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Why would Yemen give two-shits about Gulf Arabs?
This is almost too funny.
All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
A gift, most likely, to be returned unopened … duuuuh!
Probably to keep it from blocking footpaths and other passageways.
Primarily though it would be to prevent damage to the network. (Especially deliberate sabotage, imagine how easy it would be to destroy network infrastructure at ground level)
All this also applies to telecommunications, gas and water.
Though I believe the main supply pipes from warragamba dam for Sydney are above ground in places?? Not sure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/nord-stream-update-the-recovered?r=10py7h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Though I believe the main supply pipes from warragamba dam for Sydney are above ground in places?? Not sure.
Yes they are- you cross them when driving down Woodville Rd near Fairfield(?) or Guildford (?).
Why have we allowed ourselves to be lorded over by the most evil useless braindead f*ckwits to have existed in human history, Cats?
Hint – this is not a trick question.
Laziness and complacency are claimed.
Nice easy priority target if we back Taiwan against China… :/
I’d say there’s an AS3000 rule saying no electyrical cables on the ground- only above or under. AS3000 is a good standard- plainly worded and easy to understand. Logical. Unlike the gobbledygook in some IEC stuff.
So when the Abo freeloaders get their ‘reparations’, shouldnt the bill be sent to the UK?
Why have we allowed ourselves to be lorded over by the most evil useless braindead f*ckwits to have existed in human history, Cats?
I wonder about that too-I think it’s politcal parties being infiltrated by the usual marxist/grifter/psychopath cabal. Also the evolution of a political class.
Also outright lying/concealment by the pollimuppetts and the meja. How come it’s only now that we hear about liddle filth’s butler? Consider Fraser. Was elected to undo Whitlam’s craziness and essentially implemented his policies including multiculturalism.
The ALPBC, stagger on down!
bons
He claims that Jefferson Davis, when Secretary for War, placed Southern officers in important posts, discriminated against Northern officers, and stacked Southern armouries.
The ‘fix was in’ well before Sumter.
Hmmmm. Look at some of the actions initiated by Thoroughly Modern Milley. See any parallels?
Rabz – We normals just want to be left alone. Therefore we don’t stand for Parliament.
I observed in corporations that middle management were of a type: they would climb over the obliterated dead bodies of all their colleagues to gain promotion and power. (Dilbert is not fiction.)
Middle management was where the greasy pole climbers ended up if they had that craving but no talent to go with it. I used to call middle management the great layer of lard, since they were thick, white and impossible to get through.
The difference between middle management, union heavies and politicians is the politicians have enough charisma to get themselves elected. The maniacs who have the drive but not the charisma go into a union or a company instead.
It’s the Peter Principle. The leaders we get are exactly the opposite sort of people we want because only that sort of person has the desperate desire to get preselection. Anyone not a psychopath to some degree doesn’t last the distance.
(I may be oversimplifying and I may be somewhat jaded after my many years on this planet.)
Winston Smithsays:
April 15, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Boambee John:
But the area cleared will be nowhere near as wide, Grandpa Ed.
You will find that road verges are rarely heavily forested.
One of the problems in Vicco, while Commissioner Fatso was having her hair done was heavily forested road verges, with major branches hanging over the road. Slime local councils have much to answer for.
Is this Eddles attempting to rewrite history, again, FFS?
MT,
This from a PDFfound on AER (which I searched for because your link didn’t link).
Still sounds like de-energising the faulting section is part of the plan. But it is full of electrickery jargon that I don’t understand so maybe I missed some subtlety of exactly what is being disconnected in which circumstance.
And I forgot – they go into the public service too…
Oh look who’s on MSNBC with Joy Reid. He’s so disgusting and so far left that Reid considers him a good propagandist. Just disgusting.
Turnbull and Rudd are almost identical.
Also as I said earlier- Trump has proved that there is a political class, and that as far as they are concerned, only candidates that have their approval may stand. Howard’s comments about Trump really gave the game away and Howard gave himself away.
Mark From Melbourne:
First off, Mark, stupid questions are my remit and I’ll not have you intruding on my prerogatives.
Secondly, A thought just occurred to me – Why don’t we put the power lines on or near the ground like the Kalgoorlie water supply from Perf? Go under roadways where necessary but available for maintenance 99% of the way?
Their sanctimonious clueless vainglorious stupidity indeed, JC. Not to mention their mighty nation building projects.
– Punk Batts
– The “Laws of physics” defying Snowy “water will flow uphill, I orders ya” 3.0
That pair of idiots expending all their remaining precious bodily fluids on a vainglorious quest to try and best the most unrepentant meeja dinosaur on this planet is a truly popcorn worthy endeavour.
We should sit back and enjoy the spectacle, Cats.
Just disgusting
and what’s also disgusting is that such an abrasive, unpleasant, untalented, damaging twot was tolerated and promoted by people like Howard.
Suppose I were an idiot and a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.
There is no true criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain.
History is replete with useless braindead … . The question I used to ask myself is why are there so many bad leaders? The answer is that there are sufficient numbers of people who vote with their gut and not their head. People believe bravado and confidence are the marks of superiority. Those are also the tactics of sociopaths. If we vote with our head, often we wouldn’t vote. We don’t vet our potential leaders the way we do for every other field of human activity. That has bene a lifelong puzzle for me. The people making the decisions that determine the future of the country are often unqualified for the task. Chalmers did his Ph.D on Keating. Wouldn’t even need a calculator for that and yet he is our treasurer. We trust our guts and all we get is what comes out at the end.
The 1988 Draft treaty called for 1% of Gross Domestic Product to be paid as “compensation” and “reparations” “in perpetuity. All those “Aborigines”, who may have had an Aboriginal great grandparent lining up, with their hands out…
You’ve obviously not seen my local feral and state members, Bruce.
They are “charisma free zones” and that’s being “charitable”.
A braindead illiterate electorate (that’s forced to turn out) helps.
All this shows is the utter incompetence on the part of the Department of Defence. Not surprising though when you consider they let a Chinese spy balloon fly over the entire country for a week. I have a feeling everyone who knew how and what to do has retired or been driven out. The only people left are the kids and perverts.
At least he didn’t do it on Wayne Swan.
There’s always a silver lining.
As I said in my earlier comment, the only people left in the US military are the perverts and the kids. The perverts are there for the freebie sex change operations and the kids don’t know anything though if given the chance they will crack open the top secret files and then brag to their online gamer mates.
This is very scary and I wonder what the allies are thinking about it.
P & Wolfie.
Thank you both for responding & thank you Wolfie for putting it up. (I’ve been assembling a Weber BBQ this arvo while the other half’s been oiling our deck, so haven’t had time to read it yet).
because silver tongued bastards with low morals and ethics have worked out how to seduce us.
the devil wears a suit and tie
and
the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It’s just more proof that these grubs – the political parasite class- will accept any kind of treachery and betrayal (of us) from their own. To keep the team in power and stuck like leaches to the Treasury and our money. In their view we are simply sheep to be shorn.
