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Ben Garrison.
Gary Varvel.
Hilarious. Ta Matey. 🙂
Tom Stiglich.
Mother Lode
Aug 21, 2023 10:11 AM
We are so despised that we do not have our own special additional body enshrined in the constitution beside the Parliament and the courts, that no one else will have access to.
I wonder if she noticed after she said that, that she was arguing that being treated like everyone else was a sign of being despised. So where does that leave the rest of us?
Don’t hate it, Mother Load – rejoice in the truth of it.
For Truth it is – with a capital letter.
Monique Ryan’s offsider, Sally Rugg-Muncher, complained about “workload”.
I don’t think it was the amount of work. It was the type of work. She would happily have spent 16 hours a day flying around the country going to Very Important Meetings on Climate Change, or attending High Powered Press Briefings about Corrupt Liberals.
Answering constituent complaints about pot-holes and electricity bills was just soooo tiring.
(A bit like the “menial work for interns” thing)
Not to mention being able to recite every line from West Wing by heart.
America virtually won a total victory on land, China started a human wave counteroffensive and MacArthur wasn’t allowed to nuke.
Russia couldn’t even occupy the majority (let alone roughly half or similar) of Ukraine and has been fought to a standstill in conventional warfare by an enemy who uses its forces sparingly, unlike Mao.
Cassie
that was a good pro-CPAC rant. Wholeheartedly agree.
The same people think Biden is Jed Bartlett.
Roger
Aug 21, 2023 10:49 AM
The selling of Yes by Albanese and Co. is a variation of the bait and switch fraud.
Then, once passed, the switch is made and we’re on the path to indigenous sovereignty.
Too late then to complain, “Hey, I didn’t vote for this!”
What I’ve been say about the Left for years. The bait and switch is one of their most effective tactics, and people still fall for it.
From the Oz.
All three kids in one family going non-binary.
I need some help here.
I am trying to work out the odds of this occurring randomly, but my butcher’s paper is starting to smoulder around the edges.
She canna tek the prrrressure, cap’n.
A typical Teal staffer response:
Dear Mr Constituent:
Thank you for your correspondence of 12 April, in which you raise concerns about rising electricity bill amounts and the number of potholes in your street.
To further progress these matters I require further information:
1. What is an ‘electricity bill?’; and
2. What is a ‘pothole’?
If you were to provide this information at you earliest convenience, it would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely
Tristan Wellesley-Carruthers BA (Hons) ESG
Platinum Executive Assistant
The Mangy Roo looking more flea bitten than usual. J’ismists decide that closed season on Albo is over, not even bothering to wait for the Voice. Time to start knitting the kangaroo.
Dot what odds have you got on Ukeland getting up in the fifth at Randwick. All that money on the favourite but the plodder from the sticks just won’t fold. The favourite looks a lot like petfood.
LOL! A Melbourne-based lesbian group is seeking a human rights exemption to ban trans at event!!!
Luigi will be happy with the kanga as its red. I think Jetstar was modelled on Aeroflot.
Allegedly Martin Sheen (Jed Bartlett) was once approached by the DemonRats to consider running for the presidency. His response was of Antony Hopkins quality:
“I think that you have confused the words celebrity and credibility.”
Answering constituent complaints about pot-holes and electricity bills was just soooo tiring.
Fact check : TRUE ..
I recently lodged an email query with my local Fed member , Dai Le, the 1st thing I got back ..
“Please supply 2 (two) forms of ID with your full name & address also DOB & telephone number to verify you are a constituent of this electorate as we often get queries from out of area .. thank you ….
Thancho is it ok to have one maybe two kids non-binary but three! The imbecile should have to explain what law has been broken and why is the father being penalised. Sounds like discrimination to me. Fruitcakes of Australia rise up.
No one wants a surprise woman penis at the after party.
There may have been a small amount of satire in my last comment. Do family courts have precedence. The imbecile may have opened a can of spaghetti.
CPAC was a gathering of either the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi Party. Twitter is undecided on this.
There was a Jewish chap there being interviewed on the TV during one of the Session breaks. He seemed to be enjoying the Event. So, how does that work Twatter?
It will be an ROI on future capital issue – not cash losses.
Ukraine is not a position to “win”, they will suffer for decades.
Russia has spent 18 months failing to subdue a much weaker enemy and now are rival to an enlarged NATO. Possibly 200k KIA and less wounded. Tens of billions spent. Billions upon billions wasted on conventional arns
Everyone is worse off and China is angling to make Russia a client state.
“There was a Jewish chap there being interviewed on the TV during one of the Session breaks. He seemed to be enjoying the Event. So, how does that work Twatter?”
There were quite a few Jews in attendance, including myself.
“I am trying to work out the odds of this occurring randomly”
It can’t.
Critical Findings From 12 Key NMN “Anti-Aging” Studies
Another rubbish supplement.
Govt to Spend $1 Billion on Electric School Buses
“The Clean School Bus Program has been funded with a $5 billion grant from the Inflation Reduction Act that should be appropriately named the Climate Change Act. Around $1 billion of this will be spent on electric school buses. As with all spending plans, the budget quickly jumped from $500 million to $1 billion after the EPA said there was a strong demand. The buses will first be tested in low-income districts, and the people are not happy.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has reported a drastic dip in test scores since 2020 when the government closed down schools for a virus. Math scores are at a 50-year low. Out of a score of 500, 13-year-old students scored an average of 271 in mathematics. Literacy rates are also declining with the average 13-year-old scoring 256 out of 500. Pre-pandemic, this same demographic scored 260 in reading and 280 in math. “The bottom line — these results show that there are troubling gaps in the basic skills of these students,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. One troubling report showed that 70% of 10-year-old students could not read after the lockdown worldwide.
There is also a growing shortage of teachers due to low pay and most public schools are lacking basic supplies. A report from June 2022 showed that public schools lost 7% of all instructors (233,000 teachers) between 2019 and 2022. Here in Florida, there are reports on the news all the time of air conditioning systems failing amid a summer heatwave. Schools throughout America lack basic funding, kids are forced to share books, the most fundamental items like pencils are often shared, and the curriculum has nothing to do with becoming a successful member of society.
There are countless issues that public schools face, but let’s focus on spending on buses when that is not an area of concern to anyone outside the Build Back Better climate change crowd. Electric school buses cost between $350,000 and $450,000 – nearly four times more than traditional diesel buses. Need to replace the battery? That could cost around $50,000 to replace and the average lifespan is only 7 to 8 years.
“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus?” a smiling Harris asked an invitation-only crowd at Seattle’s Lumen Field, with an electric bus behind her. “We are witnessing around our country and around the world the effects of extreme climate,” she said. “What we’re announcing today is a step forward in our nation’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, to invest in our economy … to invest in building the skills of America’s workforce. All with the goal of not only saving our children, but for them, saving our planet.”
GOP political candidate Tiffany Smiley offered a word of advice to Harris: “At a time when school test scores are at the lowest levels seen in a generation due to harmful school closures, Vice President Harris and Senator Murray offered ZERO solutions to this education crisis at an event where they claimed to care about what’s best for our children. It’s easy to support infrastructure FUNDING, especially for cleaner buses. But the Democrat’s economic policies have led to labor shortages that threaten to derail infrastructure DELIVERY, with Seattle Public Schools unable to hire enough bus drivers to staff all of their routes. This is a prime example of Patty Murray caring more about the priorities of Washington D.C. over Washington state.”
Yet again the government is funding an imaginary problem while bypassing the real issues that need to be addressed. One BILLION dollars could fund a plethora of items that would improve the lives of the people immediately. This net-zero push is becoming increasingly costly and they want to have it all squared away by 2030. Expect more expensive and unnecessary changes.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/govt-to-spend-1-billion-on-electric-school-buses/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Ukraine is not a position to “win”, they will suffer for decades.
