Extreme Unction, Nicolas Poussin, 1646
“William IV – step up, son”. I don’t think so. He’s been no fun at parties since 1837.
Open Thread – Tue 14 March 2023
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 April 2024
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 April 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 18 April 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 15 April 2024
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Construction worker’s message to filthy joe: (17) Benny Johnson on X: “Q: What’s your message to Joe Biden? Union Worker:…
“All men have a role to play in stopping men’s violence.” Zoe Daniel is a self-centered git. This was her…
Well, as long as he/she/it is diverse…
Boom!!!
and don’t shoot or stab people
Kenny calls turtle blackout bowen; that might stick.
Bowen has the most punchable face in politics; and he is a desperate liar about the cheapness of renewables: wind and solar don’t work; they therefore have no cost basis.
The problem is when the lights do go out blackout bowen will face no consequences: none.
Meme
FFS.
It has always been thus.
The First Officer might have thousands of hours on 737s or 717s or even MD80s, but this might be his/her first go at a 777.
With an experienced captain in the left hand seat.
Whoopee-doo!
Australian consumer finance provider Latitude Financial said it believes 328,000 customers’ identification documents were stolen during a sophisticated and malicious cyberattack.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
The ONE video Ukraine warmongers DON’T want you to see as Zelenskyy closes churches and ARRESTS Priests
What this country needs is lots of Arthur Dunger types in towelling hats and walk socks shooting themselves in the sandals with AK-67s after getting to Call of Duty Level 3.
Jason Recliner Rambos.
WWIII UPDATE: Senator Lindsey Graham Calls for US Military to Open Fire on Russian Jets – “That’s What Ronald Reagan Would Do”
Mother Lode says:
March 16, 2023 at 8:05 pm
They fried the joint with electromagnetics and killed people. Anyway, time for a music hunt.
Revolver Exclusive: MTG sends BLISTERING letter to Merrick Garland Regarding Mackey “Meme Trial”
He actually said shooting down Russian jets was necessary to prevent WWIII.
And he invoked Reagan to justify it.
Graham is bat shit crazy.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
A glimpse into the dystopian conspiracy of 15 minute cities inspired by the CO2 climate hoax.
Your one way to ticket to paradise or a Digital Prison Hell??
With Robin Monotti, Coinbase, Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, & more.
I just said – I watched the movie, so yes.
It was like a simulation of what might actually happen.
We’re they inexplicably sans socks?
Also Achmed Duhat types in tea towels and toe socks.
I play Bridge with quite a few people, at least one of whom is a doctor, who have had 5 shots. They all know it won’t stop them catching or spreading the virus but it must have some magical properties.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Dr. Harvey Risch: The Shots Go Everywhere — and the Side Effects Are Astonishing
• inflammatory issues
• myocarditis
• neurological issues
• clotting
• menstrual harms
“This is going to take another 5 to 10 years of study” to discover all the hazards of the vaccines.
The First Officer might have thousands of hours on 737s or 717s or even MD80s, but this might be his/her first go at a 777.
With an experienced captain in the left hand seat.
Who could drop dead at any moment (that’s why they have two up front). Fortunately the new F/O will have more than a few simulator hours on type.
You really do have a problem with reading comprehension, don’t you, Sanchez?
Susan Northrup, FAA’s federal air surgeon, should resign: Part II
Love my sports but increasingly turning over to watch rugby league rather than my first sporting code in Aussie Rules.
Possibly due to the AFL turning it into a mouthpiece for any social issue.
I noted yesterday that NRL had some sort of Multicultural Round shindig somewhere but the players association said no and no players attended. Not sure of the reason.
This is for the chap here who chortled that Labor was going after Boomers’ super:
Labor plans to tax your super at 30%.
And they’ll likely deny you the pension as well.
Equity hurts.
I actually think American pollimuppets are worse than ours and that’s saying something!
Latitude Financial was, in fact, promoted by Alec Baldwin*.
It was also fronted by ex NAB golden boy and ALP favourite, Ahmed Fahour.
…
* Limited firearms experience. But had seen it a lot on TV and video games.
Infantry tactics are only used when you have expended a great deal of physical and mental energy – as a team – getting to your start point. If you can’t physically do that, then there is no point.
You cannot get an appropriate appreciation of dead ground, nor of cover versus concealment, nor of any form of basic fieldcraft, let alone fire and movement – which, by the way, plays zero part in first-person shooter gaming – while you’re in air-conditioning.
Flight simulators – because I’ve played computer games too – as I understand it, are used as a backup to actual training in aircraft, lest you cock it up in real life and bring down an expensive plane with the pilot in it.
By the rationale used that simulators prepare you for the real thing, I should be able to jump into an F16 or 737 cockpit tomorrow because ‘I did all right on the computer, in between repeated pausing to have a piss and answer the phone and get both hands on my cheeseburger’.
I will say it again. There is no comparison.
Last com lait and pasteis at my local.
You don’t need to go to Belém for those though it’s well worth a visit anyhow for the tower and the monastery.
The only real difference is hot v cold.
There are also artisan pasteis places up in Barrio Alto, you can wait half an hour to ride up there on the Santa Justa? lift, slog up on foot or go down into the metro and use the series of escalators up, you don’t need a ticket.
I couldn’t get a new crown for my Our Lady of Fatima, not sold separately.
I think I’m going to use the Bolt app to get to the airport and save my public transport suitcase wrangling skills for the Orly end of the journey.
The CO2 Narrative: The Truth About ‘Net Zero’: A Diabolical Agenda Sold As A Saviour Formula
These arseholes need to be disbanded and then catapulted into Mt Etna. Hun:
An independent review into embattled Yarra council’s operations has been buried amid concerns that it was considered “too sensitive” to be made public, the Herald Sun can reveal.
The report, conducted last year by consultants Atticusnow, has been shelved and council bosses have declared it won’t be released publicly.
The secrecy will further increase calls from residents’ groups for more transparency of the controversy-plagued council.
It can also be revealed that Yarra’s state government-appointed monitor last year examined Atticusnow’s analysis into its operational and financial management.
The monitor, Yehudi Blacher, who oversaw council operations during 2022, subsequently made an unprecedented recommendation that the council should report annually to the state auditor-general.
The revelations come after Yarra moved this week to introduce a bin tax on households, as part of its strategy to secure its long-term financial viability.
The bin tax proposal, first revealed last month by the Herald Sun, was passed on Tuesday but then went out for public consultation a day later, leading to more allegations of secret decision-making.
