Yeah, sure. Would like to try some Novichok, Sir? The hand basin is over there if change your mind.
Open Thread – Mon 15 Jan 2024
- The more you gets the less you eats
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- From darkness to the promise of light
I’m going to leave aside the trash above and return to the meat of the discussion: You’ve been basically denying…
I wonder where DOGE might start with the money saving cuts? Bravos Research@bravosresearchALERT: US government has been hiring an average…
Sealife is BOOMING in North West OZ. Atom Bomb
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BB, I think the opposite. The key for Dutton will be to ignore the Teal/Filth inner-city seats and concentrate on the outer suburbs, which are bearing the brunt of Labor’s inflation crisis, which was caused predominantly by excess government spending on unicorns like trying to change the weather.
Howard’s tradies — most of them traditional Labor voters — are crying out for a new political leader now that the trade union government has abandoned them.
The Wall Street Journal
‘This Has Been Going on for Years.’ Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess.- MSN EXtract not paywalled
Story by Sharon Terlep
Meanwhile, in Kanaduh:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nfl/article/chiefs-and-dolphins-play-fourth-coldest-game-in-nfl-history-at-minus-4-degrees/
US Navy Looks to Drastically Increase Missile Production (4 Apr 2023)
Australia joins the Tomahawk club.
Demand exploding for Tomahawk missiles as US backs latest foreign sale (16 Mar 2023)
It seems the production line isn’t growing cobwebs.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
– Ronald Reagan
Well yes Tom. Dutton cannot make the mistake of placating the inner city filth. You are correct
I’m all for Dutton listening to the voters, but he’ll move maybe 1/10th of the way they want.
“Sir, we need to be cautious, the ABC might be critical of you!”
So maybe 1/20th of the way to what I’d want.
What is the potential cost of a single supertanker being sunk by the Houthis?
Like or neither like nor dislike, correct.
Well I just got my haircut. Such trauma cries out for a drink or three.
The trauma is not the haircut itself, but to see, after the spiders and cobwebs and bits of bark have been combed out, and then further see the much reduced mass snipped down even further, is very dispiriting.
So spirits were the order of the day – Aberlour in this instance.
I think he made Colonel then hit the wall before star rank. As you know I am no fan of his, but anyone who makes Col is to be admired.
No Paywalls.
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ML
Do you, or anyone else, know how to acquire Coureur de Bois Maple Cream Liqueur in Australia?
It is from Quebec and it is sensational.
No, he did not.
Maybe so, Dot, I read he was “up and out”.
That should be “up or out”. Most are out.
Never heard of it but, damn! Something else I have to experience if I am going to die content. It looks delicious.
Scott Ritter
“Political Zionism is a rabid dog that needs to be put down” @16:00 onwards
“Israel is losing right now, America is losing, I happen to think this is good, I’m glad hamas is winning” @10:50
No mention of the many refused offers.
Obviously thinks hamas and Islam are more or less benign and it’s all the fault of the Jooooooooos.
So last week I went to a quack’s (1st trip to any doc since Cancer finished 2014) cos my enlarged prostate prob (15 years) started playing up a bit .. Anywayz he sent me for blood tests and an ultrasound …… Goes back today for results and he runz thru a list of odds & sods which, basically, come back .. no probs ….
“Fine” sez I, .. exasperated .. “but I didn’t come in for any of those things I came in about the “waterworx”..
“Oh!”, he sez, “I’ll send you to a specialist for that” ….. DuuuuuuH!
“Whilst your waiting for that appointment take these tablets to help” …….
prints prescription and off I toddle to the chemist .. “$157” sez chemist .. leaving me spluttering & gasping, “Ya gotta be kidding I’m an OAP” (excellent self restraint shown by not adding any expletives .. LOL!)
“No, he’s given you a non PBS script so go back and ask for the PBS approved alternative, there is one” …..
SO back to quack’s and another , bloody, appointment for later this arvo to get the script changed …….
NO wonder I avoid quackticians .. FFS!
The only good thing to come out of it all is having had Cancer you alwayz think the worst with non standard health issues and think, “Damn it’s back” .. but no in this case everything else AOK ……!
I have finally seen Jerry Nadler, that Democrat with pants up to his armpits, describe how the illegals are necessary to pick farm produce. There is so much that is wrong there. First, what happened to the famous American automation?
Second, why aren’t citizen farm pickers paid a decent amount for their work? Oh that’s right, then the corporates would not be able to make as much money to give to their members of congress. Funny how cheap labour means richer politicians.
Third, by importing all the illegals and giving them benefits that citizens and their children are not eligible for means that even if fruit and vegetables are cheaper the tax burden is bigger. Ultimately the lowly working class are paying for the elites to do as they please and preen their wokeness.
The same is happening here with the astronomical legal immigration, the citizen working class can groan under mortgage interest rates and increased cost of living as long as Labor can import their future voters.
Who is going to be the leader of a serf uprising of our time?
Scott Ritter has long been Iran’s attack dog, and Iraq’s before that.
STIRLING: When magical thinking meets a polar vortex cold, hard reality follows
Minus 30C, little or no power, and the woke don’t believe in cutting down trees for firewood gaia forbid.