I know it was a typo but it works, on the same level as “fizzing at the bung”.
“Grant Beaumont passed away on April 9. He was 97.
Grant was father to the Beaumont children. Almost 60 years since they disappeared. To have lived so long is testament to the strength of this man. I won’t link, even the youngest here would have heard of the Beaumont Children.
Vale Grant, you can sleep now.”
The disappearance of the Beaumont children and the Wanda Beach murders shook Australia to its core. Most of us here, who grew up in the Oz of the 1960s and 1970s, were effected.
Grant (Jim) Beaumont and Nancy Beaumont separated a few years after the disappearance, the tragedy proved too much for their marriage. The fact that they managed to live on was, as you said Pogria, a testament to their resilience and strength of character, but none of us can imagine the depths of their grief. I truly hope that both Jim and Nancy are now with their children.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/amish-farmer-threatened-for-not-giving-up-traditional-farming_5190518.html?ea_med=desktop_health&tmp=1&ea_src=ai_recommender_A_health
Yet more evidence that the Free World is stuffed unless we get this monster government off our backs.
Preselection should be on education and technical merit, as it is the voters who decide whether the candidate’s priorities match their own.
This is diminished by parties putting forward only one candidate each, and the reluctance of the great unwashed to back new parties and independents. The party then also decides which set of priorities are put on the ballot by their preselection of the single candidate.
The order is logical, party picks on merit and public picks on values.
Perhaps part of the reason we still end up with numpties in APH is because technical merit is gained from having control over the outcome, but at federal politics so much must be delegated to APS and contractors that the person gains huge responsibility in theory but loses the control over outcome that they enjoyed in less influential positions – and people doing well in practice don’t see that as an upgrade.
Plausible?
The 1988 Draft treaty called for 1% of Gross Domestic Product to be paid as “compensation” and “reparations” “in perpetuity. All those “Aborigines”, who may have had an Aboriginal great grandparent lining up, with their hands out…
Yeah, have a big cry.
800,000 identified as Indigenous in the 2021 Census, GDP is $1 Trillion, they each get $12, 500/year til the day they die.
I think we can do it.
The military history was informative, but for me the most interesting was the manner in which he tore into the whole ‘Lost Cause’ Confederate myth making. According to him, the myth of these honourable Southern gentlemen (notably Lee) being riven by conscience when deciding to support their ‘homeland’ was just that, a myth.
Something I wrote on the Confederate “Myth” .. a dozen or so years ago …….
The Myth of the Lost Cause
Following the defeat of the Confederacy and to lift the morale of a shattered people momentum gathered to enshrine the Myth of the Lost Cause which would transform the Southern soldier living and dead, into a veritable hero.
In order to come to terms with defeat and a look of failure in the eyes of God, Southerners mentally transformed their memories of the antebellum South. It became a superior civilization of great purity which had been cruelly brought down by the materialistic Yankees.
At the head of this revival was the memory of Stonewall Jackson, closely followed by Robert E. Lee (who would rise to the prominent position following his death in 1870). Other generals of the Confederacy who had died during the war followed, as did those who would pass on later.
D.H. Hill, a friend of Longstreet published LAND WE LOVE, a magazine devoted to Literature, Military History and Agriculture. In 1869 Hill sold out to a Baltimore periodical, NEW ECLECTIC, which in the same year became the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE, official organ of the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. In 1871 it changed its name to the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE and together with a later periodical, SOUTHERN BIVOUAC kept the memory of the War alive and fresh in the public mind. Filled with poems and stories of loyalty to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. Hill was Stonewall Jackson’s brother in law and he filled the magazine with stories, anecdotes and poems of the now legendary general. Other Confederate heroes received their share of attention from a flood of material supplied by readers commemorating Southern dead and using religion to explain the defeat. Book – writing was prolific in the ‘70s & ‘80s mainly from veterans but much on the romanticism of the Cause from women.
The most prominent of the writer of the period was John Esten Cooke, who was related by birth and marriage to virtually all the prominent families of Virginia he helped enshrine the Confederate dead into chivalric knights and symbols of the LOST CAUSE. Cooke’s impressive literary output polarized Southern perceptions of the War transforming the stigma of defeat into a badge of honour that Confederate veterans could wear proudly. His portrayal of the War as a wonderful adventure, in which participation was an honour.
When Lee died on 12 Oct. 1870 he was one of a significant number of Confederate heroes running second to Jackson. Lee’s prominence changed quickly though when a group of his former staff officers and subordinates set about enshrining his memory in Southern history. Lee’s admirers built up Lee by attacking Longstreet and implying that he (Lee) was Jackson’s closest friend. Once the faults and failures Lee had been criticised for during the war were shifted to Longstreet. Lee emerged as a sort of snow-white, pure hero that Southerners embracing the rationale of the LOST CAUSE had come to expect.
After Lee’s death an argument arose over possession of his remains and the glorification of his memory. The Lee Memorial Association of Lexington and the Lee Monument Association of Richmond fought publically for support. Jubal Early headed the Richmonders and Lexington was led by William Pender, Lee’s former artillery chief. By 1872 Pendleton and Early began to cooperate and over the next 20 years they carried out a carefully planned character assassination of former Lieutenant General James Longstreet. By using this tactic they focused first the South and then national interest on the Battle of Gettysburg creating the myth that it was the turning point of the War.
Early had failed as a soldier but was to prove the pen mightier than the sword. Early had fled to Canada following the surrender fearing Federal retaliation after ordering the burning of Chambersburg, PA during a raid. Returning to the USA in 1869 he headed the Lee Monument Association and in 1870 became president of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. 1872 he became vice-president of both the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION and the Confederate Burial and Memorial Association. SO following Lee’s death he now wielded great power and influence. Whilst Lee was alive this hadn’t been possible as Lee only knew him as a former subordinate and ignored him to a great extent as he (Lee) considered him a very mediocre soldier. Now Early was able to claim a non-existent friendship and men who during the war had little reason to rgard Early as nothing but a failure started to respect his outspoken opinions on the defence of the South during Reconstruction.
When he attacked Longstreet in an 1872 speech on Jan.19 ’72 to commemorate the 2nd anniverary of Lee’s birthday, claiming that on the night of July 1st, 1863 in a conference with Ewell, Rhodes and Early, Lee had stated he intended to attack at dawn with Longstreet’s Corps. Had longstreet attacked at the hour Lee stipulated, Lee would have won the battle and the South gained independence. Longstreet ignored this rubbish and remained silent. The South was crying out for vindication and a scapegoat and the dye was cast. Longstreet could not now defend himself without besmirching Lee. Lee was now attaining Messiah status in the South and any assault on his memory would be suicidal.
