Note the use of the word “victim” as a synonym for “complainant”.Par for the course I’m afraid. Both prejudicial and…
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Heh. That was amusing. Thanks.
Moved out of Perth, nearly twenty five years ago..
Lawgi Dawes-Hall November 18, 2024 8:02 pm Steve trickler November 18, 2024 7:18 pmFilmed up North In West Oz. I…
Why aren’t these people labelled as ‘alleged’ victims?
People like Steve Inman are why I despise sports “journalism”.
That’s a pity because he was wonderfully entertaining in “Are you being served?”
I’m Free!
For Sinc
All I Want For Christmas Is You 2023
A sultry brunette talking about a goil …
In Mike Burgess’ defence, ASIO is now part of Home Affairs and no longer Attorney General Dept.
Clare O’Neil is not someone you might rely on to back you up and he might be stepping very carefully around the nervous senior Labor people whose electorates in Sydney are of the loud and excitable middle eastern religion of peace.
He has no control over state government police forces and does not want to be at odds with them either.
Put yourself in his boots, and you probably would be looking for a way out to be perfectly honest.
ABC reports with a straight face:
Imagine banning candidates you don’t like using a flimsy pretext, only fascist anti-democratic shitholes like Putin’s Russia would do such a thing. Oh wait…
Miss Maggie Dodgers of the Twenty Fourth and a half Century …
Perfect Pop
Always been a time
Time was on your side …
Some brunette bimbages … 🙂
I suggested to Mrs Panzer today that, should Lehrmann have a collect, it would be excellent trolling to announce a move to France.
I realise people might think the Britnah thing is a sideshow of little import.
But I happen to think that confected outrage campaigns to bring down a government or subvert the principles of a fair trial are a little more important than long fillems of Great Danes doing not much or “comeuppance” clickbait revenge videos.
Or, alternatively, Mike Burgess could maybe just do his fckn job.
billie
Dec 23, 2023 11:20 PM
My 2c worth. Likely too that analysts & DSD are still quietly focussing on said suburbs and some more excitable residents but putting in token efforts against the hapless garage nasties for appearances.
dot, what the hell are you talking about. The cope is all your own:
He could secretly buy a place upstream and cut off their water supply. And their offspring would discover Bruces evol plot decades later. revenge being a dish best eaten cold, ofc.
Holy crackers!
Cash lays down in public @15:47.
—–
woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Danish Village in Solvang 17
Always good to revisit.
Full fight highlights: Tim Tszyu puts Tony Harrison to SLEEP! | Mainevent | Fox Sports | Boxing
Week In Pictures.
Jack Smith’s appointment to be tested by SCOTUS as a result of a new brief by Reagan’s former AG Ed Meese.
Conservative Brief
Today was an important day.
A suicide drone launched from Iran struck the Israeli-linked tanker MV Chem Pluto 350 km off the Indian coast.
The vessel is carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to India. 20 Indian sailors are on board.
Iran is attacking Saudi and Indian interests
A drone strike damaged a ship off the coast of India on Saturday but caused no casualties, two maritime agencies said, with one reporting the merchant vessel was linked to Israel.
Jerusalem believes Tehran was directly behind the attack, according to Hebrew media Saturday.
Evan if you have proof I doubt that would possible.
Also it would be seen as frivolous and embarrassing to all involved.
1639 – those were the days!
Well dressed angels providing a news service even to the rural workers.
Now we have fake news complicit dregs assisting in the disintegration of society.
Using the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is now being prosecuted in Germany as a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine
Get ready for a mega thread!
I wrote this very long thread, because I felt that regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and in general regarding the Arab Muslim world, there are many fundamental misunderstandings, which cause real damage. I hope you survive the length, and even if you don’t, at least try to get something out of it
Bespoke:
Did you read the link about cyberstalking?
The world has changed, cyberstalking – no matter if you think it is frivolous and embarrassing – is still the against the law.
Luv these “sob’ stories! .. I raised 4 kids as a single Dad on welfare in the same, if not worse, “houso” environment in SE Sydney .. 3 of my 4 are millionaires and 2 own businesses .. the kids grow up the way you raise ’em .. being there and caring makes all the difference to sitting in the gutter smoking dope & truancy ……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12856923/Claymore-Burns-family-Growing-Poor-Documentary-Sydney.html
monsters
It is not cyberstalking, Robert. No sensible right or left thinking person would consider miss using the law in such manner.
Bespoke:
Unfortunately, the link no longer works. Do you have another?
A couple of points on claims regarding the supposed uniqueness and barbarity of Israel’s war in Gaza, using Russia’s mass crimes at Mariupol as a comparitive example:
1. Mariupol had a pre-war population of less than a quarter of that of the Gaza strip;
2. Gaza’s death toll, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, reached 20k today. Assuming that number is accurate AND is all civilians (which would require us assuming 0 Hamas fighters have died, a dubious claim), based on population the death toll in Mariupol (est. between 25k and 75k by observers) would be anywhere from more that 4x to more than 12x that of Gaza. If we take Israel’s figure that 8k of the dead are fighters, than the per capita civilian death toll in Mariupol would be from ~8x to ~24x higher than in Gaza;
3. Mariupol didn’t have military infrastructure embedded throughout and underneath the civilian population, meaning that the bombing of the civilian population by Russia was unnecessary militarily and therefore was a purposeful act of mass murder. Questions of discriminancy and proportionality aside, it cannot be said that there is no military purpose to Israel’s bombing campaign in the dense urban parts of Gaza, as the integration of military and civilian infrastructure in Gaza is well-documented and pervasive. In Gaza, the placement of infrastructure by Hamas among civilians (which is a war crime) is intended to deter Israeli military action by producing conditions in which a large civilian death tolls is unavoidable in any operation to uproot Hamas. This muddles any discussion of proportionality, as the risks to Israeli troops on the ground in Gaza without a significant aerial campaign would be staggering, thereby changing the calculus regarding what constitutes a proportional strike in balancing risk to civilians to military necessity. No military would take that kind of risk, and frankly the operational risks Israel is tolerating in order to minimize civilian deaths (telegraphing strikes, providing windows of opportunity to flee, and putting troops on the ground where other forces would simply strike from the sky) is almost unheard of elsewhere;
4. Israel has legitimate casus belli to go after Hamas by any reading of international law, whereas Russia’s naked aggression in Ukraine had no such military justification and is therefore illegal under int’l law. Ergo, *every* death caused by Russia is ipso facto criminal in a way that deaths caused by Israeli are not.
