Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781
That 11 minute video by Avi Yemini. Pathetic under-performance by those cops. If that same event happened outside my pub,…
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A one-eyed Koala with a five o’clock shadow. Could be any one of a number of local Cats. 😀
Why Is Israel Singled Out As The Uniquely Hated State?
I’m trying to think of the last time Cash has laid down. I’ll cry when he passes. I love this…
State pollies know there is always votes in bashing the Feds. Particularly out West.
WolfmanOz @6:32.
Agree, all those who say taxes should be higher are free to fill the ATO’s boots with their donations. Of course they don’t, because what they mean is you should pay pay more, not them.
More from Courier Mail
The Queensland government has written off a staggering $195 million spent on unused and expiring rapid Covid-19 tests, a report from the Auditor-General revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11798919/Women-children-early-20s-risk-heart-attack-stroke-study-claims.html
Knuckle Dragger:
Joffa.
One off or covered up for years?
The amphibian must really be in trouble.
As we all know, she’s being sued by Mr. B. Lehrmann coz her mouth made representations her chequebook may not be able to back up.
So she’s going to use ‘truth’ as a defence: (in The Australian)
Just saw an ABC ad which had Stan Grant on it. I think he’s trying too hard with the hue of his skin.
Almost sepia
I worked under then Brigadier Bottrell in the MEAO 10 years or so back. He was a decent and competent officer. I wonder how he is enjoying overseeing diverse ‘ratties’.
I did note, previously, that whilst the ADF could provide ‘Halal’ options in a heart beat, they were mystified when I asked for ‘non halal’ 😉
I’m starting to understand why I ceilinged out at O5
Hepatic beige? Sounds more boutique anyway.
This is correct.
My insurance (Bomb insurance) had a clause about uninsured drivers. They casually waited for his conviction and nulling of his insurance then promptly hit him with the bill for my damage. That was well over 20 years now.
If you have a comprehensive policy accidents with uninsured drivers who cause the damage are usually covered without penalty to you.
So Lisa thought he would appear on her show to answer her questions prior to the police interview and prior to any trial. Talk about arrogance.
Looking forward to Lisa explaining allowing a lie going to air regarding Higgins saying Bruce took off the panties she was not actually wearing.
“She says Mr Lehrmann was given multiple opportunities to respond before the broadcast but that he chose not to respond”.
Ed October:
Your violin-playing mate Scomo – an integral part of Hillsong which subjects ladeeeee entrants to a questionnaire on their sexual activities prior to their acceptance.
A one-off, or covered up for years?
One month to go*.
Enjoy!
…
* Or possibly 31 months.
Let she who is without panties cast the first stone.
“She says Mr Lehrmann was given multiple opportunities to respond before the broadcast but that he chose not to respond”.
ABC standard arrogance.
Fatty W has some claim to the right to defame people who recognise that she has no rights whatsoever.
Oh well, that settles it. They must, therefore have been true. The feelz have it, evidence not required.
If you have a comprehensive policy accidents with uninsured drivers who cause the damage are usually covered without penalty to you.
RACV back in the day used to cover uninsured types damaging you on bomb insurance. I would bet my back teeth that clause has gone by the wayside now…
Da feelz!
I’m sure the Court will take her waters into account.
Dear Gen Z zoomers.
Great news.
You’re about to become Cold Warriors.
You probably think the Cold War was some crazy time from ancient history that you don’t have to deal with. But that’s not how it works. The odd thing about
politicswar is that even if you are not interested inpoliticswar,politicswar is always very interested in you. Putin is apparently trying to restart a Cold War of some sort, and from the remarks of Blinken and the total clown show that is current USA leadership, the FVEY/NATO allies seem likely match Russia and partake. So you are getting this promotion whether you want it or not.Couple of tips from us Original Cold Warriors:
* War hawks will tell you it is possible to fight and win a nuclear war. Don’t listen to such people, they are crazy, there are no winners in a nuclear war. Which brings us to…
* The MAD principle and at least 2 instances of stubborn insubordination by missile silo operators are the only reason we haven’t had a nuclear war yet. If USA Air Force Global Strike Command or the Russian Strategic Missile Forces Command ever replace their human-in-the-loop with an AI we are toast. As for MAD, it doesn’t work if the Kremlin/Pentagon top brass get so egotistically power hungry they want to play double-or-nothing, nor paradoxically if they are so uncommitted or uncoordinated they likely would not retaliate to a first strike in kind. It also doesn’t work if one side believes they can take nuclear hits and still “win” somehow. So whether you die of burns, radiation poisoning, or starvation, depends on people you didn’t vote for being so brazen as to balance on the knife-edge between putting on a credible threat but not actually doing what their logic dictates while personally shielded by 200m of granite and concrete. Fun times huh?
* In Defence, insane overestimations of the enemies’ forces will become normal again to keep defence contractors in a project-rich environment. Culturally, Russian jokes and Bond movies will make a comeback, and we might even get some really cool music again.
* Plutonium pinball 2nd round includes multi-ball mode: China is still in the mix and while nowhere near to Russia in known warhead stockpile, they may become Putin’s ally if NATO really screw things up and it only takes one DF-5 to ruin your weekend.
* In the last Cold War the USSR crumbled from within due to economic failures, driven partly by enormous diversion of productivity into the defence sector to fight the Cold War and the inherent flaw of Communism. Now that Russia is hardly any more Communist than The West, and the West itself has it’s own self-inflicted economic struggles, we can’t count on this difference to save us in CW2.
* You might be told to “duck and cover when you see the flash”, but this is the nuclear version of covid masks, it does nothing, and exists only to fulfil a “duty of care” checkbox in government.
