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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
His name is Cash. Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Canoga Park Block Party 2024
Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
Am I lucky this morning?
We’ve seen this little number trialled at Posy Parker rallies in Oz and NZ.
Someone was taking notes.
And the SFL’s in Vic fell for it, totally.
Single bloom coffee bah!
I go single pollinator, only the most elite bee can cart the pollen to give the truely quality bean.
Everything else is second place
/ except Pablo, Pablo is good.
On QANTAS: the ‘protected species’ culture is still strong. Dropping CFO Vanessa Hudson, herself a 20-year QANTAS veteran, into the CEO role is hardly transformative.
The Captain has turned on the seatbelt sign; please return to your seats…
Careful Cassie – that mammogram trick is probably a very specific fetish of some weirdo.
That’s what I like to see – tact and diplomacy at their finest!
This someone who hasn’t discovered International Roast single factory Chairman’s Blend.
I really meant the Coles and Qantas intervention in the Voice stuff. Probably can’t really lay the Coles stuff at the Wesfarmers door anymore.
The usefulness of non executive directors is a question for another day.
The manogram will only work if the plates are icy cold. A freezing speculum up the botty department might be a bridge too far – they’d likely enjoy the experience.
The book by Garris is called Masculine Christianity and is reviewed on Quadrant, here.
I thought Colin_Jory made a very perceptive observation in the comments section on the rights denied to women by some feminist interpretations of theology.
Working atm but from Michael Smith. Especially the ownership rights of the Farnham song if true, see alfredo’s comment:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/ker-ching-its-not-the-first-time.html
Sorry if someone got to it before I did.
As someone who’s only experience of door knocking was a couple of the genteel streets of Cottesloe trying to get a road through the golf course closed I have a degree of sympathy for Mr Morrison-Bird. I think in the end a couple of members just ran for Council and shut it anyway. Thus ended my experience of direct action democracy.
Lovely morning out at Birubi Beach – I was taken for a post-operative airing and breakfast.
Upside – a pod of dolphins out among the surfers, fins cleaving the water neatly, outlined against the swell as it rose and broke. There must have been a small school of fish to be hunted.
Downside – another pod of mamils, perched their bikes right in front of me, then proceeded to declaim loudly on fossil fuels and the proposed wind “farm” as they slurped their frothy coffees.
Sad that on such a beautiful morning I had murder in my heart. Mercifully the sods moved on. I’m trying to recover, not relapse.
There are time-honoured old jokes about practicing for that: take your breast, insert in the side of the fridge door, and slam it shut. Alternatively, lie on the garage floor with one breast under the front type of your car and get your husband to slowly drive over it.
As mentioned yesterday, I think the process is less painful these days, the pressure has been lessened considerably, from my recent experience anyway, and the result is said to be still as good.
That’s tyre, not type. lol. Women just can’t tell jokes properly.
My single-bloom coffee is hand pollinated by artisans, we don’t make slaves of bees.
GET OUT OF THE WATER.
Beautifully evoked, thanks Calli.
Artisans with camel hair paint brushes I trust. Organic.
Can’t have any of that polyester muck.
I’m still chuckling over those cyclists. I wonder if they know where their lycra originates? And as for those expensive carbon fibre bikes…
Thanks Dover.
This is very bad news all around. If accurate, it means that if China decides to take Taiwan by force , they have little need to preserve the Taiwan SC industry during such an operation. It also means that Russia can get their hands on almost top quality semis. Certainly sophisticated enough for their arms manufacturers. Payment in kind with oil and gas?
This US Administration is an unmitigated disaster.
Just as well they sped off before the enormous coal ship appeared on the horizon, high in the water and ready for the loader.
Warmed my heart.
Dover
Apple has about 10ish percent of the phone market and 90% of the profits in that sector. No Apple users are going to switch to a cheap Chinese phone. They’d rather be deaf.
It’s pretty funny seeing rich white leftists complain about the Egyptians building a new city to replace Cairo.
Oh no! It’s UNESCO-listed! A graveyard!
Your grave is only a dead cert. here in NSW for what, 99 years?
How dare a 2nd world country try to improve their living standards by rebuilding an ancient capital city that is no longer functional with modern transport, utilities and logistics?!
From todays paywallian;
The world’s most powerful drug regulator has been humiliated after a US federal court ruled it was out of bounds in telling Americans they were not a “horse” so should not take the drug ivermectin – an anti-parasitic medication whose inventors won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2015 – to treat Covid-19.
The US federal appeals court in Louisiana on Friday (Saturday AEST) ruled the Food and Drug Administration erred in a tweet that went viral in August 2021, saying “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it”, in response to reports, later debunked, that Americans were overdosing by taking the drug as an alternative to Covid vaccines.
“FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise – but not to endorse, denounce, or advise,” judge Don Willett wrote for the appeals court. “The doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to,” the judge concluded, referring to three doctors who had sued the FDA for, in effect, stymieing their ability to prescribe ivermectin to their patients.
Mary Bowden, one of the plaintiffs, claimed her ability to prescribe ivermectin for patients had been undermined by the FDA’s social media posts, which caused some pharmacies to withhold the drug, in addition to reputational damage caused.
“I’ve treated over 6000 Covid patients now and found ivermectin not only effective but also extremely safe,” she told The Australian in an interview.
