1,626 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 27 May 2023”
I find Waze says I’m going 5km/h slower than what my Speedo says
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Top ‘o de page to yez all.
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Miltonfsays:
May 27, 2023 at 1:34 pm
I find Waze says I’m going 5km/h slower than what my Speedo says
that’s because your speedo is over-reading by 5km/h.
waze is reporting gps speed.
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From the Oz.
Jeffrey
15 minutes ago
I was a project officer on a remote community my wife and other lady’s would get the woman’s magazines flown in they would give them eventually to the aboriginal girls who would want to be like the pictures of models and clothes ,but at about 12 they become promised brides so from then on had no future ,the voice certainly won’t fix the problem these girls face , the men control the community’s the woman are second class citizens will the voice fix this NO , we had a committee of 12 all men who made the decisions. So the vote from me is NO
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It will only start getting better when the first shareholder meeting sacks the board for refusing to add to share value,
that will never happen in Aus – shareholdings are dominated by funds (super and other).
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Chuckle…the Bee has been extra funny this week:
‘Florida Is A Mismanaged Hellhole And Only An Idiot Would Live There,’ Says Trump
‘I’m Not Sanctimonious And I Don’t Look Like A Meatball,’ Whispers Ron DeSantis Crying Self To Sleep At Night
Biden Says Anyone Can Crash Twitter, It Takes A Real Leader To Crash Economy
Jordan Peterson Considers Every Possible Meaning Of Bible Story Except That It Might Mean Exactly What It Says
Mechanic Determines Car Repairs Will Cost Whatever Your Whole Paycheck Is This Month
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Note the gay flag. Note the number of beds. Wonder what demonic activates happened here.
The thirteen year old “face of racism in Australia” was unavailable for comment.
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After the debate on the old thread about the dropping of the atomic bomb, I’m reading Richard B Frank’s classic book “Downfall.: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire.”
The Japanese Army developed the equal of the Sherman tank – the Type 3 Chi Ni, with a long 75mm gun. They produced about sixty such tanks – Sherman production ran to 49,234 . (Page 173.)
Mechanic Determines Car Repairs Will Cost Whatever Your Whole Paycheck Is This Month
Yes.
Boxing Day my car (2010 Subaru Forester cost me $4K) blew up its radiator on the country run.
$100 to fellow who helped by towing me to edge of city.
$500 to tilt tray to get the car home
$100 to get car to mechanic when my turn comes two weeks later.
$1080 for new radiator to be fitted. Mechanics says ‘Sorry, gas is bubbling out of radiator. Cant fix it, take it away. Here, have a can of Bars Leaks.” Parked it up while I find someone to fix it.
Beloved has constant pain and driving a manual hurts worse. Busted car is auto; and new Camry is $55K and eighteen months.
Four months parked up, a mechanic who does this kind of job does a quote.
$3700 for pulling both heads, skimming and new head gaskets incl $500 for timing belt kit. OK!
Wife says aircon doesnt work. Take it back.
$470 for aircon. Not merely a lead left off, like I hoped.
Car now driveable and my beloved is much pleased at her pain reduction. Would cost $15K to replace with same model, and I am frightened to keep it in case I find out worse. And I need to do country runs!
The more capital-intensive a technology, the more sensitive is its LCOE is to changes in the discount rate. Among baseload plants, this means that in particular the costs of nuclear new build depend on the discount rate. With a low discount rate of 3%, reflecting a stable market environment with high investment security, the LCOE of new nuclear plants is lower than for new coal and gas plant. With higher discount rates at 7% or 10%, which would reflect riskier economic environments, the costs of a newly built nuclear plant would exceed those of fossil fuel-based plants.
What a bit of bad luck that when politicians and the media began to give some airtime to the possibility of nuclear power in Australia, the inflation rate had shot up about 6 months earlier. On the one hand, the worse inflation is, the worse holding cash is than investing in productive infrastructure, but anyone with the moolah to spend on investments probably wasn’t holding cash anyway.
(It’s an economics cliché: ) On The Other Hand, with interest on loans raised to currency devaluation, it seems a “riskier economic environment” and more difficult to make a case for major investment of any kind let alone nuclear. Presumably the spenders (gov or private) could be convinced that reliable electricity is better than unreliable electricity regardless of interest repayments.
Is that the right analysis of relation between high inflation and nuclear cost effectiveness?
The expert, who sounds like an Aussie, makes some interesting observations concerning the problem of resealable fuel tanks on Japanese aircraft and the rescue of Japanese pilots. He offers recommended reading at the end of the interview.
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The really sad thing about the DeSantis campaign is that it appears to be have the support and leadership of the Bush clan and Rove behind it.
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Armchair Warlord
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Looks like the Ivan Khurs got back to Sevastopol undamaged after fending off a Ukrainian kamikaze drone-boat attack.
Thanks for the link, John.
Michael Claringbould has written more than a few very decent aviation war books, including the Pacific Profiles series which I began to collect before, well, you know … Covidiocy (F@@k Qld Health) …
Check out Avonmore Books.
His aircraft illustrations are great, and he provides details from Japanese sources which hitherto have not been commonly available.
If you are considering purchasing one of his books – I do recommend the lavishly illustrated series I noted above – Pacific Profiles – I’d suggest purchasing from Avonmore if practical for you, as his titles on other websites such as Booktopia etc, are often far more expensive.
Top Ender is likely quite familiar with Michael.
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Roger:
Rogersays:
May 27, 2023 at 12:40 pm
Robert Sewell,
I’ll concede I had one or two more glasses of Shiraz than usual last night, being a Friday and all, but I think I’d remember a stoush and we didn’t have one. I retired early with a book. I gathe rthere was a discussion about race but it didn’t involve me.
That’s OK, Roger. I probably put you in with the Sancho/JC blue – without going into the minutae of it all.
Yes – I think I mistook a comment you made, for one of Sanchos. Sorry.
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Martyr Made ??
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The Western ruling class distinguishes itself from ordinary people by adopting an inverted code of morality. Comfort with depravity is a status marker reinforced by the revulsion of unenlightened proles, and Pride Month is a celebration of their impunity.
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The inaugural Royal Australian Air Force Oral Histories series publication, First Nations Aviators, will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to today. Albeit brief, their stories are particularly inspirational considering the discrimination that occurred on enlistment, and their treatment after separating from the Armed Services, at that time. Their stories should help to reveal and acknowledge those First Nations People for the heroes that they are and the recognition that their families are due.
First Nations Aviators provides the perfect backdrop to introduce this series as we start with ‘First Nations People’, the very people who have already been protecting Australia and its interests for more than sixty thousand years!
I’ve noted previously that I’m an unreformed history nerd, with a particular interest in military history. As such, I’m keen to read the stories of all who honourably served, regardless of their personal characteristics (which should be utterly irrelevant in such a context). While there’s nothing wrong with social history comprising part of a military history, where appropriate (the ‘Battle of Brisbane’ in Nov, 1942; the Second Indochinese (Vietnam) War post 1968, etc.), I very much hope that the traditional, research-based military history genre (that leaves you out, Fitzsimons) is not devoured whole by a social history lens.
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‘First Nations People’, the very people who have already been protecting Australia and its interests for more than sixty thousand years!
I don’t wish to be disrespectful to individuals who served their country, but … how long until we’re told that pre-contact indigenous people had organised, trained and disciplined local or regional militia?
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The really sad thing about the DeSantis campaign is that it appears to be have the support and leadership of the Bush clan and Rove behind it.
In other words, DeSantis is being used by the Republican Party establishment to damage and hopefully destroy the America First movement.
The GOP might as well be working for the Chinese Communist Party.
The Washington DC swamp is almost bottomless.
Trump was right.
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Robert Sewellsays:
May 27, 2023 at 3:02 pm
Roger:
Rogersays:
May 27, 2023 at 12:40 pm
Robert Sewell,
I’ll concede I had one or two more glasses of Shiraz than usual last night, being a Friday and all, but I think I’d remember a stoush and we didn’t have one. I retired early with a book. I gathe rthere was a discussion about race but it didn’t involve me.
That’s OK, Roger. I probably put you in with the Sancho/JC blue – without going into the minutae of it all.
Yes – I think I mistook a comment you made, for one of Sanchos. Sorry.
Fck off you fixated dickhead.
The last comment I made on the old thread was just before 11:00 a.m. yesterday morning, and no comment I made had anything remotely to do with any of the drivel you post.
Go crimp someone’s IV or taser an old lady.
You know you want to.
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Chris:
Family member bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee and after 107?km, it blew a hole in the engine and lost all the coolant. About 4 years old. Engine cooked, needs whole new engine. Sold for scrap => $4k. Insurance refused cover.
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Tom says:
May 27, 2023 at 3:17 pm
In other words, DeSantis is being used by the Republican Party establishment to damage and hopefully destroy the America First movement.
I had been wondering if that could be the case, though I’m not privy to anything that would provide solid evidence.
One suspects the Mouldy ‘Pubs might yearn for the pre-Trump era where they were not required to justify their existence.
Is this what happened to the Tea Party? (My awareness of politics back then was akin to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer dialogue line: ‘Fire bad, tree pretty’).
Oh. Apologies to all for my mini tantrum this morning. Age has decayed the insulation on some of my brain wiring.
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how long until we’re told that pre-contact indigenous people had organised, trained and disciplined local or regional militia?
Was there ever such a race that was conquered so utterly, after such an ineffectual resistance?
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Go crimp someone’s IV or taser an old lady.
You know you want to.
Or an Indian service station owner.
Nothing personal, turtlehead but you’re one despicable individual. Just putrid.
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Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The bravest of the brave’: One of the last living original SAS men who was recruited when leader Paddy Mayne asked if he liked killing people, devastated Nazi forces deep behind enemy lines and survived being blown up in a jeep dies aged 98
Lance Corporal Alec Borrie passed away at his home in Dagenham, East London
Was referred to by comrades as ‘Boy’ because he was just 19 when he signed up
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While on the subject of putrid, I notice that Razey is issuing orders to ignore people but the one thing he doesn’t do is ignore those he wants others to. He’s always posting ignore instructions.
He lent tacit support to the turtlehead’s pathetic racism against Indians. In other words Razey doesn’t like those Asians on the left side but seems to be fine with some on the right side.
If we’re going all racist then, what’s wrong Razey, you couldn’t reach the top rungs of the ladder and find a westerner?
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If we’re going all racist then, what’s wrong Razey, you couldn’t reach the top rungs of the ladder and find a westerner?
Good question.
Does Razey-san tell Mrs Razey-san every day how lucky she is to have married up?
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The excuses after the fact.
“Oh, oh no, you read me wrong. I don’t mind Indians at all. I love all 1.3 billion of them. I just like dare kulture”
You read me wrong like the frequent times you claim I’m inciting people to commit mass murder. I was joking. It was a joke and you missed the funny side of aiming an automatic at people and pulling the trigger.
No kidding, this loon should be on police intel radar.
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will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to today.
Wonder if they include the bloke who was a gunner with 9 Squadron in Vietnam?
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The Good Nurse.
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Tom
It really doesn’t matter who supports De Santis as long (AS LONG) as he doesn’t cave to their ideals and views. It doesn’t seem as though he is in any way. I would support Trump even though I think he’s too old. He needs to win.
The GOP contenders are truly top shelf.
Trump
De Santis
Tim Scott
Vivek Ramaswamy ( I wonder if he owns a gas station).
Except the GOP establishment appears to be backing DeSantis, which will split the GOP vote and guarantee the Dems win the White House in 2024.
Politics 101: divided parties can’t win.
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Dreadful Lady over the Mekong Delta – RAAF Canberras in the Vietnam War
Thanks – I’m grabbing a copy of both titles. Selwyn Evans, who commanded 2 Squadron in the Vietnam War, cut his teeth on Beaufighters during the Second World War, and went on to fly F-111’s.
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Politics 101: divided parties can’t win.
You can take that to the bank. See: Howard Peacock years
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Tom
The one I find really interesting is Vivek. He’s exceedingly smart and with great policy ideas. Sure, he’s not going to win, but boy he’s good value.
Heck, all those four are.
(I think he made all his money shorting Americans on gas sales)
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It was supposed to be Evans, who as Chief of Air Staff, attended a dining in night at the new Tri Service Defence Force Academy.
During the after dinner speeches, first Chief of Army, then Chief of Navy, referred to the R.A.A.F as “The Cinderella of the three Services.”
Evans is said to have risen to his feet, torn the notes for his speech in half, said “Gentlemen, I know fvck all about Cinderella, except she had two very ugly sisters, and had to do all the work” before sitting down.
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Sancho:
Fck off you fixated dickhead.
The last comment I made on the old thread was just before 11:00 a.m. yesterday morning, and no comment I made had anything remotely to do with any of the drivel you post.
Go crimp someone’s IV or taser an old lady.
You know you want to.
