“Shut up, Peasant.” he explained.
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I wish they would add sub-titles .. A lot of us have hearing probs and can’t follow so many of…
Reality bites. Hun: Extending a deal that keeps Victoria’s dirtiest power station running to 2028 is likely to be considered…
Muslim group targeting Labor seats launches campaign in BroadmeadowsThe Muslim Votes Matter group is aiming to win over Victorian Labor…
Fair whack of publicity in the media over Brucie (of Knickerless fame) claiming “dole” whilst Channel 7 paid big bucks…
Johanna at 10.55. Uptick from me.
Moral certitude and upholding of the law comes first.
Moral cowardice will always be just that.
It only encourages them.
John, you beat me to it before I refreshed the page!
I would re-label that “murders”. For murder it was.
ABC RN AM had two energy experts talking about the closure of Eraring this morning.
One maintained there’s been so much investment in renewables over the last two years that the power station should be closed on schedule.
The other warned that there were critical delays to renewables infrastructure and Eraring should be kept open.
Clearly, one expert was working with a false set of assumptions and data.
The ABC remained incurious as to which one that was.
All expert opinions are equal, it would seem.
Correction accepted!
Thankfully for the people of NSW, the energy minister is more curious than the ABC.
It was reported that discussions with Eraring’s owners Origin Energy on keeping the station operating are continuing.
The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don’t things are just going to head in a direction that’s going to be almost impossible to recover from.
– Donald Trump
Same as Australia IMHO.
Pay them to close. Pay them to open. I’m not surprised. Energy policy went down the rabbit hole some time ago.
Been watching a series on SBS at around 10am weekdays called ‘Paddington Station 24/7.’
It really is like watching a slow moving train wreck. Any tiny failure at any point in the network throws it into chaos, usually for hours. The staff are depicted as plucky heroes in the face of adversity.
Coincidentally, last week I watched one of those railway buffs’ shows about trains elsewhere in the world. This one was about Japan, with a Brit presenter. He was there for a week, and travelled on trains all over Japan, including in snowy mountain terrain and on ordinary commuter trains, as well as the ubiquitous bullet trains.
BTW, the interview with the inventor of the bullet train was fascinating. The original trains were shaped like a bullet at the front, ie rounded. When they came out of long tunnels, the change in air pressure caused a loud bang.
The inventor and boss of the project is a keen birdwatcher. He realised that the Kingfisher routinely goes from relatively low air pressure into higher pressure (water) to catch its dinner, without making a big noise. So, he designed the modern bullet train to mimic the shape of a Kingfisher’s beak.
How ’bout that, Kookaburras?
Anyway, our host found that every single train he travelled on, all over the country, all kinds of trains, was on time. What’s more, they were clean and the interiors were well maintained. No torn seats or graffiti or anything like that.
At the end of the program, he ruefully said that he was a bit disappointed at the lack of English-style incompetence. Which is why the British railways are as bad as they are.
You can’t tell me that Japan, with snow and mountains and earthquakes and huge volumes of travellers and all the rest, doesn’t also have multiple points of failure. Yet, they manage to deliver excellent service.
The Paddington Station program demonstrates just how low UK expectations are in providing core services.
See: NHS.
Woolies have walked back their resolution to fly the Aboriginal & Torres Strait flags at their shops on Australia Day.
By saying that most shops don’t have flagpoles, and wont be getting them, and the resolution implicated only the corporate office blocks?
All that post-war enthusiasm for socialism and a new order must have seemed so justifiable at the time.
26 runs for Straya to struggle through for a win in the First Test.
C’mon Cheaty McSook – you know what to do. Walk across your stumps, get your front pad blown off, review it Shane Watson-style and then stand there looking at the pitch as though it wasn’t your fault before trudging off.
Well, bless you for organising that.
I do this for my recently-diagnosed autistic son. I have done it for him for all of his fifty-one years. You expect to do it, and assist, through childhood and adolescence, but when they simply can’t manage it as adults then families have to step in. For years we’ve worried ourselves witless about him, why he is the way he is, why he failed so badly at school, why he is so disorganised, why he panics, why he has never found or kept employment, why he loves language and people but can barely speak properly in social contexts. All the time, in spite of the deficits, his high intelligence shines through the confusions. Late diagnosis of ‘mild’ autism is a fairly recent thing. There’s been no explanation before this. Other family members have wandered away from knowing him, and/or are dismissive.
I’ve always wondered how those without family support cope, those who are like him. Mostly, my impression around the public housing units, confirmed by my son there, is that they largely don’t cope. They flounder in life unaided, dirty and self-neglecting, in mental decline, barely existing on permanent unemployment benefits not the DSP. Many become prey to drug pushers and some suicide. So many of them are working class white males for whom, until recently, there has been no apparent reason for their failures, compounded as they are by poor experiences being ignored at school. It is good to know that some charitable groups are there now to help. The level of bureaucracy needed to seek any so-called available government help is crucifying.
Before I retired I used to have morning television on to help to get the synapses going (I’m a very slow starter in the am) and did notice that she showed signs of vestigial intelligence and spirit.
Spending 20 years with Kochie as a boss would be difficult for anyone with a personality above a bathmat. OTOH, a steady job in Australian television is a rare thing, and no doubt she has paid off her house and has an investment or two.
I have heard that she’s a Sandgroper?
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.” – Frank Zappa
I offer my services, but I’m not the organiser, Lizzie.
It was put in place by some public minded lawyers and others before I came on the scene.
It’s the same attitude as letting the teenage indigenous thugs break into suburban homes without any consequences. It’s your fault for having thing worth stealing. Then they wonder how they lost the Voice referendum.
How about explaining that his teachers were wrong, that there was no actual stolen generation. That good people tried to help aboriginal babies who were being neglected because their parents were tribal people trying to cope in a new world.
Similarly, tell the truth about the global warming bulltish. Reassure your child.
I note Zulus post about Clare Lehrman article in Oz about the teaching of kids.
The lady from IPA who is the Culture specialist was just on 4BC and got into the curriculum in a big way with plenty of examples.
For example kids are taught about Invasion day in Year 4 which is a year before learn about first Fleet. A very good segment which got an instant reaction from callers.
Correction Invasion day is Year 3.
“QPOL have officially labelled the Wieambilla shootings as ‘Christian terrorism.’”
In the interests of consistency I do hope that QLD Plod have labelled the murders of Maurice and Zoe Antill, slaughtered in their own home by a young Muslim male named Raghe Abdi, as “Muslim terrorism”.
For example kids are taught about Invasion day in Year 4 which is a year before learn about first Fleet. A very good segment which got an instant reaction from callers.
