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I followed dover’s instructions to the letter and still did not get it to link correctly. Never mind….try this: https://x.com/rebekkarnold/status/1835663229013405909
Linky no workee, Megam at 10.55am.
Hezbollahs responsible for procurement were clearly too focused on bribes, kickbacks etc to consider that their supply chain from outside…
Leaving the endless pager memes momentarily, this marketing video by the Royal Armoury in Leeds is a modern classic.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tina Norton.
Before the aether denial fraud got started physicists had names like JJ Thompson, Rutherford …. English and Germans although Germans really dominated Chemistry. And on the electrical wing there were Heaviside, before him Maxwell, later Steinmetz, Tesla. What happens a few decades later. See the new movie for how the profile was altered in just a few decades. Few jobs for the white guys in the big money operations any more. A lot like in computer programming. The computer revolution was started by white hippies in California. But a series of measures were used to take the business away from them. And to make formerly successful programmers basically unemployable. This included a diversion to Seattle and the fairly cynical use of Indians. People know how to take over institutions. In economics this was done by locking in Keynes as a demi-god and teaching small children the Keynesian multiplier as a filter.
You can still get a lot of mileage by excavating Steinmetz. Since electricity was sidelined and minimised. Rather than polluted. The things some of the kids are doing by bringing back Steinmetz (through Eric Dollard) are pretty amazing. But these will be denied to us commercially and money will continue to be diverted to this crude uneducated version of fusion, that can never work for energy production.
Thanks once again Tom.
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton’s formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
– Paul Davies
Twin revolutions? They were twin takeovers not involving anything resembling the scientific method. Newton’s formulae were okay approximations for the inner solar system. Whereas this rebirth involving these non-scientific priesthoods was an institutional takeover that is on its second century of holding us back. No formula stays a good approximation for the whole range of observations. Because we are talking about mechanisms and not anything that obeys heritage formulae. So the excessive fidelity to Newton’s formula is a problem.
Dover please check your email.
Tintarella di Luna
Aug 15, 2023 5:55 AM
Shyte, he was stupid, but at the same time, imagine the fury unleashed by her if he steadfastly refused?
I’m speculating here so don’t get all het up.
What he should have done is seek help, but again probably ego and lust had a play.
I believe “J” was given a gig at Whittlesea Shire Council (maybe he lived in the area) but when his drug addled attitude proved too much he was sacked. Dan then sacked the Council and “J” was given a gig in the State Government.
Hunter Biden is a screw up, but if you want to bring down a government you are going to need a lot more than that.
In no way do I blame the very young teenager, he was a stupid stupid man and he took advantage of and sexually abused a young girl who was probably going through who knows what. It is a very very sad thing, the devastation is ongoing.
I notice there is a 0.5 uptick going free in the aether and as I’m in an uptick deprivation zone may I have it to quell the longing.
Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):
And:
The Last Holdout’s firing on all cylinders. The people concerned will probably claim they were affected by drugs*.
*Iodine.
I didn’t say I was surprised by Prideaux’s revenge, I said I thought it was selfish.
Ruff sex.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-media-and-political-establishment
Communists are trying to ban a rightwing party in Germany to enhance democracy. Riiight.
‘Who wants a Scooby snack?’
‘Roooooby roooby roooo…….’
“Mary Harrington is one such woman, Peachy Keenan (a pseudonym), Erika Bachiochi — they are magnificent reactionaries.”
And Louise Perry. Perry’s book “The Case against the Sexual Revolution” is superb.
Oh look, the pervert apologist is up early.
I wonder how many people whose opinions he doesn’t like or approve of he’s going to punch today?
HBB you may not be on trial but everyone in Canberra is guilty. “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime”, come to mind.
Only in Queensssland.
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 15th August
On August 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption.
NCR
We can see from the temperature profile in the Suns corona that the energy being produced there is pristine. It’s new energy creation. The energy is not coming from the core.
One of the stupidest ideas foisted on us is that the sun is made of hydrogen and is fueled by fusion. Hydrogen is light and floats to the top. Every last thing we know about the sun contradicts the idiots model.
Re Old music teacher and teenage girl , the old saying still applies about brains, windows and dicks
Interesting take on recent Chinese economic data from Peter Zeihan. https://youtu.be/A9-wfHgjTB8.
My dog Spot (not his real name) has humped my leg a few times.
It was totally non-consensual.
No-one can prove otherwise.
Yes Louise Perry too. There are women who want to be women and the young women of today are being told they can do whatever a man can do, so? do they really want to be men? are they are being encouraged to erase their femininity in order to work long hours, work dangerous physically demanding jobs that sap strength and life, sleep with whomever they choose, just like some men can and do or try to do?
Peachy Keenan says there’s a lot of catching up to do – the women-erasers have had a 100 year start
@ Dot:
As Albert Einstein may have once said:
“Space / Time is not just curved,. It is BENT”.
Legally and morally he is 100% to blame.
There are no mitigating factors.
None.
Those suggesting “it was consensual” and “she threw herself at him” might want to reflect on what their response would be if it was their daughter or grand-daughter.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/kansas-newspaper-co-owner-dies-following-unprecedented-raid/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking
Exactly Sancho but an explanation as to why he thought he could get away with it .
He was the adult in a position of trust.
Dover my name not being saved
Possession of Donny Osmond for personal use is legal in Queensland.
In mUnty world, bank accounts and financial transfers are “all hearsay, dodgy hacked stuff and table pounding”. His accountant must have a ball doing his tax returns.
