Doesn’t exactly inspire trust and confidence. Two tier law enforcement again.
Open Thread – Wed 29 Nov 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
I posted a video from some Brit that you immediately trashed with your usual ad hominem garbageMy first comment, Imagine…
Fuller, owned racehorses he didn’t declare as well. Definite chip off the old armed robbery squad block but still made…
Apologies to the conductor.
Ivo de Boer not Edo de Waart
can someone check my maths!!!….
Australia emits 437,000,000 metric tonnes of CO2, at 2023 levels.
China at 11,470,000,000 and India at 2,700,000,000 at 2030 (projected as 15,500,000,000 in total by 2030 for India/China and Australia 430,000,000 by 2030). They’re not slowing down, but we are?
Source: https://climateactiontracker.org/
So, Australia represents 2.7% of global human emissions. Within the worldwide total of 0.04% CO2 (natural and man-made), in Earth’s atmosphere. Of this, Australian human emissions represent: 0.0000108%.
In light of Blackout Bowen’s ~$60,000,000,000+ “commitment to climate change,” that 7,000 reduction in CO2 in Australia between 2023 and 2030 represents a global CO2 reduction of: 0.00000004516%. LOL!
And the best models the IPCC can give us is “within 1 to 3 degrees of certainty,” let alone 0.00000004516!!!
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
– Thomas Jefferson
Boambee John:
Yes – big gaps. The same from Aspley up further north. it only took 30 odd years for them to fill in.
There are suburbs up north where the gangs I was on put in the water pipes in new areas of 50 to 80 houses. Raw bush, some of them. and the contractors would come in and instant suburb.
Good times, hard work, hot sun.
You mean removing kids for their own welfare’s sake?
You just know that the current mob will be telling themselves that they removed Aboriginal children because they were in danger, but the ealier generation did it because they were racists, without for a moment wondering if there might be parallels more basic than mere numbers. They will need the earlier removists to be raaaaacist.
It does not exist in any law, it does not exist in any constitution, but there is a belief that thrives legal practice because it is everywhere accepted and nowhere challenged, that there is something magical in Aboriginality available to no other race.
Removing an Abroriginal kid from a drunken, violent environment where their health needs are not met is treated as different from removing an non-Abroriginal kid from a drunken, violent environment where their health needs are not met.
But if you asked them to explain why it should be different then you will be inundated with all sorts of guff about ‘stories’ and ‘colonialist trauma’ and ‘spirits’ that have nothing to do with ought to be the meat of law.
If all the legal professionals believed that all the people in the A-K phone book were more honest than those in the L-Z, even though there would get al sorts of perverse judgements that were not viewed as repugnant to the law as it exerted itself in law without being based in law.
It can surely be no accident that the Public Service is enormously populated by people for whom English is a second language and for whom rule-of-law is a novelty that they never encountered in the shit hole they fled.
her? we must be in very capable hands
Auto-corrupt is a bitch.
nothing to do with
ought to bethe meatIf all the legal professionals believed that all the people in the A-K phone book were more honest than those in the L-Z,
even thoughthere wouldgetbe all sorts of perverse judgements that were not viewed as repugnant to the law as it exerted itself in law without being based in law.Yeah, the old cocktail.
A mix of a first mortgage loan and a secured personal loan.
Even though we had qualified for first mortgage by the banks stated criteria and had access to funds for the rest (deposit saved, first home owners grant, back pay, tax refunds etc) they forced us into a cocktail loan.
Trouble is, you couldn’t shop around because you’d have to establish a new 2-3 year savings record with another bank.
“Why not just pay down the Personal Loan when the cash comes through?” I hear you say.
Well, believe it or not, interest on PLs was fixed.
Not a fixed rate.
Fixed Interest.
If you borrowed money on a PL at 10% over two years, you paid the full term interest even if you paid the whole lot back after a month.
Not surprisingly, banks loved them.
We had a first mortgage, second mortgage, personal loan. All at increasing rates of interest.
That enormous interest definitely concentrated the mind to pay it back…fast.
Tuna casserole, chilli con carne, spag bog, fish cakes, rissoles. A chook (frozen) was extra speccie, bacon bought by the rasher, ham by the slice.
And we had a ball! Our big night out was to the Willoughby Legion across the road. Looooxury!
Bruce
It bears repeating to the UN in session, along with a threat to nuke everybody in the room if there is one nuke thrown at Israel and the nations currently being overrun by the Islamic Hordes don’t get their shit together.
Israel is currently being pushed into a corner by a cowardly political class who think they will be first in line for fallout shelters while the peasants take the brunt of their gutlessness.
Lysander, Australian emissions have nothing to do with climate “change” because climate “change” is a fraudulent scientific renaming of natural climate variability — a triumph of propaganda over reality designed to scare impressionable children.
The earth’s temperature has almost nothing to do with CO2, a trace gas that makes up just 0.004% of earth’s atmosphere.
This scientific fraud has been made possible because activists who support the subversion of science are in charge of the education system and most of the news media.
And they are allowed to maintain the fraud because they refuse to debate the scientific “consensus” — a sneaky subterfuge that has replaced proof,
The US Federal Energy Regulator has, today, released a report on NY freezing temperatures, an over-reliance on ruinables and lack of gas. Don’t expect to see this kinda thing reported on Their ABC:
https://www.ferc.gov/media/winter-storm-elliott-report-inquiry-bulk-power-system-operations-during-december-2022
Lots of N-Yorkers could have died. My favourite line is on Page 6:
“The event was the fifth in 11 years in which unplanned cold weather jeopardised grid reliability.”
Or on Page 10:
“Departures (during this period) from normal minimum lows ranged from 40 to 50 degrees lower than normal temperatures.”
I just burst out laughing. On Sky News, NSW Labor MP Andrew Charlton just said Claire O’Neill is “the toughest home affairs minister Australia has ever had”.
This is why the Elbow regime is a radical freak show: fruitcakes like Charlton are being allowed to roam free like a latter-day Whitlam circus.
