Cronkite will want to know if JC is for real or being sarcastic.

Purple, JC, is most definitively NOT your colour.

Says he who is colour-blind! But I’m sure it doesn’t go with your much-storied tassled loafers.

a surge in kidney stone cases or nephrolithiasis over the next seven decades.

Absurd doesn’t begin to cut it.

On what basis can anyone predict the rate of kidney stones in 70 years? Let alone a “surge”.

They are havin’ us on, I reckons.

What if They’d Found Anthrax in the White House Instead of Cocaine?

One would have to concede that this is a fair question…

Dear god but you never want to verify that.

Seconded. How on God’s Green can anyone “gloss over” that crap? Forget politics.

Yes, I’m an innocent abroad…

Just 13 per cent of voters think Anthony Albanese is doing enough to address cost-of-living pressures and only a quarter believe the economy is being managed well, according to secret industry polling.

The Prime Minister’s personal standing has “declined steeply” by nine points since March, with his net approval rating at plus 6 per cent.

Oz

Meanwhile in Victoria Police:

Speaking of cynical opportunists rorting their way into a free ride via “self-identifying”, the police force is the clubhouse leader.

It’s time for Sgt Rockjaw to say, “Sorry, boys. If you go to the Mens and stand up to splash your boots, you’re not getting the extra dough.”

Herald-Sun

Thanks Tom – ‘toons alway appreciated.

Just when you thought the Titan Imploder shitshow was over, and the depths* of stupidity reached by wannabe-Branson Stockton Rush (the Hun):

The experimental tourist sub that killed five people in a “catastrophic implosion” only reached Titanic depths 13 times out of its 90 attempts, according to company documents.

The 14 per cent success rate comes despite the whopping ticket price of $A375,000 per passenger on the OceanGate expedition.

And:

The 86 per cent failure rate of the Titan’s 90 attempts to reach the Titanic comes amid new allegations of a cavalier attitude during aborted test dives in the lead-up to its commercial operations.

And:

“It seemed to almost be a nihilistic attitude toward life or death out in the middle of the ocean,” said Brian Weed, a camera operator for the Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” documentary series.

Weed and colleague Josh Gates joined a test voyage of the Titan submersible in Puget Sound, Washington, in 2021 as a pre-curser to joining the debut voyage to the Titanic just months later.

And:

The test dive was aborted after a series of mechanical issues, communications problems, and Rush’s apparent “cavalier attitude” to “basic safety”, Weed told the outlet.

Inspirational, some may say.

Rush may have hoped someone would make a movie from his adventures. That movie might be made, but it won’t be what he envisaged.

*Deliberate. Ha.

I used not to like Rosanne but I do now. She gets it and is brave enough to say so. Good on her.

It has been revealed that at least 100 have ticked the “gender neutral” box in the force’s human relations questionnaire over the past year.
That rate is a long way higher than the general community rate.
Top Ender, you’ve been in the field for a long time- I’ve observed that many people with “gender dysphoria” go into the military, with various reasons running from “the workload will drown out the voices in my head” to “I’ll have the weirdness beaten out of me” to the newfangled “Uncle Sam will pay for the surgery while I’m on leave at full salary”.
Have I got that right? What are the actual numbers, or what were the numbers before the US Army and mincing David Morrisson types paved the way in gold for the trannies?

Damaged Solar Panels from Hail Storm Will Likely End Up in Landfill Because Recycling Isn’t Possible

From a rough count it looks like about a million bucks worth of silver in those panels. Possibly two or three times that since the old rule of thumb was one oz of silver per panel.

That could be an opportunity for someone: since they have to be collected up and transported they might as well be taken to a gold mine. Then all that would be needed is to strip off and sell the aluminium, then shove the panels into the the crushing and grinding plant. The silver would be extracted along with gold in the normal run of mill gold ore, and the pulverized glass and silicon would end up as sand in the tailings dam. Which is pretty much the same as putting them in landfill directly.

It would need to be tested so that the silicon doesn’t cause any unexpected problems, but during grinding it should readily oxidize to SiO2, which is inert.

The music industry gets price discrimination.

From Ticketek

A Reserve – $379.90*
B Reserve – $309.90*
C Reserve – $239.90*
D Reserve – $199.90*
E Reserve – $159.90*
F Reserve – $119.90*
G Reserve – $79.90*

800,000 tickets sold. No breakdown of how many of each. Let’s say 160 mn AUD of revenue at a minimum.

Australia is 1/15th as large as the US – factor in the FX rate and > 1 bn USD looks like a reasonable ballpark figure.

Good for her. I hope she finds a nice man to calm her hysteria and give her many children. She’d have to have other people write her songs again though.

I used to work with a guy who went nutso every time he saw a chemtrail. Nothing particularly wrong when on his meds apart from conspiracy theories but not of the variety have proved true lately.

Then all that would be needed is to strip off and sell the aluminium,

There’s about $2 worth of Ali on a Solar Panel, Bruce.
It’s bonded on and it ain’t comin’ off easy.
then shove the panels into the the crushing and grinding plant. The silver would be extracted along with gold in the normal run of mill gold ore,

Labor intensive, Bruce.
$10 worth of Labor to win $3 worth of metal per panel doesn’t stack up.

