m0ntysays:
March 14, 2023 at 4:24 pm

Water is fatal if taken excessively.

Interesting comment from someone edging towards the fatal ingestion limit for donuts.

trial feminist Utopia

I linked this the other day, but it applies again.
Rick and Morty

Gazorpazorp
Summer’s top saves the day in court

Leave it with me.
I will make the connection between Roswell, Jewish bankers, Big Pharma, the Bermuda Triangle and Global Veganism by lunchtime.

Good luck, Cletus.
Front page of The Australian today:
Puma will stop using kangaroo leather in signature football boots, which is a disaster for the Industry in Australia.
What’s the connection between that and Sancho and Joffa’s virtue signaling, I fantasise someone querying?

Well, all the big name Shoe Makers [Florsheim, Adidas, Puma, Nike, Aquila, the lot] are all owned by the Pharmaceutical Companies [think
Vaccines] and they’ve all stopped making leather soles.
R.M. Williams still makes leather soled shoes, don’t they?
No, they do not.

monty

I had a friend who took Ivermectin with a really bad cold/flu/COVID.

He got better in a couple of days.

He read the literature on humans and worked out his dose.

Ivermectin was considered an essential drug by WHO before COVID.

I am terribly sorry my dear fellow but I must insist the two situations are different in a relevant way. The main avenue for exchange of cells (or material of all kinds) between the uterine volume (including foetus) and the rest of the mother is via the placenta, and that doesn’t exist until long after the fertilisation is done and dusted – even in the mechanism hypothesised by that article.

From the article. It’s kind of gay.

The sperm of the next partner reaches a location in the female reproductive canal where it exchanges information with the uterosomes and obtains the proteins and non-coding RNAs required for fertilization, development, and implantation.

Eventually , there will be severe repercussions for this type of cumulative mismagement;

The Fed’s Negative Capital

“Ironically, the same problem that has happened to banks in terms of significant unrealized losses on their portfolio from otherwise-safe assets, has happened to multiple central banks as well.

This is because several central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve are fighting 1940s-style fiscal-driven inflation with 1970s-style monetary policy, which is mainly aimed at slowing down private credit growth.

Central banks such as the Federal Reserve hold long-duration assets such as Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities as their assets, while their liabilities are shorter-term, including bank reserves, physical banknotes, and reverse repos.

Normally, a central bank’s assets have higher interest rates than their liabilities do, resulting in operating profits for the central bank. In the United States, the Federal Reserve is required to send its operating profits to the U.S. Treasury Department as remittances, and in recent years they have been around $100 billion per year (enough to fund NASA four times over).

However, because central banks raised interest rates so quickly in 2022, many of them now have liabilities that have higher interest rates than their assets. The Federal Reserve is running operating losses to the tune of ~$2 billion per week due to this, and they are no longer sending remittances to the U.S. Treasury.

The Federal Reserve already has deeply negative capital (about -$1 trillion or so) if we mark its assets to market. Aside from that, the Federal Reserve will reach negative tangible capital in a couple weeks even without marketing assets to market, due to ongoing operating losses from paying out higher interest rates on its liabilities than its assets. The accounting method of treating its cumulative losses as “deferred assets” and avoiding mark-to-market accounting is what’s keeping it solvent on paper.

Fortunately as a central bank, it’s not subject to bank runs in the same way that individual banks are (especially small banks) and doesn’t go out of business if it has negative tangible capital or operating losses.

Instead, when a central bank has negative tangible capital and/or operating losses, it’s their level of independence from their government that becomes questionable, and the government loses out on a revenue source since the remittances stop flowing. For a variety of reasons including this one, I expect the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy to be increasingly politicized by members of Congress in the years ahead. ( M- You betcha! )

A lot of things in the financial system are upside down lately, as policymakers try to get a grip on price inflation. The Federal Reserve is sucking liquidity out of the long tail of small and medium-sized banks, paying out tons of money on its liabilities mostly to large banks and money market funds, and accumulating operating losses into a negative tangible capital position on its own balance sheet.”

h/t Lyn Alden

The Ivermectin story is interesting. Why would someone take what I presume to be an animal dosage. A prolonged dosage at that.

The drug has already proved safe for use in the tropics where it is a life saver. Of that there is no question.

What’s in play here is a zealot (one of those internet loudmouths I mentioned earlier) being hoist on his own petard. Much to the glee of ghouls. Who will now turn it into the usual circus.

Hit their prime what?

I’ve hit prime Cranky Old Bat. And…loving it!

Further to my comment at 5:25pm:

Don Lemon wouldn’t say anything he wasn’t told to say, so the new message could be
Lay off the Woke stuff for a while, we need to boost WhiteMan up so he volunteers for out War In Ukraine.

