There is no negotiating with sub human, low IQ barbarians. Continue the offensive until there is no movement… no other…
Open Thread – Thurs 27 July 2023
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
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- Bumtree #15
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I am not happy that you should post this at this time when I’m in the process of sorting out…
Jeez Louise.
Caught staten island ferry during first trip to NY. 2 hours after my ride a guy took out several people…
I’m surprised by this: King Charles III officially wealthier than Queen Elizabeth, monarch’s fortune soars to $770 millionCharles is listed…
In my new laptop, an ACER Aspire 1 which I bought yesterday from Officeworks, I have an infuriating fault of constant uncommanded vertical scrolling, which makes it virtually impossible to read or write anything.
I believe the fault emanates from the Microsoft Windows 11 operating system, which was pre-installed in the laptop. I had previously used only Windows 10 and had refused invitations to upgrade.
However, I have also discovered I can disable the fault by disconnecting the mouse’s USB connection to my laptop.
I am stumbling around in the dark and I would appreciate it if a Cat tech-head could explain the problem and what to do about it.
The simplest interim solution would appear to be to stop using a mouse for navigation and to use the editing buttons instead.
Trump, Maintenance Guy Charged With Trying To Delete Surveillance Footage At Mar-a-Lago
He should have just taken $5 million from a Ukrainian oligarch…
From the Comments
– And Trump’s polling goes up another percentage point.
– Punching down on the little people…not a good look for thug fascist Jack Smith.
– Trump should have hired a Hillary Clinton impersonator to roll carts full of “top secret” documents past the camera’s. Then handed the video over to the press.
I thought he was a showman?
“Although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case – Trumps FBI covering for Hillary.
– Clinton animals are more equal than Trump animals.
– Apparently, it’s a crime for Trump to delete surveillance footage at his own resort. But it’s OK for Hillary to destroy a server full of government top-secret records she illegally kept at home and was ordered by court to handover.
– Yeap. Some animals are more equal than others.
– Don’t forget the purposeful destroying of cell phones
– **** joe biden
In the pursuit of clarity, requests were made to the Obamas’ office regarding the occupants of the residence when Campbell’s accident occurred. However, no response has been received, leaving the public in suspense.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-police-call-log-for-tafari-campbells-drowning-at-obama-estate-left-blank-cops-refuse-to-say-who-second-paddleboarder-was
Further insights into the incident were gleaned from dispatch calls among emergency services. It was confirmed that Campbell had a companion on the water, another paddle boarder. Additionally, the initial 911 call, made by a female, indicated that she was on a boat, actively searching for Campbell, going “back and forth” in her efforts to find him.
Describes Australian Federal/State/Territory/Local Government as well – “Where is that Doggie in the Background”
Government should go back to work
Ghost town D.C.
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Thursday, July 27, 2023
OPINION:
The government isn’t working in Washington. That’s not an opinion; that’s a fact confirmed in a new Government Accountability Office study of the utilization of federal buildings that revealed a majority of federal employees haven’t been showing up to their place of work.
The audit revealed the majority of federal buildings are underused, largely because the people in charge of the federal workforce have not reined in telecommuting now that the pandemic-era lockdowns are behind us.
But that’s not the only reason. Mismanagement of federal office space is rampant, according to GAO’s findings. Estimates are that the federal government owns 500 million square feet of office space, but there could be more. Nobody knows for sure.
It costs about $2 billion a year to maintain and operate the known, owned space. Add to that the space that’s leased, and the number rises to more than $7 billion.
That’s a mighty sum for space that’s barely being used.
The July 2023 interim report from GAO determined that 17 of the 24 agencies included in its review were using less than one-quarter of their headquarters’ building capacity.
“On the higher range,” the report explained, “agencies used an estimated 39 to 49% of the capacity of their headquarters on average.”
As the nation faces a spending crisis and total federal indebtedness continues to soar, more than half of some of the most expensive and desirable real estate in America is going unused.
The issue with that is, employees who live in the Washington metropolitan area get a pay bump within the general schedule, and it costs significantly more to live here than in Butte, Montana, Gastonia, North Carolina, or Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Maybe that’s one of the reasons more government jobs are being filled than in other sectors of the economy.
As the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently noted in its daily Hotline, in the first half of 2023, the government workforce at all levels grew by 380,000 new hires — which is not just more hires than in any other sector, it’s “more than mining, manufacturing, construction, wholesale, and transportation” combined.
Despite the surplus of federal building space in Washington the FBI plans to vacate the J. Edgar Hoover headquarters building on Pennsylvania Avenue in favor of a palatial new complex in Northern Virginia.
This may not happen, as House Republicans have expressed a desire to block America’s top cops from expanding their real estate empire.
They have a point. If telecommuting is here to stay, federal agencies no longer need to maintain a pricey Beltway address.
As long as employees of agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the National Technical Information Service or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are attending Zoom meetings, it makes no difference whether they live in Arlington, Virginia, or Arlington, Texas.
Moving the headquarters of these agencies to more modest quarters in Iowa or southern Illinois or Nebraska, where the cost of living is far lower, would yield massive savings in terms of real estate and salary costs. Congress ought to review GAO’s findings and ensure American taxpayers do not continue paying billions for nothing.
“there will be no DNA or other rigorous testing.”
Of course not. Bruce Pascoe, who has a documented record of being whiter than white (ie, English), got away with it, and has done incalculable damage to aboriginal credibility.
Self-harming the nation
The Spectator Australia
As usual, it takes John Howard to cut to the chase with one pithy comment, in this instance on the vexed topic of the referendum later this year for an indigenous Voice to parliament: ‘Why are we doing this to ourselves?’
The comment by our most successful prime minister, made to journalist Janet Albrechtsen, was probably uttered more in frustration than in anger, but at its heart lies a summation of the true tragedy of this entire leftist campaign. With the Voice, we are inflicting incalculable harm upon ourselves as a community, as a unified people and as the world’s most successful ever multicultural enterprise.
We are, quite literally, self-harming the nation.
And all for what?
There is simply no evidence either here or abroad that a large unelected bureaucracy scaffolded within an undemocratic legal framework can make any significant difference to the plight of individuals at the bottom of the social ladder, especially in remote townships.
What’s more, despite ample opportunity to do so, those advocating for this institution have not been able to give a single credible, concrete example of what they believe the Voice can achieve that billions of dollars of taxpayers money and a veritable army of bureaucrats and organised bodies have thus far failed to.
Instead, all we are given are endless platitudes about ‘listening’ and ‘healing’ and ‘understanding’ (which Australians have been doing almost religiously for decades without a skerrick of gratitude in return).
Spectator Australia contributor Nyunggai Warren Mundine put it best recently when he explained that the only credible solutions to indigenous disadvantage are education, employment, hard work and home ownership.
Pretty simple.
Yet these conservative, Thatcherite solutions are anathema to those pushing the quasi-mystical concepts of ‘acknowledgment’ ‘country’, ‘recognition’, etc.
