Thanks Cassie.
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Also learnt today that my SIL has Jewish “descent”, if that is even a thing. Apparently her maternal great grandmother…
When I was a kid, growing up in County Durham, a day trip to the beach, 15kms away, took lotza…
So many promises being made why not throw in Gladiators as well. Could be a 2nd career path for NRL…
Our American guest lives in Portland, which has been traditionally Democrat country, blue as blue, and I had thought them…
EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Giuliani Speaks to Gateway Pundit Following “UnAmerican” Trial in DC Court, Says He Will Appeal $148 MILLION Ruling – Still Stands by His Statements About the 2020 Election
um you guys, i’m not really sure i like this google/WEF game show very much…
Democrat congressional aide Aidan Maese-Czeropski is FIRED by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin after gay sex tape filmed in Senate swept the internet
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Joe Biden: Decency is on the ballot!
Winston Smith
Dec 17, 2023 8:14 AM
If your car is a write-off, will they give you the agreed $4K?
What does it mean but, do you have to give back the plates and de register the car?
I’m sure you can get an engine for far less than 4 K and even if you have to roadworthy and re-register you’ll be OK.
Never had this problem myself, so I don’t know.
As green energy funds drop in value, investors are fleeing: Will it be the end of ESG?
On This Day:
What?
And:
PA: “On Saturday, we murder the Jews; On Sunday, we murder the Christians”
Haaretz Journalist Gideon Levy in Turkey: ‘The world should stop Israel’
He’s absolutely right.
Elon Musk Says DEI ‘Must Die’
Woke LA DA George Gascon’s new chief of staff is proud former LOOTER who wants to abolish prisons and defund ‘barbarian’ police: Backed ransacking of shops during 2020 BLM riots
Rockdoctor
I think my wanting to keep the 380 on the road is overrunning my good sense.
After thinking about this most of the night, I recon it’s time to put the old girl out to pasture.
Sad, but that’s the way it is.
Anti-White – The Acceptable Racism. Aviva hiring policy demands extra checks for “white men”.
If your car is a write-off, will they give you the agreed $4K?
What does it mean but, do you have to give back the plates and de register the car?
Several years ago my son had a car that was written off after an accident .. insurance paid the agreed amount and left him with the disposal of the vehicle .. he on-sold it to a car wrecker for $1500 ………..
The insurance company takes ownership of the car.
Dot
Jeez, Dot.
Make up your mind – you want me to stop making terrible decisions AND buy a Prado?
Bing Bong Bluuurt!
Looking at used car prices, I’ll put the 380 out to pasture and stay with the Patrol.
🙂
The Third Sunday of Advent
This Sunday is traditionally called Gaudete Sunday,
based on the Introit for the day:
Gaudete in Domino semper, iterum dico, Gaudete, from
Philippians 4:4 – Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, Rejoice
If you were going to spend 10k + …
Buy. The. Bloody. Prado!
This one is a touch more at 14k.
https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2001-toyota-landcruiser-prado-gxl-auto-4×4/SSE-AD-15091475
2001 GXL Prado Landcruiser, 293k km.
Starter motor, radio and rear shocks might need to replaced over the next few years, that’s it. It will never break down without a damned good reason.
Russell Brand
Now It Makes Sense
The Prado can be used as a Nissan Recovery Vehicle…
Just get a fun car then on the side. You can get old min 2000s Jaguars cheap. Just drive them like they’re disposable. You’re not going to keep it on the road forever.
Consider them like what VL Commodores were to kids in high school in my “day”. A recreational vehicle targeted by plod.
Now that’s part of Paducah’s history that you never hear about.
It’s all floods, crinolines and quilts.
Black DEI Director Fired for “White Supremacy” | Glenn Loury & Tabia Lee | The Glenn Show
3D ones and vector rotations
Thanks for your reply re. Elsie, Winston.
Please consider keeping her inside for no less than 5 days. She will be traumatised after her flight as well as entry into her new environment. Also, I recommend keeping her inside at night for her own safety.
The butter on paws is a bit of a myth – things grandma told me! 🙂
Rest of plan looks fairly good.
Dr. John Campbell
False positives
Please say it is sooooooo…
Blue collar workers deserting Anthony Albanese for Peter Dutton, poll reveals
Labor’s blue collar vote continues to collapse as it heads into a crucial by-election next year that will test Peter Dutton’s strategy to win government.
Labor’s blue collar vote continues to collapse as it heads into a crucial by-election next year that will test Peter Dutton’s strategy to win government.
The latest RedBridge poll has found a surge in support for the Coalition among voters with vocational and TAFE educations, with it now well ahead of Labor among tradies.
This shows Mr Dutton’s decision to ignore the affluent Teal seats and concentrate on outer suburban and regional seats appears to be paying dividends and comes ahead of the by-election in Dunkley, on the outskirts of Melbourne.
The poll also found only 30 per cent of voters think Labor is focused on the right priorities, with 53 per cent disagreeing.
Worryingly for Labor the percentage of voters who say Peter Dutton and the Coalition are not ready for government dipped below 50 per cent for the first time since the election.
