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Open Thread – Weekend 17 June 2023
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Nailed it Cassie. I have no sympathy at all for Morrison – he betrayed his political constituents and also his…
Yes, Musk, despite his recent ‘free speech’ form is at best a mixed asset for world freedom
Agreed, provided we restrict them to *voluntary* consumption by those already dangerously ill, rather than our previous *compulsory* consumption by…
ICC war crimes claim. A slur to paint both sides as terrorists. The last “War crime” should be to salt…
Air, hellair!
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
News of an imminent Danparture has been greatly salivated.
Why are j’ismists trying to beat up the long overdue jobsacking of the ALPBC’s Pwobes as something anyone with a functioning brain would give a rodent’s backside about?
Oh that’s right, because they are foreseeing their (hopefully immediate) futures – and they are scared.
As they bloody well should be.
You evil useless dishonest hypocritical sanctimonious knobheads.
Street sweeping and garbology are noble professions compared to J’ism.
No 5 – Peter Crimmins No.
No. Six. Hello my friends.
“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” – some crazy german guy
Judge Paul Conlon is a mensch – I knew him many years ago before he was appointed to the bench, a serious lawyer and taking law very seriously.
Public prosecutors pushing ‘doomed to fail’ rape cases, say District Court judges
So glad to see some real lawyers calling out the cowardly prosecutors. What a disgrace the entire debacle of the #MeToo movement having been hijacked and politicised by the cauldron-stirrers and spineless knobs like ScumMo (a degree in Geography) and The Slusher (a degree in Economics) – who’ve trashed the foundations of our legal system by jeopardising the presumption of innocence and the rule of law in cowards’ itself – to say nothing of the popinjay-hearted Mark Dreyfus.
We’re certainly in the very worst of hands.
That should read cowards’ castle
According to Andrew Klavan Jesus Christ is being edited out of our Judeo-Christian Culture.
He makes some really good points and gives examples. I enjoy his podcasts very much He has a deep Christian faith which I find inspiring and his wisdom illuminating. He has some absolutely fascinating guests on including Yoram Hozary who John Anderson recently interviewed.
Johannes Leak. Kaboom!
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Andy Davey.
Dave Brown.
Graeme Bandeira.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom..
Tintarella, the jury should decide two things.
Whether the accused is definitely guilty and whether the accuser is definitely lying.
If it’s the latter, the accuser gets whatever prison sentence the accused would have got if found guilty and the prosecutor is suspended for a year.
LegalEagle on that indictment.
How silly has it become – news media now refers to “survivors” of having their bottoms touched.
16,000 year old human site at Cooper’s Ferry, North West America Other evidence presented points to a population before Clovis.
They should be grateful they don’t play Rugby League and have fingers stuck up their asses.
If there’s no actual crime…invent one.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” has played out perfectly for the socialists this week. All part of the script.
Stoker has gone back to Goldilocks mode. The hard-boiled Power-bitch hair doesn’t evoke the kind of “poor little me” sympathy to which she has become accustomed.
“How silly has it become – news media now refers to “survivors” of having their bottoms touched.”
It’s an insult to women who’ve endured real sexual violence.
Tiny violin misplaced. Sorry Pwobyn. Always part of the pwoblem.
Ditto: mental elf.
There was a shake in Tokyo last night. We’d just tumbled into bed and dreamland and off it went. A bit different on the 10th floor to being at ground level!
We are in a budget “airport” hotel for our one-day-in-transit. Even so, it’s beautiful and the staff are first rate. Breakfast right now in a corner overlooking the garden…you wouldn’t believe the urban density outside it – from where I sit you could be in the English countryside. As we walked through the foyer to the breakfast room, a little “Zen” courtyard with stone, moss and raked pebbles letting us know that this is, indeed, Japan.
Unfortunately the hotel shop won’t be open before we go – it is full of the handcrafts so beloved of the Japanese. Little chirimen silk mobiles and fobs, the gorgeous dolls and other bright beautiful items. Sigh.
And did I tell you I’m drinking coffee from a “Hello Kitty” mug? The Beloved picked up the wrong kind at the beverage counter. 😀
There’re professionals.
Is Mike “I’ll pour the gin” Carlton still a thing?
Or is he now just one of those dead oddities stored in spirit in a bottle in biology labs – except he is outside the bottle?
I see that the utterly putrid and ugly Katy Gallagher says she believes the lying Saint Brittaneeeeeeeee of No Knickers. This same vicious, venal female remains in parliament despite deliberately and unapologetically misleading parliament, despite the fact that she was part of an unholy trinity of gangster bitches who taunted and bullied another Labor female senator, a woman who’s now dead, and taunted and bullied another Liberal senator. Gallagher has no shame, no remorse, nothing. And yet our useless opposition hasn’t been able to lay a glove on her and instead the heat is now on a stupid stupid Liberal male who pinched a bum. So much for more honesty, transparency and accountability in our federal parliament. And as for those Teals who went to Canberra parroting garbage about honesty, transparency and accountability, and yet these same “Teals” are now all running cover for the socialist slag named Gallagher. Well, the wealthy scum in electorates like Wentworth who voted for Svengali Simon’s little whores rightly deserve a Lenin or Stalin or Mao to sweep through those electorates. And I live in Wentworth so…I know exactly how diabolically hypocritical the elitist scum who are my neighbours are.
I blame a lot of people, but most of all I blame the mainstream media. That’s why I feel zero sympathy for the likes of Probyn losing his cushy ABC job. In fact I laughed when I heard. Probyn’s vicious, nasty, and partisan reporting over the years has contributed to the malaise. Good riddance.
“Is Mike “I’ll pour the gin” Carlton still a thing?”
Oh yes, he spends his time sending out tweets stating that female Coalition MPs “should be strangled”. But that’s okay, there’s never any accountability or push back for the likes of him, because he’s a progressive. Just like the the grub who comments here, it’s okay to incite and applaud violence against conservative women or women whose opinions grubs like Carlton and the pervert apologist don’t like.
