Am I lucky this morning?
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3 down. Australia will probably lose tomorrow. Despite all the bullshit, I still support Australia.
Well spotted Ceres.
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
How depressing: Australia (3-12) trail India by 521 runs after day three.
Good morning fellow wreckers!
The ‘one’ thing uniting ‘No’ campaign is to ‘wreck things’ (16 Sep)
She must’ve been reading up on Great Stalin. He liked to talk about wreckers, diversionists, spies and terrorists a lot. Can we get a “diversionists” please Amanda, or a “terrorists”? That would be excellent! I’ll settle for “deplorable” though, if you are feeling less generous.
What “things” is he wrecking? Labor’s plan to stitch up the Constitution to knobble future conservative governments? Those “things”? Or Labor’s plan to divide Australia along racial lines even more than it already is? That “thing”?
The “one thing” uniting the campaign for the Voice is a desire to see Australia a united country, with no single race elevated over another. A minor factor is disgust at the spectacle of fauxboriginal troughers squealing in anger and fear that their fast track to power and wealth over the backs of the deliberately disadvantaged is cut off.
Spare us your schoolgirl imprecations and crocodile tears, Amanda.
Spare us your schoolgirl imprecations and crocodile tears, Amanda.
Rishworth is more proof that political office is not open to people who have had real jobs.
None of this matters, not even to our High Court judges. The only thing standing between their remaking of history and present are our votes, for now. The elites are hellbent on assuming the power they think is their due that consistency and accuracy are expendable in that pursuit. I am really heartened that everyday people know when something smells off and refuse to comply.
Got home last night after a few beers & a few wines.
I don’t drink much these days & I couldn’t sleep.
So I start watching the Justified reboot.
Of all the cities to send Raylan Givens….Detroit?
Boyd Holbrook always plays a good bad guy.
But I hope it gets better otherwise the legacy of the original series will be tarnished.
I can’t imagine Olyphant or the Elmore Leonard estate needed the money.
You too can now enjoy the Soviet era shopping experience!
Chicago Mayor Johnson Moves Toward City-Run Grocery Stores (17 Sep)
Trudeau Threatens ‘Grocery Tax’ To Combat ‘Record Profits’ (17 Sep)
Time to start up those black markets for meat, fish and other proscribed climate foods.
Politicians of all stripes hate Trump because he showed them that he could do it better than them. He ran once and succeeded while they spend their whole lives trying. This could give others ideas and then where would be the political class. The more anti-Trump politicians are the more I think they envy him for making it look easy.
The secret of Trump’s success is simple, he ran on what voters wanted and didn’t discard those principles when he got there. The professional politicians of all stripes find that extremely threatening.
Yes Crossie Trump really made the polliemuppets expose themselves as the creeps they really are. Sent them into a frenzy.
I don’t advise self insuring if you have enough risk that it’s costing you 2k for insurance.
Other than the couple of countries with reciprocal agreements with Australia an accident or a serious illness overseas would be a nightmare.
The excellent air museum at Hendon has an early production model Concorde, the first I have ever been close to.
The impressions are interesting.
It is very small.
Reflective of materials engineering of the time, the entry hatch is uncomfortably small, even a little claustrophobic. Not quite as small as the Comet hatch but certainly an example of how materials have advanced since those times.
The internal fitout was more in keeping with a No. 96 bus than the ultimate in priveledged travel options.
None of which gainsays the engineering genius of the design but it is a stark lesson in how rapidly technology and our expectations have changed.
Piers Akerman:
Mowing the roadsides this weekend.
A ninety HP New Holland tractor carrying a seven foot twin rotor slasher.
There’s no chance whatsoever that the council will do any fire control work.
Tall thick grass making it bloody slow work, four kilometres done yesterday with three cut widths on each road edge.
Blade grinding now and topping up the gear oil.
Podcasts are a must on this job.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee says everything that needs to be said about the fallout of colonialism and assimilation.
Langton, Mayo, Pearson simply want to be the Queen or King of all First Nations Australians.
Colonel Miles was very based without being pathologically anti Native American.
PS Wolfman, review Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
The injustice of climate change set the stage for disaster in Derna
not NATO delivering democracy by the laser guided tonne.
Fossil fuels do more damage to civic infrastructure than Mark 84 low drags.
Apparently.
I would agree.
Our insurance for Japan cost around $500 I think, even after ticking a couple of pre-condition boxes for things we don’t really have, but a sharp claims assessor might draw a long bow if wanting to reject a claim.
I bought it online. It has extensive medical coverage and basic cancellation ($20k) and luggage and effects ($5k).
Expensive personal items and medical conditions are the premium cost drivers I think.
Oh, and if you think medivac from far flung places will cost $200k, you’re dreamin’.
I know of someone who recently paid just short of $100k for a domestic Australian medivac flight.
I’d use a DEW.
I can’t imagine Olyphant or the Elmore Leonard estate needed the money.
I , actually, enjoyed it! .. and “they” didn’t send Raylon to Detroit .. he & daughter were on a driving trip & passing thru ……
Quickly on Concorde.
I think some more homework needs to be done on “moving fuel around to increase thrust”.
And as for being “overweight” are they talking MTOW or landing weight, if an emergency landing had to be attempted shortly after take-off?
News.com is all over the place on the Voice.
For some reason, European Editor Sam Clench is given space to bag Jacinta Price:
Shameless fib at the heart of the Voice debate
Luckily we have Fully Honest Sam setting the pace and repeating the Yes line that the Voice simply provides input to policy being made in Canbra.
Oddly enough, the Referendum wording gives the Voice the power to “make representations to Parliament and the Executive”.
Parliament makes policy and turns it into legislation – the Executive implements it. If you were a curious soul, you’d have to wonder what giving power to the Voice to make representations to the Executive actually means.
Perhaps the High Court will tell us.
We noticed…
I don’t normally subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I just see the “Voice” as being the means of rendering Australia ungovernable, if the peasants ever elect another Liberal Government.
Meme
Even more evidence that nobody should wear a face mask
The Voice is many things. A political weapon to be used if the wrong party is in power, as you say. It’s also a massive future fund once reparations are agreed. Which will attract hordes more parasites to glom on to the perpetual Indidge Industry. No wonder the left are so in love with such a bountiful prospect.
Immunisation Agenda 2030: Bill Gates’ latest plan to vaccinate every man, woman and child on Earth
For Military cats – Today marks the anniversary of the commencement of Operation “Market Garden” and the battle for Arnhem – a rotten plan, but one that nearly succeeded.
I’ve heard it said that one of the worst mistakes the Germans made during World War Two was to win the battle for Arnhem, allowing the Soviets to capture Berlin.
9 in every 10 COVID Deaths over the last year have been among the Fully/Triple Vaccinated
Heavily armed man posing as federal agent arrested at RFK Jr. campaign event, as Secret Service protection continues to be denied to his campaign
BB your comment with Piers Ackerman on Jacinta Price is good but I think he got a couple of things wrong. Jacinta speaks for me too, an old white guy. She is not talking politics just common sense. He mentioned Luigi and Burney being a long way from the remote problems. Distance has nothing to do with it. Wilful disregard of problems for self indulgent grifting is the order of the day or in Aboriginal affairs, decades.
