I don’t know if anyone linked to this earlier, but here’s a really good account of the hole the UK…
Open Thread – Wed 3 Jan 2024
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
Pretty good weekend will come to an end with the child playing some basketball tournament. He thinks he’s king shit…
If the Greens said they wouldn’t support the misinformation bill, I’d be hesitant to believe them. They might just be…
All true. Thanks Tom.
It’s one assault after another from the Anal administration. Hard core cultural marxist regime. All incubated and cossetted at unis…
Podium!
I dedicate this thread to Monica Lewinsky, who must be counting down the minutes…
From the Old Fred:
Question: who is “John Doe 36”?
Answer: it’s The Intern’s Friend, aka “a hard dog to keep on the porch” as described by The Hildebeast:
Former US president Bill Clinton will allegedly be identified as “John Doe 36” in the trove of court documents, which are expected to be released on January 2, given the New Year’s Day public holiday in the US.
Mr Clinton is allegedly mentioned more than 50 times across redacted documents related to a 2015 lawsuit from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, according to ABC News in the US.
Daily Mail
About time his name was made public. An open secret yet the media kept insisting there was nothing to see.
Turd
So is Bill
Fourth.
May the forth be with you. Forth was a really great programming platform for microprocessor control of mechanisms, robotics. I used it on 6502 chips running servo motor animatronics such as the TV star dog advertising Grosby shoes – “They’re Great Mate”.
Fifth and the fifth element is whatever you want it to be.
Top 5. Sits patiently in dark waiting for a possum. Then will bark continuously for 10 minutes. Dont tell owner I have his phone…ssshh!
Damn. Top 6. Bark bark bark
Former process worker must have found a spell error.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
This seems hollow. Remember the censorship of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial?
Off to work and popped in before I go, I really don’t know what to say reading a comment on the old OT.
At this time of day it is distressing reading that, saying a collective sorry would be trite and not my place anyway.
Hope you get over it and remember, it’s a blog and just a bunch of pixels, real life is what’s important.
Since I don’t live here 24/7, it has taken a while to discover the predictably self-justifying comment from rich bitch Cassie, who tried to belittle me because I live in a motel in Queanbeyan. Dover Heights, it ain’t. I know, because in the 1980s I visited a high level apartment there being minded by a friend while the (Jewish) family were away. 180 degree views of the Harbour, gorgeous furniture and fittings. Until then, I had no idea that people actually lived like that.
Good for them, BTW, not a trace of envy here. But you really need to stop running the line that Sydney’s eastern suburbs Jews, chock full of medical specialists and high priced lawyers and orthodondists. are comparable to poor suburbs in western Sydney and indeed, Queanbeyan.
Queanbeyan simultaneously has the highest per capita number of Harley Davidsons and mobility devices in NSW.
Go on, have another go at me about where I live and how. Show just how much of a snob who should be in the Teals who you are. 🙂
Another day and the work just stretches out in front of me.
I think I’ll go with my brother and nephew on a mood lifting field trip to look at a header front that’s for sale. A coffee and toastie on the way.
Why not wait until it is unalleged? Clickbait. It might be true about Clinton but “allegedly mentioned” is stupid. I’m sick of these clickbait tactics being used by so many.
She has the self-awareness of a dead gnat. She insults so many people. She’s a sick puppy.
Today’s Tele:
LEFT’S ATTACK BIG BLOW TO OUR SOCIAL
COHESION
JAMES MORROW
3 Jan 2023
It feels like the annual fight over Australia Day comes around earlier and earlier every year.
Perhaps it’s because the Bureau of Meteorology failed to deliver on its promise of a long, hot summer to keep us otherwise distracted.
Or maybe it’s because after the Voice, everyone’s nerves are a bit on edge over the subject. But either way, the battle is on … again.
A few days ago we learned that 81 councils across the country had decided to ditch their Australia Day citizenship ceremonies out of respect for Aboriginal sensibilities, despite the country voting overwhelmingly against precisely this sort of racialised grandstanding at the referendum.
Now, of course this is bad.
It is yet another example of local government doing the opposite of what local voters want and thinking their remit goes beyond the honourable if dull trinity of rates, roads and rubbish.
The trend against Australia Day citizenship ceremonies is also precisely what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hoped would develop when he opened the door to councils freelancing date changes when he modified the rules around these things back in December 2022.
And it is another blow against Australia’s social cohesion, which is already fraying badly.
Our formerly easy going, reasonably high trust society is, by any measure, doing poorly.
Whether it is something sinister like ethnic mobs intimidating Jews and forcing changes to government policy on Israel or more subtle developments like electronic gates at supermarkets (message: we think you’re all thieves) there is a growing sense that we are no longer all in this together.
The most recent Scanlon Social Cohesion Report put numbers behind this: Just 48 per cent of us now feel a strong sense of belonging and only 33 per cent feel a strong pride in the Australian way of life.
No wonder progressives – despite the referendum loss – think they are pushing on an open door in their attempt to remake Australia and crack our common foundations.
So, what are conservatives and non-political Australians who just want to feel a part of, and pride in, their nation supposed to do?
The first thing, as always, is to recognise that there is a problem.
Then, stop shying away from the solutions. That the so-called progressive side of politics has wanted to hollow out the meaning of modern Australia for its own cynical purposes is well documented.
For the left, post-First Fleet Australia was an illegitimate and genocidal monstrosity that only began to redeem itself with the official adoption of multiculturalism.
Our British inheritance is looked upon as something tacky and a bit shameful, like a slightly embarrassing handed-down collection of commemorative plates no one quite knows what to do with. At the same time the story of us as a prison colony turned prosperous democracy is a triumph that does not fit the narrative.
Yet the right, too, has to shoulder some of the blame.
In office for nine years, the Coalition did nothing serious to reform Julia Gillard’s disastrous Australian Curriculum.
Many in the Coalition have also shied away from these discussions for fear of being seen as “nativist” or have been seduced by Big Australia business lobbies that see population growth in solely economic terms.
Of course, a GDP is not a nationality, and it is not a family, and it is not a story to tell that anyone sane would think worth preserving.
