Off to work (those stripper poles won’t polish themselves; goodness knows why the aged care hostel still keeps them), but HERE is the Center for Security Policy article on the 6th of Jan (observation of individuals within the crowd) I referred to recently. It’s a lengthy read, and there are no answers, but the author appears to write with experience.

Farmer Gez, I see a bit of activity by your Council.
Cafe Locked Out had a tribute to those injured or dead from the Covid shots. Forest Of The Fallen I think it was called.
Anyhoo, Council decided to pull it down. Heard anything about this sir?

Got a reasonably pleasant surprise.Bought a new Samsung telly.You get about 100 Sansung stations all of which are useless and can be safely deleted.
In amongst them was Sky News.
So if you have a Sansung TV retune it and you may get Sky news for free assuming you want it

Has anyone actually seen a cultural enricher put through the security hoops at an airport.

I have. Most entertaining and satisfying.

Screamed and jumped about because his curtained property would not twitch aside the curtains to be checked for concealed goodies of the splodey type. Naturally the property was whisked away to a private room to be frisked.

Meanwhile I was instructed to strip down to a singlet (I hadn’t anticipated having to remove my light hoodie) and leggings in front of everyone. I should have done a twirl but I was too tired and fed up. Heathrow of course.

Someone linked to a substack ‘The Other Side of Medicine ‘, I read it but gave up when he praised some homeopathic medicine as curing people. Anyone who thinks that there is anything in homeopathy is a fool, at best it may have some placebo effect but that’s all. The bloke who writes that substack isn’t worth reading.

Link doesn’t work Pogria.

Try tinyurl Pogria.

He’s as fishy as a 5 day whale in the beach left to rot.

JC, Epps is undoubtedly fishy, but :-

(a) whales aren’t fish; and
(b) one does not let whales rot.

Don’t have to be religious to be ethical.

The Dambusters

Another marvellous book that I’ve read several times. By Paul Brickhill, who also wrote the story of Douglas Bader and the most interesting cricket match ever.

Like the weather, the battle for freedom from tyranny appears to be cyclical, not episodic. Climate cycles are about 60 years from cold weather to warm and back again, while the cycle between major battles for human freedom and the return of fascism’s wannabe tyrants appears to be slightly longer at 70-80 years.

And here in Oz the real estate market seems to run in 7 Year cycles and average marriages last about 8.5 years . As to the wannabe world tyrants, yes about 70-80 years. Just in time to sneak up on the naïve second and third generations living the new age of “enlightenment” on the back of their predecessors.

Dambusters dog’s memorial replaced by RAF to remove its racist name

That little dog had a part in destroying one of the most evil regimes in the world which was openly violent, white supremacist and murderous.

The left love substantive equality, justice, rights etc but don’t understand that actions speak louder than words.

Anyone who thinks that there is anything in homeopathy is a fool, at best it may have some placebo effect but that’s all.
Queen, 96, Duke, 99, King Chuck, 74, say otherwise.

It’s similar to Chinese Medicine, in that it will cure completely, but it will take time.
Since the average Westerner is on a [self imposed] rat wheel from birth to the grave, they kick the can down the road and choose some toxic concoction that will relieve symptoms for a little while.

It’s even worse when they apply it to a dog or a cat, Tom.

Totally brainless.

That little dog had a part in destroying one of the most evil regimes in the world …
Settle down, pard.
Dogs don’t care what their names are.

… which was openly violent, white supremacist and murderous.
All Governments are violent.
Try telling them you aren’t paying any more Tax.
Best evidence is that Germans originated in Asia, so you’re wrong about that too.
And murderous, clearly you’ve never heard about the Bolshevik Revolution, where hunting and killing priests and their families was considered fine sport.

I think “organized religion” is a bit of wooly thinking.
There’s religion, which goes from inherited belief to the most fanciest of mass rituals- it’s all organized.
…and then there’s feelz. Spirituality, a ghost in the house, those dimwits who see a newborn child and say “oh my god he’s an old soul, he’s been here before”. All off with the fairies.

Lol, which don’t work.

