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No wonder the Houthis have kicked the USN out of the Red Sea.Difficult lessons here.
No wonder the Houthis have kicked the USN out of the Red Sea.Difficult lessons here.
Do they even know where the money for their salaries came from? I’d be sceptical it was even Russian. After…
Willis Eschenbach Sorry to be pedantic.
I see m0ron deflecting again, throwing out distraction squirrels while his DEI deviant team continue to ruin our economy and…
But, but, how will the fem skipper be able to watch the Kardashians without the dish? Priorities people! 😀
Got a new job today…
In demand!
Congrats, mole. Happy Saturday!
Why do all my girlfriends…
Well done, Mole.
Called in late on the old fred of course. Just found this one now.
Right in time for bed. Happy Saturday Morning to all.
Just wrote about lunch today, and now we’ve a fully clad Monet to admire. How on earth did they ever keep those long dresses clean around the hemline?
The unclad version is rather different. Wonder if Dover will let us see that sometime,
Hellair from Lygourio, a very small village in Greece.
Our AirBnb owner has obviously inhereited the family house and has loaned out the top floor while living downstairs. It is furnished in 1950s Greek style, complete with antimacassars, figurines, and framed tapestries. I expect swarthy types carrying muskets to break in tonight.
Mole
Wonderful news!
Drinks on you ?
Being happily retired I will leave it to others to do the work.
I will apply for the position of ‘Pollie’ Executioner if asked.
You know it makes sense.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Pope.
Steve Kelley.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
I missed this during the week.
Via Shellenberger.
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) told the House Judiciary Committee that it would not comply with subpoenas for two FBI agents involved in the Hunter Biden investigation.
The subpoenas “lack legal effect and cannot be constitutionally enforced,” claimed Carlos Uriarte, DOJ assistant attorney general. “We must continue to protect the Department’s criminal law enforcement decisions and its legal judgments from even the appearance of political or other inappropriate influence,” he wrote.
You have to hand to to the DNC & the DOJ.
They have mapped out how to let Hunter Biden get off all meaningful charges.
Interesting . Earlier this week,someone posted a comment that EVs sales had collapsed in Europe. Turned out to be fake news. No surprise there.
Bloomberg.
Great news Mole. The best thing about this era is that there are plenty of jobs around.
David Pope.
Ouch.
Huge problem for body contact sports over the next couple of decades.
What A Lightsaber Would REALLY Do To You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwSa5tXVSk
Good column JC.
You should see the restrictions & limits the NFL has put on players during training to mitigate CTE.
The NRL will only play catch-up when the class actions get big enough.
FTB.
By the theory of light sabre …that would be a v handy implement when camping. Although at 32000 c i expect you may need to wear some hand protection.
Walter Kirn had a great line today in the Taibbi weekly podcast.
Don’t blame me for spoiling the ending of a story.
Blame yourself for being so stupid you didn’t see it coming.
Right in about 99% of situations.
Usual Suspects would fall into the 1%.
https://richardlangworth.com/quotes-churchill-never-said-2
A good read when you come across hapless Hitler dick suckers.
If you were a shareholder in any of Twiggy Forrest’s businesses would you be worried by the departures of several of his top executives?
His move to go from an iron ore business to green hydrogen and renewables does not appear to be going well. Particularly his plan for the massive solar panel farm in NT that would supply power to Singapore via the very long underwater route.
I noted one of the papers saying he had briefed the White House,
Prime Minister of India and Chinese leaders and had been away for three months.
I think he has now “become a legend in his own mind” and his executives no longer trust his vision.
Hurricanes and EVs don’t mix well.
Florida Officials: EVs Flooded by Idalia Go Up in Smoke (Newsmax, 1 Sep)
Ok salt water won’t be good for ICE cars either, but they don’t go up afterwards in your garage. Going to be a lot of insurance claims I suspect, car insurance will be even more expensive.
Ready yourselves Sydney Cats and Kittehs:
From the Daily Telegraph. I wonder if the whole issues are talked about. Things like reparations for instance. Because a few words about recognition in the Constitution doesn’t cut it.
Because to not speak about the many, many issues could well be, gasp!, misinformation. Or disinformation, perhaps Albo can discern for me.
Luigi channelling his “inner” Bob .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/h7CJg1Q
Particularly his plan for the massive solar panel farm in NT that would supply power to Singapore via the very long underwater route.
So construct a solar installation, because farms they aren’t. Amid a certain energy crush which will cause blackouts, whilst still shipping naughty coal to China. Am I missing something?
I’d tell them it’s none their business and to piss off.
Oh yes indeedy. It makes a superb bookend to Leak.
Aussies berated by one clown for imaginary racism while another clown does real damage to a prestigious reputation.
