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Great post. Thanks, TE.
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Everything about the Klimate Skam is a “colossal waste of munni”.
🙂
Happy Australia Day to all.
The Lou, loving the Suzanne – again … 🙂
straya … cnuts
Outstanding artwork. Just outstanding.
Great choice, Doverlord.
They’re not about sinking ships, but about controlling passage through the Red Sea. They forced two Maersk ships under the protection of the USN to turn around once engaged and then follow up with the declaration they were avoiding the Red Sea for the foreseeable future.
TRAITORS!!!!
Now I am off to sleep.
Good night all.
Just an Hootie tootsie version of Guy Fawkes night then? The missiles weren’t really aimed at ships and the Americans shouldn’t have bothered striking lots of the the sky.
Happy Oz Day, Peoples! 🙂
No. No, no, no.
It’s TraiTOrs!!1!!
REPORT THIS AD!
This continent being as it is, a Glittering Prize …
Happy Australia Day all you night owls.
Get on the drink for the day!
Interesting feature in the Algernon Talmage 1937 Sydney Cove picture: the stumps of five neatly felled trees.
Either Arthur Phillips’ guys got cracking early on Day 1 to tidy the place up, or the locals had been there before with their cross-cut saws.
Stuff you’d never know.
JC, this isn’t hard to understand. The Houthies intent is to control passage through the Red Sea. They don’t need to sink ships in order to do that they just need to establish the capability of damaging or sinking them. They’ve done that.
We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing in one voice:
I am, you are, we are Australian….
Happy Australia Day everyone…
There was a young lady named Bright
who could travel much faster than light.
She went out one day
in an Einsteinian way
And returned home the previous night.
Happy Australia Day Cats.
May your rissoles be round and your pav rise to great heights
This isn’t hard understand either. Americans have been shooting down missiles targeted against shipping since November.in fact you’ve been reporting on this throughout December and early January.
I also listed the ships that have been damaged – even a Russian ship.
How would they know what these ships were carrying?
Tom Traubert’s Blues.
New definitions for the Albo Opposite Day Urban Dictionary:
A modest change : a whacking great big change that will impact you in ways unimaginable.
Transparency and Accountability : Being open and honest about all things government or not [excluding payments to tubby lasses who helped bring down the previous government or anything else I wish to keep hidden.]
My word is my bond : When I make a promise, you can take it to the bank cos I really really will deliver on the commitment …unless I eat some crayons, get sleepy or forget what I said.
Bill Henson gets an Oz day gong.
I promised myself I would wait until the following day before I read through all the Australia day honours list but I could not help myself.
Over the past few years, the wives/husbands/partners of corporate big wigs have been getting awards mainly for that reason from what their light-on provided bios show.
This year it appears there’s a new class of recipient.
Wife of union big wig.
What a thoroughly broken & rorted system.
Johannes Leak. Kapow!
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Who is the worst recipient of 2024 Australia day gong?
Bill Henson.
Brett Sutton.
Barbara Baird.
Brigid Coombe.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Chip Bok #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Oh Thanks Tom … as every one posts … Wew lll THanks !!! But didnt you say Phuck You at some stage … Right Mate When you were Posting that staff every one always says Thanks Tom … !!! AQnd we alll Do !!! Thanks Tom …
But where did you get the message that Phuck any one would make you more populr … ?
Oh Gosh Tom !!! Coz Thank You Tom !!!
Tom I Thought better of you … yeah but that was before I got to know That you were all about links … and You could throw a foul mouth if it fed the crowd ..
Your Call Tom …
Thanks Tom and Happy Australia Day.
Mildly amusing with the awards in the military division are two shiny bums had their names redacted.
Their sipping of coffee in air conditioned comfort while making notes to cover their arses when they throw chaps under the bus at a future hearing is no doubt a worthy reason for a gong.
Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)
Lieutenant Colonel M
For distinguished leadership in warlike operations as a Task Force Commander on Operation AUGURY from April to November 2022.
Awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC)
Brigadier G
For outstanding achievement in operational command of special and sensitive operations from 18 May 2020 to 5 November 2022.
Their bravery surpasses Simpson & his donkey.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
– Lao Tzu
@Tom
Jan 26, 2024 4:12 AM
You did use foul language didnt you? And for why? Oh Just to make every one go
Thanks Tom !!
Well they always will.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
– Herbert Hoover
Bolter,
I think that call to F… off was well deserved.
I wish you would heed it.
Thanks Tom.
