“Keane also mentioned that Hegseth had extensive combat experience.” Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has two Bronze Stars.
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Like the Israelis, they are a Semitic people and entitled to control their ancestral land.” Crete?
Numbers Bob comment over at Michael Smith. The article about Penny Mong voting for Pally Statehood. Is he an early…
Similar to having a road network that doesn’t connect two towns A & B 200 km apart – meaning you…
Is that out of Beau Geste? Enemy at the Gates in this case. Best part of the whole movie with…
Probably moisturiser.
First day in Rome
Mass at 40 Martyrs
Coffee at Giseldas
Vodafone €50 (cash only) for a tourist sim, I feel like I should try a Lebara but what’s done is done. I actually had to go back and get them to reconfigure as though it worked for a bit, then it didn’t.
Walked though the Ghetto and visited the Shoah museum, the current exhibition is ‘the nazi inferno’. Good to see school groups visiting. I sat and watched a gaggle of religious, some in purple shirts, many with outsize pectoral crosses walking through the ghetto, assumed they were Catholic until I spotted a female in a dog collar.
Ran into them again in St Bartholomew’s on the island, they were all sitting chatting waiting for a service to start, I snuck in and paid my visit but got bailed up by a woman inviting me to stay. I politely declined on the basis of previous attendance. It was something to do with the Community of St Giles and being filmed for posterity. I thought my dear PP would not have tolerated all that chatter, purple or no purple.
After a slightly disappointing lunch (trop de sel) I went in search of Tolkien, a bus here a walk there then another bus.
The modern art museum is enormous, the curators have chosen to display a ‘ collage’ of gilt framed 19th works in the main salon, interspersed with moving pictures, all the way up to the ceiling so impossible to view the works at the top, yet the other rooms were minimalist. Tres amusant.
Anyhow the Tolkien exhibition was very good, no shyness about emphasising the centrality of his Catholic faith to his life and work or that the books could not have been written as they were without hearth and home being essential to Tolkien. Lots of letters, artworks, including illustrations from when The Hobbit was serialised in ‘Princess Magazine’ , editions of his works in many
languages. There was a section devoted to his visits to Italy and about the reluctant of the first Italian publisher approached to translate his books, Italians won’t be interested. A million copies sold in Italy by 1984.
Third most published books in the world, after the bible and koran.
I thoroughly enjoyed all of it.
Thanks again P for the hat tip.
Beautiful day after a cloudy morning, a trifle too warm perhaps. Shall be substituting sunglasses for the woolie hat today.
Australia Day.
Flag flying outside at 07:00AM. A bit late due to having to have a quick celebratory stubby while the bride was in the shower.
Off to mate’s place for a late breakfast – eggs & bacon rolls etc – washed down with beer and plonk. Discussion turned to Australia Day and activists – mate & his missus are a bit to the left of Ghengis whereas I’m to the right – but all agreed, fkuc ’em and all their opm sucking agencies.
Discussion turned to Captain Cook and his incredible sailing, navigation and mapping skills and some of the literature detailing those feats. No argument.
Happy Australia Day – a day to be celebrated on 26 January each year.
Never seen Novak make so many unforced errors.
Maybe he should have gotten the jab?
🙂
He seemed to think the Teal electorates would go with Dutton because they are conservative. I’ve got news for you sunshine. Those Teal seats are dripping wet greenie coz they can afford to be.
yep no effing idea- I could see this coming over ten years go catching the train to Brighton Beach with fancy Edwardian mansions sporting green agitprop. I think Kroger needs to get out more but it’s a bit late now.
Djoker’s in trouble.
The young Kraut Italian is moving quicker and smacking it harder.
There’s still hope but tough from two down.
Isn’t Kroger the one who hugged Fraser when he had his blub in 1983?
Windies 9/301.
Sooky McCheat will be a tad nervous. The expectation to make 200 on his own against the West Indies attack will be crushing.
Intently looking forward to an almost immediate failure.
Steve trickler
Jan 26, 2024 2:03 PM
I’m only halfway through it and already agree.
I might even carry the link over to this page for the viewing convenience of others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpFaOKK4Qk
Great paper from the GWPF on hurricanes: no trend and no support for alarmism:
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/01/Hurricanes-2023-Season.pdf?mc_cid=9095f92903&mc_eid=170323d89f
The evidence against AGW is overwhelming but shits like blackout bowen and in fact every government in the West still pushes on with this crap.
You mean it is pre-breathed? Not fresh and new?
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Farmer Gez
Jan 26, 2024 4:17 PM
Djoker’s in trouble.
The young Kraut Italian is moving quicker and smacking it harder.
Interesting that during Covid his manager concentrated on him learning Novak’s game & copying it. Even so, Novak is making what seems like an awful lot of unforced errors.
Seems fairly cool in Rome now Rosie according to Windy.com 6-8 deg C. Great place- never disappointed
Isn’t Kroger the one who hugged Fraser when he had his blub in 1983?
Kroger is a typical modern conservative: gutless; talks tough and does SFU. I remember back in 2009 when the climate sceptics were holding rallies, he turned up at one, looked condescending and left despite being asked to talk. The fact that a number of Sky announcers use him as their go to for conservative takes tells me the media in this dump is at the same level as the conservative political parties, which is to say cowering under a rock.
In school in the early 1950s we studied a few Australian radio plays all published in one book. One was about Captain Cook’s voyage. Does anyone else know of this publication?