Atticusnow presented its Strategic Review Report to council bosses on June 7 last year, followed by an update 10 days later.
The Herald Sun has previously applied, through Freedom of Information laws, for release of the Atticusnow report papers but was refused because Yarra said they were considered “internal working documents” and “in confidence”.
Residents have previously raised concerns about consultant reports which cost ratepayers tens of thousands of dollars but were then hidden from the public.
Councillors and executives hold weekly confidential briefings, throwing a veil over some operational issues which some residents believe should be out in the open.
“The guise of confidentiality is significantly overused for items that the council merely would find unpopular for the community to have the full background on,’’ Yarra Residents Collective spokesman Adam Promnitz said last August.
Up to 200 residents turned up to Richmond Town Hall on Tuesday, in reaction to the plan to separate waste levy changes from household rates. Most were opposed to the move which many feared could be used as a way to circumvent the rate cap set the state government every year.
The waste levy proposal was passed 6-3 with the support of Greens councillors Edward Crossland, Anab Mohamud, plus independents Amanda Stone, Herschel Landes and Mayor Claudia Nguyen.
The move was opposed by Crs Stephen Jolly, Bridgid O’Brien and Michael Glynatsis.
Crypto-friendly Signature Bank was facing criminal probe over money laundering concerns ahead of collapse
A challenge Hallward.
Next time a random subject comes up, see if you can find an illustrative example which doesn’t involve an irrelevant aviation reference.
I remember getting the ‘Operation’ board game as a much smaller unit. The thing would buzz every time you weren’t sufficiently adept at putting the right bit back in the right hole.
Therefore, I am a qualified surgeon.
From Gateway Pundit. My kind of leader.
“The Biden regime continues to lie about the open US border with Mexico. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeated the claim that the “border is secure” despite the fact that 5 million illegal aliens flooded across the border the first two years of the Biden administration.
On Wednesday US Border Patrol Chief Raúl Ortiz defied DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Biden by saying the border is in “crisis” and the US does not have control of its border.
Chief Ortiz also testified today that Biden should complete the US border wall with Mexico”
The Columbia Bugle
@ColumbiaBugle
Col. Douglas Macgregor And Tucker Carlson Discuss The State Of The War In Ukraine
Macgregor: “The last thing Americans need is a war. No more political and military incompetence, ineptitude, corruption. They want an economy that works, and they’re not going to stand around and watch the financial system go under. They want real leadership, not a cardboard cutout President.”
That’s an interesting article Roger and I don’t doubt it for one minute.
THE NUMBER OF BEEF COWS IN THE U.S. DROPS TO THE LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1962 AS THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS INTENSIFIES
Not as if Yarra Council are short of dosh.
Socialist Stephen Jolly opposed a tax increase?
OMG: James O’Keefe Announces His New Venture
you voted for them, residents..
Who holds the power over the Monarch?
Eyriesays:
March 16, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Works better if done in the field. Stand in movement pattern, move each individual to required new position, repeat at increasing speed, keep repeating until it is automatic.
Oh FFS, if the troops have some idea of what they are meant to do it will work better. What are you dealing with IQ 80 odd? A citizen militia will be way smarter than that.
An infantry section is a team. They need to work together as a team, operating in ways such that the section commander knows what he/she can expect each member to do under a range of circumstances. Do football teams learn on simulators, or by training together as a team?
Klaus Rothman?
Warn your children, if necessary.
I will.
Though with mortgage rates and energy nonsense they’ve got enough to worry about.
100%.
I have watched footy on TV for decades. I ‘know what to do’, despite not having the requisite ability to actually do it. I can also replay the good bits if I want, and leave out the shit bits.
Nevertheless – I demand to be included in the Collingwood lineup, and as a sideline be paid a commensurate salary.
And in gas news:
Peter Dutton has hit out at the Albanese government amid warnings millions of Australians face gas shortfalls this winter and hundreds of thousands of people’s energy bills will soar.
The Australian Energy Market Operator has forecasted gas shortfalls, starting this year and continuing until at least 2026, as offshore production plummets and extreme weather events lash the country.
Earlier this week, the energy regulator flagged electricity prices would soar by 20 per cent for about half a million customers in South Australia, NSW and South East Queensland.
Speaking from Adelaide, the Opposition Leader said there would be up to 63,000 South Australian households who face paying an extra $400 on their power bills from July 1.
He also slammed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for promising before last year’s election to cut power bills, demanding he apologise to the Australian people.
“He has to explain if he is going to recommit or deliver on this promise, but somehow I think Australians realise that it’s not the only broken promise from this Prime Minister and from this government, and people are feeling a lot of pressure,” he said.
“I don’t think we should underestimate how difficult many households are feeling it at the moment.”
Mr Dutton also backed calls from the energy regulator for more investment in gas, saying it was not the time to completely switch off supply.
“If you turn gas and coal off, those fridges won’t work, those freezers won’t work, and that would be devastating not just for families but the economic impact as well,” he said.
Earlier on Thursday, AEMO chief executive Daniel Westerman said NSW, the ACT, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania were at risk of not having enough supply to keep up with demand this winter and warned that without new gas projects, demand would outstrip supply on the east coast by 2027.
“While production capacity commitments have increased for 2023 compared to the 2022 gas statement of opportunities report, and several key infrastructure projects are on track for delivery, there is forecast to be a 16 per cent reduction in capacity this winter compared to 2022 in Victoria, which increases supply pressure in the southern regions,” he said.
“To minimise shortfall risks, committed infrastructure and supply projects must be completed on time, while demand-side solutions, additional gas shortage and pipeline development, and LNG import terminals could potentially play a role.
“Investments are need in the near term to ensure operational solutions from 2027, despite falling gas consumption.”
Last year, Australia’s energy ministers agreed to extend the market operator’s powers to immediately tackle east coast supply shortfalls, which will take effect from this winter.
Mr Westerman said it would help manage supply but called for more production to prevent shortfalls during winter and long term.
(Insert some flunkie) Australia Institute climate and energy director Polly Hemming said “the old gas supply shortage claims are back again”, citing similar claims made last decade.
“Gas is needed in the short term, but the idea that it is helping reduce emissions is manifestly untrue. What Australia needs is an objective equal focus on how to tackle short to medium term supply issues while reducing gas reliance,” she said.
“Short and medium-term gas supply issues are the result of Australia being held to ransom by the gas industry. Australians will continue to be faced with skyrocketing prices across the board until this is addressed.
