Hamas fighters (I am not going to call these animals ‘soldiers’ for they know no rules of war).

“Cowards” works for me.

“bespoke
Nov 16, 2023 3:04 PM
MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle Says a 45-Year-Old Couldn’t Do What Biden Does Every Day”

Quite correct, the average 45 year old would be bored spotless sitting around all day, eating ice cream.

“The hotel had a strict no-Blacks policy, but allowed McDaniel in as a favour. The discrimination continued after the award ceremony as well, her white co-stars went to a “no-Blacks” club, where McDaniel was also denied entry. None of the Black cast members was allowed to attend the premiere for the film.”

What is the source?

Classic BBC/ABC line.
“The IDF claim xxx and we have some damning footage, but we can’t conclude anything until Hamas confirm in a stat Dec.”

First they are going with the “its no biggy” defense designed to downplay.

KEY EVENT
IDF footage of what it says is Hamas weaponry ‘pretty thin’: ABC’s global affairs editor

1h ago
By Tessa Flemming

Israel Defense Forces have shared a seven-minute video, which they say shows Hamas weaponry found inside Al-Shifa hospital.

But ABC’s global affairs editor John Lyons says the clip has left some wondering if this is all Israel has to show for its “weapons of mass destruction moment”.

“When you see the video, you realise it’s pretty thin,” he says.

“They talk about this security camera covered with tape, a couple of laptops that they have found, it looks like two or three AK-47 guns.

“They say that they’ve found a backpack that has some grenades in it.

“They found a laptop which appears to have very important intelligence. And then another computer, which the IDF spokesman says, already provides a lot of incriminating evidence.

“Now that’s very quick to find that computer and decide it’s incriminating evidence.

“They have not found what the United States and Israel’s been insisting for weeks is the reason that hospitals were legitimate targets.

“They have not found that network of tunnels that they said was being used as a command and control centre.”

Lyons says Israel could face “some serious questions” now, adding more video footage may be provided later.

About what you would expect really.

Did Luigi’s dad have a rep for spraying it around the place?

The USA and the Land of the Free? Even then the USA did not follow it’s own Constitution just like OZ now.

It has always been aspirational not a statement of fact.

I’m thinking of a Clockwork Orange-like forced movie watching for ABC staff of the worst IDF videos.

Moments before this post was made…

Workers of Australia, let us celebrate the strongest wages growth in over a decade
Greg Jericho
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2023/nov/16/australia-wage-growth-record-decade-why

Diogenes
Nov 16, 2023 3:53 PM

You’re just trying to depress me.

Nazi apologists got some longish sentences at the end of WW2, the French and Norwegians also executed a few. I presume they met an uncomfortable end in the USSR.

What will be the fate of the baby beheaders apologists?

This will be an historical measure of our how far the west has fallen.

It is probably more like one or two servers, or 15-20 laptops and a bunch of phones.
Would all fit in a couple of suitcases.

A couple of whiteboards and a dozen physical phones connected by copper wire. possibly a mobile using encrypted messaging via a crypto chain if they need international connections. Multiple locations connected by runners, flags and mirrors would be enough to survive the expected attacks by IDF.

A C&C centre doesn’t need much to function and never assume the enemy has failed to learn from previous or ongoing conflicts.

I haven’t read or heard Delingpole for yonks. Someone on Blair’s blog (pre-paywall) used to link to his stuff. He was on point and very entertaining.

Down the rabbit holes now? Might have to tune in.

Boris Johnson allies launch new petition to demand UK quit ECHR and pressure Rishi Sunak

Um yeah that isn’t how it works. They are well past too little, too late – the game is over. The globalists are fully back in charge now and there are no more moves that can be made against them. Henceforth, there is no pressure Boris Johnson’s allies can exert on Rishi Sunak (not that most of Boris Johnson’s allies aren’t globalists in their own ways). Anyway, they had their chance in the driver’s seat. Why didn’t they quit the ECHR then? Furthermore, why didn’t they roll back the Blair-era constitutional reforms? At best they are utterly useless – more likely they are controlled opposition and hence malevolent.

It’s long been time the Tories went the way of the Whigs, but the rare conditions that would allow a new or minor party to grow and eclipse one of the majors are now starting to coalesce.

