This all stemmed from the fact that when she could have thrown herself on the mercy of her boss the…
Open Thread – Weekend 22 April 2023
Rosie, as I stated yesterday, what’s the bet there’s an “attempted suicide” by Britney in the near future – that’s…
A recent column from Rex Patrick via Michael West Media on AUKUS. From April 26th. https://michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-submarine-workforce-risks-revealed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-05-01&utm_campaign=Michael+West+Media+Weekly+Update I think a few…
Checking my youtube list to see who’s loaded anything new. The Hoover Institution has an interview with Paul Wolfowitz. I…
Thanks Tom.
Bruce of Ncl
If there were no carriers in the Darwin area the US carrier would not be sent there – they’d remain in the east confronting the Japanese carriers
Instead, the Perth and Exmouth based submarines would have operated there. Japanese anti-submarine resources were limited, and their convoy practices woeful. Grist to the MacArthur propaganda mill.
What would he know, when you have Trans the magic Marvin, who’s all over building sites. The fastest lip on a site he told us.
I’m now fully grey. Apart from the hair on my back, which is black as sin.
Can carry distinguished beard, though it bugs me and makes the kids laugh.
Having dodged a haircut for a few months, I might grow it out for the full Sir Les.
That’s incredible Roger- the Time germalists are so stupid and ignorant in spite of ( of maybe because of) all their ‘degrees’.
Groogs is doing material now? Oy vey!
According to Courier Mail a Coles in My Gravatt on Brisbane Southside no longer has the manned check outs and now all self service.
My local Woolies has expanded the self-serve from 8 to 24 (14 card only .. 10 cash/card) .. assistant served is now 1 “express” lane (12 items) & 2 operator lanes .. tho the other 6 operator are still in place but never used ……
No! Really?
Shirley not.
One of the cutest vids I’ve seen in a while.
The Exmouth base was a strange one. Shared a pizza on the bonnet of the car with a guy waiting for a plane to get back to Tom Price via Perf one Christmas. The US guys just flew their cars out from the States.
Sorry cohenite. Powerline has taken “ownership” of other people’s memes (and some of them are very old) and has forbidden hot links.
Deeply unimpressive.
I’m now fully grey. Apart from the hair on my back, which is black as sin.
Lost all mine proper to chemo .. tho still grows enuf fluff to be a nuisance .. razor it off once a week during a normal shave ..!
I sincerely HATES being bald! … duuuuuuuuh!
The call to arms for lefty ladies to organize morning teas and lunches to sell The InVoice reminds me of the Tupperware parties I used to be hauled to as little kid. My Mum would come home with with weird and wonderful containers and gizmos, few of which she really needed. The most memorable was a large thick Tupperware sheet for preparing pastries or scones which she purchased on a pay by instalment deal. The problem is we had little space for storage so she rolled it up tightly and put it under the sink. She went to use it sometime later and it refused to unroll so she ironed it, as you would do in those days. Alas the Tupperware cooking mat and iron were fused together. An expensive outcome which she continued to pay for, in more ways than one.
The US Embassy in Canbra must have done the same thing Bear. I remember as a kid seeing big American cars in Canbra with LEFT HAND DRIVE emblazoned on them.
For a while supermarkets were all about property. Putting your foot on sites early and keeping out the opposition through the planning process. As soon as they get people accustomed to shopping online and better logistics the property guys will have a real problem. A Colesworths keeps most sub-regional shopping centres (barely) viable.
Thanks BB. Good article by Ackerman. I love anything to do with Subs. Not the ‘White one’ though. Probably because Granddad Dave was engineer on one in WWI in the Med. I watch as many movies and read books about them as I can. Australia lacks for very little as far as resources that are wasted selling to other countries, no value adding here. Our skill sets are wasted by attrition. We have laws made for the minority not the majority. Red tape and green tape make sure the ticket is clipped before projects can even begin. Too many wanting a say with no dog in the fight. The list is endless but the worst of all is lack of foresight by politicians only interested in getting re-elected. Paying people to sit on their arse is nearly as bad as owning a yacht except not as much fun and its my money. When I came here in 79 I saw very little class envy. In fact it was an egalitarian society. Not now. Every man and his woman with a dick has not only got his hand in your back pocket, he’s got your wallet and deciding how little you will have. Got a bot off topic but it applies to every day in Australia no matter what we are talking about.
It’s hilarious. And as authentic as Amway.
You go you unreconstructed girrrrrls!
Hilarious that their plan A is to go after an indigenous woman. It simply just doesn’t play well to everybody else the way it does to the ideological left.
Patmclit:
Because we’ve got Fascism Light instead of Democracy.
Amazon really stuffed that delivery up.
Sorry cohenite. Powerline has taken “ownership” of other people’s memes (and some of them are very old) and has forbidden hot links.
Save the individual image(s) to your desktop/laptop and then onto whichever site you want ..
Everything the US touches of late, turns into a clusterfk. Bear that in mind if we get roped into a hot war with China over Taiwan.
“A Chinese company has offered the Taliban $10 billion and a proposal to build key strategic infrastructure connecting north-south Afghanistan in exchange for access to the country’s lithium reserves. Some experts raised concerns that the offer would allow the Chinese regime to expand its influence in the region.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-chinese-firm-offers-taliban-10-billion-for-access-to-lithium_5205268.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge
Curtin went on “beating the big drum” of invasion until late 1943, to keep the work force motivated..
Hilarious that their plan A is to go after an indigenous woman. It simply just doesn’t play well to everybody else the way it does to the ideological left.
some venomous harridan from the Saturday paper or whatever was trawling for damaging material on Jacinta. The left really are horrible people- BPD and psychopathy.
Psychopathy is a neuropsychiatric disorder marked by deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior.
onto whichever site you want ..
What does that mean? I’ve lost all my dumb Powerline memes even though I saved them. Some were years old.
It was like saying goodbye to old friends.