Isn’t it fascinating that somehow a ‘spiritual attachment to the land’ and ‘ancient sovereignty’ never translates into ‘individual property rights’?
Furthermore, with any political change there are always winners and losers. What is likely is that as many indigenous Australians will lose out under the Voice as will win from it.
This is for the simple reason that Aboriginal Australians, like all people, are disparate in their needs, wants and aspirations. Empowering such-and-such an indigenous group or community at the behest of those individuals lucky enough to have a seat at the Voice table will inevitably disempower another group or community who do not. (Memo to Yes advocates:
this is why, after centuries of struggle and injustices, we have settled on a democratically elected parliament where every citizen gets one vote regardless of race, religion or class as the most efficient and just form of government).
As Rebecca Weisser writes this week, many indigenous Australians view the Voice as ‘just another trick’ or even ‘BS’.
So on the benefit side of the argument there is nothing serious on offer.
But on the cost, or harm, side?
Unfortunately the damage already being done by the Voice is significant and will only grow worse, especially if the Yes vote succeeds.
The racial division and flourishing grievance industries that now blight our everyday discourse will explode should the Voice be implemented. The great lie at the heart of the Yes campaign is that the Voice is not what the Uluru Statement clearly spells out it to be:
a stalking horse for a treaty, some form of indigenous sovereignty, ‘reparations’, ‘paying the rent’ and ‘truth-telling’, whatever the latter may or may not entail. (These days ‘truth’ is subjective, untestable, malleable and politically motivated).
If there is scant evidence from abroad about the benefits of political systems that discriminate based on racial pedigree, there is an abundance of evidence of the ‘self-harm’ such policies are capable of inflicting on a nation.
New Zealand is the obvious and closest example. This week, Amy Brooke chronicles how New Zealand’s Labour government with its obsessive focus on Maori-based policies has proved disastrous for the economy, for free speech and for social cohesion.
After years of this nonsense, Amy opines, ‘the nation is in no mood for collective guilt’.
Yet the entire sales pitch for the Voice is precisely that: collective (white) guilt.
That is the primary selling proposition and the focus of the Prime Minister’s argument; that we are guilty of inflicting great harm on indigenous Australians and this is the only way – his assertion – of correcting that error.
This scurrilous claim both denigrates decades of genuine and successful efforts and costs borne by mainstream Australians to help indigenous Australians of all walks of life, as well as disgracefully absolves the Albanese government of actually coming up with workable polices in the here and now to help disadvantaged communities. ‘Ah well, everything would have been wonderful if only we’d had the Voice,’ will be the excuse from Labor for future years of chronic failure.
With any story of self-harm there is a sense of futility, of unnecessary waste, of lost opportunity and of stupidity.
The tale of the Voice is no different, although on a much greater scale.
Those who got us to this point may have been driven by honourable motivations, but equally it is clear that lurking behind the Voice is a hardcore communist agenda and leftwing power grab driven by a loathing of democracy and fuelled by critical race theory and identity politics.
Don’t get too carried away yet Cats, there’s morons aMONGst us:
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/one-third-of-voters-undecided-or-open-to-change-voice-poll-20230727-p5drlm
Sorry to hear Tom, must be very frustrating!!! And, no, I’m no tech head but if I’d bought something one day ago that could visualise a simple blog page… I’d be considering taking it back and looking at other options.
The Cat is, after all, daily viewing!
They still don’t get it.
He makes it sounds a bit Maxwell Smart … “missed it by that much”.
This was no mere “falling short”.
It was a complete and wilful trashing of a customer’s basic rights.
C-nts.
Ex Oz Bushmaster .. free to good home .. may need a little work .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/4sPHV14
Yes, what a mysterious mystery.
Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper
NEW – Mystery outbreak of a deadly, paralyzing disease has experts baffled — More than 230 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have been reported in Peru, with more than half the cases occurring in a brief five-week period from June to July, NY Post reports
Here’s Why Joe Biden Can’t Pardon His Son
The collapse of the Hunter Biden plea bargain has left many in Washington shocked.
After all, this is a city that knows how to fix a fight. After five years, the Biden corruption scandal was supposed to die with a vacuous plea bargain and no jail time.
Most everyone was in on the fix, from members of Congress to the media to the prosecutors.
The problem was the one notable omission: Judge Maryellen Noreika of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
The sentencing hearing was a moment that made the Hindenburg disaster look like a seamless landing.
Noreika asked a basic question on the implications of the agreement, and the entire deal immediately collapsed.
Now the Justice Department is in a bind. It could not admit in the hearing that Hunter Biden could escape future liability for a host of uncharged crimes.
Yet, when a defendant backs out of a generous plea deal, federal prosecutors ordinarily will pursue all of the available charges — and jail time.
While President Joe Biden once declared, in more colorful terms, that no one messes with a Biden, the Justice Department may now find it has no choice. It could be forced to actually treat Hunter like an ordinary citizen.
A FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] charge could further expose Hunter’s alleged influence-peddling operations, with what House GOP investigators say were millions in foreign payments from a virtual rogue’s gallery of foreign officials.
The Justice Department also would face pressure to seek the same long jail sentence given to Manafort; he was sentenced to 73 months of imprisonment, which included the statutory maximum 60 months for a conspiracy to violate FARA. (That same year, political consultant W. Samuel Patten pleaded guilty to lobbying and consulting on behalf of the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party, and received 36 months of probation.)
That is not even including potential felony charges for the original gun violation, money laundering, or other crimes.
If the Justice Department were to show the same aggressive effort toward Hunter Biden that was shown to figures like Manafort, Hunter could be looking at a real possibility of years in jail.
There is, however, the ultimate “break-the-glass” option that I raised previously if the Bidens and their supporters could not rig the process:
Joe Biden could pardon his son and then announce that he will not run for reelection.
Turley added that pardoning Hunter remains the “break-the-glass” option regarding this emerging scandal that could detonate the Biden presidency.
Ironically, Biden signing the pardon can only end with the end of this administration, which is why this White House is never going to do it:
Joe still controls the Justice Department, which has kept his family safe from criminal prosecution for years. He knows he holds the cards, at least for now.
BREAKING: Police call log for Tafari Campbell’s drowning at Obama estate left BLANK, cops refuse to say who second paddleboarder was
Eric Matheny
@ericmmatheny
Jack Smith indicted a maintenance worker at Mar-A-Lago.
Some poor guy trying to make a living gets indicted because the US Government wants to remind it citizens that if you stand up to the Deep State, they will destroy you and everyone around you.
An old fashioned fireplace (assuming there were not too many draughts) accumulates and spreads thermal mass.
Airconditioning can do that too, but only if it is on at a high temperature (say 25C) all the time in a cold winter.
We have both at the farm – since the 10kw solar system does allow this luxury. It means that we can have comfort in the morning when the rooms are cold after the slow combustion fire in the living areas has expired during the night. The latter does heat a good part of the house by the time we retire – but only if we close off the unused bedrooms.
