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How quickly the pose of determined rectitude melted into that of a political streetwalker.
operation ‘Grim Beeper’
Operation ‘Grim Beeper’, brilliant planning and execution.
Great stuff from the past. Visuals and audio are great. —— F r. David – Words Don’t Come Easy
Unbelievable Roger. What a little phony he has turned out to be
Catholic and Forever the Son of a Jewish Mother
NCR, Grazie Pozo Christie, Commentaries – October 23, 2023
John Howard (PBUH) asked the following simple question back in July:
I find myself asking the same question about nearly everything Government does.
Climate, Energy prices, Manufacturing, Immigration, Education, Interest Rates, Debt, Housing, Defense, Crime, ……….
Both sides of politics in Federal, State and Local spheres are implementing policies that are diametrically opposed to Australian flourishing and prosperity.
Not just one or two things, which you could understand based on difference of opinion, but EVERYTHING.
“Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
Heard it being mentioned on 4BC and then saw column in the Oz.
Over $300m spent in 5 years for 1,000 people on Mornington Island Qld with nothing to show.
First comment
“That is $65,000 per head, per year or about $1300 per person per week and the bean counters say it’s done no good”
WTF.
That requires arithmetic and correct spellink.
What do you expect?
Looks like I will have to increase the camouflage on the half track before heading to the Grampians this weekend. I knew this would happen if they lost the Voice.
Yes they want revenge against the electorate
JC
Oct 24, 2023 10:26 AM
C U in the N T along with Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Dotty Dot of Dottiness and Neanderthal Person (sheep shagger).
Play the ball and not the Man you Tossers.
Signed off by Agent Rotten and Mrs Money Penney.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned above but there are now reports on X that US bases in Western Syria have come under heavy fire earlier this morning our time. Biden broke from a talk to leave for the Situation Room.
I expect this will make the average voter hate the political class even more
Hey Dover, my adblocker does not like your Poll page.
I knew this would happen if they lost the Voice.
Actually and technically they didn’t lose anyfink’. It wasn’t their’s to lose in the first place.
The result of the Horse Race is – The NO WON. End of Story.
Now go home and cry you babies.
Tom at 4:02 AM – geriatric rock (and their Boomer audience) refuse to fffffffffffffade away. Sad. Just FOAD already.
JC Oct 23, 2023 11:13 PM
I’m assuming they don’t do their own peroxide.
The broad church ended up with a boring machine called Florence stuck underground for a year and a half whilst trying to build a white elephant the size of an asteroid.
That broad church now is totally infested and controlled by Teal-lites. The Liberal Party has died, and pongs.
Conquest’s 2nd Law wins again. Unless you build the house upon a foundation of rock the storm will wash it away. That’s what has happened.
I have a lot of time for Mr Howard but he failed to pick the point when the Liberal Party was about to go over the cliff. It did so under his watch. There is no longer an Overton centre these days, and anyone who tries to find it just commits political suicide.
/rant
Good lord.
The Gruinaid goes full Pallywood.
Thank you Turdball for setting up an Australian arm of this vile shit lefty rag.
Doctors, poets, families, babies: victims of Israel’s war on Gaza
Funnily enough not one mentioned was a soldier.
An oversight Im sure.
When you use a free service they use ads. Can’t be helped.
Also:
Play the ball and not the Man you Tossers.
Signed off by Agent Rotten and Mrs Money Penney.
Miltonf at Oct 24, 2023 10:50 AM
Waffleworth could be Howard and Sinodinos’ lovechild.
For those flying soon (as i am Thursday)…
US pilot charged with attempted murder for ‘trying to shut down’ plane’s engines
Alaska Airlines flight was reportedly diverted after off-duty pilot attempted to disable plane’s engines and was subdued by crew
The FAA told airlines in a notice seen by Reuters that the individual at the center of the case sought to disable the engines on the Embraer 175 regional jet by deploying the fire suppression system. The statement added the crew was able to subdue the man and remove him from the flight deck.
“I’ll just give you a heads-up. We’ve got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit,” the pilot told FAA air traffic control, according to audio posted by LiveATC. “It doesn’t sound like he’s causing any issue at the back. I think he’s subdued.
One of the defining images of Australian politics was Sinodinos getting off his death bed and walking along the Parliament House corridor to inflict Lord Waffleworth on the country.
I can pick the point when the SFL went over a cliff. Well it was two points. Middle-class welfare and Howard not resigning before his last election. I’m still sure he wanted to beat Menzies record.
H B Bear
Oct 24, 2023 11:31 AM
Miltonf at Oct 24, 2023 10:50 AM
Does Howard ever reflect on the damage he’s done by bringing Trumble in I wonder.
NO. The same way that NOne of them from Gough Witless onwards ever worry about bringing in the Rag Heads.
The Voice referendum has illuminated the vast schism between the Teal-progressive demographic and the ordinary people.
The Libs have a golden opportunity to go for the latter by loudly ditching all the progressive rubbish. Same as Trump identified back in 2015. Climate change – gone. Race politics – gone. Energy policy – sanity. Immigration policy – patriotic. Bureaucracy – slashed.
But they won’t do it, they want to be invited to Potts Point parties by rich elites.
As Broelman’s cartoon suggests it will be an interesting conversation when The Great Man, Hawkey and Bill Hayden catch up. Still a few years at Yarralumla isn’t a bad reward for a maaaaate.
Incidentally the Left is about to steal the election in Argentina.
The Peronist lefty received a surprisingly high vote, much higher than pre-election polls suggested. It’s weird how that keeps on happening. There will be a run off election now against the righty.
Serious question – is Dutton a bit dim, or does he have bunny-in-the-headlights syndrome?
He says some pretty stupid stuff sometimes, which reflects facts, but incorrectly (eg: recently stating that Albo is responsible for 105k refugees coming in).
Most of the Lieboral malaise can be traced back to some point in the Howard years.
Bruce of N
Why? I would prefer to be invited to a BBQ in the outer suburbs (of any city in Australia, and regional centres).
On entombed Tunnel Boring Machines.
Most people (not unreasonably) assume that mining and tunnelling becomes more difficult and dangerous the deeper underground you go. In fact, the reverse is true*.
Shallow working is nightmare territory for engineers and operators; you are contending with the risk of incompetent rock due to deep weathering, the possibility of inrush of water/mud, and surface stress effects that impact the performance of excavation and support systems. This is Geotechnical Engineering 101 stuff, not folklore and arcane knowledge.
Before committing to a surface entry point you will normally (as in ‘always’) use detailed geophysics and extensive drilling to make sure your initial ground conditions are as good as they can be. If you strike problems, you move location; if you can’t move location, you consider ground stabilisation ahead and have Plan B and Plan C in place, tested and ready to go – wargamed and ready before you set off into tiger country.
If you are deploying an inherently inflexible system like a TBM on a critical project, you go full belt-and-braces and do all this 110%.
Their ABC reports:
The report by “one worker” of a single forward drill hole, contacting water, and being “simply plugged” is going to be a massive oversimplification of the absolute panic that would have ensued.
The work described above was clearly done to some sort of standard. The contractor is competent and the engineering cohort would have been fully aware of the issues.