@KevinM
Jan 26, 2024 4:36 AM
Message received and understood ..
Why I listen up …
Just to see how you people react… it isnt the way I was tought to .. but how you seem to ..
You people have robust opinions about all sorts of things but to be persuasive about anything … keep it civil.
Otherwise it reflects poorly on anything else you might say ..
KevinM
Jan 26, 2024 4:36 AM
I had hoped that that this dissuasion might as a usefull counter factual and it probably does…
Foul language seems to be your best shot … nothing much besides.
There is an entire planet out there … they have view points that can be thought over without invective.
Only if one values the opinion of certain persons.
I place this comment, which is soon to be rejected by The Australian’s moderators, here. How soon will people begin calling Mr “my word is my bond”, Alan? A friend mused that he had never really liked Alan Bond after Albo’s latest foray into “respect” for Australians and hearing the “word is my bond” comment. I couldn’t help myself.
Right on cue. FMD.
Have a great Australia Day.
After trying to divide the nation with his poxy Voice referendum, Anthony Albanese has a piece in the Daily Telegraph:
Almost get the feeling he was cajoled into writing this.
Not sure one particular faith is entirely respecting Australian values Albo, one that your Foreign Minister threw $20 million at.
The Honours List has long been a farce.
Cut short my visit to Sydn
ey, 2 hrs sleep. Dropped wife at airport, heading home. Stopped for coffee and croissant, wished the lady a happy Australia Day, her face lit up. Aren’t we lucky to live in such a place. I heartedly agreed.
They were cut down to give a clear shot for that photograph.
By the third line I wondered who had written it for him. And who else had snuck this bit in –
“uplift” = “upend”
Thanks for putting up the Waits’ song, Tom. One of my favourites and an apt description of Aus (when I’m feeling a bit disappointed in the place).
My enthusiasm will improve once the ferry race starts.
It’s still a great country, the best…for I have traveled just about everywhere.
He was too late to save the megafauna.
I’m having a hard time believing he wrote the first draft, or even the first edit.
Maybe a proof read before approval.
What a dose of platitudinous pap!
It’s the level of prose you’d get on a mid year exam at a public high school.
I suppose he may have written it then.
Gosh that’s a difficult one. A photographer of naked children, two pro abortionists (one also into the gender bending fetish) and the last one who achieved the world record in locking children up.
I would prefer Alan Jones’ sugar sack with scenic flight award for these towering intellects and humanitarians.
Mildly amusing with the awards in the military division are two shiny bums had their names redacted.
why the eff would their names be redacted? My God defense is really another branch of the canbra abomination with its transexuals, diversity and exclusion etc etc.
It’s what you write when you don’t believe a word of it.
It’s still a great country, the best
my feeling too
Happy Australia Day!
I thought that choice of the medical researchers as “Australian of the Year” was a good one. Worthy recipients.
Sky News is all-in for Nikki Hayley, not such a good look. Gary Varvel nailed it with his cartoon above, complete with that fixed grin.
Yes, vr. Some of the recipients are very worthy indeed, and I congratulate them.
It’s the scruff around the edges, making up the numbers, that I object to.
The honours list should be severely truncated and only for those who have truly achieved. If it isn’t, it brings down the value of the entire edifice. Every child should not receive a prize, especially if that prize is the result of nepotism.
Tough call.
I’ll go the soy boy dictator with the “I’m a tough guy with tatts” look.
A bloke whose doctrine and governance , along with those of his grotesque boss,
flew in the face of the foundations upon which this country became so fkn good.
Calli,
I didn’t look at the “minor” awards. I rarely do.
In contrast to previous years, I actually wanted to read more about their achievements. Their success will have real-world consequences in a positive way. And there was no lecturing.
Feelthebern.
In case you’ve forgotten, the liquorice is in a container in the cupboard behind the vinegar & uncle bens rice.
You’re welcome.
Harold Scruby didn’t get a mention?
Happy Australia Day everyone.
Remember this, on 26 January 1788, recorded as a hot day, the ‘First Fleet’, a flotilla of exhausted ships filled with exhausted human beings, arrived in Sydney Cove.
On 13 May 1787, the First Fleet of 11 ships and about 1,530 people (736 convicts, 17 convicts’ children, 211 marines, 27 marines’ wives, 14 marines’ children and about 300 officers and others) under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip set sail for Botany Bay. A few days after arrival at Botany Bay the fleet moved to the more suitable Port Jackson where a settlement was established at Sydney Cove, known by the Indigenous name Warrane, on 26 January 1788. This date later became Australia’s national day, Australia Day. The colony was formally proclaimed by Governor Phillip on 7 February 1788 at Sydney.