“The answer to any issue of supply over the coming winters is not to invest in more gas infrastructure. It is to speed up the transition to renewable energy.”
Independent MP Allegra Spender (get in here Cassie) said AEMO’s report “highlights the risks of dependence on declining fossil fuel industries” and called for an accelerated transition to renewables.
“We need to accelerate electrifying our households with solar,” she said.
“The government must back household electrification in the May budget.”
FMD
Eyrie
Also, field operations are very physical, carrying loads, not just weapons and ammunition, moving long distances cross-country, then fighting an enemy who reacts in unpredictable ways. A simulator cannot simulate weariness and aching muscles.
Do football teams learn on simulators, or by training together as a team?
FFS there are interactive multiplayer on line games where people do work as teams. The US Army uses simulators to train tank crews.
Where did I say these people would be good? It’s just that they would likely be better than those who don’t even know that there is such a thing as infantry tactics. Or how to set up an ambush properly or how to counter one.
The average bogan probably thinks infantry tactics is running flat out at the enemy while firing on full auto from the hip.
Independent MP Allegra Spender (get in here Cassie) said AEMO’s report “highlights the risks of dependence on declining fossil fuel industries” and called for an accelerated transition to renewables.
“We need to accelerate electrifying our households with solar,” she said.
Note that Allegra Da Big Spender sees the issue solely in terms of households. No thought to such minor matters as hospitals, schools, transport, much less that whole yucky industry thing.
Eyrie
Where did I say these people would be good? It’s just that they would likely be better than those who don’t even know that there is such a thing as infantry tactics. Or how to set up an ambush properly or how to counter one.
And the learning on the battlefield will be paid for in blood. We have been there before, let’s not repeat the same error.
What was the motto of a simple water cart company? “Good, better, best, we will never rest, until our good is better, and our better best.”
Simulators might show the simplest basics, but to get better, a touch of reality is necessary.
Suspender belt is elite, spoilt, eloi idiocracy personified.
Gas is a much larger issue for industrial users. Practically every process that involves heat at any point uses gas.
Bam. On a similar note:
Here:
And to back up your clear inference that Call of Duty: Ghost would be an effective training tool for infantry, you also said this:
‘All the population over puberty’. I reckon I’ve heard that line before. Somewhere.
Still no actual evidence from Dick ‘Ed to support his claim that Curtin was involved in a treacherous deal to hand Australia over to the Japanese.
I’m beginning to think that Richard Cranium made it all up.
No.
The average bogan thinks it is a great idea to give every other bogan a rifle and a copy of Call of Duty.
I present Call of Duty and all its variants here, and to further emphasise my point.
… in ways you can’t imagine
Including yoofs of Sudanese heritage who enjoy borrowing sporty Beemers?
I suspect you guys are not thinking ahead.
Modern warfare is already drone-equipped.
Get a shedload of armed or kamakazi drones and swarm the enemy. They could be autonomous, or remote controlled. Either way, they’ll need a team of nerds and gamers to operate.
KD
And the average bogan has no idea just how much a weapon and a couple of hundred rounds can weigh, nor of some grenades, nor a great feel for the weight of a couple of litres of water. Then there are bedding, food, field dressings and so much more.
And none of those can be replenished by winning some points.
the stupid – it not only burns, it cauterises at a thousand yards.
duncanmsays:
March 16, 2023 at 9:28 pm
I suspect there are any number of multiplayer shoot em up video games where basic infantry tactics could be taught.
No comparison. None whatsoever, I’m afraid.
There is already a cadre of competent players
Video game players, yes. Able to be turned to competent infanteers, no.
I suspect you guys are not thinking ahead.
Modern warfare is already drone-equipped.
Get a shedload of armed or kamakazi drones and swarm the enemy. They could be autonomous, or remote controlled. Either way, they’ll need a team of nerds and gamers to operate.
There is a place for nerds, but if drones are the solution, why are so many soldiers dying on both sides in Ukraine?
Funny you should say that. Was reading this exact article lol. First 2 paragraphs:
A boom in thefts of prestige German made vehicles during Victoria’s wave of aggravated burglary has been exposed in new police figures.
Mercedes-Benzes, BMWs, Volkswagens and Aldis makeup four of the top 8 spots statewide for cars stolen in that crime category, despite none making the first eight for sales in Australia.
Call of Duty is hard for this Xoomer.
It actually encourages good tactics, but jump packs are only real in Warhammer 40k.
No.
Please no.
Please stop. This is utter bullshit. Full retard.
Oh wow a dead guy in the military who went to school to be a 1st Lt. He must be right.
Did he ask you a lot of questions?
Because it was over neutral territory and the US and Russia/USSR have a very long history of spying near each other and near each other’s airspace. This was not like a U2 flyover.
So good, then one blockquote fail just goes on forever like the worst faux pas imaginable.
Stealing Beamers, Mercs and Audis is OK till they need a dealer service or parts.
I noted yesterday that NRL had some sort of Multicultural Round shindig somewhere but the players association said no and no players attended. Not sure of the reason.
the players are boycotting various NRL waffle-fests over their usual problems .. NRL won’t pay all their bills! .. poor down-at-the-heel prima donnas say they can’t get by on their 6 figure salaries so NRL should pay for whatever extras they can think of ……!
Like I said, if the punters vote matt kean back in this country is officially fu.ked.
WHO’S RUNNING AMERICA?
Daniel Greenfield
M60 machine gun, anyone?
Dr Faustus 15/03/23 @ 12.37pm
What are your thoughts on using the money to build a 4km peak mountain range in WA near the NT border to cause rainfall across our empty land ?
There is a reason why special forces training includes sleep deprivation, taxing physical exertion for days on end and various forms of (ahem) “assaults upon the senses”.
It is to assess your ability to function, make decisions and perform under duress.
Because that is what the real thing is like.
Or so I’m told.
Whacky world of islam highlights from Jihad Watch
UN top dog António Guterres: ‘For well over a millennium, Islam’s message of peace has inspired people’
Sweden: In response to rising violence, churches give out free pancakes
Germany: Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ and ‘f**king Jews’ smash church window, verbally abuse churchgoers
And so on.
The average bogan thinks it is a great idea to give every other bogan a rifle and a copy of Call of Duty.
No. Australia is so f’cked this is the only feasible option that can be executed within the required time frame.
And ammo carried Pancho Villa style 🙂 2 belts are f’ing heavy sitting on the collar bone, which is why we used old Bren pouches.