Beyond lip service to “a fair go” and “mateship”, the collective Australian ideal has, over time, started to ring a bit hollow. Particularly for young Australians who feel comprehensively dudded by the housing market and whose ire is being stoked by a weird coalition of property developers, activists and think-tank economists.
The end result is that the citizenship that may or may not be conferred to migrants on Australia Day is less about joining a family with a proud (if, yes, imperfect) story to tell and more about locking in one’s status to vote and stay and claim Medicare. And when, even with that citizenship, new Australians are told to preserve the old ways, not only does it raise the question “what’s the point?” but it can get downright dangerous.
Just look at how Labor MPs from heavily Muslim electorates have cracked the government’s onceunified policy on Israel.
This is hardly the only example either. Think about how, for example, Scott Morrison’s admirable and tough stance on China was blamed for the Liberals losing Australian voters of Chinese extraction in key seats at the 2022 election. This is not to say that various ethnic constituencies are acting as fifth columns but it is to note that they are lacking any sort of meaningful idea around what it is to be Australian.
The opportunity here for the Coalition is two fold. One, to start talking about common values and our common story in a way the left is unable to and thus appealing to a broad middle that wants to feel part of something bigger than itself.
Two, to do something about housing – both by doubling down on allowing people to use their super for a deposit and calling Labor out for their Big Australia policies that have led to virtually every new unit built to be gobbled up by newcomers.
The left will squeal that this is exclusionary and nationalist but that’s more a tell on their own discomfort with the idea of Australian nationhood than anything else.
Curses:
3 Jan 2023 : 3 Jan 2024
Sad news on the contiuning fight against the against the Hamarse filth.
Today’s Tele :
AUSSIE FIGHTING FOR ISRAEL KILLED BY HAMAS
ANDREW KOUBARIDIS
3 Jan 2024
An Australian has died while fighting with the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza.
Captain Lior Sivan, 32, was with an armoured brigade when he was killed by Hamas militants in southern Gaza on December 19.
His father, Dan Sivan, said his son was killed in an “ambush” after he tried to shoot an Hamas fighter who he believed was trying to bomb a nearby tank.
“But it was an ambush and someone hiding behind a building launched something at him,” Mr Sivan told the ABC.
In confirming his death, the IDF said Capt Savan, from the town of Beit Shemesh, was an officer in the Harel Brigade’s 363 Batalion.
He trained as a mechanical engineer and was originally from Melbourne but had moved to live in Israel with his wife and child. An Israeli newspaper reported he was soon to become a father again.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement it was “aware of reports that an Australian citizen has been killed in Gaza and is urgently seeking further confirmation”.
“We send our condolences to his family during this difficult time and stand ready to provide consular assistance,” the statement said.
It comes as thousands of Israeli soldiers were being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began.
The troop movement could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas of Gaza, particularly in the northern half where the military has said it is close to assuming operational control.
Not looking good for the longevity of senior Hamas leaders.
Sydney Labor electorates may be their last safe haven.
This stuff is getting weirder.
Atheists Call for Record Voter Turnout Against ‘Christian Extremism’ (2 Jan)
Palestinian Political Columnist: West ‘Stole Christianity from Us,’ Jesus Was ‘First’ Palestinian (2 Jan)
How can you steal Christianity? Or believe that Christians in government would execute atheists? All these crazy things people say these days are a sign of something odd going on in society. I don’t understand what that is though.
Sancho and Knuckle Dragger…here you go… 🙂 :
Today’s Tele:
STOLEN BAGGAGE CAPS OFF DAVE’S CAREER
LACHLAN MCKIRDY – AND BEN HORNE
3 Jan 2024
Qantas freight teams were last night frantically searching airport terminals in Sydney and Melbournefor Aussie opener David Warner’s treasured baggy green caps after he explained to the nation in avideo post that someone had rifled through his luggage and taken them. Today, Warner will walk outonto his home turf at the Sydney Cricket Ground for the final Test of his extraordinary career – hedearly wants the caps back before then.
It wouldn’t be David Warner’s Test farewell without some controversy — but an apparent baggy green thief has ensured his SCG swansong will take place in a more headline-grabbing fashion than usual.
Less than an hour after Australian captain Pat Cummins said the New Year’s Test would become “Warner Week’’, the 37-year-old’s farewell was thrown into chaos by a pair of missing caps.
Warner took to Instagram with a desperate plea for the backpack containing his two baggy green caps to be returned after it went missing from inside his larger luggage compartment during transit from Melbourne.
And while trawling through various CCTV footage proved unsuccessful in tracking down a culprit, Warner’s message attracted the attention of a convicted drug smuggler and calls for the Australian government to intervene.
“Unfortunately this is my last resort to do this,” Warner said.
“But a couple of days ago our bags got freighted via Qantas. We’ve gone through CCTV footage, and they’ve got some blind spots apparently.
“Somebody has taken my backpack out of my luggage which had my backpack and my girls’ presents in there. Inside this backpack was my baggy green.
“It’s sentimental to me. It’s something I’d love to have in my hands walking out there this week.”
Warner travels with two baggy greens after he was given a second cap ahead of the 2017 Test tour of Bangladesh. He took to the field with it for the first Test in Dhaka before his original cap was later located at home.
Qantas, a gold partner of Cricket Australia, confirmed it was continuing an exhaustive search in a bid to track down the backpack. The Australian men’s team travels with a large quantity of luggage, with the airline hopeful that it will eventually be found.
“Our freight teams are continuing to search the terminals in Melbourne and Sydney and reviewing CCTV to try and locate the missing bag,” a Qantas spokesperson said.
“We appreciate the importance of this bag and we’re doing everything we can to help find it.”
Pakistan captain Shan Masood also threw his support behind Warner and called on the federal government to get involved if needed.
“I think there should be a countrywide search right now from the Australian government, to make sure we might need the best detectives to get that back,” Masood said.
“He’s been a great ambassador, he deserves respect and every bit of celebration for his unbelievable career. I hope they find it, it’s the most precious thing for any cricketer and I hope David Warner gets it back.”
Warner’s appeal was reinforced by Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association who implored for the backpack to be returned.
His cause was also echoed by an unlikely source in convicted drug smuggler, Schapelle Corby.
“Qantas! Well do I have a story for you,” Corby replied to Warner’s post on Instagram.
