Truth bombs incoming every 15 seconds. Brutal and clinical. The contrast is stark. The air head journo versus lived experience.…
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Certainly hard to see where the next lift for the Lucky Country is going to come from at this stage.…
On clouds. NOAA points out the inconvenient fact that the world’s stock of climate models do not model the underlying…
Governments solution to anti-Semitism on campus. More toothless bureaucrats: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/student-ombudsman-to-help-fight-antisemitism-at-universities-education-minister-clare-says/news-story/69f37a446f592d573842dc15228836ce
Thanks for the tip, will do. 🙂
Israelis should demand independent proof of life before a ceasefire.
And gee, the behaviour of staff in the caf and knowing a single person who’s parent worked for the department not the insight into life in DFAT that I’d be relying on for a career choice.
Anyone working overseas whether for the government or a private company is often going to have a limited social life for language and or cultural reasons.
A friend did a couple of years with DFAT in Paris. Treated it as a holiday as little work to be done. Another in Canberra, treats it as a social event. The work gets done when it gets done.
Well, the Daily Mail had Lunas in Bordeaux and Janet A had it in Provence.
But it isn’t. It’s a tiny village of 650 with two restaurants (closed in winter) a boulangerie and a mini-mart. A creek, a bridge a couple of ruins and a 17th century “chateau” which is a hotel. It is 50km west of Montpellier, and even further from Toulouse. So small you can’t find it on a Google map until you…Google it.
Now I’m a country girl at heat, if not in fact, but it’s not my cup of tea. For a pair of upwardly mobile slicksters…make up your own minds.
In my view it’s an “address” for unwelcome visitors and post only.
Bother. At heart, with or without heat.
Today it’s cardigan time. Brrrrrr.
“The section of the constitution they (leftist judge again, which they failed to mention) used is for people who have engaged in rebellion or insurrection. Trump has done no such thing, has not been charged with any such thing despite memes.
It will have to go to SCOTUS, and quickly.”
It is arguable that that particular section of the constitution does NOT apply to the president – that has never been litigated as far as I know.
As someone else noted, the president is not an “officer” of the US, he is an elected representative, and that section of the constitution lists several elected positions, but doesn’t list the president.
So there would appear to be at least 3 arguments to be made for Trump:
1) that while he was impeached by the house, the senate did not convict him and there have been no civil or criminal charges of rebellion or insurrection against Mr Trump, laws regarding which were passed by congress shortly after the civil war to “enable” the constitutional amendment that bans such people;
2) that his words and actions, regardless of whether he was indicted and/or convicted or not, do not rise to “insurrection” anyway (eg: “March peacefully and patriotically…”, “We are the party of law and order…” and so on) and were in fact covered under his first amendment right to free speech;
3) that, as above, that section of the constitution does not apply to the position of president of the US.
I suspect Trump may file for SCOTUS listing all three and maybe some other things as well. We’ll see, but it is not as simple as the Disinformation Industrial Complex (aka MSM) make out.
If SCOTUS is nervous about it, they may deny the DoJ prosecutors request to go straight to SCOTUS, and instead demand that they go through the entire DC appeals process first, which would likely extend the time before it gets to SCOTUS hearing it until AFTER the 2024 election and so it would become moot and they can dodge the entire shit-fight.
I can’t find it. It was on Twitter but I can’t remember who posted it. The only industry US was ahead was airplane construction and one other. Here is another article I found in my bookmarks: Sorry America, China has a bigger economy than you
Justice would be 51% of Colorado ‘writing in’ Donald John Trump on their Presidential ballot paper.
He is more principled than the US Supreme Court. They can always prove me wrong by doing the right thing.
Dover, it’s the Communist Times and unable to get through the padlock.
CL, I take the long view.
The West’s latest phase began at the end of World War II.
It has taken nearly 80 years, but the West’s enemy within — the left — is now re-fighting the battle the fascists lost in 1945 on the side of the losers.
The left, for example, now sides with the theocratic fascists of Hamas against the Middle East’s only democracy.
The West is freedom and opposing Western ideals is opposing freedom.
The West’s future includes much lived experience of freedom’s fortunes since 1945 — especially the attempts from within by fascism in the 21st century to overturn the West’s freedoms.
Freedom is a basic human ideal, second only to food and shelter. That is not going to disappear because freedom’s enemies are suddenly wearing clever disguises.
The West will have many more erudite champions like Barry Humphries and Les Murray — but with a store of wisdom that will include extensive documentation of the attempts since World War II by freedom’s enemies to destroy it.
Making false allegations based on zero evidence apart from feelz actually makes it harder for anyone else who has a real case.
Actions have consequences – not sure where is the ‘simp’ in pointing that out.
I think so too, I doubt if they actually bought a place, let alone for the rumored $300K in a village like that.
I am not familiar with it but you might buy half the village for that.
They may be all sort of things but I take it they have rat cunning and have seen the writing on the wall and decided to depart.
We shall see what comes out of it.
BTW, there are a lot more pleasant and far cheaper places in Europe if you want to buy property, even in capital cities.
There’s one huge case supporting EVs that has nothing much to do with battery efficiency or other matters. We should be sick and tired of being at the mercy of a bunch of arseholes for our energy with respect to running cars.
Why would major Chinese shipping companies now be avoiding the Red Sea if they didn’t consider it a risk?
Thanks Jo and others for your sage advice.
I will have a chat to her and her Mum and Dad this afternoon.
dancing with the stars in Yemen.
Which is the same as refusing to take the case. If they do go that route they may face a lot of hostility from not just Republican voters but Democrats who are now starting to get nervous by where this is going. But swamp creature have to swamp …
Making false allegations based on zero evidence apart from feelz actually makes it harder for anyone else who has a real case.
Actions have consequences – not sure where is the ‘simp’ in pointing that out.
Just like Junior Cretin calling me a …………………………………
A friend of my daughter’s is in dfat.
Lovely girl, very happy in the job, currently overseas in a difficult location.
Ahahahaha! Pity the rug didn’t slip.
