The White Horse, John Constable, 1819
Not too sure about this.
Open Thread – Weekend 18 Feb 2023
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- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 April 2024
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Wales forever, and arzholes to all Englishmen According to mr Google translate. Cymru am byth, ac arzholes i bob Sais
Bed it is
How about suicide in FIFO . Our son has told me of three in the past month of his acquaintance…
I am a reasonably good Catholic, Rosie, these people are better than me. I should do better in the forgiveness…
ABC finally catches up to the Bleeding Obvious
How the Tonga volcano eruption from 2022 may affect Australia’s weather for up to eight years
Lasting impacts from an enormous volcanic eruption a year ago may have a cooling and rainy influence on parts of Australia for up to eight years, according to scientists.
Lasting impacts from an enormous volcanic eruption a year ago may have a cooling and rainy influence on parts of Australia for up to eight years, according to scientists.
So a year on, what do we know about its influence on Australian weather?
– Volcano potentially added to rain on east coast
– Possible cooling in WA and northern Australia
– Larger ozone hole behind cool, rainy influence
– Potential rainfall increase in south-east Australia
– Changing ocean conditions not considered
Nikki Haley has soros’s paw up her clacker.
The biggest barrier to that is the
ego of those involved.
Dr Duk
Snap re so-called “progressives” and their loose standards.
Watched Ford versus Ferrari on the flight. Passable but could have been so much better.
If you suddenly stop hearing from me it’s because I’ve been eaten by the resident Cafe brushtail.
Dead kangaroos make a surprising feast for possums in the Australian Alps (Phys.org, 17 Feb)
“Vultures, hyenas, and Tasmanian devils are highly efficient scavengers, able to locate and consume carrion rapidly, including the meat and bones.
When we think of scavengers, these large carnivores are what comes to mind—not brushtail possums.
So it came as a surprise when these Australian marsupials turned out to be one of the most common scavengers we caught on camera in our new study published online this month in Wildlife Research.
…
Each consecutive season (starting in autumn, then winter, spring, and summer) we placed 15 fresh eastern gray kangaroo carcasses—sourced from local culls—throughout the alpine environment (60 carcasses total).
Each of these carcasses were monitored by a remote camera for 60 days to record every species that visited, whether that be to investigate or feed on the carcass.
Across 745,599 remote camera images, the scavenger species we recorded were spotted-tail quolls, feral cats, dingoes, pied currawongs, wedge-tailed eagles, brushtail possums, ravens, red foxes, and feral pigs.
Of the scavenging we recorded, 88% was done by brushtail possums and ravens.”
Some nice photos in the story. The brushtails seem quite chubby! It’s interesting how so many wild creatures will eat meat if they can get it. My Cafe rainbow lorikeets steal mince off the magpies whenever they can, and even the crested pigeons peck it up it if they get the chance. A lot of what you hear about what food is good for what creature seems to be human conceit.
Yep, that relationship would keep the MAFS crew busy for a while. Brittany deserves to be happy.
Calli – it looks like not only is ‘wrong think’ being removed, but just being a white author is frowned upon.
The sixth largest council in Australia, Central Coast Council, is in the grip of a financial crisis with a forecast budget blowout of more than $200 million and accrued debts of more than $565 million.
Who’s lending these plodders the money?
Wow. That Sharaz bloke is a bit of a wojak meme isn’t he?
Russians are Nazis because they celebrate their defeat of Nazism. Massaro’s manic high-pitched voice is also perfect.
Just recovering from an eight hour trip from Sydney back to Canberra. It was supposed to be four, but the train broke down in Campbelltown.
What then followed was hours of waiting around with no information, and then eventually being told buses will come, and then all of the buses following the same route as the train. This is in case someone wants to get on or off.
Our bus was full and no-one wanted to get off at Bowral, Mittagong, or Moss Vale, but it still went to all, adding hours to the trip.
At one stage someone asked the driver why the train had broken down, and he said “Because they’re all 30 years old, and the government won’t replace them.” This was met with cheers from everyone, and a few people said “Vote Labor at the election” which is in a month. If they think Labor will fix the trains they’ve got another think coming.
But of course Perrottet and Co prioritise putting a $1m aboriginal flag on the bridge and so on.
Having said the above all of the Transport NSW staff were friendly and helpful.
You’ll probably find there is an implicit or explicit State government guarantee. I expect they are falling over themselves.
John Bolton in a dress. Poor dear, she thinks it’s 2001 and the GOP base is just iching for more war.
“Ans still no demand from the Liberals for a NACC inquiry into Albanese’s payoff for services rendered to the ALP. They won’t fight for anything.”
Yep, they’re worse than useless.
Malcolm and Lucy Turdbull are also up to their necks in the Higgins and Porter miasmas.
Unless things have much changed I would speculate that when the train was due to pull out from Campbelltown station they found the wheels gone and the carriages resting on stacked cinder blocks.
On Tuesday evening there was unofficial industrial action by the unions who run Sydney buses.
The people who went after Pell love them.
Pictured.
When Pauline Hanson did something similar*, it Was Not Funny.
Don’t give him ideas.
John Bolton: I’m considering a presidential run but haven’t decided yet (16 Feb)
ROFL!
For the hit job on Reynolds to work it basically meant the Labor coven of witches had to imply that Reynolds and her staff had covered up a rape.
By going to Lisa Wilkinson before her police report and timing it to come out when parliament opened it became a political weapon when the case was still sub judice.
The witches attacked Reynolds who was going to be a witness and were basically trashing her credibility prior to trial. However Reynolds account indicates that in first interview Higgins actually apologised for her behaviour that night. How was Reynolds expected to know that meant there was a rape allegation.
Remember the AFP did not want to prosecute. They knew for example that during the interview of Higgins by Wilkinson she said she was not wearing any underwear that night. Yet her allegation to police indicated they had been removed.
Janet’s article also mentions Higgins diary entries before formal report to police showed meetings with Wilkinson and husband Pete the Pirate, Sam Maiden and even Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull.
Higgins boyfriend had also indicated had been in touch with a Senator which turned out to be Katy Gallagher.
No wonder the DPP turned Reynolds hostile and did not want to call Wilkinson. Recall that was when Higgins had a health issue during the trial and it was delayed and then we had the jury mistrial story.
The alleged $3m compensation deal, where Reynolds was forbidden to have any input, was a payout for services rendered. It probably represents at least 20 years salary.
The inquiry by Walter Sofronoff KC is going to be very interesting and hopefully ACT DPP and the political influence is exposed.
Boambee John:
Consistency is a flaccid bourgeois philosophy – fit only for treating fly blown sheep.
Or something.
*shrug*
His ex-wife was mocking him on Instagram (or something) this week for not having a job. Apparently he proposed to her in an elaborate manner too. At the reception, the tables weren’t identified with numbers but the names of Labor leaders. The Shorten Table, the Hayden Table etc.
Marriage lasted two years.
This bloke plays the lovable nerd, then Ikes his Tinas after they’ve been sucked in.
Or, what we used to call “a nice fine day”.
Forgot my asterisked footnote:
* Hanson’s burka stunt was the greatest in Canberra’s history.
cohenite says:
February 18, 2023 at 12:04 pm
Nikki Haley has soros’s paw up her clacker.
Sure it wasn’t Meghan Marle’s “Paw”?
“She has her arm so far up his bottom, she can use her fingers to alter his facial expression” – Jeremy Clarkson on Meghan and Harry
“He’s just a Glove Puppet with no more control over what he say or does, than Basil Brush”
Wow. That Sharaz bloke is a bit of a wojak meme isn’t he?
Very wojak! Brittany has lost some weight and unbelievably looks worse thank when she was porky.
Emily: Do I look pretty wojak?
Wojak: No, no Emily you do not look pretty, but you have 3 million dollars so I guess it is ok.
The other way around.