Oh and sorry to ruin your breakfast but the article I posted came with a pic of Dean Makin, the Wong Chap and….Julie Bishop. True colours being revealed by some ex Liberal leaders, most notably Turnbull.
They’re not undecided. They’re voting “No”.
Too honest to fob these intrusive nuisances off with a lie, too wary to tell the truth. They’ve seen how politicised this has become and the types supporting it. I wouldn’t want my home slated for persuasive vandalism either.
yes for sure but I’d argue trumble’s true colours were on show back in the 80s
Further to my comment about Qantas yesterday, and the overdue refund.
It came in last night…backdated on the statement to August 10.
Still trying to work out how that happens.
The stupidest of stupid ideas, a Mexican SMO.
How about securing the southern border instead.
The Fortescue issues are in order of importance:
1) Iron ore price, if it halves the funding of everything else comes under pressure;
2) The Iron Bridge project, currently the biggest cash drain on Fortescue’s finances.
With regards to Squadron Energy (the NT solar project), the real plan was to get an off take with the NT council (I mean government) to underwrite the whole project.
The Singapore pipe dream was exactly that.
Now union membership is at what, 20 percent or something? No doubt higher in areas like construction, not many in retail. Tony Burke has an idea, might not go down well:
Not a stretch to say something more sinister at play with this draft.
Damn those luvvies. The Yes fanatics are targeting Sydney’s western suburbs. Smart- this is where there will be opposition. And they have 10,000 volunteers.
8/10 in the Oz quiz today.
The daily one.
About to attack the big weekend one.
Sometimes you are forced to believe that perhaps there is a God, and that that being has a wicked sense of humour.
For two nights there has been a caricature dyke in Sky moaning that some Vic alphabet outfit refuses to give them permission to hold a ‘dykes only’ event.
The alphabet mob don’t seem to have any statuatory authority which makes one ask why the dykes even approached them?
It seems that the VIC human rights commission take their instructions on matters dyke and pervert from this outfit. A kind of ‘Southern Pervy Law Center’ (sorry).
Anyway – suck it up dykes, you created the problem, now live with the consequences.
Snap Calli at 7.52am.
As if you’re going to tell a probably agitated Vote Yes lunatic at your front door you’re not going to vote for the loony left’s cause du jour and risk the (hopefully only) verbal spray that will follow.
If you needed more evidence that leftards are shit at politics, these clowns haven’t worked out that those they hassle at the front door who say they’re undecided are No voters too polite to cause a confrontation.
There are some luvvies who don “Yes” tee shirts at our local cafe in Sydney. Our group of friends who meet every morning for coffee enjoy loud discussions of the stupidity of the Yes propositions. We have noticed they have been been absent of late.
Westies aren’t particularly dumb, and their ears work also.
Pale, plummy “Yes” people aren’t going to get much traction there. They will know these jerks are on safari the moment they open their mouths.
Union officials will be able to turn up at workplaces without notice and inspect businesses’ payroll records where they suspect wage underpayment under proposed changes to the nation’s industrial relations laws to be unveiled next week.
Get them into Industry Super…& then attach the highest margin product of all, TPD policies.
Comm Bank selling hard to access, bordering on useless polices: bad.
Industry Super selling hard to access, bordering on useless policies: good.
Tom- I disagree. Years ago we had businesses in western Sydney and they are not backward in telling you to F—— off if necessary. On the other hand they respond to decent behaviour. Husband and I once handed out how-to-vote tickets for the Libs at a booth out there at a federal election. We helped old ladies out of cars, chatted & generally had a good time. Our booth apparently had a record hit for the Libs.
Now I have yet another completely innocuous comment “in moderation”.
No swearing, nothing libellous, nothing.
Does WordPress suddenly not “like” me?
A rather extraordinary news item. Herald Sun:
I’m guessing Channel Stokes did know about some of these issues, I mean 15 years is a long time of offending.
Also guessing the woman is a big star, or whatever passes for a star in Australia these days.
Because of the fact she can never be named. Why is a mystery, but keep an eye out for some show alterations.
It might be climacticly cool in the Don Quixote department store, but it is an assault on the senses in every other way.
Even the shelves have animations shouting “Bing Bong! Buy me! Bing Bong!” as you approach.
They do have two litre plastic bottles of Scotch, though. There was one section which intrigued me. Plastic tubes of various shapes, colours and textures, about the size of a small water bottle.
Mrs P took a photo of me handling them with the signage in the background (which I hadn’t seen).
Male masturbatory aids.
No mystery.
Identifying her would likely identify her victim(s).
You can join the dots.
This is a long form interview with Vivek Ramaswamy on the Shawn Ryan Show from a week or so ago.