Bring on the election!
I bloody hope my tax didn’t go towards paying for that chain around Brittna’s neck.
Having a bit of difficulty with my memory at the moment – probably lack of alcohol.
Can anyone remember last El Nino/La Nina when we got lots of rain and the Indonesians had a bit of a drought, the rumour was going around that Australia was cloud seeding here to exacerbate that drought?
IIRC, there was quite a bit of angst between the two countries over the rumour.
Another drive by shooting in “??????? ??????” reported yesterday. Reflexively my mind jumped to the conclusion that is was likely to be in a suburb of a certain ethnic make up. Generally my intuition is accurate around 7-8 out of ten. Correct again, yesterday. Pardon me but I am not convinced of the value of importing people who by virtue of their religious beliefs deny the legitimacy of civil authority.
Jorge
Thinking back on this, I missed the mention of returning to the SW Pacific after Tobruk. The 18th Brigade of the 7th Division was also in Tobruk. The 7th, and the 6th Division, returned to Australia in the first part of 1942, leaving the 9th Division in North Africa until after Alamein.
The 18th Brigade went to Milne Bay, and fought there in August 1942, then moved to the Buna/Sanananda area later in 1942, and fought there until the Japanese were defeated in January 1943. One of the 18th Brigade units, the 2/10th Battalion, was from South Australia.
Another South Australian battalion, the 2/27th, was not in Tobruk, but fought on the Kokoda Trail in the same time period., and later at Gona on the north coast of Papua. It was in the 21st Brigade, also of the 7th Division.
The government is actively importing people who pose a danger to my family.
They are traitors.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/wa-mp-ian-goodenoughs-2024-calendar-is-out-and-insiders-have-been-eager-to-see-each-months-photograph-c-12725847
In her particular case, good luck with that. Firmly planted in a safe Labor seat, held by Labor since1980.
Daily Tele reports:
A Krispy Kreme delivery van containing 10,000 doughnuts stolen in the early hours of the morning remains missing, with police now appealing for information from the public.
The van was en-route to multiple Krispy Kreme locations in the Newcastle area when it was stolen by a woman believed to be in her 30s from a Carlingford service station at about 4am this morning.
Police were told a woman entered the unoccupied vehicle before driving off, and have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Police have said the woman has been described as being of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance in her early 30s, with long hair.
Here’s a dog video worth watching instead of some Great Dane walking along the street. 😀
Hmmm. As many disguises as Sherlock Holmes.
And a substantial portion of the neck itself.
Monty?
Van packed with 10,000 fresh doughnuts on its way to Newcastle shops has been stolen in Sydney (Ncl local news, 29 Nov)
Cohenite:
If Zombies attack, how are we gonna know?
(Needs a “LOL’ to soften the blow.)
Do it again, do it again!
ZeeeMediaOfficial
@zeee_media
“Replacement Migration” is an official UN plan to replace you and destroy your national identity, replacing it with “one world citizen” identity:
Klimate Khange = modern day piracy (sans Keira Knightley).
Haha, snap TE!
That’s the idea, Bruce.
Tee hee.
Curious that the fiance wasn’t in court. Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe Dave’s had enough.
My first thought was ‘It’s the Labor-Liberal Christmas Party,’ but then I realised they were both facing each other.
Who the eff is ‘Old Lizzie’?
Trans Old Ozzie.
🙂
Muddy,
bwahahaha!
You just knew that was going to make an appearance.
So much for deterrence, let alone punishment. Shows how much they care about girls, and women in general.
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
A 15-year-old girl was gang raped in Hamburg, Germany over a period of two and a half hours by several men ages from 19 to 23, most of whom were Muslim refugees.
The trial just finished.
Out of 9 attackers ONLY 1 received a two years and nine months in prison without parole, 8 got from 1 to 2 years of probation.
This is woke justice on steroids.
Did you click through to the actual report?
Another for the ‘believe it or not’ basket –
‘Everybody else sucks’: Black Lives Matter leader endorses Trump for 2024
??? ??? ???? Fleur Hassan-Nahoum
@FleurHassanN
For some reason @SkyNews took down this part of my interview shortly after they shared it. I wonder why ? Thank God for screen recording
Diogenes:
Tuna casserole and savoury mince?
Looxury!
(Just to prove that while we get older, we don’t have to lose our sense of humour. Some days it’s the only thing that keeps us going.)
SHOCK REPORT: Biden Admin Is Spending $451 BILLION a Year to Pay for Illegal Alien and Asylum Seeker Benefits
Do it again Pogria, you were right, there were threefellas.
Woke books bought for huge advances by ‘inexperienced’ editors hired post-George Floyd have FLOPPED, including $500k ‘queer feminist’ novel that’s sold just 3,500 copies and Elliot Page’s $3m transgender memoir
Javier Milei, Argentina’s president-elect, visits revered rabbi’s grave during NYC trip
You know they treat us with utter contempt.
A new spike in respiratory illnesses in China the last week, who the hell knows what is causing it, but what is the mainstream worry? Don’t panic the racist westerners about a possible outbreak from our Chinese friends:
..
Did you get that?
Understand fully the narrative presented.
The bolder bit above, their excuse why you must not worry about more respiratory illnesses coming out of China “in November 2022, the number of people hospitalized with flu in the United States was the highest it had been for that time of year since 2010”. Do you remember anywhere, ANY F*CKINGWHERE, that being reported in our media. Any of them saying “Well, us locking all the kiddies down for two years screwed up their immune systems, sorr6 about that”.
No. But they drag it out when they really, really need an excuse for the Chinese.
Jesus.
If it is some bloody awful novel virus ripping through the joint, expect it here as none of our useless, stupid, venal, corrupt muppets would possibly risk the ire of China by putting any quarantine orders in place until it is yet again completely too damn late.
And if they are right, and the lockdowns have caused a massive rebound in childhood illnesses, with God alone can calculate how many extra deaths, do not expect any apology from them for imposing the most authoritarian and draconian and misguided measures of my lifetime and causing a fully predicable surge in childhood suffering.