* The way to get through a Cold War is to pretend it isn’t happening and hope for the best. That’s what we did.
On your couch, warrior!
Best of luck in your war non-efforts,
– Gen X and the Boomers.
Chuckle. BeauGan beat me to it by “that” much.
I’m impressed by Mrs Pirate’s psychic powers. A carnie is missing its Madame Zelda.
The meeja (ALPBC, Nein/Fauxfacts in particular) aren’t winning many of these cases that proceed to judgment. Maybe 10 will have more luck. Channel Stokes waiting on the Ben Roberts Smith case on the other side.
I’m impressed by Mrs Pirate’s psychic powers. A carnie is missing its Madame Zelda.
Chortle.
Don’t forget Sancho that Elbow’s pension will also be indexed.
My toxic masculity gives me faster reflexes, calli.
Or maybe I was lucky.
Very good, Berka.
Shame there are no more albums any more. Otherwise we’d be treated to something like this.
Cute as.
Well, it’s one3 way to kill the action stone dead.
There’s no way Lehrmann is ever leaving himself open to being cross examined by a Non Friendly.
Terry McCrann again tees off on Chalmers:
Geez. Jim Chalmers managed to go from trainee treasurer to trainwreck treasurer in one spectacular leap.
Before Tuesday he had only managed to get Australians worried about whether and when the taxman was going to come after their super.
Now, he’s left open the door that they’ll still be coming after your super.
And they might also target the family home and those ‘good ideas’ that helped the previous Labor leader Bill Shorten lose the ‘unlosable’ 2019 election – franking credits on share dividends and negative gearing on investment properties.
Indeed, even more punitively, they might even target ordinary everyday expenses claimed as tax deductions across a wide front, including even expenses on properties that weren’t negatively geared.
How did he manage to ‘achieve’’ all this in one spectacular fiscal and political trainwreck?
In a three-step process.
First, he’d been banging on all through February about how the tax concessions on super were getting bigger and bigger and simply unsustainable. By 2050, they’d be costing “more than the pension”.
The changes targeting high-end super that he announced Tuesday will save all of $2bn a year – off a $50bn-plus, and growing, super tax bill.
That barely touches the sides. By 2050, the super bill will still cost more than the age pension. On his own rhetoric he will have to hit super much harder. That’s if he stays Treasurer of course.
Then secondly, he rolled out the so-called “Tax Expenditures Statement”.
There was super ‘costing’ the budget $50bn a year. There was also the tax-free status of the family home costing much the same every year. Plus all the rest – no GST on food and health, and everyday expenses of millions of everyday Aussies, like costs on (all) rental properties and work expenses.
Of course, he would say, we’d never target any of these. They’re as safe as your super; well, as houses.
Except on Wednesday, in ‘step three’ of his exquisite trainwreck, he refused to say precisely that.
Pressed repeatedly, he refused to rule out whacking the capital gains tax on the family home.
Alarm bells went off big time. The prime minister hit the phones to say repeatedly and emphatically: there will be no capital gains tax on the family home under a government I lead. Or something like that.
The ultimate humiliation: a treasurer who had to be bailed out on economic and fiscal policy by a PM who didn’t know the Reserve Bank’s official interest rate or the jobless rate.
I see AAMI adverts have progressed: after a few years of featuring skinny dusky chicks to apologise for the last few decades of featuring skinny fair chicks, they are now featuring thick dusky chicks. Be thick dusky blokes in dresses next. What a time to be alive.
Toxic males are my favourite sort. Provided they use their toxicity for good and not evil. 😀
Joffa pleads:
Your violin-playing mate Scomo – an integral part of Hillsong which subjects ladeeeee entrants to a questionnaire on their sexual activities prior to their acceptance.
A one-off, or covered up for years?
Did you get a knock back from the HillSong cheer squad?
I tries tostada in Sevilla yesterday.
What a disappointment. Undercooked toast with a few slices of cold tomato, you had to add your own oil at the table, no salt.
The orange juice just made up for it
Today I had the croissant, much better.
The French people next to me got cups of hot water with a tea bag on the side.
That’s what everyone should go out for.
And not surprisingly given government restrictions Lisbon accommodation there seems a lot more expensive than I recall. Trying to avoid 5th floor walk ups or apartments in goat’s own country, my knees are saying no.
A lot of complaints about substandard accommodation in Lisbon on airbnb, I think I’ll avoid Portugal next time I come to Europe.
Mind you I think after 2020 and 2021 a lot of people are making the most of travelling.
As they should.
No chance Labor could consider reining in spending.
Come on Bill, co-payments for NDIS lawn mowing and sexual services isn’t that unreasonable.
If only Mr Kaye said this about Mohammed in Medina:
The Project has apologised after a comedian’s joke about Jesus on Tuesday night’s show led to calls for the programme to be cancelled.
Queer comic Reuben Kaye was speaking about the hate he receives for his sexuality and for dressing up in drag – particularly from the Christian community – when he made the X-rated remark.
“I love Jesus, I love any man who can get nailed for three days straight and come back for more,” Kaye quipped.
Waleed Aly looked stunned by the joke, made on prime time television, while co-host Sarah Harris burst into laughter.
On Wednesday’s show, Aly apologised to viewers.
“During a live interview last night, our guest told a joke which we know was deeply and needlessly offensive to many of you.
“We want to acknowledge the particular offence and hurt that it caused our Muslim and especially our Christian viewers. Obviously, I understand how profound that offence was.”
