Apparently Albo is 1000% behind Gallagher.

Apart from his clear mathematical disability, if I were Gallagher I’d sleep with one eye open. In armour.

Rule number one is never swerve to avoid an animal, way too many serious collisions come from swerving at speed, and speed means above 40kph. I’ve seen a deer, a horse and a cow share the front seats of cars by entering through the windscreen, it’s not a pleasant thing, now that sounds like I’m saying one thing then another that contradicts the first, well in a way it does but if there are multiple people in the car and you leave the road at speed you will likely hit a tree or similar or roll or both sometimes. So 99% of the time hit the animal, even though you can get large roos they generally won’t try and get in the front seat with you, they move too fast and low centre of gravity. A damaged or written off car is much better than dead or injured people. Anything smaller than a roo you just brake and hope for the best.

Heavy vehicles, rule is NEVER swerve, ever, they are safe to hit any animal from the occupants viewpoint, but fast steering movements will nearly always end in disaster for all inside and anyone nearby.

Yes good on Reynolds.

Rule number one is never swerve to avoid an animal

100%.

Whether it be butterfly or buffalo – swerve and you’re about to meet a big old gum tree, a Mack bull bar or something else that will reduce your future Christmas dinners to zero.

Speaking on the government’s Constitution Alteration Bill, which is due to pass the Senate next week, Senator Cash said it was extraordinary Australians did not know how the permanent, constitutionally enshrined body would work or how many tens of millions of dollars it would cost taxpayers.

How many tens of millions?
Look to the Calma Langton report for guidance:

24 Voice Members
35 Regional and Local Voices @ 10 or more pax per each = 350 locally participating members

At a MP/Senator’s gig of $217,000 pa
Plus super @ 15%
Plus serviced vehicle @ $25,000 pa
Plus expenses @ $20,000 pa

$110 million right there.

A secretariat – say 1 for 5 members
At average $100k each = $7.5 million

Office accomodation x 36
Plus Utilities
Plus services

Then junkets and international travel

Suddenly $200 million looms as a budget figure – just for the Voice.

Add the costs of government counterparties at Commonwealth. State, and Local level – and you might easily double that $200 meg.

Then start into the blizzard of indirect costs across every part of the social economy – which is where the serious costs occur…

Joh, most days I sit and stitch to old, wonderful rock. Any genre will do.

Today it was The Eagles. One of my favourites.

And my other favourite.

Oh Calli!,
I could almost slap you!
The Eagles was THE defining music of my teens. Desperado. THE ONLY song to play non stop when you were torturing yourself over a boyfriend, a job or a new horse.

don’t forget Mikaela Davis.

I like bird song, for some reason or other, and I like harps.
A friend’s wife is a harpist, she used to play in the Ncl orchestra.
Much unsung instrument.
Fairly ordinary day at the Cafe, bird song wise. The currawongs have been glutinously celebrating the Sun at dawn, plus screeching from the cockies. The currawongs are starting to disperse into the bush to build nests, so I won’t see them for a while.

Transgender activists were seen baring their topless chests at a White House LGBTQ Pride Event hosted by President Joe Biden over the weekend.-this kind of filth, trashing the WH is designed to offend and demoralize. What evil has descended upon America. It makes the orgy in I Claudius look classy. How American has fallen. The incontinent old perv is symbolic and a major cause of this decline and collapse.

Johanna,
a few months back, I spied a male wombat wandering across the paddock next to mine. He was ambling along, totally unhurried. He was huge. Watching him, I was reminded of the American Bison. He had a massive hump on his shoulders. He had to have weighed at least 150 kilos. No way I would want to hit him on the way back from the pub.
Most of our knowledge of wombats comes from “A Country Practice” and their sweet little “Fatso”, who was actually portrayed by around twenty-odd baby wombats. A full grown male wombat is almost the size of a Shetland Pony.
Interesting anecdote, down here we have RED Wombats. Until I moved here, I had no idea there was such a thing as red wombats.

