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Mike Baird: The chap who considered the lives of the waitresses held captive inside the Lindt Cafe to be secondary to what western Sydney Muslims “might” think, if the cops went near Man Monis, a crazed gunman (& murder suspect out on bail) who’d taken a dozen random citizens hostage and caused the CBD to be shut down.
Yes. The Campbell reforms were coming down the pipeline of reality, no matter what. Keating has dined off Campbell for 40 years but what he managed to accomplish was only possible because Hawke was popular and the Liberals didn’t stand in the way. Needless to say, that m.o. didn’t work the other way. However much of a robot he was then – and a Teal rat now – Hewson as Opposition Leader was the nearest thing to a Milei we’ve ever had. Did Keating work with him for the greater good? LOL, no. That’s not how Labor rolls.
While the Hawke/Keating (as Treasurer) reforms might well have happened anyway, Hawke clearly led the process.
Keating didn’t lead, he followed fashionable trends.
Howard led with more reforms following on from Hawke, but failed with his weak attempt to buy off the Slime, instead of rolling over them..
Abbott led long enough and effectively enough to become PM, then wasn’t willing to push the party room any further, particularly with Turdballs there blocking the way, and Photios tightening the grip of the NSW machine.
Rudd, Gillard, Turdballs, Morrison and Albanese couldn’t lead a sex maniac to a brothel door.
Dr Faustus,
re your earlier comment about Neri Oxman. Absolutely agree. She has a real Eighties, Pat Benatar vibe about her. If I may say, yummy. 😀
I expect they would have succeeded. It was very much the era of Reaganomics and Thatcherism. Howard had already laid much of the foundations of the banking reform through the Campbell Inquiry as Treasurer. Formed at lot of my B Ec studies (possibly munty’s too – if he hadn’t failed).
Canavan appears to be both decent and effective.
Toughness is not incompatible with decency – I think of the WWII generation.
The problem may be that our culture doesn’t lend itself to producing those types of men anymore and women even less so.
This is cool.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDPCx3DaUAAwSXx?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
Bloody shame. The more RG’s in the ground or or the deep six the better.
Keating proposed a consumption tax as Option C at Hawke’s tax summit, although later opposing Dr John’s Fightback in what may be the crassest political opportunism ever seen. Keating was pretty forward on aboriginal stuff before overcooking the response to Mabo. I wouldn’t say either of these were a case of following the trend.
thefrollickingmole
They say that there’s someone for everyone.
That may be true, but I doubt I’d ever willingly go to where ever that someone goes for shits and giggles.
An outstanding post!
Partition blues are only for the Jews
The tag on the RHS axis should read “Centre” not “Right”. At least two whole columns on the RHS are missing, although Mileists and FPTPers might qualify as actual righties. There’re a whole bunch of Christians for example which would fit in the extra two columns, plus free marketeers, flat taxers and TEA Party types.
The Mail has an article asking should Warner have a statue at the SCG.
There is a poll running at 92% NO! Sweet!
Struggling along through the holiday traffic yesterday reminded me of the insane August traffic in France.
Chugging down the M10 one day we were passed by the usual family of five heading off to their summer holiday crammed into a Cleo.
“How the hell do they go on hols crammed into one of those things”? “Where is their gear” I cried?
“It’s simple”, replied the all knowing one. “Mum and the daughters only pack a makeup bag and a bikini bottom”. Intense study over many years suggests that she is correct.
Black Ball:
In short of your 1018 post, Our political caste of 10% are ruling for themselves – not us.
We, the 90%, don’t matter.
You are right, politics is the wrong path for him. We have seen what he does when in power and he doesn’t seem to have changed at all. He didn’t mention renewables but I think if he were the PM he would go even greener than Bowen. Some people can’t see how their actions can cause such chaos particularly when they mean so well.
In performing a helpful act today, our officer’s motivation was to help keep tensions low
I clicked…I was wondering if it was one of those aliens that were supposed to’ve crash landed.
Congress Expected to Get Details on UFO Crash Retrieval (7 Jan)
RDS sufferer, sounds like. I’m not seeing any signs of this supposed reverse-engineering, unless it extends to weird cute owl plastic surgery.
ICC rejects Khawaja’s appeal against sanctions on his protest.
Reasoning to be released in next few days.
Expect another dummy spit soon.
Melbourne stabber has Greek surname.
Only because the circumstances haven’t required it.
You might but that is all the article alleged.
Here in the gangreen state Greenisbad 7 kms from the CBD I have recorded 3″ of rain today.
Y’know, the stuff that will never fall from the sky again and won’t fill our dams. That is enough Wasser to wash the neighbour’s dog sh1t from the nature strip.
4″ since midnight, 3″ since 8:30am. I am 1 km from a Bureau of Muppets* weather station which will report half of this fall. I am guessing that it will also be the ‘hottest Jan 8 evah’.
* h/t to the poster that coined Bureau of Mythology.
If Hamas has ten thousand or so combat trained children, as is evident from their training programs, do you really think they wouldn’t send them to fight? Of course they are.
Child soldiers are widely used by Islamists. Hamas would be no different.