Vivek Ramaswamy – EXPOSES Deep State, BlackRock, Big Pharma, Central Bank Digital Currency
‘California Forever’ founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness
Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods and Fulham FC owner, dies aged 94
The broke-woke-stroke convergence: Why professors lower standards
Paris is about to become one of the only cities to ban e-scooter rentals
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Amazing: Senate Democrats are blocking disaster aid from the US Government for American citizens in dire need unless it also includes the billions more for the war in Ukraine that the Biden WH wants.
Such a perfect microcosm of this party.
Was there a link in it? Sometimes there’s something forbidden in the link title.
It looks like a cunning ‘commercial’ move by QANTAS – anticipating incoming fire over holding your funds in their account. Make the paperwork look like it never happened – and hopefully throw dim bulb regulators off track.
Looking more and more like organised crime.
No mystery.
“Victims” like Witness J et al must be protected, “offenders” like Cl Pell must be destroyed.
Perversely, Malka Leifer would never have been bought to justice if Dassi, Ellie and the other one hadn’t stepped out, defying the stone-age belief that suffering a sexual assault should be an everlasting shame.
The, how does one say it, “facial pose” of said clown is what struck me.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands Biden Impeachment and End of Get-Trump Cases or She’ll Move to Shut Down Government
My guess would be that they were not undecided but polite and just didn’t want to engage with the doorknockers.
Brilliant meme
Bad luck, I’ve already bagged the position of “Minister for Interesting Executions.”
Just great, I hope I’m out when they come knocking in my street.
China’s newly published official map sees it absorb an entire Indian state, the South China Sea, Taiwan and Russian territory.
The next BRICS summit is going to be a real hoot.
Jaw-Dropping Discovery: CDC Data Reveals COVID Vaccine Could Shave Off 24 Years from Men’s Lives!
Thank you for your assistance with the non naming of perpetrator. Still, some high level arseholery at play by Channel Stokes.
Final day to buy a coffee for the Exposé!
Childhood Vaccines cause Autism: The evidence and the institutional cover-up
And house insurance. Read an article earlier this week stating something like a 50% increase this year is house fires associated with EV vehicles.
Tolkien the Catholic
Lovers of literature the world over will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien Sept. 2.
Speaking of buying a coffee, we got chatting to a girl at the next table at breakfast yesterday.
She was French and had been backpacking alone around Japan since early June. She told us she had been working on a tea plantation and gave us some travel tips (probably for future reference as our itinery is set).
We were comparing breakfasts and we mentioned that the coffee was very good. She said it was too expensive for her to have coffee.
We paid for her brekkie.
She was totally shocked that anyone would do that.
Eric Matheny
@ericmmatheny
Biden is asking Congress to approve another $24 billion payout to Ukraine. That will bring US aid to Ukraine to a total of $135 billion.
Meanwhile, Biden has pledged $95 million to Maui. That’s Million with an M.
Less than one-tenth of one percent of Ukraine money.
I wonder how many rival CEOs have worked out that Alan Joyce’s current disaster occurred after he decided to get involved in politics and took his eye off the ball at Qantas.
There are very sound commercial reasons not to get involved in politics if you’re running a company.
Until a month ago, Alan Joyce was one of the world’s most highly rated airline CEOs. He now looks like a low-information retard.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Lahaina resident speaking out on smart city agenda, blames Oprah and Bezos publicly
Dodi Al-Fayed brown bread.
Unsure if a Fiat Uno was involved.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
This is EXACTLY what we need from EVERY government leader.
“We will never lock down. We will not close schools, churches, or businesses. We will never make you wear a mask or have COVID vaccine mandates.”
“Government should never loom larger than individual liberty”
-Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The Prince is rather hoping he is. Plans on asking when he can expect a Sicilian Voice.
Twitter hack:
Randomly type “Christ” into any post and you instantly remove ads from your timeline.
…he is home. Sigh…this phone has a mind of its own in what ot allows me to write.
It’s all good, Paul Kelly’s written a song supporting the “YES” case.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
“There is no climate urgency. Climate change is misinterpreted. Man affects the climate in various ways, but the biggest driver of change comes from nature,”
-Judith Curry, an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of the book “Climate Uncertainties and Risk”.
Oprah’s estate is down on the Hana coast of Maui.
No where near Lahaina.
Bezos owns on the Wailea coast of Maui.
Also no where near Lahaina.
The blame should be on the incompetent public servants.
Not the billionaires who own land no where near where the fires were.
Because they plan to do it again?
Why Won’t COVID Lockdown Tyrants Admit They Were Wrong?
Fauci’s replacement on masks.
I saw reference yesterday to Qantas as “our National Carrier”.
It is not.
