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Harris Campaign Admits Tim Walz Was The Only Candidate That Answered Their Craigslist Ad I LoLed
You can say that again !
LinkedIn has been hacked again. They’re hopeless. Last time they were hacked I got a try-on blackmail email, which I ignored.
Huge data leak dubbed the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ sees 26 BILLION records leaked from sites including Twitter, Linkedin, and Dropbox – here’s how to check if you’ve been affected (23 Jan)
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/fPwcDe – with a Matt Cartoon thrown in as well!
Alzheimer’s blood test revolution for over-50s
Simple and cheap method can measure how likely people are to develop the illness up to 15 years before they show symptoms, study suggests
A blood test that detects Alzheimer’s 10 to 15 years before a patient shows symptoms could be used to screen all over-50s.
Measuring levels of a protein in the blood called p-tau217 has been shown to be cheaper, easier and at least as accurate as the current diagnosis options, a study has found.
The protein is a sign of disease in the brain caused when tau starts to attack neurons. This can occur up to 15 years before symptoms such as forgetfulness and cognitive decline start.
More than one million people are expected to be living with Alzheimer’s or dementia in Britain by 2030 and it is hoped that beginning early treatment could make it easier to tackle their symptoms.
Experts believe the blood test could become as routine as monitoring cholesterol to help prevent heart disease.
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg looked at data on almost 800 people in their fifties, sixties and seventies from three different trials that used a combination of data from the makers of the blood test Quanterix and lab tests. They compared the blood test with current methods, such as a lumbar puncture to screen spinal fluid, or a PET scan.
The test was able to categorise people into likely, intermediate, or unlikely to develop Alzheimer’s and data showed measuring p-tau217 in the blood could be just as good as the existing tests with an accuracy of more than 95 per cent.
The Swedes recognise they have a problem and elected a centre-right government in late 2022 with quite a ‘radical’ suite of policies.
I reported here late last week that they’ve effectively dropped out of the UN’s Agenda 2030, for example.
Can the software turn text of selected contributors the same colour as the background. It would make it easier to scroll past them.
Christian kids are not being taken into account either unless they start spouting the Palestine line.
And, on cue, capt’n climate weighs in on the Australia Day woke view – from the Hun….
Test captain Pat Cummins has joined the push to change the date of Australia Day.
Cummins revealed his inner thoughts for the first time at a press conference in Brisbane in Tuesday where, as Cricket for Climate founder, he spoke about the completion of the National Cricket Centre solar project, which saved funds which will now be redirected to growing the game.
“This conversation comes up every year and Cricket Australia have been pretty consistent over the last four or five years,’’ Cummins said,
“My personal opinion is I absolutely love Australia and think it is the best country in the world by a mile. I think we should have an Australia Day but I think we can probably find a more appropriate date to celebrate.
This after CA chief had an embarrassing train wreck interview with Ben Fordham
What do the Teals think of this as it will be their supporters who will get less out of these changes.
But how many Teals and their supporters pay income tax? I’ll bet the unctuous, posturing frauds are into every tax avoidance trick in the book.
dover0beach
Jan 23, 2024 1:02 PM
Alex Ward
@alexbward
This is how the Biden administration plans to end the Houthi crisis https://politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/01/22/how-to-stop-the-houthis-00137030
LOL. The US plan is to have China bail them out.
China is currently selling down all its holdings of US Sovereign Debt. And who is buying this rubbish that China is selling? Only a lunatic or the US Fed.
Bruce O’Nuke:
We’re doing our bit for the planet here in Australia, Bruce.
Unable to make our own dunny paper because trees are sacred. So we buy it from OS and criticise the OS makers of date rolls who clear fell entire forests.
Aren’t we just so conscientious?
At what stage does the Tree Worship end?
I wish we could do a lot more of it without narky greenies on councils telling us that every leaf is sacred and that the trees in our own gardens don’t belong to us, but to them.
How wonderful it was in Italy recently to drive around and see some good sense about lopping trees back. The Italians treasure their vistas and they shape the trees in them to suit. Even huge gums, planted roadside years ago by some careless greenies, are now being chopped back to form the picture of a gum such as you’d never see in Australia. Thick in trunk, but short and rounded into a bush. Even gums can be tamed.
I pity those who live in what was once leafy Turramurra and Wahroonga. Driving down Burns Bay Road recently I was overwhelmed by the dark dank atmosphere of those huge stringy gums everywhere, three times the size they were twenty years ago, and now completely ruining the pleasant houses they surround.
Let a greenie in and there goes the neighbourhood.
It’s happening in Vaucluse too.
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dover0beach
Jan 23, 2024 1:02 PM
Alex Ward
@alexbward
This is how the Biden administration plans to end the Houthi crisis https://politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/01/22/how-to-stop-the-houthis-00137030
LOL. The US plan is to have China bail them out.
dover
I liked the following
The longer this all goes on, the higher the chance of the Houthis killing Americans on a commercial ship or Iran-backed proxies killing American forces in Iraq and Syria.
At that point, Miller argued, the U.S. will “have no choice” but to strike Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s assets in the Gulf or targets inside Iran proper.
but I can’t see Obama allowing it & Lollipop Biden will want to throw more Money at the Iranians
Hold on a moment there, due to some creative redrawing of electoral boundaries I am now in his electorate and not ready to go yet.
I thought I couldn’t more deeply loathe Cummins.
I’ve been Incapble at times but it’s the next morning when the spelling really gets to you.
In other news of pedantic exactitude, the BoM forecast of a 44 degree top for Mildura tomorrow has now been revised to 39.
They’re just playing for laughs now.
Barking Toad
Jan 23, 2024 1:11 PM
And, on cue, capt’n climate weighs in on the Australia Day woke view – from the Hun….
Look. They could change the day to the date when Australia first became Australia. But would the activists be happy with that? NO. So what day of the 365 days or 366 days in a Leap Year would they be happy with? No day obviously which is the whole point of the exercise.
They do not want an Australia Day. Full stop.
The Australian has confirmed that Scott Morrison will quit politics at the end of February to join a string of global strategic advising firms triggering a pre-budget by-election in the federal southern Sydney seat of Cook.
The former Liberal leader, who took the Coalition to a “miracle” election victory in 2019, will make a formal announcement Wednesday, ending a 17-year parliamentary career including four years as prime minister.
Australian
Fat Boy mUnty finds it impossible to reconcile his “radical” theories with the reality that the so-called “radicals” are now the establishment, desperate to “conserve” their place at the top table.
Most here at the Cat are the new revolutionaries, seeking radical change to an unsatisfactory present.
No. We can’t. Jan 26, 1788, was the start of it all.
I remember well the Bicentennial and the love of Australia in 1988 that milestone produced, the happy celebrations, the special events in communities and schools. If it was today it would be a moment for gloom and self-flagellation.
We have lost so much. Keep Australia Day and Make It Great Again.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Jan 23, 2024 1:14 PM
coppicing
Lizzie,
when my Son & DIL lived in Zug Switzeerland, I used to enjoy walking down the hill with Grandkids to go for a walk around the lake, and in winter they
pollarded trees zug switzerland waterfront
Way back at the birth of blogging I used a WordPress plugin that scrambled a persistent obnoxious trolls words.
This wouldn’t make eny difference in bolts case though.
Hi! Homer.
And my topic tonight is ‘How to shaft your supporters, ruin your country and get away with it.’
To the perennial itinerants, suggestions for a shortish (I have a dog) trip that would not involve much walking. I have been most places, but would enjoy opera.Thanks
Roger
So petstock has added itself to the list of people I don’t buy products from.
Farmer Gez
Jan 23, 2024 1:18 PM
In other news of pedantic exactitude, the BoM forecast of a 44 degree top for Mildura tomorrow has now been revised to 39.
They’re just playing for laughs now.
Farmer Gez – World Wide Problem
The Met Office’s bizarre storm advice exposes the new British sickness
The inexorable growth of the nanny state is just a ploy designed to distract us from late trains, potholed roads and our broken NHS
JUDITH WOODS
Another day, another dramatic weather warning.
As Storm Isha segues into Storm Jocelyn and trains, planes and ferries are cancelled, the UK is battening down the hatches again. Power cuts and flooding are now the new and wholly unwelcome normal.
And so too, are the Met Office Cassandras.
And this time they’re fussing over the safety of our bedroom windows and the remote possibility that our chimney breasts might fall down as one and bury the nation’s kitchen maids beneath the rubble.