Fundamentalist Christians and Muslims can’t handle the idea of intelligent ET life as they are flat earthers. It probably exists as the universe is likely of infinite size. Is it here or has it ever been here? I don’t know. You see a lot of comments that alleged sightings are “merely” “demons”.
Then again, if you showed these people an unknown animal, say a Gorilla in 1850, what would they call it? Another kind of demon?
Serious question: do you actually have to pay to drink XXXX?
And that’s precisely the point. If they bore the burden of load shedding but still complained (which of course they would), the normies would be scratching their heads as to why the greens weren’t prepared to make any sacrifices to protect the planet.
You think that this is about persuading people but nobody believes in climate change. Not a single one. The left believes in virtue signalling their way to communism.
All you have to do – all the Right ever had to do – was force leftists to wear the costs of the sacrifices they expect others to make.
Do this, and there won’t be a single leftist anywhere on the planet.
Not one.
Meanwhile, in old Blighty, 400 flood warnings for rivers and streams have been issued.
If that were true, the sky would be infinitely bright.
No.
The universe is dark because of interstellar matter blocking the light.
We did banking as part of macro, I think. Subsequently find it was wrong from the very first lecture. At the time, it was suggested that banks create money out of thin air through the money multiplier. It’s not true, as velocity , monetary expansion always has to come from the central bank. Banks cannot create money. Only central banks can.
Nonsense. The beard was the big tell he’s mid eastern. Huge tell.
Remember the Iran-Iraq war stories of serried ranks of children jabbing the minefield with sticks, around their necks a plastic key to the door of Heaven.
The unrelenting heat and dust go on ….
Relentlessly …
They are training children to be fighters from a very young age.
Of course they are. Nothing is beneath the dregs of humanity, islam. Boko haram did it, isis did it. Islam is scum.
No-one knows, this whole generation only drink woofter IPA or Great Northern.
That’s the problem.
He could go to a function and run into a couple of “far right” types talking about the destruction of our energy infrastructure for the sake of renewballs, and make soothing noises in agreement.
He could then go to the other side of the room to meet a couple of rabid greenies and agree with them that “we need to go faster and further with renewballs”.
Everybody leaves thinking Mike’s a “nice guy”.
Err, what?
That was what I noticed – the ‘improvements’ consisted of more money on things that will soon be vandalised and which do not connect to the problems that infest Aboriginal communities.
It is a wondrous vindication for we ‘No’ votes – the Yes campaign was run by people jostling for positions at the trough. The same strategy had worked for so long: point to the dysfunction, demand the government do something and recommend spending as the solution, let the government which is in a panic because they have no idea about any of it seizes on the proffered solution, take the money and blow it on boondoggles that don’t help the problems then, a few years later, run the scam again. A key part of this racket is that the problem conditions cannot be allowed to improve.
But with the ‘Yes’ campaign, while focussed on the prize so tantalisingly seeming within reach, they let their masks slip. Now everyone sees them for who they really are.
Another thing about “right wingers online” is sometimes they are Muslim Arabs LARPing as white Christian Europeans.
It’s not a coincidence when thousands of “John Smiths” are stridently anti Israeli.
An actual nationalist wouldn’t care because they’ve declared economics as a nothingburger.
Pints are much loved by publicans because of the “delivery per transaction” metric.
Who wants to sit on the dregs of a flat, room temperature, soupy sludge half an hour after it has come out of the tap?
(Standby by for a faux publican rebuttal).
LOL
This week in culture.
I got as far as the 2 queer retards preparing to shock their elderly rellos at Christmas. One is wearing a t-shirt with I come in peace on it. The other smart-arse is wearing a t-shirt with I’m peace on it. How fuking witty.
Anyone who sends a child into modern war deserves a place in hell.
Most nations have voluntarily signed the treaty banning the practice.
Morning shopping today.
– Freightliner Coronado prime mover.
– 600 litre 3PL sprayer – 8 metre boom.
– Moroccan chicken pie from the bakery.
But the point is the JW article wasn’t alleging they were fighters, they were claimed to be messengers and transporters. As to this other point, it wouldn’t surprise me given the history of irregular forces but I’m yet to see it in the videos.
Dr F at 11:38
I suspect that, post the judgement in Lehrrman vs Ten and Others, we will see less of the 11th hour “right of reply” ambush, in Australia at least.
Like Dimitrios Gargazoulos?
manifestly false
Bank can create money via fractional reserve deposits. It is the engine of economic growth (and asset price inflation) since before central banks were even though of
Not too far from the truth there. He has that terrific characteristic of engaging fully when in conversation, focusing on the other person, asking questions, making valid responses that show he has actually listened.
It is so rare in modern life that people can mistake it for actual interest. And in some circumstances it may well be. It’s also a habit that can deceive the unwary. As for Baird, he might be always interested in others, but I doubt it.
More of this week in culture.
That Lauren Boebert is a real piece of work. A few months ago she was caught giving the boyfriend what looked like a hand-job in the theater. Now, she’s punching the ex husband in the face and cops are checking it out.
Here’s a pic of Boebert and the ex. Boebert has a gun in a holster attached to her upper thigh, which of course Cronkite would find extra sexy. The ex is wearing a blue suit and shiny brown tanned shoes, which is an ugly American fashion thing that’s been going for a while. She should’ve taken the gun out and shot him in the head for that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12935823/Lauren-Boebert-cops-FIGHTING-restaurant.html
Who, do you believe is going to rebutt?
