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thefrollickingmole
Jan 13, 2024 12:21 PM
It was 5 years ago today that IT came out of the room crying. I said “what is it?”
He said “it’s a boy!!”
That was the last time we went to Thailand.
Last time I was in Thailand two really hot girls picked me up in a bar, they said that if I took them back to my hotel I would think I won Lotto!
They were right! we had six matching balls!
Gina Rinehart has written an excellent article (“Blind Freddy can see what politicians cannot”) in the Australian Spectator. Because it is important I have posted it here & I hope the editor doesn’t mind.
I still puzzle as to why the leftist media loves to call me an ‘heiress’. My dad’s estate was bankrupt and he’d sold most of his shares in our company and spent almost all the proceeds while still alive. Even more puzzling is how the leftist media seem to think that once the government awards tenements to a mining company, it’s easy pickings – after doing nothing much but digging a few holes, they seem to think that the money flows in. The reality is that the vast majority of tenements never make it to become mines. As Blind Freddie knows, that means no cash flowing anywhere but out.
Last year was a challenging one for our primary industries, with more and more interventions from the government, and many of those living in the city not understanding the import or cost of these interventions.
In agriculture, it’s no longer dangerous fires, droughts and floods that are the main problem, it is the man-made problems. Government-made ones.
Onerous regulations restrict farmers from being able to protect their families, staff, pets, homes and investment from bushfires because governments dictate firebreaks of inadequate dimensions.
Governments also dictate the building of vast tracts of solar panels, wind farms, and transmission lines to traverse farming land. It is estimated by the IPA that one-third of prime agricultural land could be at risk. What do governments and the media think this will do to the price and availability of fresh food? Perhaps some of these renewable eyesores could be placed in city parks, rivers and on city beaches to give inner-city folk a better idea of their visual and physical impact; but of course there’s no chance of that happening because that’s where the majority of voters live.
And although farmers are upset, and frightened by the fire risks posed by solar panels, and don’t like the bird-killing wind turbines being placed on their properties, this is just the prelude to the impossible financial burden awaiting them under net-zero policies. For a typical outback station to replace, for instance, all its existing vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs) will cost the owner between approximately $10.4 and $11.5 million, not to mention whatever compliance fines may be levied. Some of the EVs required haven’t even been produced yet.
But there’s more. If your station has, say, fifty windmills, which are essential to get the daily water that stock need to survive, and you are required to change those to solar pumps at $70,000 a pop, that’s another $3.5 million.
And it doesn’t stop there. Stations run on diesel-fuelled generators, so if you change them to solar panels you will also require expensive giant batteries. And as farmers well know, the sun doesn’t shine at night.
How many farms and stations will be able to pay for all this? How many farmers and pastoralists could afford net-zero policies, without a mining company in their back pocket?
Blind Freddie can see, all such costs and more of net zero would need to be passed onto city folk.
Will inner-city voters still be happy when forced to eat inferior quality food coming from overseas that is not as fresh as they have long been used to, and not produced with our clean air and water, nor to our high environmental and health standards?
When primary industries are forced to carry onerous government burdens, Blind Freddie knows the costs must be passed on to consumers. In the case of local councils, higher costs ultimately mean higher rents and fewer services.
Then there’s payroll tax. If you think it doesn’t affect you, that it’s just something businesses pay, well guess what? As Blind Freddie knows, that cost is also passed on to you.
And even if you don’t own a car, the excise on fuel adds to inner-city costs because everything consumed requires transportation, and that requires fuel. It’s hard to think of anything that isn’t touched by the government’s fuel excise. Committing to abolishing this ‘nasty tax’ would help immensely with the rising costs of living.
Australians are dealing with the rising cost of food, energy, fuel, housing and so much more. Yet too often, rather than helping to alleviate these pressures, government policies add to them.
Take our pensioners, the vast majority of whom are sadly going through distressing times. How we can do this to our elderly is beyond me. They should be allowed to work if they want to, and as often as they want to, without upper limits on hours, and without onerous, complicated paperwork, and discriminatory rates of tax imposed on them simply for trying to improve their living standards.
My blood boils that our veterans, who have served our country, many risking their lives, are also faced with complicated paperwork, and unfair discriminatory taxes if they work hours beyond what is okayed by the Canberra bureaucracy. It means that many live in poverty, even homelessness, thanks to government restrictions on how long they can work.
As for our uni students, they need real work to build up experience and so they can save money to buy a safer car, or put towards a home. Students should also be permitted to work as many hours as they wish.
Why, with a worker shortage crisis, record debt, and rising living costs, can Blind Freddie see what should be permitted, but our government cannot?
We need policies that help Australians. We need policies that make investment in our country worthwhile. If we have any interest in maintaining our living standards we should be doing what other countries do and roll out the red carpet for investment. Expensive government-funded trade trips and trade personnel located overseas are a waste of money unless governments cut the costs and delays caused by government red tape. And Blind Freddie can see that the forcing the overburdened taxpayer to fund lawfare does nothing to encourage investment.
The old but true law of supply and demand still applies; if you decrease the supply of a commodity, such as gas, while demand remains the same or increases, it’s inevitable that prices will increase. The way to reverse this is not by government intervention, but in fact the opposite – by removing red tape and negative policies and encouraging the investment needed to bring on more supply. It’s time for common sense.
128F (whatever that is) working outside, decided to call it a day at 2pm.
The birdies were falling out of trees.
Certainly, in Western Australia – the kitchen was usually separate, for fear of fire.
It removes competition from people of pallor. No longer will people of pallor be ahead in the jobs line because they can read, write and add up.
