Open Thread – Tues 21 Feb 2023


Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s


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calli
calli
February 24, 2023 4:30 pm

The Bombay Sunset was on special at Dan’s. Rather nice – cardamom and mandarine. They suggest you drink it with a bit of star anise and an orange wheel in the glass. Did just that and….mmmmm.

Very cocktailly. And a little fruit for nutrition.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 4:33 pm

TFM:

“I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old author exclaimed. “Just get the duck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
Reiterating that whites need to “escape,” Adams said that he had already done so by moving to an area “with a very low Black population.” He then cited Black CNN anchor Don Lemon to justify his assertion that there’s a “correlation” between a “mostly Black” neighborhood and “a bunch of problems he didn’t see” in majority-white areas.
“So I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” Adams huffed. “It doesn’t make sense. There’s no longer a rational impulse. So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off.”
He continued: “The only outcome is I get called a racist. That’s the only outcome. It makes no sense to help Black Americans if you’re white. It’s over. Don’t even think it’s worth trying.”

He’s got a point, you know that, don’t you?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 24, 2023 4:33 pm

Qantas applies to dismiss case by pilot allegedly told to ‘go blonde and wear a push-up bra’

By Robyn Ironside
Aviation Writer
@ironsider
3:13PM February 24, 2023

Qantas has applied to the Federal Court to throw out a case brought by a female pilot who claimed she was told to dye her hair and wear a push-up bra if she wanted to succeed.

In documents filed in court, Qantas described the allegations made by Davida Forshaw as “an abuse of the court process”.

An outspoken advocate for gender equality, Ms Forshaw lodged her complaint in the Federal Court late last year, alleging her career was hindered by male superiors who made inappropriate remarks and advances.
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In one of the most damning allegations, Ms Forshaw claimed she was told she would “do a lot better” if she dyed her hair blonde and wore a push-up bra.

According to the documents filed by Qantas, Ms Forshaw began as a pilot under training in November 1999, and most recently held the rank of first officer on Boeing 787-9s in 2018.

She had begun command training in a bid to be promoted to captain, but this stalled in late 2021 when she failed a module.

The documents noted Ms Forshaw had not been an active participant in the Qantas workforce since October 25, 2021.

Most of Ms Forshaw’s allegations were denied by Qantas, which described her statement as “embarrassing, vague and an abuse of court processes”.

In the justice system, an embarrassing claim means its susceptible to several meanings, or is inconsistent or unintelligible.

The allegations in question related to comments she said were made by colleagues, denigrating International Women’s Day, remarking on her appearance and generally belittling female pilots at unspecified dates.

An interlocutory application sought to have her entire claim struck out, and for Ms Forshaw to pay Qantas’s legal costs.

Her lack of progress through command training was due to “unsatisfactory performance” and not discrimination or bullying as Ms Forshaw alleged, the Qantas defence claimed.

In one particular simulator session involving cold weather operations and a diversion, Ms Forshaw complained she was not given a rest break, and the trainer ended the session before the aircraft landed.

The Qantas defence said no break was taken because Ms Forshaw decided to divert the Sydney-Queenstown flight to Auckland, which was further than the alternative of Wellington.

The training captain then stopped the simulator before the aircraft landed because “Ms Forshaw had a missed approach and the plane was covered in ice”.

Her formal complaint about the session resulted in an internal investigation during which the employees she accused of wrongdoing were stood down. Ultimately her claims of misconduct and discrimination were not substantiated, said a Qantas spokesman.

As well as monetary compensation, Ms Forshaw sought court orders for Qantas to establish a quota system to increase the number of female pilots on staf

Qantas’s defence said Ms Forshaw was not entitled to any financial relief and asked for the application to be dismissed.

Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein was representing Ms Forshaw and said Qantas’s latest legal manoeuvre was “the Qantas way”.

“In the face of serious allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination both from our client and by Elizabeth Broderick in a recent report on Qantas’ culture, Qantas’ latest legal manoeuvre is unfortunate but entirely predictable,” Mr Bornstein said.

“My client would like to thank the numerous people, including many women she worked with, who have supported her since this matter became public.”

At the time of filing, women accounted for 7.2 per cent of the airline’s pilots, and 16 per cent of captains.

No date has been set for the next court hearing in the case, before Justice John Snaden.

sfw
sfw
February 24, 2023 4:36 pm

Apparently I’m not permitted opinions as they can be confused with assertions. Anyway we were off to the local picnic races tomorrow but the racing has been cancelled at the last minute due to ‘track conditions’. I don’t get it, we’ve had perfect weather the last few weeks, a little rain, a week ago, temps haven’t been too hot, low 30’s max. So how can a track be declared unsafe at the last minute? Surely it would’ve been obvious last week.
They’re still having the day itself but no racing.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 4:40 pm

Apparently I’m not permitted opinions as they can be confused with assertions.

Stop it with the infantile nonsense. You’re at liberty to make any comment you want including assertions. However, your assertions are also contestable.

Now, explain how the welfare/ immigration nexus would work if we’re going to clean up the cesspit.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 4:40 pm

Dr Faustus says:
February 24, 2023 at 3:15 pm

$360m divided by 70m megawatt hours = $5.14 per megawatt hour just for recurrent labour.
Is that right?

Yes – on those assumptions.
And, using a more reasonable range of capacity factors $10 to $15/MWh.

Yes.
Totally unrealistic to assume generation from all units 24/7, but that was just to get a baseline recurring labour cost as a bare minimum. They can’t claim multiplier downstream jerbs, because jerbs which exist because of power generation exist now using coal generated power. The corollary of saying “it will create lotsa jerbs” is “this power will be very expensive”.

Then add on to that the non-labour opex and capital cost recovery on a coupleplus $billion spent on a supply base, heavy lift cranes, workboats, and harbour infrastructure.

The offshore maintenance costs will put offshore oil and gas in the shade. Speaking of which, the Victorian Government is trying to force Esso to pull out all the concrete foundations and steel piling as part of the decommissioning of Bass Strait offshore oil and gas infrastructure. I assume the wind farms will have to factor in the same level of remediation. (/sarc)

Johnny Rotten
February 24, 2023 4:44 pm

Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
February 24, 2023 at 3:49 pm
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher is expected to tell state digital ministers she wants legislation for a new digital identity scheme to be introduced in the spring

What has anything digital got to do with a jumped up so called Finance Minister. Just give her an Abacus and a dummy and put her back in the corner. She can the suck on her thumb and think about the “Mean Girls”…………..BTW, where is Wenny Pong and Christina Kenneally?

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 4:45 pm

According to the documents filed by Qantas, Ms Forshaw began as a pilot under training in November 1999, and most recently held the rank of first officer on Boeing 787-9s in 2018.

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/qantas-moves-allay-project-sunrise-fears-among-pilots/

Her salary is presumably 302k p.a.

Cry me a river.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 24, 2023 4:45 pm

Even death I still serve (featuring the greatest mini ever made)
Buddah, dakka dakkadakka

Zipster
February 24, 2023 4:45 pm

A place of bonhomie and good humour, if you will.

just like the cat!

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 4:49 pm

Boambee John:
Clever Moore:

That’s why our first priority is creating a city for walking, cycling and public transport – this is the most effective way to reduce emissions from transport. We must improve accessibility while reducing the amount of driving that is necessary.”

A complete inability to understand that others may not like walking, cycling, and public transport, and it’s coupled with an absolute refusal to allow others to live their own lives without Moores ‘guidance’.
“How dare you not agree with meeee!”

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 4:49 pm

The Venerable Dreadnought Lizzie.

Primarch of the Space Corgis.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 24, 2023 4:50 pm

Lysander, how does the Prof come up with the (in the analogy) the day and time that humans disappear? Average durations for species?

Bluey
Bluey
February 24, 2023 4:50 pm

Barking Toadsays:
February 24, 2023 at 4:01 pm
Simple slogan for the Opposition on superannuation and government interference…..

“It’s your money not the governments!”

The only problem is that the bulk of people’s money is invested in “Industry Funds” controlled by the unions. The fund managers are subject to the whims of directors, mostly union appointees or Labor friends.

Their fiduciary responsibility has already been compromised by investment in lefty duds such as renewables and constant advertising costs. Not to mention sponsorships of sporting clubs and events which guarantee directors access to the private box. Money well spent for fund members – not!

The real target of the trainee treasurer and albosleazy is self managed funds. Those, for the moment, outside the control of union funds. Some years ago it was estimated that you needed at least $200k to have a smsf to cover regulatory costs. That, no doubt, would have risen over the years.

But there is no doubt this government wants to get rid of all smsf and concentrate control of industry funds. The pool of funds is too much to resist and it was always going to be the case once unions got involved.

The wife of a bloke at work is employed by one of the largest super funds. He’s relayed that she’s constantly got to make the former union people pull their heads in about using the funds in super for things like dinners, business class flights for personal reasons, etc. They’re usually carrying an attitude of it being their money to play with, as that’s what they’re used to in the union.

Zipster
February 24, 2023 4:52 pm

As well as monetary compensation, Ms Forshaw sought court orders for Qantas to establish a quota system to increase the number of female pilots on staff

what could possibly go wrong!!