I think that is right.
If challenged his first line of defence would be that the girl was a fantasist and highly emotional.
Whilst we are on the subject of arbitrary legal penalties for what gets said in court, how about immediate de-frocking and dis-barring for any lawyer who uses the word “consensual” in a sexual assault case involving under-age children?
As Cassie says, consent is legally impossible in such cases, and any lawyer who uses that word should get another job.
Disgusting reprobates.
That admission is one small step for a Fatboy, …. but he still has a very long march ahead of him.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/cameras-go-punish-drivers-name-climate-change-vigilantes/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-08-14
When he’s on song, Joe Aston is very good. Captures the problems in a pithy putdown so well.
Is the “save my name … ” box ticked?
Is your name and email exactly the same as before?
(No stray dots or spaces).
None. He is such a gutless worm that if he met someone in a wheelchair who disagreed with him, he would call in Ante-fa (arrives before fascism) to do the punching. But he might hold the wheelchair still, to help his heroes.
So…I take it Knight, in his cartoon, is endorsing Albo’s distraction of promising a public holiday if the Matildas win.
Does he really not see the issue?
If using Delaware LLCs was a crime, most of corporate America would be in gaol.
I mean, sure, if you want to lock up all the consultants and tax lawyers on principle, that might improve society. You’re going to have to try a lot harder to impeach a President.
“He is such a gutless worm “
Generous.
Phuck off monty.
Fatboy
You’re such anNPC.
I disagree Thancho about Whybrow being as bad as Dumbgeld if he said I believe my client to be completely innocent. Dumbgeld has the resources and backing of State to produce all the evidence not just the bits he wants. The defence has the right to pick and choose what bits he wants to highlight and what bits he doesn’t. Dumbgeld had obviously never heard of natural justice. These days all the way to and including the High Court is feelz. Laws are only written for the benefit of lawyers. Laws are being rewritten every day as some dickhead says “we want to make sure it will never happen again”. What a lot of tosh. As for Royal Commissions what can I say.
Just parroting the DemonRats line. Herald Sun:
BJ mutley is not capable of a long march. Mao did it for him and is now enjoying the fruits. Feeble in mind, feeble in body.
“These days all the way to and including the High Court is feelz.”
Nup, the HIgh Court didn’t engage in “feelz” in April 2020 when they vindicated George Pell……..7-0. They engaged in cold hard facts and evidence. Ask Kerri Judd about that. Judd attempted to engage in feelz in the HC when prosecuting her case against Pell, the HC judges weren’t impressed.
[email protected], so true.
The point isn’t about evidence and resources.
It was simply about lawyers opening their yap outside the court system.
Dumgold openly stated there was “a good prospect of conviction” except Britnah couldn’t show up for Round Two.
Totally wrong.
Whybrow refused to be drawn on the question of his belief as to what happened.
Correct answer.
JC, I create wealth in my own business. You skim the system. Back in your box.
Arev you really this stupid? It depends to what use the LLCs are being put. Is the distribution of the proceeds of corruption legal in Delaware?
I have never understood how it is that if a couple become irresponsibily inebriated, anything that subsequently occurrs is the man’s fault.
Whybrow’s point was that as soon as lawyers start getting too close to their “clients” and their causes, they face the danger of trying to redress some perceived injustice by tipping the scales of justice in their direction.
He was also pointing out that people quickly became very polarised and entrenched on both sides of this.
I agree.
You are a parasite on the AFL, sucking blood from its veins and calling it “creation. Back in your box.
At 8.44 am on 15 August 1945 the Australian Government received the news that Japan had surrendered and the Second World War was over.
At 9:30 am announced by the PM via Radio 2CY Canberra.
VJ Day in Australia
If you have a propensity to stick your dick in unwanted places when you are on the turps, don’t get on the turps.
Simple.
Cassie you are right about 7-0 but that was not an interpretation of law. I didn’t make it clear if the law has to be interpreted it becomes subjective instead of objective. Seems to me laws are written as a catch all and as are written in legalese to benefit lawyers and not the people they are supposedly protecting. Complexity of the law is the feature, I see see it as a fault.
Poor, pathetic, mUnty. Since Dick Ed has gone, there is no-one here who believes a word he posts, and most hold him in contempt. But we are the only company he can find since his dog died in that regrettable incident.
Just sad. It must be sooooo lonely in that basement.
it’s interesting how the dingo arrived well after people and was absorbed into the mythology.
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I bet Hawaiian residents could use that $200 million right now. What a corrupt garbage cesspool of neocon traitors we have in our government. They don’t give AF about you.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Fulton County posted charges against President Trump to their website before the Grand Jury had even finished convening, then quickly scrubbed the file from their website
This is the file outlining a litany of charges.
RIGGED.
Oops! Georgia’s ‘Get-Trump’ Grand Jury Forewoman Accidentally Confirms The Recommended Charges Are Bunk
One of the stupidest ideas foisted on us is that the sun is made of hydrogen and is fueled by fusion. Hydrogen is light and floats to the top. Every last thing we know about the sun contradicts the idiots model.
