Open Thread – Mon 8 Jan 2024


November Moonlight, John Atkinson Grimshaw, late 19th C

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Gilas
Gilas
January 9, 2024 8:00 pm

Dot
Jan 9, 2024 7:47 PM

At worst, I’ll be desoldering 200-odd components

Sweet Enola Gay, son

Hey, though I am somewhat stupidly optimistic, I might as well flay the bastard if it doesn’t play ball.

Muddy
Muddy
January 9, 2024 8:06 pm

Roger
Jan 9, 2024 7:45 PM

I have no knowledge of the nurse’s story as linked, however I’ve previously revealed myself as a Qld. Health worker (waaaay down the totem pole!) who refused the ‘vaccine’ and has suffered significant financial loss, along with physical and mental health challenges (all documented) as a result. I have not yet been terminated due to my membership of a renegade union, however prior to Christmas, Qld. Health reiterated their intention to discipline me once the last legal challenge concludes, which is likely to be this February sometime. As part of their tactics, Qld. Health has made allegations of serious misconduct against a number of staff. In my case, this is very easily dismissed with documentary evidence, however they are persisting with the intimidation. There is a pervasive mental sickness within the organisation that requires either a formal purge or an exorcism.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 9, 2024 8:12 pm

Noticed that in his show on power, Kenny gave a very soft go to the blonde female mayor of Newcastle – a hard line Labor “zero emissions” person.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 9, 2024 8:14 pm

In infinitely sad news I’m not flying out tonight.
Done some nerve damage to right hand/wrist.

I hope we haven’t been responsible for this, Rosie.

We’ve all enthused so much about your Twitter feeds, hope the scrolling hasn’t been contributory.

Glad to hear it is getting better now. a two week interval should help.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 9, 2024 8:15 pm

Is anyone else getting distinct “Basil Fawlty flogging the car” vibes from Gilas’ post?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n77eoOfRPE

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 9, 2024 8:16 pm

It has been extraordinary to witness how a bureaucracy can mimic the behaviours of a psychologically disturbed individual and escape any consequences.

Say hello Grace Grace. Quite ” When we give a direction to staff, we need to make sure sure they comply”. Zis is a paraphrase if “I woz only followink orderz”

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2024 8:16 pm

…however prior to Christmas, Qld. Health reiterated their intention to discipline me once the last legal challenge concludes, which is likely to be this February sometime.

Sorry to hear that, Muddy.

Sheer bloody-mindedness, I repeat.

Keep us informed.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 9, 2024 8:17 pm

Next up, nice change of pace, a Tasmanian “environmentalist” academic who thinks nuclear is necessary as part of “the solution”. They all think that reducing emissions tweaks the Earth’s thermostat. This is the big lie. But it keeps on being reinforced like the fabled Chinese water-drip torture.

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
January 9, 2024 8:18 pm

It seems that the Parramatta (NSW) Greens are having a teddy bears picnic soon.
Latest correspondence received, below.

You’re invited!
Hi [name],
The Parramatta Greens are holding a casual summer picnic on Sunday 28 January 2024, starting 11am! Any members or supporters of the Greens are welcome to come along to celebrate the achievements of the past year among friends.
The picnic will be held at Third Settlement Reserve, Winston Hills near the Pemulwuy Loop Playground, on the corner of Oakes Rd and Edison Pde. Food (fruit and snacks) and water will be provided. This is a family-friendly event – there is a playground nearby – so please feel welcome to bring folks along. Optionally, please also feel free to bring some food or a picnic blanket to share if you would like to (no alcohol). There will be some parking available.
It will probably be a hot day, so please be sun-safe. If it is forecast to be raining or too hot, we will reschedule for another date 🙂
If you can make it, please RSVP by responding to this email or shooting me an email at [email protected].
Hope to see you there!
Yours,
Daniel
Secretary, Parramatta Greens

Sounds absolutely luverly. Would be fascinating to see who/what turns up. Purely for observation purposes, of course.

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2024 8:22 pm

Fellow QLD Cats, I note the Boy Premier has met with a community group advocating for youth justice reform.

They are demanding an undertaking in writing from him that repeat offenders will not be released on bail only to reoffend, failing which they will be campaigning against him.

2024 is shaping up as the year of fighting back!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 9, 2024 8:22 pm

No alcohol + Greens = no me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 8:27 pm

Interesting comment from Tom the other day about the decision of Boeing to ditch the 757 way back when.
No doubt a lack of enthusiasm from airlines was a factor.
It was much larger than the 737 back then with the -200 variant having a seating capacity of 240.
And where are we now?
The 737-MAX 10 is going to seat 230.
So they’ve stretched the 737 to near 757 capacity and put themselves in a world of pain.
There is no doubt they could have upgraded the 757 with more efficient engines and fly-by-wire, just as they have tried to do with the 737-MAX. One thing they wouldn’t have had to do with the 757. That is, change the engine positioning due to ground clearance and write that ridiculous anti-stall software.

bons
bons
January 9, 2024 8:28 pm

Matt Abott sounding off about the Alcoa closure.

Yeah good Matt. You stepped aside from any leadership responsibility in the political process.

Appearing on Sky is not leadership.

Walk it, or fukk orf.

Bespoke
Bespoke
January 9, 2024 8:34 pm

WolfmanOz
Jan 9, 2024 7:51 PM

It was a good read, thanks.

Baumeister’s theory of the breakdown of self-control: “you do not have to give people reasons to be violent, because they already have plenty of reasons. All you have to do is take away their reason to restrain themselves.”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 9, 2024 8:35 pm

Saw Chrisafoolofhimself on Skah tonight. First time he’s ever been slightly animated. I reckon he thinks he in with a chance as 1.609+km is going to introduce a treaty. As much as I never wish to set foot in Queensland I don’t wish either of them on Queensland Cats and Kittahs.

Muddy
Muddy
January 9, 2024 8:37 pm

Thanks, Roger.
I dislike writing about myself, but wanted to emphasise that the damage inflicted upon a significant number of people (not just from Qld. Health), caused scars which are still being dealt with now, long after many have forgotten just how violent the ‘Lords and Ladies of Fire’ (Burn the peasants!) acted to distract themselves from their own cowardice and deficient self-esteem. Eff the lot of them and the syphilitic camels they rode in on.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 9, 2024 8:37 pm

2024 is shaping up as the year of fighting back!

I’ll get my John Hewson contrast collar shirts out the wardrobe. Don’t go anywhere.

Muddy
Muddy
January 9, 2024 8:39 pm

Violently.
Terrible grandma, Muddy. Tsk, Tsk!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 8:41 pm

I’ll get my John Hewson contrast collar shirts out the wardrobe. Don’t go anywhere.

Probably best with trousers I’d think.

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2024 8:42 pm

I’ll get my John Hewson contrast collar shirts out the wardrobe. Don’t go anywhere.

Should I write to him and thank him for the slogan?

Roger
Roger
January 9, 2024 8:44 pm

Perhaps even praise l him as the Milei of Australian politics…

😀

‘night.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 8:45 pm

They’re just vandals without any attributes.

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
William Penn was one of the most morally upright men to ever live. He was a pacifist and was completely honorable in all his dealings with American Indians — he paid for all the land he settled on and honored all of his treaties. He supported freedom of religion, and despite having Pennsylvania as his personal property he gave it one of the most democratic governments in the world.

Despite that, the Biden Administration is pulling down a statue of Penn that stands on the site of his former home, in order to make the site more “welcoming” and “inclusive.”

