Sounds like Sean McMeekin.
Open Thread – Weekend 19 Aug 2023
- Open Thread – Mon 9 Sept 2024
- Hydrocarbons are not dispensable
- Open Thread – Weekend 7 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 5 Sept 2024
- Report on Russia and Ukraine
Muzzy immigrants fail everywhere. Numerous studies in the UK show the Pakis perform worse than other ethnic groups. And yet…
But I wasn’t arguing for no restraints on human behaviour; I was observing that government intervention in the economic cycle…
Earlier this morning, while waking up, I listened to a podcast on fascism (light listening before slumbering out of bed).…
From The Oz…. Pro-Palestine supporters have staged a protest outside Perth’s only Jewish school, sparking outrage from the Jewish community.…
They just need to have names that don’t sound like flat pack furniture.
The Swedes are proportionately more gorgeous; a big issue in commercialising women’s soccer, QWERTY consumers or not.
Perhaps the powers that be could have put it on free to air if they were serious about growing the sport. Might be on another Channel Stokes part to which I have no access to.
I will just stick with footy. AFL and a rare treat for a Saturday night, NRL. Or maybe a replay of Essendon to warm the cockles of the heart.
Get Carter, the Michael Caine version, is as tough as mainstream crime shows get. All Sly could do in the remake was flex. Caine was the real deal and so was the theme music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0dHPhDuLs
It’s on Ch7, BB.
But relax, you missed nothing.
Volvo to Rollmop, who passes to Stodgee Meatball … through ball to Rank Herring who SCOOOORES!
Their names are irrelevant.
Of course the really ‘orrible thing about this admission of my admiration for them is that “I am not into blondes”*, I tells ya!
*Statement above may be subject to further consideration without any notice to anyone who may or may not give a rodent’s backside …
Way back when, an Indigenous community scored a payout of some sort – a back payment of mining royalties. They blew the lot, then sat in the dirt and complained that they hadn’t known how to handle all that money…
Then they summon up this inspirational figure …
Australia loses 2, blot. Let the excuses begin.
Ch7 tells us that the Matilda’s have scored a victory at “Brisbane Stadium” because “one of the biggest sporting crowds in history”.
Lang Park capacity: 50,000.
Doesn’t get bigger than that.
Not ’nuff munni.
They blew the lot, then sat in the dirt and complained that they hadn’t known how to handle all that money…
Used to work with a bloke who helped with the commissioning of Century Mine in Qld.
He reckons that the company headed off the native title problem by waving a large sum of money to extinguish further claims. That was agreed to with enthusiasm.
Problem when the money ran out they came back claiming that the roads and utilities supplying said lease were now subject to new compensation claims. Apparently the mining company drew the line there and said no.
Pity no one has the balls anymore to call out extortion.
These things happen.
I supported the Schlockerettes out of instinct.
I just love goils. Even when they are trying to engage in activities best left to men.
*Collective noun, please Cats
Nice panel at CPAC this arvo on ‘leaving the left’, especially the Labor Party, with Gary Johns (onetime in Hawke’s Labor Caucus), Tania Mihailub (ex Labor, now One Nation Sydney’s West), Vernon Jones (ex US Senator for Georgia), and Warren Mundine, all compered by Nick Cater. The panelists seemed mainly to think that Labor and the left had left them rather than they having any major values change from the values imbued in their childhoods, although all did recognise they had developed a slightly different approach to individualism and the place of the market. They all told tales of how the left had ghosted them after their change in political orientation. Sometimes it was sheer abuse, not just ghosting. And of course, deplatforming all round.
Some very human stories from political life. Worth the entry fee for that alone.
The victorious Swedes forced to shake hands with Dr Jeanette Young and Uncle Luigi during the medal presentation.
Serves the bastards right.
Fond memories! Century zinc concentrate could not be treated by any zinc smelter on the planet due to the high silica levels. In our lab here in Ncl we worked out how. Lab scale, pilot plant and then full scale at Hobart and Budel.
Mr Murrandoo Yanner was notorious. Still is last I saw.
Brilliant.
PAUL VAN DYK (ORCHESTRA) – FOR AN ANGEL
Very ordinary actually.
But if that’s what floats your boat …
Twelve strings – what sounds they have.
Example one
Example two
Good background piece to the whole Hancock legal battle.
Lots of standing ovations given to the well-knowns and significant people, and also one for Vernon Jones, an ex-Democrat from the Deep South who brought the house down with his version of Biden’s if you don’t vote for me you ain’t black. I didn’t vote for him, he said and asked everyone to look at him and see whether he was black or not, because he thought he was. Vernon received a standing stomping applause, for his wit and low-down home farm-boy origin charm. He was genuinely amusing.
Moira Deeming MLC was almost in tears over her treatment by the Vic Lib hierarchy, although she exempted many Libs from that by acknowledging the support she had received from unlikely quarters, and even from the left. Fight the good fight still, was her conclusion as the crowd roared approval.
Barnaby Joyce did his usual good country fellow schtick, letting on that his own property was affected by ‘renewables’ almost in the driveway, but his into was about having ‘conviction’, which sat a bit badly with his previous support for net zero.
Ted O’Brien, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, similarly, must have felt the dubious-about-you vibe when he launched into a paeon about his little children’s future re the climate, and mentioned ‘decarbonizing’ for the future. He then launched into the nuclear redemption, more or less putting out the line I heard Dutton offer at the IPA meeting a month ago. Small and Medium Modular reactors will save us all and in the meantime all forms of energy are the go. Coal however, only until it is replaced with nuclear. Hmmm. This was the wrong speech for this audience, because it seemed more pitched at climate believers who needed conversion to nuclear than to climate skeptics.
