“Keane also mentioned that Hegseth had extensive combat experience.” Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has two Bronze Stars.
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Like the Israelis, they are a Semitic people and entitled to control their ancestral land.” Crete?
Numbers Bob comment over at Michael Smith. The article about Penny Mong voting for Pally Statehood. Is he an early…
Similar to having a road network that doesn’t connect two towns A & B 200 km apart – meaning you…
Is that out of Beau Geste? Enemy at the Gates in this case. Best part of the whole movie with…
5. were made on political grounds as opposed to economic grounds. Korea LIED to the world about its FX reserves and suffered a 95% decline in its currency along with massive USD defaults across its corporate and government sectors. China is doing the same now with RMB and HKD
6. Expect more forced selling of US stocks and bonds by Chinese institutions. Remember, in an angry, knee-jerk reaction, Xi sloppily fired the head of the PBOC, Yi Gang, at the 20th Party Congress in Oct 2022. Yi Gang also lost his seat on the CCP’s Central Committee. 6/9
7. He was reappointed as Central Bank head a few weeks later but FIRED AGAIN in July 2023. Just imagine how the world would react if we abruptly fired Jerome Powell, rehired him, and fired him again a few months later. Xi is panicking. 7/9
8. China is experiencing massive financial instability – both a liquidity AND a solvency crisis in Chinese real estate which immediately precipitated a banking crisis given the levels of leverage to the property sector. Be prepared for large currency breaks and additional 8/9
9. global instability. Number go down… 9/9
The thing that caught my eye recently was that in fact I did see a piece about Chinese holdings of US bonds showing holdings have really gone down of late in a very protected decline. People spoke about this as being China divesting of US assets to reduce exposure to the US. Dunno, maybe Bass is right for once over the past two decades.
5. were made on political grounds as opposed to economic grounds. Korea LIED to the world about its FX reserves and suffered a 95% decline in its currency along with massive USD defaults across its corporate and government sectors. China is doing the same now with RMB and HKD
6. Expect more forced selling of US stocks and bonds by Chinese institutions. Remember, in an angry, knee-“jirk” reaction, Xi sloppily fired the head of the PBOC, Yi Gang, at the 20th Party Congress in Oct 2022. Yi Gang also lost his seat on the CCP’s Central Committee. 6/9
7. He was reappointed as Central Bank head a few weeks later but FIRED AGAIN in July 2023. Just imagine how the world would react if we abruptly fired Jerome Powell, rehired him, and fired him again a few months later. Xi is panicking. 7/9
8. China is experiencing massive financial instability – both a liquidity AND a solvency crisis in Chinese real estate which immediately precipitated a banking crisis given the levels of leverage to the property sector. Be prepared for large currency breaks and additional 8/9
9. global instability. Number go down… 9/9
The thing that caught my eye recently was that in fact I did see a piece about Chinese holdings of US bonds showing holdings have really gone down of late in a very protected decline. People spoke about this as being China divesting of US assets to reduce exposure to the US. Dunno, maybe Bass is right for once over the past two decades.
132andBush
Oct 25, 2023 4:33 PM
Spike Milligan
And Harry Secombe.
Meanwhile, John Wayne didn’t do very much fighting at all. Except in those films of course.
Neither did Flynn; except in court fighting the carnal knowledge/SR charges which came his way.
Harry Secombe, he and Spike met in North Africa. Sellers was RAF in Burma I think.
Wodney’s upticking of his own comments is hilarious. The quickest upticker in the West. Perhaps, it’s Socrates scanning the web in it’s own sentient way, sees a superior comment and immediately posts an uptick.
The thing that caught my eye recently was that in fact I did see a piece about Chinese holdings of US bonds showing holdings have really gone down of late in a very protected decline. People spoke about this as being China divesting of US assets to reduce exposure to the US. Dunno, maybe Bass is right for once over the past two decades.
Martin Armstrong has been saying this for a while now.
Please keep up with events if you can dear boy. FFS.
Yes, Johnny. But I didn’t mention those actors.
James Doohan (finger shot off), Audie Murphy (record speaks for itself) and Chris Lee of the secret squirrel strangulation fame.
My uncle was one of the guys who could dispatch someone silently and did so for King and country. Never did too well on civvie street, and definitely not handsome enough for acting.
OldOzzie, Yep, i was brought up in a Catholic school, and although no longer adhering to the religion, cannot regret it. They knew the difference between right and wrong, and made sure we did. It didn’t always work, but the principles stuck.
JC
Oct 25, 2023 5:29 PM
Wow. I never knew that you could do an up thumb like that. And what is this up ticking fingy? Is it a ticking time bomb or wot’?
Please keep up with events if you can dear boy. FFS.
I would think the food staff at the White House have learned not to consult Biden about menus.
Apart from chocolate chocolate-chip. So they have Dr Jill who even now must realised as lady of the manor are numbered, and shrinking by weeks every day.
She will be making a buffoon of herself trying to wring every last drop of Presidential residential privilege from her rapidly shedding days.
So Albo should find himself stuck at a table with 15 forks trying to deal with dishes that have been summoned from obscure corners of unfamiliar phyla, trying to pose as a world leader with a confused, often absent, aphasic moron drifting unpredictably between different ages of his life.
I don’t read anything by the convicted fraudster, dickface. And two things.
1. Marty plagiarizes lots of stuff from others, and
2. I would bet that Marty’s plagiarized summation of China’s bond draw-down has been like everyone else. China was selling to divest of US Dollar holdings for diversification reasons – not because there’s a serious liquidity crunch going on, you dishonest little crook.