Granddaughter, when she was in junior school, told us about learning about “Captain Cook.” She told us that Captain Cook came to Australia, saw the Aborigines, and then shot them all!
They couldn’t call it aboriginal terrorism for all the obvious reasons, so I suppose they had to think up something else.
Quickest way to create jobs is for government to pass new regulations, set up a well staffed bureaucracy, a secondary team to design manuals, and employ inspectors to monitor staff complies with instruction manuals.
20-something policy advisors like Lerhmann and Higgins, even Vikki Campion? I believe KRudd also had advisors of that vintage. Never seems to work out well.
The UK never fails to disappoint. Although the NHS did a good job when I got crook in the 90s.
Barr is from Bunners.
Lizzie, please spare us more of your stories about how you help your relatives, as if nobody else here does this. Of course we do, but you are the only one who needs to demonstrate what a good person you are by talking endlessly (I’m talking back to Sinc’s) about it.
Lady Bountiful you ain’t. Virtue signaller you most definitely are.
And I notice you ran away from the discussion about ‘hate speech’ because your definition was ‘something I find yucky’ and the arbiters were conveniently not identified.
Now that your physical charms are gone (as are mine) you need to apply a bit of intellectual rigour.
To think that a few years ago you were telling the gullible old blokes here about your ‘perky tits.’ You’re 80! You lied to everyone here and at Sinc’s for years about your life! Yet you still come here with half-baked outpourings, like the one on what you consider to be ‘unacceptable’, which you apparently regard as the model for speech regulation.
Get on Instagram and detail your life to the seven people who are interested. Lie away, everyone else does. You’ll be completely at home.
This might serve as a partial corrective to her miseducation when she’s old enough.
Didn’t realise the amount of visable construction was far less than the amount of concrete coming in on trucks. Never thought to ask what jobs those men were doing who no-one saw working but they always had money.
A major industrial undertaking, using materials, machinery, electical equipment and cabling, air conditioning, and labour, and no-one in the UN knew it was going on. Never noticed sewer pipes donated by foreign countries went missing for rocket shells.
From where I sit, the next time Rudd listens to advice will be the first.
Tell the awful truth: teachers have copied government and the media in trying to frighten everyone. It sells newspapers, it leads to people trusting the government to save them from imaginary hobgoblins, and teachers hope it will lead to children trusting them too. They are all lying bastards who should rot in hell.
With any luck the kids will learn that there are a lot of lying swine around. It’s worth finding out.
We were proudly shown, by our grandchildren, from what is supposed to be one of Brisbane’s best public primary schools, the carefully-worded cards saying ‘sorry for ‘hurting you, hurting your land’. The children were so proud of them we hadn’t the heart to say anything and our daughter wouldn’t have welcomed it. We just said they were beautifully written out with all of the letters very well done. I did quietly get in the word later that aboriginal babies were only given new homes in the past because their mummies and daddies couldn’t take care of them properly.
We’ve discussed this before, the hours and lifestyle are not conducive to stable people. Nobody with a family who values it is going to take one of those jobs for more than a year or two.
It comes down to the choices MPs make. If they have any judgement at all, they will not choose fanatics, dimwits and lunatics as advisers.
Drum roll! 🙂
A good look for Nikki Haley.
She wasn’t informed that a few years later Captain Phillip restocked the country in time to shoot all them too. And Captain Flinders went right around Australia to feed his cat Trim on all the native wildlife.
Why are all these white men with the same first name Captain such horrible people.
The UN didn’t notice but Israel certainly did, though they underestimated the total by close to half.
Those u shaped tunnel roofs were manufactured above ground, and could have no other purpose.
Several years ago 160 child deaths in gazan tunnel construction made the news and the UN still didn’t know.
Incidentally the IDF have located training leave requests from Hamas for UNRWA teachers for the ten days before 7 October.
They knew their staff were hamas members and they knew what was coming.
The Paddington Station program demonstrates just how low UK expectations are in providing core services.
There was a similar TV show here all about Central Station in Sydney. Same low expectations for the NSW railways here.
“Maybe two, maybe three hundred blakfella’s, shot and burned..”
I’ll bet UNWRA granted time off with full pay too, unlimited terrorism leave is probably part of their enterprise bargaining agreement
With any luck the kids will learn that there are a lot of lying swine around. It’s worth finding out.
I wish that were so, Dr.BeauGan. But the sad fact is that adults don’t comprehend the lies that self-interested polls and their self-serving underlings tell them.
Why is that so? I have come to realise that it fundamentally relates to the education system that was corrupted long ago by the Marxists. This began to have a serious effect in Australia from the mid to late 1970s. It infected the teaching institutions with the resultant effect on teachers, the syllabi and eventually the public service in which governs state education and is often staffed by ex teachers.
The post war generation and their children were probably the last to be effectively taught critical thinking.
Apropo the Caire Lehmann article in the Oz about youngsters being messed up by all the woke stuff being taought and made feel guilty etc. I posted a comment about 6 hours ago, but for some strange reason it is still ‘pending’…. Wondering if this is a deliberate tactic to avoid the comment being shown without rejecting the comment outright.
The comment was:
“I agree with the thrust of the article, however, some supposed ‘facts’ may not be as described.
For example, one needs to check how many ‘stolen’ children there were, who were removed for reasons other than parental neglect, poor sanitation, nutrition or other forms of child neglect / abuse. I have not seen hard evidence of removal only because they were aboriginal.
Secondly, where is the hard evidence of Australia’s human CO2 emissions (1% of 3% of 400ppm) has any affect on the climate, temperature, sea level, ‘extreme’ weather etc.
While ever your article accepts these as ‘facts’ and gives their existence credibility by the terms you use, then the problems for the population in general (not only children) being hoodwinked will remain.
It is not just the guilt being loaded on to young people that is the problem, it is the acceptance of the subject matter as being true by so many who should know better or at least check the origins of the story and the data used as evidence before letting these narratives continue.”
Khawaja retires hurt having bitten his tongue.
Does anyone see any irony here?
Why are all these white men with the same first name Captain such horrible people.
Sounds like more stories. This never happened to Captain Pugwash –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMTyXMiWe_U
And he was ably assisted by Master Bates, Seaman Stains, Willy and a few other well named ship mates.
I wonder about this. Marxists were part of it, but it seems to me that cultural Marxism as a label is not winning as hard as ‘political correctness’ did in its time.
Only academic extremists and actual revolutionaries seem to call themselves Marxists.