From this time on the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION waged an unrelenting campaign to deify the South. In 1889 another former hero John B. Gordon took control of the ASSOCIATION and for 14 years wielded a power that was only second to that which Early had achieved. Gordon had founded the UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS ( UCV ) and by 1898 there were 1,084 chapters each named after a Confederate hero. At its apex in 1903 it had over 80,000 members, one third of all living Southern veterans and in conjunction with its sister organization, the UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY published the CONFEDERATE VETERAN which printed the “’correct ‘ view of the history of the War for future generations. This view centred around Robert E. Lee. The SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PAPERS continued to be published until 1914 and followed the same vein of Southern Glory and Legend.
In 1918 the release of the movie BIRTH OF A NATION probably achieved more to aid the MYTH than even Jubal Early or John Gordon and over the intervening years the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE has assumed reality and is accepted as fact nowadays.
The fact that the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE found its basis in Jubal Early’s ego which was to build him into something he wasn’t, A GOOD SOLDIER. Does not deter from the fact that he hit a nerve and used the pen to achieve success beyond his excessive imagination . As more and more organizations were formed in the South to extol the memory of the Confederacy the MYTH became fact and is now accepted. This is not to say that there is not a lot of truth in it, there is and the fact that it is more a matter of embellishment than fiction only serves to increase the belief.
I have , deliberately I might say, not mentioned the emergence of the KKK in this story as that organization does not belong on this page but have to accept that it played a significant part in the glorification of the MYTH and will leave it at that.
On a brighter note, I have studied military history for a lot of years and can honestly say that in dozens of books and hundreds of references concerning the Civil War I have read, never have I come across a criticism of the character of Robert E. Lee. To have spent so much of his life and death in the spotlight and to seemingly have been liked by all, friend and foe, is possibly the most remarkable character reference I can imagine. I like thousands of others ( I suppose ) have a tendency to side with the South in my reading and narratives and for that I don’t apologise for I prefer the MYTH to the possibility that it was just another war. I have no axe to grind with the Northern participants but, basically, find that the prose written by Southern influence to be more ……………enjoyable ?
The junior Meddick wasn’t on holidays up north was she?
“I will argue, campaign and if necessary bleed for the voice”
“bleed“, interesting word choice by Craven. Pretty sure I’ve seen and heard similar rhetoric in documentaries about Germany in the 1930s.
How many do you think will identify as Indigenous if they are paid $12, 500/year?
ah … ACRs are controlled and sometimes coordinated to have a few tries at locating or clearing a fault.
the problem is that a proper fault like a downed line might take few on-and-off tries before the automation decides that maybe it should just leave the power off.
the trouble is that with a proper fault (unlike vaporizing the odd unfortunate bird) the currents can be enormous and Energy Let Through can be pretty big
you don’t want to be on the ground holding a fire hose when essentially sequential explosions are going off and/or there ground voltage gradients that will burn every piece of skin off your body in milliseconds
you certainly dont wanna be holding the hose in a bush fire under a transmission line and find out you were the cause of the ‘fault’
the point is that no, it might not switch off and even if it does, it might just switch on again anyway
Why is the discussion on power lines always between over- and under-ground? Why, I guess, is “on ground” not an option… suitably encased, of course.
I’m guessing the .. where-there’s-a-will, there’s-a-way nimble fingered crowd would soon work it out !
Preselection should be on education and technical merit, …
Recipe for a monumental clusterf..k.
No GP ever did any good in the Health Portfolio, no General ever did any good in Defence, Barry Jones is a scientist, he failed in the Science portfolio, Accountants failed as Treasurers, Unionists failed in Industrial Relations.
Going into Federal politics in the Lower House is a huge punt.
Lose by 1 vote and you’ve got to start again somewhere else.
On the Labor side that doesn’t matter, but the Liberal Party only comes together to fight Elections, so once you’re out, you’re gone.
MSNBC – the televised lunatic asylum (H/T Andrew Klavan)- is this the best the egregiously egocentric Malcolm Turnbull can do? The ratings for MSNBC are abysmal
Colonel – that’s one of the good points of the US system: the primaries. Which makes it harder for the voters to be cut out of the selection process, like happens here with Captain’s picks.
While the Photios/Kean/Turnbull clique controls the Libs there’s no way to get people who will truly represent us. The cost to the Libs though is we walk away and vote for guys like Latham instead.
Front page of today’s Oz, which I saw in the supermarket this morning. It’s not the heartland that’s broken. Basically the party heavies haven’t a clue.
2Dogs:
If that’s all they would get, I think someone hasn’t done their sums right – that’s about $600/fortnight or half the OAP.
We need to spread the news…
Though I believe the main supply pipes from warragamba dam for Sydney are above ground in places?? Not sure.
From Penrith to Regents Park they (2 running parallel) are 90% above ground .. tho massive pipes (at least 5mts circumference) they were there well before most of the infrastructure & housing, roads ect, well fenced and no hassle to any of the suburbs they pass thru ..
“MSNBC – the televised lunatic asylum (H/T Andrew Klavan)- is this the best the egregiously egocentric Malcolm Turnbull can do? The ratings for MSNBC are abysmal”
When will the Liberal Party expel him?
Cassie – Have they paid off the loan yet?
I’m under the impression that the Libs are permanently skint, so I doubt it.
Which would give Malcolm quite a bit of enduring leverage.
How many do you think will identify as Indigenous if they are paid $12, 500/year?
They get around that now on the dole so no chance of anything less than $30 000 will get a look in ..
Gonna be a lot of box ticking if they get any-bloody-thing plus all the other welfare benefits would have to be adjusted accordingly ….
If it comes down to money I’d assume it would have to be an individual lump sum handout disguised by some wank-fest of a title …….
Can’t see even the Liars getting away with any sort of compo to one specific group tho …..
one reason is because impedance matters and close to the ground the capacitative losses become very significant
for sancho
I am not surprised at all as I have seen on many occasions young mothers staring at their phones and ignoring their kids who either run wild or are strapped into their strollers/prams.
Yes they are- you cross them when driving down Woodville Rd near Fairfield(?) or Guildford (?).
Edge of Guildford just up the road from the old gas storage facility at Granville that is long gone. Some things from my childhood I haven’t forgotten.
How many do you think will identify as Indigenous if they are paid $12, 500/year?
Who cares?
I won’t lose any sleep over it, though it sounds like you & Zulu are already having an existential Crisis about it.
“I will argue, campaign and if necessary bleed for the voice”
He’s threatening to Transition.
I reckon Greg might do alright as a woman, because he’s totally failed as a bloke.
Bleed?
I’ll take his word on that one.
