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I don’t think it matters anymore. The laughing Hyena didn’t come from a swing state (Harris). Clinton was basically considered DC Swamp and so was Hiden. Trump was hated in NY.
Don’t think it really matters as the prez contender is the focus and it doesn’t appear to matter for that slot either.
Have been checking out home generators the last few days but am left wondering what if fuel for the generator cannot be bought from the servo. LPG versions might suffer the same fate if hooked into gas lines which are useless for the same reason as the servo.
The West.
I think it does for Reps and in ’24, but even if it doesn’t, is she America First?
ROFLMAO.
They must have set an extremely low bar.
The Drover’s Wife and the ladies of the Cat
First:
Then:
A stiletto between the fourth and fifth rib.
“Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has been voted the most inspiration woman of all time.”
And that ladies and gentlemen tells you everything you need to know about the state of the West.
I’m surprised they even knew who Marie Curie was given they placed her third behind an actress and a dude..
Most inspirational women..Surely its 3 way between Lisa Wilkinson, Leigh Sales and Virginia Trioli.
Climate terrorism next?
It’s only a matter of time before the climate cult start taking their anger out by physically assaulting or even killing people to whom they have grievances with.
What sad people.
The LEGO Group surveyed 2,000 parents of girls aged between six and 10 to find out the famous women whose actions have been most inspirational.
There may just be the slightest element of projection at work here.
Emma Watson, perhaps, but I can’t imagine a normal population in which Marie Curie was widely known, far less in any way inspirational to girls between six and 10.
And Jane Austin? Flag down 2000 random parents and find 340 with 10-year-olds blown away by Pride and Prejudice?
It really does illuminate how disposable feminism is to the left, if Michelle were the wife of a GOP ex-president they’d be all up in arms about how being an ex-president’s (alleged) squeeze isn’t grounds for being an inspirational woman.
If you were a fan of JUSTIFIED .. the updated version JUSTIFIED: PRIMAL CITY still with Timothy Oliphant has just finished season 1 ..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14263564/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_0_q_justified%2520city
Yes, in summer Mum would keep the curtains closed all day and then open them up if and when the sea breeze arrived (aka the “Freo doctor”).
People lived with the heat, the world didn’t end.
I remember working on roof tiles with my Dad in Canberra inn the late 1970s. Up at work at 7.00 am in Summer and finished at 2,00 pm in the afternoon as it was so hot. Then to the Pub for schooners of amber lager. Got home and had dinner and then in the cot by 7,00 pm. Off to sleep. What heat? Then back to work at 7.00 am in the next morning…………………….Happy Days.
Garn the ’tildas, heroze all of em….
Hot? In Canberra?
The December average Canberra max is 26 degrees. 29 in January, 28 in February.
Exactly. What heat, indeed.
Is there nothing blokes can’t do?
Jorge:
If you have a garage, go to the industrial area in your town/city/megalopolis and buy a couple of empty 44s.
Fill ’em with diesel and put some life extender in each. 400l will last a fair while with that stuff in it.
Get a diesel genset of about 8Kva – Able Sales have a good range, but prices are going up.
8Kva is bigger than what you need but the idea is that you can throw an extension cord to the next door neighbour in exchange for fuel.
What does she inspire them to do? Go on it diet?
Gina Reinhart, QE II and Marge Thatcher.
Not the Wookie.
“Tintarella di Luna
Sep 1, 2023 2:13 PM
Which female role models inspire you?
The Drover’s Wife and the ladies of the Cat”
Tinta, The Drover’s Wife is one my favourite Lawson stories. 😀
Cassie of Sydney
Sep 1, 2023 2:22 PM
“Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has been voted the most inspiration woman of all time.”
And that ladies and gentlemen tells you everything you need to know about the state of the West.
I would go with Cleopatra, Boudica, Catherine the Great, Golda Meir, Mrs Ghandi, Margaret Thatcher and my Mum.
As a 9yr old in 4th class at primary school (1949) I learnt about Madame Curie. It was an all girls class and we were very impressed.
Cersei Lannister.
Jessica Alba.
Of. All. Time.
You know, I am now actually hoping she is a he.
I suspect the people who voted for her will not sense any incongruity – they will have been fully immersed in the gender nonsense long since.
But it will give us normies an additional punchline when we laugh at them.
Bruce of Newcastle,
that is an excellent trio. I would add Golda Meir.
Johnny R,
snap!
Also Halle Berry in Wick III.
But who or where was the survey?
I mean, if the survey was in a preschool the girly Wiggle would have romped home.
Knuckle Dragger
Sep 1, 2023 2:53 PM
I remember working on roof tiles with my Dad in Canberra inn the late 1970s. Up at work at 7.00 am in Summer and finished at 2,00 pm in the afternoon as it was so hot.
Hot? In Canberra?
The December average Canberra max is 26 degrees. 29 in January, 28 in February.
What heat?
Exactly. What heat, indeed.
