On the other side, Bronte is gorgeous. We did the walk from Bondi to Bronte last year. It’s incomparable.

Careful there, JC. Kev will be on your tail, can’t have any sharing of ‘lived experiences’ on this august blogue. Except he won’t, because Kev is a scared dickless little bully who wants to hide behind upticks. Bring them on, Dover. People who ruin the blog with uptick pile-ons shouldn’t be allowed to take away the pleasure some people, like Cassie and many others (even my aged self at times, Kev dearie), receive from being well appreciated.

As for the ‘me’ slur. It is just a slur, put about by a stalker. Personal observations and experiences are nothing new here. A feature not a bug. As I’ve observed since 2010 on the Cat, reading many different commenters, including the many many personal reminiscences and experiences of the stalker.

You sound like Grigs, Kev. *Shudder*

We did the cliff walk from Vaucluse to Bondi a lot during lockdowns, JC, part of the same visual deal. An amazing cliff coastline, where some of it fell substantially away at Dover Heights a few years ago, taking out a road and luckily no houses. Few places in the world have a coastline like this almost on the edge of the CBD. There is evidence that six hundred years ago a tsunami came over the top of The Gap. That a big Pacific Ocean out there with nothing in the way before South America.

I tried to be as delicate as I could be, not naming anyone … but honestly !!!!@f# etc

LOL, Kev’s outrageously outraged.

Treading on eggshells, he was. Much.

Bugger off, Kev.

Jeez, that would’ve been one huge surfing wave.

There is anecdotal evidence that the Fukushima Surfing Championship of 2011 was won by a Japanese tyre salesman riding a wardrobe.

Geez.

Two goals in three minutes for the Pies. Another 25 of those and we’re home.

The lack of self awareness is now almost legendary.

Fook off, Stalker.

I escaped Parramatta Girls Home by the skin of my teeth and the Pentecostal Christian kindly man who rented us his garage, saying he’d keep an eye on us.

You know nothing. You are a fixated person. On me.
Get over it, stalker.

Hairy darling, fix me another gin. Stalker’s on the prowl again.

King’s a survivor, Cassie. Doesn’t matter how many lies she tells for the cause.

The only time she’ll be unsafe is if someone higher up the food chain is threatened.

Then she’ll be Joyced.

Given all the shoebox reminiscing, this might be an interesting film to see. David Stratton is not my favorite reviewer, but the point can be made that we do tend to interpret things we see in terms of our own experiences. Here’s the intro to his review of an Indian film ‘Last Film Show’:

I was about nine or 10 years old when I first talked my way into the projection room of a cinema. The projectionist, whose name, I’m afraid, I’ve forgotten, was very kind to the film-obsessed boy who had spent many hours watching films in the front stalls of the cinema but who now wanted to see how it all worked. He showed me how to load the spools of film onto the projector, how to thread the film through a complex series of sprockets, how to charge the carbon Arclight, and how to effect a changeover from reel to reel – projectors that in those days could only handle reels with about 20 minutes of film. He even showed me how to mend a break in the film by using a splicing device.

I was captivated.

Years later I was able to project both 35mm and 16mm film. All this came back to me while I was watching Last Film Show, a thoroughly delightful film from India.

Nine-year-old Samay (Bahvin Rabari) lives with his parents and younger sister in very poor circumstances in the village of Chalala. Despite its apparent isolation, the village is located on a main railway line, and Samay helps his strictly religious Brahmin father, Bapuji (Dipen Raval), sell chai and other refreshments to passengers when the trains make a brief halt. Samay is surprised and delighted when one day his father announces that the whole family is going to the nearby town’s Galaxy Cinema to see a film – it’s a religious film about the goddess Kali, so that makes it acceptable in Bapuji’s eyes. Little does he realise that, like the boy in Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans, this first trip to a cinema will prove to be a life-changer for his son.

I remember falling asleep under an air hostess- jet lag does funny things to the system

Is the public service capable of anything beyond morning teas these days without the help of consultants?

