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- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
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Fox Dumps Tucker to Go Woke
Self-sabotages to appease the Left.
So the stories are everywhere.
Rupert Murdoch fired Tucker, per the Los Angeles Times.
But in all of the chaos, make no mistake.
No less than New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democrat leader, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the Left’s favorite fascist — demanded that Tucker be fired. Tucker had seriously answered the leftist racist malarkey that is the building block of the American Left.
Now, Fox has bowed the corporate knee and done what the farthest left politicians in America demanded. In short, Fox has gone woke.
What a disgrace.
Without question, Fox has managed to self-sabotage in spectacular fashion.
In the torrent of outrage following Tucker’s departure, Fox’s stock got clobbered. As reported here at Bloomberg:
Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Exit Erases $507 Million in Value
Class A shares in Fox Corp. tumble as much as 5.4% Monday
Carlson Tonight had an audience of over 3.7 million at times
Opinion Global Economy
What strong gold says about the weak dollar
The US has been weaponising its currency — but that comes with a cost
The writer is chair of Rockefeller International
Today commentators overwhelmingly agree that a weakening US dollar cannot possibly lose its status as the world’s dominant currency because there is “no alternative” on the visible horizon.
Perhaps, but don’t tell that to the many countries racing to find an alternative, and such complacency will only accelerate their search.
The prime example right now is gold, up 20 per cent in six months. Surging demand is not led by the usual suspects — investors large and small, seeking a hedge against inflation and low real interest rates. Instead, the heavy buyers are central banks, which are sharply reducing their dollar holdings and seeking a safe alternative. Central banks are buying more tons of gold now than at any time since data begins in 1950 and currently account for a record 33 per cent of monthly global demand for gold.
This buying boom has helped push the price of gold to near-record levels and more than 50 per cent higher than what models based on real interest rates would suggest. Clearly, something new is driving gold prices.
Look closer at the central bank buyers, and nine of the top 10 are in the developing world, including Russia, India and China. Not coincidentally, these three countries are in talks with Brazil and South Africa about creating a new currency to challenge the dollar. Their immediate goal: to trade with one another directly, in their own coin. “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar,” Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said recently on a visit to China, arguing that an alternative would help “balance world geopolitics”.
Thus the oldest and most traditional of assets, gold, is now a vehicle of central bank revolt against the dollar. Often in the past both the dollar and gold have been seen as havens, but now gold is seen as much safer. During the short banking crisis in March, gold kept rising while the dollar drifted down. The difference in the movement of the two has never been so large.
And why are emerging nations rebelling now, when global trade has been based on the dollar since the end of the second world war? Because the US and its allies have increasingly turned to financial sanctions as a weapon.
Astonishingly, 30 per cent of all countries now face sanctions from the US, the EU, Japan and the UK — up from 10 per cent in the early 90s. Until recently, most of the targets were small. Then this group launched an all-out sanctions attack on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, cutting off Russian banks from the dollar-based global payment system. Suddenly, it was clear that any nation could be a target.
Too confident in the indomitable dollar, the US saw sanctions as a cost-free way to fight Russia without risking troops. But it is paying the price in lost currency allegiances. Nations cutting deals to trade without the dollar now include old US allies such as the Philippines and Thailand.
The number of countries with central banks looking at ways to launch their own digital currency has tripled since 2020 to more than 110, representing 95 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product. Many are testing these digital currencies for use in bilateral trade — another open challenge to the dollar.
Though some doubt a dominant dollar matters for the US economy, high demand for the currency in general tends to lower the cost of borrowing abroad, a privilege America sorely needs today. Among the top 20 developed economies, it now has the second highest fiscal and current account deficits after the UK and the second highest foreign liabilities (as reflected in its net international investment position) after Portugal.
The risk for America is that its overconfidence grows, fed by the “no alternative” story. That narrative rests on global trust in US institutions and rule of law, but this is exactly what weaponising the dollar has done so much to undermine. It rests also on trust in the country’s ability to pay its debts, but that is also slipping, as its reliance on foreign funding keeps growing. The last line of defence for the dollar is the state of China, which is the only economy sufficiently large and centralised to challenge US currency supremacy — but even more deeply indebted and institutionally dysfunctional.
When a giant comes to rely on the weakness of rivals, it’s time to look hard in the mirror. When it faces challenges from a “barbaric relic” such as gold and new contenders like digital currency, it should be looking for ways to strengthen trust in its finances, not taking its financial superpower status for granted.
Feast of St Mark the Evangelist – 26th April 2023
Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is helpful to me in the ministry.
2 Timothy 4:11
(St. Mark has many patronages, including lawyers, Venice, and stained-glass workers.)
If the contents include carmine or cochineal the product contains beetle juice as a colouring agent. Mainly used in beverages, yogurts and confectionary. I’m not sure if it’s used here – yet – but well worth remembering.
Lori1776
@profiler523
Please read all labels before buying/eating food.
Grigglebot was today years old when he discovered people called “fences“.
Oh, the kids go down to Harry’s cafe de kerb and trade a pair of scissors for 2 Dogs Eyes?
Where will his voyage of idiocy bump him off to next?
BRICS Bloc May Expand as 19 Nations Request Membership, Official Reveals
Dot
Ed Mong is trying so hard to be a caricature of libertarians and conservatives he’s only taking the piss of a smug, ill read left wing LARPer. He’s snark is so lame it is all backfiring now, a 100% failure rate.
Grandpa Ed Simpson tries to emit a smart fart, but follows through each time.
Yep. Planning on doing a Tucker post later in the week collecting the best reactions to his firing by Murdoch. Suggestions welcome. It’s pretty clear that his platforming of opinion critical of the regime, whether from the left or right, was leading to something like this happening, and the last straw was very likely his broadside against MSM as regime stenographers and PR hacks and his platforming of RFK Jr last week. No other person in the MSM has been more tireless in their criticism, has as large an audience or following across the political spectrum, nor reach into the key demo, 25-49 years old, as Tucker does. And this will only grow with his next venture.