D*ckheads.
It won’t make any difference as the Colorado Secretary of State, the official responsible for elections, will not take them into account.
Cassie of Sydney
Dec 20, 2023 3:04 PM
How sweet this is…
ABC presenter Antoinette Lattouf sacked after anti-Israel social media posts
By SOPHIE ELSWORTH
Cassie,
you will like Michael Smith’s Rake on this
ABC sacks Jew hater Antoinette Lattouf for being a piece of work.
Diversity whinger and low-rent race baiter Antoinette Lattouf should never have been hired by the ABC.
She runs a shakedown operation where any job she can’t get, she blames racism as the reason and shits all over the employer online.
But she’s shown herself to be a piece of work – ignoring the rules of her employment.
Watch this get turned into victimhood.
More on Good News!
Freeze order plan for Brittany Higgins’ assets
Brittany Higgins and her partner have just packed up and moved to start a new life in France, but they have been hit with another snag.
Former Liberal Minister Linda Reynolds is considering seeking a court-ordered freeze of Brittany Higgins’ assets in the wake of her move to France.
Senator Reynolds — Ms Higgins’ former boss — is suing both Ms Higgins and her partner David Sharaz for defamation over social media posts on Twitter and Instagram.
Her lawyers wrote to Ms Higgins’ lawyer Leon Zwier on Tuesday signalling they plan to ask the Supreme Court of Western Australia for the freeze orders which restrain a party to a case from selling or moving assets while a legal action is still in process.
An extract of the letter sent to Ms Higgins was obtained by The Australian.
“If such reports are true, we consider that an application for freezing orders is appropriate,’’ the letter states.
“Please advise as a matter of urgency your client’s intentions in respect of her travel to France and your availability to confer in respect of our client’s proposed application.”
Ms Higgins, who secured a $2.44 million payout from the Albanese Government a year ago on her 28th birthday, is believed to have purchased her first home in the south of France for an estimated $600,000.
Ms Higgins told the court during her testimony that after she paid tax and legal fees to personal injury lawyer Noor Blumer she received $1.9 million.
If true, she should still have assets somewhere in the vicinity of $1.3 million, minus whatever living expenses she has used this year when she rented a home on the Gold Coast and took several overseas trips with Mr Sharaz to the Maldives, Paris and Geneva.
Hmm, the furniture shop is not available.
What happened?
Can anyone confirm it’s off line or it’s my browser only, wanted to follow up Struth’s rant on CL’s blog
calli
Dec 20, 2023 3:53 PM
Bother. At heart, with or without heat.
Today it’s cardigan time. Brrrrrr.
How would you have survived in a cold place then? Like Northern Europe in an Ice Age?
But your Ancestors did. Tough people.
DFAT?
íAfuera!
Alamak that is true – but see if you can figure out who is hit hardest in this headline:
Men suicide at three times the rate; women, children hardest hit.
Try this link. It has the two relevant graphs.
Brittany a flight risk. These influencers.
Seriously, the gubmint should run the defence forth, and leave private individuals and/or trade delegations up to their own devices with a full understanding that it’s all caveat emptor abroad, just like at home.
dover0beach
Dec 20, 2023 3:55 PM
Well Dover you are wrong. The USA Economy is driven by Enterprise. The CCCP economy is driven by force and not freedom. That is why it will fail big time.
Add “Why do people move to the Gold Coast?” to “Why do people live in Sydney?” The Gold Coast is where sports teams go to die.
Hamas having tunnels into hospitals to facilitate movement, to store weapons, hold (and murder) hostages or just to hide out in, nothing to see here.
Government departments…I suppose it depends…
A close family member was, until quite recently, in one of the plethora of “security” qangos. It was insane, full of complete tossers. All they seemed interested in was parading their various security “clearances” – made obvious by the colour of their lanyards, of all things.
A more useless bunch of overpaid, overedumacated, preening frauds you would never find.
Needless to say they split. Secret squirrel cosplay isn’t everyone’s career choice.
Fair & balanced reporting … always ..!
https://ibb.co/YcmmcY0
“The left, for example, now sides with the theocratic fascists of Hamas against the Middle East’s only democracy.”
It is the left of the western world who cheered the replacement of the Shah of Iran with the Ayatollah who are cheering today, as the muslim community throughout the world continues to flex their muscle and do their dirty work.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 20, 2023 4:16 PM
calli
Dec 20, 2023 3:53 PM
Bother. At heart, with or without heat.
Today it’s cardigan time. Brrrrrr.
How would you have survived in a cold place then? Like Northern Europe in an Ice Age?
But your Ancestors did. Tough people.
Johhny,
in Boston February 1978 for Contract Negotiations during Boston Blizzard of 1978
South African VP Raytheon Data Systems made a comment, that reminds me every time I am in the Snow
Snow is Nature’s Way of telling Man, He is too far North”
And with Perceived Temp here in Global Boiling Sydney 16C – pleased my Wife is making a Lamb Stew & I will open a bottle of Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2017 and enjoy a Glass (or two) of Redvwith the Meal
LOL.
Multiple sources from within the ABC, who did not wish to be named, told The Australian management had questioned who within the ABC made the decision to appoint Latouff as fill-in host.
It is understood management will be reviewing how this occurred in the weeks to come.
This arvo’s roaring LOL moment: new Kiwi PM Christopher Luxon was greeted in Australia by a blackfella smoking ceremony and a welcome to country (invented by Ernie Dingo in the 1970s).
The Babylon Bee desperately needs a branch office Down Under for when the DC clownshow is having a quiet day.
The Good News keeps on coming!
Prince Harry dealt bitter new blow as book ‘fail’ is revealed
Calculations reveal a bleak picture for the Duke of Sussex who has seen one of his biggest projects slammed as a “financial fail”.
When his memoir Spare debuted in January, 2023 it almost immediately broke records faster than Usain Bolt after sculling several Red Bulls, seemingly ensuring that Harry’s heart-on-his-sleeve tell-all was a ring-a-ding success.
