This dude had the observational nous of a blind retard.For FFS, in his life, from birth to about middle age…
Open Thread- Weekend 6 May 2023
- Bumtree #1
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- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
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Fair Enough. I was just a little curious because I’d not seen this refusal before.
Very interesting. And the Democrats have withheld this from the Judge? Has this mob of morons actually landed even just…
Most people accept that, yes, some dark and bloody deeds were done on the frontier, but they want an acceptance…
Yes, Bazinga. Rosie is no anti-semite.
sfw says:
May 6, 2023 at 3:57 pm
Tom, it’s cold everywhere in Vic, been hovering around 9 here and down to 7 now. All the local firewood merchants are struggling to get logs. I reckon Dan has a secret plan to make getting firewood almost impossible and so make wood heating way too expensive. Unless you have your own block where you can grow your own the long term future for firewood isn’t good. He doesn’t care about rural votes, his city base is all he needs.
sfw,
When visiting Elder Daughter & Family in Melbourne have always noticed huge firewood supply besides railway line as we drive into Malvern Central
Looking up the InterWeb
J Horrigan Firewood
Est. 1932
We pride ourselves on the best quality Firewood and expert advice in Melbourne. J Horrigan Firewood has been servicing Melbourne’s South Eastern Suburbs for over 80 years. We sell quality, dry Red Gum firewood and bags of kindling and wood chips. All our firewood is split on site and then rested to dry, to optimise burning. Our firewood is suitable for all fireplaces, including Victorian grates, pizza ovens and chimeneas. Larger split firewood is available upon request.
In December, our fresh trimmed Christmas Trees are delivered daily to the yard. Come in and choose your tree and we offer home delivery and a New Year pick-up service as well.
Family
J Horrigan Firewood is a family owned and run business, established by Joe Horrigan in 1932. Since then his son, Barry and now his grandson, Mark have been operating the business out of the same shed that Joe built many years ago.
Location
Located along the railway siding beside Malvern Central, the woodyard has become an institution in Malvern and its surrounding suburbs. Many people are familiar with it due to its visibility from the train, as part of their commute.
Services & Pricing
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 5, 2023
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/a_leftist_has_a_lightbulb_moment_about_abortion.html
From the comments:
Very good point.
The Bish off mic was the best bit.
“If the Yes vote wins and next is the Republican referendum than you can pretty much guarantee the first head of state will be First Nations and we all know it is not going to be Jacinta Price.”
Yes, and I would go further, if the yes vote wins AND then a republic vote wins, any future head of state of this country will ALWAYS be a “First Nations” person. In other words, a hereditary position based on race and so called indigenousness.
No thank you. I’ll take a Windsor over a Wallaroo any day.
So do I.
OK No 1 Question answered (and yes turned to wife & said this is a Catholic Mass Ceremony – Wife “Just changed Pope for King Henry VIII”)
The Woman Carrying The Sword Stole The Entire Coronation
But who is Penny Mordaunt? – by marie claire
The talking point of the Coronation wasn’t the new king, nor was it Prince Harry’s return: it was Penny Mordant, who carried the bejewelled Sword of Offering in Westminster Abbey and stole the whole show.
Mordant, a Conservative MP, became the first woman in history to carry and present the sword, which she presented to King Charles after it was blessed by the Archbishop.
Her surprisingly big role in the coronation was due to her appointment last September as Lord President of the Privy Council and Leader of the House of Commons. The Privy Council is made up of senior politicians and ceremonial officers, and has a duty to advise the monarch.
“Penny Mordaunt’s sword is the ‘Pippa Middleton’s bum’ of the coronation,” feminist author Caitlin Moran tweeted, referring to Pippa Middleton’s show-stealing bridesmaid’s dress at the royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William.
Mordaunt, for those not familiar with British politics, was the woman in the royal blue dress and cape, adorned with gold leaf detail.
But it wasn’t her coronation outfit that had everyone talking; it was the fact that she was a British MP stuck carrying a diamand-encrusted, monstrously heavy sword for hours.
“The person truly caught my attention during the ceremony is the sword lady, her outfit is immaculate and she’s holding that sword for hours in heels, what an icon,” one person tweeted.
Another person put it quite succinctly with: “A moment, if you will, for Penny Mordaunt wielding a big ass sword.”
Ester Krakue on the Outsiders.
Damn fine woman.
That was probably a dig at me as I had a running commentary during the three hours of the proceedings. Hardly soppy, on the other hand I don’t care.
The highlight is footage of Nick Cave taking his seat. He was very well dressed and cut a fine figure. Nice work Nick
I wonder if he wore the same duds to the funeral of his drug-f*cked transgenderfluid son, after his death by misadventure while affected by substances and living on the street?
…apologies if you’re shocked by a bit of invective, but the cult hero Cave is a failure as a human being.
No wood for Victoria.
OK Question Number 2 – who was the guy in the kilt next to King Charles throughout Coronation?
Who is Major Johnny Thompson? King Charles’ ‘handsome’ equerry at coronation has fans swooning
The ‘dashing’ equerry was the centre of attention at the coronation of King Charles III
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=who+was+the+guy+in+the+kilt+next+to+king+charles+throughout+coronation&ia=web
I see the resident hater here has been busy doling out Zeros to Lizzie’s comments overnight. So that puts the lie to Bespoke’s theory that it’s a caching issue.
Yep, someone’s got a problem .. I noticed one of my comments earlier in the week with a zero tick ..
moi, I couldn’t care but was a bit surprised as the, actual, theme was a book appraisal ..
nuttin’ controversial just a worth reading precis …….
Disney truly has lost its magic.
The Star Wars franchise used to be a license to print money. Now it is a essentially steady creeping proliferation of lacklustre TV series on Disney+, each one pushing the ideas that grrrls belong at the top of the totem pole and at the bottom, below a few other sacred emblems, sits white men – stupid, brutish, forever in need of being saved, white men.
The one break in the pattern was the series The Mandalorean – the one that had Gina Carano, but I believe it has been brought to heel and is now as unremarkable as the rest.
As far as the movies go, the new centre of the Star Wars universe is a Mary-Sue girl-boss called Rey who effortlessly overcomes any difficulty she faces for whom Luke Skywalker is a mere ‘cautionary tale’.
What were the black uniforms of the two kiddies on the right when the royals were on the porch waving? (significant other question)
DIL produced fine grandson this morning. The tears of pure joy flowed freely. Magnificent little boy.
There is a point where enabling racist bullshit fairytales ends in murder. It was found here.
Huh?
Ed at a loss to explain what incitement is.
Or maybe he/she does know and enables this type of behaviour. Like he said in response to me earlier this week, to walk some area and make it out alive, be in Coles bags or some shit.
Absolute clown.
The one break in the pattern was the series The Mandalorean – the one that had Gina Carano, but I believe it has been brought to heel and is now as unremarkable as the rest.
Couldn’t get into The Mandalorean .. watched sesaon 1 and realised that alll it was was a space age imitation cashing in on the various 1950s thru 70s TV western series ……
Bravo Zulu GreyRanga!
Hopefully we fix this world before they have to deal with it.
Ester Krakue on the Outsiders.
Damn fine woman.
And conservative to boot. Damn fine woman indeed.
The Red Army didn’t reinvade in ’44, they removed the occupying Germans. But set all that aside, it’s a burial site. Knocking this down on camera had 2020 woke vibes and is infantile and disgraceful.
“That was probably a dig at me as I had a running commentary during the three hours of the proceedings. Hardly soppy, on the other hand I don’t care.”
Your commentary was not soppy.
Someone luvs me! .. a zero for a TV program comment .. LOL!
Holding hands.
“Ester Krakue on the Outsiders.
Damn fine woman.”
Damn drop dead gorgeous woman.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
– Calvin Coolidge
There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator……………………..