5. We have no way of verifying the actor responsible for all deaths in Gaza. It is reasonable to assume that the vast majority were caused by Israeli actions, but we know that around 25% of Hamas/PIJ rockets fall short. To take a dramatic example, when the al Ahli hospital compound was struck in October, Hamas claimed between 500 to 800 civilians were killed; it was later demonstrated conclusively that the cause was a PIJ misfire, not an Israeli strike. Estimates of dead have since been reduced considerably since this fact emerged to perhaps several dozens of civilians killed, but either way this constituted among the deadliest single-location strikes of the war. If Hamas’s initial estimate were true, than 2.5% to 5% of the current civilian death toll was caused by PIJ in one strike on al Ahli. It stands to reason that there are many more such cases, and given the fact that there can’t be warnings given to civilians as to where misfires will land it is likely there are a considerable number of deaths caused by such incidents. The game-playing regarding the al Ahli death toll also puts further into doubt the reliability and authenticity of Hamas health ministry claims. (continued below) 1/2
money out of CBUS, as they do not trust the union or the fund.
They want the account to be maintained so they can continue to receive the commissions on the borderline useless insurance policies attached to it.
The middle ground a lot of people now use is maintaining the account & doing a sweep (rollovers) once a year.
A lot of industry funds have brought in limits like 20k minimums on accounts to maintain insurance.
It shouldn’t be like this but we know it’s not going to change.
Bespokes’s link works fine for me.
If BL joined BH & DS in France, it would be the most unsexy remake of “Wild Things” imaginable.
One of them cried tears, said he was “just a construction worker who came to Israel to find a job and has no money for food for the children.”
The next day I found out who he was, when I happened to see his personal file. Neither worker nor shoes.
He is a despicable murderer who slaughtered a woman and her young son in cold blood, using a knife while they were alive and then shooting them in the head. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg “.
Captured or surrendered terrorists regretting their fifteen minutes.
rosie
I got a “link has moved message” when I first clicked, now the Sky link works fine – at 144p. Odd.
Oh well, I’ll give it an hour or so and it will download at 720p…
Thunderstorms already firing up out west of us here, the start of a harvest wrecking rain event for farmers around and more particularly south of Horsham and the WD.
Went to 3 this morning with a strategy of operating the harvester to the limit of hp and not worrying too much about grain loss.
The rain that was never again going to fill our dams and river systems.
Back into now, hope Gez fares better than we are predicted to. (75mm+)
I would say Cruel Intentions, but mine (the female fantasy version) would have been me with Salma Hayek and Joanna Krupa.
A union on a worksite determining how you can invest your super is a f**king joke.
What is this, Goodfellas? F**k you, pay me. What do I know about running a restaurant? You want me to be an investor with you? Go home and get your f**king shine box. I did 20 years in the can…oh wait…
I recommend Stake for superannuation, they do have insurance but it seems priced weirdly, I am in ING direct right now and the life insurance/TPD/income protection is dead simple. I have an old policy that has been upgraded a few times, so…
Stake is more expensive but actually SMSF. The basic one is exchange based only and the more expensive one actually allows for all kinds of assets.
I don’t know who or what owns Stake but I am going to transfer most of my super into it and invest in MTL/CAD through it.
ING Direct have served me well but limits you to the ASX300, which doesn’t cut it in today’s high inflation and asset price inflation environment!
I will keep ING direct for life insurance for the moment.
Try again!
Somehow this is America’s fault, if only they were more like Russia, an Empire perpetually in decline; wait what, who are Russia allied to?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-67811929
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4375103-iran-threatens-to-close-mediterranean-sea-amid-war-gaza/
All that has happened as a “crisis” is that NATO states with competent navies have laughed off Joe Bidet’s SCOAMF poopy pants, sleepyhead, child sniffing (MMMMM!) “leadership”.
Haha, I think I can guess what caused this backflip with pike.
Catholic Women’s School Saint Mary’s College Rescinds Decision to Admit Transgender Applicants (22 Dec)
Translating from woke: our enrollments for next year just collapsed faster than a badly designed bridge.
Bad luck lady, it’s going to be quite a while before you get back again. Maybe some unemployed Bud Light ex-executives could advise you how?
This is Hamas
Compilation of footage from Hamas cameras on October 7th.
I wonder when Dr Gay will step down.
When you’ve lost The Atlantic, you know the writing is on the wall.
Like the Boston Globe, they don’t care about the anti-Semites or intimidation on campus.
It’s all about the plagiarism.
They can’t have their Cathedral besmirched.
Joined at the hip.
Controversial former UNRWA chief to serve as Red Cross Director-General (22 Dec)
The Red Cross was in bad enough odour on the Right as it was, this is just rubbing our faces in it. I will not be surprised if donations mysteriously crater.
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I think Dover needs to do a bit of smiting on the Al Shifa thread.
Apparently, ‘Plasmamortar’ thinks I suck ‘Jew cock”.
Agree.
For those who have more time to reflect on the significance of Christmas:
Here is the Cantata BWV 248, “Weihnachtsoratorium” (The Christmas Oratorio), divided into six parts, with translated lyrics, by the greatest musical master the Western Baroque has ever produced.
Just one of the summits of Western Civilization.
An opportunity to wish D0ver and all Cats the deepest thanks for this blog and best wishes for this Festive Season.
Hamas luvvin’ to save the planet!
Solar panel firm with Greta Thunberg ad sued over £1.5m house fire (23 Dec)
Oh the schadenfreude! Genocidal Greta is going to be persona non greta (sic) for green companies quite soon I think. Maybe she can get a gig with UNRWA or the Red Cross.
I second that. The excellent commentary, insight and robust debate is greatly appreciated.
persona non greta
ha ha very good
The last cattle train for the month departed the district on Thursday. The only significance of that is that our wonderful propety management family can finally take a long break. Unlike the self aggrandising media creeps, this break will be truely WE.
They have had a hard year with ongoing drought, crop failure, some Voice nastiness, and of course, State Government and greenie harassment.
They are outstanding property and stock managers with a big future. In that, they are not atypical of the current crop of young rural professionals. They not only devote themselves to the property but are heavily involved in most aspects of the district life, culture and politics. That’s a lot of time in the ute.
We pinch ourselves at how lucky we have been. A partnership offer is coming their way in the New Year. They may well have higher ambitions, but hopefully they will choose stay on.
Quite so.
Which part of ‘courageous, disinterested, and for the people’ does Burgess not understand?
All of it. He is the epitome of the contemporary Public Service ‘ruler’. He is simply more often noticed than the rest of them.
None of the existing political parties has the capacity or the will to overcome the PS dictatorship. The only hope lies in an organistaion that stands outside of the political culture – Advance Australia.
An opportunity to wish D0ver and all Cats the deepest thanks for this blog and best wishes for this Festive Season.”
Hear hear.
The only hope lies in an organistaion that stands outside of the political culture – Advance Australia.
Agree. Advance played a huge and critical role in defeating Sleazy’s racist referendum.
Bons,
you are indeed fortunate with the workers. I sincerely hope they stay with you for a while longer.
A very Happy and Merry Christmas to all Cats and Kittehs. Tomorrow, make sure you stick with tradition and eat and drink to excess, any dieting or temperance will be treated with the scorn it deserves.