Now youse’ll never know how I feel about youse all.

PS. Has anyone actually seen a cultural enricher put through the security hoops at an airport.
I recall becoming annoyed at Heathrow by an Indian woman security thing who was going out of her way to harrass an old whitey. Afterwards, I assume because of my obvious outrage, the supervisor lady sought me out and sort of apologized. She suggested that old whiteys are their only safe target if they wish to avoid discrimination claims. I found that to be most encouraging.

As I said at Sinc’s, as a small, elderly white woman (i.e. a demographic responsible for zero terrorist attacks) it is extraordinary how often I get scanned for explosives at airports.

Meanwhile, the group of young men of Middle Eastern appearance in front of me or behind me are waved through.

It’s all theatre.

Dot

A minor correction.

The left claim to love substantive equality, justice, rights etc but don’t understand that actions speak louder than words.

But, y’know, how long did Thorpey stay down the back of the NO bus before she elected herself The Driver and then disembarked at the Strip Club?
No biggie, but when Jacinta Price announces that she’s considering YES, subject to a few doable tweaks and turns, yeah, there’ll be gnashing of teeth then …

I knew there was something wrong with Sharri Markson.

In addition to being a nepo luvvie, she’s also a far left, anti-Christian bullshit artist who once compared harmless praying folk outside abortion clinics to the Taliban and wife bashers. She wanted them rounded up.

Her China lab coverage was well-packaged and she stole a march on others but none of it was original. Everything she ‘reported’ had been kicked around by others for months.

Ed Casesays:
April 27, 2023 at 6:05 pm
That little dog had a part in destroying one of the most evil regimes in the world …
Settle down, pard.
Dogs don’t care what their names are.

The dog didn’t care, nor did its owner. It is only the rabid fascists of the modern left who care, and weaklings in government and business who fold like a cheap suit at the first challenge.

On that subject, has the Peter Jackson version of The Dambusters been released yet?

She’s not White.
Yeah, percentage wise there’s notta lotta Aborigine there, but her descendants could change that markedly over 50 years.
Any pics of the kids or their kids?

I’m a dedicated omnivore, but this is too much:

She says she’s raising her her son as a vegetarian. In other words, she’s refusing to feed him properly and he will be systemically malnourished for ideological reasons.

Hundreds of millions of Indians, Pakistanis and others throughout Asia would disagree.

It’s not my thing, but it is perfectly possible to have a vegetarian diet that does not involve ‘malnourishment.’

it abandons religion

The Marxist left are just as fanatical as some of faith. Some would say that the leftism is a new religion.

The dog didn’t care, nor did its owner. It is only the rabid fascists of the modern left who care, and weaklings in government and business who fold like a cheap suit at the first challenge.

Gimme a break, cletus.
If I typed the N word right now, you’d be screamin’ like a Mo’Fo.

Sounds like Liddell wukkas are getting pineappled.

Workers rally for fair transition one day out from Liddell closure (Ncl local news, 27 Apr)

It’s now just hours until the oldest power station in Australia – Liddell – is shut down for good… the first of several.

Today energy industry and mine workers rallied at Lake Macquarie, calling for a national employment solution – with fears hundreds of jobs are set to be scrapped.

If they’ve no guarantees one day out from the closure I think you can fairly assume they’ve been shafted by Labor and AGL.

To all those nitwits worried about upticks, I just [absentmindedly] upticked my comment at 6:32 and it didn’t show a 0, even after I’d refreshed the page.

Paddy Mayne?

Rogue Heroes was a great series, I hope they back it up now that Stirling is incarcerated and Mayne the maniac is in charge.

I read a book a couple years back about Mayne and some SIS mates of his. His team was part of the Jedburghs in the run up and after Overlord. The SS got hold of a few of them and slaughtered them in cold blood, after torturing them for several week. Mayne and his mates went after the SS bastards in Germany and Austria in ’46 and ’47 delivering retribution. Fk the courts, Paddy passed sentence and carried it out. In the neck.

Mayne met his end in a traffic accident in N.I in the 50’s. He could have been done for a dozen times before in combat. Mayne, one of the very good guys.

