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I used to use Skybus when in Melbournibad. Probably not as convenient as a train but certainly cheaper. Haven’t seen any passenger numbers for Sneakers airport train in the West. While the iron ore price stays where it is it won’t come under any scrutiny anyway.
I have shot a 6.5 Carcano, and considered the ballistics of what was claimed. Again, I found some ‘curiosities’ ? (short summary – a near impossible series of shots)
Let’s get an expert opinion on this:
Rupert M.:
Hello, Janet Albrechtsen, what’s your take, as an expert, on the qualities of the 6.5 Mannlicher Carcano?
Janet A:
Hi Boss, greatest, most accuratest rifle ever made [will this do?].
Rupert M.:
Good girl, Lassie.
That’s not very charitable Granpappy. Albrechtsen’s legal stuff is a lot better than yours. To state the bleeding obvious.
Heh heh, it’s all bullshit.
Unless Shano has misled the Court, he’s in the clear.
Taking the Mean Girls out isn’t much of a consolation prize for NewsCorp.
Ever asked yourself why Lehrmann never sued Higgins?
She’s given him plenty of opportunity.
Grandpa Ed Simpson gives up casual racism for the day, defaults to casual misogyny.
Pity, the sight of the Teals and the indoctrinated young bawling at a special levy on their taxes to pay “Compensation” and “reparations” would do my soul good.
Let’s see what Mother has to say about that.
I hear they are reaching out to Dylan Mulvaney.
If they reflect on what made Miller successful they would also do bikini clad girls like Marcia Langston, who looks not so much as if gravity is pulling her body parts down, but as if her body is attempting the vastly more titanic task of pulling the whole Earth up.
And sTan Grant in indigenous Speedos, body in a half twist as if you just appeared on his radar, staring seductively at the camera from beneath his dark brow and slightly pursed lips, and incongruous white lines bordering his hair and scungies where the black make up hasn’t reached – strangely reminiscent of the Black and White Minstrel show.
Or a simply fabulous trannie like Dreaming O’Flaps or Fondle McCock.
The yes vote would be a shoo-in.
Dr. Marcus Law believes that physician obedience is more important than patient outcomes
The Sneakers express is hardly used in the morning as it is not operating when most of the many fifo flights leave.
Be paid off around 2525 when Sneakers will eventually lose and election
From the BBC, no less.
Why Bud Light and Disney are under attack from conservatives
That should help – bury it.
Movie studio Lionsgate hires Dylan Mulvaney to promote struggling Judy Blume adaptation ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ after it flounders at box office, earning just $16M in three weeks
It’s Time for Hillary to Pay for What She’s Done to America
Oh please don’t throw me in the briar patch!
It is my understanding that Tim Blair’s wife is Italian, another plus for him and definitely should be the subject of a movie.
Yep, ‘Immune debt’ (acquired immune obsolescence due to avoidant behaviour depriving it of periodic natural updates) was a predicted side effect of social distancing measures, and likely contributed to recent paediatric RSV outbreaks.
Passive protection via immunisation might do the same …. preventing a minor illness now (with the attendant natural update) , but increasing the risk of a more serious version later after it has mutated further from the strain covered by the immunisation.
The whispering woman was older, and it confirms my theory that it’ll be older Australians, rural Australian and migrants who will vote NO. They’ll save Australia, it won’t be the Teal electorates and it won’t be the indoctrinated young.
Cassie, we had a similar experience when visiting older (Greek/Australian) friend & her family in Canberra in the last few days. They wanted to know what we thought of the “Voice”. They were relieved when we said it was “a NO from us”. To me, it is a no-brainer. But I agree their reticence must be because of the brow beating Australians are taking from the Woke Left.
Judy Blume’s seminal novel, Are you There, God, it’s me, Margaret …
LOL
Gabor:
So who was the Aboriginal Seer who predicted this?
Or should I say incited?
In the RSA the blacks could have done some irreparable, serious damage to the white population, to put it in polite terms. Not without a fight I must add.
The Bantu are murdering Whites on farms and in carjackings and home invasions every day, the MSM just don’t report it.
Colorado man allegedly tries avoiding DUI by switching seats with dog
“The dog does not face any charges and was let go with just a warning,” police said.
Years ago a short-sighted custodian of the law pulled over husband and grandson in a World War II Willys Jeep that he had restored. The Jeep was, of course Left Hand Drive, and Constable Plod came around to throw the book at the blonde eight year old in what he assumed to be the driver’s seat.
I don’t know who got the bigger shock.
CL:
That belongs in the “Not Very Good – Wake Up In Morning Dead” file.
A lot of this is just dags wanting desperately to be cool.
Hehe…
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find-
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pills you took today
In the year 4545
Ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine’s doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your sons, pick your daughters too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
Whoa-oh-oh
….
Now it’s been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man’s reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it’s only yesterday
Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525 (1969)
Prophets with guitars! First pop song I ever became aware of. Ok yes, I’m slow. Maybe it was only yesterday. 😀
mUnty didn’t stay long to discuss the Durham Report. Was it something someone said?
I expect if the Sneakers Airport Link numbers were OK they would be on the 6pm news. Like the Mandurah line was.
“Bridget Rollason
@bridgerollo
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The Victorian Government is hosting a drag story time event at parliament today to mark IDAHOBIT day. It also announced $1.8M for Rainbow Health Australia to deliver inclusion training to make sure organisations are safe for the LGBTIQ+ community #springst”
Supported by little Johnny Prosciutto and the Victorian Liberal Party.
