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.
Dot
Jan 24, 2024 7:25 PM
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.
I was based with 5 of my mates about 20ks outside Da Nang near Monkey Mountain in iCorps (about 850ks north of Nui Dat and 60ks south of Hue) and the only other Australians within cooee of us were about 4 AATTV operatives who we caught up with occasionally. They were based in down town Da Nang and operated (trained ARVN) over a pretty broad area of iCorps. The most northerly US base near the DMZ when I went there was a Naval outpost on the south side of the Cua Viet River.
The outpost had previously been a US Marine Corps and US Army Base so if the Aust SAS had interoperability exchange (which I think they did) with the Marines or US Army some of them may have been located temporarily at that Base. I spent a couple of weeks up there and travelled along the river a few times to Dong Ha but didn’t hear of anyone crossing the river and traveling the 10ks to the DMZ and beyond. But they might have. I doubt Australians would have though because of the politics of such a move and the ramifications if something went wrong…
132andbush:
I’d give it a 50/50 chance of it being forced on them.
Justice systems in all Australian states and territories have no interest (or capability or will) in protecting the community. Always didn’t, always won’t.
Police officers attacked in violent Christies Beach arrest (SA) | 7 News Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfVpZzkpeU
A brutal attack on two police officers and an innocent driver during a savage southern suburbs rampage. One of the victims suffered a fractured skull after being bashed with a scooter, the violent scenes being carried out in front of terrified beachgoers
The (“alleged”) perp’s is named Andrew Kevin Gollan. Mr Gollan hit a 63 year old three times with a scooter (outcome = fractured skull).
Police subsequently chased the 24-year old Mr Gollan onto the beach, and say when officers tried to arrest him, he attacked. Mr Gollun is accused of punching a policewoman in the face(*) before throwing the scooter at a male officer.
Local surf lifesavers rushed to help police, as a result one of the lifesavers suffered a fractured knee, a broken nose and a cut that required eight stitches(**)
* Mr Gollan keeping alive traditional cultural practices regarding treatment of uppity women
** Mr Gollan being a warrior of resistance fighting the white invaders
The video 1:13 mark provides a self-portrait of the fine young Mr Gollan. It appears Mr Gollan has form, including
– 121 prior convictions
– 17 breaches of bail
As Professor Bunyip did once say, again on glorious display is The Majesty of the Law
Intergenerational trauma, no doubt.
Also drugs and mental health. In other words, someone else’s fault.
Thanks Rockdoctor. The Cowboys LOL.
I was talking about Abbos 30/40 years back
Digger:
What if the VC had gotten really cluey and bribed our blokes with beer? I understand there were pallets of Emu Bitter buried some where over there?
Which reminds me of the American doctor in the PNG campaign who rang his boss and said “I’ve got a case of beri beri here. What should I do?”
“Give it to the Aussies – they drink anything.”
tisssh boom.
…and with that, I’m off.
60% to 80% this far out from the home straight. Who will win the democrat’s factions brawl – candidates annointed by the Biden, the Clinton or the Obama clans?
Hunter for VP – the US needs leadership by someone with international corporate experience supplemented by humanitarian traits demonstrated by his expressive art works.
Why do the pro-Palestinian protestors not understand Jewish actions they disaprove of are due to over two millennia of persecution generating deep intergenerational trauma.
PS – It’s BS, but it’s a question that should be asked to allow their stumbling comic “umm, I dunno, but it must be diffrant, well . . . just because.” responses.
KD at 9:05.
You forgot “aspiring [insert unlikely career here]” and the use of the passive phrase “got caught up in” to describe something wholly initiated and executed by the scrote in question.
Few years ago, in a certain Western Australian regional centre, there was an outbreak of car-stealing, burglaries, home invasions and bashings….
One of the pizzwrecks of “elders’ emerged from his goonbag long enough to inform the locals that “it was proof that the whitefella would never break the spirit of these proud, young Aboriginal warriors.”
A postscript to the earlier-mentioned bloke with the never-ending penis-splitting erection who went through the Hungry Jacks drive-through on his way home. The NT News’ front page paper-copy headline:
God bless those subbies.
I hate Bruce Pascoe, but what I hate more are the woke who validate his horse shit. Anyone with an eighth of a brain could deduce it is bollocks.
So therefore, there are a lot of very bad and sick people who just go along to get along
I could not conscience wise work somewhere like that.
Pay that one, Knuckle Dragger.
Marcia Langton and Ken Wyatt accept Bruce Pascoe.
Thanks Digger.
That’s very interesting. I can honestly say people my age and younger were taught almost nothing about the Korean and Vietnam wars.
The thing to note is how rare it would be running into these blokes (a small, select group) you worked with in a random pub anywhere after the war right up until now.
From the Oz.
Golly, that’s unfortunate.
The death of the ANZMI site was – in my view – a travesty.
Plenty of fake SASR and particularly clearance divers. As someone said earlier, the number of these halfwits turning up as RSL members and at services was three times the number of people actually in those units.
I was in neither, but I would be ropeable at this appalling state of affairs had I been.
Bolton will evidently believe anything he’s told.
You know what else I hate? K-mart. It’s a godless temple to lowest price Mammon, complete with supplication to the door bitch, people proffering their votive scrolls to the mystical lazer computer wand and having their embarrassing baggage glanced at for compliance.
I ducked in to buy undies and maybe some Australia merch, the former were grim and the latter not evident despote the cement slab palace being festooned with gay flag tat .. nearly told said door bitch to enter in like I had to, go even further than the self-checkout bank, and f#cking tidy up some of the snowdrifts of giftware-grade soft spun cotton undies and oh so ostentatious rayon shirts which lie on the floor of every aisle.
Reading Simon Heffer’s “Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars.”
Good chapters on the Depression – one family, in a slum area had two beds for father, mother, son and daughter. Father shared a bed with their son, mother shared a bed with their daughter……
You know what I love, though? Those little toothpick-mount flags you used to get, so you could peg a meatball as Swedish, or a flag a Mexican humita on yer platter. Even the thought o those little treasures warms the cockles of my memory.
No time? He doesn’t have a full time job any longer.
Dot
The thing to note is how rare it would be running into these blokes (a small, select group) you worked with in a random pub anywhere after the war right up until now.
There was only 49 of us who served in Vietnam from Feb 1967 to May 1971 and 22 of them have since passed away. As you have said it is quite telling the number of people who think they can get away with saying they were Clearance Divers in Vietnam. We have caught some as far abroad as the UK who have even used social media to set up a page about their exploits as CD’s in Australia and Vietnam.
I think there will always be wannabe’s…
A good friend of mine – now gone to God – was a Vietnam veteran. Wounded in the early stages of his tour, he was given the option of being sent home – he wanted to stay and finish his tour with his mates. Wounded again, had the indignity of someone else claiming that he had been wounded in the same contact, looking for a pension, and citing said mate as a witness.
ANZMI exposed the useless prick as an officer’s batman who had never left Nui Dat…I still remember ringing said mate with the news…
Rest in peace, Davo, you won’t ever be forgotten.
You should buy it, Cronkite.
Jack Reacher Creator Lee Child Is Selling His New York ‘Dream’ Home
The author has lived on the 11th floor of one of the Upper West Side’s grand pre-war buildings
It’s shameful for Sydney Theatre Company to not understand on moral grounds, that they only see need to look into it when their bank balance is effected. Harvard too.
A Great Prediction for tomorrow’s opening day of the Gabba Test (the Hun):
And:
Prediction – Australia wins the toss and bats. Sooky McCheat is roundly booed by the crowd as he walks out to open the batting.
McCheat is first smacked in the nuts and then removed for under 10 runs, and is booed louder as he trudges off the park. In tears. Again.
I can only dare to dream.
culinary colonialism is sooo last millennium
Buckle up for a roller coaster of Mark Bolton phuckwittery.
The death of the ANZMI site was – in my view – a travesty.
Plenty of fake SASR and particularly clearance divers. As someone said earlier, the number of these halfwits turning up as RSL members and at services was three times the number of people actually in those units.
I worked closely with ANZMI right up to their demise. I think the organisation was in its death throes anyway because of the age of their main players. They were in their 80’s and looking to move on.