Since August, Labor’s primary vote among voters with TAFE and vocational training educations has fallen from 36 per cent to 30 per cent.
Worryingly for Labor these voters have not moved their support to the Greens or independents but have moved straight across to the Coalition whose primary vote has jumped from 29 to 39 per cent.
The blue collar exodus from Labor has seen the Government’s two-party preferred support with them drop from 57 down to 48 per cent and comes months before the by-election Dunkley which it holds by 6 per cent and where this group makes up 34 per cent of the electorate.
At 33 per cent Labor’s overall primary vote is now roughly back to where it was at last year’s federal election, while the Coalition’s 35 per cent is still well behind Scott Morrison’s 41.5 per cent.
On a two-party preferred basis, however, the results are almost identical to last year’s election that Labor won 52.1 to 47.9 per cent.
The latest RedBridge polls also tested views on immigration, with 70 per cent agreeing Australian cities are already too crowded, and 44 per cent and 41 per cent saying immigrants are a burden on the social welfare system and take jobs from other Australians.
Only 8 per cent of voters believe immigration should be increased and 46 per cent would like to see cut.
RedBridge Director Tony Bary said the poll had worrying signs for Labor.
“A lot of the lead indicator numbers in our polling is moving away from Albanese and will start to drag his vote down if he doesn’t take strong remedial action,” he said.
“The Albanese Government’s capacity for navel gazing on issues that aren’t personally relevant to most voters is starting to become a big political problem.”
He said the other issue “is voters now readily recognise there is a housing supply and demand issue and they are making a link between that problem, supporting infrastructure and immigration levels.”
Poor old Sleazy, he’s been lost since the night of 14 October 2023. He’ll just continue to drown his sorrows sipping $500.00 bottles of wine.
Further to the sTeals, I think some if not all will return to the Liberals but I’m pleased that Dutton is not focusing on those selfish smug, hypocritical electorates.
#illuptickcalli
😀
Labor’s only appeal is to the bugmanclasses now. Done quite deliberately.
They wear a wokker skinsuit, but it’s as transparent as glass.
Sydney travel guide in the WSJ: A Traveler’s Walking Guide to Sydney’s Buzzing City Center
The first comment:
A repy by a another reader
The butter on the paws may be a myth, but it’s a surefire way to make a cat love you. It’s only cupboard love of course and goes with the Whiskas and Fancy Feast.
Liz Storer can replace Rita Panihi on Sky Outsiders anytime she likes. Woof.
Sydney will never live down the shame of that.
It was a snapshot of the great, egalitarian, friendly city’s demise in a single sentence.
Thanks be to our politicians and Immigration Department. You wastes of food.
Fair go…they’re bringing immigration down to just 250 000+ (if you can believe it).
But seriously, RedBridge is the Labor polling outfit that warned Albanese the Voice was going to be a disaster. He didn’t listen.
Private (hates them we does my preciousssss) schools donations- evil.
University endowments – just peachy
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/17/dogs-breakfast-philanthropy-laws-contributing-to-private-school-over-funding-report-says
A “radical” overhaul of tax-deductible donations could prevent wealthy private schools using the system to fund “lavish” facilities.
Research by Save Our Schools has shown that 10 of Australia’s wealthiest schools received more than $200m in donations over a five-year period – income that does not affect the level of government funding they receive.
A draft report on philanthropic giving released by the Productivity Commission at the end of November has recommended stripping tax-deductible status from “school building funds”, many of which are run by religious schools.
Thanks be to our politicians and Immigration Department. You wastes of food.
And thanks to the NSWaffen Police, who provided a personal escort and stood by whilst Muslim and leftist scum screeched “kill the Jews” and “gas the Jews”. A gentle reminder too that amongst the scum that night was the son of a current NSW Labor minister and a staffer from Plibershit’s office.
And never forget this, that infamous night of 9 October 2023, the NSWaffen Police declared Sydney’s CBD ‘Judenfrei’.
Dunno about others, but I will never ever forgive or forget this.
Israeli MP Sharren Haskel on Sky Outsiders: “Your (Australian) government is having the same fight as our government with radical Islam.”
So true — except Elbow and the Wong chap are taking Hamas’s side.
NSW Plod: ‘We’re monitoring the situation.’
I now await the down tick to my comment. It seems that someone who lurks here doesn’t like Calli or me.
I’m in good company then!
Snap, cassie.
It was disgraceful.
The Labor Party wouldn’t recognise a blue collar worker if they fell over one in the road.
My annual glossy pamphlet goes straight in the bin joining the UWA one. The only thing stopping most school building programs is they’ve run out of room, the local council and land prices of the leafy suburbs that surround them. Hale school in Perf now laughing sitting on half of Wembley Downs (where I grew up).
This is fine…
https://www.curtin.edu.au/friends/support-curtin/
This is not you bigotty bigots
https://saveourschools.com.au/funding/50-wealthy-private-schools-raked-in-over-600-million-in-donations-investment-income/#:~:text=The%20top%2010%20schools%20were,Grammar%20(Vic)%20%2417M.