Their ABC – piece by Janet A in the Oz.
Anyone able to copy/paste. Would be appreciated.
Legacy meja is a lost cause but unfortunately it still has a lot of influence. I hope it dies sooner rather than later.
So they still got a permission from a “custodian”. Things will be normal when anyone can rock up, park their car and go for a walk.
No, the bloody nose will be on the US’s face.
There will be no decapitation, and the only result of any such attempt will be further degradation of the US’s position in the region.
Nice ending to the innings. Spin bowler Kevin Sinclair hits a six off of Goat for a fifty in his first ever Test innings, then is last man out next ball. Damn fine work sir, remember to tell your grandkids!
I think he earns about 100K a year salary. He also lives rent free in an apartment in the building provided for him, and *Christmas bonus would be about 30 plus by my estimate. He’s on a decent wicket when you add it up.
*35 floors X 3 apartments handing out 300 bucks on average for the Christmas bonus
Scotty Boland no doubt will have some more dreamtime advice for peewee smith after his early dismissal.
What idiot would wear a balaclava and an all black ensemble in 35-40 degree weather?? If these are nazis then they are the ones the SS used as cannon fodder.
Also if the cops could stop this lot, why cant they do the same to the Arab genocidists who rally in the City every Sunday?? Just asking why the different treatment?
Kroger has lost it. Much diminished from his Dollar Sweets days of fighting unions.
Police in this country certainly nailing their colours to themast.
NSW HAMAS/Leb escort service move on some guys guarding the CAPT Cook statue in SYD.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13008101/Aussie-patriots-try-guard-Captain-Cook-statue-attempt-turned-massive-failure-police-called-in.html
My point, if they’re in danger caution them and say Police may not be able to assist. Then up to them if they stay. We all know cops will do two fifths of f all against righties being assaulted by lefties. That boat sailed years ago.
USA trying to contain Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, dedollarization, BRICS…
KD – you just missed out on the duck.
Dead set plumb – a desperate wasted review by sandpaper cry boy.
Opening job is working a treat.
Cryon De Telli gawn for six!
LBW.
And, of course, he burns a review.
Happy Straya Day xunt!
The Hooties know what nationality because the Chinese and Russian vessels broadcast it via their AIS.
It helps that Sea Legend has a PLA escort – just in case the nearest Hootie tinnie can’t afford a $200 AIS receiver.
Oh my lord. Oh my LORD.
Labbashagnee gone as well! 2/11.
Straya!
Speaking of Geoffrey Blainey whom I hold in very high regard, I can recall him saying in the early 80s that 26/1 was the wrong date. He was a meja darling until his wrong speak/thought crime in 1984.
Can’t comment on McCheat just yet.
Laughing far too hard.
Regarding shenanigans in North Sydney – about an hour ago there was something like a dozen police cars tearing along Spit Rd, sirens wailing, toward The Spit – heading to Northern Beaches.
It looked like a pursuit, sure enough.
No idea what they were racing to, but I wonder if it is at least connected to what happened at the station.
Southerly changes are fun. Temperature down from 40.5 at 4 pm to 29.1 C at 4:30 pm.
The Cafe birdies will be much happier, there were half a dozen cockies, two kookas, a currawong and several noisies panting and looking miserable in the shady back tree. They didn’t want to come out all afternoon despite offers of food.
LOL, its obvious you’re trying to make US inability to re-open the Red Sea appear like a win for the US here. You’re not fooling anyone here, JC.
Sounds like cope to me.
Certainly cope.
You’re telling me that the Houthis have been so effective that all the large carriers, bulk and containers, are rerouting away from the Red Sea, because the City said so and this contradicts my argument. Are you in post-Pavlova sugar-induced coma?
Dear oh dear.
For Barking Toad
Kim Williams has his work cut out at the ABC
Announcing that Kim Williams would be the new chairman of the ABC, the Prime Minister said that “Kim is such a perfect fit for the role, it’s almost as if it were made for him”.
Oh dear. Labor’s “perfect fit” for the big corner office at the national broadcaster is unlikely to be what the rest of us have in mind when we think of what is required to turn this mediocre media goliath into a professional, impartial media organisation that genuinely reflects the diversity of this country. Not just the gender, sexual, racial and religious diversity. But more importantly, the diversity of opinions among ordinary Australians. That remains the deepest flaw of the ABC. It is still not our ABC, and yet we are forced to pay for it.
As a former ABC board member, I have seen up close, sometimes too close, how the more canny members of the ABC staff try to seduce new additions to the board. Worse, I have seen how the love-bombing and duchessing has worked, particularly on the most senior member of the board.
Current chair Ita Buttrose certainly seems to have fallen victim to this. Under her watch, the ABC has gone from bad to worse, with more activism emanating from the inner-city studios.
Regional ABC output is streaks ahead, but that doesn’t undo the damage done by the high-profile ABC journalists who think their job is to tell us what to think about climate change, about immigration, about tax policy, about the voice, about the #MeToo movement, and on and on it goes.
Forget the early words from incoming chairmen and women. We’ve heard them laud impartiality, professionalism, intellectual curiosity, balance before. Words mean nothing until we see what they do in the job.
Williams’ first decision will be who to back in this ridiculous staff revolt. Does the former News and Foxtel executive support the staff demand for a more pro-Hamas stance? Or does he back his hapless chief executive David Anderson?
It’s a no-brainer. In what other serious organisation do staff get to pass a no-confidence motion in the chief executive? This Mickey Mouse sort of nonsense exists only at the ABC.