Raise a glass and light a candle for the many who have been lost to us this past year, particularly these past few months, and pray the evil will at least be staunched to give some breathing space to the men and women of the IDF.
And, I add my thanks also to Dover for keeping a strong hand on the tiller. A good hangout where I am mostly amongst friends and like minded people, but I can also indulge in the occasional biff which I enjoy. 😀
CHEERS!
A really smart business practice is to appoint a manager with a share of the outcome.
Bespoke
Dec 24, 2023 6:22 AM
Robert Sewell
Dec 22, 2023 7:58 PM
calli
Dec 22, 2023 7:04 PM
Now that is very interesting. It even follows me to specialist threads.
Dover, you do realise you are accomodating a stalker. Are you comfortable with this?
Cyberstalking is now a criminal offence. It doesn’t matter if the person stalking you uses a pseudonym or no name at all. All that matters is the act and the repetitive nature of the stalking.
I have to agree with bespoke*
First, it is not only possible but quite certain to track anyone down on the internet, period.
On the other hand, downticking someone for no good reason might be annoying and frustrating but not a criminal offense.
I feel for calli, even quoting her post without naming her invites a downtick, that downticking man/woman is a sick individual, best is to ignore, or wonder what happened to him/her when the activity seizes.
*despite his habit of imbibing the swill of Woodstock cans.
Bespoke, that was hilarious! I have seen that sort of thing first hand. Even funnier in the flesh. The bloke in the white shirt had some serious moves, Lol and for a moment there, I thought the bloke in the blue shirt was going to drop his daks!
Thanks for the laugh. 😀
Yes Advance Australia is the only political organisation I belong to. I’m sorry they dropped the Australia in the name. Very impressed with their efforts and proud to have been a supporter for quite a while. Reminds me of the 80s Advance Australia campaign with the stylised A in red white and blue. Very much what I m all about.
Sacrilege!!
any dieting or temperance will be treated with the scorn it deserves.
Have you been into the cabinet again Nurse Betty?
If BL joined BH & DS in France, it would be the most unsexy remake of “Wild Things” imaginable.
Shaza, shaza and baza. Finally Australia has a group of celebs. The pathway is clear: cooking tips, home decoration ideas, gardening ideas. dancing with the stars, Ophra interviews, guest spots at the next International Climate conference, TED talks, What are their Christmas plans? TV mini series, product endorsements. Finally Phillip Adams and the Pirate can take a back seat.
Massive protests any moment
Massive Turkish airstrikes against northern Syria tonight.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-alarmed-over-huge-price-tag-countering-cheap-yemeni-drones
Another example of how irregular war works – the weaker side ultimately exhausts the stronger by forcing them to spend a million dollars to kill a ten dollar insurgent. The military industrial complex loves it – while it lasts – but ultimately, the home population of the stronger side tires of the price in blood and treasure.
Another wee drawback of EVs, you can’t get rid of them.
No One Wants Used EVs, Making New Ones a Tougher Sell Too
Perhaps it’s not so surprising how many are dying in mysterious, but insured for, fires.
“Mothership” storm cell has just missed us to the south, close enough to get the outflow winds. Plenty of lightning hitting the ground so we’re probably going to have a fire next!
Mrs Pirate wants her job back.
Lisa Wilkinson wants to make a ‘blockbuster’ return to TV screens – but insiders say she has committed ‘professional suicide’ (22 Dec)
Somehow I doubt Ch 10 and their overseas bosses want the reputational risk of having her anywhere near one of their TV cameras. So enjoy your sit down money for the next year lady. Maybe you could take in some Tucker Carlson podcasts if you get bored.
The iodine cabinet.
He keeps it accessible in case New Guinea or Tonga lob a nuke his way.
He’s actually talking about stalking with ticks when the imbecile admitted, boasted in fact, he downticks all my comments.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
RNC AND BUSH TIES TO NEW @RonDeSantis PACs
The new back channel PACs that have been set up to support @RonDeSantis’s failed Presidential campaign in wake of @NvrBackDown24 being scandal plagued are called GOOD FIGHT and FIGHT RIGHT.
The FEC contact information for both PACS is affiliated with Caleb Crosby and Benjamin Ottenhoff of the establishment Crosby Ottenhoff Group.
Caleb Crosby and Benjamin Ottenhoff are both former RNC finance chairs.
Caleb Crosby worked for the 2004 re-election campaign of George W. Bush. He served in the George W. Bush administration at the Environmental Protection Agency and later at the White House, where he traveled with President Bush as a financial advisor. Crosby also worked at the United States Department of the Treasury and as CFO of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Caleb Crosby was also the treasurer of @KarlRove’s American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS.
Benjamin Ottenhoff is the former chief financial officer of the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Both of them have also done extensive work for @LeaderMcConnell Mitch McConnell as well.
DeSantis is 100% aligned with the worst the swamp has to offer.
Caught on camera ballot stuffer.
Mindy Robinson
@iheartmindy
Biden gave this lying, cheating bitch a medal…
And “why” isn’t the public allowed to get any answers to her running ballots through on camera multiple times?
That’s how in your face this fraud is…and the media and all their paid-for fake ass fact checkers are running cover.
The latest fashion in once removed attempted murder.
Spitfire
@DogRightGirl
Notice Conservative influencers are the only people being swatted. No one on the Left.
@mtgreenee
@catturd2
@Timcast
@JackPosobiec’s parents.
The Left want us dead.
Duk – That’s what the USS Portland laser trials are for. But like the IDF’s Iron Beam system the Houthis and Hamas have caught both in the prototype phase before wider roll out of the laser systems.
technically, they want us to shut up
… whatever it takes
‘Not a Crime’ To Kill an Israeli Soldier, UN Official Says
A Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors
Apparently she’s not listed on CH10’s talent roster for 2024.
Can’t take a hint.
THE FACE OF EVIL
Trans
It’s not only the left that wants you to STFU. Trust me on this one. By the way, how was Xmas lunch “with the boys” at the pub? Did the entire dining lounge drop doogans when you walked in?
Gilas
Dec 24, 2023 8:42 AM
Here is the Cantata BWV 248, “Weihnachtsoratorium” (The Christmas Oratorio), divided into six parts, with translated lyrics, by the greatest musical master the Western Baroque has ever produced
On period instruments no less. Thanks for that Gilas.
A Merry Christmas to all.
Thanks Dover for all your work. I feel that Mikey Burgess was also referring to the role of New Catallaxy in providing a pressure release that stops us all from wreaking havoc on society…er…… maybe.
Claudine Gay isn’t the First, or Worst, Example of Black Plagiarism Privilege
She isn’t quite My 600 Pound Life yet but I’m sure can work hard to reach her goals.
WATCH: IDF, Shin Bet assassinate key Hamas weapons smuggler, Hassan Atrash, in Rafah
JC,
you should try chatGPT
… see if you can get some clues on trying to pretend you’re human
Assange Team Member Allegedly Confirms Seth Rich Behind 2016 DNC Data Leak
I seriously believe this would be a death sentence for Trump. They’d happily let him win and then murder him to get their new puppet in.
