As a single entity, super crony Scott triggers all of my quivering outrage and frustration over uniparty cronyism. Scott’s case…
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TheirABC has started to run heart-tugging stories about people living in unauthorised ways on land, with the owner’s consent. Sometimes…
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Shame his old man didn’t shoot him into space
900 million spent by Elbow on himself 450 for the Voice and 450 on new planes, Boeing, to travel OS…
The art of the thesis is to lay out all the information so it is incontrovertibly true, without grey areas where ‘maybe yes, maybe no’ weakens the conclusion.
I give you:
Black Ball, PhD.
Poland’s Total Mayhem Completely IGNORED
Except when they do, you drooling cretin …
We can safely say the “Hottest 100” proves contemporary music (if it could be gifted with such a term) is dead, buried and cremated …
What a joke.
Teal central encompasses the suburbs that border Military Road.
And Northern Beaches and wherever the former ABC reporter in the USA (nice work if you can get it) Zoe Daniel. Plus “Put on your masks” Obermedifuhrerdamen Ryan.
Since Tom raised the subject of Hudson he probably knows the story of the Hudson Captain recommended for a Victoria Cross..
Hudson was alone returning from a mission when spotted by a group of Zeros. He knew he could not get away do turned to fly towards them and take them on. Not surprisingly the Hudson lost.
One of the Zero pilots was legendary ace Saburo Sakai who recounted the story after the war and recommended the pilot get a VC. Unfortunately nominations by the enemy don’t count.
Sakai lived to a decent age but the US Navy got him in the end. He died after attending a US Navy dinner.
you spelled it wrong
“Jordan Peterson: I Can FINALLY Tell You EVERYTHING!!”
Rabz – I normally give it 20 years to see if it’s any good. Closest I get to contemporary music is The War on Drugs and some Beck.
Why Germany is in decline | DW Business
Old age, and a liking for strong drink have dulled my memory. Who was it, who described the Green movement as Fascism, thinly disguised?
Went to Melbourne today. My observation from just looking at offices, only people seemed to be doing well connected to Government. Same in the country. Sad to say Victoria has a rust belt feel about it.
Hume Freeway from Kilmore exit wasn’t too bad compared to most roads north of the divide. That entrance to the service station at Kalkallo pub is a hazard even at the reduced 80kmh. That intersection hasn’t changed in 20 years and there is well more traffic from the new estates springing up a Beveridge & Wallan.
Speaking of which I am over those Metricon ads. FMD every ad break. Same million dolar house few could afford, spruiking of brands and ugly box type architectures. These guys in trouble are they? Flood the airways & spruik brandnames with a top range house seems a gimmick to me.
Wow. Quite possibly the stupidest sentence I’ve seen committed to print in a long while.
Great work, j’ismists, you forking morons.
Er.. (cough… cough) Flying Office Lloyd Trigg, RNZAF, V.C., D.F.C.,
Windies lead by 205 at tea, in the day/night Test.
The pill will hoop like buggery when play resumes. 240-odd is a nasty little total to chase in the fourth innings.
Of course, there is also the glorious anticipation that Cheaty McSook will fail at the top of the Strayan order. Again.
Plenty of those have counted.
They ain’t known as watermelons for no good reason.
And no, I’m not confusing communism with fascism, as they’re basically the same sh*t sandwich.
look people, it’s really simple
every time you hear the normal socialist types getting called far-right by an anti-fascist
remember, it’s just a slag off that they aren’t bolshie enough
it’s a tactic to drag morons into a new dialectic where apparently, the only available acceptable positions are far-left and far-lefter
in reality, they’re on same side
buy into it … and you’ll be stuck in the middle
Did the medications make it to the Israeli hostages? What evidence has been offered for the successful delivery to the intended recipients?
Absolute legend, Bear.
He certainly wasn’t by April ’45 … 🙂
Also Sergeant Thomas Durrant V.C. Royal Engineers
Lt Cdr Gerard Roope V.C. RN
While Durrant, Roope & Trigg were all posthumous awards, Trigg’s award was at the sole recommendation of the skipper of U-468
Katie Hopkins Batsh*t Bonkers Britain Jan 25
I recall very well Saburo Sakai’s recounting of that action.
Didn’t realise he’d recommended him for a V.C.
A recommendation from him should count, for from everything I’ve gathered about him, Saburo Sakai was a man of impeccable honour.
Douglas Murray at 7.11 minutes in. Check it out.
On how the seculare West simply cannot comprehend extremist Muslim beliefs, about belief that Muslim world domination will bring on the end times, and how Muslims are stiving for this in all of their endeavours. We are too secular, and too removed from our own religious history, where we fought wars with each other over interpretations and dogma.
Now, while this is a viewpoint not held by all Muslims in all Muslim countries it is still at base a theological philosophy that many find appealing, even comforting. It is worth our consideration and a search for finding ways to diminish and counter it.
secular.