“The safest place” to sleep, they said, “would be anywhere away from glass, such as windows and also rooms where there is no chimney stack above.”
It’s the sort of sub-Victorian catastrophisation gleefully skewered by Hilaire Belloc in his timeless satire à la “Always keep a-hold of Nurse, for fear of finding something worse”.
It’s preposterous and it would be funny if it weren’t so disrespectful; do other nations need to be told to wear a warm sweater in winter, stay out of the sun in summer, and be careful not to slip on leaves in the autumn?
Last week, the NHS in Scotland recommended people walk “like penguins” so as to minimise the chance of slipping on snow and ice.
Wow.
At times like this it’s hard to understand how we’ve managed to survive as a species without the nanny state, making us feel disempowered, fearful and dependent.
I believe it’s what illusionists call “misdirection”.
Here we are living in a country where our Government literally can’t make the trains run on time or provide a fit-for-purpose health service.
Our roads are potholed, police don’t respond to emergency 999 calls and retailers are battling an unprecedented shoplifting spree.
But instead of any of our institutions undertaking anything substantive to fix broken Britain, we are infantilised.
Anybody else remember how a Wessex Water bigwig told bathers at Bournemouth in 2022 they should “swim with their mouths shut” to avoid swallowing the sewage pumped into the sea?
I struggle to grasp why Met Office apparatchiks thought it a good idea to warn householders their homes could become death traps in high winds.
Is there an alternative to sleeping in a room with a window?
Below stairs in the servants’ quarters maybe?
Out in the garden?
Shouldn’t the Met Office be trying to put the risks into proportion, rather than seeking to actively terrify everyone?
There is something soul-crushing about a nanny state, which is weirdly counterintuitive
– is there anyone out there who doesn’t genuinely believe Mary Poppins would run the country better than the current crop of politicians?
Scummo’s reward from the globalists for his wonderful work on the Australian population during covid.
Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 23, 2024 1:06 PM
I’m getting ready for the virtue signalling this year on LinkedIn re working on Australia Day.
LOL. I got a “Linked Not In” email recently asking me to click on to some tosser called A Albanese and follow him. Well, guess what. He only had 2 followers and Chris Bowen was one of them. I put that in the spam bin. And then it got deleted in the weekly bin dump.
Don’t you just love technology. LOL.
Why big fleet buyers are going into reverse on electric cars
State-backed plans to bring about an EV revolution are backfiring
Three years ago, London’s biggest taxi company reached a fork in the road.
Regulations announced by Transport for London meant all private hire vehicles registered in the capital would have to meet tougher green emission standards by 2023.
For Addison Lee chief executive Liam Griffin, it meant a choice: invest in plug-in hybrid cars, or “go full electric” and stump up millions for a new fleet of electric cars.
He chose the latter strategy. Griffin ordered 1,000 Volkswagen ID4s as part of a move to “fully embrace” electric vehicles (EVs).
The plan has backfired. Last month, the company was forced to make an about-turn, abandoning its pledge to reach zero emissions by the end of 2023. “We were slightly oversold the dream,” Griffin says.
As well as ID4s, Addison Lee spent £30m on new Volkswagen Multivans, which are plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. However, it soon ran into issues with drivers not having access to public charging.
“Less than 20pc of our drivers have got off-street parking and have the ability to charge overnight,” Griffin says. “For those that don’t, they have got to seek the alternative and that’s when things start to unravel.”
Addison Lee tried to install its own bank of chargers to help drivers. However, “red tape and bureaucracy” meant it took 18 months to install a set of fast chargers at its depot in West Drayton, Griffin says.
So-called “range anxiety” about how far EV batteries will take a driver between charges was a serious concern, compounded by a lack of public charging infrastructure.
“We have the issue of what jobs you may be able to do, because if you’ve only got half a charge and you suddenly decide you want to go to Manchester then are you going to want to take it?,” says Griffin.
By the end of December, there were 53,906 charge points across Britain, according to Zap Map, a location service for charge stations. The Department for Transport hopes there will be 300,000 installed by the end of the decade.
Mounting issues left Addison Lee no choice but to abandon its pledge to reach zero emissions by the end of 2023.
Griffin says: “We were very enthusiastic about the benefits of going fully electric. We saw that the idea of providing clean air solutions for drivers and for customers was the future.
“We were promised that the infrastructure would come on stream and facilitate the growing number of cars that were being added by the day.
Unfortunately, the experience didn’t quite match the vision.”
Johnny Rotten
Jan 23, 2024 11:49 AM
Who is going to stop them? And yes, that means we are next because India and China won’t lift a finger to help us because we’re refusing to help ourselves.
In which case, it will be immaterial what they do when Islam finishes digesting us.
From the Oz.
What is their point?
So, apparently there are a huge number of cases which now come back with hung juries after 8 hours (but they wouldn’t know the voting numbers) which will now return a majority verdict (11-1 or 10-1) after four hours.
And heavily weighted towards Aboriginal defendants.
They know this how, exactly?
Could it be that eight hour limits will often run into a second day of deliberations which affords an opportunity for impromptu re-education sessions for recalcitrants in the court house car-park?
A New Trend in Today’s World
These women are not looking for love – they’re speed dating for a place to live
Young renters are trying to avoid the risk of moving in with a complete stranger
On a Sunday afternoon at a bar in Clapham, more than 150 women are anxiously waiting to meet their match.
Attendees are wearing blue and purple wristbands to indicate what they are looking for, as they sip on cocktails, dressed to impress.
This is a speed dating event – but the women are not looking for love. Instead they are hunting for a place to live.
With rents of more than £1,000 for a single room, nightmare housemates and tales of landlords who refuse to let to meat eaters or those who work from home, London’s rental market is a warzone.
The seemingly endless pool of candidates means that renters are often fighting tooth and nail – or tugging on the heartstrings – to have a chance of securing a place to live.
Entrepreneurial members of Generation Z are using social media and setting up events like these to set up young women looking for housemates.
Many are looking to avoid the lottery of using websites like SpareRoom and moving in with a stranger, which can be an uncomfortable process.
Mia Gomes and Rachel Moore, both 25, run an account called “The Girlies Guide”, which has nearly 40,000 followers on TikTok and 13,500 on Instagram.
They hold regular “Find a housemate” meet-ups across London and are planning to expand to Manchester, where they already host “friend networking” events.
Like at a “traffic light party” (red: taken, amber: complicated, green: single), the women’s wristbands indicate if they are searching for a room (blue), or have a room to spare and are looking for a housemate (purple).
There are far more blue wristbands than purple ones, meaning that those with a room to let can find themselves mobbed by enthusiastic prospective tenants.
The room is divided into geographical regions to help narrow the search, with renters huddling under a poster that marks where they would most like to live.
The meetups make the process more comfortable for both lodgers and landlords, as they can meet for the first time on neutral territory.
Globalism is dying.
Looking forward to the footage of SloMo speaking to an empty room.
Makka:
I’ve never understood that phenomenon.
Perhaps they believe it’s because Nazis are Right wing, so they must vote for the left wingers. But that’s crazy – most Jews I’ve met were smarter than that – they knew who the enemy was.
Inexplicable, that is.
Waiting for a bus in Dublin, we encountered a young lady, who had worked in an accountant’s office, in our local town…
Who gets what from stage three tax cuts and why (in four charts)
Australia has five different tax brackets, but that’s about to change – unless the Labor government makes amendments before July 1 to benefit “middle Australians”.
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 1:08 PM
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/fPwcDe – with a Matt Cartoon thrown in as well!
Alzheimer’s blood test revolution for over-50s
Simple and cheap method can measure how likely people are to develop the illness up to 15 years before they show symptoms, study suggests
Too late. I’m already 71 years old. But I do remember my name and the year of the Battle of Hastings.
Average Price Of A Used Tesla Tumbles For 18 Straight Months
While
Ford Loses $36,000 on Each EV, Cuts Production of Electric Trucks
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 1:42 PM
Who gets what from stage three tax cuts and why (in four charts)
Australia has five different tax brackets, but that’s about to change – unless the Labor government makes amendments before July 1 to benefit “middle Australians”.
So who is a “middle Australian”? Do they live in the middle of Australia?
Scummo will still be pulling in a handsome pay packet Roger, whether globalism is dying or not. So the reward pays off.
Incidentally, globalism advances may be weakening but the damage done is already irreparable. Mission accomplished.
Plenty of Irish in the trades in country VIC.
Dodgy asphalting jobs won’t thinly tar themselves.