I’ve got three people dressed in black trousers, red shirts with lanyards standing at the front of my gate… I wonder if they’re “vote yes” folks?
I do hope so!!!
British Labour leader, whatever his Green faults, flawlessly defines “WOMAN”
The head of the British Labour Party, and a fellow who is already metaphorically measuring the drapes on No. 10 Downing Street, has done something so incredible for these times – especially for an uber Left political organization – that it’s got people literally gasping in disbelief. Whether your gasp at Keir Starmer’s bold statement changes to outrage, hilarity, or approval depends on what camp you’ve placed your flag in for one of the defining and difficult questions of our time:
WHAT IS A WOMAN?
Sir Keir has opted to jump into a void with both feet where even SCOTUS nominees dare not tread (as they are not biologists) (I only play a biologist on HotAir).
Whether he landed like Fred Astaire or with a thud depends on one’s point of view.
A woman is “an adult female”, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he confirms the Labour Party’s hardened stance on gender.
There were plenty of reminders of Sir Keir’s previous efforts to sidestep the “penis question” as they call it across the pond. And, holy moly, were they ever utterly cringe inducing.
Even saying he wasn’t a biologist would have been preferable to babbling such patronizing weasel pablum.
…Sir Keir faced a backlash earlier this year after he claimed that 99.9 per cent of women do not have a penis – implying that one in a thousand women have male genitalia.
Gawd almighty, breathless reports incoming, Hun:
I am sorry for wasting your time with this shit, but it needs to be aired.
Again I will say, women aren’t supposed to be doing this only the men. If at all.
The sense of entitlement is all pervading isn’t it? Maybe the presenters in question don’t give a fat rat’s clacker about it. Is this bad?
Well I’m off to the pub. Need a strong drink after raising my blood pressure, and indeed yours kind reader.
But they won’t even impeach Biden for in your face corruption and treason.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: President Trump has been charged with THREE MORE counts in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, including “willful retention of national defense information” and “corruptly destroying or concealing records”
Trump is now being accused of demanding a staffer delete camera footage to “obstruct the probe,” according to the AP.
This comes shortly after it was revealed that obstruction charges were being levied against the maintenance director of Mar-a-Lago in the case.
I mean culturally devastating? Give me a spell. Oh and FMD
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
We went from “the next ice age is on its way!” in 1978 to “the era of global boiling has arrived!” in 2023.
Proving once again that all these world “experts” are completely Bipolar. Literally.
Actually, the next ice age is on it’s way, and the later the better.
OldOzzie
Jul 28, 2023 11:09 AM
China Abandons the Paris Climate Agreements;
If true I can’t stop laughing
China has played the West as the idiots they are.
Surely china dan must have been in the know!
NO!
Do you have any dogs you can set on them?
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Pavlovian conditioning of the masses in real-time.
They keep ringing the “fear bell” and watch the sheeple salivate.
Hmmm, sounds like a Get Out of Gaol Free card. Sleepy Joe must have thought he was playing Monopoly with Dr Jill and Barry.
Darn, they passed by after stopping (perhaps I’m on a “do not knock” after Anne Aly’s staffer knocked on the door last year and I proceeded to tell him to get his Marxist, bigoted ass off my property before I shoot him?”). The missus thought I might get into a bit of trouble for that and that I crossed a line.
I said to her, “we’re Catholics and these people would have us hanging from the gallows in a heartbeat.”
She complied (for once lol!) 😛
This is the Florida Surgeon General
Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD
@FLSurgeonGen
Two USC basketball players experience cardiac arrest in the past year and both almost certainly were forced or misled into taking a vaccine never proven to meaningfully benefit young, healthy people, but definitely proven to cause cardiac injury…
(there was a family mix of “F” words in there too but I have to comply with DB’s courtesy classes)
n my new laptop, an ACER Aspire 1 which I bought yesterday from Officeworks, I have an infuriating fault of constant uncommanded vertical scrolling, which makes it virtually impossible to read or write anything.
3 months ago I bought a, new, KOGAN brand laptop (128ssd, 8gb, 14inch screen) running W10 for $175 on clearance, cos running 10 whilst everything else, new, is running 11 .. used the free upgrade to 11 and never had a problem with it ……!
Bought several big tix things from KOGAN .. always been cheaper than the other big players, fast delivery either free or very reasonable by comparison and never had a problem with anything ..
Neil Oliver: ‘…they’re in our homes & minds!’
Big Pharma funds medical establishment
SHUT ! IT ! DOWN!
FIRE! THEM! ALL!
Question for Cats with a better memory than me… but when Australia was discussing indigenous recognition in the preamble of the Constitution, I thought there was some that came out and said, even if in the preamble, could cause some legal headaches…?
Or did I just imagine that!?
One DOJ Official Could Have Stopped Biden Family Crime Racket Years Ago: Jack Smith
It Turns Out the Driving Range of Electric Vehicles Is Even Worse Than Advertised
GOP Senators Thune, Kennedy, Tillis and Paul Push Back Against Impeachment… Because Emails, Bank Statements, Whistleblowers, Audio Recordings, Photos, a Laptop Computer, $5 Million Bribes, Are Not Enough Proof of Wrongdoing
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Indolent
Jul 28, 2023 3:31 PM
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
We went from “the next ice age is on its way!” in 1978 to “the era of global boiling has arrived!” in 2023.
Proving once again that all these world “experts” are completely Bipolar. Literally.
Actually, the next ice age is on it’s way, and the later the better.
Daily maximum temperature
Melbourne Regional Office 1968 – No of Days above 30C for Jan/Feb/Mar- Station closed 2017
30 Days over 30C – 19 Days over 35C – 4 Days over 40C
as against
Daily maximum temperature
Melbourne (Olympic Park) 2023 – No of Days above 30C for Jan/Feb/Mar – Station opened 2013
18 Days over 39C – 6 Days over 35C – 1 day above 40C
Can someone please explain why 1968 wasa lot hotter than 2023 – I would call that cooling – not Global Boiling
The plea deal looks like it used the Jeffrey Epstein template from Florida in 2008.
Absolutely no logical reason for the prosecution to negotiate – there were no “bigger fish” for the defendant to flip on, and there were only minimal savings in court procedural time to be gained.
But negotiate they did.
Resulting in a spectacularly wide and far reaching indemnities for Jeffrey and his associates, for unknown and undefined crimes, even into the future.
So you effectively trade a very minor guilty plea with effectively no jail time, for a Perpetual Get Out Of Jail Free card.
Incidentally, the guy who did that deal in Florida was Alex Acosta.
I’d agree with that.
I envisage someone editing this clip with Hunter at the White House rubbing his nose and scampering off into the background inserted in. He was off his head.
If he appears in court completely bald in the future; all body hair shaved off, we’ll know. Ben Cousin’s figured that out. A hair follicle test with no body hair makes it tough. Something to keep an eye on.