All this would go away if the wind farm guys would just add about 30m of extra height to their HVAC towers. Might be a barrier to aerial crop spraying but that’s all.
There had to be the first person and it was Martin Cooper in 1972. I thought it was much later than that.
WSJ.
Edge of Guildford just up the road from the old gas storage facility at Granville that is long gone. Some things from my childhood I haven’t forgotten.
I have a soft spot for those blighted suburbs- Xmas parties at Cabra vale diggers when I was a small boy, sweltering in the HR Holden at the Meccano set on hot summer day, much later on the area where my working career really came good. That’s why I love Pizza. Very mixed feeling about Siderney.
Certainly prefer the western/south western suburbs to the north shore and eastern suburbs.
I reckon, if you are not a chance to win a Gold medal at the Olewhyimpics,you should not be there.
Maybe OT, but that’s my humble,opinion.
On ground HV cables?
What the … ?
Yeah.
Go with that one.
FMD.
Whatever Happened To Green Valley?
whatever happened to green valley
BJ wins the internet for today.
At 10am this morning we attended our grandson’s birthday party. He’s four years old now and still quite developmentally delayed; autism is looming as he has other spectrum issues. He is an only child and our son’s house and garden were filled with things for him – so many ‘creative’ towers, railways and garages, dinosaurs galore, and our contribution today, a Thomas the Tank Engine Robotron Transformer, which totally engrossed him. The other set of grandparents are devoted, as we are too.
Everyone there today compensated their concerns with many gifts. In the garden was our grandson’s very own blow-up jumping castle (sold at Bunnings apparently). All for one frail little boy. I was sad, for no real reason. All of the material goods in the world, fine and even helpful though they be, won’t fix this. The joy on his little face as he blew out his candles was a saving grace.
Hairy and I went home and slept the afternoon away. Tomorrow I am minding the little fellow giving his mum a break while Hairy takes our son to the footie.
So THIS Is Why They Want It Hidden! | Graham Hancock on The Lost City Of Atlantis
For the poor ol’ incontinent syphilitic geriatric attempting to reclaim his non existent oirish ‘eritage …
please try to keep the wanking to an acceptable minimum sancho
I heard some very disturbing comments on a podcast about the 24 election. The Demonrats are having their convention in Chicago. Chicago is the murder capital of the US. So they’re running Hiden (who is mentally impaired) and re-nominating him in Chicago, where the optics would be just horrible. The combination of Murder City and Hiden ought to disqualify this political party from winning an election in the US for decades, but he reckons the DNC doesn’t care.
The podcaster reckons that they don’t care because they believe that Trump will be the nominee, and they will be able to cheat again because the Demons believe people won’t believe Trump’s accusations of vote fraud twice and that he’s just crying wolf.
I fear this may be true.
Oh look, it’s Trans, the biggest wanker here accuses others of wanking.
The self described God oracle who reckons he causes people to shit themselves when he walks into a room.
Trans is the smartest a/c repairman in the south.
They got away with it in 2020 so why not 2024?
I rather liked Chicago tbh
We must be nearly due for episode 2 of “It’s Everyone Else’s Fault” eh, Titsoff?
Federal Government spending was actually 973 bn for 2022 calendar year.
GDP was roughly 2.202 trillion in that year.
Government debt was 1,352 billion last time I looked last month and is probably sitting at 1,370 bn now.
The debt servicing cost at 3.33% on a 10 year bond is 1.86% of GDP each year.
The debt to GDP has increased every year since 2008.
The government ALREADY spends twice as much or more per capita on the indigenous than other citizens. More money won’t help anyone.
ALL
levels of government. 973 bn looked too big!
I went to the ballet today with my sister. We subscribe. The ballet was Don Quixote and it was utterly superb and sublime. I sat there and contemplated about how the Royal Ballet in the UK has accepted a “transgender dancer”, a male pretending to be female and by him getting a gig at the Royal Ballet, he’s usurping a spot for a real biological young woman. Transgenderism is about mocking women, ridiculing women, cheating against women and appropriating us women.
The 2023 production of Don Quixote is an homage to the late Rudolf Nureyev who, with the late Bobby Helpmann, choreographed and danced in the Australian ballet production in 1971. The original, with Rudy and Bobby, was sublime and today’s production took my breath away. At intermission, my sister and I talked about Rudolf Nureyev and then I reminded my sister of Rudy dancing with the divine Miss Piggy in “Swine Lake”…enjoy and Miss Piggy makes a much better ballerina than any trannie….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHbGqJ_MonU
It’s still fabulous to watch and very, very funny.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Crimes Against Humanity EXPOSED:
The court documents reveal this was the biggest attack on humanity in all of world history.
There were 43K reported adverse events within 90 days of the vaccine rollout.
Pfizer lied when it falsely claimed the vaccine stayed at the injection site.
You also drive over the water pipes if travelling on Mamre Road between M4 and Elizabeth Drive. Those pipes empty into the Prospect Reservoir where the water is treated and then piped into the suburbs.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Canadians Are Living in Fear Under Trudeau’s Totalitarian Regime
In the past few years:
• Gun bans
• Canadians lost their right to protest (Freedom Convoy)
• elections appear to be rigged by the Chinese government
@Lauren_Southern: “Canadians are living in a state of absolute fear of our government. And we’re not even sure if our government is controlled in Canada or overseas.”
Cassie
My knowledge of ballet is limited (Center Stage and Say You, Say Me). I dance like a brick.
Um, wouldn’t a man (ballet-guy), even a very strong man struggle to do the manoeuvres with a male impostor (tranny ballerina) as the moves are quite athletic? Like throwing the ballerina around and gracefully (!) catching her in between her movements?
Being an athletic 90 kg as a “ballerina” is not like being an athletic 57 kg as a ballerina….I assume.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
France is censoring Rumble
“Um, wouldn’t a man (ballet-guy), even a very strong man struggle to do the manoeuvres with a male impostor (tranny ballerina) as the moves are quite athletic? Like throwing the ballerina around and gracefully (!) catching her in between her movements?”
Yes Dot, and my sister and I talked about exactly this also at intermission.
Everything in the ballet today was sublimed, the dancers, the music, the costumes, and the sets. It was art, and it lifts the soul.
A twelve minute takedown of the monumental idiocy that gifted us the Eternal Washington War Masheen, from a seventies black collectivist perspective.
“Not to face now or tomorrow
But to face backwards …”
Hollyweird … 😕
What an evening. The parade of fairy penguins was a sight to behold, that I was there with my children made it more special. The smiles and excitement was beautiful, not just from the kids either.
Fat little things they were too, according to our guides, they are feeding up bigly to last them a while. Absolutely glorious day, even if the weather turned.
Tonight, the movie of The Last Kingdom is available on Netflix, or so I’m told.
