The Bazincourt Steeple, Camille Pissarro, 1895
Sorry Dover. I linked a portion of Indolent’s article on Inman-Grant, not realising it was full of active links. Now…
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I would have money on Albo delivering a bag of money to the Big Men in PNG. Literally. On the…
a vile and patently anti-Semitic slur was made by Johanna to CassieElizabeth, this is not true.Many Cats, including our esteemed…
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Up this way it was stand in the drizzle and fall into the coffee shop. Unfortunately the former RSL (now…
Never a frown with Golden-Brown.
Marshall Law?
Did he serve with Corporal Punishment, Private Parts, Major Catastrophe and General Panic?
I think they may have been involved in preparing a plan to implement Martial Law.
Now I’ve lost my upticking rights. I feel so … so … impotent.
Reminds me of when they tested the space shuttle by sticking it on top of a 747.
Interesting that there are no more space shuttles and no more new 747s.
Instead we have Elon and his magical self-landing booster rockets.
And B-52s that will still be flying when they’re a century old.
Breaking – Jim Golden-Brown changes name to Jim Ruddy-Pink
Good find OldOzzie
“When you change the government you change the country.”
With or without a mandate as far as the ALP is concerned.
We’re entering a dark night of the national soul.
Scroll if you’ve got healthy knees.
Calli/ Old Ozzie, try turmeric with a little pepper and fat(butter or milk). It takes a week or so to have an effect. Reduces inflammation and pain.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/indigenous-charity-head-s-trail-of-sackings-probes-and-misused-cash-20230203-p5cho0
Note the Number of Australian Government Deaprtments mentioned in the 2 above parts of
Indigenous charity head’s trail of sackings, probes and misused cash
Jim Golden-Brown (Nee James Sydney Sturgeon) – accused of misusing credit cards and overspending at four Aboriginal charities – now chairs a $20 million charity caring for elders.
Mr Golden-Brown was formerly known as James Sydney Sturgeon and changed his name in 2012 for unrelated reasons.
Public Servants coming out of all external orifices of Tennis Elbow AlbaSleezy “The Voice” at Australian Taxpayer Expense for No Gain
Not scrambled eggs again?
Jorge says:
February 6, 2023 at 11:50 am
Scroll if you’ve got healthy knees.
Calli/ Old Ozzie, try turmeric with a little pepper and fat(butter or milk). It takes a week or so to have an effect. Reduces inflammation and pain.
Thanks Jorge,
had been looking at adding turmeric to anti-virals
Never a frown with Golden-Brown.
The most original Aboriginal Industry rort was nicking the office fridge. Who hasn’t done that from time to time?
I suspect his partner, Ms. Whitely, is also, erm…white.
That’s the one.
Can you believe the keyboardist had it in his back pocket for years as they didn’t know what to do with it?
I guess waltzes weren’t a big thing in punk rock.
Fuk harpsichords.
Boomer’s BS story:
19% interest rate in 1995? Who did she borrow the money from at that rate in 1995 – some shady figure she encountered at the track whose loan delinquency policy involved foreclosure of the delinquent borrower’s kneecaps? I know we had very high interest rates in the late 80s but these had fallen by the mid-90s.
LOL. A member of the most privileged, self-entitled generation ever. With a crap memory.
Our beautiful county is over, destroyed by a tiny Marxist minority and elitist cronies. I want to weep.
And a largely scared and cowardly population who will believe almost any propaganda that is spun at them.
Link
Cassie:
Fact Check = Bullshit.
Chuckle.
“This next one features Dave on ‘is harpsichord…1,2,3, 1,2,3”
Too melodic: in their early years the Stranglers were angry pub punk, competing with Buzzcocks and the Clash.
Mother Lodesays:
February 6, 2023 at 11:47 am
Marshall Law?
Did he serve with Corporal Punishment, Private Parts, Major Catastrophe and General Panic?
I think they may have been involved in preparing a plan to implement Martial Law.
Along with General Disaster.
JC
Homer is babbling on about ruinables on the Albo Grease thread at CL’s blog, if you want to stir him up.
It was to their considerabale advantage that The Stranglers knew more than three chords though.
“Jorgesays:
February 6, 2023 at 11:50 am
Scroll if you’ve got healthy knees.
Calli/ Old Ozzie, try turmeric with a little pepper and fat(butter or milk). It takes a week or so to have an effect. Reduces inflammation and pain.”
Jorge,
once your knees are grinding bone on bone so much so that the person next to you can hear it, it’s time to re-stump the house.
OldOzzie says:
February 6, 2023 at 11:54 am
Jorge says:
February 6, 2023 at 11:50 am
Scroll if you’ve got healthy knees.
Calli/ Old Ozzie, try turmeric with a little pepper and fat(butter or milk). It takes a week or so to have an effect. Reduces inflammation and pain.
Thanks Jorge,
had been looking at adding turmeric to anti-virals
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Very true.
Sure, sure.
The old Hillary excuse.
“What was in the emails?”
“Oh, nothing. Just pasta recipes and wedding plans.”
Besides, despite his German heritage, The Donald would never eat a torte shokolade.
It would be good old American chocolate cake all the way for Orange Man Bad.
Remember when The Australian Sheeple first really took flight in 1996? They’ve been running scared ever since!
(There’s probably earlier instances, the “fright” that killed muscle car manufacturing in Australia just when it was reaching a zenith, Falcon GTHO Phase III, Torana XU-1….)
F’cking Sheep.
The Oz is reporting Thorpe to quit Greens.
Any boat owners here on the Cat ever made this mistake? 😀
There are dayz when I am in awe of the framework & mindset that supports my 75 years and today is another of them ..!
Up and 5.00am and 600mts swam by 6.30am (the council has closed the outdoor 50mts pool from 7.00am for all of February to accomodate schools swimming carnivals) and, despite my MAGDA ankle another hour just spent giving the back “park” a haircut …..!
some leg-ends have comics, some have TV shows but most of us just meander theu life unnoticed ..!
May 11, 2020
A little tribute to Dave Greenfield (keyboardist with The Stranglers who died with Covid-19 last week) and Paul Desmond (saxophonist with the Dave Brubeck quartet – the anniversary of his death is at the end of this month).
Dave Brubeck – Golden Brown
To become the leader of the black sovereignty movement, according to sources in the party.
“… an activist “journalist” makes up a story about his/her ideological opponent (Trump), then attributes it to an unnamed source. It assumes the reader is stupid or brainwashed enough to trust the newspaper.”
Don’t forget part 2:
Original article by, say WaPo, is regurgitated by NYT, citing WaPo as the source.
WaPo retracts the story, often mere hours after NYT has published.
NYT does NOT retract – “We are only reporting what WaPo said, which is an accurate report. We will not retract.” Other outlets then cite the NYT, and also (of course) refuse to retract.
So even though the original story was retracted, it continues to circulate as though true, and it’s widespread use is cited as “proof” the story is “real”.
It’s gasighting 101 – lie confidently, lie often, prevent the target from being exposed to the truth. Works a treat – alas.
Prime Minister Albanese blocks taxpayer for questioning ‘The Voice’
From the Comments
– Albo is nobody’s PM. He is a bloody disgrace and nothing more than a back stabbing enemy of the Australian people.
– Asbo chooses which voices he will listen to.
In other words, if you question the narrative he tunes you out.
He is a very dumb, simple, idiot.
– Your being a bit hard on all the other dumb, simple idiots in this world by putting Albosleasy in this category.
– About what I’d expect from this mental midget. He is easily going to take the baton from Whitlam as the worst PM this Country has ever seen. The split second he realises that you are not of the lunatic left ideology, you are cancelled/blocked.
He is totally driven on dividing this Country and turning it into a tribal, socialist shithole like all other truly socialist Countries.
– Either Albo is thick as pig shit or extremely shifty, my money is on the latter.
Those questions are very reasonable given the circumstances and should be addressed by an intelligent and competent leader, not dismissed by the Twitter statement “You’re Blocked”.
Hang on, maybe Albo is as thick as pig shit? – my money, on reflection, is on an each-way bet!
– Albo’s strategy is obvious and modelled on the Democrats in the USA.
He is intentionally dividing the Nation and is using the Voice as the tool.
Those that vote against the Voice are uncaring, unpatriotic and un-Australia (much like Hillary Clinton’s deplorables). These people are to be shunned.
If you vote against the Voice you are not with the Government as are all the real and fair minded Australians. So Vote yes for the Voice (and thus the ALP), as the other side are un-Australian.
Drum brakes? Might not have been a bad idea.
Anyone ever seen this?
https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/winnipeg-virus-lab-scientist/
and trendy pub the Fortune of War in The Rocks.
During my alcoholic 1970s this joint was one of the many Rocks blood-bath & derro pubs ..
how times change .. LOL!
Yeah, mortgage rates in 1995 were more like 11% at their peak. They were about 6.5% in 1998.
Flying Duk:
I mentioned the Japanese balloon raids over the US in WW2 – and the efforts of Unit 731 to spread bubonic plague, but it’s disappeared faster than Tennis Elbow at a welcome to country gig.
I think Da Voice is in a bit of strife.
Pogria:
Just the view of her arse as she sinks into the mists of history.
BREAKING WIND
One of the favorite talking points of the climatistas is that we need to take account of the financial risk of future climate change. This is one reason the Biden Brigade is trying to impose a number of climate risk requirements on American business, even though by every conventional method of economic forecasting, the present value of hypothetical large costs decades from now is quite small. This is one reason why the climatistas insist on perverted forms of economic calculation (the “social cost of carbon”) that in any other context would get them called “economics deniers.”
One financial risk that turns out not to be small right now is the cost of green energy—especially windmills. Bloomberg reports what is happening with wind power right now:
Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over
…The instances [of windmill collapses] are part of a rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the US and Europe, ranging from failures of key components to full collapses. Some industry veterans say they’re happening more often, even if the events are occurring at only a small fraction of installed machines. The problems have added hundreds of millions of dollars in costs for the three largest Western turbine makers, GE, Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens Energy’s Siemens Gamesa unit; and they could result in more expensive insurance policies—a potential setback for the push to abandon fossil fuels and fight climate change. . .
