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Open Thread – Mon 25 Sept 2023
Apparently he “starred” for the Socceroos. Australia’s Maradona no doubt.
Xi initiated the hug. That’s clear. I can’t see a kowtow here at all. There is obviously a lot going…
It struck me as contrary to what Morrison did and said when PM. The same happened to tone when he…
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Ponder this…
“The Normandy massacres were a series of killings in-which approximately 156 Canadian and two British prisoners of war (POWs) were murdered by soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Youth) during the Battle of Normandy in World War II.””
And now, under Trudeau and Freeland, Canada’s parliament gives a standing ovation to a former Waffen SS soldier.
I feel sick.
We’ll all be rooned.
It’ll be a Saturday.
Apparently.
Sorry to hear that, rosie. Deut 33:27 – my bad news go-to verse.
I can imagine the fury in Warsaw, Budapest and Jerusalem at the moment.
I neglected to mention that the Ukrainian Waffen SS goons also slaughtered lots of Hungarians, along with Poles, Jews and Gypsies.
feelthebern
Sep 26, 2023 9:26 AM”
Correct.
FMD another bugbear from the Left.
Will the Piano Man sign us out to oblivion?
WELLL…it’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd, shuffles INNN…..
DAMN
DAMN
DAMN
SING
NOT
SIGN
Time for a WEB.
Although these days, those fake sign language dudes are everywhere.
And as Calli asked, some muddled thoughts on Japan.
First up it will never have the wow factor that visiting so many places in Europe has evoked, no Gothic glory or that sense of stepping back in time, of being caught up in thousands of years of history, seeing so much incredibly beautiful art and architecture.
But it had it’s charms, I liked the Japanese people very much, like the man on Miyajima who stopped and gave my sister a lozenge when he saw she was in distress. The food culture is great fun, so many options, standing on the street and taking a punt picking out your dinner from a machine, paying your money then going inside, sitting up at the counter and giving the cook your ticket.
The countryside, all those green green mountains, so much water, the little valleys and tiny fields, so restful on the eyes, the beautiful formal gardens, wandering around shops like Daiso and Don Quijote, the Japanese hotels, walking down e-street in the evening with all the, mostly, beautifully dressed young people, laughing at the ott selfie culture, enjoying the public kimono wearing, getting the hang of metro and bullet train, hearing mass in Japanese, it was a lot of fun til it wasn’t, despite the heat and humidity.
According to their modelling, yes.
Sign out also works in that sentence, please forgive my doubly remedial English.
There’s your proof I’m a troll from Senegal and Phillipa Martyr was an 18-stone African American man from Louisiana.
There was a line up of Ukrainians to join the Germans.
Ukrainians were Himmler’s favourite non German recruits, especially, as camp guards because they showed themselves to be more punishment innovative & bloodthirsty than, native, German SS camp recruits …….
Several hundred Ukrainian “nationals” were released from Sachsenhausen concentration camp during 1943 on the provisio they volunteered for the, newly formed, 14th SS Division (Galicia) …
Here’s one for you Cassie. Fascinating, via JJ Sefton
I have been contemplating Psalm 23.
Canada? That pygmy thing up in Ottawa?
It’s a glorified colony, they don’t even swear in the PM with their own head of state.
Either it has meaning or it doesn’t and Trudeau, the man harbours a Nazi.
Yes, and the geniuses who formulate policy in the Coalition haven’t thought through the consequences of not acting.
The more migrants who are allowed to settle here, the more pressure there will be for chain migration of direct and extended family. If nobody does anything to turn off the tap, that pressure will soon make control of immigration politically impossible for either party. Every marginal seat will be targeted by pro migration lobbyists and activists.
People here may know, but not many in the wider population know, that after WWI the US pretty much shut down immigration until after WWII. They realised that the huge influx of previous years needed time to settle and be integrated. The post WWII boom was very much fuelled by the industry and innovation of the children of pre WWI migrants who believed in the American Dream.
Bloody politicians – they refuse to learn from history. In their unbounded arrogance, they really believe that the lessons of history do not apply to them.
Just to clarify:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
“To be slightly fair, the Ukrainian SS chaps seemed to have been formed up too late in the war to have participated in the main slaughter of the Jews.” The Frolicking Moll.
The creation of 14th Voluntary Division SS Galizien was announced in April 1943 at ceremonies throughout Galicia.
Up until February 1944, the Division was a training unit and had no field duties.
The ALP views migrants as tax serfs and nothing more.
“It should have been done in Washington’s day…”
Wonderful psalm, Rosie. Wishing you all the best.
I first saw him in Robery Under Arms in 1958. I was swooning then.
We should be thankful he only asked for something innocuous and normal like shutting down the entire government and not for something abnormal and hugely dangerous and disruptive like people marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard.
Trump asked them to stay at home, but Twitter censored it and that smug Indian chick bragged about how she had meddled with democracy.
Actually they did learn from history. It’s just what they learned isn’t in our the voters’ interest.
The Destruction of the United States Is Intentional. Here’s What Will Happen Next. (23 Sep)
Kevin Downey Jr. He’s not optimistic, and thinks the next phase will be in the run up to Nov 2024.
Strange da bruvvas are on board with it. I suppose if they pay their subs they see it as win-win. Unions have never been too concerned with unemployment , they raised Australian car manufacturing workers into early retirement.
Interesting two polls following ABC/WaPo poll that had Trump +10. NBC has them tied, while HarrisX has Trump +5, 46-41. Must be huge headaches over in the DNC at the moment. HUGE.
It’s good to be queen.
Michelle Obama to Rake in More Than $700,000 for One-Hour Lecture on “Diversity and Inclusion” in Munich (25 Sep)
I suppose the upkeep on that mansion on the foreshore at Martha’s Vineyard isn’t cheap.
I would’ve said twitching sphincters myself. You need a brain to have a headache.
Biden poll freakout (25 Sep)
I still think they’ll steal it blatantly, then dare the GOP to do something about it. Which they won’t.
Rabz,
I’ll see your Cocaine Bear and raise you Greek Sheep singing Everybody Must Get Stoned. 😀
Heh.
Thanks Pogs. 😀
Keeping the fridge stocked would not be cheap – expensive tastes but with the appetite down with the gusto of a construction worker having a hamburger at lunch.
Then there are the payouts to families of employees who ran a little too slow when the fridge was a little too far.
I will bet the autopsy report for that dead chef contains notes detailing that he looked like he had been gnawed on.
Commentator on https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-keep-paying-salaries-tens-thousands-ukrainians-during-government-shutdown
Hedgamiten Sandwich with his Avatar Photo of Vegimite Jar
https://www.zerohedge.com/user/gNbSJr0HtKXTjHsFed9HpHJO7iH3
Amazing number of links on Ukarine/Russia War
Scoll down to comment at
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Since I usually post late, a sample of 5 weeks of Ukie support
Here is what UkaNazi finance and success looks like with our tax dollars
Bookmark and save for later..
