Open Thread – Weekend 13 Jan 2024


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JC
JC
January 14, 2024 1:25 pm

You are demented, J.C.
Seek help. Quickly – you are living in a fantasy world, which by definition isn’t real.

Of course I am. Sorry, don’t have time to respond, as I’m off to the pharmacy to stock up on iodine.

Every single nation offering free iodine is doing so because of the risk of aging nuclear plants. You mentioned Switzerland to defend your argument why you stocked up. You either lied, or more likely too stupid to figure out the reason why iodine is issued to Swiss. Now, because it’s been highlighted you’re a first order cretin, the person debunking your stupid claim is “demented”. Go take some iodine, Turtlehead as you never know what Tuvalu is up to. You just never know.

Indolent
Indolent
January 14, 2024 1:26 pm
Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 1:27 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

Jan 14, 2024 1:00 PM
Considering the “initiation” was well documented by the evil invaders, and reasonably widespread, you’d think they’d want to identify with their tribal roots. Being Proud and all.

Still practiced ten years ago, if the “Australian” can be believed.

It’s true. We got a young fellow in at Fitzroy Crossing about then, and despite having given the “elder” a specific kit with Betadine – An iodine sterilant for the skin – swabs and scalpels, he managed to lacerate the poor fellows penis and he was bleeding so badly he was flown out by RFDS to Perth, IIRC
The upshot wasn’t the butchery by the “Elder”, it was because we only had a lady doctor on duty, and the “Elder” refused to allow her to deal with the problem he caused. Allowing a woman to attend would negate the entire ceremony, and it would be her fault if the initiated one died.

Roger
Roger
January 14, 2024 1:28 pm

Tradition is everything to the group’s leader, Lance Tjupurrula Sullivan

Lance lives off-country in Townsville and has a Linkedin profile.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 14, 2024 1:29 pm

JC

Jan 14, 2024 1:08 PM

Germany issues free iodine tablets

Utter bullshit.
This is just Green-left local governments gaslighting the population with scares about Nucalear Powah.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
January 14, 2024 1:30 pm

Cassie 13/01 10:24
Leftists love rape.
The leftists encourage rape of western females.
Rotherham, Telford, Huddesfield, Manchester, areas of Stockholm and Swedens 2nd city. Isolated cases through out Germany.
Then in Oz, the treatment of Nicole Flint – the WOng chap said that it was not the time to talk about this.
It seems to me that if you are an effeminate, well kept, happy, family orirntated girl your are going to get it.

These so called adults talking like some of the kids from the state schools banging on about those private school sluts walking around acting innocent and thinking they are too good.

While I am at it, stop banging on about women body image – males do not go to fashion shows except Elton John who foul mouths what females wear with other females.
Males think this shows are impartial and bordering on stupid.
What lefties loathe are the neat female , well groomed school teacher type who walk into a room and the boys shyly greet them with “can I help you miss”.

You’ve been Litt Up

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 1:30 pm

In other words, the wind turbines froze and lost almost 50% of their capacity in the cold weather. Perhaps if we had some global warming and the temperatures were a little warmer they would work better.

Ever get the feeling that they really didn’t think these things through too well?

There was nothing to think about, the government was handing out money and the investors, manufacturers, suppliers and installers were taking it. The real villains are the responsible public servants, department heads, who should have done the feasibility studies and worked out the costs.

There are two reasons why they did not do so and neither reflect well on them. One, they knew that renewables are unrealistic but wanted to be liked by their politicians and the media. Two, they really are not very smart and believed the rubbish about emerging technologies that will be available in the near future to make everything hunky dory. These elite public servants are not worth 10% of the remuneration they are paid, a junior clerk could have made the same decisions for the same reasons.

Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 1:36 pm

JC

Jan 14, 2024 1:08 PM
Germany issues free iodine tablets

The western German city of Aachen has started issuing free iodine tablets to some 500,000 residents and people living nearby because an ageing Belgian nuclear plant is seen as a risk.
People can register on the city website to receive coupons exchangeable at pharmacies stocking the pills.

Which has little to do with the fact that Switzerland has a national program of distribution of iodine tablets in case of a nuclear/radiological incident and Australia hasn’t – as I said.
Now, do I have your permission to go and weed my vegie patch? I’d hate to think I left the site without letting you know, Hall Monitor.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 1:37 pm

By the way, the International Red Cross is still yet to visit ANY of the hostages.

Just like in World War II, the International Red Cross turn its back on Jews.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 1:38 pm

I said the strikes were ineffective and you gave me five paragraphs of cope and seethe. How does this help?

The Houthis will have the cope and seethe as they die under steel and explosives for their masters the corrupt Iranian Republican Guard supremos.

Just like the Hamas cockroaches are dying in Gaza. The underlying principle is actually similar.

Dover – You underestimate the sheer power of the US. They can burn money to burn enemies until Hell freezes over. The problem here is Biden is currently getting pressure from all his corporate mates about “supply chains” and “business disruptions” due to the Houthis potting ships in the Red Sea. So he’s going to bombard the Houthis until they pull their heads in. The Houthis made a political mistake, which was to hit US fascist Lefty elites in a place they hurt.

Until you understand the driving imperatives of the corrupt US administration you will never understand why they do what they do.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 1:39 pm

Utter bullshit.
This is just Green-left local governments gaslighting the population with scares about Nucalear Powah.

Likely true, but it doesn’t remove the fact that an imbecile holed up in Shithole Queensland stocked up because he was fearful of nuclear threats from Micronesia and was misusing the reason why the Swiss were offering free iodine.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 1:45 pm

Which has little to do with the fact that Switzerland has a national program of distribution of iodine tablets in case of a nuclear/radiological incident and Australia hasn’t – as I said.

You left out the reason and the purpose. Switzerland offers free tablets to people living within 50K of nuclear reactors. It’s that sort of accident causing the free release, you dishonest bonehead. We DON”T have nuclear reactors in Australia unless you’re concerned about Lucas Heights if it’s still operating.

Now, do I have your permission to go and weed my vegie patch? I’d hate to think I left the site without letting you know, Hall Monitor.

Oh, it’s hall monitor for calling out your putrid bullshit is it, you ridiculous clown. You’re done, now go garden.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 1:47 pm

Last year, after Alan Tudge resigned his seat of Aston prematurely, Liberal HQ in Victoria, still reeling from the May 22 election loss, and still being gaslit by the bulldust the Liberals had a “woman problem”, decided to put up a female candidate in Aston, a female from the other side of Melbourne, a barrister who was not a local and had no ties to the electorate. The result, the Liberals lost Aston.

In hindsight it was actually good the Libs lost Aston, because the loss enabled Dutton to take control of the party room, he was then able to assert his leadership on the Voice and so on.

There’s a by-election looming in Dunkley, and in good news the Liberals haven’t fallen for the lie “they have a woman problem”, and a local has won Liberal Party preselection to contest the seat.

The Liberals might have a chance, I’m not saying they’ll win the seat (however it was a Liberal seat until 2016).

We will see. But one is for sure, the wheels have come off the Sleazy train.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
January 14, 2024 1:49 pm

Bons 13/10 @ 10:38

Spot on annalysis re sbs and abc.
The Greeks I have to laugh in the 80 & 90 the board were Anglos leftie who slagged off on Christianity.
How did they interact with the Greeks.
The Anglos who ridiculed sport flew to Argentina for Socceroos international. The soccer commentator for sbs, Greek guy, Moustache Buffont hair, short – Andy something or other – was left watching the game on a tv monitor delivering the commentary.
Ask Kostakiedis what would happen if a krout wog from Northern Europe tries out for Hellas or Olympic. Hacked with a life changing injury.

At school in the 70s we had an amazing soccer team. By year 9 most of the Star players left, the English Irish and Aussies.

What were left were the Italians and Greeks who would be in the fourth or fith teams.

Abc – yeah private school English literature grads – better money than teaching.
I wonder how Maxie Mcque got on with Lara Tingle.

Johnny Rotten
January 14, 2024 1:49 pm

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

– Winston Churchill

Johnny Rotten
January 14, 2024 1:53 pm

Oh, it’s hall monitor for calling out your putrid bullshit is it, you ridiculous clown. You’re done, now go garden.

I actually prefer my observation. You are the self appointed Blog Milk Monitor.

Zatara
Zatara
January 14, 2024 1:54 pm

the strikes were ineffective

That’s why there were so many Houthi missiles/drones fired after the strikes…

3 days now. Not a peep.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 1:56 pm

Woddenhead, go back to checking out the ladyboy catalogue and leave people be, you limey crook.

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
January 14, 2024 1:56 pm

I don’t pretend to know the best way to topple Iran’s government. Selective strikes? Invasion?

A list of targets,
one by one until their government resigns.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 2:04 pm

Cassie – Sadly Dutton I think is seen as a sop for the base. I expect the progressive Libs who control the party will find someone else to lead them into the election. Duttun unfortunately has zero charisma, which is why even sneerer-in chief Albo has a personal favorability which is lots better than his.

Anthony Albanese had higher ratings for trustworthy (49% to 41%), in touch (46% to 41%), caring (61% to 45%), likeable (57% to 39%) and having a vision for Australia (59% to 55%), and was less likely to be seen as arrogant (45% to 57%). Peter Dutton led on experienced (70% to 66%), decisive and strong (58% to 48%) and understanding the major issues (57% to 54%).