But the rot in the heads of our ruling class infects almost 100% of the educated, the public sector, the corporate hierarchies. We need a more apt wording to identify this brain rot.
Any news from the Woolies bunker, after they are under attack by every party in the Parliament?
It’s quite an achievement, can’t recall anything like it in my life.
My physical charms are doing fine, Johanna. Ask those who know me. I am lucky, but I also take care of my physical self. I hope you do the same. My intellectual fortitude is still going strong too. Rigorous when necessary.
You know, I had thought, for a moment, that you had changed, that your vindictiveness had fled and a nice person had emerged.
Faint hopes, I’m sorry to say.
We all write about that which we know and which we think might contribute to discussion of matters raised. You do it with train journeys on TV, I do it my way.
Relax a little, lady. You will not regret doing so.
they’re of course, lying.
Simply call it socialism.
It annoys them, so that’s a start. It’s also the truth.
Or take a leaf from Javier Milei and go the Argentina route.
Call it communism. Crony capitalism also works a treat.
They don’t like being called old cronies.
Quite so.
Critical thinking seems, as Vicky points out, seems to be almost extinct. Even modest amounts of doubt are condemned and censored. There’s a demand for conformity that contradicts any claim for diversity that they prate about. More lying bastards.
For a thoroughly forensic disassembly of much the Aboriginal industry, Dark Emu Exposed is an excellent resource.
https://www.dark-emu-exposed.org/
Worth detailing that X link here: from Ambassador Gilad Erdan:
The UN are lying. What a surprise.
It’s conformity. They lack the moral courage to be individuals and think for themselves. They need to belong to a gang.
And of course anyone who is an individual and casts doubt on the verities is a reproach to their cowardice, so has to be silenced.
Critical thinking as taught today means, first think of the required outcome that satisfies a personal emotional need, then decide what evidence needs to be ignored or refuted by calling it “debunked” to reach the desired conclusion.
Roger the Cabin Boy?
A horrid cynic might imagine that Origin Energy is playing games with the closure, possibly even trying to extract public money from the car crash everyone can see coming. Oh well, give us a billion, then, and we’ll see what we can do…
Just a naughty thought.
Probably wrong.
Or not.
True that.
If you want to work real critical thinking, I highly recommend Argument Mapping, as taught by Austhink using Rationale.
Remarkable, whom I might call ‘Marky’ for short if that’s OK with you in future, re your ‘pending’ comment. This happens to many of us commenting on The Australian. It is a means of shadow banning your comment. A period of less than an hour should be mandated for approval or not if this newspaper of record was to fairly assess comments in terms of their ‘community’ standards.
Your comment is excellent. There is nothing wrong with it factually. It is being shadow banned.
Linked via Powerline:
‘Out of touch’ – Chris Bowen’s electorate supports nuclear power.
A recent poll has revealed that 69% of Chris Bowen’s electorate are in favor of using nuclear power, raising questions as to the Energy Minister’s popularity.
Listen to the full story from 2GB –
https://www.2gb.com/out-of-touch-chris-bowens-electorate-supports-nuclear-power/
A.k.a. “Fast” thinking. from Fast & Slow thinking by Kahneman & Tversky
Without doubt this is the stupidest set of Arsetrailer state and federal governments that I have encountered.
They have neurons but there seems to be no synaptic activity.
from Chris’ link above.
I used to teach this stuff to students long ago, about getting their positions clearly put and then evidenced as against the assumptions and evidence of other positions. It was a start to getting them to know how to structure essays within a word limit, holding a position and arguing for it against other viewpoints. But that was twenty years ago. I don’t think my ex-Faculty teaches this stuff any longer. Feelz wins.
And pace Joh, I’m still capable of doing it myself. I’m rather pleased with something I’ve recently re-written to a more condensed word limit which I hope can be published soon. We’ll see. It would put a cat among some pigeons.
Done with considerable rigour, btw. 🙂
You are 80 and you are deluded, or lying, your speciality.
Nobody here wants to see you naked. Get used to it.
Do I have to repost the ‘I’m ready for my closeup’ clip from a raddled old deluded woman to prove my point?
The ‘energy security’ game was not invented by Origin and they don’t set the (changing) rules. As a player they will simply try to extract value for shareholders in a volatile landscape full of BS and noise.
Delay in making decisions costs $$$. Uncertainty costs $$$. Changing long-term plans costs $$$. It seems that nothing but an election or complete market failure will make Bowen & Co consider any form of Plan B – at which time we will have less choices and greater cost.
/#StupidPeopleInGovtCostUs$$
But the rot in the heads of our ruling class infects almost 100% of the educated, the public sector, the corporate hierarchies. We need a more apt wording to identify this brain rot.
You are probably right, Chris. “Marxism” implies a fairly rigid and clearly defined way of thinking about the world. “Lefty” conjures up what we all understand about a certain world view that, sadly, many now are infected with.
Nice, Lizzie!
That basic rational process is the grounding for teaching people to handle reality.
In contrast, we see the pubic debate use a whole series of variations variations on the concealed premise ‘I deserve to be right cause you are a poopoohead’.
Reality: not handled.
I have just had one of those moments when you realise something and your mental topography transforms while you watch: mountains melt and sink down into plains, while elsewhere newly realised subterranean forces collide and hurl plains skywards as mountains, seas fall back in on themselves and disappear while tiny springs suddenly flood and take possession of lowlands, forests disappear beneath the grass and grass lengthens, thickens, darkens, and turns to forest.
I was listening to a (Pixies) song withe the line “Sitting here wishing on the cement (pron: see-ment) floor”, and suddenly realised that The Beverly Hillbillies were calling their pool ‘the cement (see-ment) pond’, not ‘the seaman pond’ which I had taken to betoken that they thought there was some creature-from-the black-lagoon monster that they called ‘the seaman’.
Almost as surprising as when I found out Miss Hathaway was a rugmuncher. Sad really – she seemed ill-favoured physiognomically in the same way as Rachel Madcow but I don’t think Nancy Culp was possessed of any of the corrosive hate that has disfigured The Cow.
Madcow has a seaman face.
Groupthink was that very useful word. It was also taught in all business courses that groupthink is a danger to corporate success yet now it is the most wonderful thing ever.
I used to teach this stuff to students long ago, about getting their positions clearly put and then evidenced as against the assumptions and evidence of other positions. It was a start to getting them to know how to structure essays within a word limit, holding a position and arguing for it against other viewpoints.
Absolutely, Lizzie. The ability to assess the plausibility of an argument, based on evidence presented, the balance in the position of the proposal, and other criteria, are the tools of critical thinking. It is so elementary to our generation that we barely think about it. That is the product of an education platform developed from the great philosophers and thinkers of the Western tradition.
