He was a national volleyball representative as a teenager and was the President of Volleyball Victoria from 2004 to 2019

😉

He really, really, really liked TOP GUN.

OK, you have convinced me. ‘Union Class’ is an inappropriate name for the bipartisan submarine capability.
Is ‘Fantasy Class’ more appropriate?

Italian food is a perpetual scandal and it is perpetually in crisis.

I expect James Howard Kunstler to write about this.
The Long Si!mergency.

They could even name them after the Labor people the subs resemble according to the subs’ defects.

Genius, perhaps one might add HMAS Shorten, bow shaped like a peanut, the only assault it is likely to participate in involves Kathy Sherriff or a text message at the footy.

Blair’s annual fright at awards were a good test of the state of political commentary in Australia.

I once had fun at The Conversation explaining the term frightbat – starting from ‘moonbat’ and adding ‘but OH that fright wig!’

I would gladly take a bullet if it would save my grandson from that bullet. But mothers and grandmothers – indeed anyone – rarely are allowed that choice.

Indeed.
And a quality media environment is vital, to save any nation from idiots declaring war to get a moment’s approval from the pitchfork-wielding mob.

Chrissy from SA will be Pining for more seaman. May need to check my spelling of a couple of words. Saw the little turd on fta recently in some gameshow with a lot of other luvvies.

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 14, 2023 at 9:54 am
What strategic benefit does Australia actually acquire by purchasing a small fleet of nuclear submarines (yes, long range, yes, long submerged duration) without equipping them with strategic (ie nooclular) weapons?

Faustus – My view is they would make excellent drone motherships. They can lurk deeply and distantly and release shorter-legged drones to extend reach without making it easy for the sub to be found.

Snap re motherships.

Now look up telegony on wikipedia then look up recent articles on Pub Med.

Someone is lying and the societal implications are massive, massive, massive.

Anyone who thinks they are conservative or “red pilled” at all needs to look up those things.

I clearly remember the scene with Conjob bawling. For extra effect, some twat next to him put their arm around him and patted him with the “there, there my poor little possum, you are being ever so brave”.
It was gag inducing.

Shitcoins?

The institutional design is better, look how low the spread/transaction fees are.

https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/shiba-inu-ethereum-whales-move-258b-shib-after-shibarium-beta-launch-prices-headed-to-0-0001/

Market left in shock after an Ethereum whale moved billions in Shiba Inu worth a staggering $2.6 million, for a transaction fee of only $2.

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but there’s been way too many major issues with the Sydney train system this close to the election… I can’t recall any similar events in the last 2-3 years.

Are the Union wukkas throwing spanners in the works?

Uh oh…

Oh no!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/au/article-11851465/Netballer-Donnell-Wallam-dropped-Diamonds-Gina-Rinehart-Hancock-Prospecting-racism-row.html

Anyway…

This anti F-111 propaganda must be from the 1970s Australian Navy.

For the observant, I was avoiding a rhetorical question.

No, Dot, it reflects the corruption that gave the contract to General Dynamics despite Boeing’s TFX proposal winning four selection processes, that the first (very short) deployment produced nothing but dead crew and holes in the jungle and how, eventually, a “fighter-bomber” that couldn’t stay in the air on one engine and handled like a bus became an electronic warfare plane because it was the only thing it could do, and even that not very well.

How feasible is it to anticipate that the US will send their own Virginia class nuclear subs out here to patrol our waters (and adjacent ) prior to the delivery of the 3-5 subs promised for purchase?

Very much so. In fact, in some ways the RAN is a branch of the USN, although that would never be admitted publicly by governments. We have surfed on the back of the US dollar and defence since WWII.

Some might say we’d have done better to become states 51-60 of the USA in 1946…

Mr Panzer at 8.50:

A bigger conundrum than the Rothwell’s intrigue is why Tickler suddenly goose-stepped up to our front door.
He used to hate this place.
Wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole, he said.
It’s a mystery.

I present a hypothetical situation only, cognisant of the direction given in respect of, erm, other places:

IF one were to look at the Rothmans Blog (as it has clearly become) and IF one were to peruse quite recent ‘open’ commentary there, one MAY find that reason very clearly spelled out.