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 4:52 pm

That’s brilliant mole.

cohenite
February 24, 2023 4:54 pm

Robert Sewellsays:
February 24, 2023 at 4:33 pm
TFM:

Some blacks are a symptom; but the disease is white progressives. These people are uniformly a cancer in Western society. As I’ve said no progressive can survive in other than Western democracy, yet they devote their lives to destroying Western democracy.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 4:55 pm

Ms Forshaw sought court orders for Qantas to establish a quota system to increase the number of female pilots on staff

What a crazy bint, pulling 300k and crying foul she’s not on 450k with a 50/50 gender ratio.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 4:57 pm

the disease is white progressives

Preach it brother.

Johnny Rotten
February 24, 2023 4:59 pm

Blueysays:
February 24, 2023 at 4:50 pm
Barking Toadsays:
February 24, 2023 at 4:01 pm
Simple slogan for the Opposition on superannuation and government interference…..

“It’s your money not the governments!”

Correct, and the Trustees of Superannuation Funds just like a Family Trust are legally bound to look after the best interests of the Beneficiaries. So good luck Guv’ment in trying to swing the money towards idealistic ventures. The Lawyers will have a field day if those ventures are proved to be sub optimal investments and the Trustees will get their arses kicked good and proper. And rightly so.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 5:01 pm

I want to see a 50/50 quota on steel fixers and concrete placers. The chicks will be lining up.

In other mysteries, I watched three specimens of male toxicity and supremacy push a small stalled car around a roundabout this afternoon while the female driver steered.

Why didn’t a swag of chicks leap out of their cars to push too? Lazy slags.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 24, 2023 5:01 pm

I have, at last, come to embrace the idea that many people are like the boiling frog.

Like a frog in water that is slowly but steadily heated, people will eventually notice it is too hot and get out.

And again, just as no matter how simply you explain something to a frog, the frog doesn’t understand…

* It really is a myth that frogs can be boiled if the rate of warming is slow enough. Too much heat affects their physiology and makes them look for somewhere else, just like any creature. Cold blooded creatures have an optimal range of body temperatures (broader than mammals) which they try to keep to.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 5:01 pm

Australia has perhaps the most generous welfare benefits in the developed world. Can you explain how you would square the welfare/immigration circle with an upside down age pyramid?

Eliminate the financial disincentives for having kids / more kids:

1). Back when we had an above replacement level birth rate, there were tax concessions for having kids.

2). Incentivise marriage and marriages capable of producing children by having taxation on a family basis rather than an individual basis.

3). Reduce the cost of housing by nuking from orbit every single planning department.

4). Implement these policies and drastically down size immigration to reduce demand driven prices across all goods. Allow time for the policies to work.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 5:05 pm

what could possibly go wrong!!

Maybe some affirmative action based plane crashes from an airline that has never crashed would wake Australian’s up?

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 5:05 pm

And if you’re wondering about my lack of leapage, just returned from the quack – suspected meniscal tear and confirmed baker’s cyst. I wondered why my knee hurt.

Stupid gardening. And even stupider gardener.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 24, 2023 5:05 pm

Some blacks are a symptom; but the disease is white progressives. These people are uniformly a cancer in Western society.

The same sort of “right on” types that promoted rap and the worst aspects of ghetto culture as the only authentic way to be black?
The ones who set up various grievance “studies” devoted 24/7 to manufacturing separatism under whatever can be manufactured?
Those ones?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 24, 2023 5:06 pm

I promise not to mistake the Silvo for the drink.

How will you know?

Just kidding.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 24, 2023 5:06 pm

I want to see a 50/50 quota on steel fixers and concrete placers. The chicks will be lining up.

I want to see a 50/50 quota on infantrymen, sorry, infantrypersons.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 5:07 pm

Too late MoLo. Aaaaarrrrgh….

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 24, 2023 5:09 pm

I was just at Damn Murphy’s to get some wine for dinner. They had the ‘everything but heterosexual’ flag-sticker on the floor.

I thoroughly enjoyed walking on it, smudging it with the God-knows-what the soles of your shoes pick up from walking around outside.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 24, 2023 5:13 pm

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher is expected to tell state digital ministers she wants legislation for a new digital identity scheme to be introduced in the spring

Curious she’s doing this on the very same day that Tony Blair and Willie Haigh are advocating exactly the same thing:

“Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the ex-leader of the Tory Party William Hague have called for a “technological revolution” in how the state monitors citizens, including the imposition of a digital ID that would include swaths of personal data, in a scheme being likened to Communist China.”

Smells very WEFish to me. Maybe some journo could as Katy if our version could be “likened to Communist China” also.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 24, 2023 5:17 pm

Alice Springs animals

Don’t know how to link – Michael Smith News. School principal in Alice Springs intervenes to save a girl being bashed by five others.

Delta A
Delta A
February 24, 2023 5:24 pm

And I’m polishing the silverware which was looking remarkably dingy.

I’ve collected a lot of silverware over the past 50 years and I’ve always loved to keep it shiny bright. However, last December when I unpacked the table silver (one five branch and two individual candlesticks) prior to Christmas, Son in Law implored me to leave it in all its dinginess because it tied in so well with the rustic ambiance of ‘the great hall’ (as the kids term it).

I suppressed a pedantic grr! and handed it over. And he was right. The table looked wondeful and, as the day progressed, rivulets of red and white wax trickled over the classic shapes of the candlesticks, entertaining our 18 sit-down lunch diners. Next day was a ‘cuzzy’ party for all the nieces and nephews from all over Australia – about 65 of them with their assorted hangers-on. And the wax decorated candelabra remained on the tables, albeit with new candles. (Naughty, I know, but I don’t seem to be so fussy these days.)

Daughter did, at least, remove the red drippings for her mother in law’s 90th birthday party in January, and filled the (still dingy) candlesticks with pink candles to match the theme of the day: everything pink. Balloons and streamers fluttered around the great hall and, after another week of cooking, an amazing buffet covered the huge table.

Dear Alma sufferes dementia, but she had a ‘good day’ for her party, recognising almost all of her 50 guests, including the KI contingent; our son and partner, and two grandchildren and their partners and a great granddaughter.

Now my candlesticks are covered in pink waxy wiggles. And still dingy. I expect that they shall remain that way until the first weekend in March, when Granddaughter celebrates her 21st. More cooking, cooking… and more fun with 60 exuberant youngsters.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 24, 2023 5:31 pm

Fixing the birth rate?
Easy

Probably this.
But with real women stuck in the glass domes.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 24, 2023 5:35 pm

BoN chinwagged:

Smells very WEFish to me.

Nationalism is soooo 1943.
Plus you don’t need to invoke the WEF to explain this international co-incidence in timing.
It’s Five Eyes deciding what they wanted and coaxing the politicians into announcing it.

Pogria
Pogria
February 24, 2023 5:50 pm
JC
JC
February 24, 2023 5:52 pm

rickw says:
February 24, 2023 at 5:01 pm

Australia has perhaps the most generous welfare benefits in the developed world. Can you explain how you would square the welfare/immigration circle with an upside down age pyramid?

Eliminate the financial disincentives for having kids / more kids:

1). Back when we had an above replacement level birth rate, there were tax concessions for having kids.

2). Incentivise marriage and marriages capable of producing children by having taxation on a family basis rather than an individual basis.

3). Reduce the cost of housing by nuking from orbit every single planning department.

4). Implement these policies and drastically down size immigration to reduce demand driven prices across all goods. Allow time for the policies to work.

Those are some decent inducements in a highly taxed, high welfare state. Presumably the money for that is going to come from somewhere. Assuming we’re going to keep the current welfare arrangements while adding new welfare, who is going to pay for it?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 24, 2023 5:54 pm

Mastercard, Australia Post and Australian Payments Plus developed identity verification solutions several years ago, but have been awaiting legislation to give them liability protection for any errors.

That didn’t work out well for covid vaccines.
The thinking about internet banking security was that the liability should be with the party who has the greatest ability to prevent damages, which was the banks not the customers. Should this be similar?
Unless we want “switched at birth” stories to become more common… I’d say the platform operator should be liable and they must be able to transfer part of that risk to the software vendors.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 24, 2023 5:54 pm

Simple slogan for the Opposition on superannuation and government interference…..

“It’s your money not the governments!”

Is it though?
Since the HC in 2010 said Super was constitutional because it was actually a tax , I am surprised nobody has tried the”it’s a tax therefore really belongs to government” line.
.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 5:55 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 24, 2023 5:57 pm

Colonel – Certainly true, plus that the Australia Card was an initiative of the ALP. Fortunately the blowback at the time forced Hawke to pull his head in. Now though, more than thirty years later, the frogs have been warmed up nicely.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 24, 2023 6:00 pm

I think we are at the stage of deserving MMT economics.

Assuming we’re going to keep the current welfare arrangements while adding new welfare, who is going to pay for it?

Magic money tree.

On that (sort of) the price of salt has gone up nearly 20% in the last few months.
Demand is rising at a steady/normal rate, as best I can tell.
Seems the inflation is rolling through to even the most basic commodities.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 6:01 pm

The massive tea service was a commemorative gift to a forebear. My mil decided to bequeath it to the eldest son of the eldest son, in other words she knew I was OCD enough to clean it.

