1st and lurking?

Hatrick?

Meh,
Why settle for bad girls, when you can have witches.

Today is 70/30 day.

It’s going to be beautiful.

dover0beach
Oct 13, 2023 5:31 PM

Dover something is messing with my content, and my attempts to contact you are blocked.

You hit the link limit. Also, that comment was very long. Could you just link Adam’s page or was that a cut and paste of comments?

Sorry, I don’t know what happened. I highlighted one comment and copied it, but the entire page somehow came across. Apologies.

Any chance of a preview function at some stage? It would prevent a lot of mishaps.

‘The day your vote counts! ‘ But only if your vote is countred – black pens all ’round -heard a story ladt night that s voter in Cootamundra was told only prncil could be used – big to-do abiut made it into the media apparently –

Ps to above, diesel and electric can be synchronized, but steam?

Apologies, I posted my questions on the wrong blog.

Today is the day.

Corbyn junior gets his answer.

If “No” gets up, wait for the usual suspects to whine about being ashamed to be Australian.

No. Seeing grubs left unmolested while chanting “Gas the Jews”.

Now THAT is a national disgrace that should make us all ashamed.

Watching some of the Hamas day of rage footage on various news services.
Apart from Tehran, most of the protests seemed smallish.
Even in Beirut, they used a tight camera shot, which is the tell tale sign by the media to hide how small a crowd is.
Think Joe Biden campaign during the 2020 election.

Considering the AEC electronically mark you off, it’s going to be hard to vote multiple times in person.
Postal votes are different obviously.
Can other Cats confirm its laptop not the phone book when voting ?
Surely it would be the same everywhere, not laptops in Wentworth & the phone book in Chifley.

Yesterday I had a long lunch, from which I am feeling a little dusty this morning.
Later on when I can collect my thoughts better I shall relay how some fellow on exiting the restaurant called for everyone to vote Yes tomorrow.

It should be noted that he was wearing suede shoes.
Meaning that he clearly sits down to wee.

More to follow later regarding the verbal jousting with other diners.

Rabz, for what it’s worth, I got the gist of little miss party pants.

You have dodged a serious bullet, even if it was a 9+ gauge. A flesh wound, no more.

As for the Peanut, just thinking about him creeps me out. Some women seem to be able to filter out all the danger signals – that’s how the police end up with so much paperwork.

In the last few minutes, Hamas have told Gazans residents “not to fall for propaganda” and to “stay in your homes.”

Keep in mind Israel are posting videos on instagram & TikTok in arabic to leave.
The leaflets might not do so much as literacy rates in Gaza have dropped off a cliff over the past decade or so.
Hamas doesn’t believe in education for anyone, not just excluding girls.

Israel will do what it has to do. Telling residents to get out is merciful.

Why is “collateral damage” only every whined about when it’s the enemy? What did they think would happen?

A literal mad Labor f.cker.

Sam Hyde couldn’t write this level of grift and trashiness.

What would her local member’s name be? Little Willy?

What’s her name? Dr Ms Girlfriend, MHT for vacuous whores?

There’s like, the Canberra Centre
And, like
All these, like, really great shoe stores
I, like, love going into, like, clothing stores and stuff
I, like, buy the neatest mini-skirts and stuff

Quite frankly I find Comrade Boob Carr BA (ABC) more acceptable than a commie strumpet like a modern day Abigail

Al Jazza claiming that journalists are being “specifically targeted”.

Bummer!

Dot, I may be still over the limit, but I can’t keep up with what you are saying this morn.
Also, can you please turn the sun down a little.
At least until my dustiness subsides.

Pearson very much exemplifies the types that are attracted to politics.

I think Dots been on the early morning sherry.

Good luck with your voting today, everyone who still has to. It’s freezing and windy down here. I am about to head out to a Fund-raising for our local kids Playground.
Operating a market stall for the first time in almost two years. Have been furiously baking for the last two days. Here’s hoping the cold weather and the kid’s playground makes a lot of people hungry!

VOTE NO! 😀

TE, I’ll go No 59, Yes 41. All states vote No, ACT votes Yes (of course) with a close result in Victoria and Tasmania. The Tassie result is based on the sheer number of Yes signage I saw on a visit to Hobart, Bruny Island and the Huon Valley on the October long weekend.

Get a good breakfast into you Dot. Guinness washes it down well.

Precious petals.

Counselling offered to Aussie cricketers if No vote gets up (Oz, 14 Oct, paywalled)

With opinion polls painting a bleak picture for the Yes vote, Aussie cricketers have been told they have access to counselling services should the Indigenous Voice to Parliament get voted down.

Just play cricket. Have they forgotten our first touring side was Aboriginal and were very popular? No one cared what the colour of their skin was.

Aussie cricketers have been told they have access to counselling services should the Indigenous Voice to Parliament get voted down.

FFS! What idiot came up with that little idea. No wonder they can’t win a game.

Aussie cricketers have been told they have access to counselling services should the Indigenous Voice to Parliament get voted down.

Hello, this is the JC hotline, how may I empathise with you today?