Another ‘win’ for those US Neocons and the US Military Industrial Despots.
Certainly not true at the missions my ancestors (seven of them) managed. In fact, the women took great pride in their appearance, as can be observed in the many group and individual photographs from the era, where wide, genuine smiles display the whiteness of their teeth and their clothes (Sunday best, of course).
Please don’t tell me nattokinase is rubbish.
Very good stuff.
Cassie, I think Calli might be off getting fitted for a new knee.
No, they we’re outmaneuvered by the Chinese (who were not their peer enemy) during the counteroffensive and forced to retreat below the 38th parallel. Further, you’re admitting they couldn’t defeat the Chinese/ NK without recourse to nukes even though their conventional forces were technically superior.
No, dot, Ukraine had superior numbers on the field compared to Russia in February ’22, and yet the latter managed to capture large tracts of land it could barter for time in the second half of ’22 following the failure of the negotiations. What has Ukraine managed since Kharkov and Kherson? Wagner, DPR/ LPR milita, and some specialist units managed to put about 50-70K Ukrainian infantry out of action from whatever counteroffensive was being prepared by them for spring in the south. Once it actually got going in June, it has failed to achieve any breakthrough and barely if at all reached the first main defensive line. But, sure, yeah, lets imagine that Ukraine are using their ‘forces sparingly’ even as they throw brigades once assigned to the exploitation phase of the counteroffensive into the assault phase.
‘Violent, black men’: Comedian slammed for CPAC speech mocking traditional owners
Indigenous leaders have denounced a comedian who mocked the Welcome to Country by labelling traditional owners “violent black men”.
Indigenous leaders have denounced a comedian who mocked the Welcome to Country by labelling traditional owners “violent black men” at a conservative conference over the weekend.
But the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has defended the 25-minute “comedy skit” by Rodney Marks, who was billed on Sunday’s agenda as “Dr Chaim Tsibos”, a United Nations diplomat.
“I’d like to acknowledge the traditional rent seekers, past, present and emerging,” he told the audience at Sydney’s Star casino to cheers and laughter.
“But seriously, I’d like to acknowledge the traditional owners — violent black men. I hope there are some real feminists in the audience who appreciate the part truth of that joke. I don’t want to demean or harass anyone … and I don’t want to be divisive.”
“Rosie
Aug 21, 2023 3:41 PM
Cassie, I think Calli might be off getting fitted for a new knee.”
Thanks Rosie, poor thing. I had both of mine done in December 2021. It is an ordeal.
The same people think Biden is Jed Bartlett.
The West Wing was such a dangerous show.
Military conflicts sorted out in an hour episode (including ads) with zero US casualties.
A little quip here, a speech there sorting out issues that formed over two centuries.
People actually believe that’s how it works.
Daily Mail – Whitefellas need not apply.
A fiery rant from the Rev.
—-
Reverend Simon Sideways:
Cop vs Autistic girl ,my unpopular opinion
Richard Marles runs up $3.6 million VIP flight bill
The Deputy PM has run up a VIP flight bill of $3.6 million after previously mocking former Speaker Bronwyn Bishop’s helicopter trip.
The Defence Minister’s globetrotting adventures have been laid bare in Defence Department documents that were only released following a freedom-of-information request.
But the government is refusing to say where he went or who he took on the plane as guests, citing “security issues” despite the fact the flights took place up to a year ago and the material was previously published for decades.
The Albanese government now claims that the material can no longer be published for safety reasons, after a review that was quietly initiated by the Morrison government after it was repeatedly embarrassed by the VIP flight logs being published online — including the scandal that ended the career of Ms Bishop.
A spokesperson for Mr Marles said she would not be revealing where he had travelled on the $3 million-plus worth of taxpayer-funded flights.
“All travel conducted by the Deputy Prime Minister either in his role as Defence Minister or as Acting Prime Minister is in accordance with the relevant guidelines and security procedures,” she said.
Mr Marles’ office noted that the Special Purpose Aircraft (SPA) Guidelines for disclosure had been revised by Defence, as a result of a security review led by the Australian Federal Police.
The review has found that “the Special Purpose Aircraft Guidelines are not currently fit-for-purpose in regards to protecting security sensitivities, including demonstrating a protection of pattern-of-life data for passengers”.
Mr Marles’ high-flying habits have even involved spending double the amount the Prime Minister spent in the final quarter of 2022 when he ran up a stunning $936,604 bill between October and December alone.
This year alone, Mr Marles has run up a VIP flight bill for private RAAF planes worth $1,346,381.
Last year Mr Marles spent $2,275,060.
It’s believed some of the VIP flights are also picking Mr Marles up at Avalon airport, a quick 30-minute drive by chauffeur-driven car from his home or Geelong-based electorate office.
But it was a different story nearly a decade ago when Mr Marles raged over the decision of the Ms Bishop to use a VIP helicopter to fly to Geelong.
“Recently, the country dropped its collective jaw at the arrogance of Speaker Bronwyn Bishop using taxpayer money to fly in a helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong,” he wrote.
“Mrs Bishop’s colleague Sarah Henderson has ducked questions on the topic like an English batsman reacting to a Mitchell Johnson bouncer.
“We’ve been the unfortunate punchline in a bad joke that has seen taxpayers foot the bill for a ludicrous waste of money charged by Liberal stalwart Bronwyn Bishop to travel by helicopter from Melbourne to the Clifton Springs Golf Club on the Bellarine Peninsula.
“What was so urgent that she decided she would charge the Australian people a touch over $5000 for the scenic flight? It was so she could attend a fundraiser for the Liberal candidate for Bellarine at the recent Victorian election.”
Mr Marles said she “absolutely should know better”.
“The notion of being so out-of-touch with how the rest of the country goes about life is one of the biggest breaches of faith a politician can commit,” he said.
“Not surprisingly, we have yet to hear what local the Liberal leadership think of Mrs Bishop’s extravagant entrance. Though on the weekend, we did hear from Mrs Bishop in a jaw-dropping press conference, where she pretty much insisted she did nothing wrong and described the attacks on her as a “political beat up”.
“I’m not sure what circles Mrs Bishop moves in, but for the people that I have been speaking to, this saga represents what the community dislikes most about politics and politicians,” he said.
“I think if Mrs Bishop had asked for feedback from any of us who do the trip from Geelong to Melbourne and vice versa by car, she would have got the kind of feedback that probably isn’t fit to print.
It is staggering that someone who is supposed to serve the people thought it would pass any kind of test to charter a helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong and expect voters to pick up the tab.”
Greens Senator David Shoebridge, who lodged the original FOI request to reveal the data, urged the Albanese government to return to the publication of all VIP flights in the interests of “transparency”.
“When people are facing serious cost-of-living pressures, having politicians tell them their flights are so special, expensive and secret that they can’t know the details really doesn’t cut it,” Mr Shoebridge told news.com.au.
Ukraine is the largest military east of Russia in Europe, being kept alive by the arsenal of Europe, USA, and the like, which is close to being depleted, US credit, and the intelligence and command structure of NATO.
Better add Australia to that list, flyingduk – you can bet this summer will realise devastating bushfires of no apparent cause.
Maybe some. But our RFS locals – all experienced farmers – reckon that we may have our hands full if it is a hot, dry summer. Sure – the mountains in the Wollemi and lower Blue Mts were subject to severe fire reduction pre-pandemic. But the wet years after the fires have really accelerated growth of paddock grass which is now matted and dry where grazing stock is low or non existent. Quite recently we had a devastating fire in the Sofala area which destroyed several houses and killed hundreds of sheep. We will not be necessarily crying wolf if grand fires erupt as predicted this summer.
BTW two recent small fires in our area were started by one farmer welding machinery in a paddock, and another slashing. It is that easy in dry conditions.