You’re floundering. Give it up and go back to being the class clown – it’s where your talents lie.
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You gotta love De Santis persuasive abilities. In an interview, he said
1. Trump is a little woke
2. He would pardon Trump.
That’s OK, Roger. I probably put you in with the Sancho/JC blue – without going into the minutae of it all.
Yes – I think I mistook a comment you made, for one of Sanchos. Sorry.
LOL. Does anyone even read Scamcho’s pointless posts? Haha
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The one I find really interesting is Vivek. He’s exceedingly smart and with great policy ideas. Sure, he’s not going to win, but boy he’s good value.
I agree 100%, JC. Vivek gives me confidence that the Dem nation-wreckers won’t succeed in destroying the country.
The idea of America is stronger than those who hate it. The people running the American economy are simply adjusting for the fact that nation-wreckers have occupied DC and are working around them.
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DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
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Robert Sewell says:
May 27, 2023 at 4:24 pm
I’m puzzled as to whether to accept that as a compliment?
I’ll take it anyway.
Had I ended up in the slammer five years ago (for impersonating someone with charisma), I’d have resigned myself to my fate and attempted to become a chameleon. Now, 2023, I’d take hostages and demand a media interview. Maybe with Stan?
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Dover Beach:
They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
This is classic Leftist tactics – get the enemy fighting among themselves and let them destroy each others chances at power.
DeSantis is another Pence – a Republican right up until the point at which he reveals his true colours.
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dover0beach says:
May 27, 2023 at 4:32 pm
DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
He may not get more than 20% but even that would make him a decent contender in 28.
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What percentage of nominally Republican voters will abstain if Trump is not the candidate?
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(I think he made all his money shorting Americans on gas sales)
Plus a bit of VC & PE.
And a little Pharma.
FFS, turtlehead, just STFU, you moron. FMD, you’re a loon. Just STFU.
De Santis is the governor of a large state either dismantling or banning almost every important facet of CRT and wokeism.
You’re idiocy embarrasses the site.
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Muddy says:
May 27, 2023 at 4:39 pm
What percentage of nominally Republican voters will abstain if Trump is not the candidate?
None, because if there’s a candidate the beats Trump in the primaries it will be because the candidate is so energetic and commanding.
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De Santis needs to lose 10kilos if he’s up against Newsom.
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Trump has told followers to treat de Santis with respect recently so it’s sort of obvious he thinks he can pick him as VP.
Trump can live in NY to avoid the necessity to have the candidates living in different States.
a black north farce puffie jacket
I try to stick to just one brand (as some of us here would know) but seriously, how on earth did the brand in the quote survive the toxic touch of the grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile?
300* bat flu press conferences in a row hyping the hysteria (with his pet poofter), while clad in a black north farce puffie jacket, as if that made the execution worthy imbecile any more remotely like an actual human.
There should have been a mulvaney type reaction. But we are talking Disasterstan here. North Farce’s sales are no doubt higher there than anywhere else in Oz.
*If not that many, then it certainly seemd like it.
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DeSantis is another Pence – a Republican right up until the point at which he reveals his true colours.
That’s not really fair to say. Look how the lunar left have gone crazy with de Santis simply demanding that Disney exist under the same laws as everyone else.
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De Santis needs to reframe the Disney fight to be around a land tax rort.
One of the biggest companies in the US not paying their fair share due to shennanigans dating back to the 1960’s.
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Friday’s in Sydney is puffer jackets & RM Williams day.
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I’ve posited previously that a reasonable tactical option would be for Trump and DeSantis to catfight up until just prior to the election (‘Yes! Our plan is working,’ think the Dems), then reveal that DeSantis had been Trump’s VP pick all along, and they both actually had a lot of common ground. A subterfuge to blunt their enemy’s attack, in other words.
Of course, getting the timing right would be vital, and explaining the reason for the deception to loyalists also important. The benefit would be that at least their opponents’ tactics would be known (create division in Repub ranks, as others have noted above).
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Fatty Trump can live in NY to avoid the necessity to have the candidates living in different States
While being subjected to many, many preposterous civil lawsuits.
“Fatty Trump had sexual relationships with me on more than one occasion in the Bergdorf Goodman lingerie changing rooms, I tells ya! Except I can’t remember the day, or the month, or even the year”
“Just decree me many millions of his ill gotten munni, I demands ya!”
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Oh my, Rabz! That’s a bunny boiler all right. Yikes.
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In my thinly disguised Mrs Olthwaite-ness this morning I described the rivetting progress of my (proposed) day.
*dusts off hands*
All complete, including a Thai green curry for the Beloved as a reward for being my garden slave. He did talk back a bit, but. Good slaves are thin on the ground these days, so I guess I’ll keep him.
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(I think he made all his money shorting Americans on gas sales)
Is he Indian?
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Doves – this week’s painting, again, just magnifique.
“His Mother’s Joy”, meaning the (unseen) brother will just have to seek some solace and many life learnings from his dad.
Or have I completely misinterpreted it?
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Oh. Forgot description of tools. I used snippers but not shovel.
There are many kinds of shovel, but not one I used today. Perhaps tomorrow.
🙂
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calli, I prefer to refer to a shovel as a spade.
Especially when leading an angry mob towards any nearby legislature. 🙂
Rabz, little boys wore dresses up until they were “breeched” at around four years of age.
It was a rite of passage to get that first pair of trousers.
Along with old fashioned swaddling, it has gone by the wayside with the introduction of washing machines and nappies and laundry detergents. Practically speaking, it was all about poo control.
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Young children’s clothing back in the day was unisex iirc
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“DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump”
Trump was hated because he was a successful, NY loudmouth. If he had accepted his ‘rightful’ role as a stage comedian there would have been no problem. But he wanted to step out of the frame, and that could not be permitted.
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*gardener’s tip*
Always use a grinder to sharpen the edge of spades and shovels. Amazing the difference it makes in a weed (or other) skirmish.
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will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to today.
It’s all insultingly patronising. I don’t have any reason to suppose that aboriginal men in those days were any less brave or competent than any others. I’d take it for granted. And from what I know of white Australians of the time, the aboriginal men would not have been treated any differently from anyone else.
I get fed up with the crypto-racism and piety of the collectivists who insist on dividing us by race, when the obvious differences between groups is cultural and frequently bogus.
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Also, don’t lose focus on what the left are doing on the legal front against Trump. There are several legal entanglements that could put Trump in jail. Do underestimate the length they will go to, in order to destroy the Trumpster and take him out of the race.
I heard a podcast today that very worrying. A very large number of Americans aren’t even aware that wussiagate was a Clinton setup. And the reason is that they just watch legacy media for news. The MSM never mentions Wussiagate was a universe bigger than Watergate.
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Sacré bleu! So the kiddie in the picture is not a li’l goil?
Cherubs. Indeterminate, they are.
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calli – your downdicker is still at large.
What is his problem?
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don’t lose focus on what the left are doing on the legal front against Fatty Trump
We haven’t, Squire. See my comment at 4:57pm.
The Rethuglicans will never, ever win another presidential election in our lifetimes, Cats.
After 2020, all bets are off.
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My flexed muscles. I wish. Or…the defiant glint in my eye.
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We haven’t, Squire. See my comment at 4:57pm.
We as in the royal “we”. How could I have missed it. 🙂
While being subjected to many, many preposterous civil lawsuits.
Okay, I didn’t see it, but I was referring to criminal investigations and potential indictments.
The NY Leftwing AG is now demanding documents to see if the Trump Organization was doing any overseas business dealings during his presidency. This is an obvious ploy to blunt the very successful GOP house investigation into a Hiden crime family influence peddling.
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DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
Correct. Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about. Trump is doing this too but he will have to waste time fighting against the GOP some of whom like all conservatives think there are still rules while the rest will simply oppose Trump because he is blunt and hurts their feelings.
DeSantis running now is a huge mistake.
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He may not get more than 20% but even that would make him a decent contender in 28.
Wrong. If he gets smashed this primary he’ll be done. Same as Cruz, Jeb, and Rubio were in ’16. You don’t get multiple shot typically as a Presidential contender.
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err, Cats – how do I turn spellwrecker back on, please?
The many many (unintentional) typos in my recent comments would not be well received by various j’ismist types here*.
*For example, Tommy and areff, not that I’m naming manes 😕
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A TV tip. SBS movies has the remake of the Ealing “Whiskey Galore”. So far so good.
Nice scenic views of Scotland. And a most excellent fire and brimstone sermon! Now to salvage the grog.
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LOL. Does anyone even read Scamcho’s pointless posts? Haha
haha as in laughing at your own attempt at trying to be funny, Razey.
As for anyone reading Sanchez, you obviously do and you just couldn’t make it up the ladder, could you champ. 🙂
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Calli:
Along with old fashioned swaddling, it has gone by the wayside with the introduction of washing machines and nappies and laundry detergents. Practically speaking, it was all about poo control.
Starting to make sense – I was getting concerned.
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We as in the royal “we”
There’s nothing quite like a bit of presumptuousness, Squire. 🙂
Time for some Springsteen?
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G’day Muddy, yes know Michael Claringbould well – he was round at mine last night for a wargame.
Mike has done several covers for my books The Empire Strikes South, Eagles over Darwin, and Bombers North, also from Avonmore, as are his. His work is impeccable, and he pays enormous attention to getting the wartime colours right.
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Wrong. If he gets smashed this primary he’ll be done. Same as Cruz, Jeb, and Rubio were in ’16. You don’t get multiple shot typically as a Presidential contender.
Wrong as in 1 + 1 =3?
If De Santis gets around 20% of the primary it means he’s doing reasonably well. Also there’s a lot of fluid stuff that’s going to occur that can’t be discounted. Trump is the current front runner by a country mile. Do can’t “wrong” in something that’s just starting and can’t be predicted.
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whoops Don’t say “wrong”….
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The last dress my son wore was his long Swiss voile and Nottingham lace christening gown. 🙂
And then, most precious of all, his daughter in the same gown all starched and pristine for the occasion. It’s still wrapped up in the blue tissue paper, ready for the next generation.
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Doc Beaugan:
It’s all insultingly patronising.
That’s sort of what I thought. It’s the individual that shows bravery, not the collective.
To claim that one race is/was braver than another is, well, racist. Because it it says that the other race was less brave – or more cowardly.
Yes. Patronising.
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Robert Sewell
Family member bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee and after 107?km, it blew a hole in the engine and lost all the coolant. About 4 years old. Engine cooked, needs whole new engine. Sold for scrap => $4k. Insurance refused cover.
Very tough.
A neighbour bought a Jeep for his daughter. When it needed significant parts (maybe headlights?), he went and bought another the same model and just on the headlights it paid for itself.
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You don’t get multiple shot typically as a Presidential contender.
Biden pulled it off and Clinton might yet try out again for the third time.
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Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about. Trump is doing this too but he will have to waste time fighting against the GOP some of whom like all conservatives think there are still rules while the rest will simply oppose Trump because he is blunt and hurts their feelings.
Yeah, the GOP should adopt Politburo election rules and procedures.
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Muddy @ 4.33 pom:
If only that were true. I think Americans and American society has been irreparably destroyed. I see no coming back. I see the 2024 election as yet another steal. How can the Repubs. win if they don’t reduce themselves to the fetid level of the Dems?
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Karen, write one of your angry letters to the DOJ with your complaints. You know it makes sense and make it sound really angry.
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If De Santis gets around 20% of the primary it means he’s doing reasonably well. Also there’s a lot of fluid stuff that’s going to occur that can’t be discounted. Trump is the current front runner by a country mile. Do can’t “wrong” in something that’s just starting and can’t be predicted.
I can’t remember the last time we had a primary when one of the contenders already had a majority and was firming. DeSantis is counting on the ‘fluid stuff’ but he’s going to turn away about 20% of those that currently support Trump. If he just managed to win, that rump would stay home in the general and he’ll lose to Biden by 8-10. Disaster.
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Rabz:
calli – your downdicker is still at large.
What is his problem?
I dunno, but I got a leetle suspicious when out of four posts, the JC/Sancho Bobbsey twins got 9,9,9,7. upticks in about ten minutes, while the pattern around them was in the 3 – 5 mark.
Is there something you want to confess to, sancho?
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Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about.
It’s now election month.
Adapt or die.
Cherubs
err, Cherubim – apologies, cass. 😕
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I’ve seen articles suggesting that the GOP can’t win another election again because of the cheating. That’s true, but only to a limited extent. There’s a limit to the number of ballots that can be stolen without being found out. I’d say the limit is around 3 to 4 %. If a GOP candidate gets around 10%, and it isn’t impossible, the left is shot. Cheating in the US can only occur if if the election is reasonably close.
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Biden pulled it off
Oh, you think a disastrous run in ’24 like Biden’s in ’98, and then maybe taking a turn a decade later, to be followed by another run in ’48 is a winning strategy?