You MAY have to wade through a comparatively shallow puddle of ‘oh yeah it’s someone else’s fault that I don’t have six jetskis and let’s blame the Tim Roths’ commentary (including that of the rapidly declining Cairns Post devotee and one-time potential employer of Faulty) to do it, but it’s there.

Hypothetically.

a fleet of underwater F-111s

Ha.

I watch a lot of Russell Brand. He is engaging, funny, reflective and asks many good questions without presuming to tell his viewers the answers.

George Monbiot is none of the above and doesn’t do much except cling to his political tribe’s beliefs as a way of proving his virtue.

That probably explains why Russell Brand now has over 6 million subscribers to his channels and Monbiot is still at The Grauniad.

After observing naval shipbuilding in Australia over many decades, I know we cannot do it.

give the contract to Incat

Daniel Greenfield can be a very funny writer sometimes!

Iraqi Prime Minister to Solve Nation’s Problems With Solar Panels (13 Mar)

Hope and change. I have yet to see a problem that can’t be fixed by putting up solar panels.

If Iraq can’t change the weather by putting up solar panels and windmills, who can?

Read on, it’s a marvelous blog post. 😀

Calli:

Does anyone honestly believe these subs will be built?

We’ll get the ones from the US, none of the others will leave the slips except for the breakers yards because they will not be fit for purpose, and the quality will be hopelessly compromised.
Because Unions.

Dot.
Where’s the lie?
The old Telegony theory held the later baby could gain characteristics from a “previous sexual partner”, level of sexual involvement not exactly specified.
The modern evidence is only cells lodged in the brain from a previous baby, not that the genes actually flowed from a previous father into a later baby, and not just from anybody they bonked that didn’t result in a pregnancy. The multi-purpose placenta has as one goal to stop contamination of the foetus. That a cell could slip out of the womb is one thing, but to argue it can go the other way is quite another argument. There is no statement of what type of fetal cells were found back in 2012, but safe to say they are not gametes capable of producing a zygote, and seems very unlikely they would migrate in the reverse direction, and cross the placenta, and do this at just the right time (probably a 3 week window for cells which are capable of being dormant for 60+ years) so they could become a significant part of a new foetus. There’s your chimera for the day.

Look, I realise this site (like, as you admitted, its predecessor site) operates chiefly as a state-subsidised ASIO honeypot for right wing extremists, but promoting a formerly Nazi ideology in the hope of getting some takers is surely going a bit too far?

Yep, I failed to agree with you.
Quite glad to follow the evidence instead.

this site (like, as you admitted, its predecessor site) operates chiefly as a state-subsidised

You mean Dover’s having cash funnelled to him by The Machine? If you listen hard enough Colonel, you will hear the black helicopters.

ASIO honeypot

I have yet to be approached by an ASIO femme fatale hoping for pillow talk about watch porn, coffee and the inside running on Trains vs Trucks.

for right wing extremists

Well Trickler’s here, so there’s that.

Lathe of the week!

Massive Dean Smith and Grace for sale at pretty much the value of the iron in it:

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mount-pleasant/miscellaneous-goods/lathe-metal-dean-smith-grace-/1309626160

We have a imbecilic tendency of blowing them up with explosives rather than keeping them around just in case.

The state governments love blowing up infrastructure for virtue points!

I can’t imagine how much work it must have taken to get these coal fired plants back on line.

Found it!
It starts at 3.30. I didn’t bother looking through the rest of it, but if someone can stomach it, it should show him in seat being comforted by some other lowlife.

What’s interesting in this clip is, this was the one where that bloke Wong voted against SSM.

From Roger’s The Critic link:

The blame instead should rest principally with the state, embodied by the police officer, which has all but relieved itself of the duty to protect people like the 14-year-old boy or the teacher in Batley from religious intimidation.

I don’t think even the Police officer should put himself or his family at risk either. For the simple reason that should he do so his actions won’t be backed up by those higher on the food chain.

