Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781
Carolyn’s fingers Carolyn’s fingers …
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Just for you, Wokdoctor.
Hush Wawwiers engaged in combat
That’s it for me Cats, it’s been cool. Squeeze – Cool For Cats (1979)
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 189 (rumble.com) The lips have it. Also of interest: most women would prefer to be with…
Well, there is a code of conduct covering that.
Tearing off in a yuuuge celebration without looking back at the umpire can earn you a whack.
Lyon, of course, has two other up and coming spinners in the team, and is feeling the heat of succession.
Richard Vobes – Everything is a lie
feelthebernsays:
March 2, 2023 at 8:31 pm
You really should read more, Grigs.
Richard Cranium can read? Who knew?
Greg Combet, the head of Australian Super, said yesterday, that those with lower super balances could be helped out by those with bigger balances.
Shit People that keep resurfacing to say and do more Shit Things.
Greg Combet, the head of Australian Super, said yesterday, that those with lower super balances could be helped out by those with bigger balances.
Sound byte aimed at the low information punter.
An outstanding explanation of the digital currency nightmare.
Whose money is it, REALLY?
Well, short version is yes. Trump was only ever a point in the process. If he had stopped or slowed it substantially maybe it mattered.
What mattered was he was an outsider. Realistically, what did a billionaire playboy have in common with the man on the street? What he did was address the issues most people cared about, irrespective of him. It could have been just about anyone with certain skills, but because he failed I reckon the next contender will be pretty much everything that he was accused of. Might be desantis, but I don’t think so.
Look to history. More chance of a dictator than a renewal. Just has to get bad enough.
Combet is a floater in Australian public life. His claim to fame – the goodbye bicycle trip through Europe with the ALPBC newsreader. If there is any karma he should burn in Hell for eternity. Too harsh?
I just see the voice as a vehicle for the likes of the Dodson brothers, Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton and Megan Davies. Meanwhile, in the Northern Territory, and the outback communities, the “big men” take their pick of the little girls, as they always have. See Robert Bropho.
Delivered by another one of those people that remind us all of what absolute corruption of the human spirit looks like. Politics needs to change somehow.
aussie17
@_aussie17
HOLY MOLY, Check out Singapore’s raw numbers on stillbirths and perinatal deaths.
45% and 70.5% INCREASE over previous year.
Remember that 90%+ population are fully vaxxed in 2021. These are babies born to vaccinated parents!!!
Updates here:
something appears to have “clicked”
These people are absolutely insane and we need to act to protect our children and society?
Biden’s top advisers?
Lucas Gage
@LucasGage584
If this was Biden’s cabinet, we would all ask, “When the hell did the Chinese take over America?” But since Biden’s cabinet is full of another minority that is “White-passing,” most people don’t realize America was conquered decades ago.
Check out Singapore’s raw numbers on stillbirths and perinatal deaths. 45% and 70.5% INCREASE over previous year.
Guided Democracy or Guided Disaster?
Just think logically here about the basis for Islam. God announces to all and sundry in the River Jordan that Jesus is his son. Along comes Mohammed and tells everyone God told him Jesus is just a prophet. So is it likely that God would have changed his mind and rather prefers Mohammed to his own son? Wouldn’t that mean that God made a mistake?
Kevin MacDonald
@TOOEdit
“the situation is simple. He took many black activists at their word and said whites should no longer inflict their presence on blacks. That is apparently career-ending and proves that whites are in an impossible position. We can’t be around blacks without being inherently racist but we can’t leave either.
Nice game of ping-pong with the pinko, following on from earlier… her reply…
Thanks for your reply W and I appreciate you raising the issues of humility, temperance and conscientiousness. I love that these are positive attributes of humanity and will certainly discuss how we can incorporate these essential elements in to our class. You can be rest assured that Nina shows a great amount of respect and consideration for all of her classmates at PEAC and is nothing less than a delight to have in the classroom.
Frankenstein is an introduction to the genre of Sci-Fi as it is widely considered the first sci-fi novel. The premise behind the question “was it written by a man or woman?” was actually to do the opposite of being chauvinistic and was rather to point out the way our society made it difficult for women to aspire to great and successful things such as novel writing!
Thanks again for your interest in D2’s learning and the PEAC program.
Have a wonderful weekend.
So, ignored the urge to tee off on the use of “learning” as a verb, and…
Gday again-
If there were barriers to success for female writers in the western world of the 19th century, I’m sure I don’t know what they were. For all of the well-off ladies who wrote for pleasure like Shelley and her friend Edgeworth, there were writers like Austen, Eliot, Gaskell and the Brontes who laboured to massive critical and commercial success. And also writers who excelled at FMGCs like Alcott, Farro, Wood and Radcliffe but were looked down upon by the literary critics.
Remember, “romances” were the viral TikTok videos of the printing press world, plus they were a commercial product- the evidence of the free market cannot lie.
I think it’s a disservice- and basically factually incorrect- to teach kids, boys or girls, that we have a tradition of devaluing or disabling women, in any aspect of society, arts or science.
Regards-
W.
In D-Town, as of two and a half hours back.
Holy Batmanning Rastafarians. Ten hours on the knocker, which is fine, but the first three were absolutely unlike anything I have ever experienced – and I think I got out from under the worst of it.
Previously I have opined that the Stuart Highway in the NT is inferior to the same highway in SA. Well. This is not surprising, given the savage ferocity Mother Nature puts the NT version through.
That highway from Ti Tree through to Elliott will take months to repair to a satisfactory standard. Months.
If there is any karma he should burn in Hell for eternity. Too harsh?
Not really. A whole bunch of prudent retirees could be there attending to his every need with heated up pitchforks and pineapples.
By government decree.
‘Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen.’
‘…then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!’
– Karl Marx
Pace our blog host, whom I don’t wish to offend, this is basically communism.
Yes.
Is it a levy which will be distributed to low balance funds?
Nup.
It is to fund public sector salaries.
The remaining seven hours, I might add, were anything but sitting back and listening to music or whatever. Massive potholes caused by recent rain all the way up to Adelaide River, and then got blown all over the road without being able to see it by the anticipated monsoon squalls.
I reckon I’ve done that run (Tennant Creek to Darwin) four times a year for seventeen years, on average. This was out of the box.
Extremely intense, all the way through. Only a tour bus driver could go near conquering it to the same level.
Waiting for bus to Huelva.
Could have caught the train but there are only three a day, very early or very late which is a pain for checking in to Airbnb accommodation, buses are about every hour and a half in the middle of the day.
Plus it was a 2.2km walk to the train station or about 600 metres to the bus.
Having coffee in the five star bus station cafeteria.
