No more Katters though.

Radio Show theme suggestion- genre bendres.
RUN DMC and Aerosmith, Cash goes horny Mariachi style, Metallica do a road song.
apropos of not much, one of the most affecting songs I’ve heard in a long time, with scruffy soul survivor Doyle Bramhall II getting regretful with Shankar’s girl Norah Jones, Searching For Love. Bramhall’s geetar is kinda Clapton packing foam, but the more I listen to Norah and her piana in the back seat, the more I love her. Vocal lines swing and sweep up and down like speech on the verge of sleep, tinkling away with rolled notes- hear her last “I’m going out on my own”, just magisterial. Turn it up with headphones, on the vinyl you can hear her asking for one more take- hairs on the back of the neck stuff.

“nominate your three favourite songs of all time.”

Arrgh, I can’t do that. My brain is now a combat zone between Sky, Tori Amos, Mike Oldfield, Veruca Salt and Led Zeppelin. Also the Stones, Beatles, Tull, Gorillaz and about a dozen others.

But, since it is an auspicious anniversary I will link this one:

Tubular Bells (25 May 1973)

I can’t believe it’s been fifty years.

Sure do. My favourite Eurythmics.

The indigenes waving gum tree leaves around before the Collingwood/ Carlton game were met with tepid applause, which I noticed was turned up on the radio I was listening too.

Do they have a Nursing Home for Collingwood supporters
with dementia?
Yeah, I know, how could you tell which ones were demented?
Seriously, though- would the Dial on a Taser go high enough to elicit a reaction?
And would they keep asking for more?

Hope this Venn diagram helps out…

https://twitter.com/RobertM67302882/status/1660007868400308224/photo/1

The notion the government might support or even encourage “normative” families as a building block of civilisation is “so offensive… so wrong” says Matt Hancock, the former Conservative government minister who was the chief cheerleader of Britain’s coronavirus lockdowns.Traditional Family Life a ‘Completely Fringe View Within the Conservative Party’, Asserts Covid Lockdown King. Another PPE prick.

P says:
May 21, 2023 at 6:21 pm

Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz – The Girl From Ipanema (1964) LIVE

Sensational. Just wow.

Eleanor Rigby.

Quite a wide selection below that at #2.

Sympathy for the Devil
Behind Blue Eyes
Immigrant Song
Walkin’ Man
St James’ Infirmary (Hugh Laurie version)

As much as I despise the principal political actors mentioned, this seems, well …

Like a load of shit dreamt up by someone in his caravan, and with the assistance of post-it notes and lengths of wool.

When the little magnets Government operatives put under the sink weren’t disrupting his thought processes, that is.

In more Strategic Bombing news:

ABC boss apologises to Stan Grant after host left Q+A over racist abuse

Grant said on Friday he was standing down as host of Q+A after receiving “grotesque racist abuse” that escalated after he spoke on the ABC about the impact of colonialism ahead of the coronation of King Charles.

“Stan Grant has stated that he has not felt publicly supported,” Anderson said.

“For this, I apologise to Stan. The ABC endeavours to support its staff in the unfortunate moments when there is external abuse directed at them.”

By Gay Grampians?
No, apparently not…

“The ABC is never above scrutiny or criticism,” he said. “However, the nature of the anti-ABC reporting from some commercial media outlets is sustained and vitriolic. This has real-world consequences for ABC presenters and journalists who are personally attacked and vilified.”

Q+A host Stan Grant standing down from ABC show after racist abuse
Media monitoring data found that there were more than 150 mentions of the ABC’s coronation coverage by the Australian and Sky News in the two weeks since the broadcast.

Anderson said he was “dismayed” that Grant had been exposed to such “sickening behaviour”.

“The experiences of ABC presenter and commentator Stan Grant following our coverage of the Coronation of King Charles III have been distressing and confronting for the ABC, as they should be for the entire media industry and the broader community.