The race to add production lines for ever-bigger turbines is cited as a major culprit by people in the industry. “We’re seeing these failures happening in a shorter time frame on the newer turbines, and that’s quite concerning,” says Fraser McLachlan, chief executive officer of London-based GCube Underwriting Ltd., which insures about $3.5 billion in wind assets in 38 countries. If the failure rate keeps climbing, he says, insurance premiums could increase or new coverage limits could be imposed. . .
Vestas Wind Systems A/S saw annual warranty provisions jump from roughly €600 million in 2019 to almost €1.2 billion in 2020 and 2021. . . The failure issue has become a concern for bankers and other creditors, however, who may begin to demand higher interest rates, he says. “There’s a hesitancy among insurers and lenders about these big models that haven’t been tested yet,” Metcalfe says. “The technology alarm bells are ringing.”
As we can see once again, while the political marketplace says one thing, the real marketplace says something else when it’s their own money at risk, and not taxpayer money.
19% interest rate in 1995?
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and suggest she meant the ever increasing interest hikes under Keating rather than the rate she, originally, borrowed at ……
Lidia does a Harold Holt!!
Lidia Thorpe confirms resignation from the Greens
Senator Thorpe has started speaking:
I have told Greens Adam Bandt and the Senate President, that I am resigning from the Greens to sit on the Senate crossbench.
This country has a strong grassroots black sovereign movement, full of staunch and committed warriors, and I want to represent that movement fully, and this Parliament.
It has become clear to me, that I can’t do that from within the Greens.
Now, I will be able to speak freely, on all issues, from a sovereign perspective, without being constrained by portfolios and agreed party positions.
Greens MPs, members and supporters, have told me they want to support the Voice.
This is at odds with the community of activists who are saying treaty before Voice.
This is the message delivered on the streets on January 26 full stop this was the movement I was raised in, my elders marched for a treaty.
This is who I am.
I am not announcing my final position on the Voice today, I want to continue my negotiations with the Government, First Nations sovereignty is crucial but so is saving lives today.
They could do that by implementing the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody, and the recommendations from the bringing them Home report.
Simple.
Yep. Pricey.
Dunno where you are Old Ozzie but you can find it cheaper.
I’ve switched to powdered form, $5 for a couple of months worth from Vicmarket, though not from the main spice stall inside.
Some recommendations for Indian supermarkets also.
If it can’t unite the Greens how can it unite the country?
We are 100% a 3rd world country here: If you doubt this, ask yourself if you can answer ‘yes’ to whether your trust ANY let alone ALL of our once rock solid institutions (The courts, the media, medicine, our education system, the police, the banks, currency itself etc etc etc)
I told my relatives several years ago that the public health system has failed (because the public has failed – no one is a responsible, productive adult anymore). As such, private health cover is now a MUST – I know you have ‘paid your taxes’ and your ‘medicare levy’ for decades and it SHOULD be there for you. Sadly – its not – anything you gave to that was stolen by the government and the parasitic class along the way, and if you want health care, make sure you can buy it out of your own pocket.
Parliament is back this week…
Dutton can’t complain about a shortage of material to work with.
To become the leader of the black sovereignty movement, according to sources in the party.
Could be on a winna .. the ‘white” 251s will, probably, flock to her banner …….
Newspoll is also saying Albo’s approval number is 57%.
I kid you not.
Whip me some more my gimpsuited master for I have sinned against Gaia!
Sadly Australia has died, or polling has. Or both.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/loose-ends-205-more-balloon-memes.php
In any case, let’s keep having fun with this, since the pics will be stale by TWiP time next Saturday:
Especially like “1st Picture from Chines Sky Ballooon has been released”
and
Oh Great, here comes the German Spy Balloon
Yeah, there was the big peak in 1990, and another spike around 1995, but 19% is a stretch.
Look, she might have selected a particularly usurious lender, but even then 19% sounds a bit toppy.
It was the practice back in the 1980’s to write “cocktail” loans – part standard first mortgage plus a top-up of a secured personal loan at a higher rate. I wonder if she had one of those with a second tier of borrowings at 19%. Of course, the average rate would be considerably less.
They could do that by implementing the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody, and the recommendations from the bringing them Home report.
You don’t need an RC to point out the obvious .. FFS! ..
Don’t do the crime .. no gaol time .. SIMPLES!
Speaking of self-entitled types:
I’m a single mother – want to give me a hand with the groceries?
Nope!
Maybe he’s done something similar in the past and had his head bitten off?
It’s not entirely my neighbour’s fault. I could ask him to help, but I don’t. What’s stopping me? I consciously chose this solo path, of course, and I embraced all the work and self-reliance it would entail. That said, I know plenty of other mothers with partners, and multiple jobs, who often need an extra set of hands.
Hey, you’re the one who wanted to have it all. Chivalry is dead, sister. And who killed it? You should probably target your screed at them. In the meantime, those extra set of hands will require payment.
Okay, let’s go back to the values from 100 years ago. Happy with that? Somehow, I don’t think so.
It takes a village! My goodness. This woman goes out of her way to become a single mother and then whines about how much work parenting is. If only she could call on a reliable person who would help her with raising a child. Such alternative lifestyles don’t exist, however.
Many people have moved away from their home towns to other cities or countries and find themselves without the support of family or the easy reliance on old friends.
Your life is not as alluring to others as you appear to believe it to be.
Hey, other people! Do my stuff!
Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Here we go. It’s not a woman thing. MAKE BETTER CHOICES!
Um no. If you’re going to lead this proposition with the straight/queer distinction, I think I’ll raise my kids about as far away from the “village” of collective parents you envision as possible.
No, I’m really not.
OK she’s no better than a panhandler at this point. And seriously, imagine someone who expects you to ask them if they need to go to the toilet – how old is she, 5?
Does anyone get the impression that she means a man should be doing these things? She doesn’t sound as capable as hell, really. She sounds like she isn’t coping with the fact that single parenthood means you can’t ‘step into the night’ (whatever that means) whenever you please.
This one sounds like a barrel of laughs to be around. With a whining kid thrown into the mix. Sign me up!
This woman presumes everyone is walking around with the empty void in their lives that she had prior to having a child. Nope! I’ve got plenty of what she’s offering. As do most others. Also, would she actually want to make the commitment to others that that is implied in her proposal? Even if she found some sad loser to do all of the stuff she feels entitled to, I bet she’d be constantly whining about how needy they are, that she needs space etc.
Only if I also get to teach him that if, when he’s older, he meets a woman like his leech of a mother, he needs to run a million miles in the opposite direction.
Very many people don’t follow politics closely anymore.
As long as life remains reasonably good, they’re not interested.
Greens not Blak enough?
That’s gotta hurt.
Oops, blockquote fail. Oh well. [Fixed]
Shit, better pack my toothbrush and my lawyer, ready for my next arrest…
Could be tense moments over the chai lattes and herbal teas at Greens HQ this arvo as the fingers are pointed over whose idea it was to recruit Lidia and give her a rails run on the Senate ticket.
“I told my relatives several years ago that the public health system has failed (because the public has failed – no one is a responsible, productive adult anymore). As such, private health cover is now a MUST – I know you have ‘paid your taxes’ and your ‘medicare levy’ for decades and it SHOULD be there for you. Sadly – its not – anything you gave to that was stolen by the government and the parasitic class along the way, and if you want health care, make sure you can buy it out of your own pocket.”
Yep. It’s worth every cent. I have a serious shoe addiction, particularly at Peter Sheppard, but if I am ever forced to choose between shoes and private health insurance, I will choose my private health insurance.
Jorge says:
February 6, 2023 at 12:56 pm
Subtotal $93.05
Discount – $9.31
Shipping $14.37
Grand Total AUD $98.11
Yep. Pricey.
Dunno where you are Old Ozzie but you can find it cheaper.
I’ve switched to powdered form, $5 for a couple of months worth from Vicmarket, though not from the main spice stall inside.
Some recommendations for Indian supermarkets also.
Jorge thanks,
I am happy with capsule approach – known dosage
Turmeric For Knee Pain?
I heard that turmeric can relieve arthritis pain in the knees. If true, how much should I take?
You may have heard about results of a recent study showing that the spice turmeric, may ease pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee. I’ve written earlier about these effects. Some clinical studies have shown that turmeric extract can improve symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA) by reducing pain and improving functionality. It also helps reduce the use of NSAIDs and other pain medications used to treat osteoarthritis.
The latest research was a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Australia involving 70 individuals with symptomatic knee arthritis. Some took two capsules daily of a Curcuma longa extract while the others took two capsules of a look-alike placebo. None of the participants knew whether they were taking the extract or the placebo.
The researchers reported that the pain, stiffness and physical function improved significantly more among patients who took the extract than among those who received the placebo. But MRIs revealed no difference in the excess fluid in the knee and no difference in knee cartilage structure.
Lead author Benny Antony, a researcher at the University of Tasmania, noted that the study was small, lasted only 12 weeks and that the effect of turmeric on knee pain was only moderate. But he added that considering the limited effectiveness of available treatments for osteoarthritis, even a modest effect may be helpful, and turmeric appears to cause no side effects.
Turmeric is available in powdered form as a culinary spice, and in tablets and capsules as medicinal extracts. It should be labeled as standardized turmeric extract or the compound, curcumin. It is considered safe when used appropriately and according to the label. Anyone with liver disease should use turmeric with caution, if at all.
There are no known drug interactions, but in rare instances, daily use of turmeric over an extended period of time may cause stomach upset or heartburn. Those taking medication for diabetes should be aware that turmeric may reduce blood sugar levels.
Do not take turmeric if you have gallstones or bile duct dysfunction, as it may cause gallbladder contractions. Turmeric also exhibits antiplatelet effects and may promote bleeding if used immediately before surgery. Discontinue use of turmeric two weeks before any surgical procedure
Neither curcumin nor turmeric taken orally is well absorbed unless taken with black pepper or piperine, a constituent of black pepper responsible for its pungency.
When shopping for supplements, make sure that the one you choose contains black pepper extract or piperine. (If you’re cooking with turmeric, be sure to add some black pepper to the food.). Note that piperine can slow the elimination of some prescription drugs including phenytoin [Dilantin], propranolol [Inderal], and theophylline.