Yesterday I visited the fine art museum, it was only 120 metres from my apartment so I really had no choice.
In a former convent (monastery) confiscated in 1840, as was much of the art, much from the very same convent, many by Murillo, who it seems was a friend of the monks, a couple by Ribera and other famous artists,though there are some secular works from the 19th century including a Sorolla of whom I am fond.
The convent is very beautiful with majolica works in the cloisters, the chapel has been converted to an exhibition space, a pity because the roof above what must have been the altar is superb and it would have been nice to see the entire as it once was.
Seville is beautiful, though I preferred the pace in Cordoba.
I could return to both.
Nup.
I am setting ‘eternity’ as the non-parole period.
I wonder if those who screeched “Uniparty!” might care to compare the pair … Jug-ears Chalmers and Josh Friedenburger.
Sound byte aimed at the low information punter.
I think the correct term is:
“sound shyte”
Browsing YT. Here’s a neat little SF short story with nice artwork.
Horror Story – Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (7 Min)
Gasp!
It’s Trains vs Buses!
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Frankopan is a historian and very successful author, so he has financial independence — allowing him to point out the obvious: Putin and the Russians are decisively winning on the diplomatic/geopolitical level.
Greg Combet, the head of Australian Super, said yesterday, that those with lower super balances could be helped out by those with bigger balances.
Combet has a pretty good pension, as well as current high remuneration. How much is he willing to toss into the pot?
Anyone who did Perth to Port Hedland with any regularity on a Greyhound knows there really is no contest. Nothing like a roadhouse cheese sausage at 1am.
A well traveled Southbend 9” long bed:
USA WWII production, to England for WWII, then South Africa with its post war owner, then finally WA….
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/midvale/miscellaneous-goods/south-bend-9-long-bed-lathe/1309077487
Shy Tedsays:
March 2, 2023 at 8:35 pm
Happy Birthday, Ted!
Brilliant article by Robert Gottliebsen in the Oz this afternoon.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/albanesechalmers-brutal-super-tax-to-trigger-money-withdraw-rush-robert-gottliebsen/news-story/5f3e61b13d61e6d2298bb306a0b51625
An informed and informative article in which the vast majority of Australians don’t understand the complexities of how the superannuation system works, and many have been snowed by the class warfare, socialist rhetoric espoused by our fwit Treasurer and idiotic PM. Albo and co are ideologically driven and have lied to get elected.
This is going to just impact on the “rich” it’s going to bite everyone with super over time.
The new tax on superannuation balances above $3m is brutal, and all those who can withdraw money to reduce their balance below that amount will do so.
But for those whose money is trapped in super balances above $3m, usually because they are not old enough to withdraw a pension, it will be a most unpleasant experience.
As time goes on, more and more people will hit the non-indexed $3m tax trigger before they can withdraw, so longer term the Albanese-Chalmers tax will force savers elsewhere.
The parliament set super laws, and Anthony Albanese promised at the last election he would not change those laws.
Instead, he has turned super on its head and impacted not just people with large super balances, but set a precedent that will gradually become a tax norm – the taxation of unrealised gains.
In essence, those with super balances below $3m will be taxed at a rate of 15 per cent on income and 10 per cent on realised capital gains.
But for the income above $3m there will be a 15 per cent tax levied on both realised and unrealised capital gains after June 30, 2025, plus any other income.
There will be no capital gains discount. The liability can be paid by the individual beneficiary or the fund itself.
For those that can extract money from their super fund because they are in pension mode, they may transfer assets.
But in many cases, because of the age of the beneficiary, money can’t be withdrawn, so the beneficiary must pay the tax themselves or the fund the tax from liquid assets or selling assets.
This will impact the sharemarket, particularly small companies, plus parts of the property market. In both markets, there is current turmoil created by interest rates and the availability of credit.
Many funds have illiquid assets that are not easy to divide and will require a full sale.
The one standard rule of taxation in Australia is that if you don’t sell an asset, you don’t pay tax on it.
On balances above $3m after June 2025 Jim Chalmers not only taxes people on their unrealised capital gains, but if their asset falls, there’s no refund.
They must offset the loss against future gains. In conventional super and other areas of tax there is a discount for capital gains, which does not exist in the Albanese-Chalmers tax.
Is this tax part of a master plan? I suspect not. More likely, it was invented by a series of quick decisions that were not thought through.
With the help of political insiders, let me paint a possible scenario of how a new set of precedents setting super taxes are likely to have been created.
The speculation whether the cap should be $5m or $3m was causing instability in the government, so a decision had to be made.
It was decided, rather than a cap, there would simply be a higher tax rate on balances above $3m. Sitting around the cabinet were a series of people whose background was union officialdom and government service. Most did not understand the ramifications of what they decided.
On the surface it looked simple. There would be a doubling of existing super taxes on balances over $3m.
Not many people would be impacted. Then they were alerted to a problem, Australians with self-managed funds often also hold industry and retail fund units and many Australians have more than one fund.
The super funds simply don’t have the systems that can determine the combined total balances in super, let alone apply different tax rates.
But then a solution suddenly emerged. The tax office has the data on gross super balances and would be able to administer the process.
But the tax office material is based on market values at balance date, so it was decided the tax could be levied annually on these figures. But that involved taxing super balance on the basis of both realised and unrealised gains. That was a new tax without precedent.
No one wants to invest in a self-managed fund where unrealised gains are taxed as income on balances of more than $3m.
And the 10 per cent capital gains tax applied on balances under $3m would not apply on balances above $3m.
Who wants to own property or shares where unrealised capital gains are taxed each year?
Many family funds with balances over $3m have invested in property that is an integral part of the business being run by the family.
There will be family members in the fund who are too young to draw a pension, and the property is very difficult to divide.
A decision will have to be made as to whether to sell the property or simply pay tax on unrealised gains after June 30, 2025.
When governments enact retrospective legislation, it nearly always creates very unfair situations.
One of those situations is the problem of defined benefit finds, which is highlighted in The Australian this week.
I don’t think Albanese compared his own personal situation with the pain he was inflicting on retirees.
He is entitled to a pension, but it’s worth more than $10m, which is a long way about the cap of $3m. He will have to live with that incredible disparity.
You can almost make an argument for licensed overnight trains with sleepers. Unless gypsies steal your kidneys.
“I wonder if those who screeched “Uniparty!” might care to compare the pair … Jug-ears Chalmers and Josh Friedenburger.”
Yep. I also wonder whether the voters of Kooyong, who fell for the “charms” of Svengali Simon’s chosen girl, might now care to compare the pair…..Lard-arse Ryan and Josh Friedenburger.
His super is a different sort of super to ours, yet in some ways it’s the same.
It’s his.
Like ours is his.