Sigh.
It was also taught in all business courses that groupthink is a danger to corporate success yet now it is the most wonderful thing ever.
Yes – why has this happened? My dear corporate son-in-law absolutely oozes groupthink.
They did not realise that it was the very system that they had spent 7 years fighting but were told instead that it had created the paradise of the USSR.
Poor boobs thought the Nazis and the Soviets were opposites rather than jealous siblings.
On SBS “Viceland”
Documentary FMD
Zatara
Jan 19, 2024 11:47 AM
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.” – Frank Zappa
“Australia needs nukes!” – Frank Zappa*
*Possibly made up by me.
Why shouldn’t Origin Energy exploit a situation that the government has engineered with their fairy dust policies? If the cost of this expense could only be borne by Green and Teal electorates it would be a fair world. For the rest of us, with the bribe money Origin Energy could afford to lower the cost of electricity.
Exactly – Origin’s gaming of the market by shutting down coal / getting paid to keep it on is just a natural reaction to the distorted market the government has created with renewballs.
WOO HOO…I got a $200 credit on my 2 month power bill from Western Power. Seems like our budget surplus is being shared around. First a Cold Play concert and now this..liven’ the dream.
Yes, BON was right, Aboriginal terrorism.
The magic of bureaucracy: insert as many layers and stages of astigmatic investigators and reviewers into a reporting as you can and count on getting findings that exactly match current needs but mindblowingly at odds with actual empirical observation.
There is simply no possible configuration of events that could pass through the UN reporting process and come out the other end show Palestinian culpability.
We have a far milder form of it even here in Australia in the form (deform?) of Fairwork where, no matter how negligent and insanely reckless the actions of an employee might be it is always finally decided that the employer is at fault.
Now, turn that up to eleventy and behold! I give you the UN.
The WEF Speech that you will never hear at Davos – 20 seconds only –
https://twitter.com/i/status/1747388354587463766
Don’t fall for it, Perplexed. They are always trying to make you doubt yourself, to make you hesitate, to make you feel your thoughts are of an inferior, debased currency.
Frank said it! That is how you carry and tender this quote.
And even if the spirit of Frank Zappa rises and quibbles, a spirited knee to his spirit-nuts is in order!
That Australia needs nukes is a manifestly obvious truth, and if Frank Zappa did not say so then it is a matter of shame for him!
Now, I am off to the pub to tell them Jesus says I should have Guinness for free.
Oh dear. Daily Telegraph:
Will she decry the rapes and killings of Jewish women? Guess she knows her audience.
Dun dun DUN! Evil masked men!
Except when it doesn’t. Stifle your laughter.
Apparently she said that last part with a straight face.
So denounce your brother’s actions over the last few months if the feminist issue you say you hold dear is there. For if you don’t you are just another shit weasel and Clementine’s new best friend. FMD
As one one does not like me having a dog at The Beverly Hillbillies.
In fairness I did just indicate that Ellie-May was blameless in my misunderstanding of the Seaman Pond.
” empirical observation ” I ain’t no philosopher but isn’t empirical evidence just observed evidence?
Groupthink saves a lot of effort and time. If you want to know if a proposition is true, you used to have to examine pertinent facts, look at numbers, consider reasoned arguments and apply logic.
Now all you have to do is ask your mates.
Controversial feminist writer Clementine Ford and pro-Palestine supporters will rally to protest the sacking of presenter Antoinette Lattouf by the ABC
Clementine has long personified Blair’s law. Her participation in this rally was completely in character and predictable.
For anyone interested: Netflix is going to stream The Death of Stalin from 9th February.
I have not seen it but am given to understand that it is a comedy all the more hilarious for depicting the petty ambitiousness, timidity, opportunism, and sycophancy that characterised Stalin’s inner circle.
Like his old enemy, and older ally, Adolph Stalin kept his intimates in competition, vying for favour, fighting each other so they would never gang up against him. So when he died and the titanic centre around which they all orbited was gone the chaos unleashed was comical. All these Betas who thought they could trick their way into being the alpha.
The humour of the movie is the real life comedy at the time.
Also, the Critical Drinker PBUH (Piss Be Upon Him) recommends it.
History and The Drinker: How can one say no?
Heritage President Goes Scorched Earth on Globalist Elites at WEF
Neil Oliver: The Davos 3-pronged attack on our freedom!
its also a necessary survival skill for those in the lower/middle echelons of large entities i.e. “know which way the wind is blowing”. People are stupid for reasons, sometimes.
Sky News/BoM, more climate porn.
Extreme heat in WA tomorrow, as high as 50C in some places!
Er, look at the map. There are three major desert regions in WA, and together they make up a huge percentage of that state. The Gibson Desert, the Great Sandy Desert, and the Great Victorian Desert.
I’d have though 50C not uncommon in “some places”.
Lizzie, who did I contact? I sent a message to you via Dover months ago, and added that Pogria could vouch for me if needed. Years ago I went under the screen name blogstrop, but I’m just about ready to admit defeat, quit and take up bowls or golf.
Don’t do that, Bloggie. I like your comments and the blog will be poorer without you.
*whispers*
Just between ourselves, I knew it was you. 😀
He’s really this good. I hope he succeeds because it would be a lesson to all.
The problem is, in my head, I see Kruschev as that $&@in’ animal Tony Blundetto.
They did stan for Zhukov very hard. I understand why. That’s what I’m like IRL.
I also think messages also go inadvertently into spam files or some basement drawer marked “beware the leopard”.
Lab leaks
It comes down to the choices MPs make. If they have any judgement at all, they will not choose fanatics, dimwits and lunatics as advisers.
The majority of these “advisors” are jerbs-fer-the-boyz picks .. it’s not about ability/intelligence or knowledge but “family ties” .. the troughers worked out a way to get their family & maaaates family/partners/offspring into cushy well paying vote-herd funded jerbs with no questions asked ..
same qualifications as a pollie .. NO EXPERIENCE, NO ABILITY just a reliance on who you’ve brown-nosed … assidiously …….!
I’d suggest staying well away from United Airlines.
OH MY: Bizarre Footage Emerges Showing Woke, Anti-White United Airlines CEO Performing in Drag
What mess, it’s all become.
Don’t bet on it, sweetheart.
That’s not what my husband tells me. lol.
Though I’m not offering. 🙂
I’m not ‘raddled’ at all, you silly woman. And I’m not delusional. I am getting older. We all are. Some of us more gracefully than others.
Ladies please. It’s not that sort of blog.