Famed columnist Taki is fighting a sexual assault conviction from years back, and is also missing.

My fave columnist from the UK Spectator back in the day was Jeffrey Bernard. Super witty/funny camp alcoholic. He was “Low Life” Taki was “High Life”.

Don’t get me started again, you fraud and liar.

lol. Normal transmission has resumed.

*reaches for off switch*
*click*

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Nov 16, 2023 11:00 AM

Meanwhile, the feral valkyrie of hate who constructs and furthers this stuff, relying like Hamas on her brain-dead acolytes to continue firing, and after having had an unsuccessful but brutally-intentioned swipe at Cassie, sits like a vulture on a tree digesting the chaos she sows here and ever hungry for more.

She’ll be back. I’ll try to ignore her.

*sigh* (that’s it, isn’t it, Bespoke?)

Apparently, that’s me.

Sad.

These were the people that pointed the big finger at South Africa, over the policy of apartheid?

Zulu, It was to do with bringing down a trade competitor then humanitarian.

“Jeffery Bernard Is Unwell.

Yeah times when he was too pissed to write, Spectator would put that in.

Ironic!

I remember reading an obituary for Jeffrey Bernard. Something about having to catch him between his third and sixth vodka, if you wanted any sense out of the bloke.

Reminds me of a tech project in the past with almost permanently p**ed CEO. He was no good in the morning before he started drinking – hands too shaky to sign my invoices.

Between the 3rd and 6th drinks he resumed normal service and my task was usually to find the CEO in one of several bars while he was capable of scrawl his sig in readable form.

Things they don’t teach you in business school.

This is how to really give someone deserving of it a hard time.
Cate Blanchett, From the Mocker.

The next Oscars will not be held until March 2024, but already I am calling it. Blanch, the eponymously named mockumentary starring Cate Blanchett as herself in the role of a haughty and sanctimonious UN ambassador, will win best picture. So magnificent is this film that Blanchett will likely take out the awards for best actress, director and screenplay.

I confess that only now have I come to appreciate Blanchett’s artistic genius. In my ignorance, I had long thought she was overrated. The only thing I will say in my defence is that she has had her share of shockers, particularly her performance in the 2008 film Happy Little Vainglorious, based on the Rudd government’s 2020 Summit [of 2008]. Undoubtedly, she too cringes when reminded of her line: “It’s a beginning, I believe really strongly, of a long and meaningful relationship between artists and the government, not as an adjunct to, but as a fundamental aspect of, society.”

Bad as that was, her performance just three years later as “Carbon Cate’’ [in advertising promoting the Labor carbon price] was far worse. “Finally doing something about climate change,” she proclaimed in a comically implausible line purporting this could be achieved by a tax. Her lashing out at the critics with statements such as “There is a societal cost of increased pollution and that’s what I’m passionate about as a mother” and “I can’t look my children in the face if I’m not trying to do something in my small way and to urge other people’’ only compounded the ridicule. Few were surprised when Gillard Productions went under just two years later.

But her latest project has turned all that around. Blanchett’s expansion into the roles of director and screenwriter has given her full artistic control. Blanch is the culmination of those talents. Combining the themes of elitist hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and the fallacy of celebrity omniscience, Blanchett delivers a cinematic masterpiece. (To avoid confusion I will refer to the film’s protagonist and director as Cate and Blanchett respectively).

Blanch is the story of Cate, an actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador whose sense of self-importance ideally complements both roles. The opening scene features her arrival in Brussels, Belgium. The occasion is her address to the European parliament, its members eager to hear from their distinguished guest. You know, birds of a feather and all that.

The subject of her speech is the plight of refugees. As befitting a luminary who wants the world to know she empathises with the downtrodden and the disempowered, she does not take her seat until a gloved footman manoeuvres the chair for her. Then begins her address. Effortlessly regurgitating platitudes as she talks of displaced persons, she urges EU members to “focus on their protection and not on fortifying borders”.

This is the point where viewers will marvel at Blanchett’s directorial and authorial abilities as she perfects the art of self-parody. Think of Ricky Gervais’s The Office but imagine an outpouring that is tenfold more excruciating. “Complex situations,” this exceptionally insightful popinjay tells the audience, “require complex solutions”. Furthermore, they “require dialogue”.