Neanderthal Person. The reflective heat on those roofs would have fried your balls. As you have no balls then maybe it would given you a raw arse.
“In second place was actress Emma Watson and in third, Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie.”
Emma Watson, an actress who leaves me cold, and whose acting can best can be described as mediocre, is only famous because of the writing of another better and much more inspirational woman….J K Rowling. It was Rowling’s books, adapted for film, that made Watson famous.
J K Rowling stands up for women’s rights, for women’s safe spaces, and has donated a significant portion of her fortune to various UK and global charities. For her outspokenness on women’s issues, Rowling is now pilloried and smeared by the transperverts and their apologists, one of whom is Watson.
Climate terrorism next?’
Our very own Adam Maggot Bandt is egging it on.
Dover Beach:
F
Marie Curie was my favorite scientist of all time. If you read her book, she produced scientific breakthroughs that would have daunted most others, even after her husband was killed by a runaway horse. Every centime she had went into her work even when she was hungry and almost freezing. One little story from her book was of one Paris winter she had no money for coal and she put a high stool over the blanket on her bed and that seemed to be enough to keep some warmth in.
I have no idea who Emma Watson was, and it appears this is a balloon to see if Michelle is electable for the next President.
She’s done nothing of note. A true Swamp Creature.
Ah! I see Dr F has anticipated me.
Lego.
I hear the updated version of the Gadsden flag has a Lego brick instead of a snake.
Oh, right.
Lucky you would have had your knotted hanky on your head to ease the overpowering 26 degree heat, reflected or not.
You big susie.
I can’t go past Marie Curie but to add an Australian flavour, Elizabeth Macarthur.
P
Sep 1, 2023 2:57 PM
I can’t imagine a normal population in which Marie Curie was widely known, far less in any way inspirational to girls between six and 10.
As a 9yr old in 4th class at primary school (1949) I learnt about Madame Curie. It was an all girls class and we were very impressed.
And very well said.
100 upticks at the very least. I just love science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k
When I was in high school, the guys used to measure their dicks with rulers when the teacher went out for a smoke. More precise than typing furiously on a pleasant afternoon half a country apart. 😀
JC
Curious. Would that apply to financial fraud as well?
FWIIW, my response to financial fraud is that, once convicted, the fraudster is banned from financial work until the fraud is repaid in full (ie, no recourse to bankruptcy).
After that, name clear, and back to work.
Jailing fraudsters is a waste of resources.
P,
with all the Yes/No drama going on right now, and to add to the aussie flavour, I would add Daisy Bates.
Too stringy.
Thanks, Robert.
Long ago, in the quiet of the world, my high school’s houses were named for Cavell, Fry, Nightingale and Browning.
Not a bad choice.
Oh, right.
Lucky you would have had your knotted hanky on your head to ease the overpowering 26 degree heat, reflected or not.
Actually Neanderthal Person, everyone had the Lawrence of Arabia head gear on their head as the sun yer’ know was soooooooo hot and direct.
Greeks, Italians, Fins, Latvians. Spanish and Poms. Even in the late 1970s, people were so smart that they didn’t need the ‘Nanny State’ to tell them what to do.
I hate to be the local Cat “Christologist,” but I wonder what spot they gave to Mary?
Notice they don’t do this shit in places that have a gang problem?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/radical-climate-activists-terrorize-dc-block-roadways-glue/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-09-01
Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has been voted the most inspiration woman of all time.
His cock is probably bigger than mine.
KD
Those Canberra “average” temperatures camouflage some extremes. Played golf a around 40 degrees one summer. Saw snow on the ground one Christmas.
Admiration for Watson is entirely due to the fictional character, Hermione Grainger. Who is really modelled on previous fictional characters like Lucy Pevensey, but without the depth.
Yeah. In Canberra.
Everyone. Righto.
Is this like Liability Bob’s ‘platoon of many nations’?
Please keep going. It’s brilliant.
Lysander at 1522
Not mentioned in any of the “best” schools these days.
Calli
plus 1,000 upticks.
Can get stinking hot in Canbra as it can in Melbourne.
Pogria
Sep 1, 2023 3:15 PM
When I was in high school, the guys used to measure their dicks with rulers when the teacher went out for a smoke. More precise than typing furiously on a pleasant afternoon half a country apart. ?
At our School in the 1960s in England it was all about how high you could piss up and over the wall of the school bogs…………..lol. Never be on the other side when that went on otherwise……………..more lol.
serpentza:
Chinese E-Bikes are Exploding like Crazy – Self Destructing Spectacularly
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/australias-bank-guarantee-scheme-are-you-covered/
APRA made the point that Financial Claims Scheme (FCS) is really a last resort. Australian banks and financial institutions are required to have practical plans in place to ensure they can get up and running again in the event of a financial crisis. If that were to fail, however, account holders would be covered for the first $250,000 of their deposited funds per institution.
https://youtu.be/lSPyGtDQmRs
What this answer failed to mention is that the Financial Guarantee Scheme (FGS) only kicks in once the bank fails. At this point, the bank would have been able to use bail-in provisions to use depositor’s funds to save themselves.