That should have read “grass” fires ……which are rarely “grand”!
It doesn’t help when there are those who are incredibly casual about total fire bans!
Hi Cassie,
I had both knees replaced November 2019. Was home a few days before Christmas.
Indeed an ordeal, but very glad I had both done at once. Would never have gone back a second time if had only had one repaired.
Hope Calli reports in soon.
Cope.
Where is calli?
High on Endone.
You can tell because she’s referring to herself in the third person. 🙂
In the current environment, “pattern-of-life data” is a state secret, like you would not believe.
Careers depend upon it.
Martin Sheen understood that, the DNC didn’t have a clue, they just wanted a “known” face to run.
Leftard idiots, BIRM.
That’s something that really needed fixing! 🙂
Great rant re the support we all need to offer to CPAC, Cassie. We were only able to make the one day, Saturday, but it was a really memorable event, as they always are.
It is very heartening to be part of standing ovations to people we greatly support with a crowd of other enthusiastic supporters. What is not often mentioned is that CPAC is also a lot of fun. There are jokes and gags aplenty and considerable bonhomie in the break periods as well as in the audience during speeches. Vernon Jones in particular brought his own downhome Georgia presence to create quite a few funny moments. You also learn new things – who knew what Nick Cater confessed under questioning, that he was once a member of the British Labor Party, making all five on the stage ex-Labor refugees fleeing a Party that had moved far more than they had? Typical of the ‘transition to the right’ stories that we often hear on the Cat too.
Pogria
Aug 21, 2023 4:10 PM
Hi Cassie,
I had both knees replaced November 2019. Was home a few days before Christmas.
Indeed an ordeal, but very glad I had both done at once. Would never have gone back a second time if had only had one repaired.
Hope Calli reports in soon.
Pogria,
you depressed me there – 78 and both knees crook – working on Sports Medicine Specialist who does knee reconstructions for AFL players (Recommended by SIL when Physio for GWS) statement
“If you are not getting steroid injections every 3 months into knees and not taking painkillers, then as much as he was happy to take $10K oof me, said give it a miss”
Still motoring on, but given your statment Would never have gone back a second time if had only had one repaired.
I would be totally slack at rehab, which is why I am avoiding
Ageed, Calli – “Hope goes well”
I was promised four weeks of pain and exercise, and not being able to drive a car for six weeks….I’m procrastinating my new knees…
”
calli
Aug 21, 2023 4:15 PM
Where is calli?
High on Endone.
You can tell because she’s referring to herself in the third person. ?”
Calli, I love the Ken Done! It does the trick.
Pogria, I too am very glad I had them both done at the same time because I also would never have gone back a second time if had only had one done!
We watched half an episode once (or less). Couldn’t stomach it. Had to turn it off.
Unctuous Democrat-written world-as-it-isn’t nonsense. Yes, many probably do believe Biden is of that ilk, Mr. Good Guy, Nice Guy, loves the kiddies….. erm…..errmm…
Escaped from Alcatraz today – the new ironmongery appears to be a success.
I have one of those straps on a stick to pull my foot up onto the sofa. Plus crutches.
Most disconcerting moment…waiting in the prep room and listening to the work being done on the patient before me. Sounded like a team of stone masons. They had “music” to work by too. My last memory before lala land was “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. Rotten sods.
Please don’t tell me nattokinase is rubbish.
It’s almost as good as aspirin.
All the best for a full recovery, callie.
How long before seamless, bionic limbs are an option?
Also, why can’t we have energy based weapons, instead of projectile ones.
It’s really good on these older music tracks on youtube to read the comments afterwards, for they show how many people of an older generation still get pleasure from them, and the circumstances in which they recall hearing them long ago.
Talking Heads did a lot of sanity-saving during the 80’s, because their inchoate flow allowed you to really let go emotionally, sometimes necessary when raising teenagers. Some of them even sat down with you and liked listening together.
shatterzzz:
That sounds more like a phishing expedition from one of the staffers than a genuine reply.
LOL. Indeed. A perfect encapsulation of the buoyant mood prior to the offensive where Crimea was purportedly on the cards dying on the vine. Now, over two months later, even Tokmak is the town too far.
As not selling Honda Jazz in OZ anymore thinking of this as replacement for Wife’s 2006 Honda Jazz
https://www.go-garage.com.au/importing-a-honda-n-box
2024 Model coming
https://www.carscoops.com/2023/08/2024-honda-n-box-debuts-in-japan-with-improved-style-and-practicality/
Great to hear you’re OK, Calli. I can’t imagine the pain of getting artificial limbs installed.
My family’s thoughts are on my brother’s 28-year-old son, who had a cancerous testicle removed on Monday. Thankfully his future looks OK, though the trauma of what has happened is pretty devastating for him.
Robert Sewell
Aug 21, 2023 4:42 PM
shatterzzz:
Fact check : TRUE ..
That sounds more like a phishing expedition from one of the staffers than a genuine reply. Perhaps Dai Le needs to have a look at what he staff are up to?
Talking about knee replacements, I have been holding out since 2014.
Commanded D Company, 6 RAR at the Battle of Long Tan. Not a word of his passing on any other of the news services.
Don’t forget the wise, fatherly President. Huh!
The real story, that it is a pirahna pool of liars and grifters (with a few exceptions) would be fascinating, but is unlikely to be screened by the Hollywwod elite.
Speaking of which, it has been very much a tectonic, seismic time of change in the entertainment industry. The movie biz – which I have long believed to be mostly a money-laundering exercise – is in the toilet. Cable TV is going down, down, down. The wukkas are on strike, and they are terrified of AI. Even the music industry, another example of how to hide cocaine in the accounts, is undergoing big changes.
The people who told industrial workers to ‘learn to code’ when their livelihoods were destroyed are discovering that it is too late for them – coding has been outsourced to India at less than half the cost.
Back to waitpersoning and hooking.
Too bad.
“My family’s thoughts are on my brother’s 28-year-old son, who had a cancerous testicle removed on Monday. Thankfully his future looks OK, though the trauma of what has happened is pretty devastating for him.”
Tom, I hope he’ll be okay.
I am lucky that both of my knees are still pretty good at 81. Occasional twinge going downhill in my right knee but nothing serious, never had to have any injections into either knee or feet and x-rays show reasonable wear only. I think regular dancing is very important, not overdoing it, but keeping normal movements and balance front of brain; brain trains body to move and heal. My broken left foot has healed extremely well now, after being a bit difficult for more than a year. As we have steps up to our place we both have to keep our knees in good working order.
Thanks to my dance peers and wonderful teacher (who is 80 soon), who can all be inspirational. Finding Mr. Motivator online has also been helpful for periods when travelling – you get a mini-workout using simple dance movements. I’m trying to do something exercisey daily, no matter what it is. Never give up, never look back.
I recently wrote to NSW Police asking how many members they sent up to help in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy. For a commemorative book no less.
Only to be met with a FOI request and that this would cost $30 an hour and beyond.
It appears Melbourne is a member of the C40 group of cities.This group has goals which include by 2020 .zero meat,zero dairy and zero private vehicles.Its an offshoot of WEF.
Why are we signed up to this madness?
It’s all good, Tom. Amazing what sophisticated medicine can achieve. They put a pump into the site which injected little doses of local. Tra-la! I was haring around the corridor with only one crutch. All I needed was a parrot.
All good things must come to an end and I lost that particular piece of apparatus yesterday. The crash came at midnight, when every vestige of anaesthetic had disappeared. Yikes!
I can appreciate how people get hooked on painkillers. Anyways, I’ve had three babies with minimal intervention, so I can crush this lot like a walnut.
The YesMen had something similar to reduce feeling in the thigh.
It was called a spear.