Funnily enough nothing about funding sources for “save our schools”, which may be as “organic” as Harold Scrubbys (very) pedestrian council.
https://saveourschools.com.au/category/about-save-our-schools/
Sleazy Antionette, with apologies to the late Queen of France, a most unfairly maligned woman.
Fate sealed:
Al Gore on X praises new QLD Premier, calls him a ‘climate champion’
Hale, UWA and Twiiggy should prove a formidable combination.
No comment necessary.
Farking hell. Sam Hyde and Nick Rochefort are doing a live dating show for Chris Lynch right now, they have a cute West African real life witch on now!
She’s the pick of the bunch. One is a white girl with a hoodie and agoraphobia.
He’s there, isn’t he?
I may sur WIP for a new keyboard.
Was the car insured for agreed value?
Was the event leading to damage an insurable event?
sue
“Don’t give em champagne they don’t deserve it, give them some Powerade…”
LOL!
Went to a talk at UWA with a guy from Oxford Uni who is an authority on heart physiology and sudden death. Astra Zeneca and covid came up (incidentally). Much of it went over my head. Naturally, as a medico he was very pro vaccine. He came across as a good guy – mad professor hair always a good sign.
link?
Sam Hyde and Nick Rochefort are doing a live dating show for Chris Lynch right now, they have a cute West African real life witch on now!
“I shouldn’t have stopped for that haircut”
It’s wild bro
Controlled uncontrolled chaos.
https://www.youtube.com/live/tDQGGz6CIvo?feature=shared
Nick: “Well, they will cost you thousands in legal bills”
Sam: *You should get more pit bulls*
That doesn’t make sense, you agreed to an insurance value of $4000 didn’t you?
There’s a backstory. He had one last year during a game, atrial fibrillation, but was cleared to play after surgical treatment. That looks to’ve been a mistake, but you can understand a bloke wanting to continue in a job he loves doing and gets paid well for.
That order created no end of confusion. Did it apply to the Jewish sutlers, who provided the soldiers with essential supplies, or, indeed, to the hundreds of Jewish soldiers, in the Union ranks?
We spent years driving up and down Caves Rd. The only winery I think we ever went to was Pierro when our car broke down outside before mobile phones. I ended up staying there one night because a mate knew the daughter of one of the owners. We got the end of the day’s tastings before heading out to an outdoor concert. It was pretty ugly. Took about a day and a half till everybody was accounted for and we could leave in disgrace.
Travelling from outside the county for sexual gain makes it sound like Lincolnshire has a local girls for local grooming gangs policy.
how does a 29yo get af?
Tom – I think he referred to that incident. Apparently there is some genetic abnormality and leads to a heart attack in 30 to 50% of people before they’re 40yo.
Really just luck – bad or otherwise- whether you make it or not.
The corpulent lawyer getting a bit noisy lately. Just piss off Gore you loathsome waste of space.
Two women killed amid Israeli attack at Holy Family Parish in Gaza
Vatican court convicts Cardinal Becciu, sentences him to 5 years in jail for embezzlement
and Democrat depravity in the Senate
From memory Grants problem was the “carpetbaggers” following the troops.
Buying up all the stranded cotton then tying up most of the supply chain getting it out of the Southern states.
Grant erred in using a broad brush approach to his problem, in reality many were probably the same people supplying his own army “informally”.
Pell vindicated (again) overnight in Rome this time. Possibly a little late, depending on your POV.
Snap P.
Daily Mail. Marcia Langton plays the race card.
Well…it is the only card in her hand.
Fantastic gig by the Cruel Sea at the Enmore Theatre last night. No sign of albansleazey, thank goodness, although it seems he’s hiding in WA quaffing some affordable wines.
Realised last night that I hadn’t seen the Cruel Sea since 1991 and that I was probably also at the first gig they played with Tex as the vocalist – Max’s Petersham, 1989?
Tex was in fabulous form last night as was the rest of the band. No political posturing, just good ol’ fashioned Rock ‘n’ Roll. The story about the fate of the Aria they won for “the Honeymoon is Over” was hilarious as well. They truly are a useless bauble.
Vatican Court Convicts Cardinal Becciu, Sentences Him to 5 Years in Jail for Embezzling Funds
Correct link (I hope) –
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/cardinal-becciu-guilty-vatican-finance-trial
Basically the situation – his own father, Jesse Root Grant, had arrived at Grant’s headquarters, with two of his business partners, wanting a permit to trade in cotton.
$500 wines. I wonder if it was Cloudburst.
Exactly who is this fat stupid embittered ol’ cow to be demanding these things in the first place?
You and your fellow racist commie fauxborigines were told in no uncertain terms on October 14 to stick your screech up your ample backsides.
Now stop your infernal whining and eff off.
What I don’t get is why is she a perfessa
? Isn’t that a whitek*nt concept?
. The last member of the Australian Labor Party who had callouses on their hands was Peter Walsh now the only time a Labor politician has callouses on their hands is when their shaking hands with a labourer. False advertising, fools so many knaves and fools.
Marcia Langton in full whinge mode…
Daily Mail
Speaking of academics, there don’t seem to many that I would call ‘scholars’. Just marxist operatives, most of them.