A touch of reality.
‘A cavity is not a vagina’: Trans woman refused healthcare in France
It would also get rid of roadside rubbish and Greg and Cheryl (Ch17) parked up overnight in the Round Australia 95kph Winnebago.
Connected to our political class despising Trump because he showed them up for the insects they are, is the loathing of our j’ismists.
Trump not only reveals the dark, foetid, underground nest where the unworthy plot the unthinkable to inflict on the unprotected to satisfy the unslakable, but he also made j’ismists look stupid.
Remember that one of the key factors in Trump’s rise was his speaking past the media and directly to the voters. The public got to see Trump for themselves, not the clumsily deconstructed and blandly painted version – with a few cartoon speech bubbles with enough keywords to make clear that people are expected to hate him.
A political aspirant speaking directly to voters without a j’ismists as intermediary explaining each side to the other as the j’ismists expertise (and prejudices) seemed illegitimate.
And a threat.
The only thing to do was and is to affect a highly detached condescension to try to squish the embarrassing little bug – and hope people believe it.
He should feel right at home in the U.S.
Zelensky political rival charged with treason
“They are a long way from Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney’s Balmain home”
LOL….Burney’s home is a long way from Burney’s electorate.
Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assault
and apropos
Catturd ™
@catturd2
When you speak truth to power, and your voice gets big enough to change hearts and minds, this is what the New World Order does to you ….
Julian Assange … prisoner for years.
President Trump … facing 800 years in prison.
Andrew Tate … jailed without charges for months.
Russell Brand … here we go again.
These people are pure evil.
Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is acquitted of corruption charges at historic impeachment trial
Tits Shorten on radio grab just now.
“What do we lose as a nation if we vote no?”
I wouldn’t thought a great deal. FMD
Cool aid on a global scale.
Governments To Consider Blocking Sun, Sucking-Off Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere
Love this WIP
“Quickly on Concorde.
I think some more homework needs to be done on “moving fuel around to increase thrust”.
The centre of lift moves further aft at increased supersonic speeds so you need more UP elevon to maintain level flight causing trim drag which is inefficient fuel consumption-wise. By pumping fuel aft you reduce the strength of the Lift/Weight couple so you don’t need as much UP elevon.
For shame, don’t you care that Aboriginal hearts will be broken if a brutal, uncaring Australia votes “NO?” Naah, me neither.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
Best scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVqQosyOpg4
Hopefully, Uncle Luigi.
It is funny – he is being dishonest in talking about dishonesty.
Hopefully, a very large number of one-sixteenth and less pseudo-indigenous parasites and French letters on the prick of progress.
Many years ago, I was listening to Phatty Adams interview an actual aborigine. He asked the guest what would happen if aborigines suddenly ceased to exist. The response was on the lines of “A million whities would immediately lose their sinecures.”
One of the few useful and accurate things ever said on the “little radio show”.
I’m a big fan of self insuring. Never had contents and I suspect I was probably uninsured for most of the time I ran my car. Always got some cheap travel insurance for anything overseas. The reason old people can’t get insurance is they are bad risks. My sister’s MIL is running hard into the problem in her 80s. I think she is married to some guy plugged into the Red Tulip estate and spends half the year out the country from what I can tell. That is about to end. Most companies won’t touch people without insurance.
Hopefully, Uncle Luigi.
Tits’ words was in a broader discussion about whether Albo will be removed if the referendum is defeated. Not at all will he be gone sez Shorten.
He’s sharpening the knives as we speak.
AP is now funded by left wing foundations.
Get a load of the “reporting”.
The Hard Right enters the language.
It must be fat fingers. When I uptick it records two.
My latest effort for Boambee recorded three.
Don’t go getting a big head now.
Not sure you can do that now with cars today – the economics of writing them off seems to have changed completely. My support worker was involved in a crash and is getting around in another 3yo insurance write off. A mate got a new BMW road bike when the old one literally fell over and smashed the fibreglass. Ironically he can’t ride the new one because he can’t get comprehensive insurance in London because of bike theft.
A declaration of fealty from Goblin Shorten will be a great comfort to Australia’s Overseas Representative.
I’m sure he has Peanut Head and Plibbers full support.
JC – sounds like AP has as much faith in the US “justice system” as I do. None.
So just make your representations then, as anyone else can.
Assuming that is all there is to it, that is.
Cliff Boof.
I am aware of the CoG changes by shifting fuel forward or aft.
I was picking up on the simplistic phrase “increasing thrust by pumping fuel around”.
“A good government was losing its way…”
It’s not a joke and it should have killed the credibility of news organisations like Associated Press stone dead:
Associated Press Coverage of Courts, Climate Bankrolled by Dozens of Left-Wing Foundations
In other words, “news coverage” is being bought and paid for by activist groups with a vested interest in how issues are covered.
What’s astonishing is that AP management thought no-one would notice if it took bribes from activists to give nominated groups favourable coverage.
In Circular Flow news:
Australia’s government would be collecting $70 billion a year in revenue if the emissions trading scheme was still in place, economist Ross Garnaut says.
The ETS windfall would obviously be free money, coming from hollow logs and filthy foreigners at no cost to the Australian economy.
The Double: an Expert and a Top Man.
Indolent @ 8:55am
Transgenders seeking gynaecological treatment suggests one of two things. Either their mental state is such that they really are delusional. Or, the surgical intervention and its preop preparation stuff has set these people up to actually think that what they’re getting is real female anatomy and not a clumsy construct.
Of course, turning up at a gynaecologist’s rooms, like forcing your way into a female-only change room or a women’s refuge simply maybe a power play – the, you will accept me tripe, that goes with the trans ideology. Whatever it is, these people are getting way too much attention from the media and from everyone else.
That’s been my argument to Hairy so far, Rosie, it just has to be included in the cost of travelling, but I gave way on Malaysia and the Cook Islands to his arguments that we’d just pay up to stabilise and fly home from there. It’s the principle that he wishes the endorse, he’s not worried about the cost of insurance, except that it is outrageous that you can’t just insure for medical, at our ages they make you take comprehensive cover.
Fundamentally, he believes he is invincible, which many men do. For Hairy, that’s in spite of prostate cancer, multiple DVT’s, heart stents, high BP, and being 71. Gotta love him though. Controlled moderate high Blood Pressure and being 81 are my only travel insurance sins.
Sam Clench is an absolute flyweight with an oversized ego. If I see his name at the top of an article I generally don’t make it past the headline.
Speaking of media scares. Heatwave today at 30deg on Sydney coast. WTF, BOM is doing istself no favours with this sort of scaremongering.
Obviously they have moved on from MMT now that interest rates are on the move.
We don’t really care if we lose luggage, apart from the inconvenience, so why insure it? It’s a good excuse to buy some new things overseas. 🙂
Damn right. Gotta double check the ol’ wizards sleeve.