Piss off, as you’re as useless as a turd in a diaper.
If anyone wants to read more of Leavenworth Marty, there’s this.
https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/where-and-how-to-complain.html
Oh I am.
How much is Marty (Leavenworth) Armstrong paying to promote his fraud, Dickface?
Tom, did you catch the Geelong Cup today?
IMHO nothing from that will do much in the Melbourne Cup.
FYI.
I think buying US 10 years at 5% plus is pretty ok.
I also think buying property at 60-65% of replacement value is pretty ok too.
“Meanwhile, John Wayne didn’t do very much fighting at all. Except in those films of course.”
John Wayne tried to sign up, but was knocked back because he actually had multiple health problems. Eyesight, feet, back and a few others. He did what he could for the troops by helping promote War Bonds and raising funds and help from home.
Don’t knock the big guy.
The website I linked to explaining Marty’s shenanigans also has a very useful link where people can report international scams to the US authorities.
https://www.econsumer.gov/#crnt
Feel free and perhaps even mention Wodney’s (aka Johnny Rotten) pecuniary interest in promoting the fraud.
Australia is listed as a member country.
Senator Roberts Snowy Hydro 2 senate estimates questions.
Quite entertaining 13 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF5uhmWgJJw
Tunnel boring machine “florence” is not bogged!….Yeah right, and pigs fly!
JC
Oct 25, 2023 5:39 PM
LOL. Left behind at the starting blocks once again. Fat arse, short arse, Big Nose loser.
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Yes, credit cost above the bond rate has moved upwards.
Swaps are an interesting instrument that came into being in the 70s.
Credit default swaps have also moved higher for certain risks.
So has volatility.
This is the way to do it: Texas lady crashes muzzie gathering, grabs the mike, praises Christ, says Texas will never be muzzie and that they’re all POS. Then walks off with the muzzies wanting to kill her but knowing the cameras are rolling.
Sure, but I’d rather be left behind than to be a wannabe little crook like you, Dickface.
‘Dr’ Jill certainly sums up modern academic ‘qualifications’.
17+ years of ‘school’ brainwashing has created plenty of psyco’s here as well to the point where they openly support the destruction of the Jews.
What a slag too.
Rod Steiger also served in the US Navy in the Pacific.
Like Marvin, after the war he used his college credits under the GI Bill to go to acting classes.
Paid off!
A much better actor than Marlon Brando, imv.
Seriously Wodney, Were you brought up so immoral, so lacking in any form of personal ethics that you would promote a convicted fraudster who has stolen and is now trying (again) to steal other people’s money. How can you go out in public and show your face, you disgusting, dishonest little limey crook?
Tunnel boring machine “florence” is not bogged!….Yeah right, and pigs fly!
And Florence of the Magic Roundabout is not impressed at all –
And a lot cheaper at only $106.79………….Pls tell Tennis Elbow and Blackout Bowen.
https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1203308615/vintage-magic-roundabout-florence-and?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_au_en_au_a-toys_and_games-toys-puppets-hand_puppets&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjw1t2pBhAFEiwA_-A-NAhkfbtsOkt21ghOZXQaWXLeDrRrxAVecS-hWFdAfOfPK0tlWVVTghoC1joQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_344348048_49320286078_230382148052_pla-314439884782_c__1203308615enau_102845289&utm_custom2=344348048&gclid=CjwKCAjw1t2pBhAFEiwA_-A-NAhkfbtsOkt21ghOZXQaWXLeDrRrxAVecS-hWFdAfOfPK0tlWVVTghoC1joQAvD_BwE
It will be interesting to see how mortgage rates in the US (now 8%) impact interstate migration.
No matter how much you want to move out of DNC mafia cities & states if your current 30 year fixed is sub 4% & you now are looking at double that in your new state, it’s a hard thing to do.
Neville Brand was a highly decorated soldier in the U.S. Army during WWII before turning to acting in films and TV post-war.
He and others like him put the woke types with their “safe spaces” and “microaggressions” who were and are never in real danger in their lives well and truly back in their place.
JC
Oct 25, 2023 5:55 PM
Back to the Fat Pizza and Wine Bar for you junior. And please try to keep up with events.
Yep. The 33/1 Geelong Cup winner probably won’t even run in the Melbourne Cup, even though that win was an automatic qualifier.
Australian horse-racing is now awash with options for the main players as a result of the competition between Victoria and NSW.
Nothing bad ever happens as a result of competition.
PS: Australian thoroughbred horse racing is now the strongest in the world competition-wise, and the traditional, Europe, now offers a fraction of Australia’s prizemoney.
Interesting that the War Bonds story is brought up. Carole Lombard died in a plane crash on the way back from events to sell the bonds after the Pearl Harbour attack.
She’s an expert on foreign relations, international diplomacy and tactical warfare!
Jill Biden says there’s ‘nobody I’d rather have in the Situation Room’ than Joe during these perilous times as she woos fashion’s A-list at fundraiser at Anna Wintour’s $12M townhouse (23 Oct)
And wears dresses that look like sofas. The US is in fine hands.
… traditional capital…
No excuses for Ms Kah.
Short priced favourite, decent run.
Just wasn’t there when it mattered.
Delta A if you see this we couldn’t make to the clog barn in Coffs today – picked up some nasty fluey thing hi hi in brissie so pushed thru to Sydney. Will try to visit next time and thanks for tip. Boambee John filled up at the Boambee BP today!
