Wilkie. FMD. What a mediocrity. With a BA of course. So many orificers are no better than regular Canbra pubes.

Pogria:

the locals would have believed there was an air-raid as my little maggot sounds like a Klaxon on full wind when he spots other dogs

This dachshund (about 8 months old) is the son and heir’s pooch. He hangs out with my Darwin Special (giant brindle combo thing bred for pigging but without the temperament, which I think is why he ended up at the shelter).

The dachshund, when bored, nips and attacks my bloke by the elbows on his front legs. When my dog’s had a gutful he merely opens the jaws, puts them over the dachshund’s head and leaves them there until the substantially smaller pooch realises he’s outgunned and stops.

This replays about 20 times per day.

Perhaps something is happening with the hostages. That’s one (hopeful) explanation for the IDF dragging their feet.

They clearly think that have to give people the best – and most – chance / incentive to flee before what’s coming JC.

I admire enormously the fact that they feel that way.

But it does tend to indicate that what’s coming is going to be very, very unpleasant. As it should be.

I’m watching The Light Horseman. They are about to take Beersheba.

BBS – that Roxburgh cricket ad is so cringe. ‘Don’t miss your last chance to see this generation defining team!; they are us!; blah blah’.

Yeah, defined Australian cricket for at least a generation as cheaters and woke softcocks.

they all want to stick it to the big bad capitalist man.

Unless the capitalist has so much money they can buy influence over legislated group rights and the media depiction of themselves, such as Billy.H.G. the 3rd.
This exception is so rare it does not diminish the rule.

flyingduk
Oct 16, 2023 9:16 PM

Toyota claims to have developed a battery that is now going into production that will extend distance to 1200km and requires 10 min charge.

I have trouble believing you can push that many kWh into a battery in 10m without melting something.

Being a layman in electronics, so I could be wrong but, that was my first impression .
As to the range, I would be happy with about 400 to 500 Ks. My current car an older Toyota Avensies does about 650 to 700 Ks plenty enough for me.

The only need for more range for EVs is if you travel outside of cities where charging stations might be scarce. But that also can change in the future.

Beersheba :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_udGcKMhbtc&t=331s

GreyRanga, and apropos of the Alintas:

What a bunch of nancyboys

They are resigned to defeat. The Lankans are 1/137, not even halfway through their innings, and if you take the usual credo of doubling your score at the 30 over mark they’ll finish closer to 400 than 350. Plus, the Lankan middle order are in decent nick.

The Alinta quicks are cooked. They’re going for half-tracker slow bouncers because they haven’t got the pace to get the pill to move off the deck at a length to worry the subcon batsmen.

When the Alinta top order get to bat, the lights will be on and the pill will zip off the deck for the first 15 overs at least. They’ll be 3/40 after 10, but I’ll be fartered up by then.

It’s done.

Pogria
Oct 16, 2023 9:15 PM
I’m watching The Light Horseman. They are about to take Beersheba.

SBSC World Movies has been running a lot of non-ethnic movies recently. Are they worried about declining audiences and future budgets?

“The cinematography of the charge still makes the hairs stand up on back of my neck.”

Makka,
watching this film, you can see why Kevin Costner chose Dean Semler to be the Cinematographer for Dances with Wolves.

Zulu, AWESOME! So much pride in your veins.
BTW, how is the memsahib?

BJ,
Salvation is on after The Light Horsemen. A Danish/UK take on High Noon starring the delectable Mads Mikkelsen.

One of my grandmas cousins was at Beersheba also. WW1.

I’d love to see a truth telling commission. It could establish that aborigines have derived enormous benefits from the settling of the British in Australia. That the aborigines owe whitefellas far more than the other way around. This is one of those bleeding obvious facts that everyone knows and understands, that just happens to be politically unsayable.
Marcia gets to be a professor instead of getting bashed for being uppity. Noel gets half a billion bucks to play with. They all get medical treatment when necessary, do their hunting and gathering in supermarkets, and get to wear clothes. And they want reparations? Tell ’em they’re dreaming.