Townsville Steve.

Mike Carney Toyota fronting onto Duckworth st & Qld TAFE trade training site in Ingham rd Bohle dead give away’s.

Still think Mining Boom was the gold standard though.

Great bod for an older woman. There was an extended scene with her walking in the nud, I won’t give it away.

JC, it was a body double for the walk of shame.
From memory it was an eastern European model.

The ABC carrying water for Stalinist hereditary-MP royalty Yvette Berry and her CFMEU puppeteers:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-07/act-integrity-commission-education-campbell-primary-tender/102827862

They are also turning on the anti-Catholic snark in defence of Calvary Hospital thief and drug advocate Rachel Stephen-Smith (how apt that her intitals are SS). I suspect that Berry and SS are leaking against each other (the school contract for Berry and the sneaky way they slipped drug legalisation through for SS) in the competition among the left to succeed Gay Barr.

When my Weimaraner was as little baby she had a bad habit of being a jack in a box & head butting people.
She got me once so bad in the jaw she cracked a molar.
Which had to be repaired with titanium & then a cap on top.
About 1600.
Geez that dog emptied the wallet.

Thank goodness she grew out of it around 6 months.
Having a full grown Weimaraner with a habit of head butting would have been hard to live with.

Best of luck, Cassie. I hear you on the implant sticker shock. I needed 4 of them and the inside of my mouth is now worth more than I paid for my first house.

No regrets.

I like the cut of this McStay chap’s jib.

Mate had a Scottish Deerhound. Blokes loved it. Give it a pat, head goes down, stop patting it, head straight up into the goulies. Only ever patted it standing beside it. Beautiful breed of dog.

JC
Sep 7, 2023 9:48 PM
If people are worried about that, rocks from space and volcanoes are the things to worry about.

How often do rocks hit the earth? Big ones.

That’s the only thing that has worried me a little. The world has spent literally trillions and trillions of dollars on what essentially is a hoax while the real threat is a huge rock for which we have spent next to no money to defend against.

It isn’t about money. It is about physics. Ya canna break the laws of physics captn. Plenty of simulations JC. Many studies on the issue. Look it up, I found one questionable site that proposed 8 different strategies being explored.

Oh my lordy.

That last quarter was intense.

JC
Sep 7, 2023 10:05 PM
John H

This was years ago. I read that there was thinking we could stick a nuke in a rocket and blow the thing up.

But here’s the thing though. It does become a question of money because ultimately investment would make it possible.

If we spent a 1/3 of the money we have on gerbiling bullshit we’d be closer to having some defence against being hit by a rock.

Sure, just like the gazillions of dollars have cured cancer, diabetes, cvd, etc etc.
Who’s going to invest in something that has no pay off for them?

Sublime music. Close your eyes.

2 Cellos – With or Without You.

John, we’re talking about extinction here and the payoff to humanity would be infinite.

The event that’s going to drive the human race to extinction has already happened. The invention of the sexbot. They only need to be improved slightly and get cheaper. A bit of AI to get them groaning in fake ecstasy, and no male will have any interest in sex with another human being. Real women are too expensive in time and money.

Shortly after, humanity disappears from the planet. The dolphins may miss us, briefly.

Sublime music. Close your eyes.

Very nice sounds, Muddy. You are right, the visuals are distracting. JC thinks looking at two blokes trying to look soulful is less gay than shutting them out. Perhaps he’s deaf.

JC
Sep 7, 2023 10:15 PM
Sure, just like the gazillions of dollars have cured cancer, diabetes, cvd, etc etc.
Who’s going to invest in something that has no pay off for them?

That’s the real role of government. The payoff could even be a huge bonus for hitting the target. Pun intended.

John, we’re talking about extinction here and the payoff to humanity would be infinite. I appreciate the risk is tiny, but the fat tail is freaking huge.