Try including ColesWorths in the calculations .. we’d be in double digit territory ..!
Wow! I attempted to buy coffee beans in Woolies today – the country store (assume it is same in capital cities) price was astronomical. Nearly $30 for 1kg!
The Grigbot does seem to be operating on some beta version OS lately. Still waiting on that AI reboot obviously.
Ed Casesays:
April 26, 2023 at 2:02 pm
The kids go for a wander, then break in/shoplift etc BECAUSE they are hungry and not being fed at home <
Break in to a hairdressers salon looking for food?
Don't be an idiot all your life, Cletus.
Oi, I’ve told you before Grandpa Ed Simpson, there is only ONE Cletus the Illustrious here, and you are such an idiot that you cannot keep even that one simple thing straight.
Dr Millar’s 2 decades administering Aboriginal justice, health and welfare worked brilliantly for those poor little kids in Alice Springs. Imagine what the place would have been like today if she wasn’t at the top of her game.
bit late to start worrying about cochineal which has been used as a food dye for centuries. Apparently it’s unacceptable in a vegan diet. I think I have a bottle in my pantry for making pink icing.
Vicki the coffee I buy at colesworth is $44 a kg. Only buy it on special. Scottish background. Short arms deep pockets. Can’t help it.
From rosie’s Episcopalian link:
Amen to that.
Dot, he can’t throw in the towel – he’s a shepherd of the flock and his duty is towards them. He has to lead and steer not flee.
Dover
Yep. Planning on doing a Tucker post later in the week collecting the best reactions to his firing by Murdoch. Suggestions welcome.
The usual suspects will add quantity, even if not quality, in the comments.
It never occurred to me that vegans don’t eat bugs. First sensible thing I’ve heard from them.
The whole area of natural dyes and mordants is fascinating.
Went to an exhibition at the NGA in Melbourne about 30 yrs ago of Relics of San Marco Basilica. Fascinating to say the least.
rosie:
I have some I use in a water pistol for when the Redwing Parrots come around. Not to dye them, but the damned pigeons push them off their feed. So I spray the flying mice with a concentrate of the dye. The other pigeons see a red bird and attack the hell out of it.
That amuses me in a very satisfying way.
I’m shocked. Shocked.
For anyone in Darwin, the Military Museum there has the fire control system computer of the 9.2-inch guns at East Point in the Command Centre there. Has an 18 foot rangefinder on the roof.
Go to your local cafe- ie anywhere they know you, it’ll increase your persuasive power. And anywhere you like to buy a cup, it’ll mean they’re fresh roast at least.
Ask to buy a kilo of beans off them.
Pay cash.
Anyway, why are you feeding money to the gatekeepers of the batflu lockouts? And their electronic self-checkouts?
…and why are you buying a kilo of old mass market beans anyway, what are you, running a Lions van?
All MSM should be ditched. If you do watch them, make sure ad blockers are on.
Stew Peters Show:
America First POPULISM Under ATTACK: Carlson’s Fox News Exit To Embolden DEEP STATE PROPAGANDISTS
Meanwhile in the Top End:
A teenager pierced another man’s head with a metal pole as fresh violence broke out in a fractured community, a court has been told.
On the first day of his Supreme Court trial, Ezekiel Narndu pleaded not guilty to reckless or negligent manslaughter, and the alternative charge of committing a violent act causing death.
On Monday the jury heard the young Wadeye resident allegedly threw a steel bar into a crowd of 150 people on April 16, 2022, striking a 32-year-old man known for cultural reasons as Mr Tcherna.
Prosecutor Steve Ledek wore plastic blue gloves as he held up the thin bar allegedly thrown by Narndu.
“It is because of this,” Mr Ledek said.
“That’s what was hurled, that is what was thrown. That is what ultimately ended up killing (Mr) Tcherna.
“It’s not a spear, it’s not a gun, it’s not a weapon you can properly aim in a traditional sense.
“But if you know what you’re doing and you throw that in a way … if it hits somebody it’s going to make a difference.”
The court heard the metal pole struck the 32-year-old man, leaving it protruding from his face as blood pooled on the dirt road.
The rod was allegedly removed by another person, before Mr Tcherna was taken to the local clinic, and then flown to Royal Darwin Hospital.
The 32-year-old passed away from severe head injuries three days later.
The court heard Wadeye had been a troubled community in the months leading up to the fatal skirmish, with unrest simmering between families.
Constable Jarvis Nolan was on a relief rotation in the West Daly region, when he and his partner observed mediation talks between leaders in Bottom Camp.
Constable Nolan said there was a crowd of 150 people at either end of the street, while the leaders talked at the centre.
Body cam footage captured men telling officers: “I don’t want to fight, that might make more problems”.
Constable Nolan said the atmosphere of peace shifted suddenly, when a younger man allegedly broke away from one side of the crowd armed with an axe.
Constable Nolan said the man, Solomon Bunduck, appeared “aggressive and threatening” so he pulled his taser.
“Don’t you f—king throw that at me c—t,” Constable Nolan was recorded saying.
He said suddenly a rebar pole clattered near him, thrown by an unknown person.
Constable Nolan said at that stage it was too unsafe for him and his partner to remain, and they retreated to the car.
Defence barrister Beth Wild said from the point the officers returned to their car, it was “game on”.
“As soon as we got back in the car and we started driving, everything just ensued,” Constable Nolan said.
He said reinforced bars, rocks and culverts were thrown into the crowd, as women and children ran from the chaos.
Mr Ledek said two shaky mobile phone recordings captured the clash, and would form the “cornerstone” of the eight-day trial.