However, the mystery surrounding Warner’s two baggy greens has added further drama to the conclusion of an already extraordinary career.
The dynamic opening batter found himself in the crosshairs of former teammate Mitchell Johnson before the Pakistan Test series after he claimed Warner didn’t deserve a farewell series.
Warner silenced Johnson and other critics by scoring a superb century on the opening day of the series. He was eventually dismissed for 164 and remains the only batter to have reached triple figures this Test summer. During the second Test in Melbourne, Warner also surpassed Steve Waugh to move into second on the list of most runs scored by an Australian men’s batter across all three formats (18,521).
The 37-year-old announced last June his intentions to retire following the SCG Test. The match will mark his 112th Test for Australia since making his debut in 2011. Warner will also be looking to recreate his record-breaking exploits from the last time he took on Pakistan at the SCG where he scored a century inside the first session in 2017. It remains to be seen whether he will take to his home ground with one of his baggy greens, but confirmed that if the bag was, in fact, stolen, the thief would
not face any action if it is returned.
“If it’s the backpack you really wanted, I have a spare one here,” Warner said. “I’m happy to give this to you if you return my baggy greens.”
The convicted druggie trying to stay relevent by adding a bit of support.
Also ‘GET YOUR FREE HOUSO RANGA POSTER INSIDE.’
About the right size for the dart board.
Farmer Gez
Jan 3, 2024 5:38 AM
‘One does not simply go to the clearance sale and come home without buying anything,’ despite the explicit instructions to the contrary from GOC Home Command / Minister of War and Finance.
Jew hating plagiarist Gay is gonski.
What a nice start to the day, to the month, to 2024.
Now lefties are getting “swatted”, up to and including Soros – there are many games that conservatives will learn to play.
I suspect it’s because once upon a time we used to put nutters and ‘less mentally capable’ in special places where they couldn’t hurt themselves or others. Now we give them euphemistic labels, they join the greens and get elected to local council or worse the senate.
gay in her own words
Electricity retailers whinging that solar feed-in tarrifs are impacting their income and they need another price rise!
This will in turn spur more people to get solar, while those who can’t afford it just have to pay the incresing prices for power.
We are governed by idiots and ideologues.
I see overnight the nasty woman from Queanbeyan has again called me a “rich bitch”. Once again she assumes the stereotype that all Jews are rich and curiously, that all Jews live in Dover Heights all because decades ago, once upon a time, back in the 1980s, she once visited an apartment in the suburb which had ‘180 degree views’ of the Harbour. Hmmm, I find that description odd because the Dover Heights I knew back in the 1980s consisted mainly of middle class housing, not apartments, and any apartments in the suburb were down near North Bondi and were more likely to have 180 degree sweeping views of the Tasman Sea, not Sydney Harbour. The wealthier houses and apartments were located down the hill, towards the Harbour. Perhaps I should give her some leeway, maybe her mind is not all there? After all, memories can be unreliable, and I suspect she’s confusing Dover Heights with Rose Bay, Double Bay, Point Piper or Vaucluse. Such confusion happens with age.
As someone else noted here, this woman from Queanbeyan just love to dish out the nastiness and vitriol but just like a progressive, when it’s thrown back, she goes into pathetic victim mode. A sad woman.
She has the self-awareness of a dead gnat. She insults so many people. She’s a sick puppy.”
Oh, how noble of you, like some white knight from a fairy tale, you come in to defend the queen of insults aka Johanna, a woman who has a long history on this blog of insulting and viciously attacking people, particularly Lizzie and OldOzzie. And no, my awareness extends way beyond that of a gnat. And no, I don’t ‘insult so many people’, you just don’t like it when your condescending sneers are rebutted.
Love the top corner of the Lethbridge ‘toon with smiling Jacinita and Warren at the base of the Rock and the rest of the sulky losers perched above a giant NO.
Winners are grinners.
anything valuable and/or irreplaceable should be in carry-on
if you check it in, be prepared to lose it
At least, that is what applies to us peons
Ex-CIA analyst warns intelligence agencies will attempt to interfere in 2024 election to stop Republican candidate
From the old fred….
Good plan, Cassie. My motto has always been that what other people think of me is none of my business. A click of the button on a screen is not how they get their jollies, it’s your reaction that does that.
Ignore, and ignore again. For as long as it takes. The losers are well out-numbered by the interesting, the generous and the clever.
You’re right, thanks Megan.
Top Hamas leader Saleh Arouri killed in Beirut explosion
propaganda
Racism. Of course.
Claudine Gay QUITS as Harvard President but fails to mention antisemitism testimony OR plagiarism claims in sour resignation letter where she says she’s been victim of racism
As an aside, I always carry my phone on my person.
Missed a great video of Qantas customer service as I looked out of the cabin window to the luggage handler below me, who was busy unloading luggage from the plane and slamming down the luggage onto the trolley, putting as much force and energy into slamming it down as he could. If only I had my phone for a video.
more propaganda
Chinese energy exec tied to Hunter Biden participated in Patrick Ho bribery scheme, court files say
The deayh of Capt. Savan:
This is unfortunate, to say the least.
However, if he were “merely” wounded, and repatriated to Oz, some scumbag would immediately dust off the old “Foreign Incursions, etc” Act and launch a prosecution funded by the Oz taxpayer.
The story for 2024:
“Something Wicked this way Comes”.
Was There a New Year’s Eve Islamic Terror Attack in New York?
That’s a shame, they were working so hard to a ceasefire.
AP Quietly Reveals Donation From Foreign Group That Trains Journalists as Climate Change ‘Activists’
James Morrow is a gem.
A few days ago we learned that 81 councils across the country had decided to ditch their Australia Day citizenship ceremonies out of respect for Aboriginal sensibilities, despite the country voting overwhelmingly against precisely this sort of racialised grandstanding at the referendum.
It’s this creeping, fabian socialism that works from the local level and ultimately impacts a country across the board. We have seen it in action in the USA, UK, and here.
deconstructing the real Karen and pathological liar. How do people like this get 50k followers?
They want to control your every thought.
London Council Demands Private Companies Commit to LGBTQ+ Agenda Before Hiring Them: Report
Yes, we trust them to do everything possible to destroy our lives and enrich their own.