You mustn’t have heard the exciting news, Rabz.
Albanese & Burney are considering local and regional Voices which don’t require constitutional amendment.
A Makarrata – truth telling leading to treaties – is still on the table too.
. Indeed nice piece of land that, bit like the Kings School in Sydney.
Scruton Lectures 2023 – Peter Thiel on The Diversity Myth
Stories my Nanna told me.
“I don’t drive a boat mate” (reference to flooding after Jasper)
Students For Liberty
@sfliberty
As part of his program to combat the deficit, Javier Milei announced the sale of Argentina’s state airplanes and cars, along with a reduction of 50% in the number of motorists available to politicians.
He declared that such privileges are “irrational”.
Imagine if that starts to be a trend…
I’m confident that the incoming NZ Government won’t be able to hold the line, but in the short term they are engaging in great sport in Parliament ditching the Labour, Green, rad Maroi, WEF dictatorship.
The new Ministers have been queueing up to announce the ditching of almost every Adern outrage. (Note to Abbott: no committees, no enquiries, no consultative groups, just the Ministerial red pen).
Notable also is the quality of discourse, unlike the barely literate drivel heard in
Canberra.
They have cancelled a bunch of projects corrupted by the unions, dumped truckloads of Adern regulations (further note to Tony Abbott, these are current regulations not those implemented by Governor Macquarie), they are sacking public servants involved in coercive or woke regulation and shutting down their agencies, they have cancelled the woke/communist curriculum, Maori priveledge is being cut back, social security is being realigned, and so on.
Unlike the SFL, these guys arrived in Government with a detailed plan, none of which involved bedwetting.
They took great pleasure in announcing to Parliament that two ministers actually owned businesses and others had worked in the private sector.
Unfortunately it is all noise. Voting for the UN ceasefire resolution and support for the COP idiocy demonstrates that they just another bunch of lefty lite conformists who will not carry through with their plans.
Tradies deserting Labor:
Labor’s blue collar vote continues to collapse as it heads into a crucial by-election next year that will test Peter Dutton’s strategy to win government.
The latest RedBridge poll has found a surge in support for the Coalition among voters with vocational and TAFE educations, with it now well ahead of Labor among tradies.
This shows Mr Dutton’s decision to ignore the affluent Teal seats and concentrate on outer suburban and regional seats appears to be paying dividends and comes ahead of the by-election in Dunkley, on the outskirts of Melbourne.
The poll also found only 30 per cent of voters think Labor is focused on the right priorities, with 53 per cent disagreeing.
Worryingly for Labor the percentage of voters who say Peter Dutton and the Coalition are not ready for government dipped below 50 per cent for the first time since the election.
Since August, Labor’s primary vote among voters with TAFE and vocational training educations has fallen from 36 per cent to 30 per cent.
Herald-Sun
Rosie, not addressing one point in a series of points isn’t ignoring it. But if I must, the percentage would be negligible given that the payload of most Hamas missiles can barely knock over a street cart, compared with the 250-2000Ib high grade explosives being used by the IDF that can level apartment buildings.
Gabor:
Gabor
Dec 17, 2023 8:25 AM
Winston Smith
.1 Yes, minus the excess.
.2 The deregistering and plates I don’t know – the last vehicle I wrote off was a 250 Suzuki in ’72, and they let me have the wreck. So things have changed I guess.
.3 Most engines are high mileage (so far) and are around $2k – it’s the fitting/installation that hits the pocket.
But anyway, I’ve decided it’s not worth the hassle and – depending on the mechanics quote – I’ll probably just pocket the money and keep driving the Patrol.
Unfortunately Rog, I have heard that exciting news.
We noted this before October 14 – that if the screeech went down like the Hindenburg (which it duly did) it would simply be “legislated” instead. This was around the time Dr Mutton had the genius brainwave of holding yet another referendum to divide Australians by race.
Legislating a screeech is the perfect option for our beloved political class. The ultimate FU to the electorate (just like net year zero).
That’s the issue with being a one trick pony. Al Gore seems to be doing better.
Sounds like a fair bit of action to me.
Time will tell, but I was in NZ recently & the desire for change after six years of socialism was palpable.
Not allowing them to return even to Gaza or the West Bank is a non-starter. If Jews are able to return to Israel how can you legitimately exclude the same to Palestinians in Jordan? I can understand the argument against a right of return to lands currently inside Israel, but not this one.
Dot:
Didn’t think down the line of disposable cars – just saw a Jag that looks good.
🙂 🙂
Tintarella di Luna at 10:29 – Christchurch tried something similar with their playing fields out the back of Mt Claremont (even nicer pocket of land) but fell foul of the terms of the Crown grant from around the 1930s. They have another area of playing fields but that sits over the old tip site and would never get zoning for residential development. The school as tax advantaged land banker.
JMH:
Worked for us.
What happened the other night with Rabz threatening to hit the downticker with the cluebat?
Roc Doc. Yes 35 beautiful millimeters yesterday. God is indeed great.
The idiot young Kelpies went more than usually insane charging around trying to catch the raindrops in a downpour.