I’m flying a budget airline called Teansavia.
Bag drop off is open, except there’s nobody there except patiently queuing passengers.
I already have my seat number and electronic boarding pass.
Should be smooth sailing, right?
Apparently the worst budget airline is
Whizz.
What were they taking?
The renewable stuff is so depressing to read.
Muffin man sized morons.
Transavia.
Could be gender confused.
Dotsays:
March 16, 2023 at 9:35 pm
I respect a lot of people here…you come across as a severed head in a jar connected to a computer with Billy...I’d still have a drink with you though. So much tish going on today around the world and people are focusing on crap.
No new feuds from me.
A shout out to Monty! We’ll done on pinging the audience.
Your Modus Operandi has been obvious for years you cheeky sh*T.
I’m remembering a certain ARES unit, who shall remain nameless, featured in the Army newspaper, camouflaged to the eyeballs, and carrying belts of the white, link blank ammunition, Pancho Vila style….
Dotsays:
March 16, 2023 at 9:35 pm
I respect a lot of people here…you come across as a severed head in a jar connected to a computer with Billy...I’d still have a drink with you though. So much tish going on today around the world and people are focusing on crap.
No new feuds from me.
A shout out to Monty! We’ll done on pinging the audience.
Your Modus Operandi has been obvious for years you cheeky sh*T. Congrats.
For my sins, I am a resident, and did indeed vote for one of them… Landes, as it happens. Very much the best of a bad lot, and by quite a margin. Which, to be clear, is not even faint praise.
This waste thing, though, is a bit of a storm in a teacup… Jolly and Co know a good bit of free publicity when they see it. It doesn’t raise a new cent of revenue, and basically brings Yarrastan into line with nearly every other Victoriastani council.
Yes, it is a stalking horse for trying to get around the rate cap in the future, but for now it is just the usual bulldust they go on with as they fritter away rates on all manner of nonsense.
Yarrastan is demonstrably incompetent, corrupt and largely run as a personal fiefdom by the Greens.
Iran and Saudi Arabia seemed to be normalising relations. Earlier today there was a report about improving economic relations, particularly, Saudi investment in Iran, and now news that Iran will stop supporting the Houthis rebel faction in Yemen. US outmaneuvered.
Tom Elliot refers to it as “The People’s Republic of Yarra”.
The renewable stuff is so depressing to read.
It f’cking pure unadulterated idiocracy.
I’m confused.
One week we’re buying iodine and digging bunkers.
Nek minnit it’s “we will fight them in the playgrounds”.
What is the plan?
The Cardigan Commandoes are confused.
Flight simulators in military aviation training was covered more than ten years ago in the open thread on the Cat.
Interesting to see it taking a different direction tonight – then again, tonight’s discussion isn’t exactly on the same plane as the earlier one.
It escapes me who, but one of the Cats posted a link to the Marine Corps (aviation) embracing of computer games & Microsoft flight simulator.
Brought about by the average trainee pilot requiring umpteen hours of instruction & air time to perform (some manouevre, let’s say landing)
Then one day Cadet Smith did a landing on his first try, or a hundred thousand bucks in training costs earlier than anybody in Marine Corps history.
When ascertaining how he’d done it, it transpired he was a keen Microsoft flight sim user.
In a rare (most rare) example of the brass embracing change, flight sims were as soon as practicable inserted into the training syllabus – saving a fukkload of airtime dollars, airframe hours & freeing up considerable instructor capability.
It shaved a friggload of cost off the outlay to train a Marine jet pilot.
Or, as Eyrie was saying, it augmented the real thing by providing familiarity, muscle memory, & experience at no risk to airframes or lives, + saving a tonne of money
Please note: Words have meanings, Simulation is not the same meaning as Substitution.
They’ll be killed off before too long. Will take a few celestials down though, helping to keep the occupiers on their toes.
Then the real opposition sets to work, unhindered by the (now deceased) backyard Rambos.
For every Russell Coit there is also somewhere a Troy Dann.
Music!
Hans Zimmer – Man Of Steel Dolby Atmos®
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL2_9FpDHlM
There are hundreds of thousands of ex servicemen who would make reasonably decent militia men. Able bodied men of a young enough age, decent shooters from sport or necessity and police or ex police would be decent enough.
Nukes
Drones
The militia
We can have cheap defence that is formidable. None of the above prevents expanding the active standing forces or their platforms.
Oh god.
No surprises this happens just as the Swiss banks crap themselves. As has been noted, this place is off the pace.
Cash is cool. Spinning people out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggu5tonSMAc
I really do wonder how the woke youth of today would take to conscription and basic infantry training. Living on the Gold Coast I see so many sculpted and tattooed males with attitude. How would this lot take to military discipline? I was a scrawny 17 year old when I was conscripted into the South Africa Defence Force in 1971. Six months later I was a very much tougher 18 year old and along with my peers could cover ground all day long with a full back pack, ammo, water and carrying a R1 rifle (Browning FAL). You didn’t back chat NCO’s unless you had a death wish. Training in the South African army was tough but all healthy young males did it. When I watch shows on military training in other countries today, other than the special forces training, I think that you would not want to pit those trainees against a bunch of South African troopies. We had a commando culture from the days of the Boers which was reinforced by the regular 3 week and 3 month camps we had to go on. This just does not exist in Australia. No doubt our professional soldiers here are competent but in a time of conflict when we need to put feet on the ground our precious male civilian petals are going to be extremely difficult to train.
I recollect that in the 70’s in SA we could call up 250,000 trained soldiers in a matter of a week. Theoretical as the economy would have crashed but the difference to Australia is that there were trained soldiers available if required. If you think of just a suburb in a town where every male between the ages of 17 and 50 is a trained soldier it does make any invader think twice.
Do we in Australia need to emulate the old South African model? We have a serious conflict in the Ukraine which is being fought by Western proxies against Russia. We are one N bomb away from a potential confict that could have Russia and China against the West. China is alarmed that countries like Australia are effectively rearming. It seems as if they, like the Japanese in WW2, have the same desire to have an economic control zone and with Australian resources, control of Australia is a prime target. If they struck at the moment they could walk in almost unopposed. I doubt whether we could fight our way out of a wet paper bag. If we had a country which could mobilise to protect itself that would make it a very different proposition. At what stage will we realise how vulnerable we are? Certainly the intelligence community has fired up the government to the extent that we are getting nuclear subs. They must have put the fear of god into our politicians that they are prepared to go the nuclear way. But ultimately it feet on the ground who win wars. And our potential feet on the ground wear designer shoes and not army boots.