But not these obvious inVoice morning tea organisers. 😀
When you’re set up to fly Mack trucks, Cat dozers and Abrams tanks all over the world, getting Billy Bob’s Chevy to Canberra isn’t much of a problem.
Old black gentleman responds to some trannies. There is nothing better on this planet than a conservative black person.
HB many, if not all, are owned and operated by investment companies
Big Super has a vast stake
as for Colesworth Villages …
the whole site is usually owned and managed by a single entity.
in many cases, even though Colesworth initially propped the joint up, the whole site was bundled up and sold off to some sort of REIT and all the tenants lease back
Glenn Reynolds has an interesting comment:
Immediately raises the question, what happens here when the blackouts start? The millennials paying with their phones are going to be in for a rude shock when they find they can’t buy stuff?
(I buy stuff with cash since I dislike giving the powers-that-be free data about my shopping habits.)
Some mention of Ambon upthread.
I’d never heard of Ambon until I spent a few hours with Rod Gabriel.
He was part of a group which made trips regularly back there to maintain a memorial to the men who died there and improve the lives of the locals.
He was an unforgettable bloke, gentle and kind, a retired pharmacist. But he had a kind of quietly burning passion, driven by something inside not to let the memory of those men die. He was always ready to share the story with younger people and used to accompany his old school’s cadet unit on their annual camp where he would go around to the various campfires at night and talk to kids.
There’s a Gullforce page here
Sorry cohenite. Powerline has taken “ownership” of other people’s memes (and some of them are very old) and has forbidden hot links.
Deeply unimpressive.
Damn. Well, it was the wolf with lipstick and rouge wanting to read stories to the chickens and the mental institution where we used to send people who wanted to cut their genitalia off.
What does that mean? I’ve lost all my dumb Powerline memes even though I saved them. Some were years old.
All I do is right click on “save image as” to my desktop .. rename & put it in my pix file for future use ..
I enjoyed this response.
Probably because it would be exactly what I would say. Brrrrrr.
just one … Big Super
…click on all the orange dots for info
Jim Chalmers doesn’t just want to remake capitalism to make it more like communism. He’s also neutering the Reserve Bank of Australia to make sure the government of the day can override decisions of the RBA board.
Ross Greenwood’s Weekend Business on Sky News points out that the proposed new government-appointed advisory board of six members will be able to vote down decisions of the four-member RBA board.
Very sneaky and subversive in typical lefty fashion.
I hope to be able to provide a video link later in the day.
Dame Edna intrudes on prince and princess tampon’s box at the opera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r3S5UKP7ME
Yep. Without a Colesworths lease you can forget it. I see David Jones was re-sold (at an eye watering loss) without the property assets. Our local shopping centre is looking very sad but the residential property guys are all over it for infill apartments. I will be surprised if it’s still there in 10 or 20 years time.
Old powerline pix examples ……..
https://postimg.cc/jw3GxdrZ
https://postimg.cc/G8ShWCg1
BoN
On 29 April 1942 Nimitz ordered all 4 of his operational carriers to the Coral Sea specifically to oppose the Moresby operation which he knew of based via radio intercepts. He did that because that was what he was directed to do.
Any carrier hunting was a bonus as he needed to preserve as much of his own carrier strength as possible for the upcoming Midway battle, which he was well aware of due to radio intercepts. It should go without saying that Nimitz would have wanted to preserve all his carriers for that battle rather than frittering away their strength at Coral Sea had he the option because the Japanese DID come with the intention of carrier hunting at Midway, and much to their regret, got their wish.
So again, the situation as the Japanese saw it at the end of Coral Sea was they were fresh out of carrier air to support any landings in Moresby and a US carrier was still somewhere in the area. The feint by Halsey’s carriers Enterprise and Hornet then forced the Japanese hand and they folded.
Result – Potential Japanese invasion forces scattered from Rabaul to Truk with no possibility of reassembling for the rest of the war.
Tom
Buy the greenback and wear diamonds ?
Jug Ears, The market designer, is a moron with a God complex
Classics.
409,153 views 16 Dec 2020
Kaitlin ran into some BLM supporters in Miami who weren’t happy to see her
BLM RUNS TO C0PS AGAIN
Bear
Perth real estate prices peaked in 2008? Is that true?
I think the Treasurer can already do that. The power has never been used – and would not be. They would be crucified by the markets, domestically and more importantly internationally. Essentially the only reason governments do not default on bonds.
Hilarious that their plan A is to go after an indigenous woman.
No one is going after Price because she’s Indigenous.
She’s been chosen as a Token and she’s way out of her depth.
Dutton can’t sack her, because he opens himself up on why he chose her in the first place.
It simply just doesn’t play well to everybody else the way it does to the ideological left.
That’s your fantasy.
The reality is that she’ll be assessed on her performance presenting the NO case.
Dutton is now a hostage to her whims.
She might agree with Albanese on Monday, change her mind on Tuesday, have a nervous breakdown on Wednesday …
A few residential prices possibly. Most would be back or above that now I expect. Things got pretty crazy there for a while, including an $18 pint (not that one should ever be buying pints in Australia.)
Myer has pulled out of the eponymous shopping centre mall in the Brisbane CBD, which has not had full tenancy since the lockdowns.
There were some huge losses taken. Six figures on off the plan apartment purchases around the place weren’t uncommon.
I continue my jouney through Netflix Korean Rom Coms, when asked by Live in Grandsons why, I asy having spent a lot of time in Korea, I appreciate the Cultural Nuances and enjoy the style of the 16 to 20 episodes, each of about 1 hour – I watch with English Subtitles as you need to get the emotion from the spoken voice
I have meandered over multiple topics
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Brilliant attorney Woo Young-woo tackles challenges in the courtroom and beyond as a newbie at a top law firm and a woman on the autism spectrum.