The inscription is dated 1899, the silver from Hardy Bros in Sydney. Quality stuff but hideously scrolled and embellished with the family firebird. I look at the date and wonder…only fifteen years until the world went quite mad. How many of the subscribers lost their own lives, those of sons and grandsons?

It’s a link to the past. Along with the silver goblets a couple of young idiots toasted their wedding with forty six years ago and a little flotilla of inscribed christening mugs – those of the parents and their children.

History at the end of a polishing cloth.

miltonf
miltonf
February 24, 2023 6:01 pm

Cut taxes, affordable energy, affordable housing- the birth rate will go up. Like in Hungary.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 6:06 pm

Without giving myself a big head, I find most of you, even those whom I disagree with strongly and/or a lot, to be fairly intelligent.

Having to posses above average IQ to recognise what miltf said at 6:01 PM today as true, is truly terrifying as a former economist.

rosie
rosie
February 24, 2023 6:07 pm

Don’t do it JC.
Pretty sure the concerts in circus maximus are all held in the huge grassed area, not in the cool bricked space.
Springsteen in circus maximus 2016

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 6:08 pm

Heh. And I was the first to give it a dickless uptick.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 24, 2023 6:11 pm

Without giving myself a big head

Love is love?
Or is that the name of the ABC madi gras float this year?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 24, 2023 6:16 pm

To be fair Hungary has been totally abolishing income tax for women with four or more children. Now that is what you can call a powerfully targeted incentive!

China has started too:

Chinese City Paying $73 a Month to Families for Having Third Child (20 Feb)

Which suggests interesting things about near term Chinese political future. At least they’re doing something though. But by contrast in the West we’re too busy trying to get young women to identify as qwerty:

The Daily Chart: The Transgender Social Contagion? | Power Line (23 Feb)

Scary, scary numbers. I reckon our birth rate is going to take even more of a dive over the next few years due to this galloping mass insanity, which is what it is. The mRNA vaccine effect on fertility isn’t going to help either.

rosie
rosie
February 24, 2023 6:17 pm

Labor can’t even consider co payments or income assets testing for ndis.
No major party in Australia is remotely interested in limiting existing welfare.
What we have is Labor honking that tax rates on super contributions are concessions that take away money that is rightly the government’s to spend.
None of it rightly the money of those who earned and saved it.

miltonf
miltonf
February 24, 2023 6:18 pm

Thank you to you both- it’s not ever hard to do, it’s like they deliberately don’t do it.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 6:18 pm

Having to posses above average IQ to recognise what miltf said at 6:01 PM today as true, is truly terrifying as a former economist.

Dot, MiltF

Yes, it makes sense. Another descriptive way of saying “cut taxes” is cut spending. What are the chances of that in modern Australia? You would have to upend a large number of societal norms in order to do that. The Libs agreed to the NDIS, which began in 2013/14 (?) and is now costing around $30 billion a year. Imagine cutting a few lines in the part of the budget, and then their ABC doing an entire special about the kid with two heads and six arms needing financial support from da government, they’d starve otherwise.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 24, 2023 6:18 pm

Robert Sewell says:
February 24, 2023 at 3:54 pm

Old Ozzie:

The Twitter tycoon singled out Victoria Nuland as the most pro-war voice in Washington

I was unable to find out if she had children. Can anyone help?

Children Two (David & Elena Kagan)

Victoria Nuland Biography

Victoria Jane Nuland is an American diplomat currently serving as the Under-secretary for Political affairs in the department of state. She is well respected for holding important positions including that of permanent representative for NATO in the USA.

Early Life

Victoria Nuland was born on 1st July 1961 to her parents Sherwin B Nuland and Rhona McKhann in New York, USA. She is known to be of mixed ethnic background as her father is Ukrainian Jewish. Her father is known to be a surgeon by profession but there is no information available about her mother’s occupation. She is also believed to be a single child. She is known to have completed her high school education from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979 and later pursued her Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian Literature, political science, and history from Brown University in 1983.

Victoria Nuland Career

Victoria started her career as a foreign service officer in 1993 as a deputy secretary of state strobe Talbot.

She worked in the position for around 3 years after which she became the Soviet Union affairs, deputy director. She covered Russian internal politics at the US Embassy in Moscow. Later, she became the principal deputy national security advisor to vice president in 2003, and meanwhile, she was also appointed as the US Deputy permanent representative to NATO in 2000. She worked on Russia-USA relations and facilitated the policy decisions.

In 2008, she extensively worked to strengthen allied support for ISAF mission in Afghanistan and on NATO-Russia issues. In the next following years, she served as a Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and also as a faculty at National War College. She was later appointed as Assistant secretary of state of European and Eurasian affairs in 2013 and worked on diplomatic relations with 50 countries in Europe and Eurasia.
Social Media

Victoria is active on her Twitter handle since she joined in 2021 and currently has 17.4k followers. She also has a LinkedIn account but is not much active on the platform. Other than this, she does not have any social media accounts.

Victoria Nuland Biography
Real Name Victoria Jane Nuland
Birth Date July 1, 1961
Age (as of 2022) 60 Years
Birth Place New York, New York, United States
Nationality American
Profession Under Secretary of State
Religion Jewish
Sun sign Cancer

Physical Statistics
Height in feet inches – 5’ 7” – in Centimeters – 170 cm
Weight in Kilograms – 66 kg – in Pounds – 145 lbs
Shoe Size 8 (U.S.)
Hair Color Brown
Eye Color Blue
Body Type Average

Family
Father Sherwin B. Nuland
Mother Rhona McKhann
Sister –
Brother –
Qualification/Education

School –
College Brown University

Relationship Status
Marital Status Married
Who is her husband? Robert Kagan
Children Two (David & Elena Kagan)

Victoria is currently married to her husband Robert Kagan who works as a historian and foreign policy commentator at Brookings Institution.

The couple has been married for the past several years and also has two children together named David and Elena Kagan.

Controversy

Victoria was involved in a controversy back in 2014 when the recording of her phone call with the US ambassador to Ukraine was leaked. The call was published on YouTube and recorded the two discussing merits of various opposition figures in Ukraine. She was criticized for using extreme comments about the EU and upset several EU member nations.

Recently, she admitted that the USA was helping Ukraine to prevent the Russian invasion from seizing the biological research labs. She disclosed that Ukraine has bioresearch facilities that are currently in danger of being captured by Russian troops. She also admitted that the US embassy in Ukraine is funding Ukraine to develop bioweapons against Russia.

Victoria Nuland Net Worth

Victoria Nuland has held several important diplomatic positions over the years and has earned a lot of respect as well as income. Her exact income is not known however her net worth as of 2022 can be estimated to be around $ 2million.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 24, 2023 6:19 pm

Don’t know how to link – Michael Smith News. School principal in Alice Springs intervenes to save a girl being bashed by five others.

Doncha love the sightseers !

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 24, 2023 6:20 pm

Dot says:
February 24, 2023 at 5:55 pm

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-young-men-are-single-most-young-women-are-not/

You have to ask a question. How is that even possible?

Women with Women Relationships in Majority?

Johnny Rotten
February 24, 2023 6:20 pm

Without giving myself a big head

The last thing that this Country needs is another farking economist. A few more Entrepreneurs – YES.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 6:21 pm

Assuming we’re going to keep the current welfare arrangements while adding new welfare, who is going to pay for it?

We shouldn’t keep the current welfare arrangements, the “public service” should be slashed and burned. Billions of dollars right there. For the public service, I would take a top down approach, do most of the firing at the top and middle, destroy any dreams the lower plebs had of a big fat management job.

miltonf
miltonf
February 24, 2023 6:21 pm

Yes, it makes sense. Another descriptive way of saying “cut taxes” is cut spending. What are the chances of that in modern Australia?

Laffer curve JC- cut taxes, real economy grows, tax receipts go up. One lesson from the Trump era, if the real economy is strong, gov debt doesn’t seem to matter.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 6:23 pm

And even with all those incentives the Hungarian birthrate is:

1.56 births per woman (2020)

Albeit it rose from a paltry 1.25 in 2010.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 6:26 pm

Angela Davis …

… just found out she has some Mayflower bloodline which is as lily white as you could get.

She’s a Spook.
What did you expect?

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 6:26 pm

Milt

Yes the Lafer curve works, but we’re not the sort of people who would like it to work. Supply side isn’t just taxes. Lafer is also about raising living standards by cutting costs to consumers and business. Energy would be the glaring example. Trump said go out and produce oil&gas. Not happening here.

Delta A
Delta A
February 24, 2023 6:27 pm

callisays:
February 24, 2023 at 6:01 pm
The massive tea service was a commemorative gift to a forebear.

Lovely post calli.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 6:28 pm

Michael Smith News story here.

Who would want to teach these kids? You’d want danger money.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 6:29 pm

the “public service” should be slashed and burned. Billions of dollars right there.

That was tried in Queensland to a very small degree. The liberal government went from an incredibly huge majority to the Liars party winning government after one term.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 6:33 pm

All this talk of G&T* has made me fetch the bottle of Four Pillars from the fridge and mix up a couple.
Mmmmm.

