Fernandez opened the panel discussion by asking what the “monarchy means to Australians, after excessive waves of invasion and immigration”.

Freudian slip, or a subtle dig at Anal’s latest immigration Ponzi announcement?

And…the story of the anointing screen.

Royal School of Needlework – with back cloth from Australian and NZ wool. I liked the reference to their “wall of wool”. Like my “cupboard of cloth”.

“Ester Krakue on the Outsiders.
Damn fine woman.”

Damn drop dead gorgeous woman.

She certainly is Cassie. When she appears I am all admiration.

Hairy’s reaction is immediate – woooooooooooooffffffffff.

I must admit I did like the dress and dignity of the sword bearing female leading the show as the Head of the Commons. As for Julie Bishop’s outfit, she shouldn’t wear a slightly diaphanous beige material with such an off-putting set of bra and petticoat straps showing. She looked like someone’s grandma from the fifites. That’s the first point. The second point is the flowerpot look, where she resembles an ad for Flowerpower. That uptilted hat is a 40’s style best enhanced with severity and not an art nouveau embellishment. Making her head grow out of the neck foliage simply enhanced the toilet dolly effect.
Why was she invited anyway?

Dover Beach:

The Poles need to take heed of the Hungarians and start acting like adults.

European leadership needs to take heed of its history and start acting like adults.
Australia wouldn’t need immigration from 3rd world shitholes had we not sacrificed 103,021 of our soldiers to others fights. Assume each soldier would have fathered 5 children on average, that’s half a million at just the first generation for the average soldier. 2nd generation 2.5 million, and at our generation (average) that’s about 5 million – roughly.
Those figures are malleable – others can check them, but my point stands -getting involved in Europe’s wars has been an awfully high price to pay for security we could have provided ourselves.

It was Penny Mordaunt, President of the Privy Council. She was a possibility for PM. Might have another tilt.

Female interest in the whole show, Dr. BG, was not just a demonstration of our difference. As Cassie points out the Kittehs here are women with a lot to say for themselves in the political as well as the social arena and a British king’s Coronation has important monarchical and political aspects. It is also an enduring religious ceremony to be shared by all of the king’s people, something desperately needed in these irreligious times. It is a high cultural event, displaying some of the most sublime music, ritual, artifacts and symbols of a culture that goes back to the heritage of ancient Rome itself.

Philistines may scoff. Let them.

Sorry, 17 hands, 68 inches.

But 68 hands would certainly be impressive!

Mem:

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.

The only scenario that fits the facts of the killing of the wood fire supply is that the government is forcing the peasantry onto a heat source that is controlled by themselves.
That the favoured environmental industry is not subject to the same rules can only be described as sinister.

68 hands would get them towards John Wyndham’s “The Chrysalids” mutant horses.

Not a patch on Cordwainer Smith‘s 4,000 tonne mutant sheep. The Australian connection is fun.

Aside from Huy I have never heard of any of those Liberals trying to oust Deeming.
Talk about low profile

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Are you sick of this yet?

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Indolentsays:
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Thank you indolent, that is especially apt, how new words are created, much appreciated, I really appreciate all your links, thanks for taking the time and sharing —

Worth noting, Newbury (Brighton) was a prime mover in the expulsion of Bernie Finn.
Then issue was that Finn had years to raise the Abortion issue, but only brought it up 4 months out from the Election.
Naturally he got saturation media coverage, because Abortion is red Kryptonite for voters.
He got swapped out for Moira Deeming, who then started freaking voters out about Women Only Spaces.
Out of control Bushfire in Banff yesterday.
Cause?
Women Only fire fighting crew backburning.

You could safely bet your last dollar that they’re not a bastion of tolerance, expecially when it comes to Liberals who espouse traditional positions on sexuality and gender.

Whatever.
The end result of Moira Deeming type agitation is Women Only emergency Services, such as Firefighters that aren’t strong enough to use the equipment effectively and Lifesavers that can’t save lives.
By then it’s a PC issue that nobody can ever do anything about.

Jim Chalmers has confirmed that he will impose reforms to the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax which would prevent the LNG industry from continuing to offset its tax liabilities, forcing it to pay more tax sooner.

The Greens will be pleased. But this will serve to create a great buying opportunity for energy names down the road.

It’s bloody frigid and the wind cuts straight through you.
11 but feels like 6.

I’ll probably buy both an ETF (mostly US energy stocks) and some Oz names.

Example, WDS is currently just 5.65 PE and a div of 10% +. It will look even better value when oil / NG get a leg up. And like I said, the tax is baked in to valuations already so no downside surprises in a rising crude/NG market.

And in a high inflation environment where the USD weakens I suspect that commodity producers with ridiculously strong free cash flow (and juicy divs) are going to attract a LOT more attention, with corresponding improved PE’s.

If the voters of Sictoria don’t care then I don’t care either as I live in Sydney, NSW.

You really are an obnoxious old twot. You’re also welcome to sodom of the south.

Against other currencies

Commodity currencies will do ok. DXY is going lower. And, like it or not demand for dollars will recede over time. BRICS and others are moving away from the petrodollar. Still reserve but in a different dynamic.

The invitation is propped
on the mantelpiece by the carriage clock.