Mr Carlton was also a regular attendee at Mr and Mrs Amphibian’s oh so progressive January bash, in fact he and Mr Amphibian are great mates. However, given that Mr and Mrs Amphibian have zero credibility left, I do wonder if they’ll continue with the January bashes. We will see.
Both products of elite North Shore schools, both hating the hands that fed them. Particularly the church.
Something that oozes from the entire coterie of leftist courtiers – ingratitude and entitlement.
“Both products of elite North Shore schools, both hating the hands that fed them. Particularly the church.”
And both have sent their children to elite North Shore Schools.
Further to Pwobyn, next time I run into Gerard Henderson, I’ll have a good laugh with him.
BTW…Hendo loves my rants!
Buyers remorse on all 3 counts I would think!
There was a shake in Tokyo last night
That wasn’t an earth quake.
Just a Friday night stroll by gojira.
My Paywallian comment (still in the ether) makes much the same point. I expect it to be nixed.
How sweet, a city in the US state of Michigan with an all Muslim council has banned the LGBTQI+ flag from city buildings.
Researchers follow AI path to safer senolytic compounds
Senolytic compounds are those which have the ability to kill senescent cells. Those are cells that increase with age and are in a last ditch survival mode; possibly to prevent them dividing and becoming cancerous because they are cell cycle locked. Senescent cells release various messenger molecules that can promote inflammation. In various animal studies removal of senescent cells improves health markers. The next big craze for health nuts is the elimination of senescent cells. They are using fiseten, a compound found in strawberries, but most of the studies I read indicated it is fiseten AND a prescription drug that does the trick.
Bruce in WAsays:
June 16, 2023 at 11:26 pm
WTF is an “old growth” forest? Wouldn’t you want to be cutting old trees down rather than younger ones?
God, no! “Old growth” is sacred to the tree huggers and greenies!
Quite reasonable, after all, a lot of the “tree huggers and greenies” are pretty “old growth” Boomers themselves! And then there are the mentally ancient communists.
Electric planes aren’t gunna happen with current tech, and that tech is the same reason that electric trucks larger than small suburban delivery trucks aren’t gunna happen either. Unless some completely new battery that is much lighter and much more energy dense than current battery tech comes along, there will be no electric planes or large trucks. Electric cars are so heavy that they are going to cause lots of problems for roads and carparks and other things.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/bad-news-for-electric-planes-batteries-only-last-a-few-weeks/
I saw that last night and thought it was a sign of an unserious woman. It was her moment, she has just destroyed a man’s life but she couldn’t decide what hairstyle to wear.
By the way, who is this other woman who went to Dutton? I am in no mood any longer for shielding these delicate damsels. You make an accusation then you come right out so we can examine you for veracity. Look at Labor women, they do not cross their party even when they are raped but on our side pinched bottoms are the end of the world so let’s help the witches on the Labor side.
I am surprised by how many people are watching the RFK Jr interviews on various platforms.
I don’t know what the spotify numbers are like, but Glenn Greenwald said that his interview with him on Rumble attracted 600k views in the first 24 hours.
I thought the voice would turn people off.
But people are listening.
This portrait has just been given top award for photograph. ( Warning. If you are eating breakfast hold off before opening the full photo). Is this art? Is this in your face perverted grotesque? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-16/shea-kirk-wins-national-photographic-portrait-prize-2023/102488824
Speaking of such things…
World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal (16 Jun)
By contrast the Chinese can build a whole conventional nuke plant in less than 5 years. Meanwhile:
Australia to have some of the highest electricity costs in the world (Sky News, 16 Jun)
Bowen tells me renewables are the cheapest form of electricity generation there is. It’s a mystery.
sfw
So, let me get this right. You’re saying humanity is stuck with fossil fuels forever, until the end of time. There will no advance in fuels, even up to the point when the earth is engulfed by the self-destructing sun.
Takes a lot of imagination to be be a VicPol plod, hey?
The All In Podcast gets about 1million views/listens a week across all platforms.
About 300k odd are via YouTube.
Their RFK Jr interview from a month or so ago, has double that.
The All In has said they have De Santis and Haley lined up.
Seeing their numbers will be interesting.
And in more ‘Nirvana is just around the too cheap to meter corner…’
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/bad-news-for-electric-planes-batteries-only-last-a-few-weeks/
And being aware of the ‘Tesla fire’ training for the CFS (order 10 tons of water and quarantine for 3 days), I wouldnae want to be up in one of those things when the battery caught fire.
In the Oz today an extract from a book by John Stapleton “Australia Breaks Apart” describes the way this country descended into a bastion of totalitarianism in an instant as a result of fear of Covid.
We should all buy a copy of the book. Fantastic.
Nature takes care of the old growth forests by burning them down and starting again. An environmental catastrophe all around with the resulting air pollution and loss of flora and fauna. Logging the forest is clearly the better option and everybody and everything wins. In the final analysis greenies are actually anti-environmentalists.
A prayer for the day.
Lord, spare us the pitiless pieties and perverted proclivities of the progressive.
I’m taking the P.
Trump’s biggest f-up is with C-19. He surrounded himself with the worst of the worst and he has yet to apologize for it. He stills maintains he saved millions of lives with Operation Warp Speed.
C-bomb!
The Jaxen report @41:50 is a doozy. Birx needs to hang along with a host of others utilizing her scarf collection, instead of rope, as the method to achieve justice. Those pointing the finger solely at Fauci and others have yet to grasp the full story.
I remember a story via Salty Cracker of a truck that crashed with a shipment of Moderna jabs … all local law enforcement was booted from the scene and the DOD took over. The following alludes to it.
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The opening segment on the qwerty teachings in schools is also worth watching.
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The HighWire with Del Bigtree:
Parents Clash As California Continues To Target Parental Rights | Jefferey Jaxen Reports on New Information Out of Wuhan which Alleged First Patients to Contract COVID Were Wuhan Lab Scientists; Who is Colonel Deborah Birx and why was she Heading up a Military-run Pandemic Response? | Life-Saving Vitamin C Protocol for Sepsis Reaffirmed After Legal Challenge
Guests: Amy Bohn, Paul Marik, M.D., F.C.C.M., F.C.C.P.
