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Every year this circus continues condemns our weakness in not standing up to this anti-scientific scam 30 years ago. Hear…
communists and islamists a love story
Or Shakespeare.
‘Half the world just walked out’: COP29 climate talks on verge of collapse …jet-set envoys of a cabal of “poor”…
‘Giant’ predator worms more than half a billion years old discovered in North Greenland
High-End Brothel Frequented by Military Officers, Politicians Believed to be ‘Honeypot’ Scheme by China, Russia, South Korea
Has anyone else noticed that Sharri is about to take Chris Kenny’s 8pm spot?
I wonder why?
Honeypot High End Brothel? Sounds good, but is it affordable? We need rub& tug Albo to advise.
I have made a couple of comments at the Oz pointing out that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar El largo, both rejected.
Apparently anything that puts Trump in a good light is forbidden at the Oz.
The Chinese are now taking five years, and are aiming to get it down to 4 years, at a very reasonable cost too ($2000/kW).
Maybe Albo could send Wong to find out how they do it.
Sewer rat comes to mind.
I’m not sure which Clinton is being referred to. 🙂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12923589/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-released.html
Mk50, eh?
I remember when I was (apparently) Mk50 for a couple of years.
Vale, egg_roomba.
Pardon me if I am a little underwhelmed by the breathless announcement of ????? ????????? ????? of Legionnaires disease, in Sydney, by the recently empowered would be health fascists. Add this to the growing list of health scares used by these jackbooted wonderkind to retain relevance. Monkey Pox, anyone. Japanese encephalitis? I should have kept a diary. Unfortunately they are ably supported in this endeavour by the majority of my fellow citizens who now expect ??? ???’???? keep them in perfect health in tandem with its already arduous duty of maintaining a thermostat on the earth’s temperature and generally making sure that everyone is comfortable. HG Wells went far too far ahead to find the Eloi. They are with us now.
First I’ve heard of the idea, Bungonia Bee.
Markson’s current 5pm slot is the only show in Sky’s evening format that sets out to break news stories and therefore set the agenda for the coming 24 hours.
Kenny’s 8pm slot, by comparison, is a low-rating graveyard shift.
I’d be surprised if Markson was shifted to 8pm when her 5pm ratings often put her in the No.3 spot after Peta Credlin (6pm) and Blot (7pm).
Seconded !
Chris Kenny insulted a huge swathe of his audience by promoting the Voice that by December he had no audiences left. Let’s see what Sharri can do with that time slot. Chris Kenny can join the ABC since he was on their wavelength all those tedious months.
Hmmm. Strange goings on at the Cat. In my previous, my text embellishments (UNICODE) were accepted in the posting panel and displayed correctly but rejected in the published post and replaced with “?????’. Works on any other blog that I post on.
Kenny’s poor ratings must have depressed Paul Murray’s numbers as well so I expect a well-rated program before PM could lift both.
I never go to the Oz website, but for years people have been claiming lefties have taken over the moderation.
I used to frequent the old Andrew Bolt blog (before it went behind a paywall), and often commented there.
It used to mystify me why sometimes my comments supporting Bolt were banned, while others quite harsh with him weren’t; I reckon lefties had even infiltrated moderation there.
Remember Fraser Anning? Here is his essay on the gutlessness of the conservative governments in Australia the bastard whitlam fuked Australia. Anning’s point is that not one conservative government turned around whitlam’s commie agenda and in fact endorsed them.
Tom,
Bee is correct. The change of line-up was announced via Sky, on the weekend.
Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice
Look at the mug on the bitch; imagine that heading towards your groin.
Thanks, Pogria.
For me, it’s a mystifying decision.
Those 500,000 consumption units are paid for by us. Mostly unproductive in their lifetime. We don’t need just about anyone. We don’t need to import bum wipers. Dolebludgers going hungry may encourage bum wiping, especially their own. Paying money to people to sit their arse is a failure of every western country.
Here’s an idea, you both piss off to an old thread together and show some respect for everyone else here. It’s bad enough having posts on cricket without your squabbling. All my own words no citation needed.
You know the world is sick, particularly when two people have been charged and gaoled for trafficking minors and nobody wants to know who they were trafficked for/to.
Two other (random) thoughts come to mind…
1 – Why did Epstein buy an island and not some ranch in the middle of nowhere. Well, that’s easy… no escape from an island and nobody can spy on you. It was, literally, a gaol.
2. Maxwell must have a “get out of gaol card” given she hasn’t turned up dead yet. What is it? It can only be a guarantee that info would get released if anything happened to her!
I’ve just seen the latest run of the GFS forecast model which basically shows a continuation of monsoon conditions for eastern states over the next two weeks.
El Nino shuffle
It pertains to conditions eight years ago but even more so this time round.
Tom,
I was sort of surprised when I heard it. Unfortunately, because of almost non-stop storm activity over the past week, I haven’t been able to watch much Sky. Being regional, I don’t have to subscribe, but, being very regional, my aerial often isn’t up to the task.
sigh… 😀
Barack Obama School for Social Justice?
What a sick joke.
Aboriginal culture allowed trafficking minors for two green cans* at certain river crossings in the North. And its morally superior to whitey. Ask the son of a sainted former Prime Minister.
*1981 prices, inflation operates differently for in-kind transactions I expect.
Austfailure.
A land girt by sea, with a government induced fish shortage.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-04/fish-and-chip-menus-diversify-seafood-shortage/103281092
If only there was a hint, a clue, of any sort, about how this might be resolved..
But the twin headwinds of dwindling supply and rising industry costs are threatening the viability of some local fish and chip shops.
To combat industry pressures from commercial fishing bans and the cost-of-living crisis, some businesses have resorted to diversifying their menus to include non-seafood dishes.
…
Ms Fitzgerald said the reduction of fresh, local seafood from the fishing regulation changes, particularly the gillnet ban in Queensland, was turning her business into a cafe, rather than a fish and chip shop.
..
Nope, Ive got nothing except gerbil worming…
The tender acid spewing barbed white hot cock of government, “helping” the plebs to eat only the finest bespoke seafood, or imported Chinese sewer ling.
RacerX,
Dover very kindly set up a stoush thread. It didn’t work for long because Danny De Vito prefers a larger audience. 😀
A global movement called the Free Speech Union has been formed and has members in a number of countries. It has now been established in Australia & is seeking members here. Salvatore Babones, the conservative sociologist and political commentator for The Spectator, Quadrant and other publications, is promoting a membership drive.
https://freespeechunion.au/aboutus.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
For the guests, certainly. You had to buy the ‘get out of gaol’ card.