From a thread on “why is army recruitment down??
the shot
https://twitter.com/MomsPostingLs/status/1745621312175784440
the ad
https://twitter.com/CarelessJohnny/status/1745781864093057198/photo/1
Dot
Does it though? Their oil sales to Europe are mostly blocked by sanctions. In order to reach Asian markets they would need to use the Suez, no?
You simply can’t keep a good scriptwriter down.
Vale.
Definitely me at 6am today. 🙂
Superb article from Gina Reinhardt, Vicki.
It is essential that this country starts an immediate debate on Net Zero.
Run by significant people and media organisations with wide public exposure.
We are in high winds with the spinnaker up sailing into complete disaster.
I’ve got these DEI hires from Oregon, they can’t read, write, comprehend nor do maths. Wonder why I went broke. What is the lowest common denominator.? I know let’s make everyone a dumbarse.
If nothing else, it’s going to be a hilarious election.
They hate Trump because he mocks them incessantly and it’s funny.
White House Senior living.
Oh ,
X is becoming more impressive by the day.
Dot GTF off reddit and head to X.
Flying duk:
I was having an ale at the pub yesterday afternoon, and got talking to an Aboriginal couple. We eventually got around to the upcoming ‘digitalisation’ of the currency. After exchanging stories about people not having any cash on them to purchase common everyday items, I told them that the complete removal of cash would never happen.
“How will a politician accept a bribe that’s untraceable unless it’s cash?”
OK; fear of fire may have been the primary reason…a cooler main hut a fringe benefit.
I know exactly how you feel.
Even having miss three switching on the bedroom light at 5.52 am because she wanted to read.
Not sure about kitchens and slab huts but my grandparent’s 19th century farmhouse had a separate kitchen, til it burnt down.
I suppose bacon dogs would be right out then
Victoria?
X is becoming more impressive by the day.
I know I am a digital dunce. But can someone tell me how to program “X” to have chronological tweets?
‘This is another example of bastard gas cooking, which has been ruining Australians’ lives for over 200 years’
– Chris Bowen
Not sure about kitchens and slab huts but my grandparent’s 19th century farmhouse had a separate kitchen, til it burnt down.
These were common in rural NSW during a certain era. I recall an Upper Hunter Valley property near my parents’ farm belonging to one of the Macarthur Onslows that had the classic detached farmhouse kitchen. We were rarely invited into the main house – although I do recall being a little girl SO impressed with the books in a bookcase in one room in the house.
The other recollection that is SO strong is the memory of a timber colonnade covered in a grapevine that led to the house. I can still conjure the perfume of those Isabella grapes when ripe. It was this memory that persuaded me to replicate this colonnade from the carpark to the front door of our farm today. I couldn’t locate Isabella plantings, but I do have a grapevine of ornamental grapes covering the colonnade. The crows strip the grapes in summer, although I can’t think they would be very tasty.
Malcolm Farr is popping a few shirt buttons at The Guardian over Dutton’s Woolworths boycott call.
Farr reckons it’s a cynical ploy to attract the votes of workers and small business owners.
Cynical or not, if that’s the reasoning it at least reveals that Dutton has a strategy that relies on more than winning Teal seats back.
‘This is another example of bastard gas cooking, which has been ruining Australians’ lives for over 200 years’
– Chris Bowen
Did he really say that???? Those separate kitchens had a wood burning stove.
Major car hire company dumping its EVs
Hertz Selling 20,000 Electric Vehicles for Gas-Powered Cars
How DARE he try to attract the voters whose lives are being destroyed by leftardism.
Ok anotherJason Stratham Movie to see – THE BEEKEEPER | Official Restricted Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzINZZ6iqxY&t=164s
Ahhh, no.
Zatara
Jan 13, 2024 1:45 PM
Major car hire company dumping its EVs
On the Jo Nova Blog Friday –
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/hertz-to-sell-one-third-of-its-evs-customers-dont-want-them-and-they-cost-too-much-to-fix/
As bad as Bowen is, even I wouldn’t really have imagined him blaming bottled or piped gas cooking for homestead kitchen fires in the 1840s.
Hi Cassie – I read that article this morning and thought bulltish !
English history has been a passion of mine ever since I could read – especially from 1066 to the Stuarts – my degree is in History.
Then this arvo I’ve seen your posts on it and I’ve reposted your comment in the Oz to see if your theory of being blacklisted holds any water.
I’ll let you know how it goes
Hope you don’t mind.
OldOzzie
Jan 13, 2024 1:51 PM
Ok anotherJason Stratham Movie to see – THE BEEKEEPER | Official Restricted Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzINZZ6iqxY&t=164s
Not ‘anuvver cockney geezer. Some posters/imposters on this Blog won’t be able to handle it.
“How will a politician accept a bribe that’s untraceable unless it’s cash?”
And the Local Council re: Property Developers.
Tom:
Win!! is a pain.
Exact same problem. I just bought a USB cable connected mouse and keyboard. Problem fixed. There seems to be an issue with wireless software.
“How will a politician accept a bribe that’s untraceable unless it’s cash?”
Or some Union leaders. Maybe have a house built/renovated for free. No cash needs change hands.
And, just like that, a boycott of Big Groceries was a bad thing.
What are the two most used/favourite words in the English language?
Free alcohol.
What are the two least used/not favourite words in the English language?
Alcohol free.
…a fry chef alongside Elvis.
I knew it!
Great post last night by Digger on the old fred, re his secondment to the USN in the 80’s and the indifference of RAN brass upon his return to what he had learnt.
You’ve got to remember that the upper echelons of the RAN back then were infested with Poms whose class snobbery would drive them to treat both non-commissioned ranks and the USN with utter contempt.
Which leads us to where we are today.
We can’t defend “warships” from $200 drones.
