‘Why would Newsom be doing such large ad buys in Florida?’

He’s betting on De Santis being the nominee.

For all those undergoing familial strain and grief, as Vicki says, the worst sort of miseries, I offer my condolences. It is horrible what people can do to each other when they are supposed to be close.

One has to think that better days are ahead, and take grief on the chin.

What a beautifully evoked piece of writing, Bons.

The Cat is full of people who can really say things well.

Lights are often hidden under a bushel there for far too long with some.
Then out comes a piece to knock your socks off. Thanks, Bons.

Channel surfing.
Miami Vice on one of the Fox movie channels.
Michael Mann is just awesome.

We just watched “Gifted Hands – The Ben Carson Story”, about the paediatric neurosurgeon. Good biographical stuff with Cuba Gooding. Carson was the first surgeon to successfully operate on twins twins conjoined at the back of their heads.

It was made in 2009, so didn’t mention he went on to become the Secretary for Housing in the Trump Administration. Worth catching if you can – our copy was a DVD loaned to us.

“Activists from Just Stop Oil invaded the green at the Ashes in London on Wednesday and threw orange powder across the grass – as England’s Jonny Bairstow was seen picking up one of the protesters and carrying them off the pitch.

Ahead of the second over of the morning session at Lord’s, two Just Stop Oil protesters raced onto the pitch and attempted to throw orange paint across the main playing area.

Jonny Bairstow showed officers how to deal with the saboteurs as he took matters into his own hands, to the delight of fans at the ground.

Meanwhile England captain Ben Stokes stopped the other protester as he guarded the pitch closely, assisted by other players.”

Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12242277/Now-Just-Stop-Oil-target-Ashes-Jonny-Bairstow-carries-eco-zealot-pitch.html

Well done to that WA possum today.

Delta A says:
June 28, 2023 at 5:04 pm

Dotsays:
June 28, 2023 at 3:35 pm

That was gross. Can’t believe it came from a nice boy like you, Dot.

Please try to play nicely.

Well Ma’am I was just trying to show we can still use HTML.

Try here (Online HTML Editor/Compiler) and here ( W3 Schools HTML Tutorial).

NSW police are being urged to fully expose a historic sex ring of predatory teachers after convicted wife-killer Chris Dawson was found guilty of child sex offending more than 40 years after he groomed a schoolgirl and murdered first wife Lyn to be with her.

Paul Dawson has vehemently denied these allegations.

Which intrepid member of the 4th estate is going to interview Gillard tomorrow and ask her if she will be pushing for a royal commission into child sex abuse in public schools?

Haha

Close the tags you dolt!

Tucker Carlson Dares To Ask “Why Exactly Are We At War With Russia?”

Full transcript below:

Hey it’s Tucker Carlson, you may have found yourself wondering recently as the world slides closer to nuclear Annihilation than any time in human history why exactly are we at war with Russia.

It seems like there’s a pretty significant downside to this particular foreign policy decision, starting with economic collapse and ending potentially with Extinction so is there a good reason we’re doing it so many innocent young people have been killed so many hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted some of them from the U.S treasury so what’s the point are we really doing this so the Biden family can repay its debts to the oligarchs who finance their beach house in Rehoboth.

We’re doing it so our government can continue to lie about its illicit bio labs in Eastern Europe so that flabby losers like Toria Newland and Tony Blinken can feel like they’re doing something important with their sad empty lives.

Really honestly there’s got to be a better reason for waging this the most pointless war of all.

What is it.

Well thankfully we have an answer: the war against Russia ladies and gentlemen the war against Putin and for Ukraine is in fact a war for democracy.

Watch and recall the motive the president has said many times “we’re focused on what we can do to support Ukraine’s effort to fight for their democracy”.

“Democracy must prevail. The Ukrainian people are fighting the fight for their democracy and in doing so for ours as well.”

“Assisting and helping Ukraine win this fight for democracy and freedom and of course Ukrainian president zielinski understand that what’s at stake in Ukraine is bigger than just his Nation it is literally a battle for freedom and democracy themselves.”

“They are showing the world what an existential fight for democracy looks like.”