Mr Ledek said the videos allegedly captured Narndu throwing the metal pole as the crowd surged forward.
The final ringing sound of a metal clanging to the ground rang out before the video cut off.
But Ms Wild cautioned the jury to be careful in making assumptions about what they saw — and what was missed by the cameras — during the fatal skirmish.
“I ask you to keep an open mind until we hear all the evidence from all the witnesses,” she said.
Narndu also pleaded guilty to a separate charge of assaulting another man.
The jurors were told the trial was expected to last eight days and would resume on Wednesday.
I had never thought about the ‘Anglican’ versus ‘CofE’ conflict. I assumed the whole ediface was in the pit with the Poovebishops.
I subsequently stumbled over the brilliant Calvin Robinson who argues that modern CofE is not Anglican
-they are a breakaway heresy with little support.
He is now compulsory listening for me whenever he appears on Lotus Eaters.
UK Plod (another breakaway heresy) has apparently issued him a permit for his golliwog hair.
They denied Robinson ordination because “anti-Woke”. In other words, he’s too Wise to be ordained into the CofE.
He’s in good company though. The vast number of global Anglicans are on the same page. Only the cadaverous, dwindling UK and North America crew rejected him.
A teenager pierced another man’s head with a metal pole
the young Wadeye resident allegedly threw a steel bar into a crowd
he held up the thin bar allegedly thrown by Narndu.
“It’s not a spear, it’s not a gun, it’s not a weapon you can properly aim in a traditional sense.
“But if you know what you’re doing and you throw that in a way … if it hits somebody it’s going to make a difference.”
The court heard the metal pole struck the 32-year-old man
The rod was allegedly removed
He said suddenly a rebar pole clattered near him,
He said reinforced bars, rocks and culverts
Mr Ledek said the videos allegedly captured Narndu throwing
the metal pole as the crowd surged forward.
Sounds like short length of N12 reinforcing was thrown straight thru a blokes eye.
The way it’s written, it’s hard to work out what he’s talking about.
Earth Day? F-off with that! I love the dog but more curious about the placards in this clip.
————-
woof bark growl:
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Calabasas Earth Day Festival 2023 (2 of 4)
Bit of info for anyone into UK genealogy ..
The 1921 census is only available on www,findmypast.com for a fee unlike previous census which have been free online .. turns out the cost of diitalizing is so great that the National Archives put 1921 out to highest bid auction .. plus gonna be awhile before you see another .. I’ll be long gone, anyway ..!
Another worthwhile listing on FMP is the 1939 Register (not free either) .. an unofficial census that was dun to find out who lived/ was where so the authorities had some idea of population/placement for WW2 forward planning ……..
Reality is the cheapest way to do, comrehensive, 20th century UK genealogy research is too pay ..!
The 1921 is Census is particularly important, as it will be the last census publication for some years to come – the 1931 Census of England and Wales was destroyed in a fire at the Office of Works in 1942, the 1941 Census was never taken due to the outbreak of the Second World War, and the 1951 Census is not due to be released until 2052.
Top Endersays:
April 26, 2023 at 3:37 pm
Meanwhile in the Top End:
A teenager pierced another man’s head with a metal pole as fresh violence broke out in a fractured community, a court has been told.
On the first day of his Supreme Court trial, Ezekiel Narndu pleaded not guilty to reckless or negligent manslaughter, and the alternative charge of committing a violent act causing death.
On Monday the jury heard the young Wadeye resident allegedly threw a steel bar into a crowd of 150 people on April 16, 2022, striking a 32-year-old man known for cultural reasons as Mr Tcherna.
Meanwhile, at Quadrant, in the Indigenising the Curriculum article, Marcia Langton assures us the indigenous communities are “strong, resilient, rich and diverse”.
To Wadeye, add Yuendumu, Aurukun, the Todd River camps, the APY lands and so many more.
Langton lives in an ivory tower world.
Sounds like short length of N12 reinforcing was thrown straight thru a blokes eye.
The way it’s written, it’s hard to work out what he’s talking about.
Lawyer talk, Grandpa Ed Simpson, too complex for a fool like you.
The Antikythera mechanism (/?ænt?k?????r?/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-?) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer[1][2][3] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. … it is estimated to have been built in the late second century BC[4] or the early first century BC
Wiki
Amazing device, especially for the time.
What if they hire another clerk?
Welcome to the world of the rest us trying to decipher your quasi-pidgin scrawlings, Ed October.
“why do you CARe so much??”
Wally Dali:
Years ago, I was between wives and was seeing a young lady of the opposite sex who worked as a Barista.
She let me in on a couple of secrets of the coffee trade.
Her boss would bring in a large container or two of ground coffee each day. He said he ground the beans at home to save time in the morning. He also took the old beans home to feed to his brothers chooks in the country where he’d buy eggs each weekend.
She tumbled to the scam one day – he was drying out the beans from the previous week in his oven and adding enough to make up the required volume for each day after mixing it together.
I cannot for the life of me work out why it would be cheaper than buying ground coffee and saving all that work.
Some people just have to cheat. It’s in the genes – must be.
Can confirm.
Robinson? First name?
There was an Archdeacon Robinson in Lismore – one of the good ones. Say 1960?
A couple of funny stories there.
the 1951 Census is not due to be released until 2052.
What if they hire another clerk?
Census can only be released, by law, at least, 100 years after they are taken .. the idea being that 99% of folk listed have thrown in the towel so privacy isn’t an issue ….
Robinson? First name?
Will! .. thought everybody knew that .. duuuuuh!
Like the Swan Valley Noongar community?
While on matters naval.
I read the other day one Turret from the Yamoto was heavier than the weight of the destroyers it was fighting..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar
These guns were mounted on the battleships Yamato and Musashi in 3-gun turrets. Each one of the turrets weighed 2,774 tons
….
