Saturn Devouring his Son, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636
Leak hit it out of the park.
Open Thread – Tues 21 March 2023
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Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
3) The Parliament shall, subject to whatever interpretation of the Constitution those in power so desire, have power to make laws ensuring that the Activists’ Money Tree enables the Activists to live in luxury and never have to visit a remote community.
The Activists and Land Council bosses live like that now.
Speedbox says:
March 24, 2023 at 2:24 pm
I’ve mention previously on the Cat but not perhaps with the same clarity as that article’s author, that for the most part, Russians are stoic in their acceptance of a burden imposed (for whatever reason) by the West. It is not that they ‘don’t care’ per se, it is that they accept life has its tribulations and hardships that cannot be avoided and must be endured.
Totally agree.
One just has to see the Russian people’s resilience during the Soviet dystopia, as per the documentaries I alluded to above.
While the West’s pusillaminous, faggotty elites worry about their pronouns, and masturbate over their diversity, inclusivity delusions.
In a proper war with Russia, the West will lose, period.
I just hope the cretins in DC, if nothing else, can glimpse this reality.
Saudis only respect power and they obviously don’t think Biden’s US deserves that respect regardless of how much hardware they have. The abandonment of all the hardware in Afghanistan has obviously been seen as extreme weakness in military leadership. Disarray, even.
Hi Vicki.
The title of the article is, “Andrews Misleads the Nation with Gas Ignorance”. I don’t have the journalists name or maybe it was editorial. And don’t have page no although maybe it was just online.
Found it!
Mem:
https://todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=b0dddc2a-95f6-4aae-b07a-b54374965f86
They had better be careful. Why shouldn’t Christian or Jewish beliefs be sacred as well?
Now they are just laughing at us and saying “What are you going to do about it?”
On the other hand, FBI is full of knaves not necessarily clever ones.
I wonder if I have been blacklisted from the Letters page of The Oz for posting pieces from the newspaper????
memsays:
March 24, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Do any Cats have access to todays Australian and the article on Andrews and gas. If so would it be possible to copy and post it here. I and a couple of others would be ever so grateful.
Terry Mccrann jammed Dan the Dickhead Person (Not a Man and never will be) right up the Jacksie………’Chairman Dan is one gassy piece of work’…………………I will continue………………….
It really is this simple, if as a Premier of a Stare you refuse to allow gas (and oil) to be developed or even discovered you can hardly demand that other States give you some of their Gas.
Wot’ a Tosser. FFS.
No Peter, she was more than embarrassing, she was menacing and should be expelled from Senate.
Dutton never fails to disappoint, this was a perfect time to lay in the boot. He is completely incompetent and needs to be demoted. The problem is that there is nobody else in the Libs worth a bob.
Sicktoria. you deserve Dan the Dickhead Man with those Jug Ears……………..Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…………………………..
Hanson should be very careful about anonymous letters left behind in cafés. I wouldn’t trust it as far as I could throw it.
Left anonymously, posted anonymously. Sounds like a set up to me. The contents might even be true as discussion points in private meetings, but no one is going to leave such a thing behind.
Angus Taylor is bidding his time.
Someone should be calling for Thorpe’s removal from office. Is that possible now she is an independent? Probably would require a criminal conviction.
The old fashioned tree huggers are just that – old- and don’t stand a chance against the new and young greenies ho don’t have to get dirty out in the fields when tapping away on their phones is all that’s required from them.
I wonder if I have been blacklisted from the Letters page of The Oz for posting pieces from the newspaper????
I doubt they monitor that, and don’t care anyway.
They won’t tolerate anything that treads on their sacred cows
of Diversity, Inclusion, Equality, navigate around those and you should be right.
Sacred, spiritual. I don’t even know what those words mean. Is it more than a feeling? I heard Stan Git on Q&A say he is a very spiritual person. Was he referring to the tanning bed he is using?
Let’s see how long it takes to beat Ukraine first.
The US had one of those leaders just two years ago but Trump was not acceptable to too many people who ought to have known better. That people thought Biden would be better says a lot more about them than Trump. What did they think was going to be the outcome when you have a sock puppet as President?
No comments yet about Sarah Henderson crying in the Senate over Murray Watt’s comment?
This blog is so off the pace.
Not sure about that. No State has repealed the Public Health Acts, etc.
memsays:
March 24, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Do any Cats have access to todays Australian and the article on Andrews and gas. If so would it be possible to copy and post it here. I and a couple of others would be ever so grateful.
Terry Mccrann jammed Dan the Dickhead Person (Not a Man and never will be) right up the Jacksie………’Chairman Dan is one gassy piece of work’…………………I will continue………………….
It really is this simple, if as a Premier of a Stare you refuse to allow gas (and oil) to be developed or even discovered you can hardly demand that other States give you some of their Gas.
Wot’ a Tosser. FFS.</em
memsays. This is all you need to know………………………….
Why walk when you can take the taxpayer funded Tesla?
Vicki re mem The Australian Request try
March 23, 2023
Business
Dan Andrews shows breathtaking hypocrisy by demanding Qld gas be diverted to Victoria
Dan Andrews shows breathtaking hypocrisy by refusing to allow gas to be developed in Victoria but demanding that it be diverted from Queensland exports, writes Terry McCrann.
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 4:13 pm
Sicktoria. you deserve Dan the Dickhead Man with those Jug Ears
Not sure about that. No State has repealed the Public Health Acts, etc.
And you Dotty Dot of Dottiness deserve your handle…………….lol
Just another thought to my last comment, US is in a very weak position at present and that is not only dangerous for them but the entire world as weakness invites aggression. Which country will be attacked next because the attackers think nobody will make them pay? Scary times ahead.
One down….
Russia’s conventional war capacity has been crippled by corruption, lack of financing, and poor training. In a proper war with Russia everyone loses because Russia will have no choice but to press the MAD button.
Dan Andrews shows breathtaking hypocrisy by refusing to allow gas to be developed in Victoria but demanding that it be diverted from Queensland exports, writes Terry McCrann.
Thank you Old Ozzie and as I said in an earlier post…………………………….
Well that was a mistake….
Just tuned into ABCess news and they had the bloke on (dressed as a shiela) who tried to get into AFLW but was denied. This “expert” had lots of nasties to say about World Athletics bigots…
I wonder why they asked him on and not, say, Katherine Deeves?
TheirGayBC.
LOL Gilas, you really are a froot loop.
John H.says:
March 24, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 4:11 pm
In a proper war with Russia, the West will lose, period.
Let’s see how long it takes to beat Ukraine first.
Russia’s conventional war capacity has been crippled by corruption, lack of financing, and poor training. In a proper war with Russia everyone loses because Russia will have no choice but to press the MAD button.
A rubbish comment. Once the Spring is over, Russia will move in and smash the West. You heard it here first, second, third. fourth, fifth and a lot more.
Looks like Tik Tok is on the way out in the US:
And so on.
Seems they have found something they can agree on, although how it would work in practice remains to be seen. Also, how long it will take to be implemented.
Politicians are very good at huffing and puffing in public, but what actually happens afterwards is a whole nother thing.
Why walk when you can take the taxpayer funded Tesla?
Did they plug it in last night?
No.
Are they waddlin’ 450 metres?
No.