We have a slice of perilous, lawless, primitive, self-righteous cranks foisted upon us by our politicians for political purposes. Their crackpot, evil religion has been given equal status by brainless, faithless turds of people who will never suffer for their casual approval and enabling.

Every day my grandchildren go to school in a place so heavily guarded, so full of security that it resembles a high-security facility, not a school. Just about every week there is a threat. Where, oh where, might that threat originate? It’s a mystery.

They show “nice” face to visitors, something palatable and acceptable for low information dills. Rub them the wrong way, just a little, and the bomb goes off.

M0nty and others of a progressive persuasion like to call it “moral panic”. Glib, because their own children have nothing to fear. I’m so over worrying about these little ones’ safety. In my own country for heaven’s sake.

Dot,
At some risk of tendering a whataboutism, may I say if it were any other day of the week you would be just as likely to argue the phrase “Modern, empirical, scientific research” was a contradiction in terms, especially in the medical field. But that’s by-the-by.

As I said, happy to go with the evidence. Whatever happens next, please do not attempt to transport newly conveyed information backwards in time and pretend it preceded my initial disagreement. You presented no evidence, you got no traction. You present evidence, well maybe that’s a different outcome. And no I don’t have to research your hobby horse for you, as you are the one attempting to persuade.

On the matter of this 2022 article…
Well it is at least one step towards feasibility by arguing the philandering cells are gametes, just as I required in my previous comment, and which was not implied by the 2016 story or the 2012 study.

In this review article, we presented a new idea to explain telegony.

A new idea. But what is the new evidence?

It is highlighted that sperm penetrates into the mucosa of the uterine and possibly alters the genetic structure

From the abstract I cannot tell if this “highlight” is hypothetical or from observation. If you want to buy the article to read it, go ahead.

Even assuming a cell that is not built to be penetrated by a spermatozoa somehow does get new genes injected into it by one of the busy blighters, you’ve still got the awkward fact that nearly the whole lining of the uterus gets flushed every 28 days for as long as the female is capable of being impregnated.
A woman on the pill who has no menses but who wants to get pregnant has to cease the pill and resume menstruation which then flushes the lining, and quite heavily in the first one IIRC. (sidenote, “A 2009 study suggested that 72 to 94 percent of women who come off the combined oral contraceptive pill in the aim of conceiving are pregnant within a year”, so in 18% of cases it can take more than 12 menstrual cycles before fertility returns. ) The sperm sleeper agent has to burrow in quite deep past all the cells that are destined to be jettisoned within the next 20 days to have a good chance of bagging a cell that will stay around for the next partner.

You see how many barriers of implausibility have to be overcome for this mechanism to occur?
And they are not even suggesting that the old sperm has fertilised the new egg, so where’s the inheritance?

And where is the actual observed result? Where and when has a human been genetically tested and found to have genes from the mother AND an identified specific telegonic paternal donor AND the most recent presumed father? When has the telegonic hybrid actually been found? There’s not much point in hashing out causes without any observed effect in need of explanation.

a state-subsidised ASIO honeypot for right wing extremists

Why haven’t I been paid for my excellent work?

Cheapskates.

AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion

Oi! Atmospheric River is the term you seek.

The burden of proof required to convince someone who made up their mind before you prevent evidence is quite incredible.

Somatic cells were found in uterine RNA and peptides across multiple mammal species, including humans.

Its pretty funny how all manner of things work in animal models and are assumed to work in humans, but no, not for this. That would be rude.

It’s not just in the sperm that contains the genetic altering material, but the seminal fluid.

It’s also not just a matter of shedding a uterine wall. In between that the cells are treated like other epithelial cells. Their waste or remains from programmed cell death become distributed beyond the uterine wall.

It’s not that different to a baby leaving behind genetic information in organs nowhere near the womb, despite the birth process, including afterbirth and subsequent menses.

Lotocoti:

Rita smacking the bottom of some Curious Snail junior j’ismist
who labelled Posie Parker a TERF gave me cause to revisit the works
of RadFem’s Sister Number One.

That woman is mad. Certifiably insane. She would murder 50% of the human race to enable her ideology.
It’s from 2007, and you can read it and understand just how stuffed our society is.