Some morning musings…
I don’t think any of the above human beings, convicts and non-convicts, who landed at Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788 wanted to be here. I suspect almost all of them yearned to return to England. As this motley group of exhausted human beings disembarked from the boats moored in Sydney Harbour, most if not all would have surveilled this new, alien and harsh landscape and they would have wondered, rightly so, what planet they were on. And centuries later you can still hear and feel the despair, fear, bewilderment and sobs of these men, women and children who, on arrival, must have looked around with a combination of fear, consternation and bewilderment, wondering about the strange animals they saw, filled with terror by the raucous and squawking noises of the local birdlife, and even wondering about the smell of the place, because being January the air would have been heavy with an intoxicating aroma of eucalyptus and it must have permeated everything. It was an utterly alien landscape. The equivalent would be for us to land on Mars tomorrow. These remarkable human being were truly strangers in a strange land but their story matters, they laid the foundations for this country, it became our land, it is why we are here, it is our land.
As a student of history I sometimes like to engage in “what ifs”. Considering how the French were snapping on the heels of the First Fleet, I do believe the Aboriginals were fortunate, very fortunate, that it was the British and not the French who arrived here first and claimed this land. La Perouse was only a day or two behind the British, and he landed at the north part of Botany Bay (now called La Perouse) on 24 January 1788. One thing is for sure, there is no way the French (or the Dutch or the Spanish or the Portuguese) would have been as humane towards Aborigines as the British…NO WAY.
I celebrate our British heritage. Whilst our history is not perfect (no country’s history is) we have a remarkable history to tell and today is the day where we celebrate this country and we remember those remarkable men, women and children who arrived on 26 January 1788. To call those bedraggled people “invaders’ is not just a bad joke, it is deeply offensive to their memory, it ignores their suffering and their torment. I’m proud of them.
Let’s celebrate Australia Day whilst we can.
The only people who receive an award for, essentially, doing their job should be those who actually risk their lives in the course of that job.
Soldiers on a battlefield, firefighters at a blaze, as examples. Not for sitting around in an office.
Other awards should go only to those doing an extra, unpaid, voluntary task for an extended period of time.
Happy Invasion Day from the Lads everyone.
A day when law and order, modern technology and modern medicine invaded a continent that had unfairly missed out for far too long.
H/T oco or Bern (I think) from a couple of years ago.
Was having a beer with a few mates yesterday arvo and one of them, a lady who owns and runs a cafe and catering business, said she got pissed off earlier in the week after she rang up her 2IC to find out how the Australia Day deorations were going, only to find out it wasn’t going. Because 2IC ‘wasn’t sure’ and a few other wishy washy excuses. Words to the effect ‘I am coming to the cafe and all the staff WILL put up the the Australia Day decorations.’
Her thing is that if people are offened, then it is their choice to stay or leave. And also ‘if I only cater to a narrow section of customers instead of the majority, I would be broke.’
Then the subject lead to vegans and the menu.
There are choices for vegans on the menu, but the fried choices are cooked in the same oil as the animal and fish products.
Interesting yarn and a good laugh at the perpetually offended.
the first factual evidence of early works on the Bris-Syd-Mel high speed rail link
Early night last night.
Rolling blackouts.
A taste of things to come. Thank you Mr Bowen, you addlepated wombat of a man. I just hope all the greenies around here had to do without also….for the glorious Cause.
Who is the worst recipient of 2014 Australia day gong?
Adam Goodes
Margot Robbie was snubbed by the AOTY commitee!
It’s the scruff around the edges, making up the numbers, that I object to.
Calli, it’s the bulk of the awards that are sickening.
And a sprinkling of fantastic people (dog shelter types).
The only people who receive an award for, essentially, doing their job should be those who actually risk their lives in the course of that job.
Soldiers on a battlefield, firefighters at a blaze, as examples. Not for sitting around in an office.
Other awards should go only to those doing an extra, unpaid, voluntary task for an extended period of time.
Correct, and whilst not usually in agreement with anything Paul Keating says, over twenty years ago he said something similar about the Oz Day awards.
Sancho, I went 96 hours without caffeine.
I can handle a few days with no liquorice.
I’ve got a secret mens dinner this coming Thursday where many many steaks will be eaten.
I plan to polish off the liquorice when I get home after that.
For health reasons.