Proof that most voters operate by hormones instead of brains.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 14, 2024 2:04 pm

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Jan 14, 2024 9:55 AM
Tintarella di Luna
Jan 14, 2024 6:07 AM

Thank you Tom – loved the spirit level earrings

I can imagine you wearing a pair for fun. ?

. My earrings were always rather spectacular given I had a couple of well-endowed sisters and we worked together so to compensate for my deficit in that area I wore big earrings — I would say: my sisters might have big tits but I have big earrings — no-one really saw the equivalence at all.

Indolent
Indolent
January 14, 2024 2:06 pm
cohenite
January 14, 2024 2:09 pm

Proof that most voters operate by hormones instead of brains.

Most voters are lazy retards.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 14, 2024 2:12 pm

We watched Miss Austen Regrets last night on Britbox. Excellent account of the last years of her life.

Olivia Williams is Jane Austen, but I noticed hard-working actor Pip Torrens in it. He crops up frequently as a snooty Englishman. IIRR he was in Patriot Games many years ago in a minor part.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 14, 2024 2:14 pm

I understand a lot of people use unsalted butter for cooking, I get that. I don’t understand why you’d deny yourself salted butter for other uses.

Winston I no longer have the yearning for it at all — what I do love is fresh ciabatta bread cut thickly, sprinkled liberally with olive oil (not too much though) and dusted crystal salt and a cup of sugary tea — yum – that was my afternoon snack once I discovered it’s deliciousness – I have it now but without the tea.

Johnny Rotten
January 14, 2024 2:14 pm

There’s no such thing as soy milk. It’s soy juice.

– Lewis Black

Annie
Annie
January 14, 2024 2:15 pm

Calli @ 0916:

That reminds me of Cyprus at grape harvesting time. Trucks full of grapes travelled around Happy Valley in Episkopi with juice draining out onto the road. The signs went out each year warning that the road was slippery with grape juice.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 2:15 pm

More mindless quotes.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 14, 2024 2:19 pm

A fuking scruffy piece of burnt bark. And WTF is a multi-clan elder? Useless grifters.

Aye.
The so called multi clan bloke sez he has bloodlines from different parts of the country. So one side of his forebears might have grown up in say, for the sake of the argument, Wiradjuri and the other Wamba Wamba. But then old mate might have been born in Latje.
That’s where the bullshit is. He would then say at a ‘Welcome to Country’ “I’m a proud Wiradjuri/Wamba/Latje man…” rah phucking rah. But try and, as you say, grift from the Aboriginal organisations in those areas. It’s really quite nauseating.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 2:24 pm

Cassie – Sadly Dutton I think is seen as a sop for the base. I expect the progressive Libs who control the party will find someone else to lead them into the election. Duttun unfortunately has zero charisma, which is why even sneerer-in chief Albo has a personal favorability which is lots better than his.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Firstly, when do we take notice of “personal favorability”? Even just before the Liberal landslide in 2013 Tony Abbott was not as ‘favorable’ as Kevin Rudd. Also, Dutton’s ‘personal popularity is closing in on Sleazy. Popularity is meaningless.

Secondly, Dutton is no sop, and his leadership is not a sop to the base. Dutton will lead the party to the election. I’m not saying he’ll win in 2025, but I do think that Dutton will reclaim seats, and these include some Teal seats.

The nightmare scenario is that Labor will be pushed into a minority government with the Greens.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 2:26 pm

Subbing critical manufacture.

Long before the harrowing Alaska Airlines blowout on Jan. 5, there were concerns within Boeing BA -2.23%decrease; red down pointing triangle

about the way the aerospace giant was building its planes. Boeing, like so many other American manufacturers, was outsourcing more and more of the components that went into its complex machines.

A Boeing aerospace engineer presented a controversial white paper in 2001 at an internal technical symposium. The engineer, John Hart-Smith, warned colleagues of the risks of the subcontracting strategy, especially if Boeing outsourced too much work and didn’t provide sufficient on-site quality and technical support to its suppliers.

“The performance of the prime manufacturer can never exceed the capabilities of the least proficient of the suppliers,” Hart-Smith wrote. “These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight.”

Components of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 are built by a range of suppliers

The paper became a sensation within Boeing. It was passed among engineers. Posted on factory walls. Hart-Smith, after he later retired from Boeing, said of his warning of excessive outsourcing: “It’s common sense.”

Two decades later, Boeing is reckoning with the fallout from its outsourcing strategy.

The Alaska accident is the latest in a string of quality problems at Boeing, whose engineering prowess created the 747 that helped usher in the global jet age. The company’s reputation has suffered from a pair of fatal 737 MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019 that grounded hundreds of jets for nearly two years. More recently, Boeing has been dogged by issues with various models—misdrilled holes, loose rudder bolts, and this month’s MAX 9 door-plug blowout—lapses the company failed to catch.
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Many of the problems with Boeing jets since the deadly crashes can be traced back to a production system adopted by Boeing and its aerospace rivals before Hart-Smith’s paper. Dozens of factories build key pieces of 737 and 787 jets before they are assembled by Boeing. One of them is a sprawling fuselage plant in Wichita, Kan., that Boeing owned until 2005.

At the time, then-Boeing executive Alan Mulally said selling the factory to a private-equity firm would let Boeing focus on final assembly, where it could add the most value to its airplanes.

and it’s not just them either.

European rival Airbus
follows a similar manufacturing approach, sourcing from factories across the globe—including fuselages and other key parts from Spirit. Last year, Airbus faced a major problem with an engine supplier whose metal contamination is sidelining hundreds of Airbus jets worldwide for repairs.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury, in a June interview, said the plane maker faces similar risks with its own suppliers—many of which Boeing shares. But he said Airbus has largely been able to avoid major problems with its quality-assurance approach.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
January 14, 2024 2:40 pm

There’s a certain surreal atmosphere when someone posts several wordwalls to say that iodine is an antidote to radiation exposure.
Yet is presenting this as a rebuttal of another commenter recently saying …… iodine is an antidote to radiation exposure.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 2:40 pm

Firstly, when do we take notice of “personal favorability”?

Cassie – That is how it works for a lot of people in the voting booth. My own mother is like this, I love her to bits, but she cannot get past her innate emotional feeling about a political candidate long enough to be able to parse what they are saying in terms of policy and platform. And she’s been a lifetime righty. It’s how humans are, sadly.

It’s abundantly clear that the Liberal Party is utterly controlled by the Photios-Kean wing. And that Dutton is not their man. But they aren’t dumb, they know they are on the nose with the conservative base. Dutton therefore is a sop. I wish that wasn’t so, but until the Keans get booted that will be the case.

Nevertheless it is still true that Peter Dutton has zero charisma. Nothing he can do about that, it just is how he is. Look at Hawke for example, he had charisma oozing out of every pore. Howard wasn’t bad in this respect. Abbott was fairly good also. But Peter sadly is Mr Potatohead no matter what he does. He’s just built that way. And voters, especially the ladies, will vote on that aspect. The Newspoll data is very clear.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
January 14, 2024 2:44 pm

Clan structure musta changed since I was a kid. Back then it was matrilineal. Regardless of suspected sire, you were whatever clan/skin/totem/family you were born into.

There was no “multi”. Clans were …. clannish. They formed alliances & nursed hatreds, yet were within a tribe.
Tribes were wary of each other, you weren’t “both” or “multi”, you were whichever one you were born into.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 2:45 pm

@ Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 14, 2024 2:40 PM

Some of the best bosses I ever had had zero charisma… surely intelligence and administrative competence is the more compelling attribute? Even if they are dull at parties.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 2:46 pm

Switzerland, like the others issued iodine tablets to people living in the vicinity of nuclear reactors.

As far as we know, there are NO nuclear reactors in Queensland. Perhaps someone could update us if that’s the case.

How surreal.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 2:47 pm

@Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 14, 2024 2:40 PM

P.S. that was a general rejoinder not aimed at your specific observations. ~disclaim~

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 2:50 pm

Salvatore, Iron Publican
Jan 14, 2024 2:44 PM

That’s cleared all the misunderstandings and confusion posters experienced earlier upthread.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 2:51 pm

Iodine 131 is a fission product of both uranium and plutonium. Because iodine is rare the body efficiently scarfs up any of it we ingest. It then concentrates in the thyroid gland where it is an essential minor element for an enzyme. Therefore when we get exposed to iodine 131 it can be concentrated in the thyroid and therefore cause thyroid cancer because of the radiation it emits.

Iodine tablets are provided as a nuclear fallout response because by flooding your system with natural iodine it can crowd out the radioactive iodine isotope, therefore that radioisotope does not get concentrated in the thyroid gland.

Annie
Annie
January 14, 2024 2:52 pm

Talk of iodine tablets might be more relevant atm as we have heightened tensions in parts of Europe and the ME.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 2:53 pm

Dutton is no sop, but he is a plodder, he once worked as a Plod. Dutton reminds me of those stone age hunters of old who would spend days running down prey.

