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Still no cyclone or 90km/h winds or even much rain.
Does the BOM employ imbeciles?
Yes. Some guy was being interviewed about it on Sky recently and he simply said that people, farmers in particular, should give BOM a miss and look for alternative forecasting sources of which there were many available. BOM has degenerated into the ABC territory where they are no longer fit for purpose.
Mintox! The pilot runs amok.
FRANCE’S RAFALE SOLO DISPLAY 2023 ZIGAIRMEET – 4K
Pretty country for an air show. Thanks. I wonder how the pilot feels after so many high G maneuvers.
I can still afford Sorbent so I’ll stick with that
Have I missed anything?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom.
Eden Zecharia and Ziv Dado
finders keepers
The IDF expect to be in complete control of northern Gaza by the weekend.
a bit more detail on the recovery of bobies of the two dead hostages.
So certain people, when their plagiarism is discovered, are allowed to go back and make the edits needed to credit the original authors.
It has nothing to do with their race, gender or being the top dog of Harvard.
The 20+ people that Harvard expelled last year for plagiarism are waiting for their phone call to do the same.
Thought for the day from George Bernanos:
. And the signs are all around us.
And another:
. Life is a risky business.
. No they’re liars. Nowadays children who tell lies go into meteorology as a profession, they’ve got all the necessary skills.
It’s hypocritical of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Malta to criticise Israel for kicking the Muslim Arabs out of their homeland.
Compare and contrast.
The Gazan civilian shot dead for daring to beg food from Hamas. The IDF murdered as they attempted to recover the Israeli dead.
Good news!
Furious Al Gore Blasts COP28 “On Verge Of Complete Failure” (13 Dec)
They’ll probably fudge something, but it’s pretty clear that the BRICS will keep on doing their own thing since they don’t believe in climate fairies, as will the MENA men who don’t have anything else to sell except fossil fuels, and the West will continue to slit its own throat.
I always read “Al” Gore as A I.
Nothing genuine about his intelligence, apart from trough seeking.
And…speaking of imbeciles…
Boo!
Fer cryin’ out loud…
The guy has made more money peddling his silly slideshow and acting as a guru on a nonsense theory (has he ever used scientific terminology other than degrees and years? ‘Cos I don’t think he knows any) than he ever would have taking Chinese money and lobbyist presents as President.
And for such shame! For every million he has squirreled away he will have impoverished the world by hundreds of millions thanks to the policies he champions. Imagine you were a thief who robbed people of $100 but that involved leaving them $10,000 worse off. Now do that to millions of people.
What a mega-turd!
I think of him as Gor-Al from the planet Klepton, better known on Earth as Duperman- because he dupes everyone he meets.
Dot 12/12
Your comment re anti Catholicism.
Um no- what I want to know is was Besanko set up to deliver a guilt6 verdict against Robert’s smith.
The more I think about this is this the half way solution where the press save face and Robert’s smith does not go to jail.
I was wondering if Cohenite has heard something from the jungle drums.
What this cyclone needs is value added outside broadcast reporting.
Jasper update. According to Seven* weatherperson, “this cyclone is changing its mind every half hour”.
We have a teenage cyclone on our hands, folks. Batten down.
😀
* watched on his laptop to protect our big screen from flying objects
Litt.
So why was it relevant to mention the judge’s religion?
I demand assurances from all here that they do not regard me as an anti-Catholic bigot.
How touching that Usman Khawaja will wear shoes daubed with the words ““Freedom is a human right” and “All lives are equal”. What’s prompted him is “Palestine”….of course…..because after the wholesale industrial slaughter, murder and rape of Jews on 7 October 2023, those dastardly and pesky Jews are fighting back and you just can’t have that!
I note that Khawaja or any of those sporting and artistic prima donnas have NOT daubed shirts or shoes with such words as “I stand with Jewish women” or “I condemn the invasion of 7 October” or “Return the Hostages” and so on. NO, NO, NO. Their moral condemnation is all highly selective but that should not surprise me because we live in such hypocritical times. Plus, given what Usman’s brother got up to you’d think that Usman would keep his ugly mouth shut.
Oh well, can’t have those damn Jews fighting back. Two points though, only two or three years ago, anyone who wrote on a placard “All Lives are Equal”, or stood with a banner with the words “All Lives are Equal” were smeared as racist. What’s happened? I just can’t keep up! Worth noting Usman the Hypocrite’s silence over the mass expulsion of MILLIONS of Afghani refugees from Pakistan. Don’t their lives matter? Oh, that’s right, only some Muslim lives are equal, the only Muslim lives that matter are when Jews are fighting them!
I’ve never liked Usman, just like I’ve never liked Ed Husic. And yes, it is because of their ghastly toxic evil religious ideology, I’ve long said and always thought that they are both wolves in sheep’s clothing, a comparison which is unfair to wolves and sheep. Yet again again I’ve been proven right. I wish I could be wrong, but I’m not.
A shout out to Old Ozzie. Please don’t be hurt by that utterly uncalled for and very vitriolic drivel posted yesterday. We like your comments and appreciate them. Please continue.
Nice little curve ball.
JC at 7:29.
Where did that come from?
My twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/realDrBrendan
Chuckle!
You can take the boy out of Pakistan…
Herald Sun:
Captain Alinta no doubt approves.
Trying to count up the backhanders in that comment about Britnah.
Three, possibly four.
It is morally wrong to blindly adhere to net zero – we must abandon it before it’s too late
At Cop28, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman was right to call out delusional Western leaders with their pie-in-the-sky nonsense
Allison Pearson
Well, I held out as long as I could against the abomination that is the chocolate Advent calendar.
What is wrong with the youngsters of today (Part 37) that they need a sweet treat to induce them to open one of the 24 windows in the countdown to Christmas?
I have fond memories of my younger sister and I fighting bitterly over whose turn it was to peel open the little cardboard flap before we left for school, revealing an angel, a shepherd or the baby Jesus in his manger.
Each picture was a tiny, fingernail-sized thrill that edged us ever closer to the big day.
Oh, yes, we could do deferred gratification back in the olden times, she harrumphed.
Then, this year, Himself brought a Quality Street Advent calendar home and my defence of Judeo-Christian tradition lasted, oooh, at least half an hour before I succumbed and opened window Number 1.
What a disappointment.
Instead of the traditional sparkly, jewel-coloured foil and cellophane, the Quality Street chocolate was wrapped in drab, matt paper.