If, as ABC chairman, Williams has higher ambitions than becoming another patsy of activist ABC journalists, he will need to take a stance early. And here it is, landing in his lap as he unpacks his briefcase. He must side with Anderson in this stoush.
Williams needs to understand that the Israel-Hamas war is simply the latest and most colourful flashpoint of the enduring sense of entitlement among many ABC journalists who think that they should be running the taxpayer-funded organisation to suit their personal political, social and cultural mores.
This latest revolt by staff is simply another, albeit more overt, demand that they should get to reinterpret the ABC Charter in a way that allows them to call the shots on our dime.
We’ve seen it so often. The ABC’s second-rate and mostly non-existent coverage of serious issues raised by the voice proposal is the second most recent example. In that case, the staff won. And the result was that Australians did not learn the truth about the risks raised by a constitutionally entrenched voice from the national broadcaster.
Once he has seen off the staff’s pro-Gaza revolt, the larger issue for Williams, as new chairman, should be to tackle the mediocre management under Anderson.
Under Anderson, the ABC has suffered serious management bungles, corporate governance disasters, editorial bungles, and flailing engagement. Yet Williams has had his hands deliberately tied. As new chairman, he should have had a say in appointing a new chief executive.
There was a real opportunity for the ABC to reflect all Australians. That appears to be the last thing management or the board wanted.
Retiring chairwoman Buttrose and the ABC board decided to reappoint Anderson to a new five-year term – secretly – earlier this year.
Australians who pay the wages of ABC staff only learned about this secret reappointment – made more than a year before his contract was due to expire – when other media outlets exposed it.
On behalf of millions of Australians hoping for a genuinely more professional, impartial, informative ABC, let’s hope that Williams can work some magic when dealing with more than 100 staff members in open revolt and a managing director who has already signalled his surrender to them.
Oh dear.
Janet Albrechtsen, Columnist
There was a marxist putsch in the US in 2020 but I don’t really regard the old perv in the Whitehouse as a socialist or a marxist. Biden is just an evil old pay to play crook. A dead soul, a dirty old grub.
KD @ 11:21
I’ve been saying this sort of thing for nearly 20years wrt science and the AGW fraud.
One day something really serious will be on the horizon and people will not listen.
Go the West Indies! The woke Ozzie team is now 4 for 24.
4/24.
Green dollies it up to mid-off. The Green at 4 and Smith opening gambit (to please Smith) is having its tits torn open and thrown over the fence.
Immediately followed by Travis Head nicking off down the leg side for a golden blob.
The selectors would have sphincters going five-cent fifty-cent at present.
Thanks Walker @04:51. Much appreciated.
Don’t mess with Texas …!
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Regarding shenanigans in North Sydney – about an hour ago there was something like a dozen police cars tearing along Spit Rd, sirens wailing, toward The Spit – heading to Northern Beaches.
The Palestinian mob have apparently gone to Manly. Why Manly I don’t know.
Texas Places Razor Wire Around The Alamo For Final Stand Against Biden (24 Jan)
We shall see.
Janet A sums it up succintly.
And Kimeee being a softcock member of the establishment will wilt under any glare from the collective.
We’re going to suffer more of their ABC for a while.
Reposted for excellence:
Magnificent.
Minding reading isn’t a good response, Dover. It’s just mind-reading. I’m accurately explaining the US interests in responding to Tootsie attacks. It’s been US policy since WW2 even if it doesn’t directly impact immediate US interests.
The economic impact on the US is minimal. If Twitter’s Taurus the Warlord has a better explanation in that it does have a major impact on the US, then explain it because the mind-reading thing “isn’t fooling anyone.” The greater impact is on China, Asia, and European trade.
The debt-to-equity ratio with the large carrier is extremely high, which has been explained to you before. Insurance would be part of the loan agreements, and this and many other clauses mean the banks call the shots when there’s trouble. But of course, if Libra, the Red Sea Geographer, says something that favors your bias, then that’s where you head. And I’m not telling you anything that you’ve already told us before. The large carriers are re-routing through the Cape and began to do so in December.
No, I’m just avoiding getting all my news from Virgo on Twitter and running with it.
Try and stop it with the cope nonsense. I wouldn’t call it a win or a loss until the fat lady sings. You either have a plausible response or you don’t. The cope shtick is beginning to look like it’s the opposite—you’re not.
The Homeless Industrial Complex
Thanks JC. Things have changed.
We were on E92nd so a much smaller building. I don’t think that the Super and his two staff got any money from the landlord (I could be wrong). I do know that he had to bid for the job and it cost him serious money.
As I understand it, most of their money came from kick backs by contractors, cabbies, the car hire outfit across the street, and restaurants, after hours tips and parcel deliveries etc.
We only paid directly at Christmas, but it was an eyewatering amount. I can’t recall the figure, only the sinking feeling when writing the cheque. I think we might have also paid a small monthly amount in lieu of tips.
I do have to say that they worked long hours and bloody hard.
Now I hear that there was trouble at North Sydney, then a brawl at Manly. No details.
A group of neo-Nazis clad in black clothing and wearing balaclavas have been stopped by police on a Sydney train and banned from attending Australia Day events in the city.
Police swarmed North Sydney station on January 26 after the group of men – dressed head to toe in black and wearing balaclavas – was seen boarding at another station headed for the city.
Just reported on the Oz website.