They did some excellent and very tedious work and because of my role in the Clearance Divers Association they contacted me every time they had a suspected fraudulent CD from about 2007 until last year. The same guy contacted me by phone and email every time but changed his name (only ever a first name) every time because of the security required for their own protection. We struck up a friendship and discussed a lot of the wannabe’s and their exploits…
Who could have guessed that being pro-terrorist would result in pissing off the majority of your audience and the people who donate the money that pays your salaries and those of your colleagues?
Too bad, too sad. I hope the whole edifice collapses permanently and takes the MTC with it.
This Alcatraz bloke at the tennis. Wears a singlet every match. Put a proper shirt on you smelly looking dago,
Gee I wonder why there’s a housing crisis:
No-one does incest quite like the Poms, eh Wodney?
Today’s Tele:
DON’T FORGET THE PAST BUT LET’S REDISCOVER
OUR GREATNESS
PETER DUTTON & – JACINTA PRICE
25 Jan 2024
On January 26, we should unashamedly celebrate the achievement of modern Australia.
To be born in Australia today, or to have become an Australian citizen after settling here, is to be truly blessed. It is to win the lottery of life.
But sometimes we forget how fortunate we are.
Imagine if we were born in another time or place. We might have suffered the horrors of Nazism, the oppression of Soviet communism or the misery of the Great Depression.
Imagine if we were citizens of another country today. We might be on the frontlines in Ukraine, mourning loved ones killed in the Middle East or living with little hope or freedom under a crackpot dictator.
Australia was formed without civil war or the level of bloodshed most other countries have known. And that’s not to say we’ve had ideal beginnings or an unblemished history. Indigenous Australians suffered terribly. For the convicts who arrived here from Britain on the First Fleet and the ships afterwards, life was incredibly difficult.
But in an astonishingly short period of time, penal colonies became successful settler economies and federated to form a new country.
Unlike other countries where difference has caused enduring enmity, we recognise that the Australian achievement would not exist without our Indigenous heritage, British inheritance and migrant contributions.
No country is perfect. But to understand our history is to recognise that the Australian story is overwhelmingly one of success.
And yet, as Australia Day approaches, the usual suspects are out in force trying to feed us a diet of national self-loathing.
Each year, these moralising lecturers take to social media and our televisions to push their ideological narratives.Such people are determined to examine our history in the most hostile, unforgiving and unbalanced manner imaginable. Their goal is political: to delegitimise the achievement of modern Australia by saying that our nation was founded on original sin.
Most Australians sensibly ignore these advocates’ dishonest arguments. But it would be unwise to underestimate their influence, particularly as their views so often go uncontested.
Today, the context and complexity of Australia’s past are too frequently left out of the lessons our school children are taught.
They can tell their parents about the ramifications of colonisation on Indigenous people and the harm done to some of the Stolen Generations but very little about the British institutions, laws and liberties we inherited which have motored our national success and benefited every Australian.
A Lowy poll in 2023 found that 33 per cent of those aged 18-44 preferred other kinds of government to democracy. While an IPA poll in 2022 found that 53per cenrt of those aged 18-24 see socialism as the ideal economic system for Australia.
Such results are not surprising when young Australians are taught history selectively and in a manner which doesn’t inspire pride in our country. Most disgracefully, 81 local councils have cancelled citizenship ceremonies this year after being given the authority by the Federal Labor Government.
What’s more, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hand-picked High Commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, has scrapped a long-established Australia Day event in London.
With the Government ashamed of our national day and doing little to teach Australian values, it is no wonder that our citizenship test pass rate has fallen from about 80 per cenrt under the Coalition to 65 per cent under Labor.
All this follows the Prime Minister’s shameful Voice referendum where he sought to divide our country by ancestry and race at a cost of $450 million to taxpayers.
Everyday Australians have had a gutful of elites seeking to crush our national pride, tear down the Australian achievement and tribalise us through every form of identity politics. Australians are facing incredible economic pressures right now. And we live in times of emboldened autocrats and terrorists.
To deal with these challenges, we need to reinvigorate our national pride, rebuild our national confidence and restore our national unity.
We can achieve these goals if we choose resilience over victimhood, gratitude over resentment, forgiveness over retribution, self-assurance over demoralisation, truth over falsehood and unity over division.
Every country has dark chapters in their history, but most don’t allow those chapters to cast such a long shadow as we do in our country.
On this Australia Day, we don’t forget our dark chapters or the lessons of our history.
But let us begin to rediscover our Australian greatness by expressing love for our country and by pushing back against those who want us to hate ourselves and our history.
Peter Dutton is the Federal Opposition Leader. Jacinta Price is the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians
Jacinta Price: brilliant.
Recites the ditzy shibboleth of indigenous roots, british settlement and multiculti second coming.
No apologies- flat No.
Our success is 100% British, enlightenment science and English common law. It has zero to do with swarthy skin wearers or smelly street food, no matter how dearly the folk inside the goat’s cheese curtain need a hairshirt.
Sooky McCheat is roundly booed by the crowd as he walks out to open the batting.
Someone should remind Smith what the referendum result was in Queensland.
There is such a thing as discussion ,. I might be right , I may be wrong ? Only reason I take any notice of you people is in the hope that may correct me if I am wrong .
I Love being proved wrong.
But all that aside I have never … made deary Ad Hom … sexual.. infantile insults about any of you ..
I never called any of you a “strap on ” … or any thing so utterly hilarious .
I have always taken every thing you have ever said at it’s merit .. and if it was lacking tried to Steelman your perspective .. just in case I might be missing something …
But you say as you are ..
These kunts really want a war with Russia
@ miltonf
Jan 25, 2024 5:10 AM
Yeah they always have … it is nothing new . And has always been to the uitter detriment of everything ….
I am mocked for signing my posts with
“Peace”
No-one does incest quite like the Poms, eh Wodney?
You should ask your Tasmanian fwends. Down there it’s called – “Incest – The Game for the whole Family”.
More obtuse abuse from the self appointed Blog Milk Monitor.
The Paywallion:
NT Indigenous voice to parliament a ‘waste of time and money’, says Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
EXCLUSIVE
By ELLIE DUDLEY
LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
25 Jan 2024
A taxpayer-funded inquiry into whether an Indigenous voice-like body should be established to review bills in the Northern Territory has been branded a “waste of time” by NT senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, as various legal and cultural groups push the government to set up an advisory group.
The NT government last year launched the inquiry into whether a statutory body should be established to provide advice to government about the impact of bills on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander NT residents.
The Australian Lawyers Alliance, which represents more than 1500 Australian lawyers, says the establishment of an independent NT voice is “essential” to close the gap between the living standards of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Territorians.
“The ALA supports establishing a statutory body that is composed of First Nations Territorians, who are elected by local First Nations communities and whose purpose is to provide advice to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory on the impact bills may have on First Nations Territorians,” an ALA submission to the inquiry reads. “ALA members submit the key to successful outcomes arising from future legislation with regard to the impact on First Nations Territorians is for a body providing advice on the bills that will become law to be removed from politics, including party politics, as much as possible.
“While any statutory body would be established by the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, its composition and daily operations should be independent from the Legislative Assembly and government departments/agencies.”
While the NT is a small jurisdiction where a voice may overlap with existing roles held by other entities, the ALA submitted there must be some form of an Indigenous group advising the government. “ALA members are also interested in exploring establishing a governance committee, or expanding the remit of an existing governance committee, to provide advice on and review bills before the Legislative Assembly,” the submission reads.
The Northern and Central Land Councils have also backed an advisory group, saying “Aboriginal people must be empowered to have a say in policies and legislation that affect them”.
“Any review of the impacts of proposed laws on Aboriginal people must be led by Aboriginal people,” the NCLC submission reads.
“If a Legislative Assembly committee proves to be the preferred model for a review body, checks need to be put in place to ensure the body remains Aboriginal-led in the event of the assembly having minimal or no Aboriginal members.”
Civil Liberties Australia said the preferred body should be an “NT voice to the NT parliament” that would identify, document and recommend how proposed bills impacting Indigenous Territorians “could be improved for the benefit of the entire community and/or for the First Nations community of the NT without deleterious effect on non-First Nations Territorians”.