Snowy Hydro’s Dennis Barnes explains:
That will be, or should be, bullshit. Whatever was done by way of pre-op site investigation, before they committed, they poked a hole through unconsolidated ground that flowed water uncontrolled at high rates.
The entire project engineering staff would have been having kittens on that news – while simultaneously shitting bricks, falling loudly onto the fainting couch, and bleeding from their eyes.
It is therefore 97.3% likely that the decision to launch TBM Florence (without Plan B, the contained slurry system, being installed) was a political one. Someone would have directly, or indirectly, leant heavily on the then CEO, Paul Broad, to fire up and go because ‘Speedo. Urgent progress is required’.
That someone will trace back to Canbra.
* Down to depths where stress starts to challenge rock strength.
That has always been indicated, now confirmed. All that money, not to mention crew safety, to prop a career or two.
I think we can guess whose.
DMIRS has… opinions, on underground work and water.
Strong.. Opinions.
What is an inundation or inrush hazard?
Liquid, gas or other substance can enter into the mining workplace with the potential to create an emergency situation and create a risk to health and safety of mine workers. Under high pressure, these substances can swiftly flow or release into or within a mine.
An inundation or inrush hazard may exist if any of the following are located in the vicinity of mining workplaces:
significant quantities of stored water, rainfall or other fluid material
rivers, lakes, the ocean or other natural water bodies
voids and geological structures in the rock that can hold water
any material that flows when wet
material that may be fluidised as a result of vibrations such as earthquakes, blasting or other means
flammable or toxic gases held under pressure in the rock
paste- or hydraulic-filled stopes and loose broken rocks in ore passes
water-filled old workings
unstable ground that has the potential for an airblast or windblast
water storage dams, tailings dams or waste dumps.
Wow! That was quick!
Do you live here 24/7, my cute little fan? Don’t you actually have a life?
No. Don’t answer. My comments are a river to you.
Empty your mind and just believe!
Study finds mindfulness training may not be enough to increase eco-friendliness (Phys.org, 23 Oct)
Reading the article is like being inside the echoing head of a faculty member of the Center for Healthy Minds. I don’t there’s a single concept, or sentence, in the whole thing that reflects empirical reality.
Knife and fork vibe check on QF200-QF697 pilots and flight engineers today please.
Perhaps it’s fake news but a guy I follow on Twitter (“Aleph”) has never been wrong on any intel he’s provided previously, never.
He tweeted this morning “sh!t is about to get real.”
I think he must work close to intelligence or IDF as, for years, he’s broadcast intel that only came out in the news days later.
Otherwise, he’s continuing the Israeli line just to keep Hamas producing brown bricks…
apparently the claim that the USS Carney is under attack is fake news from Iran
You join the Center for Healthy Minds because you want one, not because you’ve got one.
Lysander
Oct 24, 2023 12:13 PM
Perhaps it’s fake news but a guy I follow on Twitter (“Aleph”) has never been wrong on any intel he’s provided previously, never.
He tweeted this morning “sh!t is about to get real.”
I believe you. This all about to get very ugly and everyone will get dragged into it. But not St Helena. Now, where did I leave my Passport?
Who Knew? – Out of Aesops Fables
British Navy ditches Chinese laundrymen – media
The traditional “servants” are reportedly being replaced by Nepalese Gurkhas on fears they may be spying for Beijing
The British Royal Navy has reportedly abandoned a century-old custom of employing Chinese laundrymen on its warships because of fears that they could be coerced by Beijing into stealing military secrets.
UK officials are so concerned about the Navy’s traditional ‘servants’, who hail mostly from Hong Kong, that Nepalese Gurkhas are being hired to replace them, The Sun newspaper reported on Monday. “Spy catchers fear Beijing could threaten laundrymen’s loved ones in China to make them pass on Navy secrets,” the newspaper said.
Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on British warships – cleaning and pressing sailors’ uniforms and officers’ tablecloths – since the early 1900s, when Hong Kong was a UK colony. The tradition began as a local custom and developed to involve a steady supply of laborers from contractors in Hong Kong.
Caleb Bond in the Adelaide Advertiser:
In other news, water is wet.
At risk of giving Farmer Gez a coronary, I’ll put this up.
How to beat ‘rollout rage’: The environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia (23 Oct)
by Peter Burnett, The Conversation
Give him credit for the “be generous in compensating landowners” but it’s clear from the rest of the article that mere landowners are at the very bottom of the pile.
Here’s who he is:
Paid up denizen inside the goat cheese curtain.
Hurry Up – “My Wife needs another Trip to Paris for more obscene spending on her frivolities, and I need more Invitations to show off my only suit”
Zelensky orders Ukrainian army to advance ‘500 meters a day’
The president has demanded daily progress in Kiev’s lagging counteroffensive
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has given his military a tall order, demanding that they take at least 500 meters of territory every day after suffering tens of thousands of casualties in their floundering counteroffensive against Russian forces.
“Ukraine needs results every day,” Zelensky said in his evening video address on Sunday.
“We need to resist the Russian assaults, kill the occupiers and move forward.
We must advance by at least a kilometer, at least 500 meters, every day.
We must keep moving forward in order to improve the Ukrainian positions and put pressure on the occupiers.”
Such progress is needed to strengthen Ukraine and motivate foreign allies to provide more military support, Zelensky said, adding that next week “will bring more opportunities for Ukraine.”
Some jobs simply don’t require time in the office. Ever.
Hamas refuses to prove ‘Israeli strike’ on Gaza hospital – NYT
There is nothing left of the missile that struck Ahli Arab Hospital, the Palestinian group has said
The projectile that struck the parking lot of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza cannot be inspected, a Hamas spokesperson has told the New York Times. Israel has denied responsibility for last week’s deadly strike, claiming it was a misfired rocket by another Palestinian group.
“The missile has dissolved like salt in the water,” Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, told the US outlet in a phone interview on Sunday. “It’s vaporized. Nothing is left.”
“Who says we’re obligated to present the remnants of every rocket that kills our people? In general, you can come and research and confirm for yourself from the evidence we possess,” Salama Maroof, a spokesperson for the Hamas-run government in Gaza, said in a text message.
Any remnants of the munition that struck the hospital’s parking lot appeared to have been removed by the time Western reporters arrived on the site the following morning, according to the Times.
No mention of Putin’s 200 bn USD stolen wealth.
What’s lagging is the Russian defence. Russia is losing trench warfare and losing ground around Kherson (Dnipro right bank) to a country with a population 1/4 that of Russia’s.
The Ukrainians ostensibly support Zelensky. He won a non-rigged election as a third-party candidate. Russia hasn’t had a fair election since???
Putin had an aborted coup thrown at him. Russia is losing over 1,000 soldiers a day as KIA & wounded casualties. That’s like the WWI Western Front.
Russia Today, ROFL.
FORMULA 1 NEWS
How Mercedes and Ferrari fell foul of F1’s plank rules
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc’s post-race disqualification at the United States Grand Prix was the first time in years that cars had fallen foul of Formula 1’s plank rules.