Establishment Angling for Trump/Haley Ticket, but MAGA Says “No” to Nikki
What’s so special about CAD/MTL?
A new term enters the language:
It is fast becoming the scourge of the Tasmanian summer, and a modern spoiler of the time-honoured family tradition of coastal camping.
Now the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service has issued a warning over “ghost camping”, which is the underhand practice of leaving tents unoccupied for indefinite periods, typically along the best parts of the state’s coastline.
Signalling a ghost camping crackdown, the PWS said it would not hesitate to move on those campers who exceeded the prescribed time limits at the state’s prime camping sites.
She’s a moron. How wouldn’t choose here. I’d take a bet at the right price, it will be either the Ben Carson, or Kristi Noam.
Tucker is out of the pic , especially after the nonsense about UFOs.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Flying out of Tucson airport tonight and the terminal is full of illegal immigrants released into the US with their DHS paperwork. Airport personnel are directing them into a specific “immigration line” at security while all other passengers go thru regular line. I likely saw some of these people crossing illegally in Lukeville this week.
Wonder if the Toad and Pirate are having their not to be missed if you’re anyone Christmas or is it New Year party. Maybe they have to save for court costs at the very least.
should be He wouldn’t choose her.
Er…how can they move them on when they’re not there?
Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
This should make your blood boil every time you watch it. The Bidens are the worst vermin to ever inhabit the White House.
What a joy to behold, seeing Shin Bet taking out the A Trash.
1. I am talking my own book.
2. Nearology play. Next door to de Grey mining.
Too few channels.
Too many bridges burnt.
If she gets any gig it will be pre-record and carefully leagaled to death.
And, after the Lehrmann stitch-up, who would sign up to a pre-record?
So long as it’s not lithium.
Is Consumer Rejection of EVs behind the Lithium Crash? (23 Dec)
I’d say the answer to the question is yes, plus that China does most of the processing because cheap and dirty, and investing in that place is a great way to have your investment stolen.
(Yes I know de Grey is into gold gold not white gold. For every nearologist there’s an equal and opposite segueist.)
On this Christmas Eve I would like to thank all the Cats for their forbearance in accepting my comments (often drivel) about all and everything – ranging from the trials and tribulations of farming, to family dramas & the deep sorrow caused by some of the events of 2023.
I have often said it is a great privilege to be able to converse via the net on so many issues that often don’t make it into the triviality of our daily chatter with those around us. So, thank you all again & a happy Christmas with loved ones tomorrow.
Looks like he should self-report to the innernet nanny-commissioner, hey?
I’d suggest a community based, customer owned bank.
Hang on, I thought Azov and several other UKR military units were in Mariupol.
Also, can people quoting long slabs at the very least make the link a single sentence. Very hard to impossible to cope [LOL, copy] and paste a portion of what is quoted if that is done.
So the Europeans rejecting US command reflects naught on US leadership. You are coping very hard here.
Big Nambas,
I’m almost out of scorn, will a sideways look suffice? 😀
A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all Cats (well with 1 or 2 exceptions) . . . although the forecasts for 2024 do not look good.
A great thank-you and appreciation to Dover for allowing me the indulgence of a weekly post which allows me to be distracted from the many ills of the world today.
And also thanks to Tom for posting the daily toons – fantastic; and to OldOzzie for his comments which allow us to just to visit this site and get the news without having to trawl through the web.
It’s never a dull time on the Cat.
???
I’m putting shit on Biden, this does not compute.
How does this bode success for the glorious Houthi Navy?
🙂
Cope and paste. Unintentionally gold!
Cornpop Was a Bad Dude
“Shaza, shaza and baza. Finally Australia has a group of celebs. The pathway is clear: cooking tips, home decoration ideas, gardening ideas. dancing with the stars, Ophra interviews, guest spots at the next International Climate conference, TED talks, What are their Christmas plans? TV mini series, product endorsements. Finally Phillip Adams and the Pirate can take a back seat.”
JohnJJJ,
I’m waiting for the No Idea, Women’s Weekly and Woman’s Day bidding war!
Merry Christmas to all.
Murderers, rapists, disembowelers, and torturers of women, children and babies are excluded from my good wishes.
Yeah. It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with them attempting to avoid the perception of supporting Israel militarily at the moment.
The trouble with leading a life of complete self-indulgence, is that there’s nowhere further to go at Christmas time.
How unlucky can you get .. duuuuuh!
Out biking this morning & tracking behind a rain cloud for close on 2 hours .. 10 minutes from home (by Fairfield markets) “Hughie” let go .. 5 minutes downpour & drenched ..
Far side of the markets with 1km to go .. ground bone dry not even a sprinkling …..!
Spiked has an excellent article called “The Year Israelophobia Took Hold”, by Jake Wallis Simons. This excerpt really strikes to the absolute heart of what is really the end game.
“The first is the famous observation by the late Jonathan Sacks that ‘what begins with Jews never ends with Jews’. In this case, I am talking about anti-Western identity politics and jihadism, those twin evils that have joined hands on our streets every Saturday since 7 October. These target not just the Jewish right to exist, but also the flags, monuments and traditions of wider society. The hatred of Jews is simply the most prominent expression of a hatred of Western liberal values, culture and life. That’s why it matters so much.“
Katzenjammer
Dec 24, 2023 8:11 AM
This is Hamas
Compilation of footage from Hamas cameras on October 7th.
Thank you Katzenjammer. I probably should not have scanned this on Christmas Eve. Although maybe I should. I have kept this compilation to show all those fools who shrug & say “that is war”. No it isn’t.
When this footage is seen, all will understand why Israel will not stop until those Hamas beasts are disabled from committing further atrocities.
I will pray this Christmas especially for the families of the victims. I cannot imagine how they are coping.
It’s getting no publicity and will be pointless but:
Reckless Renewables Rally: 6 February Canberra.
Every year. Every goddamned year.
In December I buy sticky tape for present wrapping, because I never need it any other time of the year.
Every year I put it in the third drawer in the kitchen. Every single December I attempt to locate said tape in said drawer, and it’s disappeared.
The curse endures.
Green MP’s office on Glebe Point Rd. ” Happy Holidays ” I wonder why it’s a holiday then.
Christmas Tape Gnomes.
They’re real, folks.
Yep.
University of Minnesota Professor Calls to ‘Dismantle’ the U.S. to Fight ‘Colonization’ for Palestinians (23 Dec)
I remarked earlier how the genocidal marchers here like to put aboriginal flags on their banners. Same it seems in the US. One wonders if they have the intelligence to consider that their calling for the ethnic cleansing of one particular group of people might not be such a great thing to be doing, considering Amerindian history.
Tucker to Bongino; They’ve tried everything to stop Trump except assassination.
“Christmas Tape Gnomes.
They’re real, folks.”
Cousins of the infamous “Underpants Gnomes”.
