As per usual. War.
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Desk was a rounding error.
Mopping up amyloid is like scooping up charcoal after your house burns down and thinking that you are fixing the problem. I’m helping (in Ralph Wiggum’s voice).
Schwarzenegger turned out to be a light weight and a phony. Trump actually kicked goals in spite of the establishment. Invalid comparison.
Petros
Dec 31, 2023 6:40 AM
I don’t not usually query the meaning of posts, but did you mean a few or many books?
Only a few.
In English I should add. No idea about the Spanish language works.
Petros
Dec 31, 2023 6:53 AM
Fair enough, I only thought that you may have meant many in the context.
What has the Spanish language has to do with it but?
Footscray post war was as working class as you could get.
Most people worked at the abattoirs and similar.
How on earth would Prince Phillip be there for days on an official Royal visit and the only one that knows is you.
a bunch of ratbags
Lunacy news.
Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains (28 Dec)
We have to ask Noel Pearson whether the Rainbow Serpent would be unhappy also.
Seeing lots of posts on twitter of drone footage of hamas terrorists being neutralised.
Usually they are holding visible weapons which makes the only civilians claims unlikely.
Apparently through there is an inexhaustible supply of highly trained replacements.
Elon Musk weighing in on uninvited US immigration
Yes. I was going to write a quick comment on it, but decided to watch and learn.
Also, our host and caretaker of these well appointed premises annoyed me by asking me a question starting with “So?”.
😀
Last day of this crummy year. Personally, it was way worse than 2020 and 2021 combined, but only just.
I already have some excellent “resolutions” in the audition mode, probably like most Cats and Kittehs.
And by midnight tonight, it will all go out the window. 😀
more delightful members of the human race
sTan took the NO vote hard .. really got the solarium hues ……!
https://postimg.cc/CZjkRT2C
The video is apparently from Nigeria.
We don’t know what goes on because everyone now just looks at Israel.
I’d rather be a ‘right wing sheep’ than a sneerer.
In my lifetime, humanity’s worst year.
Huge steps backwards.
The western suburbs, generally speaking, could be classified as such. Footscray was the capital of that area and had wealth, same as Williamstown down the road.
You know SFA. I have family that have been there since day dot. The 1850s or whatever. My dads brother and his wife were both life members at Footscray Football Club. You aren’t talking to a blow in here.
If the old aunt says Prince Philip was there rooting some sheila, I believe it. It was a pub in Nicholson st.
more Douglas Murray
What a great country we are now..
Rise in anti-Semitism has Sydney Jewish residents scared to celebrate NYE
Jewish residents in Sydney’s east say they are so concerned about being targeted in their own suburbs that they will not go out to Bondi Beach on New Year’s Eve.
Jewish residents in Sydney’s east say they are so concerned about being targeted in their own suburbs that they are avoiding going out to Bondi Beach on New Year’s Eve.
Some have told police and their local council they have felt “intimidated” in recent weeks by pro-Palestinian activists roaming their suburbs.
One, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that a group of men had repeatedly been driving around the Dover Heights area with Palestinian flags and blaring “Arabic music” from their car.
“We’re not the only ones staying in, there’s a real fear about being out and about on Sunday night,” another told The Sunday Telegraph.
Others have been bombarding their local council to act with similar stories of feeling intimidated in their home suburbs.
“Obviously there is a lot of tension in our community,” Waverley councillor Leon Goltsman said. “People are not feeling safe on normal days, but now especially on New Year’s Eve.
“They fear the police will be outnumbered. People are fearful and want to stay at home. The council really have not taken that into consideration and I’m really concerned for the safety of our community.”
The same council, whose community consists of a high proportion of Jewish residents, sacked its deputy mayor after he wanted to call out Israeli “war crimes” as part of a motion to give $10,000 to local Jewish groups.
Ex-deputy mayor Ludovico Fabiano made the claim at a council meeting with a packed gallery of residents holding up posters of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October 7.
According to the last census close to 16 per cent of people living in the Waverley local government area listed Judaism as their religion.
It comes after reports to the local council that a Jewish student recently had drinks thrown at them while walking through Westfield at Bondi Junction.
Other Jewish parents have said they fear sending their kids to school, while some students at Jewish schools like Moriah College hide their uniforms when in public.
Just last month tensions threatened to boil over in the eastern suburbs when a pro-Palestine motorcade to Coogee Beach was met by a group of locals waving Israel flags.
The motorcade drew criticism from an organiser of the main pro-Palestine protests Fahad Ali. “I’ll be clear: this is a deliberately provocative action. No one I know in the Palestinian community is on board with this,” he wrote on social media at the time.
The Saturday Telegraph revealed the motorcade was organised by Zaky Mallah, who was jailed for threatening to blow up the offices of ASIO and DFAT in 2003.
As for “pro-Palestinian activists roaming their suburbs“….where are the NSWaffen police? Oh that’s right, they’re “monitoring” the situation.
It’s surreal, isn’t it, Cassie? The left have been truly exposed for who they are now, though. How can Dreyfus continue in that party?
Rosie, I’ve seen that happen in PNG too. Our little high fence, barbed wire compound was one of the safest places for women and girls in the town. I’m glad we didn’t elect to live out on the outskirts with the other expats. At least they had a few years’ respite from being beaten and harassed.
Sometimes that’s all you can do.
It’s what a primitive culture looks like, and a window into what this place was and in some places continues to be. Cook and Philip definitely didn’t discover utopian sunlit uplands.
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
“I just shot my wife with an AR-15” — that was how a 911 call began that sent SWAT teams to at least four Ohio Republican state lawmakers’ homes in the last several days.
True.
This is what Sydney has become.