Sophisticated and very Dark Emu-ey.
Knee ops are very painful, I saw my mum through two of them, and as Cassie had feared, mum had so much pain with the first one that she kept putting off the second one. In the end though she needed to keep her mobility so we planned the recovery together. I got quite tough with her making her walk to the post-box and back, which she thought was cruel, but I knew if she didn’t do it, with my help, she would lose both strength and motivation. She thanked me later, as I told her she would when I opened the front door and said we’re going out, now, no argument.
Good luck with yours Calli.
Johnny Rotten:
Note also that the eclectic buses will be in poor and disadvantaged areas. Not in areas of important peoples children.
That’s the spirit. Nothing in this world beats being pulled inside out for sheer agony.
Knees. Pfft. Open that front door and out you go, Calli. Post-box and back, pronto. 🙂
Guatemala’s Acatenango Volcano producing volcanic lightning last month.
Depreciated to net-zero longa time ago.
And I think they would be comfortably covering variable costs, thank you very much.
Speaking of fully written off, I heard a bloke recently describe his wife – within her earshot – as “fully depreciated”.
I said nothing.
Very, very courageous.
Oops, I forgot. I did have to have an injection of cortisone into my left heel some years back, for a heel spur. Two injections of it later and it was all gone, also assisted by rubbing the feet of the foot god in Kyoto. I also had a painful bursitis in that hip, which was injected and which has never returned. My hip joints are solid and good, bone density also in the excellent ranges (oestrogen, oestrogen) – bursitis is an inflammation of the surrounding tissue, the bursa. Probably too much dancing followed by Cathedral walking in the UK.
We are all of us mortal and prone to disintegration. Thank goodness for modern medicine and surgery. And anaesthetics and pain killers.
Poor little Attapuss is going downhill, he has had very little to eat since we arrived back from Qld and didn’t do well while we were away for six days. Birdies have done well from all the food treats I tried to tempt him with. Luckily he’s drinking OK, and is obviously hungry but his mouth is hurting. His dental operation is booked for tomorrow and it can’t come fast enough for me. Attapuss is wailing to get up on me constantly, as it is the only thing that comforts him. They should have given me some painkillers for him.
my brother’s 28-year-old son, who had a cancerous testicle removed on Monday. Thankfully his future looks OK
It will be indeed.
That chap will (or should) be the subject of many rousing impromptu songs, started by his associates, whenever he enters a local establishment for a beverage.
Also, but only if his timing and delivery are right, it has the potential to be an outstanding icebreaker should he spy a worthwhile ladeeee at one of the abovementioned establishments.
He will, however, require the services of a wingman:
‘Hi ladies, this is Dave. He’s only got one testicle. They had to amputate the other one because he was risk of being classified as a lethal weapon but he’s still in the Rolls-Royce bracket.’
Calli: all the very best for your recovery from the renovations.
Brilliant.
Brilliant and stolen.
If you are registered for SBS on demand you would have received an email today showing what shows are leaving the platform.
The Orville is leaving (will be only on Paramount Plus).
Another tranche of the Handmaids Tale is leaving too, not sure what platform that will be on exclusively.
Looks like the days of SBS picking up shows on the cheap might be coming to an end.
At least it won’t have you bleed out.
Blockquote fail on the one-ball pub song post just above.
Voluntary Assisted Suffering.
That sounds more like a phishing expedition from one of the staffers than a genuine reply.
They did get around to answering the query tho ….!
I’d guess/assume all that info would be available to them thru the Electoral Roll without me having to re-supply it .. maybe just the lazy way of checking .. for what purpose I don’t know .. never had an MP’s office ask for ID before and been voting 53 years ..
also got my AEC referendum booklet today .. 21, bloody, pages! .. FFS! .. haven’t read it yet but be interesting to know why I need a 21 pages explanation for 2 NOs …. LOL!
The one thing that I do know without reading it is .. No ticking, write the word or it’s invalid .. what could be called a “cunning stunt” as per Black Adder ..
TE.
Maybe try an ex-NSW Plod page on Soshul Meeja, if there is one.
You might come across someone who has a pretty good memory of it (and may add some background colour as well).
OK, it’s not official, but meh!
Ah, Endone.
AKA Oxy, the stuff that many an otherwise invisible junkie is hooked on.
When I was in hospital for a nasty broken arm (the X ray looked like a bundle of straw chopped through with a blunt machete) they gave me Endone every four hours.
As a result, I went for five days without a cigarette and barely noticed, I was so pleasantly zonked out. This from a committed and unapolagetic smoker of more than 50 years.
Then it was a reduced dose when I went home, for a couple of weeks. The arm really was bloody painful, and the relief was amazing. But, mindful of the hazards, I reduced the dose myself to zero.
While I wasn’t really tempted, I can see how people could get into trouble with it, especially those with painful conditions that last longer than that.
Steve trickler
A heartening story about the UK austistic girl and the ‘lesbian’ copper. He nails it quite well. The copper handled the situation badly, the ‘autistic girl’ ruled that household, and WTF she was doing going out at midnight drinking with her mates? I never heard that bit on the news.
The reverend has a bloody good point.
Calli
Keep to the rehab schedule, or all might be for nought.
Best wishes
The Good BJ!
bern
Youn have me mixed up with someone who cares.
Dover, what did you find dumb with respect to Zeihan’s “oeuvreing”? Can I make a suggestion? If you make a claim like this, it’s really a good idea to explain what you disagree with. It would be like me suggesting your own oeuvering is pretty dumb too even though I have no idea what triggered your criticism of Zeihan’s oeuvre.
One thing though, if it’s about the Russian vid, don’t bother as I don’t want to read a rehash of some anon on Twitter talking about the heroic Soviet forces are forcing the capitalist running dogs to flee.
Interesting that “human wave attacks” have been described here first as “manoeuvre” but I guess technically they are.
Feelthebern:
Think it through, FTB. Every time you fire a hypervelocity or energy beam weapon, there’s a line of condensation or ionised air trail pointing directly to your position.
Only workable in a vacuum environment.
No thanks.
Fling taxi cabs are more likely to be feasible before them.
I tried to register with SBS and they refused me, because I have one of those email accounts that prevents tracking and all the rest (gmx.us) so they barred me. But, they kept spamming me with emails about upcoming shows and so on, till I threatened to report them to ACMA. All communication then ceased.
They are harvesting your personal data. Why else would they want this information? The same goes for IView on TheirABC.
Net-Zero is dead in Victoria.
Dicktater Dan has just announced he will pay AGL fnck-loads of money to keep the coal burning to avoid the problems with “variable” solar and wind.
The worst was the American chick in the US (reserve ?) forces LARPing as a babushka. Something Devushka she called herself.
She LARPed too close to the sun.
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 21, 2023 10:49 AM
Vote harvesting comes to Australia.
…
Broadcaster Ray Hadley has blasted a Sydney aged care home after it documented a dementia patient’s Voice to Parliament voting preference, despite a doctor saying the woman is not capable of signing testamentary documents.
You’d be in fairyland if you didn’t think this has been going on for a long time. Many years ago I worked with someone who had been a junior admin person in the Vic premier’s office during the unlamented Bracks administration. She described being sent out, together with others, to visit nursing homes and other similar institutions to make sure the residents “didn’t miss out on their democratic right to vote”. No prizes for guessing how assistance with the ballots would have gone.
The current Vic dictator is much more politically wily than any of his predecessors and I’m sure this sort of thing is still happening.
A couple of more plausible explanations?
(a) Dai Le ruined the career of Nobody’s Girl by defeating her at the last election, and putting paid to KKK’s Prime Ministerial aspirations.
It is more likely Dai Le’s office has been spammed by Labor staffers with lengthy and unintelligible queries on climate change, yada, yada.
They might even be using … form letters.
