Tom Stiglich.
Open Thread – Wed 24 Jan 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Sept 2024
- No, Your Holiness, killing babies and border control are not the same
- Open Thread – Weekend 14 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 12 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 9 Sept 2024
Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
Not a difficult achievement given current political talent of both stripes. The Teals are not even in the same galaxy.
Top of page while supervising grandies plus one pool session. Hard work in the Melbourne mugginess..
In shithole New Hampshire.
I like New Hampshire! Magnificent rural properties. Although perhaps topped in physical beauty by Vermont. But only just.
Such an outcome would be a disaster for the whole world. The Obamas would make sure that Iran gets nukes and is the top dog in the Islamic world. Iran would also be allowed to obliterate Israel and to foment an Islamic uprising in Europe.
The other horror would be the whole WEF catalogue of wishes would be enabled. There will be nowhere to hide.
Fun headline.
Even with a whole bunch of Dems crossing the floor to vote for her she was still 10% behind Trump. On-slaughtered more like.
No journalist they/thems, it does not matter how much air you try to pump into Nikki’s tyres it isn’t going to work.
Yep. There is is in writing. (Hairy always asks me if he can have promises in writing, old stickler for the legalities that he is, though he is quickly hushed with a hug).
Hysterical outbursts against me commenting on my family or travels or whatever are no longer on the agenda? That is good news. Let’s call it a new leaf all round.
Proud of my British fortitude, am I. Apparently in South America a British passport stands you in better stead for a visa than an Australian one. Who knew?
I was referencing its deep blueness.
Joe plus 7 in 2020 with no real evidence of rorting.
Unlike AZ, PA and the rest.
Ahem
https://www.libertarians.org.au/low_flat_taxes
Every few years on federal budget night, we are told with much fanfare, income tax cuts are on the way! Since the 1980s these meagre tax cuts have done little more than reign in bracket creep (if that). The most powerful tax cuts are those that are so significant they shift people’s behaviour towards entrepreneurialism. Aside from reducing the debt itself, our Debt and Deficit policy will greatly reduce the size of government, allowing for substantial tax cuts.
Low, Flat Income Tax
A $40,000 tax free threshold, indexed to end bracket creep.
A flat 20% income tax above $40,000.
Our current tax laws are so large and complicated that literally nobody understands (or has even read) all the rules. A low flat income tax will simplify our tax system, making it more equitable, efficient, and transparent. Our tax policy will reduce bureaucratic and compliance costs, reduce complicated tax minimisation and evasion schemes, encourage more investment and more efficient labour supply.
By introducing a high tax-free threshold we will ensure that no low-income worker is required to pay income tax, and we will remove the high effective marginal tax rates which trap some people in a cycle of poverty. By indexing tax brackets we will end the dishonest rort that is bracket creep, where the government quietly increases tax by billions of dollars every year as inflation moves people into higher tax brackets.
Low, Flat Company Tax
A flat company taxation rate of 20% on profit.
Remove company tax on reinvested profits.
The tax cut that brings about the greatest increase in prosperity is a tax cut on business… but it is also the least politically popular. Lower company tax rates would both encourage global firms to base their operations in Australia and enable greater growth of existing local businesses, which will lead to more jobs and higher wages.
Despite its benign-sounding name, company tax is paid by regular people, with most of the cost being passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices or workers in the form of lower wages. A lower company tax would lead to higher wages, lower prices, and stronger economic growth.
By removing company tax on reinvested profits, Australian businesses will have a strong incentive to invest in new capital, which leads directly to higher wages and more jobs. These policies represent the most “pro-worker” policies of any political party in Australia because it ensures more people have jobs and that productivity and wages increase into the future.
The truth of tax cuts is that while they decrease the tax rate (leading to less revenue), they actually increase the tax base (leading to more revenue), and in some instances this can actually result in a net increase in tax revenue. This concept is explained by the Laffer curve, which shows the relationship between tax rates (x-axis) and tax revenue (y-axis). As tax rates increase there is initially an increase in revenue, but if tax rates get too high, then they become counterproductive and they both hurt the economy and also raise less revenue for the government.
Based on dynamic tax modelling, the Libertarians believe that Australian income taxes are currently above the “Laffer Maximum” and need to be slashed to a point well below that maximum.
I’m not judging modern homes by their worst examples but by their best. If you compare the best examples of Victorian, Edwardian, Federation, Queenslander, California Bungalow, Art Deco, and the like, compared with modern homes since the 60s its just no contest. When I lived in Malvern, walking the surrounds of Central Park was always a delight and here we are only talking of buildings constructed mostly through the inter-war period.
Now the crying Bunnings customer gets on the woke with his Capt’n – from the Hun…..
Steve Smith has revealed a conversation with Scott Boland has shaped his view around a potential date change for Australia Day.
A day after Australian captain Pat Cummins said he backed a shift for the controversial public holiday, vice-captain Smith, himself a former Test skipper, provided qualified support for the move.
Smith, speaking at the Gabba on the eve of the second Test against the West Indies, said had recently addressed the matter with teammate Boland, just the second Indigenous man to play Test cricket for Australia.
Pathetic – get a first ball duck sandpaper boy.
Smith is just looking for more gigs post cricket.
Not everyone can earn like Beefy on the after dinner circuit.
Yikes. Even with gearing and inflation that will take a while.
I would pay money to throw fruit at retired Australian cricketers.
Raced home in time to watch Orange Man Good win over Hapless Hayley, aka Tricky Nikki, Crown Princess of the Dems, who has spent big to end up second.
Things are looking up. Even the weather’s better today.
Hope it holds.
In 2011, the shareholders of my former employer paid Beefy $7500 for an after dinner speech.
Was a rip roaring time.
I can only imagine what his fee is now.
When are the ashes in Oz next?