They’d be better off seeking advice and treatment from a men’s urologist, because they would still have a basically male urinary system, and the rest would be similar to men who have been severely injured in that department between men’s legs.
They do not have a female urethral channel, nor a vagina. Perplexing stuff for a gynaecologist I should think.
No, he is not. Wrong about everything, all the time. Again.
CL has a new post about another legendary “economist”, the Krugtron.
Any “treaty” will lead to a legal dogfight as to who is, and who isn’t, Aboriginal. Bring it on, sez I
Uh oh, just heard a Warren Mundine soundbite on 4BC. He is calling for treaty with the Aboriginal people. No further details and can’t see anything on Daily Telegraph or HS.
Which raises the question who would the Federal Government negotiate a treaty with. I have seen mention of 250 to 500 “nations”.
I will say some of the Aboriginals on the No side are because they know won’t be on the Voice and they want their own power and sovereignty over their own lands.
The weather app on my phone is always wrong – it will get the general state of the weather correct, but the temperature predictions are always higher than what eventuates, for example it was out yesterday by three degrees.
I’m just glad to be able to bum around at home in shorts and a t-shirt. Looxury.
Should have read the post above mine !
Zulu is always ahead of the game.
“Bar Beach Swimmer
Sep 17, 2023 9:57 AM”
Yep…..good to see ya BBS.
“Just because it’s a cavity doesn’t mean it’s a classic vagina,””
Firstly, there’s no such thing as a “classic” vagina. There’s simply a “vagina”. No vagina can be created or replicated, it is something a biological female is born with, the code for this vagina is ordained at conception. It’s the same with the male penis.
I’m pretty sure most males here, given the choice of either a pervert’s cavity or a female’s vagina, would know which one they’d prefer to put their erect penis into and which one would provide them with the real pleasure. It won’t be the cavity or the hole.
In related news, Kellie-Jay Keen has cancelled her Auckland visit due to safety concerns. We all saw what happened in March, …remember how our very own pervert apologist here thought the violence that ensued in that Auckland park it was hysterically funny, and he supported the violence? Anyway, it’s becoming clear, very clear, that the politicised NZ police deliberately stood back and allowed the violence, not that you’ll read about it in the MSM. The Auckland police senior comment knew there was going to be violence, and they stood back and did nothing.
There’ll be an election next month in NZ which the Nationals are expected to win. Will they confront any of this cultural Marxism? Probably not, like most right of centre parties, they’ll just sit back and do sweet f*ck all. Until right of centre parties, if and when they gain power, put on boxing gloves and start punching back against woke progressivism, they’re not worth voting for.
You see, it isn’t the economy anymore, stupid.
Indolent @ 8.55
A wonderful link from a very determined gentleman gynaecologist firmly protecting his patch. It read so beautifully in the original French. I’ve tried but I can’t copy it in here.
We might open this one to the floor. * runs *
Warren Mundine was, at one stage, in favor of a “Treaty” with each of the “First Nations.” Given that some of those “First Nations” contain clans that can’t even agree on what day of the week it is, I should imagine that the next demand will be for a separate treaty with each of those clans.
If you go to the MONA art museum in Hobart – and I recommend you don’t, as all of the “art” is rubbish – they have a piece which is 90 or so vaginas on display.
Thanks, Cassie.
I remember reading an interview of Quentin Crisp who made the point that the blokes that homosexuals would be interested in are not interested in them.
People thinking that it’s a smart move to become transgender to attract the person of their dreams, should think again. It’s more miss that hit.
Appeal to Oz uizmasters-
16 The names of which three continents are derived from ancient Greek?
Two points of contention-
-Africa, helloooo
-Ancient Greek is as near to dammit as Modern Greek
they have a piece which is 90 or so vaginas on display.
As long as I don’t have to cop the pale saggy arses on display for the midwinter Loonie Dunk, I’d tolerate it.
Zulu
The negotiations with “First Nations” and their miscellaneous clans can be simple.
The protagonists of the InVoice stated clearly that Australia was invaded, not settled. This admission removes the justification for Native Title, and the fact of current government systems proves that the “First Nations” were defeated comprehensively. Our terms are (quick thoughts, not comprehensive):
You are all accepted as full citizens of modern Australia;
Those of you who wish to live a traditional lifestyle are free to do so, using only traditional methods and implements;
All others are invited to adopt a modern lifestyle, as full citizens of Australia;
You are all free to visit your traditional homelands for leisure, but must respect the property rights on owners or lessees of the land;
All reasonable efforts will be made to preserve and protect indigenous artefacts from pre-invasion times.
of owners …
Well said!
Verdict on Taronga Zoo. Was an ok day. Beatiful weather & location. Didn’t recognise the place wit all the changes.
Downsides all the shows were very preachy, stuff like the seals actually jumping and balancing were too light on. Was so over the reconition of the “didyabringyourgrogalong” tribe that was everywhere. A lot of space wasted too for a small area. Tiger enclosure coild have less Indonesian paraphanalia & more veiwing space. Bloody gorillas sat there with backs to everyone.
Still was a good day out till the little ones got bored.
“We don’t need another body of bureaucracy, we need to recognise those traditional owners.”
The Penetrated Cabinets of every bureaucracy, committee and quorum in this blighted land of qvislings has been balls-in for Acknowledgement Of Overlords for a decade now.
WA ACH Act was “recognising”- read, weaponising- “traditional owners”- read Land Corporations. It should have burnt the pen-pushers’ fingers, and spanked their *rses too. Wake up, read the papers and smell the covfefe, Mundine.
Good heavens I have just read Gerard Henderson’s takedown of former Royal Commission chair in his Media Watch Dog column — man oh man what a tour de force —
All reasonable efforts will be made to preserve and protect indigenous artefacts from pre-invasion times.
Gonna be a bit hard.
They didn’t build roads, buildings, bridges…or anything really.
In the last budget, the allocation to Indigenous Affairs increased by over $1 billion to total $4.2 billion. Linda Burney, an indigenous woman, is Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians. For the last two years, she has had the power to effect real change, to audit the thousands of aboriginal agencies which account for a further $30 billion of (mostly) federal funding and to ensure that money is redirected from the ‘big men’ to those who truly need it.
Under her control – her authoritative voice – absolutely nothing has changed.
As Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has stated frequently, we don’t need a voice, we need accountability.
Our mate Angry Anderson on why he’s voting No to Albanese’s Vanity Voice
It’s no crime to be in love with a beautiful craft, Bill
It’s not a matter of being in love with it.
I just think that calling it a “flying bomb” is stupid. Based on lack of knowledge of the subject.
The thing flew for 27+ years without a crash.
The chain of events causing the crash does not include Concorde was a “flying bomb”.
If you want to look at a failure in design, check out Concordski – TU-144
Russkis crashed one at Paris airshow.
How many 747s have gone down without being caused by a design flaw?
I absolutely agree – the entire idea and its Yes campaign is a tax-payer funded coup by the Labor government to ensure that no future Coalition government could ever govern effectively.