On military actors.. Michael Caine served as a grunt in Korea. Peter Ustinov was a Corporal in the british SOE.
Alec Guinness, Mel Brooks, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas also served. And on the other side Hardy Kruger was conscripted into German Army aged 16, and from there spent a little time in 34thSS Division.
Diogenes Proud Szekler Man of the Magyar peop.
Tells very funny stories about his experiences when interviewed by Parkinson.
I think Hungarians enter the picture somewhere. 😀
On You Tube, no doubt.
Jamie is just out of form — not surprising for a chick who has smashed the glass ceiling.
Bottom line: chicks like Jamie Kah love horses and horses run faster for her because she understands more than blokes about what them run.
PS: whether or not I watch a horse race depends on whether Jamie Kah is riding. She is a wizard.
Time machine.
[60 fps] A Trip Through the Streets of Amsterdam, 1922
James Thorp MD
@jathorpmfm
Cohenite,
that clip was awesome. Thanks for the link.
Cohenite,
that clip was awesome.
There are videos of owls?
Ewww.
This is the NYT!
Covid Shots May Slightly Raise Stroke Risk in the Oldest Recipients
Spitfire
@DogRightGirl
“Gays 4 Gaza” and “Queers for Palestine” in NYC on Oct. 23 demanding the end of Israel.
There’s so much to unpack here. The level of stupidity is breathtaking.
I seriously doubt it.
Are Biden and Obama on Israel’s side? Recent actions raise questions
Shut up bernie; stick to your SBS crap. In the meantime a cute owl™?
Contamination, myocarditis, seizures: COVID vax revelations put regulators worldwide on defense
Japan and Denmark Collaborate on Floating Wind Turbines
The Energy Transition madness continues and maybe more soon to come here. Blackout Bowen is on the case right now with your South Pacific Peso Tax Moneeeeeee – Watch this space –
“Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to discuss offshore wind turbines. Denmark is a leader in wind turbine technology, while Japan has an advantage in shipbuilding technology. Japan has stated that it plans to increase its offshore wind power by 60% by 2030. Biden stated he wants to power 10 million homes in America with offshore wind power by 2030, which is our computer’s 2032. The UK, Denmark, and other nations aligned with the Great Reset are also targeting 2030 and the industry as a whole is growing rapidly.
This fishing industry has warned that this technology will prevent them from yielding the same amount of fish each year. This will impact our overall food supply. But we will have bug protein to supplement us. No one knows the repercussions of placing these massive devices in the ocean. The environmentalists don’t want the energy companies drilling for oil, but they are OK with drilling deep into sea beds.
One study believes that this technology could hurt surface predators such as plankton and disrupt all sea life. The powerful wind structures could change the ocean’s upwelling and impact water temperature, and therefore move nutrient-dense water that those at the bottom of the food chain depend on to survive. “The consequences of these changes in physical upwelling structure on the ecosystem are currently unknown and could potentially form future areas of investigation that could also include an assessment of fisheries and socio-economic effects,” a recent study published on Nature admitted.
Japan and Denmark have a lofty goal of reducing greenhouse has emissions by 2030 before going to net-zero by 2050. “What I’m hoping for is that the effort to increase offshore wind in Japan will produce a ketchup effect, where you try to get the ketchup out of the bottle but nothing much comes out until suddenly it does, after much effort,” a Danish ambassador to Japan told the Japan Times. The Danish Energy Agency discussed the 2020 New Climate Agreement in which there will be a “new era with energy islands.” “An energy island serves as a hub for electricity generation for the surrounding wind farms, by collecting and distributing the electricity between countries connected by an electricity grid,” the report explains. Denmark believes it could power portions of Europe.
The Japan-Denmark partnership could be promising as nations are pledging their support for Agenda 2030 and spending to implement these structures, regardless of their efficiency or actual impact on the ecosystem.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/japan-and-denmark-collaborate-on-floating-wind-turbines/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Greenpeace, Local Tribes, Tanya PleberSuck and many others. Where the fark are you? The Whales and other sea creatures would like to know.
I so want to be like her! What a magnificent woman, standing up in the face of these creatures.
I hope she has good security.
Your Tax Dollars at Work: State of Michigan Holds ‘Harm Reduction’ Conference Denouncing ‘Whiteness’
Eat the frikken bugs, peasants!
Bloomberg Pushes Climate Doom As Reason Why You Must Eat Bugs (25 Oct)
Tumbrills please. Also I prefer Italian. Bolognese. With real meat, thanks.
Italy Becomes First Nation To Ban Bill Gates’ Fake Meat Due To ‘Serious Health Concerns’ (24 Oct)
Solyent Green next.
On Double Standards and Deafening Silence
Avi:
WHOA! Terrorists infiltrate close to our lookout point
I read the B52s were scheduled to play at the Elbow/brainworms dinner but pulled out.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/white-house-cancels-b-52s-performance-for-anthony-albanese-amid-hamas-israel-war/jjkovqujq
Poor elbow, no rock lobster for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QSYx4wVQg
cohenite
Oct 25, 2023 6:22 PM
This is a Cute Owl –
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drawingnow.com%2Ftutorials%2F119617%2Fhow-to-draw-a-cute-owl%2F&psig=AOvVaw1VbJdioZpTGgkUS9CM8xu8&ust=1698305217002000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCJjuxKvWkIIDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAI
Malcolm Roberts
Home Affairs Collaborated with Social Media During COVID
Deadbeat Club – perfect for the event.
