The Surrender of Granada, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, 1882
Leak hit it out of the park.
Open Thread – Tue 31 Jan 2023
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
This will be wierd! .. a $5 note with reverse sid eblank .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-02/australian-5-dollar-note-queen-redesign/101920798
See Roger’s point above. Of course, No Magistrate worth their salt would fail to dismiss the charge. That is just where we are as a society.
Dutton should remind Albo of the Latin tenet: Qui tacet consentire videtur. He who is silent is deemed to give consent.
I don’t know how many people are really that worried about Charles being on the note, but I think another deferring the Aborigines after the recent bombardment unleashed will just rankle ordinary people even more. They want to change the constitution and the basis of democratic representation with the Voice, want to change Australia day, want to revise history, and now they want more prominence on the currency.
Enough!
IMF urges tough tax reforms as Australia treads ‘narrow path’ to avoid recession
However, in its annual review of Australia, the IMF has suggested a range of tough reforms that are traditionally political “poison” to repair the national budget and to stabilise the its finances for the long term.
It suggestions included raising the goods and services tax and broadening its base, winding back the capital gains tax exemption when people sell the family home, and reviewing the controversial “stage 3” personal tax cuts that favour high-income earners.
More laws should fix the problem.
How Australia became a socialist hell hole.
“Being an activist just means you have an agenda.”
True. Also usually means you have a cluster B type personality disorder. It is what happens when society encourages engagement as a self evident virtue, rather than beating sense into its children.
Dutton is making some good points in the media. All he has to do now is start bringing all that to Parliament and attack Albo directly, and ignite fires under his shadow ministers’ butts so they attack their opposites as well.
Penny Wong was a boorish graceless embarrassment in her speech in the UK, Chalmers is an absolute tool who thinks government should have more control over business (all you need is a history book to dismantle that fantasy), and Albo with his Voice and other issues he is ducking.
Dutton, take it to Parliament.
the communist weirdos have taken over the credit card, the bank accounts and all the passwords
Question.
Does anyone benefit from a BoM forecast temperature above a certain level, or a BoM declared heatwave.
I mean, if certain EBAs have clauses for down tools above a certain forecast temperature, or special comfort provisions for a forecast heatwave, it isn’t hard to join the dots.
Certainly in Victoria.
Likely on the grounds that the defendant was engaged in justifiable protest.
A line would have to be drawn at some point, though, because things would undoubtedly escalate.
King Charles III will not appear on a redesigned five dollar note, with an image of the British head of state to be replaced with a new design which “honours the culture and history of the First Australians
Just f’ck off you stupid communist arseholes.
Excellent coverage of the Requiem Mass for Cardinal Pell by Fox/Sky News.
Kudos for not giving any coverage to qwertys.
The pomp and ceremony and numbers attending would be really twisting the panties of the ABCD them mob especially 7Nilligan.
A fitting coverage to respect a great leader of the Catholic Church in Australia and Rome.
From the BOM website.
Understanding heatwaves
Why can’t we adopt multicult traditions and fire a few hundred AK47s at funerals?
Whatever we say it is.
Pat O’Shane would have given it short shrift in NSW, as would more than a few here in the West. But yeah, Victoriastan would be your best bet. Or the ACT.
Hours above 95F is a good measure of frickin hot.
3 nanoseconds above 32C doesn’t do it for me.
Shaper of the week in Newcastle. Seller says it’s a Hercus, but looks like a Douglas, may be a very early one from when Hercus took over production:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/newcastle/antiques/hercus-shaper-machine/1307847151
…but I think another deferring the Aborigines after the recent bombardment unleashed will just rankle ordinary people even more
‘Reconciliation’ by the usual mongs (Dodson, Burney et al) has been set back decades.
People have indeed had enough Mother Lode. If an Aboriginal person was to take their place on the $5 note, it may well be the death knell of Teh Voice.
And the insipid, spineless Perrottet should be forever mocked, denigrated and excoriated for his cowardice in not attending.
I love the smell of Round-Up in the morning, smells like Victory!
Starting to beat the blackberries into some sense of submission. yay!
OK rifle enthusiasts – Any recommendations for a lever action .22 for target shooting? Since using one on her safety course she’s partial to lever action.
OK.
So who owns the decision to exclude HMQ from the current $10 note?
Mine has Banjo Paterson and Mary Gilmour – but no Queen Elizabeth (unless the weird little caricature of an elderly woman doing paperwork on the Gilmour side is supposed to be her maj).
The AFR View
Labor must heed the ACCC and back gas
The ACCC’s 2023 gas inquiry report warns of a much more troubling outlook for east coast gas supplies than the Albanese government populist gas market intervention suggests.
Feb 1, 2023 – 6.28pm
Australia must get more gas out of the ground to avert disastrous shortfalls in the east coast gas market over the next decade that the Labor government’s extraordinary price gaps threaten to aggravate.
The Labor talking points suggest that there is no supply problem with gas in Australia: it’s just an issue of getting the greedy big Queensland LNG producers to divert some of their excess uncontracted gas away from highly profitable export markets to domestic customers.
Chris Bowen can’t bring himself to openly encourage new gas developments. Today’s David Rowe Cartoon
But the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission’s 2023 interim gas inquiry report warns of a much more troubling outlook than the Albanese government’s populist gas market intervention suggests.
Even under the most optimistic scenario for a fast as possible shift to electrification reducing demand for natural gas, the ACCC report warns that ongoing use for residential, commercial and industrial purposes means forecast production will not be sufficient to meet both domestic and export demand as soon as 2027.
A domestic supply gap of some 300 petajoules is forecast to emerge in NSW and Victoria alone by 2034. That’s more than half of expected domestic demand for natural gas this year. Averting shortages on the east coast – which will otherwise put upwards pressure on both domestic gas and electricity prices – requires more than 450 petajoules of new gas development for the domestic market, says the ACCC.
The ACCC report underlines the absurdity of the artificial “long-term supply shortfalls” the country faces amid the abundance of natural gas below the vast expanses of eastern Australia. Hence, it says that avoiding future shortfalls requires investment in new sources of supply.
Call to abandon moratoriums
It provides a long list of the basins with “possible and contingent” natural gas reserves that are currently connected or could be connected by new pipeline infrastructure to the east coast market. This includes the Bowen, Surat, Galilee and Cooper basins in Queensland, the Gippsland and Bass basins in Victoria, and the Gunnedah basin in NSW.
The ACCC recommends that governments reduce the “uncertainty” and regulatory “barriers faced by producers seeking to bring new gas to market”, including calling for NSW and Victoria to abandon their blanket moratoriums on gas exploration and development.
That points to the extended delays in approvals holding up dozens of gas projects – including Origin Energy’s Australia Pacific LNG venture in Queensland, Central Petroleum’s Range project in the Northern Territory, and Santos’ long-delayed Narrabri project in NSW – which will be worsened by the freeze on new investments induced by the Labor’s “reasonable” price cap regime.
Yet despite the crucial role of gas as transition fuel in Australia’s journey to net zero, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen can’t bring himself to openly encourage new gas developments because of extreme green ideology and political fear of the Greens’ challenge in Labor’s inner-city seats.
One aspect of that is Labor’s ban on including gas in the National Electricity Market’s back-up capacity mechanism, despite energy boffins insisting that gas-fired peaking generation is essential to keep the lights on during the decades-long shift from coal to renewable sources of power.
New regulatory risks
Meanwhile, Labor is also adding to regulatory risks as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s overhaul of environmental laws and approvals increases the green tape burden on new gas projects. And the Federal Court’s ruling that the Tiwi Island people had a right under native title to be consulted over Santos’ Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea creates additional legal risk.
Getting more gas out of the ground would avoid the potential sovereign risk of draconian government intervention to tear up long-term LNG contracts with international customers in order to divert contracted exports to the domestic market.
Last November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assured his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, that would not happen.
It would be disastrous for the $70 billion annual LNG export industry that Martin Ferguson, resources minister in a former Labor government, helped establish 15 years ago, and for the international reputation of a country whose prosperity rests on being regarded as a safe and dependable exporter of energy and other resources to global markets.
Energy security is also about national security: rather than locking it in the ground, Australia should pump out as much gas as possible to support Ukraine and Europe and help defeat Vladimir Putin’s weaponisation of Russian gas.
