Andromache mourning Hector, Jacques Louis David, 1783
I’d much prefer pollies to read the news. Unlike the green-left activists at the ABC they have to get elected,…
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I remember Trumble back in the 80s from the ARM, Spycatcher and as ACP’s in house lawyer. Completely repellant. Maybe…
Can the Cat assemble a “Top 5 reasons Albo was NOT eaten by cannibals at Kokoda”?they won’t eat clowns ……
Can the Cat assemble a “Top 5 reasons Albo was NOT eaten by cannibals at Kokoda”? Sure: 1: Albo is…
Roger @7:26 – Pommy?
Nah, Aussie. My appointment set off a round of guffaws in the pub.
25th amendment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Did Trump take the 25th ? I have no idea. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts.
https://rumble.com/v270rtk-devolution-power-hour-116-featuring-burning-bright-and-just-human-wed-1030-.html
These guys discuss it. Go to the 30 min mark
In his early teens when I knew him he was not the run of the mill. He was a Legacy kid. An only child. His mum took him every Tues to the Odeon picture theatre at Rockdale where they got all the latest releases. He was an avid film fan. He would also go to the Victory at Kogarah for the Saturday matinee.
He was in the Boy’s Brigade at Kogarah Presbyterian church at Kogarah which required him to go to church on the first Sunday of each month.
He didn’t have money to go roller skating and mini golf down at Brighton-Le-Sands. Most of us did.
above comment – thoughts about Clive James
Hysterical teenagers.
WokDocter:
I think that depends on how many faulty ball bearings fall out of the sky on a cloudy night.
Ah yes JC, the accrual method of accounting has obviously passed you by. Cash only in the spiv game, deals always made on the spot.
Fee, fi, fo fum,m0nty=fa smells a Jooish come (ing)???
Here’s my prediction, if the Voice referendum fails, there’ll be violence.
From who?
Thorpey is campaigning for No, so it won’t be from her or the people she represents.
I’d advise you not to.
No, don’t thank me.
m0nty=fa
Everything they accused Hillary and Biden of, the Republicans did right out in the open.
Then you will have no difficulties in presenting actual evidence, rather than vague slanders?
Or are you just an habitual liar?
CRITICAL MASS:
@FoxNews
:
@TuckerCarlson
Gives Incredible Breakdown of #DirectedEvolution Undercover Investigation
https://twitter.com/patel_patriot/status/1614369482985639938?s=61&t=Oz48dmFoDOlkH997IMu3bg
Good thread here
I meant the figurative finger.
Not the actual finger.
rickw:
Wow just found out QDC’s boss is Mike Kaiser. The whole government and apparatus are crooked up this way. Crisifulli if he ever does get elected and that is in big if IMO atm, has no chance…
Danny Ip of Biemonte Wong, Hong Kong tailor, and a good bloke, will be in Oz in February. I can recommend him for suits and shirts.
By Appointment Only.
Pullman Melbourne on the Park
(Formerly Hilton Hotel)
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Good to see someone using it. The irony probably not intended.
The Africans know how to deal with any First Nations issues. Must be a shared colonial thing.
Excess deaths in 30 countries
Dr. John Campbell
Dover
Found the Beluga whale fetch twee amusing. Nature throws some amazing curve balls sometimes, nice.
FFS tweet, tweet.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 27, 2023 at 7:00 pm
But they did so well the first time round…..
Eight hundred half starved and verminous convicts, and two hundred Royal Marines – the mighty warriors of the “First Nations” should have wiped them off the face of the earth, without needing to draw breath, surely?
Thise “mighty warriors had only to cover 50 yards of ground after the first volley to stick their spears into those 200 hundred Marines. Surely dead (sorry) easy?
And they had around 30 seconds to cover that distance.
Which is kind of a mirror of the problems Russia is having with its troop recruitment.
Field Marshal Lord m0nty=fa, VC and multiple Bars, etc, has been reduced to the rank of drill sergeant.
Isandlwana, anyone?
Miltonfsays:
January 27, 2023 at 7:20 pm
Trust canbra to put a statue up of Grassby- says it all really.
The local Liars were very careful not to locate it in a public place.
Stalin eventually beat the most formidable army that ever existed pre MAD, despite his own stupidity and near capture & capitulation.