So the FGS is of no use at all and the depositors lose their money anyway?
Yep. I get it that there would be the occasional warm day or two in the national seat. When the fires went through some years back, as an example.
I do have some questions on the day-in day-out ‘sooooo hot’ claim, though.
The combination whinesquawking in response amuses me.
Seconded. It’ll be interesting what Helen Mirren is like as Golda Meir, the movie premiered last week.
I can’t see a great deal about it, other than Helen wearing very heavy makeup to make her look more like Golda. A mistake I think. It’s best for actors and actresses to play the character from the inside, like George C. Scott in Patton. He’s nothing much like General Patton, if you see the guy’s speeches, but he radiates Patton magnificently. Helen Mirren is as good an actress as Scott was an actor, but sadly the Golda movie doesn’t look promising.
I suppose the Obama thing is just a Friday Outrageous Outrage click bait. No one really believes it. I’m surprised Curie featured at all with Americans.
Betsy Ross, Beecher Stowe or Rosa Parks would be more likely.
ADF ad on tv.
Apparently it an all ladies institution now.
Not even a bloke in the background of the shots.
Anyway who did they ask?
This is from10 days ago. Apparently, a law was passed in Hawaii enable the Governor to suspend historic district zoning restrictions shortly before the fire.
What?? Governor of Hawaii Just Passed a LAW Suspending Historic Districts like Lahaina
calli
Sep 1, 2023 3:25 PM
Admiration for Watson is entirely due to the fictional character, Hermione Grainger. Who is really modelled on previous fictional characters like Lucy Pevensey, but without the depth.”
Yep.
Robert Sewell
Sep 1, 2023 3:30 PM ..Re bank deposits. Thats a good point..,because as I understand it money on deposit is defined as a ‘creditor’ to the bank.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/new-york-police-use-drones-monitor-backyard-labor/
So when will the Australian Police Forces start doing this or are they already doing it?
Journalist REVEALS The Truth About mRNA Vaccine
Please keep going. It’s brilliant.
I know it is. Even the Aussies had protective head gear in that heat. A 38 degree C was not unusual in Summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagjPyNMu9Q
Dr. John Campbell with a study from Israel.
Natural immunity wins
Trump Says Fear-Mongering About New COVID Variants a ‘Lunatic’ Ploy to Rig 2024 Election
More like soft preparation of the (election) battleground.
Yes, Golda Meir….except she f*cked up in October 1973.
And what about…..
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth 1
Joan of Arc
Mary Wollstonecraft
Boudica
Florence Nightingale
Anne Frank
Queen Victoria
the Pankhurst sisters
Virginia Woolf
Isabella of Spain
I’m sorry, any culture that describes Michelle Obama as “inspirational” does not deserve to survive.
You’re never going to hear me criticise Mme Curie; but I’m going to go out on an evidence-free limb and suggest that your primary school class of 1949 isn’t even slightly representative of an average one of today.
I bet you were also taught grammar, parts of speech, fractions, and long division.
And relatively little Queer Theory.
” but sadly the Golda movie doesn’t look promising.”
Well, you could always go and see it and then pass comment.
The above is from Sancho’s report from Tokyo this morning.
I was in Tokyo in 2017 and I don’t remember seeing any graffiti either, o anywhere else in Japan. It is a sign of disrespect, you do not deface something you think is important. Our youth do not respect their environment, their town, their country because we have told them there is nothing to respect. At some point things will have to change though I don’t see who or what will be a catalyst.
The combination whinesquawking in response amuses me.
And that is because as a 2 year old (IQ) you are easily amused. T.W.A .T
Bruce,
I remember watching Ingrid Bergman in A Woman Called Golda in the eighties. A real shock seeing Ingrid looking the opposite of usual ethereal self. She was excellent in the part.
I am not sure, but I have never seen the series repeated since then.
I bet you were also taught grammar, parts of speech, fractions, and long division.
And mental arithmetic. Minds open and here yer’ go…………………………
Report: Hunter Biden’s Firm and Vice President Biden’s Office Exchanged Over 1,000 Emails
They do it because they can. Who’s going to stop them?
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
A man just got 17 years in prison for tearing down a fence on January 6. Meanwhile a guy responsible for burning an entire police station to the ground during the BLM riots got only 4 years. No sane person thinks this is justice.
Fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur invasion next month! A victory right up there with Frederick the Great of Prussia.
You would think Amelia Earhart would have figured in the US before Marie Curie.
She cuts a rather more dashing figure and was giving the men a hiding in a manner that would (via a cartoonish mental prism) appeal more to the modern generation – soaring and swooping through the skies (the very domain of freedom), sinking back in her pilots seat with a coffee thermos as Indiana Jones might have – BUT SHE’S A WOMAN!!!11111!!