Translation: Lockstep on Yes – or else…

Ms Constable said “workplace relations, tax, environment, climate change and energy policies that impose unexpected costs on the mining industry threaten the capital investment that underpins its contribution to the economy and global efforts to decarbonise”.

In other words back off Albo or you will kill the golden goose! As for the climate change and decarbonisation grift industries put them on the back burner if you want to run any sort of a budget.

I thought the ABC should be apologizing to Australians for its coverage of the Chilla coronation. As much as I dislike the current Windsors, I find I dislike the sneering, highly paid ‘republican’ establishment here even more noisome.

Scottish music eh?
WA girl, but the choon is about Pittenweem in Fife.

George Pell, an innocent man, went to prison for a crime he did not commit.

Ahem.

Could not have committed.

If I was to set up a new state in NQ (stuff it, how about it succeeds, we need to lose the EPBC Act and all that UN Heritage/RAMSAR crap nobody except Australia takes seriously) the boundary would be the Tropic of Capricorn. A clear important boundary. It also just happens to include most of the coking coal mines. It might cause problems in Rockhampton and Longreach, it could just loop around them.
As for where the capital might be, I would choose Richmond as it would mean the Gulf and Mount Isa would become important. The hot dry climate also means the public service never gets too big.
We need the product of the mines to go to the gulf for export. Maybe an offshore port to solve the depth problem, connected with a long elevated rail line that deals with the gulf flooding issues and gets to the offshore port. Direct to Mount Isa via Cloncurry, one to Georgetown for the uranium (which is why Georgetown isn’t a good site for the capital, even though it would also help the gulf and the cape as well), otherwise I would have picked it. Another line from Julia creek down to the Galilee I would look at setting up some kind of littoral ship construction business near Pormpuraaw or Aurukun especially designed for the Gulf and beyond, eventually including new kinds of ore freighters but the hot business would be employing local people. At Weipa there would be bauxite and refining, fish farming, and a spaceport.
The Walsh/Mitchell and lower flinders catchments would be turned into irrigation using off river storage (well a dam on the Walsh). The Palmer river would be dammed to expand irrigation at Lakeland.

Interesting

The Last Celts in England – Cambrian Chronicles

In this video, we’re going to examine some stories telling us about the lives of the Celtic speakers in eastern England, from around the 4th century, when the Anglo-Saxons were first beginning to arrive, all the way to the 11th century, hundreds of years after the Anglo-Saxons first began to arrive.
The subject of a Celtic England is often controversial, and marked down by centuries of a total denial of the presence of Britons in England practically anytime after the 6th century. But today, we will examine plenty of evidence to counter that, from Britons in the Swamps of the Fens, to Welsh kings in the East (including a semi mythical King Alsi of Lincoln/Lindsey in the Anglo Norman Havelok the Dane), Celtic-named kings such as Cerdic and Caedwalla in the south (of the House Wessex), alongside Celtic Christians in the north . We will examine the troublesome Brythonic marauders that plagued eastern England in the 11th century, and the servile population from Wales that lived in Kent, Wessex, and 10th century Cambridgeshire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FHRTpEhaAs

Kate Bush – Love and Anger

Haven’t heard that one for a long time. Thanks Rabz!
You could’ve thought Wuthering Heights would be a one hit wonder.
Not at all. Not by miles and miles. Amazing lady.

Artist called Todd Snyder has a track called Vinyl records where he name checks basically all the artists I enjoy.
Worth a listen.Everyonr from Tom Petty to Mojo Nixon

Entropy says:
May 21, 2023 at 8:57 pm

If I was to set up a new state in NQ

We’d be better off splitting up into many States.

NQ, New England (excluding the Hunter) and Riverina (both sides of the Murray) are the three obvious examples.

We’d be better off splitting up into many States.

The State of Decay.
The State of Delirium.
The State of Irony.
…Tyranny, etc. etc.

Spot on re the ABC, Cassie @8.07.

Dotsays:
May 21, 2023 at 9:28 pm
Entropy says:
May 21, 2023 at 8:57 pm

NQ, New England (excluding the Hunter) and Riverina (both sides of the Murray) are the three obvious examples.

