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Blue Hills and Section 18C – Quadrant worth a read- my Nan was an avid listener
Thanks for that, Bruce. So many Mark Studdocks in the world, too few Puddleglums. Although Studdock saw sense in the…
No, it wasn’t just an example. The discussion was initiated by news that France is greenlighting the use of SCALP…
As a rule, dissidents have personal axes to grind and they will largely tell you what you want to hear.…
What’s the local lingo for “FIRING SQUAD Ready! Pick your target’s, lads! Rapid! Go On!.”
I love the iniative.
A very close female friend rang me yesterday to tell me what happened when she met up with a mutual friend of ours for their weekly walk. Whilst walking in a park in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, this mutual friend suddenly stopped and burst out crying. He is 65 years old. My friend was rather taken aback, it’s unusual to see a grown man cry, and she tried to console him. She asked him why he was crying, and he said that he was shattered by what happened in Israel on 7 October. This man’s mother had survived Auschwitz, a Hungarian Jew rounded up in late 1944. But then he said something else to my friend, he said “you and Cassie have always been right about so much, and for too long I either ignored you both or dismissed you both as right-wing nutters”.
I do feel somewhat vindicated. I have long ranted to him and other friends about political and cultural stuff, such as how the serious threats to Jews here in Oz don’t come from theatrical groups of Grampian Nazis strutting around in Sound of Music clothes, rather it comes from the far-left, the not so far left, and adherents of Islam. Whilst it is nice to hear someone admit I’m right, deep down I wish I was wrong about everything, but I’m not.
This mutual friend is now reading The Australian and watching Sky News. Sometimes it takes something so awful to happen for people to finally yank their heads out of the sand.
How disgusting looking must a terrorist be if the IDF made him wear a t-shirt while everyone else is getting a tan?
As I understand it Israel doesn’t have the death penalty.
I believe Adolf Eichmann is the only person the State of Israel has ever executed.
I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong, but it would go to explain why terrorists are jailed in Israel (along with those just released in exchange for hostages).
I believe Adolf Eichmann is the only person the State of Israel has ever executed.
I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong, but it would go to explain why terrorists are jailed in Israel (along with those just released in exchange for hostages).”
Correct.
Thanks Cassie – I knew you’d know for sure.
The events of Oct 7 may present a change in action on how Israel deals with these scum.
I believe Israel still has the death penalty on its books although not for civil crimes.
Stochastic inputs can be part of a stable model e.g. Climate. The model states cycle but follow some kind of normal distribution and “chaos” is possible in parts of the whole. There is a bunch of published stuff and even python code on this topic.
These enable us to understand what climate is but not predict it; so there is that. The other aspect is alarmism makes no sense at the input stage. If alarmism was a human it would be joe biden.
will
AAArrggh!
You deny me my Lived Experience in the paint factory?
Begone, you Satanic Schemer!
No, seriously, the issue is the paint underneath the the new layer. If I go with a water based paint, then the skirting boards need to be removed, stripped of paint and repainted. And being a lazy bastard, I ain’t doing that.!
In fact the only reason I’m painting the skirting boards is because with the old carpet and lino still in place, I don’t need to cut in the edges, but the door frames and doors can still be painted in place.
Thanks, calli.
Be an honor you’d be quite willing to forgo – the first person, executed by the State of Israel, since Adolph Eichmann.
It beggars belief that people could not see how the antisemitism of the left would eventually become a real threat. Kudos to you, Cassie, for trying to wake them up.
Soft.
Time to get tough. Again.
Although, the extra judicial long overdue ending of various pointless existences has been indulged in by the Zionist state on occasions in the past.
There now needs to be more of it, you wonderful people of Moses and Jesus.
You know you want to – and now more than ever need to.
The Lord of the ol” Testament would not even think about condemning youse for engaging in these righteous actions of mighty vengeance, I tells ya! 🙂
It would be unkind to deprive anyone of the pleasure to be obtained from exploring these issues on your own. It’s all explained, usually badly, on the interwebzy thingo. Sorting it out is very satisfying.
f’king legend !
calli
That’s two coats, Calli.
I repeat – I’m a lazy bugger.
An oil based coat gives a superior gloss and impact protection from drunk old farts that ding lots of edges.