Yes, another drug-addled nutter, it would seem.
And I should have written alleged Melbourne stabber, of course.
Pythagoras taking a few short cuts?
boom tish.
War in Ukraine
Military briefing: Russia has the upper hand in electronic warfare with Ukraine
Both Kyiv and Moscow seek to bolster drone jamming capabilities as attacks mount
Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv YESTERDAY
Russia’s record number of aerial attacks on Ukraine over the New Year period has highlighted Kyiv’s struggle to bolster its electronic warfare technology aimed at jamming and diverting enemy drones and guided missiles.
Both sides have invested heavily in systems that can neutralise each other’s drone armies, but Moscow maintains the upper hand as it had already focused on these capabilities before launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.
Ukrainian forces are however trying to catch up.
Mykola Kolesnyk, commander of a Ukrainian drone unit, said electronic warfare (EW) duels with the Russian forces were fierce and relentless. He described them as “invisible scissors that cut off the connection?.?.?.?of a device that is remotely controlled”.
Ukraine and Russia are both using tens of thousands of drones a month.
Both have this year increasingly turned to cheap, commercially available first-person view drones controlled by operators using a head-mounted camera.
“The Russians have been producing so many lately that it’s becoming a huge threat,” said Col Ivan Pavlenko, chief of EW and cyber warfare at Ukraine’s general staff.
“What’s happening here, the massive use of drones, is new?.?.?.?So EW becomes increasingly important.”
Pavlenko called on allies to deliver more capabilities that can “suppress or spoof” the satellite guidance system (GNSS) of Russia’s guided missiles and drones.
“Delivery to Ukraine of a sufficient number of powerful GNSS jammers or at least signal amplifiers could also help counteract enemy air attacks.”
Also, with Russia’s EW systems requiring high-tech components such as amplifiers, synthesisers and software, it was important for western allies to impose sanctions on those components, he said.
The ubiquity of drones on the battlefield is one reason why Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive this year failed to make any significant territorial gains and why the land war is now largely static. Any grouping of tanks or armoured vehicles can be spotted and destroyed within minutes.
Russia has increasingly deployed EW to push off-course Ukraine’s western-supplied, precision-guided munitions, such as Himars rockets and Excalibur artillery shells.
Moscow has also used its EW capabilities to mimic missile and drone launches in order to confuse Ukraine’s air defences and identify their locations, Pavlenko said.
Without EW protection, Ukrainian troops are easy prey for drone-guided artillery strikes, drones dropping bombs and kamikaze strikes by exploding unmanned aerial vehicles.
One Ukrainian soldier bemoaned the lack of EW protection for his unit, which was largely wiped out during weeks of intense bombardment on the eastern front, with Russian drones “hitting us like mosquitoes”.
“What radio-electronic warfare??.?.?. We had none. I don’t even want to recall those days in the trenches. Our boys were falling like flies,” he added.
Gen Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander-in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, warned in November that EW was “the key to victory in the drone war” — and in breaking the deadlock along the frontline.
“We also need more access to electronic intelligence from our allies, including data from assets that collect signals intelligence, and expanded production lines for our anti-drone EW systems within Ukraine and abroad,” he wrote in The Economist.
EW systems come in many shapes and sizes, from radar arrays and truck-mounted transmitter-receivers to pocket-sized devices.
Both sides have rushed to protect troops by erecting makeshift EW systems, which one Ukrainian engineer said volunteers assemble in garages.
Both Russia and Ukraine have maintained strong R&D schools for EW that had been established in Soviet times, but the Russian government has invested heavily in new kit for more than a decade.
“Electronic warfare is an exceedingly important part of modern operations, and the Russians have had a significant advantage in it throughout the war, which has proved a sustained problem for Ukraine,” said Jack Watling, a senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think-tank.
Russia’s Pole-21 guidance suppression system can be stationed on the ground, on towers or mounted on vehicles and can jam an area of 150km, according to a military consultancy report shared with the Financial Times. Another is the Murmansk, which uses vast extendable 32m antenna towers mounted on mobile armoured vehicles.
“The problem is that the Russians are able to field electronic warfare systems across most of the front, down to platoon level in some cases when you’re talking about things like Pole-21,” Watling said.
Still, Ukraine has periodically found weak spots in Russia’s EW and air defences, allowing its drones to strike deep into Russian territory to hit air bases, depots and other targets including the Kremlin itself.
Before it launched long-range missile strikes on Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol earlier this year, Ukrainian commandos on speed boats disabled Russian EW systems mounted on oil platforms.
The Crimean port was one of the most EW-protected locations in the war.
Kyiv, which initially relied on outdated Soviet equipment, says it has improved its EW capabilities thanks to systems produced domestically and supplied by western allies, although the details are kept secret.
Ukraine’s Bukovel system, which can be mounted on vehicles, detects drones, jams their data transmission and can block satellite guidance systems including Russia’s Glonass. Praising its effectiveness, Ukrainian troops have called on the government to produce many more units.