Qantas is just another airline.
They rely on a few things which enable them to exploit their customers, not least jingoistic “still call Straya home” campaigns, and the mistaken belief still held by many that it is the “One True Safe Airline”
You’re missing the point. What this lady is saying outright is that they were deliberately burnt out to enable the construction of a “satellite city”.
Any actual facts to back that up Insolent?
He looks like a corporate crook.
And here’s me, away from a computer or phone connection all day, unable to reach out.
Bugger.
That was probably me. Tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Qantas has been trading off its special status way beyond the use-by date. And they do it shamelessly, jingoistically, grotesquely, as they benefit from the most lucrative sectors in the world.
Mme Zulu wants to know when the descendants of those who emigrated from the Netherlands will have their voice, I want to know when the descendants of the Scottish crofters who were evicted from their small holdings, marched down to the nearest seaport, told “The Laird has been pleased to pay for your passages to Australia” and “put on the ship then and there” will have their Voice.
Never. Animal Farm was a warning not a manual.
You’re missing the point.
No.
I am correcting the misdirection you are promoting.
You’re missing the point.
I found this person ranting on the innernet about it.
She sounds like a trusted source.
Well I want to know when the descendants of those who were transported and used as slaves to build the colony get their bit of sorrimunni.
I am suffering tremendous intergenerational angst as I await the first instalment of endless dosh and privilege.
Every day a person who will primarily use Qantas dies.
Every day a person who doesn’t give a shit about Qantas is born or migrates to Australia.
Billionaires surprisingly unaffected by the Schwab Maui DEW attack? Ready to pounce?
Things that make you go Hmmm…
I recently came into possession of some gourmet granola.
I haven’t had milk in my house for years so at Coles this morning I was bamboozled by the selection.
I decided on a “single paddock” milk.
And guess what.
Tasted like milk as I remember it.
Alexander Marshall has written a quite riveting article a few days ago in the “Australian Spectator”. In it she explores the new research and archaeological discoveries (particularly one from Anatolia) which indicate that the human species may have in fact evolved not from Africa, but from areas in the Middle East. This would, of course, overturn many ideological convictions abroad today, and will predictably be resisted by the usual suspects. But it is an important possibility. The whole article is worth reading – I have just posted the central proposition of the problems it invokes. It appears on 30th August in the Speccie.
Those who have lived through the last two decades will be well acquainted with the increasing rigidity applied to scientific theories that also hold political value.
We have returned to an age where the truth of a theory comes second to its significance as scaffolding maintaining the validity of lucrative ideological and economic causes. This is what happens when the proverb ‘knowledge is power’ becomes corrupted by the idea of ‘divine knowledge used by the powerful’ – the latter being little more than a cynical dogma protected by a mixture of censorship and propaganda.
The narrative of catastrophic climate change, for example, carries with it trillions of dollars, thousands of political careers, and the reputation of extraordinarily dangerous bureaucracies. To challenge ‘climate change’ is to blow on the house of cards supporting these creatures. This is why you must believe in climate change, otherwise you are a denier instead of a sceptic.
This situation parallels the problem faced by Charles Darwin upon his discovery – made against his religious faith – that life exists in a constant state of evolution. In his case, as with most major shifts in knowledge, it was the scientific institutions themselves that fought to hold back progress, fearing the wrath of their benefactors, the moral outrage of a society, and the personal insult of people’s life’s work being proven wrong.
The scientific establishment has long been an unhelpful gatekeeper, which makes its current pretence of being the ‘sole source of truth’ even more laughable.
You fool.
Multipaddock steel-cut milk is where it’s at.
Gourmet granola.
Single paddock milk.
Sure signs that the End of Days is upon us. Book now for the Faustus Platinum Rapture Package…
More from the Marshall article:
What if the ‘out of Africa’ theory is wrong?
Alexandra Marshall
Those who have lived through the last two decades will be well acquainted with the increasing rigidity applied to scientific theories that also hold political value.
We have returned to an age where the truth of a theory comes second to its significance as scaffolding maintaining the validity of lucrative ideological and economic causes. This is what happens when the proverb ‘knowledge is power’ becomes corrupted by the idea of ‘divine knowledge used by the powerful’ – the latter being little more than a cynical dogma protected by a mixture of censorship and propaganda.
The narrative of catastrophic climate change, for example, carries with it trillions of dollars, thousands of political careers, and the reputation of extraordinarily dangerous bureaucracies. To challenge ‘climate change’ is to blow on the house of cards supporting these creatures. This is why you must believe in climate change, otherwise you are a denier instead of a sceptic.
