Voldemort slays ABC sewer rat.

Why are there so many autistic children these days? I didn’t know a single one when I went to school and my high school was a large girls only school, 1200 of us. I don’t think it’s vaccines because Silicon Valley had/has a very high rate of autistic or Asperger kids.

Well it’s a spectrum so some aren’t obvious and some are so far along it’s irrelevant. I have a couple of attributes but they are immaterial, yet it is inevitable that standards will loosen and most people will get onto the NDIS.

James Spaders best movie was ‘The Secretary’.

Thanks, Cassie, and so true, Bruce of Newc.

As a mother and grandmother (thank you E11R), my heart is always in my mouth when these things happen. My other son with my first husband is no better really, I call around weekly just to make sure he is still alive and usually give him $50 and some food. I pay for both of their internet and phones, as I need to keep in touch with them. Children of the 70’s left, and I love them both dearly. Also carrying a varied load of genes. As do I. Fortunately, my now-deceased brother and I didn’t express these or we hid it well, but my Big Sis, the strongest of us three in many ways, did express the mental frailties (to some extent) in the course of her many marriages. Stability really does matter. Thank you, Hairy.

Rocks,
In the spirit of Musk, name a genuine problem with grey nomads.

Great view of Isla on Port Headland radar

My word it is.

Eyriesays:
April 13, 2023 at 9:08 pm
The Russians didn’t like the Poles much in 1939 either. The pieces were just getting cleared off the board for the main event in 1941. Stalin certainly knew that main event was going to happen and if you were running Germany then you’d have a fair suspicion also.

It’s all mutual.

Old Polish joke: Poland was invaded from the East by the Russians, and from the West by the Germans. Which do they fight first?

The Germans, of course. Business before pleasure.

80km/h in 100 zone then at overtaking lane accelerate to 110. (Concede common occurrence by locals on Bruce Hwy from Ingham to Babinda and mine workers accelerating on Peak Downs hwy when someone indicates they are overtaking)

Convoy right up each others rear end so one cannot safely overtake by leap frogging said convoy.

My suburb on said Bruce Hwy the Coles supermarket said caravans taking anywhere between 8-12 spots in car park because they don’t want to park up on the service rd and walk an extra 100m. Seen it elsewhere too.

That’s off the top my head and about to turn in for the night. I have relatives (Aunties & uncles) who have all the gear and travel, I have no issue with that.

From my experience of spending years driving where the speed limit is 100km/h courtesy seems lacking and I will be fair in the fact a lot of the time I don’t think it is malicious or pig headed. Just absent mindedness witout the pressures of working life but is frustrating given the state of CQ & NQ highways. I drive to conditions/leave fudge factors etc.

That said, grey nomads pale into insignificance compared to backpackers erratic habits. Grrr, perhaps I should have mentioned them instead.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing…

I love the story of JFK sailing in Newport RI. when he was President. Pulled up at the New York Yacht Club and was told to F. off. This is a private club. Full of Republicans.

Knucks really picking up now.

Yup. Would be starting to get decidedly unpleasant, whether the punters there are used to four cyclones a year or not.

Ilsa looks like one angry beast

Sustained winds of 193kph at Bedout Island now. God knows what it’s gusting up to.

Hooo boy.

You would forgive some sphincters in NW WA going five-cent fifty-cent at the moment.

The Tele:

“There is a threat to lives and homes. You are in danger and need to act immediately,” WA’s Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) warned.

“Stay indoors now. It is too late to leave.”

Obviously.

Extremely destructive winds of up to 315 km/h are expected around the centre of Ilsa and will impact areas near Pardoo Roadhouse and De Grey.

Bloody hell.

Sustained winds of 209kph.

It got to 217 in D-Town during Tracy before the wind measuring gear broke.

And now 154kph. Going into the eye.

