I’m punishing the single malt, and watching Australia play France, at oh I don’t know, tiddly winks. The French effort…
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I know Paul Murray has his detractors here but his opening salvos concerning Albanese at the women’s rally yesterday was…
What they don’t tell you is that they have expanded the definition of DV What they have also done, over…
Sanchez And even then, the numbers are still falling according to Baba’s link.
Susan Ley, Milt.
Remember in the debates between Obama and Romney they were asked who America’s greatest enemy was? And when Romney said ‘Russia’ Obama laughed and said “Hi, it’s the ’80’s calling. They want their foreign policy back.”?
The Democrats are making Romney right. I thought ‘Russia’ was a strange answer and still think that, at the time, it was.
And while, without this Ukraine thing going on, the obvious ‘now’ answer would be China there is no Democrat whose cupidity would ever let them say or think that.
On the other hand the conflict in Ukraine is edging steadily closer to crossing from ‘proxy’ to ‘hot’. And after that it could eventually go nuclear.
None of you are at all dangerous. Except maybe Zippy.
Wodney Woddenhead, Federal government retirement expenditures for feral workers and parliamentarians are well covered by the sovereign wealth fund set up under Howard+ Costello specifically to cover this liability. This part of federal spending isn’t really a problem. Perhaps you should ask Marty’s Socrates to explain it to you, you loudmouth former shop steward.
This one is for Cohenite whose meme guy is no longer with us.
Memes that made me laugh 158 (8 May)
Much wow.
Vey surprise
Amazeballs.
Unexpectedly – again
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/10/project-to-build-navy-frigates-in-adelaide-faces-significant-cost-blowouts-report-says
A $45bn naval shipbuilding project faces “significant” cost blowouts after defence officials failed to properly consider “value for money”, according to a new audit report.
Wednesday’s report criticises the initial stages of the program to build nine new Hunter-class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy – a process that occurred during the former Coalition government’s time in office.
Heres an idea, garnish the super/wages of everyone involved in the signoff and approvals.
And their children
And their childrens children.
I’d say SpongeBob is a danger to himself.
I wouldn’t leave Groogs unsupervised around small children.
Seeing that old Twitter, Facebook, Google, the FBI, the CIA, CDC, ASIO, AMA, PGA, the MSM, WHO, the UN, the IPCC, the WEF and most governments want to censor us, one would think Monty that that is an untrue statement. Ideas are weapons after all. Are you teaching your kids those terribly dreadful right-wing phonics?
I was deeply ashamed of Sydney, my city, during the Coronation. My apologies, Your Majesty.
Other States did better. It wasn’t hard for them because Sydney did nothing to celebrate.
Chris Minns is a small man, a very small man. Mean-spirited and undeserving of his role.
I disagree. Some Scammers wanted to charge thousands and thousands of our kangaroo dollars to light up the Opera House Sails.
FFS. Vivid is just around the corner and you can get a purple light bulb at K Mart for SFA. Daylight robbery from the Scammers and well done Minns for saving this State (the long suffering Taxpayers) some moneeeeeeeeee (only to waste it somewhere else though)…………………………………
Heres why the Dems and Big business are busy becoming a human centepede
‘They were little’: photos show children illegally working in US slaughterhouse
Images released by US labor department show conditions over 100 children faced at Packers Sanitation Services Incorporated
…
An anonymous former PSSI manager told NBC News in February that the plant hired many undocumented migrant workers, some of whom used fake identities when applying to the company.
“In this industry, you have a lot of people who are undocumented workers. A lot of times it’s because they’re not going to pay well enough to hire people in America who want to do it,” the manager said.
Rebolledo told 60 Minutes that she believes the hiring of children “was the standard operating procedure”.
“There is no way this was just a mistake, a clerical error, a handful of rogue individuals getting through. This was the standard operating procedure,” she said, adding that she believed “the number [of children who were working] is likely much higher” than what the department ultimately found.
Whoa! Top of the page!
I would first like to thank Dover for the remarkable job he has done keeping this blog going and its denizens in line, walking that fine line between allowing Ed Job and Monty posting, and smiting them with majestic heavenly force.
I would also like to thank my high school English teacher for what she done teach me about ritin’ stuff.
And I would like to thank my parents who believed in me, even over that four month stint when I told them I was in touch with celestial beings who sent me to Earth to eradicate humanity.
But most of all I would like to thank myself for my time and effort to make me the WordPress sensation I am today!
Drinks all round – but you have to pay for your own.
Thanks Bruce.
Hmmmmm….
Ed Casesays:
May 10, 2023 at 4:34 pm
How on God’s earth did a dummy like Drumgold ever get a gig more demanding than being able to say ‘Want fries with that?’.
How dumb is he?
Sofronoff is sposeta be the smartest guy in the room but he hasn’t been able to wrongfoot Shane so far.
Suuuuure he hasn’t Grandpa Ed Simpson, now go take your laxatives and stay near the toilet.
I know Tucker is a great loss but IMO Gutfeld is the best in the business; his rants about the demorats and biden on The Five and his own show are priceless. Watters is a close second; and the Judge is as tough as nails while not being in the same ball park as Gutfeld and Watters for wit, satire and insight. I’ll keep the Foxtel while these guys are there; but if one or more go than I will too.