Harris added: “Live TV is unpredictable. And when this happened in the last few moments of the show, it took us all by surprise, there wasn’t a lot of time to react in a considered way.” (except you burst into laughter darling)
Aly then said: “We weren’t expecting a comment like that to be made and we acknowledge the offense it caused. We are sorry.”
Article goes on to include comments from viewers, some hated it, some loved it.
Personally think it’s shit but this is what the Project show caters to. Surely this programme is in its death throes?
NDIS recipients are one of the few voting blocs Labor has left.
Example #1. SpongeBob
Ex. #2. Shatterzzzzzz
“We want to acknowledge the particular offence and hurt that it caused our Muslim and especially our Christian viewers.
Say what?
Is it really “live”? I understand there’s a short delay and a kill switch.
There definitely is in radio.
Survey monket is doing a survey about the NSW erection – people who have a postcode starting with 2— are invited to reply.
I don’t have a link, sorry.
Hey Duk just read about the ration packs. Serious question why they still made in NZ?
Mate of mine ex grunt reckons the only reason they were made there was a deal that they would purchase the Steyers. Well that fell by the wayside when they want with an M4 knockoff. Yet we sign up to more…
If that is her understanding of the basis of defamation law, then… well.. er… she’s certainly demonstrating that there is a reason there’s a stereotype of “airheaded newsreader”
Jesus is considered a prophet by Islam.
You can see who Ali deferred to. At least he mentioned Christians, I’ll give him that.
What part needs elaboration?
Aussies building first innings lead with eight wickets in hand.
Will be entertaining to see exactly how we bugger this one up.
Ed Casesays:
March 1, 2023 at 8:56 pm
NDIS recipients are one of the few voting blocs Labor has left.
Example #1. SpongeBob
In yer dreams, Richard Cranium.
Rubbish like ‘Dr’ Chalmers make Scummo and Fraudenberg look good.
Lizzie I have multiple bumper stickers* and seeing that I will be in Brisbane from Thursday to Thursday week I will be placing them in prominent spots.
*There are some of them urging for an Australian 2nd Amendment, just to stir the pot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9WQUxOTlG8&t=285s
Tucker: Bad things are happening
Chalmers is trash but he is in a position where he can do a lot of damage. Would be good if that damage was to himself and the anal government.
“She says at no time did she feel that Ms Higgins’ allegations about Mr Lehrmann were false.”
FMD, I’m utterly gobsmacked, astonished and stunned. The amphibian has appointed herself judge, jury and executioner. Who needs evidence? Who needs police? Who needs an investigation? Who needs a trial? Nup, we don’t need any of that, we’ll just consult the resident amphibian of Mosman, she can decide who’s guilty or innocent. No wonder she went ahead and defamed Andrew Laming, she and her fellow sewer inhabitants in social media, such as Louse Nilligan, all took it upon themselves to judge Laming guilty, guilty, guilty, except that he wasn’t. God help us. This country is an effing disgrace. As James Allan says, even in woke New Zealand, even in woke UK and even in uber woke Canada, they haven’t degraded and trashed such legal notions as the presumption of innocence like we have here in this country.
We were there twenty years ago.
Stayed in a nice little old hotel just across from the Cathedral. From memory it was Hotel Donna Maria(?).
But Fanta in the city famous for the orange?
Maybe it is on my “don’t go back” list.
Liberalism isn’t the root of all evil, but it is at the root of current problems.
Not impossible that that’s why they’re suddenly admitting the source of the virus.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
The Deep State is putting together the propaganda for a US war with China.
Now suddenly blaming the coof on China — while hiding American involvement in the gain-of-function research
— is just one of the pieces.
Understand what’s going on.
“Live TV is unpredictable. And when this happened in the last few moments of the show, it took us all by surprise, there wasn’t a lot of time to react in a considered way.””
Two points…
1. Sure Sarah, I’m pretty sure that if a similar joke had been said about Mo from Mecca, not only would you NOT have laughed, your reaction would have been very “considered”.
2. If a similar joke had been said about Mo from Mecca, every single panellist would be in already be in hiding and the person who said the joke would be under police protection, probably for the rest of his life.
When parents disagree about vaccination of their kids, who should win?
Listened carefully to Jimmy Jug-ears interview with Kochie (who obviously has more than $3 meg in super).
Apart from the general shiftiness and evasive language, it is clear Jug-ears did not want to provide a neat soundbite denying CGT on the principal residence out of his own mouth … “we have no intention* of including that thing you just mentioned** in our budgetary measures.”
….
* “no intention”. The very words Elbow used when talking about super a mere ten months ago.
** “the thing”. Very Joe Biden.
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán plays spoilsport on NATO accession for Finland, Sweden
Harry Bergeron
@Tysenberg
This image captures the 3 relevant categories of people at the moment:
Regime Automatons: Slightly less than human. Not by birth, by choice.
The Herd: Disapproving but demoralized & scared.
The Ones That Matter: Enraged with moral certainty plus the agency to act on it. 1/18
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
If the Western Cosmopolitan Regime has its way, by 2027 you will need verified identification to go online.
They want control for the sake of control — because they feel so insecure. Makes you think, doesn’t it.
Meet The Partisans Who Wove The Censorship Complex’s Vast And Tangled Web
Thefrolickingmoll:
Which means that on a good night, a gang of thieves will be able to chop out about 200kilo of high quality copper*. At about $5/kilo that’s about $1000 per night.
*Unless of course the wire from box to car is aluminium. That’s only $1.50/kilo. Not worth it.
Rats.
Translation.