Yes the political class seem intent on destroying the economy in a number of ways. Politics for me is more and about protecting us from politicians.

feelthebern says:
June 13, 2023 at 8:03 pm

Wasn’t there an AFL player (crows or power) who got into trouble for breeding wombats with because he liked eating them?

Wombat pies, wombats and victims in barrels.

Mother Lode,
I can empathise with your American Pie Karaoke. Unfortunately, after the movie American Pie, much as we loved it, you seriously can’t unload your personal angst, shed load of tears, and driving the Big White Bus, to the the refrain of “and, this one time, at Band Camp”.

Cassie,
do you want me to help you “sort” your your friend?
I need the exercise.

One of many viruses that cause the common cold…

Albanese, on the other hand, likely wasn’t in the loop before Higgins went public

BBBWWWWahahahahahahahahahaha

Are you seriously trying to tell me a senior member of the ALP tactics committee kept information, that could be used to damage a sitting government, away from their then leader of the opposition, coming towards an election

Which is it, are you drunk or on the shrooms again.

Nottingham incident – latest: Three killed as man arrested on suspicion of murder

Let me guess he was using a bow, and was dressed in Lincoln green?

Damn, bugger, Sh*t!.
here it is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz62pktwJRA

Carpe Jugulumsays:
June 13, 2023 at 8:32 pm
Albanese, on the other hand, likely wasn’t in the loop before Higgins went public

Which is it, are you drunk or on the shrooms again.

Grandpa Cletus, as part of his job shilling for the Liars, has “forgotten” that AnAl was also asking multiple Questions Without Notice on the subject, along with the rest of the Mean Girls.

Embrace the power of “and” when considering your question.

Mother Lode,
the difference between Hotel California and American Pie.
youtube.com/watch?v=hgCw0YRMFHY

8 times smoother. 😀

Damn! never drunk blog!

I’ll bet the covid deaths have an average age of 76.8.

I think it was something like 85.3 across this wide brown land.

I suppose we’re lucky it wasn’t 91.3.

In any event. Cassie’s acquaintance is a tool.

It’s all such a mystery (the Hun):

Police arrested a man Tuesday after three people were found dead and a van tried to mow down three others in the central English city of Nottingham in incidents authorities believe are linked.

Nottingham’s centre was cordoned off, with a heavy police presence, including some armed officers following the series of events that left residents shaken.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said.

‘A series of events’. I will not be surprised if head-loppery is one or some of these ‘events’.

Earlier blockquote fail.

Stupido, as they say in Spain. Or Portugal.

Or at Elbow’s house.

dover0beachsays:
June 13, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen
You gotta love it when reality wins

Girl power meets reality.

A repeat of the – what was it, U16’s ? – in Oz vs. the national team.

Wrexham dragons – only just promoted to EFL League 2 in the UK, the fourth-highest soccer league in the UK.

vs. US team – world champions, most successful ever in Women’s world soccer.

12-0

teeny little bit sarcastic

apologies – you know sarcasm sometimes doesn’t travel well in print – try a </sarc> next time

It’s a pity Djokovic didn’t dedicate his victory to that treacherous god botherer Alex Hawke.

Randomly reading wikipedia

This Emperor Alexander III seems to have been a great half-brother and champion uncle. Really, this sounds pretty damned idyllic until the train accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia

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Family life
Left to Right: Emperor Alexander III, Prince George (later George V of the United Kingdom), Marie Feodorovna, Maria of Greece, Tsesarevich Nicholas (later Emperor Nicholas II of Russia). Probably taken on the imperial yacht near Denmark, c. 1893.

