The Rocky Mountains Lander’s Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863
Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Weekend 21 Jan 2023
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Gary Varvel..
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Brett Lethbridge.
US Congressional Election 2008:
November 4 (General election)
“Beloved Sydney street personality Danny Lim “
“Beloved”, to whom? I regard him as obnoxious. I saw Lim the other day in the Sydney CBD. He looks extremely well, he’s clearly recovered from his physical altercation with the cops and his hospital stay, as I knew he would. Meanwhile, he’s lapped up lots of dosh from GoEffMe and he’s a “celebrity victim”. He’ll continue doing what he does best, being a serial pest to Sydney CBD shop owners and carrying around crude signs with such rude words as “Dutton is a “c-unt”, but that’s okay, it’s perfectly kosher to smear Liberals and Nationals.
Best chance for a Yes on The Voice is if the CovidMania cranks up again and it’s Postal Voting only.
In other words, it’s gotta be Stolen to get up.
OldOzziesays:
January 22, 2023 at 11:40 am
H B Bear says:
January 22, 2023 at 11:31 am
Did Mother make you play the violin as a child Groogs?
Did Mother make you play the violin as a child
Not Groogs – But Yes and I was lousy –
After I had around a year of lessons, the consensus was that the strings had sounded better in the cat.
You have absolutely no proof of this you bizarre fantasist.
Dotty Dot your Dottiness seems not to know where to stop. Maybe in the Basement where you belong sucking your thumb…………………………….baby.
“Beloved Sydney street personality Danny Lim”
Is that a euphemism for derro?
1. There is no proposal for the voice as a working organisation.
2 There is no constitutional proposal for a referendum.
3. The government has already affirmed they know they don’t need a referendum, but it won’t have the same degree of permanency.
4. There will never be a consensus on this, indigenous groups are not homogeneous and there are progressive and conservative factions within.
5. It could be as simple as electing a shadow senate that gives opinions on laws, but why not just let the land councils just form a peak national body with reps from each and write opinions and do consultations? As they are free to do now!
I don’t like it because it implies a race based aristocracy, which is why I detect ideas like saying sorry over and over again, welcome to country and “paying rent(!)”.* Suggestion 5. avoids this because they’d be like everyone else, an Indian lobby, an Italian lobby, a Jewish lobby and a Sudanese lobby etc.
*All of which also assume homogeneity and the left narrative of invasion but no ceding of territory occurred; and that all Aborigines are socialist and always were and will be.
You suspect this may only be among SMH readers. But I would need to see a Venn diagram.
World class wit, of a sort.
Random caps.
???
Hopefully beloved Sydney street identity Danny Lim will get as many votes as beloved Gosford archdeacon Rod Bower.
Considering the observations of the early settlers I wonder how many of those earlier Muruwari women, knocked unconscious for irritating a man, speared in the leg for breaching flickering momentary taboos, traded for a chunk of meat, scarred, bruised, and maimed Muruwari women would have thought themselves proud?
Constitutional expert Prof. Anne Twomey says if the Voice referendum fails, Anthony Albanese will face a “political problem” legislating for it regardless.
You think, Anne?
You revolting lump of human decay, Woddenhead. The banks lost money because their clients and or the securities they invested in went bust. Ironically, you wanted to see bankers in jail, but Armstrong, who actually stole money; oh he’s fine. You should be deported.
Beloved Sydney street personality Danny Lim
Colourful racing identity George Freeman
Respected jurist and CSM Murray Farqhuar
Decorated police officer Roger Rogerson
Secure wildlife park Bullen’s African Safari
Cheerful anti crime campaigner Koby Aberton
Women’s rights activist Sheik al Hilaly
Zelensky is a puppet in so much as almost all functional democracies have elected puppets.
Biden is puppet.
Albo is a puppet.
Rishi is a puppet.
They all answer to their donors.
And the people who will give them jobs long after their time in elected office is over.
They do not answer to their electorates.
I can’t believe you’re implying Bob Carr isn’t a champion private banker and private equity investor.
Albo might have a problem keeping his job. Even with those KRuddy amendments. Is Australia really ready for PM Plibbers?
Michael Smith has a picture of this “Proud Muruwari woman” – anyone able to provide a link?
Top Endersays:
January 22, 2023 at 1:15 pm
Why the preface of “PROUD” when it comes to describing yourself as one of an aboriginal tribe?
So it stops you using it in front of “white”.
No it doesn’t. I’m a PROUD Australian/Irish/Dutch/German/(possibly also English) man.
Where do I sign on for the “Descendants of British Settlers” lobby?
I mean, if we’re going to prioritise this by chronological order of arrival as well as race that’s the way to go, right?
Dot, I think you are being naive about Kolomoisky.
There’s some form of loose relationship between him, Zelensky, the Biden family & a range of alphabet agencies.
Keeping the money & the power is one of their many motivations.
We had PM Gilliard.
In many cases the “securities” (lol) were sold to investors by…… banks. Who made many motzas from their sale. Knowing they were stuffed with trash, all rated nicely by friendly S&P, Fitch et al.. But that’s another story.
Yes, they did sell these securities to their clients as well as banks holding them. But then also explain why banks needed the federal government to come in and support them with Tarp? It could possibly suggest the asset side of their balance sheets were problematic, no?
Democratic countries won strategically at the conclusion of the war and briefly the US beat the North Vietnamese, which is why they signed the accords.
Rubbish Dotty Dot. You really do need to go travelling and not just look at books or read the SMH and the Age or whatever. Look at those helicopters trying to leave Saigon in 1975 with people scampering to get on them. Then look at Dribbling Joe’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Signed accords? LOL and FMD. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
And in Vietnam they call it the American War and rightly so. And they were not communist. The Vietnamese were Nationalists. Now USA is their friend and the CCP isn’t……………..
At least Plibbers can speak properly; no nasal whine or spit flying.
The bailouts & programs from the GFC are poorly understood by most.
One of the sweetest deals was Goldman’s lobbying hard for bailout of AIG, which happened, then AIG paid a chunk to to Goldmans the next day.
Taibbi was spot on with his Vampire Squid description.
Medics!
bern
I am sure there are donors and quid pro quos and so on, even with the “deoligarchification”. The idea that Zelensky is a literal marionette is just dumb. He’s not senile like Biden and whether or not there are foreign advisors sticking their beaks in, they are in a defensive war they view as for their survival and this has given him a surge in popularity and literal direct support from the military. The narrative from pro Russia shills often repeat; Russian propaganda about “Khazaria” and “Ukraine” not existing, and a chosen people ebing the puppeteers. The stupid “Zelensky wants WWIII” stuff is typical of Russian propaganda that the NDP and Helen Caldicott used to shill. Yes he’s said some incredibly stupid, provocative stuff but he hasn’t serially said that sort of thing.