In Cate’s world there are no opportunistic economic migrants, only refugees. “They want to return home to their people, their land,” she assures us. To insist otherwise is to subscribe to a “dangerous myth”. For good measure she quotes the poetry of Warsan Shire. “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark,” she declares. Who knew they long to touch the green, green grass of home.?

She also asks that decision-makers spare a thought for the “young men so often demonised in the media”. Young men, like the murderers, domestic violence offenders, rapists and paedophiles among the 81 immigration detainees released in the community this week courtesy of the High Court. We can only hope that the millions we are likely to pay them in compensation mitigates the “shame and regret” that Cate feels for Australia’s border-protection policies.

So considerate is she that she frets even for Australia’s immigration detention officials, warning of the “psychological damage to those guarding” refugees. She has a point. Imagine being landed the job of accompanying a violent Iranian asylum-seeker from Manus to Australia after he botched his DIY penis enlargement operation.

Incidentally, can anyone point me to Cate’s pleas for the mental wellbeing of border-protection personnel, many of whom were traumatised by mass drownings, explosions, and having to retrieve bodies, during the people-smugglers’ golden era of 2008-13? But I digress. In any event the adoring members of the EU parliament would never consider asking their guest such impertinent questions, and Cate departs the building to rapturous applause.

The ending is not a happy one for the protagonist, although it will delight viewers. Reports later emerge that Cate, contrary to her official stance, is very big on fortifying borders, at least when it comes to protecting her personal space. A pesky observer digs up a Daily Mail article from 2022 which reveals the actress paid £1.5 million [currently $2.9m] for an additional property surrounding her mansion in East Sussex, UK. Just one excerpt will suffice: “Importantly for Miss Blanchett’s seclusion, the farmhouse came with close to 100 acres [45ha] of pasture and woodland, and is reached only by a long access lane which now has new gates halfway down.”

Inspired by their champion’s EU speech, asylum seekers descend en masse to chez Cate. Enraged by the intrusion, she rings the local constabulary to demand they evict them, only to be told politely but firmly by a police inspector that refugees too have human rights. In the closing scene, the narrator suggests mockingly that Cate, given her love of poetry, should follow the example of Emma Lazarus’s sonnet The New Colossus. “Repeat after me, Cate,” he says: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

I commend this film to you. Blanchett can now rest easy knowing she finally has the recognition which this country has long denied her. “The worst thing for us as an actor in Australia is getting in the back of the cab and a cabbie asking ‘what do you do’, she said in July. “Because you think, ‘Oh, God.’ You’re constantly having to fight for the space or to justify the fact that you have the right to actually be an artist in Australia.”

Identify as an artist all you want, Ms Blanchett. In our own way, we find your performances most entertaining.

As before, I haven’t scrolled back. Therefore, apology if this has been posted already. Enjoy.

THE MOCKER

Blanch, starring Cate Blanchett as herself, is detaining entertainment on the refugee crisis

2:16PM NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The next Oscars will not be held until March 2024, but already I am calling it. Blanch, the eponymously named mockumentary starring Cate Blanchett as herself in the role of a haughty and sanctimonious UN ambassador, will win best picture. So magnificent is this film that Blanchett will likely take out the awards for best actress, director and screenplay.

I confess that only now have I come to appreciate Blanchett’s artistic genius. In my ignorance, I had long thought she was overrated. The only thing I will say in my defence is that she has had her share of shockers, particularly her performance in the 2008 film Happy Little Vainglorious, based on the Rudd government’s 2020 Summit [of 2008]. Undoubtedly, she too cringes when reminded of her line: “It’s a beginning, I believe really strongly, of a long and meaningful relationship between artists and the government, not as an adjunct to, but as a fundamental aspect of, society.”

Bad as that was, her performance just three years later as “Carbon Cate’’ [in advertising promoting the Labor carbon price] was far worse. “Finally doing something about climate change,” she proclaimed in a comically implausible line purporting this could be achieved by a tax. Her lashing out at the critics with statements such as “There is a societal cost of increased pollution and that’s what I’m passionate about as a mother” and “I can’t look my children in the face if I’m not trying to do something in my small way and to urge other people’’ only compounded the ridicule. Few were surprised when Gillard Productions went under just two years later.