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/tax/millions-of-aussies-earning-from-45k-to-150k-to-be-804-better-off-under-new-tax-cuts-but-workers-on-200k-to-lose-big/news-story/46dab95ba0e0e618e4a627211e609770
What disgusting people journalists are. Ben Phillips – even apart from being an econometrician and therefore a professional bullshit artist – is married to a Labor MP (Alicia Payne) but they just accept his drivel without even mentioning his extraordinary conflict of interest.
Five tests over a month or so.
I reckon Beefy would now gross 250k in speaking fees.
At least.
Crossie, at 4.10. A terrifying progrnosis which would surely be the start of a second American Civil War. If it wasn’t, then it really would be curtains for the West.
In which case, glad I saw some of the best of it.
Shame though about my grandkids.
prognosis. Gremlins at work again.
“ANU econometrician crunched tax table data”
This is like using a professional firefighter to turn off an electric BBQ.
Dover
The Central Park area is one of the best examples in the country, and so are a few other streets like Hargrave street in Kew.
You may also want to visit another street in Kew with some amazing examples of mid century.
Also pockets of North Caulfield have some incredible mid century homes.
My point is what we may be seeing now is mostly the best of the old days and a mix of good and bad with the new. What’s your point?
When JB Were sponsored the golf when Tiger was in town, you should have heard the lengths some fundies went to play in the corporate round on the Wednesday.
Roger
Jan 24, 2024 10:17 AM
The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to shut down the Freedom Convoy vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa two years ago was unlawful.
Do you know what that means, Roger? I can’t see that it does anything material. Perhaps if Trudeau were to be sent to the Headmasters office for 6 of the best it would make this administration actually THINK about what they’re doing but I can’t see it happening.
Dot
Trump wants to increase tariffs by 10% while lowering both Corp and personal tax rates commensurately.
He’d like to see the Corp rate down to 15%. What’s your view on this policy?
I went to a golf day that had Kim Hughes as a guest speaker. So much F-ing and blinding it was embarrassing. At Cottesloe GC too.
How long before Dean Phillips “adds context” to his kind MAGA comments on CNN.
Tariffs won’t raise much revenue. The corporate rate down to 15% would be massive. The annual increase in the accumulation of capital would be huge.
By the 2026 midterms, they’d be booming.
America doesn’t need trade, others need it, but a 10% increase in tariffs is large enough to be alarming. Hopefully, it’s just a tactic to get others to cut.
The US government’s revenue regardless of taxes and economic conditions sits around 19% – 22%. The goal should be to minimise the burden and max out growth.
It means they won’t be able to do it again.
@ Johnny R:
“They didn’t pick up the French either.”
And, if that Pommy fleet shad been a bit tardy in Rio or been out of lujk with the winds. generally, The whole place could have been froggified by La Pewrose and his crew.
Th ePortuguese and teh Dutch ahd done a lot of preparatory work on mapping the continent. If cook had been less of a sailr, the Endeavour would have never made ot back yo Greenwich..
If, if, if!
If the locals in the NT had been a bit more enthusiastic about adopting the technology of the Macassans, apart from a few metal pots, then….
Then again, if the Macassans had not accidentally unleashed Smallpox on the Norther coastal tribes, the indigenous cousins would have been MUCH more numerous when the first Fleet rocked into Botany Bay, basically on their last legs. IF the “First Fleet” had been carrying smallpox, it would have been quarantined HARD in South America and never sailed for Oz.
If, if. If………..
dover0beach
Jan 24, 2024 4:12 PM
When I lived in Malvern, walking the surrounds of Central Park was always a delight and here we are only talking of buildings constructed mostly through the inter-war period.
dover,
fond memories of walking around Malvern Central Park when Malvern Grandkids were small
Now when down in Malvern, and they will now be at Commerce Melbourne Uni & 2 at High School St Kevin’s & Loreto Manderville, just enjoy the walk to look at housing around the area – amazing amount of sympathetic extensions going on in the area constantly
It might also give some of the truckers who suffered financial loos because of the Govt actions an opportunity to sue
Indolent
Jan 24, 2024 3:19 PM
They’re not wasting any time.
What is climate misinformation, and why does it matter?
That BS was written by a sarah steffen; maybe related to the late, unlamented will steffen who was the expert on tap for court cases supporting alarmism.
Friend today asked me what red wine to bring for Australia Day BBQ. Your favorite, she insisted. I tried to think of the Italian one I liked, not too expensive (at least in Italy), which I see now on my desk from the label I souvenired (for its statue of a draped Ceres with a tastefully exposed leg clutching a wheat sheaf to her very exposese boozoom) is Franchini Valpolicella, denominazione di origine conrollata ‘forlago cantare divino’. But I could only remember Montepulichiano, and I hope she doesn’t turn up with one of the more expensive ones of these, as I just looked and they run from $385 to $508 a bottle.
Crikey, I’ve just checked the Valpolicella, and one of them is $1449.
I hadn’t realised how much these varieties varied in price. I hope she has the good sense to buy the lesser ranges of either of these tasty wines, the $20 to $40 ones. She also said she was going to bring two bottles.
I should have just said bring a cheap chianti in straw, which we used to guzzle along with Stone’s Green Ginger Wine at parties in the 60’s, for we had some nice ones in our Agriturismo in Tuscany a few months back. When I look now I see even these have gone trendy with some quality wines in them.
Smiffy now calling for the Australia Day date to be changed. FMD
I would expect so.
The government says it will appeal, but I don’t like their chances.
Worth recalling that most of the provincial premiers were against Ottawa’s move at the time.
He just keeps giving reasons not to like him, doesn’t he?
Don’t like his chances on the speaking circuit post-retirement.
Snap Toad. Useless people all of them.
Heh, remember those.