Songwriters usually want their songs to be performed because they make a living off the royalties. When a song is written they register it with an agency which to sell it to performing artists. When it gets picked up by an artist a license fee is paid, the agency takes its commission and passes the rest onto the songwriter, who also gets royalties every time the song is played on the radio or performed publicly on concert. The songwriter gets the bulk of the recording royalties, the performer not much by comparison (this is why there are always fights in bands as to whose songs get recorded on an album). If the songwriters or their agency in this instance have already granted Farnham a license to record and perform the song, but object to Farnham’s version being used in the campaign, they would have to take legal action locally.
Big lol uptick, Dr. Faustus.
That it is the Chairman’s blend adds extra piquancy.
A visible Up You Too.
And China wouldn’t weaponise their industry? Such naivety is so endearing.
From what I saw of Cairo it should be bulldozed flat. A vile unsanitary city.
I don’t expect they will do that though. The new city will be where the middle class and above live. I wonder if they will at least clean up the garbage filled canals in Old Cairo once they leave it to the poor. Probably too much to expect.
This is why singers who don’t write their own material, like Farnham, or who do but don’t sell many records anymore (esp. due to streaming services) have to keep touring – to keep the money coming in from ticket sales.
Their ABC in Not Happy Alan mode:
The never-ending spin that protected Alan Joyce and Qantas from reality has started to unravel
The Greatest Airline CEO Evah is leaving the building with a stench. How did it ever come to this:
The sound of your own wheels drives you crazy. Always happens when governments get into the business of corporate welfare and winner picking.
About as endearing as that of the pro-Soviet fellow travellers at uni back in the day.
My old GP was kind enough to run the speculum under warm tap before taking off the plastic wrapping and using it. She is now retired.
Thanks for reminding us, Duncan, though I’d hoped to forget it. That ‘trick’ could be a pathway to nullification.
‘Nullification’ is a thing, a desire for genderlessness, with its own surgery. Removal of all genitalia, no matter whether penis or vagina, and replacing it with a smooth covering of skin. I couldn’t believe it when I read about it yesterday in a link here. The ultimate in nihilistic thinking and Mengelian surgical madness. Whatever won’t they do to the human body. One hopes for eventual lawfare, good and hard.
Bye Alan!
Nullos or “smoothies” are pretty dang disturbing.
The ignorance of the smart people is mind boggling. And they are so proud of it.
Not just scorn but an indicator of having been bought. Corruption anyone?
JC
Sep 5, 2023 9:35 AM
What does it prove?
Perfect marketing or pretentious twats? Or more exactly perfect marketing TO pretentious twats.
Same as Mac computers vs, generics, doing the same job cheaper.
I never had an iPhone and unlikely to have one in the future. Not shilling for the Chinese but what does an Apple phone do that an Android can’t do at a fraction of the price?
Is this the big club I’m not in that often gets a mention?
They don’t crash for no reason, they’re easier to use, have far better battery life and don’t slow down due to stupidly low HDD space or Google spyware.
They are worth the money if you don’t trash them. There is always a cheap version to buy which is better than most Androids, and more expensive Androids still exist.
Apple Podcasts works flawlessly too.
Single unicorn bristle broom from single concrete floor beneath single bean roaster.
Apple users are the most exploited users in the electronics market. Setting that aside, so what? If they are producing 7nm now they’ll have 6 and 4 nm chips in production in the next couple of years.
“The Flying Kangaroo has always punched well above its weight when it comes to lobbying. Almost every pollie in the nation sports a Chairman’s Lounge ticket which, incidentally, are selected personally by Joyce.”
You know, I remember when they pulled the late Cardinal Pell’s Charmain Lounge membership, I suspect on the orders of Chairman Joyce. I am not aware they ever reinstated Pell’s membership, even after the damning 7-0 HC verdict which found him to be what he always was………….INNOCENT.
Please excuse my schadenfreude. I hope they’re smiling in Shamayim right now.
Every key industry is ‘weaponized’. The naivety was in believing that this was never the case.
On coffee, how about beans collected from a Civet Cat’s bum, all nicely flavoured and ready to roast. A special ‘digestif’ blend ‘uniquely sourced’.
Oops. Forgot. They actually do that, and then charge extra for it.
Liberty quote:
— Crossie at 10.08am
Single bowel sourced.
Alan Joyce’s pep talk to QANTAS staff this morning is interrupted by the bad news.
https://africa.businessinsider.com/politics/russia-is-floating-a-plan-to-build-a-village-for-conservative-americans-who-want-to/gbxxb0s
However,
Russia has fairly high divorce, HIV infection & suicide rates and a low church attendance rate.
Time for a morning Nescafe. I am right out of drinking chocolate, which I prefer.
“Russia has fairly high divorce, HIV infection & suicide rates and a low church attendance rate.”
So, what’s your point? Much like Western Europe and the USA, but at least Russia doesn’t celebrate LGBTQI+ and so on. Here in the West it’s now compulsory.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
– Mark Twain
For Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen, Dimwit Chalmers, Shirtlifter Quaintarse Joyce, Twiggy Forrest, the AEC and many many others.
In any other business, knowingly and systematically selling a product you don’t have and don’t intend to supply – and then holding on to the customer’s money for an extended period (that you control) while collecting the interest – might be considered a criminal act.
Directors of that business would be looking anxiously through the policy wording of their D&O insurance. Possibly ‘discovering’ diary notes suggesting they had diligently inquired of management whether anything untoward was happening in the finance department.
Perhaps moving personal assets out of harm’s way.
In the case of the QANTAS Board, reducing the Leprechaun headcount and promoting the CFO will probably do the job. It’s looking like the worst case incoming is only going to be a massive administrative fine – so, that’s OK.