The Henry .22 LR lever guns seemed to get good reviews, tons sold:
https://northernvicammosupplies.com.au/product/henry-hen001-22lr-lever-action-15-shot-with-american-walnut-stock/
Henry YouTube video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HY6lgK7YW4k&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleaverfirearms.com%2F&feature=emb_logo
I just see “reconciliation” as an exercise in white guilt.
Energy security is also about national security
FMD, Captain Obvious finally arrives, better late than never.
Eyrie says:
February 2, 2023 at 12:25 pm
OK rifle enthusiasts – Any recommendations for a lever action .22 for target shooting? Since using one on her safety course she’s partial to lever action.
Eyrie,
https://www.ssaa.org.au/officialreviews/official-reviews-22-lever-action.html
or if looking for Competition Shooting .22
A Competition 22 Rifle for Everyday Precision Shooters
These protestors at Cardinal George Pell’s Funeral today. I wonder if any of them were protesting at Ivan Malat’s funeral. And he was found guilty.
an ongoing exercise in white guilt.
I used some of my precious stash of Confidor on the crinum caterpillars…and the hibiscus beetles.
Death in Paradise.
Doc, the tradition (inherited from Britain) is that the lowest note (which is to say, the bedrock unit) features the sovereign’s visage. Albanese is saying that “First Nations” people are the sovereigns.
I don’t get why they’re protesting at the funeral.
The man is DEAD.
They won’t convince the Almighty about his final destination, only theirs.
Poor guy
https://www.reddit.com/r/hingeapp/comments/10ocplk/24m_looking_for_a_review_i_get_literally_0_likes/
You seem sweet but very bland here. I would invest in taking pictures in some really interesting or nice locations….
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Your prompts make you come off as if you’re going to lovebomb the first person who shows any interest, put them on a pedestal and project all your fantasies onto them, and then spiral down from there.
It makes you look desperate, insecure, and worst of all, potentially unstable…..
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“casual that turns into serious” is really confusing. Most women want either one or the other, so I would suggest you figure out which one it is that you want. I know I personally won’t swipe on anyone with that mindset because it’s a waste of time…
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Get in good shape and post a tasteful shirtless picture. Night and day difference for me.
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Women are exiting apps. Too many predators or chronically lonely but emotionally unavailable men on there. Too lonely to accept being alone and too broken to be in a healthy relationship and too delusional to invest in mental health therapy/counseling. Apps have been officially corrupted.
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Poor bloke just wanted to ask how to get more matches.
Callgore. 🙂
C.L., I also think it’s a law that the reverse side of all coinage is struck with the image of the monarch.
Artillery regiments run out of… artillery: British Army is ‘stripped of heavy guns after defence chiefs pledged to give 30 working AS90s to Ukraine’
. The British Army reportedly has no heavy guns left after donation to Ukraine
. There are concerns the decision could leave Britain in a vulnerable position
. But the consensus is Ukraine needs the weapons more to stave off Russia
That sounds like a great brand name for a pesticide. I’m sold.
New York AG Releases Footage of President Trump Deposition, The Details of the Witch Hunt Are Very Visible in Procedural Explanations
February 1, 2023 – Sundance
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James released footage on Tuesday of the deposition of former President Donald Trump. The video was intended to create a narrative as President Trump repeatedly invoked privileges under the fifth amendment against self-incrimination.
However, if you watch the introductory part of the deposition, to include the statements from the office of the AG, you get a real sense of how this witch hunt is being conducted.
President Trump’s deposition took place on August 10, 2022. The issue is AG James using the process of a civil fraud investigation to construct a criminal case against Donald J. Trump. Unfortunately for Ms. James, you do not have to be a lawyer to see the “set up” nature of the lawfare as it is being conducted.
Just listen to the qualifiers put into place by the Attorney General office.
Pay close attention to the preliminary procedural explanations and questions from state Attorney General Letitia James. That is the set up, technically and legally explained by the New York AG herself.
Once you see that part, you realize no one in their right mind would answer any questions from this “investigative inquiry”. After a few minutes, President Trump -together with his lawyer- reads a statement, then repeatedly takes the Fifth Amendment. WATCH:
If people actually watch this deposition, not just listen to pundits outline it, this video will backfire against the New York AG.
Here you go Dot:
Crunchy Granola Suite
(Neil Diamond/1971) Neil Diamond
Choosing a favourite song from Neil Diamond’s self penned portfolio of songs is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. “Crunchy Granola Suite” was one of his biggest hits from when he was at his creative peak and the song I think of when I think of this singer/songwriter. It is a simple, fun song about, well, let Neil tell us: “When I wrote ‘Crunchy Granola Suite’ I was newly transplanted to California and was impressed by the health food consciousness there. I actually thought ‘Crunchy Granola Suite’ might change people’s eating habits!”
Anyway, when he performed it live, he added an introduction that sounded remarkably like the theme of Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood”. It was this version of the song that helped make Neil’s live album of 1974, Hot August Night, the biggest selling album in Australia, an honour it held for years, even though he sings off key and rather forced for some of it. This wasn’t to be the first or last time that Neil “borrowed” an idea or theme from another piece of music. “Song Sung Blue” sounds remarkably like a Beethoven Piano Sonata. “Crunchy Granola Suite” first appeared on the Neil Diamond album, Stones, in 1971.
America The ShitHeap of the World Today
Must Watch – Mark Houck Recounts the Story of His Fight Against Evil Enterprise and the DOJ
January 31, 2023 – Sundance
In his own words, Mark Houck appears with Steve Bannon to describe the events that led to him being arrested by the FBI and fighting a legal battle with the DOJ. An incredible story of valiance against evil enterprise. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
Watch: Here’s the Shoving Incident Biden’s DOJ Tried to Use to Imprison Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck for 11 Years
Houck, 48, testified in district court that he pushed Planned Parenthood escort, 73-year-old Bruce Love, because Love was verbally harassing his 12-year-old son as he was sidewalk counseling outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic. Video of the incident obtained by Breitbart News shows Love going out of his way to approach Houck and his son, although Love has denied verbally provoking Houck.
More than a year after the incident, the DOJ decided to press charges against Houck, despite the fact that even local authorities declined to press charges. On September 23, 2022, the DOJ sent a team of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents to his home and allegedly arrested him at gunpoint in front of his wife and children.
The DOJ accused Houck of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act), a 1993 law created to prosecute crimes at pro-life pregnancy centers that has “been used almost exclusively against pro-life activists,” Catholic News Agency’s (CNA) Joe Bukuras detailed. The FACE Act outlaws “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.”
Houck’s arrest came after the DOJ established a “Reproductive Rights Task Force” to “protect access to reproductive health care” in anticipation of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
The DOJ went after 26 pro-life individuals in 2022 with alleged violations of the FACE Act, even though FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted in November that approximately 70 percent of abortion-related threats of violence in the United States since the Dobbs decision have been against pro-life groups. Out of more than 100 attacks of churches and pro-life pregnancy resource centers, the DOJ finally indicted two pro-abortion activists out of Florida accused of vandalism and FACE Act violations last week.
CL has a bit on the monarch being removed from the five dollar note and replaced by some indig crap.
I asked my wife why the RBA felt they had the right to chuck Charlie off the notes to acknowledge a people who had no concept of currency.
“Like a dog cocking it’s leg” was her reply.
A win for Jacinta Price, I think, as well as rebel Labor MP Marion Scrymgour:
A report ordered by the Prime Minister will recommend the Northern Territory government “urgently” reinstate alcohol bans in Aboriginal town camps around Alice Springs.
The report, prepared by Central Australia Regional Controller Dorelle Anderson, has been handed to Anthony Albanese and Northern Territory Chief Minister.
Sources have told Sky News’s Peter Stefanovic the report recommends the NT Government “urgently” legislates amendments to its liquor act to impose alcohol restrictions in Central Australia including in town camps.
These restrictions would remain in place until alcohol management plans were developed by the community if they chose to “opt-out” of these restrictions.
The recommendation is the same model that had been proposed by Aboriginal health organisations who had warned there would be carnage when the bans were lifted last July.
The bans had been introduced as part of the Howard Government’s NT Intervention in 2007 and continued under Labor’s Stronger Futures legislation from 2012.
But when Stronger Futures expired on July 17 the bans were removed overnight.
Instead, the Northern Territory Government introduced and “opt-in” system, allowing alcohol to return to the camps and hundreds of smaller homelands and Indigenous communities unless they opted to remain dry.