A new Ukrainian system, code-named Pokrova, can, according to some reports, counter missiles by blocking their guidance system.
Pavlenko, from Ukraine’s general staff, said it was crucial for the soon-to-be-delivered F-16 fighter jets provided by western allies to be equipped with modern EW systems, adding that Kyiv was working with allies on this request.
He boasted that Ukraine’s EW systems had been used to capture prized Russian UAVs like the Orlan and had tricked other drones into flying back to Russia.
Pavlenko said Ukraine could be used as an EW laboratory, though he admitted that some western militaries were reluctant to share technology.
“Any sophisticated high-tech equipment has software that can be affected. And this is the future,” Pavlenko said. “This approach is more promising, and where best to test it if not in Ukraine?”
M3 typically is statistically causal to M1. Yes they can create money but it is short-lived without productive activity.
Wonderful.
If anyone says that blue and brown, or blue and green don’t go together, get them too look at a landscape of forests and mountains.
Dot
Then why isn’t outer space warm instead of 2.7 degrees Kelvin?
The US Flag with the Pledge of Allegiance is NOT based, the Pledge of Allegiance was part of a socialist wet dream.
BOO HISS!
Extra manifestly true.
At the most basic, deposits have to come before a loan is made. If not, the bank is technically insolvent. These deposits eventually flow through to the banking system from the central bank. Only then can a bank make a loan. For that to occur, the money supply has to increase in order for deposits to be created in the banking system.
All fractional reserve does is allow banks to take in deposits and make loans stacked up against a much smaller equity base. That’s it and there’s no magic pudding.
Don’t buy into the idea that banks can create money out of thin air because they can’t. They are , however, the first cab off the rank to see a movement in velocity.
Of course they’re fighters. It’s obvious. The only reason they might not be if Hamas is short of rifles and ammunition, which given what we’re seeing is highly unlikely. They had a massive stockpile.
Report: Hamas found with advanced Chinese-made arms (7 Jan)
However Hamas doesn’t want to be fingered for using child soldiers and Israel doesn’t want to be seen shooting child soldiers (which they deserve just as much as any jihadist). But the combat value of those kids is obvious, so both sides have an incentive not to make it public.
Any dead kids with guns are due solely to Hamas and their wretched religion.
M3 is a wider parameter of M1.
No, they cannot create money because at end of day, the liability side has to equal the asset side. If not, the back is broke.
Anyone, can do what a bank does without being called a bank. All they need to do is have a wafer of capital/equity and then borrow and lend through leverage. The only kicker is that you need folks to lend you money. They won’t. Fractional reserve is basically another term for leverage.
Don’t make me do a Dan Pena impersonation.
Bank can create money via fractional reserve deposits
FRDs are actually credit whereby the money held is split and therefore reduced.
It’s all screwed up because of the securitised funding of bank assets. The explanation of the money base increasing is only partially true, it’s out of date.
Men aren’t forests and mountains, Dot. The combo of a blue or even a grey suit and brown shoes should warrant a death notice from the ayatollah. Thankfully, it hasn’t caught on in Australia as much.
You’ve never been to a British pub.
Obviously.
Once again, don’t make do a Dan Pena impersonation!
Dot:
I don’t know who or what a Dan Pena is.
Just tell me why space isn’t warmer than damn near absolute zero.
Here’s a pic of Boebert and the ex. Boebert has a gun in a holster attached to her upper thigh, which of course Cronkite would find extra sexy.
Damn right. In fact here are some cute owls in and out of uniform with guns.
Just tell me why space isn’t warmer than damn near absolute zero.
Absence of matter which is required for the radiation to heat.
CMB is primarily not from stars.
Dan Pena in all of his glory.
Not. Safe. For Work. You. Idiots.
“The Russians think we’re all faggots!”
DAN PEÑA’S GREATEST RANTS – THE TRILOGY
It gets better and better as it goes along.
Cronkite
Can you put this in broad English
Congrats cohenite.
Actual women, who are actually attractive.
The tatts are horrible.
If irregular forces are involved they are already in the midst of war.
Damn you Cohenite, I had Dot on the ropes and you’ve given him a lounge chair to sit on.
Farmer Gez @ 1.33pm
Hey, big spender! Big purchases. Good luck to you. May the seasons be kind.
Carbon offsets of course.
Can you put this in broad English
All my English is broad. Banks led more than they hold. Case in point GFC.
Does it have a floor dunny?
I have been knapsack spraying for five of the Ten Plagues of Egypt on the sweeping lawns of the country estate. I feel I need something a little more mechanised but the 8 metre boom might be overkill.
Let me guess.
Voted #1 Moroccan chicken pie in the country.
Shame, shame on the WSJ running a hit piece on Musk.
All contractors associated with NASA have to undergo random drug testing. According to Musk, neither drugs nor alcohol has been found in his system for years.
In a 100 years they’ll remember Keating for super & Costello for the Future Fund.
Krudd & ScoMo should be remembered for being the financial vandals that they were, but probably won’t.
He’s done a course in “active listening”.
Otherwise known as “pretending to care”.
cohenite
No comment on the glorious specimen of avian glory I posted for you earlier.
The one that traumatised Dot.