Replying to a calli comment gets one a downtick these days.
the first factual evidence of early works on the Bris-Syd-Mel high speed rail link
many many lols.
Senator Dai Le
On the blackout, fortunately I own a pewter candelabra (a wedding gift for those Hyacinth candlelight suppers of the ‘70’s). Candles, matches all at the ready.
I wonder how others in the neighbourhood fared, particularly the old and infirm. I don’t give a hoot about the rabid greenies – let them stumble and curse Gaia for their stubbed toes and spoiled food.
AAP headline: Heatwave persists as inland temps nudge 50C
Then the intrepid scribblers follow up with;
One of Australia’s hottest summers on record continues to produce temperatures well above average across the nation, including a scorching 49.4C in the Queensland tourist town of Birdsville.
“We’ll all be rooned” said Hanrahan.
Dai Le is one of the most conservative members of the HoR.
I suspect it might be to protect them and their families from being doxxed and attacked by the same crowd who protested on the Opera House steps on 9th October last year. I can just imagine them assembling on the recipiepient’s front lawn to chant “Baby killer”, “War criminal” or similar.
What sort of a country have we become when our most honoured military personnel have to be hidden so as not to inflame the passions of a section of the population that refuses to become Australian? Why are we indulging them? Have we ceded control to these grubs?
I warned everyone on New Years Day, Bern. It’s an amusing manifestation of monomania from a fixated, unshameable dweeb.
James O’Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
DC SWAMP EXPOSED. PART 1 – D.C. Blackmail:
To call those bedraggled people “invaders’ is not just a bad joke
You have to wonder at the intelligence of folk who loudly admit they were bested by a motley gathering of half starved, after 6 months on leaky boats “invaders” ..
You beat me to it. A man who can terrorise a thirteen year old girl is not even fit for civilisation let alone to be an AOTY. Those who chose him obviously have the same attitude to thirteen year old girls or they would have reconsidered.
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Dai Le is one of the most conservative members of the HoR
Which is why I like her. She’s a true representative of Sydney’s Western Suburbs.
Has anyone yet decried it as the first desecration of a sacred site – those trees had been the abode of some ancestral reptiliform deity.
The objection that it is not an accurate depiction – as a photograph would be – can be dismissed as lifeless prosaic white male thinking. In fact the country is riddled with things that never happened but for which white men are to blame.
I am sure when Phillip and co landed the locals were busy sending smoke signals or coo ees to their northern tribes to let them know they had been invaded .
Oh by the way where were the other two flags in that painting?
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@TexasLindsay_
The border crisis explained in less than sixty seconds.
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I’m surprised they let him in.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Tucker Carlson is PACKING STADIUMS in Canada
and
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Liberating Canada: The Calgary Speech
It’s a good thing the Nipponese weren’t big on natural philosophy
or have a Royal Society, otherwise it would’ve been the Red Seal Fleet,
not the First Fleet.
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calli
Jan 26, 2024 8:02 AM
Early night last night.
Rolling blackouts.
A taste of things to come. Thank you Mr Bowen, you addlepated wombat of a man. I just hope all the greenies around here had to do without also….for the glorious Cause.
If only they could/would solely confine the blacouts to the greentard electorates.
Happy Oz Day, folks! Don’t let the turkeys spoil the day. Misery guts (plural) have to share it around, no need for us to pick up what they are putting down.
Although picking up the Cook statue is a given.
On the flag in the painting, is the Union Jack the right one, or should it have been a Red Ensign? Or would he have had both on the ship?
Known by whom? How many? The locals called it that I suppose, but from the first day of the first fleet landing more people would have called it by whatever name they came up with than people called it warrane.
The Texans surrounding the Alamo with razor wire is hilarious.
The morbid Dems will never defeat that kind of up yours spirit.
Who is the worst recipient of 2024 Australia day gong?
Brett Sutton.
Good Lord Pogria Ace Of Spades at it again.
Chortle
Mother Lode:
In short, “The Voice isn’t the end of negotiations, it’s the starting point of the next round of demands.”
The happiest of Ozzie Civilising Day to all Cats and ungrateful, whingeing abbos. Grateful, decent ones also, natch!
(First ever post from my mobile.. hope it works)
The Red Ensign is flown by commercial and privately owned vessels.
Black Ball,
Dear God! Thank you for that. I was having a cuppa and I only just saved my lap top from drowning. snork.
That is his best yet. I haven’t had a chance to read Ace yet this morning.
