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Those aren’t the difficult lessons here, Makka. It isn’t DEI preventing the USN regaining control of the Red Sea. It…
Those aren’t the difficult lessons here, Makka. It isn’t DEI preventing the USN regaining control of the Red Sea. It…
Harris Campaign Admits Tim Walz Was The Only Candidate That Answered Their Craigslist Ad I LoLed
You can say that again !
Interesting article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13825105/Former-RAF-engineer-nurse-wife-sign-British-couple-use-double-suicide-pod-Switzerland-dementia.html from two points of view. 1) Aussie Dr Phil Nitschke, who at one stage was working in…
Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.Cope! I never said it’s a major world power. You…
johanna
Dec 29, 2023 6:55 AM
Here you go Johanna, this from Tim Blair Update:
Abe Greenwald
@AbeGreenwald
Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.
An accurate summary.
Rain forecasts are probabilistic. There will always be occasions where the lower probabilities occur. Even in El Niño years.
Not sure of the background.
Jason D. Meister
@jason_meister
BREAKING: Colorado Secretary of State announces Trump is back in the ballot.
Of course.
Why Chat GPT doesn’t always tell the truth – hallucinations, bias and lies
The new form of terrorism.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s daughters swatted
Colorado to include Trump on 2024 primary ballot as state GOP appeals to Supreme Court
Mexican Cops Step Aside as New Migrant ‘Poverty’ Caravan Moves North
Hilary Clinton, owned.
John Spooner has a piece in the Oz today. Would appreciate if someone could cut/paste. Ta.
Report: Joe Biden Takes 418th Vacation Day in Virgin Islands for New Year’s
Newsmaker Interview: Trump puts Iran, Europeans and antisemites on notice, dispels Nikki rumors
Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules
Barack’s Lieutenant: The Racism, Revenge, and Ruin of Claudine Gay
Sage Steele Reveals the Subject ESPN Told Her She Couldn’t Talk About Anymore
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Gotta love how so many of these J6 indictments cite cell phone geo tracking data to bolster evidence that these people committed the mortal sin of…checks notes…walking through the open doors of Capitol
But for some reason when 2000 Mules uses geotracking data to expose the biggest ballot harvesting election fraud operation in US history, regime media puppets say it’s “unreliable data” and “debunked”
And you wonder why people despise the corrupt FBI, DOJ, and media
Tim Pool
@Timcast
The future will be right wing because liberals are killing their kids
Be it driving them to suicide, sterilizing, or aborting them
He is from Gaza .Listen to him
Given Luigi the Unbelievable’s own sketchy paternity, Leak’s cartoon of Luigi denying paternity of mini-me Luigi is hilarious.
That was my 1st thought a when reading it .. not sure if that was Johanne’s intent but definitely fits ……….
Son of HAMAS Confronts “Idiots on the Street”
Testing. Testing. Testing.
Neil Oliver: New Year Rant!
I was thinking of JFK’s Bay of Pigs comment about failure and orphans.
Toad. I tried to post the article you asked for but it has been sent to the naughty corner for some reason.
Mak, does it have the word j erk in it? Or any of the usual four letter expletives? That will punt it immediately.
This is an example of why the union movement is a protection racket and not a societal institution.
Calli. Thanks. I didn’t check but will try to repost.
Ranga
There was a report the other day that 50% of the US population will be obese by 2030. We don’t have to wait as it’s likely to have reached that milestone now. It’s most likely a combo of a sedentary life, bigger servings and lots of sugar.
Outside of two cities, NYC and LA the rest of the country is fat.
Johannes Leak does also. I’m not a subscriber but I can link the cartoons they each did for their columns:
Leak
Spooner
It is a persistent myth that you can control your weight by balancing ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’ and, superficially, it makes sense – consume more calories than you burn, weight goes on, reverse that, weight comes off.
There is, however, substantial evidence that this is not the case, and the reason is twofold:
1) a calorie is NOT a calorie – carbs in particular produce insulin spikes which pull sugar into the cells, especially in the liver, and drive its conversion to fat. This does not happen with proteins and fats. The modern phenomenon of adding seed oils to the diet (a ‘food’ unknown a century ago) also appears to be particularly damaging to metabolic health.
2) a ‘calorie’ is the amount of heat energy produced when you burn something – but your body DOES NOT BURN food – it metabolises it. It takes what it wants from it and discards the rest. Thus, if you eat an excess of the right sort of ‘calories’ (fat and protein), you simply dont use them – they dont get pulled into your liver and turned to fat.
Think about it – none of us really have any idea of how many ‘calories’ we need to run our bodies under the panopoly of differing conditions day to day. There is no way any of us could balance that over a multi year time frame if steady weight really required a close match between inputs and outputs. It would be like trying to fuel you car by calculating how much petrol you had burned vs how far you had driven – for the life of the car.
I lost 15kg when i cut the carbs (which the body turns to fat) and instead switched to eating fatty salty meat in whatever quantity I wished.
Barking Toad, I tried to post the Spooner article (+cartoon), but Dover’s spaminator ate it.
Sorry Toad, I give up.
Its worse than that because many more have chronic diet related metabolic ill health (>80% by some figures) which drives hypertension, diabetes etc etc etc even if the BMI is within the ‘normal’ range.
Urb 28/12 1:09am
Urb check what the fees in your and your wife’s super are together. I had client with 400k in industrysuper the fees were $4k plus $4k off the top for investments management.
Then 4K in financial planners fees.
The probs with industry super now is this esg bullshit which is going to impact decision making – the origin energy situation – I think it’s origin energy
Probs for you is drawing down on super with low int rates means you will be drawing down on your nest egg faster.
If you required 60k to live, with a return of 6% you would draw down your super in 12.5 years.
But you are in control.
When I wake up in the morning usually the first item of business is to pop into the bathroom and ‘make water’.