(Protip: Click on ‘Original’ Resolution in Odysee, for cleanest picture)
The Media Hiding The Truth-As Always
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Incredible number of links
Saintly examples of Christian heroism
By – George Weigel – September 23, 2023
Thousands attend the 10 September beatification Mass of the Ulma family, pictured above, who were martyred in Markowa, Poland, for sheltering Jews under German occupation during World War II.
My admiration for Keith Richards just went up another notch, if that’s possible.
‘I Don’t Really Like To Hear People Yelling At Me:’ Rolling Stones Co-Founder Reveals Why He Can’t Stand Rap Music (25 Sep)
😀 They have a new album out, which I haven’t tried listening to. But just doing that at age 79 and 80 is quite amazing.
You live and learn
My Wife speaking to German Lady whilst walking dog locally – her daughter doing Ballet in Barcelona yet did NSW HSC via NSW Govt Distance Learning – said used by many Young Australians pursuing their dreams overseas – Tennis, Athletics, Ballet etc
https://finigan-d.schools.nsw.gov.au/distance-education-enrolment/full-time-enrolment/full-time-enrolment-information.html
https://finigan-d.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/f/finigan-d/documents/full-time-documents/full-time/2022/2022_-_Introductory_Booklet_Years_11-12.pdf
Re Black Ball’s comment at 9.40 am (copy function has died on this site) – it was a bizarre Grauniad article about how keeping pets is unethical.
As usual, it is completely ahistorical. It claims that it is only recently that people are very fond of their pets. Presumably all those paintings of, for example, early Victorians with their beloved dog(s) are just fiction. Not to mention that Roman chappie who made his horse … oh, never mind.
I agree with badness of breeding flat-nosed dogs thing – it happens in cats as well – but what’s that got to do with the price of fish?
It is worth noting that the article is illustrated by a Siamese cat and a French bulldog. They may be the pets of choice for affluent Grauniad readers, but are hardly typical.
I could go on and on about why it is factually challenged in every respect. There is no doubt in my mind that, for example, keeping a sulphur crested cocky in a tiny cage is appalling. Budgies in a spacious aviary, not so much.
Why is it that ‘ethics’ eggspurts are invariably ignorant and fact-free?
The Bob Hawke story today is an interesting contemporaneous account.
Coles & Woolworths Ripping Us Off?
Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market
Brad Thompson – Reporter
A projected 23 per cent increase in Australia’s sheep flock since the last drought in 2020 has created a glut that has sent prices into free fall, as farmers scramble to sell before hot weather hits this summer.
Australia’s total sheep flock and breeding ewe numbers are forecast to hit 78.8 million in 2023, the highest level since 2007, after three straight years of above-average rainfall, according to a July update from Meat & Livestock Australia.
Hit by weak export demand and the collapse of farmer-to-farmer trade – when farmers sell sheep to each other – producers who built up flocks during three rainy years are sending them to market in droves as they face the prospect of hotter and drier weather conditions. Meat & Livestock Australia data shows cattle prices broadly down almost 50 per cent on last year and sheep prices down 37 per cent.
In Western Australia, the collapse in prices has been exacerbated by the Albanese government’s move to shut down sheep shipments to the Middle East – trade important to a state that doesn’t have a big domestic market for lamb compared with NSW or Victoria.
Prices for some WA producers have dropped to as little as $1 or $2 a head.
The situation for WA livestock producers is a far cry from 2020 when, at the end of the east coast drought, they cashed in on high prices being paid by farmers on the other side of the country looking to restock. Almost 2 million sheep were trucked out of WA in 2020, along with big numbers of cattle, as east coast producers bred up on the back of rain.
But with talk for months about an El Nino weather pattern bringing drier conditions, and scars from the last drought barely healed, many east coast farmers have been racing to get bulging stock numbers down in a weak market. Cattle prices have plunged for similar reasons, and key export markets with weakening economies have been slow to chew through a build up in meat inventories.
Bindi Murray, a farmer in Woodanilling, WA, isn’t at the point of destroying animals but is struggling with much lower livestock prices.
“I’ve got some sheep here that I could have sold as lambs and was offered $130 a head. I sold some of them a year ago for $75 and then got quoted $40 a head for them. They’re the same sheep, just a different time. It just shows the magnitude of the price collapse over the past 12-18 months,” she said.
Ms Murray is worried that farmers who missed out on rain this year will have to destroy sheep that don’t measure up to the specifications of local meat processors and are unwanted by other farmers. “People are now making those hard decisions on farms rather than pushing the problem down the supply chain,” she said.
She worries that the WA sheep industry is in danger of losing critical mass and that will have a knock-on effect on rural communities and jobs along the supply chain. She said it was heartbreaking and morale-sapping to see lamb prices collapse after a period of high prices and strong demand.
In normal circumstances there would be grazier-to-grazier trade in sheep unwanted by meatworks, but that had completely dried up.
“That trade is just not there because there’s not the confidence for people to take extra sheep on at the moment,” Ms Murray said. “The position in WA with our Mediterranean climate is when the season goes against you, you need to reduce your stock numbers to look after the paddocks and prevent any environmental issues or animal welfare issues.
“You’ve just got a de-stock and that’s the tricky bit for the guys who have got into that position.”
Ms Murray is a Sheep Producers Australia board member and took part in a WA delegation that visited Canberra this month to fight for the live trade with the Middle East.
She said the live trade, facing the axe after lobbying by animal welfare groups, was essential to robust pricing in WA and a phase-out could be “catastrophic” for some farming families and communities.
“We don’t have that big domestic demand base of the east coast and that’s part of why live export plays a really important role. It gives us diversity of demand and more robust pricing,” she said.
Apparently, there are now Nazis everywhere….here’s a smidgen
Women who don’t want dicks in bathrooms = Nazis
Moira Deeming = Nazi
Kellie-Jay Keen = Nazi
Katherine Deves = Nazi
Graham Linehen = Nazi
Julie Bindel = Nazi
Julie Burchill = Nazi
Germaine Greer = Nazi
Donald Trump = Nazi
Peter Dutton = Nazi
Tony Abbott = Nazi
People who say that you can’t change your biological sex = Nazis
Canadian truckers = Nazis
Canadian trucker supporters = Nazis
People who queried lockdowns = Nazis
People who queried vaccine mandates = Nazis
People who want to vote NO in the referendum = Nazis
I could go on with numerous other examples, I’m sure you get my drift. But of course, the above are NOT Nazis, no, no, no, they’re just smeared as Nazis in order to silence and intimidate them, and it works a treat.