‘This is another example of bastard gas cooking, which has been ruining Australians’ lives for over 200 years’
– Chris Bowen
Another 251 mainstay of the legendary hunter/gatherer way-of-life, GAS, gone in the great 1770 devastation when “JImmy” implemented the scorched earth policy that ended the “Dreamtime” … forever ..!
the boy’s could swat them with their handbags
Exact same problem. I just bought a USB cable connected mouse and keyboard. Problem fixed. There seems to be an issue with wireless software.
been using $2 USB mice from the discount shops for years without any hassle ..!
Out of interest what do these, can get, “expensive” wireless mice do that the $2 USB mice don’t?
Vicki, about X.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/x-formerly-twitter-now-sorts-posts-like-count-profiles-when-signed-out/
Great post last night by Digger on the old fred, re his secondment to the USN in the 80’s and the indifference of RAN brass upon his return to what he had learnt.
If the Navy had no interest in learning what improvements/knowledge might be available thru OS detachment why do they approve secondment ..?
Labor hasn’t been the worker’s party for 30 years, since French Cocks Keating became PM.
Good heavens, I have made a terrible typo, dropping an “l”.
It works.
We Will Prevail No Matter What – Governments Better Learn from History
COMMENT: Hi Martin,
We can now see insanity developing to the full. As you or \ and Socrates predicted. The curtain has been pulled somewhat but we have not yet seen the wizard completely. We can clearly see some of its agents. Anyway. Not all seems to be lost in the process. I notice a growing resistance and luckily some the brightest are amongst them. I understand this is a cyclical thing in humanity. I do wonder how bad it will be this time around. We need more involvement of women. Their strength has not yet been awakened enough. All these jokes of women that are now in power can be restrained by the real feminine spirit. When I was a girl me and my sisters watched the series ‘Ivanhoe’, which inspired us to take out the copper rods of the stair case and mimic a sword fight. No we were not misgendered. Girls also like a fight. They just have different methods certainly when they grow up.
Happy new year to you and fasten up your seat belt.
Cheerio,
L.
REPLY: I have met many women in governments around the world. I must say, since 2000, there has been a trend where those who rise to power are not the strong, independent type, male or female. Those who rise are those who conform. The days of Margaret Thatcher are long gone. Maggie understood the shenanigans behind the Euro. It was the men who staged a coup against her because they were the conformists. They were perfectly willing to surrender the sovereignty of Britain to Brussels, all on the theory that a one-European government would end the war and a single currency would promote European central control.
People are waking up. That is part of the cycle into 2032. As they awake, those in power will scream and fight, for this is all about them retaining power – not what is good for the country and certainly not the people. This is why we must go through their treacherous times. In the end, we will win because they are actually nothing without the people. When Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged, the left hated it. It was raining on their Marxist idea of utopia.
Many ask me: How can Socrates forecast civil unrest and outcomes with such accuracy? What I have tried to explain is that history is a map of the future. People wrongly assume that we are technologically advanced, so history is just about a lot of people chucking spears and running around in sheets. They are focused on the technology rather than the events and the people. The one thing that ensures history will ALWAYS repeat is that human nature never changes.
For example, if you knew your history, you would instantly spot that Star Wars was simply a modern revision of the Roman Revolution. Instead of swords, they are now light sabers. They are fighting for the Republic against the evil Emperor.
This is what we will see as more and more people open their eyes. As in Rome, the Revolution of the Plebs during the 5th century BC was when the common people revolted and just walked out. A series of clashes erupted in the Second Roman Revolution in 495/494BC. The plebs were even talking about assassinating the consuls. Instead, the plebeians vacated the city and marched to the Sacred Mount (Mons Sacer) outside the city. The Senate suddenly realized that without the plebs, there was no economy. The ancient version of Atlas Shrugged. They dispatched Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, who had been a consul that the plebs well respected. He explained that they were the belly and the limbs of society and that they also would starve. He explained that both needed each other.
The plebeians agreed to negotiate for their return to the city but insisted they would have special tribunes to represent them. That was the birth of the Tribune of the Plebs. However, no member of the senatorial class would be eligible for this office, and the tribunes should be above everyone else. Nobody could touch them, not even the Consuls. The senate agreed to their terms, and the people returned to the city. Thus, this was a bloodless revolution.
These people look at us with such disdain. We are to be exploited for their unbridled power. There is no economy without the people. That is why this Great Taking is so wrong. To retain power, they need the military. If those in the military refuse to fire on the people, as was the case in Russia when Yeltsin stood on the tank, then the Russian coup collapsed.
There are limits to their power. They are ignorant of that fact, for when they are on top, they cannot see how they will fall – but they always do. This is what 2032 is all about. They WILL FAIL, and the PEOPLE will ultimately prevail. We will get to redesign government, and this time, let us learn from the past – just for once!”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/the-will-prevail-no-matter-what-governments-better-learn-from-history/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
And from Jo Nova – Net Zero Uproar in Germany –
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/01/net-zero-uproar-in-germany-mass-farmer-protests-spread-to-other-workers-and-other-countries/
those beyond meat burgers aren’t going to eat themselves you know!
Yes Roger, in the north west.
The Henry Handel Richardson house at Beechworth also has a separate kitchen so am sure they were a thing in Victoria too.
The members of today’s labor Party wouldn’t recognise a worker if they fell over one, in the street.
libertarians suggest liberty should not be defended.
Thing is that the edumacation people preen and pose themselves as part of an elite intellectual class such as the Earth has previously not known, and before whom we ordinary folk should fall on our faces in awe of their brilliance and in fear lest we vex them and they let loose as in insight so searing that it deconstructs our preconceptions molecule by molecule.
Yet here on their home turf, confronted by a shocking failure in teaching their best strategy is not to bring the lower achievers up to the prevailing higher standard – best they can do is lower standards to the lowest level.
That is their best solution.