One of the nicer things about the 21stC is we now have oodles of inexpensive Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian wine in the local bottlo. And Seff Efrican, Chilean and Argentine wines too. It’s wino heaven.
James Morrow on the most useless of all:
My latest favourite TV show to take my mind off the world: Outback Car Hunters about two blokes in WA who go hunting for classic old motors in the salt-free western air, from which they can make money on resale. I suspect it’s from the same production company that makes Outback Truckers.
On as we speak on Foxtel channel 131.
F him D.
BB
Yes, yes we are, but here the leftards, led by the Liars and the Slime, with the Teal Ducks following on mindlessly, are the aristocracy, destroying the livelihoods and lives of the lower two thirds of the nation.
More likely “the wrong people might benefit, so screw them, let’s pin our re-election hopes on this.”
GrayRanga
Has anyone seen the graves of the 25000 dead ?
This is all I have seen.
https://jcpa.org/the-casualty-figures-in-gaza-are-a-scam/
There’s only one person responsible of the watering down of the Stage 3 Tax Cuts, and that’s Scott Morrison.
He structured them so that Labor could easily carve them out at a future time.
He could have done 3 steps that gave all taxpayers the ultimate result over time, in equal steps.
But no, it was too hard to negotiate, so he left the time bomb there in search of a short term advantage.
A small man, who thought small, and acted even smaller.
JC at 2:35.
We bought in during the depths of shutdown for $5.75, and got tipped out at $8.75.
A tidy short term profit of $3 a share so what am I complaining about?
Well, in normal trading it was worth $11 – $12.
Here’s the thing.
Gonski got it over the line by allowing UniSuper to transfer their holding into the new entity.
So UniSuper votes for the buyout at $8.75 because really good deal for shareholders but elects not to take that really good deal and stay in.
Stinks.
A small man, who thought small, and acted even smaller.
Yep, that’s his legacy.
Lizzie,
the only ‘correct’ wine on Australia day is in a silver bag hanging from the hills hoist.
Goon of fortune.
Who is “Smiffy”?
The trade union government now represents only a tiny minority — 8% of union members outside the public service, supported by the Green lunatic fringe who get 10% of the popular vote.
Elbow is a radical activist representing the fringe of Australian society.
That’s why he won’t do anything about the cost-of-living crisis. It doesn’t affect him or his mates in the unions getting filthy rich off super directorships and super management fees.
Elbow won’t do anything about the cost-of-living crisis because, as the owner of multiple investment properties, it’s not his problem. Same As the Filth and the Rich Bitches.
There is only one choice for Australia Day.
😀
I have offered the LNP an election program that is guaranteed to ensure a landslide win at the next election:
Halve the sneering elite’s excise on beer.
Tripple the excise on white wine.
Generously, I did not include an invoice.
“Apparently in South America a British passport stands you in better stead for a visa than an Australian one.”
Well, they know the Australians are going to go home.
Blubby McBlubbface is a flea looking for a derg.
Keep your trap shut sandpaperman. You’ve done enough damage already.
As for Woollies’ Seffer CEO, he loves our stuff, but he doesn’t love Australia. It’s as plain as a pikestaff.
Stage / Year 3 of Albos Govmint. Yes, I know the electorate said they wanted Labor for 3 years but right now we just cannot afford it. I have taken the feedback from Treasury, the RBA, the wedge tailed eagles, victims of crime, the No campaign and the IMF. Therefore, it brings me much sadness (sarc) to cancel the Albanese Government. Some politicians may miss out on additional benefits and lobby positions but its a sacrifice I am willing to make. So adios Albo and co.
Don’t bother, I googled it myself.
Steve Smith the wanker and former Aussie captain.
Especially on the midnight to dawn shift with Bolt-On.
Play Misty for me.
I was a bit concerned how much coffee I was drinking so I decided to see how long I could go without one.
I had two on Saturday morning then started the coffee fast.
I got to this morning at 10am and had one.
It was the sweetest elixir I’ve drunk forever.
96 hours.
I don’t think I’m addicted to anything apart from coffee.
and Thancho, that is called graft. Where was Asic, looking the other way. Not fit for purpose.
Panzer if you bought around those prices you would have picked up the juicy entitlement offer too.
https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/super-for-individuals-and-families/super/growing-and-keeping-track-of-your-super/caps-limits-and-tax-on-super-contributions/division-293-tax-on-concessional-contributions-by-high-income-earners
Tell me again why I ought to be patriotic.
Bronwyn’s little mate.
Annelise Nielsen on Fox bad mouthing Trump’s victory in New Hampshire. It was clear much of haley’s support came from demorats who would not vote for her if she were the GOP candidate. Nielsen says Trump is old like biden; FMD.
Pumping up Nikki Haley’s tyres and keeping her campaign on life support is not a smart move by the Dimocrats.
She is never going to win the nomination and all they are doing is consolidating Trump’s support and prolonging his primary road-show, which is good news for him.
If there is no Haley, the primaries become a formality and it is harder to whip up the supporters.
ASIC has pursued the REs of super funds over pedantic stuff under the guise of not treating all members equally.
But when it came to SYD, they didn’t give a shit.
Nor did the ACCC, whose one pager response was a disgrace.
Just listened to a podcast. The dude asked, how many bombings in a large US city would it take to constitute a major crisis. Most people said one, some thought three or four. I reckon that would be about right. He then asked people to guess how many bombings were there in Sweden in 2023. Don’t guess, let me tell you. There were 134. Sweden has about 10 million people.
Australian-made cafe latte is unbeatable. Sadly I gave it up for health reasons so I now look forward to it as a treat at the local coffee shop every few weeks.
bern
You are probably mildly addicted to all methylxanthines (caffeine-like chemicals), such as theophylline and theobromine.
And loving it.
Any ideas who’s doing all the bombings JC?