Only the market to smooch. Some mistakes made in difficult times, new hands on the helm, but with continuity.
And assuming the Chinese would stand still and cop the US restrictions without response.
The leprechaun has blown up talk back radio. QANTAS flak catchers will be in overdrive. Everyone is lining up to take a swing. “We’ve got a JC from Victoria on the line he wants to talk about Sydney Airport.”
BN @0942
The judge has a way with words:)
Dot
Sep 5, 2023 10:23 AM
Maybe I’m just lucky, never had my Android phone crash or lose battery life if that was what you were referring to.
No comp whizz here, running win11 on a PC and have no problems.
So, volunteers. I would think the volunteers are zealots. Most people who are voting ‘yes’ are not volunteers, so the ones who go prowling neighbourhoods and invade people’s doorways have something extra.
Extra smarts? Doubt it. How about extra arrogance. They believe it falls to them to descend godlike upon the land and go onto people’s property, get them to open their door (the last barrier behind which people feel secured from the world, and then to tell these poor peons that what they think is wrong, and they are going to tell them how wrong.
Personally I hate people who come to my door to push something – anything – so I hope these volunteers help drive the ‘Yes’ case further south, even as they see themselves as vessels of the highest virtue.
Then it will be worth watching campaign headquarters on counting night (I do hope there is one) while they stare up at the progressing tally in disbelief, unable to reconcile unfolding results with their sense of being so soaking in goodness that they must have left little puddles at every door they knocked at.
Reminds me of the George Orwell quote to the effect that some things are so ridiculous only an intelectual would believe them.
Quite so.
Dot
Sep 5, 2023 10:23 AM
PS, what do they do?
Sing and dance?
Depends what you want them to do I can’t think of anything but taking and making calls and reading Kindle books.
Wow, though, 10% of the market and 90% of the profits. Those margins must be amazing.
As someone who spent time as a corporate cog, spare a thought for the (probably not so) poor QANTAS company secretary trying to get the Annual Report off to the printers.
I’m pretty hard on tech Kevin.
I made an old Pentium 4 PC crash by running a heap of econometric scripts and multicollinear models.
I have never sworn that much before or after. It was a solid 2 hours of work that died.
Excel is fairly easy to kill, you’re better off databasing in Access or SQL.
If you download too many apps on a cheap android, it will effectively brick itself.
Consider it like massive and quick congestive heart failure.
Why worry about chips when we can buy the most current (smallest) architecture chips from Samsung?
I had milk in my coffee this morning.
The only milk that shall pass my lips is instagram influencer cow single origin milk.
A 200k follower minimum.
I don’t mind if they graze on the equator-facing slope or the pole-facing slope. I’m not fussy.
In all of Burney’s posts, I am yet to see an Indigen door knocking. They’re all whiteys, usually old and mostly female.
The worst time of the corporate year.
Not a shot at QANTAS, but it will be a cast of hundreds, internal and external consultants – not the poor CoSec, CFO and CEO slaving away over printers’ proofs at 3am.
Before any poindexter pedant chimes in, yes, I know it is quantum tunnelling/MOSFET stuff and the “gates” and semiconductor width aren’t shrunk like before.
Sharri had an interesting chat with Joe Ashton at the AFR last night on his (revealing) stories on Qantas…
Joyce and Goyder apparently visited AFR chief to get Ashton cancelled. Qantarse also banned AFR publication from their lounge.
Stalinist.
Retired skool ma’ams and other assorted busy bodies with too much time on their hands.
Ooohh yes.
Getting stuff to the printers was always fun at Rinse Repeat Cycle Crystal Ball Gazers Inc.
Is there a new term for the Catictionary?
Bye-Alanism – average punters rising up against the mates-mafia-controlled Qantas and succeeding in taking out Alan Joyce by complaining to talk-back radio.
“Excuse me, we need a few pages of blurb for the Annual Report.”
“Next week. Go away we’re busy.”
Having said that, our Chairman was a lovely guy. Once you got all the compliance stuff out the way you could start work on important stuff like Cup week.
I’ve had more visits from the Jehovah’s Witnesses than from Yes23 campaigners in the last 14 days. God’s kingdom is leading the black nobility 1 to nil.
I don’t mean that in a bad way or nothin’.
Just that I must live in an area marked as a lost cause by Yes23. LNP safe federal seat.
I didn’t know there was such a thing anymore as a “LNP safe federal seat”.
Another thing is you can get a refurbed iPhone and they’re still better than an Android because they run clean and sandbox apps freeing up RAM etc.
Had a look at Michael Smith’s site. The comments are good. Someone said about, I presume Luigi described as a Labor intellectual. Labor, its like Mensa for stupid people.
I was sitting in the pub the other day (not sure how it happened – I had gone up the street to do some shopping, I must have tripped, and by the time I had re-oriented myself I was sitting on a chair with a pint of Guinness in front of me).
Anyway there was a table with three people not far away comprising a very elderly man, another man probably in his 50’s, and a young woman – I guessed grandfather, father, and daughter. It seemed likely it was a Father’s Day thing (one day early).
I noted that the grandfather had a ‘Yes23’ badge pinned to his jumper. The poor fellow gave the impression that he was looking at the world from a distance as it were, not too clear and the goings on more than a little bewildering.
I very much doubted he as a ‘Yes23’ guy. But someone thought to use him for a billboard. It seemed a sort of abuse – not in its violence or threatening, but in its disregard for the fellow, seeing him as a prop rather than a person.
A lot of typing for a low level incident like that, but just a reminder that there are some dicks out there.