Fewer than 20 of these communities – and just one Alice Springs town camp – opted to remain dry.
Northern Territory Aboriginal MPs Marion Scrymgour and Jacinta Price used their maiden speeches of parliament to warn of the consequences of lifting these bans.
But it took the Federal and Northern Territory governments more than eight months to act.
Ms Fyles will meet Mr Albanese in Canberra to discuss the report today.
I see HB Bear is determined to continue with his Robinia-taunting.
Lever action .22’s usually have a short (18-20 inch) barrel which limits their accuracy for target shooting.
Fine for plinking, hunting and general hooning, but if you want tack driver accuracy, go for a 28 inch barrel bolt action and a quality optical sight.
God bless him but the funeral was not the time of the place for a speech by his brother.
Listen to this wisdom Mr Dutton, just listen! From the Speccie.
Here I am, learning all the time.
Abbott giving a cracking speech and getting applause!!! Will send triggers lol!!!
“FWIW, for a similar size engine I’ve heard Diesels generate more torque than gasoline version, but this is a rule-of-thumb which could be tested by viewing the manufacturers spec sheets for the 2 models.”
Normally true, however the petrol is apparently turboed, and that changes things.
Diesels normally cost more to purchase.
Diesel is normally more expensive than petrol, but diesels are typically more frugal.
If fuel costs matter, look into an LPG conversion for a petrol engine, which can halve your fuel costs – it may be cheaper to get a petrol version and convert it to LPG than to buy the diesel. Even if not, a conversion is roughly $5k or so, so if you are using 50L/week, you can currently save between 30 and 50 percent ($70-$100 for petrol, $50 for LPG), so do some numbers – the more km a year you do, the more quickly it will pay itself back. (More environmentally friendly fuel too, if that matters to you)
The price of LPG is quite stable, at least here in Shitney – it has gone up and down a bit, and since pre-COVID it’s bounced between 90c and $1 per litre, pre-COVID 89c, now 99c at the same place, add 10c for the “expensive” places, while petrol (also bounced around) went from $1.20 to over $2.
With a “modern” LPG system (liquid port injected), there will be no loss of performance, and you will also gain the same advantage as using 95 or 98 petrol (if engine management “adapts”, and most do) – LPG is 104. Some lost boot space if you want to keep dual fuel (petrol and LPG), or do “straight LPG” and replace the petrol tank with an LPG one.
As an example, I am now driving a 5.7 V8, and on the same run to work and normal running around, it is cheaper to fuel it on LPG than the 3.5 V6 on petrol it replaced – for 500km/week, that’s about $40/week cheaper on current pricing, and if I run the V8 on petrol, it’s be more like $50-60 saved by running on LPG. So a conversion of $5k would pay for itself in about 2 years. Do you own numbers and research to see if you think it worthwhile.
OK, that Abbott line on St George’s first miracle was very funny.
Haha Tony says “when I heard the mob calling for Pell to burn in hell, I realised he made them believe in the afterlife. A Saint’s first miracle”
Santo subito!
I know but the problem there is not law but personnel. About time conservatives learnt how important personnel is for the public service. As others have said, personnel is policy.
Latho is also the funniest bloke in politics:
https://twitter.com/RealMarkLatham/status/1620933829375725569
One of those great mysteries…what happened to the old Abbott when he became PM? Where did he go and why?
My preferred lever action .22 was an Erma-Werke.
Probably wasn’t like holding a fitted Purdey, but oh boy, it sorta felt like it.
Looking at the media coverage the Pell protest appears to have been a small handful of assorted pooves and weirdos. One arrested dick head.
The media seems disappointed.
Wow, the hatred on Latham’s twitter account is unhinged. It’s as if hell opened up and we get to see what’s inside.
Those poor, mad, enslaved people.
Thanks for letting us know DrF.
New design for the $5 note .. 1st release ..!
https://postimg.cc/sGzS3ZTC
Awww sheeeiiit
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2022/11/on-cusp.html
For the past five months my Chief Engineer (Richard Arundal) and myself have been busy in the lab attempting to prove that one can extract propellant-less thrust from a capacitor by using quantised inertia. QI thrust is implied theoretically (McCulloch, 2013, 2017), but a capacitor approach was first suggested and tested by Becker and Bhatt (2018) who had read my paper on thrust and dielectrics (2017) and did some lab tests in liaison with me. Their work has been seconded by Mansell/IVO Ltd.
Curious to test this approach I used the last remaining DARPA money to set up a lab at Plymouth University, hiring Richard. What we now have in the lab is shown above, with a few details withheld for IP reasons. The capacitor (blue plates with orange dielectric) is placed on an insulating tower on a digital balance on a heavy damping plate. The capacitor is charged up to 5 kV with a HiPot tester (on top) via wires that pass their current through Galinstan, a cool liquid metal that breaks the physical connection to the outside world and allows the capacitor to ‘float free’ on the balance.
For the past month we have been struggling with an unwanted electrostatic force, but we noticed an asymmetry as we flipped the capacitor. Recently I have looked at all the data and used maths (including matrix algebra, that I always wanted to use for something useful!) to separate out the EM force from the asymmetrical one. This extracted force is towards the anode and looks like QI. It is about 10 milligrams, only 1/3 of the force predicted (McCulloch, 2021) but there are good reasons why that might be, and we will now look at those.
In short, unless we can think of another effect that could cause a force towards the anode, then we have it and the transport & energy industry will never be the same.
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Fascinating.
They like the meek, quiet, frightened Christians, not the beefy angry perilous masculine ones. No wonder they’re harrying on Twitter and not in person.
Thanks, guys.
We’re not into competition, just the occasional Sunday morning social event and a bit of fun.
white shaming from the ppl who oppose fat shaming. its all about rubbing your face in it
They are playing power games while real people are suffering, and have determined that keeping the suffering going provides themselves security. But the longer it is stretched out and the way that no matter what the problems get worse is making the rest of us weary.
Thing is that if they engaged with people like Warren Mundine or Jacinta Price – who is much closer to the situation than a Dodson or Burney – there would be progress and we would ALL be better off.
“Looking at the media coverage the Pell protest appears to have been a small handful of assorted pooves and weirdos. One arrested dick head.
The media seems disappointed.
Dr Faustus,
really rather disappointing isn’t it? I was expecting to see a lot of biffo. Even the Coppers look bored.
I am glad though that the armchair warriors are too lazy to get off their fat arses.
It has been a beautiful service so far.
Funny. The young laydee cop with the glasses was bit of a babe.
The old guy in the red collared shirt with the Westboro Baptist Church sign looked like an old kook from Sleeping Pissants.
SNAP! Calli. 😀
I see from the comments at Lathos twatter feed that the concept of 7-Nilligan hasnt penetrated the QWERTY supporters heads.
Because call it what it is.
Faggotts chucking a tanty using abused kids as cover.
Because a man said no to them.
Angry Abdulla from the Levant voicing his disgust makes the craven Perrottet look even more of a weakling.
Those guys from the pointy end of persecution know how it works. No cheap grace for them.
On Cardinal Pell- “always played the ball and not the man”. (Said his brother in his eulogy).
Tony Abbott’s eulogy was truly inspiring, just like the Cardinal.
Let’s see if the Church accepts Abbott’s challenge to make new learning centres, courses, and schools under the name of Cardinal George Pell.
And let’s see if the Liberal Party find Abbott a seat for the next election. He’s being wasted outside the parliament as they’re being wasted inside it.
The Simulation and playing tricks again.
Hidenburg blows up Adani.
Sovereignty, get it?
The obsession of our elites with an ancient but failed totemic culture reflects the vacuum in their own souls.
Dr. Deborah Birx Admits She Manipulated Data and Altered CDC Guidelines to Deceive President Trump
Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under President, has admitted in a new book that she quietly called her own shots during the COVID-19 plandemic.
Birx confessed to manipulating data and quietly altering CDC guidance without the administration’s knowledge or authorization.
In “Silent Invasion,” she discusses how she “devised” a “strategic sleight-of-hand” method of reporting she described as “subterfuge.”
Simple test.
Take the other side of that argument: the Liberal Party of Australia is open to accepting policy that treats differently citizens based on characteristics they were born with and over which they have no control.
Accept that principle, by implication or acquiescence, and Bingo, you are wide open to ruling by identity politics – however that may be defined from time to time by whoever holds the microphone.
We actually are playing for sheep stations here.