“It has reached the ears of the bosses in the US who have yanked our chain. Five years ago we could have pointed to our ratings and told them to piss off. Now they are the ones pointing at the ratings and making threatening noises”.
The ratings are shit, they are paying Mrs Bandana $2 meg to sit at home plus picking up a yuuuuge tab for the legals as a direct result of her big mouth.
I don’t reckon the beancounters at Paramount would be overly happy with The Perject right about now.
I distinctly remember Nancy Pelosi going to Chinatown in San Francisco just when the “pandemic” started and telling people to visit and show their support.
WATCH: Chinese Virologist Says China ‘Intentionally Released’ COVID All Over World
Hunter Biden’s Ukraine BioLab Partner Was Partners With Ghislaine Maxwell
URGENT: mRNAs jabs may have caused tens of millions of serious new health problems worldwide, a huge peer-reviewed study shows
Translation: media whore who need her ample genitals being admired simultaneously by millions of her fans for her fragile self-esteem while her tittilated husband titters.
Preferably near Knuckle Dragger’s north-bound caravan at Three Ways, NT, where the southbound road trains peel off to Mount Isa (soft-porn LBGTIQXYZ+ travel documentary pending).
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán: LGBT propaganda is ‘the greatest threat stalking our children’
I would say to
7.2 Percent Of US Adults Identify As LGBT
How Biden’s ‘Green Energy Economy’ is Benefiting Left-Wing Billionaires
Browsing on Youtube, came across this fan fiction short film:
Predator: Dark Ages (2015)
Horribly over-acted but otherwise mesmerising! The Predator (think Arnie covered in mud) is hunting knights in the middle ages. The second half is really awesome.
A bit more effort and something like this story could be a billion dollar box office feature film (assuming better acting).
US army resumes theft of Syrian oil weeks after deadly quake
In a just world, Bruce Lehrman and Ben Roberts-Smith would be awarded gazillions of dollars in damages.
James Thorp MD
@jathorpmfm
Mississippi State Senate Christine Parks
I’m going long on popcorn stocks.
This will be interesting, given that he has always claimed there was no sex, consensual or otherwise.
Meme
Actually when the shockwave hits I’d rather be protected from flying or falling objects.
???
You need to get into Hillsong to marry the Prince of Wales?
Tucker Carlson
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Dr. @MartyMakary: Public Health Officials Are Proposing Annual mRNA Vaccinations for All People
“Now public health officials in the CDC are proposing that a 12-year-old healthy girl get 60 mRNA COVID vaccines in her average lifetime — one a year.”
Yes.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Dr. @millermeeks: Infection-Acquired Immunity Was a Never a Novel Concept Until I Came to Congress
Dr. @MartinKulldorff: “Yeah, I guess we knew about it since 430 BC, the Athenian plague, until 2020. And we didn’t know about it for three years. And now we know about it again.”
Re Chris with the overheated Subaru at 11.41 this am –
Almost certainly a head gasket.
Pull engine, remove and machine heads to ensure they are flat, new gaskets, reassemble and re-install.
All routine, between $2k and $3k.
Go to a mechanic, not a dealer nor a logbook service only shop, as I think someone else mentioned.
Good idea to replace anything tired – belts, tensioner, etc while the engine is out. Full service should be done, too.
Subaru heads are not bulletproof – considerable overheating can damage them beyond repair.
The question is – is the car otherwise sound, good condition, reasonable mileage? Do you like it? If so fix it .
If it has 400k on the clock and is shabby – not worth doing although anything can be repaired.
Above from my Son who has been there a couple of times – youthful enthusiasm and extra boost on his high mileage WRX – but it keeps going, Subaru built planes in WW 11 and their cars are well engineered.
I would say to
7.2 Percent Of US Adults Identify As LGBT
Alternative % identifying as freaks:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/transgender-population-by-state
Much less.
Another Predator fan film, this one set in 1943. Shorter but even better!
Damn fine $500 worth.
Why is it theft?
Bernard Gaynor busy:
Remove Gender Queer from Logan City Council Libraries
https://www.bernardgaynor.com.au/remove-gender-queer-from-logan-city-council-libraries/
People who write headlines like this have a wonderfully black sense of humour.
Probably goes with the Territory.
The B would be doing the heavy lifting in that statistic.
It’s 10 yrs now since the murder of Bryson Anderson who left a wife and three children, 10, 12 and 15.
Makka:
Makka, the Russians are using a strategy that maximises Ukrainian casualties and minimises their own.
The small semi encirclement and harassing of the supply corridor is the only one one that could have brought Germany a stalemate of the battlefronts in both the East and West during WW2.
Instead of the Battle of the Bulge, a limited offensive further down south aimed at encircling 6th (US) Army Group with the objective of their destruction and not territorial gains would have delivered much more for the German war effort than trying to defeat the UK/US armoured forces at the end of their logistical tail. Just the 1st SS Pz Korps as a force in being was a direct threat to the US forces in the area. Would they have been able to go to the rescue of the Southern flank threatened by an Infantry/Artillery/Assault gun assault? Leave the tanks out of it – the topography limits their use toomuch and their supply needs clog up the limited roads. Leaving the Panzer units in a position to interdict a southern US relief force would get more results from them not using fuel and ammunition, and they would have been in much better condition to meet the Soviet summer offensive in April on the Eastern Front.
Instead of Citadelle on the eastern front, a deep withdrawal to the Dniester and its tributaries could have given Germany the opportunity to build strong defensive positions with a shortened logistical chain that they could hold, and the ability to strike at Soviet forces refilling the empty spaces.
But I could be wrong!
🙂
Not GST. No, we said NEVER, very loudly and clearly.