This situation parallels the problem faced by Charles Darwin upon his discovery – made against his religious faith – that life exists in a constant state of evolution. In his case, as with most major shifts in knowledge, it was the scientific institutions themselves that fought to hold back progress, fearing the wrath of their benefactors, the moral outrage of a society, and the personal insult of people’s life’s work being proven wrong.
The scientific establishment has long been an unhelpful gatekeeper, which makes its current pretence of being the ‘sole source of truth’ even more laughable.
Thomas Huxley, Darwin’s famed bulldog, stepped into the public gaze in 1860 to rattle the insides of the Radcliffe Library during ‘The Great Debate’. Truth needs a fearless champion and in the end, undeniable scientific truth usually wins out, but we should always remember that it does so in defiance of the established experts, not with their support.
The catch-cry ‘trust the science’ harks back to those dusty, power-hungry, archaic establishment scientists. ‘Trust’ is a measure of faith, not fact. If someone is asking you to ‘trust the science’, they are probably nervous practitioners of an unsteady cult. Or idiots.
One of modern science’s cornerstones is the ‘out of Africa’ theory that posits the birth of humanity in the cradle of Africa. It plays into the preferred mythology of Africa’s Eden-esque beginning destroyed by the greed of European nations. Africa is the innocent victim of history and the tarnished creation around which global bureaucracies circle.
To question the ‘out of Africa’ narrative is a sin against evolutionary science.
And yet for some time there has been a suspicion that ‘out of Africa’ may be wrong. It has been a cascade of little things. A fossil here. A clash of migratory patterns there… A gradual accumulation of facts that chip away at the grand theory.
Recently, one of those chips has become a crack.
As reported in various scientific journals after being published in Communications Biology, an 8.7 million-year-old fossil from Anadoluvius turkae has been found in Central Anatolia in Turkey.
The journal states:
‘Fossil apes from the Eastern Mediterranean are central to the debate on African ape and human (hominine) origins. […] Here we show, based on our analysis of a newly identified genus, Anadoluvius, from the 8.7 million-year-old site of Çorakyerler in Central Anatolia, that Mediterranean fossil apes are diverse, and are part of the first known radiation of early members of hominines.’
The fossil is part of a group known as the Late Miocene apes that have been found across this region and in Europe, with more than one sub-species discovered. They are a common ancestor sitting above gorillas, humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos in the Tree of Life. Those researching the find believe this species moved from the Mediterranean into Africa around 8 million years ago.
‘These findings contrast with the long-held view that African apes and humans evolved exclusively in Africa. While the remains of early hominines are abundant in Europe and Anatolia, they are completely absent from Africa until the first hominin appeared there about 7 million years ago,’ said Professor David Begun, according to Sci-News.
He noted that at this particular time, South-Eastern Europe contained the ancestors of rhinos, giraffes, and other animals more commonly associated with Africa. His point being that if these animals could get into Africa over 7 million years ago, why not the apes?
‘This new evidence supports the hypothesis that hominines originated in Europe and dispersed into Africa along with many other mammals between 9 and 7 million years ago, though it does not definitely prove it. For that, we need to find more fossils from Europe and Africa between 8 and 7 million years old to establish a definitive connection between the two groups.’
The original report concludes:
‘Hominines may have originated in Eurasia during the late Miocene, or they may have dispersed into Eurasia from an unknown African ancestor. The diversity of hominines in Eurasia suggests an in situ origin but does not exclude a dispersal hypothesis.’
Hottest winter ever scream the shit heads at the BOM; up until 2022 Australia showed NO increase in temp for 10 years:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/08/a-clear-case-of-hot-hotter-hoodwinked/#_edn5
I can’t find an up date to 2023 for the satellites.
Yes23 calculates its volunteers have doorknocked an estimated 30,000 households across NSW over late July and August, with efforts to be bolstered from this weekend, especially in the seats of Lindsay, Macquarie and McMahon.
Not expecting a visit .. LOL! .. living in the bottom house of this McMahon/Fowler “houso” ghetto I’m confident that if any of the YES23 start door-knocking here they’ll be long gone before reaching me .. after the 1st half dozen “up-yours” and other less polite greetings they’ll get the msg …….
YES votes out here will become a collecters delight .. LOL!
This is the fatal flaw in their business model.
The flight credit thing will be studied as a brand destruction business case in MBA courses in years to come.
I’m surprised at the resilience of the i/o price (in USD). Given the collapse of Chinese RE over the last 1-2 years, the i/o price is still solidly over $100 pt. BHP all in cost is in the $20’s iirc. Quite amazing really. Especially when China is centralizing the purchasing of the commodity , with the aim of increasing Chinese bargaining power. Which we know with Govt central planning will cock up nicely.
Simandou will have an impact when it gets online but with Brazil going Marxist perhaps production there naturally erode? And west Africa is going through turmoil, as it does regularly.