Emergency Evacuation of Zaporozhye, Offensive Imminent? – Video Roundup + SITREP
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
6 MAY 2023
I’m going a little overdrive the last few days, the reason being that events are accelerating, and at least up until the May 9th period, there is a high chance for big things to happen. So I’m going to be covering developments a little more intensely than usual.
Today we have a video reel of the top developments. Firstly, you can see the governor of Zaporozhye announcing a full evacuation of 18 settlements in the Zaporozhye region, with a video showing emergency loudspeaker announcements urging people to head towards Berdiansk, followed by a video depicting a long line of buses for evacuation.
The governor, Balitsky reportedly said that he cannot guarantee that Russian troops will not surrender the cities, which does not quite arouse reassurance. However, it must be noted he’s just a governor not a military man and is simply stating precautions for his constituents:
Furthermore, some reports claim that Kiev announced round the clock curfews from the 5th of May to the 8th in Nikolayev, and the region’s governor Kim urged civilians “not to take photos during this time”, which can only imply that some sort of major military movements will be happening there—if the report is true, that is.
This follows the appearance of photos online showing German Leopard 2A4s on railways in Odessa, which may or may not be related.
One rumor was that they were in fact headed the opposite direction, towards Pridnestrovia for that developing provocation.
Many believe that the offensive is now imminent for May 9-10th period, partly to strike a major psychological blow against Russia on their most symbolic date, the May 9th Great Patriotic War victory celebrations, but also collaterally having to do with the imminent fall of Bakhmut, which Wagner is trying to precipitate by exactly that date.
Big Serge Thought has a good thread summarizing his thoughts about Prigozhin’s antics:
https://twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1654634207745036289
He correctly states that the AFU did in fact launch a counter-offensive attempt on Bakhmut this previous week, which went under the radar because they didn’t ‘announce’ it as an official offensive due to wanting plausible deniability in case it spectacularly failed. It did in fact fail, however as Serge states, it produced a higher-than-usual combat intensity which led to more casualties on both sides (though, of course, far more for the AFU). This is what Serge theorizes has led to Prigozhin’s new meltdown.
I can confirm that there was big talk a week ago about new units coming to Khromovo on the Bakhmut flanks to spearhead a major counter-attack; then suddenly we didn’t hear much in the way of ‘official’ releases, only the odd report here and there of uncommonly bitter fighting, which continues to this day. In fact, today there were several transmissions from prominent AFU channels connected to their armed forces that on the Khromovo axis there is ‘absolutely hell’ and nightmarish conditions, in terms of intense fighting.
Next slide shows today’s news that Gonzalo Lira has been detained on serious charges by the SBU again, and this time maybe permanently.
The reason this is critical to the situation is because it shows that the SBU is tightening its ship, cleaning up all loose ends to fully control information outflows on the eve of their potential offensive. The fact that this happens now is very telling for that reason.
Also, note that Russia has been picking up their major long range strikes on UA’s strategic centers. For instance, a new Iskander attack was reported today on a UA troop concentration. And new satellite photos were released of the big Pavlograd strike from a few days ago, which produced the massive sky-blotting explosion:
Check out the size of that crater, seen from space, and imagine the power of the blast:
The crater is said to be 30 meters (100 feet) deep.
Also, not to mention this strike which obliterated a Polish mercenary base.
Furthermore, in the past week or two there have been various reports of Russian troop movements, including a video timelapse showing how one of the main Crimean depots has emptied over the past month or two, with massive amounts of Russian armor that was there being sent up the line to Zaporozhye, Kherson, and elsewhere.
As always long & detailed assessment
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Dr. John Campbell still hasn’t posted
the empire strikes back
In fashion news.
Princess Anne and Kate looked very cool.
Julie Bishop not so much.
The end.
WAYNE ROOT: Title 42 Ends in Days. Get Ready to Witness “The Fall of Saigon.”
Our nation is in grave danger. If you thought the invasion of Ukraine was bad, wait until May 11th, when the full-scale invasion of America begins.
As many as one million foreigners have amassed on our Southern Border, ready to invade the moment Title 42 ends on May 11th. Tens of millions more will soon follow.
If Russia or China were massing at our Southern border with one million troops ready to attack on May 11th, wouldn’t you be scared to death? Wouldn’t you expect the media to report on it?
Well, we are being attacked by an army of a million foreigner invaders- made up of illegal aliens, criminals released from prisons all over the world, drug traffickers, terrorists and even thousands of Chinese military age males.
Is anyone asking why Chinese military age males are here? How did military age males get out of compulsory military service in China? How did they get here? Who paid for this long expensive journey? Why would China pay for them to mass at our border? Are these spies? Is this a stealth Chinese invasion of America?
May 11th is just days away. Yet no one seems too concerned. The media is covering it up like it’s a rigged election, or proof of corruption on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Here is the story of how and why Biden scammed the nation, the GOP and the Supreme Court.
Title 42 was implemented by President Trump as part of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for Covid 19 under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (PHS). Title 42 gave border patrol agents the right to expel migrants trying to enter this country illegally. They had to go back to their home country, or wait in Mexico.
This kept America safe. This kept you and your family safe. This kept our country from being overrun.
But Biden wanted to lift Title 42 and wave the entire world in.
The only thing standing in his way was the Supreme Court. They accepted the case. Republicans control the Supreme Court 6-3. They would have undoubtedly upheld the legality of Title 42. Biden’s plans to open the borders and wave the whole world in would have been halted.
Wow. “oi, you Germans, clear out”.
I’m thinking there was a bit of opposition to Russian invasion.
This is the way.
Serenity had the same theme and is second only to 1984 in its madness of elites.
Dr Robert Malone: When Governments deploy psy-ops on their citizens, ‘sovereignty becomes obsolete’
Russians can force HIMARS rockets off course – CNN
The US-made weapon system has become “increasingly less effective,” a source told the network
Russia has been using jamming techniques in recent months to force the US-supplied HIMARS mobile multiple rocket launchers off course, CNN reported on Friday, citing five US, UK, and Ukrainian sources familiar with the matter. According to the network, these efforts are making GPS-guided munitions “increasingly less effective.”
The HIMARS, which can strike targets up to 50 miles (80km) away, is one of the most sophisticated weapon systems the US has provided to Kiev since Moscow launched its military operation in the neighboring state in February 2022.
A Ukrainian drone operator was quoted as describing the efforts to disrupt the work of HIMARS launchers as “significant,” and something he had not seen before last November. A Pentagon official described the process of finding new ways to combat Russia’s efforts to throw the rockets off course as “a constant cat-and-mouse game.”
A senior Pentagon official told CNN that the US has been helping the Ukrainians to fight the jamming by adjusting targeting software and “constant tweaking to get them to stay effective.” The official said updates have been made “as recently as this week.”
The US has committed 38 HIMARS systems to Ukraine since the conflict broke out, according to the Pentagon and the State Department.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in January that lethal aid to Kiev has made NATO “directly involved in the hybrid war against Russia.” Officials in Moscow have accused Ukraine of using HIMARS and other Western-supplied weapons to indiscriminately fire at cities and kill civilians.
On Thursday, three people, including a six-year-old boy, were injured in Donetsk after the Donbass city was hit by HIMARS missiles, the local authorities said.
News from the frontlines of the war.
Latin Mass Churchgoers Witnessed Suspicious Activity After FBI’s ‘Radical-Traditional Catholic’ Memo (6 May)
Two parishioners at a Latin Mass Catholic church in rural Northern Virginia say they witnessed suspicious activity from what looked like FBI vehicles in February, a month after the FBI’s Richmond office published a now-rescinded internal memo focused on “radical-traditional Catholics.”
The FBI’s Washington, D.C., office, which monitors the church’s area, denied any knowledge of such activity in a statement to The Daily Signal.