Higher Incidence of COVID-19 Found Among Consistent Mask-Wearers: Study
Grey Ranga,
you are very clever. 😀
One world citizens my arse. The UN may plan that way but wherever Islam becomes majority it is their world, not the UN’s “one world”.
It never ceases to amaze me at the unintelligence of the UN officials but then again they all are failed politicians/bureaucrats from their home countries.
Sure.
Official documents. Assessed by a scientitian in a white coat. Released to selected Trusted BloGgers. End of days.
Plus, appeals for coffee.
There are so many ways of using mince to cook with without it tasting the same. My SIL ate boiled mince and mash every night until she was 10yo. Roast on Sunday. Eat anything now.
Connecticut Quietly Drops Plan to Ban Gas-Powered Cars
About That ‘Mysterious’ Pneumonia Outbreak in China…
New: Astonishing Number of Black Voters Would Bail on Biden for Trump, Including BLM Leader
Hamas forced hostage kids to watch videos of Oct. 7 atrocities, family member says
Biden’s Green Energy Push is Gone with the Wind
Mother Load:
Entered into my not very large, but very high quality file of “Quotes That Are Self Evident To Anyone With A Frigging Brain.”
Germany is a conquered country, handed over to the conquerors by Mutti Merkel. That was obvious when we landed at Frankfurt airport a few years ago and tried to pick up our hire car from the Hertz desk. The hijabbed girl on the desk was very rude and offhand, not something that would normally be tolerated anywhere else.
I always knew Monty had to be a fat lesbian, but the long hair and blackface thew me off
cohenite
Nov 29, 2023 5:12 PM
rosie
Nov 29, 2023 4:42 PM
Caroline Glick
Do it Israel! You’ll not lose a friend, nor will a single supporter leave your side. In fact you’ll probably gain supporters who are sick of the appeasers and want the problem of Mohammedan Extremism eradicated.
mUnty, master of disguise.
Pop down the servo for a cheese sausage and a couple of diimmies and hit the jackpot.
Drove through z fairfield a few minutes ago, a rather large building site crane is suffering from a significant case of brewers droop
good to see that the locals are maintaining WoRkPlAcE sAfEtY standards
This is good news, in a perverse kind of way.
In Luigi World 2022, he would have imagined the release of crooks and moving them to Biloela would have been met with universal acclaim and O’Neill would have been the “mostest compassionate Immigration minister evah”.
The fact that they feel the need to talk tough (albeit without actually doing anything) is a small win.
You should have had ABCess radio on this Arvo, a lighearted romp through the jolly days of the lockdown, with obligatory disdainful references to protesters and a celebration of how ” we all pulled together”.
The smart people are just too clever to admit they screwed up by complying with nonsensical largely arbitrary crap for 2 years from mongs who haven’t seen a major project they can deliver for less than 5 times the estimated budget.
Luigi’s Ministry is one of the things keeping him safe. Bristling with talent it ain’t.
Did Monty do blackface? What a hypocrite!
Mother Lode, upthread:
+100
This movie comes to mind.
Maybe he’s tied to the bed with broken ankles.
Or perhaps she just ate him.
A local town wants to establish Mens Shed.
It locates a disused fire brigade shed on Victrac (railway) land
They applied to use the shed
They were knocked back and told not to reapply for 6 months
The local MP was contacted and intervened, speaking to the relevant minister
Finally a lease was offered
Hooray!
Not so fast
The lease that was offered had so many conditions that the project wasn’t viable
It was prepared by Maddocks lawyers
The revenge of the bureaucrat
Meanwhile the local member is offering grants of up to $100,000 to build Mens Sheds
…nor will a single supporter leave your side.
Except for 97.3% of western politicians who would instantly suffer from a simultaneous outbreak of dysentery and cartwheels.
Mother Load:
Enough, Mother Load. Nobody likes an overachiever.
I declare that crane brukken.
I wonder if someone might have exceeded a load rating sometime in the recent past.
O Noes, racist white Aussies are at it again. The following article from dailyfail may shed light on what today’s youngUn’s are now being taught about what is and what is not racist. Or it may just be a sad clickbait effort (in which case it’s a fail, the article has only 3 comments in two days).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12794297/Young-Aussie-left-stunned-racist-remark-old-fart-playing-basketball-No-one-deserves-that.html
Young Aussie left stunned after racist remark from ‘old fart’ while he was playing basketball: ‘No one deserves that’
By ANTOINETTE MILIENOS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 08:00 AEDT, 28 November 2023 | UPDATED: 08:21 AEDT, 28 November 2023
– Young Aussie told racist comment by ‘old white man’
– The 20-year-old was playing basketball outside home
A young Aussie has unleashed at an ‘old white man’ over a racist remark made while he was playing basketball.
Divyan Uthayanan was playing basketball in front of his Melbourne home when he noticed an ‘old white fart’ Australian man walking past.
The 20-year-old, who has Sri Lankan heritage, said he offered the man a friendly ‘hello’.
In a video shared on his social media account, Div explained that the man replied by suggesting he should be playing cricket instead of basketball.
‘So I’m playing basketball, I was playing, and some old white fart passed by,’ Div said.
‘I said “hey” to him, like being friendly. The f***ing c**t was like, “Shouldn’t you be playing cricket?”.
Div explained it was the second time in ‘real life’ that he had experienced racism while living in Australia.
He said the ‘subset of miserable old white Australians needs to be stopped’.
‘F**k you, you racist f**k,’ he declared in his video.
Many Aussies jumped to Div’s defence, calling out the racism online.
‘As a fellow black person, I’m right with you. Racism from white Australians needs to stop,’ one said.
‘I’m sorry this is happening to you. No one deserves that,’ another added.
A third said: ‘That’s Aussies for ya, mate. Give it back to them; most can’t handle it when you get them good.’