It was never about what people in the past did. It’s about what they are: William Penn was a white, English-speaking settler who played a crucial role in building the America of today. The left’s ideology demands that all such people be blotted out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 8:52 pm

Roger

Jan 9, 2024 8:44 PM

Perhaps even praise l him as the Milei of Australian politics…

Well, Milei did get elected.
So there is that.

132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2024 8:53 pm

It was never about what people in the past did. It’s about what they are: William Penn was a white, English-speaking settler who played a crucial role in building the America of today. The left’s ideology demands that all such people be blotted out.

The next Rep president needs to reinstate these statues, every single one.

132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2024 8:57 pm

Sancho,
I was hoping you’d tell us that the aircraft industry is standardised to metric (hardware and torque specs).
Not so?

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:01 pm

Dover, he’s doing what gerbil warming fanatics do, which is to only show numbers that suit their argument and ignore the facts.

See this chart representing real wages from 2000 to the present. From 2000 to 2009, real wages went up an unsustainable:
€17,325 in 2000 to €26,606 in 2009. A 54% increase totally unsupported by productivity gains.

That required a massive internal adjustment as they don’t have the flexibility of having their own currency. Someone has to pay the piper.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/416209/average-annual-wages-greece-y-on-y-in-euros/

132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2024 9:06 pm

So I just did a bit of digging and the answer is “no”.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:08 pm

Greek unemployment rate was 26.5% in 2013 and now close to halved. So the internal devaluation/ adjustment has worked to get the jobless rate down. Falling real wages to allow the necessary adjustment to take place and get people back to work has succeeded but much more needs to be done, which is a function of time.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/416209/average-annual-wages-greece-y-on-y-in-euros/

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:10 pm

132andBush
Jan 9, 2024 9:06 PM

So I just did a bit of digging and the answer is “no”.

Of course they wouldn’t use some penny ant French concoction. It’s the US, not Australia that went with that pathetic metric system.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:14 pm

Bespoke
Jan 9, 2024 9:09 PM

Drama Queen Michelle Obama Shares Trump Keeps Her Up at Night in Fear He Could Be President Again

Which could also mean she’s sounding out and been courted for the most likely spot of VP to the california gigolo.

I’m 90% sure the head of the Hiden crime family isn’t running and will announce health issues around July or August, just before he pardons the rest of the criminals in the family and himself.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2024 9:14 pm

Tonight I went to see ‘One Life’ with Anthony Hopkins. The film is about Nicholas Winton and it chronicles how Winton saved over 600 mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939. I highly recommend the film. If you see it, make sure you take a box of tissues. I’m still crying.

Sir Nicholas Winton died in 2015, aged 106 years. A mensch, a truly great man.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 9, 2024 9:17 pm

Well, Milei did get elected.
So there is that.

Probably does not the price of an Australian cake either.

Bespoke
Bespoke
January 9, 2024 9:19 pm

Which could also mean she’s sounding out and been courted for the most likely spot of VP to the california gigolo.

I don’t think she will settle for VP, JC.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:20 pm
JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:22 pm

I don’t think she will settle for VP, JC.

I suspect she will. They’re both lazier than a carcass and the job would fit in fine with that mindset.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 9:28 pm

132andBush
Jan 9, 2024 8:57 PM

Sancho,
I was hoping you’d tell us that the aircraft industry is standardised to metric (hardware and torque specs).
Not so?

Frayed knot.
During the reign of King Gough I we converted to metric. Gough’s courtiers tried to force the aviation industry to go fully metric. They eventually accepted that arriving international pilots could get very confused trying to convert assigned ATC altitudes in metres to feet on their altimeter.
Torque and bolt size don’t matter much if the bolts are still back in the factory. Which was heavily hinted at as a possibility by an NTSB guy on the news tonight.
The term “loose bolts” featured heavily in news reports tonight.
They must read the Cat.

cohenite
January 9, 2024 9:29 pm

I hate to say this but biden will shit his pants and obuma’s hubbie will take over.

The sheeple are dumb enough and cheating will be sufficient to get hubbie over the line; and Trump will not have to be assassinated although they will still put him in jail.

WolfmanOz
January 9, 2024 9:31 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Jan 9, 2024 9:14 PM
Tonight I went to see ‘One Life’ with Anthony Hopkins. The film is about Nicholas Winton and it chronicles how Winton saved over 600 mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939. I highly recommend the film. If you see it, make sure you take a box of tissues. I’m still crying.

Sir Nicholas Winton died in 2015, aged 106 years. A mensch, a truly great man.

I saw the preview of it when I saw Napoleon and it looked very impressive.

Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.

Will try to catch it in the next week or two.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 9, 2024 9:33 pm

Hardline Aboriginal activists will demand “freedom for Palestine” and call on the Albanese government to cut all ties with Israel at their annual anti-Australia Day rallies, causing one Aboriginal leader to warn they will alienate longstanding Jewish supporters of reconciliation.

Leading left-wing figures Lidia Thorpe and Tasmanian Indigenous leader Michael Mansell say Palestine will form a key part of their Invasion Day messages, as they look to drive the wider Indigenous movement in a more radical direction post-referendum.

But Yes campaign leaders Sean Gordon and Mark Leibler said tying the two movements to each other would “alienate” the Jewish community from Indigenous gatherings and deprive the Aboriginal rights movement of much needed allies.

The event page for Sydney’s Invasion Day Rally, organised by The Blak Caucus, features a list of nine demands, including ending the “war on black kids”, ceasing forced removal of children, shutting down youth prisons and prosecuting officials over black deaths in custody.

The seventh demand from the “First Nations organising collective” urges the government to “cut ties with and impose sanctions on colonial, apartheid Israel until Palestine is free”. Independent Senator Thorpe said Palestine would form a key part of her ­Invasion Day message and urged people to join her on January 26 in “extending our solidarity to the people of Palestine”.

Oz

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 9:33 pm

Mother Lode
Jan 9, 2024 9:17 PM

Well, Milei did get elected.
So there is that.

Probably does not the price of an Australian cake either.

Well, Milei certainly wouldn’t have spent five minutes yapping on about it, trying to prove he was the smartest guy in the room.
Every time I think about that I imagine him returning to the office and asking his minders, “How did that go? Man, I batted that cake question out of the park, didn’t I. No-one will be asking Dr John about cakes again I don’t think.”

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 9, 2024 9:33 pm

Tonight I went to see ‘One Life’ with Anthony Hopkins

Agreed, a wonderful film about a real man. Courage, drive, persistence, and modesty, Winton had it all.
I took my two high-school aged grandchildren.
I was very surprised at their lack of knowledge about Hitler’s “Final Solution” but hugely encouraged by their thirst for information about the tragedy of the Holocaust and German plans for Europe.
The film showed them what real courage is and opened their eyes to WWII.
I think that era is only studied in yrs 10 and up in NSW in Modern History.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:33 pm

cohenite
Jan 9, 2024 9:29 PM

I hate to say this but biden will shit his pants and obuma’s hubbie will take over.

She spent most of her time in the White House eating and complaining about whitey. She’s too lazy to run.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 9:37 pm

132andBush
Jan 9, 2024 8:57 PM

Sancho,
I was hoping you’d tell us that the aircraft industry is standardised to metric (hardware and torque specs).
Not so?

The old fuel in gallons (US and Imperial) vs litres vs pounds has caused some knee-slapping moments of comedy in aviation too.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2024 9:37 pm

I saw the preview of it when I saw Napoleon and it looked very impressive.

Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.

It is excellent. And yes, Anthony Hopkins is probably the best actor of the last 50 years. Although I’m also partial to Robert Downey Jnr.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2024 9:39 pm

She’s too lazy to run.

Yes, and too sour.