Mrs Bandana introduced panties where there were no previous panties.
indubitably. Notice how defeatist never fade away they always try to convince others to give up to justify theemselves.
His ex-wife was mocking him on Instagram (or something) this week for not having a job.
Based on the photo of his ex missus, wojak was punching well above his weight!
What the driver told you is bs topender. All xpts exploders and endangers will be replaced by caf electro diesels to be maintained at Dubbo. Fully imported from Spain
* Hanson’s burka stunt was the greatest in Canberra’s history.
Indeed!
The wooks on their widdle faces!!
Nothing funnier than seeing a combination of confusion and terror on the face of a politician.
I hope to see it again!
The reality of electric car ownership in Australia from charger woes to batteries powered by fossil fuels – and why Toyota is refusing to jump on the EV bandwagon despite Tesla enjoying a sales boom
. Record numbers are buying electric vehicles in Australia
. But experts warn support infrastructure is not yet in place
. Toyota not convinced future is electric, exploring options
Toyota
I liked Toyota, now I love them!
Number 2 daughter just brought a used Toyota 86 through a couple of years of work in a cafe. It’s most redeeming feature is that it’s a Toyota.
OldOzziesays:
February 18, 2023 at 12:04 pm
ABC finally catches up to the Bleeding Obvious
How the Tonga volcano eruption from 2022 may affect Australia’s weather for up to eight years
Lasting impacts from an enormous volcanic eruption a year ago may have a cooling and rainy influence on parts of Australia for up to eight years, according to scientists.
Whereas, according to the Climate Alarmists, it was all due to those Coal Fired Power Stations, Motor Vehicles, Jumbo Jets emitting CO2 along with Humans breathing out CO2 and cows/sheep farting methane.
And look what just ONE Volcano can do…………………….
. Record numbers are buying electric vehicles in Australia
. But experts warn support infrastructure is not yet in place
Can someone plot this on the woke/stupid matrix?! Otherwise a Venn diagram will do!
Following upon an allwgation of rape there are 2 potential victims : (1) if she’s telling the truth, the complainant (Higgins); ip (2) if she’s lying, the accused (Lehrmann). An assumption that at this stage Higgins was a victim contradicts Lehrmann’ s presumption of innocence. There is no basis to give support and “agency” to Higgins unless one is partisan to her case. Yet Reynolds did so, and cites her consultation with Jenkins, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, who propounds “victim centric” approach.
So the attack on Reynolds from the media, Labor, and some Liberals, and the defence Reynolds now makes, are based on assumptions that Lehrmann was guilty. Various officers in Parliament should not have played the roles they did.
No regard is paid – even by Albrechtsen – to Lehrmann’ s need for agency in the steps he needed to defend himself. He should have been told of the allegations; by Reynolds or some other Liberal, and at least by the police.
Reynold’s suffering pales away in comparison to the damage inflicted on Lehrmann.
I think you can look at it another way.
“Agency” could be taken to mean the right to pursue a complaint (or not) without fear of consequence for doing so.
Once the word “victim” is introduced, however …
Yeah, it seems to’ve transferred heat from the temperate zone towards the poles, due to the water vapour injected into the high stratosphere coupled with the waning la Nina. So we here in Australia have had a very cool summer (despite BoMish ululation). The result is the climate bedwetters are now saying “look! look!”
Antarctic sea ice melts to a record-smashing low, researchers report (Express, 17 Feb)
Get used to this hyperventilating rubbish, it’s incoming.
Just looked at the Oz online on my mobile.
Can’t see the Chris Kenny article even though commented on it before.
Only way can find it is if go into my profile to see comments I have made.
Might be different on a PC but does it somehow just make it invisible because knows you have already read it.
Only 93 comments showing which seems very low for such an article. Are they “hiding” it?
Some notes on the Voice for next time someone gives me airtime; beginning with Kari Lake, who should be Trump’s VP:
Kari Lake did not stand for black national anthem (Lift your voice) at NFL match. Her defence: She does not want separate anthem for blacks, whites, jews or gays. All should be equal in the US
Aust: all people/citizens are equal. 1967 referendum and changes to S.51(26) created equality. If Voice NOT in constitution S.51 (26) could be used to defeat any legislation which promotes inequality but if Voice in constitution it can defeat equality in S.51 (26) because of recency. MOST Recent constitutional change defeats older ones such as S.51 (26)
Aboriginals should not be more equal because democracy is destroyed: the fundamental element of democracy is equality.
4 reasons offered for Voice
1 Here first. Wrong, Manning Clark History of Australia vols 1 &2 from the earliest times until 1838. Pps 2-3. At least 2 waves of people before them. See also Nathan Tindle and Joseph Birdsell
2 Don’t get enough spent on them. 2017 Indigenous Expenditure Report Produced by the Productivity Commission for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision page X11
In 2015-16, total direct government expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians was estimated to be $33.4 billion, a real increase from $27.0 billion in 2008-09. • In 2015-16, the estimated direct expenditure per person was $44 886 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, around twice the rate for non-Indigenous Australians ($22 356) More spent on aboriginals than medicare, defence, NDIS and education; all wasted.
3 Ecological caretakers cf whites. Wrong. Definitive paper: Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia January 2017 Nature Communications Most prestigious scientific journal in world. Biggest man-made extinction in the world (still killing them Dugongs special rights)
Professor chris turney climate change uni nsw Megafauna = true indigenous Australians
Also changed flora by continual burning couldn’t carry fire only start it: FIREBUGS
A;lso continuously warred with each other
4 suffered invasion by whites; wrong; if Australia had been invaded Mabo could not have succeeded and NT would not have existed. The official policy was in King George’s instructions to Gov Phillips:
You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an Intercourse with the Natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all Our Subjects to live in amity and kindness with them. And if any of Our Subjects shall wantonly destroy them, or give them any unnecessary Interruption in the exercise of their several occupations. It is our Will and Pleasure that you do cause such offenders to be brought to punishment according to the degree of the Offence.
No frontier wars or systemic massacres but skirmishs where abos gave as good as they got.
So, every reason for granting more rights to abos is wrong. And there is NOTHING in aboriginal culture which underpins Australian democracy. Would anyone in their right mind want to live like abos used to live.
VOICE = naked grab for power and destruction of Australian democracy.
The Western World has gone Mad – and “they” (Binary or Non-Binary as whatever that is) Knock Putin for his stance against Western Wokeness
You must be having a laugh! Yes Minister and The Thick of It were among the satire programmes flagged by beleaguered counter-terror Prevent scheme for ‘encouraging far-right sympathies’
. It said the works of fiction were ‘key texts’ for ‘white nationalists/supremacists’
. The taxpayer-funded document included references to The Lord Of The Rings
Some of Britain’s most popular sitcoms and greatest works of literature were flagged as potential signs of far-Right extremism by a counter-terror programme.
The flagship Prevent scheme, recently the subject of a scathing audit, singled out comedies Yes Minister and The Thick Of It, the 1955 epic war film The Dam Busters, and even The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare as possible red flags of extremism.
It said the works of fiction were ‘key texts’ for ‘white nationalists/supremacists’.
A report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) described how far-Right extremists promoted ‘reading lists’ on online bulletin boards. And it reproduced an image being shared on far-Right corners of the internet that listed ‘important texts’, under pictures of Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader, and Oswald Mosley, who led the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
The taxpayer-funded document included references to The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.
Works by some of the world’s greatest writers were included as examples of warning signs of potential extremism, including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Tennyson, Kipling and Edmund Burke.
The report even highlighted the BBC’s 1990s political thriller House Of Cards, John le Carre’s seminal spy trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Sharpe, the ITV drama set in the Napoleonic wars.
Inexplicably, it said the BBC’s Great British Railway Journeys, presented by former Conservative minister Michael Portillo, was of interest to the far-Right.
Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts said: ‘This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.