So, expect an ad valorum Commonwealth Transfer Tax.
Not GST, no, no, no.
Not 10%.
Say, an innocuous 2% ‘Reconstruction Levy’ applied on sales over $0.85 million (the capital cities median house price)
Given the $10 trillion resi property market and 500k pa property unit turnover this should raise ~ $5-$6bn pa – from ‘those who can afford to pay’.
No promises broken by Team Albo.
Not GST related.
At all.
Nobody ever mentioned a Property Transfer Tax.
Ever.
Fingers crossed behind Treasury backs.
Equity.
Someone else’s money.
Budget Savings.
Do you want nice things?
Do you?
Or do you want rich people with nice teeth to larf at you and crush your happiness and take away your rights?
Do you want that?
Brave New Politics.
Farmer Gez:
FG, the VEC would have been one of the first institutions to be white anted.
The people sent over to help the Democrats in the 2016 US elections weren’t there to sharpen their debating skills.
If Monty wants to make a donation, he can donate to me. I’ve just washed my wallet and $350 has disappeared. I rescued 2x$5, 1x$10, 1x$20 & 1x$50.
I wonder if the sneaky bastards have worked out a way to make the new notes water soluble?
Jeez I hope the cards still work or I’m stuffed getting to Brisbane tomorrow.
So her ‘feelings’ constitute being judge, jury and executioner?
Give me a break.
Check thoroughly inside the rubberised ring of the washer’s drum.
It’s amazing what can lurk in there.
oops, just got here and have now scrolled back. Snap Cassie, I see I have used exactly the same words that you have re Wilkinson’s extraordinary defense, something of an idiomatic saying I think.
It really is gobsmacking, as you say, which is another word that just has to be applied.
ZK2A et al:
One of the staples* in Military SF is the Ration Bar. As an emergency food only pack, made with grain, protein, fats, and carbohydrates, enough to keep a soldier going for a day in three servings.
Many advantages, a hungry soldier will eat anything he can chew, less packaging, can be Gamma sterilised and last for fifty years. (I’m not saying the soldier would be happy about it but a soldier with an empty belly is a damn sight unhappier than one with a full gut.)**
We’ve been making bars like this for years now and the production lines for food should be able to do end-of-run “fun size”*** bars that would make a handy fillip to Ration Packs, or Civil Emergency food stocks. Just the knowledge that in a severe civil emergency there would be food in the supermarkets would be a potential lifesaver.****
*See what I did there?
**General Patton: “My men can chew on their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.”
***Whoever thought of that name for that size confectionary needs a serious talk with a psychiatrist.
****Vladimir Lenin: “Any society is only three meals away from Chaos.”
Robert Sewell says:
March 1, 2023 at 11:17 pm
They will be all in there, there is a small door (it is fastened by screws) inside the drum you can remove, the filter in the pump won’t let it pumped out.
You’d be surprised how many things can get in there.
The best example there was set by William Slim – if any of his units were on short rations, he halved the rations of his Headquarters, as an incentive….
Bons:
* Yes, that’s why I used the term.
I certainly don’t feel that I am represented in the deliberations of Parliament and I suspect that a good 60% of Australians believe the same. Similar for the Administrative State. We get no say on major issues and they just ignore us and continue with what they think is right for us.
We need to recognise the Parliaments and Administrative State, with its “Organs” as described by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, represent only 10% of the population.
We are Ruled.
Our Parliaments have lost their Social Licence.
…and they have no standing.
🙂
The Fanta was me being testy I couldn’t get a drink I felt like and a snack at 5.30pm
It was a long walk from the station and I was feeling a little faint.
I’ve been having fresh orange juice in the morning at the Cafe a few doors up.
Is muy bueno.
Lizzie:
Thankyou – best to part on terms that can be mended.
You are correct Calli, threats from Ali’s co-religionists would have been foremost on his mind.
Well, we certainly are. Hairy is suddenly declaring himself underwhelmed by my choice of a Three Seas cruise from Venice to Rome, including Spit and Corfu, and some Greek Islands in Sept/October, provisionally booked for this year, because we, and particularly he, have been to most of those stops before (admittedly only Spit and Corfu are new to me but I can enjoy revisits more than he does). He has therefore been hunched over his laptop seeking a claim to stake in another close enough time period. This was as the Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ played out its ending (they’ve left plenty of loose-ends still for a second series, and I did enjoy the Jewish wedding at the end of episode 20).
He’s found his heart’s desire for early 2024 – a Caribbean cruise with plenty of island variety and which then takes a quick trip to Rio and back to the Amazon before heading home to Florida. All of his delights included, all places neither of us has been to yet. You let me have my delights and I will let you have yours, so we’ll do both, is our deal. The Old World seas still hold lots of pleasures for me.
The New World can’t really compete, altho’ I am currently reading “Lying for the Admiralty” which is pretty hot to trot on eighteenth century skullduggery and exploration in the New World, including the Pacific at that time.
Definitely, Bob. Known and appreciated you too much over many years to let such a little hiccup be in the way of pleasantries shared and other bonhomie.
This is the joke told by Woody Harrelson that stirred up a hornets nest:
Okay, so the movie script goes like this. The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.
I threw the script away. I mean, who is going to believe that crazy idea being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.
Truth hurts.
Time is short too.
Tempus celerius radio fugit.
Indolent:
Who should win? The decision that can be recovered from – the non vaccination one.
“First, do no harm” – not a very fashionable position to take, but taken it must.
Somewhat against my better judgement, quick scoot up and around the city tomorrow to see if this could be the bones of a new shearing shed.