Louis: As this is a family blogue, Dover has taken away the language I need to correctly express those thoughts.
But, there’s almost certainly some fast government money available to look at it.
If the PLA ever gain a foothold in Australia, the world order will have changed beyond recognition – and our visitors will likely not be pissing around with the Geneva Convention, or gentlemanly behaviour.
Best they don’t land.
Anyone else having trouble sleeping?
No problems with that, because it involves sitting down and flying an aircraft.
The same process (i.e., simulation) does not apply to infantry work as suggested, because of all the things mentioned above.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day all and sundry.
Always was and always will be the land of Irish convicts.
Did I miss something in the reporting? Lefty social media is alive tonight, crowing that today’s court hearing was a “train wreck” for Bruce Lehrmann. Wilkinson’s barrister asked tough questions of Lehrmann & “tore him a new one” & so on.
That’s the tame stuff. Wilder accounts have Lehrmann likely facing jail time for perjury, and having completely self-demolished his credibility.
The same process (i.e., simulation) does not apply to infantry work as suggested, because of all the things mentioned above.
It does apply to infantry work. The high level and basic is how does a squad organise an attack or respond to attack. The next level is how does it “look” when I’m in the squad, what can I see, who can I see, what do I do. (Simulation). The next is live exercises.
Cead Mile Failte.
A Hundred Thousand Welcomes.
Happy Saint Patricks Day.
Insomniacs anonymous.
Insomniacs anonymous.
It’s 7:46 pm!
7.46pm sounds interesting . Working out where you are should fill a bit of time.
Not here.
It’s 03:33am in my bedroom.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Thank you Tom.
Thanks Tom.
Mrs Biden bought Joe a parrot for his birthday. She told Kamala Harris, the deputy president “The bird is so smart, Joe has already taught him to pronounce over 200 words”. “Wow. That’s pretty impressive” Harris said “but do you realise that he just says the words… he doesn’t really understand what they mean?” “Oh, that’s okay” Mrs Biden replied, “neither does the parrot”.
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
– H. G. Wells
Has everyone gone to breakfast? Seems awfully quiet on this St Patrick’s Day.
From Guardian Ausytralia:
Bruce Lehrmann began his defamation claim two years after the Brittany Higgins stories were first published in the media in February 2021.
Bruce Lehrmann tells court he fabricated conversations with lawyer about plans to take defamation action
Lehrmann tells court a text saying ‘I’m up for millions’ was to placate his girlfriend, not due to a plan to sue
Bruce Lehrmann says he deliberately fabricated conversations with his then lawyer about early plans to take defamation action in the immediate aftermath of public reporting of Brittany Higgins’ allegations.
The federal court on Thursday probed why Lehrmann had taken almost two years, well outside the usual 12-month time limit, to bring a defamation claim against Network Ten, News Corp, and journalists Lisa Wilkinson and Samantha Maiden.
Lehrmann is required to demonstrate it was not reasonable for him to have filed defamation proceedings within 12 months of the publications.
His barrister, Steven Whybrow SC, argued that Lehrmann was acting on prior legal advice from his previous firm, Korn Tlais Defence Lawyers, not to initiate defamation proceedings after the publications.
Lehrmann was called to give evidence about his dealings with lawyer Warwick Korn on 15 February 2021, following the initial story by Maiden in News Corp.
Lehrmann said he did not meet Korn, a criminal lawyer, to discuss defamation proceedings.
“That was not the purpose I engaged Mr Korn for,” he said. “It was for obvious criminal proceedings or an investigation, it was obvious and apparent that that was about to be undertaken.”
He said he did raise the prospect of defamation proceedings during the six-hour meeting with Korn, during which they watched the airing of the story on The Project.
“I was outraged from what I was seeing,” he said.
But he said Korn’s advice was to wait before filing any defamation claim.
“That advice was that defamation proceedings could happen but we needed to wait for the resolution of any criminal proceedings or any investigation.”
But under cross-examination, Lehrmann was shown a series of texts he sent to his then girlfriend and friends from Korn’s office on the night of 15 February 2021.
Lawyers for the media outlets have argued some text messages sent by Lehrmann to his then girlfriend contradict what he now says about the legal advice he was receiving in February 2021, which prompted him to delay any defamation action.
In one message, Lehrmann said he had been advised he could obtain millions in a defamation claim.
“If I’m named tonight, he says I’m up for millions as defamation,” Lehrmann told his then girlfriend, in reference to a story which was about to air on The Project.
Under cross examination by Dr Matt Collins KC, acting for Network Ten, Lehrmann denied that he was relaying words said to him by Korn.
Lehrmann said the text message was an effort to try to placate his then girlfriend.
“I was placating [her] given she was incredibly upset and distraught,” he said.
Collins suggested to Lehrmann that he had “caught you out, haven’t I?”.
Lehrmann responded: “It is hard to recall exactly the nature of the conversations taking place. But what I was putting to [my then girlfriend] was a brave face.”
Other texts show Lehrmann telling others that he had been advised that defamation was a “definite”.
Lehrmann said that was also a fabrication and that he hadn’t received that advice.
In another text, Lehrmann also said: “I’m a pawn, [Warwick Korn] says, as part of a bigger political hatchet job.”
Lehrmann denied Korn had told him that.
Collins said: “You fabricated that part of the conversation?”
Lehrmann responded: “Yes.”
In another message, Lehrmann said that Korn had been taking notes during their meeting.
Lehrmann told the court that that message was also a fabrication.
Collins said: “What possible difference could it make to tell her that Mr Korn was taking notes?”
Lehrmann said he had fabricated the contents of the message to convey that “I had my house in order and everything was gong to be OK”.
In attempting to justify the delay, Lehrmann is also arguing that he held off filing defamation claims because of the prospect of criminal proceedings that hung over him in 2021.
But in another text on 15 February 2021, he suggested he had received advice that he would not face criminal proceedings and that the criminal allegations would “not see the light of a courtroom”.
In another text, he said: “Criminal, he says, is off the cards completely. One, it’s false, and second, they have nothing.”
Lehrmann denied Korn given him advice that he would never face criminal charges.
Collins responded: “Your evidence is that you fabricated a conversation with Mr Korn for the purpose of conveying it to [your then girlfriend]?”
Lehrmann agreed he had fabricated the conversation.
“Rome was burning and I was trying to put on a brave face,” he said.