Meme
jihadi in a hijabi
Georgia Secretary of State Requests MILLIONS for Voting Machine “Upgrades” for a System That Still Won’t Be Secure and Is Less Secure than Previous System
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Georgia Election Hearing Showing Evidence The State NEVER PERFORMED Their 2020 Presidential Election Audits
Biden DOJ will NOT Pursue Second Trial Against Sam Bankman-Fried – Democrats ALWAYS Get a Pass
Sorry Grigifaro
I don’t believe you.
Dilapidated narrow shotgun houses with outside toilets.
I’ve got lots of family in the West, lived there myself for quite a few years.
Nothing wrong with being working class.
Go peddle your tall tales elsewhere, you already got caught out with your Mal and Tammy tarradiddle.
Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
Senators, Members of Congress, conservative professors, and conservative commentators, and our families all hit by a nationwide swatting ring over the Christmas Break
FBI has not said a word
Calm down. Go out and celebrate. If I bumped into you on the street would I even know you were a Jew?
These Pali lovers are all just pea-hearts you can smack down in two seconds.
Meme!
Hunter Biden used his business bank account to pay for ‘crack pipes and prostitutes’ and entry to DC club frequented by congress members, bank records reveal
Tom Slater has written an excellent follow-up to Brendan O’Neill’s article on Spiked a couple of days ago, Tom’s title is “2023 has exposed the moral depravity of the radical left”.
The fascist loving lurker should read it.
Probably not the best response to a woman.
Liar after liar on twitter will claim that Nova revellers were all killed by the IDF
Despite gopro footage of hamas shooting at the row of portable potties in which people were hiding, of footage of hamas in their vehicles shooting fleeing people in their cars, hundreds of survivor testimonies of being hunted for hours by hamas, even a couple of men recording their final moments in a water pipe as hamas discovered their hiding place.
After celebrating the success of the terror paragliders.
And so many hostages taken from Nova, many after being shot.
what happened
Over 7,000 Women in Germany Have Been Raped or Sexually Assaulted by Asylum Seeking Migrants Since 2015: Report
No 2. with a bullet.
There’s only one victory in Gaza
This is contrarian just for the sake of it.
An Australian monarchy will be as popular as leg spearing and paying rent to indigenes on top of your land rates.
Maybe Wong can visit Delhi and persuade them to change their minds.
India Scoffs at Coal ‘Transition’: ‘Not Happening in Foreseeable Future’ (29 Dec)
This is from American Thinker, an outlet I generally admire. However, in this case none of this could be happening without the FULL cooperation of the US authorities, so who is really to blame?
Blood boiler: Daniel Ortega’s role in organizing U.S. migrant crisis is bigger than thought
Hamas Supporters Return to Ground Zero to Promote Terror
Given sexual assault can mean anything from looking at a pretty woman to calling a woman attractive, to a slap on the butt all the way to forcible rape, this is suspect.
There are what, 80 million people in Germany? 7,000 “assaults” since 2015 could mean 875 cases of “sexual harassment”, genuine sexual harassment, then indecent assault all the way up to truly terrible stuff like gang rape and sexual servitude.
The data has been spiked by the feminists then more PC rules means it hasn’t been disaggregated into migrant by type or country of origin, religion etc.
White House Says Border Surge ‘Not Unusual’
The Swiss Army Knife of Climate Change
Some good news, at last.
Rising Malpractice Insurance Rates Hinder Clinics from Offering Transgender Procedures to Minors
But also we don’t know the age, appearance, sex of the victims or the relevant data of the offenders in each case, even incarceration status, recidivism or relative offending to the general population or comparisons to other migrant types.
Get stuffed. I will give you phone number of my old boss and his missus who will vouch for me. They were friendly with, and appreciative of Mal and Tammy’s custom. Shut your gob.
I’m Notafan of snipers who keep notes. ROFL
Prince Fillemup rooting some surfer chick in 1950s St Kilda is a crock of shit, Grigory.
Piss off with literal “stories my Banna told me”. Go away and LARP as illiterate retard ‘Ed Case on C.L.’s blog.
LOL!
This is contrarian just for the sake of it.
No, it makes perfect sense.
An Australian monarchy will be as popular as leg spearing and paying rent to indigenes on top of your land rates.
We already have an Australian monarchy. Chuck IS King of Australia, like it or not.
I’m sorry but we have all seen how the left have politicised everything. I will never vote for a republic where we replace King Chuck Windsor with some home grown leftist progressive grifter who’ll then use the position to demean, insult and smear ordinary Australians as racists, homophobes, transphobes, Islamophobes, bigots and so on. We might complain about Chuck’s climate change rubbish but his mutterings are benign compared to the mutterings we’d hear from the likes of….
President Malcolm Turnbull
President Kevin Rudd
President Julia Gillard
President Marcia Langton
President Adam Goodes
President Linda Burney
President Julie Bishop
and so on
You get the drift, and the above and worse would all be wheeled out as prospective presidents under a republic. We’ve seen how fatso superannuated Kim Beazley has been rewarded post politics. We’ve seen how Labor governments, state and federal, reward their own, they don’t even try to hide their political nepotism.
No thank you. I’ll stick with King Chuck and Queen Camilla.
Dr BG
For examples of the potential horror, see recent appointments of state governors.
Maaaaates!
I like you Dot. You keep this blog on a good keel etc. You aren’t always right.
I don’t mind the Grigory, though. Pinching a few nerves is good for the collective health.
We need someone as bad as our current politicians as a hereditary head of state because in the same position, they wouldn’t abdicate either?
The British monarchy will foreseeably cease to exist this century so we better come up with a good alternative.
For examples of the potential horror, see recent appointments of state governors.
Maaaaates!
Exactly, Labor no longer even tries to hide its political nepotism with appointments.
The British monarchy will foreseeably cease to exist this century so we better come up with a good alternative.
Nah.
I am right that Prince Fillemup wasn’t rooting a random housewife from Moonee Ponds, darlings!