I felt as deflated as an eight-year-old who thinks she’s getting a Barbie for Christmas and unwraps a scowling Greta Thunberg doll in a no-fun fleece.
When Quality Street posted about its new wrappers (made of vegetable-based wax), in celebration of Recycle Week, you could practically hear the national cry of dismay.
Cheryl Allen, Nestlé’s head of sustainability – yes, there is such a person – said, “Quality Street is a brand that people feel very strongly about.
We know that opening the lid and seeing ‘the jewels’ is really important.”
Yes, it is, Cheryl, so why have you decided to suck some of the joy out of Christmas by ditching the beloved foil coverings after 86 years?
“We think we’ve done a really good job with the redesign and feel confident that people will respond positively.”
No, Cheryl, you really haven’t. The eco-friendly wrappings are about as appetising as poo bags. Everyone will hate them and never buy Quality Street again.
It may seem a bit of a leap from Sustainability Cheryl to Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, but please bear with me.
The prince caused quite a kerfuffle at Cop28, that gathering in Dubai of the great and the green, when he refused to agree to a “phasedown/phase-out out” of oil, which delegates were expected to agree on by yesterday.
(As I write, agreement still seems elusive. All 198 countries at the summit have to decide the final Cop28 deal and many are furious that the draft allowed countries to merely “consider reducing fossil fuel use”.)
Addressing the putative phase-out of oil, the prince said coolly, “I assure you not a single person – I’m talking about governments – believes in that.
I would like to put that challenge to all of those who… come out publicly saying we have to [phase down oil].
I’ll give you their name and number, call them and ask them how they are gonna do that.
If they believe that this is the highest moral ground issue, fantastic. Let them do that themselves. And we will see how much they can deliver.”
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?
Saudi’s vast wealth does rather depend on oil not being phased out.
Nonetheless, the prince’s defiant challenge to the Caroline Lucas, weave-your-own-hairshirt brigade was arresting, as was his attempt to call the industrialised West’s bluff on the practicalities of achieving net zero.
Even more embarrassing for the global green “consensus” was the actual president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, when he responded curtly to Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change.
“We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone… and it’s because we have not yet committed to phasing out fossil fuel,” said Robinson. “That is the one decision that Cop28 can take and in many ways, because you’re head of ADNOC (United Arab Emirates’ state oil company), you could actually take it with more credibility.”
Al Jaber replied: “I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist.
There is no science out there that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C [limiting global warming to well below 2C].
Please help me,” the sultan continued, “show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socio economic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
Put that in your renewable wind turbine and don’t smoke it!
Al Jaber later softened his stance at a hastily arranged press conference. “I respect the science… I have repeatedly said that it is the science that has guided the principles or strategy as Cop28 president.”
Still, his earlier remarks were extremely revealing, a sign of determined pushback from those countries who know we will need fossil fuels to maintain a certain standard of living for the foreseeable future and, what’s more, are increasingly prepared to say so.
Plus, if Al Jaber is causing Al Gore to have a meltdown on Twitter (now X) then I reckon he must be doing something right.
“Cop28 is on the verge of failure,” thundered Gore, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work disseminating knowledge about man-made climate change.
“The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft (agreement) reads as if OPEC dictated it… There are 24 hours left to show whose side the world is on: the side that wants to protect humanity’s future by kickstarting the orderly phase-out of fossil fuel or the side of the petrostates and the oil and gas companies that are fuelling the historic climate catastrophe.”
I could devote a whole column to Gore’s putrid green double-standards.
The former US vice president claims to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle “to the maximum extent possible”, although according to the National Center for Public Policy Research, Gore’s 10,000 square foot Tennessee mansion guzzles more electricity in 12 months than the average American family uses in 21 years (something Gore has disputed, claiming offsetting).
But Hunt the Eco-hypocrite is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Most of the climate-change preachers, who legislate privations on the masses, are happy to give up anything. So long as it’s not their private jet.
What sticks in the craw is their claim that they alone are on the side of humanity.
On the contrary, their project to save the planet spells a painful reduction in comfort and joy for millions.
Politicians like Labour’s Ed Miliband who talk blithely about reaching the target of net zero by 2050 are either a) too thick to understand what’s involved or b) lying.
Last week, I was lucky enough to interview Michael Kelly, emeritus professor of engineering at Cambridge University and fellow of the Royal Society, for the Planet Normal podcast.
The transition from fossil fuels would, he said, be “the biggest engineering project undertaken in British history” – and we are nowhere near ready for what amounts to the Industrial Revolution on steroids.
Prof Kelly has published a devastating, jaw-dropping paper called Achieving Net Zero:
A Report from a Putative Delivery Agency.
Because the British government has singularly failed to do a cost-benefit analysis of what it will take for the UK to be carbon neutral by 2050 (sound familiar?), Prof Kelly decided to imagine that he’d been appointed CEO of a new agency with the explicit goal of meeting that target.
Among his horrifying conclusions:
the cost of the UK reaching net zero by 2050 will comfortably exceed £3 trillion (at least £180,000 for every household), a workforce comparable to the entire NHS will be required for 30 years, including a doubling of the present number of electrical engineers.
The country would effectively have to “go on a war footing and a command economy will be essential, as major cuts to other forms of expenditure, such as health, education and defence. will be needed”.
The electricity supply will have to increase by about 67 per cent in order to maintain transport at today’s level.
The national grid needs to be 2.7 times bigger in 2050 than it is currently if the UK economy as we know it now is to continue to function.
That is eight times the rate at which new capacity has been added over the past 30 years, including all the renewables to date.
Oh, and every home in the country will have to be rewired, plus all street distribution and local sub-stations.
It has been estimated it will cost £700 billion to carry out this work, and we don’t have the manpower to do it.
Without that spending, we will have to live with frequent circuit breaks, and suboptimal performance of domestic appliances.
Folks, do your washing at 3am and buy a battery-powered torch for the blackouts.
If this sounds mad it’s because it is mad.
To use Prof Kelly’s starkest image, if we take the cost of HS2 now as being about £100 billion, then achieving net zero will require 36 HS2s or more than one a year until 2050. You may recall, we tried to deliver just one HS2. And failed.
The struggle to reach agreement at Cop28 is a harbinger of growing international resistance to this folly.
Now is the time for a complete rethink on net zero.