He actually did own both!
Possibly family reasons. I think her oldest is starting school this year, so 5pm would be awkward.
Finished watching Midway (the recent version, not the one with Charlton Heston) today. Not bad, stuck reasonably close to the story, though it centered around the Enterprise, and actions by aircraft from other carriers might have been ascribed to her.
The CGI was good, the scene with Doolittle’s B-25 taking off from Hornet through a breaking swell was impressive. However, there seemed to be far too many aircraft in most scenes, and the AA fire was denser than the USN was putting up at Okinawa.
The biggest surprise was how well Woody Harrelson played Nimitz. Many of the other actors were largely unknown to me, but most performed their roles well. The actor who played the codebreaker, Rochefort, did the job well, complete with smoking jacket and slippers.
I’ve always thought that Kenny has one of the best shows on Sky. Yes he went off the reservation with the Voice but apart from that he’s very solid and very informative. Probably too much to ask that they put him in the 9.00pm slot and get rid of Murray.
LOL, he did too as well as a house in Florida and the enormous townhouse in NYC. The NYC pad is 45,000 sq feet, which I read was bought by an Australian dude who worked for Goldies. Went for $45 million and he’s renovating!
JC:
You’re demented.
Get some help and stop inflicting yourself on us.
Very interesting.
not all sunshine and roses in Iran.
If the isis in Iran story is true, it’s same old same old.
Your brand is inferior, that makes you an infidel.
Rochefort’s treatment was a disgrace. Nimitz’s nomination for a decoration was rejected by Admiral King, who objected to Rochefort’s smoking jacket and slippers…
Australi is an energy rich country only held back by scum politicians with a support crew of stupid lazy voters. We should have our own nuclear industry from yellowcake mining to end of life waste storage in old underground mines. I notice Handsome boy Luigi doesn’t mind Airbusing off to all those countries that have nuclear industries and store their own waste. Isn’t he frightened something might happen (cue Ooga Booga music). Oh sorry, its only bad in Australia. Effing effing effing useless effing Labor mongs, the most useless cretins to walk the earth. Where’s an icepick when you need one.
I think the fact that Chris Kenny was Chief of Staff to His Lord Waffleworth says a lot.
The change doesn’t make sense to me unless Sharri Markson has requested it to give her more daylight hours with her new son (who she’s apparently training to be a vegetarian — FMD). Markson was regularly absent from her 5pm slot in the first half of 2023.
PS: Paul Murray’s 9pm show regularly won the weeknight Sky News ratings last year.
BJ, I wouldn’t have thought Harrelson could turn out to be such a good actor when we first saw him in Cheers.
I loved him as the weirdo sitting on the Yellowstone volcano in 2012. And the Highwaymen performance was good too.
Delta:
The pair – Sancho and JC were hunting for a fight last night with just about anyone, and restarted this morning.
Salvatore reacted to the sustained innuendo.
More rockets on their way to Ashkelon as we speak…
Humbarse… never tire of taking a beating.
The Oz headline about Epstein doing its best to implicate Trump. Not backed up by any evidence.
I disagree. I feel we have corporate, unions, education AND the Public Sector all set up to exploit the country for the benefit of incumbents.
The scum politicians are key to setting up incentives that direct the wealth earned by miners, farmers, builders, tradies to the looter industries.
IS appeared in Iraq. They appeared in Syria. They appeared in Yemen. Always against Iranian-allied forces.
Which raises a timely reminder of a little red car with a limp man being held up by two other mystery men (as seen from the sleeper cab of a passing semi-trailer).
Of course, the story wouldn’t be complete without the junkie ex-lawyer and jailbird (hi Wodney) promising “big breakthrough soon”.
That was four years ago.
Did anyone know there was a Palestinian Christians group in Oz? Neither did I. Find it hard to believe Palestinian Christians, if there is such a thing, would be on the Anti Israel-Free Palestine bandwagon.
The Quntus hostie is using them to “help” her fight back. Lol
King was a hard man. His daughter described him as the most even-tempered man she ever met – he was always in a towering rage!
Still, Rochefort will be remembered long after King is forgotten.
Re getting comments published at the Oz, I reckon they have the B team (actually D but the editors gotta be nice to get them to do it) on over the Well Earned Break period.
Last week they managed to have the same day – Tuesday – on the front page masthead (26 and 27 Dec) of the print edition.
The comment moderators are likely new hires all under 30 with the usual woke ideas.
ZK2A – Jan 3, 2024 11:29 PM
Thanks Squire – here’s another re-interpretation … 🙂
Steady on, champ.
From Jan, 2019, but still relevant and worth reading.
You don’t have to look far to find “anti-Zionist” Christians. They’re as blind to the dead and mutilated of Israel as they are to those in Nigeria.
That was the surprise to me also. From light comedy to a serious role in a couple of easy steps. His interactions with the Fleet Intelligence Officer were done well.
ACT Human Rights Commission pushes dying laws for youth and those who can’t consent
By Marilyn Rodrigues – January 4, 2024
Busy day for Head Perfect and his No 2.
qantas counselled flagged staff
Exactly Dover.
Isismossad have been around for 1400 years.
Now teaching your kids…and we wonder why modern youth lack resilience:
A Queensland teacher who is a nervous driver has failed in her bid to avoid transfer to a new school about 15 km drive from her inner-city home.
Beth Davies took her case to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission after the Department of Education’s metro north HR director Lisa Newbold, told her on November 3 last year that she must move from Indooroopilly State School to Durack State School to start on January 18 which will increase her current six minute commute.
Ms Davies argued she gets anxious when driving on motorways, highways or changing lanes at high speed.
Part-way through her appeal in the QIRC, Ms Davies expanded her claims of anxiety of motorways and highways to a fear of a “large, busy and fast roundabout”, on her driving route to Durack State School.
But in her decision handed down on December 20, Industrial Commissioner Samantha Pidgeon ruled that this was an 11th hour point not previously raised by Ms Davies in her submissions until the education department submitted that there are alternate routes to Durack State School that do not require her to drive on a motorway or highway.
“I understand that Ms Davies has a preference to work in a school within a 10-minute drive from her home and in her request for review, suggested that a suitable alternative is Toowong State School, which is within a 10-minute drive of her home,” Ms Pidgeon stated in her decision.