Car loans and student loans are absolutely toxic as well, and much bigger in aggregate than a casual observer may realise.
There IS a reckoning coming. In Australia, public debt to GDP sits around 67% and 55% of new mortgages in 2021 – 2023 were from fraudulent applications, hundreds of thousands of loans already have and more will flip from 3% IO to 9% P&I this year.
There is only so many second jobs people can take, only so many new Ford Rangers people can sell to avoid foreclosure or so many calories you can skip before you have to sell up or beg your retired parents for a bailout.
It’s tough out there. Haven’t we been here before though?
132andBush
“I’ve been saying this sort of thing for nearly 20years wrt science and the AGW fraud.
One day something really serious will be on the horizon and people will not listen.”
Much of modern life could be improved by knowledge of the fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Bons
There was a huge scandal back in the 90s when one of the big managing agents were found to be taking kickbacks etc. I think it was Brown Harris and some of the employees may have got jail time. Fuzzy memory.
I don’t know if this constitutes a bribe, but it’s pretty damned close. We paid the super a bonus, when we did renos and the contractor had to as well. It was never demanded, but it’s the practice. That’s how things roll there and there’s no use whining about it.
Oh, one thing I left out was the possibility of kick backs to the super. I’d forgotten that one. 🙂
There was/is some sort of community pool and athletic on E92 that our kids used to go to. Can’t recall the name.
Now I hear that there was trouble at North Sydney, then a brawl at Manly. No details
Probably this.
I’m not mindreading, JC. The Houthis are engaging in a political campaign in the Red Sea. They are putting pressure on the US’s support for Israel through a blockade. You’re trying to ease the failure by saying this is only minimally economically impactful on the US. No one believed or has argued otherwise. They aren’t the principal targets.
How does any of the above support your position? Does it support the claim that shipping is still passing through the Red Sea? No. Does it indicate that the Houthis have successful established a high barrier for continued traffic in the Red Sea? Yes. In other words, it buttress’s my positon.
If you provide something to actually rebut, I do, see above. But given that you can’t seem to provide a response without complaining about the source and/or inventing new names for people, even when they are not mentioned, and only because they simply disagree with your position the ‘cope nonsense’ will continue when it is apt.
Dot
The RE loan issues are with the smaller US banks unless they’ve provided for it. I’m not sure. The large US are regulated to provide forward looking provisions in their quarterly, and most of the issue with office buildings would mean they’re reasonably well provided, if it’s needed at all.
These people have no idea what damage they’re doing to their cause.
Thousands of Invasion Day protesters swarm Parliament House as anti-Australia Day rallies are held across country (Sky News, 26 Jan)
By conflating aboriginality with Hamas-support they’re going to alienate lots of people. In the US a full 80% of poll respondents support Israel. Probably fairly similar here. Having tens of millions of Australians equating aboriginal rights with Hamas rapists and murderers is not going to go well for them at all.
Bloody Hell.
Now the rain is moving away from Barcaldine, and I was hoping to get some water on the patch down the back that is just sand and a couple of weeds.
I was in Melbourne CBD today. No Australian flags in Fed Square area nor Bourke St Mall. Absolute disgrace but not unexpected from a marxist city council. Suburbs have flags in most streets and glad to see several along the Monash Fwy. Strange times indeed.
Do AFP glowies get double time on public holidays?
Mmmyes.
Burnt specialist openers to acquiesce to Cryon De Telli’s cynical attempt to prolong his career by picking up cheap runs against the Windies.
The most prominent of those openers being Cameron Bancroft who told the truth about Captain Climate. That is, that he and the bowlers knew about the sandpaper stunt.
A soft, lazy shot to follow Green shelling one to mid-off in a fashion which cost Damien Martyn a looong career holiday.
Quite so.
They have painted themselves into a corner with this one.
Why are we getting cricket updates? The Cricket Aus and Captain Aus can go F themselves. Used to be a passionate cricket supporter. Im done with that sport and have not watched an over this summer.
Full disclosure, my interest wained when M Clarke was made Captain Australia.
You were before but let’s leave that aside.
The Tootsie position is unclear as it’s been from the beginning. One day, they’re claiming the Red Sea is being molested because of Saudi behavior and the next day they saying it’s about Israel.
They’ve said they will punish any shipping from Israel friendly countries. What happens to a Chinese ship moving cargo from Germany to China?
Who knows?
The MSM has a credibility problem, but I don’t think that in this case there’s a problem because it appears to be simple reporting. There’s also a byline with the reporters name attached.
Who are these anonymous fcks on Twitter suddenly showing up as experts?
This is what I’ve been recently responding to:
US interests in the Red Sea appears to be mostly altruistic.
Knuckle Dragger:
Told once before in the Aesops Fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Only this time it won’t be the boy who gets eaten, but the citizens who paid for the warning system.
Australia Day has gone a step further in proving that we are – with the help of dishonest media – going down the same slippery slope as the USA and others.
A tiny minority that has little public support is trying to stage an anti-democratic revolution against the majority.
The activists think they’re winning because they control a significant minority of the anti-democratic media, who are intent on trying to brainwash the public instead of doing their job reporting the news.
The activists think the public is stupid, can’t think for themselves and shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
The wannabe revolution is a fascist anti-democratic revolution and will fail in Australia as long as the fascists can’t rig the vote.
Happy Australia Day, Cats.
We just have to outlast the anti-democratic fascists.
No problem!
The updates are driven by the unbridled joy at watching Captain Carbon and the Climateers copping it up the arse.
