Tom Stiglich.
Open Thread – Wed 17 Jan 2024
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- No, Your Holiness, killing babies and border control are not the same
- Open Thread – Weekend 14 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 12 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 9 Sept 2024
Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
I hope they do tell Benny to piss off, definitely not to Australia, but any place with strict Islamic laws or North Korea.
It’s only a gratuitous photo op if it involves Israeli victims, apparently.
The wankocrats attending the WEF at Davos are no different to the French aristocrats who spent their days idling away at the palace of Versailles back in the 1600s and 1700s. They completely isolated themselves from reality. Back in pre-revolutionary France it was “let them eat cake”, today it is “let them eat bugs”.
We know what happened in France, it was not pretty. We know what will happen to those wankocrats across the West, that will not be pretty either.
It was good to see Avi Yemeni at Davos, confronting slime bag screecher and all round Obama fellator, Jonathan Greensplatt. Greensplatt has dragged the ADL into the ideological sewer, screaming, screeching, and shouting about the far-right and Nazis being everywhere. As Avi says to him…”are you like the boy who cried wolf about anti-Semitism and hatred”? Good question, Avi. Meanwhile, when real Nazis appear, as they sid on 7 October 2023, with Jew hatred now mainstream and commonplace, across our cities and campuses, Jonny Boy Greensplatt goes all silent.
ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt confronted by Avi Yemini at the WEF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhoq-orNiA
Sock it to them, Avi.
I think they may realise they have a problem.
The theme this year is ‘Rebuilding Trust’.
The jig is up, they’re just in denial about it.
Hopefully so, Roger. I just want to see a few periwigs and panniers go flying.
Metaphorically, of course.
Shame on Margaret Court for being a divisive figure.
I want to see a guillotine operating on them. Or at least some heads on pikes.
I’m shouting at the TV: Andrew Blot, interviewing the Paywallian’s Sophie Elsworth, keeps interrupting her because he can’t stand anyone raising his/her voice against his infinite wisdom.
Blot should stick to what he’s good at — writing newspaper columns.
I’ll go further: Blot is the most arrogant prick on Australian TV.
This applies only because Quentin Dempster has retired & is no longer on TV.
Agreeing you agreeing with calli, Kez. Let’s go acid bath.
Dover,
I just now read your comment about UK and US unable to obtain insurance through the Red Sea, route. Which Western nations would be getting insurance , and who needs it, seeing that all the credible shipping firms I’ve read about aren’t treading through that route any longer? Sounds bogus.
I would have thought “Kochie”, but as I seldom watch TV I’ll demur.
You’d blunt the guillotine on the panniers, DrBeau. Whalebone, or maybe iron boning.
I don’t want to see heads roll. Perhaps a bit of the go slow, hard labour.
Kochhead certainly deserves an honourable mention in the “arrogant prick” stakes.
Do acid baths actually work? A bit slow. Hungry pigs might be a group of creatures acting efficiently.
To paraphrase Kevni of Davos.
Tim Fisher loved a train.
I read a few days ago Eygpt collects US$700 million a month on Suez fees, obviously when it’s open. They must be elated with the hootie tooties.
Kochie dun his duty during Covid. The despicable creature appears to have retired quietly.
Please, let it be so.
Possibly. but you need to ask Crazy Karen Gacey about that as s/he appears to be the expert in victim disposal and not leaving any “prints”.
(Marie Antoinette never did say “let them eat cake” – it was a phrase made up by Rousseau and later falsely attributed to her) but at least the French aristocracy were patrons of the arts, our current elite generally prefer the vulgar and the barbaric.
Apparently, but you may need to revise your definition of ‘success’.
Also, it is said one needs to frequently tend a body immersed in acid, as one would a fragile houseplant.
“It really shits me when any politician, from any side of politics makes policy in a area beyond there understanding.”
I don’t mind at all, when it’s policy. But that’s assuming policy precedes an election, and thereafter becomes an operational mandate, subject to the processes and limitations of parliament of course.
Some policies- Howard’ GST, Rudd’s Apology, Albanese’s Referendum- were well-digested by the electorate before they became legislation, and that’s about as good as it gets in a representative democracy.
But it’s the actions of government in areas which were never canvassed through an election, and never the subject of televised debate grillings, never foreshadowed by election manifestos, which sh*t me, and which I believe should be publicly struck out by the vice-regal. These are all the fast-moving international treaties and commitments with any number of unelected Acronym groups, like the WEF, WHO, UN, and IPCC.
I have only seen Bolt on TV a few times, but every time I wanted to yell at him SHUT UP FOR A MOMENT AND LET THEM ANSWER!
And the smug he projects is awful.
Given so many like his columns over so many years, and MUST have given him feedback, why doesn’t he do something about it?
I think he wants people chucking things at their TV because thats so much better than being dull. Only reason I have, anyway.
Talking about acid baths. I was on my way visiting wifey at the hospital and the car went absolutely nuts with every fault imaginable lighting up. This after the car was returned from a service yesterday. I think the only fault that didn’t show was the flat tires signal. Looked under the hood as it was steaming and actually smelt like steaming acid. I think a pump has gonesky.
Amen.
Good lord. That’s a field bigger than the Melbourne Cup!
Roger…a malediction if ever there was one.
Chris, lots of people have commented on his behavior. Obviously his producer would’ve noticed but he still keeps doing it. Must be a deliberate act? I don’t watch Sky.
(Marie Antoinette never did say “let them eat cake” – it was a phrase made up by Rousseau and later falsely attributed to her) but at least the French aristocracy were patrons of the arts, our current elite generally prefer the vulgar and the barbaric.