—-
(Davey Boy says: I don’t like cricket, oh no. I love it)
As a young child I remember meat being mostly saved for Sundays, during the week it was mostly pastas, potatoes and rice dishes. No wonder I’m not particularly fond of vegetarianism, even less veganism.
Daily Mail.
I can’t now unsee that mental image you just painted Faustus.
As a Journalist, I crave news and want to be at the forefront of its production.
With a Bachelor of Media (Communication and Journalism) degree from The University of New South Wales, I am a digital native with an in-depth knowledge of digital and social platforms.
With excellent communication skills, I learn quickly and think creatively. I work exceptionally under pressure and I thrive in a fast- paced, deadline-driven environment.
I have an extensive portfolio consisting of published work for both print and online outlets.
That offensive marxist sludge republished above is not germalism- it’s agitprop
It is [6] days since anyone called me putrid.
My recovery is progressing.
Aided by visits to a couple of online pilot forums where I found I was not alone in my views about the prang over Port Phillip Bay last Sunday week.
The decision of the pilot of the surviving aircraft to fly a damaged aircraft back to Essendon over built up areas, instead of the shorter trip to Avalon (which is surrounded by paddocks and salt pans) wasn’t met with unanimous acclaim.
It was generally accepted that “someone fuct up”.
That muck in the Daily Fail sounds like incitement to racial hatred but we know hatred of certain races is cool in PC world.
“Indolent
Nov 29, 2023 6:53 PM
Hamas forced hostage kids to watch videos of Oct. 7 atrocities, family member says”
I had read this earlier today on another site. The very first thought that came to mind was the scene from A Clockwork Orange where the guy has his eyes pinned open and is forced to watch violent films.
If Hamarse thought they could have gotten away with it, I’m sure they would have pinned back the hostages eyes also. Filth that they are.
Gosh, that takes me back. I bet he’s a river to his people too.
no kidding Sherlock
Hamas have given Israel tonight’s list and have agreed to two more days, have apparently offered another two after that.
It’s interesting they are still trickling out Thais who are not part of the deal and could have all been released on the first day, must have a little difficulty rounding them up, there is at least one Nepalese and a Tanzanian still not accounted for too.
And of course around eight US citizens they must be saving for later.
I think Hamas for some reason are finding themselves in a position of weakness, maybe feeling let down by their brothers in Lebanon and Iran, maybe the big strong terrorists are terrified of being sealed in tunnels like so many of their comrades.
They might need more levers. Maybe they could advise on immigration numbers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-says-media-outlets-defamed-conservative-economist-orders-them-to-pay-massive-settlement
same 1942 time period …
Did anyone seriously think that the RBA was not going to increase rates just because they got rid of Philip Lowe?
From Davey Boy’s comment above:
to hand over everything they’ve worked to build or maintain, and die quietly but quickly, with no expectation of gratitude, memory, or even a grave.
Indolent
Correction. This is woke INjustice on steroids.
Israel will not lie so blatantly in a negotiation.
What credibility will they have with Hezbollah or Iran or anyone else in the future?
The Masters of lying already claim Jews lie all the time. It’s a constant theme on twitter.
Muslims, just as the Nazis did, pretend that Jews are subhuman so they can do as they wish to them.
Though they didn’t learn that from the Nazis it’s in their ‘holy’ book.
With a Bachelor of Media (Communication and Journalism) degree from The University of New South Wales, I am a digital native with an in-depth knowledge of digital and social platforms.
It’s interesting to cast my mind back to the 80s when I read an interview with one of the foundation engineering professors who was retiring. He was one of the STC lecturers who transferred to the then new University of Technology. He said the biggest mistake UNSW made was to include liberal arts. I agree. Exhibit A- the obscene Wendy Bacon.
With a Bachelor of Media (Communication and Journalism) degree from The University of New South Wales, I am a digital native with an in-depth knowledge of digital and social platforms.
It’s interesting to cast my mind back to the 80s when I read an interview with one of the foundation engineering professors who was retiring. He was one of the STC lecturers who transferred to the then new University of Technology. He said the biggest mistake UNSW made was to include liberal arts. I agree. Exhibit A- the obscene Wendy Bacon.
GreyRanga
I do a mean Beef Mince on toast. Otherwise known by my Sainted Mother as “Shit on a Shingle.” The secret? Butter on the toast. That’s it.
Girls sports need more coaches like this one.
Good to see just about every comment is on his side.
Anyway, I’ve just collected Lex McAulay’s book “In the Ocean’s Dark Embrace” from the post office, so the evening may well be spent reading, and imbibing a couple of large single malts.
Link immigration levels to completed dwellings from prev year and published job adverts from skills list.
Would also be nice if each country had a sliding scale that goes to zero when their cohort in Oz have higher than average jobless rates.
And perhaps ban migrants from living in capital cities unless they pay an infra levy.
Ideas. There are many.
It’s interesting they are still trickling out Thais
Not a word in da media about modern slavery in muslim countries.
Hamasass on twitter claim that many deaths on kibbutz were from tank fire, however the true explanation for the large number incinerated is via hamas blowing up household gas cylinders as per the Guardian article I linked earlier.
hostage statistics at nyt, still 6 children and 8 people over the age of 80 held captive. Possibly current numbers are an undercount by 20.
Wow.
There are so many ways of using mince
Yes, many good ones. A favourite of mine is the “dry spicy mince” approach, which means frying and browning the mince (beef and pork from Coles will do) and then add dashes of whatever sauces you like. For me this might be a dash each of Oyster Sauce, Hoisin, Soy, Nando’s Hot Peri Peri, and whatever herbs and spices – such as Five Spice, Paprika, Pepper, you are enthused by. The trick is not to make it sloppy, just like mince but flavoured.
I use mince to make birds.
Have two female koels come by the Cafe this season, one very tame and one more cautious – she’s been learning rapidly though, and is getting pretty good. They covet meat balls. Which since they mostly eat fruit I think they think are like fruit, only meatier. The birds and the flying foxes have nearly stripped the nearby fig trees now, so fruity meat balls are the current vibe.