This would make you raring to join up!
Ukrainian conscription officer reveals huge casualty rate
Only 10-20% of those drafted in Poltava Region last fall are still fighting against Russia, Vitaly Berezhny was quoted as saying
Up to nine out of ten Ukrainian army draftees who joined in the last year have been either killed or wounded in action, a senior conscription officer in the country’s Poltava Region said on Friday, according to local media.
Speaking at a meeting of Poltava City Council, Lt. Colonel Vitaly Berezhny, who serves as acting head of the of the local recruitment and social support center, admitted that local authorities are struggling with their conscription campaign, having fulfilled only 13% of their conscription quota, placing them last in the region.
Berezhny was quoted by local media outlet Poltavshina as saying the military urgently needs reinforcements, as “out of 100 people who joined the units last fall, 10-20 remain, the rest are dead, wounded or disabled.”
To remedy the manpower shortage, the officer suggested rolling out draft notification posts in a bid to “establish the presence of conscripts.” He added that the region was also planning to create a large mechanized brigade, and urged local deputies to assist in the effort.
Ukraine announced a general mobilization shortly after the start of Russia’s military campaign in February 2022, banning most men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country. In August, former Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov said Kiev had not yet fulfilled its existing mobilization plan, suggesting there was no need for another draft drive.
However, earlier this month, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry issued a decree allowing the conscription of people with such severe conditions as hepatitis, HIV without symptoms, and clinically treated tuberculosis.
At the same time, Ukrainian authorities embarked on a massive campaign against corruption in the country’s conscription system, with President Vladimir Zelensky recently firing all regional military conscription officials.
I am more a “disaster insurance” type.
Will insure for the catastrophe with high excess. But always take the travel insurance for medical, particularly in the US.
An uninsured two week hospitalisation involving specialists = second mortgage.
On the argument that the purview of the voice will have no ability to make the parliament or the executive bend to its will.
Thinking about the trans-surgery industry for a moment, it seems that when someone intimates an interest in going down that path or, more often than not when a mentally fragile person is referred to a clinic for psychological treatment, the speed of the go to whoa is alarmingly quick, according to testimony from some young recipients of these treatments, There’s no tension between remaining whole in the body you were born with and the decision to allow a doctors to shred your skin. Essentially, it’s a sausage making exercise with bureaucrats controlling and processing its inputs and outputs.
This, I see, will be the same process should the voice get up. Bureaucrats with their own in and out boxes will sign off because to do otherwise will increase their workload – just deal with it will be the managing principle. It will become purely a functionary arm of the public service with politicians just wanting everything off the front page.
I had in mind the Bradshaw paintings and artefacts like Mungo Man.
Quote of the day, and possibly the year:
it’s a classic vagina
Like my father and grandfather before me, I had a working arrangement with the local indigenous. They were welcome to come out and shoot a couple of saltbush fed kangaroos to take home and eat, provided they “checked at the house” first, all rifles licensed, and “leave all gates as you find them.”
I did detect one mob of the “youngfelleas” on the place, without asking – when asked their business, they replied that “they didn’t have to ask permission to be on Aboriginal Land.”
Black Ball
Just got to your off, BB. Yes please.
I’ll send a message to DB.
I had to look.
What possible background could have produced the arrogant incompetence displayed by Burney.
And, there it was.
School teacher!
Chalk and slease.
A typical low numbered First AIF infantry battalion, about 1100 men (including first reinforcements), enlisted in late 1914, first went into action on 25 April 1915, last in action in early October 1918, turned over around 8000 to 9000 men, and lost 1200 to 1300 dead.
Wasn’t there a schoolteacher who used to post here?
Robert Sewell
Sep 17, 2023 11:12 AM
Black Ball
Sep 16, 2023 2:50 PM
It’s 26 pages long lol. I can email it to you if DoverLord can forward your email to me?
Just got to your off, BB. Yes please.
I’ll send a message to DB.
Robert,
you can read it here
https://www.skynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Credlin-Editorial-PDF-2.pdf
Voice referendum: Pro-‘Yes’ vote MPs called out over one small detail in a photo with the PM: ‘I thought it wasn’t about that?’
. MP’s called out after hidden detail in photo with PM is exposed
. A ‘Yes’ campaign brochure had word ‘treaty’ printed on the front
Anyone heard from Pedro lately?
Off to Chinamans Beach. Awesome Sydney day…
Then bbq with harbour view.
Have a great day all.
That is very much along the lines of the Taleb approach. Ride the bumps but beware of anything that will wipe you out. Can be hard to do in practice.
Well, that poses the question, “what’s the alternative to the classic?”
A fake vagina, of course. Or…the EV version.
Did the USN employ the Bud Lite marketing guru for this one?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/navy-detransitions-digital-recruiting-program-featuring-drag-queen
Building a micro blox TITANIC (350 pieces & 9cms long) .. majority of the pieces are so small you’ve got to pick ’em & place ’em with tweezers .. Great fun with OAP (75) eyesight .. dropped one piece on the ground .. took me an hour to find the bloody thing .. tho the area around the outside patio table is now spotless, swept & sifted .. now taking a eye ease coffee break at around the half way mark …
Beware! ……. pix will be available ………..!
It appears bio hole is the hot new term used by the
mutilated and their allies when referring to the classic vagina.
Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng ????
@jenniferzeng97
A #Chinese #military channel claims that if #Japan dares to intervene in the #CCP’s ‘liberation’ of #Taiwan, the CCP will abandon its prior commitment of refraining from initiating the use of #nuclearweapons.
They argue that this is an outdated promise.
Instead, the CCP threatens to launch continuous nuclear attacks on Japan until it surrenders unconditionally.
While these threats may lack military rationale, they shed light on the CCP’s mindset.
#China #Chinanews #ChinaStory #CCPChina
Read a clever conundrum on another blog .. along the lines of …..
If 251s have no say in gummint how did they manage to score a referendum when the majority of the vote-herd never get the opportunity to change anything when we want something specially tailored to suit us ……
It’s not just the ‘Remainers’ whingeing – Britain really is broken
Post-Brexit gloom has spread from the Remainers to the Tory tribe. Some hope Britain can respond with pragmatism, but this pessimism could breed paralysis.
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent
London | As a foreign correspondent, when I meet or hear from readers, there’s typically always one question that comes up time and again. A few years ago, it was always: “What’s happening with Brexit?” More recently, it was: “What’s going to happen in Ukraine?” Now, it’s most commonly: “Is Britain broken?”
It certainly feels that way. Just as kids were starting the new school year, it turned out that 147 schools were made with shonky concrete that could collapse at any moment. Thousands of pupils were unable to enter their classrooms.
That same week, we learned that there are a record 7.7 million people on waiting lists for hospital treatment, including 390,000 who have been waiting more than a year.
My septuagenarian father-in-law has twice this year shown up at the hospital for a surgical procedure he’d been booked in for many months earlier, only to be turned away at the door.
Meanwhile the GP system is, by universal acclaim, dysfunctional.