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 1:39 PM
A New Trend in Today’s World
These women are not looking for love – they’re speed dating for a place to live
Charles Dickens and Victorian Britain all over again.
Victorian Britain – Paradise for 30,000 and HELL for 30,000,000
Preferably from a prison cell.
Ah – so that’s what I did to my beloved Frangipani. The bloody thing is growing back strongly already.
Johnny Rotten
Jan 23, 2024 1:43 PM
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 1:08 PM
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/fPwcDe – with a Matt Cartoon thrown in as well!
Alzheimer’s blood test revolution for over-50s
Too late. I’m already 71 years old. But I do remember my name and the year of the Battle of Hastings.
My go to when people mention Reparations or Invasion of Australia
When are the Normans going to give reparations to the Saxons after 1066
Or
John Cleese Had Thoughts on Slavery at SXSW
To which Cleese defensively said people “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years — the British didn’t start [colonizing].”
Cleese resumed, except now apparently getting quite sincere:
“History is a history of crime. It’s a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker, and it’s always been that. It’s deeply, deeply distasteful. But to pretend that one lot were worse than another — you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”
But Cleese was intent on returning to his “My people were slaves too, you know” point.
“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese said (seemingly unaware he was doing exactly that). “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400.”
“I want reparations from Italy,” Cleese said drawing shocked gasps. “… and then the Normans came over in 1066 … they were horrible people from France, and they came and colonized us for 30 years — we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”
Farmer Gez
Jan 23, 2024 1:48 PM
The Irish Lollipop Ladies on the roads and Construction sites in Sydney earn lots of dosh and then they piss off back to Ireland to buy a cheap house. Good luck to them.
Te word is “tinly”.
As in “we coated de road tinly wit bitumen, barely tree millimetres tick”.
Experts believe the blood test could become as routine as monitoring cholesterol to help prevent heart disease.
Hope the Alzheimer’s test is better than the bullshit cholesterol/heart disease one then.
“The justices, by a 5-4 vote, granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administration, which has been in an escalating standoff at the border with Texas and had objected to an appellate ruling in favor of the state.”
Note that this is NOT the SCOTUS final ruling on the matter, merely them over-turning an “emergency” injunction preventing the Feds from removing the stuff Texas put up.
Texas acted, feds objected, SCOTUS said “back to like it was before all this started until we can figure it out”.
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 1:53 PM
I love it.
Happy Australia Day this Friday.
Lizzie, in my experience, unless for some reason you have to to scroll up you’ll never know if you’ve attracted even one downtick.
A couple of people here receive significant downticks to about one third of their comment, to point it cannot avoid be said they’re being heavily “ratio’d” by the collective.
Doesn’t seem to stop them posting the same stuff, day in day out.
Try paying no attention. Just like those who attract major downticks say they pay no attention.
Texas acted, feds objected, SCOTUS said “back to like it was before all this started until we can figure it out”.
Tell Dribbling Joe Biden that in Texas they shoot first and ask questions afterwards. BTW, where is Hunter?
Sancho
Your local Irish tar icing team must all be from Cork.
Maybe changing Australia Day isn’t such a bad idea.
If Albo gets turfed out next year, that date should mark our new annual week of celebration.
Festivities can start by gladiator contests – greenies vs unionists vs Palestinian terrorists (is that a tautology?).
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Jan 23, 2024 1:59 PM
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare Jan 23, 2024 11:06 AM
The downtickers go to town regularly on me. It’s a system that allows them far more opportunties than if they had to object in writing.
I will talk with Hairy about it and see what he thinks.
I get loads of Down Thumbs apparently. Water off a Duck’s Back and all that. Chin Up.
There’s a group of Sydney high school teachers, with links to the Minns’ Labor Cabinet, who would do well to acquaint themselves with some history concerning Israel. Invite a few misled of our indigenous claimants to show respect for other indigenous tribes of the past too.
Some of my ancestral DNA in old East Anglia, which includes Norfolk, goes back to Boudicca and the Iceni tribe. Those stalwart Huguenot ancestors of mine married into the locals who’d barely moved since pre-Roman times and I’ve got Iceni second cousins everywhere. Fling a stone in Boudicca’s direction and she’d certainly let you know about it. 🙂
Something I didn’t know
– The chief executive of Cricket Australia English expat Hockley, along with Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins has called for the the date of Australia Day to be changed.
The Test captain said January 26 was the wrong date to celebrate Australia Day and urged the government to change it to a ‘more appropriate date’.
All the more reason to give watching Australian Cricket a Miss.
Does Pat Cummins NOT undertand he is Captain of THE AUSTRALIAN Cricket Team?
Cricket Australia boss tries to avoid saying ‘Australia Day’ in train-wreck with Ben Fordham
Nick Hockley struggled to say ‘Australia Day’
Dodged questions in fiery 2GB interview
The chief executive of Cricket Australia has been unable to answer why the sports body will not be commemorating Australia Day when it falls during a test match later this week.
Nick Hockley clashed with 2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham on Tuesday when asked about the controversial decision to not mention the national public holiday on day two of the test against the West Indies on Friday.
The bumbling interview got off to a fiery start when English expat Hockley initially tried to even avoid saying the words ‘Australia Day’.
This is already happening.
Robert Sewell
Jan 23, 2024 1:34 PM
Rubbish.
Another Deserving Darwin Award
Broadmeadows crash: Two men killed after stolen car loses control in Melbourne’s north with firearms found inside
Lizzie, I’m in a business where if nobody is actually punching you in the head, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
From that perspective you can imagine how little impact will ever be made by the hot air blusterings, blowhardings & random internet tough guys on here.
I’m all for raising the tax free threshold.
I’d like to see some modelling if that was raised 0.5% per year for the next 5 years.
At the same time Australia is back to the same old retarded arguments over income tax rates where the intelligent solution is to tax income less and assets more.
I think I see the problem. Much like Woolworths they are listening to people who represent a small minority.
How many Aboriginals will be in the Gabba crowd? I suspect less than the 3% the represent nationally.
Am thinking it is more a show of patriotism to support any side other than Cricket Australia.
“The cricket boss said the organisation consulted extensively with their Indigenous advisory board, as well as Indigenous players both male and female, before coming to the decision to remove “Australia Day” from its communications”
‘You call yourself Cricket Australia’: ‘Pathetic’ scrapping of Australia Day slammed
Sky News host Danica De Giorgio has slammed “woke” Cricket Australia’s decision to scrap Australia Day, which is only set to be marked in passing at the upcoming Gabba Test.
Cricket Australia will conduct a Welcome to Country ceremony on day one of the Test, which begins on Thursday.
On Australia Day, there will be an acknowledgement that the day has different meanings to different people.
“And you call yourself Cricket Australia. Pathetic,” Ms De Giorgio said.
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 2:06 PM
What is up with these people.
Politics, Religion and Sport should be kept separate. And National Days.
So, Scumbag is departing politics.
I’ll just preface this by saying, in case you haven’t noticed, how much I despise Scott Morrison. Why? There are numerous reasons, and here’s a smidgen…
1. During his unlamented tenure as PM, he stood for NOTHING. It was under his government that Australia and Australians endured the Covid racket, brutal lockdowns and vaccine mandates, both of which were unnecessary. He capitulated to bureaucrats but even worse, when various state governments, particularly the one in Victoria, beat, bludgeoned and persecuted its population, Scott Morrison said nothing. He set up the ludicrous national cabinet and invited despotic jokes like Dan, Mark and the Chook to be on an equal platform with him. What an effing joke.
2. He completely and utterly trashed the Liberal brand. He refused to speak up for any of Menzies’ basic principles, be it religious freedom, free speech, small government and so on.
3. Finally, just months before an election, he signed this country up to net zero, after allowing himself to be badgered by the likes of inner-city effwits like Karma Sharma, Fiona Martin, Renta Zimmerboy, Jason Foolinsky, Katie (I love Obama) Allan and others. It was suicide for the party, and what difference did it make? LOL, like something from a gothic horror move, all of the aforementioned fools lost their seats.
I will always remember Morrison’s smirk. When asked about what was happening in Victoria or Queensland, he’d just smirk.
I suppose he thought that by standing for nothing he’d be PM for ever. No, instead he gifted us an even worse government.
But you want to know what his worst crime was? He knifed his own. He refused to stand up for his own. Just ask Bettina Arndt, Craig Kelly, Christian Porter, Andrew Laming and Alan Tudge. It’s a long list of those who Morrison knifed. And the creme de la creme? His handling of the Higgins allegations.