Today there was a nice thunderstorm. Afterwards the currawongs turned up looking like wet featherdusters, with enormously dilated eyes. Obviously unhappy with the ghastly thing called rain and hail. It was funny, although I had to feel for the poor things. I gave them mince and they felt better.
When the push for “Yartz” subjects to be compulsory for engineer, science, etc students, on reason offered was that they needed to learn about wider society.
The idea that those students had families, and lived in “wider society” never entered the heads of the “Yartz” pushers. It weas all just a push for jobs and an opportunity to proselytise.
calli
Nov 29, 2023 6:32 PM
Trans Old Ozzie.
calli,
Pure Male Hetrosexual – Pure MCP
A little reminder of what the refuseniks went through when they demanded their rights over the COVID shots, and the majority reply.
We haven’t forgotten.
The idea that those students had families, and lived in “wider society” never entered the heads of the “Yartz” pushers. It weas all just a push for jobs and an opportunity to proselytise.
yes ‘General Studies’. Eventually this vermin took over the place. Niland becoming VC was probably the coup de grace.
Was that Juan Peron?
Great news.
Check ya link.
MiltonF:
A bit of a giveaway there, Milton.
News is reported. It’s not produced.
Lex McAuley’s book makes the claim that Emu beer was so unpopular, it could not be given away, and, when the Australians withdrew, pallets of Emu were buried at Vung Tau and Nui Dat…
News is reported. It’s not produced.
correct- not a Journalist but an agitator.
Noticed there was a Marty gas release earlier.
Links here:
https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/p/the-martin-armstrong-lie-detector.html
whomever called sancho “putrid” please put yr hand up
… I owe you a slab
Arky
$500k. Chicken feed.
Should have been $50 million. Little settlements like that aren’t deterrents – they are just costs of doing business.
Deterrent are supposed to deter.
Principally because we haven’t switched to nuclear power.
Offered for argument’s sake, assuming CO2 emissions influence global warming to the extent claimed by the AGW hypothesis and should therefore be mitigated; which I don’t believe is proven.
If global warming is happening at all, that is to say.
A line from Yeats comes to mind.
Carry on.
Many thanks, Boambee. Of great interest as my info is basically local stories.
What’s being poured out of the bottle, I wonder?
Just to be pedantic, I’d substitute ‘curated’ for ‘reported.’
Or in some cases, ‘defecated’ may be more accurate.
From Sir Philip Baxter to John Niland and Fred Hilmer.
Mmmyes.
All that remains to be established is what specific sort of f-ck up it was.
Was it simple pilot error by one or both?
Maybe.
Perhaps it was more complicated.
The known facts are that the leading edge of a wing on #2 contacted the lead aircraft, probably on the rear of a wing or possibly the empenage, rendering the lead aircraft brucken.
Formation flying is fraught, but not beyond the scope of proficient, experienced pilots.
Adding passengers into the mix of formation flying in a dual control aircraft without disabling the passenger’s controls presents a potential risk, but not an insurmountable risk. Most properly briefed passengers hold onto their shoulder straps and are too shit scared to touch anything.
If the passenger is a cameraman filming a doco (which has yuuuge potential as a promotional tool for the flying business) that ratchets up the risk in two ways.
Firstly, there is the potential to perform unbriefed and unrehearsed manoeuvres to get the “money shot” for the doco.
Secondly, the cameraman was no mere passive observer. Those cockpits are very tight and he would have struggled to get into a position to frame a shot of the trailing aircraft. If he bumps the control column hard, hits a flap lever or stands on a rudder pedal with another aircraft 5-10 metres away there is no recovery time.
The other human factor is that this was a very small outfit with a constant stream of fanbois coming through every weekend (this was apparent from the blogs I looked at).
This can feed a bit of hubris and complacency.
A God Oracle complex if you like.
Whatever went wrong, it belongs to the three key players in the business … who occupied 3 of the 4 seats in the two aircraft.
Well, that was a stuff up:
https://youtu.be/Zb-Ds_7qdZY
A little reminder of what the refuseniks went through when they demanded their rights over the COVID shots, and the majority reply.
We haven’t forgotten.
The attempted gotcha interview.
You could almost feel sorry for the “journalist” at times as Schiff is well capable of talking under water as anyone who has watched him debate before would know. Why this turkey thought he could best Schiff is a mystery.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxqhEvbOpvM
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Grid coordinates required, ZK2A.
Emu Bitter is second only to XXXX Bitter. It’s unfortunately not available in the Eastern States. Unfortunately a run across the Nullabor to Norseman puts a pallet of this nectar out of the financial range of this poor old pensioner.
Muddy:
Updated clarification accepted.
New parameters set.
Continue.
hamas feeling the need to show gazans they are still in charge?
Who is Juan Peron?
I lose track.
your tears … ya sad clown
here’s a longer vid of the appalling handover last night. No wonder hamas did a show of strength drive, not far from escalating to a lynching and this was two Thai workers and, mostly, old women
Lex McAuley’s book makes the claim that Emu beer was so unpopular, it could not be given away
Mate of mine reckons soldiers will drink anything if given the chance. He knows of a clandestine brewery of fruit juice, yeast from mess and sugar from ration packs on one of his tours overseas. All very neatly hidden in common items laying around a fire base. The owners of the brewery were apparently very discreet but mate reckons the officers would have had to have known about it but let it go.
“Who is Juan Peron?
I lose track.
He was Roger Moore’s chauffer.
In the early 1970’s I moved into a student house in Newcastle Upon Tyne. We had a kitty and took turns cooking evening meals before going to the pub. My speciality was ‘spaghetti bolognaise’ – which was basically mince cooked with onions, Heinz tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and (secret ingredient) Italian mixed herbs. It was hugely popular.
After establishing my Escoffier credentials, I went shopping at the Grainger Market with a girlfriend hoping to impress her with my mad domestic skills. She was surprised when I bought a couple of pounds of bright purple mince at 8p a pound instead of the dull-looking stuff at 25p – economical as well as gastronomical, I bragged.