Did you pop Beria ‘for the People’?
Bungonia Bee
Jan 19, 2024 3:11 PM
Lizzie, who did I contact? I sent a message to you via Dover months ago, and added that Pogria could vouch for me if needed. Years ago I went under the screen name blogstrop, but I’m just about ready to admit defeat, quit and take up bowls or golf.”
You are more than welcome to join our catch ups.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The rapist murderers of Hamas and its supporters are such great advocates of feminism and free speech!
JC for someone who has spent so much time in the mud wallow wrestling, that is spectacularly in-apt.
my pick would be Trotsky.
Bloggie, nooooooooooooooooooo. I didn’t receive any email from you. Double check my address with Dover and I’ll double-check my spam folder regularly. xxx
I did ask you years ago to come to the pub, but you said nay at that time. Would love to meet you with others and chat about olden days on the Cat. Or for coffee at Watson’s Bay, soonest, so you can tell Johanna I’m not yet a raddled old haggis.
All in good fun, in the not-dead-yet stakes.
Chris, you can buy a humor package for beginners on Amazon. Let us know if it works.
Dotster, Dimon even agrees with me 🙂
Dot, read more here:
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/01/17/open-thread-wed-17-jan-2024/comment-page-6/#comment-678063
Smirked.
You would need to use a 14-pound sledge to drive the upgrade card into my limited old Taiwanese 80286 motherboard, JC!
And anyway, its not that sort of blog.
A recent poll has revealed that 69% of Chris Bowen’s electorate are in favor of using nuclear power, raising questions as to the Energy Minister’s popularity.
Polls in McMahon need to be taken whilst holding the nose ….. having lived in McMahon for 30 years (before being shunted across to Dai Le territory) I can assure folk the migrant population of Blow-in’s fiefdom take no interest in politics that don’t involve additional musso rights or “free” money ……..!
And the pigs enjoy it.
so you can tell Johanna I’m not yet a raddled old haggis.
No, you are most certainly not a ‘raddled old haggis’. You look and are fabulous.
Last night we had a Cat catch up and a jolly good time was had by all. I even felt rather ‘dusty’ this morning. Really shouldn’t drink so much on a ‘school night’, or maybe I’m just getting old!
There is nothing at all fraudulent about BTC, if he’s not full of it, they won’t trade the ETF.
IMO he is committing fraud by dishonestly causing financial loss to others.
Dot
I think he’s talking his book a little, because the advent of crypto succeeding would mean serious trouble for the banksters. Having said that, I can’t see how an unstable value like BTC can succeed.
calli
Calli, it’s called bureaucratic arrogance and is one of the major reasons the government workforce needs to be trimmed savagely.
Nobody wants to be seen to be a friend of Big Supermarket.
LOL.
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
What in the fresh hell is this?
Well then everything but gold is unstable as when fiat collapses, gold is still accepted.
Dimon dumps on BTC while JPM is an Active Particpant in making BTC ETF work.
Likewise Buffet used to dump on derivatives while BH did deals in the Billions for leveraged bets on stocks etc.
Each-way bets on ‘edgy’ financial engineering is what winners in Wall St do.
Emphasis.
Empiricism covers all the senses, and observation can be to differing degrees of exactitude – I observe the horizon but it is not really empirical weather data.
Mother Lode,
the Death of Stalin is excellent. You will not be disappointed. I have the DVD and watch it every six months or so. In a brilliant cast, the actor who portrays Beria is the standout.
Cassie you may be getting old, but your not living in a motel in Queanbeyan getting plastered, bitter and twisted. The QC will be off to Oaks Estate just across the train line if she gets much worse.
You’re
I thought it pretty good when I saw it in the cinema.
Happy ending!
But ‘Burnt by the Sun’ would be worth watching before it. That is a movie.
the Death of Stalin is excellent. You will not be disappointed. I have the DVD and watch it every six months or so. In a brilliant cast, the actor who portrays Beria is the standout.”
Yes. Death of Stalin also has one of my favourite actors in it, Jason Isaacs. He played Zhukov in the film.
Isaacs also plays Cary Grant in “Archie”…which is due to be released soon. Apparently it’s fantastic and Isaacs perfectly captures Cary Grant.
Sorry GreyRanga, looks like I cut in. Please, go on.
Iran is starting a war it knows could destroy it
As the revolution diminishes internally, its leaders may now be prepared to commit suicide for the sake of their twisted ideological dreams
RICHARD KEMP
The Iranian strikes in Iraq, Syria and even Pakistan are signs of weakness.
In recent days the US has assassinated an Iranian proxy terrorist leader in Baghdad and the Israelis have killed Hamas and Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon. I
ranian state media said the recent strikes in Erbil, supposedly against Israeli “spy bases”, were in retaliation for such killings.
Hitting targets in Iraq and Syria of course elicited no military response from Iran’s client governments there, but striking inside Pakistan was an altogether different prospect which was met by a retaliatory attack into Iranian territory.
Why on earth would Tehran provoke a conflict with a nuclear state with a massive, well-equipped army that could, if it wanted to, overrun the regime?
In order to send messages of deterrence to the US and of strength to its proxies in the face of what looks like a dangerous turnaround in the ayatollahs’ fortunes.
For many years Iran has been building what has been called a “ring of fire” around Israel, comprising proxies in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, with more distant flames in Iraq and Yemen.
The purpose is to strangle the Jewish state, because the ayatollahs deplore its very existence and see it as an outpost of American power, opposition to which has been a cornerstone of the revolution since it began.
But following the 7th October attacks that all seems to be going wrong.
Israel is steadily taking apart Iranian proxies Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, killing their fighters in large numbers and destroying painstakingly constructed terrorist infrastructure.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah seems to be faced with the prospect either of a hugely destructive war or a humiliating withdrawal north of the Litani River.
In Yemen, the Houthis’ attempted missile strikes on Israel have all been blunted and the US and UK have unexpectedly switched from defensive to offensive operations to thwart their attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The provocation of Pakistan, however, with the inevitable retaliation, and perhaps further escalation, may go even deeper.
The ayatollahs are pondering a much greater threat than their ring of fire being extinguished: regime collapse.
Iran’s leaders are ageing and the population is increasingly seeking another form of government, with widespread protests over the past 16 months representing the most severe challenge to the authorities in decades.
Non-regime Islamist groups, such as Isis, seem to be on the rise too, a reality driven violently home by suicide bomb attacks in Kerman two weeks ago.
Struggling dictatorships have often resorted to fomenting external conflict to bolster support at home.