Putin can withdraw at any time. He could even just fortify his gains now, ignore Ukraine and just shoot back at or interdict any of their military action. A treaty can be formalised years on after a truce is offered or agreed to. He saves face and his army goes home as a victor. The West won’t arm a war to reclaim Ukrainian land if Putin digs in.
dot, I don’t disagree with anything you just posted.
My comments were related to Kolomoisky.
Dr. John Campbell
Excess deaths in young adults, 2022 data
Albo’s probably toast whether The Voice gets up or not, so he hasn’t got much motivating him.
He’s never going to beat Dutton in Question Time, though I’d say he’d go better against Angus Taylor.
Plibersek’s task is The Republic if The Voice fails.
Most definitely. Some still are is my guess. Especially the Fed’s! My take on the whole situation then was that it was one gigantic pass the parcel and every link in the process/chain of the securitizing process garnered a commission, we are talking hundreds of Billions changing hands. Starting way back at the mortgage writers , the MBS stages , right through to the deep dark vaults of Deutsche Bank.
Then the defaults started happening and suddenly the tide went out catching the naked ugliness of it all. Bankers believed their own bullshit and were caught red handed carrying a lot of heavily discounted paper.
“feelthebernsays:
January 22, 2023 at 5:27 pm”
All correct.
That’s an old myth, dispelled a long time ago. There was only going to be one model of Government for an independent Vietnam – a Communist dictatorship. All other Nationalists were betrayed to the French, murdered or purged after 1954.
Funny how none of the mainstream press reports of the woman cricketer’s oz day problem or athletics plans to allow transsexuals to compete against women have the comments open….
Interesting catching up on the Russo-Ukraine War discussion, so I’ll heartily recommend Makka’s reference to Big Serge’s latest article. It’s very good counterpoint to the shitposting about the war. For instance, Ukraine is again scrounging around for MBTs, IFVs, and the like. Not only have they degraded their initial inventory, but what happened to that huge number that Russia was supposed to have allegedly gifted them in March, April and September? Remember those shitposts? What about the ex-Soviet inventory of T-72s, BMP-1s, etc. held by Poland, Romania, Czechs, etc. that was loaned to them? Amazing how an incompetent military like the Russians can in the space of a year destroy such a large waepons inventory in the field. And now the Ukrainians want to raid the last remaining weapons inventory of many of the smaller NATO states. How precisely will the Germans replace these stocks in the short-medium term? As for Bakhmut, I hear that anywhere from 27-34 Ukrainian brigades have been rotated through Bakhmut/ Soledar; you don’t rotate that many units through a strategically insignificant town unless its loss fatally weakens your line of defense. We are already seeing what the loss of Soledar means for Siversk over the next few weeks. Also, the current success of operations in Zaporozhia for the Russians, though still early on, indicates that a lot of existing military where pulled from this line and shifted over to bolster the line around Bakhmut. This also indicates that talk of any Ukrainian offensive in this area towards Melitopol and the Azov coast this winter wasn’t on the cards, and not for a long time.
Actually, Zelensky probably does, certainly more so than the others.
Early in his term when he suggested a deal with the Russians he was told he’d be assassinated if he pushed ahead with it.
Since that was his only plan for peace he was pretty much a lame duck president after that until the war revitalised his standing.
Nixon bombed the shit out of Vietnam, into submission and the US Army and Marine Corps never fought under relaxed rules of engagement. If the North was invaded, they KNEW they were toast, so they signed the Paris Accords.
You can take the word of communist generals or you can make up history as the the strategic value of this.
I am sure they call the prior war the French War.
They were indeed communist, guilty of atrocities like targeting the top 1% of land owners, killing at least 13,500 people in the rural areas.
They were communists first, they rejected unification out of hand. The UN was meant to supervise elections for unification, their Communist allies, the USSR, rejected it.
The Chinese were only “friends” to Vietnam to eject the French and radicalise the Viet Minh more to Mao’s extreme peasant centric communism, even trying to purge the party of literature and art. The Chinese are the historic enemy of the Vietnamese, re: the Trung sisters, etc.
H B Bearsays:
January 22, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Beloved Sydney street personality Danny Lim
You suspect this may only be among SMH readers. But I would need to see a Venn diagram.
m0nty=fa can run one up for you. What would you like it to show?
Bern
If AIG went down during that storm, it would have brought the entire financial system down. However, there’s another story to the whole thing. Yes, investment banks did mess around in suspect securities, but banks (not investment banks) were only bit players. The Fed caused this as it misunderstood what was going on. A sudden spike in demand caused commodity prices to spike, and this was read as inflationary when in fact, it was a demand shock and therefore a change in relative prices. The Fed tightened until it caused the economy to choke massively, with massive deflationary consequences. My fear is that it could (not may, but could) happen again. We’ve experienced demand shocks over demand shocks and supply over supply shocks and there’s no way they’re able to untangle what exactly is the inflationary impulse running through the economy. Godspeed in 2023.
Scott Adams does a U-turn on the vax
Paulson only became GW Bush’s treasury secretary so he could sell his Goldman stock tax free.
Obama is lucky he had Tim Geithner in his cabinet.
alwaysrightsays:
January 22, 2023 at 12:42 pm
POLL
Who would you prefer as Dear Leader?
No one. How about someone as cheap as possible.
Haha. There’s a think tank with Elbow’s name on it as we speak — something about running elections on losing issues, which Elbow is in the process of becoming an expert in (as a loser).
The Liars have a long tradition of looking after their losers, like Paul Keating and (eventually) Bob Hawke, both of whom were gifted Australian lobbies for the Chinese Communist Party, which earned them squillions.
Stuff the Australian national interest — there was money to be made!
They do refer to the “French War,” yes.
The idea that Zelensky is a literal marionette is just dumb.
No, the suggestion that he’s anything other than an actor playing a role is just dumb.
Ukraine can’t defeat Russia.
It’s like the Winter War of 1940.
Finland fought off the Soviet Invasion for 100 days, then agreed to Terms which included loss of Territory, before they collapsed.
Zelenskyy is prolonging the War for no sensible Political reason, conscripts are being recruited at gunpoint and sent to the Front with no Training, so he’s either a traitor or a Stooge, take your pick.