The only RAAF V.C. in the SWPA was to Flight Lieutenant W.E. ‘Bill’ Newton as far as I’m aware. Intriguingly, the nomination was initially mooted because it was thought that Newton had not escaped his sinking aircraft. It was not until the process was under way that captured and translated Japanese intelligence reports identified that Newton and one of his WAGs, Sgt. John Lyon, were the men who escaped, were captured, interrogated, and after roughly one week, murdered; Newton by head hacking (was the head taken as a souvenir, or overarmed into the nearby ocean?), and Lyon by bayoneting in the back three times, and possible burial while still alive (speculation of the local doctor who examined his remains in situ when found in 1948).
The day after Lyon’s murder, an American airman by the name of Staff Sgt. Fox, was similarly executed at Lae. It is likely that he was buried in proximity to Lyon, but aerial bombing disturbed and obliterated his remains.
At least two other Australian and four U.S. airmen were captured at Salamaua in 1942, transported to Rabaul, and there murdered in the vicinity of Matupi.
At least two AIF men were captured and executed in the area during 1942, and possibly another three during the last days in early September, 1943.
Hairy has that noisy tennis on. Such a shrieking and howling.
Sad, for it was once a game played with only quiet determination.
The above-mentioned Saburo Sakai was based at the Lae airfield for a few tedious months in mid 1942.
The medications are in Gaza, that’s about it as the Red Cross were not involved and delivery is entirely reliant on the goodwill of hamas.
That sounds too polite. Actually it was a spittle-flecked invective instruction:
Put your MASKS ON.
You still occasionally see peole wandering around outdoors or even driving alone in their cars with their masks on. Its a talisman against evil. Nothing more.
Well, doesn’t Mr Wong look silly (the Hun):
Captain Obvious could not be reached for comment.
And assistance to terrorists, it would seem.
No mention of the UNRWA providing any sort of assistance to dead Israelis and their families.
Please maintain your informative links on this topic, Rosie. While I’m not here all the time, I do appreciate the snippets you connect us too.
To, not TOO.
*Sigh*
Time for medication.
Watched the first two episodes last night. A middling start. Did clearly establish the context for the two very different bombing strategies of the allied air pirates* – poms by night, “area bombing” (i.e. random dumps on largely civilian targets), yanks by day, “precision bombing” (which were invariably anything but).
Wondering if the October ’43 Schweinfurt raid will get a mention in future episodes. It was such a disaster, the Yanks temporarily ceded air superiority over Germany.
However, every cloud has a silver lining, with the advent of the Merlin powered P51 Mustangs, produced in sufficient numbers, allowing the allies to regain the initiative, which they retained through to VE day. The allied bombing fleets would be blessed with massed fighter escorts, (composed of the most important plane of the war) all the way to Berlin and back.
*The nayzees’ term, not mine.
The best way to diminsh Muslim extremist theology is of course to not allow a large and susceptible Muslim population to dwell in your country. We are not doing anything about this in Australia, of course.
Denmark has had to recognise the problem. It nominates certain criminal actions done in the name of Islam and other criminality, and has doubled the penalties for these actions if they are done by people living in what they call designated ‘ghetto’ areas. Constitutionally, the authorities can’t nominate categories of people, but they can nominate areas of dwelling, for such special treatment (in spite of the risk of a two-tier legal system). Children in these ‘ghettos’ are bound by law to attend citizenship tutorials. It is at least an attempt to deal with what has become a mounting problem in that small country, where Muslims threaten to ‘outbreed’ the locals in the next fifty years.
That it should come to this. It also doesn’t solve the problem of those living outside the designated ghetto areas.
Not sure I would be a fan of a 2 tier legal system no matter what the grounds. That was basically what The Voice was looking to establish.
I have had a good recent run with Oz comments but now we are back to pending or rejected.
The lefties are back from holidays.
Daily Mail has article up about 20 Netflix recommendations.
One I have just finished is Griselda and here is DM summary.
Almost unrecognisable under a raft of prosthetics designed to mimic the hawk-faced profile of real-life drug boss Griselda Blanco Restrepo, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is icily impressive in this six-part miniseries. A story of female empowerment and brutal criminality in equal bloody gobbets, it charts the Colombian immigrant’s rise to become one of the most powerful and feared drug importers in Miami. It’s all the more powerful a story because, when she first arrives with children in tow, Griselda’s position is very precarious indeed. You can see the vulnerability in her face, although it doesn’t last too long.
Created by many of the same team behind Narcos and with Vergara acting as producer, it’s exciting, dark and no-holds-barred stuff that brings the freewheeling cocaine underworld of the 1980s US to dangerous life. Episode one grabs you by the throat right from the start with this quote from Pablo Escobar: ‘The only man I was ever afraid of was a woman named Griselda Blanco’. You’ll see why in short order. (Six episodes)
My only problem with it is more than half is spoken in Spanish so half to read the subtitles which depends upon the background behind the words.
Another I enjoyed was The Brothers Sum about Taiwanese triads. Big boss in Taiwan got to keep eldest son whilst wife Michelle Yeoh goes to raise youngest son in LA. Eldest is a John Wick type but younger is a wimp who knows nothing about his parents triad involvement. Assassination attempt on big boss causes problems for all as mysterious killers start taking out triad bosses.
Good use of golf clubs in a fight scene in driving range.