Peter Dutton has been the member for Dickson since 2001. Dickson is NOT a safe blue ribbon Liberal seat. Dickson has historically always been a marginal seat. Before Dutton became the member, it was held for three years by Gareth Evans’ fatty squeeze, Cheryl Kernot, before Fatty Kernot it was held by a Liberal and before that by Labor’s Michael Lavarch. For over twenty years Queensland and federal Labor have tried everything to remove Dutton, and every time they have failed. With the help of unions and GetUp, Labor has spent buckets of money throwing resources at trying to terminate Dutton’s political careers, and they keep on failing. In 2019 Labor was convinced that they’d got him and he’d be gone. Even in May 2022, various people were projecting that Dutton’s was goneski. Except he wasn’t goneski. Dutton always defies the leftist doomsdayers, and his vote in Dickson consistently holds up election after election. Why? I suspect the voters of Dickson have more common sense than the voters of Wentworth and Warringah, and they see Peter Dutton for what he is, yeah sure, he doesn’t have much charisma but he is solid and he has his fingers on the pulse of middle Australia.

Finally re. Dutton and “charisma” I don’t recall Howard, Abbott or Morrison having much in the way of ‘charisma”….nor for that matter does Sleazy.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 14, 2024 2:53 pm

There was no “multi”. Clans were …. clannish. They formed alliances & nursed hatreds, yet were within a tribe.
Tribes were wary of each other, you weren’t “both” or “multi”, you were whichever one you were born into.

Further, there is a deep distrust between northern/southern/western Australia blacks. Koories down south are pretty much hated by the Murris in Queensland and Noongars in the West. Not sure why however, maybe something to do with funding models.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 2:55 pm

It’s abundantly clear that the Liberal Party is utterly controlled by the Photios-Kean wing.

Wrong again, the NSW Liberal Party might be controlled by the Photios/Kean wing, but not in SA and not in WA and not in QLD.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 2:56 pm

@ Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 14, 2024 2:40 PM

I was wondering if you were going to do that… and you did …Bless You . Being involved in a Nuclear Incident is multi factorial. I once remember some one being mocked for saying”put a paper bag on your head” .. it makes sense.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 2:56 pm

Look at Hawke for example, he had charisma oozing out of every pore.

I thought Hawke had all the charisma of a forting contest.

Lee
Lee
January 14, 2024 2:56 pm

Finally re. Dutton and “charisma” I don’t recall Howard, Abbott or Morrison having much in the way of ‘charisma”….nor for that matter does Sleazy.

Albo is the diametric opposite of charismatic.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 2:57 pm

Nevertheless it is still true that Peter Dutton has zero charisma. Nothing he can do about that, it just is how he is. Look at Hawke for example, he had charisma oozing out of every pore. Howard wasn’t bad in this respect. Abbott was fairly good also. But Peter sadly is Mr Potatohead no matter what he does. He’s just built that way. And voters, especially the ladies, will vote on that aspect. The Newspoll data is very clear.

Since when are you an expert on “ladies” and what they think?

I think you need to go outside and get some fresh air.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 2:58 pm

You, like many others, overestimate the position of the US in 2024 as if its 1994. No one is really afraid of the US anymore.

The US isn’t no longer capable of imitating the same wars now that’s been involved with in the past 30 years and win. Big call there Dover.

Rosie
Rosie
January 14, 2024 2:58 pm

Would be nice if the Israelis had some way to introduce microscopic tracking devices into the medication they are sending the hostages.
it may happen

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:00 pm

And as for this endless ordnance spigot that can be operated by endless streams of cash. No.

The US hasn’t placed its industrial sector on a war footing.

Jock
Jock
January 14, 2024 3:01 pm

I noticed the pro Arab, pro houthi riot in Washington. It appears they got violent and broke the fence around the white house. The secret service and capitol police in a tizz. Aren’t these people on Brandon’s side?
In any event , surely this is insurrection. Will we see the doj pursue those participating alleging and then jailing them forv10 years on multiple offences?
Bwahahahaha! Like hell. Few will be arrested. Even fewer will go to the poker. Most will get a ray epps.

Lee
Lee
January 14, 2024 3:01 pm

Wrong again, the NSW Liberal Party might be controlled by the Photios/Kean wing, but not in SA and not in WA and not in QLD.

The NSW Liberal Party can’t possibly be worse than their Victorian counterpart, which will turn on its own if any don’t conform with the woke agenda, such as not supporting the transgender cult.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 3:02 pm

Some of the best bosses I ever had had zero charisma

Mark – True. But company managers are appointed not elected, they just have to be competent not pretty. Which is the problem with pollies – they have to be sufficiently charismatic to be elected: pretty but not competent works just fine for a pollie.

My whole working life after uni was in the corporate sector… 😀

You get this with unions also. Often union bosses are charisma-less bastards because the necessary requirement to climb the union greasy pole is bastardry. It seems to me that a lot of charisma-free lefties are attracted to the union system because of that. Companies are similar, except in companies people have to be able to achieve, or they tend to get fired. In unions it isn’t competence that determines success, it is mafia-style allegiance.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 3:03 pm

Daily Mail.

Outrageous reason Jewish sperm donor Jay Lazarus was rejected by couple – and you won’t believe their response when he called them out for it

Jewish man left shocked and hurt
Lesbian couple rejected his sperm

Seems his sperm was affected by the war in Gaza.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:05 pm

in case of a nuclear war, especially if you live near a potential target.

Rural Queensland. Yuge target. Yuge.

local oaf
January 14, 2024 3:07 pm

omne epigramma sit instar apis

– Martial

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 3:09 pm

I think you need to go outside and get some fresh air.

😀 I doubt you are an entirely representative example of female humans, Cassie, from my long experience of your fine prognostications and comments. You are an unusual and thoughtful lady. My mum is who she is, and I like talking with her, since she is a window on how many women think. Which is not how men think.

My mum is exceptionally bright, she’s the daughter of a professor. But emotions are still trumps.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 3:11 pm

So, he’s now an expert on how women think.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 3:12 pm

@ Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 14, 2024 2:40 PM

Indeed … your observations as to Unions. Tick correct. But in Leftie Unicorn sanctuary the Shoppie should be as usefull to the general betterment of the work force, and hence the Industry in question, just as the Boss’s Foreman …

A conduit of usefull information ….

It does happen .. (kept under glass in the Smithsonian… ) but it can and has.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 3:12 pm

Couple rejects Jewish sperm donor, citing inability to ‘navigate’ his ‘identity’ amid Israel-Hamas war

By rachel baxendale
Victorian Political Reporter
10:49PM January 13, 2024
220 Comments

A Perth man has described his devastation after a couple with whom he had developed a close relationship terminated plans for him to be their sperm donor, citing “ethical challenges” amid the Israel Hamas war and their inability to “navigate parts” of his “identity”, namely his Jewishness.

Hair stylist Jay Lazarus says he began the process of becoming a sperm donor in October 2022, and “connected deeply” with a same-sex couple from Queensland, with whom he had been undergoing the sperm donation process, until they decided not to proceed in late 2023.

In a text message Mr Lazarus has posted on his social media, the couple profess to be “about kindness and love”, but proceed to say that they are “so deeply affected” by the “war between Israel and Gaza” that they feel out of their depth proceeding with the donor relationship.

“We are so deeply affected by the world events at the moment, particularly the war between Israel and Gaza,” the couple say in their rejection text.

“We cannot even begin to imagine what you are going through with your heritage and deep beliefs. We are so sorry for everything that is happening.

“We are down a rabbit hole with the depth of our emotions and the ethical challenges, and truth be told we feel out of our depth in proceeding with this donor relationship.

“We are about kindness and love. Everything we do, say, work towards, is love in action, for every human being. We are sad for the Israeli’s (sic) and we are sad for the Palestinian people, so deeply sad.

“We don’t have the capacity to navigate parts of your identity in this donor relationship so we are respectfully ending this now.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 14, 2024 3:16 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 14, 2024 2:04 PM
Cassie – Sadly Dutton I think is seen as a sop for the base. I expect the progressive Libs who control the party will find someone else to lead them into the election. Duttun unfortunately has zero charisma, which is why even sneerer-in chief Albo has a personal favorability which is lots better than his.

Anthony Albanese had higher ratings for trustworthy (49% to 41%), in touch (46% to 41%), caring (61% to 45%), likeable (57% to 39%) and having a vision for Australia (59% to 55%), and was less likely to be seen as arrogant (45% to 57%). Peter Dutton led on experienced (70% to 66%), decisive and strong (58% to 48%) and understanding the major issues (57% to 54%).

Proof that most voters operate by hormones instead of brains.

Proof most pollsters are leftards.

Lee
Lee
January 14, 2024 3:17 pm

Perhaps the U.S. needs a president who can “make America great again.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 14, 2024 3:18 pm

These are the same imperatives of any US administration.

Why do you regard the Biden administration as a US administration?
It isn’t.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:20 pm

Less and less so, and moreover, neither Afghanistan or Iraq had the strategic depth that Yemen or Iran do.

Let’s travel back in time to the year you brought up – 1993.

Iraq had strategic depth, as you call it, in Gulf War 1. Their military also had fighting experience as a result of the Iran/Iraq war. Gulf War 1 was basically over in a week.

Let’s fast forward to 2024.

Do people really believe that the staffing problems that the US forces, and the Brits too, are not having a material impact on their effectiveness?

We don’t know and neither do you. We don’t know if the recruitment level is causing problems as we don’t have a good handle on the level of efficiency in the military. Perhaps, the US military can operate effectively with less numbers seeing every single government operation is essentially overstaffed and could work well with less. You have no idea.

Or that giving away billions of ordnance doesn’t? Or that having fleets overextending their maintenance and refit?