Step 1. steal tape.
Step 2. Profit!
As one of my sisters said to me earlier, “If someone refuses to acknowledge Christmas, then he shouldn’t take the day off.”
Is it red?
With reindeer and elfs?
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza who was saved from brain cancer by Israeli doctors but returned to murdering Israelis, has thanked Iran, vowed to destroy Israel through terrorist attacks, and praised Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera as “the best pulpit.”
Instead of a scalpel the Israelis should have used a hollow point on the bastard.
As one of my sisters said to me earlier, “If someone refuses to acknowledge Christmas, then he shouldn’t take the day off.”
For an Oz MP (of any stripe) taking a day off is the same old same as the other 364 days ……
That is the cope. Criticisms of American foreign policy that is largely bipartisan, being reduced to partisan politics.
Dude, how much of this even involves the ‘Houthi Navy’?
I have triumphed this year.
Every present I need to wrap is square or rectangular.
A fair amount of thought has gone into this – the sort of thought that counts.
Thank you for the well wishes, and a very Merry Christmas to you all too.
P.S. The speed in which a year passes as you get older is a little disconcerting.
How Shakespeare helped shape Christmas as we know it today
By Daniel McCarthy
The Bruce Willis film isn’t exactly seasonally appropriate in its themes and violence — but it does take place at Christmas.
If that makes a movie a Christmas movie, then what about a stage drama that’s also set (to begin with) at Christmas?
Is “Hamlet” a Christmas play?
Denmark, in Shakespeare’s story, is in disarray, much like our world.
Guards patrol the walls of Elsinore castle in anticipation of war and in trepidation of encountering the dead king’s ghost, which keeps its own watch at night.
Two friends of Prince Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus, see the apparition, which vanishes as soon as a cock crows.
The philosophical Horatio, who will later describe himself as an “antique Roman” — a pagan — asserts that “the god of day,” or daylight itself, is what the ghost flees.
Marcellus has another explanation: This is the season “Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,” when “they say, no spirit dares stir abroad.”
It’s Christmas, or close, and that’s no time for hauntings: “No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm / So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.”
The next night Hamlet goes with them to meet the ghost again, while within the castle the usurper upon the throne — Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius — celebrates the season with a wassail, a drink customarily enjoyed in Shakespeare’s day (and medieval Denmark) on Christmas Eve.
The play moves months ahead in time; it’s Lent when a troupe of actors visits the castle and is put to work by Hamlet in a scheme to prove his uncle murdered his father.
“Hamlet” isn’t altogether a Christmas play, but Christmas is a conspicuous part of it.
And there is good reason to think that “Hamlet” was much on the minds of two authors who shaped modern conceptions of Christmas in the 19th century.
Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (“’Twas the night before Christmas. . .”) includes the charming line “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse” — which echoes the guard at Elsinore who reports “Not a mouse stirring.”
Twenty years later in “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens would refer to Hamlet’s ghost in his own tale of yuletide hauntings.
In fact, Dickens observes the rule Marcellus set down in “Hamlet”: The ghosts are gone, their work accomplished, by the dawn of Christmas Day.
There’s a faint reminder of “Hamlet” in an earlier Dickens tale set at Christmas as well.
As in “Hamlet,” an impudent gravedigger features in a Christmas episode of “The Pickwick Papers,” “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton.”
Curiously, the goblin who first accosts the gravedigger has a catchphrase — “Ho! Ho! Ho!” — now familiar with a very different Christmas character.
The academics here, linking ‘Blackfullas’ with Hamas, like to put American nutters on their banners.
P.S. The speed in which a year passes as you get older is a little disconcerting.
The solution to the time/age warp effect is to only do things you hate doing and then time slows enormously.
Interesting paper.
People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia—and it had an inland sea (Phys.org, 23 Dec)
From the map it looks like someone at the top of a mountain in SE Timor or Roti could’ve just about seen the islands on a clear day. That would make attempting the 100 km crossing a whole lot easier if they could know where it was they were going. So calling 65,000 years BP the time of first colonization of Australia would not be beyond possibility.
Pacifists shouldn’t take ANZAC Day off.
Big Nambas,
I’m almost out of scorn, will a sideways look suffice? ?
As long as your sideways look can compete with the “Good the Bad and the Ugly”
My theory is that our brains compute time as a fraction of our experience. Hence, the diminishing significance of each passing year, creating the illusion that time is passing more quickly as we age.
“The Good the Bad and the Ugly” failed to proof read, bad boy.
This is correct. When you see some political spiv in the discount bin of the book store, don’t think you’ve won; the spiv made their money at the front end, not the back end.
dover,
having watched many videos of Russia/Ukraine
Other than jamming, until a viable re-usable portable laser option becomes available, Houthi’s drones supplied by Iran are a cheap way to sow terror in the World
Air Weapons: Thermobaric Grenades go Airborne
December 21, 2023: Ukraine has demonstrated lots of ingenuity and innovation while fighting the invading Russian forces.
A recent example of this was the Ukrainian use of UAVs (quadcopters) carrying a thermobaric/FAE (Fuel Air Explosive) grenade.
The grenade carrying UAVs continuously search for Russian troops and only return to their operator to get their batteries recharged or to have another grenade installed after a successful attack.
Using a small UAV armed with an FAE grenade doesn’t kill a lot of Russian soldiers but the existence of these armed UAVs terrifies Russian troops.
The quadcopters are small targets and difficult to hit with rifle or machine-gun fire The UAVs are operated by nearby Ukrainian operators who are also taking notes on the dispositions of Russian forces.
The UAV operators are difficult to attack because the Russian don’t know where they are.
UAVs have become heavily used by both sides for surveillance, reconnaissance, and attacks.
These UAVs have become common in the combat zone because thousands have been built and used by both sides.
This has been revealing for military analysts and leaders worldwide.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine two years ago has resulted in the first, since World War II, major war between nations armed with nearly equal and similar weapons.
What is different is the heavy use of UAVs.
This has brought about changes in tactics and, to a lesser extent, strategy.
Ukraine developed and heavily uses USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicles) which are used mainly for attacks on enemy naval targets and bases.
Because of these USVs as well as UAVs the Russian Black Sea fleet has taken heavy losses and no longer controls the Black Sea. UAVs carrying explosives have attacked ships as well as naval bases.
Warships and their bases shoot down UAVs but since these attackers are not manned, the attacker can afford to lose a lot of them in order to damage the Russian ships and naval bases.
Before this UAV revolution, the attacker would lose more personnel than the defender.
Attacks using UAVs reverse that situation with the defender, no matter how well armed, losing far more people than the attacker. This is one reason for the attack UAVs to carry FAE grenades or larger FAE weapons.
Russia has been using FAE weapons for a long time, especially in Ukraine.
Earlier in the Ukraine War Russia sent some of their TOS-1A tank-mounted thermobaric/FAE 220mm rocket launchers to Ukraine. A TOS-1A carries 24 220mm rockets while a separate reload vehicle carries two pods containing rockets.