Until now, that is, with a new report labelling the book a “financial fail”.
Paula Froelich, a former longtime Page Six deputy editor, now writing for the fast growing US cable network News Nation, did a deepdive into the highest selling autobiographies of the year.
Taking into account the hardcover price of the book, the number of hardcovers sold and how much the duke was reportedly paid upfront by his publisher, Froelich calculated that King Charles’ younger son “would have had to sell more than twice the amount of books … than he did to earn back his advance.”
The Duke of Sussex’s title sold 1.2 million hardcover copies, according to Nation, however it would have had to sell 2.7 million hardcover copies for Penguin to come out even.
(According to Froelich, “hardcover sales account for 80 per cent of book sales, so it’s a good determinant of whether a book did well or not.”)
Reports vary as to how much Harry might have been paid as an advance for Spare, however Nation takes the number to be $13- 14.8 million ($USD9 – 10 million dollar), that is one quarter of the $51- 59 million ($USD35 to $40 million) that Entertainment Tonight says is the value of the duke and wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s reported four-book deal.
Even working with this estimated advance figure, which is much lower than many other reported estimates such as the $29.5 million ($USD20 million) figure cited by the Times and the Telegraph, he did not sell enough hardcover copies for the publishing giant to recoup the cost of the advance, according to Nation’s calculations.
“Penguin Random House overpaid,” Froelich writes of the duke’s deal.
Albo has declared himself as an aviation nerd. I don’t think that’s how it works, you are not a nerd just because you fly a lot for free, you are just a freeloader.
Woke is already copping a hammering and AI emulating Spearman’s G factor is like consciousness studies: we’ll have it sorted in the next decade.
When people get offended on behalf of others.
Don’t sweat it. There are plenty of great comedians out there.
Last day of work for the year….
After a big night out at the (then) nonexistent Hard Rock Cafe in Darlinghurst and a lengthy (drunken) walk from there to a college at Sydney University where the rape allegedly took place in a bathtub in the college’s bathrooms – which had no bathtubs at the time.
Fabrication upon falsehood upon fabrication.
And with Perceived Temp here in Global Boiling Sydney 16C – pleased my Wife is making a Lamb Stew & I will open a bottle of Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2017 and enjoy a Glass (or two) of Red with the Meal
And Old Ozzie, I am having an early dinner with a bottle of Taylors Reserve Parcel 2021
The food will come next. LOL
Maybe a roast Mammoth or two with selected root vegetables. Horse radish is nice as well.
Children’s lavish 2023 Christmas wishlists are going viral
It is the most magical time of the year and also the most expensive – and children’s Christmas wish lists are going viral for a wild reason.
A 13-year-old girl’s Christmas list is going viral because it unearths what kids really want, and it certainly isn’t toys you can get at Kmart.
The teen’s aunty shared her luxury list on X, and it featured everything from Dior lip oil ($62), money (no amount specified), Gucci perfume ($190), and Drunk Elephant bronzing drops ($60).
She also wanted a silk pillowcase, and a MacBook pro for $2699.00, and asked for an unspecified amount of money again … because who doesn’t want money twice?
The young girl also wrote that she’d like a Frank Green water bottle for $59.95 and a Dior concealer for $74.
The list quickly went viral, and people were shocked that a young person could have such expensive taste;
it looked less like a kid’s Santa wish list and more like a Paris Hilton’s Christmas recommendation for adults.
Narelda Jacobs is the epitome of diversity.
And not in a good way.
Albo has declared himself as an aviation nerd. I don’t think that’s how it works, you are not a nerd just because you fly a lot for free, you are just a freeloader.
See also: Champion footballer
Sexual athlete
Polar explorer
D Day veteran.
All based on the same amount of input from the Marsh Wriggle in chief.
Crossie
Dec 20, 2023 4:37 PM
He is most certainly a Nerd and soon to be gone by May 2025 if not earlier when the Razor Gang get after him (The Unions).
Rabz
Dec 20, 2023 4:38 PM
he was accused of … raping her (in a bathtub, if I recall)
After a big night out at the (then) nonexistent Hard Rock Cafe in Darlinghurst and a lengthy (drunken) walk from there to a college at Sydney University where the rape allegedly took place in a bathtub in the college’s bathrooms – which had no bathtubs at the time.
Definitely no bathtubs in John’s – but as a Fresher did run into a naked girl (presumably girlfriend of Senior) having a shower
Don’t know anyone, personally, in DFAT but years ago (pre-internet and using snail mail) chasing some, specific, mid east stamps for my collection & contacted our DFAT folk in the Emirates and the bloke I ended up with went the extra mile to help .. went to a lot of effort & put me in touch with the right contact(s) ……
Only time I’ve ever dealt with DFAT but “our” folk in UAE were fantastic ……..!
Dover
The Communist Times writer hinges his argument on two things.
1. PPP
2. Electricity production.
PPP is right twice. When you go up through PPP and when you go down through PPP. The writer suggests that China’s economy is larger than the US in PPP terms. I’m looking to buy something with PPP currency but can’t find it. 🙂
He says it’s not in terms of the exchange rate. Ponder this for a second. If China made its currency fully convertible (floated the Yuan), the wall of money wanting to leave and find a home elsewhere wouldn’t be too far from a 50% drop in the currency’s value. If we remeasured where the Yuan floated (in exchange rate terms), the difference in terms of size would be huge.
So, someone should ask this idiot: if he’s taken the absurd argument that the US dollar fell over the quarter and therefore, in terms of the exchange rate, the US economy was smaller than the 5.2% GDP print, what would things look like if the Yuan was allowed to float?
There’s more to the story about electricity production than meets the eye. China has 1.2 billion people compared to 330 million Americans, and a large number still aren’t on the grid. We don’t know enough about US energy efficiency, and I would like to see the numbers for both China and the US.
I think so too, I doubt if they actually bought a place, let alone for the rumored $300K in a village like that.
I am not familiar with it but you might buy half the village for that.