Oh God, if only I hadn’t been born with imagination! 😀 😀
Who’ll come a waltzing Matilda with me
The cyclone the BOM named before it had actually formed has disappointed the media ghouls.
Okay, Zulu. I thought the Red Duster was flown by the Navy back then and adopted much later by the merchant marine.
Some tax leaches I loathe more than others and I particularly loathe ‘Dr’ Emerson now ensconced at the ANUs.
I plan to polish off the liquorice when I get home after that.
“I like liquorice, my mum says it gives you a good run for your money”
Bluebottle of the Goons
Happy Straya Day.
This is how it once was: The Overlanders
and
Home on the Sheep’s Back
The thing about ‘Dr’ Emerson is his callous disregard for steel workers in Whyalla. Also he stated that John Howard wasn’t comfortable with Asians iirc. Just typical of the garbage that is the political class.
Thank you Mr Bowen, you addlepated wombat of a man.
And there are now protests coming in from many wombats around the country about the use of the word wombat in the above.
No problems with the word bowen or addlepated though.
In November 2018, Emerson was appointed Distinguished Fellow at the Australian National University.
Morning all.
Ladies.
Gentleman.
[the rest of you can bugger off]
I learned the hard way (renting in Sydney in the 1970s) to always be prepared for a blackout. Since then, a few boxes of candles, spare batteries, a Dolphin torch also with a spare battery, matches and a cheap lighter – you don’t want to find that one or the other is not working – have accompanied me everywhere I’ve lived. And they’ve been used, too, not often but on the night, they were priceless.
Not as classy as a pewter candelabra, alas. If only. 🙂
My candles go in some awful soup bowls someone gave me as a present decades ago.
When advising young people about venturing out into the world, or giving them a gift, the blackout survival kit is well worth considering.
Natalie Bassingthwaighte has continued her “I’m a lesbian tour”.
Big spread in the tele today.
Seriously, who cares?
Maybe a proof read before approval.
“why would I?”
Speaking of the BOM, the FWC has backed it in sacking a scientist who logged in from Austin, Texas for several weeks while pretending to be working from home in Australia.
It seems his absence was finally noticed when he failed to turn up in person at a meeting he was supposed to chair (!).
Despite the fellow having interposed several levels of subterfuge to conceal his whereabouts from his employer, the Fair Work Commissioner, while rejecting the applicant’s appeal for wrongful dismissal, opined that the man’s intentions “may have been honourable.”
I still recall in 1951 beng given at school a medal for 50 years of Federation. And the ‘haberdashery’ shop in St. Marys, with hitching rails outside, where you had to get ‘a piece of Ceasarine’ for sewing class to make an apron, handed out cards showing Tom Roberts great painting of the woolshed.
In the bookswaps that go on with my girlfriends from dancing I’ve ended up for my ‘mindless’ reading with Judy Nunn’s latest, titled Black Sheep. She a very narrative-driven and hardly literary writer who publishes ‘tales of Australia’. Some are better than others. This one is quite enjoyable – it’s set on an Australian sheep station in the late 19th and early 20th century. That rural life which created the Australian myths.
I saw what you did there, Bern. Shame!
[cough cough] It is not that sort of paper.
Natalie Bassingthwaighte has continued her “I’m a lesbian tour”.
Who is she?
The mighty warriors of the “First Nations” would have driven this rabble into the sea, without drawing breath, surely?
I wonder which squadron Cook/Phillips belonged to ? From wikipedia
Do not watch the official flag raising in Canberra today. I was dead unlucky to walk past the TV and glance.
PTSD
Post Trannie Stress Disorder.
This is actually more transparent than is usual. I’m not commenting on the merits – none of us can know. But, finding a way to reward spooks with honours has a long tradition in the UK, usually by using a cover story. I expect that it has been the same here.
It’s unusual – a bit of delving by people versed in that world might be interesting.
Very good article – one for the library wall!
And what’s worse is they were mostly Poms.
Oh, the humanity!
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
– Ernest Hemingway
Firstly, he has a speechwriter, or several, to write such things for him.
He then signs off on their work.
Secondly, he’s a proven liar.
Michael Smith has footage of the Captain Cook vandalising scum.
They filmed themselves. So bwave and awesome.
Sorry, from the Spectator.
A happy Australia Day to all Cats !
I won’t get into a bad mood with all the negativity from a very small but noisy minority.
Oh and Telstra still sucks big time !
So the US Navy isn’t limping back to San Diego then?
Glad we got that cleared up then.
The evil weevil doesn’t mention the more than 80 councils who have taken up HIS encouragement to deny this privilege to many new citizens today.