JC I think you are underestimating how much work is going on in this area. From GPT:

One of the most recent attempts to send a projectile to intercept a meteor was NASA’s DART mission, which successfully hit its target asteroid on Monday, September 26, 2022. DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test and it was the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration1. The mission aimed to deflect the orbit of a small asteroid moon called Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos. Neither of these asteroids poses a threat to Earth, but they were chosen as a test case for the kinetic impact technique, which involves colliding a spacecraft with an asteroid to change its trajectory. DART was launched on November 24, 2021 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and traveled for 10 months in space before reaching its target. It impacted Dimorphos at a speed of about 15,000 mph (24,000 kph) and altered its orbit around Didymos by about 1%, or roughly 10 minutes1. Scientists will use ground-based telescopes to measure the exact change in Dimorphos’ orbit and learn more about the effectiveness of this method for planetary defense.

Muslims in India need to emigrate.

JC
Sep 7, 2023 11:23 PM
Which will accelerate the development of genetically engineered humans. Might be the only thing that saves us from ourselves.

I once read an amusing article on genetically modifying humans. The author pondered whether gals would choose a very brilliant geek or a child who would grow up to be a good-looking jock with high IQ. You couldn’t have it both ways. The author believes Sheila would choose the latter without hesitation.

IQ is declining, some argue for 50 years. Women will go for the good looking high IQ jock but the big breakthroughs, the work of genius, has a significant amount of geekiness involved. Fortunately women also go for those types but my impression, only that, is that the smarter the person the less children. Unfortunately we are now going dysgenic. Higher rates of cancer, diabetes, autoimmunity, infertility, cardiovascular disease, disabilities in general are increasing because only 2 generations ago most were denied the opportunity to reproduce and now so many are saved at birth(many societies abandoned the seriously disabled). These are longstanding trends and for the most part no-one has any idea why all of it is happening. There was even a recent report that the male chromosome is disappearing. That has happened to a species of rat but that species got lucky because of a gene change that allows the female to male switch to happen. We might not be so lucky. Just tonight I watched a Scifi series which was about a species with an inherent genetic flaw that meant over generations their genome deteriorates, guaranteeing their doom.

“The human Y is in the very last stages of degeneration, and the big question is how long till it, too, gets lost, and what will happen when it does. If it goes on degenerating at the same rate it has over the last 150 million years, it has only a few million years to go,” Graves said.

Steve trickler
Sep 8, 2023 12:19 AM
Classics!

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Superwog:

Real Estate Agents

Thanks Steve, haven’t seen that one.

I enjoyed the series.

Speaking of volcanoes …

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/one-volcano-can-ruin-your-climate-dogma/

Seymour Hersh has a column out on Prigozhin.
ZeroHedge usually picks these up same day.
It’s paywalled so can not post apart from the introduction.

Cornel West DISMISSES Harm Done By Covid Lockdowns & Vaccine Mandates!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdPFqvDKEBI

It would be good if all presidential candidates were roasted like this.
Imagine Hannity doing this to Trump.
Or Maddow doing this to Biden.

Tom
Sep 8, 2023 4:00 AM
John Spooner.

Spooner has nailed Chalmers — the inflatable doll.

Believe All Women news (the Tele):

A businessman from Sydney’s eastern suburbs, who spent three weeks in jail on remand after being charged with striking his girlfriend, was released on bail after a court was shown CCTV footage of the incident.

Marco Furia, 42, had been refused bail when he appeared in Waverley Magistrates Court on June 20 charged with two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Police alleged that Furia punched and knocked Rossella Veraldi unconscious.

Nasty, nasty man. Oh, wait:

About two weeks later his lawyer, Paul McGirr, was supplied with CCTV after he asked the police to obtain the footage from the Bondi apartment block where the alleged incident took place.

In the 25-minute CCTV footage obtained by the Telegraph, it shows Ms Veraldi repeatedly grabbing Furia from behind and trying to drag him from the foyer before he spins, hitting her with his elbow.