A prisoner serving time for terrorism offences escaped from a London jail this month by clinging on to the underside of a van. It turned out that about one-third of that prison’s staff were absent that day. The number of frontline staff in British jails has dropped 10 per cent since 2010.
The list goes on. The government recently announced it was delaying, for the fifth time, the introduction of post-Brexit border checks on goods entering from the European Union. The supposedly sclerotic EU had their checks on British imports in place 2½ years ago.
Pothole repairs are at their lowest level in five years. Britain’s biggest municipal council, Birmingham, went bust a few weeks ago. The backlog in processing asylum claims is so great that would-be migrants are being housed on barges.
The air traffic control system went down for a more than a day on the back of a single error. Shoplifting is at epidemic proportions.
The train system is beset by strikes, and ambitions for a major new high-speed line are watered down again and again, while the costs blow out. The water companies are discharging raw effluent into seas and rivers. The flagship offshore wind industry seems to be running out of puff.
In recent opinion polls, 58 per cent of respondents agreed that “Britain is broken”, and 76 per cent said it was becoming an appreciably worse place to live.
Infectious gloom
Britons, notoriously, love a good moan. Complaints about things getting worse are often made with an almost delighted relish. The sense that the country is in long-term decline, ever since the end of empire, is an almost unshakeable item of faith.
So it’s not surprising that confirmation bias abounds. Choosing from the menu above, every gloomy Briton is an assiduous compiler of their own catalogue of woe.
There has been a recent shift, though. In the early years after the Brexit referendum in mid-2016, the most enthusiastic doomsayers were “Remainers” – people who had voted to stay in the EU, and subsequently seized upon any and every shred of evidence which might suggest that Brexit had been a calamitous mistake.
Former prime minister Boris Johnson, the most ardent of “Leavers”, waged a relentless one-man war against these “doomsters and gloomsters”, as he often called them. His argument was that Brexit was a great opportunity for Britain’s rejuvenation, if only the British people were up for embracing it.
With his departure, though, this buccaneering Brexiteer bravado has all but evaporated. Now, it’s the right-wing press in which you’ll find some of the gloomiest inventories of everything that’s wrong with Britain.
“Britain is in a state of distress more profound than our leaders are capable of addressing,” says one recent headline in the Tories’ in-house newspaper The Daily Telegraph. “Labour and the Tories have joined forces to condemn Britain to national failure,” reads another. “Britain isn’t in managed decline: the country is about to fall off a cliff.” On it goes.
My hunch is that the gloom now gripping the British right probably stems from the widespread expectation that the Conservatives will lose government next year. They have little to show for 13 years in power, and now they face a spell under Labour. For a Tory, that is pretty depressing.
But the left has precious little cause for levity either. Infrastructure is run down, and public services are struggling, but taxes are already at a record high and government borrowing is maxed out and costly.
That leaves Labour with little ability to drive a new political or economic agenda.
What’s more, there is also little will: the public is concerned with the soaring cost of living, not seized with a desire to embrace any new progressive vision or policies.
The aftershocks of Britain’s big Brexit rupture, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, are only just beginning to settle. Some commentators hope that this will restore Britain’s lost sense of proportion and pragmatism. Let’s hope so, because the alternative is a potential descent into pessimism and paralysis.
My PB is 7. 3 to 10. It was on the old ticketing regime but.
Greens are dumb as rocks news.
‘We’ve learnt that pressure works’: Greens vows to continue fight for rent freeze after deal with Labor over landmark housing bill (Sky News, 17 Sep)
This is why Greens are dumb as rocks:
Rent Control Is The Wrong Solution For Housing Affordability (16 Sep)
The lady who wrote the latter article is from the Caribbean, and who moved to the US back when it was the land of hope and glory. And worked hard. If she can see how stupid rent controls are then you really have to wonder about edumacated Gaia-luvvin’ peoples like Bandit.
Their BOM quivering with antici… pation.
Potential El Niño inching closer, but the Bureau of Meteorology is not ready to declare it yet
Particularly exciting this year, because CSIRO scientists have finally sheeted home changes in the ENSO to manmade CO2 courtesy of 40 models (count them, 40) which all, with startlingly accurate statistical consistency, accurately model average global temperature back over the past 120 years.
Stand by for Gibbon-shrieking in two weeks.
Technical Note: I’m by no means an Expert or Top Man, but I’m here to say that any collection of models – that accurately back-fit historical data of one parameter of a complex system, but inconsistently forward model the same parameter – are rigged.
Amen to that, bro.
We see it here daily.
And they take that with them wherever they go.
I feel that one may draw a parallel here to Coke. From time immemorial, there was just Coke. Then, varieties of Coke began to appear, insidiously, like geckos on a verandah eave. Ultimately, though, the marketers realised that there was no substitute for actual Coke, which was rebranded ‘Classic Coke’.
Thus, the wheel turns full circle.
We are about two thirds of the way through the following process:
Vagina
Diet Vagina
Vanilla Vagina
Vagina Cherry
New Vagina
Vagina Zero
Vagina Lime
Frozen Vagina
Classic Vagina
There’s a thesis in there somewhere.
The aftershocks of Britain’s big Brexit rupture, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, are only just beginning to settle.
We will need future historians to decide whether the western decline (in general) began a long time before the recent calamities. However, I remain convinced that the social dislocation and economic distress caused by the policies inflicted following the outbreak of Covid were the stressors that tipped the balance.
I am extremely pessimistic about whether the process can be reversed. Maybe the cataclysmic effect of a global depression and/or a major war would be the Disruptor that would change the trajectory. Who knows?
The CCP is well aware that Japan’s ‘bomb in the basement’ program is, on political command, only months, or weeks away from producing functioning nukes.
Infectious gloom
Britons, notoriously, love a good moan. Complaints about things getting worse are often made with an almost delighted relish.
Granted. But try telling the proverbial man-in-the-street that times are “peachey” at the moment.
“There are more than eighty U.S. military facilities in Japan. More U.S. service members are permanently stationed in Japan than in any other foreign country.”
It would be akin to CCP nuking California. I don’t think so.
The end game is Recycled Origami Vagina, fashioned from scraps gleaned from elsewhere on the person.
And every one of them has been totally useless for the last 25 years.
Which is what happens when you ignore the most important two variables.
Just jumped on another Shinkansen.
Travelling in the Green Car, which I thought was top notch.
I now discover there is a Gran Class which is a step up again.
I have an uncontrollable urge to complain.
Must be my 1/16 Brit history coming through.
David Vance posts vignettes from the UK. Decline seems pretty accurate.
https://twitter.com/DVATW
Tee hee. Of course it’s better.
Three more worthy Ig Nobel Prizes:
Only Stanford could invent an anus print sensor.
Fair enough, the Nobel Prize for Literature is usually pretty unintelligible also.
At least we’ll know when the asteroid arrives.
Dead spider claws and ‘anal-print’ toilets: 2023’s Ig Nobels (Phys.org, 16 Sep)
And the recent threat will have moved that timeline down to hours or minutes.
Perhaps. But definitely your 100% smug smartarsery is shining through.