The AFR View

What is Labor’s 2030 back-up energy plan?

The government needs to set aside the potential political embarrassment of admitting its climate targets may be unreachable and order a robust assessment of where the troubled energy transition is at.

As The Australian Financial Review reported on Monday, the consensus among energy experts is that Australia’s very challenging clean energy transition is in trouble and that it may be impossible to reach Labor’s ambitious 43 per cent emission reductions and 82 per cent renewable energy targets by 2030.

With their private owners understandably reluctant to invest in upgrades and maintenance to extend the life of assets scheduled to shut, some kind of public support – a real coalkeeper – may eventually be required to guarantee Australia’s energy security. That would be politically unpalatable for Labor, but is reality that needs to be faced.

Alan Kohler was on weekend ABC telly with an animated infographic timeline saying that if only nasty Menzies’ Conservative Australia had implemented the New Deal which lovely FDR had in the Progressive US, then we’d have low interest thirty year fixed term mortgages.
Really.
They bloke is a Lizard Person.
They even had him framed hovering over his laptop in a cafe, like he’d just caught the deep dive thread from Reddit.

Technically speaking, all jet contrails are “chem trails” as there is a mass of hot water vapour and trace amounts of transition and rare earth metal oxides being released at low temperatures and low pressures.

I have said it over and over again but we know this interacts with climate as the earths’ albedo changed when planes were grounded after 9/11.

Nefarious things were done in the past (Operation Sea Spray) but to conclude all commercial flights are “in” on a programme to drug us all is lacking in proof. It would require more people than exist on earth to hide such a conspiracy.

Please stop.

Speaking of which – I am a little underwhelmed by Tay Ray’s high end marketing.

She should have had a few more tiers.

At least two more at 2500 and 5000 AUD a piece.

Serial abuser and serial killer Vladimir Putin throws another one of his girlfriends out of a window.

28 year old bank vice President yeah right. She just looked like a model as well.

As noted yesterday, I have attended every session of the Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPCA) at the Con, starting last Thursday.
Break day today, between Rounds.
To avoid word-walls, I’ll make a few posts on this…

Part 1.

32 incredibly brilliant, young pianists, (the youngest just 18 yrs old) mostly from Russia and Far-East Asia. Most were previous winners, or were multiple prize-winners, from prior competitions.
A 20, and a 30-minutes recital in the Preliminary Round, which was a total of 16 concerts, lasting up to 100 minutes each, starting late morning and finishing around 11pm, and with only short breaks between the different sessions.

The chosen repertoire was left to the competitor, but all had to play an Australian work composed since January 2000.
Reasons given: to encourage local piano composition and to popularise music that, when commissioned for past SIPCAs, was never played again.

Most of these were in the serial-atonal compositional style ie. no key or time signatures, all notes had the same value, therefore dissonance is the result.
As one can imagine, these were unpleasant to the ear, had no discernible melody, beauty or structure, a perfect representation of Communism applied to music.

As an added bonus, they were technically seriously difficult!
And, unless one had studied and played the piece, one wouldn’t know if wrong notes were played.

And such compositions were never played again? I wonder why..

When mentioning this to all the people I spoke to, who I surmised were most probably lefties, they were surprisingly forthcoming with strong criticism of this aspect of the Comp.

Fortunately, there were some young Australian composers who were able to produce pleasant new music, all unknown outside of musical academia: Mark Isaacs, Gina Ismene Chitty and Aristea Mellos should take a bow.

Seems the hyphenated British SexPerv has changed her mind and will sue Pesutto after all.
Fixed.

The pair were inspecting rows of Welsh Guards when the US President stopped to speak to what appeared to be a head guard.

Mr Biden could be seen deep in conversation with the guard while the King stood to the side awkwardly waiting for the chat to end.

Charles extended his arm to gesture it was time to move on when the leader of the free world turned back to the guard to continue the discussion.

It is then cameras situated at the royal residence captured the monarch as he appeared to give the guard a death stare and scold him.

A confused Mr Biden then moved along.

Okay, Cats, guess what HRH KCIII said to the guard!
Go!

My guess: “For God’s sake don’t encourage him!”

Bruce – there ain’t no way to get the Aluminium frame off the glass panel other than an Angle Grinder

Ed – Hire an industrial jaw crusher or similar crushing equipment, and front end loader, and you’ve just crushed up ten thousand hail damaged solar panels in a week. Add a screen on the end and the crumpled aluminium frames screen out. Put the twisted aluminium and steel in one pile, the crushed glass and panels in a second pile. Load them into trucks with the front end loader. Take the metal to a scrappie. Take the pile of crushed silicon, glass and silver to the gold mine. Job done. Mining companies do this sort of thing all the time, it’s routine hiring semi-mobile plant and equipment like that to run a pile of stuff through it.

You have to take the dead panels off the frames but you have to do that anyway if you’re going to landfill them. Paid for by the insurance, since they’ll want to install new panels on the frames. So once you have the pile of dead panels it’s easy.