I can see them wading through the snow drifts, frozen, and knocking on their non-woke neighbor’s doors like the ant and the grasshopper parable.
“Who is going to be the leader of a serf uprising of our time?”
The leader you are waiting for is… you.
The Democrats who insist on hiking up the minimal wage are also doing all they can to encourage illegal immigration – people who work outside the wage structures.
Democrats are happy to incentivise the breaking of law because they have determined they can get a cut.
And the businesses that employ illegal immigrants? It is the only way to keep their businesses going. Especially in the classic Democrat economy.
Crossie, many crops cannot be picked by automation.
If the US govt stopped paying Americans to NOT work they’d have all the veggie pickers they need.
Someone get Nadler a copy of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, in crayon of course.
Is the AGM-158 JASSM-ER fired from VLS tubes? No. AGM-84H/K SLAM-ERs? No. Harpoons? No, typically have dedicated launchers on ships. So AW’s point still stands.
Keep coping, Dot.
You forgot the etc. etc. etc..
Those would be the Joint Strike Missile, the RGM-179 JAGM, the LRASM (BTV), all of which are surface to surface cruise missiles. As well as nine or so surface to air missile variants and one anti-sub.
All VLS launched.
Pretty sad that four voted against!!!!
That’s good news shatterzzz @01:09.
Under for prostate cancer meself atm
Hope your missus is feeling better, JC. Pancreatitis is agony. I’ve never had it, but was asked by a nurse in the hospital I worked at to sit with a guy who had it.
They thought he may have been having a heart attack but it was just the pain. They gave him pethidine and asked me to sit and talk to him till the meds kicked in. After ten minutes of chat, he was sound asleep. It was either the meds or my conversation.
More proof that Islam has no place in any civilized society.
under “treatment” ffs
Slithering turd is slithering…
Labor MP urges crackdown on Australians funding illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank
Julian Hill calls for ‘visa bans for extremist settlers’ as Penny Wong prepares for a trip to the Middle East
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Hill is a member of federal parliamentary committees on intelligence and security, foreign affairs and defence. The member for the Melbourne seat of Bruce, he is also a national convener of Labor’s left faction.
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I have not personally met any brass, Colonel and upwards, and I’ve met quite a few, that are not dripping wet lefties. One of my mates that I trained with was an acting Base Commander, destined for big things. He told them to shove it. Much happier boy.
Terrible news for the rock throwing F-22 ack ack.
You are coping!
Coping and seething!
Joyce Randolph, “The Honeymooners” actress who played Ed Norton’s wife Trixie, has died at age 99.
It was a very funny show in its day and she added much laughter.
Oh yeah, a retired, arthritic woman is our next Wat Tyler.
You are confusing Kirsch’s day job as a software entrepreneur with his personal interests. Bill Gates is a smart man and a successful software entrepreneur too; but you probably wouldn’t take his advice on Covid vaccination.
I’m a casual observer, but the statistical ‘methodology’ run out on Kirsch’s sub stack is objectively terrible. And the fact that he presumably understands the flaws and misrepresentations prompts me to describe it as ‘schtick’ – because he’s apparently taking the piss.
Police in the UK Arrest Six Pro-Palestine Protestors in Suspected Plot to Disrupt London Stock Exchange
Ah, so now we know who they can’t attack with impunity. Informative.
We have a retired Brigadier just 5 doors down, at one he was the head spanner turner. He is as conservative as they come, but his missus is a raving leftie.
I’m glad I was wrong about the three newest justices but I see that Roberts never changes, staying faithful to GWB who appointed him.
Lord’s Prayer could be dumped from Victorian parliament
AAP
Mr. Jerry Nadler is of course deflecting. His affinity for illegal immigrants is not due to his sympathy for Trump-voting lettuce growers in Arizona, Florida, etc.
… but due to the Democrat white collar professionals & high flyer’s lifestyle use of maids & nannys who will work hard, not complain, & can be deported to remove any problem.
starving gazans
I understand that though a lot more could be automated than is currently the case in the US purely due to illegal labour which is cheaper than machinery and technology.
Beertruk
Cancel her visa, or have her met at the airport by the airport cleaning lady.
(Not my idea – I got it from a story about the British PM and the Soviet Ambassador after the invasion of Czechoslovakia)
Been out in the Middle East too long, he’s “gone native”.
Nicaraguan bishop released
The DemonRats return to their roots, importing and employing slaves.
What I find particularly galling is that almost all the professional feminists have nannies to look after their children. They see nothing wrong with paying a pittance to other women for work they despise. With them it’s feminism for me but not for thee.
JSM? Not VLS launched.
RGM-179 JAGM? Again, No.
LRASM (BTV)? Is this in service. All I see was a test launch on google back in 2013 re BTV adaption of what otherwise is an air-launched missile.
But, again, the point of the post was US Navy’s lack of capacity to load VLS at sea. Once they’ve fired their clip they’re out of action until the get back to port and have reloaded.
dot, you are too lazy to even check the things your waving your pom poms about for. FMD.
As I said, DemonRats returning to their slave importing and employing roots.
Dover
Can the reloads be done at Diego Garcia?