These weapons are a relatively recent development.
While FAE can be very effective, it is a temperamental type of explosive that is not widely used.
FAEs detonate and spread a mist of fuel (gasoline type stuff, or a mixture of other chemicals) and then ignite it. This creates a large, impressive looking explosion, as well as a powerful blast (called overpressure). The overpressure is powerful enough to set off landmines, as the pressure created on the ground triggers the pressure sensors on anti-personnel and anti-tank mines.
FAE has always been tricky to use.
If the wind is blowing the wrong way, or the humidity isn’t quite right, the explosion is something of a fizzle.
Russia developed new designs for FAE weapons that overcome many of these problems.
Current FAE designs use compressed gas to form a mist cloud of fuel. A detonator then ignites the cloud and causes a huge explosion.
The effect is like a nuclear weapon, for there is enormous pressure and a lot of flames. All the oxygen is also used up. If you aren’t crushed or burned, you die from suffocation because of the lack of oxygen.
Modern FAE chemicals are better able to seep into wherever air can go before detonating.
In a cave, everyone dies.
Even armored vehicles are vulnerable because some of the fuel sometimes seeps into the vehicle and starts fires when it explodes.
Earlier on, if vehicle engines were running, it could cause firing cylinders to rapidly dissemble the engines.
In 2017 the U.S. used one of its large (9.8 ton) MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast) GPS-guided FAE bombs in combat for the first time.
The MOAB was dropped on an ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) tunnel and cave complex in eastern Afghanistan. This area was guarded by hundreds of landmines and explosive traps in addition to several hundred of the Islamic terrorists. MOAB was officially known as GBU-43/B, and performed as expected, leaving over a hundred visible dead. Some ISIL men may have been vaporized and others buried deep in the collapsed caves and tunnels. A large explosion like this creates an overpressure that not only kills troops deep inside bunkers, but the shock wave also causes tunnels to collapse.
MOAB entered service in 2003 and fifteen were built but were never used for fear it would kill nearby civilians.
MOAB replaced the Vietnam era BLU-82 (Daisy Cutter) bomb, which used a 6.3 ton slurry of ammonium nitrate and powdered aluminum. MOAB uses more powerful tritonal explosives.
In addition to a more powerful explosion, MOAB doesn’t need a parachute, like the Daisy Cutter, but uses a GPS (like JDAM) and an aerodynamic body to glide to and detonate the bomb at a precise area.
Thus, the MOAB can be dropped from a higher altitude, outside the range of machine-guns and rifles. The force of a MOAB explosion is sufficient to knock over tanks and kill any exposed people within several hundred meters of the detonation.
Not to be outdone in 2005 Russia revealed it had built a bomb similar to MOAB, but theirs contained 7.1 tons of a more powerful explosive than MOAB used, and they claimed that the blast radius of the Russia bomb was twice the size of MOABs.
While MOAB is equivalent to 11 tons of TNT, the Russian bomb was said to be equal to 44 tons of TNT. It also appeared, from the Russian test video, that their bomb was a FAE (fuel air explosive). This could be seen from the typical FAE two stage explosion.
A Russian video also showed the area surrounding the blast, and the damage was consistent with an FAE explosion, and about as powerful as MOAB. It appears that the Russians were making publicity, not a factual announcement of a new weapon.
US says Iran ‘deeply involved’ in Houthi Red Sea shipping attacks
White House declassifies intelligence pointing to Tehran’s role and warns of ‘response’
The US has said Iran has been “deeply involved” in planning Houthi attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea and warned Tehran of a possible response amid the increased threat to shipping through a sea lane critical to global trade.
Citing declassified intelligence information, the White House said the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen rely on “Iranian-provided monitoring systems” to launch attacks on commercial ships.
“We know that Iran was deeply involved in planning the operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea,” US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on Friday.
“Iranian-provided tactical intelligence has been critical in enabling Houthi targeting of maritime vessels since the group commenced attacks in November.”
The Biden administration also said it was considering additional actions in response to the Houthis attacks, which have raised fears that the Israel-Hamas war could spread to other Middle East countries and draw in the US.
US officials have said they have not ruled out striking Houthi targets in response to the attacks, which began in November, although the White House’s National Security Council spokesman John Kirby warned this week that the US would not “telegraph any punches”.
The US has sent two carrier strike groups to the region since October 7, and has deployed hundreds of additional troops in the Middle East since the war began.
“We are engaging in intensive consultations with partners and allies over response options since this is an important issue for the international community,” Watson said on Friday.
Houthi officials said earlier this week that they would continue to target ships sailing close to Yemen as long as Israel continued its war on Hamas.
The Houthis have targeted at least 15 vessels since November 18, which they have said is retaliation for Israel’s Gaza campaign — although some vessels have had little or no recent connection Israel.
Huge numbers of vessels have started rerouting away from the Red Sea since the attacks began and are opting to take an extra 3,200-mile journey around Africa rather than face the threat of an attack.
The Pentagon earlier this week announced a multinational task force called Operation Prosperity Guardian under which naval vessels and other assets will provide a shield against Houthi drone and missile attacks.
The US said that Iran had provided Houthis with financial support for their operations and that the militants had employed Iranian-style tactics in some of its operations, such as when they seized the Galaxy Leader vehicle carrier last month.
“The Houthis are replicating Iran’s longstanding strategy to seize civilian vessels in maritime choke points, as well as the specific tactics Iran has used, to include airlifting hijackers on to the vessel from helicopters with small boats providing security in their seizure of the Galaxy Leader in November,” Watson said.
The Houthis have also allegedly used Iranian KAS-04 drones, including some that were shot down by the American destroyer the USS Carney earlier this week, Watson said. The US had conducted visual analysis indicating “nearly identical features” shared by the Iranian drones and those the Houthis have used in recent attacks, she said.
The US said it also had intelligence indicating the Houthis fired Iranian medium-range ballistic missiles from Yemen towards Israel, as well as missiles that recently landed near a US destroyer.
The Houthis have used other Iranian missiles to attack commercial shipping, Watson said.
“Iranian support to these Houthi operations remains critical.”
Kristi Noam is just a prettier version of Nikki Haley. Kari Lake would be a good VP candidate, somebody who actually has some intellect rather than collagen pumped lips a la Noam. Even Vivek Ramaswamy would be a step up, he has passion and energy if not enough wisdom just yet.
Daily Mail.
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 24, 2023 12:08 PM
Interesting paper.
People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia—and it had an inland sea (Phys.org, 23 Dec)
The Sahul Time project from Monash is astounding. 25000 bya sea level around Australia as 135 meters BELOW what it is today. The GBR did not exist.
6.5 million years bya sea level was 110 meters ABOVE what it is and Alice Springs was water front.