But her latest project has turned all that around. Blanchett’s expansion into the roles of director and screenwriter has given her full artistic control. Blanch is the culmination of those talents. Combining the themes of elitist hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and the fallacy of celebrity omniscience, Blanchett delivers a cinematic masterpiece. (To avoid confusion I will refer to the film’s protagonist and director as Cate and Blanchett respectively).

Blanch is the story of Cate, an actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador whose sense of self-importance ideally complements both roles. The opening scene features her arrival in Brussels, Belgium. The occasion is her address to the European parliament, its members eager to hear from their distinguished guest. You know, birds of a feather and all that.

The subject of her speech is the plight of refugees. As befitting a luminary who wants the world to know she empathises with the downtrodden and the disempowered, she does not take her seat until a gloved footman manoeuvres the chair for her. Then begins her address. Effortlessly regurgitating platitudes as she talks of displaced persons, she urges EU members to “focus on their protection and not on fortifying borders”.

This is the point where viewers will marvel at Blanchett’s directorial and authorial abilities as she perfects the art of self-parody. Think of Ricky Gervais’s The Office but imagine an outpouring that is tenfold more excruciating. “Complex situations,” this exceptionally insightful popinjay tells the audience, “require complex solutions”. Furthermore, they “require dialogue”.

In Cate’s world there are no opportunistic economic migrants, only refugees. “They want to return home to their people, their land,” she assures us. To insist otherwise is to subscribe to a “dangerous myth”. For good measure she quotes the poetry of Warsan Shire. “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark,” she declares. Who knew they long to touch the green, green grass of home.?

She also asks that decision-makers spare a thought for the “young men so often demonised in the media”. Young men, like the murderers, domestic violence offenders, rapists and paedophiles among the 81 immigration detainees released in the community this week courtesy of the High Court. We can only hope that the millions we are likely to pay them in compensation mitigates the “shame and regret” that Cate feels for Australia’s border-protection policies.

(Cate Blanchett tells EU to ‘disregard Australia’s failed’ asylum seeker policies
Actress Cate Blanchett has given advice to European Union leaders telling them to “disregard Australia’s failed and discredited” asylum seeker policies, says Sky News host James Macpherson. Ms Blanchett expressed her shame… for Australia’s immigration policies that led to physical and mental torment. “She’s also the United Nations special …

So considerate is she that she frets even for Australia’s immigration detention officials, warning of the “psychological damage to those guarding” refugees. She has a point. Imagine being landed the job of accompanying a violent Iranian asylum-seeker from Manus to Australia after he botched his DIY penis enlargement operation.

Incidentally, can anyone point me to Cate’s pleas for the mental wellbeing of border-protection personnel, many of whom were traumatised by mass drownings, explosions, and having to retrieve bodies, during the people-smugglers’ golden era of 2008-13? But I digress. In any event the adoring members of the EU parliament would never consider asking their guest such impertinent questions, and Cate departs the building to rapturous applause.

The ending is not a happy one for the protagonist, although it will delight viewers. Reports later emerge that Cate, contrary to her official stance, is very big on fortifying borders, at least when it comes to protecting her personal space. A pesky observer digs up a Daily Mail article from 2022 which reveals the actress paid £1.5 million [currently $2.9m] for an additional property surrounding her mansion in East Sussex, UK. Just one excerpt will suffice: “Importantly for Miss Blanchett’s seclusion, the farmhouse came with close to 100 acres [45ha] of pasture and woodland, and is reached only by a long access lane which now has new gates halfway down.