You need six new states, so that all states can revert to the six senators minimum in the Constitution, and thus avoiding a big increase in the number of Reps seats. Add in SE NSW (excluding Wollongong, but including the ACT except for the Parliamentary Triangle, AWM and the Lodge), combine the NT and Kimberley into a state, and one more.

ET landed north of Cairns?
Hope they have had their jabs. LOL.

Ita’s reputation seems to have waned somewhat since…

Just a soundcheck at the Melbourne Showgrounds

Dreyfus.

cheers Tom

Renowned flog Mark Robinson in The Hun, opining on the Awforn ‘racism scandal’:

On a weekend when Indigenous players and culture were celebrated in Sir Doug Nicholls Round, the affected families in the Hawks scandal are being treated by some as lying, faceless cowards chasing money and who have ruined the reputations of three decent and respected football men.

Because they are almost certainly lying;
Because they are definitely faceless, and therefore by definition cowards; and
Because they are chasing money.

Tell you what, Robinson. Let’s dredge up a perky young media chicky from 15 years ago who you might have had a beer with at a pub after work once.

You won’t know her name, because she will demand anonymity. You wouldn’t have remembered her even if you did. Now let’s have her make allegations of all sorts of depraved sexual bastardry. No evidence will be necessary, because she must be believed. She has also used the ‘media first’ approach.

Your reputation, such as it is, will be in ruins. You are also now unemployable.

See how this works?

See how this works?
Nup, sounds like Woke/Cuck bullshit that you just extracted from your well fed derriere.
Aboriginal players are problematic, among the problems are alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, drug addiction and general madness.

Hawthorn won 9 Premierships with no Aboriginal Players, it was the AFL’s idea that all the clubs had to recruit Aborigines.
Ergo, it’s up to the AFL to take responsibility for how the Clubs manage their Aborigine issues.

It has occurred to quite a few of us that the security team on duty at PH that night are not being examined for their immediate or post actions.
Drumgold’s whole case relies on the evidence that Higgins was as pissed as a parrot and could not consent to anything.
How the hell was she allowed into a ministerial office?
Higgins was cashed out and yet security faced no repercussions. Don’t tell me that it was not worth their jobs to refuse entry. She was only a political staffer and a very junior one at that.

Don’t tell me that it was not worth their jobs to refuse entry. She was only a political staffer and a very junior one at that.
Bruce Lehrmann wasn’t a very junior staffer though, he was a very Senior Staffer with a huge sense of entitlement.
Anyway, the Inquiry is examining the Prosecution, not the events of that morning.

How the hell was she allowed into a ministerial office?
Higgins was cashed out and yet security faced no repercussions. Don’t tell me that it was not worth their jobs to refuse entry. She was only a political staffer and a very junior one at that.

Sorry Gez, that’s not how it works.

The security staff are obliged to screen people only on the basis of whether or not they have a valid pass. They are not allowed to make on the spot judgements about whether the pass-holder is sober or slightly, moderately or leglessly pissed. Nor are they allowed to make judgement calls based on the seniority of the pass-holder. That is, assuming they even know exactly where in the pecking order that person sits, which they don’t for the hundreds of people who work there.

The reason they haven’t been called is because the one certain thing about that night is that they did their job – no more, no less.

Cassie fails to point to any evidence – her own feelings of no account here – that Drumgold aimed to bring down Morrison, and none that Higgins’s allegations, and how Gallagher et al weaponised them, was the dominant cause of the defeat of the LNP.
Cassie’s simplistic analysis diverts attention from a focus on how the political vortex that sucked in the hapless Drumgold was created, and to who’s purpose. Katy Gallagher’s role should be of central interest.

Johanna.
So we don’t have effective security at PH.
Presumably a well lubricated Lidia could get in and torch the place.
Not what the public would think amounts to security. Only in Canberra could the inmates decide the rules.