Fathers’ rights will cease to exist. There is no such thing as fatherhood — as we all know, it’s a myth. Men will necessarily lose all and any power to dominate and control women’s reproductive capacities.

Men would be permanently banned from any kind of medical practice. All woman-hating, genocidal institutions such as gynecology, psychiatry, obstetrics, big pharma, the torture of living beings in the name of “scientific experimentation” will be banned. Men’s fragmented, objectifying, sadistic view the human body will be part of history, replaced by biophilic medicine.

Read it yourselves….

We haven’t discussed the Oscars. The rollicking winner is Everything Everywhere All at Once, which I think is pretty much a Hong Kong style scifi action film. Budget tiny in the usual scheme of things.

Took Best Actress (the luminous Michelle Yeoh of Crouching Tiger fame), Ke Huy Quan as best supporting actor (Short Round in Temple of Doom) and best supporting actress Jamie Lee Curtis (who is a complete nutcase, but can act commendably).

I’ve only seen one brief short of it some time ago, but it looked like a lot of fun.

I think the movie is as worthy a winner as you can possibly get these days. The Oscars voters couldn’t seem to make themselves vote for Top Gun:Maverick, but at the same time they didn’t reward Dancing With Smurfs On Water either Nor did they reward any of the Oscars-bait twee movies that did awfully at the box office. So it’s nice that Ms Yeoh got the statue.

(Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is one of my favourite movies. Wolfman, are you around?)

Of interest for those interested in the submarine debate:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/13/fact-sheet-trilateral-australia-uk-us-partnership-on-nuclear-powered-submarines/

Bruce O’Nuke:

Faustus – My view is they would make excellent drone motherships. They can lurk deeply and distantly and release shorter-legged drones to extend reach without making it easy for the sub to be found.

How would they communicate?

In which electorate will the new nuclear submarine waste be stored?

hopefully sprinkled all over the now privatised Ayers Rock, pour encourager les autres

Nuclear waste in Oz?

Jeeze – I can’t think of anywhere at all in our country that is geologically stable, remote, unused, secure, and has a history of either uranium mining or unclear explody things.

These far left green ecofeminists are psychotic, bloodthirsty, child killing lunatics who are impotent:

All men at least above 15 (or younger if very asocial) should live separately from women and children, on their own in small huts or studios, isolated from one another and scattered around so that women can keep an eye on them (they should never be in groups or packs, that would be illegal). So it would also be illegal for male adults to impose their presence on females, girls and children. Men would have to care for themselves on their own: food, laundry, etc. No male above his age of puberty would be allowed to receive any kind of service from a female. Their life expectancy would probably drop to the age of 40, but that’s how things should be. Women’s life expectancy without men would rise to 130 years at least.

PIV would be illegal too of course, as well as the initiation of any verbal or physical contact to women and girls or boy children, unless solicited by a woman for specific matters. I’m not sure what to do about boy children. Obviously you know my opinion, but let’s say that’s up to the mother to decide what she wants to do before he turns of age to leave the female family circle.

In order to keep all men and post-pubescent boys busy, we’d send them to clean up the vast amounts of detritus, pollution and toxic wastes men have littered and almost killed the world with. Much of the damage to the earth is irreversible, however with a great deal of effort and genius, women will find sustainable, natural and simple ways of healing a lot of the damage men have caused, and send men off to do the dirty work. No man will be allowed to take any decision without female guidance. We know what happens when men decide on their own! DISASTER.

Thankfully, this plan is wholly sustainable as well.

Women never bully each other, commit mass murder, rape, genocide etc and men cannot plan clandestinely, fight guerilla wars and would always be able to hold their desires for revenge back at all times.

AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion

This. This is what it’s all about.

The Announcement Stream, structured spending ($1 billion over the forward estimates, $7 billies on the never never), job conjuring (up to 500, no 700, jerbs over the life of the project).

A bright new hi-tech, bleeding edge future for all, courtesy of the Albanese Government (cheque endorsed, P. Dutton).

At some point, just like Scummo’s Covid Extravaganza, it’s going to add up to serious money.