Another chap and I were working back on a Friday night when we received a message from Corporate that the Quarterly was being sent to us for delivery to the printers first thing Monday morning. (Cotporate was in France).
When it eventually downloaded, we took a look and discovered that it was full of errors.
Of course their Frogships had all disappeared off to their Maison Secondaires for the weekend and couldn’t be contacted.
We eventually pulled in our whole small team and spent long hours sorting out the mess.
The woman who called late afternoon Monday our time “to ensure that our instructions had been implemented” received a blast would make a YES doorknocker blush.
The inevitable counter attack from senior management ended abruptly when we sent back the original draft.
I have no idea why the printed reports in Australia.
This one’s for Numbers Bob.
Max Hastings’s history of the Vietnam war tells the story of one Pham Hung – conscripted into the North Vietnamese Army, he was wounded by ARVN artillery, on his eighteenth birthday. His wounds were too severe for him to return to combat, but he stayed in uniform for two more years, to prevent his younger brother being drafted in his place.
When he was finally discharged in May 1974, he felt bitter at the lack of recognition for what he had done, he left the Army with hearing and mental disabilities that lasted for years, he was made to pay cash for several items of missing equipment, and had to walk nine miles to catch a bus to go home.
Norks. Taiwan and Sth Korea produce 100% of the world’s 3nm chips.
If there’s a war buy an abacus.
I didn’t not have dot fan-boying for Apple on my bingo card today.
Yes okay it’s still 3 mill which would be a lot of money in your or my pocket, but… this is small fry compared to the defence budget and government expenditure.
What does 3 mill get you in the missile market? It’s like one Tomahawk.
If they were serious about avoiding wasting taxpayer money they would be scrapping entire programmes and government departments and the duplicated parallel bureaucracy of the proposed Voice would be a non-starter.
The fix for Albo could be very simple.
– remove his son’s membership from chairmans lounge
– remove all Labor pollies from chairmans lounge until Qantas “culture” is investigated and fixed. Some truth-telling and possible treaties needed.
– drop the QAN board in all kinds of compliance poo by investigating who knew about the selling and when
– investigate Joyce for selling his shares while still employed by QAN
But he lacks the brains & bawls for fast, constructive actions aligned to public sentiment due to being a lifetime, left-wing grifter surrounded by the same
Test.
Test
Structured water
Steel-cut honey
I’d suggest the oldest and rustiest DC 3 in the inventory of the R.A.A.F – the model where sanitary facilities consist of a bucket behind a curtain – as being suitable for all the useless fools.
Is there a single mass produced PC laptop with 3nm? It’s still pretty much 5, 6, 7nm or above for all processors, notebook to desktop.
Zulu
I don’t think that there are any DC-3s left, but the RAAF Museum might have a Neptune that could be used. AVGAS fuel, so definitely no smoking on board.
Which is really not the point at all.
I don’t think anyone is accusing Marles of starving the defence budget by diverting resources at his pleasure and convenience.
The principle goes along the lines of: if you get into the habit of pinching pencils, how reliable are you going to be when a bigger test comes along? Just with a really big bunch of pencils in Miles’ case…
Possibly prompted by Warren Mundine, she recorded a video saying this a month ago, but it seems to have arisen on the MSM radar only recently.
One brave Noongar woman against the entire industrial-politco-media complex.
Bald and Bankrupt:
5 Sept 2023
There are few countries in the world with a bigger image problem than Bangladesh. I mean, just tell me the last time you heard a good news story from the nation? Exactly! Well, I thought I’d go and see if it really was just a place of monsoon floods and outbreaks of disease or, if there were some good reasons to visit the country. And what I found might surprise you so much that you might want to come visit too…Welcome to what is perhaps the world’s friendliest nation: Bangladesh!
Nobody Visits This Country…Find Out Why You Should!
Jet-powered pencils, even?
More corporate treating customers as cattle……
An elderly Vietnam veteran from Adelaide was downgraded from his paid Qantas business class seat on Sunday so a young pilot could travel in luxury to the South Australian capital.
Stephen Jones, 78, and his wife were in the Qantas lounge enjoying a coffee on their way home from a holiday in Christchurch on Sunday when they got the news – just 30 minutes before the final Melbourne to Adelaide leg took off.
The reason was that a pilot needed to get to Adelaide for a flight and could only do business class as per an enterprise agreement.
Speaking to Melbourne’s 3AW, Mr Jones said he was offered 5000 Frequent Flyer points and an apology after a letter of complaint.
He claimed that the pilot who took his seat next to his wife “wouldn’t look at her.”
Mr Jones, who served in Vietnam in a combat unit in the 1960s, claimed he turned down the offer of 5000 points because “I don’t think anything is going to change until there’s ramifications for Qantas, or costs for Qantas when they upset their customers”.
According to Qantas, the pilot was under an enterprise agreement stipulating they must fly business class.
News.com.au understands a flight from Adelaide may have been cancelled if they could not make it there.
Qantas confirmed it has apologised to Mr Jones, and offers, including a partial refund, were made available.
Justin Lawrence, a partner at Henderson Ball lawyers, later told 3AW there was little customers can do about such a move by the airline and said it “standard operating procedure”.
“Unfortunately, their terms of carriage allow them to do this sort of thing – this happens so often they’ve actually got a term for it, buckle up, they call this ‘involuntary downgrading,’” he said.
“They’ll overprescribe business class or first class, they will need to bump someone out, and they’ll do it almost immediately prior to the flight – not just Qantas, they all do it.