Dan Pena was not as harsh as that thing’s face.
But not when they made the loan. The loan was made when the banks were solvent. Trouble began when the value of the loan portfolio fell dramatically, causing bank equity levels to be criticized going forward. This is when the US government stepped in and added equity to the banks as a bail out and demanded the banks write off the losses incurred on the asset side of the balance sheet.
I’ve seen photos of dead beardless west bank terrorists.
Also young boys whos’ ied blew up while they were transporting it.
I’m sure younger boys are transporting and spotting.
17 and 18 year old official ‘children’ aren’t on the front line, especially when hamas must have experienced at least a few losses of their ‘experienced’ terrorists?
Their mothers boast of their extra children for jihad.
Melbourne in January and I’ve put a rug over my knees.
And should be evacuated, not employed as runners.
At least European weather won’t come as a shock in a couple of days.
Oh and Gaza was losing young teens involved in weapon manufacturer before 7 October.
Not to mention at least 160 killed in tunnel building.
Gerbil warming in the US North East.
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pic 3.
Go to a wedding these days,every young guy is wearing a blue suit with brown shoes.Its of epidemic proportions.
18C and wet in Dan’s old seat.
Inverse square law says no.
Omg, it’s caught on here too then.
cohenite
No comment on the glorious specimen of avian glory I posted for you earlier.
Missed it. Do it again.
dover0beach
Jan 8, 2024 10:49 AM
Just wow:
Battle Beagle
@HarmlessYardDog
U.S. Strategic Command on the Minuteman III
“there are also no technicians who fully understand them.”
“They’re not alive anymore.”
This is the Missile they delayed testing of in early 2022 (?), due to tensions with China over Taiwan. Then dear old Nancy did a visit to Taiwan, helping inflame tensions, what a gal!
They eventually did the tests
I reckons that the StratCom folks are after some more of that lovely moolah that slops around the US Defense Forces. You are unlikely to test something as complex as an ICBM if you had no one who understands it, that’s just unbelievable IMHO.
hamas still playing their despicable games.
I fully respect blue suits and London tan belt n boots- because I’m a nonconformists.
Having said, got a yot club engagement pardee for a niece coming up, and it’s Glen Urquhart w blue thread shot and sky blue suede, it’s going to be a scream.
Go to a wedding these days,every young guy is wearing a blue suit with brown shoes.Its of epidemic proportions.
We need a return to tradition.
….
cohenite
Jan 8, 2024 2:35 PM
cohenite
No comment on the glorious specimen of avian glory I posted for you earlier.
Missed it. Do it again.
…
Nice try, but you dont get me banned that easy!
10:01 if you must feast your eyes on the plumage.
another engineer
This might be the lamest “bomb threat” ever.
Images of reported bomb threat on car flying Palestinian flag
Here are images of the reported bomb threat left on the car of someone flying the Palestinian flag in Botany.
The images were supplied to the @riotersbloc X account, which posted them with a report of an explosive device planted on a car outside a Sydney home.
A sign strapped to the jerry can pictured reads:
ENOUGH! TAKE DOWN FLAG! ONE CHANCE!!!
IRA are said to be interested in recruiting the mongabomber.
Rosie, when did these pictures of the hostage girls surface? Are those injuries recent (all four of them look as though they have been deliberately bashed around the mouth) or do they relate to October 7th? If they are recent and the girls have been badly treated Israel should hold up these pictures at the UN. Perhaps they should do so anyway, no matter what date the pictures were made. UN are against violence towards women aren’t they? Except for Jewish women.
Judging by the image, that ‘bomb threat’ is an insider job, planted by Achmed Jussie El-Smollet.
Probably during the Lehrman defamation trial I saw a report of someone attending dressed in a blue suit and “brown dress shoes”. I found it puzzling, what could “brown dress shoes” possibly be?
Have you read his Fightback! manifesto?
Andrew Bolt on Chris Bowen:
“Shame, shame on the WSJ running a hit piece on Musk”.
The article was run in The Australian as well. Interesting to note James Murdock was named as one of the Tesla board members.
Palestine supporter threatened by bomb in Sydney
I’ll call it now. A hoax.
In response to popular demand heres a fresh DONT CLICK THIS LINK for Cohenite
This is connected to JC’s blue suit and brown shoes and not a TRICK question…if I wear old jeans with holes in the knees to Coles my wife tells me to change , but women and girls buy NEW jeans with holes already in them and thats fashionable.
Nice try, but you dont get me banned that easy!
10:01 if you must feast your eyes on the plumage.
Nuh; took your warning the first time. But by way of comparison here is a cute owl; and let me say anyone who cannot tell the difference between the horror I imagine is at your link and this delight needs help, lots of help.
BCCI tail wagging ICC dog. Better learn to suck eggs.
Mole,
isn’t that known as a Merrylands Molotov? 😀
Lizzie,
regarding the hostages in the link Rosie posted, The Mail has an extensive article on the girls. The article also shows the beautiful girls before they were beaten. It is graphic.
Riiiiiiight. Suuuuuuuure.
Did someone also yell out, “This is Magen David country!”?
😀
I’m several thousand km’s away and I can see it’s “safe”. A bomb on a budget.