Not any more. Like most of the western world, inflation has caused an unwelcome rise in prices. And don’t forget, Pommies & others have been buying up “quaint” little houses – even Aussies & Yank s – for years.
In my view it’s an “address” for unwelcome visitors and post only.
Or maybe something simple .. like a “cheap” chateau .. LOL!
We need a Synod on Papacy.
Papa Rossi has peeved off the “progressives” because they are insulted they’re not allowed to get married in the RCC.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/19/pope-francis-bless-gay-marriages-catholic-church
And he’s peeved all the conservatives who don’t believe there should be a SSM “blessing.”
OldOzzie
Dec 20, 2023 4:40 PM
Children’s lavish 2023 Christmas wish lists are going viral –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoSFaO4vAC4
I mean – “rape in a bathtub” only really seems feasible for dwarfs raping dwarfs.
mole – you’re on next.
A new overland route will bypass the Red Sea anyway.
https://www.stimson.org/2023/arabs-new-transport-corridor-augmenting-not-competing-with-belt-and-road/
During the recent G20 summit in New Delhi, a memorandum was inked between the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and the European Union to establish a transportation and economic corridor from South Asia to Europe known as the India-Middle East Corridor or IMEC.
Because there is a real male victim already and the concern is for hitherto hypothetical future female victims.
I literally LOL’d. 😛
If SCOTUS is nervous about it, they may deny the DoJ prosecutors request to go straight to SCOTUS, and instead demand that they go through the entire DC appeals process first, which would likely extend the time before it gets to SCOTUS hearing it until AFTER the 2024 election and so it would become moot and they can dodge the entire shit-fight.
I realise the US political/legal system is a joke these dayz but, shirley, not even SCOTUS would be stupid enuf to knock back an application for “justice” from a former president .. the follow-up, bad, publicity would be incredible …! FFS!
BTW re the new trade route being developed overland through Saudi :
Why do our vaunted MSM not seem to know about this? All they can do is “shrill” (is that a verb? it will do) about the Houthis and their drones over the Red Sea.
Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies Trump From 2024 Ballot, Setting Up Supreme Court Challenge
From the Comments
– Pretty soon we’ll hear how Trump was seen on the grassy knoll in Dallas.
– The script is as bad and predictable as Days of our Lives
– At least there are attractive women with large knockers on Days of Our Lives.
– “because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack”
– It was such a brutal “attack” that the Feds held the door open and waved people inside.
– Complete with WARshington Show Trials more spectacularly corrupt than Moscow’s in the 1930’s. USA! USA! USA!
Mmmmm, smoked blackfella, goood eating!
More here about using PPP (purchasing power parity) vs exchange rates when making comparisons.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/Series/Back-to-Basics/Purchasing-Power-Parity-PPP
There’s use for both, but by and large exchange rates would rule.
The cope about US economic decline is incredible. China is the leading producer of steel, EVs, etc. but but… It really isn’t worth engaging in discussion on this; you just have to sit back and watch things unroll.
Who is the cuckold downvoting me?
Beta boy! P~
mole – you’re on next.
Summoned I am..
Deliver I do.
Appalled i am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwlwaAoknf0
LOL. What unprofessional idiots. It really is hilarious the way Jacinta Price and Mundine are able to induce apoplexy in collectivists.
Vicki
Dec 20, 2023 4:52 PM
The only drones here are the Guv’ment drones and those flying drones.
That’s right, start another stoush, you limey crook, and then pretend you’re the innocent party. FMD, you’re dumb.
A crook. Yes.
Your comment, last evening, accusing the blog owner of being corrupt was another tell what sort of specimen you are.
The fact that you continually post entire slabs of nonsense from a convicted fraud who spent 11 years in Leavenworth and (you) referring to him as a “top bloke” confirms it even more. At one stage you were advertising for this crook under your blog banner. until you became fearful of being reported.
Have you made the donation?
If anyone should make a donation for abusing the site with worthless, dodgy crap it would be you, Chatfield. No piss off and stop wasting our time.
Bruce, you made me LOL…really! I immediately thought of headhunters.
They’ve been few and far between lately, so bless you.
The laughs…not the headhunters.
I will open a bottle of Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2017
Brings back memories. Towards the end of their lives my parents found it difficult to buy family Christmas (& birthday) gifts. Dad knew that we liked Pinfolds Bin 389 & guess what – that is what we got for Christmas & birthdays until he died.
We drank the last of them some years ago. Memories.
dover0beach
Dec 20, 2023 4:54 PM
And we will as China self implodes. Dictatorship never works in the end.
India is watching on the side lines.
Dover, Hairy’s view in our recent late nite discussion was that Trump would have reacted at the first missile into the Red Sea. This would not have been a ‘major escalation’ but would have meant serious retaliatory business was being considered for outrageous behaviour. With Yemen, that chance was lost. (As a leader, Hairy has turned organisations and situations around by not being scared of bold moves followed by successful deals which is why he admires Trump so much.) Note that Hezbollah pulled its head in with return rockets and while Yemen is different, as you have argued, they still have much to lose. A few installations collapsing would have been reinforcement of that.
America projects only weakness right now. A stronger America can keep Israel on track for destroying (at best) or at least further containing Hamas, and I’m hoping we’ll see that with a Trump win. Trump is also a deal-maker who will seek outcomes and rewards for those who agree to participate across quite wide differences. There are a multitude of possible ‘deals’ and pressures that a strong President could make to settle things down in the Middle East. Some were mooted on the last thread, but strategies will change as situations do.
That’s awfully close to the Strait of Hormuz.
Can someone explain why Wilkinson has been dubbed the Amphibian/toad? Ta
The cope, or just relying on evidence?
Big freaking deal. The US has the highest return on capital than anywhere in the world. On the other had nearly all Chinese companies operate at break even or a margin mildly above.
Facts please and not this will to power thing that you’re going through. Making big unsubstantiated assertions isn’t helpful.
I’m guessing it’s the lips and slowly fattening cheeks – as well as being toxic.
And there’s this imbecile, this leftwing twitter troll agreeing with the Commie Times piece.