The two witnesses told The Daily Signal that they saw two cars approach the church, drive through the parking lot as if they were writing down license plate numbers, and then leave, on two separate instances outside Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel in Linden, Virginia, some 63 miles west of Washington, D.C., between Feb. 12 and Feb. 26. (The memo had been published on Jan. 23 and rescinded on Feb. 9.)
Health and Human Services Folds Like a Cheap Suit Over Threat to Deny Catholic Hospital Accreditation (6 May)
The Department of Health and Humans Services has folded on its demand that Catholic hospitals in Tulsa-based St. Francis Healthcare System extinguish the Eternal Flame candle burning it is chapel. Confronted with a lawsuit that it was doomed to lose over an indefensible position contrary to law, HHS’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services agreed to grant a waiver to the bizarre inspection finding that concluded that a single beeswax candle on a wall sconce enclosed in glass constituted a fire hazard to patients.
The Left is at war with Christianity. From the dates reported in the first story it looks like the surveillance didn’t stop after the FBI was sprung for monitoring Catholic churches, they just hid that they were doing it.
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“OldOzziesays:
May 7, 2023 at 9:20 am
OK No 1 Question answered (and yes turned to wife & said this is a Catholic Mass Ceremony – Wife “Just changed Pope for King Henry VIII”)
The Woman Carrying The Sword Stole The Entire Coronation”
OldOzzie, thanks very much for that link. I had been meaning to ask who that beautiful and formidable woman was. I caught her as I was channel surfing and couldn’t take my eyes away from her. Stunning in carriage and in dress.
Coro thoughts:
Channel-flipped around a bit but I saw most of it.
The music and singing was sublime (in an era when that word is routinely cheapened).
Sublime.
The stars – besides the King and Queen:
– Justin Welby is an impressively spoken and unflappable man.
– The boobage of sword lady. A woman has no business fulfilling that role or being in a sanctuary. Ditto for the priestesses. In fact, one couldn’t help but notice all the women dressed as, and pretending to be, men.
– I digress. The Princess Wales didn’t want to wear a precious tiara (it not being her day) so she had those floral thingos made for herself and Charlotte. Everything she does is classy.
– Albo must have been in a folding chair on the porch. Didn’t see him.
– Gold plate in the sanctuary of the Abbey is over the top and somewhat crass.
– Service demonstrated the aesthetic and theological superiority of worship ad orientem.
– With no tabernacle or Real Presence, the Abbey was, in a sense, empty.
– The sacred Golden Spurs?
– A masterclass in ritual, the uplifting power of high culture (which belongs to all of us) and another black eye for populist dumbers-down who who want to Kwiki-mart the world to hurt the people they hate; which, being misanthropes, is everyone.
I thought
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=julie+bishop+looked+like+an+overdressed+flower+in+coronation+outfit&t=ffab&ia=web
Interested in Cat Ladies opinions
Julie Bishop mocked for her elaborate outfit at the King’s Coronation as her designer ensemble is compared to a toilet dolly and hazmat suit: ‘What the hell is she wearing?’
Julie Bishop has attracted criticism for the elaborate designer ensemble she wore to the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.
The former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs stunned in a fitted beige dress with floral motifs and matching hat, which towered on her head.
But not everyone was impressed, with several viewers watching the ceremony at home comparing her to a ‘toilet dolly’ – a type of decorative doll that was popularly used as a toilet roll holder in the 1970s.
‘Julie Bishop dressed as a toilet dolly. Pomp now getting underway’ joked one person on Twitter.
Mark Sexton
@MrMarkSexton
BBC in Birmingham today.
WOW-WOW-AND-WOW AGAIN
No idea who is responsible but it’s absolutely incredible.
Lovely day in Sydney today – cloudy, cool (12.5C right now), blasts of wind , with intermittent drizzle.
Perfect for tea.
I shall go out later to let the cold start to creep into my body’s periphery then expel it with scotch – the sedentary person’s equivalent of fit people playing sport for an hour then having a beer.
Further on “the woman carrying there sword“.
“C.L.says:
May 7, 2023 at 9:48 am
Holding hands.”
CL,
they may be holding hands but body language speaks otherwise. Every photo you see of them, the body language says the exact opposite of what is trying to be portrayed. Bearded woman.
Short and to the point. Outstanding.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
How We Allowed Politicians to Sell Us The Pandemic
“We have a broken model of what humans are”
-Dr. David Martin
A recent poll recorded that 70% of Americans reject transgender ideology.
WaPo headline, 5th May: ‘Most Americans support anti-trans policies favored by GOP’
I don’t remember seeing Julie Bishop last night. Does anyone have a link?
‘Julie Bishop’s stylist is as effective as Morrison’s empathy coach’ </em>someone else chimed in while another said the outfit looked like a ‘hazmat suit’.
‘OMG! What the hell has Julie Bishop wearing! Mutton dressed as lamb!’ said another.
Others liked the look, with one writing: ‘Julie Bishop at the coronation looking riveting… with a touch of welding a bit of panel beating and some spray painting!’
Love the Dolly Toilet Roll Holder Photos that match Julie Bishop’s Dress & Toilet Seat Covers also
What is a “welfare” check and who authorizes them? .. this bloke (&family) was living in a $3 000 a week rental 3 weeks before his death and a $600 a night hotel over his final dayz .. not exactly doing it “tuff” yet getz regular “emergency” visitations ..
I’m 75 live alone in “houso” drug ravaged estate and no one in any gummint “service’ has ever checked up on me .. weird!
“Jock Zonfrillo was reportedly subject to multiple welfare checks by emergency services in the year before his tragic death last weekend.”
Found the link for Julie Bishop. That hat looks like the one the Tin Man wore in The Wizard of Oz.
Didn’t watch the coronation, but delighted that there was no participation by Allen’s Snackbar devotees, or similar.
Everything beyond Star Wars Episodes IV & V is illegitimate.
It’s not one hater.
It’s a group of haters working in unison, but using one name and working from a below-ground office underneath a bus exchange in Adelaide. Been doing it for 20 years or more.
Their goal, naturally, is to destroy this blog. Blogwreckers!
Also, a very good morning to those in Lurkerland.
I don’t remember seeing Julie Bishop last night. Does anyone have a link?
Your, probably, not gonna thank me … but ……. the pix is a shocker .. LOL!
https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/news/julie-bishop-kings-coronation/news-story/f1d912806d9b5c811b55e677699a2b29
That sword was heavy.
Penny Mordaunt’s gruelling fitness regime for hour-long stint holding ‘heaviest sword’ (6 May)
Well done lady!
Preach it.
It is my view that the whole Marvel/Disney fiasco had its genesis with Jar Jar Binks.
Demonstrating that stupidity has no hard deck, one of the mainstream rags actually referred to that collection of excess human skin as ‘J-Bish’.
Earlier this year, I asked the local police to do a welfare check on a semi-itinerant bloke I say G’day to, & who was living in a moored homemade houseboat near me.
Not interested. Was told by the civ at the front desk ‘those type of things aren’t done anymore.’ O.K. Just wait for the smell then?
Said bloke eventually turned up alive, but I was a bit miffed at my good intentions being snorted at by the local ‘protectors ‘
Wiki:
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi s??z]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), sometimes known as The Last, was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765. On his grandfather’s death on 10 May 1774, he became King of France and Navarre, reigning until 4 September 1791, when he received the title of King of the French, reigning as king until the monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792.