Regarding Newton V.C. as mentioned above, on about the 5th of October, 1943, several weeks after the re-occupation of Salamaua and Lae (and while Finschhafen was still being contested) General MacArthur took the unusual and dubiously inadvisable step of releasing to the Australian and world press that translation of a Japanese diary entry describing Newton’s execution. It was a sensational story that pulled attention back to MacArthur at a time when it was the largely the Australians responsible for the above-mentioned successes in the SWPA, and in the South Pacific, U.S. forces on New Georgia, Vella Lavella, etc, were receiving a great deal of public attention.
The writer of the diary entry detailing, in flourishing prose, Newton’s decapitation, was killed almost 12 months later when the naval vessel taking him back to Japan was sunk in the mid Pacific.
(The advisability of releasing the translated version to the press could have jeopardised future war crimes prosecutions. This was especially so when some Australian outlets printed adjacent to the diary extract a photograph of the execution of Australian Len Siffleet, further north in New Guinea. Siffleet’s killer was unmistakably identifiable in the image).
Circumstances may well force the western world into changing their approach to many things.
Does anybody believe that once the ROP has bred up to become the controlling shareholder % of a population, they’ll do anything other than inflict a 2-tier system of Masters & Dhimmis?
About goddamn time.
Of course, that presupposes citizenship is valued sufficiently and not given to people who do not share common values. Something I have my doubts over.
Yes that is the question, along with allegiance to Islam or the State?
In Pashtunwali (or similar; please excuse my ignorance), what are the consequences for a guest disrespecting the hospitality of a host?
I sometimes reflect on the chapter in The Odyssey (or The Iliad? my memory is verrry hazy) when the dude (Odysseus?) returns home to find after a long absence (fighting in Troy?) to find that the suitors of his wife, presumed to be a widow, had consumed much of his household wealth.
Now, let me state explicitly that I’m not advocating slaughtering everyone who sneers at the line of ducks hanging on the stucco wall in the lounge room, but as gracious hosts, we put up with a lot of sh!t from ungrateful guests who (very successfully) take advantage of our hospitable nature.
We need to emphasise the Guest-Host relationship more.
Worse than silly.
These allegations were abroad before she gave them the money.
Muddy
As far as the leftist trope that Trump will turn the legal system on his enemies… pure projection. “Hey, we do it, imagine what will happen to us when he gets the power to do it back”.
I dunno, civil war? The point isn’t just that the red states won’t tolerate it, it’s that the American people won’t. So it’s not going to happen. Why would it? Putting it off isn’t going to save Biden and Trump isn’t going away.
20 Jan 2025 is Inauguration day. Biden is out of a job that day regardless. If nobody is elected yet I guess the Speaker of the House gets the chair until someone is.
Windies done.
Looking very good for a Cheaty McSook early exit.
Does anybody believe that once the ROP has bred up to become the controlling shareholder % of a population, they’ll do anything other than inflict a 2-tier system of Masters & ?
Gad Saad, who knows a thing or two about the RoP, says this will happen, it is inevitable. We are seeing it happen in the UK, in Canada and here in Oz. The question is, how long will Jews remain in these countries? Not long I suspect.
I think I offended a dinner guest tonight with some inconvenient truths about Israel.
But he raised the topic, not me.
Nice bloke, but not from these parts. Adelaide, in fact.
I did spend a week in Mosman if that counts.
Gee, you wouldn’t get a week in Mosman for murder these days.
Cassie 27/1 @11:27am
All of those concepts mentioned were a natural progression.
Society changed with the two world wars, medical advancements, labour saving devices, technology.
Hyphenated barrel-stuffers. To be expected.
What’s the deal with Spit Bridge?
An unwatchable infuriating imbecilic little pratt.
Hey McRoach – stop bowling into his pads and bowl and outswinger. He’ll waft at it and begone.
arrgh! “an outswinger”
Nice bloke, but not from these parts. Adelaide, in fact
On the Wong chap, whilst it swanning around elsewhere could the PRC be poised to add to their Pacificvassals?
Tavulu has an election this weekend. Put aside the climate change grift these guys are trying on it is reported the PRC have been in there stirring up things.
From what I’ve seen there’s a real chance they could flip into the PRC orbit.
I think I saw last year that BMW were offering heated seats on a monthly subscription.
I wonder what would happen if you subscribed your seat but not the spousal seat.
What? A Downer?
What a downer!
Their pro-Taiwan leader has reportedly lost his seat.
OK That’s enough.
Enough Bear…I got it the first time!
😀
Tonight I watched The Favourite on Netflix. I liked it and can recommend it. Olivia Colman plays Queen Anne, and she plays her very well. Queen Anne was the last Stuart to reign, she married Prince George of Denmark and had seventeen children, only one child, a boy, survived infancy, and he died when he was only 11 years old.
It was under Queen Anne that the Act of Settlement was enacted, an act that still regulates the succession to the British throne. After Queen Anne, the succession passed to the German Hanoverians.
The divine Rachel Weisz plays the venal Lady Sarah Churchill, ancestress of both Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Good viewing.
Try it and find out. Might have to wait a few months, in Perth at least.
And no, I’m not confusing communism with fascism, as they’re basically the same sh*t sandwich.
Two cheeks of the same arse.
Day 1and we have our 1st Baz gaffe. This might be fun.
Oh and The Favourite was made only six years ago, yet if made today they’d probably have a black actress as Queen Anne or Lady Sarah or Abigail Masham.