It is morally wrong to stubbornly adhere to a goal which will cost trillions of pounds, and isn’t even achievable.
Not in the timeframe.
The damage to peoples’ lives from this misguided target will be incalculable, and civil unrest a likely consequence.
We need to start again with proper cost-benefit analyses.
Engineers of the calibre of Prof Kelly should be given the task of working out what is feasible with a longer horizon, and be free to express their honest view.
The Climate Change Committee, which exerts a powerful hold over the thinking of clueless MPs, should be scrapped.
Enough with the Green grandstanding.
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman was right to call out delusional Western leaders with their Just Stop Oil nonsense. (“Let them do that themselves. And we will see how much they can deliver.” Quite.)
It would mean living without plastics, without appliances, without most clothing.
Much of the twinkly joy of Christmas would be lost, along with the sparkly wrappers of Quality Street.
I don’t want to live in that dreary, dark world, and nor do most people.
At Cop28, there are many who are convinced that we face a climate catastrophe in the next few decades if net zero is not delivered.
Well, I say we are certain to have an economic and societal catastrophe if we persist in trying to reach that goal by 2050.
Humanity cannot bear it.
I will not be watching any cricket this summer.
Why bring up that he is a Catholic?
If there was proven defamation it would have made a criminal case more difficult to make.
What goddamned planet are you on where BRS losing his case makes him less likely to be convicted in the future? BRS is being smeared once again in the bottom feeding commie loving press again. They’re even claiming Channel Nine has some sort of power to declare who is guilty or not? What do you think this does to potential jurors?
“Oh Besanko is Catholic, I wonder if he is corrupt too…why I’m not a bigot at all, he’s a good man…”
I’ll be kind today and call the Gin bottle an idiot, not you. You also insinuated he was blackmailed. This is really stupid. Do you have any evidence of this? So not only is he corrupt, he is corrupted. Again, why bring up the man’s religion? Your attempt to make him look like a kindly man who made a pragmatic decision worked out very poorly. You may like to walk it back.
“Besanko was set up!”
Err, what? You have no evidence of this. If barristers knew of every judge who was corrupt, there wouldn’t be any corrupt judges (except in the short term). They have self interest (even if a lower salary) to get the judges’ jobs.
He might have made a bad decision. No one is perfect.
Others told me since he was a good litigator, his decision was above reproach.
You can come to stupid conclusions even with evidence and “good” evidence can be pretty hollow.
I can see why you’d enjoy his X -feed. Hard to fault any of his pronouncements. That’s one angry mutt.
Good News – No Welcome to Country on Qantas Flight Yesterday
Hope it Continues!
Hasn’t taken Luxon very long to show he’s a cuck…
Anthony Albanese has signed a statement with his Canadian and New Zealand counterparts supporting a sustainable ceasefire and the release of remaining hostages.
Ahead of a UN vote on a ceasefire resolution, the statement condemned the October 7 attacks and defended Israel’s right to defend itself. However Mr Albanese, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NZ PM Christopher Luxon called on Israel to respect international humanitarian law, adding: “We are alarmed at the diminishing safe space for civilians in Gaza. The price of defeating Hamas cannot be the continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians.”
Can someone please enlighten me, just what is a “sustainable ceasefire”? Do they mean the one that Hamas broke on 7 October 2023 when it launched an unprovoked attack on Israel, butchering and raping Israelis?
The West is led by midgets.
I haven’t watched it since Sandpapergate and the blubb-a-thon.
When they’re gone, I’ll tune in again.
I wonder if Juan called the ultimate top in gold?
Slowly dawning on the car companies that they’ve made a terrible mistake…
Ford’s “Test For EV Adoption” Fails: Carmaker Slashes Production Plans For Electric F-150 In Half (13 Dec)
Still too high, betcha it gets halved again, or even cancelled altogether. Short of going full fascist totalitarian there’s no way that governments are going to get ordinary people to buy these suckers. Instead they’ll either drive and drive their gasoline clunkers Cuba-style or they’ll buy Chinese cars smuggled in from Mexico.
War has left Gaza economy at almost total standstill, says World Bank
What economy? .. waste of space that survives on handouts has an ‘economy”
Maybe lotza money in tunnelling, as a hobby, & UN warehousing .. FFS!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/war-has-left-gaza-economy-at-almost-total-standstill-says-world-bank/ar-AA1loBa1?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=a8b8cc66014f453
Sancho Panzer
Dec 13, 2023 7:04 AM
What this cyclone needs is value added outside broadcast reporting.
https://www.ventusky.com/?l=wind-10m
has given & does give an accurate view of tracking and can change settings quickly –
e.g Wind Speed to Wind Gusts, Precipitation , Temperature etc
Much better and more accurate than BOM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told a group of his ministers: “We need three things from the US: munitions, munitions, and munitions,” according to Israel Hayom newspaper. “There are huge demonstrations in western capitals,” he said. “We need to apply counter-pressure?.?.?.?There have been disagreements with the best of our friends.”
Seems Netanyahu agrees with me that Israel is dependent on the West, yet their support is weakening….
Easter Sunday is racist, and so is Christmas.
Canadian Human Rights Commission Labels Christmas Celebration “Discrimination Grounded In Colonialism” (12 Dec)
Since the woke already regard Anzac Day, Australia Day and the Kings Birthday as colonialist I suppose that means we may as well abolish all public holidays.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-refuses-fire-gay-issues-statement-her-defense
The official kiss of desth for the Harvard president then?
Since the woke already regard Anzac Day, Australia Day and the Kings Birthday as colonialist I suppose that means we may as well abolish all public holidays.
They will just replace them with Invasion Day, Frontier war day, Genocide Day and Tranzpride Day (#sovirtuous)
Gotta luv living “houso” .. last week told one of next door’s kids to tell mum/dad (no Eng) they had a water leak at the junction tap & it needed fixing before a BIG bill .. this morning bloody thing is gushing! .. Furglewits …!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-sudden-about-face-israel-losing-support-due-indiscriminate-bombing
Biden agrees support for Israel is weakening….
free for me but not for thee
Then Musk feels the need to comment.
He loves trolling.
Turd in a shoe.
Karma, or something:
Turkish MP Suffers Heart Attack During Tirade Against Israel (12 Dec)
Paging Mossad! It’s got to be one of those secret cyborg mosquitos they pilot in to inject warriors for Allah with toxic stuff that stops their hearts.