Pranksters Vovan and Lexus posing as Zelensky tricked ECB President Christine Lagarde into disclosing her plan to launch a “Digital Euro” in October that will give central banks control over how citizens can spend money:
“There will be control. You’re right. You’re completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts, you know, anything that is around 300, 400 €, we could have a mechanism where there is zero control. But that could be dangerous…
I don’t want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country’s currency, for instance, you know, the Chinese currency, the Russian currency… I don’t want Meta, Google, or Amazon to suddenly come up with a currency that would take over the sovereignty of Europe.”

It’s quite a spinout to realise we live in a world where people with influence actually want to create an Orwellian dystopia.

Strange things! LMI on CCP’s crane is accurate and working?!!

Any bets on how long it will be, before “Australia Day” and “Anzac Day” are on the list, to go, if the voice gets up?

We’re starting National Cheese Day in retaliation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE-al0xSFJo&t=5s

Indolent:
Should Charles be King?
You’re right – the oath says he must support the Church of England, but he is saying he will defend all faiths. The original is pretty simple. He must defend the Church of England. But is he saying he will defend ALL faiths, including the Roman Catholic, The Hindus, Buddhists and Jews. And even Islam?
The Cof E has a stranglehold on this coronation stuff and could – if they discovered they had balls – stop the process in it’s tracks.
Stay tuned….

Knuckle Dragger:

Sustained winds of 193kph at Bedout Island now. God knows what it’s gusting up to.

I’m blaming Global Warming.
…and the stupid bloody Liberals.

Lizzie is across all this, has lived experience in relation to relatives, I imagine this is all old news to her.

True enough. The familial element is marked in ASD and schizoid phenomena. This was shown to be the case with suicidal ideation (and completing it) in Van Gogh’s family history. When it is in both families of a child’s heritage the risks get quite high – for eg. my ex, a talented logician, had clear Aspberger’s tendencies, his brother had a daughter with ‘mental problems’, while his father was extremely obsessive; and both of my parents had mental breakdowns, mother’s particularly schizoid in style, father’s ran to paranoia and grandiose delusional states, and my maternal grandmother was a ‘spiritual medium’ who enjoyed trance states, so enough said there. My brother had two sons, one of whom who is very like my first, intelligent but unable to function, prone to distraction and literal thinking. Since my brother’s death this son, who took that death very hard, has really been struggling, for parental support is needed lifelong for these kids. My brother’s other son was fine but one of his sons is also autistic. My two sons from my first marriage have diagnosable autistic/bipolar tendencies and my eldest son’s son is on the NDIS as autistic with ADD. My son with Hairy, that son with such sharp intelligence who masks his issues with humour, sometimes finds life’s normal problems overwhelming, but he copes, however he now has a four-year old son (birthday this week) who is severely developmentally delayed in speech, has poor facial recognition and has very marked ADD.

High intelligence, stellar academic performances and creative original inventiveness are not unknown either in our crew when opportunities are afforded.

After two years of counselling families and individuals in strife I have seen these sorts of patterns recurring constantly in families. There is nothing so very unusual about my own family, I concluded, but there is definitely a genetic trail for ASD and schizoid behaviours. Circumstances can also affect outcomes, that much too is clear.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
April 13, 2023 at 11:59 pm
Lizzie is across all this, has lived experience in relation to relatives, I imagine this is all old news to her.

True enough. …

Your compassion and commitment in helping those in your family line is admirable. Many would be overwhelmed by those challenges. Best wishes.

What was the excuse for the Russians murdering 22,000 Polish officers at Katyn before the Germans even invaded?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
April 14, 2023 at 12:45 am

President Biden (who is not senile, no siree honestly he ain’t) upon arrival in the UK is met by Rishi Sunak (the UKPM), brushes him aside (after all, he’s jest another coloured folk) to swap salutes & greetings with an important looking uniformed type, who at least was white and looked important

You sure that is not photo-shopped?
Had to look twice, if true it’s unreal.

I’ll think you find the the Capital is Wellington. Auckland is good for sailing. Probably the only thing.

Zinc, hyroxychloroquine, ivermectin.
All ignored or demonised by the “Health Authorities”, governments and running dog media.
Result: faith in authorities destroyed.
Now they want us to take boosters despite increasing evidence of damage caused by mRNA vaccines.