Robert Sewellsays:
March 14, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Bruce O’Nuke:

Faustus – My view is they would make excellent drone motherships. They can lurk deeply and distantly and release shorter-legged drones to extend reach without making it easy for the sub to be found.

How would they communicate?

Drone to sub ? The sub can float an antenna, relay buoy or similar.

With satellite comms, there’s no reason any drone communication needs to come from the launch sub, it could be a distant base station tucked away at home.

Roger:
Public Cowardice in Modern Britain
Britain (and Europe) can either deal with it’s Islamic problem now, or do nothing for a generation and have to deal with the Civil War that will come, and the ethnic cleansing that will occur along with it.
Dreadful to say, I guess, but refusing to acknowledge the problem of Islamic conquest has brought us to this point.

duncanm
The trick is when the u-boat is submerged. Water is highly absorbant of EM radiation of a wide range of frequencies, particularly radio.

Bruce

Low frequency sounds can transmit pretty well

That’s one of the reasons ULF acoustic USN transmissions to subs was one of the hypotheses floated for why mass whale beachings happened. Painful to sensitive whale ears. No idea if it was true or plausible.

I’ve only seen one brief short of it some time ago, but it looked like a lot of fun.

I think the movie is as worthy a winner as you can possibly get these days.

We had a lash at it last night on Prime.

Incoherence dressed up as sci-fi, the plotline is pretty rubbish – basically a vehicle for some observational humour, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan – and JLC in an adjustable fat-suit.

It’s an interesting choice for best pic, because without the actors there’s nothing much there.

The Maverick crew will have been spewing.

I have yet to be approached by an ASIO femme fatale hoping for pillow talk about watch porn, coffee and the inside running on Trains vs Trucks.

Oh… so you mean that was what you were actually talking about rather than coded instructions to the hive.
/crack Asio operative

rickw:

Massive Dean Smith and Grace for sale at pretty much the value of the iron in it:

We used to make a hammer tone paint finish for this stuff. The colour jogged a memory!

Cohenite:

They’re gonna get Trump and it’s going to be the most venal, prurient allegation. Stormy in NY by the black slob Soros AG or this:

Seeing Trump do the perp walk is the Lefts wet dream.
It will also be the act that triggers the second civil war.

Crossie:

Which they will repeat so often that it will wreck their ability to conceive or carry to term when they finally want to in their 40s. At that point they will expect free IVF.

I’ve not seen so many people unable to see the link between act and consequence.
And even when they were speaking and at the cusp of discovering the link, you could see them shying away from the revelation. “It doesn’t fit. So I will ignore it.”
Just bizarre. And that’s using my out-of-calibration bizzarotron.

Top Ender, that’s a very well built article on the truants finding negative reinforcement in the system. I highly enjoyed your gentle and concerned approach.

Bruce O’ Nuke:

Getting decent transmission through seawater appears to be really hard. But if you can mix and match small byte number keycodes with slow data rates, plus automation, you might get something workable. This is entirely surmise on my part.

Going from memory here, but the US submarine fleet had an emergency coms system to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear war and communications with the submerged sub fleet called TACAMO. It was only able to do a couple of characters a minute, the bandwidth is that low.
Drones could perhaps be wire connected, like the Mk 48 but still it means the drone would be very vulnerable to the wire breaking during movement. The distance would be very limiting – perhaps a couple of kilometers?
Lasers? Lots of problems with water turbidity and temperature gradient changes.
I can see the drone system working well with the RAAF “Loyal Wingman” but not the underwater boys.

Australia is being run by autocrats – Senate Speech 7.03.23
Senator Gerard Rennick

Delta Asays:
March 14, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Australia will spend up to $368bn to deliver a historic nuclear submarine program featuring at least three boats bought from the US, upgrades to extend the life of our existing fleet and eight homemade nuclear subs hitting the water from the 2040s.

Our $368bn subs will last about as long as a politicians promise.

Only the first three (from the US) will matter. The “cutting edge, state of the art” submarine construction facility in SA will get the job for the drones. Battery powered, helped by the “Klimate Scientists “and their obsessive quest for ever better batteries, and much less complex at the construction stage than SSNs. Control systems from US/UK.