Nor does he mention that his intention to make an ‘even greater’ Australia was The Voice, which was thankfully foiled recently by the Australian people in a ballot. That would have destroyed the Constitution of the Australia that we all know, love and give allegiance to and changed the place for the worse, beyond recognition, if it had succeeded. What load of old scriptwritten codswallop Albo’s speech is.
I was just watching Tucker Carlson’s Canadian speech and he said that Gavin Newsom is Justin Trudeau’s cousin. If true, doesn’t this just confirm that they are the new aristocracy? Meritocracy is gone, being related to the elite is how you get there, just like in feudal times.
Indolent
Yes, but it’s good for Russia and Iran.
That demonstrates the Democrat Party’s priorities.
Happy Australia Day to All Australians & Cats – special thanks to dover for blog & great painting today
Ventusky showing southerly htting Sydney around 1330, so in pool for swim at 1200, and a Glass of Chandon under eaves in shade
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Gavin Newsom is Justin Trudeau’s cousin.
and of course Justine, the Dauphine, is the offspring of Pierrre Troodough.
Indolent
It looks like we’re about to find what excuse the Democrats are going to use to declare a National Emergency.
The Texan reply will be to exercise their prerogative to secede.
Shipping has halved through the Red Sea. Chinese and Russian ships are passing through unmolested. The incident that occurred in early-mid Jan was based on mistaken public info relating to the ships. The Houthies are winning.
I also see reports that the US is planning to leave Iraq.
Well, that figures. What a pair of preposterous preening narcissistic knobgobblers.
Dude!
Allegedly, Milt. There’s a lot of credence in the rumour he’s actually casto’s son.
I don’t see why Aboriginal Australians should be ‘grateful’ for something that happened before they were born, any more than they should be aggrieved about it.
The country wasn’t built on people being grateful or ungrateful or any other self-centred feelz indulgence.
It was built on optimism and persistence and hard work. With a dash of creativity, both literary and scientific.
We should start calling these people what they are – scab-pickers, who do everything they can to prevent healing for their own purposes.
And speaking of things naval…
Christopher Heathcote’s essay on Captain James Cook’s approach to native peoples which he later developed into the book I’ve mentioned here on several occasions.
Who is the worst recipient of 2024 Australia day gong?
Brett Sutton.
For services to slugs.
Allegedly, Milt. There’s a lot of credence in the rumour he’s actually casto’s son.
yeah I still like reading about Margaret Troodough when I’m in the mood for some not so soft porn.
We should start calling these people what they are – scab-pickers, who do everything they can to prevent healing for their own purposes.
agree- good take. The left wants division of course.
Rabz:
Rabz, how come you can say that and not me?
Gratitude isn’t self-centred indulgence.
It is the opposite.
And to experience emotions is part of what it means to be human rather than a mere automaton.
What is necessary in regard to emotions is to properly order them according to sound moral principles.
Morn all.
For comparison Cyclone Tessie 2000 had max gust at TSV Airport 139kmh & sustained winds above 100kmh.
Cyclone Yasi 201 again TSV Airport. Max gust 168kmh and sustained wind above 120kmh for 10hrs.
On Cyclone fizzer. 2nd hand from neighbours and mates as I am away.
Might have been said “Piss weak. Been worse winds in a thunderstorm. Sick of the scaremongering.”
Power was out in the usual areas but rest of town good. Interstingly internet droped out but phone service good. I had both phone service and internet all through & after Yasi.
Weather obs at airport:
Lowest pressure 990.7 kpa. Highest sustained wind 61kmh. and gust to 93kmh. Answer equals Cat 1 not 3.
Westher Obs Cape Ferguson (right on the cost but sothern edge of Clevland bay):
Lowest pressure 991.4 kpa. Highest sustained wind 76kmh. and gust to 98kmh. Answer equals Cat 1 not 3.
Lucinda
Lowest pressure 994.2 kpa. Highest sustained wind 82kmh. and gust to 100kmh. Answer equals Cat 1 not 3.
My imagination or is the bar getting lower on what constitutes cyclone categories.
BOM are incompetent fwits that need a clean out.
What evidence do you have that it’s halved or doubled even? Not claims by Sagittarius the warlord, on Twitter?
What public info was that?
We’ve been though this before and for some reason you’re going back to it.
There’s almost no impact on the US and in fact it could be a positive in trade terms. What are they winning?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jan 26, 2024 9:46 AM
Very good article – one for the library wall!