In fact, there have been remarkably few times in F1’s history that planks have been found to have worn down too much – with the most famous still being Michael Schumacher’s disqualification from the 1994 Belgian Grand Prix.
This makes it even more intriguing that, in an area of the car that teams are very mindful of there being no squeeze room for error, two of the top squads tripped up on the same race weekend.
The explanations as to how the rule breaches happened seem to be crystal clear, which is why both teams had to simply accept their fate with the stewards once the planks were found to be worn away too much.
As Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said: “There’s no wiggle room in the rules. We need to take it on the chin, do the learning, and come back stronger.”
What the plank rules say
The tolerance between success and failure over plank legality is minute, given there can be no more than 1mm of wear between a freshly fitted plank and one that’s gone through all the rigours of a race.
To check compliance with the rules, the FIA is able to measure wear on the plank at four 50mm diameter holes drilled into the surface at specific locations designated within the technical regulations.
In the instance of Leclerc and Hamilton, it was the rearmost hole that failed the test. This hole must be positioned on the car’s centreline between 825mm and 1025mm ahead of the rear axle line.
As can be seen from the main image, this in itself offers some variability as to how wear can occur on different cars, given that there is not a specific point for the drill hole, unlike the three holes at the front of the plank.
The drill holes made in the plank (which, by the way, is no longer made of wood, rather it is a composite material) are surrounded by flush mounted Titanium skids.
These offer further protection from wear and are also tightly regulated in their design. This is an area that the FIA has been closely monitoring with this new generation of cars, and it has served several technical directives as a response to inconsistencies in their design already.
One interesting discussion point after the disqualifications was that the FIA did not check the planks on all the cars.
This is standard procedure as it would be impossible for the governing body to check compliance on every aspect of every car after every qualifying and race. It is why it selects random elements each time from random cars in a bid to check compliance.
On this occasion, Max Verstappen’s RB19, Charles Leclerc’s SF-23, Lewis Hamilton’s W14 and Lando Norris’ MCL60 were all chosen to have their planks checked.
The Red Bull and McLaren were given the all-clear, whereas the Ferrari and Mercedes were not.
I think you’ll find most of the current malaise can be attributed to the retirement of David Clarke, and the rise of Alex Hawke and Michael Photios.
Howard didn’t control the numbers Clarke did.
Some jobs don’t even need employees.
About half of public service jobs are like that.
Elon Musk blasts the work-from-home crowd, saying they are ‘detached from reality’ (19 Oct)
John laws is the joe biden of australian radio; he is senile, ignorant and insufferably arrogant. He had an abo activist on this morning who said the incidence of rhematic heart disease amongst abo kiddies was due to racism, not being recognised in the Constitution and the Flora Fauna act.
Rhematic heart disease is a completely preventable disease: the treatment involves treating scratches with topical and internal antibiotics. As simple as that; when a little pickinninie gets a scratch if the scratch is treated there is no chance of getting rhematic heart disease. But that treatment doesn’t occur because aboriginal mums and dads, particularly in the outback, don’t look after their kids. No screech, billions of bucks or constitutional recognition will solve that.
There was never a flora and auna act; the lie that aboriginals were treated as animals or weeds under this act is just another lie which even the fuking abc has had to admit.
Putin ‘resuscitated’ after having ‘cardiac arrest’ in his bedroom claims Telegram channel
No idea whether this is true or not – a single dodgy source picked up and repeated by the UK tabloid press isn’t the best authority.
But, hopefully not. Deadshit that the Poot is, the world really doesn’t need a change of guard in Moscow just at present.
Giving up the right bank of the Dnipro, which was to be carved off Ukraine and given to Russia, was a feint.
Bruce of Newcastle
Oct 24, 2023 12:34 PM
Zelensky orders Ukrainian army to advance ‘500 meters a day’
Russia Today, ROFL.
BON,
you should open your mind and reading – Piss poor response above
https://news.yahoo.com/zelenskyy-results-every-day-advance-171254286.html
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, stressed that the Defence Forces of Ukraine must advance “at least 500 metres” every day.
Source: evening address of the President
Quote: “The main thing is the front, our defence, our actions, our results, [and] the help of everyone who is fighting right now, in combat positions.
Ukraine needs results every day – we need to resist the Russian assaults, kill the occupiers, and move forward. [We must] advance by at least a kilometre, at least 500 metres every day, but we must keep moving forward in order to improve the Ukrainian positions and put pressure on the occupiers.
It gives the state strength. It motivates the whole world to help us. And it proves that Russia’s terror won’t work.”
See my comment about Russia Today, then reverse the streams.
More fun watching this sort of silly to and fro than Wimbleton.
So are some brilliant hands-on workers.
One of my friends did Apple Care work for a while. All WFH, short meetings, worked out well for him and his wife when their kids were 2 and 0. He stopped doing that because they moved to take over a family farm.
Even hands-on work can be WFH. My first mechanic was a dodgy shade tree mechanic.
I have another friend who is a rail (electromech) engineer. His last job was well-paying and involved travel. He could work 3 days from home most weeks and did all of his meetings & design work in his office. Bedroom 10 m that way and kitchen 15 m the other.
WFH is great. We get rid of road congestion for free.
I’ve read the article BoN
He makes some valid points. State governments should not overwhelm landholders by putting out orders that deny legal challenge as is the case in Vic.
Governments don’t want to go to court as they are bound by the principle of ‘model litigant’. Easier to bully with power and money in the marketplace.
Project by project is a creeping cancer and nobody gets a clear picture of the scale of the renewable roll out – that’s the way they want it naturally.
The author fails to mention agriculture at all. The loss of millions of hectares of our best arable land to renewables seemingly doesn’t rate with the goats cheese professor when compared to environmental values.
Fighting climate change one dead Ethiopian at a time.
If someone was leant upon at Snowy, it wasn’t Broad.
Now it could have been someone a bit down who was promised the top job.. when the famously non-compliant-with-political-narrative Broad was given the shove.
Musk is right, Dot. Work for home is bullshit.
If you have nothing to do
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/watch-live-abc-senior-executives-face-grilling-at-senate-estimates/news-story/a65237d8537f683438659e1cb0c98711
Old Ozzie – nothing much has been happening. I do look. The Ukies are trying some infiltration stuff near the Andropov Bridge ruins, and the Russian’s attack in the Avdiivka area has ground to a halt. On the other hand Ukraine has reportedly managed to bring both rail lines to Crimea under HIMARS interdiction, and Austin Bay thinks that’s a big deal. I doubt it, as humans are very innovative, but it’ll probably be giving the RGS a dose of conniptions.
The iron rule is this: if a Ukie orifice is reporting something about the Russians, or a Russian orifice is reporting something about the Ukies, then the chance of it being accurate is less than 0.0001 %.
I’ve been screwed by bad workers doing WFH, but that was bad management. My (old) direct boss used to do WFH and he was one of the firm’s best workers.
Weak leadership also leads to terrible performance on site. I’ve seen that too, but as a out of business division specialist looking in. One bloke was basically a sloth and just nodded off whenever he wanted to. He was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of machinery. No biggie.
Yeah, Gez, I vaguely recall that the Liverpool Plains are the fertilest fertile soil evah and should not be risked by ebil fracking. Funny how that all goes out the window when a Lefty sacred cow appears.