The stuff is being chewed up somewhere and BHP is building out more infrastructure. So all up, there seems to be a floor under i/o that is holding up well.
The same could be said about the ABC, our “national broadcaster.”
I have been having granola at our brekkie place in Asakusa, which is very ‘vironmental.
I will interrogate them about the origin of the nuts, grains, fruit and cereal.
I am pretty sure they will pass that test.
But I think the provenance of the milk might be their stumbling block.
I expect seppuku if they can’t answer.
At last a VOICE! .. for Geordies, that is ..!
Excellent 4 part series on the success of Newcastle United (Toon) from the Saudi take-over to Champions League qualification …….. Howay the lads …….!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28645208/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_we%2520are%2520newcastle%2520united
I’m not sure who flys Qantas any more. I gave up on them more than a decade ago.
Ugly host(esses) with attitude (which is worse), bad service, bad food, dated aircraft, comparatively expensive, and the final kicker – virtue signalling out the wazoo.
The same could be said about the ABC, our “national broadcaster.”
The ABC is the herpes of media outlets.
Climate Fraud displayed in one chart.
Channel TLS is/was the poster child of The Science. The steady trend fall in Stratospheric temperature – as measured by actual space satellites – validates the models and conclusively proves Carbins to be the villain.
Except for the past 30 years.
Darwin discovered no such thing…he hypothesised it based on a very limited study of the small amount of evidence that was available to him.
His hypothesis was successfully challenged about a century later by another, called punctuated equilibrium, formulated after extended study of the fossil records revealed not “a constant state of evolution” but long periods of stasis punctuated by sudden bursts of speciation.
Ugly host(esses) with attitude (which is worse), bad service, bad food
I find these as the least of my concerns.
Lost baggage.
Delayed/cancelled flights.
Or do you include them in bad service?
but long periods of stasis punctuated by sudden bursts of speciation.
Randall Carlson opened my eyes to this.
And the Younger Dryas.
Yes, who indeed. It was the couldn’t give AF attitude of the ground staff and their prices, compared to V that did me in. Mind you, the way Qantas treated their people was always going to result in that.
How many of the 10,000 YES volunteers are school teachers?
Malaysian airlines baby!
Cheapest business class in the region.
Real business class that is.
I saw reference yesterday to Qantas as “our National Carrier”.
It stopped being that when it was privatised. At least it is not now on the Feral Guv’ment (Taxpayer) teat. Quaintarse more like.
Data, not evidence, I should say.
As it turned out, the British scientific establishment of the day was quite right to be wary of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin egregiously misinterpreted the data, postulating a grand narrative that it simply didn’t support.
Channel TLS is/was the poster child of The Science.
Yeah RSS shows world cooling over the last decade. I can’t find their or UAH’s specific Australian graph.
Just looking at a Garuda business class review.
Looks like they have lifted their game too.
I’m not sure who flys Qantas any more. I gave up on them more than a decade ago.
Ugly host(esses) with attitude (which is worse), bad service, bad food, dated aircraft, comparatively expensive, and the final kicker – virtue signalling out the wazoo.
Add British Airways to the list along with United.
Exactly, if one race deserve extra privileges then we have a right, even an obligation, to demand the same for ourselves otherwise we accept our lower status.
When you live in the wrong hemisphere at the end of the line the Mangy Roo is not just another airline. But I get your point. The tide might not be turning but it is slowing.
That said there is rarely an occasion when another airline (and their taxpayers) cannot get you somewhere in a better and cheaper fashion.
Kim Beazley joins the long line of Yes advocates revealing that there is no good argument for the change.
I have no problem blaming the billionaires as they don’t have any problem in blaming us and our cars, plane travel etc for the non-existent climate change. In fact, their lifestyle would be more culpable if that were true. The way I see it, live by the sword, die by the sword.
Qantarse is better than Shitstar. Both are worse than Virgin.
Bomber Beazley is probably not the best person to recognise the dangers of a lifetime on the public teat.
Keeping the competition out helps, but I think that decision might be quietly reversed after a while.
We flew here with Cathay.
So did our valises and accoutrements.
They didn’t cancel, and the staff didn’t seem annoyed that we had intruded on their day.
I assume you flew JAL or All Nippon to Japan?
Steering clear of Mohamedan pilots , thanks.
Many years ago a group of us were going to Hawaii.
A few of us went Hawaiian airlines, everything went according to plan.
Another group went Jetstar that was scheduled to take off an hour or so later.
They didn’t land until 18 hours after we did.
Many…many lamentations were heard on their arrival.
Like all of them, it does have a touch of the Dennis Denutos about it.