Dr. John Campbell
International situation
Poor elbow, no rock lobster for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QSYx4wVQg
He is eating Humble Pie followed by a Shit Sandwich =
He might like this Humble Pie though –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws
I recall, soon after Joe had uncomprehendingly and confusedly recited the syllables of office, the MSM splattering images of Dr Jill in a black something they were content to call a cocktail dress (although there was no hinting of a cocktail function) claiming ‘style had returned to the Whitehouse’.
The same press had also creamed their dacks over the style of Obama’s distinctly pithecine wife (whose image required an especially robust plastic for the film) and dismissed Melania as just the President’s wife and nothing worthy of note.
Vogue dedicated (I believe) two of their covers to Michelle that would have been more in keeping with Scientific American or National Geographic.
Imagine trying to write glowing copy for Dr Jill, then going out to try to impress actual women. The disjoint would lead to an almost certainly lethal psychological schism.
Tone talking to Credlin; he keeps calling Uluru alooroo. She doesn’t correct the poor sap.
If the yuan is shaky how will that affect the HKD ? I’m guessing not favourably.
Someone linked the other day to a piece suggesting western consternation about the state of the Chinese economy wasn’t shared by Xi and pals. All that mattered to them was staying in power. They would ride it out. Not discussed was whether economic weakness could threaten their places at the table. Even that might not dislodge them.
Nicole Kidman was really good in Malice, Alec Baldwin too, didn’t get to shoot anyone though.
NatWest Files: Natwest internal communications show staff pushing fake news about Nigel Farage
All that mattered to them was staying in power. They would ride it out.
A nice “wag the dog” war will do to keep the party in power.
I remember hearing that Ustinov was David Niven’s batman.
Can one imagine all those lovely Italian Nonnas serving up lab grown meat?
Tigger and Eeyore strike back!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12669495/Man-arrested-parking-signs-torn-Winnie-Poohs-Acre-Wood-Ashdown-Forest-amid-row-new-charges.html
In memory of my dear father-in law, born 1903 – Bij Ons In De Jordaan
There is a lovely storey about Errol Flynn and the US Navy in the 50’s. Apparently he hated the USN.
The future CO of the submarine Triton was doing his compulsory surface command posting in the Mediterranean Fleet. He sailed into Mallorca for what the Navy insist on calling a goodwill visit.
Next morning Flynn was all over the papers claiming that the USN vessel was speeding and caused significant damage to Flynn’s yacht.
The very professional captain sent his XO to meet with Flynn and review the damage. He was told to FO.
A few nights later the captain took his officers to the yacht club for dinner. Flynn was there thoroughly drunk. He made things so uncomfortable that the captain took his officers back to his ship.
The next morning Flynn was found comprehensively beaten up in the car park.
The ship’s gangway log had no record of any young officers slipping away intent upon administering etiquette lessons to the great star.
Jorge
Oct 25, 2023 6:37 PM
If the yuan is shaky how will that affect the HKD ? I’m guessing not favourably.
Someone linked the other day to a piece suggesting western consternation about the state of the Chinese economy wasn’t shared by Xi and pals. All that mattered to them was staying in power. They would ride it out. Not discussed was whether economic weakness could threaten their places at the table. Even that might not dislodge them.
Hmmmmmmm. Well if there is a lot of unemployment/a property crash/famine in China then watch out. Social unrest will likely topple Xi and his cronies
This morning I caught up with an ex. Like me, like all Jews, he’s shattered by the pogrom of 7 October. It’s funny how terrible events can bring people together. Years ago I vowed never to speak to him again (yes, it was that kind of turbulent relationship). We talked about Israel, but we also spoke about other things, such as family etc. He’s a lawyer, a smart man, and we started talking about politics. He’s in Kylea Stink’s electorate and he said he was shocked at what she did last week. I responded….why are you surprised? She and the other Teals are all vacuous far-left morons. He then reminded me that he only ever watches the ABC and SBS, and he said how disgusted he is with the coverage of the pogrom of 7 October. I told him I don’t have that problem, I subscribe to News Corp, I watch Sky and I generally source my news from other outlets. He looked at me quizzically and I said, yes, yes, I watch “Sky after Dark, and don’t you know, I’m “far-right”. But the corker was when we talked about da Voice. He said legally he wasn’t comfortable with the Voice but voted yes anyway! I told him I voted no and I have no regrets and the referendum result was sweet, very sweet. I asked him why he voted ‘yes’, was it to make himself feel good and he replied ‘yes’, he thought he was doing the right thing, despite misgivings. On hearing this I laughed and I told him that he’s become soft and that perhaps he should listen to me and to the likes of Jacinta Price, someone with real lived experience growing up in remote indigenous and very dysfunctional community.
I told him that his tokenism, his virtue signalling and his feel good lightweight vacuous thinking will do nothing to improve the lives of our indigenous fellow Australians, all it does it make him and his fellow Teal voters feel good!
And yes, he voted for Stink!
In other words, Chinese officials don’t think like Westerners. Their concern is not primarily with economic flourishing, and floating the boat so prosperity is diffused everywhere. Far from it. The Party and its grip on power comes before all that. So the spread of technology into every aspect of existence is not about commerce but control. In the event of war this is both a strength and weakness just as it was for the Nazis.
Pension funds are too big (and attractive) a target for a corrupt, and basically broke, government. They tried once with franking credits. It won’t be the last. Watch this space.