Has Dan Andrews attacked World Athletics yet as ‘Nazi adjacent’? Sort of funny following a week in which liberals/leftists have mindlessly attack of a handful of women critical of trans ideology, that the governing body of athletics should rule against men participating in women’s athletic competitions. I bet there is a pale of silence descending over these nincompoops.
There are many cultures where differing sexual orientations were tolerated if not accepted as part of the general cultural milieu. The problem in our culture is the promotion of that demographic as if they are deserving of an elevated status. I couldn’t care less about them but I wish they weren’t in our faces so often.
They’ve instantaneously banned various conservative social networking apps from both Apple and Android so I’m not sure why they’re taking so long with this shit.
Kleenex for mUnty please
LOL Gilas, you really are a froot loop.
No MontyPox Virus you are the loop. Without the fruit. TOSSER.
Johnny
Not sure if Victorian voters are really worse than the rest or deserve this.
Andrews was definitively the worst Premier during COVID, but name something he’s done and I reckon I can bring up something that the LNP did in NSW or the ALP did in Queensland. Also remember we had Morrison convening that absurd national cabinet. Palaszczuk is very left wing and Jackie Trad, the former Treasurer is a genuine communist in all but name.
Did anyone who voted enthusiastically for Abbott in 2013 and continually for the Federal LNP to avoid an ALP Green alliance government like what got with Gillard, do they deserve what they get?
In a democracy you get the government you deserve, except when the lying is colossal, chronic and widespread.
The only way out is to stop voting for establishment parties but compulsory full preferential voting like at the Federal level protects the status quo. It kills organic change and incremental growth stone dead.
Never forget Matthias Cormann and the Greens conspired to change the Senate voting system to shaft small parties like PHON, LDP, AC and so on.
Those minor parties getting organic growth and seats proportional to their votes would have let them grow, development of a true opposition and not surrender virtually all Senate seats to a cabal that 1/3 of Australians do not support at all.
Not caring about them was their key SSM election message. Everything has gone from perverted to just plain weird since then (and so now I care).
Why couldn’t they do it last year? What makes them better off to do it now? Russia has at least three private armies now and one of them is propping up the war effort. The Russian military’s losses in men and materiel for ground gained is god awful.
Ukraine might crack from exhaustion. Claiming Russian tactical or strategic genius is over egging the pudding.
“The goal of socialism is to confuse human affairs through perverted teachings”
Pope Pius IX, 1849.
It’s a good point Dot and one I think Col Douggie McGregor should look at answering as he predicted Russia would win within weeks, then a few months, and then they wouldn’t last through winter…so, what now?
Having said that, I also don’t buy the FakeNews on the MSM about Ukraine winning anything (previously, now, or ever).
Reminds me of another one where using Coca Cola in the marinade improves roast pig. By all accounts, it works.
I do remember in the 1960s that adding a can of cream of mushroom or cream of asparagus soup was recommended in some recipes, usually casseroles. I must also report that those dishes tasted pretty good. Casseroles are out of fashion these days, as food fetishism demands that we see each (organically grown) ingredient separately on the plate. Perhaps each should have a little flag explaining how and where it was grown.
Food fetishism is a sign of decadence. I except people like Rick Stein, who champions simplicity and freshness. But that Hester person is the embodiment of a civilisation which no longer has a purpose.
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 4:11 pm
In a proper war with Russia, the West will lose, period.
Let’s see how long it takes to beat Ukraine first.
Keep watching and learning you Tosser. How old are you BTW? 15 months by the sound of your BS.
In a proper war with Russia, everyone will lose.
Possbly my best format fail ever. Worthy of a glass of champagne!
Of course Russia should beat Ukraine but that is not beating the West. Don’t erect straw men, I made no reference to Ukraine. The F22s alone would be devasting to Russian air assets. One US Navy fleet could take out most of Russia’s navy. Russia’s biggest military asset the size of the country, not its military capacity.
Prior to this conflict did you read any analyses about the problems in the Russian military? The consensus was there were serious problems. How obvious is that when the Kuznetsov needed a sea going tug always with it because it broke down so often? All those rusting subs in dock. It is now retrofitting aging T62 tanks, first produced in 1961. It still hasn’t achieved air superiority in Ukraine. Aircrew training is estimated at less one hundred hours per year. 200 hours is regarded as the absolute minimum to maintain readiness. So many tanks and armoured vehicles were lost because of breakdowns and running out of fuel.
I don’t know how credible this is. I heard that the Wagner Group of crack troops (crack, get it?) are in big trouble. This could be true or just war propaganda. If it is true, I have a hunch that Putin could have put them in harm’s way, causing their destruction. If Wagner Group looked like a winner, the head of this tidy bunch of cutthroats could be the one seriously challenging Putin’s leadership.
It was people caring too much about them that allowed SSM to succeed. It was a plebiscite, not compulsory.
Lysandersays:
March 24, 2023 at 4:39 pm
“The goal of socialism is to confuse human affairs through perverted teachings”
Pope Pius IX, 1849.
And from some Pompous Pope. Get real. Who appointed this bloke? God? I don’t think so. It’s all a load of bollocks ………………………………….
Cheers, Joh!
On Heston, I mentioned a few days ago about his experiment with milk powder and chicken wings to make marvellous, flavourful stock. He was right, and I use his method all the time now.
Very true, calli.
A man is sleeping next to his wife, when he hears a loud knock on his door.
He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it’s 3 AM!
“I’m not getting out of bed at this time” he thinks, and rolls over.
Then, a louder knock follows.
“Aren’t you going to answer that?” says his wife.
So he drags himself out of bed, and goes downstairs. He opens the door and there is man standing at the door. It didn’t take the homeowner long to realise the man was drunk.
“Hi there” slurs the stranger “can you give me a push?” “No, get lost! It’s 3 AM. I was in bed asleep!” says the man before slamming the door.
He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she says “Dave, that wasn’t very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the babysitter and you had to knock on that man’s house to get us started again? What would have happened if he’d told us to get lost!?”
“But the guy was drunk!” says the husband. “It doesn’t matter” says the wife “he needs our help and it’s the Christian thing to help him!”
So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs. He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he shouts “Hey, do you still want a push?” He hears a voice cry out “Yeah please”.
Still being unable to see the stranger he shouts “Where are you?” And the stranger replies “Over here… on the swing”.
And that is Dan Andrews for you in Sictoria……………….
Minusrus is now estimating roughly 3500 tanks lost. Oynx is saying about 1800. I wonder what the error bar of these estimates are?
Dunno about Putin himself, I would more suspect the heads of the regular Russian armed forces who don’t like Prigozhin using mercenary convicts to muscle in on their turf. Various MoD carpet stroller would have a lot of incentive to white-ant Wagner, and judging from the high volume of Prigozhin’s screaming about lack of ammo they have been undermining him for months already.
The fact that Wagner can’t forcibly recruit any more convicts tends to suggest Prigozhin’s 15 minutes of fame are nearly up.
Vickisays:
Vicki, Many thanks. I’m hosting a meeting around all things gas at my place with a few like minded. We needed to see that article. Hope you’re not blacklisted.
When the USA had that tank war with Iraq the USA lost more tanks to friendly fire than from the Iraqis. The Iraqi tanks were target practice and didn’t have good targeting and aiming technology. In this conflict there are much better technologies but those figures still seem incredibly high. Nor can I believe 6898 armoured vehicles.
