BTW, the ship commandeered is the Zim Luanda.

I see one tangential mention from the Houthis and nothing else. So far they have taken that one ship a week ago and they or the Iranians hit another with a Shaheed drone last night. Nothing else is on the news feeds that I can see.

They had a go at a USS destroyer a few days ago with drones and it was embarrassing. I think the Iranians are acting like they are because they are exquisitely aware that the US has three full carrier groups in easy range. So they’re doing plausible deniability stuff using proxies, but nothing else. Even Biden’s bunch have limits with what they can ignore.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Nov 26, 2023 10:58 AM

The bunker may survive this if it is deep enough, but you’ll have to ask the geotechnical guys how deep that would have to be, rock and soil dependent of course. Until teleportation is invented every bunker has to have an entrance. Easier to cave-in the entrances than actually hit the bunker itself.

Doesn’t seem like much yield at the point of impact, but I’d be thinking of the heat pulse doing more damage than just 110 tons of TNT. I’d imagine the area around the strike being melted into a plug that would have to be dug around if it didn’t melt the target.

and we know what happens in unapproved candidates who may decide to run for office.

‘I’ll fight for you’: Lidia Thorpe blames ‘colonial system’ for ‘genocide’ in Gaza

It seems like only yesterday Dubya was declaring “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists.” I can report this ultimatum is much easier to decide today than it was 22 years ago. Senator Thorpe has flunked.

Robert Sewell
Nov 26, 2023 6:24 PM
Colonel Crispin Berka
Nov 26, 2023 10:58 AM

The bunker may survive this if it is deep enough, but you’ll have to ask the geotechnical guys how deep that would have to be, rock and soil dependent of course. Until teleportation is invented every bunker has to have an entrance. Easier to cave-in the entrances than actually hit the bunker itself.

Doesn’t seem like much yield at the point of impact, but I’d be thinking of the heat pulse doing more damage than just 110 tons of TNT. I’d imagine the area around the strike being melted into a plug that would have to be dug around if it didn’t melt the target.

A Grand Slam, ten tons including a heavy casing, could produce a quite large subterranean cavern, which usually collapsed in on itself.

For the girls.

These morons should study Modern History.
Uh hu, Professor Rotten.
It was the UN that approved the commencement of the State of Israel and the borders.
Correctimundo. And that’s as far as it went.
Israel took the U.N. Borders to be a starting point for expansion, not a fait accompli.
The Arabs have then started all the wars ever since.
Apart from the 1956 Suez Invasion, starring France, Great Britain & Israel, the 1967
6 Day War, where Israel Annexed Gaza, part of Egypt, which had never even been part of Historical Israel going back 3,300 years, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem, part of Jordan.
Then there was the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which didn’t go so well for them, the 2006 Invasion of Lebanon …

She scared the tripe out of me, and I was innocent!

Same for our tourist guide who took us to Masada. She was in the reserves, having done her regular training. You wouldn’t want to cross her.

Women aren’t men and can’t do the full physical stuff men do, especially in combat, and men in combat don’t need to have to worry and get protective about weaker women in the team; ‘Band of Brothers’ as a demo of combat is enough to tell me that. But women can be fighters in other ways, as all serious wars show, as would happen for my two beautiful granddaughters here too if things went belly up, for every fighter counts when it’s serious. Israel seems to have got the right mix of opportunity but not foolishness when it comes to females in the army.

Zatara:

Which should make one ask: “who invited her to speak and why?”

She would have invited herself if no one else had thought of it. Because what she “has to say is so impawtant,” that’s why.

Rosie:
rosie
Nov 26, 2023 1:49 PM

I don’t know Robert, whats your point?
In the background yet more boys too young to shave happily joining in rape, looting, massacre and kidnapping.
With adults who are more than happy to let the kids join in.
But that’s okay.
Islam puts all this in the non sin column, as long as the victims are in the kafir/infidels.

FFS rosie, I couldn’t see what you were getting at, so I bloody well asked. Stop being so confrontational. You get like a frightened mutt some days attacking the first thing that takes your attention.

Cats, if the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today, he’d be gunned down cold by the CIA

He built my hot rod Rabz.