HKD is a currency board with each lot of 7.8 HKD backed by 1 USD. And the HK Central bank can raise the overnight rate to ruinous levels if the HKD is attacked. So its not at risk unless there is greater political instability in China. Most likely there will be more money coming from China if that scenario ever comes about.
Top Ender
Oct 25, 2023 6:46 PM
Tigger and Eeyore strike back!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12669495/Man-arrested-parking-signs-torn-Winnie-Poohs-Acre-Wood-Ashdown-Forest-amid-row-new-charges.html
And this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Pq0h0h-UQ
Geez Cassie,
you certainly dodged a bullet there.
I can’t begin to imagine the cognitive dissonance that leads a person to matter-of-factly state they ONLY watch ABC and SBS. oof!
If any ‘young officers’ were involved there’d have to be an explanation cooked up for how they got their injuries.
& they wouldn’t have had anything as simple as just a shiner or two either.
They may have got Flynn down, however they’d have regretted ever embarking upon such an expedition.
If Flynn was found comprehensively beaten up, there’d have been some real damage done to at least half the blokes it took to do him over.
He’s a lawyer, a smart man,
Oxymoron of the thread!
If Flynn was found comprehensively beaten up, there’d have been some real damage done to at least half the blokes it took to do him over.
Not if he was pissed and ambushed..
What was he going to do, wallop them in the side of the head with his pork sword?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpxgn01rwjE
Well, that’s just it, JR. Will it ? Nobody really knows.
Infighting might do it. But ordinary people are powerless. The Party controls everything they read and see so no resistance ever gets to organise itself in any serious way.
Look at how they humbled the HK dissidents.
Geez Cassie,
you certainly dodged a bullet there.”
I still find him attractive!
LOL.
It still would have been risky.
It was been far from Flynn’s first rodeo.
Flynn relished such situations.
The ambush would have had to put Flynn out with the first king hit from behind.
Otherwise at the least someone would have had injuries that couldn’t be explained by “tripping over a torpedo”
How brave.
Cassie needs to replenish her stock of red pills. I think she’s at risk of running out of them. Nice!
perhaps they could have settled the matter with a pianoforte competition. Flynn was naturally gifted or so I heard.
“I still find him attractive!
LOL.”
Just imagine how many relationships would work if only the bloke stayed shtum. hahahaha. 😀
Off topic I think and not abusive of anyone on here, why would any young person want to enlist in the military of this country when the top brass are right dickheads?
Not approving Calli, anyway Flynn was a cad, bounder and a rotter.
He couldnt have enlisted unless it was as a show and tell for the ravages of dissipated living, loose ladies and venereal diseases.
My mate in the mil reckons it just the top brass. But then, they never have/deserve respect anyway, all the way back to Blamey.
not to mention his piano playing.
Well, that’s it. FlashCat is dead to me.
There’s been a whiff about it for a few weeks now. But the resident Queen Bee has decided she’s “not sure” about the historical aspects of the conflict. Sorry ‘cheeks. If you haven’t worked it out by now, you never will, despite the pseudo-intellectual drift of your comments.
And that’s that. I’ve tried to be loyal in following them, but the dead silence when wishing them a Happy Easter this year should have given me the message.
Sometimes I’m very slow in the uptake.
Sorry. My sorrow made it FlashCat. I meant DashCat.
Flynn’s son by the actress Lily Damita, Sean Flynn, became a journalist. He tragically disappeared in Cambodia in 1970.
Pooh Bear is a bear we can all look up to. The original slacker.
“There’s been a whiff about it for a few weeks now. But the resident Queen Bee has decided she’s “not sure” about the historical aspects of the conflict. Sorry ‘cheeks. If you haven’t worked it out by now, you never will, despite the pseudo-intellectual drift of your comments.”
Geez calli, you lasted longer than me. I stopped going there a few months ago, one of the commenters has a rather unhealthy obsession with Jews.
Oh, Errol! From Tasmania. 🙂
My aunt had a jersey bull called Errol. Well named.
Israel does appear to be trying to avoid hitting non-combatants.
WATCH: IDF uses Iron Sting precision mortars for first time against Hamas
No one notices, they just appreciate that you make the effort to speak the language.
Jorge
Oct 25, 2023 7:03 PM
Social unrest will likely topple Xi and his cronies
Well, that’s just it, JR. Will it ? Nobody really knows.
Infighting might do it. But ordinary people are powerless. The Party controls everything they read and see so no resistance ever gets to organise itself in any serious way.
Look at how they humbled the HK dissidents.
How many people live in HK? And they are mainly employed and well fed.
There are 1.4 Billion on the mainland. Not easy to keep happy when they go hungry and get angry.
There was a whiff months ago when there was a ‘Rothschilds’ post.
And interesting to see who said ‘hear hear ‘ to that one.
I have to add to the South Coast dairy story…
Errol was a young…vigorous bull. Small but active. The old bull, Brutus, was enormous but getting on in years. He preferred the pasture to the herd of prospective concubines.
Jersey cows are rather nice creatures, soft, liquid-eyed and docile. The bulls are particularly horrible. To be avoided at all costs as they will attack at the slightest provocation.
Funny how the animal kingdom works.
Oh my goodness Cassie, you did the right thing there moving on from that bloke !
Mem, I did get just enough of a look at the White House menu on TV to see “Butternut Squash Soup”. This would be a novelty to many Americans, who use squash ( pumpkin) pretty much only in a Halloween sweet pie. Jodie probably knocks up a better version half a dozen times every winter, like I do.
There lies part of the problem, command level officers are today complete eunuchs.