The first part of Louis XVI’s reign was marked by attempts to reform the French government in accordance with Enlightenment ideas. These included efforts to abolish serfdom, remove the taille (land tax) and the corvée (labour tax),[2] and increase tolerance toward non-Catholics as well as abolish the death penalty for deserters.[3][4] The French nobility reacted to the proposed reforms with hostility, and successfully opposed their implementation. Louis implemented deregulation of the grain market, advocated by his economic liberal minister Turgot, but it resulted in an increase in bread prices. In periods of bad harvests, it led to food scarcity which, during a particularly bad harvest in 1775, prompted the masses to revolt. From 1776, Louis XVI actively supported the North American colonists, who were seeking their independence from Great Britain, which was realised in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The ensuing debt and financial crisis contributed to the unpopularity of the Ancien Régime. This led to the convening of the Estates-General of 1789. Discontent among the members of France’s middle and lower classes resulted in strengthened opposition to the French aristocracy and to the absolute monarchy, of which Louis and his wife Marie Antoinette were viewed as representatives. Increasing tensions and violence were marked by events such as the storming of the Bastille, during which riots in Paris forced Louis to definitively recognize the legislative authority of the National Assembly.
Louis’s indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France to view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime, and his popularity deteriorated progressively.
But…”If it saves just one life.”
Demonstrating that said human biltong has a scribbler from the publication on retainer, more likely IMHO. The breakup revenge articles that ran recently gave the game away on that one. She is a shameless media whore.
cue “The Voice”
Toxic metals and essential elements contents in commercially available fruit juices and other non-alcoholic beverages from the United States
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157523001047
The breakup revenge articles that ran recently gave the game away on that one. She is a shameless media whore.
Yep and I used to think she was ‘ok’ once. Her treachery to Abbott was despicable. Same with the other Bishop- a vacuous phony.
hzhousewife
Yep Vic Labor is doing all it can to kill the timber industry in Vic, I have friends who had the last sawmill in Daylesford, I think there used to be a dozen or more in that area, slowly the gov bought out their allocations. My friends didn’t want to close down, it had been a family business for over 100 years but like the Corryong operation they had little choice.
Up our way the local mill that had around 50 local jobs closed down around 20 years ago, although this area had been selectively logged for a hundred years the gov made it almost impossible for them to continue. My local firewood bloke can’t get wood locally, over summer he gets around 40+ B Double loads in from all around the state and NSW, wherever he can source, all his suppliers tell him that they don’t know how much longer they can supply him as allocations are getting smaller and fewer.
The greens are simply evil.
Kate Middleton spectacle at coronation proves Meghan and Harry lost
The Princess of Wales stunned at King Charles’ coronation and it’s all but game over for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
They came, they saw and oh boy … has the royal family just conquered.
On Saturday, as King Charles walked out of Westminster Abbey after having become the 40th monarch anointed inside the nearly 1,000-year-old architectural beast, it is was having somehow pulled off the once unthinkable: The jug-eared lost soul of a man who often seemed like well-meaning but pointless living anachronism in tweed might just have staged the monarchical PR coup de grace to end them all.
Sure other royal houses have won glory trouncing the rotten French or letting the Prussians have what for on the battlefield but in the 21st century, the House of Windsor has just put on the sort of thrilling show that will keep the monarchy going yet.
Kate, the Princess of Wales played a sartorial blinder and turned up in a Cinderella-worthy Alexander McQueen gown and ornate floral headpiece that within nanoseconds editors around the world were probably describing as iconic.
The whole thing was a production unlike anything anyone alive today under the age of 80-years-old has never borne witness to. The whole thing – the trumpet fanfares, the gold coaches, the resplendent robes, the diamonds that were comically big, the peeling church bells and the bagpipes- was over-the-top and at times, even surprisingly moving.
In the coming hours and days, millions of words are about to be rightfully spilled to bang on about how majestic the whole shebang was but in amongst it all there is one undeniable fact: Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have failed.
Or perhaps more accurately the House of Windsor has triumphed.
Flip side is that the dock owners know the deal. They get paid once in a while but they know who is there. If anything untoward had happened they would be the first to call.
Cautionary tale from Instapundit today:
Which means the Louis XVI entry will be similarly slanted for leftist political narrative reasons.
cohenitesays:
May 7, 2023 at 10:01 am
“Title 42 was implemented by President Trump as part of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) for Covid 19 under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (PHS). Title 42 gave border patrol agents the right to expel migrants trying to enter this country illegally. They had to go back to their home country, or wait in Mexico.”
42 is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”
There. That fixes it.
The greens are simply evil.
That’s not an exaggeration.
One picture says it all
Check out Daily Mail picture of Harry under Dan Wooton article.
And Harry? He was lost in a sea of cousins, and notably, cousins’ husbands. It was like watching some sort of live streamed consignment to purgatory via in-law.
Never has Montecito’s third most famous ratepayer looked more isolated or more cut-off from not only his family but also the future that was meant to be his too.
Anarchotyranny
By the occupying Germans, yes.
The trouble is that the monarchy & the prog-left are converging.
Two of Charles’s chosen themes for his reign are ‘diversity & community’ and ‘sustainability & biodiversity’, the third being the Commonwealth.
On the face of it, one might say “What’s wrong with those ideals? Yet we know they come already freighted with ideology.
Rock Gods are notoriously bad fathers, although there is a touching description in The Dirt when one of their daughters dies, from a rare disease if my memory is correct.
At least she got to use both arms, and wasn’t being rained on. Standing at attention holding an ordinary pig sticker for extended periods because the Commanding General forgot to stand the parade at ease before his speech in a drizzle in Sydney in July is no fun.
I blame Jar Jar for the SMS bastardisation of language & subsequent illiteracy, but the rot goes back to those Ewoks on Endor: cannibals whose tech was pointy sticks, but they intimidated the (admittedly inept) rebel sabotage patrol into submission, and then became joint heroes?
That was the beginning of diversity, implosion & effeminacy right there.
You would have to say the Monarchy getting the arse is orders of magnitude higher under Charles than Betty. Both in the UK and here. Although I can’t see it happening in my life time. Sentiment can change quickly though.
Knuckle Dragger says:
May 7, 2023 at 10:21 am
Quite inept, then, I say.
After 20 years, the blog is still here.
Ok Question 3 answered -“to Wife – Where is Louis, he has disappeared, not alonside Kate”
King Charles coronation: Prince Louis steals show with adorable moment
Prince Louis made a surprise exit shortly after witnessing the moment his grandfather was crowned. See the photos.
He was pictured yawning and staring at the ceiling of Westminster Abbey during the lengthy ceremony.
The five-year-old was taken out of the church for a rest shortly after his grandfather, King Charles, was crowned.
Louis returned in time for the end of the coronation and was spotted confidently singing the national anthem alongside Charlotte.
The life and death of Jordan Neely in the context of America’s domestic decline due to failed liberal social policies: Was it for this the clay grew tall?
Was it for this the clay grew tall.
Steve Jobs was scathing on Disney (amongst others) in the Walter Isaacson biography before he offloaded Pixar to them.
the coronation of King Charles III is profoundly Christian
The greens are simply evil.
Don’t these Greenies know that trees are a renewable resource and love CO2?
Back to School on Monday for all of them and the first lesson after they learn how to tie their shoe laces up (Yes, girls, its and ‘whatevers’ are all included for Inclusion and Diversity purposes), is General Science 101.
Prince Louis made a surprise exit shortly after witnessing the moment his grandfather was crowned. See the photos.
He was pictured yawning and staring at the ceiling of Westminster Abbey during the lengthy ceremony.
The five-year-old was taken out of the church for a rest shortly after his grandfather, King Charles, was crowned.
Louis returned in time for the end of the coronation and was spotted confidently singing the national anthem alongside Charlotte.
He needed a pee and had to go outside as the Westminster Abbey bogs were closed.
Can China checkmate the west in Ukraine?