Ahhhhhhh, but meanwhile, after all the gaslighting, after all the dog whistling, there are actually still a few real living Nazis left, and one was invited and honoured just the other day with a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament….and those two little totalitarian progressive goons, Justin Trudeau and Christina Freeland, fawned over him as some kind of hero.
You simply couldn’t make this shit up, the moral abyss that the West has fallen into.
Oh and when Putin was talking about Ukraine and Nazis, he was and is right. That’s the plain unfashionable truth, which is why more than a few countries, such as Israel, Hungary, Poland, India and so on are tepid about Ukraine. Doesn’t mean they approve of the Russian invasion, it’s just that they know nothing in and around Ukraine is black and white.
This should be front page news. I suspect the advertising dollars provided to the media by Coles and Woolworthless give them good cover when bad news pops up.
I note both are running ‘specials’ but failing to adjust their standard prices for lamb.
Disgraceful.
However, the blokes in that Hunka’s group had served in prior very unsavory, police orientated groups, eagerly rounding up and incarcerating J*ws and other undesirables .
Himmler thought very highly of the Galician SS Division. Not an endorsement that should by association find it’s way to an applauding Canadian Parliament. Especially when Hunka’s SS comrades in Normandy committed the mass murder 156 Canadian soldiers.
I get that the Canadian Parliament want to show off their solidarity with Ukraine. But it also exposes how f*cking dumb they are and an insight into their superficial values. So thin as to be non-existent. Which is what you would expect from the vacant lemming class of western political elites these days.
I had a quick look and was amazed that the word “climate” wasn’t mentioned anywhere in it. Normally a Grauniad article would go the whole pets-are-killing-Gaia thing.
Science, of course, Johanna. 😀
Why flat-faced dogs seem more cuddly than longer-muzzled dogs (Phys.org, 22 Sep)
What would we be without Science™?
Which is what you would expect from the vacant lemming class of western political elites these days.
They are not ‘western political elites’. They are ‘Shites’.
“P
Sep 26, 2023 10:54 AM
Saintly examples of Christian heroism
By – George Weigel – September 23, 2023”
P, thank you for the link. The story was both sad and beautiful.
A dead personal chef doesn’t quite resonate like driving your car into a creek but still very Chappaquidick.
Uh oh, according to Cassie’s list I am a Nazi X 5.
Proud to be associated with others on Cassie’s list.
Well, the victim was still found in water.
I imagine Barack sleeps very fitfully when Michelle shares the bed (90% hers, of course) and he makes a point of wearing the pyjamas with the salad print so she does not snack on him at night.
Cassie’s list makes me a rare Crested Nazi.
I’m a Nazi for things they haven’t even thought of yet.
You suspect Barry does not wear the Mom jeans in that relationship.
In more ‘too cheap to meter’ news….
From the Oz.
Further from CNA:
Among the nine Ulma family members killed was Józef and Wiktoria’s seventh child, who was not given a name before the Nazi killings. The Vatican has confirmed that Wiktoria went into premature labor when she was killed and the baby was born at the time of her death. The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints clarified Sept. 5 that the child was a newborn, adding that it received a “baptism of blood” and was therefore included among the martyrs.
Niemczak said it was moving to him that the feast day chosen for the family, July 7, is the day of Józef and Wiktoria’s wedding anniversary, the “birthday of the family.” The Ulmas’ beatification is a “great witness to the unity of a family … that a family is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Son of a mate has recently returned from OS. He’s doing AI. After looking what Australia has to offer he is started his own business, works from home, lives on the smell of an oily rag. Thinking about dropping some pin money on him. His old man is no slouch and he tells me the kid runs rings around him. I don’t know if it’s the small circles I move in but the young people are optimistic about the future which goes against the doom and gloom we keep hearing about. Cats and Kittahs have mentioned this including myself so it gives me hope for my grandchildren. Sure there are a mile of mutleys out there and they are exactly the same. Don’t think it’ll give you a sore head.
This is a complete bollocks Greens talking point.
Solar generation is only ‘cheap’ if you are willing to take power when it’s available.
When you account for the huge cost of battery storage to give 24/7 supply and the additional generation needed to charge the batteries during the window of effective daylight, the capital cost of a utility scale PV setup is about 50% of the current cost * of a nuke built in the US and 170% of the cost of a nuke built in China.
Any savings in opex (far from ‘Sunlight is Free’ zero) are quickly chewed up by the need to replace all of the components of the PV plant every 15 to 20 years.
And you still don’t have reliable 24/7 power unless you overbuild the entire generation and distribution system.
* The current cost in the US is heavily distorted by the politically driven regulations that followed Fukushima – which resulted in the complete redesign of the Vogtle-3 plant midway through construction. No capital-intensive project survives this treatment.
(I’ll spare the blog a nerdy numbers job. The links above will take energy-adjacent wonks to current technology cost information published by the US National Renewable Energy Labs.)
Labor now gives priority the vested interests seeking more migrants, property developers, big business, and universities.
mUnty please note, the party of the wukkas is now happy to put the wukkas on the street so that many more overseas stoonts can move here and price them out of their homes.
Labor now is the party of property developers, Big Business and academia. And the stupid fat fascist fool thinks that the Liberals have moved in the wrong direction.
How much does it cost to Michael Bummer speak. It would be worth the entry fee just to get up near the beginning and shout out “show us your cock”. Priceless I reckon.
Macron says he will not ban the sale of gas domestic heating appliances, arguing that too many people in France have no other option to heat their homes.
And their jobs.
I enjoyed watching Credlin last night as Peta reviewed ‘Das Project’ interviewing Kamahl on Sunday night.
The story line…so far…
-K says he voting No to da race based referendum a while back.
-K then changes his mind to Yes. (last Thursday-Friday?) and becomes a Saint for the Yes cause.
-Albo on Saturday nails his colours to St K’s decision and respect for St K… blah blah blah
-Das Project invites St K onto their echo chamber (Sunday)
-St K then changes his mind back to No (…on the show ?). And just like that becomes a Wacist. Wacist K or WK for short.
Das Projects hosts have a conniption and challenge WKs thinking, position, …almost his colour. 3 x Hosts pile in with their interpretations, changing what WK said (verballing as they say)…
WK says he’d prefer to see some accountability for the $40 Billion pa spent on the black fellas.
Hamish MacDonald (Think an ABC wannabe) verbals WK and fact checks him…along the lines of some Aboriginal authority is only responsible for $4.4 Billion.
Kamahl apologies about his facts. …but is adamant its a No from him. Das Projects hosts look most pleased with themselves in embarrassing the Wacist K.
Credlin (the grown up) then fact checks Hash Mac and shows a Government report from 2016? advising $34 Billion spent on Abo community. Plus a few more Billion from other sources and bang, there is your $40 Billion spent with little if any accountability. Credlin also revisits what K said vs what HashMac verballed him with.