The story is fun. 😀

(I found out last night and today that Cats do not like hard rock let alone thrash. Sigh.)

Cheyanne Mountain is a block of granite. These are not uncommon geological formations. Quick search of the Geology of Iran reveals the central mountainous region has a bit of Jurassic intrusive activity. If you were going to build bunkers that would be the place but drilling and blasting granite is a thankless slow tedious task.

Rest of Iran seems to be sedimentary with some metamorphic and volcanism. Though if deep enough even getting to those would be a stretch.

shatterzzz

Nov 26, 2023 3:55 PM
It was declared a war crime after the war, however a strict reading of the events -at least to me – puts it in the ‘military necessity’ category.

The German unit involved was, in the main, new recruits fresh from training and led by veteran Eastern Front NCOS & officers .. they followed orders learnt from past experience in Russia ……. definitely a “war crime” in the European theatre but accepted practise in the East ……….

I’ll wait until Top Ender comes back from OS and bring the point up – I’ve thought from when I was in the army that the whole thing whilst certainly on the face of it a war crime, the conversation we had here about the Geneva convention and accepting surrender of enemy troops put a different perspective on it – especially the timeline and actions of the troops on both sides.

One of Australia’s “leading medical bloggers” is reportedly on Tik Tok

That’s your problem right there.

Nuffy.

Knuckle Dragger
Nov 26, 2023 7:08 PM

Unbelievable.

Just sold a TV without a remote, and without a manual start button for $150. It was all explained in the ad, but someone bought it anyway.

I should feel bad but I don’t.

He might know more about that model than you do.

I once advertised two not-working F&P Smartdrive washing machines on ebay. I asked the winning bidder what he’d do with them. He answered that the main drive motors make excellent electrical generators in mini hydro systems.

Nelson! You sold your washing machines to a drug lord. Shame.

Is that what happened to them?

All I know is I was ahead over sending them for hard rubbish.

I’ll defer to your expertise, Calli. 😀

Nelson! You sold your washing machines to a drug lord.

That’s the good thing about Australian currency, you can wash it.

Money (1973)

Should we use the phrase “settler colonies” to describe the spread of Islam and Arabs across North Africa and the Levant?

We are all ‘settlers’ depending on the timeframe and group selected. So it probably comes down to the improvements made and power taken by the ‘settlers’ in the timeframe in question. The winner takes it all …

Saw Napoleon.

Wolf’s review a good summary.

I think as others have said it is very difficult to tell Napoleon’s story in one movie. Not enough time. The relationship with Josephine was more than I would have liked. I would prefer more of the inter nation politics and campaigns and battles.

However Napoleon and Josephine is one of the famous pairings of history. I dont claim to know the details of their relationship but perhaps the producers were paying more attention to that story line to make it more of a love story to appeal to the female audience.

As with many historical movies there are a number of issues that can be cherry picked for accuracy. One is the first scene that depicts Napoleon being present when Marie Antoinette was guillotined. A historian says he was not there. Who cares ? The guillotine is the iconic image of the French Revolution. As I write there is a Daily Mail article about the ages of the actors in relation to Nap and Joe (in real life she was older than Nap but Pheonix is older than actress Kirby). This in my mind is petty nittpicking for the sake of it and for writing review articles.

The Austerlitz and Waterloo battles were well done but would have liked some more action in Egypt. As Wolf mentioned the natural light was an issue. It did not give us the opportunity to really enjoy the many great uniforms.

Whilst there were obviously some issues in relation to accuracy there was one that was glaring to me. That was having Napoleon leading cavalry charges at Borodino and Waterloo. Not needed. No problem with him in action as a Captain at Toulon but not during those major battles involving tens of thousands on both sides.

I was supposed to watch the movie with wife and son and his girlfriend today. However wife had to travel and was delayed for 2 weeks from today. They dont know I have had a sneak peak. So the question is do I say seen it and not recommended or remain quiet and watch it with them again. Overall I think they will enjoy it so I will keep quiet and watch it again.

I think the movie has to be looked at from the aspect of somebody with limited knowledge of Napoleon and that 20 years span. I would think the majority would not know much of the history and as a result might enjoy it more than those who know a bit more.