If the Victorian Liberals refuse to oppose something like this, then they never ever deserve to win an election.
Deficit of Talking Points, BJ.
LOL db. If Reagan ran today, you would call him a cuck.
If you are so concerned about slave labour, mole, I am sure you restrict your purchases to ethically sourced goods.
Or are you just using the issue as a cudgel and will immediately forget about it until the next time it is useful?
HBBear:
There will be 3 women in this catfight – The wookie, Mrs Clinton (It’s her turn) and Doctor Biden.
It will be vicious.
Or a simply fabulous trannie like Dreaming O’Flaps or Fondle McCock.
Excellent work. Possibly the interwebs winner for today.
Yes, because Coldplay are very short of cash. FMD
Not even sure The Gipper could deal with the modern deep state.
Yeah mole don’t go on that fantasy football site that the fat freak that runs it is supported by his wife. Unethical if you do.
Cassie of Sydney says:
May 17, 2023 at 4:43 pm
“The Victorian Government is hosting a drag story time event at parliament today ”
Supported by little Johnny Prosciutto and the Victorian Liberal Party.
If the Victorian Liberals refuse to oppose something like this, then they never ever deserve to win an election.
They haven’t deserved to win an election for many years. The Vic SFLs are beyond redemption. I don’t think even federal intervention can change things. One thing I’m sure of is that I will never again see a SFL government in Victoria.
My grandkids probably won’t either.
The only way the liars/green scum can ever be got rid of here is if an entirely new party steps up with a competent leader and extremely effective vetting and selection of candidates.
If my State Premier subsidised Coldplay, I’d be facing a life sentence.
If you are so concerned about slave labour, mole, I am sure you restrict your purchases to ethically sourced goods.
Do you? Or do you consider anything produced under communism must by definition be ethical?
Or are you just using the issue as a cudgel and will immediately forget about it until the next time it is useful?
mUnty attempting to lay claim to a conscience. Sorry, communists or fascists don’t have such a thing, except as a convenience.
In Alice Springs a couple of years, back, there was a hairy six foot plus trannie in the Pride March named ‘Clitorally’.
I’m going to court over a joke..
Isaac Butterfield
John Pesutto has avoided being wedged by Labor on Trannies, eventually the Reptiles of the Media will move on.
If it wasn’t for Bernie Finn and Moira Deeming stirring the pot last year,
they’d be the Government now.
Stand up, Cory Bernardi! Oh, wait.
Step up, Riccardo Bosi! Oh, wait.
Put your hand up, Clive! Oh, wait.
Tom Minear on Resident Biden. Stifle your laughter:
What makes good sense for children doesn’t necessarily hold for adults. Of course, the adults are rather thin on the ground these days.
Piaget, the child psychologist, gave the various levels of child development, and the last of these was apprehending logic. It’s painfully clear that we have a large number of children masquerading as adults who have never grasped the nature and merits of argument. Small children have only one method of getting what they want, whingeing. The same holds for lefties.
There are those for whom a power hierarchy is natural: notably the religious figures, the military, bureaucrats and chickens. Adult human beans can cooperate without coercion, as, for example, NASA before it got taken over by bureaucrats. It does require that the adults should have a shared culture, which depends, I agree, to a certain extent, on coercion into that culture when young. The kids have to learn to read and write and do sums, in the case of Western Civilisation.
There are certainly those for whom the development into adulthood is difficult or impossible. Coercion in this case is unavoidable unless you are prepared to lose your civilisation.
You are here.
While the iron ore price is where it is it barely warrants are a reacharound from Channel Stokes to maintain the love.
Pedro the Loofah:
I think the vote will pass. It will be close but the ‘yes’ vote will steam over the finish line because the Labor Party – in collusion with their Democrat advisers will cheat.
Yes, it’s more difficult to cheat with pen and ink ballots, but they will do it. And no, I don’t know how. My ignorance of the technique to be used is irrelevant.
DrBeau, it may even go one step back from that. The reality that actions have consequences.
If a person is constantly shielded from the consequences of actions, then the next progression – arguing a concept – is way out of reach.
You are right, of course.
The idea that success comes as a consequence of high self-esteem, rather than the other way around, has been the logic of sheltering the young from finding out that they’ve got something wrong. It has been disastrous.
Flyinduk:
He is gaining traction because of two reasons:
.1 He is the one the Democrats can beat – this is an old tactic of theirs – talk up the potential loser and divide the Republican vote.
.2 The Democrats hate Trump and the media will pump Kennedy up and harass Trump until he withdraws or if forced out . Then the war drums will sound on Kennedy, who will not have the ‘charisma’ the Kennedy’s had. The electorate is no longer the naïve mob of bobby soxers who voted them in before.
woolfesays:
May 17, 2023 at 3:54 pm
The Sneakers express is hardly used in the morning as it is not operating when most of the many fifo flights leave.
I wonder- I just wonder- if FIFOs might simply be too widely distributed in the large-block outer-suburbs, and too fond of their tricked out Rangers and bagged Beemers, to think about taking the train, at any time. I wonder.
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Cassie of Sydney:
I hope so – I really do. Because if the inVoice gets mailed to us, you can guess who won’t be affected at all – the kid in the community who has to rustle up breakfast and the old girls who look after most of them from their own pocket while mum and dad demand the child support munni.