K should demand an apology from Das Project.
Twas good sport to watch. Poor old K though. Just looked well out of his depth. Appears he was only amped up due to skin colour and coming out in support of the Yes campaign. No more government grants nor awards for him.
Attention Mr Johnson:
You are apparently the CE of an organisation dedicated to predicting the weather. An organisation which, incidentally, is notoriously shit at doing the only job it has.
You are demonstrably not a leading authority on this wide brown land’s energy grid.
Stay in your lane, you contemptible dunderhead.
What’s happened to Natalie Barr? The yoke of Kochie cast free? Daily Telegraph:
Memories of sitting in Restaurant Kew Gardens London, travelling with 2 Board members around the World for New Sofware Selection – One member kept asking waiter to check America’s Cup last race on Radio – when we won, he shouted Restaurant attendees to Champage – Then In San Francisco Qantas Lounge there were the Australian America’s Cup Crew – we were upstairs in 747-200 1st Class on Flight SFO to SYD, and I was in Cockpit after we landed in Sydney, with Boxing Kangaroo Flag hanging out window and Fire Engines lined up on either side with Shower Parade
The day young blokes from Down Under curdled the mood of America
How the America’s Cup race spectacularly sailed into Australia’s national psyche – and my life – 40 years ago.
Jennifer Hewett – Columnist
On a glorious September morning – with just the hint of autumn to come – I joined a packed press boat sailing out from Newport Harbour 40 years ago.
The jostle of boats of all descriptions headed to the America’s Cup course was to see whether 132 years of US sailing history could be overturned by Australia II.
The Australians had come back from 3 to 1 down to even the odds, but it still seemed like a yachting miracle to believe John Bertrand and his crew would win this last race.
I’d been in and out of the pretty Rhode Island town over that summer. This was not because I knew the first thing about sailing but because my then employer, The Sydney Morning Herald, cared about little else from its US correspondent over those few months.
It was, of course, a dream assignment for a young journalist adjusting to how different American style and customs were. The grace of 12-metre yacht racing at sea was just part of it.
I revelled in walking up cobbled streets past wooden cottages to the famous Newport mansions along the clifftops built by a previous century’s generations of wealth. Now Alan Bond was the brash Australian version of new money, trying his luck yet again. When he and his wife Red threw their big party at their spectacular rented mansion, she wore a giant koala embroidered on a shortish dress. Old Newport money shuddered.
One morning during the trials to determine the challenger, I walked along the back of the boat sheds, hopping between jetties and equipment, to observe the crews’ preparations.
The British were resplendent in their sailing whites as Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory played. On the jetty, a coffee urn, croissants and fine crockery sat on a white linen tablecloth.
The mystery surrounding the winged keel had as much of a psychological impact on the American defenders as any technical advance.
A little further on, on Australia II, young men in scrubby shorts and bare feet or thongs shouted happily at one another under the fluttering flag of the boxing kangaroo. Red gloves for aggression, pumped up chest for national pride. (I come from a land) Down Under – Men at Work’s unofficial Australian anthem of the early 1980s – echoed. There were no tablecloths in sight beyond the modest “skirt” hiding designer Ben Lexcen’s winged keel.
This had become the Australians’ secret weapon. According to Bertrand, the mystery surrounding it had as much of a psychological impact on the American defenders as any technical advance.
And in the final leg of the last race, Dennis Conner’s concern about what advantage the keel might give the Australians led Liberty’s skipper to make a fatal miscalculation. In the chopped-up waters off Newport, Conner thought Australia II’s keel rather than the extra wind Bertrand had found was why the Australians were chasing Liberty so fast.
So, the US skipper took the risk of tacking away to find more wind himself – only to discover it wasn’t there after all. It allowed the Australians to cross in front at the crucial moment and go on to win by 41 seconds.
In a demonstration of my sailing perspicacity, the previous leg of the race had convinced me the Australians had little chance of catching Liberty, so I had wandered downstairs to the café for sustenance. When I returned to the deck, I was embarrassed to find the ferocious tacking duel so dramatically altered. Fortunately, I had my own secret weapon.
On previous trips on the press boat, I had happened upon an American journalist, Peter Ruehl, who loved sailing. He had convinced his own editors to send him to Newport using the argument that Australia might just win this time. He was happy to explain the logic of race tactics whenever I asked – which was often. (A year later he was also happy to marry me and subsequently move to Perth to cover the 1987 America’s Cup and start a new career at The Australian Financial Review. But that’s another story.)
National euphoria
On September 26, 1983, all that mattered was the infectious national euphoria at Australia’s win after so many attempts over the previous decades. At the Royal Perth Club, PM Bob Hawke – dressed in a tackily colourful jacket – uttered what became an instantly famous line: “Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum.” The win boosted a tone of Australian self-confidence under a new Labor government.
The 40th anniversary of that joyous celebration is being relived in Western Australia with parties and exhibitions.
But back in Newport on that extraordinary evening, sirens and screams from the spectator boats and champagne and elation of the Australians had only further curdled the Americans’ mood.
In the cavernous wooden sailing shed for post-race briefings, the tone was one of angry disbelief. The New York Yacht Club was in shock at how this could possibly have happened. While Bertrand became a national hero, Dennis Conner and his reputation were discarded, disgraced in sailing lore.
Yet Conner was the one determined enough to come to Fremantle to win back the cup – although this time for the San Diego Yacht Club rather than the club that had dumped him. By then Alan Bond’s boat, Australian IV, had lost even the defender rights to another Australian challenger, Kookaburra II – funded by another brash fellow WA entrepreneur, Kevin Parry
After Kookaburra II lost to Conner, time and the variety of locations the four-yearly race has since been held meant the magic of the America’s Cup lost its pull on the national psyche. Technological advances have long since replaced the elegance of the traditional 12-metre yachts. It’s the memory of a remarkable win in a more innocent time that retains its power.
What is wrong with these people?
The whole point of energy generation for the masses is to avoid the vagaries of weather. And when it comes to weather vagaries, as Dorothea noted, we get them bigtime.
I saw the story about how SA is going to become a huge hydrogen energy producer, thanks to plenty of taxpayer money.
Ridiculous. It makes the MultiFunctionPolis look good.
Has anyone involved looked at a map of the world?
If they have any integrity they’ll issue a correction tonight.
Over to you, Hamish…
Was it mUnty who gave this the thumb down?
No, no, no – that’s going to be Queensland.
The Palacechook Government is well ahead of the game: she’s got a Hydrogen Strategy and five hydrogen cars.
Home and hosed.
https://www.onenation.org.au/referendum?utm_campaign=referendum_scrutineer_form_1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=onenation
“We know we get better results when we make decisions with the people who are affected. Our democracy works better when we are listening.”