Result: faith in authorities destroyed.

I have to say health authorities have been getting pretty weird lately.

Male doctor stopped from donating blood to NHS after he refused to say if he’s pregnant (13 Apr)

A male GP was turned away from donating blood to the Scottish NHS after he refused to confirm whether or not he was pregnant. Steffen McAndrew, 41, said he had been turned away from a blood donation centre in Ayr, Scotland, after refusing to answer a “bonkers” question about if he was carrying a baby. He says he was told by a nurse he could not donate blood unless he confirmed he was not pregnant.

I suppose it’s logical if they can’t now tell you what a woman they also don’t know what a man is either.

From overnight:

My late mother-in-law was a young woman at the end of WWII and told me about the Red Army’s rampage across Europe and how young girls and women up until fifty had to be hidden to avoid being raped. Yep, memories are long and have been passed on to the younger generations. Russians do not have a good reputation for a reason.

Neither do the Chermans, and there aren’t enough pixels to list the atrocities they committed in the name of ideology disguised as lebensraum.

The Eastern Front in WWII was baddies vs baddies writ large.

The Russians had by that stage been fighting for 4 years. They were, near the end of ’41, on the verge of being annihilated by the Germans

I said something along the same lines and it was considered very controversial!

Dot charles thinks he’s a tampon.

This needs WAY more attention. It is hard to find on Google because they’re pro-Putin.

(Sorry Chrissy, Vlad, Volod, Joe, Manny, Albo, Hipkinnykin, Poo Bear….there already exists BTC, ETH, LTC and others are trying digitised hard assets. Your central banks may become obsolete).

Pranksters Vovan and Lexus posing as Zelensky tricked ECB President Christine Lagarde into disclosing her plan to launch a “Digital Euro” in October that will give central banks control over how citizens can spend money:

Everyone ought to adopt crypto currencies and digitised assets ASAP.

The Soviets were sitting ducks for the Germans as they’d destroyed the command structure of the Red Army by purging the competent non political officers and replacing them with ‘right thinking’ apparatchiks.
Show trials were held to set examples and ensure blind adherence to the regimes policies……..Hang on a minute.

“Street people” (a somewhat benign description for drug addicted bums living on the street) are now a blight across many cities across the West

There was a thankfully brief period in the NT where they were described in the papers, and in fashionable circles as ‘vulnerable people’.

Vulnerable to what, I wasn’t sure because they were (and are) damned near indestructible. The sobriquet was dropped after repeated instances of those people demonstrating that the ordinary punters walking past them in the streets were in fact the vulnerable ones, because they kept attacking them when sufficient cash wasn’t handed out.

Someone in the MSM might want to ask Bowen about this:

China doubles down on coal ahead of potential summer blackouts (13 Apr)

China plans to accelerate the approval of new coal mines and fast track the construction of already approved mines to support its baseload energy supply during demand spikes, Liang Changxin, an official from the National Energy Administration (NEA), said on Wednesday.

Peak energy demand is expected to exceed 1.36 billion kilowatts this summer, representing a “significant increase on last year”, Liang added.

And also ask Bandt whether he can get them to cease doing this, since he is so enthusiastic about stopping new coal mines here.

On so-called “street people” here is PJW’s latest.

Scott Adams was right. That’s why they hate him so much.

Incidentally, it’s almost impossible to google PJW’s youtube channel and find it first hit (unless there’s something awry with my settings).

However, I suspect Clover and her minions wouldn’t like it if it was in their backyard. I’ve long said that if it ever happens again (and it will) some of us should head to the tent cities and urge the inhabitants to head to Point Piper (where Mal the Miserable lives) and to Surry Hills (where Clover lives) and set up their “homeless camps”. Point Piper is very nice at any time of year, it’s right on the water with wonderful views, and Surry Hills is lovely, with tree lined streets and fabulous cafes where trendy inner-city hypocrites live and socialise. They can experience this progressive nirvana of “homeless camps” because nothing will change until the shit is placed squarely in their own backyards.

