Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921
Grate – no radio thread at the scheduled time. Ah well. I was keeping this for the Radio Show, but…
Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023
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- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
Locked, loaded, misfire!
You can despise or love Putin and yet still think it’s idiotic to be unnecessarily drawn into a conflict that…
The intelligentsia There is no such thing. If there was, humanity wouldn’t be devolving at the rate it is.
Coined in Poland, taken up by the Bolshies according to Wikipedia.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 16, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Alice Springs Woolworths yesterday:
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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.
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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.
Is that right, JC? You’ve cashed out of SACL?
Sanchez
Bain is private equity so they want and need a cash out. Super dickheads need an income stream.
Woops, JC. I just read your 6.09pm post. My sympathies.
I hope mUnty rang and offered to buy you a pinot.
The best thing about this august journal of record (well, one of them) is the readership. Specifically, the silent readership.
Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here. Warms the cockles, it does.
Tom
I didn’t have a choice. There was vote and those idiot shareholders listened to gonsky and voted for a sale. It was compulsory.
I wouldn’t be shocked if the vote was stolen too.
I have tears running down my cheeks as I write this. Stop reminding me.
I bought SYD in the midst of Covid at $5.50 a copy.
People might say that I should be happy with $8.50 after six months.
But no.
It was well under what I believe to be it’s intrinsic worth and was dumped in a fire sale when there was no fire.
Here’s the thing.
Unisuper had a fair chunk of SYD. In return for voting for the Scheme of Arrangement, they got a piece of the privatised entity. No-one else had that option. If $8.50 was such a red-hot deal, Unisuper would have pocketed the cash, right?
incomplete data
on the other hand the fertility rate continues to be well below replacement, showing that mass migration ponzi is a massive failure.
2nd graph down
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/births-australia/latest-release
And presumably ASIC and ASX just sat idly by as it happened. Who would be a non-institutional shareholder when this can occur perfectly legally?
Sanchez
In a fair world Gonsky should be doing jail time for the shit he pulled. Totally disgusting.
Knuckle Draggersays:
January 16, 2023 at 6:14 pm
The best thing about this august journal of record (well, one of them) is the readership. Specifically, the silent readership.
Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here. Warms the cockles, it does.
I’m not sure that Phat Pussy is as widely read.
That is huge.
Not mentioned anywhere in any media I’ve seen.
Thanks, plasma.
The only thing being worse than talked about is not being talked about. Isn’t that right?
And the Liberal government.
Oscar Wilde seemed to think so, Bear.
But that was the province of the idle rich. Everyone else was busy at work.
Howard, Cuddly and Max the Axe got the ball rolling.
“In a fair world Gonsky should be doing jail time for the shit he pulled. Totally disgusting.”
Yep.
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?
Moronic even by your crotchless standards. Professor Irving, professor of law at Sydney uni and possibly the only lawyer smarter than me, answers this BS.
As for no positive outcomes, you crotchless cretin, read Mabo and the 50% of Australia now covered by NT.
STFU and try to be serious; that’s when you’re at your funniest.
With Macquarie clipping the ticket from memory.
I’ve thought Groogs needs a new writing team for a while now.
Or a change of socks at least.
And you want to know the biggest irony?
Had Eddie Mabo lived, under the NT laws Keating introduced as a result of the decision, he still wouldn’t have been able to mortgage “his” land – which is why he went to the HC in the first place.
And in more ‘experts are baffled’ news:
Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate
No one could have predicted this….
Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control? It was revealing that the Professor punted that question.
Ordering an Uber Eats pizza from the phone menu.
The Mediterranean features “Vaginian” ham.
I’ll leave it at that.
I did a google search for
“Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate”
The first page was just stories of how good the vax is. The real story wasn’t linked to until half way down the second page. For a specific search that just demonstrates how much google tampers with results.
I am about to hit Sky News After Dark 2023 programming so if you couldn’t care less – spin your scroll wheel!
Caleb Bond has done an outstanding job filling in for the WEBs. He listens to his guests, he doesn’t interrupt. he researches his topics and asks pertinent questions. Caleb is bloody good.
So what does Sky do with this obvious talent? The cretins relegate him to a 10 pm slot – when most of us who care are probably asleep. But worse, much worse, they saddle him with that Daisy Cousins try-to-be, Liz Storer. Caleb deserves better, but I suppose it’s a start on the first rung up the ladder.
I won’t be watching so will rely on those here that do tune in for their ratings of this programme.