She’s also proof when you sup with the devil you end up a lardarse, I recall Ms Rishworth’s last iteration in the G/R/G as a slender curly-headed know-little moppet.
Makka, those Vance tweets were very instructive.
Of particular interest to me was the old white lady painting the church’s steps with the qwerty rainbow. The silly smile as she whitesplained to her Caribbean (possibly African) interlocutor about God’s “love”. He knew exactly the spiritual vacuum that she inhabited, fitting her small “g” god into her own image.
I wonder, when the Day comes, whether she will try to explain to the Almighty that holiness doesn’t matter? That superior, vacuous grin will be wiped off her face when she realises too late that big “L” Love is a consuming fire.
Not in any town in Australia I ever lived in. How much longer do we have to go on putting up with all this bullsh!t.
And a jolly good morning to you too Nakka!
What they really want is to remove all choice, in every area.
‘Does anyone else think it’s suspicious that the FDA is taking Sudafed, DayQuil, and Benadryl off the shelves?’: Crackdown spawns conspiracy theories
‘To be sovereign is to have ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY over our own bodies’ | Neil Oliver VS the state
Midazolam controversy | The drug used for end of life care comes under fire
Texas AG Paxton reinstated to office, says he will address nation on Tucker Carlson
EXCLUSIVE: Heartbroken father of one-year-old who died from Fentanyl overdose at Bronx daycare says it was his FIRST week at the center – as it’s revealed NYPD removed ‘multiple drugs’ from scene
Latte, two sugars, thanks.
The ABC isn’t even attempting to hide its propagandising for the Yes camp:
Supporters for Indigenous Voice to Parliament gather for rallies across Australia
Across-the-board positive coverage for the Yes vote, always a negative spin placed on No critiques of the Yes arguments, always characterising the No campaign as dishonest and No voters as (at best) parochial and unsophisticated, always protecting the Marcia Langton types from their blunders and deeply counterproductive expressions of opinion, and carrying water for them in all other respects.
I wonder if the ABC has run a single article that could be characterised as, on balance, supportive of the No campaign. I haven’t seen one. Maybe it has. Perhaps one or two. It must have run hundreds for the Yes campaign.
The above article is illustrative of the ABC’s coverage. An extended tongue bathing for Yes (hell, it even provides the reader with the scheduling for Yes campaign rallies in Oz capitals!) while the following is the kindest thing it had to say about No:
The ABC is a disgrace and, in a sane world, would be defunded and privatised immediately. In no way can it be said to be serving the broader Australian community.
The Russian invasion was a rational act
It is in the West’s interest to take Putin seriously
BY JOHN MEARSHEIMER AND SEBASTIAN ROSATO
It is widely believed in the West that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was not a rational act.
On the eve of the invasion, then British prime minister Boris Johnson suggested that perhaps the United States and its allies had not done “enough to deter an irrational actor and we have to accept at the moment that Vladimir Putin is possibly thinking illogically about this and doesn’t see the disaster ahead”. US senator Mitt Romney made a similar point after the war started, noting that “by invading Ukraine, Mr Putin has already proved that he is capable of illogical and self-defeating decisions”. The assumption underlying both statements is that rational leaders start wars only if they are likely to win.
By starting a war he was destined to lose, the thinking went, Putin demonstrated his non-rationality.
Other critics argue that Putin was non-rational because he violated a fundamental international norm. In this view, the only morally acceptable reason for going to war is self-defence, whereas the invasion of Ukraine was a war of conquest. Russia expert Nina Khrushcheva asserted that “with his unprovoked assault, Mr Putin joins a long line of irrational tyrants”, and appears “to have succumbed to his ego-driven obsession with restoring Russia’s status as a great power with its own clearly defined sphere of influence”. Bess Levin of Vanity Fair described Russia’s president as “a power-hungry megalomaniac”; former British ambassador to Moscow Tony Brenton suggested his invasion was proof that he is an “unbalanced autocrat” rather than the “rational actor” he once was.
These claims all rest on common understandings of rationality that are intuitively plausible but ultimately flawed. Contrary to what many people think, we cannot equate rationality with success and non-rationality with failure. Rationality is not about outcomes. Rational actors often fail to achieve their goals, not because of foolish thinking but because of factors they can neither anticipate nor control. There is also a powerful tendency to equate rationality with morality since both qualities are thought to be features of enlightened thinking. But this too is a mistake. Rational policies can violate widely accepted standards of conduct and may even be murderously unjust.
So what is “rationality” in international politics? Surprisingly, the scholarly literature does not provide a good definition. For us, rationality is all about making sense of the world — that is, figuring out how it works and why — in order to decide how to achieve certain goals. It has both an individual and a collective dimension. Rational policymakers are theory-driven; they are homo theoreticus. They have credible theories — logical explanations based on realistic assumptions and supported by substantial evidence — about the workings of the international system, and they employ these to understand their situation and determine how best to navigate it. Rational states aggregate the views of key policymakers through a deliberative process, one marked by robust and uninhibited debate.
All of this means that Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine was rational. Consider that Russian leaders relied on a credible theory.
Most commentators dispute this claim, arguing that Putin was bent on conquering Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe to create a greater Russian empire, something that would satisfy a nostalgic yearning among Russians but that makes no strategic sense in the modern world. President Joe Biden maintains that Putin aspires “to be the leader of Russia that united all of Russian speakers. I mean… I just think it’s irrational.” Former national security adviser H. R. McMaster argues: “I don’t think he’s a rational actor because he’s fearful, right? What he wants to do more than anything is restore Russia to national greatness. He’s driven by that.”
But there is solid evidence that Putin and his advisers thought in terms of straightforward balance-of-power theory, viewing the West’s efforts to make Ukraine a bulwark on Russia’s border as an existential threat that could not be allowed to stand.
Russia’s president laid out this logic in a speech explaining his decision for war: “With Nato’s eastward expansion the situation for Russia has been becoming worse and more dangerous by the year… We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us.” He went on to say: “It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the redline which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.”
In other words, for Putin, this was a war of self-defence aimed at preventing an adverse shift in the balance of power. He had no intention of conquering all of Ukraine and annexing it into a greater Russia.
I’m surprised you can spare the time, carrying all those bags for JC. A paid break is it?
Not in any town in Australia I ever lived in. How much longer do we have to go on putting up with all this bullsh!t.
Gnowangerup, WA. 1970s. They could only buy alcohol from a window at the pub and they had to stay out at the reserve if they were drinking. Not allowed to stay in town.
It would be akin to CCP nuking California. I don’t think so.
Since the start of Xi’s reign, China’s external diplomacy has gone from inscrutable with occasional spittle to Wolf Warrior.
Presumably some expert in the entourage had suggested that’s what gets eyeballs in the West.
Not clear if that expert knew that, in some Western cultures, that’s also known as gobshite.
Happy to be corrected.
Which tends to make it quite clear that a lot of what we read and hear coming out of the CCP is for internal consumption to obtain a desired effect.