Can I hand out your details so you can vouch for me?
I would probably take President Adam Goodes. He played 380 games of AFL. A warrior and champion footballer. He grew up in Horsham. I reckon I could talk sense into him.
How much more muesli do the ruling vandals have to add to the Sydny mix to stay in power forever?
Viktorisbad has already fallen.
Much as I loathe them, at least they are at a safe distance.
We all know that Albanese’s arrogance and total lack of self awareness leads him to constantly beclown himself with his pretentions, his arts degree intellectualism and his total misreading of the Australian people.
But for me the best indicator that he is an out of touch bogan is the little celebrity wave he gives at the top of the airstairs every time he misuses one of our aircraft.
‘Mrs Bouquet’!
What an insufferable little man dick.
Snap.
You beat me by one minute, and said it far more eloquently than I did.
I see on the last page that Dutton’s Immigration guy, Dan Tehan, has said the Libs will pass a law to prevent councils from moving citizenship ceremonies from Australia Day.
Dutton and Tehan have correctly identified this as a particularly noxious attack on Australia Day where jumped up little know-it-all busybodies in local councils want to play act at social justice with no grasp as to what the issues are.
If nothing else, citizenship is not about them – it is a Federal matter. Not for them to co-opt for their petty political pantomime, the players of which were spurred to parochial office by the sight of someone on their street putting a recyclable PET in the landfill bin or watering their garden 5 minutes after 10:00.
So the Libs are coming to the rescue of Australia Day, which is to say everything it represents: Australia, Australians, Australianisms. Also our history and our achievements.
Albo and his glass-jawed menagerie, on the other hand, scarce dare defend Australia say because they are afraid of shedding votes to the Greens and other misshapen circus freaks that bud off and thrive on the far left.
So now Dutton’s mob (not the Libs in general by any stretch) are the ones defending Australia Day (and all that it entails) while Labor must just hope that they can get away with uttering a few anodyne bromides until it all goes away on January 27.
Team Dutton is talking a good game so far.
Now there’s a word that doesn’t get nearly enough use.
Tarradiddling cow.
Tarradiddles, damned tarradiddles, and statistics.
A proven tarradiddler.
Dot
Elected president, being the combined Chief of State and Head of Government. Cabinet selected from the House of Representatives. Senate to be a pure house of review/state house.
The president governs while commanding a majority in the Reps, but a full (president plus double dissolution) election must be called after three votes of no confidence within a single sitting session.
Sure and it’s a great day for the language.
I came up with something close to that ages ago and I just didn’t bother having a head of state per se so picking a President never becomes an issue. The functions were vested elsewhere like you gave them.
I don’t keep notes but I know a grigsock when I see one.
A liar who claims other members of his family are liars.
…are you the little bastard egg rat that emerged from this fantastical union?
Groogs? Groogs, is that you?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/the-disaster-of-australian-gdp-per-hour-worked-since-the-albanese-election.html
Former Cat Sinclair is onto the ‘GDP go up when population go up – even as we all get poorer’ scam.
Another way our wise rulers cook the books is to constantly devalue the dollar via inflationary printing – your wage number ‘go up’ but your buying power goes down.
I don’t keep notes but I know a grigsock when I see one.
A liar who claims other members of his family are liars.
Who? How?
I am Notafan of your crap on.
Ace has an excellent section with much information regarding,
Can Women decolonise Minnesota?
There is a lot to read, although it is in blocks so just read what you find interesting.
For example,
“Why is extreme anti-Israel activism dominated by wild-eyed young women?
Remember that Charles Manson wanted to start a race war:
During the Tate-La Bianca trials, Charlie Manson’s followers attempted to disrupt the legal procedures by erratic behavior. In a display of female camaraderie, they shaved their heads, drew X’s on their foreheads, walked hand in hand into the courtroom and sat on the sidewalk. Before his arrest, the cult leader used them as honey traps for men. They might have killed a heavily pregnant woman in cold blood, but boy were they tender with each other.
The pro-Palestinian cult exhibits similar intragroup dynamics. They back the most genocidal anti-zionist cults, but their sisterhood is on display . . . representing Gaza in the halls of the U.S. Congress, Rashida Tlaib broke into sobs and had to be comforted by her colleague, Representative Ilhan Omar.”
“There is a hole in the American female psyche. The theater of the political absurd has supplanted meaning, reason, and human relationships. Young women yearn for the violent and the mysterious. As with their sisters who ran away from home ten years ago to become “ISIS brides,” these women have embraced a radical vision of political, emotional, and spiritual revolution. Let’s hope they figure out the dead end journey they are on before they go past the point of safe return.”
An excellent read if have some time.
Indolent
Dec 31, 2023 8:24 AM
The Swiss Army Knife of Climate Change
A List of things caused by global boiling was compiled by Numberwatch: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Unfortunately the link, which is very funny, is timing out.
Dry Bones cartoon
Another way our wise rulers cook the books is to constantly devalue the dollar via inflationary printing – your wage number ‘go up’ but your buying power goes down.
Once you realise governments are nothing but criminal gangs it all becomes clear.
No it isn’t. Need to Groog up occasionally, yeah? Boring old farts. I am ready to march out and fight. You?
Was that the “I served them petrol on the way back to Nareen” … about ten years after they sold the farm and moved to Mt Eliza?
how’s that pedestal JC … can you see any blow-hards from up there?
Which pub in Footscray was known by locals in the ’80’s as “Brickies”?
It might be a trick question as against the real name.
Poor old Ed Case. Always the dumb sock to Grigory M but he rose to seize the day until he got lost in the wash as all sock do in the end. Alas poor Septimus, I knew him well.
It sure does!
Problem is, 99% of our fellow citizens never escape the matrix they were born into – see what happens when you tell them ‘taxation is theft’ – you get an instant reflexive ‘no its not – because roads…’, and no further discussion is possible.