(‘Should do a little research’: Cate Blanchett ‘throws Australia under the bus’
Sky News host Erin Molan slams Cate Blanchett after the Australian Oscar winner’s plea to politicians to be more humane to refugees, unlike her home country. The actress made the comments in a speech to the European… Parliament on Wednesday local time. Ms Molan said …)

Inspired by their champion’s EU speech, asylum seekers descend en masse to chez Cate. Enraged by the intrusion, she rings the local constabulary to demand they evict them, only to be told politely but firmly by a police inspector that refugees too have human rights. In the closing scene, the narrator suggests mockingly that Cate, given her love of poetry, should follow the example of Emma Lazarus’s sonnet The New Colossus. “Repeat after me, Cate,” he says: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

I commend this film to you. Blanchett can now rest easy knowing she finally has the recognition which this country has long denied her. “The worst thing for us as an actor in Australia is getting in the back of the cab and a cabbie asking ‘what do you do’, she said in July. “Because you think, ‘Oh, God.’ You’re constantly having to fight for the space or to justify the fact that you have the right to actually be an artist in Australia.”

Identify as an artist all you want, Ms Blanchett. In our own way, we find your performances most entertaining.

If Israeli settlements are pushed back from the border a km or so, then a mined and observed “No go” zone can be put in place, under a “Shoot without warning policy.

I guess that works until it doesn’t e.g. on 7/10.

Tony Moclair (3AW) this arvo:

‘The Rolling Stones are about to kick off on their next tour.

It’s called The Antiques Roadshow.

Josh Szeps, who is apparently leaving the ABC, has been said by some to be the best they had.
That’s not a very high bar.

Cate Blanchett

Forward in the queue for a tolchocking, that entitled idiot.

From the Oz – may be the reason why the price of Lagavulin went through the roof.

Noticed at the bottlo yesterday that Bombay Sapphire was $84. Last time I looked it was in the $65 range.

Woodstock cans have gone up to $30.

File this under first world problems.

Robbie Williams performs at Allianz tonight.
For non Sydney Cats, that’s the one next to the SCG.
Storms are forecast.
It’s 2023 & Sydney doesn’t have a footy stadium with a roof.

For the record, I’m not going but am envious of how Melbourne have had one for over 20 years.

Unless you are a young one, why would you pay the amount of money you have to see an outdoor gig.
I know a couple who paid over a gorilla per ticket for Elton John & they got saturated when the storms rolled in.
Madness.

Dr Faustus

Tempting but it’s not premixed in a can.

I have standards.

The Mocker does a beauty on Khate Blandshitt – she with mouth wide enough in which to hold and auction

Blanch, starring Cate Blanchett as herself, is detaining entertainment on the refugee crisis
2:16PM NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The next Oscars will not be held until March 2024, but already I am calling it. Blanch, the eponymously named mockumentary starring Cate Blanchett as herself in the role of a haughty and sanctimonious UN ambassador, will win best picture. So magnificent is this film that Blanchett will likely take out the awards for best actress, director and screenplay.

I confess that only now have I come to appreciate Blanchett’s artistic genius. In my ignorance, I had long thought she was overrated. The only thing I will say in my defence is that she has had her share of shockers, particularly her performance in the 2008 film Happy Little Vainglorious, based on the Rudd government’s 2020 Summit [of 2008]. Undoubtedly, she too cringes when reminded of her line: “It’s a beginning, I believe really strongly, of a long and meaningful relationship between artists and the government, not as an adjunct to, but as a fundamental aspect of, society.”

Bad as that was, her performance just three years later as “Carbon Cate’’ [in advertising promoting the Labor carbon price] was far worse. “Finally doing something about climate change,” she proclaimed in a comically implausible line purporting this could be achieved by a tax. Her lashing out at the critics with statements such as “There is a societal cost of increased pollution and that’s what I’m passionate about as a mother” and “I can’t look my children in the face if I’m not trying to do something in my small way and to urge other people’’ only compounded the ridicule. Few were surprised when Gillard Productions went under just two years later.

But her latest project has turned all that around. Blanchett’s expansion into the roles of director and screenwriter has given her full artistic control. Blanch is the culmination of those talents. Combining the themes of elitist hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and the fallacy of celebrity omniscience, Blanchett delivers a cinematic masterpiece. (To avoid confusion I will refer to the film’s protagonist and director as Cate and Blanchett respectively).

Blanch is the story of Cate, an actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador whose sense of self-importance ideally complements both roles. The opening scene features her arrival in Brussels, Belgium. The occasion is her address to the European parliament, its members eager to hear from their distinguished guest. You know, birds of a feather and all that.