But that doesn’t always work out as planned – think of the fall of Galtieri’s military junta after the abortive Falklands invasion.
But the ayatollahs may have a Plan B in mind.
For them, the revolution is everything and they might think the only way it survives is to export it rapidly and violently, and that requires invalidating national sovereignty across the region.
Of course, Iran can’t possibly take on Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel at the same time.
But as the revolution diminishes internally, its leaders may now be prepared to commit suicide for the sake of their twisted ideological dreams.
Judith Butler, the doyen of weird trans and gender theories, said it far better.
The whole speech is worth a watch. He doesn’t mince words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcd0gWNIog
it is important for women to understand that the struggle for Palestine is also a feminist and a free-speech issue.
are they stupid or are they lying? It’s interesting to see the international left fall into line and mindless puke up they latest talking points. Like montypox.
are they stupid or are they lying? It’s interesting to see the international left fall into line and mindlessly puke up the latest talking points. Like montypox.
Sorry should proof read before I post
I’m presently trundling across the “Hay Plains” area of the Riverina at a sometimes hair raising speed of 38km/hr.
This El Niño has delivered a landscape liberally dotted with small to medium expanses of water with no end of birds and every shade of green in the vegetation which stretches to all horizons.
I remember travelling on a train to Griffith and at Yanco seeing the Hay line branch off. Telegraph poles in a straight line all the way to the horizon.
The always worth reading Chris Merritt suggests the final payout figure for the Gillard era Four Corners live cattle. debacle could be $900m in Teh Paywallian. Brittany could only dream of those numbers.
Hamas?
Feminists.
The only thing in Gaza that isn’t ruthlessly enforced is the hijab.
Women are near invisible in any footage taken on the public street.
Polygamy, cousin marriage, child marriage, wife beating, domestic rape even sex slavery.
They have it all.
Take care on the Hay Plain. No thongs.
Summary of Javier Milei’s ( new Argentinian president) speech from the WEF, Davis 2024. Pretty stirring stuff.
(in 20 quotes)
1: “Today I am here to tell you that the western world is in danger, and it’s in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the west are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and thereby to poverty.”
2: “Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well meaning individuals willing to help others, and others motivated by the desire to belong to a privileged class, the main leaders of the western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.”
3: “We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world, rather they are the root cause.”
4: “The problem with neoclassical (economists) is the model they love so much does not match reality, so they attribute their own mistakes to the supposed market failure, rather than reviewing the premises of their model.”
5: “On the pretext of the supposed market failures, regulations are introduced, which only create distortions in the price system, preventing economic calculation, and therefore, also prevent savings, investment, and growth.”.
6: “Not even supposedly libertarian economists understand what the market is, because if they did understand it, they would quickly see that it’s impossible for something alone the lines of market failure to exist.”
7: “Talking about market failure is an oxymoron, there are no market failures, if transaction are voluntary the only context where it can be a market failure is coercion, and the only one that is able to coerce is the state.”
8: “Faced with the theoretical demonstration that state intervention is harmful, and the empirical evidence that it has failed, the solution proposed by the collectivists is not greater freedom but rather greater regulation. Greater regulation which creates a downwards spiral until we are all poor, and the life of all of us depend on a bureaucrat sitting somewhere in a luxury office.”
9: “Given the dismal failure of collectivist models, and the undeniable advances in the free world, socialists were lead to change their agenda. They left behind the class struggle based on the economic system, and replaced it with other supposed social conflicts, which are just as harmful to life as a community, and to economic growth.”
10: “Today’s states don’t need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the life of individuals. With tools like printing money, debt, subsidies, control of the interest rate, price controls, and regulations to correct the so called market failures, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.”
11: “They say that capitalism is evil because it’s individualistic and that collectivism is good because it’s altruistic, of course with the money of others.”
12: “Those who promote social justice, they advocate the idea that the whole economy is a pie that can be shared in better ways, but that pie is not a fixed given, it’s wealth that get generated in what Israel Kirzner for instance calls a Market Discovery Process.”
13: “If the state punishes the capitalists when they are successful, and gets in the way of the (Market) Discovery Process, they will destroy their incentives and the consequence is that they will produce less, and the pie will be smaller, and this will harm society as a whole.”
14: “Collectivism, by inhibiting the (Market) Discovery Process and hindering the appropriation of discoveries, ends up binding the hands of entrepreneurs and preventing them to provide better goods and services at a better price.”
15: “Thanks to free enterprise capitalism, the world is now living its best moment, never in all of mankind’s or humanity’s history there has been a time of more prosperity than today. Today’s world is more free, more rich, more peaceful, and more prosperous than in any other time of human history. And this is particularly true for those countries that respect economic freedom and the property rights of individuals.”
16: “The capitalist, the successful entrepreneur, is a social benefactor, who far from appropriating the wealth of others, contributes to the general well-being of all. Ultimately, a successful entrepreneur is a hero.”
17: “Libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the project of life of others, based on the non-aggression principle, in defense of the right to life, to liberty, and to property. With its fundamental institutions being: Private property, markets free from state intervention, free competition, the division of labor, and social cooperation. Where you can only be successful by serving others with goods of better quality at a best price.”
18: “The impoverishment produced by collectivism is no fantasy, nor it is fatalism, it’s a reality that we in Argentina have known very well for at least 100 years.” “We have lived through it, and we are here to warn you about what can happen if the countries in the western world -that became rich through the model of freedom-, stay on this road to serfdom.”
19: “We come here today to invite other countries in the western world to return to the path of prosperity. Economic freedom, limited government, and the unrestricted respect for private property, are essential elements for economic growth.”
20: “In concluding, I would like to leave a message for all entrepreneurs and business people here, and for those who are not here in person but are following from around the world:
Do not be intimidated either by the political caste nor by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender yourself to a political class that only wants to perpetuate itself in power and keep their privileges.
Courtesy of “Ross” at the Jo Nova Blog
H B Bear
Eraring should just close for a week, then negotiate with the government. That’s if said government still exists.
The same thing nearly happened to me.
Avoided owing to it being daytime.
Same roadhouse.
LOL
What a smug git.
Mad if they didn’t.
The issue that tickles me is the massive (and deserved) contempt shown by Origin to State and Federal governments while inserting the pineapple:
2017 – October 2021: Eraring to close at the at “the end of its operational life in the early 2030s”
February 2022 – Origin CEO Frank Calabria said, “Origin has today submitted notice to AEMO for the potential early retirement of Eraring Power Station in August 2025.
February 2022 – Shriek of surprised discomfort from Angus Taylor as the pineapple goes in without KY.