“President Zelenky and the Ukrainians have changed the course of history for the better and we unequivocally are with the Ukrainian people in their fight to remain a sovereign democracy.”

Unequivocally with the Ukrainian people to remain in democracy it’s a bipartisan view democracy must Prevail.

You just heard noted democracy expert Nancy Pelosi say the daughter of the mobbed up mayor of Baltimore as Pelosi puts it the Ukrainian people are fighting the fight for their democracy and for ours as well that’s right for ours as well without Ukrainian democracy in other words we can have no democracy here if the ukrainians aren’t free.

Neither are we we must make sure they can vote in Kiev so we can continue to vote in Kansas City.

It’s really that simple and yet tonight we regret to tell you that we have a problem it looks like they’re not going to be able to vote in Kiev anymore and no for once it’s not Putin’s fault.

Democracy in Ukraine seems to be suspended by the world’s foremost democracy Advocate himself Field Marshal zielinski.

Watch:

“If we win” he says “we’ll let people vote otherwise no you vote” and we feel like it because ultimately we’re completely in charge and make all the rules.

Your job is to obey or be punished.

That’s our version of self-government.

Self means me – I’m the government now.

That’s not just any autocrat that’s our chief Ally in the war for democracy.

This is the guy who just announced he’s like did you cancel next year’s elections.

So you’ve got to wonder what the Biden Administration thinks of this – we can’t possibly continue to support zielinski, that guy, after he said that can we because in a clip less than 30 seconds long he just blew up our entire rationale for supporting his side in the war.

So we can’t support him.

Oh of course we can and we will.

Here’s Joe Biden from yesterday reaffirming America’s unequivocal support for Ukraine no matter what happened in Russia “we the United States should continue to support Ukraine’s defense and its sovereignty and its territorial integrity”.

So to recap we are currently fighting a war for democracy on behalf of a leader who just casually announced he’s happy to end democracy and our democracy and supporting leaders have no problem with that in fact they’re strongly for it.

Shocked?

You shouldn’t be.

Of course they’re for it. You should have seen this coming.

Wars for democracy always cancel democracy in the process – that’s why our leaders love them and they all do it – even The Virtuous leaders Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, the British government under Winston Churchill through an entire opposition party into prison and let them rot for the duration – in some cases with their families.

So in a war for democracy you can do anything.

Imagine what a man might do who has fewer principles.

If that man say ran Ukraine he might seize churches arrest priests ban all criticism of himself disappear his political opponents and that’s happening.

Just last month zelinski threw a man called Gonzalo Lira into prison indefinitely for the crime of daring to write about the Ukrainian government in unflattering ways.

Now what’s interesting what separates this from other such cases is that lira is an American citizen, so Joe Biden who was quite a bit of SWAT as they say in Ukraine could have freed Gonzalo Lira within hours, but he didn’t. He didn’t want to – he didn’t say a word about it – he remains in prison tonight.

So that makes you wonder what’s the real motive here when normal people see War they see death and destruction, sadness and suffering; but that’s not what demagogues see – they understand it differently they know that War means power mostly for them.

During wartime everything they do can be justified – war is the gravest of all emergencies – imagine the coveted lockdowns times a thousand plus drones.

Once War breaks out politicians become Gods with the power of life and death. So in a peaceful democracy you have to debate your political opponents in public and that’s tiresome but in a war for democracy you can just throw them in jail or have them executed. You can see that many in Washington are looking forward to that moment and that may be why they so fervently support Joe Biden – even many Republicans – against a potential opponent – the only opponent who opposes the war in Ukraine.

If you were to end the war their power would evaporate.

Last week a whistleblower produced WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden proving that at the very least his father knew about his influence peddling businesses abroad and probably participated in them “I’m sitting here with my father” Hunter Biden wrote to his Chinese Partners demanding money as much as anything reported about the bidens over the last several years this was The Smoking Gun.

There it is right there in the message that would have been enough to a normal president it would have been more than enough to keep a normal president from running for office again but had virtually no effect on Joe Biden.

Most media Outlets ignored it completely or tried to spin Biden’s relationship with his son as some kind of moral Victory “the real meaning of the hunter Biden Saga as I see it” wrote Nick Kristoff of the New York Times “isn’t about presidential corruption but is about how widespread addiction is and about how a determined parent with unconditional love can sometimes reel a child back.”