Richard Cranium
Finally, Senator Hanson claims the letter she received stated income tax for First Nations people should be slashed by 50 per cent.
50% 0f nothing is, er …
Have another look. There are very many claiming to be “First Nations” who are paid very well.
But you know that, you were just being your usual smart-arse self, weren’t you? As witness your very next comment.
Morbidly obese urban aboriginal bureaucrats are gonna waddle 450 metres for a Coffee?
Or are the “morbidly obese urban aboriginal bureaucrats” working for nothing?
And your slightly later comment.
3) The Parliament shall, subject to whatever interpretation of the Constitution those in power so desire, have power to make laws ensuring that the Activists’ Money Tree enables the Activists to live in luxury and never have to visit a remote community.
The Activists and Land Council bosses live like that now.
It seems that (according to you) there are many aboriginals who will benefit from a 50% reduction in income tax.
Or perhaps you are just stirring sh1t? By inserting a chop stick through your ear into what passes for your (tiny) brain?
What a tantrum. You need a mashed banana and a nap.
Oh dear, this should have come with a trigger warning – feeling rather nauseous now
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Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 4:37 pm
Once the Spring is over, Russia will move in and smash the West. You heard it here first, second, third. fourth, fifth and a lot more.
Why couldn’t they do it last year? What makes them better off to do it now? Russia has at least three private armies now and one of them is propping up the war effort. The Russian military’s losses in men and materiel for ground gained is god awful.
Ukraine might crack from exhaustion. Claiming Russian tactical or strategic genius is over egging the pudding.
Well Dotty Dot of Dottiness, they were not ready. And the West has run out of ammo. Russia has made so much money with these ‘sanctions’ it is not funny. Great move by Biden and his/her/its/whoever. Please keep making your dopey comments. So funny. Along with Head Case, MontyPox Virus, J erk Off Cretin and Stencho Pantyhose, you all make me jarf’……………….lol
Dot, Wodney sounds like he could be Ric Blum .
Not even 50% of the electorate bothered to vote Yes.
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:02 pm
Keep watching and learning you Tosser. How old are you BTW? 15 months by the sound of your BS.
What a tantrum. You need a mashed banana and a nap.
You need an Ed Jucation. Good luck with that.
The speculation about tensions between Wagner/ Prigozhin and RuAF/ Putin seems a stretch for me. It’s not just Wagner fighting in Bahkmut, so if things went pair-shaped there, RuAF troops would also suffer.
So they decided to launch a special military operation before they were ready?
monty, you seem awfully quiet about the World Athletics announcement today?
Fyodor Lukyanov: Here’s the real reason why Russia and China want to replace the US-led international order
The two powers share the same goal, but circumstance dictates they have to take different roads to make it happen
By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
Russia and China don’t fit into the international system built under Western auspices after the Cold War. They are therefore in favor of replacing it. And it is easier to change it together.
“We hope the world will become a better place, and we have reason to believe it will. At the same time, we are well aware that the future is bright, but the road there is winding.”
This statement by Xi Jinping, which echoes a similar argument made by Mao Zedong in the 1940s, is exactly ten years old. The recently elected President of China was paying his first official visit to Moscow, during which he gave a lecture at MGIMO University.
A decade later, Xi returned to Russia this week at the start of his third term at the helm, and you could say he was right on the money then. The past few years have been full of twists and turns, and the world is about to take perhaps one of its sharpest in more than half a century. Meantime, the rhetoric of the Chinese leadership has changed little.
It is a peculiarity of our giant neighbor’s political culture that the language is always extremely polished, so that no one can pick at it. Only subtle connoisseurs can pick up on nuances that serve as indicators of changes in the political line. And even then, it is mostly related to China’s internal development. The message conveyed to the outside world hardly fluctuates at all. Of course, this does not mean that the actual course is not changing.
What has happened in the ten years since that visit, which was also very significant and meaningful? In China, Xi’s reign has been a time of rethinking the trajectory of development. The golden era of globalization, from which Beijing benefited enormously, essentially ended with the 2008 crisis. It then became clear that the global system was beginning to experience serious disruptions, the management of which would be the main task of every major player.
For their own benefit and at the expense of others, the Chinese coped with the recession faster and easier than others and strengthened their position. And the old model, in which the US was comfortable and even encouraged by China’s growth and benefited from it, has become no longer in America’s interest. Beijing began to be perceived as the main competitor capable of challenging the world hegemon. And there has been only one conclusion to be drawn – containment on all fronts.
In addition to changing external circumstances, Xi’s own outlook has played a role. He is more oriented than his predecessors to China’s own experience, from classical philosophy to the various stages of socialist construction. The fusion of ancient tradition with influences from the modern People’s Republic of China already creates a distinctive construction that cannot be suspected of being a transition to a Western-style system (in an earlier period of reform, such expectations existed amongst the US and its allies).
Xi’s decade was marked by a rapid escalation of all the world’s contradictions. The CCP’s plan was initially to strengthen China in order to secure its development and, as far as possible, avoid getting involved in conflicts. Capacity-building also entails an increase in self-confidence. And the provocative actions of external powers, which have their own ways of responding to the same unsettling circumstances, have forced Beijing to respond.
China, battered by the coronavirus pandemic, has approached the Ukrainian crisis with the understanding that an era of calm is over.
And further success is possible not by avoiding international conflicts, as Beijing used to prefer, but by engaging in them in a meaningful way. Moreover, in terms of its accumulated capabilities, China is better prepared for times of turmoil than many others. This does not remove the risks, and it does not eliminate them.
In Russia, the last ten years have been a period of no small reversal. The logic is partly similar, although the circumstances are of course very different.
For China, however, the late 20th and early 21st century was a period of unprecedented growth by any measure, while for Russia it was a period of deep decline and difficult recovery. Nevertheless, Russia also faced the exhaustion of its previous development model. Since the late 1980s, the focus has been on integration into the international system dominated by the West. Russia has made progress along this path (though not to the same extent as China). In the late 2000s and especially in the early 2010s, however, its limitations became apparent.
Firstly, economic: the external actors were naturally not interested in seeing Russia rise above a certain level, and there was a lack of will on their part to ensure that this barrier could be overcome independently.
Second, the geopolitical conflict began to escalate rapidly. Russia had reached a ceiling here, too. Its partners did not want to help it any further, and it proved impossible to reach the next floor on its own, while maintaining the basic parameters of the previous course. All the more so because Moscow, like Beijing, felt that the very system into which it had been asked to integrate in previous decades was beginning to change.
The above is, of course, a rough sketch that leaves out a lot of nuance. But it allows us to understand why the current rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing, apart from various opportunistic bases, has a fairly solid foundation.
Our countries, each for its own reasons, do not and will not fit into the international system built under the auspices of the West after the Cold War. That is why they are in favor of replacing it, and it is easier to change it together.
The Chinese are meticulous with their wording, polishing it to a dazzling shine that leaves no room for superfluous thoughts. And they have always been careful to avoid the terms “alliance” or “union” because they imply something binding, which is not their approach at all.
After his talks with Putin, Xi said: “Sino-Russian relations have gone beyond bilateral relations and are of vital importance to the modern world order and the destiny of mankind.”