The Israelis should, at the very least, plonk Wong down in a chair to watch “that” 43 minute video, before meeting with anyone.
In 2019 I was on a tour in Nicaragua and someone on our bus asked the tour guide about the government’s oppression of the population. He said that it’s not as it’s portrayed in our media and I thought of course he would say that to avoid problems for himself.
As an aside, Nicaragua was visibly poorer than its two neighbours, Costa Rica and Panama which looked luxurious in comparison.
I struggle with that. Automation is used a lot, and is used extensively as much as possible, in field transport & infield conveyers, etc.
However with some crops, the picking can only be done by hand.
Where automation is not possible, higher wages does not drive automation in those hand-picked crops, it closes them down & moves the growing to low wage countries.
Research on automation, & on breeding to fit automation, is proceeding flat out, fuelled in part by the unreliability & volatility of a field workforce.
Thanks Real D.
Rosie
The Elders of the tribe will be very pleased to see them – especially the girl – returned to her native culture.
If there was ever a case of a teenager being put at risk, this is one.
Anyway, talking about checking things on a blog.
Showing Minister Wong a couple of videos of Lezzos being guests of honour at a Gazan gay barbeque may help her to arrive at a conclusion.
I’d drop both of them. Filth!
Avi:
CLOWN WORLD ARRIVES IN DAVOS
Diogenes, Brigadier I met was the other way round. She was a sensible as all get out. Don’t know what she saw in him.
Then again I don’t know what my wife sees in me.
Cassie:
Cassie, we cannot argue with a cult that thinks a child isn’t a human being, just a political statement waiting to be made.
Joshua Hall
@JoshHall2024
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2h
?? JUST IN: Supreme Court to rule IN FAVOR of President Trump that Colorado and Maine’s removal of him from the ballot is UNCONSTITUTIONAL in a 5-4 decision. Majority: Thomas, Alito, ACB, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch. Minority: John Roberts, KBJ, Kagan, Sotomayor. This is GREAT NEWS!
Roberts should be castrated; if he had testicles. Which he hasn’t. Disgusting bastard; and the women who voted against should be fed to the pigs since they are pigs.
Speaking of pigs, look at this thing:
FLASHBACK: Here’s a Look Back at the Crazy Lady Who Said Trump Raped Her But Can’t Remember the Year and Calls her Cat “Vagina T. Fireball” and Paints Her Trees Blue – ELECTION INTERFERENCE!<a
What Nadler is saying is that it is okay to violate a number of federal and state laws, including labour laws, to justify cheap labour by illegal immigrants.
Democrats are quick to defend open borders and illegal immigrants on one hand, but falsely accused an American, Jay Rittenhouse, of crossing state borders with a firearm.
Acute Pancreatitis was expienced by my sister the day after her second Covid-19 vaccination. Her GP advised her it was believed to be a side effect of the vaccine.
She has had a few reoccurrences since then.
No, the point of the post was that the US was supposedly in dire straits regarding stocks of Tomahawk missiles. Further suggesting a lack of cruise missiles. Both of which points have been proven false.
At sea reloading isn’t an issue in the Red Sea as the allies have a naval base in Djibouti. Regardless, it has been tested and proven possible. Another red herring.
I don’t see why not. And I guess the cost cutting measure in the 90s was made on the basis that for the foreseeable future they had the luxury of firing their ordnance and then steaming off to the nearest port for a reload without having to worry about an enemy that could harass them at sea. I don’t think that applies any longer.
““It’s important that as a parliament we reflect the community that we represent,” ”
So ‘Wekcome to Country’ that represents about 3% of us. is installed as a Parlimentary Tradition?
A Canbra hooker to vicco and a Canbra lezzo to NSW. Nothing good comes out of Canbra.
It would change nothing. Her leftism overrides everything and lefties must support “Palestine”.
She’s keen for the children to be taken from people who have been the only stable family in their lives, and make them start again.
Very caring.
The whole thing stinks of bleeding heart ear-tugging and OPM legals .. The reality is ordinary folk don’t get access to the freebies that 251s and hangers-on take for granted + the fact that the end result is, generally, a stacked deck in favour of the 251 side from the beginning ……
No, that wasn’t the point, this was the point: The United States has approximately 3500 Tomahawk missiles on hand – so few that at-sea reloading capability is pointless because in the event of war the USN will actually run out of missiles before it runs out of launchers.
LOL, something has been ‘tested and proven possible’ so we can get it going in the middle of a peer-peer conflict at a moment’s notice.
Yes, but are any of the surface-to-surface missiles listed there apart from the Tomahawk in active service in MK 41 VLSs? Not that I can see.
Tintarella di Luna
One question for Anal:
Is that the same Scott Ritter who had a few problems with the law and minors a few years ago.
On the left, criminality is just a speed bump.
“Joshua Hall
@JoshHall2024
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2h
?? JUST IN: Supreme Court to rule IN FAVOR of President Trump that Colorado and Maine’s removal of him from the ballot is UNCONSTITUTIONAL in a 5-4 decision. Majority: Thomas, Alito, ACB, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch. Minority: John Roberts, KBJ, Kagan, Sotomayor. This is GREAT NEWS!”
Oh – so, presumably, this is thrown out as well – win some, lose some.
