Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921
Why am I left with the feeling that the parents of those demanding a “Free Palestine” were those chanting “One…
Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023
- Open Thread – Thurs 14 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
- The Sweetest Victory
- Open Thread – Weekend 9 November 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 7 Nov 2024
John Fund, a US columnist, being interviewed by Sharri is sporting a black eye. I wonder who socked him.
Fap, fap, fap. Cap’n, I canna give her anymore! If I do, she’ll BLOW!
WTF is going on with power in Qld? https://www.ergon.com.au/network/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/ It looks like half the state is out. There’s 3 houses…
Myer Christmas window tradition cancelled over protest threatBy Cassandra MorganNovember 14, 2024 — 8.03pm Myer’s annual Christmas window unveiling has…
‘Unethical’ and Up to 98 Times Worse Than the Disease: Top Scientists Publish Paradigm-Shifting Study About COVID-19 Boosters for Young Adults
DEROY MURDOCK: A Modest Proposal On Where Democrat Tyrants Can Stick Their Gas Stove Bans
Via Dad’s Deadpoll this morning
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.”
Tom Clancy
It’s not often that Wikipedia defends against left bullshit, but the wife was watching some food show where some moron claimed the word idiot came from a Greek word referring to people that did not participate in public life.
Wikipedia counters this directly, insisting that Greeks themselves didn’t use the word that way, simply because there is no direct evidence of it. I’ve downloaded it before some IDIOT changes it. There, I’ve used it in the right context.
Pretty much describes this day, lo these many years ago, as a J1.
“But Mr Dutton said the Prime Minister was “showing arrogance and disrespect to Australians in not releasing the Voice detail”.”
Memo to Mr Dutton, I think “you’re showing cowardice in not standing up and saying NO to the Voice.
Dr Aseem Malhotra
@DrAseemMalhotra
BREAKING:
World eminent Cardiologist Prof.Abdullah Alabdulgader calls for suspension of mRNA jab because of cardiac harm concerns
*President of The international congress for advanced cardiac sciences
*Founder of Prince Sultan Cardiac Center/Saudi Arabia
So the elites mock your lack of participation in public life but lock you up for the common cold?
Freakin geniuses, these…idiots!
I don’t think there is a shadowy cabal.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot of high school level crap with private chats and something like the old JournoList etc. The Cathedral definitely has something like that.
I mean, they don’t hide it exactly, verbatim talking points, completely lockstep, then Gillard gives the Clinton’s 500 mn AUD.
Your life is a game to these freaks.
Its all about CONTROL. By moving everything onto an electric platform (cars, stoves, hot water, heating etc) you make everyone dependent on the instantaneous supply of electricity from the state. Turn that off and you aint going anywhere. Forget the days of jumping in your hydrocarbon powered car and travelling 500km.
They know that there is no practical way to store electricity, and work arounds like home generators are impractical for most, and can be banned for the rest.
Its all about removing your independence.
NEUROSCIENTIST WARNS THAT CURRENT GENERATION AIS ARE SOCIOPATHS
Russia Not Yet Defeated
Ukraine Will Lose to Russia Unless It Makes a Deal.
Five days until Q is totally and utterly repudiated.
Trump WON’T be President again anytime soon.
Maybe custard can crawl, kowtow and grovel for our forgiveness.
I’m a reasonable man. I only ask that you totally self deprecate yourself….
Anyone who continues with W nonsense is a deep cover leftist asset or a useful…idiot.
Q nonsense
Snowden on the Real Biden Scandal
From Armstrong Economics –
“Snowden has pointed out the real scandal is that the DOJ’s role in suppressing the information released about the Biden documents which predate the November elections. He points out that you can be sentenced to 5 years in prison per document. Of course, you will remember California Democratic Senator Diane Finestein wanted to have Snowden charged with TREASON for revealing classified information on the internet about how the government was ILLEGALLY surveilling all Americans conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA). Being charged with Treason can be a death sentence.