The US isn’t on a war footing.

miltonf
miltonf
January 14, 2024 3:22 pm

Duttun unfortunately has zero charisma

irrelevant you twerp

John H.
John H.
January 14, 2024 3:25 pm

dover0beach
Jan 14, 2024 2:58 PM
The funniest thing about this iodine tablet talk is that if its sensible to have some on hand in the case of a nuclear incident because you live near a nuclear reactor it is probably as sensible or near enough to have some on hand in case of a nuclear war, especially if you live near a potential target.

If there is a nuclear war thyroid cancer pales in comparison to all the other health risks. Thyroid cancer is a very low malignant risk. Leukemia, cancer here, there and everywhere, everything dying, a devastated landscape but gotta protect that thyroid?

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:26 pm

It’s not 1941 anymore. The US doesn’t now have the industrial sector that it did then.

Don’t be silly, of course it does if there was a need to place itself on a war footing. It’s spending around $450 billion adopting to new armaments, replacing old stock and building new equipment. That’s leaving out compensation.

cohenite
January 14, 2024 3:27 pm

So, he’s now an expert on how women think.

My wife says I have no self control.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 3:27 pm

The US seem reluctant to field their munitions … perhaps they will turn out not to do what it says on the tin .. other than enrich the MIC. Once the Ukies get the f – 16 ? any niggle will be a sales fail …

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 14, 2024 3:28 pm

Poland Suddenly ERUPTS With Explosive Reaction

Suddenness is a Covid vaccine symptom, isn’t it?

calli
calli
January 14, 2024 3:29 pm

So, he’s now an expert on how women think.

Not convinced. Possibly on how some women think.

A lot of that about, sadly.

I don’t mind Mr Potato. He’s streets of slippery Luigi and Wallet Wizard in the authenticity stakes. And give me authenticity over charisma any day.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 3:29 pm

RIP … Gonzalo Lira … Oh the opression and black bagging … Oh and poor Old Ray Epps !! a five Hundred bucks fine !!!

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:30 pm

My wife says I have no self control.

She’s right.

Mine says the same thing about me and 100% wrong.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 3:31 pm

Free Julian Assange

calli
calli
January 14, 2024 3:31 pm

Hair stylist Jay Lazarus says he began the process of becoming a sperm donor in October 2022, and “connected deeply” with a same-sex couple from Queensland, with whom he had been undergoing the sperm donation process, until they decided not to proceed in late 2023.

Gosh. I hope they don’t call themselves “Purebloods” also.

Figures
Figures
January 14, 2024 3:34 pm

Dutton is taller and a million times less of a sissy than Albo. Neither are charismatic but Albo is as awkward as they come.

Dutton is being treated the way all conservative leaders have been. If he was in the Labor party he would be on his 6th term as PM and every journalist would be smitten by him.

Just the same as Trump would have been treated if he were a Democrat (indeed Trump was treated that way before he became Republican).

calli
calli
January 14, 2024 3:34 pm

Dover is right about the iodine tablets. Might as well prepare for the worst, though I’m unconvinced a modern reactor would become instant Chernobyl.

Although we seem unable to cut a house frame on site, let alone build anything more technical.

cohenite
January 14, 2024 3:34 pm

She’s right.

You still don’t do irony, do you.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 3:37 pm

Not convinced. Possibly on how some women think.

He knows how his mother thinks, and that’s it.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 14, 2024 3:37 pm

Some of the best bosses I ever had had zero charisma

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 3:38 pm

@ Figures
Jan 14, 2024 3:34 PM

Just the same as Trump would have been treated if he were a Democrat (indeed Trump was treated that way before he became Republican).

Treated by whom? The MSM … ? No one is taking them seriously any more. Good point Mate ..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 14, 2024 3:38 pm

The western German city of Aachen has started issuing free iodine tablets to some 500,000 residents

Charlemagne would have been furious.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:39 pm

You still don’t do irony, do you.

Never ironed in my life.

calli
calli
January 14, 2024 3:40 pm

Bruce also know what you think, so that’s two. And I make three.

I’m sure there are more that get in his ear.

As for what men think, now there’s a mystery. They say one thing in the hope we’ll shut up, then do the opposite. Foolish creatures. I, for one, see through the ruse and smile indulgently.

Figures
Figures
January 14, 2024 3:43 pm

Indeed if you ever want proof of how full of excrement leftists are just look at how literally *all* of them changed their views on Trump the instant he nominated as a Republican.

Every famous person inside and outside of politics loved him. Then he nominates as R and every single person on the left decided he was the devil incarnate. His views didn’t even change. Social liberal but pro free market. Same as he had always been. Those were his policies as President. If he were a D and implemented those exact policies nobody would have complained.

Leftists are evil and belong in prison. Never ever lose sight of how repulsive they are.

calli
calli
January 14, 2024 3:47 pm

Quick! Go back! You’ve missed some. 😀

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:54 pm

Iraq didn’t have ‘strategic depth’. It had no ally, was isolated physically, and the US could attack its industry with near impunity.

And the hootie tooties have a great deal of strategic depth, has borders with everyone of its allies and an industrial capacity that is the envy of the world?

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 3:57 pm

1941 was a while ago… some made good looting Russia in the 90s… their children though it would continue to be the “Family Business” … alas it is only the American Tax payer ( and the Australian $500m from Aussies) that got looted.

But the girls get to put little dogs in their hand bags … and wear the yellow and blue Slva Ukraine !!! Freedom and Democracy

RIP Gonzalo Lira.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
January 14, 2024 3:57 pm

South Africa only demoted cricket team captain for being a Jew. The International Ice Hockey Federation has barred Israel from competing in the World Championships.

Staunchly protesting this, & sticking up for Israel, is the German government.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:57 pm

JC thinks its still 1941 industrially in today’s US.

It multiples bigger. 13% of the US economy is manufacturing, making that sector multiples larger than what it was in 1941. By that snark you obviously think it’s smaller.

Figures
Figures
January 14, 2024 3:57 pm

Cassie

The nightmare scenario is that Labor will be pushed into a minority government with the Greens.

Indeed it is and it will be front and centre of Liberal election campaigning. Nobody will believe Albo if he says he won’t accept Green support to form government so the Libs are free to tell everybody with mining jobs/shares they will lose their everything if they vote for Labor.

Basically, Dutton can just campaign against the Green party policies and point out that under an Albo government we will get all of them.

thefrollickingmole
January 14, 2024 3:59 pm

but we have Lindsay Graham again, overnight, saying we must target Iran. Absolute clown-show.

Lindsay “bloodfeast” Graham you say?

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 3:59 pm

It’s

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 14, 2024 4:00 pm

Hair stylist Jay Lazarus says he began the process of becoming a sperm donor in October 2022, and “connected deeply” with a same-sex couple from Queensland, with whom he had been undergoing the sperm donation process…

Wankers.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 14, 2024 4:00 pm

Okay, wading into a topic upon which I have not even a glancing expertise but nevertheless most honest intent.

Aborigines used to trade their women – perhaps for a haunch of marsupial meat or a particularly well fashioned boomerang (GT stripes?). Or perhaps they were acquired through victory in battle.

Point is that when transferred to their new clan were their offspring deemed part of the new clan (suggesting women do not pass on membership) or were they considered alien (an odd choice considering how precarious populations could be with sometimes too many mouths and sometimes too few breed stock).

So when a woman passed from one clan to another was her new clan affiliation imprinted with a nulla nulla?

Is this the origin of ‘Terror Nullas’?

Robert Graves, in his book The White Goddess makes the point (even if you dismiss the rest of his thesis) that in a matrilinear society men would be compelled to leave their tribe or nation or whatever while the women stayed put to breed pure members of the clan or nation or whatever.

In a patriarchy, which we see in Europe later, daughters are traded off to princes – it is the princess who moves.

So with the Aborigines, while clan might depend on motherhood, was the clan of the mother determined by more than the clan of her mother, and could she be re-programmed (see nulla nulla references above) to birth a child of a different clan than the mother was born to?

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:00 pm

Finally re. Dutton and “charisma” I don’t recall Howard, Abbott or Morrison having much in the way of ‘charisma”….nor for that matter does Sleazy.

Cassie you are right, John Howard had no charisma and was constantly ridiculed as Little Johnny, in stand up comedy and political cartoons, yet he kept winning elections.

Rosie
Rosie
January 14, 2024 4:01 pm

I agree; if I’m near a target in a nuclear war, thyroid cancer would be the least of my worries.
I don’t feel the slightest need to keep a stock of iodone.
As long as I have plenty of toilet rolls in the laundry all is well.

Rosie
Rosie
January 14, 2024 4:03 pm

When I think of politics and politicians charisma is always my first consideration.
And asking a single person is also an excellent way to assess general community viewpoints.
You can ask anyone.

Figures
Figures
January 14, 2024 4:04 pm

Of course, Albo could try doing the same to Dutton by saying he will join with ONP but I suspect “threatening” Australians with a massive cut to immigration wouldn’t be very effective.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:05 pm

@thefrollickingmole
Jan 14, 2024 3:59 PM

Lindsay “Lady Bugs” Graham .. a disturbing image and perhaps meritless ? .. But the bits of the bloke the world gets to see are far more horrifying.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 14, 2024 4:06 pm

Figures
Jan 14, 2024 3:43 PM
Indeed if you ever want proof of how full of excrement leftists are just look at how literally *all* of them changed their views on Trump the instant he nominated as a Republican.