“I am certain there are many people who would prefer such a short commute time and to avoid busy roads. However, the Teacher Review Panel and Ms Newbold are guided by … reasonable travel time is stated to be ‘of up to 50 minutes driving time from a teachers’ place of residence’,” she noted.
Ms Pidgeon did not reveal the name of the suburb where Ms Davies lives.
Courier-Mail
Taken the youngest lad to the go karts in Bendigo. Impressive set up, arcade games, Dance Hero, laser tag. Was his birfdy yesterday Tuesday so this was the only time I could book. Recommended to all and sundry.
Didn’t he score a country estate in Ohio (?) from Les Wexler as well?
Rumour was Epstein engaged in gay sex with Wexler and blackmailed him.
King was also described as loving himself, the United States Navy, and hard liquor – not necessarily in that order, but yes, Rochefort will be remembered long after King is forgotten.
I asked a question on reddit AusFinance regarding a condition of release supported on writing from APRA for very large superannuation balances (being against the objects of the Act) and my god the APS and ALP/GRN voting ticket clipping suburban accountants are angry!
I might be wrong but they can’t say why I’m wrong.
A gem coughed up by these rabid rat-men:
“Super is not a place to accumulate wealth!”
When pushed by Spruance to provide a firm prediction, the FIO responded “The Japanese will attack at 0800 on 4 June, from 175 miles to the north-west on a bearing of 325 degrees”.
When Nimitz received the first report of the attack on Midway, he announced to the Ops Room that the attack came from 180 miles out, on a bearing of 320 degrees. Harrelson (as Nimitz) looked at his watch and said to the FIO “You were five miles out, and five degrees off (looked at his watch) and five minutes off”. The FIO “We’ll try to do better next time sir.”
There was no innuendo.
We were pointing out that many who were (rightfully) getting stuck into the the Harvard CEO for plagiarism thought it was no biggy when Mk50 lifted and entire article from American Thinker and posted it verbatim as his own work on the Old Cat.
Speaking of Old Cats, go feed Areff’s pussy.
TE…
I got called up for jury duty and one young lady got selected. The judge has to ask “do you have any reason why you can’t be on the jury?”
The first selectee said “I own a business and will go under if I miss a day’s trade.” The judge said “bad luck, this is your civil duty.”
The next called was a young wee Asian bird who answered “I get anxiety when under pressure.” Yup, she was let go by the judge.
Being male, white and dressed in a fine suit, I didn’t even get a second look from the lawyers doing the picking (my strategy worked lol!)…
For me, it’s a mystifying decision.
I think Sharri is too popular to sit at 05:00PM when the audience is smaller.
Kenny dropped huge numbers with his insane stance on the InVoice. He’s regained some cred with his stance on Israel/Hamas but bridges have been burned.
Sharri deserves the better timeslot.
US Tax Dollars helped Hamas hide their October 7 planning from Israel’s Intelligence Serivces.
A very interesting and frightening read via Red State.
civic duty!!!
The only other actor whose name I recognised was Randy Quaid as Bull Halsey. He didn’t get to repeat Halsey’s comment when he brought Enterprise into the harbor on the afternoon of Pearl Harbor that “When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell.”
I just got the call up after supposedly being given a lifetime exemption after being on a jury for a particularly messy case a while back.
Suit … check.
Anxiety tablets … check.
Put simply, your words are your words. If they are not actually your words and you market them as your words, it’s dishonest.
This is regardless of where or when those words are put up, or by who, or what position (if any) that person holds. There cannot be any delineation.
It really is as simple as that.
I was told “Turn up in your best suit, with a unit tie or a regimental blazer. Defence lawyers don’t want ex – servicemen on the jury – they tend to believe the accused must be guilty, or he wouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.”
Technically he is correct, it is intended as a life time savings vehicle. Arrive with nothing, leave with nothing. Unfortunately the general taxation regime encourages people to use whatever structures are available to them – and super is always near the top of the list.
If he’s right then I’m right under s 3 and s 62(1)(b)(v) of the SIS Act and I haven’t looked at SMSF yet.
Then again, tell everyone who wants to retire after a successful career that they shouldn’t be accumulating wealth.
You’d get lynched.
Lol Sancho…. good luck!
Anyone willing to buy $30K shoes doesn’t deserve a refund after finding out they’re fake!
https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/no-refund-for-melbourne-man-who-bought-fake-nikes-from-teen-for-30000-c-13112856
I haven’t seen the film. Did they go into the issue of John Waldron leading the doomed Torpedo Eight off where he deduced the Japanese to be?
What happens to a US Judge who strays from the progressive line regarding sentencing scum.
I hope she’s okay. The film is brutal.
A gem coughed up by these rabid rat-men:
“Super is not a place to accumulate wealth!”
Spoken like a Pubic serpent on the gold plated taxpayer teat pension scheme…
Definitely not the way to go when you’re trying to convince the judge that you’re worth another chance!
He’ll have the book thrown at him now.
Bourne1879
2013, but JC keeps bringing it up despite DB asking that old scabs not be picked over. Then JC complains if someone else does the same thing.
I am friends with some older, retired, WA Public Serpents, they’re conservatives all of them and nice enough… I can’t pretend to like their former field of work!
Most of them are on this WA “Gold State” super scheme. It is their salary, annually indexed.
Apparently the WA govt finally woke up in 2005 and realised how much it was gonna cost but they couldn’t amend the Ts and Cs for those already on it!!! :O
At uni once I was summoned for jury duty, I wrote back that I was in the Army Reserve and could be called at any time (ok yes this was BS, but I never heard anything back so it worked).
The fun thing is more than forty years later I’ve never since been called. It’s got to be because I accidentally revealed my hairy neanderthal inner self, I can’t think of any other reason.
“bad luck, this is your civil duty.”
Says a well-paid judge to a small business person who may suffer very badly by being on jury duty.
GreyRanga, IIRC it was Howard who passed the nuclear ban legislation, amongst his other sins.
Being self employed is an exemption from jury duty in Queensland. This is not on the piece of paper they send you but is there on line when you look. Bastards.
Old Ozzie:
I wonder if there will be a seat for AA on the Qantas Board when he leaves politics?
Well, Fatty Trump is a notorious insurrectionist, as has been adjudged by various top quality legislatures … 😕
100% spot on Winston!!! Imagine the money he’s made them/saved them.