Indolent must have a bladder where links accumulate overnight and that demands he hose the blog with links when he gets up.
Thanks Mak & Tom for your efforts.
Society must also take responsibility.
How about we start with parents.
Quote fail.
That was in regard to Kevin Donnelly’s piece on educators failing children.
JC 27:12
Your 9 point plan – full expensing of plant and equipment.
This was enormous , the reduction in tax was enormous.
Businesses would buy equipment which would improve out put, repair, time , wear and tear on your own body which would return min 15% before tax.
The outlay would wipe out profits ,little tax to pay and the businesses were in better internal shape.
Re the point previously on pop size, speaking to a former labor minister, really smart, knows what’s going on and real gentleman, asked if moving gmh to pt Augusta, no union labour, direct rail to Darwin port to send cars to Indonesia would work – answer yes.
Barking Toad
Dec 29, 2023 8:05 AM
John Spooner has a piece in the Oz today. Would appreciate if someone could cut/paste. Ta.
Just attempted to post the piece, but for some reason it has gone into ‘Your comment is awaiting moderation.’
Dover!!? 😉
Don’t sell your Hilux, ever.
New law puts popular tradie utes, American trucks under threat (29 Dec)
Typical of the Liars, they bring this in quietly between Christmas and New year because they know the backlash will be terrible for them. I smell that creep Bowen all over this.
As mentioned, John Spooner has an article in today’s paper on free speech, which concludes:
With an excellent Spooner cartoon
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David Pocock has introduced an amendment to copywrite legislation that will see a cap on royalties paid to musical artists each time their song is played on the radio lifted.
The artists, represented by ARIA, will then negotiate with the radio networks to raise royalties from their current level.
ARIA lady interviewed on local radio this morning let it slip that, “Of course, what artists would really like is for government to set the rate.”
Of course!
Perhaps they’d also like a tax exemption on account of being “artists”?
Duk, I lost a heap of weight (25kg) by cutting carbs and upping fat and protein. Trouble was my cholesterol levels went through the roof – and I mean stratospheric.
This was back in 2018-19. I was fit as a fiddle also. I think I may have to bite the bullet again and to hell with the threat of statins. It’s a case of choosing my poison.
Black Ball. I understand that the surly one resides at the Uni of Melbourne.
Calli. There is a strong case against statins, particularly for women.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/
Jo Nova is savage today about the BoM and its failed predictions.
Thanks Tom
Er…that would be former Liberal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher.
Labor has simply picked up where he left off, which was handing ACMA everything it asked for in a 2021 request, with the legislation flagged just prior to the 2022 election.
Hi, Paul!
Fletcher another photios bot. NSW lieborals- worse than useless. At least vicco lieborals have Moira Deeming.
8k in fees in a union super fund of only $400k!
How do they get away with that? Those fees far exceed those of a commercial fund (at least the definable fees).
So much for their idiot heart signs in their dishonest advertising.
Another of Abbott’s failed promises was his commitment to pull union super funds into line. Now they are funding Bowen in his program of destroying the nation. A lot of retirement savers are going to be severly burned when the renewables scam collapses.
It is obvious that if the liars are reelected they will attempt to ban SMSFs. You can’t have all that lovely cash that the Liars can’t get at.
It is one aspect of the renewables outrage that commentators fail to identify. Bowen is not only destroying the economy, he is destroying our savings. Subsidies will not be sustainable. The whole outrage will collapse, taking super savings with it.
Cholesterol is horseshite confected by the Big Food/Big Pharma symbiosis. Ignore.
Er…that would be former Liberal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher.
Labor has simply picked up where he left off, which was handing ACMA everything it asked for in a 2021 request, with the legislation flagged just prior to the 2022 election.
Hi, Paul!
Correct, all this was put in motion by Scumbag’s Liberals under that putrid, supine, venal, slithery and loathsome Paul Fletcher who was Minister for Communications in Scumbag’s jelly back government. Even a snake has more backbone and spine than Paul Fletcher.
Fletcher narrowly, and I mean narrowly, won his once safe Liberal seat of Bradfield against a Teal candidate in May 2022. It’s a great pity he wasn’t turfed too.
How did you guess?
Forgot this one at the start:
By JOHANNES LEAK
Fletcher was a Pom until he gave up his British citizenship in 2009 to stand for parliament.
An academic, professional student, lawyer – never had a real job.
‘Son of Hamas’ Gives Unbelievable Interview on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Exposes Hamas
Just for fun, let’s remind ourselves what the Liberals are supposed to believe in:
‘In the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples; and we work towards a lean government that minimises interference in our daily lives; and maximises individual and private sector initiative.’
‘In those most basic freedoms of parliamentary democracy – the freedom of thought, worship, speech and association.’
Thanks, Zulu
For anyone that is interested plus the relative cost (USD) of ammo that may have been used:
Here’s How Super Hornets Just Shot Down Houthi Drones
Ward Carroll
shatterzzz
Another useless bastard.
My pleasure, Wally. All the best for the New Year.
I think many SJWs ally with Islam because it presents with a social justice facade.
I doubt many have looked any deeper.
Quite so.
A Tsunami of coffee.
Perhaps it’s the cut and paste rush, but many links don’t say what he thinks they say.
Particularly the “Died Suddenly” ones.
Got to love the Greens, they’re turned up to 11 in every direction except sanity.
Sydney’s Pro-Hamas, Hinduphobic Muslim Senator Calls for ‘Criminal Australia’ to Pay Climate Reparations to Pakistan (28 Dec)
We should pay climate reparations to Pakistan, of all places, for what exactly? She and Greta should really get together, they’re obviously sisters under the skin.
Another defenestration in Russia overnight.