I saw the cops jump on one bloke who jumped the fence at the funeral but doesn’t look like a very large crowd. I reckon there’s about 50 protestors.
ABC headline: “1,000s turn up to protest Pell.”
But I finish where I started. Long term the Liberal party needs to rediscover the ability to stand for values and principles, not try to broker intra-party feuds between careerist MPs in some cutesy, adviser-clever way. The best opposition leader of the last half century was Mr Abbott. He stood on principle and opposed what needed to be opposed – even if the ABC and chardonnay-sipping class loathed him for it. That, Mr Dutton, is the way to approach this Voice proposal and everything else.
Worth repeating.
Your wood-burning stove could land you with a £300 fine and a criminal record
Dutton is already hated by the great and good, so he’s got nothing to lose on that front.
““Looking at the media coverage the Pell protest appears to have been a small handful of assorted pooves and weirdos. One arrested dick head.
The media seems disappointed.”
Hi all, I have just arrived at work after attending the Mass for Cardinal Pell at St Mary’s cathedral. I met up with Tinta. We stood/sat outside. This Jew wanted to pay her respects to a completely innocent, decent and saintly man.
The whole service was profoundly moving with well over a thousand people outside the church (as Tinta and I were). There were many Asian, African, Middle Eastern European, South American, indigenous faces, I felt I was among real Australians. There were many young, middle aged, and old. It was quite emotional seeing young men and women kneeling saying the rosary as we arrived. I love seeing people of faith practice their faith.
As for protesters, or the maggots as they should properly be called (and I’m still being too charitable), they weren’t a small gathering and as far as I’m concerned the NSW police allowed them too much leeway to begin with. As the solemn mass began, the protesters were given licence to walk past the cathedral, whistling, screaming and shouting. But what was a joy to behold and it sent shivers down my spine was as the maggots walked past, screaming, shouting, heckling and trying their best to intimidate people, many young men of middle eastern extraction, strong and tall with big muscles, wearing their tradie outfits with large crosses draped around their necks, walked up to face the maggots. The police then decided to do their job and they walked the protesters down College Street.
But what I saw in the protest was evil….plain evil. An evil that is now celebrated in this country.
Comment over on the Oz, about the new $5 note – good job Albo didn’t want to put Gough Whitlam or Bob Hawke on that note.
worth repeating:
“the ABC is biased”?
No, it is partisan, and needs to be treated as such.
Thanks Cassie… on youtube you couldn’t hear any protests (which is great because that film will be retained for a long long time)…
I think Labor has disowned Hawkes actual Prime Ministership, holding him up only as a Labor PM with a generally approved performance and long tenure.
Gough is a god for them, however.
Albo wouldn’t want Gough on a $5 note though. The grand man, and “Australia’s Senior Statesman” from his losing against Fraser to his death (throughout which time I don’t believe he was at all involved in any statecraft), Gough should be on the $1,000 note.
And in a few years, whenever a kid wants to buy a paddle pop, that will be the smallest note that will cover it.
I should also add that there was a group of men and women who held up their rosaries at the scum. Don’t get me wrong, I like spiritual warfare and it has its place but I felt better seeing the young men of Lebanese background walk up to face off the scum.
Have they confused the mourners with the protestors?
Paywalled. Please, what is the gist?
New $5note will also be pink.
You know, just as an extra FU to Australians.
Don’t ask for details again, Mr Dutton.
Make it Coalition policy to put the King’s visage on the five.
“Have they confused the mourners with the protestors”
Most definitely and I was an eyewitness as was Tinta.
But it’s their out of control ABC, paid for by you and me. A corrupt, venal, biased, partisan organisation the Liberals threw more money at early last year.
Tucker: There is nothing more sinister than this
Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls out Lindsey Graham’s actions and weighs in on the Russia-Ukraine war on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #tucker
He’s being wasted outside the parliament as they’re being wasted inside it.
Hear, hear!
Wood-burning stove could leave you with a £300 penalty or criminal record under new regulations – is yours going to land you with a fine?
Just 17 fines have been issued by councils over six years, despite some 18,000 complaints being made by locals.
As a result, the government is looking to crack down on misuse of the stoves and has told council chiefs to look at imposing on-the-spot civil penalties, which could be as much as £300.
Criminal prosecutions could be pursued for the most persistent offenders, resulting in a fine of up to £5,000 plus a further £2,500 for each day a breach continues afterwards.
New regulations mean that all new wood-burning stoves and multi-fuel stoves and fireplaces will have to meet strict new ‘Ecodesign’ guidelines.
These stipulate that the stove has been independently tested by an approved laboratory and meets requirements on air quality and particulates.
The new rules also outlaw the sale of the most polluting fuels and ensure only the cleanest stoves are sold.
Thanks for the report, Cassie.
The most interesting thing about Abbott’s remarks was that he was challenging the Sydney Archdiocese to introduce the cardinal’s cause for beatification.
Haha Tony says “when I heard the mob calling for Pell to burn in hell, I realised he made them believe in the afterlife. A Saint’s first miracle”
Outstanding.
Abbott is a mystery to me: intellectually he was perfect and his morals can’t be questioned. But he just seemed to go to water. I guess the wets in the LNP can overpower anyone. And the abc. Maybe at the end he is just too decent.
If you plan was to trash VIC energy infrastructure, nobody could have done a better job than Talidan and Elbow Ass.
Abbott had his chance and squibbed it. A few good things do not make up for the failures and especially the failure of letting the SFL head further left. No idea. I will never vote SFL again. I was played for a mug, never again.
Some good news:
Daniel Jones has been awarded a massive payout after Victoria Police finally conceded to unlawfully arresting Avi Yemini’s security guard during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne.
Police targeted Jones for providing security to Yemini’s team, as Rebel News reported from the anti-lockdown protest outside Flinders Street Station on July 25, 2021.
Jones was helping to shepherd Avi Yemini and his cameraman through the crowd, ensuring they didn’t get in the way of police, when an officer tapped him on the shoulder, signalling to other officers that he was to be arrested.
Jones told the police, ‘I’m working, I’m on the job, I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing’.
“But that was all completely ignored,” he said. “I was hit, thrown to the ground and had handcuffs placed on me.”
Jones said he told police that he was licensed to be in the area, was an accredited security guard, and had full insurance to do his work. But all of that was dismissed as a gang of police wrestled him to the ground and then ferried him off to a police station, where he was detained for hours before being fined for breaching lockdown laws.
Police eventually dropped the fine, but Jones, with the help of Rebel News supporters, decided to sue the force for damages.
“I wanted more than the fine to be dropped, I wanted justice,” Jones said.
Lawyer Madeleine Smith, from Smith & Tapper Lawyers, successfully argued Jones’ case, forcing the state to settle with a six-figure sum to be paid as compensation.
“It’s been long, it’s been hard,” Jones said. “It certainly wasn’t an easy fight. The police didn’t make that process easy at all. They were trying to shirk responsibility of any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
Jones said the payout “vindicated that I was in the right and that I have done the right thing”.
“I’m hoping it will restore my professional reputation that I believe was tarnished at the time, due to the actions of the Victorian Police,” he said.
Jones thanked Rebel News supporters.
Gas pricing .. explained .. LOL!
https://postimg.cc/9RC01xh3
Rosie:
Good. If you pay the geld, you never get rid of the Dane.
That is good news.
Yes he did squib it and did idiotic and disloyal things like 18c, AHRC, going after franked dividends etc, but the reality is that nobody could survive the unholy alliance of Photios, Turnbull, the Moderate traitors, and the ABC’s constant and illegal attacks.
His failure to emasculate the ABC criminals was probably his greatest failing.
At least he didn’t appoint the ‘bra ads editor’ as ABC Chair. That was pure Scummo.
Just had a look at the comments of a Latho tweet where he passes on Abbott’s comment re Pell as future saint. Hinch makes a loathsome appearance but the funny thing is the disgusting comments about Pell and Abbott alongside pearl-clutching about photos being taken at a funeral. These people are classless morons and hypocrites.
I see some protestors were dancing while singing “highway to hell” in their loudest voice as the coffin was being laid into the hearse.. .
Sickos…
Yes.
3AW reporter saying this morning there were “three or for hundred”.
Later report from a less excitable j’ism said “about a hundred”.
This means possibly 30 – 50.