The subject of her speech is the plight of refugees. As befitting a luminary who wants the world to know she empathises with the downtrodden and the disempowered, she does not take her seat until a gloved footman manoeuvres the chair for her. Then begins her address. Effortlessly regurgitating platitudes as she talks of displaced persons, she urges EU members to “focus on their protection and not on fortifying borders”.

This is the point where viewers will marvel at Blanchett’s directorial and authorial abilities as she perfects the art of self-parody. Think of Ricky Gervais’s The Office but imagine an outpouring that is tenfold more excruciating. “Complex situations,” this exceptionally insightful popinjay tells the audience, “require complex solutions”. Furthermore, they “require dialogue”.

In Cate’s world there are no opportunistic economic migrants, only refugees. “They want to return home to their people, their land,” she assures us. To insist otherwise is to subscribe to a “dangerous myth”. For good measure she quotes the poetry of Warsan Shire. “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark,” she declares. Who knew they long to touch the green, green grass of home.?

She also asks that decision-makers spare a thought for the “young men so often demonised in the media”. Young men, like the murderers, domestic violence offenders, rapists and paedophiles among the 81 immigration detainees released in the community this week courtesy of the High Court. We can only hope that the millions we are likely to pay them in compensation mitigates the “shame and regret” that Cate feels for Australia’s border-protection policies.

So considerate is she that she frets even for Australia’s immigration detention officials, warning of the “psychological damage to those guarding” refugees. She has a point. Imagine being landed the job of accompanying a violent Iranian asylum-seeker from Manus to Australia after he botched his DIY penis enlargement operation.

Incidentally, can anyone point me to Cate’s pleas for the mental wellbeing of border-protection personnel, many of whom were traumatised by mass drownings, explosions, and having to retrieve bodies, during the people-smugglers’ golden era of 2008-13? But I digress. In any event the adoring members of the EU parliament would never consider asking their guest such impertinent questions, and Cate departs the building to rapturous applause.

The ending is not a happy one for the protagonist, although it will delight viewers. Reports later emerge that Cate, contrary to her official stance, is very big on fortifying borders, at least when it comes to protecting her personal space. A pesky observer digs up a Daily Mail article from 2022 which reveals the actress paid £1.5 million [currently $2.9m] for an additional property surrounding her mansion in East Sussex, UK. Just one excerpt will suffice: “Importantly for Miss Blanchett’s seclusion, the farmhouse came with close to 100 acres [45ha] of pasture and woodland, and is reached only by a long access lane which now has new gates halfway down.”

Inspired by their champion’s EU speech, asylum seekers descend en masse to chez Cate. Enraged by the intrusion, she rings the local constabulary to demand they evict them, only to be told politely but firmly by a police inspector that refugees too have human rights. In the closing scene, the narrator suggests mockingly that Cate, given her love of poetry, should follow the example of Emma Lazarus’s sonnet The New Colossus. “Repeat after me, Cate,” he says: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

I commend this film to you. Blanchett can now rest easy knowing she finally has the recognition which this country has long denied her. “The worst thing for us as an actor in Australia is getting in the back of the cab and a cabbie asking ‘what do you do’, she said in July. “Because you think, ‘Oh, God.’ You’re constantly having to fight for the space or to justify the fact that you have the right to actually be an artist in Australia.”

Identify as an artist all you want, Ms Blanchett. In our own way, we find your performances most entertaining.

It’s 2023 & Sydney doesn’t have a footy stadium with a roof.

I hate Melbourne, but those mofos are way onto to shit. If I had a choice, I would prefer to live in Sydney.

Yeah Danistan etc, but movers and shakers work around that shit.

ZK2A.

Twas I, all those years ago on Sinc’s Cat, that put you on to Lagavulin when, one day, you asked for a suggestion for a new tipple.

It is my favourite Whisky but now, regrettably, unaffordable at $200 at Uncle Dans. I suspect that new marketing people took over and introduced the 8 year old stuff to generate cash flow.

A pox – no, a double pox – on those who have made our drinking pleasure less enjoyable.

OOps sorry I should have checked upthread I see Lizzie has already posted the Mocker’s mockery of Khate Blandshitt

and Mak — that’ll learn me to check upthread

A modern Metternich.

LOL.

