Open Thread – Thurs 14 Sept 2023
1,050 responses to “Open Thread – Thurs 14 Sept 2023”
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Na’omi Ducaena Allen
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Sep 13
English speaking spokesperson for the Ukrainian military: Ukraine will hunt down “Russian propagandists” around the world.Imagine being lectured to by a man pretending to be a woman about God and morality.
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Bruce of Newcastle
Home floresiensis is a descendant of Homo habilis!?
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Zelensky will waltz into Washington next week to demand a further 21 billion in “aid” at the same time as Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen, is being subjected to Soviet style persecution in Ukraine. Under the circumstances, a single word of support from the U.S. would secure his release but I seriously doubt they will even acknowledge his existence. Releasing terrorists to Iran? Well, that’s a different matter.
Not to mention some significant aid to Maui survivors, who are being totally ignored, by both the government and the media.
American is being run by criminal traitors.
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It’s in revelations people
I am pissing myself laughingYou’re not Robinson Crusoe. This is genuinely hilarious.
‘The children got fried by the death rays. The surviving parents have all been silenced by the National Guard and the Official Secrets Act, along with every single last one of the extended families of two thousand children.’
You know where this is going.
Millions enslaved underground!
Thousands of secret indictments! Arrests shortly!
Gitmo full! Army tanks!It’s Happening !!!1!!
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Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 15, 2023 5:36 PM
Home floresiensis is a descendant of Homo habilis!?John – I thought the hobbits were Erectus, stuck on an island.
Indo has a lot of H. Erectus sites as I recall.
That is the prevailing view. There is evidence that habilis had been in Europe at 1.8 million years. Erectus wasn’t the first to leave Africa.
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Some people are massively disapppinted.
Its the NYT and partially paywalled.Hawaii’s governor announced on Friday that the list of people missing from the Lahaina fire had been whittled down to just 66 names, down from 385.
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rosie
Sep 15, 2023 5:54 PM
Some people are massively disapppinted.
Its the NYT and partially paywalled.Hawaii’s governor announced on Friday that the list of people missing from the Lahaina fire had been whittled down to just 66 names, down from 385.
Number of Missing in Maui Wildfires Drops to 66, from Hundreds
At one time, in the first days after the fire, the number of the missing swelled to close to 3,000. The official death toll remains at 115, a figure that hasn’t budged in more than two weeks.
You gobble up the MSM like a dry sponge to water.
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KD at 3:11.
Cricket legend Stuart MacGill has been charged with taking part in a $330,000 cocaine deal that police allege led to the spin bowler being kidnapped.
FMD.
This idiot went to the cops and blathered to the media about it. His whole story had so many holes it looked like it had been shot up by a Death Ray Machine.
Rule 1 of Coke Club.
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Year 11 & 12 girls were included in the 1970s male teachers job description ..
And it was entirely illegal at the time, with no statute of limitations.
My sympathy for the Dawson grubs is approaching zero.Indeed.
The present overbearing menace of potential accusation was not nearly as bad, but rules were rules and the law was enforced.
I remember one teacher from my school running away with a fifteen year old, and the long arm reached him very quickly. Remember running away with someone?
Moonlighting… its the only way…
Moonlighting… running off to Gretna in song!
And a few years later another teacher of mine married his former student… a very happy and successful marriage of about 40 years so far. -
Dawson’s future, or lack of it, described in the Oz:
Christopher Michael Dawson will serve three years’ imprisonment for the unlawful carnal knowledge of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who later became his wife, and then his accuser.
The sentence, delivered by Judge Sarah Huggett in the NSW District Court on Friday, will be served partially concurrently with the 24-year term Dawson is already serving for the murder of his first wife, Lynette Simms.
The new sentence, to commence in August 2039, has a two-year non parole period and will extend Dawson’s mandatory time behind bars by an extra year, to August 2041.
By then he will be 93 years old.