* “All this talk” = One mention.

cohenite
February 24, 2023 6:33 pm

Pauline’s latest; it’s funny and I’d laugh if I wasn’t flat out shooting fish in a barrel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtNZpzJ5ITo

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 6:34 pm

The Libs agreed to the NDIS, which began in 2013/14 (?) and is now costing around $30 billion a year. I

Incorrect.
NDIS was Gillard’s baby, by the time the Coalition got back into Office it was 2 years old.
Abbott was on record as saying he would never touch the Disability Support Pension, so that was the end of that.
Anyway, the Liberal Party made the NDIS work, the Labor Party have wrecked it again.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 6:35 pm

Johnny Rotten says:
February 24, 2023 at 6:20 pm
Without giving myself a big head

The last thing that this Country needs is another farking economist. A few more Entrepreneurs – YES.

You worship a billion dollar fraudster and mathematical crank.

Shut up.

miltonf
miltonf
February 24, 2023 6:35 pm

Trump said go out and produce oil&gas. Not happening here.

Well that’s where affordable energy comes in. Not happening in the US either now not that saying that gives me any joy.

miltonf
miltonf
February 24, 2023 6:38 pm

At the risk of repeating myself…
Mark Latham’s Outsiders
31 December 2017 at 16:40 ·
THE TOP FIVE POLICIES AUSTRALIA NEEDS IN 2018:
1. Reduce our immigration intake from 200,000 pa to the 20th century average of 70,000, to take the pressure off housing prices, jobs, wages and city congestion.
2. Big personal income tax cuts, reducing the top marginal rate from 49% to 35%, with other rates coming down to 25 and 15%. This would reboot the economy by giving businesses and workers extra incentive. They should work for themselves, not the taxman!
3. End Australia’s energy crisis and reduce prices by lifting all restrictions on energy production. We should be a global energy superpower, with abundant fossil, renewable and nuclear power.
4. Fight back against political correctness by abolishing Leftist sinkholes like the ABC, SBS and Human Rights Commission, and cleaning cultural Marxism out of our universities and schools.
5. Win the war on terror by introducing a Trump-style travel ban and locking up mentally-ill radicals who threaten public safety.

Pogria
Pogria
February 24, 2023 6:42 pm

Sanity From a Surprising Place—French and Dutch Publishers Pointedly Refuse to Censor Roald Dahl
French publisher Gallimard, which has published historical greats including Proust and Camus, sniffed at the Brits as only the French can do: “This rewrite only concerns Britain,” they said in a statement. Furthermore:

We have never changed Roald Dahl’s writings before, and we have no plans to do so today. [Sniff.]
My question was and continues to be: Who had the gall to dare touch a great author’s books? Dahl has sold over 250 million copies of his works, but some woke junior flunkies in a cramped cubicle think they are somehow superior arbiters of taste? It’s mind-blowing.

As if raising a giant middle finger to Puffin, Dahl fans have created a run on his heretofore untouched printed works—and, according to online seller World of Books, sales for his books have shot up 600 percent. Ha!
I never thought I’d say this—but thank God for the French and the Dutch.


Awesome! the full story is at Red State.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 6:43 pm

I think the view that everyone’s favorite subject is their own self sits very well on this blog.
Everyone exchanges their personal opinions and anecdotes, but very few do just that.
We also make links and comments to wider issues. A bit of both makes the blog what it is.
I don’t try to big time my political knowledge for it is quite limited but my experience is wide.

Yes, Cassie is right, two of my sons have lived in Sydney’s woeful public housing and I have at times got them out of there, the high rises at least, to the best of my ability. Small dingy flats are a scenario I am not unfamiliar with, ditto for Sydney’s west. I’ve lived in a few chicken coops myself and still have other rellies by marriage I visit in Sydney and Newcastle living in fairly basic conditions.

I do wonder Joh why you don’t give a serve to others here who have property and assets and who don’t hesitate to say so, gained over a lifetime of profile work, for Hairy especially, and in our case, property smarts together. Try Calli, or Old Ozzie or hit on JC. Some possibly inherited assets, which we didn’t. You could even have done some more property accumulation, Joh, as you had a good steady job. If what I write bores people and I don’t get massive upticks, what does it matter? People can scroll. I don’t mind that you live in a motel; in many ways I admire it, for it is your choice rather than a necessity. Same for Salvatore, where his business is his two room home. To each their own. I’d be happy as a caravanning Grey Nomad if Hairy wanted to be.

Or maybe, as our plan is, we’ll simply stay put now No more moves. 🙂

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 6:44 pm

That was tried in Queensland to a very small degree. The liberal government went from an incredibly huge majority to the Liars party winning government after one term.

Yep.
Instead of sacking all the Directors-General [ like Goss did in 1989], and igniting a Murdoch Press firestorm, Newman took the easy way out by sacking 14,000 little people.
Queensland will eventually forget Campbell Newman, but it will take another 20 years.

shatterzzz
February 24, 2023 6:46 pm

We shouldn’t keep the current welfare arrangements, the “public service” should be slashed and burned. Billions of dollars right there. For the public service, I would take a top down approach, do most of the firing at the top and middle, destroy any dreams the lower plebs had of a big fat management job.

You only have to follow testimony at the ROBODEBT RC to see why the Federal Public Service needs to be decimated from the top down .. Folk on over $250K thru to nearly $1million a year not concerned about the “policy” or problems but simply trying to tongue bath ministers .. ministers who, apparently, don’t care or haven’t a clue as long as they get positive publicity & keep their extravagant salaries, expenses & power-base .. no, real, idea or input into their portfolios just following high level PS “advice” on issues regardless of the consequences ..!
Reality is the only qualification for ministerial office in Oz appears to be the length of the tongue & the brown-nosing expertise on the head tonguester’s rear-end and/or appendage ..!

Chris
Chris
February 24, 2023 6:51 pm

Colonel – Certainly true, plus that the Australia Card was an initiative of the ALP. Fortunately the blowback at the time forced Hawke to pull his head in. Now though, more than thirty years later, the frogs have been warmed up nicely.

Three times is enemy action.
I am interested how to live and resist the evils our society and Government are visiting on us.
We have no Opposition worth supporting. The institutions are wokies wearing skinsuits, and demanding not just respect (h/t Iowahawk) but absolute compliance. The captured education, justice and health systems are teaching kids morally defective views of reality. I am Australian, white, male, of farming heritage, mining industry worker. I like fossil fuels, making loud noises, individual responsibility, banging beautiful women that I have been married to for a long time, and earning wealth for myself and others.
How can I kick the system’s captors in the goolies?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 6:54 pm

RoboDebt is like COVID/19.

Every Welfare recipient who died from 2014 to 2022 necked themselves over the Liberal Party RoboDebt.
According to Labor Party shills.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 6:54 pm

Try Calli, or Old Ozzie or hit on JC.

Why are you doing this Lizzie? I don’t mind a bit of stick, but please don’t direct others to give it to me.

I can do it quite easily by myself.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
February 24, 2023 6:54 pm

In justice is blind news, I see that walloper who absolutely destroyed that Covid protester at Flinders Street station has walked because the chap deserved it and the cop didn’t mean it or something. Victoria – the place to be

Christine
Christine
February 24, 2023 6:55 pm

“sacking 14,000 little people”
more than half were loafers

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 6:58 pm

Hi Calli.
Y’know that Gay brother of yours you’ve been talking about a lot lately?

Do you have his permission to disclose his unusual lifestyle to a bunch of strangers on a Blog?

miltonf
miltonf
February 24, 2023 6:59 pm

Not all public servants are pubic serpents like the humourless parkinson- for some it’s work and work isn’t always easy to find.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 7:00 pm

“sacking 14,000 little people”

more than half were loafers

Uh huh?
The families of loafers don’t matter, eh?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 7:00 pm

I do wonder Joh why you don’t give a serve to others here …

Err, am I not alone in lowering the plimsoll line on the gin bottle?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 7:02 pm

All this talk of G&T* has made me fetch the bottle of Four Pillars from the fridge and mix up a couple.
Mmmmm.

Time for us to think about beginning drinkies too.

Not long back from lunch out and then shopping with Hairy.
We bought an air fryer (friend had one in the UK and we liked it) and replaced a sandwich maker.
Had a pleasant chat with a Chinese Australian sales guy in Bing Lee’s. He wasn’t keen on taxation.
Then we looked at new beds as we are redoing our bedroom. We tried out a king bed that individually moves the separate mattresses up and down. Get on and try it, said the helpful saleswoman, so we did and she drove for us as we tilted this way and that. Just like Business Class, I said. She and I bonded over tales about getting our diamond rings which sparkled so well under the shop lights. She said her lovely one was a ‘peace’ ring. The only way my husband said he’d get some peace, she smiled. I said mine was an ‘eternity’ one. ‘Cos he’s been married to me for what seems like an eternity.

So all in all, a nice sociable afternoon at the shops.

We thought the tilted totally Australian made mattress and base would be very helpful for bed making as we get older. It tilts at both ends. Currently Hairy does the heavy lifting when fitting the corners. Now, as we told her, we have to measure up the room and discuss pros and cons before making any purchase.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 7:02 pm

Not at all, Sancho. Purely medicinal in my case.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 7:07 pm

callisays:

February 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm

Not at all, Sancho. Purely medicinal in my case.