WEF Says Davos 2024 Meeting of the Globalist Elites All About ‘Trust’
The MIT president should be next and I’m not interested in the context, whether she said it or not. She was at that congressional panel to excuse her students’ anti-semitism, I did not hear her that they were wrong. Next.
They [the Westerners] stole the Christian religion from our land …
Wait a minute! That was the Romans.
“What have the Romans ever done for us?” the Palis might well ask.
So, my comment at 7.21 a.m. has now received more than 12 down ticks. Proof the down ticks are being manipulated.
I actually feel sorry for the loser/losers cases doing the down ticking. They/he/she/it/zhe must be so lacking in any real meaning in their sad lives that they come here to spitefully troll one or two people. Perhaps there’s some new secret society to “down tick Cassie”. Can I join?
Lizzie,
All I was trying to do was give you the perspective of a younger man who himself isn’t great at keeping in touch etc. and to keep in mind the sort of pressure he might be under.
Absolutely no offence was intended. If it’s needed, I apologise.
Bungonia Bee
Jan 3, 2024 7:09 AM
Electricity retailers whinging that solar feed-in tarrifs are impacting their income and they need another price rise!
This will in turn spur more people to get solar, while those who can’t afford it just have to pay the incresing prices for power.
We are governed by idiots and ideologues.
Paywallian :
EDITORIAL
A plea by energy retailers for higher prices to compensate for the rising use of household rooftop solar is an inevitable and predictable confirmation of the dysfunction that now characterises Australia’s electricity system. It represents another chapter in a tale of cascading subsidies that have become necessary as a system rooted in baseload generation from coal is forcibly switched over to one dependent on variable sources of renewable energy such as wind and solar.
If retailers get their way, energy users who have been forced to subsidise renewable energy projects, including rooftop solar, will be asked to pay more for the projects that these renewables were designed to force out of the market in the first place. The new cost would be included as part of the regulated price that retailers are allowed to charge. The power retailers also are largely the owners of the coal-fired power stations that still supply most of the nation’s electricity but are being rendered unprofitable by design and forced to close.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has upped the ante on the subsidy regime with a turbocharged Capacity Investment Scheme that will underwrite the profitability of 32 gigawatts of new renewable projects, up from 6GW previously. Like rooftop solar, the overbuild of large-scale renewables is needed to meet Labor’s target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030. This target also is being revised upwards.
A large amount of wind and solar is required to deal with the fact individual projects will produce for only some of the time. But when they are all working together it is likely there will be a glut, as is the case with rooftop solar on sunny days when there is low demand. Wholesale prices are now often negative in the middle of the day.
But regardless of how many wind and solar projects are built, it’s likely there still will be periods of shortage that must be plugged when intermittent power generation is not sufficient. The experience in Britain has been that baseload generators have demanded subsidies to be available still when needed under a capacity market. Renewable generators that are producing power that is not needed have demanded to be paid as well.
Projects designed to help, such as the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro and expanded transmission network, are proving to be slower and more expensive than promised. Under Mr Bowen’s latest scheme, taxpayers will be on the hook to ensure all of the projects approved as part of the 32GW target achieve a minimum rate of return. Ironically, the subsidies will make renewable energy, the so-called cheapest option, more expensive than it otherwise would be. But a price guarantee and overbuild ensure that other options such as nuclear will struggle to find space in the market to justify their cost.
If adopted, the latest call for assistance from electricity retailers will be felt directly by energy users. Retailers want a higher price because of fierce competition from rooftop solar as well as the looming impact of batteries and offshore wind that will depress prices in the evening, after the sun has stopped shining and when wholesale prices traditionally have spiked. Retailers are urging the Australian Energy Regulator to factor the rise of solar into its considerations when determining the default market offer from July.
After two years of big increases in the default market offer price, the political pressure will be for the AER not to approve another big increase. But the laws of physics dictate that power will have to come from somewhere and private sector economics suggests absorbing sustained losses is not an option for generators.
This leaves taxpayers and users on the hook to continue Band-Aiding a system that has been broken by ideology and a lack of proper planning.
Correct, fight fire with fire. You can’t play nice with people who want you dead.
a hostage in a hospital story
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
BREAKING
I have just released the full report on politicians trading in 2023.
Like every year since 2020, US politicians beat the market.
And many in Congress made unusually timed trades resulting in huge gains.
Here are the top performers of 2023.
@amuse
@amuse
Convicted ballot harvester, Gloria Torres, has been appointed as the new Vice Mayor of San Luis, Arizona. She pled guilty to ballot abuse in June 2023. Torres will be involved in the 2024 election.
Interesting here as with the documentary on Gazans in Germany is that Hamas was the only employer offering jobs.
Implication is that many hamas auxiliaries at least, will not fight to the death.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
When even your tailgate is brainwashed.
We are governed by spivs and curroptcrats who are enabling their friends to defraud the people by awarding them subsidies for renewables that would be able to make a profit any other way. Electricity retailers should be pushing these same spivs to cover their losses since their are due to government actions. At least that way the losses will not be pushed on the poorest of our citizens. You want to be a CEO of a power company then realise that the government is your and your consumers’ enemy and act like it. Ever heard of advertising?
Benny Johnson has been ringing his bell about this stuff for two weeks.
I get the feeling if it had legs, it would just come out. It would get leaked, IMO.
Rod Dreher
@roddreher
This is real, not satire. The Ivies are woke madrassas. They are helping to ruin America. May they get the comeuppance they so richly deserve.
Yes, there’s a bit of that about these days.
It was a terror attack.
Cops recover suicide note after deranged man drove car packed with explosives into crowd at Rochester concert, killing 2
The Perils of Claudine!
It was the best of times, followed by the worst of times …
Renewables are grossly inefficient and there’s no way to make a system that has to overbuild generation by six or seven times, plus the absurdly expensive transmission build needed, for it to be a viable industry without massive subsidies either through power charges or government tax revenue.
Private rooftop solar is a big headache for the ISP planners but they have plans for the appropriation of that as well. They dress it up as a local green networking scheme but it’s about taking cheap solar off the table and handing it to the big corporate schemes. Watch this space.