It might all be moot, however – new laws in NSW, achieved by a campaign led by Lyn’s grieving family, means Dawson won’t be eligible for parole at all unless he reveals what he did with Lyn’s body.
If he maintains his silence, Dawson will not see freedom until 2046, when he is 98 years old.
“It’s a bit of a rollercoaster,” Dawson told psychiatrist Dr Olav Nielssen, who provided a report to the court indicating Dawson has symptoms of anxiety – although he has rejected medication for the condition – and is in the early stages of dementia.
“Some days I’ll wake up feeling all right. Other days I feel unmotivated,” Dawson told the doctor.
Wearing prison greens, including a khaki zip-up jacket, and clasping his hands in front of his face, Dawson looked dejected as he appeared via video-link from Long Bay prison.
The once-glamorous rugby league star, who dazzled the schoolgirls of the Northern Beaches in his heyday, is a grey and shrunken man.
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Knuckle Dragger
Sep 15, 2023 5:09 PM
Does anyone seriously think two thousand children went missing during wildfires, haven’t come back and that nobody’s asking questions aside from Space Laser Tunnel Committee #4?
This horseshit would have to have involved tens of thousands of people keeping their traps shut for decades.
That is one flaw in all these epic conspiracies. They would have required scores, if not hundreds or thousands of participants.
But 20, 30 or even 50 years later, not one of them speaks. Not even a deathbed confession from someone with nothing to lose.
Zero.
However, despite their meticulous planning and their iron grip on any investigation and media coverage, they always leave some snippet of evidence behind for “trusted sources” to find.
Like Tickler’s two holes in the Oklahoma bombing building.
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Apparently, if that’s what it was, it didn’t need to come from space.
Lahaina Is Within 40 Miles of a U.S. Government Directed Energy Facility on Maui
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Poor widdle Linda Burney rolling out the “racist” card. Linda, you have not answered any QT questions posed to you from the Opposition.. You are a disgrace. Go and sit next to dear old Marcia and cry your “racist” tears together. Both of you have been the best advertisements for the NO vote. Congratulations.
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As I said yesterday, he’s on his way out.
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There’s a very good reason why Peta Credlin runs the No.1 news show on Australian pay TV; She may have misguidedly protected prime minister Tony Abbott from the real world in 2013-15, but she has her finger on the pulse of middle Australia.
Her’s is the only news show this evening that is talking about the Australian cost of living crisis front and centre and not being sidetracked by the apartheid referendum distraction squirrel.
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All Shire Councils can burn in Hell.
The drones who work in these jobs seem to have nothing better to do than find ways to obstruct or delay any worthwhile project put to them.
First reaction: “Oh, you can’t do that without a qualified person to sign off on to the Shire’s satisfaction, plus you will need to pay a fee of X dollars to lodge your application”
Ratepayers are just a source of income and must be fended off at every opportunity.
Bludgers, ho-hopers and jobsworths, a blight on the community.
Rant over.
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Sancho Panzer
Sep 15, 2023 6:38 PM
Steve tricklerSep 15, 2023 6:32 PM
Sancho Panzer
Sep 15, 2023 6:28 PMDo you think it is BS?
Yes, I do harbour a level of scepticism around the veracity of some of your DEW stories, that is true.
But do carry on.
They provide great entertainment value.
Most were clueless about it until I brought it up. You are a ignorant f-wit.
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Chris at 6:16.
The most disgusting thing about the Dawsons was the number of maaaates in the local Plod who ran interference for them, firstly over the statutory rape of schoolgirls, and secondly over the murder.
Imagine being the father of a 15 year old girl going down to complain to the local Plod (who spent his Sundays getting on the piss at the rugby club with the Dawsons) that one or both of them was shagging your under-age daughter.
At best they would ignore it.
At worst they would fit you up with some dishonesty offence to shut you up.
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Haha, Calli lives in Boganville.
