You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

– Michael Caine

Nolan’s Oppenheimer, could end up being a cracker of a movie.

I hope, just hope, one of the main characters doesn’t kiss or get out of bed with another character of the same sex.

Is that possible these days?

DuncanM, Bern,

Has there ever been a country so full of optimism, can-do spirit than America from the bombing of Pearl Harbor to setting foot on the moon? What a truly incredible place.

They can get it back too. The ability for that place to renew itself can’t be underestimated.

The US has some of the best & worst (evil) people on the planet.

LOL, along with the smartest and the dumbest.

feelthebern
Jul 15, 2023 6:34 AM

Tom Cruise is saving cinema’s on his pat malone.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I’m sure it will be huge, but it’s another one of those freaking franchises. At least with Nolan, and he really screws it up at times (Tenet was a shocker) he does mostly original stuff. Even his attempt at franchise with the Batman trilogy was incredible. I still believe the Dark Knight Rises, was the best movie of the past 20 years. It was rightwing too.

Look, illegal is illegal and it’s wrong. The movement across the southern border is the Demonrats’s strategy of hoping to increase their voter herd. There is one good thing at may arise though. Young people.

It’s young people who change the world.

The US birthrate is as bad as any country in the developed world and continues to trend down.

1.64 births per woman (2020)

You need young people and maybe, just maybe the Demonrats may have miscalculated on the way the hispanic population votes in the future. These folks aren’t buying into the woke bullshit.

Tenet was amazing.

You have to admit, it was a little hard to follow. 🙂

That’s a lot of boners.

Congresswoman Summer Lee
@RepSummerLee

Me: How much does the military spend on Viagra each year?

Director of Defense Contracts: I don’t have that figured out.

Me: about $41.6 million.

Do you know how many bridges in my District of Pittsburgh could be repaired with that amount?

https://twitter.com/RepSummerLee/status/1679567782914957312

Piss poor performance from Pence. I’m 11 minutes in and he will not directly answer questions. He’s skirting around them.

Swampy.

Tucker Carlson & Mike Pence Full Interview | Trump, Ukraine, and the State of America

Re: Ukraine. Pence just took a double barrel shot gun to his foot and blew it off.

Stick a fork in him, he’s done.

Ridely Scott is coming up with his version of Napoleon later this year.

At the risk of enraging those on the land, this has been the most spectacular Sydney winter.

Lapping it up as well, bern.
It’s been a very damp and miserable few weeks here and the crops are enjoying the sunshine as much as the humans.

It’s young people who change the world.

Certainly working well for the French.

It kind of shows the behaviour they are targeting.
Give a bonus bet.
Get you engaged again.

The big worry is it took sooo long to work it out .. LOL!

The French don’t have the same economic system, Roger. They’re quite okay with:

Youth unemployment rate in France in 2022
The youth unemployment rate in France decreased to 17.75 percent since the previous year. The youth unemployment rate of a country or region refers to the share of the total workforce aged 15 to 24 that is currently without work, but actively searching for employment.

Johnny Rotten
Jul 15, 2023 7:54 AM
What a lot of people don’t realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

– Michael Caine

That usually means the government has vacated the field, for examples see the teenage Sudanese gangs in Victoria and indigenous teenage gangs in Queensland and NT.

Roger

Low level work being done in the US is by Latinos.

Also, I’d see work gangs held up, and waiting to get to work on apartment renovation in the mornings. Also Latinos.
Apartment renos etc is summer work there.

Say what you like about the move across the southern border, but the thing most folks would agree on is that hispanic immigrants are decent workers.

Say what you like about the move across the southern border, but the thing most folks would agree on is that hispanic immigrants are decent workers.

I’m sure most are, JC.

Believe it or not, I actually have two Hispanic relatives in California (long story!).

What I was getting at is that young people are only a boon to a society if they are willing to assimilate.

Vivek is a really decent candidate.

Cernovich Retweeted

@CollinRugg
NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy breaks from other Republican candidates & defends Trump while saying that ‘pervasive censorship’ led to January 6th.

Notice the difference in energy with Vivek compared to the other candidates ?

“There’s such a temptation to say that there’s one man whose name is unspeakable… You want to know what caused January 6th? Pervasive censorship in this country in the lead up to January 6th.”

“You tell people in this country they cannot speak, that is when they scream.”

“You tell people they cannot scream, that is when they tear things down.”

Nothing but facts.

If Trump found himself under a bus, this dude is great value.

“I’m not going to Afghanistan to put dirt farmers on the ground and shoot them in the back of the head”…”Ben, there’s no way I’m going to get up on the stand and lie and I hope no one else does.”

Written by a “progressive” for sure.
The facts speak for themselves.

A Climate Council spokeswoman suggests Australian households should be limited to one electric vehicle and public transport.

Roger, this sounds mighty similar to the old Soviet regulations. Only the leaders and apparatchiks were allowed good imported cars, they even had their own lane in Moscow traffic.