I link to him for a laugh. He’s the biggest imbecile on Twitter.
Vicki
Dec 20, 2023 4:59 PM
I will open a bottle of Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2017
Brings back memories. Towards the end of their lives my parents found it difficult to buy family Christmas (& birthday) gifts. Dad knew that we liked Pinfolds Bin 389 & guess what – that is what we got for Christmas & birthdays until he died.
We drank the last of them some years ago. Memories.
Penfold and not Pinfold.
What a lot of people maybe not know is that Penfold was a Doctor who came from ‘Pomgolia’ and brought the grape vines to the Adelaide area. What a Man as he looked after the locals as well as nurtured the grape vines. And a Pommy Bastard no less.
So drink up you Convicts and celebrate. LOL. To a very Good Doctor.
Another worthwhile correction, by the crook.
Memories of Sydney Uni John’s College triggered photo of this
DAIMLER DE-36 Hearse 1946-53 – College Hearse – Seated 22 at Drive-in had to park across 2 rows of speakers – required C Class Licence as over 3 1/2 Tons
Went Camping with 18 Up – topped 96 Mph down Wakehurst Parkway to Narrabeen Lakes – (Derestricted Speed Limits in those days)
Has sideways coming down from Northbridge S Bends before Tower Bridge
Brakes Lousy – 8 Mpg
This was one of the few non-American models used for hearse conversion by Huiskamp Coach-builders.
5469 cc Straight 8 cylinder engine. Pre-Selector Gearbox
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:06 PM
Good to see that you are still here being a Pompous Windbag. Keep up the good work Junior.
Which end?
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:11 PM
Evidence? You Shirt Lifter
Oh fck off, Wodney. Go see if the fraud has some new bilge that you can post here that will overawe us with his sharpness. You little limey crook.
Listening to Albo on the radio pronouncing Houthi as “hooties” is bound to fill the ME with laughter.
Colorado voted heavily for Biden in 2020, and less convingly for Crimton in 2016.
Ignoring the principal of this for a moment, the “winner takes all” nature of state electoral colleges means this has little practical effect.
Black Ball
Being prepared.
Sorry, but it’s literally all you can do now. Pay off the bills, stock up the groceries, perhaps get a genset, get some extra gas bottles for the barbie and fill the freezer with food.
…and take up candle making for a hobby. Candle wax is still cheap, and cotton window sashes (That rope stuff you can buy at any decent hardware shop) make fine wicks.
And make sure you get to know your neighbours.
Join a skeet shooting club.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:06 PM
3 nil down but who is counting. LOL
Tang Ping Bai Lan
I’m not convinced China and the Chinese WANT to overtake the USA.
Well you, you’re counting, you little limey crook. FMD, you’re one stupid fckface.
Robert Sewell
Dec 20, 2023 5:16 PM
Martin Armstrong and many many others have been saying this for ages. BUT just like the InVoice, no one has been listening. And they are the Sheep. Bahhhhhhhhhhhhh
We always used to take a bottle of Penfolds 389 when we visited the old Rear-Admiral, a great friend of Hairy’s previous wife’s Naval family. He passed away in his nineties a few years ago. A fine gentleman of the old school, he knew his wines and liked his gin just as I did, putting some gin aside as ‘the other half’ (for later) in the Naval tradition whenever he served me mine. As you say, memories. None like him around now.
There is plenty of concern for male victims out there e.g. Bettina Arndt writings & site – no need for me to add more.
Plus – Bruce is a goose.
Who I hope gets paid in full to fund any ‘provence’ dreams he might be nurturing.
raptor news claims hamas tunnel reached the Israeli side of the border, not sure that is correct?
Equal justice for fruity lexia!
Err, my experience of security clearances was that they were things which should decidely not be “paraded” or “flaunted”.
You use you pass to gain access to the secure facility, you wear it whilst inside so that people are assured you are where you should be and you take it off and keep it secure and hidden elsewhere.
One of the aspects of security clearances is not advertising who has what clearance to all and sundry.
Wearing your tag on the train or to Friday night drinkies would definitely draw a slap.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:18 PM
Charming words again from someone who can never remember starting ‘argy bargy’
Well cop this –
You are really a Blot on the Landscape – So Go away and eat more Fat Pizza and moan, moan, moan,
OK. So how many Posters on this Bog, errr I mean Blog have you NOT had an argy bargy wiv’?
Get back to me me after you have talked to your Leagal people. Or if not sooner.
Chris> Your statement is not wrong, if a bit confusing when read in full. Male suicide rates seems like a different issue than levels of proof for rape cases, tho.
Why is it not conscious that there is an egregious concern for hitherto non-existent female victims and of course, serial perjurers?
I know it is biological (an instinct to protect) but it has been cynically manipulated to the degree of fine art.
Autism alert.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:18 PM
You are the stoooooopid one. Using an NYC accent .
As you have NO EVIDENCE. So, STFU.
This is the chief justice prick from Colorado who ruled against Trump:
Brian D. Boatright
Protests should begin in front of the bastard’s home. If it’s good enough for the demorats to terrorise Kavanagh than this bastard should get the same medicine. This is a disgusting ruling. It is now established that Jan 6 was a demorat event from beginning to end. Trump had no involvement and gave measured advice about it.
Would have been a very interesting discussion between Mrs Pirate, Crysanthou and her instructing solicitors last night. Alas, not livestreamed. And I suspect not recorded either.
Alamak, your observations are not WRONG, just appear to ignore a very serious injustice to the male in these stories.
To the extent that to the media and politicians men’s lives do not matter.
Bettina Arndt sees herself as a voice crying in the wilderness, given the level of alone-ness she has experienced through advocating for equal justice for males.
Wodney’s spazzing out.
Wodney, the smart question would be
How many people here appreciate the fact that you’re promoting a fraud? You limey crook.