#metoo.
I even measured mine out in a medicine glass.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 7:07 pm

Ed Case is being a snipey little bitch again. At Calli this time.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 7:10 pm

That was tried in Queensland to a very small degree. The liberal government went from an incredibly huge majority to the Liars party winning government after one term.

It wouldn’t be easy.

The structural issues facing Australia can be fixed through disciplined and consistent Government.

Mass migration in contrast is the easy fix that ill disciplined and incompetent government can adopt at any moment as a fix, with some not inconsiderable down sides.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 7:10 pm

Do you have his permission to disclose his unusual lifestyle to a bunch of strangers on a Blog?

Weirdo.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 7:15 pm

In justice is blind news, I see that walloper who absolutely destroyed that Covid protester at Flinders Street station has walked because the chap deserved it and the cop didn’t mean it or something. Victoria – the place to be

You’re kidding me?! That was straight up assault. Lucky not to have killed him given the way the back of his head hit the floor.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 7:16 pm

but please don’t direct others to give it to me.

Apologies Calli, for any personal invasion you felt by my comment.
I will regard your name as off limits in any comment I make from now on.

There are a huge number of well-off others Joh could look to denigrating; that was my point.

I find it very tiresome to have such nonsense directed constantly towards me, that’s all.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 7:18 pm

Hi Lizzie.
Remember “Auntie” Greasy Apron [bless her soul] from Leichhardt that you left your kids with while you were working towards the Palace in Vaucluse:

Back in the 1970s.

Who else was in Auntie’s house?
Did she have a brother in a back room who had been brought up in Mittagong Boys Home before he graduated to Gosford Boys Home, from where he went on to bigger things?
Did you ever check it out first?
Did you even care?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 7:19 pm

That’s two x Four Pillars.
Noice.
But #2 is never quite as good as #1.
I will report back after #3.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 7:21 pm

After #3…

What is this thing called “pain”? 😀

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 7:21 pm

Ed.
Mummy needs her hair brushed.
Go!

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 24, 2023 7:23 pm

The Ramsay Foundation:
A collection of scum and villainy, all looking for the next skin suit.

Sixty-five suckers on Paul Ramsay’s teat. Astonishing ! Spending his money via salaries no doubt, won’t be much let before long.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 7:24 pm

callisays:

February 24, 2023 at 7:21 pm

After #3…

What is this thing called “pain”? ?

Actually, I make mine a bit on the diluted side compared to some, who work on 1/3 gin, 2/3 tonic.
I put a jigger (40 ml) in with 150 ml of tonic, which equals about 8%.
Less with ice.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 7:31 pm

Sancho:
worry about your own Mummy.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 7:34 pm

Anyway, what about Rolfey.

Fled Australia, reckons he shoulda got a medal for murdering 19 y.o. Arnold Walker.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 7:36 pm

Someone, Bob I think, damned all homosexual men as revolting ppl. I don’t agree. Apart from their preternatural kink, most of those I’ve met have been decent and kind. One I count as a friend, he gave me a part in a play he was producing as a much needed distraction from real life when I was in bad trouble. Others I have known have been largely friendly. Two have shown quite extraordinary levels of bitchiness of the sort one might expect from the stereotypes, but no worse than some women. On balance, homosexuals don’t seem to me any worse than human beans in general.

That isn’t to say that what they get up to with each other doesn’t strike me as disgusting, it does, but as long as I don’t have to watch them, I don’t think it’s any of my business.

When they put up posters, it becomes my business. Kudos to the guys who painted over the teddy bear pervert.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 24, 2023 7:39 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 24, 2023 at 6:26 pm
Angela Davis …

… just found out she has some Mayflower bloodline which is as lily white as you could get.

She’s a Spook.
What did you expect?

Richard Cranium

Is there any public figure, anywhere in the world, whom you do not consider the be a Spook?

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 7:39 pm

Ed has some fans.

Give yourselves a pat on the back. You deserve it.

On the subject of my brother, I have never said anything disparaging about him. How could I? I love him, because he is my brother.

Chris
Chris
February 24, 2023 7:39 pm

Lizzie, your writing style, personal stories and wry observations are delightful.

Keep it up!

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 7:39 pm

Avi doing real journalism in Alice Springs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnkcCSPnek

rosie
rosie
February 24, 2023 7:42 pm

Incidentally my Spanish apartment is anything but dingy.
Every room is painted a different colour, the foyer bright blue, bathroom yellow, sitting room cream, kitchen that lovely clay orange, bedroom is white.
Looks grand with the mission brown.
The interior as well as the exterior walls are at least a foot thick but air-conditioning tells me summers are very warm.
Cordoba is looking like one of those places where I could dream of having a little place of my own.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 7:42 pm

Fled Australia, reckons he shoulda got a medal for murdering 19 y.o. Arnold Walker.

Why do you do this? Walker was trying to kill the other cop. He had multiple chances to retreat and the cops weren’t trigger happy.

Just stop you sad prick. People like you are why Aborigines live in fear in their own communities.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 24, 2023 7:44 pm

JCsays:
February 24, 2023 at 6:29 pm
the “public service” should be slashed and burned. Billions of dollars right there.

That was tried in Queensland to a very small degree. The liberal government went from an incredibly huge majority to the Liars party winning government after one term.

The mistake there was mass sackings. Don’t sack anyone, just stop recruitment. Vacancies to be filled internally (thus causing another vacancy). If that cannot be done, monthly submissions to the minister asking his/her/xer personal approval to advertise each individual vacancy.

With regular staff turnover, reductions of 5 to 10% should be possible each year.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 24, 2023 7:45 pm

Anyway, what about Rolfey.

Fled Australia, reckons he shoulda got a medal for murdering 19 y.o. Arnold Walker.

Face-biting, bashing her head with a rock, punching, kicking, pinching her cheeks and choking are among the sickening acts of violence that Arnold Walker inflicted on his girlfriend Rickisha Robertson in the years before police fatally shot him.

Police officer Zachary Rolfe has been found not guilty of murdering Walker.

That Arnold Walker? That Zachary Rolfe?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 7:45 pm

Speaking of Frank Lloyd Wright, I saw a “hosted tour” of some of his houses advertised for an eye-watering amount of money.
I reckoned I could fly up the pointy end to and from the US and to each location staying five-star all the way for that money.
With the added benefit of not having to listen to some coiffured, condescending, Erko wearing, brown shoes/black pants/no socks wanker lecture me all the way.
I think some minor celebrity foodie types work on the same model. Find twenty suckers to pay a fortune for an “exclusive guided tour” which basically funds the host (plus one) first class all the way.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 24, 2023 7:46 pm

Richard Cranium

Abbott was on record as saying he would never touch the Disability Support Pension, so that was the end of that.
Anyway, the Liberal Party made the NDIS work, the Labor Party have wrecked it again.

Define “made the NDIS work”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 24, 2023 7:52 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 24, 2023 at 7:00 pm
“sacking 14,000 little people”

more than half were loafers

Uh huh?
The families of loafers don’t matter, eh?

They certainly matter to the taxpayers who are supporting them by paying loafers. But you should feel free to adopt the family of a loafer, and support them with your own (after tax) income, Dick Ed.

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 7:55 pm

Pity, I thought Martyn Iles was good and effective….

Australian Christian Lobby MD removed by board
Joanna Panagopoulos

Australian Christian Lobby managing director Martyn Iles has had his employment terminated by the board, saying their new strategy would lean towards politics over gospel.

“I hasten to add that there is no question of misconduct. Rather, the Board has reviewed ACL’s strategic direction and decided I am not the right person to lead the revised strategy, which focuses more primarily on political tactics, less on the gospel,” he wrote in a Facebook post.

“Having heard this articulated, I absolutely agree with them that I am not the right person for that vision. I have always been a preacher first, a politician second (or third……)

132andBush
132andBush
February 24, 2023 7:57 pm

I even measured mine out in a medicine glass.

Purist.

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 8:00 pm

“Lizzie, your writing style, personal stories and wry observations are delightful.

I second that.

Keep it up!

I second that.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 8:02 pm

ZK2A:

The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation is preparing to enter the final stage of its epic court battle with Fortescue Metals Group, estimating its financial compensation claim for mining the Solomon Hub could amount to $500 million a year — dwarfing the miner’s previous best offer of $4 million a year.

If Fortescue doesn’t walk away from the project, they are mugs.
The ONLY way to stop this sort of behaviour from the parasite swarm is to tell them to piss off – there’s lots of iron ore out there.
Let the locals who lose out on the $4 million take it out on the scroungers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:03 pm

You have NFI.

15

Just checked back. Someone was over the yard arm around 10.30am.

Plus either 15 manipulated fake dickless upticks, or else this blog has some pretty stupid people on it.

I think it would be great if we could get a listing by hovering over the upticks to see who was really making them. Are there really fifteen people on this blog I would like to have a very serious word to?

132andBush
132andBush
February 24, 2023 8:06 pm

Ed has some fans.

No.
No he hasn’t.

P
P
February 24, 2023 8:07 pm

Pity, I thought Martyn Iles was good and effective….