I’m betting it’s another Smollet jobbie, put together from a trip to Bunnings.
Did someone also yell out, “This is Magen David country!”?
I memed.
At least it puts paid to any notion Jewish people are natural engineers and craftsman.
I watched a Doco. last night of SAIC motor company in China. A new car rolled off the production line every 20 seconds..yup, 20 seconds. I mean WTF. And its 90 percent made by robots.
regarding the hostages in the link Rosie posted, The Mail has an extensive article on the girls. The article also shows the beautiful girls before they were beaten. It is graphic.
‘Metoo’ unless you’re a Jew.
Can someone please pop in here and make a few more excuses for Hamas? We really need to hear your explanation for those four girls.
Don’t be shy.
Monga-bomber
Perfect.
Calli,
as a doting grandmother, here’s another for your meme collection. 😀
because it is expanding, which is why the sky is dark at night
ASIO will be closing in on the Homegrown Carbomber as we speak- those barcode flags on the galvanised bolts surely will be traced to Grampians Bunnings!!!
Face recognition by the cameras at the self checkout!!!!
Bank accounts frozen!°°!!!!!
A front room festooned with the swastika will be SWATted any minute!!!!!!!
John Mark Matthew Luke Mc Christian doxxed as prime suspect!
His social media profile and online manifesto giving big ups to RiTA PaNAhi quickly seized and shut down!
Hang the pally raghead flag between the aboriginal tricolour and the TSI mooner, it’s time for Dreyfuss, that Wong chap and the Pwime Minithter to hold a stern presser to glue a fractured nation back together!!!!!!
…honestly, it’s the bomb threat we had to have, we’ll grow through it as a nation
“Fundamentalist Christians and Muslims can’t handle the idea of intelligent ET life as they are flat earthers.”
Do you believe in God? Yes.
Do you believe the bible? Yes.
Do you believe man was made in God’s image? Yes.
How many images do you think He made?
Lauren Boebert can’t be all bad:
She also sparked controversy by heckling Joe Biden in his 2022 State of the Union address, and caused anger by making an Islamophobic joke about Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
It was just a really bad morning and got worse as the day wore on. Read a few pages of the Protocols over breakfast, which I later found out was majority owned by a Jewish family and and that was it.
france
Apparently hamas have just announced that two of those young women are dead.
It was just a really bad morning and got worse as the day wore on. Read a few pages of the Protocols over breakfast at the hotel, which I later found out was majority owned by a Jewish family and and that was it.
Re the Daily Mail article linked to by several, about the young females hostages, the first thing that jumps out to me is the ‘neutral’ language used:
One of the subheads:
rather than ‘H@m@s continues to hold civilians hostage.’
Further down:
No, the majority of didn’t mysteriously ‘die’ as the result of unseen and unknowable causes, they were MURDERED.
While almost any publicity about the plight of these innocent civilians is welcome, let’s not start applauding any of the Filth Filter (media), which, outside of Israel, has barely concealed their glee at the trauma Israelis must have been suffering. Most of the legacy/dinosaur/deviant media has refused to acknowledge that the Israeli hostages
are even human. (Might the same be said of the International Red Cross, or is my information in that regard erroneous?).
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If that were true, the sky would be infinitely bright.”
Maybe it’s finite, but without any borders or edges – like the surface of the Earth is finite, but there are no borders or edges to it.
Muddy,
agree with you absolutely. I was surprised the Mail had actually published the article.
Omar married her brother to get him into the country.
Thank you Pogs. I wonder where they found that photo of the New Broom? 😀
LOL, when Macron was elected he promised to shut down the nuclear sector and build windmills instead. Now he’s going to build more nuke plants and shut down the windmills. The science is settled!
Looks like Bowen is on the “wrong side of history”. Can someone in power give the twerp a good shove?
But that would take principles, and conviction.
Here’s a compliation of complaints and responses to and by the original Top Gear team.
12 minutes – it’s a hoot! 🙂
Oh, and loving Clarkson’s Farm. The old lush has some life left in him yet.
I’m trying not to think about those girls and which ones are now dead. Every one of them was precious. So much promise, so much hope and beauty now lost.
Broebert is the GOP’s AOC. Both Broebert and AOC are attention seeking dumb arses. But Broebert, for all her many faults, is far less dangerous than Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Gez…you mentioned Aust. buying military ware and China a few days ago. Look at Chinas investment in Timor. A new deep harbour… a new Airport and runway …all weather road into the inland and lots of investment into agri. And only 700 klms from Darwin.
The age of incompetence
Plane nearly totalled by DEI recruit almost killing the passengers.
https://revolver.news/2024/01/conservative-influencer-asks-united-airlines-one-tough-question-the-answer-could-blow-up-us-aviation/
It’s just not getting a good straight answer over the phone. They now want to kill you.
Not long ago, the US had the most competent pilots in the world.
Quite so. She carries out her primary role with diligent enthusiasm: To protect Colorado from Denver.*
(* this exact phrase was posted here on Catallaxy at the time of cinema CCTV being leaked. I’m embarrassed to say I forget which fellow Cat coined this perfect & apt phrase)
I don’t want incompetents “included” in the cockpit. I want people who can do the job.