Hmmmmmmm – Doing a quick ‘Google’, this provides the following –
The Sun, like others stars, is a ball of gas. In terms of the number of atoms, it is made of 91.0% hydrogen and 8.9% helium. By mass, the Sun is about 70.6% hydrogen and 27.4% helium – 9 Apr 2018 –
Individual hydrogen atoms remain the most common element found in the universe, making up nearly 95% of the universe’s atoms. Helium is the second lightest and second most abundant element in the observable universe. According to NASA, close to 5% of the universe’s atoms are helium. – 27 Feb 2023 –
Obviously, all stupid stuff – Sarc/ –
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
US Border invasion: No visit
Ukraine funding: No limit
Chinese spy balloons: No urgency
Toxic chemical spill in Ohio: No concern
Deadly Hawaii fires: No comment
The entire country is seeing what “America Last” looks under the Biden regime and we’re disgusted by it
Maui Wildfires Blamed on Climate Change, but Government Was the Real Problem
Looks like it’s “Buy Me a Cup of Coffee” spam hour.
Poll: Vivek Ramaswamy Overtakes Ron DeSantis for Second Place in Republican Primary Field
Lawyers are agents. Agents for their clients and officers of the court. Beyond not knowingly leading evidence that they know to be false their belief in the innocence or otherwise of their client is not really relevant. That is ultimately a matter for the judge or jury. The Crown (through its agent the DPP or police) is required to establish guilt using admissible evidence. The accused is required to establish nothing.
Bird argued against relativity…by noting that physical variables were relative to each other.
Genius at work.
There is no way that you falsely accuse one person who goes to trial and is acquitted and four other people without being malicious or deranged.
Ditto for “Jay”‘s serial perjuring.
Please note this was the context of the perjury discussion. No one is asserting a not guilty verdict necessarily means perjury.
All we need is for the current laws to be enforced properly.
The brilliant David Thompson alerts us to a new form of parenting. Is it time for a stiff drink this early? An incredible read.
That was truly ridiculous. It was in the Ted J Rout territory of High Court appellate arguments.
All complete idiocy. Hydrogen and helium
float to the top. And these retards look at the gasses they can see and claim they go all the way down.
You simply cannot get more special class than that.
“Whybrow’s point was that as soon as lawyers start getting too close to their “clients” and their causes, they face the danger of trying to redress some perceived injustice by tipping the scales of justice in their direction.”
Which is exactly what happened with Dumgold.
Ah yes, Sanchez, but is the vagina of a drunk female necessarily (that is, without exception) “unwanted”? Because that is what the law in the ACT ( and NSW) now provides. This explains why some complainants have exaggerated the degree of their inebriation. Their drunkenness obviates consent. (It also allows them to say that their recollections are imprecise or even wrong.)
The next step in ‘reform’ of the law is to provide that an accused cannot argue that he believed that the complainant consented. If she didn’t, that’s rape.
Men need to know about this.
It’s pretty funny that Graeme is arguing against observable phenomena, like cosmic blueshift, gravitational red/blueshift, gravitational lensing, observable time dilation measured by ordinary clocks or nuclear decay…
It’s just so dumb. SR and GR are wrong and evil because of Jews.
You stupid unteachable bastard.
bons
Valid question.
Neither crusading judges or lawyers make for very good laws.
Boambee John
Mr Ed is gone? When did that happen?
No one ever said the increasing metallicity of stars does not result in a metal core that is eventually unable to sustain fusion in an ongoing and stable manner.
These “elements” in the sun may be less dense, but it is a plasma under very strong gravity, very high temperatures and with magnetic currents and storms.
You presume the standard model is wrong with a silly assumption it doesn’t make then you proclaim how clever you are.
You are a charlatan without the vocabulary to convince anyone.
My late father maintained that VJ Day in Perth was celebrated with more dignity and restraint then “Schoolies” ever was. There was a air of weariness, the war was over, the men would be coming home, and everyone could get on with their lives.
Look Dot. Yo see that the Hydrogen that has floated to the top and to conclude that it goes all the way down is intellectually handicapped. There is no getting around that.
But it also requires you to sign onto the doctrines of hydrogen self-segregation and self compression in solar system formation.
Welteislehre tells us everything we need to know about the observable universe without invoking impure spacetime curvature theories. Possibly falls apart a little at the subatomic scale, but you can’t have everything…
Yes…and never have to talk about the war again.
Rafiki’s 9.01am post deserves many upticks.
Good job it doesn’t rain much in Perf because the standard of design and construction of roof plumbing is uniformly woeful. My kitchen cabinets currently serving as an informal downpipe (with periodic help from me). Only really becomes serious when the downlight doubles as a water feature. Six months of summer gives everything plenty of time to dry out. Around 10mm in half an hour at Swanbourne for comparison.
Willem Pasterkamp
Aug 15, 2023 8:59 AM
I would rather believe NASA than you.
If you applied goodthink to this supposed problem, you would quickly realise that it is an opportunity to reduce your electricity demand – possibly on a whole-of-premises basis.
Is that what attracts the Poms?
His medical work needs attention too. Good on poisoned wells though.
It has taken me nearly three weeks since I bought a new laptop to get the thing working the way I want it, but it has been a real personal education.
The first thing I worked out is that the telco that sells me bandwith (Telstra) is virtually useless when it comes to customer service.
That was after I long ago worked out that the tech manufacturers who sell computers and software are ABSOLUTELY useless because they operate a zero customer service business model where you’re on your own when things go wrong with their systems.
As I have already reported here, the most important document you own when buying a computer is the retailer’s invoice.
My local Officeworks has been absolutely brilliant. After spending a week talking to Telstra’s tech people, I started talking to Officeworks’s tech gurus with instant results.
It took the Officeworks guy a couple of minutes to organise my new laptop’s wifi internet connection via my iPhone’s “personal hotspot” after the Telstra guy said he couldn’t help me and I should go back to the retailer.