People who don’t believe in God will believe anything.
Your truth is in your narrative. Get with it on the right side of history. Whatever you wish, is the way of the world. Bring your own fairy dust.
What else has she got? Certainly not her academic or administrative records.
Midget ranga cheat on the picture wireless this morning:
‘my Baggy Green’
Singular. Thank you media for starting yet another argument.
Oh frabjous day, callooh callay, just stumped out of the shower to hear that the news that the woke, elevated-beyond-her-capacity-because-of-the-colour-of her-skin, cheating plagiarist, unscholarly president of Harvard has resigned, and what makes it even better it is the commencement of a new year and better still her resignation comes despite the intervention of The One — beautiful day, feeling good. I hope all cats are feeling the same.
Now that’s what self-cancellation looks like and lying ’til the very end saying it was raaaaaycisim! One yer bike you never-was.
They have had Christianity there for two thousand years, why didn’t they join? Could it be because they believe religion should be imposed by the sword?
What hypocrite, shouldn’t those stickers be on a Tesla?
They need to hate because their ideology is based around free shit and free abortion on demand – soma, soma, soma – living at the expense of others doing whatever they want with zero consequences.
Talk to a modern educated leftist. They have some whacky, elitist ideas like a welfare state is better for dumb (read: uneducated) people otherwise they’d end up in prison, which costs more.
I’m sure the union running the pension fund for Centrelink staff loves that myth.
Gay gets the boot. Two to go.
The Hun:
Beirut?
What happened to leaders fighting alongside their people? One could be forgiven for thinking that the Hamas Topendertown and their minions have different belief systems.
Custer, who famously stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his brothers in arms at Agincourt would be spinning in his grave.
I think I mentioned that our village is not allowed to export our solar to the grid. It seems the park owner, the owner of the panels, will be fined a massive amount if we export 5% more than some limit set by Ergon , this was a retrospective rule change btw.
Because of this, and limits on our inverters capacity when in self consumption mode, most people have found their consumption from the grid has increased from $5 or so a month to $20-30 a month. Can’t wait for the community battery to be installed.
As the Epstein plane comes in to land, the media circles around the one important name:
Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Call Jeffrey Epstein a ‘Terrific Guy’?
Oddly, this rather stale Newsweek piece is currently being boosted by Microsoft Start and MSN.
Shirley there’s no ulterior motive…
So, in effect, was Harvard. As is any organisation shackled to diversity picks.
She’ll just have to find another trough to sup from.
Inaccuracy in MSM reporting, specifically Three Corners, mentioned in your comment two before mine.
It was a joke, referring back to an earlier comment!
Whilst I was not privy to the full suite of evidence used in the Balinese trial which found Corby guilty, I do remember putting myself in the same position – every time I fly, I lose ‘chain of custody’ of my checked baggage after it goes down the chute at the check-in desk, and no one opens their baggage to check it at the carousel before going through customs.
She might have had form, and looked like a bogan, but you cant deny that someone could have accessed her baggage whilst it was out of her control.
At my assault trial in Canberra, the judge read out the standards of evidence and conviction before delivering the verdict. She stated that ‘reasonable doubt’ meant that the defence presented a plausible case by which the accused might be not guilty – NOT that she had to believe that case, but merely that it had to exist.
I still wonder if an Australian court, using Australian rules, would have found Corby guilty. Surely, loss of custody of your bags for many hours would constitute reasonable doubt in an Australian court?
In other news, a remarkable story unfolded last night.
You buckle up, have a quick squiz at the evacuation sheet and that’s that. No one ever expects they’ll be using that inflatable slide (incidentally developed in Australia).
Tragic for the coast guard plane passengers, off to deliver earthquake aid. All perished, except the pilot now critical in hospital.
I was watching the live feed of that, calli. From the collision point explosion to the plane skidding to the end of the runway, the flames surrounding it, it looked liked utter disaster.
A true miracle. Brilliant evacuation work under extreme circumstances. Take a true Japanese bow, crew and passengers.
May the poor Coastguards who did not escape the inferno RIP.
Nigel Farage with Professor Angus Dalgleish
‘Excess deaths STARTED with the vaccine programme’ | Top doctor’s stark warnings being ‘ignored’
Cassie, I would bask in the vast quantity of ticks, up and down. Big personalities like you and Joh are always going to have readers hammering away on their keyboards.
My flaccid single downtick is an insult.
😀
I can’t even apologise without getting downticked.
It’s a good example as to why as long as you stick to some principles, you usually shouldn’t care what other people think.
Capitol Police Chief EXPOSES Nancy Pelosi’s Lies in Shocking Testimony
Claudine Gay will write a memoir one day. I imagine it will begin thus:
Nothing like original, ground breaking work. That definitely isn’t racist.
From beertruk’s OZ post:
The laws of physics and the reality of private market investment have not changed an iota since before Australia was directed down the Renewables Rort rabbit hole by policy advisors, shiny-faced thieves, and Top Men at AEMO and AER.
As you pay the price, always remember that every single absurdity, every ‘unexpected consequence’, every market distortion, every perverse outcome – the whole catastrophe now unfolding – was easily and almost trivially predicted, in detail, by people with more credible technical and economic credentials than the Arts/Law graduates who have run Australia’s power system into the ditch.
The wilful destruction of a fundamental of the Australian social economy is a perfect metaphor for the failure of our system of ‘government as managers’.
In good hands.
Japan Airlines jet collides in fiery blaze at airport, killing five
Dr Faustus, in the past five years, dozens of “news” websites have sprung up that do nothing but repeat the Democratic Party’s weekly talking points, especially when they concern Donald Trump, about whom 99.9% of journalists are utterly incoherent.
The zombies who provide “news” stories for Microsoft users are among the most comically Trump-deranged.
They have no idea what it looks like from outside the USA when not only the Dems, but the entire media establishment are campaigning against the GOP’s leading candidate in 2024, while insisting that banning him from the ballot will help save democracy.
Can’t wait for the community battery to be installed.
And that’s precisely what AEMO want you to do. Private batteries are in the ISP as the biggest part of the storage plan.
This makes renewables seem cheap as this private cost is not acknowledged in calculating the price of transition.