Botany Bay as it was 16,000 years ago
Map showing the current shoreline (in brown) and the shoreline as it was 16,000 years ago (where the yellow meets the blue ocean)
https://georgesriver.org.au/learn-about-the-river/what-shaped-the-georges-river
Pro-Paly Aboriginals are too dumb to realise they are being used.
If the time ever comes, religious extremists like Hamas would treat them as infidels, just like the rest of us.
If an election were held tomorrow that would mean an election without a campaign.
Campaigns change perceptions and opinions. Fortunes wax and wane week-to-week.
Dutton would be in a position of presenting detailed policy and poking fingers in Labor detailed policy promises – and vice versa, but Dutton, like all opposition leaders, has rightly not given too much detail because it can be used as a distraction.
Newspoll’s numbers between elections do not signify the same thing as during elections.
“As long as your sideways look can compete with the “Good the Bad and the Ugly””
Big Nambas,
I’ll have to bring out the big guns to compete with the GBU, “The Half Double Stink-Eye”
Works every time. 😀 😀
To (most) Cats and Kittehs, best wishes for a wonderful Christmas with family/friends and let’s hope that 2024 is a lot better than any of the last four years.
At about the same time I drive westward along M4 where it rained so hard the whole traffic slowed down to a crawl. When I got home the rain guage showed 2 mls.
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 24, 2023 12:08 PM
Interesting paper.
People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia—and it had an inland sea (Phys.org, 23 Dec)
Grahame Walsh on the Kimberly Bradshaw Paintings speculated that Rock Art was done by a Group of People who existed before the current Aboriginals
https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/australia/gallery/index.php
Bradshaw Foundation great site to learn about Australia
Having seen the Mt Elizabeth Station Kimberlys Bradshaw Paintings, they are totally different to the Aboriginal rock art site in Carnarvon Gorge
However, DNA has its own laws.
Just ask Bill Shorten.
Politics is like academia.
So much for a warm summer’s day BOM Current Sydney 19,9C – though did have nice Egg & Bacon Roll with Chocolate Milkshake at Dunes Kiosk Palm Beach 0930 sitting in sun with Wife & 12 Year Old Grandson
Merry Christmas to all Cat Bloggers – Raise a Glass to ALL with Big Hugs for Family
Sky News: holiday traffic to impact EV charging stations.
Ya reckon?
Speaking of Bill Shorten, I see Boy Premier Steven Miles is preparing to walk the same ground of talking up renewables while placating Labor voting coal miners with promises of new green jobs.
I suspect Opposition leader Crisafulli will say “Me Too.”
Over to you, Robbie Katter.
The art from “Where the Wild Things Are” springs to mind for some reason.
Chris Cuomo After Watching Footage Of October 7 Hamas Massacre: “They enjoyed mutilating”
“If an enemy wanted to make sure that Israel would come for them, the message would be to take children, women, innocents and more, tie them up and burn them alive.
Just like the Holocaust…. I now know that is exactly the message Hamas sent, on purpose, at scale.
I was not aware of that before.
They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease and excitement of finding and mutilating victims.”
This is footage of the massacre of the Desert Rave partygoers put together by the go pros of both Hamas & the footage of the partygoers themselves as they realised what was happening & tried to flee by car & foot.
There is, thankfully, no footage of atrocities. That was not the purpose of the footage later put together by the filmmakers. They wanted to document how it occurred & the total evil perpetrated on the unknowing young people.
It has been published on the Times of Israel website.
https://youtu.be/VHOiLANpses
Speaking of rock art, I had an interesting convo with an FNQ friend recovering from their recent deluge yesterday and the question came up: Has Oz rock art ever been found that could be interpreted as depicting cyclones, tidal waves, or any sort of weather event for that matter?
Rosie 23/12 @ 14:18
It’s cheap – they can’t afford anything else.
What a load of shyte.
Just imagine eating what they ate
Grahame Walsh on the Kimberly Bradshaw Paintings speculated that Rock Art was done by a Group of People who existed before the current Aboriginals
https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/australia/gallery/index.php
I think that is quite accepted these days. The local mob used to refer to them as “rubbish paintings”.
We saw them in 2011 (I think) when we drove across the continent & up into the Kimberley. As I recall we had to leave our camper at Drysdale Station & drove the rest of the way up to the Mitchell Falls. Extraordinary country. Forests of palm trees at one stage – never seen anything like that in Oz.
The “Bradshaw” paintings are near the Falls, as I recall. Quite exquisite paintings of figures – quite reminiscent of the type of “naturalistic” art that you see at Lascaux paintings & those in the Caves de Niaux in France.
It’s that time of year to piss off all your American lefty friends and wish them a “Merry Christmas”.
It has completely disappeared from their lexicon. It is all ‘Happy Holidays’.
Even my heavy duty Muz colleagues from around the world wish me Merry Christmas.
The Yanks are nuts.
Santa came home with a reindeer
And Mrs Claus said with a sneer
‘Did you have to bring
That horny old thing?’
Rudolph then said, ‘Madam, he lives here.’
His-story as we know it is a pack of lies. People that reckon this was built in the era of horse and cart are probably those that gobble up the crap written on tourist brochures.
You can bet there is vast amount going on underground with this construction….
Workers go home and eat by candle light.
This is from a past civilization that was more advanced with building skills. Something wipe it out?
Thousands of examples exist across the globe, including Australia.
Critical thought is lacking these days.
No F*cking way was this built in the 1800’s … I’d go back maybe a thousand years?
40,000 Pound Stones in a Horse Wagon?! – Minneapolis City Hall
Almark 23/12 @ 14:16
Something that never got off the ground – Armenians in Azerbijan
Bespoke
For the downticking? Of course not. But the books are full of laws that no one thought would be used in the way they are now being used.
The cyberstalking laws can be used in much the same way, by insensible people who want to indulge in Lawfare.
Germany replaces the UK as Israel’s leading European ally.
Santa, on his yearly quest,
Found cookies, always the best.
With milk on the side,
He’d take it in stride,
A well-deserved snack, no jest.
Wally 14:23 @ 23/12
SMSF – not illegal yet but you have 2 choices to set up – diy on line for $2k and receive a call from the ato
2 – through the advise process – $6k
The trustee regulations and having to update deed to accept different types on money.
There’s the Jewish Hannukah occurring around the same time. I think that is the main reason; and why Frank Costanza invented Festivus.
There is a deeply disturbing number of Teslas that have suddenly appeared in our patch.
No doubt its them city fellas come up here to virtueise us bushies.
Good luck to them trying to charge them around here
and if they send it to every or most libraries in Australia, they get a nice earner care of the Federal government
I’m sure I’m not the only one who see’s the irony, here.
Who’s the f-wit that down ticked the Minneapolis City Hall clip above. Use your brain, dickhead.
Explain how they built it back then. I bet you can’t.
Retards galore.
News Nation has what appears to be a partial and somewhat paraphrased transcription of the statement by Chris Cuomo:
Thursday was a very heavy day for me and some of my team members who went to the Israeli consulate to watch some of the footage and images collected from the Hamas massacre carried out on Oct. 7 in Israel.