The second problem was to get rid of an Indian malware site, which had latched onto my new laptop and was sending me what it hoped would be tech suicide notes virtually every minute.
The problem was my laptop wouldn’t let me load anti-malware software not approved by Microsoft Security (whose software was pre-installed on my laptop) or the Apple app store (my iPhone’s monopoly provider).
The Officeworks guy knew immediately what to do: don’t stuff around, just reset the laptop, which would get rid of its malware worms.
Two hours later, I have a brand-new laptop which does everything I want it to.
It has taken 19 days, but it has been well worth the education.
Fortunately beachside land prices mean you are unlikely to encounter any south of Marmion. Even they have given up going to Perth Glory games which are like a round ball version of recent Eagles games.
Sir, please download TeamViewer, actually!
Is that what attracts the Poms?
It’s a better time zone for watching weekend EPL games and it is a long way from CanBrrrrrrr.
“Tom
Aug 15, 2023 9:12 AM
Rafiki’s 9.01am post deserves many upticks.”
Yes, I agree.
Any man must now tread very, very carefully around any kind of sexual relationship with a woman. Mothers and fathers need to instruct their sons about the dangers of casual sex, and that females can and do weaponise sexual activity.
I’ve been thinking about these issues for a long time, but the whole Brittany saga has confirmed my thoughts. I wrote a piece the other day on C.L.’s blog on this. I was going to suggest to Dover that it be a thread of its own….but here it is.
“With the Porter, Lehrmann et all the other allegations, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. Let me state that these problems, particularly of the kind that have been alleged against Porter and Lehrmann (and the ALP staffer whose name I forget), are NOT happening in religious communities, be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or others. Religious people of all creeds almost always believe that you don’t have sex until marriage, that sex is regarded as sacred, you marry young, and you procreate. Sex in Judaism is regarded as a gift from God, something to be enjoyed and celebrated, but only between a husband and wife, and I suspect it’s exactly the same in Christianity. But these rules, now only confined to the religious, were the common rules across the West until only about fifty years ago. Since then, thanks to militant feminism, we’ve seen the unravelling and collapse of religion across the West, and with that the accompanying collapse of social and sexual mores. The problem nowadays is that too many young men and young women are sexually active outside marriage, they’re often promiscuous, and this demeans the sexual act. But I also believe that it exposes men and women to unsavoury allegations. Casual sex is demeaning, it sullies the soul and it emotionally, physically and psychologically exposes people. We’ve all now seen the video footage of Bruce and Brittany entering the minister’s office, the repercussions of what happened or did not happen in that office that night destroyed a government, but more importantly, it’s destroyed a young man’s life. But here’s the thing, once upon a time it would have been taboo for a young women to go out without knickers, it would have been taboo for a young women to accompany a young man back to an empty office. That would never happen in religious communities.
Our grandparent’s generation usually only had one sexual partner in their lives….ONE, unless there was a bereavement or more rarely, divorce. I am pretty sure that that all of my four grandparents were virgins when they married in the mid and late 1930s (my mother’s mother was eighteen). I think we need to instruct our young that sex is sacred, it belongs in marriage, and that young men and women shouldn’t be going to nightclubs, parties, or worse….online, to pick up sexual partners that not only don’t provide them with any long-term intimacy and satisfaction, but also adds to their unhappiness, their loneliness and makes them vulnerable, very vulnerable to false accusations.
UK author and journalist, Louise Perry, has written an excellent good book called The Case against the Sexual Revolution. I’ve read it and it confirms everything I’ve long thought, that the sexual revolution has only made men and women lonelier and unhappier. It’s certainly been the case with me. If I could relive my life over again, I would never ever have had sex before marriage.
“…a man who wears no pants should not be commenting on these matters.”
Donald Duck doesn’t wear pants and so has nowhere to keep his wallet. How does he pay for things?
They put it on his bill.
boom-tish.
Fair enough.
In another culture clash, the French would like to ban Algerians.
Not sure I would want to be hanging my hat on Christian Porters sexual activities in the late 80s or early 90s (or any time come to think of it). That said, he did not deserve the treatment he got – by his own party, the Liars or the media (read ALPBC SA coven).
Tom:
What’s involved in ‘resetting’ the laptop? Do you lose any of your saved files?
“H B Bear
Aug 15, 2023 10:05 AM”
You’ve missed my point.
“Get back to me when you have enough actual hard evidence implicating Joe in a specific crime. So far it’s all hearsay, dodgy hacked stuff and table pounding.”
As Dan Bongino said on twitter:
“The democrats are correct:
Outside of the bank records, the suspicious activity reports, the wire transfers, the Privat bank transactions, the LLCs, the texts, the emails, the WhatsApp messages, the photos of Joe with Hunter’s business partners, the voicemails to his son, the two business partners saying Joe is the “brand,” the “big guy,” and “the chairman,” the two whistleblowers testimony, the recorded phone calls between Biden and Poroshenko, the video of Joe Biden bragging about firing the Ukrainian prosecutor, and Hunter’s statements that he’s giving his dad half his income, there is NO evidence of Joe Biden being involved.
Good call guys.”
My definition of a house as a tax preferred geared savings plan that keeps the rain off may need work. Rain has slowed and we move into the clean up and recovery phase.
Cassie,
“Since then, thanks to militant feminism, we’ve seen the unravelling and collapse of religion across the West…”
I’d argue that militant feminism is a consequence of the loss of religion, not a cause of it.