Class and type Fletcher-class destroyer
Displacement 2,100 long tons (2,134 t) (standard)
Hang on – just saw the previous post – Gavin Robinson. Not him. He’d be about 130 by now.
They’re gonna need a longer acronym.
This noble savage BS is getting out of hand. Bring it on Albo. I don’t think I can do another 6 months of this.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 26, 2023 at 4:31 pm
Meanwhile, at Quadrant, in the Indigenising the Curriculum article, Marcia Langton assures us the indigenous communities are “strong, resilient, rich and diverse”
Like the Swan Valley Noongar community?
Would that be the “community” in which the academic with the Adelaide name upthread is introducing a new form of “cultural” edumakation?
ROW(exUS)
Calvin Robinson.
Don Robinson was Archbishop of Sydney after Marcus Loane (who happened to preside over my confirmation).
Lots of Robinsons about, including one of the Beloved’s best mates. He was the minister’s son, and the two of them used to pinch the wine from the vestry. Then proceed to the tennis sheds to talk about girls. He later become clergy too and presided over my daughter’s wedding. Sydney Anglicans are a small ecosystem.
Also, I doubt that a modern day Catholic would be baptised with the name “Calvin”. 😀
Are we the baddies?
Try BRICS+.
Hi Wover Boy! Two kerplops in quick succession. No Beggin’ Strip for you!
SURGE in Excess Deaths in Young People: 2023 Latest Official Data
Dr. Suneel Dhand
I just watched this absolutely magnificent speech from Tucker. I think this is part of/ the reason Tucker had to go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32UPXGChgo
callisays:
April 26, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Hi Wover Boy! Two kerplops in quick succession. No Beggin’ Strip for you!
Fixed one of them, someone else got the other.
A sensible black bloke showing up a woke lesbian loony. He thought she was funny, and so do I. He also thought it told us something about the loony left and how they can’t see any other perspective except the dogma. And he’s right.
Believed made about 200BC, found on a ship sunk 80BC while taking loot of Greece to Rome.
Gear teeth of the mechanism are triangular profile, not hypothyroid or whatever the word is for constant radius ratio the rounded teeth used for the last coupla hunnert years are made with.
The videos demonstrating how the teeth could be divided and all the technologies of the time make it possible, are absolutely stunning work. Made by Chris ‘Clickspring’ a clockmaker.
We have to wonder if these technologies were preserved in crafts through the intervening centuries, to the 1300s when clockmaking started in Europe.
Palaszczuk has claimed underdog status ahead of the 2024 election.
The polling is really bad.
Joe Rogan: Pharma DESPERATE To Blame Vaccine Injury On ANYTHING ELSE; 16K+ Report Tinnitus After Jab
The Hill
Decent bloke, Tim.
Not a great payer, though. Very keen on charity, which never did buy me lunch.
BJ, I know who’s doing it and I know why. It isn’t that difficult.
It’s what happens when you have nothing left in the tank. But that has been the case for many years now.
I sort of read about this and thought it was the Bee taking the piss again.
But apparently not.
Resident mindworms wants people with good credit ratings to pay extra to subsidize people with bad credit rating loans.
“A new rule will raise mortgage fees for borrowers with good credit to subsidize higher-risk borrowers,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Under the rule, which goes into effect May 1, home buyers with a good credit score over 680 will pay about $40 more each month on a $400,000 loan, and upward depending on the size of the loan. Those who make down payments of 20% on their homes will pay the highest fees. Those payments will then be used to subsidize higher-risk borrowers through lower fees.”
Its Monty Pythons liver donor skit applied to finance.
Looks like Dutton is going to back pharmacists.
Not sure if that’s a winning strategy.
What’s a kerplops?
Oldies like their Pharmacist, Peter Dutton is switched on with the oldsters.
Puts him in lockstep with the unions.
ALP may now be wedged on this.
Confirmed…it’s not a winning strategy.
Bespoke, it’s a double uptick. The result of which is a Zero.
I’ve been enjoying a little private skirmish with a serial kerplopper I like to call “Rover” after Pavlov’s derg. Or Net Zero as a hat tip to our idiotic energy nudgers.
Please scroll if it bores you. That is the usual result of silly internet spats and this one is no different.
And why not, they earned it.
I was fine with the pharmacists until the PGA went woke and fascist, banning ivermectin and HCQ without even government instruction. They can go rot in purgatory until they grow brains.
An Anglican, not a Catholic?
The current Archdeacon in Lismore is Rob Bower.
My daughter’s old PP had a very non Catholic Christian name, turns out he is a convert.
calli
I find the obsession over uptics weird and needy.
For the most part it’s a browser cache issue nothing more.
PGA fellow in the media today threatening oldsters with a reduction in services and price hikes on Webster packs.
Well, as per the entire meeja blamed Dutton for all recent State results, I guess this one can land on Albo.
Rosie, I had this story in mind.
The two little figures have always reminded me of C.L. and m0nty doing battle.
Further to JWs, last week I was on the bus going into the CBD and two elderly men got on the bus. Nobody got up for them and so I offered my seat. The man smiled and then, in an American accent, said no that he was happy to stand. Then, a few minutes later he handed me what I thought was a business card, which I thought odd, and then I put on my reading glasses and it was a Jehovah’s Witness card. I politely said thank you however I wasn’t interested, I already have a religion. He was fine. Classic proselytization, something Jews never do. I’m not sure I’m comfortable with it but it’s a free country, for the time being.
Cold War thinking. Potentially a (numerical) minority at some stage. Will still control the bulk of the World’s GDP for the time being. The End of History looking a long way off now.
Of course it is bespoke.
I never expect anyone to think the same way I do. 😀
Backlash for Labor starts in the North. About time Queensland got something better than the pack of drongos applying what seems to be a “chaos is the best we can do” style of govt.