As opposed to the looong hours experimenting over and over again, so methodically that the seasons race by outside the window, painstakingly gazing at what cannot be seen and recording obscure hieroglyphics in notebooks.
I wonder how Marie Curie plays (cinema-like) in the heads of those who voted for her. Does she humiliate the straight white men? Symbolically throw over tables choked with the dusty apparatus of old (straight white male) thinking? Do ferocious combat with Rutherford before chopping his head off with a radium sword?
Of course, when Netflix gets their hand on this story she will be black.
And gay.
And an abortion advocate.
For Israel I mean, not particularly Golda. I haven’t read anything on the subject so I defer Cats who have.
Texas BANS Covid Mandates & Restrictions Statewide!
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Malibu 33
Indolent
Sep 1, 2023 3:51 PM
Texas BANS Covid Mandates & Restrictions Statewide!
I like TexArse. Shoot first and maybe ask a question 2 years later. LOL.
We’ll see. A search for El Nino Australia 2023 has the first three links as the ALPBC, CSIRO and the Bureau of Mediocrity, none of whom are, shall we say “believable” at the best of times (OK, never). The BOM’s update is particularly laughable (and the only one I bothered to read), with it’s obligatory gerbil worming hysteria.
It would be nice to experience a few 40 degree summer days again. On the proviso the electrickery grid doesn’t collapse …
Cassie – I haven’t gone to a cinema for something like thirty years. But I read a few articles about it because I admire Golda Meir and I admire Helen Mirren. She of course won an Oscar for her portrayal of QE II. The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover was extraordinary. I would like it to go well, but there’s so little in the news about it that I’m apprehensive.
Quite right.
Arguably more than anything else (possibly language skills excepted), a lack of simple mental arithmetic skills stunts critical thinking.
Luckily, critical thinking is also no longer valued in education.
And for Jer Koff Cretin, Neanderthal Person, Dotty Dot of Dottiness and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose (Lady Boy) and some others………..
Biden Spent 40% of Presidency on Vacation
“Karine Jean-Pierre must take a deep breath when Peter Doocy enters the room, hence why she rarely calls on him for a question. Doocy has become emboldened with his inquiries and is one of the only journalists willing to ask the tough questions. Doocy’s latest doozy: “It seems like the hurricane response so far is robust. Did you guys realize that the initial Hawaiian wildfire was not that good or is it just easier for people to get help from the White House when [Biden] is not on vacation?”
Biden’s propaganda specialist replied by saying the current administration replied in record time. “So, the premise of your question & the way you posed [it], I disagree…If you talk to…the governor…the folks on the ground, they would say…[he] reacted in record time,” KJP stated. Biden’s first response to the Maui fires was, “No comment.” The island was burning down and Biden sat idly on a beach Delaware for ten days without a care in the world. He offered the people of Maui $700, a mere fraction of what he gave to the people of Ukraine that same week, and did not rush to visit the island. The people did not want him to visit anyway.
The people of Maui booed Biden when he arrived and set up signs after he left to show how displeased they were. Biden made jokes about the ground being hot and then said he could empathize with the people who lost everything, as he once almost lost his corvette in a fire.
Joe Biden has spent 40% of his time in office on vacation. He has taken 360 vacation days since taking over the White House amid one of the worst multitudes of crises in US history. This proves that someone else is in control. No one in any occupation could take off 40% of the time and do their job effectively.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/biden-spent-40-of-presidency-on-vacation/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Dr Faustus
Sep 1, 2023 4:01 PM
And mental arithmetic. Minds open and here yer’ go…………………………
Quite right.
Arguably more than anything else (possibly language skills excepted), a lack of simple mental arithmetic skills stunts critical thinking.
Luckily, critical thinking is also no longer valued in education.
And that will be the death of the Australia that once was.
Yes indeed. A very good book on it is: “The War of Atonment: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War” by Chaim Herzog.
I think Zulu recommended it?
An employment agency suggested to me once that an ability to wrangle fractions pegged you as management material.
Gerrbil warming does strange things to people:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/kimberley-bushfire-season-station-arson/102777704
Fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur invasion next month! A victory right up there with Frederick the Great of Prussia.
I also like Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. To beat the French and the Spanish at the same time was no mean feat. October the 21st is a great date to remember.
Interviewing Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports
Tucker Carlson Tonight 8/31/23 E.P 21 | Tucker Carlson Tonight August 31, 2023
Lunch, in the Swan Valley, with Mme Zulu – the first since April last year…
In Athens
We decided on a new way to see some of the main sights of Athens and chose Wheelz electric scooters. They are fat tyred scooters you sit on, and they are allowed in public spaces and on pavements. (Incidentally Greece has banned Lime and other brand e-scooters as being too dangerous following some deaths). It was a lot of fun and we travelled quite a distance, seeing the sights (Acropolis, Theatre of Dionysus, Pnyx -where democracy was born, first cemetery etc). Our guides were very friendly and knowledgeable.