Episode 324: RIGHTING THE WRONG
Point made over on Michael Smith.
How long did Brittany take to collect her compensation?
Survivors of the HMAS Voyager/HMAS Melbourne collision had to battle for FORTY YEARS!
Glenn Greenwald said that his interview with him on Rumble attracted 600k views in the first 24 hours.
The guy is an EnviroLoon who reckons America should fund the Ukraine War until the last Ukie soldier is dead.
Then there’s the book ‘he wrote’ defending Michael Skakel.
Not forgetting being a junkie until age 40 and his 2nd wife’s ‘suicide’.
People on all sides of politics are hungry for some sanity and to escape the media gaslighting. How bad must it be in the US when a green gasbag is more preferable than anything the establishment has to offer?
Another example of ‘big pharma’ pushing a drug for which dietary modification already has the answer? – google ‘fasting and autophagy’ for the natural remedy.
Re Stoker & her hairstyle – irrelevant to current issue. She’s had it for a while. And so what?
However, I am surprised that she didn’t turn on Van the moment he pinched her. It may have been a public event, but that would be my reaction. She did speak to him subsequently & extracted an apology – but she should have shamed him on the spot.
Somehow Stoker got the important people off side, it would seem, to be placed 3rd on the Senate ticket.
It should be titled “I’m now ready for my mammogram”.
JC, amazed to see you around so early, have you changed your lifestyle habits? If so, that’s good, you need to.
“So, let me get this right. You’re saying humanity is stuck with fossil fuels forever, until the end of time. There will no advance in fuels, even up to the point when the earth is engulfed by the self-destructing sun.”
I never said that, you state a position then pretend that’s what I said, very poor form for you but I guess that’s what I can expect from you. My point is that unless some entirely new form of technology unknown to chemistry and physics is developed, then current battery tech will not be viable in trucks or planes, it’s marginal in cars. I have no idea what the future holds, it would be great if some form of battery with extremely high energy density and low mass is developed, it would change the world.
Anyway, it was some time ago that I put you in the same box as monty, Ed Case and a couple of others. Your endless abuse and drivelling castigation of those who don’t slavishly follow your ideas makes me think of you as an unpleasant person. I believe that one shouldn’t associate with people who vex you and you are much worse than vexing. So wander off, grab a bottle and enjoy your ultacrepadarian evenings alone, spewing abuse at those who displease you. I don’t care you no longer exist to me.
Cheers
Stephen Williams
Yes Eddles, but you’re forgetting one thing. His immediate competitor is a demented, bribe taking, women touching pedo.
Somehow Stoker got the important people off side, it would seem, to be placed 3rd on the Senate ticket.
She was the junior Senator, never faced the voters before, and under the Coalition agreement either she or James McGrath, who’s a country Senator, had to be #3.
It was an Election where the Liberals were punished nby female voters.
Any other time, she woulda been okay.
Ed Casesays:
June 17, 2023 at 8:44 am
Glenn Greenwald said that his interview with him on Rumble attracted 600k views in the first 24 hours.
The guy is an EnviroLoon who reckons America should fund the Ukraine War until the last Ukie soldier is dead.
Then there’s the book ‘he wrote’ defending Michael Skakel.
Not forgetting being a junkie until age 40 and his 2nd wife’s ‘suicide’.
Grandpa Cletus is horrified that some might change intellectually as they get older. Grandpa has never altered an opinion since he attended pre-school.
…and Progress! Well-endowed, claw-handed, horrifying death-inspired Progress! mentored by Daemonettes.
She didn’t impress the voters either. This is her way of getting even and getting a pat on the head from her media pals. Let’s see how long she lasts at Sky but then she is a lawyer and has that as a fall back career.
Nice to see you’re stalking me by commenting on the times I show up here, Constable Williams.
You made zero allowance for technological improvement, you eggnog. It was the omission that caused my comment.
Sure, put me in any category you want. I’ve already added you to dim bulb group .
Consumer advocates are calling for more band aids as the patient bleeds out.
Anyway, it was some time ago that I put you in the same box as monty, Ed Case and a couple of others.
Huh?
Name the ‘couple of others’, then?
Dickhead.
Ed Casesays:
June 17, 2023 at 8:54 am
Somehow Stoker got the important people off side, it would seem, to be placed 3rd on the Senate ticket.
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It was an Election where the Liberals were punished nby female voters.
Any other time, she woulda been okay.
Soooooo, are you saying that the female voters punished the Coalition by NOT voting for the female candidate?
Give it up, Grandpa Cletus, your perpetual shilling for the Liars is totally transparent, and equally laughable.
Constable Williams
One other thing, you dumb shit. Not that I care, but every third comment here is laced with abuse towards commenters others don’t like. I only bring it up, not to defend anyone, but to demonstrate what a worthless Vicpol lying douchebag you are and why there’s a good case that every one of you should be fired and your pensions withdrawn. Most decent people hate you!
Ed Casesays:
June 17, 2023 at 8:58 am
Anyway, it was some time ago that I put you in the same box as monty, Ed Case and a couple of others.
Huh?
Name the ‘couple of others’, then?
Dickhead.
Grandpa Cletus is upset that there might be others as stupid as him and the Fat Fascist Fool. Do you and he have an agreement to uptick each other’s comments to avoid being ignored?
Batteries are a joke, excess nuclear power could be used to generate already-used liquid fuels and we’re good to go without batteries at all.
Hybrids have their place in terms of range extending. “Glass” batteries won’t be used en masse for a long time.
Batteries still have the following problems.
1. Very costly to replace.
2. Very poor ecological record with regards to materials used and mining.
3. Long recharge times 45 min v 3 min to fill up.
4. Less range than a diesel sister model.
5. Fire risk.
Vanadium sulfides, sulfates, phosphides and phosphates are where I have seen the latest research looking at. Who knows what they could do with these, glass batteries and modularisation – say you have 1200 batteries and you replace maybe 30 duds at each service. That with nuclear power generation and innovation in mass storage and point of sale charging tech – this is contingent on at least five things happening though!