Be patient when taking turmeric supplements: the full benefits may not be apparent for eight weeks.
Pregnant women should avoid turmeric due to the possibility of uterine stimulation. There is insufficient information for women who are nursing, so contact your doctor before taking it.
Andrew Weil, M.D..
Just be aware that it is an anticoagulant and may exacerbate any prescription ‘blood thinners’ you are on. We used to get our surgical patients to stop it a week beforehand. It certainly gave me nosebleeds when I tried it.
Holy Mass at Rottnest Island yesterday…Prayers of the Faithful for a successful yes vote for the voice. Priest challenged after Mass – which, by the way, made me want to go to Confession after attending. All and sundry invited to receive Communion no matter their faith or state of Grace. Large parts of the Eucharistic Prayers recited by the congregation, lots of new/different words, sentences added here and there. At least the words of the Consecration and the Doxology were correct. Priest uninterested in praying for the NO case but lied and said that would be next week.
Utterly disgusted as he called our Bishops Tim, Don and Gerry – totally disrespectful. Written complaint to aforementioned Tim, ccd to Papal Nuncio. Expectations – nil.
Calli:
Blame the Specialist Mafia. They would rather the peasants die or live in pain rather than forego one dollar in restricted income.
And I’m dead bloody serious.
The AMA and its professional bodies need a bloody good hosing out.
I suspect the Greens weren’t too unhappy to see the back of Lidia Thorpe. She’s that much of a liability. I wonder what her former party members know about her that we don’t (yet).
I’d like to see Lydia, oh Lydia and Jackie Jackie on Q&A together. A picture of our country.
The volume would have to be turned down. Or if you switched it off you could still hear them.
Paper Wasps ?
“Thought it might have been a hornet, too big for a wasp and all brownish , but, apparently, they aren’t common to Sydney .. there’s a small hive of them under the eave but I ain’t gonna bother them .. once bitten .. always shy .. LOL!”
Best ever insecticide for wasps, hornets and other rather aggressive wee beasties is…
Aerosol can of engine de-greaser.
Spray ’em with that, they instantly hit the deck – thud, gone.
It’s so good, even a cockroach won’t run off to die, it’ll immediately lay twitching and eventually stop completely – great stuff, and cheap too!
Buy it from your local $2 shop.
The AMA was always an abominable parasite on the community. However, considering its seminal part in legitimising the fascist turn our governments took during the pandemic, it is now literally an enemy of the people and should be treated as such.
Not left enough for the Greens – Thorpie the bikie moll might achieve some sort of record in her time.
Wonder how much pressure was on her from within to leave the party.
And, SOB, the XU2. I was forced to console myself with one of these instead, for a time….
https://youtu.be/LYbCLCRfBoE
flyingduk says:
February 6, 2023 at 1:12 pm
Calli/ Old Ozzie, try turmeric with a little pepper and fat(butter or milk). It takes a week or so to have an effect. Reduces inflammation and pain.
Just be aware that it is an anticoagulant and may exacerbate any prescription ‘blood thinners’ you are on. We used to get our surgical patients to stop it a week beforehand. It certainly gave me nosebleeds when I tried it.
flyingduk
from above
Turmeric also exhibits antiplatelet effects and may promote bleeding if used immediately before surgery. Discontinue use of turmeric two weeks before any surgical procedure
I tend to low platelets so keep eagle eye on Bloods
Due MRI to check how I am going with Cancer in Head end of February, and will do Bloods at same time, and then based on results, Bloods either 1 or 2 months after that/
If only Pope Francis knew.
Wow, the inflation of grocery prices is very real.
Just got back from Coles. A 250g jar of Nescafe Blend 43 (I know, I know, I’m a coffee snob – no Pablo for me) cost $12.99 about a month ago when I bought the last one. Today – $17.00. That is one hefty increase.
To add to the general joy for local businesses, apparently the council has flagged a rates increase approaching 50% for commercial properties over the next couple of years. One reason for this outright theft is that they have just built themselves a shiny new building, a common feature of profligate councils nationwide. They need more space because they have expanded their activities beyond the boring three Rs into ‘sexier’ areas like environmental social engineering, grants for the Yarts and a host of other superfluous expenditures.
I wonder how much government charges are contributing to inflation?
Better still if you get the ‘flamethrower’ upgrade https://youtu.be/hdbM6ekEQzY
I thought Senate spots belonged to the party. How can Thorpe stay on as Senator if she’s no longer in the party that won the quota?
The local Voice reps will need space too.
Factcheck, TRUE. I briefly joined the AMA 15 years ago when a colleague and friend I respected became head of the SA Branch. It didn’t last long – I quickly worked out they were a lefty trade union (like all the others) – and their performance of late has borne that out.
“Now I can speak freely” Thorp quits Greens. OZ paywalled. No link.
This might get pretty intense!
Heroin?
Sydney Morning Herald.
Your correspondents who claim that George Pell “suffered 404 days in jail for a crime he did not commit” and was “totally vindicated” have misunderstood how Australia’s judicial system works.
The High Court acquitted Pell because the evidence presented was insufficient to prove guilt. Acquittal is not proof of innocence, nor is it vindication. He should not have been imprisoned, but we simply do not know whether Pell was guilty, and now he has died, we never will.
Steve Cornelius, Brookvale
Accusing others of not knowing the law!
mem:
This has been going on for years – just look at the revenue stream in the media from government departments. It would take a very rich editor/owner to ignore those rivers of gold.
The Chinese “weather balloon” may have encouraged Congress to act in banning Tik Tok. Lots of Congress critters are talking about it now.
Good work CCP.
No figures, only after a vacancy, and that was only after 1977.
Drum brakes? Might not have been a bad idea.
It had disc’s on the front, they were starting to get interested in stopping!
Now that is some serious breaking of balls!
I think Newpoll is not quite averse to ensuring their polls can serve as a gaslighting device, so long as closer to the moment of truth they start homing in on the truth so that, when events eventually transpire, their polling results resemble them.
We know he was innocent because the accuser perjured himself at least four times pre trial, once in the committal and once in at least one of the trials.
It was a total stitch up and Jay should rot in gaol for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
40 years is the maximum sentence for both crimes and he should get it with his co-conspirators, I’d love to see his WhatsApp and Telegram chats!
Here’s a question for the aeronautically informed/inclined:
Where is the US balloon going to sent over China starting from?
“Now I can speak freely” Thorp quits Greens. OZ paywalled. No link.
This might get pretty intense!
Especially if the lunatic Thorpe decides that her and her fellow travellers need to go kinetic. That’s going to be one big fat chicken coming home to roost after decades of talking shit on indigenous issues (incitement).
Bwahahaha.
Narrative change alert.
Biden’s mob are now trying to thread the needle saying yes there were many balloons during the Trump administration but the defence/intelligence community didn’t know about them until after Trump had left office.
Here’s what we could do with the AMA and all of the other pandemic panic spruikers and overseers. Round them all up and temporarily house them in those newly built quarantine facilities that now stand empty.
Then we evacuate Nauru. We’ll have to sooner or later (the charade that that utter hole – less than a shithole as all the shit’s gone – is a viable nation-state) can’t continue indefinitely, and it’ll be cheaper to deliver the welfare its citizens depend on in Australia than on the island.
When that’s done, we put all of the temporary quarantine camp residents on boats and drop them all on Nauru with a few shovels and pick axes and the like. Destroy any harbours and air strips before we go. The new residents of Nauru can spend the rest of their days attempting to rehabilitate the island.
I think that is a just and humane sentence for them, considering the incalculable damage they’ve done. They are extremely dangerous people and we must protect ourselves from them.
johanna says:
February 6, 2023 at 1:23 pm
Wow, the inflation of grocery prices is very real.
Just got back from Coles. A 250g jar of Nescafe Blend 43 (I know, I know, I’m a coffee snob – no Pablo for me) cost $12.99 about a month ago when I bought the last one. Today – $17.00. That is one hefty increase.
To add to the general joy for local businesses, apparently the council has flagged a rates increase approaching 50% for commercial properties over the next couple of years. One reason for this outright theft is that they have just built themselves a shiny new building, a common feature of profligate councils nationwide. They need more space because they have expanded their activities beyond the boring three Rs into ‘sexier’ areas like environmental social engineering, grants for the Yarts and a host of other superfluous expenditures.
I wonder how much government charges are contributing to inflation?
NSW Land Tax 2023 increased from $15,000 to $20,000.00 – $5,000.00 increase over 2022
33.3% increase in 1 year – definitely contributes to inflation, then Tenants whinge when Landlords increase Rent
“It had disc’s on the front, they were starting to get interested in stopping!”
Finned drums too, weren’t they?
“Acquittal does not mean innocent”.
Um…. the terms are ‘guilty’ or ‘NOT GUILTY’.
Polly wants a crisis
Our politicians are crackers
Rebecca Weisser
Like Kevin Rudd before him, Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers used the first summer after winning government to write an essay about how he is going to save capitalism. Chalmers begins by quoting Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus saying, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.’
Reading Chalmers one is more inclined to think of that great baseball philosopher Yogi Berra who said, ‘It’s like déjà vu all over again.’
Chalmers didn’t go to the World Economic Forum (WEF) jamboree in Davos but Rudd did and just as the phantom of Rudd hangs over Chalmers essay, there’s also more than a whiff of the WEF. Chalmers wants Klaus Schwab to know he’s a fan. He chides the previous federal Liberal government for giving no thought to ‘the potential of the fourth industrial revolution’, the title of Schwab’s 2016 book on the topic.
Chalmers tells us that we are in a ‘polycrisis’, a term cooked up by Simon Torkington for the WEF.
A polycrisis, says Torkington, is a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects so that the impact is greater than the sum of its parts.
He says the cost-of-living crisis is the most immediate but that climate-related risks are the biggest future threat facing the world. The WEF helpfully provides a list of the ten most serious risks over the next two and ten years.
But if that’s not scary enough, Chalmers quotes Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr Doom, who forecasts ten ‘megathreats’ in his latest book, talking about a nuclear bomb being dropped on New York, Florida under water, drought from Colorado to California, wildfires all over the American West, the military annexation of Canada, and job-stealing robots. ‘This won’t end well,’ writes Roubini. You don’t say.