In other words, he sees them as ties that constitute a holistic phenomenon and, as such, serve as a factor in world order. This is the closest the Chinese leader has come to describing alliance-type relations. A qualitative shift.
JCsays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Dot says:
March 24, 2023 at 5:02 pm
Keep watching and learning you Tosser. How old are you BTW? 15 months by the sound of your BS.
What a tantrum. You need a mashed banana and a nap.
Dot, Wodney sounds like he could be Ric Blum .
Someone must have woken you up short arse. Go back to sleep and I will send you some Armstrong…………………..
That was last week. This week…
The Russians Are Pulling 70-Year-Old T-55 Tanks Out Of Storage (22 Feb)
Amazing. The Russians never throw anything away. They’re like pack rats.
I was surprised by their heavy reliance on Wagner mercenaries. Reports I’ve read suggest they are largely cannon fodder. It will be the generals setting up Wagner to fail. There was a report earlier this week where a Wagner official said he thought the lack of ammunition supplies was a deliberate attempt to cause massive losses. Is Russia is having trouble finding suitable recruits? What happens if Wagner leaves?
Wagner Group’s Financier plans to get out of Ukraine and transfer Wagnerites to Africa – Bloomberg
Thanks Bruce, that’s even worse than the T62s. Must correct you though, Russia is throwing lives away.
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 4:32 pm
Jackie Trad, the former Treasurer is a genuine communist in all but name. And property portfolio.
The T-55 is not the same as the Amarta T-14, is it?
dover0beachsays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:13 pm
monty, you seem awfully quiet about the World Athletics announcement today?
That’s because he/she/it/whatever is lost for words……………………………Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Seems like a workable compromise. Swimming already did the same thing.
It is an extremely uninteresting subject.
Dot says:
March 24, 2023 at 4:11 pm
In a proper war with Russia, the West will lose, period.
Let’s see how long it takes to beat Ukraine first.
John H. says:
March 24, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Russia’s conventional war capacity has been crippled by corruption, lack of financing, and poor training. In a proper war with Russia everyone loses because Russia will have no choice but to press the MAD button.
Everything that comes out of the Western MSM is childish propaganda aimed at credulous imbeciles.
The end.
If Russia had had no concern for civilian casualties, the war would have been won in days. They are to be commended for their restraint and minimizing of civilian infrastructure damage.
Thank the war-mongering f@ckwits in the US State Dept and the WH for the current morass, and hope that Putin doesn’t deviate from the humanitarian aspects of the original plan.
Russia will win in the end, after (if) the West comes to its senses and lets puppet Zelinsky move to the Bahamas.
And… if it comes to an all-out conflict, Russians will still remain standing in the end, but we will all lose.
Let’s hope and pray that sane minds in DC (if they exist..) eventually prevail.
LOL.
m0nty says:
March 24, 2023 at 4:22 pm
LOL Gilas, you really are a froot loop.
Thank you Montz.
Coming from you, I’ll take that as a compliment.
So they decided to launch a special military operation before they were ready?
Might be. The Ukes were getting ready to murder heaps of Russian speaking civilians in Donbass.
I know some are very bothered by this issue. I’m not worried about them and I don’t think they represent a threat to society. I am mystified by their attention seeking behavior. I have had online encounters with two trans individuals, one was utterly opposed to transitioning therapies and other was a physicist, whom I suspect was of the same opinion. Both were very intelligent so possibly outliers. It may be the case that the noisy wheel gets the grease. Perhaps the larger trans community just wants to get on with living. That is the frustrating problem with relying solely on media reports. Unfortunately the literature is polluted by vested interests and ideologies.
I reckon the generals have decided to let Prigozhin have his fun in the short term, tossing all his convicts into the meat grinder and letting the Ukes slaughter them. The Ukes have been suffering some attrition too of course, but the generals would rate Wagner troops as useless on an offensive so they are eminently expendable. Whoever survives would have had some decent field training and might get absorbed by the regular army. The MoD would be happy that both sides are draining each other without their better troops being risked. Then when the roads become useable after winter withdraws, the real Russian army will take the field leaving Prigozhin’s losers far to the rear in body bags.
That’s their immediate plan, anyway. Whether it will help them appreciably when the next consignment of European tanks and planes arrive on the Uke side is another matter.
It is an extremely uninteresting subject.
You think trans rights is “extremely uninteresting”?
Disgusting, you might as well be dragging trans people onto the street and shooting them.
dover0beachsays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:23 pm
Seems like a workable compromise. Swimming already did the same thing.
It is an extremely uninteresting subject.
LOL.
I would just love to see MontyPox Virus even attempting to swim with the white pointers and the salt water crocodiles. But only in black and white as I don’t like to see the colour red (blood).
Hallward, have you been eavesdropping on Ukraine cabinet meetings? You’re such a CIA recruit.
The Big Red Dragon – Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
Watch our latest Please Explain episode
This week’s teat-filled Please Explain is so marvellous you’ll just have to share it on social media (Facebook is a good start, but give Twitter and Elon a shoutout as well for doing Australia a solid). It is true the creative team, which includes Senator Hanson, has the depiction of the dragon we face spot on.
10 points if you can spot the golden nugget (look closely at phones).
Russian propaganda.* What you are claiming isn’t even possible. They have had their own Russian backed puppets for years with a strong Russian military presence.
Now around 240,000 Ukrainians are dead and 160,000 Russians are dead too.
The “humanitarian” aspect of this war is a sick joke.
*Now Medvedev is claiming the same for Our Lady of Perpetual Victimhood, claiming Kazakhstan is genocidal for desiring to leave the Russian sphere of influence.
Gi
Not the MSM. Military analysts tucked away in obscure journals and interviewed on various forums. I read\view them weekly. Don’t BS me with the source fallacy. That’s just an easy way out and betrays a fundamental error because a general statement must always be proven relevant to a specific case. You are another person who seems to think that if person A stops position A1 they must be an imbecile. That type of thinking is irrational. Stop pretending you can make judgement calls about person’s intellectual calibre because of a single position that person maintains.
It is important and it represents an obvious trend. More sporting bodies are adopting this stance because it is biologically consistent. Just today there was a research report that even at 5 years of age, long before the T surge in puberty, there are differences in the cerebral structure of boys and girls. Trans people have to be realistic, they can’t expect the whole world to bend to their wishes. That would be like me expecting respect here. Foolish on both counts.
This is palpable rubbish. Whether UKR or RUS, if you’ve survived combat operations for a month you are no longer cannon fodder but experienced. This is especially the case if you’ve been on the offensive non-stop for months on end now which is easily the case for most Wagner troops still fighting. The same holds for TDF on the Ukrainian side.
Dot, do you recall when this sniveling rat was proclaiming he was strong follower of Hayek and the Austrian School. It was around 2004 or so.
Perfect.
Stan Grant’s skin colour looks artificial when compared to the past?
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Danger Dan Reviews – D*ckhead of the Week:
How’s it hangin’, weirdo? Lidia Thorpe Anthony Albanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhQqstu0z4s
US planning ‘special envoy’ for Russia’s main ally – Blinken
The new appointee will have a role in supporting exiled forces opposing the government of Belarus
The US government will “very soon” select a special envoy for Belarus, to coordinate Washington’s efforts to bolster the country’s Lithuania-based opposition, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told senators.