A glass of good red Durif (I am fond of that grape) and Attapuss on my lap is something to enjoy while we immerse ourselves in the world of Uhtred.
Bravo Cassie, Bravo. The pig was terrific.
It’s hard enough lifting up 6’6″ flankers or 120 kg front rowers in a lineout with two guys in a stationary position. In a dynamic and precise sequence to music on your own…no thanks.
Credit to Trevor Fosdyke, our captain did call our best guy in the lineouts “The Pazuzu Bird”.
He sang like Pavarotti (after quite a few shots) and it is kind of graceful, except when I dropped the other second rower in awe of our military like coordination.
First it was Lizzie and her marathon Kraut opera.
Now this.
Please.
Back to the footy.
Bernie’s Tweets
@BernieSpofforth
FRANCE – Macron’s riot police engaged in tyranny & attacking unarmed citizens, even young women.
There’s been no condemnation from world leaders, including Rishi ‘Trudeau’, perhaps they are fearful of what’s coming.
My nearly three granddaughter counts to thirteen, then jumps to eighteen.
This afternoon laying claim her car seat was occupied by the big bad wolf and threatening to blow down grandma’s house (a Three Little Pigs/Red Riding Hood mashup.
Wow. That’s some jungle languishing …
Yet I am friends with these laydees.
I can only give them everythang, I tells ya … 🙂
Miltonfsays:
April 15, 2023 at 7:42 pm
LOL, same here though I am a child of the 70-80’s. Western Sydney is an s-hole but I am same with the soft spot. I was pretty well much born there and spent my formative years round Liverpool.
Mums family were very industrious but the crash of ’29 ruined them. Her family ended up in Miller in later decades so I did appreciate that clip of Green Valley. Most my cousins from her side grew up in places like Bradbury, Airds, Campbelltown and Liverpool. I know these areas well. Some of them now run SME’s in and around Sydney. Hence why I don’t buy into this poor me victim BS.
Crossie
All this shows is the utter incompetence on the part of the Department of Defence. Not surprising though when you consider they let a Chinese spy balloon fly over the entire country for a week. I have a feeling everyone who knew how and what to do has retired or been driven out. The only people left are the kids and perverts.
See the comment above about Jefferson Davis. Don’t ignore the possibility of malfeasance.
I can only give you everythang, Miss Personage!
I like Durif, two or three of them stocked by my local. The De Bortoli Durif is cheap and surprisingly yummy, although they generally do very basic wines. A chardy is in my right hand now though.
Princess Mary is set to visit Australia in just two weeks for her first official trip to her home country in ten years
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark will be returning to Australia in two weeks for her first official visit in ten years.
The Hobart-born royal, 51, will be returning to her home country on April 28 to meet with Danish representatives that are involved in Australia’s ‘green transition’ while also visiting several Danish-led projects related to sustainability.
Her climate focused trip will begin on April 23 in Vanuatu where she will meet with key people who are managing the reconstruction of the island after it was hit by two cyclones and two earthquakes.
She will then head to Fiji alongside Denmark’s Climate Minister as the country battles with the consequences of global climate change.
Disappointing.
The 1988 Draft treaty called for 1% of Gross Domestic Product to be paid as “compensation” and “reparations” “in perpetuity. All those “Aborigines”, who may have had an Aboriginal great grandparent lining up, with their hands out…
Actually it was 5%. This was decided by whitlam’s National Aboriginal Conference in 1982. The good news is it was for only 195 years, although they also wanted the mineral rights to all the land which is probably worth more than the 5% of GDP since when these tards get through there will be no GDP but they can sell the minerals rights to the chunks; or at least the mineral rights the chunks don’t own already.
Lot of depression around tonight. I recommend watching Tarintino’s alternative version of what should have happened to the Tate murdering scum (5 mins); it’s bound to cheer you up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ukxJCYoqk
BoN – a chardonnay swilling elite. Colour me unsurprised.
The draft treaty called for 1% of G.D.P., “in perpetuity”, on top of what’s already spent.
We must try to forgive them their pecadilloes and idiosyncrasies.
Affected.
But yes, it was a loss of innocence. I grew up in The Shire, and after the Wanda Beach murders, the days of parents waving their kids off to play at the beach all day were pretty much over.
That the case was never solved is largely a result of Plod in those days being stupid and incompetent in roughly equal measure. Subsequent investigations illustrated that they broke almost every rule in the book. That’s not surprising, since there was no book and a lot of them could barely read anyway.
The Beaumont children episode hit a nerve all over the country. There is no reason to believe that SA Plod were any better than their NSW counterparts.
Those, and the Graeme Thorne kidnapping, the Gilbert/Bogle murders and the Wally Mellish siege were the crime headlines when I was growing up in Sydney in the 60s.
Pancho – they do somehow put up with me, to their eternal credit.
More importantly, they’ve supported me unstintingly through the recent jagged edges imbroglio.
Re the 21 year old having access to Top Secret stuff in the US.
Post 9/11 there was a lot of criticism of the intel community for operating in “siloes” and not sharing intel between agencies and with junior spooks working on specific issues.
Maybe they’ve opened the taps a bit too much.
Sancho Panzersays:
April 15, 2023 at 7:55 pm
Thoroughly Modern Milley.
BJ wins the internet for today.
I confess, stolen from Mark Steyn.
Like your stuff better, Rabz, than what I’ve just been checking out. News today was that a guy called Mark Sheehan has laid his ax down, he was guitarist for a band called The Script. Who I’ve never heard of, so I thought I’d listen to some of their singles. Ok I suppose, but apart from the lead singer’s excellent voice not something I like really.
He is a bit reminiscent of this guy though:
The Police – Walking On The Moon (1979)
When I was at my local IGA this morning our resident busker was doing Space Oddity by Bowie, he’s very good. I gave him three bucks, which I always do.
Wasn’t that the siege where plod handed over an Armalite rifle, and five hundred rounds of ammo?
Solid citizens, no doubt.
I guess I’ll just have to turn a blind eye to their hoigh kulture escapades.
My cultural experience today was playing Super Mario Game of Life with the twins.
How to teach reading and counting? Board games.
Casino chips, from a (pretty high-faultin’) board blackjack table designed for the manliest of man caves that was given to me by a bloke moving interstate.
Taught the young bloke to count with them, and then progressed to basic multiplication tables.
Only ever used the table a few times. The chips, however, were a daily thing.
It is funny.
I was trying to imagine this in this pose.
Willie McBrides answer to Eric Bogle.
I’ve refused to acknowledge that they are into such frippery.
Love watching them instinctively turn their noses up (and plug their ears) when I blast them with some good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll. 🙂
Always good when you get to see the musicians play.
———
Two Steps From Hell:
Two Steps From Hell – Seal Of Solomon (Official Music Video)
Maths.