As Lord Mayor Baz already had Perth trannies offside. Not that it takes much.
Cassie 27/1 @ 11:37am
Germain Greer and that list. Germaine when Julia Gillard was PM and in election mode “loose the pants Julia , they show ya fat arse”.
What has that got to do with policy.
I think she was with other wealthy hypocrites like Denton etc who show heir real form.
Cassie 27/1 @ 11:37am
Germain Greer and that list. Germaine when Julia Gillard was PM and in election mode “loose the pants Julia , they show ya fat arse”.
What has that got to do with policy.
I think she was with other wealthy hypocrites like Denton etc who show heir real form.
Did a bit of a read back through Perfesser Bunyip’s Blogue a couple of days ago, after someone had linked to it.
He wrote a magnificent post on an SA tourism ad (dating from mid last decade?) in which he referenced the various wonderful quirks of that monstrous backwater.
BTW, he’s a commenter here. His blogue also featured many commentators past and present. An interesting aspect of the topics he covered is that collectivists, like rust, never sleep.
They are relentless. About the only thing worth learning from them, apart from their unrepentant brutality towards their enemies, real and perceived.
In that respect, I share their fervour. 🙂
No Hamas joy for Khawaja. Done down the leg side.
It’s not McSook, but near enough. One down.
If you like a new car every 3 to 5 years, and can tax expense or salary sacrifice leasing makes sense. But you still need the cash flow to pay for it and an income with onerous taxation levels to make it worthwhile. If you want to keep the car for longer then maybe a personal loan would be more suitable. If its just a private vehicle with no tax benefits pay cash.
Most of us make do with the same car for up to 10 years (there was one I had for 21).
I don;t understand heated seats. Do people drive around naked in winter?
Litts, I think the quote was more along the lines of “Juliar, you have a house sized backside, no need to emphasise it, sweetee!”
Hang on, here we go:
On her previous appearance on the Q&ALBC panel, The Greer bellowed that Ms Gillard wore unflattering jackets and had a “big fat yartze”.
Attempting to have the last word, the Greer told the Q&ALPBC audience: “Womanages are fat-yartzed creatures, I tells ya”
Australia will probably win this one.
But it will be papering over the cracks.
We had a ball clip the stumps yesterday with the bail doing nearly a full revolution in the groove but staying on.
If it wasn’t for that, they’d be chasing nearly 300 against a side which is considered second string by many.
Dover 27/1 @ 11:57am
RebSeth Effricaan bullshit to the bullshit court – all I can think of is Idi Amin – Big Daddy
Entertaining over here in Oz, terrifying if you were in Africa.
The fascists could afford better tailors, there is that.
As Orwell said, the future is a booty sitting on a human face…forever.
In that case, a heated cup holder would make more sense for the blokes.
Will, they’re not really needed Australia. However, in cold climates they’re nice option.
Very droll, Rog.
Oz 2-42
McSook?
The phantom downticker is furiously working his one free hand.
They are quite handy for those of us with “bad backs.”
Just came back from eating out. We normally have wine by the glass as we’re not drinkers. We asked for a rec from the waiter and accepted. They hit us with 40 bucks a glass. You really have to ask for prices because they’ll gouge. $40 bucks a glass for a for frog white wine and they don’t tell you.
If you were going to borrow money or even take it out of your mortgage and your tax braket is higher than the company tax rate, it’s a good option. Particularly if you package all the costs of the car as you get to claim gst back too.
Sacré bleu! Funnily enough, JC I’m imbibing a glass of frogue chardonnay as we speak.
Bugger – it was the Labyouschoornee …
80 bucks added to the bill? Wifey begged me not to take it up because we’re kind of regulars. It was a rose too because we were having seafood.
An eye fillet these days is over 60 bucks.
Hot bimbette, “Zzzzzzzzz …”
You drink wine without food? I’ve never had a yearning for a drink. It doesn’t even enter my mind when we’re home on our own. Once I finish a meal and there’s wine remaining I’m done.
JC – life is too short, Squire. You’ve earned it, enjoy it.
Only one Triple J number one.
Buy Me A Pony by Spider.
One and a half minute of orgy
Spiderbait ffs
Back when contemporary music didn’t suck … 🙂
It is wiping out Hamas. How much more can they do to prevent genocide?
Salvatore
Your inability to insure your hotel as you are in a cyclone zone is interesting.
What baffles me are environmentalists who build dream homes in hills regions in Oz amongst the forest.
Their houses are amongst the trees. Not only are they spoiling the view for everyone, but they get away with it by saying their homes are environmentally designed, solar for power water tanks etc.
Are their house covered.
So: Australia gave money to people who kill Jews and boast about it. Wong and this entire government needs to go.
The WA gliberals’ great white hope (since the disastrous Yak Cockup experiment resulted in him ending up in well deserved obscurity – and hopefully after Miss Jenna ignominiously dumped him).
However, to paraphrase Cap’n Keisel, “If they’re the last of us, Cockup and Zempilini, then god help us!” 😕
Thanks to all for the advice re novated leasing.
Anytime, Milt 🙂
Rabz – He’s all we’ve got. It will take a couple of cycles before they’re competitive. No Palacechoock miracles in the West.