She then falls to the ground and is later seen sitting outside the complex in her bra and jeans after removing her top. A passer-by called the police and Furia was arrested.

This better not be another example of chick-believery at the expense of actual events that somehow made it to court despite the jacks not conducting basic investigations….

“The footage totally contradicts the fact sheet,’’ Mr McGirr said.

“My client was never the aggressor and nowhere is it stated that Ms Veraldi repeatedly got physical with him, which is clearly visible.”

Ah. Yes, yes it was another one of those.

Furia said he was determined to defend the matter to protect his reputation.

“My client spent weeks in jail, his business nearly collapsed and if not for the CCTV footage would most likely still be there and the truth may not have ever come out,” Mr McGirr said.

I would suggest it is now a big fat payday for Mr Furia once these horseshit charges are withdrawn (which they will be), and fair enough too.

Each day the beam of light moves along the track, which is divided into months and days. Eventually at the winter solstice the beam of light starts tracking back again. Very much along the lines of The Da Vinci Code film.

Both things also relating I suggest to some very deeply embedded Indo-European comprehensions about ‘catching’ the last rays of the winter solstice in some deistic ritual – as we see in the Bru Na Boyne ancient monument in Ireland and many other Neolithic sites with similar ‘catching’ architecture.

So interesting to hear of your travels, Top Ender. Smart Cats on holidays looking out for history and nuance can return far more perceptive accounts than the usual travel routines offered by rellies and friends.

Ah. Yes, yes it was another one of those.

Sadly, there was no CCTV around in Perth WA when my son’s ex-partner hit out violently at him in a psychotic rage while he was seated and nowhere near her, grabbed their child aged two, and ran screaming down the hallway of a motel claiming he had hit her. I was present and saw it all, but who would believe his mother? This psychotic woman then persuaded a feminist refuge to support her custody case re the child. It took two years, much trauma to the child due to her psychotic episodes and her druggie associates, and a huge amount of anguish for my son to clear his name (she finally admitted she’d lied in order to try to keep custody) and have full custody awarded to him.

Do NOT believe all women.

The Hindu vibe I’ve picked up in India.
Christians are only driven to succeed and don’t share.
Muslims think everybody should work for them.
Sikhs are only loyal to Sikhs.

Hairy, in disgust at what our universities have become, emailed me Bettina Arndt’s account of the work her group are doing to stand up for young men facing university Kangaroo Courts over false accusations of supposed ‘sexual touching’ which they, bewildered, strongly deny. Sometimes the accusers are ex-girlfriends. Some of these young men are Asian international students who are then dismissed from the university and have to seek proper justice elsewhere, in great personal and financial distress. All of them, Asian or local, have been given no credible justice in what amounts to modern ‘show trials’ in our woke institutions of learning. As past academics and alumni, both of us are horrified by what is being done here.

Bettina seeks funding for this work. A very worthy cause.

Thanks for the traveller’s tales TE. Those astronomical clocks interest me also. In the last few hours, we’ve had volcanoes, tsunamis and heavenly timepieces.

All, incidentally, woven in to Tolkien’s tales, LOTR, Silmarillion and Hobbit respectively.

As he drew from ancient folk tales from far and wide but mostly scandi, we can assume that such events and objects sit deep within human hearts and memory. Little wonder these fascinate us. There’s something magnetic about stories of objects trawled up from the drowned world around the Med, for instance.

Victoria’s Yoorrook Commission biased from the beginning
CHRIS MERRITT

The most regrettable aspect of this week’s report by Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission is its biased attempt to rewrite Indigenous history and portray it as “truth-telling”.

The fact that this commission found that Aborigines had been subjected to injustice was no surprise. That is exactly what the state government told it to find when it presented the commission with the letters patent in 2021.

That skewed foundation forms the basis for something far more dubious: a proposal by Yoorrook to wind back equality before the law by establishing a separate Indigenous-controlled and Indigenous-designed system of child protection and criminal justice for young people.
This would set a terrible precedent.