Alex Antic was his usual good and carefully argued self, and so was Matt Canavan. Both received high applause and standing ovations. Alan Jones, after the arvo tea break (no tea, no coffee for us non-gold plebs), went half an hour overtime, which had people looking at their watches at 5.05pm. He wasn’t going to let any of his pet peccadillos go while he had a very captive audience. Standing ovation when he came in though, old octogenarian fighter that he has been and still is.
Matt Schlapp, American Conservative Union Chairman, and Matthew Whittaker, former Acting US Attorney General, were both informative on the situation (grim) in the US.
Barnaby’s intro not into
Svedettes?
Forgot about the Cardigans for last week’s car show. Hard to remember a time when a girl’s tats weren’t real.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 19, 2023 8:33 PM
People walk away with smiles on their face.
Of course.
Obama’s Conflict Tanked the Clinton E-mail Investigation — As Predicted
Meme
Biden Regime to Reinstate COVID-19 Restrictions Beginning with Mask Mandate as “COVID Cases Rise”, Say TSA and Border Patrol Whistleblowers
The Swedes – yeah baby – pick the odd one out – the black haired Serb goal keeper.
There goes the gene pool.
Rabz, an Ikea of Nordics.
Nolte: ‘Barren’ Disney Theme Parks Blamed on Climate Change
Hard to argue with any of them.
Ramaswamy’s ’10 Truths’ Hit the Conservative Bullseye
EXCLUSIVE: Maui wildfires death toll climbs to 480 locals claim, as Hawaii morgue workers run out of body bags and survivors are left to recover the charred remains of their loved ones
Sam Kerr’s brother Daniel unfortunately couldn’t make it to the game to cheer her on.
Coffee break!!!
This is Donald Trump’s Most Brilliant Inside Move to Benefit the MAGA Movement
Dr. John Campbell
Revolving door spins
Sancho Panzer
Aug 19, 2023 8:58 PM
Coffee break!!!
At this time of night?
Sacré bottomage … 😕
Miss Ellie sends her message to the Lionettes …
The victorious Swedes forced to shake hands with Dr Jeanette Young and Uncle Luigi during the medal presentation.
Serves the bastards right.
The only channel Stokes I have doesn’t show it. Only showing Ain’t Kilda and Cats.
Storm and Dragons is making a good game
And sorry for the Swedes.
I note Spain’s queen will be in attendance. Superb.
The new Covid-19 variant, Eris
Tender is the night
Lying by your side
Tender is the touch
Of someone that you love too much … 😕
You spoke of bottoms?
Examining the Performance of C-19 “Vaccines”
Seven Maaaate.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
“Halting it [the vaccine] should be done instantaneously now that we know what we know – and we should have done it all along” – @BretWeinstein
“People were not informed so they couldn’t engage in informed consent. In fact, there was a systematic campaign designed to prevent them from becoming informed – and then they were coerced.
Both of these things are forbidden. It’s a double violation of Nuremberg”
Which I have Mr Panzer but it’s got Escape To the Country on.
Yes.
The socca finished an hour ago.
Hollyweirdettes …
🙂
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you …
Ah well. Geelong are finished like the Matildas. Just fading like a fart in the night.
Geelong particularly concerning, they reeled off 16 wins in a row culminating in the flag.
This year, shithouse.
You’ll be there to break my fall….
How has Manchin voted when it counted for Democrats in the Senste. Same is true of Sinema.
Pull that shit again and I’ll be going to prison. They better start building as I don’t think I’ll be alone.
Pull that shit again and I’ll be going to prison. They better start building as I don’t think I’ll be alone.
I will be with you, except you said you would be off back to the mother land.
Which isn’t Australia.
Phuck off then
While trying to look up Adam’s cat this arvo (courtesy of a suggestion of Johanna’s), I ended up linking to a “lavatory rodeo” thread about the demise of Perfesser Davidson’s Catallaxy (2021).
Mouth frothing, they largely were, but some particular targets were singled out for special opprobrium …
Gee, they really had some time for “libertarians” who they perceived as kickin’ back against da racism, misogynee and garbage bins being collected at 4:00am on a Thursday morning …
What a massive monumental fraud “libertarians” turned out to be. I probably was one in my twenties without even remotely realising it.
Thank bloody goodness.
Stop being hysterical you big geisha-girl.
Gee-long officially goneski from finals.
Expect a few lip-quivering retirements during the week.
Reading Boylan and Olivier “Valley of the Shadow – The Siege of Dien Bien Phu.”
A Vietnamese officer, of paratroopers served with great gallantry at that battle – Phu Van Phu – he took his own life, after the fall of South Vietnam, in 1975.
Oh, by which time, he was a General in the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam.
When collectivism ends
A New Gold Dream begins …
LOL. Learn to spell. I can send you some crayons to practice with.
Glittering, it is … 🙂
Big Pommy geisha girl. Kippers with savoury custard, the full bit.
Earlier:
There was a time, and I am talking decades ago, that certain jobs were held in such regard that the holders of those jobs were somehow deemed by society to be infallible. These included, but were not limited to doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, cops and the clergy.
They are no longer seen that way, and rightly so.
The issue of preventable medical deaths was also mentioned upthread. On average, per year, 18,000 people die in this country every year because of preventable cockups by ‘health professionals’.
‘Yeth but i am a doctor’ just does not cut it any more, which is a good thing.
Also not cutting it is ‘well I have been to university and studied X and Y’.
If you study X and Y you have theoretical knowledge, and that’s all you have. It is not an imprimatur to hold court on subjects you have no practical application in. Practical application and experience is where knowledge comes from.
If you stick to theory, aka university studies without anything else and express opinions on those subjects, you may as well say ‘yeah but I watch a lot of TV’.
I’m very triggered by kippers being used as terms of racial abuse. They are culturally delicious – and if you know the secret business of how to prepare them you don’t have to go through the ‘spit or swallow’ thing with a mouthful of tiny bones.