After a chat with the butcher, it turned out that we’d been enjoying pet mince – coloured purple because it was condemned.
Impressive.
Lex McAuley’s book paints a picture of “pussers” arriving in Saigon in 10 A’s – white shorts, white shirts, long blue socks – a uniform that did not appear very warlike to others…
The building site lip. Fastest lip on a building site.
Nasty little drunk.
Two headlines today.
No relation, I’m sure.
Anyway, I’ve just collected Lex McAulay’s book “In the Ocean’s Dark Embrace” from the post office, so the evening may well be spent reading, and imbibing a couple of large single malts.
Pleased it finally turned up ZK2A. I hope you enjoy the read. There are some good guys in that book from an era before stupidity took over…
Another woke leftist discovers the glories of the Qur’an
Based on the photo I reckon it would last about 2 minutes in any mussie shithole.
From (Arky/Dot)’s link
Do any of you occasionally marvel at the audacity of the giant system of deception deployed at us every week?
Woke heads will EXPLODE! You can bet on it.
“Lady Ballers”: The Most Triggering Comedy of the Year [Trailer]
Lex McAuley’s book makes the claim that Emu beer was so unpopular, it could not be given away, and, when the Australians withdrew, pallets of Emu were buried at Vung Tau and Nui Dat…
We shipped three pallets of VB to Da Nang every month from Vung Tau in an arrangement we had with the USMC Airfield Commandant at Da Nang and our American friends would crawl over broken glass to get some… Never saw any Emu…
One time B.I.L. served twenty seven years in the Navy – he reckons he was discharged just as the stupidity was taking over..
Drove through z fairfield a few minutes ago, a rather large building site crane is suffering from a significant case of brewers droop
That’s a high rise going up next to the railway station .. must have been this afternoon’s storm that got it ..
rode past it mid-morning and it was working & AOK ……..
Digger.
Are you suggesting that the story of interred Emu tinnies might be … well … something which might have been said late at night in an RSL bar but only have a passing acquaintance with the truth?
This bloke looks like he was running after doing something wrong … speculation on my part.
A shock for the driver that hit him and the driver with the dash cam.
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Steve Inman:
Forgot to look both ways and played Street Roulette
Supposed to have been a R.A.A.F corporal at Phan Rang, who gave three carbons of VB for his own, personal, armored car..
Sancho on flying,
Yesterday was the 44th anniversary of the Air New Zealand DC-10 Mt Erebus disaster. I am not a pilot or the son of a pilot but have always been fascinated with what happened and where blame should be apportioned.
Without wanting a stoush or anything, I would be interested in your views. I read the arguments to and fro on PPrune over the decades, plus the official apology to Captain Collins family from Jacinda a few years ago. Cover ups from Air New Zealand, changed coordinates etc are all true and indefensible. Yet, a skilled pilot flew a fully functioning plane into a mountain. What do you think? I’m off to sleep but will be interested in yours or anyone else’s opinions. Genuinely interested.
Patrick Kelly 29/11 @ 5:59pm
It’s the so called socialists who cause this. Personally I do not think the are smart enough to realise what immigration from all over the world causes.
I think they think it’s a laugh that these wogs are wiping out these pathetic whiteish in the suburbs working their jobs, businesses and trying to buy their homes.
These socialists do understand these foreigners will turn on them – sodomy is how you say – not their glass of tea
Despite speaking jibberish, the subtitles are in English, rather than Arabic. Hmmm….I wonder who the “target market” might be?
Cartons of VB, FFS!
Did anyone seriously think that the RBA was not going to increase rates just because they got rid of Philip Lowe?
JIm Chalmers did! .. that’s why he turfed Phil .. LOL!
A skilled pilot, who thought he was flying up McMurdo Sound, and changed co – ordinates meant he flew into the side of Mount Erebus?
duel?
From the Oz……
Sydney Theatre Company cancels show after issuing edict to actors, apology following pro-Palestine protest
The Sydney Theatre Company abruptly cancelled a performance of its flagship production on Wednesday night, less than an hour after publicly ordering the show’s stars to keep their pro-Palestine politics off the stage
The STC said in a statement it was “deeply sorry” for the hurt caused to thousands of Jewish patrons by an actors’ protest on The Seagull’s opening night last Saturday and the company’s own “immediate response”, saying that individual expression did not “supersede” its responsibility to create a safe space.
“We also recognise that when our audiences attend a production, they come to experience the content in that play and that play only, and that any exception to this needs to be done in consultation with the company and consideration of our duty of care,” the STC said.
The company confirmed late on Wednesday that night’s performance of The Seagull was cancelled, less than an hour before the curtain was due to rise.
The Australian understands some audience members were in their seats at the Roslyn Packer Theatre when they received an email telling them the show was cancelled.
Thousands of STC supporters, members and patrons, from both the Jewish and wider arts communities, this week had written an open letter to the company, calling for a full apology and explanation for the protest.
Good. Leftism, progressivism, wokism destroys everything in its path.
Digger, recently you made mention of a book. I’d given the piggy bank a shake overnight to see if enough fell out, when a sudden medical episode intervened & narrowed my horizons somewhat for a few weeks.
The medical incapacitation (a tropical blood infection) changed a few things in the short term, however it was unlikely to have been Allah intervening to prevent me purchasing a book.
I’m sorry I missed out.
Real Deal at 10:09.
Now your testing me.
I read a book on the Mt Erebus prang years ago.
From memory a compounding of errors.
The entry of incorrect waypoints meant that, instead of flying down McMurdo Sound(?) they were put on track for Mt Erebus.
The visibility was poor in that, whilst they weren’t in cloud, they were under a cloud cover with an indistinct horizon. What they thought was a plain of ice sheet below with a hazy horizon off in the distance was, in fact, the snow covered slopes of Mount Erebus rising up into the cloud much closer.
Nek minnit, the GPWS is going nuts.
I don’t think the crew were entirely blameless, pushing on in indistinct visibility but, hey, the punters weren’t paying for a long flight over water with a U-turn and return to base.