All I know calli is if I don’t take statins I feel rubbish. I’m not taking them for cholesterol as although my bad cholesterol is slightly elevated the good cholesterol is really high. Its to help with my AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm. I even notice my well-being decrease if I don’t take aspirin. I think since we’re all different there is not a one fits all fix. My best mate is almost exactly the same ethnic background, physical size, mobility and food eating patterns. He cut out dairy and carbs from his diet only to lose a little weight yet has still got a fat belly and weighs more than me. Years ago I was under a nutritionist to help me lose weight to help combat chronic health problems. 4 months later with no weight loss, she was more irked than myself. I went back to my own diet and reduced intake and got lighter.
bons
“It is one aspect of the renewables outrage that commentators fail to identify. Bowen is not only destroying the economy, he is destroying our savings. Subsidies will not be sustainable. The whole outrage will collapse, taking super savings with it.”
Watch for a number of Liars pollies and union “executives” of industry super funds joining Knickerless in France. That will be the tip off.
We should pay climate reparations to Pakistan, of all places, for what exactly? She and Greta should really get together, they’re obviously sisters under the skin.
Pauline was right about this kunt. But she is useful because she shows the gutlessness of the other pollies in allowing a bitch so hostile to Australia to remain in parliament. But then she’s no different from any of the rest of the filth.
Tom
Dec 29, 2023 8:52 AM
Barking Toad, I tried to post the Spooner article (+cartoon), but Dover’s spaminator ate it.
Same same here as well Tom, including the Johannes Leak piece as well.
This will give Trump something to do when and if he returns:
Iran Claims Credit for Oct. 7. Hamassacre, Saying it was Revenge for President Trump’s Killing Suleimani
And the claims of election fraud and backstabbing by RINOs get more evidence:
BREAKING: Now There’s Proof! Brad Raffensperger Lied to President Trump When He Told Him in Jan 2021 Phone Call There Was No Fraud in 2020 Election
7.62mm therapy is all that can cure that. Why and how is it in our parliament?
Odds are nobody there thought of Australia in this context until she mentioned it.
I note Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Australia was demanding the same.
Everybody along the way will get their cut, of course, because corruption is Pakistan’s real problem.
Joe Biden loves the idea of being President. Unfortunately, he’s neither very interested in, nor good at, the job.
Time for DFAT to issue a warning for Lebanese Australians collecting arranged brides near war zones from family members with possible terrorist affiliations. “Hesa good boy.”
He’s also refusing to testify under oath regarding Dominion voting machines. If I were Fox News I’d be asking for my $785 million back.
It’s a pretty good gig isn’t it.
Sitting in Lahore University, get a free ride to an Oz University. Claim to be an engineer but never having worked outside of academe. Label yourself a feminist, anti-racist, peace and justice warrior.
The Greens put you in the Senate at $250k and you are not required to do anything other than babble insanity sufficient to keep the Greenhairs frisky.
Why didn’t I think of that?
That idiot occupying the White House is nothing more than the Swamp laughing at you.
Because you aren’t evil.
Almost certainly the same here.
Study from Syracuse: Just 3.4 Percent of American Journalists Are Republicans (27 Dec)
Which explains why lefty rubbish keeps on being reported by Sky News, The Daily Telegraph and The Australian. Their own journos are in a guerrilla war with management.
Gets harder everyday. Bob Brown wouldn’t get a look in these days. Although he did believe in Earthians.
Not many of our polimuppets don’t seem to work for foreign interests.
Our memory from living in Pakistan is that the educated class of women are wall to wall Faruqis.
We often speculated whether their hatred of and contempt for the West was projection of their resentment at being absolutely powerless in their own sick society.
When they enter a free society they indulge themselves in a maelstrom of abusive behaviour for which there are no consequences. but which would have had then killed in their own sewer.
A certain cricketer is similarly self indulgent and abusive of the freedom he gas been gifted.
That Snicko thing is ridiculous. It doesn’t seem right that someone can be out just based on that alone.
Remember the young woman who was almost obliterated at last year’s Melbourne Show because she decided to collect her phone from the tracks of the Rollercoaster?
This morning, the Mail had a large headline screaming “Justice for Shylah!”, and the story goes on that the family is hoping that Worksafe will deliver a juicy payout after their investigation.
When I flicked back to the Mail a short while ago, the screaming headline and the word Justice was gone. Seems the Mail’s legal team may have had a word. I remember when that happened last year and as hard as the media tried, they could not rustle up a lot of sympathy for the woman because, as was pointed out, she went after the phone against every safety protocol and people screaming at her to get down. Crowdfunding barely raised any cash. She paid a very severe price for her stupidity, but, as was highly likely at the time of the smash-up, the show people had followed every safety protocol, why should they be forced to pay for her stupidity.
The age of “not my fault, someone else needs to pay”, is also a major cause of a lot of the problems children face today about not being able to deal with fears and consequences.
Trump struck off the Maine ballot
In 2024, let’s make it the year for Indigenous thriving. Let’s get off to a great start and not waste energy on Australia Day protests/debates or other woke gestures. Instead, let’s focus on what works. Let’s use good strategies we know make a difference – strategies that have already proven effective with many Indigenous Australians.
Sadly the retards grifting, aiding and abetting and running the ‘aboriginal victim industry’ will choose to ignore Anthony Dillon…because…its a massive tax payer funded milk cow.
Public serpent news.
ACT government to consider trialing four-day working week within public service with no loss of pay or conditions (Sky, 29 Dec)
Every single cliche and joke about public servants for the last 50 years is at a stroke proved by the ACT government. I hope the whole place implodes in complete uselessness.
Why do we not embrace this aspect of multiculturalism? This would be an excellent place to start.
Probably have to draw the line at acid attacks unless Bunnings goes special order only. You know, for the brickies.
The ACT is our California.
The heavily pregnant Bedouin women who was stabbed to death in Lod was killed by her 14 or 15 year old brother who seems to have taken aim at his unborn niece or nephew, get away car was driven by a 14 or 15 year old cousin, dad has also been arrested.
Apparently she was promiscuous whatever that might be in Bedouin culture.