I read he states he hasn’t taken illegal drugs since 2019! Ha! … f*ck off.
Grandmaster Flash “White Lines” (unofficial music video)
…quiet day in the office for me today… but I think my prodding of ChatGPT to write a poem on Britnah has worked out (it wouldn’t write one “on the knickerless):
In shadows deep, a name is whispered low,
Britnah, a soul with secrets to bestow.
Her presence cloaked in an eerie haze,
A haunting figure, lost in a wicked maze.
Beneath a moonless sky, she walks alone,
A tortured heart, with darkness it has grown.
In midnight’s grasp, her footsteps tread,
A puppeteer, her motives all but dread.
A wisp of darkness, shrouded in gloom,
Britnah’s aura, an ominous bloom.
Her laughter cold, a chilling breeze,
Spreading fear and unease with ease.
With eyes that pierce through souls like knives,
She preys upon the lost and their fragile lives.
In every smile, a sinister glee,
As she weaves a web of misery.
Beware her charm, a wicked spell,
Her touch, a plunge into a dismal hell.
No mercy shown, no love to find,
Britnah’s heart a void, forever confined.
Yet even in her depths of despair,
A hint of sorrow lingers there.
A broken past, a twisted fate,
A tragedy that sealed her darkened state.
So let us fear, but not condemn,
For deep within, there lies a gem.
In the shadows, she’s lost her way,
A tragic soul in disarray.
Oops
Melbourne Regional Office
Number: 86071
Opened: 1908
Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015
Lat: 37.81° S
Lon: 144.97° E
Elevation: 31 m
Yeah nah, the last two stanzas are off!
For those looking for some mild amusement, scoot over to CL’s blog, and read Ed C’s comments on the Liberal Party come back thread.
He seems to have the worst Case (Ho, ho) of relevance deprivation syndrome of all time.
All BOM Australian Meteoro;ogic Stations – Excellent Site
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_122.txt
Bureau of Meteorology product IDCJMC0014. Produced: 27 Jul 2023
Australian stations measuring maximum air temperature
Site Name Lat Lon Start End Years % AWS
—————————————————————————————————–
85000 ABERFELDY -37.7000 146.3667 Sep 1969 Oct 1974 5.1 95 N
4000 ABYDOS -21.4167 118.9333 Jan 1965 Jan 1968 2.0 61 N
4045 ABYDOS WOODSTOCK -21.6200 118.9550 Dec 1969 May 1976 6.3 92 N
45000 ADAVALE POST OFFICE -25.9167 144.6000 Jan 1962 Sep 1978 16.6 95 N
23097 ADELAIDE (BLACK HILL CONSERVATION PARK) -34.8833 138.7167 May 1979 Feb 1989 8.9 88 N
23090 ADELAIDE (KENT TOWN) -34.9211 138.6216 Feb 1977 Jul 2020 43.5 100 Y
23057 ADELAIDE (NORTHFIELD RESEARCH CENTRE) -34.8533 138.6517 Jul 1966 Dec 1994 28.3 94 N
23037 ADELAIDE (PARAFIELD PLANT INTRODUCTION C -34.7833 138.6242 Jan 1957 Dec 1988 32.0 100 N
23031 ADELAIDE (WAITE INSTITUTE) -34.9697 138.6331 Sep 1965 Aug 1986 20.5 97 N
23000 ADELAIDE (WEST TERRACE / NGAYIRDAPIRA) -34.9257 138.5832 Jan 1887 Jul 2023 98.3 72 Y
23034 ADELAIDE AIRPORT -34.9524 138.5196 Feb 1955 Jul 2023 68.5 100 Y
23046 ADELAIDE AIRPORT OLD SITE -34.9566 138.5356 Aug 2002 Jan 2005 2.5 90 Y
Vicki
Jul 28, 2023 3:05 PM
Oscar may end up at Red Bull. Zak Brown (McLaren) was asked how he intends to keep Oscar and Zak prattled on about making sure the car was competitive….. True, but it is only part of the equation.
If Red Bull are hunting for a new driver, to replace either Max or Perez, it is not certain that Daniel will get the gig. He might but I wouldn’t bet money on it. I would bet that Oscar will be firmly in their sights.
As for Max, I quite like him and he is an outstanding driver but he can be petulant at times and that annoys me. To be fair, he has got better over the last year but it still flashes up every now and then.
We have been lucky to see so many gifted drivers in the modern era – Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Hamilton, Vettel, Lauda, Alonso. Even that whining pom Mansell was pretty damn good in his day although he was very unlucky at times (I wouldn’t stand next to him in a thunderstorm – just in case.)
Rabz at 2:11.
We are gruntled beyond our wildest dreams.
Dover’s pest control of Eddles (and others) is far superior to other brands.
Tom,
First a disclaimer. I don’t use Windows; I have a Macbook.
I doubt that it’s Windows 11. I would look to either the mouse or the laptop, probably the USB port. Speaking of USB ports, you have 3. Two are high-speed ports and one is a USB 2.0 low speed port. That’s the one you would attach your mouse to. Have you tried them all? I would expect the single port on right hand side to be the USB 2.0, but you need to test.
If none of them work, then is the mouse new as well, or did it work in a previous life? If it did, it is probably the Acer. Take it back. If the mouse is new as well, take them both back.
That said, you don’t have to use the editing buttons. You have a trackpad. I haven’t used a mouse since I got my first laptop with a trackpad.
Some googled suggestions on the windows scrolling issues
Try hitting the WINKEY + I combo to launch the Settings App. Now navigate to Devices > Mouse. Finally, toggle the Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them setting to Off. Reboot your computer and check if that has fixed your issues.
https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-automatic-scrolling-on-windows/
Ed seems to live in a lot of people’s heads.
The Duran
Farage defeats NatWest, door open for political return
Good article on the issue of recognizing Aborigines in the Constitution.
Having done Australian Army Radio Training during 60s Vietnam period, I am amazed at the Radio Discipline shown by the Long Tans Soldiers
I am rewatching on Big Screen LG OLED
Battle of Long Tan Documentary – Vietnam War – Narrated by Sam Worthington
Martin Walsh Red Dune Films
Listening to the texbook radio communication with noise of machine guns, rifles, mortars, sub machine guns and Artillery, especially the calmness of Lt Sharp even as he realises the growing size of the enemy attacking them, before he was killed – it is amazing
Interesting, insightful and lengthy interview on which cops were (conducting illegal activities) by being Milligan’s Pell source:
https://www.academia.edu/38849150/Was_Doug_Smith_Milligans_Source
The Guppy@1:32.
John Hurt is not available for comment.
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Daily Oshkosh Highlights! – Thursday – EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023
Lysander
Jul 28, 2023 4:00 PM
I see a Tim Burton fillum in that.
You could call it The Corpse Bride.
Woof!
https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/issue-645/
Check out Hendo’s take on the “political commentator” who said tweeter Belinda Jones “would rattle LNP to the core” in Fadden. 😛 (She scored 1.05%) of the vote…
Actually, the next ice age is on it’s way, and the later the better.