I suppose I should give him credit for this resignation, at least he’s waited and it should mean the Liberals easily win Cook, but we will see.
Woollies aren’t making decisions based on customers or shareholders.
It’s about a very small group of people doing something they can point to on their resume when they are applying for their post Woollies career.
These are people who want to be consultants & board members.
Not something meaningful or useful.
And definitely not productive.
So BRADBURY has, at last, found a mug company to better the “trough” .. set to announce his resignation and collect the lifetime rip-off from the vote-herd …!
At the same time Australia is back to the same old retarded arguments over income tax rates where the intelligent solution is to tax income less and assets more.
The intelligent solution is for government to be trimmed back and spend less. Actually viciously and vigorously pruned would be better.
Traveller files formal complaint after Virgin Australia flight attendant wears Palestinian flag pin on domestic flight
A Jewish-Australian grandmother has filed a formal complaint with Virgin Australia after a flight attendant “intimidated” her by donning a Palestinian flag onboard a flight to Melbourne.
Stacey Eldridge – Digital Reporter
A male Virgin Australia flight attendant has been blasted for serving passengers onboard a flight from the Gold Coast to Melbourne over the weekend while wearing a Palestinian flag pin.
A 64-year-old Jewish passenger, who requested not to be named for privacy reasons, told NCA NewsWire she felt “intimidated” by the divisive political statement.
The Melbourne woman said she was travelling home with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren on a 12:55pm flight on Sunday when she spotted the male cabin crew member donning the flag beside his name badge.
The woman, who has since filed a complain with the airline, said she felt the need to hide her Star of David bracelet.
“I felt the need to hide that lest I get treated differently or drawn into some kind of conversation with the male crew member,” she said.
“On a holiday flight with my daughter-in-law and grandsons, this was not what I was expecting I felt intimidated.”
The passenger said she has requested the airline advise staff that during this “current time of high political conflict” wearing a “political symbol on a flights is not permitted”.
A Virgin Australia spokesperson told SkyNews.com.au it was aware of the incident and it would provide a direct response to the passenger upon the conclusion of its investigation.
“Virgin Australia is aware of this complaint and is investigating the alleged incident.”
The spokesperson added that staff can wear flag pins of other nations if they are fluent in that country’s language.
“Virgin Australia allows team members who speak a language other than English to wear a flag pin issued by Virgin Australia to assist guests who may need language assistance,” the airline’s spokesperson said in a statement.
Virgin Australia isn’t the only Aussie airline to come under fire over its staff donning Palestinian flag pins.
Australian Jewish Association CEO Robert Gregory called for a group of QantasLink cabin crew to be sacked after they all allegedly wore the pins on a December 20 flight from Melbourne to Hobart.
One young passenger, who is not Jewish, told Sky News reporter Caroline Marcus that he felt incredibly uncomfortable by the crew’s stunt, given the extremism and aggressiveness of some pro-Palestinian protesters in recent months.
“If employees are found to be using their roles for political activism while passengers are essentially captive in the air, they should be dismissed,” Mr Gregory said.
“These incidents aren’t isolated and Qantas management should address the divisive political activism coming from their staff.”
Tennis Australia headed up by a Seth Efrican, CA headed up by a Pom. Our 2 most woke sports orgs, after the GayFL.
Indigenous cricket stars Ash Gardner and Scott Boland have both criticised the decision to play on January 26, describing it as a national day of mourning.
Fuk ’em. They can strip, go to the Simpson desert and throw their walla wallas instead.
I do look back, and I see that I receive more downticks and more consistently than any other commenter, and certainly far more than any other woman. I do think that an unpleasant narrative is in operation, one which rises from some subterranean depths of this place’s history at regular intervals (parallels in form to other such denigrations, such is human nature and group psychology). It is a denigration about my age and my situation in life that I do not deserve, for am not, as is howled, particularly self-serving, nor narcissistic. I am just an active commenter. As a woman, wife, mother, academic, and maker of her own luck. Of course I defend myself. And I stay here rather than be driven off. You don’t let such people as the downtickers win. Ever.
Sigh!!
So, Scumbag is departing politics.
Nicely said , Cassie but add more venom next time.
ScoMo should open a consultancy with Krudd.
How to financially rape future generations pty ltd.
feelthebern
Jan 23, 2024 2:11 PM
I’m all for raising the tax free threshold.
I’d like to see some modelling if that was raised 0.5% per year for the next 5 years.
With the more money they take they will spend the lot. And if that it is not enough, they will borrow more to cover the outrageous spending. Now, who voted for that.
Australia’s National Debt is now around 1.8 Trillion South Pacific pesos. What has Australia got for that? SFA I would think. Just a shed load of DEBT.
Zafiro
Jan 23, 2024 10:26 AM
That Chris Bowen idiot. I would drop a nuclear bomb on his electorate (SW Sydney?).
Take your politics and what not seriously folks.
Hold on a moment there, due to some creative redrawing of electoral boundaries I am now in his electorate and not ready to go yet.
I can live with that ..! After 30 years of being stuck in McMahon I was moved into Dai Le territory .. Quite laffable, really .. I live in Fairfield council area, it’s twice as far to Liverpool than Fairfield and other than passing thru when bike riding I never go there but I get to vote for the Liverpool member ..! (I’d use the electorate title but I’d have to look it up 1st .. LOL!)
Dr Faustus on Scomo:
Chuckle!
SITREP 1/20/24: Russian Gains Resume as Holidays End
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
21 JAN 2024
Things are—or have been—in a bit of a lull in Ukraine, owing to the holiday rotations being carried out all over the front. But, particularly on the Avdeevka front, those rotations have reportedly finished and full attacks have resumed. This has led to the immediate advancement of Russian forces, and capture of new areas.
The most speculative of the reports states that Russian advance scout forces have captured several buildings in District 9 of southwestern Avdeevka. They are reportedly able to cross that no man’s land of fields from Vodiane to the first urban stronghold, but this may be a tenuous probing action from which they may withdraw:
At the northern side Russian forces barely managed to progress to the middle of Stepove and have been stopped there by fierce defense from the Ukrainian 47th brigade.
Highlighting Russia’s inability to move past there was a much-discussed video of two Bradleys ambushing and defeating a Russian T-90M, which demonstrated the superiority of the elite 47th’s tactics in this area. They are using very quick scoot-and-shoot tactics which utilize the Bradley’s mobility to good effect, while the Russian advances here have been a bit sclerotic and pedantic in their inability to create novel approaches or use tactical creativity. The fact that the T-90M was caught out in the open by itself with no support just further demonstrates the lackluster tactics in this area.
For my readers only I have the world exclusive of the full combined videos from every available angle. First is Ukraine’s own ‘creative edit’ made to cherry pick their highlights:
Ultimately, it simply shows that no tank is invincible given poor tactics or when it’s outsmarted and ambushed from multiple sides.
This is not to mention that the tank was never even destroyed but rather disabled, and can likely be towed and easily repaired.
In fact, it demonstrates the hardiness of the tank as it was waylaid by Bradleys for a quarter of an hour without even taking major damage; that’s quite a feat.
But what it does unfortunately reveal, is Ukraine’s superiority in the ‘ring generalship’ of that corridor.
Not only were Ukrainian FPVs hitting the T-90M while Russian FPVs appeared to be absent, leaving the Bradleys free to roam, but Ukraine had situational awareness from various observational drones which produced the videos above.
The Russian side on the other hand apparently had little such integration because if they did, the T-90M would not have walked into such an ambush: they would have had the situational awareness to see where the enemies were at all times, relaying that to the tank crew.
This further corresponds to some of the reports from the area, citing precisely the above—lack of coordination, lack of the ability to suppress the enemy’s positions, etc.
One of the reasons explaining the disparity is that Ukraine has its most elite and best-equipped 47th as well as some of its most elite special forces units: Omega, 8th Special Purpose Regiment, and several others.
This is specifically on the Stepove front, rather than all of Avdeevka. These high level and likely NATO-mercenary-backed units are going up against a middling ‘Russian’ formation of mostly DPR units, as well as what some consider the ‘expendable dregs’ of Storm-Z penal battalions.
The deficiencies here are highlighted by this video from days ago of the main supply route running to Avdeevka. Ignore the June date, that’s an AI mistranslation and should be January 10th, 2024:
Fiiine we’ll change the date of Australia Day. October 14th is my first and final offer.
At the same time Australia is back to the same old retarded arguments over income tax rates where the intelligent solution is to tax income less and assets more.
No that is not the intelligent solution.