Not without the US and UK industrial, agricultural and military might, they didn’t…
List of equipment and produce supplied to the USSR under the US/UK Lend Lease program.
400,000 jeeps & trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
1.5 million blankets
15 million pairs of army boots
107,000 tons of cotton
2.7 million tons of petrol products
4.5 million tons of food
Field Marshall mUntgomery surely?
Postcard.
On the streets around Chiesa del Carmine Maggiore ( it has a beautiful majolica dome, you can’t miss it) is a fresh food market.
I bought a roll with a hard cheese, dried tomatoes, fresh ricotta and a sprinkle of dried rosemary, €4 and delicious.
The locals were queuing up for bread rolls, sliced open, gutted, then filled with a mystery meat and served with a squeeze of lemon. I suspect tripe so not tempted, there was another similar place selling something in a roll which I could not recognise, might have been liver. You could also get freshly cooked calamari and other seafood, I’ve paid to visit the church and cloister but it’s a bit so so so not recommended.
I’m planning to visit the museum of majolica a short distance from here shortly it’s on the top 15 Palermo places to visit list.
Latest Poll Shows Mike Lindell Tops Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon in Race for Republican Chair
Don’t have a reference, but the US and the UK supplied a fair amount of locomotives and rolling stock as well.
He has a concert in NYC at Madison Square Garden in early April when we’re supposed to be there. I checked, the ticket price range is $US 900 to US$7000
He is such a fraud.
Digger:
Going from memory here, the USSR made many thousands of tanks, but without the 400,000 tons of Canadian aluminium they couldn’t make them with engines. The famous T34 and KV1/2 were just immobile pill boxes.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 27, 2023 at 9:07 pm
Thise “mighty warriors had only to cover 50 yards of ground after the first volley to stick their spears into those 200 hundred Marines. Surely dead (sorry) easy?
Isandlwana, anyone?
The Redcoats at Isandlwana had substantially more effective weapons than the Tower muskets of the First Fleet Marines.
I didn’t make the point very well – the Redcoats at Isandlwana had substantially more effective weapons then Tower muskets, but the Zulu warriors still wiped the floor with them. Oh, and it’s a myth that the Brits couldn’t get their ammo boxes open…
Zipster:
It doesn’t get much worse for the Bidens than this.
I bet neither of them face a Judge over their dealings because those dealings lead all the way back to Bill and Hillary.
They’ll be Arkancided under very dubious circumstances.
Oh. OK.
Easy mistake.
It’s a cesspit of vice out there.
Gotta love Dr Campbell the man is a bulldog
Don’t have a reference, but the US and the UK supplied a fair amount of locomotives and rolling stock as well.
Yes they did. 92.7% of all Soviet rail equipment including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars were supplied under the Lend Lease program. Not withstanding, the Soviets started with around 20,000 locomotives and 500,000 railcars.
Safely locked in the foyer of some obscure public building I think.
Cf. Lizzie with dried fish pie in Seahouses.
Why would anybody want to see Bruce Springsteen Live? eeewwwww
Unless he resurrects Clarence it isn’t worth that tariff.
Sydney is a sticky old town tonight.
British TV newsman loses it during story on ‘diversity’.
I’ve been told this doesn’t matter. It’s not 1942 anymore and Russia’s tank factory cities have produced maybe…40 new T-14s after 8 years.
Putin must have gotten screwed harder than the French did us on submarines.
Iirc in 1943, the Allies offered to land in France, but they would need to stop Lend Lease for a period in order to have the equipment to do so. Molotov said the SU would prefer Lend Lease to continue.
Martini Henry 577/450 – I fired one once ;)P~~
It’s an odd experience, driving through Zulu country. The locals live in mud huts, they measure their wealth by the number of their cattle, the women do their washing in the nearest river, but the children are all bright eyed and dressed well, and go to school as they should, and the whole country is about as far from an outback Aboriginal community as you can get…..
Perrottet licks rub and tug’s arse:
https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/videos/526340512658972
Please.
It’s not that sort of blog.
Sancho Panzersays:
January 27, 2023 at 9:38 pm
Boambee Johnsays:
January 27, 2023 at 9:08 pm
Miltonfsays:
January 27, 2023 at 7:20 pm
Trust canbra to put a statue up of Grassby- says it all really.
The local Liars were very careful not to locate it in a public place.