Avoiding building adequate large scale battery storage is critical for Bowen’s claim of cheap renewables and tips the tables in favour of generation and transmission thus decreasing the access costs for companies and investors.
You’re being had old son.
When all those panels start breaking down over time it will be finally realised there is no such thing as “cheap solar”.
I found out yesterday there is a chance of wind towers going up in this area south of Horsham. Seriously picturesque rural landscape with the Grampians as a backdrop.
If some farmers say yes to this they have now idea of where they really live.
Arresting people for walking along a beach and spraying grannies in the eyes with pepper spray will do that for you.
Cop exodus: $35m in police missing from NSW streets (Tele, 2 Jan, paywalled)
So busy chasing righties for misgendering people that they can’t now catch crims. It used to be that the law abiding respected the police and the crims called them pigs. Now everyone fears and avoids them. Nice work plod types, your brought it upon yourselves when you went lefty fascist.
Gay is gonesky?
Ackman is God.
And yet he threw him out of Mar-A-Lago.
The diversity hire keeps another job at Harvard and will continue her poisonous activities, this time in martyr mode.
Tourism Victoria has picture of the view from The Pinnacle in the Grampians.
That view is splendid but it faces east and that’s the very place that they intend to build huge transmission towers and wind turbines.
I kid you not.
The Grampian Nasties may have to look for greener pastures.
Indolent
Jan 3, 2024 7:36 AM
Yes, we trust them to do everything possible to destroy our lives and enrich their own.
WEF Says Davos 2024 Meeting of the Globalist Elites All About ‘Trust’
Nukemap indicates that one SS25 should do the trick. Come on Poot.
Oh, Lordy, no, no she won’t:
Victim credentials burnished and shiny bright, she will ‘correct the citations’ in her PhD thesis and power ahead in the lucrative world of Political Science.
Watch the hiring of a new CEO and if Ackman is invited onto the board. The real tell is if they begin dismantling DEI after the hire.
The gay one has been given a job with nothing to do.
I think the movement against DEI has began.
Yeah for 24.
Tom, it looks the same to the non-lefties in the US as well. That’s why Trump’s polls go up after each “saving democracy” atrocity. You are right about the perpetrators having no idea what it looks like to everyone else though would they care even if they knew?
BJ at 8:20.
Ah, gotcha.
What a worthless pos.
Not sayin’ nothin’ ’bout Queenbeean.
Not sayin’ nothin’ ’bout Vauclause.
Gay gawn.
But where does that leave the Harvard board who met for two days in December on this, then came out and supported her?
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has upped the ante on the subsidy regime …
Reminds me of the incompetent outlaw Thomas Moore.
Chris Bowen, Chris Bowen riding thru the glen
Chris Bowen Chris Bowen and his band of men
Robs from the poor, gives to the rich,
Stupid b!tch, stupid b!tch!
now?
no
At least everyone who enrols at Harvard from now on will know that it’s a fraudulent place and their degrees are just photocopied membership cards.
I think that is from Hamlet.
Vaucluse, Queanbeyan, Rose Bay, Point Piper?
Where does Panania fit into this clash of postcodes?
Queanbeyan Cow in full flight again, staring at the closing in of the motel walls, trying to figure out how to snag a schoolboy, to stir the spider’s nest where every man fears to tread. Bitterness exudes from every pore, that the schoolboys sense in the neighbourhood, crosses the road in the vicinity lest they become a statistic of Ruby Reddress.
Plans afoot to offer Gazans voluntary resettlement in Western countries.
It’s such a bad idea you just know the Albanese & Wong would be for it.
I pray the Lord to guide my way.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take
There’s nought much for which I care,
Except please can Warner make a pair.
In other news, a remarkable story unfolded last night.
Thank you Calli. Some good reporting there. Amazing insights and lives saved. Obviously a large investigation still to be conducted. In Australia they would give us no info until 3 years after an interim report is handed down.
Hamas Tortured Me for Dissent. Here’s What They Really Think of Palestinians | Opinion
Everyone is gangsta until Walgett is mentioned.
That’s right chumps, if you want to play with the big dogs, you better learn how to piss in the long grass!
Dot, thanks for understanding my pain re my grandson. I did take note of your earlier advice, as I said when you offered it, and was quite forgiving when he got in touch and wanted to come round. His dad suggested he come too and that we all go out to lunch at a time and place of their chosing. Which is what we did. All is well now. He’s off to Japan next week.
The downticking of certain people here, mostly women, because of who they are often incorrectly perceived to be rather than what they say, is a tremendous blight on an otherwise fast moving and worthwhile place to spend time. In the same way, upticking of anyone initiating attack comments, also does the blog no favours.
It. Could. Always. Be. Worse.
https://theworstofperth.com/2022/04/18/rap-mobile/
This was one of the very first and most obvious technical failures of the renewables buildout.
The technical problems of integrating non-dispatchable generation into a grid system were first experienced in WA in the 1990’s, courtesy of the tweety and isolated Esperance wind farm. This was well understood (and documented) in the power industry in the early 2000’s.
The distributed costs of ignoring the problems are major subsidies to intermittent generators.
Bowen and his advisers know, or should know this.
PS
I’m Wills’s half cousin. Grandma was from Footscray.
Famous Five.
I hesitate to offer advice and I am not looking for a justification or a defence.
Something to consider Lizzie.
Is it possible that your relative with the affliction finds your administrations, however well intentioned, just a little bit stifling?
Just a thought.
Corrected I stand … (Mark Twain).
The irony of Claudine Gay’s resignation letter is that her race will have been a significant part of her getting the job, and the Harvard Board’s thinking her worth saving, will have been her race.
Her dismissal/resignation is the possibly the first time her race is being ignored.
I find wokies IRL just as or more stifling.
Hug boxing, tone policing, they can %#*£ right off!
Anything not workshopped by the Cathedral is a “conspiracy theory”, complete dullards.
Dr F at 0929
the key words are “…or should know …”
They have their heads buried deeply in their rectums (recta??), to ensure that they can plead ignorance after the disaster occurs.
I’ve got problems with the WiFi.
A socialist takes umbrage.
Dead calm and 8/8 cloud this morning.