Pogria
Oct 16, 2023 9:42 PM
BJ,
Salvation is on after The Light Horsemen. A Danish/UK take on High Noon starring the delectable Mads Mikkelsen.

Bit late for old codgers like me, but thanks for the tip anyway.

Actually, Salvation is more “Pale Rider”, than High Noon.

SP, one of those election analysts- a psephologist – I can’t think of his name at the minute – he said at the time of the republic referendum in ‘99, that it will never get up in this country because the pollies want to vote by 2/3 majority in a joint sitting of parliament for the president.

It would be different now. I am partial to a directly elected President and even having an executive President and not having a Parliamentary government. Not all people who prefer direct election will vote against an appointed President. I wouldn’t have. There has been generational change too in 24 years. 8.53% swing to YES and it would have gotten up, 4 States YES plus a national majority. There is also the fact that QE II was well-liked even by republicans (like me).

While the public will only agree to a direct election model. The former knows that if the latter’s choice came in, our entire system of govt would be upended and we’d be on a path to a US style system.

The Irish have a directly elected President who holds nearly mostly ceremonial power but like our Governor General has a small set of real powers. The President of Portugal is directly elected and holds more reserve powers than the Irish President, but still does not govern the country; pardons are a personal power, rather than referred on by an AG.

Switzerland does not even have a Head of State except nominally and the power over national defence is held collectively by cabinet.

Hahahahahahaha…

The Gruinaids cartoonist gets the ” purged by the party ” treatment

https://x.com/LBC/status/1713824236240765281?s=20

Sacked for anti-Semitism.

mole,
I was just about to link the same. Bloody hilarious. Perhaps the Grauniad has sucked on a bottle of Skel-e Grow and is developing a spine. Lol!

Their choice…

Yes. Their people, their women, their kids and mothers.. Husbands, brothers. Entirely their choice. And thank God it’s not mine.

The people’s respect and admiration for the Queen did not overly influence that choice of republic.

I don’t agree. The Queen made the monarchy very popular in a post-modern world and saved it from the damage her idiot sons did. 24 years later, a 9% nationwide change would flip to YES. The monarchy has been VERY unpopular in times excluding after Charles I, such as during George IV’s reign.

The direct election model would give a president a bigger mandate than a prime minister

This doesn’t happen anywhere where a nominal President elected because they are elected to be a nominal President.

the potential to create another power centre outside of the parliament

That’s a very good thing, but technically a nominal President in a minimalist (even directly elected model 🙂 ) would be the third element of Parliament, as is the King.

Section 1 of the Constitution mentions the monarch as the first element of Parliament, before the House and Senate.

Dot, that reminds me of Father Frank Brennan, Greg Craven & Julian Leeser, all saying that the voice to the executive, though of concern to them, they would still support despite their misgivings.

That’s a completely underhanded and duck-shoved comparison, I hope your next restaurant meal is absolutely awful and extravagantly overpriced for such a foul besmirchment.

…

…How dare you?!

It’s very possible that the sudden public appearance of this cohort of highly disciplined and athletically conditioned regiment of neo-Nazis, all neatly and spotlessly decked out in their black uniforms, may be menacing controlled opposition figures like Lidia Thorpe. Just like they have turned out to support well-known National Socialist causes like women’s rights. I guess we can expect to see them marching against net zero targets and ‘internet safety’ legislation, too. They are also liable to turn up to support anything that could be characterised as being pro-free speech.

There is a solution for any organisation wishing to hold events that oppose Establishment priorities but doesn’t want their cause tainted by these pesky neo-Nazis, however; just hold your events on Sundays. Better still, public holidays. Their guvnors will never sign off on them working those days due to the applicable penalty rates.

Oz cricketers not reading Cat criticism.
10 for 84. That’s some turnaround.
Sri Lanka all out for 209. Zampa 4 wickets.