All day, every day (and no doubt at night in their sleep) they are hectoring and badgering everyone else, telling doctors how to doctor, engineers how to engineer, banks how they should bank, scientists how to conduct and understand science, and businesses how to run their business – all of these areas beyond their remit and actual experience – while within their own specialty they are failures.
Orwell in his most famous book wrote “if there was hope, it must lie in the proles”.
I would tweak this for modern needs: If there is any hope it lies in razor sharp billhooks and blowtorches, and dark alleys where from the shadows people might taunt passing teachers with cries of “Look, a guy in a MAGA hat putting cardboard into a PET recycling bin and who can spell ‘onomatopoeia’”
The spelling part would sting most. Dumbing down the curriculum is pathetic enough but at least it is done and excused as a collective which means no one is at fault. But spelling is an individual skill so there is no squirming out of that particular and teacher iconic deficiency.
Media Beclowns Itself with Articles Linking Israel’s Military Efforts in Gaza to….Climate Crisis
More detail on the previously discussed Gaza = global warming tripe.
Switzerland is free because the countries around it give it that luxury as for no 9/11 s so what? The Swiss are electing more and more anti immigration candidates, possibly there is une probleme?
Dot:
It keeps them on the plantation hoeing weeds, where they will be safe from all the nasty white folks.
Black culture provides plenty of ‘hoes’, and they scatter their seed so indiscriminately that the abortion industry is hard pressed to keep up
Eyrie
Done.
Reposted for excellence:
Another festival of Jew hatred in Sydney’s CBD. Thousands of Jew haters in CBD. NSWaffen protecting the Great Synagogue, of course they are monitoring the situation.
I think I might have upset a teacher.
An extra Aberlour cask strength (with a splash of water because 60% alcohol crowds out the other flavours an and also that I cannot stand near naked flame).
St Jacinda news:
She alone caused much distress to not allow marriages with more than a score of people. Same with funerals.
5 people here and the media are moistening their pantaloons. Wowee.
Thousands of Jew haters in CBD. NSWaffen protecting the Great Synagogue, of course they are monitoring the situation.
So we know what we always suspected- the anti discrimination laws were there to restrict debate on immigration.
Good afternoon, Bob.
Switzerland also has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world and mandatory military service for all able-bodied male citizens. Coincidence?
Seperate kitchens were pretty common in my childhood world. I always thought it was a fire risk thing.
It didn’t work though. Bloody kerosene heaters disposed of many a homestead.
I watch the lifestyle channel occasionally. Quite a few times there are black people on it looking to buy property, not one of then are different to any one of us. Doing what they think will improve their lot. I’m sure that none of them are in the category of wanting an easy education, in fact going by what they say about their life aspersions would find it demeaning. Exactly the same as most of us would.
This phrase often graces newspaper front pages a few days before ‘was known to police’.
That’s because removal of the penis while leaving the testicles would just look silly.
Pretty sure most Gazans (or ME countries) really care bugger-all about “climate change.”
Johnny Rotten
Jan 13, 2024 12:24 PM
They built to the reality of the environment.
Now we build to the promise of cheap, reliable power.
Guess who gets surprised the most?
Cassie, the NSWaffen will only be there in case a scum muzzie trips and hurts himself. They’ll throw themselves under the falling scum to soften the fall.
Cassie, the NSWaffen will only be there in case a scum muzzie trips and hurts himself. They’ll throw themselves under the falling scum to soften the fall.
And to supply coffee and jam tarts. Useless people
Hopefully there will be a damn sight better level of protection than what they gave the church where Pell’s memorial was held, which was almost none.
Sliante!
Wha’s there like us?
Damn few, and they’re all dead!
Father Zeus the cloud-gatherer sending down his thunderbolts here, along with plenty of dam-filling flanneries.
In Canberra as well ATM.
Switzerland also has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world and mandatory military service for all able-bodied male citizens. Coincidence?
It helps when you are looking after the money of the world’s grifting politicians.
Ackman finds a new scalp…
Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
The owner of Business Insider Mathias Döpfner engaged in plagiarism for his PhD « XJMR
How’s this for irony? https://econjobrumors.com/topic/the-owner-of-business-insider-engaged-in-plagiarism-for-his-phd
What’s now apparent is that future Australian governments that (daringly) aspire to carry out the will of voters will need legislation mandating the job of their police forces as it is now clear the instinct of Australian police leaderships is to do the bidding of their political masters — NOT the traditional idea of protecting the public.
In Australia, police forces are now just branches of the public service motivated by self-interest that take the line of least resistance as their guiding operational principle.
Barron’s runs a beginning-of-the-year event getting a group of fund managers and investment advisors together to chat about the economy and offer stock picks for the year. They mostly old geezers wearing orthotic shoes.
Here’s the pic.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html
A total of 44,042 new Army recruits were categorized by the service as white in 2018, but that number has fallen consistently each year to a low of 25,070 in 2023, with a 6% dip from 2022 to 2023 being the most significant drop.
Anton asks the question
https://imgflip.com/i/8c7023
The dude has made a career of going after tardy boards, ruining their cocktail parties and making lots of money. Academia wouldn’t be happy campers now as he’s promised to go after every single MIT academic for plagiarism with a team running AI.
This could really ugly.
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JC
Jan 13, 2024 3:52 PM
Barron’s runs a beginning-of-the-year event getting a group of fund managers and investment advisors together to chat about the economy and offer stock picks for the year. They mostly old geezers wearing orthotic shoes.
Here’s the pic.
My bet that’s you sitting next to the matron in the lime green shirt and puckering up to lean over for a smooch.
Well Cassie the comment was allowed ! ! !
It would be fair to say you probably on a black ban at the Oz . . . FWITS.
Roger at 1:42
Certain PNG tribes actually fear reincarnation as Malcolm Farr’s shirt buttons.
