132and Bush:

The climate movement is a post modernist inspired death cult.

Verbose.

The climate movement is a death cult.

Better.
Succinct.

Drumgold now renounces his political interference reference of two weeks ago.
Keeping it classy ACT.

The ABC was still running it last night in the headlines under whatever tripe they were spouting.

The climate movement is a death cult.

Gaia demands a sacrifice. For the good of next season’s harvest.

This works like vaccines: YOU make the sacrifice, so that I am protected.

Late to the party today. Been busy. I noticed upthread that there had been discussion about obesity being included in the “New Normal”.

Has anyone here seen this TikTok clip about Rate yourself out of Ten”. ?

Some lovely girls in it.

Interesting article about a woman who refused to sell her farm to the Chinese. she is now under investigation by the State’s Attorney General.

Net Zero grid batteries alone would bankrupt America

Senate Budget Committee chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) cites “the climate crisis” at almost every opportunity. President Biden calls it a greater threat than nuclear war. They and their allies champion “carbon-free” electricity generation by 2035 and nearly fossil fuel–free energy by 2050.

Achieving “net zero” carbon dioxide emissions will be painless, they assure us.

Costs will be so low that you’ll need a magnifying glass to see them.

Governments merely have to enact mandates and provide subsidies, and the transformation to “clean” energy will just happen.

Almost like in a fairy tale.

Here in the real world, however, we would need literally millions of weather-dependent wind turbines, billions of equally unreliable solar panels, millions of half-ton battery modules for vehicles, billions more modules to back up intermittent electricity generation, millions of transformers, and tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines.

Professional engineer Ken Gregory determined that grid-backup battery costs could reach $290 trillion (12.6 times the USA’s 2021 GDP), based on actual 2019 and 2020 hourly intermittent electricity generation data, rather than annual average data utilized in the other studies.

None of these estimates includes the costs of turbines, panels, transmission lines, or transformers.

If you think a miner, farmer or stonemason had is easier based on they may have had shorter working hours is nuts.

Yeah, working 12 hour rotating shifts in a FIFO Mine in 2023 is way easier than farming 6 hour days next door 4 months of the year in 1423.

rosie says:
May 11, 2023 at 1:53 pm

If you think a miner, farmer or stonemason had is easier

That was compared to a 19th Century worker, not a modern day worker.
Given pay and conditions for factory workers in the industrial revolution, I’d tip medievals had a better life.

Real wages increased 400% from 1800 to 1900.

Real wages improved in the middle ages when the heavy plow was implemented. It was a myth that the bubonic plague increased real wages.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/tor/tecipa/munro-04-04.html

Before and After the Black Death: Money, Prices, and Wages in Fourteenth-Century England

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One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called ‘Golden Age of the English Labourer’, lasting until the early 16th century. While there is no doubt that real-wages in mid- to late- 15th century England did reach a peak far higher than that ever achieved in past centuries, real wages in England did not, in fact, rise in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death. In southern England, real wages of building craftsmen (rural and urban), having plummeted with the natural disaster of the Great Famine (1315-21), thereafter rose to a new peak in 1336-40. But then their real wages fell during the 1340s, and continued their decline after the onslaught of the Black Death, indeed into the 1360s. Not until the later 1370s – almost thirty years after the Black Death – did real wages finally recover and then rapidly surpass the peak achieved in the late 1330s. Thereafter, the rise in real wages was more or less continuous, though at generally slower rates, during the 15th century, reaching a peak in 1476-80 – at a level not thereafter surpassed until 1886-90, by the usual methods of calculating real wages with index numbers: i.e., by NWI/CPI = RWI [nominal wage index divided by the consumer price index equals the real wage index]. Most of the textbooks that still perpetuate the myth about the role of the Black Death in raising real wages, as an almost immediate consequence, employ a demographic model based on Ricardian economics, which predicts (ceteris paribus) that depopulation will result in falling grain prices and thus in falling rents on grain-producing lands (on land in general) and in rising real wages.

BB
I could put you in touch with some excellent speakers who’ve been dealing with AEMO for over two years. A couple of lovely ladies and a guy who’s tops on the technical side of renewables. I’m very new to this bun fight.
Happy to have my email passed on to you.

The Most Exciting Young Athlete on Earth Isn’t Playing in America

Six-foot-4 dynamo Erling Haaland keeps obliterating scoring records and keeping Manchester City on the path of a historic season. Watch him now.

We interrupt these amusingly Florida-centric hockey and basketball playoffs—the Panthers and Heat, who saw this tropic thunder coming—to pivot to the soccer pitch.