The pledge was made during a visit to the US by Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who urged Western nations to “de-recognize” the government in Minsk.
Blinken was questioned about the lack of a special envoy for Belarus by Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire during a budget hearing held by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Without such an official, “there is no one who could encourage the Europeans and the US to work together or to serve as a conduit for the opposition movement,” the lawmaker claimed.
The secretary of state said he was considering appointing “a senior official in our European Affairs Bureau to also serve as the envoy, to be able to then go in and out, engaged at senior levels with the opposition”.
The department already has a Belarus Affairs Unit in Lithuania, where many of the opposition forces are based, and the envoy would complement “day-in and day-out engagement” by that office, Blinken suggested.
Belarus, a key ally of Russia, underwent mass protests and riots in 2020, after the opposition accused President Alexander Lukashenko’s government of rigging the ballot to ensure his re-election.
Presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has emerged as the West’s preferred choice of anti-Lukashenko figurehead in the wake of the turmoil. She is currently touring the US to meet senior officials in Washington and rally support.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met her on Wednesday to outline the US “intent to launch a comprehensive Strategic Dialogue” with Belarusian opposition forces and “bring together relevant agencies of the US government engaged on Belarus,” according to a statement released by the State Department.
Tikhanovskaya claimed during an interview on Morning Joe on MSNBC that supporting her meant fighting against “Russian ambition” in Europe, and linked her cause with that of Ukraine. “Our sovereignty is at stake” she claimed, accusing Moscow of conducting a “creeping, or hybrid occupation” of Belarus.
When asked by host Mika Brzezinski what kind of support she was looking for in the US, Tikhanovskaya said: “Derecognition of Lukashenko’s regime and recognition of the democratic forces.”
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:17 pm
The T-55 is not the same as the Amarta T-14, is it?
In your world it is most probably a Tonka Toy or somefink’ very similar……………………….lol
Casseroles are still very popular in our house, Joh. We have at least one every week, from a variety of cuisines: French Bourguignon, Hungarian veal, Moroccan chicken, Spaetzle and good oldfashioned Aussie beef and veg casserole.
Even the trendy young chickies in our family have their favourite casserole recipe and the results of their efforts are surprisingly good.
And they’re a favourite with the head cook – me – because they are wonderfully economical, nutritious (hate that word) and they fill the house with glorious olfactory memories as they rock away all afternoon.
m0ntysays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:18 pm
monty, you seem awfully quiet about the World Athletics announcement today?
Seems like a workable compromise. Swimming already did the same thing.
It is an extremely uninteresting subject.
A few days ago, it was all fascists holding down the poor downtrodded trans people
Now, “an extremely uninteresting subject”. How are the trannies fallen in monty=fa’s priorities.
Wagner recruits are experienced at being cannon fodder.
I guess dumb luck is kind of a combat skill.
Trans rights in general are important, like the basic freedom to be who they are. Qualification for world-class sporting events is relatively unimportant in the wide scheme of things. How many people does that affect directly… a handful either way? It matters only to those people who are either world-class athletes, or are meddling busybodies who want to micromanage everything that other people do to their liking. So: to me, uninteresting.
m0ntysays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:27 pm
What happens if Wagner leaves?
I reckon the generals have decided to let Prigozhin have his fun in the short term, tossing all his convicts into the meat grinder and letting the Ukes slaughter them. The Ukes have been suffering some attrition too of course, but the generals would rate Wagner troops as useless on an offensive so they are eminently expendable. Whoever survives would have had some decent field training and might get absorbed by the regular army. The MoD would be happy that both sides are draining each other without their better troops being risked. Then when the roads become useable after winter withdraws, the real Russian army will take the field leaving Prigozhin’s losers far to the rear in body bags.
That’s their immediate plan, anyway. Whether it will help them appreciably when the next consignment of European tanks and planes arrive on the Uke side is another matter.
The Director of Central (Un) intelligence, m0nty=fa, g=has read the runes and laid out the paths od spring for all of us.
Short Ukies.
Everyone’s rights should end at their nose. People have a right to ignore them, not call them by certain pronouns or put up with parents losing medical guardianship over their own children. Nor should people under the age of 18 be able to transition, most people who have to wait do not and most of them are gay and didn’t realise it.
and not put up with…
m0ntysays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:27 pm
What happens if Wagner leaves?
I reckon the generals have decided to let Prigozhin have his fun in the short term, tossing all his convicts into the meat grinder and letting the Ukes slaughter them. The Ukes have been suffering some attrition too of course, but the generals would rate Wagner troops as useless on an offensive so they are eminently expendable. Whoever survives would have had some decent field training and might get absorbed by the regular army. The MoD would be happy that both sides are draining each other without their better troops being risked. Then when the roads become useable after winter withdraws, the real Russian army will take the field leaving Prigozhin’s losers far to the rear in body bags.
That’s their immediate plan, anyway. Whether it will help them appreciably when the next consignment of European tanks and planes arrive on the Uke side is another matter.
What a good job that MontyPox Virus was not in charge of the Eighth Army in North Africa in November 1942. Otherrwise,…………………well who knows what could have happened. Zee MontyPox Virus here could well be a German Nazi…………….Whoops. Do I get banned for even suggesting that?
John H. says:
March 24, 2023 at 5:33 pm
Not the MSM. Military analysts tucked away in obscure journals and interviewed on various forums. I read\view them weekly. Don’t BS me with the source fallacy. That’s just an easy way out and betrays a fundamental error because a general statement must always be proven relevant to a specific case. You are another person who seems to think that if person A stops position A1 they must be an imbecile. That type of thinking is irrational. Stop pretending you can make judgement calls about person’s intellectual calibre because of a single position that person maintains.
For every “expert” who supports the anti-Russian narrative, one can find another who has the diametrically opposite view, eg. Gen McGregor, Scott Ritter et al.. who happen to sound authoritative, but who are most likely making unsupported inferences consistent with their biases.
Everything we are being told is based on necessarily incomplete knowledge, supported by the interlocutor’s generous confirmation bias.
It was obvious months ago and, from what I can gather, hasn’t changed.
Such biases are on daily display on this blog.
We are in the middle of one of the most controversial, politically-charged, violent conflicts since Iraq, wild claims of impending WW III and virtually no video evidence, except for propagandatous, disconnected snippets on Twitter and Tik Tok.
And thus everyone is an expert.
Yeah, right.
monty why do I have to take Dylan Mulvaney seriously- he thinks he’s a girl, not a woman.
Fatboy, help me out here. Why is it always (100%) of men crossing and pretending they’re female demanding they play sport in sheilas’ tournaments? Why aren’t sheilas pretending they’re men playing sports with blokes. Help me out here as this has befuddled me.
m0ntysays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:44 pm
Whether UKR or RUS, if you’ve survived combat operations for a month you are no longer cannon fodder but experienced.
Wagner recruits are experienced at being cannon fodder.
I guess dumb luck is kind of a combat skill.
LOL, our resident military “eggspurt”.
Fatboy, I’m asking you because you identify as a fat lesbian, right?
You don’t.
Hate hoaxes. Only happens elsewhere. Impossible that it happened at the recent demonstration in front of the Vic parliament.