I note that Fukuyama has recently taken to pointing out that his original essay had a question mark, The End of History?
Pretty bad, although the election is still 18 months away.
There’s nothing good for the LNP, either. Invisible Man Chrisafulli has only 58% recognition and there’s no sign of enthusiasm for a government led by his goodself.
Looks like we’re edging towards Mos Eisley Cantina minority governments propped up by independents. (Not sure that there is sufficient support for the Greens outside of the inner city Brisbane rookeries for them to be Queenmakers, but the prospect has Labor apparatchik bums a-twitching.)
Prepare for a tsunami of Hi-viz events starting in early 2024.
Her present polling can be blamed on one thing: Arrogance.
Queenslanders don’t like it.
Instance in the press today: Ministerial expenses have not been uploaded to the open data portal for more than a year. It’s supposed to be quarterly. And it’s her responsibility.
The joke in the Imperial Japanese Navy was that the three most useless things ever built were the Great Wall of China, and the battleships Yamoto and Musashi.
Thanks for that lovely classic, only saw it jut now — Hetty and the Jazzato Band do some very nostalgic number – I love their rendition of Un Bacio a Mezzanote the words are so sweet. Thanks
LNP would win government on 2pp on polling I saw.
The question is, what would they do with it?
I think people are generally reluctant to put either Liars or Lieborals in simultaneously at a Federal and State level. Booting SloMo certainly makes things easier at a State level. Few State Lieborals present as an alternative government though. The Chook is smelling like a bag of Christmas prawn heads on New Years Day.
I’ll try not to turn the Cat into a ecumenical dialectic Cassie 😛 but it was a directive from the big JC (not the one who posts here, I think?) to “go out and announce.”
I don’t think the J-dubyas have the same authority.
In any case, the last doorknocker we got was an aspirational Federal Labor MP, I didn’t even open the door to them and shouted through my Ring device, “get the f..k off my property you treasonous commie.” (Hopefully we’re on the do-not-disturb list now 🙂 )
Fukuyama’s most recent book is a defence of classical liberalism.
In my “to read” pile.
I thought history was over? 😛
We’re currently in the question mark bit.
A weird place it is too.
Fruity.
(Actually if Fukuyama though the defeat of fascism would lead towards the end of history then history has been scratching noisily on his door at 4am wanting to be let back in. Because it looks to me like the entire world is moving towards classical fascism, with some minor variations on the theme from place to place.)
Must have been reading some Yogi Berra.
Someone’s “kerplopped” me!
Beats being ignored.
😀
That’s funny!
Accurate and funny.
Lysander, we were told to tell everyone the Good News and to make disciples.
Not coerce them, not make them believe because that is impossible, but when they do believe of their own volition, to help and shepherd them in their discipleship.
Rejection is part of the deal. It’s expected. Best to leave making people convert to “whatever” to others.
I think he fell victim to the marketing people at the publishers.
Well, my evenings from Tuesday to Saturday will now have to be completely reorganised without TC.
My “transition time” from work to home was usually characterised by 30 minutes on the couch with Tucker… no one else was quite the same…
WOW!
My son sent me this clip a little earlier today. I didn’t have the time to watch it till now.
IMO it is an absolute must.
Bing, bong…Pelagianism alert!
I never ignore you roger. I don’t ignore anyone.
Welcome to the kerplopperdome!
Agree with all of that and would never consider coercion (which I know many Jdubs do). And yes, rejection is a big part of the deal.
Roger! You know what I mean…I was keeping it simple.
No one believes unless they’re given a nudge by You Know Who.
And there I will leave it.
That it is.
I do. Trouble maker he is.
Come now, we’re all neo-Calvinists here (according to monty).
Some get a nudge, others are knocked off their feet.
😀
Hmmmm
I’m also in the club.
And rest assured the favour is returned.
Lol. Now you’ll have me quoting Saint John of the Cross.
Loreena sings it best.
“I don’t think the J-dubyas have the same authority.”
I’ve long thought their beliefs to be slightly oddball, like Mormons. Having said that, when I meet a JW or a Mormon, or a Christian for that matter, they are almost always very nice people.
I heard today that a friend has Pancreatic cancer and the prognosis is not good. But one thing comforts me, which is that he has a strong Catholic faith and his faith will comfort him. I’m very upset about this news.
FMD. Alice Coster sounds upset.
This column was supposed to be about outrage.
When the topic of Lindsay Fox’s all male 86th birthday party came across the desk, it was considered a given we sheilas would be frothing at not being invited to have a seat at the table.
Hell hath no fury, I am woman hear me roar, type thing.
It’s easy to feel the outrage, or blood start boiling at many issues facing women. Conversations around consent, pay equity, toxic masculinity, quotas, sexism in the workplace. The way a certain-type-of-male’s lip curls at the mere mention of names like Brittany Higgins or Grace Tame.
The list goes on and on for this feminist-card carrying female.
But wagging the finger at our trucking billionaire getting his tartan on for his Scottish-themed birthday men’s only luncheon is not the bagpipe I’m blowing this week.
Because sometimes, just sometimes, it doesn’t always have to come down to what appendage you are carrying under the kilt.
Wearing Highland dress, a who’s who of our upper testosterone echelon attended the function – including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition leader Peter Dutton, Premier Dan Andrews, his distant former predecessor Jeff Kennett and golfer Greg Norman.
Having attended my fair share of ladies’ lunches over the years, it feels hypocritical to have a whinge at the blokes bonding over claret, or in this case Penfolds Grange Hermitage and single malt whiskey at The Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Because where is the outrage when powerbroker Ann Peacock would hold an annual lunch celebrating women in media at Crown every year, with the only male invitees Santa and singer Anthony Callea?