I’m aware of that, and I never said she did. I have quite a lot of sympathy for both Marie Antionette and Louis XVI, both unjustly smeared and derided, caught in a historical vortex they couldn’t control. Both were guillotined was disgusting.
Actually, some historians state that the saying ‘let them eat cake’ goes back as far as King Henry IV of France, who famously said “Paris is worth a Mass”.
IIRC, someone here liked this sort of industry film from the subcontinent. Ignore the safety rules etc, but it’s surprising that they come up with machinery that does the job.
The only parts that get me shuddering isthe lathe work where heaps of swarf lie around the floor but no one seems to lacerate themselves on it. Everyone seems to have the normal amount of toes, fingers, etc.
Was there a petrol station in the vid, turts? It would’ve been interesting to see if any “injun” motorist complained about stealing his petrol.
calli
I had to laugh at the 63 for a simple poop joke. It wasn’t that funny.
Perhaps I’m being set up for another accusation of being the Fantom Upticker.
Slim Cognito
Jan 17, 2024 12:55 PM
Did someone ask for this?
Munkara v Santos NA Barossa Pty Ltd (No 3) [2024] FCA 9 (15 January 2024)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FCA/2024/9.html
Thanks
Cronkite
Did you see Ackman has endorsed Dean Phillips – a Demon? You’d think that after the stuff that’s going on, he’d be a little partial to the GOP side.
Ackman’s given him a million bucks seed money and the most over the top endorsement that makes you think they’ve had sex.
Bruce O’Nuke:
Camels with wheels?
Your wish, etc.
Ackman giving Phillips a tongue bath.
Winston, I suspect you and I have exactly zero influence on the apparent Fan Club.
In animal minding news, I have informed our sad, homesick hound that it’s only three sleeps until her family retrieves her. She raised her eyebrows and wagged her tail.
No amount of pats and cuddles replaces two boisterous boys.
Maybe you could give it a rest JC.
What a phenomenal win by the Trumpster in Iowa. Expected but still good to see. The dude needs to watch himself though. He’s tough, but he’s in his late seventies and I read he hadn’t slept for 24 hours because of meet and greet show.
From a Facebook group:
Got this sent to me from the latest Woolworths catalogue. They basically are supporting the Chinese New Year but shelving any reference to Australia Day – to my mind this is an indictment on the brand, the company structure and their Board of Directors
I see the latest Aldi catalogue features Chinese new Year stuff too…
OK medical people…here’s one.
3 kids, all definitely 100% same parents.
No 1 – thyroid cancer, surgery, best outcome, 100% clear so far (3 years).
No 2 – Hashimoto’s disease, controlled by thyroxine; and moderate Crohn’s, managed with medication.
No 3 – Graves disease, just diagnosed, as well as severe Crohn’s. Tx plan being discussed, but must avoid contraindications with Crohn’s meds. Also has MRSA issues and told she is currently not a good candidate for surgery.
Any qualified advice, suggestions, (other than solution 303)
similar experiences, to share. I need to learn more.
Appreciations.
I should, Driller, however I have to keep to my word. There’s payback for every single infraction and then some, including yourself, you disgusting bush pig.
You should do another AI generated film review on the movie , Criminal (I know, close to home for you) where Costner talks about paying back twice as hard. I think that’s being a wuss as it should be multiples. Now, go clean the mold, dishonest cretin and piss off.
What a tool.
“WEVE just brought”
Really, how much of his own coin did he tip in, or is it the “WE” that is bent over having the beach sand and deep heat coated pineapple jammed up their quoit?
Steven Miles
@StevenJMiles
We’ve just bought this vacant hotel in South Brisbane to give homeless families a safe place to stay.
Because every Queenslander deserves a roof over their head.
JC
And there you have it. JC cannot exercise enough self control to avoid a fight.
Welcome to the world where everything correlates to 1 with respect to stocks etc. and the US 10 year.
Everything now is a function of the US 10 year bond yield, which has now backtracked to over 4%.
I did, however, buy some Textron early this morning before the NY close. Private jet use for senior management is the US is up 50% since “CROVID”, according to WSJ.
Politicians…when they’re not creating problems, they’re putting band aids on them and demanding a pat on the head.
Calm down, Turtlehead, and occasionally show some restraint you crazed old nurse.
We’ve just bought this vacant hotel in South Brisbane to give homeless families a safe place to stay.
Never mind that QLD families aren’t safe in their own homes.
Reservoir Dogs on Viceland, thanks to a random foray into FTA.
Oh yeah.
This is the second such hotel the state govt has purchased recently for this purpose.
That I know of, there may be more.
Meanwhile, 90 minutes away, a 1000 room accommodation facility commissioned by Palaszczuk to spite Scott Morrison sits vacant.
Mizaris:
Totally unqualified answer/question:
What an odd cluster!?
My immediate thought was environmental – home, school, areas of the home, what sort of commonalities do they have the parents don’t have?
Are the parents OK? No goitres, etc?
Lived in the same place most of their lives?
How about their friends? Any dodgy stuff going on healthwise?
Has there been any radiological incidents in the area?
I’d put good money that within the next six months, it’s full of refugees/government sponsored whatevers.
An in-law nephew, who works for the family business, was sponging rent free off his sister for years and now because the sis is heading to the UK, he’s hunting around inner city for a share.
He told me he was interviewed by a couple of dudes and told him they had 40 applications for the share. It’s inner city, but still, 40 apps?
What the hell is going on?
Hashimoto’s, Graves and Crohn’s – all autoimmune related. Genetic tendency perhaps.
Mizaris:
The reason I went down the environmental route was because my sister had a house on piers in Byron Bay yonks ago when it was still a sleepy seaside town.