@sarc
It was around that time I copped Peter Cosgrove as an after-dinner speaker at a corporate conference.
After fifteen minutes I lost the will to live and tried to open a vein with a butter knife.
Albo’s in the Gillard land mining phase. Wait and see.
Bern
I think he said blond Swedish sheilas. A terrible blight all over the world.
Hey I had Cosgrove too.
Can’t remember the year.
Not his calling.
That is pure gold Barry re Scummo.
I found a spot in Ripponlea, best coffee ever.
Here’s a book, bern
https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml
I reckon its reffo’s spontaneously combusting in Sweden. They get treated so badly they hold their breath till they go all splodey bits.
Out of interest what was?
I’ll stop drinking coffee after I do DMT.
The deaths of Civilians is a tragedy. The deaths of Military personell is incompetence. I dont speak first hand and I don’t speak about “bash on” conflict.
My source was involved in the conflict in Indochina. An insurgency . He was Special Forces. He was hidden and the NVA knew where he was so they didnt go there . “We had them bundled” … It was only if someone got all “Crazy eyes ” that any men get lost. He didnt want to kill any one … dead enemy … who cares. I know when things got out of hand the NVA stuck thier necks out and got fully ambushed and smoked .
He hated that …” It should never have happened but you made us do it.
I love that Man … A scholar too “Carl von Clausewitz : War is Politics by different means” … make the Politicians get it right and hey wont need us as a backstop.
Old Mate saw situations where both insitutions failed miserably … Heard dieng Men sreaming for thier Mothers. “How can this be Honourable ?”
Causes Causes … etc but any sane Combatant or Civillain just wants this disaster to be over and to go home .
I forget the precise details, but we didn’t have them very long.
Still angry.
(Not as angry as JC. Obviously).
I distinctly remember Corporate Law back at Uni, where “oppression of minority shareholders” was a thing.
The only later concession to that was the ability to mop up residual holdings when acceptance of a takeover got over 90%.
My friends are rallying round for our Australia Day feast because they know I have been a bit knocked around by a recent anaesthetic and bad allergy from it. One texted and insisted she and her husband would be bring the first course, a seafood cocktail, so that’s done. Another and her husband are bring a fruit confection for desert, to add to my purchased cake and whipped cream. So that’s done.
Hairy will be manning the BBQ and getting the nice meat from the butcher’s tomorrow, so that’s almost done. I will buy some good breads and make a salad (not cut iceberg lettuce, beetroot and pineapple and onion rings like my mum did though), and get some cheeses and canapes, so that’s just a job for tomorrow. And … ta dah! … I have the flags large and small, the Aussie oi oi oi tablecloths, and other paraphernalia. Oh, musn’t forget the deco’d beer mugs either. I’m just about to do the placecards and stick little flags on them. ‘Twill rival Christmas in the festivites stakes. Copious vino, beers and water (must put the second fridge on now, will do it this minute, and put in some ice). All ready!!!!!!!
Maybe I should make a punch? No longer have the bowl and cups from the days of kids’ twenty-firsts, but I could improvise.
I don’t think Albo will lose any paint over this tax backflip.
The caravan will move on quickly until it gets to Senate where it will get air for a day.
Then the corporate media will say it’s a feather in Albo’s cap.
To be fair, there’s not much he could do – other than a massive reduction in the size and influence of government and government spending in the Australian economy. Obviously, since he has been brought up to believe in the awesome power of government, this is never, ever going to be an option.
All the little swine can do is sprinkle a little OPM where it will do the most political good and fan inflation the least.
And blame others for getting Australia into the hole he can’t get out of.
He says in his best Maxwell Smart impression.
Lab Leak ‘SMOKING GUN’? New Docs PROVE Scientists Proposed to Engineer Covid-Like Virus in Wuhan
Dot, being patriotic doesn’t mean you have to love the ATO or the government.
Quite the opposite.
Now that reminds me…the new (since late 2022) Swedish centre-right government has cut the country’s refugee intake by 90%.
It reflects a growing sentiment in Europe that the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 is no longer fit for purpose.
Pay attention, Liberals.
A has-been cricketer, should anyone actually care.
I had subsequently had dealings with SAS blokes. Kind country boys. Never talked “Hi Ho… War Hero crap” They just talked about the farm and thier favorite dogs . Honorable and decent. If “rough men ” like them lose their Humanity why would we ever feel we have a reason to feel we have a “Cause’?
This Boland clown only found out he was “indigenous” a few years ago.
If you grew up as a child and teenager without realising that you are “indigenous”; then you aren’t.
Bugger. I still haven’t found out I’m “indigenous”. No hope for me then.
Baris reminds us that the GOP won a special election in the NH statehouse because of the turnout Trump generated.
Anyone want to buy a winery? Calais Estate is up for sale.
Hunter family run winery set to change hands (Ncl local news, 24 Jan)
Have enjoyed their wines from time to time.
There are, however, many incentives to pretend that you are.
I’m not sure that applies to instos and the ASX.
Latter day Indigene. There are fair few around. Ask Phatty Adams missus.
Try harder.
There’s a 600 drone light show over Lake Burley griffin this weekend over three nights. Might be worth a look along with a picnic etc. So checked it out:
…this new show will be the first of its size, up there with Vivid Light Sydney, and thanks to a $450,000 grant from the National Australia Day Council.
AGB Creative emerged as winner of the NCA’s tender process, the same company behind Vivid as well as similar displays for ‘Expo 2020’ at the Al Wasl Plaza in Dubai and ‘Parrtjima’ in Alice Springs.
The project was also developed in step with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
“As a Ngunnawal elder, I am delighted to work with the National Capital Authority and AGB Creative to present the community with a show that celebrates Australian culture both ancient and contemporary,” AIATSIS executive director Dr Caroline Hughes said.