And also they should have noticed they weren’t over McMurdo Sound and done a bit of Where The F-ck Are We?
I will try to recall the name of the book.
finally something I watched to the end
recommend
a final interview with John le Carre …. The Pigeon Tunnel
One time B.I.L. served twenty seven years in the Navy – he reckons he was discharged just as the stupidity was taking over..
I did 20 and got out in 1986 because it was starting to change… I had signed on for another 4 years but it became apparent that my ‘use by date’ had been reached when a senior officer told me that their job was to make policy and mine (as a Warrant Officer) was to implement such policy and not participate in the drafting of it…
Be interested in knowing that title.
Well Roger, despite there being no correlation at all, between CO2 levels and Temp over the last 12,500 years, I think we should all genuflect before:
1. a Swedish teenager with, ……, (ahem), learning difficulties,
2. an American politician who lost an election to G. Dubble-ya, and
3. Adam Bandt.
Clearly, the outstanding intellect, shown by the outstanding trio, alone, should be persuasive.
Except, …….., I have a query.
If, as our learned friends say, ……, CO2 DRIVES Temp, how did earth recover from the Ice Ages, over the last 1.4 Million years?
What we are now told, is that earth has warmed, by about 0.9 Deg C, since the 1850’s.
How much Temp rise, would be required, to extract earth from the icy grip of a Glacial Period? 20 deg C? (Minimum).
Did some ancient civilisation, have extremely inefficient coal fired power stations, that spewed CO2 into the air, thus warming our little blue spheroid?
Obviously, aided by the rudimentary I.C.E. engines, that powered their vehicles, that goes without saying.
Now, you may laugh, but I believe Bruce Pascoe has a new book coming out, called
“Coal Powered Emu”. It will be a best seller, no risk.
If you look very closely, as Neil Armstrong descends the ladder in 1969, there is a red and black flag in the distance, with a yellow dot in the centre, ……..
From memory, there were two enquiries into that smash. The first blamed the crew, the second found Air New Zealand had lied their tits off.
A few years ago there was an excellent NZ drama/documentary on how, in the aftermath of the Erebus tragedy, NZ sent a team down to Antarctica, to the crash site, to retrieve the bodies.
I also remember watching, with my parents, an episode of Four Corners in 1981 or so, and the programme broadcast parts of a video showing the last minutes inside the plane, just before it crashed. Very, very sad. The video camera had been retrieved from the crash site.
Digger.
Are you suggesting that the story of interred Emu tinnies might be … well … something which might have been said late at night in an RSL bar but only have a passing acquaintance with the truth?
Could well be the case, Sancho. I need to have a re-read and see who said that. I was on the last team and we left in 1971 with absolutely no knowledge of any beer being buried. Any earlier teams could only have heard it third hand after the war finished because they certainly weren’t there to witness it…
Cassie @ 10:22
Good development re the STC. If jew hating thesbians want to strut their stuff on stage then let them form their own theatre company (and put on a show in Gaza?).
I found two books on the innernet relating to the ANZ prang into Mt Erebus.
Verdict on Erebus by Peter Mahon (1984).
Impact Erebus by John MacDonald (1983).
Can’t be certain but I think it was the Mahon book I read.
There are later ones but too recent to be the one I read.
As a member of the last battalion to occupy Nui Dat I think that Lex McCauley may have got his wires crossed. Emu beer?… never heard of it.
Why would you bother toiling in the hot sun to bury shit beer?
Just tip it out.
From the Hun. Can the subject of wearing knickers be raised in cross – examination?
Yep
The concept of a trace gas being the control knob on climate is absurd.
The ice cores show CO2 rises after temperature therefore it’s save for logical mind to assume that heating of the planet by other factors is the driver, which explains the recovery from ice ages, even the Little Ice, which the experts have been diligently trying to adjust out of the records because it doesn’t fit the theory.
Report of the Royal Commission to Inquire into the Crash on Mount Erebus, Antarctica of a DC10 Aircraft Operated by Air New Zealand Limited
TAIC Report, Flight into terrain, Air New Zealand McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-30 ZK-NZP, Ross Island, Antarctica, November 28, 1979
Digger, recently you made mention of a book.
Salvatore, I probably mentioned my book, ‘Bubbles, Booze, Bombs and Bastards’ of which I still have a couple of dozen left.
right … where’s my gauntlet?
MT: woman, ffs I’m buried here in in piles of old photos, photocopies of crap that Bachelard said, and 3 years of your old cryptic crosswords … have you seen my gauntlet?
CoM: whaddya need yr gauntlet for darl … are you arguing with JC again?
MT: of course I am, he’s being a cock-head
CoM: he’s always a cock-head … and you better not be planning any dueling, you know we have Lydia’s birthday on Saturday
In the 1970’s there was a Christmas tradition of brewery worker strikes in Melbourne. Supplies from interstate used to arrive, oddly most from SA. West End was just OK, Southwark inspired teetotallerism. Later in the NT, I discovered Emu, drinkable when VB supplies ran out.
Pay that one!
They really don’t understand. STC should apologise for the moral depravity and the political and historical ignorance displayed by the cast. Apologising for “hurt caused” doesn’t mean they disagree with the cast, just they think antisemites should hold their beliefs in secret when Jews are present.
FIL was a 20 year experienced pilot flying the Moscow-Tehran-Tokyo-New York route in 1979 (same year as the crash). Plenty of snow on those routes. He always reckoned it was a combination of a lazy pilot, ground control and a misled trust in an autopilot computer. Computers are dead set accurate, until they aren’t. Many were lulled into a “false sense of security” because of their accuracy. Both on the ground and in the air staff trusted it (first introduced in the 1950’s).
What happens is that when you punch 2+2 into your calculator = 4 every time, you believe it. You become conditioned to it, because it is always right. The FIL always used to do the calculations himself. Not because he thought the computer was wrong (it was always right), he did it because he was bored, and loved the mathematics and navigational skills of it. Besides, he could make adjustments based on experience. Having said that, take off and landings are obviously totally different to “auto pilot”.