Good question.
The Libs need to start collecting these clips from Jug-ears, Combet, Swan and Co, and prepare to run their own class envy campaign.
Something along the lines of the Industry Super “compare the pair” adverts maybe.
Just remind people exactly how much these arseholes are raking in whilst simultaneously lecturing people about “excessive benefits”.
KD, as I watched the bright maroon patch on the weather map tonight around 6pm, I thought of you. I am very glad you checked in OK, sounds like a trip and a half, thanks for letting us know how it went. What a country we have !
Greg Combet, the head of Australian Super, said yesterday, that those with low home values could be helped out by those with higher values.
Something along the lines of the Industry Super “compare the pair” adverts maybe.
Yep, highlight the hypocrisy.
Sancho, you’re all over this.
How does division 293 impact people who are still working but part of a defined benefit plan.
Or is this another concession that folks like Albo receive?
This is what I was referring to earlier today.
Upside – realised or unrealised – is taxed immediately.
Downside?
Well, carry it forward to offset future gains.
Plenty of rude jeer and melancholy tonight!
Not only the country but a continent, all in one.
Mother Lodesays:
March 2, 2023 at 10:30 am
On the music site I listen to while working I keep seeing a grotesque triptych, of a rictus grin winged by jug-ears – Obama is coming to Australia.
……….
……….
Question is whether he brings his behemoth wife. There is a problem with the supply of chickens in the US, isn’t there. If so she will pass over the land like the dark shadow of an eclipse and when the light finally returns we will see a great swath cut through the land where every chicken farm has been scoured clean – every feather, every egg, every grain of feed
Superb imagery Mother Lode, well done.
On YT another nice little SF story: dear diary…
Displaced – Sci-fi Short by Carl Thiel (2 Feb, 16 min)
It is fairly clear that they are aiming at private accumulation funds.
When asked about defined benefit schemes he just gave a glib “Gee, we haven’t considered that yet. We will look into it.”
Sure.
There is no way they are going to impute the value of a public sector defined benefit fund for taxation purposes. Or, if they do, the tax will be paid by the Commonwealth (i.e. us).
If this gets to Court as a matter of equity between private accumulation fund members and public defined benefit fund members, there wouldn’t be a senior judge in the country who wouldn’t have recuse theyself because of conflict.
Framing legislation to financially advantage yourself.
A matter for ICAC?
The only thing that fixes Aboriginal dysfunction is self determination. Either take control of your life without government handouts or if you phuck up, you’re at the mercy of the law.
No amount of money can fix it, no amount of so called voices can fix it.
I fear that sit down money will become more prevalent if this Voice referendum prevails, of course with disastrous results.
That taxation of unrealised gains is a nightmare.
Another back of a coaster job.
Well done Labor.
Lyon! 8fer!
76 for the win. We can’t lose from here … can we?
Next up Labor announce businesses will be taxed on the basis of turnover, not profit.
Daily Mail.
US News Live: Elon Musk vs China: Beijing warns Tesla CEO after Covid lab leak comments | WION LIVE
Now, experts says that the true origin of pandemic may not be known for many years. China has consistently denied a lab leak in Wuhan. Calling the allegations defamatory the Communist party of China has warned Elon Musk. China is warning Twitter CEO Elon Musk against sharing posts that promote the lab leak theory of the coronavirus.
Quite apart from the injustice of it, the calculation will be a nightmare.
OK, listed shares are easy to calculate.
But property and other classes of assets?
Large funds will revalue as a matter of course … that is how the CBus Ponzi actually works.
But real estate in an SMSF?
Do you pay for a valuation every year?
Hold all tickets.
Repeat.
Hold all tickets pending correct weight.
These people have never had a job outside of a government sinecure or subsidy. Just clueless.
Chalmers could really sink Minns. The swinging voters in marginals not only care about mortgage rates, they want to have a healthy superannuation balance.
SHOTS FIRED!
Blueysays:
March 2, 2023 at 8:51 pm
Eyriesays:
March 2, 2023 at 7:24 pm
Trump can’t win in 2024, but then no Republican can. The election will be stolen, there’s too much riding on it for the Democrats for it not to be.
In which case, the United States is finished.
The only way the 2a is going to be worth a damn is when the US reverts to a Mad Max like hellscape. Maybe those left can rebuild but it will be a bloodbath that makes the Civil War look like Saturday night in Chicago. Otherwise it has done nothing to protect its citizens from several stolen elections and government overreach in many areas of their lives.
The pen is indeed mightier than the sword (or gun) in this case as the Democrats have achieved virtually everything they want without a shot being fired. They’re just taking the mickey out of the Americans now.
In other words, why bother looking into it when whatever is decided for the defined benefit funds will be paid by the taxpayers? The only fair thing would be to convert all the defined benefit accounts into the accumulation accounts. No grandfathering to benefit the people who are changing the terms for the rest of us. Let’s all be in this together.
Next up Labor announce businesses will be taxed on the basis of turnover, not profit.
Rosie! Sssshh! These Mongs are capable of anything!
Only because they’re still to work out a way to tax businesses on the basis of unrealised turnover.
Isn’t that the NSW method for taxing bookies?
Isn’t that the NSW method for taxing bookies?
Ask Robbie Waterhouse
No reason Zulu why conservative writers can’t meet and speak freely.
No reason why normal heterosexual partners cannot congregate in Sydney’s CBD and enjoy each other’s company.
No reason why conservative thinkers cannot ask for the deplatforming of arseholes like monty. Because he wants all of the above.
No reason why we can’t show up to monty reading stories at Drag Queen hour and hound him and his ilk out of the joint.
We keep losing because we won’t acknowledge the real enemy which is the Left.
She was invited to Adelaide precisely because she holds these views.
Simple Emmanomics.
Wants all of the above policed and shut down I should say
I guess that means I owe her an apology. And mUnty probably passed Econ 101.
Adler says thusly:
If writers’ festivals, like universities and the media, cannot with care and considered approach engage with complex and contentious issues, then we have a problem in civil society.”
I’m pretty sure Huelva is going to be my Spanish Messina.
Another victim of the 1755 earthquake.
The archaeological museum and the cathedral might be the only points of interest that require more than a walk past, still, on the coast, the seafood is supposed to be good and the weather is beautiful.
My host is a police, former military, off work with a dislocated finger from playing football. His English gained from working on a US military base, I didn’t know they had those here.
Menu of the day at the local Cafe is only €7.50.
Prima is some sort of bean soup with sausage and scary meat, so far so good.
Louise Adler, no doubt also fits the human garbage bill.
It’s not a secret, they already pretend the word turnover is interchangeable with the word profit.
But of course.
Monty is looking forward to it.