BY AKRAINER
Originally published on Alex Krainer’s Substack
Last week’s telephone call between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and China’s President Xi Jinping was certainly one of the most significant events since the beginning of Russian military intervention in Ukraine. The call, as we now know, was initiated by President Zelensky himself, without consulting his handlers in the Biden administration or NATO. President Xi accepted the call but made the subtle point of conducting it through a Russian and not Ukrainian language interpreter. According to Chinese government readout of the conversation, Xi warned Zelensky not to support US policy on Taiwan, and offered to send a peace delegation to Kiev in order to help broker an end of hostilities in Ukraine.
No cards left to play
The significance of this call could be hard to overestimate, including the fact that Zelensky took the initiative without consulting his western sponsors. If he risked their wrath by calling on the Chinese president, it was because, as Scott Ritter put it, Ukraine has no cards left to play. Their much talked about spring counter offensive appears dead on arrival and there are increasing signs of mutiny in Ukraine’s military ranks. Apparently, numerous officials are privately voicing opinions that they must find an off-ramp and seek a negotiated peace solution to avert the nation’s total collapse.
Even Poland’s Chief of the General Staff, General Rajmund Andrzejczak who was one of the western alliance’s most eager pro-Ukraine voices has lost taste for the adventure. Amid extreme casualties sustained by Ukraine in the recent artillery and missile attacks, he warned that the war does not look good for Ukraine. According to Colonel Douglas MacGregor, Andrzejczak now thinks Ukraine would need two million troops to have any hope of success with their counter offensive.
Regime officials now blame the West
So true.
When worldviews collide!
HzHousewife:
It’s not about the environment – it’s about forcing people to be dependent on government for the necessities of life.
sssshhh
It’s about monetising everything.
You used to be able to collect fallen timber on the roadsides in Victoria, then a Licence was required, soon it will only be available at the Servo, imported from the 3rd world, pay thru the nose.
President Xi accepted the call but made the subtle point of conducting it through a Russian and not Ukrainian language interpreter.
Or, given that Russian is Zelensky’s first language & Chinese MFA interpreters are notoriously poor, it just made sense to use Russian for a sensitive discussion where ambiguity was best avoided. At least they could find a decent translator.
How does Julie Bitchop get a go at the coronation and not Abbott or Howard. No doubt to rub their noses in it.
And in so doing, forcing citizens to fund the renewable debacle our Govt’s are hell bent on delivering. While the well connected few line their pockets at our expense.
And I get picked up for phrasing.
VIC should be entirely self-sufficent for wood and we should have cottage industries in places like Daylesford, Koondrook, and the like for the use of timber produced in these areas. They idea that you cannot adequately manage these forests is absurd.
The Russian Revolution – Good Thing, Bad Thing?
— part 1
You don’t follow her on the ‘Gram?
Good lead in to my one and only coronation comment.
She couldn’t get a root in a pub at midnight!
Everything, absolutely everything, the greens influence turns out anti human.
Speaking of which, what happened to that piece of disposable corporate beefcake that use to walk her around? And Gillard’s “husband”? I can feel another Australia Council grant application in the offing.
Pepe Escobar: US outmatched by Russia, China
Sputnik – Sat, 06 May 2023
How Brzezinski’s Nightmare Turned Into Reality
Under the Biden administration Washington’s relations with Moscow and Beijing hit a new low. Having snubbed Russia’s security draft proposals concerning NATO enlargement and Ukraine’s neutrality, the US ramped up military aid to the Kiev regime after the beginning of Moscow’s special military operation (SMO) to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine. The Biden administration not only slapped Russia with sanctions and derailed the March 2022 Istanbul preliminary peace accords between Moscow and Kiev but openly called for bleeding Russia white and imposing strategic defeat on the nation.
Simultaneously, Washington resorted to a series of provocations against China over Taiwan, the island located at the junction of the East and South China Seas, which Beijing regards as an inalienable part of the People’s Republic. House Speakers Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy met with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen in what was seen by Beijing as a clear defiance of One China principle, while President Joe Biden issued repeated “gaffes” that the US is ready to “protect” the island militarily from the People’s Republic. Recently, the Pentagon has speeded up the provision of weapons to Taipei as the latter is bracing for the January 2024 presidential elections.
Despite these provocative moves, the US military is not ready for a full-fledged confrontation with China, according to Escobar.
“They won’t fight real wars,” the veteran journalist said. “And now they are even more freaked out because they know, for instance, if they try something in the South China Sea, the Chinese have the famous carrier killers all over the coast. So, if you have three or four American complexes navigate over there, they can be sunk in 30 minutes. And the Pentagon knows that, they gamed it.”
Likewise, Washington has failed to defeat Moscow either militarily or economically despite a set of unprecedented measures taken by the US, its NATO allies and partners against Russia.
“Russia survived everything that the West threw against it after the start of the special military operation, especially the economic war, the financial war,” Escobar said.
“And Russia survived and resisted. And now it’s even growing again with the 3% inflation, where we have nations in Europe with 10-20-30% inflation and floundering.”
What’s more, the Biden administration’s provocations and bellicose rhetoric against Russia and China has served to push the two great powers closer together. In March, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a three-day visit to Moscow at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Observers have drawn attention to the fact that Russia became the first foreign state visited by Xi after his historic reelection on March 10.
Commenting on the development, Chinese observers told Sputnik that Russia and China “have entered a new stage of comprehensive cooperation and strategic partnership.” That is how Team Biden has turned Brzezinski’s nightmare scenario of a “grand coalition” between Moscow and Beijing into reality.
What is Behind Russia’s Resilience?
Escobar’s skepticism about the effectiveness of Western sanctions was confirmed when the veteran journalist arrived to Moscow in February 2023. He told Sputnik that he was stunned by how normal life was in the Russian capital despite unprecedented outside pressure.
“My first day I arrived at Vnukovo [airport], I left my bags at my studio and I went for a seven-hour walk around the city not to have an intellectual experience, but the gut feeling,” the veteran journalist recalled.
“How does it feel to be in Moscow now?
So, I did not see a fragile shattered economy. I did not see a country under sanctions that was like I remember seeing Iran under sanctions, and it was very, very tough. I couldn’t feel that here. I saw one of the most beautiful cities in the world with an infrastructure that is absolutely peerless. Anywhere it is extremely clean. That’s very important for all of us who live in the West.”
“Compared to New York, compared to Paris, compared to London. People are very well dressed, wonderful restaurants, the supermarkets were stocked with everything. The department stores like GUM or TSUM have everything that you can find in any big capital of the world. People were relaxed and they didn’t feel that they were at war. So, my first impression was striking,” he continued.
The End of Western Technological Dominance
The Biden administration has repeatedly insisted the United States and its European allies will remain the centers of global technological innovation for the indefinite future. Escobar, who has spent extensive time in both the Middle East and Asia, dismisses these claims as delusional bluster.
“In fact, a lot of top researchers and tech wizards in Silicon Valley come from China and India. And [look at] the level of excellence of the Russian military in terms of missile defense systems and hypersonic weapons,” Escobar said. “When you talk to a very good military analyst like my friend Andrei Martyanov, for instance, who lives in the US and writes in English, but knows the Soviet and the Russian military system upside down, he says, ‘Look, the gap is at least two generations, if not more, and [the US] won’t be able to do it’.”
“And the [US] political leadership don’t understand simple math or physics, for that matter. And the American system, in terms of the military industrial complex, it’s basically for profit, is not to actually make weapons capable of fighting wars, which is exactly what the Russians do.
There has been a technical expertise in Russia since Soviet times. The basis of the hypersonic missile system was laid out already during the Brezhnev era,” Escobar said.
Satire!
Thanks, Matrix…bookmarked.
Dover Beach:
When Operation Barbarossa started 22/6/41 the German Army removed the occupying Red Army from Poland. Was that an invasion? Of course it was. The Red Army reinvaded in ’44.