Red Alert!!!
Just ticked my comment at 6:32 again and instead of dropping my score from 3 to 2, it raised me to 4 upticks.

And, Bruce, veggie-heads have just discovered (which I knew as a child) that cochineal, natural red food colouring, is derived from cochineal beetles.

Wait till they find out about all the microscopic and slightly larger bugs in things like lettuce and cabbage.

If you eat a salad, you are eating non vegetarian life forms.

Johanna:

A couple of weeks ago, a group of people were having a case management meeting about a workers compensation matter at the next table to mine. They included a lawyer, a union rep, a social worker and some sort of health worker. They discussed the most intimate details of this woman’s life, including the state of her marriage and relationships between other family members, her physical and mental health reports, and her ethnic and cultural background.
I was soon aware of who her employer was and what her job was, plus enough personal information to make her easy to identify if I had wanted to.

That’s truly bizarre. What on Earth are people in the city doing in their ‘cafe’ things?
Don’t they have offices where this stuff is attended to? Or is this some kind of spectacle entertainment where the other cafe users get to vote like it’s a castaway marriage ceremony or something?
I haven’t been in a cafe for nearly 40 years when old Stefano used to do a mixed grill for $10. Free tea and coffee for regulars.

Old Ozzie:

When asked by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) if she supported doing that, Granholm responded, “I do, and I think we can get there as well.”
She added, “And I do think that reducing our reliance on the volatility of globally-traded fossil fuels where we know that global events, such as the war in Ukraine, can jack up prices for people back home – it does not contribute to energy security.”
“I think energy security is achieved when we have homegrown, clean energy that is abundant, like you see in Iowa. We think we can be a leader globally in how we have become energy-independent,” she said.

This no longer qualifies as Green Lunacy – it’s now in the realm of Military Sabotage. I hope some life sentences in Leavenworth are dished out when Trump gets in.

Wait till they find out about all the microscopic and slightly larger bugs in things like lettuce and cabbage.

Or wine.

Bruce O’Nuke:

Corporate America, though, has for some reason decided that Mother’s Day is a “sensitive” time, a “challenging” time, or a “difficult” time, so they are inviting customers to opt out of emails related to the triggering day.

I think it’s time for a cull of the Corporate Class*. Honestly, this is some form of madness that has afflicted them and it would be a mercy.
*NADT. Think of it as a kind of psychomedical intervention. Probably allowable under the Euthanasia Laws.

Woger:

There’d be no excuse for him to hide in his basement this time.

There’d be no excuse for him to hide in his basement this time – YET.

Quiet time here. We are expecting a male visitor from Queensland to stay tonight and Friday nite. He hasn’t turned up yet. Will air fry some chicken for us all later. Cleaners made the place sparkle on Tuesday and Hairy at the gym so I can drift around the web with no preps to be made.

I don’t really know how to drive this gadget yet so Hairy is likely to be displeased by my crash or crash thru methods. I told cloud to get lost, hope that was ok. Put x thru some other stuff trying to get back to where I came from. Hope he didn’t need it. I may have left a trail of destruction behind me. How do teenagers manage it all.

Don’t have to be religious to be ethical.

I’m not even sure it helps. If you’ve taken advice from an institution on what’s right and what’s wrong for your entire life, your own capacity for deciding may have atrophied.

De Santis is being groomed as a stalking horse by the Democrats.
The only reason for the treatment he is getting from the media (nowhere near as screechingly hateful as Trump is getting) is because they see him as a vote splitter on the Right.

Well said, Cassie.

I love my meat, but the best meat-free dishes from the Middle East are magnificent.

Inserting ideology into food is ridiculous.

Grandpa Ed Simpson

Gimme a break, cletus.
If I typed the N word right now, you’d be screamin’ like a Mo’Fo.

This is your big chance to provide evidence to support your usual pointless babble.

Type it, then wait. Hold your breath, according to you the evidence won’t take long to appear.

And that’s Cletus the Illustrious to you.

PS, how is your bromance with Dill’n Mulberry going? Kissed yet?