Busy day exercising and shopping. Also took two huge Jap carving knives in for sharpening ready for Christmas. Left them there early and came back at 11 to be served by a new bloke, very Ozzie type talking to similar. How can I help you, young lady? he asked. lol. They stopped talking while he got me my knives, brandishing one in each hand before testing them by cutting paper on its edge. He then put them in cardboard sleeves and asked me if I needed a bag. I’ll put them in my handbag (a biggish one) I said. If anyone holds you up with a knife on the way to the car, just tell ’em that’s not a knife, this is knife, and you’ve got two of them, said the other bloke. I will too, I agreed.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:18 PM
In fact, you are a Crook by calling someone else as a Crook by having NO EVIDENCE. Welcome to the English Speaking World. You ‘Maffoso Fat Arse Criminal’.
Media, Suddenly: Say, Did You Know Biden Is Old, Unpopular, and Corrupt?
Investigation Leads to Additional Details Regarding the Mastermind Behind Secret Chinese Biolab in California
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:39 PM
More desperado BS from the Junior Cretin. Sad really.
Hard Times for Hollywood?
Quite. Bizarre isn’t it? There seemed to be a weird kind of pecking order in motion.
I don’t know if the evidence of clearance was paraded outside. It may well have been in house. I do know the next step up was family interviews and audits.
Oh fuk; I’m so upset I got the wrong judge who ruled against Trump. Boatright was a dissenter from the majority. The judges on the Colorado SC are:
Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright
Justice Monica M. Márquez
Justice William W. Hood, III
Justice Richard L. Gabriel
Justice Melissa Hart
Justice Carlos A. Samour, Jr.
Justice Maria E. Berkenkotter
Boatright and Samour are 2 dissenters. I’m not sure of the 3rd dissenter.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 5:39 PM
Wodney’s spazzing out.
And you still have that lisp. Poor Bugger. Get treatment ASAP before your Gob gets really infected. Whooops. Toooooooo Late. Game Over.
If only. checked mail box today and still no NDIS $$$ incoming.
Wodney,
You’re quite aware, Marty is a fraud yet you continue to fiercely defend and promote him on this site. Remorselessly promoting a fraudster makes you a fraud as well. = a crook. Perhaps it’s hard for you to get around this because you have bad intentions. He’s never going to pay you a cent but you’re obviously living in hope.
At a cafe in Russell Square in ACT, when you meet people there, they invariably tell you who they work for. You will sometimes get the response “I can’t tell you;” which is a bit of a give away.
Summer is always a problem at the ALPBC as the Marxist BTeam take to the airwaves and the regular Exec Producers don’t have the usual Speed Dial regulars available for comment. The Loony Left on full display. No wonder Ita is nervous.
Ah yes, the 3 dissenters were: Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright and Justices Carlos A. Samour Jr. and Maria E. Berkenkotter. Which means he SOBs who voted yes are:
Justice Monica M. Márquez
Justice William W. Hood, III
Justice Richard L. Gabriel
Justice Melissa Hart
My friend would say “It’s just a boring desk job, Chris.”
“No really, it’s just a boring desk job.”
The locations indicated, as time went on, that boredom may not have been a problem.
excellent behaviour
Russia says:
“Several NATO member states have boots on the ground in the Ukraine conflict, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has claimed. Western military personnel are operating certain weapons systems, he alleged, and that hundreds of the US-led military bloc’s satellites are providing surveillance data to Kiev…
https://www.rt.com/russia/589340-russia-defense-shoigu-nato-troops-ukraine/
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
As Biden collapses in the polls, and Trump rises, Democrats are going to resort to increasingly desperate — and anti-democratic — means to ensure Trump can’t run, all while they insist that only they are the Guardians of Democracy.
This is playing with real fire:
All variations of “I’d tell you but I’ll have to kill you”.
Okay. I’ve had that said to me by guys from Williamtown. Meh.
FMD, what dishonest, meandacious turds RMIT and the ABCcess are.
Gina Rinehart says federal taxation revenue from mining more than covers the salaries of all of Australia’s police, teachers and nurses. Is that correct?
Mrs Rinehart’s claim doesn’t stack up.
Is the amount of federal corporate tax paid by mining companies greater than the combined cost of salaries for all police, teachers and nurses?
RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
So what are state based royalties, chopped liver??
Well, what would you say the big wins were for the Right in 2023?
I’ll start!
-Twitter.
-Argentina.
-Holland.
-New Zealand.
-VoteNo.
-Greece.
Dunno about justice, but we used to enjoy visiting the old bloke. His tales of Naval service during the 1950’s were a look into a lost world. His consideration for women was genuine and touching. To hear him proudly referring to Hairy’s ex mum-in-law, the lady on his later years, as ‘my girl’ was as tender to our ears as it was thrilling to hers.
The correct spelling is “legal”.
You’d fink an acolyte of Marty would be able to spell “legal”.
Or, at least, “illegal”.
jeez JC … you have all the grace of soft closing toilet lid
And income tax and GST paid by workers, contractors and suppliers rather than the mining company itself.
Social value added is very high, and fully taxed in the employees hands.
Almost two minutes to cross the road on foot. The traffic is insane!
Perth is f*ucked!
A quiet country town is on the cards, the only drama being employment.
You will sometimes get the response “I can’t tell you;” which is a bit of a give away.
I was told once by a retired CIA agent that they are meant to say “I work for the State Department”. Saying they can’t say is just stupid.
And you’re what’s plopping in the bowl.
Double Jeopardy in Tax Unfair
Margaret River was opened up by doctors too. Most doctors are frustrated farmers who dislike paying tax so it’s not surprising.
Crossing busy roads whilst “Catting” is not recommended. 😛
The fact that you continually post entire slabs of nonsense from a convicted fraud who spent 11 years in Leavenworth and (you) referring to him as a “top bloke” confirms it even more. At one stage you were advertising for this crook under your blog banner. until you became fearful of being reported.
Have you made the donation?
If anyone should make a donation for abusing the site with worthless, dodgy crap it would be you, Chatfield. No piss off and stop wasting our time.
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At the time of this Post you are down 7 Down Dumb thumbs to 3 Up Thumbs. And you do NOT believe in Free Speech unless it is authorised by J C Enterprises INC.