Saw that poem back thread identifying in an Eleanor Rigby sort of way the lone woman who was invited to the Coronation for her good works, small in the scheme of things, but recognised. It told movingly of how she crept into the Abbey and took her place in the mysteries, and at home put the invitation up for display. It brought back memories for me:

In 1953 I was a child in England. I’d just passed the eleven plus with flying colours and was the pride of my headmistress in the little working class school I attended. At school and at home we were all full of the glories of the New Elizabethan Age, and of the coming Coronation of the new young Queen Elizabeth. But my mother had decided to take us three children back to Australia, to restore her marriage to my father, the failure of which had led to her returning home sick to her very poor family, living in the Vale of Evesham, in the 1950’s one of the most idyllic places you could image, especially if you were eleven. Even if you lived in a bad part of town, as we did, the countryside was walkable and walk we did, in school and out of it. Time advanced, bring home the dreadful fact that we were to leave only a week before the Coronation. I was so heartbroken to miss it I can still feel the pain; I did not want to leave the security of my nana and grandad’s home and I desperately wanted to be British and to continue learning to speak like the Queen (which my headmistress monitored) – and what more British way than to be around for the Coronation? I was breaking down in tears over it at school.

One day a letter arrived in the post in a large heavily embossed envelope. It was addressed in cartography to a ‘Miss’ and then the wonder was that my name followed. My nana handed it to me and everyone watched open-mouthed around the kitchen table as I opened it. It contained an elaborate and embossed invitation from The Worshipful Council or some such asking for my presence at a service of thanksgiving in the Parish C of E church in which my parents had been married, to be followed by attendance in the town hall at a special robed ceremony for installation of the new mayor, the worshipful whatever he was called, to be followed by afternoon tea (and cakes!). It was all very pompous and wonderful to me. The High Church of England ceremony with swinging censors of incense and a full choir set the mood and then the robed and gold chained processing dignitaries did the rest in the impressively medieval town hall. I had had my day of being very British. All of it was organised secretly by my kindly headmistress, whom I remember best for her announcement in real tears to our class that the beloved King George had died, and Long Live the Queen, our new young Queen Elizabeth.

If you think it turned me into a monarchist at heart you’d be right, but such was the pull of the left on me that I voted as an adult for an Australian republic. Shame. Glad to be a monarchist again now.

I had a look Sancho. The work wasn’t straightforward. It was based on a stained glass panel, one Cromwell clearly forgot.

It was in Banff, British Columbia, Canada.

That would correctly be Banff-f-f-f.

If you know, you just know.

Ed, are you sure that it was a “Women Only” fire fighting crew back burning?
Here’s the Boss Burn Lady talking about Lack Of Diversity and Female Perspectives in Firefighting
and
here’s the story on her latest burn.
Yeah, it doesn’t specifically say that it was a Women Only Crew,
but …
since Jane became boss 12 years ago, she’s been down on the fire dudes for harassing fire chicks, so i’m guessing after 12 years she got what she wanted.

MIHOCEK for the goal of the year, and the win!

Pies over the Sydney Mancravers – once again.

Cop that, you Oxford Street salad-tossers. That means you, Franklin.

that someone is going to be holding another currency at the end of a transaction other than the greenback.

Exactly, they will hold both. It’s already happening whether you happen to agree it’s smart or not. That doesn’t mean the USD loses it’s Reserve status. But it will have to share it’s place in reserve ratios with others. Maybe those holders will hedge with gold?

The buck has held up pretty well despite the current administration.

That’s not entirely relevant in future with the US in a serious financial bind with horrendous Debt and rising interest rate expenses to honour at a time when the deficit is out of control. Past performance is not necessarily a guarantee of future performance either. But my reckoning is that currencies of commodity producers will do well vs USD.

or partial loss of reserve status.

I see the penny has started to drop. But it’s not what I stated.

Why is that a bullshit argument? Explain it to us mere mortals.

Because I have never stated the US will lose it’s reserve status. As you repeatedly assert. So, stop your bullshitting.

Vicki/Pogria:

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.

There are many many wood splitters and firewood cutters on the intarwebs. Europe has lots of competitions and shows of the industrial and homemade machinery, from the complex to the simple home built.

I think Wrangler Jane may have retired back to Banff.

Diogenes…do not buy, even at $2 a bag.

Full of weeds – not enough stomachs to break down the propagules.

On the coronation guests, lots of lovely suits and dresses. On national dress – I particularly liked the Japanese princess in her pale pink kimono. Exquisite.

Was “Dr” Jill even wearing stockings? Her legs looked bare.

Mrs Macron and Queen Letitia of Spain were standouts, elegant to the max, most of the European royal ladies were very well dressed, Princess Mary of Denmark as usual was flawless, in a very vibrant but understated violet dress and shoes and a gorgeous brooch. The Australian GG’s wife looked very nice too.

The ABC is the poison killing our nation. If the ABC disappeared so would racism, division and grievance-mongering. I am so sick and tired of the negativity. At every opportunity the ABC gives a platform to malingerers, complainers and grifters. Rabz doctrine now!

Ugh, her brother just turned up. He ate my thumb. I’m trying not to bleed on my keyboard.
Ouch.

Oops that photo didn’t work, here it is. Thumb.

Typing one handed…

The white stuff is Savlon.
An essential Cafe medication.

How about a Recommended For Spanx thread? 😀

Spanx or high tensile corsetry?

Air Afrikaans

That would correctly be Banff-f-f-f.

If you know, you just know.

I know. Loved F-Troop as a kid.