“The NT ‘voice’ as much as possible should be modelled on a similar proposed federal ‘voice’ to the Australian parliament,” the CLA submission reads., with a lower age limit of 16 years.”
But Senator Price said the NT voted an “overwhelming No” in the federal referendum, and said the inquiry was indicative of a government that does not know how to help its Indigenous population.
“Northern Territorians already had their say on a voice to parliament, and they gave an overwhelming No to the idea – 60.3 per cent No,” Senator Price told The Australian.
“A parliamentary inquiry is a waste of both time and taxpayers’ money, and is a clear sign of a government with no plans and no ideas to tackle the problems facing our communities.”
The NT Attorney-General’s department said if a body were to be set up, the inquiry must determine its level of independence, membership qualifications, election processes, what laws it could advise on, and whether the legislative assembly would be bound to its recommendations.
ELLIE DUDLEY LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
My comment,’Pending’:
The government’s ‘workaround’ to everything.
To set up another taxpayer funded monolith that will not be accountable for expenditure poured into it, will not produce any benefits for the intended except fort the elected and non elected elites, bureaucrats and staff that are employed within it.
Well said, Jacinta.
“On target…fire for effect.”
Wonder if it will be ‘accepted.’
Probably not.
Johnny Rotten
Jan 25, 2024 5:21 AM
Whoops. That should have been a reply to one of the cronies. Mrs Stemcho Pantyhose no less. Another one with that lispy lisp.
@Johnny Rotten
Jan 25, 2024 5:21 AM
So you say about Tasmanians .. Wanna know what? Some of us grew up there and learned a thing or two about good manners and polite discourse…
Tell me more about how civilized you are ?
Milton, that prick has been advocating for the UK to send troops to the UK almost from the get-go.
Typical multi-generation military family.
Fancy pants school.
Fast tracked to the most comfortable of seats.
From memory he threw some his special forces units under the bus too.
Maybe that’s a global thing, the shiny bums throwing the handful of real warriors under the bus.
Posting again. This saga has just gone kaboom!
That’s an extra million views overnight. The CCP are trying to get this video taken down.
Good to know these chicoms have been exposed.
—-
Dr K.
Police Called To Stop Filming During Piano Livestream
And
Johnny Rotten
Jan 25, 2024 5:21 AM
The nick you are running under… not your real name of course is John Lydon .. a Man who is now distinguishing himself with his public utterences . Unlike you …
With reference to New Hampshire, both Taibbi & Baris have both mentioned pockets of people who voted Biden in 2020 who attended the primary to vote for Trump.
These pockets can’t be underestimated.
In 2021, Taibbi identified towns that voted Obama, Obama, Hillary, Biden who then voted Youngkin for governor.
That was Virginia re Youngkin.
@feelthebern
Jan 25, 2024 5:39 AM
Thank you for you observations … I fear Trump will be no better than he ever was.
Forgive me my Black Pill ..
I so sincerely hope I am wrong .
If Digger hasn’t written a book, I would strongly encourage him to do so.
@Dot
Jan 25, 2024 5:52 AM
No Dot .. you are always selling yourself short … from what we have always seen of you we are always baying for so much more …
Yo gotta write a book !!
What happened to Tom?
II thought this, from The Spectator, worth posting in full so others can share it:
‘This Australia Day will be celebrated by a divided and demoralised community. Inflation and bracket creep have eaten into the living standards of millions of Australians, with many suffering financial distress. Anti-Semitism is rife in our cities, and in many of our leading institutions, threatening the Jewish community and dismaying the silent majority. The divisive Voice referendum is fresh in our minds. The psychological hangover from punitive Covid lockdowns has not abated. Each of these, on its own, would test community cohesion and morale. Together, they threaten to do permanent damage to our social fabric.
At times like this, the things we cherish in common assume a greater-than-usual importance: our shared nationality in all its diversity; the distinctive Australian values and characteristics in which we take pride – our egalitarianism, our lack of respect for pretension, even our familiar, typically Australian greetings to each other; the national symbols and touchstones to which we instinctively respond including the success of sportsmen and women who represent us; and yes, our national rituals, including Australia Day.
These patriotic attachments vary from person to person but have the same emotional destination. They are a common patrimony passed down to us by earlier generations, but reside separately and severally in our hearts and minds. Many seek to manipulate them, whether for commercial or ideological purposes, but they retain a life and integrity of their own, an innocence, if you will, which is why our children so easily embrace them.
Others, as we know, deride these things, including frustrated intellectuals who mistake second-hand Marxist sociology for profound thought, inner-urban snobs desperate to distance themselves from their suburban roots, and those who have never grown out of their adolescent country-hating stage.
Instinctive patriotism is a stabilising force for communities. It takes attention away, even if for a moment, from our separate identities and interests, reminding us of what we share. It softens and minimises our class distinctions, humanising the well-off, and lifting up those of modest means. And for those who respond emotionally to it, it is a source of consolation and inspiration.
The ritual attacks on Australia Day, which we will no doubt hear again this year, are not really about the choice of date or even how we celebrate it. They are part of a much wider campaign to undermine patriotism in all its forms.
As we know, at its core is the claim that the British settlement of Australia was an unpardonable historical crime against its initial indigenous occupants; a form of original sin, but one which cannot be forgiven. Condemnation is not confined to the particular individuals, practices, and laws which, undoubtedly, cost indigenous lives and land, and were destructive of their culture, but is applied to the very idea of the country itself; a moral stain which taints everything about it.
Our history, when viewed in this way, is reduced to a record of unmitigated shame, a case study in colonialism, differing only in degree from the worst instances of this phenomenon in 19th-century Africa. Our ancestors are regarded as bigoted, ignorant, and limited. Those who fail, or are alleged to have failed, the test of current-day morality must be expunged from history.
Present-day Australians (and presumably those yet to be born) do not escape censure. They bear a collective historical guilt, regardless of what they think, feel, say, and do. Indeed, by upholding our institutions and loving their country, they are sanctioning the ‘structural racism’ that, according to this view, explains indigenous disadvantage today.
So we must, we are told, reject, or radically recast our entire patriotic inheritance: our institutions, including our constitution, our commemoration of great historical events, like Anzac Day, and our national symbols, ceremonies, and rituals.
This project is ideological rather than historical, with facts cited only to confirm pre-determined moral judgments. It is reductionist and static, removing all colour, nuance, and growth from our story. It is demoralising, robbing us of the inspiring figures and legends which a more rounded perspective affords. Above all, it seeks to return us to a kind of cultural and social ground zero where, freed of all traditional affections and attachments, Australians can be re-engineered. The goal: a brave new progressive world.
Until relatively recently, this destructive movement was a fringe phenomenon, the work of cranks and fanatics. It is now mainstream, featuring prominently in school curricula, large parts of our media, the bureaucracy, and the boardrooms of the country.
If we rightly reject this view of the nation, we need not fall into the opposite trap of jingoism. As G.K. Chesterton recognised, there is an enormous difference between what he called nationalism and patriotism. The former, he pointed out, is triumphalist, aggressive, and crudely populist. The latter is grounded in a genuine and spontaneous affection for the country, an affection that is not blind to its flaws and defects, and an affection prepared to embrace reform to better realise the nation’s ideals. This is the patriotism that actuated Martin Luther King, and it’s the patriotism of the millions of Australians who want to end indigenous disadvantage, but who voted against the Voice.
Australia’s history undoubtedly has its dark chapters, some of which – like the anti-Semitism we see today – are yet to be written. But it also includes its share of miracles. After all, we were a convict colony that became a successful test case for Enlightenment values as freed convicts, granted full rights and able to accumulate property, thrived in our classless, meritocratic society. In the late 19th century, we fashioned a constitution (influenced, to be sure, by those of the US and Britain) which proved its worth last year, more than a century later. And in the post-second world war decades, we left White Australia behind to embrace the immigrant society we live in today. Along with the US and Israel, we are arguably the most successful immigrant nation in human history.
It is fashionable for critics to decry Australia Day, but they pay little attention to the way Australians observe it. There is no breast-beating nationalism, no military parades, no denialism about our past, or insensitivity towards indigenous Australians. Instead, we gather in small groups across the land to enjoy each other’s company, not in separate ghettos or enclaves, but together, side-by-side in our parks and beaches. Diverse and different to be sure, but sharing something in common, something unstated, perhaps, but nonetheless real and tangible, our common Australian sensibility.