That model is going to come to grief when the old girls who do the parents jobs die off, and the daughters haven’t a clue how to cook, or to whom cooking is instant noodles and chips from the hot box.
Mind you, it was an issue ten years ago when I was working in Blackstone and we could see that particular problem already heading our way.
Supply Chain Crisis and Inflation
COMMENT: Hello Mr. Armstrong. Thank you for my daily dose of reality. Your blog is one of the last sources of untainted news. I would like to show these pictures my daughter sent me last week. We live in an affluent neighborhood in New Jersey where petty theft does not occur. The news outlets have not mentioned baby formula shortages. I do not believe they are locking up the baby formula to prevent crime. What is going on here?
Thanks — C.G.
REPLY: The supply chain issue has never been resolved. It improved from the days of bare shelves in the grocery stores, but many essentials are stuck in the pipeline. Products that expire will see additional shortages naturally. The supply shortage is fueling inflation and raising rates will not solve the problem.
The Fed thinks that raising rates will curb inflation by raising the cost of borrowing. That is not the problem here. Part of the inflationary crisis we are witnessing is due to demand outweighing available supply across industries. The Fed cannot control government spending nor the money supply. People are viewing the crisis today from the perspective of the ‘60s when it was NOT possible to borrow on T bills. After the collapse of Bretton Woods in ’71, you COULD trade off government debt and that eliminated the idea that it was less inflationary to borrow rather than spend. Artificially low rates that created a borrowing addiction among institutions who believed it was safe to do so.
Powell cannot come out and criticize Congress for their spending. These rate hikes are not good for the supply chain shortages. Inflation went up two years before the Fed even addressed rates due to the supply chain crisis. The central bank only began to hike rates after the war in Ukraine began. Notice how at the last meeting, the FOMC incorporated that they will monitor “international events.” WAR is the primary driver of inflation and there is nothing that the central bank can do to prevent the destruction caused by government and years of poor monetary policy.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/supply-chain-crisis-and-inflation/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
He is gaining traction because of two reasons:
.1 He is the one the Democrats can beat – this is an old tactic of theirs – talk up the potential loser and divide the Republican vote.
Kennedy is the Democrat, you piss soaked moron.
Over the last few days I’ve been watching Sharpe’s Rifles on Youtube, which has been thoroughly entertaining.
Then I came across this…
https://youtu.be/qX5dYewJQ-E
Fruits and nuts.
Victorian government holds drag story time with cancelled performers at state parliament in defiance of ‘small hateful minority’ (17 May)
He had a hobbit? Golly I hope Dan is up to date with his mpox vaccination.
As it’s anecdote o’clock, I’ll add to my “actions have consequences” comment.
Master Four recently had a birthday, and I phoned him (via Dad) to wish him a happy birthday. His first words to me – I’ve been good!
Later that day, in a fit of worry about being a disciplinarian, I realised the truth – that little boy had understood something that many adults just can’t work out. It doesn’t matter who sees you or not, you have to both understand the concept of doing good…and then do it.
Ed Casesays:
May 17, 2023 at 5:23 pm
John Pesutto has avoided being wedged by Labor on Trannies, eventually the Reptiles of the Media will move on.
If it wasn’t for Bernie Finn and Moira Deeming stirring the pot last year,
they’d be the Government now.
There you have it. Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment as the new Guru of Politics. Keep going Head Case, the cliff is straight ahead………………………….
If it wasn’t for Bernie Finn and Moira Deeming stirring the pot last year,
they’d be the Government now.
And you weren’t a crotchless pisslewit you’d be man of the year.
Apart from Sam, my favourite Hobbit is Farmer Maggot.
He would have told the Alphabet Qwerties to bugger off and set his dergs on them.
I bet they didn’t read that bit.
I suspect the Venn intersection between FIFOs and public transport users would be in the high single digits. I always liked to see how cheaply I could get to the airport. Personal best was about $2.50 by bus in Radelaide.
Crazy Old Ranga:
It was the Jooos that did it.
🙂
Whatever else it has become, the Big Government dumbocratic socialist republic of Australia remains a nation where the masses know when they’re being bullshitted to and where activist bullshit doesn’t fly.
When you try to subvert the democracy with an apartheid system that guarantees extra rights for people who can convince our corrupted institutions they are Abos, even if they’re as white as snow, the idea that you can win a plainly racist referendum is the definition of impossibility.
This is not a rerun of gay marriage. The Labor-Greens ruling class is asking for a flogging. Their media lackeys are already concocting excuses for the failure of the Voice referendum. They know it’s coming.
Good luck with that.
China Launches Nationwide Program To Encourage People To Marry And Have More Children (17 May)
Fearing demographic collapse, China is launching a new nationwide program to “build a new-era marriage and childbearing culture” within its population.
The pro-natalist scheme was announced by way of state media outlet the Global Times, which said it was intended to coincide with the United Nations’ International Day of Families after the UN expressed concern about fertility decline and “demographic change”.
Officials said the venture will “focus on tasks including promoting marriage and having children at appropriate ages, encouraging parents to share child-rearing responsibilities, and curbing high ‘bride prices’ and other outdated customs.”
Maybe curb communism, that’s a pretty outdated custom too. This stuff is interesting since it shows signs of panic from the CCP as the entire country rapidly turns into a gigantic nursing home. Yet again central planning works exactly as well as it always has.