Of course, nothing excites the imagination of WEF-fies more than a crisis. Unless it’s ten crises. As Rahm Emanuel, adviser to President Bill Clinton and chief-of-staff to Barack Obama said, ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.’
Chalmers certainly isn’t going to let his crises go to waste. He claims, like Rudd, that the Global Financial Crisis ‘exposed the illegitimacy’ of neoliberalism, which Rudd was going to fix with his own summer essay, a task left undone when he was turfed out of office creating what Chalmers calls the ‘lost decade’ which ended with the pandemic crisis, the energy crisis and the cost-of-living crisis, driven by the climate crisis.
According to Chalmers the ‘common thread’ in these crises is ‘vulnerability’. In reality, the common thread is that each of these crises was caused by politicians in their most dangerous guise, that of grinning do-gooders cracking the whip.
Pretty standard configuration back in the day.
Two disks, two drums.
P I think you will find it’s not actually Dave Brubeck playing Golden Brown. I had it ages ago only to find it wasn’t real. A cleaver fake. Stand to make a fool of myself of course. Dave Brubeck was the first jazz I heard as a favourite of some of parents friends and then as my mates old man played in a jazz trio and played Brubeck often.
“Now I can speak freely” Thorp quits Greens. OZ paywalled. No link.
Maybe it’s time to do something about Parliamentarians quitting parties to sit as independents ..
These individuals would never have been elected if it weren’t for the party machine .. it’s very, very rare for an individual to reach trougher level off their own abilities & monetary backing ..
I’m sure we’d all like access to $210K + freebies a year but it just doesn’t happen ….
I’ve no problem with folk wanting to have their personal rants aired but they shouldn’t be allowed too change paths after the vote-herd supported them as, specific, party hacks …
If not happy, by all means .. RESIGN .. but put the seat up for voter selection …..!
Joe Biden vs. ‘Party balloon’
Scramble the Easter Bunny!
By Charles Hurt – The Washington Times
The most powerful military ever assembled by humans was thwarted this week. By a balloon.
Specifically, a large spy balloon dispatched by the Chinese Communist Party. A Chinese Communist Party balloon — hereafter known as the “Party balloon.”
It will forever be remembered as the Party balloon that defeated President Joe Biden. And the greatest military in the history of human civilization.
The country that stood steel-spined through D-Day, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War folded like a cheap suit under the threat of a Party balloon made in China.
No wonder Mr. Biden’s military leaders would rather fight battles over pronouns, “white rage,” and gender studies.
Thwarted by a Party balloon.
Remember that time Democrats tried forcing Hillary Clinton on us? And when she came out on stage at the Democrat convention, they released all those colorful party balloons?
She was mesmerized.
Her mouth fell slack open, and she looked skyward at all the pretty balloons as they floated down. She knocked a few and caught one or two. She gazed and marveled.
Beside her, former President Bill Clinton was reminded of the time he was on hand in Lima, Peru, after they dug up that mummy named “Juanita.”
“I sure would like to date those balloons,” Mr. Clinton thought to himself as the big, bouncy orbs drifted down all around him and his wife on the big stage. One sour look from his wife and Mr. Clinton snapped out of his dirty thoughts and tried having presidential thoughts.
Mrs. Clinton would, of course, go on to make history as the only former First Lady to lose the presidency — twice. Whoever said sleeping your way to the top would be easy!
But at least Mrs. Clinton was not afraid of party balloons. She was delighted by them. She manhandled them. She punched them. She no doubt popped a few.
Not so Joe Biden!
The great slayer of Corn Pop, the Civil Rights prisoner, and the muscle car speedster turned out to be no match for the Chinese Communist Party balloon.
Come to find out, Mr. Biden is all car and no muscle. Not to mention a coward and a liar. And a corrupt money-grubber who, as vice president, ferried his drug-addled, hooker-hopping son on Air Force 2 to China to drum up business for the Biden family with the Chinese Communists.
Watching China’s Party balloon drift slowly across America entirely unmolested by the greatest military ever assembled by man was as puzzling as it was humiliating.
All you could think was, “Well, whatever the Chinese Communists paid the Biden family, they sure got their money’s worth.”
Sixty thousand feet below, Congress was busy debating whether to throw Democrat Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar off committees because of their extensive histories of colluding with America’s enemies. Mr. Schiff spent the past six years peddling Russian propaganda, Mr. Swalwell reportedly slept with a Chinese Spy named “Fang Fang” and Ms. Omar — well, she just hates America.
Two of Ms. Omar’s allies in Congress — who also hate America — had psychotic breakdowns on the House floor defending Ms. Omar’s hatred of America. One of them actually burst into tears on the House floor this week because Ms. Omar had been kicked off the Foreign Relations Committee for hating America.
Republican Bad Girl Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene — who loves America and won re-election in Georgia with 66% of the vote — enraged the anti-American ballooniacs with a Tweet featuring the Chinese Communist Party balloon floating over America bearing a message that said: “Eric — Happy Valentine’s Day — Love Fang Fang.”
Okay, maybe that was slight disinformation. It should have said: “Biden Family — Happy Valentine’s Day — Love Communist China.”
The White House, meanwhile, is keeping Mr. Biden under tight security away from the threat of the Chinese Party balloon. As the Party balloon drifted across our fruited plains, Mr. Biden attended a closed Democrat fundraiser and then went to the beach.
When a press gaggle demanded answers about the Party balloon Friday, Mr. Biden scurried away from the podium.
In the past, the White House has deployed the Easter Bunny to protect Mr. Biden from press questions. Perhaps it’s time to scramble the Easter Bunny once again.
Cassie:
(Not Cassie)
Cassie:
Our family was raised in one of those institutions. The Priests etc were great people. The ones to watch out for were the administrators, “Pillars of the Community” many of them were dodgy bastards especially the Board members.
The Church was fine. But the usual suspects – the administrators – were people you never turned your back on.
“We love kids, we just want to help them.”
Pigs arse. I NEVER trust people who want to put themselves into these unbalanced power relationships, no matter what excuses they give.
So, she’ll be moving to Alice Springs, and working with the tribal elders to ensure a better standard of life for the indigenous there?
Jorge:
How much milk?
Curious minds on the Milk & Egg Marketing Board need input.
OCO you are being too kind to our cough betters cough. Summary execution is amuch better solution with the bodies left on their premises as a reminder to their supporters who thought they were in the club too.
Last millenium I worked for an automotive company. I once asked a brake R & D guru what difference drilling holes in disks made.
“Some people like the look of them.” he said.
“Is that all?”
“Well, they save a little bit of weight.”
“Really? That’s it?”
“Look. Slots and holes help dissipate dust and heat a little bit, but only if you are driving on the edge for hours on end. For daily driving they have bugger all effect on performance.”
“Show more” taken from 2 clips of Dave Brubeck – Golden Brown on youtube.
A few weeks ago, a label got in touch and asked if I’d be interested in releasing an extended version as a 45rpm vinyl, so I said yes. I’ve put another video up with more details of the release, along with a few answers to the questions I’ve had about this video. Head on over to my channel to view it, and thanks again for the support
A couple of people have asked how I made this video so here we go –
I took a clip from a 1964 live version of Take Five (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh…) and made the drum loop by chopping up the intro and turning it from 5/4 into the 3/4 – 4/4 groove that Golden Brown has. The upright bass sound is sequenced from Logic, and the piano part was played in using one of the piano sounds from a Nord Electro 5D. Then I played the sax part over the top (I play a King Zephyr alto and for this I used a hard rubber Yanigasawa mouthpiece rather than my usual bright Guardala).
The video was then edited using the clip I’d taken the drum loop from.
P.S.
When I asked the brake guru about all the publications extolling the virtues of drilled discs, he said, “These are marketing papers, not technical papers.”
Very peculiar running a poll on a referendum and not doing a state by state breakdown since all that is required for it to fail is QLD, SA, and WA saying ‘No’.
The certainty of his guilt was only ever the certainty of the evidence. With no valid evidence you don’t get to speculate on him being otherwise guilty at all.
We have seen this repeatedly from the Pell haters. They took from the case the absolute certainty of the Cardinal’s guilt in every factual way and when the evidence had to be tossed out that is all they subtract from their certainty leaving all the rest intact, and even imagining what other things he has done.
It is like seeing someone walk in the door with a wet umbrella. “Ah, your umbrella is wet. It is raining outside. The ground must be muddy.”
“No, I just found the umbrella in the garage and used the hose to wash off the spiderwebs and stuff.”
“OK, so your umbrella was not soaked by rain, but I will still have to contend with muddy ground.”
Something else for Steve Cornelius of Brookvale to consider. There is exactly the same amount of evidence against the late Cardinal as there is against Mr Cornelius himself. In fact, it is arguable that there is more credibility in the Brookvale Brainiac being a kiddy-fiddler since he has not been investigated yet.
The idea that not being proven as guilty still requires a further stage of being proven innocent (without which you remain in a shady limbo with some level of guilt, and the censure it attracts to itself, still swirling about you) is a terrifying prospect. It means we can all be suspected of anything of which we have not proven our innocence, because to be accused of something on all false grounds and rebutting the accusation by showing those particular grounds false is still not the same as proving innocence.
“dopeysays:
February 6, 2023 at 1:32 pm
Sydney Morning Herald.
Your correspondents who claim that George Pell “suffered 404 days in jail for a crime he did not commit” and was “totally vindicated” have misunderstood how Australia’s judicial system works.
The High Court acquitted Pell because the evidence presented was insufficient to prove guilt. Acquittal is not proof of innocence, nor is it vindication. He should not have been imprisoned, but we simply do not know whether Pell was guilty, and now he has died, we never will.
Steve Cornelius, Brookvale
Accusing others of not knowing the law!”
Mr Cornelius studied law with Monty.
Any Organisation that is funded by Australian Taxpayer money should be subject to an Annual Audit and that includes Charities. That would be money well spent and nip these rorts in the bud IMHO.
A 250g jar of Nescafe Blend 43 (I know, I know, I’m a coffee snob – no Pablo for me)
Made me laugh, OO. Do they still have Pablo? I thought it may have been supplanted by one of those superior blends like International Roast (Caterer’s size).