AGM October 2023: takatatkatakatakata tak takatatkatakatakata tak
Giant Battery. Bzzzzt.
Hydrogen Hub. Bzzzzt.
Bring out your money…
I am currently in NE Victoria. Cant remember it being this green in mid January before. Dams are full everywhere Ive been.
From other page:
Abbott had the endorsement to act, but his cowardice (politely presented as sensitivity) sold us out. How I despise that creep.
I think this does sum up tone. He is of the old little johnnie, pip pip, stiff upper lip, do fuk all school. They are the problem. The left are plain but because the alleged conservatives don’t confront them they get away with their atrocities. I originally thought tone was a muscular Christian. Turns out he was and is a wimp Curate.
Speaking of little johnnie:
20 years since John Howard’s renewable energy policy
Originally published in The Spectator Australia, 5 January 2024
ALAN MORAN
19 JAN 2024
It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to be incorporated within energy retailers’ total supply. This gave those sources of energy a de facto subsidy. That basic subsidy presently is $50 per megawatt hour for large-scale solar and wind – rather more than the total price of generated energy formerly experienced – and $40 per megawatt hour for rooftop solar.
John Howard recognised the error he had made and that subsidised energy would, if allowed to expand, undermine the electricity supply’s economics. He refused to increase the capped amount of subsidised wind and solar from its initial 9,500 gigawatt hours (nominally ‘2 per cent of additional energy’ though actually over 4 per cent of total electricity).
Howard may have recognised his error but his solution was typically namby pamby. Instead of abolishing renewables he capped the scheme and when the liars got in they removed the cap and the rest is Casanova bowen.
lotocoti
Didn’t trust her in the past, don’t trust her now, and it’s not looking good for the future.
Lizzie:
Call it for what it is – Collectivism.
It’s where the collective is more important than the individual.
With colleagues like Chrissy Pyne and Lord Waffleworth, Abbott was always up against it. Plenty of blame to go around in the Lieboral party room.
I envy you 123. The Hay Plain is always fascinating but memorable when green. Nasty at night however unless you are in a Kenworth.
I finished the latest season of Fargo.
Doubt whether I’ll watch the next one.
Some good bits, but lazy writing.
Worst season so far.
Oh, I understand its importance. It is essential that feminists denounce the perpetrators of rape, abduction, sex slavery and murder of women, and vow never to offer them support in any way shape or form.
That’s what they mean, isn’t it?
On the Hay Plains, I’ll never forget a trip back from Robinvale in Summer in the mid seventies. It was so hot the birds were panting. The car, a Corolla 2 door, had no air conditioning. Windows down – air fryer. Windows up – expiry from heat. We went through oodles of orange juice (this was before anyone thought up the notion of actually bottling water).
No truck stop, mercifully.
If the latest season of True Detective didn’t have Jodie Foster in it, I would not be watching the second episode.
Vicki
I prefer “Collectivism.” It fits many societies from the Left and Right, that claim the mob is more important than the individual.
“Mob” is defined as that curious animal that has a thousand bellies, but no brain.
Canvas water bottle on the roo bar surely?
Poetic justice that it will be her Liars successors who will have to cut the cheques.
PS, the money should be taken from the current budget of the Agriculture Department.
Dogboxes! (HT John Constantine) Daily Telegraph:
So giving Moore Park GC an arse reaming. In the name of affordable housing. But will that housing be done in the timeframe you set Mr Minns?
So no those houses won’t be done in 12 months, he won’t say when they will be done and bizarrely turns into a competition between New South Wales and Victoriastan to build the most. With Labor’s woeful track record, 2050 seems the date.
Progressive as in the fast-paced advance? Yes. Advancing civilisation? Hardly.
Rosie, you are presuming that feminists are against any of those horrors. They and their children are not subjected to them so it’s all good, as long as they can stick it up the normies and Christians.
From the Chris Merritt article:
It was over before most people received their dead tree edition of The Australian.
The government wrote to the graziers this morning, rejecting the graziers’ offer.
more Israeli propaganda
IDF announces that they have rescued 21 bodies and brought them back to Israel
That would be “Freedom Dogboxes” sir!
Progressive as in progressing towards their utopia. Like those who say communism has a bad reputation because it’s never been done properly, their utopia is tyranny, but done properly this time. It was field tested in a small way recently with an innovative virus.
medicines for hostages still not delivered.
“Occupation forces destroy cemetery and steal corpses”
So, 48,000 is a “standing start”? What innumerate fool wrote these words? And did Minns read them before he made the statement?
The Israeli families and friends are probably confused with mxed feelings. When my brother found the names of my father’s family in the railway lists to Auschwitz, along with the fury it also felt like we had somehow reclaimed them.
Red Cross is a subsidiary of Red Crescent.
Notorious killer cop Roger Rogerson is in his last hours after suffering a brain aneurysm on Thursday night and having his life support turned off on Friday morning.
Rogerson, 83, was taken to Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick just before midnight on Thursday, following a medical episode in his prison cell.
Doctors placed him on life support which was turned off in consultation with his family about 11.30am on Friday. A source within NSW prions confirmed Rogerson was receiving end of life care.
Sources said it could be “hours or days” before Rogerson is officially declared dead.
Courier-Mail
I missed a birthday.
I thought the transformer pole at the house looks very worse for wear and checked the tag.
It was put there in 1963 when the network was first built. There’s not a chance in hell that a grey box pole that age should still be in use.
Powercorp last inspected it in 2022. They just drill a hole and see if the wood is OK. Visually it’s badly cracked and bending away from the stay pole.
I’m putting in a request for a new inspection and will make certain to be there so if they say it’s fine and disaster happens I’ll have a record of the inspection and my opinion of it’s condition.
That would be “Freedom Dogboxes” sir!
Ah yes calli remiss of me to omit that!
Snap Zulu!
We were up Mt Buffalo yesterday, stunningly green, superb viewing platforms, mad cyclists.
Bye bye.
Killer cop’s life support switched off (Sky News, 19 Jan)
No idea the status of his soul, but I know his life caused more words to be written by journos than most people. They’ll be bereft.
Snap TE and Zulu! I’m slow.
The comments below the post suggest that the locations of the bodies was provided by an informant and that the location was not a cemetery but military bunkers as muslims bury their dead in simple shrouds in the earth
The Catalyst for the Next US Civil War?
“Could this be the catalyst for the next civil war? The federal government warned the Texas National Guard to “cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around the Shelby Park area and remove all barriers to access to the U.S.-Mexico border.” Texas said NO and numerous states are sending resources to Texas to stand against the federal government.