Then again, the second would be, but maybe not the first.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/illinois-voters-file-objections-to-strike-biden-from-primary-ballot-5565018
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The first objection argues that President Biden violated Illinois election law when he opted to have his statement of candidacy notarized by David Kalbaugh, the White House executive clerk.
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However, under Illinois law, a candidate’s statement of candidacy “shall be subscribed and sworn to by such candidate before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds in this State.”
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and
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Hubbard, and Terry Newsome—in filing the second objection, which holds President Biden to be ineligible under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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“Overtly beginning January 20, 2021, Joseph Biden has intentionally declined to enforce laws of the United States, in particular relation to the security of our country’s border,” they wrote.
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Meanwhile in Scotland the woke party of the past few years looks like getting the boot:
…the first major poll of the year showed the SNP is on course to lose 24 of its seats in this year’s General Election.
Daily Mail
War doesn’t begin overnight. It take months of preparation. Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an example of that. It is impossible to hide those preparations. A US destroyer can carry up to 90 missiles. The carriers carry hundreds of air to ground weapons. There is a program for transport aircraft to deliver pallet loads of missiles. Then there are B-52s, B1Bs, with enormous ordinance capacity and effectively global reach.
3500 Tomahawk missiles is the tip of the spear. Taking into account all their air to ground capability by the time the ships need to rearm the opposition will be searching through ruins for spare parts.
Let’s start with the overarching claim that drove all this, that the US can’t reload the Tomahawks from its shooters without them leaving the Red Sea. Djibouti is an allied port and airfield on the Red Sea. You can spit and hit it from where the allied ships are operating.
So reloading is not an issue.
Further, the USN has plenty of cruise missiles both in stock and under production. Enough so that they are allowing production to be diverted for sales to their allies.
Roger at 11:04
Google administrative law if interested. You won’t be for long. There is a lot of law around the use of powers and decision making. This area of law basically sustains the legal-refugee industrial complex.
Rosie
Rosie, they were never planned for.
The aim of the closures is to destroy the wukkas livelihood, their homes – which represent their biggest economic stake – and make them dependent on the State.
The same as the Timber industry.
The same as the Fishing industry.
That’s him. A slime ball personally and politically.
OldOzzie
What a cunning plan.
.1 Select people uniquely unqualified for a task.
.2 Encourage them to do tasks they are clearly not able to fulfill to adequate standards.
.3 Stand back and watch them fail and kill their customers.
.4 Apologise after multiple disasters, but fight all the way to hide the problem.
.5 Stop the process after more customers are killed.
Why do the airplane industries hate their customers and the intellectually impaired public so much?
What is the potential cost of a single supertanker being sunk by the Houthis?
Killing insurgents doesnt reduce their numbers, it multiplies them.
Sky News after dark’s weekday regulars all return to work tonight after 4-6 weeks off for the holidays, leaving just the Outsiders crew to sidle back into the office next Sunday morning.
The major change is that Sharri Markson has swapped shifts with Chris Kenny, who returns to his old 5pm hour. I suspect Markson, who was frequently absent last year, has requested the change to better fit in with the needs of her newborn son (who she’s training to be a vegetarian – FMD).
After his disastrous spruiking for the Voice, which crashed his ratings, it will be fascinating to see if Kenny can hold Markson’s 2023 ratings at 5pm, which often saw her No.4 behind Paul Murray (9pm), Peta Credlin (6pm) and Blot (7pm).
Duk,
sadly, as seen in Afghanistan, not killing insurgents also multiplies them.
What was that about a Deep State?
Plans are being put in place to “deal” with Trump should he win. The Democrap scum are so assured of their invincibility, they no longer bother to hide anything.
hzhousewife
Jan 15, 2024 11:33 AM
The video shows gorgeous women ( hope it works).
And yet look at the women screaming support for pro Islamic barbarism.
First, David Kilcullen might have moved on since he wrote The Accidental Guerrilla. Second, the insurgents might be “$100” each, their ballistic missiles cost rather more, and have to be delivered to them from elsewhere.
Killing your enemies multiplies them.
The entire West should give up now.
Re effectiveness of the allied strikes on the Houthis.
The allied strikes against the Houthis happened on the 11th, it’s now the 15th and there are no reports that they have fired any more missiles or launched any drones.
While nobody but the Houthis and their Iranian masters know the exact extent of the damage and of their remaining resources, it would appear that the strikes and the interdiction of any munition resupply from Iran have had significant effect on their ability to terrorize shipping.
Killing the insurgents’ weapon systems and preventing their resupply is the point.
Anyone ever heard of a Dr Roy Casagranda?
I strongly suspect that he’s an islamophile, but I haven’t listened to his ramblings yet. Arabic influences in human development are different to Islamic influences, but he appears to be a clear champion of the latter. Someone has latched onto him and is using him as an intellectual reference, what I suspect is grasping at straws.
Odds of seeing Albo at the AO this year?
not islamophobia
Fake news sadly. No such decision has been made.
Dover fell for a gozzer, where from I don’t know. Linkies are a good thing!
Old Ozzie:
All I see are truncated Dodecahedrons. Perhaps the points are all knocked off by a plough?