They are not leaders, they are bench warmers.
From my time in there are no longer ant Adrian Cummins, Pete Rawlings or John Collis Birds . All of them were leaders with different leadership styles but fine naval officers.
WAYNE ROOT: Thank you Bobby Kennedy. How RFK Jr. Just Helped Trump Win the 2024 Election.
All these theories about how Trump will win the next election are predicated on the assumption the election will be fair, a forlorn hope after 2020, and that the swamp won’t have Trump in jail and committing suicide by doing a reverse pike with tuck from the top bunk.
I said a bad word.
I agree Calli but that is old news, I’m recalling a particular thread several months ago.
Incidentally the church of Saint Porphyrius only sustained superficial damage.
x thread here shows damage caused by building next door collapsing, apparently
calli
Oct 25, 2023 7:26 PM
Not approving Calli, anyway Flynn was a cad, bounder and a rotter.
Oh, Errol! From Tasmania. ?
My aunt had a jersey bull called Errol. Well named.
My Grandad in England had a rabbit in the rabbit hutch at the end of his back garden and the rabbit was nicknamed Errol as he had Big Ears, or so I was told. Well, big something anyway as we couldn’t really see the undercarriage Too much rabbit fur in the way. Anyway, Errol was always trying to get to the does in the next rabbit hutch.
And then one Sunday lunchtime he appeared as roast rabbit on the dinner table. Along with roast spuds, vegetables and gravy. Errol went down a treat. Along with those does as well. They all got roasted eventually.
If Flynn was found comprehensively beaten up
I won’t have this! Flynn, like Yours Truly, was a Hobart boy.
All these theories about how Trump will win the next election are predicated on the assumption the election will be fair, a forlorn hope after 2020, and that the swamp won’t have Trump in jail and committing suicide by doing a reverse pike with tuck from the top bunk.
LOL. WW3 will be underway towards the end of 2024 and the US Federal Erection will be cancelled. So, Game Over.
Trump will never get to the White House again unfortunately.
NRMA adopts the Spanish solution for their electric car charging points
(h/t 2FreeScott, FB)
I won’t have this! Flynn, like Yours Truly, was a Hobart boy.
And he loved the map of Tasmania on all those Women.
Cassie of Sydney
Oct 25, 2023 7:25 PM
“There’s been a whiff about it for a few weeks now. But the resident Queen Bee has decided she’s “not sure” about the historical aspects of the conflict. Sorry ‘cheeks. If you haven’t worked it out by now, you never will, despite the pseudo-intellectual drift of your comments.”
I know exactly whom you mean, was there about a week ago by clicking on the wrong cat link.
I was going to mention those post here, but wasn’t sure if it was a quote only and or opinion, so I let it go.
Not a lot of traffic there anyway.
It’s Whoa, Errol not Oh, Errol.
Errol – Australian Crawl (1981)
Spike Milligan was a gunner in North Africa.
He wrote a book about his experiences, titled ‘Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall’ which I read as a teenager and thought hugely funny.
Some of the ladies may have been a little young for cartography.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202376989
I have a close family member who boasts unashamedly of ONLY ever watching/listening to the ABfnC – and it shows
It’s not just the Empress of DashCat.
Over the past fortnight there have been a few commentors, of whom I once mildly rated, who have been insistent about ‘yeah but the Jews have’ and also been reliant of Al-Jaz for their information.
Disappointing.
Young ladies and yachts are rarely a good idea.
mole at 7.01:
His decaying, monstrously syphilitic pork sword?
It’d be like getting swiped with a 4×2 completely eaten by termites and stuck together with the exterior paint.
Don Adams (Agent 86) was in the Battle of Guadalcanal in WWII.
Jason Robards was on the USS Northampton when it was torpedoed and sunk. Spent the night in the water.
Charles Durning, who I recently watched again in the Final Countdown was in one of the first waves of men on D-Day at Omaha Beach. That piece of bravery is difficult to top.
It’s hard to imagine today’s stars getting anywhere near that sort of bravery.
Thanks for reminding me of Bull Jersey’s, calli. Primary school mate lived on a dairy farm. To show how brave or stupid we were was to run across the bulls paddock. The cartoons with feet not touching the ground says it all.
Onwards to Victory!
Farmers have declared war on Anthony Albanese’s “active pursuit of a niche ideological agenda”, launching a major campaign attacking a raft of Labor policies they warn are shaving billions of dollars off the economy.
The National Farmers Federation will on Thursday roll out a multimedia campaign calling on federal parliamentarians to block key components of the Albanese government’s legislative agenda, including industrial relations, water and environmental reforms.
The campaign – titled Keep Farmers Farming – will also push the government to abandon plans to ban live sheep exports to the Middle East, establish a dedicated visa pathway for agriculture workers and implement a mandatory code of conduct for transmission projects to ensure they do not destroy prime agricultural land.
Oz
Does anybody else find this hilarious?
Pogria, 7.18:
Dunno Pogria.
There’s a reason why some blokes come home from work and say:
[bland, generic statement about how nice it is being home from work]
And are then compelled to follow up with:
‘Before you start……’
Spike Milligan was a gunner in North Africa.
He wrote a book about his experiences, titled ‘Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall’ which I read as a teenager and thought hugely funny.