“Our participation in the creative development of the show reflects our desire to invite the community to come together to reflect and enjoy the land and life here in the capital.”
The show’s three parts – ‘Welcome, Yumalundi’, from 8:30 pm, ‘Rejoice’ from 9:30 pm and ‘One and Free’ from 10:30 pm – are said to “embody the spirit of reconciliation”.
“As we bask in the visual splendour, let us revel in the essence of our land, appreciate the diverse tapestry of life, and take pride in the unique offerings of our national capital,” NCA CEO Sally Barnes said.
Nope I think!
Or a tunnel in Gaza, even cheaper!
Roger:
Re – the ABC.
No they’ve had a bloody good feed at our expense. Just turn off the power, stop the money fountain and sell it off to the highest bidder. And make sure they don’t loot the place on the way out.
Now that would be a cracking evening.
‘Hey – tell us about the time you cried on the telly after you got caught being too scared to stop a midget.’
I’ve certainly got common ancestors with Marcia Langton. And Noel Pearson. And Ghengis Khan for that matter. How many generations do you have to go back before it no longer counts?
The crystal enthusiast, earlier:
Civillain. An excellent term for Gazans allowing Hamas to store mortar and rocket ammo under children’s beds.
Greatly appreciated.
There’s a 600 drone light show over Lake Burley griffin this weekend over three nights.
Are those Russki drone jammer thingies available on line?
…and that, my dear pantsless one, is exactly what they look like. Unless the owner of said monster stiffee has a nice doctor insert 14 gauge cannulae – lots of them – into the penis to let off enough pressure that the said penis doesn’t turn black and have to be amputated.
If I’m a 784,459th cousin of Marcia Langton, half a million times removed, does that get me in?
I think we’re back to the one drop rule.
Ironic, eh?
Right. Your source was embedded North of the DMZ.
I am besieged. Nine cockies outside my front door, all extremely tame. Making a dent in my supply of Coles bread.
Had a nice chat with old dad on phone this afternoon, his neighbour also has a bunch of cockies who line up on his balcony. And Dad too is infected with the disease himself. Only a moderate case so far though: he now has 18 magpies arrive when he cleans the fish he catches, out back of his house. They get the insides, heads and other bony bits. Yum!
Alright there for all you folks listening out there in Radioland, we’re starting a little early here at Glass BBQ Radio GBQR this evening.
First up on our playlist, My Papa Was Embedded As A Sedentary Stone Rolling Free North Of The DMZ.
After that, we’ll have Billy Crystal by Yelawolf and Semi-Charged Life by Third Eye Blind.
On bolta more yank elections expert bad mouthing Trump.
Trump brought world peace and unparalleled prosperity. But such was and is the influence of the MSM and the swamp and the mental dross of the sheeple that the idea that Trump was terrible has currency.
If Trump doesn’t win and manages a clean out of the elitists I’m moving to Mars.
Sort of defeats the point of being SF. Plus, it’s not really being ‘hidden’ if the other team knows you’re there.
If true.
OMG, please no, NO, NO, NO TO MIKE ‘GREYHOUND’ BAIRD….
Cook By-election: Liberal sources calling for former NSW Premier Mike Baird, mayor Carmelo Pesce as nominations open for seat
Liberal powerbrokers are calling for Mike Baird to follow his father’s footsteps and replace ScoMo in the seat of Cook, as sources claim the Shire’s ‘real contender’ is up for a fight.
Don’t miss out on the headlines from St George Shire Standard. Followed categories will be added to My News.
Former NSW Premier Mike Baird is being urged to follow in the footsteps of his father and nominate for the federal seat of Cook, following the resignation of former Prime Minister Scott Morrison – as it can be revealed the Liberal nominations for the seat have opened.
A growing chorus of Liberal Party members are now actively campaigning to see the former premier nominate for the safe Shire seat, with party sources claiming Baird’s name had been raised several times following the Morrison Government’s defeat at the 2022 Federal Election.
The rally to see the “celebrity candidate” nominate for the seat, despite ruling himself out of the race following Morrison’s retirement announcement on Tuesday, comes just weeks after it was revealed he had stepped down from his role as HammondCare chief executive.
A Liberal Party spokesman confirmed to the Daily Telegraph nominations for preselection in the seat of Cook were open.
Party insiders calling on Mike Baird to follow his father Bruce, who held the federal seat of Cook from 1998 to 2007, said he would “make an immediate impact in Federal Parliament”.
Baird was appointed as Cricket Australia chair in 2023, while KPMG announced he had been appointed as a board member to staff on Wednesday.
Party sources said powerbrokers within the Liberals were already in “tense negotiations” over possible candidates for the seat, as a by-election looms.
Meanwhile, sources close to Sutherland Shire Mayor Carmelo Pesce told the Daily Telegraph that the long-serving councillor “wouldn’t be afraid of a fight with a celebrity candidate like Mike Baird”.
“He has what it takes to be able to square off against Baird,” one party insider said. “He is a Shire man through-and-through.
“He is the real candidate”.
Cr Pesce said he could not comment on whether he will nominate for preselection, due to party rules. However, the mayor said if he was to be the candidate, his life-long connection to the community would be at the forefront of his campaign.
“I was born and raised in this community, I went to school here, I have run a business here for more than 30 years and live in this community,” he said. “I have the closest connection to this community, and have served as mayor for the past eight years.
I reckon this Baird case is being pushed by Photios, and the failed member for Mackellar, Jason Foolinsky. If they put up Baird in Cook then I hope an independent runs and wins.
My numbers were way too big.
If you assume thirty years for a generation, then five thousand generations takes you back 150,000 years, at which time we were all living in Africa. So I’m at most a five thousandth cousin of Marcia.
I guess that’s a pretty small drop, but definitely hundreds or thousands of molecules.