The dog used to sleep in the shade under the house and he developed a sort of breast cancer.
The vet was quite concerned when they did a biopsy and discovered it. It turned out that the sand that was used for fill under the house was slightly radioactive – more than was usual. My sister was quite concerned as well as she had two kids that also played under the house.
So far they’ve grown up and had no health issues but then, they spent nowhere near the amount of time in that environment and in such close contact as the dog.
HZHousewife:
Quite so – with a radiological trigger.
Ignore the orange ones.
Only take notice of the red ones if the Bing-Bings! are going off as well.
Oh
We are back, how very nice.
Please carry on, as you were.
Double away smartly.
One problem we have in Australia is that, especially among mirror-frotting freaks in government, the idea of free speech is so poorly understood.
In the US it is a right explicitly set out in the constitution, yet even there it is daily subject to no end of totalitarian sophistry.
Here I believe it is not set out as a right (above law) anywhere and people have formed the idea it is an assailable right because it is in the movies.
But everyone accepts that we have (by common consent) a right to free speech – but without the American experience which cast in such clear relief what is protected and what is not. You just know that there is a cohort of Australians who would think giving company secrets to a competitor is free speech. Or that defamation could not be compatible with free speech – how can you be penalised for saying what you want?
Revolting sentiment that it is you can say “Death to da Jooz” among your friends at a stinking BBQ. You can utter it with choked breath while spastically trying to coax a little more rigidity from your semi-engorged pudenda and gazing covetously at the hindquarters of a ‘thinks-she-is-too-good-for-you’ goat. But crying it out to a congregation who values killing Jooz alongside the two imperatives above, but in a country where shit-stinking BBQ’s and goat-shagging are already indulged because it shows how multi-cultural we are, it amounts to incitement to violence at least, as well as public menace, and consorting with the dark ages.
They really think freedom of speech means you are free to insist on denying other people their freedoms because they can’t think one more step ahead of a cliche.
Mother Load:
We desperately need a well written Bill of rights.
Would you trust anyone from the Governing Castes to write it?
No bloody way!
He forget to say that for Israel Folaou and Margaret Court?
I did, and then they all went red.,
1. low coolant
2. Battery symbol
3. The power steering went off and then came on.
4. Engine oil red
5. Engine heat.
It was like Turtleheasd going absolutely spastic at me this morning on the old fred. No kidding, the car went Turtlehead on me. I love that car. It’s a 5 series wagon and the krauts don’t send that model here anymore so I’m trying to keep it.. The 3 series wagon is a little too gay for my tastes. 🙂
Did you see Ackman has endorsed Dean Phillips – a Demon? You’d think that after the stuff that’s going on, he’d be a little partial to the GOP side.
Liberalism is a mental illness. Ackman fought back against the uni shits because his wife was being attacked but his fundamental mental aberration is still there.
KRuddy is never happier than saving the world seated in front of some butcher’s paper with a crayon in his hand. Unless Chris Bowen has eaten it.
Brilliant Bear. I raise a glass to you sir and award winner of teh interwebs for today.
Priced too low. The owner needs to jack up the asking until he gets 5 apps max.
Mother L
Very nice rant. Let me say at the outset that I find anti-sem evil in every way. I also think there are benefits with hearing that sort of hate speech. We get to know, who are saying those things and the punters get to see the revolting nature of some of these animals in our midst.
I think, in a way, this has cursed the Australian Left because of the way they’ve been cuddling up to the muzzos. Watch the polls.
Bills of Rights hand rights to decree by government. They always need to define exceptional cases for inclusion as a right, which always grants guidance to those who figure how to misuse the regulations. Academics are usually the first to demand freedom of expression, and we know that arena has become the central repository of stupidity, hatred, biological travesties and weird philosophies. Unregulated free speech gives opportunities to advise why particular concepts are idiotic.
But calls to harm or hate others should be banned.
Andrew Bolt:
The only way Democrats stop Trump from reclaiming the Presidency is that he is assassinated. Nothing short of that will suffice.
We should not do this without being clear on what it means for a law to violate the bill of rights.
Australian courts have been willing to recognise a right to free speech, but they seem more willing to apply that concept to strike down laws that prevent union donations to political parties, than to apply it when some pleb tells an possibly offensive joke.
My personal view is that if a law restrains a right, it should require bipartisan agreement for enforcement. So, for example, laws preventing disclosure of national secrets are a limitation on freedom of speech; therefore prosecuting a Julian Assange or Edward Snowdon would require bipartisan approval.
I have hypothyroidism. My eldest son has Type 1 diabetes and Addison’s Disease. My two younger children have no manifestation of any problems, nor do their children. My younger brother has coeliac disease as has one of his daughters. My other brother has two daughters with coeliac disease though he has no manifestation of endocrine problems himself. Neither my parents, my aunt nor my maternal grandfather or paternal grandmother had any sign of endocrine problems. My paternal grandfather died before my father was born so no idea about him. My maternal grandmother had hip problems which may be associated with undiagnosed coeliac disease.
Was told that these ‘endocrine clusters’ seem to occur in people of British descent. It will be interesting to see if any of our grandchildren develop any of these ailments; eldest is 19, next 16,11, 8 and 6 and so far so good with all five.
Greetings, Carpe. It’s good to see you are still making an occasional guest appearance.
Another year of Paul Murray delivering a 30-minute Liberal Party tirade about Albo followed by a post-coital cigarette with Bronwyn Bishop.
Yawn.
Perhaps you could give it a rest JC.
I think your analysis here is strange. Could the ‘credible shipping firms’ be avoiding it because they are unable to obtain insurance? Could the insurers be just applying the same prudential judgement the ‘credible shipping firms’ are applying themselves and extending it now to all shipping firms? I’m not sure that any of these possibilities excludes the other.