Our ancestors were wise enough to see this as a national asset, a great unifying force in troubled times; an insight that seems beyond many of today’s leaders.’
David Pearl, a former Federal Treasury assistant secretary, is now a full time writer and commentator.
Shut up Bird.
You’re so obsessed with hating Jews you’ve created multiple online personas (like Mark Bolton whose identity you have stolen) with stupid backstories and made up friends and acquaintances.
This is how much you hate. Anything to say “Jews are bad, mmmkay?”.
Get back on your meds. Your wife left you.
Now drop and give me 50 pushups.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Antifa protestors in German call for the death of Alternative for Germany (AfD) supporters.
Matt Margolis.
Oops…sorry, Tom!
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Digger
Jan 24, 2024 11:26 PM
Dot
The thing to note is how rare it would be running into these blokes (a small, select group) you worked with in a random pub anywhere after the war right up until now.
I think there will always be wannabe’s…
The news footage must have lied because after the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980, there were apparently about a 1000 SAS soldiers on the balcony!
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
The problem’s all mine, Roger.
I’m amused that more Democrats voted in the NH Republican primary than voted in their own primary.
Democrats Vote For Haley In Desperate Attempt To Derail Trump (25 Jan)
Haley got 130k votes 70% of which were Democrats not being Democrats for a day. That’s 91k, vs 73k in total for all the candidates in the Dem primary.
Maybe Haley should be standing for the Democrat nomination instead, since she’s clearly more popular among Dems than anyone else…
Tucker Carlson interviews Texas AG Ken Paxton and they talk about the way the 2020 election was rigged. We all know this to be true, we saw it happen, Mike Lindell’s symposium presented evidence from some very clever analysts. He is now on the hit list along with Trump, Giuliani, Paxton, and anyone else who dares to mention the unmentionable.
Carlson & Paxton
My God I hate traitorous politicians who ignore the will of the people.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/24/british-government-confirms-commitment-to-w-h-o-pandemic-treaty/
Baris has tweeted that Hoffman has pulled the pin on Haley.
Hoffman (the LinkedIn founder) was one of the 3 billionaires behind the Zuck Bucks scheme during the 2020 cycle.
Pete Broelman is funny for once.
Tucker Carlson interviews Texas AG Ken Paxton and they talk about the way the 2020 election was rigged.
Mollie Hemmingway wrote a book in 2021 called Rigged that went state by state outlining how the DNC used different stategies in different states.
Pretty forensic.
The only state where there was straight out fraud was Georgia which this current law suite seems to show how that was done.
Arizona & Pennsylvania were industrialised mail-in vote harvesting (approved in both states by GOP state houses).
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan were Zuck Bucks (Zuckerberg, Hoffman & Omidyar).
Georgia was straight out fraud.
I’ve had 4 Ex SAS CQB instructers as Sensai’s. Not one of them talked about it. Not quite true. One was in Malaya, complained he did training all day but still had to go on patrol. They were all quiet blokes. Only one still alive and he’s my age.
A pro-Palestine protest by Sydney Theatre Company actors last November has plunged the company into such a deep financial hole that the company’s exiting chairman, Alan Joyce, has urged “dramatic action” to ensure its survival.
Mr Joyce said he had “reluctantly” resigned as chairman of STC because he did not have the time to devote to fixing the crisis.
The financial fallout from the unauthorised protest by three actors – who wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves at opening night of The Seagull – has been estimated at $1.5m or more, due to angry patrons cancelling tickets and donors withdrawing their support.
Crikey, gosh, good golly miss molly! Is anyone surprised by this? Well I’m not! We’ve all heard that cliche, ‘go woke, go broke’, but it is sweet, very sweet, when it happens. Talk about alienating, offending and putting up a big middle finger to many in your audience. Many Jews are paid up subscribers to the STC, and many, even the most liberal, probably found the STC stunt just a bit insulting and devoid of context.
I’ve said it here before and I’ll say it again, at the end of the day money still counts, and since we’re being daily bombarded, daily talked down to, daily sneered at, daily smeared and in the case of the STC, faced with mediocre actors (one of whom has his gig purely because of who his father is) who are openly supporting homicidal butchers no different to hundreds of Ivan Milats running amok in Belanglo State Forest, it really is time to walk away and pull the dosh!
The only state where there was straight out fraud was Georgia which this current law suite seems to show how that was done.
Which was in January 2021, in the Georgia senate run offs?
My understanding is that the Demonrats also tried it in Virginia in the 2022 midterm gubernatorial race however the GOP were ready this time.
Arizona & Pennsylvania were industrialised mail-in vote harvesting (approved in both states by GOP state houses).
Yes, that is my understanding. Also, the GOP (including Trump) were warned, early on in 2020 about main-in vote harvesting. They did nothing.
Gotta hand it to the troughers when it comes to slurpin’ they is the experts ..! Yesterday Luigi recalled the entire “pardy” contingent to Canberra to announce he was breaking a coupla “chiselled in stone” election promises …… Now look at the figures whilst Luigi pontificates his $several a week savings for the vote-herd (the wukka variety, that is!)..
MPs earn (LOL!) an average of $300k (adding in freebies) and up to $600K as ministers yet dragging them back to Canberra for 1 day means thery can each claim $310 just for turning up + free return airfares and free use of ComCars all for an announcement that was, obviously, already decided on .. add in staffers ($300 a day + air) and for “let’s-reduce-the-cost-of-living” wankfest your down close on a$million straight off ..
Gotta luv the “economic” credibility of the “pardy” ..
meanwhile in Queensland 1 000s are waiting on flood damage help whilst “Plenty Wrong” has no trouble slipping $20million to aid terrorism … gratis! ..
And tomorrow we all has to put up with the media shilling “invasion day” for their “white-ish” 251 maaates deploring ‘real” folk celebrating Oz Day …….!
And on cue some steamed cretin has cut down the statue of Captain Cook in St Kilda. Jacinta Allan backed by the Aust Cricketers expected to declare it a hate crime and order a full replacement immediately……
Taibbi in NH reminded me of something he said on his podcast last week.
He was in DC for the pro-Pali protest was on (the one where they were tearing at the fences of the Whitehouse) a couple of weeks back.
He spoke to protesters during the day & asked a lot of them who they were planning on voting for.
He expected to hear Jill Stein or Cornel West (they were the two presidential candidates who addressed the crowd during the day).
He said he was shocked to hear how many said they were going to vote Trump.
Maybe they were trolling.
And unlike most journalists, I do have a level of trust in Taibbi.
Who knows how to reconcile that but it’s a bizarre old world when you have pro-Pali protesters saying they plan on voting Trump.
early on in 2020 about main-in vote harvesting.
Bannon’s advice to Trump, don’t worry about it.
Triggering.
Sensei
A rat jumping off a sinking ship.
Bannon’s advice to Trump, don’t worry about it.
Yep, that worked well, didn’t it.
Link to Rigged.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections/dp/168451259X
Hemmingway has not been pursued by anyone, unlike the grifters Trump surrounded himself with post election.
Daytime Sky News is full of Never Trumpers, and they run the risk of making it unwatchable. I’m looking at you, Annaliese Neilson, and you, Michael Ware, plus James Matthews in Washington.
MIchael Ware just finished his summary of the New Hampshire vote, and said Nikki Haley had integrity! He had other throwaway lines like “that’s how Trump lost the last election”.
I hate Bruce Pascoe, but what I hate more are the woke who validate his horse shit. Anyone with an eighth of a brain could deduce it is bollocks.
So therefore, there are a lot of very bad and sick people who just go along to get along
That’s not very noice! .. After all, our ‘esteemed” Federal gummint pours between a half and a million dollars a year into his “self-funding” charity BLACK DUCK .. a charity designed to keep Bruce living at a standard his 251 “ancestors” never dreamt of …. LOL!
Treasury’s loss is the Speccie’s gain. And ours.
Thanks Roger for posting, and thanks David Pearl.
KD
“Bolton will evidently believe anything he’s told.”
What makes you think that he didn’t just make it up?
Hits the nail on the head, callie!