If they cant see that, theres no way they can see any of the other government scams.
This is silly I know, but
Was Prince Phillip seen in the vicinity of Humouresque Street Moonee Ponds? It might explain the meteoric rise of a certain personage.
Never go full Groogs.
Warren’s cartoon cover for the dead tree Daily Tele today is a cracker recap.
Had a quick search but doesn’t appear to be online. Someone with better Google-fu – have a go and post it here, please.
Prince Philip was a school crossing guard when I rode my horse to school in Fitzroy in the 1950s.
Piss off Leigh. Smart arsed Jibber Jabberer.
Court filing on BBC “TV Licensing” identity fraud
Your betters in action trying to justify their taxpayer funded salary:
Confused yet? Cockroach alert:
FMD
No shit. People who like to think they are the smartest whips in the room are the problem. Looking at you Ms Greenwich.
Saner heads speak:
USA BOXING TO ALLOW MEN WHO HAVE THEIR JUNK CUT OFF TO BEAT UP WOMEN
Regret to say had an 7 Oct denialist at one of the Christmas gatherings I went to.
7 Oct and Israel came up. One person, mid 40’s actually says it has been proved an Israeli helicopter did the killing. I was shocked that was his response regarding 7 October. Said what Hamas did was even filmed by them on Go Pro. Obviously could have gone into details but it was a large gathering and if I had pretty sure it would have ruined the occasion as I would have shown my anger.
Will save it for a later occasion when might be able to educate him. However it shows how little many know and how easy it is for the propaganda to convince people who are not interested enough to research.
Sunday Tele front page
Team Dutton is talking a good game so far.
It’s reactive, and prescriptive too.
If every SFL member is sizzling (pork) sausages at citizenship gigs this Australia Day, they’ll be looking a lot more like leaders.
That is funny. You are from WA? I lived there in the early/mid ’80s. Mandurah. Bloke called Frank Nannup, lived there. He was an abbo. Funny and cool as all fuck. He knew how to rort the gubmint. Only abbo with an account on the books.
Doctor from Nepal working in Britain…will move to Oz:
“How can it be that in my country where the health system is really basic, you can walk into an emergency department and see a doctor within an hour, yet in England, you must wait three weeks and then not even be seen in person?” he asked.
“I was shocked, literally stunned … it crystallised in my mind that after only two years in the UK, I had to leave,” he said.
“I was seriously sick, overworked and underpaid.
“At the end of a year I lose 47 per cent of my salary on tax, National Insurance and a state pension. That leaves me with just £20,000 ($37,848) to exist.
“There is no work-life balance in the UK and the doctors are striking. We’re not greedy, we just can’t afford to be treated like this,” he said.
Dr Dhungana earns a basic £40,275 salary ($76,200) at the University Hospitals of Bristol and Weston, in South West England. But he’s packing his bags for an equivalent job paying $193,240 (£102,103) at Brisbane’s Redcliffe Hospital in the New Year, banking a salary hike of 153 per cent.
He is one of an incredible 9000 UK doctors who have applied to transfer to Australia in the past five years, according to the General Medical Council.
Herald-Sun
From Indolent’s link, a nice little round-up of how and why woke is worse than earlier seemingly similar iterations of PC. Jacobins live amongst us, pushing Maoism.
Who in their anti Semitic haze think Jews always lie.
No it’s muslims who are telling all the lies.
Woke is aiming for Year Zero, like Pol Pot.
Pushed along by ridiculous acceptance of Net Zero.
Is it too late to go back to a discriminatory immigration policy? I guess so.
The absence of any ravers killed by 30mm, Point Detonating
doesn’t trouble those bellends.
Hamas murdered, raped, disembowelled and beheaded women, children and babies.
If you support these brutes, what does that make you?
Better or worse than the perpetrators?
Providers of succour, food, shelter and money are arguably worse than the perpetrators. e.g. Australian government “aid”.
Dostoevsky for Catholics (and Everyone Else), Part II
Crisis Magazine – Darrick Taylor – December 30, 2023
Dostoevsky wished to show how a Christian could overcome the powerful grip of modern ideas that denied the existence of God and spiritual realities more generally.
Will save it for a later occasion when might be able to educate him. However it shows how little many know and how easy it is for the propaganda to convince people who are not interested enough to research.
That is the problem. Many are caught up in the zeitgeist of the Age of Plenty & really don’t want to know about “nasty” things. They are also lazy in their reading content. In the example you give, however, it also suggests the taint of anti-Semitism perhaps.
Step One: End education as a path to permanent residence.
Step Two: Temporary assistance to immigrants to be limited to the first three months after arrival. No further assistance to be provided until citizenship is achieved.
Step Three: Citizenship only to be granted to persons with a record of at least five years productive employment in the non-government sector.
Step Four: End dual citizenship. You are either fully Australian, or you are a temporary (no government assistance, even via an NGO back door).
See, completely non-discriminatory, no mention of race, sex, ethnic background or religion or any other protected group.
Maybe I am just becoming a grouch, but I am nauseated by the frequency of the Woke mantra “I am feeling blessed” in their facebook entries etc. It is almost always in respect to some trite occurrence.
Katzenfammer:
Still a favourite here – Baked Beans on toast with a couple of poached eggs.
Floating bomb news.
San Diego-Bound Cargo Ship Hauling Lithium Batteries Reports Fire (31 Dec)
Well it’s New Years Eve and it’s traditional to let off fireworks. But I doubt the owners or the authorities will be amused if it detonates. Got to wonder what marine insurance companies think of shipping batteries and EVs around the world in ships.
Yeah you, the God oracle.
How about something new? How about telling us about some new family event or recipe. Be more “derivative” or “portmanteau ”even. Don’t be bashful. Get out there and scream.