Yes, you can see why Mother had problems with him.
I hope you are right. It depends on the lefties not cheating, though, and I expect they will.
Mr 32% is not cutting through. No amount of compulsory preferential voting can cover that.
Ed Casesays:
May 17, 2023 at 5:23 pm
John Pesutto has avoided being wedged by Labor on Trannies, eventually the Reptiles of the Media will move on.
If it wasn’t for Bernie Finn and Moira Deeming stirring the pot last year,
they’d be the Government now.
LOL.
The native title act should be repealed. It judged a land tenure situation that never ever applied to Australia. Thirty billion yearly of aboriginal programs should be sufficient to deal with any residual problems of lack of integration of hunter-gatherers into the mainstream. Many other needy people in Australia today would count themselves blessed to have such largesse. Treaty be damned.
I hope very much this voice doesn’t get up. Expectations concerning sovereignty have got completely out of hand and will get far worse if Australians agree to allow aboriginal demands to stand above all other interests via the voice; and huge demands will be made, there is no doubt about that.
I’m not sure that ‘anti-racism’ is the best way to forward the case for NO. Of course that is part of it, but sovereignty is the issue. Our Constitution defines our sovereignty and manner of rule. We play with it at our absolute peril. That is the message that should be rammed home to Australians thinking that voting yes is just a nice thing to do. It is a terrible thing to do. It is irreparable damage, like a car crash in which you write off your uninsured car. That’s the rest of us, on the scrap heap: hard working settlers and pioneers, migrants from all lands, and all those who currently call Australia home, including plenty of remote aborigines who won’t see a dollar off the elites running the voice.
makethat … who won’t see a useful dollar off the elites. They’ll get more sit-down cash and Toyotas for travelling around in but nothing that will markedly change the lives they currently ruin for their children. Just more kultcha, kutcha, kultcha to keep them backward and rebellious.
Beaugy, the only thing we don’t share with the USA is rampant election cheating, even though the vast majority of the public servants who work for the Australian Electoral Commission vote Greens-Labor. They have yet to cross that point of no return.
At some point, they will start rigging elections because that’s just what leftards do, but I don’t think it will be this year.
ROFL.
Yep, despite how many people the Liars and bruvvas send to the US Oz elections remain pretty good. The WA Senate rerun was a notable exception.
Albanese’s only ability was that he could beat Scott Morrison [though in my opinion, he woulda beat him in 2019 and beaten Turnbull in 2016].
So long as the Sofronoff Inquiry doesn’t take him out, Labor don’t have anyone who can beat Peter Dutton, so they might as well go down with Albo.
That reminded me of a bloke I know, who was speaking to a group, and who defined ‘integrity’ thusly:
Integrity is how you act when nobody’s looking.
Gels nicely, calli, with what that young man said to you.
The most shameful picture ever taken of White Australia.
Stew Peters sucks.
(Does 6PR go off the air at 4:45 PM, WA time?)
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Stew Peters is the suckiest suck who ever sucked.
LOL
It’s a crow smorgasboard.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12087117/Trump-did-NOT-stay-presidential-suite-Moscow-Ritz-says-Durham-report-source-probe.html
PR exec who called Trump a ‘mad man’ was behind false ‘golden showers’ claims: Durham report reveals Donald never stayed in Moscow suite at center of salacious story – and how FBI wanted to keep paying Steele dossier source $300K AFTER he lied
The Durham report includes lengthy section on ‘salacious’ allegations
It cites Moscow Ritz guest logs, date when info appeared in Steele dossier
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Never heard of him.
We have entered a new dark age.
Let’s say the Steele Dossier was “Truthy”.
I mean seriously, does anyone think
the Trumpster isn’t into Golden Showers?
Lovely bit of guitar work, and the Sri Lankan? girl at 0:30 is just gorgeous.
Worst things to do with all that yummy iron ore royalty munni.
Coldplay are a bunch of lefties but they do good stuff.
I hope the punters in Perth enjoy the show!
Coldplay – Speed Of Sound (2005)
Casino Royale – Chris Cornell – You Know My Name (2006)
Sadly Dot, 6PR are the only thing closest to conservatism in Perth…. and that’s sayin something!!!
Worse not worst. Chris Martin is an idiot, but can he sing or what?
I can live with him being an idiot.
I think it’s timed to coincide with change of shift so it doesn’t affect ratings.
HUGE rise in fatal Blood Clots: New National Data
I think even regional Local Government is running out of ways to spend it.
Scientists: Meat Is Absolutely Crucial For Human Health
I enjoy Coldplay too Bruce. And R.E.M. and U2 any number of leftie groups. Because I can separate the music from the politics and idiocy.
The Music of the Spheres takes on endless forms, some soaring and wonderful, some…not so much.
It may be true or false..the only angelic power left to us after the Fall.
I’m trumped Winston. Knopfler is at least as good a singer as Chris Martin, plus he’s a superb guitarist, and isn’t, as far as I know, an idiot.
I surrender. Excellent track sir, which I hadn’t heard before. She doesn’t look Sri Lankan but. Thai/Anglo maybe?
Thanks, Googleory.
.
Can anyone apply for a CIA useful idiot retainer or do you have to establish a track record for gullibility?
Robert Sewell at 6.45pm posted his shameful picture of White Australia.
I fully concur, sickening behaviour.