The intelligent solution is for the profits of extortion (known as taxation) to be spent on improving the welfare and life of the extorted, not pissed up a vanity wall by ignorant morons (commonly referred to as politicians)
But that will never happen with the so called polly class we are saddled with
Ash Gardner – promised to one of the tribal elders at birth, married at puberty, pregnant soon after. After five or six children, and her husband tired of her, she would be passed on to the young men of the tribe. When she could no longer keep up with the tribe, after a life of near slavery, she would be left behind to die when the tribe moved on……
Not much time for cricket…
Greg Abbott
________________________________________________________
Makka
Jan 23, 2024 2:19 PM
Tennis Australia headed up by a Seth Efrican, CA headed up by a Pom. Our 2 most woke sports orgs, after the GayFL.
Just blame Multiculturalism –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism
Come on down the Australian Feral Guv’ments and let in more and more rag heads.
SITREP 1/22/24: Major Breakthroughs as AFU Defense Collapses in Avdeevka
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
23 JAN 2024
As soon as Russian troops resumed their attacks after holiday rotations, AFU’s defenses in Avdeevka have begun to seriously collapse.
Russian forces continue to do far better in urban environments where there is cover. In the open steppes of north Avdeevka, they are quite brutally repulsed with some of the worst carnage I’ve seen of the war thus far. But in the conurbanation of the south, they move smoothly forward.
Interestingly, a video emerged yesterday of a Russian soldier speaking on just that: the differences between fighting in open fields or in urban environments.
While he lists pros and cons of each, he seems to prefer urban for the easier cover. Wagner likewise found this to be true in and around Bakhmut.
Firstly, Ukrainian comms were intercepted in the south of Avdeevka around this Tsar’s Hunt area. The exchanges point to heavy problems, a lot of dead and wounded amongst the AFU, as well as anger and disagreement with the command staff:
Secondly, as Russian forces moved up, several batches of AFU surrendered, seemingly corroborating the disintegration of their lines hinted at in the radio exchanges above. Here, the Russian 80th Regiment troops of the 90th Guards Tank Division take in their haul of POWs in Avdeevka:
The Globalists’ New Weapon
To my embarrassment, I’ve not remembered which Catallaxian wrote this about Slomo:
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It’s not as LOL as you think. Domestically, the US isn’t much impacted compared to China and Europe. On balance there’s a possibility the US is doing better because of increase oil&gas exports to the Euroweenies.
In any event, the tootsies received another gift overnight, with US bombing raid. I wonder what this does to their dance routine?
Did Virgin Australia mistakenly issue a flag pin for a non existent nation and language?
The substantial raising of the tax free threshold was one of the only good things to come from Krudd.
However, the productivity commission had touted the policy for at least a few years prior.
Howard couldn’t get his head around it thinking of the business suburban accountants would miss out on.
Reaction To Icehouse – Great Southern Land (This Is Australia)
Ukraine Is Losing the Drone War
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-losing-drone-war-eric-schmidt
For now, drones are most heavily concentrated along the frontlines in eastern Ukraine. When asked to identify the best tank-killing weapon in their arsenals, Ukrainian commanders of all ranks give the same answer: first-person-view drones, which pilots on the ground maneuver while watching a live feed from an onboard camera. These drones have made tank-on-tank engagement a thing of the past. A Ukrainian battle commander also told me that FPV drones are more versatile than an artillery barrage at the opening of an attack. In a traditional attack, shelling must end as friendly troops approach the enemy trench line. But FPVs are so accurate that Ukrainian pilots can continue to strike Russian targets until their fellow soldiers are mere yards away from the enemy.
THE TIDE TURNS
In other ways, however, Kyiv has lost its advantages in the drone war. Russian forces have copied many of the tactics that Ukraine pioneered over the summer, including waging large coordinated attacks that use multiple types of drones.
First, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance drones hover high above the ground to survey the battlefield and identify targets from afar.
They then relay the enemy’s location to pilots operating low-flying, highly maneuverable FPV drones, which can launch precision strikes against both stationary and moving targets, all from a safe distance from the frontline. After these drones eliminate initial targets, military vehicles fight through minefields to begin the ground assault.
Since late 2022, Russia has used a combination of two domestically produced drones, the Orlan-10 (a surveillance drone) and the Lancet (an attack drone), to destroy everything from high-value artillery systems to combat jets and tanks. Ukraine surpassed Russia in drone attacks early in the conflict, but it has no combination of drones that match Russia’s dangerous new duo.
At the same time that the Orlan-Lancet team has become decisive in battle, Russia’s superior electronic warfare capabilities allow it to jam and spoof the signals between Ukrainian drones and their pilots.
If Ukraine is to neutralize Russian drones, its forces will need the same capabilities. A limited number of Ukrainian brigades have acquired jamming equipment from U.S. suppliers or domestic startups. Without it, the combination of Russian attack drones and Russian jamming of Ukrainian drones threatens to push Ukrainian forces back into the territory that they fought so hard to free early in the war.
Most Western-supplied weapons have fared poorly against Russia’s antiaircraft systems and electronic attacks.
When missiles and attack drones are aimed at Russian sites, they are often spoofed or shot down. U.S. weapons in particular can often be thwarted via GPS jamming.
A small number of U.S. F-16 fighter jets are set to arrive in Ukraine later this year, and they should quickly get to work targeting Russia’s own jets, which are currently devastating Ukrainian defenses with guided bombs.
But it is not clear how even the F-16s will perform amid active electronic warfare and against the long-range missiles deployed by Russian aircraft.
Russian forces have copied many of the tactics that Ukraine pioneered.
And I stay here rather than be driven off. You don’t let such people as the downtickers win. Ever.
Nicely said, Lizzie. Just remember, you have people here who know, like and respect you.
They do not want an Australia Day. Full stop.
The closest date to acceptance would be 29 Feb….
Scott Morrison to resign from parliament. Will anyone notice?
Thanks Indolent;
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-globalists-new-weapon/
Ahah! Those conspiracy theorists, again. Disease X.
Cheers P
Great song.
Dr. John Campbell
Heart disease press release
A bit late – the prick should have done that years ago.
God alone knows what value he would bring to a ‘global strategic advising firm’:
– A Roladex of contacts within the Australian Government? Snork!
– Entre to the Opposition Halls of Power? Ho, ho, ho.
– A CV brimming with strategic success? Double snork!!
– Scotty from Marketing? Who the Bloody Hell would pay for that?
Just a name on a list. Or a string of lists. each on a $50,000 pa retainer.
Just in case someone wants ‘strategic advice’ on how to farque up a reasonable commodity-based economy.
Cyclone porn is ubiquitous early for the current spinner.
The ABC has already wiped out the East Coast and the giggling clowns on commercial are doing their best to terrify the easily duped.
May tomcats piss on their pillows.
OldOzzie
Jan 23, 2024 2:34 PM
SITREP 1/20/24: Russian Gains Resume as Holidays End
Thanks OldOzzie but there is no way that the UKR can win this war as the UKR is no more. It is just being propped up by Western money and guns that the West can no longer afford.
Time for a Peace settlement. If that idiot Blinken can go to Israel and talk about a cease fire he can go to the UKR and do the very same. But he won’t as he is a Neo Con. And a Con Artist at that. They hate Russia.
“On Australia Day, there will be an acknowledgement that the day has different meanings to different people”
For God’s sake, the only other meaning it could possibly have is ‘Invasion Day’. If that’s not nailing your colours to the mast, I don’t know whaat it is.
to assist guests who may need language assistance,” the airline’s spokesperson said in a statement.
Nope, that’s bullshit. Last year I had an altercation with David Jones management about this. It was early last year and I went to purchase something, the young man was wearing a Palestinian flag pin. I was rather taken aback and so I asked the young man why he was wearing that particular flag (I knew why). He replied to me “because I am Palestinian”. I was astonished and I said to him “but aren’t you Australian?”. We stared at each other, without a doubt he knew I was Jewish and I felt threatened. It was uncomfortable. Afterwards I spoke to DJ’s management, who insisted it was about “language” to which I said “rubbish”, wearing that flag is a political statement. And then I asked the DJ’s manager, do you allow your staff to wearing an Australian flag pin? Silence ensued.
I’ve just been to DJs and bought some lingerie. Nothing about Oz Day….yet the store is now bedecked with Chinese New Year decorations.
As for Pat Cummins, he can go get F*CKED.
bons
Jan 23, 2024 2:55 PM
Cyclone porn is ubiquitous early for the current spinner.