A good and reliable car is a vehicle of freedom, it can take you anywhere at any time. It gives people confidence in being free to choose how to live their lives. People like this spokeswoman seem to be removed from any human feeling if they can’t understand that. We seem to be already ruled by artificial intelligence to whom humanity is a foreign concept.

You have obviously never met many Indian ‘International Students’.

Yes, I have. Until my recent retirement I worked in one of our permanent residency factories, namely a university. Indian students are polite and hardworking, the same cannot be said for the children of the middle eastern refugees who are now domestic students.

You have obviously never met many Indian ‘International Students’.

The system has been rorted.

I’m told there are currently pauses on student visas from several Indian states due to the prevalance of fraudulent documentation being submitted.

It just gets more stupid. James Campbell with a Hail Mary from the Yes campaign:

Yes campaign strategists say they will target their advertising spend around football finals in a bid to win over young men disengaged from politics, a group they have identified as critical if they are to win this year’s Voice referendum.

Polling has shown younger tradies and men who work in other non-office based jobs, have low awareness of the proposal in line with their wider indifference to politics and their low engagement with the news media in general.

The Yes campaign believes while focus group research showing the group’s lack of information about the Voice is a problem, it means that, unlike older demographics, they are less likely to have a prejudiced view against the proposal.

A recent JWS Research poll found the Voice is significantly more popular with women than with men.

A senior Yes strategist said the campaign believed younger blue-collar voters could be won over if information is presented to them in a sympathetic way.

‘If they can be brought to understand that this will be good for indigenous and good for the country as a whole, they come on board,” the strategist said.

He said the key would be persuading them that the Voice reflects traditional Australian values around helping out mates.

Yes campaigners are acutely aware however that they will be competing for this vote with the No campaign, which has also identified it as a group that is less likely to have fixed views on the Voice.

“It’s about effective messaging, which will be a combination of online material and reinforcement by word-of-mouth by the campaigners,” the source said.

He said the campaign will be focusing its advertising spend around football finals with ads aimed at reaching as many men under 40 as possible.

Zac Hicks, 24, an electrician from the Sutherland Shire has been “fully on board” with the Voice for about three months since he heard about it at work.

“I was at work and was fully unaware of it – I thought it was already in place,” he said.

“I’ve got plenty of mates who are Aboriginal and Torres Straits people and I want their concerns to be heard.

“One of my work colleagues told me about it and I couldn’t believe it wasn’t in place already, so I jumped on board and so I’ve been all in since.”

Earlier this month The Sunday Telegraph reported the Yes team had dumped plans to put celebrities and sports stars at the centre of its campaign and will instead use ordinary indigenous Australians.

Very humourous

JC, supply and demand principle is the driving factor in open borders. The aim is to have an oversupply of labour which leads to lower wages. How can that not be catastrophic when cost of living is not going down?

Vicki Campion:

Soaked in watermelon juice, the “sustainable” paper bag splits over the sloped Woollies carpark.

The single mum is humiliated by grappling with her wayward flock of children as the family groceries roll down the street.

On the other side of the planet, enjoying a European summer, the Prime Minister empathised with the single mother by signing her up to a further raft of international agreements in the form of the G7 climate cult.

Its purpose is for governments, led by Germany, to create new emissions-free markets to force products on us that people otherwise would neither buy nor produce.

Similar to paper bags, which were forced on us to meet government and boardroom sustainability requirements in the first place.

These agreements have worked out so well. Power she can’t afford and soaring grocery prices.

The disconnect is farther than the distance between Germany and regional Tweed.

The G7 commits to “phase out finance for high-emission technologies” and to create markets for “near zero emissions production”.

In other words, reasonable enterprises that have existed in Australia for decades will be run out of business because they do not follow the edicts of the green cult.

That means concrete, steel, aluminium, vegetables that need fertiliser, beef and dairy because of methane. How untenable do you want the cost of living to become for our single mum?

Under the G7 climate club, the government will fund the chosen companies with your money, using taxpayer subsidies and “green” public procurement policies or regulations.

Exactly the kind of thing that has landed us with the return of the 1970s brown paper bag, this time apparently recycled, and the cost of living crisis.

Why is our Prime Minister signing us up to a group that tells you in its terms of reference that it designs false economies? They create markets for goods that no one would demand.

Can’t we smell a rat? Here we have something that is not backed by a market, and without the government ordering it and getting you to pay for it, wouldn’t otherwise work.

It’s gone from economics to a cult, where the only reason for existing is the guilt projected in your direction to abide by it.

This idea does not stop with paper bags. They have grander schemes ahead and a lot more of your money to pay for it.

As of May, Albo committed federal taxpayers to spend $2bn to underwrite green hydrogen projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in feasibility studies and funds to “cover the commercial gap between the cost of hydrogen production from renewables and its current market price”.

This week, coal was dropped from Labor’s policy platform document, and federal correspondence from Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen’s office reveals his oblivious or willing ignorance to consider bringing nuclear into the mix to reduce energy prices and environmental destruction from wind, solar and transmission lines.

If you will sign up for European agreements, why not start building European power, which has as one of its key components nuclear?