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Bobby – ultimately, we do not give a rodent’s about our ticks, real or imagined.
Our comments stand or fall on their merits.
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DeSantis is another Pence – a Republican right up until the point at which he reveals his true colours.
I like him. He was the only governor with any guts to face the Covid and Covid vaccine mafia.
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Biden pulled it off and Clinton might yet try out again for the third time.
Not sure that is entirely comparable.
Let’s hope he’s not the godfather to someone:
A man who dropped a horse head on the doorstep of a National Parks and Wildlife Service office concedes his approach could be seen as “excessive” but says he was fed up with being ignored.
“Maybe this was a little too dramatic but the normal pathways to get people to care just got an arrogant zero,” Rocky Harvey told The Sunday Telegraph.
The avid horse rider has never entered into the debate about brumby culling and resents being labelled an “activist”.
“I’m not taking issue with the culling management plan in the park, I have never got involved in that debate, I’m taking issue with the poor outcome. It’s just not acceptable to leave 67 carcasses laying around near a public camping ground,” he said.
“I went and did the right thing, reported it to the EPA, who then referred it to the Wild Horse Management Unit, no response. Penny Sharpe, no response.”
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I can’t remember the last time we had a primary when one of the contenders already had a majority and was firming. DeSantis is counting on the ‘fluid stuff’ but he’s going to turn away about 20% of those that currently support Trump. If he just managed to win that rump would stay home in the general and he’ll lose to Biden by 8-10. Disaster.
Why are you still selling after the sale? I said I agree Trump is the likely winner within reason. Within reason, meaning the left doesn’t slam him in jail. This is a very different election in the sense that Trump is the elephant in the room this time with a huge core voting bloc. If De Santis gets around 20% of the vote or more he’s looking good. Stop comparing this time around to the 16 primary, which is a different universe.
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Our comments stand or fall on their merits.
As I’ve opined many…many times myself.
But it is a window into weirdness. In a Rear Window kind of way.
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Clinton might yet try out again for the third time.
Possible.
But the DNC donor pool will back Newsom.
Bobby – ultimately, we do not give a rodent’s about our ticks, real or imagined.
Literally 180 in 24 hours. Very strong core our Angry Karen.
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JMH:
If only that were true. I think Americans and American society has been irreparably destroyed. I see no coming back. I see the 2024 election as yet another steal. How can the Repubs. win if they don’t reduce themselves to the fetid level of the Dems?
While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
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Calli, I was christened in a similar gown. It would be nearly a hundred years old now. I didn’t have children, and never found out what happened to it.
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Rabz says:
May 27, 2023 at 5:24 pm
The Rethuglicans
Here I am, planning a furious, slightly unhinged rant which probably isn’t fit for publication, when a gorgeous cherubic creation slip effortlessly from Rabz’s birthing canal. Rethuglicans. It’s shame the Catictionary is rigormortised.
Rethuglicans.
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slips.
not slip.
slips.
#Sigh#
FMD.
Can that $US250mill penthouse on billionaires row sell already?
My YouTube feed is full of every agent in NY trying to flog the place.
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That’s a bunny boiler all right. Yikes.
Thanks , calli – you’ve had me trawling through the figurative junkyard that is my mind in an effort to identify the doppelganger of E. Jean Carroll.
The idea that Biden would have the hide to try again after his first attempt says something, not a good thing. I’d balk at saying he won, but he prevailed the second time, so it is possible to do so. Winning strategies and Biden are not really two concepts that mesh well.
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Linda Burney urges Voice ‘yes’ vote in referendum, 66 years after Indigenous Australians counted in population
Rudi Maxwell, AAP & Isabel McMillan, NCAAAP
Sat, 27 May 2023 4:02PM
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney was in Uluru on Saturday for the 66th anniversary of the referendum that saw Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted as part of the population.
On the anniversary of the 1967 referendum, the government has called for Australians to vote yes for an Indigenous Voice to parliament, amid opposition claims it could set back reconciliation.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney was in Uluru on Saturday for the 66th anniversary of the referendum that saw Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted as part of the population.
She called for new constitutional recognition, and urged Australians to vote yes in a 2023 referendum that will see an Indigenous voice enshrined in the Constitution.
“In 1967, we were counted. In 2023, we seek to be heard,” Burney said.
“Today marks 66 years since the 1967 referendum – one of the most successful federal referendums in Australia’s history.
“A day when Australians came together, to vote to change the constitution, so Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be counted as part of the population.
I don’t know how Linda Burney is allowed to get away with this flagrant bullsh!t.
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Also missing an ‘a.’
My cognitive function seems destined to become a rusted hulk.
There’s a limit to the number of ballots that can be stolen without being found out.
But it doesn’t matter how many when it’s, fairly, obvious, that no one running the election(s) actually cares ..
How many videos/statements have there been in the last two years exposing the blatant vote cheating and no one, authorities or media cares .. we’ve gotten that used to seeing/hearing about the fraud(s) that most of us just blink and move on ………..
The USA is at the stage that if the next Presidential election is squeaky clean very few will believe it anyway!… Honesty in USA elections is sooooo pre BAT FLU-ish ……
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I like him. He was the only governor with any guts to face the Covid and Covid vaccine mafia.
He wasn’t the only Governor to do so, and he’s record there while good is mixed.
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Bluddee hell – that E Jean Carroll experience was so monstrous that I’ve had to find a picture of an aesthetically pleasing young womanage to enable some offsetting … 🙂
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I dunno, but I got a leetle suspicious when out of four posts, the JC/Sancho Bobbsey twins got 9,9,9,7. upticks in about ten minutes, while the pattern around them was in the 3 – 5 mark.
Is there something you want to confess to, sancho?
Oh look, the Turtlehead can’t believe it’s possible that 8 to 10 people think he’s a mentally disturbed, hyperbolic loser. What, with Razey believing in him, how could think otherwise.
He has no life other than refreshing the Cat page to see the uptick count. Lord almighty.
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He wasn’t the only Governor to do so, and he’s record there while good is mixed.
The bird from South Dakota was the only one who didn’t lose their mind.
Keep in mind, De Santis had road blocks up at the start of COVID (as Malice reminded everyone this week).
If I was living in the US & things started to fall apart like they did in early 2020, I would bolt to South Dakota.
Or the Arizona desert (if I had water & power security).
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“Rethuglicans” has been around for a long time. I used it a few days ago here in relation to De Santis.
Speaking of whom: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248888
Extract: We all know the situation with the pandemic. Not one Governor actually said “No!” and meant it. People claim DeSantis did but they’re lying. I lived in Florida when this started; I was in the process of moving to Tennessee but was a Florida resident and had to put up with all of it during the process of moving. My daughter lived in Florida, as an independent adult, and lost her job because the place she worked was forced closed by the Governor.
Others I know ran establishments that were forced closed, in one case by cops showing up and forcibly ejecting the patrons; the cops were all, of course, armed. Do not tell me that this didn’t happen: It did happen, it occurred to varying degrees everywhere and not one of said 50 governors has apologized, said they were wrong and most-importantly passed iron-clad law to prevent it from ever being done again.
How about illegal immigration? Florida has some of the highest premiums for car insurance in the United States. One reason is that Florida has done little or nothing about illegal aliens driving without insurance thus there is a very good chance that if you get hit and it is their fault they’ll have no insurance — and suing someone without anything is a waste of time. Thus you are forced to pay for the risk of said person hitting you and that price falls on every driver licensed in Florida in their uninsured motorist coverage. Over my 20 years of living there this cost me thousands of dollars, directly, for which I got not a nickel of actual benefit.
Now DeSantis has asked for and gotten an “E-Verify” bill passed. But did he also get an Amendment proposed and passed that bars illegal aliens from access to state-funded taxpayer services? No. And is there a mandate that the State actually guarantee compliance — by, for example, requiring that employers document said compliance via a state-operated system at the time of hiring? No. That wasn’t part of it. Further, the law exempts employers with fewer than 25 employees so the crew of illegals roofing houses will not be impacted. It is trivial to get around these rules in the contracting industry by setting up parallel LLCs and keeping each subcontractor under 25 employees.
De Santis is a bullshitter.
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“In 1967, we were counted. In 2023, we seek to be heard,” Burney said.
“Today marks 66 years since the 1967 referendum – one of the most successful federal referendums in Australia’s history.
Bearing in mind that I studied vege maths in school, can someone tell me what 33 plus 23 is please?
What am I missing?
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Rabz:
Bobby – ultimately, we do not give a rodent’s about our ticks, real or imagined.
As you say, but Rabz, some here take them very seriously.
(Rabz – please, the diminutive of Robert is not Bobby. It’s Bob. I trained with a bloke called Bobbie – he was a screaming faggot and gave us all the shits with his carryings on.)
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While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
Robert. It’s a done deal. The Dems have control. Modus operandi is to destroy the US. (See Clinton/Obama) The fix is in.
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Rethuglicans.
Thanks, Eyrie.
I’ve led a sheltered life!
(I also become excited over small things, now).
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Linda Burney urges Voice ‘yes’ vote in referendum, 66 years after Indigenous Australians counted in population
The Gucci clad BB continues the trend of everything about the screech and black history is a lie. 3rd nations were counted in the first census in 1911; professor Helen Irving:
following the 1967 referendum, section 127 of the Constitution was removed. This section said: In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.
It is a common myth that the section excluded Aboriginal people from being counted in the census, and that the 1967 referendum meant that they would henceforth be counted. It did not. The Aboriginal people have always been counted, from the very first Commonwealth census in 1911. In fact, census statistics specifically recorded the populations of Aboriginal Australians. “Half-blood” Aborigines were considered to be white and were included in the general census.
The purpose of section 127 (admittedly, not obvious from its words) was to guide the calculation of the numbers of parliamentary representatives per State and also to determine certain State financial entitlements and obligations, based on State populations. When these calculations were made, the numbers of Aboriginal people, as counted, were excluded.
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Beautiful late C19th pic ‘His Mother’s Joy’, Dover.
I can’t help reflecting that he would be canon fodder in 1914,
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Vicki:
I like him. He was the only governor with any guts to face the Covid and Covid vaccine mafia.
In the beginning he looked really good. I also cheered for him, but there seemed to me after a couple of minor blunders that he was trying too hard. As if he was acting out not a script, but following a recipe to get a desired result.
It’s just the vibe, and I’m quite uncertain about him and just the general feeling of the man.
But I could quite easily be wrong, and you, right.
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Bruce of Newcastle says May 27, 2023 at 6:17 pm
LOL, BoN, back in the day, it occasionally was.
How I emerged from the eighties bodily intact remains a mystery. My peer group (and occasionally myself) used to engage in ultra violence just for the sheer hell of it.
It is not a chapter in my life that I’m proud of. Hence the subsequent retreat into economic hypotheses and trying to live a normal existence.
Young men will do what they do. Any society that tries to resist this inevitability will collapse in on itself.
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I do love the Stranglers and the first one has an awesome sax solo, which made me think of this one which has an even awesomer sax solo!
I’d like to ask Michael a handful of specific questions relating to a campaign in the SWPA which I’ve been researching for some time. If I send an email to him via Avonmore, do you think it will be forwarded?
“I’m not taking issue with the culling management plan in the park, I have never got involved in that debate, I’m taking issue with the poor outcome. It’s just not acceptable to leave 67 carcasses laying around near a public camping ground,” he said.
He’s quite right, IMHO. Leaving the carcases there as food for wild dogs and pigs is wrong. There’s already a problem with ferals and leaving food out for them is counterproductive. The carcases should have been removed or deep buried or burnt. Or was funding an issue?
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Stop comparing this time around to the 16 primary, which is a different universe.
I wasn’t comparing 2016 to 2024, I said that contenders typically only get one chance, and referred to the most recent R primary candidates to illustrate the point.
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The Gucci clad BB continues the trend of everything about the screech and black history is a lie. 3rd nations were counted in the first census in 1911; professor Helen Irving:
I contacted my local member’s office, regarding this issue, on a previous occasion, only to be told “Well, we don’t want to give Linda Burney a chance to play the race card.”
Words fail me, they honestly do.
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I can’t help reflecting that he would be cannon fodder in 1914,
His Mother’s Sorrow.
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JMH:
While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
I meant “While it’s looking grim for the US, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.”
Not just Republicans. The US has surprised a lot of people who underestimated them.
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I now have to do the following track since I took this photo since my last comment. She’s golden brown, a fine temptress. Haven’t seen her for a couple weeks so it’s an auspicious evening.
Searching for “rethuglican” returns zero results however. Perhaps the jungle rot failed to completely devour his frontal cortex.
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Neighbours parents must be away.
Party starting crank up.
Better compete with some decent tunes.
Shuffling Foo Fighters Gunners & K-Pop (just to keep them on their toes).
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All in all, I think it’s a rather cheesy headline.
Blue vein, surely.