Hopefully the Albanese Government is onto this issue and already has legislation and compensation in the works.
The original reference also had ‘and compo’ attached to it.
Another grifter, looking for free coffee.
Barkin’ mad Brunettes, Cats
I feel their heat and I never want to let them go … 🙂
..
Liberty quote.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
– Ronald Reagan
Hey, Schlockerettes – once upon a time …
So, how does it feel?
Arks – that’s enough of that.
They were a joke. They still are.
I’m a womanage …
Indeed she is – just exquisite … 🙂
JC 19/8 @ 12:54
Andrews is a student union idiot. This is the wet dream which is a reality.
The higher the damage the grater his satisfaction. The greater the damage to ordinary people, the more damage to their collective benefit the more the kudos, esp from the idiot msm media
Random meetings at CPAC.
Purchased from Rowan Dean his latest novel ‘Corkscrewed’, which is about UK advertising agencies in the 80’s. A bit after my time in ads, but I thought it would still be fairly redolent. Rowan signed it nicely, reminding me about signing it as I moved away with it, but insisted upon cash payment. It’s his current fad, a holdout against the social credit financial system we know is coming. Reminds me of Hairy’s standout recently in a restaurant against QR code ordering. Tilting at windmills, but bravo etc. Luckily I was flush with cash from my plan of getting out $450 (amount bank allows from ATM) once a week after my main dance class to build up casho supplies for cash-only emergencies. And here was one made to order.
Then spent a little time talking to Fiona Simpson, Qld State Member for Maroochydore, and James MacPherson, of Sky’s ‘The Late Debate’, who proudly showed us pics (when Fiona asked how they were growing) of his two sons, teenagers with very dark skins indeed, so likely adopted (I admired but didn’t ask). I told him that I stayed up late especially to watch his show, which was always a lot of fun, and he was pleased.
Hairy after that pointed out Pauline Hanson to me, standing apart for a moment in one of the frocks only she can pick. She’s speaking tomorrow. I hoped he wasn’t making fun of her, as she seemed rather on the outer in what is quite a Liberal Party dominated event, so I walked up to say hello. As I approached she’d started talking to a Chinese woman who was asking why the Liberals weren’t supporting her. There’s quite a history there, I nodded adding to Pauline’s words about how they wouldn’t listen or talk to her. She seemed nice, genuine, so I asked if we could have a selfie taken together, and she kindly agreed and also helped me to set up the selfie as I am useless with my phone camera. We put our arms around each other. I wanted to tell her I was sorry for all the political crap she’s had to take in her life, but I didn’t quite know how to do that. Just hugs seemed better.
Rabz
Aug 19, 2023 11:29 PM
Hey, Schlockerettes – once upon a time …
So, how does it feel?
Bob Dylan couldn’t really sing. Great poetic lyrics though.
Hairy taught me how to properly bone kippers once they are cooked and on your plate. You have to get the backbone up so you dissect it out to expose it, then grab the tail end and slowly lift it towards the head, and all of the little side bones stay on the backbone and you can eat the delicious tasty flesh bone-free.
Bony fish, part of evolution’s glorious story.
Just get into it, Cats – the mighty Gil Scott-Heron
B Movie – Hollyweird
“Come back with us to those inglorious days when heroes were not zeros … “
Dover, you’re missing bones on your finger tips to google and see the analysis of Manchin’s voting record, or is that a rhetorical question?
He’s voting record appears to be pretty much as an independent. Perhaps you could check Sinema’s and let us know.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/joe_manchin/412391
He was a true bard. He intoned his words and spun magic with them.
We listened to some early bardic folkloric Bob Dylan on our trip home on my portable CD gadget, which is very handy in an overly-technological German vehicle with no CD player.
On the monotonous road I drifted into Mr. Tambourine Man, really delving into the imagery. Absolutely bloody marvellous, I announce at the end of the whole litany, coming out of the drift. A trip on a trip.
Beattie says the only sensible answer is the one given by Viviek, namely, to relocate semiconductor manufacturing to the USA if dependence on Taiwan, who is involved in a longstanding dispute with a strategic competitor, is too risky. They’re not saying that the US in the 80s allowed that to happen so as to bring the US into conflict with China. Look at what Beattie said again: “Deep state is trying to goad us into an unnecessary war with China due to our alleged dependence on Taiwan semiconductors
We effectively engineered this very “dependence” as an excuse to entangle us in a war.”
Pretty clear he’s saying we can manufacture semiconductors locally or in less contentious geostrategic locations and thus avoid war.
Tonight’s CPAC dinner was a hoot. Who was the star? Well people lined up for pics with Alex Antic and Pauline Hanson.
Lizzie, you weren’t at the dinner, hopefully you both will be next year. Pauline was the star of the show!
JC, I know you love AP fact check:
Whenever it counts for Dems, they’ll vote blue.
Cass, sorry we missed the dinner, but next year we’ll try to book early; couldn’t due to uncertainty re other commitments this year and so no tickets left.
I am so pleased to hear that about Pauline. She is such a trooper and deserves to know that people do appreciate her. When I put my arm around her and with hers around me this arvo she did seem rather thin and frail. I hope she’s looking after her health given all the stress.
Alex Antic I’m sure would always be popular. I’d marry him, I whispered to Hairy after his speech. Luckily Hairy knows me well. Just put him on your list, Lizzie, he says.
Which is currently occurring. But that’s not in contention. The absurdity I pointed to was this gem of bullshit that you posted and continue to defend.
This borders on pizzagate level of delusion.
The analysis says you’re wrong about Manchin and his voting record suggest that too.
Making an assertion without evidence is simply that- an assertion without a shred of evidence grounded on facts.
1.