‘Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung’ (2019)
This is one of the rare K-dramas with a 100% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s about a lively and cheerful girl Goo Hae-ryung who wants to attend an all-female historian school. Besides her, the story follows prince Cha Eun-woo, who hides from his royal family, dreaming of becoming a romance novelist.
This drama was popular when it came out because of its wit and swoon-worthy scenes. Additionally, it’s one of the most popular historical shows depicting life during the Joseon dynasty. For history buffs, there are also wonderful landscapes and incredible costumes. This show is on Netflix with 20 one-hour episodes.
‘Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha’ (2021-)
‘Business Proposal’ (2022-)
Dali and the Cocky Prince (2021)
Shooting Stars
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
Dr Romantic
– Amazing Medical Series with more than one season of 20 episodes – Season 3 just about to come out and screens on SBS
This was generated by an article re Netflix and Harry & Meghan
There have also been reports suggesting the Sussexes are looking at moving into scripted content for Netflix such as rom-coms, which sounds a tad ludicrous and outside their wheelhouse. (Though I’d watch When Harry Met His First Gas Bill.)
Well-known British journalist Gordon Rayner recently wrote of the duchess in the Telegraph: “Having been through the trauma of Megxit, the British chapter of her life is behind her, and in front of her all pathways are in the US.”
Except does the US of A feel as enthusiastically about Meghan?
Netflix would do well to look at Korean Rom-Com Success and rather than Woke Crap, do Western Rom-Com series like the Korean Rom-Coms
As a Korean Rom-Com Commenter stated
Be it American, French, Japanese, Filipino, written, or otherwise, I love the romantic comedy genre. A rom-com story always has that feel-good element to it. Not only does it make you feel and understand what love is all about, super bonus points din na you can get a good laugh out of it. A win-win! And because I’m a self-proclaimed honorary Korean citizen (LOL), I just love love love a good K-drama rom-com, too!
Zatara – Might’ve been a bit of carrier hunting going on during Coral Sea as well…
Certainly that is my impression of the account (see p40).
Chapter 2 – Japan’s First Check – Coral Sea (1968)
There’s a link to the PDF of the chapter. You might enjoy the perspective from the Aussie side. I’ve found the whole series very readable, and this chapter is only 32 pages.
(The entire history is free on line via the Australian War Memorial website, which is where this one comes from, but is cumbersome since it’s divided into these individual PDF chapters. That adds up to a lot of PDFs for a 22 volume series…)
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/some-small-signs-of-sanity.php
Sensible people keep wondering how long the leftist madness can continue. Things never turn around at an instant, but happen more slowly. Suddenly, in the last 72 hours or so, there are signs of sanity perhaps re-establishing a foothold.
She may be a lefty but she’s got big swinging balls. Being a billionaire probably helps. 😀
The growth of the supermarket- and mega mardware- and pub-brewery-entertainment chain- models is only half the story. (in my humble, that story has a lot to do with working women, i’ll fill that one one day). Australian workers have deserted entry-level jobs, like stacking shelves, weighing nails and pouring schooners.
It’s no wonder that we now see robo-checkouts scanning your punnetted mini cucumbers and tattoo’d surly continentals pouring out “large” and “small” craft beers.
I had some sort of challenge with someone- MT? MH? about never paying with plastic. I’ve broken down twice since, once at a mega micro brewery with the extended family (card only, but I was desperate to play the host) and then up in the hills at a gig when the rider allowance ran out. Fairly blazin’, again wanted to feed the hard-up guitarist.
Dunno if it counts as peer pressure?
Yep, retail in anything less than a major destination retail suburban complex is looking pretty sick. I think the Apple approach might work (above a certain price point. ) Go and play with the product. Customise and buy online. Manufacture to order and distribute from a box on the city outskirts.
This channel has been wheel clamped from Gulag. You’ll figure out why very quickly. Don’t just watch this one clip.
Thomas Sowell TV:
The Relentless efforts to improve black education in the United States no one talks about
Kaitlin ran into some BLM supporters in Miami who weren’t happy to see her
Kaitlin, Candace and a few other ladies are outstanding.
Natch.
This Govt considers the RBA their enemy, an obstacle to the certainties they crave for re-election. These changes are being enacted at the speed of light (for a Govt).
So we can be certain that easy (er) money will be forthcoming and also we will have to therefore endure a higher rate of inflation. Get used to it. Companies that can exert pricing power will prosper (not advice).
Myer has 4 or more stores in Brisbane suburban malls. The wife and I were at one early in the year on a Sunday and it was jam packed with a lot of young people about.
Wally – everything is being driven by labour. Relative cost, supply, training … everything. China completely changed the economics of “stuff”, giving us 50c disposable socks. Getting rid of labour is next, as far as possible.
Lots of people visit shops to try on stuff, only to buy it online later at cheaper prices. Traffic doesn’t necessarily equate to sales.
If the teev is to be believed, Tulsa is pretty mobbed up.
Maybe the vendor could be persuaded to do a deal.
The shopping as leisure model. Doesn’t work everywhere. Myer trading results weren’t too bad (compared to the past). The whole department store model was initially a response to cultural changes. It might be saved by another.
I’ll tell you who was doing very well…the food court vendors.
No doubt. A stroll around in free aircon and a cheap meal out.
Sad news.
Former Warringah Liberal candidate Katherine Deves pulls out of race to replace late-Jim Molan in Senate (23 Apr)
“This week (there was) a lot of soul searching, a few sleepless nights (but) ultimately it came down to a question of priorities as to whether I nominated for the Senate and I just decided at this time it just wasn’t the right time for me,” Ms Deves said.
…
The former army major general’s death left a vacant spot in the Senate which will be filled by a vote of the NSW state branch.
A strong field of candidates has emerged in recent weeks including state party president Maria Kovacic who stepped down from her position to make another tilt at federal politics after failing to win the seat of Parramatta at 2022 election.
The successful businesswoman who is aligned with the state’s powerful moderate faction looks set to face a challenge from her wing of the party from former state minister Andrew Constance.