All done in front of her two little children.
Arab news still claiming it was a ‘settler’.
All cultures are equal.
Maybe Faruqi could sell her many investment properties and pay reparations to Pakistan, if it concerns her so much.
Hearts and minds.
all class
Carey gorne. 316 to get. Very chaseable!
Another video circulating on twitter of surrendered hamas terrorists shouting out to an Arabic speaking IDF soldier that they wanted to work in Israel but UNRWA wouldn’t allow them.
Peculiar perhaps but maybe Hamas was the only employment on offer so they took it and as soon as things got real they surrendered, they certainly don’t appear to be enarmoured of the shaheed option.
Funniest thing ever.
Indeed, and as noted. That stupid, stupid woman:
a. Dropped her phone on the rollercoaster track;
b. Ignored the signs on the fence warning against going on the track;
c. Climbed the fence designed specifically to deter people going on the track;
d. Ignored warning from the carnies, who said they would go and get it for her when it safe to do so; and
e. Was clearly surprised when a rollercoaster came down the rollercoaster track, collected her by the face, and dragged her 30 feet in the air on a loop-de-loop before dropping her to the deck. On her face. Near her phone.
Of course it didn’t. I considered at the time sending her a bag of Minties, but then realised she wouldn’t have been able to chew them.
Bottom story of the day.
Stigma against gay men could worsen Congo’s biggest mpox outbreak, scientists warn (MedXpress, 28 Dec)
‘Scientists’ are perceptive people. I hope they’re all up to date with their mpox vaccinations.
Paywallion.
Hope fully this works on the second attempt:
How silly can serious get?
You know there’s a problem when comedy festivals and cartoonists trip over their own sanctimony.
By JOHANNES LEAK
28 Dec 2023
Cartoon
It was always my old man’s No.1 turn-off.
“What do you mean you don’t like this band (or book/artist/you-name-it)?” I’d ask him.
“They take themselves too seriously,” he’d say.
As a teenager I couldn’t quite grasp what he meant; now I see it everywhere. How do you know someone’s taking themselves too seriously? Humourlessness is always a giveaway.
Only the humourless find the genius of Barry Humphries’ resonant caricatures of Aussie archetypes offensive. Yet it’s the Melbourne International Comedy Festival itself, launched by Humphries in 1987, that has disowned him for being too offensive and not politically correct enough. Could it be that someone in the comedy business might be taking themselves just a little bit seriously?
Nowhere do we find people taking themselves more seriously than in today’s contemporary art scene. A drawing is no longer a representation of nature made using charcoal on paper – it’s an exploration of the interplay between the ephemeral and the permanent, the literal and the abstract, decay versus renewal. A nude is not a nude any more – it’s a symbolist dialectic peeling back layers of meaning through the framework of evolving genderqueer roles and ethnodiverse identities. If today’s contemporary artists put half the effort they put into their artist’s statements into their work they might actually create something worth looking at.
Cartoonists, traditionally cynical and sarcastic by nature, no longer are immune to the dangers of falling for their own sanctimony. Witness the much trumpeted Walkley walkout this year when a dozen or so of the country’s most prominent cartoonists chose to boycott the country’s leading journalism awards over its historic ties to Sir William Gaston Walkley, the founder of petroleum company Ampol.
In keeping with the notion that cartoons and their creators can be so dangerous that they need to be policed by the likes of the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Australian Press Council, it’s not enough to provide a bit of light relief, a bit of satire in the paper – these cartoonists believe they can and must effect real and meaningful change. How silly can serious get?
Everywhere you look we’re being engulfed by a wave of w a n k e r y. Be it cooking, playing sport, writing, playing music or making art, take yourself too seriously and someone, somewhere is rightfully rolling their eyes at you. Of course this applies to drawing cartoons, too. You’re not designing a suspension bridge or co-ordinating plans for Kim Jong-un’s birthday celebrations. Your job is to make people laugh. Try to force it, take yourself too seriously, and you’ll end up with a lecture, a sermon, not a cartoon. And what could be worse than that – seriously.
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I won’t be putting money on
One thing I don’t understand is the flag disrespect.
I couldn’t care less if Houthis line dance on them, or Pakistanis eat them (oh yes they did) or morons set them and themselves on fire.
this bloke.
Zafiro – If the Pakis can beat us at cricket it means we don’t have to give them climate reparations. Ms Faruqi will be furious!
JC
…aand that’s how it goes down in JC territory. This is what he believes rooly and trooly happened.
You are delusional, you fop.
Seems we are now supplying fighters for Hezbollah. But, but he was a nice boy, worked hard, never knew he was that way…..blah blah.. The standard BS from the extended family and friends. They all knew. Islam is not a private religion. It is demonstrative. Next the local Rockdale Imam ” they were quiet boys, very respectful” and then ” I never really knew the family”. Every time it is the same dance of distancing. There is no “truth” in Islam except the will of Allah.
Australia is completely ignorant of the ways of Islam. Hopefully a few in ASIO and Feds had experience in Afghanistan or Iraq.
From the Daily Mail article about the rollercoaster lady:
While the results of that toxicology report from the time of the accident have never been made public, police sources suggested Ms Rodden may have been under the influence of some form of medication.
Funny, but not funny, Bruce.
Keep the spite festering along, nurse Tutlehead. Always a good idea to run an overnight stoush next day.
Any new opinion on professions you don’t like?
Last evening’s was brilliant as usual.
Zafiro – If the Pakis can beat us at cricket it means we don’t have to give them climate reparations. Ms Faruqi will be furious!
Same scam and part owner of ‘Fukurri Rugs.’
Typed without any sense of irony by the site’s most vituperative shrew, who holds multiple micro-grudges that run for years.
Yet tells us he has the IQ of a jet-pilot.
Excellent contribution satp!