Why am I supposed to be impressed by a culture that is 65,000 years old? Mine is only ~3,000 years old, arguably ~600 years old. But it’s put men on the moon, conquered any number of foul diseases and raised half the population of the world out of abject poverty. Including most aborigines. Old and doddery isn’t impressive.

I’m watching The Light Horseman. They are about to take Beersheba

Now in Chania (Hjar-nyar) in Crete. We were here on our Med island-hopping in 2018, so not new to us, but the waterfront old town is still as beautiful as ever, though even more crawling with tourists. We took a tour up to an old hillside monastery where the cruciform C13th-C16th church also had domes on it. The inside was gloriously gold, with a highly elaborate gold hanging-circle in the middle of the nave before the altar, and with priceless icons both early and late in style on display throughout, as well as in a small museum attached. A large framed golden Madonna icon is adorned with precious gold jewellery and gold watches left by grateful recipients of her Grace. Some of the icons, which are stylized and gilded pictures painted on wood, especially the older ones, had some quite dark-skinned saints. There was one icon where the adored Mary, Mother of God could truly be said to be a ‘black madonna’, her face and that of her children were depicted as dark-skinned, not just darkened with age. The cult of Mary is strong here, large icons show both her birth and her ascention to heaven. Didn’t see one of the Annunciation though.

As elsewhere in the part of the Adriatic, Ionic, Aegean themed Mediterranean, we were both impressed with how much all of these areas had fought so hard against a strong Ottoman push for total takeover, which was on going in Crete until the early twentieth century, where at a famous outlook over Chania we saw a tribute to the Cretan who became PM of Greece and who organised this final Ottoman driving out. The churches the Ottomans turned into mosques are now Orthodox churches again, and it is illegal to have mosques in Crete now.

We also went to a War Graves memorial to the 1940’s WW2 fighting, beside the sea and beautifully kept by the Allied War Graves Commisions, including especially Australia’s, for the nearly 200 Australians who lie in this soil. 450 New Zealanders, and over 800 Britishers too. Very moving.

Cretans are noted for their fighting spirit. It may be concern about this that prompted the Greek government to do a firearms and knives search and destroy or remove only fifteen years ago; something strongly resisted and still resented by the locals, especially the fierce mountain men. Let’s hope the current lot of ‘Ottomans’ don’t get land-greedy again, I say to those around, or Greece may yet regret this disarming of its patriots.

Talking of cricket, it is one of the great legacies of British rule in many far-flung places. It unexpectedly turns up in Corfu. There is a large cricket pitch in the centre of the promenade park in town, and teams are still gathered and the game seriously played.

Mr Minns acknowledged that a NSW treaty would require signed agreements with “150 different nations”.

“It’s going to be complex and difficult,” he said.

Fkn clown world

JC, not my call.
Just what Baris was predicting, then his polling showed it.
RFK Jr drags votes away from Trump in states where Trump can not lose votes like Wisconsin & Michigan amongst others.

Now. How do we stop all this treaty bullshit? Fake Aboriginals want us to be their serfs by the sounds. Surely this treaty crap can’t be legal.!

Uncle Luigi in a good place:
[unlinkable OZ]

Labor MPs on Monday said they would leave it to the Indigenous Australians Minister, Linda Burney, to determine a new way forward after consulting with pro-voice Indigenous leaders following their week of silence.

The review, understood to be sparked by internal concerns about public reaction to treaties after the No campaign weaponised the Makarrata commission during the voice campaign, is expected to examine merits and functions of a national process and crossovers with state governments pursuing truth-telling, voice and treaty bodies.

If the pre-election promise were watered down or significantly altered, Mr Albanese would likely cop fierce opposition from his own Left-faction and Indigenous activists.

Just quietly, if my arse was on the line and my trousers on fire, Linda Burney probably wouldn’t be my saviour of choice.
But there we are.

Luckily, the Caretaker PM has other helpers:

A day after Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said the government remained fully committed to implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Mr Albanese told the parliament that Makarrata “is simply a ­Yolngu word for coming together after struggle”.