“Include” the @rseholes in catering or cleaning.
Contact, Nasa’s Unexplained Files and How the Universe Works are good shows on Channel 96 rush. They were on last night.
I have a theory and absolutely no evidence to support it. Which means it will fit right in to popular culture:
I believe that at least some of the dinosaur media derive chemical rewards akin to sexual satisfaction by participating in the tribal thuggery against certain identified groups; most recently Israel.
(I’ve written previously about street gang culture (internal and external rules): the Filth Filter (legacy media) might be compared to one of those gangs. There’s a rush to be had by joining your fellow gang members in beating up ‘outsiders.’ That’s an individual reward that some would find irresistible, particularly those with a poor sense of self-esteem).
Re: the devastating story of the Israeli girls still held hostage ( & I note from Rosie’s post that two are now thought to be dead) :
And still there are the deniers, and those who just don’t care, in this country. Neither my mind nor my heart can conceive that this is the case – though I know it is.
Who wants to sit on the dregs of a flat, room temperature, soupy sludge half an hour after it has come out of the tap?
For a proper British or Irish pint drinker, the pint of beer lasts a lot less than half an hour. Whereupon, you go and buy another pint and repeat over and over again until you are a lot happier or run out of money.
Better scroll back ‘cheeks. You’ve missed some.
Kneel
Jan 8, 2024 4:01 PM
All of them.
Next question?
Rotten is the UK’s answer to Tourism Australia. SloMo and Lara Bingle all rolled into one.
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When Mike Baird was running against Luke Foley I went with friends to hear them both speak in a church hall in Leichhardt – I think it was organised by ACL — Mike Baird told the audience that he was in the US studying to be a pastor when he was guided to go into politics instead because that was his true calling —– yeah that worked well for NSW – NOT — perhaps Baird should go back to preaching the gospel and re-connect with TRUTH
It was at that event that Luke Foley told the audience his middle name is Aloysuis
Things you do when you hungry after some heavy drinking.
Jack In the Box is a fast food chain.
No one has mentioned the reincarnation of Eric Abetz yet. So I will! 😀
Former Liberal senator seeking political comeback (Sky, 7 Jan)
Obviously loves the job enough to be a big fish in a small pond.
Johnny Rotten
If it takes a ‘drinker’ half an hour to drink a schooner, then they really need to have a bloody good look at why they’re drinking and perhaps going back to a tittie bottle.
regarding the hostages in the link Rosie posted, The Mail has an extensive article on the girls. The article also shows the beautiful girls before they were beaten. It is graphic.
All the talkback cretins can sob about is the 22000 innocent pallis killed. That figure is a lie in total and in substance because it does not discriminate between hamas shits killed, pallis killed by hamas or pallis put in harm’s way hamas.
I’ll say it again with the Hezzies now coming into the fray, Israel has to go nuke with a member of the Israeli SC strapped to each missile.
I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.
– George Best
He looks like a real winner.
Nestor Joel Lujan Flores,
Zombie Eric Abetz sums up where the Lieborals are at. Just perfect.
quod erat demonstrandum: Dover pointing out rapes happen in war.
I don’t want incompetents “included” in the cockpit. I want people who can do the job.
I have probably made over 50 flights in US aircraft and many of them broadcast for the window shades to be pulled down prior to landing. I questioned the reason and was told it was to keep the inside cooler on the ground. When I informed the cabin manager that the reason to keep them up was for rescue personnel, should they be required, to be able to see inside before they acted and the only response was shrugged shoulders.
This from the same country which has some airlines insanely issuing boarding groups and then boarding from the front first… for a country which first went to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (35,800 ft) in 1960 and landed on the moon in 1969 they are remarkably stupid…
Ben Shapiro discusses ‘inconsistency’ of Republicans fully backing Israel and not Ukraine
As Uncle Frank wisely said, Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
Heh.
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Question for the legal eagles.
If you end up hitting a pedestrian, s/he breaks the front window, landing in the front passenger seat, and you continue on driving to a fast food joint, can you be charged with a hit and run? If the dead person is in the front seat, you’ve obviously hit the person, but there’s no “run”, right?
Things you do when you hungry after some heavy drinking.
Stagger into Mo’s at Sembawang in Singapore on the way back to the ship… order an egg banjo which you half eat staggering into the shipyard and onto the ship and wake up in the morning with the other half under your pillow… for breakfast…
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
– Winston Churchill
No, but I’ve watched him attack the Coalition from the left for many years.
Muddy,
that’s not a theory, that is fact.
All the members of the Filth Filter imagine themselves as Damien Parer, only without the icky bits such as being machine gunned to death by the Japanese.
I’d wager that many a chair on those news sets is soaked with you know what at the end of a hard days recounting of “what those Jews, Conservatives, White people have done today”.
Got a link? Winston’s is 404
Scroll down for a pic of the dead eyed lunatic.
Very fortunate mother and child during the floods in the UK recently.
Er…you’re talking about the “faceless men” of the ALP.
Bespoke
I wonder how the girl feels about the pauperisation of her teacher at the moment, and will she change her mind as she realises what she has done?