For those with access to Sky News, a marker for your calendar: Outsiders is on holidays until its return on Sunday, January 21, 2024.
A mate had an insurance win with one of those later E type Jags he bought (in the midst of some pre mid life crisis). Got rear ended, got his purchase price back on insurance, bought the wreck and made $5k (I think) on the V12. It was a piece of sh1t unless it was warmed up out in the country and you weren’t paying the fuel stops.
Zippster
Pre existing cardiac damage leading to scarring in the atria.
. Yes, I guess acquiring land out in the sticks was forward thinking
All the best to you and ya dad, mate.
An excellent opportunity for Dutton to do an Abbott-Gillard Carbon Tax in 2025. Do it Albo.
Decided not to pursue it, Winston. A pointless activity akin to whack-a-mole (no, not that one).
Mayor “Tricky” Wu is dreaming of a non-white Christmas.
Proven business model if you can cover the holding costs. Ask any market gardener on the urban fringe.
No it’s not they are deceitful critters.
Outsiders are on a Well Earned Break?
Oh well, I guess they do so much weekend work through the year …
Not quite true, hamas rockets killed at least four people in Israel on 7 October, a young Israeli couple who were driving to work, a muslim grandmother and granddaughter in a family home in an Arab village, between 10 and 30 people at the Baptist hospital.
In fact estimates of Gazan deaths due to friendly fire are between 10 and 15% of the total, which makes it thousands if Hamas totals are to be believed.
Great to hear what you got up to last night Rabz, a fine thing indeed. Better get a lawyer son, you better get a real good one. We did ok in your absence but nothing approaching that level of awesomeness.
Cassie at 8:54.
Hmmm.
I can’t remember exactly who it was*, but someone was here after da Voice referendum crowing that the No vote had made no inroads into Teal seats.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that 58 ALP seats had voted No, including a lot of safe seats voting 60:40 No.
…
* m0nster.
Elon Musk Leaves Audience Speechless in Italy
Winston
All of that depends on cost and I’m not prepared to spend any more than $10k on it.
Apologies if already suggested but why not just buy another on.
Similar km to yours about $7K, less your write off insurance.
one
more on how well hostages were treated in Gaza and yes, they were held in hospitals.
Many Italians did it big time.
Thoughts on this ?
News stories describe the plight of families having difficulty paying their mortgage/rent & ever increasing food bills, insurance & everyday living costs.
YET new stories also report rising house prices and RECORD purchases of NEW motor vehicles.
What gives? Are we seeing the first signs of recession striking the most vulnerable first, & will this gradually strike the wealthier middle class eventually? Or will the latter weather it, & the trend therefore represents a major shift in power structures?
Hmmm…ordered something on-line this week from a proudly Australian made & owned company.
Going around the grounds this morning to check on my outstanding deliveries.
Everything all in order but lo & behold, the Australian one somehow is being fulfilled in…CHINA!
Wow, just wow.
Winston
I just saw your estimate of replacement cost of $25K.
Where did you get that?
It is a Mitsubishi 380 is it not?
Indolent
Dec 17, 2023 8:26 AM
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Abraham Accords
UAE-Israel land corridor operating despite war
The transportation project, launched without publicity amid U.S.-brokered Saudi-Israel normalization talks, has picked up steam due to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, says Israeli firm.
The latest RedBridge poll has found a surge in support for the Coalition among voters with vocational and TAFE educations, with it now well ahead of Labor among tradies.
A demographic similar to “Howard’s battlers” – although “battlers” doesn’t necessarily describe some affluent tradies in not only Sydney’s western suburbs (for example) but in Sydney’s northern beaches. Maybe the latter will help chuck out Zali.
Interesting how related articles appeared in ABC/MSN/and the like almost immediately. Did these analysts give numbers to their improved accuracy through ‘dive bombing’ over ‘level bombing’ and then comparing it to guided munitions?
Abraham Accords
UAE-Israel land corridor operating despite war
The transportation project, launched without publicity amid U.S.-brokered Saudi-Israel normalization talks, has picked up steam due to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, says Israeli firm.
And would only be expanded if Trump has another presidential term. This Saudi/UAE/Bahrain interest may effectively be the beginning of the end for Hamas. The latter’s Muslim Brotherhood allies, as well as Iran & their proxies, would then be muzzled more effectively. Some believe that the threat of this development is what inspired October 7.
New orders or back orders being filled?
Semiconductor shortage has had a considerable impact upon automotive manufacturing capacity.
I’m so old I can remember when Al Gore thought Fat Cloive was a ‘climate champion’.
Always fun when a story gets published.
CLOUD collaboration challenges current understanding of aerosol particle formation in polar and marine regions (Phys.org, 15 Dec)
In this article’s case a few days after the COP confab has wrapped up, and on a Saturday when no one is looking at the science news, and a week before Christmas when everyone has already gone on holiday.
Can you bury an inconvenient truth any deeper than that?
What it confirms is the Svensmark Mechanism of the Sun modulating cloud cover. Which is the real reason for temperatures rising over the last century. Not CO2. But they couldn’t mention that before the COP, now, could they?
“Howard’s Battlers” sounds cute for the media and PR.