A bus like Ken Kesey owned will ensure freakouts in the right places. A Merry Band of Tricksters.

Indolentsays:
April 13, 2023 at 11:06 pm
Robert Sepehr
@robertsepehr

DNA results of Takabuti, the famous 2,600 year old ancient Egyptian mummy on display at the Ulster Museum, show that her DNA is more genetically similar to Europeans rather than modern Egyptian populations. DNA results Published in Nature Communications: https://nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74114-9

Now, how much influence might a large influx of population from the Arabian Peninsula from around the 7th Century AD onwards have had?

Takabuti was also a redhead. And she was murdered.

Takabuti was also a redhead. And she was murdered.

She, Anne Boleyn and Cleopatra all obviously should be played by black actors then.

Netflix Debuts Cleopatra Docuseries Trailer Depicting the Queen as Black (13 Apr)

At least she isn’t being played by a tranny, there’s that. With all this historical guff floating around right now it’s no wonder that students are confused and ignorant.

Modern Culture Is Traumatizing and NOT Normal! With Dr. Gabor Maté

The tent city violance in SF is triggering my lady who was a college student there during the ‘Summer of Love’.
I dare not play any of the ‘beautiful people’ extolling hits from that era for fear of her melting down.
Hippy SF according to her was a hellscape. Her university virtually ground to a halt due to academics joining the idiocy, beaches and restaurant strips were populated by filthy, stoned caftan wearing panhandlers who were, at best, threatening and often violent.
SF cops, not known for their gentle application of law enforcement, gave up trying to cope. Hippy chicks would regularly drape themselves around beat cops effectively neutralising them.
“Don’t mention the hippies”. At least not in this household.

I’m now part of Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) task force to coordinate action regarding these recently announced transmission lines that have been dumped onto the rural community to provide Certainty* to the investor class.

*Crony Capitalism.

Johnny, that’s the best joke you’ve told in a year. More of the same please.

Here’s the report I read about the arrest:

FBI catching up | Power Line (13 Apr)

“The New York Times has seven bylines on its story identifying Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira as “[t]he leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months.” That would be the group to which the leaker — Mr. OG — belonged, per the Washington Post this morning. At any rate, Teixeira dos not seem to conform to the Post’s description of Mr. OG. OG or not OG, that is the question.

The Times now reports that the FBI has arrested Teixeira. OG remains at large.”

On the other hand other reports suggest Teixeira was working in intelligence, which could give him access to such things.

I did read that the NKVD killers spared the jewish Officers.
I’ll try to find a link for that.

GreyRanga says:…did you notice in the bottom of the South Island there were not many fatties. I did.

Yes indeed. The South Island of NZ appears to be non-woke and normal, at least in the areas we went to, which was Queenstown then down to the extreme south, and up the east coast for the air show at Blenheim. Very pleasant with beautiful scenery.

Callie’s writing above is loquacious and accurate as usual. There seems to be a hidden agenda in allowing derros to live on the streets because that’s how to “reform society” according to a Left agenda. But that doesn’t include drug-addicted “street people” to live in the fashionable suburbs.

Auckland didn’t have many police on the streets. Maybe they’ve given up.

The 2021 census found the number of people identifying as Aboriginal in Australia had increased 25 per cent over a five-year period.

Claire Lehmann is the founding editor of Quillette

Oz. I am going to make a comment – bet it doesn’t get past their censors:

One of the oddest things about “discrimination against black people” is that it infers prejudiced behaviour against people because of their colour – that is, the actual colour of their skin being a very visible marker they are different. If you like, it’s a label.

But now increasingly people can claim they are “black” and their skin is the same shade as those who would label themselves as white. This is illogical. How are they being discriminated against?

Are The Leaked Pentagon Documents A CIA Scam?
The Jimmy Dore Show

NY Times reporting that Jack Teixeira was identified from the backgrounds to some of the photographed documents. It looks like the kiddie may have been more than just a webmaster.

If he’s the source, you’d have to wonder at a security system that pushes a stream of state secrets through the hands of a junior Air National Guard tech.