Moore and Andy Crapp trying to outslag each other
Old Dog playing on Twitter.
Late to catch up with the piano player Brendan Kavanagh and his run in with CCP nut jobs in a London train station. They demanded not to be filmed whilst standing near his piano playing.
The female cop was a shocker but Brendan dealt with her brilliantly.
Brendan Kavanagh on Youtube will get you the full saga (8m + views so far) but also a summary in a Piers Morgan clip.
Very early in the morning Milton.
I’m anticipating clouds retreating and blue skies.
I am not really into watching cricket but for some reason really want the West Indies to win.
It looks like I’ve been accepted by Elsie.
Went for an Australia Day nap and woke up to find her nuzzled into my armpit.
She was just lucky I’d had a shower first after mowing the lawn.
I’m going to try a photo link thingy.
Why are we getting cricket updates? The Cricket Aus and Captain Aus can go F themselves.
Because of the chortling factor after a fair lash on Australia Day 🙂
It’s been clear from the outset. They declared they’re targeting the Israelis and that the blockade will end with a ceasefire. Chinese ships get safe passage. As do most other ships that abide by certain conditions, like not hiding their info.
The numbers tell the story.
Is Sal M anonymous? Pilkington? No. Etc.
Sure. Their current failure is having no substantive impact on their prestige, and so on. Next you’ll be telling me they are in Iraq and Syria (but not much longer) for altruistic reasons.
Capt Climate and 80000 years of 3rd nations spirit guides will get the Aussies home.
Simples, Bobbie – I’m not beholden to others’ o’pinions.
If they don’t like what I say, they’re welcome to post a counter argument. Or go the gutless downthumb option.
I’m not going to apologise or feel even slightly repentant for pointing out the bleeding obvious that Sydneystan and Mosquebourne are now basically third world hellholes.
Thanks to our beloved politicians, of course. 🙂
Elsie looks relaxed and comfortable.
You’ve got her RS.
Thanks to our beloved politicians, of course.
and the connivance of the canbra abomination
Much of modern life could be improved by knowledge of the fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Much would be gained by teaching kids the old fables, nowadays.
Tom, most revolutions are anti-democratic and always instigated by elites who think they deserve more power.
Anyone watching the cricket is missing out on the Outback Truckers binge watch on Foxtel 131, which has been going since 2pm.
… to the Cold Chisel soundtrack.
“Gerbil Broiling!”
Trigger warning: Hideously uglee morbidly obese ol’ collectivist dinobore …
Definitely. Funny how the police are on the trail of this person but completely disinterested in the vandals who cut down Captain Cook’s statue and painted the QV statue. That’s how you lose even more public respect.
That’s rather naive of you Dover.
Tom, most revolutions are anti-democratic and always instigated by elites who think they deserve more power.
yes sure seems like it- all the leftie scum here who went to Barker, Knox, Geelong Grammar, Scotch and PLC.
Yes.
I apologise if I gave the impression that I was anything but ecstatic that Captain Carbon and the Climateers were copping a pasting after dispensing free advice about Australia Day.
4-44 when I last looked.
Magnificent stuff.
“GreyRanga
Jan 26, 2024 12:17 PM
Pogria, you reminded me of my maternal grandmother who died when I was 3. She had all kinds of berries growing in her backyard. We’ve lost a lot by using store brought produce. While writing this I can smell the jam on the coal range. My neice is the spitting image of my grandmother, at any age a photo of them is exactly the same. I see my wife looking at our grandchildren the same as nana did to me.”
Grey Ranga,
thank you for such a lovely comment. you have topped off my very great Australia Day. 😀
Bourne1879
Jan 26, 2024 6:14 PM
Late to catch up with the piano player Brendan Kavanagh and his run in with CCP nut jobs in a London train station. They demanded not to be filmed whilst standing near his piano playing.
The female cop was a shocker but Brendan dealt with her brilliantly.
Brendan Kavanagh on Youtube will get you the full saga (8m + views so far) but also a summary in a Piers Morgan clip.
They have all been identified. CCP scum.
With a bit o’ “chin muzak” hurled in for good measure … 🙂
Former 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan drops a bombshell on VSRF
Pick a Dub, Mon … 😕
Every day
A new day …
GreyRanga
Ask them my favourite question:
“Granted all your wishes, where do you see yourself/Australia/The world in ten years time?” Explain the mechanism and justify the actions you will need to get there.”
Trump Is Not the Cause of the Chaos
One wonders how grievance industries fair in resource-challenged nations like Somalia, for example? Leaving aside religion and copious small arms, the less-than-abundant resources (comparative to Australia, that is) are probably not conducive to morally-disguised theft at scale.
If any Cats are searching for something to watch, Netflix has a rather good movie called The Professor and the Madman. It’s the dramatisation of Winchester’s The Surgeon of Crowthorne.
I read the book years ago and only realised the movie was based on it when they started discussing the formation of the Oxford Dictionary. It melded well with Rosie’s Tolkien exhibition, as he was a contributor.
Excellent acting from Sean Penn and Mel Gibson, playing Minor and Murray. Jennifer Ehle is Mrs Murray. And Lawrence Fox is perfect as his wicked alter ego.
Watch it if you can.
When they go to the Supreme court for the right to remove razer wire at the southern border, there’s no doubt whatsoever that it’s being deliberately engineered.
Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered
Sydney cops issue a banning notice on some anglo-saxon, banning him from entering the City of Sydney council for the rest of the day.
The cops list of reasons for banning him apply ten times as much to attendees of regular anti-Jew rallies that have been held since 9th of October.
Yet the cops play Three monkeys to those rallies (deaf, blind, mute).
If any Cats are searching for something to watch, Netflix has “The Fall of the House of Usher”.
Just Bloody Magnificent.
Thanks to big fat staggeringly stupid Goose Morristeen and various other bat ‘flu hitlerists …
Road trip today from Sydney to Nambucca Heads.
Many, many Australian flags noticeable along the way, on cars, roadside businesses and homes.
Dinner at Nambucca Heads RSL, with Australian flag themed decorations (banners, staff dress). Each child given a small Australian flag on a stick.
Up the hill around the corner from the RSL, Woolworths is trading, not a single Australian flag in sight (inside or outside the store).
F-k you, Woolworths.
A big fat braindead parasite purveying some Science!
Yes. And grateful, Grateful you were born here or arrived here. It’s our thanksgiving day. That was the conclusion of a rambling debate on where else those at table have lived and why they still call Australia home. We had a fabulous day with old friends, discussing old times and the latest. I love it when people first arrive, as they did today waving little Aussie flags, everyone so happy to greet with Happy Australia Day, and dragging in piles of first course and third course to save me the bother. The table for today was all set with Cole’s best memorabilia, and a very fine show of flags and kangaroos and plastic tablecloths it all made. Lots of edibles with little flags stuck into them as well. In the window I had placed Margaret Camberon Ash’s two books set in the vista beyond the windows – ‘Beating the French to Botany Bay’ and especially ‘Lying for the Admiralty’. Both have since been borrowed by guests with promises to return them.
Our flag hung from our new glass verandah rails and while it got caught twisted in the wind a few times it still did a great job of waving along with us as two aircraft flew across dragging flags over the habour. We celebrated Australia Day like there was no tomorrow, so much good food, and good wine and friendly company.
Hope all here also caught some good vibes and ignored the naysayers who would like to ruin this day.
Old Ozzie, do tell that ten year old grandson that he might find it useful to look at why some people want to change this day and why some don’t and point out why you are on the side of the don’t. Stay calm though.
Then there is boredom. After attending their elite schools they thought they were entitled to a grand life but the reality usually falls far short of it for most of them. There are only so many top positions in corporations, organisations and the media while there are thousands of them. Run of the mill jobs are such a let-down that they must adopt a cause to feel about which to feel passionate.
Boambee John
Jan 26, 2024 12:47 PM
That’s how I did it. 2 years of night school to get my educational certificate, while working full time at pipeline construction. Then 3 years of Student Nursing with 2 week education blocks, and 2.5 months on the wards.
Shit money, but worth it in the end.
If I can do it, starting at the age of 23, then anyone can.
Superior, rather than passionate?
It is human nature to want to feel that you are superior in some way, to at least one other person; that you are THE BOTTOM. Our egos and self-esteem demand it.
(I’ve learned over the past couple of years that humility is not a state you choose, but one that is dropped on you from a height, and adheres like a bucket of glue).
Masks like that are excellent intelligence tests. Could barely retain pollen, let alone a virus a thousand times smaller.
I find it fascinating the collapse of science and the understanding of it. Do not pass Go, go straight to mystical druidism.
“speed camera cars” are not works of yaart, just as phone booths were not.
Get over yourselves, hitlerists. A pissed orf taxpayer finally hit back (literally). Good on ‘im.
One thing with today’s group of friends, who are all getting older, is that a few of them have now given up drinking. I made my punch with Midori and Ginger Ale and kiwi fruits and mango, and pineapple juice, and freshly squeezed limes, in measured amounts, with a dash of Angostura bitter, but no Midori. I suggest people use a shot glass to throw some Midori into the mix once it was in a long glass for them, if they wanted an alcoholic punch. The Midori turns it all a different shade, nice.
None left, so that worked well. Of the punch. Still some Midori, but inroads have been made there too.
Djokovic is crook and has been for number of weeks.
Jim Courier noticed it early in the tournament and just stated “he’s not well”
He’s that good he got to the semis wrung out like a rag.
Oh, with added sparkling soda water and some ice cubes. Next time I might put some mint leaves in too as a garnish to each glass. It was a super refreshing drink for such a sticky hot day. I did add a spoonful of brown sugar too into the bowl, but that is optional.
I suggested – not suggest, as it was something I suggested at the time.
Now I think it is a good way to make a non-alcoholic drink as it allows people to have a drink ok for driving, and others can determine their own amount of alcohol
I know in cocktails the ‘structure’ of the mix is important so purists might be concerned, but after all, a punch is a punch, is a punch, stirred with a soup ladle, so not a cocktail.
Farmer Gez
Strangely enough, I was thinking of just that a few days ago.
It’s time we got a rule that accurately describes the different taxes. Stamp duty needs to be changed to “Permit to buy Prime Mover.”
There’s many more, but you get the drift.
Too many definitions of theft by deception.
Peter Turchin’s term for this is elite overproduction.
Captain Climate now in and copping a bit of that.
Except it isn’t muzak.
It is definitely heavy metal.
That photo worked. How do you do them?
Elsie is the most gorgeous cat, enjoy. She obviously knows a friendly armpit when she smells one. Don’t get too fond of her though as I think her real dad would probably like her back.