Their ABC has no hesitation in calling out 50%+ of their fellow Australians as stupid, racist, self-interested monsters:

In the atmosphere of the Voice debate, Australia’s small markers of progress have already been eroded
Laura Tingle

As my colleague, ABC Indigenous Affairs Editor Bridget Brennan, wrote this week: “Indigenous people deserved so much better than the debate we were subjected to this year: the misinformation, death threats, conspiracy theories, the racist nonsense and everything in between. The worst of Australia has been on display.”

And regardless of what the referendum result is, it seems there have been many backward steps: reports of increasing hostility to welcomes to country and acknowledgements of country, as one example.

However, the number of hideous racists actually engaged in being hostile and threatening death appears modest:

Tony Mitchelmore does qualitative polling with his company, Visibility Consulting.

Mitchelmore says the Voice rarely even rates a mention in focus groups and doesn’t even generate much discussion when it is brought up, though occasionally views can get heated. The way he describes sentiment is that people feel “worn out” on the Voice.

And that is without it ever reaching a level of importance or priority to give it “the cost of entry”, as he puts it.

The issue absorbing the focus groups is the cost of living.

When polls were showing support for recognition and the referendum at around 60 per cent, Mitchelmore says, it was support based on sentiment — on the vague idea that, yes, Indigenous people had indeed had a bad time and that there was a significant body of goodwill to the idea of doing something to fix that.

But it has not been possible to capture or crystallise that goodwill into the specific Voice proposal.

“It’s that ‘I want to buy a new car but I am not sure about this one’ phenomenon,” he says.

And confusingly, Tingle notes:

Not all No voters are racist. Not all No voters are angry about the cost of living.

Many have been genuinely concerned about the legal questions raised or about lack of detail.

All up, it’s just possible that Albanese has a hand in the misinformation. Perhaps more do than we racists and Grampians.

Having triggered the Referendum with the promise to ‘implement Uluru in full’, and then telling us he hadn’t read the Uluru Statement in full “why would I?”, Uncle Luigi has spent the campaign obfuscating on details on the grounds that Parliament, controlled by Labor and the Greens, would decide after the fact.

Tingle’s colleague has something right: “The worst of Australia has been on display”. Just not by the Australian citizenry.

I like your thinking, Mole.

The scene at the polling booth here at the Bay…

Sunshine, early morning glinting off the water at the end of the street, the vast jacaranda in its first flush, twenty or so people lined up, laughing and chatting at the decrepit old community building, waiting their turn.

A Tale of Two Campaigns…

Table Yes – a dismountable market day tent, festooned with many…many glossy posters and balloons. New, both tent and chairs. A bright, happy indigenous woman handing out Yes leaflets. Open of face, charming, not pushy. Other Yes volunteers are sitting, waiting to take turns.

Table No – a card table, clearly belonging to the sole volunteer. A thin, elderly, happy gentleman. A few photocopied posters, a handful of information sheets.

Conversation in the queue – Swanson’s hashtag faux pas – Vote Early Vote Often. A lot of laughing and observations that the internet is forever.

No nastiness, no raised voices, only laughter…we are all neighbours here.

Name ticked off – old school, the AEC telephone book. I write NO, into the box, leave.

As I leave, I show Mr. No my pen. He gets the signal and smiles.

Civic duty done. Now we wait. And the sunshine will glint off the waters again tomorrow, and that jacaranda will be even more glorious.

Cassie, with you and Israel all the way.

As my colleague, ABC Indigenous Affairs Editor Bridget Brennan, wrote this week: “Indigenous people deserved so much better than the debate we were subjected to this year: the misinformation, death threats, conspiracy theories, the racist nonsense and everything in between. The worst of Australia has been on display.”

The very worst. Mostly from the side that wants us to give them constitutional power that the rest of us can’t have. They have displayed every single red flag we have been told to look for in choosing a partner – outright abuse, name calling, gaslighting, shaming and guilt tripping. Ignore those warnings and you are in for a life of misery, which if you’re lucky will end in divorce. This power play was to ensure we could never take the divorce option. They have shown us exactly who they are.

No need to tell that to the nice couple handing out No cards at my local primary school this morning. I made a point of thanking her for her volunteering efforts as I left. She told me it had been a dreadful week of abuse including being called racist a dozen times a day.

Better to be called one, I said, than actually be one when you vote yes.

Out in a polling booth today in Kooyong Helpers have formed a group all going out to dinner tonight at local hotel to watch the results
YES out number us but all positive that There are many silent Nos ho
Hope bookies are right.

I want to know if/how you can sync steam locos as well

Yes, and I’m now wondering about the lead loco that failed as referred to by Diogenes upthread.

WEF: Somebody has to be in charge of rationing freedom

You mean like when they doubled the freedom rations if you got vaccinated?

Great news from the Inner Party after hearing the freedom production forecasts were for only 1/4 of expected freedom units to be made that year.

Not so fast.
Mole has a very poor record on the benefits of breakfast sherry.

The chap who taught me navigation and radio procedures to pass my coxswains course taught me all about it.

Cask for breakfast, bottle for dinner.

Man was he an alkie, out of bed and a mug of cask wine..