The owner, a Greek/American, has put them together himself – some Chinese parts and other bits from Germany. Very stable. He said you can go to 30kmh. It was great going up the hills on these! Marble everywhere, used on roads, footpaths, and buildings – it is so plentiful, but slippery when wet.
Then on two feet we looked at the Acropolis Museum, and Hadrian’s Arch, built by the Romans and once part of the city walls. Temple Zeus is being “reconstructed”. Onto Syntagma Sq (Grande Bretagne Hotel – Nazi, then British WWII Headquarters and rally area) and the Monument to Unknown Soldier. The Greek Army soldiers have great costumes: fluffy shoes with metal soles for loud scraping and a unique way of marching with lots of high steps, high-swung arms, and significant pauses. A fellow in normal uniform checks them periodically and he is the one who straightens their hat and tassel, and wipes the sweat off their face with a handkerchief in left and right pockets – one for each. It is an interesting Changing of the Guard ceremony.
Onto Athens Botanic Gardens and Zappeio Hall (used for the Olympic Village 2004) and home again, where all clothing needed to be removed to the washing machine as it is very hot and sweaty.
We met up for dinner with friends who are also travelling overseas. Mrs TE had a traditional dish called Kleftico, lamb and potatoes wrapped in paper and slow cooked for hours.
I went off to the Archaeological Museum for a squiz at a mighty piece of technology – the Antikythera Mechanism. It’s basically a two-thousand year old geared device, thought to be the world’s first analogue computer. The display has it in several pieces as recovered. It gave predictions for moon activity, planet positions in the sky, eclipses etc. “Clever chaps, those ancient Greeks” would be the understatement of a millennium.
Anyone who eats pizza with a few others could handle fractions.
Education system in Singapore is based on the concept that everyone can do math and can pass even if it takes more work for some. Here in Oz the teachers give up on students as early as year 5, especially boys.
I still get the WTF are you doing when I occasionally scratch out long division by younger fellas on site.
Have times where we get bored and I race the drillers to get our penetration depth too. Driller with calculator & rig geo with paper. Can be a bit to it with table heights, stick ups, rod string, bit length & stabiliser lengths, for the uninitiated.
Will admit that one takes some trust with drilling crews on the latter though as they can be prickly that you are intruding into their space.
Zulu,
I trust the memsahib enjoyed her meal? I hope the weather was as lovely as it was out my way today. 😀
Peter – Thanks for the recommendation…ping, it has just arrived onto my Kindle! It’ll be a good history to read for the fiftieth anniversary.
Here in Oz the teachers give up on students as early as year 5, especially boys.
That’s because the Teachers know SFA and still demand a pay rise. FFS.
Regarding this quote from here:
Both the number of molecules in a cup, and the number of chromosomes in a human’s genes, are discrete and finite.
After seven generations, the likelihood that you received not a single chromosome from a given ancestor is greater than 50%.
Lysander
NQ and I’d say the whole top end of the country is alight with the end of dry season fires at the moment. We had the inversion layer keep all the smoke near ground level for a brilliant red sunrise this morning.
IMO though not declared the season has a El Niño tinge this year. Hope it stays neutral as El Niño summers are yucky & they brew the monster Cat 4 & 5 cyclones that sometimes get flung at the coast.
Woof!
https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/issue-650/
Hendo gives their ABC a good lashing on failure to cover Victorian pedophilia in State school; reminding them that Pell setup the Melbourne Response in 1996 and, now in 2023, Victoria has never undertaken such a measure yet….
I have some friends who work in remote satellite sensing sciences and they’ve shown me fires up North in WA and QLD (from sat imagery) that burn all year cos nobody really cares.
What I found interesting was their ABC was actually reporting on half of the ~247 fires in the Kimberley – have been deliberately lit.
Maybe not the case when you take dominant vs recessive genes into account?
It’s a superpower in underground coal mining, when there are no intrinsically safe calculators available.
An experienced driller can get a reasonably accurate depth just off the hook scale. Complicated mental arithmetic without knowing it.
Hard for me to forget it being my grandson’s 17th birthday next month.
His middle name is Nelson.
Last year I sent him the link given to us here by TE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5yT20YPv_A
Lots of different ways to cut firewood. Apparently there are exhibitions in the northern European countries and people come with their homemade and industrial machinery to show them off.
Long division…what strange alchemy is this? They watch in wonder as the columns go south and the answer north.
Best is when you can make change in your head as they hunt high and low for the calculator.
It’s like solving the Enigma. 😀
I still can’t get over that ACCC couldn’t find something to pursue Qantas over re cancelling the travel credits.
Bad pun of the day. I’ve just heard f the Canberra Times front-page headline on Qantas’s habit of selling seats on flights it has already cancelled:THE FLYING KANGA-RUSE.
So bad it’s almost good.
If the wind in Sydney keeps up, it will spoil the Roosters Bunnies game tonight.
I’m sure the ACCC looked really hard. And then donned their kabuki costumes.