If only Socrates was able to untangle the mess in the economy and tell us what’s going on. If only.
US files: Six more classified documents seized at Biden home
Ha, ha, ha, ha……………Dribbling Joe at his best. Trump, you have nothing to worry about as someone has beaten you to it………………….LOL
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64362655
If AIG went down during that storm, it would have brought the entire financial system down.
This is true & the AIG should be more widely understood.
The Fed tightened until it caused the economy to choke massively, with massive deflationary consequences. My fear is that it could (not may, but could) happen again.
The Fed went far too hard (so the RBA).
They had so many other tools they could have used to slow credit growth but they didn’t.
Wodney, what’s with all the dots and the LOL at the end of each comment you post, you dickhead?
By whom? Azov?
Mother Lodesays:
January 22, 2023 at 5:16 pm
As a proud Muruwari woman
Considering the observations of the early settlers I wonder how many of those earlier Muruwari women, knocked unconscious for irritating a man, speared in the leg for breaching flickering momentary taboos, traded for a chunk of meat, scarred, bruised, and maimed Muruwari women would have thought themselves proud?
Aboriginals were some of the toughest hunters and gathers the world has seen; which means that women were absolute chattels. But the left, who are made insane by their virtue propelled sense of superiority, regard them as victims and therefore, a la pascoe, have reinvented these tough bastards as Noble savages with flowers behind their ears and all sort of fanciful women rights, secret business and the like.
When I went and saw Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux 5 years ago they went through aboriginal hunting and gathering culture with a switch-blade, comparing it to the horrors of islam with aboriginal culture coming off second. That’s to be expected because as I say the hunting and gathering basis of aboriginality put them as close to nature as is humanly possible; and nature is red in fu.king tooth and claw. Idiots who venerate aboriginal hunting and gathering should be stripped naked and put in the middle of the Simpson desert with a goanna shoved up their arse.
The screech has nothing to do with aboriginals but, like every cause of the fu.king left, is merely a vehicle to institute communism. The aboriginals deserve nothing except what every other citizen gets; they had thousands of years of ripping the place apart. They got lucky when Cook arrived and they’ve had equality in every respect since 1967. But unless dutton bites the bullet and starts to shove this shit back at rub and tug and his fellow swine our constitution will be flushed down the toilet.
It wasn’t a message from the electorate, they’d just given him a Mandate for peace in the Donbass.
That was fixed when the US changed the Accountancy Laws by dropping the “mark to market” requirement to “mark to make believe”. Suddenly, as if by magic, all those derivatives were worth substantially more. Voila!
The underwriters are sheltered workshops. That’s the core of the corruption, along with the HUD guarantees and CRA, which the left defend with tooth and nail it is insane. Then you have far too lose MP with Greenspan and the direct lines of credit the FNMA, GNMA etc had to the US Treasury, literally for trillions of dollars. Then on top of that, are no-recourse mortgages.
It can all happen again.
Nonsense, they were equal before that too.
the 1967 census.
Big freaking deal if they weren’t included.
But unless dutton bites the bullet and starts to shove this shit back at rub and tug and his fellow swine our constitution will be flushed down the toilet.
Rubbish.
Taking a position without knowing the facts makes it a Partisan issue, which means a Labor/Green/Fellow Traveler win.
Yeah, the National Party can afford to take the No position, because The Voice will only get up in 1 or 2 of their 17 Electorates.
“Scott Adams does a U-turn on the vax”
Starting to get the feeling his goose is cooked?
Rosie at 3:41.
True.
We caught a train from that station about four years ago. I remember it from the 1990’s as being dingy and crowded.
Last time I read the online reviews which called it dangerous and a pick-pocket’s paradise, with horror stories of knifepoint robberies. Traffic was gridlocked and the taxi driver let us out about 200 metres from the station. We walked down a narrow footpath cut-off by construction hoardings, clutching our passports and credit cards firmly under our chain-mail vests, furtively looking left and right for swarthy thieves.
Rounded the corner into the station…. wide open expanse of well-lit concourse with armed Carabinieri patrolling and no choke points or lurking spots for ne’er-do-wells.
It made me wonder if people on the web make shit up.
“Languishing in a Kampuchean Jungle, I tells ya!” 😕
But unless dutton bites the bullet and starts to shove this shit back at rub and tug and his fellow swine our constitution will be flushed down the toilet.
cohenite that has already happened to our Constitution over the last 3 years.
altered the ‘race power’ to allow federal parliament to make ‘special laws’ about Aboriginal peoples.
That wasn’t a good thing either.
The Federal Government was able to deport the Kanakas in 1906 and Intern Japs, Italians and Germans in the 1940s, but until 1967 Aborigines were the one Race not subject to that Power.
Is Australia really ready for PM Plibbers?
Only if she knows where the hyper bowl is and can pronounce it as hyperbole. Gizzard couldn’t.
Nonsense, they were equal before that too.
Read this numbnuts.
Big freaking deal if they weren’t included.
If you read my link you will see the 67 referendum gave the Commonwealth power to make laws for aboriginals. previously they couldn’t. After the constitution was altered, Mabo followed and Native Title. 50% of Australia is now covered by Native Title. That is a big freaking deal. The Voice will be worse; much worse. Now STFU while I deal with crotchless.
Makkasays:
January 22, 2023 at 6:05 pm
If AIG went down during that storm, it would have brought the entire financial system down.
That was fixed when the US changed the Accountancy Laws by dropping the “mark to market” requirement to “mark to make believe”. Suddenly, as if by magic, all those derivatives were worth substantially more. Voila!
The US Fed saved the day. AIG in London was farked. Bear Stearns folded and got bought up for 1 US dollar. Wot’ a cheap buy and the property holdings for free. Goldman Sucks did alright too. Banksters rule OK.
cohenite that has already happened to our Constitution over the last 3 years.
Activist courts, especially in respect to Native Title, after Mabo have made merry. But those changes are not constitutional changes and can be attacked by legislation. The Voice will alter the Constitution in a much more profound way.
That wasn’t a good thing either.
The Federal Government was able to deport the Kanakas in 1906 and Intern Japs, Italians and Germans in the 1940s, but until 1967 Aborigines were the one Race not subject to that Power.
The clause read special laws; ordinary legislation could be applied. Prior to 67 aboriginals were subject to a greater degree of control by state laws. The 67 alteration was the last piece of the jigsaw giving equality between aboriginals and other citizens at a federal level. The problem, as Mabo and consequent cases show, is activist courts who have in effect made laws ultra vires.