So I’m indigenous! We all are, we’re five thousandth cousins of Marcia!!!
Nui Dat to Hue (nearer the DMZ) is a 950 km, 15-hour road trip on modern roads.
I am willing to bet that any “SAS Veteran” who reckoned they were embedded North of the DMZ or nearer the DMZ where the NVA more openly operated is probably lying.
The SAS (Aus & NZ) did reconnaissance around Nui Dat to make up for the lack of utility of the artillery. Conventional Aus & NZ forces captured and destroyed a secret VC base and military hospital nearby in a conventional battle.
Not so fast.
You need the approval of the local recognised elders or those of the clan you’re buying into.
bons
Jan 24, 2024 5:38 PM
Downticked, you bastard. Plain white, chilled to the point of freezing, is the solace of many a working mother, and source of many a teenage one too. Tax gouging it would be a “Fighting Thories. It’th wot I do” brainfart.
The only excise increase I’d support would be to tax the bejeezus out of any “beer” which is sold in multiples other than six, and volumes other than multiples of 375mL. That would shake down the man-buns and FIFOs, who probably really want to be drinking white goon and dishwashing liquid anyway, by the taste of that shite.
Few years ago now, but the going rate for approval by the recognised Kimberly elders was three cartons of V.B.
If you assume thirty years for a generation, then five thousand generations takes you back 150,000 years, at which time we were all living in Africa. So I’m at most a five thousandth cousin of Marcia.
Not everyone apparently – For instance –
Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Great Britain for almost a million years. The earliest evidence of human occupation around 900,000 years ago is at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast, with stone tools and footprints probably made by Homo antecessor. The oldest human fossils, around 500,000 years old, are of Homo heidelbergensis at Boxgrove in Sussex. Until this time Britain had been permanently connected to the Continent by a chalk ridge between South East England and northern France called the Weald-Artois Anticline, but during the Anglian Glaciation around 425,000 years ago a megaflood broke through the ridge, and Britain became an island when sea levels rose during the following Hoxnian interglacial.
So the mob that got here 65,000 years ago don’t have much history. I do wonder where they came from though and who was here before them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Britain
A bargain given the benefits on offer.
Wiki is incredibly biased.
Amazing. The Soviets and NVA wasted quite a lot of resources.
Also wiki:
Strategic US failure
The goal of the Commando Hunt campaigns was not to halt infiltration, but to make the North Vietnamese pay too heavy a price for their effort. Corollary to this was the destruction of as much of their logistical system as possible and to tie down as many PAVN forces in static security roles as possible. Aerial interdiction could not succeed unless Hanoi felt the pressure and relented. The seed of the campaign’s failure, however, was sown in its first operation. Despite the expenditure of an enormous amount of ordnance over five years, the level of that pressure was never going to be sufficient to deter Hanoi from its goal (not really the same concept – you can be undeterred but when you run out of materiel, so what?).
Written by a Vietnamese Communist Party apparatchik.
I can afford that. And if they won’t have me, the tribe known as the NewÇatÇollective will surely accept me. We’ll all accept each other.
We’ll be proud NewÇat men and women.
65,000 years and you’re good. And counting.
JR, the 900,000 year mob were not homo sapiens. We are. Even Marcia Langton.
And beyond that…deep time.
“Always was” implies as much, as do the Dreaming stories.
Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
Steve Trickler:
Named and shamed. I bet they’re in shit withe Chinese Communist Party back home for bringing their existence to the attention of the authorities. The thing is that they knew the law, but just decided to try to intimidate the Barbarian Gweilo.
Didn’t turn out real well, did it?
I started Christmas about three days early. I’m starting Australia Day tomorrow, and will keep it going until next week. I’ll be in a really good mood on Friday.
The giveaways were, of course, the fossilised knotted hankies and complaints about weather and lack of service on cruise ships scratched into rock walls.
Forget FILTH. Try Failed in Sydney Try Canberra or FISTCa.
re: Woollies doing Black Knight routine on their killing off Aus Day.
Some talking head on Seven News reckoned the backlash they faced was just because the lack of Woolwaffen support for the day had “stirred up the crazier elements of society”.
If they were trying to take some sort of sensible middle ground compromise opinion, they totally failed.
It was part of operation Tropic Thunder which required all the special forces to go full retard, there confusing and defeating the enemy.
Then they walked to Hillarys for a Glory home game.
Katzenjammer
This where the film taken in the first few days should have been broadcast widely. OK, blur the faces if that gets the graphic brutality out there, but now it’s too late. The media has had the apologists for Hamas singing their song and it’s drowned out the reality of the rapes and butchery.
I think we are the ones getting FISTCa-ed.
Why would anyone go to the test on Australia Day?
Give them empty stands.
The slips can do a Mexican Wave all my themselves.
The ‘source’s name may well be Four Leaf Tayback.
Fear, that’s what makes him a man. I know a place where a man’s worth is measured by the ears hanging off his dog tags. The real hardcore shit!
‘He was hidden and the NVA knew where he was’
I suspect that Mr Bolton may have been suckered by fakety fake fakes.
I’d suggest that cricket given its provenance and association with upper classes who started the colonial wars, should be considered ‘controversial’ and shunned by by all good people in Oz.
Hence, cricket is a sport to be cancelled from now on.
Was there any penissary contact with her volvo?
Em. Sharri Darls. While predicting that Kimmie Williams will do wonderful things for the ABC did you accidently miss his comment that “SBS and NITV do a much better job promoting aboriginal affairs”.
Less passion, more reality please.
Showing every sign of being suckered, yes.
“The Treason of the Intellectuals,” with Niall Ferguson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpMQSVp7NTg
This is a clinical vivisection by Ferguson of US colleges.
What’s key is he draws straight lines from Germany pre Hitler coming to power & the current state of academia.