Following his father’s assassination, Alexander III was advised that it would be difficult for him to be kept safe at the Winter Palace. As a result, Alexander relocated his family to the Gatchina Palace, located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of St. Petersburg. The palace was surrounded by moats, watch towers, and trenches, and soldiers were on guard night and day.[38] Under heavy guard, he would make occasional visits into St. Petersburg, but even then he would stay in the Anichkov Palace, as opposed to the Winter Palace.[citation needed] Alexander resented having to take refuge at Gatchina. Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia remembered hearing Alexander say, “To think that after having faced the guns of the Turks I must retreat now before these skunks.”[39]

In the 1860s, Alexander fell in love with his mother’s lady-in-waiting, Princess Maria Elimovna Meshcherskaya. Dismayed to learn that Prince Wittgenstein had proposed to her in early 1866, he told his parents that he was prepared to give up his rights of succession in order to marry his beloved “Dusenka”. On 19 May 1866, Alexander II informed his son that Russia had come to an agreement with the parents of Princess Dagmar of Denmark, the fiancée of his late elder brother Nicholas. Initially, Alexander refused to travel to Copenhagen because he wanted to marry Maria. Enraged, Alexander II ordered him to go straight to Denmark and propose to Princess Dagmar. Alexander wrote in his diary “Farewell, dear Dusenka.”

Despite his initial reluctance, Alexander grew fond of Dagmar. By the end of his life, they loved each other deeply. A few weeks after their wedding, he wrote in his diary: “God grant that… I may love my darling wife more and more… I often feel that I am not worthy of her, but even if this was true, I will do my best to be.”[40] When she left his side, he missed her bitterly and complained: “My sweet darling Minny, for five years we’ve never been apart and Gatchina is empty and sad without you.”[41] In 1885, he commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé to produce the first of what were to become a series of jeweled Easter eggs (now called “Fabergé eggs”) for her as an Easter gift. Dagmar was so delighted by the First Hen egg that Alexander gave her an egg every year as an Easter tradition. After Alexander died, his heir Nicholas continued the tradition and commissioned two eggs, one for his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and one for his mother, Dagmar, every Easter. When she nursed him in his final illness, Alexander told Dagmar, “Even before my death, I have got to known an angel.”[42] He died in Dagmar’s arms, and his daughter Olga noted that “my mother still held him in her arms” long after he died.[43]

Alexander had six children by Dagmar, five of whom survived into adulthood: Nicholas (b. 1868), George (b. 1871), Xenia (b. 1875), Michael (b. 1878) and Olga (b. 1882). He told Dagmar that “only with [our children] can I relax mentally, enjoy them and rejoice, looking at them.”[44] He wrote in his diary that he “was crying like a baby”[45] when Dagmar gave birth to their first child, Nicholas. He was much more lenient with his children than most European monarchs, and he told their tutors, “I do not need porcelain, I want normal healthy Russian children.”[46] General Cherevin believed that the clever George was “the favourite of both parents”. Alexander enjoyed a more informal relationship with his youngest son Michael and doted on his youngest daughter, Olga.

Alexander was concerned that his heir-apparent, Nicholas, was too gentle and naive to become an effective Emperor. When Witte suggested that Nicholas participate in the Trans-Siberian Committee, Alexander said, “Have you ever tried to discuss anything of consequence with His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke? Don’t tell me you never noticed the Grand Duke is . . . an absolute child. His opinions are utterly childish. How could he preside over such a committee?”[47] He was worried that Nicholas had no experiences with women and arranged for the Polish ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya to become his son’s mistress.[48] Even at the end of his life, he considered Nicholas a child and told him, “I can’t imagine you as a fiancé – how strange and unusual!”[49]

Each summer his parents-in-law, King Christian IX and Queen Louise, held family reunions at the Danish royal palaces of Fredensborg and Bernstorff, bringing Alexander, Maria and their children to Denmark.[50] His sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales, would come from Great Britain with some of her children, and his brother-in-law and cousin-in-law, King George I of Greece, his wife, Queen Olga, who was a first cousin of Alexander and a Romanov Grand Duchess by birth, came with their children from Athens.[50] In contrast to the strict security observed in Russia, Alexander and Maria revelled in the relative freedom that they enjoyed in Denmark, Alexander once commenting to the Prince and Princess of Wales near the end of a visit that he envied them being able to return to a happy home in England, while he was returning to his Russian prison.[51] In Denmark, he was able to enjoy joining his children, nephews and nieces, in muddy ponds looking for tadpoles, sneaking into his father-in-law’s orchard to steal apples, and playing pranks, such as turning a water hose on the visiting King Oscar II of Sweden.[51]