Nyt, might be paywalled. At least you know the nyt is acknowledging the truth
Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7
Ya reckon? Batsmen would be missing the MCG roads of a few years ago and 600+ per innings.
The age of “not my fault, someone else needs to pay”, is also a major cause of a lot of the problems children face today about not being able to deal with fears and consequences.”
Yep. I would also add that we now live in a time where adolescence is forever, teenagers never grow up and take responsibility, we’ve created and nurtured a society of Peter and Peta Pans.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/12/29/the-year-america-became-a-banana-republic/
An interesting and depressing read but spoiled by this:
From what I saw on the election night and have read thereafter, there is very strong evidence that the election was indeed stolen. I hope the writer chokes on these words, as I expect/hope it will soon emerge that the election process was corrupted.
Intelligence Quotient.
The divisor is making him sillier.
Very astute. You are onto shit.
This legal nonsense needs to go to the Supreme Court as a matter of urgency.
Otherwise, American democracy really is gone.
Republicans should refuse to engage in any activity on Capitol Hill till this attack on democratic process is knocked back by the Supreme Court as both vexatious and criminal. If the SC doesn’t do that then they are not doing their job, and America is a failed state.
Oh, and all mass media should stop referring to the Jan 6 ‘insurrection’.
It was clearly merely a protest. The media and Dems are the ones, by this illegal behaviour, who are fostering a genuine insurrection by a people denied justice.
Yes. Look at Biden now. It speaks for itself, he couldn’t possibly have won in a fair election, hiding in his basement and reading from autocues. Follow this with the legal malarky we are now seeing, and as I said, America is becoming a failed state.
When I read through the mud-throwing that happened last night and to some extent today, I despair. We need to address how to manage and function in this terrible time in history, not get at each other but be supportive and helpful.
It’s like a monkey on your back. Another pointless point.
To paraphrase Donald Trump.
Louis
Good comment. I’ll respond later in the afternoon.
I predict it will be around 70-80 too many.
Dropped catches have cost the Uber drivers about 100.
Dropped a sitter off The Cheat in the first innings when he was not many and he made 38. More importantly it delayed the attack getting at the middle order.
They dropped Marsh on 20 in the second innings which would have had them 5/70 ish, and he went on to make 96.
There’s 100 free runs right there.
JC at 12:12.
I am yet to hear how “bureaucracy” ruins the life of a pilot.
A big chunk of those “bureaucratic rules” are what keep aviation relatively safe.
Yes it was. It sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, but it was. How is such remedied?
Unpleasently.
“Was clearly surprised when a rollercoaster came down the rollercoaster track, collected her by the face, and dragged her 30 feet in the air on a loop-de-loop before dropping her to the deck. On her face. Near her phone:
Obviously a leadiing candidate for thie year’s Darwin awards
I’m not sure the USA can do that. They might have stuffed things beyond repair.
Duk, I lost a heap of weight (25kg) by cutting carbs and upping fat and protein. Trouble was my cholesterol levels went through the roof – and I mean stratospheric.
The traditional sequence of events is:
Soap box …if that fails
Ballot box …. if that fails
Ammo box….
Isn’t milk an ingredient in traditional spaghetti bolognaise?
There was a good, suburban style Italian restaurant in Crows Nest over a decade ago. The owner/chef was tragically murdered by an employee. I once asked him, some time before he was killed, how he made such smooth Spag.Bol. He told me that the secret was added milk, and I have followed this advice ever since.
The Maine one is just a single Dem politician unilaterally banning him. Not even a judge. Doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Maine Bars Trump from Ballot as US Supreme Court Weighs State Authority to Block Former President (Newsmax, 28 Dec)
I hope the Dems give the Right a Ft Sumter casus belli. They deserve to be Gaza-ed with extreme prejudice.
BOM radar showing direct energy weapons at work out of Hedland.
Mossad pricks.
Death ray!
Much rumbling at the Cafe atm but the thunderstorm is missing here and going straight to Calli’s place instead. I was musing that BoM’s rain radar is excellent, but as soon as they insert a human into the loop it gets silly.
Martyrs’ Feasts Situated Perfectly at Christmastime
NCR
What is the Church trying to tell us by situating these particular feasts just after the joyful celebration of the Savior’s birth?
The whole ‘fat = cholesterol = heart attack‘ theory is BS – yet another example of big pharma inventing an asymptomatic disease diagnosable only by ‘testing’, putting you on a ‘drug for life’ to ‘manage’ it, and gaslighting you if you complain about side effects etc…
Oh, thank you, Duk – I needed that affirmation.
My total cholesterol reading has always been “high” by the standards of conventional GPs, although fine by the Framingham scale. It is pointless arguing with them, of course. As I’ve mentioned before, Calcium Score (which I note some brave researcher is saying is being over used) is moderate risk.
Yet I went to GP a couple of months ago to get my Drivers Licence endorsed & was pressured by GP to have a full Blood Count. Why, I asked. Because your cholesterol was high last year……I told her firmly that I didn’t come in for a blood test & she responded as I got up to leave that “You might not always get your Licence endorsed”. I didn’t respond.
Given all of that, I am trying to substantially reduce the amount of sugar in our diet. Otherwise, our diet in well balanced & we both get copious amounts of physical exercise every day. That doesn’t prevent pretty well every GP in our practice putting the fear of God into patients regarding their cholesterol levels.
I should have given every one of them a copy, for Christmas, of Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s book, “The Clot Thickens”.
Bruce of Newcastle
Dec 29, 2023 1:59 PM
BOM radar showing direct energy weapons at work out of Hedland.
Death ray!
Much rumbling at the Cafe atm but the thunderstorm is missing here and going straight to Calli’s place instead. I was musing that BoM’s rain radar is excellent, but as soon as they insert a human into the loop it gets silly.