Then, just before the next election, they put in an FoI and, low and behold, lazy local MP Dai Le has only answered 15% of “constituent queries”.
Or …
(b) She is just sick of shatterzzzz complaining …………………………………………………………………… LOL!!!
what could be called a “cunning stunt” as per Black Adder ..
Maybe a ‘Cunning Plan’ as per Baldrick………..
Essential advice.
What would we do without the ABC?
Mr Momcilovic advised other campers not to leave their car keys in the ignition while sleeping.
Cassie of Sydney
Aug 21, 2023 4:48 PM
Blokes, if you’re going to get cancer, get the testicular variety. Apparently a 99% cure rate and the remaining testicle is just as dangerous as two.
(Unless of course you leave it too bloody late.)
lol. Hairy was doing some internet banking last nite. New deal on interest rates offered online by CBA, so he wanted to transfer 100K from a savings account to add to our fixed deposits. Thank you for your transfer of .. one million dollars, I read in words on the screen as he called me proudly to check the rate. Don’t click it, I say quickly. You are not transferring a million, but one hundred thousand. They’ll do ‘funds not available’ and block us. We look, and there it is, he’d added an extra 0. You’ve done that before, I remind him, in Prague, where the ATM gave you denominations of thousands in bulk paper sheafs, and I had to buy some jewellery with it to get rid of it.
We started the transfer again, with the correct amount. Then we discovered that we couldn’t do it in our joint names, so decided to go to the bank and do it that way.
At the bank today they said always come in, because we can give you a better rate than any of our internet deals. I guess that’s customer service. Worth knowing though.
Goodness me.
If so, I hope they’ve been appropriately vetted.
Knuckle Dragger:
It’s good to have mates, enemies are such high maintenance.
Dover, can you explain the oeuvre with the above claim. Let’s assume it is true and that a dusty farming country had superior forces to Russia – the invaders. Wasn’t it a bit silly of Putin to attack a superior force? That’s pretty dumb, no? Was that the reason Russian forces had their arses kicked right back in the first couple of months into the invasion?
SITREP 8/20/23: F-16s Paper Over 500k Losses Report
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
21 AUG 2023
The biggest news of the day is the Dutch/Danish decision to supply F-16s to Ukraine:
But of course nothing in Washington “leaks” without a purpose. So you might be wondering, why the shift in rhetoric, what do they hope to accomplish? It seems that one of the reasonings is by clearly articulating the dire nature of the situation, they hope to steer policy into new escalatory directions. Whereas before their signals of alarm were perhaps more caveat or warning, now they’re prescribing actual directional changes.
In the above Newsweek article, the author offers an “innovative” solution to ending the war in Ukraine.
The author argues that, firstly, a “forever war” favors Putin and Russia, not Ukraine or the West, but they’ve discovered a way to “stick it to Putin” by ending the war abruptly and not giving him the “forever war” that he wants. They suggest to give Ukraine funding to continue operations up until July 2024, the date of the next big NATO summit. At the point of that summit, Ukraine should stop all offensive operations and then be given full entry into NATO.
This, they argue, would allow Ukraine to keep and consolidate whatever territory they’ve managed to win back by then, and would protect them from any further Russian advances by way of Article 5. This is no different than giving a divided Germany NATO status after WW2, they argue.
What’s most intriguing about this plan is that the author is actually none other than Democrat congressman Tom Malinowski, and it befits him to oh-so-conveniently militate toward a cessation of hostilities in July 2024, right on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections, whereupon Democrats will need all the help they can get.
If a plan could be designed and packaged in a way where it can be sold as a major “victory” then certainly Democrats will attempt to drag it out until the eve of the election to try to use “Biden’s major Ukrainian victory” as a huge final hour boost.
The other intriguing thing is how it dovetails with Lukashenko’s new theory, which he gave during a recent interview, that Ukraine will be inducted into NATO on the basis of Poland occupying its Western territories.
He doesn’t spell out the exact mechanisms by which he envisions this to happen, but merely the inference that NATO will have little room to reject Ukraine once a full-fledged NATO member has already politically merged with them.
Though he did impart his opinion that Ukrainians wouldn’t allow this:
But getting back to the main proposals: the other side, argued by Edward Luttwak in a new Die Welt article, says that the only way Ukraine can win is by going “total war” mode, a complete societal mobilization of 3 million bayonets.
. Ukraine needs to mobilize 3 million people to succeed in the conflict with Russia. So says an article in Die Welt.
“There is only one way forward: to wage the war with the seriousness befitting a national liberation struggle. Ukraine’s population has shrunk, it is true, but it is still more than 30 million people, so the total number of armed forces could be as high as 3 million. With such a military force, Ukraine could win battles and liberate its territory the old-fashioned way – in a war of attrition, like most European wars of independence,” the author believes.
“As for the Russian economy, the news is grim, but not grim enough. The war will not end because of Russia’s economic capitulation,” the author says, pointing out that unlike China, Russia is able to provide its own food and fuel, and generally produce almost everything it needs.
Until the last Ukrainian! It seems like Die Welt tries to impose a well-known Nazi concept of “Totalen Krieg” on modern Ukraine.
And it seems, ironically enough, that Zelensky has recently signaled interest more in this plan rather than the opposing one. Twice now in the past week or two alone, Zelensky has eerily posted videos chastising Ukrainian society for ignoring the war and imploring that “everyone” should be assisting in the war effort in one way or another.
Other Ukrainian officials have similarly began to signal such a direction. I recently posted one such official who stated that “all Ukraine” may have to be mobilized in the future.
The other ‘well-timed’ release making the rounds was the new NYTimes article with the “bombshell” revelation that over 500k casualties have been suffered in the war thus far:
Discussion continues to turn to what comes next.
More and more we’re hearing reports that Ukraine is simply terrified of stopping active offensive operations, no matter how costly they are in losses, because they suspect that Russia may launch its own offensive as soon as it senses Ukraine weakening and backing off. Thus, they believe that they’re fending off the coming locomotive by distracting it with their own flailing, but ultimately meaningless, actions.
The truth is though, it’s easy to see how the conflict can be a very confusing one for the uninitiated. Both sides claim to be winning and inflicting massive casualties on the other, but the actual battle lines have not changed much in many months. It’s a sort of Schrodinger’s War run on the power of belief and blind religious faith in one side or the other.
At the end of the day, there’s only one side from whom we’re seeing massive cemeteries being tracked from space due to their size, and daily urgent calls for more body bags, coffins, graves, crematoriums, etc.
Take this new AFU order for instance:
. The order of the commander of the 123 brigade of Territorial Defense of Ukraine appeared on the web.
So, according to this document, the commander of the A-7052 unit (123 brigade of the TERO) ordered his deputy in the rear to get mobile crematoriums, and the battalion commanders to collect receipts from the AFU militants to be cremated, writes the Kherson Bulletin.?
Apparently, the mobilization is going “according to plan” and no one wants to bother with transporting the bodies of the AFU militants, but simply burn them and scatter the ashes on the field.
Or this Ukrainian volunteer begging for body bags for a number of AFU battalions:
Recall my reports a while back about how the U.S. can no longer even produce certain types of explosives, relying on outside suppliers, one of the main ones ironically was in Donbass and subsequently taken over by Russia:
A shortage of raw materials – particularly the explosive TNT, which the US no longer produces – has hampered the Pentagon’s efforts to restock its own arsenal, which has been severely depleted by its support for Ukraine. Washington currently obtains much of its TNT from Poland but has been searching for new suppliers, including in Japan, after losing production partner Zarya when the region where the factory was located voted to become part of Russia in last year’s referendum.
Meanwhile, workers at the Storm Shadow factory in Britain are going on strike over low pay:
The idea that China’s population ‘could’ halve by 2050 for starters.