Well, Tanya Plebersuck. Our Democracy is not working as your mob are not listening to the majority of the people. You are only listening to your mates.
Better get your act together and do what you wanna do – we’re gonna go extinct ‘cos of climate change:
Humans will go extinct on Earth in 250 million years – but that’s if we were to stop burning fossil fuels right now, a bleak new study reveals.
Computer simulations suggest our planet will face a mass extinction that wipes out all mammals, University of Bristol experts report.
These people don’t know how laughable they are.
And what is the cheapest, safest alternative you mongs?
Not continuing with the article. They want you miserable. Or dead.
Lego’s Latest Effort to Avoid Oil-Based Plastic Hits Brick Wall
World’s biggest toy maker has worked for years to find other ingredients for its iconic bricks; ‘Clutch power’ is key
Lego is scrapping plans to make its toy bricks from recycled plastic bottles after determining that switching to the material would result in it producing higher carbon emissions.
The world’s biggest toy maker said it hasn’t given up on its yearslong effort to make its bricks out of something other than petroleum-based plastics.
But it said Monday it is giving up on a high-profile effort launched just over two years ago to make the bricks out of recycled polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, plastic bottles.
Lego has long sought to replace its petroleum-based bricks with more sustainable materials.
It tried making pieces from corn, but that resulted in bricks that were too soft. A wheat-based brick didn’t look right. Bricks made from other materials over the years proved too hard to pull apart or lost their grip.
Its latest effort was focused on recycled plastic bottles. The company found a one-liter plastic PET bottle could produce around 10 of its classic 2×4-stud bricks. The company has been testing bricks made from the material for their quality, durability and “clutch power”—the name Lego gives to the brick’s ability to lock together with other bricks.
Lego said it is abandoning the effort because it found that scaling up production wouldn’t cut the company’s carbon emissions: The extra steps involved in production would use more energy and manufacturing facilities would require retooling.
“We remain fully committed to making Lego bricks from sustainable materials by 2032,” a Lego Group spokesperson said. “Recycled PET is one of hundreds of different sustainable materials we’ve tested.”
The company said it would instead continue with testing and developing Lego bricks made from a range of alternative sustainable materials, including other recycled plastics.
Most Lego pieces are currently made from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastic. The company has also been using a bioplastic made from sugar cane for several years to produce smaller, softer pieces such as trees, branches, leaves and accessories for its minifigures.
This bioplastic, known as bio-PE, isn’t currently suitable for making harder, stronger elements such as its bricks though.
Black Ball
Sep 26, 2023 11:45 AM
But no mention of the $40 Billion annually already on the table? That isn’t sufficient to get “better results”?
At least Kamahl in his doddering way brought the real issue into the open. And look at he frenzied attack he received for doing so. He was dead on target judging from that lefturd response.
The money- we dare not speak it’s name. Too crass, too rascist, too undignified. Met with handwaving and frantic virtue signalling from lefturds , just to keep OPM flooding in.
An amusing problem is coming on 14 Oct, and it isn’t the Voice referendum.
Western US Braces For Loss Of Solar-Powered Generation During Solar Eclipse (25 Sep)
How dare the Moon get in the way of Gaia’s holy solar panels! The grid electrical engineers will be scrambling to find over 9 GW of generation capacity on the fly. It recalls the time one cloud system-blacked all of Alice Springs.
Take note…Canavan, like Dutton, is saying he would support a legislated Voice if the referendum fails.
The Coalition is making a rod for its own back by maintaining this position.
The hydrogen thing reminds me of the South Sea Bubble.
In my ideal world, the test would be – bet your home and your investment properties on what you are foisting on taxpaters.
Crickets.
Jacinta Price said in a recent interview that she was “deeply” concerned at being told that the Voice representatives would be chosen by community members.
Macron says he will not ban the sale of gas domestic heating appliances, arguing that too many people in France have no other option to heat their homes.
Macron the sometime voice of reason?
Strange days indeed.
The hydrogen thing reminds me of the South Sea Bubble.
Time will tell.
The amount of money being thrown at this (not just taxpayer money, serious private money) will either yield a result regarding its commercialisation.
Or not.
It’s more a science experiment than rampant speculation (the South Sea bubble).
I will say some of my biggest investment losses have come from glorified science experiments that ended with a big pile of nothing.
Albanese to Canberra lockdown protesters:
“Just go home.”
No, no, no – that’s going to be Queensland.
The Palacechook Government is well ahead of the game: she’s got a Hydrogen Strategy and five hydrogen cars.
Home and hosed.
I would love to see these “Pollies” going up in a hydrogen balloon. And when I say “going up”, I mean really “going up”. With a Big Bang!!
Idea, theory, brain fart regarding this Canadian disgrace.
Maybe those involved in the decision making are just so insulated from reality or any critical thinking that the current narrative (all Ukrainians are saints) was the only one that occurred to them.
Being ignorant doesn’t give them a pass.
And what’s worse.
They knew his history and thought it was acceptable to use him as a prop.
Or they were so ignorant of history?
As you can see, I’m really struggling with an alleged western liberal democracy honouring a genuine, real life nazi from WWII.
It’s the Macron-in-the-face-of-electoral-annihation Macron
Nothing more or less.
I think it’s a political calculation.
Likewise Sunak pushing back the deadline on the sale of new ICE vehicles.
Net Zero dreams turning into political nightmares.
The only way to achieve their goals is by suspending democracy and they don’t have the balls to try that….at least not yet.
The second best Scottish Russian ever, behind Sean Connery in “Hunt For Red October”.
Darwin academic and climate alarmist Adam Britton reckons global warming will see man-eating crocodiles moving south. Wait until they reach the Yarra; that will fix ’em.
The big woofter is now in court and pleading guilty to sexually molesting 42 dogs. Yes, dogs.
Dover, when I upticked P’s comment at 12.12, the whole ticking went into negative. I see that now it has changed.
I’m seeing why you didn’t want it. Apparently the world is full of trolls who to compensate for their inability to function in the real world, get their kicks by sabotaging sites they don’t like.
Pathetic losers.
As we know, you’re not easily deterred. 🙂
I think we have the answer. Yes, it was the Russians;
Kanekoa asks the obvious question;
areff, some of us are trying to keep a straight face at work here.
David McCallum was
on the verge of his 90th birthday and still starring as “Ducky”, the medical examiner in NCIS. It’s a tragedy if he’s dead.
this is the sort of technological illiteracy that drives me batshit crazy.
Our coal fired stations (certainly in NSW) mostly use seawater for cooling. That is hardly restricted by the vagaries of any sort of weather.
My neighbours have solar panels that hve recently been replaced after 11 years. They paid for replacements themselves because the new contract was nothing like the old one.