ZK> suggest a wet lease from Royal Malaysian Air Force, any of their retired models will do.
Will sort out those who really need to fly from the grifters and hanger-ons. Might also reduce the running costs & future fund payouts of the Labor govt.
Looks like the first Challenger 2 loss has occurred.
Genuine question: are Challenger tanks supposed to be indestructible? Or, at least, really hard to destroy?
Many thanks, Humphrey at 10.55am.
Laughed out loud I did.
Personally I hate people who come to my door to push something – anything
For some reason, can’t quite put my finger on it! .. You never, ever get “door-knockers” on south west Sydney “houso” estates .. LOL!
I hope this is a typo and the lawyer knows the difference between prescribe and subscribe. A better, simpler word would be “sell”.
But not that common to have impacted a Liebor MP…
Indeed.
Whataboutism over Dutton’s requests for the footy aside, I don’t think there’s any serious doubt about Marles’s acquaintance with personal integrity in using public resources.
Dr Faustus
Sep 5, 2023 12:40 PM
Man made, man can destroy, some are harder, that’s all.
Here you go DB:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/09/03/this-tank-is-like-a-sniper-rifle-ukraines-challenger-2-can-shoot-at-the-russians-from-miles-away/?sh=16ce8e4477a9
That was my immediate thought.
“Dr” Jill has tested positive for ChinaFlu.
Isn’t this the vaxtard’s third time around?
Oh, crap…
A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”
To paraphrase Arnie in the Predator: If it burns, we can destroy it.
In praise of bad coffee – an article I read ten years ago, said bad coffee was there when we dropped the flail for a breather in a bushfire, there when we were shivering in a blanket after a car accident, there when we watched the sun come up after the birth of a child.
Dozens of articles more recent, but not saying it so clear.
FWIW, a half year of 13 International Roasts a day will give you hallucinations of insects crawling over your legs in the night. Couldn’t believe it when I turned on the light and they weren’t there.
Ok, what are the chances that the Biden junta are getting ready to reinstitute COVID measures in order to reprise the mail-in steal of ’20 again in ’24?
Can’t see it happening DB, recently “Dr Fauci got ripped on CNN over masks not working, the interviewer quoted a Cochrane Report meta analysis and wasn’t impressed with Fauci’s rambling about “at the individual level!”.
“…what are the chances that the Biden junta are getting ready to reinstitute COVID measures in order to reprise the mail-in steal of ’20 again in ’24?”
Vax and mask mandates already in Uni’s over there.
If they can declare an “emergency” that gives them power to do a lot of otherwise questionable things…
Saw a video yesterday of Fatty Trump going off about exactly that, “we will not comply”.
You can buy a Toyota and an Apple or you can have an unreliable shit car and an unreliable shit phone.
It’s made up BS.
Here we have a piece of Marxist trash who’s just graduated from J-school, got a job at News Corp, has never met anyone who doesn’t vote for the Greens and therefore thinks it morally correct to misreport people he doesn’t like — such as former (old) Labor senator Gary Johns, with whom Jacinta Price agrees on almost everything.
The story is the OPPOSITE if what the J-school kiddie is trying to sell to the public (which said SJW also has no time because they don’t think or vote like the Greens) — namely that Gary Johns and Jacinta Price agree that Aboriginal kids have no future if they don’t learn English, the human race’s primary language of international commerce, which EVERYONE should been privileged to speak.
People like areff tear their hair out trying to process the ignorant bilge written by illiterate J-school kiddies unleashed on journalism employers, who have no alternative to the rubbish being graduated by Australian journalism schools.
Thanks to Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
EXPOSED – The Voice is the first door and a treaty is the second door.
Noel Pearson spills the beans at Garma
More voters intend to vote no to Indigenous voice despite yes campaign launch, Essential poll finds
Before dancing on the Yes Case’s grave, be aware that the Essential Report also reports that most of the voteherd has very little idea about the issues at play. Having said that, it appears that a larger proportion of the vote is “soft Yes” than “soft No”.
(Technical Note: the sample frame for the Essential poll is quite different to the Newspoll one. It is a self-selecting online panel and offers “incentives” to respondents – so not necessarily representative of the population.)
Did Pearson just say that so-called “first nations” were here for sixty thousand millennia?
Gee that’s a long time. 😀
What’s the minimum overall YES vote needed given that four States need a YES vote?
I’m still not comfortable without seeing 60%+ NO in all six States.
Yes, yes he did.
I’ve had a Samsung S21 5G for over 2 years now and never had a problem. Great photos. Apps run smoothly. Battery life still great.
Sixty thousand millennia, and didn’t even invent a typewriter to do the Complete Works.
What a racist thing to say.
Did Pearson just say that so-called “first nations” were here for sixty thousand millennia?
So 60,000 times 1,000 years is………………
Give the man an abacus and a dictionary.
When you’ve lost
Walter KronkiteGreg Sheridan, you’ve lost the war.He admits today that Ukraine cannot ‘win’ – while leaning on St Augustine to justify the carnage.
Bolt will not be happy.
how many cats have turned off Chris Kenny?
I simply can’t watch him anymore…
calli Sep 5, 2023 1:23 PM
You can’t say No to a consensus that has been building for 60 million years.
Obviously the only No votes will come from Rustadons 🦖.
(raaaawwrrrr)
😀
o….k….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/doomed-flight-mh370-found-in-darkest-part-of-cambodian-jungle-on-google-maps/ar-AA1gdLLk?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ef83ae484a9643849abc43eded052352&ei=7
Tech expert Ian Wilson claims to have found the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane on Google Maps.