Externally, it appears that Xi has very clear demarcation lines on what China actually does externally. Don’t spook the horses (while we steal them).
Putin’s Oracle
I presume Stephan Michael is talking about Koji, Zulu. In couple of other Great Southern towns Noongahs bought their grog at a side window. I don’t know about the six o’clock swill in 1972… Some of this was preference, my uncle tried to convince one of the town elders (when that word meant something) to join the bowls and golf clubs. Nope. They preferred football.
You seem a bit snippy this morning Nakka.
Is there anything we can help with?
It’s going to be interesting watching the shuffling in the grass how Putin’s oracles handle an attack on Taiwan, which is close to being a perfect parallel to the attack on Ukraine.
Tim Blair has a couple of reactions to Jacinta Price’s address. A couple may have been shared here before but:
Linda Burney
Tony Wright Sydney Morning Herald
Peta Credlin
Channel Ten’s Ashleigh Raper of whom Blair writes:
And he has some choice words for The Age, which didn’t have Price in a photo after her address, but rather Barnaby Joyce and Michaela Cash:
Outstanding.
Indolent
Quite right – the fire patterns don’t make sense.
There’s no fire front advancing through the suburbs and burning the houses. The second video at 07:14 shows a score of houses well alight, but each one isn’t connected to the next except in 2 or 3 instances.
There are questions here that need to be answered and they aren’t. Only bullshit excuses and theories – with ( I noticed a favourite trick of the Left ) insert wild and implausible claims to throw doubt on all the theories.
E.g: people sheltering in tunnels with the 2 thousand child orphans, all wearing red shoes and living on pizza. It sounds ludicrous and it is. But it contaminates every other question about the fire – which is what it’s meant to do.
Link to Indolents video above.
Blair pulls a couple of snippets from Wright’s piece:
One might think that a racist slur.
Quadrant magazine.
Someone should ask Wright to comment on the cartoon by Leak today.
And video his response…
(For those Cats who didn’t catch it in Tom’s toons yesterday: Leak.)
Around that period I understand the Gnowangerup store was run by a former Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot and his wife Joyce G an ex-BA hostie, an amazing lady who was reception and admin person where I worked in the late 80s.
I have no insights except that she did let us know that the ‘rules’ for how you had to operate to stay in business were quite unlike the comfy suburbs of Perth.
The aboriginal people of my own town were closely linked to the Gnowangerup mob, and it was routine for our Dads to give them petrol to go over to Gnowangerup, eg for a funeral.
There was no public bar in my town.
We would walk through the bush at the back of our shops (empty house lots never built on) to the school half a mile away, past a campfire and sleeping aboriginals after pension day.
Their homes were ‘humpies’ on bushland outside the townsite, self-built with bush and scrounged timber, old corrugated iron, kero tins and super bags. Dad would drop in for a chat to hire some blokes to help with haycarting or shearing.
After the State Housing built three houses in the townsite, the campfires were there instead of behind the shops.
When I first passed through Nullagine in 1981, I was SHOCKED. The Public Bar I walked into was a 3m square corrugated iron room with a servery window from the L-shaped bar space. A couple of broken lightweight chairs were the only seats, the floor concrete. The staff told us to ‘come around to the white mans bar’, which was the saloon bar or lounge bar, five times the size and with carpet tiles and a pool table.
Behind the bar serving that window into the Public Bar was a lovely thick polished waddy, about 3 ft long.
This reflects the nature of social interaction when a bunch of people were in town and the booze had been flowing. It is a response to experienced customer behaviour, rather than a damnable racism of the proprietor.
My 84 year old mother rings me this morning asking if I’ll go to Bunnings with her this afternoon. I asked why? She said she wants to buy a ladder. I asked her if she was joking, and she said “no”. I said that firstly, she doesn’t need a ladder and secondly, if she does go and buy I ladder, I’ll come over and chuck it out. She is so unsteady on her feet it isn’t funny.
Elderly parents!
Test.
Is someone able to post the full Tim Blair article on the vile duplicitous media’s response to Senator Price’s press club speech?
“Zulu” the film is on Ch 92 (GEM) at 3.37 pm this afternoon.
Top film to be ruined by too many adverts though.
Thank goodness for the mute button.
What about…
Diet Penis
Penis Zero
Penis a la Fizz
Crinkly Penis
Citrus Penis
Iced Vanilla Penis
Classic Penis
or just
Penis.
I don’t think your mum’s travel insurance will cover her either, Cassie.
The Dubrovnik stunt woman was never getting an insurance payout with a BAC of 0.2% ++.
And it looks like the tariff for a European medivac is closer to $500k.
“I don’t think your mum’s travel insurance will cover her either, Cassie.”
I know. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
Trader blog
Appears to be about right.
Or Russia.
Looking out the train window at the tiny rice harvesters.
Can’t be more than six feet wide.
Looks like something Farmer Gez put in the hot cycle in the washing machine.
All this dick talk requires a cute owl.
Darkly amusing that they continue to publish the Aged and Sydney Morning Vomit at what must be a considerable loss. Why the hell did Nine buy them? I recall Tom said it’s cheaper to publish at a loss then put the zombies out of their misery. Despicable publications and have been for yonks. Do they own the Canbra Vomit too?
Here’s my take on the Russell Brand allegations.
Brand has made himself an enemy of the establishment over the last few years, particularly for questioning the Covid narrative. Sure, he’s probably been a lecherous grub over the years, but rape, sexual assault and abuse? I call….nah.
I think it’s all designed to silence him. Me too was always about “me, me, me”, regardless of the truth.
One day when I am not a work I will be under influence of substances, and I might actually click a ‘cute owl’.
Until then I will click anything else.
As in, “Let use the big hole tonight darling.”
“Sure,let’s mix it up a bit.”
Wierd looking version of TITANIC and, definitely, not worth the 3 hours that went into it! then again for $3.99 you don’t get, genuine, James Cameron! ..
Still, killed off a bit of Sunday and no problems with hand/eye/tweezers co-ordination so all my distance swimming sessions paying off when it comes to the necessary patience .. so fair enuf, overall ..
https://ibb.co/MNJnJtb
Tim Blair:
I’m taking that to the pool room.
Thanks, Timmo!
Even if that is true, the claim was only ‘not in any town I have ever lived in.’
There may well have been pockets of overt racism 50 years ago, but to suggest that this characterises the whole country in 2023 in bullshit, and the ‘intergenerational trauma’ argument has been conclusively dealt with by Senator Price.
Intergenerational poverty is a reality which transcends race – it happens in all Western countries. What happens is that kids grow up in an environment where nobody works for a living, nobody gets married and forms stable families, and there is a lot of substance abuse and violence.
Not surprisingly, the kids don’t turn out too well.
Nothing unique to Aborigines about it. It happens in white families as well, and in black, white and native American families in the US.
The deliberate avoidance of the real issues is also the same in other places.
BTW, as I asked the other day, anyone heard from the TSIs? I wonder if they concerned about having maybe only a D minor note in ‘The Voice.’