It’s not just that Bowen won’t let the government build nuclear; he won’t remove the prohibitions so that other companies, which would fit into the G7 mantra, could.

Even after reports showed the figures for Bowen’s renewables dream is $1.5 trillion for 2030 and
$7-9 trillion for the 2050 net zero target, his office continued to send out messages this week insisting renewables are cheaper than nuclear.

“In the absence of an established nuclear industry, and with abundant land and renewable resources, renewable energy is the most cost-effective form of generation for Australia’s future. This includes the additional costs of storage and new transmission,” his letter said.

How is $9 trillion the cheapest alternative?

Like a cult, how ludicrous do the sermons have to become before we start to question the leader? What started as plausible has become insane.

Dare suggest that the new paper bags are crap and be attacked by eco-winged monkeys on social media, moralising that Mum should have brought her bag from home, instead of accepting the new “sustainable” option is less effective and more expensive than what they previously had.

I hope, too, that these eco-heroes can rely on Vietnamese and Chinese quality control to ensure that the bags are 100 per cent recycled paper like they promise.

If they can illegally log in Asia without us being able to do anything about it, good luck trying to regulate their recycling. Remember soft-plastics recycling scheme REDcycle was revealed to be less recycling and more warehousing? That scheme was in Australia.

How is our oversight thousands of kilometres away, that these savagely defended bags are recycled from old paper and not rainforest trees?

In the meantime, we have replaced supermarket grocery bags that can be used repeatedly for years with paper bags with a useful life of about 12 minutes at nearly twice the price – that we don’t even know are 100 per cent recycled.

And the same minds that believe that $9 trillion is a good deal for renewable energy, that Europe’s G7 rules will help Australia, savage the harried mum whose 25c bag failed to carry a two-litre milk and a chunk of watermelon.

Crossie

You used the term, “priced out of jobs”. How is someone priced out of a job if the price falls as that is supposed to increase demand?

You cannot make assumptions about how migrants live etc by just creating a movie of that image out of thin air.

You can’t make any of those assumptions without hard facts such as detailing what demand for construction is for example at some point in time. The southern border leakage should be closed, but that doesn’t mean there’s no labor shortage because the price of labor is too low. It doesn’t make sense.

How so?

DC_Draino
@DC_Draino

What?!

Tucker Carlson & Vivek Ramaswamy Full Interview | Censorship, Identity, and Wokeism

I’d suggest Mr. 32%’s political capital will be spent if the Voice doesn’t get up.

He’s already on the nose in QLD (as is Palaszczuk, btw), likely because of scepticism over the Voice and cost of living and – to state the obvious – he can’t win in 2025 without QLD.

On Lew Rockwell, a magnificent rendition of La Marseillaise, cant be long till they ‘modernise’ it, to avoid offence.

Don’t have a reference, but hasn’t “La Marseillaise” already been modified?

Mike Pence is a dickhead
Via Ace Of Spades

Pink-haired Portland surgeon who performs sex-change surgery on trans CHILDREN admits they face lifetime of infertility, incontinence and sexual dissatisfaction, in now-deleted video

Murdochs Look to Cut DeSantis Loose – ‘They Can Smell a Loser’.

I read that a recent attempt to remake Snow White was torpedoed by a dwarf who complained about casting dwarves

I would like to think that at Disney, Lucasfilm etc, and Netflix and Amazon, that they are racking their brains trying to work out why movies like the new Mission Impossible, Sound of Freedom, Maverick, and even Super Mario Brothers succeeded while their own creations like Indians Jones V, The Flash, and The Elementals – despite the fact that those successful are hobbled by a lack of girl-bosses humiliating men, seeming scant regard for diversity targets, and focus on things like climate change and racism.

All they have is stories like they have in older movies she enlightened we have since outgrown, but that can’t be it because it squeezes out the important stuff.

DC_Draino
@DC_Draino

Tim Scott: well…uhh…this is why we need to send more weapons to Ukraine

Trump on cocaine in the White House

and this seems apropos

The FBI in one picture

We ought to identify those causes and resolve them.

Identifying the causes is the easy part.

dover0beach
Jul 15, 2023 9:49 AM

If the current system, economic and social, fails to produce sufficient children on its own to grow, then there is something deeply wrong with that system. We ought to identify those causes and resolve them.

Oh yeah, like what exactly? You tell us. South Korea has literally spent an ocean of money trying to raise the birthrate and it’s continued to fall to frightening levels.

South Korean fertility rate:

0.84 births per woman (2020)

At this rate, there won’t be any South Koreans soon.

That’s what James Morrow was waxing lyrical about on the US Report last night. He’s just come back from two weeks over there, and his American spirit is refired up.

LOL. We got back last night and since then I’ve been trying to talk wifey into moving there permanently. She now refuses to hear me out.

KRuddy’s rules for challenging sitting PMs, adopted by the Lieborals, might save him.

In the Labor world, KRuddy was non-aligned, so those rules made good sense to him. But Albanese depends on the power base of the left. If his QLD polling doesn’t improve, I think he may be prevailed upon to make way for Plibersek