Food aid is based on the surpluses created by advanced western agriculture.
You won’t be getting much sustenance for the starving out of Egypt.
Not only road congestion.
Think of two hours PER WORKER PER DAY not spent on commuting travel. Added back to personal time.
That is a lot of life being lived. The gainzz to the worker are huge, if they have the self-discipline to deliver work as well.
Here’s my theory on the war.
Not in any order.
Israel will take longer than people think because its prime objective is to clear the tunnels. As much as some would like for them to take the entire place, that’s not going to happen.
Israel is using Biden’s public caution to be very careful about civilians as a way to buy time.
Why?
Israel’s military is one of the most technologically sophisticated in the world. They are also using US technology, such as satellite imaging and drones, to pinpoint where the tunnels are located. It would also give them a sense of where the command centers are located in order to be kaboomed.
Israel has known about the tunnels for about 20 to 30 years, so it would be silly to think they haven’t thought of ways to destroy what’s inside. We may know not, what Israel is going to use in order to clear out the tunnels. They can’t flood them with seawater because it will destroy the aquifers on which Gaza relies for drinking water and agriculture. Israel is not going to do that.
Israel also has to ensure the news flow out of Gaza is controlled by them and them alone, which means they will need to take out all of Gaza’s communication systems.
In sum, it’s going to take much longer than people think, and it will not be a mass invasion, as some believe. It will be slow, smart, and methodical, and in the end, Hamarse won’t exist.
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Bruce of Newcastle
Oct 24, 2023 12:50 PM
Old Ozzie – nothing much has been happening. I do look. The Ukies are trying some infiltration stuff near the Andropov Bridge ruins, and the Russian’s attack in the Avdiivka area has ground to a halt.
BON,
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/battle-for-avdeevka-close-study
Quite a Detailed Read and Covers the Situation well
Considering all the push back and media interest we have created, it’s worth looking back at this adolescent take on the smart people outfoxing the bush.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/vni-west-new-transmission-route-found-to-get-around-cost-and-community-concerns/
How’s it worked out so far?
Has Simplicius ever been right?
Actually I’m in error, now that I think of it. The Ukies have taken delivery of a longer range weapons system and used it on Vlad’s helicopter inventory with some success. Nine helis as I recall. Painfully expensive. Bases that had been out of range now aren’t.
The Russians had been using air support with fairly good effect, especially around Avdiivka and Bakhmut. That’s probably why the Americans gave them the ATACMS.
Yes.
Musk would do well to reward his best workers with WFH time. The truly motivated get 2+ extra hours of work done.
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/watch-live-abc-senior-executives-face-grilling-at-senate-estimates/news-story/a65237d8537f683438659e1cb0c98711
Senator Robert on now – previous ex. VIC 7.30 report senator – excellent
Has Simplicius said anything about Hamas yet? I do know Bebo and Armchair Warlord outed themselves this week. Hopefully Simplicius plays a straight bat, but I can’t check as I am not on Xwitter.
Work is work and home is home. I like to keep the two separate. I have the option to WFH occasionally but I take it up rarely.
JB: TBM Florence was launched in the dying days of the Morrison Government. Paul Broad was rissoled by Bowen a few months later – apparently for blasphemy about the dim prospect of burning hydrogen at Kurri Kurri.
I hope you are right JC.
More talk of hostage release, we’ll see.
The two elderly women must have been in pretty bad shape, both strethered off the Israeli helicopter that picked them up, both their husbands are still being held captive.
If you watched the Four Corners Snowy 2.0 last night – Simon Bartlett is one of the main guys on our side of the debate offering a lower cost and community acceptable plan for upgrading transmission lines.
Oh my…
Lord Bebo
@MyLordBebo
BREAKING: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Iran’s foreign minister had a call to discuss how to stop Israel’s brutal crimes.
Sometimes that’s more about setting boundaries with email, SMS etc.
Chris
Humans require close collaboration in order to function well. That’s why we have cities. Cities are fabulous because they allow us to live and work close by, and it’s cities and their environs that produce the lion’s share of global GDP. Spread-out people usually suggest poverty.
You gave some of the reasons why working from home is great for the employee; however, the employer is the one who pays the wages and salaries, so they will ultimately decide.
Most of my kids work from home a couple of days a week.
My observation is they are all pretty productive but that’s probably because of personal work ethics.
The one that works from my home, I would prefer to be in the office full time 🙂
The mentality of trash like Bowen is that of an infant who can’t understand why perpetual motion won’t work. We are governed by retards.
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/media/watch-live-abc-senior-executives-face-grilling-at-senate-estimates/news-story/a65237d8537f683438659e1cb0c98711
Previous Senator was Senator Henderson
I think he knows exactly, which makes it worse, because what he’s doing almost borders on a form of treason.
There’s the pay off to the unions because renewballs are so much more labor intensive and there’s the attempt (as Cronkite mentioned) to back stop the union pension funds heavily invested in this nonsense. He knows exactly why he’s doing this. We should never underestimate the bad intentions by the left and shouldn’t just wave it off to stupidity.
Now at 27 votes on Dover’s poll, be there or be square Cats!
I just find brain works better at my place of employment and I like the company of my colleagues.
Also my job has a big hands on component so need to be there most of the time anyway
In other news, water is wet.
And fire is farking hot.
Yeah you’re probably right JC. They are truly evil.
Miltonf
Oct 24, 2023 1:25 PM
Also my job has a big hands on component so need to be there most of the time anyway
That’s wot’ “Jer Cough Cretin” said. That he needed “big hands” and Mrs Palmer and her 5 loverlee Daughters.
LOL.
Barkat: We’ll wipe Iran’s leaders off the face of the earth if they expand conflict
Under the circumstances, if you were an Iranian Foreign Minister, you’d probably be inclined not to conclude this is some random minister, free-forming off-portfolio commentary on the hoof.
Voting in Dover’s poll?
Get Wodney Woddenhead to stick in 40 of 50 votes. He spoils the poll, but at least it will keep him busy from screwing up the ticking that goes on here, along with general trolling and trying to make a cut from Marty’s fraud. That junk yard dog is one of the worst ticking offenders, as though we didn’t know.
Home is great but you don’t wanna be there all the time. Not me anyway.
Yes!
Absolutely!
I just wanted to point out that WASTE of life in commuting time (and cost) is not being mentioned.
I have worked where I just walk across the paddock to start; I have worked where I cycle an hour to work, traffic jamming in the city and its faster than using the bus; I have bused and the waiting and walking times add up greatly, every day; I have had a 1.5-hour each way drive/bus/walk to a 12-hour shift; have even had a daily 10minute walk through drifting tear gas and high security to my office. Even now, FIFO there is an hour of messing around to get in a vehicle and drive to the minesite.
NONE of it was time my employer used for work. Those hours are just travel time.
Giving up the right bank of the Dnipro, which was to be carved off Ukraine and given to Russia, was a feint.
Says the latest Armchair Computer Game Worrier. Game over for the UKR very soon. And those Western Russian sanctions have worked very well – For Russia it would seem.