You really are pathetic. You are on a Blog and trying to Bully people. Well. It won’t work with me as I have thumped Fat Arses like you years ago. And they always ended up on their Fat Arses. With a bloody Fat nose.
You don’t like Martin Armstrong. Well, stiff shite. It will keep coming your way every day and I LOVE it when you read it and WEEP. LOL
Scrolling Netflix & there’s a new instalment of the Evil Dead franchise.
But this one is sans Bruce Campbell.
I shall be boycotting.
What were they thinking?
One of my favourite Foxtel channels is Fox Docos (ch. 115) — yet another great documentary destroyed by climate change zealots:
It’s astonishing how the climate change industry keeps wheeling out grant applicants who pretend geological history began less than 100 years ago.
Well, it’s not actually astonishing: they depend on ignorance to keep the scam going — with the complicity of the news media, which is utterly devoted to endumbing the public.
Urban vignerons get quite touchy when you call them farmers.
Zuby DESTROYS White Privilege In 5 Minutes
Not to be confused with dogging. Please.
One of my favourite Foxtel channels is Fox Docos
They’ve got a 2 or 3 part series on Teddy Roosevelt that one can stream.
It’s a pretty good watch.
attempting to parse that statement
sorry
does not compute
Luigi’s government shown as useless
Palacechook going
Andrews going
Andrews blackballed at the Sorrento Gold Club
Andrew Bolt shut up for a whole sentence of one of his guests
Disgust with the Biden regime rising across Democrat voters
Border states’ busing program hits home in the blue cities
The evil came into the open where we can see it
WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Legislation roused concerted opposition
Huge farming damage showed what Labor are doing to many, and on many fronts
Rational voices being sometimes heard on Covid, climate, energy, kid mutilations.
Oh, I believe in free speech alright. It’s you that doesn’t because you’re always demanding people you don’t like should be banned.
Free speech also means I can criticise both you two crooks. Have you considered this Wodney. You’ve destroyed the integrity of the ticking by gaming it, because you’re a worthless dishonest limey crook.
I’m not bullying you at all. You start abusive stoushes like you instigated this one, you limey crook.
You wouldn’t scare a pet rabbit, you dishonest clown.
I don’t like crooks and that includes you wodney. Go ahead and keep promoting fraud.
Chris
Dec 20, 2023 5:58 PM
So what are state based royalties, chopped liver??
And income tax
And Income Tax was first introduced for Britain to fight the Napoleonic Wars. Are not those wars over now so why hasn’t the Income Tax been stopped?
Asking for a friend who has a lot of Money.
Third of the just released final episodes of The Crown which we watched last night was a coming of age tale about William at uni, specifically St. Andrews in Scotland, along with a clutch of other Old Etonians. Also present were some non-aristo middling super-rich, including young Kate Middleton The focus was on poor Carol Middleton, who was crucified as a scheming mother, because Kate went on the same expensive Gap Year programmes that Wills did. We see that it did Wills good to be rejected at first by Kate in favour of an ‘ordinary’ rich chap, that his first girlfriend was a super-rich bitch, and that he was thinking of leaving uni, until his friend Kate texted him to stay. And that’s it. Wills perks up at the message and its single x. Fade to black. As everyone knows, love (and being a Prince) won her heart in the end.
Meanwhile, within the family circle, a fairly unsympathetically portrayed Harry is psychologically setting himself up as Spare.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 6:15 PM
Those NDIS Anger Management Classes are only making you angrier. Poor Sod. Talk to Big Man Tits Shorten on Brains and he will help you out.
Get back to me when you think that you feel better.
You can ask for friends, but being a friend is what wins them to you.
But never mind stopping Boney; in Australia the Federal Income Tax was an emergency measure of WW2. Please outline your plan to repeal it.
I didn’t even know these birds existed until a couple of months ago.
Woodcocks dancing across the road
Full credit to the driver for filming it.
re Bulk Brittany’s flight to France, a rello or friend most likely gave her a book/DVD combo of “A year in Provence”.
As for David “Fat Girls and their Feeders” Sharaz, he probably has the the boxed set of John Burton-Race’ “French Leave”.
They are going to live the dream, people! 😀
Picardy.
I don’t like crooks
Neither do I. Provide the evidence or get banned for being a crook yourself.
Fed Chief TRASHES Centralized Digital Currency!
I don’t know where the extra “the” came from!
LOL, even of the local agents of the ICRC could be bothered trying to find out, would you believe their reports?
Penfold and not Pinfold.
Another worthwhile correction, by the crook.
Not again. I should check all my posts. Just too busy – especially when at the farm. Thinking of next job.
nice try
the truth is that the seat, the bowl, the cistern and the lid form a function unit of specific utility
I should have stated perhaps, that you have the all the grace of a toiled with a soft closing lid
… in any case you are deffo full of it
But never mind stopping Boney; in Australia the Federal Income Tax was an emergency measure of WW2. Please outline your plan to repeal it.
Easy.
Small Guv’ment
A Flat Tax of 15% just like Hong Kong had and may be Singapore now has
NO Welfare
Everyone works HARD (like they used to)
NO Free loaders. All Migrants have to build stuff and work hard.
NO Wankers.
NO life time pensions for the ‘Pollies’
Please feel free to add more to my List.
FMD. The Paywallian’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan is a major reason why Australians are so poorly informed about American politics.
Sheridan reminds me of 3AW’s Neil Mitchell — pissing into the wind to see which way it’s blowing. Sheridan’s Trump derangement and his contempt for middle America is antipodean, neanderthal and embarrasing.
This afternoon the second of our chandelier extravagances went up over the dining table, a Italian Murano glass showpiece, to add interest to the cloud wallpaper that now looks down on all who dine. Who knows what god or gods lurk there in those clouds, keenly listening in to the paltry human affairs being energetically debated underneath, and having a good old laugh at us all.