This is where the smarts get their accurate Weather from. And it is not the ‘Bunch of Muppets’ – BoM. Lol –
https://inigojoneslongtermweatherforecaster.com/
Indigenous advisory board
Did CA in their woke wisdom consult others? Such as, say,:
Irish Convicts Advisory Board
Australian Cricket Fans Advisory Board
Virgin Australia can issue a pin that says “I speak XXXXX” in the appropriate language, no flag required.
Barking Toad
Jan 23, 2024 3:02 PM
Indigenous advisory board
How about the First Fleet Advisory Board and the Royal Navy in 1788. The French had missed their chance. Good Job to.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 67 Meet the man who made Adam Kinzinger cry. Catturd in the flesh.
FMD. A blast from the past I’d much rather not have had.
Late 2019 was all looking pretty solid, great team, interesting projects. By 2023 I was back to contract work keeping explorationists alive in the field and sleeping in a swag on the tray of a ute.
Time for an uplifting McWilliams Royal Reserve.
I demand a Woodstock cans advisory board to eradicate eny trace fo xxxx from the planet.
Yes, Sal, and I admire you for that.
Thanks for your supportive words.
What I find sort of silly as that there is no England Day in England. There is St George’s Day but there is no day off or flag waving and silly cheap crap being sold at Super Markets.
There is not even a day off for the King even now. In Australia, there was always the Queens Birthday Celebrations.
Never in Pomgolia though.
Baba
Jan 23, 2024 3:11 PM
Jew hater. Confirmed.
My tipple for times of allergy and general feeling-offness and for nostalgic recherche du temps perdu is Stone’s Green Ginger Wine.
Nothing like a substantial nip of it to raise your eyebrows as it hits the nose and throat.
The First Fleet landed in Botany Bay on the 18th January so technically January 26th cannot really be considered invasion Day.
If the local population don’t like the 26th when Philip planted the flag in a more hospitable spot then let’s make it the 18th instead.
My understanding, and I may be well off the mark*, was that 26th January 1947 was when my Brit born parents along with every other permanent residents on the contintent became Oz citizens, not British ones. Including the indigenous ones.
The 1988 bicentennial celebrations cemented it on people’s minds as the day to celebrate. And here we are.
As someone has already pointed out. It would not matter which day we chose instead it would still piss off the permanently aggrieved. Put it to a plebiscite at the next election, go with what the majority wants, and everyone else, including the man who plays cricket for a living, shut up about it forever more.
*Story my pommy nanna told me
Are the pruning and shaping terms confused?
I think it goes like this:-
Pollarding. Hacking the tops and current years growth out of the top.
Pleaching. Pruning the bottom and curating the top to look like a hedge on stilts.
Coppicing. Cutting nearly through vertical growth and laying it down and entwining it to make a low dense hedge.
Calli will no doubt correct me.
The Chinese are absolutely loving this situation. It draws US power away from the Western Pacific while also drawing down stocks of expensive munitions like Tomahawks. And potentially ensnares the Us in a trap.
Oh dear.
Jihad Dibb?Seriously , we have elected a politician called “Jihad”?
This is it in a nutshell. Different treatment based on politics/race/creed. Now, the flight attendant might have not worn the pin and still treated the passenger differently, but it is her perception that is important, as she is the customer.
The hiding of Magen David or Cross is not unusual. There have been places I have visited where I have been advised not to wear one. But not in Sydney. Ever. Yet now there are women in this country who hesitate to wear their Star of David. It’s a disgrace.
On calling “victim”…I have been mocked for over fifty years for being a Christian. School, work, social groups, extended family. Some of it is overt and rather unpleasant, some sly and going under the cover of church hatred. Water off a duck’s back, because I have never felt physically threatened. That is where the anti-Semitic stuff right now is leading us.
Sancho Johnson is right!
And then there’s espaliering (pinning your tree to a wall), topiary (cutting your tree into shapes) and hedging (turning your trees into a uniform barrier).
Coppicing is also done for commercial timber – long, skinny wands of branches as opposed to hedge “laying” to produce an impenetrable barrier, only for the hard as nails gardener. Fun fact – one of the murder weapons on the Midsommer Murders preview is a hedging tool.
Baba
Jan 23, 2024 3:11 PM
Who is this fukwit.
My understanding, and I may be well off the mark*, was that 26th January 1947 was when my Brit born parents along with every other permanent residents on the contintent became Oz citizens, not British ones. Including the indigenous ones.
You are correct,Megan. A local farmer in our valley decided to research it for himself (good on him!) & put the results on our valley Facebook site. Although locals applauded it, it attracted all the greenie ratbags who deplored the support for “Australia Day”. Unfortunately, our valley is a Mecca for opinionated greenie bushwalkers who plague the fabulous cliffs and walks overlooking the farmland. They think they bl—dy own the place & are constantly on our Facebook website moaning about any land clearing and the plight of native birds – which all of. us, incidentally, value.
Eeeeeugh. It stinks of something rotten when you do that.
See. Your. Dentist. Or Psychiatrist.
Then stop playing the national game of the invaders you inconsistent hypocrites.
One for calli.
Woddenhead, you really need to stop talking about financial stuff. In fact you really need to stop plastering the site with useless, simpleton swill. On third thoughts, you need to STFU for all time.
You imbecile, the Yuan is pegged to the US Dollar and China runs a trade surplus with the US. It has no choice but to accumulate US Dollar holdings for these two reasons. Now, the trade relationship is heading down, which is the reason dollar holdings are falling, but until the Yuan remains pegged they have no real choice.
Go check out the latest ladyboy catalogue and leave everyone in peace, you fatmouth useless dunce.
Me lroves you rong time, Wodney. Don’t forgret.
I usually forget how debilitatingly annoying is dealing with government and public servants until a fell alignment of the bureaucratic planets (accompanied by the soul-sapping grinding of the spheres) conspire to set me on a collision course with them.
I had to go to the local council to get a JP to sign a document. It would seem the halcyon days of the local pharmacist signing as JP while you stole glances at the assistants, who were clearly not chosen for their aptitude with ‘nitrites’ and ‘aminos’ and ‘phenols’, have sadly passed.
So, the process( for, of course, it is better understood as a process rather than delivering a service) to access a JP at the council is that the JP is only there on certain days and between 2:00 and 3:00, you have to book, and you can only book on the day. You cannot book ahead.
So I called at 8:35 – 5 minutes after the staff stir from their scientifically induced hibernated states in the morning and booked and got…2:00!
I turn up at 1:50 to say I had an appointment at 2:00, thinking I could sit for 10 minutes. (Actually, I thought they said to aim for 10 minutes early which seems an easy way to make sure people running 10 minutes late are actually on time and the schedule for others not impacted. But I may have misheard.)
Having explained to the woman at reception that I was there for a 2:00 appointment she said “You’re early. You will have to go out and come back in 10 minutes.”
She looked at me quite steadily until I discerned what looked like the nascent curl of a smile but which I now realise was probably just a glitch in the algorithm.
She was deadly serious that I should go wondering about for 10 minutes outside and come back bang on 2:00.
When I came back exactly then it seemed to take her a moment to remember who I was like – it seemed to me – as if this was the most typical situation, and telling people to sod off outside rather than sit in empty seats in the lobby while penitential minutes ticked away was the most ordinary part of the job.
This was the imperious mistress of the rugged marches of…reception!
Where the hell do they find these people?
Good news is that I have signed up to a support group for people who have had to fill forms and run the gauntlet of supervisors’ signatures. There is even a little poem to open meetings!
May have been the case for all born in Australia, but us furriners from Britain still had to apply for Australian citizenship. You parents may have done some form filling. We arrived here as Brits in 1946 and I had a British passport until1968 when I applied for and got Citizenship here. I had married an Australian by then. This was long after I had received my Commonwealth Scholarship in 1964. My mum died a British citizen; she never, to my knowledge, had an Australian passport, though she went to the US and UK to visit each of her sisters later in her life.
I still retain dual Citizenship, British and Australians, and find it handy to have two passports, depending on the politics of where I am travelling.
St Louis Fed
US imports have fallen by about US$15 billion annually since 2018
Oh dear, mother lode, I am currently gearing up for an almighty row with our council and the very thought of the bureaucratic deadlock of it gives me the true tom-tits.
Beautifully evoked to ready me for it though, so thankx.
Bongino looks at the Jan 6 pipe bomb plant and the FBI cover up. It was so obvious that the demorats planned Jan 6 but what is disturbing is that some folk still believe the insurrection crap and that Trump in a way let himself be sucked in.