Create a list of chores.
Assign an irregular value to each (e.g. $1.19 for emptying the dishwasher).
Pay after multiples of the task have been completed.
Then try short-changing them.
They’ll learn sums pretty quick.
Go and play this on your stereo, peoples – loud … 🙂
Dare I click on the link?
Is it The Dreaded Vagner?
Pancho – click on this, Squire, it is totally benign, I assures ya 🙂
Two Steps From Hell are awesome, also Groove Armada. But I’ve been watching a vid of George Patton, so I’ll contribute the Patton theme. Which is a fine antidote to ear worms. When you get one just play this theme in your brain and it goes away. 😀
Patton • Main Theme • Jerry Goldsmith (1970)
Did Wolfman do a post on this movie? I can’t remember.
Nothing but respect for ballet. One cool chick…and gorgeous. Homosexuals can look up the blokes.
Two Steps From Hell – Enchantress ( EXTENDED Remix by Kiko10061980 )
I confess
Yes, it is. For a long time she concentrated on genuine issues like loneliness, heart disease and sick children but lately almost everything they do is related to “sustainability” and “climate change”. The Danes are really pushing the narrative, and they’re heavily invested in it.
Yes. This is what I did to encourage our kids to help out with weekly chores when I was working full time.
The chores were printed on a slip of paper and put into a box for them to draw out. Most attracted a small payment, although some were freebies. And some were simply a five minute break, to sit back and gloat over the other ‘hard-working’ sibling. Great psychology.
They still grew up to be disgustingly grotty teenagers.
Save it for later
English Roses in abundance … 🙂
That was very anal. Reminds me of this one which is also anal, but with a fun video:
The Cure – Close To Me (1985)
Speaking of English Roses …
I think Annheuser-Busch’s AI chatbot has depression or PTSD or something. Not coping!
Some Quant goils are featured in this clip … 🙂
Ferry. Can never have too much Ferry.
Bryan Ferry – This Is Tomorrow (1977)
There’s been no condemnation from world leaders, including Rishi ‘Trudeau’, perhaps they are fearful of what’s coming.
When the dam breaks, the only question is how quickly the current turds in politics will be swept away along with their enforcers.
johanna says:
April 15, 2023 at 8:54 pm
Absolutely.
Graeme Thorne, July 1960 was the first of those you mentioned.
Then on 1 January 1963 the mysterious deaths of Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler.
The Wanda Beach Murders on 11 January 1965 and then a year later
on Australia Day 1966 the disappearance of the Beaumont children.
Who could ever forget.
The last three listed above were all in January.
Rowdy and Cash:
LT. Rowdy & Cash 2.0 Visiting Lake Balboa Representing VCCRR 2023 (2 of 2)
A school-teacher.
Or male nurse would be my next guess.
More good news:
Target Security Guard Punches Screaming Customer in the Face After She Demanded Reparations and the Store Pay for Her Groceries – Customer Compared Herself to Rosa Parks (VIDEO)
Let’s hope he doesn’t get fired. The screaming customer was a black woman.
For anyone whose ever lusted after an exquisite young womanage …
Is that the 6PR breakfast crew?
There’s a price Rabz.
Bryan Ferry – The Price Of Love (1976)
It’s fun that the hot babe at the start of the vid was recently dumped for another…by a 92 year old.
Ah, Jerry Hall…
Sorry, the only thing we owe you in “reparations” is a ticket to Africa. One way.
There’s a price …
Math for kiddies
if Victoria needs to see 25GW of new power generation online between now and 2035
and given that the historical record shows that The Doc in Back to the Future needed 1.21GW to get from 1955 to 1985
then estimate the rate (in Teslas per day), that Dan Andrews will need to pull magic out of his arse for the next 12 years?
Sancho Panzersays:
April 15, 2023 at 10:11 pm
Steve trickler says:
April 15, 2023 at 10:07 pm
Rowdy and Cash:
Is that the 6PR breakfast crew?
No prick in this clip.
———-
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Malibu 28
Trans
Is the estimate for a/c use only or dual systems?
The greatest goil 🙂
Those hazel cats eyes …
This lady is the only person that has succeeded giving Cash a treat. Liver!
Link:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane making new friends at Omelveny Park
The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie
–Colter Wall
Her dad would be happy.
Lia Block and Roncar Race Cleetus’ Freedom 500 Against Travis Pastrana, Vaughn Gittin JR, and More.
Sympathy for the Devil
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Hey guys, I think I found the problem.
The CEO of Budweiser is a CIA operative.
No, really.
vaccine pay for play
bribing your way to compliance for fun and profit
Madder
for rabz and other fans of music that should be played L.O.U.D.
Well, in the finale to The Last Kingdom, which is the movie they’ve made to bring Uhtred the Warrior into the conclusion of King Alfred’s vision of England, we see Athelstan led astray by homo-eroticism but brought firmly back into line by Uhtred, who supports him in his great (and IRL historic) Battle of Brunanburgh. The last scenes were particularly touching as Uhtred’s mind’s eye images dead heroes from the previous series all feasting and glorying in Valhalla. We have reason to believe that Uhtred is on his way to join them. A fitting end.
A male body would make a hopelessly angular ballerina. And the package would definitely have to go.
DAY THREE: Allan (Police Commissioner) admitted to astonished pressmen that Mellish had been given an Armalite rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition because he wanted to match the firepower of the police. Allan denied he was a hostage, claiming Mellish threatened the life of his wife and child. Police also gave Mellish food and a radio. Allan said Mellish claimed to have hand grenades and this was supported by Beryl.
I hadn’t ever heard of this. Some crazy shit right there.
A Happy and Holy Pascha to our Orthodox Brethren.
Christ is Risen!
https://youtu.be/icjexnL6rI4
Working on getting the bits together for the Little Bloke and his mate to build themselves lorica segmentata.
Found these hinges which will work ok and some D rings to make buckles. Still looking for some sort of standard hardware that will work for the lacing eyes.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/293807847331?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D248190%26meid%3D99226e5702824377a243ff163f3b8a7e%26pid%3D101429%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D114780903057%26itm%3D293807847331%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DSimplAMLv9PairwiseUnbiasedWebCpr08MlcBERTGreedyV3KnnRecallV4AndV5%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2332490.c101429.m2460&amdata=cksum%3A29380784733199226e5702824377a243ff163f3b8a7e%7Cenc%3AAQAIAAABIL%252FnBLE9%252Bxpwq%252BpQLKZIefvAf124XU6h3aw%252Br9aAjmgfWya9oYYUPvCqMsn1NbYq08Rcj%252BecXcLqYSy5hlrYj6R2hn%252BipXMmQKijYBPz%252FLOSF6%252FC9dj1FfK3qd8sarWTw5aDHiEXA0C%252BxHM849s3ppPJL2NWa7h6jnlqaiDpISTskqE%252BQfjiu5eIS8w5leEYA4nAbebTyPd7I8C3zt3XhstQ8BV47WBmZ8eZ1XA7kQbMWz8lUEnXBl5Ssvv%252BbhecwwHBqqxm%252BSYRh3cb0XDCqQIIrTaKc9HInbnLBbF1o5%252Bs8LkSiH8KCP5URhjv6HLSWBrPywL2x8aIGhJ4honxeUtQn4DR1DV0n1zzp01Y3da3FchcwC%252Bsmw7vAyHaTLLL6Q%253D%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490
Bedtime here. After our long arvo tryst and nap, Hairy went to the gym and I danced to a Mr. Motivator.