Vaginian ham with inserted an pineapple? Sounds Hawaiian.
USA Today warns against using ‘culturally sensitive words’ like aloha, hola, shalom (15 Jan)
I’m sure if you say “vaginian ham” or “pineapple” you will offend someone. Maybe even a Hawaiian.
I should edit, grr. My English is worse than a Hawaiian pizza.
This is my problem with NT, it keeps the indigenous as museum exhibits, not humans living in current year.
JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.
Is Namaste okay?
Asking for Stimpson.
When I was a lad taking a passing interest in commercial law, there used to be a thing called “oppression of minority shareholders”.
ASIC is nothing short of useless.
I remember running across former ASIC head honcho Greg Medcraft early in my career. A singularly forgettable and unimpressive dude. He now has a role with the OECD, no doubt riding on Corrmann’s coat-tails.
The fact that he climbed the greasy pole comes as no surprise.
Really sorry to raise the PTSD triggering event (the Great Sydney Airport sellout).
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Pogriasays:
January 16, 2023 at 7:15 pm
Yes, I agree. (Correcting my spelling of the bint’s surname…) Daisy Cousens (and her copycat, Liz Storer) are obviously little fluffies trying to fill that awful Hardy’s sandals, which makes it all the more disgusting. Poor Caleb.
ASIC is nothing short of useless.
Correct. The good news is they are no worse than any other government body. The bad news is they are no better than any other government body.
For example see CASA. Airline pilot pal had one of his work colleagues go to CASA recently. He was told that the only things to worry about were his pay and leave entitlements. So much for aviation safety.
“JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.”
Agree about Caleb, he’s excellent, he speaks clearly, he’s articulate, he knows a thing or two, he doesn’t mumble like Blot. However, I actually don’t mind Liz Storer, she’s much more solid than peak a boo Daisy. However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many. It’s easier to find unwoke men than unwoke women.
People are blaming COVID vaccines for sudden deaths and more. Here’s why experts say it’s harmful.
And guess what your primary care physician will say if he know what’s good for him.
Owner of Miss Universe says it will be ‘run by women, owned by a trans women’ | Headliners
gbnews
“The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. “
Oh he’s from Adelaide, hence his sartorial elegance and demeanour.
There’s a lurker’s forum?
On Discord?
Is CMD Longtime Lurker leading the charge?
Greg Medcraft early in my career. A singularly forgettable and unimpressive dude.
Wait until you get a load of his missus.
How badly did we overcount COVID deaths and hospitalizations?
Is she dull as dishwater?
Miss Universe is turning into Mr Universe?
Should make Cohenite happy at least.
Lots and lots of cute owls.
It’s quite amusing to see that the old thief is losing the protection of the legacy meja. They could have dumped on the old grub years ago if they had wanted. It slightly reminds me of liddle filth’s dying PMship when Keating was stalking the grub in 1991.
This is my problem with NT, it keeps the indigenous as museum exhibits, not humans living in current year.
One of my problems with NT is it gives a huge unequal advantage to one section of the population without any justification. Mabo was a terrible Judgment.
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion
No, she wasn’t backward in telling people who her husband was.
There’s an unverified story where she even did it to someone who she thought pinched a parking spot.
Allegedly.
However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many.
Are either of them single? Asking for myself.
‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
Health experts are calling for a rethink of Australia’s COVID-19 approach after a new study showed one in 10 people will end up with “long COVID”.
& let’s not even start on her doing the same when she was trying to gain membership to a particularly snooty club here in Sydney.
Allegedly.
FREEDOM WORKS #1 Prohibition In America Did NOT Work – Neither Do Lockdowns Now
Interesting analysis in SpikedMany of the shifts giving rise to wokeness began in the 1970s. As the political economy of the West ‘globalised’, and as the postwar settlement was upended, a new elite class emerged – what Barbara and John Ehrenreich termed the ‘professional-managerial class’ (PMC).
Hey! I thought we were friends!
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion
Not boredom but the unquenchable impulse of the left to prove they’re superior and more virtuous; and what better way of doing that is saving the planet from a confected disaster. The other side of that turd is their desire for power; and if they’re saving the planet they deserve all the power available. Thirdly, they are misanthropes; one of the dominant but not discussed tenets of alarmism is misanthropy:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-07/warming_to_misanthropy/39750
Dr. Bhakdi was warning about the risks from the very beginning.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: They Have Broken Every Rule of The Nuremberg Code
“The Nuremberg Code states anything that is being used under experimental use must be stopped if there is a clear indication of any harm or death.”