Perhaps, you should have said very same thing to the Turtlehead this morning. Perhaps, you’re the last suggesting moderation, you deceitful bush pig.
Another year of Paul Murray delivering a 30-minute Liberal Party tirade about Albo followed by a post-coital cigarette with Bronwyn Bishop.
Chortle. Was a helicopter ride in order for Bronny?
Loose talk of Haley dropping out “to avoid humiliation”.
Could be a smokescreen for Madam Obummer entering??
Perhaps you should give it a rest JC.
Well if nothing else it means Democrats can’t accuse him of being a tool of Trumps VRWC (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy).
But more importantly it creates a new ideological space for Democrats -people who cannot stomach the abuse of revered institutions such as academe where the Democrat elite have shown themselves without principle. They can align themselves here with the position that they cannot vote for Republicans, but at the same time they cannot vote for the current Democrats.
Then there are the people who were Democrats but to the right of Ackman who might, while he personally remains Democrat, themselves find the political geography beneath their feet to have shifted such that they now realise that they are on the Republican side.
But calls to harm or hate others should be banned.
Katz, I think ‘calls to harm/violence’ should be banned but I am not sure about banning ‘calls to hate others’. That opens up a can of worms. The thing is, you can hate without calling for violence.
Those clerics in western Sydney, all in Labor electorates (funny that) are explicitly calling for followers to harm Jews like you and me.
Also, the Vivek Dream ended yesterday. 🙁
But in the stoopid FPTP system he was only splitting the Trump vote.
Now is anyone really expecting him to be VP for T-Man?
You appear to be agreeing with me and that’s stranger.
Here’s the tweet you posted.
Here’s your comment.
All credible, large shipping firms pulled out of that route a few weeks ago and insurers were walking away.
That’s occurred across the board, so where’s the “own goal” here?
I think, in a way, this has cursed the Australian Left because of the way they’ve been cuddling up to the muzzos. Watch the polls.
I hope you’re right, JC.
Perhaps you should give it a rest, Driller.
JC at 9:12.
Ooooh, that’s lotta, lotta reds.
Although it could just be one issue.
Hotness.
LOl, trust me, so do I.
Cass, that’s not to say the Jewish groups saying they’re taking action shouldn’t go after these people in the same way the left has gone after their targets. I hope they clobber them using the same laws, because payback is a real bitch.
It is I who is suggesting you should give your bile a rest.
You should do that.
Visited The Stick Shed today.
Built in four months during wartime it’s an amazing building.
These days it would take that long to locate a temporary site office and dunny.
Recommend it to travelling cats.
It is also “I” who is suggesting you should give your bile a rest too.
You should do that.
I have always wanted to take a look at that.
Only a couple of hours away so it’s on my list.
I like sheds.
I take a keen interest whenever the “Best Sheds” adverts come on the TeeVee.
(Chaps in country Victoria will know what I mean).
Er.. it is thee who is unable to control their bile.
Me, merely suggesting you not pollute the site.
Good advice for you.
Okay, you want this to be an later nighter, but I’m not going to be a party.
Tell you what, Driller.
Come up with the evidence showing NAB was skimming 10% on cash deposits in the 90s and it’s a deal. Recall, when I asked to show and tell and was called all sorts of putrid names (bile) for simply asking that you come up with the goods? I do and I’m sure so do others do to. Other than that stop trying to incite another stoush.
Back in the land of the living. Electricity restored after thirty hours, in 42 degrees…
@Cassie of Sydney
Jan 17, 2024 9:40 PM
(I shouldnt have to but probably will I dont have any antipathies or sympathies.. I am a phenomenological guy)
I Have much resonated on your recent posts. The global tolerance for Jews has been pushed to the limit (and in some jurisdictions well over). Avi nailed it with Mr Tight LIps Greenblatt.
Then things happen and all of a sudden the Moral Hight Groung cant be brought back with US bucks and “hit pieces” on Max Blumenthal …
At such a time … (I would always contend Propaganda should be restrained and honest) ….. any over telling of the .. Sure Combat / Atrocity event will always be horrible … But to over play it with clearly dishonest over pumping is the very WORST move… (see Zelensky with Bucha) …
Ideas are like explosives… they need to be handled with the view that …best place for them to go “Bang” isnt in you back pack …
I know I have been Hammered as … all sorts of nasty Names … and it is true that I am politically agnostic…
But One thing I can say for True is … Peace …
No, and you’ll be unable to provide a citation.
It is well past time you gave this stuff a rest.
FMD. Some woman Emily Benammar tees off on one of the greatest ever.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Emily Benammar just give a homosexual woman a kick because she has never had a child?
This is one of the worst columns I have read. Comments are not very supportive either of the author.
Thanks for that. Never heard of it, and have been planning a trip to that region. It reminds me a bit as a grand building accomplishment of the hundreds of timber wool sheds that lined the Alexandra Canal in Sydney.
I take a keen interest whenever the “Best Sheds” adverts come on the TeeVee.
(Chaps in country Victoria will know what I mean).
Aye Mr Panzer. She be rather beautiful
Likewise, until recently when it popped up in my news feed.
The burning question: Why the need to build a shed to house grain? It’s not as if the stuff can’t be put on a covered pad, & in far greater quantities than a mere 90,000 tonnes.
I was in two minds about that. But the main pont is, I’m totally against government determining our basic rights. If they draft laws that allows “rights” that immediately places rights in arbitrary decrees that can be altered at any time. We have rights that defy definition. The role of laws is to constrain government action and policy to areas that don’t infringe on innate rights beyond minimal safety and amenity.