Ditto Musk. A hero to the “progressives” with the Tesla, then a monster when he took over Twatter, and allowed a freer exchange of ideas.

Zatara
Zatara
January 14, 2024 4:09 pm

It’s not 1941 anymore. The US doesn’t now have the industrial sector that it did then.

The US didn’t have a huge industrial sector in 1941 either. In fact they were just barely out of a decade long depression.

They built a massive manufacturing sector overnight, even while they were recruiting/drafting/training millions of men to hugely increase the size of their (at that time) small armed forces and fighting on two continents.

If they need more munitions they will make them. As usual.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 14, 2024 4:11 pm

Crossie

Cassie you are right, John Howard had no charisma and was constantly ridiculed as Little Johnny, in stand up comedy and political cartoons, yet he kept winning elections.

“Little Johnny” was taller than Bob Hawke.

cohenite
January 14, 2024 4:11 pm

Mother Lode
Jan 14, 2024 4:00 PM
Okay, wading into a topic upon which I have not even a glancing expertise but nevertheless most honest intent.

As noted 3rd nations were in Australia for 47000 years. They lived a completely natural life. They had to have a system to prevent inbreeding, unlike the muzzies who encourage inbreeding. Trading of women was one way of doing this and I would suggest a woman traded, if possessed by the head willer-waller of the new tribe, then her brats would be his and be part of that tribe. Alternatively if a young buck was forced to Walkabout and then, if taken in by a new tribe his brats may become part of that tribe but wouldn’t have the status that the willer-waller’s brats would have.

The whole process has a fair bit of complexity and I wonder if it was instinctive or brought here from somewhere else from a more complex social antecedent which was continued as the 3rd nations devolved to a natural lifestyle.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:12 pm

Guys the picture you are seeing is just what the MSM point at you .. No sane person believes this … just look at the ABC ? Utter bulldust and lies by every means ..

Ultravox “Fear in the Western World ” … this is nothing new ..

https://youtu.be/DclSrYbSn-E

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:13 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jan 14, 2024 3:03 PM
Daily Mail.
Outrageous reason Jewish sperm donor Jay Lazarus was rejected by couple – and you won’t believe their response when he called them out for it

Seems his sperm was affected by the war in Gaza.

He just found out that being a gay Jewish sperm donor ranks lower in wokeland than Hamas terrorists.

thefrollickingmole
January 14, 2024 4:15 pm

Greenies calling a lack of tax a “subsidy”, just to wreck an industry…. In MY UK??

The government needs to urgently end polluting tax breaks for the UK fishing fleet that threaten to “empty the ocean of fish”, say conservationists, after a first-of-its kind study reveals diesel subsidies to be worth up to £1.8bn a decade.

Without the tax subsidies, largely provided to the most fuel-intensive section of the fleet, many sectors would be unprofitable, according to the analysis by government environmental advisers.

Globally, fuel subsidies to the fishing industry were estimated at $8bn (£6.3bn) in 2018, and represented a third of all harmful fishing subsidies, the authors said, adding that they were a key factor in the widespread depletion of fish populations, more than a third of which are overfished.

Fuel-tax concessions for the UK industry amounted to £150m-£180m a year, from 2009 to 2019, according to the analysis of industry data, which was published in the journal Marine Policy last autumn. They amount to between 15% and 18% of the industry’s income, which was worth £1bn last year.

This tax relief benefits the most fuel-intensive, climate change gas-emitting and industrial fishing methods, such as trawling and dredging, acting as a disincentive to developing a more fuel-efficient and carbon-smart industry, campaigners said.

And here is Luigi the incomprehensibles newest attack line for the mining and farming industries…

A failure to end the tax breaks could cause problems for the UK, which in December pledged to ratify the World Trade Organization’s unprecedented agreement to end fishing subsidies and also to support the second stage of WTO negotiations next month to end the most harmful subsidies, including fuel subsidies.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 14, 2024 4:15 pm

PS, political cartoonists are never concerned with consistency, only with hitting their preferred targets.

See the different treatment of Hawke and Tony Abbott regarding wearing budgie smugglers.

John H.
John H.
January 14, 2024 4:18 pm

JC
Jan 14, 2024 3:57 PM
JC thinks its still 1941 industrially in today’s US.

It multiples bigger. 13% of the US economy is manufacturing, making that sector multiples larger than what it was in 1941. By that snark you obviously think it’s smaller.

JC knows that the USA learns from history

In 1941 the US had a pitiful air force(it was part of the army), very limited land based armaments, and not enough ships. Within months a massive shift in manufacturing resulted in production runs of extraordinary capacity. Liberty ships were coming out of shipyards at a very high rate and losses from Pearl Harbour were quickly recovered. The inadequate Kittyhawk was rapidly replaced by the Wildcat, then the Hellcat, and the Lightning, the Corsair, the Helldiver, the Douglas, the B 25, and produced enough B17s to send flights of thousands into Germany.

The USA has already produced 1000 F-35s while Russia is boasting about building 20 Su-57s and Su-35s. If you think the USA doesn’t have a contingency plan for the outbreak of war you are seriously underestimating how much thought goes into military planning. When the going gets tough the USA gets tougher.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:19 pm

@ Boambee John
Jan 14, 2024 4:15 PM

RIP Bill Leak …

thefrollickingmole
January 14, 2024 4:20 pm

Hairy Festeringpenis, noted truthiness teller has a new hot take from a “who the F*ck are they” source that says all Jews are evil..
https://twitter.com/MaryKostakidis/status/1746363660975702222

Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
The Cradle:
How Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival

‘new details have emerged showing that Israel’s Border Police was deployed at the Nova site before Hamas stumbled on the festival, causing the eruption of a major battle.

While some ravers were indeed killed by the Palestinian resistance – whether by intent or in the chaos of battle – the evidence now suggests that the majority of civilian deaths were likely inflicted by Israeli forces themselves.

This was due to the overwhelming firepower employed by occupation forces – including from Apache attack helicopters – and because Tel Aviv issued the controversial Hannibal Directive to prevent Hamas from taking Israeli party-goers as captives.’ #Gaza

https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18526

The comments arent exactly running in full support of her lies though.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 4:21 pm

“Little Johnny” was taller than Bob Hawke.

The leader of the Australian democrats at the time – her name escapes me – was taller then Bob Hawke.

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:22 pm

Boambee John
Jan 14, 2024 4:06 PM
Figures
Jan 14, 2024 3:43 PM
Indeed if you ever want proof of how full of excrement leftists are just look at how literally *all* of them changed their views on Trump the instant he nominated as a Republican.
Ditto Musk. A hero to the “progressives” with the Tesla, then a monster when he took over Twatter, and allowed a freer exchange of ideas.

This perfectly illustrates the gatekeeper society we live in. Media and the elites decide who is “in” and who is”out” and if you do anything they don’t like you will forever be “out” or if “in” will be expelled forthwith. A few high profile expulsions are a warning to everyone else not to rock the boat or care about what happens to the “outs” who don’t matter.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 4:22 pm

Real dollars

US GDP in 1941 US$1.56 trillion assume 35% was manufacturing = $546

US GDP in 2022 US$ 22.5 trillion with 13% being manufacturing = $2.925 trillion.

It’s 5.5 times larger without taking into account that the real cost of manufacturing has fallen significantly through efficiency gains. Smaller as a proportion and much larger.

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:24 pm

Boambee John
Jan 14, 2024 4:11 PM

“Little Johnny” was taller than Bob Hawke.

Like Tom Cruise he was portrayed as taller. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 4:26 pm

Within months a massive shift in manufacturing resulted in production runs of extraordinary capacity. Liberty ships were coming out of shipyards at a very high rate and losses from Pearl Harbour were quickly recovered.

H.P. Willmot’s book “World War Two – the Period of Balance” makes the claim that, in 1943, American shipyards produced the equivalent of the inventory of the pre – war Imperial Japanese Navy.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:26 pm

You are arguing for prominence of you view in the MSM … trying to justify them as if they are a reflection of how people actually think … perhaps it once was?

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 4:28 pm

Hairy Festeringpenis, noted truthiness teller has a new hot take from a “who the F*ck are they” source that says all Jews are evil..
https://twitter.com/MaryKostakidis/status/1746363660975702222

She’s our very own Magda Goebbels.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:31 pm

ABC …”Breaking news !! Cape Country and proud paraplegic indigenous lady rescues drowning dog”

What you need to know about this !!

calli
calli
January 14, 2024 4:32 pm

“Little Johnny” was taller than Bob Hawke.