Even so, we are both tired now.
It’s always good to pop in and read what the company on the Cat have been up to. Especially interesting for me to hear from the once were Westies and know that some here still are. My time in the West was in the 1940’s at primary school in St. Mary’s, and then at Penrith high school in 1954 while living in Mt. Druitt. Sydney’s outer west formed so much of me and I have never forgotten it, as a place and an identity. It’s changed a lot since my time. So has the south west and the Richmond area.
Returning to England in the early 1950’s with my mother, leaving my father in Australia, and going to school there, also tore me in two, as both English and Australian. That’s a Jerusalem that’s never left me either.
I was at that New Year’s Eve party in 1963 where Geoffrey Chandler spent some of that evening.
It was in Balmain, and in the house of an older member of the Sydney ‘Push’. I can’t remember much else about it. Loads of people there, and a lot of drinking. Someone gave me and my girlfriend a lift back to my place in inner-Sydney. A platonic girlfriend, I hasten to add. We slept together in my double bed, but women did that a lot in those days, innocent of seeing it as sexual in any way. Just a bed for the nite.
Did someone say Madder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thGjJZM0C3c
He exposed the evil c**t from Sony Music. Have a dig. Michael was cool and got the shaft….will chase up tomorrow.
Repeat clip.
Michael Jackson – Thriller (Moreno J Remix)
My fave from this week’s ‘week in pictures’.
So much for zero emission 20.. whenever.
Finland is about to commission Europe’s larges nuclear power-station.
What is surprising, not a peep out of the variety of Green parties.
Week In Pictures.
Piers Akerman:
The saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is as true today as it has been over the millennia, and nowhere is it borne out more plainly than among those who view the vibe of the proposed Voice as more important than its prospective impact.
In recent days, a handful of Liberal MPs have expressed their personal views on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s constantly changing referendum question to be put to voters toward the end of the year.
Former Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt went the full dummy-spit and quit the party.
Julian Leeser, who announced his doubts about the shapeshifting Albanese model even though he was on the panel which devised it, resigned his shadow attorney-general and Indigenous affairs portfolios.
Senator Simon Birmingham has taken his usual position – that of absolute ambiguity. (insert Cassie’s ire)
Leeser’s stance is in line with the confusion that infuses the whole question. On the one hand, the claim is for a radical new clause in the Constitution, while Leeser is equally of the view that most of the laws and programs for Indigenous folks are run at the state and territory level, and most of the challenges are at the local level.
Referenda should require simple Yes or No responses but, on the question of the Voice, it is not that simple despite the claims of Tom Calma, one of the co-authors of the Uluru Statement with Marcia Langton.
Most Australians, I suspect, would like to vote Yes to recognise the uncontroversial fact that there were Aboriginals living on this continent when European settlers first arrived.
However, when informed that a Yes vote would change the country, those who have taken a few minutes to actually learn what the ramifications of their vote would mean would rush to tick the No box.
As the nation’s most senior political analyst, The Australian’s Paul Kelly succinctly wrote recently: “Inserted into the Constitution, the Voice will be a group rights political body pursuing political outcomes with a constitutional mandate that is virtually open-ended in terms of the representations to parliament and the executive government – cabinet, ministers, department heads, public servants and statutory authorities – on matters concerning Indigenous people or on general matters that include Indigenous people.
“Albanese had previously said only a ‘brave’ government would overlook advice from the voice.”
Good intentions have a track record of boomeranging disastrously.
The late South African Liberal MP Helen Suzman comes to mind as one who campaigned relentlessly against apartheid only to later see her dream shattered when the ruthless African National Congress, the party of her beloved Nelson Mandela, took power and dragged South Africa backward into a corrupt morass of tribal politics.
Present with Mandela when he signed South Africa’s new constitution in 1996, an 86-year-old Suzman confessed in 2004 that she was disappointed by the ANC.
“I had hoped for something much better … the poor in this country have not benefited at all from the ANC. This government spends ‘like a drunken sailor’. Instead of investing in projects to give people jobs, they spend millions buying weapons and private jets, and sending gifts to Haiti,” she said.
With all the goodwill in the world, the hopey-wishey kumbaya crowd contemplating a Yes vote need to take off their rose-coloured spectacles, look beyond the vibe and shrug off the cloak of guilt and shame that some Indigenous representatives insist is their transgenerational inheritance.
The Yes lobbyists ululated with delight when the renegade Liberals announced their defection from the considered party position in favour of an amorphous proposition with never-ending repercussions.
The ABC, Labor’s broadcast arm, even interviewed former Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, who said he couldn’t understand how his party could permit a “subset” of MPs to vote their consciences while others were bound by frontbench solidarity.
He is, however, more than happy to support a subset of Australians, selected by racial identification, to be given separate and privileged access to governments at every level and the bureaucracy, with recourse to the High Court if their demands aren’t met.
The Yes proposition has more “buts” hanging from it than an unshorn wether sheep has rattling dags. Australia is in serious economic and cultural decline, it doesn’t need ill-informed but well-intentioned idiots hastening its demise.
Well if they paid someone not to build a road I suppose it’s logical to pay someone to not build a railway too.
Reports Victoria’s airport rail link project set to be paused (16 Apr)
Is there anything that Dan can actually build? Or does he just not build things?
BoN, Dan doesn’t care if they get built or not. All his projects primary purpose is to make well paid jobs for the members of the big unions that support Dan, an added bonus is the the unions then have lots of money to donate back to Labor.
Dan’s run out of money, he needs more and doesn’t care where it comes from, the longer he can keep his massive ponzi scheme going the better for him and Labor. When is eventually crashes he won’t be paying a price for his crimes. He will be living off the people of Victoria for the rest of his life and federal Labor will probably appoint him to an ambassadorship somewhere nice.
.. ref. recent visit to the Chicoms.
He will be living off the people of Victoria for the rest of his life and federal Labor will probably appoint him to an ambassadorship somewhere nice.
Or they’ll make him a perfesser.