Nearly as bad, from June 2020 is this appalling photo.
Best bit of news today was, in my opinion, the old thief’s non visit.
Calli – U2 may be lefty but they managed to include Screwtape Letters in one of their videos. It was a fine achievement! Sadly I’ve never found a good quality vid with good enough resolution, but you can just about see it at 2:43 in the following:
U2 “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” (1995)
Rage used to play this video from time to time, which is why I know they got their C S Lewis ref in.
Ed Casesays:
May 17, 2023 at 6:56 pm
Let’s say the Steele Dossier was “Truthy”.
I mean seriously, does anyone think
the Trumpster isn’t into Golden Showers?
Grandpa Ed Simpson projecting his own kinks on others?
Hot copper!!!
Water and air pockets in furnaces can create spectacular results. The water turns into superheated steam real fast and things start to get splashy. Scrap aluminium cans in an aluminum furnace will give that popping and fizzing result.
Salt is often used as an anti-oxidising agent in aluminium furnaces and generally to “calm down” a fizzing furnace.
A few years ago a bloke was killed and others badly injured when a furnace went up in Melbourne.
Allegedly and supposedly a senior manager rang someone afterwards to check the difference between sodium chloride (salt) and sodium nitrate (definitely not salt).
I think Sleazy the word Slusher isn’t having a good week, which is sweet, very sweet, and it’s particularly sweet given that we’re approaching the first year anniversary since the stupid effing Liberals lost the election to lying Labor and Sleazy. Since May last year Sleazy has been given an easy ride by the MSM and treated with kid gloves, and methinks Sleazy has gotten a little too comfortable because over the the last week he’s received a trifecta of bad news and I get the impression he isn’t too happy. First off in the trifecata was the polling on the budget, which shows it’s a fizzer among middle and working Australians, second is the polling on da Voice, which shows support collapsing* and today Sleazy received news that the rotting corpse in the White House won’t be visiting. It’s nice to see the smirk wiped off Sleazy’s face.
* I’ve never thought support for the Voice was high.
Thanks Bruce. Very sneaky.
Screwtape is the ultimate “conspiracy theorist’s” textbook. But it isn’t what anyone wants to read.
You can’t be too careful about the books you pick up. Best to avoid some of them.
Any treaty will dissolve in a legal dogfight over whether those with an Aboriginal great – great grandfather will qualify for reparations..
Good lord!
Pedro the Loofah:
Nearly as bad, from June 2020 is this appalling photo.
How embarrassing is that photo now?
I wonder what those coppers children and parents think?
FFS, Australia. Get off your knees!
I mean seriously, does anyone think
the Trumpster isn’t into Golden Showers?
FMD just cutting edge commentary.
Cassie of Sydney:
“The whispering woman was older, and it confirms my theory that it’ll be older Australians, rural Australian and migrants who will vote NO. They’ll save Australia, it won’t be the Teal electorates and it won’t be the indoctrinated young.”
While the federal Voice gets the headlines, Labor state governments are proceeding with “treaty” negotiations which include measures for monetary reparations into the hundreds of millions of dollars and indigenous activist input into state education & criminal justice policies.
If teh way Queensland Labor went about it is a reliable indicator, none of this was included in the policy platforms with which they went into their most recent elections.
A friend who is a Rustadon and can be counted on to veer left on almost any issue volunteered to me that – in his words – “I am sick and fkn tired of the ABC beating the drum on The Voice. Come the day, this little black duck will be lining up at 8:01 to vote NO.”
Oh…and the state Liberal/NP oppositions will back it.
Tom inquires:
Can anyone apply for a CIA useful idiot retainer or do you have to establish a track record for gullibility?
Dunno, bud, didn’t you write the book?
Zulu,
Good comment on MSNews at 3.45pm.
“Oh…and the state Liberal/NP oppositions will back it.”
That goes without saying. They’re not called the stupid f*cking Liberals for no reason.
Albo will be lucky to survive a week once the referendum result comes in. You suspect he knows it.
The best method is to get monty’s opinion then bet on the opposite.
R.E.M. ain’t lefty. Michael Stipe at least has become nice and curmudgeonly in his old age.
Plus, they from Georgia, like the B-52’s, Black Crowes, Mastodon and Greg Abbot.
If the odds for a Plibersek-Ley encounter come the next election aren’t shortening the bookies aren’t paying enough close attention.
Hobson’s choice, regardless.
Speaking of Plibbers, her name was mentioned in Janet A’s piece this morning. Apparently Da Knickerless and her Svengali other half were in contact with Plibbers early on.
The plot thickens, and the stench grows.
Albo will be lucky to survive a week once the referendum result comes in. You suspect he knows it.
I suspect that anything over 33.3% will be hailed as a moral victory and there will be proclamation that the Voice is obviously morally right, even though not technically referendumally majoritarily right.
Albo will shake it off like he’s shaken off wives, lies, and bushfires.
And then they’ll get cracking on legislation, and our kids will have a referendum on Treaty in time for our 250th.
Thank you. The title of the book escapes me, but research done in the tax archives shows that the Palestinian claim to that part of the world is tenuous at least.
If you really want to start an argument, try pointing out that there has been a Palestinian State since 1947. It’s called “Jordan.”
It’s high in the leafy suburbs of the capital cites – I suspect among those who have never met an Aborigine in their lives, and would be shocked at the sight of the main street of any major regional town on “Pension night.”