Nor does there seem to be frothing fury when Oaks Day trots up on the social calendar, with sellout ladies lunches across Melbourne awash with a plumage of pink.
Rich-lister Patricia Ilhan has long been known for gathering her ladies who lunch, with female only luncheons and galas to help raise much needed funds for breast cancer and charity.
So why all the conflated conjecture at Fox’s men’s only luncheon?
This week I have read everything from Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam waxing on, to an academic in gender studies saying the up-market trucker’s birthday luncheon was sexist.
“I’ve experienced politics being a kind of boy’s club and sometimes it literally is one,” Ratnam said. “This is revealing about how power is really wielded in this country.”
Fair suck of the sauce.
RMIT’s Dr Lauren Gurreri, who provides advice on gender equality to the Victorian Government’s Ministerial Council on Women’s Equality, said the guest list signalled women were not valued.
“By only inviting men, it sends a signal that women are not valued or regarded as holding equal or legitimate standing. They quite literally don’t have a seat at the table,” she said.
Of course women should be invited to the boardroom table, but getting sooky about not being invited to the birthday party table feels like playground politics.
Fox did not hold the party at a men’s-only establishment like The Athenaeum Club. Before the relevant deprived start crowing, yes there are women’s only clubs like The Lyceum too.
In this case it’s not even the symbolism of it all. Fox has invited plenty of women to his various birthday milestones, which this columnist has long reported.
From the $5m cruise trip from New York to Montreal he put on last year to celebrate turning 85, to the “conception party” he threw nine months ahead of his 80th birthday.
So what does Fox say about his recent boysie birthday guest list.
“When you get to my time in life those parties are very important,” he said, and the highlight was “my mates coming around to wish me happy birthday, as simple as that”.
“It was a men’s lunch. It was people I went to school with, people I’ve played football with, people I’ve done business with,” he said.
Many women, myself included, have certainly declared, “gals only”, striking off the plus-one male from the guest list to celebrate a birthday.
So let’s not hand it to the pale stale males on a silver platter by getting our knickers in a knot over the pettier of issues.
Talking of knickers, some secrets from the boys club should perhaps remain there, as the up-market trucker said: “When you get to my size, it’s about finding what IS under the kilt!”
It’s raining kerplopps
Well speaking of Pelagianism, Calvinism and other assorted heresies, I’m predestined to have a cuppa with a certain Bish tonight so, play nicely, and I’ll see you on the morrow. 🙂
Probs not, calli, but Aquinas was a predestinarian.
Not many people know that.
Ask him when is the pope going to do something about those German bishops.
Biden running (sic) again. Biden is:
1 demented
2 the most corrupt POTUS ever
3 a sexual pervert
4 a traitor
5 has pack of criminals for a family
Who gives a flying fu.k; as long as Alex and Spencer get together again.
helps to be 85 and a billionaire if you want to do as you please on your birthday and, gasp, invite your male mates to a do
/outraged! (because thats what we are supposed to emit at this kind of thing)
My understanding is that Judaism is a non proletising religion while islam and Christianity are.
Catholics are bound to evangelism but JWs and some others seem to do it by telling lies about the Catholic faith, for example. I’ve seen some of their literature and I mentioned while I was travelling there is a a Catholic organisation that was started in Mexico by an Italian priest to counter falsehoods about the Catholic faith.
The JWs have moved the theological goalposts many times.
There are some very silly ppl in the world.
Very good van Gogh thread (via Rita P)…
How he came to embrace colour:
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1651067998793265152
Sacred site claim to hit the courts in 3……2…….1
Some Italian Archbishops are fun also. This guy could win the first Olympic gymnastics medal for the Vatican!
Head of Vatican Life Academy Gives Nod to Legal Assisted Suicide (24 Apr)
Vatican Archbishop Walks Back Approval of Assisted Suicide (25 Apr)
At least a bronze medal performance, cert.
Some family anecdotes of door knockers.
When a JC ever turned up at the front door, a cousin of my paternal grandfather would say that she was a methylated spiritualist.
My Dad has been known to inform JCs that they’re too late as we were saved the week before.
And one great grandmother was very religious and known to enthusiastically but respectfully engage with JCs. Such was her biblical knowledge that on a couple of different occasions when the heat of the sun was warming the back of the necks of her interlocutors, they fainted. After that, I would think she was crossed off the list.
There’s some mob called “Save our Songlines” been protesting all the way.
Looked her up…she’s an associate professor of marketing in the business school:
“My research examines gender, consumption and the marketplace, with a focus on gendered inequalities in consumer and digital cultures.”
So she would say that, wouldn’t she.
If they’re clever they will give our Bruce a research grant to explore how first peoples developed the Haber-Bosch Process in 20,000 BC. With expert advice from the local land councils.
All true. But he will almost certainly win – unless Trump converts about 4000,000 voters, which seems unlikely. It’s a long way off, though.
“rosiesays:
April 26, 2023 at 6:24 pm”
Thanks, yes Judaism doesn’t proselytise, although that wasn’t always the case. I don’t equate JWs or Mormons with mainstream Christianity, particularly Mormons who are, arguably, not monotheists.
Growing up, our neighbour was a very distinctive looking Frenchman with a wicked sense of humour.
One day, after dealing with some door knockers in his usual manner, i.e. giving them a hard time, he sprinted down his back stairs, jumped the fence, ran into our house and answered the knock at the front door, “Yes?”
Only DeSantis can beat the Sniffer.
By the way, Pedro, your recommendation of a double edged feather safety razor as the only way for a gentleman to shave is a good one. I am rediscovering the gentle art of shaving with such, and the use of a stepic block, when necessary.
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/who-warns-of-high-risk-biological-hazard-in-sudans-capital-as-militants-occupy-lab/video/71b0fa7f313ee2cf720e75cce9d3e665
Okay gonna need a stocktake real quick here.