For people who have followed his work for the past 20 years his take on Germany isn’t new.
Quite a few Cats seem to have neighbours who are never there, and who are Chinese.
We do too. A duplex next door has a family of three on the ground floor and Chinese owners on the second floor. We’ve never seen them, there’s noone there, but lights go on and off regularly on timers. Sometimes it looks a bit spooky late at night. I can see into one of the rooms. They are LED neon. Use almost no electricity. When the skylight blew off the roof it wasn’t repaired until the rain soaked the family downstairs.
I rang her and said do you know the skylight’s gone? So that’s what it is, she said.
I met Kim Williams years ago in our Faculty.
He was always a leftie. They loved him.
Walli. OK. Think of me as LNP. I will support anything that you or anyone else say.
More excise on beer – yeah!
Lol.
Sean Spicer will not have the inside word on anything.
The whole of the UN is no longer fit for purpose. The worst of the worst are now on numerous UN committees and inflicting their awful policies on the rest of the acquiescing world. Let’s scrap it and simply form organisations with like-minded and friendly countries.
He was always a leftie. They loved him.
His sister went out with a friend of mine from school days. Her mother didn’t approve of him and steered her to the other guy. Then there was the tragic car accident.
And the rest of us are begrudged “Australia Day?”
I don’t think anyone really figured on the blanket ADD and “pics or it didn’t happen” mindset which has been effortlessly exploited by the anti-Western putsch of the 2020s.
The article linked is dated, but worth a read. They make an interesting point regarding the percentage of alleged child and female victims compared to the 2014 figures, and also posit that the normal daily mortalities due to other causes (natural, disease, etc) have been added to the mix. I asked a similar question to GreyRanga’s a few weeks ago, but in regards to morgue storage capacity for the claimed victims, rather than graves.
Somehow, I was not aware that the total number of invaders on 7 Oct was approximately 3,000. Presumably this includes ‘civilians’ who followed, whom I will label, based on their behaviour, not as civilians, but unattested militia (as we might also label those who have held, and perhaps still are holding, Israeli captives, whether alive or deceased).
On elec dets.
Need to be very careful of stray currents or rad haz. A high tension power line can possibly function a det from the electromag radiation. Even hand held radios or mobile phones. Depending on the product all have safety distances.
Lightning ooh yeah, mines are very careful of that. Even the army packs up dems practises when there’s lightning around.
AFV firing mechanisms from my info (ex aj’s) are still physical with firing pins & solenoids but they have electric safeties.
He was always a leftie. They loved him.
Yes. I’ve met him Williams times, he’s actually very nice, very intelligent and very urbane. However, Williams is old Labor, I don’t think he has much time for woke progressivism.
But it doesn’t matter what his political opinions and stances are because as with Ita his tenure will be purely ceremonial. Nobody can rein in the ABC, that ship left shore long ago, and the ABC is now beyond saving. Just like Buttrose, Williams will have zero power and what little power he has, he will be too timid to use it. The ABC, particularly its news and current affairs division, is a Marxist staff collective. They are the power, and nobody can challenge them.
There are two options to rein in the ABC. The first is for a future Coalition government to either incrementally cut funding and slowly strangle the corporation, or the second is to apply the Rabz doctrine. We know the second option will never happen but the first could happen, which is that a future Coalition government with spine decided to be brave and tackle the leviathan that is the ABC. But I won’t hold my breath.
Cassie, I suggested yesterday that Craig Kelly should run to replace ScoMo. It’s only fair seeing as ScoMo worked so hard to oust Craig.
This popped up on my youtube today and I gave it a listen.
Ben Shapiro in a long form debate with a bloke calling himself “Destiny”, on Lex Fridmans’ podcast.
Whatever you think of Shapiro you have to admit he knows his stuff and is great on his feet. “Destiny” (sorry, but that’s a wank of a name) calls himself a Liberal but the more this goes on you pick up that he’s really a leftist with an incurable case of TDS.
Link
Cassie, I suggested yesterday that Craig Kelly should run to replace ScoMo. It’s only fair seeing as ScoMo worked so hard to oust Craig.
Agree.
A little known fact.
There are approximately three times more SAS vets and Navy Clearance Divers in front bars around the country than ever enlisted.
But, sorry mate, can’t talk about it.
Probably already said too much.
Whatever you think of Shapiro you have to admit he knows his stuff and is great on his feet.
I actually like Ben’s opinions, and yes, he knows his stuff. It’s his whiny voice I can’t stand.
That’s because Australia Day, unlike the other dozen or so made up dates, has historical significance and popular acceptance. It is the popular acceptance of Australia Day that is sticking in the craw of the elites who want to rewrite history.
If only Ben Shapiro took those Super Male Vitality(TM) pills.
https://nitter.net/MRobertsQLD/status/1749986632382460029
Australia Day ‘attackers’ act like we don’t celebrate indigenous history and culture already.
What’s wrong with having one day to unite as Australians, regardless of skin colour, and be proud of the country we’ve built together? 😀
Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):
Dog semen or mushrooms. It’s a coin flip.
No mention of dog semen so far.
There we go.
After the usual litany of whinging from the crook’s mouthpiece about ADHD, mental health and so on and so on, the beak gave him six months – which was probably because she was sick of the ongoing catch-all commentary by $1.50 an hour shiny-eyed legal aid wonks about ‘oh but my client was struggling with being Radio Rental and got the wrong ADHD medication and fell in with the wrong crowd and it’s society’s fault’.
Then he might have the balls to debate Norman Finkelstein.
How much credence are people here giving to the “Mr Obama may run” speculation?
I should say the bloke got two months knocked off as time served.
Ha!
Elsie kindly allowed me to give her a back scratch this evening. But only after she got a second helping of sardines.
I don’t think I won that transaction.