How did that work out? 1950s Welsh class struggle comes to Radelaide.
Along those lines, yes.
Once Labor wins the NSW election, get ready for a policy tsunami from Canberra.
The change in super taxes will be one of the first cabs off the rank.
I’ve been thinking about the line “I still can’t understand why anyone cares what the WEF says”
I’m pretty sure many said similar about the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1916.
I’m pretty sure many in Germany and outside Germany said similar about the Nazis in 1931 and 1932.
I’ve heard quite a few people say similar to me over the last few years when I’ve expressed serious concerns about the whole transgender lunacy cult yet today I read that World Athletics are pushing ahead with a plan to permit transgender women (biological males) compete against biological females in international athletics competition.
Please forgive me, I think I’ll care a great deal about what the WEF says. I know quite a lot of history and that history has taught me that Hitler, Mao, Lenin and other tyrants, despots and criminals throughout history have almost always laid out what they planned to do before seizing power. They were quite honest about it, just like the WEF is. Nobody can say they weren’t warned. When WEF acolytes such as Tony Blair and Julie Inman Grant spruik WEF thought farts, such as more censorship of ordinary people, I’m going to believe them.
Libs in NSW are goners.
Premier Dominic Perrottet says Coalition can win New South Wales election despite polling suggesting Labor victory (22 Jan)
Thirty three percent primary eh. The base hates Photios/Kean and no Perrottet-shaped figleaf will get them to hold their nose. And NSW votes can exhaust.
Get the Tesla Y ready, you be able to fit in it after the election wet Lib net-zero people.
Watching this stupid show on Netflix called Stay Close.
There’s a guy in it who looks like a really fat Andrew Tate.
Standartenführer Schwab founded the WEF, kiddies.
Because we all love our “German Economists”, especially after the ’39 to ’45 unpleasantness. 😕
Be doing well to match the WA Lieborals. Won’t stop them from trying though. Green and Kean.
The Austrians go OK.
Zipster:
It will happen again unless the punishment for the lies and the deaths exceeds the profits to be made.
(NADT)
The Russians won’t stop even at the present line of contact until they can move the line around Donetsk City out of artillery range at a minimum. And why would NATO stop arming Ukraine if Russia dug in when they are already talking about retaking Crimea?
What the *#@% did the gliberals expect? This NSW gliberal government has been one of the most embarrassing, obnoxious and lacklustre bunch of braindead barely concealed hitlerists I’ve had the misfortune to exist under in my lifetime.
The daily Beryl Gladyschlocklian bat flu press conferences were an infuriating new low and they will all be held accountable, so help me.
I existed in an “LGA” that was subject to a curfew, FFS. In peacetime, in a so called “liberal western democracy”.
Health Hazzard – the last thing you will see before your pointless existence is brought to a long overdue end will be my monstrous visage. A premature vision of the joys that await you in Satan’s realm, you fat braindead piece of hitlerist excrement.
Never forget, never forgive.
The Andrews government is seriously considering a complete ban on duck shooting just weeks ahead of the 2023 season.
Pressure has been mounting on the government to outlaw the annual hunt for years, with growing internal pressure from Labor MPs and ministers to end the practice.
“It was very close to coming to an end in 2022, but it didn’t get over the line because it was an election year” one source close to discussions said.
“As an issue, there is a genuine split within the caucus and there are senior ministers who want it stopped. There is momentum there for a change.
“However, the premier has been reluctant to go ahead with a ban in the past and it is likely to come down to his call.”
A government spokeswoman would not rule out a ban and said discussions remained ongoing.
Herald-Sun, with comment not supportive. Here’s one:
Stefan
20 minutes ago
So what of the 10’s of $1000 I have invested into duck hunting, Do I receive reparations for this outlay? What do I do with my duck punt, motor, decoys, hunting outifts, shotgun, ammo that have cost me a lot of money. They are useless as I can’t sell them to anyone. I served my nation for 40 years in the Army as I wanted to protect our liberties and freedoms and I am having them taken away for me by the very Govt’s I swore to protect. What was it all for???? This is criminal …. the right to hunt is a basic right.
Felthern, yes.
Divert shareholder dividends to unionists through outrageous wages.
Screw all superannuation schemes other than Union Super Funds.
Ban SMSF.
Cancel franking credit rebates.
Remove the private health insurance rebate.
Death tax.
People don’t understand how hate driven these nobodies are. Never having worked and never having struggled to raise a family their worldview it limited completely by their associations, all of which are either public sector, university, or union.
Their contempt for the rural sector is indicative of their ignorance. Mind you, Morrisson was equally as narrow in his experience and associations – hence his refusal to make the Public Service share the pain that they created during covid outrage.
He was equally contemptuous of the rural sector – witness his refusal to provide assistance during the recent drought.
Small business simply annoys them – it’s messy and they demand things, and they are told by ATO/Tres that they are all tax cheats.
We are ruled by profoundly ignorant city dwelling scammers.
Rabz – a measured response. Baseball bats ready?
He has no chin?
There’s a movement active in the NSW Libs that is subversive of that agenda.
’twill be interesting to see what traction they get from a wipeout.
https://rogerstone.substack.com/p/nixon-threatened-to-reveal-the-cias
Sancho Panzer:
You realise that having money in the bank isn’t the same as having it in your pocket?
Lose your wallet with your cards in it, cancel your cards and try to get money out of the bank. It’s not that simple – especially if you’re out bush and the nearest branch is 100km away.
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/newsom-twosome-siebel-newsoms-films
mOron’s lot, grooming kids for profits. Naturally the MSM can’t see anything wrong.
Kmart’s anti-Australia Day push is ‘anti-migrant’
Sky News host Rita Panahi says Kmart’s refusal to sell Australia Day merchandise is an insult to migrant Australians, giving the “message that you’re not as entitled to call this country yours”.
Ms Panahi said the “polling” from a variety of outlets revealed a “clear majority” of Australians want Australia Day to remain on January 26 and migrants were among the “most patriotic”.
THE BEST REVENGE IS REVENGE
REVENGE #1: A man and his wife were at odds and not talking to each other. In the evening, the man suddenly remembered that he needed his wife to wake him up the next day at 5am so he could make it in time for a business flight. Since he did not want to be the first to break the silence, he wrote to her on a piece of paper “Please wake me up at 5am” and left the note on the bedside table. The next morning the man woke up only to find that it was 9am and he had missed the flight! He jumped out of bed furiously to find out why his wife had not awakened him and came across a note on his bedside table. The note read “It’s 5 o’clock, wake up”.