Awful woman, just ghastly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 9:40 pm

Top Ender
Jan 9, 2024 9:33 PM

Hardline Aboriginal activists will demand “freedom for Palestine” and call on the Albanese government to cut all ties with Israel at their annual anti-Australia Day rallies, causing one Aboriginal leader to warn they will alienate longstanding Jewish supporters of reconciliation.

These people have a death wish.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 9:41 pm

Even so, the wages now are lower than in 2000.

Yeah, the adjustment after the massive bath can take a long time. Also, the unemployment rate is still 13% plus, which means real wages are being held down by this decent overhang.

When you give away the flexibility of having your own currency, there has to be an internal devaluation of sorts and it reflected through wages. The medicine is working but it could have occurred sooner if they allowed more flexibly in the prior years.

Frankly, we may not have a really good picture for the simple reason that there’s a large grey market in hiring and we don’t know what’s happening under the counter. They may have cleaned this up somewhat but we don’t know.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2024 9:46 pm

The pope is 100% right about surrogacy.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 9, 2024 9:46 pm

Sancho Panzer
Jan 9, 2024 9:37 PM
132andBush
Jan 9, 2024 8:57 PM

Sancho,
I was hoping you’d tell us that the aircraft industry is standardised to metric (hardware and torque specs).
Not so?

The old fuel in gallons (US and Imperial) vs litres vs pounds has caused some knee-slapping moments of comedy in aviation too.

Example: The Air Canada “Gimli Glider”, which ran out of fuel halfway across Canada because pounds of fuel were pumped in, not kilograms.

The pilot landed it on a disused RCAF runway, somewhat alarming the drag racers having a meet at the far end of the runway.

WolfmanOz
January 9, 2024 9:47 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Jan 9, 2024 9:37 PM
I saw the preview of it when I saw Napoleon and it looked very impressive.

Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.

It is excellent. And yes, Anthony Hopkins is probably the best actor of the last 50 years. Although I’m also partial to Robert Downey Jnr.

A very good actor is Robert Downey Jr., when he’s not making superhero movies. His performance as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin was absolutely superb.

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2024 9:49 pm

These people have a death wish.

Yes, a death wish for Jews.

They don’t even try and hide their wish anymore.

rosie
rosie
January 9, 2024 10:00 pm

Lizzie nothing to do with my phone use.
It actually is much better, and I could have gone, but it was so painful last night, I couldn’t see how I could sit on a plane, let alone wrangle a suitcase.
Who could know it would improve so quickly?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 9, 2024 10:01 pm

Hardline Aboriginal activists will demand “freedom for Palestine”

Abo activists are Nazis now!
Like science fiction.
Go figure.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 10:04 pm

Example: The Air Canada “Gimli Glider”, which ran out of fuel halfway across Canada because pounds of fuel were pumped in, not kilograms.

Thanks BJ.
I vaguely remember an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring a fuel cock-up in a heavy (767?) but couldn’t bring it to mind.

rosie
rosie
January 9, 2024 10:04 pm

Warren Mundine is very pro Israel.
Josephine Cashman is coping all kinds of abuse having outed herself as having Jewish heritage, as a member of the extended Worth family.

MatrixTransform
January 9, 2024 10:05 pm

The reports do not mention seeing predators. With strandings this large that is very unusual.

the reports also didn’t mention interstellar aliens that time warped here

er, non sequitur

… ffs

rosie
rosie
January 9, 2024 10:06 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:07 pm

Dot, at 5.53:

So basically you couldn’t remember how much you drank and it was “only small beers”.

A trap for young players, particularly at 21st birthday shows in backyards or in shearing sheds, with 6oz glasses poured via the gun and running like wine.

‘I only had 50 ponies in two hours. Dunno how I ended up without pants.’

Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2024 10:07 pm

Warren Mundine is very pro Israel.
Josephine Cashman is coping all kinds of abuse having outed herself as having Jewish heritage, as a member of the extended Worth family

The Nazi left and Nazi Islamists are such a tolerant and kind lot.

132andBush
132andBush
January 9, 2024 10:07 pm

Give me the metric system any day, JC.
They can keep the lbs of fuel, ft of altitude, kn for speed etc.
Just standardise what actually holds the bloody things together.

MatrixTransform
January 9, 2024 10:08 pm

I vaguely remember an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring …

sancho?

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 10:09 pm

In 1997 or 98, sometime around there, it was Friday around 11 a.m., and on a quiet trading day, we were busy ordering pizza to be delivered to the trading desk.

The sales guy handling the account gets a call from the big whale, who at the time happened to be one of the biggest, juiciest accounts on the street. They weren’t hugely price-sensitive, so every time the account traded with us, it helped us or me indirectly pay the mortgage because we snipped a decent spread. Ironically, the person running trade execution for the whale was an Australian dude operating out of the Bahamas.

The order came in, and it was to buy 1 billion Deutschmark or Euros (forget which) against the Greek Drachma. We never really traded that currency in New York, so we passed it on to the dickheads in the London office. 30 minutes later, the arseholes hadn’t done a single part of the order, so I told the trader we’d take it back and do it ourselves through the dealing system. We filled the order over a period of 15 minutes, and then we found the Greek central bank supporting the currency at the bottom, where it had to intervene to hold the EMS band.
An order came in for another billion, and we settled that through the trading system, and again, the Greek central bank was there holding the fort.

Then the client bought another billion and some more. Same execution occurred with the Greek CB.

That weekend, the Greeks devalued the Drachma by 30%, and the client ended up making something like 330 DM or Euros on Monday.

The desk made about 7 million dollars from the trade execution and a position we took because we suspected something was up.

We later found out that a senior portfolio manager who worked for the whale was married to one of the famous Greek shipping families and got the inside scoop that the drachma was being devalued that weekend.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:12 pm

Earlier:

seriously sancho, look at yourself writing the bleeding obvious into a day-long wank-narrative

Surmised cause – loose bolts.

Actual cause, identified by multiple sources – loose bolts.

‘Harrumph harrumph harrumph yes but gaussian curves and Nietzsche and chess’

Brilliant.

Dot
Dot
January 9, 2024 10:13 pm

Errr…shades of Jack Parsons.

Professor of Religious Studies on NASA Launch Rituals

Can confirm about the patches. My family owned several tailoring businesses in Titusville, Cocoa Beach and Melbourne so people working on those programs would bring them to us to sew on. We worked with people from Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, Patrick Airforce Base, Northrop Grumman etc. and I remember seeing some really odd Greek/Roman mythology on the patches along with Illuminati and free mason stuff, sci fi just all kinds of weird stuff that made no sense and some even looked a little demonic. I was so curious that I remember researching the specific names of programs and their emblems on old dial up internet. I just figured there were some really strange people working on these programs and they had free rein to make their mission patch and it was probably designed after a night of drinking and inside jokes. So interesting to see Diana talk about this stuff 25 years after I initially researched it.

Space exploration is a two-edged sword?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 10:15 pm

But not an inside trade, huh?

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 9, 2024 10:18 pm

I vaguely remember an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring a fuel cock-up in a heavy (767?) but couldn’t bring it to mind.</blockquote

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 9, 2024 10:19 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:20 pm

Earlier again:

Honest question: What’s going on with the tunnels found in NY?

Do they lead to a pizza shop?
Are there red shoes?
Has anyone checked reports of missing children?

Well obviously, the tunnels were heading straight for Wall Street so the Rs could complete the takeover. In plain sight.

Unsure why this is even under discussion.