Katy Gallagher is the Minister sitting next to TGA, AHPRA, CHO during Senate estimates when they are questioned by Senators such as Rennick, Antic and Roberts.
The problem is that if the Senators are right about health issues related to the vaccines Gallagher would fight to the death to not allow their views to be accepted.
Two reasons. Can’t allow the other side, especially the “far right” side to be right and God forbid we might encourage Vaccine hesitancy. Far better to let more people be injured and die than let the truth be known.
Bespoke:
Perhaps it’s because I don’t think it’s a kindness to hang a man slowly?
Im hoping the gaytransfurryporn shelf will remain full – Bluestate USA style
Off the top of my head:
1984
The Gulag Archipelago
The End of Australia (Vern Gowdie)
The Crash Course (Christopher Martenson)
Hidden Secrets of Money (Youtube vid series – Mike Maloney)
and of course, from the man himself, Klaus’ Covid 19, the Great Reset.
Rafiki, Reynolds and her CoS were in a tricky situation, not least because of privacy laws.
If your employer or supervisor finds out sensitive personal information about you, they are not allowed to discuss it with all and sundry. There are strict limitations on who, if anyone, they can consult or inform about it.
Remember too that Lehrman was already sacked long before everything blew up, for repeated security breaches. So she had no further relationship with him in terms of duty of care or anything else. If he had still been on her staff, there may be ways that she could have investigated the allegations further, but that wasn’t the case. Her only responsibility was to Brittany.
If her account is true (and I’m inclined to believe at least most of it) then she was in an invidious position, especially once the usual suspects started applying the blowtorch.
The Liddell Power Station closure in April 2023 and the Big Batteries to replace the 950 MW it was producing.
And the Big Batteries? What will charge the Big Batteries and how long will the batteries last before more recharging? Are they already in place being fully tested and ready to go? Yeah, right. This is going to be very interesting to say the least. Those QLD and VIC Interconnectors will be humming like crazy very soon.
Tennis Elbow, Dr. Blunder, I mean Chalmers and Blackout Bowen will be running for cover when this doesn’t work too well just like they are now disassociating themselves from the RBA cash rate increases. Along with all of those other Cost of Living issues.
The May 2023 Federal Guv’ment Budget looks to be very interesting indeed.
Putin on Wokeness in the West: ‘We Saw This in Soviet Russia’
A Transcript of Putin’s Speech
Of course, it’s none of our business or what is happening, the social and cultural shocks that are happening in some countries, in the Western countries.
Some believe that aggressive blotting out of whole pages of your own history, the affirmative action in the interest of minorities, and the requirement to renounce the traditional interpretation of such basic values as mother, father, family, and the distinction between sexes are a milestone… a renewal of society…
But there is one thing I would like to say: the recipes they come up with are nothing new. Paradoxical as it may seem, but this is something we saw in Russia.
It happened in our country before. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks followed the dogmas of Marx and Engels.
And they also declared that they would go into change the traditional lifestyle, the political, the economic lifestyle, as well as the very notion of morality, the basic principles for a healthy society.
They were trying to destroy age and century long values, revisiting the relationship between the people, they were encouraging informing on one’s own beloved, and families.
It was hailed as the march of progress. And it was very popular across the world, and it was supported by many. As we see, it is happening right now.
Incidentally, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of other opinions, different from their own. I think this should remind you of something that is happening. And we see what is happening in the Western countries.
It is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia used to have and that we left behind in distant path, the fight for equality and against discrimination, turn into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity, when great authors of the past such as Shakespeare are no longer taught in schools and universities because they announced as backward classics that did not understand the importance of gender or race.
In Hollywood there are leaflets reminding what you should do in the cinema, in the films, how many personalities and actors you’ve got, what kind of colour, what sex, and sometimes it’s even tighter and stricter than what the Department of Propaganda of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee did…
You know, the Bolsheviks were speaking about nationalising not just the property, but also women.
The proponents of new approaches go so far as they want to eliminate the whole notions of men and women, and those who dare say that men and women exist and this is a biological fact, they are all but banished.
Parent number one, parent number two, or the parent that has given birth, or instead of breast milk, you say human milk. And you say all of that, so the people who are not sure of their sexual gender are not unhappy.
And I would like to say that this is not something new… The Soviet[s] came up with the so-called ‘Newspeak’, and they thought that thereby they were building a new consciousness and coming up with new values, and they went so far that we feel the consequences up until now.
There are some monstrous things when from a very young age, you teach to children that the boy can easily become a girl and you impose on them this selection, this choice. You push the parents aside and make the child take these decisions that can destroy their lives.
And if we call the spade a spade, this is nigh to crime against humanity, and all of that under the banner of progress, while some people just want to do that.
It seems the Melbourne Response was under the same restraint. The victim reports were given in confidence. The Independent Counsel couldn’t refer matters on to police without the express wish of the alleged victim. All he could is recommend that they take the matter further by speaking to police, often making the call himself and then passing them the phone. Of course, this was then used against the Melbourne Response by the police and then by the media/ etc.
Holy Gaia will charge the Big Batteries. Where is your faith, heretic?
Sky Fall For The Battery Con Trick (14 Feb)
That’s Pommy Sky not our Sky btw. Batteries are Gaia’s holy sources of holiness though. It’s ineffable.
As indicated by others, one gets the impression that l’affaire Britnah has got a bit left in it.
Just give the Redbank power station the green light already.
Add to Flyingduks list:
A remake of Animal Farm, from 1956 as a cartoon. Quite dark and over 2 hours long.
And you wonder where Taxpayer’s Money gets Wasted?
Interior Department Now Offering ‘Ecogrief’ Training For Employees
The United States Department of the Interior is now offering ‘ecogrief’ training to employees who may be experiencing feelings of trauma or loss over climate change and the environment.
This crosses into the ‘beyond parody’ category of government.
We have a massive and completely real environmental disaster unfolding in Ohio, and the Interior Department is offering what sounds like climate change therapy to employees.
It’s hard out there for a federal Fish and Wildlife Service employee. It’s not just the long days of bullying property owners, collecting gray wolf sperm samples and dealing with smart asses asking for a license for their pet fish Eric. It’s the gnawing “ecogrief” that grinds you down.
But the government feels your pain, and it’s here to help. “The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service is offering “ecogrief” training to employees who are struggling with a sense of trauma or loss as they witness a changing environment,” reported Stephen Dinan in the Washington Times.
It’s amazing that this is real.
The Washington Times
@WashTimes
“This 4-hour workshop seeks to normalize the wide range of emotional responses that conservationists experience while empowering participants to act while taking care of themselves.”
OldOzzie says:
February 18, 2023 at 1:32 pm
This is what we’ve known for generations. To the left, we are the proverbial mushrooms – kept in the dark and surrounded by bullsh1t.
Anything that lets the human imagination soar or, heaven forbid, examines and explains our weakness and cupidity, or the inner workings of the state, is to be condemned and outlawed. The state is there to control us – that is all.
On a better note, apart from Tuesday, beach going everyday this week – absolutely magic weather, water temp, tides and waves.
this will be our battery charging solution!!
It’s about as effective as anything the government has suggested…
And look what just ONE Volcano can do…………………….
Yep, and to quote Ian Plimer: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/01/talking-tonga/
It would seem the ‘models’ might be problematic if they aren’t accounting for that!
OTOH, I just checked Wikipedia and it turns out Prof Plimer is a crank, so its full steam ahead with the AGW scare plan then!
The people who went after Pell love them.
Pictured.
When Pauline Hanson did something similar*, it Was Not Funny.
CL, Wasn’t the cop in that picture the unlamented Simon Overland?
America continues down the Drain, to be closely followed by Elbowsleezy Labor Party & the Greens plus the Australian Teachers Federation who motto is “Teach Kids – Don’t be Stupid”
To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes
Supporters say uniform classes create rigor for all students but critics say cuts hurt faster learners
CULVER CITY, Calif.—A group of parents stepped to the lectern Tuesday night at a school board meeting in this middle-class, Los Angeles-area city to push back against a racial-equity initiative. The high school, they argued, should reinstate honors English classes that were eliminated because they didn’t enroll enough Black and Latino students.