DB
Hinch blocked me when he was bagging Pell and I reminded him that he’s the one who had a “hurricaine f-ck” with an underage teenage girl.. when he was in his twenties.
Err, when did Abbott “go after franked dividends”?
Was that him?
I thought it was the Oz magazine guy (Walsh?).
the transport & energy industry will never be the same
Can an engineering/physics type Cat explain?
GR @ 2:34pm
Tony Abbott was a great prime minister. In two years he did what he said he would do.
But from day one he was undermined by the wets in his own party. Turnbull couldn’t win from opposition- hell, he was hopeless at politics and in the top job, but very got at conniving and machinating.
John Howard came back as did Menzies. Abbott’s not old and though the other two stayed in the parliament, there’s no impediment for him to return.
The teal seats have spoken – they don’t want the Libs – it’s time for the party to widen its scope and start representing those Australians who do believe in Liberal values. Tony Abbott (and Dutton) together can be remake the party into a true conservative bastion if they work together.
Richard Neville?
Richard Neville, Lysander.
Another dick.
Hynch is still alive?
He must be on his third liver.
dover asks:
Photos of the protestors
Don’t know if this was peak attendance.
Photo of mourners
As a result, the government is looking to crack down on misuse of the stoves and has told council chiefs to look at imposing on-the-spot civil penalties, which could be as much as £300.
The moral panic surrounds:
Oddly, the measured UK trend in PM2.5 between 2010 and 2020 is a reduction of about 10%.
Nevertheless, it’s all about rules and regulations as to how to use near lethal wood fuel in dangerous domestic situations:
The Brits love to be governed harder.
I believe he has a zipper across his torso now, and the replacement livers prepared for transplanting by gluing the wooly half of velcro around the lower margins of the blood vessels.
“The teal seats have spoken – they don’t want the Libs – it’s time for the party to widen its scope and start representing those Australians who do believe in Liberal values. Tony Abbott (and Dutton) together can be remake the party into a true conservative bastion if they work together.”
Today, outside St Mary’s Cathedral, I mingled and sat with real Australians, hundreds of Australians from Chinese, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, African, European, and indigenous backgrounds. There were men in tradie outfits, young people in office wear. I can guarantee you that most of the people sitting, standing and kneeling outside the cathedral don’t live in Teal electorates, NO, they reside in Sydney’s western suburbs.
That’s the future for the Liberal Party, they need to kiss goodbye to Wentworth, Warringah, North Sydney, Mackellar, Kooyong, Goldstein and Curtin, electorates full of privileged selfish scum. And you wanna know what? Once they do say adios to those electorates, the Liberals just might find their feet again.
Also do forget whatever momentum he had after the election was stopped dead by having to rerun the senate election in WA.
The LGA hippies use a steam killing contractor (presumably at govt markup rates). Certain weeds just laugh at them like me.
The 6pm News and their Instagram feeds.
Crispy posts a picture probably taken of St Mary’s early this morning.
I can assure people here, as I was in attendance, that the mourners far outnumbered the maggot protesters.
But, but, but, our Crispy is such an expert, a very confused expert at nothing.
Thanks Cassie for your on the spot report. I watched on Sky, then UTube. I thought it a good ceremony, superb music, good eulogies and a good homily. Came in just before the homily and didn’t see any vision of protesters.
I too wondered abt the appropriateness of David Pell’s words, but the homily had been tending to the anodyne, and if David had not spoken then, when?
No quarter given. Come back and see me in 5 years.
Abbott did nail the sanctimonious protestors..
A touching and forthright eulogy, I thought.
FYI for lawyerly types.
News from yesterday: https://www.insidestategovernment.com.au/tough-new-nsw-organised-crime-laws-come-into-force-today/
Many are wondering what the difference is between a dedicated encrypted communication device and a dedicated encrypted *criminal* communication device. Can crooks use their phone legitimately 51% of the time to avoid this? LOL.
Also “encryption” is a broad term. e.g your normal run-of-the-mill cellphone performs encryption over the air between phone and cell tower, but this is probably not the type of encryption they are talking about, probably means end-to-end.
Top comment on Reddit:
Indeed. What is seized is a portion of wealth which comes from unexplained income, so it could be applied to someone of any wealth level if they’ve had unexplained income. It’s not only for the rich.
They also added “New laws making it illegal for members of a criminal organisation to hold a tattoo licence.” So there’s no point opening new tattoo parlours because many current parlours were not really making their money from tattoos, I guess? They’re a front for money laundering, right?
Are there any special powers to seize an ex-politician’s job/income if they go to work for a company in an industry they used to regulate? Just asking!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahah,
How will they stop pre-selection of bed wetters and other socialists, the current liberal party is not capable of running a chook raffle. Too much self interest.
China’s Top Nuclear Lab Obtained US Microchips Despite Years-Long Sanctions: Report
China in Focus – NTD
00:50 China’s Top Nuclear Lab Obtained U.S. Microchips Despite Years-Long Sanctions: Report
04:26 Chinese Corn Mill Project in U.S. to Be Terminated
05:52 Energy Dept. Gives China-Linked Firm $1.6M, Republican Senators Object
07:28 Religious Freedom Summit Exposes CCP Abuses
09:30 China Global Leader in Counterfeit, Pirated Products
10:58 CA Woman Pleads for Help to Free Family in China
13:53 Chinese Hospitals Still Overcrowded as Beijing Announces End of Outbreak
15:40 Smartphone Sales See Record Low in China
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The next door LGA has planted a forest of London plane trees as street trees. Looks lovely now but has already collapsed one water main. Future ratepayers will be picking up the bill (not me I’m next door).
Exactly. It’s a broad church.
Daniel Jones has been awarded a massive payout after Victoria Police finally conceded to unlawfully arresting Avi Yemini’s security guard during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne. Lawyer Madeleine Smith, from Smith & Tapper Lawyers, successfully argued Jones’ case, forcing the state to settle with a six-figure sum to be paid as compensation.
Six figure sum. More taxpayer money thrown at something that should never have happened in the first place.
Cassie of Sydney says: February 2, 2023 at 3:25 pm
Probably? You indulge in speculation and yet you have the hide to chastise me for having no expertise in the subject. I didn’t even make any comment whatsoever on the relative sizes of the two groups, nor on when the photo was taken, and specifically disclaimed any knowledge of whether the photos represented peak sizes.
You will be unable to quote me implying I had expertise in the matter, because I didn’t, and explicitly disclaimed the same. At least admit you were in a bad mood from talking about the protestors and so perceived an argument where there was none.
Oi!
Make them (us) pay. Feet to the fire.
We have just returned from a forum where they were explaining the electrikkery arrangements in our village. I despair at this country.
Across the village we will be 90% self sufficient with what we generate on our roofs and store in “our*” batteries. – so far so good. If all our storage is full and supply exceeds demand, the park owner may put less than the equivalent of 5 villas worth of solar into the grid(!) – there are 200 villas in the village.
We** have the biggest transformer the energy regulator will allow to have to allow us to have. It is slightly undersized given average usage assuming we are generating no solar and the batteries are empty, but the park owners energy & environment manager*** said that as we put more electric car chargers in – that will change.
Despite our batteries, if there is a blackout for any reason, we will be blacked out to (Energy Market Regulator – no ‘islanding’ rules)!
On e-cars, he was at an industry conflab last week, attended by that moron (my words) Bowen, people in his position were asking about the extra demand on the grid for the ecars – Bowen blew them off, and the energy providers were literally sticking their fingers in their ears going “lalalala I can’t hear you” (he said it more politely). He implied that if you own an electric vehicle you are part of the problem not part of the solution. Some of these truths, eg you will need to replace the battery in 8-10 years and it will cost more than the car is worth, were a little uncomfortable for the 2 ecar owners in the village. They are in their 60s and were a buying the cars to take them to the grave.
He explained many of the rules they have to follow, if Tweedlebowen and Chalmersdumber think energy is any kind of market, they are idiots of the highest order.
*about 1/3 villas have batteries, the village owners are putting in a stonking great battery out the front instead of individual batteries..
**the village owner owns and installed the transformers. They wanted, and were prepared to pay for a bigger one to meet future demand, but were refused.
*** because he is actually responsible for cost effective solutions he seemed to be a realist not a starry eyed idealist. One owner pressed him for why our houses are only 6star not the 7 that is required from October, he came back with, do you have 50-75k extra to pay? and added that for us to get that last 10% for full electricity self sufficiency, they would need to spend twice as much as they have to date to get to the 90% mark..