REVENGE #2: Two friends met at the neighbourhood supermarket one day. When they got to the checkout one of the ladies started rummaging through her purse for her wallet, she took out a few things, including a TV remote. “Do you always take the remote with you when you go shopping?” The other woman laughed. “No” the woman answered “But I asked my husband if he wanted to help me shop and he said no, I asked him if I could take the car and he replied that as long as I left him the TV, I could take whatever I wanted and get out of the house. So I turned to the fashion channel and told him he had nothing to worry about”.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
– Isaac Newton
Worth repeating!
You’d think they were sitting on 64% of the primary vote rather than 32%.
Yes, yes, I know…Greens, Teals & Pocock.
But still…but that’s a lot of voters to piss off.
Genuine question.
How much of the excess death “bump” during December & so far into the start of January can be attributed to this killer flu season that’s been ripping globally?
I caught the worst flu I’ve had in years between Christmas & New Year that took 8 days to shake.
I know so many people who have had flu this summer.
Most of them have said the flu they caught was worse than COVID when they had it.
Bad flu season typically equals more deaths.
As I said, genuine question.
How much of the excess death “bump” during December & so far into the start of January can be attributed to this killer flu season that’s been ripping globally?
The real question is: how much of the killer flu season is caused by immune system depression from the jabs?
Turtlehead, piss off. Go blow Driller, you worthless dickhead.
We need a pet name for the new NZ PM.
HamsterHip?
Cronkite
I was responding to your false claim. This:
Let me repeat, they were equal before 1967. The fact that the states dealt with Abo matters doesn’t mean they weren’t equal. I don’t quite get why you brought up the other stuff when I was responding to your very inaccurate comment.
Louisville Sluggers of the “Negan Collection“, Bear.
Which will be joyously wielded, so help me almighty deity. 🙂
Hitlerkins. He was the guy running the NZ lockdowns and mandates.
Lockdown Tsar Chris Hipkins to Become Next New Zealand Prime Minister (21 Jan)
Let me repeat
Did you read my link written by professor Helen Irving? Of course not. The primary purpose of the 67 referendum was to rectify a fundamental INEQUALITY between aboriginals and every other citizen of every other race: to wit the Commonwealth could make special laws for every other citizen of every other race EXCEPT aboriginals. The 67 referendum changed that and included aboriginals in the ambit of the Commonwealth to make special laws.
Please don’t harp on this; you’re wrong; go and have a slug of scotch.
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I like Maokins myself
Rosie, I am all admiration for your independence in travels, something I did in my youth but which I would not try to do now. However, I won’t stop travelling even if I didn’t have Hairy as a companion, I would find others. Even if he should become less the competent traveller and driver that he is, we would still travel, booking tours that were all-in rather than the do-it-yourself modes we currently favour.
You and I have the travel bug. It bites hard. Today we move on to Pitauchy, just below the Great Glen, to stay in a castle hotel which nominates itself as a Palace. We shall see.
Been catching up on the Cat in bed and now late for that whisky porridge.
Havn’t had the flu in about 5 years & never had the China Pox, i put it down to a clean christian lifestyle.
And whiskey, that probably helped and bacon, because it’s bacon.
You know it makes sense.
I had a flu in September, not Covid as I got tested, and it was really awful. It took me six weeks to recover some semblance of normality. I had a worse case about forty years ago but I bounced back a lot quicker then.
So he’ll take his own lumps as well as Jacinda’s.
Excellent.
An Economist and an Eastern Suburbs glamourpuss party chick, out for some Saturday night escapades … 🙂
Bern, I got it on the plane, coming back from the US in mid December. I had both a cold virus and flu A which is a real horror according to the doc. At the same time, wifey caught COVID on the plane. That flight was a death trap. 🙂
Since then I’ve had two other viruses.
I think the lockdowns had some adverse impact in some way.
Classy guy.
(this one is worth bookmarking)
Daily Mail – she’s not getting much chop in the comments.
I’m not sure that even enters the equation for the Liars. Give the Unions what they want and then back to Opposition while the Lieborals and the APS implement it and fix the books (except Josh and SloMo). Wait till the electorate forgets and the Lieborals become unelectable. Repeat. There main problem is long term loss of votes to the Greens.
Wrong their there. Stupid English.
Evidently not.
Going to be interesting – in the Confucian sense – as the green agenda eats further into the budgets of a good portion of the 32% of Labor rusted ons.
Do something, Jim!
Exactly Lizzie.
I was out in the rain by eight this morning, businesses most likely to be open were fishmongers, lots of little shellfish in tubs of water.
Found a few churches but the first couple didn’t have noticeboards so I assumed not currently operational, then one with a open gate and a board with mass times, including a nine am so I sat in the back drying off for half an hour.
I have now indulged in a cappuccino* and a cornetto con crema which were better than expected.
There is a funicular a few steps away from here so I shall have an adventure on that then visit the gallery of Italian art because endless raining.
I could have borrowed un ombrello from my place but figured I could just put the hood of my rain jacket up, butit would almost be worth dragging one around to avoid the dozens of street vendors wanting to sell me one.
Had a squizz at an info board on another former palazzo now a bank. Like mine (which has a wiki page ) it was looted in the something beginning with M, Masseolini? riots in the late 1600s.
Apparently mine at one stage had 1100 artworks including some by Rubens.
When you’re rich you’re rich.
*I got the cappuccino because it allows one to linger longer.
The solution for the Australian woman cricketer upset about playing on Australia Day would appear to be staring her in the face: Don’t play and forego your match fee.
Oh classy , yeah? Like a week or so ago with your comments laced with degenerate abuse. Get out of here, you dishonest, hypocritical loser. I’ll keep that too to match your bookmark, you lowlife.
excess deaths are mostly heart attacks and cancer
Intelligent & well reasoned response there from Stuphid.
Last night’s faceplant by him must really be smarting.
Lorne’s nice
just spent the last two days there doing a little job there
let’s just say it was worth the trouble of doing it on a weekend
food was alright, the accommodation was nice
up early and getting about with the locals reminded my of the Mornington Peninsula
it was like home, but west-coast
we are doing a similar trip through NSW early next month so I’ll be away for the week and the missus’ is tuned into it.
she has a mate over from the UK and they’re already planning their week in Lorne up the Mantra resort while I slog it out in New South
it aint Kata Noi but still, excellent time of year for it
to wit the Commonwealth could make special laws for every other citizen of every other race EXCEPT aboriginals.