Likewise, some will hyperfocus on some irrelevant “drone strike” which was shot down and nullified but ignore that Russia strikes just blew away a major mercenary/foreign advisor gathering in Chernigov:
One report:
On August 19th, 2023, a strike was carried out on a drone exhibit held in the Drama Theater in Chernigov, Ukraine.
However, apparently, it wasn’t just a drone exhibit. Right across the street, the headquarters of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), as well as the reception office of the Security Service of Ukraine are located.
A meeting of the officers of the Special Operations Forces of the AFU and NATO representatives from Poland and the Baltics was being held there. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a common concept of border protection.
Today, a joint meeting was held there with the Polish and Lithuanian military to protect the border and counter possible attacks by the DRG from Belarus and Russia.
There were 23 people with foreign citizenship at the meeting. The same number arrived from Lvov yesterday afternoon in Chernihiv. Of the 23, 9 corpses were found under the rubble, the rest are still considered missing.
In the Drama Theater, more than 38 fighters and commanders of the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been found killed. More than 75 people are seriously injured.
During the unsuccessful launch of anti-aircraft missiles of the Soviet period, two civilians were killed.
The contrail of the S-300 air defense system is visible on the video. The Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted that they unsuccessfully tried to shoot down a missile of the RF Armed Forces in the city.
Apparently, the strike was a test launch of the Iskander-K missile capable of carrying a low-yield nuclear warhead. It penetrated the Ukrainian air defense with no difficulty at all.
Western press indirectly confirmed the plausibility of the above report:
I don’t believe he said that. He’s maintained the population will halve by 2100.
Can you check which vid you claim he said that.
What were the u-15 Newcastle Jets boys’ side being paid?
Former Matilda calls for equal pay (Sky News, 21 Aug)
Hey calli, best wishes, trust that you will be mobile before the Great Weed Rampage of Spring and Summer. 🙂
They’re out there waiting, as you know.
Speaking of weeds, there has been some discussion at The Conservative Woman recently about mandated green bins and what happens to the waste. The contents are (at great expense) collected and taken to ‘composting’ facilities, and the outputs are then sold to punters as quality compost.
Trouble is, some plants – including the dreaded bindweed – require much higher temperatures than those used in the facilities for them to be destroyed. So, the environment protectors are, once again, spreading weeds at ratepayers’ expense in the name of saving the planet.
Miss Marple* was confronted with bindweed in a garden, and she said that you simply have to dig everything up and start again. She was right.
Wonder what weeds our green bin enthusiasts are spreading?
*The Mirror Crack’d etc
Yeah nah, the description of the Battle of the Ch’ongch’on River pretty much indicates that they were outmaneuvered by a technically superior [sorry, inferior] force.
Thanks guys. The Beloved had a bilateral a few years ago, not for the feint hearted and requires lots of preparation. If you have a robust body, do it sooner rather than later. Cycling was his prep.
Like me, a combination of injury, lifelong gait and tempus fugit.
He walks like The Terminator now!
Here’s the vid.
I just checked, he said it will halve by 2050 because his claim is that they the overcounted by 100 million and they peaked in 2010. Meanwhile, the one child policy imbalance of the population will cause the runoff to be staggering large.
I dunno, but is it a dumb claim?
It’s here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI
Mask is off.
UK Population Collapse “Good For The Planet”, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains (21 Aug)
I think this is why the Georgia Guide Stones were blown up. The inconvenient number of 500,000,000 was carved into them. We still don’t know who did it. Funny that.
Part of News Corp’s coverage of Australian politics is to have at least two ALP suckholes at the national broadsheet, The Australian: Troy Bramston and Joe Hildebrand.
Bramston has always been an ALP suckhole, while I believe Hildebrand reached a new arrangement with News to become the ALP’s chief media promoter prior to the 2019 federal election.
Everyone with a brain knows Bramston is an ALP suckhole, but I believe Hildebrand is concealing his arrangement with News and expects the public to believe he’s a credible political commentator — not the professional ALP suckhole has contractually agreed to become on shows like Sharri Markson’s on Sky.
Dover
I forget where I sourced it, but here is what I recall reading about China recent
Then regime ended the one child policy in 2016. The preceding year there were 16 million births. In 2020 there were 10 million.
The dynamics are horrendous.
Woops. Joe Hildebrand is primarily contracted to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, not The Australian.
They might even be using … form letters.
Ah, those were the glory days.
Albo, over on the Oz website. More bullsh!t.
Volcano lightning –
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1692665288985370699/
with the oldest continuous culture on earth,
Seriously?
Africa & Asia ears are burning.
Which modern day prophet build the Georgia Guide Stones?
Having worked in local government I have witnessed many of these agreements, sister cities and such being unanimously agreed in the chambers. It is all about the perks because overseas memberships and agreements require overseas trips at ratepayer expense. The councillors all collude to enable the taking of turns for the travel perks. It is not about substance and they know that as time passes everyone forgets. Mostly they align the agreements with whatever faction or group they wish to please, which means they can then do the speaker circuit/coctails with the boys and girls on return.
Really? Aboriginal Australians still follow the exact same culture as they did in pre colonial days?
Why do so many keep demanding stuff, from new invader style houses to free soccer kit then?
It’s just another piece of gaslighting.
Yes I recall Melton alderpersons scored a trip to Mexico fairly recently. Councils- a magnet for the untalented and self important
African ears certainly are – the oldest continuous culture is that of the San bushmen of Southern Africa – in existence for over 100,000 years.
Don’t you get sick of finding ways to just say Putin is a poo-poo head, etc? How about looking into whether Ukraine actually had superior numbers than Russia in the first few months or so. And then considering whether or not they did rather well given that to capture the territory they did in the first six months. And so on.
As Gerard Henderson keeps asking, where are the conservative counterparts to Bramston and Hildebrand on the ABC? By ABC standards, those two are social fascists anyway.
I have just seen a print copy of this morning’s SMH. It features a full-page story on p. 12 on the grooming and exploitation of a student by a teacher in a government school, with a trailer for the story on the front page. How this got through the Firfax worker soviet I cannot imagine. Will there be consequences for those concerned? Will Gillard’s poodle McClellan come out of retirement spluttering that such a thing is as impossible as a square circle?
Will be out until late. Will reply then or in the morning.
New OT opens at midnight.
So why is the UK still accepting large numbers of “migrants”? What says the good perfesser about that action?
Are there any normal academics?
A “culture” with almost nothing to be proud of.
I have yoghurt in the back of my fridge which has culture older than some of the more adventurous “traditional” claims.
It was funny (in a tragically sad kind of way).
People living in they eye of the Lockdan storm in Victoria shared letters they had sent to Upper House cross-benchers.
Then followed a long word-wall featuring mangled Constitutional language, sprinkled with lots of red shoes in tunnels talk.
I guess we should have taken more notice.
He did face down the 1st ACT Broomstick Squad.
When I say “face down” I mean “turned and ran”.
The climate alarmists are going nuts about the boiling seas.
The data is from Climate Reanalyzer, which is modelling of modelling.
Measuring sea temps is notoriously difficult. The best measurements are from ARGO which show no effective rise although this post is from 2013
More saliently they are ignoring the recent Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai ocean volcanic explosion which had a marked warming effect.
But most importantly they ignore the fact that CO2 radiation cannot heat the oceans.
How could it possibly be proved or disproved that something is ‘the oldest continuous culture on Earth?’
And, even if it is true, so what? Does that make it better, or more important, than the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Chinese, the Griks and Romans, etc?
It is as though people have been hypnotised into obliviating all of human history in favour of primitive nomads. Everything else is subsidiary.
It’s not about respect, it’s about dominance and playing on liberal white guilt.
Oh, and hi! Lizzie from your ‘stalker.’ Apparently that is your new term for anyone who does not worship at your shrine.