The description above may – or may not – describe Uncle Bob, who is well known among the family for encouraging whisky tasting nights among male members of the family.
Plans for one of the largest EV battery manufacturing plants have fallen through — here’s how this may affect the future of EVs
Calli:
The shed is zincalume. All 20 x 30 meters of it.
They can paint it when I’m dead.
And put it in th eEulogy.
Eating Your Way To Risk? The Major Impact of Diet on Alzheimer’s Disease
The lesson is obvious: less meat, more plants.
I was surprised to see TMAO come up in the study. It is produced by gut bugs exposed to various compounds, especially carnitine and choline. It is also associated with cardiovascular disease. However the data tends to dance around on that compound. The difference may lie in individual differences in microbiome species.
They are fat over there, highest rate in the OECD. I suspect though that obesity is a proxy for a lousy diet. For all the claims about optimal diet a wide variety of plant foods(many coloured plate), maintaining good weight, optimizing glucose levels, and avoiding processed foods, are fundamental although I am believer in people post 60 judiciously using supplements.
The Western diet is just plain wrong. Too many grains, too many additives, too much red meat, not enough fish, too many calories, too many micronutrient deficiencies.
They have a point. Early onset Alzheimer’s is already rising.
The antidepressant issue might be explained by research a few days ago that found long before Alzheimer’s is diagnosed serotonin levels diminish and that increases the expression of toxic proteins. On the other hand though in the USA popping psychotropic drugs is standard fare. That country loves all kinds of drugs.
Bruce of Newcastle
Odd that it gets mentioned – I was thinking this morning of the punishments available to the Israeli State of the terrorists who committed Capital Crimes on the &/10 . Well first there’s hanging, then there’s the firing squad. And I thought of the Organ Banks.
Then I thought of the wood chipper.
This is why I get angry at people like Michael Gawenda.
When it starts to hit close to home, he has his Road to Damascus moment.
But, as editor of the Age, he fed and enabled this bullshit for decades.
Wow – that’s one mighty administration of a Cluebat.
Cats, that’s a 65 year ol’ collectivist breaking down in tears finally having the good grace to admit he was wrong and his critics were not.
I will remain alive and kicking until my stupid siblings (if they haven’t carked it in the meantime) finally admit I was right and they were wrong.
I’ve got all of the rest of the decade at least. Do you?
This one’s for any of you turret heads out there.
Cassie of Sydney
Depends on the culture – I can think of at least one personage who would love to have that happen, so then they could prance around waving their willy at all and sundry.
This is why I get angry at people like Michael Gawenda.
When it starts to hit close to home, he has his Road to Damascus moment.
But, as editor of the Age, he fed and enabled this bullshit for decades.”
Yep.
Bespoke:
Stop deflecting and start supporting.
The IDF would have no problems with these people – in fact I doubt it even surfaces on their radar unless it’s with the civil affairs bureau.
And it’s nothing to do with your stupid “Keyboard Kommando” epithet -It’s about standing up and making your voice heard..
LOL!
On 7 October 2023 Palestinian Nazis jubilantly paraded the raped and desecrated corpse of Shani Louk through Gazan streets whilst ecstatic and excited onlookers spat on her lifeless body.
Today, IDF soldiers stripped Palestinian Nazis and paraded them through Gazan streets.
The Torah insists, ‘Justice, justice shall you pursue‘. Justice for Shani, justice for ALL the men, ALL the women and ALL the children who were raped and slaughtered that dreadful day.
Apollo, cursed Cassandra with the gift of prophecy
she would always be right
and no one would ever believe her predictions
I can think of at least one personage who would love to have that happen, so then they could prance around waving their willy at all and sundry.
But enough about Albo
Cassie:
That’s why I want the film – ALL the film released.
Noice, one of those shoe fits wear it moments…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12839073/Plane-Harvard-Hates-Jews-banner-campus-Israel-Palestine.html
ZK2A:
I’d sell tickets – high priced ones, and I reckon I’d sell all of them.
Willing to fight to the death so they can meet the 72 virgin goats…
… just not today.
Pity they surrendered before the missile was called down.
Then I thought of the wood chipper.
I believe Israel still has the death penalty on its books although not for civil crimes.