Last week, Haaland scored his 35th goal in his 32nd Premier League game, breaking the 31-year-old league’s record with four games still left to play. He’s scored more goals than several EPL clubs, and he’s a central reason the already-very good Man City has a very good crack at the “treble”—winning the Premier League, Champions League, and FA Cup in the same season—an achievement that hasn’t been unlocked since David Beckham’s Manchester United did it in 1999.

Craziest part of all?

Haaland is just 22—and in his first-ever Premier League campaign.

From the start, Haaland poured it on. He scored two goals in his Man City debut versus West Ham, added a third in his third game against Newcastle, then logged back-to-back hat tricks versus Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. He was the fastest Premier League player to 10 goals, then the fastest to 20. He notched a wicked five goals in a Champions League match versus RB Leipzig.

He does all of this despite rarely touching the ball.

Haaland isn’t a football artiste—he is a blunt force object, a finisher who feasts on pretty assists by teammates like Kevin De Bruyne. As the Journal’s Joshua Robinson put it earlier this season:

He isn’t an expensive accouterment. He is a star of stars, and if City is to win its first Champions League title and capture this historic treble, he will be the essential figure.

The Festivus

There’s a wild reason young Australians are still getting cash out

Young Aussies famously like to be cashless – but there’s one wild reason the younger generations are even still using ATMs.

“Cash or card?”

You can’t tap and go from a local drug dealer and this is forcing young people that take drugs to still interact with cash.

Cash seems solely reserved for purchases people still want off the books

Wowee what a treat, infectious diseases history with Professor Gools PhD LLD DSc.

I always demand cash when trading aluminium.

Which one were you Pogria? I reckon it wasn’t the FF10.

Nut Case are there any facts in what you kNow about anything? I’ve given you a clue, its two letters.

In a just world drummy couldn’t get elected dog-catcher.
Perhaps.
But we’re not living in a just world.
Drumgold called for the Inquiry, he got it, he woulda known it was gonna be a whitewash and a witch hunt, but he stepped into the breach anyway.
I’m thinkin’ Horatio at the Bridge.

The Evidence the AFP had obtained from interrogating Higgins for days and minutely scrutinising 3,000+ text messages and 30,000+ e-mails from her phone.

The fact they did that and thought the case was shit doesnt support your feculation on the matter.

Still inspector EdMong will just hand over the tapes he assured us were taken in parliament proving the case and all will be saved!

Looks like the crack team that kept RBG animated have decided to pull out all the stops.

I present to you Dianne Feinberg, tanned rested and reporting for duty.

Also

The perfect warhammer meme has never been made…

cohenitesays:
May 11, 2023 at 1:33 pm
Anchor Whatsays:
May 11, 2023 at 4:48 am
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.

There’s truth here except when dickless slimes in. Maybe DB should put out an invitation to Tucker.

We also have the fairy tale fantasies of Grandpa Ed Simpson.

“GreyRangasays:
May 11, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Which one were you Pogria? I reckon it wasn’t the FF10.”

Bring me Solo and da Wookie… 😀

Ed Casesays:
May 11, 2023 at 1:57 pm
If you think a miner, farmer or stonemason had is easier based on they may have had shorter working hours is nuts.

Yeah, working 12 hour rotating shifts in a FIFO Mine in 2023 is way easier than farming 6 hour days next door 4 months of the year in 1423.

Grandpa Ed, that depends upon whether it is the farmer himself who is harnessed to the plough, or his wife and kids.

If only Grandpa Ed had shown the AFP the CCTV recordings from Reynolds’ office, Mizzz Knickerless would now be happy.

I predicted Pesutto disaster
If only the Victorian Libs had chosen John Roskam
James Allan – Spectator Australia

Yeah, it was my call to prosecute, I’m standing by my decision.

So your metric as to whether a case is sound or not is whether the prosecutor later admits to being a serial liar.

Who on earth cares that he stands by his decision? Of course he does. He doesn’t live in Manhattan where he could literally admit the entire case was pure politics and still have the same job tomorrow. The ACT swings left but not that left.

mole

Snap re Mizzz Knickerless.

Lysander I only report what Nilligan said, and that he had chocolate drop eyes. I wouldn’t say otherwise.

Grandpa Ed Simpson-Case (now, there’s an Adelaide name)

Suddenly, the new demand is to be led around by the nose by a blow in with no checkable backstory who’s been in the Parliament 5 minutes.

Let me use your words (slightly amended):

Suddenly, the demand is to be led around by the nose by Grandpa Ed, a blow in with no checkable backstory, who’s been in the Blog 5 minutes.

Trump being the adult in the room at the townhall..
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/ukraine-russia-putin-trump-town-hall/index.html

Former President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday night who he thinks should prevail in Russia’s war against Ukraine, instead telling New Hampshire GOP primary voters that he wants “everybody to stop dying.”