Today is the 3rd of March. My birthday.
I will kick back and relax and have a fair sip.
Calling the allegations defamatory the Communist party of China has warned Elon Musk
Yes, they don’t want electric car blue bird rocket man to ruin the good name of Chinese communism and their continuing party on the deaths of millions. Bwahahaha.
Stopping people from climbing Ayers Rock had nothing to do with it.
ATG Downunder pulls tour and coach business out of Alice Springs
And how shocking that Qantas is significantly reduce flights to Alice because no-one wants to go there.
‘Despite billion dollar profit’ is the ABC headline.
bitterly disappointed by alcohol bans
where to go to escape climate change
How about Turkey taking some responsibility?
Frontex warned Italy of possible ‘large number of people’ before shipwreck
Why is this of sufficient interest to warrant a news item?
(It’s paywalled)
Everybody appearing at Toowoomba Magistrates Court, Wednesday, March 2
Here is a list of matters listed at Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Wednesday 2 March.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Guy Venables.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Thanks Tom.
Chicago ex-mayor copping a slapping is beaut.
wonder if those who screeched “Uniparty!” might care to compare the pair … Jug-ears Chalmers and Josh Friedenburger.
Okay.
Jim Chalmers is a nice guy who is totally deluded.
There’s nothing pleasant about Josh Frydenburg, and he’s totally up himself.
The incredible thing is that Frydenburg plans a return to Federal Parliament after being rejected by his Electorate and a complete failure as Treasurer and one of the main reasons the Morrison Government was rejected.
Is there no end to the madness.
Hershey puts a he/she dude on chocolate wrappers celebrating International women’s day????
Another one predicted by Tickler’s Dutch mate.
I failed the link.
Big shortage of troubadour drivers who could put book learnin’ types in their place.
Schumer wants Murdoch to silence Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson. Having ninety percent of the MSM as ardent leftist shills isn’t enough. They want it all.
We hear echoes of that attitude here where some want Sky After Dark silenced.
Three parent babies.
What could possibly go wrong.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/02/1069296/three-parent-baby-technique-risk-of-disease/?truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=03-02-2023&mc_cid=430a4cefa1&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
“ Zuck and pals are spending tens of millions of dollars, not padding voter rolls, not fighting lawsuits, not getting voters out early… they are spending the dough infiltrating and controlling election commissions.
For those who think cleaning the voter rolls and voting early are enough protect 2024, our data proves you are delusional. The Left is all in controlling election commissions. Expect Kari Lake’s outcome to move from an outlier to a standard outcome in 2024. Election commission fraud, which we coined as sovereign fraud two years ago, has attractive characteristics for the Left. ”
Read more at American Thinker
More hyphenated Adelaide names for starters.
‘Despite billion dollar profit’ is the ABC headline.
Bagging companies for making a profit is standard operational b/s in our largely left media. The usual trick is to quote the profit figure in millions without any reference to what it represents as a return on capital.
The socialists at the ABC (along with many in other so-called news media) fail to recognise that companies have to make a profit in order to attract investment and to provide investors with some dividend worth having.
Journalists inhabiting taxpayer funded bubble #1 (aka the ABC) should be forced to attend remedial classes.
That’s disgusting.
They effectively create two babies, then kill one.
And there’s a related article about babies for ‘trans men’ so they can avoid the ‘distress’ of IVF.
DIE news.
United Airlines Touts All-LGBTQ Flight Crew; Customers Not Amused (2 Mar)
“United Airlines took to Twitter this week to proclaim that an all-LGBTQ+ crew had just completed a flight from San Francisco to Sydney. A video inside the tweet showed two employees unveiling the image of a koala bear – wearing heart-shaped sunglasses – waving an enormous LGBTQ flag on the side of the aircraft.
…
The new-hire first officer on my fleet is a nightmare. It took him 50 hours to get through Initial Operating Experience. Worse yet, talking to his instructor, out of his 25 landings in the simulator, 15 ended up in the dirt. Not one of them was on the centerline of the runway. They said his radio work is like that of a private pilot. He has no situational awareness.”
Poll: Majority of Australian Rugby Bosses Reject LGBTQI Pride Round (2 Mar)
“Just on 82 percent of Australian rugby league club bosses reject a dedicated Pride Round of competition in support of the LGBTQI community, according to a poll released Tuesday.”
I have a radical idea. How about footy teams concentrate on playing football, and airlines stick to flying aeroplanes? Instead of being drag queens? Might make you more profit. It’s a thought.
It’s the notion that airlines, or anyone, should provide an unprofitable service (because no-one wants to use it) if another part of their business is profitable that gets me.
Why?
Oh I know, providing a service that nobody wants is the ABC’s entire business model.
A liberty quote perhaps?
Although replace “wants” with “needs”.
Was sent a change.org petition to cancel The Project because of their comments on Jesus.
I don’t know what was said but I’m not cancelling someone for just saying something, unless they were advocating violence.
Will be calling the person today to explain why I will not be signing it.
Maybe a petition to get them to say the same in relation to Mo might be in order?
Crossie, I am in no doubt about the purpose of the Voice. I don’t support it in the slightest way. It is, as I have stated here many times, simply a means of siphoning off more money and even worse, leading to further aboriginal Constitutional claims for ‘sovereignty’; the first step to a Treaty and then ‘Truth Telling’ to claim ‘Reparations’. It is a very bad idea indeed, it is divisive, it can completely change our Parliamentary democracy and we should fight it all the way. If the Libs don’t show some leadership and do this then the country is done for.
It is John H who is arguing that the Voice can still serve a purpose if the emphasis is placed on familial issues. I have no doubt that familial dysfunction is at the heart of aboriginal distress but the Voice will not do anything to address that. You are correct in saying that it is a creature of an urban elite who will be the major beneficiaries.
It’s what sent the railways broke starting in the 30s. They were profitable, but then had to operate branchlines that weren’t and soon the profit turned to loss.
OTOH, I thought the ABC would be pleased, fewer flights = fewer debil debil carbonses.
Chuckle. All the March Hares here at the Cat. Ted, Toad and myself, three days running.