The 47-minute film from the Israeli military compiles footage from that day, some of which can be found online. But a lot more than I expected was new to me, and I believe people need to see it.
I realized something that I had missed before that took me immediately and deeply into a past trauma: the exact feeling I had when I learned why 9/11 happened. Terrorists targeted the twin towers and Washington, D.C., to take out the great symbols that represent America.
The method was not madness — they were sane but just evil. The method was a message. Their unholy efforts triggered what America feared most: Terrorists robbing us of who and what we are about at home. And so, they got what they asked for — the wrath of a people united in common fear and concern that it is us or it is them. Existential.
We went after those who took credit where we could find them and used warplanes and drones and missiles and every kind of weapon and warrior we have to kill active enemies, those who hid, the complicit, the sympathetic and sometimes, even often at points, the innocent.
If there had been social media then, I don’t know how public opinion at home would have been different, but the fact that they hit us where it hurt is what mattered most.
If an enemy wanted to make sure that Israel would come for them, the message would be to take children, women, innocents and more, tie them up and burn them alive. Just like the Holocaust. The ultimate fear of what the world can bring the Jews’ way when a decision is made that Jews are less than human and treated that way in words and deeds.
I now know that is exactly the message Hamas sent, on purpose, at scale. I was not aware of that before. They did it methodically. You hear it in the voices, the commands, the ease and excitement of finding and mutilating victims. Being told, “Let them play with it.”
Merely murdering innocents was the least of it. They enjoyed mutilating and went back and celebrated in the streets with heads and bloody corpses as trophies. This was absolute genocide. That is a word that people are misapplying, and this is where it does apply.
Even more important to the terrorists apparently was what they left behind: Charred reminders of a Holocaust, the obvious desire to see as many Jews utterly destroyed as possible. There were dead women with bloody groins and twisted, disfigured legs that the Israel Defense Forces says are part of a pattern of rape and torture.
The 47 minutes show a small fraction of the dead, but it makes it very clear that Hamas wanted war. This was not the irrepressible angst of the desperate who want freedom, who want better, nor certainly want anything approximating peace. They wanted the Jews to know that they want them to burn — again.
I now understand better what is fueling Israel. This is not tit-for-tat. They are fueled by the deepest fears of genocide because those fears are real.
I am not trying to erase or in any way mitigate the massive death toll of civilians in Gaza or diminish the obvious need for the violence to stop. If anything, after seeing the video, there is an increased urgency to avoid what could still come because this could get much worse.
However, it is easy to say stop, but it is very hard to say how. Why?
Because seeing what the terror group in charge of Gaza did to the Jews and has promised to do again, how does Israel risk being vulnerable to those who do not honor agreements and have made it very clear they don’t want peace? They want to burn and kill the Jews.
On the suggestion to bomb less and use commandos: How does that not suggest to Israel that they have to do this in a way that Hamas can kill more of them and reduce their advantage? Stop bombing so aid gets in — will Hamas allow it in? They have a history of doing the opposite.
It is not about numbers. It is about Israel being shown its worst fears can be realized because they were.
Cuomo’s assessment is an insight into why Israel is driving as hard as it is to destroy Hamas completely. This is not, as Cuomo notes, tit-for-tat. This is an existential battle for survival against an implacable and inhumane enemy.
In days of yore the North America Air Defense Command (NORAD), the lads with the huge radar network, would start tracking Santa right about now and teletyping his progress out to the international TV/radio networks for broadcast.
Started back in the 50s-60s and the kiddies loved it. Dunno if they still do it
Zatara
Dec 24, 2023 1:47 PM
In days of yore the North America Air Defense Command (NORAD), the lads with the huge radar network, would start tracking Santa right about now and teletyping his progress out to the international TV/radio networks for broadcast.
Started back in the 50s-60s and the kiddies loved it. Dunno if they still do it
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/noradhq
Sleigh Technical Data
Designer & Builder K. Kringle & Elves, Inc.
Probable First Flight Dec. 24, 343 A.D.
Home Base North Pole
Length 75 cc (candy canes) / 150 lp (lollipops)
Width 40 cc / 80 lp
Height 55 cc / 110 lp
Note: Length, width and height are without reindeer
Weight at takeoff 75,000 gd (gumdrops)
Passenger weight at takeoff Santa Claus 260 pounds
Weight of gifts at takeoff 60,000 tons
Weight at landing 80,000 gd (ice & snow accumulation)
Passenger weight at landing 1,260 pounds
Propulsion Nine (9) rp (reindeer power)
Armament Antlers (purely defensive)
Fuel Hay, oats and carrots (for reindeer)
Emissions Classified
Climbing speed One “T” (Twinkle of an eye)
Max speed Faster than starlight
American weaponry geek explaining the ins and outs of an SAS Vietnam era customised L1A1 (replica)
As I can’t imagine being here next Christmas, here’s Very Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to those Cats who may remember me as an old lurker from Prof Bunyip times.
Cheers ( not that silly cheese thing).
Aliens obviously. Same ones who built the pyramids and Inca temples.
Cathy Griffin’s girlfriend looks like Steve Bannon
It’s very easy Chris. Hamas surrenders unconditionally, same as Japan eventually did four years after Pearl Harbor.
Macbeth!
Kirk Douglas and the Queen Mum hung in ’til 103.
Merry Christmas this year AND next.
Zatara
Dec 24, 2023 2:03 PM
Explain how they built it back then. I bet you can’t.
Aliens obviously. Same ones who built the pyramids and Inca temples.
Piss weak response.
Why mention Aliens?
The scope of Tartarians is more worthy.
JC,
that’s the fat chick that was always fighting with Trump. The bint that said “fire doesn’t melt steel”.
Ask Santa to bring you a better one. 😉
Happy Christmas, macbeth. Good to see a veteran Bunyipian.
God bless you.
Katzenjammer
Dec 24, 2023 8:11 AM
This is Hamas
If, after viewing this, people don’t want to napalm all of the Gaza Strip, then there’s really no hope for us.
They’re all guilty.
macbeth
Dec 24, 2023 2:00 PM
As I can’t imagine being here next Christmas, here’s Very Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to those Cats who may remember me as an old lurker from Prof Bunyip times.
Cheers ( not that silly cheese thing).
macbeth,
I have been dying for many years now, and my kids call me a “Cockroach” the only thing that would survive a nuclear blast, as I keep going in and out of Major Surgery, Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, 34 Rounds of Cancer Immunotherapy, CLL since 1999
Stay positive and enjoy every moment – Life is Grand and we look forward to hearing from you next Christmas and many Christmases thereafter!
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JC
Dec 24, 2023 2:04 PM
Cathy Griffin’s girlfriend looks like Steve Bannon
She looks like a fat, ugly left wing lesso. I challenge anyone to present an attractive leftie/demorat woman.
Yes. Yes, there are.