Sir, I assure you I did feed it to you, but it isn’t poisonous!
Hasn’t he left Stanford?
For all their many faults, Labor don’t turn on their own at the drop of a hat like Liberal leaders such as Morrison and Pesutto.
You know something- after doing church open kitchen for a few years, I f*cking hate the shiny-arsed corporate OAM “food waste” lecture delivery services like Second Bite and especially Oz Harvest. By their very DNA they have no idea of the hard-up souls who need a hand up, they are complicit in sustaining street sleepers, and they are dripping with anti-capitalist pink jizz, all over their socials app feeds.
Buy our products and help change food waste partnering with BP petition the government for meaningful scan your card and collect carbon reduced food miles shout out to our amazing reward points!
I mean, Food Rescue Drivers. FMD.
According to an online article at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – h/t New Chum – the latest round of ‘negotiations’ in the Israel-h@m@s [intentional lower case] crisis included only a percentage of the remaining Israeli captives/bodies to be handed over.
sinw@r is taking a long view on this, conceivably planning on holding a small number of hostages or bodies for perhaps years, hoping to stoke internal dissent and pressure to submit within Israel.
When you won’t eat your Beef Wellington.
I am here to help couples trying to conceive and raise families.
Nature’s cures are often the best.
Yep, I’m like Dr John Wright. I’m showing women that self help is close by.
Roger
Hopefully so, but I think Trudeau will make sure there are amendments to the “Farque! It’s an Emergency Bill” so he can.
I’ve met a “Special Air Service veteran” who’d never heard of Percy Gratwick….
The ‘Woomba?
and especially Oz Harvest.
Me too, and Oz Harvest is the worst. The founder of that organisation is a grifter extraordinaire.
Kirally is born. Finally.
BOM persisting with a Townsville direct hit. JTWC & CIMSS Ayr or south crossing. Upper level models at 500mb have a more SE steering environment and strong too. I hedge all the track maps will change in the next 24h.
Flooding in the SE quadrant will be more the worry.
Ayr to Mackay are in the firing line at present and a 512km radar loop over willis Is shows a strong SE feeder band coming into veiw.
LOL no front seat to this one being in Vic…
An alternative theory re preeclampsia is that those couples be younger, be interested in diet and exercise & thereby fitter, being more attracted to each other, they are more sexually active and adventurous.
Hence, they self select to keeping leg byes and sundries low, but also have better BP and other cardiovascular markers.
My best mate in the Army was an Abbo. Warren. He was born in Alice Springs, but mainly grew up in Adelaide, Wittiest and funniest bloke out. He died in 2009. Cancer.
Then before that I lived in a town Narooma, South Coast NSW,. Good mate there was Rodney. We used to ride bikes around and muck about.. I would crash at his place sometimes. Good folk and real Abbos. His dad worked on a council truck and his mum worked at the hospital. Solid ciitizens
I hate white abbos.
And here I was thinking tonight would be a pun free zone.
The medical news site I read up is asking me now if I want push notifications about “Swallowing”.
It may have been an error to look at this in any depth.
Hmm last comment got eaten- lets try again without offending link?
Someone asked if drones could be jammed?
The commercial ones yes, easily- see the drone show in Melbourne last year where someone jammed 350 drones which dropped into the Yarra
Shop to your hearts content: (do an online search for a link)
though a conveniently placed spark gap generator/transmitter would work just as well as well as a hell of a lot cheaper- illegal as hell so don’t do it..
LOL
We have a welfare state.
Lizzie:
20 litre bucket, soup ladle, coffee mugs.
You don’t want to get all fancy and stuff.
aand don’t forget the Vegemite Flavoured Shapes biscuits.
In the interests of women’s health, I would be prepared to sacrifice my time to participate in this study, and others of that ilk.
My darling late brother, a real lad, interrupted the family backyard cricket match by hurling a cask onto the roof, calling out, “Drinks on the house!”
Cracked us all up.
You’ll find a lot of people will only pay lip service to these sorts of studies.
Good to see you’re prepared to take things seriously.
Before OzHarvest she ran a small company decorating expensive parties for weddings, barmitzvas, etc in space sub-rented from a company where I worked. That’s how she became aware of food wastage.
Dot
Numbers Bob?
Doc Beaugan:
What about the sexually confused?
Before OzHarvest she ran a small company decorating expensive parties for weddings, barmitzvas, etc in space sub-rented from a company where I worked. That’s how she became aware of food wastage.”
I know, Katz. I’ve met her She’s far-left loon, I cannot stand her. Put it this way, she’s no altruist.
Arnotts should produce an Australian flag iced vovo.
Zafiro
Worked doing cultural heritage with heaps of decent ATSI guys. We used to mainly talk about footy (especially Cowboys in this neck of the woods) and fishing. Most had jobs before doing what they were doing now like railway gangs, labouring or other manual jobs.
Some could be pain in the a but we in exploration had preferred agencies we dealt with. Even if we had to wait for an opening.
Lots of ATSI guys struggling with mortgages, sending kids to school and coping with “youth crime”. These guys I hold no grudges about, the wasters laying about and breaking into houses with impunity I wish nothing but pestilence and plagues on.
H B Bear
Yes, but it’s not usable for that purpose anyway. We got two of them on two separate days at Mona Vale A&E. Both of them for too much use of the injectable drug that was used for the purpose. Lots of pain, requiring several doses of morphine and antihypertensives to drop the blood pressure enough for the swelling to reduce.
It didn’t look too good for one of them who was taken to RNS Hospital. His willy had gone black by the time he came in.
That’s how she became aware of food wastage.
I keep forgetting that some folk grow up not knowing what “the help” do, back of house.
OzHarvest is a very teal type industry. An avenue to awards and name dropping, and a vehicle for corporate charity wright-offs.