Safely locked in the foyer of some obscure public building I think.
IIRC, it’s the ACT Branch of the Liars.
Are you trying to tell me Donald Trump is Kamala Harris?
According to Monuments Australia it is located in the Theo Notaras Multi-culti centre.
Not a very flattering statue and not in very salubrious surrounds.
Sydney is a moist old town tonight.
Warner’s miked up at the cricket. Sounds like Mike Tyson with lungs full of helium. Thankfully for all assembled, it is raining.
That makes sense but Montessori gets good results. The job market is not well served now by the Prussian education method. You should read up on Bloom etc. Absolute egomaniacs who hated anyone not as academically gifted as them. The late 19th century educationalists literally demanded the education system create a permanent servile class, dumbed down by the education system.
Trying to convince an audience (of which 91.3% hate him) that he is an all round good bloke.
Sound to “OFF”.
Daily Mail
Paul Sheehan wrote a piece in Fairfax press at the time, comparing the expensive taxpayer-funded statue of Al Greasy to the Rotary Club funded statue of Donald McKay.
RSPCA are not be believed, about anything.
“Sweltering” 31 C day, lol.
Martini Henry 577/450
They found a stash of these in Melbourne Town Hall during a renovation, duly destroyed I believe. I knew someone who was working there about 20 years ago.
That was Jonathan Pie, years ago.
Got to love Indian shopping centres with a sale. None of this bullshit 20-30% off, it’s a full 50%.
I’ve got a comfy pair of Skechers on, why not two? I’m normally a hard target in a shop but the wily sub continentals are breaking my resolve.
Watching the tennis – Paul playing Djokovic.
Final score: 7-6, 6-1, 6-2 to the Djoker.
Forget for a moment that this song is about a girl; it’s close to how Djokovic’s been playing this week.
https://youtu.be/Oy_ArpznZUs
12 months is a long time in the career of a top class sportsman. Djokovic has said he’s playing with an extra purpose at this year’s AO.
Wherever Scummo is, Djoker is playing like Teddy Whitten, and “sticking it right up ’em.”
Going from memory here, the USSR made many thousands of tanks, but without the 400,000 tons of Canadian aluminium they couldn’t make them with engines. The famous T34 and KV1/2 were just immobile pill boxes.
The engine blocks were indeed aluminium, but in extremis they could have most probably built them in cast iron. Power to weight ratio would clearly have been worse, but it’s not as critical as in an an aircraft. eg. Chrysler multibanks used in Sherman’s had conventional cast iron blocks and a massive iron casting to hook them all together.
Djokovic has said he’s playing with an extra purpose at this year’s AO.
And zero chance of myocarditis.
Winning combination.
The classical education was holistic.
Bloom formed the basis for modern education whether we like it or not.
This is a long essay I largely agree with, why his approach is wrong.
https://educationalrenaissance.com/2021/03/06/when-blooms-gets-ugly-cutting-the-heart-out-of-education/
The author describes Bloom’s system as the Green Book from C S Lewis’ abolition of man.
Successive Labor governments, not thinking of the children (the NT News):
‘Alice Springs will not host the Australian Junior Motocross Championship due to “safety concerns”.
It was the first time Alice would have hosted the July event since 1967. Apparently Motorcycling Australia consulted with local peak bodies, who evidently told them the joint was a shitshow and unlikely to improve in the short or medium term.
The ‘safety concerns’ would have no doubt been for the kids and parents being anywhere near Alice, rather than dramas with the event itself.
I’m not a rider, but geez. Golf clap, you NT government clowns for letting this happen. Can the taxpayers have the $1.5 million back you already spent on the event?
Slow, repetitive golf clap.
sobs ……
I’m normally a hard target in a shop but the wily sub continentals are breaking my resolve.
You’re coming back with a new truck with a lot of bling and a built in shitter!
No dot.
Sydney is a moist old town tonight.
Like munty when he gets a new set of talking points….
That was Jonathan Pie, years ago.
That figures. If he did it today he’d be put in Tommy Robinson’s cell and castrated by trans prison guards.
Chiesa di Santa Maria Dell’Ammiraglio and lemon granita.
Two Palermo must do’s.
Rosie
It’s the middle of winter. Why are you eating granita?