Sounds about right, and definitely not accidental.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
In case you’re wondering why most people get dumber the longer they stay in school …
Age 4-18 … woke Government schools.
Age 18-22 … liberal brainwashing institutions (college)
Age 22-26 … more liberal brainwashing institutions for a higher degree.
Age 27 … a woke brainwashed, useful government idiot with no real world experience – all worthless theories, arrogant programmed responses, zero common sense, and totally useless.
The people running our lives view us as cattle.
Yuval Noah Harari discusses the creation of a massive class of useless people and what should be done with them
C’mon, Usman — cut to the chase.
Why doesn’t your t-shirt say: “I support genocide”?
You can take the man out of Pakistan, but you can’t take Pakistan out of the man.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/true_cost_of_charging_an_ev_is_equivalent_to_paying_1733_a_gallon_of_gas_per_new_report_.html
17.33 a gallon! As Neil Oliver said, ‘Its not about going green, its about going without…’
duk,
Your point was that Israel will disappear from the ME. The diplomatic to and fro of this latest conflict isn’t any indication that your point has more credibility than it had yesterday.
George Alexopoulos toon.
How could Harvard possibly expel another student for plagiarism? They need only point to the President of the college.
Dave Portnoy doubles down and says he will ‘never hire a Harvard grad again’ after President Claudine Gay keeps her job: ‘Your diploma is useless to me. The entire country should do the same’
Odd isn’t it, the crank seems to care more about the foreskins being snipped off than the rest of the male body. I wonder why that could be?
He wants Israel to disappear from the ME.
Jasper.
Embarrassing. Flat out calling it a cyclone – it’s devolved into a poxy everyday Rain Bomb.
Jewish lives don’t matter, Jewish foreskins do matter.
This is Washington, not Perth.
Climate justice in WA is not served by rejecting natural gas
The Obamas’ New Race-Baiting Film Gets PANNED By Viewers
Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
Christians NOT ALLOWED to be foster parents in Biden’s America..
“Those who DO NOT ‘affirm’ the LGBTQ rules because of their Christian faith will be deemed ‘unsafe’ by the Biden Administration and ultimately rejected as foster parent candidates.”
READ THAT TWICE..
The protests in the West are mulsim colonisers and their prog west boosters.
If hamas wasn’t embedded in about every school hospital mosques and thousands of homes this destruction would have been unnecessary.
The IDF targets hamas infrastructure, including of course tunnels.
Blame hamas.
Perhaps the poohpoohers have a better proposal?
selective quoting?
Biden says Netanyahu must ‘change’ hardline government as Israel loses support for Hamas war
For Cats with Grandkids in Victoria or just for fun/interest sake
VCE 2023: Student honour roll
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/vce-2023-student-honour-roll-20231201-p5eofo.html
Lurch isn’t happy.
Newt Gingrich: U.S. Climate Czar John Kerry Is ‘Not Mentally Sound’ (12 Dec)
I wonder when someone will notice the Kerry family and the Biden family have been in business together for quite a while.
Newt Gingrich: U.S. Climate Czar John Kerry Is ‘Not Mentally Sound’
Usman clearly very okay with the expulsion of 1.7 million Afghanis from Pakistan.
Go back to where you came from.
Of course it is. It was never anything more than a fig leaf, an excuse.
Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
How the Democrats can steal 2024
Khawaja , the same cricketer who wouldn’t touch the Aussie flag.
Australian cricket really is the pits.
True cost of charging an EV is equivalent to paying $17.33 a gallon of gas, per new report
Sad. A total sellout. You’d think he’d realise he’s destroying himself.
Ron DeSantis admits human activities drive climate change
lotocoti
Dec 13, 2023 8:17 AM
You have posted his ‘toons before, may I ask why?
Why do you find them worthy of posting, they are neither funny or profound nor clear of meaning.
Tastes differ I suppose.
Question.
Can you make a dog whistle out of a foreskin?
So the ostrayan cwicket likes to support the baby decapitators.
It’s time to let the advertisers know. Hit the emails cats.
I’m also willing to bet that that the newspaper itself quoted Netanyahu out of context ie don’t tell us what to do just give us the material support to do what needs to be done.
While Albanese bobbles around with fantasy ‘sustainable ceasefire’ and evenhandedly condemning both sides, the US enunciates the Gaza dilemma with some clarity:
US representative says ceasefire would be a danger to Israelis and Palestinians
So a view on the actual problem, rather than empty equivocation on the unequivocal.
The problem is, while Australia offers Israel the clarity of no support at all, the Biden Administration has shown US support to be a variable.
An acid test, right here.
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
rosie
Dec 13, 2023 8:26 AM
The protests in the West are mulsim colonisers and their prog west boosters.
If hamas wasn’t embedded in about every school hospital mosques and thousands of homes this destruction would have been unnecessary.
The IDF targets hamas infrastructure, including of course tunnels.
Blame hamas.
Perhaps the poohpoohers have a better proposal?
Benjamin Netanyahu, at least in private, has been blunt about what Israel needs most to destroy Hamas: a steady supply of more US bombs.
selective quoting?
rosie,
interesting from that FT Article –
Citing estimates of damage to urban areas, military analysts say the destruction of Northern Gaza – 58% in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the second world war.
“Dresden – 59%, Hamburg – 71%, Cologne- 61% — some of the world’s heaviest-ever bombings are remembered by their place names,” said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns. “Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”
Northern Gaza – 58%, doesn’t match Hamburg – 71%
Dersh:
Dershowitz: Identity Group ‘Studies’ Programs Should Be Abolished (12 Dec)
Unfortunately Alan it’s too late for that, although it would be a very welcome step. Nowadays even the sciences are fully woke – chemistry certainly, even astronomy. The termites have eaten the insides out of the institutions and now all that’s left is a shell full of lefty zombies.
Light drizzle forecast later today.
Stay safe out there.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
We have reached the point where our Capitols are removing Jefferson while monuments to Satan are erected.
Realize where we are.
I will be.
I would very much like to witness (via the picture wireless) the complete disintegration of the top order of a team that has held victor’s cups aloft solely due to its bowlers over the past three years.
Warner and Khawaja will be gorn at season’s end. If ex-Captain McSookCheat fails even once, he will implode mentally as speculation is already rife as to when he’ll go.
Labuschagne will stay – for the time being.
@amuse
@amuse
Democrats have lost the people.