You must understand the enemy. They will die a martyr. I hope you all saw the 70 year old Israeli talking about shooting them.. He said they weren’t scared, they didn’t care, if they fell down they kept going.
If you execute them they will gladly die. As a martyr performing Jihad, they have ensured their family will enter Paradise.
There are ways of doing this that mean they will go to hell. ( it is not pigs – pigs are regarded the same as rats are in our culture).
Remember Amrozi who killed over 200 innocent people in Bali. He was smiling as he was led away to be executed. The strength of their belief is foreign to the modern West. We ignore this at our peril.
None of them could claim to be perky.
Not if the shooter is female. Death by females should be the goal of the military. I wonder if that applies to trans women.
Catching up on matters Britnah.
It seems, as suggested by many here, that in her interactions with Police and counsellors, her big concern was keeping her jerb.
Indeed.
Perhaps the best thing to do is:
Take their kit off them;
Collect their names and identity details;
Give their details to UNRWA;
Post same details online;
Turn them loose in Gaza.
Let Hamas sort out the problem of what to do with the non-jihadi plump ones, scared and not willing to be martyred for the cause.
Today, mighty IDF warriors stripped fat stupid stinkee palestinian rubble bunnies and paraded them through gazan goat tracks in the full view of the bag headed slags that have stridently urged them to sacrifice their pointless existences for a supposed mythical being that never existed in the first place.
A great day it was. 🙂
Reminiscent of Heeresgruppe Mitte finally making it to Moscow in mid ’44 …
They wouldn’t be the first muslims that went into “battle” hopped up. I’d make a significant wager that there are some interesting postmortem blood test results in the IDF files.
And yet they are now surrendering in droves.
Because it’s no fun anymore. They don’t get to play assassin (a term whose origins are in Shia Islam). They don’t get to strut around playing the warrior.
But most of all, they aren’t getting a nice quick, “glorious”, painless death. Instead they are suffering pain and humiliation. That takes courage, not bluster.
Prince Harry loses legal challenge in libel claim against Mail on Sunday
Duke of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over an article regarding his legal challenge against Home Office
Hannah Furness,
ROYAL EDITOR
The Duke of Sussex has lost a bid to have the Mail on Sunday publisher’s defence to his High Court libel claim thrown out by a judge.
The Duke is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over a February 2022 article about his legal challenge against the Home Office following a decision to change his publicly funded security arrangements when visiting the UK.
The Duke’s lawyers have said the story, which claimed he “tried to keep details of his legal battle to reinstate his police protection secret from the public”, was “an attack on his honesty and integrity” and would undermine his charity work and efforts to tackle misinformation online.
ANL is contesting the claim, arguing the article expressed an “honest opinion” and did not cause “serious harm” to his reputation.
In March, the High Court heard the duke’s bid to strike out ANL’s “honest opinion” defence or grant judgment in his favour on it.
In a written ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Nicklin refused to “strike out” ANL’s defence.
The judgment comes a day after the High Court finished hearing the Duke’s claim that the February 2020 decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) to change the degree of his personal protection was “unlawful and unfair”.
A different judge’s decision in that case is expected at a later date.
Mr Justice Nicklin was previously told The Mail on Sunday first reported that the duke was taking legal action against the Home Office in January 2022.
A press statement issued on Harry’s behalf at the time said he and his family were “unable to return to his home” due to the lack of police protection needed in the UK.
It added: “The Duke first offered to pay personally for UK police protection for himself and his family in January of 2020 at Sandringham.
“That offer was dismissed. He remains willing to cover the cost of security, as not to impose on the British taxpayer.”
In a Home Office document prepared for a February 2022 preliminary hearing in the Duke’s security claim, the department said his offer of private funding “notably was not advanced to Ravec” at the time of the duke’s visit in June 2021, or in any pre-action correspondence.
The Mail on Sunday article claimed this was “a crushing rebuttal to Harry’s initial public statement that implied he had always been willing to foot the bill”.
Justin Rushbrooke KC, for the Duke, said in written submissions for the March hearing that ANL’s defence to the libel claim “rests upon two provably false premises” relating to the press statement.
The first was a suggestion that the duke had allegedly made a false claim over his willingness to pay for police protection in the UK, while the second was he had allegedly stated his case against the Home Office was over a refusal to let him pay for this security.
