census form because she was of mixed race?
Who cares, Roger?
It’s Linda Burney.
I’d like to hear someone speak up for the Constitution of 1901.
Why was the Federal Government allowed to make laws for any Race, excluding Aborigines?
Was that a clause that was helpful to Aborigines?
Why weren’t Full Blooded Aborigines counted in the Census?
Was that a good thing?
Because all we’re bombarded with is bullshit about the 1967 referendum, which hasn’t had any positive outcomes for Aborigines that I’m aware of?
I see Bain Capital is thinking about re-floating Virgin.
That was what got me thinking about Sydney Airport.
Yep, just reminding JC of his Corps Law obligations.
Tom
They took it away from my cold hands. I was heading to the afterlife with that stock and that piece of shit , Gonsky gave it away to his union buddies. I knew the day he was made chairman it was going to be a terrible ride. He’s a corrupt arsehole. I hope he chokes on a lettuce leaf.
I’m not bignoting as this is the closest thing that’s brought me to tears when the accountant called to tell me my tax bill payable by 15th June this year.
It’s an extraordinary thing that you’re forced to cough up tax when you’ve owned the stock for 15 plus years- went through the GFC , covid and the ATO wants a cut of the vig.
Tears!
It was a very emotional time for me.