From MWD
LOL, when will the hounds of anti-waycissssm in other Australian institutions turn their attacks onto Their ABC? Around the 12th (of never)?
Does it even get taught these days?
Robert,
I watched half of that wood machine video. Very interesting. Some Men are so clever and talented. I do wonder though, how those machines would go with Aussie Hardwood. Also, no one was wearing hearing protection and only a couple with eye protection.
Thanks for posting it.
Flat earth debate.
NSFW but very funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blH4Cc4IAt4
We commoners simply are simply too stupid to realize when a member of the Oz elite class requires shielding from racist scrutiny. Perhaps the $380M for the Voice referendum could have been better spent on retraining us on how to bow, scrape and genuflect in the right way going forward.
This has likely already been posted:
[CNBC link, sorry].
Strangely, I haven’t heard a peep about the two pipe b@mbs… That explosive devices have been almost completely ignored by the mesozoic media [check out Revolver online and one or two others, for a fascinating story], and the security apparatus of the U.S. Government appears unable (?) to track down or [publicly] identify suspects, is extraordinary.
Do I sense Stan LeTan puffing up the tyres for a nice fat compo payout?
Looks that way. And, after Knickerless, that payout will be much…much sorimunni. Which only the government, or its qango entities, can bestow.
Sub-editing is not dead.
Does it even get taught these days?
Apparently not. Just asked my daughter, short division yes but long no. I had to explain what it was to her so was wary at that stage.
P&I insurance paid today.
A 52% increase from two years ago.
PI insurance.
Where did that squiggle in the middle come from?
The gene thing is interesting, I have a cousin in Scotland, never met. Saw a photo of him on the web. We are twins. Our grandfathers are our only common ancestor.
I’m no fan of Quaintarse but to give credit where it’s due, they did give me a refund for a flight credit they cancelled in 2020. I thought it was stolen forever but after half an hour listening to crap muzak on the phone I spoke to a helpful human who found it immediately and the whole thing was arranged in a few minutes with no hassle.
In 22, my internal US flight was cancelled with American Airlines. I never received the refund. That’s basically theft.
Once I knew the hazards in underground coal especially with things that go kaboom I kept right away.
Closest I got was Q1 gas sampling at Broadmeadow on the surface. Also us surface exploration teams were also called in to find the source of a combustion at a mine round Moranbah once, they were haemorrhaging money having operations ceased and there was a worry that millions of dollars of equipment would be lost in the closure of the mine. However the source was found after a few days drilling and we were glad to get back to the leases periphery out of sight.
Underground coal is definitely a different creature and not my cup of tea.
Been in a foul mood all day, as has Mrs D. I was also talking about our late son a lot this week. Only now realised today is 1/9, today is 23 years since we lost him.
That’s basically theft.
Absolutely.
Sobering, Diogenes.
It never goes away, Diogenes.
I was hailed by stranger at Sunshine Plaza at Maroochydore a couple of weeks ago using the wrong name.When I stopped to to talk to the guy, he thought I was my cousin who still lives in the Latrobe Valley.
Too true. I am going to have to apologise to a few people for being such a grouch today. Thankfully it was a pupil free day today.
Apparently the ladies start their footy season tonight. So this may be the first of many articles in this vein. Herald Sun:
Rafs boarding a sinking ship.
The HS proving how evil the legacy meja is and how it deserves to die. That was nothing more than propaganda and ungrammatical as well.
Actually, The Hun here in Melbourneistan has been very good of late. Not exactly headless body in topless bar stuff, but definitely showing promise.
Who wrote that shite BB as a matter of idle curiosity.
Welcome to fifteen minutes of in-your-own-bubble fame, and mediocrity thereafter.
Enjoy your cats.
A lady by the name of Lauren Wood. Well, just going by appearance.
Is this tape Greg Kelly (NewsMax) says he has of Biden’s “incontrovertible evidence of corruption” actually legit?
Dear God please don’t let Kamala Harris become President.
Irrelevant to this question. I am only estimating the likelihood of getting a chromosome, not the effect it will have.
What a self-obsessed twit. Nobody cares.
thanks BB- I find it hard to believe anyone could write such sludge other than a braindead ideologue I suppose.
Gaia hates SUVs.
Climate action group Tyre Extinguishers target SUVs in affluent Melbourne neighbourhood as Vic Police investigate (Sky News, 1 Sep)
Is Toorak a Teal heartland electorate? I hope so, that would be very schadenfreudish.
calli
Sep 1, 2023 4:48 PM
Long division…what strange alchemy is this? They watch in wonder as the columns go south and the answer north.
Not in SA calli. We were taught the ‘line’ looked like this: |_______ but in the eastern states the line was placed at the top meaning the answer was above the line (north) but our answer was below (south). Were it should be in a civilised society. Eastern state weirdos.
Cough up $200,000 each for lost wages.