Dr Faustus: I’m sorry. It was your summation of Morrison that caught my focus. Sorry for activating a compartmentalised memory. It wasn’t immediately clear that you were writing that in first person.
Slomo will be sleeping easy, knowing that he has taught you ‘resilience’ and that he did a “Good Job” over lockdowns.
I know that if I get a chance to teach Slomo similar ‘resilience’ I too shall sleep very easily afterward, while he copes with sleeping on the tray of a ute.
Presumably many others feel as I do about administering some ‘resilience’ to Scomo.
Me lroves you rong time, Wodney. Don’t forgret.
You 2 timing swine. I’ll sue you for breach of promise.
Johnny Rotten
Jan 23, 2024 12:47 PM
In another 100 years, Islam will have swallowed the West and given a burp. Then it will look at Russia as a mint wafer.
They are playing the long game, and with the aid of our treacherous Elites, and their women’s wombs, they will win.
Game one has already been fought, with lashings of paperwork, and supporting evidence and even a visit, and they think they have won. They are wrong. I will tell youse all about it but not now as my strategies and tactics might be foiled by any inadvertent foreknowedge of my dastardly intended modes of attack. Currently they think I am a little old lady. Their mistake. They haven’t met me yet. Even if I lose, I will win, because their discombobulation will be extreme.
Well, that’s today’s plan, anyway.
I am in a don’t let the bastards grind you down mood. 🙂
Can’t get over this sudden interest in Hutt River Province stamps on Ebay .. same dealer as last week listed a 2nd lot of HR .. mix of stamps & envelopes .. nothing out of the ordinary .. probably, by my estimation, worth $10/$15 at best and sold for $52 after 22 bids …. I’m guessing the trick is combining multi items as one auction .. the average seller(s) of HR tend to list as single items starting around $3.95 and only occasionally get a bite.
If only I needed the money/could be bothered to list I could make a killing .. lotza HR in my left-overs box …..
Naaaah .. 2nd thoughts! .. I’d have to sort thru 4kgs worth of bods & sods stamps most worth a sight more than HR, anyway ……..!
Cronkite, Like you, Millei appears to be a lover, not a fighter.
Inside the ‘explosive’ love life of Argentinian President Javier Milei and Fátima Flórez
The piece says at one time he was practicing tantric sex:
Jeez Louis.
Makka
Jan 23, 2024 12:52 PM
No, Makka. It couldn’t possibly be that.
You know why?
Because Diversity is Our Strength.
I think I’ll rig up the Patrol with a PA system and turn it up in a posh suburb on Australia Day at 5am.
It’s Fajr Time!
I noticed the local RSL’s foyer was decked out for Chinese New Year when I was there yesterday.
It is located in a suburb with a very large Chinese population, many of whom patronise the RSL.
Can’t recall any Australian day bunting though.
Islam have made numerous unsuccessful attempts to swallow the West.
There is now push back on the continent.
Anglosphere, not so much.
hzhousewife
Given the number of nations that speak Arabic, I can see the possibility of major financial savings. One pin covers many nations.
Ditto for English.
The woman, who has since filed a complain with the airline, said she felt the need to hide her Star of David bracelet.
“I felt the need to hide that lest I get treated differently or drawn into some kind of conversation with the male crew member,” she said.
“On a holiday flight with my daughter-in-law and grandsons, this was not what I was expecting I felt intimidated.”
Have to admit when I 1st read both this one & last week’s pin debacle not being Jewish I never thought about the personal side of the issue only the look-at-me selfishness of the wearer(s) ….
But, yep, when you realise the personal affect on someone it is a bloody disgrace! .. these crew members should be sacked .. if for no better reason than the paying customer is, supposedly, the main priority of any business .. Staff who frighten customers are in the wrong job and management should take very firm measures …
AS an aside and I’m not any expert on law, but shirley this sort of thing could be a, potential, compensation claim …….
3 BOM Addresses to bookmark as they are not easy to find now
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/stations.txt
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/stations.txt
Station Numbers from above then use here
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/?ref=ftr
eg Station 086071 Melbourne Regional Office from 1 May 1855 till 5 January 2015
Station 86338 Melbourne Olympic Park 1 June 2013 to Current
JC
Jan 23, 2024 3:42 PM
As the Blog’s Fat Pizza self appointed Milk Monitor. Keep up the BS.
Love,
Marty
Ghod I hope not, given the near uselessness of cholesterol testing or lowering in heart disease
I suspect that much of his electorate is committed to the concept.
Wodney, I’m genuinely sorry you feel that way. I was correcting your absurdly stupid and simplistic comment and rather than thanking me, you take that attitude. Nasty and tardy.
And for Junior Cretin and the Fat Pizza people – Cronies –
The Plan for Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
“Unelected globalists at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have been working on the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for the past decade, which is step one for the digital ID system.
“Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is a shared means to many ends. It is a critical enabler of digital transformation and is helping to improve public service delivery at scale. Designed and implemented well, it can help countries achieve their national priorities and accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. Governments, donors, the private sector and civil society alike have an opportunity to shape it – join us!”
Per usual, they are marketing this program as a convenient way for the modern-day man to access documents. Using the data from DPI, 100 countries are expected to progress toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
“Following the G20 Leaders Declaration in 2023, Digital Public Infrastructure is a key breakthrough that gives the momentum needed to change course and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, across all 17 SDGs. As new technologies advance at an exponential rate, there is an acute opportunity for entire communities to benefit from a growing array of life-changing digital solutions — from digital cash transfers to e-health – given proper investments in their own DPI.”
The plan is to track absolutely everyone, including the 2.6 billion people who do have access to the internet. Forget clean water, food, or shelter – let’s waste resources to compile their data. Speaking of resources, they are already requesting more funding since the pandemic “widened the annual SDG financing gap in developing countries from $2.5 trillion to $3.9 trillion, and similarly, available funds for DPI fall short of the escalating global needs.” Yes, trillion.
The program will even enable the globalists to completely censor the news. They said that this will tackle misinformation during elections, or rather, another tool for propaganda.
None other than Bill Gates has a hand in this madness. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting the “50 in 5” program that aims to help 50 countries develop their own DPI by 2028.
DPI will enable the globalists to promote SDG in the following ways:
SDG1 No Poverty: DPI could lead to a cycle of increased economic resilience, added job opportunities and reduced poverty levels to help as many as 670 million people (or 8.4 per cent of the world population) living in extreme poverty.
SDG5 Gender Equality: DPI could enhance service delivery to more than 250 million women.
SDG8 Decent Work and Economic Growth: Enabling DPI can bring access to financial institutions for more than two billion people who do not have a bank account.
SDG13 Climate Action: Using DPI for common Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems and interlinking carbon registries can reduce CO2 emissions equal to 3–4 percent of current LMICs’ emission reduction targets.
This is absurd. They want us to believe that they could eliminate poverty entirely by forcing every nation to hand over complete control to an unknown few. They want gender equality, but wait – what’s a woman? The only economic growth they see from this project is further taxation that will never benefit the people. Of course, they have to throw in climate change since that’s the main cash grab scare tactic.
Don’t you see? All of the world’s problems could be resolved if you abandoned your freedoms.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/wef/the-plan-for-digital-public-infrastructure-dpi/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Cohenite,
Baba is a rum soaked pudding that looks like a dick.
An apt description.
JC
Jan 23, 2024 4:15 PM
What a Pompous Windbag full of self importance you are. Sad really but then again you are from Sictoria,
My understanding, and I may be well off the mark*, was that 26th January 1947 was when my Brit born parents along with every other permanent residents on the contintent became Oz citizens, not British ones. Including the indigenous ones.
Australia enacted the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 to create its own citizenship, which came into force on 26 January 1949,[43] shortly after the British Nationality Act 1948 became effective throughout the Empire on 1 January 1949.[44] All British subjects who were born, naturalised, or resident for at least five years in Australia automatically acquired Australian citizenship on that date.[36][45] British subjects born to a father who himself was born or naturalised in Australia[36] and British subject women who were married to someone qualifying as an Australian citizen also automatically acquired citizenship on that date.[46]
British Boogie Woogie Pianist Confronted by CCP Amidst Livestream: X Has Thoughts (and Encouragement)
Whole link here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_nationality_law
One for Bespoke. And echoing Rosie’s recurring travel nightmare.
JC
Jan 23, 2024 4:15 PM
I am a realist.
You are just a Blog Bully with a Big Gob. NFI otherwise.