If it is acceptable for Indigenous people to control and design parts of the justice system to suit themselves, how long will it be before other groups start asking for the same treatment?

This is not the first time equality before the law has been under threat. But it is one of the most serious challenges to this doctrine.

It questions the legitimacy not just of Australian law, but of Australia itself.

This is what Yoorrook says about criminal justice: “The present-day criminal justice and child protection systems are deeply rooted in the colonial foundations of the state of Victoria. Australia is a settler colony, meaning the colonisers ‘come to stay’ …

“Colonisation, as implemented by colonial and later Victorian state authorities, created the structure, systems and conditions under which first peoples continue to be subjected to harm and systemic injustice.”

This seems to be asserting some sort of race-based entitlement to make and apply laws that is superior to the democratic legitimacy of laws based on universal franchise.

There is only one way to deal with this lunacy and that is to follow the example of former federal attorney-general Robert McClelland.

Twelve years ago, McClelland was faced with a push for “legal pluralism” from the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. It wanted Australian law to recognise elements of sharia law.

“If there is any inconsistency between cultural values and the rule of law then Australian law wins out,” said McClelland who is now Deputy Chief Justice of the Federal Circuit and Family Court.

Yoorrook’s call for a separate system of juvenile justice for Indigenous children should be rejected, not only because it erodes the principle of equal treatment, but because it rests on a flawed foundation and would entrench racial division.
This commission’s letters patent did not ask this commission to investigate whether Aborigines had been subjected to injustice. The existence of injustice was simply assumed.

Nor did the letters patent instruct the commission to provide a balanced picture of the Indigenous history of Victoria. It was told by the state government to find systemic injustice – and that is exactly what it did.

The first objective in the letters patent instructed the commission to “establish an official public record based on first people’s experiences of systemic injustice since the start of colonisation”.

This explains why the picture that emerges from this report is so one dimensional.

All Australians, particularly those with convict forebears, are fully aware that bad things happened in colonial times. But that is not the full story of this country’s people.

If Yoorrook had been allowed to consider the full history of Indigenous Victoria – the good and the bad – this report’s tale of unending woe might have been more nuanced and could even have carried some weight.

But that was not to be. Instead, a narrative of victimhood was set in train from the very beginning.
This report casts no light on the question of whether Indigenous people have benefited in any way from the introduction of concepts such as the rule of law, democracy, equality of citizenship and the suppression of traditional forms of punishment.

That would have meant going beyond the monotonous tale of grievance and giving Indigenous people a balanced picture of what has been gained and lost over the past 200 years.

This would have meant confronting the harsh reality of pre-colonial life and making an informed assessment of whether the lives of Indigenous people have improved.

In a recent book on the voice referendum, Indigenous leader Bess Price is uncompromising in her criticism of elites who imagine what pre-colonial life was like for Indigenous people.

“They romanticise it, creating what I call a Disneyland version,” she writes in the foreword of The Spirit Behind the Voice.

Price, who is the mother of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, is a former minister in the Northern Territory government and is one generation removed from first contact with white men, who she refers to as kardiya.

She makes it clear she has a very different perspective to that of Indigenous leaders who have no lived experience of what she described as “the Old Law”.

“They never talk about the downside, 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.

“The 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 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 (white men), by racism and colonisation.

“They have made everything worse, but all of these problems come from our own culture.”

Chris Merritt is vice-president of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia.

From the Oz

Top Ender
Sep 8, 2023 5:23 AM
Interesting church experience here in Galaxidi…

There are many beautiful and interesting things in this world, TE. Thank you for this description of yet another little local marvel wrought by the hand of man.

“The human Y is in the very last stages of degeneration, and the big question is how long till it, too, gets lost, and what will happen when it does. If it goes on degenerating at the same rate it has over the last 150 million years, it has only a few million years to go,”

Gender bending might be more reasonable then. It can wait.
It is definitely not reasonable now.

Y is still sturdy enough, thank goodness… 😉

signed xx