2. Manchin was also the only Demonrat to vote in support of Brett Kavanaugh to the Court.
3. Manchin informed the White House he would be voting against any bill attempting to add extra leverage to the Administration’s climate Change policies.
4. The fakenews comment suggested folks at Fox funded Demonrats campaigns (plural). Click the link and you find out they donated to Manchin campaign
That’s just a sampling.
Please argue by avoiding veering off into a discussion about adultery in the 19th C.
And I never claimed Manchin voted with the GOP more. Manchin has voted against nearly all the Demons appalling legislation when it’s really counted. He has also scuppered proposed legislation by informing Schumer there was now way he was going get his support.
But continue trying to paint Manchin as a Pelosi Demon. I want to see how deep a hole you’re going to dig this time.
It’s not delusional at all for reasons I’ve already stated. Further, a day doesn’t go by without the incessant drumbeat of war with China.
What analysis? The one I directly quoted?
The vote was symbolic. It was going to fail anyway whichever way he voted.
Oh, wow. He’s not going to add ‘extra leverage’.
It’s not veering when the example addresses the claim about banning directly and effectively.
The, “his not quite Pelosi demon’ defense of Manchin and I’m the one allegedly with the shovel in his hand.
Dover
It takes time to start up highly sophisticated factories making chips. This isn’t like setting up a pizza parlour. Last year, I read Apple was constructing a processor factory in the South. The estimate was about 5 years. Those are the current headwinds.
That’s an example of just one firm.
I also read recently that Apple has commenced manufacturing IPhones is India.
Inconsequential. Kavanaugh would have won without his vote. It would have been 49-49 and Pence as President would have broken the tie.
You’ve obviously never built a wood-fire oven, but sure, that is all good news.
Meanwhike in the Territory – the Voice won’t fix it:
Matt Cunningham analysis: Territory Judges should reflect on domestic violence inquest revelations
Prison should be about rehabilitation but it should also be about removing dangerous and violent citizens from the community and protecting the victims of their crimes, write Matt Cunningham.
Police officers filled the seats in courtroom 3 of the Darwin Local Court on Monday as the Coroner resumed an inquest into the deaths of four Aboriginal women killed by their violent partners.
This week the inquest has been examining the death of Miss Yunupingu, who was stabbed to death by her husband Neil Marika in Palmerston in October 2018.
As reported by this publication, there has been a great focus during this inquest into the actions and responses of police.
At times they have been imperfect and the serious police presence in court this week – including Assistant Commissioners Michael White and Sachin Sharma – showed just how seriously the force is taking this issue.
But as counsel assisting the coroner Peggy Dwyer read through the catalogue of abuse Miss Yunupingu had been subjected to at the hands of Marika, it was hard not to wonder if some other arms of our justice system might have benefited from being in the gallery.
Miss Yunupingu had been the subject of 22 domestic violence reports made in the police PROMIS system in more than a decade before her death. Sixteen of these involved Marika, the man who would eventually kill her.
“There’s ample evidence to suggest she was assaulted by Marika on many more occasions than those recorded on the police system,” Dr Dwyer told the court.
“She was never the perpetrator, she was only ever the victim.”
The reluctance of victims and witnesses to report violent offenders is a big part of the domestic violence crisis plaguing the Northern Territory.
It was clear in Miss Yunupingu’s case that police were often left frustrated when they were called to serious assaults involving Marika but found the victim unwilling to give a statement for fear of retribution.
But we should also consider what happened in the cases where police were able to obtain the evidence to press charges against Marika for serious assaults inflicted on his partner.
The first of those happened in 2006, when she was just 16 years old.
That was when Marika, who was six years older, beat her so badly he almost killed her. Driven by grog and jealousy, he threatened her with a spear before beating her, punching and kicking her and assaulting her with an aluminium garbage bin.
She suffered a collapsed lung, a bruised and battered face and two broken ribs. She spent six days in hospital.
Marika was charged with aggravated assault and sentenced to four years and six months in prison. He was released after 18 months, when his non-parole period expired.
On this and other occasions he expressed no remorse and even blamed Miss Yunupingu for the fact he was in prison.
The inquest was told Marika would be jailed another seven times between 2007 and 2018 for assaults on Miss Yunupingu and for breaching domestic violence orders. But despite his repeated attacks, the sentences were never long.
Just five months in 2010 for brutally bashing her then stabbing her once in the leg and twice in the back, narrowly missing her spine, because she had refused to cook him some food.
Three months in 2013 when he punched her in the head, knocking her to the ground, at the Gove Golf Club.
On the day he was released and despite a full non-contact domestic violence order, he assaulted her again. Petrified of her attacker, she denied to police that he had assaulted her.
It was a pattern that would continue until October 4, 2018.
On that day, not long after Marika had been released from prison, he would stab Miss Yunupingu three times and kill her.
After the stabbing he told Miss Yunupingu’s brother, “she’s alright, she’s still alive, don’t call the police”.
Self-reflection is not a strong point for the Territory’s legal fraternity, but the case of Miss Yunupingu should surely give pause to consider whether the lenient sentences given to Marika left a vulnerable woman at risk.
Sending people to prison should, in part, be about rehabilitation — something that clearly failed in Marika’s case — but it should also be about removing dangerous and violent citizens from the community and protecting the victims of their crimes.
Marika pleaded guilty to manslaughter over Miss Yunupingu’s death. He was sentenced to nine years in prison with a non-parole period of six years.
He will be eligible for parole next October. Those police who were sitting in courtroom 3 this week must be wondering how long it will be before they’re picking him up again.
Perhaps when the inquest next sits it might pay some members of the judiciary to sit next to them.
Nt News
FMD, it doesn’t matter if he’d succeeded anyway because of the the GOP majority. It’s how Manchin voted.
He’s not a Pelosi Demon.
I never said I’d built one. In fact I never intimated one had been built. I said setting up as in installed..