Cronkite
“The matron” is Abby Cohen from Goldie’s. You’d be a billionaire by now if you followed her by doing the opposite.
Dude behind her is one of the best single stock pickers in the business.
I’m not a huge motorhead but this is just cool.
“The matron” is Abby Cohen from Goldie’s. You’d be a billionaire by now if you followed her by doing the opposite.
Dude behind her is one of the best single stock pickers in the business.
I could never have been a nerd; I’m too stunningly attractive.
Yes Roger, in the north west.
The Henry Handel Richardson house at Beechworth also has a separate kitchen so am sure they were a thing in Victoria too.
Whoah there! Thems fighting words. HHR house is in Chiltern. We dont take too kindly too them Beechworth hill folk claiming our Lake House. Thats how wars start.
As you were.
Reposted for absolute excellence, and accuracy to boot:
Makes sense
Employee Notice For Old People …
EMPLOYEE NOTICE
**************************
Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, the Government has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early, mandatory retirement, thus creating jobs and reducing unemployment.
This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).
Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to the Government to be considered for the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced Termination).
Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW program (System Covering Retired-Early Workers).
A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as the Government deems appropriate.
Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS (Additional Income for Dependents & Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).
Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES wil not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by the Government.
Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. The Government has always prided themselves on the amount of SHIT they give our citizens.
Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring this to the attention of your MP, who has been trained to give you all the SHIT you can handle.
Sincerely,
The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives (E.V.I.L.)
PS – Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
Newslocal headline, from our nation’s capital:
Ex-receptionist. She’s on her way up then.
Surely someone could give Teh Project a ring on her behalf. You know, to bring down the Liberals somehow.
Next to Lisa Wilkinson’s tome?
Someone just sent me a meme withe the Woolies logo with the word: Wokeworths – underneath it : the fake friend people in bright Woolworthless green – doesn’t take long
Someone just sent me a meme withe the Woolies logo with the word: Wokeworths – underneath it : the fake friend people in bright Woolworthless green – doesn’t take long
And Woolies are NOT the Fresh Food people. ACCC please take note. The email is on it’s way.
Add a reply to it pointing out its history. If they don’t publish, they will at least know they’re on notice, and it can be done again.
Thank you WolfmanOz. I’ve just had a look and yes, your comment has been published.
The activist activists moderodents at the Oz don’t like me!
I still subscribe because the Oz, whilst not perfect, is still good reading.
Eyrie
Jan 13, 2024 3:50 PM
Switzerland also has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world and mandatory military service for all able-bodied male citizens. Coincidence?
It helps when you are looking after the money of the world’s grifting politicians.
Eyrie,
Having shot at Swiss Gun Ranges, here are 2 vidoes why Switzerland also has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world and mandatory military service for all able-bodied male citizens.
The shooting range where you fire over a busy road
&
Why the Swiss Love Their Guns (more than Americans)
This is a badge of honour.
Wear it with pride.
This is journalism’s major problem: J-school graduates aren’t taught to be the public’s eyes and ears, but to instruct the public how to think correctly in choosing to vote for either the Greens or the ALP.
So the J-school kiddies at The Australian have taken on themselves to ban comments from anyone who doesn’t think like them — Cassie, for instance.
The J-school kids are at war with their readers and The Australian‘s editorial management: just ask an editor what s/he thinks of the illiteracy and innumeracy of J-school graduates who need a computer spellcheck to know how words are spelt and have no idea about basic arithmetic — while taking it upon themselves to instruct normies what to think about politics.
I see that Jacinda Ardern’s wedding has been picketed.
Protesters have protested outside Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford’s wedding as it gets underway, with the former New Zealand Prime Minister’s guests forced to drive past.
Good. This hideous woman destroyed New Zealand. She destroyed businesses, careers, livelihoods.
It’s currently pissing down in Canbrrrrrrrrr. Tell Airbus/Tennis elbow to get back to work at Parliament House and bail out the Cabinet.
Tim Flatulence. Where are you? Up the creek without a paddle I guess with NFI.
Johnny Rotten:
Yes, we thought of that, but the time honoured custom of a couple of slabs becomes a bit difficult when you get into pallets of slabs. Perhaps it will work with small ‘grease the skids’ deals but when you get to the big stuff, you get problems like “Your new Lamborghini doesn’t seem to show up in the books anywhere, Mr MP. Can you explain this?”
I wonder why they bothered.
Hi Cassie – I read that article this morning and thought bulltish !
Wolf, I’m glad you also thought the piece was bulldust.
Phillipa Langley’s obsession to find the burial place of Richard III is a remarkable story, but I suspect any historian/sleuth with a similar obsession would have eventually found Richard’s bones. Records and anecdotes of the time always maintained that Richard’s body was buried by monks at the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester.
Revisionist history and historians make me cross, particularly Langley’s attempts to rewrite history.
rose this is a serious concern. However, I think the Houthis should be obliterated by airstrikes. They are attacking innocent civilians and drawing more people into the conflict. The problem is Joe Biden is in charge.
How do you think all those shoppies and heavies could afford GC penthouses?
Just got home from seeing it. Jason Stratham doing Jason Stratham things. Lots of blood and gore, certainly not academy award material. Enjoyed it and Mrs D actually remained awake.
Good. This hideous woman destroyed New Zealand. She destroyed businesses, careers, livelihoods.
I was staying at an Up Market Resort just outside Queenstown NZ South Island in May last year. Such a lovely place with no rubbish on the roads or anywhere in town. Place was booming.
As for Sydney Town. Broken pavers and rubbish strewn everywhere. Clover No More: where are you these daze.? In a daze?
And Scomo/Libs and the State/Territory so called leaders smashed Australia with the lockdowns and ‘Virus Crisis’ restrictions.