How many foreign biohazard research labs does the USA have its fingers in?
Dutton and Andrews could probably pass muster, but I’m intrigued about the Albanese tartan.
Solidarity Forever the most likely candidate.
JCs
JWs
Postscript. Unlike the universal tartan Scotland Forever, the ground colour is red.
But you knew that. 😀
You are right Cassie, just as Mormons don’t treat Christian baptism as valid we don’t consider theirs valid.
Mormons used to be out and proud polytheists, JWs reject the trinity, have rewritten the bible to better match their theology, amongst many other oddities.
JWs should get together and start their own country, would be interesting to see how they go.
I’ve always been kind to them. When the JW’s have asked me to Bible Study, I’ve always invited them to mine. Never taken up.
On the Mormons, the lovely young guys from the Islands used to do the hard slog around rural Dural (HQ was down the road at Carlingford). They drew the short straw and got me.
So we’d sit and have cool drinks and talk about “home”. They’d come to do their obligatory stuff amongst the unconverted, but they were terribly homesick. Like most islanders, they were bricks with eyes in white shirts and ties. I liked them very much.
Sadly no, Cassie, much as I wish otherwise. The election will be stolen again. No one is doing anything about the election infrastructure the Dems have built, and no one is being called to account. Therefore since there’s zero downside they’ll do the same as they did the last two elections.
The interesting thing is whether Hillary will go after the Sniffer, since if she can win a primary she’ll become Prez, which has been her dream for a very long time. She was implying recently that she might.
As long as Da West is acting retarded and BRICS are implementing sensible policy, the poverty gradient between Da West and BRICS will reduce towards parity.
Time to move to India or Brazil?
I don’t think so Bruce.
If you read ‘Decision 242/2019 of the Italian Constitutional Court and its specific Italian context’ you will see the Archbishop was referring to circumstances where a terminally ill person could refuse life support including food and drink, so called ‘passive euthanasia’ which is I think permissible in Catholic teaching.
Also trust Breibart to jump to the worst possible interpretation.
end of life decisions ordinary versus extraordinary means
… where a terminally ill person could refuse life support including food and drink, so called ‘passive euthanasia’ which is I think permissible in Catholic teaching.
It is?
I don’t want you to feed or water me any more
… said No One, ever.
I’m always polite to them too, well I might have teased my old work colleague a bit.
Rosie – I thought the two headlines on consecutive days were entertaining! Maybe you could complain to Dr Williams.
I think you will find terminally ill people have been known to refuse food and drink.
No doubt in my mind Bruce.
Only DeSantis can beat the Sniffer.
Agree Cassie. But there might be some credible late runners – eg Mike Pompeio. The latter is literally shaping up for the battle (having lost a huge amount of weight). He comes with great understanding of the workings of the Deep State, and he has military cred.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen the true capacity of Pompeio to speak to down trodden Americans. There are huge numbers of vets who will identify with much he has to say.
If he can seize this moment in history.
“Agree Cassie. But there might be some credible late runners – eg Mike Pompeio. The latter is literally shaping up for the battle (having lost a huge amount of weight). He comes with great understanding of the workings of the Deep State, and he has military cred.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen the true capacity of Pompeio to speak to down trodden Americans. There are huge numbers of vets who will identify with much he has to say.”
True Vicki but I believe that DeSantis can win over independents…and that’s the key.
wrong.
that is exactly what my grandmother did.
and she died peacefully in her sleep
which means her kidneys failed
Only Trump has a chance against the swamp because of his wealth and contacts in and outside of politics. I doubt DeSantis will even nominate. The rest are RINOs. Pompeio is not running. Good man. If Trump can beat the cheating and the talk is he will employ private contractors at crucial election sites then Pompeio will be back in cabinet.
The fact is Trump is the best and last chance for the West. If he goes under this time we’re fu.ked.
They have indeed rosie. And also any further medication.
The Beloved’s father did just this. Battling emphysema and all the end of life complications related to it, he simply instructed the hospital staff – no more!
And so he died as he had lived, in control of as much as he could be. A brave, dutiful and quiet man, he was the youngest in his company of warriors so he always got to carry the flag on ANZAC day. Only a few of them from Sydney as the majority were recruited in Melbourne.
And that made him a Carlton supporter. Which is another story altogether.
My father was one of them.
Of late this old hymn from my youth has been haunting me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vua7LwiAQ0
I know of one elderly lady who had to go into a “home” and was so distraught she refused to eat.
She died.
I think there’s a simple answer.
Australians ‘can’t survive’ on current JobSeeker payments (Sky News, 26 Apr)
We have near-record low unemployment…getting a job therefore is the easiest it has been for a long time.
Julie Bishop is now a social media influencer.
That is just perfect.
Fashion shows and free hotel stays: Julie Bishop’s new career move as a luxury lifestyle influencer (26 Apr)
Twee to infinity and beyond.
Depends on one’s motivation.
It’s a shame Josh Hawley can’t run for President.
Same age as Kennedy in 1963.
How and why America turned into a gerontocracy will be something for historians to ponder in the future – that is, if the discipline still exists a hundred years from now.
Notwithstanding a long and storied career, LBJ was 64 when he died. Nowadays in US politics, 64 year-olds have to wait their turn.
The unemployment rate is at a record low and at the same time the NDIS is blowing out.
The JobDodgers have found a new sugar daddy.
I think you will find terminally ill people have been known to refuse food and drink.
When a person is dying slowly there comes a time when their body can no longer process food or even liquids. Insisting they be fed or hydrated at such a time can hasten their death and increase their suffering by choking. Some can tolerate an ice cube in their mouth, but for others the provision of a lubricant to the lips is all that is advisable.
Given that one of the rationales for the NDIS was to prepare disabled people for employment, we can expect this to be turned around.