Did Hemingway carefully avoid talking about voting machines? Did she concentrate on ballots (real and unreal) and media manipulation? Sidney Powell was adamant that the machines were manipulated and they have gone after her big time, as well as Rudi.
Are these the “grifters”?
Does anyone remember the names of the actors who have caused the Sydney Theatre Company’s financial collapse?
No, I don’t either.
LOL
bern
This Warhammer: The Old World has seen a queue system be implemented on the Warhammer Dotcom page.
My estimated wait time is: more than an hour.
Cripes, I only want to browse!
Iirc, the hard working and always lovely actress Sigrid Thornton wasn’t one of them.
Perplexed and Grey Ranga,
from a book I had read quite a while ago, the French Resistance consisted of approximately twelve hundred good people. Because of the secrecy of course, records are not complete. After the war was over, more than sixty thousand claimed to have been in the Resistance.
Although many would have been Stolen Valour and free drinks, most would have been arse-covering.
“Iirc, the hard working and always lovely actress Sigrid Thornton wasn’t one of them.”
Roger, that was the second thing I noticed when I saw that photo. So pleased as I have always liked Sigrid Thornton.
The first, of course was the filthy scarves.
There’s also the issue of dead twins and young women who need mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Does anyone remember the names of the actors who have caused the Sydney Theatre Company’s financial collapse?
The chief ring leader was a child of nepotism, the actor Hugo Weaving’s child, whose name eludes me and will continue to elude me because I have no desire to accord him any decency.
The rot gets deeper. It’s being said that the majority of Nikki Haley’s votes were from democrat voters who changed their registration in order to vote for her. Combine that with funding for wall-to-wall ads! The funding will hopefully dry up now, but the dirty tricks keep coming.
Trump has certainly been the catalyst for “all the creatures that lurk in the mud” to hatch out. I recall that line from the roman history TV series “I, Claudius”.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 68 Whatever happened to the truckers who dared to protest Justin Trudeau? Some of them are still in jail, years later. Trucker Gord Magill explains how darkness has descended on Canada.
Famous Quotes from 25 January, through the ages:
1788 – ‘Seriously, if I have to spend one more goddamn day on this boat I will go absolutely apeshit’
– Arthur Philip
Insurance companies are going off the reservation:
Electric cars cost twice as much to insure as petrol and diesel vehicles (24 Jan)
Fun to watch economic gravity exerting itself.
Knuckle Dragger
Jan 25, 2024 8:35 AM
More famous quotes –
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
– Barry Humphries
Dot, it’s something to do with limiting purchases of newish releases.
Apparently they’ve put systems in place to stop people buying 4 limited additions and eBay ing 3.
It’s turned the site into a dead zone.
Here it is Bungonia Bee.
I loved that series, and the books even more. John Hurt was an excellent, degenerate Caligula.
To my horror, the ad before the video was for the “Hungry Jacks Tropical Whopper”. Most discombobulating, given the recent NT headlines.
Limited editions.
Not additions.
I’ve never had a high opinion of the political class, but the extent of the corruption which Trump has brought to light has boggled my mind.
Another thing that has shattered my virginal innocence is the wild success of the global warming scam. I know most people and nearly all contemporary journalists are both lazy and stupid, but the few who are prepared to look at the facts and think about them are very few indeed. The sheer herdiness, the groupthink, is astonishing to me.
When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell you firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.
– Johnny Depp
Woof, woof.
Coffee is killing the planet.
Now they’re coming for your coffee (23 Jan)
Drink up Cats! Plants will love you.
US political system is worse than the justice system. By and large AEC does an OK job (although I doubt it has been too seriously tested here).
Goddamn the prices for old Dark Elf bits on eBay is absurd!
It’s the gaslit now gaslighting for themselves, DrBeau.
Yesterday, waiting in the specialist’s waiting room, the inevitable tv was bawling out “news”. Apparently the Hunter is to get a de-sal plant, presumably because insufficient rain falls here. No mention of how it is to be powered to complete the task. And no consideration as to the longevity of tanks and environmental cost of replacement.
Not a peep about a dam, even a flood mitigation dam for say, Dungog, which would provide copious water to the region and ensure the place doesn’t go under water again, at great cost to life and property. And the longevity of dams, as opposed to de-sal is obvious.
Meanwhile, the pots at Tomago still run, but for how long? A 24/7 operation, the bright sparks are imagining renewable power for the plant. They seem to not notice the great orb in the sky that mysteriously disappears each evening.
“Imbeciles” is too kind. Zombie brain eaters is a better fit.
I reckon what we’re seeing now all started from that scam. Gerbil warming was the genesis of what that left has become and what it does. Relentless.
Would he take investment advice from a meteorologist?
Poms.
Obsessed with incest.
Does it start with the buggery at school?
Tim Blair has been elsewhere!
The Return of El Timbre (24 Jan)
The ATMs are especially interesting.
The Cook statue story previously referred to:
A 110-year-old Captain Cook statue in a Melbourne park has been cut at the ankles and toppled off its stone base just hours before Australia Day.
The bronze statue in St Kilda’s Catani Gardens was cut from its stone base shortly before 3.30am on Thursday.
Vandals spray painted ‘the colony will fall’ in red on the memorial base and left the statue hacked off at its ankles – lying face down in the grass.
Workers have arrived at the park in Jacka Boulevard to take away the broken statue using a crane and to wash off the graffiti ahead of Australia Day.
The base of the statue was covered in shattered glass and one of the stone steps was torn off.
The statue has been in the park for 110 years and is believed to be the oldest major memorial in Victoria honouring British explorer Captain James Cook.
Daily Mail
ZBE’s – zombie brain eaters.
I like it.
Correct Dot, a before e except after s. I didn’t think it looked right. I’ve been lofting for a ship model, working to 0.1 of a mm and my eyes are playing up. Hope they get better soon as we are off to Sydney shortly.
Tomorrow is the day that gets the race-baiters who seem to hate Australia all fired up.
For them, acknowledging the day that brought the wonders of the Western World to this vast country is something to be ashamed of.
These are the clowns who claim to live on stolen land but refuse to give it back. They generally hate organised religion but will worship at some newly invented ancient religious altar.
They claim to be for equality and against racism but use the latter to ensure the former is abandoned.
Frankly, I can’t even believe this country is even having a debate over a national day of celebration.
Sure, some people might not like it, but they don’t have to take a public holiday or play patriotic anthems. They can opt out by going to work or giving back their dole money.
Heck, they can even move to another country if this one offends them so much.
We all know that won’t happen.
The whingers and losers and bludgers will all be backed in by the PC leftists who will claim changing the date will make everything better.
That’s nonsense, of course.
We’ve heard the same rhetoric about a national apology, reconciliation marches, self-governance, the Voice, racial advancement and a whole bunch of other BS initiatives that have only led to more grievances and complaints.
Changing the date of Australia Day will be more of the same.
Our former ‘conservative’ Prime Minister even changed the words to our national anthem as a sop to identity politics. No permission was sought from the public, and not surprisingly, no Australian is better off.
But still, Australia Day being held on the 26th of January looks to be a limited proposition.
It doesn’t matter that Australia Day officially records when Australian citizenship began, as George pointed out in a comment on The Australian website.
Like many people, I’m mightily fed up with what the assorted activists and bludgers are doing to our country. It’s being changed for the worse as we chase the impossible nightmare of socialism to bring ‘equality’ to all.
We’d already have the equality that matters if we were allowed to: equality of opportunity.
Unfortunately, that’s being denied as we play identity politics favourites using other people’s money. Only some politicians or people of influence are interested in stopping that, while most support the utopian ‘equality of outcome’.
That’s why I sense that changing the date will happen – eventually.
Even more reason to double down on the patriotic fervour while we still can…and the fact it upsets a bunch of leftists makes it even more important.
Have a great Australia Day long weekend, and I’ll be back in touch on Monday.
Cory
many many people just shake their heads.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
? Bertrand Russell
Care to renounce your citizenship and its benefits then?
Cowardly losers acting out in the middle of the night.
I hope the NSWaffen are ‘monitoring’ the statues in Sydney CBD’s Hyde Park.
I’ve just discovered Killer Coffee pods which have so far outperformed their Nespresso counterparts in the taste department.