And now we have Airbus/Tennis Elbow and Dipstick Bowen to deal with.
Happy New Year everyone.
I love Penman’s “The Sunne in Splendour”, a ripping yarn that seeks to rehabilitate Richard III. Given the power and influence of the Tudors, the demonising of Richard made sense. After all he was a crowned king and the Tudor’s claims were…tenuous.
But that doesn’t detract one iota from the cruelty of the times. Anything was possible, especially as Richard had a son to succeed him. Until he didn’t.
I now wait for progressive scum to screech the following words…”picketing a wedding, how outrageous”!
They might have once had a point, but you see I believe that any goodwill has been destroyed. This goodwill wasn’t destroyed by my side of politics, it was destroyed by the progressive woke left. I have a good memory and I remember how, just on a year ago now, progressive scum picketed and protested a funeral. I know this, because I personally witnessed the horror.
What goes around comes around. Time to stop turning the other check.
…a fry chef alongside Elvis.
I knew it!
Bless your socks ML, is that… a Robert Rankin reference?
I wonder why they bothered.
calli, my mother said exactly that this afternoon. And apparently, she wore white!
LOL…………….words fail me.
Is the argument that a resort in Queenstown makes NZ a-okay because no rubbish around?
Maybe the Chinese who own the place dictated a sparrow removal mandate.
The problem is Joe Biden is in charge.
The only thing that Sleepy/Creepy Dribbling Joe is in charge of is his phone charger. And then again, maybe not.
She identifies as a virgin.
It’s a miracle!
Horseface wouldn’t’ve been a patch on a white Andalusian I’ll bet.
oh dear that was really bitchy, I’ll have to do better, thank goodness for tomorrow, I’ll begin again.
Maybe the Chinese who own the place dictated a sparrow removal mandate.
Actually, there were lots of nice birds around the place. Some even had nice short skirts on the Golf Course.
Japanese but no Chinese.
Henry Tudor had the most tenuous claim to the English throne, but by that time, all other contenders were dead, in exile, or not interested.
and his chocolate chip ice cream cone.
I see Centcom is reporting 2 missing US seamen off the coast of Somalia. Did the Yemenis in fact strike a US Navy ship?
Nah. She deserves every serve she gets. She sold out her country, she basked in her unmarried motherhood, she was the poster girl for every woke and cruel diktat of the so-called “Coved response”. And got a cushy job at the end of it because she was too cowardly to face the electorate.
Any sniping from this forum is small beer in the face of these enormities.
reckon an EU standard truck with a smaller engine
doing pretty much exactly the same amount of WORK
as a non-EU truck with a bigger engine
would use petty much the same amount of fuel
and emit pretty much the same emissions
but don’t ask me
… check with a politician or j’ismist
Currently afflicted with Relevance Deprivation Syndrome?
After all he was a crowned king and the Tudor’s claims were…tenuous
True, but marrying Elizabeth of York, the sister of the murdered princes, helped to secure his claim.
Lol. We have a Jacinda fanboi lurking! Too late Sunshine.
That horse has bolted.
Nah. She deserves every serve she gets. She sold out her country, she basked in her unmarried motherhood, she was the poster girl for every woke and cruel diktat of the so-called “Coved response”. And got a cushy job at the end of it because she was too cowardly to face the electorate.
Quite so.
Elizabeth of York. Poor girl.
And the other half of a trade mark that exists to this day. The Tudor Rose.
JC
Jan 13, 2024 2:25 PM
Vicki, about X.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/x-formerly-twitter-now-sorts-posts-like-count-profiles-when-signed-out/
Thanks, JC.
I’ve been told that the CBDs of Auckland Town, Christchurch Town and Wellington Town are also looking dismal and dirty, that business have shut up shop and there’s a lot of boarded up former shopfronts.
Misrepresenting the Latest Meeting on Pope Pius XII
Zatara
Jan 13, 2024 1:45 PM
Major car hire company dumping its EVs
In Sydney today I went to Coles to buy some groceries – a protest against Woollies refusing to stock Aussie flags etc.
“Silent protest” was a pain in the neck as I had to carry groceries & had difficulty with their do-it-yourself check out. But it was worse when got back to angle-parked car. Backing in alongside was a Council worker (on a Saturday???) in a Council car emblazoned with HUGE lettering – “100% EV” !!!!
Vomit, vomit. Needless to say – I am in a Teals electorate.
Okay, Johnnie.
Let’s just say that when I’m at the supermarket, I don’t buy the “100% pure New Zealand” products any more.
Something changed, and I’m certain it wasn’t because Japanese. Or even short shorts.
Desmond Seward’s book “Richard 111: England’s Black Legend” makes the case that Richard was the most terrifying person to have ever mounted the throne of England, and that included Henry V111.
Jacinda Ardern’s wedding
I assume they had limousines.
They couldn’t have a horse and carriage. Surely.
Cassie of Sydney
Jan 13, 2024 4:42 PM
I see that Jacinda Ardern’s wedding has been picketed.
Who the eff would marry that thing?
Henry VII’s claim to the throne came through his mother, Margaret Beaufort. She was a descendent of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster*, himself a son of Edward III.
However, she was descended from the illegitimate line that the Duke spawned with Katherine Swynford. The four children from that union were legitimated by Richard II (as John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford eventually married in later life) but the circumstances of their birth has always cast suspicion of whether the current monarch should in reality be on the throne, coming as they do from the Tudor line.
Margaret Beaufort was also 13 years old when she gave birth to the future Tudor king. She, quite understandably, never had any more children.
*The red rose of Lancaster being the other side of the trademark mentioned above.
“You may kiss the bride.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7H9RugEOo4
The Immigration Paradox, and how it is actively subverting the Democratic West.