ML – What I’m seeing is the conflict going from ‘miserable’ to ‘frozen’.
Ukraine fears its long-awaited counter-offensive will NOT live up to the hype and will put pressure on them to negotiate with Putin (Daily Mail, 8 May)
Russia still hasn’t evicted the Ukies from western Bakhmut even though Prigozhin managed to extract more ammo out of Moscow a couple days ago. Really doesn’t seem like either side has the strength to mount a substantial offensive at the moment. I can easily be wrong, but on the ground nothing much seems to be happening.
We are through the looking glass.
m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 5:21 pm
I’d like to send a cheery hello to Simon, the new ASIO work experience agent in the Conservative Extremist Section.
Don’t be intimidated by this virile bunch of bed-wetters, Simon. Only those with more than one vowel in their screen name are potentially dangerous.
None of you are at all dangerous. Except maybe Zippy.
So speaketh the gutless worm who spent two years hiding in a basement, having needles stuck into his arm every few months, and wearing five masks all day and all night.
Cronkers, I find her strong Queens accent really grating. Also, she shouldn’t be calling herself a “judge,” as she no longer is. Gutfull is pretty decent value, but I find Watters to be too un-seriousness as he reminds me of a gofer. That’s my review.
I can’t recall watching Fox in Oz, but I do whenever I’m in the US, and wifey begs me to keep the volume down as she doesn’t want the neighbours to know someone in our apartment is watching Fox.
Yeah, but only because he’d bundle them into his van for the Jacaranda and Corflute Tour.
They’re too young for the lotion.
Nup sorry Cohenite – all of mine are cancelled. Even went video-through-video disliking a whole bunch of Fox content before unsubscribing from the lot.
I had a routine where I’d watch Tucker, Watters, the Five and a bit of Gut every Tuesday to Saturday evening after dinner…. I’m at a bit of a loss now and seem to have more time for red wine (which can, sometimes but rarely be dangerous, particularly when you’ve got the political phonebook I’ve got… no, not showing off… real life stories, sadly)…
Ed Casesays:
May 10, 2023 at 5:26 pm
I’d say SpongeBob is a danger to himself.
Only a similar comment from m0nty=fa could make me safer.
Australia’s Future Fund, the 17th largest sovereign wealth fund in the world according to the report, announced that its total assets fell from $199 billion as of 30 September 2021, to $192 billion in 30 September 2022, the latest available figure.
That’s not a fall. That is a blip. How about commenting on what a tremendous job the Managers (and hats of to Costello) have done in growing the Fund from what it started with to right now.
And Jerk Off, you have got the numbers wrong. But then again. you are never right. Probably a closet leftie along with Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment and Monty Pox Virus.
The latest figures are available are on the website. Once again, you are looking in the rear view mirror. T.W.A.T. And a short arse farking T.W.A.T at that with an IQ in single figures.
How about $250.5 Billion Kangaroo Dollars for all of the Future Fund Assets. As at 31/3/2023.
https://www.futurefund.gov.au/
I’m dangerous.
To the rat in my ceiling. The zapper is out of stock. Looks like Ratsak.
This one is for Cohenite whose meme guy is no longer with us.
Memes that made me laugh 158 (8 May)
Not bad. All I’ve got left is whacky world of islam, book titles for the jaded and cute owls. Here’s a cute owl.
If Everyone Acted Like Bud Light
AwakenWithJP
It’s all about him, you see.
Necrophiles gaze upon it, and turn away in revulsion.
A line, cribbed directly from the preview of the film..
“you stole it from him, who stole it from you, then he stole it and then i stole it. Its called Capitalism”….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfMbSe7F2g
Some of the comments are suitably reverential..
The best part was Indy lifting up his lightsaber and shouting “for Narnia and Aslan!” Truly an awesome scene
…
I love the part where Indiana Jones goes back in time and stops the acquisition of Lucas Film by Disney.
Yep I cried at that.
…
I love the part where they love to destroy our fond memories.
Jesse Watters
Gofer.
I can’t tell them apart.
As mentioned earlier very little wind and not much solar today. Hey bingo the sun has gone down and the clowns at AEMO are peddling for energy. The only two states generating enough for themselves and to export to other states are Qld because of Coal and Tas because of hydro. Spot prices are escalating as I type. SA is turning up the gas ( is gas renewable or not?) . In total only 2% renewables (wind) and no solar across all NEM states. https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
For the love of –
cohenite, those people are dudes. How are you not seeing this?
I’m too busy to muck around with this.
Though it would be more satisfying, but a bit messy.
I find her strong Queens accent really grating.
She has great teeth and I suspect would have been a cute owl 40 years ago.
Six billion dollar ‘investment’ in the ABC. Stories of the century don’t come cheap…. or fake tan for that matter.
Could Sky please put Sharri on during the day rather than at 5pm.
She’s just like the Daytime mob, who attack the coalition all the time while soft interviewing Labor.
Don’t call me a denizen ML, I identify as other. You’ve herty my feelings if I had any.
How are you not seeing this?
If you keep up this unfair criticism I’ll put up a photo of one of the trannies in the biden administration; hell here’s one; this NOT a cute owl.