Jeez, no end in sight. This must have been how Bourke and Wills felt.
Any treaty will dissolve in a legal dogfight over whether those with an Aboriginal great – great grandfather will qualify for reparations..
Correct.
As far as I am concerned, reparations have already been overpaid to the ungrateful aboriginal urban elite.
REM, Black Crowes and of course the B52s are beyond the event horizon.
R.E.M. – Orange Crush (1988)
The Black Crowes – Remedy (1992)
The B-52’s – Rock Lobster (1978)
It’s weird that no one has managed to produce listenable music since the late nineties. I can’t cope with rap, it’s ghastly. The rest is elevator music. Why has the scene died like this?
Great moments in local government efficiency:
40 weeks to return a determination on a DA lodged for build of a new house
where said determination contains conflicting and self-contradictory conditions
(and 40 weeks of wait has seen the build price increase by 20+%)
This country is f-ckd.
Robert, here is the FOI substack you asked about.
https://undeadfoia.substack.com/p/the-unwritten-chapter-of-durhams?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=906651&post_id=121695471&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
“LABOR SENATOR FATIMA PAYMAN MOURNS ISRAEL’S CREATION
I don’t need to remind anyone that the effing Liberals are the eternally stupid party. We all know this but I’ll just remind everyone that the only reason this anti-Semite is in the senate is because the stupid effing Liberals in WA preferenced Labor ahead of One Nation.
I think we need to blame blame the Liberals for the fact this pernicious and malignant female is now a senator.
Some more B52s, glorious.
B52s – Planet Claire (1979)
Favourite, favourite, favourite, REM song.
Plus the technically fine video. But that’s another story.
For the rest of her life, Brittany Higgins will be remembered for her lack of knickers on that occasion – she will probably compensate by wearing knee length, flannel bloomers for the rest of her life.
Bruce, get some Kvelertak in your earholes.
New choon, Krøterveg Te Helvete.
Like seven bands rolled into one. Or, Led Zeppelin dosed up by Motley Crue and stuffed up inside Midnight Oil. Listen without the vision for a start on Spotify if you can, it’s honestly lifechanging.
Feelthebrine:
Thanks for the article – I’m off to read it now.
An upcoming Disaster & Emergency Management Conference “will address the challenges associated with total communication blackout and explore strategies to mitigate its impact.”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anz-disaster-management-emergency-services-and-search-rescue_disastermanagement-effectivecommunication-activity-7064461900205494272-SeVw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Should we be expecting this to actually happen here during next 18 months?
There is precedent for these hypotheticals suddenly becoming actuals.
The REMs songs stand up pretty well.
REM’s concert in Germany was terrific. Forget the location, and we’re driving back from SA at present so the DVD is at home. But well worth watching, and well-mixed too.
From the Oz.
Haven’t seen that before! I can’t work out whether the actors were doing their lines forwards or backwards.
My listening has been Shirley Bassey. Bond lady perfecto. This is still one of the very best Bond movies, silly yet wonderful:
Shirley Bassey ~ Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Saw Shirley Bassey, in concert, way back when. One of those experiences.
My dad always called her Burly Chassis.
Au contraire, Bruce.
Spotify has betrayed an abundance of decent rock music which cannot make radio, even “classic rock” “stations” such as MMM because they haven’t succeeded for twenty years elsewhere.
2010s bands such as The Pretty Reckless, The Black Moods, Dirty Honey, Red Sun Rising, Greta Van Fleet, Hello Operator, Bleeker, etc, are bands that would’ve made radio in the 70s easily, but aren’t called Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift so no dice.
MMM even crapped on about Eddie Van Halen’s son, but woudn’t even play 30 seconds of a song, when he’s better than his overrated dad. Wolfgang Van Halen is surely the coolest name in rock?
A 2023 REM would never get a single song played on radio. Not one, ever.
Her private life was interesting – she gave birth to a daughter, at 17, in 1954, and her sister raised the child as her own.
Bruce, here’s a reconstruction of the video in real time. It’s only 22 seconds of film, run and re-run and reversed.
Scroll down to see the stabilised version of how they did it.
This is the skank whose evidence convicted Trump:
Old Video of E. Jean Carroll Resurfaces, Confirms She’s a Wackadoodle – Even Crazier Than We Thought (VIDEO)
She was permitted by the court to present 2 equally deranged other skanks to testify without any supporting evidence they had also been raped by Trump in changerooms while Trump could not present any evidence about her past eccentricities.
Bugger. It’s nine o’clock and I’ve just found something I’ve been looking for, for a decade. SBS first ran it, a Finland-Chinese feature fillum based on the Kalevala. Lots of Finnish angst! It was superb.
Jadesoturi OSA 1
Jadesoturi OSA 2
The final fight using smithing hammers in live action is awesome. At least as I recall, since I haven’t gotten that far yet. I may be some time.
I aced the conservation tests.
“The REMs songs stand up pretty well.”
Always loved them. I have a list of favourite songs and “Everybody Hurts” is one of them
“A 2023 REM would never get a single song played on radio. Not one, ever.”
Yep.
In regards to the non-urban indigs, I’d replace ‘rebellious’ with ‘sedated.’
The inVoice is simply an additional layer of more secure mesh to strengthen the existing (invisible-to-the-naked-eye) cage.
(Where only a very few have the key).
I just had a flashback to childhood visits to the ag pavilions during the annual regional show. Champion chook was a serious business.