They’re queuing up just for the sight of him.

Double LOL.

Don’t we have a Foreign Minister?
Oh, I forgot.
We can’t let her out. Too embarassment.

alcohol – $100.05 per litre

so the gubmint wants people to buy the cheaper dope, meth etc.

A deviously clever plan!

Speaking of alcohol, all grog is regulated by the Norwegian government and sold at government stores. Very Soviet.

I had a delicious G&T from the local distillers last night. Could I buy a bottle? No way! I have to go the the government bottle-o. It’s taxed at something like 45%.

Someone has to pay for all that “free” public transport, medical and child care.

Minus 8 in Flam this morning. Brisk and rosy cheeks all around. Off to Bergen today, first on the fjord, then bus.

This is a beautiful little town, a jewel caught between mountain and water. Due to the high latitude, we are above the tree line, even though our altitude is relatively low. All the farm animals are in the barns, apart from some very hardy looking goats grazing the hillside opposite our hotel room.

Last six months every buyer was chinks.

Buying up farmland too.

Historic Victorian farm sold in massive $80m deal (Courier Mail, 15 Nov, paywalled)

An iconic Victorian farm spanning 4033ha near Ballan, has been sold for a mammoth sum to to Chinese interests. See the details.

Great way to conquer a country: just buy it.

Minus 8 in Flam this morning.

Sounds like a shit hole. Watch out. The Tatarians live up the somewhere near North Pole. Underground.

Rosie, this very distressing video (warning) dated 9th October was the first one I saw in which the man beheaded with a hoe is identified simply as ‘an Israeli citizen’ and others took up that label in later news too (whether or not correct identification had by then been made). He turned out to be a Thai National. In the fog of war such things happen, and sometimes they are not always corrected till later.

Just wanted to show that I do know what I saw that flowed into later reportage.
I wish I hadn’t seen it.

A modern Metternich.

The Climapalooza in Dubai is in a couple weeks. Betcha he goes. He so loves to save the world.

Anthony Albanese’s brutal eight-word comeback to those calling him out for taking four overseas trips in a month (16 Nov)

– Anthony Albanese heads to US for second time in weeks
– PM slammed for constantly ‘flying around the world’
– READ MORE: ‘Airbus Albo’ jets off overseas once more

Airbus Albo? Haha.

He pointed out coldly that he had received NOT ONE tender of Australian money.

Smart property rights are becoming irrelevant in Australia.

Monis came to Australia and was made a citizen all under little Johnny HoWARd’s watch.

Albo needs some clear air? He’s like a fart in a lift.
More like the diarrhea in the spacesuit of that Apollo 8 (?) astronaut that got a mention here the other day.

Rosie, this very distressing video (warning) dated 9th October was the first one I saw in which the man beheaded with a hoe…

I accidentally saw the early one of the poor broken girl being spat upon by some little shit. After that I’ve made a point of avoiding any potential video of 7/10 victims.

I loathe the fakirs and don’t doubt their boundless hatefulness for an instant. I’m just not going to take their hideous porn around with me in my head for the rest of my life.

Mem – you are correct, but the spellchecker is also.

Examples of ‘salutary’ in a sentence

This sorry tale is a salutary warning of the dangers when politics and business become entangled.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

We hope this was a salutary lesson.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

This has been an awful and salutary lesson for him.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

He beautifully excoriates C*nt Blanchent and her sense of entitlement, superiority, smugness, virtuosity and “let them eat cake” wave of hand.

Yet she got away with promoting her alkaline water and boasted she likes to have it with lemon. That reminded me of a very short lived advertising campaign for a shampoo with amino proteins!

Bruce of Newcastle
Nov 16, 2023 6:57 PM
Mem – you are correct, but the spellchecker is also.
Examples of ‘salutary’ in a sentence

Many thanks Bruce, I’d worked myself in a real knot over it. Yes, a salutary lesson. I’m ok now.

Re the Chinese farms, now I maybe wrong but I’ve heard that the new owners, use ‘guest’ workers from China on Chinese contracts on Chinese wages and conditt, the produce isn’t sold into the local or international market but sent to China, if true the Chinese are essentially running Chinese farms here.
I could be wrong, enlighten me.