In Europe, the peasants are revolting:
‘The growing public anger towards Net Zero has started to shake a complacent political elite. Indeed, opposition to greenism is now one of the key drivers of European populism. It has brought people out on to the streets – with farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, Ireland and, most recently, Germany. And it has inspired a number of revolts at the ballot box.’
– Spiked
Can’t happen here soon enough.
I like Queanbeyan. It is a delight compared to Canbra. If old Canberra was like this, well it was a cool place once.
The best thing about Canberra now is that it is getting closer to nature on the outskirts and the art and promotion for the place is self aware of the bubble. I got a postcard print of those ugly bus shelters in the”rubber hose” style, I find it quite amusing.
Camping and fishing near the Tharwa reserve is a to do item for this year.
My visceral hatred for Wong was very slightly lightened yesterday when I saw her described as the Eminence Grise. Good call but I see her more as Beria, Boreman, Quisling, Blair, Turnbull, Pelosi, or Carey. A moral vacuum.
Sadly she is dictator smart and a master schemer and plotter. Albanese and his low IQ henchpeople don’t even realise that the fifth columnist traitor leads them around by their overdeveloped snouts.
I am with BoN. The creature is the most dangerous person in our political history.
yep
hate to think how big a ‘community” battery is
or what one costs
… and don’t forget to reset your Carbon Clock every 7 years
I personally work want a large battery built by and with the products of child and slave labour on my property, then there’s the toxic chemicals and fire hazard and no one wants to talk about the decommissioning and recycling of thing.
Funny how when science discovers there’s no genetic basis for race, race becomes more important than ever to certain people’s identity.
Is there money involved?
“Communidee baddaries” are usually fuelled by Foreign Aid to Kiev or staffed by Indians and have colourful corporate livery and can be found in almost every suburb.
some Royal gossip
Big call given the damage wrought by Whitlam, Howard & Morrison, which is (and will be in Morrison’s case) intergenerational in its effects.
Wong will be an historical footnote by comparison.
Rosie’s link at 7:08 says it all.
Gay has suddenly arrived at the Sanctity of Free Speech party, after years of presiding over inquisitions into “Hate Speech Triggering”.
Sickening hypocrisy.
…the highest per capita number of Harley Davidsons and mobility devices
Mmm….i think they go together. Dropping a Harley and then trying to pick it up will do that to you.
I think Wong is one of the faceless men and her destructive power wielded in secret is devastating to politics but also to the fabric of society. She will win at any cost even though her ideology is rather shallow, other than hating private enterprise and to enrich herself for not working a real job.
How far will this be allowed to go before people have had enough? It’s an endless, step by step whittling and draining away of our freedom until there is none left. I would suggest we’re pretty close to being there now. Just a few years ago this would have been laughable.
California retailers are now required to have gender-neutral toy aisles
My visceral hatred for Wong was very slightly lightened yesterday…
Sorry Bons, when you said hatred for Wong, I misunderstood it as another salvo in the battle of postcodes. I thought “Wong” was “Wyong”. Wyong is a top locality with stunning views of the Wyong Racecourse.
Courier Mail school parents survey
59% said yes to
Should unvaccinated children be banned from Queensland preschools and childcare centres.
No definition of what vaccination means.
She’s aligned with the almost equally odious Mark Butler in maintaining factional support for Albanese (note for, not against). Their fellow South Australian Don Farrell, however, is the “godfather” of the caucus with control of the votes that could end Albanese’s premiership, such as it is.
An uplifter for those suffering from Wong dysphoria.
Remember, every day xe will look at the shitshow that is the Handsome Boy Government, suffer a little more in her jocks, and think ‘How different it all would have been if I’d been in the right house to be PM…’
Trivial, tawdry – but it helps me through the day like McWilliams Dry Sherry.
With the Epstein list and Prince Andrew back, you’d think there would be someone in the Australian media game to bring up the fleeting appearance in a photograph of Ghislaine waving tatas to the Prince of a certain former PM’s daughter. But nary a mention. What if it was a young Ms Abbott ?
Unelectable in the Reps.
I think Wong is one of the faceless men…
“The Wong chap” is the preferred label, thank you.
McWilliams Sherry isn’t the same since the failure, buyout and restructure.
The Cream Apera is lifeless. The family recipe for chicken stuffing will never be the same again.
“…and I’ll never have that recipe, AGAAAAAIIN!”
Nothing stops her winning a caucus ballot and being parachuted into some squishy lemming’s safe lower house seat.
Nothing but the chances she fancies herself of winning the caucus vote.
For the record I said Wong was the scariest pollie, not the most dangerous. She could freeze the bollocks of a statue with a glance. The most dangerous is Bowen.
Ghislaine’s twins were are good as the AT&T girl who has been stanned into an anime MILF by thirsty SIMPs online.
Given that there are many travelling Cats, anyone got a recommendation for travel insurance for an entire year?
We are overseas around 4-6 times annually now – 1Cover used to offer a year-long cover but it stopped with Covid. That effectively means the insurance has tripled in price, with a separate policy for each trip.
MSM…..airport workers ” frantically ” searching for lost bag. Tokyo plane crash involved a ” fiery ” blaze.
Interesting to do a search of media outlets on the resignation of the Harvard president.
The SMH has a story heavily drawn from race-baiters like Sharpton.
If you type “Gay” into the ABC search bar you get a lot of results, but none related to the demise of the Harvard prez.
I didn’t know there was such a thing.
Quite a few stars would have to align for that to be possible.
For starters, the only other seat Labor’s Left holds in Adelaide is Mark Butler’s and I doubt the Right would be willing to sacrifice one of theirs to further Penny Wong’s agendas.
Apologies if its been mentioned but the news items about Bill Clinton reminded me of the discovery in Epstein’s study of the painting of Bill in a blue cocktail dress with red heels.
The rich and powerful certainly do things differently.
delete other
Not my problem, the village owner is paying for it and says he will break even, especially this year when our power agreement ( there are 8 current villages, + 1 just started, + another 2 in planning/ approvals) going expires and our prices double. It is intended to power the country club and community facilities( heated swimming pool x2, sauna, machinery of craft group and men’s shed, lights for undercover bowling green etc etc) and if anything is left over, will power us at night. I have part of it in my garage, but about half way through the village build, they decided to build a seperate battery bank, rather than install a battery in every house.