Beery – Fair call. I haven’t pushed sufficiently to find what is around and under the woke radar.
On the other hand shopping in Coles is an excellent window into the music universe, since lately they tend to play 50 year old tracks. Abba even! It shows how little new stuff is palatable to the punters.
Peoples Republic of Australia.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/homes/article-12091711/How-Aussie-homebuyers-help-purchasing-property-governments-new-Help-Buy-Scheme.html#comments
The REMs.
From Autonomous For The People.
For those who harbour curiosity about the veracity of Mr Armstrong’s alleged lunar exploits.
R.E.M. could cram more ideas- and brio- into a three minute song than Ed Sheeran and his bank of computer chips could get into a whole album.
Begin the Begin- the insurgency began, but you missed it!
It’s high among the woke mouth breathers with enough cash and connections to be immune from from the consequences.
The REMs were actually an incredibly versatile band.
They could slide between music genres effortlessly – from country to rock ‘n roll and folk-rock.
And some of the lyrics were sublimely clever, almost with a hint of punk angst.
*note always puts the dots in R.E.M. because he’s a nerd
Elbow was asked several times on air if he would legislate for a Voice if the referendum failed. And several times he refused to answer. This whole thing may get a bit “constitutional” if the will of tyhe people is disregarded in such a blatant way.
Didnt stop them from trampling on our human rights during the plandemic.
and one of the best early songs by R.E.M. https://youtu.be/Ehh97FFxhKI
News clip title on YouTube:
Woman winced to safety after yacht capsizes …
The 7 News online editors must be having a day off.
Pedro, at 7.20:
Preach it.
And a bright, upbeat, optimistic ditty for Razey-san.
“R.E.M. could cram more ideas- and brio- into a three minute song than Ed Sheeran and his bank of computer chips could get into a whole album.”
Yep, all this Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift rubbish leaves me cold.
I still love Talking Heads and Simple Minds too.
Anyway, “Sliante.”
I’m reading Desmond Seward’s “The Devil’s Brood – A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty.”
In 999, a Plantagenet forebear, Count Fulk, the Black of Anjou, discovered his wife, Elizabeth of Vendome, in flagrante with a goatherd.
She was burned alive in the market place, in front of the cathedral of Angers.
There is no record of what happened to the goatherd.
I saw her twice in the early 60’s at Andre’s Nite Club in Sydney. Sensational.
And She Was.
One of my favourite songs.
ZK2A I’m pretty sure Jordan kicked the Pali’s out coz the are perpetual troublemakers. The only thing Pali’s are successful at is failure. I grew up with Maronite Leb’s, even went out with one when young. The Leb’s were pillars of the community. A couple of Pali families also were there. Trouble preceded them. If there was going to be trouble sure enough they’d show up. Perpetual whingers. I became quite friendly with the older Leb’s. I don’t think it was anything religious, they had experienced Pali’s in the old country. It was a mostly a Proddy city but most got along. Other than ones like my mother who didn’t like furriners of any sort or cross eyed people, that sort thing. I remember people crossing the street to avoid her. Of course Asians were all opium addicts. How I turned out not caring less about others origins I don’t know. I find them interesting.
saw Talking Heads in concert playing this and other great songs. Modern rock is tame & manufactured by comparison.
And the Eurythmics, Annie Lennox singing “There Must Be an Angel”.
Getting all nostalgic.
I prefer the Coors version of Everybody Hurts. Could be due to Sharon looking loverly. I’ve heard there’s a bloke in the group but I’ve never seen him. Did I mention Sharon looking loverly.
Err…
This level of mind bending madness is only worthy of judgement of the Great Wheel, the Axl of Justice.
“You’re Crazy”
The Cords ladies never replied to my weekly letters.
Nor, for that matter, did the blonde in Abba.
Could have been my Hawaiian shirts I suppose.
Basically what happened – Jordan was a country with a Palestinian majority, ruled over by a minority, who saw themselves as the descendants of the Bedouin – the desert Arabs.
“First Allah created the Bedouin, then the camel. From the dung of the camel, he created the Palestinians.”
The Palis tried to overthrow the ruling dynasty in the 1970’s – they squashed the whole revolt, by fairly robust methods, and the Palis moved on to Lebanon.
Dame Shirley Bassey and Dame Edna -Big Spender-
Every picture of said stream shows it flowing with what appears to be permanent water with dependent deciduous trees growing on the banks.
There are also some rocks that look like children painted them a hideous cerulean blue.
Steve Milloy
@JunkScience
Just in from NOAA:
April 2023 cooler in the US than April 1895, despite a 1000% increase in industrial era atmospheric CO2.
Emissions-driven warming is a total hoax.
R.E.M’s Nightswimming has a great mood to it.
Sam Tripoli
@samtripoli
So what have the “Conspiracy Theorists” gotten right so far….
1) No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
2) Hillary Stole the primary from Bernie
3) No Russian Collusion
4) Covid was complete bullshit
5) The Vaccine didn’t work
6) Everyone is connected to Jeffery Epstein
7) JFK was an inside job
8) J6 was a intelligence operation
9) BLM was a Marxist front
10) Cancel Cultural was Corporate driven
11) Smollet was a fraud
12) Obama spied on Trump
13) Assad didn’t gas his own people
So we were right about all of this but we are completely wrong about the 2020 election being rigged and stolen! Gotcha!