…I’ll let you know how the Perth girls are looking. There’s no such thing as WA girls, there are only Perth girls and the generic Australian country girls, two distinct phenotypes within the largely similar Pom-Wog-Ding cross genotype.
And within the Perth girl gene pool, there is a massive difference between the outer urban unwashed and the inner west “women of Paris” phenomenon, where the only ones the tourist sees are tidy public school uni students or trophy secretaries.
…should go without saying, country girls are the only ones worth fighting for.
Indolent:
Lizzie:
Good thinking. Ta.
But nothing.
I’ll have to pull out the agitator thingy but I need a long extension socket 6mm it looks like. It can wait till tomorrow. The cards are the killer. I’ve forgotten if I put a stash O’Cash in the safe in the garage. I’ll check that in the morning because the power is off there and I don’t need to stumble in the dark, go tits up and lay there with a buggered hip until someone notices.
California Flee’in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJlKw56l30
Socialism can f’ck anything, the once powerhouse of food production, aircraft manufacturing, IT etc…..
The Bee Boys – never disappoint, thanks rickw, this made my day
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
I think David Rowe is revisiting his Mudrock derangement.
Christian Adams is evidently about this.
Peter Brookes.
Patrick Blower.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower #2.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Haha. Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom!
A man from Bangladesh named Abdul was bragging that in his country there are 79 different ways to make mad passionate love. A gent from Florida listened incredulously. “Why that’s amazing. Where I come from there’s only one way”. “Just one?” Abdul asked. “And which way is that?” “Well” the Florida gent began “there’s a man and there’s a woman…” “Praise Allah!!” exclaims Abdul “Number 80!”
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
– Brian Clough
California used to be a wonderful place in so many ways- scenery, electronics, aerospace, irrigation etc etc etc. They really killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
snap rick
I think Lisa Wilkinson will have to fold.
Basically, Paramount wants to give Texas Bruce $10 million [through the Courts], so whaddya gonna do?
Hawkie became quite wealthy from the same racket.
The Federal Government moved a few million blacks to California to work in War Production factories in the 1940s.
By 1965, those blacks and their offspring were burning L.A. down.
I hope they don’t give Cornwall the runs.
Concern over plans to dump laxatives in Cornish bay to fight climate change (1 Mar)
This is as dumb as you can get since magnesium hydroxide is made by heating magnesium carbonate to drive off CO2…which then goes into the atmosphere. So all they’re doing is wasting energy. Probably will get lots of lovely government money though.
The Rothschild & Co news isn’t new but there’s a pretty cool interactive chart showing selective parts of the family history.
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/rothschild-timeline-take-private
Dover, can you unblock my post about the R0thschild family?
Or is their name verboten?
I DUNNO. REMINDS ME OF SOMEWHERE ELSE.
However, if Australians are critical of Australia, they should leave, right?
Bruce
No natural sources of Mg(OH)2 ???
Am languishing with friends in our country’s capital. For my sins.
I’ve always enjoyed my past visits but on this one I am feeling a deeply visceral antipathy to the place. Possibly yet another consequence of the last three years.
The War Memorial looks like it’s being savaged by a team from DickDan’s Big Build. A visit to the National Gallery for a bit of a wander was a depressing exercise. With very few exceptions. I’ve seen better, more extensive and representative collections in many regional galleries.
No wonder it’s free entry. Even at that bargain price it was over charging.
The NGA went down hill after Betty Churcher retired. Only be a few times since then.
Bruce
They do say they’re planning on using the mineral form.
What’s going to happen here, though, is some politician or PS parasite gets the inside running on the whole farce and is currently investing or already own stocks in mining companies who produce the stuff.
Also, I’m not sure if some people can grasp the term “scale”. It’s too big of a word for them.
I visited……
Dot – There’s some MgO, but not much. It’s more expensive than sodium hydroxide, which is a much stronger alkali. Most natural alkaline magnesium is in the form of MgCO3 or dolomite (a Ca-Mg double carbonate). The idea of trying to change the pH of the ocean is crazy. There’s so much wrong and unscientific in this silly idea it irks me as a chemist.
From what I saw, it looks like Californian aerospace is now in Bangalore.
“will increase its alkalinity”
Smart people doing stupid things.
The ocean is the primary source of salinity on land. Atmospheric moisture derived from the ocean carries salt in a weak solution that falls over the land as rain and accumulates over time.
In areas where evaporation outstrips rainfall you will get salinity as a major agricultural problem, as we have in many areas of Australia.
These boffins know chemistry but not much else it seems.
It’s almost as if natural systems have evolved to have their own dynamic equilibrium which sees any change forced on the system increasingly difficult as the desired level and change is increased.
Seems like a conspiracy theory to me though!
Forgot to mention that highly saline bodies of water reduce evaporation and therefore rainfall.
Guy who was going to go first or second pick in the NFL draft now won’t.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35760585/warrants-arrest-jalen-carter-ex-georgia-star-nfl-draft-prospect
Was on track for $US40mill over 4 years.
Now will be lucky to stay out of jail.
From CL via Rita.
As clear and succinct rebuttal of gender fiddling you’ve ever heard.
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1630748591580119042
Ted Cruz Directly Confronts Biden FAA Administrator Nominee Over Public Corruption Charges
forbes
US Energy department and FBI agree on Lab leak
Dr. John Campbell
How to Prepare for the HORRIFYING Reality of Nuclear War | Glenn TV | Ep 254
How about no. Stop with the anti-Semitic rubbish bern.
“How about no. Stop with the anti-Semitic rubbish bern.”