Fat Cat will make a good Minister and Percy Penguin might come out of retirement.
Only saw theALPBC 7pm news. I expect Channel Stokes at 6pm was more favourable.
No joke, he’s the Chicago mayor asking for a cease fire.
Rabz,
did Professor Bunyip make up with the Rufous Scrub Bird?
The Deer Hunter is on FTA. Christopher Walken. sigh…
Non, JC. Cashews and Olives (with chili and balsamic) were being munched on at the time. Wine always tastes better with food.
I meant to post this yesterday, but I didn’t want to spoil a great Australia Day.
Melanie Safka died a few days ago.
Another big chunk of my childhood gone. sob…
Bugger! Was a big fan!
Pogs – err, given that he’s still a commentator here, the last post I read featuring the rufus bird stated the latter had found a new lerve and there were potential family kangaroo court complications of an undisclosed nature.
However, Lizzie, jupes and myself have all been in contact with him over the last few years. He remains, as always, in rude health.
THIS IS THE END – VERNON COLEMAN
Which end?
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba goes off in fiery statement after Trump was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million.
Habba quickly shot back at a journalist who asked if she regrets her decision to represent Trump.
“No, I’m not having any second thoughts about representing President Trump. It is the proudest thing I could ever do.”
“What I’m having second thoughts about is the license that I stand here with.”
“Don’t get it twisted. We are seeing a violation of our justice system. You are not allowed to be stripped of every defense that you have.”
“I am proud to stand with President Trump because he showed up. He stood up, he took the stand, and he faced this judge. And you know what? I’ll continue to do so with him.”
THIS IS THE END I TELLS YA – Jim “of the Vogons” Morrisoni 😕
Attorney General Ken Paxton
@KenPaxtonTX
Today, I denied the Biden Administration’s unfounded requests & issued counter-demands. By February 15, DHS must supply the official plat maps & deeds demonstrating the precise parcels to which they claim ownership, an explanation of how Texas is preventing access to those specific parcels, documentation showing that Eagle Pass or Texas ever granted permission for DHS to erect infrastructure that interferes with border security, & proof of Congress empowering DHS to turn a Texas park into an unofficial & illegal port of entry. If the federal gov. is going to make such claims, it must provide proof.
Presumably because you have no meaningful response to our letter, your latest letter abandons earlier factual assertions, asserts new ones, & supplies even less of a legal basis for your demand. Once again, I respectfully suggest that any time you might spend suing Texas should be redirected toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books. As I said before, this office will continue to defend Texas’s efforts to protect its southern border against every effort by the Biden Administration to undermine the State’s constitutional right of self-defense.
Just happened to be in the right place, right time to see this begin its journey north. A reasonable crowd to see it off; I got a fabulous view through the windscreen.
https://bigrigs.com.au/2024/01/24/477-tonne-superload-on-the-move/
Rabz,
I was curious because I was an avid and loyal reader of the Professor. His serial post on the Rufous Scrub Bird were required reading. 😀 What can I say, no matter what life has had in store for me, I have always been a romantic.
For those of us that were enamoured of the romance, and I don’t for a moment believe I was the only one, it is like having found the missing page from the end of a book.
Thanks.
Logically.AI of Britain and the Expanding Global Reach of Censorship
“Pics or it didn’t happen, Nelson!”
You’re welcome: https://imgur.com/a/8ENcFMu
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Nelson,
that is huge! What is it?
Pogs – I am not claiming to be some sort of authoritah on the affairs of the Perfesser.
You can always go there yourself and arrive at your own judgement.
BTW, being a romantic carries its own special curse. 😕
golden rules and golden ages
can western civilization survive the loss of its christian underpinnings?
The last ever comment at the Billabong:
I wonder who is now going to pay all those terror teachers.
Italy also withdraws unwra funding
“BTW, being a romantic carries its own special curse.”
Tell me about it. ” 🙁
The years have blurred the story a bit for me. I don’t often reread things, I prefer memories even if the do skew a little. 😀
BTW, is Doctor Yowie still in the blogosphere?
oops, italic formatting fought for its freedom!
So hard, finding inspiration …
Can’t wait to see your eyes, now you’ve been Tantalized … 🙂
Magificent Mulletage – ’85
Yeah, I think that was the first ‘grown up’ movie I got to watch.
I hadn’t seen a movie or TV for a couple of years or more, & the boss got a VHS player & bought a half-dozen videos – as you did in those days.
We watched The Deer Hunter at least every fortnight.
Christopher Walken (Nicky actually, it was years before I knew his real name, or that he was a star) made quite an impression on me. As did Meryl Streep & particularly Robert De Niro.
Fun fact about The Deer Hunter: Not one word of Vietnamese language is heard during the entire movie.
Er… I am not in a cyclone zone. Not by a country mile.
Deerhunter is the only movie I like Meryl Streep in.
Can’t sleep, a fox is screaming outside and driving the dogs nuts. So, surf the net.
Found something Calli might enjoy. It should brin back a few memories. 😀
“g”, there it is.
Week In Pictures.
Have made it to Livorno.
Forgot I could get the regional train there from Trastevere, so slightly put out by timetable, no matter the bus ride to Termini is much more scenic.