Wodney:
Let me remind you again what you asserted:
Parliamentary pensions are well covered as part of the Future Fund. Nice try trying to deflect a mismatch in the portfolio valuation of the Future Fund as somehow making your false claim correct. Actually, it’s not a nice try, but the shoddy work of a shoddy former shop steward. Stick to asking Socrates, you moron.
Calli rats come down at night to feed and drink. Best way to get rats is to buy the blocks nail them to piece of left over wood and place under floor near gully trap if feasible. I have access to gully trap under back steps. Nailing the bait down to a board stops them shifting it and is important if you have dogs. Do not put out in open. Monitor the block about every 5 days.
You know, Trump is 100% Queens accent, but it’s not annoying like hers.
Take it easy on that rat.
It’s ancestors were likely to have arrived in Australia with yours.
Of course, the Rat’s ancestors weren’t Convicted of anything.
My catcher traps are very effective. Cheap too. Just bait them with a bit of bread and put them out at dusk. That way I don’t accidentally catch Cafe patrons (although I nearly throttled the male magpie once – fortunately I was able to extract him quickly enough).
Once caught I relocate the rats to the bush, but if you aren’t squeamish like me there’s always the bucket of water.
Mem, I’m going to climb up a ladder, open the manhole and slide a couple of Ratsak cartons of deliciousness into the roof cavity.
Hopefully the wretch feasts and exits through the hole it entered through (which I suspect it knows well – it’s been in and out a couple of times) and carks it. Otherwise we’ll have to put up with the aroma of rotting rat.
“Adolph where are all the jews, you havent been drowning them in the bucket again have you”?
“Nein Eva, Ive just been… relocating, yes, relocating them to the bush”…
No one here is as dangerous as you, monty.
Not by a long shot.
exits through the hole it entered through
Yes, those poisons make them very thirsty so they tend to head outdoors.
Monty approves this behaviour
Glorious, Mole, I haven’t seen that one before! One very unhappy derg. Main thing that causes rats at the Cafe are neighbours who feed their dergs outside. The rats sneak in and scoff the leftovers, then snug up in my roof.
L.A.’s ‘Mansion Tax’ A Complete Flop After One Month
I guess it’s about time Monty got his comeuppance.
The word is we’re heading into a “recessionette” or a “per capita recession”, meaning living standards are in reverse despite growth rates remaining positive, albeit anaemic.
A drumroll, please, for ScoMo, “Josh”, the state premiers (Dan in particular) and their health advisers, and, not least…Phil the central banker from hell.
“A man who identifies as transgender and described the “barest essentials” of womanhood as “an expectant a**hole,” and stated that pornography is the “quintessential expression of femaleness,” has been awarded a Pulitzer prize. twitter.com/PulitzerPrizes…”
Our pervert apologist approves.
“None of you are at all dangerous. Except maybe Zippy.”
No we aren’t, and nor is Zippy. But you are dangerous, you support and cheer violence against Jews, women and anyone whose opinions you don’t agree with.
Have you told your wife you’re a pervert apologist?
I don’t have a catcher trap that big.
An Elastrator ring round the… oh I see.
Get a load of this deadshit- Typical Belgium- what a rotten little country
If rats gets the sack then they can’t get sustenance through ingestion and get very hungry and thirsty and end up wonky, half mast on back lawn, then turn turtle. Then little dog retrieves them and places them at my feet. Monty may end up at my feet too.
“A man who identifies as transgender and described the “barest essentials” of womanhood as “an expectant a**hole,” and stated that pornography is the “quintessential expression of femaleness,” has been awarded a Pulitzer prize.”
Lordy…Mr. Pulitzer must be turning in his grave.
As I’ve remarked before, why do they even bother with customs and immigration controls at US airports now? Talk about a government of spite and malicious incompetence.
Haven’t watched Fox News for 10 days — because Ruperdink Mudrock’s children are the dumbest rich kids in the history of Western capitalism, destroying a business empire founded by their grandfather in around half a century ago in less than a month.
The Murdoch children might as well, in the past two weeks, have been setting fire to $US100 bills in
Times Square.
The mental (and other) gymnastics these men perform to avoid being labelled homosexual are quite extraordinary.
Chris-
has every airline now become a budget carrier? Has every airport now become a transit yard, where the cattle bring their own feed and distraction devices, do their own check-in and track their own baggage? Has a bauble from Apple Store hypnotized into accepting the loss of dignity and the disappearance of customer service?
It’s a sad indictment of our society that we’ll accept a loss of service standards, and loss of basic respect for private property, because cheaper.
Scuttling in the ceilings is not just about the Ratsak.
You also need to trim the vegetation that allows easy paths to the roof, trimmed away from the house. My first scuttle-free night at my Mum’s house followed just such a surprise attack on the adjoining herbage.
Don’t let Lizzie do it, I worry about her up the ladder!
You are right Tom, it took Warwick Fairfax a few years to destroy that newspaper empire.
All good Chris. I’ll do it pre G&T.
As for the undergrowth, you’re right. And I know the culprit (Michelia “Bubbles”), which I’ve let go because all the lovely flower buds. Time for the hedge clippers.