Did the Red Army retreat back to its borders in ’45? No. It occupied Poland for the next 50 years.
To the Polish People, your argument is just semantics.
Most of the German Military Cemeteries in the Baltic States, Poland, Belorussia, and the Ukraine were destroyed after the war. They were burial sites too. Where is your outrage there?
As for “infantile and disgraceful” I think you’re getting confused with ‘vengeance’. None of these Mittel Europa nations have any love for either the Wehrmacht or the Red Army.
Personally, I’d dig up all the foreign graves and repatriate the remains back to their native countries – as well as returning all our soldiers back from Europe etc. Put them in a National Cemetery around Canberra to make the politicians think about what their wars cost the nation.
/End rant
On the Coronation: I watched the Sky and BBC coverage, which I thought excellent.
I’ve not been exposed to High Anglican rites, was a little surprised at how much the ersatz Mass ceremony followed so closely the Catholic Mass.
Didn’t see much of Harry, they showed him arriving and leaving, and once his position in the Abbey, behind the main players, but not significantly back with the hoi polloi.
I enjoyed the spectacle, particularly the music, and the parades, and appreciate the historic and constitutional importance of the occasion. Wasn’t sold on the coaches but I suppose they’re on hand and have history to support their use. Great seeing all the horses.
I liked catching sight of Princess Anne in her regalia entering the Abbey, showing just a glimpse of riding boots and jodphurs under the cloak.
The display of the Abbey gold plate irritated me, as did the failure to remove all the stands and cushions for the King’s symbols of power from the altar when the Archbishop was conducting the most solemn part of the religious ceremony.
I too liked the lady with the sword; noted that her shoes were not very high or skinny; I think there are rules on walking of that particular part of the Abbey floor – it dates back to the very first Abbey built on the site I think, so apart from her own comfort, she had some consideration for the floor surface.
At the end of the commentary I watched there was a quite mean spirited editorial comment from the presenter regarding the cost. It rather missed the point of ceremonies such as these in the life of a nation I thought.
In a mean spirited comment of my own, I noticed Dr Biden arriving. I thought she might be endeavouring to emulate Melania Trump’s outfit for the 2016 inauguration. Failed. The blue was slightly not right, the design was too casual, and the tailouring was dreadful.
I hope the King lasts a good few years and is successful (and moves away from his more loony ideas). After the understated magnificance of the funeral for the Duke of Edinburgh, the late Queen’s excellent funeral ceremony, and even the funeral here for Cardinal Pell, I’m pretty well solemn ceremonied out.
A Guide to the Christian — and Catholic — Symbolism in King Charles III’s Coronation
NCR – May 5, 2023
Because someone requested them. Quite possibly family who knew how fragile he was and panicked every time he was uncontactable.
Police don’t just randomly check up on people living alone.
Don’t think it should be up to hotel staff to check if a guest has just topped themselves either.
In Victoria
GPT-4 hits the ceiling (Theory of Mind, Mensa, Asimov)
Dr Alan D. Thompson
MatrixTransform says:
May 7, 2023 at 11:36 am
The Russian Revolution – Good Thing, Bad Thing?
— part 1
What a superb Piss Take from brief look – 1 Hour 12 Mins 8 Secs
– have book marked and will watch on Big Screen after Watching Recorded F1 Miam1 Practice 3 & Qualifying with Fine Red – Glasses Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz (out of usual Bundy to go with cans of Pepsi Max which is normal F1 watching drink)
parts 2 and 3 are very good too.
last night I thought to myself, do I really want to dedicate an hour to watching this thing…?
couldnt stop.
watched all 3 … and now it’s midday
hat tip
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/
Bishop went as part of her position in a scheme sponsored by the King; something to do with Aboriginal young and Maritime traineeships?
Mass shooting in Allen, TX. Shooter killed.
Robert Sewellsays:
May 7, 2023 at 11:23 am
HzHousewife:
No wood for Victoria.
It’s not about the environment – it’s about forcing people to be dependent on government for the necessities of life.
For a moment there, I thought that the discussion was about Victoria Wood………
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood
Passed away way too early.
MatrixTransform says:
May 7, 2023 at 11:53 am
hat tip
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/
Quite a Selection – the Asian Ladies Dressing Room was interesting as was the Dance Act
Ok 1200 Yard Arm – Off to F1
Which of course she has a deep and long time interest in, nothing whatsoever to do with the invites associated with that position. Or the glossy Vogue like foto-ops these events can provide a media whore like Bishop.
Last month Venus was racist, this month she is a 30 year old influencer.
Botticelli’s Venus is an ‘influencer’ and Italy is not happy (6 May)
Fine tale of woe! Advertisers aren’t having a good trot lately. Maybe if she held a can of Bud Light it would work out better.
and a new bunch of glorious links every Friday nite
I think you can safely say that the ABC’s choice of panelists, sTan Grant, Craig Foster and other scum, to cover the coronation last night, is a big middle finger to middle Australia.
As for the ritual of the coronation, it was profoundly Christian with deep roots in Judaism. The monarch’s anointing stretches directly back to the anointing of the biblical kings of Israel. Once upon a time monarchs believed they were directly appointed and anointed by God. The High Priest, when anointing the biblical Kings of Israel, acted as a direct conduit from God. I saw similar last night when watching the ritual.
If the maritime traineeships were associated with the STS Leuwin, the father of a schoolmate got that off the ground. He used to drive around with a model of it in the back of his car trying to extract corporate cash. A big donation from one of the Horgans in the late 80s did it.
‘An Allen Police officer was in the area on an unrelated call when the officer heard gunshots at Allen Premium Outlets at 3:36pm. The officer engaged the suspect and neutralised the threat.’
Now that’s what I call de-escalation.
Exactly what you would expect from the ALPBC. Their news coverage was equally small and mean spirited.
On the Coronation: I watched the Sky and BBC coverage, which I thought excellent.”
Agree. It was.
“I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life, based on incomplete information,” Elizabeth Hoover confessed on her personal website.”
…says Professor Elizabeth Hoover is a professor of anthropology at Berkeley — the study of human societies and cultures.
Hoover’s status helped her land prestigious jobs, grants and fellowships and become a high-profile member of the “food sovereignty” movement, according to Indianz.com.
ht/ZH
The Princess of Wales stunned at King Charles’ coronation and it’s all but game over for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Beautiful face; and that stare would melt steel at 50 paces.
Rogersays:
May 7, 2023 at 10:54 am
I’ll take a Windsor over a Wallaroo any day.
The trouble is that the monarchy & the prog-left are converging.
That’s correct. Chuck is a green swot. I don’t know where he got it from since Phil laughed at the greenies. Lets hope Will and his beautiful wife go back to Phil’s POV.
Excellent post OldOzzie. This stands out:
Being exposed to refugees from behind the Iron curtain whilst at school this makes so much sense. They were exposed to a highly rigorous education system.
Cop #1 – I’ve got him covered. Use the long gun Bobby Ray.
Especially maths.
The movement to out Pretendians in the US is gaining momentum.
The fauxborigines in our halls of academe should be nervous.
They only removed the Red Army from mutually agreed areas of occupied Poland.
That is also outrageous.
No, it’s infantile and disgraceful. Walzing through cemeteries and destroying headstones isn’t vengeance, it’s cope and seethe. As for Mittel Europa nations, not a few of them were allied to the Germans. The Poles need to take heed of the Hungarians and start acting like adults.
This.
Imagine if you will, instead of Endor and those stupid made for toy shops ewoks, the third movie had taken place on the Wookie Planet.
Unexpectedly, I liked this.
If they’re South Aussies, let’s be thankful they haven’t blown up the bus exchange….yet.
Bespoke, I have no intention to “adding to the paranoia”, being not a particularly paranoid type. If others feel uncomfortable, then that’s their lookout.