It’s enough to make you want to get on down to Glibya! 😕
That is written as if to say the Houthis have attacked ships not linked/heading to Israel, which I don’t believe they have as yet
Superannuation has been open to various rorts and wrinkles over the years. A friend went back to work at the ATO and found she was able to rejoin the defined benefit fund she joined as a graduate solicitor with the Cth AG in the 80s. Her husband is a barrister and it was more tax effective to retire and have a low marginal rate to wash income through than to remain employed. I think they are doing OK.
I just learned that chinese consumers spent $3 bill. US buying DURIAN, the fruit, from asian suppliers in 2022. Chinese consumers paid up to $115 a fruit for first of the season pick. 2023 figures are not in yet.
Dot
Dot, this is a blog. It’s NOT a Court of Law. I would suggest until the rules of betting are regularised by the owner, that the appearance of a bet is sufficient for that bet to have been made.
How will they get Trump if he wasn’t flying Lolita Air?
You know that means I am owed 30k AUD in sterling silver coins, right?
Not sure what happens to exported durian, but the fruits on sale in the Chinese shops in Sunnybank have no noticeable smell. Unlike the highly prized fruit available in, say, Malaysia, which to my uneducated nose smells like week old roadkill.
Liability Bob, because I know you’re lurking:
I bet you one BILLION dollars that your story about the indig former serving soldier was refused service at a Melbourne pub in the 90s, while surrounding by other former serving soldiers, and based solely on his race is bullshit.
…
Winner winner chicken dinner!
I was sitting on a wall at the beach on NY Day. The fellow beside me started chatting. He was a Christian Leb from Strathfield. I know nothing about NSW politics but I thought that he said some interesting things, but I was surprised that he introduced himself with his ethnicity.
He claimed that Sydney Jews were copping what Leb Christians have been suffering for decades. I don’t think that he was an antisemite.
NSW Plod used to protect them but now are aligned with the Mussies. This occurred under a Liberal Government.
The Christian right’s power in the Libs has evaporated since the rise of the Moderates.
When I asked about Bourke and Bowen he said that they were genuinely fearful of the Labor/Mussie front. Threatening activity is now commonplace.
He forecast violence, but iof course he would I guess.
Sydneysiders will know if any of this makes sense.
Crikkit post, for RacerX;
Renegades opener and Jaapie international Quinton de Kock was just struck while opening the batting.
In the Kock.
Dr Faustus
Jan 4, 2024 7:15 PM….the best I know is that no ‘aroma’ means its not ripe.
A wonderful day, thanks J.C. with another of your pathetic blog versions of “Let’s you and him fight”, with the usual Sancho Panzer in a modest supporting role.
Have you got that shit off your liver yet?
I wore a suit with RNSWR pin on the collar, and a battalion tie and polished shoes. Lawyer for the accused took one look and challenged me.
Haven’t been called for duty for the 40 years since.
During durian season in Indonesia hotels put up signs banning people taking them into the premises. Smell is awful, taste not so bad.
Yemens top website…
(after #ratemygoat.com)
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
Looks like they still have the blank bit near Somalia.
I liked it.
While drawing in CGI they did not use it to make fantastical (and improbable) scenes but more to do well the special effects that you know the old movies tried or wanted to show – like Zeros stranding between the ships in Pearl Harbo
ur, or how violent explosions were, or how real aerodynamic planes moved.They showed how, even though a great victory for the US, it was more expensive than it needed to be because of faulty torpedoes the US went to war with and the horrific toll they paid simply flying into fire from the Japanese ships. Outdated plains and dutiful crews. It had its tragedy too.
Only thing that annoyed me – when making the movie they seem to have had no idea that starch was a thing. Everybody’s uniforms seem to have been made wrinkled.
That scene with the flight deck guy hopping into a parked plane to fire on (and deflect) a Japanese plane planning to crash into the Enterprise – they debated long and hard about including. Not that it was far fetched – it actually happened – but because they thought modern audiences would not believe it. And apparently there were more remarkable feats excluded because they were even more astounding – heroism so astonishing that modern audiences would dismiss it as impossible fancy.
Bloke wearing make up and a wig shouting “It’s Ma’am!” to a hapless barista, on the other hand, is the current measure of ‘stunning’ and ‘brave’.
rosie
These people lie. They lie without reasoning why they are lying, it’s just reflexive with them.
Ditto in hotels in Malaysia, and on the cruise ships.
The Reddit cucks are exhausted.
Their brains are hyper focused on ticket clipping, DBSs & punishing wealth accumulation.
Superlative rat-men, ogres, goblins and orcs. Covetous ubermensch, crabs in a bucket.
If I make it to the big time in my SMSF I will see a specialised superannuation lawyer.
Bumrah just struck, Japies 5/87.
Bumrah caught by De Kock would be a fine wicket, pity he’s not on the team.
Auto-corrupt has the vocabulary of a 12 year old.
Short story but true. My wife sent me out to buy some bananas from a local market in Jakarta. She did tell me what sort to buy , but I forgot .I could,nt believe how many different types of banana I could buy so I brought 4 of each variety. She never sent me out alone to buy fruit again.
Academia has strict protocols about how to acknowledge sources.
But even on a blog it is important to not pass work off as your own.
Even Wodney gives proper attribution to Benny Hill for the atrocious jokes he serves up.
Not even gold braid on the sleeve.
None.
Bumrah strikes again with a fine c&b: Sef Efrica 6/103. Five runs ahead with 4 wickets remaining. Not looking like this test will make it to day 3.
What happens to a US Judge who strays from the progressive line regarding sentencing scum.
I hope she’s okay. The film is brutal.
I’ve seen worse in the children’s court back in the day.
Look, I wouldn’t mind if they tightened the rules around preservation and “encouraged” people to spend the lot.
The quid pro quo for the tax concessions is that the old “sole purpose” test is front and centre again.
There are adverts on radio constantly pushing “early access” for all sorts of things … dental implants, IVF for the kids, etcetera, etcetera.
Fascinating to see the vessels way up the Amazon, we’ll be able to track Lizzie in a couple of months!
Bumrah gets another one, edge to gully. Saffies 7/111.
He just might be the best fast bowler in the world, since his average is 22.
Something like three quarters of all torpedoes were faulty, and the United States Bureau of Ordnance refused proper testing, on the grounds of cost….
That’s fine if there is a cost effective mechanism for dealing with the longevity risk. It would be a lot simpler if the date of death was fixed. In the absence of one, people will want to err on the side of caution.