Dr Dhungana is being paid as if he is in his first year of practice.
It’s not a lot of money, but something has gone badly wrong with his tax/NI calculation. Allowing for no deductions other than the personal allowance, he should be paying £9,000 and taking home ~£31,000.
Watch out Redcliffe.
That won’t be popular with a lot of $1m+ VCs who have even less chance than ALPBC Talent than finding equivalent paying employment in the private sector. On the other hand it will free up hundreds of contract drones to do something more worthwhile with their time.
Hubby’s standby when he gets home from a fishing trip at some ungodly hour of the morning is to nuke a couple of sausages with a tin of baked beans and melted cheeses on top.
Oh yes.
Four rashers of streaky bacon, fried crisp.
On buttered toast.
Covered in beans (SPC, for preference).
Topped with a runny fried egg.
A side of black pudding.
Grouch up woman..
rosie
No sympathy. They asked for Hell and they’ve gotten it.
You have me mixed up with someone who gives a sh1t.
Dr. F
We have a niece who is a qualified surgeon working in a southern hospital in Melbourne. She earns around 400k a year.
Next month, she’s off to work at UK hospital for about 2 years. There she’ll earn around 75 pounds , which if doubled for the exchange rate difference will be A$140.
She’s going because they’re supposed to be pretty good with robotic surgery and wants to train in that field at this particular hospital.
Docs are much lower paid in the UK and it’s a way for them to keep costs down.
On another note.
Anyone recall the screams about the US medical system when Trump was the prez? Amazingly, not a peep since.
I’m a bit ambivalent about that one. Until Aussie kids redevelop a work ethic, we need some of those overseas students.
I’d be more inclined to crack down on the definition of ‘education’ and what types allow a pathetic to residency.
I agree with your other points, but would also add that only after achieving citizenship can they sponsor family members to join them.
Pathetic = path
Autocorrect is my enema.
Helen Davidson (nmrn)
Good point.
As for the education racket, the idea is to put pressure on the education institutions to provide education, not hand patting, but a clearer definition of what constitutes education would certainly eliminate many rorters (on both sides of the racket).
On Aussie kids and a work ethic, restricting benefits for the first year after completion of their course could help.
$12 mill will get you this pile on top of Mt Warning. NT expenses not included.
Helen D (nmrn)
PS, your namesake Sinclair made a very good point about the decline in value of an hour’s work in a comment linked earlier.
What’s wrong with a discriminatory immigration policy?
There is no right to migrate to Australia.
Roger
Nothing wrong with it in theory. The problem is a combination of silly laws, worse treaties, and the screeching woke classes, who live for the chance to conduct lawfare.
That is exactly what I was talking about yesterday.
A fatso sees a diet which stipulates high protein and they immediately go for a breakfast of fried eggs bacon and/or ham.
High saturated fat and high salt.
What they should be looking at is beans and other high protein pulses and poached or boiled eggs.
Well done you!
I know the NHS doesn’t pay much, but £75, or £75k?
A nephew’s wife is an ophthalmic surgeon, running an NHS paediatric opthamology unit, on about £100k. She’s devoted to the job but, given a 5-year degree, 5 years clinical practice, and 7 years specialty training, the NHS is trading heavily on emotional attachment to the public system.
A weak center and strong cantonal (provincial) government. This is the best possible form of governance for a nation with strong ethnic differences – three (German, French and Italian).
I’ve often wondered how the French and the other two got on during WW2? 🙂
The ambulance is on standby.
Although I am up for a couple of days of gluttony.
The fridge popped it’s clogs last night so I will have to chew through rapidly thawing goodies before the new one arrives on Wednesday.
I think it’s because she’s there to learn those stupid robotic arms.
For starters, anyone who subscribes to an ideology that is incompatible with our freedoms or likely to be subversive of social cohesion would not be allowed to migrate, so Communists and Muslims would be excluded.
You know it makes sense.
You can get away with it by also consuming a large tumbler of medium-dry sherry.
Stimulates the pancreas.
Or something.
Apply some Popper to migration policy.
If Phil was dallying with a publican’s daughter in Footscray in 1956 it would hardly be a one off. There would be other dalliances in other places like the Prince of Wales before him who rogered his way through the colonies until Wallis loomed. Yet teams of journalists hired to uncover such scandals have come up with almost nothing. The nearest was some titled help around the house with whom he met occasionally but no evidence of a knees up.
The Royals are good value as light entertainment. Bearskin hats, scarlet uniforms, marching bands – all that useless beauty as Elvis Costello says.
A great article on the failure of EVs reprinted on Jo Nova’s blog & originally from The EpocH Times:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/consumers-are-rejecting-the-great-reset-5554713?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
Consumers Are Rejecting the Great Reset
A friend got a rental of a Tesla over the holidays. It’s undoubtedly the industry standard for EVs and a complete blast to drive. The problem: It’s not a practical car at all. He was driving in the cold, and the car was nearly drained after two hours. Searching for a charge was no easy task. The first one didn’t work. The second one stated that it would be charged in 10 hours, which he didn’t have. The third one charged in one hour but that was a full hour wasted.
His conclusion: This is indeed a glorified golf cart designed to keep you at home and under the thumb of the manufacturer. And this is just a test. The repairs are worse. Keep in mind that this is the best the industry has to offer. The other manufacturers of these things make products not nearly as high-rated, which is why so many of them are sitting on lots unsold and why orders for the machines are plummeting.
It seems like the EV craze has peaked already. Growth in gas cars is now far higher than electrics, flipping a trend from 12 months ago. Finally, consumers are figuring it out. This is a good second car, provided you’re driving in your own town, you have a hook-up at home and can charge it overnight, and you don’t suddenly have to go out of town. It’s a toy, sometimes a fun one, but not a real car. For that, you need gas.