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I wasn’t comparing 2016 to 2024, I said that contenders typically only get one chance, and referred to the most recent R primary candidates to illustrate the point.
Can’t you stop the twisting and turning. Can you remember what you posted:
Wrong. If he gets smashed this primary he’ll be done. Same as Cruz, Jeb, and Rubio were in ’16. You don’t get multiple shot typically as a Presidential contender.
Let’s see the curveball on this now. Also, there are plenty of multiple shots. Reagan was one example and very apt in terms for De Santis. Very successful governor, held core beliefs and didn’t let go. And that’s just on the Right.
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Better compete with some decent tunes.
Save it for early tomorrow morning. Maria Callas while you rev the leaf blower should teach them of the evils of alcohol consumption. Bonus points if you do it wearing only your jocks, ray bans and a pair of wellingtons.
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Sure Muddy. I’ll tell the Avonmore boss it’s coming.
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Is there something you want to confess to, sancho?
Well, yes, Nurse Betty.
I’ve been falsifying the drug issue records at the hospital. I issue the drugs to a geriatric patient but I don’t administer them.
I take them home to party, party, party.
Sure, the old codger is writhing in pain, but they are unproductive members of society, right?
Anything else you’d like to know?
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It’s just the vibe, and I’m quite uncertain about him and just the general feeling of the man.
But I could quite easily be wrong, and you, right.
Look – I am not an expert on De Santis. Just have followed his policy in relation Covid/lockdowns etc. Plus I have friends in Florida – an ex military bloke and his very smart wife – who reckon he is the real deal. Since we share most conclusions about the state of the West in general – I defer somewhat to their assessment of their Governor.
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Serious, apolitical (non-ranting) request. Seeking Contacts in Papua New Guinea.
If anyone reading this has provincial (Morobe) government or media contacts in Lae, PNG, or with the U.S. and Japanese Embassies in Port Moresby, I would love to know please.
I have a PNG friend at Salamaua (just inland from Salamaua actually) who I have been assisting with his small military museum for some years. The area had a lot of military activity in 1942-43 (at least 20,000 from PNG, Australia, the US of A, and Japan, served on the battlefield during this period). This September will mark the 80th anniversary of the re-occupation by the Allies of Salamaua (which is dwarfed in the history books by the campaign for Lae), and my friend and I have been planning a small commemorative ceremony to take place at Salamaua on the 12th of Sept.
We’ve made a start on the local government level, where we have been tentatively promised limited financial help, and have made initial contact with the Australian Consulate at Lae, and a Morobe Government representative. What we require is to consolidate our contacts at the Province level, and to establish a liaison with a media outlet (we had a contact but it dropped out).
We would also like to communicate directly with named individuals at both the U.S. and Japanese Embassies in Moresby, as our introductory efforts with both have not borne fruit. While we consider it unlikely that due to logistic and security concerns, either Embassy will send an official party to the event, we hope to solicit a written statement that can be read out on the day.
Peoples – it appears that poor li’l ol’ Eddles has gone missing in Beijing …
I look forward to the Sky after dark controlled opposition loudly stating that he must be released.
He courageously blundered in there, demanding the CCTV footage from within Reynolds’ office that showed Hoggins and Lehrmann engaging in the “beast with two backs” as well as the file containing the minutes of the National Cabinet meetings in 2020 and 2021.
And tragically, we’ve not heard from him since 🙁
#freeeddles
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Top Ender.
Thanks. It will be a week or two, as I have a few other distractions right now.
I am NOT soliciting money or goods. What we ARE seeking is assistance with making contacts. That’s all.
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Ignoring the family court system and the depressing, usurious taxes levied against people trying to buy a home is completely ignorant.
Here’s the thing. Iran has fertility as low as the West, Hasidic Jewish families in America have an average of 5+ children and the ultra orthodox Jewish families in Israel have 7+ children on average. Career orientation is part of that as well.
Child support and divorce (and alimony) in America is ridiculous; ReasonTV on YouTube has plenty of clips from DivorceCorp explaining this.
De Santis has some electoral success, ran the state through Covid without messing up much and engages effectively on the cultural issues. Looks like a winner over old Joe B, if he can get in front of Trump.
Who should lose in votes and not jury polls, to show his time is past and whatever MAGA dreams he sold were not delivered in his term …
The Davos elites believe the Malthusian rubbish.
They don’t just believe it, they’re trying to engineer it by creating a food crisis. And the energy crisis is well underway.
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Child support and divorce (and alimony) in America is ridiculous
Hence the “jungle languishing”, Pol?
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Told in Max Hasting’s book “Soldiers. Great Stories of War and Peace.”
The Anglo French Suez invasion of 1956 was marked by a fair amount of military confusion.
“When ships eventually unloaded at Port Said, there were surprises. At the fishing harbor a senior staff officer noticed a three ton lorry so overloaded that it’s rear springs were all but concave, and stuck fast on the ramp. “Who the bloody hell are you,” he inquired kindly ” and what are you doing?”
“I, Sir” responded a voice of much dignity “am the Mess – Sergeant of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, and I have with me the officer’s mess silver, and champagne.”
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Rabzsays:
May 27, 2023 at 7:13 pm
Peoples – it appears that poor li’l ol’ Eddles has gone missing in Beijing …
He has certainly dropped off his more outrageous claims about Mr Lehrmann.
Which is just as well.
For him.
Nothing that can’t be fixed with the application of some “Hong Kong Money” … 🙂
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Pancho – he has gone missing – an apprehension in Beijing?
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And just like that, option 5A VNI West is back.
What was a technical error a few days ago in now in AEMO’s project assessment and conclusions report.
A whole new group of landholders and communities have just been targeted without any warning.
Long since vanished tribal groups are given higher status for consultation than actual landholders.
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Muddysays:
May 27, 2023 at 6:25 pm
“In 1967, we were counted. In 2023, we seek to be heard,” Burney said.
“Today marks 66 years since the 1967 referendum – one of the most successful federal referendums in Australia’s history.
Bearing in mind that I studied vege maths in school, can someone tell me what 33 plus 23 is please?
What am I missing?
It’s like the 1988 “40,000 years” (200 times 200) number. 66 years sounds close to two thirds of a century and has a “vibe”, 56 years is a “Meh!” number.
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John
19 minutes ago
It strains credulity when Minister Linda Burney, Minister for Indigenous Australians and a Wiradjuri woman says she is not hearing her own voice, but once her voice is constitutionally enshrined, she’ll finally be able to listen to herself.
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Peoples – it appears that poor li’l ol’ Eddles has gone missing in Beijing …
Somebody really needs to do a welfare check. Somebody …?
Some serious funk in this track. Have to wonder what the planet thought when these guys appeared out of nowhere. And television in the sixties was so lame.
1. Trump will be the GOP nominee
2. Hiden will be the Demon nominee
3. Hiden beats Trump
4. Hiden will lose the election.
How the F can betting markets become so tangled up with illogical nonsense, unless I’m not reading this right. With Hiden 37.1% to win the election, it means the odds favor him to lose?
Peoples – it appears that poor li’l ol’ Eddles has gone missing in Beijing …
This is the intelligence service of the Chinese People’s Army. We have your Eddles. Pay us one million dollars, immediately, or we’ll give him back.
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Those Mighty Reds couldn’t win the eight in a row they needed to land a space in the top four, Cats. 🙁
Pancho – he has gone missing – an apprehension in Beijing?
I am getting a flashback to “Ruthless People”.
Feeling sorry for the captors, who are reducing the ransom demands by the hour.
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To his credit, Eddles is no mUttley.
Called upon to leave his comfortable living room couch, the Eddles appears to be out their conducting some actual field work*. Although the subsequent seemingly interminable languishing in a soviet era gaol cell may not have been part of his idyllic idyll …
Free Eddles, Albosleazey!
*The sentence above may bear no resemblance to reality, coincidentally or otherwise
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However, they will never, ever have to walk alone
Certainly not with modern video editing. Two rapidly multiplying Aussies:
Just rewatched Death Wish with Charlie Bronson; hilarious how attitudes towards vigilantism depicted in the movie differ so much from today when the need for vigilantism is so much greater. However, a vigilante today would be wasting their time plugging the trash on the street; what would have to be done is the pollies, AGs and Judges who have caused the shit on the streets would be the ones who would have to be subject to vigilantism.
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H B Bearsays:
May 27, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Peoples – it appears that poor li’l ol’ Eddles has gone missing in Beijing …
Somebody really needs to do a welfare check. Somebody …?
Sorry.
Busy.
The sock drawer is a mess.
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Paul Wallee and the Yams – “the bitterest pill” I ever had to swallow, Cats – Miss Personage dumping me to engage in a tawdree affair with teats peanuthead. 🙁
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And since its Saturday night with distasteful comments already gratuitously made here is tonight’s cute owl.. Suck on that losers.
Roger says:
May 27, 2023 at 9:01 am
Second, there are no minutes of the so-called national cabinet so ……
It is very easy to ‘screen record’ Zoom meetings in real time on your computer. I have done it a number of times.
I would be very surprised if some (if not all) of the participants didnt do so, by some means or other, even as low tech as a gopro off to the side recording your screen
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Suck on that losers.
Cronkers, most of us is, I presume are, hetro.
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Farmers and landholders are referred to as “hosts” of the infrastructure by AEMO
It’s mafia language. They’re making us an offer we can’t refuse.
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My fav scene from Death Wish
Bring a knife to a gunfight….
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Gez
Stakeholders is meant to be anyone with an interest in said development and definitely includes landholders. I live in this world being an exploration geologist.
One thing I have noticed having one of these renewable monstrosities planned adjoining the suburb I live in stakeholders is skewed to Qld Development Corp, Townsville City Council, Ergon, Dept Mines & energy, Dept Environment & Science and the NBS (For some unknown reason). Everyone but the residents if I was you I would be looking for any EPBC Act referrals (They are mandatory and federal jurisdictionally not state based) and looking for how long they knew. Seem same standards are not enforced for “renewables.”
Lastly, Vic seems to have no Land Court that the more resource rich states do. These guys below are the enemy but they may give you ways of frustrating the carpetbaggers:
Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
Now @LinkedIn
(owned by @Microsoft
) is trying to claim their decision to censor me was an “error.” This is laughable. On May 17 we noticed my account was locked. A LinkedIn employee said it was because I had posted videos containing “misleading or inaccurate information.” We asked them in writing to point out what was false. The employee doubled down & said they do not tolerate “misinformation, hate speech, violence, or abuse.” It took several media inquiries before they restored the account nearly a week later. Calling it an “error” now is totally dishonest. This wasn’t a technical glitch, it was an intentional act of censorship of my views on Biden, China, and climate change. Typical Big Tech behavior: trying to cover their tracks after egregious election interference. I challenge @SatyaNadella
to publicly condemn LinkedIn’s censorship, or else this is just the beginning of 2024 election interference.
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Well done Jennifer and the other determined men who didn’t let BoM mislead the public without challenge.
Gil Scott Heron – well, the first thing I want to say is, “mandate my house sized backside” and he “acted like an actor, Hollyweird … “
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Rog says
Sacré bleu, he never desists … ;?
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Yeah, you get the point, interlopers.
Get off my planet by sundown, I requests ya.
Or else. 🙂
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JackandJill
3 minutes ago
Burney WASN’T listening when she and Albanese introduced grog back into the communities….
*A cask of wine is worth $100 in remote lands now as the SA Police intercept cars travelling with boots full of cask wine heading to the communities north of Adelaide….
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civil rights, womens’ rights, gay rights, – it’s all wrong – call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild – goddammit – first one wants freedom, then the whole damn world wants freedom – nostalgia, that’s what we want, I tells ya … 🙂
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When all the other celluloid saviours were cringing in terror before the McArthee, Ron stood tall …
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Well done Jennifer and the other determined men who didn’t let BoM mislead the public without challenge.
Jen and the others in the group do great work. Getting up at Watts and also sometimes in the local media is great but we need a major political attack on the BOM and the CSIRO. It won’t come from brain dead turtle and the libs are dickless.
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Will the Surry Hills burnt building husk collapse into its own footprint?
Something something, jet fuel can’t melt heritage listings.
I defer to Indolent in such matters.
I challenge @SatyaNadella to publicly condemn LinkedIn’s censorship, or else this is just the beginning of 2024 election interference.
Vivek crying victim here is pathetic. You can’t go on a professional networking and employment site, start spouting political opinions, and whinge you’re being politically targeted when your rants get suppressed. The rest of the Internet exists for speech and LinkedIn has a purpose that I do not think it should stray from with very good reason.
I’d rather our society return to the arrangements when businesses focussed on legally making money by excelling in some narrow stage in the value chain, without trying to save the planet, promote equity, and be “good corporate citizens” or whatever euphemisms for crony capitalism we’re using this week. Users refraining from blogging politics on LinkedIn is part of that vision.