Dot
Dot
January 9, 2024 10:24 pm

This is just trolling with the owl imagery.

https://spaceflight101.com/atlas-v-nrol-79/nrol-79-satellite/

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:24 pm

mole at 7.59:

My namesake? Rupert Murdoch?

My name’s not Rupert. Well it could be, I suppose, dependent on circumstance.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 10:25 pm

KD at 10:12.

Surmised cause – loose bolts.

Actual cause, identified by multiple sources – loose bolts.

‘Harrumph harrumph harrumph yes but gaussian curves and Nietzsche and chess’

Snort, cackle.
I didn’t expect confirmation so quickly.
Normally the airline might quietly fix the problem, pass the details on to the NTSB and issue a bland public statement that “x number of aircraft have been inspected and the airworthiness directive complied with, yada, yada”.
The fact that United and Alaska Airlines have both issued statements basically saying “we are finding stray hardware every time we unzip a panel” tells you they are pissed off to the (ahem) MAX with Boeing.

Dot
Dot
January 9, 2024 10:26 pm

LOL

“Gustatus smilius pullus”

GG

cohenite
January 9, 2024 10:27 pm

The leftie billionaires are preparing for the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEk79bjYnv0

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 10:28 pm

Nup Zafiro.
This one.

cohenite
January 9, 2024 10:29 pm

So, head prefect, your considered opinion is the obuma’s hubbie won’t be in the WH come 2025 because she’s lazy? How do you explain biden being there now when he’s effectively dead?

MatrixTransform
January 9, 2024 10:29 pm

Surmised cause – loose bolts.
Actual cause, identified by multiple sources – loose bolts.

says the bloke that claps like a circus seal whenever anybody chucks him a fish

brilliant

… its why we paid for ring-side seats

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 10:31 pm

Sancho Panzer
Jan 9, 2024 10:15 PM

But not an inside trade, huh?

There was no such rule in the currency markets, as it only applied to stocks then. It has changed since then, I believe.

The famous trade that Uncle George was supposed to have bravely and heroically taken on the Bank of England was also an inside job.

According to what we heard from a former portfolio manager working for Uncle George, George got the inside scoop that the Germans were not going to support the pound within the European Monetary System. Karl Otto Pohl was the longtime head of the Bundesbank, and when he retired, Uncle George gave him a job on his “international board”- likely because he’d given George inside information when he ran the central bank. There was no “international board as such,” but just a bunch of Uncle George’s cronies looking for a payout.

Pohl gave him the inside scoop that the Germans were not going to help in supporting the pound, and it would leave the system. The Euros were pissed off with Thatcher. That’s the story we heard about how Uncle George heroically took on the BofE. Through inside information.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:36 pm

Surmised cause – loose bolts.
Actual cause, identified by multiple sources – loose bolts.

says the bloke that claps like a circus seal whenever anybody chucks him a fish

A correct fish*, or an incorrect fish^?

*Loose bolts as the cause of fuselage ejecting from an aircraft mid-flight.

^Mickleham Death Camps operational and ready because I know all right, and because I know a bloke.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 10:36 pm

So, head prefect, your considered opinion is the obuma’s hubbie won’t be in the WH come 2025 because she’s lazy? How do you explain biden being there now when he’s effectively dead?

Reasonable point. 24 is going to be a rough election cycle and there will have to be more running around than what we saw from *”Dementia Hitler” in 20. I honestly don’t think he can be bothered, but would take the VP job.

*Someone started calling Hiden Dementia Hitler on X.

cohenite
January 9, 2024 10:37 pm

This is the new demorat anti-Trump ad. Not a shred of irony in that everything they accuse Trump of wanting to do they are actually doing. Demorats are insane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvHf-GbpuQ

chrisl
chrisl
January 9, 2024 10:40 pm

Re the size of beer glass imbroglio
I’ve got this!
I happen to have a beer glass collection
Including xxxx and crown lager glasses
Small glasses .
I have a hunch that the sizes varied in different states
Victoria was 5, 7 , 10
Back in the day
PS All glasses for sale

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 9, 2024 10:43 pm

Knuckle Dragger
Jan 9, 2024 10:24 Pm

Knuckles the kid eating dog.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 9, 2024 10:45 pm

^Mickleham Death Camps operational and ready because I know all right, and because I know a bloke.

Bwah ha ha ha.
Yes, I’d forgotten that one.
Which the God Oracle then tried 24 hours of unicorn distraction by splitting hairs between Mickleham and the very adjacent Attwood.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:47 pm

… its why we paid for ring-side seats

Yep.

Quite prepared to pay circus ringside to see all 16 of the Harrumphing Clowns get back into the Hyundai Getz, and drive off when demonstrably proved wrong.

MatrixTransform
January 9, 2024 10:47 pm

the ‘consultant:’ and renaissance man
the beauty contest BComm and world affairs détente specialist
and Inspector (NT smallgoods R us) Gadget

versus the switch-flicking pipe-solderer

LoL … and you dumb-arses are at the peak of your game

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 9, 2024 10:52 pm

Dementia Hitler was used on Scott Adams blog in a comment and he ran with it.
Not a bad nickname for shouty Mcmannappys.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 10:54 pm

the beauty contest BComm and world affairs détente specialist
and Inspector (NT smallgoods R us) Gadget

I am a model, as it happens.

LoL … and you dumb-arses are at the peak of your game

mUnter-esque.

‘gaza lol’

‘maga lol’

‘youse wooden know’

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 10:55 pm

Trans

Trying to make other people look and feel small by your incessant attempts at whiny and un-witty putdowns doesn’t make you look like an intellectual giant. It just makes you look like a small-minded envy ridden moron.

You know that, right? It’s no secret.

You’ve been on here most of the day trying to sound witty and useful to the blog. You have zero to share other than recipes, pity trawling with dullard family stories and stoush trolling.

Ask yourself, WTF are you doing here.

I actually know a dude who owns an a/c business with around 100 employees. You, however, have self-described as a consultant , but appear to spend most of your time sniping at people here. God oracle.

P
P
January 9, 2024 10:56 pm

the best actor of the last 50 years

Because I’m so old, the bext actor/actress was dead by that time. But to my mind the best actor/acctress was Susan Hayward. I was just at the beginning of my high school years when my mum took us to see ‘With a Song in My Heart’ (the Jane Froman story).
I followed all those old films from Bill Collins presentations on TV and never missed one with Susan Hayward.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 10:57 pm

Dementia Hitler was used on Scott Adams blog in a comment and he ran with it.
Not a bad nickname for shouty Mcmannappys.

Oh okay. LOL. It’s actually pretty decent.

MatrixTransform
January 9, 2024 10:59 pm

triple spazz chuck

… beautiful

its the whole circus tonight

Patt Mac
Patt Mac
January 9, 2024 10:59 pm

Muddy,
I am in the grip of qld health right now.
Am happy to have Dover share my email with you and have had 3 provable ND experiences this week alone.
The first one scare you, but the2nd and 3rd times made me dig heels in hard.
I have them shitting in their boots that I will go public. Would you like the info?
Have witnesses, they are gonna kill somebody very very shortly.
Patt

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 11:00 pm

For posterity:

there are some forums where your’e like a god and people hang on yr every word.
parts of my little world are like that
I’m the old man
the oracle
the bloke that makes people shit themselves when I enter the room

Aaaahahahaa.

‘parts of my little world’

Snork.

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 11:01 pm

Thinking, thinking, thinking.

What to come up with that will make me sound like the wittiest switch flicker on the building site.

KD, do you play chess?

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 11:03 pm

Does trans play chess?