On “correcting” the situation with spare upticks, I thought I’d leave it be to prove my point and also to let Lizzie know she’s not the only one being targeted. It’s stupidity on stilts and it’s vaguely embarrassing for a forum that’s supposedly used by adults.
Chris Joye has been pretty accurate with his predictions the last 18 months or so.
This is a 48m interview (before recent rate hikes) which includes his outlook for both Oz and the US financial sectors, equities, CRE and RRE etc. May be of interest to some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_LQRHB5bM&ab_channel=CommSecTV
I think that would be Sleazy’s work. As I understand it and interpret Starkey’s words on Youtube correctly , and I stand ready to be corrected, the Sleazy had ‘n’ many invites in his gift with guidelines as to who should be invited.
Interestingly Starkey claims that the UK is already a republic, that just happens to have a King. Despite all the rigmarole of the Accession Council, and Succession Acts, Parliament still needs to pass a specific act to recognise whom ever as King.
William is a climate worrier like his father, cohenite.
Worse, he’s just appointed republican Jacinda Ardern to the board of his climate change charity.
As Peter Hitchens recently wrote, the more Charles and William court progressive opinion the weaker the monarchy appears.
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How did those “gweate big battles of encirclement to destroy the Ukrainian army in the field” go?
Idiot.
On “correcting” the situation with spare upticks, I thought I’d leave it be to prove my point and also to let Lizzie know she’s not the only one being targeted.
If it’s such a HUUUUUUGE issue for you, what’s stopping you from giving Lizzie a few upticks?
You wouldn’t have something to prove, by any chance?
re Forest Harvesting in Victoria and the interesting discussions prior.
The Daylesford area was harvested for sawlog plus recovery below sawlog grade for masonite manufacture at Bacchus Marsh from the early 1960s to 1998. Logged coupes were regenerated using the Shelterwood system and since harvesting has now ceased I expect there is dense growth in those coupes.
If that regrowth has not been managed then there is a stock of fuel for future fires in a region with many lifestyle blocks. Photographs of the area around 1900 show almost bare ground as the timber was used in mines but it all regrew. A great grandfather of mine was a cutter at Bullarto. Some coupes after harvesting were left for firewood including commercial operations. Logging operators maintained roads and access. The whole area would be safer in my view with extraction on long rotation but it wont happen.
LOL! I knew it!
I bet they have hyphenated names too.
If only Australia wasn’t 5-10 years behind.
Interestingly Starkey claims that the UK is already a republic, that just happens to have a King.
If that’s true, it’s a pretty weak excuse for a Republic, since a real Republic isn’t MultiRacial and every male is required to be in a Militia and be Armed.
Too much protesting Ed. Give it a rest.
WTF is a zero tick?
I just gave you one JC. I’ll take it back shortly. 😀
You’re the one having a big cry.
Didn’t we used to have these Panics regularly when Grigory M was a commenter?
And weren’t you one of the leaders?
Too slow.
I just upticked him.
Ed Casesays:
May 7, 2023 at 12:35 pm
On “correcting” the situation with spare upticks, I thought I’d leave it be to prove my point and also to let Lizzie know she’s not the only one being targeted.
Get back to me when you have read the Weekend Australian as to where Jim Chalmers grew up. It was Logan in SE QLD BTW. Despite your uninformed comment yesterday and the usual blah, blah, blah.
You are not only a Blow Out and a Blow Job but a very Suitable ‘Head’ Case for lots and lots of Treatment. Its about time that they took you away…………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
Muddy:
That’s something that worried me most about my mother who became a bit frail early in life – late 60’s and she had to get down 4 steps in her house to get to the clothes line. Lived by herself and the people who lived on one side were all “Deaffies” so couldn’t hear her, and the other side were both senile. We eventually moved her to a ground level detached house.
My family know I live by myself, and I religiously tell them I don’t get up on chairs to do stuff, and I speak to my neighbours each day, etc etc. Then of course, I do what I bloody well like.
When God has need of my advice, he’ll tap me on the shoulder and say “Bob. Maaate. I have a problem…”
Who is “we” of which you speak Ed? You weren’t around back then.
sTan Grant is copping a bit of a flogging over his hate filled rant on the ABC’s pre Coronation panel show.
Methinks sTan is positioning himself for the aboriginal “House of Lords” post The Voice.
Oh, that. I often see this zero thing immediately after I’ve “interacted” with Wodney or the Turtlehead. Never knew what it was or how it came about. So, I’m guessing those two muffin-heads are zero ticking my responses or comments about them asap. Funny as.
There’s always an uptick as soon as Wodney posts a comment, which is quite funny.
He’s promoting his book.
UKR are up to, what, their fourth or fifth Army now after the previous were destroyed in the field? RUS are doing fine, even General Cavoli, head of EUCOM and SACEUR, thinks so.
You wouldn’t be upticking yourself to produce that 0, by any chance?
“Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi s??z]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), sometimes known as The Last, was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.”
A sad story, Louis XVI wasn’t a bad man, in fact he has been much maligned. As with Nicholas II in Russia over a hundred years later, Louis was caught up in a vortex he had no control over. As with most revolutions, what came after though was much, much worse than anything under the “Ancien Regime”. The Reign of Terror, the massacres in the Vendee and in the south of France are some examples of the butchery and savagery of the French Revolution. The Vendee, a large area on the Atlantic Coast, and many parts of the South of France remained royalist and Catholic strongholds, and during the Vendeen uprising in 1794, up to 50,000 (probably more) Vendean men, women and children were butchered by revolutionary military forces.
The tragedy of Louis XVI wasn’t only confined to him and his wife. As with Nicolas II and his family, Louis XVI’s family suffered greatly. Louis and Marie Antionette’s only son, the little Dauphin, was cruelly separated from his parents, imprisoned and tortured. The boy died a sad, lonely and premature death. For years, nobody knew where the boy had been buried, however a heart supposedly of the little Dauphin had been put in an urn and kept in private hands. In the early 2000s DNA testing was done on the heart and compared to the DNA of hair belonging to Marie Antionette and her mother, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, as well as and modern day Spanish, French and Austrian royals, such as the late Queen of Romania. The DNA matched and it was confirmed that the heart is the heart of the dauphin. His heart was buried in the tomb of his parents, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
History is fascinating, but it’s also sad. I don’t much care for revolutions and given the choice between a revolution and a monarchy, I choose a monarchy.
Salty goes to town on fake trannie twots:
Trans Goofball’s Fake Vagina Goes Horribly Wrong
Can you do that? How extraordinary! And very Machiavellian. I could, if I felt fragile enough, give myself an immediate uptick and be done with it. Seems like bad sportsmanship to me, like cheating at cards.
I could be a …. Victim. 😀
HBBear:
Who knows? Perhaps the horse will learn to sing?
On matters Royal:
– the display of wealth was interesting. Some rightly say garish, but I wonder if the spectacle was to show people “look what your country has achieved” kind of look? Royals always try and say they are mere caretakers of the precious objects – implying the people actually own them.
– religious oaths – seemed quite a bit of the ceremony that I saw had him swearing to uphold the pentecostal faith etc. Was interesting and shows how powerful religion was in early days of the nation and remains a big part.
– speaking of powers and symbolism, the military of course featured heavily. Symbol of might but also protection for royals. Some context too with military saying you rule with our consent or maybe just my take.
– Charles has fat fingers. Hasn’t been gardening much lately.
– He appeared fatigued or perhaps overawed by the occasion – just seemed a little strange in demeanour – did not watch much but got that from a few highlights.
– royal commentators in UK have to be the worst bunch of sycophants anywhere.
This amazing song sums up Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment to a tee – Apologies, to Mr Ian Dury.