No. Torpedo 6 went in first, and suffered badly. Then Torpedo 8 went in. There was no statement that I heard that all fifteen aircraft were shot down, bur Ensign Gay made an appearance floating clear of his aircraft, and watching the rest of the battle from a front row seat in the water. Nor was there anything about how they got there.
Given the scale of the film, starting at Pearl Harbor on 7 December, and covering quickly the Marshall Islands raid in February (??) 1942, with a few minutes for the Doolittle raid, less for Coral Sea, a lot of detail had to be missed. The sinking of Yorktown was implied, but only shown as a short shot of a burning carrier. Ditto for Lexington at Coral Sea.
That bloke is sperging out. I’m dumb to point out that returns are uncapped and the tax rules are beneficial.
Grate – I’ve just had one of my comments vaporised while barely halfway through typing it up …
Because I hadn’t bothered to turn on the overhead light – this is the future Cats – no electrickery and various appliances existing on batteries charged by sunlight – if we’re lucky enough to be blessed with any, given the last few days in Sydneystan, which should have been “high summer”.
Cats, I really hate hippees … 😡
The only bananas you need are Lilly bananas.
In a previous life I worked in a club which stocked not only Midori liqueur (midori actually means ‘green’, not ’melon’), but also its sibling ‘Lena’.
Where that name came from I do not know.
In Japanese (these were Suntory drinks) ‘yellow’ is kiroi, and ‘banana’ is…well…banana.
But, put a goodly scoop of ice into a glass and pour in this Lena, then sip, you could not help but be snatched back to your child hood and those delicious white-dusted yellow crescents of flavour.
I spent 10 years in Japan trying to reconnect with Redskins – an inspired but forlorn hope.
It’s just possible this India-RSA test match won’t make it to lunch on day 2.
Quite amazing. The bowlers must be stoked.
Stupid media think they are on to something…Coast Guard plane was not cleared for take off ! Of course it wasn’t cleared for take off, it was supposed to be holding short of the runway.
7:56 “it would be a lot simpler if the date of death was fixed”
This is slowly being arranged via euthanasia laws.
Tonight I was reminded of Jeffrey Epstein. I went for a family dinner at an eastern suburbs club, and yes it is “exclusive”. We took my elderly mother, Mum has been a member of the club for over forty years, and my nephew’s a member along with numerous other members of my family. It’s a great place, every time I go people say I should join. Perhaps I should join because according to one or two here I am a “rich bitch”…LOL…I may as well live up to it!
I got up to order food, and I walked past a table which had a reserved sign on it with the name…..”Annita Keating”. I knew Ms Keating was a member, this woman once married to that great gruesome and very hypocritical socialist named Paul Keating, the same ex-PM who now lives in a mansion in Point Piper with his toys, but that’s another story. I have been told that Annita is a nice person and sure, I don’t doubt that but anyway I sat eating my meal contemplating the following….why don’t I go up to Annita and ask her the following question…
“Hi Annita, given the association of your daughter Katherine with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, are you worried about what the new revelations will reveal, or are you certain that your daughter’s name will be hushed up and pushed down a memory hole because her daddy, your ex-husband, is of the left side of politics, a privilege I’m sure would not be accorded to a daughter of John Howard, Tony Abbott or Peter Dutton”?
Well, I didn’t say any of the above because the ex-Mrs Paul Keating did not turn up. The table remained empty and then some other people sat at the table, and I did not spot her.
Driving home I told my mother what I had wanted to do and say and Mum said…”oh no, I’m glad you didn’t do it, you can’t say that”. I said to Mum “you know Mum, once upon a time I would have agreed with you, in fact once upon a time I would never have dreamt of doing such a thing but you know what Mum, we no longer live in civil and decent times, and the people who’ve embarked on this incivility and indecency are the ideologues, are those of the left, and these people will stop at nothing to embarrass their political enemies so you know as well as I do that if this had been a daughter of Tony Abbott, or John Howard, or Scott Morrison, all gloves would have been off and there would have been no respect for any of their families.
Lolly bananas!
Cripes almighty.
Pogria
And yet, it’s no more than happens to some of the victims when the judicial system releases these nutcases back into the streets.
What’s the bet the bloke pleads mental issues and tries to get off the charges?
Lolly bananas, what sick anime stuff gets posted here!
Sydneysiders will know if any of this makes sense.”
I understand completely. And he’s 100% right. All this dhimmitude began under the stupid effing Liberals.
ML
The heroism was on both sides. There was no mention of the Japanese reconnaissance plane sent out to find the US carriers so that Hiryu (the last Japanese carrier) could attack them. The fuel tanks were leaking, there was no hope of returning, but they carried on, found the Yorktown, reported her location, and disappeared into history before the Yorktown was hit (fatally this time) and Hiryu was sunk.
LOL!
Nothing said about concessional tax treatment up to that certain value.
Is that a typo?
Is it any wonder why, FFS? This is not a Hollyweird alpha male, but a soft little boy easily manipulated by toxic feminayzees, such as his hideously evil motherage.
Dune will never be translated to film to anyone’s satisfaction, let alone fans of the original books.
If David Lynch couldn’t do it, then no one can.
P.S. I have never read even so much as a word of any of the books …
Tic toc saying Cate Blanchett mentioned in the Epstein docs.
Probably nothing.
I was not happy when he turned out to be an antisemite.
Unfortunately for 1000 or so PoWs captured in Rabaul, the torpedoes that hit the Montevideo Maru in July 1942 were among the small number that worked properly.
Ensign Gay passed away some time in the mid 1990’s. His body was cremated, and his ashes scattered over that part of the Pacific where Torpedo Eight had gone to it’s doom. He wanted to be reunited with his shipmates…
Black Ball
Jan 4, 2024 6:17 PM
Taken the youngest lad to the go karts in Bendigo. Impressive set up, arcade games, Dance Hero, laser tag. Was his birfdy yesterday Tuesday so this was the only time I could book. Recommended to all and sundry.
I spent a fortune on go karts back in the day. I used to take on a staff member weighing 55kgs … I was 80kg at the time.
I’d gobble her up every time in the braking zone. She was a jet. If there was a weight balance, she knows she would lose.
PS, bureaucratic cowardice is a more likely reason than cost. If testing showed that they were duds, careers would be destroyed.
Videos show his release point is a lot closer to the batsman than others.
There is no exact equivalent for ‘bygone’ in Italian.