JC
JC
January 9, 2024 11:20 pm

Does Trans play downticks?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 9, 2024 11:22 pm

I vaguely remember an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring …

I’m remembering an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring the crash of a Mexican Airways aircraft. The last words on the fight recorder were the dulcet ones “Check your air speed…check your airspeed…check your airspeed…” “Shut up, Gringo bitch! I know how to fly!”

Digger
Digger
January 9, 2024 11:33 pm

The 9M730 Burevestnik is a Russian experimental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the missile has an essentially unlimited range. Wikipedia
Effective firing range: Effectively unlimited
Place of origin: Russia
Warhead: Thermonuclear

It is certainly not deployed or even deployable yet. Probably several years away.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 9, 2024 11:39 pm

KD, do you play chess?

knight takes rook

because of the circuits

youse dunno

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 9, 2024 11:42 pm

Queensland’s LNP vows to axe new Indigenous treaty institute if elected

By lydia lynch
Queensland Political Reporter
8:00PM January 9, 2024
15 Comments

Queensland’s Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli will axe immediately a newly created Indigenous institute tasked with overseeing treaty negotiations if he wins the state election in October, in a move Aboriginal leaders have warned would require landmark laws to be repealed.

New Labor Premier Steven Miles is pushing ahead with Indigenous treaties “as legislated”, with a 10-member institute – due to be appointed in weeks – that would support First Nations people to prepare for and enter negotiations with government.

A separate three-year truth-telling inquiry to investigate the impacts of colonisation also is being assembled, with plans to start work before mid-year.

But Mr Crisafulli on Tuesday committed to cutting the institute and its council if the LNP wins government later this year.

“That process will end,” he said. “We won’t be wasting any time talking about those issues, in terms of the treaty and truth-telling process, because we’ve said that we’re not embarking on that.

“If the government wants the election to be a referendum on whether or not they want to embark on a treaty and a truth-telling process, well, our counter­point to that will be on accountability when it comes to housing, education, law and order, and lifting those communities up and giving them hope.”

Mick Gooda, one of the architects of Queensland’s treaty laws, said Mr Crisafulli would have to overhaul legislation if he wanted to abolish treaty and truth telling. “When we did our initial consultation (on treaty laws) it was not unusual for us to find Aboriginal people who were cynical and ­fatigued from consultation where nothing happens,” he said.

“That’s why we asked for legislation, which was passed with 88 out of 92 members supporting it, because we wanted certainty. Even though legislation can be changed, it has to be done so publicly.”

Queensland passed laws last May with support from the LNP, Labor and the Greens, allowing the government to negotiate treaty deals with up to 150 First Nations groups. Traditional owners would lead negotiations on what they wanted in treaties but might seek reparations for Stolen Generations, joint management of nat­ional parks, renaming places, changes to school curriculums and community-controlled health services.

Mr Crisafulli retreated from his commitment to treaty in the face of growing pressure in the LNP and in the days after the voice referendum. He had said previously he would “absolutely not” roll back Indigenous treaty legislation if he became premier.

Queensland delivered the strongest rejection of the voice, with 68.9 per cent voting No in the referendum, 4 per cent higher than the next state against constitutional change, South Australia.

After the LNP withdrew support, premier Annastacia Palaszczuk would commit only to going ahead with truth-telling hearings, insisting treaties were not viable without bipartisan support. Before quitting politics last month, she gave her commitment to Indigenous leaders, including Mr Gooda, that her government would forge ahead on treaty.

Digger
Digger
January 9, 2024 11:48 pm

This is the new demorat anti-Trump ad. Not a shred of irony in that everything they accuse Trump of wanting to do they are actually doing. Demorats are insane:

Not insane…

They know at least 60-70 million American voters will believe every word.

The Republicans have very little clue on how to counter it… God botherers turning the other cheek – again and again and again…

Mark Bolton
January 10, 2024 12:08 am

I have not arrogation that my emotional blow outs have … wrestled you folks into a kinder .. less infantile … perspective upon discussion…

Perhaps a great place to start is the one where I Really hope you disagree with me in a civilized thought full way ..

Ladies and Gentle Men we are … well to be Truthfull … most of Us have the frost on the brow … ?

Doesn’t mean we are right or wrong … Lord Knows we never will be .. but at least we can bring Adult Perspectives to our conjectures …

Peace …

Mark Bolton
January 10, 2024 12:18 am

@Knuckle Dragger
Jan 9, 2024 10:47 PM

Mate with the greatest of Love and respect … It wasn’t so long ago .. you were posting.. beautifully quirky dissident thoughts that made a lot of sense … you could stitch together a great contention Old Mate …

Perhaps the best way to consider this juncture .. it is’nt me kicking back on you ….

so you can count me out entirely … This is only down to you Brother …

Just read back on what you have been posting Old Mate .. …

We Love you !!

Mark Bolton
January 10, 2024 12:32 am

Things arent what they used to be … perhaps it would serve our observations if we took that “hit in the guts” .. they never were !!!

But with what we have left perhaps we could make them more so … like they once were …

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 10, 2024 3:43 am

Proof Anthony Albanese’s brutal crackdown on vapes is a total disaster: Major fail of government’s ‘world-leading’ e-cigarettes law is exposed….

Mr Butler’s crackdown appears to be going up in smoke, ignored by brazen specialist retailers and convenience stores.

Along King Street in the trendy Sydney suburb of Newtown, Daily Mail Australia spotted at least 20 independent and chain stores selling illegal nicotine vapes, illicit cigarettes and other smoking devices.

Daily Mail

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 10, 2024 3:51 am

Just in time for Christmas 2024.

Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has secured a deal to publish a book this year, with a contribution from a high profile US politician.

The book, titled Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, is set to be released on May 21, two years to the day after Mr Morrison conceded defeat to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the 2022 election.

A special foreword included in the book will be written by former US President Donald Trump running mate and Vice President, Mike Pence.

The book promises to offer an insider’s account of Mr Morrison’s political career and his open commitment to the Pentecostal Christian faith.

Mr Morrison secured a deal with W Publishing, owned by HarperCollins Christian Publishing and a Thomas Nelson imprint, which according to their website, covers faith-based nonfiction works.

While the book will deal with Mr Morrison’s political career, the heavy focus will revolve around “pastoral encouragement” which has been a passion for the former prime minister.

“Most politicians write books about what they have done. This is not one of those books,” Mr Morrison writes.

“In writing this book, what was important was not what I did, but what God did for me, how He sustained and encouraged me in good times and bad, from a miracle victory to a crushing defeat, and how his faithfulness over a lifetime had prepared me for these times.”

The book is said to have his “honest, vulnerable and reflective answers” to major global events during his time as the 30th prime minister of Australia between 2018 and 2022.

Subjects including cancel culture, identity politics and “deep secularisation” of western societies are all said to be tackled throughout the project.

Details of Mr Pence’s contribution to the book are yet to be released, with the former Vice President as open about his faith, as a born again evangelical Christian, during his time in office.

If only the courage in their Christian faith actually carried over to performance in office. SloMo in particular during the covid rubbish.

Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 4:07 am
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
January 10, 2024 4:17 am

Thanks Tom – Short and sweet.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
January 10, 2024 4:32 am

Fauci flip flops during first 7-hour session of grilling before the House.

Story by Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com

House GOP said Fauci’s pandemic policies full of drastic and systemic failures
He ‘backtracked’ on past claims his agency never funded gain of function abroad

READ MORE: Fauci grilled by Congress during two marathon 7-hour sessions

Dr Anthony Fauci evaded more than 100 questions about Covid, the lab leak theory and his ties to Wuhan during a landmark Congressional hearing Monday.

House Republicans who quizzed the ex-White House advisor said he ‘played semantics’ to avoid conceding that he funded dangerous research in China that is feared to have started the pandemic.