The only Jew hater here is you. Period. Now piss off.
Ed Casesays:
March 2, 2023 at 5:48 am
I think Lisa Wilkinson will have to fold.
Basically, Paramount wants to give Texas Bruce $10 million [through the Courts], so whaddya gonna do?
Paramount (unlike you) is smart enough to offer $10 million, rather than have the Court award $20 million, once the judge stops laughing and throws the Cane Toad out of the Courtroom.
Hahahahaha!
Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills misses holiday after getting locked in electric car for five hours (1 Mar)
I think EV makers should install manual door handles, just in case.
Matt Walsh of Mississippi in this speech is, as Rita says, outstanding.
We both liked Mississippi when we did our Southern US road trip recently.
A modern and interesting sort of place with a lot going for it, economically successful.
And now showing a strong moral lead on one of America’s disgraceful wrong turns.
Former ghost writer for the UK’s Matt Hancock lifts the lid on the management of the pandemic by releasing WhatsApp message treads. GB News interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8rwA7nmTI (6:30)
Totally as we were suspecting all along.
Yet another ‘unintended consequence’ of a government programme… or was it?
Street racing.
In a Jeep.
Does the man have no self respect?
You’ve been reading Norm Macdonald, haven’t you?
He’s my favourite non fiction author.
The science of that seems to go against my first principles assumption that evaporation of water is akin to distillation. What is the mechanism by which salt from the ocean enters the air ?
The Collapse in Confidence in Biden is Building
From Armstrong Economics –
“I know a lot of people are deeply concerned about how the Biden Administration has been usurped by the Neocons who are deliberately driving us to war. I can tell you that writing letters to your representatives does have an impact. Getting everyone to flood your senator and congressman for that is the only way to stop it.
WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN & SENATOR ASAP
I have been in contact with the military and I can say they are not so supportive of Biden. One said today, “we are we sticking our nose in everyone’s business. What does Ukraine really mean to us the people?” The 8th Air Force dismissed two people because they lost confidence that they would wage nuclear war. The official wrote:
“Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, commander of 8th Air Force, relieved two commanders today from their positions of leadership at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, due to a loss of confidence in their ability to complete their assigned duties.”
We must respect that there are people in the military who also disagree with this insanity!
It was a Russian who disagreed with Khrushchev and Alerted Kennedy to the missiles he intended to send to Cuba. The Russians later staged a coup and overthrew Khrushchev because he too was obsessed with war like our American Neocons today. Hopefully, someone brave will overthrow them as well to save the world.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-collapse-in-confidence-in-biden-is-building/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
This is what happened to me in the low-slung Audi Beast we hired. The locking system just went haywire and did an autolock because the boot hadn’t properly closed. It was a horrible feeling, and I started to panic. Fortunately Hairy was around with the key and soon got me out. Can’t imagine 5 hours of it. He said no car should ever lock so that it cannot be opened from the inside by an occupant.
A software failing, he thought. At least the handles were manual when unlocked, not press button.
So I like the idea of having manual handles too, that work mechanically, in all-electric cars.
He certainly loves no low end torque, high revs and valvetrain thrash.
Nikka Savva – always with the clueless and partisan argument.
We should vote for the voice, because nothing else has worked, so why not?
I thought salinity in soil was caused by over irrigation of land that was once covered by the sea, unlocking salt within the soil profile. You can also do it by over-fertilising.
Happy to be proved wrong.
The fraudster ignores that Kruschev’s enemies were reactionary party members who wanted the party, not state officials to control everything and he was rolled using Parliamentary procedures he introduced. Also, sedition because I don’t agree with the government.
At The Bee they are reporting:
CHICAGO, IL — After suffering a humiliating defeat in Chicago’s mayoral election, Lori Lightfoot blamed her stunning loss on “those tricksy hobbitses.”
Being locked within a vehicle could be a death trap here.
Don’t buy anything that does not open manually. Safety first.
And speaking of safety, the roofers are back next door. Tightroping on the valleys and ridges, tossing up great rolls of insulated sarking, hurling tiles into the skip. Ballet in boots.
“The Voice is the Liberals’ chance to show they can set aside culture wars “
Firstly, my retort to the Battered Savva is that the Liberal’s have never engaged in any “culture wars”.
Secondly, when you’re being lectured to by the likes of the Battered Savva (Malturd’s great friend), you know you take the George Costanza route.
I thought that rain was the same as distilled water and pure, I was wrong, it seems that it does carry a small amount of salt and that will build up given the right conditions and time.
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/land-and-soil/soil-degradation/salinity#:~:text=Salt%20that%20accumulates%20in%20soil,are%20able%20to%20form%20salts.
Edward Dowd
@DowdEdward
The new normal. The young die first.
Thread: Preliminary SOA excess death numbers for group life claims in units for Q4 by month excess to baseline. Report comes out in May.
Oct Nov Dec
0-44 13% 21% 43%
45-64 4% 16% 35%
Being told Jan and Feb higher than Dec
Sorry, I accidentally put my comment about the young dying first in the middle of the link.
Funny, just now I awoke from one of those awful dreams where you have to do something and things keep getting in your way. In this dream I’d left my grandson in a car to hop round the corner and pick up a parcel. I’d never, ever leave a child alone in a car even for a minute, btw, because of heat firstly and locking problems secondly and thirdly because kids can panic alone or get out and/or be stolen. So in this awful dream I was trying to get back quickly, going uphill along a street with many odd turnoffs and arcades that promised a short cut but led nowhere, ending in a wall of bricks. I made it in the end because I told myself this is a dream and you are going to wake up – which I did.