The district earlier this school year replaced the honors classes at Culver City High School with uniform courses that officials say will ensure students of all races receive an equal, rigorous education.
These parents disagreed.
“We really feel equity means offering opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds, not taking away opportunities for advanced education and study,” Joanna Schaenman, a Culver City parent who helped spearhead the effort, said in the run-up to the meeting.
The parental pushback in Culver City mirrors resistance that has taken place in Wisconsin, Rhode Island and elsewhere in California over the last year in response to schools stripping away the honors designation on some high school classes.
School districts doing away with honors classes argue students who don’t take those classes from a young age start to see themselves in a different tier, and come to think they aren’t capable of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes that help with college admissions. Black and Latino students are underrepresented in AP enrollment in the majority of states, according to the Education Trust, a nonprofit that studies equity in education.
Since the start of this school year, freshmen and sophomores in Culver City have only been able to select one level of English class, known as College Prep, rather than the previous system in which anyone could opt into the honors class. School officials say the goal is to teach everyone with an equal level of rigor, one that encourages them to enroll in advanced classes in their final years of high school.
“Parents say academic excellence should not be experimented with for the sake of social justice,” said Quoc Tran, the superintendent of 6,900-student Culver City Unified School District. But, he said, “it was very jarring when teachers looked at their AP enrollment and realized Black and brown kids were not there. They felt obligated to do something.”
Culver City English teachers presented data at a board meeting last year showing Latino students made up 13% of those in 12th-grade Advanced Placement English, compared with 37% of the student body. Asian students were 34% of the advanced class, compared with 10% of students. Black students represented 14% of AP English, versus 15% of the student body.
The board saw anonymous quotes from students not enrolled in honors classes saying they felt less motivated or successful. One described students feeling “unable to break out of the molds that they established when they were 11.”
Tuesday marked Ms. Schaenman’s first time attending a school board meeting in person in years. She wandered the hallways of City Hall with fellow parent Pedro Frigola looking for the right room, clutching a stack of copies laying out the two-page resolution they and a few dozen other parents are asking the board to adopt.
Mr. Frigola said he disagrees with the district’s view of equity. “I was born in Cuba, and it doesn’t sound good when people are trying to achieve equal outcomes for everyone,” he said.
His ninth-grade daughter, Emma Frigola, said she was surprised and a little confused by the decision to remove honors, which she had wanted to take. She said her English teacher, who used to teach the honors class, is trying to maintain a higher standard, but that it doesn’t always seem to be working.
“There are some people who slow down the pace because they don’t really do anything and aren’t looking to try harder,” Emma said. “I don’t think you can force that into people.”
For a unit on research, Emma said her teacher gathered all the reference sources they needed to write a paper on whether graffiti is art or vandalism and had students review them together in class. Her sister, Elena Frigola, now in 11th grade, said prior honors English students chose their own topics and did research independently.
In Santa Monica, Calif., high school English teachers said last year they had “a moral imperative” to eliminate honors English classes that they viewed as perpetuating inequality.
The teachers studied the issue for a year and a half, a district representative said.
“This is not a social experiment,” board member Jon Kean said at a meeting last spring. “This is a sound pedagogical approach to education.”
@ B of N:
Pater Zeihan has bee looking at this issue for a while. A recent encaprulation, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyoxGIN-kWc
Ian Plimer has no entry in Cookerpedia- stay smart Dr Duk, it’s obviously a false flag psyop.
Bar Beach Swimmer says:
February 18, 2023 at 2:03 pm
OldOzzie says:
February 18, 2023 at 1:32 pm
This is what we’ve known for generations. To the left, we are the proverbial mushrooms – kept in the dark and surrounded by bullsh1t.
On a better note, apart from Tuesday, beach going everyday this week – absolutely magic weather, water temp, tides and waves.
Bar Beach Swimmer,
Just to cheer you up – from Pravda SMH no less
Why Sydney’s water temperatures are warmer than normal
If you’ve enjoyed swimming in some nice warm waters off the East Coast this week, you’re not alone. Around Sydney, water temperatures have hit 26 degrees in the past week, 0.6 degrees above the monthly average.
University of NSW professor of oceanography Moninya Roughan said some parts of the ocean along south-east Australia are about three degrees warmer than average.
Ocean temperatures around Sydney in the past week have not dropped below the monthly average of 24.8 degrees. On Tuesday, the city recorded temperatures of 25.4 degrees. Meanwhile, sea temperatures in Byron were 26.7 degrees on Tuesday, 0.4 degrees higher than the monthly average. Huskisson was 0.3 degrees warmer than the monthly average of 22.6 degrees.
But some locations remain just below their monthly average, with Coffs Harbour reaching only 24.6 degrees, below its 25.3 monthly average, while Merimbula reached 21 degrees, just 0.3 degrees below its monthly average. Sea temperatures tend to stay above 20 degrees until about July.
Right-liberals of this variety are a huge problem for right politics. BTW, his use of ‘perverse’ in that sentence makes no sense.
Going back through some articles online from January in The Catholic Weekly I came across an article by Cardinal George Pell who contributed his personal recollections in the magazine dedicated to the memory of Pope Benedict XVI. It was the last article the Cardinal ever wrote for the Weekly.
For a few days in July 2008 Sydney was briefly at the heart of the Universal Church when Pope Benedict visited us for the World Youth Day.
His ‘Alitalia’ plane with few passengers and extra fuel flew directly from Rome to Darwin, then close to the limit for a non-stop flight, and he rested from the long trip for a few days at Kenthurst, the Opus Dei retreat centre north of Sydney.
He told me that after the heat of Rome, his time there with clear days and colder evenings was like Heaven. The gardens are beautiful and the house was spick and span.
When I visited him in late October 2020 he recounted how he had dipped into a German biography of the Opus Dei founder, St Josemaria Escriva, which happened to be in the library!
Excerpt from transcript of a couple of weeks ago:
Four Corners takes you inside the suburban schools connected to the secretive Opus Dei.
Reporter Louise Milligan and the team investigate the disturbing practices of the conservative Catholic organisation and its influence in the NSW Liberal Party.
Closer to home, the headmaster of my local High school is on record, commenting on the high percentage of children who finish primary school, functionally illiterate.
Publicity seeker upset she’s getting publicity – The Australian Megan Markle
Saturday, 18 February 2023
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Members say he is unlikely to push for a vote to allow female members any time soon.
At most of the places these blokes work, they’d have full diversity and inclusion policies + Voice and Pride “this & that”. So it’s not unreasonable to ask them and their Club, what’s the policy on women who identify as men?
I saw this great explanation the other day:
Now guess whether our progressive colleagues want #1 or #2?
Tyops R su!
I bet he is disappointed! Mine is an absolute hoot!
It is going to be instructive to observe how the Liars, the ACT Government and the various press whores wiggle out of the Higgins conspiracy.
There is no doubt that they will succeed, they may even bring down a few extra victims.
Meanwhile, culpable Scummo sits in the Party room schooling the Mute who can’t, or refuses to see a massive political opportunity.
“Yeah, a double this round thanks”.
It’s spelt aitch. Check in a dictionary. And it’s pronounced without an initial aspiration.
And you _rein_ in something obnoxious, you do not reign it in.
There, I feel much better now.
OldOzzie says:
February 18, 2023 at 2:20 pm
Oz, but no mention of the dreaded GW, or likely ocean acidification because of it, how amazing is that!
I have been meaning to read that for ages. Thanks to your reminder I have just ordered myself a copy.
Incidentally, if ever you find yourself holding a high opinion of your fellow man, a quick look at the bestselling list at Book Depository should remedy that in short order.