“Howard’s Productives” is closer to the truth.
Did Cloive donate to the cause?
Airbus Albo ..
Err, apart from Media Watch staff and secondary teachers, who starts their Christmas break in mid December?
Luigi found the place furthest from Canbra but still in Australia to hide away.
The plan is to “take a WEB” in mid December, then pretend to return to work on Boxing Day when everyone else is off.
Six or eight weeks of “clear air” is the plan.
Pity he wasn’t smart enough to be photographed with a tin of Emu Bitter.
Thanks, BoN – a fantastic rendition last night of “Better get a Lawyer”, reminded me of what hopefully lies in store for Hoggins’ svengali, Shiraz.
Rosie – that Jewish News Syndicate article on the alternative land route through Saudi Arabia – was fantastic! Thank you so much.
It explains a lot!
All I remember of that “interesting” li’l episode was the utterly bemused look on Fat Al Bore’s face throughout.
I had a couple of sparky contractors doing some work here last week.
I asked them about any pressure they have experienced as independent contractors since Labor took power.
They exploded. As far as they were concerned the ETU was nothing more than a mafia gang. A gang that rules Queensland. They believed that their independence days were over and that the LNP will not do anything to reverse the situation if they win power next year.
All we want for Christmas is a genuine conservative party. Unfortunately for that to happen we need an inspirational leader. There are none of those on the horizon here in QLD.
On 10 November 1938 the synagogue in Heidelberg was destroyed, on Kristallnacht.
Pro-Palestine supporters gather for rally in Heidelberg (Sky News, 15 Dec)
You gotta think that if they’d found a synagogue, and felt emboldened enough, they just might’ve rhymed themselves some history last night.
25mm here till 9am Bons. On top of the 12mm day before. Still overcast but looks if Jasper’s done, over land too long, vertical windshear in the gulf is already high. It won’t return despite fearmongering fool from the BOM mouthing off last night.
Cairns has had some crazy rainfalls over the last 3 days, some areas getting upwards 200mm a day. Saw some pics this morning of someone flying into Cairns airport that reminded me of some of the flights back into Townsville I used to get at this time of year where you are just above cloud tops at cruise, then a 30,000ft decent through solid clouds before popping out the bottom in approach to a sea of water and rains.
CLOUD collaboration challenges current understanding of aerosol particle formation in polar and marine regions (Phys.org, 15 Dec)
I recall raising the issue of the effect of clouds on “globing warming” (as it was then called) at a talk on climate at the Sydney Museum many moons ago – gosh, perhaps 15 years ago or more. The “expert” giving the talk confessed that little was known about the influence of clouds. But didn’t seem too interested, either.
All we want for Christmas is a genuine conservative party. Unfortunately for that to happen we need an inspirational leader. There are none of those on the horizon here in QLD.
There is one – & his name is Matt Canavan. Sadly, the Nats don’t seem to be very fond of him, & secondly, senators don’t seem to be considered leadership material – even though John Gorton PM was from the Senate.
Wasn’t it Broome last year?
Now more Alice Springs than Cable Beach, I hear. Could lead to locals voicing their angst…a bad look ahead of next year’s modified Voice.
bons
That “mafia gang” used to ruke Queenslab=nd through their grip on the power stations before J B-P broke their power.
Theeeeeey’re baaack!
A pointless activity akin to whack-a-mole
No it’s not they are deceitful critters.
My attorney will be in contact with yours, satisfaction demanded, field of honour etc etc….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-LjYlZnOOU
Cassie @ 8:54
The SFL’s would jump another 10 pts if Turnbull was booted.
I’m being Conservative when I say that.
He needs to concentrate on fixing what he can.
DiL’s sister is a copper. On Saturday morning she and her partner were sent to a job because a one person ambo was sent to a bloke having a stroke. DiLs sister’s partner was driving the ambo, QAS lass was in the back with the patient and the sister was providing an escort, apparently doing 140km on Nicklin Way. Apparently lots of cops are being sent to ambo jobs to do first aid until the ambulance can get there.
Genuine scary stuff Rock Doc. I recall popping out at the minimas going into Mackay with the rain so heavy that you could only vaguely see the HIAL lights. My hand was actually sore from gripping the pole so tight. God protects fools and young stupid pilots.
‘Silence is violence.’
Remember when the left decried three word slogans as simplistic?
Vicki – Seeding of cloud cover is influenced by incident high energy radiation from space, like cosmic rays, plus nucleation species in the atmosphere. The latter include sulfate ions, terpenes from forests and as this study finds iodates from sea spray. CERN’s CLOUD experiment has confirmed all of these relationships through some careful and precise work.
Consequently cloud cover is correlated to cosmic ray flux, which had been falling pretty much throughout the 20thC due to solar activity (the more active the Sun the fewer cosmic rays get through the Earth’s compressed magnetic field, thus fewer clouds to reflect solar radiation back to space via albedo). This is the mechanism proposed by Svensmark.
There’ve been many studies showing that reduction in global cloud cover neatly explains the temperature record, plus why it correlates so closely to solar activity. But the climate activists bury these findings since if it were widely known that the Sun is doing the warming, not CO2, their very large and yummy budgets would be net zeroed.