What the WHO has in store for us
As far as I’m concerned, evil is as evil does, whatever the background.
Criticizing George Soros is not anti-Semitic
Biden’s Open Border Hurts Black Americans Most of All—and We Know It
BoN
Coles Radio is available “on air” on DAB. It’s my go-to station in my car, along with Curtin Radio (WA station).
My grandson reckons they both play station IDs so often ‘cos the audience can’t remember who they’re listening to. Could be right.
Hungary blocks EU from giving Ukraine EUR 500 million for weapons
Can You Handle the Truth? An ‘Elite’ Mouthpiece Tells All – The Globalists Want Us Dead
Talking to a close rellie about the Voice, she was absolutely mind-boggled to learn Dearly Beloved and I had serious concerns about it.
“So, you’re happy telling Aboriginal people they’re not worth having a say in how their lives are run? Wow, racist much! It’s only a statement you know — there’s no power or authority involved.”
Shut down any further conversation as just “outrageous”.
Mid-40s female, very high IQ, upper secondary school teacher.
I had 3 of the early REM albums on cassette. I don’t think they got any radio airplay in the US, even at the time. Basically gained following through the various college radio stations and then picked up by commercial radio.
Bruce, you left it until the end to give us the one word which told the whole story-
teacher.
True — but then, DB and I were were once both chalkies too.
It’s a bit hard to write off a whole vocational group. I only do that with real estate agents. And stockbrokers. Real estate agents, stockbrokers and people in marketing. Well, you get the idea.
Sisu…tarantinoesque, road runner vs Wiley coyote, blood, body parts, gratuitous gore, goody vs baddies, blackest humour. Hilarious.
Anyone here know if that is true?
Doesn’t seem likely there is a shortage of truck drivers and backhoe operators. Sounds more like cost-cutting.
This is where you must persist.
Her claim of defeating indigenous self determination is gainsaid by disadvantaging all other ethnicities and cultural communities.
There is no Greek, Chinese, Catholic, Muslim, English or Indian voice to Parliament for example.
I am more for autonomy of certain areas of the country than I am for the voice.
Anyone outside of Arnhem Land for example having the Federal Parliament make any law for the region is just an obstacle to self determination, you could argue, on the same basis the teacher friend of ours uses.
More people leaving NY than I thought.
State tax collections for April 2023 totaled just over $10.9B – $7.2B, or 39.9%, lower than a year ago.
https://twitter.com/NYSComptroller/status/1658240938571976706
Wonder what Melbourne will look like next year.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 Review: A Marvel movie with meaning
Gunn’s final film in Marvel’s multi-million dollar franchise is the darkest, most confronting and most personal of the trilogy.
Taking full ownership of the script, Gunn puts up a straight-forward story that affords him the time and opportunity to delve deeper into his characters and address serious issues of loss, sacrifice, belonging and ultimate purpose.
Its raw and restrained commentary on grief gives weight to a brand more known for ironic quips.
Learning something every day.
Didn’t know what R.E.M. was an acronym for, now I know
Colonel – there is a very good argument this will happen regardless and the benefits are huge.
There are no workers that can operate 24/7. One AI machine is like having 2 – 4 workers on the same plant and it doesn’t need weekends off (but a human controller of the AI system might). One algorithm well done means you don’t need to retrain let alone familiarise between new models of the same implement. Less mistakes and optimised work plans mean less fuel use and physical depreciation as well.
The time stuff can be cumulative, like having minimal spill for excavations that doesn’t need to be swept back in with the blade or never stalling articulated front end loaders or more simply operating multiple systems in ways humans cannot do or find difficult (and leads to mistakes) like a loader bucket, rear excavator arm and stabiliser shoes at the same time – or the gears, bucket float, turn indicator and brakes or accelerator and whilst steering safely. All machines can become perfectly laser levelled and grading and compacting as well as road sealing can become extremely precise.
Modern programming could even mean rechipping older automatic trucks, opening up fuel efficiencies. The fuel savings and optimised performance in modern automatic trucks means manuals were always going to be phased out. Imagine optimised fuel and braking loading with forward looking radar that doesn’t forget to look ahead (a massive safety feature). Then there are safety features like live fibre optic data on possible hydraulic failures (or truck air lines needed for brakes, some gear systems), or early warnings on potential system failures and automated cut outs on gradients or SWL limits for plant machinery. Radar in a skid steer or even a forklift never forgets to check mirrors and doesn’t need to line up loads by human judgment. Nor do they need to take days off for refresher courses. They don’t grind or miss gears or stall in roundabouts.
From Herald Sun. The opposition complaining not invited !
“The opposition has accused the Andrews government of “playing politics” with IDAHOBIT day, claiming they were not invited to a drag queen story time event at parliament”.
Hearing a report of an emergency meeting of NATO atm. Rumor that this is the reason Biden is scooting back to the US. Situation is heating up. Apparently the UK is now not going to transfer fighters to UKR.
Another benefit is very quick implement attachment changeover – requiring no human intervention or workers on foot. A simpler benefit is running continuously on site, they do not necessarily require to be stowed away or driven away and back if on site parking is not possible.
Crane workers won’t be prone to having heart attacks or stroke 60 m up in the air.
Double handling ought to be virtually non existent and materials management ought to be near perfect; sometimes more labour is used administratively to control soil or gravel stockpiles.
and there are no machines that can feed themselves
yet