Ban the weekend because of its association with the Biblical seven days of creation. Non-religious people shouldn’t have to bear this religious burden every week.
You may be an expert on cartoons, and I don’t know about funny but the meaning was very clear.
So unworldly you haven’t heard of Handmaids Tale a beloved by feminists book and TV series where the horrid patriarchy use women as nothing more than baby incubators?
Dont encourage, Friday would be the new Sunday.
The price of NOT defeating Hamas will be the continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians.
Re vJapser,
Pilot Grandson in Melbourne say Pilots use
https://www.windy.com/?-14.050,144.983,6,m:dd7akg2
seems pretty to Ventusky
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-17.09;145.35;6&l=gust&t=20231212/2100
Both better than BOM !
Probably a Dumb Question !
Does Australia need BOM? – Should we just shut BOM down and save Australian Taxpayers Money?
Folks, don’t try this at home.
Deary phucking me. Another front for perverts:
Cue a rise in drownings.
Catering for 20 people from a group of thousands. Not the best business model Mr Pearce you stupid man.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
– Groucho Marx
I will not be watching any cricket this summer.
My love for cricket ended when the Steve Waugh era ended.
Hard men, playing a hard sport.
Then it all changed with subsequent captains.
I stopped watching during the Michael Clarke era.
“Biological gender”
“Lawful criminal justice system”
“The economics of scientific resource allocation”
“Chemical reactions at the molecular level”
“Nuclear physics at the subatomic particle level”
1. Make gender a social construct, become Magikarp gendered for all I care.
2. Decry reality with a redundant descriptor and then complain that this proves gender is a social construct.
3. Adopt the social construct and discard scientific fact.
It’s a pea and thimble game.
Haha, nice trolling by the Israeli ambassador to the UN.
Yes he actually did that.
(Story kinky here.)
I haven’t seriously watched cricket since the 2007 World Cup.
Faulkner, Johnson and Maxwell made it interesting but meh.
Can you make a dog whistle out of a foreskin?
There was a young man from Nantucket ………
Unrelated to the cricketer mentioned above…it’s pretty well known in Sydney that a certain cricketer who portrays a saintly public image, abstaining from alcohol, living a life according to a certain religion, actually loves to party, ie booze & birds.
I’m not judging his personal life (hmmm…actually maybe, he is married after all & he’s been public how they both strictly observe the religion, she’s a borderline letterboxer in public).
The hypocrisy is what gets me.
The Horrific Outcomes of Covid Reinfection
Pakistan’s representative in the UN General Assembly said
No, beasts don’t generally have automatic weapons, boobytraps, and rockets to fight back with, so no they were not killed like beasts. We should have more sympathy for the side whose people were killed in the most grotesque manner, worse than any halal slaughter.
Australia voted for that.
Does Albo know Hamas is absolutely committed to a one-sided outcome?
Forget the Airbus.
Today he is Antisemite Albo.
Who leaned on this guy to be so ambivalent about a clear case of terrorism?
Oops, that was supposed to say “story linky here”. Certainly safe for work and not at all kinky. Must be my subconscious acting up.
It’s not accurate unfortunately since some other bunch will just replace Hamas and it’ll all happen again. But the lantana should be cut back enough that it’ll be many years before another pruning is required.
Comedian EXPOSES Woke Hypocrites – Francis Foster
an open-air prison
Yawn.
Before Oct 7th, get a work visa & leave pretty much at will.
Weird old prison that people would go there on holidays too.
More yawning.
This is probably entirely inappropriate, and I apologise in advance, but is it just me that notices that the sadly overweight Hamas captives seem to all wear very brief briefs instead of boxers or trunks? I would have thought boxers would be more comfortable in desert climes.
Sir Roden Cutler VC successfully demonstrated against bigotry and gender norms and hence stopped a bigoted 16 ft Great White Shark from harassing a transgendered tourist from Melbourne at Manly Beach back in 1934. It was driven offshore by his creative chants of “Hey hey, ho ho…” and that Great White Shark later that day brutally attacked a species confused 10ft “Tiger” Shark which it partially devoured off Long Reef Beach.
That Great White Shark went on to become…Adolf Hitler and that young transgendered bather was…Albert Einstein.
Can you make a dog whistle out of a foreskin?
You will be hearing from my chiropractor.!
Dr. John Campbell
Project fear
Pump it up!
Report: Israel begins flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater (12 Dec)
Flushing the sewer, literally. Even if it doesn’t work it’ll have a nice effect on their morale.
Nor are is his prophecies original.
He obviously wasn’t engaging in “sustainable Antisemitism”:
Anyway, thanks, BoN – my first LOL of the day.
Makka
Dec 13, 2023 8:14 AM
duk,
Your point was that Israel will disappear from the ME. The diplomatic to and fro of this latest conflict isn’t any indication that your point has more credibility than it had yesterday.
No, my point was that, given the magnitude of the adverse forces that surround them, Israel is dependent on outside aid (US and European) for its survival, yet said support was waning due to demographic and economic changes in the west, and negative reactions of their populations to daily pictures of explosions in gaza.
I posted contemporaneous quotes where Biden and Netanyahu agreed …. I rather think that might add ‘credibility’ to my analysis.
I am trying to imagine Allan Border running shirtless across a park at night, drunkenly pleading with a morning TV show host to believe his version of some alleged shag-a-thon triangle thingy.
Nup.
Can’t get that picture on my set.
If you’re interested in your $2.4M payment to Brittany Higgins, I’d strongly recommend you listen to this
Today, Justice Michael Lee of the Federal Court will listen, under Subpoena, to this recording, made in the public bar of Sydney’s Park Hyatt Hotel.
In the recording, Brittany Higgin’s lawyer is clearly heard telling her boyfriend, David Sharaz, how Higgins should respond to cross-examination.
It’s pretty clear and damning coaching – by proxy.
You’ll make up your own mind – and good on Sharri Markson for making it public.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/exclusive-tapes-revealed-secret-audio-captures-higgins-lawyer-giving-advice-to-her-fianc-in-middle-of-crucial-crossexamination/news-story/9484283297af1c531ce3415d7309ec87
Imagine that.
AB, Chopper Read and Elle McPherson in a love triangle.
It sounds so bizarre so I can’t believe any of the muck thrown at Clarke or Magill.