Trudeau Classifies SS Fighter Parliamentary Ovation Scandal as ‘Russian Disinformation’ – Ridiculous Reaction as it Surfaces that He and Zelensky Met Nazi Personally
The scandal over the celebration and standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament of an elderly man who fought alongside the SS Galicia Nazi formation is still raging.
Although PM Justin Trudeau was quick to deflect any responsibility for the shameful moment to the speaker of the House Anthony Rota, the questions regarding debacle.
Since he can’t dodge the insistence by the press, Trudeau had a different idea: he offered a non-apology and segued it with by calling out ‘Russian misinformation’.
Yes, you read it right. His government calls a Nazi to Parliament, celebrates him, but HEY – it’s Putin’s fault, right?
Watch the ridiculous reaction from PM Justin trudeau:
Justin Trudeau is now blaming the fact that he and Zelenskyy honored a literal Nazi with a standing ovation before parliament on “Russian Disinformation”
pic.twitter.com/JjLMNmGrlf
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 25, 2023
But that was not the only development to the story.
It seems that Trudeau and Zelensky did meet personally with the Nazi veteran, although both claim that they hardly knew who his guest was.
A social media post by Yaroslav Gunko’s granddaughter Teresa was discovered online. The caption to the photo reads: ‘Dedo is waiting in the reception room for Trudeau and Zelensky’.
With this, the scandal of the invitation of the veteran of the Nazi SS Galicia division takes a whole new turn.
Just imagine the reaction when the public learns about today’s Nazis in the Ukrainian armed forces.
This is exactly why they are losing. That marketing pap is just not persuasive.
I think they really cannot understand how anyone could be so pig-headed and obstinate as to not accept their guidance like a man in the desert offered a cup of water.
Tom at 90 it’s not a tragedy, more likely expected. At 70 I wouldn’t consider my own death a tragedy, only an inconvenience. At least the pain will stop.
I remember seeing an old British movie on YouTube where David Mac played the rebellious criminal yoof. The camera loved him.
Like his recently deceased contemporary Angela Lansbury, he was a hard working pro. And he had the sense to leave his personal views at home.
Vale, Ducky.
It’s severe technological illiteracy, the Kogan Creek dry plate heat exchanger works in 40°+ – although, coming from Wood, it’s just as likely disinformation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/outrageous-brothers-who-killed-ethan-liming-stomped-his/
OUTRAGEOUS! Brothers Who Killed Ethan Liming, Stomped on His Chest, Broke His Neck and Took His Car Acquitted of Involuntary Manslaughter Charges
It looks like the Soros plan to create a Civil War in the US is bearing fruit.
Parents had a holiday house on the river in Maroochydore. One holiday, we lifted the old lino, that dated back to the 1930s. Among the newspapers under the old lino was one reporting the shooting of a large crocodile near Beenleigh, south of Brisbane.
Britton needs to read more.
On the Constitution I find it absurd it only requires 50%+1 for a change to succeed. 80% is closer to the mark.
Get it right. That’s PM Justine Truedope.
This particular marketing pap won’t keep well if the Referendum Says No.
Induced social division and struggle may have a place in 19th century Marxist theory to boost the dialectic and lead to social transformation; but it’s going to be a bit obvious in a 20th century Australia.
If 50%+ of the voteherd declines the Voice, Plibbers’ Government better listen to it also declining the gracious and generous invitation to walk with us to self-determination, self-government, customary law, and compensation.
Boambee John
Sep 26, 2023 1:19 PM
Watch the ridiculous reaction from PM Justin trudeau:
Get it right. That’s PM Justine Truedope.
No it’s PM Justin Trudeau Castro
Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s Dad. Nobody Has ‘Debunked’ Anything
It’ll be a lot sooner than that if the decline in atmospheric CO2 (On a geologic time scale) isn’t reversed. Less than 2mill years apparently.
Australian Labor Party MP Meryln Swanson states the Australian Labor Party Motto for Voice Vote Early- Vote Often
Question – Why is the Australian Electoral Commission(AEC) not taking Legal action action this Lady & The Australian Lanor Party?
here’s a 1905 story about a Beenleigh crocodile. Might have been some human assistance on it’s journey south.
3AW amplifying rumour imminent press conference will see announcement of Andrews’ resignation.
I guess that will depend on where he lands.
With a conviction for bestiality and dog torture, I’d imagine the general prison population would make his life [ahem] interesting.
But he may get the opportunity to read, tucked away in a protected unit with the other perverts.
Breaking news: Daniel Andrews to quit as Victorian premier.
Monty> I have a calculator if you’re unable to decide in your head whether 387 is greater or less than 1700. Or you can sign up for some remedial mathematics tutored by a capable 17 year old kid
Herald-Sun:
Premier Daniel Andrews is poised to make a significant announcement, after he made the unusual decision to call a snap press conference.
The Premier of Victoria has called a snap press conference with his wife in attendance as well as the entire cabinet.
More to come
He’s resigned!!!
Rosie
Sep 26, 2023 1:29 PM
here’s a 1905 story about a Beenleigh crocodile. Might have been some human assistance on it’s journey south.
Rosie,
That’s Not a Croc – Now this is a Croc
The story behind the biggest crocodile ever caught in Australia: How a petite Polish immigrant with perfectly manicured nails nailed an 8.6metre monster
and
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=images+biggest+croc+normanton&t=ffab&ia=images&iax=images
You’re a federal MP, you could turn your ears on now.
Daniel Andrews says his resignation as premier and member of parliament is effective at 5pm tomorrow.
Poor Meryl. She’s my local member.
Her first post was with the #vote often hashtag…soon edited to remove it. Trouble is it appears that there is an edit history written into the algorithm – apparently you can view changes to posts.
Is this true?
The most evil useless incompetent utterly corrupt grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile to have blighted politics in this country’s history.
Good riddance, you foul piece of excrement.
Watkin Tench wrote of seeing them in Sydney Harbour in 1788.
Tom, why Andrew’s resignation on Wednesday? How does this “spin”? Will there be a by-election?
Eat S*hit Andrews! Absolute scum.
For Dan.
Now pi55 off.
No idea, Maman. That’s just what Andrews has announced.
Thats worth a public holiday! Oh, happy days.
Now for some real inquiries, followed by criminal charges.
For Dan
I met a traveller from Victoristan,
Who said—“Two vast and flapping ears of stone
Stand in the Parliament. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered spiv lies, whose spine,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its PR guy 57 well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless stairs,
The hand that locked them down, and the redshirts that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymongdius, Prier of Victoria;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Tip for Dan…don’t go bike riding.
You might t-bone someone’s 4WD.
My favourite so far.
Perfect!
Ding dong, the Witch is dead!
Lol! The RAAF just did a flyover!