Collins asked: “So you made up a conversation with a lawyer?”
Lehrmann said: “Yes.”
The day after his meeting with Korn, Lehrmann checked himself into Royal North Shore hospital and was put on 15 minutes observations, the court heard.
Lehrmann told the court he had been “not in a good way, to put it lightly” following the initial stories on 15 February 2021.
He went to another health facility for 12 days then did not return to his house, because he had heard that the media were camping outside his house.
He said stories kept appearing in the media.
“Every time an article would come out, or a Four Corners report or whatever, there was outrage, and it was apparent on social media that people knew it was me and it was a mixture of being upset, angry, and I wanted to fight back against the media,” he said.
Sue Chrysanthou SC, representing Wilkinson, put it to Lehrmann that he had been “acutely aware” that he was in a position to sue for defamation, but did nothing.
“I reject that I was in a position to sue for defamation,” he said.
The hearing continues before Justice Michael Lee later this month.
This is good news for Dutch Farmers. It should also give inspiration worldwide to those being squashed by the Big Green Agenda .https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/16/great-reset-revolt-pro-farmer-party-gains-major-victory-against-eu-green-agenda-in-dutch-elections/
Shorter Guardian article:
Bruce Lehrmann spends day admitting he tells a whole lotta lies to his [then] girlfriend before checking into the Nut Farm for a good while.
Who’s paying for this waste of the Court’s time, again?
How deep is the rot?
New York AG Letitia James to Host Drag Queen Story Hour ‘Read-A-Thon’ For Children Under 12
Gateway Pundit
The Dutch farmers are fighting back and winning. Pity there’s no party in Australia that stands up for farmers and rural people. One that fights the climate craziness, one that will stand firm on conservative/libertarian principles. Who knows, such a party could be successful here.
Pauline, you are now Opposition Leader.
‘I want to be the opposition that Howard was’: Dutton pledges to work with Labor (Sky News mainpage headline, 16 Mar)
Get yourself a purple suit Mr Dutton. Why oh why would anyone vote for the Libs?
Seems a little unreasonable to expect Lehman’s to commence defamation action before a criminal trial.
Let’s see if the court allows his action to proceed.
People who want to keep Labor out.
Only to find they’ve voted for Labor anyway, just Labor wearing an unconvincing sheepskin.
Transavia was not much fun, not enough staff at the check-in counter, then as the clock started running down a few passengers got testy.
Sorted out in the end.
I guess that’s what you pay for cheap airfares.
Quite a few dogs travelling, but fortunately they must have put them in the hold.
And airport security took my little bottle of water I paid 17c for. I’d rather have died of dehydration than paid €3 for one on the plane.
Orly is clean and well organised, transfers by tram and metro were straightforward despite a tram delay due to an earlier accident.
I’m staying in La Kremlin, couldn’t find anything that didn’t have major drawbacks around the 8th and 11th.
La Kremlin is vibrant and multicultural.
I understand the bumptious message of “I’ll sue the buggers” far more easily than the oddly prophetic “what we need is a big sex scandal”.
Ed October:
Keeping the submarine theme going – Captain Ramius, and from the film of the same name:
It seems to me that all the response to the GFC in 2007 did was kick the can further down the road, rather than let bankruptcies etc happen and allowing the situation to sort itself out. Let the crappy companies with high debt and bad business models go under. Wasn’t that the key to successful capitalism? Creative destruction? There’s no good in allowing bad business to continue when it has failed, except of course for those who own those businesses or are making money out of them in some way.
If I’m on the right track, then another GFC will eventually hit and the forces of reality will try to close those crappy businesses, propped up by easy money and gov regulations. If it does happen this year, it would hurt all of us but we would come out stronger and better placed in the world. Any of you experts out there have opinions on the next GFC?
Don’t know that area of Paris at all rosie. Had a quick look – enormous cemeteries nearby. Take care! 😀
I like Orly also, much more than CDG. I’m a sucker for the 5th and 6th, especially the little back streets around the river that Haussmann didn’t quite get to.
At 6.45am Eastern Standard Time, South Australia the so-called renewable state, was importing just short of 50% of the electricity it needs. No wind blowing and no sunshine in SA at this time. And only 6% wind energy and nil solar across the whole eastern grid comprising Qld, NSW, Vic, SA, Tas. My guess is that the computer models driving Bowen’s green energy plan, averaged out wind supply so wind troughs such as what we are experiencing now don’t appear. It is what modellers do, as you can’t factor in unpredictable variations. Australians need to know what the contingency plan is for situations such as this before the coal mines are closed. It is not good enough that the Government is proceeding on a wing and a prayer. Lives and livelihoods will be at risk.
As I’m 1/16 Irish, here’s my contribution to It’s Okay to be Irish Day.
Biden saw Jim Chalmers tax on superannuation unrealised capital gains and said “Hold my beer”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sheer-idiocy-capital-gains-tax-can-exceed-100-percent-under-biden-proposal
To the men here, if you don’t like reading this, please scroll. I’m sure most of you have/had wives, have daughters, so you shouldn’t be squeamish about this.
I’m sure we all remember going through puberty. It’s a difficult time for girls and boys, with raging hormones and fast changing bodies. It can be a dramatic and traumatic time, and for girls more so with the onset of menstruation. I suspect all the women here would remember the first time they started menstruating, it’s certainly etched on my memory. We were on the family yacht and I still remember the look on my father’s face after my mother whispered in his ear that we needed to return to shore. I attended a girl’s only school and whilst girl’s schools can be cliquish and bitchy with lots of “moles” running around (to use the parlance of the late 1970s and early 1980s), we girls did have one thing in common, we had periods. I don’t recall any girl mocking another girl for menstruating. The only girls in the school who didn’t menstruate were the few who had anorexia and had stopped menstruating. Whilst you can feel menstruation coming on, sometimes you get caught out, I remember playing netball and feeling the blood trickle down my legs. Some girls, like my sister, are lucky and their periods will arrive on time every month, to the day, the hour, the minute, others like myself weren’t so fortunate, I could never plan, hence I often got caught out, and it was embarrassing. However, there was one thing I was guaranteed of, because of the existence of women only bathrooms, I could be assured of privacy in the bathroom. If I had to rush to the toilet and call out “does anyone have a spare tampon or pad”, it was pretty safe to assume that there weren’t any males in the bathroom.