Liberals disendorse candidate for Wyong because he didn’t say the approved things about homosexuals and Muslims.

Premier Dominic Perrottet said the right call had been made.

“I just want to back in the Liberal Party’s decision,” he said.

“There is no place for those views in our party and he’s been disendorsed, as he should have been, and I completely back that decision.”

Liberals disendorse candidate for Wyong because he didn’t say the approved things about homosexuals and Muslims.

He should double down and do a Pauline Hanson.
The Labor guy sounds a bit complacent, perhaps he needs his arse kicked?

As usual, mOron has it completely wrong. Even WaPo can see that Ukraine and the west are achieving nothing by sacrificing all these Ukrainian men;

“Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow”

A German official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to be candid, said that Berlin estimates Ukrainian casualties, including dead and wounded, are as high as 120,000. “They don’t share the information with us because they don’t trust us,” the official said.

On the front lines, however, the mood is dark.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/

monty

He got better in a couple of days.

I did the same, except that it was COVID according to the testing. Interestingly I had proved impervious to COVID (everyone else at home had it), until I was vaccinated.

Even WaPo can see that Ukraine and the west are achieving nothing by sacrificing all these Ukrainian men.

Feeding a couple of generations into the Russian meat grinder is almost certainly one way to fix a neo nazi problem…

I’m more than happy to endorse Westinghouse’s nuclear reactor for trucks.

We Can Do It! 😀

I would visit her and notice the cleaning hadn’t been done. When I asked whether the cleaner had not been mum would say that she had but wanted to talk most of the time and mum was too kind to interrupt her. At the end of her time she would just go.

We have a good relationship with a Chinese cleaning company who provide us with two female cleaners who come together about once every six weeks with some heavy duty equipment. Their English is terrible but we communicate well with smiles and gestures. Hairy throws our small vac around inbetween times and I ensure the bathrooms and kitchen are still basically hygienic without exerting much effort at it. These cleaners charge $150 for their two hours there and they do a fantastic job. That works out at about $25 per week. They make perfect the kitchen and bathrooms, they get under furniture, thoroughly wash all floors and skirting boards, heavy vacuum all rugs, and clean all surfaces big and small, including my display pieces and tray full of perfume bottles. After that they swab the foyer and terraces and take the money in cash. The place is spotless.

We could pay a so-called ‘subsidised’ age-care cleaner, if one was even available, between $80-$100 per weekly clean of a place our size (they would want to come weekly or every two weeks at least) and we would likely get what my mother got, a disinterested Afghani man who vacuumed only the traffic areas with an inferior vacuum, giving a desultory wipe around the kitchen benchtops and bathroom surfaces without moving anything in the way. Done in under half an hour.

We will rely on private services for home help in our future rather than rely on endless bureaucracy and make do with less of it if availability tightens. Better, less often, is a good deal.

Last two weeks of the six work out at only $25 a week, that’s what I was thinking of.

I think, anyway. Not in top financial form today. 🙂

If you work it out by cleaning hours spent by the two of them, it really is a bargain.

I think these women mainly work in office cleaning; they are really professional about it.

My God the NSW lieboral party is an abomination. Wishy washy- prissy-stands for nuffink.

This means they will lose that seat …

They lost that seat in 2015.

… and not because of the disendorsed candidate’s sins but because they are quick to get rid of anyone the media doesn’t like.

You can’t have it both ways.
He was disendorsed as soon as he bagged flamers and muslims.
Perhaps he was a Labor Plant all along?

Just talking with Hairy abut our cleaners today and my maths. How much did you pay them? he asks.
$150, I say. That’s $25 a week, he replies. Ulp. I was right first time, and then confused $150 with $250.
And made comments here correcting myself. Sorry for derailing fred with extraneous nonsense.

Pedro:

Chunk lithium miners avoiding paying royalties to the state government.

Damn. Should have been much clearer:
The initial contract was written so the buyer would subsidise the the production run. But the contractor refused to buy the product they had contracted to do so. The company goes broke, then the buyer starts buying product at way lower than market prices, while the company is in receivership.

Say what?

Credit Suisse may be in trouble.

Credit Suisse have been the problem child in Europe for a while now.
Watch them squirm.

(I have a lot of bank shares, but retail not merchant banks. The latter, like Macq Bank, are top predators. When they run out of prey they die.)

Am I the only one stunned how their ABC is so blase’ about Rub’n’Tug’s subs deal?
It’s got everything they hate.
Nuclear. Defence. The USA.
And a decades-long delivery chain, which was the constant crow call in the Pyne-Turnbull debacle.
But… silence. The ABC is all sunshine and lollipops, by which I mean rainbow flags and painted flogs.