And good news as in what, economically or strategically, as it doesn’t make sense purely from an economic perspective.
Week In Pictures — one of the best.
I know of a person who got six months in prison for breaching a DVO by sending his ex emoji texts.
Reflect on the prison revolving door but also reflect on aboriginal culture.
And she should have moved 3000 km away.
Oh and Voice supporters will only see the appalling incarceration rate.
How unfair is that colonial justice system to Aboriginal men?
Far more likely to go to prison, splutter, Voice, splutter.
Today’s Sunday Tele:
COUNT ON LABOR’S SHEEP TO KEEP DREAMING
PIERS ACKERMAN
There are 2.1 million sheep in Queensland. This week the ALP national conference added a further 2000 to the flock. The true believers listening to the true deceivers baa-ed approvingly as Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made promises that will never be kept. The nation will not see 1.2 million new homes built over the next five years despite the promise of $3.5bn of taxpayers’ money being offered as an incentive to the states.
Anyone who had tried to find a tradesman across the nation recently knows there is a serious skill shortage of trained hands, let alone a major problem sourcing building materials.
According to Bureau of Statistics figures released in July, there was a total of just 46,546 dwelling commencements to March, and the number of private sector house commencements fell by 5.5 per cent to 26,026 dwellings. The value of total building work fell by 0.4 per cent to $30.7bn. Take into account the effect of the extra 200,000 immigrants (read prospective Labor voters) Albanese has invited into the country and ask how their arrival will alleviate the housing shortage.
Come in spinner.
Buying off militant trade unions and the lunatic Left with a promise of a South Australian-based nuclear submarine building program is another pledge that will never be
realised.
Talk about deja vu all over again. Kim Beazley, when defence minister in 1987, ordered the building of the Collins class submarines.
The chosen design was to be new. Experimental, far larger than any built by the selected builders, the Swedish firm Kockums, and there was a sweetener for the contractor, the Australian Submarine Corp, if it built the six boats at a site in Port Adelaide in the South Australian electorate held then by Labor giant Mick Young. Australia was to become submarine builders to the world.
The original $2.6bn contract blew out to more than $5.1bn.
The pipe dream of establishing an international-standard submarine manufacturing industry in Australia continues to this day with the re-announcement of 20,000 jobs in both SA and Western Australia.
Another fantasy is the notion that by handing money to foreign firms to build more unreliable and inefficient renewable wind, solar and hydro energy sources, Australia will cut its so-called greenhouse emissions to 43 per cent net below 2005 levels by 2030.
According to the latest figures released by the Department of Energy, etc., Australian greenhouse emissions increased by 1.5 per cent in the year to March 2022, despite the closure of several coal-fired power plants. As for being green, wind turbines are shredding native birds at an alarming rate and solar panels are blanketing valuable farm land, even before clearances are made for the proposed 10,000km of new transmission lines to connect inefficient power sources to the grid.
With AUKUS delivering nuclear-powered subs, but a ban on domestic nuclear power, we have another typically contradictory Labor policy – nuclear energy is good for defence but not for power-hungry consumers.
The sheep loved the line that Australia “will maintain the prohibition on the establishment of nuclear power plants” though the take up of nuclear energy is delivering cheaper, cleaner electricity to nations around the world.
The sellout of principles of the Left faction was nowhere more visible than the attack on Israel’s sovereignty and capitulation to the activist Palestinian lobby. Fortunately, the decision not to change the existing party platform on Israel and the Palestinians was a rare return to reality and a sober appreciation of Australia’s – and Labor’s – long support for a nation whose birth we championed and whose entry to the United Nations we supported.
That moment of lucidity passed, though, when the conference cheered Albanese, a party leader who admits to not reading the detail of the most important proposal to change the Constitution to favour a particular race. The Voice would give those who claim to be Indigenous a special authority to engage with all arms of the government on matter that affect them – even where nuclear submarines should be based.
Those who would be given this privilege would be totally unaccountable to the majority of Australians, the taxpayers who are bled around $40bn a year to support Indigenous programs.
The sheep were definitely in Brisbane – but it is the rest of us who will be shorn.
Continued:
There are 2.1 million sheep in Queensland. This week the ALP national conference added a further 2000 to the flock. The true believers listening to the true deceivers baa-ed approvingly as Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made promises that will never be kept. The nation will not see 1.2 million new homes built over the next five years despite the promise of $3.5bn of taxpayers’ money being offered as an incentive to the states.
Anyone who had tried to find a tradesman across the nation recently knows there is a serious skill shortage of trained hands, let alone a major problem sourcing building materials.
According to Bureau of Statistics figures released in July, there was a total of just 46,546 dwelling commencements to March, and the number of private sector house commencements fell by 5.5 per cent to 26,026 dwellings. The value of total building work fell by 0.4 per cent to $30.7bn. Take into account the effect of the extra 200,000 immigrants (read prospective Labor voters) Albanese has invited into the country and ask how their arrival will alleviate the housing shortage.
Come in spinner.
Buying off militant trade unions and the lunatic Left with a promise of a South Australian-based nuclear submarine building program is another pledge that will never be realised.
Talk about deja vu all over again. Kim Beazley, when defence minister in 1987, ordered the building of the Collins class submarines.
The chosen design was to be new. Experimental, far larger
than any built by the selected builders, the Swedish firm Kockums, and there was a sweetener for the contractor, the Australian Submarine Corp, if it built the six boats at a site in Port Adelaide in the South Australian electorate held then by Labor giant Mick Young. Australia was to become submarine builders to the world.
The original $2.6bn contract blew out to more than $5.1bn.
The pipe dream of establishing an international-standard submarine manufacturing industry in Australia continues to this day with the re-announcement of 20,000 jobs in both SA and Western Australia.