I doubt she’d’ve gotten up, but rubbing the noses of the Lib powerbrokers in their own slime would’ve been a good thing.
Supplying even a small Australian force in Darwin in 1942 would have been difficult (reliant mainly on rail) and Japan was much further from its supply source, over contested seas which would have become increasingly threatened by the US submarine campaign.
Dad in New Guinea in 44 and 45, said the Japs he saw were starving and had no ammunition, hence booby traps, sharpened sticks to fight with etc.
JC at 10:51
yeah i know
and he’s old school
reckons it wud prolly come into its own on big jobs and straight runs
but wud be ok on single houses for volume builders
he wuz cool wif it coz he does all artisan work and renos which wouldn’t be worth the programming and set-up
Cassie of Sydney:
It will be a very brave executive who has the balls to point out the next brain fart from Woke Personnel Department of Trendy Crap Ltd, is a disaster waiting to happen.
Who in their right mind mind will say Gillette, Red Bull, and Bud Light in nothing but the most regretful tones?
Never underestimate the Lefts ability to be nasty little bastards even in retreat.
OldOzziesays:
April 23, 2023 at 10:41 am
Wallabies are forced to wear a WHITE jersey in ‘woke’ World Rugby move that could see the famous All Blacks also made to abandon iconic brand for a white alternative
. Alternative strips introduced for inclusivity
. Colour blind rugby fans slam the policy
What a Dumb Move! – As a badly colour blind persom I can tell the difference – Woke gone Mad
The Wobblies I can understand doing such a stupid thing but the All Blacks?? I remember when there was an outcry because their sponsor Adidas asked them to add a third stripe to their socks.
For those talking about the Japs establishing airfields at Darwin. A serious question … Why? … To where could they have flown with a reasonable bomb load that would make even a tiny bit of difference to Australia’s war effort other than Mt Isa?
The germans, wisely, use ‘Dr’ as a degree *rank* which they then pair to a degree field. Thus a Medical Dr is ‘Dr-Med’, and engineering Dr is ‘Dr-Ing’ and a gender studies Dr is ‘would you like fries with that’?
I kept the program from my sons combined (engineering-humanities) degree conferment and Flinders a few years back because some of the humanities doctoral awards were so bad I thought they were piss takes, eg
or
Im not an expert, but it looks like you can be a ‘Dr’ of feminist novel writing now?
Oh, get it now
when JC said ‘massively’ automated he actually meant bricks
bricks are dense
Electric tanks.
Americans In High-Crime Cities Are Having Their Cars Bulletproofed, Says Armorer (22 Apr)
What is the range of an armour-plated Tesla? Ok the amourer guy probably isn’t doing Teslas, but lefties in those cities who can afford to armour-plate their cars should be doing the right thing by the planet. They wouldn’t want to be hypocrites now would they?
flyingduksays:
April 23, 2023 at 12:07 pm
Highly defensible due to remoteness and Jap control of the air, relatively easy to supply, yet would draw Australian forces like a magnet.
Supplying even a small Australian force in Darwin in 1942 would have been difficult (reliant mainly on rail)
There was a big gap in the rail link between Alice Springs and (IIRC) Birdum. The gap was covered on a road (to use the term generously) that collapsed to bulldust in the dry. The Darwin garrison got as big as a division, but that was probably the absolute limit.
In 1944, consideration was given to a “Middle Option”, to use Darwin as the base for a combined Australian/British force to move north through Timor, into the (then) NEI. That went nowhere.
Logistics is a cruel master.
Bulletproof Tesla, Mk1
Bricklaying machines don’t stack up with the present model of stand alone Housing because one bricklaying crew doesn’t have every house, they may have 1 in 5, but even those aren’t ready to go off consecutively.
If the State became a player in housebuilding and went back to the Terrace House model, then it might be economical by erecting a Tower Crane on site and going back to the Department Of Works model for labour.
You’re a funny guy crotchless; assuming you’re not a bot.
For those talking about the Japs establishing airfields at Darwin. A serious question … Why? … To where could they have flown with a reasonable bomb load that would make even a tiny bit of difference to Australia’s war effort other than Mt Isa?
It’s all deflection, intended to puff treacherous Labor Party PM John Curtin.
Curtin had told the Japs that if they could place a Fleet at the entrance to Sydney and Melbourne, his Government would “evacuate” all the civilians and they could land unopposed.
That became obvious when Curtin and Forde released The Brisbane Line Defence Plan, which was plainly insane bullshit that no one was ever prepared to claim authorship of.
robotic comment generation isnt wot its cracked up to be hey
GOAT.
Sanchez
You’re lower casing too now? Where the hell did you get that idea! I also like the shorter improv words too. Works well on a building site.
Diogenes – To defend Darwin and most particularly the sea approaches to that town.
My point is that if the Japs took Darwin early in 1942 the Curtin government would be totally fixated by this to the exclusion of almost everything else. Yet as Boambee John just pointed out the logisitics of getting there are prohibitive. So a Jap division garrisoning Darwin would be a very good political investment distracting Allied attention from everywhere else, since Curtin would be screeching to Churchill and Roosevelt like a cockie with its tail on fire.
This is a political/strategic not a tactical equation. There wasn’t a huge amount of point to bomb Darwin and Broome, yet the Japanese devoted significant air assets to do so.
If they’d worked out they could paralyze the Allied effort in the SW Pacific by fixating Curtin on a Darwin strongpoint the air assets needed to keep Allied naval forces away would be a very worthwhile investment. We just didn’t have enough naval force in the Indian Ocean to support amphibious attacks, so preventing recapture of Darwin from the sea with a modest air commitment would force Canberra overland either from Alice Springs or Mt Isa. It’d be horrendous, but the political and media pressure on Canberra would be equally horrendous – so there’s no way Curtin could just let a Japanese garrison in Darwin stew, no matter how much MacArthur or Churchill might want him to.