They must have heard the news.
Who replaces Andrews. Another clown?
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come as no cabinet minister would ever divulge anything against that crook previously?
I’m tipping one death stair too many from the bruvvers.
Rabz
Sep 26, 2023 1:42 PM
I’d disagree about the incompetence. However he did it, he did whatever he wanted and remained undefeated in the polls.
He also managed to teach me to begin to appreciate the principle of not just taking out a leader, but their progeny as a statement that his line should not be allowed to continue.
It sounds like his decision is not due to health reasons, unfortunately.
He’s not a clown, that’s for sure.
He is evil personified, to me here in Vic at least. Rat cunning evil. Hopefully somehow, somewhere he will get his just deserts.
Dear Leader Dan has seen some writing on walls. Doing a Joyce.
Snap, Makka!
Agree Nelson, he’s hardly ‘fallen on his sword’ as, somehow, he was still receiving record public support…
Don’t underplay the mental retardation of Victorians.
FIFY
Can we convince Andrews and Joyce to take an Air Vanuatu flight together?
None of his offending is alleged to have been against the reptiles.
Weakling.
Is there a new Voice poll about to be released? Or are we wanting the Kamahl-mentum (and its associated embarrassments and revelations) off the pages as fast as possible?
Most hated politician in Victoria since Kennett . Only one of them made things better and it wasnt Andrews.
Ding dong, the Witch is dead! – It would be interesting to hear the Stairs View
Did Dictator Dan actually fall down some stairs or are the below rumours true?
By Staff Reporter
More and more evidence is circulating that Dictator Dan, Victoria’s former Premier didn’t actually fall down the stairs but in fact was bashed at Lindsay Fox home.
This has come from multiple reliable sources.
Maybe Ben Fordham owes ANR Founder, Jamie McIntyre an apology, after attacking him on 2GB radio last year for false claims he was inciting violence against Dan Andrew’s.
When the ANR Founder simply predicted that Dan Andrew’s in the future would not be safe in Victoria after what he had done.
If These Stairs could speak – Pictured: The two low wooden plank steps where Dan Andrews slipped and broke his back on holiday while his wife thought he ‘was going to die’ – putting him off work for months in the middle of Covid pandemic
Doing a “Mark McGowan?”
Dan resigned as there was nothing left to wreck in Victoria. Perhaps he can head to Canbra where a few things still working OK.
Best news Evah!
Tomorrow is the Grand Finale
Friday is the Grand Final
Don’t think so. For one, Catherine Andrews hasn’t been seen outside on the footpath alongside her home selling furniture, like Sarah. Nor has Dan been seen around town with a blondie like McClown has.
The service on Malaysian is better…
calli,
Timing is everything. The bruvvers mustn’t be happy because Andrews is their man. Particularly the CMEU. I suspect that there is a major row going on behind the scenes over where to further cut out of control State expenditures- serious cuts. Victoria’s finances are appalling, so it was only a matter of time that serious actions had to be taken. Andrew’s isn’t up for the ensuing dogfight and factional carnage?
Then again, maybe he knows just what’s ahead this summer with our fkd up grid?
We shall see.
How many “Covid Premiers” are left?
Pluckachook?
Old Ozzie,
He was belted, got pissed and said a few too many wrong things to the wrong woman.
Great to see the arsehole gone, shame he gets a nice pension.
Pat
The nonentity in Taxmania?
To be honest, I had not paid too much attention to Daniel Andrews pre-Covid.
His eagerness to assume absolute decision-making in Victoria as Covid progressed was a lesson for me in the terrible consequences of so-called “emergency powers”. Further, it was a perfect illustration of the way in which the wielding of political power can reveal the worst in leaders when it is unchecked.
While some premiers relied unduly on their unelected and mediocre medical bureaucrats, others, like Andrews, threw off any political restraints and went full-on autocrat. The scary development was that the more savage his rule, the more his Stockholm-like subjects seemed to defer to him.
A truly horrible period in Australian history. It has left many questions about the character of Australian democracy and where we go from here.
Andrews talking about his successful strategy as Premier:
Let nobody say he didn’t achieve that goal.
He was belted, got pissed and said a few too many wrong things to the wrong woman.
Would enjoy hearing the full saga.
What’s more President Eisenhower deported over a million illegal Mexican immigrants to free up jobs for Americans. Besides, Mexico wanted their own workers back. It’s amazing what’s possible when there is a will.
Operation Wetback
Spendign more time with his family, reading backlogged novels and playing a bit more golf.
Will he play by the laws of golf, change them to suit the shot or just make up his own?
Including barring ‘refugee and asylum seeker’ German Jews wholesale, if I recall correctly?
It changed my view of the country forever. The bottom line is – we are not safe from Govt. Unlike the US Constitution, we really have no rights or protections after witnessing an animal like Andrews,so quickly and easily, use the force of the State to impose his tyranny on us.
Trouble is the SFLs in Victoria are too useless to put up a decent alternative for voters, so more of the same.
I’ll never forget how he referred to Margaret Court as “that woman” or “that person”.
Mrs Court is still a champion, Daniel Andrews is an ex-politician.
My guess is, like Jacinda on co-governance and Mark on the cultural law that failed, Dan has no ticker for fighting his own mob on stuff he brought into being. Funny how easily they walk away when the going gets tough …
A glance at my Shakespearean Insult Calendar….
How apt.
So Daniel Andrews is quitting. If it’s not the Covid enquire which is for Morrison only it has to be the new revelation of “vote early vote often” We know he can stack the seats what else did he stack.
There will be a by election.
I think JC tipped it was coming a while back.
He’s probably maxxed out his pension and has something lucrative to move on to, after a well earned break, of course.
Not surprising either considering the financial mess he’s left Victoria.
He’s run out of other people’s money to throw around like confetti.
Never said by one single politician, ever. And yet we’ve waisted hundreds of millions on a Voice and not one pollie has ever put their balls on the line for an “Amendment” or Constitutionally enshrined rights to: Free speech, assembly and media.
I think, IIRC, Brandis had a quarter of a crack at this but, patently, didn’t have the cojones.
Daily Mail
George “deplorables have a right to be big bigotty bigots” Brandis.
Loving the Kamal-mentum, voice support drops to new low, Andrews resigns immediately on a Wednesday, what’s next…
From the Oz.
…He’s run out of other people’s money to throw around like confetti…
So which super fund will he be parachuted into?
So Dan Andrews is resigning after a discussion with his family overnight.
The brotherhood has spoken!
Congratulations to those Victorians who did not vote for Andrews.
Hope he never shows his face in public again.
This is correct.
You are a tax serf. The penalties for growing your own tobacco are laughably brutal and extreme.