This goes to my point. Something smells here. They did NOT have to reveal anything. Why not keep it all hidden like the CIS’s involvement in the JFK assassination for over 60 years? Snowden tweeted. “The scandal is that the DOJ found out about it a week prior to the midterm elections and chose to suppress the story, conferring a partisan advantage.”
However, that does not explain why NOW! There are no honest people in such positions in Washington. Those jobs are ONLY available to “team” players.
This Game is at foot. Classifying documents is corruption in itself. It is not always national security. Many times they are covering up political facts simply to hide illegal activity as in Snowden’s Case. In my case, all the taped phone calls that would have taken down many of the Investment Banks in New York when they are talking about joining them and they paid bribes to some official, did not become “classified” they merely claimed they were all destroyed in the World Trade Center attack. One way or another, incriminating evidence vanishes. So why have the Democrats suddenly exposed their own?”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/snowden-of-the-real-biden-scandal/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
What happens in the cabal stays in the cabal.
I know, but don’t ask me how I know.
Unvaccinated military members still facing repercussions despite rescinded COVID-19 mandate
What is a cabal? Is it something like a patio?
This may already have been mentioned.
Covid Vaccines Are “Obviously Dangerous” and Should Be Halted Immediately, Say Senior Swedish Doctors
inform. Not consult.
It’s the pommy form. A patio is a Spanish cabal, an al fresco is Italian. If it’s a Nazi cabal, it’s a garage.
Although another cabal reckons it’s Jewish in origin. But then that would be a sukkah.
In Australia, secret societies usually meet on the verandah. Beer essential, snacks optional.
Details please.
Is that why they call him the man in black?
Welcome to our world, Aunty Lynne.
TexasLindsay™
@TexasLindsay_
1. Yes, @chelseahandler, it happened to thousands upon thousands of people around the world.
I can’t recall the “gas is bad” being on the drawing board pre Covid.
The supine and unquestioning response to lockdowns by the greater mass of our society makes me think they think they can get away with anything from now on.
Can someone do some rough calculations on the joules involved with cooking and the implications for the grid if everything is electric?
Indian migrant and OHS adviser saying we have to give up our gas stoves because his grandparents burned wood in the house and gave him asthma or something.
Tell you what, mate…you buy an electric stove and I’ll keep my gas cooker, OK?
It’s called freedom of choice.
The link posted by BoN
https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/chinese-scientist-filed-covid-vaccine-patent-after-contagion-emerged-report/
was somewhat illuminating, though it references The Australian (and Sharri Markson) as source so still a minor concern that more info is in there but held behind a paywall.
I note that article is over 18 months old now, yet Wikipedia’s timeline of Covid19 Pandemic mentions a Chinese patent on use of Remdesivir filed in January but not any patent for a vaccine in February 2020. Strange how inconvenient facts get left out of Wikipedia, huh?
Via Black Ball
“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.”
And this is where any attempt at national or local level “Voices” will collapse into ATSIC redux. Despite the blatherings of the well connected, there are as many aboriginal voices as there are aboriginal groups. This is the same as in the non-aboriginal community.
If the Voice does get up, it will soon collapse into the factionalism that we have seen for so long, while the dysfunctional “communities” will remain as they have been for decades. But the same suspects will continue to profit from the misery of those on whose behalf they claim to speak.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
·
Do you want to know why so many Lefties have become shills for NATO, and for Global American Empire hegemony? Why so many Lefties are pushing outrageous and insane Woke policies?
It’s very simple.
Yep, if all cooking is electric, then the duck’s neck is steeper, head is higher.
…ie the whole system is even more fragile.
Don’t go thinking it can be firmed by battery dispatch, the only electricity source which is quick enough to kick in for the evening ramp-up is… gas generators.
alwaysright says: January 16, 2023 at 8:52 am
Yes. It keeps the light off shady characters.
Reminds me of Chevy Chase.
“Can I kiss you on the verandah?”
“On the lips will be fine.”
We have devolved. We’re now back to fear of a naked flame.