Riiight.
One of thoooose.
Medcraft was one of those pushing to cut off direct investment in bank hybrids by retail investors.
Apparently they are all too stupid to recognise and manage risk. Of course, I can if I go through a ticket-clipping advisor. Very convenient that, just when the Banking RC puts a crimp in the excesses of advisors, ASIC creates another income stream for them.
I reckon if he had his way there would be no direct share investment by independent retail investors either. Everyone would have to invest in managed funds and/or get annual advice from some shifty ticket-clipper.
‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
aka “vax injury”
Big call, but I would trade current year for the 1970s not to endure flat pack furniture.
Miss Universe is turning into Mr Universe?
Should make Cohenite happy at least.
Lots and lots of cute owls.
It’s sad how strong women can intimidate. Cute owls have muscles but not dicks; God knows what trannies and woke freaks have and don’t have. Time for some cute owls!
Cronkite, I’d estimate that 25% of the adult population have been brainwashed – frightened stiff of gerbil warming so it’s not something you can just palm off the virtue signalling. They’re actually terrified and a decent percentage of them are so scared they’re on anti-anxiety medication to deal with it. I don’t know how one deals with this sort of hysteria because it’s very real to them and they vote.
Well, I have just roughed it with a bottle of Jansz sparkling. It was a 2017 vintage.
As a vintage they may have felt entitled to skip the Pinot Meunière, which is often used in NV to round out the flavours.
But I am certain they did not bother with the second fermentation in the bottle which provides champagne with the fuller toasty and nutty flavour and creamier mouthfeel.
The decomposition of the yeast (called ‘lees’) is not unique to champers. If you find a Chardonnay that boasts of ‘stirred on lees’ you will find that fuller flavour and creamier mouthfeel. I have an especial fondness for it.
No, I’m not opening that horror. You used to like old movie starlets and you’ve now become ( in Eddle’s words) a complete flamer. There’s nothing sexy about a woman taking testosterone to look like a muscled up bloke. Stop it now!
I’d estimate that 25% of the adult population have been brainwashed
Probably more; and much higher amongst the young’ens. The next few years are going to be tough in this toilet of a nation.
Dot is pining for orange tiled coffee tables, bean bags and fondue parties.
No delusional nonsense there. Just hardcore pure science.
No, I’m not opening that horror
You have to start slow head prefect: look at their beautiful, confident faces and when comfortable gaze slowly down to those toned limbs and accentuated boobies and admire the work and diligence gone into producing that result. I always like a sheila with a flat tummy; it means when you go ut to dinner with them they won’t be pinching your chips.
Further to Caleb, two years ago, SBS aired “Could You Survive on the Breadline?” which had Julie Goodwin, Caleb Bond and that parasite, NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong.
The premise was that the three would go to three homes on “struggle street”, families that were on welfare and on the breadline, families that struggle to make ends meet.
What was noticeable was how practical both Goodwin and particularly Caleb were. Caleb went into one home, and got cracking doing practical tasks, he washed up, he vacuumed, he tidied the home (which looked like a bomb had hit it), he did a shop and filled the cupboard with good food, he helped with the budget, he cooked some tasty cheap food and he stayed nights at the home. Goodwin was much the same. The Greens, Jenny Leong? Oh she spent her time making cheap political points and then at the end of the day, she went home. And therein lies the rub, the left just like to talk, to preach, to pontificate, they’re not interested in practical measures and solutions. They’d be happy for people to starve to score a cheap political point and history is riddled with such examples of the left starving people.
You don’t need a lot of money to cook tasty, wholesome, nutritious food. I grew up eating my mother’s frugal food. I love frugal food. My mother has always said that you can make a minestrone for a few bucks and feed a family with it, with some nice bread. You can get a chicken frame and make chicken soup with vegetables and lokshen. My mother would make endless compotes (to the point where my brother still hates compote), baked rice puddings, jam roly-poly, her meal repertoire included Spanish Tortilla, cabbage rolls, stuffed capsicums, corn fritters, fetta cheese pie, lots of lamb, particularly crumbed lamb cutlets (when lamb was cheap and the staple of the Australian kitchen), curries with cheap cuts of meat, lambs fry and so on, all delicious and cheap.
Now my darling mother, at the ripe old age of 83, loves to tell me that she’s over cooking, not that that stops her from buying a pressure cooker, of which I can report she’s yet to use and it’s still sitting in a box, and it’ll stay in the the box until she gives it to me or my sister.