He was.

He was also against, I believe, the Voice.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 8:09 pm

Rolfey went out that night looking for trouble.
Unfortunately for Arnold Walker, Rolfey also had a Police gun and an attitude that that he was entitled to kill.

Aboriginal people in Yuendumu are still furious about what he has done.

Yet, according to some lifelong Drone in Inner Suburban Sydney:

People like you are why Aborigines live in fear in their own communities.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:11 pm

Guys, including Cassie above, thanks for being here. Beacons of goodwill.

Brainless men and some self-righteous women have fallen before my ‘serious words’, by the way. 🙂

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 8:11 pm

I’m not into inquisitions into who upticks what. Suffice it to say some of us never approve of meanness.

The internet is a strange place full of weirdos. And cruelty. We try to teach this to our children and grandchildren. It also has zero nuance, particularly when a comment is made with a wry face and a degree of amusement.

Muz
Muz
February 24, 2023 8:13 pm

rickw at 7.15pm
I’ve often thought of that young man who was having a chat, on his way home from work, with a young constable just inside Flinders St. Station. He was spear tackled from behind, into the floor and allegedly* fluids were running from his ears, nose, mouth and groin.
I will never forget seeing that.
* internet scrubbed of images of bodily fluids within about four hours that day.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 8:16 pm

Why do you do this? Walker was trying to kill the other cop. He had multiple chances to retreat and the cops weren’t trigger happy.

You’re lying again.
Rolfey had been told that arresting Arnold Walker wasn’t a priority anyway and could be easily accomplished in the daytime.

Rolfey took a unilateral decision to arrest Arnold Walker at a party in the middle of the night, in the dark, among hundreds of people.

The guy is a loose cannon, the NT Police now realise they should never have employed him, and now he’s fled Australia to avoid giving evidence at the Inquest into Mr Walker’s death.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 8:19 pm

“Lizzie, your writing style, personal stories and wry observations are delightful.

I second that.

Keep it up!

I second that.

I find personal details extremely tedious but scrolling past isn’t difficult. Some like that kind of thing, and my tastes are not, and should not, be the arbiter of what is posted here.

It may be a male/female thing. Women seem to want lots of human interest, blokes tend to be more concerned with things and ideas. I like finding out how systems work and I really don’t care about my own feelings, so I don’t give a damn about yours. Your ideas on the other hand I might be interested in.

Oh, and I don’t give a stuff about houses either. As long as they stay dry and a reasonable temperature, I’m happy to live in them.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 8:20 pm

Dover Beach:

US needs to get its house in order.

The author of Dilbert is right. We need to separate the Negros out of society – too many have all sense of civilisation and self control.
Don’t like it? All that’s happened so far is the forced communal living of two different classes of people, one of which thinks they have the right to kill the other “because.”
We separate children who won’t get along for that reason – now we should separate the adults as well.

Gabor
Gabor
February 24, 2023 8:22 pm

So, it’s “Rolfey”
But “Mr Walker”

Says it all.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 24, 2023 8:23 pm

The guy is a loose cannon, the NT Police now realise they should never have employed him, and now he’s fled Australia to avoid giving evidence at the Inquest into Mr Walker’s death.

What parts of the words “Not Guilty” do you have difficulty, in understanding, Grogaarly?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:23 pm

Who else was in Auntie’s house?

You’re an evil creep. Gollum, Gollum.

How did you turn out to be like this? Nature or nurture?
I go for nature in your case rather than something nasty happening behind the woodshed.
But maybe there is yet something you’d like to tell us. Have you done anything very wrong?
We are all kindly ears here.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 24, 2023 8:23 pm

Christine the single News Corp outlet up here has been burying ALP corruption since Beattie in the way they would never with LNP governments.

Not surprised at the tongue bath of the ‘chook. As much as I think the kid Chrisifuli has failed to fire the only defence I’ll give him is what chance does he have if the media ignore the opposition.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 8:24 pm

We separate children who won’t get along for that reason – now we should separate the adults as well.

It’s getting increasingly difficult to tell which is which. Children used to grow up and turn into adults around the late teens. Seems not to happen in many cases these days.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:25 pm

I find personal details extremely tedious

Hey, except in Cuba, sweetie. You had us all hanging on a string there.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 8:26 pm

132andBushsays:

February 24, 2023 at 7:57 pm

I even measured mine out in a medicine glass.

Purist.

Maybe a bit anal.
Before dinner on an empty stomach I tend to take it easy.
No that I have had my Camp Pie and baked beans, any such decorum is out the window.

P
P
February 24, 2023 8:26 pm

Thank you Cassie for your comment re Martyn Iles. Sad news indeed.

Martyn Iles leaving ACL

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:29 pm

I’m not into inquisitions into who upticks what

Inquisitions, or a bit of honesty?

For most things, I don’t really care. But for pile-ons, that’s another story.
Own up to it.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 8:29 pm

But maybe there is yet something you’d like to tell us. Have you done anything very wrong?
We are all kindly ears here.

Who is this directed at?
Myself or Dr Beaugan?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:30 pm

I am off to practice Air Frying.

Wish me luck.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 8:30 pm

Hey, except in Cuba, sweetie. You had us all hanging on a string there.

Can’t I do a travelogue?

Gabor
Gabor
February 24, 2023 8:31 pm

I think it would be great if we could get a listing by hovering over the upticks to see who was really making them. Are there really fifteen people on this blog I would like to have a very serious word to?

It is quite possible you know, available on other blogs and I think on FB too.
Will never happen here I think, too few actual posters and I suppose losing anonymity would kill a lot of traffic.

P
P
February 24, 2023 8:34 pm

Can’t I do a travelogue?

I enjoyed it and I thank you.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 24, 2023 8:34 pm

The ONLY way to stop this sort of behaviour from the parasite swarm is to tell them to piss off – there’s lots of iron ore out there.

Agree, to retain the tenement though they would need to revert to compliance drilling. That could cause some second order effect issues, unless you get the alternate mob to tick the cultural heritage box with enough money to blow at the nearest pub without ever looking at the drill sites…

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 8:41 pm

The Australian Christian Lobby is urging Australians to vote against a voice to parliament, warning that it could become a vehicle for critical race theory or an advocate for identity politics.

That’s Ilesy’s only objection to The Voice?
Critical Race Theory?
Identity Politics.

The guy can’t see the Elephant in the room?
Total fraud.

P
P
February 24, 2023 8:42 pm

DrBG your travelogue gave insight into people and places mostly unknown to us.

I regarded it at the time as ‘off the beaten track.’

Frank
Frank
February 24, 2023 8:42 pm

Actually, I make mine a bit on the diluted side compared to some, who work on 1/3 gin, 2/3 tonic.
I put a jigger (40 ml) in with 150 ml of tonic, which equals about 8%.
Less with ice.

Well, it is pride month after all.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 8:46 pm

Calli:

It most certainly is. A G&T (Bombay Sunset just to annoy the purists). And I’m polishing the silverware which was looking remarkably dingy.
I promise not to mistake the Silvo for the drink.

How can you tell?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 24, 2023 8:48 pm

Signs of the Roman Empire’s collapse taken from this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY3sQwiqniI
Start ticking off all the events as they happen in The West and collect the whole set!

☑ Barbarians invade again and again.
☑ Mad despotic emperors.
☑ Insane levels of factionalism.
☑ Key institutions become corrupt.
☑ Reforms fail.
☐ Plagues that last for decades.
☐ Harvests decline.
☐ The economy collapses.
☐ The Forum (seat of government and a CBD) is abandoned.
☐ The government loses control of the army.

I’ve ticked off a few recent ones to get you started.

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 8:52 pm

“When they put up posters, it becomes my business. Kudos to the guys who painted over the teddy bear pervert.”

Try living in Sydney, the city is awash with it. It’s hard, very hard to ignore the “business”.
The Sydney CBD and the inner city are drenched in “Pride” flags and LGBTQI+ slogans. There are more decorations and banners celebrating “Pride” than there were decorations at Christmas time. Just let that reality sink in, I think it’s quite revealing and very disturbing. Walking home tonight, I thought to myself, we are now definitely living in a post-Christian society. But remember, apparently love is love, in all its ways. Well, I don’t buy that, I never have and I never will.

When it comes to gays, I’ve long been tolerant and most people I know have also been tolerant. I don’t want to criminalise someone’s sexuality unless that sexuality preys on children, but I don’t want it paraded and flaunted in front of me. I was brought up with gay men, my mother always had gay male friends, and I personally still have gay friends, less so than twenty and thirty years ago and you want to know why? Because many are bitchy and nasty, particularly towards women. But I’ll caveat my statement so as to not offend some here, not all gay men are bitchy and nasty. I suspect many here have a family member who is gay. My cousin has been in the same relationship for twenty-five years with his male partner. We were asked to be tolerant and we genuinely and sincerely agreed to this tolerance but I can’t help getting the feeling that this tolerance is now being used to smash us, if we object to a lewd mural, we’re bigots, if we object to men walking in a parade with their bums showing, we’re bigots, and on and on it goes. Also, and we’re most certainly not allowed to discuss this because, you know, even mentioning this fact means that we’re outrageous homophobes, and that is that young male homosexual culture is highly promiscuous, and it was this dreadful promiscuity which gave rise to AIDS and more recently, to Monkey Pox. I remember watching a documentary on how AIDS began. It wasn’t for the faint hearted, how gay men in San Francisco and New York behaved sexually. It was animalistic and that’s unfair to animals. Not even animals behave in such a promiscuous manner. Even the writer Larry Kramer, a gay men, back in the early 1980s urged other gay men to stop having sex because he KNEW what was causing the AIDS epidemic.