Another fantasy is the notion that by handing money to foreign firms to build more unreliable and inefficient renewable wind, solar and hydro energy sources, Australia will cut its so-called greenhouse emissions to 43 per cent net below 2005 levels by 2030.
According to the latest figures released by the Department of Energy, etc., Australian greenhouse emissions increased by 1.5 per cent in the year to March 2022, despite the closure of several coal-fired power plants. As for being green, wind turbines are shredding native birds at an alarming rate and solar panels are blanketing valuable farm land, even before clearances are made for the proposed 10,000km of new transmission lines to connect inefficient power sources to the grid.
With AUKUS delivering nuclear-powered subs, but a ban on domestic nuclear power, we have another typically contradictory Labor policy – nuclear energy is good for defence but not for power-hungry consumers.
The sheep loved the line that Australia “will maintain the prohibition on the establishment of nuclear power plants” though the take up of nuclear energy is delivering cheaper, cleaner electricity to nations around the world.
The sellout of principles of the Left faction was nowhere
more visible than the attack on Israel’s sovereignty and capitulation to the activist Palestinian lobby. Fortunately, the decision not to change the existing party platform on Israel and the Palestinians was a rare return to reality and a sober appreciation of Australia’s – and Labor’s – long support for a nation whose birth we championed and whose entry to the United Nations we supported.
That moment of lucidity passed, though, when the conference cheered Albanese, a party leader who admits to not reading the detail of the most important proposal to change the Constitution to favour a particular race. The Voice would give those who claim to be Indigenous a special authority to engage with all arms of the government on matter that affect them – even where nuclear submarines should be based.
Those who would be given this privilege would be totally unaccountable to the majority of Australians, the taxpayers who are bled around $40bn a year to support Indigenous programs.
The sheep were definitely in Brisbane – but it is the rest of us who will be shorn.
Being replaced with faux French provincials.
It’s a mystery.
trees disappearing in the night
Curses…just realised I have posted the same article from the Sunday Tele twice…grrr…
Someone I once knew well died very recently.
A member of the silent generation, their live was blighted, more than once, by tragedy, an early orphan reluctantly raised by relatives, life was hard work then first world poverty, a humble life in all respects but blessed with family and most importantly, faith.
It’s all that matters, in the end.
That’s ok- appreciate you doing it. What nasty morons the party faithful must be. Insulting to compare them to sheep really. Assorted red skool ma’ams and other pubic serpents.
Not spoiled by heavily made-up, over-enthusiastic groupies I hope?
(Like the year I was there).
Uuuurggh.
CPAC groupies? We’ve never had that problem at our Friends of the ABC meetings.
LOL. Learn to spell. I can send you some crayons to practice with.
Which part did I get wrong? You may need an attitude adjustment
Despite the alarm being carefully set to 5:58 and fine tuned over the years I still got over a minute of Macca and some ukulele picking this morning before the news. I’m running out of ideas.
This is something for AI nerds to work on.
The Macca filter.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 20, 2023 7:55 AM
Risking the ire of the recent attendees, but I have to ask, who else would be there?,
Matildas ask Elbow for another $200m after losing to Sweden.
Excellent Beertruk. I was just about to post Mr Akerman.
No, no, certainly not Lizzie and Cassie.
Groupie is probably the wrong word.
I thought at the time one in particular was a hooker on the make looking for a blackmail target.
Might have just been a Country Party type from.Queensssland who put her make up on in the dark, or a Trannie from Chrissy Pyne’s electorate.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 20, 2023 8:34 AM
Stand corrected and apologise, Kittens are always excluded, naturally.
While this nation has absorbed itself with the antics of a dozen or so squealy lady socka players over the past six weeks, real heroes have been getting the job done (the Tele):
And:
Hang your heads in shame, Australians. There’s a magnificently presented curly coated rex on a box covered with pool table felt somewhere whose deeds have gone unrecognised because of this country’s temporary obsession with lesbians who can run (slowly).
Some people need hanging.
Bivalent COVID Shot Extends Benefit in Youngest Kids
An idea.
Once Chairman Dan decides to stop ruining Victoria, he should be appointed to head any shite female (self identified) sports body.
The savings would be enormous.
Just saw on tv that the Sunrise program is still sticking with the ‘Matildas Still Made History’ schtick. They are now irrelevant.
Also on the same show, it informed me that the cost of cancellation of the Commonwealth Games is closer to $600 million. Would have thought this would have been more newsworthy.
Could have chipped in for Razey’s send off.
I know of a person who got six months in prison for breaching a DVO by sending his ex emoji texts.
When you have a country with several juducial systems depending on who you are/race/public standing then sentences always vary widely ..
251s .. slap on wrist.. fairly standard/ politicians/media familar folk .. naughty corner alwayz (unless invoving minors)/ ethnic anything .. leniency/ white folk .. guilty .. throw away the key ….
Coffee break!!!
It’s been [5] days since our last sudden motorcycle death.
15-minute cities: What are they and how do they work?
Heaven on earth, dontchano.
Where is he going now?
Don’t tell me he is sick of Kyoto already.
Ugh. Herald Sun:
Not linking the article. Just get better ladies.
They’re doing a great job of destroying everything Walt Disney created.
‘Snow White’ director’s son slams live-action remake as ‘insulting,’ ‘woke’
Walt Disney was a flamer.
I didn’t know they used different balls.
The US Open is switching tennis balls for women’s matches so they’re the same ones the men use
Yeah this whole givus sum more opm pisses me right off. Just work harder or better still stfu.
Doesn’t the feral abomination in Canbra give opm to meja organisations to cover wimmins sports?
You do know that Snow White is not a Disney creation, right?
Never let a crisis go to waste. And that’s the kind interpretation.
John Podesta Calls for Urgent Rollout of ‘Great Reset’ Agenda Following Maui Destruction
You WILL eat bugs and freeze in the dark!