In other words, the Commonwealth was forbidden by the 1901 Constitution from making any Laws specific to Aborigines.
Good.
So, why change that in 1967?
Obviously, that change is required before the Constitution can be altered by the insertion of The Voice.
Driller, you live in another universe where you’re a winner. It’s not this one though, you imbecile.
‘proud Muruwari woman’
Alluded to earlier, but let’s see how proud you are when your *ahem* is widened with a sharp rock before the bucks sort you out, then ‘traditionally’ married to one of the tribal elders, had your head beaten in with star pickets and bicycle frames, then shit yourself while asleep every night for two months before being thrown in a pit.
You should be distancing yourself from that Stone Age ‘culture’ at every opportunity.
Oh. Oh, right. Suburban indig, and nominal at that. A whole other story.
the concept of perpetual motion machines may violate the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd laws of thermodynamics depending on the machine’s formulation
but I’ll postulate right here that
as long as the internet is in existence then JC will continue to wank furiously
and it will impossible to tell if it’s perpetual motion or not
… prove me wrong
Yep, last night’s faceplant by him is really smarting.
proof in … 3 … 2 … 1
Stop trying to take the piss crotchless.
When you’ve had three or four children, and he’s tired of you – if you survive – he’ll take a younger wife, and you’ll be passed on to the young fellas…..
Oh noes, Stuphid’s so tightly wound he’s made a formatting blunder.
Last night’s faceplant by him is smarting more than we first believed.
I really like National Keith Pitt. He’s a straight talker and he speaks sense. Apart from Senator Alex Antic (who’s fantastic), there’s no one in the Liberals who comes near him.
Salvatore:
I’d already done so by the time I got to your comment, But it’s OK – we’re about to get all the details of someone catching COVID, the Flu, and the state of their ingrown toenails.
I mean, just how world shattering is it when one gets the COVID AND the Flu on one transpacific flight rushing backwards and forwards saving ones Global Empire?
Cassie; I don’t disagree with you re Keith Pitt.
However all the usual caveats apply. He’s still a major party machine politician first & foremost.
He’s been somewhat disappointing to me a couple of times.
He does seem to be making some better noises the past coupla years, perhaps he’s had a Road to Damascus moment at some point.
Turtlehead, if you’re not groveling to me, you’re teaming up with The Driller pretending you have something useful to say to him about me. It’s just a pitiful form of stoush trolling. You’re such pathetic individual. Most reasonable people ignore you here. I do most times except when your trolling becomes too much. Even your pattern of behavior is sad. If I ever respond to you unkindly, you simply run to Uncle Driller and gossip about me. Just sad. Just go away.
the refrain …
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a psyched Lone Ranger
Everyone
A proud Aboriginal woman cricketer could be there to teach them about their culture……
Dagny Taggart
@DagnyTaggart963
Defibrillators are devices that send an electric pulse or shock to the heart to restore a normal heartbeat. If the heart suddenly stops, defibrillators can also help it beat again.
Totally normal , all those “ conspiracy theorists “
Last night he was feeding starving tradies.
This evening:
Driller, the king maker in Australian politics. Don’t disappoint him!
Not even a couple of times.
Brian Berletic
@BrianJBerletic
Translation: UK unloading old junk in Ukraine where officials on both sides pad costs and pocket the difference.
With people like this, Europe needs no enemies.
I really like National Keith Pitt. He’s a straight talker and he speaks sense.
He’s a Galah and a Yahoo.
And a clown.
LoL
Sewerl earlier.
Well, dur.
So why not work for cash at the going rate ($50 to $80 per hour depending on the trade), pull about $500 for the day and then pay for a greasy counter-meal at $30-$40?
Why would you work just for tucker.
Unless you are extremely stupid.
Let’s pretend Salvatore is a straight shooter.
Perhaps there was no work, the chippies had the munchies, and the tide was out?
It wasn’t any skin off his nose to get them to paint the balustrading, fix the steps, nail a few palings on the fence, rehang the door that the cops put a sledgie thru.
And feed them a coupla boiled eggs, a plate of chips and a coleslaw side?
He was a very well spoken tradie, Sanchez and he had excellent table manners too eating that 10 buck burger with a knife and fork. 🙂
Sancho (the Clown of Collins Street) & Stuphid-on-Yarra faceplanted heavily last night.
They seem to want to continue the faceplant.
Both (assuming they are different people) are so privileged & so removed from the Australian experience they had no idea when lockdown started.
They both (assuming they are different people) then cluelessly pontificate about the experience of the Australian working man, announcing from the comfort of Collins street hypotheticals that they deem to be the experience & the options of a bush itinerant.
And make pronouncements about the comforts of being put out of a job.
“No bread to make sandwiches – let them eat cake”
Pair of Melbourne morons.
Eddles
I get how the tradies had to rehang the door after the cops broke it down. Drills always seems to be in some sort of strife. What’s the tide have anything to do with it though?
Uptick.
It’s sometimes pretty hard travelling in foreign lands struggling with language and cultural differences, even with someone by your side.
Takes some bottle to do it alone.
Drills, that’s a very emotional outburst.
JC:
What an odd world you live in where being polite is seen as ‘groveling’. And what a ridiculous picture of yourself you draw when yo see yourself at the centre of it.
Stick with the cheesecake recipes, sunshine. It’s more your style.
Your privilege is showing.
I’m please for your free ride in life. Nic e that you ride in comfort while others work for a living.
Why though, denigrate those others?
JC and sancho, there’s a couple of things you missed … and it it ruins your tick-game
but yr so clever, you probs already worked it out
keep it up
… youse don’t look like tossers at all
It’s not odd in the slightest. You know, I really want nothing to do with you. I’ve said this along as I find you be disgusting. Forgive me for saying that , but it’s how I feel about you.
I never read what you post except comments dealing with me that you now direct to others as though you’re just having a casual discussion. Unable ever “get me” you defame me such as the Brian instance.
In my opinion, your comments are basically unintelligent sludge with some veering towards extreme.
Just go away and stop talking to me or about me. I find you pathetic.
Have the Chinese landed at Melbourne Airport yet, You whacko. Piss off.
I am prepared to accept that the alleged “tradie” might work for a greasy bag of dimmies if he was an air-con guy.
They’re a dime a dozen.
Yep, it’s smarting one helluva lot at having faceplanted.
What you are “prepared” to accept is irrelevant, you privileged flog.