Man caught driving 224km/h in 100km/h zone (Ncl local news, 15 Sep)
A 23-year old male driver has been charged after he was last night caught allegedly driving more than double the speed limit at Port Stephens.
His licence was suspended, and his number plates have been seized for three months.
The report doesn’t mention what type of donk he was driving. But 224 kph is worthy!
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Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 15, 2023 6:38 PM
At least 1 million years ago Bruce.John – Gave citations. Interesting the Denisovians made it as far as east Indo. I don’t think they were hobbits though.
The video provides the details. The hobbits had Oldowan tools which is consistent with habilis. Erectus had Acheulian tools.
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Most were clueless about it until I brought it up
Please do share a personal photo of one of these “DEW” devices. I have included a sample DEW in the link here since I lack clues on where the DEW reside.
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Black Ball
Sep 15, 2023 9:26 AM
Or if you are coming through Kerang, pull in for a coffee ?I’ve got that in mind, BB.
I’m getting my header from Horsham on Monday/Tuesday but putting it on a float and going back through Echuca.
I’m planning on catching up this coming harvest.Re the pub in Rochie. I used to eat there when down working on headers so know the place well. A great little cafe (Kits Kafe) just on the Bendigo side of the pub will, sadly, not open again. The government just about killed them with the Covid madness and just when they were getting back on their feet along comes the flood.
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The hobbits had Oldowan tools which is consistent with habilis. Erectus had Acheulian tools.
John – Yeah they weren’t especially bright, having regressed. Like the pygmy elephants. I think that fits the data better than a human lineage that no one has found in that particular hemisphere.
Note the time the tiny elephants went extinct…coincidence not, I should think.
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Tucker interviewed Javier Milei, who is the front runner in the Argentine presidential election.
He sounds pretty good. However there’s a fundamental problem with one of his most important policies. He wants to “dollarize” the economy, which means getting rid of the Peso entirely and using the US dollar as the national currency.
That’s well and good, but I can’t see how his objective of attracting US$40 billion into the economic system is feasible when the country is broke and virtually no one wants to hold Argentine assets that would allow US dollars to flow into the financial system.
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But 20, 30 or even 50 years later, not one of them speaks.
Common in several areas I’ve researched, including the first air raid on Darwin, in the Pearl Harbor attack, in Cyclone Tracy, and in the sinking of HMAS Sydney. People would rather believe a conspiracy story, despite logic – as KD says above – being one of the major factors discounting such stories.
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There were energy weapons at the protest in Canberra.
These are sound weapons that discombobulates people, makes some nauseous.
They use a f*ck ton of power, truck mounted and are ineffective more than 100m away.
Been around for a decade or two.These are different to the DEW’s that have been referenced here.
These DEW are apparently satellite mounted & somehow can destroy buildings from orbit.As I said this morning, a DEW could have been responsible for the Oklahoma bombing.
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Have been perusing the tv guide to find something decent for tonight.
Can heartily recommend all three seasons of ‘Mr In-Between’, on demand via Foxtel.
The lead actor pulls off the difficult chore of being both a violent thug for hire, a devoted dad and a man with his own core principles — as the kiddie-fiddlers in the cellar found out.
Terrific stuff. You’ll binge it all in a couple of nights.
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Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 15, 2023 6:49 PM
Man caught driving 224km/h in 100km/h zone (Ncl local news, 15 Sep)
The report doesn’t mention what type of donk he was driving. But 224 k/ph is worthy!Actually, whilst 224kp/h is obviously pretty quick, there are huge numbers of standard cars that have a top speed equal to or greater than 224 k/ph. A bog standard 2017 Holden Calais V6 will achieve 235+ k/ph. The V8 version will pass 240+ k/ph.