They didn’t cancel, and the staff didn’t seem annoyed that we had intruded on their day.
Bwahahaha.
What, you want a water?
I try to fly Air Lingus whenever possible and make sure I tell people about it. We may even have holidayed in Ireland just for that reason.
I don’t think they produce an Australia-specific product.
What you can do is to browse and pull down the brightness temperature data from their global maps. Not designed to be convenient.
Paying over $30 billion each year isn’t enough?
Eldredge and Gould publsihed the breakthrough paper in 1972, although their theory was anticipated by others who’d been bothered by the lack of fossil evidence for the continual evolution of the Darwinian model.
It was a good example of the paradigm shift model of scientific progress that Thomas Kuhn had proposed a decade before; you could say that punctuated equilibrium exists not only in the fossil record but also in scientific thinking!
Aboriginal “civilisation” LOL. What have they contributed?
Very good flight experiences with these 2. Very handy connections too over the top. Scandinavian also I found a very good carrier. BA used be quite good too, especially out of dodgy Africa and ME ports.
We flew with Singapore Airlines and had a couple of days in Singapore to catch up with relatives who were working there at the time.
During my schooling years mention was made of missing links with confident assumption that these have just not been uncovered yet.
I fly ABQ.
Anyone But Qantas.
Thank you for normal respiration. – Smokocop.
Have a quick look at Rafes windwatch thread – the power figures are frightening. Those stupid, stupid people in Canberra think they’re going to get away with this.
OK.
I’ve asked about the provenance of the milk.
Hasty retreat to kitchen.
I think I’ve got them on this one.
If the Japanese are a bit sad today, this is why. On This Day:
Losers.
Yes, my science master was a convinced Darwinian too.
He was also a proponent of steady-state cosmology, which was already under serious challenge because of its inability to explain newly discovered observational data. But he held to it dogmatically, regardless.
I dunno, I like Quaintarse on international routes. It’s comfortable and the food is pretty decent. We recently flew Swiss (I guess it was formerly SwissAir) from NY to Zurich and it was also pretty good except when the started babbling in German over the mic. Their English was passable. United was also excellent from Europe back to the US.
I reckon you have to distinguish between domestic and international when comparing airlines as it’s a different service.
SP: Milk in Japan is probably around 80-90% powdered milk mixed with about 10% actual milk. No way does Japan have enough dairy cows for 120 million consumers.
I fly whoever I’m booked on by the client. Mostly the red roo subsidiaries due to Dash 8’s but have been on Virgin, Alliance & Air North before.
IMO they all have their plusses & negatives. Red roo has the stranglehold on sheer numbers, flight cancelled they will just bump you to the next one which us usually an hr or two later. Service can be very hit & miss still though and hasn’t recovered from the lows they plumbed during COVID onboard. I also have had to fight at times to get points from eligible Jetstar flights added to my account lately.
VA is much more hospitable on board and tries to be much more casual and has a good flight schedule. However still very much has the budget roots evident at times, they are shocking for cancelled flights too. I’ve had whole days blown out from connections being cancelled and being bumped to a 10pm service to get home, once they gave out passes to the lounge as a consolation but don’t even do that any more.
Jetstar aka no star. Pay for what you get which is essentially nothing, get in, shut up and hold on.
Alliance are a good airline. Haven’t flown them much but don’t have a bad word to say on what I have. Too bad the red roo is being allowed to swallow them, red roo will screw the pooch service wise.
Air North. On board good just have a major issue with reliability though.
I am yet to ever fly REX or Bonza so can’t report there.
I would fly a South African airline if they guaranteed all announcements would be by a Saffa bird.
I might keep that to myself today.
Let sleeping bygones lie.
Oh, one really important point. The bacon in the bacon and scrambled eggs selection on the QF flight back to Australia from LA was absolutely disgusting. It tasted like some newly developed plastic substance posing as food.
Paleontological dating of sedimentary rocks using the various populations of Foraminifera fossils relies on long periods of stasis. Oil exploration geoscientists were well aware (and grateful) that continuous evolution was not a generalised thing.
Now where does the powdered milk come from and why can’t real milk be sourced otherwise? Freight costs go down significantly given the scale of modern container ships and the mark up available makes the cost worthwhile.
Razey, they’re not milk drinkers so they wouldn’t need that many cows. Aren’t lots of north Asians lactose intolerant?
I guess they actually like powdered milk in Japan, they don’t want to pay $10 per litre on premium Australian products like the hyper competitive Chinese noveau riche.
Fleccas Talks:
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 162
Bacon and eggs anywhere but your own home or a reputable cafe is always a high risk choice. Dare I say, especially if scrambled.
LOL JC
Chinese core fresh milk demand could be 2% of their population and their market is as at least as big as ours.