Must be some sort of AmDram fly-on-the-wall production.
The NIMBY vegan sounds too perfect.
Public prosecutors pushing ‘doomed to fail’ rape cases, say District Court judges
If I get the learned Judge correctly, the view from the bench is that Scummo and Albo are breathtakingly stupid in their naïveté.
Which seems a fair judgment.
“In the Lehrmann/Higgins case, that was doomed to failure as soon as it was thought appropriate to ventilate the issues in the public domain and attempt to influence public opinion,” he said.
Gobbledegook and spastic bullshit.
The Case only failed because the one holdout for Not Guilty brought contraband material into the Jury Room, sabotaging the Trial.
I think they’re correctly labelled “DPP degenerate gambler” cases. They don’t care if someone is guilty or not, but if they can score more points on the tally board.
The number of payouts for sexual assault without any criminal trials lately is alarming. Mind you, some of them don’t have civil suits either – hand patting payments you might call them.
Yet another beautiful painting, Dover. Many thanks for your selections – they have been greatly appreciated.
The Case only failed because the one holdout for Guilty brought contraband material into the Jury Room, and they should have been kicked off the jury and the verdict accepted.
Must be some sort of AmDram fly-on-the-wall production.
The NIMBY vegan sounds too perfect.
Oh dear! .. that’s coffee across the keyboard stuff! ..
still early but very close to laff of the day status ..! LOL!
If she’d done that, your boy woulda gone down 11-0.
pmsl- have an abc acquaintance who is delighted about the abc cuts
Probyn should have known he was vulnerable. I suppose the reason he didn’t was, paradoxically, because he was such a perfect fit for the ABC: a mediocre mind with pretensions of brilliance.
Having dismissed logic as an approach to truth the ABC drones use various impoverished methods under the rubric ‘nuance’ – you can see them glibly bat away an irrefutable objection to their opinions by citing this ‘nuance’, which their interlocutor is simply too stupid to understand.
Two related methods by which they are mesmerised and deluded are word association and word patterns.
For example, the term ‘black hole’ is racist because the word black, as applied to people, can be racist.
It’s as clear as black and black.
Or how the Nastis were ‘Right’ fighting the Soviet ‘Left’. In the Cold War America was opposed to the USSR so that made them ‘Right’ (even though they had also fought the Nastis). Therefore, like the Nastis, the USA in the Cold War was fascist.
Probyn’s name resembles the word ‘probity’, a ‘truth’ word, therefore a patriarchy word. He was poison.
On the other hand a name like ‘Milligan’ goes with the word ‘mill’ as in ‘rumour mill’. It also resembles the word ‘mulligan’ so that whenever you muck up you get another chance. Everyone at the ABC reveres that protection.
The one we call Red Kezza, venerable elder in the ABC collective, is also “O’Brien” – the hero of the book 1984.
Leigh Sales? ‘Leigh’ sounds like the French ‘Le’, and France is the source of all culture to be copied, from the sagacious Derrida to the delightfully quirky deux chaveaux, from the Paris Cafes to the Paris Commune, from French Wine to Faux Grass.
It’s all in the nuance.
No.
They didn’t even bother to retry the case.
Higgins said no.
She’d been receiving Death Threats.
It seems Jackie Weaver is in every Hollywood movie these days. I just saw a trailer for Hello To Tomorrow and there she was.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Rich liberal women will still support a man who just uncomfortably, sexually groped them in public.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Ed Casesays:
June 17, 2023 at 9:10 am
“In the Lehrmann/Higgins case, that was doomed to failure as soon as it was thought appropriate to ventilate the issues in the public domain and attempt to influence public opinion,” he said.
Gobbledegook and spastic bullshit.
The Case only failed because the one holdout for Not Guilty brought contraband material into the Jury Room, sabotaging the Trial.
The case only failed because the one holdout for Guilty brought contraband material into the Jury Room, sabotaging the Trial.
The Ed Case always fails because it has no idea of the concept of evidence. In this case, the Ed Case thinks that it knows more about the law than an experienced. It is wrong.
…and the AFP didn’t investigate and the ACT DPP did not prosecute these death threats – a very serious crime given the fact she was still a Crown witness at the time?
You’re a pathological liar, Ed.
Dot
Just scanned down, Snap!
Ed Case is a Head Case.
All it takes is for one car to catch on fire…oh dear!
One thing also great about this channel is spotting the bots and commies in the comment section.
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Winston:
Hundreds of Thousands of EVs just being left to rot in fields….
China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars – Letting them Rot!
DR.VERNON COLEMAN: IS THE W.H.O. THE TERRORIST WING OF THE UN?
Political expediency. Blew up for one, worked like a charm for the other.
The judge is kind. And diplomatic.
Huh?
Name the ‘couple of others’, then?
Dickhead.
For a start, you and the fat lesbian.
Then on to the people you shill for.
Thorpe, Higgins, Wilkinson, Albanese, Gallagher…
Everything you type is antagonistic gibberish.
Go away.
I rather think it’s the judge who is naive.
Both knew exactly what they were doing and did so out of political expediency under the cover of parliamentary privilege.
Meanwhile, spare a thought for the young Queensland man who spent two years in custody on remand only to be found not guilty of rape at his recent trial.
We are no better than the witch-hunting societies of the past.
And Drumgold. And Ricky Slater.
Ed Casesays:
June 17, 2023 at 9:19 am
Higgins said no.
She’d been receiving Death Threats.
Have those who made the threats been identified and charged yet? Or is it too hard to charge brain farts from Mizzz Knickerless, who recovered quickly enough from the trauma of the trial and death threats to finish her university course, graduate and toddle off to the Seychelles.