“The referendum was about listening to people and about getting better outcomes. And these principles will continue to guide me,” he told parliament. “I will continue to listen to people and communities and consult with Indigenous Australians about a way forward.

So, lessons learned.

I think anal and his pubic pals in Canbra will be looking for revenge against the electorate. Remember we are not dealing with normal decent people.

You could’ve knocked me over with a feather. The cheating Alinta’s actually won.

Lizzie – I hope you will visit the Minoan sites of Knossos & Phaestos. This sea faring nation is fascinating. A vibrant, artistic people. After the devastating regional earthquakes of around 1300 BC (my memory is hazy!) they probably migrated to other parts of the Mediterranean. I have always thought they probably migrated to modern Spain & Portugal where you see the vestiges of their fascination with bill leaping – still commemorated in Portugal & of course bull fighting in Spain. The Spanish women s garb today remind us of the elaborate skirts portrayed in the frescoes in Knossos. Also the long dark haired braids. I visited the Minoan sites many years ago & wonder if the sites are still open.

the government remained fully committed to implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Against the obvious and clearly stated instruction if the people, from one side of the continent to the other. Australians do not want it.

Is this government deaf, dumb and blind? Do they really want to be at war with the people? Are they really so stupid? This wasn’t some sort of marginal decision, it was emphatic.

I see Minns is also yapping about introducing something of the sort at state level, regardless of the fact that Labor electorates voted No. His own constituents. Let that sink in. The Yes voters had, by and large, abandoned both Lib and Lab for Teals.

What is it about this proposed legislation that makes it so politically tempting, even though it might spell resounding defeat? What is it that they aren’t telling us? Why aren’t the Libs all over this? Are they, but are simply not being reported by the media propagandists who remain unchastened by their exposed partisanship and rank wrongology?

Remember we are not dealing with normal decent people.

People?

A public relations executive with a leading Australian bank has claimed the terrorist group Hamas has been demonised

Time to get warrants for the entire place! Who knows what will turn up!

Vicki, in 2018 Hairy and I drove around Crete and visited Knossos, an interesting site, where Evans has reconstituted probably more than archaeology strictly allows. I enjoyed it though and blogged here about our visit. I think Minoan culture was both gracious and far ahead of its time, the result of an emphasis on seafaring and trading rather than warfare. Santorini’s Acrotiri is of course also a part of those times,; the frescoes are outstanding.

The museum at Heracleon in Crete contains the snake goddess figurines and so many objects from an amazing culture 2500 to 3000 years ago. Worth spending a day in there to absorb it all.

This time we’ve only done a re-visit to Chania and surrounds.

I am sickened by the poor treatment of horses and donkeys still in Mediterranean regions. I shamed an owner today into giving a sad mare foaming at the mouth with her ribs heaving as she waited with a carriage attached to drag tourists around. Poor animal; I spoke to her gently and said I would do what I could for her; which I did. Ever since I read Black Beauty as a child ….. In another less analytic life I could have been a sucker for the Animal Justice Party, which is simply a front for the Greens.

Now, having just returned from the ship’s French Restaurant, I am resolved never to have fois gras again; poor ducks and geese are force fed to have fatty livers to produce this buttery delicacy. I had Sirloin with fois gras and truffles and happy to have it, but I’ve decided I don’t need to make animals miserable for life in order to enjoy that. Fois gras is not that good and not neccesary. The truffles I had with it were pretty ordinary too. So much for fine dining. The creme brule was not right either. It should be an egg custard with burnt sugar, but this one was a sort of almond paste topped with burnt sugar. Not a brule.

I think mass produced cuisine, while often good, as on cruises, also suffers from what I call the ‘blender disease’. Blenders don’t always improve things, nor add to flavour combinations.

Waleed Aly says Voice referendum was too ‘complicated’ for ‘less educated’ Australians to understand

more like ‘so transparently dangerous only the educated would fall for it’

There’s a wonderful image attached to that Daily Mail article on Waleed.