Bruce – I don’t have the patience to watch the video (did a few seconds: I really don’t like watching vids for some reason.) However the demographics are really really bad as a result of the one child policy. In very few years most of China’s young people will be fully employed looking after China’s old people. The demographic pyramid is turning upsidedown.
The next few years will be interesting. As I linked earlier China may go for Taiwan or Vietnam. They have a fearfully short window in which to do that before their population is too old.
Amazing how such policy settings can turn into geopolitics.
Democratic Party has zombielike lust for power
You have to hand it to Democrat politicians: They are seriously committed to their politics. For them, politics is more important than life itself.
Although, to be fair, that level of commitment is a little easier for them considering their low regard for life in the first place— at least the lives of others.
Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of death in all its various forms.
Democrats love abortion, for example. Two of them, Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, displayed their devotion to abortion by showing up to President Biden’s State of the Union address last week wearing pins that said “ABORTION,” except the “O” was replaced with a heart.
Mr. Markey, who bears a striking resemblance to the Grim Reaper, has been fighting for death in Washington for more than 47 years. In 2021, he drafted a bill to expand the Supreme Court so that Democrats could pack the high court with four more abortion enthusiasts.
You literally cannot make this stuff up. Can you imagine being a fly on the pearly gates when Sen. Reaper tries explaining all this to St. Peter?
But it’s not just abortion.
Democrats are committed to death throughout all stages of life.
For example, they are tremendous supporters of high murder rates in all the cities they run. In Democrat-led cities, children are killed in drive-by shootings, teenagers are killed in drug wars, and older Americans are killed for their Social Security checks.
Another favorite form of death for Democrats is drug intoxication.
Truly, death in all its forms. And when death is not available, death’s close cousin, misery, will do.
Watching first lady Jill Biden face-smooching the second gentleman at her husband’s State of the Union address last week reminded the world who wears the pants in that family.
She and the entire Biden clan force their doddering patriarch to shuffle around and babble incoherently on stage in order to keep the corrupt family fortune thriving.
The family of Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, also has a zombielike dedication to politics. They definitely love their politics more than life itself — at least more than Mr. Fetterman’s life.
After Mr. Fetterman was hospitalized for a terrible stroke last year, his wife and family forced him back out on the campaign trail. It paid off for the family, who rode the stumbling, mumbling Mr. Fetterman all the way into the Senate.
He has been hospitalized again, according to one newspaper, due to “strains of his recovery, which left him with a physical impairment and serious mental health challenges.”
Despite extraordinary accommodation in the Senate, Mr. Fetterman cannot communicate with people.
Listening to others for Mr. Fetterman, according to the report, is like “trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the ‘Peanuts’ cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered.”
Seriously, who does this to a person? What kind of family dumps a guy out of the hospital, forces him back to the campaign trail and then dispatches him to Washington to live as a mental invalid?
Democrats, that’s who.
Sadder still is that much of Mr. Fetterman’s current condition can be blamed on his wife and family’s refusal to allow him to recover back while he was forced to campaign instead.
“He has had to come to terms with the fact that he may have set himself back permanently by not taking the recommended amount of rest during the campaign,” according to the report.
Such is the lust for power and politics for Democrats.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
I did put that question to the scion of one of the prominent Noongar clans of Western Australia.
“Vook off! You whitefella’s made it easy when you invented motor cars and MacDonald’s!”
Daily Mail.
The same.
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Re “first” nations, the Bradshaws in the Kimberley prove the Aborigines were not here first.
They likely arrived later and massacred those people.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 18, 2023 at 12:13 pm
Interesting, but not a surprising find.
Always thought, that a lot of projective thinking was offered as to what wild or domestic animals normally eat or would eat in case of need to survive.
Pigs are the most omnivorous*, animals on earth.
*Probably very incorrect grammar? One is omnivorous or not, I suppose.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 18, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Pater Zeihan has been looking at this issue for a while.
Bruce – I don’t have the patience to watch the video (did a few seconds: I really don’t like watching vids for some reason.)
However the demographics are really really bad as a result of the one child policy. In very few years most of China’s young people will be fully employed looking after China’s old people. The demographic pyramid is turning upsidedown.
BON,
It was interesting when my wife & I were on a Bus Tour around Norway in 2016, the Chinese Tourists on the same bus were stunned that we had 9 Grandchildren. They kept asking us to SMS photos of our 9 Grandchildren – we politely declined.
Similarly when in April 2018 when I joined my Wife & 2 of her Sisters on a 15 day Trip A Deal Tour to Shanghai then overland to Beijing (note 3 weeks after my 13 1/2 hour Parotidectomy Op at RNSH – I was not a pretty sight) – the Chinese people we met were amazed at photos of 9 Grandchildren
It is sad with 1 child policy one couple can be faced with supporting multiple Grandparents
Gabor says:
February 18, 2023 at 3:13 pm
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 18, 2023 at 12:13 pm
If you suddenly stop hearing from me it’s because I’ve been eaten by the resident Cafe brushtail.
Dead kangaroos make a surprising feast for possums in the Australian Alps (Phys.org, 17 Feb)
Interesting, but not a surprising find.
Always thought, that a lot of projective thinking was offered as to what wild or domestic animals normally eat or would eat in case of need to survive.
Pigs are the most omnivorous*, animals on earth.
*Probably very incorrect grammar? One is omnivorous or not, I suppose.
Lesson on pigs eating humans – Snatch
Proper Body Disposal (using pigs) – Six Pieces, Sixteen Pigs – Snatch (5/8) Movie CLIP (2000) HD
A Penicillin Cure for Ukraine: Russia’s 1B75 Counter-Battery Radar System
The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda
From the man who brought us Trump: The Kremlin Candidate?
comes the instant Sunday Times best seller Killer in the Kremlin.
Based upon his past j’isming, “Hardly any spelling mistakes.” should be the best review
he could expect.
Re “first” nations, the Bradshaws in the Kimberley prove the Aborigines were not here first.
They likely arrived later and massacred those people.
They weren’t here first, but if one of the attributes of a Nation is having their own language, then, yeah, there were many Nations in Australia pre 1788, for maybe 70 or 80 generations, enough time to adapt to the conditions.
@OldOzzie
The pig scene from snatch is brilliant.
I also think that Putin is currently channelling Bullet Tooth Tony in how he is responding to the U.S. and NATO.
Janet Albrechtsen is doing a great hit job on Brittany Higgins, but I can’t
help wonderin’
if it occurred to her to ask Linda [Cartman] Reynolds to state the reason
she
sacked Bruce [Texas Shorthorn] Lehrmann on 26/3/2019?
On the ” they ” bullshit, a friend has a 13 year old daughter who has been indoctrinated at high school.Mum it’s they not him or her.Not up for discussion at the school.
We are lost
Aviation Week this morning:
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
I LOL’d at that headline. The Hobby Club isn’t exactly a “near peer: adversary.
It was his second strike.
He had breached protocol once before.
Sorry, “near peer” adversary.
but if one of the attributes of a Nation is having their own language
Auslan?
It was his second strike.
He had breached protocol once before.
What’s the protocol?
Isn’t it a bit unusual to be sacked on the spot after only 2 warnings?
Ed Casesays:
February 18, 2023 at 3:42 pm
Janet Albrechtsen is doing a great hit job on Brittany Higgins, but I can’t
help wonderin’
if it occurred to her to ask Linda [Cartman] Reynolds to state the reason
she
sacked Bruce [Texas Shorthorn] Lehrmann on 26/3/2019?
Richard Cranium
The answer is in the article, go back and read it.
Richard Cranium
The protocol is security.
As a Spook, you should be aware of that.
The answer is in the article, go back and read it.
Albrechtsen isn’t curios about why Cartman sacked Ol’ Tex, eh?
How ’bout that?
The protocol is security.
Huh?