(Chortle)
Katzenjammer
Dec 13, 2023 8:42 AM
The paper cited Christianity’s two biggest holy days (Christmas and Easter) as examples of “present-day systemic religious discrimination” linked to colonialism because they are statutory holidays in Canada.
Ban the weekend because of its association with the Biblical seven days of creation. Non-religious people shouldn’t have to bear this religious burden every week.
Apart from the anti-Christian bias which seems to go with all things today, I wonder if there is also a push by employers for this? No penalty rates for staff on weekends and public holidays. Staff can be scheduled to have their weekends whenever the employer says.
On the flip side, I have no problem as a Christian in taking Christmas Day and Good Friday off as leave without pay. As long as every other religious holiday is treated the same.
Also, non-Christian folk are quite welcome to go to work on those days and earn money. Single time rate of course.
Walk it back all you like, your central point was that Israel will disappear from the ME by weight of numbers. You now use the senile Biden’s latest brainfart in an ongoing diplomatic see- saw as evidence. Sorry, zero credibility.
The sheer amount of stuff Hamas had is a tell.
Journalist on IDF duty: ‘This is what we found in Gaza homes’ (12 Dec)
All of it has come in from Egypt. I suspect when the dust settles the Israelis will enforce an exclusion zone between Egypt and the rest of Gaza, so that tunnels and smuggling won’t be as easy to do. There’ll be screeching from the usual suspects of course.
Sorry you don’t like the way he conveys a message.
Allan Border writing ‘All Lives Matter’ on his shoes.
Allan Border bursting into tears on the picture wireless after his team got caught rubbing sandpaper on the pill, and which he knew about beforehand but was too weak to put a stop to.
Allan Border putting a Chinese mattress company logo on his bat.
Allan Border extolling the virtues of climate change and reducing fossil fuels while living in a multi-million dollar Sidernee mansion. And saying ‘it’s complex’ when taken to task over it.
Also no.
You now use the senile Biden’s latest brainfart in an ongoing diplomatic see- saw as evidence. Sorry, zero credibility.
And Bibi?
Duk isn’t considering the upsides for Israel, besides the systematic destruction of Hamas and bringing many of the terrorists to justice (possible life sentences or even CP given the extraordinary circumstances) – no more Hamas means no more brainwashing with Farfour and Neehoul etc.
The Palestinian Authority/West Bank are glad to see the back of Hamas.
A large minority of Gazans maybe too.
Egypt (al Sisi) is probably glad they’re removed.
Hezbollah are reduced to internet trolling.
France has been dishonoured by Iranian proxies.
The Hamas cause is unpopular in Iran.
Only one Palestine to negotiate with.
Derailing a treaty process between Israel & Arab players did not happen as planned by Iran.
Probably.
To answer your question; I would prefer boxers (or even commando) in high humidity. In dry desert heat it wouldn’t matter as much.
OldOzzie
Dec 13, 2023 9:16 AM
Thanks for the TV link.
almost as good as JC’s repeated call a while back
This is NOT inflationary … LoL
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s brutal Christmas message for Anthony Albanese – as she calls on Aussies to celebrate Australia Day
. Jacinta Price says Australia Day a ‘proud’ event
. Calls for UK Australia Day dinner to be reinstated
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has hit out Anthony Albanese’s government and called for a cancelled Australia Day event in Britain to be reinstated as she called for Australians to be ‘proud’ of their national day again.
During an interview with 2GB’s Mark Levy, Senator Price urged Anthony Albanese to reverse the decision made by the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Stephen Smith, to cancel the annual Australia Day Gala.
Mr Smith cancelled the Australia Day Gala black-tie, run by the not-for-profit Australia Day Foundation to fund scholarships for Australians to study in Britain, citing the ‘sensitivities’ the event touches on ‘for some Australians’.
Price said the move by Mr Smith, the former Labor MP who was hand-picked to the plum diplomatic posting by the Prime Minister, was ‘unAustralian’ and ‘uncalled for’.
‘I would like to understand where Mr Smith thinks he can make this determination all by himself. Who gave him permission to do so?’ she asked.
Senator Price argued the result of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum showed that ‘Australians are sick of being put down’.
‘I think it is a put down to put an end to any celebrations of Australia Day,’ she said.
She called on Australians to celebrate Australia Day next year.
‘I think we have to get back to being proud of what it means to be Australian in this lucky country and appreciate what we do have.
‘I think the Prime Minister should be overturning those (Mr Smith’s) actions because they are uncalled for and unAustralian.’
She also accused Voice advocates of failing to come to terms with the real meaning of the measure’s defeat at the October 14 referendum, which saw over 60 per cent of voters reject it.
They stop camel spiders running up their legs and biting them on the sack.
After trying a number of services, we have settled on Elder’s Weather.
Their publically available material is basically reworked public domain and BOM data but their analysys by region is far superior to BOM, and more moderate. Their regionally located folks provide on-the-ground inputs that are useful.
Others may disagree, but we find their consultancy service to be the best available.
Brought to you by the Little Cylone That Could(n’t).
Duk isn’t considering the upsides for Israel, besides the systematic destruction of Hamas and bringing many of the terrorists to justice ….. no more Hamas means no more brainwashing with Farfour and Neehoul etc.
1) Hamas will be damaged but not destroyed, it will reconstitute, or be replaced by something similar. Voids get filled.
2) Hamas is a symptom of the problem (1400 years of clashing religious ideologies), not the cause of the problem, ‘eliminating’ it will not change that.
3) For every terrorist ‘brought to justice’, more will be created by the process, many more…
Looks like a piss take, but they are feckin’ Oirish.
Trans
What was my call as I’ve never made a “call” other than saying I don’t care for it either way.
Try and answer the question and not bullshit for once, you buffoon..
Go!
Ps try and capitalise your sentences you appalling dickweed.
You just get a feeling that the 2024 “Hunks of Hamas” calendar isn’t going to be a best seller.
“A White Male Would Probably Already Be Gone”
Former Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain discusses the situation of Harvard president Claudine Gay
Yesterday, journalist Christopher Brunet and I broke a story examining evidence that strongly suggests that Harvard president Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. dissertation, according to Harvard’s own academic integrity policies.
One of the scholars that Gay used material from in at least two instances was Carol Swain, who has served as a professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt.
Swain is also known as one of America’s most prominent black conservatives and has published scholarly work criticizing race-based preferences and affirmative action.