Salvatore,
I saw at least 8 Australian Flags behind the bar in the TV clip two years ago of your hotel, so I hope they’ll be back up again for this coming Australia Day.
They’re still up there, we’ve never bothered to take them down.
Hope one of them was the Aboriginal flag?
Nope. “This is Union Jack Country!” – as Jussie McHipster said whilst discharging a flare outside a Woolworths in the middle of the Greens-held electorate of Brisbane, having first graffiti’d the place with “Peter Dutton made me do this”
Piers Morgan, who can either be really good or really bad, has interviewed Thomas Hand, father of Emily Hand, the little girl who was kidnapped by Gazan Nazis on 7 October 2023. Remember, Thomas was originally told that Emily was dead.
Emily was released in late November. During the interview, Emily sits with her father and comforts him when he becomes emotional and cries. She however remains silent (she only speaks Hebrew). It’s a very touching and raw interview, I recommend it.
Thomas Hand is originally Irish. He has lived in Israel for over thirty years, drawn to the socialist kibbutzim of southern Israel. Whilst not Jewish himself, after living in Israel and marrying two Jewish women, he now has three Jewish children, one of whom is the exquisite Emily. Being a mixed family, they celebrate Hannukah and Christmas. It is a very touching interview, especially the way Thomas Hand vigorously and vociferously defends the state of Israel.
In the carnage of the 7 October pogrom, there aren’t many happy stories but Thomas and Emily’s story is one to treasure.
I thought the point of last week’s action was to reopen the Red Sea rather than extending the same problems to US and the UK. Further, I don’t recall in the last few weeks insurers declining cover to ships traversing the Red Sea or else we wouldn’t have seen ships continue traversing but in smaller numbers. JC, I think you need to recognize the Houthis have pantsed the US/ UK.
Cassie
Can you please include links to the interview in any reports like this. Some I’ve viewed demonstrate such a level of fortitude with full understanding of their situation. My aunt, from aliya in the mid 1930s, used to simply say they live in a noisy neighborhood.
@ nCassie of Sydney
Jan 17, 2024 9:40 PM
Peace be upon … It is just all too awfull .
I would be greatfull if you could send some links to trusted sources as to what really happened on October 7.
To me it is all just a pyre of polemic. (Also I am not emotionally energized)
I dont trust any Voices.
Peace.
Sorry, bolding fail!
Last week’s action was a reprisal and a show of force hoping it would be enough to sway the Tootsies. Hopeful rather than anything else. Soon after, American spokesmen said they believed they took out about 20% to 30% of the Toosties missiles. Whether this is correct or not, it does show they knew that they hadn’t taken them all.
It’s an insurance market, which means there may have been insurers providing insurance at a premium. However large shippers were already pulling out well before Christmas.
You want to give this a few more months or are you calling early? This has nothing to do with the claim we’re discussing though, as it wasn’t just UK and American ships.
United Airlines CEO… in drag.
Re para 1, so a token effort that has now included US/UK shipping the cross-hairs.
Re 2, sure, but how does that indicate the report was bogus? It doesn’t. Some major shipping firms were still traversing the Red Sea.
Re 3, what am I calling early? The Houthis have just shut down the Red Sea and the US appears unable to do anything about it in the interim. Saying that they may open by April or June or whenever doesn’t actually restore US prestige.
BTW, what wasn’t just US/UK ships? Whatever they were doing, it wasn’t indiscriminate.
What will you do, Mr McNally, when they come for you?
What I said was bogus was the focus on just UK/US shipping. My point was all shipping from countries friendly to Israel were targets. The large shipping companies pulled out a long time ago.
Oh, Mossad and the mighty Israeli Defence Force – a Hellfire missile, through this moron’s bedroom window, should teach him reverence and respect for his betters!
No wukkins.
When next in New South, in front of any coppers I see I’ll pray aloud, for cops to be killed, one-by-one.
We now know it ain’t hate speech, so after i’m through praying I’ll ask the nearest Constable for the time please (they’ll love that, it gives them a chance to help someone)
Please ask plod what they need to say with their calls for murder to breach hate-code regulations.
Lead item at the Daily Mail:
Inside Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz’s new life in France: Couple reveal how they’re spending her multi-million dollar payout as they quaff Champagne and gorge on a Christmas feast after fleeing Australia
Daily Mail – I’ll bet good money Sharaz doesn’t hang round, when the three million quid has gone.
Snap, Top Ender!
@ Salvatore, Iron Publican
Jan 17, 2024 11:21 PM
Please do not … even in jest … Involve the coppers as if they were stooges in these games. They are just good people trying to do a job of Crowd Control.
If you , and all of us , put the acid on them enough to make them “pack it in” and find different jobs , guarantee the first to find different lines of employment …will be precisely the ones we rely upon the most.
Respect the Coppers.
Please feel free to write to the Elders of Zion requesting a special package of video footage of the depraved sexual tortures by Hamas, with signed verified provinance certification by the UN Human Rights Council.
Also Guys … ? You do realize it isn’t the “Plod” with whom you are in contention , it is the Courts…
Dont Litigate at the Road Side!! . If you have a problem , the Plod isn’t where the argument gets had.
It is in the Courts.
@ Katzenjammer
Jan 17, 2024 11:31 PM
~snip~ Please feel free to write to the Elders of Zion ….~snip~
You made my point far better than I could.
That is simply false as that article and others attest. Given the Houthis have now added US and UK to the list, underwriters are specifically excluding UK/ US ships traversing the Red Sea. Other friendly countries may be targeted if they hide their destination, etc. or ignore the Houthis calls, but no where has it been said that they haven’t been provided insurance if they traverse the Red Sea. Nor had all large shipping companies pulled out ‘long ago’. It’s been up and down but gotten worse after the action last week. Complete own goal.