International Roast (Caterer’s size).
This must be the worst coffee ever. Absolute shite.
Sancho Panzer says:
February 6, 2023 at 1:55 pm
Pretty standard configuration back in the day. Two disks, two drums.
Years ago I had an L34 Torana (genuine, not SLR5000) and that was disc/drum configuration. Feeble, utterly feeble brakes. Standard was a ‘Banjo’ LSD rear end. Also feeble.
Those truck drivers, first we will set the minimum rates forcing smaller players out of business, they we will get out last remaining big maaaates to just pass this straight on to everything ,moved in Austfailure.
Labor urged to halve $8bn a year in fuel tax credits for trucks and heavy vehicles
Reforming scheme would shrink budget deficit and help Australia hit net zero emissions by 2050, Grattan Institute says
The report found the fuel tax credit scheme was “a political gift” from which large businesses mostly benefit.
Australia’s fuel tax is 47.7 cents a litre, however vehicles that only drive off-road, including trucks on mine sites and heavy machinery, are not required to pay any fuel tax.
The tax is incorporated into the cost of fuel at the bowser, with the government refunding this via fuel tax credits.
Vehicles heavier than 4.5 tonnes such as semi-trailers, buses and B-doubles only have to pay a reduced rate, and receive a partial credit of 20.5 cents.
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The Grattan report notes that the issue of increasing government spending on fuel tax credits has become more significant in recent decades.
We get our goat track (public road) graded twice a year.
Thats it.
100km of car wrecking dirt, at the moment the warning signs saying “60kph” in rough patches are extremely aspirational.
,,,
Marion Terrill, the director of the Grattan Institute’s transport and cities program and lead author of the report, believes cutting back the credits by half could reduce the structural budget deficit by about 10%, or $4bn a year.
From an environmental perspective, Terrill argues that halving fuel tax credits would help Australia’s reach its 2050 net zero emissions target because burning diesel contributes 17% of Australia’s total carbon emissions.
“There is no business reason why larger vehicles should pay less than smaller vehicles – in fact quite the reverse, since heavy vehicles do far more damage to roads,” the report said, recommending heavy on-road vehicles pay the same rate as utes, vans, cars and small trucks used by businesses.
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Additionally, the report recommends that off-road heavy vehicles such as trucks on mining sites still receive some form of fuel tax credit – because they are not damaging public roads – “but at a lower rate than at present, to reflect the carbon emissions and other damage they cause to the community as a whole”.
“The usual tax-policy orthodoxy is that governments should not tax business inputs, to avoid skewing business decisions about what goods and services to produce and with what inputs.
“Important as these arguments are, they don’t hold when the input itself causes harm. And that’s the situation with burning diesel.”
Terrill said cutting fuel tax credits in half would be “a win-win”. “It would shrink the budget deficit and help Australia hit net zero carbon emissions by 2050,” she said.
She also calculated that cutting fuel tax credits as per her proposal “would have next to no impact on household budgets”. “We calculate that prices at the supermarket would increase by an average of just 35 cents on a $100 grocery shop.”
The report notes the negative impact Australia’s trucking industry has on air pollution, which comes as the amount of freight moved by trains across Australia has plummeted and shifted to trucks.
Just 2% of goods are now transported between Sydney and Melbourne by rail, down from about 40% in the 1970s, amid concern at the pollution and safety risks caused by the surging number of trucks on highways.
FMD, they are brain dead shits who hate, loathe and detest the mining industry.
Those scabby miners earning as much/more than we do saving the world at our wank tank.
Back to the 70’s transportation, FJ holdens for everyone!!
The idea that not being proven as guilty still requires a further stage of being proven innocent (without which you remain in a shady limbo with some level of guilt, and the censure it attracts to itself, still swirling about you) is a terrifying prospect. It means we can all be suspected of anything of which we have not proven our innocence, because to be accused of something on all false grounds and rebutting the accusation by showing those particular grounds false is still not the same as proving innocence.
Are you (still) beating your Wife?
NO!
So, you were beating your Wife………………..
Peter O’Brien argues, in Quadrant magazine, that the most explicit act of cession of Aboriginal sovereignty took place in 1967, when the vast bulk of Aboriginal people lobbied for, and applauded, the amendment to the Constitution that allowed the Commonwealth Government to make laws in respect of Aboriginal people. “This was an implicit acceptance of the sovereignty, over all Australians, of the Australian Commonwealth.
A dangerously overdone power to brake ratio.
Real Deal says:
February 6, 2023 at 2:16 pm
A 250g jar of Nescafe Blend 43 (I know, I know, I’m a coffee snob – no Pablo for me)
Made me laugh, OO. Do they still have Pablo? I thought it may have been supplanted by one of those superior blends like International Roast (Caterer’s size).
Que? – I am Nespresso Coles Daley Street Coffee capsules?
I had a golden opportunity I did not let pass this morning.
Was chatting to a patient in his office with 2 other people there.
I asked if there was anything else I could help with.
He said “can you find me a stable girlfriend”
I replied if he was looking for love in a stable he was doing it wrong.
Then; the love that dare not neigh its name….
exit room to sounds of laughter..
Not sure why Steve would say Pell should not have been imprisoned. The judge must accept the jury verdict and impose a punishment consistent with similar cases. Steve didn’t study with monty, he was taught by monty.
Israel: To Strike or Not To Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites
Why the chances of a hit just notched higher.
Three events took place recently that have changed my view of an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
For years now, I have answered the war-mongers and headline-grabbers who have gleefully touted impending Israeli airstrikes on Iran with caution. I have stated, with reason and facts in support, that Israel has demonstrated repeatedly that it has many ways of slowing down Iran’s nuclear weapons programs short of a kinetic military strike.
Why take the risk of airstrikes, which all the world will see, when you can slow down the program by other means that in addition are difficult to pin on Israel?
But good – even great – intelligence operations have their limits. Great intelligence could never have stopped Hitler’s blitzkrieg into Poland. Once he had the tanks and the troops and had trained them in operations, Hitler could only be met with force.
Last week, we learned from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Raphael Grossi, that Iran now has enough 60% enriched uranium to manufacture three or four bombs, should it choose to put that material into the final (and very short) enrichment phase to reach weapons capacity.
For months, unofficial experts, such as former IAEA inspector David Albright, have been warning that Iran was reaching such a threshold. But it’s one thing for a think tank to speculate on official information, with all its gaps. It’s quite another for the source of that information – in this case, the IAEA director – to make such a statement in his official capacity.
Also last week, the U.S. and Israel conducted their first-ever joint military exercise to test the interoperability of their air-land-sea-and intelligence capabilities, Juniper Oak 2023. While they did not explicitly demonstrate an attack on Iran, watching Israeli and U.S. fighter jets line up in delta formation behind B-52s sent a clear message to the mullahs in Tehran.
(The U.S. and Israeli militaries have held Juniper Oak exercises for the past twenty years, but never on this scale and never to test interoperability).
I have long been worried what the response of the Biden administration would be to an Israeli strike on Iran.
The fact that the two countries carried out military exercises clearly crafted to send a message to Tehran eases those concerns, despite the ongoing love-affair of Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan with the mullahs of Tehran.
A nuclear-armed Iran is a far greater threat than the terrorist wasp that attacked us in the 1988. The time to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities is now. The U.S. needs to lead the charge and ensure that it is effective. With the benefit of first-rate Israeli intelligence and deep-penetration U.S. weapons, together we can knock out Iran’s nuclear weapons programs, possibly for good.
Sancho Panzer says:
February 6, 2023 at 2:05 pm
Last millenium I worked for an automotive company. I once asked a brake R & D guru what difference drilling holes in disks made.
“Look. Slots and holes help dissipate dust and heat a little bit, but only if you are driving on the edge for hours on end. For daily driving they have bugger all effect on performance.”
Holes help with cooling and slots increase ‘bite’ of pads on rotors but make no difference for day-to-day driving. Moreover, not all brake discs and pads are created equal and depending on the application (race, rally, event duration, road type/conditions, vehicle weight, rotor/pad ventilation) will see differing versions utilised. That’s before we consider driving style which is also a significant factor.
Drilled or slotted rotors are, largely, more an issue of appearance and appeal to a certain demographic who wish to convey a sporty outlook. Most Porsche or BMW M vehicles (et al) will never see the business side of a racetrack.
Lying liar lying lyingly – given lefty platform.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/british-museum-benin-bronzes-nigeria
The Benin kingdom was one of the last independent African kingdoms, and a thorn in Britain’s side, with its Oba (king) refusing to allow Britain’s Royal Niger Company to form a trading monopoly in the region. Britain ordered an expedition to dispose of him, but it was defeated by Nogbaisi and his allies. In response, Britain ordered another expedition, which began on 9 February 1897. Troops massacred an unknown number of people, destroyed the walls of Benin (at one point a longer structure than China’s Great Wall), and looted everything valuable.
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https://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/visionary-viewpoints-on-africas-arts/the-raid-on-benin-1897/
After centuries of power, a single event marks a stark turning point in the history of the Benin kingdom. James Phillips, an official in Britain’s Niger Coast Protectorate, led an unarmed trading expedition to Benin City in January 1897. To prevent the British party from interfering with annual royal rituals, some chiefs, acting against Oba Ovonramwen’s wishes, ordered the expedition attacked. Six British officials and almost 200 African porters were killed.
Those minor details tell you everything about the person writing the sharticle, and how much attention should be paied to any of his pronouncements.
And there it is – for any of you who still harboured the quaint notion that you were ‘innocent until proven guilty’….
I for one worked it out at my first bail hearing in Canberra – where I was referred to as ‘the offender’ (not the accused), and the AFP allegations (all of which I was subsequently found not guilty of btw) were referred to as ‘the fact sheet’ (not the allegations sheet).
Sancho Panzer says:
February 6, 2023 at 2:24 pm
A dangerously overdone power to brake ratio.
Indeed. The Torana A9X (had one of those too. 🙂 ) had disc all round which was ‘a bit’ better.