Is World War III Imminent? It’s Looking That Way.
Last week, I observed that Joe Biden acts like he’s hoping that we’ll get sucked into a third world war for all the political advantages that come with being a wartime president.
Now it looks like his administration is laying the foundation for the United States to get directly involved in the Israel-Hamas war, and the theory that Biden wants to start World War III is looking a lot less like a theory and more like reality.
Why would the Biden administration get us involved in this war? Well, because his chances of winning in 2024 are getting worse, not better.
His strategy of running on the economy — you know, that whole “Bidenomics” thing — clearly backfired, so now he’s pivoting to foreign policy.
According to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the United States is ready to intervene in the Israel-Hamas war if it poses a threat to American personnel.
They anticipate that Iranian proxies could escalate the situation and say that the Biden administration is ready to respond if American civilians or armed forces are targeted.
“This is not what we want, not what we’re looking for. We don’t want escalation,” Blinken claimed. “We don’t want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire. But if that happens, we’re ready for it.”
According to Austin, “What we’re seeing is a prospect of a significant escalation of attacks on our troops and our people throughout the region. We’re going to do what’s necessary to make sure that our troops are in that position and they were protected and that we have the ability to respond.”
He affirmed that the U.S. has the right to defend itself and said, “We won’t hesitate to take the appropriate action.”
Austin also says that the United States will keep increasing its presence in the region to “send another message to those who would seek to widen this conflict.”
Blinken agrees that escalation is likely from “Iranian proxies directed against our forces, directed against our personnel. We are taking steps to make sure that we can effectively defend our people and respond decisively if we need to.”
Ahhh yes, Iranian proxies. Don’t you find it curious that the Biden administration has spent years appeasing Iran, trying to revive the nuclear deal and lifting sanctions to appease the regime as it seeks nuclear weapons?
The Biden administration previously denied that Iran was involved in the attack on Israel, and now it’s acknowledging that Iranian proxies may attack Americans. The White House is saying this after unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian assets last month.
I really don’t want to be right about this, but it sure feels like the Biden administration is determined to get us involved in a conflict in the hopes it saves his chances of getting elected in 2024.
I know what you mean Chris about the commuting times and the additional expense. It is an issue. But look what’s going on though. I have a brother in law who works for the state government. The lazy slob has NOT been to the office in about 3 or 4 years. Really?
Only 25% of the US federal workforce ever go to the office and presumably our would be the same if not worse.
This shit is now becoming indecent and productivity will suffer.
When I heard about the yanks parking carrier groups off the coast I thought of the wargame from about 2002 where a CBG got mauled by red team.
I’m not mulling if Israel are gearing up for another bold, daring and unexpected type operation that’s works for them so we’ll in the past.
Problem being that is pretty predictable, and pretty much anyone who would seriously be considering taking them on will no doubt be preparing extensively. No idea on the details of how exactly, but I can’t see it being traditional army vs army, perhaps bogging them down in urbane fighting?
I can’t see the modern Israel being willing to accept 100,000+ casualties in urban fighting, nor do I see the Arab world sitting in the sidelines if they are seeing extensive muslim casualties with the Israelis bogged down. To be clear, I’ve no idea what will happen, I’m noting what looks clear to me as potentially happening.
This could easily be the catalyst or the identifiable inflection point for the decline of the USA and the west.
Hope it’s clear I’m eying the bigger picture, not making any statements one way or the other. Would really hate for MAD to reappear in action.
For those of you wondering the other day why salmon is now $55/kg, when 2 years ago it was less than 1/2 that price:
Thank Blibberczech.
Cheapest decent fish these days is still Blue Grenadier – $16.50 at Vic Markets. Watch the chink owners, they’ll try the wrong change scam on you every time. Use EFTPOS and check the numbers carefully before tapping.
HAS suffered. You are right; this is just having a lend.
I am starting to take a bigger interest in this. Productivity in Government departments ranges from very important, to actively damaging. The delays and imposed regulatory costs in compliance time or aborted projects for the victims of Big Government are way out of hand.
And there’s that. 🙂
JC
Oct 24, 2023 1:35 PM
LOL. Late back from the Fat Pizza and Wine Bar again I see.
You along with all the other morons seem to be fixated on this down thumbing thingy that you call down ticking. Tick, tick, tock, the mouse ran up the clock or maybe your frock.
Get a Life as no one else is interested in your paranoia.
Agent Rotten over and out and going back to the Pub with the Horny Mrs Money Penny. After that, well who knows. Big Nose won’t know and that’s a cert.
Wodney, you’re the most popular fraud here if the ticking is anything to go by. Everyone believes that, you crooked, incontinent limey piece of shit.
Keep flipping the Commish until you get one who performs.
There’s a limit to the number of jobs-for-the-boys available to ex-Commishes of the Met. Especially when the turnover becomes greater than one-per-week.
By the time the 4th new Commish inside a month takes up the post, whoever it is will grasp the message that the Home Secretary is in charge.
Hang on. I thought Trump was going to start WWIII!
Hard to take them seriously any more.
Just briefly re WFH…
The AFR had a piece yesterday on new legislation that requires companies to audit and report on the carbon emissions of workers travelling to and from work and also on business trips. They’ll have to report the figures to ASIC which will submit reports to Treasury. They’ll start with big companies and work their way down.
Presumably there’ll be penalties applied to companies which exceed their nominated or prescribed targets, which is why I think this will feed into the WFH trend.
While the Commissioner is appointed by the Home Secretary, in practice it is the Mayor of London who appoints and sacks incumbents.
So…Sadiq Khan.
Good luck with that!
Companies should start telling ASIC to fuk off.
How does WW3 actually work?
Russia is kind of busy right now. If China tried anything, 40% of it’s oil would be cut off coming out of the strait. Iran starting WW3? Really, like Iran is going to conduct WW3 on it’s own using camels and goats?
Things may look shitty at the moment, but there’s not going to be any WW3.
I see you posted something similarly themed about opening Pandora’s Box toldozzie.
Roger
Oct 24, 2023 1:55 PM
Just briefly re WFH…
The AFR had a piece yesterday on new legislation that requires companies to audit and report on the carbon emissions of workers travelling to and from work and also on business trips. They’ll have to report the figures to ASIC which will submit reports to Treasury. They’ll start with big companies and work their way down.
Presumably there’ll be penalties applied to companies which exceed their nominated or prescribed targets, which is why I think this will feed into the WFH trend.
How about dropping a nice silent but deadly methane fart in a Lift. How to report on that? Clipboards at the ready everyone and sharpen your pencils.
LOL.
And Colonisation has brought nothing to Australian Aborigines – I would thought Marcia Langton had used the Latest Aboriginal Dug Out Canoe Model to paddle to Bali?
Voice architect Marcia Langton spotted in Bali after crushing referendum defeat – and she’s still refusing to speak about it
Marcia Langton flew to Bali after Voice defeat
I doubt they would use their favorite sex partners but camels, maybe!
You’d need a critical mass for a protest to be effective.
Just one or two companies & they’d only draw down the wrath of government upon themselves, starting with being blacklisted for any government contracts. It already happens for failing to meet gender equity targets.