As with most historical / war movies I always want them to do well as this ensures more will be made.

I guess the critics will also have fun with a planned Netflix movie featuring Denzel Washington as Hannibal (the Carthaginian, not the cannibal).

Hopefully Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk and Oppenheimer) still has a few historical and war type movies in the future.

Just my thoughts.

Within three months:

Milei will have been murdered.

Wilders will have been driven from parliament in an EU sponsored coup.

Orban will have been jailed.

Van Nuys Boulevard 1972

good ol’ fashioned romance

Beck, of course. He’s good value.

No I didn’t have to look the lyrics up either… 😀

Debra (2001)

Should we use the phrase “settler colonies” to describe the spread of Islam and Arabs across North Africa and the Levant?

And Spain; though they were finally booted out of there in the 15th century.

BJ, if you believe the left, Muslims were never ever colonisers or slave-traders/users, but only victims of terrible Europeans and Jews.

John Williams playing Albeniz in the Alcázar of Seville

Rock guitarist John Williams.

Same guy. 😀

Seriously good stuff those guys did. Saw them at the Opera House once.

There is only one John Williams

John Williams – Spanish Guitar is some of his best. A perfect recipe for relaxation is to take your favourite bit of booze and lie down with no distractions apart from this album.

Cordoba is just an amazing piece of music

Our culture, at its best.

Latest Dash cams Australia is up!

another 13 Israelis and seven foreign national hostages tonight.
I wonder which kibbutz the next lot will come from.

My brother researched Holocaust train lists to Auschwitz at Yad Vashem, from villages on the border of Slovakia and Poland, and I wondered whether families and villiage neigbours were held together for a last possible comfort. The lists show they were, except there were none below age 12 or over 60 were somehow lost while being marched across snow covered mountans to the railhead at Trstena. My father’s mother would have been comforted, accompanied by her eldest daughter, and the knowledge her other children were safe in Palestine and Australia.
Did Hamas keep kibbutz and moshav members together? Did they mimic the record keeping of their fellow Nazis. There are associations in these news items that resound with that other period.

Blockquote fail, only the final para is mine.

Newspoll bombshell: 50-50.

$60 at Jaycar solves all the issues with your TV, KD.

I solved the issues by selling it to a couple of chicks and bloke for $150 today, which I then converted into $550 at an establishment near to me.

$150 in front, taking into account what I paid for the TV in the first place two years ago.

Still forked out $600 for a new one yesterday, but there you go.

Who was the American Civil War General, who said that cavalry were of no use, except for torturing invalids to get their gold?

Heh, sounds like McClellan. I don’t actually know, but certainly not Morgan or Sheridan.

Don’t let a hot crazy 10/10 near musical instruments.

The Presets – Talk Like That (2007)

But we all know that the leftards only use language as a weapon, time for us to do the same. By the standards that leftards apply to Australia, the Muslim/Arab conquest of North Africa and the Levant was “settler colonialism”. Call it that and force the leftards to prove it wasn’t. (Hint: They can’t prove that.)

Good point, BJ.
And their conquests were vastly more brutal than what happened in Australia.
In India alone they killed an estimated 80 million.
American historian Will Durant wrote that “The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.”

Seems like it wasn’t worth the whinge, then….

Unless that last bit was just copium, but you’re an honorable man who would jever do that.

Yrs,
Marcus Antonius Creticus

Stuck watching the Mushroom Records circle jerk, but arguably the Melbourne communal jizz is worse. Who gives a flying fuck about Melbourne who doesn’t live there?

Some great performances, but too much verbal masturbation for my liking. Yuck.

You gotta hand it to Taylor Swift. Her US tour had an impact on US GDP – $4.3 billion in takings.

And every bloke has a mathematical chance of rooting her. Delusions pay.

You shouldn’t be because historically I think there’s just one case where it was a one term government. However, this could very well be the next off the rank.

The recent trend has been to kill their own. Hawke/Keating, Rudd/Gillard, Abbot/Turnbull.

The daggers will be out again. It’s pretty much a reflection that “the party” runs the Government, not the leader you voted for. Joe Biden is in charge of fuck all, and neither is Albo.