And this is Harry Secombe explaining on how NOT to win a War with Spike Milligan –
https://www.google.com/search?q=spike+millifan+and+harry+secombe+and+the+gun+going+over+the+cliff&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU906AU906&oq=spike+millifan+and+harry+secombe+and+the+gun+going+over+the+cliff&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTQzOTIyajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f01d5df6,vid:ywJxACgNI8s,st:0
hmm, I have a business partner the same
Z2Ka
Interesting, particularly in light of this denial earlier.
https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/08/abc-defends-four-corners-crew-attending-protest.html
Rowland said the ABC had confirmed a television crew was present to film the protest for an upcoming documentary, but they had “no knowledge of the nature of the behaviour that would occur”.
ABC confirmed a Four Corners team attended the protest action to gather material for a potential report later this year.
“Just prior to the action the team received a tip to go to an address, they had no knowledge what was at the address or that it was someone’s house,” ABC said in a statement.
“They had no knowledge of what action was going to occur there. When they arrived the police were already in attendance, in numbers.
“The ABC team remained on public land observing what was happening and getting some vision, as journalists do.
“They at no time went on to private property or had any involvement in what was happening. The ABC team in no way colluded with the activists.”
Im betting some of the MOUs and text messages between the swampies and the ABCcess would be interesting reading.
Not many people know that.
🙂
Wow, media now ignoring illegal immigration:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/illegal-centrelink-seeker-boat-intercepted-queue-jumpers-sent-to-nauru-for-first-time-in-9-years.html
Guess Reilly’s how can we help to Gillard is a nudge and wink now.
Sheep that were fetching between $100 to $150 a head this time last year, are now fetching less then FIVE DOLLARS a head!
The usual suspects:
I’ve just seen pics of a ‘Freedom for Palestine’ rally in London.
All of the placards, smartly printed in Palestinian colours with the slogan in English & Arabic, are labelled ‘Socialist Worker’.
Trots.
Five or six books, I’d have to look them all up. I have them all somewhere. Superb and wonderful and hilarious. He got PTSD and had to stop sadly. Woy Woy’s biggest asset.
Sheep that were fetching between $100 to $150 a head this time last year, are now fetching less then FIVE DOLLARS a head!
Non, no N), the premier of WA has been on the news and informed you there is no link between the ban and sheep prices.
None whatsoever.
Its probably the looming threat of climate change.
You are spreading disinformation and will now be banned.
https://www.sheepcentral.com/sheep-export-ban-will-cause-irreversible-harm-23-farm-groups-tell-pm/
Premier Roger Cook responded by saying it was “complete and utter nonsense” to link falling sheep prices today with a ban which “may or may not” occur until 2027 or 2028.
There were no current restrictions on the export of live sheep, he said, adding that the decline in sheep prices started “well before” the federal government’s announcement on live sheep exports.
“In 2016 the price was 201c a kilo. It then went up to 419c a kilo in 2018, and it is now down to 241c a kilo in 2023,” the Premier said.
“We understand that there will continue to be fluctuations in the price, and we understand that that will continue to have an impact on farmers.”
its like the mafia telling you they will break your legs in 3 days time, and pointing to your sudden lack of training as being the cause of dropping out of the race planned for 2 weeks time.
Real Deal
Oct 25, 2023 8:04 PM
Don Adams (Agent 86) was in the Battle of Guadalcanal in WWII.
Jason Robards was on the USS Northampton when it was torpedoed and sunk. Spent the night in the water.
Charles Durning, who I recently watched again in the Final Countdown was in one of the first waves of men on D-Day at Omaha Beach. That piece of bravery is difficult to top.
It’s hard to imagine today’s stars getting anywhere near that sort of bravery.
And “Phil the Greek”, the previous Duke of Edinburgh was serving on a Royal Navy Destroyer in the Mediterranean in WW2. The Queen herself was an Ambulance Driver in WW2 and could fix and maintain the engines.
Michael Caine went to Korea with marked Leftist sympathies. He returned a rabid anti Communist.
“You can count on Errol Flynn, he’ll always let you down.” – David Niven
They probably provided the Palestinian flags too.
WA Liars clearly missing celebrated (inebriated?) Minister for Agriculture Alannah MacTiernan.
Richard Todd (best known for playing Guy Gibson, VC in ‘The Dam Busters’) parachuted into Normandy with the British Airborne.
Ironically ended up portraying a fellow Officer in ‘The Longest Day’, whom he fought alongside in Caen on D-Day.
He was re-deployed to Palestine after VE Day.
He was “Mentioned in Dispatches” for his service in the Mediterranean – he was also alleged to have been “booted up the clacker” by a New South Wales police officer – the legendary “Bumper Farrell” – while urinating in a Kings Cross alleyway. He was on leave in Sydney, from the British Pacific Fleet.
Good to see you back, Mater!
Mater!
And this is Harry Secombe explaining on how NOT to win a War with Spike Milligan –
I* will try this again –
https://www.google.com/search?q=spike+millifan+and+harry+secombe+and+the+gun+going+over+the+cliff&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBAU906AU906&oq=spike+millifan+and+harry+secombe+and+the+gun+going+over+the+cliff&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTQzOTIyajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f01d5df6,vid:ywJxACgNI8s,st:0
Mater! 😀
“I told him that his tokenism, his virtue signalling and his feel good lightweight vacuous thinking will do nothing to improve the lives of our indigenous fellow Australians, all it does it make him and his fellow Teal voters feel good! ”
This intellectual laziness and denial of their own misgivings is the real reason why the inner city Yes electorates voted as they did. Surely hearing the PM say he hadn’t read a core manifesto should have set alarms ringing!