I was thinking Bobby de Niro. 🙂

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 14, 2024 4:33 pm

Janine Haines

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 14, 2024 4:33 pm

I think you have to look at “matrilinear societies” as the logical resting point for a culture where fatherhood is unknown, contested, the result of assault, and quite simply absent. Old mate Christopher Pearson would point out that many aboriginal tribes would treat male children with indifference, unless and until they survived and grew to a point where they would physically threaten the dominance of the elders, at which point they’d be taken away for initiation and rites of passage which were in themselves survival challenges. Only then would they have a tribal belonging, have an adult name, and carry the “skin” of the tribe. One-on-one fatherhood simply didn’t exist.
In that sort of space, anthropologists would see the “fa’fafini” phenomenon of the pacific islands, which is reflected in the modern “sistagirls” of northern Australia- where boys who might be normally homosexual and/or were brutalised by growing up under the violent gerontocracy would shy away from adulthood rites and live “as women”.
Pearson was especially scathing of the denial of “boy brides” on northern aboriginal communities, where male children were the chattel and sex toys of initiated men, inevitably some of which were directly related.
The concept of “fatherhood”- just like “marriage”, “justice” and “mercy”- are entirely European. I don’t think they transliterate to Aboriginal society in the way that the handwringers might wish, just as “representative democracy” will never take a hold against the momentum of tribal Afghanistan. I reckon we saw it in the Swan Valley Nyoongah Community hellhole, at with Geoff Clarke, where there was simply no taboo against incest.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 14, 2024 4:35 pm

FiL was in Canberra for a Real Estate conference, met Hawke and Howard. Laughed at Hawke with his platform shoes.

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:37 pm

I am not even remotely interested in aboriginal inter-clan or inter-tribal relations. As far as I am concerned they are Australians, like 25 million of others of us, and that should be the only qualification for rights, privileges, benefits and responsibilities of citizenship.

Their ancestry may be important to them and their families but should have no impact on the rest of citizenry or taxpayers.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 14, 2024 4:38 pm

Lee
Jan 14, 2024 3:17 PM
Perhaps the U.S. needs a president who can “make America great again.”

Australia needs a Prime Minister who can “Make Australia Less Sh1t.” To quote the mechanical engineer, John Cadogan on YouTube.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:38 pm

@ Wally Dalí
Jan 14, 2024 4:33 PM

Whilst what you posted is contentious… I see a resonance with my experience …

What I will say for sure is theat 95 percent of Urban Australian Whites – hand wringers though they may be – have utterly no clue.

johanna
johanna
January 14, 2024 4:42 pm

Hair stylist Jay Lazarus says he began the process of becoming a sperm donor in October 2022, and “connected deeply” with a same-sex couple from Queensland, with whom he had been undergoing the sperm donation process, until they decided not to proceed in late 2023.

The rationale for Jay’s sacking (!) is clearly anti-Semitism. Apparently, ‘genocide’ against Gazans is genetically transmissable via sperm donation.

The only conclusion I make is that they all deserve each other. We can be sure that the ‘deep connection’ between Jay and the pair of pooves/lesbians included every left wing trope going around. 100% certain.

Ya get that, Jay.

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:43 pm

The concept of “fatherhood”- just like “marriage”, “justice” and “mercy”- are entirely European. I don’t think they transliterate to Aboriginal society in the way that the handwringers might wish, just as “representative democracy” will never take a hold against the momentum of tribal Afghanistan. I reckon we saw it in the Swan Valley Nyoongah Community hellhole, at with Geoff Clarke, where there was simply no taboo against incest.

In other words, civilisation is European.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 4:45 pm

Janine Haines

Thank you.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 4:48 pm

I reckon we saw it in the Swan Valley Nyoongah Community hellhole, at with Geoff Clarke, where there was simply no taboo against incest.

Robert Bropho, and his repulsive nephew, Timothy Lenin Bropho, saw themselves as entitled to the pick of the young girls, under tribal law.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:48 pm

@ Crossie
Jan 14, 2024 4:43 PM

Yes … The Aboriginal Society .. was very different. I was lucky enough to have had it explained to me ..

these ideas we have meant nothing to them then … same as a “transistor ” meant nothing to Us Westerners in the 1700s .. but there were concepts they valued … we wouldnt have like them now in 2024 …

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:49 pm

Even the European civilisation as it existed at the time of contact with most Stone Age tribes around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries has changed and evolved. The height of civilisation at present is that the rights of the individual outrank those of society, state, family, clan or tribe.

John H.
John H.
January 14, 2024 4:50 pm

dover0beach
Jan 14, 2024 4:46 PM
Whenever we talk about the state of the US, strategically, I feel like I’m constantly being told to drink some Sleepytime Tea.

You need coffee to wake up.

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:54 pm

Even the European civilisation as it existed at the time of contact with most Stone Age tribes around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries has changed and evolved. The height of civilisation at present is that the rights of the individual outrank those of society, state, family, clan or tribe.

Just to add to the above, the tragedy of aboriginal Australians today is that even with all the advantages of civilisation that we enjoy, our governments are happy to let large groups of remote aboriginals be damned to the cruelties of their savage past.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 14, 2024 4:55 pm

The Aboriginal Society .. was very different. I was lucky enough to have had it explained to me

The ‘societies’ do vary, you know. Markedly, in quite a few instances.

300 Nations and all that. Try applying societal rules for the northern saltwater tribes to the Walpiri desert people and see how far you get.

A blanket ‘oh it was all explained to me by one person’ does not, and will not cut it.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 4:59 pm

You folks are helping me reconcile my self with why I hated my Father … when I was a bairn He was a Communist … but gradually drifted to the Right.. in later days it was all “Beards and Lefties ..Bahh humbug” .. but all he was ever doing was critisising his own youthfull exuberance .. he never sought any new information .. never studied Economics or History … He just got angrier and angrier …

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 4:59 pm

Why is it OK for most Australians to take advantage of individuality and self-actualisation but other Australians purely on the basis of their ancestry have those privileges withheld from them? If we were really serious about choice for aboriginals then their children would be taught how the rest of us live and then they could make an informed decision whether they wish to live a lifestyle as their ancestors lived before European contact.

Rosie
Rosie
January 14, 2024 5:00 pm

Funny how there are hundreds of )hamas)videos and eye witness accounts of hamas killing hostages but none has videos of Apache helicopters.
The truth is hamas had hours in which they were able to hunt down nova party goers in their hiding places with almost no opposition.
Like the two guys who hid in a water channel pipe for a couple of hours until hamas had a look inside. One of them recorded his final moments.
And the girl (and her friend) on the phone to her sister as she ran and ran and ran having panick attacks and vomiting, getting a grenade thrown at them, then, wounded hiding under a car pretending they were dead, until a terrorist came and shot them and they were really dead.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 14, 2024 5:02 pm

Predictably (the Hun):

Israel intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet have reportedly uncovered a Hamas terror plot to attack Israel’s embassy in Sweden and other Jewish targets throughout Europe.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the network, led by Hamas commanders in Lebanon, had also been planning to buy drones and use European criminal organisations to support attacks on European soil.

In a statement, the PMO said Israel had discovered “details on theatres of operation, terror targets, and on those involved in carrying out attacks — from Hamas commanders in Lebanon to the last of the attackers in the operational infrastructure,” the Times of Israel reports.

Big if true.

Hopefully, given that these agencies have decided to go public with this, there are a few people having a sleep right now under several feet of dirt.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 14, 2024 5:06 pm

our governments are happy to let large groups of remote aboriginals be damned to the cruelties of their savage past.

“Nugget” Coombes, and the myth of “the noble savage, living on his traditional lands” have a lot to answer for.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 14, 2024 5:06 pm

Of course I’m casting no nasturtiums upon other matrilinear knowledge of Hebraic people of the Mesopotamians and Tathua De Danaan that Graves would write about on one of his euro-peyote trips. Agricultural and literate societies have a much deeper recorded knowledge of gestation, etc.
our governments are happy to let large groups of remote aboriginals be damned to the cruelties of their savage past.
Crossie I think there is a much more cancerous motivation- the Exceptionalist political class, and the Service Provider industry, just like the Elders Past Present And Future, depend on the eternal immiseration of their underlings.
Voters who would be motivated against them have been cowed by Woke incantations.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 5:07 pm

@ Crossie
Jan 14, 2024 4:59 PM

Why is it OK for most Australians to take advantage of individuality and self-actualisation but other ….. ~snip~

Exactly !! If it were white children getting that done to them CPS would be coming down like the Valkyries … but since those children are black … no rescue …

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 14, 2024 5:10 pm

Mary Kostakides. FMD is this disinformation? If so, phuck her off.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 14, 2024 5:16 pm

Crossie

A few high profile expulsions are a warning to everyone else not to rock the boat or care about what happens to the “outs” who don’t matter.

In Australia, the reason the outs “don’t matter” because of compulsory preferential voting, which essentially directs all votes ultimately to the Liars, SFLs, Nationals and Slime.

Cassie made a good argument a couple of days ago for retaining compulsory voting, but we need to work out how to make optional preferential voting matter to pollies.

IIRC, it was introduced in NSW and Queensland by the Liars, who thought, for whatever reason, that they would benefit the most. That didn’t happen, so the Liars once back in government moved to repeal it, and the SFLs supported them!

Recall, also how many years ago an academic in Victoria worked out that voting 1 for your preferred candidate, than 2 for all of the others was a valid vote. It took very little time for the UniParty to combine to ban that.

One way to get attention might work if applied to safe seats held by Liars or Slime (I assume very few here prefer either of them). Vote 1 for the party you prefer, then 2 for the next acceptable preference, then leave the rest blank, but write on the now-invalid vote a message supporting optional preferential voting.

Perhaps the message might get through that having optional preferential would at least provide the preferred party with a few dollars, that are not attached to invalid votes?

Just a few thoughts.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 5:16 pm

dover0beach
Jan 14, 2024 4:46 PM

Whenever we talk about the state of the US, strategically, I feel like I’m constantly being told to drink some Sleepytime Tea.