Go & give Stuphid a reach-around (I’m assuming you’re not the same person)
it may seem that JC is being somewhat hypocritical here but truly one needs to understand that JC is so full of raw emotion and earnest intent that he really can’t do anything but spurt the ‘truth’
I mean, the things he gibbers may not be true in a didactic sense but they are certainly is true in terms of what the man is trying achieve.
if only you’d people could pause for a moment and try to peer through all the bluff, bluster and bullshit
… I think you’ll see that he really does have everybody’s best interests at heart
https://www.sott.net/article/476514-Officially-approved-by-the-EU-Four-insects-hiding-in-your-food
(Original article is in German).
Comment:
“Aren’t they a SICK SET OF BASTARDS, turning field’s of edible food to wild flower meadows, blaming cows for killing our planet by farting, making out as if meat is bad for one and through the back door they now have legalised the consumption of tasteless, meatless insects, what a load of BOLLOCKS.”
He’s copping a reach-around from the Collins street C**t at the moment, this may calm down his smarting feelings somewhat.
Faceplanting is humiliating for him, that stenching pantyhose tripped over the same rake does not soften the blow to Stuphid’s nose.
Heh.
How woke of you, Drills. Check your privilege at the motel door. Is that how it goes? 🙂
That has zero to do with your bullshit story a tradie was working for a burger and chips. I don’t know how to categorize this trolling. It’s blowharding but not this alone. It’s a form of pity/blowhard trolling I think. Others could help categorizing too.
Moreover, if the tradie worked hard for the day, why did you underpay him? They call that wage theft in leftiland, you bonehead.
I made no such claim, you bloody idiot.
That you & stenching pantyhose mocked someone’s misery, deeming it to be “chips & parmy” is obscene.
You have a free ride in life. You’ve never had to struggle. Why denigrate those who don’t have you free ride, & have to work for a living?
I have another question.
What level of disrespect would you have to have for your fellow working Australians than to pay a skilled tradie in bain marie dregs?
Oh stop it with the emotional nonsense, Driller. You’re not tugging at anyone’s apron strings with that nonsense. You spun an bullshit story again, laughed off the site and you’re upset. Big deal as it’s not as though bullshitting is new to you. You’re an old hand at it, but not very good as you always get caught.
JC:
Assuming Salvatore’s pub is at the beach
and there’s surf there
but the tide is out
they might as well go to work.
At least, that’s how it used to work on the [southern] Mornington Peninsula many moons ago.
Alice Springs youth worker Stella Newland says crime drove her out of the town
Youth worker Stella Newland was ready to build a life for herself in Alice Springs after spending four years in the Territory until the town’s crime crisis drove her interstate.
Ms Newland, 24, left Alice Springs a fortnight ago after the recent spike in crime left her unable to sleep and too scared to leave her home after dark.
“I stopped going out,” she said.
She said during one night out she was punched in the back of the head by a child who appeared to be less than 10 years old.
Other times, she witnessed people being punched, spat on and swung at by drunk adults and youths on a “daily basis”.
Ms Newland said crime had escalated so much in Alice Springs in the weeks before she made the drastic decision to up and leave, she had phoned triple-0 at least once a day to report kids wandering the streets armed with knives – a scenario which has become all too familiar to locals in recent weeks.
“You see it so much it’s like it’s normal, but it’s not,” Ms Newland said.
“I just kept reminding myself it’s not normal.”
Last year, NT Police deployed 45 additional cops to the desert town as part of Operation Drina, which was launched in November to reduce anti-social behaviour and associated crime in Alice Springs.
According to NT Police, more than 30 officers remained part of the operation, but locals said police numbers had dwindled so low crime was now worse than before their arrival.
“It’s like they don’t care,” Ms Newland said.
Break-ins had become such a regular occurrence in recent weeks, community members and leaders were calling for federal government support to address the crisis.
Over the weekend, the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association’s Alice Springs office on Todd St was broken into for the fifth time in 12 months, sparking calls for more support.
“We are all victims in this town” the business wrote in a social media post with photos of the damage.
Ms Newland said the crime crisis was forcing essential workers like her to leave town and tarnishing its reputation.
“Alice has so much potential and it’s being burdened by the crime,” Ms Newland said.
In the end the decision to leave became about prioritising her own safety.
“Without the crime I would have stayed and I would have made a life there.
“But it destroyed me.”
NT News
I called you a series of names, you privileged Melbourne morons. I was too kind to you.
You mock & belittle the hoplessness of the situation a couple of men found themselves in through no fault of their own.
Obscenely, you deem those blokes hardships to be “bullshit” & to have not happened.
Stupid & clueless pair of wankers you are.
Why didn’t you type all that at the time?
Pair of flogs.
You know nothing of Australia or the Australian worker.
Stay down in the town, you pair of Bourke street bushies.
What a conundrum: Yellowstone, 1923 or 1883. Which is the best. I’m leaning to 1923 for the African romance scenes.
Conversely Billions went right off the rails in season 5: woke and puerile.
Drills is so caring about worken men.
Hey drills remember pretending you were a big time CEO and all, and told us you fired the dude on the spot after he burnt your breakfast toast. You Boneheaded eggnog.
JC and sancho … youse still running with the premise that saving the forum from decline?
tossers
Yep, Stuphid is really smarting at having faceplanted last night.
Stencho not so much, as probably too busy patting himself on the back for being the smartest person in the room (sort of a Malcolm Turnbull wannabe) to realise he faceplanted just as hard as Stuphid did.
I preferred 1923 over 1883. I thought the latter had a weak story line. 1923 is pretty decent.
Total mystery why they’re referred to as “trolls”
In the past week Stuphid has (in addition to his favourites) sworn at or belittled Pogria, Rockdoctor, & Top Ender.
Stencho assisted in the sneering at Top Ender – it won’t take much more of such siamese-twin attacks until nobody will believe anything but one is a sock puppet of the other.
No I haven’t. I don’t believe I’ve ever spoken to Pogria. Any conversations with RockDoc and Ender have always been cordial because they’re nice sincere people- unlike you.
Some time ago, a group of the young fellas in an outback sh!thole roped the community nurse. Not surprisingly, she was on the next plane out of the place.
The elders were outraged – her refusal to stay was clearly based on racial grounds, and they wanted a replacement nurse, immediately, if not sooner…
You could benefit from scrolling back.
It is possible to belittle or sneer at people without directly engaging them.
… or even realise it is them you’re sneering at.
You are an ill-mannered scum. (That is not in dispute)
Your urge to sneer at all & sundry gets you knocked flat in real life.
Hence you’re a keyboard blowhard.