But not now. There’s now a push to make all toilets ‘unisex’. I read this morning how a school in Coventry England has pandered to a transgender minority and has made the school’s toilets unisex, but wait…..it’s worse, the toilet doors no longer have locks on them! A young girl went to use the unisex toilet and was subsequently injured when a boy kicked down a door to photograph her. You read that right, this is deemed “progress” in 2023, where “gender identity” is more important than children’s safety and wellbeing.
Last week, at the wonderful event “Let Women Speak”, a young woman got up to talk about an experience she’d had whilst working at a job in Melbourne. She recalled how the office had changed the toilets to “unisex”. She described an occasion where she went to the toilet to change a tampon. As she walked into the toilet, her male boss also walked in and they both entered cubicles adjacent to each other. She said the doors to the toilets weren’t that high and so you could hear everything going on. She described how she froze in the cubicle, and was embarrassed to take the tampon out of its packaging because her male boss would be able to hear. People, particularly women, crave privacy. Unlike males with urinals, women need private spaces where we feel comfortable. Every women in the crowd applauded her, because we knew how she felt.
I’m glad I’m doing Pilates, which is good for my abdominals and bladder control, because if they ever convert toilets in my workplace to “unisex”, I won’t use them, and I’ll wait till I get home before I go to the toilet.
HMAS one-ping, HMAS two-ping, and HMAS three-ping
Cassie, I am completely at a loss to understand the insanity of current times when the definition of biology is so scrambled . It is deeply troubling, & I am very pessimistic about our prospects of returning to normality.
Sadly, I think the West is in a similar historical interlude as the 1920s. A serious financial collapse & then a world war is scarily on the cards. Survival has a way of focussing the human mind on reality.
I’m going to visit my favourite, the 4th tomorrow.
450 metre walk to place d’italie, metro to chatelet.
Bob’s your uncle.
Give me a ping
Xi Jin Ping!
35 years ago today, St.Patrick’s Day Live (1988)
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York
Richard Cranium
Stop regurgitating Grauniad rubbish, and show your evidence that Curtin engaged in treachery during WW II.
Hey mem- thanks for that link to the success of the Dutch farmers against the Green filth.
Yeah – the Nats show no guts in defending our rural sector. The minor Shooters/Fishers mob as yet too small, probably poorly named to attract enough support. Farmers’ organisations just too parochial & understandably too specific in their concerns to be of national political importance. Also the extremes of conditions in the Australian Bush (fires/floods/droughts) are draining & all consuming & not faced so much by the Europeans.
In recent times Aussies have become so urbanised that the Australian bushie image has disappeared as an icon. Maybe that will change as the drift back to regional centres reconnects us with the bush. Hope so – as we need to revive those old values that characterised us.
My wife’s great great uncle recorded seeing an aboriginal tribe walk single file, in order of rank, along the crest of local hills that now have wind towers marching in rows.
The proposed transmission power lines with eighty metre towers will be clearly in view from the hills where the Landcare movement was first conceived by local farmers.
I don’t know how much more saving of the environment we can take in the bush.
It seems the world has an insanity attack every 100 years. This is to make sure we get the hubris kicked out of us.
Funny how the degeneracy of the 1920s was followed by a war and then a reset and a return to normal life. We are again in the throes of degeneracy which means war or at least global realignment of some sort is on the horizon. An overwhelming majority of the world population want peace, prosperity and a normal life and I think they will win.
State and Federal Governments that prioritise a domesticated population, increasingly imported from OS and stacked in Melbourne and Sydney shoe boxes, and censor and crush those who want to be left free and alone, should help revive those old values eh?
The great bulk of our population are now human pandas, perpetual children unable to manage anything on their own – and thats the way our rulers want us.
Cassie of Sydney:
Most of the males here are familiar – I would guess – with females and menstruating.
Most of us are also familiar with female privacy concerns and if I hear a shriek from the women’s toilets after an obvious cock in a frock has wondered in, I will be in there with an attitude. No woman should have to tolerate the invasion of her privacy or dignity by a pervert in a dress.
SA, Swiss, or Israeli, yes.
Conscript every young adult for at least 12 months. Bolster the reserves. Give regular arms refresher training. Rifle in every house.
Ed Higgins still babbling on about the whole farcical Mizzzz Knickerless business. He needs to get a life.
What I find so disgusting is that the loudest “environment” champions live in city high rises and court publicity for their causes by chaining themselves to their cars in Harbour tunnels. They know nothing about nature or the environment, it’s all a game to ease their anxiety. Deep down it’s because their rich parents neglected them as children and now bail them out of jails and pay their legal fees to make up for it.
Or it could simply be that greenies have nothing else to strive for, everything is handed to them, life is too comfortable. It could also be why aboriginal youth crime is getting worse, they don’t need to work to provide for themselves so to ease the boredom they attack the productive people.
In conclusion, the green movement is a result of success. There is nothing to strive for, they are already at the top of the world therefore the economy and the civilisation must be torn down so they can fix things.
16 seats in the 75-seat Senate. From zero.
That’s what I call a voter revolt!
The above comment lacks context, because my previous comment is in moderation.
From mem’s link above, the new Dutch BBB party won 16 (or 75) seats in the senate, from a base of ZERO.
Good to see the spirit of Faulty lives on here, with his Stand (or Fall if Necessary)* doctrine getting a run yesterday incorporating the modern twist of Call of Duty training.
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* The full title of the Faulty Doctrine is:-
Stand (or Fall if Necessary). Or at least encourage a few others to have a crack first and see how it goes.
Assistant Trade Minister Tim Ayres says the Albanese government will do “what is required” to make sure Australians have cheap and reliable sources of energy.
A terrifying watch.
This person apparently has some connection with Australian energy supply.
We are in so much trouble.
Still feeling the need to display your stupidity and lack of seriousness I see.
If you need wonder about media bias, Fairfax leading with an item about Packer donating $20k to an Israeli friend to help with his daughter’s wedding.
Not a peep about $3 large going to the Bidens from the Chinese.
Dr Faustussays:
March 17, 2023 at 8:24 am
Assistant Trade Minister Tim Ayres says the Albanese government will do “what is required” to make sure Australians have cheap and reliable sources of energy.
“We’ve shown our determination and our capacity to do it,” Mr Ayres told Sky News Australia.
I don’t suppose he means revive the coal fired generation system by constructing new HELE plants? Or even to consider nuclear?
“We’ll do what is required on supply and price.”
No, keep their heads firmly inserted in their rectums (recta?) by pursuing a system based on unicorn farts.