Since nice Mr Duranty in 1932 he’s been doing a lot of rotations.
You seem pretty pissed off today, Milt. 🙂
Two billion for green hydrogen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spare Me !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had a splendid few days in the Vic NorthEast /Southern NSW – autumn splendour, zero wind power, sun 10 am to 4pm only, wood fire smoke (NSW side) great to be alive. Roads were actually pretty good, Mt Bogong and similar snow topped, so pretty. Life is Good.
I’m watching Rita filling in for Andrew Bolt. She had a clip of Twiggy Forrest spruiking hydrogen as the new energy source. Hydrogen must be the unicorn farts that are going to make him rich and it probably will if he can talk Albo into giving him billions of our money to play with blowing the hydrogen up unicorns’ bums.
Cronkite
How far can Trump take the appeal. Can it go to Scotus, ultimately?
Stunning irony.
You seem pretty pissed off today, Milt.
Had a pretty good day today actually JC- I just opened Breitbart and PJMedia when I got home. Just as well I didn’t migrate to the US I suppose. I wanted to for a while.
Im betting on Fusion. At the end of the day, unless we can secure dirt cheap energy for everyone on the planet, then life is gonna get real tough.
Unfortunately, the ones you wield are like wet lettuce.
National CEO: Calvary takeover a ‘religious vs secular argument’ on healthcare
Announced on 10 May by Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith, the compulsory acquisition of Canberra’s only Catholic hospital, operated by the Little Company of Mary, comes less than a month after a government inquiry into abortion and reproductive choice described Calvary as “problematic … due to an overriding religious ethos.”
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Mr Bowles told The Catholic Weekly he had been given two days’ notice of the decision and challenged the ministers’ claim that it came after negotiations with Calvary had failed.
Mr Bowles said Calvary runs four publicly-funded hospitals across the country, including two in New South Wales and one in Victoria.
“We don’t have these conversations in those states at the moment,” he said.
Which, Monty, is why old Twitter, Facebook, Google, the FBI, the CIA, CDC, ASIO, AMA, PGA, the MSM, WHO, the UN, the IPCC, the WEF and most governments have been censoring us. Very dangerous lettuce, it seems.
“The following quote written by a widow whose husband committed suicide after he returned from Afghanistan has done the rounds on social media and is very pertinent: “They take them away, they break them, then they hand them back.” “Failures of Command”, Hugh Poate, Page 325.
Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere or is in poor taste:
Did you hear about the Mexican neo-Nazi white supremacist who shot all those people in Texas?
He was a member of the Que Que Que.
Is this the point at which I show myself out?
I see the ABC is agitating to abolish the monarchy. We should return the favour and agitate to abolish the ABC. It’s only fair.
More white supremacy:
Alabama cheerleaders injured in Sweet 16 shooting are fighting for their lives three weeks after they were shot during party in which four others died
Any party that promises to sell off or privatise the ABC will get my vote. Any takers?
I know the 1.5 billion per year for the ABC is a pittance compared to 30+ billion per year for indigenous affairs but we have to start somewhere. With the ABC neutered it will be much easier to manage the rest of the wastrels.
Azure Capital gets the mandate to sell off 7-11. Certainly in a different weight category since I was around. Wonder if it was the Perf office?
Spell “excruciating.”
Wouldn’t it be great if Malcolm Turnbull just bought out the ABC then he can be a media Barron like Rupert Murdoch? How long before he would have to sell his Harbourside mansion to fund that rabble?
No, I want them all to be relocated to Alice Springs.
What better way to stimulate jobs in such a needy town?
Lol. It depends milt. Florida is fine, at least in the non- summer seasons . No state income tax.
How far can Trump take the appeal. Can it go to Scotus, ultimately?
It may have to because the appeal stage is to the 2nd circuit appeals court which draws Judges from NY, Vermont etc, all Trump hating areas.
Could be split up between the States – Alice Springs, Bourke, Wilcannia, Halls Creek, Roebourne, Ceduna?
I used to like Texas- still do actually though the feds are doing their best to wreck it.
I’m not. It’s all hype and wishful thinking. The engineering is a century behind the science, at least, and until it catches up it won’t be remotely technically and economically viable.
We have 10,000 years of uranium available, and 20,000 years of thorium – which is already feasibly used in nuclear reactors. That will give us time to develop fusion into a practical technology. Elon can launch the fission products into the Sun.
m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 7:24 pm
Ideas are weapons after all.
Unfortunately, the ones you wield are like wet lettuce.
LOL, mirror, mirror on the wall …
If you don’t mind, it’s ‘So-crates’.
Bill and Ted worked this out years ago.
Has anyone asked So-crates?
Bruce
Burning hydrogen in ICE vehicles, is the exhaust predominantly water vapour?
Dr. John Campbell
Ester McVey MP on WHO
Cohenite:
The sentence above reminds me of an SF story I read yonks ago.
Two upper class men are discussing their corrupt society:
Man 1: Don’t you ever wonder that this society won’t go on forever? The corruption? The warped justice system?
Man 2: Why should I care when the corrupt system delivers me such riches and benefits?
Man 1: Because one day someone who has been the victim of your greed may be in a position to ask or even demand answers from you?