Mother Lode…
The Vibe – old and busted
Nuance – the new hotness
Deutsche Bank’s top minds put U.S. recession chance near 100%—and say avoiding a hard landing would be ‘historically unprecedented’
Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13
Indolentsays:
June 17, 2023 at 9:21 am
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Rich liberal women will still support a man who just uncomfortably, sexually groped them in public.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
If only Biden was in the Australian Liberal Party, the Liars and Slime would have hounded him out of office years ago.
There’s a disturbance in The Force, Roger.
Also, we are both equally jaded by these Numpties in High Places.
At 0922
experienced judge …
Xi Jinping meets with ‘old friend’ Bill Gates in Beijing
…and. here. we. GO!!!
Critics of “gender-affirming care” predicted this would happen.
FMD. Hun:
Rare victory lap? No dickhead, he’s been exonerated on every level. Only the most partisan of morons want him gone.
Nearly 1 in 5 US adults have been diagnosed with depression: CDC report
I’m moving beyond jaded to disgusted, calli.
Enjoy the sunshine!
Anheuser-Busch whistleblower alleges Dylan Mulvaney fiasco ‘planned’: ‘Strategic destruction of Bud Light’
On the “what would we do” scenario, the Beloved asked me what I would do if a colleague pinched me on my ample bottom.
No assault, no hand slap, just turn around, a palm firmly pressed against his chest and eye contact. Apologise now and it’s forgotten. Refuse and it’s reported. Now. Your choice.
It would help younger Me’s further down the ladder.
Is that the Ruby who took her love to town? She’s an artist in her own right
Don’t forget to read her bio on the right.
Jim Jones in the house!
Ed Case is a Head Case.
He provides the bait for the hook which many people purchase before casting their rods.
What will be more interesting is if they continue but starting getting knock-backs for what was formerly “the most sought after ticket in town” (according to their publicist).
Because the man who groped them is a fellow insider. It is the gang’s rules that must be obeyed above all others, especially if that person has a higher status within the gang. What they do is irrelevant (as long as they do not transgress gang rules), it is who they are – insider or outsider – that matters.
(Good find though. Check out that rising thumb).
Separation of powers of observation?
One man’s smart politics is another’s appalling behaviour that trashes 800 years of common law practice and casually tramples over the Attorney General’s official guidance.
Don’t give them an excuse.
It’s also offensive to people with mental illness and their families who support them.
E Jean Carroll did win a civil suit where Trump raped her in a changeroom in a busy retail store 30 years ago and there were no other witnesses. She’s an unhinged liar.
Some harsh words.
Women tend to vote left. They are willing to get raped or groped for welfare. They have initiated literal witch hunts (think Salem) to get land, notoriety or because they were bored. Women have married their conquerers willingly for thousands of years. Christine Blazey Ford, Brittany Higgins, Julie Swetnick, Anita Hull, E Jean Carroll, and Thorpe are all proven liars but their message had a narrative that mattered more than them being proven bullshitters.
Keep in mind Ford and Swetnick made false accusations of being gang raped, even though Swetnick described herself as (technically) being a “child molester”.
Real equality would involve losing a sense of entitlement and consistently living up to the standards of accountability they demand of men. Men cannot even sit next to kiddos on planes but most sexual abuse is in public schools, perpetrated by women.
Women, do better. Stop letting leftist weirdos grope you in exchange for the welfare state and likewise stop falsely accusing conservatives for gubmint gibs.
I could say something about the perils of conflating leering with forcible rape, but that is kind of obvious to anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
Latest data is that Bud Lite sales are still falling. While on such things Disney’s latest woke movie is a floparoo of epic proportions.
Disney’s ‘Elemental’ Bombs With $3.5M Thursday Opening (16 Jun)
The live action Little Mermaid is also bombing, this time in China. It seems that Chinese don’t like black mermaids or gay pron stars.
You have to wonder when these people will get brains.
The latter is untrue.
Wanderin’ Joe.
That’s really going to help when standard family homes in Pendle Hill now sell for nearly 1.2 mn.
Typical of someone who has never had a real job.
What do we get this week?
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Fleccas Talks:
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In the 50/s GM had the idea of a small reactor as the engine. True.
I went to their museum once and read about it. Their engineers believed they could build a tiny nuclear engine for a car.
Cool as.
It is mostly driven by health nuts. The drugs have long been used in cancer treatment. The use of senolytic drugs is more than about being healthy, there are therapeutic possibilities for a wide range of conditions.
Ya wanna boost autophagy? Try spermadine. An ATG agonist? Exercise induces autophagy. There are a number of plant compounds that can induce autophagy and kill senescent cells. Is there are limit to how much we should boost autophagy? Should we limit protein intake prior to fasting because amino acid concentrations within a cell limit autophagy? Autophagy is implicated in some cardiac conditions. Some cancer cells survive through elevated autophagy.
The best diet! The best supplement! The problematic science. The science will improve, the drugs will be better. In the future the benefits of lifestyle modifications will be dwarfed by therapeutic improvements. Big Pharma is not without problems but modern medicine is lost without it.
Roll on these detransitioning legal cases in the US against woke ideologues in medicine and psychology who assault under-age children. I hope they make this industry start to curl up and die in fear of mass payouts. It was this that finally made the woke NHS close down the Tavistock Institute.
Once the payouts start then plenty of the current crop of unemployed young adults mutilated as kids by this process will start to see the huge dollar signs and head for detransitioning and the law, even if they are firmly still in the woke ideology. I can always do a gender flip back, after the payout, they will think. Fortunately, more than a few thinking this will start to realise how much they have been duped once they realise that they are not, in reality, anything like the other sex, and that it has all been playacting with medical help.
The next big craze for health nuts is the elimination of senescent cells.
Overnight I have had three unrelated (or I thought they were unrelated) platforms promoting Berberine.
Is this the “new” big thing?
JC
There US subs in the 1960s had very small oceanographic/research vessels that had a miniaturised reactor, about the size of an old 80 litre/20-gallon gal. steel garbage can (that’s about as good as the details get).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_submarine_NR-1
There have been proposals for nuclear powered aircraft. At some point we have to get over our ICE addiction.
I’m not a fan of EVs but this Mercedes is something else.