Yep.
“That’s one helluva thumping you just gave the granny, well done Constable! I now feel so safe.”
“Top work you coppers, you snuck into that family-owned pizza shop & busted them with 11 people inside, that $19,000 fine you gave them will teach them to not wreck anybody’s life again, I feel so safe, you deserve a National Policing Medal”
“The way you body slammed that housewife into the pavement for walking her dog on an empty street, that took real dick & balls, your mum will be proud of you, you’re a credit to the nation, I feel so safe”
“Smart work noticing that when that motorist took the freeway home, the winding exit ramp put them briefly at 5km plus one metre from home, they deserved the $6,000 fine. I feel so safe”
“That was excellent police work officers, the way you deftly arrested & charged those people who were chanting ‘kill the Jews’ and intimidating Jews into staying off the streets – Good to know you’re there when you’re needed. I feel so safe”
More on The Plod if I may , they are First Responders . It is for them to defuse a situation where people are getting / have been / might be getting hurt. They do a challenging job and deserve our support.
It is like cracking the nasty on the Fireies …in the middle of a Bush Fire.. because you are dissatisfied with Forrest Management policies.
Just dont.
@Salvatore, Iron Publican
Jan 17, 2024 11:41 PM
I hear you and sure some of them are in the wrong job … but to crack it on that as if it reflects on all. It only drives out good honest responsible coppers and just leaves the “filth” contingent…
Smearing him as a Russian puppet and a racist, sexist, lying, thieving rapist didn’t work.
By Bolt… about Trump. Absolutely perfect depiction of a media which has lost its collective mind.
@Salvatore, Iron Publican
Jan 17, 2024 11:41 PM
I know this is getting into conjecture. But if we support good coppers and cultivate a Police Force that is “of and from Us” The contingent will look after Us as if they were Of Us … If we make enemies of them ?
The only way Democrats stop Trump from reclaiming the Presidency is that he is assassinated. Nothing short of that will suffice.
Exactly. And they can’t afford not to do it. There are far too many skeletons in and around the closet for them to allow him anywhere near the pen that signs executive orders…
@ Digger
Jan 17, 2024 11:57 PM
Oh Yeahhh !!! The Swamp is all of a nightly croak chorus … This is going to be hillarious and I hope will see an end to the “damper regions” of Political discourse.
Could be a smokescreen for Madam Obummer entering??
Could well be. Trump just needs to use such an occurrence, should it happen, as the perfect opening to remind all thinking Americans about the disaster the traitor, Obama was along with his corrupt VP, the child sniffing, treasonous, slimy criminal, Biden…
@Digger
Jan 17, 2024 11:57 PM
I thought I had a vivid imagination. But what these lunatics have been trying on ..viz Orange Oaf ~whaft off~ … has been so spectacularly hallucinogenic …
And this is only the start.
It will be funny .. it is already tragic…
It will be funny .. it is already tragic…
The dickheads have run out of things to try to convince Americans not to vote for him. They have massively underestimated his appeal and the understanding of the average American. They have destroyed all faith in the media and politics, given their citizens reason to lose confidence in DOJ and FBI and are so desperate now that I think they are very close to running out of non violent, talking options.
I think there are only two things to save them now – the scum bag, Roberts, in the Supreme Court or an ‘unfortunate’ accident…
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood, California 10
@ Digger
Jan 17, 2024 11:57 PM
But Americans have so few opportunities to be truly hilarious … We have had Spike Milligan Bill Leak Barry Humphries and Kenny Everett and Kenneth Williams and trully far more than we can count .. over a beer … and that was when we werent being genuinely engaging out selves.
Look at how culturaly impoverished the poor Old Seppos are …
They gonna get one big giggle now I fear ?
Have a Heart !! 😉
Maybe they need a moment in the sun ? 😉
Was a helicopter ride in order for Bronny?
Never forget that when Bronny was in trouble for that helicopter trip, Abbott stood by her and rejected out of hand demands that she quit the Speaker’s chair.
How did she thank him?
By coting for Turnbull at the first possible opportunity
@ areff
Jan 18, 2024 1:32 AM
Mebbe Bronnie thought she was on her was to a more rural constituency ? You know some of those Pubs Up That way have no cars only Helicopters. Word to the wise; dont pull negative in a Robinson …
@areff
Jan 18, 2024 1:32 AM
ok … all attempts at levity disguarded … Utter Maggot …
Dover
Major shipping companies began to reroute in Nov after the taker-over of the tanker. Recall the incident? The hootie tooties were doing dance routines on the deck.
There have constant missile and drone attacks since then. Hasn’t Twitter been working for you?
As I said, the routing changes began from then and since then there would also have been changes to insurance.
We’ve talked about this since Nov and you’re now implying this is new. You can’t be real.
Bolt-on wanted a link to what was behind October 7.
Here it is.
November 19
The US says the Iran-backed Houthis have carried out 26 attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since commandeering the Galaxy Leader and its 25-strong multinational crew on November 19.
And here:
Here’s an article dated Dec 18 talking about this and the impact on insurance rates.
Here’s an interactive map showing the ships that have encountered hostility through the Red Sea by the Tootsies.
Please try and not deviate and stay focused on the commentary you posted from Twitter. No large commercial shipping from any country was pushing through the Red Sea and insurance would’ve been unavailable or totally prohibitive from November onward.
Wow. It’s man love. 75% chance he’s the VP pick?
It’s tampered vid, but this dude is extra funny.
@Sancho Panzer
Jan 18, 2024 3:19 AM
OK so that link was to “The Bird” that you folks are so energized by ?