Of course that’s just what I remember from 50+ years ago but it was something I never forgot – things change, and those who are mighty can be humbled – badly.
Over the last two days I had to call a government agency.
The wait time yesterday was 2 hours then I had a 20min chat.
Today the wait time was 90 mins then I had a 15min chat.
Everything all sorted & both people I spoke with were pleasant & knowledgeable.
But I think they really have some staffing problems.
What do these petrol sniffers want? Everyone to leave and they go back to living in caves?
Ultimately they will be the new overlords and anyone who lives in Australia will be paying rent to them forever. You will own nothing.
Sod it!
Back to the re-edumacation camps.
I really regret not signing up to their disloyalty program. I would be able to get a better quality set of tooth pliers and a more reliable battery to have wired to my testicles.
I imagine a number of similar tales were swapped in the waiting line for the guillotine during the French Revolution. You abandon the Rule of Law at your peril.
Boambee John:
Correct. The forward airfields were still too wet to supply aircover for the army and the bases were too far back to give constant air cover. The soggy forward airfields were the cause for the delay. It had nothing to do with Operation Punishment – the bombing of Belgrade.
A few things in the budget that didn’t get the coverage they should have.
Funding to set up public register for trusts similar to what ASIC does for companies.
I’m sure Gina is going to like having all her trust details available for download.
The budgeted increase in anti money laundering related asset seizures.
It’s like Chalmers let government agencies inject their wish lists into the budget.
Same as they did to us eh?
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Do the States have the capacity to enter into legally binding treaties with their own citizens?
I think there has been a mistranslation of ‘kids’ here.
He is not meant to be allowed around young goats. They were the first species to take an order out against him.
Other orders currently being processed have been requested by cows, sheep, horses, gerbils, sloths, tapirs, monitor lizards, and 240v power outlets.
Apparently if he goes to a country with 110/120V mains Interpol will count it as sex tourism.
Hey you Jerk Off. Try reading a bit more and get off your short arse.
The Future Fund. NOT Managed by Jerk Off. Thank goodness.
For more information contact:
Andrew White
Director, Media Relations
[email protected]
+61 (0)437 206 436
Old Ozzie:
The list of damage it would cause is damn near proof that the O’Biden/Harris Administration will default.
Do the States have the capacity to enter into legally binding treaties with their own citizens?
No. S.61 Constitution. But we are dealing with commie liar states so they’ll do what they want.
He can articulate the bedrock issues remarkably well. This is quite short.
Welcome Andrew Bridgen MP to The Reclaim Party
132 – Predominately smugness.
Jimbo’s hydrogen fart is the silliest aspect of a very silly budget.
(Technically yes, 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O, but with some NOx because of the high combustion temperature. I’ve worked at two sites with hydrogen plants, one electrolysis the other reforming. The economics are insane.)
Hey Jerk Off and Knob Head. Do the research and LEARN sumfink’. Maybe you need to go to the NDIS for help.
https://www.futurefund.gov.au/
Facts at a glance
As at 31 March 2023
Total funds managed – The Future Fund
$250.5 billion
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 10, 2023 at 8:14 pm
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Do the States have the capacity to enter into legally binding treaties with their own citizens?
I suspect that legal agreements are possible, but doubt that they would have the international legal status of treaties.
Stunning and Brave news (the Hun):
There are pics accompanying this piece, which I will not link to. Suffice to say that this ‘model’ stops the clock at approximately 140 kegs, and the only category of ‘model’ she fits into is a model of deliberate self-destruction.
That is fine. Do not expect the rest of the planet to share your affection for yourself.
Extremely, and beyond any explanation of ‘but muh pills’ or ‘muh genes’:
Obviously:
No. Rather, the ground zero example of lack of effort:
This woman’s cheekbones are fat. That’s how humungous this self-inficted porker is.
Love yourself, all 140kg of it, in whatever way you want, and to the degree you think you need to. Do not demand it of others. Also:
That’s because there’s a cardboard shortage, darling. Rosie 6X also indicates she has an OnlyFans account, but fails to specify if anyone watches it. For, I suspect, good reason.
This particular piece of legal hogwash had the support of the L.N.P…. I’m just seeing a legal dogfight that will go on for years.
so
googlery reckons sofronoff hasn’t bin able to wrongfoot drumgold
right
sure
pretty hard to wrongfoot someone who has spent two days taking the 12 gauge to both feet
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 10, 2023 at 8:14 pm
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Do the States have the capacity to enter into legally binding treaties with their own citizens?
Well, the States or Territories most certainly have no power to enact any Treaty. Full stop. And I am not a Bush Lawyer. I am a Taxpayer.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
May 10, 2023 at 8:28 pm
Burning hydrogen in ICE vehicles, is the exhaust predominantly water vapour?
132 – Predominately smugness.
Jimbo’s hydrogen fart is the silliest aspect of a very silly budget.
(Technically yes, 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O, but with some NOx because of the high combustion temperature. I’ve worked at two sites with hydrogen plants, one electrolysis the other reforming. The economics are insane.)
I will really enjoy a Commonwealth Car cruising up to a Hydrogen energy stop and ‘filling up’. Then the car goes ‘boom’. Whoops. Tennis Elbow gone. Blackout Bowen gone. Chalmers gone.