“I’d argue that militant feminism is a consequence of the loss of religion, not a cause of it.”
I disagree.
There was a clash, in a certain town, several years ago, between a young lady – five children, by four fathers, and a recently widowed matron, who confessed that she had only ever slept with one man in her life, her late husband.
“I’ll bet I’ve had a lot more fun then you ever have.” said the young lady
“Huh! At least I know who the father of my children is!”
People have been screwing up and getting screwed over by sex since the dawn of time. It is part of the human condition. Enter at your own peril.
What’s involved in ‘resetting’ the laptop? Do you lose any of your saved files?
People have been screwing up and getting screwed over by sex since the dawn of time. It is part of the human condition. Enter at your own peril.”
Yes, which is why religions have struct rules about when and where to have sex. I suspect that those religious pillars, such as not having sex until marriage, usually protected both men and women.
In the case of Alex Matters, ““Months later, when the pair went for a walk, the woman asked Mr Matters to have no-strings-attached sex that night. Three days later, she reported him.”
There is NO such thing as “no-strings attached sex”, and Alex Matters, a young man at the beginning of his professional career, has found that out the hard way.
As illustrated in play misty for me.
No, Robert. I still have all the files I wanted to keep.
In my opinion, the only real problem in changing computer stuff is forgetting passwords — the curse of the modern world.
It’s like a month to a flame sometimes
Tom I’ve never had a computer better than a PC 15 yo running XP. I had no problems with security or any form of malware. It ran as fast as they do today as todays software are full of crap and even though the processor goes faster it takes longer to go through all the rubbish. I had the hard drive divided into 3 different drives. The only problem I had was the hard drive crashed literally. My backup regime was nothing short of pathetic. I lost years of drawings and info. Now I backup each drawing series straight to individual USB.
Moth
As I said, a bunch of hearsay and table pounding.
If there was a case against Joe there, indictments would have flowed long ago.
monty
How is Trump “indicted” by the Grand Jury process, before the Grand Jury even concludes listening to evidence?
Oopsie daisy!
Passwords are a problem. I got an email saying some app was abandoning two factor authentication for Google Authentication, whatever that is. Part of the problem is as soon as a good 3rd party app gets popular enough it is bought by one of the tech giants and made proprietary with inbuilt advertising.
Just like there’s no evidence of Biden being a corrupt POS the same can be said about mutley’s state of mind. Except every day is proved different.
Granted. Hence the Adam and Eve thing. People don’t like being told what to do, especially by others. Roman Catholic Church (amongst others) heal thyself.
The loss of religion leaves the two sexes unmoored and adrift on the sea of modernity, where they become competitors rather than complementary partners.
Let’s go back to the beginning.
Read Genesis 3 carefully.
What happens there in regard to the order of creation?
@MikeSington
Criminal charges against Trump accidentally published on the Fulton County, Georgia court website, then quickly taken down. The charges include:
The call was recorded by both Trump and the RINOs he rang. Just like his call to Ukraine which got him impeached. Being dickless you are incapable of understanding the simple difference between laws and the left’s ignoring those laws and using process to ruin and convict.
With the slimebag biden it is the antithesis of Trump. With Trump the demorats have invented and twisted facts and laws to charge him; with biden they ignore the same laws and facts to not charge the grub.
Now go and look after the milko’s kiddies.
Here you go Darth Monty.
Funny how all the charges were already formulated and written up just so nice when the Grand Jury which was supposed to produce them hadn’t like actually met yet. Weird huh? Maybe they have a time machine they got off all those aliens though.
What is Genesis 3?
I understand what Bereshit is, which is the Hebrew for Genesis.
The grand jury is reportedly voting now. Fani sped up the process after Trump’s open witness tampering yesterday.
Rainy night in Georgia, it’s gonna be raining indictments soon.
Our grandparent’s generation usually only had one sexual partner in their lives….ONE, unless there was a bereavement or more rarely, divorce. I am pretty sure that that all of my four grandparents were virgins when they married in the mid and late 1930s (my mother’s mother was eighteen). I think we need to instruct our young that sex is sacred, it belongs in marriage, and that young men and women shouldn’t be going to nightclubs, parties, or worse….online, to pick up sexual partners that not only don’t provide them with any long-term intimacy and satisfaction, but also adds to their unhappiness, their loneliness and makes them vulnerable, very vulnerable to false accusations.
As usual, I agree with pretty much all Cassie has said in this post.
It grieves me to know that my grandchildren practice an entirely different set of values. We are faced with this every time our grandchildren bring their current beaus to the farm & luggage is taken to bedrooms. And these are kids in their late teens (although the boy has now turned 20).
It pains me to tell you that we “go with the flow”. This is primarily because we have a fractured relationship with our only child and the grandchildren are of paramount importance to us.
mUnty goes off half cocked (pun intended this time) again.
Let’s not pretend though that some men don’t predate young women coercively.
There’s a reason the expression ‘toolies’ was coined.
If you aggressively pursue no strings sex, don’t be surprised at angry next morning regrets.
I’m more than happy to see everyone behaving more respectfully, more reasonably.
“Let’s not pretend though that some men don’t predate young women coercively.”
I agree Rosie.
Haha, Fox execs have been sprung.
Fox Corporation Execs Are Dumping Money Into A Democrat’s Reelection Campaign (14 Aug)
They’re giving donations to twofaced Mr Manchin, the most detested man in West Virginia? Whoa we ain’t in Kansas anymore Toto, or at least Fox isn’t.