I can’t even catch Short Covid.
That reminds me.
In all the excitement I kind of lost count.
How many months do we have left?
“I can’t even catch Short Covid.”
Nor can I.
There’s nothing better in this ol’world than cut-up fresh peaches and apricots with a decent serve of vanilla ice cream on a summer’s night…
Actually there is.
Tinned peach and apricot slices with vanilla ice-cream.
Nothing beats either.
‘flat pack furniture’
Tab A into Slot B.
PHRASING.
I can’t either.
I think it’s a huge lie. Everyone who claims to have had it is lying to us. Could be the Simulation playing a joke on the 153 of us in the world who’ve never had it.
There’s nothing better in this ol’world than cut-up fresh peaches and apricots with a decent serve of vanilla ice cream on a summer’s night…
Well, the Nectarines off my tree this year are heaven sent – small, but intensely sweet. Eaten fresh off the tree (those that don’t have peck marks from the crows!) – ni ice cream necessary.
Sure Vicki, nectarines work beautifully.
Good things about the 70’s – cheap tassie scallops, cheap NZ whole rump, brandy alexander cheescake. Great music, shoes that made me taller, neon coloured cars. I look at the photo album and everything has a brown filter.
Those cars must have slurped all the colour out of everything.
I got short fuc.ing covid after 3 vax (sic); shitty deal for a week; and the thing is mutating faster than I can put up photos of cute owls.
I still make mum’s baked cheesecake, with a warm taste of nutmeg. Quite scrumptious.
As they say in Toowoomba, the Silicon Valley of Australia.
According to Australian Government website ‘Centre for Population’
There was a slight decline in the Australian fertility rate of from 1.66 in 2021 per woman to 1.65 per woman in 2022.
As someone up thread suggested statista is using incomplete data.
People have 60 days to register, for starters.
According to macrotrends.
Not to mention of there was a vaxx effect 2021 wouldn’t have been a baby boom year, would it?
brandy alexander cheescake.
Next to Jane Austen and cute owls cheesecakes are my favourite thing: brandy alexander cheescake.
Cassie,
I am glad to hear your impression of the two women is favourable. I have however, an aversion to grown women dressing and speaking like little girls. I haven’t met one yet that I could trust. Long experience has taught me to be wary.
153 nocovids left?
And at least 4 of us posting at the cat.
Amazing.
Ha!
I used to work in the bar in a club in Sydney. I used to love it when customers ordered a Brandy Alexander, because I would prepare a double batch. And if they ordered two…
We didn’t have specialised cocktail glasses so we served them in champagne saucers. Mine was in a 10 oz highball. Not one to be pretentious, you see.
Marry me. Marry me just to make that exact cheesecake.
We had a dinner at our friends’ place a few evenings ago and she made this delicious cheesecake. It was sublime. She kept putting it down saying it was missing this or that. After my third helping (it was right next to me) with wifey calling me a disgusting ‘gutz’ the friend got the idea it wasn’t as bad as she thought.
Huh? While our beef industry was bust (depression-era style) we were importing beef from NZ?
It better not have cost more than a few cents for the whole rump.
Only Jewish gals can make decent cheesecake like the one I had the other night. Otherwise, it’s just cultural appropriation.
brandy alexander cheescake.
Awesome, if it isn’t baked, it isn’t a cheesecake.
Good Aussie movie coming up on Fox.
The Dressmaker.
Kate Winslet could end up having a Susan Sarandon type filmography.
Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control?
Patents, and return on investment?
My son in law would beg to differ. I have been culturally appropriating since high school.
Cassie and I should have a cheesecake-off. Followed by chicken soup.
It has to be the brown crème de cacao.
Seemed to have no existence except to enhance other drinks flavours. I never knew anyone to drink it straight.
JC, maybe when you’ve finished making work for your cardiologist, you might try this for a dessert.
Berries (rasberries, strawberries, blueberries) layered with Grik yoghurt, topped with a small amount of brown sugar.
Sanchez
I do a variation of that I picked up from a Greek restaurant in the 90s. Greek yogurt , sprinkled with walnuts and topped with the finest honey. It’s really good.
I’ll try yours some time this week and report back. But I’ll use honey.
Muscovado you Philistine! 😀
yeah… nah. long covid for unvaxed ppl is very real, don’t ask me how I know.
Yeah, low GI honey is probably better than sugar, and walnuts would be a nice addition.