I think it’s a fun idea. But as I said upthread it wouldn’t’ve delayed the Japanese defeat more than a year or so. If that, given the atomic bomb.
Lordy.
wot fkn bizness is it of yers
i cnt be fkd pressn cap lok tday
prolly not yuuuge prob hey
Some big guy in the US is making a fortune by having a fart noise making device in his pocket and walking around and letting rip as he passes, mainly women. The girls seem to take it well. A few guys look as though they want to thump him:
https://www.facebook.com/GilstrapTV
When I stop being a real smarts tax attorney I might try this in Australia.
cmon man
yer a suburban divorce lwyr
dont be puttin on airs n graces here champ
You’re beginning to sound like, you know who, Sanchez. You need to go back to upper casing. It’s lowrent and a little pretentious being a lower caser. You don’t want to be a lower caser.
NDIS overloaded by Thermomixes, aged care and mental health, says carer
“Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics”
Bruce of Ncl
My point is that if the Japs took Darwin early in 1942 the Curtin government would be totally fixated by this to the exclusion of almost everything else. Yet as Boambee John just pointed out the logisitics of getting there are prohibitive. So a Jap division garrisoning Darwin would be a very good political investment distracting Allied attention from everywhere else, since Curtin would be screeching to Churchill and Roosevelt like a cockie with its tail on fire.
And they would be ignoring him. What would he do then?
It might distract Australian opinion, but Curtin had handed the Australian forces based here over to MacArthur, who wasn’t going to waste effort trying to recapture Darwin. He would see a Japanese division trapped in Darwin as one fewer to defeat on the road to the Philippines.
Don’t dismiss the Voice tactic of copying Cathy McGowan, it worked well for her. She took a very safe Lib seat with an utterly useless member (Mirabella) and turned it into the first sort of Teal seat, Helen Haines saw what worked and has capitalised on it. Local people pushing stuff can work well.
go fk yerself
lwr case is cool
adds cred to inanities
u shd try it
The young girl @ 0:28 is switched on.
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woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane inside the Westfield Topanga Mall 7
As I said, BJ, order all Australian forces to cease combat roles. Which they would do. He was threatening that, as I recall, as a tactic to get Churchill to transport the 6th, 7th and 9th back to Australia. Eventually he let himself be persuaded to a compromise.
No RAN, no RAAF, no AIF and the political consequences for Churchill would be catastrophic, since he was having enough problems with Canada, India and South Africa. There was a lot of resentment in the Dominions.
Ol’ Sanch’ is establishing a new Persona since Furtive Wokester crashed and burned yesterday.
See here: The Woke Times
S.Panza ed.
I don’t think Dr. Who fan ol’ Sanch’ will stray far from the reservation, though.
Hat tip: Unz Review
time’s a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all)
e e cummings
Oh and Blamey did wonders managing MacArthur. I have a vast amount of time for him. But there was a limit which MacArthur continually skirted. His treatment of Australian forces was arrogant and entirely unjustified. He was an arsehole, although a competent one.
Was just in an Aldi and noted their ANZAC biscuit tins.
One was the Hospital ship Centaur.
The other represented Afghanistan and featured a helicopter door gunner up close. Guessing would have to be in a Chinook. An infantry image would have covered far more soldiers but perhaps already done that kind of image.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/report-german-bundeswehr-now-almost?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
German Bundeswehr now almost totally disarmed, with munitions stores sufficient to support only one or two days of fighting in the event of a serious conflict
Years of chronic under-funding and heedless aid shipments to Ukraine have left Europe’s dominant industrial power essentially undefended, and hardly anybody in government seems to care.
And Churchill would have stopped feeding and supplying them, and potentially placed them all under arrest, which was the preferred solution in WW1 when the 1st AIF mutinied in 1918 . Arrest was easier to do to the RAAF & RAN, but the AIF in nth Africa may have seen reason when the the British Army supplied no water and neither beans nor bullets.
Beer Whisperer:
I dunno, Beery. Gramsci has done well over the last 90. It appears close to fruition – the opening ceremony in 2024 in the US is going to be interesting.
Interesting vid on the strategic importance of Port Moresby
Iirc, Blamey once suggested to MacArthur that they should exchange some staff officers.
MacArthur declined as he was afraid the Americans would be shown up as less professional than the Australians.
Turtlehead appears to have suffering serious side effects from Iodine overdosing.
There are no US bases in Germany. Not now and never have been.
OO
You’ve done well!
I was getting called “Silver Fox” before 40.
Grey Ranga:
Wait until black tape gets its arms around your permits.
Btw, if any Cats are visiting Brisbane the MacArthur Museum is located in the CBD in the old AMP building, which was his GHQ from 1942 until c.’44.
Worth a visit.
A portrait of Washington rather than Roosevelt hangs on the wall behind his (original) desk because he didn’t want to be overseen by a Democrat. 😀
Thanks Roger. I walk past it all the time, haven’t ever been in.
An important distinction: That was MacArthur’s GHQ. The US Army Headquarters, apparently where much of the planning was done, was in Someville House boarding school – evacuated for the duration so as to be available to the US Army.
Walli Dali:
I don’t mind using a card for groceries and shit, but I do keep a moderate cash stash for dodgy shit – and I’m happy to do so.
That way I can keep the important stuff incognito.
That sounds right, Sal. I knew the Americans had commandeered Somerville House as well.
Which would have destroyed the Commonwealth and lost the war for the Allies.
Churchill was acutely aware of this, which is why he compromised with Curtin after Pearl Hbr.
It would be a next quantum of woe if the Japanese were actually on Australian soil though.
I really think both Churchill and Roosevelt would’ve folded. They intimated this in the run up, when they got the 8th sent to Singapore. The wrangling over that place in the years up to the war was pretty epic. Many promises were made, few were kept. Which coloured Australian views of the alliance I suspect.