In the best tradition of the Soviet Union, of Nazi Germany, of Mao’s China, of Pol Pot’s Cambodia and all the other totalitarian societies such as North Korea, for speaking some fundamental truths, Scott Adams has now been ‘disappeared’. We are all welcome to join in the public lynching of Adams by publicly condemning him, spitting on him, screeching at him, and damning him however if we agree with Adams or if we think that the punishment metered out to Adams might be slightly over the top, then we will only be able to speak his name in a hushed voice else we will also be targeted. Many years ago I read a book about how ordinary people behaved in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, even at home people would whisper about ‘delicate’ subjects in case they were being spied upon. But back to Scott Adams, well, he and his work hasn’t just been mothballed, scratched and redlined, he’s been cancelled, purged, eliminated and cleansed from all polite society. Apart from the fact that he’s lost all syndication on his work, Adams had a new book about to be published which has now been canned and his publisher has dropped him. But wait, there’s more, his current published books will not be reprinted, and his Dilbert calendars are in the process of being purged. His 2023 Dilbert calendar, a number one bestseller on Amazon, will not be reprinted. I have zero doubt that if they could arrest Adams and send him off to a gulag, they would. Actually no, forget about gulags, they’d take him down to a cellar and put a bullet through his skull, just like what used to happen in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, when ordinary people were taken down to the vast cellars to be bashed and beaten and then shot, some even by Beria himself, gosh, how lucky were they! But the woke fascists in our very woke West behave in a slightly more delicate way, and they have the MSM and social media at help them lie and lynch people. And our woke are still constrained somewhat because, sadly for them, we still have in place some legal processes that prevent them from shooting us dead in a prison cellar but make no mistake, if our woke could physically annihilate us, they would. Our Australian woke even turn up to funerals to protest, and they’re given a green light by our police! As for gulags, I fear such places are not too far off (and no, I’m no conspiracy monger). Scott Adams is somewhat fortunate, his life spared for now, and luckily he’s got millions in the bank to cushion the blows. The poor woke, what’ll they do in the meantime? I suppose when Adams dies he’ll be buried, and then our woke revolutionary fanatics can dig up and burn his bones, for a final act of cleansing, just like each side used to do during the Reformation’s Wars of Religion. That’ll satisfy them.
Everything that has been done to Adams is no different to what the French revolutionaries, Nazis and Communists did and still do, they cancel, they burn books, and they burn humans. Goebbels would be so pleased, he’d be very impressed.
By the way, Adams’ comments about blacks were 100% correct, and they were not offensive. Meanwhile, blacks and uber white progressives, like those invited to the Adelaide Writer’s Festival, desperately kneel before their wank woke gods, and continue unabated with their vicious racism against whites, Jews and Asians, but that’s okay because you see, some racism is quite okay.
I know one thing, we live in revolutionary times, and we are living through our own reign of terror.
When and how will it end?
They were the most offensive to the people who knew they were true but made mouth movements in the opposite direction.
How many of the White Woke live in black neighbourhoods? How many send their children to predominately black schools? How many give generously to the black poor?
No wonder they’re angry. He held up a mirror and they saw themselves.
Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2023 at 6:00 am
The incredible thing is that Frydenburg plans a return to Federal Parliament after being rejected by his Electorate and a complete failure as Treasurer and one of the main reasons the Morrison Government was rejected.
Changed your tune on the Strad?
You used to claim that Mizzzz Knickerless was the main (if not the only) reason.
132andBushsays:
March 3, 2023 at 7:08 am
providing a service that nobody wants is the ABC’s entire business model.
A liberty quote perhaps?
Although replace “wants” with “needs”.
Let’s compromise on “needs or wants”.
Sall Grover has been pursued all the way to the federal court because a tranny by the name of Roxanne Tickle is cross that Sall’s app won’t allow male perverts on it. You might not have guessed two things so let me enlighten you. Firstly, Mr Tickle is a biological male, mon dieu! Secondly, ‘Roxanne Tickle’ is not HIS real name, mon dieu again! But you’d never guess what organisation is assisting the tranny’s legal case against Sall Grover? Ahhhhhhh yes, our very own Australian Human Rights Commission. You read that right, this same AHRC that said nothing during three years of Covid when Australians had their civil liberties trashed, this same AHRC that said nothing when Victorians were being bashed, beaten and bludgeoned by Dan’s paramilitary goons, but is busy assisting Mr Tickle in his legal complaint against Sall Grover. Priorities, priorities.
But you want to know what makes me very cross? The fact that for nine years we had a Coalition government that did F*CK ALL to neuter and/or disband organisations such as the AHRC. Remember that next time you vote, because I certainly will.
“ Zuck and pals are spending tens of millions of dollars, not padding voter rolls, not fighting lawsuits, not getting voters out early… they are spending the dough infiltrating and controlling election commissions.
Zuck, Reid & Pierre had nothing to do with Arizona.
A bunch of McCainite Republicans oversaw the rule changes that state house approved.
The PBO reckons that it will cost $63 Billion to electrify Aussie homes. They don’t seen to have a figure for industry and transport etc. It really is a madness, I just can’t understand how any rational person would think this is a good idea.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11810507/Electrifying-Australian-homes-cost-63billion-according-costing-David-Pocock.html
This is a vid from Monica Smit from Reignite. It’s both interesting and concerning that in relation to data from the ABS for the previous 60 years, the people she spoke to were unaware of the exponential increase in excess deaths in Australia in 2022.
Nobody knows and the msm is not interested.
https://youtu.be/KDNTSYFCyZI
You’re right, McCain’s rich bitch widow owns Arizona.
Sfw:
I just can’t understand how any rational person would think this is a good idea.
sfw, see the vid below yours – everyone is oblivious to everything that does not directly affect them. Until it does.
Watching all the bouhaha about super changes, my question is , what is the ALP trying to distract us from?
“Zuck, Reid & Pierre had nothing to do with Arizona.
A bunch of McCainite Republicans oversaw the rule changes that state house approved.”
Yep, and the reason why Trump lost the state in 2020 and went onto lose the election was because of McCainite RINOs.
The GOP in the US, the Liberals here and the Tories in the UK don’t need the left to destroy them, no, no, no, they’re adept at destroying themselves.
Diogenessays:
March 3, 2023 at 8:20 am
Watching all the bouhaha about super changes, my question is , what is the ALP trying to distract us from?
The collapse of the electricity supply system in the near future?
Everybody knows the only equitable tax rate is 110%
A gas station owner in Alabama was trying to increase his sales so he put up a sign that read: Free Sex With Fill-Up. Soon a local redneck pulled in, filled his tank and asked for his free sex. The owner told him to pick a number from 1 to 10 and if he guessed correctly, he would get his free sex. The redneck guessed 8, and the proprietor said “You were close. The number was 7. Sorry, no sex this time”. A week later, the same redneck, along with a buddy, Bubba, pulled in for another fill-up. Again, he asked for his free sex. The proprietor again asked him to guess the correct number. The redneck guessed 2 this time. The proprietor said “Sorry, it was 3. You were close, but no free sex this time”. As they were driving away, the redneck said to his buddy “I think that game is rigged and he doesn’t really give away free sex”. Bubba replied “It ain’t rigged. My wife won twice last week!”