And so relentlessly hook me up with ? And say is me ? Looking at his stuff . It is poorly founded in reality and unreliable.
But if that is the wider contention it reflects poorly on your i.e. Cat’s ability to discern …one thing from another.
John Spooner.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
@Sancho Panzer
Jan 18, 2024 3:19 AM
Look it is late and I was on night shift and i am kinda bored … This Grahame Bird dude is clearly bonkers and I spent / wasted fifteen minutes reading hid drivel.
I was only remotely interestinged in so far as I have had all the Erstwhile Cats (TM).. screaming at me that I was “The Bird … ”
So let’s just ask you to help me ? .. is it worth reading any of that nonsense ?
I mean if He were a later day Ted Kaczynski I might be up for a bit of Cabin Building …but the bloke seems n utter drip.?
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
@ @Sancho Panzer
Jan 18, 2024 3:19 AM
Ooops my bad … I initially recoil at someing who is an “utter drip” ..but ten minuyes into reading that blog the bloke is clearly schizo …. not that I am using that as an insult .. or being “understanding” .. bloke i…f** what ever … Surprised you folks were so spooked ..
Thanks Tom and Trump..
@@Sancho Panzer
Jan 18, 2024 3:19 AM
Mate I can link you into my “Mark’s Field Notes” Blogspot of mine ..I got nuffin to hide … only gott a warn you it will bore you shitless . It is all about Electronics and a little bit about Grey Nomadry …
wanna buckle in for that ?
Not that it will exite me much… but you Wombats having at me for being “The Bird ” for so long as you have… Not that I really need a reason to mock you folk … ?
But it is sad …
If you got that little so wrong what is the point of you Folks?
When you Opine so learnedly on other topics …. can we expect the same level of diligence ?
plain speaking Donald
DeepMind approaches gold standard in complex maths in latest AI breakthrough
Google’s AI unit shows the technology’s growing proficiency with AlphaGeometry getting close to matching top students
Google DeepMind has used artificial intelligence to all but match the geometry problem-solving skills of the world’s brightest students, advancing the prized quest to apply the fast-growing technology to complex maths.
AlphaGeometry, the tech giant’s system, correctly answered 25 of 30 questions from the high school International Mathematical Olympiad, according to a paper published in Nature on Wednesday.
The performance, close to the gold medal-winning standard of human competitors, highlights both AI’s growing proficiency in maths and the obstacles that remain. The challenges of reasoning and learning presented by complex maths make it an important test in the effort to create an artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can equal or outstrip humans.
“This is a crucial step towards building an AGI,” said Quoc V Le, a DeepMind researcher. “This is another example that reinforces how AI can help us advance science — and better understand the underlying processes that determine how the world works.”
AlphaGeometry is a so-called neuro-symbolic system that deploys a combination of language learning and deductive reasoning. The company compares the hybrid method to “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, the phrase coined by psychologist Daniel Kahneman to describe the power of harnessing fast pattern recognition to more deliberative logical thinking.
The approach delivers what Trieu H Trinh, another member of the DeepMind research team, describes as “the best of both worlds” to solving problems in geometry. The field is at once familiar to all of us at the everyday level of observation of shapes and space, yet is underpinned by an intricate scaffolding of mathematical theory.
The researchers built a trove of 100mn examples of synthetic geometry data as the information set to train the system to work. Its 25-out-of-30 performance was close behind the 25.9 for a benchmark of human winners in mathematical Olympiads from 2000 to 2022 — and well ahead of the score of 10 achieved by the previous state-of-the-art automated system.
AlphaGeometry nonetheless found some problems laborious and others confounding. It was unable to solve a conundrum of intersecting circles cracked in the 1979 Olympiad by the Vietnamese mathematician Lê Bá Khánh Trình — who was an inspiration to some of the researchers.
The even bigger goal for DeepMind and other researchers is to create AI systems that can deal with maths problems that have proven beyond the human mind.
Mikhail Burtsev, a Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, said the DeepMind work was a big step forward — but “only within the limits of the challenge it sets itself”.
“The steeper challenge remains,” he said. “That is, to find out if an AI can discover new mathematics to solve a question that has never yet been answered.”
The prospect of an iconic moment of an AI maths system taking on and beating a human rival, as the chess computer Deep Blue did with world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, remains elusive.
DeepMind said it had no plans yet to enter the International Mathematical Olympiad — although the company did not rule it out as it pushes ever further into the exacting realm of maths.
When you first showed up I stated I didn’t think you were Bird. Some people here seem to think that new drugs change personalities. I’ve never seen anyone on meds undergo a personality transformation. You very much remind me of someone I encountered over 30 years ago on usenet. Simliar cognitive and emotional disposition. You’re not him but the resemblance is remarkable. You will never be accepted here. There are now 3 of us standing on the outside looking in.
Report: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby Has History of Dressing in Drag as Kesha, Taylor Swift
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby allegedly has a penchant for dressing in drag as famous female singers, resurfaced pictures have revealed.
On Monday, the conservative X account Libs of TikTok posted pictures of Kirby appearing to don a long purple and blonde wig, black eye makeup, a stuffed bra, chaps, and a lot of leather, as well as a blonde wig, white dress, and purple feather boa.
The resurfaced pictures of Kirby in drag appear to be from his time as president of American Airlines. A 2019 report from the Dallas Morning News details how Kirby dressed in drag as pop singer Kesha for the first Halloween after American Airlines merged with US Airways. The next year, in 2015, Kirby went to the company Halloween party in drag again — this time as singer Taylor Swift.
The Fort-Worth Star Telegram YouTube channel has videos of Kirby dancing around in drag as Kesha and Swift.