Only those licensed to do so may own Fire. It may involve certain rites of entry, secret knowledge known only to a few.
There are some interesting references in this article. But I think there is more to it than green money and power. Perhaps if included control of energy production it might be closer to the mark.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/the_green_agenda_has_never_been_about_science_or_the_environment_it_is_about_green_money_and_power.html
*theres* your problem!
Can someone do some rough calculations on the joules involved with cooking and the implications for the grid if everything is electric?
Cook with gas and the vast majority of the heat will go into what you are cooking. Can’t give you the exact numbers as obviously some goes into the room. If you are heating the room this is not wasted.
Burn the gas to make electricity and the thermodynamic efficiency is 30% (open cycle gas turbine, easy to ramp up and down) to 60% (Combined cycle, not easy to ramp up and down). Then add transmission losses and your cooktop still loses heat to surroundings. So gas energy requirement to cook goes up roughly 2 to 3 times.
The “problem” with gas cooking is allegedly CO, oxides of nitrogen, unburned CH4 etc. Nobody has convincingly shown this.
OTOH go nuke and go electric if you are worried about CO2 from electricity generation. For cars I’d be looking to do efficient low cost synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels for water and CO2 using nuke energy.
I don’t have the URL but a US company claimed to have a way of synthesizing jet fuel on aircraft carriers from the nuke energy and sea water at competitive cost.
We are on day 4 of Costumegate. Surely it should have blown over by now.
Knuckles above shows how Alice is now on a par with San Francisco and Los Angeles:
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.
Tourist dollars! You’ll never never know if you never ever go!
CO2, the only pollutant in history where if it’s removed from the environment everything dies.
*Heard on a podcast the other day.
Do you think anyone outside of politics/media cares?
Just listened to Craig Tiley telling everyone how important govt sponsorship is to sport here, especially Tennis Australia, and how we need to boost the amount given to the Open. He’s suggesting a lottery just for this one event.
Grifters and hucksters. When McEnroe jets back first class to NY in two weeks, what multi million dollar art work will he buy courtesy of the Australian taxpayer ?
Patina, we talking about rust.
Aka ‘Big Sport.’
Feeds off Big Government.
Aboriginal leaders like going to rural and remote communities for consultations. About $200 per day in pocketed expenses in meal, living away from home allowances and such. Often have extended stays or repeat visits because local leaders are “away” for non-specific cultural reasons such as being in gaol or drinking in the next town but may or may not include living on country overseas or choosing Western health care over traditional cures. People wonder where $33bill goes.
You’ll be comforted to know they have a choice between using the best local accommodation or sleeping in a humpy. And travelling by air and road or walking.
The “problem” with gas cooking is allegedly CO, oxides of nitrogen, unburned CH4 etc. Nobody has convincingly shown this.
In the before times, long ago, when the coal still burned and the gas still ran, the old timers used exhaust mans in kitch-ends to remove fumes and smells from stoves.
Our politicians are the vandal horde sitting in Romes palaces calling themselves senators and never thinking to wonder why the water runs and the grain comes in.
Until it doesnt.
These are people who think laws can change the climate, mens natures and reality itself.
Slowly buy shirley!
Almost every day in the news is another reported case of sudden, unexpected cardiac death. The vaccination status is carefully concealed in the report and any mention of past SARS-CoV-2 immunization appears to be scrubbed from the internet. Families maintain an airtight silence on a simple medical query—did they take a COVID-19 vaccine? Yes or No? Prior to COVID-19 vaccination, the usual causes of death were almost always known antemortem, and were roughly 40% cardiovascular, 40% cancer, and 20% other causes. Chaves and colleagues have shown these proportions have been dramatically shifted to sudden cardiac death.
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. Despite the authors’ claim of “no association,” it’s my interpretation of the data that 78% of the deaths could be directly attributed to a known mechanism of COVID-19 vaccination. This is very consistent with the recent report from Schwab et al from Germany whose data revealed 71% of deaths within 20 days of vaccination occurred in the context of acute problems known to be caused by the vaccines.