I was off coffee for 20+ years and guess what,
I noticed no difference to the climate. I am most definitely not intending to give up coffee on the say-so of some autocrat who thinks we are all as dumb as he is and is determined to ensure we won’t have nice things.
The fact they use aluminium pods adds to their deliciousness.
And what is an ‘agenda contributor’ anyway? Not anyone I’m inclined to listen to.
I really hope the statie is repaired and restored. But given its location I am not hopeful.
Gutless cowards? Yes. It’s all that is left when you are intellectually bereft.
“fter all, our ‘esteemed” Federal gummint pours between a half and a million dollars a year into his “self-funding” charity BLACK DUCK ”
When you’re on a good thing, turn it into a charity.
statie=statue. My phone keyboard becomes unreliable as my speed of typing increases.
I have a trip out to Tullamarine in my future. I must abandon scrolling and fortify myself with coffee for the suicidal driving mission that is the Western Ring Road on a weekday at lunchtime.
It takes a lot to get people to pick up arms and begin HoP time. Banning coffee might just do it.
Professional parasite.
I.E., anyone on a university salary, the Ponds Institute, ABC, WEF, etc.
They should bloody well hope not.
Without ‘the colony’ (which I imagine includes all of them) Aborigines (for whose cause I further imagine the act was meant to draw attention) will not have the benefits (or receive benefits) provided by the colony.
They will have to go back to the precarious nomadic hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
Thing is that there would seem to be very little enthusiasm for that. I have not heard of any turning their back on their various interfaces with modernity – casting aside money, clothing, medicine, shops etc – to fully embrace a pre-contact life. It shouldn’t be hard. I few pointy sticks and napped stones are all you need. No infrastructure required. There is literally nothing to hold them back.
But they don’t do it.
Long live the colony!
Famous Quotes from 25 January, through the ages:
1788: Its only a 3 day walk from here to the West Coast. Once there we steal a gondola and row to India. A week tops. Who’s with me?
Anon Convict
Andrew Bolt:
One thing Mr Bolt, Labor and maths don’t belong in the same sentence. Or paragraph. Or universe.
But he will get a tongue bath at the National Press Club today and won’t be held accountable. Disgusting flogs.
Niall Ferguson in the link listed here earlier, discussing his essay on ‘The Treason of the Intellectuals’, which takes its name from a book of the same title published about the rise of Nazism and the expulsion of Jewish professors from German universities. The sad truth is that Nazism arose initially as a set of theories about Jewishness in these advanced universities where you had to study if you wanted to be at the forefront of science and technology in the 20’s and 30’s. Getting rid of a category of senior professors opened up the way for a new generation to be employed if they thumped the anti-Semitic tub. Rather like the radical generation of the sixties, of which I was once a part, cynical at heart myself though due to different earlier life experiences than my new student peers.
He puts the shift as ramping up in the past ten years. That is true, because look at where we are today with tweenies and other very young adolescents demonstrating for ‘climate’ and for Hamas; the results are in for the percolation of woke ideology into the teaching staff via the education bureaucracies and unions, as Shari Markson’s sleuthing demonstrated well this last week.
Having last been in the academy last twenty-two years ago, I can vouch that the ideology of sloughing off anyone to the right in academia was already in play in arts and humanities, with the routinizing of the students movement of the 60’s into the academic appointments of the 70. Opportunism over appointments became the name of the staffing game, playing out by the 1980’s into the chancelleries, which then ensured a cascade through to all faculties, not just the arts and education faculties from which this very unnuanced and ignorant but ‘righteous’ sounding ideology emanated.
Now we have full blown progressivism infecting everyday life in all of its aspects. The spurious twin canons of climate change and settler colonialism must be recognise and opposed. The start is, as Liz Storer said last night on Sky’s Late Debate, to recognise the string-pullers with great economic wealth who send CEO’s of companies under their control messages about ‘leading’ the masses into sunlit uplands devised by these powerful elites. Hello, Woolworths hapless CEO and subsidiaries.
Ferguson shows you don’t have to be a card-carrying Nazi to behave like one.
Hello, M0nty too.
What is an “editor at large” Tom? Just a title to make them feel superior to mere columnists?
Those flood affected Australians are not in Labor electorates so what they think or need does not move the needle with the Albo government.
Is tea a problem?
Job for today: build a flag pole for front of house.
DrBeauGan, most of the media were almost born yesterday so they don’t know any better, they have been imbued with the climate change religion all their lives. Deprogramming them is going to be one hell of a battle.
Tinkering with the cutting of the national economic pie is an Argentinian solution. It does nothing to enhance and increase productivity and the growing of that pie.
Australian manufacturing is falling into an energy-less heap, just as it is in America, but we are much smaller, can sustain less of this, and also, we don’t have a Trump coming to save us. Dutton had better step right up or we are done.
‘The Treason of the Intellectuals’ that I’m familiar with was written by Julien Benda about the rise of the reactionary right in 1920s France.
Most of us didn’t particularly enjoy it.
Dot
If Digger hasn’t written a book, I would strongly encourage him to do so.
As fortune would have it, I have written a book and just had a second print run here in Tassie.
It is titled “Bubbles, Booze, Bombs & Bastards, A Clearance Divers Story”
About 10 Cats have purchased a copy. I have sold them all personally and can be contacted at [email protected] if you are interested…
Argentinian Peronesque , the old-style that is, Albanese’s largesse, not Javier style. 🙂
We will be in Argentina after Brazil and before Chile this coming March.
Looking forward to seeing how South America fares these days.
I’d like to see a reality T.V. show on that theme…how we lived in 1769.
Damnfine reading, indeed!
I see your agenda contributors and raise you some noise vigilantes.
I am just finishing a book , editing at the moment a romance genre for oldies That genre is the largest selling and as writers comment usually about 30 year olds never anyone older,so here is mine .Both past their use by date , a bible reference is the clue , and met during lockdown for Covid . However as all romances go plagued by the issues of our age group , the protagonists well here is how I described
Tom one night appeared on her door step but Tom came with baggage , a lifetime’s accumulated and hoarded.
As a retired psychologist I dealt with these issues in the novel and it has almost become a self help but steamy That is a prerequisite these days . Thinking about problems in families , name me one that does not have some dysfunction the theme running through book is the lack of information given to carers firstly about the condition and secondly how to care , deal or understand behaviour that is part of the mental or even health issues of today.
Although information is on reliable sites these days eg Mayo or Johns Hopkins the majority do no research . BT W I handed out information to my clients and families when I was working .
This now gets me back to the complaints about problem people , a product of nuture ie parenting , bringing up and genetic predisposition nature . The hand of cards we are all dealt . Some people get shit hands and do not have help , skills to do anything but survive the best they know how .
Unfortunately given the rubbish our kids are learning these days there will be many problems throughout life.
Lizzie for one has shared her life with us not all families have a Lizzie .
Re book Ihave a first editor who described it as Fabulous and other supporters years younger who have read some of book too and encouraging me and an interested publisher.
Yes, that’s the one Ferguson refers to for his title. I haven’t read it nor his essay, but the discussion in the link is about parallels with the rise of cancel culture in the West now.
The German universities were used as an example in the discussion because in the 20’s and 30’s they were the dominant intellectual force for PhD study, taking in students from Britain and the rest of Europe. There is more to Benda’s book than this, of course, and also Niall’s essay.
‘The Colony Will Fall’. FMD.
How the vandals wish to have this occur remains unexplored. They need to have all benefits of living in this country removed then see how they go living the traditional hunter gatherer life.
T S Eliot often referenced Benda’s work in the ’20s & ’30s. That particular work, his most famous in English translation, predated the Nazis by some six or seven years.
I haven’t read Ferguson’s essay….is it available on-line?
LOL re ISIS.
Dunno.
Paul Kelly is editor-at-large of the Paywallian. It just means he used to be the editor.
It’s another professional affectation like “emeritus”, which just means the inner clique (are possibly forced to) bow down to you.
Dr Faustus
Jan 25, 2024 10:03 AM
Poms.
Obsessed with incest.
Does it start with the buggery at school?
Most of us didn’t particularly enjoy it.