A very pleasant ten hour flight business class on Asiana airlines to to Seoul in Korea. The air hosesses (they truly deserve the term) were a wonderful introduction to Korean women. Beautiful, and so polite and caring in their embroidered floral smocks, and constantly putting tiny pieces of paper doylies under every single thing they put down for you on the tray. Hairy got very busy lifting down carry-ons for them and for Korean female passengers who, like me, are not very tall. He said their gorgeous rewarding smiles made him help with as many assistances as possible at both take-off and landing.
We are having a quiet day, need to recoup and recover for a while. At breakfast the table mats wished A Happy Day for Everybody, and that is the tenre of the people in general. From taxi drver to hotel reception and other passengers in the lifts to our 28th floor, to the darling woman all bows and smiles doing the room this morning, they are universally friendly and nice. Our room’s view is over a major low-rise palace complex surrounded by high rise hotels and office blocks, all nestled within an ampitheatre of peaked mountains, some forested but the higher ones bare rock. Looking down we can see two outdoor skating rinks, constantly busy, with adults on one and beginners, mainly kids, on the other. The temp is stable at around 0-1 degree C, falling into the minus levels at night, so it is chilly outside, overheated inside, so I have turned off the heating when we sleep. The airport is half an hour’s taxi ride from here. Prices are similar to Sydney’s, a change from the UK, where the exchange rate made all numbers doubled when thinking in terms of the Little Aussie Battler. Everything good here so far, and much to admire in the way people get on with things so cheerfully.
Booked tomorrow for a trip to the DMZ.
“Probably? You indulge in speculation and yet you have the hide to chastise me for having no expertise in the subject”
Firstly, there was no speculation on my part, I witnessed the crowd size of both the attendees and the protesters. Secondly, it was you who made the facetious and nasty comment in which you compared the pictures of the protesters to a picture of the cathedral probably taken early in the morning, and your comment was also an attack on Dover’s comment. I called you out on it. The thing is Crispy, you like to dish it out, so be prepared for it to be dished right back.
And no, I’m not in a bad mood, I woke up in a good mood and attending the service today has only increased my good mood.
Seeking advice:
I need a breadmaker. Price range <$200.
Just for a loaf of bread, I don't need the fancy shit. Just normal white/grain bread.
Anyone with opinions on brand etc?
No taxpayer money need be thrown at him.
Refuse to pay, as with the order to pay Craig McLaughlan’s costs.
Simple.
If you follow Steve Milloy you’ll know the PM2.5 stuff is as rubbish as global warming is. He’s likewise very critical of the Linear No Threshold Model. Which is also good. Milloy as you might expect has made all the right enemies.
There’re so many of these scams now, like the single use plastics hysteria, recycling, PFAS, and now this silly RSV mRNA vaccine idea – which is dead sure to be worse than the virus. I dunno, maybe Satan is having fun with us, seeing just how far lefties will go before they decide enough is enough.
Still in Taree, my wife is doing a 5 week contract so I’ve come up halfway through to say hello. She doesn’t mind the work (nursing). Normally she gets a serviced apartment or similar, this time a motel.
Rooms old but ok, needs a refurbishment, the motel itself is in an ok location but the more I look around the less happy with it I am. It probably needs half a mill to make it good. The manager (owner?) are Indians and the outside areas are dirty, little or no cleaning or maintenance. Missus told her company that she won’t stay here again.
Had a look at the Big Oyster it’s hideous, went to the visitor information centre, it’s permanently closed. Wandered in to the two pubs on the main street, shitholes with dodgy looking day drinkers.
Checked out a few of the other motels, nearly all of them like this one, rundown and seedy. I was impressed that one still called itself the ‘Blackboy Motel’ amazing in our times, it also looks like a bunch of gypsies have been living there. I’m off home tomorrow she still has two weeks to go.
Black Ball:
It’s the Southern Hemispheres version of:
“If a Socialist Government ruled the Arctic, within 2 years there would be a shortage of ice.”
I thought PFAS was a legitimate concern but empirical research showed it wasn’t worth worrying about.
While you’re there in Korea Lizzie, you could see if a DVD set of the Korean-made series copycat of “Midnight Diner” falls into your lap.
Sancho:
1970: Richard Neville’s memoir Play Power is released. In his chapter titled “Group Grope”, Neville boasts about having a “hurricane f-ck” with a “moderately attractive, intelligent, cherubic fourteen-year-old girl from a nearby London comprehensive school”. At the time Neville (born in Sydney in 1941) was in his late twenties – i.e. he was about twice the age of his schoolgirl victim. Sex with an under-age girl or boy was a criminal offence in England at the time – and still is.
“THE ABC & PEDOPHILIA – THE TIMELINE”
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG
ISSUE – NO. 403
27 April 2018
The whole article makes for disgusting reading.
Bravo to Gerard for having the courage to forensically detail the ABC’s culpability in promoting pedophilia.
Dr Faustus says:
February 2, 2023 at 3:11 pm
As a result, the government is looking to crack down on misuse of the stoves and has told council chiefs to look at imposing on-the-spot civil penalties, which could be as much as £300.
Bruce Allen, chief executive officer of biomass and fuel heating organisation, HETAS, and not-for-profit, Woodsure, said: ‘As an organisation, we strive to help people make cleaner, safer choices with their solid fuels. “It is reassuring to see fines being issued for unsafe fuel burning, which is a risk to the environment and individual’s health”.
So “we strive to help people make cleaner, safer choices with their solid fuels” key word being ‘choices’. Then, “It is reassuring to see fines being issued for unsafe fuel burning.
Not really a choice if you’re being fined for non-compliance. Now, where have I heard that before ……seems so familiar…….
BBS, Abbott stopped the boats, that was it. He crapped on his base -18c and expanded middle class welfare and generally failed at everything, he’s never apologised or explained it. Now with his massive pension he jets around the world telling other countries what to do. He can go to hell.
Gumtree. Last year’s air fryer.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
February 2, 2023 at 3:56 pm
I think you may be looking at this from the wrong perspective. The six figure sum is payable by VicPol to the person they unlawfully arrested. The person was Avi’s security guard who was licenced, performing his role and had a (media) permit to attend the rally.
Diogenessays:
February 2, 2023 at 3:18 pm
the reality is that nobody could survive the unholy alliance of Photios, Turnbull, the Moderate traitors, and the ABC’s constant and illegal attacks.
Also do forget whatever momentum he had after the election was stopped dead by having to rerun the senate election in WA.
After the non-partisan, impartial, AEC managed to lose about 1000 Senate votes, probably the equivalent of half a dozen reams of paper, a not insignificant weight and volume.
I was just watching part of Joe Rogan’s Jordan Peterson interview and came across something interesting.
Peterson describes something called the ‘messianic’ stage of adolescence which explains why kids pick up this inflated self-importance. Apparently it is an arguable psychological phenomena.
Although from my experience there is no doubt. It is a stage normal kids go through on their way to becoming a full fledged individual, and which stage teachers, too many university professors, and influencers strive to block the kids from progressing from – keeping them in that state forever. Stunted, self-righteous, and infertile.
I linked it because there is somethings that only the Professor can say. Goes up to about the 2:30 part, although the rest of the vid is interesting too.
Dot – PFAS is the product from degrading Teflon non-stick frypan linings. It dissolves in any oil you fried your food in, then you ate it. For something like forty years. As you might have noticed people have not been dying like flies as a result of Teflon frypans.
Plus the data shows the excretion rate is moderately rapid. The stuff is pretty harmless, or we’d know about it. It’s yet another scam for extracting munni from the government, eg near Williamtown airbase.
Lawyer Madeleine Smith, from Smith & Tapper Lawyers, successfully argued Jones’ case, forcing the state to settle with a six-figure sum to be paid as compensation.
One of the good lawyers whos name is tarnished by the other 99%
The currency here is the Won, about 800 to the Aussie dollar. Lots of large numbers don’t add up to much when translated into dollars; reminds of the earlier days of the Italian Lire.
One irritating thing here is that there is still a masking panic going on, even within the hotel. The proximity to China is driving it, in part. It’s also due to the general Asian view of masking when sick, so masks are a feature of life in general. Masking is still mandatory on public transport and all comply; similarly on planes and in airports with only a few going maskless. We went maskless on the plane except for entry and exit, but very few others did so, although Hairy found enough women to smile at him, so obviously some were maskless for some of the time. They still take your temperature on entry, and require all visitors from China to take a RAT test within 24 hours, and there are hand sanitisers everywhere still.