Once again, you spent about six times my comment to weep and moan and justify after I said a few words about you.
As usual, you went on and on about your academic achievements more than half a century ago.
I see you, and raise you 100/100 for Arithmetic in Third Class. I do have the report card to prove it.
BTW, what gracious favours have you done for less fortunate relatives recently?
Those of us who would never think of doing such a thing need to know, so that we can follow your exalted example.
“A couple of more plausible explanations?
(a) Dai Le ruined the career of Nobody’s Girl by defeating her at the last election, and putting paid to KKK’s Prime Ministerial aspirations.
It is more likely Dai Le’s office has been spammed by Labor staffers with lengthy and unintelligible queries on climate change, yada, yada.
They might even be using … form letters.
Then, just before the next election, they put in an FoI and, low and behold, lazy local MP Dai Le has only answered 15% of “constituent queries”.
Or …”
Very plausible Sancho. People need to understand that Skank Keneally and her husband are NSW ALP bigwigs and powerbrokers. Dai Le destroyed Keneally’s political career (thank God), and snatched a seat that Labor considered its own. Just as the Liberals shed tears over Wentworth, Labor have shed tears over Fowler. I would not be surprised if Dai’s electoral office is being regularly spanned by Labor operatives. NSW Labor is angry, very angry about the loss of Fowler. Keneally was supposed to win that seat and be in cabinet, sitting next to Sleazy. Dai Le shattered Keneally and Labor’s dream. They took the voters of Fowler for granted and got smacked in the face. Dai’s victory was one of the good things to happen on 21 May 2022. The ALP holds grudges for an eternity. They will never, ever forgive Dai Le for what she did to Keneally.
Shatterz, I’m curious about your thoughts re. Kristina Keneally, the onetime puppet of the crook Eddie Obeid, the disastrous NSW premier appointed by ALP hacks (mainly Obeid), the woman who was parachuted into a senate spot and then, despite living on Scotland Island, an extremely wealthy island enclave on Sydney’s upper north shore, was parachuted into being a candidate for the seat Fowler in south-western Sydney by Labor apparatchiks…..would you have wanted Keneally to win that seat in 2022?
I’m sorry, but even if Dai Le is a one hit wonder, even if she’s useless as the member for Fowler (and she can’t be more useless than any of the Teals), I DO NOT CARE, because Dai Le, by running in Fowler, managed to do what so many had tried and failed to do since 2002, when the loathsome Kenneally first backstabbed Deidre Grusovin and entered NSW parliament, and that is that Dai Le terminated, once and for all, the political career of Eddy’s girl.
I think the people of NSW will always be indebted to Dai Le.
TE perhaps contemporary news reports reported police numbers from interstate.
or you could count the blokes in this photo?
Well spotted, mem.
If only there were real journalists to investigate this stuff.
State governments, which are in charge of local governments, could easily put a stop to it by banning council funded junkets. But they don’t, because their protegees (sorry about missing thingee) are at the trough.
Aren’t we just mirror images then? 🙂
it’s a reasonable point. If Ukraine was the superior force (by your claim) and we know that an attacking force needs to be superior, then why would Russia, the inferior force invade. It sounds pretty dumb.
Surely Russian intel would have informed the Kleptocrat about Ukrainian superiority, no? It’s now a stalemate.
Meanwhile, where are the letters from the egregious Sarah Chidgey to the prominent former politicians who have turned into shills for the Chinese Communist Party? (And by the way, they are not all from Labor and the Greens.)
“Meanwhile, where are the letters from the egregious Sarah Chidgey to the prominent former politicians who have turned into shills for the Chinese Communist Party? (And by the way, they are not all from Labor and the Greens.)”
Quite so.
I think the people of NSW will always be indebted to Dai Le.
Agree 100%
The Dai Le thing is clearly not phishing.
A key part of phishing is that the online identity of the phisher is masked.
Running a phishing op out of an electoral office wouldn’t be too smart.
If the IDs were used for fraudulent purposes it wouldn’t take long to join the dots.
No.
It is almost certain it has been done as a defence against ALP spamming.
The constant, entertaining and extremely justified ridicule that followed these epistles is exactly what happens when you make pronouncements like that to a group of people who a) have been around the block once or twice themselves, b) have varying degrees of experience in quite a few areas of endeavour, and c) are prepared to ask questions.
As opposed to the long-suffering bloke handing out rat coffins from the roadhouse bain marie.
In a way though, he was kind of a God Oracle.
I’m sure there were settings where people would shit their pants whenever he walked in.
Dover, when you get back, I would like to discuss the population thing that you criticized Zeihan about.
Just as you have compound interest calculated going forward in time, you can also figure out the compound rate of decline too, which is called the compound rate of decay. The former is called the compound growth rate.
Zeihan reckoned the Chinese population peaked at 1.3 billion in 2010 and has been precipitously falling since then with the population getting older. That’s his claim.
He argues the Chinese population will halve by 2050, which you called “dumb”.
In order to 1.3 billion to get to 650 million , it requires a negative compound rate of 1.7% per year for 40 years (2010 to 2050) Why is it dumb to think this isn’t possible considering the uniqueness of China’s situation. One child policy causing an imbalance between males and females as an extra topping.
Do you have any figures to show why a 1.7% rate of decay over 40 years is dumb?
Rosie
From the look of the uniforms, there might be a couple of NT Police/Army in the photo, showing gratitude for the help. That said, it is a good start point.
A few Indian truckdrivers certainly have.
Allegedly.
Maybe John,I fled the scene pronto.
Too much walk sock and business short for me.
Mygov
Spawn of satan or cuhthulus excrement?
Imagine you are a room temperature mong, or a pubic serpent ( but I repeat myself)
You conceive an idea to create the single biggest hackers honeypot on earth, railroad people into using it and then act surprised when scammers use it to rip people off.
Lady claims her son went to do his tax return and found it had already been paid to a new account.
By removing 90% of the human interaction they also removed 90% of the firewall between citizens and scammers.
Vale Phil Bennett.
The current crop of senior ADF careerists would not even understand Bennett’s loyalty and dedication to his profession, not his career.
Re CPAC and its critics, I think that both have merit.
It is certainly worthwhile for people with similar views and objectives to get together, hear speakers, discuss, and so on. Networking, all that.
But, the US CPAC did not get Trump elected, and the Australian one won’t do similar either. There is the risk that it is another version of the IPA.
People taking selfies with Pauline? FFS.
The hard graft is at the grassroots level.
This morning I was reading The Paywallian at the coffee shop, and a fellow patron noticed I was reading about it and said something about the referendum, and we had a chat. Turned out he was, like a lot of people, worried about singling out one group of people. I didn’t have to push him at all to the logical conclusion in our calm discussion. He seemed relieved at the end.
It’s dead in the water.
I do think the question put to punters should include sub-questions:
– Are you OK with no more paid Welcomes to Country?
– Are you OK with Marcia no longer speaking at your conferences?
– Are you OK with a campfire site preventing any economic activity ever?
COVID BOOSTER: MEDIA and WHITEHOUSE at it again!
Hildebrand on Sky is like Van Onselen at the Orstralian …. mumbles & dissembles a lot and never, ever accuses labor of anything bad. I don’t bother reading his articles in the Oz because I know its just verbiage attempting to cover for the failing policies of Labor.
Nothing better captures the inefficiency and churn of government than myGov. Tertiary educated children struggle to negotiate it to get the pension paid for a parent. The NDIS is worse with a significant proportion of recipients required by the NDIA to employ another mouth to feed in the form of a plan manager just to deal with the bureaucracy.
No evidence that Aboriginals have occupied Australia for 60,000 years – Senate 9.8.23
SOLITARY Confinement & 10 YEARS Prison – Canada SILENCES Pastor Artur Pawlowski
I’m trying to keep a straight face.