Manoj Subramaniam, among other things, painted swastikas onto his property and claimed he was being subjected to sustained harassment by far-right extremists
March 16, 2023
Dotsays:
March 24, 2023 at 5:51 pm
Trans rights in general are important, like the basic freedom to be who they are
Everyone’s rights should end at their nose.
You, dickhead don’t even know where your nose stops.
Because people who have gone through puberty as a biological male have obvious physical advantages, even if they transition afterwards.
m0ntysays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:03 pm
Here is a question for you as you seem to like asking lots of ‘stoopid’ questions. Why are you such a T.W.A.T. and why are you on a nice Blog like this?
I’m annoyed with pages and pages of trolls and their enablers. Boambee, nothing you say will ever make a difference, but you clog up pages and pages under the assumption that it is anything but trolling. You are the one being used. Or perhaps you just want to be seen as superior, so you take the next bait that gives you the chance to show how smart you are by taking the bait.
Everybody else has realised that it is a troll and ignores it, but you keep feeding it, sometimes within a couple of minutes.
OK then, get a room, and leave us alone. 🙂
There is a difference between interpretation and facts. If you truly believed that all information is contaminated you wouldn’t have an opinion at all.
Not everything is contaminated by cognitive failings. The Ukraine issue for sure, obviously huge problems getting at the truth there but that hasn’t stopped thousands of opinions being expressed here.
I didn’t claim to be an expert, I stated I relied on people who are widely recognized as experts. Not on twitters, not on Tiktok, on websites and forums were those experts are expressing their views. There could be some bias in play but stating that without evidence in itself bias. Yes, I appreciate that is a rabbit hole so deep we would transverse the planet going down it. Many of these experts are also critical of Western military approaches. For example, recently one expert said the laughable aspect of the USA hypersonic missile is that for the same price it could have 80 tomahawk missiles and that is a bigger threat than one hypersonic missile.
BTW the WWIII hype surrounding China may well turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. To put on my conspiracy hat … . A few years ago US military analysts argued that if the China threat isn’t contained within a decade it will be impossible to contain it. That makes a lot of sense because China is now building the J20 at high rates, has another stealth fighter about to go into production, has more naval vessels than the USA(but lower tonnage), has a huge number of medium range missiles, and ~78 submarines(most conventional). So a few years latter, nearly every week now, China China China we must do somefing everybody panic!!!
m0ntysays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:03 pm
Why is it always (100%) of men crossing and pretending they’re female demanding they play sport in sheilas’ tournaments? Why aren’t sheilas pretending they’re men playing sports with blokes.
Because people who have gone through puberty as a biological male have obvious physical advantages, even if they transition afterwards.
Translation: They aren’t good enough to even be “also rans” in male sports, so they cheat to gain prizes that they have no real right to have, but it is unwoke to say that.
I see the Jew hating misogynist pervert apologist is splattering this forum with comments.
Quite so.
A few years ago when Gina Rinehart was looking at taking over Fairfax someone I know left a concocted document on a tram which purported to outline Gina’s plans to gut Fairfax. It didn’t make the papers, but the bait was taken on social media.
johannasays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:15 pm
I’m annoyed with pages and pages of trolls and their enablers. Boambee, nothing you say will ever make a difference,
Nothing any of us say here will ever make a difference, but stupidity should not be allowed to stand unchallenged. Feel free to use the scroll wheel, I often do.
Incomplete list..
JC, Dot, BoN, John H in the blue corner… Ukes OK, Russia losing
Dover, Lotocoti, OCO, J Rotten in the red corner… Russia OK, Ukes losing
Interesting how an opinion is maintained, for months, despite plentiful, varying, contradictory data being produced daily by all and sundry.
All experts.
All convinced that they are interpreting the information correctly, and are making the correct calls.
In reality… we have “cui bono?”, fog-of-war, truth as the first victim etc…
Thus, NO idea of the real situation.
“I know some are very bothered by this issue. “
“bothered”…no not bothered, rather concerned, worried and offended. As a woman I don’t want, and I suspect almost all women would agree with me on this, situations where males who simply identify as female use our spaces such toilets and change rooms. It isn’t just that women and children need privacy, it’s that we also need SAFETY.
World Athletics banned mentally deficient trans lunatics’ from women’s sports. Marvelous. Wonder what Dictator Dan is going to do about it? That ‘organisation’ ?
johannasays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:15 pm
I’m annoyed with pages and pages of trolls and their enablers. Boambee, nothing you say will ever make a difference, but you clog up pages and pages under the assumption that it is anything but trolling. You are the one being used. Or perhaps you just want to be seen as superior, so you take the next bait that gives you the chance to show how smart you are by taking the bait.
Everybody else has realised that it is a troll and ignores it, but you keep feeding it, sometimes within a couple of minutes.
OK then, get a room, and leave us alone. ?
So, feel free to be annoyed and go to another web site if you don’t like it here.
Bye.
“Hanson should be very careful about anonymous letters left behind in cafés. I wouldn’t trust it as far as I could throw it.”
Agree, and who can forget the Godwin Grech episode.
Gilassays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:20 pm
Incomplete list..
JC, Dot, BoN, John H in the blue corner… Ukes OK, Russia losing
Dover, Lotocoti, OCO, J Rotten in the red corner… Russia OK, Ukes losing
Interesting how an opinion is maintained, for months, despite plentiful, varying, contradictory data being produced daily by all and sundry.
All experts.
All convinced that they are interpreting the information correctly, and are making the correct calls.
In reality… we have “cui bono?”, fog-of-war, truth as the first victim etc…
Thus, NO idea of the real situation.
And in another corner is Martin Armstrong. So what corner are you in? The corner store?
“but stupidity should not be allowed to stand unchallenged.”
Agree 100%, that’s why we’re in this mess. Ignoring the left has simply enabled and empowered them. The police on Tuesday night advised Mark Latham not to give his speech at Belfield, in other words to capitulate to the little band of merry homosexual and transgender fascists outside the church. Latham said NO. In other words, it’s time to stand up to them, even on a blog like this. Kellie-Jay Keen, after last Saturday in Melbourne, could have packed her bags and headed back to the UK, but no, you stand and you fight, even here.
“Hanson should be very careful about anonymous letters left behind in cafés. I wouldn’t trust it as far as I could throw it.”
does it matter? .. if it had been notarized & signed by the full bench of the Supreme Court the media would still be running interference .. might have been better just to say she’d gotten an anonymous email/letter to the office and let that play out ……..!
Reality, is if Luigi came out and said “Yep, sounds about right” the “believers” woukld still be in denial ..!
Calli
A woman I hardly know came up to me at dance class today and whispered to me that she was barely able to constrain her anger at Albanese about the Voice; my views are known to quite a few even though our coffee group (which can be around 20 women) is not overtly political and for harmony’s sake many people do not wish it to be. This woman was really upset and wanted to vent about how the Voice madness was affecting her. I had the feeling that she’d been stewing on it all night and I wonder how many others feel alone and powerless in this way.
With the Cat, we are never alone when the need to vent politically becomes strong but it is not a site for everyone, especially those who are making tentative steps. Try commenting on the Australian, I suggested to this woman whom I hardly know.
I suggested to another woman recently whom I know better, feeling similarly powerless, that she might like to join the IPA, which she did. Hairy and I took her to one of their occasions some months ago. She came up to me today saying she went to their recent gathering on the Voice (we didn’t make it) and had never felt so supported and less alone struggling with her feelings about it.