(Smart arse comment noted)
🙂
Let me just repeat myself: Scotus has not ruled against Maine and Colorado’s try on’s, at least not yet.
I hope they will. If they don’t two things will occur: 1. the Republicans will remove Biden from the ballot in 27 states and 2. the US will cease to be.
Aluminium truncated dodecahedron machined from solid block.
“Killing the insurgents’ weapon systems and preventing their resupply is the point.”
Arguably more important is the lesson that while poking the sleeping bear to show your bravery might be fun, at some point the bear will awaken, at which point he can and will do significant damage to you and yours – you don’t want to be the one who wakes him from his slumber! And the more often and harder you poke him, the more likely he is to wake up and the more likely he is to be angry about it.
Out here in frustration land.
I have the ATO letter confirming the registration of my SMSF.
Super Lookup, no records showing registration. Come back later!
If that happens, I hope the Republicans will too.
Hold the left/Democrats to their own standards, none of this turning the other cheek out of some misguided principle.
It will be gnawing at him.
Last week. Elbow was harvesting free votes by doing TV appearances at the Test cricket.
I’m tipping the PM’s office is betting that the suburbs have forgotten Elbow’s disastrous appearance at the tennis last year while Alice Springs burned.
Even old Trotskyists love the idea of tricking the normies into liking them.
Lee – They’re already trying it in six states.
Just in case anyone has forgotten what a flog Hewson was.
John Hewson
@JohnRHewson
Disgraceful-Dutton/Tehan/Birmingham attempting to weaponise Wong’s trip to the Middle East
Beery
you should check out Jay Smith on Youtube, a lot of great videos (with evidence to back his claims up) on how Mo’s teachings existed before Mo.
He also shared a leaked video of a Harvardian Muslim scholar who admitted in a private session that there’s more than one version of the Koran and they’re not quite sure what to do about it!
Albo’s kids-in-short-pants will be running out of ideas about now. Christmas and January bought them some time.
Phillip “crotchtruffles” Adams uses his big brain energy to beclown himself…
Phillip Adams
@PhillipAdams_1
When Chair of the National Australia Day Council I wanted to move Australian Day. Still do. Or simply forget it. (There’s not an England Day or an American Day or a France Day)
Its not going well in comments.
St Georges Day
Independence Day
Bastille Day
The principal sources of an irrational fear of Islam (Islamophobia) in the West are among the leaders, bureaucrats, academics and media.
The others have a quite rational concern about the potential risks of having large numbers of unassimilable fanatics living in their midst.
Gutfeld has been running a mini Town Hall on his show interviewing and putting viewer questions to Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek is very impressive and talks the talk. He also does not bad mouth Trump. He says he would not accept a VP position. But one thing is for sure: if Trump wins he has to have this guy in his administration. Alternatively, I could live with Vivek there as POTUS as long as he has a position for the great man: perhaps roving ambassador for humanity.
The principal sources of an irrational fear of Islam (Islamophobia)
Having an irrational fear of islam is an oxymoron.
Beery
Teh Paywallian op ed describing Albo as “Morrison lite” was telling. They did something similar on KRudd 1.0 before anyone else. KRuddy was gone in a few months.
Boambee John
Jan 15, 2024 12:48 PM
It depends where the oil slick ends up. if it’s all along the coast of Yemen, the natives will starve from the ruined oil fields, and next slaughter all the Mighty Houthi War Machine.
I’m sure, like so many leaders and even ordinary people, she has seen it.
Her smooth brain dismisses it. Her even smoother conscience remains unmoved. Her slimy tongue issues forth dissembling pap, her keyboard likewise.
There are many just like her. She is not unique by any measure.
Thanks JC. My thoughts winged immediately to the brand new bub and her mum.
Life comes at you fast wherever you are on the timeline. I hope your wife is pain free soon and fully recovered.
Today I have been organising a smartphone and smartwatch (fall detection) for Mum. The old 3G flip phone crapped itself. Fortunately able to port the number, now to pair the two devices. Wish me luck!
Killing your enemies multiplies them
black is white
water is dry
global warming makes it colder
Lord’s Prayer could be dumped from Victorian parliament
AAP
Pressure is mounting on the Victorian government to scrap a hundred-year-old tradition to better reflect modern community values.
Pressure.. applied by whom? The Work Experience staffing their ABC over their eight week summer break?
Each sitting day in Victoria’s parliament is opened with the Lord’s Prayer which has been the case for 106 years.
Goodo. It’s a “count your blessings” reminder as well as a pledge of allegiance to the ethics which the whole circus is actually built upon.
The prayer is followed by a Welcome to Country.
Since when? Seriously, you dated the Lord’s Prayer to 1918AD, can we have a bit of journalism please?
Premier Jacinta Allan hinted the prayer’s days were numbered, saying there has been cross-party discussions on the issue.
Ah, so that’s where the pressure is coming from. The Fifth Column.
“It’s important that as a parliament we reflect the community that we represent,” she told reporters on Monday.
Sure, love. Just own the idea eh? You want a First Nationses legacy, just own it and go for it, it’s so much more manly than the girly-girly discussing reflecting consulting tea party.