Kirby also once reportedly dressed in drag as singer Lady Gaga, according to the Star-Telegram, which linked to a grainy video of someone, allegedly Kirby, dancing around in drag.
Kirby went on to become president of United Airlines in 2016 and was promoted to CEO in 2020.
United Airlines has long championed the LGBTQIA+ agenda — in 1999, the airline became the first in the U.S. to “offer benefits to same-gender domestic partners,” the airline’s website claims.
Under Kirby’s leadership, the company has continued down that path and aggressively promotes its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee, headed by a man who believes he is a woman.
Further aligning with the far-left, Kirby is responsible for pushing arguably the most draconian coronavirus vaccine mandate in the airline industry. Employees who received religious or medical exemptions were given the “reasonable accommodation” of being placed on unpaid leave indefinitely with no medical benefits — an effective firing.
The mandate is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. Several employees sued the airline alleging the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by discriminating against them based on their religious and medical exemptions.
The cat tends not to accept anti Semites who deny terrorism and their mass casualty events.
Cry me a river.
Sadly bird isn’t the only such creature.
There are millions of them.
But keep coming back and telling us the events of 7 October are just Israeli propaganda while playing the victim.
‘Six million little hats’.
Mark Strapon is not and never could be Bird.
So which one of you is downthumbing calli?
This is what Israel is dealing with. This is what ALL of the Greens (Australia’s very own Nazi party), the Teals, almost all of Labor, and the left in general support…,
Hamas took my son’s head into Gaza and put it up for sale
Traumatised father reveals how the head was found in a fridge used for ice cream
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/hamas-took-my-sons-head-into-gaza-and-put-it-up-for-sale-yr2rcn0j
Sometimes words fail me. Islam is a murderous death cult.
The Victorian Labor government has cut its funding to Melbourne Youth Orchestra while allocating money to the tennis open.
Is classical music the next target?
I see Mark Strapon was defecating the blog overnight.
The global tolerance for Jews has been pushed to the limit (and in some jurisdictions well over).
I see Strapon wrote this last night. Is this a threat?
Everyone is standing on the outside looking in. It’s a blog, chokkers with anonymous people.
Only a very few get together to meet. If you are concerned about an “Inner Ring”, I direct you to C.S.Lewis’ excellent lecture cum essay on the phenomenon. They exist, but they are also a chimera, as much a construct of the mind as anything else.
Embrace your “outsider-ness”. In that, you are as unique as a water molecule. But when it comes to comments, you are yourself alone.
No, he isn’t. He used to comment at Sinc’s but not under the name he uses now. What remains is his Gravatar image, easily changed if he did not want to be recognised. It isn’t about acceptance, it’s about attention seeking.
Catallaxy-files would be a good fit for him, as they are Blumenthal fans (or were last time I looked). Problem is though that they don’t really talk to each other. It is not a conversational blog. Also, a step outside certain mysterious parameters, and you’re punted. Not worth the investment.
Cassie, I just cannot imagine the depth of grief of David Taher, the father of the IDF soldier whose head was removed from his body & preserved for sale in Gaza.
These are the facts that all the pathetic Palestinian supporters amongst us should be confronted with. That sentence of perpetual grief for the soldier’s family is for a lifetime. I cannot imagine how they will cope.
Meme
Chicago-area Tesla owners detail winter ‘disaster’ with dead batteries, charging station failures
I watched a bit of that interview with the islamic jihad fellow.
He joined in around 2009/10.
Got offered a pay bump if he did some training in Iran so he did the three state tour Syria, Lebanon and a 15 day weapons and physical training camp in Iran then came back to a team leader position.
I suppose getting to choose between five different terror groups is what passes for diversity in Gaza.
Re the casual contributor who feels he is an “outsider” here:
Posts are freedom of choice. They will be accepted, rejected or ignored. Not much different to life “out there”. Personally, I feel it is a privilege to be a small part of this blog. And thank you Dover, once again, for the opportunity.
I see two here approve of headhunting and head selling.
They got the head back, and were able to bury it with his body, more consolation than for some.
I saw hamas footage of decapitated soldiers on extwitter.
It’s awful but such a common occurrence during the never ending Syrian civil war not surprising.
People who’ve never murdered and decapitated a human get up one morning and just do it.
JPMorgan CEO tells the truth.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1747645227194855919/video/1
At the WEF “misinformation” is just a code word for more censorship. And by the way, Europe’s royalty is turning up in droves to, apparently, kiss the ring. Says a lot about their loyalty to their own countries.
Misinformation is the #1 concern at WEF: A concise guide on how to stop it
Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent
Now it’s earthquake porn.
US officials warn nearly 75% of America is at risk of EARTHQUAKES after uncovering hundreds more fault lines… is YOUR area a danger zone?
the young soldier wasn’t the only one
Exposed: Moderna’s Vaccine Against Vaccine Dissent
starts about 5 mins in
Why Trump keeps coming back
WEF creeps descend on Davos to ‘rebuild trust’… and subsequently book all the local prostitutes
Mizaris, re that odd cluster of diseases in one family.
As Winston says, look for some environmental causation creating a cluster beyond this family, or even within the family due to diet or housing; need to seek exposures that would create immune deficiency, such as radiation. Do the various medicos have any explanations, given that all seem to be immune deficient presentations and two have Crohns. Biological pathways?
May also be wise to consult a geneticist, to see if they can throw any light.
Gilas – any ideas?
WEF Davos 2024 Takes a Peculiar Turn: Farming and Fishing Labeled ‘Ecocide,’ Calls for Recognition as a ‘Serious Crime’ Leave Many Bewildered