The Most Efficient Car Ever Created? Mercedes EQXX
At the risk of setting a record for negative ticks (how low can you go?):
The statement above is a poor excuse for conservative non-performance.
It’s akin to saying ‘I didn’t want to win, anyway.’
If it is a disorder, it is one of morality and values, but these are secondary or even tertiary concerns to our opponents who value winning first.
Without first ‘winning’ (however you define it – and I believe conservatives have downgraded their definition of the same), what point is there quibbling about HOW you achieved something you DIDN’T actually achieve?
Note that I neither state nor believe that a sense of morals and traditional values is unimportant, or should be discarded; but rather, we need to focus more on acquiring the new car before we decide what seat covers to purchase.
No bottoms were pinched by David Van.
He grabbed a whole handful of bottom in his large claw and had a good feel.
Solar industry facing bankruptcies, leaving many with roof panels that don’t work
John H opines:
Big Pharma is not without problems but modern medicine is lost without it.
Bullshit.
You’re a Shill for Big Sick.
From the Breitbart link from Bruce of Newc above.
Biden’s trannie White House was just about the last straw for many normal Americans.
The numbers against this sort of stuff are turning huge, and very election swinging.
NOT a line in the sand.
Also on the agenda was the announcement of the $2bn Social Housing Accelerator Fund, (wtf?) which will be delivered to state and territory governments within two weeks.
This is just political waffle .. like all these gummint “schemes” all that happens is the money disappears into “costing/research/studies” and the end result, for appearances sake, is a coupla, media worthy, houses in each state that equate to several million each overall ..!
A Tassie hobby….
A Tasmanian woman accused of defrauding the government for almost a decade by claiming Centrelink benefits for a daughter that never existed will fight her charges.
Athena Murray, who also goes by the surname of Brown, was extradited from Cairns in Far North Queensland after she was arrested on a Tasmanian-issued warrant on January 5 this year.
A warrant was sought for Ms Murray’s arrest in 2019 when she could not be located by authorities.
Murray’s charges include two counts of obtain financial advantage by deception, one count of wilfully make a false statement, make a false statement, two counts of make false statement in application, and one count of dishonestly influence a public official.
She has since pleaded not guilty to each of the charges against her.
Hobart Mercury
Gustav Klimt’s Last Portrait Expected to Sell for More Than $80 M. at Sotheby’s
“Demand for social housing has increased almost three times as fast the growth in population. We are determined to work with state and territory governments to reverse this decline, as part of our commitment to expand housing supply,” Mr Albanese said.
Create a problem, throw tax payers money at it, claim victory, move on to the next problem.
Something…something has to break this futile cycle.
Yep but there are often multiple new things out there. Most of the reporting on websites provides references to check. I tried that with one doctor and of the 5 refs I checked most were not supporting his claims. I only have to see that once and I never again read\watch that person. Recently I’ve seen other critiques of youtube doctors and again the references were not supporting the arguments. Who bothers to check the references? Who bothers to read the whole study? Who bothers to look for negative reports about the latest craze? How many people know that ketogenic diets are associated bone mineral density decline and high fats diets with hypothalamic inflammation? How many people know that Ancel Keys should be dug up and sentenced to death for killing billions with his sugar love nonsense?
Why Ted?
Why?
My slow wireless speeds saved me from anything beyond the first couple of pics.
Plus, if you have a professionally made promo webpage ensure the spelling is correct.
The medium of ink on soft recycled paper mimics the tattoo process referencing the scars left by emotions linked with expirence rather than mental illness.
Expirence: is that sort of like heaven/hell? You have to die to get it.
Obama suggests ‘digital fingerprints’ to counter misinformation ‘so we know what’s true and what’s not true’
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING — Emails from the Biden laptop reveal a newly discovered Hunter Biden Maltese bank account opened by Burisma that coincides with the $10 million bribery allegations involving Biden and Burisma, as reported by an FBI source.
You’re a Shill for Stupidity.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
‘WE’ are the carbon the psychopaths want to reduce.
According to the ”experts”, having kids is wrong and destructive for the environment.
The sub-headline: ”One less baby helps the planet more than giving up meat, car”
These people are sick.
Muddy – The problem is that the Left has totally discarded morality, and the Right cannot do that. So we fight with our arms tied behind our backs.
Pretty good essay this week via Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit:
“Cricket Morality” (12 Jun)
I am reminded of a passage in Arthur Koestler’s 1940 book Darkness at Noon.
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“It is said that No. 1 (Stalin) has Machiavelli’s Prince lying permanently by his bedside. So he should: since then, nothing really important has been said about the rules of political ethics. We were the first to replace the nineteenth century’s liberal ethics of fair play by the revolutionary ethics of the twentieth century. In that also we were right: a revolution conducted according to the rules of cricket is an absurdity. Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one that the end justifies the means.”
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And this is indeed the logic of so many of our present-day “progressives.” They have convinced themselves that we are not in one of those “breathing spaces of history” in which fairness is to be expected–rather, everything must be about ultimate things, must be “existential”, to use one of their favorite terms.
RTWT. The essayist doesn’t say why the Left regards getting their way as “existential”. But I think it is the merging of Marxism with the climate religion, such that they believe they have to do whatever it takes in order to save the human race. Of course that’s a load of rubbish, but if someone believes it they believe it, QED, and they’re certainly acting like they do.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
– George S. Patton
Wow, crotchless making sense about stokes and RFK jr. Something in the water or maybe he’s loosened the cock ring and the blood’s flowing.
This may be true of the East Coast forests such as the Victorian Ash forests. In WA much of the SW can reach an equilibrium of growth and decay, however until such states are reached, carry an understory fuel load that makes virtually any other use of the land uneconomic and containing any form of fire impossible within the forest area. In effect it sterilises large areas of land some would say (me included) unnecessarily.
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
– George S. Patton
Maybe Dutton needs to look at the above………………Maybe he can’t as he doesn’t have the bottle.