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It should have been obvious that the onslaught of homogenous Welomes To Countryses has been co-ordinated, compulsory, and designed to replace Christianity. And give the laptop class a permanently open ethics loophole, too. Soon every backflip, broken promise and unforeshadowed international treaty imposed upon us- not just the breaking of ground, but the hiring of staff, the purchase of goods and the movement of money- will be fobbed off by genuflections to Elders Past, Present And Future, Now and Forever, Amen.
I had a guy telling me today that it was Gough Whitlam who organised the referendum in 1967 to stop the Aborigines from being regarded as animals.
Really.
I had to re-educate him. Harold Holt. And no, it was all about special legislation. He was most chagrined that His Goughship only came to power in ‘72. But was delighted that Holt drowned off Portsea. Go figure.
Becos…. fixing the debt ridden economy isn’t a priority.
P:
P, we’re aware of who they represent – themselves. We want them to represent the electorate who voted them in.
Well, it’s been going for around 730,000 days, so I expect it to outlast her.
The Israelis should, at the very least, plonk Wong down in a chair to watch “that” 43 minute video, before meeting with anyone.
I’m sure, like so many leaders and even ordinary people, she has seen it.
Calli, I doubt if she has seen it. She seems to me to be such a self-possessed entity that she would refuse to be confronted with a reality that may challenge her SO perfectly formed world view. She is a “piece of work”. But she is far from stupid – & that is what makes her a dangerous politician to be given her ministerial role.
I am hoping that the Israeli officials who are charged with dealing with her give her “the business”. They are very good at it. Elon Musk initially doubted the depth of the horror of 7 October. But he left Israel “very shaken” according to the Israelis who took him to the stricken kibbutzim.
So the socialist Victorian government (and presumably crossbench arse-lickers) want to dump the Lord’s Prayer, and keep the Welcome to Country, invented five minutes ago.
cohenite
Jan 15, 2024 4:41 PM
Vivek has to be a huge consideration for those decent Rebubs who may think Trump is too old.
I reckon Vivek may be keeping his powder dry at the moment re. serving as VP to Trump. Trump has to have him close. To me, he is the most likely to pick up where Trump left off.
Dover Beach:
I wonder if the problem is more a case of ‘won’t’ rather than ‘can’t’?
Perhaps the risk of losing a missile at sea precludes the practice, but in wartime service, the risk is worth it?
If so, the USN has a bit more capacity than thought, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this habit extended a lot further than just missile reloading.
Mongs gunna mong.
The palesimians and the Abbos joining their mighty, mighty intellects to overthrow the eeeeevil pale people. LOL
https://twitter.com/seanbedlam/status/1746353621313491126
Jacinta Allan.
“It’s important that as a parliament we reflect the community that we represent,”
I’m not sure Transurban’s mission statement will sound all that reverent.
Lords Prayer to be replaced with the Internationale I believe
I had a student let out a hearty “amen” right in front of me after the
benediction welcome.I pretended not to have seen who dun it to spare the young lad. Couldn’t help smiling though.
https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/cricket/mystery-solved-what-really-happened-to-david-warner-s-bag-20240115-p5exby.html
so the baggy green never actually went missing…
that did not work out well try again………
I had a student let out a hearty “amen” right in front of me after the
benedictionwelcome.I pretended not to have seen who dun it to spare the young lad. Couldn’t help smiling though.
I’m not so sure about that, Crossie. Cleaners in NYC are asking for 35 bucks cash on the knocker.. Nannies wouldn’t be that much different as they usually were on par from what I recall.
Building trades were once relatively inexpensive as you had a lot of Irish and Polish dudes drifting in during the summer months and then take off. These days they don’t appear to speak a word of English, Asian, and the labour cost is much higher than here. We did a reno and the only Native American who was English speaking was the site foreman. I was pretty surprised when the quote came in as I was halfway expecting the cost to be about the same here in terms of dollar for dollar, and ignoring the exchange rate. It came in around 40% above my expectation . That was 2019, and it’s got much tighter since.
A few months ago we were there and there were for- hire signs plastered on a lot of store fronts.
The stats suggest the US is suffering a chronic labor shortage, which may change if there’s a recession.
This is a really unique time in terms of the US labor market. Never seen it like this.
Funny read from a chap who used to have a little tv show about cars.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3a4a061a-c6c9-46ef-a599-e40d591464b1?shareToken=e1433e28957336abd29e02c4355c03aa
You’d have expected the French to be first out of the blocks with some kind of protest. They’re excellent at making a point with muck spreaders and burning sheep. But no. It was the Belgians. Sadly, however, they weren’t very good at chanting, so no one really noticed, and the baton passed to the Dutch. Who, it turned out, were.
…
I fear, however, that sinister forces and the dark arts are being mustered to make sure they lose. Which is why, if you can actually find a report about the dispute, there’s no sympathy for poor old Farmer Giles. Because he’s being labelled as Hitler in a tractor.
Grindavik, Iceland is there no tax that they can throw at the volcano top stop it.
JC
Unfortunately I don’t see the labor shortage being filled until the govt stops paying people not to work and I don’t see that happening while a Dem is in the White House or while RINOs roam the congress.