The idea that this car is going to transition the United States to “clean energy” is absurd. If every car were electric, the grid would crash and rationing would be the norm. And maybe that’s the whole point. You drive only with permission. Nothing about your transportation is within your control. Authorities will decide everything for you. It’s a perfect strategy for creating a society of dependents.
Fortunately, consumers aren’t playing along. We still live with the remnants of a capitalist system whereby manufacturers have to make profits. So that’s a serious problem for the whole industry. It could very well collapse in 2024.
Indolent
Dec 30, 2023 11:11 PM
I’m in the same boat, Indolent. I know 3 that copped it – all “vaccinated”.
The public hospital system has always relied on a certain degree of goodwill. Any specialist worth their salt has plenty of time to fill their boots in private practice, a day or two in the hospital system and golf on Wednesday afternoon.
You get the drift, and the above and worse would all be wheeled out as prospective presidents under a republic. We’ve seen how fatso superannuated Kim Beazley has been rewarded post politics. We’ve seen how Labor governments, state and federal, reward their own, they don’t even try to hide their political nepotism.
No thank you. I’ll stick with King Chuck and Queen Camilla.
you are correct Cassie. I dislike Chilla but the alternatives are even worse. Yes 12000 miles is a good distance too!
I’ve read the study. You haven’t and your comment reflects that.
I could help.
Correction- 10500 miles apparently
Hypocrite. You unload on so many people you must have sub-clinical Tourettes.
Ladies – one may consume cheeseburgers for breakfast and enjoy a three-kebab lunch year-in and year-out.
The only qualifiers are:
1. A two-litre bottle of Diet Coke must also be consumed; and
2. Activewear must be worn.
*results may vary*
I like the advice of Harry Richardson (The Richardson Post) for 2024:
2024 IS THE PIVOTAL YEAR FOR US TO TAKE BACK OUR WORLD
The Globalists intentionally tried to kill us this past few years with Fake News, Fake viruses of their own creation, Fake vaccines that were even more dangerous and a variety of wicked clampdowns/lockdowns of mind, body and soul.
It’s time for courage. We must vote out every Globalist—regardless of party—including any who backed lockdowns or vaccines as a start.
Any who agreed to take our freedoms or force an untested poison were in on it.
These are like Kuhnian paradigms that nobody dares question until we wake up one morning and they’ve collapsed under the mounting weight of their own absurdity.
The Europeans are leading the way with their new border regime.
Oh dear, I have upset the world’s greatest sneerer.
The previous amyloid trials have failed except for one that was infamously approved by the FDA under dubious reasoning.
Again, I’m ambivalent.
To me, it’s a numbers game. We let too many in, too quickly. Hence ‘Vietnamatta’ in Cabramatta and the Lakemba problem.
I actually had some sympathy for the Tamil family in Biloela a few years ago. They’d settled into a small community, were reasonably productive citizens and hadn’t, prior to the immigration fiasco, caused any trouble.
It’s also what I like about Darwin. There are several ethnic community celebrations (Greek Glenti, India ar Mindel, the Chinese temple, Portuguese-Timorese club) but day to day, all these people are just part of the Darwin community.
There is only one group in Darwin that causes problems, and it’s because there is a large number of them, relative to the rest of the population.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Same. FWIW, I genuinely don’t know any unvaxxed ppl who got Covid 3, 4, 5 times. Am I alone?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but having been infected with a particular strain of Covid does not give you acquired immunity from future mutations – as far as I know.
Husband and I remain unvaccinated. We contracted a very, very mild dose of Covid in 2022, and again about 3 months ago – the latest strain which proved more troublesome.
While us unvaccinated may be more robust in our experience of infection, I can’t see that we will not contract future variants.
Got to wonder what marine insurance companies think of shipping batteries and EVs around the world in ships.
Insurance companies have to be seriously concerned after the events of the last 12 months or so. Two marine vehicle transporters have been lost following electric vehicle fires with in excess of $3 billion in damage. Such losses have to concentrate their minds.
The implications for the push here for higher EV sales has to be immense. How will these vehicles be imported in the absence of a solution to prevent these fires? Imports will be impossible or prohibitively expensive.
Domestic storage of vehicles will also be an issue with rising numbers of house fires. The narrative being pushed is that the fires are the result of cheap imported batteries. Recent experience leads to different conclusions.
Three golf clubs have suffered catastrophic fires over the last eighteen months arising from lithium ion batteries spontaneously combusting. In the latest one at the Brisbane Golf Club, the Pro Shop, all its stock and members stored golf clubs were destroyed. The motorised buggies had all been serviced the previous week but alas up they went. These were not cheap imports. The club had been advised a month previously that members golf clubs would no longer be covered. So the insurance implications are already being felt.
This will be an emerging issue in 2024 and will seriously impact the political push for the take up of EVs.
I am having trouble believing the Prince Phillip in Footscray story.
However my great grandfather on his deathbed told me about Phillip’s naval career.
Not many know he was on the deck of HMS Victory when Admiral Nelson died.
stuck for words numb-nuts?
you confabulating tosser
sold, moved to Jordan.
I have a memory of some Australian woman claiming that Phillip had sired her child. Not anywhere near Fitzroy though, although the name is rather appropriate.
There was certainly a lot of smoke in the 50’s and 60’s around Phillip’s supposed adulteries. It would not have been surprising, he and the Queen travelled separately quite a lot.
I don’t know what this case has to do with my point (or Chinese and Indian temples for that matter).
They were here illegally. The rule of law must be upheld.
They also told untruths on their various submissions to the reviews of their case.
Anyone who lies on an immigration document should, ipso facto, be rule out.
Regarding EV insurance an insurance broker mentioned home insurance problems if an EV was charged and parked inside the home.