When asked to elaborate, Trump said, “His mistake was going in. He would have never gone in if I was president,” referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Geez some miserable statistics in this article..
https://www.takimag.com/article/after-the-palefaces/

“by the end of the 1980s not a single African head of state in three decades had allowed himself to be voted out of office. Of some 150 heads of state who had trodden the African stage, only six had voluntarily relinquished power”?

BJ Symons
@BJSymons
It seems there was a town hall tonight. I missed it but I briefly caught a glimpse of the postgame

CNN: Don’t you wish he would quit talking about 2020?

Voter: Uhh the first question you asked him was about 2020

They think you’re stupid

Johnny Rotten:

Maybe just head for the hills. This is not Financial Advice. It is just advice.

Be in a small community more than an average tank of fuel away from the closest major town.
If they make it to your place, then they’ve had enough sense to have more than just a mower can of fuel in the garage.
With the advent of short range EVs, that decision is even simpler.
Population of <3000. No poofs. No Greens.

We Are Living in a World Made for Satire

The degradation has reached levels of absurdity not found in even the best satires.

The great Roman satirist Juvenal once said that the “monstrous city” of Rome makes it “hard not to write satire” and “fill a whole notebook” with scenes of corruption, vice, and sheer stupidity.

I think of Juvenal more and more these days, as our own moral, political, social, and intellectual degradation reaches levels of absurdity not found in even the best satires.

Indeed, our culture and politics are so bizarre and surreal that the scenes we witness every day make satire redundant.

One example that would shock even a satirist like Juvenal or Jonathon Swift is the “transgender” phenomenon.

Swift, in his early 18th century brilliant satire Gulliver’s Travels, describes the Academy of Projectors who carry out various preposterous experiments such as extracting sunlight from cucumbers, turning excrement back into food, and building houses from the roof down.

But our attempts to change biological males into females or biological females into males no doubt would have struck Swift as beyond satiric.

Perhaps more incredible would be the credentialed medical doctors who ignore their oath to “first do no harm,” and participate in the poisoning and irreversible mutilation of healthy, if troubled, young people and even pre-teens, including toddlers as young as two.

But that’s just the start of the absurdities. Who at the beginning of the 21st century could have imagined the military services––organizations whose members provide the serious and important service of fighting, killing, and dying for their county––wasting time and money subjecting their members to training in the protocols of made-up pronouns?

Or, as Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville wrote in the Wall Street Journal, selecting a “non-binary” lieutenant to read a poem to the whole crew of an aircraft carrier during an “LGBTQ spoken-word night”?

And despite the warning provided by the massive drop in sales of Bud Light, after making a poncy transexual in campy drag its unofficial spokesman, the Navy “tapped another self-described nonbinary sailor to become the Navy’s first ‘Digital Ambassador,’” Tuberville writes. He adds, the “concern is that our new national obsession with sexuality, race and gender is focused on self rather than on purpose, ability or service”–– especially at a time when the Navy, like the other services, is facing record shortfalls in recruitment.

Crying out for satire as well is the establishment’s support for biological males competing against biological females in sports. The incredible part is that universities and organizations like the NCAA support and enable this gross violation of women’s rights and the Title IX laws that provided female athletes the opportunity and support to compete. Now blatantly male ringers are allowed to bully women, invade their locker rooms, and then bask in stolen accolades.

There are many other public policies that are so astonishingly and dangerously stupid that one could think they are the products of a satirist. For instance, Anthropogenic Catastrophic Global Warming, the idea that increases in atmospheric CO2 caused by humans will destroy the planet before the next century. Like the theater, this claim requires a willing suspension of disbelief in order to accept the incomplete and rigged “science” allegedly proving its claims.

Worse, the policies that supposedly will stop this apocalypse are wildly expensive. “Net-zero” carbon use and emissions by 2050 would cost trillions of dollars, ruining the global economy. Currently 80% of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels, and the technology needed to fully electrify our energy source is unlikely to be developed by the end of the century, let alone in 17 years.

Yet that scientific reality, and often reality in general, is being ignored in blue states run by powerful environmental lobbies and “renewable energy” companies that are waxing fat while feeding at the government subsidies trough. New York just banned gas-powered stoves, the first step in eliminating abundant, cheap natural gas. This is the same state that passed a law requiring 70% of new power plants emit zero emissions by 2030.

Similarly California, the mothership of feckless “green” folly, banned the sale of gas-powered automobiles after 2035. What makes these policies reek of satire is that replacing fossil fuels with wind, solar, and other renewables requires a vast and expensive increase in transmission lines and batteries big and reliable enough to store energy for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow––in a state that can’t keep the lights on during a forest fire.