The High Court acquitted Pell because the evidence presented was insufficient to prove guilt. Acquittal is not proof of innocence, nor is it vindication. He should not have been imprisoned, but we simply do not know whether Pell was guilty, and now he has died, we never will.
That is not correct. Pell was found innocent by the HC. Not guilty doesn’t mean there is some residue of guilt.
Waaay toooo many moving parts in your plan (moving parts cost money), why not just Admiral Byng the lot of em, ‘pour encourager les autres’?
I for one worked it out at my first bail hearing in Canberra – where I was referred to as ‘the offender’ (not the accused), and the AFP allegations (all of which I was subsequently found not guilty of btw) were referred to as ‘the fact sheet’ (not the allegations sheet).
Quaint isn’t it. Were you legally represented?
In this episode of Regardless of How Much Lipstick You Put on a Pig, It’s Still a Pig…
Let’s be honest. Politicians on both sides of the political aisle spin. They always have and they always will. While Republicans don’t hold a candle to Democrat spinning skills, few Democrats have the ability to spin like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And on Sunday, Buttigieg put on a spinning masterclass of Joe Biden’s “accomplishments” that was downright dizzying — and a complete crock of crap.
Anyway, Buttigieg sat down with “Meet the Depressed Press” host Chuck Todd to spin like a crazed top about the virtual cornucopia of successes [sarc] enjoyed by Joe Biden and his administration during Joe’s first two years in the White House, including the “success” of the U.S. economy under Corn Pop’s pal’s “leadership.”
But before we go to Pete and Chuck, let’s first check in with ABC News for a few recent facts (emphasis, mine):
Four in 10 Americans say they’ve gotten worse off financially since Joe Biden became president, the most in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 37 years. Political fallout includes poor performance ratings for Biden and a tight hypothetical Biden/Trump rematch next year.
Given the disaffection with both leaders, a rerun of the 2020 presidential election is hardly enticing: Nearly six in 10 Democratic-aligned adults don’t want to see Biden nominated again for the job, and half on the Republican side would rather not see Donald Trump as their party’s nominee.
If those were the choices and the election were today, the poll suggests it could be close: Among all adults, 48 percent support Donald Trump and 44 percent are for Biden; it’s a similar 48-45 percent among registered voters. The differences are within the poll’s margin of sampling error.
Inflation peaked at 9.1 percent in last June, a 40-year high; it’s eased since but remained a still-high 6.5 percent in December. That’s produced widespread economic pain. Nearly two years into Trump’s presidency, 25 percent of Americans said they’d gotten better off since he took office. As noted, fewer, 16 percent, now say the same about life under Biden.
After Trump’s first year, just 13 percent felt worse off financially. That spiked to 35 percent under Biden a year ago, and its level now, 41 percent, is the most measured in 33 ABC/Post polls since September 1986. The previous high was 36 percent among registered voters in September 2011, amid a plethora of economic troubles including 9 percent unemployment.
Now toss in the Biden Border Crisis, Biden Energy Crisis, Biden Supply Chain Crisis, Biden Afghanistan Debacle, Bidenflation, and Joe’s recent handling of the Chinese surveillance balloon, and ask yourself:
What has this guy accomplished in more than two years?
I honestly cannot think of a single meaningful Biden accomplishment, but I can point to multiple intentional actions by the 46th president that have made life harder for tens of millions of Americans over the last two years.
However, as I suggested at the top, Buttigieg sees it a bit differently than I do. Moreover, the Transportation secretary’s explanation of why a majority of American want Biden kicked to the curb in 2024 or sooner was a stand-up comedy one-liner that should be immediately enshrined in the Comedy Hall of Fame.
First, here’s Chuck with the silly powder puff set-up for Pete:
Let’s see, what else? Ah, the Russia-Ukraine war. While the final script has yet to be written, some argue that Biden’s virtual blank-check policy of depleting U.S. armament stockpiles and shipping them to Ukraine amounts to a moral duty of sorts, others warn that the inept president is slow-walking the U.S. into Word War III. Who’s right?
Again, the answer remains to be seen.
Phhht.
Next thing you’ll be trying to tell me that red painted calipers don’t help.
But, yes, that was the thrust of what this guy was telling me. It has a marginal effect when you are fanging around Bafurst and jumping on the pedal every 30 seconds for eight hours, and I guess every 1-2% helps there.
But for driving down the freeway on a Sunday?
Not worth it.
I worked at the UKs ‘Transport and Road Research Laboratory’ (TRRL) for a short time in the 1980s. There I learned, amonst other things, that the principle road safety benefit of slotted or drilled rotors (then becoming fashionable on motorbikes) was to store water and to reapply it back into the disc/pad interface when it had been removed by application of the brakes.
Now the Biden Admin Claims Chinese Spy Balloons Were Discovered AFTER Trump Left Office
Do you know how investigators can tell if someone is lying? The perp keeps changing his story.
On Saturday, a Biden administration official told several news outlets that Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the Trump administration. There was only one problem with that statement: it left out some essential information.
As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis carefully documents, just about every major defense and intelligence official from the former Trump administration denied that there were any such incursions by Chinese spy balloons.
So, once again, the Biden administration was forced to change its story. They are now claiming that U.S. intelligence knew of the spy balloons, but sort of forgot to tell anyone — including Donald Trump.
Fox News:
To put it mildly, this story strains credulity. One might ask why the administration was putting out the information that it happened during the Trump administration when the former president was never made aware of the spy balloon’s existence.
“Two things can be true at once: this happened, and it wasn’t detected,” the official told Fox News Digital.
So we failed to detect a Chinese spy balloon the size of three school buses when we have the satellite capability to see the lint on a gnat’s navel? And how did the intelligence agencies “discover” the information that the balloons flew over our territory years after the fact?
The important thing to remember is that Joe Biden didn’t do anything wrong and, in fact, is the hero of this story because he vanquished the Chinese dragon and rode off with the pretty girl.
Maybe the story will change again tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Thanks Zulu:
Does This Sound Like Reconciliation to You?
Excellent comment by Michael. A must read.
Its a stupid f-cking argument that you can be found “not innocent” by the High Court or in some state of “limbo” between innocent and guilt.
If such a legal fiction and fantasy were true… which courts are gearing up to take JJ’s up case against the High Court finding?
None.
Robert Sewell,
Diego Garcia may be a good starting point for a US balloon to fly over China.
Unfortunately Windy tops out at FL450 although Ventusky tops outs out at FL400 but does have the winds at 30,000 meters(100,000 feet).
NASA uses balloons a fair bit so I bet they have a program which shows from any starting point the path of a balloon at any altitude, over time. Maybe even an optimisation function to get to any other place.
The Chinese probably use the same program.
The woman had been away for two days visiting a sick friend in another city. When she returned, her little boy greeted her by saying “Mummy, guess what! Yesterday I was playing in the closet in your bedroom and daddy came into the room with the lady next door and they got undressed and got into your bed and then daddy got on top of her…”
Sonny’s mother held up her hand. “Not another word. Wait till your father comes home and then I want you to tell him exactly what you’ve just told me”.
The father came home. As he walked into the house, his wife said “I’m leaving you. I’m packing now and I’m leaving you”. “But why–” asked the startled father. “Go ahead, Sonny. Tell daddy just what you told me”.
“Well” Sonny said “I was playing in your bedroom closet and daddy came upstairs with the lady next door and they got undressed and got into bed and daddy got on top of her and then they did just what you did with uncle John when daddy was away last summer”.
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
– Iris Murdoch
Indeed, my Capri Perana had exactly the same brakes as my Escort (9″ Solid front discs, 8 3/4″ rear drums. The only theoretical problem with is the Capri weighed 100kg more, had 4x the power, and a top speed of 225kmh.
The killing of Tyre Nichols is a horrific continuation of American black-on-black crime.
Many commenters on the Left have situated the arrest of Tyre Nichols—the black man who was evidently beaten to death by five Memphis police officers, also black—as a racial issue. White supremacy, they say, does not require the presence of white people to effect its ugliness, because black people—especially those working in a structurally racist institution such as policing—internalize the racist attitudes of whites. There is, according to these pundits, a close parallel between the Nichols case and other abuse cases involving white cops and black victims, because many blacks absorb racist views about blacks and enact them against their own race as enforcers of white supremacy.
It makes more sense to interpret the beatings that resulted in this young man’s death as another case of black-on-black crime. Those five black police officers constituted a gang of thugs which unleashed its viciousness against an innocent victim. This is the trauma many blacks in inner cities suffer every day from the gang members who prey on their neighborhoods.
Blacks targeting other blacks for murder is the most systemic form of racial profiling that exists in the U.S. today. Black-on-black crime is a national security disaster and risk. It betrays a deep current of black self-hatred that expresses itself in homicidal rage turned largely against black people.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the offending rate for blacks (the number of blacks who commit homicide as a percentage of the population) was almost eight times higher than that for whites, and the victim rate six times higher.
Most homicides were intraracial, with 84 percent of white victims killed by whites, and 93 percent of black victims killed by blacks.
Racial profiling of blacks by other blacks is systemic and pervasive in the black community. One hears it in the music where the black gang lifestyle, murders, sexploitation, explicit and graphic sexual depictions of blacks, drugs, and violence are routinely celebrated and consumed in the black community.
There is, as far as I can tell, no other aesthetic analogue in any other culture—not where members of a race or ethnicity celebrate and encourage each other to murder their own kind, hyper-sexualize each other, and sell, steal, and consume drugs; not where a lifestyle predicated on the degradation of one’s in-group is a constitutive feature of the culture.
It is not the case, of course, that black American culture has to be this way, nor that it always has been this way. This cultural indigence derives largely from the way that leftists have resolutely made excuses for the worst outcomes for African Americans, insisting that all of it was a result of and reaction to white racism. Everything good and wholesome about black life—the sense of mutual aid, bettering one’s station, and the importance of family and marriage—was denigrated as a kind of false consciousness. Brutish misery was promoted as black authenticity.
When we speak of black American culture today, we are talking about a culture that is broken, bereft of values, moral heft, and sustained leadership. It is self-destructing. It is a thug culture that contributes little of any intellectual, aesthetic, or moral value to the world at large. The gang of five police officers who killed Tyre Nichols are the most eloquent manifestation of its ethos.