Like Visa. Priceless.
Dear Martin,
Thank you thank you thank you. You have literally saved my life with your advice over recent days. I have one more question though – do the States have the capacity to enter into legally binding treaties with their own citizens?
‘Well, I appreciate the support and that’s a great question which I’ll plug into So-crates. All you need to do is send another USD$10,000 and the answer will change your life. Again.’
Zulu:
No.Words.
He did NOT compare the Covid vaccines to the Holocaust. He linked to someone (a Jew!) who did. I don’t believe for a second that that’s why he was expelled from the Tory party. It was just an excuse to get rid of someone who could not be controlled or prevented from telling the truth as he saw it.
Andrew Bridgen insists he will be ‘VINDICATED’ when Covid vaccine harms research is released
This “fat thing” astonishes me. It only seemed yesterday that fat was unhealthy, & obesity was deadly.
132and bush:
Yes + melting pistons and valves. Oxy/hydrogen flames are HOT.
BoN
So basically pumping out the gas that has the greatest affect in keeping the planet warm.
That makes sense.
..
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/uncovering-hidden-reserves-of-natural-hydrogen/
..
Once a parasite has drained the nutrients it requires from the host, it will discard the host and find a new source of nutrients.
BoN:
How much Nitrogen Oxide is created during a normal sized lightning strike? More than a cows worth? An elephants worth? How about a whale fart?
Simon, you might earn some brownie points early in your tenure by pointing out to your boss that the organisation’s training of sleepers is woeful.
in praise of the debt ceiling fight
Beyond insane and into meta dimensions only seen in Marvel movies..
Takes 50 kWh to produce one kilo of hydrogen. At say 30c/kWh that’s $15 per kg. The energy content of a kg of H2 is 141 MJ. One GJ of natural gas currently costs about US$2.50 so the equivalent cost of 1 GJ of hydrogen would be about fifty times that of natural gas. Seems just a tad pricey.
Do lefties not have calculators? Pencil and paper would do at a pinch. They’re so off the planet bonkers that Proxima Centauri seems like next door.
I wish
The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed
..
Read it again Bruce.
They are talking about hydrogen from wells.
She’s never been a particular favourite of mine but what a picture!
Being A Woman # 3 Joan Crawford
Chaos, Breakdown, Demoralization, Destruction: America’s New Normal, How It Came About, Where We Are Going
Winston – NOx is as much a GHG as CO2, which means nearly nothing. The same thing that bypasses CO2 also bypasses NOx, cow farts and fridge gases: the water cycle. Any long wave IR that CO2 can absorb can also be absorbed by liquid water to produce water vapour. The IR is continually and rapidly interchanged between H2O, CO2 and any other molecules that have similar spectra. Until it hits liquid water…which has the same absorption spectrum as CO2. That locks the energy in the form of latent heat of vaporization as the liquid water vaporizes. The water vapour then convects to the troposphere and condenses to produce rain. That liberates the latent heat above most of the atmosphere – whereupon it radiates to space. The climate models are hopeless at modelling the water cycle, clouds and cloud seeding.
The executive enters into a treaty, but it only becomes binding law when parliament passes a law giving effect to the treaty.
States have the power to make any good law they wish, save where the Commonwealth has exercised their exclusive powers.
As the Commonwealth has not exercised exclusive power on a treaty with any First Nation Peoples, that leaves the States able to enter the fray. This is not a treaty with a foreign sovereign which only our Fed executive could undertake.
At end of day States would be smart to do deals which bind mobs to things including reparations and covering native title and other legal rights as they don’t know what future laws may bring (e.g. expansion in how compensation works). Certainty now helps budgets etc.
The Act does not really talk of reparations and previous statements of the State noted it was to exclude impact on rights under Commonwealth law.
Ek roll ap die vloor…
From their arses more like.
There’s a risible amount available from wells*.
Yes I read about this stuff.
Jimbo is talking about two billion for water hydrolysis. Bonkers, especially since it requires electricity which doesn’t exist.
(* Unless they do anaerobic coal seam gasification. Which the greenies hate like Cthulhu on steroids.)
I’m just remembering the legal dogfight that began when the Barnett Government reached what was described as a “de facto” treaty with the Noongars – SEVEN Noongars claimed they hadn’t been properly consulted, and took legal action, claiming billions of dollars in damages.
The climate models are hopeless at modelling the water cycle, clouds and cloud seeding.
Correct. And the bastards even admitted in their private emails leaked in Climategate in 2010:
Trenberth admits that there are three sets of vital data that are “wanting” before they
can understand how the climate functions:
But the resulting evaporative cooling means the heat goes into atmosphere
and should be radiated to space: so we should be able to track it with sky
temperature data. That data is unfortunately wanting, and so too are the
cloud data. The ocean data are also lacking, although some of that may be
related to the ocean current changes, and burying heat at depth, where it is
not picked up. If it is sequestered at depth then it comes back to haunt us
later, and so we should know about it
P 165 of John Costello’s great analysis of the emails.
“It only seemed yesterday that fat was unhealthy, & obesity was deadly.”
Vicki, fat will always be unhealthy and obesity will always be deadly.