ATM I am drawing from the battery at night. Our extra has come from the fact that the inverter is limited to 3kw, and if anything I draw above that comes from the grid, rather than the 6.6kw on the roof.Also, because of the way the inverter works when a major appliance needs to draw power, it takes the inverter a little while to realise it can draw more power from the roof, so for a minute or so the difference comes from the grid, ie if I am drawing a base 300w, and the dishwasher is turned on (draws say 1kw initially), the inverter will draw the constant 300w, then hit the grid for 1kw for a minute or so, then draw the 1kw from the roof.
When the community battery goes in, the inverter will be more responsive as we will constantly be exporting whatever is on the roof. The battery will manage, what if any power gets fed back to the grid.
As we do not own the panels or the battery(ies) we do not get any feed in tariff.
Dennis Moore?
As in
Full Monty Python skit. Go to 8:08 for the above.
Chris Bowen’s business model.
Poor taste but I think it is hilarious.
From the Hun.
What’s the doctrine of Islam which says lying to unbelievers is acceptable?
HCF covered our daughter when she was in the US for a year. Some time ago now however.
Yep, Radelaide is too small to warehouse too many of these troughers. No room for kd at the inn. And they certainly can’t risk her with voters.
Long may she reign.
Princess Mary and Prince Frederik’s new royal titles revealed days after Queen Margrethe’s surprise abdication (Sky, 3 Jan)
There you go: meet a guy in a Sydney pub and before you know it you’re Queen of Denmark.
Call me crazy but I can see Wong winning a Teal or Kaffiyehised seat like Werriwa.
Fixed it for you.
Albo, c’mon, if you keep telling porkies like this you’ll be able to fly to Davos this month in a basket carried by flying swine.
Albanese government claims top priority for 2024 is to provide cost of living relief (Sky, 3 Jan)
I wonder if he’s fool enough to actually believe what he’s saying? No one else does.
Hypothetically perhaps, but the ALP is pretty much siloed at state level.
Thank god for the checks and balances we have in Australia!
Hi, my names Frederik, what’s yours?”
“Mary. What do you do for a crust?”
“Well, actually I’m Crown Prince of Denmark.”
“Pull the other one, mate.”
Winston Smith
Jan 3, 2024 11:14 AM
“At least everyone who enrols at Harvard from now on will know that it’s a fraudulent place and their degrees are just photocopied membership cards.”
So we can expect a flood of plagiarised theses. Will that be an optional topic?
In 1993, I was working in Liverpool Hospital. Had just gotten out of the army and moving company delivered with my other furnishings, a box most likely from another discharged service member. Inside it were several items indicating a Man Cave collection. Several Service shields, a grey beret – can’t remember if it had a badge, and multiple other memorabilia.
I contacted the moving company to find out whose they were. I knew they weren’t mine and I was just wondering – a very long shot wonder – if the owner had caught up with what were obviously important mementos.
Why would someone not return a baggy green bag? Money? Bullshit bragging rights at the pub?
People are odd.
Taqiyya.
calli
Jan 3, 2024 8:22 AM
In other news, a remarkable story unfolded last night.
You buckle up, have a quick squiz at the evacuation sheet and that’s that. No one ever expects they’ll be using that inflatable slide (incidentally developed in Australia).
Tragic for the coast guard plane passengers, off to deliver earthquake aid. All perished, except the pilot now critical in hospital.
calli,
what stood out from that article was the discpline of the Japanese people with respect to leaving carry on luggage behind, vs photos of I seen of American & South American passengers out of Airport Aircraft Evacuations with all their carry on luggage with them
When we were designing interface to a JAL Check-in System, we were told we could
pre-allocate luggage for Groups as only 1 piece per Customer – and always at Narita & Haneda, Japanese people would only have 1 wheeled suitcase
Paul Hayes, director of air safety at UK-based aviation consultancy Ascend by Cirium, noted that no-one leaving the plane appeared to be carrying hand luggage – safety agencies have warned for years that pausing to collect carry-on bags during an evacuation risks lives.
“The cabin crew must have done an excellent job… It was a miracle that all the passengers got off,” he said.
The aircraft’s in-flight announcement system did not work during the evacuation, so crew members used megaphones to give instructions, Japan Airlines said in a statement.
Thank you, Tom. Does anyone see this rooster admitting he may ever pose any threat, ever again?
Filed under “going real good”…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-climate-group-quietly-training-judges-handling-global-warming-cases
Ah yes. Special interest groups coaching judges.
I give up! This was a cryptic crossword clue, right? 😉
/oldfart
Top Ender
Jan 3, 2024 10:41 AM
Given that there are many travelling Cats, anyone got a recommendation for travel insurance for an entire year?
We are overseas around 4-6 times annually now – 1Cover used to offer a year-long cover but it stopped with Covid. That effectively means the insurance has tripled in price, with a separate policy for each trip.
My Company used Cover More Annual Multi Trip in the 90s & 00s and I see they still have the option
Annual Multi-Trip
This policy can cover Australian residents for any number of trips (up to a maximum duration) within a 12-month period.
Look up how cosy Ghislaine was with Steve Job’s widow (owner of The Atlantic).
Somehow the same gal pictured has made this relevant again in 2024.
https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/att-girl-lily-adams-milana-vayntrub-sexual-harassment.html
“Don’t look bois, but let Mommy take care of you”
I noticed he didn’t recant from Islam, convert to Christianity or become a guru, Shinto priest or Confucian monk. So I am a tad sceptical of his claim to be harmless.
Dropping Imam-ul-Haq for some kid who is out second ball? Interesting tactic.
JohnJJJ
The concept of registering and approving members of one religion will die on the Parliament floor.
The wails of ‘Islamophobia’ will see to it.
On the other hand, to be ‘fair’ all religious speakers will have to be registered and approved by the government.
Is that what you really want?
So how did other nations deal with this?
I wonder if Benbrika retains his Algerian citizenship?
If so, why is he still here?
Multi trip insurance. In the past I went for Medibank – only interested in medical but it has increased enormously. I am researching it over next few days