Anyway, we’ve now reached a stage where if you question SSM, you’re a bigot, if you question the wisdom of gay couples using surrogates to make babies and then to bring up children, you’re a bigot. Ask Margaret Court, Israel Folau, George Pell and others who’ve bravely popped their heads above the parapet and who’ve bravely refused to kowtow to progressive queer agendas, ask them how they have have been treated? They have been crucified in public, their careers destroyed, their reputations shattered. George Pell even went to jail. Only two weeks ago Margaret Court was defamed in the stadium that bears our name. And there are many more who’ve suffered. Christianity has become marginalised, however laughably the activists are too shit scared to attack Islam and Muslims, oh and which reminds me, there ain’t no “Pride” decorations out in the Western Sydney suburbs of Lakemba, Greenacre and Bankstown. How do I know? I asked someone at work who lives in Bankstown if there were and she responded with a definite NO. Our large institutions have been fully captured by these far-left progressive queer agendas, and those who object, such as myself, keep our heads down. Tomorrow night is Mardi Gras and the police, the navy, and the army will all have men and women marching along Oxford Street, a deliberately political and provocative act. The bottom line is that they have no right to march. And we wonder why Pell was targeted?

Anyway, I don’t think any of my above words are bombastic or ill-considered. I admit I can be guilty of hyperbole but if I have been overly hyperbolic above then I apologise. But quite frankly, I’ve had enough of Pride, of Queers, of Mardi Gras and all the rest of the LGBTQI+ crap, even my midday Pilates class began with the instructor saying that the music was dedicated to “Pride”. I thought to myself, lying on the Pilates reformer machine, WTF!

Oh and at work this afternoon, I went and made myself a cup of tea in the kitchen. Whilst the tea was infusing, I listened to an excited young woman say how she couldn’t wait for the weekend, it was going to be so much better than NYE. Feigning ignorance, I turned around and asked her “what will be so much better?” She looked at me and said “Mardi Gras”. I said “oh”.

Andrew Sullivan, the gay British American writer (who’s also a conservative), who lived through the AIDS crisis in NYC, has warned that there will be a backlash against all of this and that backlash will not be pretty.

Gabor
Gabor
February 24, 2023 8:53 pm

P says:
February 24, 2023 at 8:42 pm

DrBG your travelogue gave insight into people and places mostly unknown to us.
I regarded it at the time as ‘off the beaten track.’

I agree, it was quite informative.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 24, 2023 8:54 pm

I’ve ticked off a few recent ones to get you started.

Obviously partial ticks on the next two, Colonel. WHO is setting up for permanent disease panic plus a bit of climate panic to go along with. And the WEF nutters are banning fertilizer usage because of ridiculous nitrogen “pollution” reasons. The economic collapse is on the horizon with debt mountains getting higher and higher. Currency denaturization via inflation is another one that the Empire had, we’re getting that too – like Weimar, Zimbabwe and etc.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:55 pm

Ed, you, not Beaugan.

I can’t imagine why you think otherwise.
But there is much about you that I suspect I can’t imagine.

Never too late for redemption though, turn over a new leaf here.

duncanm
duncanm
February 24, 2023 8:55 pm

Not sure how many of you have watched the South Park “World Wide Privacy Tour”.

This scene is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5IQAmqVeg

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 24, 2023 8:57 pm

Oops denaturization doesn’t seem to be a word. I can’t remember the technical term though, I think it’s something like that.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 8:57 pm

LOl, Russian window diving is going to be an Olympic sport.

Putin is petitioning the Olympic Committee to make Russian Window Diving an official Olympic sport.

Another Russian Official Found Dead After Apparent Plunge From High-Rise Apartment

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 8:57 pm

Fish is air frying away noisily in the kitchen.

Will this turn out to just be a fad, and we return to saucepan frying? I think that’s likely.

The real reason I wanted it because my friend did her bacon in it and it didn’t splatter everywhere.
I hate it when it splatters on my mirrored splashback, especially when it has just been cleaned.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 8:58 pm

Ed go make Fish n’ Chips.

Makka
Makka
February 24, 2023 8:58 pm

Unless there was a corresponding chainsaw taken to Govt expenditures (never going to happen voluntarily) , adopting Latham’s plan would send our bonds (debt) several hundred basis points higher overnight and the AUD deep into the 50’s. The Govt’s unfunded liabilities would spiral out of control for a time, and there is no guarantee our rent seeking Business sector would even respond by investing in the economy.

We’d be broke, fkd and far from home for a while. Like a decade.

We’ve taken our economy into this shitty dead end with no way out. That’s why our Govts fk about with immigration ponzi , Mardi Gras, Super and renewballs.

calli
calli
February 24, 2023 9:00 pm

We were asked to be tolerant and we genuinely and sincerely agreed to this tolerance but I can’t help getting the feeling that this tolerance is now being used to smash us

Yes. This is the trajectory “tolerance” of the intolerable always takes. And it always works on people of goodwill. They are the targets. It may be the differentiation between the general and the personal.

The Borg sees everything as general. Those of goodwill see the personal.

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 9:00 pm

“Only two weeks ago Margaret Court was defamed in the stadium that bears our name”

that bears her name.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 24, 2023 9:00 pm

Agree with P and upticked her and Gabor, Dr. BG.

The excitement here was intense, as I recall. Will he? Won’t she? What about? etc.
And even the nudity was tastefully done.
And all very cultural, of course. 🙂

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 9:01 pm

Lizzie, I’m going to buy an air fryer. I’ve heard they’re fab.

P
P
February 24, 2023 9:01 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 24, 2023 at 8:52 pm

Your best ever, IMO. Thanks a million.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 24, 2023 9:03 pm

Cassie,

It comes down to public decency. Showing your bum in public in a provocative manner isn’t decent. Mooning people can end up with a fine, so go figure…

I too have had the acquaintance of gays, most I have known are discreet rather than flamboyant.

Roger
Roger
February 24, 2023 9:04 pm

We need to separate the Negros out of society…

Time to step away from the keyboard, Bob.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 24, 2023 9:04 pm

Margaret Court can look after herself, but I’m concerned about Martyn Iles.

He’s got no Wiki page, which is a big red flag, and his preachin’ is outta the Old Testament.
Has the guy even heard of Jesus Christ?
It’s hard to know.

rosie
rosie
February 24, 2023 9:07 pm

I agree Cassie
In all my travels in Catholic Europe I have never ever seen even one remotely Catholic object in an airbnb, buddhas yes, and in Madrid a male torso in pride regalia (not in the advertisinf photos mind you) it’s pretty obvious what’s acceptable and what’s not.

Roger
Roger
February 24, 2023 9:09 pm

The real reason I wanted it because my friend did her bacon in it and it didn’t splatter everywhere. I hate it when it splatters on my mirrored splashback, especially when it has just been cleaned.

There’s a remedy for that that’s much cheaper than an air fryer.

Did you see my solution for the missing sock problem?

😀

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 24, 2023 9:12 pm

Daily Mail. Strikes me that this lady would make a damnfine Kitteh!

Woman bites off rapist’s TONGUE and hands it in to police as evidence

57-year-old woman was walking her dog at 4am on Sunday in Avignon, France
Aggressor reportedly approached her and slipped his hand down her trousers

Frank
Frank
February 24, 2023 9:12 pm

it’s pretty obvious what’s acceptable and what’s not

Statues of Buddha in the garden seem quite popular. Concrete aborigines out, concrete asians in.

cohenite
February 24, 2023 9:12 pm

Anyway, what about Rolfey.

Fled Australia, reckons he shoulda got a medal for murdering 19 y.o. Arnold Walker.

Wow: antisemite, homophile, and now criminal defamer. Rolfe was exonerated. It’s as though you’re wearing your crotchless panties back wards and shit is flowing from from your arse onto the page.

Roger
Roger
February 24, 2023 9:13 pm

Walking home tonight, I thought to myself, we are now definitely living in a post-Christian society.

Post-Christendom…yes.

Post-Christian? Ps. 37:13.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 9:14 pm

DrBG your travelogue gave insight into people and places mostly unknown to us.

I regarded it at the time as ‘off the beaten track.’

Thanks, P and Gabor. That’s why I wrote it, that and to put my thoughts in order. Also as a sort of antidote to numbers, who approved of the government there.

I enjoy Rosie’s travel stories too. Seeing bits of the world through other eyes is always interesting to me. The world is too big for one person to see much of it.

I find the reports of the farmers and practical ppl here fascinating too. RickW and farmer Gez in particular.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 9:14 pm

Doc Beaugan:

That isn’t to say that what they get up to with each other doesn’t strike me as disgusting, it does, but as long as I don’t have to watch them, I don’t think it’s any of my business.