The pale skinned brunette Ten in the green top and white boots …
Magnifique 🙂
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April …
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Anyone who believes bulk import of yuuuge numbas of Indian nationals into the Australian workforce will go smoothly, well they badly need to ride in a cab driven by an Indian student, twice daily for a week.
After that, they all their possession, especially valuable stuff, shall be transported by an imported Indian truckie, with whom they have to deal on every aspect of the transport.
After that they get read back to them, in public, their belief that Indians are “just like us”
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Anyway, what’s all this about importing hordes of Indians?
The American Revolution was based on the concept of no taxation without representation. Now we have either a single party supermajority (CA and NY, e.g.) or our federal two-party “uniparty.”
We are back where we started: taxed to death with no voice in our own government.
Nafink.
Just the rampant imagination of the Good Nurse.
So the posting & discussion a few days ago about Albanese getting all huggy with India & importing hordes of Indians, .. .. was just… baseless chit chat?
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Will the Sleazy Hills burnt building husk collapse into its own footprint?
Yep. There was no supporting internal superstructure. It was indeed, a husk.
Apparently the cops have been “speaking with two utes*”, seen as they were, very quickly dashing back to Redfern.
*See the Joe Pesci character in “My cousin Vinnee”
I used to just enjoy the song back in the late nineties.
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Indolent posted about a speach by Alan Jones. If it is one I clicked on in Twitter it is not Alan speaking.
Regarding De Santis I read he was getting a lot of his Covid advice from Dr Jay Bhaticharia of the Great Barrington Declaration.
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Briefly scrolled through today activities.
It would appear Nurse Bobbie may be inheriting the Faulty/St.Ruth meatsack of doom-mongering.
Am keeping an eye on the sky. No planeloads of PLA heading south.
Yet.
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*today’s*
Told you I was looking at the sky. Instead of the keyboard.
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Anyone recall when Basil Faulty of the Torres Strait was on here vigorously defending Struphid. It’s like a death wish with this fcucker. Whenever he’s providing security for one of his faves, the fave end up in a ditch.
The dysfunctional Green-Labor ACT government’s policies are coming sharply into focus through the lens provided by the wokester capital’s ongoing inquiry into its criminal justice system.
What’s been displayed appears to show a lack of expertise by people holding senior offices within the ACT justice system.
An average observer with exposure to the political-judicial world could reasonably believe that the ACT’s administration of justice is just as flawed as that in Victoria, where the late Cardinal George Pell was convicted and jailed and had his appeal rejected by the Victorian court of appeals, only to have the High Court bench unanimously overturn his conviction.
The board of inquiry chaired by the eminent former senior judge Walter Sofronoff has shown both the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold and the Victims of Crime Commissioner Heidi Yates, seemingly lack a complete understanding of their functions.
The inquiry was called by the toy territory’s Chief Minister Andrew Barr last December 21 following a letter sent by DPP Shane Drumgold SC to Police Chief Neil Gaughan on November 1 outlining his concerns over police conduct during their investigation of the alleged rape of parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins by her colleague Bruce Lehrmann in the office of their boss, former defence industry minister Linda Reynolds on March 23, 2019.
Mr Lehrmann has always denied the allegation and pleaded not guilty.
According to Drumgold, police pressured him not to prosecute Lehrmann.
The Higgins case began on October 4, 2022, but was abandoned on October 27 while the jury was considering its verdict when it was found a juror had conducted private research and taken his findings into the jury room.
The case was relisted for hearing in February but Drumgold announced on December 2, 2022, he would not proceed because of his serious concerns about Higgins’ mental health though he said he held the view there was a reasonable prospect of conviction.
Drumgold took leave after punishing days in the witness stand during which he speculated about possible political conspiracies between the Morrison government and the Australian Federal Police, between senior ministers and Lehrmann’s defence team, and between the AFP and defence lawyers. There was no evidence to support these claims and Drumgold subsequently admitted he was “mistaken about political interference in the investigation of Mr Lehrmann’’.
His claim to have warned television identity Lisa Wilkinson about a speech she was to make at the Logie awards is also disputed by Wilkinson and her network’s lawyers.
Drumgold also “inaccurately” told the ACT Supreme Court that police believed an investigative review document, known as the Moller report, was subject to legal professional privilege despite the Australian Federal Police telling him in a meeting that they did not intend to make such a claim.
Then there is Victims of Crime Commissioner Heidi Yates who acted as an intermediary between the alleged rape victim and police and whose multiple appearances walking Higgins to court and standing with her at media conferences sparked ongoing controversy. It is unthinkable that the commissioner in any other area, roads, police or fire, would be driving a steamroller, heading a murder investigation or holding a hose.
As no crime had been proven was it proper for her to make so many high profile appearances?
Sofronoff’s report is due in July.
The public, the legal profession and police are eagerly anticipating the learned jurist’s opinion of ACT-style.
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Labor instituted self-government for the ACT despite a referendum which voted against it. This has resulted in a quasi-state type of government in a puddle that only justifies a town council. The dregs then rise to the top.
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The federal government (and my local GP) are recommending a booster shot of the same vaccines that Dr. McCullough now says caused and will cause damage to males.
I find Waze says I’m going 5km/h slower than what my Speedo says
Top ‘o de page to yez all.
that’s because your speedo is over-reading by 5km/h.
waze is reporting gps speed.
From the Oz.
that will never happen in Aus – shareholdings are dominated by funds (super and other).
Chuckle…the Bee has been extra funny this week:
‘Florida Is A Mismanaged Hellhole And Only An Idiot Would Live There,’ Says Trump
‘I’m Not Sanctimonious And I Don’t Look Like A Meatball,’ Whispers Ron DeSantis Crying Self To Sleep At Night
Biden Says Anyone Can Crash Twitter, It Takes A Real Leader To Crash Economy
Jordan Peterson Considers Every Possible Meaning Of Bible Story Except That It Might Mean Exactly What It Says
Mechanic Determines Car Repairs Will Cost Whatever Your Whole Paycheck Is This Month
Note the gay flag. Note the number of beds. Wonder what demonic activates happened here.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-other-vic-nine+mile-700235416?sourcePage=rea%3Abuy%3Asrp-map&sourceElement=listing-tile
Adam Goodes has been immortalised with an incredible sculpture outside of Sydney Swans HQ.
BTW,
BBS has an excellent post here on the main page.
The thirteen year old “face of racism in Australia” was unavailable for comment.
After the debate on the old thread about the dropping of the atomic bomb, I’m reading Richard B Frank’s classic book “Downfall.: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire.”
The Japanese Army developed the equal of the Sherman tank – the Type 3 Chi Ni, with a long 75mm gun. They produced about sixty such tanks – Sherman production ran to 49,234 . (Page 173.)
Is Australia now populated by millions of Anne Franks?
https://twitter.com/cafelockedout/status/1661893889190678528?cxt=HHwWgMDS-fzrnZAuAAAA
Yes.
Boxing Day my car (2010 Subaru Forester cost me $4K) blew up its radiator on the country run.
$100 to fellow who helped by towing me to edge of city.
$500 to tilt tray to get the car home
$100 to get car to mechanic when my turn comes two weeks later.
$1080 for new radiator to be fitted. Mechanics says ‘Sorry, gas is bubbling out of radiator. Cant fix it, take it away. Here, have a can of Bars Leaks.” Parked it up while I find someone to fix it.
Beloved has constant pain and driving a manual hurts worse. Busted car is auto; and new Camry is $55K and eighteen months.
Four months parked up, a mechanic who does this kind of job does a quote.
$3700 for pulling both heads, skimming and new head gaskets incl $500 for timing belt kit. OK!
Wife says aircon doesnt work. Take it back.
$470 for aircon. Not merely a lead left off, like I hoped.
Car now driveable and my beloved is much pleased at her pain reduction. Would cost $15K to replace with same model, and I am frightened to keep it in case I find out worse. And I need to do country runs!
A 2020 IEA report…
What a bit of bad luck that when politicians and the media began to give some airtime to the possibility of nuclear power in Australia, the inflation rate had shot up about 6 months earlier. On the one hand, the worse inflation is, the worse holding cash is than investing in productive infrastructure, but anyone with the moolah to spend on investments probably wasn’t holding cash anyway.
(It’s an economics cliché: ) On The Other Hand, with interest on loans raised to currency devaluation, it seems a “riskier economic environment” and more difficult to make a case for major investment of any kind let alone nuclear. Presumably the spenders (gov or private) could be convinced that reliable electricity is better than unreliable electricity regardless of interest repayments.
Is that the right analysis of relation between high inflation and nuclear cost effectiveness?
Expert on the reality of “Expendable” Japanese WW2 pilots
The expert, who sounds like an Aussie, makes some interesting observations concerning the problem of resealable fuel tanks on Japanese aircraft and the rescue of Japanese pilots. He offers recommended reading at the end of the interview.
The really sad thing about the DeSantis campaign is that it appears to be have the support and leadership of the Bush clan and Rove behind it.
Thanks for the link, John.
Michael Claringbould has written more than a few very decent aviation war books, including the Pacific Profiles series which I began to collect before, well, you know … Covidiocy (F@@k Qld Health) …
Check out Avonmore Books.
His aircraft illustrations are great, and he provides details from Japanese sources which hitherto have not been commonly available.
If you are considering purchasing one of his books – I do recommend the lavishly illustrated series I noted above – Pacific Profiles – I’d suggest purchasing from Avonmore if practical for you, as his titles on other websites such as Booktopia etc, are often far more expensive.
Top Ender is likely quite familiar with Michael.
Roger:
That’s OK, Roger. I probably put you in with the Sancho/JC blue – without going into the minutae of it all.
Yes – I think I mistook a comment you made, for one of Sanchos. Sorry.
Impunity, indeed, and look where it has led.
I’ve noted previously that I’m an unreformed history nerd, with a particular interest in military history. As such, I’m keen to read the stories of all who honourably served, regardless of their personal characteristics (which should be utterly irrelevant in such a context). While there’s nothing wrong with social history comprising part of a military history, where appropriate (the ‘Battle of Brisbane’ in Nov, 1942; the Second Indochinese (Vietnam) War post 1968, etc.), I very much hope that the traditional, research-based military history genre (that leaves you out, Fitzsimons) is not devoured whole by a social history lens.
I don’t wish to be disrespectful to individuals who served their country, but … how long until we’re told that pre-contact indigenous people had organised, trained and disciplined local or regional militia?
In other words, DeSantis is being used by the Republican Party establishment to damage and hopefully destroy the America First movement.
The GOP might as well be working for the Chinese Communist Party.
The Washington DC swamp is almost bottomless.
Trump was right.
Fck off you fixated dickhead.
The last comment I made on the old thread was just before 11:00 a.m. yesterday morning, and no comment I made had anything remotely to do with any of the drivel you post.
Go crimp someone’s IV or taser an old lady.
You know you want to.
Chris:
Family member bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee and after 107?km, it blew a hole in the engine and lost all the coolant. About 4 years old. Engine cooked, needs whole new engine. Sold for scrap => $4k. Insurance refused cover.
I had been wondering if that could be the case, though I’m not privy to anything that would provide solid evidence.
One suspects the Mouldy ‘Pubs might yearn for the pre-Trump era where they were not required to justify their existence.
Is this what happened to the Tea Party? (My awareness of politics back then was akin to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer dialogue line: ‘Fire bad, tree pretty’).
Oh. Apologies to all for my mini tantrum this morning. Age has decayed the insulation on some of my brain wiring.
Was there ever such a race that was conquered so utterly, after such an ineffectual resistance?
Or an Indian service station owner.
Nothing personal, turtlehead but you’re one despicable individual. Just putrid.
Daily Mail
While on the subject of putrid, I notice that Razey is issuing orders to ignore people but the one thing he doesn’t do is ignore those he wants others to. He’s always posting ignore instructions.
He lent tacit support to the turtlehead’s pathetic racism against Indians. In other words Razey doesn’t like those Asians on the left side but seems to be fine with some on the right side.
If we’re going all racist then, what’s wrong Razey, you couldn’t reach the top rungs of the ladder and find a westerner?
Good question.
Does Razey-san tell Mrs Razey-san every day how lucky she is to have married up?
The excuses after the fact.
No kidding, this loon should be on police intel radar.
Wonder if they include the bloke who was a gunner with 9 Squadron in Vietnam?
The Good Nurse.
Tom
It really doesn’t matter who supports De Santis as long (AS LONG) as he doesn’t cave to their ideals and views. It doesn’t seem as though he is in any way. I would support Trump even though I think he’s too old. He needs to win.
The GOP contenders are truly top shelf.
Trump
De Santis
Tim Scott
Vivek Ramaswamy ( I wonder if he owns a gas station).
Any of these would be great value.