This is how good the BOM (Bunch of Muppets) is –
The BOM predicted a hot dry summer right before the flooding rains came…
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/12/the-bom-predicted-a-hot-dry-summer-right-before-the-flooding-rains-came/#comments
As much as we may deride Mz. Faruqi’s demand that we should send reparations to Pakistan, it’s almost certain that next year the Albanese government will sign us up to the UN climate reparations scheme that was decided upon this year at COP28.
In which case Australia will end up sending money to Pakistan.
Climate change is the white colonisation of the atmosphere, comrades.
On diet.
I see a lot of people who go on “high protein” diets which are also massively high in saturated fat and salt.
Holden Bloodfeast enters the chat.
Yes I’ve come close to becoming a spiked supporter but their spiteful, stupid and dishonest attitude to Trump stops me
Henry Ergas, upthread, nails it with an excellent psychologically informed review of 2023.
Hate is the issue.
““You might not always get your Licence endorsed”. I didn’t respond.”
Don’t be too self-confident Vicki. Mine wasn’t.
My 20 year old grandson has ventured to make peace with me over his discourtesy in not communicating with us over Christmas… lots of excuses, but they do find it hard to say sorry.
Nevertheless, olive branch accepted. He’s only a kid, after all, and has just had a lesson in reciprocity as well as love and duty.
I still maintain that the Supreme Court will refuse to take the case or will wait until it’s too late. The SC couldn’t care less about democracy, their social standing in Washington DC is all that matters, they are the swamp.
But we will also remember Thucydides’ grim yet lucid warning. It is, he wrote, in the nature of human affairs, with their weaknesses and crippling imperfections, that the abysses loom far greater than the peaks. And when mayhem is on the march, pushing us towards the abyss, all of humanity’s reserves of culture, courage and resolve are needed to stop it in its tracks.
This has been Henry Ergas’ year. His great erudition (I think that’s the noun) has encouraged him to plunder the classics for the best and most appropriate lessons of history. Almost every week the letter writers to the Australian commend his columns. I fear, however, that his admirers are of a past era when education actually required an understanding of history.
Hopefully that was code for ‘had a conversation in which will excommunicado was mentioned’.
Thousands of public servants working in the ACT could experience what it is like to work a four-day week after the government agreed in December to look into trialing the system.
They can’t do a 2 day week even though they turn up for 5 days. Productivity is not a Public Circus word. But Lethargy is. FFS.
Republicans in congress are not displeased with Trump being barred from Colorado and Maine ballots.
And yes, America is a failed state.
““You might not always get your Licence endorsed”. I didn’t respond.”
Don’t be too self-confident Vicki. Mine wasn’t.
For what reason, Damon? My understanding is that there are specific health problems – such as diabetes – which support a decision to refuse endorsement. I havnt read anywhere in the relevant documentation that you can be refused a Drivers Licence because your cholesterol is a tad high.
That’s pretty threatening, Vicki. Can you change to a more amenable GP?
My ‘marginal’ cholesterol bads makes mine a leetle bit unhappy, my weight gain even more so. But I call the shots and I intend to keep driving as I have no debilitating issues. She is in no doubt about that.
We know this because in fact Israel negotiated for a hostage exchange and successfully freed a significant number of hostages, the freeing of three times as many low life terrorists was bargain basement (giving hamas a week’s breathing space, was a significant cost)
Incidentally it had now been confirmed that 70 year old Judi Weinstein Haggai as well as her husband were killed on 7 October and their bodies taken to Gaza they were taking a morning walk and shot by Hamas.
There has been zero suggestion by any IDF involved in the battles of 7 October that they purposefully killed hostages being taken to Gaza. It may have happened if people were being transported inside vans or in car boots but then the IDF operating from tanks or helicopters couldn’t possibly have known they were inside.
There are maps pinpointing the locations of murdered Israelis most are in kibbutz and around the Nova festival site, if they died of gun shot wounds, were stabbed, burnt inside their homes, shot, blown up with grenades inside shelters, migrant accommodation and toilet blocks I’m guessing not Hannibal doctrined.
These people are so lazy with their assertions, yet can’t point out a single specific incidence of IDF hostage killing.
I once defended John Merschheimer when SRR claimed he was anti Semitic.
I was wrong.
John Merschheimer, plot lost.
Bus conductors now 2/106 chasing 317.
The GOAT had better start GOATing.
What about that old saying “everything in moderation”. There’s nothing worse than diet and food cranks and zealots.
Yes, the modern Western diet is dangerously laden with sugar and refined carbs, and this explains the steep rise in obesity. It’s tragic, particularly in children, but I also think too many children are not as physically active as we were when young. When we were kids we walked everywhere and we rode our bikes and so on, we were all very physically active. Another thing, we were not allowed to snack in between meals, if I said to my mother that I was hungry, she’d either point to the fruit bowl or say…”wait until lunch or dinner. Also, we were never ever allowed sugary drinks, as I’ve written here before, I’ve never drunk a can of coke in my life…and I never will. If we were thirsty my parents would point to the kitchen tap. We were allowed cordial once a week at my grandparents. I suppose to young readers this all sounds very Dickensian.
Too many people have lost track of how to eat. I don’t eat highly processed food laden with sugar or refined carbs. I never eat take away. I cook from scratch every night, as taught by my mother, as does my sister.
Imagine a life without pasta, or noodles, or rice, or spuds. I eat these in moderation, and that’s the key. I do think that if you need to diet you should focus on eating more protein than carbohydrates as the protein will satiate your appetite.
But further to moderation, even that can be boring, as Oscar Wilde once said…
Everything in moderation, including moderation!
I did mention to his mother that I was reconsidering our offer of paying for a big 21st bash for him in a venue of his choice. She might have mentioned that to him, for his text came twenty minutes after I put the phone down to her. The timing amused Hairy greatly. 🙂
We who are adult do have to keep in mind how awful it was to be 20 and broke.
Good thing is that he is a worker, an earner, which is to be encouraged.
Quite so.