Because someone disagrees with you?

Really, manufacturing was less than 13% when the US was the arsenal of democracy?

No, I estimated the US manufacturing sector at around 35% of GDP in 1941 and even with that proportion, while it’s around 13% now, it’s still dwarfed by present day production.

In any event, the focus in on the Hootie Tooties and they are about a war away from returning to hunter gathering on their camels.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 14, 2024 5:17 pm

That’s absolutely bafflingly Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion bonkers.
I’m actually starting to suspect that Mary Kostakidis the “Journalist” has never done any of her own primary research.

cohenite
January 14, 2024 5:17 pm

Latest video of biden trying to molest a young girl; this old pos must be in the late stages of dementia. May everyone who voted for it and is keeping it upright get a virulent STD. This is just so fuking bad:

Young Girl in Coffee Shop RECOILS After Biden Creeps on Her – Whispers in Her Ear (VIDEO)

Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 5:19 pm

J.C.
Now we are getting somewhere.
JC
Jan 14, 2024 1:39 PM

Likely true, but it doesn’t remove the fact that an imbecile holed up in Shithole Queensland stocked up because he was fearful of nuclear threats from Micronesia and was misusing the reason why the Swiss were offering free iodine.

I have never mentioned Micronesia or any other Pacific Island. All of that is an invention of yours you made up. The Swiss have been issuing these packs ever since the 60’s when the spectre of a nuclear confrontation between Warsaw Pact and NATO was a very real concern.
See, this is your problem – you make up stories and to you they become reality.
What I discussed was the failure of our Civil Defence organisation to not have Iodine available at the community or family level.
As an RN in remote communities – shitholistan is what JC charmingly calls it – part of my job is to respond to civil emergencies and update Disaster Plans in conjunction with the Police/Army and other government agencies.
Because I had been in the Army as a Registered Nurse/Nursing Officer, I was aware that among other things, iodine supplementation especially for children is needed in case of radiological contamination of the environment – as happens in nuclear war, dirty bomb attacks, and contamination of the surrounds if a reactor core is breached.
Children get cancer of the thyroid because they typically need a lot more iodine than adults. The Iodine supplementation needs to commence immediately, and certainly no later than a day or so after contamination. No remote Hospital that I know of carries stocks for them. I know this because I ordered pharmacy for many of them.
I mentioned this with the background of how would the government get these medications to the hospital/pharmacies in the event of a radiological emergency?
The answer of course is – it depends on the weather. The cities will be fine – if we have the stocks because distribution is easy. The bush is going to have to go without because I doubt there are 200million doses in Australia.
So the problem is how do we protect people in the outlying cities from this situation?
Well if you look at Europe, they already have plans – and stocks – available. The Iodine tablets I have here are due to expire in 2030, so short life isn’t an issue.
So what I did was buy 600 ml of Lurgolds iodine – a liquid form that at the time cost me bugger all, about $150. That’s enough for all the kids in town to get a weeks protection in case of need.
I’d just give it to the local hospital. Why? Because I saw a need in my community that needed attending to that others hadn’t seen.
That’s what members of a community do.
They don’t sit on their arses waiting for someone to do something about it, they just deal with it.
The funny thing is that JC and Sancho would be first in line squealing about lack of preparedness from government when they could have bought their own iodine tabs from Water Purification Products, http://www.iodine.net*
Perhaps I’m a little excessive on the need to get some iodine tabs if you are >65, but
How many children/young adults do you have spare?
*I do not benefit in any way from sales from this company. Seek medical advice if concerned.

Dot
Dot
January 14, 2024 5:22 pm

Some whinging on Reddit.

Amazing how many people are upset they had parents who loved and disciplined them.

What a whiny pathetic c$&@.

My parents are still trying to convince themselves that “smacking” was discipline and it was fine. The wooden spoon too. I distinctly remember not being sure about what I had done wrong too that meant I was getting hit anyway.

I also just found out that my parents barrel bolted the front door to stop me playing in the yard when I was little. I know I got screamed at for running around the house when I was about 4 but my ADHD butt needed to run it off. I ended up tripping and smashed my head open on the coffee table because I couldn’t sit still. I needed stitches. I am still told to this day that it’s my fault. I thought it was because I wasn’t doing as I was told. Now being told I was actively locked in the house and wasn’t allowed to play outside changed my mind.

It is called “legal chastisement of a child” and it is perfectly legal.

Yeah nah. When it bruises, welts and instills so much fear in a child they start to lie to cover up mistakes because they are afraid to go to their parents for help because of what happens when they do the “wrong” thing then it’s not discipline, it’s abuse. Then those kids grow up and spend their entire adult lives being afraid of confrontation because of the consequences when they were children and so they become people pleasers and end up in abusive relationships because they’ve been conditioned to think that this is normal. Kids been led to believe, by the people they trusted the most, that hitting you one minute and saying “I love you” the next means they care when it’s actually domestic violence. End of.

This is ridiculous.

It’s psychology actually. Look it up.

It’s anecdotes and opinions.

Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 5:26 pm

Katzenjammer
Jan 14, 2024 1:56 PM
I don’t pretend to know the best way to topple Iran’s government. Selective strikes? Invasion?

A list of targets,
one by one until their government resigns.
Those are real works of art, Katzenjammer. They only need an altar with a cross to finish the work.
Better still, just use a MOAB on a couple of the dams. There’s already a water crisis in Iran, let the Iranians deal with their government themselves.

thefrollickingmole
January 14, 2024 5:27 pm

Dot, does it end “änd thats why they need to pay for my transition/furry costume/womens studies degree”?

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 5:29 pm


Jan 14, 2024 5:21 PM

Score 1 Dover (actually 2 because He was just responding to tiresome and stupid remarks.. )

score zero to the zero …

As to the far more productive topic of coffee Trung Nguyen … absolutely toxic as an actuall coffee but a thrilling additive to Extra Creamy Milk … as a flavouring … as a meal in it’self … Big long cold glass …

Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 5:31 pm

Tintarella di Luna

Jan 14, 2024 2:14 PM
I understand a lot of people use unsalted butter for cooking, I get that. I don’t understand why you’d deny yourself salted butter for other uses.

Winston I no longer have the yearning for it at all — what I do love is fresh ciabatta bread cut thickly, sprinkled liberally with olive oil (not too much though) and dusted crystal salt and a cup of sugary tea — yum – that was my afternoon snack once I discovered it’s deliciousness – I have it now but without the tea.

Fair enough. I thought you were still hankering for it for some reason or other.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 14, 2024 5:31 pm

James Morrow reporting on the noisy minority:

Fewer than one in five Australians want to change the date of Australia Day while nine in ten citizens say they are “proud to be Australian,” according to new polling from the Institute of Public Affairs examining public attitudes to our national day.

However while nearly two-thirds of us agree Australia Day should remain January 26, Australians aged 18-24 are more ambivalent thanks to the “relentless indoctrination” of the schools system, the IPA said.

According to the survey of over 1000 Australians, 63 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement “Australia Day should be celebrated on January 26.”

Just 17 per cent disagreed, while 20 per cent had no opinion.

The results closely track with previous annual IPA surveys which found similar majorities agreeing that Australia Day should remain the 26th.

The support for the day comes despite ongoing controversy around Australia Day, which marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

Last week, supermarket giant Woolworths touched off calls for boycotts after it said it would not sell Australia Day merchandise this year due to lack of demand.

Earlier this month it was revealed that at least 81 local councils across the country had decided to move their citizenship day ceremonies away from Australia Day after being given the green light by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The survey, conducted by polling firm, Dynata found that celebrating Australia Day on January 26 was only controversial among 18-24 year olds, with just 42 per cent agreeing that the date should be kept.

However a majority in every bracket of voters older than 25 agreed that the date should stay the same, with 61 per cent of 25-34 year olds agreeing with the current Australia Day and 71 per cent of those over 55.

Even greater numbers agreed that they were proud to be Australian (87 per cent) and that Australian history was something to be proud of (69 per cent).

“Australia is the greatest nation on earth. Our way of life and freedoms are the envy of the world, and they must be cherished and celebrated,” said IPA deputy executive director Daniel Wild.

“It is concerning just 42 per cent of those aged 18-24 support Australia Day on January 26, this is a direct result of relentless indoctrination taking place at schools and universities (however) a strong majority of younger Australians beyond the years of formal education support our national day,” he said.

“You can hardly blame young Australians for having a negative view of their country given they are continually told it is not worth celebrating or fighting for.”

NSW upper house member Rachel Merton said that it was important to keep Australia Day on the 26th.

“On the 26th of January we celebrate the miracle of modern Australia.”

“We recognise the incredible courage and vision of Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet, and give thanks for the privilege of living in the world’s greatest democracy.”

Some pretty stark numbers in there. Which is why the gnashing of teeth over Dutton’s call to boycott Woolies is correct. The Left hate to be challenged because their ideas are diametrically opposed to functioning society.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 5:32 pm

Cassie made a good argument a couple of days ago for retaining compulsory voting, but we need to work out how to make optional preferential voting matter to pollies.”