Oh and Claymores – don’t forget them.
Give regular arms refresher training.
Mostly done with gun simulators in the Australian Army nowadays.
More work to do before decision on referendum question
It’s other things as well. Humbug is one of them.
This is a foretaste of how The Voice will unify and Nation Build.
Me, too. CDG is a schemozzle, designed by town planner communists. Orly is Paris’s original airport, is much more user-friendly and has far better French and Euro connections available.
If the “green” movement was genuinely about the environment, we’d be seeing exactly zero wind turbines and zero solar panels.
Their aim is sinister and it’s only the comical children in the movement who “believe”. It’s all about the ‘viroment we see, not the one hidden in other lands where these monstrosities are manufactured. They see the end product glinting on roofs and swaying on the hilltops, not the manufacturing, transporting and installation vandalism for very little return.
Every component of the process is a result of mining. All it does is redirect existing energy inefficiently and at great environmental cost.
I’ve been keeping an “eye” on Pogria’s bushfire. Looks to be downgraded after burning out many…many hectares.
Hope all is well for those poor beasts in the waist-high grass.
Which reminds me of the time I sat in the jump seat of a 707 between Melbourne and Adelaide. I wore an onion on my belt, which was the fashion at the time.
Maybe they need a soothing blast of wellness ozone.
Gwyneth Paltrow Says She Inserts Ozone up Her Butt for ‘Wellness’ (16 Mar)
She should herself get checked out: ozone is strongly oxidizing and likely to cause internal damage.
Or was it a 727?
No matter.
Anyway, to take the flight cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time …
Dr Faustussays:
March 17, 2023 at 8:24 am
Assistant Trade Minister Tim Ayres says the Albanese government will do “what is required” to make sure Australians have cheap and reliable sources of energy.
“We’ve shown our determination and our capacity to do it,” Mr Ayres told Sky News Australia.
“We’ll do what is required on supply and price.”
And in other news, Blackout Bowen, the Energy & Climate Change Minister, was asked for his views on Australia’s Trade prospects. “No comment” was the response. Not within his Portfolio apparently.
I see Prigozhin is advertising on Pornhub for Wagner recruits. He is also whinging that the MoD is denying Wagner ammo to prevent him claiming Bakhmut. Things going well for Russia then.
CDG looks very sexy in plan view. No wonder they loved it. Horrible to navigate unless you know its secrets.
In addition, I have never been to CDG without some sort of major hassle. The worst was a computer collapse just as. A gazillion people landed from various parts. The funniest, albeit aggravating, was the bomb scare – abandoned rucksack. We arrived to military occupation and the sound of sirens.
I fully expected Clouseau to descend from his Citroen looking alternately officious and bemused.
Important citizen soldier questions.
Do towelling hats and walk socks come in camo?
Will I have to re-paint my Camry camo?
What are you doing on Pornhub m0nty? I’m shocked!
What is Pornhob?
This place is getting worse. Now we have Gwynneth’s haemorrhoid treatment thinly disguised as “wellness”.
😀
Here’s one for Chris Bowen.
60% of voters agree Climate Change is a religion (17 Mar)
Someone ask him would he support mandatory tithe paying to churches by everyone in Australia. No? Then stop forcing us to pay tithes to your kooky religion Mr Bowen.
I blame Saint Patrick. And the Irish.
A feckin’ feckless bunch, da lot of dem.
Who is supervising your internet use mUnty? Get back to work.
Cassie, it’s not about “equality” or being accepting of “diversity”; it’s about humiliation.
Those who instigate this perversity are about control by humiliation, by forcing acceptance – and “admission” and even “celebration” – of something that is obviously wrong.
Looks like Admiral Elbow will face a mutiny over subs at the ALP conference in August.
Not the same as on a gun range. The one we went to in Louisiana was where the police also trained. They were super conscious of gun safety. The experience was amazing because it was total – the smell of the firing of many weapons, and then the huge explosive sound of them, the clicks made by the shooters pulling the trigger, the fall of the spent cartridges onto the floor, the different noises made by different sorts of guns, and above all the awareness of the lethality of it all, as well as the skills used against targets at all sorts of distances. Hairy held and used guns he had never come across before and his shoulder ached later from the rebound of a big one. I was invited to try, but as a newbie and a traveller I didn’t want to risk injury. Plus yes, I was scared.
Lots and lots of claymores !!!!!
A ‘shooting range’ is the correct term and the one they used.
As Cassie said, young girls are often very, very self-conscious and privacy in the toilet is absolutely essential for them. It is, of course, essential for all women but especially so for them. I still remember how raw and tender my feelings were at that age, and no doubt this hasn’t changed.
I would rather have changed a tampon in the bushes than done it in a space where there were boys, or even the possibility of boys. Or I would have stuffed my pants with toilet paper. Anything but that.
Why their feelings don’t matter any more is something the trannie lobby has never satisfactorily answered.
Because they can’t.
Ho lee fuq
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11865719/ChatGPT-bypassed-security-check-pretending-blind-person.html
The feelings of the weak and vulnerable and innocent have never mattered to the tyrannous.
We see them in all their putrid cruelty and entitlement. They have become what they accused society of being.
I never much worried about cross dressers and definitely not about gay men. It made me sad, for obvious reasons, but the current politicisation and in your face mockery has done what no fringe perversion could ever do. It has made me an opponent.
Riddle me this.
Albo tells the great unwashed that power prices are so high because of the Ukrainian conflict is causing high prices for coal and gas.
Urea, basically gas in a pill, is now 57% lower in price now than it was twelve months ago – $1,000 per tonne cheaper.
Another one of many things of which I wish I’d never heard.
Thanks for sharing, Bruce.
Some takeouts from Sky last evening:
– Chris Kenny using the moniker “Blackout Bowen”
– Latham back on Blot after a post contretemps reconciliation
– General Buck Keane (Retd.) of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy on Blot calling out Keato’s observations that Virginia Class subs were “visible from* space”
– A rather girthy Italiano pizza purveyor having an emotional breakdown following the closure of his restaurant in the Shire due to skyrocketing electrickery costs
Was any of this worth beholding in any way shape or form? Possibly not. Bloody depressing, if nothing else.
Anyway, given the day, let’s have a song, to be sure, to be sure …
*As opposed to “audible in” like the Bob Collins class subs
Yes and a Federal judge should be able to see through this petty strategy of accusing a plaintiff of perjury because they were granted an extension to file a claim and the defence barrister is pissy about it.