Was she properly “Welcomed to Country?”
Randwick City Council backflips on decision to fly Palestinian flag – despite backlash from the Greens
Two councillors abstained from the vote, however their decision was recorded as against the motion.
Greens councillor Michael Olive unsuccessfully tried to amend the motion to the ensure the Palestinian flag was flown over town hall on November 29.
Mr Olive said council had previously flown the Israeli flag in February.
Greens councillor Kym Chapple said she held ‘deep concerns’ over not flying the Palestinian flag.
She said it was important for the council to ‘recognise the humanity for everyone involved’ in the Israeli Hamas war.
‘I cannot vote for this,’ Ms Chapple said.
I see the problem.
Roger, when the chips are down, & it really gets pushed to what the fine print says, is the HS able to override the Caliph of London?
Local councils now think they need foreign policies.
And how are the roads & footpaths in the city of Randwick?
I suspect so but I’d have to look further into it, Sal.
One of the difficulties with the British constitution is that so much of it relies on historical precedent rather than legal documents.
We may find out soon enough anyway.
Queensland gone.
NSW gone.
Victoria will plough on passing all manner of unconstitutional stuff into law.
SA may unscramble the omelette, who knows?
bogging them down in urbane fighting?
Silk Cravats, spats and brylcream parts in the hair?
Fred Astaires at 50 paces
OldOzzie
Oct 24, 2023 2:03 PM
And Colonisation has brought nothing to Australian Aborigines –
And what language does she write and speak in? And who brought that language here?
Did it all arrive by a Correspondence Course? Delivered by a Stork?
I’d love to see Braverman have a public barney with Khan!
The bodycam footage that the Israelis took of the victims of the HAMAS atrocities should be displayed on a wall, below where the Pali flag is flying, to show the humanity of HAMAS.
There’s nothing like a civil war, I always say.
This footage.
There’s going to have to be one helluva long bill of repeal drafted & ready to be voted into law on the first day of the Dutton govt.
The one thing Anthony Albanese isn’t coming clean about after vowing to be more transparent
. Anthony Albanese under fire over booze bill
. The PM is set to release his official diary
Anthony Albanese has come under fire for not disclosing his taxpayer-funded booze bill for his office and guests.
The prime minister’s department has yet to release the details months after the Australian Financial Review requested the information in July.
Mr Albanese went into the federal election campaigning for transparency, but his office has been criticised on several occasions for failing to uphold that vow since he rose to office in May 2022.
His government came under fire in July after blocking more Qatar flights into Australia with Labor’s transport minister Catherine King refusing to front a senate inquiry into her decision to reject the airline’s request.
Mr Albanese’s deputy prime minister Richard Marles was grilled in August over the lack of transparency for his $3.6million VIP flight bill.
The prime minister refused to release his official diary with his legal adviser saying in November it would ‘unreasonably’ interfere with his job.
Mr Albanese has since backflipped and agreed to share it.
Although the prime minister will release his diary, the tax-funded bill racked up for booze for his office and guests remains withheld from the public eye.
The matter has now been left in limbo following two legal extensions for the release of the details. The request is now months overdue.
The only way the matter could be solved is to settle it through the Information Commissioner without the release of documents.
But that process can take several years, meaning Mr Albanese’s department may not have to release the bill before the next federal election.
Centre for Public Integrity director Geoffrey Watson, SC, slammed the Prime Minister’s department, stating his seeming reluctance to disclose the bill was ‘unlawful activity’.
‘In a country supposedly operating under a rule of law, the government which introduced the laws doesn’t obey their own laws,’ he said.
‘If you’re talking about two- or three-year delays, it’s common that the issue that was being addressed is no longer an issue, or even that the people who need to be held accountable in decision-making are no longer in the role.
‘Experience has shown any engagement with the Information Commissioner certainly means a delay of at least one year but in some instances three years. In other words, it defeats the purpose of FOI.’
Foreign Affairs Penny Wong had previously called for the release of details regarding the money spent on alcohol when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister back in 2015.
Mr Albanese’s diary details his first 100 days of power including appointments with delegates and unions as well as his calls with world leaders.
He refused to release it following multiple FOI requests as his department claimed it would be an ‘unreasonable’ diversion of his resources and interfere with his job.
His team have since backflipped and agreed to share it.
Mr Albanese conceded the initial decision was wrong. This came after 17 other ministers released 100 days or more of their diaries.
The request for his department’s alcohol bill is the latest controversy to rock Mr Albanese.
His government controversially decided to block extra flights from Qatar Airways following a push from Qantas to reject the gulf carrier’s application.
WTF is any council doing flying any foreign flags.
Back to fixing my footpath you tinpot fascists.
Neumann was starting to clip these local government idiots’ wings before the Teachers and ABC did him in.
Thank God the Slapper was booted before she could impose her constitutional recognition of blue haired freaks referedum. They will try sgain. These small bubble dwellers actually see themselves as major political entities.
Gilas, if you’re around and reading this, I recall our conversation at Berala pre-poll recently (prior to the Hamas atrocities) where you opined that anti-semitism in Labor-land is not just present, but fashionable.
Boy oh boy, were you ever correct.
Having approached my local reps at Council, State and Federal levels, all are Labor, and all have maintained a “tactical silence” (i.e. cowardice) on (for example) the events at Lakemba and on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. They refuse to engage on the matter but instead are all busily posting on social media about food and festivals and traffic accidents and other ephemera, as if the disgusting chants and celebrations we have all seen and heard, never happened.
Labor here in the West of Sydney actively courts the Muslim vote and regularly visit mosques (yes, even Lakemba) for happy, smiling photo ops.
Of note, ALL of these so-called representatives are women. Who at the earliest sign of any scrutiny or criticism will invoke their praetorian guards to drag out -phobic and -ist slurs and accusations of “bullying”, and other denigrations in reply.
The SFLs of course are beyond hopeless in this territory, they are invisible, gutless, disorganised and left-apologists anyway.
Nevertheless, even in rusted-on Labor territory out here, ‘No’ was a majority, the Koreans and Chinese for example did not buy Albo’s BS offer.
JC
It is simple enough question.
What started it?
LOL, The CFO hasn’t got time and resources are limited. He’ll just make the shit up like they do with everything else climate related. I read where nearly all the climate crap required as US corps climate governance is all hastily made up crap.
Chris Minns reverses policy on Treaty:
Only the Federal Government can engage in a Treaty with another Sovereign Nation or Mob.
Australia cannot make a Treaty with itself. Please read the Australian Constitution.
An Australian State Government has NO such power to make a Treaty. Maybe some sort of Agreement with another Mob BUT it is not a Treaty.
Go back to ‘skool’ all of you ‘Pollies’ and learn somefink’ for a change. FFS.
Dr F at 11:52
There is only one winner out of all this.
Rob Sitch.
There’s the script for an episode of Utopia right there, particularly the “Minister wants to make an announcement …” bit.
Sounds a bit like our National Tunnel Boring Authority.
Esprit de corps might be an issue this time around. Not many takers willing to lay their lives down on the say so of the likes of Albo and the news media.
Bali…Part of Indonesia…the former Netherlands East Indies….
