Open Thread – Tues 16 May 2023
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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.:
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Just wait until the NRL & AFL really boost their support for the Voice.
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.
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Reckon it is because we have all been so freaked out by contact with any source of germs, that we have deprived our immune systems of learned immunity.
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.
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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.
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Gabor:
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.
Luckily, sober heads prevailed and it didn’t happen, no doubt directed by outsiders.
On the other hand, the way things are going in the NT and in some other places, who knows?
I definitely don’t want to predict anything, specially the future.So who was the Aboriginal Seer who predicted this?
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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.
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Gray Connolly
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Why is a day about various sexual orientations here being aimed at what looks like young children? These events always seems to be targeted at young children …
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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 #springstA lot of this is just dags wanting desperately to be cool.
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Be paid off around 2525 when Sneakers will eventually lose and election
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 todayIn 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 youIn the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine’s doing that for youIn 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
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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 yesterdayZager 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. 😀
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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.
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The Confederacy is subsidising our imports by using slave labour to produce goods.
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?
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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.
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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.
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Tom Minear on Resident Biden. Stifle your laughter:
Anthony Albanese’s close relationship with Joe Biden is clearly a point of pride.
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister talked up their meetings in Japan, Spain, Indonesia, the UK and the US, before his office shared a media release saying the President had accepted Albanese’s invitation to address parliament when he visited Australia next week.
But by the time that story appeared in Wednesday’s newspapers, Biden had put his trip to Sydney and Canberra under review and then pulled the plug completely.
Albanese has been burned by someone he regards as a friend, both personally and of Australia. It is embarrassing for the Prime Minister and the President. And the only winner in this diplomatic fumble is Xi Jinping.
Biden had no choice. Stopping the US defaulting on its debts is rightly his most pressing priority, given the alternative would spark an economic crisis with global consequences.
And his decision to scrap the trip was not surprising, because he said publicly a week ago: “If we somehow got down to the wire and we still hadn’t resolved this … I would not go.”
That message, however, appears to have fallen on deaf ears in Canberra and Washington DC, creating a situation that is awkward for the President on multiple levels.
Not even two hours before the cancellation was confirmed, the White House was telling reporters he could do two things at once: travel overseas to deal with matters of foreign policy while negotiating on the debt ceiling domestically. Apparently not. (chortle)
Furthermore, while the President correctly argues that congressional Republicans are holding the US economy hostage by refusing to lift the limit without conditions (FMD), he chose not to sit down at the negotiating table – as he would inevitably have to do – until the last minute.
Most importantly, by calling off the trip in such a haphazard fashion, Biden is once again allowing critics to cast doubt on America’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific after his administration has worked so hard to convince its allies that it is fully engaged in the region.
For the Chinese President, who has been trying to outfox the US in the Pacific Islands and undermine the Quad, this is a handy diplomatic victory.
As for Albanese, at least he now has a state visit to Washington DC to look forward to – even if, after a year in the top job, the invitation was finally extended as an apology.
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We spend most of our developmental cycle in the presence of authority figures and are forcefully required to submit to them, vital for survival and much else.
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.
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Pedro the Loofah:
Secret ballots are effective gauges of real opinion.
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. -
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.
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.
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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.
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Flyinduk:
C.L. – Kennedy is indeed gaining a lot of traction. I suspect from both Dems & Reps. His stance against the mRNA vaccines will be helping in spite of his known opposition to all childhood vaccines.
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. -
Why We’ve Lost Trust in Institutions | Niall Ferguson
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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.
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.”
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Over the last few days I’ve been watching Sharpe’s Rifles on Youtube, which has been thoroughly entertaining.
Then I came across this…
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Fruits and nuts.
Drag queens have taken to Victorian parliament to read several children’s books for a story time event after Premier Daniel Andrews extended an invite to mark IDAHOBIT day.
He had a hobbit? Golly I hope Dan is up to date with his mpox vaccination.
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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.
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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………………………….
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
I hope you are right. It depends on the lefties not cheating, though, and I expect they will.
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The public will more easily swallow a sob story of ‘giving land back to indigenous folk’
Probably not if they were told nearly 60% of Australia is already in indigenous hands under one form of title or another, and that figure will continue to increase as claims in the administrative and legal pipeline come through.
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.
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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.
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It doesn’t matter who sees you or not, you have to both understand the concept of doing good…and then do it.
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.
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The most shameful picture ever taken of White Australia.
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LOL
It’s a crow smorgasboard.
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
READ MORE: Jake Tapper’s humiliating volte-face, as CNN host is forced to admit report into flawed and biased FBI DOES ‘to a degree’ exonerate Trump -
Lovely bit of guitar work, and the Sri Lankan? girl at 0:30 is just gorgeous.
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Yes, because Coldplay are very short of cash. FMD
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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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