He actually wrote that and if you doubt it you should know that view was common.Here’s the take from ABC “the hunter Biden story, the Scandal, the this, that, it’s also the story of a Father’s Love and Joe Biden has never and will never give up on his son Hunter and will never treat him lesser than and so he is a father first take it or leave it.”

So whistleblower produces a text message showing that Joe Biden was in the room with his son when his son was selling influence to an enemy power the Chinese government and ABC’s take on it Joe Biden is a father first take it or leave it.

What accounts for a response like that?

Well that’s the way you talk when you’ve got nothing to fear from an upcoming presidential election – you don’t even bother to think of an excuse for your candidate because you don’t need to. Your country has electronic voting machines – Joe Biden got 81 million votes in 2020 and you’re pretty sure he can do it again.

In fact you know he can you’re not worried but actually they should be a little worried

The people who control Joe Biden – Susan Rice and the rest – know they can continue to run our government, writing the press releases, formulating the policies, and they can do it effectively forever, as long as Joe Biden gets dressed in the morning, and of course that’s their strong preference.

These are fervent opponents of change but the one thing these people cannot control is aging.

Joe Biden is old he’s 80 now he will be 85 at the end of the next term.

People imagine that old age is a long predictable progression from Acuity to permanent unconsciousness but often that’s not at all how it actually works.

When old people start to slide they tend to Slide fast.

Joe Biden has begun that descent.

Here he was yesterday and here’s what she wrote to me and I quote you can imagine my joy she called them right away and the next day they sent someone out to survey her yard as Beth wrote this is the best thing that’s happened in Rural America since the rural electrification act for electricity to farms in the 30s and 40s end of quote.”

End of quote you weren’t supposed to hear that – Joe Biden read the stage directions out loud – that’s like eating the garnish that comes with your entree you’re supposed to know not to do that.

Joe Biden no longer does in a year or two he will be gone completely and there will be no hiding it at that point the Democratic party will face a secession problem.

If Joe Biden is re-elected next year and then forced to leave office during his term due to disability or death that means Kamala Harris will become president of the United States and nobody wants that not even her husband.

In real life nobody likes Kamala Harris.

That’s not an attack on her in fact it’s possible to feel pity for someone who’s so universally reviled. It is instead an observation of unchanging physical reality like gravity or photosynthesis nobody wants Kamala Harris to be president no one will benefit if she becomes president so logic suggests there’s going to be a change.

It’s going to have to be somebody else and whoever that person is is going to have to enter the race soon before the election after Biden drops out.

Who could that person be? We don’t know obviously this is all just guessing but we do know whoever that is we’ll have to have two essential criteria he’ll have to be as shallow ruthless and transactional as Joe Biden is and he’ll need to have flattery skills that are so polished and advanced they’d be considered Superior even in the Saudi Royal Court and there’s only one man in modern America who fits that description Gavin Newsom the governor of California and perhaps not coincidentally Joe Biden’s new closest friend.

“I am here Mr President” Newsom told Biden at an event that they did together last week. “I am here as a proud American as a proud Californian mesmerized by not just your faith and your Devotion to this country and the world we’re trying to build but by your results by your action by your passion by Your Capacity to deliver.”

I get mesmerized by you Joe Biden – imagine saying that as a compliment you couldn’t do it.

Few human beings could do it but Gavin Newsom had no problem at all those words rolled right off his Fork tongue. He never stopped smiling so if you’re looking for the leader of the coup there he is right there she’s in Kennedy’s motorcade.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-dares-ask-why-exactly-are-we-war-russia

This story at News com au is hilarious.

Victoria Police is investigating reports some of its officers are gaming the HR system by self-identifying as “gender neutral” in order to gain an extra $1300 a year.

Meanwhile in the Territory, it’s the “Guess the Elephant in the Room but don’t say anything Game”

Ngeygo Ragurrk inquest told of multiple failed arrests in lead up to Mindil Beach killing

The 2020-21 annual report said 63 per cent of all reported assaults were domestic and family violence related, with the victimisation rate for Aboriginal people 18 times higher.