Dr Fauci, 82, also admitted that he signed off on millions of dollars worth of grants without reviewing the proposals – and appeared to admit his agency had little oversight of the foreign labs it bankrolled.

The all-day probe on Monday will be followed by another seven hours of questioning behind closed doors today.

Dr Fauci is accused of funding risky experiments believed to have started the pandemic and suppressing the lab leak theory to silence his critics.

Dr Fauci’s closed-door testimony is expected to get heated as previous hearings have. In the past, Dr Fauci has clashed with lawmakers including Sen Rand Paul of Kentucky over his perceived coverup of funding for gain of function research as well as the Covid lab leak theory.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/fauci-flip-flops-during-first-7-hour-session-of-grilling-before-house/ar-AA1mHhxQ

Figures
Figures
January 10, 2024 6:00 am

Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has secured a deal to publish a book this year, with a contribution from a high profile US politician.

Has there ever been a book that sold zero copies? ScoMo could make history.

Surely it should be called “Chronicles of a Spineless Man”.

rosie
rosie
January 10, 2024 6:26 am

Morrison will be selling his book to evangelicals.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 10, 2024 6:27 am

Elon Musk has drawn attention to this on X:
“Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 10, 2024 6:46 am

How amazingly amazing, who could possibly have guessed this would happen?

Ray Epps, Target of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theories, Gets Probation (9 Jan)

Ray Epps, a former Arizona resident who was driven into hiding by death threats, pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor charge. He received no jail time, and there were no restrictions placed on his travel during his probation, but he will have to serve 100 hours of community service.

Well it’s pretty clear who he works for. And that the whole thing was a deep state set up.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 10, 2024 6:46 am

Morrison will be selling his book to evangelicals.

Let’s not get sectarian now, Rosie.?

I may read it, but my guess is that it’s appeal will be more for the pentecostal and charismatic readers.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 10, 2024 6:54 am

Wife and I are travelling in North Island NZ today by train. We have an elderly retired (I assume) academic with grey hair, ponytail and walking stick from the far north NSW coast wearing a “Free Palestine” T shirt, replete with the black Marxist fist.

Droning on and on about far north coast Palestinian activist networks. My blood pressure is slowly rising and my wife is bringing a steaming cup of tea back from the buffet. I may ask her to trip and spill the contents over the old commo git.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 10, 2024 6:59 am

Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.

Hopkins rarely turns in a dud performance but it’s hard to go past Daniel Day-Lewis.

132andBush
132andBush
January 10, 2024 7:06 am

Droning on and on about far north coast Palestinian activist networks. My blood pressure is slowly rising and my wife is bringing a steaming cup of tea back from the buffet. I may ask her to trip and spill the contents over the old commo git.

To hell with niceties, put him in his box.
I’m sick of these shits thinking they have a right to mouth off their crap and not cop any blowback.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 10, 2024 7:07 am

Two more people in my universe have shingles.
The second time in the past two years for one of them.

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
January 10, 2024 7:09 am

wearing a “Free Palestine” T shirt

It’s an ad. They know what it’s worth.

132andBush
132andBush
January 10, 2024 7:10 am

Call him a Nazi sympathiser.

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
January 10, 2024 7:14 am

“Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote.”

Next stage of this will be prospective immigrants who haven’t yet arrived have a right to vote. If non-citizens can vote, then do they really need to be resident within the borders?

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 10, 2024 7:18 am

Call him a Nazi sympathiser.

Which he is. I’m a bit meek, but I have my limits. I think we need Cassie here.

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 10, 2024 7:19 am

He has at least, shut up for the moment. However the t shirt shows that these people are shameless.

Cassie of Sydney
January 10, 2024 7:21 am

Ask him ‘why do you hate Jews?’.

Ask him ‘why do you support a second genocide of the Jews?’

Look, as Bush said above, F*CK EM. It’s time to stop the niceties and being polite to scum. All being nice has done is to simply embolden the scum.

‘academic with grey hair, ponytail and walking stick from the far north NSW coast wearing a “Free Palestine” T shirt, replete with the black Marxist fist’…..

Here’s the truth, this academic is a Nazi.

The left are never shy in spruiking and promoting their ideology. Why? Because we’ve let them. It is time to stop.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 10, 2024 7:22 am

Saw this last night:

Hardline Aboriginal activists will demand “freedom for Palestine” and call on the Albanese government to cut all ties with Israel at their annual anti-Australia Day rallies,

Since they call us colonisers and since they accuse the Jews of Israel of being a coloniser, and since the ‘Freedom for Palestine’ cause desires all the Jews be expelled or killed (it is in Hamas charter as well as every classroom, TV show, and it feels like it must be in every conversation), then what is it that these Hardline Aboriginal activists plan for us non-Aboriginals?

Well, they keep using the euphemism ‘Reconciliation’ which our unsophisticated politicians, MSM, and academics assume is meant literally.

Geez. I wonder what a Voice would have been like?

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 10, 2024 7:35 am

Sloan Oliver at American Thinker examines the relationship the Democrats have had with the military over the past fifty years. It has been an abusive relationship.
A military coup is all that could save the USA at this point, and the Dems have subverted the military to such an extent that this threat is almost completely removed.
They don’t just hate the USA, they hate the military.

JC
JC
January 10, 2024 7:36 am

There’s a Marty coming our way. You can just smell it in the air.

Indolent
Indolent
January 10, 2024 7:47 am
Roger
Roger
January 10, 2024 7:50 am

Morrison will be selling his book to evangelicals.

Evangelicals are generally not Pentecostals.

calli
calli
January 10, 2024 7:50 am

“Free Palestine”?

You couldn’t give it away!

Seriously though, what is a decrepit grizzled old pony tailed fathead doing wearing his virtue daub in New Zealand?

Surely he should get on the next plane to Gaza and help brutalise the hostages along with his ideological pals. For that is what he is promoting.

rosie
rosie
January 10, 2024 7:56 am

Let’s not get sectarian now, Rosie.?

I may read it, but my guess is that it’s appeal will be more for the pentecostal and charismatic readers.

So, pretty much you are repeating my comment but needed to assume when I said it I was being sectarian and that you aren’t?
When I thought I was stating the bleeding obvious especially in view of the Mike Pence involvement
I was going for tartarian, btw.

rosie
rosie
January 10, 2024 7:58 am

Mike Pence is evangelical.

Crossie
Crossie
January 10, 2024 7:59 am

Next stage of this will be prospective immigrants who haven’t yet arrived have a right to vote. If non-citizens can vote, then do they really need to be resident within the borders?

By the same logic everyone in the world would have a right to vote in the US elections. Who can define prospective immigrant? We can all claim to be so.

132andBush
132andBush
January 10, 2024 8:01 am

Anticipate his talking points/dogma/tropes.

It’ll be the same old same old.
They’re genociding the Pallis.
Open air prison.
The occupation of Gaza
Colonial Zionists
Etc etc

Be ready with some facts.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 10, 2024 8:01 am

Two more people in my universe have shingles.
The second time in the past two years for one of them.

Sounds like some sort of immune system failure …. baffling really.

Roger
Roger
January 10, 2024 8:02 am

Mike Pence is evangelical.

Mike Pence is many things.

😀

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 10, 2024 8:03 am

Any religion where you put your hands above your head is a bit iffy.

Indolent
Indolent
January 10, 2024 8:03 am
Crossie
Crossie
January 10, 2024 8:04 am

Indolent
Jan 10, 2024 7:47 AM
When you consider that everything they say is projection, this is truly terrifying.

Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
They’re insane
The DEI judges are asking Trump’s lawyer what if Trump had SEAL Team Six assassinate his political rivals

I am absolutely certain that a SEAL Team Six would never carry out such an assignment. However, Antifa dressed as SEALS …

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 10, 2024 8:04 am

And whiffy

Roger
Roger
January 10, 2024 8:06 am

By the same logic everyone in the world would have a right to vote in the US elections. Who can define prospective immigrant? We can all claim to be so.

If we’re going down that line…

I have ancestors who fought as patriots in the American Revolution.

Surely that must count for something? Perhaps it might count against me!

calli
calli
January 10, 2024 8:07 am

Be ready with some facts.

Always useful.

Until you find that their “facts” are better than your facts, because they are feeling their facts while you are only thinking yours.

the worst are full of passionate intensity.

So make sure your convictions are rock solid and immovable.

calli
calli
January 10, 2024 8:11 am

I have ancestors who fought as patriots in the American Revolution

I’ll see your revolutionaries and raise you a Mayflower pilgrim.

😀

Indolent
Indolent
January 10, 2024 8:12 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 10, 2024 8:13 am

Farmer Gez

Jan 10, 2024 8:03 AM

Any religion where you put your hands above your head is a bit iffy

Especially if you shake them.

Roger
Roger
January 10, 2024 8:15 am

I’ll see your revolutionaries and raise you a Mayflower pilgrim.

In this game “all men are created equal.”

😀

Indolent
Indolent
January 10, 2024 8:16 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 10, 2024 8:16 am

And a very good morning to all those loose bolts and chess aficionados out there!

Crossie
Crossie
January 10, 2024 8:18 am

Sancho Panzer
Jan 10, 2024 8:13 AM
Farmer Gez
Jan 10, 2024 8:03 AM

Any religion where you put your hands above your head is a bit iffy

Especially if you shake them.

Jazz hands?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 10, 2024 8:21 am

An X-post asserting that American newspaper advertising revenue, since 2006, has collapsed from $49B to just $9B.

My first thought was that such a collapse would surely have resulted in a lot of papers closing and you would have heard of that. But the $49B actually looks to be part of a ‘bubble’, perhaps restricted to the major mastheads that have greated ability to weather shocks that smaller ones. The circulation numbers have maintained a pretty rate of growth.

So, did something (or some things) happen from the mid-seventies that saw advertising increases outpace circulation increases and which thing (or things) have ceased to have an impact? Or did advertisers drive the increase and with the advent of social media they have taken advertising that was previously the newspapers’ for the asking and shifted it to social media?

Newspapers have long been rubbishing their brand, indulging in their own every whim and taking the readership for granted, but could get away with it. Until the internet.

Look what happened to the Sickly Moaning Haemorrhoid in Sydney. People relied on their classifieds and Domain, so much so the editors and journalists could rub themselves lasciviously against their desks – and then the intertubes came along…

(The sources are News Media Alliance and Pew Research Centre – not exactly finge actors.)

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 10, 2024 8:21 am

In Tartaria, the monsoon finally beckons.

Outstanding.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 10, 2024 8:22 am

I note the private hospitals, including the Catholic system, still require nursing staff to be fully vaccinated.

Just wondering, given there is no current health order in NSW would the requirement or even asking the question about vaccination be an invasion of privacy and therefore illegal?

Makka
Makka
January 10, 2024 8:26 am

Reports the SEC has approved the BTC ETF is US. Verified?

Crossie
Crossie
January 10, 2024 8:27 am

Indolent
Jan 10, 2024 7:48 AM
AccuWeather
@accuweather

Drone video shows the damage in Panama City Beach, Florida, after a tornado tore through early Tuesday morning.

Lesson learned from watching that clip, when staying in a Florida hotel don’t stay on the top floor.

Makka
Makka
January 10, 2024 8:30 am

Oops… BTC ETF in US.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 10, 2024 8:30 am

Zafiro
Jan 9, 2024 10:19 PM
This one?

No.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 10, 2024 8:31 am

The Mayflower was packed with unpopular people.
Even the Dutch were happy they left.

Dot
Dot
January 10, 2024 8:34 am

A special foreword included in the book will be written by former US President Donald Trump running mate and Vice President, Mike Pence.

The book promises to offer an insider’s account of Mr Morrison’s political career and his open commitment to the Pentecostal Christian faith.

Not even good enough to burn or use as toilet paper.

Put it on the next Space X mission to the sun.

Cassie of Sydney
January 10, 2024 8:35 am

Some more tropes..

All Jews in Israel are children and grandchildren of White Europeans
Before 1948, there were no Jews in British Mandate Palestine
Gaza = Auschwitz
Jews control the MSM

JC
JC
January 10, 2024 8:39 am

Correction to

JC
Jan 9, 2024 10:09 PM

The devaluation was around 10% not 30%.

Pogria
Pogria
January 10, 2024 8:39 am

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Katzenjammer
Jan 10, 2024 7:14 AM
“Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote.”

Next stage of this will be prospective immigrants who haven’t yet arrived have a right to vote. If non-citizens can vote, then do they really need to be resident within the borders?

Katzenjammer,
remember when Trump was running for President the first time? Many in the UK media and the Euro media were demanding the right to vote in the US election to protect the US, of course. They were giving all sorts of convoluted reasons for their belief in their right to vote.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 10, 2024 8:40 am

But of course she has. FMD. Herald Sun Mitch Clarke and Mike Butler reporting:

The state government has quietly dumped a promise to put electronic monitoring devices on dangerous young thugs, ­insisting the measure is now not needed because there are fewer youth offenders.

Leading up to the 2018 election, the government said parolees as young as 16 who had committed serious offences such as murder, rape, home invasions, carjackings or dangerous driving would be tracked.

Then families and children minister Jenny Mikakos spruiked electronic monitoring as a way to “better protect the community” and as a “constant reminder” to young offenders to comply with their orders.

But legislation announced in July of that year did not pass the parliament before its term ended in November and, once re-elected, the government did not reintroduce it.

This is despite police statistics showing a 30 per cent rise in crimes against persons committed by youths aged 14 to 17 in the year to December.

The force has been running around-the-clock operations to tackle the scourge in the eastern and southeastern suburbs.

Officers attached to the separate Operation Alliance, which runs across Melbourne, arrested 416 known gang members for a combined 1511 offences last year.

Among the worst was a 15-year-old boy arrested 33 times over 135 matters.

But the government said the tracking tactic was not needed because the situation was different to 2018 when the laws were first proposed.

Former Victoria Police chief commissioner Kel Glare said tracking measures – while not necessarily ankle monitors – were “absolutely essential”.

“These young people should certainly be fitted with a monitoring device because the ­lessons aren’t being learnt,” Mr Glare said.

“There has to be consequences. These kids see going before the courts and being released back into the community as a badge of honour. They think ‘we got away with it’ and they’ll just do it again.”

One veteran police officer said while crime figures might be stable overall, the kind of ­serious offending by those who might have been subject to electronic monitoring continued to rise.

“I’d put it into the category of a stocking filler prior to an election that gets forgotten about rather quickly … all about window dressing,” the officer said.

Prominent youth worker Les Twentyman said electronic monitoring was a better alternative to locking up the young.

“We’ve got to try to rehabilitate these people and that doesn’t happen in prison,” he said. “As an alternative to jail, I’d tick off on that every time.”

The Herald Sun has been told among the most prolific young offenders is an influential member of a western suburbs youth gang, which he joined in 2020.

The 17-year-old from Wyndham Vale was charged 10 times last year with offences while on bail, on top of seven armed robbery counts and assaults.