As Plimer argues, the planet (& humans) prosper with a war, green planet. Ice is not good.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 28, 2023 4:17 PM
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-constitution/2023/07/dot-painting-a-moustache-on-the-constitution/
Good article on the issue of recognizing Aborigines in the Constitution.
Since the original Constitution never mentioned British people, Aborigines or immigrants – and has functioned perfectly adequately in the absence of such words – there is no practical purpose to be served by inserting them now.
And the Constitution is, above all, a practical document.
This type of recognition will not enhance its practical effectiveness one iota.
The Constitution is about governance and nothing else.
As such, the term ‘constitutional recognition’ necessarily implies a distinct place in our governance, whether or not it is in a preamble or a chapter in the main body.
So, what about the Australian Constitution? Yes, I earlier described it as a prosaic document.
Nonetheless, it is also an important cultural artefact of our Westminster system – and the values underpinning it – towards which Aboriginal culture and tradition have contributed precisely nothing.
Why, then, should it be amended to include a special reference to Aboriginal people?
I would call this constitutional graffiti
In art terms, a bit like daubing a dot painting on the sandstone walls of the NSW Art Gallery. Or putting a moustache on the Mona Lisa to acknowledge transgender people.
Aha! The real reason for Ukraine!!!
/apologies
Welcome to Country …or Melbourne…..Inner and Outer Eastern suburbs.
Another manager in our company arrived home from a 2 week holiday to find his house had been broken into and ransacked. That is 5 homes in our department who have been broken into or homes invaded over the past 18 months. WTF is going on? Where is the meja on this ? Our work colleagues in Europe are astounded by the level of break-ins in Melbourne.
But hey, lets not hold our leader to account. Andrews is busy upping payroll tax and banning gas cookers.
EXCLUSIVE: Julia Gillard’s ex-boyfriend Tim Mathieson accused of stalking a woman and entering her Brunswick home before admitting to a depraved sexual assault
This seems like at least a community protection order is warranted.
Two years, where he’s only allowed out to work.
I know a white collar crim who was under one.
That was pre COVID.
Then when COVID hit he wasn’t all that bothered by it.
Thanks for that one Old Ossie – I’ve bookmarked it to watch later on.
One of the ex Nasho’s who lived in the local town “when we had the farm” never spoke about his role in that battle for years – it emerged in the late 1980’s he had been with the A.P.C’s.
Steve trickler
Jul 28, 2023 4:12 PM
Ed seems to live in a lot of people’s heads.
That’s why he’s called Head Case.
Many thanks, Peter!
Low risk, non-geek user solutions:
1) Try another mouse.
2) Toggle ‘off’ the ‘Scroll inactive windows’ feature in Settings/Devices/mouse. See if that fixes the problem.
3) Open the Device Manager, delete the mouse driver from the list of devices and reboot the computer with the mouse attached to a USB port – which will then cause Windows to download and install the latest driver.
Beyond that, probably seek help, probably not from people walking the floor at Officeworks.
It’s OK to hate Windows 11.
Is that why Biden never left his basement!!!?
Tom,
Here is another short video that may work for you.
Fix Windows 11/10 Mouse Automatically Scrolling (Solved)
Mr 10% not Getting Enough?
Ukrainian corruption threatens US assistance – report
State Department inspectors have flagged concerns about the billions sent to Kiev
The US is struggling to keep track of billions of dollars it has sent to Kiev since February 2022, the effectiveness of which may be reduced by government and private corruption in Ukraine. This was the most recent finding of the US State Department’s Office of the Inspector General.
The redacted version of the State Department OIG report, published this week – 29 Pages notes that “corruption in the Ukrainian government and private sector poses risks to the effectiveness of US foreign assistance over the longer run.”
Concerns about corruption are well-documented, the OIG adds, and the State Department “intends to develop a plan to address anti-corruption in connection with assistance to Ukraine, including for reconstruction.”
According to the report, the US Congress has appropriated more than $113.4 billion for Ukraine since the hostilities with Russia escalated last year. The State Department has been responsible for about $31 billion, of which $22.9 billion was marked “direct budget support” for the Ukrainian government.
The OIG review focused on just these funds, administered by the Office of the Coordinator of US Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (EUR/ACE), and not the tens of billions in military aid that went through the Pentagon.
Among the report’s revelations was that “all foreign assistance” to Ukraine is ultimately channeled through the Assistance Coordinator (ACOORD) team at the US embassy in Kiev, which apparently consists of just two people – described as a “Senior Foreign Service officer and a locally employed staff member.”
The embassy’s Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) was last updated in 2018. To make up for it, the EUR/ACE has drafted several planning documents approved by the National Security Council. However, each of them “lacked some or all” of the elements required by internal rules, including goals and objectives “with clear desired results and associated performance indicators.”
The documents also “did not set forth an overarching strategy for Ukraine or assign responsibility for achieving goals.”
The limited number of embassy staff and Ukraine’s travel restrictions have created “significant challenges in monitoring programs,” the OIG said. Most of the monitoring is done remotely, using online protocols adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic. One office has created a smartphone app to do photo verification of equipment deliveries. Another contracted with an American NGO to “monitor and verify demining operations.”
The OIG inspectors “largely conducted the review remotely” between mid-October 2022 and early March 2023.
Mr 10 % “Big Guy” President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly pledged to support the government in Kiev “for as long as it takes” to win the “war” against Russia.
Earlier this month, the White House opposed a proposal by congressional Republicans to set up an independent special inspector for Ukraine aid, arguing that the Pentagon inspector general and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) were already working to “ensure accountability.”
Thank you, P!
functioned perfectly adequately
ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT!?
This bears repeating:
Johnny Rotten.
Jul 28, 2023 2:37 PM
Did anyone else hear Elbow talk about developing a National ID Card today, some peeps on my twitter feed say they heard it.
I mean, I see things like “trannies” being a thing and then “trannies in schools” and then things like “social credit ratings” and each time I’ve though, nah.. bullshit.
My “hit rate” obviously aint that great!
4) Hammer it until you pathologically hate COVID/farm land nerd enough that you buy a Mac.
Who does he think he is? A Channel Nine commentator?
Read a reference to such a card, yes.
Erm… how the hell does one follow/stalk a woman, walk through the front door and end up sucking on her nipple…
“I slipped?” (as in, down the garden path, through the front door and then down her neck)???
Surely aggravated and definitely not invited.
Terry McCrann on Farage, with a warning to the people running our financial institutions:
A nashennal ID card
A grate home building programme, raiding the fewcha fund
An indigenous, Canbra centric, pale toned House of Lairds
A bran nue inflation target, FWIW, 6% is now considered lowe
We’re in the very best of hands.
Technically that isn’t correct, neither Coutts nor NatWast have restored Farage’s account. They’ve “apologised” though. Salt the earth.