Dr Faustus,
I Thought the comment at 1 min 03 secs was standard practice
General Melchett visits the troops – Blackadder – BBC
Good to hear Min. Hope the lolly shop is getting some attention.
With Bruce Pascoe as Special Adviser.
Because they wouldn’t dare show it as it was.
DrF, was it the incest or the buggery?
Watched the 5th season of FARGO .. methinx I’m getting too old for these over-the-top crime gore fests ..! starts off OK but by episode 5 credibility has been abandoned and we’ve entered the crime/law enforcement fantasy regions .. watchable but 10 episodes, probably, 4 more than needed .. also noticed from the credits that the Cohen Bros aren’t involved anymore .. might explain the we-isn’t-really-serious scripting …
If you’ve enjoyed the Fargo series then worth the time but nowhere near the 1st couple for viewing enjoyment …… 6/10
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_q_fargo%25205
Digger’s book is well worth a read…lotsa adventures, and an insight into a very tough bunch of clearance divers…
Fair Shake: Job for today: build a flag pole for front of house.
Knew a bloke up north that got one in. From memory it was about $350 installed and ready to go.
Must see what current prices are…
Interesting it should coincide with this:
Turkey Approves Sweden’s Accession To NATO After 20 Month Delay (24 Jan)
Quid pro quo? Turkey would dearly like the US out of Syria so they can have a free hand against the Kurds (plus a bit of nice neo-Ottoman expansion).
Fair Shake: Job for today: build a flag pole for front of house.
Knew a bloke up north that got one in. From memory it was about $350 installed and ready to go.
Will do the same.
Grey Ranga How did you know about the loony shop ?
Why Has Bill Gates Spent $113 Million on Nebraska Farmland?
Only if you go to the right ones.
Top ender. Am doing a temporary hack jib this year.
PVC pipe in a bucket of quick set concrete. Found some plans online.
Also at the bottom of link page there is a video DIY permanent one from the US which I will have a crack at for next year. Materials should no more than $150 plus flag (pre AI*) Gotta get dial before you dig sorted first.
*Albo Inflation
The Bee
Supreme Court Rules It’s Illegal For National Guard To Guard Nation
…hack job…
Well I won’t be flying Boeing 737-Max or Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Spirit & Boeing have different quality control systems and niether can access the other?
Boeing’s Quality Management Failure Explained 737-Max-9 Door 24 Jan 2024
From the Comments
– If the Board of Boeing can pay former CEO Dennis Muilenburg $62 million but can’t oversee 4 bolts being fitted to a removed door plug, they need to go.
– As I remember it, Spirit initially was a Boeing plant that was spun off into a separate company – presumably as a cost cutting measure. How they can now have two incompatible QC systems is just incomprehensible.
– Wow – my acquisition training over 20 years in the Air Force, it was axiomatic that is far easier, less expensive etc etc to do things right the first time – to build quality in, than to cut corners in a misguided attempt to improve schedule and reduce costs and fix it later. So difficult, and costly, to attempt to fix quality after the fact.
– It’s beyond belief that they appear to have had incompatible data architectures behind their QA processes. Edit: How can they track the history, maintenance, status, dependencies, etc, of any component, and its relationships to any other component, if they are described differently in each system? – as you go on to explain.
– It’s pretty screwed up when Spirit has to have a full time crew there in Seattle to fix what should have been done correctly the first time in Kansas. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper to have dedicated inspectors be allowed to do their job the way they’re supposed to without management screwing it all up. Stupid begats more stupidity. Remember folks, the guys with the wrenches should be responsible for keeping their nuts and bolts properly tightened. That Simple!! Great Video Juan!!!
It is possible to combine the two, as Wodney will tell you.
‘Downfall’ Director Rory Kennedy on the Importance of Retelling the Story of the Boeing 737 Max Crashes
DrBeauGan, most of the media were almost born yesterday so they don’t know any better, they have been imbued with the climate change religion all their lives. Deprogramming them is going to be one hell of a battle.
My project is to attempt to “de-programme” granddaughter. After completing her HSC, she has just returned from a Bali holiday – planned & paid for (with P/tT jobs) by herself. She is one hell of a an 18 year old. Not going to be easy to convince her of anything – as everyone says she is a mini version of me.
“Climate Scientist” Promoted by Danny Akin at SEBTS Has Pagan Ritual Performed Over Her at World Economic Forum
Texas Governor Greg Abbott Releases Statement: “I have declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself”
Ambulances are killing the planet.
Ambulances, yes ambulances, are switching to ‘eco-friendly’ fleets (24 Jan)
Be prepared to be rescued by very short paramedics with small feet, then expect to die when the battery goes flat on the way to the hospital.
Polio vaccines introduced RSV into populations and now Pfizer’s RSV vaccines carry health risks
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=problems+south+carolina+boeing+787&ia=web
From Bard
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, assembled at the company’s North Charleston, South Carolina facility, has faced several challenges in recent years, particularly related to production and quality issues. Here’s a summary of the main problems:
1. Production Flaws and Groundings:
2019-2021: Gaps were discovered in the fuselage joins and faulty titanium parts were found, leading to a 19-month grounding of all 787s worldwide. This significantly impacted airlines and caused financial losses for Boeing.
2023: New issues emerged, including improperly installed shims and problems with the horizontal stabilizer in the tail section. While not immediate safety concerns, these issues again delayed deliveries and caused production slowdowns.
2. Parts Delays and Supply Chain Issues:
Delays in receiving major parts from suppliers, particularly Spirit AeroSystems, have further disrupted production and slowed down assembly lines in North Charleston.
Image of Spirit AeroSystems factoryOpens in a new window
These delays are attributed to a combination of factors, including the pandemic, labor shortages, and the ongoing recovery of the aerospace industry.
3. Impact on South Carolina:
The 787 production issues have had a significant impact on the economy of South Carolina, where thousands of jobs are tied to the Boeing facility.
Layoffs and production slowdowns have ripple effects on other businesses and the overall economic climate.
4. Current status and future outlook:
Boeing has implemented new quality control measures and is working to address the identified problems.
Deliveries of 787s have resumed, but challenges remain, and full production recovery is still ongoing.
The long-term impact on the program and the future of 787 production in South Carolina is uncertain.
It’s important to note that these problems have not affected the safety of the 787 Dreamliner in operation.
Airlines continue to fly the aircraft safely and reliably.
However, the production issues have raised concerns about quality control and have had a significant impact on Boeing and the communities that rely on its operations.
I hope this summary provides a helpful overview of the challenges facing the Boeing 787 program in South Carolina.
Digger’s book is well worth a read…lotsa adventures, and an insight into a very tough bunch of clearance divers…
Second that TE. Two thirds through it atm. Bloody good read.
My understanding is the title is to give them licence to free range and keep an office. Like old law partners become consultants. Snoozer Kelly is pretty hit and miss – mainly miss if you ask me.
Min, you told us about the lolly shop.
I see the Victorian clowns were further afield:
a Queen Victoria statue near the Royal Botanic Gardens has also been splashed with red paint in a separate attack.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Canada’s Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau froze the bank accounts of 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protesters, claiming it was an emergency. But it wasn’t. And now, Public has proof that his government used faked intelligence to illegally frame protesting truckers as violent extremists.
Is the penalty for defacing a statue of Royalty still beheading?
2 articles. First detailing the idiot CEO of Woolworths, Daily Telegraph:
So through one side of his cakehole, Banducci sez it’s a commercial decision to not stock Australia Day shit, then through the other it’s because of feelz.
It’s one or the other dickhead.
I’m using the ABC News app’s headline:
Trump followed a victory with vitriol when his rival exposed his vulnerabilities
Hahahahaaa these chumps were all saying War Karen was going to win in NH! Cope cope cope.
lol. Sure. David Plouffe, legendary Democrat political strategist, is advising Nikki Haley’s campaign. Is that a semi-organised role?
lol!!! Look at the polls. The ‘moderate’ voters see what is going on. It’s obvious to anyone who isn’t a hardcore Democrat or anti-Trumper that he is being politically persecuted and these star chamber trials confirm this view. They help him.
What next? Is this moron going to dust off the old ‘suburban women’ bugaboo?
The ABC correspondent needs to get out of DC, watch something other than CNN/ MSNBC and read beyond WaPo/ NYT. Not that they will.