Knewz.com is reporting that Wilson believes the remains of the missing aircraft are located deep in the Cambodian jungle.
Lysander, you can count me out of the Kenny viewing fraternity.
“Kenny”, the movie, is another kettle of fish.
My theory is that Kenny is being held hostage by his children, who won’t talk to him until he starts voting for the Greens.
Well, Cats, it’s time to stop by your fave earthquake predicting conspiracy site with Mount Kilauea rockin it right now:
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo
Livestream has some gas ejecting but nothing major (yet)
https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live
Pushed or jumped – Alan Joyce now leaving Qantas tomorrow.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/pushed-or-jumped-alan-joyce-now-leaving-qantas-tomorrow.html
LOL
“how many cats have turned off Chris Kenny?”
I have, but the reason isn’t because of his lunatic stance on the Voice, but because he hates canines and that, as far as I’m concerned, is simply unforgiveable.
What? Right now?
DUTCH? You had NOTHING?
Oh my word. Who will I send my money to now?
Breaking news: On his way out the door, the retiring Reserve Bank governor Phillip Lowe and his board vote to keep official interests on hold at 4.1%.
Lowe is on a hiding to nothing. The damage was done 18 months ago.
‘Sickening’: Chris Kenny slams abuse directed at John Farnham for Voice ad
Yes, some of that is awful crap.
Also quite true – although it’s not clear that Kenny has a sense of irony.
You absolutely could not imagine any worse, or more humbugged handling of a national public issue which, done poorly, was obviously going to provoke division, partisanship and ugly resentment. Because sadly, irrespective of the Referendum outcome, that’s going to be the lasting fruit of Albanese’s and Team Yes’ shifty, dishonest, all-things-to-all-people campaign.
No winners to cheer for here.
Pity, I remember his work on “Secret Women’s business.”
I can’t stand him either, he has no business being on Sky after dark. His constant pushing for the voice has ruined what little conservative media reputation he had before this. When this is over he can’t just go back to status quo ante, if the voice fails nobody on the yes side will give him the time of day, if the voice gets in the No voters will blame him.
Strange (?) that nobody has sought to interview Farnhemland… is he actually alive or in a coma…
Crossie – it’d be interesting to see his ratings as nobody from the Left or ABC viewers are ever going to click on Kenny, and most conservatives have abandoned him… so who is watching???
Nobody?
The last candidate for MH370 was in the Indian ocean 1500km west of Perth.
Oddly, if you go to -35.421695, 99.955971 in Google maps, it suggests a photo of this area which looks amazingly like a flooded rice paddy in Cambodia.
But it is not just a latitude sign flip mistake in the photo location, as 35.421695, 99.955971 is in Tibet and looks more mountainous.
Anyhow to be 5000km away in Cambodia:
1) The plane would have to have never turned back to the south after turning north, despite this turn being seen on radar, AND
2) Numerous other radars on approach to Cambodia, including Chinese military, would have to have missed it, AND
3) All the math on the Inmarsat pings by the transponder would have to be wrong (not possible) or the pings would have to have come from a decoy transponder on a drone.
You can eventually find lots of weird things on Google Maps, but there’s so much to overturn before you look outside the southern Indian.
Bill Gates: You Don’t Have a Choice
“But you don’t have a choice. People act like you have a choice, you don’t have a choice,” Bill Gates proclaimed three years ago in regards to the mRNA vaccine. Gates, with no medical training, has not abandoned his lofty goal of altering the population through medical tyranny. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation websites discusses the Immunization Agenda 2030, a key piece to the overall agenda.
The Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) discusses the need for continued COVID-19 vaccines, despite numerous governments claiming the virus is no longer a cause for concern. “Moving forward, strong immunization systems will be needed to ensure that people everywhere are protected against COVID-19 and other diseases,” the website states. “Ensuring everyone receives the vaccines they need will provide exceptional return on investment and help keep the world safe from future pandemics.” They say the people have a “fundamental right” to vaccinations, but no right to medical independence.
What can vaccinations do, according to IA2030? They have the ability to completely eliminate poverty while contributing to a strong workforce. Vaccine manufacturing will also contribute to “national industrial infrastructure” in low to middle income economies. The vaccines can even combat climate change! “Immunization protects urban public health and interrupts disease transmission, ensuring sustainable cities and communities,” page 14 of the IA2030 document reads. The magical medicine can also solve gender equality! “Removal of gender-related barriers to vaccination contributes to gender equality, as it supports women’s full participation and equal opportunities for accessing health services.” Climate, gender, sustainability, equality – is there anything these vaccinations cannot do? I guess the biggest downfall of the COVID vaccine, in particular, is that it DOES NOT PREVENT TRANSMISSION OR INFECTION.
Gates stresses the importance of global cooperation by all governments. There will be more vaccines as this program is designed to “accelerate the development of new vaccines,” meaning more experimental jabs will appear on the market without proper testing. There will also be global stakeholders behind these vaccines who will ensure that their investments are secured by pushing the larger Agenda 2030. “You act like you have a choice!” Yes, I do, and I will not risk my life for Gates and his globalist stakeholders who want us to abandon medical autonomy for profit.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/bill-gates-you-dont-have-a-choice/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Joyce’s pockets are full with FU money.
With one leprechaunal bound ( half an inch) he was free.
Bermuda beckons. Switzerland must look good.
But how to fill the time ?
He’ll run to General Keane.
ABC analysis of the Qantas situation.