Speaking the Truth
Sam Newman goes on a vile 10-minute tirade about Aboriginal people leaving Aussies disgusted
. Sam Newman says Indigenous people ‘have no history’
. Anyone voting for Voice ‘ought to be ashamed’, he added
. Branded Welcome to Country ‘brainwashing’ and ‘cringeworthy’
A serious case of Insider Fever today from Perfessor Michelle Grattan, who notes the Productivity Commission report that tells us that Closing the Gap is failing because of lack of commitment and implementation failures at all levels of government.
Grattan’s ‘go to’ solution is unsurprising:
But surprisingly she points out:
The Canbra beltway version of the Yes Plan is therefore to stick a Voice on top of the existing Council of Peaks (which is set up to advise governments on indigenous issues):
But the hole is in crap implementation.
The Productivity Commission says so.
Easy to see why Uncle Luigi gets spittle faced angry when asked to explain…
Why restrict it to version 11?
Dover – the Cats not been loading properly a few times this arvo.
Is that anything like an Australia Card?
Fun how Labor have the institutional memory of an ADHD affected hamster.
Stephen Mayne gets a guernsey in this weeks Media Watchdog. Which is as good a reason as any to relive this great moment in Aussie j’ism. Enjoy,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPzpxRtFY3Y
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 28, 2023 10:34 AM
Can anyone with a Spec sub put this one up:
Brown study
Neil Brown
Thanks
National Digital ID: How the government plans to keep track of every citizen with a universal ID linking everything from Medicare to your driver’s licence – here’s when it will be launched
There has already been backlash towards the proposed ID, but on Wednesday Ms Gallagher told the Australian Financial Review’s Government Services Summit that the program should be up and running by mid-next year.
Unless the editor means that “Aboriginal people [are] leaving Aussies disgusted”, rather that (some) people have been disgusted by Sam, a bit of better English expression is needed.
First right thing this idiot has ever said.
Exactly what I was saying here only two days ago… the Left don’t let go, they just try again, and again, and again..
If the inVoice gets up, will it be made mandatory for every newborn to receive a ‘welcome to country’ within 30 minutes of splashdown? The parents will pay, of course, but most will have that cost (virtual wtc extra) reimbursed via ‘gubbermint munny.’
Follow up details about the trannie POS who shot up the school:
“Transifa” Terror on the Rise
Victims of Audrey Hale’s Nashville attack provide evidence of what is to come.
As Bruce Bawer explains, the trans movement is a “revolution against reality itself,” and with the loss of reality comes the loss of humanity. Empathy and reason go missing, replaced by hatred and violence. Those who adhere to biological reality are smeared as “transphobes” presumed to be guilty of “genocide.” That allegedly justifies any action against them.
It’s as simple as this: once a society changes its base values to the perverted values of the deviant, diseased or ideologically opposed then it is stuffed.
Is there a Welcome to Country gateway at Kingsford Smith yet? All entrants to Oz should pay $10 and be smoked with eucalyptus leaves after Customs. And buy Rainbow Serpent fashion accessories in the shop located just afterwards.
Score update.
Nigel 2 … NaffWest 0.
Both Ms Rose (group CEO) and Mr Flavell (Coutts CEO) both goneski.
But I don’t think that is the final score.
They are desperate to cauterise the wound.
I predict the Chairman will go, and there will be a clean-out of any of the minions involved in this shit-show will get DCMs as well.
The Nigel Farage banking scandal has exposed the ‘progressive’ left as the stooges of the elite.
Yes: “To Die For“, which was marvelous and mesmerising.
‘Can you think of a single movie of hers you wanted to see again?’: Nicole Kidman slammed by Eyes Wide Shut screenwriter (Sky News, 28 Jul)
There’s nothing so creepy as a psychotic television weather lady.
It’s only a matter of time!
Speaking of movies – watched Hyena Road on Netflix the other night.
Canadian contingent in Afghanistan. Snipers & intelligence officers dealing with conflicting locals.
Good movie – I enjoyed it. Rotten Tomatoes rating wasn’t as kind.
The best “welcome to country” when alighting from a long haul is machines that actually work . Those ones that ask you if you’ve stepped in cow poop or visited Ebolaland in the past 30 days. The queues at those things can be horrendous.
Almost makes you pine for the good old days when they’d spray you with insecticide before you landed.
you need a new mouse Tom.
get a bluetooth one
Logitech are pretty well priced and behaved
On movies…I watched two when I was travelling. The Menu starring Ralph Fiennes, and The Whale with Brendan Fraser as lead character. They were interesting, quite different stories.
Fiennes does cultured malevolence superbly, and Fraser’s performance was an eye opener. George of the Jungle (looking pretty darn good in Armani) was definitely a thing of the past.
P to the rescue again.
I am in awe – and totally respectful of – your internet savvy, P. Quite extraordinary.
Air hellair new page.
And another thing…regardless of the airline, the movie selections were abysmal. Where have all the good movies gone? BA was the worst. I was hoping for some British murder most horrids and all there was…was Harry bloody Potter.
So I switched to the music catalogue and listened to the LSO and read a lurid Lynda la Plante instead. Exactly the right length…turned the final page as the seatbelt sign came on.
C.L. has since (rare for him) closed that thread because of Ed’s thread-bombing (14 out of 59 comments).
Ed uses the most tortuous logic (when he is not simply making things up), and obviously thinks – but doesn’t come out and say it – that the LNP should be more Labor-lite. Hence, he never criticises or attacks left wing Libs.
Today he seems to think that the Libs should be fully on board with the renewable energy scam, because “the vast majority” (his words) of the Australian public are fully onboard (allegedly) with man-made climate change.
Interesting, watching “Old Ossies” link on the battle of Long Tan, and comparing what was said then, and what’s been written in the past twenty years, with access to the North Vietnamese archives.
“The war was almost lost, in the early 1960’s’ The Diem Government came very close to crushing the Viet Cong insurgency, even though their methods may have been pretty ruthless. The North Vietnamese couldn’t believe their luck when the Americans connived at the coup that overthrew him.
“The North Vietnamese were fighting a war of national liberation.” There was only going to be one form of Government – a Communist dictatorship. All other nationalists had been purged by then.
Barking Toad
Jul 28, 2023 6:41 PM
I thought it was decent. Not overblown, but worth a watch.
Err, thanks but no thanks.
Meme
The missus and I should have flown Airasia Bali to Perth instead of Jetstar. Got the welcome to country then had to walk across a mat to nix foot & mouth.
Nice and warm in Bali and the traffic is still crazy.
You suspect Mr Drumgold will be invited to consider his position and be given the opportunity to spend more time with his family.
Believe it or not, this is in the Guardian
Forget Nigel Farage and Coutts – banks have been locking ordinary people out of accounts for years
Poor old Warren Mundine copping it from the screech scum. This c.nt is one of the worst:
https://twitter.com/DrVicFielding
Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
I will soon be launching an exercise to gather together all of those that have been de-banked.
We will build a very large database of cases to find out which banks are worst offenders.