I think after the diabetic Sporty Beemer guy cleaned up five people in Daylesford we can expect to see GPs tighten up licence approvals on chronic conditions which may result in incapacity behind the wheel.
Firstborn son, aged 51 now, has lost weight and improved his health (and his autism) by following a basic keto diet, but he’s now back on more carbs to avoid over-thinness and concentrating on minimising trans fats and various additives. As he’s autistic, he is focused on his diet to the point of obsession, but at least he is keen on taking care of himself, which is better than years of self-neglect.
It seems that Hamas does have a track record of similar deceptions – however, the soldiers who fired those shots will have to live with that for the rest of their lives.
That son, since his recent autism diagnosis, has been much more able to cope, and understands his situation, as he calls it, much more. All to the good. He’s quite a good dad to his two boys from different mothers too, improving daily on that. He’s going to bring that 20 year old son up here for a nice lunch, as moral support against a stern grandma, lol.
They both know that I am really a pushover, but that there are limits and I can act tough before I give in.
Knuckles, Mossad learnt everything they know from the Tatarians. Saw it on a website. The net never lies.
So the vile green Jew hate flys to Shitholeistan and whines about how ” the west” is responsible for gerbil worming,
Hypocrisy, the tribute vice pays to virtue.
A moldin’ oldie from 1980 might be getting a new lease on life with a younger audience.
They are more in awe of the ol’ Hairy, who can put the fear of God into strong men with his poker face and a few well-chosen words.
Uber drivers now three-fer.
Some commentary the other day about Labushagne being stiff to get out caught down the leg side.
I can’t understand why the “strangle” mode of dismissal is always put down to bad luck.
Having only faced a handful of balls he wafted his bat lazily at one well wide of leg stump. If he did that on the off side it would be dismissed as a rubbish shot deserving to get him out.
I think you’d have to have a history of significant diabetes and sudden hypos entailing a high degree of medication with loss of control, for that to come into play. Early diabetes with good medication control is unlikely to be treated by bans, because firstly it would be over-reacting, secondly it would cover too many in the population.
Mother Lode,
that was brilliant! I have never heard it or of it.
One of the comments below was great, “this should be Netanyahu’s election slogan”.
Yes!
Lizzie:
Being 20 and broke, taught me how to manage money.
If you keep bailing him out, all you are doing is making him dependent on you to save him from learning how to budget.
Is that what you want?
Surprising that doesn’t happen more often. I’ve seen numerous recipes with milk in spag bol but never made one. I think mine came from the Sunday Times – 3 rashers of bacon, 1/2 cup of port and a grated carrot.
Must be an ex Onslow guy. I doubt anyone in Hedland could operate a death ray.
Hey Sanchez
Jets seemed to go down a lot during the 80s with the blame placed on wind shear. What ever happened to wind shear?
Yeah, that was before this dickhead ignored a bunch of warnings from the app and ploughed through people, killing five of them and injuring half a dozen more.
My point is that the rules will probably be tightened as a result of this incident.
And I wouldn’t mind betting GPs might have to take attitudinal factors into account.
This bloke no doubt said all the right things, but then proceeded to ignore the very procedures he told his doc he was following assiduously.
Probably too much bureaucracy.
I guess that is why I wouldn’t be arguing the toss with the GP or quoting Dr Innernet to him/her.
Incidentally, this bloke was a member of a shooting club. Whatever else happens, his gun licence will be goneski as well. Just another area where he has drawn heat for others who do the right thing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/maine-removes-trump-from-2024-ballot-5554975?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2023-12-28-2&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2023-12-28-2&utm_medium=email&est=2ig6k6gNH125COWGHD4G67oUirxHIWdmgxEqRki2kf5Zq%2FJZywfzQ3%2F2I0eNRSTc
Maine Secretary of State Removes Trump From 2024 Ballot
At this rate, the local garbage collector will be able to take Trump off the ballot.
Being broke is the natural state of affairs when you’re 20. If you came into some cash you bought a new surfboard.
H B Bear
I assume the grated carrot was for colour, not taste, HHB?
Early diabetes with good medication control is unlikely to be treated by bans, because firstly it would be over-reacting, secondly it would cover too many in the population.
Well, that’s a relief! .. thankfully we never have gummints that overreact in Oz .. LOL!
BOM radar showing direct energy weapons at work out of Hedland.
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That usually happens after maintenance. That would be the klystron being calibrated.
Being broke is the natural state of affairs when you’re 20. If you came into some cash you bought a new surfboard.
Surfboards .. you say! .. that’s where I went wrong at 20 I always had Tooth’s Old as “the” priority .. tho the following 10 years of alcoholism may suggest surfboards would have been the better option ………..!
We’ve found someone who believes in the purity of intent of CASA, and in the sunlit uplands of ideal outcomes, coz CASA doesn’t never ever focus on anything but pure safety, and never ever goes overboard with petty or irrelevant regulation.
Noble of you. CASA is pleased. All of us who believe in the purity of CASA welcome you to our (quite small) club.
Holy trinity – 1 stick celery, 1 onion, 1 carrot (grated). Fry till soft then remove before browning the meat.
Also works great on toasted sourdough with butter for breakfast.
Just think, all that is being done to Donald Trump was done to Pauline Hanson.
Whether you love her or loathe her, just like Trump, Hanson has always been an unfashionable truth teller. And for speaking the truth she was persecuted and silenced, and now Trump is being persecuted and silenced.
But like Hanson, Trump will have the last laugh.
I’ve just made the mistake of having a look at Adam’s blog. Hear this, never ever again. It’s now not just a site of unashamed Jew hatred, it’s also a Hamas apologist site. It is worse than any horror movie. Sickening.
Mmm. Rules are for the little people, not multi-millionaire property moguls in sporty Beemers.
Snork.
Pilots should ignore established protocols and do lots more freelancing according to the cowboy.