Good for the three Muslim women here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-23/muslims-in-regional-victoria-celebrate-eid/102252218
But don’t hold your breath waiting for an equivalent ABC report on how three orthodox Catholic women who embrace the traditional teaching of the Church find Lent and Easter empowering.
Also, if visiting New Farm Park, the Submariners’ Walk Heritage Trail takes you round to the memorial at Tenerife where the US sub base was located.
Roger: IIRC much/most of the planning was done at Army HQ/Somerville House – though that “planning” may have been principally logistics & the like while strategic decisions were made in AMP House.
Am I correct in believing MacArthur was living in Lennon’s Hotel?
Mirabella wasn’t just useless, sfw. She had an uncanny ability to alienate and antagonise people who should have been her natural supporters.
Just check the opening hours on the website, Sal; it’s staffed by volunteers & isn’t open every day. On my last visit I was given a tour by a young lady who was very knowledgeable. She told me the joke about Washington’s portrait.
The Grigbot will need rebooting with the next AI update. It already feels old.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 1:28 pm
And they would be ignoring him. What would he do then?
As I said, BJ, order all Australian forces to cease combat roles. Which they would do.
And then? The US forces in Australia move elsewhere, the Australians with the British forces are disarmed and interned?
Take it slowly. Short of marching on foot from southern Australia across the centre, no significant Australian force could have been moved to Darwin to (stop laughing this is serious) attempt to dislodge a couple of entrenched Japanese divisions?
Stop, just stop. This is beyond a joke.
Ed Casesays:
April 23, 2023 at 1:31 pm
Ol’ Sanch’ is establishing a new Persona since Furtive Wokester crashed and burned yesterday.
See here: The Woke Times
S.Panza ed.
I don’t think Dr. Who fan ol’ Sanch’ will stray far from the reservation, though.
Hat tip: Unz Review
Lay off the Happy Baccy, Grandpa Ed Simpson.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 1:33 pm
Oh and Blamey did wonders managing MacArthur. I have a vast amount of time for him. But there was a limit which MacArthur continually skirted. His treatment of Australian forces was arrogant and entirely unjustified. He was an arsehole, although a competent one.
And Curtin relied absolutely on him. Do you seriously think that Blamey could take his army and go elsewhere, without massive US support?
Musk never released #FauciFiles because its release was only a threat to ward off Bidens dogs from weaponizing DOJ against Elon.
Xi/Obama/Fauci paid for Covid-19 and released it. So Xi threatened Musk not to release lab leak theory (Fauci Files) as it implicates Xi!
wrong link, correct link:
https://twitter.com/AmericanHubener/status/1649929725434028032
Bruce of Ncl
I really think both Churchill and Roosevelt would’ve folded. They intimated this in the run up, when they got the 8th sent to Singapore.
HQ 8th Division arrived in Singapore February/March 1941, 22nd Brigade in February 1941, 27th Brigade in August 1941. I’m not sure how Roosevelt influenced those moves.
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Yes, the whole family did, including the Chinese lady who looked after Arthur.
Not sure if they ever moved into a house.
Incidentally, my old GP had an elderly lady as a patient who had been MacArthur’s driver in Brisbane.
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The Jimmy Dore Show
Bruce of Ncl
PS, I think that you have the 8th Australian Division confused with the 18th British Division, which was diverted to Singapore in time for a couple of already lost battles, and the PoW camps for three and a half years. Not a relevant comparison.
Steve Trickler:
Thomas Sowell TV:
The Relentless efforts to improve black education in the United States no one talks about
Very good – quite interesting in terms of the racial education at the start of the last century. And nothing like we are being taught today.
Any of the Australian POWs still with us?
AI rediscovers Einstein’s Time Dilation and Kepler’s 3rd Law
Sabine Hossenfelder
A statue of a naked, bearded man attempting to breastfeed an infant is drawing disapproval on social media for what some critics are calling female erasure.
Totally agree. I hope Anheuser Busch (NYSE: BUD) get their share prices kicked down 90% or so.
It’s up to Americans to not buy the other brands they own (Michelob, etc).
Sounds like Australia Post.
A question for the sparkies/auto engineers etc – is it true that a fully charged battery left on concrete without any insulation etc will discharge itself over say, a 48 hour period?
Kirk Sorensen thinks that it is much more practical to tether SMR reactors to the sea bottom and transmit power to land by undersea coaxial cable (and then raise reactors to the sea surface where they are vulnerable only very rarely for special maintenance).
The idiots won’t do this yet they’ll tether 100 sq kilometers of fu.king wind towers off the coast of Newcastle, which will kill whales, sea birds and every other thing while giving a bare % of the power the nukes would give.
No I mean the 8th Div. Which after much negotiation was sent to Singapore. The rest we know, Hellfire Pass etc.
Before the war the Australian government had long discussed and negotiated around the issue of Singapore. And on the breakout of war the UK had promised a powerful fleet there, to which we provided our contribution: 8th Div AIF. The powerful fleet never arrived.
The whole policy about Singapore was a massive controversy in the inter war years. We were under a lot of pressure to agree to them.
Then once the Japs attacked Pearl Harbour Curtin immediately demanded the return of all three AIF divisions from the Middle East. The 8th Div was the price. We did our bit, the Poms were dragging their heals for their bit, but we got 7th and one brigade of 6th Div back. Plus the American infantry division as a sort of booby prize. Which was better than nothing I suppose.
Any of the Australian POWs still with us?
I met one at Hellfire Pass ANZAC memorial service in 2008.
I believe the last surviving exPOW passed in 2020 though.
Like Pogria yesterday, I have been baking with the grandies. Today I taught them the wonders of bread making and how yeast works. We are having pizza. Round eyes as they watched the dough prove in the patch of sunlight.
We all look very flour-y though, like those rolls from the baker. Amazing how it gets everywhere! Mister Three helped me roll out the discs for the pizza and now they can sit and get a bit fluffier for later on.
Definitely beats Dominoes.