Amidst a shortage of cops.
Detective friend of No. 1 son is just about fed up and considering his options.
On occasion there is nobody to hand over to at the end of a shift.
Yep Vicki, Mat needs the cattle prod. He is the best of the lot. Up there with a couple of the SFL women.
Why is it a non-starter? Who says it’s not?
Quite so.
Nurse Betty : “Insurance company should pay $25k against a $4k agreed value policy.”
Also Nurse Betty : “I cannot believe how much gouging bloody insurance companies have jacked up premiums”.
I tried to explain the “market distortion” (i.e. fraud) which would result if insurance companies paid out full drive-train rebuilds on 25 year old shit-boxes.
An elderly couple, who were both widowed, had been going out with each other for a long time. Urged on by their friends, they decided it was finally time to get married.
Before the wedding, they went out to dinner and had a long conversation regarding how their marriage might work. They discussed finances, living arrangements and so on.
Finally, the old gentleman decided it was time to broach the subject of their physical relationship.
“How do you feel about making love?” he asked, rather tentatively. “I would like it infrequently,” she replied.
The old gentleman sat quietly for a moment, adjusted his glasses, leaned over towards her and whispered: “Is that one word or two?”
Genuinely surprised he is still there. Says a lot about the existing talent in the Liars.
From memory, one or two of the original line-up have gone to God?
I might have to join the backyard tabbouleh sector. My 25yo shitbox was already in the driveway.
“Aspirational” was another term used at the time.
Fantastic gig by the Cruel Sea at the Enmore Theatre last night.
When i read that last night I thought you were off on a trip down memory lane with the movie of the Alister McLean book .. LOL!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045659/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_the%2520cruel%2520sea
Silly me, I thought Nicholas Monsarrat wrote that book.
I was interested by the commentary about single crew ambulances.
When my wife was wheeled off to a big smoke hospital early in the morning I was amazed to see that the ambulance crew comprised one young woman. Our medical facility put a nurse in the back. What would happen if they were too busy to do so?
The ambo phoned two enroute police stations to let them know that she was coming through. Perhaps that is protocol. It seemed to me to be inappropriate for one driver to pilot this heavy vehicle at high speed at night for a considerable distance.
If you are a pregnant woman in bush QLD you had better move into town in plenty of time because, with rural birthing centers closing and reduced ambulance numbers you are probably not going to get any help.
I attended a rally this morning…
#Metoo except if you’re a Jew
Believe all women, except for Jewish women.
Some thoughts from this morning…
I cannot describe to you the contempt we have for the UN and the Red Cross.
This morning, hearing testimonials, I cried. It was a very emotional rally.
All the speakers were women, Liberal Senator Holly Hughes was there, she was the most senior politician, there were Liberal women from NSW parliament and Woollahra Council.
Hear this…NOT ONE LABOR WOMAN ATTENDED.
We should not be surprised by this.
Holly Hughes is actually an impressive speaker, and she didn’t pull any punches this morning when she delivered a withering speech condemning the silence of the UN organisations that supposedly exist to protect women and the silence of the left in general. As she accurately said, the UN and the left don’t care about women, they don’t even try to hide their double standards, be it about Jewish women or women on the right. As she said, she and other conservative and right of centre women know all about these double standards, they are on the receiving end of them ALL the time in Canberra.
Hughes received a lot of applause.
By the way, there were lots of Zionist dogs also in attendance at the rally. Seriously, we Jews are nutters!
Don’t tell me Jack Hawkins has gone ? Cue voice: Steady as she goes, Number One.
I Googled your rally, Cassie. Not a single hit.
Where was it?
calli, it was at Prince Alfred Park, near Central. Probably about 400 people were there. A lot of women.
Sitting under a tree waiting to load sheep. Airbus Albanese might be down the road, I wouldn’t know. Avoiding all urban centres of the Audi-Aldi axis until January.
Bruce- has there been a recent solar activity peak to note? Noticed a lot of (cheap vinyl on PVC) signage has been scorched by some giant invisible brulee torch this last summer
This one is easily triggered.
Boo!
I wish my children had paid me so much attention. 😀
😀
My copy is worn out from being reread many times, such a rollicking tale it is. Mr McLean will’ve liked it, Mr Macdonnell too, I suspect.
The Flower Class corvettes were tough critters and extremely successful, as were our Bathursts. That we could then build sixty corvettes in Australia in only 4 years shows how far we have fallen. These days were challenged to build a dinghy.
I Fix Leftist Memes: CHRISTMAS Edition!
Calli – Since you are around, you might like this article I read a short time ago.
Irrigating Deserts (16 Dec)
Subjectivism is the core of the cultural malaise we’re now in these days, straight out of Gen 3 and Judges.
Maclean’s contribution was HMS Ulysses.
bons
Lovely word picture, Bons.
It is a WEB for us.
Different people have different reflexes to stress. Some eat chocolate, some drink grog, some clean the house obsessively.
Some lose control of their bladders.
At least this way when his financial sphincter loosens he will be pissing money within Australia.