It all seems like a step back in time for those of us who have been travelling without Covid concerns since at least May last year. Mandatory vaxx required here still for entry. The President’s desire to reduce the panic and ease restrictions is having a harder time here than anywhere else we’ve seen. The population have taken masking to heart.
The Brits love to be governed harder.
As do the people of Sicktoria it seems.
Ms Milligan has twitter thoughts if anybody can stomach it…. We’re paying for her thoughts incidentally.
Thanks for the corrections above. It was Neville indeed.
Sancho. When he put up the proposal that an impost levy of 1.5% be imposed on listed companies to pay for parental leave. Companies would not be allowed to claim the levy as a tax payment, just a cost.
The impact on franking credits was estimated at 50%.
That was the final straw for me. If Abbott could cruel retirees in order to pay off another more trendy voting sector I was out of the SFL.
It was frightening to see how easily he was conned by the Treasury Marxists who hate franking credits. His weakness for women’s causes at the expense of electoral sense was exposed equally. Witness Spot the Spoiler.
The State Branch contacted me to understand why I quit. When I explained, I was accused of being selfish and disloyal. Labor forms of abuse.
Ricardo Bosi is running for the upper house in the NSW election.
Oh God.
Cast iron pot with lid. Pop it in the oven.
Look up ‘no knead bread’
Sal, Hairy and I both loved the Japanese show ‘Midnight Diner’. When I said just now to him there might be a copycat Korean one, he said (not in a nasty way) that’d be right, they’re good at copycatting. The young women here are as cute as those in Midnight Diner, so it could be worth getting if we see it.
I am using my little portable DVD player quite a bit on this trip, in spite of Hairy having laughed at me for buying it and for insisting on bringing it. On the plane the choice of movies was woeful. 3 newer ones, all terrible, and then a couple of classics: I’d guessed the choice would be bad on a Korean airline. Hairy ended up watching High Society – I told him it was dreadful but he persisted, albeit agreeing. I watched Casablanca, the other alternative, for the umpteenth time, but always enjoy it. Then I watched some DVD’s of older shows that I picked up outside a Red Cross shop in Pitlochy – the series 2 of ‘Miranda’ (a girls’ show) kept me giggling along happily, circa 2010.
Anyone seen the AI generated Seinfeld that can in theory run endlessly? Apparently it is a subscription based service!
I want see Jackie Chiles bed Elaine and then sue her for making him gay. Newman and Kramer to act for Mr Chiles.
I stayed overnight in Korea and changed some money to Won so I could buy things like food. I had no idea if Korea was a bargain like Japan (for basics), or expensive like Australia (for everything) so I exchanged a fair whack, reasoning I would be changing it to Yen the next day in Japan.
I reasoned that AUD to ?, then ? to ¥ on consecutive days ought to be the same as AUD to ¥. And it was not much money.
BUT, when I got to Japan I could not exchange Won to Yen.
Don’t know if other places have the same issue and excess Won might not be easily be changed back into AUD. There are a lot of American servicemen in South Korea so exchanging Won to and from USD must be possible.
Yep.
Vicpol have simply refused to comply with the court & pay Craig McLaughlan.
They could do the same with Mr. Yemini’s security guard.
They’re only “wasting taxpayer money” if they actually pay the people they mistreat.
It would seem Vicpol aren’t required to comply with the court.
LOL, comrade.
I hope he gets better.
Cassie:
No Cassie. Australia has to go down the drain a lot further before it wakes up to what is happening to it. The Teals and their Socialist fellow travellers have to be bankrupted and living on the streets before the truth sinks in. That means the wukkas have to start going hungry and we go to the standard of living under Communism in Eastern Europe before 1980.
The harshest lessons are the ones never forgotten.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
February 2, 2023 at 3:54 pm
A very pleasant ten hour flight business class on Asiana airlines to to Seoul in Korea.
The air hostesses (they truly deserve the term) were a wonderful introduction to Korean women. Beautiful, and so polite and caring in their embroidered floral smocks, and constantly putting tiny pieces of paper doylies under every single thing they put down for you on the tray.
Was doing business with Asiana in Seoul, eating in the Restaurant at lunchtime, and it was the same restaurant when the ladies training to be Asiana air hostesses, were also eating at the same time – amazingly beautiful – amazingly similar.
Enjoy Seoul & Mongolian BBQ
When you get back
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Bread making from scratch is just great. I use the OO flour for a better texture. I’m going to try that no knead recipe in the dutch oven, duncan.
The other night I made pizza. Easy as, and you can get the bases wonderfully thin and crispy and add flaky salt and herbs and pepper to it. Artisanal Tiger would be proud of me! The secret is in heating the pizza trays…and strewing some semolina flour on the surface for crunch.
I’m waiting for the Korean film starring Soo Ki LaLa.
I believe it’s a melodrama. And very realistic.
Nobody tell the kiddies at the gruinaid, but what they are writing as a ‘stick it to the man” story is actually…. capitalism…
A market is there, a man is providing a service for payment to fill that market gap.
No licensing, directive from an agency or anything…
Mutiny on the Sydney commute: ‘pirate bus’ hits the road after privatisation leads to axed routes
Sure VIK POL refused to pay costs for McLachlan’s criminal defence but he is pursuing them for it, as he also filed against Shane Patten personally a few months ago for malicious prosecution etc.
calli – if you like bits and pieces in your bread, it works doubly good with various savoury additions, like olive pieces, herbs, etc.
Does not make a ‘sandwich bread’. More of a ploughman’s lunch bread with super-crisp outer.
Zeducation with his latest woke cringe compilation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXztXilS5g
Sit through that without a bottle of Muscat.
Robert Sewell says:
February 2, 2023 at 4:32 pm
Cassie:
That’s the future for the Liberal Party, they need to kiss goodbye to Wentworth, Warringah, North Sydney, Mackellar, Kooyong, Goldstein and Curtin, electorates full of privileged selfish scum. And you wanna know what? Once they do say adios to those electorates, the Liberals just might find their feet again.
No Cassie. Australia has to go down the drain a lot further before it wakes up to what is happening to it. The Teals and their Socialist fellow travellers have to be bankrupted and living on the streets before the truth sinks in.
Robert,
Perhaps this might hit them in the Hip Pocket under Tennis Albow & Communist Chalmers
IMF urges Australia to restrict tax breaks for the family home
The International Monetary Fund has urged Treasurer Jim Chalmers to wind back capital gains tax breaks for the family home and to broaden the GST, to pay for easing the tax burden on workers and increase the economy’s speed limit.
The local economy is tipped by the IMF to tread a “narrow path” to avoid recession but to expand at just 1.6 per cent this year, with unemployment forecast to edge up to 4 per cent because of rising interest rates and weaker consumer spending.
“Tighter financial conditions, erosion of real incomes amid high inflation, declining housing prices, and soft global growth point to a significant deceleration in Australia,” the IMF executive board said in its annual review of Australia.
“Tighter financial conditions, erosion of real incomes amid high inflation, declining housing prices, and soft global growth point to a significant deceleration in Australia,” the IMF executive board said in its annual review of Australia.
To assist the Reserve Bank reduce inflation, the fund encouraged the Treasurer to further show fiscal restraint in the May budget by banking all revenue upgrades from high commodity export prices to repair the budget deficit.
The fund said the government’s review of the $35-billion-a-year National Disability Insurance Scheme should consider introducing co-payments or means testing to make it financially “sustainable” and avoid “crowding out” other worthy government spending.
The IMF endorsed Dr Chalmers’ plan to publish more detailed information about the distribution of tax breaks before the budget, noting it will be “helpful in identifying areas where the tax system can be further strengthened.”
The detailed annual report on Australia’s economy and policy settings recommends reviewing tax exemptions and restricting the $60 billion of capital gains tax concessions on the sale of people’s main housing residence.
“That’s a very costly tax exemption and benefits disproportionately the wealthy households,” Harald Finger, the IMF mission chief to Australia, told The Australian Financial Review.
“It’s also more generous than what you see in many other advanced economies.
“So reviewing that and doing away with, not fully, but to streamline that benefit and make it less generous, would be helpful in generating tax revenues and making the tax system fairer.”