The PH Security Guards let him in every time, so how is security breached?
I mean, c’mon, so what if Ol’ Tex turned up at the office without his pass, and showed ID manually, couldna Ol’ Cartman made up some cover story to get him off the hook?
She sounds like an uncaring boss, so I can’t understand why
Mr Lehrmann didn’t sue the pants off her.
Your thoughts, Mr SpongeBob?
Let’s just check with Groogs. I’m sure he’s got notes.
Hullo, Toddles can’t get a bowl, Lyon and Kuhnemann cleaning the CurryMunchers up.
“Morsiesays:
February 18, 2023 at 3:47 pm
On the ” they ” bullshit, a friend has a 13 year old daughter who has been indoctrinated at high school.Mum it’s they not him or her.Not up for discussion at the school.
We are lost”
Morsie, tell her to fight back. Go to the school and get in their faces. Make continual complaints via writing to the Education Department. Let the school know you are sending written complaints. Make a complete nuisance of herself. See if your friend can get other parents on board. Tell the daughter to fight back. Let the daughter know you will stand up for her if she gets into trouble.
YOU. DON’T. JUST. GIVE. UP.
Lisa blindsided Higgins with the question about panties and Higgins wasn’t savvy enough to pull her upon it.
Let’s just assume that Lisa isn’t on Higgins Christmas card list and that Channel 10 regard her as Jetsam.
Brittany is the Painters and Dockers sans panties. No telling where this will go.
I’m with Ed in relation to Lehrmann’s sacking.
Had he been sacked for consorting with the Higgins creature, I would understand Reynold’s actions. Standards must be maintained, even amongst the swine.
But a security breach – nah. Different rules for boys.
Reynolds obviously had strong beliefs about Higgins, prompting the “lying cow” comment. But I have never seen an explanation on her part as to what prompted this obviously accurate first assessment.
He’s not a sympathetic figure. He showed zero respect for the job and department he worked for. Defense is very important department.
For anyone interested, Zulu is just starting on Gem
Three-year-old filly Coolangatta is bound for the Ascot festival in the UK in June after winning the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (1000m, $1 million) at Flemington — with a small number of my dollars on her each way ($8.50/$2.40).
Everything so far is entirely consistent with him having given Brittany one to be getting on with on the night in question. Both he and Brittany are now the equivalent of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in this particular drama.
Although Brittany seems happy to step into the limelight or the shadows depending on the last person she spoke to that morning. She appears convinced that she was raped for what that is worth.
I don’t see that Higgins would be ‘blindsided’ by Wilkinson’s question re the removal of underwear.
Harder to understand, for me, is why the accuser fancied him in the first place.
From the article, Reynolds stated that Higgins had not signed the code of conduct. Anyone else know about this? If so, someone in HR stuffed up. It may be the reason for the difference in treatment, although a former breach with a warning would likely be enough for L to be dismissed.
My understanding is that in the 6 hr interview with Lisa Wilkinson Higgins revealed she had not worn panties that night.
This contradicted her saying Bruce removed them.
Bruce had been warned before. Going into a Ministers suite and leaving a drunk female of the sofa is probably not a good career move.
Especially when Higgins threw up in the Ministers toilet and later walked off with a brand name jacket that belonged to the Minister. Said jacket Higgins falsely claimed was in some sort of clothing charity bin that did not exist. Jacket never returned.
Both should not have been there.
Just too many issues with Higgins version, plus lack of actual evidence. She should not be a role model. If I was talking to my daughter about her it would be in the context of don’t be like Higgins.
A pair of infantile lightweights promoted way above their intelligence levels.
A snapshot of the APS.
Prof van Wrongselen shows a pleasing return to form in this weekend’s Paywallian dipping into a seemingly endless well of wrongology. It’s hard not to be impressed.
Here’s a complete wild guess:
Reynolds told Bruce Lehrmann to clean his desk out and go on holidays for a few weeks, with the intention of then sacking Higgins, who had witnessed Lehrmann packing up and leaving.
The plan came unstuck when Higgins disclosed that she had been raped.
That was in effect the end of Reynolds career, but she’s unable to move on.
Here’s how Labor woulda handles this exact scenario:
The {Labor] Minister for Defence Industry Support woulda rang Lehrmann and told him to have the week off.
Once Higgins disclosed that she had been raped, the Labor guy woulda organised a meeting for later that day with themself, the CoS, and Higgins.
They woulda then got busy and by 11:00 the AFP Drug Squad would execute a warrant at Higgins address, find a reasonable amount of Drugs,
end of story, Bruce Lehrmann returns to work after Easter 2019.
This sorta stuff is pretty basic for competent Governments and the fact that the Morrison Government made such a meal of it is the main reason Washington backed Albanese last year..
A pair of infantile lightweights promoted way above their intelligence levels.
A snapshot of the APS.
Wrong.
Higgins and Lehrmann were politically appointed staffers.
Not APS.
In tonight’s episode the part of Prof van Wrongselen is played by George Costanza:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RerJWv5vwxc
That makes it even worse.
Bombing of Darwin commemoration tomorrow. Some might find this interesting:
Comparing Pearl Harbor and the Darwin Raids 81 years on
By Top Ender
Pearl Harbor is often compared to the Darwin attack but the similarities are very few. Although both were surprise initial raids on an enemy of the Japanese Empire, the destruction caused in each raid was disproportionate in the extreme.
Some people say Darwin was ‘bigger’ than the Pearl Harbor strike. For example, the chairwoman of the Northern Territory’s Centenary of Federation committee in 2001 said: ‘It was bigger than Pearl Harbor … and it’s time the nation knew about this.’
Many say: ‘More bombs fell on Darwin’, a phrase now common in much of the publicity surrounding the commemoration of the first raids.
True enough, but it is just used to be sensationalist if used without the correlation that the tonnage of bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor was greater; the Japanese were using smaller bombs in the Darwin raid. It’s a bit like saying the Darwin assaults were more significant than the Nagasaki raid because that attack on Japan only used one bomb.
The following summary figures – drawn from the detailed tables in our book Carrier Attack by Tom Lewis and Peter Ingman (Avonmore) – are:
Pearl Harbor waves:
Total No. bombs: 421
Total tonnage (kgs): 101,420kg
Total weapons released including 40 torpedoes: 461
Bomb tonnage including 40 x 800kg torpedoes: 133,420kg
Port Darwin – Carrier and Land-based strike:
Total No. bombs: 681
Total tonnage (kgs): 114,100kg
The comparison is also a rather disingenuous one. A torpedo strike from a Japanese bomber would do far more damage than a bomb from the same aircraft. As air group leader Fuchida discussed in conferences before the attack, ‘…the torpedoes below the surface would do more effective damage than bombings from the air.’ Torpedoes were not used at Darwin, but they inflicted massive damage at the American base. To just compare the weapons by their weight is to miss this point.
Some say that more civilians were killed in the Australian raids. Untrue. There were 2,388 lives lost in the Pearl Harbor raids compared to 236 killed in Darwin. It’s generally held 68 civilians were killed at Pearl Harbor while 26 were killed in Darwin.
What about the ships sunk?
It has been claimed more ships were sunk at Pearl Harbor than in Darwin. Eleven ships were sunk in Darwin with nine inside the harbour. The largest warship was a destroyer, the USS Peary, with 88 of her crew killed. At Pearl Harbor, all eight battleships of the US Pacific Fleet, the most important capital ship at the time, were sunk or badly damaged. The size difference between a destroyer and a battleship is immense. The comparison is similar to that of a car set beside a three-trailer truck. The firepower is commensurately similar.
Three cruisers (big, important ships), five destroyers, and seven other ships were also sunk or grounded. Most ships were raised and repaired, although for many wrecks this took years.
The strike at Pearl Harbor was a massive loss for American aircraft too, and that raid was far more destructive than Darwin’s. For example, 350 aircraft were destroyed or damaged, whereas in the Australian assault, 30 were lost.