He told the court it was “absolutely obvious” that the January 2022 press statement “makes no claim that the claimant (the Duke) made an offer to Ravec or the Home Office or that his judicial review proceedings were to challenge a refusal to accept it”.
Dismissing the Duke of Sussex’s bid to have ANL’s “honest opinion” defence to his libel claim thrown out, Mr Justice Nicklin said: “Overall, it is not fanciful that the defendant will be successful, at trial, in demonstrating that the public statements issued on the claimant’s behalf sought to promote the judicial review claim as his battle against the Government’s (perverse) decision to refuse to allow him to pay for his own security.
“There is a real prospect that the defendant will succeed in demonstrating that this was a misleading description of the issues in the judicial review claim, arguably promoted because it was hoped to show the claimant’s judicial review claim in a positive light, whereas a portrayal of the judicial review claim as the claimant trying to force the Government to reinstate his, taxpayer-funded, state security risked his appearing in a negative light.”
Andrew Caldecott KC, for ANL, previously said the bid to end their defence without a trial was “wholly without merit” and that “the whole case is built on sand”.
He added: “The claimant was responsible for press statements that said he would pay for security when he had never expressed any willingness to pay until after the judicial review.”
The dangers of high IQ.
From P’s link earlier today re a Canadian family that moved to Israel. You sense this when you go to Israel – that the community, as apart from the polity, is strong, resilient and highly inclusive of all members, at the familial level and also the wider communal level (such that 29% of Israeli Arabs are joining Jewish volunteer groups supporting the nation and the IDF, pulling together in a time of national emergency).
All the young people in their twenties that we spoke to a few years back travelling in Israel were so positive, assured, generously helpful and decent. As were young people around me in Australia in my own youth, the 1950’s, and the early 60’s before the later 60’s rebellion rot set in. Marriage was still an accepted norm, and usually in the early twenties. Both Hairy and my first husband were bridegrooms at age twenty-one. Those first marriages both floundered on the rocks of ‘self-actualisation’ by all involved, an unrealistic hippie selfishness bred in universities then, as now.
Poor Hazza – I wonder if he ever reflects on the fate of the last member of the Royal Family, to give up his status as an Admiral, in the Royal Navy, to become Third Mate, to a Baltimore tramp…
Aunty Mary
Had a canary
Up the leg of her drawers…
The Institute of Public Affairs, Cats – they ain’t perfect, but they are out there laying into collectivists at every available opportunitee … 🙂
A “controversial extreme right wing personage” … 😕
Unlike me good self, I tells ya! 🙂
I’ll be renewing my membership just before Christmas.
As relevant as ever – “through it all, we closed our eyes …” 😕
So the lip-reader expert will give an account of what Lehrmann said to Higgins while they stood at a table – something like “they’re all yours” while pointing to 2 or 3 drinks – contradicts Lehrmann’s evidence that he didn’t say anything like that. Where does this get the defence?
First, it is another piece of Lehrmann’s plan to get Higgins drunk, so that he could rape her. OTOH, it’s only a slight piece of evidence to support such a plan, although joined up with other pieces it takes on a greater significance. In the end however the PH video shows that she was not very drunk when they entered the Minister’s suite.
Secondly, it is another piece of evidence to argue that Lehrmann is, at least, an unreliable witness. Maybe even a lying one. OTOH, Lehrmann can build a much stronger case that Higgins is unreliable, or a liar. The revelation, via the Deed, that there are several points where what she said in the Deed is inconsistent with her evidence at the defamation trial, will count against her. Justice Lee has said as much.
I would be surprised if this lip-reader’s evidence has much impact on Lehrmann’s case. Maybe the defendants are planning to use evidence of Lehrmann’s lack of credibility to the end of mitigating the damages award. Or maybe just to give Higgins’ rusted on supporters something to hang their hats on. Or maybe in some way to bolster their public interest defence. Of course, that defence may get up irrespective of the weight of the lip-reader’s evidence.