Something to relax with, and marvel at, and break-up the flow here…
From that awful Slavic culture.. Contrastes, the second part of Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasia op 56, a masterpiece that deserves to be known as Tchaikovsky’s real 3rd Piano Concerto. (His actual 3rd is a one-movement incomplete piece, later “completed” by his friend, Sergei Taneyev, orchestrating Tchaikovsky’s Andante and Finale).
Here played in the composer’s original 2-piano version, the soloist is someone that I’ve never heard of, Tatiana Davchenko.
A really brilliant babe, worthy of a subscription and a like.
The hydrogen powered engine as a cheap and effective replacement for a gasoline engine.
BMW h8rs look away.
Loosened the what?
Athena Murray, who also goes by the surname of Brown, was extradited from Cairns in Far North Queensland after she was arrested on a Tasmanian-issued warrant on January 5 this year.
Extradited for CentreLink fraud .. ya gotta be kidding! .. 99% of CL fraud cases end up with a slap on the wrist .. “our” tax dollars at work .. FFS!
Australia Day barbecues are literally fired with the colonial fodder of the Stolen Generation. Very poor form to even be seen at one. Especially in Mosman (or wherever it is).
Lest we forget the madness we suffered, here’s a good account of it all in today’s Oz.
Shameful fearmongering leaders should pay for covid lockdown insanity.
The trend is devastatingly clear.
Thanks Gilas. I will go back to Fantasia. Back in the old vinyl days I was lucky enough to score a wonderful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s 5th. Russian orchestra IIRC. The 4th movement is glorious, the orchestra does a magnificent job, evidenced by the thunderous applause. It is one of those rare occasions when a live recording captures a precious moment of outstanding human creativity.
Worked well for the Germans at Stalingrad.
WHY do we fight with our arms tied behind our backs?
WHO tied them there?
Spending so much time and effort worrying about how our opponents are morality-free is a waste of resources. We will not influence them to change their behaviour by using guilt or shame, because they are incapable of acknowledging either; see my numerous recent comments about whose rules (the gang’s or society’s) are dominant. If you are speaking English to a person you know – or soon learn – does not understand the English language, would you persist in doing so – maybe by speaking more slowly, and louder? What will this continuation of the same, unsuccessful tactics, achieve? Are we actually evaluating our efforts at all, or simply assuming that our moral and intellectual superiority will carry us to victory, (and if someone cannot SEE that, it doesn’t mean it isn’t HAPPENING)?
We can (and should) keep our own value system intact, but focus less on simply ‘raising awareness of their hypocrisy’ and more on how to undermine and eventually defeat the existential threat their lack of morality poses.
We don’t NEED to tie one or both arms behind our backs. That our moral anchors weigh us down is a myth.
We have what we need to achieve the desired goal – to stop, turn back, pursue, and reduce to ashes, the barbarian parasites that seek to drain us of every nutrient. We simply choose not to. Why, I don’t know. We have the choice. If we choose to tie an arm or two behind our own backs because we think this will provide a handy excuse for when we fail, then we choose to fail. It is still a choice.
Forget Brittany. I’m worried about the cavoodle.
Daily Telegraph:
The ADF is developing a Special Forces unit based on a legendary World War II regiment in response to the threat China poses. See what it means.
Two issues; firstly I think they are badly outnumbered already, and secondly the ADF has just finished trashing their special forces people and in doing so trashing their recruitment startegies.
And their strategies too!
One analysis I read argued they wanted Patton for a very particular set of operations requiring aggressiveness, potentially reckless aggression. They didn’t want him everywhere, just for those particular operations.
I should remind anyone here who thinks Andrew Probyn was a half decent journalist. The truth is that he was far-left and very partisan activist hack. Worth remembering how Probyn described Tony Abbott in 2017, as “the most destructive politician of his generation“*, and for that breach of impartiality, Probyn was “chastised by ACMA for breaching impartiality standards in a controversial report about former prime minister Tony Abbott.”
Good riddance.
* And remember, Andrew Probyn has never described that miserable shit from Point Piper as “the most destructive politician of his generation”, a pity because that would be the truth.
We are nearly two weeks in to the UKR offensive and they still haven’t made it to the first major RUS line of defence. The much maligned RUS mainline forces seem to be doing pretty well, aggressively countering UKR moves forward. If this goes on for another two weeks it’s going to be very difficult for Ukraine.
TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
Who came up with this one?
PatriotTakes @patriottakes
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Ron DeSantis wonders if he could have been with Jesus’ disciples.
DeSantis: “I look back at that and would love to have been …there with them.”
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1669855692230909952
Any takers?
Agreed, and RFKJs stance on medical freedom would make me switch camps – I would even give him a pass on his CO2/renewballs delusion – I will survive energy poverty, but may not survive the (rare, mild) side effects of the (safe and effective) compulsory mRNA shots, and whatever else the WHO has coming down the pike.
And so it begins.
Forget ambulance chasing. As predicted many moons ago here on the cat, the new cash cow of the legal industry will be suits and criminal cases against whomever was stupid enough to abuse their authority by authorizing and/or committing these crimes against minors.
I’m looking forward to the first parents being charged for inflicting permanent harm while creating their designer, woke approved, children. Better yet, watching them being sued by their own kids.
I mean seriously, who didn’t see that coming a mile away?
The ADF is developing a Special Forces unit based on a legendary World War II regiment in response to the threat China poses
Where to begin?
What an embarrassing state of affairs.
The chicken hawks at the top of the pile will do anything for a comfortable retirement funded by US defence contractors.
Gilas, speaking of Tchaikovsky, this is the famous recording that made me want to learn ballet, something I’ve never regretted. It’s not exactly ballet music but it certainly stirred the dance in me. It was the first ‘classical’ music I’d ever had exposure to, for such listening wasn’t much in my cultural ambit back then, but it stirred me to dance and then on to more and different classical pieces.
The His Masters Voice version from 1941, not the even more strident version from 1943.
Horowitz and Toscanini are unbeatable for the strength, timing, grandeur and mood changes of it.
I think I was eleven when I first heard it, and I still dance around home to it occasionally even now.