It must have been written for Mr/Mrs/It/Whatever Ed .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0cK_eeZ9A&t=2s
Certainly one title I won’t be buying.
Protestant in general, the Church of England in particular.
He looks more than his 74 years. The Beloved is 70 and walks straight and tall. Charles is prematurely stooped. And he appeared to shuffle – his shoes looked a couple of sizes too big. I wonder if he’s been unwell.
Wodger:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/was-it-for-this-the-clay-grew-tall/
Brilliant essay.
The best part –
I’d suggest everyone read it in full because it is the model that is being enacted in Australia.
I’m leaving I’m telling you. I’m out of here and goodbye.
It’s not as though Thought Leadership is being forced or even asked to bow. What a hyperbolic dickhead.
I could, if I felt fragile enough, give myself an immediate uptick and be done with it.
No, you couldn’t, since upticking yourself gives … an 0 …, and upticking yourself twice still results in … an 0.
You could give Lizzie’s …0 … an uptick and turn it into a …1 … if you could be bothered.
Easier than Virtue Signaling, but clearly nowhere near as satisfying.
Who knows? Perhaps the horse will learn to sing?
Wasn’t Mr Ed a horse? The ‘Ed’ on this blog is a horse’s arse.
You’ve tried it then? Good to know.
Dover Beach:
Men get medals for their efforts. Women get stretch marks. Both are badges and scars of honour.
Pete m
speaking of powers and symbolism, the military of course featured heavily. Symbol of might but also protection for royals. Some context too with military saying you rule with our consent or maybe just my take.
And on the subject of symbolism, the parade from Buckingham Palace to the Abbey was led by five mounted police officers, to symbolise the superiority of the civil over the military power. Same for all the big ceremonial events involving large numbers of military personnel.
I didn’t wait for the procession back, but the same would have occurred then.
Makka:
And the politicians and their cronies* have no idea of the resentment building in the communities they rule*.
*Deliberate.
It did indeed.
My favourite…the horse with the drums in panniers on either side. It was a beautiful creature with a long, flowing mane.
It had me wondering about how London looked even 120 years ago, when horses were the main source of transport. Plenty of street sweepers back then.
– He appeared fatigued or perhaps overawed by the occasion – just seemed a little strange in demeanour – did not watch much but got that from a few highlights.
Yeah, he’s senile.
Queen Camilla found the spectacle mildly amusing, she broke into a smile a coupla times.
Regarding the British military, they’ve always been a bit of a joke.
Defeated by the Zulu in 1879, Bismarck said that if the British Army got stroppy around German colonial borders, he’d send a detachment of his Police to put it down.
Snowing cats and dogs up here in the hills. Obviously one of those “extreme weather events” caused by climate change that I keep hearing about.
That web site was built, so it says, in 2020. Must have been only months before they shut down for good…
We used them, after our previous wood yard in Kew went out of business (no wood available), and so it goes down the line.
And why not, the logic is impeccable…
Cutting down trees is bad for Gaia, even when those trees are specifically planted to be cut down, or are cut down in the normal course events, or the logs are offcuts. It must be stopped at all costs.
Except when you do all that but turn the output into chips then send it by boat from the USA to the UK to burn for electricity. Then, of course, Gaia smiles, because reasons.
I have to agree with special ed for once. Jug ears Chalmers didn’t grow up in Logan. He has got older but never grew up.
Ed Casesays:
May 7, 2023 at 1:13 pm
I could, if I felt fragile enough, give myself an immediate uptick and be done with it.
No, you couldn’t, since upticking yourself gives … an 0 …, and upticking yourself twice still results in … an 0.
Another rubbish comment Dick Ed. I can uptick myself at least the once. No zero whatsoever. Maybe your subscription to this Blog has lapsed. Your so called mind though most certainly has lapsed.
And I have just upticked my own comment.
Entropy:
Hairy blokes, hairy sheilas, and dawn-to-dusk grunting.
Ahhhhh, perfick!
But, but, it’s OK to cut down swathes of trees to make way for wind turbines, transmission towers and solar farms. The devastation is palpable. And unlike controlled native tree harvesting there is no requirement to restitute the land. Wheelan the Wrecker had more principles than the RE industry.
There’s 10cm on the snow measuring stake at Perisher and 5-10cm of snow on the balcony of the Cedarwood apartments in Falls Creek looking at the webcams on ski.com.au. Here in the Monaro region it’s 5 degrees and raining steadily. July weather in early May.
Robert Sewell says:
May 7, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Briefer than expected, but certainly worth the read.
It indirectly makes the point that I attempted to express a few days ago: That conservatives need to reposition themselves as defenders of all, and emphasise the truth, which is that our opponents will only use, abuse, and discard to suit their objectives. You, we, I, are nothing but a means to an end for them.
Just checked the Live Traffic NSW website and there are warnings for snow and ice on the road for the Snowy Mountains Highway from Cooma to Talbingo, the Monaro Highway from Cooma to Nimmitabel and on to Brown Mountain, Kosciusko Road from Cooma to Jindabyne and on to Perisher and Charlotte Pass and the Alpine Way from Jindabyne to Thredbo and on to Khancoban. That is an indicator of snow to low levels. The current temperature at Cooma Airport is just above zero.
Sorry for the folks who can’t get fire wood.
It’s even hard to obtain in country towns.
My Coonara is running on red gum and keeping the whole house warm via the fan on the recycle system.
It’s a different sort of heat compared to an electric source.
Looks like about an inch of snow covering here and still coming down hard, propelled by a stiff south-westerly. Glad we have a healthy supply of wood.
My ducted gas heater isn’t working and they can’t get replacement parts so I need to get a new one, which is on order. If I didn’t have electric heating under the floor tiles I wouldn’t be able to stay in the house in this cold weather.
As Farmer Gez stated above, sorry for all the good people who can’t access wood. We have plenty here in the Southern Tablelands. The guys are flat out keeping up with demand. The only reason we have to wait is because a bloke can only cut and deliver so much wood in a day. I have a lot of dead fall on my place also which I cut as far as I can. The trunks are obviously beyond me, but I hope to do a deal with one of the cutters. I also invested in two LPG heaters as back up in case I run out of wood or for the days when I haven’t any dry stuff.
The Greens and their anti wood crusade were directly responsible for the Marysville and Kinglake bushfires in 2009. All the people who perished in those fires are the direct result of Green council policies. Scum.
It’s just started snowing here also! It’s mixed with a bit of rain and some wind so shouldn’t lay a cover over everything. I hope.
My mate just sent me a photo of snow on the ground in Belconnen, so it is obviously pretty widespread.
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My favourite…the horse with the drums in panniers on either side. It was a beautiful creature with a long, flowing mane.
Yes, just gorgeous. Beautifully trained, since the rider had both hands occupied with the drums and the reins were secured to the saddle (I think). He, like most of the magnificent mounts, occasionally got a bit stroppy with the occasion and the long wait. But rarely did any of them lose formation. Stunning.
I also loved to see Princess Anne accompany the entourage on horseback ( as her station requires) back to the Palace after the coronation. She is a sensational horsewoman, as is her daughter Zara. The late Queen would have loved it all.
callisays:
May 7, 2023 at 1:22 pm
the same would have occurred then
It did indeed.
My favourite…the horse with the drums in panniers on either side. It was a beautiful creature with a long, flowing mane.
Drum horse of the Household Cavalry. There were two of them, the drums are made of silver.
I have a lot of dead fall on my place also which I cut as far as I can. The trunks are obviously beyond me, but I hope to do a deal with one of the cutters.
Pogria, husband was feeling that the axe is a bit too hard going, and has bought a log-splitter. What a ripper! He saws up fallen trees with the chainsaw, and then puts the cut stumps and large logs through the splitter – which results in pieces of ideal size for the wood heater. Way to go.