I note with interest Horseface’s upcoming nuptials.
In hopeful anticipation, I am now searching for the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones on Netflix.
That’s hilarious !
I hear there’s been a run on sugarcubes in upper-crust NZ.
I don’t think we have cracked 40c. May have, somewhere?
Red Wedding
The best episode of many ‘best’ episodes.
Margaret Beaufort was also 13 years old when she gave birth to the future Tudor king. She, quite understandably, never had any more children.
Yes. Despite being asked to wait before he bedded Margaret, Edmund Tudor raped Margaret on her wedding night.
Damn.
I was thinking of a mango mango banana erisku.
Yes Cassie. He was twenty five, she was twelve.
The bugger died of bubonic plague. Too bad, so sad.
An act considered uncouth, even by the standard of the day, and, as callie notes, he died from bubonic plague, not long after.
we’ll see
After both an earthquake and the not-so-tender ministrations of Horseface during COVID, it is little wonder that Christchurch is in a slump.
Jacinda Ardern was pretty in her younger years …she was. Calli said something about her referencing the Lord if the Rings.
Gollum. Corrupted by evil?
That’s the good thing about democracy.
New Zealand has a new government and Jacinda us yesterday’s girl.
Nothing like taking out the trash. Even if it’s only the UniParty.
Bear, you may kiss the bridle. There, fixed it for you.
As someone with strong ties to NZ – lived there for 8 years, mum and sister still live there – the general consensus on Ardern was that she was loathed at the end by a fair majority of the populace.
I’ll be back again in March for my mum’s 87th birthday !
One of the forebears of the Plantagenet’s, Count Fulk the Black, of Anjou, caught his young wife, Elisabeth of Vendome, in flagrante with a goatherd. She was burned alive, in her wedding dress. There is no record of what became of the goatherd.
“The Demon’s Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty” by Desmond Seward. His book on Richard 111 is required reading.
Irish President Honors WWII Hero Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty at the Vatican
Courtney Mares/CNA – Vatican – October 20, 2023
Very true.
Should be said Henry Tudor was very close to his mother and she was a strong influence behind the throne and she died a couple of months after Henry.
Soyjacks are real…
https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a965966c214f2f09dc78cd81da1b32b3?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1125&cropW=1125&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=862
the original
From an ABC sharticle celebrating rich men renting out 3rd world ladies wombs to make kids in.
And the Pope is a big meanie for not liking it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-13/surrogacy-advocate-stephen-page-slams-pope-call-to-ban-practice/103305332
The sharticle literally uses a gay bloke who is a surrogacy lawyer and “advocate” for its hot takes…
Stephen Page and his husband Mitch were brought to tears when a friend offered to become a surrogate mother and give birth to a child for them so they could form a family.
“It was Christmas Day, of all days, when she said she loved us both and wanted to be our surrogate,” Mr Page said.
“Then a very good friend offered to be an egg donor.
“Both of them were giving the gift of life to us.”
…
Mr Page, who is a fertility lawyer and surrogacy advocate, said the pope’s comments were hypocritical, as the numerous cases of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests meant the church did not have the high ground when it came to sexual morality.
“It’s a bit rich to hear the Catholic Church, of all institutions, talking about women’s and children’s rights given their history,” Mr Page said.
“They should put their own house in order first,” he said.
………
Mr Page agreed that there were legitimate concerns some women overseas who became surrogates were being exploited.
But, he said, the majority of Australians who pursued surrogacy to create or expand their families went abroad to find surrogate mothers because they couldn’t find surrogates locally.
He said, in his opinion, surrogate mothers should be allowed to receive payments in Australia, because the current system disincentivises local surrogacy, resulting in more people entering into commercial arrangements overseas.
…
Surrogacy lawyer Sarah Jefford said she felt blessed to become the surrogate mother for two Melbourne dads in 2018.
The podcaster said in her view she was receiving the gift of life just as much as she was giving it.
I’m pretty certain there will be a Vogue spread forthcoming.
Rosie, you’ve got the kiwi accent off pat. us = is
The Vatican Priest Who Saved 6,500 Jews in World War II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZ2L-mbTL4
Vogue spread? Racing monthly, shirley
Jacinda’s wedding dress was custom made.
calli
Jan 13, 2024 5:38 PM
You are so odd talking about the Chinese in Queenstown NZ South Island and a sparrow removal mandate. Wot’ mandate and wot’ Chinese? As far as I know, the sparrows are still there brought into NZ by those ghastly colonists – The British.
Just like the sparrows in OZ. Maybe get the local Chinks here to remove them then. Then they could end up in the chop suey in Sydney and MelBum Chinatown. Nice.
There is no record of what became of the goatherd.
His final moments were captured on film.
do they?
ZK2A,
The son of Geoffrey of Anjou (he who wore a sprig of planta genista in his cap, inspiring the name Plantagenet), Henry II was possessed of what was termed the Angevin temper. He was recorded as having fallen to the floor in fits of anger and gnawed at the carpets.
Charming.
Death by Taxation for Gig Economy
“The gig economy has exploded in recent years as people seek additional income to keep up with the rising living costs. The government has been attempting to exploit these workers for additional taxes for years. A new law implemented by the Biden Administration will force some businesses to classify gig workers as employees, raising costs for everyone involved.
According to a paper published by the University of Chicago, during the first year of the pandemic, there were 2.1 million new gig workers, and in 2021, an additional 3.1 million people took on gig work. Upwork found that 36% of the American workforce has been freelancing during the pandemic, which is an increase of 2 million over 2019. Nearly 2 million Americans drive for one of more rideshare services, such as Uber and Lyft. Reuters now estimates the number of gig workers in America to be closer to 3.4 million.