Indeed, just acquiring elements such as lithium and cobalt necessary for battery production is a big problem, given that the mining and processing of these elements takes huge amounts of energy provided by fossil fuels. And this industry is dominated by communist China, a geopolitical rival we shouldn’t be dependent on.

Setting impossible policy goals like eliminating the cheap energy that created the powerful and rich modern West in the first place is something more typical of satire, rather than common sense or the “science” that proponents continually insist they are “following.”

Finally, even if the West managed to fully electrify our economy and replace fossil fuels with “renewable” energy, the predicted cataclysmic warming would not be stopped.

China, India, and Russia––the world’s first, third, and fourth largest emitters of CO2––are continuing to burn coal to generate energy, while distracting the West by paying lip-service to its climate virtue-signaling and efforts to reduce emissions by switching to “green” energy.

All we would achieve would be weakening, if not destroying, our economies, and leaving them and our national security dangerously vulnerable to our enemies.

These ludicrous policies like “transgenderism” and “zero net carbon” are unintentionally satiric.

Finally, perhaps the most fertile field for satire is son Hunter Biden and his “laptop from hell.”

You don’t have to be a Juvenal or Jonathan Swift to satirize that saga, given how satiric it already is. A ne’er-do-well, unaccomplished coke-head and whoremonger whose only achievement has been internationally monetizing his father’s name, dropped off his laptop at the repair shop, then forget about it even though it is crammed with evidence of his crimes and louche adventures.

But in the end, satire is about calling attention to the bad ideas and policies that put a nation and its people at risk. And make no mistake, we are in danger of losing our unalienable rights and our global preeminence.

I suspect the Murdoch kiddies … don’t have any contractual hold over Carlson’s future activities at all.

They’re going to fight it though Tom. I suspect because they want Trump and the MAGA movement eradicated, Tucker being a champion of that.

Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, per Tucker’s legal team (10 May)

Megyn Kelly: Fox, Tucker at ‘Impasse’ — Won’t Let Star Go (9 May)

Fox News and Tucker Carlson are at an “impasse” on his contract with the network because Fox “wants him silenced and sidelined,” Megyn Kelly, also a former star on the network, said Monday on Newsmax’s “Eric Bolling The Balance.”

Kelly continued: “They want him silenced and sidelined, and that hurts Tucker, sure, but it hurts the country.

The former report is disturbing. If as a part of the Dominion settlement Fox was required to silence Tucker then it says some very disturbing things. I will not go further in this analysis, you can work it out for yourself.

Whatever the backstory it sounds like gloves will soon be off.

Next Joint Chiefs Chair Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority

Milley was bad, Brown will be much worse.

May 11, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield

When I was working on the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Disloyal Military’ investigation, I predicted that Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr. would be selected as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The media is now reporting that Biden will indeed pick Brown to replace Milley. And as bad as Milley was, expect Brown to be much worse.

Brown disgraced himself and his uniform during the Black Lives Matter race riots by releasing a video in which he “seemed to barely contain his rage” while ranting “that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ‘that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ‘liberty and equality’ to all.”

What horrible acts of oppression did one of the most powerful men in the military experience that made him turn on America?

In his own words to People Magazine, “When you get to senior levels, you have reserved parking spots around the base. I was in civilian clothes, I parked in a spot and someone came out and said, ‘That slot is reserved for the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’ And I go, ‘Yeah, I know, because I am the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’”

Someone questioned Brown’s parking space once and all the white male officers must pay.

What should we expect from Brown if he becomes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

gay and Filipino woman in her role, and other leaders, signed their names to one of the most shocking and destructive racist documents ever produced by the modern military.

The topic of the Air Force memorandum was officer quotas set by race and gender.

Similar quotas had been issued by political appointees in a politically correct military, but they had focused on slowly boosting minority officers rather than calling for a purge of white men.

That was also the year that the White House nominated Brown as Chief of Staff.

In 2022, the rates fell to an outrageous 54%. That’s barely 1 in 2 available planes. In a major war, rates like these mean we would lose and hundreds of thousands of our people could die.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac and Democrat activists (who now run the American government and the White House) have been mainlining it like heroin for the past two years. They’re not about to give it up.

They also think that only they can save the planet. That underlays their whole ‘whatever it takes’ approach. It’s the worst example of noble cause corruption I’ve ever seen, especially when there’s no actual cause to be noble about.

Johnny:

Sleeping in cars? … Sleeping on Park Benches?

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast.

Newsom will be the next president.

Have some schadenfreude popcorn.

The best flavour of all.