Neil Brown
27 January 2024
9:00 AM
Zulu,
thanks for that and have copied and put into Notes Files for Future use
I have had enough of the Aboriginal industry and the posturing, harassment and denigration that it hurls at everyone else. And I have had enough of its latest destructive offshoot, the campaign against Australia Day. And I have already had enough of the latest campaign for which we are clearly being softened up, namely that the next governor-general should be an Aboriginal or, to use the latest piece of nonsense, that he or she should be someone from the so-called First Nations.
Problem in Australia lies in brow beating of kids in education and their parents wanting to be part in the”In” Social Group
Last night saying Good Night to 10 year old Grandson – My Wife said tomorrow Australia Day we celebarte the landing of Connvicts & Marines in Sydney Cove – he responded it’s a bad day for Aboriginals as they destroyed Australia – I exploded (which I should not have done) and said he should read real history of Aboriginals – “they did not even know how to boil water”
This mormng, Youngest Daughter came in and said they were out for the day – lunch at in-laws, then BBQ with friends in the afternoon
I said were they going to dress up in Australia Day Gear?
“People don’t do that these days, it is inappropriate”
I then, correctly, got drawn over the coals re outburst at grandson – but any counter discussion of Aboriginal Problems is Verboten
10 year old came into borrow some paper & I apologised to him for last nights outburst
On Climate Change & Australia Day/Voice (the “In” Crowd Voted YES), seems 2 Generations are lost
How the sickos at the SMH celebrated Australia Day
Friday, 26 January 2024
Find five sad faces of cranky young people who say ‘Australia Day is finished’ – and you have yourself a front page yarn.
The Sydney Morning Shitbags on Australia Day.
I suspect that was a joke, based on their twin despotism.
Sutton was tasked and failed to do the single most important job of his position and that was organising and overseeing effective quarantine management.
He allowed Fu Danchu to appoint staff and run quarantine with disastrous results.
The Australia Day awards are now a sweep prize for the last past the post.
the “In” Crowd Voted YES
the vibe in my bluecollar (really orange collar now) workplace was def NO. Not that it was hugely discussed.
Life-long Parliamentary Pension recipient happy with Albo’s tax lies.
Friday, 26 January 2024
Craig Emerson is loving life.
Indexed and defined benefits of a life-long Parliamentary pension + occasional overpaid gigs from Labor mates + some academic posts here and there due to political connections … who’d give two shits about being lied to by Albanese.
That said, he can never escape this shame:
“Crossie
Jan 26, 2024 9:55 AM
I was just watching Tucker Carlson’s Canadian speech and he said that Gavin Newsom is Justin Trudeau’s cousin. If true, doesn’t this just confirm that they are the new aristocracy? Meritocracy is gone, being related to the elite is how you get there, just like in feudal times.”
The only thing that marks our current “aristocracy” from the previous one is the complete and utter lack of even the vaguest sense of noblesse oblige.
It was once said of British (mostly aristocratic) military officers was that their principal purpose was to lead from the front and show their troops how to die. Don’t look to the new aristocracy for that.
JC, have you seen the NY story about a producer from the TV show Law & Order who went on holidays for a few weeks and came back to find squatters in his house?
You might want to make sure your locks are top notch.
Otherwise you might have your own Curb Your Enthusiasm situation with a black dude who won’t leave.
P’s citation of Ray Chen’s orchestral version of Waltzing Matilda is a corker.
Linky.
Bit of folk, bit of rock, bit of how’s your father. Joyous and energetic. Check it out!
Ford Loses $36,000 On Every F-150 Lightning Sold – Fires 70% Of EV Workers, Ramps Up Gas Production
Ah yes The Sydney Morning Vomit living up to its name. Who actually buys that zombie rag now?
They’re desperate for some cyclone disaster porn.
Analysis: ‘Hurricanes have not become more intense’ since 1980 based on ACE or Accumulated Cyclone Energy combining frequency & intensity (24 Jan)
Hurricane Frequency and Sunspots (25 Jan)
The latter study is fascinating. CO2 has exactly nothing to do with hurricanes, but the solar cycle clearly does. BoM will really hate this idea though, so don’t expect to see anything from them about it.
Chilling Letter Warns of 10/7-Style Attack by Illegal Immigrants Inside the United States
“Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance” snork, snork!
Local union Houthis are damaging shipping here.
We can’t get more than one shuttle of glyphosate at a time because of the wharf dispute.
Albo’s economic demolition team are mining the ports better than Muslim loonies in Yemen.