Rufus T Firefly
Oct 14, 2023 8:44 AM
Zdraste Dot et al, Happy Referendum day.

It is a beautiful day up here in FNQ and I cannot wait to stab the spear into the hearts of our intellectually challenged

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Tell us more about how the US shipped WTC 9/11 debris to China and how the US and Israel knowingly “allowed” 9/11 and the 10/7 attacks to go ahead.

You are a disgrace to the uniform.

Concerning the support of the Palis’ by Russia. Let me preface this comment with my undying support for Israel. Russia has self-interest in maintaining Tartus, in Syria as a Mediterranean naval base. I support Russia in this as its what I would do too. The US meddling in Syria when the Russians were assisting in the destruction of ISIS. The US and EU making agreements with Russia over no eastward expansion of NATO when they admitted they had no intention of keeping. The support of the Ukes by israel. I’m not surprised Russia went this way. I think israel made a mistake supporting Ukraine. There is a quote somewhere that I’ve been unable to find along the lines of “if you think you know whats happening in the Middle East you don’t understand the problem “. I don’t know how you deal with Muzzies when they believe telling lies (taqiyya) is ok when dealing with non muzzies. As far as I know I’ve only personally known four muzzies. Two worked for me and I did work for another who I eventually refused to work for, much to the disappointment of his business partners. The other a Turk who was not coping living in a westernised country. I have no solutions apart from don’t take shiite from no one. As much as I feel for the common Pali, they have proved time and time again that the don’t fit anywhere coz they’re trouble.

Several boiler tubes burst and the brick firearch arch collapsed , putting out the fire. Luckily nothing worse.

No doubt two sets of brown overalls.

He’s a cretin’s cretin.

That’s actually quite generous.

Now just heard a reporterette on tv saying that Albo has a speech at the ready regardless of which way the vote goes.

Hopefully one of them starts with:

My fellow Australians, I apologise for misreading the nation so badly and launching an ill-prepared referendum campaign as a political ambush – a seemingly clever stunt that has backfired, divided the nation, and caused harm to the problem of solving real Aboriginal disadvantage.

Obviously my position as Prime Minister is untenable…

Morning sherry reverie over.

About ‘unifying the nation’. After himself dividing the nation. He’s a cretin’s cretin.

Me thinks he’s more a hard core marxist-trot operative where division is their route to power. A nasty piece of work. Incubated and cosseted by Sydney Uni and Mr Urine- all on the taxpayer dime.

Steam locos aren’t synced when double heading. It’s the skill of the drivers. You can feel when the two engines are working together. The couplings between the engines judder when the two engines are not synced. Makes for a rough ride. I worked for a year as a fireman saving money to go to university. Seven day week and 12 hour shifts. Hard work in the Durban heat. If anyone is interested the engines I fired on included 14Rs, S2s, H2s and a variety of Garretts. Also did 3 Xmas breaks firing so in total did about 18 months.

Enough to make an agrarian socialist blush but not corporate welfare chief.

The boss of the Australian Energy Market Operator, Daniel Westerman, earlier urged project developers to call on all available federal and state government subsidy schemes to make projects viable and get them into construction so that replacement generation is available before ageing coal plants close. The rate of the renewables build-out needs to be much higher for Australia to reach its 82 per cent renewables target for 2030, analysts say.

thefrollickingmole
Oct 14, 2023 8:26 AM
Porgia..

Should have baked some yes/ no cupcakes and made the yes ones double the price.

Entirely justifiable, writing the extra letter takes time and space.

The further this goes the less I can see Albo surviving it. Nor does he deserve to.

Albo knows he’s got one shot for ALP greatness before the dealer’s missus gets the knife out. He punted all on a dumb voice and will come to a sad end.

What he thought would be his crowning glory is about to crash.

Who gets the hat?

Firstborn had a pissweak referendum “debate” in her Economics class- the teacher has previously “guided” the kids through Socialism and Green Accelerationism.
Things were unruly, teacher asked kids which way their parent s were voting, evryone talking at once, another boy piped up and referred to me as an “antivaxxer”.
Poor kid, she’s tough enough to be unbowed and good enough to forgive, but she’s been handed the black spot a bit.
F#ck the Trots, the Marxists, the Green Revolutionists, the Public Servant bien pensant class. This referendum has been a reminder how pervasive, dishonest, and constant their Gramscian March against our culture is. I will not be backwards in firmly re-enforcing what this win means.

The boss of the Australian Energy Market Operator, Daniel Westerman, earlier urged project developers to call on all available federal and state government subsidy schemes to make projects viable and get them into construction so that replacement generation is available before ageing coal plants close. The rate of the renewables build-out needs to be much higher for Australia to reach its 82 per cent renewables target for 2030, analysts say.

This garbage is so absurd it’s almost beyond belief. We are governed by cretins living in a make believe world.

Just wow. United Nations taking time off berating Israel to opine on a referendum which will do absolutely nothing. FMD

I think the UN’s had its eye on us for sometime. Don’t you just loathe the term Special Rapporteur, what’s wrong with special reporter? Pretentious shite.