Zulu: I cannot access a title page for the indig aviators book, so I don’t have answer to your question. You may be interested in this book, however:
Dreadful Lady over the Mekong Delta – RAAF Canberras in the Vietnam War
Except the GOP establishment appears to be backing DeSantis, which will split the GOP vote and guarantee the Dems win the White House in 2024.
Politics 101: divided parties can’t win.
Thanks – I’m grabbing a copy of both titles. Selwyn Evans, who commanded 2 Squadron in the Vietnam War, cut his teeth on Beaufighters during the Second World War, and went on to fly F-111’s.
You can take that to the bank. See: Howard Peacock years
Tom
The one I find really interesting is Vivek. He’s exceedingly smart and with great policy ideas. Sure, he’s not going to win, but boy he’s good value.
Heck, all those four are.
(I think he made all his money shorting Americans on gas sales)
It was supposed to be Evans, who as Chief of Air Staff, attended a dining in night at the new Tri Service Defence Force Academy.
During the after dinner speeches, first Chief of Army, then Chief of Navy, referred to the R.A.A.F as “The Cinderella of the three Services.”
Evans is said to have risen to his feet, torn the notes for his speech in half, said “Gentlemen, I know fvck all about Cinderella, except she had two very ugly sisters, and had to do all the work” before sitting down.
Sancho:
You’re floundering. Give it up and go back to being the class clown – it’s where your talents lie.
You gotta love De Santis persuasive abilities. In an interview, he said
1. Trump is a little woke
2. He would pardon Trump.
Muddy:
Here you go. A Get Out of Gaol Free Card.
🙂
LOL. Does anyone even read Scamcho’s pointless posts? Haha
I agree 100%, JC. Vivek gives me confidence that the Dem nation-wreckers won’t succeed in destroying the country.
The idea of America is stronger than those who hate it. The people running the American economy are simply adjusting for the fact that nation-wreckers have occupied DC and are working around them.
DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
I’m puzzled as to whether to accept that as a compliment?
I’ll take it anyway.
Had I ended up in the slammer five years ago (for impersonating someone with charisma), I’d have resigned myself to my fate and attempted to become a chameleon. Now, 2023, I’d take hostages and demand a media interview. Maybe with Stan?
Dover Beach:
This is classic Leftist tactics – get the enemy fighting among themselves and let them destroy each others chances at power.
DeSantis is another Pence – a Republican right up until the point at which he reveals his true colours.
He may not get more than 20% but even that would make him a decent contender in 28.
What percentage of nominally Republican voters will abstain if Trump is not the candidate?
(I think he made all his money shorting Americans on gas sales)
Plus a bit of VC & PE.
And a little Pharma.
FFS, turtlehead, just STFU, you moron. FMD, you’re a loon. Just STFU.
De Santis is the governor of a large state either dismantling or banning almost every important facet of CRT and wokeism.
You’re idiocy embarrasses the site.
None, because if there’s a candidate the beats Trump in the primaries it will be because the candidate is so energetic and commanding.
De Santis needs to lose 10kilos if he’s up against Newsom.
Trump has told followers to treat de Santis with respect recently so it’s sort of obvious he thinks he can pick him as VP.
Trump can live in NY to avoid the necessity to have the candidates living in different States.
I try to stick to just one brand (as some of us here would know) but seriously, how on earth did the brand in the quote survive the toxic touch of the grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile?
300* bat flu press conferences in a row hyping the hysteria (with his pet poofter), while clad in a black north farce puffie jacket, as if that made the execution worthy imbecile any more remotely like an actual human.
There should have been a mulvaney type reaction. But we are talking Disasterstan here. North Farce’s sales are no doubt higher there than anywhere else in Oz.
*If not that many, then it certainly seemd like it.
That’s not really fair to say. Look how the lunar left have gone crazy with de Santis simply demanding that Disney exist under the same laws as everyone else.
De Santis needs to reframe the Disney fight to be around a land tax rort.
One of the biggest companies in the US not paying their fair share due to shennanigans dating back to the 1960’s.
Friday’s in Sydney is puffer jackets & RM Williams day.
I’ve posited previously that a reasonable tactical option would be for Trump and DeSantis to catfight up until just prior to the election (‘Yes! Our plan is working,’ think the Dems), then reveal that DeSantis had been Trump’s VP pick all along, and they both actually had a lot of common ground. A subterfuge to blunt their enemy’s attack, in other words.
Of course, getting the timing right would be vital, and explaining the reason for the deception to loyalists also important. The benefit would be that at least their opponents’ tactics would be known (create division in Repub ranks, as others have noted above).
While being subjected to many, many preposterous civil lawsuits.
“Fatty Trump had sexual relationships with me on more than one occasion in the Bergdorf Goodman lingerie changing rooms, I tells ya! Except I can’t remember the day, or the month, or even the year”
“Just decree me many millions of his ill gotten munni, I demands ya!”
Oh my, Rabz! That’s a bunny boiler all right. Yikes.
In my thinly disguised Mrs Olthwaite-ness this morning I described the rivetting progress of my (proposed) day.
*dusts off hands*
All complete, including a Thai green curry for the Beloved as a reward for being my garden slave. He did talk back a bit, but. Good slaves are thin on the ground these days, so I guess I’ll keep him.
Is he Indian?
Doves – this week’s painting, again, just magnifique.
“His Mother’s Joy”, meaning the (unseen) brother will just have to seek some solace and many life learnings from his dad.
Or have I completely misinterpreted it?
Oh. Forgot description of tools. I used snippers but not shovel.
There are many kinds of shovel, but not one I used today. Perhaps tomorrow.
🙂
calli, I prefer to refer to a shovel as a spade.
Especially when leading an angry mob towards any nearby legislature. 🙂
Rabz, little boys wore dresses up until they were “breeched” at around four years of age.
It was a rite of passage to get that first pair of trousers.
Along with old fashioned swaddling, it has gone by the wayside with the introduction of washing machines and nappies and laundry detergents. Practically speaking, it was all about poo control.
Young children’s clothing back in the day was unisex iirc
“DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump”
Trump was hated because he was a successful, NY loudmouth. If he had accepted his ‘rightful’ role as a stage comedian there would have been no problem. But he wanted to step out of the frame, and that could not be permitted.
*gardener’s tip*
Always use a grinder to sharpen the edge of spades and shovels. Amazing the difference it makes in a weed (or other) skirmish.
It’s all insultingly patronising. I don’t have any reason to suppose that aboriginal men in those days were any less brave or competent than any others. I’d take it for granted. And from what I know of white Australians of the time, the aboriginal men would not have been treated any differently from anyone else.
I get fed up with the crypto-racism and piety of the collectivists who insist on dividing us by race, when the obvious differences between groups is cultural and frequently bogus.
Also, don’t lose focus on what the left are doing on the legal front against Trump. There are several legal entanglements that could put Trump in jail. Do underestimate the length they will go to, in order to destroy the Trumpster and take him out of the race.
I heard a podcast today that very worrying. A very large number of Americans aren’t even aware that wussiagate was a Clinton setup. And the reason is that they just watch legacy media for news. The MSM never mentions Wussiagate was a universe bigger than Watergate.
Sacré bleu! So the kiddie in the picture is not a li’l goil?
Cherubs. Indeterminate, they are.
calli – your downdicker is still at large.
What is his problem?
We haven’t, Squire. See my comment at 4:57pm.
The Rethuglicans will never, ever win another presidential election in our lifetimes, Cats.
After 2020, all bets are off.
My flexed muscles. I wish. Or…the defiant glint in my eye.
We as in the royal “we”. How could I have missed it. 🙂
Okay, I didn’t see it, but I was referring to criminal investigations and potential indictments.
The NY Leftwing AG is now demanding documents to see if the Trump Organization was doing any overseas business dealings during his presidency. This is an obvious ploy to blunt the very successful GOP house investigation into a Hiden crime family influence peddling.
DeSantis will never get higher than the 20s v Trump, and Trump is clear favourite in the field with over 50%. They are wasting hundreds of millions for nothing, and creating enemies in their own ranks for no reason at all.
Correct. Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about. Trump is doing this too but he will have to waste time fighting against the GOP some of whom like all conservatives think there are still rules while the rest will simply oppose Trump because he is blunt and hurts their feelings.
DeSantis running now is a huge mistake.
Wrong. If he gets smashed this primary he’ll be done. Same as Cruz, Jeb, and Rubio were in ’16. You don’t get multiple shot typically as a Presidential contender.
err, Cats – how do I turn spellwrecker back on, please?
The many many (unintentional) typos in my recent comments would not be well received by various j’ismist types here*.
*For example, Tommy and areff, not that I’m naming manes 😕
A TV tip. SBS movies has the remake of the Ealing “Whiskey Galore”. So far so good.
Nice scenic views of Scotland. And a most excellent fire and brimstone sermon! Now to salvage the grog.
haha as in laughing at your own attempt at trying to be funny, Razey.
As for anyone reading Sanchez, you obviously do and you just couldn’t make it up the ladder, could you champ. 🙂
Calli:
Starting to make sense – I was getting concerned.
There’s nothing quite like a bit of presumptuousness, Squire. 🙂
Time for some Springsteen?
G’day Muddy, yes know Michael Claringbould well – he was round at mine last night for a wargame.
Mike has done several covers for my books The Empire Strikes South, Eagles over Darwin, and Bombers North, also from Avonmore, as are his. His work is impeccable, and he pays enormous attention to getting the wartime colours right.
Wrong as in 1 + 1 =3?
If De Santis gets around 20% of the primary it means he’s doing reasonably well. Also there’s a lot of fluid stuff that’s going to occur that can’t be discounted. Trump is the current front runner by a country mile. Do can’t “wrong” in something that’s just starting and can’t be predicted.
whoops Don’t say “wrong”….
The last dress my son wore was his long Swiss voile and Nottingham lace christening gown. 🙂
And then, most precious of all, his daughter in the same gown all starched and pristine for the occasion. It’s still wrapped up in the blue tissue paper, ready for the next generation.
Doc Beaugan:
That’s sort of what I thought. It’s the individual that shows bravery, not the collective.
To claim that one race is/was braver than another is, well, racist. Because it it says that the other race was less brave – or more cowardly.
Yes. Patronising.
Robert Sewell
Very tough.
A neighbour bought a Jeep for his daughter. When it needed significant parts (maybe headlights?), he went and bought another the same model and just on the headlights it paid for itself.
Biden pulled it off and Clinton might yet try out again for the third time.
Yeah, the GOP should adopt Politburo election rules and procedures.
Muddy @ 4.33 pom:
If only that were true. I think Americans and American society has been irreparably destroyed. I see no coming back. I see the 2024 election as yet another steal. How can the Repubs. win if they don’t reduce themselves to the fetid level of the Dems?
Karen, write one of your angry letters to the DOJ with your complaints. You know it makes sense and make it sound really angry.
I can’t remember the last time we had a primary when one of the contenders already had a majority and was firming. DeSantis is counting on the ‘fluid stuff’ but he’s going to turn away about 20% of those that currently support Trump. If he just managed to win, that rump would stay home in the general and he’ll lose to Biden by 8-10. Disaster.
Rabz:
I dunno, but I got a leetle suspicious when out of four posts, the JC/Sancho Bobbsey twins got 9,9,9,7. upticks in about ten minutes, while the pattern around them was in the 3 – 5 mark.
Is there something you want to confess to, sancho?
Meanwhile the demorats are reinforcing their ballot harvesting protocols and techniques which is what election s are really about.
It’s now election month.
Adapt or die.
err, Cherubim – apologies, cass. 😕
I’ve seen articles suggesting that the GOP can’t win another election again because of the cheating. That’s true, but only to a limited extent. There’s a limit to the number of ballots that can be stolen without being found out. I’d say the limit is around 3 to 4 %. If a GOP candidate gets around 10%, and it isn’t impossible, the left is shot. Cheating in the US can only occur if if the election is reasonably close.
Oh, you think a disastrous run in ’24 like Biden’s in ’98, and then maybe taking a turn a decade later, to be followed by another run in ’48 is a winning strategy?
Bobby – ultimately, we do not give a rodent’s about our ticks, real or imagined.
Our comments stand or fall on their merits.
DeSantis is another Pence – a Republican right up until the point at which he reveals his true colours.
I like him. He was the only governor with any guts to face the Covid and Covid vaccine mafia.
Not sure that is entirely comparable.
Let’s hope he’s not the godfather to someone:
A man who dropped a horse head on the doorstep of a National Parks and Wildlife Service office concedes his approach could be seen as “excessive” but says he was fed up with being ignored.
“Maybe this was a little too dramatic but the normal pathways to get people to care just got an arrogant zero,” Rocky Harvey told The Sunday Telegraph.
The avid horse rider has never entered into the debate about brumby culling and resents being labelled an “activist”.
“I’m not taking issue with the culling management plan in the park, I have never got involved in that debate, I’m taking issue with the poor outcome. It’s just not acceptable to leave 67 carcasses laying around near a public camping ground,” he said.