As previously, the lad who did the actual installation, under the supervision of our regular electrician, asked shyly if he could take a photograph of this one too, for his mum. Apparently, she loved our first one. Today’s chandelier was more disaggregated and there was choice in how it all came together. The lad and I spent some time working out the way in which the various hanging pieces could be best displayed in terms of colour combos, while the old tradie kept looking at his watch.
Looks great now though, lighting up this rainy Sydney day.
Mmmyes.
The questions they already know the answer to. I remember one such interview where I said, “Oh? I don’t think I mentioned that did I?”
Some shuffling of paper and moving on.
Always a temptation to ham it up in response to the homosexuality questions but I played a (ahem) straight bat to those.
Really?
Enough of this unpleasant toilet talk.
Today, it’s chandeliers!
Sounds nice Lizzie. Enjoy!
Enough of this unpleasant toilet talk.
Today, it’s chandeliers!
I don’t give a shit either.
It’s really just hospitality but with aircraft. There’s a lot of safety involved.
Bertruk:
And that’s the yardstick the Aboriginal people had to live by – their numbers were limited by starvation and they had to kill their excess babies and elderly to survive.
Only a Collectivist would find something noble in that.
Why do you get so many goes? 😀
The UK government’s official guidance to schools on transgenderism, just released.
Only it needs to be converted from guidance to law.
the queer hotel we stayed in over the weekend in Darlinghurst had a deer-antler one over the foyer
quite impressive
The powers of the Commonwealth to be restricted to foreign policy, defence, trade and immigration. Al else, including the powers to levy taxes to the States. Some will live thrive and flourish – the mendicant States can go broke, as they please.
– No more Covid Premiers or politicians.
History will not be kind.
Must be Sydney code.
Yeah, I think taping the preliminary ‘frank and fearless’ meetings for the spin-off “Lisa vs The Patriarchy” series was ill considered.
Expect to see less of that.
I have grave doubts that Sue will make the cut for the Pirate’s Straya Day bash.
There might be a bit of soul-searching about the decision of the Pirates to split with Ten’s lawyers. If you are going to cop a beating, may as well let someone else pay for it.
But, Jeez, that was some inswinging yorker delivered by Lee on the last ball of the day.
Lee J : “I assume we won’t be hearing any of this cover up conspiracy stuff in your summation, insofar as it relates to Ms Brown?”
Ms Sue : [long pause] “Not for the purposes of these proceedings, no.” (That is code for “not ever”.)
Paraphrasing. That was Lee saying, “Your client has f-cked up this woman’s life with her half-arsed crusade. Enough is enough, and I will sink it if it is raised again in my Court.”
You’d laugh yourself silly if it wasn’t so expensive.
Snowy Hydro tunnel boring machine moving a year after getting stuck (14 Dec)
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/snowy-hydro-tunnel-boring-machine-moving-a-year-after-getting-stuck/ar-AA1lqphh
The Battery of the Nation – the battery of the taxpayer more like it.
Needs punctuation or rephrasing. Please resubmit.
NO Wankers.
JC
Dec 20, 2023 6:15 PM
At the time of this Post you are down 7 Down Dumb thumbs to 3 Up Thumbs. And you do NOT believe in Free Speech unless it is authorised by J C Enterprises INC.
And at the time of this post you are down down down and going down…………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1gYJDQXPOk
Daily Mail.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Dec 20, 2023 7:07 PM
Daily Mail.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke dubs Clementine Ford ‘mullet Barbie’ as feud between the two writers erupts
Clementine Ford latest book condemns marriage
Antonella Gambotto-Burke wrote scathing reviews
Two writers are now exchanging Instagram insults
Unfortunately this is now the state of the MSM World. To get the real News, you need to dig deeper.
Go digging.
China’s state-run media has welcomed Australia’s rejection of a US request to send a warship to the Red Sea, saying the country was finally stepping out of America’s “shadow”.
Oh great! I knew it wouldn’t end well. “Handsome boy” cosied up to China & here we are.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/defence/out-of-americas-shadow-china-hails-australias-red-sea-call/news-story/6a5f957d7500572d2a134b8ee0d94215
Probably too late to get set on The Patriarchy. Still some value in a Lehrmann, Reynolds, Brown trifecta but expect problems getting set in volume. Drumgold scratched following stewards inquiry.
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Robert Sewell
Dec 20, 2023 6:57 PM
You’d laugh yourself silly if it wasn’t so expensive.
Snowy Hydro tunnel boring machine moving a year after getting stuck
Robert. Keep paying your taxes as poor Florence is still stuck. But the MSM will never tell you. At least the ABC Four Corners tried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhxRknHCvU
Is it too soon to post this??
Asking for a French based Fiend…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCpb30lYKE
I would’ve thought there’d be more propaganda value in highlighting the incompetence of the RAN brass in this matter.
Ah, the Ministry of Silly Walks, eh?
thefrollickingmole
Dec 20, 2023 9:38 AM
Nah, totally misjudged the fluid volumes.
(Her cup runneth over.)
Being trolled by Pooh Bear?
Robert. Keep paying your taxes as poor Florence is still stuck. But the MSM will never tell you. At least the ABC Four Corners tried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJhxRknHCvU
I mean listen to these dopes who have NO engineering SFA whatsoever. And that is Malcolm Bull Shit Stein – I am A Building Nation Builder. WTF – He couldn’t do it with Lego Bricks.
Law at ANU would be the centre of third wave feminism. Not a good place for young people.
Dear old Dad took the train from the farm to the top end of Collins Street once a year for a skin cancer check. Always came back from the specialist with farming news and stockmarket tips, made him very happy.
Dover, one other thing about electricity consumption. China has 1.2 billion people while the US is around 330 million. There’s nothing extraordinary that a nation, which is bouncing up towards being economically developed, would consume in total more electricity than a country that is 28% the size in terms of population.
Look at electricity consumption per head, which gives a far better representation.
US per capita consumption 73,677 kwh
China per capita consumption. 28,072
Question:
US uses lots of gas and oil to heat dwellings. What does China use? This could logically cause the spread to widen even more.