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
– J. K. Rowling
I don’t necessarily doubt the increase in excess deaths ((but will check) but I have big problems with Monica’s representation in her graph. The huge spike depicted seems out of proportion for 16%. Or is that just me as I’m operating on one eye at the moment?
There’s a short Reagan clip in the first response. Brilliant.
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“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
– Ronald Reagan
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
1. TWITTER FILES #17
New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Being caught in a lie seems to be a badge of honour these days.
Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
Garland is so caught. What a lying POS.
It has to be something more proximate, ie bad news now. No point setting a distraction squirrel running for something that won’t happen for a little while.
Also trying to divert from reasoned debate on the Voice whilst they co-ordinate momentum in favour?
Rosaries are dangerous.
Okay, So It Looks as if the Justice Department Probably Has Spies in Catholic Churches (2 Mar)
“In a heated exchange with Gestapo chief Merrick Garland at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) directly challenged Garland’s viciously corrupt and politicized “Justice” Department, and zeroed in on the once-respected agency’s targeting of traditionalist Roman Catholics. While Garland maintained, in the teeth of the available evidence, that the department is not actually targeting Catholics, he claimed not to know how many spies and informants the feds have in those hotbeds of terrorism, traditional Catholic parishes. In other words, he didn’t say they didn’t have any such spies and informants. So if you’re Catholic, be watchful: the guy in the pew behind you could be taking notes.”
Why, these horribly extremist Catholics might actually pray for someone. Yikes! That would really be beyond the pale.
It’s the nature of the beast. All these mediocre tax and spend collectivist quislings invariably ever do is blunder from one self inflicted disaster to the next. Gillard’s time as PM was a classic example.
Now we just need to wait for various j’ismists to start screeching incessantly about giving 32% Albansleazey and Dim Chambers some “clear air”.
Note 32% Albansleazey didn’t pull a Teats Peanuthead when he’d heard about Dim Chambers’ obfuscation on CGT for primary residences. “I heard what he said and I disagree with all of it.”
Until of course, he doesn’t.
Nope.
The only people who need the ABC work there.
what is the ALP trying to distract us from?
Themselves.
With Luigi the Unbelievable & Charmless in charge, it’s not the A Team we’re looking at.
On a more serious note, we all know that they want to tear up every refund, rebate, taxation claim that they can lay their hands on. The superannuation announcement was the beginning of that.
But also it was a tactical move to flick pass their previous week’s “big idea” of using superannuation funds to invest in non-value assets for the left, which didn’t work.
People know it’s their money – they’ve known it for decades via industry super advertising – and they weren’t going to take it lying down when the govt announced it would be diverting their retirement monies into Ponzi schemes to benefit the Liars and their union mates.
Hence, a new thought. It would only adversely affect the “big balances.”
At the moment, Luigi is feeling the full effect of that old adage – marry in haste, repent at leisure. With no real work done by Charmless before these changes to super-tax were announced, the bride is not what he expected.
132andBush at 7:15
I agree.
It’s the hypocrisy and inconsistency which I take issue with.
In fact, the Mueslis are protesting this one as well, on the grounds that Jesus is a prophet in Islam. I think that is what lit a fire under Squalid Wally and drew an apology.
PS – above all else, the ‘joke’ was pissweak.
Caveman, that story is enough to give one the Hershey Squirts.
It’s a worldwide phenomenon.
The Biden Administration Is Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich
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‘Why does Hershey’s hate women?’: Fans threaten to boycott chocolate maker after it puts a trans woman’s face on its candy wrappers for International Women’s Day
Count Dankula has a look at the Scotchlandian National Socialist Party’s front runner.
I don’t think Snaggletooth and Jug-ears were trying to distract us from anything.
I think they genuinely thought that the first shot in their “fighting Torries” war would be met with almost universal acclaim, except for the likes of Terry McCrann, who serve as the “old, white, dinosaur” they could deliver a ceremonial kicking to.
They have simply misjudged the smarts of the public who see this as the thin edge of the wedge, even if they are not immediately impacted.
The “tax over $3 meg” was a hurried attempt to hose down the bushfire.
Until Jug-ears went on Sunrise with a jerry-can and fumbled the ball on CGT on the Principal Residence.
Part II: Scott Adams Is a Racist Because … He Is Made of Wood
Quite … the miniscule gain (‘affects 0.5%’ etc etc etc) it hasn’t been worth the pain, so either this is the thin end of the wedge (of course it is – inflation will ‘bracket creep’ more and more accounts into it as time goes on) or a smoke screen for something else (and theres plenty of candidates there)
PS … here is a bit of history about the first US income tax, which affected only 1% of the US population to start with:
In 1862 – President Lincoln signed into law a revenue-raising measure to help pay for Civil War expenses. The measure created a Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the nation’s first income tax. It levied a 3 percent tax on incomes between $600 and $10,000 and a 5 percent tax on incomes of more than $10,000.
The U.K. Briefly Considered Killing All Pet Cats Early in the Pandemic
Trump stated that the far left is fascist, and no one disputed it
Justin Bieber Cancels 2023 Tour Dates Because of Persistent Face Paralysis Issue
but ultimately focussed on its core demographic – the people.
Sanchez
@wabalabadubdaa
Why is Senator Antic one of the few that’s actually making sense?
Maybe . . . However, I tend to think they’re not that smart, after all pollies are no longer renowned for their intelligence anymore (if they ever were).
Member of Parliament asks the UK Government about the use of midazolam during the pandemic
In 1942 the Australian Commonwealth abrogated the states’ income tax powers as an emergency war measure, consolidating those powers in Canberra and effectively reducing the states to mendicants due to the subsequent vertical fiscal imbalance.
It’s 78 years since the war ended & they still haven’t relinquished those powers. Indeed, Canberra would like to be rid of the states altogether.
(Not that I’m a great fan of state governments, but I’m even less enamoured of the centralisation of power.)
“Zipstersays:
March 3, 2023 at 8:29 am
Next up Labor announce businesses will be taxed on the basis of turnover, not profit.
Everybody knows the only equitable tax rate is 110%”
Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren helped bring down the reigning government in the seventies when she found she was to pay 102% Tax on her earnings.
“In 1976, Lindgren learned that because of tax laws requiring her to pay both income tax and employer’s fees, she would effectively be taxed at a rate of 102 percent. Though she was generally a supporter of the principles of socialism, paying more than she actually earned appalled her. And so she published a satirical fairytale, “Pomperipossa in Monismania,” about a children’s book author forced to pay exorbitant taxes, in the Stockholm tabloid Expressen. The satire ignited a furious debate over both the tax laws and the reigning Social Democratic Party. Because of her popularity, people listened to Lindgren. Later that year, the Social Democratic party lost the election, giving up power for the first time in 44 years.”