Wodger:
Yep. Noted.
But I’m waiting for expulsion of entire families to happen. After all, if entire families can come in, why not entire families deported?
Absolutely no need to apologise.
Came as a bit of a shock scrolling down. I wrote those words at a time of stress and irritation as my partners and I tried to land a crashing business without killing all on board.
I now bumble about in Zen-like calm and acceptance.
But I still loathe Morrison for his smug incompetence.
Wodney, For around 28 years, I traded currencies banks. During each and every one of those years, I and the desks I oversaw generated decent revenue. I’ve never had a down year. However, your hero Marty lost $700 million in client funds while attempting to conceal it- (trading currencies too I might add). He was convicted of fraud and served an 11-year sentence in Leavenworth prison. But while you’re blowing the trumpet (pun intended) of that objectionable fraud, you call me names.
What is the lowest you can go?
The Feds balance sheet continues to shrink.
Meaning they are not a net buyer of anything.
Possibly more important than the rate hikes and not many people give this much importance.
Schwarzman reckons they’ve already hit target, only their data isn’t as current as it should be.
I posted the vid last evening.
1. Large firms are telling them their cost of goods has zeroed.
2. Labor costs are down to about 1% growth
3. Shelter was a big reason for the inflation rate last quarter registered ~4% in rental increases. Now it’s down to 1%. Blackstone is the US’s largest landlord in housing.
He could be talking his book.
OldOzzie
What doesn’t seem to come up very often – and honestly I’ve never heard it before but someone has to have thought of it – a taxi is on call 24 hours a day. When the fuel tank is low, it takes ten minutes to fill it and off you go. With an EV Taxi, it takes what? 7 hours? to recharge it.
So an electric Taxi is almost one third less productive than an ICE taxi, no?
Why would a taxi company bother?
What a slime? He hung around just long enough until he found a trough bigger than the one he had in parliament. What’s more, any organisation that takes his advice should be avoided like the plague as it will be the most unethical out there.
I hope Craig Kelly runs for his seat.
Stone’s Green Ginger Wine
At boarding school the father of a day rat used to sneak a bottle into the sheds at halftime of the U15s to ward off the chill from Bass Strait wind.
We always played a strong second half.
Johnny Rotten
Me too, JR.
1066 Robert Sewell.
But I’ve forgotten if I took my tablets this morning.*
*Which is why I take a multivitamin tablet each day with them – the vitamin B colours my urine and by the time it’s finished doing that, it’s evening and too late to take them anyway.
Hints for Old Farts – in its 4th reprint. Or it’s 7th. I forget. And what the Hell are all these boxes in my garage?
Bespoke,
the video of the slopes monstering the piano player was surreal. I watched all of the contretemps. Couldn’t look away. Definitely a preview of our future. Also a sad example of what Policing in western countries has sunk to.
As a matter of principle, this would mean that a gay customer or a Palestinian customer could argue the same, that an employee wearing a Cross or Star of David necklace, respectively, made them subjectively feel uneasy or threatened.
Johnny Rotten:
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Robert Sewell
Jan 23, 2024 1:34 PM
Johnny Rotten
Jan 23, 2024 11:49 AM
The perhaps you’d like to explain why it’s rubbish? I’d really like to believe it won’t happen, but it looks like being the only outcome.
Flórez did not shy away from addressing Milei’s outrageous boasts about his sexual prowess, including the former tantric instructor saying he could abstain from climaxing for three months
That’s nothing; in some family law disputes I know some guys who have abstained from climaxing for years.
Is there a war on with gays at present? Are Christians chucking them off buildings?
Bugger the formatting. I hate this setup – I’d much rather tree format.
But it wouldn’t have the same effect, it becomes utilitarian while the flag pin is political.
A gay customer would (or should) also feel threatened by people wearing Palestinian flag pins, and cower lest they be thrown off a building or hung from a crane.
This might surprise people but as at the end of December, US corporate net interest payments were the lowest they’ve been since 1978.
The reason being was almost all of them refinanced when official rates were zero.
The percentage of Australian corporates that did the same…embarrassingly low.
So even though the Fed started hiking in March 2022, net interest payments have continued to fall as at Dec 2023.
This is why a lot of executives in the US are worth every penny.
And why a lot of executives in Oz are obscenely overpaid.
To add to my previous comment, the pin that says “I speak Arabic” has no political connotations while a Palestinian flag pin does.
It was a staff member making a statement. It should be natural territory.
Another tough night in Ukraine by all reports. Missiles incoming.
The people at Sky were giggling that KRudd was the only officially appointed Australian at Davos.
How wrong they were, one of the most dangerous people on the planet was there in her capacity as Australia’s E Safety Commissioner.
Julie Inman Grant, WEF executive, ex-Twitter, Microsoft government affairs fixer, hard left fascist. Passed up by a number of particularly radical organisations, but appointed by the Trot to destroy free speech in Australia.
People do not understand the extent of the little Trot’s totalitarian intentions. Inman Grant is the greatest existing threat to Australian society. She makes Bowen look like a harmless short pants communist.
Dover
The gay customer might be rather more concerned about a staffer wearing a Palestine flag, particularly in an aircraft.
More seriously, is Christian harassment of gays much of a thing these days?
Lifeline in the Northern Beaches flying the Flag for Australia Day.
Bravo to the mostly volunteers who work there.
KD
Snap re gay customers and Palestine flag pins.
Were the flag pins issued by Virgin Australia, or did the spokesperson lie?
As far as I can see airline staff aren’t allowed to wear visible necklaces or bracelets so the issue doesn’t arise.
A guy I know in London has a line of credit against one of his properties.
I can’t remember exactly when but his private banker refinanced it along the lines of a million pounds at 0.5% for 3 years.
Which is why it’s great being a customer or staff member of a UK bank, but never a shareholder.
And considering the cozy cartel we have here in Australia, that’s the opposite situation here.
“Sky News host Danica De Giorgio has slammed “woke” Cricket Australia’s decision to scrap Australia Day,”
Then why have an Australian team? You could have a team of random yobs who could play all those games, and frankly, I doubt anyone would notice.
It’s possible, but the difference would be that there’s no objective reason for a gay person to feel threatened by either a Star of David or a Cross because no Jews nor Christians are going around gay bars or bath houses murdering gays like we saw on Oct 7.
The Hamarse/Pali flag (same thing) would be more akin to a Nazi lapel badge and that would be menacing for the reason that Hamarse, like the Nazis have formerly stated they want Jews dead.
Hamarse Covenant:
And
I haven’t seen anything like this from authoritative Jewish and Christian groups, have you?
No plebiscites ever again, think back how the same sex marriage one worked out. If it goes to a vote I want it to be a referendum so that the result has a constitutional weight and no future parliamentary troughers will be able to do anything to change the Australia Day date without another referendum.
Vermont Resettled Somalis, Shootings Are Up 185%
Half the shootings in Burlington, VT were linked to immigrants.
Victoristan went through the same process with suds a few years back.
https://australiandebtclock.com.au/
$1,839,477,???,??? The last 6 numbers were going too fast for me to read.
Salvatore:
Listen to the tin eared bastard who put the economy into the ICU.
Er.. she was appointed e-safety Commissar Seven years ago, during the reign of Malcolm the Unifier.
ScoMo will be given the sweetest of rewards for signing the Australian taxpayer up to the ridiculous subs deal.
The Petstock refusal to celebrate Australia Day becomes clearer.
Woolworths bought 55% of the company a few weeks ago.
Another reason not to shop at Woolies.
Fani Willis Scandal is GETTING WORSE! Sex, Lies, & RICO Corruption? Viva Frei Vlawg
The Georgia indictments were possibly the toughest for Trump, not because they had any substance, they’re junk, but because they were at a state level and exempt from POTUS pardon.
Oh, no! My uptick thingy isn’t working.
They can have all the laws they want but if they are not used it doesn’t matter. I will believe Europeans are serious when they start deporting the troublemakers and/or illegals.
How are you Delta?
Is your anniversary around this time?
The debt clock is questionable.
Last year I think I calculated in Australia that public debt (securities on issue, what we pay interest on, not dopey calculations about liquidations of assets that will likely never occur) was up to 63% of GDP.
You have to go searching for State stuff in clunky PDFs.
COAG, the IC/PC ought to be upfront about all of this.
Like Jay and Silent Bob, I am taking jigaboo and porch monkey OFF the racists.
It’s strange that people criticising my comment about relying on the subjective feelings of the customer did so by reference to what purport to objective differences in the situations.