Flat white.
One sugar.
Ta.
Hey Calli,
all the best for your Frankenstein appendage. 😀
I had written a not too long comment about knees, pain killers and humble advice for Old Ozzie regarding getting the job done. Said comment disappeared into the ether. Or, perhaps my comment is why Dover Lord is out late tonight?! 😀
Anyway, Calli’s quip about giving birth reminded me of one of my favourite Film Quotes.
From “Look who’s Talking”. Kirsty Alley very forcefully asking John Travolta if he knows what it is like to “push something the size of a Watermelon through something the size of a Lemon ?”.
Bramston has put out some decent columns over the years critiquing the ALP & other structures, from the point of an insider.
But over the past year or so I can’t remember one that wasn’t Albo fanboying.
Lovin’ the Wallaroos (womens rugby team) spewing about how the Matties coming fourth is suddenly a national heroism issue.
Oh, and the Australian netball team came first. In the world.
It’s going to be ugly.
Mr Leibler is Mr Pearson’s mentor.
Wow.
This I didn’t know.
But how does a Jewish organisation, draw parallels between the Jewish connection to their land, and share the room with a group of pollies from the party that just said FU to Israel ?
So none from two then?
I expect they draw on the pretzel.
I can remember when Aboriginal occupancy of this country was 20,000 years.
Voice campaign is ‘getting uglier’ | Damian Coory
Speedy recovery Cali…
I know what you are going through as I had an ACL reconstruction years ago. They had me on Targin and Endone to begin with so I could cope with the pain of the rehab. I literally couldn’t walk the next morning, all the old guys with knee replacements were walking a day after with aid of a walking frame. An infected Haematoma extended my hospital stay and it seemed like ages before I started coming good.
The doc was telling me from a few weeks out when I couldn’t even straighten my knee that I would get near full range of motion back that I have.
My doc was good, apparently one of the best in western Sydney and I followed his rehab instructions to a tee. He was big on the look take as much pain relief as you need to exercise. My only tip rehab exercises are the key and yes I never want to go through that pain again.
Evergrande Files for Bankruptcy, Chinese Economy in Trouble
Re the spurious connection made above about Jews and Aborigines.
In the US, liberal Jews in the 30s got together with and did business with black people in the music and entertainment business, when nobody else would. It’s a long and complicated story, and a fascinating one. It went on for many decades.
But it has nothing to do with Aborigines in Australia.
Ron DeSantis Dismisses Trump Supporters as ‘Listless Vessels’: ‘His Basket of Deplorables Moment’
I don’t see anything “soft” about it. It’s a straight out power grab.
Dr Nass Explains How The WHO Is Undergoing A Soft Coup, Under The Pretext of Pandemic Preparedness
“It’s dead in the water.”
It’s only dead in the water when the votes are counted.
Kaganism: The People Steering Us Into Another World War
Hersh: Antony Blinken “Figured Out US Will Not Win War” After CIA Told Him “Ukraine Offense Not Going to Work”
Is this the REAL reason “Eris” cases are spiking?
“says Mark Leibler”
Mark Leibler is a court Jew, who wants to lord it over us pleb Jews, and curry favour with the elites. Jewish history is replete with such unsavoury characters.
It never ends well, for the court Jew or for us pleb Jews.
Mark Leibler does not speak for me or for most Jews.
It’s incredibly insulting to all of us.
Australians are not the equivalent of Palestinians.
iirc Liebler talked about ‘a sword, not a shield’.
“But how does a Jewish organisation, draw parallels between the Jewish connection to their land, and share the room with a group of pollies from the party that just said FU to Israel ?”
Quite so, and it will rankle many in the community.
See, Russia was oppressed by a bullying neighbour with a superior military.
The Chinese outmanoeuvred the UN in the Korean War. Will you stop talking about human wave attacks? The UN fighting to a stalemate is exactly the same as Ukraine fighting to a stalemate.
Senator Ron Johnson Exposes How Elite Group ‘Planned for Our Loss of Freedom’ Beginning With COVID
Can we get it right at least and equate COVID with the common cold?
The Next Major War Is Reportedly About to Begin, and “D-Day” Has Already Been Chosen
Hmmmm. Corruption, bullying and forgery allegations in an Aboriginal organisation:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/nt-naaja-legal-battle-corruption-bullying-allegations-supreme/102755920
This sort of report is depressingly common. Read it before the ABC censors withdraw it.
Six Obama Admin Officials Used Alias Emails: Obama, Hillary, Holder, Lynch, Jackson, Biden
JC at 6:48.
It’s complicated.
It’s not as simple as a net negative compound rate, especially for Chinah.
The demographic histogram for the USA looks quite uniform. As expected, a slight drop off in birth rates over the last thirty years, and the tail off of deaths pretty uniform from 65 onwards.
The histogram for Chinah is all over the shop. It looks like a Chinese pagoda in fact, so a rule of thumb needs to used with some caution.
Remember, Chinah is short on ladies, due to gender-selective abortions during the one-child policy era. Ladies are quite important to population growth, so a standard calc assuming 50:50 gender split doesn’t work.
You would have to assume:-
1. a death rate (probably might achieve better longevity over coming years);
2. a birth rate for, say, five year bands between 20 and 40, and keep applying it to the females in that cohort.
I don’t know if halving from the peak that quickly is possible, but I wouldn’t use US or European rules-of-thumb to calculate it.
I’ll get busy with the butcher’s paper.
Albo: Leave my son out of it.
No.
Apologies if this has been posted earlier in the year but it popped up on my YouTube today.
I haven’t heard so much common sense and plain speaking wrt all the problems with the renewables fraud…
…only to be followed by what can only be described as a pseudo religious sermon, based on the premise we are killing the planet (of course).
Not even a passing mention of nuclear power.
Still well worth a listen.
Cohenite/others, do you know of this bloke? Simon Michaux.
Okay. Highlights from just one of the latest batch of ‘just throwing it out there’ from the coffee enthusiast:
And:
Nice. Nice.
Great.
Uh huh.
There’s more. Much more, which I do not propose to pollute this august journal of record with.
Put it allllll out there though. Give it some sun. Be prepared to have the piss taken out of it though.
I’m actually embarrassed for you though, because in this one at least there’s no mention of it being a satire site, or of Disney execs laughing maniacally as they’re being taken away in handcuffs.
Thanks for reminding us of the way Kenneally ousted Deirdre Grusovin, Cassie. Despite being Laurie Brereton’s sister, Deirdre was a person of integrity. She was shafted by an alliance of the Obeid clique and the gay lobby; the gays were outraged because she dared to expose some of the 99.98% of pedophilia not committed by the clergy – especially the industrial-scale pederasty in and around Darlinghurst. Hence the fawning subservience towards the gay lobby, as well as Obeid and Tripodi, by the fake Catholic Kenneally.
Also wondering if his currency wars comments hold any water @58:40.
Fun fact.
In rural China, larger families are not uncommon.
I know a Chinese lady who is one of four daughters, who grew up on a farm in southern China.
As long as you produce the food, the authorities do leave you alone.
Obviously outweighed by the gazillion who are not having children.
Just listening to Gary Johns whom the Sleazy Prime has accused of cowardice.
Simple question posed by Gary Johns: why can the grandparents of aboriginal children in remote communities speak fluent English, yet their grandchildren cannot speak English fluently?
Perhaps Gary Johns should challenge the spitting Prime Minister to a debate on the issues and then we’ll see who the real coward is?
What? Not a seat on the board? Albo is a slow learner, he should copy the Bidens.
Not enough lesbians in the netball team?
Sanchez , It would mean roughly around 16.2 million more deaths than births in China.
Ummm, they’re in the tronk for crimes of violence against other Indigenous people?