Your criticism is noted, Doc. However when the Gay lobby targets kids for their perversions I WILL step up and and call them for it.
At the moment, they’re like a herd of buffaloes running from the lightning – even the ones who aren’t actively supporting the stampede are part of it and should be aware they are all running for the cliff.
At some stage they need to remember they are part of a larger society and need to speak up. I don’t see that happening.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 9:15 pm

Kyle Bass on twitter believes China is very close to begin a takeover of Taiwan.

rosie
rosie
February 24, 2023 9:17 pm

It’s interesting, to me anyhow, that in Italy there are just too many churches, many of them now sadly shut but in central Madrid there are only a few, you have to hunt for them.
I don’t know whether they were purged most in 1834 or 1936.
Cordoba is much more like Italy so far, though it looks like there was a bit of destruction in 1834, as you would expect.
Nationalists held Cordoba in the civil war, so spared that era of destruction.
People make many of the things, it’s all interesting to me

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 9:20 pm

The excitement here was intense, as I recall. Will he? Won’t she? What about? etc.

That’s just one of the tricks of writing. Keep them hooked. Mind you, I had some good material. 🙂

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 9:21 pm

Correction above @8.20pm
too many have lost all sense of civilisation and self control.

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 9:21 pm

“Kyle Bass on twitter believes China is very close to begin a takeover of Taiwan.”

Faaarrrrrrkkkkk.

Gabor
Gabor
February 24, 2023 9:22 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
February 24, 2023 at 9:00 pm

Were you being /sarc?

I never worried about you telling us anecdotes about your personal life, sometimes they were part of the story, sometimes probably would’ve been better if left out.
But we are who we are.

As to upticks, if shown who is up-ticking what, I reckon they’d dry up, or become ‘vanilla’ up-ticks.

Razey
Razey
February 24, 2023 9:22 pm

Lysandersays:
February 24, 2023 at 3:56 pm
The Australia Card never got off the ground precisely because of suspicion of government.

However, if you package up all your private and sensitive data into a new rectangular black shiny thing that you carry everywhere with you, you don’t need an Australia Card because the gubbermint can get “more on you” than a stupid card could ever do.

.Gov is cuming in their pants over their digital slave ID.

– No Clot shot, No service
– Carbon Tyranny
– Social Credit Scores
– 15 Minute Cities

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 9:28 pm

Kyle Bass on twitter believes China is very close to begin a takeover of Taiwan.

Good job Demonrats, you cheat to elect the weakest slimiest pedo you can find, then inevitably everyone with a score to settle decides to take a crack.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 9:30 pm

Cassie of Sydney:
Wot you said – there was a decade of acceptance, live and let live. That’s gone and frankly the gay attitude toward straights is now combative and if you stand up to them it’s career threatening. It’s a bit like dealing with teenagers – all emotion and no thinking of the consequences to themselves and others.
To Hell with them.
They decided to continue to escalate, fair enough. But there’s a price for that.

cohenite
February 24, 2023 9:30 pm

The 1980 4 part version of Pride & Prejudice has the most verisimilitude of all the versions of P&P, even more than the 1995 Colin Firth version. In the 1980 version I had forgotten what a little snot Lizzie could be to poor Mr Darcy. I’ll have to reread the greatest novel in the World by our Jane to check.

In other news Taylor Sheridan has made it plain in 1923 that poor Alex, a heroine on par with Elsa in 1883, is likely to face a similar fate. If that happens I will engage the services of a hex doctor to make sure the swine suffers a particularly bad case of anal warts.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 9:30 pm

The criminal’s sentimentality reveals itself in compassion for babies and pets. The criminal uses insight to justify heinous acts.

Cassie of Sydney
February 24, 2023 9:30 pm

“or 1936.”

Probably 1936. The Republicans slaughtered priests and nuns and destroyed churches.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 24, 2023 9:31 pm

However when the Gay lobby targets kids for their perversions I WILL step up and and call them for it.

I don’t think they should be allowed to recruit anyone to their various perversions, but trying to recruit children is, or should be, an outrage. See my comment on the thread about liberalism and perversion.

It isn’t primarily a moral issue for me. It’s a matter of protecting society in general, and the young in particular. We don’t need more perverts. We’ve already got more than enough.

Razey
Razey
February 24, 2023 9:35 pm

Fact: The majority deadshits who swallowed .Gov lies and took their clot shot poison will drag down the 5 percenters with them into the abyss.

Dot
Dot
February 24, 2023 9:45 pm

What’s the Nikkei doing Razey San?

Makka
Makka
February 24, 2023 9:50 pm

n other news Taylor Sheridan has made it plain in 1923 that poor Alex, a heroine on par with Elsa in 1883, is likely to face a similar fate.

You’re joking, right. Alex is a well heeled thrill seeker. A comely lass, yes. Elsa was a big ballsy pioneer beauty of the American west , blazing her trail from Oklahoma to Wyoming and bedding an Indian brave to boot. She had the most seductive southern drawl.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 9:50 pm

Cassie – I gave you twenty three upticks – several of them dickless.
🙂
(I haven’t lost my sense of humour, but I do feel quite threatened these days by blacks and gays. As you may have noticed.)

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 24, 2023 9:56 pm

Taylor Sheridan is a shit writer of unhistorical bilge.
1923 has a portrayal of a Catholic school for native children being run by a sadomasochist priest and head nun whose fellow nuns are either silent participants in the abuse or lesbians preying on the girls.
An anti Catholic smear pulled out of his shiny rhinestone cowboy arse.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 9:59 pm

That’s gone and frankly the gay attitude toward straights is now combative and if you stand up to them it’s career threatening.

I was supervising an L for a period of time before I was terminated. Being a supervisor of these people is a fraught occupation.

Robert Sewell
February 24, 2023 9:59 pm

Cohenite:

If that happens I will engage the services of a hex doctor to make sure the swine suffers a particularly bad case of anal warts.

Oooh!
Remind me never to cross you! 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 24, 2023 10:01 pm

Dotsays:

February 24, 2023 at 9:45 pm

What’s the Nikkei doing Razey San?

Nikkei?
Is that the fast train?
Or the raw tuna wrapped in seaweed?

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 10:05 pm

Victoria’s Health Fascism continues, Daddy Dan knows best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy5OzMIhPdk

cohenite
February 24, 2023 10:07 pm

You’re joking, right. Alex is a well heeled thrill seeker. A comely lass, yes. Elsa was a big ballsy pioneer beauty of the American west , blazing her trail from Oklahoma to Wyoming and bedding an Indian brave to boot. She had the most seductive southern drawl.

Initially I’d agree with you, although it was evident from the beginning that she differed from the other upper class twits. The night up a tree surrounded by lions and then surrounded by sharks in the middle of the Suez proved she was of the right stuff.

Taylor Sheridan is a shit writer of unhistorical bilge.
1923 has a portrayal of a Catholic school for native children being run by a sadomasochist priest and head nun whose fellow nuns are either silent participants in the abuse or lesbians preying on the girls.
An anti Catholic smear pulled out of his shiny rhinestone cowboy arse.

You may be interested in this: https://intellectualtakeout.org/2023/02/yellowstone-propaganda-television/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yellowstone-propaganda-television

Additionally Sheridan penned the scripts for Sicario and Day of the Solado. The guy has talent.

rickw
rickw
February 24, 2023 10:22 pm
Razey
Razey
February 24, 2023 10:23 pm

Can see the glowies are still active on this blog. What a bunch of losers.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 24, 2023 10:30 pm

Sheridan insults anyone with any basic knowledge of horse use.
Nobody would plunge horses pulling wagons into a deep flowing river. You would unhitch the horses, swim them over and use ropes to pull the wagons across using the same horses. We are expected to believe experienced wagon train guides would be this stupid.
In another scene they let a whole yard of horses out while the cowboys sit back and presumably catch up and drove them where they want. The horse that throws a jockey in a race will give you a hint of what happens. You can’t catch riderless horses with riders unless you corral them somewhere.
Sheridan knows horses and yet treats the audience like fools.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 10:46 pm

I didn’t like 1883 much, but 1923 has some really nice filming in Africa. Incidentally, Liz, in 1923, has an excellent rack. Yellowstone is really good, and I can see why it’s the most popular streaming show ever.

I don’t know why folks read politics into films and series. It’s just entertainment and should be treated that way. If you want to read politics, pick up a book on politics or watch Tucker Carlson.

JC
JC
February 24, 2023 10:53 pm

Sheridan insults anyone with any basic knowledge of horse use.
Nobody would plunge horses pulling wagons into a deep flowing river. You would unhitch the horses, swim them over and use ropes to pull the wagons across using the same horses. We are expected to believe experienced wagon train guides would be this stupid.

Gez, from memory every western I’ve ever watched has shown wagons being pulled the same way shown in 1923. Don’t sweat it.

MatrixTransform
February 24, 2023 10:58 pm

Try living in Sydney, the city is awash with it.

flew back from Sydney this arvo

at some point while waiting to board

a bunch of rainbow-mongs started screeching up a megaphone

normally that sort of behavior in an airport might get you arrested of shot

not today apparently

… it’s 2023

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