Dover
How does the Twitter account you cite have inside knowledge in what the US stores are for such things as conventional missiles? The only information we have about US armaments etc is what the DoD declassifies. Is this dude going around DoD warehouses, USN ships with pen and paper and doing a count?
caveman
Jan 15, 2024 5:23 PM
i would hate to be those people in Grindavik watching as their houses are consumed by lava..
6 February 2024: Australians For Reliable Energy Ready to March on Canberra
Zat
Participation rates are the lowest I’ve seen. My understanding is that the lockdowns/covid encouraged the middle aged retire earlier than planned.
Labor shortages For instance, flights are cancelled because the airlines are chronically short of staff!
Are you saying the dole has encouraged people to stay home? I can’t recall the exact period, but there was a limit on the period someone could claim unemployment bens. Has that changed?
Get up early. Fajr is recited before dawn
This is an example of not thinking about what you’re writing.
I meant, of course, fishing grounds – not oil fields.
Head slap.
Husband went into the city today to try to solve two problems:
* Optus is apparently upgrading mobile network to 4G in our rural area & for some weeks we only have occasional mobile sevice. What thah? Just needed to know the schedule & what to expect. So, stupidly, thought someone in HO might be able to assist, since all their operators on phone & internet had not.
Result? No one could help. Suggested he contact Optus on internet.
* While at Optus enquired about new phone, as he had dropped existing one with screen damage. No one really interested. Went to Apple outlet – Asian employee very difficult to understand. Went home without phone.
Fortunately, we have a small local business that deals with digital problems. He is repairing the phone for a fraction of the price Apple & Optus quoted.
The point of the experience? It is very very difficult, it seems, to get reasonable service from big companies – that is, if their employees have even a good command of the language.
Complaint finished.
Walli Dali:
Name them.
When you are a kid, you really dont realise the amount of propaganda coming through the idiot box.
Capitalism is bad, mkaaay?
…
It destroys the world mkaaaay??
Participation rates are the lowest I’ve seen. My understanding is that the lockdowns/covid encouraged the middle aged retire earlier than planned.
JC, maybe that explains the lousy experience husband had today trying to get some help with mobile problems from Optus & Apple.
It depends where the oil slick ends up. if it’s all along the coast of Yemen, the natives will starve from the ruined fishing grounds
Oil slicks in warm water are fairly temporary. The greebies in the water go ” oooh, look! Unoxidised hydrogen and carbon. Grub’s up!” The fishing will be better a while after that.
Gary Foley – doesn’t consider himself Australian, bludging off the taxpayer since the early 1970’s.
An unlost Baggy Green.
Warner continues to prove he’s a monumental dickhead even after retirement.
JC
Welfare/the dole was a problem in the US long before Covid. Think LBJ and his farcical ‘Great Society’ programs.
But yes, Covid was a huge problem as it taught even the ones who formerly had some semblance of a work ethic that govt was their daddy. Yes, there are limits to some aid programs, but you have to remember that the feds and the states all have a mishmash of programs. The bludgers learn how to play them all.
Cohenite,
there is an excellent Johannes Leak at the site you linked to.
LOL. Is there anything in the US they don’t make complicated?
If anyone should be praying it’s the people of Victoriastan.
If this were IDF soldiers South Africa would be using it as proof of genocide.
move over dancing houthis.
In this particular case I can say without hesitation… blame the Democrats. They will do anything to buy a vote with taxpayer money and as Reagan said:
So they just stack up and get more and more labyrinthine.
Now we know what vile creep ‘Dr’ John really is- I’m actually glad about his birthday cake humiliation and his loss to the undertaker.
OMG. I would never expect to ever be forced to say I was ashamed to be an Australian. With this thing as our ‘alleged’ Foreign Minister, I am dumbfounded. What this says is that Australia is f/ked good and proper. I cannot believe how far this country has fallen so bloody quickly.
Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s big island often often springs a leak that heads toward a township, usually dissipating by then but sometimes actually swallowing houses and streets. We saw one such flow from a tour helicopter.
The BOM is a fuking disgrace:
Why it is so rainy on Australia’s east coast even though the country is in ‘El Nino’ – and how everything we thought we knew about the weather system is wrong
Dr King and his colleague Dr Andrew Dowdy wrote on a University of Melbourne publication that despite all the recent rain, Australia is still in an El Nino event.
The SOI is in neutral territory which means there is no El Nino event.
The academics said an El Nino weather pattern means there is an increased chance of dry conditions, rather than a guarantee of that happening in all cases.
‘The relationship between La Nina and Australian rainfall is considerably stronger than the effect of El Nino on rainfall,’ they said.
‘While La Nina events are pretty reliably wet, El Nino events can often be wet or dry.’
How mealy mouthed is that? El Nino defined on the BOM website:
El Niño typically means:
Reduced rainfall
Warmer temperatures
The way he treated his first wife never sat well with the Australian public at the time.
Wong is cold, humourless Marxist ideologue.
Penny Wong has gone to Israel to find a pathway to peace.
Peace in the Labor branches of western Sydney, that is.
With this thing as our ‘alleged’ Foreign Minister, I am dumbfounded.
I have to admit I was stupid enough to think the Wong chap was trying to avoid being seen to be “captured” by one side or another.