Thank you. But whilst I now believe compulsory voting is a necessary evil, and might save countries like Oz, I’m not sure which voting system is best, preferential, proportional, first past the post. The truth is that they’re all flawed however I suspect preferential is probably the worst.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 5:38 pm

@ Cassie of Sydney
Jan 14, 2024 5:32 PM

Much and all as I think you are a silly Old Cow .. you nailed this one …compulsory Voting is totally required . If nothing else it requires Silly Old Cows to at least gain an semblance of an opinion … and amongst the other benefits it makes Elections almost impossible to rig.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 14, 2024 5:40 pm

I think you are a silly Old Cow

Here we go.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 14, 2024 5:40 pm

LSD meeting with free time and keyboard. Pill testing required.

Indolent
Indolent
January 14, 2024 5:40 pm

The inmates are in charge of the asylum.

WHO Appoints Transgender Majority for Panel on Raising Children

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 14, 2024 5:43 pm

I was pleased to see the US and Britain throw some ordinance at strategic targets in Yemen against the Houthi terrorists who have gained control. I don’t think we need to get into arguments about long-term issues of relative capabilities over time and re US prestige when the aim is currently to give the Houthis something to think about with regard to continuing their Iran-driven insect-bite attacks on the Red Sea. When a thumping is delivered and a bloody nose is the result, little bullies tend to cease and desist – certainly for a while, and hopefully for long enough for Israel to make Hamas inoperable. They may then join in against the Houthis. Yemeni citizens may decide they aren’t so keen on the Houthis after all.

Just some thoughts from someone in a form of extremis right now, perhaps affecting my judgement. 😀

thefrollickingmole
January 14, 2024 5:43 pm

A lefty oestrogens onto the screen about the flag..

Hey “flag shaggers” & “flagtards”

I reply..

“Dont be such a flaggott”.

We shall see how long it takes for me to be blocked.

JC
JC
January 14, 2024 5:45 pm

We’re not getting somewhere you turd brain, we’re getting nowhere.

I have never mentioned Micronesia or any other Pacific Island.

I did, to mock your patently absurd claim – that somehow feel threatened by nuclear weapons.

The Swiss have been issuing these packs ever since the 60’s when the spectre of a nuclear confrontation between Warsaw Pact and NATO was a very real concern.
See, this is your problem – you make up stories and to you they become reality.
What I discussed was the failure of our Civil Defence organisation to not have Iodine available at the community or family level.

You absurd, lying delusional crank. Switzerland makes iodine available for people living within a 50 k radius of a nuclear reactor. I’ll post it up again so others can see what a useless, disgusting feral swine you are.

But firstly let me repeat what you said… word for word.

*Switzerland is mailing out iodine tabs that are given to every family just in case.

Switzerland is NOT making iodine available to all, you ridiculous clown.

On behalf of the army pharmacy, Swiss Post is distributing iodine tablets to all households, businesses and public institutions within a 50-kilometre radius of Swiss nuclear power plants.

As an RN in remote communities – shitholistan is what JC charmingly calls it – part of my job is to respond to civil emergencies and update Disaster Plans in conjunction with the Police/Army and other government agencies.

In a pretty little white dress and cute nurse’s cap no doubt.

Because I had been in the Army as a Registered Nurse/Nursing Officer, I was aware that among other things, iodine supplementation especially for children is needed in case of radiological contamination of the environment – as happens in nuclear war, dirty bomb attacks, and contamination of the surrounds if a reactor core is breached.

They were likely not getting any natural iodine in their diet and had zero to do with nuclear war, you clown.

Children get cancer of the thyroid because they typically need a lot more iodine than adults. The Iodine supplementation needs to commence immediately, and certainly no later than a day or so after contamination. No remote Hospital that I know of carries stocks for them. I know this because I ordered pharmacy for many of them.
I mentioned this with the background of how would the government get these medications to the hospital/pharmacies in the event of a radiological emergency?
The answer of course is – it depends on the weather. The cities will be fine – if we have the stocks because distribution is easy. The bush is going to have to go without because I doubt there are 200million doses in Australia.

What does that have to do with the fact that you went out and panicked because you thought nuclear war was likely and rural Queensland would be a target?

The funny thing is that JC and Sancho would be first in line squealing about lack of preparedness from government when they could have bought their own iodine tabs from Water Purification Products, http://www.iodine.net*
Perhaps I’m a little excessive on the need to get some iodine tabs if you are >65, but
How many children/young adults do you have spare?
*I do not benefit in any way from sales from this company. Seek medical advice if concerned.

Here we go, mind reading again.

Go take your iodine, you clown.

All of that is an invention of yours you made up. The Swiss have been issuing these packs ever since the 60’s when the spectre of a nuclear confrontation between Warsaw Pact and NATO was a very real concern.
See, this is your problem – you make up stories and to you they become reality.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
January 14, 2024 5:45 pm

Flew up to the Gold Coast from Newcastle airport today. The plane departed 5 minutes before schedule. Is this a world first?

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 5:46 pm

Nah, I’m neither a cow nor old.

Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 5:46 pm

Cassie of Sydney

Jan 14, 2024 2:53 PM
Dutton is no sop, but he is a plodder, he once worked as a Plod. Dutton reminds me of those stone age hunters of old who would spend days running down prey.

The country is sick of flashy politicians who ooze charisma, and suck at their jobs. I’d vote for a plodder who could get us out of the messes that the Flash Thundercocks have driven this country into.

Johnny Rotten
January 14, 2024 5:47 pm

“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.”

– Robert Byrne

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 5:49 pm

In Australia, the reason the outs “don’t matter” because of compulsory preferential voting, which essentially directs all votes ultimately to the Liars, SFLs, Nationals and Slime.
Cassie made a good argument a couple of days ago for retaining compulsory voting, but we need to work out how to make optional preferential voting matter to pollies.
Recall, also how many years ago an academic in Victoria worked out that voting 1 for your preferred candidate, than 2 for all of the others was a valid vote. It took very little time for the UniParty to combine to ban that.

BJ, like Cassie I am in favour of compulsory voting but not the preferential method. Choosing one candidate from a field should do it and if nobody gets a majority then there should be a run-off election between the two candidates who got the most votes.

thefrollickingmole
January 14, 2024 5:50 pm

Peta-philes showing their knowledge of farming.

https://twitter.com/Poppy_yyyyyyyy/status/1746192500954456147

Nah, I’m neither a cow nor old.

Obligatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXnJqYwebF8

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 5:52 pm

@ Cassie of Sydney
Jan 14, 2024 5:46 PM

Like your style you SOC … sometimes .. no actually now I think about it I often get called a stupid Old Bastard …

Then I arch right Up !!! Not So much of the “Old” Sonny!!! ~slapping my walking cane on the door jams ~ …. 😉

Crossie
Crossie
January 14, 2024 5:54 pm

Wally Dalí
Jan 14, 2024 5:17 PM
That’s absolutely bafflingly Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion bonkers.
I’m actually starting to suspect that Mary Kostakidis the “Journalist” has never done any of her own primary research.

Of course she hasn’t, she was a newsreader and read whatever was put in front of her. She looked like she knew what she was reading but that is the performance part of the job.

cohenite
January 14, 2024 5:55 pm

The inmates are in charge of the asylum.

WHO Appoints Transgender Majority for Panel on Raising Children

FMD

Rosie
Rosie
January 14, 2024 5:56 pm

Another relevant factor with Nova is that 40 people who attended the festival were taken hostage, how does that tally with Apache helicopters?
Ms Kookynuts could use her investigative journalism skills to track down the circumstance of each death but that would require effort.
At least two large groups of hostage hid in large rubbish skips, one lot were all killed with grenades iirc then set on fire, another group were shot (and a couple of them survived) I’ve seen photos of the burnt ones and photos of the other group hiding before they were shot.
And all the people shot around the bar area, filmed on a policeman’s gopro as he called out hoping for survivors, zero evidence of a helicopter there, and of course hamas filmed themselves shooting all the portaloos that people were hiding in.
Hamas filming themselves shooting at cars on the roads, dragging the dead out of vehicles, all those bodies riddled with bullets from kalashnikovs.
There’s no point though in presenting evidence to Kookynuts, she’s taken a side, and that’s all that matters.

Cassie of Sydney
January 14, 2024 6:00 pm

There’s no point though in presenting evidence to Kookynuts, she’s taken a side, and that’s all that matters.

Indeed. Kookynuts is no different to David Irving.

I am finding it difficult to comprehend this unhinged Jew hatred.

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
January 14, 2024 6:00 pm

Every conflict has it share of BS ..propaganda …this one is no different …beheaded babies raped women .. humidicribs come in for a smashing .

Normally the more enthusiastic and less milatarily usefull get sent on Information Warfare Missions.

They are mostly not very good at ti .

Salvatore, Iron Publican
January 14, 2024 6:00 pm

Shorter JC: If somebody hasn’t entered it into Chat GP’s database, it didn’t happen.

Winston Smith
January 14, 2024 6:01 pm

JC

Jan 14, 2024 3:05 PM
in case of a nuclear war, especially if you live near a potential target.
Rural Queensland. Yuge target. Yuge.

Ground burst.
350/400Kt warhead.
Fallout will be a cigar shaped pattern 1000Km or more, and 400Km wide. In whatever way the wind is blowing.
FFS, you are so bloody thick. I’ve never seen someone so eager to display their ignorance on a matter they have no damn clue about.
JC will go to bed tonight utterly convinced – as he does every other night – that he’s the smartest man in any room on the planet, and that everyone else fades into obscurity in the nova like radiance of his intellect.

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