Winston Smith
Jan 4, 2024 6:57 PM
I wonder if there will be a seat for AA on the Qantas Board when he leaves politics?
I think there would be such an outcry if that happened, that the Liberals would try to push some legislation banning this practice.
Ho ho ho!
That would mean the Liberals wouldn’t be allowed to do it either.
Dot
Nope, my standard bet – From Trading Places – is one US dollar.
I’m only too pleased to say I despised the man.
Saffie opener Aiden Markram gets a completely ridiculous century, with two sixes and 16 fours, in a test match where getting to twenty would be a notable achievement. Insane game, really bonkers.
Mine is 10k AUD in pre 1943 Australian shillings of middling to very good quality.
Bloody hell, Markram out.
Put the mocker onto him.
Saffies 8/162 leading by 64 runs.
Phrasing, Tickler.
Phrasing.
My finance industry contact (of course) suggested to get a loan against a very, very large superannuation sum. I suppose you’d let them become trustees and agree to pay up on reaching preservation age.
End of the South Africans when Aiden Markram gets out. He is built like a brick shithouse.
Cassie of Sydney:
And yet they’re the first to squawk if their families hit the news, or to accuse the other Party of “Triumphalism” if they win.
MK Strinda – Norwegian flagged tanker carrying a cargo of palm oil from Malaysia to Italy. Hit by a Houthi anti-ship missile on 12 Dec.
M/V Swan Atlantic – Norwegian-owned, carrying vegetable oils to Reunion Island. The ship’s owner, Inventor Chemical Tankers, said in a release there is “no Israeli link in the ownership (Norwegian), technical management (Singapore) of the vessel, nor in any parts of the logistical chain for the cargo transported.” Hit 18 Dec.
So there are at least two examples. There is a reason some of the world’s largest shipping companies are avoiding the area for now. Not having Israeli ties won’t protect you if the Houthis get an itch to make a headline and the good guys aren’t around to stop them.
Sancho Panzer
Jan 4, 2024 8:32 PM
I spent a fortune on go karts back in the day. I used to take on a staff member weighing 55kgs … I was 80kg at the time.
I’d gobble her up every time in the braking zone.
Phrasing, Tickler.
Phrasing.
She was mental!
Sydneysiders…now there’s a term I haven’t heard for a while.
As for introducing himself by his religion and ethnicity, I think he was trying to say he wasn’t a threat.
Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):
‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’
Well, she’d have to be.
I think Boy-Premier called ScoMo a c-nt at the time.
Can you use super as security? You would need to do your homework.
Courier-Mail has been all over it.
The standard you judge with shall be the standard you are judged by.
Boambee John
Jan 4, 2024 8:08 PM
ML
It’s a very unpopular line, but even the enemy is capable of heroism. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t kill them, we should. But recognising the enemy is also human and not necessarily a monster when they obey the rules of war, helps our people remain human after the shooting has stopped.
Sancho Panzer
Jan 4, 2024 8:41 PM
Phrasing, Tickler.
Phrasing.
She was mental!
Well, she’d have to be.
She couldn’t away from me.
“I’ve seen worse in the children’s court back in the day.”
Cohenite,
I remember Children’s Court in the seventies very well. Not me, my younger sister.
So he was half right but not for the reason he thought.
She couldn’t have get away from me
I think I am going to point a claymore mine right in my face.
So long folks, that’s how it goes.
The Blue states are eating themselves.
New Jersey deploys cops to send dumped migrants back to NYC
Do the meja call this latest mediocre premier ‘Dr Miles’?
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: Billionaire Hyatt Hotels Executive Chairman Thomas Pritzker, identified in Epstein documents, allegedly involved in sexual activities with Epstein victim.
“How many times have you had sex with Tom Pritzker?”
“I believe I was with Tom once.”
Thomas is the heir to the Pritzker family, which includes at least 11 billionaires.
Notable members include the Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, and Harvard Board Chair, Penny Pritzker.
The Pritzkers are the main drivers of the whole trans agenda.
Cassie,
something to cheer you up, and something I did not know
Watching
Sir Patrick Stewart hosts this documentary where he spends time with motor sports legend Sir Stirling Moss in order to discover and learn more about the great man and his life.
13 Mins 48 Secs “I had a lot ot problems with Bullying at School – My Name is Moss & they called me a Yid”
I was happy at Clewer Manor, but it all changed when I went to Haileybury, where I was bullied – mainly because my name is Jewish. My mother was a Scot, but my father certainly was partially Jewish.
It was quite nasty verbal bullying, but I never told my parents.
I coped, and I was an insolent little sod anyway.
I remember, once, we boys wanted to complain that we weren’t getting our full ration of butter. The war was on and we were meant to get 2oz each a week – we decided we were only getting half.
A whole group of us went to see the housemaster and somehow I found myself pushed into the room to make the complaint – entirely on my own.
My housemaster wasn’t surprised. He used to call me ‘The Agitator’, because I’d always speak my mind.
The bullying made me very cussed and determined, and being good at sport helped. At that time I didn’t have any real ambitions because it was assumed that I would become a dentist like my father.
Moss was born in London to amateur racing drivers Alfred and Aileen Moss (née Craufurd).[5] His grandfather was Jewish and from a family that changed their surname from Moses to Moss.
Uh-huh.
Sure.
Bumrah gets sixfer, Saffies all out for 176 – the highest innings score so far in this match. To win India has to get 79 runs. Just shy of noon on the second day, seems like they’ll be able to celebrate by tea.
Sympathy for Claudine Gay (booted Harvard president)
Excellent point. Not about Gay necessarily, but a bit of foretelling what is likely to happen when the pendulum swings and society realizes that the woke emperor is indeed naked.
“…that great gruesome and very hypocritical socialist named Paul Keating, the same ex-PM who now lives in a mansion in Point Piper with his toys …
Is that a typo?”
Bear,
typo. It wasn’t “toys”, it was ruff trade. My typo is my deniability. And, to forestall any, “Proof!, Proof!, I will simply say that, there were “trade shows” indulging in “trade practices Act” at an acquaintance’ property in ###### Northern NSW.
Good idea. For most of them their last trip would have been by donkey.
I remember Children’s Court in the seventies very well. Not me, my younger sister.
What was she in for?
My lawyer says I have to go now.
Why is there up to a 400% rise in Unknown Deaths?