Jason D. Hill is professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago specializing in ethics, social and political philosophy, American foreign policy and American politics. He is the author of several books, including What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression.
What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression Hardcover – October 26, 2021
by Jason D. Hill
A philosopher’s passionate call for all Americans to rethink our racial dynamic and to break the cycle of negativity that pits the races against each other.
In this provocative and highly original work, philosophy professor Jason D. Hill explores multiple dimensions of race in America today, but most importantly, a black-white divide which has grown exponentially over the past decade.
Central to his thesis, Hill calls on black American leaders (and their white liberal sponsors) to escape from the cycle of blame and finger-pointing, which seeks to identify black failures with white hatred and indifference. This overblown narrative is promulgated by a phalanx of black nihilists who advocate the destruction of America and her institutions in the name of ending “whiteness.” Much of the black intelligentsia consists of these false prophets, and it is their poisonous ideology which is taught, uncontradicted, to students of all races. It is they who are responsible for the cultural depression blacks are suffering in today’s society.
Ultimately, the answer to “what do White Americans owe?” is not about the morality or practicality of reparations, affirmative action, or other redistributionist schemes. Hill rejects the collectivist premise behind the argument, instead couching notions of culpability, justice, and fairness as responsibilities of individuals, not arbitrary racial or ethnic groupings.
Biden’s big Buttjig will likely crow ab out the Biden economic miracle by citing how numbers have improved without touching upon why.
The effects of the lockdowns on the economy was to depress it, of course. Relaxing the lockdowns has allowed it to rebound to a degree (although diminished by his actual policies).
I expect when he was a guard at the swimming pool he counted it as saving a life every time he relaxed his grip on someone he was holding underwater, because that is what his economic miracle is.
Has he blamed Putin for Corn Pop yet? He seems to move the invasion of Ukraine back to account for events in the past. Like the Putin inflation that started a year before Putin did anything.
Friday: Elbow says Voice should be above politics; premiers nod in pious agreement.
Monday: Greens force Thorpe out because she won’t toe the political line.
Government now has another crossbencher to assuage.
Priceless.
Oh, and Adam Bandt is “sad”.
Depends on your definition of ‘represented’ – you automatically get a legal aid ‘lawyer’ at your first hearing – mine performed at about the level of a work experience kid. It was only a week later, with proper representation (the same Lawyer who defended Nick Kyrgios last week) that I got out of the pokey.
Yes, the Voice is racist
In conception, content and consequences
Ramesh Thakur
The principle is that the people elect individuals, not parties. Otherwise, you might as well put ‘Labor’, Liberal’ etc on the ballot paper instead of people’s names. Parties are not mentioned in the Constitution.
The fiddle they did about filling vacancies from the same party is arguably unconstitutional. But, none of the parties want an unforseen by-election for the Senate.
I was amused when he was asked about standing for the Senate he said he’s “not going anywhere”.
He’s the notorious do-nothing head of the Department of Transportation, which also has not been going anywhere lately.
Buttigieg ‘Not Planning on Going Anywhere’ (3 Feb)
He’s like border czar Kamala Harris who won’t go anywhere near the border.
JC
Homer is now trying for peak ga-ga on that Albo Grease thread at CL’s blog! Give him an urge on!
Lydia Thorpe’s secret sauce for Reconciliation:
– Australian property owners paying ‘rent’ tax to Indigenous groups – $12.5 bn pa in fast money:
– Treaty and an Aboriginal-led Republic:
– 10 black seats in Parliament:
– Rewrite of the racist Constitution.
To be fair, Aussie Lydia is at least honest and open about the squirrel grip that everyone else is fudging.
Greens leader Adam Bandt said he regretted senator Thorpe’s decision to quit and revealed he had tried to persuade her to stay. ‘I made it clear to the senator that she still had a place in the Greens,’ he said.
Of course she does.
Uncle Luigi was unavailable for comment.
exactly. She didn’t win those votes in her name. Our senate system is broken with party tickets.
The most effective method of automotive braking is still to get Doc Duk to change the wheel bearings on your trailer.
🙂
Lidia wants $650 p.a. in “rent” from home owners.
In the midst of a cost of living crisis.
Shouldn’t this be “above politics”, Elbow?
Prediction: he’ll never be seen in an Oils t-shirt again.
If I’m paying rent, can I get a couple of my landlords to come round and pull a few weeds and clean the gutters?
Further t that…there’s an interesting original provision in the Constitution for Queensland to set up divisions for the election of its senators. That would be an excellent way of improving the representative nature of the senate. Senators would not only represent their state, but an electoral division within that state. Any mechanism which makes politicians more accountable to their electors, and in turn gives electors a greater “voice” in reviewing legislation, is welcome.
The NT government is set to reinstate dry zones in town camps and communities through new legislation to be presented during sittings next week.
However, current sales restrictions in Alice Springs will remain.
The government announced on Monday it would bring forward legislation to strengthen alcohol restrictions during NT parliament’s first sittings for the year.
Community Alcohol Plans will be developed for these communities and town camps that must be approved by the director of Liquor Licensing.
Communities that want to opt out of a dry zone will need 60 per cent of the population to support a tailored Community Alcohol Plan.
Local areas will also be able to remain dry or select tailored restrictions.
As part of the announcement made in Darwin on Monday, it was revealed the federal government will invest $250m in a plan for ‘A Better, Safer Future for Central Australia’.
NT News
“That is not correct. Pell was found innocent by the HC. Not guilty doesn’t mean there is some residue of guilt.”
Indeed but you need to understand that these people will never accept that George Pell was innocent, even after the HC ruling. Why? Because they wanted him to be guilty and even now, despite his death, they continue to want him to be guilty.
A year or two ago, I went to friends for dinner and the conversation turned to Pell. My friend’s partner, a big leftist, was adamant that the HC got it wrong. At first I looked at him incredulously, this man once held a senior government position. I asked him if he’d read the HC judgment (I have) and he said no, I then said that Pell is not guilty but you want him to be guilty. I then explained that there is zero evidence to prove his guilt and that there is plenty of evidence that proves his innocence, and I went into some detail about the time factors, the vestments, the routines and rituals after Mass, all of which I’d read in Keith Windshuttle’s excellent Quadrant pieces. My friend’s partner continued to interrupt me by saying that Pell had plenty of time to molest the children to which I finally snapped and asked “you appear to be an expert on Catholic masses and ritual so I’m curious as to how many Catholic masses you’ve been to in your life”? The answer, NONE.
& just like that, Turkey has bigger fish to fry for the next couple of years.
7.8 according to twitter.
Technology Australian Leadership
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and concluded that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the New York Times said: “American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the British”.
One week later, Australia ‘s Northern Territory Times reported the following:
After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Knackers Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely bugger-all.
Knackers has therefore concluded that “250 years ago, Australia had already gone wireless.”
Makes ya feel bloody proud to be Australian!
Albo says no one is coming for our backyards.
‘Your backyard is safe’: PM’s bizarre promise about The Voice (6 Feb)
Apart from Lidia and about 700,000 other people.
I want a beaugan voice in parliament.
Jacinta Price breaks down as she exposes the reality of life in an Alice Springs ‘hellhole’ camp – and opens up about rescuing her infant cousin and her aunt being stabbed to death
. Jacinta Price calls for alcohol ban outside of Alice Springs
. Indigenous ‘town camps’ badly affected since booze ban lifted
. Ms Price recalled shocking violence in the camps when she was a child
Lidia wants $650 p.a. in “rent” from home owners.
Easy option .. we all identify as 251s …… then there’ll be no one left to charge ……!
You have three that come up at first thought. Pauline Hanson, Jacqui Lambie and Bob Katter. All three a basically grifters.
Ms Struggling Single Mum Boomer told a lie. Scroll for interest rates.
She would have been paying around 10-12% mid 90’s. The 15% deposit sounds about right at $22,500 on a $150,000 purchase. If it was a decade’s worth of saving, that’s $40 a week put aside for the deposit, without allowing for interest on savings which was around 6%.
I’m surprised she was turned away by the banks…a decade earlier and I’d believe it.
“That is not correct. Pell was found innocent by the HC. Not guilty doesn’t mean there is some residue of guilt.”
I thought that your natural state outside the confines of the court is innocent. The court can only find you either guilty, in which case you are no longer innocent outside the court, or not guilty in which case you return to your natural state of innocent when you are discharged by the court.
I’m not even a bush lawyer so probably incorrect but I struggle to understand how someone can be not guilty in court and still guilty in the minds of others. I don’t really. I know it is just their wishful thinking.
SoCal Man Who Brutally Murdered Biking Doctor in Racially Motivated Attack Ranted About Race and Ethnicity on Facebook
Can’t get over this: white doc, works in emergency specialising in black victims killed by black bastard because of racism.
On the Voice. Straw poll at Stitch n’ Bitch, predominately Labor voters and woke…
No Way, No, Nada, Non, Bugger Off. Unanimous.
Elbow, you have a problem.
Splitter.
I’m not even a bush lawyer so probably incorrect but I struggle to understand how someone can be not guilty in court and still guilty in the minds of others. I don’t really. I know it is just their wishful thinking.
They’re lefties: wishful thinking, loathing and pixie dust are their mental default positions
Thanks B John.
flyingduk says:
February 6, 2023 at 2:58 pm
Indeed, my Capri Perana had exactly the same brakes as my Escort (9? Solid front discs, 8 3/4? rear drums. The only theoretical problem with is the Capri weighed 100kg more, had 4x the power, and a top speed of 225kmh.
I never drove a Perana (or an Escort for that matter) but cars of that era were ‘fun’ weren’t they? If travelling at speed, you really had to drive the bloody things with your wits about you ‘cos they had little ‘forgiveness’ and if you over-reached, they were uncompromising in letting you know you screwed up.
Same could be said for modern cars in some respects, but the limits are soooo much higher and the average punter will never come near those limits. Even at the popular ‘track days’, few are really exploring the limits.
I wasn’t sure. The last word on stopping probably goes to bikes when your back tyre gets a foot or so off the ground. I took that as a sign it was time to take a break.