Beautiful weather so 4 hour trip along the coast was a particular pleasure. The pines, the rocks, the yachts, the green fields, the sea.
A short walk from my temporary abode to the cathedral to check the mass schedule took me to what I thought might be a palli protest but no it wasn’t, an emergency services protest, not that either, once I realised it was someone saying the Ave Maria over the loud speaker. Two firies on the big ladder thingy decorating an icon of Our Lady on a high wall with flowers as the sun set in the luminous way it does here.
I then walked in the other direction, to the ferry terminal from which I shall depart on Tuesday and there indeed was a palli protest, perhaps 20 people all indigenous Italian, the only muslims I saw were promenading with their families or watching the Catholic event.
The statue being protested under was dedicated to the defeat of north African (muslim) pirates at the end of the 1500s.
Perfect location.
Livorno highlight so far though is the automated pineapple machine in the supermarket, whole fresh pineapple goes in the top, 20 seconds later, perfect rings of cored pineapple in your container.
Pogria
Jan 28, 2024 3:13 AM
Can’t sleep, a fox is screaming outside and driving the dogs nuts. So, surf the net.
Found something Calli might enjoy. It should brin back a few memories.
Let’s go!
Faithless – God Is a DJ (Live At Alexandra Palace 2005)
I still clap every time I see that launch.
Enjoy the ride.
Binary Finary – 1999 (epic version)
What a cheerful way to start your Sunday (2020, looking at 2012 – 2017).
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-tinderrhoea-tinder-fuelled-sti-boom.html
A new study found annual gonorrhoea transmission rates increased 153% during the 2012-2017 reporting period, with the publication in Sexually Transmitted Diseases identifying the bacterial infection is highly concentrated in specific areas, amongst low income populations and within high-risk populations.
Dr. Emma Miller from the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University says the results signify a new epidemic of gonorrhoea, separate from ongoing epidemics in high risk groups, in young heterosexuals engaging in casual or unprotected sexual activities, which could indicate long term increases in HIV and STI transmission if behavioural trends continue.
“The significant increase in gonorrhoea notifications in 2016 and 2017 in our study were found to be associated with young heterosexuals. Changes in sexual behaviour have occurred with the emergence of dating apps which have become a part of single life during emerging adulthood,” says Dr. Miller.
“The rapid emergence of internet technologies has facilitated the identification of potential partners in convenient geographic proximity and resulted in a change in social rules which govern young people’s sexual behaviour, thus increasing the likelihood of STI transmission.”
Young people aged between 15 and 29 continue to be significantly impacted by STIs in Adelaide, and engaging in prevention, testing and treatment presents a public health challenge. The crude infection rate in 2012 was 21.9 per 100,000 population, increasing to 74 per 100,000 population by 2017.
“Casual, and often condomless, sex initiated through the use of dating apps is emerging as a risk factor for STI transmission.”
It gets worse though: (2022)
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/urgent-need-to-alert-gps-of-syphilis-epidemic
Then remind yourself how popular Seeking and Tinder are.
ABC News
“A dire shortage of mechanics in Victoria.”
Sadly no shortage of HR managers.
After reading the WIP (thanks Tom) I realized that some males are circumvented, others not so,
I enjoyed the cheese review, Tom.
Thanks Pogs. That was ‘63. By ‘85 the locals wore pants, although the occasional gourd + arse grass might be seen at the market.
They still battled each other in the same lame way though, then off to the haus sik for treatment. Machetes made the doctors’ work more fun.
Watched The Dish again last night. Love that movie, despite all the clichés. It really was a great time to be alive.
eugyppius reports from Germany:
‘It is the weekend and the anti-Alternative for Germany protests have started up again. Perhaps the aim is to promote them to a semi-permanent ritual, like the weekly Fridays for Future marches to save the climate in 2019. This would make sense: The climateers seem to be losing steam, with Last Generation [hand gluing climate worriers – R.] in disarray and Greta Thunberg continuing her transition to pro-Palestinian activism. Climate change is no longer a growth industry, and the permanent leftist protest must now take up new themes.’
From one “cause” to another, each of which is merely another strategic position from which to attack those who dissent from the prog-left meta-narrative.
The Left is relentless.
He is well known to Cats, but in light of Roger’s comment I thought I’d put this one up.
C.S.Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” Matches Orwell’s “1984” As A Prognosticator Of The Perils Of Progressivism (26 Jan)
Maybe if he wrote it today he’d call the organization W.E.F. rather than N.I.C.E.
Good morning everyone, from the Daily Telegraph, stop the presses, in news just in, the NSWaffen Police have found their mojo, ‘swooping’ up, wait for it, can you believe this…….
Turramurra Nazis.
Cops break up second neo-Nazi gathering in Sydney one day after Australia Day ambush
Police have swooped on another neo-Nazi gathering in Sydney, one day after they ambushed members of the National Socialist Network on Australia Day.
Officers on Saturday night served ringleader Thomas Sewell a Public Safety Order extension, prohibiting him from entering a number of local government areas in Sydney until midnight on Sunday.
Around 40 people, believed to be members of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network, were seen near the North Turramurra Scout Hall, surrounded by police, including the riot squad.