This morning, I spoke with Swain, who said that she saw “a clear pattern of what one would consider plagiarism in Dr. Gay’s thesis” and called into question Gay’s continued service as Harvard’s president.
The following transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Christopher Rufo: What are your thoughts about the Claudine Gay plagiarism accusations?
Carol Swain: What is bothering me is not just that there’s passages she didn’t put in quotation marks. When I look at her work, I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work. It bothers me because I know that my work was a big deal in the early 1990s. And I started falling out of favor in 1995 when I started criticizing race-based affirmative action. I thought affirmative action should be means-tested and race-neutral. When I started putting those ideas out, that’s when I started falling out of favor and getting labeled as a conservative, even while I was a Democrat, and blacks started attacking me, calling me a “sellout.”
Rufo: In my recent story, I documented at least two instances in which Gay lifted from your work. Do you consider that to be plagiarism?
Swain: There seems to be a pattern because it’s not just two cases from my work. There are instances that you point to from other people’s work. At best, it was sloppiness, but it would be considered plagiarism if you lift sections of other people’s work and you pass it off as your own.
Rufo: Throughout the paper, she lifted verbatim passages from others but did not put them in quotation marks. I consulted Harvard’s own plagiarism policy, and these all appear to be clear violations.
Swain: She became president of Harvard and got recognition as being its first black president. I don’t believe her record warranted tenure, and I believe that I had to meet a much higher standard than she did. Something changed in the mid-1990s, [when] we were having a big affirmative action debate.
Duk
You just don’t know if 1. and 3. are true. You’re assuming they’re true and they also are concomitant with your pre existing belief set.
…PS
You ignored the ancillary benefits listed after mention of Farfour and Neehoul.
Up in Cairns for Xmas, took the dog for a walk about an hour ago, no rain, mediocre wind gusts.
It is just starting to rain relatively heavily, with the odd gust of wind.
Jasper is due to cross the coast at 1300L, (according to BOM anyway), but it is only growing to Cat 2.
I followed the emergency instructions, to the letter, and stocked up on decent red, plus beer. Can’t be too careful.
Had a good cross section of weather over the last week.
One of the kids is a Pilot with 1 Sqn and went to Amberley to watch their last sortie last Thursday. (Posted). Sure beats working for a living.
(Great to see our taxes put to good use.)
Quite warm there, now a cyclone in Cairns.
We spend our time between Adelaide and Cairns. The betrothed said last week in Adelaide, “it was 35C one day and 19C the next”.
We almost got to see the four seasons, Autumn, Winter, Spring and Climate Change.
Brittany is engaging in calorific expiation.
Israel will have to have a satellite with the ability to trace movements towards tunnel entrances in Gaza and Egypt. Shouldn’t be too hard to write algorithms for tracing of goods going into a building and not coming out the same way. Elon will probably put it up for nothing. He’s already got heaps of geostationary satellites, another wouldn’t be noticed.
pluck the cricket, they can do the eviscerater support with someone else’s money.
Daily Mail. Hard not to laugh.
On ABC RN AM today Simon Birmingham was resolute in support of Israel’s war objective of dismantling Hamas, lest they be allowed to regroup and continue their campaign of killing Israelis.
I won’t give him extra credit, because it’s what he should be saying, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Indolent’s link from yesterday
too good to leave on the OOT
The Problems with Regulating Hate Speech | Jordan Peterson
A shout out to Old Ozzie. Please don’t be hurt by that utterly uncalled for and very vitriolic drivel posted yesterday. We like your comments and appreciate them. Please continue.
I agree. We appreciate the comments.
Besides Old Ozzie drives a Honda Jazz. We need to be kind and gentle with him.
stfu clown
Rufus – You’re supposed to be fleeing in terror.
QFES warns coastal residents to evacuate as Cyclone Jasper moves closer (12 Dec)
The wrath of Gaia is coming down upon you horrible climate deniers!
It’s hard to imagine Ian Redpath or Rick “the Snick” McCosker wearing slogans either. They played cricket and we loved them for it.
Consonants are a problem,
bvowels are a bigger problem. e.g. Knackerless when one meant to write Knickerless.I stopped watching during the Michael Clarke era.
Myself when Speed threw Symonds under a bus.
Khawaja to me has always been a diversity pick, probably a decent club cricketer or even Sheffield Shield player but not at national team standard.
Calli:
And that’s why we have that cringeworthy Roxburgh ad – “You’ve gotta watch it!”
Duk there are 1.9 billion potential terrorists. When the crazies turn up and threaten your family, they are only too willing. This is without the ones already to die for Islam. I say give them that wish. They are still dead. I don’t care. They want to die, part of a shit for brains philosophy. There is no reasoning with this.
The sad irony might be that the Cane Toad’s highest ratings might come in her last TV appearance – on the Federal Court youtube channel.
“I’m ready for my close-up Mr DeMille”.
In response to some of us who have forgotten what it was like my side of the fence with the Vaccine Mania.
Still waiting for your recommended alternative strategy for Israel to be successful.
You need to STFU, trans.
Stick to recipes and switch flicking, dumbo.
It’s further down the list – try this link.
Further to my interlocution with Beaugan yesterday evening, there was no official condemnation of Galileo by any church a uthority other than the Vatican. Heliocentrism had been discussed in Protestant circles as early as Melanchthon’s time at Wittenberg, where it was presented as a theory not proven by the science of the day.
Thanks, bons. It looks good.
Reading that Ed HUSIC is a firm believer in “free” speech after lotza negative commentary over his “I luv Gaza” & “It’s not fair Israel is winning” whinings in the media …..
Why do none of these “reporters” ask ED about how much “free” speech HAMAS allows the Gazan “vote-herd” … ?
bons, Elders use BoM data without false opinion added. When I was at the beachhouse 2 weeks ago BoM were saying rain, Elders a slight chance. No rain. Elders update regularly, BoM don’t. Hence the storms that supposedly come out of nowhere and the warm but boiling days that never eventuate.
Bras DO make breasts less perky! Experts say ditching YOURS could improve blood flow, strengthen muscles & help defy gravity
. US content creator said going braless for 5 years made her breasts ‘more perky’
. Doctors said that not wearing a bra can help build up muscles in the chest
OMG!!!!
SMH reporting that Australia has broken away from USA position & voted for a ceasefire at Gaza!
A test average of 47.2 puts him above most of his Australian contemporaries.