We live in ludicrous times.
We’ll, well. The international talk shop for left-liberal legal busybodies wants to abolish the age of consent:
https://mercatornet.com/how-could-an-international-commission-of-legal-experts-recommend-revisiting-the-age-of-consent/84182/
I don’t claim to be a prophet, but I have always thought that the left’s attack on the churches (and only the churches) over child abuse was just a tactical feint, and that when they had succeeded in demolishing traditional moral codes they would bring their real agenda to the fore. It didn’t take long.
KD @ 8:42.
Thank you for not linking.
Megyn Kelly going orrrrf.
(YouTube: 13 minutes. I think from roughly the 6 minute mark she picks up steam. I’ve never paid much attention to Kelly until recently).
this stuff is a yuuuge clickbait generator for daily mail etc
their go to is lizzo
usually pictured in a dental floss “swimsuit”
how big is she?
visible from the space station and pretty much has her own gravitational field
but it pulls in “you go girl” types and those who are disgusted in equal numbers
Signing many, many treaties which will cost $millions in legal and compliance costs will be a good thing and hopefully take decades. The chaos that follows will make any kind of Federal treaty approach unlikely.
Go you good thing, Qld!
Just received an email from a senior editor re my observation. Rejected in error, reinstated.
lol.
I wonder how many No comments vs Yes comments get rejected.
How can I be a sleeper and also woke?
It’s interesting, isn’t it, how all of these ‘daring’ and ‘courageous’ people being celebrated for being ‘different’ only do so in a society where they are largely protected (in a legal sense) from the consequences of their ‘courage.’ i.e. How many would step forward in, say, a Muslim majority country, and make the same demands?
The whole ‘living their lived experience’ (what the?) takes little actual risk, which is why so many seek to outdo each other for attention. No/low risk (investment of time, resources, reputation) = Opportunity. Where the risks are greater (the Malala woman in Afghanistan, for example), far fewer individuals are tempted, or prepared, to push social/cultural boundaries.
Some disturbing news from friends now that some work around’s to the internet shutdown in Pakistan are coming online after Imran Khan was arrested yesterday.
The difference today is that in the past the army usurped corrupt unpopular politicians that the people were sick of, this time they’re screwing the guy that actually has support from the people.
How many millions would it take for a General to misplace his access codes for an hr or two ?
We’re headed for a new feudalism, at least in a social sense.
Muddy> the whole thing is just people signalling their membership of middle class by showing off their dress, language and behaviour codes. Its the 2020’s equivalent of U and non-U mores like not wearing brown shoes in town i.e. just a bunch of cues showing who is in and who is not.
This whole farcical mess has grown over time as more and more people need to make a living with few practical skills. Their options for employment mainly consist of climbing up the greasy pole in large govt or corporate bureaucracies where competency is not valued or even possible.
mUnty, snap out of it mate
you need to understand that you’re tangled in the “JC Paradox”
you know,
1 grep your ‘facts’ from the internet
2 post really stupid opinions about it to an internet forum
3 demand that the internet prove you’re NOT stupid
4 repeat
If they get their way, in every sense.
m0nty says: May 10, 2023 at 5:21 pm
Thank you, officer m0nty.
If only all of your co-spookees were so enlightened.
Muddy says: May 10, 2023 at 10:59 pm
Feudalism had multiple warring factions.
From my very limited perspective it just looks like only two groups, them and us.
One possible purpose of the WEF is prevent infighting inside the “them” group.
Elon Musk Warns Users That Zuckerberg’s “WhatsApp” Is Secretly Accessing Device Microphones
good plan
next, take the other gasses that can’t possibly be burned because of Gaia’s displeasure
and use concentrated solar thermal to crack them
then burn the ‘free’ hydrogen
hi (these gasses burn cleaner than real money) CSIRO
She looks surprisingly like our dance instructor who at aged eighty still leads 50 women of all ages three times a week in different dance modes. An inspiration and a beauty up there on the stage, a still very slim and flexible figure in Lycra, who looks fantastic when she arrives at parties in 1940’s style.
She’s slowing down a little and gets some twinges, we all do, but the years don’t necessarily condemn.
i am scrollin’ you lizzie
nuttin’ poisonal
just that i am two seasons behind you in succession
MT, you are too thick to be a spook but if you try hard enough you can be a flamer. That would be the first interesting thing about you.
Seems the Qld LNP all on board with treaties, truth telling and likely reparations.
Could be 100 groups involved or is that nations.
WTF.
John Spooner.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Andy Davey.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Andy Davey #2.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson. Brilliant.
Trending Politics:
Tucker Carlson announces he is soon to start his presentations on Twitter, since it is about the only platform where truth can be told.
Thanks again Tom. You are a Legend.
m0ntysays:
May 10, 2023 at 10:51 pm
How can I be a sleeper and also woke?
Cos’ you are a Left Wing Nut Job and a Legend in your own Playtime. Just like Head Case – A Suitable Case for Treatment.
So they want us to burn hydrogen?
And are more than willing to throw our money at any grifter who knocks at the door with a “plan”.
Billions of our money.
On something which when “burnt” emits a by-product gas responsible for 97% of greenhouse warming.