Officers were seen questioning at least six of the men on Bobbin Head Rd in North Turramurra.
It comes after a group of at least 60 men boarded a Sydney train on Australia Day wearing balaclavas and carrying a banner referencing a neo-Nazi group.
Senior police were taking no chances with interstate neo-Nazis on Friday, with a pre-prepared statement read to the balaclava-clad group signed off by the top brass weeks before.
The revelations on Saturday came as Premier Chris Minns said he would consider banning the Nazi salute in NSW after the “idiots” stormed the streets of Sydney.
Scores of officers were on hand on Friday to spoil their plans at North Sydney station just after noon before the group were able to get into the CBD.
The direction read to ringleader and convicted criminal Thomas Sewell had been prepared by some of the state’s most senior police, who knew in advance the group’s planned to gather in Sydney.
Beyond a usual “move on” direction, the riot squad officer who read out the order on Friday detailed how Sewell and his group’s “previous attendance and public order incidents, criminal history, history of assaulting members of the public and your role in provoking and intimidating people”.
They were also banned from the City Of Sydney local government area until Saturday and anywhere a planned Australia Day event may be taking place because their presence “poses a serious risk to public safety”.
Premier Minns on Saturday confirmed he wanted to look at law changes to keep the community safe.
“We will consider action in relation to that to keep Sydney’s streets safe, to promote social cohesion and harmony,” he said.
“Last year, or the year prior to that, in a bipartisan fashion, both major political parties came together to outlaw the swastika in NSW.
Some Cassie thoughts for the morning…
1. Turramurra, near the Scout Hall, a hotbed of Nazism. Who’d have thought!
2. Interesting how the NSWaffen Police have rediscovered policing, banning the ringleader Thomas Sewell with a Public Safety Order extension, prohibiting Sewell from entering a number of local government areas in Sydney until midnight on Sunday‘, note how this is in stark contrast to the events of 9 October 2023, when the NSW Police issued a directive telling innocent Jews to stay away from one local government area, the Sydney CBD. I also note that no such Public Order Extension was given to the Nazis from Lakemba and Auburn who organised a convoy of cars to drive through Sydney’s eastern suburbs, in a deliberate stunt to intimidate Sydney’s Jews.
3. Are you comforted at how the NSWaffen suddenly excels at ‘swooping’?. Pity, isn’t it, that the NSWaffren are yet to ‘swoop’ on one person who screamed ‘gas the Jews’ in front of the Sydney Opera House nearly four months ago. Ho hum, I suppose it’s called ‘monitoring’ and ‘priorities’.
4. All I can say is that it’s pretty clear that when it comes to the Nazis in Lakemba or Newtown, the NSWaffen Police are missing in action.
5 Pardon the pun but I guess white Anglo Saxon Nazis from Turramurra are ‘treif’ whereas Muslim Nazis from Lakemba, Auburn and Punchbowl and Leftist Nazis from Newtown and Marrickville are ‘kosher’.
6. As for ‘social cohesion’, bullshit, this is just another one of those leftwing stinking farts. Who here wants to ‘cohere’ with Muslim and leftist scum? I don’t, I have nothing in common with Lakemba headhunters or Marrickille and Newtown transperverts. Social cohesion is another one of those progressive wank words and policies deliberately designed to cause disharmony and discord.
Finally, further to Turramurra Nazis, I dunno about others but I smell a rat, a big stinking rotting rat.
I have no truck with Nazis, pseudo or otherwise, but I did predict this sort of thing will happen – in the name of promoting “social cohesion” the authorities will crack down on everyone but those who present a real danger to it.
And good morning, Cassie!
Rohan Bopanna wins a slam title in the men’s doubles at the age of forty three and the world’s oldest player ranked number 1.
Legend!
Have Plod issued a public safety order against Zakky Mallah? He is the organiser of the Eastern Suburbs harassment convoy. No, the actually provided an escort in November.
The police couldn’t look more wickedly hypocritical if they tried.
Victorian and NSW police, in particular, seem intent on destroying the public trust without which they can’t function effectively.
Their commands need a good clean out, but who is there to replace them who understands the issue?
Have Plod issued a public safety order against Zakky Mallah? He is the organiser of the Eastern Suburbs harassment convoy. No, the actually provided an escort in November.
Yep.
The police couldn’t look more wickedly hypocritical if they tried.
Yep.
What?
When you see an add about it you could draw the conclusion that 50% of the female population has chosen it as a vocation.
Surely the number of young blokes wanting to do it has remained the same?
There should be a surplus.
Shirley.
Victoria’s migrant intake hasn’t solved the mechanic shortage but it’s sure provided an oversupply of car thieves.
There’s a good cartoon in there.
Peta Credlin:
Seeking the Truth: Investigating Moderna’s Chilling Connection to Covid-19’s Origin
11-Year-Old Boy Hears For First Time Ever Thanks To Gene Therapy Breakthrough
There’s only a perceived shortage of mechanics because every post-Gen-X male is a huge girly man who can’t change their own engine oil because they might break a nail.
I’d say they’re halfway there.
UN’s Next Goals: End National Militaries, Establish Global Military, Disarm You
Or more correctly, halal.
They had some large Australian flags. I suspect all they aimed to do was peacefully confront the anti-Australian anti-Jew mobs on Australia Day.