These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030 (19 Aug)
Nearly all of those cities is a lefty-run pesthole. The flight from blue states to red is going to become a stampede.
The correct statement is “someone is adapting something previously adapted by renowned flamer, Walt Disney”.
EX-crack addict?
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
He’s called “Biden’s son,” but she’s dismissed as “ex-stripper.” This is journalistic sexism at its lowest. Why couldn’t the headline just as easily read, “Ex-crack addict dragged into court by mother of his child?”
Cernovich
@Cernovich
Last night I I was talking to a center right guy. Not Trump’er. He said he wanted DeSantis but doesn’t understand why the campaign was such a failure. Then said the fourth indictment was a “f*ck them” moment and now he’s Trump. Maybe he’s the only one thinking that. Or not.
The flight from blue states to red is going to become a stampede.
Yes and it’s a huge problem.
They won’t leave their voting habits behind.
There is noise now about many people leaving the cities and moving to the country. All fine, but if you are from Mulgrave, don’t vote for Phuckwit Andrews.
US intelligence says Ukraine’s offensive a failure
And Just Like That, The Brazilian Central Bank Goes LIVE with a CBDC
Doesn’t it sound better if you say “I’ve surveyed 10,000 centre-right guys and the results will amaze you!”
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It’s the vibe, man.
The Dr Faustus Matilda’s 4-Step hi-performance guide:
(My OPM can be delivered via dover.)
This purports to expose how he made his money. I have no idea how close to the truth it might be.
Vivek Ramaswamy: The MULTI-BILLION Dollar Financial FRAUD
A bit more on Vivek’s companies.
Why Axovant’s $315M IPO bonanza should scare the hell out of you
You would think the Matildas (or ‘Tillies’, dependent on which shows you watch) would have learned from our netty tarts what happens when you screech about not having enough money from other people.
Bruce of N
I suspect that they also have a high black population. The bros might not be impressed when told that they will be giving up Maccas in favour of tofu, bugs and fungi. They might even become excitable and start a movement “Black Maccas Matter”.
Questions:
Setting aside donations to Manchin, what is the big deal if someone at Fox did donate to the Democrats?
What do you propose Fox does about it?
Fire them for spending their money as they wish?
BLM.
Blak Lunches Matter.
A small sample size. But revealing. Jessica McSweeney in the Telegraph:
That last part with the lawyer. The biggest beneficiary.
Dr. John Campbell
Moderna paid 400 million to NIH
‘We’ve all been watching the longest-running show of modern times. But it might soon be all over’
Translation: I am just going to casually link to this highly defamatory and unsupported article.
It might be right.
It might be wrong.
But let’s just trash the guy anyway.
This purports to expose Indolent as a pedo. I have no idea how close to the truth it might be.
If coming fourth in the wendyball was worth the keys to the city,
Lang Park statuary and a promissory note, the country may
not have been able to afford the gold medal.
You would think the Matildas (or ‘Tillies’, dependent on which shows you watch) would have learned from our netty tarts what happens when you screech about not having enough money from other people.
You would be wrong sir.
If only they had an extra $200 million, we would be basking in the glory of a Matildas win. Albo’s going to right this travesty.
Stolen.
Melbourne and Sydney are signed up to that C40 rubbish as well – an enterprising journalist might ask Mayor Sally Crapp whether she really supports 0% meat and dairy consumption and 0% private vehicle ownership in her city by 2030.
“Her city” doesn’t extend very far.
But, yes, they are working on it, aided and abetted by the People’s Republics of Yarra and Moreland … sorry, Merri-bek.
I never said he was a ‘Pelosi Demon’, I said he’d simply vote D when it counts. He plays the part of a independent Democrat because he’s constituency is West Virginian. Same holds for Sinema in AZ.
Heaven’s, I was taking the piss given your reference to pizza parlours.
Countries aren’t just economic units.
If you bother to link to something, it is reasonable to assume you think it is credible.
So no “Gee, just putting it out there” cop outs.
You own it.
Black Ball
Aug 20, 2023 9:13 AM
A small sample size. But revealing. Jessica McSweeney in the Telegraph:
Very revealing; the Yes voters are idiots and grifters, the total left population.
A recent poll indicated Australians don’t (surprise!).
Most Lib/Lab voters said they wouldn’t give up meat for the planet.
Green/Teal voters wouldn’t give up their annual European holiday.
I said he’d simply vote D when it counts. He plays the part of a independent Democrat because he’s constituency is West Virginian. Same holds for Sinema in AZ.
Correct. Lefties who really turn into bastions of reason and common sense are extremely rare: Latham is one, I’m another. leftism is usually a life long affliction.
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. – Conquest’s 3rd Law
That’s Fox in a nutshell. They either clean house or lose their audience. Which is what is happening.
The Murdoch’s are still trying to find a RINO that the Republican base will vote for. It’s amusing.
Wash Post: Murdoch Urging Va. Gov. Youngkin to Run for President (19 Aug)
Isn’t the real question not whether Manchin, on aggregate, falls 51% or 49% Democrat.
Isn’t the original question about Fox employees donating to Manchin?
So what?
What do you propose be done about employees spending their money as they wish?
(You are not permitted to use the phrase “but if CNN employees donated to Trump” in your answer)
LMAO, NATO just got fact-checked.
Did we even get a postcard and our sushi?
Good.
So Birdman of Newcastle boycotts their free content.
That is your right.
Anything else on the core question?
What do you propose Fox should do about their employees spending their money as they see fit?
Hey head prefect, look at the arse on this:
Plus Size Model Says She Can’t Fit In A Normal Plane Aisle & Feels Like She Is Being Discriminated Against
That arse is equal to about 100 cute owls!