When autopsies done by separate teams in different countries arrive at similar findings, we have external consistency. This is one of many criteria that are used in determining scientific validity. The assertion that COVID-19 vaccines are causing death is increasingly supported in the peer-reviewed literature.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/autopsy-series-after-covid-19-vaccination-0d3500b8
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”.
“Well whoever did this is a horrible coward and they should come out of the swamp from which they’re living,” minister Kean told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Monday.
“These nobodies that are hiding behind the keyboard making silly attacks like this should have no place in public.”
The treasurer then denied the existence of a photo circulating after being asked by Mr Fordham whether he had seen it or not.
“No of course not, I don’t believe it exists,” he said.
“I’m not aware of any photo. I don’t believe it exists, I just think this is all gossip.”
On Monday morning, NSW Labor leader Chris Minns said he didn’t think the scandal would play a major part in the upcoming election.
“My view is that the next election is going to be based on (the) cost of living, the status and the way our hospital system is working and our schools are working and I don’t think it has a lot to do with what Dominic Perrottet did 20 years ago,” Mr Minns told Fordham.
“He apologised, I think that’s a big part of this that can’t be missed. I thought his apology was sincere and my view is that we need to move on and talk about the issues affecting the people of NSW.
“I don’t think it’s relevant, the people I’ve spoken to over the last two days, many of them say they’re not voting for the Perrottet Government but it’s not for that reason, it’s to do with the fact that (the) cost of living is out of control, they’re worried about privatisation, the waiting times at emergency departments are out of control and they want change.”
It comes after a move to force the beleaguered premier to front an integrity inquiry appears unlikely to succeed after Labor and the Greens refused to commit their support to the hit job.
Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party Leader Robert Borsak is referring Mr Perrottet to the police over a failure to disclose he wore a Nazi costume to his 21st birthday party on legally binding political documents.
Mr Borsak is also seeking to refer the matter to parliament’s public accountability committee.
He said he intended to directly refer the matter to Police Commissioner Karen Webb on Monday on the basis that Mr Perrottet “may have sworn a false oath”.
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.
Committee Chair and Greens MP Cate Faehrmann said it was “rich” of Mr Borsak to push for Mr Perrottet to be questioned at an inquiry when the SFF leader lost three Lower House MPs last year because of their disapproval of his behaviour.
“I think it’s a bit rich for Shooters’ Robert Borsak to be referring someone else’s behaviour to the Public Accountability Committee when his own party hasn’t been able to hold him to account for his in the Upper House last year,“ she said.
Labor also refused to back an inquiry, 10 weeks out from the election, instead wishing to focus on key cost of living issues in its plea to voters.
“Labor won’t support the inquiry. We remain focused on the increases in cost of living facing families, NSW’s falling education outcomes and the crisis in our hospitals,” a spokesman said.
Mr Borsak said he will speak to members of the committee and called for Mr Perrottet to resign.
“That three-page nomination form is a legally binding Statutory Declaration,” Mr Borsak said in a statement.
“It is clear that the premier may have sworn a false oath on a number of occasions by not declaring that he had worn a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday and if so could be subject to a 5 years goal. He has no integrity and must resign.”
On Sunday, Mr Perrottet and Roads Minister Natalie Ward attempted to make light of the incident with Ms Ward saying she had made the mistake of having “criminally big hair” at her own 21st while Mr Perrottet said he could not recall if his brother Charles also dressed in a Nazi uniform because he used to attend 21st parties every weekend and on some Saturday nights even two.
Mr Perrottet said he was not aware of photos of the event.
A spokesman for the Premier added: “The Premier has apologised for making a terrible mistake for this 21st birthday and this is nothing more than a stunt to distract from the issues plaguing SFF.”
I thought the handle was brass and it was verdigris? Shine it up too much and it loses value.
As for the blade itself, try some oil first…maybe. Probably a specialist job.
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.