Trump instigated 9 NSPM’s in his last 8 days of his administration
sobs ……
Indeed, doubly so given the historical background. Never got a lot of coverage, principally because it didn’t suit the narrative. Gubbernmint was fearful enough of the people to have gotten themselves a secret stash of tools.
3 years I worked in a casting plant in Dandenong
was early 80s
fun times
Custard
Trump isn’t president. What happened?
Indolent says: January 27, 2023 at 4:05 pm
Indolent, just a tip about your comments.
I have a “no effort, no click” policy.
If you put zero effort into describing what you are linking to, I won’t click it.
It saves me a wasted journey.
Catallaxians, do any of you have a similar policy of link scepticism?
https://rumble.com/v270rtk-devolution-power-hour-116-featuring-burning-bright-and-just-human-wed-1030-.html
with calls this morning to ban the father of Novak Djokovic from attending games, after he was seen posing with a supporter of Vladimir Putin.
The Retard Class are getting right into their cancelling.
Right now I’m at a resort full of Russians, I should be canceled!!
Click on the links JC , you might learn something
Amazing predictions in 1920 about the Pacific War in 1940s.
here.
Quirky ending.
Constantly.
Unless I click on the link and it tells me Trump is now president then there’s no point. You made that prediction and you need to eat a chunk of crow.
WWG1WGA OMG WTF LOL BBQ
Watch for signals…R
Things are going very well for Ukraine. I hear that Zaluzhny told the Pentagon they’re KIA is about 232K, while Stratfor is suggesting 305K. Must be why I keep hearing reports of them now asking the Poles and Latvians, among others, to round up any military age Ukrainians in their jurisdictions and repatriate them.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMK9a-vDE5zEmzgruoWAyMV1YijyWX-IR
Drachinifel videos on the US Fleet Problems, ie massive exercises, of the 20s and 30s. All remarkably prescient as well. In one, the orange team(read Japan) conducted a surprise attack at Pearl Harbour at dawn on a Sunday.
Looking for wood.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11675561/Woman-reveal-hunting-husbands-Home-Depot-deleting-dating-apps.html
‘Ready to look confused in the lumber aisle!’ Women reveal they are deleting dating apps in favor of ‘hunting for husbands’ at HOME DEPOT – as they trade tips for wooing men at the store
It’s a bit on the chilly side true but I was thirsty after that ricotta roll and trying granita was on my cultural activity list.
Seemed a reasonable lunch option.
So good I think I’ll have to have it for lunch tomorrow as well.
This blog continues to be off the pace.
custard says:
January 27, 2023 at 10:55 pm
This blog continues to be off the pace.
Dover
Anytime someone posts a comment relating to Russian deaths, you always retort suggesting it’s misinformation. Why would your comment about Ukraine deaths be accurate?
Likewise.
I love that rifle.
One of the better examples I’ve seen (i.e. in best condition) is in the Chinese Cultural Museum in Taipei.
The only issue is whether Beth or Jamie get a bullet between the eyes in part 2 of season 5.
custard has developed a thick crust.
Interesting:
Show me where I said that dot.
You’re wrong
We are half way through season 4. Frankly, ATM I would like to see both get it!
Trump will be President in April 2058.
Naysayers beware.
Unlike your massive prediction, right? I’m not trying to give you a hard time about it, but it be nice to see a little humility from your end. How about a heartfelt,
That won’t happen JC , always escalate
Err matey..
Do you really want to walk back your claim Trump would be President again by now?
No, not walk it back! No, that’s not what I meant!
I never said that!
You honestly believe you never made that assertion?
Please see your doctor.
It was made boastfully over and over again, despite our kindly counseling against such madness!
I’m shitposting. Still, I only think one of those numbers is greatly exaggerated.
Mme Zulu is definitely on the mend – it seems she is plotting secret women’s business with her beautician.
Now I’ve bought a Samsonite suitcase.
Someone stop me.
Gez
Are you in India? I ask because otherwise what the hell is an Indian shopping centre?
My prediction was 31/1/23
I might get it wrong.
It hasn’t been proven wrong yet!
Dot – previous days debate re Putin under Russia.
Have you have parents suffer under the USSR after ww 2.
This blog hasn’t reconciled EO 13818 and 13848 as well as as the memos in the last days of the Trump administration
For now
Good night
Cassie and others thank you for the explanation of thermal dynamics and the concept on entropy.