Who on earth said this? It’s the most flagrant lie I’ve ever seen.
Easy. Just send out a company policy recommending employees use public transport. Bury it ten pages in on the company website. Then in the carbon emission company report say zero carbon emissions.
If ASIC questions you on the number point to the policy document and say “sadly we are unable to ascertain whether they do, as that would be in breach of privacy laws”.
One of these things is not like the other.
What are your “deep concerns”, Kym? For not doing something.
I suggest you take your concerns to the local coppers. Sounds like you’ve been threatened.
If that isn’t the case, then you’re just a posturing halfwit who definitely needs to see that IDF footage – you need to get a handle on the type of “humanity” they’re dealing with. Which brings me back to my first point.
Sydney Trains driver plays a pro-Palestinian song through the carriages’ loudspeakers
Fire his arse!
What rank did you hold Johnny? Every stupid prediction you have been made about this war has thus far been wrong.
From a cannon.
See, I told you Albo should have gone behind the stage.
you have been making
Hmmmm. Is the PM’s Department keeping records of AnAl’s “carbin emissions”, as he travels around the world and swans around in limousines? Should be a world killing total by now.
Daily Mail.
And the rest of him also.
Why is Netanyahu’s son still in Miami”
Good question. Once this has settled, Bibi will be gone.
Last week., I had an Israeli dude do some work for me, “re-springing” a garage door. He told me that he was called up but there was no reason to go back and in fact he was asked not to return to his assigned unit because they didn’t need any more people. Could be that.
Tennis Elbow is about as transparent as a translucent light bulb with the electricity not switched on by Blackout Bowen.
Like Bureau of Statistics returns.
I remember getting a “Please Essplain” call from the ABS about a variation in capital expenditure year-on-year. I carefully explained that we had bought a yuuuge piece of kit that year and that capex tended to be lumpy in mining.
He says, “Yes, yes, but still it has increased ten times on last year”.
Me : “That is what I mean by lumpy expenditure.”
Him : “I understand that (he didn’t), but this is a significant change which has to be explained”.
This went back and forth for a few minutes until I told him I had nothing to add.
He called back again, but I was unavailable.
From that point forward I just copied everything on every return from the previous one with only minor tweaks for plausibility.
“Regerative Farming” is a trojan horse for carbon accounting.
…and “carbon accounting” is a pantomime horse full of commies.
It’s every red-blooded gent’s duty to resist all neologisms upon first encountering them. And have one’s instincts confirmed, toot sweet.
“Voice”… “COVID-19″… imagine if the collective reaction had been to chomp on a handy apple and flatly say, “What does that mean?”
or more effectively, “who told you to ask that?”
Michael Smith.
I see you have gone back to linking to the scammer Wodney.
Don’t do it.
The dude told me that if you’re overseas and actually called up, the government has to fork out the travel costs through reimbursement. This is expensive, so maybe they aren’t asking personnel to return home if they’re not needed. The call up thing is an alert for those overseas..
Elon Musk has offered Wikipedia One Billion Dollars to change the name to “Dickipedia”. Lol 😀
Calli at 1444
Is this what you mean? (From Wiki)
Into the Gaza Strip.
I doubt the government will reward you for doing so.
They may implicitly reward you by punishing the competition, but thats about it.
Taxes and fines are far more common than bonuses or bounties.
Master trolling by Musk-eye.
Yikes! I was thinking something more entertaining.
Complete with squirty flower and facepaint.
Then…off to the rodeo.
Okay. That works for me. Wrap him in an LGBTQwerty flag…just to sure.
Dot, I’ve got a Regenerative Farming logo’d kit from a recent convention mine wifey went to, with cartoon Wind Turbines looking down beatifically on the cartoon biodiverse farmyard paradise.
Wonder why the government and the Advertising Bureau for Commies ABC are suddenly updated with the newspeak for the New Ideas?
Regenerative, global warming, digital currency, pandemic, traditional custodians, reparations, open borders- all owned and all interconnected.
Invader and coloniser of West Papua
*and there sure ain’t no animals in the cartoon farmyard neither
A classic from the ABC, climate scientists with government jobs are speaking out post retirement about how they were stymied in the work if they tried to speak out with the truth about the environment.
Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope
So far so good.
Credentials asserted, though probably more of a go to type if you want to understand the protein content of penguin droppings as opposed to atmospheric physics.
It’s almost like gobbets of silky tofu being thrown out for the base here. A good servant bought low by the unnamed minister at the time. Wink wink.
Messianic as well as retired then.
One suspect this lies close the cause of the anguish.And on and on it goes before they wheel out David Karoly (yes, that one) to continue in the same fashion. Almost as f there was a carefully calibrated message being spruiked, for he too has been denied time in front of a camera on the nightly news.
After Karoly someone billed as “wildlife ecologist Euan Ritchie” continues to subtly reinforce the spontaneity of the messaging.
Credentials established and secular sainthood conferred. In the bloodline no less. Pity they had to lay it on with a trowel. Now for some dark intoning while scrabbling for the victim role.
He actually let himself be quoted as one who “speaks truth to power”. Retard.
My gag reflex kicked in before getting to the end but one more thing stands out.
The sort of people who view themselves as wearing their underwear on the outside, with a matching cape.
There is more at the link, much more, if you can stomach it.
Nice piece by regular columnist, Andy Kessler at the WSJ .. That’s Andy Kessler – not to be confused with regular fraudster, Marty Armstrong.
Marcia in Bali just says everything that you need to know about her.
Shoot me before I imagine Marcia on the beach.
Erk!
One of my pet peeves:
Precautionary principle – the climate Chicken Little’s attempt to sound scientific. If an event would have very serious consequences then we must do the most extreme drastic things to fend it off.
Mind you, an asteroid would have more dire consequences. And this happened several times in Earth’s history. So, applying the precautionary principle should have us dedicate entire GDP’s to devising technologies to obliterate any such wayward rock – we can track a percentage of the rubble tumbling about in space but we would not know the grim harbinger of annihilation until late and then only watch impotently.
Impotently. Fnarr fnarr gurgle blrr. (That is my best Finbar Saunders). We would never be able to get anything up. Helpless in the face of what was to come. We would have no way of getting space’s rocks off.
And now back to our usual programming…
The ‘precautionary principle’ is an attempt at gaslighting by seeming erudite and across a body of scientific literature doubters have not considered.
It is funny because a little earlier I saw the ratio ‘97%’ used and was going to quip that it should have a formal designation because it comes up so much when trying to make some policy look overwhelmingly justified. We already have e (2.71828), pi (3.14159), the universal gas constant R (8.31), the gravitational constant (6.67430(15)×10^?11) – and now the Political Overreach Gaslighting Constant of 97%.
Simple fact is that risk is understood as consequence AND likelihood and this is where AGW falls down. Also it is hard. When warmers think about the danger it is not something measures and quantified. It is a collage of disaster p0rn to which they get their rocks off (fnarr fnarr). They are not ones to follow science, but instead demanding that science follow them and their fevered imaginations. Hence the need for scientificalistic sounding buzzwords. Scientific postures for the people who too impatient for scientific discipline.