Could it be that if you arrest them they go ballistic and then you end up fighting for your life and shoot them you end up in court, lose your job, and maybe go to jail? Much better to “miss the red flag” and let them go around killing people?

No, that’s not it.

Apparently Putin is losing in Iraq.
Who knew ?

Could it be that if you arrest them they go ballistic and then you end up fighting for your life and shoot them you end up in court, lose your job, and maybe go to jail? Much better to “miss the red flag” and let them go around killing people?

That point seems to be lost on Armitage looking at her line of questioning. Oh and the fact that the cop being questioned is probably fully aware the coroner is currently involved in a which hunt against a cop who acted in self defence.

Delta from last night’s posts.

Sorry to hear about your relative in care, sad when people act like that. We just buried a relative after a history of a long term illness. The deceased family fortunately despite the assets involved there have shown little of this behaviour.

Knuckles @11:51, houy, I represent that. At least I used to.

Dot, lay off the Plod.
It’s hard selectively enforcing the law & the property rights of the few.
Maybe we should be taking a knee when they walk past to show our respect?

Ed Casesays:
June 28, 2023 at 8:38 pm
… He’s already doing 24 years, he’s got no idea where his former wife was buried, or even if she’s dead.

right. Glad you sorted that. Good to have you hear.

I’m not a huge consumer of mainstream media.
Has the NZ PM’s week in China received much coverage?
Albo & co have been begging for 18 months for the same red carpet treatment in Beijing but so far got 10mins on the sideline of another conference.

No one:

…but they’re not REALLY gender neutral

I doubt many people are.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626314/

About 1% of trans/non-binary people are medically non-binary assigned male at birth and less than 1% of trans/non-binary are medically non-binary assigned female at birth.

Several smaller studies utilizing limited sources have estimated the U.S, TGNB population as ranging from 38 to 1,647 per 100,000

So it’s very likely to be only 7.6 per 1,000,000. If you math it out, only about 20 non-binary at-birth people in Victoria are in the correct age range to be eligible for police service.

200,000,000 trees. That’s 90 kg of Eucalyptus Regnans (Tasmanian Oak) seed. Many years ago when we had a sideline in forestry, couldn’t make up tube stock quick enough. The strike rate was almost perfect. No wonder there is so many of them around.

My sums are not so good today must need more coffee. 900kg of seed. The seed is so fine its hard to see one seed.

God bless NSW Plod.

A sex “ring” with no more than two offenders and a single complainant and no active investigations, the complainant then married one of the offenders and wore his probably murdered wife’s dresses in her former home. Waiting until they are old enough and having consensual intercourse with someone isn’t illegal, no matter how it offends someone else’s sensibilities.

Intimidating suspects with Channel Seven; charging someone for murder without a corpse (let alone abduction and sexual abuse) is one thing; how do you prove interfering with a corpse without a body?

NSW Plod HQ must be buzzing with agile innovation. I wonder if the Rogerson and Jubelin methods are like the waterfall and agile methods of modern Project Management?

Modern day: Leering is rape; hitting a child with a wooden spoon is not only child abuse equal to the worst sexual trauma, but it is also tendency evidence to complicity in murder and concealment:

The foster mother was acquitted of that charge, which was unrelated to William, with a magistrate finding she did not lie to the Crime Commission about hitting a different foster child with a wooden spoon.

Why the hell is hitting a child with a wooden spoon being examined by the NSW Crime Commission?

I agree Roger. There’ll be less pain if it happens now. Stringing the barstools up can’t come too soon.

So you probably have seen what has happened in Kramatorsk. Ukrainian propaganda and their blind 20 IQ followers as usual says “it was the ‘ruzzian’ terrorists striking civilians”. Here is short thread summarising what happened

https://twitter.com/AyazK100/status/1674142939512188928

Very sluggish page loads are back.

Meanwhile – Report: Republican Lawmakers Concerned Biden Wind Farm Projects Will Affect U.S. Military Operations

Republican lawmakers and experts are calling on the Biden administration to put an “immediate moratorium” on offshore wind development until its effects on U.S. military operations, navigation, and radar systems are studied, according to a report.