Mr Finger also recommended raising more money from the 10 per cent goods and services tax, which the fund warns will be “eroded” by exemptions for healthcare and an ageing population.
“Australia, among the OECD countries, has a relatively high prevalence of direct taxes so income taxes and things of that nature, and a relatively low incidence of indirect taxes such as the GST,” Mr Finger said.
“So some rebalancing of the tax mix would be useful to strengthen economic efficiency.”
“And at the state level we think a better system would be to transition out of stamp duties and into a broader land tax type system, which would make a more stable tax base for the states.”
The Albanese government has ruled out increasing the GST and abandoned Labor’s 2019 election policy to wind back capital gains tax breaks for investment properties and shares.
Mr Finger said the stage three personal income tax cuts due in July 2024 favouring higher income earners moved in the right direction to address tax bracket creep, but the overall cost to the budget needed to be considered.
“There would be time, if needed, to reassess the parameters to appropriately balance costs on the budget and benefits to the economy,” the IMF report said.
But with average personal tax rates poised to hit record levels by around 2030, the fund said inflation disproportionately hurts low-income earners and women due to bracket creep – a signal that some of the stage three tax cuts could be redirected to helps these cohorts.
“Addressing bracket creep in PIT [Personal Income Tax] by raising the tax brackets periodically will limit distributional implications, including for low-income households and women.“
More generous safety net urged
The IMF also suggested transforming the JobSeeker unemployment benefit into full-fledged, contribution-based unemployment insurance like almost all other advanced economies to provide a more generous safety net for the jobless.
The Albanese government has agreed to annually review the adequacy of benefits for the jobless and other welfare recipients, under a deal struck by independent Senator David Pocock to pass workplace relations legislation last year.
Dr Chalmers said in a statement the IMF recognises the Albanese government’s approach to managing the economy is responsible, makes key investments in growth and resilience, and begins the hard work of budget repair.
“The independent assessment from the IMF backs our strategy to build a stronger, more inclusive and more resilient economy that can better withstand future shocks,” Dr Chalmers said.
Whether the IMF’s advice gains traction with Dr Chalmers remains to be seen.
In his 6000-word essay for The Monthly, Dr Chalmers called into the question the economic policy prescriptions of the fund in the decade before the pandemic.
“The ‘Washington Consensus’ became shorthand to describe recommendations and orthodoxies for developing countries urged by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank – a reference to each institution’s proximity to the other in Washington,” Dr Chalmers wrote.
“Over time it became a caricature for ever more simplistic and uniform policy prescriptions for “more market, not less”.
Labor’s carbon plan welcomed
The IMF welcomed Labor’s new climate-mitigation targets, including the so-called safeguard mechanism to reduce industrial emissions of large companies.
“If political economy constraints prevent the adoption of an economy-wide carbon price, alternative sectoral policies, with price signals where possible, can help reduce emissions.
“In this context, planned reforms to the Safeguard Mechanism for industrial emissions are welcome.
“Adding price signals in the energy and transport sectors, potentially in the form of feebates, can further incentivise emissions reduction.”
It also backed the independent review of the RBA.
“The review by independent outside experts (to conclude by March 2023) is considering the RBA’s objectives, mandate, governance, culture, and operations; and the interaction between monetary, fiscal and macroprudential policies.
“The review presents an opportunity to reaffirm the inflation targeting regime within a clearly focused mandate and revisit the RBA’s objectives, governance arrangements, and decision-making processes.
“This could also be an occasion to institute periodic reviews in line with the practice in some other central banks.”
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
February 2, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Yep. Vicpol have simply refused to comply with the court & pay Craig McLaughlan. They could do the same with Mr. Yemini’s security guard.
Oh, I didn’t know that about McLaughlan. How can they not pay -surely the settlement is legally enforceable? I don’t understand how they can just ‘not comply’ with a court order – courts get pretty feisty when their orders are ignored ‘cos it’s a an affront, a challenge, to the basic tenets of the legal system!?
That’s bizarre.
‘mole..
You keep using that word ‘public’. I do not think that word means what you think it means, Mr Wilson.
Hilariously ironic.
Robert,
I don’t use bread makers, I am a purist 😉 but I have been told that if you do use one, make sure you buy one that gives you a long loaf. Cheap bread makers give you a flower pot shaped loaf. They are awkward to slice and place into the toaster. And try to get one made in Japan.
No-knead bread is awesome, easy to make and tastes great. Several different methods, all very good.
Calli, if you make pizza in your normal oven, a great way to achieve a similar bake to a wood fired oven is to make it in a cast iron fry pan and place it on the hob on high heat for 3 minutes before finishing in the oven. Maximum crisp and puffy base and well cooked top.
Is Larissa Penn – (Ind) candidate for Willoughby related to Natasha Stott Despoja? I see a resemblance.
Dot – didn’t see your post.
She may have worked with my brother’s girlfriend who does locum work in the ER at Taree Hospital.
Duncanm,
if you want to make a sandwich loaf with your no-knead dough, just bake it in the usual way in a loaf tin. You won’t have that awesome crackly crust, but it is still delicious.
The wife has a 20 year old Sanyo that’s still going strong.
But apparently they don’t make them like that anymore…literally.
If you can find one on the second hand market I’d recommend it.
Yep – the Sanyo is made in Japan.
Pogria, I have a couple of Avanti trays that I pre-heat. I don’t know what they’ve done in the manufacturing process, but they work like a stone. They stay magnificently hot.
The secret is to work quickly once the dough is on the tray – sauce brushed over, cheese, toppings (not too much), more cheese and in they go. Go like the clappers and the reward awaits. Mmmmm…. 😀
SFW.
That hurts.
Those East Coast towns, Taree, Grafton etc used to be attractive, civic and thriving.
Now they are sad shells.
A walk around what used to be the education sector of Grafton, and is now deserted modern and historic quality buildings is distressing.
Could end up in Oz the way this wind is blowing. Flannerys starting to tumble. And cold. Climate change of course to blame
So, snow is coming to the East of Australia in February…
… that’s a bit early?
BBS, Abbott stopped the boats, that was it.
sfw,
(he got rid of the mining & carbon (dioxide) taxes.)
I’m with you on 18C .
18C would’ve been gone were it not for Turnbull & his ilk. Yes, Abbott could’ve tried to crash through but remember the fracas – all coming from the ALPBC (& Turnbull et al) – when Abbott reintroduced honours. Such a minor change yet the screamers would not be silent.
People can learn from their mistakes. With Turnbull, Pyne, Bishop and all the ex teal-seat reps gone, this could be the right moment for him.
I would’ve liked the UAP & the other right of centre parties to get some of their candidates over the line. No one from the conservative side of politics would not want that outcome. And I will still be voting for PHON , any other right of centre smaller parties, as well as any real LIB conservatives, but from below the line at the March election.
Pressure needs to be applied now to Luigi otherwise the country really is headed down the barrel. We need fire and brimstone brought down on the heads of the Liars. If it’s not Abbott (or Dutton) who is there to do it?
Calli,
when I have finished unpacking and sorting in the house, I am preparing the back verandah for one of these. It’s been on my bucket list for over a year now. Only need a handful of wood. Can also bake bread instead of pizza.
HBBear:
Good thinking, it’s just that I’m a bit leery of food equipment that’s been through someone else’s hands that I can’t satisfactorily clean.
You didn’t get the memo.
Warming means more cold.
I love fresh bread. Best when still warm from the bakery. And I still enjoy a fresh fingerbun as well.
When I was a little bloke the delivery man from Tip Top Bakeries would deliver bread to homes and sometimes my mother would buy a couple of fingerbuns for my sister and I. The bakery van was pulled by a horse. (Adelaide in the 1950s. The horse was replaced by a motorised van in the early 1960s.)
Speaking of pizza…did I mention I made pizza sauce with my tomatoes?
And sugo, pomadoro, rago, bolognaise, marinara…
ragu!
That is a picture of the police in College Street- the mourners were in the forecourt and there were thousands
Yes Duncan… the left’s alphabeti spaghetti strikes again…
Roger,
I saw your comment earlier. I too, make my own passata and various sauces. Fortunately, made a couple of hundred jars a few years back so have enough to see me through ’til I have my veg garden ready for next year. After years of using a hand-cranked tomato press, I was finally able to afford an electric one. If a person can love a machine, that and my Hobart and commercial Kitchen Aid are the loves of my life. 😀