But this lawyer goes one step further he speaks of the precautionary principle as something that can actually be applied and giving results.
I should love for someone to confront him and ask for his workings.
They might find him at Harris Farm pointing at a particularly luscious Packham, snickering and snorting.
I voted “No” regarding the IDF assault.
The gig is up as the terrorists will dribble out hostages as international pressure mounts on Israel.
Same old same old from the same old.
If those scumbags carrying GoPros have offspring, nuking the place from orbit might be the best bet.
The sort of people who view themselves as wearing their underwear on the outside, with a matching cape.
There is more at the link, much more, if you can stomach it.
What is so amazing is how did Planet Earth do all of this over 4.5 Billion Years. Was there a God Complex? Or, a God Oracle? Or, Mother Nature? Or, somefink’ even cleverer?
Seems an awkward construction. A type II conditional.
Perhaps I should have gone with ‘if an event were to have…’
Elon Musk has offered Wikipedia One Billion Dollars to change the name to “Dickipedia”.
How abaat’ DopeyPedia.
Seeing you asked.
Your trolling started it, Trans. What else? As most of us are aware, 95% of your engagement here is targeting someone in the evening, which you’ve now also moved to a morning s(troll), while 5% is talking about recipes and what an excellent cook you are.
I suspect that after your two years of pile-on trolling Liz, and she not really fighting back, you thought it would be the same trying screw with others as they wouldn’t push back. That was a very incorrect assumption. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, you don’t like it and make out you’re the victim. No one’s buying it and if they are they’re not very smart.
I recall that you had several attempts trying to troll me. I let them go, but you continued possibly egged on by the fact that I have an Okay blog friendship with Sanchez. When you began to reveal private information etc, I cut my losses with you and that was the end. Once I cut someone off there’s never going to be any reconciliation as I treat it as a bad trade.
Even so, even now, it’s your trolling which starts it as all I do is respond to your nonsense.
“Regenerative Farming” is a trojan horse for carbon accounting.
We certainly don’t regard it from that perspective. Regenerative farming simply makes sense. We slash & mulch our paddocks regularly and the soil quality and grass varieties continue to improve.
Mind you, we don’t go along with the nonsense that “weeds are good”. Our regular slashing has almost eliminated the Patersons Curse and Blue Heliotrope. We initially sprayed, but found that slashing before seed load developed, is just as effective.
As for Carbon Accounting – that is for the big stations. Even so, the neighbouring 10,000 acres joint does not, to my knowledge, take advantage of Carbon credits.
Greta Thunderberg parody. Very funny.
Folks could believe this is what she’s saying.
Tom Roberts where are you ?
https://www.facebook.com/1314117107/videos/chasing-cows-around-these-looks-like-fun/264303222833394/
“Regerative Farming” is a trojan horse for carbon accounting.
…and “carbon accounting” is a pantomime horse full of commies.
I used to watch this podcast (?); two genial fellas in Boorowa walking through their paddocks talking about grass, stocking rates, ways to farm in variable rainfall areas for farmers with a bit of maverick rising in their star sign. Riveting stuff. Eventually they ran out of things to say and the blowflies started turning up on the show – Pocock, Bruce Pascoe and the like – and I lost interest.
Reducing the number of people on the planet would align with her goals.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 24, 2023 2:06 PM
Voice architect Marcia Langton spotted in Bali after crushing referendum defeat – and she’s still refusing to speak about it
Was she properly “Welcomed to Country?”
Was she patronisingly “Welcomed to Country?” .. there, that’s how I see it
I voted “NO”
As I could never say YES.
Agent Rotten signing off with Mrs Money Penny who I could never say NO to.
AND, she does like the Milk Tray –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqlfWfhNiqk
Berlin:
Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Official Video – Top Gun)
And not just current Americans – all those Palis of fighting age (what are the odds?) would be guaranteed Democrat voters.
It doesn’t really matter that they don’t believe in democracy. Neither do the Democrats, and they are busy creating an America where democracy does not interrupt the steady pearl-like accretion of wealth.
Reminds me of an ex colleague. Was indig, and not a ‘blow in’, taught indig studies and we were always getting lectures on my people this, my people that, deep bond with country etc etc etc
Two days after she retired, she settled on the sale of her house, and next day moved to Bali to live.
MatrixTransform
Oct 24, 2023 2:24 PM
This personage called “Jer Cough Cretin” seems to have dementia.
Who invited him/her/it onto this Blog? FFS
Agent Rotten, over and out.
Snort! I thought it was 97.3%.
Did they dial it back a bit?
At last, a proper name.
The magic number started with a wretch in the US, Naomi Oreskes, who determined with science and statistics that 97.3% of published climate scientists accepted the principle of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Which, naturally, quickly became 97% of scientists think the world is doomed unless we [insert snake oil of choice]…
Steve trickler
Oct 24, 2023 4:08 PM
Berlin:
Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Official Video – Top Gun)
Nice Steve. The only problem with this video is that it has Knob Head Cruise in it. Other than that. BRILLO.
calli
Oct 24, 2023 4:16 PM
We already have e (2.71828), pi (3.14159), the universal gas constant R (8.31), the gravitational constant (6.67430(15)×10^?11) – and now the Political Overreach Gaslighting Constant of 97%.
Snort! I thought it was 97.3%.
Did they dial it back a bit?
The answer is 42.
BUT, no one seems to know the Question.
Agent Rotten on the Case.
calli
Oct 24, 2023 4:16 PM
We already have e (2.71828), pi (3.14159), the universal gas constant R (8.31), the gravitational constant (6.67430(15)×10^?11) – and now the Political Overreach Gaslighting Constant of 97%.
Snort! I thought it was 97.3%.
Did they dial it back a bit?
AND. Last week it was –
61% NO Farking Way and then,
39% YES
Game Over.
Go on, Rotten, it’s the last 6 comments before the page turn, just fill `em up for us, there’s a good chap.
Writer’s Karen
https://twitter.com/louiseadler/status/1716640517407346726
You owe the signals sergeant a carton…it’s either “Over” OR ‘Out”, NEVER “Over and Out!”
It is an insidious thing, I think, this craven acceptance of magic in matters Indigenous.
Anyone else who claimed a magical connection to a place would be derided as confusing desire with the prosaic fact that any location is composed of rock, trees, soil, f*cking insects and whatnot. Such a place would be frankly indistinguishable from some locale elsewhere to which they were not making such a claim, so there can be no especial claim.
But someone turns up in a possum-skin cloak (made in a sweatshop – which is still a better work condition than Aborigines enjoyed. At least the boss does not spear you in the leg and trade off the women for haunches of kangaroo meat) and claims a special connection to a place they never go to and the political class pulls out a jar of KY and a pineapple and bends over.
I swear (frequently, but that is not important right now) all the ado over indigenous claims and the fact so much of the continent has been handed over to the big men in newly convened indigenous corporations to the benefit of a vanishingly small number is testament to the multigenerational gutlessness of our political class.
The blog owner.
Because it’s his blog, and it’s private property – contrary to some assertions made by frauds who also promote convicted frauds.
Tell Ms Wongypenny to write that down, because you’ll forget it.