She still remained a commie at heart though and was quite happy paying 80% Tax.
Interesting woman for her time.
I suspect that is the case.
Meanwhile, I see the ABC has come to the rescue with reports of large account holders in support of the changes.
The U.K. Briefly Considered Killing All Pet Cats Early in the Pandemic
but ultimately focussed on its core demographic – the people.
The first reaction of government – who or what can we kill?
Quentin Dumpster and Red Kezza?
I commented the other day about how Perth and Margaret River are unattractive to tourists, not least because of the consequences of COVID restrictions by governments.
To nobody’s surprise, Alice Springs is suffering, for different reasons:
Well, reports of roaming gangs of yoofs, and kids racing stolen cars in the main street, not to mention soaring crime in every category, will do that.
I wonder how the ‘traditional owners’ of Ayers Rock, who thought they were sitting on a goldmine, are feeling today?
The reason I mentioned Perth is that they both have very high costs to get there and stay there. People are not going to shell out thousands and thousands unless they think they will get value for their money.
Perth will survive as a functioning city. What used to be called ‘the Alice’ as a functioning town – maybe not.
Justin Bieber Cancels 2023 Tour Dates Because of Persistent Face Paralysis
It is interesting, and sad, that his 26 year old wife was also hospitalised with a blood clot in her brain. Almost certainly, they copped the same vaccine batch.
I wish we could finally establish why certain batches had such catastrophic results. But then, they don’t want us to know, do they?
Actually as beneficiaries of the ALPBC Defined Benefits scheme they are more likely to be in the Let Them Eat Cake camp with Albo.
I only watch an hour or so of television each day. An ad enticing people to visit the Red Centre focusing on indigenous culture is on high rotation. I don’t expect they’ll be getting a good return on their investment.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
March 3, 2023 at 8:51 am
Okay, So It Looks as if the Justice Department Probably Has Spies in Catholic Churches (2 Mar)
Thank you Bruce.
Further to the above article:
The End of Entitlement
Paid up members who will be rewarded with positions, awards and similar.
I don’t buy into the idea that lack of indexation was part of Jug-ears grand plan.
Treasury would have suggested it for sure, but no politician takes heat for something which will only start to really kick in ten years down the track.
Canberra should do something to create more jobs in Alice Springs, and more opportunities for the people. One the best ways of doing that would be to relocate the ABC to there.
Then there’d be lots of good jobs, and much more business activity in the town! And since the taxpayer is already paying for the ABC that would be a neat way of getting the most out of that money. Win-win!
Lets not forget the Super crap went from “lets have a conversation about us helping ourselves to your munni” to a decision in less than a week.
I think “lets have a conversation” was found to be a very brave move indeed and something had to be done to declare the conversation over.
Who could have thought.
Just think of the promotional possibilities: e.g.: The ABC — Australia’s Red Centre!
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program”
Milton Freidman.
Go Woke – Nearly End up in the Ocean!
UNITED AIRLINES TOUTS ALL-LGBTQ FLIGHT CREW; CUSTOMERS NOT AMUSED
United Airlines took to Twitter this week to proclaim that an all-LGBTQ+ crew had just completed a flight from San Francisco to Sydney. A video inside the tweet showed two employees unveiling the image of a koala bear – wearing heart-shaped sunglasses – waving an enormous LGBTQ flag on the side of the aircraft.
The airline may have been surprised to learn that for many passengers, safety trumps diversity.
Although there were a few who applauded this momentous occasion, for those more concerned with reaching their destination in one piece, it landed like a lead balloon.
“Oh, thank God. Every time I fly, the only thing I worry about is ‘who do the crew members like to have sex with?’ As long as that’s the focus of the airlines, I know I’m in good hands,” one flyer wrote.
Another replied, “I don’t care how many boxes your crew checks, but what I do care about is their qualifications. You made it clear that an all-LGBTQ+ crew was your number one priority above safety and qualifications. I will never fly United Airlines again.”
Two years ago, United announced that “50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade” would be “women or people of color.” They went on to say, “Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day.”
While the left’s prioritization of equity and diversification over merit in corporate hiring decisions may be inconsequential in some industries, this growing trend in the airline industry is frightening and potentially deadly.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson drew attention to the dark side of this practice several weeks ago. In the video below, he points out that airlines are “dramatically lowering hiring standards for pilots and for air traffic controllers” and warned that “at some point, many people are going to die” as a result.
Carlson described several “near disasters” that have occurred in just the past few months that should have all Americans concerned about the aviation industry’s adoption of these new standards.
Last month, for example, a United Airlines flight was just about to touch down at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, when a second plane began taxiing right into its path. The United pilot then “aborted the landing so dramatically that people on board were terrified.”
Carlson read an account of the current situation written by a veteran United Airlines pilot in December. He provided some chilling details about the consequences of the airlines’ walk on the woke side:
[Name redacted] just told me about a B-triple-seven off Maui that almost crashed two nights ago. Both pilots became disoriented and pulled out of a dive 300 feet above the water, pulling two and a half G’s. …
I’m just home from Denver training center. There are some real horror stories out there about United, but management is hell-bent on just ignoring what is going on. The investigation is still on-going. … but the Captain of the Maui flight was brand new. There was a new-hire First Officer, and my understanding is that we almost lost an airplane for no good reason. Both have been sent back to go through the 4-week course. …
The new-hire first officer on my fleet is a nightmare. It took him 50 hours to get through Initial Operating Experience. Worse yet, talking to his instructor, out of his 25 landings in the simulator, 15 ended up in the dirt. Not one of them was on the centerline of the runway. They said his radio work is like that of a private pilot. He has no situational awareness.
1) Michael Yeadon (former senior Pfizer exec) has spoken about this. He attributes it to large variations in the amount of mRNA in the batches – ie variations in dose. He notes that, if there is one thing that big pharma is good at, its producing consistent batches, meaning such variations cannot have been accidental. He believes this was a deliberate ‘dose-response curve’ exercise.
2) a medical colleague of mine notes that Biebers condition, (Ramsay-Hunt syndrome) *rarely* resolves – it is likely Bieber will *never* recover.
Awesome stuff.
$100 mill masticated in the mighty maw of “consultants” and government spivs- the return- absolutely nothing.
Another whole days Aboriginal spending down the drain.
NSW slams brakes on high-speed rail plans after spending $100m on studies
This says it all. “redeployed” not sacked.
At the time the project was shelved, there were scores of people on teams – either as department employees or external consultants – devoted to it. They have since been redeployed to smaller projects to add additional tracks to short sections of the existing suburban train network.
Still at least the money is safe now.. right?