The Public Health Acts have not been repealed. Your constitutional rights are scant and otherwise held up by a long and tortured chain of reasoning, in the popularly sacrosanct right to a trial by jury, ignored or read narrowly. The pet High Court justices literally misread a plain English section of the constitution to allow the States to break the law.
Your taxes are so high it makes housing unaffordable to some, and this cruels family formation and community. Any common law rights left are deprecated year by year. You are being left naked before an increasingly powerful bureaucracy.
Constitutional changes recently and currently revolve around doling out gobs of money to unworthy grifters.
Your right to discuss these matters is being chilled by idiotic fascist ideas like “eSafety”. You have no inherent right to arm yourself against criminals.
Our rulers have their own dynasties; Crean, Street, Beazley, Court, Cain and so on. The mainstream left and right get along with each other better than their own constituents, hence the uniparty as an idea.
Most hated politician in Victoria since Kennett .
Who won a thumping electoral victory while the memory of locking up the punters was fresh in voters minds.
Says everything about how the punters saw the alternative.
Listened to most of Warren Mundine’s Press Club speech before the Andrews news interrupted. Poor Warren pales in comparison to Jacinta in presentation. Nonetheless, once he got over the nerves, he had some very sound argument.
It is sobering to hear the stories of both Mundine’s early childhood and also that of Jacinta’s mother. Mundine was one of eleven children and spent his childhood in a dirt poor circumstances. In his speech he reflected that such disadvantage did not stop him from achieving independence and prosperity in his adult life. He also noted that Price’s mother, the remarkable Bess Price, was abandoned by her birth mother as she was small and sickening (a not uncommon practice in pre-settlement Australia)and was fortunately rescued by another woman. In adulthood Bess attained a university degree and represented her community in State parliament. Mundine argued that these examples are testimony to the importance of Aboriginal people using education to improve their lives.
Mundine is held hostage, to some extent, by his early positions on questions such as the date of Australia Day. He was also compelled to explain his previous support for compensation cases in the courts for specific cases, while he opposes reparations and treaty.
The toll has been heavy on Mundine, and he has confessed that pressure from “the mob” has caused him to contemplate suicide on several occasions. Like the rest of us, different personalities handle pressure uniquely. Price seems to be made of kryptonite. I hope she continues to be sustained by her close family and the many Australians who wish her the best.
Jessica Rojas ??
@catsscareme2021
Listen to what this preacher says about vaccines… he sums it up in less than 2 minutes.
“All the vaccinations are killing people giving people autism and every kind of disease known to man…if they don’t die now they’ll die later of cancer”
“Bill Gates is actually sterilizing whole African tribes across Africa to reduce population”
Rodney Howard Browne says vaccines are population control and vows he’ll “go Old Testament” if anyone ever tries to forcibly vaccinate him.
“There was talk about five years ago, they were going to stop people by the side of the road and give them forced vaccinations,” he said. “Let them try. I have a couple of injections for them and it’s going to be the size of a .45, I can promise you right now. Somebody said, ‘But you’re a Christian.’ Yeah, I am, but I’ll go Old Testament for a half an hour, it’s not a problem.”
Ok – Dan has resigned.
Why is he exiting office so fast? What new little turgid nugget threatens to be floating so close to the surface ?
I smell a controversy larger than red shirts, boy on a bike, the Vic budget, or Lindsay Fox’s protective rage.
johanna
Sep 26, 2023 1:02 PM
Agree, he was a pro and a gentleman.
And he came out the winner after C Bronson stole his wife.
Michael Pezzullo, head of the Dept of Home Affairs, appears to have finally fallen victim to the “insiders” club of acceptable head bureaucrats in the Labor Party’s playbook. Pezzullo is not doubt a tough cookie who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. And there are plenty of the latter in this government’s ministerial lineup.
It is the country’s loss, because it seem to me that this was a reliable and insightful bureaucrat in respect to internal and external security threats.
Wonder which of his crimes is catching up with him. Is it the old car accident? The cancelled Commonwealth Games? The huge deficit? The COVID deaths and lockdowns? There is so much to choose from.
Any company that gives Andrews a directorship should be boycotted by all Australians.
Tuesday Andrews resigns.
Wednesday. Xi announces newly created position. Lord High wiper of Xis arse.
Coincidence, I think not.
Tom, the Herald-Sun is reporting that
“Crowds erupted in applause after Eddie McGuire announced the news of Daniel Andrew’s resignation at the AFL Grand Final Lunch at Crown.”
It is interesting that Andrew’s timing of his announcement was towards the end of Warren Mundine’s Press Club Speech. The timing has taken the reporting of Mundine’s comment, that the 26 pages behind the Uluru Statement were tantamount to a declaration of war against modern Australia, off the front pages.
Andrews has a funny little ‘tic/tell’ when he is being ‘creative’ – wonder how he goes playing poker.
At least one of those “something”s will have the word LinFox in it.
And that’s why he had to go, Labor are only comfortable with Yes men.
Internal Labor politics.
Ever since the branch stacking story broke a month or so ago, courtesy a leak from someone high up in the VIC ALP, it’s been rumoured that Dan’s time was running out.
Another highly successful and popular Labor premier retires in Victoria after a long and distinguished career.
He’s done more for the people of Australia than all of you lot put together.
Unless he’s standing in the dock of a courtroom
Which safe Federal seat will he suddenly pop up in?
Albo’s time is obviously ticking down…
I will launch an attack on my very expensive Scotch stocks tonight.
Thanks for the excuse Dan.
Low energy, monty. Very low energy.
I believe the Citizens of Victoria have the right to choose the method of Dan’s Departure.
I find myself quite partial to The Brazen Bull.
This stupid infernal error again.
All I wanted to say was to m0nty “Ever considered show business?
You are funny. “
That’s funny about Meryl Swanson voting early and often; she used to be on 2sm; dumb as shit, virtue signalling and whatever it takes; a great liars party member.
This guy is still going around farting in the faces of sheilas. They love it and some of his posts top 100 million views:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=686564549668588
I’ve changed my mind, I prefer The Pear of Anguish. Actually, The Brazen Bull and The Pear of Anguish combined, would be a fitting Farewell.
I was impressed at how good Andrews was at not building things. What was it a road and two railways? Was there any change out of ten billion for those?
Monty and his family will be paying off their share of the state debt for a fair while methinks. I make it to be about $100,000 for each family of four in Victoria.
For how many days, and in how many ways, shall we celebrate the Danparture? ^
Will Victoria undergo some Danestroika to embrace a free market economy and civil liberties again?
—–
^ alternative nouns? Resigdanation? Eternal Dannation? Dantente?
Bruce if N
And mUnty is so pleased with the performance of Dan of the Dead, that he has offered to pay the shares of all Victorian Cats and Kittehs, in addition to his own share.
All hail mUnty the Munificent.