It’s not clear at all. Firstly, they’ve attacked shipping that logistically had no connection to their accusation. A Panamanian ship bound for Italy, which they said they believed was dropping off in Israel, was actually bound for Italy. Then there’s the example I brought up: what happens to a Chinese ship with German cargo bound for China? Germany, like many other Euros, is considered an Israeli pal. They’ve also stated hostility because of Saudi behavior and are attempting to exert pressure on the international community with respect to their Saudi dispute.
Yeah, the rerouting around Africa.
Sal M sounds like someone’s blog name here who pretends he’s a pub owner. Pilkington who?
The US has been getting out of skirmishes since Korea, and every time we’re told US prestige is going to be hurt, until the next time.
There are 2,500 military personnel in Iraq and about 900 in Syria. Neither are there as a fighting force. It’s there to train and keep an eye on things.
US interest in the Mid East has been waning since it became energy independent and will continue to do so except to try and keep sea lanes open for the rest of the world. To suggest the US has lost against the Tootsies is based more on hope than anything else.
Tom Elliot made a good point on 3AW yesterday.
Anzac Day fell from favour for a long time but is now bigger than ever.
The usual suspects have thrown everything at Australia Day but it hasn’t withered at a grass roots level.
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“Peter Turchin’s term for this is elite overproduction.”
The result of the obsession with sending everyone to a university.
People forget that as well as having a National Guard, Texas also has a State militia.
It is different to the National Guard which can be subsumed to the Federal Government.
whoops , should read.
A Panamanian ship bound, which they said they believed was dropping off in Israel, was actually bound for Italy.
… that you are NOT the bottom.
Ah, bugger it.
A few days back there was mention of Meyer Lansky. SBS on demand has Lansky on. Harvey Keitel is excellent as Lansky. I’d read a biography years ago. Thought the movie ok.
Which has, among other bad effects, destroyed the universities. What is left of them isn’t worth keeping.
Dinner at Nambucca Heads RSL, with Australian flag themed decorations (banners, staff dress). Each child given a small Australian flag on a stick.
One of the nicest views on the coast from that place. Looking out on the River with a nice meal approaching sunset is one of life’s simple pleasures.
“It is Not Hate Speech, Just Because They Don’t Like it,” says Elon. But Elon Can Tell You What Hate Speech is.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
This right here is why I will never drive an electric car the government can co-opt and control at their whim.
By the way look up this guy’s other legislation. He’s a beauty.
Anzac Day fell from favour for a long time but is now bigger than ever.
Yes they’ve been attacking Anzac day most of my life- ‘the one day of the year’, a whole episode of Certain Wimmin dedicated to attacking it, lesbian attacks at the shrine in the 80s etc etc
GreyRanga
Jan 26, 2024 3:51 PM
For someone our age, GreyRanga, just iodised salt was almost adequate. Just for children and young adults is it necessary to have a surplus intake from a non contaminated source (Iodine 53) to prevent Iodine 131 from getting to the thyroid gland.* 🙂
*I’m pretty sure that’s right, but I’m having Australia Day beers so you should check I haven’t gotten confused.
Dr. John Campbell with Prof. Robert Clancy.
Ivermectin and vaccine injury
The play was inspired by an article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit criticising Anzac Day and Seymour’s own observations of how ex-servicemen behaved on that day. The character of Alf was based on Seymour’s brother in law.
Reminds me of Schumpeters theory on the way capitalism would fail by producing too many intellectuals who end up strangling the entrepreneurial sector which created the economy they were fed on.
See
And
Suggestion: Get rid of universities and see what replaces them e.g. guilds, apprenticeships, workers libraries, private colleges and self-taught skills of value to someone. And a fair amount of whining …
Djokovic phooey. Didn’t see the match, but got home in time to see McEnroe and Dylan Allcott blabbing on, and so reminded of what a class act Djokovic is. Bugger me, Allcott can hardly string a coherent sentence together, wheezes zoomer cliches and just doesn’t know when to stop talking.
Reminder- Djokovic came damn close to holding the Grand Slam last year, only bombing Wimbeldon. The midwit panel put up an infographic charting that the Australian Open had been dominated by “the Big Three” for a decade. Another way of saying it would be to say it’s had Djokovic all over it ever since he first rocked up in 2008, and he surely would have had ’22 wrapped had he not been deported on character grounds.
Sliante!
Yes, there was a group calling itself “Women against rape in war” back in the ’80’s.
Not sure who was for rape in war, but there you have it.
Leftwing Axios of all places
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/trump-2024-campaign-republican-nominee
The internet can do the job of educating those few who want to be educated.
At the moment its main function is distracting the bored witless.
Sad feature of the “Invasion Day” march in Perth is the sight of young children holding “Always was, always will be” and “Treaty Now” placards, while yummy mummy beams in the background.
When the date of Australia Day is changed, it will be interesting to see if there is any appetite for a People’s Australia Day on the weekend closest to the original (and present) date. We can enjoy a public holiday on the Elite’s Anti-Australia (Chicks-in-Chains-Stole-Our-Country) Day too.
Faark.
Just saw the aftermath of a motorcycle crash. No need to into gory details.
I am rattled.
There are a lot of stupid people in Australia; some of them go for any fashionable fad going around. And their offspring are accessories to help them show the memeplex has infected their poor brains. They’re proud of it.
It’s quite convenient for the rest of us; it’s as if they’ve tattooed their low IQs on their foreheads.