Strangely enough, the Y2K bug was a big thing amongst experienced airline pilots. Planes falling out of the air and stuff.
Acceptance and laziness is the reason for the crash. Ironically, it’s now a standard for the Internet. Believe what the computer tells you, rather than checking the facts for yourself.
Why tip it out? Shit beer is better than no beer.
To my eternal shame, I once drank a XXXX when my esky ran out.
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-massive-eruption-stratosphere-chemistry-dynamics.html
Update for those interested in the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano.
STC – https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/board-and-staff
They look to be genuine about apologising.
Sanchez
I once read that an exceptionally large number of crashes are due to pilot error. Pilot error, meaning that they become confused or whatever and fail to trust the instrumentation in the cockpit. One of the famous examples of that was the JFK jnr crash. He had only been licensed to fly in daylight, so of course being a Kennedy, the restriction was ignored. He flew at night, was caught in cloud and while the instruments were telling him he was flying upside down and losing altitude the way he read the outside environment was the opposite. He killed himself and everyone on the plane.
Duel? If you mean duelling here, you’re duelling here every single night, drunk and metaphorically having the daylights kicked out of your moronic hide.
Unless you mean something else, you little nasty drunk.
Arma.
I just refreshed my memory via wiki.
I think the initial civil aviation enquiry stuck it to the crew and ran interference for Air NZ.
The Royal Commission and later enquiries pasted the airline and exonerated the crew.
I agree with your F-i-L’s take.
A little bit of both.
You’re right.
If the captain had done a manual plot he might have picked up the INS error.
But dropping to 1500′ (which had become the accepted practice to give the punters a better look) was totally ill-advised.
Salvatore, I probably mentioned my book, ‘Bubbles, Booze, Bombs and Bastards’ of which I still have a couple of dozen left.
My mistake, Salvatore, I don’t think it was my book. I think it was ‘In The Oceans Dark Embrace’ by Lex McCauley which ZK2A just received a copy of yesterday.
JC.
Instrument flying without the aid of an auto-pilot is very difficult for someone as inexperienced as JFK Jnr.
You have to set up a continuous scan of key instruments and adjust to departures from planned flight. The big mistake a lot of inexperienced pilots make is over-correction to a slight departure which compounds into more and more adjustments.
And it is not just flying skill. The balance mechanisms in the ears can be confused, leading to the pilot being convinced the aircraft is doing something completely different to what it is actually doing.
A lot of trainee pilots in WW2 left a hole in the ground a few hundred yards off the end of the runway after a night take-off.
Their senses told them they were climbing when they were sinking towards the ground.
Who’s who of the STC.
https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/board-and-staff
Billionaire Gretel Packer is the foundation member chair, and it’s run by an American (Ann Johnson) who is acting chair for Alan Joyce who is on extended leave.
He’s possibly sucking a dick in Abu Dubahi. Only speculation, not confirmed.
“No high ground if you do a 180”
CVR transcript of AirNZ flight 901
You’re not mistaken Digger. I’m already in possession of a copy of In the Ocean’s Dark Embrace. It was definitely Booze Bubbles Bombs & Bastards that I sought.
Deep fried Kransky with a vein of scalding hot cheese down the middle, fixin’ to ejaculate it as soon as you take a bite. Or as we knew them: pus snaggers. There was a distinctive noise when the cheese breached the leathery outer sack. One of the primary sources of nutrition sourced from the leftovers–once the fags and booze budget had been taken care of. No wonder everyone was so skinny in those days. Thanks for the memories, now you can have mine.
Erebus passenger photo
Believed to be taken at moment of impact.
Jim is Dim. Expect much worse from this Phd in Keatingology.
Craven toadying more like it. Brown collar research.
The dissertation is here: it’s basically man love.
Brawler statesman: Paul Keating and prime ministerial leadership in Australia
JC> That link gave me a 404. This link worked for me
c’mon JC … chuck one more spazz
… you can do it
We went to see a play in the West Village last night. The story was about two losers who meet at a sleazy bar, immediately fall in love, and express a desire to get married that same evening. In real life, I’m sure that has always worked out in the long run.
In any case, Aubrey Plaza, the girl from White Lotus, was the star. Although she looked decent in White Lotus, I have to admit that seeing her in person left me feeling a little let down. I’m not sure who the guy was. Wifey says he was in the series Girls, which I’ve never watched. Yeah, and I fell asleep for 1/2 of it.
Thanks Alamak
Airplane pilots often get confused and “lumped in” as a group. Depends if it’s Commercial, Freight, Leisure, Military and so on. It’s chalk and cheese as to the standard and quality of pilots, aircrew, ground staff and so on. Much can go wrong, depending on any number of factors. Training, experience, weather and the size of the aircraft. I don’t believe Air NZ in 1979 would have exactly been the “cream of the crop” back in the day. Far from it. Probably closer to BOAC (Better on a Camel).
Quality of staff would have been a major contributor to the crash.
British Airways and the American Airlines were the top standard at the time, and the European carriers The FIL was flying Iran Air international commercial flights.
I have “Tin Leg Baders” silver candlesticks on the mantelpiece. Strangely enough, he spent time in Iran in that era, and it had nothing to do with aerial dog fights, but rather black gold. Which ironically turned out to be another shit fight. The silver candlesticks are probably cursed. I’m seriously considering melting them down to 30 pieces of silver. I could buy some betrayal with that.
Throwing a spazz? Why would anyone need to throw a spazz with a low watt specimen? You remind me of Homer Paxton, but with a much more nasty attitude, who once haunted the old blog. He was treated like the site’s lamebrain who offered amusement.
Arma
In those days, at least until the mid 90s, American Airline pilots all had to come from the military. I once had a trainee trader who was a carrier pilot before. He told me at time that he was training at least 3 to 4 hours a day taking off and landing in all sorts of weather conditions. AA were probably the best crew in the business for the time.