Middle bacon
Slowly fried in butter
All else is heresy
OK.
So I think “single paddock” milk has been trumped.
They can allegedly identify the actual cow my little jug of milk came from.
Shogun Princess III.
From a farm new Kobe.
Has her own Insta page.
I think I will stop trying to embarrass my hosts.
haha. You would’ve guessed if you didn’t already know. The sheila caused destruction of capital both tangible and goodwill since sheilas broke through the “glass ceiling” in corporate world would , I reckon, be approaching the size of present day US GDP (20 plus trillion).
There’s a coven of women who are running Fox News into the ground…
Get them out of Fox. They’re destroying the joint.
Vikki Campion:
I wasn’t actually promoting anything. I was just pointing out what the lady was actually saying. It was pretty clear. That was her opinion not mine.
However, when you consider that the Governor was talking about acquiring the land before the embers had cooled and that they had passed a law shortly before the fire enabling him to override the historical zoning requirements for the area, it does tend to make you go hmmm.
That’s true. But there is a pretty obvious powdered taste to their milk. There is only one brand I found that did actually taste fresh, but was very expensive. I don’t mind the taste of powdered milk tho and its just as nutritious.
Modern British jurisprudence in a nutshell.
Dude, I’ve never tasted something so bad. I’m not kidding that it actually tasted like plastic.
Indolent:
America Last.
Tip for future travellers. BiC camera stores for sim cards 30 days 50 gb data only about 5500 yen.
On the limited express to somewhere. No stops for 25 minutes and still in the burbs.
Bit like Melbourne except we don’t have quite as much high rise.
Evolutionary biologist: “Geologists…pfft! What would they know!”
😀
Another tip.
Telstra roaming is useless.
Why?
You will soon!
“Expert” on ABC yesterday touting Tokyo as a model for Australian cities.
Everyone will live in a tiny apartment.
ABC interviewer didn’t think to ask “where will the children play.”
I did fly Quaintarse Business Class from Sydney to Dallas Fort Worth on the A380 in July 2018 and they were really brilliant.
The Stewardess kept calling me by my Family Name and Mr as well. I said to her, please call me by my first name and she stated that they were told not to do that. So I said to her, well I have paid for the ticket so please call me by my first name. And I said that if your Management have a problem with that then tell them to see me – Johnny Rotten. She laughed and after that she called me Mr John. Halfway there I know. LOL.
And it was a great flight but a long one – just over 15 hours.
For shame, don’t you realize they discovered how to make f@rting noises, blowing through a hollow log?
Nawww, just the young and recent gimmegrants.
Malaysian airlines baby!
Cheapest business class in the region.
Real business class that is.
I would not fly with anyone stupid enough to fly over a war zone as Malaysian airline did. I recall back in the days of the Iran/Iraq war (1980s?)we flew to Europe with QANTAS at the commencement of the war, but by the time we flew home QANTAS had rerouted our flight. Mind you, we had a spectacular night landing in Damascus, with the pilot apologising with the explanation that they did not have sufficient landing lights on the ground!
ABC interviewer didn’t think to ask “where will the children play.”
Cat Stevens knew –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb4kfolKwGA
They also knew that evolutionary punctuation lined up with rapid climate/environmental shifts.
Heresy piled upon heresy.
Hotel buffet breakfast is the Malaysian Airlines of bacon and eggs.
Indolent:
About bloody time some Republicans decided to represent their electorate instead of the Uniparty.
Before you realise it you are looking up at the Southern Ocean.
We recently flew Swiss (I guess it was formerly SwissAir) from NY to Zurich and it was also pretty good except when the started babbling in German over the mic.
We love Swiss. The Business Class lounge in Zurich is super comfortable and slick. We also fly Singapore, but have noticed a deterioration in what was once very good service. So many of the once great airlines (Cathay is another) are wilting under the competition from others – especially the airlines of the Middle East.
Anal appearing jocular reminded me of someone. Then it came to me- the lesbian bitch.
Crossie
Sep 2, 2023 8:49 AM
I’m hoping I’ll be in.
The Trump Mugshot Collectable Coin. Brilliant.
Conservstives are in their way back.
The commos will learn yet again that you cannot permanently repress free enterprise.
Well, I’ve just been for a long walk through Paddington and Woollahra and I didn’t see any YES spruikers. I found that odd given that the campaign has begun. I was expecting to be inundated with bored rich Wentworth women wearing teal coloured Yes t-shirts. But alas no, unless of course it’s too early for them, and they’re yet to finish sipping their morning almond milk coffee and nibbling at their vegan pastries. Priorities.
You may find you live in one of the postcodes they’ve written off as full of recalcitrants, Robert.