This is how we will make a fundamental change in the system.
Have they reinstated his own facilities?
He’s just been booted from that blog.
The customers complaining they had their bank accounts closed without any explanation
Just finished watching the Long Tan doco. Compelling stuff especially with the radio transmissions. Thanks for posting it.
A ‘doctor’ too.
Goes without saying.
😀
‘Dr’ Jill sums uni doctorates. A dime a dozen.
I have never heard of her, but I noticed this old tweet from her:
While that outrages her, what’s the betting she doesn’t object to Dementia Joe pawing young girls and sniffing and patting their hair?
https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/victoria.fielding
These are the people we pay attention to.
Who is broken?
Arts faculties sure ain’t Shakespeare, Goethe and Austen (unless it’s to find fault with them). It’s cultural marxist trashing of everything that is good. Why do we fund them?
I was taught that the worst thing you could do was panic over the radio.
From what she wrote in her tweets linked to above, she is as nutty as a fruitcake, and to the left of Chairman Dan.
Daily Mail.
Victoria is an expert in the field of strategic communication and its influence on journalism. Her research focuses on the way groups compete for positive attention in the news media, and the influence journalism has on democracy.
Then she must be absolutely appalled at the state of journalism here and overseas. I am confident she is a strident critic of the MSM, in particular, and their overt and covert methods to stifle free speech. The impact of blatant bias and officially sanctioned disinformation on the democratic process is plain to see.
Victoria must be livid yet strangely, her condemnation seems muted. Why is that?
Nomads own land?!
B Ark.
I do like the “theoretical field of framing theory”.
It has a poetic circularity about it. As elegant as the snake eating its tail.
Not bad for a communications ex-spurt.
What is it that university courses do to young women? Are they insane before they select a particular university/course, or does the course drive them around the bend?
That’s a recent invention – I was always taught that they saw themselves as the “guardians” of the land, but not owning that land.
Good fun.
—
Red Dog and Suzi:
22 Dec 2011
During her recent Australia Tour to promote her new album, produced by the legendary Mike Chapman, entitled in The Spotlight, Suzi Quatro got to meet the star of the hugely popular Aussie flick Red Dog. Koko flew in from Perth to meet Suzi at Crown in Melbourne. Her song Stumblin In is featured predominantly in the film.
Red Dog Meets Suzi Quatro.mp4
Jihad Watch
Geller
The usual unbelievable crap.
Ha!
I just found out that the scientific name for the arrangement of spikes on a stegosaurus’ tail is ‘thagomizer’, after a Far Side cartoon gave it that name.
I love that the eponymous caveman was not just Thag, but Thag Simmons.
Good evening sir, I’m a census taker.
Are you married or happy?
We have a genius in our midst.
Victoria Fielding
@DrVicFielding
·
Jun 26, 2021
So have I got this right? When covid escaped quarantine in Victoria it was all Andrews’ fault and full inquiry, months long media inquisition was needed. But when covid infects unmasked transport worker in NSW, it’s the individual’s fault, not NSW govt? This is #MediaInequality
Her ideological gaffes in research methods done by software in the field of thinking about “stuff” in yet another field, that of PHRASING.
Yes folks, we’re in the very best of hands.
Yes. When you put a gun to someone’s head and tell them plan X will work and it doesn’t, maybe you should put the gun down.
Not quite the ouroboros where, at least, the head would seem the active defining element.
Imagine instead a snake with its head up its own cloaca…
Perfect! 😀
Hachiko!
Hachiko, more than a story
What percentage of ‘experts’ are required to justify* their expertise?
* The traditional definition of the word, that is.
I’ve always wondered about sites like LinkedIn. Are they useful for employers or are they simply vanity sites for narcissists and treasure trove for stalkers?
All the self descriptions I have ever seen appear to be flowery flights of fancy. Never a list of what the person can actually do.
What is it that university courses do to young women? Are they insane before they select a particular university/course, or does the course drive them around the bend?
Yes one of the characters in The History Man, Felicity Phee undergoes such a transformation-a frail, bright teenager has become dark-eyed Felicity Phee
Universities really do cripple people. Why do we have them? We could go back to Institutes of Technology for courses worth retaining (NOT communications).
True right it’s Andrews’ fault when he chooses an inexperienced new “security” firm purely for ideological reasons (without even a pretence of going through tender, and cost taxpayers many millions), so much so that the guards have to receive very brief, virtually on the job training.
@ JC:
“Yeah, I’ve been to two out of three. Have you?”
All of the above, plus Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and a lot of Japan. With most of my work being done in smaller regional centres, I got to sample “budget accommodation” in detail. Great way to meet a lot of interesting people.
When someone was paying me to go to such places, the supplied accommodation had a couple fewer than five stars, though I did get a a couple of flash stays because of flight “issues”. The old Thai Airways “Gold Card” came in handy for emergency accommodation and cabin upgrades. Even in “retirement”, I neither need nor seek out hot and cold running servants. Furthermore, there is more to life than the inside of a hotel, regardless of its “rating”.
We stayed at the Metropole Hotel, in Hanoi. French paratroop offices had “last drinks” at the bar, before they jumped into Dien Bien Phu…..
I suspect that LinkedIn trawls for numbers. I appeared on it once, without having done anything. It took a while to be deleted.
I asked it ‘What is a woman?’ I got back that a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman.
This is circular and isn’t a definition at all.
It then went on to expand on it in a thoroughly woke manner.
Totally hopeless.
My Toyota might identify itself as a Lamborghini, in fact I could put a Lambo decal on it to cement the identification, but it would still be a Toyota.
Actually, I’d prefer a Ferrari, but cars are funny like that. Capricious.
Good luck injected that sh*t into you. Another Big-Pharma wonder drug!
Geezuz.
Watch the opening and the Jaxen report @6:48.
—-
The HighWire with Del Bigtree:
Ice Cube and Tucker Carlson Go Viral Over Vaccine Choice; Jefferey Jaxen Reports Reveals it’s not All Roses For The Weight Loss Wonder Drug, Ozempic; Massachusetts Moves against Medical Freedom; Biden Wants to Make the Pandemic Preparedness Office Permanent; Former BlackRock Portfolio Manager, Edward Dowd, joins Del with some of his most shocking data yet, which suggests the collateral damage from the Pandemic Health Response.
Guest: Edward Dowd
Episode 330: COLLATERAL DAMAGE
17/03/1986 – Film of the Book (The History Man) – BBC2 (imo the BBC was pretty good back in the Mrs T era)
Next stop, the Furniture Store.
I saw a meme which cut through millions of pages of academic tranny bullshit with one deceptively simple question:
If genitals do not define your gender, then why is it necessary to lop them off?
Exactly.
If a man wants to identify as a woman, he is already tacitly admitting that there are important, biological differences.
He needs to define what a “woman” is without resorting to subjective arguments (like “I am a woman because I say so”), which of course he can never do.
Anybody imagine the knicker wetting if a rock solid Labor seat like Rockingham went to preferences?