Newscorp has gone over to the dark side rather enthusiastically in the last couple years. Won’t help them, they’ll just end up with no viewers and no readers.
Oh…OK.
In my Hebrew OT the chapters are numbered in the familiar way.
The account of the temptation of Eve.
Here’s a good English translation.
My adult children have always known the rules at mum’s.
Not even long term relationships get a pass.
Married couples welcome.
(I don’t bring home strays either. )
Raining bullshit more like.
We should ask nice Mr Mueller how he could’ve missed all this stuff despite hordes of lawyers and unlimited money. I wonder if he likes ham sandwiches? Probably not since the Dems keep on indicting them.
If there was a case against Joe there, indictments would have flowed long ago.
Not when Sleepy Joe has the DoJ, the FBI, the CIA and all of the others in his back pocket. The Deep State is running the joint anyway.
MontyPox Virus, you have blinkers on and have NFI.
The “sexual revolution” was to the advantage of the predatory male.
The current windows software is a massive POS built on the same core as XP but with lots of extra crap added in. No surprise that current windows, infested with ad-ware and MS spy-ware, runs like a very slow, old dog.
m0nty
Aug 15, 2023 10:27 AM
As Dan Bongino said on twitter:
As I said, a bunch of hearsay and table pounding.
If there was a case against Joe there, indictments would have flowed long ago.
JC
I asked yesterday if the fat fascist fool really is as stupid as his comments indicate. This comment proves the absolute correctness of your response. He really is that stupid, and is completely ignorant of modern US politics.
LOL is inadequate, but he is holding his breath for Georgiaween, aaannnny daaaay now, the walls are closing in!
I just looked up the picture at the top – https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wright-an-iron-forge-t06670 – the detail must have taken a lot of time. But one of the things I noticed later was the presence of the children, from a baby to a toddler, through to an adolescent? girl.
No safety standards mandated there, just common sense and necessity.
Ah, yes.
The very first rhetorical question in the Old Testament.
“The account of the temptation of Eve.
Here’s a good English translation.”
Jewish interpretations are somewhat different. I don’t understand the concept that it was the “temptation of Eve”, rabbinic interpretations state that it was both Adam and Eve who were tempted. Some rabbinic interpretations argue that Hashem (God) wanted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit. From eating that fruit came our free will.
Weird how the random algorithm just happened to assign this judge to Trump’s case. It’s almost like Democrats know how to make computers produce the results they want.
With news about Judge Chutkan’s anti-Trump animus, a 2021 article is going viral (14 Aug)
How odd that nice Mr Smith somehow found the most hostile judge in the entire US to put his fake charges before? Maybe he should feature in the next Matrix movie, given his obvious ability with computers.
Until it wasn’t.
“My adult children have always known the rules at mum’s.
Not even long term relationships get a pass.
Married couples welcome.”
Yep, my mother is the same.
I think “resetting” is what was called up until W10, re-formatting.
It means wiping and re-installing Windows; this previously had to be done with the original installation discs and meant that possibly years of security updates then had to be downloaded. I remember it taking all day!
Windows 10/11 contains the files necessary to re-install the operating system fully up to date security wise. All your files are preserved but installed apps are lost and have to be done again. Couple of hours, can be done by home user.
Don’t make the mistake I made and assume that we use the British keyboard layout.
The Brits have the @ key somewhere else – we use the US layout.
Johnny Rotten
The fat fascist fool doesn’t have blinkers, he sees but ignores anything the least bit detrimental to that fascist left wherever he sees it, because he is a devoted fascist.
mØnty probably thinks Chuck Rhoades is the good guy.
Cassie, I suggest you just read the text.
It’s an accurate translation of the Hebrew.
Quite…revolutions tend to turn sour.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
– Mary Kay Ash
Religion has got pretty good mileage out of original sin. Waning a bit recently.
Do you know Hebrew, Roger?
Except the religions of Judaism and Islam don’t believe in original sin.
Original sin is solely a Christian concept.
Fair dinkum. I’m struggling to think of a less thankless task. Whatever some nerd charges – it’s worth it.
Meanwhile, speaking of covenants (cryptic clue), I posted this on the makarrata/treaty thread (slightly expanded):
A treaty is a binding agreement recognised in international law that imposes obligations on all the signatories.
In light of that, and for argument’s sake (for I regard these treaties as a very bad idea), if we’re going to have treaties thrust upon us:
What obligations should be imposed upon the indigenous signatories?
And what penalties should be applied for failing to meet them?
For a start, I suggest, we could have benchmarks set for all aboriginal welfare programs so that their performance can be evaluated after a period of time.
Failure to meet the targets set could result in the persons responsible for the program not receiving further funding in for any other projects.
If this process is supposed to “close the gap”, the people responsible should have some skin in the game.
Problem:
Hero Michigan State Police Officer Confirms that GBI Strategies Is Operating in Numerous States – Michigan AG Nessel Is Forced to Admit the Group Was Caught with 8,000-10,000 Fraudulent Registrations (14 Aug)
So there was a central organization arranging fake ballots in the 2020 election, which we’re caught doing so in Michigan, and which are known to operate in numerous states? That sounds serious! I wonder what the solution is?
Wait, What Did Michigan Just Hand Over to the FBI? (14 Aug)
Would that be the same FBI which has been investigating Hunter Biden for about five years? Golly they’re quick. I wonder how long this investigation will take?
What was the Henry Fonda line for “On Golden Pond?”
Presented with that situation, he asked the beau “Would you like to share the same room, in which I first violated her grandmother?”