If what you have posted is right we will be boycotting Israel and sucking up to the Pallies by next election.
I’m certain Elbow gave him the FM job because he’s Asian.
Yup, that’s about it.
We used head out for drinks in Sydney, especially Friday evenings at one of the bars, near the Rocks, which I think is the Four Seasons now. Dr. John would often be there with some of the Macquarie traders. He always put up his hand for a drink, but no one recalls he ever shouted one.
I think he was the consulting macro-economist at Mac in the 80s.
Didn’t she get her own back, by telling her story to the “Women’s Weekly” and “60 Minutes” in 1991, just after he became leader of the Opposition?
Hairy Festeringpenis is a Hamarse truther.
?Mary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
Israel war: Penny Wong blasted by Jewish groups for avoiding Hamas attack sites
They want ?
@SenatorWong
? to visit Oct 7 attack site to see the devastation. How how much of it was caused by Israel’s indiscriminate attack that killed its own citizens?
Foul old scrote.
All Liar Ministerial appointments are dealt out by the factions. So jobs for the boys.
Dr John has still got a bit of life in him to equal or beat the number of wives King Henry VIII had.
Very similar personalities I’d propose.
Crossie, I don’t think Gindavikians are feeling very secure at the moment. The damage is awful.
So, this government, this sleaze of a PM, this slag of a foreign minister, equates the massacres, rapes and kidnappings on 7 October 2023 with “settler violence”.
I am speechless.
Actually, I’m not. I’d like to see this putrid fetid disgrace of a foreign minister be dropped in the middle of Gaza, and to experience exactly what Shani Louk, Naama Levy and the other young Israeli women experienced on that awful day and since. I’d like to see her pants stained with blood, after being raped vaginally and anally.
Meanwhile, the Jew hatred in the West festers, foments and grows, rapidly. The best analogy I can think of is the alien from the films, Alien. Once Jew hatred is awoken from its nap, once Jew hatred is succoured, once Jew hatred is officially or unofficially licensed, it becomes empowered and the violence that ensues, either with words or actions, knows no bounds.
Ah yes indeed HB. Good point!!!
I wonder who will be there to greet the Australian Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong: I hope it the chauffeur and the janitor.
WEF and WHO threaten “Disease X” The Final Push for the Pandemic Treaty and Bill Gates “Final Solution.”
The new Prime Minister of France, Gabriel Attal is a WEF Global Young Leader and a Bilderberger.
Cassie
you’re too generous.
For those interested in casual misandry: Victoria’s poisonous gubbermint is currently running ads blaming the high rate of male drownings on boorish machismo. Nothing whatsoever to do with men drowning trying to save people.
NBC Admits Deep State Exists – Key Operative, Mary McCord
Could have. In which case, “well played” I’d say. It was certainly covered in the press.
Iirc, she worked to put him through his doctoral studies in the US only to have him later dump her as an unsuitable wife for an aspiring PM.
Avi and Ezra.
That fat pig from Blackrock needed to be tolled to piss off!
BlackRock messes with the WRONG journalists in DavosM
NBC News Reports ‘Deep State’ Plot to Facilitate a ‘Military Coup’ Against Trump Amidst Fear for Alleged ‘Retribution’ if Re-Elected
I can’t even compare Sleazy and the lesbian bitch to cockroaches, because that’s unfair to cockroaches.
Let’s see what Trump can do at least with one bureau, the FBI. I expect him to sack everybody if congress won’t defund it. The other option is a war of attrition, 20% cut in staffing per year until it dwindles into insignificance.
I saw that Bear.
Chortle.
She’s not doing well lately
‘For many it’s a day of division’: Allan responds to questions on Australia Day stance (Sky mainpage headline, 15 Jan)
No Ms Allan, Australia Day is not a day of division, since anyone who celebrates it is an Aussie and anyone who doesn’t isn’t.
If you don’t like Australia Day go live someplace else.
I hope serious people are going for this slag.
Just got off a call with my work colleague out of Germany. Our market is missing a person to oversee a number of projects. Now that my kids have grown up I put my hand up for the role last year. Quite a bit of I/N travel involved but could do the role with no problems.
My colleague told me (on the quiet) he was instructed to put a female into the role. No choice in matter. The young woman they wish to use is 2-3 years away from being experienced enough for role.
…and so the role goes unfilled for a while yet.
Hopefully I will have moved on by then.
No company for old men. 🙂
How how much of it was caused by Israel’s indiscriminate attack that killed its own citizens?
She’s no different to a Holocaust denier. This is David Irving stuff.
I remember watching that interview and thinking that’s that for the Libs. He wasn’t much different to Malcolm Turnbull as it turns out.
Sadly both Shin Bet and Mossad have been captured by the lefty deep state in Israel.
Not true.
I can’t even compare Sleazy and the lesbian bitch to cockroaches, because that’s unfair to cockroaches.
I hope their malice and duplicity backfires on them.
Isn’t that what they already did when they refused to carry out his orders in Syria and just kept it from him?
Who’d have her?
Unreal.
Stocks for private jet manufactures are going to fly off the shelf over the medium term if this keeps going. Anyone worth over a US$50 million is going to buy a partial lease.