I’ll tell you who was doing very well…the food court vendors.
Too noisy.
I understand the need for hard, easy clean surfaces, but the noise in a food court is way too high.
Next time I’ll take my noiseometer just to measure it.
My older sister says they are trying periods of low noise in some major shopping centres and are having quite a degree of success with it.
Any comments?
I still have to wonder if its hasn’t been deliberate from the start. Is it that hard to believe that the real goal is destroying America? In those terms it’s working brilliantly.
2023.04.22 Western Leadership Miscalculations
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Landline today had an excellent segment on the Australian Light Horse of WWI. It revealed the inaccuracy of the myth that most of the amazing Walers were destroyed at the end of the war, as they couldn’t be brought home – except, of course, the mount of the commanding officer Major general Sir William Bridges. Rather, the program said, the horses in sound condition were shipped to Europe to allied forces for ongoing service.
Landline also traced the origin of the famous “Waler” to inland NSW and Qld stations where stock horses were bred for toughness, courage and the ability to drink sparingly. The breed survives in lines of breeders of the registered Australian Stock Horse. It was further argued that there are still descendants of the original stock on many inland stations. In fact, it was stated that the sale of the Kidman stations a few years ago saw many of these horses sold to the abattoirs, although some were bought by those who knew their livestock. Sad – because I am sure that Gina Rinehart, who bought the Kidman properties, would have retained the horses had she known of their provenance.
This is beyond horrendous.
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The Brits did send all they could spare – HMS Prince of Wales, and HMS Repulse.
Soldiers had been allowed to bring their horses home from the Boer War – a couple of very nasty diseases of livestock were imported into Australia that way.
Trump was right about the US Space Force
Violations of the law? Pffift, so what they don’t apply to HIM.
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Zipster:
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Tear it down. If the Left can get away with tearing down our statues, then by God, we’ll rip theirs down.
Classics!
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Tear it down. If the Left can get away with tearing down our statues, then by God, we’ll rip theirs down.
The difference between the left and the right is the left want to destroy society so the laws of society mean nothing to them. The right want to save society and therefore appreciate its laws. There is a mental block or barrier in the right stopping them acting in the same way as the left; even when it is apparent that society and its laws have been subverted by the left. That is why there has not been a revolution by the right in the US yet.
The left are becoming so rabid they are begging for a scrap. Democrats are leaving their party in droves and they’re doubling down on weirdo stuff like MAPs and rigging elections.
Beware. Don’t use a flaming torch on your pizza.
Two killed, 12 injured in Madrid restaurant blaze started by pizza flambé (23 Apr)
Doesn’t say what sort of pizza, but I suspect Cats will have their suspicions.
Pizza flambe?
???
Was just in an Aldi and noted their ANZAC biscuit tins.
Down in Tassie, the biscuit maker Cripps makes a Teddy Sheean tin of Anzacs.
Link
Great little small businesses. More than a few arriving in BMWs and Mercs over the road from me. Great option for families. Parents and grandparents sitting around while the kids run amok. And no one really cares.
Robert is the battery connected to the concrete floor or does is pinch the energy through osmosis? Special Ed is the most qualified to answer this, another of his special fields of interest, like the DIY brain surgery for beginners. Passed last in a class of one at the Mutley School of Jism.
I’m afraid it’s the abominable pizza tonight. The pizza that dare not speak its name.
Mister Three demanded the two fruits one. With ham. And cheese.
I bow to his discerning tastebuds. 😀
But Groogs got an A in skin work. Thanks Mother.
Grey Ranga:
No, it’s a battery sitting on a concrete garage floor. Not ‘connected’ in any way. It’s just the subject came up in the pub the other day and no one had a definitive answer apart from the age/state of the car battery.
I cannot see how it would, but that’s why I’m asking.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 3:25 pm
I think that you have the 8th Australian Division confused with the 18th British Division
No I mean the 8th Div. Which after much negotiation was sent to Singapore. The rest we know, Hellfire Pass etc.
The 8th Division went to Singapore in the first half of 1941. I am struggling to understand your suggestion that Roosevelt was involved i the decision.
Re the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions, that was unrelated to the 8th Division, which was already in Malaya, and was in the PoW camps before the leading elements of the 6th and 7th Divisions reached Australia.
You have mentioned reding the Official Histories on-line. It is years since I read most of them, but IIRC, in the SW Pacific Area the First Year volume, there is a description of a meeting in Victoria Barracks Melbourne between MacArthur’s staff and the senior Australian staff, to discuss existing defence plans.
At ons point, a US officer with a dramatic flair, but not much geographic knowledge pointed to somewhere around Broome, and asked what plans existed to counter a large scale Japanese landing there, followed by an advance on southern Australia. The response was to wait a couple of months, then send in the Salvage Service to clean up.
The same fate would await any unilateral attempt by Australia to evict your mythical two Japanese divisions from Darwin, even with the advantage of rail lines for some of the distance. Even the Australian Army staff would have counselled against such actions.
Seems Lidia Thorpe’s father is a fully paid up member of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation…
Winston, no it won’t.
Unlike,say, ALPBC j’ismists or Qld Liar politicians.
Amongst its other, many, fine qualities, pineapple is a noted flame retardant *.
Play safe with pizza… always add pineapple.
* may contain elements of truthiness
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I wonder where that ended up?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/bidens-nomination-for-secretary-of-labor-never-owned-a-business-and-lost-31-billion-in-california-in-fraudulent-unemployment-benefits/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-04-22
Get behind thee Satan, i cast you and the accursed pineapple out.
The power of Christ Compels You.
It’s pretty obvious whose side they’re on – and it’s not the Republicans.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/whose-side-are-they-on-republican-senators-help-dems-advance-bidens-judicial-nominees/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-04-22
Actually, that’s “get thee behind me, Satan”. Little known fact*… the dog, Satan, was trying to steal the pineapple from the divinely-ordained pizza.