So, instead of travelling to places like Fiji and ‘generously’ gifting them a gender transition hospital, or going to China and pledging to fund some retarded ‘sustainable’ boondoggle to encourage them to embrace warmism, he will be incontinently funding wind farms and gender clinics when he pops into the milk bar in Australia.
The media is very keen now on graphic stories about those poor Palestinians and the damage they suffer from being in a war zone. no mention of how many support Hamas and others.
Not so keen on the graphic stories of the brutalities inflicted on Israelis, either those at the music festival or those in the Kibbutzes nearby.
Not so keen to say the attacks on Israelis were so bad there’s no way that a ceasefire will be a satisfactory outcome.
Bill P
Actually hadn’t thought of that – surprising amount of 380’s on the market – some with quite high mileage but look in very good condition.
Life is cruel. See?
Thanks Bruce.
He cites three of my favourite Lewis books – Screwtape, That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man.
I’d add a fourth – The Horse and His Boy, my favourite from the Narnia series – it also fits. The “education” of both Shasta and Aravis (and even Bree the horse) as opposed to the visiting Kings and Queens and their happy entourage.
Bill P:
Ok, I see the problem….
I was imprecise and giving a price for a new car/demonstrator of equivalent size and appointment.
Silly me, I thought Nicholas Monsarrat wrote that book.
Ha, ha! .. that’s what I get for relying on my OAP memory instead of “google” ..!
Googlery warned him off.
LOL
“Googlery isn’t here anymore”
Labor has identified Meuslis as a proprietary voting bloc. They know that any acknowledgement of Jews or Israel (they are no different – just that Israel is a nation) will anger that bloc. The Meuslis won’t move to vote for the Libs, but Labor is frankly too stupid to see that.
That’s just your opinion.
I think his “trusted mechanic” might be taking the piss.
I recently had an insurance claim involving replacement of automated gates. The f-cking gate guy which I was stuck with using (long story) was salivating at the thought of ripping off the insurance company was a bit crestfallen when I told him I had taken a cash settlement.
Sancho:
Quite so.
You really are quite stupid, aren’t you?
Go back, read what I wrote. and engage your brain – if you can find it.
And the teal progressives. Seeing the Greens out themselves as rabid antisemites is one of the most interesting things about the current events. Someone opened the box and out it all poured, spectacularly. Like a Bruegel painting. Labor seems to’ve doubled down on the green/progressive/muzzo wing and is burning off their industrial base like throwing petrol on a wildfire.
Miles going the full Al Gore yesterday is the latest example. They’re nuts all of them.
Hehe, Roger, good one. Yet as a scientist I know that if you jump off a building you fall down and die. This current generation somehow has decided reality is whatever they they want it to be. It’s not working out well for them though.
Or is that the excuse they put forward, when it’s aligned with their thoughts about Israel anyway. Is it more acceptable to be seen to support terrorism for local political votes, or because you support it.
The antisemitic bilge being pumped out by Putin’s army of online trolls providing fuel to his online firehose of disinformation is quite bizarre.
https://journal-neo.su/2023/12/14/financial-elites-take-one-back-the-imfs-argentina-coup/
Panama’s dollarisation is a hands-down success, El Salvador adopting BTC is the most based off all.
No one has ever willingly said “let’s accept Russian roubles”.
Putin can have Lula and Maduro as pathetic pro Palestine lackeys.
So word is (is it not) that Israel is almost ready to deploy a laser missile defence system to replace Iron Dome at a fraction of the cost and significantly increased effectiveness, right.
So, once deployed the number of Pali rockets hitting Israel will be reduced to a fraction of the number launched and chances are that more of their rockets will fall in Gaza than Israel.
Seems terribly disproportionate to me. I think the Israelis should still blow up random houses and infrastructure and killing civilians in their home because otherwise Western lefties will be upset.
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 17, 2023 11:54 AM
Always fun when a story gets published.
CLOUD collaboration challenges current understanding of aerosol particle formation in polar and marine regions (Phys.org, 15 Dec)
Thanks for that. Poor old Svensmark; didn’t he cop crap for daring to suggest clouds were the climate boss. And in Climate Gate with the secret emails of the grifter alarmist scientists (sic) revealed, they admitted their models had no clue about clouds.
Turtle and the rest of the bastards should be taken up to cloud level and pushed out so they can have a real good look at the climate bosses.
Anyone else having very slow downloading/uploading times?
Videos downloading in 3 second blocks then going dormant for 20 seconds?
Not just with the Cat – generalised rreeeaaalll sslllooww.
The top three most annoying people on Australian TeeVee since Andrew O’Keefe got rissoled:-
Justin Langer.
Matthew Hayden.
Lisa Wilkinson.
Well the Teals have the voting bloc that is not Meusli but thinks that immigration should be unrestricted and the western suburbs* consist of long avenues of kebab shops staffed by ebullient Muslim patriarchs and their adoring families among whom the sons dream of inheriting the business and the daughters all study medicine or law.
* You can be sure that there are Teals who think ‘western’ suburbs reek of colonialism and whiteness and supremacy and…and…Crusaderism. They should be Caliphate suburbs!
So true.