We’ve kept Dan Duggan in solitary confinement on no charges at the request of the USA. A very obliging friend too.
It’s the ultimate in virtue signalling: I rejected my ‘privilege’ so effectively, it can never be returned. (Therefore, I’m one of you; a victim).
It’s a time-delayed hand grenade though: Teaching people (the young and vulnerable) that their self-worth is dependent upon external sources means that when the spotlight eventually moves on, the sudden absence of acknowledgement and praise will be perceived as ‘hate,’ abandonment, and rejection. When the familiar rituals vanish, how do they cope? How do they function?
We might respond: Who cares? However, the reality will be that a percentage of these suddenly semi-functional, identity-challenged people, will be in positions of authority in government or business. Others with less status, may swamp our education, medical, and perhaps our legal systems, which are already far from efficient.
If you think it’s a mess now, wait for the grenade-chains to start popping. From a social destruction perspective though, it’s … brilliant.
Oooooh.
It must be really, really bad.
Sancho Panzer
Jul 28, 2023 8:51 PM
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 28, 2023 7:16 PM
For those looking for some mild amusement, scoot over to CL’s blog, and read Ed C’s comments on the Liberal Party come back thread.
He’s just been booted from that blog.
Next stop, the Furniture Store.
If you are going to advertise the joint, do it! Struth populates your mind, Sancho. If he didn’t, you wouldn’t mention it, but you do. Much like people do with Ed.
It’s just an observation on my part.
LinkLink.
My scroll-past is so automatic that had Rabz not alerted us, I’d not have ever noticed they’d gone.
OldOzzie,
I’ve only started watching this, but I recall an excellent doco on Long Tan which I have not been able to find since. It included many interesting stories. For example; when the mortar attack occurred, the firebases had new US counter-battery radars which told them that the mortars were coming from below sea level, so they were relegated to army surplus, and the bases triangulated on the sound, and managed to cause casualties. There was a long discussion of the intelligence officer who had been tracking the radio operator of the NVA force, recognizing him by his “hand.” This officer was convinced that an attack was imminent. The Yanks also warned of one.
If it’s a different doco and you know its whereabouts, please let us know.
Stock up on meat: 7 reasons.
I just re-watched The Pianist and the thing that leaps out is the lack of representation among the Jewish community – they were all white!
As if only white people were the victims and the suffering of Bleck people was irrelevant!
All the Nazis were white, but what else could they be?
ha! same
my follow up question was ‘why are you programmed to be so retarded?”
it told me that it wouldn’t answer my demands because people might be offended
not computers though … computers don’t have feelings
… so I told it f* off
There was a heated discussion on that subject, just after the publication of the “Official History.
Anne Boleyn?
… wait … was that a trick question?
Dr Victoria must be shattered that all her book ‘lernin is worth less than a senior first aid certificate in light of assisting Abbo health outcomes.
I suggest she go for her RN with a sideline In pharmacy so she can get out there and make a real difference.
She’s on of our educated mongs.
“ something is wrong so we must discard all of what works for every other population group in Australia and instead try new unproven things”
Which keeps the educated Mong class in “ studies” on 6 figures until retirement.
Enlighten us, please Tanya. Come to the West, and explain the new Heritage legislation. You MAY get out alive…
Has Monty been given the flick? Oh frabjous fooking joy!
Vic Fielding aka Victoria Rollason of open letter to Prime Minister Abbott fame?
She changed her name when she got married?
She’s bonkers enough to be the same person.
Cash!
—
woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Simi Valley Spring Street Fair 2023 (9 of 12)
I’m sure it’s her.
She retreats Catherine Rollison, her mother, iirc.
Just checked her website.
It is.
Mentions her ‘maiden name’.
The patriarchy always wins, baybee!
What will happen to retweet?
Rex?
Monty been defenstrated or just waiting for anew “ tick tock” he can feculate over?
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Defenestrator_(New_Earth)
….. I think the Yes camp and the government has failed to mount a retail argument for how this is going to help anybody.”…..
“ new improved turd on a string, just like a turd, but lovingly polished with taxpayer money, dipped in up to 16% Aboriginality* and on a string”
Yeah, still not feeling it.
* may contain traces of Bruce Pascoe, and Pascoe like ingredients
Wow!
I just googled it.
What an unhinged, very abusive rant.
https://www.opnlttr.com/letter/open-letter-tony-abbott
Interesting to know whose accounts were crimped by NaffWest.
But what might be more interesting to know is which accounts have remained unencumbered.
People who have criminal convictions for Just Stop Oil protests?
Supporters of terrorists like Hamas?
Those who cheer on BLM pyromaniacs?
Epstein associates like Prince Andrew?
Anyone looking at their Insta feed to see if they are “fit and proper persons”.
Finished that long tan flick.
Very good. Not overdone at all.
Place is about 4 hours drive from better half’s house though. Might plan a visit for next time.
Leeser is more concerned with progressing a divisive social issue than ensuring farmers are able to use their land to produce food and fibre without facing prosecution for unknowable infringements.
Leeser was always easy to dislike on sight and now he shows exactly why that assessment is perfectly accurate.
The Pies lost tonight and they deserved it.
Champagne Charlie football came unstuck.
Might have misheard our Captain today, but I am pretty sure he said 200 km/hr headwinds which made our trip about 30 minutes longer.
Do I need my ears checked? Is that even possible? I tracked out flight on Flight Radar and we were WAY higher up than I presumed – an Airbus 330-200 BTW.
The joke is on the commie Hunchback. New houses can still go bottle LPG, it works out cheaper as well!
https://www.elgas.com.au/blog/1673-shrewd-homeowners-abandon-natural-gas-save-with-lpg/
Yep, it’s a thing, up to 330 km/hr. From 2018:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/aviation/how-planes-are-getting-to-eastern-states-faster-ng-b88941563z
From Russia with love.
—
Mark Dice:
Meet America’s New Military Leaders of Tomorrow
A very hittable head.
Jet stream dot.
There is only so many times you can roll the dice on last quarter comebacks.
A couple of commentators banging on that Josh Daicos still had a heap of possessions.
Until a voice of reason piped up to remind them that he butchered half of them.
And had a few mates.
Still, this will be ammo for the coach to rev them up and deflate a few big heads.
A very hittable head.
Leeser Simpson. He’s just as sanctimonious as Lisa.
My word they did.
However, this is on balance a good thing. The Pies needed a decent kick in the sack from somebody before the finals – and if it happened to be Caaaaarlton, so much the better.
The Ashes.
The bowlers give them a chance and the top three get 80 runs off 291 balls before departing.
Another team that deserve to lose.
Mr Panzer at 8.57, and apropos of the gypsum fan:
Back it in.
Mihocek hasn’t troubled the scorer enough of late to stay in the team.
Howe embarrassed him after he was put forward.
I just don’t get the same enjoyment from a Collingwood loss now Malthouse isn’t there any more.