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Like a fresh dog turd on the footpath-Dan will be stepped around and noses turned up at the sight of him.
Dan will be emperor for life. That animal is going no where.
From overnight, the Darwin stabbing. Interesting that Linda Burney and her crew were hanging out at the Darwin Hilton post Minerals Council event. Can’t manage to get down to Alice Springs any time soon though.
I can’t link to my favourites any more, Tom. But definitely Audrey Hepburn and the clydesdales.
A great batch…but then there’s so much idiocy to choose from.
I came across a pic of Norm Smith after the 1964 Grand Final. He jumped for joy but behind him was a stand full of women, including one with a durry. I assume that hallowed ground had a Ladies Stand, like the SCG?
Anyhoo, I tried looking at Ladies Stand for the MCG but stumbled across this article. Not sure of the point and sorry to ruin your Sunday morning.
Build roads?
I know we always complain about roads in the bush but the state of main roads in country Vic is seriously dangerous.
I’ve never seen them so bad and there seems to be no plan or effort to repair them. It’s over six months since the big rains of spring that mushed up these already poor tracks and not a sign of equipment except for low standard patching that breaks up after a week or two.
The same governments are then going to hastily build huge multi billion dollar transmission lines in the same areas using these roads. It’s like constructing a palace in a swamp.
Just on Dan’s ‘Big Build’ as far as I can see, nothing is being built, rather upgraded. Swan Hill to Melbourne line is or has been done, in sections. On the way here, some upgrading of a road between Pakenham and Phillip Island being undertaken.
As for the building of new stuff, like a hospital or gasp! a new coal mine or tapping gas fields, his wilful flogishness allows Victoriastan to sink without trace.
Apart from that justified whinge, we’ve had about 20mm overnight and that’s 50mm for the month. The pastures are leaping out of the ground and we’ll get a nice kill on weeds for the cropping.
Even better is the fact that my nephew has finished at uni and is full time on the farm this year. I get to handle the sheep and bring up the seed/fert and fuel for cropping without the need to drive anything much. Luxury.
FG- I find the Western Highway not too bad but turning off to drive down to Edenhope is another thing altogether- mostly single lane with crumbling edges.
“The ABC, Labor’s broadcast arm, even interviewed former Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, who said he couldn’t understand how his party could permit a “subset” of MPs to vote their consciences while others were bound by frontbench solidarity.
He is, however, more than happy to support a subset of Australians, selected by racial identification, to be given separate and privileged access to governments at every level and the bureaucracy, with recourse to the High Court if their demands aren’t met.”
Ahh, Rent Zimmerman, who lost his seat in May 2022, whilst that “subset” of MPs kept their seats. I think that fact alone says everything you need to know about the unlamented recent member for North Sydney.
Milton F,
thanks for the link to the film on Green Valley. I grew up there. Busby, Green Valley. Around the corner from Busby West Primary and Busby High. A highlight for us on a Saturday night was watching the fireworks from Liverpool Speedway. We could see them from our house.
An interesting anecdote from then, when Busby High was being built, the Unions ordered a walkout, of course. This was in the days of Askin. Instead of giving in to Union demands, he brought in the Army and they almost finished the build before the Union workers came back. I have distinct memories of walking by the build site and saying g’day to the soldiers.
Bringing in the Military to help Aussies wouldn’t happen now, of course. Not a State, nor Federal gov with Askin’s balls.
An interesting part of early Housing Commission life was the Class structure. Yes, there was a definite Class structure. If anyone is interested, I will describe it in another comment later today. I have a Tip run to do this morning.
The Wimmera highway from St.Arnaud to Bendigo has crumbling edges all the way to the middle of the road.
It’s a game of dodgem with the hopping wildlife thrown in for extra thrills.
Up our way the council or vicroads has put temporary 40kph speed limits in everywhere you go, some have been there six months and no work commenced, everyday the damage gets worse. Asphalt season ends in Vic soon and I can’t see them getting much in the way of repairs done in the meantime. I reckon a lot of the damage will not be tackled till spring.
Before I load up for the tip run, last night I was channel surfing again and came across that skank Burney being asked about something. Was it my imagination, or did she look pissed? As soon as I saw and heard her speak I thought, she is seriously making that “if I speak very slowly, no will know I’m drunk”, facial expression. You know the one, we’ve all tried it. Never works.
Cassie
“Rent Zimmerman”. Beaudifull!
Glad you enjoyed it Pogria- they actually showed us that film when I was a High School student in year 8. It was great to find it on youtube. It’s actually a very good film. I think the picture on Latho’s twitter may be Green Valley?
The tough guy Premiers (who were actually on the people’s side)- Askin, Bjelke-Petersen, Bolte, Court, Playford. Their faults were many but they were giants compared to the trash we have had for the last few decades. Even Wran looks good now.
Real Mark Latham
You know the one, we’ve all tried it. Never works.
ha ha- what despicable people they are
Don’t go too far.
Wran. Too far!
Yeah but Wran had power stations built eg Mt Piper
Eraring too I think
Ackerman, as brought to you by BB:
A corrupt mass of tribal politics.
This stupid government has no idea of the scale of tribal – i.e., skin group – divides that permeate right through any facet of indig administration into their own affairs.
Every single Land Council heavyweight position is fought for using tribal alliances, and once in the big chair the winners freeze out anyone who isn’t in his particular crew and set about enriching themselves and their own with someone else’s money.
It’s been going on for decades. Exposing the giant ATSIC rorts was just scratching the surface. If anyone thinks the Voice will be any different, they need their head examined*.
*h/t Kerry Packer
Today is known as The Second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy Sunday.
The 50-day Eastertide, running to Pentecost, is the longest season on the Church calendar. Everything starts with the joyous celebrations of Easter Sunday and the Easter Octave to Divine Mercy Sunday.
As power in the West becomes increasingly one-sided, I predict a new era of political assassinations and violence. No-one thought it would happen in peaceful in Japan, but here we are.
Check out The Lotus Eaters weekend segment featuring Ana Kasparian of the very left Young Turks program having a road to Damascus realisation about California and zero carbon.
Hope this works.
https://www.lotuseaters.com/weekend-segments-or-15th-april-2022
Hacked?
Blackball, I don’t know about a ladies only section in the MCG members’ stand at that time, but I’m pretty certain there was a “men only” section there. I went with my dad to some games, he would sit me down in a general area and disappear into the men only area.
Hahaha!
Dylan Mulvaney Runs After Getting Confronted By James O’Keefe (14 Apr)
I hope PV, what’s left of it, is watching how this stuff is done. Meanwhile the Bud Lite thing just keeps getting better.
Anheuser-Busch Transitions Into Damage Control Mode – And People Aren’t Buying It (16 Apr)
What The Bud Light Fiasco Reveals About The Ruling Class (15 Apr)