The revelations about fast rail between Sydney and Newcastle follow the release of a proposal last week arguing thjt* the Albanese government should pursue its high-speed rail ambition by progressively upgrading sections of the existing train corridor, starting between Sydney and Canberra as the cheapest and quickest way to deliver fast trains by the end of this decade, as opposed to the more challenging Newcastle corridor.
*Never change gruinaid, never change…
A fireman came from work one day and told his wife “You know, we have a wonderful system at the fire station. Bell 1 rings and we all put on our jackets. Bell 2 rings and we all slide down the pole. Bell 3 rings and we’re ready to go on the trucks”. “From now on” he said “we’re going to run this house the same way”. “When I say Bell 1, I want you to strip naked. When I say Bell 2, I want you to jump into bed. When I say Bell 3, we’re going to make love all night”. The next night the fireman came home from work and yelled “Bell 1!” and his wife took off her clothes. “Bell 2” and his wife jumped into bed. “Bell 3” and they began to make love. After two minutes his wife yelled “Bell 4!” “What the hell is Bell 4?” the husband asks. “Roll out more hose” she replied “you’re nowhere near the fire!”
Good one Tom.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
– J. K. Rowling
Dim Chambers admitted as much the other day, “it (the consequences of more people paying more tax on their super) will be an issue for whoever is treasurer at the time”.
Contemptible destructive execution worthy parasitic quislings.
Beginning to wonder what isn’t far right.
ULEZ -Ultra Low Emissions Zone.
There do seem to have been a rash of near accidents of late due to controller errors, just to add to the rash of ‘pilot incapacitated in flight’ incidents.
Plenty of examples here:
https://youtu.be/jNGNjYOikWw
https://youtu.be/-8QMz2chnbI
https://youtu.be/nADDxvLujBs
Cheap and quick….what could possibly go wrong?
In this neck of the woods we’ve recently seen what a cheap and quick infrastructure build gets you – failure and expensive repairs just 3 years down the track.
Happy birthdays, Pisceans. Hope your presents aren’t too late.
At least nobody was killed.
Because the atmosphere is partitioned. Didn’t you know?
And after COVID lockdowns, they can’t argue that they need to be in a major centre like Sydney. All the systems and procedures are now in place for working remotely.
Everything has a sliver lining if you look hard enough.
dover0beach says: March 2, 2023 at 7:04 pm
I didn’t leave it out, the progressive left inserted it, as Oxford went woke a few years ago. I have a 4th edition Australian Oxford dictionary copyrighted 2011 which has the original definition.
https://imgur.com/a/MgXWbLn
Oddly, their pocket OED of the same year had the shorter definition that I remembered in previous comment, which does not require solidity such that a rainbow was considered an object under that definition.
On the one hand, it’s more important that I understand whatever meaning you intended.
On the other hand, we’re never going to get anywhere fast if we are continually attacked by our own dictionaries pulling the semantic rug out from under us every time we try to have a conversation.
Everything has a sliver lining if you look hard enough.
Its not silver, its highly toxic mercury.
You are welcome.
One of the replies from someone called Paula:
“It’s almost laughable! Being called far right isn’t the sting he thinks it is!Being called far right these days often means you are right and I am wrong but I have no further arguments so I’ll just call you far right! He could just say that we are right and he is wrong though”
Indeed, it has become the “acceptable” shut-up phrase for people who can’t put forward a case or increasingly, a put down from people afraid for themselves and needing to lash out to quash conversations that causes them anxiety.
Terry McCrann again:
Arguably the most serious consequence from the superannuation debacle is the evisceration of treasurer Jim Chalmers as the key political and policy player in the Albanese Labor Government.
To put it more simply, it has become all too-painfully obvious that: treasurer, I knew Paul Keating; treasurer, you are no Paul Keating. That’s to say, someone who, now, post-debacle, is likely either to drive and more importantly deliver serious and significant policy change, or to frame the political debate.
As Keating did, on both fronts, through those crucial years at the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s. Yes, including the “recession we had to have”, warts and all.
But also, the Prices and Incomes Accord that – oh so ironically – created the very superannuation system over which our modern-day Keating acolyte has stumbled so badly. Also too, the “doing slowly” of then opposite leader John Hewson, which enabled Keating to win his unwinnable election, after that ‘recession wart’, in 1993.
Now true, and of equally critical importance, there is no modern-day Bill Kelty – the trade union pivot of the Hawke-Keating Government’s policy and political dynamic around the Accord. One might equally say: Sally, ACTU secretary Sally McManus, I knew Bill Kelty; Sally you ain’t no Bill.
Now, it might have been something of a hopeful fantasy on my part, but coming into the election last May, I saw Chalmers as the all-important – at least, potential – bulwark against the prime minister’s ignorance and Chris Bowen’s enthusiastic idiocy.
That hope is now well and truly shattered. Be afraid, be really afraid, as Bowen runs mindlessly amok, closing coal-fired power stations, hindering or halting new gas ones, and putting all his faith – and your ability to keep your lights on – in wind and solar and mythical unicorn-style batteries. Now true, Chalmers, at least on the surface, is as equally ‘signed-on’ to the anti-energy climate lunacy.
But he did – at least, to me – show indications that sanity and just plain reality had a chance of breaking through into his mind; where there was no hope with Bowen, and Albanese was both a metaphoric and literal ‘absentee landlord’, so to speak. That while the fiscal team of Chalmers and finance minister Katy Gallagher couldn’t hold a candle to that of Keating and (Peter) Walsh, they did offer the best hope of some counterweight to government careening right off the rails. So, sadly then, we see Chalmers himself directly doing some of that careening, with a monumentally inept performance over super – and indeed the possibility of doing so, pretty much across the board, implicit in and intrinsic to the so-called Tax Expenditures Statement.
As I noted yesterday, it has to be pretty humiliating for a treasurer to have to be bailed out by a PM who – when asking for the job – didn’t know the RBAs policy rate or indeed the jobless rate. But it’s the consequences rather than the embarrassment itself that matters. No-one, from the PM down, is going to have to take Chalmers seriously around the cabinet table. That might be bad for the treasurer, it’s just terrible for the country – even at the best of times.
Apart from the climate insanity and the boyish, twerpish, enthusiasm of Bowen – a trait that he fully shares with NSW’s boy-minister Matt Kean – separated at birth, anyone? – we are not headed into the best of times, either globally or domestically. Interest rates; inflation; energy supplies and prices; the US economy and Wall St both teetering on the brink; and of course our biggest trading partner China, for the moment, propping everything up with all the money it’s pouring into Australia. We need a treasurer on top of his game, confident, assertive and both respected and dominant in cabinet.
We’ve got, well……