A Pentagon spokesperson defended the projects to Fox News Digital: “The Department of Defense is committed to protecting American national security interests, which includes reducing reliance on foreign energy sources and expanding domestic offshore wind energy development.”

Everyday we see Western political and business leaders cosying up to, sucking up to and fellating Fascist China and its corrupt and venal political and business leaders, whilst professing daily sanctimony and outrage at Putin and Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine. Of course, all facts about Covid, about Tibet, about the Uyghurs, about the daily threats to Taiwan, about the daily human rights violations that make anything in Russia a look like school detention and so on, are all swept under a filthy carpet.

While Catholic father of six and Australian citizen Daniel Duggan is being tortured by the Albanese government – hundreds of days in a Lithgow broom-closet cell in a supermax for terrorists – because he supposedly taught a Chinaman to fly a plane in South Africa ten years ago. Mark Dreyfus was ordered to lock him up (without charge) by the Biden administration. And yet, Western ‘leaders’ are now making the pilgrimage to China again because they think the etiquette period for ‘anger’ over Covid has passed and they want fresh piles of cash.

Zero interest from the media.
Zero interest from the the Dutton/Romney Liberals.

BlackRock raises $500m for ‘world’s biggest battery’

Ben Potter Senior writer

BlackRock has raised $500 million from institutions including its own infrastructure funds and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation towards the cost of building the Waratah Super Battery, one of the world’s largest committed batteries, in NSW.

The money will go towards the estimated $1 billion cost of building the huge 850 megawatt/1680 megawatt hour Waratah, or WSB, at the site of a shuttered power station at Lake Munmorah on the NSW Central Coast. Construction began in late May and completion is slated for 2025, ahead of the earliest possible closure date for Origin Energy’s 2880MW Eraring coal-fired power station.

Origin Energy will spend $600 million to develop the first 460MW stage of a big battery with up to 700MW capacity at its Eraring site in NSW, and AGL Energy plans to build a 500 megawatt battery at the site of the Liddell coal power plant at an estimated cost of $763 million. Equis Energy plans to spend more than $800 million on a huge battery of up to 1600MW at Melton, 25 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, positioned to absorb excess solar capacity from Melbourne’s rooftops and play it back to the grid when the sun goes down.

‘Shock absorber’

The WSB will have about two hours of storage and is designed as a System Integrity Protection Scheme – or a ‘shock absorber’ in the event of sudden power surges such as those caused when bushfires, lightning strikes or wild storms fell power lines, as happened in September 2016 in South Australia causing a statewide blackout.

Separately, Origin said it bought a 5 per cent stake in Allegro Energy, which will build a 100 kilowatt/800kilowatt hour redox-flow water-based battery at the Eraring site. Construction starts in August. The technology uses “common, recyclable materials” and isn’t dependent on scarce critical minerals. If the demonstration is successful, Allegro will build a 5MW/60MWh battery.

The Oz yesterday seemed to have wiped all the Stuart Robert stuff.
Perhaps he will have a profitable retirement

Palachook goes into reverse gear….wonder why:

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has slammed reports the government is in talks to change the name of Brisbane to its Indigenous name Meanjin as “absolute nonsense”.

Should Brisbane be renamed as Meanjin in time for the 2032 Games?
Yes 6 %
No 94 %
746 votes

Poll is still open:
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/brisbane-city/brisbane-being-renamed-as-meanjin-premier-annastacia-palaszczuk-responds/news-story/fe1cb4e3b1c45d4240298ee9a25b45f9

Pizza, is that you? 2000-year-old painting found in Pompeii looks like iconic dish

Interesting and not surprising that Canbra in not even capable of governing its rotten incompetent self. Shows that it is not fit to govern Australia but we new that anyway.

Did they have pineapples
in Pompei?
….

Tragically the entire Roman species of pineapple was wiped out in Pompeii.
Without the ability to put pineapple on their pizzas the empire entered its final decline and fall.
There was a brief moment of hope when Varius led his legions into Germany, as he had a couple in the baggage train.

Thus the famous quote of Augustus: (Quintili Vare, pineapples redde!

Quinctilius Varus, give me back my pineapples!”