Writing slogans on his boots is a bit silly but…
I gave up when the TV commentary team suddenly had to be a woman, a black man and a tranny (yes, him). I just couldn’t get past woke being shoved down my throat so I stopped watching, and stopped listening too since ABC cricket calling was the same mandatory mix of annoying fruitcakes. Then the side themselves went political as well and that was the complete end for me.
Allan Border writing ‘All Lives Matter’ on his shoes.
Allan Border bursting into tears on the picture wireless after his team got caught rubbing sandpaper on the pill, and which he knew about beforehand but was too weak to put a stop to.
Allan Border putting a Chinese mattress company logo on his bat.
Allan Border extolling the virtues of climate change and reducing fossil fuels while living in a multi-million dollar Sidernee mansion. And saying ‘it’s complex’ when taken to task over it.
I didn’t know any of that. Thanks KD. The things you learn on the Cat!!!
Outrage of the undies
Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
The murder and rape of Israelis on Oct. 7 led to a spike in antisemitism, not anger against Hamas. And yet, the world can’t tolerate photos of defeated Palestinian terrorists.
The men, heads hung low, are kneeling and stripped down to their underwear with their hands tied.
The images are redolent of defeat.
Those who not so long ago gloried in the unspeakable suffering inflicted on Oct. 7 as Hamas succeeded in murdering more than 1,200 men, women and children, as well as the rape and torture of the victims and the kidnapping of more than 200 others, were now reduced to the status of helpless captives.
The bravado they displayed in the aftermath of the assault on Israel was gone.
On their faces could be seen the impact of their defeat, and perhaps, the realization that the calculations of their leadership that those who once ruled Gaza could wage war on Israel with impunity were wrong.
While Hamas’s senior leaders live in luxury and safety in Qatar, the terrorist rank-and-file is now paying the price for their folly.
To anyone familiar with the history of warfare in the last century, the sight is hardly unique.
Similar pictures depict those Japanese soldiers who surrendered during World War II as well as other combatants in various wars, especially against terrorist groups.
When facing those who are indoctrinated in a cult of fanatical hatred against their enemies and who are likely to attempt to continue to kill even after surrender, stripping prisoners down and ensuring that they are not still armed or wearing booby-trap explosives is simply common sense.
The alternative is to risk letting members of a group committed as a matter of faith and political objectives to destroying the State of Israel and slaughtering its population, kill Israelis who believe their opponents have already given up.
Are such images humiliating for those in the pictures?
Of course.
But if you’re angry about the wounded pride of members of a barbaric terrorist group, then maybe you’re the one who has no moral compass, not the Israelis.
Still waiting for your recommended alternative strategy for Israel to be successful.
I stated at the outset that whilst I understand the Israeli need to strike back, I dont think there is a winning strategy for Israel in the long term. The differences between Judaism and Islam in the middle east are irreconcilable, meaning conflict is inevitable until one side is eliminated. Given the disparity in populations, I can only see one end to that, particularly given declining western support which they are reliant on. Happy to hear your analysis however.
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OldOzzie
Dec 13, 2023 7:46 AM
Good News – No Welcome to Country on Qantas Flight Yesterday
Hope it Continues
That would have been a good meeting
Jason: I can’t believe it’s, like, No 70%
Adrian ( from accounts): it’s worse, they are the ones who can afford to fly business class. We are going to have to cut the Welcome.
Braelyn (Marketing); Maybe we could have digeridoo. That is, like, the same.
Vicki – for context, those statements referred to the following people, in order:
1. Khawaja
2. Smith
3. Also Smith
4. Cummins
Allan ‘fckin do that again mate, and you’ll be on the next plane home*’ Border would never have countenanced any of this dross.
*To Craig McDermott, on field and in England in 1993.
To Brisvegas now, for a week or so of outdoor pursuits!
This is without the ones already to die for Islam. I say give them that wish. They are still dead. I don’t care. They want to die, part of a shit for brains philosophy.
Sure, they dont mind dying for their cause….The problem is the Islamists want to get to paradise *by killing infidels*…
The tokenism is annoying, but on the few occasions I heard him on the radio McGregor was a very good commentator. Probably knows more about the game than most of the ex-test players they employ, who also tend to have limited vocabularies. Ian Chappell was particularly bad in that respect.
SMH reporting that Australia has broken away from USA position & voted for a ceasefire at Gaza!
So, an indication of strengthening or wavering support for Israel?
Then the side themselves went political as well and that was the complete end for me.
And isn’t it a damn shame, Bruce?
It is the most sublime game at the highest level. Some of the best times of our life have been hubby and me at the SCG for the New Years Day game….in the stand directly behind the wicket, glass of wine, & hot chips……& “Skull” on the headphones…
Nice to be greeted by a head on a stick. See, people are listening.
Someone’s been doing their homework .. whilst the media bombards us with both “news” & their opinions regarding Ukraine & Gaza very little mention of the other 181, YES 181, military conflicts going on around the world .. the largest number in over 30 years and the associated deaths for 2023 are already 14% higher than previous years ………
Puts voting at the UN into perspective! .. troughers all!
Alan Border did advertise Tetley teabags back in the day. I distinctly remember AB smiling as he said; “Naturally, the tea quality is excellent.” It was about the time on the ashes tour in 93 when he castigated Craid McDermott fielding.
Hey, hey, hey, hey I’m f***ing talking to you. Come here, come here, come here, come here.”
McDermott’s casual glance back to the skipper didn’t please the man in-charge.
Border shot back, “Do that again, mate, and you will be on the next plane home.”
McDermott replied something which wasn’t picked up by the microphone, but not pleased with it, Border charged back at the bowler saying, “What was that?”
McDermott, giving-up like a school-kid responded, “Nothing, I didn’t say a thing.”
Pointing his fingers at the bowler, Border’s last words of the drama came, “You f****ing test me and you’ll see.”
Billy Bloodnut and AB. Both Queenslanders.
So, an indication of strengthening or wavering support for Israel?
Just a typical Labor position, I would think, though there would be some opposition to it from within the Party.
If I didn’t know how challenged the Labor Party is in the intellect department, I would say they have a death wish for the next election in a little over a year’s time. This latest decision is but the most recent in not reading the electorate at large. They might save a couple of electorates in Sydney’s west and in some other state electorates, but I still think Aussies are good people.
Border is a NSWelshman who switched to QLD c. 1980.
But we’ll happily claim him as a native.