Trans rights in general are important, like the basic freedom to be who they are.
They have a mental pathology. Their demands are not just for normalisation but making the structural values of the rest of society abnormal or at least subordinate. At the very least they have revealed the cowardice and decadence of the West’s leaders. except Trump and DeSantis of course.
Qualification for world-class sporting events is relatively unimportant in the wide scheme of things.
This is the tip of the trans iceberg: general obliteration of womanhood, the family and corruption of children are the main games. Now get back to baby-sitting the milko’s kiddies.
The police on Tuesday night advised Mark Latham not to give his speech at Belfield, in other words to capitulate to the little band of merry homosexual and transgender fascists outside the church. Latham said NO.
Why did Mark Latham, a non Christian, head out to Beirut to give a speech about some shit no sane person could care about.
And got on National TV.
Why did the cops let him give the Speech?
Is Mark Latham a tool of the Security Services?
Some good memes here about the trans filth and the perversions of the left.
World Athletics made the right decision overnight, it’s time people and organisations stood up to this sinister menace.
Wodney is a class act. The Ric Blum of the site.
Kellie-Jay Keen, after last Saturday in Melbourne, could have packed her bags and headed back to the UK, but no, you stand and you fight, even here.
Stand and fight against Australians, with the cops at your back?
It appears that Minshull’s goons knocked Thorpie over, so it’s curious that Greens spokeswibblers are blaming the cops.
Johnny Rotten says:
March 24, 2023 at 6:31 pm
And in another corner is Martin Armstrong. So what corner are you in? The corner store?
The neutral corner.
I KNOW that I don’t know the real facts, and maintain that nobody outside of the US/Russian War-Rooms (or whatever they are called) have a real clue either.
But.. but.. the Russians will ultimately triumph.
For them it’s existential, for the West it’s mostly US money and power ie. just stock-standard political corruption.
That will eventually get old, as the body-count mounts.
And the Russians are much tougher than the LGBQT+-friendly affirmative hires that will ultimately have to take back the Donbass.
It appears that Minshull’s goons knocked Thorpie over
Shut up crotchless; thorpie just assumed her natural position.
Nonsense Cronkite. It’s perfectly normal for a bloke to pretend he’s a woman expecting others to accept this. Fatboy is a lesbian and I believe him.
Ric Blum did provide companionship to some ugly women, though.
What’s Rotten’s claim to fame?
Anything to do with Bangkok?
these days to be an expert
simply put on an expert-frock and your favorite lipstick in a power-color
then believe it, act it, and live it
welcome to the post-modern where everything is trans-fact
ersatz internet forum generals better hope like hell that real generals don’t screw it up too much.
in my opinion, opinion was better when it was still dressed as opinion rather than mincing around wearing make-believe bull shit
Who knows what Dylan Mulvaney thinks, he is clearly twisted in some weird infantile way. The need to occupy the limelight comes through very loudly, almost the defining characteristic.
JCsays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:42 pm
Wodney is a class act. The Ric Blum of the site.
Coming from you and your foul mouth over such a long time before Dover stopped the bad language here. You are the pot calling the kettle black. Short Arse Melbum T.W.A.T.
Caleb Bond hosting Credlin on Sky tonight. What a breath of fresh air.
Gilassays:
March 24, 2023 at 6:43 pm
Johnny Rotten says:
March 24, 2023 at 6:31 pm
And in another corner is Martin Armstrong. So what corner are you in? The corner store?
The neutral corner.
Clever answer and I like it. 200 upticks.
I think it’s probably the actual activity, or the thought of it, that the Munster finds uninteresting.
He’s perfect for a position as a bollard.
You’re trying too hard, Sad Case.
An ambient level stupidity is quite enough without this afternoon’s spikes
Gilassays:
March 24, 2023 at 10:04 am
A very good documentary on the Gulags you posted. I knew part of it but that doco covers the whole story.
Absolutely. I had that in mind when I argued trans people have to be realistic about how much we can bend to their wishes. They aren’t though, and the woke people, even though frequently being mauled in public debate, continue with their position.
The absurdity is that the trans would say, but we’re women too!
They have confused being treated with respect with being worthy of exceptional privilege. What is worse, much worse, is that they demand the feelings of others be ignored and their feelings be paramount. I must qualify that by adding that the two trans individuals I have encountered online were opposed to transition therapies, were both very intelligent, did not demand exceptional privilege, and neither gave a hint of being mentally ill.
The words are too fluffy, it comes to down to personal vocabulary rather than objective specificity. It is one example why the study of emotions is fraught with epistemic nightmares.
Boambee John – you and the troll playing tennis, taking up a lot of space here, changing nothing except perhaps your self-esteem and the troll’s importance, is beneficial how?
“The words are too fluffy, it comes to down to personal vocabulary rather than objective specificity. It is one example why the study of emotions is fraught with epistemic nightmares.”
Well yes, I thought your word “bothered” was fluffy.
Nonsense Cronkite. It’s perfectly normal for a bloke to pretend he’s a woman expecting others to accept this. Fatboy is a lesbian and I believe him.
That’s sweet. But I maintain if a few of these cute owls had been at Kellie-Jay’s event thorpie would have been missing a few teeth instead of chafed knees which she is no doubt used to.
Oh yeah, the foul language, Wodney.
and all in one day too
NO.
I would and will vote. Get farked.
Wodney has the IQ of a retarded mongoose.
I enjoy BJ’s contributions. If people don’t like his posts, scroll.
johannasays:
March 24, 2023 at 7:04 pm
Boambee John – you and the troll playing tennis, taking up a lot of space here, changing nothing except perhaps your self-esteem and the troll’s importance, is beneficial how?
Ever heard of free speech? No, I didn’t think so…………………………………..
Seconded.
As were yours.
“As were yours.”
No they weren’t. But you seem “bothered” when someone contradicts you.
Please Explain.
Speaking personally, I have found a number of contributors posts lacking. Please do better.
Harlequin Decline says:
March 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm
A very good documentary on the Gulags you posted. I knew part of it but that doco covers the whole story.
Yes, video I didn’t know even existed.. beautifully done, also informative rolling credits at the end.
Shame that some of the more graphic examples of Bolshevik humanitarianism were blurred out by the YT delicates. People must see the heavenly benefits of the perfect ideology, fully realized.
I would and will vote. Get farked.
Wodney has the IQ of a retarded mongoose.</em
You are such a Cl'arse' act. Short arse and no act. Get to 5 foot five and get back to me when you get there or even maybe slightly higher. Maybe 5 feet and 5 and a half inches…………………………LOL
Wodney, you have zero comprehension abilities. None! Free speech doesn’t mean what you think it means, you class A clown. That is not to take sides in the debate because I like B John.You simply have no idea about anything.
You post comments from someone who is a fraud and who spent 11 years in Leavenworth, showing he has no understanding of even the most basic economics. You accuse people of using foul language even on the same open thread where you have been skirting the rules to use bad language. You’re close to being the biggest loudmouth and dumbest person posting here. Wodney, you’re just worthless and it’s a toss up if it’s you or Trans who takes the prize of being the most useless commenter here.
self awareness score – 1/10
Stalin did a sterling job of ridding the world of Bolsheviks until he was poisoned.