Even overweight cruisers like the Mazda CX7 have a top speed around 210 k/ph. The little CX3 will almost see 200 k/ph (probably a fairly ‘exciting’ ride in a CX3 at 200 clicks/hour) 🙂
And you don’t need to go expensive European to get high top speeds. The 2024 Hyundai i30 N reputedly has had the electronic speed limiter increased from 250 k/ph to 280 k/ph !! Not bad from a 2litre turbo charged ICE. Now the fastest car in the Hyundai range.
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Actually, whilst 224kp/h is obviously pretty quick, there are huge numbers of standard cars that have a top speed equal to or greater than 224 k/ph.
Years ago, a friend took me to a race track for some fun with his racing Porsche. He took the little monster to 240k and it’s the fastest I’ve ever ridden in a car. It’s a whole new experience. The world feels different at that speed.
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Speedy – My bro would outrun plod at 240kph on his Ducati 900. Once with me as a pillion passenger we cracked the old ton on the Bondi Junction bypass, between the traffic lights. I don’t like motorbikes since I’m a treadly guy, the centre of gravity is too different to be comfortable. I think he still has his Duke. I do know he still has his thirty five year old Hilux ute. He’s an excellent brother.
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Outside Double Bay Woolworths yesterday in front of all the little trendy shops there were four people doing stalwart service handing out the No case leaflets produced by the Libs. They wore orange identifiers with No on them, but their main sign looked faily handmade from my quick glance. They weren’t doing great business, a few stopping to talk here and there, but I took a leaflet on the way in and out just to fly the colours. I was in too much of a hurry to catch the JP to sign documents in the Library to stop and chat to them.
Hairy reckons that a lot of the No voters in Spender Teal Territory wouldn’t be seen dead picking up a leaflet but that it will be a different story on the day.
I hope he’s right in that. Bolt’s crowing about certainties is far too soon I think. Howard, that canny old TDS geriatric, ridiculously praising Biden of all things, has seen a lot of elections nevertheless and did offer a caution about counting chickens re the No certainty. He was OK on the Voice in general so perhaps he will do the cause some good with a lot of old Liberal rusted-ons.
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Sancho points out one of the most scandalous aspects of the Dawson/Teacher’s Pet fiasco: how the state education systems got a free pass from the left-dominated media and that lack of political prostitutes of the Socialist Left faction who made up the Gillard-McClellan royal commission.
There was no excuse for that, none whatsoever. Justice Wood’s royal commission in NSW in the 90s exposed all the pathologies of the state education system that are now appearing as so-called news. But Wood, because he dared investigate the industrial-scale prostitution of underage boys in and around Darlinghurst, has been damned forever by the woke as a reactionary purveyor of moral panic and a fascist redneck homophobe.
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JC
Sep 15, 2023 7:42 PM
It’s a whole new experience. The world feels different at that speed.Yes, it is. And addictive too. Once you get the taste for the speed, and the adrenalin, it’s impossible to give up. Weirdly, the only thing that eventually catches up is age (sigh). Then, you just have to pull over and let the young ones pass. 🙁
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Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 15, 2023 7:51 PM
Speedy – My bro would outrun plod at 240kph on his Ducati 900. Once with me as a pillion passenger we cracked the old ton on the Bondi Junction bypass, between the traffic lights.Yes, bikes are in a whole different category when it comes to speed. I have only ridden a motorbike 2-3 times in my life and even then, only briefly. Cars were my thing.
Your story about your brother remined me that I had a mate who had a Kawasaki 900 (Kwaka 9) back in the day. He took me for a ride as a pillion in the suburbs. JESUS CHRIST!!!! 160+ k/ph in no time flat. Loved it but those things are dangerous. No way – I’m sticking to 4 wheels.
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Yesterday, Crowe was constantly searching for a gotcha that would destroy Price’s stance against the Voice
Tom, was that the tosser on-stage sitting on the chair near the end of questions?
The one that tried to sing colonialism back into being after Senator Price had just dealt with the question?
He got a proper slap for his stupidity .
Laughed my arse off … was the best part of the show
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