Albanese’s version of integrity comes with a means test – Paywalled Print Friendly not working
The prime minister gave copious reasons why Labor should honour the stage three tax cuts. Then he went and backflipped anyway.
Phillip Coorey Political editor
Anthony Albanese came to office promising to restore integrity to politics. What he failed to mention was that his version of integrity came with a means test.
Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers first tested the waters last year when they broke the unambiguous pre-election promise of no changes to superannuation taxes and doubled the tax on earnings on the balance of funds above $3 million. (To give it a veneer of defensibility, the change will not take effect until after the next election.)
While the measure, without indexation, could be a time bomb for some Millennials and subsequent generations, very few people were immediately affected – meaning, in crude political terms, the government got away with it.
The broken promise on the stage three tax cuts is of a significantly more egregious nature – but again, Albanese and Chalmers will be relying on the same mechanism to buttress the fallout: the politics of envy.
Overall, vastly more people – almost nine in 10 taxpayers – will benefit from the broken tax promise than be adversely affected, and, just as with high-balance super accounts, the government anticipates little sympathy for the so-called wealthy for not receiving all they were promised.
Aspiration is not part of this government’s vernacular – not right now at least.
Albanese, who in opposition repeatedly branded Scott Morrison as a liar, will now be similarly branded by his detractors.
About 5 per cent of taxpayers earn over $180,000 and the top 10 per cent – those earning about $140,000 and above – pay half of all income tax collected.
Ending the politics of envy and division was something else the prime minister vowed to do upon taking office, but he has now implicitly enlisted them as bedfellows after embarking on the greatest gamble of his prime ministership thus far.
While the broken promise is on par with Paul Keating’s L.A.W. tax cuts, Julia Gillard’s “no carbon tax” breach, and Tony Abbott’s 2014 budget, the fallout will be less widespread because the other three broken promises affected all cohorts.
Poll-driven about-face
Yet, the about-face smells of being poll-driven. Albanese had long fought internally against Chalmers and others who, in both opposition and government, wanted to pare back the tax cuts.
In opposition, Labor held its nose and voted for the tax cuts so as not to be wedged on tax. Subsequently, Albanese argued that keeping the promise was important if his government wanted to restore integrity and be trusted with another term or two in government.
Indeed, this was a key message of his speech to the ALP national conference last year.
“Put simply, we seek long-term government, because it’s the difference of whether we shape the future or the future shapes us,” he said.
“All of this depends, of course, on bringing people with us on the journey, earning and repaying people’s trust…”
In October 2022, on the eve of his first budget, Chalmers agitated to pare back the tax cuts, but was unsuccessful.
One of those who resisted was Assistant Minister for Treasury Andrew Leigh. “We’re sticking to the plan we took to the election,” he said. “It’s important for the integrity of the democracy.”
In opposition, Albanese argued it would be unfair to stiff people after the election by breaking a promise and winding back the cuts. “They’ve been legislated. People are entitled to operate on the basis of that certainty,” he said.
The overarching danger
There are myriad other quotes that will be used to try and haunt him.
From hereon in, Albanese, who in opposition repeatedly branded Scott Morrison as a liar, will now be similarly branded by his detractors. Nothing he says can be trusted. Just another politician. That is the overarching danger – long after the tax cuts have been doled out and forgotten.
Peter Dutton, who was searching for a new foothold following the demise of the Voice, has ample new material to work with.
Albanese, who at least believes in this tax package much more than he ever did in stage three, needs to make the broken promise about salvation.
John Howard salvaged his raggedy first term in office by going back on his “never-ever” GST promise. He was smashed up over it, but he also found his voice because he finally got to argue for something he believed in. Howard got his mojo back.
The key difference is that Howard had the good grace to take his GST plan to an election and receive a mandate. Even so, he just scraped across the line.
The urgency to get on the front foot over the cost of living does not give Albanese that choice. He’s backed a horse called Risk.
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Big story here from @MaryMargOlohan. The ADL has been urging law enforcement to open investigations into me, Chris Rufo, and others they have deemed “extremists.” This is an explicit attempt to use state force to shut down opposing speech at gunpoint.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
He even takin on the Breakfast Club now! @VivekGRamaswamy is a public relations supersoldier extremophile you can drop him on any planet & he will debate all that ecosystem’s sentient life forms until they love him
Nothing I’ve seen in the last 11hrs contradicts the above.
Then Terry McCrann under the heading Albanese, Chalmers the new bracket creeps:
Many First Australians will turn out tomorrow at Australia Day celebrations.
None of the original inhabitants of this country seems to have been present around the flagstaff at Port Jackson in the evening of January 26 when an assembled group drank success to the new colony.
(Early the next day fishing parties met with natives who appeared friendly.)
If there are any new records around re the 26th January 1788, I’d like to see them.
Crossie
It would take exactly 30 seconds if Dutton promised all load shedding would occur in Green/Teal electorates and that those electorates would be the only places where solar and wind farms would be built.
Well done, Min. Even in our eighties we are not done yet.
As for my life’s story, people in the know do sometimes suggest I write it out. It could be of interest as a tale of of its times, with some unusual aspects back into the Second World War, one immigrant family’s long day’s journey into night in Australia. Our own particularly hellish East of Eden. The lure of the sunlit uplands, as I sometimes call them.
I would want it to be something more than a whinge-fest. Perhaps more episodic than narrative, if it was to cover a lifetime.
Too hard basket, I sometimes think. Too broad a field. And I could write a whole book on living with familial autism and mental illnesses and drug abuse which would sell, but only cover ground already trod by many.
More to the point, I’ve some other interesting things to say about the Arthurian legends yet, striking into a popular vein of the Grail, for a book or another sort of article, a popularising one, as I think it’s far too speculative for Quadrant, where I have published my main and very substantiable Arthurian thesis.
What I found fifteen years ago is a little hidden church on what was once a small island in England’s depressed regional north coast. It set me off into serious Arthurian scholarship, but I’ve done enough of that now. A romantic quest now calls. Could this be the place where some of this mythology arose? Legendary materials do support this thesis. There’s a challice embedded in a wall of the nave there, just visible through glass It was found in an early grave beneath the south wall of this anglo-saxon church, built on the site of what is now believed to be an older and very early monastic foundation, the grave found during nineteenth century extensions to the footprint. It has the exact siting (south east corner of an old wattle aad daub church) that legends claim was the gravesite of Joseph of Arimathea, and other Glastonbury legends apply more to this area than Glastonbury. One could even speculate whether Christ himself walked this island’s field. Certainly many believe that St. Patrick did. The C19th Rector, when Arthur was not an ancient god but still no more than an heroic British king in England’s south, reburied the remains and kept the challice, of pewter, which now disintegrates in its tiny cubby hole in this small corner of the west of England where noone goes, in a place noone ever thought Arthurian legends might have originated when this Victorian Rector re-embombed this possible grail cup. Yet it is in an area where many of Marcus Aurelius’ Samartians settled, adding their own Arthurian-style legends to existing tales of Arthurian Avalon, their visions enhanced by their religious use of marihuana (there is evidence they grew marihuana during the Roman warm period in the local area). This infilled island could once have been mythical Avalon, for it bore that name in Roman times. Tales of an apostolic settlement somewhere in the West of England as early as 60AD still linger, misplaced to Glastonbury; could it have been here? Some very unusual undatable but ancient rock-cut graves in a spectacular setting might even be part of the mystery. There’s also a local hierglyph maze, of Mycenean origin, carved into the rock on the island’s beachhead cliff, similar to several others in Britain, as this island has a very ancient deep-water port, rare in a coast of tidal saltbush swamps. It was known in the Mediterranean since ancient times to tin-traders who also ventured further up the coast to the copper mines of Llandudno, all very near to the Anglesey stronghold of the druids. In fact, just above this church, is a ‘druid’s stone’, an ancient altar missed by the Romans who destroyed these wherever they found them; there are also barrow graves (mostly demolished into footprints now) reminiscent of those at Sutton Hoo.
I amuse myself with these things. Most people want me to write a bio. But why do that? Time is short and I still have a lot of life to live with Hairy, travel too.
Good on you Min for following your instincts and getting ready to publish.