Since the Biden Administration has adopted an open border policy, Texas has implemented a state law whereby they will arrest all illegal aliens entering their state. The federal government has done everything to prevent Texas from stopping the surge of migrants and neither side will cave. “The recent actions by the State of Texas have impeded operations of the Border Patrol. Those actions conflict with the authority and duties of Border Patrol under federal law and are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Texas’s actions also improperly seek to regulate the federal government,” the DHS said in a letter to Texas AG Ken Paxton. Texas responded by saying it will “not surrender to Biden’s destructive open-border policies.”
A mother and her two children drowned in the river while crossing into Texas. The federal government is solely blaming Texas rather than their failed policies that invited people to cross into the nation in the first place. The Mexican government stepped in to retrieve the family, and US Border Patrol did not show up until after the incident. Forget the millions who have died from the drugs and crime crossing into the US; the MSM will now focus on these three people over the coming weeks.
Numerous Republican governors in other states, especially the south, are sending resources to Texas immediately. Around 100 migrants are crossing into Texas from this specific area every HOUR. This is one of the dirtiest ploys in recent political history. The year 2023 marked the first time in modern US history that the number of migrants far outpaced the number of births in America. The demographics of America have been permanently altered and people are continuing to pile into the country. The Democrats admitted the open border policy was a deliberate attempt to flood the nation with people who would vote for socialistic policies as the usher in the New World Order, but most were utterly clueless regarding the resources required to carry out their failed scheme. Now, their Sanctuary cities and states are in ruin; they have run out of resources.
The far-left told migrants to come to America where the American dream would await them. The American Dream of the 1950s is DEAD. Even hardworking Americans can no longer obtain the lifestyle that was once promised and provided to legal immigrants. These migrants today are unable to work and expect the taxpaying citizens of this nation to pay for their new lives. The future of our nation depends on stopping the deliberate invasion of America.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/the-catalyst-for-the-next-civil-war/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
IDF announces that they have rescued 21 bodies and brought them back to Israel
Thanks for that, Rosie. It is comforting to know that their bodies will now be treated with dignity, a dignity denied to them before they were murdered, and that they will be buried according to Jewish law. Once buried their souls can rest and return to their creator, who is the creator of all of us.
The left has captured everything.For the second time in two weeks,LinkedIn is suggesting I follow Linda Burney.
FMD.
Always remember r Abbottor orchestrated the gaoling of Pauline Hanson
I expect Linda Burney could do with some cheering up. 2023 was pretty rough.
No. I did not do that. I put forward a position about moral choices and decency that many others also made, and incidentally, that you also made in the later comment that I kindly upticked for you. I was, as I’ve already said, not the first person to speak of the morality or otherwise of certain behaviours, but you failed to recognise that. If you can hit on me, you try, but you fail.
Who down ticks a comment about dead bodies?
Please Liz, enough of this aging lezzo talk as it’s bad enough as it is.
It’s a laugh a minute with all the furious up and down ticking. It’s like Maricopa County with all the furious ticking going on by about 5 ferals.
It’s pretty remarkable that the most feral commenters with almost no return commentary to their posts are some of the highest uptick recipients. Totally remarkable. Maricopa Catallaxy.
Katz, it is so good to hear you recognise the confused emotions that despicable Nazi activities can cause in retrospect when Jewish people are faced with confronting the social contagion and deep psychological ill that is anti-semitism.
Cassie is my friend and I am deeply aware of how this horrific attack on Oct 7th towards everything that Israel stands for in Never Again can affect her and other Jewish people in Australia. It is visceral, terrifying and something that needs all of our sympathy.
The Queanbeyan Cow does not recognise that. Not a skerrick of empathy there. She has attacked Cassie unmercifully re her feelings in this mire of Nazi reminders. She attacks me constantly too, and fifteen people or more are egging her on with this insulting behaviour towards me. I despise you fifteen for that, you should know better, just as I despise this sad and lonely female in Queanbeyan for her descent into troughs of deep shit towards Cassie, who I think is brave to come here still given the Cow’s game-playing attitudes and the encouragement she gets here. I’m pretty brave coming here myself too, in my later years, luckily in good health and optimism, and only do so because I know that decent people are here too. At least, unlike Cassie, I don’t have to wonder if some of you want to shove me in a gas oven. I am so so sick of these attacks by a woman with real psychological problems that garner such support here.
Ferals is a good word for it, JC. It pollutes the blog though because you do wonder if the reality is that some here one might regard as normal people are in fact not so.
Steven Spielberg Worries about antisemitism and created a new documentary
lol, JC. Don’t give me the horrors with that lezzo talk. I’ve never been interested although some have tried to make me so. Maybe the Queanbeyan cow moos that way. Not my business, ‘hits’ in my book are the verbal assaults she launches into about me.
I am not your usual sort of older woman, JC, I’ll grant you that. 🙂
I wonder if someone very unhappy with the tick system is deliberately downticking many inoffensive posts and posters?
Their aim – upset as many cats as possible and thus put pressure on Dover to remove the whole system.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Jan 19, 2024 6:43 PM
Thank you Lizzie.
Don’t let the Queanbeyan woman upset you. She’s a lonely old woman. I pity her. I don’t know why she’s so nasty and unhinged towards you. She can post some interesting stuff, and I often like reading her comments, but then she loses the plot, as she does regularly with you. It’s sad. Look I don’t mind a bit of biff here and there, but she’s obsessive.
As for the surge in Jew hatred, every Jew I know is feeling bewildered and wobbly, very wobbly and I’m sure Katz will agree. I grew up with stories about pogroms, about expulsions, about the Holocaust, about Jews living in fear, and guess what, I now find myself, an Australian Jew, living in trepidation and fear.
Of course they are.
I for one laud the downticking function as one of the great examples of comedy value in this wide brown land.
Every one of them is a manifestation of cruel tears, expelled from the eye sockets of inadequates lacking the wherewithal to actually respond to, let alone rebut an argument or point of view.
Hot, salty tears, dripping from noses onto bowls of Doritos and/or servo microwave cheeseburgers strategically placed in front of keyboards across the nation.
‘Ooooh hoo hooo, I’ll show you. Have a downtick! See how it crushes you inside!’
Fairybread lightweights. Every time. Immensely amusing.
Knuckles gets it.
And nothing like being mentioned in dispatches…elsewhere.
Milestones in freedom:
Learning to walk (watching the joy of toddlers moving about made me think about this).
Earning your own money.
Moving out of home.
Owning your first car.
Children abandoning the nest.
Paying off your mortgage.
All gone once the Davos crowd take over.