None of this is to say that the 19 February 1942 strikes were insignificant. The attacks were the first on the Australian landmass which signaled a new and sometimes desperate stage of the war which, if Australians had not stood alongside Americans and prevailed in New Guinea, may well have seen invasion.
The writer, Douglas Lockwood, called his 1960s book Australia’s Pearl Harbour. It was the first to be published about the initial Darwin raid. It’s a good and deserved title, but the important differences should be emphasized – not minimized – to do historical justice to both of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Darwin.
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Top Ender is a military historian. One of his most recent publications is Eagles over Darwin (Avonmore), a study of the USAAF fighters that provided the sole air defence of Darwin for much of 1942.
Genius Groogs. You are wasted here.
What a Bunch of Wussies/Wimps Pravda SNH are!
Sydney to swelter on Saturday before southerly brings brief respite from heatwave
The CBD reached a high of 31 degrees while Penrith hit 38 degrees on Friday. Meteorologist Neale Fraser from Bureau of Meteorology said he was expecting similar heatwave temperatures for Saturday.
Liars – Latest Weather Observations for the Sydney Area
Temp°C Sydney – Observatory Hill 18/03:30pm 29.7 – High 30.0 03:41pm
What Real Heatwave was like Melbourne Jan/Feb 1968 over 30C
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1968&p_c=-1481641128&p_stn_num=086071
My understanding is that in the 6 hr interview with Lisa Wilkinson Higgins revealed she had not worn panties that night.
That’s likely, but in the recorded 1 hour [live?] interview, Lisa put her on the spot by asking:
And he removed your panties?
and Higgins responded:
Yes.
This contradicted her saying Bruce removed them.
No.
Lisa set her up, and the Defence Barrister sprung the trap at the Trial a year later by asking Higgins if she was wearing panties that night.
I think you’ll find that Higgin’s Legal team dropped Lisa Wilkinson as a witness quite close to the Trial, which might indicate that Higgins didn’t tell the Prosecution about what Lisa had done until late in the piece.
Conclusion:
Lisa Wilkinson could do parachute jumps outta a snake’s arsehole.
It’s spelt aitch. Check in a dictionary. And it’s pronounced without an initial aspiration.
you don’t do facetious?
Apparently Poulos has been sacked for circulating sexy photos.
It’s like an Everest of dumb. Do these clowns have zero self-control?
I have not yet decided to self identify as a woman. I am waiting to see how the whole Voice reparations things go and might just go for the double and identify as a proud First Nations woman. Just got to be careful which Nation I choose as probably more rent if pick a Nation that covers one of the richer suburbs. Getting 1% rent from Ascot area going to be so much better than Inala area.
Anyway enough of my plans. Now if I was a woman and had been raped I don’t think there is any way I would keep the dress, once decided not to offer it as evidence, let alone wear it again and have photos taken with it on.
Reynolds has clearly explained why she called Higgins a lying cow and it relates to Higgins version of how she was treated by Reynolds and her chief of staff.
Once Higgins got involved with Lisa Wilkinson and her husband, Sam Maiden and Katy Gallagher the case veered towards political aims. Also remember Higgins very early on had Pirate Pete offering a book deal ($300,000?).
After the aborted trial Higgins did say Wilkinson and Maiden were only interested in how to benefit their careers. The hit job on Reynolds and PM and Coalition was a major part of that.
I hope Sofronoff goes for the jugular of most involved.
Interesting post, Top Ender, thank you!
Who will play Pirate Pete in the miniseries when this is all over? Could Rusty pull it off if he lost a few pounds?
“Incidentally, if ever you find yourself holding a high opinion of your fellow man, a quick look at the bestselling list at Book Depository should remedy that in short order.”
you should use Booktopia, it’s Oz owned. Book Depository is now owned by Amazon.
The Albrechtson article was pretty good
Still, if I’d been Reynolds, I’d have left out the ‘sobbing uncontrollably’ account.
She’d been a brigadier
for God’s sake
I don’t see that Higgins would be ‘blindsided’ by Wilkinson’s question re the removal of underwear.
Okay, I’ll spell it out in extremely painstaking detail for you.
Wilkinson conducted a long interview with Higgins prior to the live interview.
Since Rape was the allegation and panties are a hindrance, Wilkinson either musta asked Higgins about her underwear situation or lack thereof
on the night/morning in question, or:
surmised that Higgins couldna been wearing panties since her first conscious awareness was waking up with Lehrmann chock a block up her.
So, when the question was put to Higgins live on National TV:
And he then removed your panties?
she answered
Yes
and fell into the trap.
I’d say no. The ALP candidate in my electorate has resigned after photos from an ‘adult’ party emerged.
My memory is at the start of the trial the prosecution was planning to call Wilkinson but changed their mind.
I don’t think Wilkinson “set her up” with the underwear question. Pretty sure Higgins explained she found it embarrassing to admit pantyless. However Wilkinson to dumb to pick up on the very significant discrepancy and it’s impact on credibility.
The panty issue was raised during cross examination of Higgins and I believe it was at that point where DPP knew could not call Wilkinson. That point alone outweighed any supporting evidence Wilkinson might give. Wilkinson herself would have found it hard to explain.
I was actually looking forward to her evidence as knew it would not go to plan.
Hand back the Walkley Lisa as you know it is tainted.
Anybody seen them together since the trial. After all they were best mates.
“He’s not a sympathetic figure. He showed zero respect for the job and department he worked for. Defense is very important department.”
I agree JC, but no one deserves what’s been done to him and what’s still being done to him. I felt that way about Porter, I never liked him but he didn’t deserve what was done to him either.
As for Brittaneeeee’s inconsistent stories, I’m reminded of what Judge Judy says, “if you tell the truth, then you don’t have to have a good memory‘.
Telstra really is an odious company, it’s odd how that ‘woke’ Belong outfit is a fully owned subsidiary. Seems like marketing over efficiency.
that’s easy. Woke is a subset of stupid.
Ed,
I don’t think it was an intended trap as Wilkinson was fully in Higgins camp and her career would be enhanced by conviction rather than acquittal.
The whole saga ended up blowing back in Wilkinson’s face although still getting paid millions to lie low.
I’ve never understood the term Curry Munchers. I’ve had a lot of curries and munching doesn’t spring to mind.
Btw – I’ll put money on the Indians getting at least 300.
Ed Casesays:
February 18, 2023 at 4:25 pm
I mean, c’mon, so what if Ol’ Tex turned up at the office without his pass, and showed ID manually, couldna Ol’ Cartman made up some cover story to get him off the hook?
She sounds like an uncaring boss, so I can’t understand why
Mr Lehrmann didn’t sue the pants off her.
Your thoughts, Mr SpongeBob?
As with the infamous $576,000m payout, which you hinted had another justification to the publicly acknowledged one, you are again speculating with no basis (except the possibly illegal substance that you seem to be imbibing).
I am surprised that a well-known Spook like you is so blase about security, but standards have fallen in so many fields. You need re-training, or better still, sacking.
However Wilkinson to dumb to pick up on the very significant discrepancy and it’s impact on credibility.
Lisa Wilkinson has been in the game for 40+years.
She’s not dumb.
Thanks Cassie. I will have a look at Booktopia.
Incessantly.
I don’t think it was an intended trap as Wilkinson was fully in Higgins camp and her career would be enhanced by conviction rather than acquittal.
Huh?
Wilkinson set Higgins up, but Higgins took a long time to wake up.
The whole saga ended up blowing back in Wilkinson’s face although still getting paid millions to lie low.
Sure.
Someone’s gotta be the Patsy, Lisa never thought it would be her.
Richard Cranium
This sorta stuff is pretty basic for competent Governments and the fact that the Morrison Government made such a meal of it is the main reason Washington backed Albanese last year..