Despite the BBC and other big media outlets trying to ignore it, the local media is taking note of the German farmers’ protests. There are over 200 separate protest rallies today across Bavaria, according to the news bulletins on the state-wide commercial radio station Antenne Bayern. The station’s ‘Verkehrszentrum’ (traffic centre) is currently reporting a convoy of around 500 tractors with police escort on the autobahn between Bayreuth and Bamberg in the north and most of the B-roads (national highways) around Munich have very heavy traffic for 7:30am with the farmers heading to the largest rally in the centre of Munich.
He didn’t take it very well, did he?
Damien Parer’s brother Adrian “Fr Ferdy” Parer was a Franciscan missionary priest in post-war PNG who spent his last years ministering to the down and outs of Brisbane.
Nobody who met him at that time would easily forget him, not on account of his personality but his humility and dedication to his calling.
A remarkable family.
Hey Woddenhead , instead of infesting the site with countless quotes all day long, why don’t you post the link to those quotes and we’ll take it from there. You could also do that with the Marty flatulence too.
I know this suggestion will cause you angst, but think of the upside in terms of the time it will save giving you more latitude in adding more up and down ticks to people you favour (yourself obviously) and those you don’t . It’s a win win, wodney, you worthless crook.
Sapolsky provides evidence of intra-group cohesion and outer-group aggression. Imaging tracks it down to some key regions involved(amygdala & DLPFC). You should be able to find it on youtube in his lectures.
Earlier:
Haaaa.
Merry Christmas Orthodox people!
Blessing of the Waters (Ncl local news, 7 Jan)
It’s a nice thing that our local TV station covers such events. Sadly local news is drying up like everything. Not helped by Nine Network HQ being so woke.
Dot
No.
Any blocking matter would eventually (which means right now in an infinite universe) heat up from the sources behind them and become infinitely bright.
I’ve just received a message from the Transplant Team recommending the shingles vaccine.
Reading the data on Shingrix:
Are they frigging joking?
How to remove confidence from the team approach to medicine.
They’re going to get an earful from me.
What’s the definition of doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result?
The AARP Just Told Its 38 Million Members To Get An 8th (Yes, Eighth!!) Shot Of mRNA (8 Jan)
This is blackly amusing since when I saw the Danish and Israeli data I said no one would do what that data indicated: which is have four vaccinations per year. But with rampant gaslighting that is exactly what seems to be happening. And stupid useless masks just refuse to die also. Sadly our civilization has returned right back to dark ages religious mysticism in the space three short years.
via https://nitter.net/MarioNawfal/status/1744140110285730154#m
M.C. supposedly works for JP Morgan USA
Worth about as much as any other prediction.
On some issues, such as ruinables*, Australia is a canary in the coal mine, so I’d expect blackouts here before the USA.
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* = Not a misspelling.
But what’s the take up rate, Bruce?
I think it’s around the same as here, where most Australians are no longer “vaccinated” because they’ve declined the booster shots.
Something which greatly exercises the likes of Dr Norman Swan.
Seems to me it’s the ‘experts” who are in denial of the reality.
From The Oz…
A kids’ T-shirt showing the beloved Bluey cast wearing Palestinian scarves has been removed for sale after the show’s commercial owners said it was a counterfeit product, and criticised the ‘unauthorised use’ of its characters.
Good. Also, I doubt Bluey would be welcome in any part of Palestine. They don’t like our canine friends in ‘Palestine’.
Not too bad. The Argie dollarization in 2024 is very like the Argie dollarization in 1992. I visited there for work just when they knocked off three zeroes from their currency and pegged the new peso 1:1 to the US dollar. It worked for a while…
Somewhere I think I have stashed an old 1000 peso bill and a 1 new peso bill, which I picked up in change on the trip, and worth the same amount.
I think about the same take up rate as for the recommendations British druids made in 2,000 BC.
Unfortunately when your government and upper class go collectively insane it’s not good for us plebs. At least we dissidents aren’t likely to become garroted bog bodies like back then.
Crispin Berka:
9a. The booming job sector will be headed by “Trapped in Lift Technicians.”
Oh God.
This years VERY Woke Lamb ad. Take a guess what is missing from it.
Thanks, John H. Noted for when I have more cognitive flexibility. (Crikey, just did a quick search: There’s a lot to consider!).
Pogria.
I doubt many – if any – of the current generation have heard of Damien Parer. (I’m very familiar with him; he took footage of my late grandfather’s unit in New Guinea, and I have visited several of those locations).
Roger.
Yes, a remarkable family. Several members of the family were involved in the Morobe Province New Guinea goldfields prior to WWII: two as pilots and air transport owners, the patriarch as a store owner. One of them, Kevin (Damien’s uncle) was the first person on the mainland of New Guinea to be killed in the war: 21 Jan, 1942, during the first Japanese air attacks on Lae, Salamaua, and Bulolo. Ten years ago, his grave was still in the lonely Salamaua Peninsula cemetery, though in danger of being buried by landslides.
The eating of sheep is a deplorable habit, for which there can be no redemption.
Roger
Jan 8, 2024 6:26 PM
I just had a quick perusal of the rest of the injections and a quick read of the indications/contraindications from the transplant team.
Pass on all of them. Minor but unacceptable risks with minor benefits.