May the rest of your year be as pleasant for you & your family as is your online persona.
but he means well
Like pile-ons, yeah? You’re the worst pile on offender here you useless jackass. The occasional shoe is on the other foot and you’re squealing like a FNQ wild pig who’s just been shot in the rear. Listen to your squealing for being caught out bullshitting.
Daily Mail
Yet nobody has ever caught me “bullshitting”.
For the very good reason that I don’t “bullshit”
You’re judging others by your own standards. (btw, doing that is a sign of a not very agile intellect, just sayin’)
Calm down you senile old goat, you’ll blow a gasket.
Don’t worry about faceplanting so hard last night.
Not as if it was your first time.
Nobody expects any better of you, it’s not as if you’ve a reputation for accuracy on here.
Now have a hot mug of Horlicks & lie down, before you blow a fuse.
Heh.
no takers?
Oh that’s interesting. So I’m not sneering, but I was or is that the other way around? You moron.
What’s not in dispute is that you’re a fraud and with criminal tendencies. You’re a despicable blowhard.
Really, by the likes of you right? Get off the fruit box dickhead. You don’t frighten anyone. You’re making these threats every other day now. Curious for someone claiming to have an unblemished police record.
Really, so you sticking pins in dolls now are you, you blowhard? I hope the same for you and yours too.
You lied got caught out and there is no remorse for a blowhard like you. None.
Salvatore:
Look, I know you don’t read my posts, but what work did these Tradies carry out at your establishment?
How do you work out the GST on pokie revenue?
It’s really, really hard.
We’re going to need Martin Armstrong’s self-aware compuda for this one.
After your request for wankers, both the Uptick whingers, Stencho & Shantastruth, chimed in to make a couple of posts to demonstrate they’re wankers.
It’s like you were tickling for fish, or perhaps waving doggie treats around.
People shit themselves when I walk into the room (especially Bananaby Joyce).
I am like a God.
Flux, the God of Soldering.
Remember that? The freaking moron. I’m still uncertain if the bonehead really didn’t know how it’s worked out or was blowharding something terrible and ended up faceplanting into a pancake.
it’s a forum.
they’re both a bit mental
it’s just the way it is
Driller
How low have you sunk when you having to invest in the Turtlehead and Trans to help you climb out of a hole. You can’t go any lower.
You bullshitted, got caught out and now look at you.
I posted that a couple of blokes came to see me, & made a serious offer to work for food.
This happened in the last week of March 2020, in the days after Scomo-Sunday.
Sancho & JC have spent the past 26 hours or so continuously shitposting this comment, stating that it is not true, belittling the plight those blokes were in, trotting out hypotheticals (“Why, I wouldn’t work someone without paying them full tote odds“) & a series of other “Let them eat cake” remarks.
They’re reframed it from “men” to one person. They’ve reframed it from “blokes” to a qualified tradesman. They’ve reframed it from the plight of people in remote areas to the generous options available to people in Melbourne & similar metropolitan locations.
They’ve reframed it, nay belittled & mocked, from “will work for food” to a stupid: “a few parmys, chips, stale bain marie scraps, out-of-date food & $10 chicken burgers”
From a position of great privilege & having faced no loss or threat of loss at lockdown, they’ve reframed it as “no big deal, there were plenty of jobs” (about blokes who’ve just lost their means of support)
They’ve reframed it from “just lost their means of support” to “There were shedloads of options & govt cash everywhere”
Pair of privileged snobs, bloody idiots. Sneering at the hopelessness & despair of working men, and even more sneering & belittling of those men’s efforts to survive the scomo-induced collapse of their support system.
Pair of unwiped arseholes. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You disgust me.
These are the sort of elitist Davos-man types who’re responsible for the bad name Victoria has in the rest of Australia.
Driller
You were bignoting yourself and the fact is none of your claims ever took place. Everything about you is disgusting. You’re just a despicable lump of human garbage and that will never change. Unfortunately, it comes from your family DNA. You lie all the time like the illbred criminal fraud you have always been.
You lied and got caught out, which is nothing new.
Even this exaggerated nonsense would count as blowharding.
Sal.
Take it easy champ.
If it helps, I believe that, in certain backward parts of the country, you can pay an air-con technician in sausages and mash.
I really do believe that.
He’s getting the tucker ready for the plumber coming around tomorrow.
A bit of history. Operation baby lift:
..
https://www.adoptvietnam.org/adoption/babylift-rosemary.html
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In the early 90s I was in a close relationship for quite some years with one of those airlifted babies, by then grown up and studying at uni.
I fear that the early deprivation of love and security has lifelong effects on humans.
Adopted by French parents and brought to Australia, a little piece of a terrible history.
This situation makes sense if you accept that Trump had, in fact, declassified his documents, while Biden’s documents were not declassified.
Oh look another evening of pointless stoushing.
Greg’s Airplanes, British WWII tech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlNz53TBpk
More travel as I resist the temptation to sleep.
I rode the funicular, sleek, modern and enclosed in a tunnel so not the fun the Lisbon ones are.
To my surprise when we reached the top the sky had completely cleared and I was immediately lamenting my lack of sunglasses.
I followed my feet higher and higher (mostly up escalators) to Castel Sant’Elmo which was well worth the €5 cash only entry fee for a 360 degree walk around the rampants and magnificent views of the bay of Naples. It’s an easy walk up inside the castle too as it is ramps built to accommodate horse and wagon.
I spotted the Galleria Umberto I from the top, near the New Castle I so that will be my main port of call tomorrow, unless distracted by something else.
Back down to the Intesa Sanpaulo gallery which is one of a number of galleries in Italy where the bank displays to the public a selection of the 35,000 works in their collection.
There is currently a special exhibition of the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, whom I remember being discussed here as a rare female Old Master. They have a Carravaggio and several other nice works, including some art from Pompeii, was a pleasant way to spend an afternoon. I freely admit to racing through the 20th Century collection and still lifes.
Back out on Via Toledo (in the gallery there was an 19th artwork of Via Toledo in the rain that pleased me too) the street vendors had put away their l’ombrellos and were back to selling fake Gucci, phone covers and junky toys. I don’t envy them one bit.
“My dad and Nathaniel, they were out the front and both shot dead and then mum was trying to get out the back, it said she was armed but mum didn’t like guns so I don’t know what she was armed with,” Madelyn said.
“But the police said it was a gun so I trust the police.
“She didn’t make it through the back door, she died right by the back door.”
This is from a Channel 9 interview with Stacey Trains daughter.
My guess is that any bodycam footage with Stacey Train in it will never see the light of day.