Oh look, Burqa burping. I guess the Islamic hate preachers in his own electorate are even too much for him to stomach…
Sheik Ahmed Zoud’s hate rants must stop, says Tony Burke
One of Labor’s most pro-Palestine ministers, Tony Burke, has called on hate preachers in his electorate to face the full force of the law over their radical sermons and said he hoped his own government would soon legislate stronger protections against anti-Semitic hate speech.
Local tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have heightened after two southwest Sydney clerics called Jewish people “monsters” and “descendants of pigs and monkeys”, one within Mr Burke’s Watson electorate, but police have been unable to charge either over the diatribes.
Mr Burke, the Arts and Employment Minister, said he wanted “legal protections” to be used against the clerics and signalled his support for a ban on religious-based hate speech in the Attorney-General’s upcoming draft of a religious discrimination bill, due before July.
“There are legal protections against racist hate speech and I hope they are used,” said Mr Burke, whose electorate encompasses As-Sunnah mosque, where sheik Ahmed Zoud gave a sermon calling Jews “monsters”.
“We don’t yet have legal protections under commonwealth law against hate speech directed against people for their faith. I hope we see that change soon.
“I consistently condemn hate speech in all its forms, (the sheik’s) comments should be rejected without reservation.”
Mr Burke’s condemnation comes after he supported a council in his electorate flying the Palestinian flag, which “represented grief in that community”, and Labor’s backing of a ceasefire at the UN General Assembly. The minister has condemned Hamas and previously urged “everyone to keep the situation in Australia as calm as possible”.
NSW Police confirmed on Thursday that it reviewed the sermon but was unable to proceed further given the parameters of relevant legislation, “and it was ascertained that it did not meet the threshold of any criminal offence”.
NSW criminal provisions outlaw “incitement of violence” on the basis of race and religion, and has civil provisions that outlaw “incitement of contempt or hatred” on the same grounds, although this requires complainants to put forward a case to Anti-Discrimination NSW.
The federal Racial Discrimination Act outlaws similar acts on the basis of race or ethnicity, but not religion.
The NSWaffen Police say that they’re unable to charge the Islamic hate preachers, but the truth is that they are…UNWILLING to charge the Islamic hate preachers.
Bill Clinton is ‘key person’ to Epstein probe because of his close relationship with pedo and Ghislaine, court documents claim – and ‘liked them young’
Claudine Gay, thief
Claudine Gay, erstwhile Harvard University president reliably accused of serial plagiarism, resigned yesterday. It is not a victory. She should have been fired.
Theft of intellectual property, stealing someone else’s words, phrases, style, punctuation and pith, is no mere misappropriation. It ranks amongst the most egregious sins against the civilized world.
Claudine Gay is no mere sloppy pretend scholar mislaying citation note cards.
Claudine Gay is more than a petty thief, or pickpocket.
Not content with grabbing a purse, or a piece of someone else’s luggage at an airport baggage claim carousel, Claudine Gay would erase faces, birth certificates, passports, VIN numbers, and even genetic codes to claim others’ bounty as her own.
An unrepentant plagiarist as the head of the most venerable institution in the Americas, where learning, scholarship, original research, profound insights, examinations, and narratives about the natural world, and mankind’s place in it, have triumphed since the early 17th century, Claudine Gay is a fraudulent purveyor of WH Auden’s “making, knowing, and judging,” unworthy of defense or deference.
Maureen Callahan of the UK Daily Mail provided the money quote:
“If this resignation letter proves anything, it’s that Claudine Gay is an unoriginal thinker, a terrible writer, and a supremely unserious person.
She was never up to this job, because in her mind, her race and gender were reason enough to deserve it.”
Claudine Gay combined sloth, envy, false witness, and theft to commit a crime arguably worse than murder.
Of course, she didn’t kill a man.
But Claudine Gay killed an institution.
Supermarket pricing and power under a spotlight
Sam Kelly, the proprietor of a sprawling beef and lamb property, says retailers need to take their medicine. Soon, an inquiry will determine if they are.
Carrie LaFrenz – Senior reporter
For Sam Kelly, it couldn’t be simpler. “For the past 12 months, farmers around Australia have taken their medicine and supermarkets need to take theirs too,” he says.
And he would. As the proprietor of Red Hill, a sprawling beef and lamb property west of Yass, in NSW, Kelly has seen the price he has received for animals sold at the farmgate slump in a big way.
The supermarkets? Not so much.
While lamb prices have come down over the last eight weeks, Kelly – who runs 500 Angus cows, 10,000 Merino ewes, and 5000 wethers and sells to a range of meat processors – says this should have happened months ago.
“Supermarkets have been able to maintain profits by keeping the same prices but selling less volume when the purchase prices [and other costs] have been reduced significantly,” Kelly says.
“Lambs we sold last year were between $7 and $7.60 per kilogram, and this year about $5.60 per kilogram.
Cows that we sold last year made around $3 to $3.50 per kilogram; this year? $1.80 to $1.90.
“I can tell you what we see at the farmgate and sale yards, and I can tell you what we pay at the supermarket/butcher, and there is a substantial difference in many cases.”
Kelly says this is the reason that farmers have been calling for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate how the red meat industry is functioning.
There have already been two competition regulator inquiries into the supply chains relating to red meat in six years.
Now, there is a Senate inquiry.
The cost of food is an obvious area for scrutiny as household budgets are crunched by rising interest rates.
Theft has spiked, as Coles warned last year, as it often does during economic weakness.
The parliamentary inquiry into grocery prices is being led by Greens senator Nick McKim and is due to publish a report by May.
The chief executives of Woolworths and Coles – the country’s two largest grocery chains – have agreed to appear, and the inquiry will investigate their market power.
The Greens have also raised questions over the levels of profitability amid the cost-of-living crisis. It is the third inquiry to examine supermarkets in the past 12 months.
Senator McKim says he intends to run an inquiry which he hopes will lead to lower food and grocery prices. “We want to understand how it can be that Coles and Woolies are booking up billions in profits when millions of Australians are struggling,” he says.
“For many, life is really difficult at the moment. The … supply chain is racked by lack of transparency.
More transparency would make it easier to understand the pressure points and where the profits are being made.”
There are plenty of factors affecting the price of food, including the impact of climate change and political instability overseas, Senator McKim says, but he believes there is a strong argument that big supermarkets are “using this as cover” for price gouging.
A parliamentary report last May found increasing food prices were a major factor contributing to the cost of living, and supply chain disruptions were a primary driver of increasing prices. However, increased costs, such as fuel, were also contributing to the prices paid by consumers.