Queensland Government announces its recommendation to scrap COVID-19 vaccine mandate for frontline health workers (Sky News, 1 Sep)
All those poor people might be in two minds about returning to work for a big government bureaucracy that hates them. I hope someones sues Queensland Health into penury.
Has anyone seen this video by Konstantin Kisin.
He goes through the changing government and media information and doctoring of the news.
Quite good.
Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Thursday.
This is what they want to do to Trump, except that sentence of 17 years will be tripled.
“Is Toorak a Teal heartland electorate?”
No, Toorak is now in a Labor electorate, the federal electorate of Higgins, once a blue ribbon liberal electorate held by Peter Costello, and more recently by a so called Liberal LINO, the Obama loving Katie Allan, who lost it to some Labor bint in May of last year.
Small wars no one talks about.
Jordan Launches Rare Airstrike On Alleged Syrian Captagon Factory (1 Sep)
On Thursday, Jordan appears to have taken the most drastic move yet to tap down on the Captagon trade, sending its air force to bomb an alleged drug factory in southern Syria, in a rare cross-border raid.
Captagon is an amphetamine. Very popular amongst certain excitable kiddies in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. It seems to be like Bolivian marching powder.
Pale stale male Rafael Epstein to replace Trioli on ABC Melbourne breakfast.
FMD.
The ABC really hates trying fresh new talent.
“A non-binary person is someone who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman.”
But whether that person likes it or not, that person is either male or female.
Diogenes
Sep 1, 2023 5:38 PM
Been in a foul mood all day, as has Mrs D. I was also talking about our late son a lot this week. Only now realised today is 1/9, today is 23 years since we lost him.
Losing a child is terrible.
LOL, so the Tyre Extinguishers fighting for Gaia are letting down the tyres of affluent Labor Party voters. That’s very close to perfect!
Mate lives in Corio, Geelong. Being stung $12,500 in land tax for the second property, on top of the $2000 in rates. Good luck finding a cheap rental there any more, even with the scumbags in the area.
Dot
Sep 1, 2023 6:09 PM
Is this tape Greg Kelly (NewsMax) says he has of Biden’s “incontrovertible evidence of corruption” actually legit?
Dear God please don’t let Kamala Harris become President.
Today evidence is irrelevant. The system is owned by the swamp. Whether it is biden or cackles the real bosses are elsewhere.
The other odious development in the US is the degeneration into dictatorship by the judiciary and lawyers in general.
“Diogenes
Sep 1, 2023 5:38 PM”
I am sorry to hear. As our late Queen once said, “grief is the price we pay for love”, and that grief never goes away, even after decades, it remains, it’s always there, submerged, deep inside us.
Pogria;
I also watch a few Subcontinental factory videos. Pouring molten metal, and wearing leather thongs, grinding metal and no eye protection. But they get the job done! I wonder what the industrial casualty rate is?
Also cannot help wondering why they don’t do things differently – factory process line production with intermediate job lots just dumped at another’s feet. No thought of working from benches while sitting, it really is a different method of production.
No, no, you don’t let Q define the fare class.
The court order should say …
Here’s the difference between Qantas and Easyjet.
Got a refund for a cancelled flight from Easyjet within a three days. Still waiting for Qantas. Three weeks.
Which one is the “budget” carrier?
I believe in Europe there are penalties which apply to airlines who don’t pay up for cancelled flights. Up to €600. So they pay.
Tell me about sweetheart deals between our well upholstered carrier and the government…maaaate.
Cassie of Sydney
Sep 1, 2023 6:25 PM
Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Thursday. This is what they want to do to Trump, except that sentence of 17 years will be tripled.
Indeed. Anything to get him out of the way.
In the last few days there has been some discussion about the potential of Trump’s assassination which, to all of us, is a subject we have long harboured a fear. We know there are some who are so maniacally anti-Trump that murder must be, to them, a viable option.
I have wondered in the past about Trump’s Secret Service protection squad. That has to be one of the most ‘potentially’ dangerous duties in American protection. A lunatic assassin who is prepared to trade his life for Trumps could be hard to stop with the added issue of stopping a bullet ‘for Trump’ or just getting shot anyway.
I acknowledge they are all professional protection offices but those men and women in Trump’s protection squad must be beyond ‘on edge’ 24/7.
What have we learned today, intrepid travellers?
1. It is f-cking hot in Tokyo. Many, many times hotter than Canberra.
2. Our new favourite brekkie place does an English breakfast.
Yeah, nah, I thought. One came out and the guy eating it said it was best ever. Cooked by a Japanese guy.
The English.
Still inventing things the rest of the world can beat them at.
3. There is a “Tokyo Tower” (an orange Eiffel Tower lookalike comms tower) and a “Tokyo Skytree” (a more modern slender spire which is also a comms tower). Don’t book the wrong one.