It costs companies about 30% more to hire someone as an employee rather than an independent contractor. There are state laws regarding independent contract or gig work, but this is the largest piece of legislation to be passed on the federal level.
The legislation is presented in a way that will protect workers from the big bad companies. In truth, the law will raise taxes on these workers who took on these low-skilled positions for extra income. This will prevent some from, say, working for both Lyft and Uber. Trade group Chamber of Progress believes that reclassification will result in $31 billion in lost revenue.
Companies will simply limit their workforce by necessity. When Governor Gavin Newsom approved raising California’s minimum wage to $20 under Bill 1228, countless people found themselves without a job. Pizza Hut fired over 2,000 delivery drivers right before the change was implemented. California Pizza Hut and PacPizza franchises eliminated delivery driver positions entirely.
So, the kid delivering pizzas a few nights a week during college will miss out on that opportunity because the government wants to tax him as an employee. “Gig” is simply a temporary contract intended to produce supplemental income. These positions were never meant to be full-time career paths. The government should explore why so many people are seeking multiple jobs instead of preventing people from seeking out additional sources of revenue.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/death-by-taxation-for-gig-economy/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Similar to Australia. Socialism is right here.
Calli,
I no longer buy food from New Zealand. A lot of it comes from China and is re-packaged and marked “Product of New Zealand”.
The same with Italian canned tomatoes. Quite a bit of the canned tomatoes are grown in Italy, but owned and canned by Chinese. The last six-pack of Italian tomatoes I bought, were fermenting in the can. That had never happened before. I had been buying Italian tomatoes for decades. Never again. Have always made my own sugo, for the cans now, it’s Ardmona all the way.
For all the fake LOLs you have zero sense of irony. Or history.
I am truly amazed at the interest in English History on this Blog.
Cats here who have been paying attention know all about repackaging and the the direction to remove the sparrows.
I was having a bit of fun with the rubbish removal in their new feifdom.
More likely that Hamarse wants time to re-supply and re-build.
For all the fake LOLs you have zero sense of irony. Or history.
You know SFA about Queenstown NZ and what I was talking about with my original post. It was in response to what Cassie of Sydney had posted but you jumped in with your……………………LOL
Liz Churchill
@liz_churchill10
Friday Night Movie, ‘Plandemic 3’. This movie brilliantly explains the current Global Communist Takeover.
Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):
In all seriousness, I do wonder why people go to Fraser Island at all. Apparently there is some form of 4WD-based attractant, but Quenthland’s massive. There must be eleventy other places one can 4WD and camp on or near a beach.
Fiefdom
I before e except after c.
Except the exceptions. 🙂
*whoosh*
Right over yer ‘ed, fake Pom.
Reflections on January 6
My sister and I went to Mum’s today. We went to clear out some of Mum’s old clothes, shoes etc. Mum won’t do it so we had to. We found dresses, jackets, and coats still with price tags on them, Mum had never worn them. Most were Sportscraft purchases….of course. I scored two nice dresses. She had about twenty jackets (I kid you not), we chucked half of them out. Then we found a heavily sequined top Mum had bought back in Los Angeles in 1989, yes, in Beverly Hills. It looks like something out of La Cage aux Folles, hideous. I recall Mum wearing it in the early 1990s, she hasn’t worn it this century. Mum shrieked when we went to chuck it, she said that on no account were we to chuck it, it had cost her a fortune back in 1989, and she still liked it, despite never wearing it. I told Mum to take it to a bar like Kinselas on Oxford Street and offer it free to one of the trannies there, to which my sister said they’d fall over in horror, those trannies probably have better taste! I laughed however my mother was not amused.
Then I went to make some tea for the three of us, I opened Mum’s her fridge and I counted 10 jars of pickles. She’s become a pickle hoarder.
I think we are about to find that the whole PhD industry is a house of cards.
You may kiss the bridle.
Have always made my own sugo, for the cans now, it’s Ardmona all the way.
Yep, I only buy Ardmona and Leggos. Don’t care that they cost more, they’re better, infinitely better, and made locally.
If you went “bald guy in the middle with the lazy eye” you’d be on the money.
“Then we found a heavily sequined top Mum had bought back in Los Angeles in 1989, yes, in Beverly Hills. It looks like something out of La Cage aux Folles, hideous. I recall Mum wearing it in the early 1990s, she hasn’t worn it this century. ”
Cassie,
was your Mum a fan of “The Nanny?” The jacket sounds like something Fran Fine’s mother would wear. 😀
Really?
Okay, newbie.
Cassie, there are still some charities out there that help women with office wear for interviews, etc.
Dress for success, dress for work, etc. They would likely want these beautiful garments.
Not the sequinned number. Sounds very float worthy!
was your Mum a fan of “The Nanny?” The jacket sounds like something Fran Fine’s mother would wear. ?
LOL.. Yes she was.
Dress for success, dress for work, etc. They would likely want these beautiful garments.
Yes, we’re going to give them to a charity.
I think the correct term is “the all white colours of the club”.
Jacinda, do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband? (Tap your hoof twice for “Yes”).
For those who don’t know about Mao and the sparrows (I foolishly thought everyone here did know) here is one of many links.
Oh my! Wilbur marries Ed?
Well, she was well and truly behind ssm. I suppose inter generic isn’t a bridge too far, since some chicks are marrying trees these days.
Can’t speak for Wellington and Christchurch but Auckland wasn’t too bad last time I was there in March last year.
Especially if you compare it to the Melbourne CBD which is an absolute sh!thole now.
Are sure she wasn’t pulling the old “wear it once, don’t spill curry or cabernet on it, and return for refund”?
😉
Cassie,
your stepfather’s name isn’t Morty, is it? 😀
They wouldn’t have the tags and still be in the wardrobe if that were the case Sancho.