Which also happens to be gas, as highlighted by others above, impossible to accurately model in the atmosphere.
And as far as I can tell it serves no other purpose in the atmosphere other than warming. CO2 serves as a food for plants and thus all life on earth, with it’s concentration over geological time in terminal decline.
But if one crony millionaire can just get to be more of a millionaire and a sniveling politician can get another brown bag of cash then it’s full STEAM ahead.
Bruce O’Nuke:
Yep. I get that. My point was that lightning strikes create NOx as part of the nitrogen cycle. If cows etc also create NOx, then as a proportion, how much ‘nitrogen pollution’ is caused by lightning compared to cow farts, and how is the Dutch Government measuring this creation and how do they propose stopping the production of lightning?
More modern ‘hot chicks’ dancing, how long till strippers follow the fashions?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/what-a-message-for-kids-celebrating-morbid-deadly-obesity-.html
Winston – Get with the vibe! The Dutch government believes they can prevent bad weather. Anyway anything natural is holy to the earth goddess, and since lightning is natural the NOx produced by it must be good NOx, whereas the NOx produced by class-enemy kulaks is bad NOx.
Governments can read the mind of the earth goddess, for example our government has now decided that Priuses which used to be holy to Gaia are now cursed by her. All praise to our wise and wonderful Government!
Government’s plan on sunsetting hybrid vehicles in 2025 is ‘bizarre’ (Sky News, 10 May)
Go figure.
I read these type of stories and start to feel guilty for reaching and being 75, fit & healthy ..!
Am I letting the side down? .. LOL!
No idea how big /populated BRIBIE ISLAND is but this is a disgraceful figure for any part of Oz if true .. At this rate everyone will be on the NDIS in a few years ..
Who’s gonna pay the taxes to keep it going ? .. FFS!
“Cr Flannery said 20 per cent of the region’s population had a disability.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-11/inaccessible-playground-bribie-island/102321076
sfw says:
May 11, 2023 at 7:07 am
Not a fan of fat chicks, but you have to admit, they are quite nimble, considering.
Mike Smith, is he employed by some news outlet?
How is he making a living? I’m not familiar with his kind of journalism.
I must be a terrible person cos I don’t care! .. I’ze just “awfie” .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-10/nt-arts-minister-calls-for-investigation-indigenous-art-apy-acc/102323476
3.1 at Longreach @0600.
Sod this for a lark.
that is very very harsh
but is it accurate?
i leave that to others to say
Nigerian prince news.
‘Stolen’ African Artefacts Returned by the West have Now Disappeared, Experts Say (10 May)
“A number of Benin Bronzes which were said to have been “stolen” by Westerners from Africa have reportedly disappeared from public view after being handed back to Nigeria, experts have now said.
The Nigerian government has insisted that the artefacts belong to Ewuare II, the current king of the now-defunct Kingdom of Benin, with progressive politicians in Germany making a big song and dance about removing the treasures from the country’s museums and returning them to the African nation for public display late last year.
However, Deutsche Welle and The Times are now reporting that — instead of being put on public view in a Nigerian museum as agreed — the treasures have disappeared completely after being handed back to Ewuare II.
…
The disappearance has provoked outrage amongst a number of academics, with Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, professor emerita of anthropology at Göttingen University describing Germany’s decision to hand back the treasures as effectively gifting them to a single royal family.”
There you go, you now know why your next Nigerian prince email will ask you to mail him some Benin bronzes in order to unlock the funds he’s going to give you in reward for your help.
Gabor, my Mum used to say in defence of fat people that they were “light on their feet”. I suppose that may be true in some cases. However it doesn’t mean that they should be flaunting their elephantine bodies in public in skin tight apparel. Who the hell thinks that anyone wants to watch fat people gyrating?
Would I be right thinking the Christian Adams cartoon is implying that Trump has gotten away with rape?
I wonder how long it is going to be before they discover the implied right* of obese people to two seats on a plane for the price of one.
I think this is all the work of ‘Big Knee Surgery’.
*In the US it will be like the way they discovered the ‘implied’ right not to be offended, which overrides the explicitly written in the bill of rights ‘right to free speech’ which is now considered secondary, or even problematic (stupid word).
Odd stuff happening at the border – from what I saw, that’s a “Technical” a gun mounted on a civilian vehicle and it appears to be firing at the US Border police.
Listening to Chalmers doing a number on Dutton – how long will it be before Dutton is branded as an extreme right wing domestic terrorist?
So, the hefty femmes jumped up and down and thrashed their arms for 17 seconds… thanks ladies, take a stretcher, now back to the athletes for their twenty second burst. Before another time-out. Ready for another number, ladies? Or should we bring in the fit chicks?
File under ‘Australians need a Voice to government’:
QLD town of 5000 that trucked water in for 400 days during last drought was not consulted on the axing of funding for their new dam in the budget.
Stanthorpe’s mayor is hopeful a future government will change it’s mind, but it’s unlikely to be before the next drought hits.
The region is major agricultural producer creating wealth for the nation.
QLD passes Road to Perdition, sorry, Reparations legislation “to right centuries of wrongs”.
A reminder, if you needed it, of how Australia will end up now we have wall-to-wall Labor governments.