It’s a great picture – although possibly slightly imagined.
The guy with the tongs is hammering out a pig iron bloom as part of the 18th century steel-making process. Each clack of the trip hammer would have ejected a shower of slag sparks that would have burned/blinded the nearby audience.
A lefty is mystified!
The mystery of Vivek Ramaswamy’s rapid rise in the polls
Politico, by Steven Shepard (14 Aug)
Weird how a brown man who isn’t a Christian is going well in the horribly racist Republican primary polls. I wonder if it has anything to do with the policies he espouses?
Cassie @ 09:55:
Great comment Cassie.
I am a Christian (Anglican) who is increasingly distressed by the sayings and doings of various church ‘leaders’, notably the Abp of Canterbury and the Pope.
Going to make a big call here.
I assume dogs are out.
Does Na’chash mean the serpent or the shining man? It is interesting given the eschatology of a beautiful and beguiling Satan (at least in Christianity).
Well, as a practising Catholic, I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of Papa Frank, but if you read what he said in media reports and then go to Vatican.va to read what he really said, there’s often quite a difference. I’ve been quite impressed with his fight against the German hierarchy who have been pushing for a schism as they want to teach fluidity and a whole bunch of other crap (including that the “German Catholic Church’s*” teachings be changed and theology to be determined by a Lay Council…
*There is no such thing as the “German Catholic Church” (nor “Australian Catholic Church”). There is only the Roman Catholic Church, or “universal church.”
Both Cassie and Roger are right. The temptation included both of them.
He stood by, knowing it was forbidden. Also, as the first and foremost, he had responsibility. Even if it was simply to refuse. On that one decision all heaven and earth stood on tiptoe, waiting.
Not sure about the idea of “free will” appearing upon the moment of disobedience. The risk the Almighty took was always there from the moment the garden sprang into being, which also tells us something about His character – the preference towards benign rulership than dictatorship.
I currently have 4 programs loaded and resource usage goes from 1-7% with 10 web pages loaded but it usually is <3%. With no programs loaded it is 1%. W11 loads in seconds. I don't see ad-ware, the spy ware is scaremongering because anyone who uses a phone or computer is already out there in the wild. Register with a website and you're being monitored.
The only problem I have is that my SSDs are not being automatically trimmed. That probably is a motherboard issue not a W11 issue.
BTW a reset can be done to keep all the existing programs. If there is a malware problem though those can be embedded in a program. It is a good idea to create a USB recovery drive at regular intervals. Very useful when things go astray.
Bereshit?
For a moment I thought you were being gratuitously insulting to our pants-liberated-ursine Cat.
Roger, a good friend of mine is a theologian and former Seminarian – don’t worry, he’s a very conservative theologian of the Ratzinger school. He told me that God created the world by starting with the least important things first and most important things last. He says Catholic (activist) women can bleat about becoming priests etc.. but that doesn’t change the fact that we call the Church “our mother” (female) and the last of God’s creation, his pinnacle, was a woman (yes from a man, but still a woman).
/random thought of the day.. 🙂
What obligations should be imposed upon the indigenous signatories?
(leaving aside the fact that a “treaty” with a thoroughly qvisling, conquered and deserted tribe- within a nation to boot- is bogus)
Kirk Zappup* would do well to say-
“Australia, the nation, will not tolerate anything other than Western, Christian, Enlightenment rights to bodily autonomy, safety, infancy, sexuality, and property. Any “treaty” or “voice” which might expect us to look the other way during the continuation of shocking abuse, neglect, assault and theft against human beings on our land will be rejected as immoral and unconstitutional.”
(*wholly imaginary leader of an underdog opposition)
“Shining one” or “Lightbearer”. He must have been very glamorous indeed. Adam’s disobedience sealed his fate.
On the free will issue, the angels also had free will to rebel. Perhaps it’s a feature of eternal creatures.
And there, Humphrey, you have the sociopathic HTML coder’s business plan: invent a computer code that normal people don’t understand and aren’t interested in, then make it the dominant command language of modern computers.
Bingo! Otherwise unemployable nerds have a lifelong income stream fixing problems the nerds create.
Along the way, the nerds translate their newfound wealth into political power by inventing social media monopolies they manage to immunise from competition law and turn them into global censorship regimes that ban ordinary people from expressing opinions that differ from the fascist left’s.
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Mmm….a longish comment just disappeared into the ether.
Short version thereof in parts:
I studied Hebrew for two years as an avocational pursuit.
I’m a bit rusty, but the first chapters of the first book of Moses are foundational; once you’ve studied it, it stays with you.
God creates Adam as his vice-regent on earth with Eve as his helper. (As the old saying goes, Eve wasn’t made from Adam’s head to lord it over him, nor from his feet to be subservient to him, but from his side, to be his complementary partner.)
Together, under the man’s benign leadership, they are to tend the garden and maintain the order which God has created, including obeying his command regarding the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (for our purposes we don’t need to get caught up in what that tree signifies) and exercising dominion over the other creatures which the man has previously named (in Hebrew culture, as in most ANE cultures, naming indicates authority).
In the third chapter of Genesis/Bereshith, we see that order precisely reversed. A creature entices the man’s female helpmeet to disobey God’s command, in the course of which the man evades his responsibility to act as God’s vice-regent and maintain the divine order.
“Twin revolutions? They were twin takeovers not involving anything resembling the scientific method. Newton’s formulae were okay approximations for the inner solar system.”