Matrix – all practical ideas jobs eg engineering, architect, lawyer, surveyor,accountant, doctors have the same problem.
Unless you have experience in the workplace in your trade you will struggle.
Going from Uni to the workplace as an accountant I was absolute shit
Edward S. Miller’s book “War Plan Orange” is interesting reading on the subject of “War Plan Orange.”
It seems as early as 1935, the U.S.N. had decided that the Philippine Islands would almost certainly be overrun in the first stages of any Pacific War, but their relief was no longer first priority. The Chief of Staff of the Army of the United States made no objections – oh, what was his name again? Yes, of course, General Douglas MacArthur, how could I have forgotten!
Re previous days comments af also and charmers at the tennis, the most memorable picture I have in my mind was Paul Keating and Carmen Lawrence at a AFL game in Perf – may have been a Freo game.
It was at the time she was going through some corruption investigation .
Hilarious sight.
Now I’ve bought a Samsonite suitcase.
Someone stop me.
The truck with the bling and built in shitter is coming! Can’t wait to see you explaining your purchase in the silo queue! 🙂
Charges over the Penny Easton scandal?
You’ve got four days left custard. And instead of admitting that you are almost certainly wrong, you’re escalating. That is, going further down the rabbit hole.
You’ve been conned and can’t admit it.
Candidate for getting put up against a wall and shot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywlpArNWKxM
97.3%
I’m not troubled by Custard’s prediction. Spirit of free, frank & open discussion, etc. etc. etc.
if its any consolation
we’ve all made squillion dollar screw-ups
if yr lucky nobody noticed
in my world I get to temper and guide the enthusiasm of experts
they specify it
then I deliver what they need rather than what they want.
win-win
What troubles me is not custard’s wrong prediction. It’s the slightly loony basis on which it was made and the fact that instead of going back to reality and recognising that he’s been had, he’s doubling down. I like him, and don’t want to see him getting progressively loopier.
My radar tells me that won’t happen.
I’ve spoken with Custard IRL, he’s not going to be broken by it not coming true.
Furthermore, the resident bear baiters chanting “nyah nyah nyah” at him over it isn’t going to worry him.
Anyways, the deadline ain’t yet arrived.
Do you understand the difference between being one of the world’s worst tyrants and being Russia’s worst military leader?
Putin is destroying the Ukraine (which he considers Russian) and permanently damaging Russia so he can compare himself to an Emperor.
The primary beneficiary of this mess is President Xi.
It’s proper bullcrap pal, I hope you snap out of it.
He’s got four days.
When they’re up and trump isn’t prez, what should he do? It’s not enough to shrug and say “I got it wrong.” He needs to look at the evidence and arguments he made to generate the prediction and work out which were flawed. It’s called learning from your mistakes. Failure to do this exacerbates your problems.
Spotton.
Driller
Who gives a flying shit if you’re troubled or not
Custard made an outlandish prediction, which is his right to speak freely. Free speech doesn’t mean it doesn’t encumber someone to take responsibility.
The only reason you’re saying that is because you made stupid comments too laced with dishonesty and don’t want to be contested. You moron.
How’s it go ? Yeah.
Heh.
It’s 7.30 pm in downtown Bhubaneswar.
The women folk are shopping in an open air market with an Indian friend of ours.
Hard bargains being struck.
Colonel Crispin Berka says:
January 27, 2023 at 10:37 pm
Unless a short synopsis is supplied, no click.
Honestly I don’t know how some people have the time to read and post so much.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Tom there is a new thread!!!
Graeme Bandeira.
David Simonds.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. I had to hunt you down..
“Do you understand the difference between being one of the world’s worst tyrants and being Russia’s worst military leader?”
You don’t understand the difference between Putin and Stalin. And no, Putin isn’t Russia’s worse military leader and anyone with a modicum of history would know that.
rickW:
“Candidate for getting put up against a wall and shot?”
As gratifying as the video of the execution of the Ceaucescus was, a firing squad is too humane and dignified.
The slow “Fargo” treatment or slow bayoneting seem closer to the mark. Conducted by the next of kin of the Vax-demised and of those who were shoved off “ordinary” waiting lists.
Glue futures are down.
More rubbish investment advice from Dotty Dot of dottiness…………………………..
When you get something for nothing that’s its value.