And for a third time, this is Hairy Secombe explaining on how NOT to win a War with Spike Milligan –
https://youtu.be/ywJxACgNI8s
I can’t begin to say how much you’ve been missed you horrid creature. I hope all is well with you and yours.
Greg Gutfeld is the best current social commentator; his comments about Israel, the pro-Hamas dogs and their stupid young supporters in the West are nonpareil; always brilliantly insightful, passionate and witty.
Mater!
Marvellous!
I’m great, Calli, but not likely here to stay. Just doing a flyby to see the renovations.
I don’t like the feature walls, but I looooooove the uptick/downtick facility! 😉
Surely hearing the PM say he hadn’t read a core manifesto should have set alarms ringing!
YES, but when no one is listening what is the point of a VOICE?
This intellectual laziness and denial of their own misgivings is the real reason why the inner city Yes electorates voted as they did.”
Yep.
I believe Niven and Ustinov were to collaborate on a war propaganda film and as Ustinov was enlisted and Niven an officer, they had to appoint Peter to be David’s batman.
Otherwise they couldn’t have stayed in the same accommodation!
Sorry to hear about your illness, Miltonf. The mini village attraction at the Clog Barn is very well done, if a tad kitschy. It represents one man’s life’s work, so that, IMO, makes it worth a visit.
All good. Life has its highways and detours. Provided we check in every so often at the toll booth.
Fortunately this one’s FOC. 🙂
I think a quote I read in a book last week, sums it (and a lot of other issues) up nicely:
“And like so many poor people, she had only contempt for Socialism in any of its various forms. For it is only the rich and guilty that can afford the subtle delights of egalitarian philosophies.”
Ken Deighton 1984
Sophia Loren has died.
Many years ago I read Peter Ustinov’s autobiography, thought he was in an war time entertainment unit, and in the mix, somehow ended up as one of the first to enter a particular concentration camp.
“Len”? I think I recognise the quote.
You have to be rich to be an avid socialist.
It’s OPM after all.
bloody hell … ghost dog
I would urge all to watch this…
Hamas survivor on pro-Palestinian protests: ‘You people in Britain have a problem’ | Israel-Gaza war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCMU1ZAe_4
Sophia Loren is not as dead as Roger Moore.
Be nice, Matrix, or I’ll downtick you! A mortal blow! 😉
Shit!
Three comments in and already a typo.
Okay Mater…
Here’s one I prepared earlier.
There goes the neighbourhood.
Pah! … if you down-tick me I shall only grow strongerer
Speaking of neighbourhoods….my new neighbour just had an ancient Singer delivered on a flatbed. To be restored. He turned over the engine on delivery. It was like heavy metal, but oddly alluring.
Indolent I think Sophia Loren dying is fake news, no other mention apart from th utube clip which sends alarm bells as there have been lots of reports lately of stars dying. Funny, they never mention Roger.
That is some sewing machine calli.
Don’t say it Rosie. I saw him just recently in a movie.
I don’t like the feature walls
Wait until you see the man-cave.
Any news on the worlds greatest taxpayer funded fantasy…cough, I mean thesis?
GreyRanga
Oct 25, 2023 9:10 PM
She was my fav actress, trying to find a definitive source for the news.
Roger Moore dead.
Right then.
Looks like yet another of the ‘oh well I’ll just put this out there and you can make up your own minds’ tranche of idiocy.
It’s well into the evening, but if someone could buy me a coffee…..
I’ve been noticing complete strangers that will unveil their reliance upon the Guardian to be informed within five minutes of meeting them. Something of a secret handshake about it, they usually seem quite pleased with themselves too for some reason. Probably the sort to bang on about the Murdochracy if you hung around for long enough.
Next up:
Replicating metals.
Four foot copper wires mysteriously grown in corpses examined by a British bloke in a shed.
Disney executives laughing as they’re handcuffed for their role in child tunnel enslavement.
Mater, check that quote- 1984 was Orwell
No, but it’s highly likely it was put on the back burner for the duration of ‘YES’ campaign.
Given the week of mourning, I should imagine that he’ll have only just be getting back to his navel gazing, interspersed with the standard flights of fancy.
I agree, Arks… very pleasing to see mater back, even if only visiting.
Dude!
1984 was the year the book was published.
It was from one of the books from the Bernard Samson series.
‘Mexico Set’ I think.
Yeah Mate….r…. I know
Normally, we don’t travel very far to go out for dinner, as most places we like are usually within walking distance. This evening, we went out into the sticks – Glen Iris. It’s been so long since I’ve been to a place to eat that far out. Anyway, it was a truly beautiful restaurant with a great feel. The food was great, even though I had a pizza. It’s called Gracia and is highly recommended.
I’m glad it isn’t true. Sophia Loren broke her leg in a fall last month so it wasn’t too surprising to see that she had died. What sort of mentality does it take to do something like that.
He was re-deployed to Palestine after VE Day.
My Dad knew Richard Todd did his “nasho’ , same camp, different unit (Durham Light Infantry) him in Palestine, late 1946/early48 …
Erdogan says Hamas not terrorists but ‘mujahideen defending their lands,’ cancels Israel trip
Albanese government will consider whether to establish local and regional voices as part of ‘next steps’
He even goes near this and he’s the first 1 term government since 1931.
Grazia, JC.
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Missouri v. Biden
Our highest court will decide whether the 5th Circuit’s injunction against the government stands in our landmark free speech case.
Trevor Howard apparently lied about his war service.
Okay, same difference 🙂
Trevor Howard apparently lied about his war service as did Brian Denehy