Einstein followed the scientific method – he challenged the unstated and untested assumption that time was the same for all observers everywhere. We know this isn’t true – atomic clocks in orbit run at a different rate to those on Earth’s surface. Indeed, without correcting for this, satellite navigation as we know it (GPS, Glasnos etc) can’t work.
Nor does Newton correctly predict Mercury’s orbit, as was well known before GR & SR were published. It’s true that Newton is good enough to put a man on the moon and to put the Voyager space craft on track past Jupiter, but for extreme circumstances , or where extreme accuracy is required (like satnav) it fails, while SR works.
As to QM, again your smart phone shows the reality – the flash memory it uses requires quantum tunneling of electrons to work. If this was not a fact, it would wear out much faster than it does. If tunneling was not happening, the single atomic layer of SiO2 insulating and isolating the gate electrode would be destroyed by the electrons moving through it after at most a dozen times – instead, they last several orders of magnitude longer (100k times is not unusual). Such “tunneling” is based on electrons having a “waveform” (the wave/particle duality), and so they can “appear” to move through a “barrier” the classical theory says they can’t cross.
For both GR/SR and QM, when they were proposed they explained existing observations that were inconsistent with previous theories, and made predictions that took decades to be observable (gravitational lensing and electron traps, for example – both are “impossible” in classical theory, but are observational facts, only shown by technology not available at the time the theories were proposed).
To suggest that these theories are “unscientific” is then, clearly ridiculous and fallacious. It’s certainly true that neither are a complete description of how the universe works, any more than Newtons laws are, or the laws of thermodynamics. We certainly need that “unified” theory to figure out how these disparate and somewhat incompatible theories (one of the very big, one of the very small) fit into the greater reality we observe, but that is also true of “classical” theories as well – classical theory says that the world (including humans) is simply mechanistic and deterministic, meaning we have no “free will”, that our destiny (or fate, if you prefer) is unalterable, both as individuals and as a species, and that God has no role to play, other than perhaps to create the “great machine” and start it running. And while Einstein famously said of QM “God doesn’t play dice with the universe”, he later came to accept that QM is a valuable tool in understanding how things work – oddly enough, the man who created arguably one of the most significant theories of the 20th C, and who faced much opposition to it at first, was initially part of the opposition to another such “game changer” theory.
Lastly, I would point out that such theories are valuable because they are neither obvious nor intuitively true, yet are born out by the observations of their predictions, and are at least “settled” enough to be used for engineering purposes – you know, designing things that actually work in the real world.
Bring back Madame La Guillotine. “Sneezing in the basket” will teach young Oumar a few manners.
Some great short clips here: snakes eating frogs, frogs eating snakes, snakes attacking cats; fat trannies and a masterclass in what make up can do.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2023/08/14/crazy-clips-never-give-up-frog-survives-ever-see-a-frog-eating-a-snake-that-attacks-a-cat/
I’m confused. I thought it was only last week that Wong and Albo were celebrating the reduction in Chinese barley tariffs. And they were hoping nice Mr Xi would now reduce the tariff on Australian wine.
Government to impose ‘green tariffs’ on cement and steel imports from China (Sky News, 15 Aug)
Ah but these are good tariffs, not bad tariffs like the one on barley. Saving the planet is so important, after all. I wonder how China will react?
Roger, I’ve always found it interesting that the eyes of both of them were “opened” immediately upon Adam eating the fruit.
There may be an explanation offered by Hebrew grammar (and the way tense works), but it is suggestive.
Thereupon the two are cast out of the garden into a world where things are quite different, including- most notably in the context of the discussion of militant feminism – a struggle between the sexes.
In as much, then, as feminism rejects the leadership role of the man in the family, it rejects divine instruction and order. Hence my stating that militant feminism is a consequence of the loss of religion, not a cause of it.
For a sociological perspective on what’s behind the loss of religion, see the secularisation thesis in its various iterations since the 19th C.
Dover, I had to beat my way through many internal server errors to get that up.
Calli:
Wasn’t that the description given to Obama initially?
Tom
Tom, that’s almost believable.
Right but the idiots doctrine is a theology of velocity absolutism based around c. Calling the theory relativity is therefore a carnival shyster trick. One which you fell for.
But I trust your native intelligence so I am confident, that had you been there at the time you would have realised it was idiocy right away.
You’re going to make me parse it, aren’t you? 😀
It’s a verb form that is typical in Hebrew narrative and expresses passive or reflexive action. So, the action of eating the fruit opened their eyes immediately, but – moving on to the second clause, which is pregnant with meaning – not in the way the serpent promised.
And after all that I require some sustenance.
The New English Bible rendition of the Old Testament was translated from Kitttel’s Biblia Hebraica iirc.
Lol, Roger. You might need Tom’s Officeworks techie for cache clearing and scrubbing.
I got a few yesterday over an entirely innocuous post.
Out biking & popped into the local Vinnies (Mt Pritchard) and discovered all paperbacks now $2 each ..
Picked up copies of BARBAROSSA by Alan Clark .. 500p on the Russia – German conflict
& DISASTER AT D DAY by Peter Tsouras .. alternate history .. the Germans defeat the Allies June 1944 …..
A worthwhile dayz riding .. LOL!
Just had a couple of cheater’s Peking Duck wraps.
Aldi pan fried roti.
Luv-a-Duck duck breast sliced.
Batons of capsicum, cucumber and carrot.
Thick Hoi-sin sauce.
Wrap and munch.
Mmmmm.
Note to self.
Debating Roger over theology is an away game for me.