Any day now.
The fact is Trump is the best and last chance for the West. If he goes under this time we’re fu.ked.
Correct. De Santis ain’t it.
To paraphrase Chesterton: Don John of America, the last knight of Christendom, takes his weapons from the wall.
Bruce O’Newk:
Bad news Bruce – we’re already there.
The only difference between us and Germany 1933 is that the scapegoats aren’t yet being rounded up and the camps (enough of them) haven’t been named for the reason they were built.
I had a video that started off with two women on a park bench asking if they had done enough to convince others of the covid dangers – it went into 9 minutes of the abuse the world handed out to the “deniers” and I had it pinned to the Tab window but it’s gone and I cannot get it back. The best thing about it was the amount of hatred that was pointed at us but they are now denying ever happened.
Unless RFK wins the Dem Nomination.
age at inauguration, Obama and Clinton were 47 and 46 respectively, Biden us the oldest ever.
I know why people think this, but Trump was on the wrong side in the covid response; DeSantis wasn’t.
Bill shorten is on the NDIS case – fear not!
And if trump is the last, best hope of the West then better start learning mandarin.
Richard Vobes
Neil Oliver and I have a chat
We’re fu.ked. It is abundantly clear that the Republican elites are happy to allow the Dems to steal elections to exclude Trump and his voters, who he represents, in order to keep control of the Republican Party. This is Tea Party 2.0.
Because it looks to me like the entire world is moving towards classical fascism, with some minor variations on the theme from place to place
You cannot have been paying attention. It has been fascist for quite some time. Particularly this country.
bwah ha ha ha
tell him queensssland is for queenssslanders
Trump and his ego need to not make it about Trump and his ego.
I know why people think this, but Trump was on the wrong side in the covid response; DeSantis wasn’t.
He was until he got conned. So he’s not perfect but he fights.
Does he ever!
Johnny Midnight
@its_the_DrLolol!
Looks like he opened a big can of Whoop ass on the Media!
The real virus is the Mind virus, of which there are several. Feels like we’re living in a John Barnes SF novel.
Trump should get his fixation with De Santis.
He cannot achieve anything by being nice, so he has to be himself. Veritas.
He knows perfectly that he has no chance, and that no Republican has any chance, but he has an opportunity to rub this into the faces of the American people in such a way that they must choose: to revolt and be free, or kowtow and be slaves. Sadly I think the latter will be the result, given the efforts of the Left for the last few decades. The rot is too deep.
Children’s Health Defense
@ChildrensHD
Attorney @RenzTom: Small Farmers Suffer, Bill Gates Wins Without Informed Consent Safeguards
“People start getting sick because you put these gene therapies in the food; who are you going to sue?” asked attorney @RenzTom.
“Well, the lawyers are going to come after the small farmers first to make an example of them. They’re easier targets,” he answered.
“So Bill Gates ends up winning this … factory farms end up winning on this. Small farmers get ran out of business.”
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
We are NOT in a Climate Emergency
Geologist, Prof Ian Plimer on UN Climate Scam
“A trace gas (CO2) has nothing to do with our climate; it’s the sun. If we get further away from the sun, it gets cooler, and if we get closer to the sun, it gets warmer. No legislation from the UN, can change the orbit of the Earth.”
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
”Welcome to the mRNAge!”
Moderna has released a new video campaign claiming mRNA is the ”code of life inside every cell of your body… has the power to change everything”
“Trump and his ego need to not make it about Trump and his ego.”
Correct. The US needs a fresh start.
I believe he’s now saying that he never forced anyone to get the jab.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
Justin Trudeau: “But there are also people who are fiercely against vaccination who don’t believe in science. They’re often misogynists, also often racists. It’s a small group, but they take up some space. And we have to make a choice… Do we tolerate these people?”
Flyingduk:
Is RFK’s voice always that croaky and laboured?
If so and it’s not a transient laryngitis, then he won’t finish the campaign – his voice will give in on him.
He reminds me too much of a fragile old man, and the US has got one of those for a President already.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Never forget:
The WHO wanted to remove family members from your homes
2023.04.25 Secondary Effects of the Tucker Carlson Firing
Gad Saad again
My Friendship with Tucker Carlson is Triggering Some “Tolerant” Academics
Powerline has an interesting chart today.
The Daily Chart: Authoritarian Democrats | Power Line (25 Apr)
Just in case you didn’t already know that lefties were insane totalitarian arseholes.
Correct. The US needs a fresh start.
They’ll get a fresh start alright. Or rather a fresh spread. Jan 6 set the tone: a manufactured crisis and then justification for chunk type persecution. The Jan 6 persecution is rippling through the US. If Trump loses then I expect violence and that’s hard to predict because the demorats own the defence and bureaucrat leaders but arguably not the troops, or not all of them.
Kenny and the screech got a new arse ripped by Liz Storer and Amanda Stoker. Stoker particularly good: firm while smiling like a cat in front of a mouse.
Amanda Stoker just put on her lawyer hat and told Kenny he didn’t know what he was talking about.
The Perm in a TKO over the Cue Ball.
Spasmodic Dysphonia
Jimmy Dore Show
The REAL Reason Tucker Carlson Was Fired By Fox News!
if you reckon andrew blot bends in the breeze you need to take a good hard look at chris kenny
Yep
Attacking DeSantis from the LEFT is a weird look.
It’s a shame about RFK’s voice impediment.
It makes things tough in politics, of all things.
no septum
lives in LA
loadsa munny
get my drift
Psays:
April 26, 2023 at 5:58 pm
P, that was just brilliant! I saw a condensed version a couple of days ago. This truly was a ‘must watch’.
And thank you for the beautiful hymn. I suspect it will be a welcome ear worm for the next week or so.
theres a vax for that