I’ve read somewhere that there is a movement to canonise him, though where it originates, I’m unsure.
He was an RC seminarian in his youth in Georgia.
JC, you are way too stupid to develop an actual opinion of your own.
last time you tried that you told us all that inflation was aberration
a small supply-side shock that was transient and self-correcting
tossers like yourself and Bong John read Bloomberg and pretend you have a clue
there isn’t a thought in your head that you actually thunk for yourself
first class wanker
“He was an RC seminarian in his youth in Georgia.”
No he was not, he was a Orthodox seminarian in his youth in Georgia.
Ever hard of the Great Schism of 1054? Clearly not.
Richard Cranium
Why did the cops let him give the Speech?
Didn’t want their arms broken?
Trans, you really need to get a new word as you’re using wank, wanking and wanker multiple times each inebriated evening.
Yes, part of the inflation rate was transitory, Trans. Supply chains were messed up and the price signal was doing its job.
Stick to soldering, you sad sack and blame yourself. 🙂
It’s true what I said. You and Wodney are the two worst commenters here. You offer absolutely nothing, you God , you Oracle.
Mother Lode:
Your missive about the Voice and Lidia is brilliant. I have copied it to FB – without attribution, of course. So my readers (all 2 of them) think I’m rooly clever.
🙂
tosser … you forgot ‘tosser’
are you gonna tug yourself all night again ?
Matrix T
tossers like yourself and Bong John read Bloomberg and pretend you have a clue
Economics, banking and share trading aren’t my scene. Who or what is Bloomberg?
Only the God Oracle does that, Trans. Now go troll someone else, you crushing bore.
Oil prices have dropped 50% off their recent highs.
one
trick
pony
No he was not, he was a Orthodox seminarian in his youth in Georgia.
Ever hard of the Great Schism of 1054? Clearly not.
I have now.
Thanks, Googles.
LOl. He’s drunk, B John.
If I was bothered I would be using pejoratives and insulting people on a regular basis. Today I have been called an incredulous imbecile. That’s a new one. Leave the psychoanalysis do those so trained and even then don’t trust them! If I was so bothered please explain why I would bother being on this forum where I have little respect and where I have been repeatedly insulted by people? That is not the behavior of people bothered by being contradicted. It is the behavior of people who respect James Watson’s quip, “If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”
You made an assertion without considering the perils of everyday language and why people use different words to describe their emotional state. That’s why the use of folk psychology words and concepts is fraught with peril. That is why philosophers and professionals use jargon. They want specificity. We accept that the use of everyday language is too often loaded with ambiguity. One person is concerned, another is worried, there is no objective measure across individuals to determine which is the best word.
Help me out here as this has befuddled me.
Me too.
This is a real worry and missteps will be likely…
The Kaiser’s advisors told him if that if he didn’t deal with Russia before 1918. Russia was rearming the infantry with new rifles and upgrading it’s artillery.
The Bohemian Corporal’s advisors told him much the same thing, invade by 1945 or the Red Army would have recovered from the great purge and the new tanks and artillery.
Who or what is Bloomberg?
He owns a deli in Acland St.
Razey-san!
How is Land of Rising Sun?
Heard of it? JC is so old, he started it.
Somebody at STAVKA probably realised sending fifty thousand 100mm rounds
down range was better than leaving them in warehouses to be taken as war booty
when the Ukies launch their Frühlingserwachen.
Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t seem to remember it.
First 15 minutes of Tucker: great monologue about guns and trannies arming up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAuhZwCPKJA
Even after the war and the sanctions, but it’s not quite 1/2 it’s ~40%. Natural gas is down from around $10 bucks to $2.20!
The thing that really has me up at night is the slope of the yield curve. It’s the most inverted I think I’ve ever seen. This scares the living daylight out of me. If the bond market thought inflation was long term, the 1o year bond would be over 5% plus. Instead, it’s trading at 3.5%. I think the Fed has overdone the tightening. You have three levels of monetary tightening going on.
1. Fast move up in interest rates
2. The banking quagmire
3. QT , which is quantitative tightening of about US$100 billion a month. Fed is reversing QE.
“Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t seem to remember it.”
The Miserable Ghost forgets a lot of things.
Diogenes:
They must have had great mattresses, Diogenes. I would have woken as I went down the front steps.
(Just joking – it’s a bit of a bugger to go to bed and wake up in a different country. Just let me tell you about going to sleep in Riyadh and waking up in congress with an Iranian goat. And I’ve got the pictures to prove it. The negatives cost me a damn fortune.)
You are about as much that as I am a sovereign Saxon Princess, Lidia. What we believe about our historical antecedents is not necessarily the whole truth of it. And you tripped or dived to the ground, you were not pushed or assaulted. You were the one trying to assault another woman and in doing so you made a disgraceful and humiliating display of yourself, Gunnae Gunditjmara DjabWurrung high heels and all.
John H. says:
March 24, 2023 at 7:51 pm
If I was bothered I would be using pejoratives and insulting people on a regular basis. Today I have been called an incredulous imbecile.
Uh? Are you referring to my comment on those trusting the MSM on Rus-Uk?
I wasn’t referring to you, as I don’t think anyone on this blog trusts any MSM reporting on anything, let alone something as perversely ideological as a war.
No, I was referring to the great untouchables, the unwashed who watch MAFS, the ABCess, read the Guardian and believed the COVID BS and who may be on their 5th booster, while steeped in the overwhelming virtue of unlimited knowledge.
I never put Cats or Kittehs in that stinking group.
Just joking – it’s a bit of a bugger to go to bed and wake up in a different country.
Spare a thought for Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who went to space for a stay on Mir and his whole country just disappeared.
“Krikalev was stranded on board the Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As the country that had sent him into space no longer existed, his return was delayed and he stayed in space for 311 consecutive days, twice as long as the mission had originally called for”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev
DOT, Cohenite, BON,
This popped up during the week. Never heard of it before. Interesting result. The supplement, D-serine is available and expensive. Animal study only but striking results. I am wary of loading up on a single nutrient, sometimes that can crowd out other nutrients and\or requires other nutrients to work properly. As a general rule I am very suspicious of such wonderful claims.
Menin protein protects against aging and cognitive decline
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002033
“a sovereign 1/16th Gunnai Gunditjmara DjabWurrung woman” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
You ceded any contested sovereignty when you pledged allegiance to the Crown in the senate.
In regard to being assaulted, make a complaint, as any citizen has a right to do.
Lizzie, I’ve sent you an email.
Thanks.
Speedbox:
I’m certainly not going to argue the point with you on that.
JC at the other end of the economic spectrum today I was advised by someone with over 30 years experience in construction financing that his company is looking at acquiring some struggling companies. There’s been a string of those lately and it doesn’t look like stopping. While everyone is focused on mortgage related stress it looks like many companies have borrowed heavily in the low interest times and are now suffering.
BTW Britain looks stuffed but I’ll leave that to your judgement. Last I heard inflation at 10%, insufficient labour, costs skyrocketing. Is that what stagflation is all about?
For someone who is the smartest guy in the room he:-
(a) makes a lot of mistakes; and
(b) shows no sign of having learnt from any of those mistakes.
The Godwin Grech debacle was an excellent reminder that, when the perfect “gotcha” of your opponent falls into your lap, best hold it up to a bright light.