“I went and did the right thing, reported it to the EPA, who then referred it to the Wild Horse Management Unit, no response. Penny Sharpe, no response.”
Why are you still selling after the sale? I said I agree Trump is the likely winner within reason. Within reason, meaning the left doesn’t slam him in jail. This is a very different election in the sense that Trump is the elephant in the room this time with a huge core voting bloc. If De Santis gets around 20% of the vote or more he’s looking good. Stop comparing this time around to the 16 primary, which is a different universe.
As I’ve opined many…many times myself.
But it is a window into weirdness. In a Rear Window kind of way.
Clinton might yet try out again for the third time.
Possible.
But the DNC donor pool will back Newsom.
And that is the truth. Spot on, Rabs.
The Stranglers – Big in America
It’s Saturday night, Cats!
Literally 180 in 24 hours. Very strong core our Angry Karen.
JMH:
While it’s looking grim for the Republicans, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.
Calli, I was christened in a similar gown. It would be nearly a hundred years old now. I didn’t have children, and never found out what happened to it.
Here I am, planning a furious, slightly unhinged rant which probably isn’t fit for publication, when a gorgeous cherubic creation slip effortlessly from Rabz’s birthing canal. Rethuglicans. It’s shame the Catictionary is rigormortised.
Rethuglicans.
slips.
not slip.
slips.
#Sigh#
FMD.
Can that $US250mill penthouse on billionaires row sell already?
My YouTube feed is full of every agent in NY trying to flog the place.
Thanks , calli – you’ve had me trawling through the figurative junkyard that is my mind in an effort to identify the doppelganger of E. Jean Carroll.
Well, here she is*.
*Trigger warning: Hideously uglee ol’ Hollyweird dinobore
The idea that Biden would have the hide to try again after his first attempt says something, not a good thing. I’d balk at saying he won, but he prevailed the second time, so it is possible to do so. Winning strategies and Biden are not really two concepts that mesh well.
I don’t know how Linda Burney is allowed to get away with this flagrant bullsh!t.
Also missing an ‘a.’
My cognitive function seems destined to become a rusted hulk.
So…fighting?
Elton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting (1973)
There’s a limit to the number of ballots that can be stolen without being found out.
But it doesn’t matter how many when it’s, fairly, obvious, that no one running the election(s) actually cares ..
How many videos/statements have there been in the last two years exposing the blatant vote cheating and no one, authorities or media cares .. we’ve gotten that used to seeing/hearing about the fraud(s) that most of us just blink and move on ………..
The USA is at the stage that if the next Presidential election is squeaky clean very few will believe it anyway!… Honesty in USA elections is sooooo pre BAT FLU-ish ……
He wasn’t the only Governor to do so, and he’s record there while good is mixed.
Bluddee hell – that E Jean Carroll experience was so monstrous that I’ve had to find a picture of an aesthetically pleasing young womanage to enable some offsetting … 🙂
Oh look, the Turtlehead can’t believe it’s possible that 8 to 10 people think he’s a mentally disturbed, hyperbolic loser. What, with Razey believing in him, how could think otherwise.
He has no life other than refreshing the Cat page to see the uptick count. Lord almighty.
He wasn’t the only Governor to do so, and he’s record there while good is mixed.
The bird from South Dakota was the only one who didn’t lose their mind.
Keep in mind, De Santis had road blocks up at the start of COVID (as Malice reminded everyone this week).
Watch out for the Skin Deep, Cats …
If I was living in the US & things started to fall apart like they did in early 2020, I would bolt to South Dakota.
Or the Arizona desert (if I had water & power security).
“Rethuglicans” has been around for a long time. I used it a few days ago here in relation to De Santis.
Speaking of whom: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248888
Extract:
We all know the situation with the pandemic. Not one Governor actually said “No!” and meant it. People claim DeSantis did but they’re lying. I lived in Florida when this started; I was in the process of moving to Tennessee but was a Florida resident and had to put up with all of it during the process of moving. My daughter lived in Florida, as an independent adult, and lost her job because the place she worked was forced closed by the Governor.
Others I know ran establishments that were forced closed, in one case by cops showing up and forcibly ejecting the patrons; the cops were all, of course, armed. Do not tell me that this didn’t happen: It did happen, it occurred to varying degrees everywhere and not one of said 50 governors has apologized, said they were wrong and most-importantly passed iron-clad law to prevent it from ever being done again.
How about illegal immigration? Florida has some of the highest premiums for car insurance in the United States. One reason is that Florida has done little or nothing about illegal aliens driving without insurance thus there is a very good chance that if you get hit and it is their fault they’ll have no insurance — and suing someone without anything is a waste of time. Thus you are forced to pay for the risk of said person hitting you and that price falls on every driver licensed in Florida in their uninsured motorist coverage. Over my 20 years of living there this cost me thousands of dollars, directly, for which I got not a nickel of actual benefit.
Now DeSantis has asked for and gotten an “E-Verify” bill passed. But did he also get an Amendment proposed and passed that bars illegal aliens from access to state-funded taxpayer services? No. And is there a mandate that the State actually guarantee compliance — by, for example, requiring that employers document said compliance via a state-operated system at the time of hiring? No. That wasn’t part of it. Further, the law exempts employers with fewer than 25 employees so the crew of illegals roofing houses will not be impacted. It is trivial to get around these rules in the contracting industry by setting up parallel LLCs and keeping each subcontractor under 25 employees.
De Santis is a bullshitter.
Bearing in mind that I studied vege maths in school, can someone tell me what 33 plus 23 is please?
What am I missing?
Rabz:
As you say, but Rabz, some here take them very seriously.
(Rabz – please, the diminutive of Robert is not Bobby. It’s Bob. I trained with a bloke called Bobbie – he was a screaming faggot and gave us all the shits with his carryings on.)
Robert. It’s a done deal. The Dems have control. Modus operandi is to destroy the US. (See Clinton/Obama) The fix is in.
Rethuglicans.
Thanks, Eyrie.
I’ve led a sheltered life!
(I also become excited over small things, now).
Linda Burney urges Voice ‘yes’ vote in referendum, 66 years after Indigenous Australians counted in population
The Gucci clad BB continues the trend of everything about the screech and black history is a lie. 3rd nations were counted in the first census in 1911; professor Helen Irving:
following the 1967 referendum, section 127 of the Constitution was removed. This section said: In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.
It is a common myth that the section excluded Aboriginal people from being counted in the census, and that the 1967 referendum meant that they would henceforth be counted. It did not. The Aboriginal people have always been counted, from the very first Commonwealth census in 1911. In fact, census statistics specifically recorded the populations of Aboriginal Australians. “Half-blood” Aborigines were considered to be white and were included in the general census.
The purpose of section 127 (admittedly, not obvious from its words) was to guide the calculation of the numbers of parliamentary representatives per State and also to determine certain State financial entitlements and obligations, based on State populations. When these calculations were made, the numbers of Aboriginal people, as counted, were excluded.
Beautiful late C19th pic ‘His Mother’s Joy’, Dover.
I can’t help reflecting that he would be canon fodder in 1914,
Vicki:
In the beginning he looked really good. I also cheered for him, but there seemed to me after a couple of minor blunders that he was trying too hard. As if he was acting out not a script, but following a recipe to get a desired result.
It’s just the vibe, and I’m quite uncertain about him and just the general feeling of the man.
But I could quite easily be wrong, and you, right.
LOL, BoN, back in the day, it occasionally was.
How I emerged from the eighties bodily intact remains a mystery. My peer group (and occasionally myself) used to engage in ultra violence just for the sheer hell of it.
It is not a chapter in my life that I’m proud of. Hence the subsequent retreat into economic hypotheses and trying to live a normal existence.
Young men will do what they do. Any society that tries to resist this inevitability will collapse in on itself.
I do love the Stranglers and the first one has an awesome sax solo, which made me think of this one which has an even awesomer sax solo!
Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (1978)
Top Ender.
I’d like to ask Michael a handful of specific questions relating to a campaign in the SWPA which I’ve been researching for some time. If I send an email to him via Avonmore, do you think it will be forwarded?
verica
@VDejan0000
Australia
Powerful speech by Alan Jones on the VOICE
Top Ender:
He’s quite right, IMHO. Leaving the carcases there as food for wild dogs and pigs is wrong. There’s already a problem with ferals and leaving food out for them is counterproductive. The carcases should have been removed or deep buried or burnt. Or was funding an issue?
I wasn’t comparing 2016 to 2024, I said that contenders typically only get one chance, and referred to the most recent R primary candidates to illustrate the point.
I contacted my local member’s office, regarding this issue, on a previous occasion, only to be told “Well, we don’t want to give Linda Burney a chance to play the race card.”
Words fail me, they honestly do.
His Mother’s Sorrow.
JMH:
I meant “While it’s looking grim for the US, I wouldn’t be too quick to write them off. They may get knocked down, but their ability to reinvent themselves and bounce back is pretty good.”
Not just Republicans. The US has surprised a lot of people who underestimated them.
I now have to do the following track since I took this photo since my last comment. She’s golden brown, a fine temptress. Haven’t seen her for a couple weeks so it’s an auspicious evening.
Golden Brown – The Stranglers live (2014)
Iowahawk (pbuh) was the first personage I ever heard refer to ‘Rethuglicans”.
Daily Kos probably would have been keen on using rethuglican, back in the day.
Young men, creating some magick …
All ten minutes of it.
Salty:
Biological Men Are Popping Hormones To Induce Lactation for “Milk”
It’d be funny if it were not vomit inducing sick.
Try again:
Biological Men Are Popping Hormones To Induce Lactation for “Milk”
I bet you don’t say that about all the “cute owls”.
cohenite
I used all my good one liners about that yesterday.
All in all, I think it’s a rather cheesy headline.
https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1662290582612615168
Scroll down past the Babylon Bee stuff to where De Santis gets discussed.
Seems chuck is still at it.
https://littlegreenfootballs.com
Searching for “rethuglican” returns zero results however. Perhaps the jungle rot failed to completely devour his frontal cortex.
Neighbours parents must be away.
Party starting crank up.
Better compete with some decent tunes.
Shuffling Foo Fighters Gunners & K-Pop (just to keep them on their toes).
Blue vein, surely.
Can’t you stop the twisting and turning. Can you remember what you posted:
Let’s see the curveball on this now. Also, there are plenty of multiple shots. Reagan was one example and very apt in terms for De Santis. Very successful governor, held core beliefs and didn’t let go. And that’s just on the Right.
Save it for early tomorrow morning. Maria Callas while you rev the leaf blower should teach them of the evils of alcohol consumption. Bonus points if you do it wearing only your jocks, ray bans and a pair of wellingtons.
Sure Muddy. I’ll tell the Avonmore boss it’s coming.
Well, yes, Nurse Betty.
I’ve been falsifying the drug issue records at the hospital. I issue the drugs to a geriatric patient but I don’t administer them.
I take them home to party, party, party.
Sure, the old codger is writhing in pain, but they are unproductive members of society, right?
Anything else you’d like to know?
It’s just the vibe, and I’m quite uncertain about him and just the general feeling of the man.
But I could quite easily be wrong, and you, right.
Look – I am not an expert on De Santis. Just have followed his policy in relation Covid/lockdowns etc. Plus I have friends in Florida – an ex military bloke and his very smart wife – who reckon he is the real deal. Since we share most conclusions about the state of the West in general – I defer somewhat to their assessment of their Governor.
Serious, apolitical (non-ranting) request.
Seeking Contacts in Papua New Guinea.
If anyone reading this has provincial (Morobe) government or media contacts in Lae, PNG, or with the U.S. and Japanese Embassies in Port Moresby, I would love to know please.
I have a PNG friend at Salamaua (just inland from Salamaua actually) who I have been assisting with his small military museum for some years. The area had a lot of military activity in 1942-43 (at least 20,000 from PNG, Australia, the US of A, and Japan, served on the battlefield during this period). This September will mark the 80th anniversary of the re-occupation by the Allies of Salamaua (which is dwarfed in the history books by the campaign for Lae), and my friend and I have been planning a small commemorative ceremony to take place at Salamaua on the 12th of Sept.
We’ve made a start on the local government level, where we have been tentatively promised limited financial help, and have made initial contact with the Australian Consulate at Lae, and a Morobe Government representative. What we require is to consolidate our contacts at the Province level, and to establish a liaison with a media outlet (we had a contact but it dropped out).
We would also like to communicate directly with named individuals at both the U.S. and Japanese Embassies in Moresby, as our introductory efforts with both have not borne fruit. While we consider it unlikely that due to logistic and security concerns, either Embassy will send an official party to the event, we hope to solicit a written statement that can be read out on the day.
Any suggestions will be most welcome, thank you.