Expert Emma decries the brand crisis that Joyce has produced. Emma says it used to be held in the reverence that ABC and Australia Post now enjoy.
We find out Emma used to work in Stephen Conroy’s office and also thinks the chairman’s lounge is pretty naff, based on her gravy days when flying with the minister.
Emma doesn’t get out much it seems.
Has Kenny condemned all the abuse Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price have copped?
Hmmm. For 60 million years, when did the Neanderthals appear, and later disappear? Is Pearson commenting on indigenous “culture”? Pre-Neanderthal?
Kenny is doing good work on transmission lines and ruinables.
More important work than The Voice crap by a country easement mile.
Screenshots of which curl my hair.
So what?
They were living in the stone age until the 19th century.
Pearson obviously means marsupials. They were here first. My experience is they aren’t interested in a treaty although they don’t mind a bit of rent, paid in bread and carrots.
“Has Kenny condemned all the abuse Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price have copped?”
Yes, he has. The problem with Chris Kenny is that he’s become completely invested and unhinged over the Voice. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s a middle aged male menopausal crisis, perhaps it’s some residual guilt from the Hindmarsh Island affair. Who knows, I don’t know.
I’ve switched off because of his stance on dogs, he’s completely off the planet when it comes to canine attacks, I think if he had is way he’d ban dogs. However, he is good about other things, such as climate, the folly of renewables, nuclear power, the gender rubbish and so on. I might even resume watching him, but not until after the referendum.
Albo said sixty five thousand the other day.
Five thousand years back from now pre-dates the first pyramid.
They pop on a five or ten at the drop of a hat – that’s ‘truth telling’ at its finest.
Kenny’s ratings seem to have fallen off a cliff in recent months.
Last night’s Australian pay TV ratings:
1. Bolt (Sky, 7pm) 73,000
2. Credlin (Sky 6pm) 60,000
3. NRL 360 (Fox League, Foxtel Channel 502, 6.30pm) 57,000
4. Paul Murray Live (Sky, 9pm) 55,000
5. AFL 360 (Fox Footy channel 504, 7.30pm) 52,000
6. Sharri (Sky, 5pm) 47,000
7. Chris Kenny (Sky, 8pm) 34,000
Malcolm Roberts
You Cannot Have a Treaty With Yourself
Losing half of Blot’s viewers. The rusted on of rusted ons.
That makes them contemporary with dinosaurs. Almost. Well before hominids separated from gorillas and chimps.
We Appear to Be Entering Stage Five of the Covid “Vaccine” Con Job
I keep half an eye on Sharri while in the kitchen. I try to see most of Credlin/Panahi, and depending on the topics ( already known for the day and covered twice) I will stay for Bolt. Then off Sky.
You know him too well.
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Huge Brexit victory as UK escapes massive £56bn bill to top up EU budget
Why “Education Justice” is Really Just Marxist Activism
‘Royally screwed’ by government: Hawaii victims ‘getting desperate’
Akon Says if ‘Every Single African American’ Moves to Senegal and Invests in His Smart City, They Will Be Millionaires and the U.S. Will ‘Collapse Overnight’
Listened to The Weekly Sceptic a few weeks back. Toby Young gave insight into how easy it is for the media to tarnish your reputation by associating you with other non-acceptables.
I thought of how easy it was for the left Melbourne media to destroy Moira Deeming thru association of Antifa yet not holding the same views and trying to distance herself from them. Pesutto fell for it. Such a newbie thing to do.
Now they will do the same to Jacinta Price. Just a matter of time to trawl thru her past and pick up on a comment, a facebook like, or a follower.
They can make Mother Theresa look like a violent extremist with a smear here and smear there. Then the herd runs off and generates its own fertiliser.
Or by just making shit up.
EU’s Pfizer Cover-Up ?? More Details Revealed!
Buzzwords Like “White privilege” & “Diversity and Inclusion” Are Corrosive.
“Listened to The Weekly Sceptic a few weeks back. Toby Young gave insight into how easy it is for the media to tarnish your reputation by associating you with other non-acceptables.”
The way to deal with this is simply to ignore it or shrug it off or better still, stand tall against the leftist media bullies. The left and their media allies get away with it because their targets too often cower and capitulate.
I think Gary Johns, a few weeks ago, provided the best example of how to deal with progressive scum. When the MSM and the left went after him because of perfectly reasonable comments he made about blood tests for those who claim to be “indigenous”……the ensuing furore was predictable however when asked if he was stepping down and resigning from the NO campaign, he said NO. That’s all you have to do…stand tall. The left have gotten away with thuggery because people are cowards.
Toby Young’s UK Free Speech Union has done stellar work, helping people targeted by the bullies. We need a similar organisation here….ASAP.
Currently having an interesting discussion with my Lefty brother about the energy future. He has written an in depth paper- the basis of our discussion – in which he compares various energy sources, their advantages and downsides. I suspect he leans towards solar and wind and he lists their cons as unreliable baseload because not being available 24/7.
I wanted to incude their entire ‘energy footprint’ from manufacture to deconstruction, but Google only shows renewable friendly sites who list solar at (up to) 50g CO2pr KWh., with wind (up to) 26g CO2 per KWh.
Clever, sciency Cats, does this sound correct?
See Rafe’s Round-up and put yourself on the mailing list of the soon-to-be-launched Free Speech Union of Australia.
I know we have talked about ‘Owls’ today but I want to now talk about ‘Plovers’. A Queensland Plover has decided that our local Service Station provides an exceptional surface to claim as his territory. I assume it is a ‘he’. I didn’t ask pronouns. The Servo attendant behind the counter says he makes an appearance each Spring but no female has been enticed as yet to live with him at the Servo.