However the Government getting us totally reliant on electric power is great way to control people. See also plans to get rid of gas cookers.
Meanwhile nationality we will be reliant upon our good mates China for windmills and solar panels.
Economic suicide here we come.
another easily replaceable
Anecdotal, but 40-odd years ago the Australian immigration process put a big emphasis on compatibility and fitting in.
I came to Australia at the early stage of the 1980’s coal boom – complete with experience, degree, industry qualifications – exactly fitting the skills list. I still had to go through an interview process to make sure two DFAT persons thought I would make a suitable citizen.
Bizarrely, they spent most of the interview warning me that Brisbane was as different to Sydney as Doncaster was to Manchester (where the Consulate office was) – and did I think I’d manage. Seeing my job offer was in Blackwater, I thought I probably would.
I expect the new citizens from Gaza will have been through much the same sort of thing.
Cassie Of Sydney:
The council have taken the mobs into consideration – they are doing the work that Council isn’t game to do – frightening Jews.
It’s deliberate, and it’s intimidation.
Sadly, my Arabic is lacking so the only word I recognised was Haifa. Google wouldn’t translate, so I am left stranded pondering two fat old Islamic guys chewing the fat.
Electric everything will be a huge add on to a disaster such as happened in Cairns the other day. Some suburbs were without power for a week.
If the electricity grid goes down and all of your appliances are electric your world will start crashing down.
Outboard motors electric? Good luck boating around the flooded streets when the battery goes flat.
Want to cook something? Gas has been outlawed so no gas BBQs to fire up.
Want to keep the frige running, and charge the mobile phones? Hook up the gennie. Sorry, only electric gen-sets allowed.
And of course your electric car is only good until it goes flat. How do ‘leccie cars go in floods?
As I read your argument, you were calling for a discriminatory immigration policy that only allowed for people who came from cultures similar to ours.
I was attempting to put the case that allowing in people from different cultures need not be a problem if the numbers were small enough that they would integrate, rather than congregate in their own communities.
I used the Tamil family and ethnic communities in Darwin as examples where small numbers have successfully integrated.
I apologise if that was not clear.
While I agree in principle that laws must be enforced, if you insist on black letter law and don’t allow for some nuance, we’ll all be in jail sooner or later.
That said, I also see that the SJWs have taken that nuance a bit far. Not sure what the solution is for that.
Hamas murdered, raped, disembowelled and beheaded women, children and babies.
If you support these brutes, what does that make you?
Better or worse than the perpetrators?
It makes them, along with the actual perpetrators, the lowest of the low. Sub human animals who I despise with every fibre of my body and soul. May every one of them rot in hell…
And where are Chris Minns and Yasmin Catley?
And why hasn’t Albosleazy strongly rebuked his NSW mates for doing nothing?
All as useful as a flywire screen door on a submarine.
Underground car parks in big unit blocks will find the insurance prohibitive, and the residents won’t enjoy sleeping on top of a charging car bomb waiting to explode.
Big issues ahead.
read a very interesting thread yesterday about AI just making stuff up when it gets to end of its language model.
reminded me a lot of sancho (more-real-world-experience-than-youse) panzer
and JC, who of course has managed to convince himself that blowing loudest and longest is somehow subtly different to blowing-loudest
of course it takes more than just 2 monkeys to make a circus
but it’s a nice side-show
A very good lesson in having firearms experience. Bring back School Cadets.
It makes them, along with the actual perpetrators, the lowest of the low. Sub human animals who I despise with every fibre of my body and soul. May every one of them rot in hell…
The issue is getting them to hell.
I didn’t mention culture, but ideology.
A lie is not a nuance, at least not in our culture. 😀
US Studies Centre director of research, Jared Monschein, tells Sky News Donald Trump has the most to gain from Nikki Haley as his vice-presidential running mate because she polls well with women and suburban voters.
These leftwing clowns not only deliberately misunderstand Trump and his America first agenda, they demand he follow their blueprint to ensure he never wins another presidential election.
The swamp stretches all the way to Sydney.
sold, moved to Jordan
Sadly, my Arabic is lacking so the only word I recognised was Haifa. Google wouldn’t translate, so I am left stranded pondering two fat old Islamic guys chewing the fat.
The gist of the story was they (Palestinians) sold to the Jews& moved to Jordan and then when Gaza/West bank was formed wanted their “ex” property back .. gratis! .. the bloke is saying, “Stiff, cheddar you sold up, it’s not yours anymore, learn to live with it” …….
I’m still waiting for the claims out of the Gaza Strip that the Israeli infantry aren’t taking prisoners or accepting surrenders….
Can we afford to wait that long, or should we take action within the existing (farcical) paradigm? Then wrap the whole thing up when said paradigm collapses of its own contradictions.
That process of collapse could start by using the current laws against their supporters, hence my suggestion that senior NSW Jewish leaders should hit the HRC with complaints of Muslim (and non-Muslim leftard) anti-Jewish hate speech.
I’m still waiting for the claims out of the Gaza Strip that the Israeli infantry aren’t taking prisoners or accepting surrenders….
If only that were true ……!
Prince Philip was in charge of one of these searchlights in the Battle of Matapan as outlined below. He was Mentioned in Despatches for his brave operation of a light in the battle, which the Allies won.
This description from Chief Yeoman Watkins is of Matapan, fought at night, where he was present:
Dark found the three battleships with Formidable astern steaming a course of 250 degrees with Greyhound and Griffin on the Port bow and Stuart and Havock on the Starboard bow. We were somewhere between the Italian ships and our convoy, which earlier had been ordered to turn back but as we now between the two, had been ordered to continue towards Greece.
It was a dark night, no moon, visibility was as good as it could have been though very little light was given by the stars. At about 9.30 a report came in by W/T from the Ajax that she had ‘seen’ by her detection gear an unknown ship, distant five or six miles. Our Navigating Officer (Lieut. Teacher R.N.) gave the position as being less than ten miles from where we were then. Griffin and Greyhound were ordered to come over to the Starboard side with us.