SBS now has an annual ‘Elder in Residence’.
The first incumbent, former actress Rhoda Roberts, had her tenure extended to three years.
She’s also director of indigenous programming at the Sydney Opera House (since 2012). “The job was actually created for me,” she told The Guardian recently.
From memory neither Cook nor Bligh’s expedition came under any of the admirals of the various sections of the Royal Navy.
They were naval ships, but organised as solo expeditions, probably for good reason. The rationale of the voyages should not be upset by some senior officer ordering the captain to do something he deemed more important than observing the Transit of Venus, or investigating breadfruit’s properties.
Why do they always include the Torres Strait (very Latin name) when its 1000s of miles away?
It’s very revealing that the aboriginal industry has not as far as I know condemned the use of their flag by the Nazis.
That alone says “Invasion Day” is to be utterly rejected. The hypocrisy is also into orbit: aboriginals claim land rights for themselves yet oppose land rights for the original inhabitants of Israel.
Bern
If it’s an unattended house, that’s possible. The dude didn’t have an alarm system on?
We’re in a doorman building, but technically we’ve have a squatter situation going on for the past 3 years. Our kid moved in temporarily and has been there since, rent and maintenance free.
Squatters rights in NY appear to be crazy.
Unscrupulous travel agents would be selling the details of people going on holidays for over 3 weeks.
Is this the reason house sitting appears to be more common in the US?
Or is that just a Hollywood cliché?
Oh, and I just saw (but mostly heard) a line of Harleys roaring down the street, each with an Australian flag attached.
I have mentioned that this is the Harley and mobility device capital of NSW. As fellow resident Top Ender pointed out, those two things might just be connected. 🙂
I’m wondering how we go in the mullet stakes, too. Yesterday I saw a guy of about 50 with the classic receding at the sides almost to the crown pattern, and a strip left in the middle. The difference was that he had a buzz cut over the top and sides, and hair halfway down his back.
Now, that’s a statement.
3 years.
Technically they could sue for ownership.
But would have to pay the property taxes.
Tenant rights in Europe are ridiculous which I am sure why there is less property speculation over there.
Yes now time for all the sob stories of ‘Invasion Day’ to come rolling in.
A new one on the ABC chyron just now. ‘Survival Day’. FMD.
Stephanie Ferrier now interviewing Tarneit Onus-Brown. She seemed slightly orgasmic that the statue of Captain Cook came down.
She also said ‘our brothers and sisters in Palestine…’
Scrap this shitshow that is Their ABC.
I thought the Red Duster was flown by the Navy back then and adopted much later by the merchant marine.
An Order in Council of 1864 abolished the flying of the Red, White and Blue ensigns by Naval vessels, and finally reserved the white for the Royal Navy.
The RAN flew the same RN white ensign until March 01, 1967 when the Australian white ensign was adopted…
Roger
Jan 26, 2024 10:11 AM
And speaking of things naval…
Christopher Heathcote’s essay on Captain James Cook’s approach to native peoples which he later developed into the book I’ve mentioned here on several occasions.
Thanks Roger,
converted to PDF – Dowload and sent toCaptain James Cook Part 1 1987my Wife who enjoyed
The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill
and Captain James Cook: The incredible true story of the World’s Greatest Navigator and Cartographer
&
Captain James Cook Part 1 1987 with Keith Mitchell as Capt James Cook
I’ve just checked…Roberts was appointed to this seemingly life long, publicly funded position that “was actually created for me” (so, no other candidates, interview a mere formality) when Kim Williams was chair of the Sydney Opera House Trust.
Scrap this shitshow that is Their ABC.
Beyond reform BIRM.
It’s very revealing that the aboriginal industry has not as far as I know condemned the use of their flag by the Nazis.
Because it’s a project to wreck Australia driven by the international left
Wrong spelling of the name but you get the picture. A foul creature belched from the very depths of Hades.
I wonder why it was called “The Stone Age”?
Chilling Letter Warns of 10/7-Style Attack by Illegal Immigrants Inside the United States
That is the plot of Kurt Schlichter’s “The Attack”.
A foul creature belched from the very depths of Hades.
yes I’m convinced many of these psychotic wimmin so loved by the meja have BPD
pinko cuck-spawn
Coming soon to a country VERY near you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phzz2QOo0YE
Lode’s plea of last evening has fallen on deaf ears with little holding them apart.
I doubt they’re ware that the majority of Israeli citizens are native to the Levant, Bruce.