I saw him lapping up dropped water from cars to quench his thirst. Along with the ‘Bin Chicken’ some birds have well adapted to the urban way of life.
Please don’t.
Plovers were parking cops in a previous life.
Did you know they have poisonous spurs mounted like machine guns in their wings?
Little pricks. No redeeming features. Plus they squawk like Shakespearean witches.
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Played golf today at Wantima. On her approach shot on the 17th, my playing partner scored a direct shot on the leg of one of the resident plovers. I thought of P and her plover issues.
The plover took to the air for a bit when it was hit, came back to earth and limped around for a bit, seemed otherwise OK.
Libertarian Party has sent out an email for a zoom workshop.
It seems the LP wants to help you write letters.
Plovers – aka masked lapwings.
Talons, plus the wing spurs as mentioned by Tom just now. They are all over the place in D-Town, which is surprising because they are perhaps the stupidest, yet most malicious things born.
Lay your eggs at ground level, and on open grassed areas where they can get trampled, eaten by pretty much anything and mown.
Pretty much every late primary and early secondary schoolkid has run the gauntlet, belting to a nest, grabbing an egg and sprinting off with the aim of not being sliced open in the process.
I’ve had them charge the car I was driving where a nest was nearby, only to become ex-plovers. How they survive at all is a mystery for the ages.
Check this out. I’ve had this running in the background on the big screen. Ask a few building firms today to reproduce what you see here and they would choke.
Stunning collection.
The First Photographs Ever Taken of Amsterdam [600+ Images, 1859-1899] Dutch Golden Age/ Technology
I’d volunteer to serve on the firing squad that shot this douche nozzle at dawn, and go on to eat a full English breakfast, with every evidence of enjoyment.
Delta – The problem is the power system has to be always on. Consequently all these life cycle assessment (LCA) studies are distortions of the truth.
A true estimate requires an analysis of the combined wind/solar plus backup. Here’s one such very rare study by Euan Mearns:
CO2 Emissions Variations in CCGTs Used to Balance Wind in Ireland (2016)
Lots of data in the post but I will make this simple observation. If CCGTs have a design specification of 55% efficiency, but when used to cover over the intermittency of wind turbines they fall to only 32% efficient it means if you turned off the wind turbines and just ran the CCGT gas plants you would actually save on CO2 emissions.
The simple calc is (100-22)/32 = 2.44 vs 100/55 = 1.82. So turning off the wind turbines could reduce overall CO2 emissions by a theoretical 25%. It wouldn’t be that because the CCGTs would still run at less than maximum efficiency since the daily power consumption curve has to be matched. But I still think just running the entire of the country on closed cycle gas turbines would emit less overall CO2 than trying to use them as back up, because of the inefficiency problem.
Do such a calculation with open cycle gas turbines would be even worse, since they have even lower efficiency than CCGTs. But they give fast response and better matching of output to demand as wind and solar varies unpredictably.
Of course if you want to go to battery backup instead of CCGTs then the cost is enormous, and there isn’t enough lithium and etc on the planet.
DrBeauGan Sep 5, 2023 3:17 PM
It’s like I’m not here.
The LDP/Libertarian Party, Craig Cameron and Aboriginal elders and activists are holding a rally against the Voice to Parliament.
Plovers are indeed dumb as rocks, I’ve never managed to get the attention of one. Crested pigeons are much brighter.
Today was notable for the first arrival this season of that other bird from hell – the channel-billed cuckoo. Flying noise pollution generators, made worse since they also set off all the noisy miners.
Bess Price, mum of Jacinta, over at Quadrant:
…those who control the national debate are those people of indigenous descent who speak English and are well educated kardiya way. They have access to the media and politicians and are the loudest in their criticism of governments and kardiya in general. They criticise the old missionaries, but they don’t live by the Old Law and never have. They romanticise it, creating what I call a Disneyland version. They never talk about the down side, the acceptance of violence as a way to settle conflicts, the misogyny and acceptance of violence against women, the forcing of young girls into marriage with old men, the belief in sorcery.
These old ways still cause a lot of problems, like continued violence against women, family feuding and the humbugging that forces so many to give their money to addicted kin for grog and gambling. All of these things come from the culture we were taught as children.
The so-called First Nations Leaders tell us that all of these things are caused by kardiya, by racism and colonisation. They have made everything worse but all of these problems come from our own culture. The “leaders” call any kardiya racist if they say this and they put great effort into “cancelling” Aboriginal people like me who want the truth to be known.
Some bloody impressive racing once again … those slide jobs!
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A pair of plovers used to ‘nest’ on the helipad at Victor Harbour hospital. Every time we landed, the eggs would be blown 20m or more off the pad. They would roll them back while we were inside, then we would take off and blow them away again…. fun times..
Bess is a lovely, intelligent, morally tough lady. I admire her immensely.
Yes ok. Herald Sun:
Pack your bags. War is over. Except the article could well be bollocks on stilts.
And she cops just as much grief from the “Aboriginal Industry” as her daughter.
Double plus upticks
Booze and Tobacco prices are f*cking ridiculous!
Black markets to flourish?
Brew and distill your own?
I’m puzzled how the CFO, now the CEO of Qantas had no idea of the obvious malpractice over withheld refunds and dodgy ticket sales.
For all we know, she was the architect.
But, hey! Magical woman.
You go, girl!
But, but, Googleory isn’t here to prove Vlad is dead. We are so disinformation-deprived.