Postcard: ‘It’s too cold. It’s too hot. There are too many earthquakes. The food is weird. I cannot find a knotted hanky store. Their money is stupid. I want a return to England plus compo.’
Sushi: Kippers.
With savoury custard.
This is why people should only be banned under extreme provocation. We should have found out about the months ago. How much news from Peshawar are we missing out on?
Everyone already has the right to write to their local MP or the relevant minister. The InVoice is about giving a minority selected on racial grounds the right, not just to “make a comment or suggestion to the government or parliament”, but to be able to insist that it be implemented, regardless of the impact on others.
Mail order sushi?
I’ll have the mushroom omelette, thanks.
Of course, I do feel there were grounds to question Groogs bona fides.
wendyball
I’m going to trump that with barbieball.
You forgot “can’t get a decent coopa tea”.
Mushrooms are off luv.
Not to worry. Agreement will be secured as long as the tax paying invaders pay enough rent money.
Recent addition to the Japanese tea ceremony:-
“Uuuurrggh! [Spit]. This doosn’t taste anyfink like Liptons!”
Not enough repeat business?
So where are we standing on the re-introduction of upticks?
From my understanding, a lot of womens professional sport doesn’t use them at all.
So women’s tennis is to get mens balls! Is this so trannies can play and no one will know?
It was me who said he’s not a Pelosi demon. You were implying that he’s just a regular garden variety leftist. Go read your first comment defending this tripe.
HTF would you know he plays the part? Stop the mind reading and go look at his voting record and you’ll see his not a regular garden variety demon.
He’s leaving the party anyway by the looks of things because he can’t abide with what the party has become.
And so what if the Fox execs donated to him. They’re free to do so. Your ballboy later defended this link by arguing that that we wouldn’t see this happening at CNN. It’s tripe.
Another motherhood statement? What does that even mean?
The world went through it’s best economic years when were at relative peace going from the fall of the Berlin wall to the time Satan’s representative on earth came into the limelight in China ( Xi around 2013). Economic globalization was a godsend. Now it isn’t because of strategic security, but don’t try and make it sound as though this is a great thing as it isn’t. It’s likely to be necessary, but you can’t paint lipstick on this pig.
But let’s not deviate again
You posted a link to a tweet suggesting there is a conspiracy to keep the US/West reliant on Taiwanese processors in order to light a spark for war. It’s horseshit.
Sure, a reasonable assumption, but posting a link could also be like a retweet where you want it discussed, think its worth reading, etc. without agreeing necessarily. In Twitter verse the misperception often lead to people adding “retweets do not necessarily imply agreement/endorsement” in the bio.
A few complaints. Not from everyone.
I don’t especially care what they do, it’s their right and privilege to go out of business if that’s what they want. GWGB.
Newsmax has started passing CNN in eyeball numbers. And Fox is starting to fall behind MSNBC from time to time. Those are massive shifts. This process will continue as conservative viewers exit. The election may well accelerate the process given Fox management are so keen on the GOP elites to the exclusion of the base.
Seen some interesting chatter in US blogs about Jan 6th people cutting and running after being charged. Consensus seems to be they’re deciding they’ll never get a fair trial, and quite likely be poorly treated, if not outright tortured, in prison.
Better off a fugitive from the law.
Says a lot about the state of the USA.
Gee thanks for the kind thoughts for linking to that grotesque vid, Cronkite.
Here’s what you need to do from now on every time you link to “cute owls”. See if you can estimate the size of their penis.
I have to go to gym now, after last night’s drinking. Don’t annoy.
From the Grauniard.
Under-declared salaries and slush funds apparently.
Red Kerry needs to urgently return to the Emerald Isle to explain how to use production companies controlled by the family trust and the Quentin Dumpster “retired-not retired” scheme.
Dover – then post the link, extract a highlight and add your thoughts. Posting a dozen links without comment day after day is very low value add.
Barbie doesn’t have sturdy ankles.
IYKWIM.
Undeclared salary payments have their place.
The Carlton Football Club.
Adolf Hitler – He’s really different from all the others – Klara Hitler about her son -Documentary
13 Aug 2023
” He’s really different from all the others ” – Klara Hitler about her son
0:00 Adolf Hitler: A Unique Journey from Childhood Struggles to the Rise of the NSDAP in Berlin
2:32 . Adolf Hitler’s early life and family background.
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15:18 . Adolf Hitler’s early life, struggles, and entry into the army during World War I.
22:50 . Adolf Hitler’s experiences in World War I and his return to Munich shape his future course.
30:47 . Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and failed coup attempt in Munich.
38:21 . Adolf Hitler’s time in prison and the writing of Mein Kampf.
45:43 . Berlin in the 1920s was a vibrant and productive city, rich in art and ideas, but also experiencing political turmoil and the rise of the NSDAP.
From the Comments
– Absolutely amazing use of photographs and original speech material in this documentary. Lots of color as well. Very well done
– Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing.Professional first class A research project!!! Special thanks to the individuals for sharing their personal information/experiences. Pertaining to the Hitler family/school teachers/other street associates./Military associates. Making this documentary more authentic and possible.
What is “woke” about not trying to interfere with an employee’s right to spend his money as he wishes?
Quite the opposite I would have thought.
And what is to be gained by naming the employees?
Why not just report “unnamed Fox employees donated to Manchin”?
Unless there was another, let’s say, Folau-type agenda in play.
In yet another encore performance (the Hun):
The ‘mental health’ defence will be wheeled out again, no doubt.
Missing from that submission will be the rampaging ice addition ignored by entertainment industry execs for years, alongside the more factual ‘woman-bashing flog’ angle.
Sounds like an excellent consulting opportunity. Let’s do lunch. Will you be at Garma?
The ABC finds a new way to further kill “The Voice”
Sunday, 20 August 2023
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwEUJDRolGH/
Unleash the ABC Queers to launch their campaign.
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