Vicki, I’d just read the Salvatore Babones’ article in Quadrant when I logged on here and saw you’d been so impressed with it too.

It skewers lies, damned lies and statistics so very well as misinformation, disinformation and malinformation. Especially malinformation, which can only be ‘values checked’. The dis and mis can of course be ‘fact checked’ according to feelz at the time.

Love this send-up he offers, taken from real life Australian Instit of Crim stats:

The relevant statistics are now buried on pages 51 and 52 in Appendix Table D5 – far out of reach of even the most intrepid television news intern

From my experience, the moderators on The Australian will all be ready-trained to apply for great new positions in the coming Disinfo, Misinfo and Malinfo game, leaving space on the Oz for a whole new generation of journo school recruits to come in and delete any comments even vaguely non-left. It will definitely be a growth industry for leftoids of all types and genders.

I don’t think I could just politely refuse it. I’d politely say no thank you, there is no way I want to make the aboriginal situation worse. I’m voting No. Then I’d politely walk away.

If I’m accosted I will say I won’t vote for apartheid. The kiddie activists probably won’t know what apartheid is though. My impression is they don’t get a lot of real history in schools these days.

Not criticising you or your sister, btw, Rosie.

I honour fierce loyalty to one’s own and also the right to do as you alone decide.

Central banks move gold back home after freeze on Russian assets

Sovereign investors, concerned about the precedent of sanctions, prefer the physical metal to derivatives or ETFs

A growing number of countries are bringing their physical gold reserves back home to avoid Russian-style sanctions on their foreign assets, while increasing their purchases of the precious metal as a hedge against high levels of inflation.

The attraction of holding gold in large liquid hubs such as London has also been reduced by the fact that hedging by gold miners peaked at the turn of the millennium and has since fallen. That has limited the ability for central banks to earn a yield by swapping out bullion stored overseas.

BB

I’d like to see the time when Faruqi first submitted the plans to do this to the studies and reports to the approval.

Contrast also the screeches of outrage when a native/”Old Growth” forest might be sustainably logged at a slow rotational rate with the silence when thousands of hectares of native/”Old Growth” forest are clear felled to construct solar and wind factories (plus the access roads etc).

Commercial dumping fees are under $100/Tonne.

Ed- not for toxic materials they aren’t. We had to dispose of some lead containing soil in the nineties from a site in California, it was about US$150 per tonne then. Much much higher now. I was being optimistic in saying a couple hundred bucks, might be more like a thousand these days.

We used to send toxic materials to the Castlereagh toxic waste landfill at a fierce and painful cost. That facility has closed and I don’t know what NSW now does with hazardous waste, but whatever it is it won’t be cheap.

Farmer Gez
Jul 11, 2023 11:09 AM
Read this and note the area of agricultural land they earmark for onshore wind.
You need to then add solar and transmission.
PS Take your blood pressure tablets first.

https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/580619/Offshore-Wind-Policy-Directions-Paper.pdf

And there will not be even the mildest squeak from the environmentalists who are usually outraged at the suggestion that a single tree might fall or a single whale be inconvenienced.

Strange. It turns out that moisturising skin suits is not an adequate knowledge base to discuss industrial and chemical processes.

But Turd Case grinds on, demonstrating his inability to learn new skills.

Dunny Brush
Jul 11, 2023 12:02 PM
Speaking of the voice, there is a gossip item in the age reporting that Setka’s Vic-TAS CFMEU won’t reflexively follow other commie unions and will not take a position, leaving it up to their members. Good on them.

The sight of their own members rioting outside their HQ during COVID might have actually focused a few minds?

Ed- not for toxic materials they aren’t.

Bruce – while dead solar panels are non recyclable, Waste Management doesn’t consider them toxic.
Tip fees [commercial] under $100/tonne.

Turd Case has again had a fail with his Google-fu. Solar panels are considered toxic waste.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 11, 2023 12:10 PM
Reading Sydney Jary’s book “18 Platoon.”

All his time in combat, he only ever saw a bayonet used for it’s intended purpose once. The rest of the time, it made an admirable tin – opener.

They are a very effective psychological waepon.

Waaaay back (around the 1970s’1980s), a Canadian province had a problem with a prison riot they could not suppress. Military assistance was sought and granted.

While the officer commanding the force was preparing his orders, the RSM informed him that “Sufficient chromed bayonets have been found for your men, sir”.

Early the next morning, the soldiers formed up outside the prison. As the sun rose above the horizon, the commander ordered them to fix bayonets, and then to port arms. At the sight of the sun glinting off a long row of chromed bayonets, the rioting prisoners opened the jail doors and filed out with their hands in the air.

Apparently.

Voted early in the Fadden by election. Approached by long scrawny semi bearded male in a Green T shirt. He looked quite upset when I told him that I’d have to take leave of my senses to vote Green. The elderly LNP person standing next to him grinned from ear to ear as I accepted a how to vote card from him instead. I make my own choices but Labor is last and Greens second last. I do hate preferential voting !!!