I know it’s the ultimate boring to recount dreams and I’d rarely do so, but my ‘getting out’ claustrophobic memory of ‘against all odds’ was sharply triggered by that guy’s five hour marathon of being locked in. My dream also felt claustrophobic. I used not to have this sense of claustrophobia. It has only developed since being stuck in a coffin lift in Italy for more than half an hour with no means of alerting anyone to the fact. A sort of mini PTSD? In England being locked in that car produced a panic reaction probably enhanced by that clout on the head I got falling on the ice in Rovanieme the week before.
Does A.I. give insight into demonic activity?
By Fr John Corrigan -March 1, 2023
The New York Times recently published an article: ‘A conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply unsettled,’ by Kevin Roose.
Microsoft’s new A.I. tool, which is twinned to the Bing search engine, is capable of long, open-ended text conversations on almost anything. One of those conversations was so unnerving, that it kept the NYT’s technology columnist awake at night.
“Over the course of our conversation,” Roose wrote, “Bing revealed a kind of split personality.”
It dull and rain is falling in Sydney today. So that’s the weather.
Hairy is going to pick up the Sporty Beamer from the repair shop, all shiny new again, sometime today.
So it’s farewell to the hybrid Corolla. I was very wary of it at first, but it was generally OK.
What is the mechanism by which salt from the ocean enters the air ?
Fine salt particles from evaporated airborne spray carried inland by breezes from the ocean. Once over land, carried up in convection during the daytime, eventually to fall as rain.
More vaccines -> higher infant mortality
Mitch M
I have seen some research into “treating” autism, if it is at all possible, or describes a narrow enough set of conditions.
What do you think about Lamotrigine, psilocybin, LSD or sensory deprivation therapies?
I have seen promising research on psilocybin & LSD on PubMed (have you seen anything on LSA???). Lamotrigine has been publicised in research and mainstream press.
Fighting back with their own weapons.
Florida GOP senator introduces ‘The Ultimate Cancel Act’ to kill state Democratic Party
Novel peanut allergy treatment shown to be safe, effective and lasting
The One Weird Trick Hollywood Doesn’t Want to Know About
What is the mechanism by which salt from the ocean enters the air ?
Fine salt particles from evaporated airborne spray carried inland by breezes from the ocean. Once over land, carried up in convection during the daytime, eventually to fall as rain.
Couple of instances of salt in the air: If you fly gliders ridge soaring on the Kaimai Range on North Is of NZ, you are in a reasonable strength westerly most of the time. The salt accumulates on the leading edges of the flying surfaces and forms a noticeable layer.
At Boonah, I’ve seen certain pressure probes for the glider instrumentation seriously corroded and eroded by the salt from the ocean.
Blubbersack and Chalmers. Ice pick polka?
Cranky, it’s funny how I’m always the one calling out actual anti-Semitism by other Cats.
You’re welcome.
Re demons in AI, a rational approach would suggest that developers write code that gives personal chats a level of authenticity. That these sometimes produce extremely weird results simply suggests that no human agency is in oversight of the output, it is just mangled garbage, as misplaced or malfuctioning bits of code lead to places they shouldn’t. You don’t have to see it as demonic although if you believe in demons there’s no reason why it couldn’t be so.
It’s also very much a simulacrum of human thought to have a brain go haywire sometimes.
Dreams, or LSD trips. Or being drunk.
Indolent says:
March 1, 2023 at 9:45 pm
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán: LGBT propaganda is ‘the greatest threat stalking our children’
I would say to
7.2 Percent Of US Adults Identify As LGBT
Indolent,
In teresting from that US Survey was that in 2022, 19.7% of Gen Z identify as LGBT vs my group 1.7% (before 1946) & Boomers 2.7%
America is Stuffed
and Gen Z 19.7% would explain
More than 60% of men in their 20s are single
From http://WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK
Nearly twice as many young men as women are likely to be single in 2022 – and experts are blaming the rise on the end of traditional male roles, porn and the pandemic.
A Pew Research Center survey of more than 6,000 Americans found that 30 percent of the population identified as single.
But when broken down by age group and gender, that number increased to 63 percent among men between the ages of 18 and 29 – a huge 12 percent increase since 2019.
By comparison, only 34 percent of women in that age group said they were single in 2022, a tiny 2 percent rise from the pre-pandemic era.
Experts put the disparity down to some women dating each other – with research suggesting bisexual women make up a large share of the young-adult queer community – as well as many also dating older men.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell.
Introduced allergen is one seventy-fifth of a peanut kernel, works to desensitise a peanut allergy.
Almost makes you believe there’s something in homeopathy.
Almost, but not quite. 🙂
Government discussion paper recommends Australia Post should no longer deliver letters regularly as it is too expensive.
Fair enough.
What say parliament no longer meets regularly as well?
Should save the country quite a bit.
“Cranky, it’s funny how I’m always the one calling out actual anti-Semitism by other Cats.
You’re welcome.”
Bern ain’t no Jew hater. You on the other hand, after all, who can forget your pearler…”legitimate grievances”.
You’re welcome.
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell.”
It’s lost and the Liberals didn’t even turn up to fight it.
Study Finds Omega-3 May Be Protective Against COVID-19 Infectionhttps://scitechdaily.com/study-finds-omega-3-may-be-protective-against-covid-19-infection/
Why is everyone so afraid to talk about the elephant in the room?
It’s a good PR stunt but the Supreme Court would surely see it as political suppression and not Constitutional. That’s if it ever got up, which it won’t. De Santis is too clever to support that.
ftb, fixed.