Motorcycle riders deserve their status as vulnerable road users. I consider myself lucky to have ridden for 10 years with only one minor crash and a few near misses.
The rule of motorcycling: You are the bullbar.
I haven’t scrolled back, I have just returned from a family dinner. I have just read that the NSWaffen Police today swooped on some Nazis in North Sydney. Well, super, that’s great because for obvious reasons I don’t like Nazis, in any shade, height or colour. But I’m rather curious about today’s incident. Is it just me or do others also find it a little odd how the NSWaffen Police are…ahem….rather selective about which Nazis they swoop on. They clearly waste no time swooping on the North Sydney variety of Nazi but the Nazis that congregated in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday night 9 October 2023, screeching “gas the Jews” and “kill the Jews” were not swooped on, in fact the NSW Police that night provided those Nazis with a personal escort all the way down to the Opera House and stood back as Nazis screamed, screeched and shouted “gas the Jews”.
Hmm, if you are wondering which variety of Nazi I’m more fearful of, I’ll just say this, it is not the North Sydney variety.
DrBeauGan,
My two eldest grandchildren (twins) have just completed 3yrs at uni. I noticed particularly at Christmas how both of them have matured so much in those years.
My granddaughter obtained a business degree at Notre Dame, Broadway, Sydney, and my grandson has one more year to go, because he is doing two degrees at the Conservatorium of Music (Sydney Uni).
Not a waste of time or money, IMO.
Rosie
Jan 26, 2024 4:09 PM
Great reading, more please.
Yes, there was a group calling itself “Women against rape in war” back in the ’80’s.
Not sure who was for rape in war, but there you have it.
Now our progressive feminists are all for rape in war, as long as the victims are Israeli Jewish women.
Do the parents who make their children hold “always was, always will be” signs put two and two together and realise they should therefore, by logic, abdicate possesion of any land they may hold? Or are they just a bit retarded?
Again?
Didn’t we just do this?
The result was 60:40 “No”.
Even more in WA.
Lizzie:
I’ve got her for the next 49 weeks, but.
I’m not sure, but she’s got a bit of a tummy at the moment. And she’s gone from running away from me to demanding affection in a 24 hour period.
No nesting behaviour and her nipples are still a pale pink.
I wonder if she’s been fixed?
Lizzie:
I just took a photo with a camera, hooked it up to the computer via a USB cable and the computer recognised it and asked if I wanted to upload the photo. Somehow Gravatar allowed me to link the picture and majik happened.
Here Dot
Thanks Cassie.
Not sure what I’ll do this afternoon.
I’m not sure getting up at 6 am is quite necessary while travelling.
I’ve just had early lunch, a ‘Laffa schnitzel’ in the Ghetto and am pondering what to do this afternoon. Tempted to go to the Etruscan museum because going back to my apartment will prove fatal. I’ll fall asleep for sure. In any case I know that will involve climbing three flights of stairs, as someone got stuck in that tiny lift yesterday now ‘fuori servisio’ luckily for them while the concierge was still on duty.
A couple of observations though I haven’t ventured anywhere near the forum or coliseum, no street vendors pestering you every couple of metres and the Pantheon is now €5 to get in, a good thing I think, all these old buildings need constant maintenance and there was zero respect for the sacred space when open slather.
I watched a brief interview with Tolkien, he mentioned that the books were consciously journeys with a purpose, I think he said they weren’t intended to be allegorical but still.
There was a wall of quotes included in the exhibitions apparently John Lennon in particular and the Beatles in general were keen to get the film rights, but too late. Ringo Starr wanted to play Samwise. Who could blame him?
Pope Francis was also quoted there talking about the journey of life, in the end I think that the end of that the only destination that really matters
Romans are very utilitarian, jeans trackies, trainers for everyone, except the occasional pair of stiletto boots with the make up and the hair, fortunately female.
Also acclaiming their woke and green credentials everywhere except for just about every car and motorcycle on the road.
In the aftermath of the Mabo judgement, a farmers meeting in the Wheatbelt was hijacked by a Greens activist, who said “Well, you’ll just have to sit down with the tribal elders, and renegotiate the terms under which you hold that land.”
“So, when do you sir down with the tribal elders and renegotiate the terms under which you hold your quarter acre in suburbia?”
“Don’t be stupid – I took out a mortgage and paid for that land.”
That was the most common response I encountered, to pointing out that all land in Australia was taken from the originals, not just that land that is pastoral lease.
Carpet bomb the Gaza Strip to rubble, and drive the Pali’s into the Sinai Desert.
Oh God
Yes my disciple?
They are seriously retarded. It’s a language thing, they’ve never mastered the idea of meaning.
Like chat gpt and bard, they can tell which sentences are the approved ones to say, but again like the AIs, none of it actually means anything. They are wholly detached from reality.
It actually goes further than that. They should leave.
That’s quite something. I’d heard plenty about the incident, but not actually watched it.
I should have.
He didn’t invite the attention of the CCP nutjobs. He was playing piano, as he has at St Pancras for years. I’ve watched over time, several of his videos. He handled the entire matter with humour, & grace
The whole thing was ridiculous.
Play it again Bourne, as you may not have picked up:
At 13 minutes & 32 seconds you can hear one of the CCP girls repeatedly telling the CCP bloke to “don’t shoot him”
She says it Five times, the fifth repeat occurring at 13 minutes & 39 seconds.
New OT up.
“The Aboriginal struggle and the Palestinian struggle share a lot of features”
career moochers