He has been arrested 25 times all together and hit with 132 charges since 2019.

Police intelligence indicates the rate of his gang associates’ law-breaking escalates when he is free.

Opposition police spokesman Brad Battin said the government had backed away from its own promise to protect community safety.

“Youth crime is continuing to increase at an alarming rate, and the Labor government have failed to deliver on their own commitments to make our communities safer,” he said.

“There are far too many ­examples of young offenders getting bail or released only to commit more violent crimes.”

A government spokeswoman said Victoria had one of the lowest rates of youth offending and young people in custody across the country.

She said in 2022-23 the independent Youth Parole Board cancelled 30 of 70 parole orders made during the period.

Well no shit government yes man, there are no kids in detention because they are roaming the streets breaking the law.
If the offenders are of any background other than Australian, deport them. Or at least some uninhabited island off the west coast of Tasmania during winter.

Makka
Makka
January 10, 2024 8:42 am

Looks like the SEC website was hacked. Lol.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
January 10, 2024 8:46 am

Pony tailed Academic

I suggest starting by saying…

What do you say to people who would call you a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser?

Do you sleep well at night siding with a people who committed such atrocities on Oct 7th?

What would you say to the parents of the young women taken from a Peace festival, brutalised and held hostage ?

What do you have against a democratic society that makes you support a brutal thug-ocracy?

When do you think your side will release the hostages or have your lot already killed them?

This will not end well for Hamas / Palestine.

Good day to you sir.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 10, 2024 8:47 am

JC

Jan 10, 2024 8:39 AM

Correction to

JC
Jan 9, 2024 10:09 PM

The devaluation was around 10% not 30%.

So the same amount as the (alleged) NAB deposits tax* back in the ’90’s?

* Citation needed.

Tom
Tom
January 10, 2024 8:51 am

Nikki Haley is a Completely Unserious Presidential Candidate

Not at all. She is the American political establishment’s completely useful idiot who (they hope) can be used to sabotage a second Trump presidential campaign.

Dot
Dot
January 10, 2024 8:56 am

Just wondering, given there is no current health order in NSW would the requirement or even asking the question about vaccination be an invasion of privacy and therefore illegal?

They can simply make it part of the deal to sign up as a new hire and their policy, no need to make it a regulation. Other medical questionnaire information can be much more personal and you consent, plus the information isn’t shared (in theory). There is also an exemption to the Anti Discrimination Act in NSW that legitimised the COVID rules regarding employment (of new hires from that point on).

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
January 10, 2024 8:56 am

Indolent
Jan 10, 2024 7:47 AM
When you consider that everything they say is projection, this is truly terrifying.

Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
They’re insane
The DEI judges are asking Trump’s lawyer what if Trump had SEAL Team Six assassinate his political rivals

What if Trump tied his opponents up in frivolous court actions and tried repeatedly to put them in jail? What if a compliant judiciary helped by asking ridiculous questions?

Real Deal
Real Deal
January 10, 2024 8:57 am

So, pretty much you are repeating my comment but needed to assume when I said it I was being sectarian and that you aren’t?
When I thought I was stating the bleeding obvious especially in view of the Mike Pence involvement

I wouldn’t get too tetchy, Rosie. It was meant light heartedly from a friendly evangelical who respects Catholics to a hopefully respectful Catholic.

I am aware of Pence’s Theological convictions. If I had a serious point at all, it was that Pentecostals and Charismatics are more likely to be Scomo’s audience than thinking Evangelicals.

It’s too nice a morning for tetchiness. (I would put a smiley emoji here but don’t know how)

calli
calli
January 10, 2024 9:01 am

(I would put a smiley emoji here but don’t know how)

Here’s how…like the old Nokia phones.

: plus ) gives you a smiley, : plus D a laugh, ; plus ) a wink, and : plus P is a rather rude tongue poke.

Just lose the “plus” and place the characters together.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 10, 2024 9:02 am

Cumberland City Councillor Steve Christou says
https://youtu.be/JyFZ29I3IKs?t=261
“We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side, hand in hand, with our indigenous brothers and sisters”.
Rumours that his upcoming election campaign is secretly sponsored by the Cambridge Thesaurus are completely unfounded.
If he ever mentions getting a fair suck at the sauce bottle I’d start looking for scratch marks from KRudd claws.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 10, 2024 9:05 am

Tintarella di Luna
Jan 10, 2024 8:22 AM
I note the private hospitals, including the Catholic system, still require nursing staff to be fully vaccinated.

Just wondering, given there is no current health order in NSW would the requirement or even asking the question about vaccination be an invasion of privacy and therefore illegal?

IIRC, the Commonwealth Privacy Act places restrictions on asking formanymedical data.

Of course, any breaches of the Privacy Act between 2019 and 2022 would have been incidental compared to the many breaches of other legislation that occurred in that period.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 10, 2024 9:06 am

Tintarella di Luna
Jan 10, 2024 8:22 AM
I note the private hospitals, including the Catholic system, still require nursing staff to be fully vaccinated.

Just wondering, given there is no current health order in NSW would the requirement or even asking the question about vaccination be an invasion of privacy and therefore illegal?

IIRC, the Commonwealth Privacy Act places restrictions on asking for any medical data.

Of course, any breaches of the Privacy Act between 2019 and 2022 would have been incidental compared to the many breaches of other legislation that occurred in that period.

Bespoke
Bespoke
January 10, 2024 9:09 am

I suggest starting by saying…

Those people are beyond eny rational discution, Shake and a waist of effort.

But it is the bemused onlookers that should be the real audience.
A civil fact based rebuttal to this cretin would be more constructive and educational.

Roger
Roger
January 10, 2024 9:10 am

ABC RN AM manages to find the one farmer in Australia who’s happy with the BOM.

Chuckle.

Roger
Roger
January 10, 2024 9:12 am

Just wondering, given there is no current health order in NSW would the requirement or even asking the question about vaccination be an invasion of privacy and therefore illegal?

Health agencies have exemptions in this area.

JC
JC
January 10, 2024 9:13 am

Sancho Panzer
Jan 10, 2024 8:47 AM

It’s

citation required.

Do you play chess, sanchez? Do you, do you play chess, mortherfcker? Don’t test me.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
January 10, 2024 9:17 am

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after day one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview:

“Dr. Fauci’s testimony today uncovered drastic and systemic failures in America’s public health systems. While leading the nation’s COVID-19 response and influencing public narratives, he simultaneously had no idea what was happening under his own jurisdiction at NIAID. Dr. Fauci signed off on all domestic and foreign research grants without reviewing the proposals and admitted that he was unaware if NIAID conducted oversight of the laboratories they fund. Clearly, the American people and the United States government are operating with completely different expectations about the responsibilities of our public health leaders and the accountability of our public health agencies.

It is also concerning that the face of our nation’s response to the world’s worst public health crisis ‘does not recall’ key details about COVID-19 origins and pandemic-era policies. Nearly 1.2 million Americans lost their lives to a potentially preventable pandemic. I look forward to asking Dr. Fauci further questions about mandates, his role in prompting the ‘Proximal Origin’ publication, and his policy positions related to masks and lockdowns. Tomorrow’s testimony will continue the Select Subcommittee’s effort to deliver the answers Americans demand and deserve.”

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/dr-anthony-faucis-damning-testimony?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=140517488&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ho9bj&utm_medium=email

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 10, 2024 9:24 am

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Fair Shake
Jan 10, 2024 8:46 AM

Pony tailed Academic

I suggest starting by saying…

What do you say to people who would call you a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser?

What would you say to people who ask if you support a second holocaust?

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