I was keeping a very good lookout peering through the darkness, when suddenly right ahead of us loomed a shape which I reported to the Captain. I was ordered to make the Night Alarm which I lost no time in doing by W/T. I ran back to my position and this time picked up one – two, three – seven ships. There may have been more but I never had the time to count them.
They were coming down fast from a position ahead to pass a mile or so on the port beam of the battleships. All of a sudden, as the van ships, 8 inch cruisers, passed abreast of the Warspite, the sky opened up, at least it seemed so, when first the Warspite and then Valiant followed by Barham fired with both their main armament of 15 inch and secondary armament of 6 inch guns. A moment after the Warspite fired the leading cruiser burst into a mass of flames right from one end of the ship to the other.
Then the second cruiser burst into flames a salvo from either the Barham or Valiant caught her. By this time, a matter of seconds after the first gun, the air was full of noise, searchlights, tracers and spray. The Greyhound and Griffin who had been on their way to join us from the Port side, and who would have been right in the way of the enemy had they remained in their old position, had opened up on the destroyers.
Star shell were hovering in the sky and the tracers from Breda bullets twined a vivid line across the dark background. Stuart had joined in the fun and was engaging a destroyer or cruiser which was partly illuminated by Greyhound’s searchlight, firing just astern of Griffin. Shells were fired by the Italians, and which were going over Griffin were falling with a ‘crack’ very near to us. But no one seemed to notice. Our main concern was to shoot and shoot straight.
Ah, yes. At the Alamo.
With Col Custer, General Patton.
And David Bowie, who gave the world the Bowie knife.
Aka blatant self serving lies.
Thanks for the front cover, Bruce. The back cover has Barnaby and Vikki in a bi-plane with “Just Married”, the royals and down in the lower left hand corner this year’s big killers – Zelensky, Putin, Xi (smiling and drinking AUS red) and a skeletal Hamas.
The Opera House features that disgusting display, but without the hideous genocidal slurs. We won’t forget them in a hurry.
Dot
How about “Grand Imam.” ?
Dr F
I assume that this was sarcasm.
Here’s some more. The interviews were conducted in Gaza, by two DFAT staff who crossed the border with Egypt under cover of darkness.
Exceptionable work.
Things are moving pretty quickly.
The Europeans are streamlining their processes to make deporting ‘irregular migrants’ easier. They’ll be held in detention centres near border crossings in the meantime, but they won’t languish there for years while their cases run through the courts courtesy the tax payer. They’ve had enough of being taken advantage of.
At least the Prince did not have a dalliance with that disreputable hussy, Tropical Kit.
Word is that every Australian who went to New Guinea went with Tropical Kit. A shameful blemish on our reputation!
That first girl needs a big clip across the ears . Cocking the thing with a magazine on.
I concur.
Or conquer.
I see Gillian Triggs is opining in the newspapers.
Must be back home from Geneva on a WEB.
She’ a walking, talking Kuhnian paradigm.
Chuckle.
cohenite Johnson is right!
Thanks for the smiley. It’s nice to have discussion without assuming animosity 🙂
How do you determine ideology without using the culture of the place they come from as a proxy? If we let in refugees from Gaza, how do we know which ones agree with Ham-arse ( I like that term) and which ones don’t?
I’m married to a recreational fisherman. Little white lies are definitely a part of our culture 🙂
But yes, I understand your point. I just feel sorry for a family who were living quietly and doing no harm until immigration and then the media got involved. A pity they didn’t take steps to regularise their circumstances before it became a media circus.
Apart from ex-Justice Marcus Einfeld, I am struggling to think of a case where lies were publicly punished. Mizzz Knickerless?ROFLMAO.
The issue is getting them to hell.
I retain many boxes of the required enablers to assist when the revolution commences…
cohenite Johnson is right!
Correct!
Want to keep the frige running, and charge the mobile phones? Hook up the gennie. Sorry, only electric gen-sets allowed.
Keep the diesel pull start genny in good condition!
Can’t take credit, it’s not original. Can’t remember where I stole it from.
🙂
A nasty PofW if ever there was one. Evil and full of hate and contempt for ordinary Australians. Universities cosset and incubate these destructive parasites.
Mainline Jewish organisations don’t want to upset interfath fellowship – fools.
Here is a good assessment of the life of Prince Phillip, which ends with a Shakespearian quote, Hamlet re his father – ‘He was a man, take him for all in all, we shall not see his like again’, thus allowing for what some saw as his imperfections in word or deed, whatever they were, the truth of rumours unknown, being totally outweighed by his public service.
The TV series The Crown presented one version of the man; there are others.
One of the worst weaknesses of Sky News Australia is that it uses “news” from Sky News UK and CNN, whose reporters are invariably incurious climate change zealots who repeat the religion’s unchallengeable doctrines at every opportunity.
Today an idiot from Sky News UK is reporting climate change is responsible for the increase in in the number of Great White sharks in the oceans because what else could it be?
Apparently, the new protections now given to sharks around the world have nothing to do with it – nor the infestation of zealots in scientific institutions like the CSIRO, whose mission is to make the oceans safe for sharks and unsafe for humans.
Most of modern journalism is the same — completely lacking in even rudimentary curiosity about the world and especially science, whose key institutions are now controlled and censored by political ideology.
Well, with 1923 on its last paws one pressing issue remains unresolved: Was Spencer’s proposal to Alex in 1923 better than Darcy’s to Liz in the 2005 movie version?
Well, with 2023 on its last paws one pressing issue remains unresolved: Was Spencer’s proposal to Alex in 1923 better than Darcy’s to Liz in the 2005 movie version?