* truthiness is over there —>
Alex Stein on how female bodies have changed over the past few decades.
Hanson punching down on Thorpey in hopes of getting a few more votes off idiots.
Pretty weak, i’d say.
What’s Hanson’s position on the Referendum?
Pretty weak too?
This guy has had enough. Watch, it’s certainly to the point. .https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1649537773580300288
Wanna sticker Groogs? Ask Dover for my email. Think of it as an early Xmas prezzie.
Ed Casesays:
April 23, 2023 at 5:18 pm
Hanson punching down on Thorpey in hopes of getting a few more votes off idiots.
Pretty weak, i’d say.
What’s Hanson’s position on the Referendum?
Pretty weak too?
Grandpa Ed Simpson still shilling for Labor and the referendum.
It all helps.
Churchill not Roosevelt.
Different people. 😀
Lol! My grandson is a snowy haired angel. After the unspeakable pizza (plus a dose of Movie Night Smarties) should I expect Chucky?
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 5:29 pm
The 8th Division went to Singapore in the first half of 1941. I am struggling to understand your suggestion that Roosevelt was involved i the decision.
Churchill not Roosevelt.
Different people. ?
One of your earlier comments, on the previous page, mentioned both.
BJ – Exactly. 😀
The presence of a Jap garrison division in Darwin would be like having an aching tooth. Canberra and the MSM would be obsessed by it.
In the case of a Darwin strongpoint, Japanese sea supply with air cover is very effective. Even with poor supply, from the experience of the Jap divisions in Wewak, Bougainville and Rabaul, a Jap division in Darwin would be there until evicted with stern effort. The loss of supply to the former three locations was only after the Japanese air and naval forces were so depleted they couldn’t maintain supply…and that was in 1945 not 1942.
Bruce of Ncfl
The relevant bit from the previous page.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 2:40 pm
…
I really think both Churchill and Roosevelt would’ve folded. They intimated this in the run up, when they got the 8th sent to Singapore. The wrangling over that place in the years up to the war was pretty epic.
And you chose…poorly. 😀
The Aussie official history is fascinating, especially the political stuff. Even the difference between Curtin and Menzies on grand strategy. Prewar Labor just loved the idea of subs and aeroplanes, and thought they were the bees’ knees (this is in the thirties). Menzies et al pushed the army and big ships. Labor was off with the fairies. Yet Curtin was the guy who ended up with the war with Japan.
Poor Winston was trying to make bricks without straw, and Curtin was pretty decent about that. But Curtin also had to answer to the people, and the people had different ideas about stuff than Churchill and Roosevelt.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 5:43 pm
The response was to wait a couple of months, then send in the Salvage Service to clean up.
The same fate would await any unilateral attempt by Australia to evict your mythical two Japanese divisions from Darwin, even with the advantage of rail lines for some of the distance.
BJ – Exactly. ?
The presence of a Jap garrison division in Darwin would be like having an aching tooth. Canberra and the MSM would be obsessed by it.
Thanks for accepting that ejecting any Japanese garrison from Darwin would have not been practicable.
MacArthur would have made this point, supported by both Blamey and Sturdee (who had pushed to get the 6th and 7th Divisions returned to Australia, rather than going to Burma). What would Curtin have done then? Overruled MacArthur? Not a hope. Th eunified advice would have been a blocking point well inland, and let the submarines starve them into uselessness.
MacArthur would have soothed the media with a touch of reality (sending a few of them in a two wheel drive along the Stuart Highway (sic) would have helped).
Enough, no more from me on this subject. It has been thrashed to death.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 23, 2023 at 5:53 pm
One of your earlier comments, on the previous page, mentioned both.
And you chose…poorly. ?
One final response.
You wrote…poorly, directly linking both Churchill and Roosevelt in the decision to move the 8th Division to Singapore. That happened long before Pearl Harbor.
BJ – Both Churchill and Roosevelt absolutely guaranteed the sanctity of the Australian continent. Many promises were made around this guarantee. In this universe none of those debts needed to be drawn upon. But all that changes if the Japanese actually had landed on Australian continental territory.
Which isn’t to say the US and UK would’ve actually done what they promised, since events and force availability have an impact upon such things. But there’d be a huge impetus for Canberra to execute those agreements if the Japs had landed.
Um, Churchill was around long before Pearl Harbour.
The wrangling about Singapore in the run up to war with Japan was a fascinating story. Went on for about two decades. It was a sort of icon in the Admiralty, but not at all so from our perspective. Yet what we wanted was a significant RN fleet on station, which the Brits never managed to come up with despite years of promises. The PoW and Repulse were a last minute reinforcement, and completely inadequate as we sadly saw.
Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102 (23 Apr)
Peoples! 🙂
Had a wonderful day yesterday at Jupes’ (although he did insist on watching the ALPFL) including a phonecall from Cassie.
Friends. It’s so good to have them. 🙂
Also nailed down the two intro tracks for the next month’s Radio Show.
Cats, I’d love to give a hint, but it would be too obvious.
it wuz tops eh
Bro!
It’s time for a liberty song. I doubt the band knows it, but this ticks lots of liberty boxes.
My way soon
BJ – a Labor PM being overruled by a Yank general? Are you kidding? Hahahaha.
They would kowtow to public opinion. MacArthur would be swept away. The voters are boss. We’re talking a serious political crisis, easily strong enough to cause the fall of the government. No mere Yank general can stand in the way of that ultimate imperative (in Labor terms).
Finally.
Depression era Appalachian jug and washboard bands.
War is sh*t.
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms – The Falklands War
i intend to be standin’ and fallin’ if necessary again this anzac day
The Melbourne International Conformity Festival has revealed itself again and declined to celebrate Humphris, a comedian which none of them could ever be. Glad I abandoned it circa 1995. You want Trump gags? They’ve got Trump gags….
This is modern western civilisation.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YH9G7Wg4SOM
*Humphries
The modern west.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YH9G7Wg4SOM