4. Booze is incredibly cheap. Maybe I already mentioned that. Can’t remember. I think I will move here.
Thinking about meja bias- it’s nothing new. Consider this book- The courtesans: The press gallery in the Hawke era Paperback – January 1, 1991
That’s why I have little or no sympathy for Bronwyn Bishop of helicopter fame. You know you’re not going to get balanced coverage so be as squeaky clean as possible and hammer your opponents for their rorting because the meja won’t.
Manly grow another fullback.
This Koula chap is fast.
Courtesan is a rather polite name for that kind of professional.
Now just hang on a minute there….
Oh. Right. Carry on.
If you visit Senso-ji shrine, duck over to Kappabashi Kitchenware Town.
Buy a plate of ultra realistic plastic sushi. You know you want to.
Seriously though, it’s full of interesting ceramics, knives and other cool stuff. Mrs. Panzer might like the place.
Sorry if already posted. Another brilliant Please Explain cartoon.
It is the empty space left that can never be filled by another that haunts. Thanks for sharing,
The Irish hobgoblin has your money out on the market. Rinse and repeat by the multiple thousands and – voila – the private Chairman’s Lounge slings to useful politicians and their spawn are free.
Top Men at the ACCC will be right onto this – just you wait.
“That’s why I have little or no sympathy for Bronwyn Bishop of helicopter fame. You know you’re not going to get balanced coverage so be as squeaky clean as possible and hammer your opponents for their rorting because the meja won’t.”
Being “squeaky clean” didn’t help Abbott, everyday from his election in 2013 the MSM went after him, smearing, mocking, denigrating and ridiculing him. No, the problem is that the MSM are partisan and they don’t even try to hide their bias anymore, be it here, the UK or the USA. I don’t know what the answer is. Methinks if you’re a politician on the right, then you have do a Trump and verbally call out their biases, throwing back the mocking, the denigration and the ridicule. But I won’t hold my breath because most right of centre politicians here in Oz are spineless.
You’ll know it when you see it.
There’s an enormous decapitated chef head on one of the main corners. Completely normal.
17 years for “Proud Boy” Joe Biggs. And how many of the BLM arsonists were even indicted for their attacks on government buildings & widespread destruction of city buildings?
IIRL, chromosomes are not inherited intact, but rather ‘recombine’ to swap parts with their reciprocal numbers.
Ray Epps, who did far more than Joe Biggs, is still free as a bird.
All avenues of legal action have so far come up with F-all.
The intimidation and fabricated allegations of code of conduct breaches (to justify disciplinary action) have been extraordinary. They are a law unto themselves, however.
Diogenes,
it means a lot that you could share your anguish with us. I hope you were able to find some small comfort. Bless.
it was well before 2010 … by more than a decade
I know Mr Lasich
had dreams world-wide light/energy guides to illuminate/heat the whole world
and every CSP site we installed is now a moth-balled piece of shit
you can hardly even find them up Google
Earlier I posted that several media types are boycotting the Walkley Awards.
Here’s Jon Kudelka
Re the Tyre Exhibitionists: If deflating tyres affects a vehicle’s road worthiness, would that action qualify as malicious damage? If yes, how might favourable media coverage (it would have to include an explicit statement) be smothered?
Andrew Marlton
Sophie McNeill
Being “squeaky clean” didn’t help Abbott, everyday from his election in 2013 the MSM went after him
True. In fact I have a feeling the meja trashing of Tony Abbott was a trial run for Trump. The way they ran dead on his landslide win too. Nevertheless the helicopter ‘scandal’ caused Abbott trouble he could have done without. What to do about them? Don’t buy their sludge and don’t talk to them would be a good start.
Glen Le Lievre
Re the 6th of Jan Instant Erection: I’d like to bring up the pipe b@mbs again. How many have heard of them? Wouldn’t you think that media types would be crawling over their dead granny’s body to pin the possession of explosives to anyone right-of-center? Politically, that would be – pardon the pun – dynamite for elections: We TOLD you that ordinary citizens were terrorists, now HERE is the proof.
Why has this significant element of the 6th Jan story fizzled?
Trump Co-Defendant Eastman: If We Don’t Fight Back, We Will Never Have a Fair Election Again
David Rowe
Matt Golding
Olivia Rousset
I’m sure they would still accept the Walkley. None are really rushing to hand them back in.
ACCC chair said yesterday on Brisbane radio that QANTAS was the most complained about business in 2023. Hence the current court case re the selling of tickets for cancelled flights.
If I were a young Democrat (say, 65 years old) I would want Trump to win to clear away the ancient sclerotic class of Biden’s, Pelosi, Feinstein, etc.
They are surely holding back the avaricious ambitions of the next mercenary generation.
A term for him to drive the old guard into retirement (from which they will ‘write’ self-serving memoirs) so the young guns can carve up the swamp between them.
I do hope those three realise that their paints and pigments, the computers and other devices used for producing their “art” is all petroleum based.
As is most of their clothing and the means to wash it. And wash themselves when it comes down to it.
Although Rowe appears to have a “thing” against clothing, so it might not be valid in his case.
Insufferable tossers.