A “controversial young womanage”
Because she’s beautiful, she doesn’t indulge in politics and she’s a slinkee brunette with the best moves who loves her fast cars … 🙂
Being a bit too ethereal here however – although there will not be a wasted gram of fat:
I’m the Sun in your eyes …
Ozzee Brunettes – just definitive. 🙂
Cats – you just want to be with a goil …
Gorgeous, she is- she is driving you crazee …
So you hatch a plan – which doesn’t involve li’l Scottish eight year olds, FFS … 😕
Li’l Jack Horner
Sittin’ on a corner
With no shoes and clothes
This ain’t funny
But he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose … 😕
This, this attitude is the reason we’ve been treading water for the past 20 years.
Average BHP wages and salaries:
BHP has one of if not the the highest rates in the world for a large corp outside of US tech.
They’re also woke AF
Bazinga
You’re obviously referring to their support of the YES vote. Look, it’s both deplorable and understandable at the same time. Their operations are in remote areas and they have to deal with aboriginal issues much, much more than others to the likes of Westpac for instance. Give the miners a little slack on this issue.
I didn’t respond to Mad Karen’s (aka JMH) accusations the other day so here it is.
Dover asked for people to donate for the upkeep of the site, and like others here who have sent him money for this purpose, we want to see the site going in order to keep rightwing views in continuance.
This worthless skunk suggests responding to the request and sending few hundred dollars a year for upkeep is corrupt and dishonest. He accuses Dover of corruptly promoting cash for comment. What a junkyard pos of shit.
I bet that not a single one of the battered wives crew have sent a dime.
Let’s try a little transparency. I sent Dover exactly 300 bucks for upkeep back in October, which I done every year since it began.
Has:
Wodney
Driller
Turtlehead
Barking Toad
Mad Karen
and the other battereds
sent even a nickel over the past 3 years of operation?
Moreover, there’s this.
I would estimate the rough cost of running the operation would be around $10,000 a year to be done properly. If you take the personal time and effort Dover puts into running the site, the cost would be closer to at least 30K just to break even (my estimate only).
How about the users/commenters sending him donations to operate the site and help him defray the cost? In the interest of complete transparency, I will from now on announce my donation and when I send it (next October). How about others doing the same?
If Mad Karen and the others want to demonstrate their interest in the site and that it’s not just self-interested trolling, then post the donation you’ve made or will make.
This also applies to others here. If you really want to keep the site going and have it perform better, then make a donation to help things along. The site doesn’t run without money, unfortunately, and even if people have their differences, they can also ignore their personal prejudices and make a donation to help things along.
I think it’s unfair have the site owner take most of the burden if you believe the site has worth and rightwing ideas need to be promoted as well as explored. Send him a donation!
Images emerge of Palestinian captives stripped and bound in Gaza + commentary.
$300 , Max.
Setting up a WordPress blog. $0 to whatever you want.
Because I missed the request for donations, please give details on how to accomplish same. I lurk but read the blog most days and mostly appreciate the points of view expressed. Happy to donate.
Ps; I think Dover’s time would be far more valuable than the hosting costs.
I wouldn’t do it even if I could.
And there’s that, which isn’t insignificant either.
I am grateful for the blog, mostly. Therefore I donate, a hundred dollars irregularly (when I remember, I like to keep it opt in or out), because that seems fair, roughly on the same general level as membership of the IPA, CPAC, Quadrant, etc but not as much as costs for the Spectator, SkyNews and The Oz. There are always lots of calls on anyone’s income, so not everyone can donate, but do so if you can, even $25 can help. Dover’s time is valuable and there are other hidden costs. Click Support on the header bar to get details of how to contribute.
ps, I don’t think Dover shows any financial favoritism at all in his moderating of comment here. That should not and does not come into it, which is why this blog survives and thrives as a free and public site of more than the economic commentary which was its foundation. Over the years I think Sinclair axed more people than Dover ever has, but neither has wielded the axe for a differing opinion, only ever for relentless disruption, and both rely on the blog being self-policing. As an aside on that, in the early days JC stoushed very valiantly to stop left-wing Keynesian trolling. I suspect some of his ‘stoushing’ now is simply reliving those glory days and I say just give him space, he’s earned it, walk around it.
Small Christmas Party lunch here today for grandson and his American mother who are departing to her family in Upstate New York’s snowy countryside shortly.
I have things to do still, decorations, presents, table-setting for 8, and .. food!