The grocery sector is dominated by Coles and Woolworths, with Aldi, the German discount retailer, controlling around 11 per cent and Metcash, a wholesaler with the IGA and Foodland brands, holding some 7 per cent of the market.
Coles’ profit rose 4.8 per cent to $1.10 billion in the last financial year, while Woolworths’ profit rose 4.6 per cent to $1.62 billion.
Among topics Senator McKim’s inquiry is expected to consider is how supermarkets set prices; if the rise of home brand products is concentrating power with the two largest companies; and how technology and automation is being used to cut costs.
Coles says it is working hard to keep prices affordable, and that its costs from construction, energy, logistics and packaging have increased.
“Many suppliers are increasing their prices because they too are dealing with inflationary pressures to produce the products we sell in our supermarkets. All of these factors affect the price customers see at the checkout,” a Coles spokesman says.
Prices at Coles increased by 3.1 per cent in the three months to September 30, compared with a 5.8 per cent rise in the previous quarter. EBIT margins fell from 5 per cent in 2022 to 4.8 per cent last year.
The country’s second-largest grocery chain sources most meat directly from more than 2500 beef and lamb producers, rather than at the sale yard, so Coles says industry market indicators do not reflect the price it pays for beef and lamb.
In August, Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci was forced to defend a 13.7 per cent jump in profit for the 2022-23 financial year, which was supported by an 18.3 per cent gain in food earnings.
But a Woolworths spokesman says the retailer is paying its long-term suppliers more than the industry market indicator for beef, which has increased by some 50 per cent in the last two months.
In addition to livestock prices, there are many other costs involved in delivering quality meat to supermarkets – from feed to processing, manufacturing and supply chain logistics. Many of these costs have been increasing in the last 12 months.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has raised concerns about possible price gouging along the supply chain, while National Farmers’ Federation chief executive Tony Mahar is calling for more transparency in the process.
“We don’t expect consumers to understand the complete supply chain, but we do think consumers should have confidence that there is no price gouging at points across the supply chain and farmers are getting what they deserve,” he says.
“We think there should be more focus on the processing of red meat. So, this inquiry needs to look at the full supply chain. Fresh products coming on shelf, whether it’s oranges, tomatoes or potatoes … this should also be looked at.”
Kelly says recent rains have helped build confidence among producers, but the significantly lower price being paid for his livestock – down 50 per cent – is making it harder to deal with other costs, such as insurance, which have increased over the past two years.
He estimates that it costs about $900 to $1200 per head for a cow he sells to a feedlot. “You could call it price gouging because the supermarkets haven’t reduced prices, at least with what should be a normal market cycle,” he says.
Margins at local supermarkets were, before the COVID-19 pandemic, already some of the highest globally, supported by a lack of competition, a growing population, and consumers prepared to spend more on higher cost, premium products.
Chris Tynan, an analyst at DNR Capital, says margin growth since then has been helped by investment in the supply chain, but also by increasing shelf prices by more than what is paid to suppliers.
“As an industry, it may have gone too far.
The ABS data shows eating out as a percentage of supermarket sales is sitting at all-time highs,” he says. “You would expect to see the opposite as cost-of-living pressures have risen.”
Meh! I don’t begrudge them that. Focussing on both sides means likely not doing justice to either.
A book on the other hand would allow two stories to intertwine in a way that would be confusing in a movie where time is compressed and all you can know is what is said in words with facial expressions – whereas a book is read at the reader’s pace, can be looked back in, and the reader has the privileged insight of a god instead of that of a mere spectator.
Let us leave it to the Japanese, or a Japanese focussed movie, to tell their story.
Or a book that does both.
I think they showed the Japanese as worthy adversaries, as a culture that was internally consistent rather than cartoonish – a culture that valued duty to the point of what we call fatalism, an attachment to elaborate but rigid plans that would give magnificent victories rather than simpler strategies that promise less glamorous outcomes but leave room for local adaptation to events etc.
As it was the Japanese were depicted with great sympathy as Japanese of their time, suffering from their side as much as the Americans as Americans.
It is also why I like the film Letters from Iwo Jima.
“I was not happy when he turned out to be an antisemite.”
Bruce of N,
Mardis Gras Float, “Poofters 4 Palestine”, was a preferred mode of transport.
“What was she in for?”
Cohenite,
under age sex. If fourteen year old girls had sex with fourteen year old boys, the girls were sent to lock-up. Minda, at that time.
“Cassie of Sydney
Jan 4, 2024 9:09 PM
Oh look, Burqa burping. I guess the Islamic hate preachers in his own electorate are even too much for him to stomach…”
Cassie,
I reckon that someone, or somehow, the message that, nothing will save him from being eaten by the crocodile, has finally penetrated that window-licker brain of his.
Pure self-preservation.
I appreciate the sentiment but in a free market the demand determines the price. Farmers are caught in a terrible situation because there are so few buyers so they cannot go elsewhere. The only way they can change the situation is by collectively demanding higher prices by withholding sales. That probably isn’t practical and even if it was the supermarkets will pass on the increases to consumers. Consumers are stuffed and farmers are being screwed.
I can’t see how an inquiry will achieve anything. Obfuscation by arguments about supply chains, increasing labour costs etc will create sufficient ambiguity to prevent any blame being apportioned.
Russia Celebrates New $250 Million Radar System: Hours Later, It’s Blown Up By Ukraine
Their new whiz bag system to target artillery by monitoring trajectory couldn’t protect itself form HIMARs. 200 million dollars blown up hours after deployment. Laughable and there is nothing new about this technology, just another example of Russia trying to catch up to the West. It has been estimated 20% of their aircraft losses are from friendly fire. Friendly fire is inevitable but 20% is outrageous. The West has had IFF(identify friend or foe) for decades and independently of that modern radars can determine the type of aircraft by the radar return signature.
But why has the farmgate/retail price of red meat crashed, yet white meat remains steady? Why the targeted griping about nitrogen and methane? It’s almost like a conspiracy to price the proles out of red cholesterol, and/or send rangeland landholders broke.
*no citation given
Turtlehead, on this very blog you accused me of dobbing in Brian even though you knew it wasn’t true, so don’t go around talking about old scabs, you sad old matron. There was absolutely no reason for you to enter the discussion I was having with the redneck from up north other than to cause more mischief. Go drink some iodine, you pathetic old sheila.
Go tick yourself to demonstrate how popular you are as though we don’t know what you’re up to.