As they say, it is more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.
calli says:
February 6, 2023 at 3:56 pm
Ms Struggling Single Mum Boomer told a lie. Scroll for interest rates.
calli,
my Single Mother with 2 kids, with a hell a lot of difficulty, managed to get a Building Society loan in 1953 to buy the house we were living in – believe me, not an easy task for Single Mother with 2 kids then.
Beau Gan
I have a question about quantum computers and matrices.
Oh come onsays:
February 6, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Here’s what we could do with the AMA and all of the other pandemic panic spruikers and overseers. Round them all up and temporarily house them in those newly built quarantine facilities that now stand empty.
Then we evacuate Nauru. We’ll have to sooner or later (the charade that that utter hole – less than a shithole as all the shit’s gone – is a viable nation-state) can’t continue indefinitely, and it’ll be cheaper to deliver the welfare its citizens depend on in Australia than on the island.
When that’s done, we put all of the temporary quarantine camp residents on boats and drop them all on Nauru with a few shovels and pick axes and the like. Destroy any harbours and air strips before we go. The new residents of Nauru can spend the rest of their days attempting to rehabilitate the island.
I think that is a just and humane sentence for them, considering the incalculable damage they’ve done. They are extremely dangerous people and we must protect ourselves from them.
I like your style but I still prefer a quicker, more permanent, ‘Nurembergy’ style of remedy. Sorry, my generation doesn’t mind a bit of instant gratification.
cars of that era were ‘fun’ weren’t they? If travelling at speed, you really had to drive the bloody things with your wits about you ‘cos they had little ‘forgiveness’ and if you over-reached, they were uncompromising in letting you know you screwed up……… Even at the popular ‘track days’, few are really exploring the limits.
The best ‘track days’ are rally stages …. dirt better than tarmac although both are great fun … my ‘Dirt’ Escort was 47 years old when I sold it last year and had ‘CAMS’ stickers going back to the 1980s. Biggest take away point was watch out for the trees – in my experience their trajectories can be surprisingly unpredictable.
Why can’t the Q bits be represented as 2 x 2 sub matrices within a larger data matrix? I can’t see why computationally, what the issue is.
Normalisation, polynomials & imaginary numbers are standard fare, right? If multiplying A x B then if m not = n, then you can use Moore Penrose pseudo inverse or SVD to do this???
What would you prefer?
Thorpe being honest about her intentions.
Or the same outcome being pushed via a stealth project called “The Voice”?
This is great. Seb is very parady is quite funny.
Ukraine will Use the Weapons to Attack Moscow – They Lied
From Armstrong Economics –
“To get the weapons for massive destruction, Zelensky lied and promised that the weapons would not be used to target Moscow. Kiev’s forces will not hold back when it comes to hitting locations inside Russia, according to Fyodor Venislavsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament’s National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Committee. Speaking to Germany’s Bild tabloid on Saturday, he also described Moscow as a “legitimate military target.” The West is arming Ukraine for long-range missile attacks on Moscow. Putin and the hardliner will now have NO CHOICE and will be fully justified in nuking Ukraine to end the war the same way the United States nuked Japan.
The corruption in the Western media is astonishing. This is not being reported in the USA or Europe. It is being reported in the Middle East and in Russia. The international fake news organization, Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a consortium to control all the mainstream Western Media, is promoting World War III and we are to be told Russia is evil and we must go to war to destroy every individual Russian on the planet. There is no longer any independent journalism left. I had learned in grade school history class that the media created the Spanish American War. Pulitzer later felt guilty and donated his assets to Columbia University to hand out awards for journalists when Pulitzer was the father of yellow journalism and sheer corruption.
This is ABSOLUTELY what our world leaders want to take place. In their view, Gates has convinced them that there are just too damn many of us and they cannot pay for all the pensions. It’s time to thin the herd. They need war to reduce the population and eliminate the debt crisis.
For all of those who support Zelensky and hate all Russians or at least buy the bullsh*t propaganda about Putin, take a last look at your children and grandchildren You are condemning them to a future that may not even exist. Your stubbornness and refusal to look at the truth have emboldened our World leaders to steer us directly into world war III. I have had Ukrainian employees on both sides from Kiev (Its original Russian spelling) and Donetsk. I have had experience with Ukraine and they are DESPISED by all their neighbors for they are the remnant of Hitler’s N@zis. The wheel of fortune has completed its revolution. We are now supporting the Ukrainian N@zis Ethnic cleansing operation of the Donbas.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/ukraine-will-used-the-weapons-to-attack-moscow-they-lied/
I was once on the crew of an emergency response vehicle that attended a crash half way through the final day of Classic Adelaide. The leading competitor had gone straight ahead at a tight left, grazed a tree, vaulted across a creek and come to rest in the paddock beyond. When we arrived, there was a heated discussion in progress between driver and navigator – the gist of which was ‘I’m not getting back in it’.
The driver did later confided to me: I knew we were in trouble when I was doing 8500 in 5th and I passed a sign which said ’25kph left’.
flyingduk says:
February 6, 2023 at 4:18 pm
Biggest take away point was watch out for the trees – in my experience their trajectories can be surprisingly unpredictable.
I know right!! They should be chained down. Bloody things have a mind of their own. I’ve been repeatedly assured that trees don’t think and can’t move but I’m not convinced.
Trees only hit cars in self defence – or so I have been told….
How about paying the ‘aboriginals’ like Lydia the unimproved value of the land as it was when British settlement took place? Without the Poms here and assuming that no other nation came here ever the aborigines would still be living in their natural state. So I would be happy to make a one off payment for my assets on the value of the land as it would’ve been pre settlement. After all they hadn’t improved any land in the 20 to however many thousands of years they were living here, so it would be safe to assume the land would still be as it was and as valuable.
I’m no mathematician, but how does the 40% figure come about? How on earth could such a thing even be calculated?
Any remaining proper scientists must surely wince at this nonsense.
Speedbox, it’s a mystery to me why anyone buys the amazingly high powered bikes of today. Even on a closed track with as much practice time as you want there would be very very few who could ride one flat out, much less ask for more performance. There’s probably only a dozen or so riders in Australia who could do that.
Maybe it’s intergenerational trauma.
Perhaps they also need a voice.
Lidia, you may have left the party, but don’t try to tell me your blood doesn’t run bright green!
OldOzziesays:
February 6, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Yes, the Voice is racist
In conception, content and consequences
Ramesh Thakur
By importing large numbers of “people of colour”, the Liars and their Lieboral acolytes might have destroyed any chance of the Voice being approved. Those who have suffered prejudice in other societies are unlikely to want a potential source of more such prejudice here.
Duk, I hope you have read Murray Walker’s autobiography. Long before his F1 days, he and his Dad (and later his wife) attended all kinds of muddy events featuring bikes and cars in the UK. Murray even competed for a bit, did OK, but realised that he would never be top class, and sort of fell into commenting.
I tune into F! now and again these days, but it’s not the same without Murray. RIP.
Another example of driver/nav confusion – this Commodore https://youtu.be/D-r0oWFP5Vs was owned by a colleague of mine (who sadly died in the KI Bushfires). I was tracking him online at ‘Targa High Country’ when he went ‘DNF’ (Did Not Finish) so I SMS’d him.
His reply – nav called a ‘5’ a ‘9’ – am going to need a new car.
PS: a ‘5’ is about a 60 kmh/h corner, a ‘9’ is flat out.
Makes my blood boil.
That’s the ACT – anyone know the terminology in other jurisdictions?
Related, but not the same: The Fair Work Ombudsman terminology used to be “complainant” and “wrongdoer”
This was automatic. The instant an employee whinged to the FWO, a case would be raised, and a letter written to the employer outlining the complaint.
That letter was addressed to “The Wrongdoer”
Writing individually to thousands of employers, addressing them as “To the Wrongdoer” likely caused sufficient blowback for a revision of the lexicon, as about a year later the FWO dropped “wrongdoer” for a more civil & less incendiary form of address.
Lidia’s vision seems to me to be sort of like the landed gentry in centuries past.
The tenants must toil away producing wealth for the lords and these miserable tenants must pay rent for the place they live while doing it. The lords themselves are thus freed from miserable mundanity to live their lives busy about their own pursuits.
Has the bikie moll just dumped the Voice for us all?
Lidia Thorpe: Voice politics just got a lot worse for Anthony Albanese
DENNIS SHANAHAN
Lidia Thorpe has just made Anthony Albanese’s job on the voice to parliament much harder. The rebel Green and now black sovereign movement senator has opened an entirely new front against the referendum.
It’s another layer of complexity and argument that feeds confusion and fear about the consequences of changing the constitution.
Senator Thorpe’s newly-declared campaign for black sovereignty will build on a radical base and agenda that already exists and can only grow with an elected senator devoted solely to the cause.
It’s also a deadly and divisive front from the left supporting sovereignty and treaty before a voice to parliament, which could split those who support the voice in principle, but want more from the referendum.
As part of a deliberate campaign to keep detail out of the debate and to talk about the practical consequences of implementing a voice to parliament, the Prime Minister has refused to give detail but has been forced to address the issue of sovereignty.
Only 24 hours before Thorpe announced her resignation from the Greens and the establishment of a black sovereign movement, Albanese said of the voice: “The vote and referendum will have no impact on the issue of sovereignty. No impact. It is very, very clear.”
Thorpe is now making it “very, very clear” sovereignty and a separate treaty with Indigenous Australians is now very much part of the referendum debate.
So far the threat to the success of the referendum has been direct opposition to, or reluctance about, support for the voice from the conservative political parties because lack of bipartisanship has killed previous referendums.
But now Albanese faces formal and potentially formidable political opposition from the left.
The politics of the voice have suddenly got far worse and the debate far more dangerously complicated.
Oz
How about telling the “aboriginals” like Lydia that you can’t claim “sovereignty” over land you can’t defend?
Sorry dot, I know nothing of quantum computing.
Lidia’s vision seems to me to be sort of like the landed gentry in centuries past.
Lydia’s version is skewered thinking! .. on the one hand she claims it was “invasion” and on the other wants rent as reparations ……. she doesn’t seem to grasp that, in her version, the “invasion” was victory for the other side .. winners don’t pay reparations .. losers do! ..