Oh horrors. The good news is that we’ve discovered what the problem has been. One of the plugs to the power part of the computer lead has been accidentally pulled out, probably by the cleaners on Tuesday, and my poor old computer has been struggling along on half-breath since then, finally conking out with the one word message of goodbye – ‘locking’. Faithful to the end, though Hairy says it should have notified ‘power failure – locking’. It’s now all plugged into mains power and happy once more, brighter too, less dull, which should have been a clue for me.

The bad news is that I’ve deleted all of Hairy’s recent tabs on his tablet, to airline bookings etc.
He is one unhappy Hairy Ape. I shouldn’t have let you near it, he laments. Justly so.

BoN:

Employers reveal why Gen Z is the hardest generation to work with (26 Apr)

I’ve mentioned this before – just in case you hadn’t noticed – 🙂 – Generation Z and the preceding generation seem to me to have this odd attitude that when they become an employee, they are allowed to set the rules they work under, and have the ability to set company/workplace policy. When you pull them up on it there’s a sense of “WTF? Who are you to tell me what to do?” It’s as if they’ve been in charge of their own upbringing, everything is up for negotiation, and they are always right even when they are glaringly wrong.
They are not team players, and cannot fit into a team culture. But not only can they not fit into a
team, they are oblivious to why they should even try. Perhaps getting them into their own business and letting them find out the hard way is a kind way of treating them.

Tom says: April 27, 2023 at 5:58 pm

She says she’s raising her her son as a vegetarian. In other words, she’s refusing to feed him properly and he will be systemically malnourished for ideological reasons.

Whether he will be malnourished is entirely a function of exactly what vegetarian foods he is fed. Various nutrients meat is well known for, such as iron and some amino acids, can be made up for with non-meat sources.

I eat meat because it is delicious and is the quickest way to get lots of protein. There is no other reason. As said above, hundreds of millions of people are successfully vegetarian.

The fact that chimps and gorillas eat meat is a good sign that meat was always a part of human diets too. Our ancestors could live off whatever was available, thus the proportion of meat in their diets was not fixed and varied across time and space. The real paleo diet was likely not vegetarian (ignore the click-bait headline).
Eating meat is optional for humans – with no loss of development and function. But you do have to know how to do it properly. It requires well-developed agriculture and hard-won knowledge about what foods adequately replace meat. The increased difficulty of doing that (less convenience) is probably the main reason it has not been the norm in any human society nor in our recent non-human ancestors. One could even say total vegetarianism is a very recent high-tech luxury invention because of how much knowledge and agricultural activity it needs. But it does work.

RFK polling 19% among Democrats, up 5 in a week.
This could be something.

And he can’t be got at in the usual ways.

DeSantis becomes the nominee he will be declared the new Hitler by the entire media, including Fox.

and assorted tired old sluts and slags will emerge claiming he did this and that.

Winston Smith says: April 27, 2023 at 6:59 pm

Trump doesn’t need extra votes.
What he needs is the votes counted correctly and honestly.

What he needs is for the Electoral College to appoint him as President no matter how many people voted for the opposition because that is how he got elected the first time.

The Electoral College is frustrating because the presence of non-binding electors permits a small elite to favour one candidate independently of the popular poll of the elector’s State. This could be used to override cases of demagoguery or rigged elections – except it wasn’t used that way in the most clearly rigged election in recent memory, and it was used to appoint Trump over the popular candidate in absence of any clear evidence of rigging in 2016. So what is that institution really used for today?

Until the USA has a system that guarantees the popular poll directly determines the President, all this finagling over ballot dropboxes and mules is putting lipstick on a pig. The EC decides the President.

BBS

BoN, the wukkas held up their side of the bargain and voted for the “best party” to represent them and, as always, the Liars are well and truly shafting them.

Bit by bit, the working and trades classes are having it rammed down their collective throats. The Liars only want their votes, and if there is any conflict between the interests of the working class and those of the university credentialled, inner urban dwelling, taxpayer funded “New Class”, then the workers are on their own.

And the same applies for rural workers.