Alexander had an extremely poor relationship with his brother Grand Duke Vladimir. At a restaurant, Grand Duke Vladimir had a brawl with the French actor Lucien Guitry when the latter kissed his wife, Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.[52] The prefect of St. Petersburg needed to escort Vladimir out of the restaurant.[52] Alexander was so furious that he temporarily exiled Vladimir and his wife and threatened to exile them permanently to Siberia if they did not leave immediately.[52] When Alexander and his family survived the Borki train disaster in 1888, Alexander joked, “I can imagine how disappointed Vladimir is going to be when he learns that we all stayed alive!”[53] This tension was reflected in the rivalry between Maria Feodorovna and Vladimir’s wife, Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna.[54]

Alexander had better relationships with his other brothers: Alexei (who he made rear admiral and then a grand admiral of the Russian Navy), Sergei (who he made governor of Moscow) and Paul.

Despite the antipathy that Alexander had towards his stepmother, Catherine Dolgorukov, he nevertheless allowed her to remain in the Winter Palace for some time after his father’s assassination and to retain various keepsakes of him. These included Alexander II’s blood-soaked uniform that he died wearing, and his reading glasses.[55]

Even though he disliked their mother, Alexander was kind to his half-siblings. His youngest half-sister Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya remembered when he would play with her and her siblings: “The Emperor… seemed a playful and kind Goliath among all the romping children.”[56]

On 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1888 the Imperial train derailed in an accident at Borki. At the moment of the crash, the imperial family was in the dining car. Its roof collapsed, and Alexander held its remains on his shoulders as the children fled outdoors. The onset of Alexander’s kidney failure was later attributed to the blunt trauma suffered in this incident.[57]

That should be ‘ATSIC + ATSIS’

Hmmm

I knew Alexander III was a reactionary (he had his reasons, his conclusion probably wasn’t sound) but I did not know the person who commissioned the “Protocols” was that high up.

Also usually happens after the weapon’s already had a few hundred rounds through it.

Also – generally, if you’ve put a few hundred (or thousand) rounds through something like a .50, IF it jams and you reckon there might a round cooking up underneath that top plate, the thing to do is NOT put your boat race straight into the space under that top plate when you lift it up to see what’s going on.

Put your face somewhere else when you do lift the plate. There’ll be a boom, or there won’t be.

I fully support women firing .50 cal

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Oz4Dq61KdKQ

Just visited Kandy in Sri Lanka. Pretty interesting. Impressive number of colonial buildings there.

Tom, I woke up insomniac and scrolling the Cat. How do you manage to do this every time, the cartoon universe at your fingertips? It is such a major feat of constancy and one that truly helps to make the Cat the great blog it is. I haven’t even got the energy to click on any yet, so that’s a treat for later. I’m going bad to bed now, sleepy at last. Thank you for the toons.

Linda Ronstadt singing Desperado. Now that really does bring back some gin-soaked miseries.
Thank goodness that was long ago and life moves on, as it does.

‘Degenerate’ Transgender Activists Strip at White House Pride Event With Kids PresentObscene- the Russians and the Chinese must be having a good laugh

Thanks Tom. Always my first stop in the mornings. I echo Lizzie’s wonder at your deep commitment to the cause.

D’ya think the anti-nuke people might have over-egged the Ooger-booger scary radiation demon? There’s a new examination of the “no safe level” theory, and all the Labor/Green types who fraudulently use the “big bad nuclear power station in your backyard” tactic are wrong on all counts.
American Thinker

When is a “Christian” not a Christian? When he’s a duplicitous and murderous takfiri jihadist who stabs children in a park.
“News” services fooled again, feeding people misinformation again. It was an unlikely story, and the evidence is now available, but the MSM might not tell you about it.
Raymond Ibrahim has the story at American Thinker.