IIRC the idea of separating men from women at puberty is the plot line of Kate Wilhelm’s “Where Late the Sweet birds Sang”. I only got part way into the second chapter

Eyrie – You have to read the whole novel. One of those novels that goes through a terribly bleak and depressing central bit. But the second half is the thing. Well worth a Hugo.
Quite a righty theme actually, in the end.

The Perth Mint’s enabling legislation has a section in it whereby employees who speak out against the Mint can be gaoled for up to five years…!!

Like AHPRA then…

ChatGPT is the ultimate NPC

Only the final eight words were meant to be in Bold.

Wolfman Oz:

I’ve got it listed as a potential topic for a post – needs a bit of thought as there’s so much to weed through.
I did post nearly a year ago probably the best original/sequel combination in Alien and Aliens.

Hah!
I went nuts with the card in the Big Smoke and bought a rooly rooley hidef monitor and I’ve just finished watching the entire Alien series.
Loved the bit where the kidnapped colonist hatches an alien out of his chest and through the head of the Director. “Why don’t people listen to me?”

Christ, Penelope Farts!

Christ Penelope, Farts!

South Africa is weird.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/pastor-says-farts-heads-worshippers-23829916

“I am inspired by the bible”

No, you were inspired by monty python.

Watched Crouching Tiger a little. Seen it several times before. What visual sumptuous feast. Each scene is minuet. One of the best.

Tom Cruise plays a part he’d like to be but never will. Same as most of the well known actors. Boring as grass growing. Gary Oldman is one of the few not cast in the same mold. Differing characterisations, sometimes hard to tell it him. To early to tell yet but has the makings of an Alec Guinness. I tend to watch foreign stuff as the quality is far better. I think not knowing many of the actors makes for more enjoyable viewing. The yanks tend to hype everything and the poms understate. Picky I know.

Frank tell us about the book not what you were doing.

cohenite says: March 14, 2023 at 9:12 pm

Whacky world of islam:
Jihad Watch.

The conservatives are getting angry about Muslims again.
Nature is healing.

Ask ChatGPT if it tells lies or is just a bullshiiter?

However, I DO know that a picture of a pumpkin on the door of a cruise ship cabin is an indicator (and invite) that the occupants therein are more than a little favourable to some discreet partner exchange …

???

Is there no evil these new world vegetables aren’t involved with?

Boomers man, boomers!

Hi Cletus

You do understand that Portnoy’s Complaint was Autobiographical, right?

Someone was hounding me awhile back over who the Real McCoy was.

Was that you, SpongeBob?

Bali’s scooter ban to crack down on ‘disorderly’ tourists

He’ll no longer be jumping all over the world.

Philip Roth did a fair bit of apologising for revealing ethnic secrets for the rest of his life.
Although he didn’t cry all the way to the bank.
That was Liberace.

Lotta things slowly shutting down lately.

Bunning used to give a $50 credit on returned pallets.
Now they still charge $50 for the pallet, but there’s no Credit for returning it.
Result, pallets just end up in landfill.

I DO know that a picture of a pumpkin on the door of a cruise ship cabin is an indicator (and invite) that the occupants therein are more than a little favourable to some discreet partner exchange

Pineapples on caravans, and upside down in shopping carts.

Pumpkins, inverted or otherwise, on or around cruise ship cabin doors.

Someone should really put a book out on the topic, or at least a pamphlet. ‘How to Tell if The Other Bloke’s Missus Wants Strange Pipe’.

I wish Juan was still here to straighten this out.

Sydney Barrister Louise Clegg says Bret Walker SC’s comments are “grotesque”, after he labelled arguments against the proposed model of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament as “racist”.
Ms Clegg has since written to the NSW Bar Association – asking them “to issue a public rebuke to Bret personally, for bringing the profession into disrepute and for the unacceptable moral bullying towards lawyers who may wish to openly engage in this monumentally important public debate.”

We want lawyers to openly engage in this monumentally important public debate, especially when they disagree with the government’s characterisation of the proposal. Whether he should be rebuked, professionally castigated, or in any way “canceled” for his opinion is quite another matter. How about simply making the counter argument that the InVoice itself is racist by design and it is not racist per se to point that out, and that Mr Walker SC has (shock, horror) erred in his argument. That’s *also* what barristers are supposed to do, aren’t they, Ms Clegg?

It’s more of the same from Mr Walker, as he was one of the counsel opposing Peter Ridd’s unfair dismissal case.

Beware the Bribes of March

3. The entire statement is horseshit.

Uh huh.

Any research to back your Horseshit up, Cletus?