New ‘Birthgap’ Film Shows How Explosion in Childlessness is Driving Historically Unprecedented Population Collapse
Peoples – it appears that poor li’l ol’ Eddles has gone missing in Beijing …
I look forward to the Sky after dark controlled opposition loudly stating that he must be released.
He courageously blundered in there, demanding the CCTV footage from within Reynolds’ office that showed Hoggins and Lehrmann engaging in the “beast with two backs” as well as the file containing the minutes of the National Cabinet meetings in 2020 and 2021.
And tragically, we’ve not heard from him since 🙁
#freeeddles
Top Ender.
Thanks. It will be a week or two, as I have a few other distractions right now.
European concern
Engineered. The Davos elites believe the Malthusian rubbish.
Saw them in Singapore. Fools Gold live was freekin’ amazing.
INSANE! Biden to create new federal agency to track your behavior | Redacted w Clayton Morris
To clarify my request above:
I am NOT soliciting money or goods. What we ARE seeking is assistance with making contacts. That’s all.
Ignoring the family court system and the depressing, usurious taxes levied against people trying to buy a home is completely ignorant.
Here’s the thing. Iran has fertility as low as the West, Hasidic Jewish families in America have an average of 5+ children and the ultra orthodox Jewish families in Israel have 7+ children on average. Career orientation is part of that as well.
Child support and divorce (and alimony) in America is ridiculous; ReasonTV on YouTube has plenty of clips from DivorceCorp explaining this.
De Santis has some electoral success, ran the state through Covid without messing up much and engages effectively on the cultural issues. Looks like a winner over old Joe B, if he can get in front of Trump.
Who should lose in votes and not jury polls, to show his time is past and whatever MAGA dreams he sold were not delivered in his term …
They don’t just believe it, they’re trying to engineer it by creating a food crisis. And the energy crisis is well underway.
Hence the “jungle languishing”, Pol?
Told in Max Hasting’s book “Soldiers. Great Stories of War and Peace.”
The Anglo French Suez invasion of 1956 was marked by a fair amount of military confusion.
“When ships eventually unloaded at Port Said, there were surprises. At the fishing harbor a senior staff officer noticed a three ton lorry so overloaded that it’s rear springs were all but concave, and stuck fast on the ramp. “Who the bloody hell are you,” he inquired kindly ” and what are you doing?”
“I, Sir” responded a voice of much dignity “am the Mess – Sergeant of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, and I have with me the officer’s mess silver, and champagne.”
He has certainly dropped off his more outrageous claims about Mr Lehrmann.
Which is just as well.
For him.
Meme
Awesome funk. A much unappreciated style of music.
In return I’ll put up a bit of jazz soul blues rock from an Aussie babe.
Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me (2007)
Nothing that can’t be fixed with the application of some “Hong Kong Money” … 🙂
Pancho – he has gone missing – an apprehension in Beijing?
And just like that, option 5A VNI West is back.
What was a technical error a few days ago in now in AEMO’s project assessment and conclusions report.
A whole new group of landholders and communities have just been targeted without any warning.
Long since vanished tribal groups are given higher status for consultation than actual landholders.
Muddysays:
May 27, 2023 at 6:25 pm
“In 1967, we were counted. In 2023, we seek to be heard,” Burney said.
“Today marks 66 years since the 1967 referendum – one of the most successful federal referendums in Australia’s history.
Bearing in mind that I studied vege maths in school, can someone tell me what 33 plus 23 is please?
What am I missing?
It’s like the 1988 “40,000 years” (200 times 200) number. 66 years sounds close to two thirds of a century and has a “vibe”, 56 years is a “Meh!” number.
Somebody really needs to do a welfare check. Somebody …?
Paging Mr Mole
The punchlines on these are quite good.
[Chiktatoon] Forever alone vs Virgin ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mpLTBUX0rA
Jordan Peterson Reveals The Whole Hidden Agenda!
Not returning those Brittany tapes wasn’t really like Blockbuster in ‘86. Dark forces at work.
George Soros has dedicated his life to dividing people of all nations and backgrounds.THE SOROS ACTIVIST AT THE HEART OF CALIFORNIA’S $800 BILLION SLAVE REPARATIONS
Some serious funk in this track. Have to wonder what the planet thought when these guys appeared out of nowhere. And television in the sixties was so lame.
Rolling Stones – It’s all over now (1964)
Cats, I exist because my employer hasn’t seen fit to jobsack me.
Try being the only non collectivist within an organisation that employs about 80 peoples nationwide.
Yet I’ve been there for over 15 years – so they can at least claim that they employ a personage who is not a collectivist.
Stuck in the middle and yet allowed a free range brief – and they pay me well.
So things could be a lot worse. 🙂
Bruce
I am not getting RickRolled again with Gillard, Joan Kirner and other obese feminista Labor luminaries.
Get a load of these ( I think) undecipherable, illogical betting markets at https://www.electionbettingodds.com/
Conclusions I can draw.
1. Trump will be the GOP nominee
2. Hiden will be the Demon nominee
3. Hiden beats Trump
4. Hiden will lose the election.
How the F can betting markets become so tangled up with illogical nonsense, unless I’m not reading this right. With Hiden 37.1% to win the election, it means the odds favor him to lose?
This is the intelligence service of the Chinese People’s Army. We have your Eddles. Pay us one million dollars, immediately, or we’ll give him back.
Those Mighty Reds couldn’t win the eight in a row they needed to land a space in the top four, Cats. 🙁
However, they will never, ever have to walk alone …
I am getting a flashback to “Ruthless People”.
Feeling sorry for the captors, who are reducing the ransom demands by the hour.
To his credit, Eddles is no mUttley.
Called upon to leave his comfortable living room couch, the Eddles appears to be out their conducting some actual field work*. Although the subsequent seemingly interminable languishing in a soviet era gaol cell may not have been part of his idyllic idyll …
Free Eddles, Albosleazey!
*The sentence above may bear no resemblance to reality, coincidentally or otherwise
Certainly not with modern video editing. Two rapidly multiplying Aussies:
The Presets – My People (2007)
Just rewatched Death Wish with Charlie Bronson; hilarious how attitudes towards vigilantism depicted in the movie differ so much from today when the need for vigilantism is so much greater. However, a vigilante today would be wasting their time plugging the trash on the street; what would have to be done is the pollies, AGs and Judges who have caused the shit on the streets would be the ones who would have to be subject to vigilantism.
Sorry.
Busy.
The sock drawer is a mess.
Paul Wallee and the Yams – “the bitterest pill” I ever had to swallow, Cats – Miss Personage dumping me to engage in a tawdree affair with teats peanuthead. 🙁
And since its Saturday night with distasteful comments already gratuitously made here is tonight’s cute owl.. Suck on that losers.
My fav scene from Death Wish
The acronym fest on offer to “stakeholders” dealing with AEMO:
– AEMO
– VNI
– APV
– WRL
– PACR
– ISP
– REZ
– TCV
– RIT
– NEVA
– MCA
– NPV
– VECP
That’s just a short list in the latest email to landholders.
“stakeholders”- what an odious buzzword. Reminds me of Tony Bliar
come on and take my gun from me … a more contemporary version of charles bronson
It is very easy to ‘screen record’ Zoom meetings in real time on your computer. I have done it a number of times.
I would be very surprised if some (if not all) of the participants didnt do so, by some means or other, even as low tech as a gopro off to the side recording your screen
Cronkers, most of us is, I presume are, hetro.
Farmers and landholders are referred to as “hosts” of the infrastructure by AEMO
It’s mafia language. They’re making us an offer we can’t refuse.
Bring a knife to a gunfight….
Gez
Stakeholders is meant to be anyone with an interest in said development and definitely includes landholders. I live in this world being an exploration geologist.
One thing I have noticed having one of these renewable monstrosities planned adjoining the suburb I live in stakeholders is skewed to Qld Development Corp, Townsville City Council, Ergon, Dept Mines & energy, Dept Environment & Science and the NBS (For some unknown reason). Everyone but the residents if I was you I would be looking for any EPBC Act referrals (They are mandatory and federal jurisdictionally not state based) and looking for how long they knew. Seem same standards are not enforced for “renewables.”
Lastly, Vic seems to have no Land Court that the more resource rich states do. These guys below are the enemy but they may give you ways of frustrating the carpetbaggers:
https://www.edo.org.au/victorian-submissions/
For your perusal anyway.
Well done Jennifer and the other determined men who didn’t let BoM mislead the public without challenge.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/26/bureau-capitulates-but-overseas-model-unlikely-to-solve-all-temperature-measurement-issues/
Thanks Rockdoctor.
Gil Scott Heron – well, the first thing I want to say is, “mandate my house sized backside” and he “acted like an actor, Hollyweird … “
Sacré bleu, he never desists … ;?
Yeah, you get the point, interlopers.
Get off my planet by sundown, I requests ya.
Or else. 🙂
civil rights, womens’ rights, gay rights, – it’s all wrong – call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild – goddammit – first one wants freedom, then the whole damn world wants freedom – nostalgia, that’s what we want, I tells ya … 🙂
When all the other celluloid saviours were cringing in terror before the McArthee, Ron stood tall …
Well done Jennifer and the other determined men who didn’t let BoM mislead the public without challenge.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/26/bureau-capitulates-but-overseas-model-unlikely-to-solve-all-temperature-measurement-issues/
Jen and the others in the group do great work. Getting up at Watts and also sometimes in the local media is great but we need a major political attack on the BOM and the CSIRO. It won’t come from brain dead turtle and the libs are dickless.
Will the Surry Hills burnt building husk collapse into its own footprint?
Something something, jet fuel can’t melt heritage listings.
I defer to Indolent in such matters.
Vivek crying victim here is pathetic. You can’t go on a professional networking and employment site, start spouting political opinions, and whinge you’re being politically targeted when your rants get suppressed. The rest of the Internet exists for speech and LinkedIn has a purpose that I do not think it should stray from with very good reason.
I’d rather our society return to the arrangements when businesses focussed on legally making money by excelling in some narrow stage in the value chain, without trying to save the planet, promote equity, and be “good corporate citizens” or whatever euphemisms for crony capitalism we’re using this week. Users refraining from blogging politics on LinkedIn is part of that vision.
Bobby Zimmerman’s finest song, as unrepentantly performed by himself … 🙂
Miss Apil Corley at her best
The pale skinned brunette Ten in the green top and white boots …
Magnifique 🙂
April …
Anyone who believes bulk import of yuuuge numbas of Indian nationals into the Australian workforce will go smoothly, well they badly need to ride in a cab driven by an Indian student, twice daily for a week.
After that, they all their possession, especially valuable stuff, shall be transported by an imported Indian truckie, with whom they have to deal on every aspect of the transport.
After that they get read back to them, in public, their belief that Indians are “just like us”
Anyway, what’s all this about importing hordes of Indians?
Marvin and some Amazons, who are impossible to ignore …
When go go goils go rogue 🙂
Nafink.
Just the rampant imagination of the Good Nurse.
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The American Revolution was based on the concept of no taxation without representation. Now we have either a single party supermajority (CA and NY, e.g.) or our federal two-party “uniparty.”
We are back where we started: taxed to death with no voice in our own government.
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A larger dose of vitamin D may decrease psychiatric symptoms at school age
So the posting & discussion a few days ago about Albanese getting all huggy with India & importing hordes of Indians, .. .. was just… baseless chit chat?
Yep. There was no supporting internal superstructure. It was indeed, a husk.
Apparently the cops have been “speaking with two utes*”, seen as they were, very quickly dashing back to Redfern.
*See the Joe Pesci character in “My cousin Vinnee”
Hey, Miss Personage – it’s a thin line between love and hate …
🙁
A Gyspy as she is …
What a film clip – a brunette completely outsmarting a blonde.
Keely always was definitively gorgeous.
I used to just enjoy the song back in the late nineties.
Indolent posted about a speach by Alan Jones. If it is one I clicked on in Twitter it is not Alan speaking.
Regarding De Santis I read he was getting a lot of his Covid advice from Dr Jay Bhaticharia of the Great Barrington Declaration.
Briefly scrolled through today activities.
It would appear Nurse Bobbie may be inheriting the Faulty/St.Ruth meatsack of doom-mongering.
Am keeping an eye on the sky. No planeloads of PLA heading south.
Yet.
*today’s*
Told you I was looking at the sky. Instead of the keyboard.
Anyone recall when Basil Faulty of the Torres Strait was on here vigorously defending Struphid. It’s like a death wish with this fcucker. Whenever he’s providing security for one of his faves, the fave end up in a ditch.
Week In Pictures.
Piers Akerman:
Labor instituted self-government for the ACT despite a referendum which voted against it. This has resulted in a quasi-state type of government in a puddle that only justifies a town council. The dregs then rise to the top.
The federal government (and my local GP) are recommending a booster shot of the same vaccines that Dr. McCullough now says caused and will cause damage to males.