Rabzsays:
June 16, 2023 at 10:04 pm
(from the OOT – on the incestuous relationships in the Liars)
One, I didn’t see mentioned was Bill Shorten and Nicola Roxon. It seems that when their relationship broke up he used money from the sale of their house to buy his first wife’s engagement ring, one Debbie Beale whose Dad, Julian, introduced him to all the right people in Melbourne, which helped to get him that quick ride to the Beaconsfield Mine. (The story was in the Oz many years ago, along with some of those other connections referred to.)
Indeed, why would you put a dosage limit on a weight dependent drug that previously involved no such limit? Especially, as they say, when COVID is likely to be more of a problem with people who are overweight?
Via David Thompson, for the avid gardener
In a political sense, it would be more effective to substitute ‘maintain the initiative’ for ‘attack.’ By ‘calling the shots’ you can force your opponent to divert from their plan (assuming they have one) and use their resources reacting to your tactics. If you can keep them reacting and wasting resources (including time), you put yourself a step ahead in the achievement of your own objectives. That’s the simple theory anyway.
Based on Z Force, I’m led to believe.
I’m also led to believe the Z Force blokes did quite a bit more than kicking people off ‘small cliffs’.
Last night on Sky, Erin Molan referred to atrocities.
lotocotisays:
June 17, 2023 at 10:34 am
The hydrogen powered engine as a cheap and effective replacement for a gasoline engine.
BMW h8rs look away.
JCB hydrogen powered Excavator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfS012FC8yM
A majority of Americans see these indictments for what they are.
As KD would say, to outdoor pursuits.
It sounds like Pwobyn didn’t get on with the fem-boss:-
I actually agree with her.
I don’t mind a drink but booze has no place at work.
If it’s good enough for truckies and machinery operators, it’s good enough for everybody.
If ScoMo was half-smart that is exactly what he would have done when all this “Parliament House culture” stuff got started …
“I am aware of a case before the courts involving serious allegations of misbehaviour in Parliament House. I do not intend to make any comment on that matter whilst it is before the courts. However, this is an opportune time to bring Parliament House up to the standard of other workplaces around the country. This will involve a number of key changes, one if which revolves around alcohol. From next Monday, Parliament House will become an alcohol free workplace, which means no alcohol will be permitted on the Parliament House precinct, and this will be enforced by random drug and alcohol testing of all members and staff”.
Standby for the howls, probably led by Pwobyn:-
“Overreaction … isolated instances … no underlying cultural issues … yada yada”
Nice self detonating argument you got there: The only parts of modern medicine that fix anything are the old fashioned mechanical things – hip screws, lancing boils etc. The great bulk of ‘modern medicine’ consists of longterm prescribing of non curative drugs for illusory (eg hypercholesterolemia) or dietary ‘illnesses’.
O.K., I’m feel the need to wear my pedant hat here.
Z Force was the Prince of Wales and Repulse.
‘Z’ Special Unit was the correct name of the parent unit which trained and sent special operatives on clandestine missions, the most famous of which were Jaywick and Rimau.
If the latter is what is being referred to, I think it is desirable to use the correct title.
Lowering the flag of pedantry now.
Some sort of rooster enclosure I imagine.
Erin Molan referred to atrocities.
She is a blonde after all
I just received a text message from a close friend. Her sister, who’s about 56, has been in hospital; she had a mild heart attack and has been diagnosed with myocarditis. She’s going home today.
DeSantis’s problem is he’s fighting the wrong enemy.
DeSantis is actually talking about issues…well (16 Jun)
Hot Air, by David Strom
He fights, which is good. But the real enemy is the one within the Republican Party. He is not fighting them, and Trump is. That’s why the Republican base is increasingly backing Trump so decisively.
I suspect DeSantis is in a bind, since he isn’t so able to fund his campaign as Trump is doing. Which means he has to be nice to the grandees who own the RNC, so that he can get donor backing. Unfortunately that then is a kiss of death with Republican voters.
Fighting the Dems is all very well, but in practice it is futile since they’re going to steal the election just as blatantly as they did in 2020. Probably even more blatantly. So the only winnable fight is to clean out the 5th column in the Republican Party. Which Trump is trying to do and DeSantis isn’t.
Similar numbers disapprove of transgenderism, up several percent from the last survey two years ago.
The normies are poised to strike back.
She is a blonde after all
Areff, if that’s to be the excuse for the wrecking of language, all the blondes will need to be culled from hosting “serious” TV shows.
John H. says:
June 17, 2023 at 10:41 am
I will go back to Fantasia. Back in the old vinyl days I was lucky enough to score a wonderful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s 5th. Russian orchestra IIRC. The 4th movement is glorious, the orchestra does a magnificent job, evidenced by the thunderous applause. It is one of those rare occasions when a live recording captures a precious moment of outstanding human creativity.
The first movement of the Concert Fantasia includes a supremely beautiful cadenza for piano which, together with those in the Second and Third Piano Concertos, place Tchaikovsky at the pinnacle of Romantic piano writing.
Funny how everyone knows him by the famous First Piano Concerto, which is the worst of his four compositions for piano & orchestra.
As they say: There’s no justice, and no accounting for taste.
As for his Symphonies, they are all masterpieces of orchestral compositional technique, heavenly melodic inventiveness a non-optional extra.
John Stapleton’s book Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia available here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Unfolding-Catastrophe-Australia-John-Stapleton-ebook/dp/B09D7WQ777/
Let the court cases begin. Sydney Criminal Lawyers took a good look at it.
You can put many combustible atomised fuels in a big compression motors. That’s not unknown and not new.
It’s the production, storage, transportation and retailing of hydrogen that’s the problem at the moment.
It’ll get out of current fuel storage like a fart out of your pants.
On social housing. Architect I know won a competition for social housing in a capital city. It never went ahead. He was sure it was because of his design reduced the amount that could be siphoned off for mates and services rendered. Built of lightweight aerated concrete that clipped together. Looked a lot like the Bauhaus style with units fitting together in different combinations to suit differing sites and to give privacy. Much of the construction being offsite.