I’m dreading getting out ladder so that I can clean out the salubrious Cafe penthouse, since the Indian mynahs have been decorating it. So far the kookas, who get preference for the use of the nest box, have shown no interest this season. But the mynahs have been toting in all sorts of weird stuff.
Indian mynahs love plastic. They fill up the nest box with old chip packets, Glad Wrap and cellophane, and even druggie ziplock bags. And small sticks, feathers and paper. It’s quite interesting.
If the kookas are unsuccessful with their preferred nest in a tree-based termite mound then they’ll come to the Cafe as backup plan. Did that last year, resulting in a nice young kooka. So when that happens I have to pull the ladder out climb up and remove all the (literal) rubbish the mynahs have stuffed into the nest box.
I’m a lot younger than your mum Cassie but the altitude seems to be getting higher and higher as the years go by.
I’m now up to two noisy kiddies of the new season who’re accepting food from my hand. The third one has been resisting so far. 😀
To disprove the adage- at least in theory- that you can only get one Alan Bond in your life time?
A bit of a stretch. I’ve used the phrase for decades without any reference to African-American theatre history.
Rosie:
These countries have reciprocal health agreements:
Belgium
Finland
Italy
Malta
the Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
the Republic of Ireland
Slovenia
Sweden
the United Kingdom.
I agree, and add that the ‘overt racism’ of 50 years ago likely came from people most affected by the behaviour of their neighbours of other races.
My 84 year old mother (not getting older since last year) cared very much for the aboriginal kids she taught in our local primary school. She herself had a little of her childhood in a humpy and her family were kicked off their farm by banks in the Depression.
50 years ago was when the ABC and media and ediucated class in general were hot against ‘racial prejudice’. The early 1970s were very big for teaching not to racially discriminate, and it has been a major Australian value since long before that.
For the educated class, anyway.
Often out of luck motorcycling and surfing too. Which can be a problem.
Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Timber Creek were indeed grim in the 70’s and 80’s, not so much Broome.
It was disrurbing to watch. Bars were wired off with an aperture for handing out the bottles and ‘plagons’. Locals lay around in the streets or open areas, or went bush. Startling degradation ruled.
Was it racism. It had to be, but the reasons for the horror were not based on community racism (many locals excepted), it was a consequence of arrogant paternalistic Government incompetence and policy failure.
The Kimberley was in a death spiral.
When the missions were forced out they were replaced by, initially idealistic, later passive and eventually secretive and resentful bureaucrats who worsened and kept hidden a terrible situation.
The idiocy of the public service clowns pretending to be the NT Govt lifting the booze ban on remote communities is a typical display of the ongoing government willful ignorance that Jacinta calls out.
The Voice will perpetuate the situation. Until aboriginals are treated as, and required to be, responsible INDIVIDUALS and not a collective entity, nothing can change.
The huge number of successful aboriginal families, acknowledging but not being ruled by their race and culture exposes the Voice for the collectivist fraud that it is.
The left view the Voice as the model for the paternalistic dictatorship they seek to impose on all of us.
Helps with doctors and hospital costs, but not medivac, which is the big hit.
ZK2A:
That’s an interesting scenario, but I don’t think it would work.
She said she wants to buy a ladder. I asked her if she was joking, and she said “no”</em
I was up on the roof last week cleaning the gutters .. tho have to admit at 75 I spend a lot more attention to safety than I used too ……
Yeah, for some reason insurance companies don’t love motorbikes, snow skiing, bungy jumping, sky-diving or jet-skis.
Domain probably No 2 in the online real estate market. Fauxfacts would never split it off. And yes, the redundancy costs have been the only thing keeping Teh Age and teh SMH alive, likely for years.
H B Bear
Sep 17, 2023 2:19 PM
It appears bio hole is the hot new term used by the
mutilated and their allies when referring to the classic vagina.
As in, “Let use the big hole tonight darling.”
“Sure,let’s mix it up a bit.”
Pussy Power?
I’ve heard it said that one of the worst mistakes the Germans made during World War Two was to win the battle for Arnhem, allowing the Soviets to capture Berlin.
The main thing that turned Arnhem into a disaster for the allies was poor intelligence evaluation! .. being aware of the presence of 2 Panzer divisions, in the area, on rest & re-fit and deciding they weren’t a problem …….
The Germans didn’t commit any additional forces that weren’t already in the vicinity ..
Gee whiz.
—-
WION:
Gravitas: Tourists flock to New York to see rats
OMG.
I am reminded of a friend’s father, who ran a large sheep property north of Dubbo since he bought it in the 1940s. He was a spry, healthy chap, but didn’t know when to back off.
When he was in his early 70s, he fell out of a tree that he was pruning, broke multiple bones, and was in hospital for weeks. He was then in convalescence for months. Two of his three kids worked in the city, and the farmer among them had his own place a considerable distance away.
He had to hire a manager and retire. If he hadn’t been so stupid (no old person with a sense of self preservation risks a fall) he would still be running his farm.
He had style, though. I went to the country races with the family when I was staying there, and his arrangements with his ‘turf accountant’ were all on a nod and a wink. No money changed hands on the day. I later found out that the sums involved were not inconsiderable.
Different world.
An observation on the Hawaiian fires and hopping over houses – this is a normal occurrence in urban/semi-urban bushfires in Sydney. Ember attack/building materials/fuel loads around the house play a part. In the 2000 Sydney fires, the front leapt over Old Northern Road, sparing some houses and igniting others.
Trees not burned? I presume they mean the trees weren’t turned to ash like the houses. Again, this will be a product of species – if the tree is a fleshy, north American or tropical exotic, then the water content in the trees will turn to vapour in a fire. Compare to eucs where the trees release oils.
Again, this was observed in Australia during the last big fires – houses surrounded by exotics did not burn, nor did the trees. Eucs…not so much.
I agree, and add that the ‘overt racism’ of 50 years ago likely came from people most affected by the behaviour of their neighbours of other races.
How many “city” folk, actually, get to know any 251s? .. I’ve lived in Sydney for the past 56 years and only ever met or spoken to one lot of 251s .. they lived next door for 3 years .. total no-hopers but I’ve never assumed all 251s are from the “you-can-take-the-251-out-of-Redfern-but-you-can’t-take-Redfern-out-of-the-251” tribe ..
But switch me onto boat-folk and I’ll chew your ear off for hours .. it’s a Fairfield thing! ..
Anyone reminded of the bars where there was both ‘country’ and ‘western’ ?
calli
Sep 17, 2023 2:58 PM
The cars melting? It was a DEW attack. That footage from 911 has confirmed the tech exists. Any other explanation is MSM wank catered for sheep.
My “explanation” is taken from experience.
But do continue to insult me.
Let’s assume, for arguments sake, the ‘perfect parallels’ are there, how do you avoid turning Taiwan into Ukraine?
I fail to see how resurecting grievances that weren’t done to us helps anything. The whole Indegenous debate seems to be a muddle.
One thing I can say, having been a State and Commonwealth public servant,
When they say ‘no amount of money’ yada yada,
It’s all about the money,