What he doesn’t say of course is what are his criticism of aviation regulations with specific relevance to commercial aviation. We won’t of course because he offers zero input other than being an oppositional slob.
That usually happens after maintenance. That would be the klystron being calibrated.
Is that with a clockwise klystron calibrator or an anticlockwise one?
I have a look every couple of days or so. Takes about 90 seconds to get through the four posts in that time.
The three remaining commenters there took about half an hour after 7 October to describe the 1200 Israeli deaths, let alone the rape and torture as a ‘narrative’.
They have repeatedly gone down the deepest burrows of the nuffernet to find crank ‘ex-soldiers’ and ‘analysts’ who grift by claiming – without evidence – that the IDF are waging an extermination of Gazans, deliberately killing Israeli hostages and provoking WW3. These baseless claims are accepted as fact by the lollipoppers.
Also, apparently the IDF are extinguishing Christianity.
It’s like watching a cow trying to manipulate a Rubik’s Cube.
The trial of that NT crocodile bumpkin should provide insight into what a self regulated aviation sector would look like in Australia.
“Can you change to a more amenable GP?”
I had been to mine for 25 years. He said they would always move the responsibility to someone else.
There are also significant parallels with the lollipoppers’ unwavering acceptance of this nuffery and the ‘four-foot copper wires found in vaccinated corpses from replicating metals so the hosts can be controlled from Chi-naaa, as analysed (via photos) by this scientician from Norway, and by the way buy me a coffee’ exercises in wompusness displayed by certain commenters not all that long ago.
Peas in a pod, one might say.
A reptile pod. In a tunnel. Where red leather shoes are mandatory.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) tells Australians that record breaking extremes are getting worse because of our cars and our air-conditioners (that’s “The State of the Climate“). But when the BOM can’t predict record breaking rain a month in advance, or even the day before, we know the BOM doesn’t understand what drives the climate.
Fair comment from Jo Nova on BOM’s unreliability:
Somehow the BOM expect Australians to spend trillions and rearrange their economy based on their fifty year prophesies, but not to mind when “this summer” goes right off the rails.
Back in September the BOM issued its El Nino alert, and Australians were told it would be a hot and dry and to prepare for a summer of bushfires. Farmer sold their lambs, and adjusted harvest accordingly.
Louis Litt
Thanks for that reply. The one huge problem in setting up a manufacturing operation in Australia is outsized sovereign risk. I totally agree that manufacturing is made up of a very complex set of inputs related to many facets of science, such as mathematics, engineering and so on.
It can’t be done here for the simple reason that you have a political party at the mercy of a radical union movement, which would consider invested capital as their own.
As an example, look at their most recent foray in industrial relations making firms with 15 or fewer employees an arm of the unions.
There’s been nothing to stop even overseas firms from operating here as some reasonable scale. They won’t and wages aren’t the sole determining factor.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out. If the US do leave, their illegal bases in Syria will be further exposed.
Tell you what.
Hazlewood is one injury away from the end of his career, but that pill that hit the top of Babar Azam’s pegs was magisterial.
I don’t have an issue with a privatized regulator as long as the regulator is well away from the operators. This is all theoretical as it will never happen for the reason that commercial aviation is international and for that you need shared interests across the world by having a common set of protocols. At this stage, this can only be done supra-nationally.
I’ve 3 garbage bags full (approx 70 all different ) of Disney/Looney Tunes, 1990s promotional, mugs so I popped over to EBay thinking I’d unload ’em for $50 (I don’t need the money or the mugs) but after filling out the sell format thought I’ll just check what folk are, currently, asking/paying .. turns out they are listed for anything between $5 to $20 for singles or 3/4 lots … and selling (averaging 7/10 success rate) .. last bulk sale had 7 going for over $150 (auction) & singles fetching around $10 + postage .. FFS!
Put the listing on hold whilst I think about it ……!
A few thoughts: It seems everyone I talk to is worried that the Arabs will get together and fight Israel. Although this hasn’t worked in the past.
The concept of the raid (Ghazza) is basic to Muslim Arab warfare. Oct 7th was a raid. This and taking hostages goes way back to the arch raider, Mohammed. In fact if you look at the history the Muz Arabs they are no good at facing a disciplined army. Even the conquest of Persia was achieved by constant raiding. We all know what happened to the raids on France once they met an army. There is a good analysis of this in Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness. (I gave this book to an IDF Brigadier from the Six Day war and he concurred).
The Arabs I met could all tell the stories of their grandfathers herding goats and camels. They still live in the days of glory through raiding. It is part of their religion and tribal heritage.
The Israelis have it right.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out. If the US do leave, their illegal bases in Syria will be further exposed.
If the US pulls out .. the gummint is dun! .. Iraq will be in a full scale civil war within a week … and I’m guessin’ Iran will be pulling lotza strings as 23 different “terror” factions (tho these dayz the media seems to consider all terror mobs legit contenders) fight for control ..
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving country other than Iran ……..
I guess that is why I wouldn’t be arguing the toss with the GP or quoting Dr Innernet to him/her.
I don’t waste too much of my time “arguing the toss” with GPs on their turf – they don’t have the time & it won’t do much good anyway. I certainly don’t quote “Dr Innernet” – but when I do offer an opinion that is my right – my health/my right.
This was certainly the case with the mRNA vaccines. They didn’t ask & I didn’t say “not a chance in the world”. Actually, in retrospect, I kinda of wish one of them did ask. I would like to have told them I was following the advice of one expert in particular – a retired Australian leading pharmacologist with over 40 years experience in the industry (& numerous degrees) – including years of his company conducting RCTs (Random Clinical Trials) for our TGA.
He’s crazy if he doesn’t shut it down soon.
My nomination, for the next National Anthem, of this country is……
Got the Moderna booster a couple of days ago at the local pharmacy.
Don’t want to do a JC while overseas if I can avoid it.
Not that I’ve ever had covid though.