Hang on, whatever happened to “Scotty”, the famous Stradivarius player? Did Mizzz Knickerless spew in his Strad?
George Dubya StarmerLook at me I’m tough. FOAD you PoS
When the Second Worlds War began, my grandfather, and his brother, were farming in the Eastern Wheatbelt. They held a conference, and decided my grandfather, being married with five children, would remain at home, and run both properties. His brother, being unmarried, would enlist to “do his bit, for King and country.”
Soon after the bombing of Darwin, my grandfather enlisted in the R.A.A.F., leaving my grandmother to manage both said farms, and raise said five children. She swore to her dying day that she should have received a service medal – her contribution to the War effort had been equal to any soldiers!
Listened to the weekly Taibbi & Kirn podcast this afternoon.
Kirn spoke of the homeless encampment in some mid-sized Montana town where he lives.
A chunk of them are from California & prefer to be homeless in Montana because despite of the winter weather they view it as safer.
Just tragic.
Just like Victoria, in the yookay it’s tweedle dee and tweedle dum. A uniparty.
“Once Higgins got involved with Lisa Wilkinson and her husband, Sam Maiden and Katy Gallagher the case veered towards political aims. Also remember Higgins very early on had Pirate Pete offering a book deal ($300,000?).
After the aborted trial Higgins did say Wilkinson and Maiden were only interested in how to benefit their careers. The hit job on Reynolds and PM and Coalition was a major part of that.”
Umm yes, and you can add to the stew the names Mr and Mrs Turdbull, Senators Wonk and Keneally, and yes, Albasleazy. There are other familiar names, all from their ABC. Every single one of them is up to their necks in this. And remember, the Higgins case was a convenient precursor to the Porter rubbish which followed weeks later. It was all carefully and conveniently orchestrated.
A uniparty.
It’s a feature of a post colonial kleptocracy, not a bug.
Have you seen the new Wests Tigers song about their next Premiership, bern?
Thank you for spelling it out.
I beg you to stop using the word “panties”
Wanna do the screenplay Groogs? Drop us an email with your rates,we’ll do lunch.
Dover, please ban dot for discussing fantasies.
Heart breaking fantasies.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Aren’t they Mrs Bandana’s lawyers?
Here’s the song
https://youtu.be/lHytjEj7B9g
At the risk of generalizing, I really think Britain went down the gurgler after bLIAR got elected.
I will try them again. I inquired about becoming an affiliate with them a year ago. They appeared interested until I mentioned NewCat and the web traffic. I heard nothing since. Could be entirely innocent. I don’t know. Might try them again.
I do hate how so many of these formerly independent online booksellers like Book Depository were acquired by Amazon.
Bunnies fans should be happy that Latrell Mitchell is in the best shape of his professional career.
He’s always carried some pudding, but not this year.
Either that or he’s wearing a girdle today.
Agree 100%, Cassie. He deserved to be fired 10 times over but not the rest of the crap. The Def Dept is a very serious arm of government deserving total respect – not the late night walk-in drunk as a skunk with a woman under your arm. Def is ~three or four depts that are totally necessary.
Dot, just stop it.
I see Moby Dick with a forward by Nathaniel Philbrick is in the New Catallaxy Amazon store.
If you are inclined to read the greatest novel in English – and you should! – do yourself a favour and also pick up Philbrick’s slim Why Read Moby Dick? (Penguin, 2011), which includes a brief & helpful chapter by chapter commentary.
Hahahahahaahaha
Always ask for the money upfront from crooks.
Turn around, look at what you see, yeah-eh
In her face, the mirror of your dreams, who-oh
Make believe I’m everywhere, hidden in the lines
Written on the pages is the answer to a neverending story,
Neverending story-eeh
Props to Gary Jack
Hard to keep up. I still use Abe Books. Is there an alternative? For stuff in print I just go through a local bookshop, even the localDymocks franchisee who stopped them closing the store.
Stupid Swedes.
Imagine the debt collectors.
Hi, this is Sven.
One does not preclude the other.
No great loss to Breakfast television. Karl is the real star.
Huh? … Oh, I see.. she’s been in the game for 40+ yrs. 😛
I recall the Norks weren’t adverse to a bit of drug smuggling using diplomatic immunity
Yes. It’s possible. The Dolly editor is not the smartest person in the room, regardless of success.
She rode the #metoo wave. I hope it’s a dumper.
TV wasn’t called the idiot box for nothing. Done more harm than good imo.
I thought they were dead.
That is a bold claim Roger, but not entirely without merit.
Did you notice an influence of Anglo-Saxon and/or Old Norse alliterative poetry in it? I found that quite striking in some parts.
The conduct and the attitude in this video is grotesque.
W.K. ‘Ken’ Trewick died on February 7, aged 97, according to today’s Courier Mail classifieds.
Ken Trewick won the 1950 Stawell Gift, there was a terrific interview with him in one of the papers about 20 years ago.
Moby Dick…wonderful story.
Long ago, SincCat had a Moby called Halladef. I asked them (for I don’t know whether they were male or female) whether they enjoyed reading Melville. The answer was they’d enjoyed it backwards.
A better class of troll in those days.
He must read the Cat. A certain personage described Lowie as a “destroy the village in order to save it” ideologue back on Tuesday.
For example, in the first paragraph of Chapter 59—Squid:
Black sky in Sydney’s west after an “unheard of summer’s day” (i.e. barely hit 35 degrees) today.
Gerbil Worming, ’tis alleged.
When too much illiterate innumerate anti-scientific fact and evidence free ahistorical fabricated hysteria purveyed by serial collectivist wrongologists is barely enough.
I tells ya. 😕
Outstanding literary references (even if one of them was mine). Well done Day Shift.
Top Ender at 5:08.
Did you run that by Googlery before publishing?
I mean, you don’t want to embarrass yourself by falling foul of the Fact Checker.
Quite a few decent summer’s days in Melb lately. A slightly autumnal feeling today. Rather nice.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Only in May, milt. Although here it will be the gaudy Tibouchina being shaken, not the delicate blossom.
Lovely and temperate.
“He must read the Cat. “
I think a few Sky commentators also lurk here.
dover0beach says:
February 18, 2023 at 6:31 pm
The conduct and the attitude in this video is grotesque.
The American Amish 13% strikes Very Hard with his Fist to the Side of the Face of an Old White Lady – They Really Haven’t Left The Jungle & He does look like the Ape that he is – What a Miserable Race of People are American Amish!
His Mate filming, who thinks its Funny, does actually speak American – just grunts & laughs like a Gorilla
Brilliant man
Rabz says:
February 18, 2023 at 6:33 pm
He strikes me as a “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” type of ideologue.
Indians in trouble. Would be great to see them come undone in the 4th innings even if it means an Australian win.
doesn’t actually speak American – – just grunts & laughs like a Gorilla
I hope that Ape and his Gorilla mate get arrested for that attack.
And sent to jail for it. NO nice white magistrate impressed with his heartbreaking background.
When I was a kid, the heatwave involved several days over 40°.
35° being the heat wave could only occur if the baseline lower. That is, due to global cooling.
eurT
A better class of troll
who considered it an eagle-eyed pick up
When I was a kid, the heatwave involved several days over 40°.
Same here. However BOM have contorted meanings and records so far now, Euro heat waves are now the standard.
No “man” dares to intervene?
I hope that Ape and his Gorilla mate get arrested for that attack.
Not enough Lizzy, they need to get ventilated by a bystander.
Real Africans would machete these animals to death out embarrassment.
Your wish was probably granted Lizzie.
That was the big end of a year ago in Atlantic City New Jersey, the assailant was arrested – Police must love it when these morons post the evidence videos direct to Facebook, saves a bit time that would otherwise be used working out who done it.
Yes, Hugh; it’s a treasure trove of poetry and lore, ancient and modern.
That’s why a guide like Philbrick is helpful.
The first edition I read back in the ’80s was copiously annotated.