WE DON’T HAVE A PRESIDENT
Seeking the Truth: Investigating Moderna’s Chilling Connection to Covid-19’s Origin
The even more startling evidence is emerging of the incredible partnership of US company EcoHealth Alliance with the Chinese lab at Wuhan in experimenting with zoonotic viruses. That this was actually funded by the US government is breathtaking.
While it is obvious that the development – or understanding – of future bioweapons would be of interest to both countries, it is a stretch to comprehend the cooperation of ideological enemies.
On the other hand, our own Australian CSIRO apparently hosted the visit of the famous “bat lady” Shi Zhengli.
Dr. John Campbell
Decisions, overwhelmingly wrong
Nations halt funding for UN relief group over alleged Hamas involvement
Public toilets in the 1950s often had a large poster advising to be checked for syphilis and gonorrhoea. I remember them in railway station toilets.
“There Is a Collision Coming,” Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson’s 2024 Predictions
Excellent. Thank you Indolent.
‘Newcomers to UK housed in hotels, whilst veterans are homeless and IGNORED’ | Neil Oliver
To look at Albo you really need to question our voting laws. How on earth did he get in legitimately? Thanks SloMo!
Listening to Tucker interviewing Governor Abbott.
If only Tony had been Greg.
Not just in the UK.
And morning tv informs me that Tim Minchin is a comedy legend. Yes kind reader, a legend. Something to do with the stage adaptation of Groundhog Day. Good Lord.
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One of the Zero pilots was legendary ace Saburo Sakai who recounted the story after the war and recommended the pilot get a VC. Unfortunately nominations by the enemy don’t count.
Er.. (cough… cough) Flying Office Lloyd Trigg, RNZAF, V.C., D.F.C.,”
Cough, cough, the Captain of HMS Glowworm, recommended by the Captain of the German ship he rammed.
I see there’s some discussion of the convenient Nazis again. At this point I’ve really got to question if they’re on the state payroll. They’re always showing up in just the right time and place for the hooting gibbons in the media and politics to point at them as a distraction.
Stinks of theatre.
Albo:- “My word is my bond.”
That famous saying comes from a much beloved fictional spiv, Arthur Daley. Albo has about as much credibility as Arfur, only without any charm whatsoever.
Thanks to a lot of low information voters, many of whom are apparently now feeling remorseful.
Labor won the 2PP vote in every state except QLD, where they were trounced by a 9.2% margin.
The benefit of car leasing used to be that the value of the car at the end of the lease usually exceeded the payout.The dealer would pay you the difference .
I got caught once when I bought a car from a dealer who I thought was a mate.At the end of the lease he advised me that he would take the car back as he was entitled to do as I had used his finance company unless I bought another car from him.
I was not happy but $10K is $10K.
Obviously I used a different finance company next time.
Off to Mongyang later today for several days, and in the pursuit of smallgoodsery.
I have no doubt that later today I will assess the CBD as a soulless, enterprise-free meth-infested vomit-strewn hellscape.
Again.
How George Pell built the world’s best Catholic chaplaincy
This is an edited version of an essay by Dr Robert Haddad from the latest edition of the the Australian Catholic Historical Society’s journal, available free online.
On Netflix recommendations, last night we watched two one-hour episodes of the mini-series War Sailor, a Norwegian film about the magnificent and huge Norwegian contribution to the sea convoys that kept Britain going during World War Two.
It was very well done, and very poignant in its story line juxtaposing events at home in Bergen while the father of the family was at sea doing his duty under some duress.
There is one more episode tonight, the final wrap up which will clearly deal with the post-war aftermath which is hinted at in the very beginning.
War is hell. No doubt there. But should one let Hitler take over Europe, and indeed, should one let Hamas run riot forever into Israel? No, in both cases.
While Mark Knight is on holidays, the Herald Sun has been running cartoons by other News Corp artists, including some killers this weekend by the Daily Telegraph’s Warren Brown.
But, according to Google that’s supposed to be an all-seeing, all-knowing global search engine, Warren Brown basically doesn’t exist.
When you Google “Warren Brown cartoons”, you get an apology that “there are not many search results” available.
There was a time when the coders at Google were making it hard to find stuff from people whose politics they didn’t like – anyone to the right of Ghengis Khan.
But I think they gave that up because a search engine’s confession it can’t find stuff is an admission of incompetence.
Nevertheless, Google hasn’t heard of Warren Brown, the cartoonist for Sydney’s top-selling daily newspaper.
Or at least, that’s this year. In the past, Warren Brown’s cartoons were everywhere in Google searches, like those of Melbourne’s Mark Knight.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, just an admission that Google’s nerds aren’t very good at their jobs – lazy and incompetent, as at any unchallenged monopoly.
The only thing Google has going for it is that, after decades of market dominance, it has such a stranglehold on search software it’s now extremely difficult for wannabe competitors to get a foothold in the search business.
The Inventor of Lipid Nanoparticles Knew the mRNA Would Not Stay in Your Arm, but They Could Not Let The Public Know.
We visited Old Parliament House recently, highly impressed. However, there was a current exhibition of 2023 Political Cartoons – Best Of. Naturally, NO JOHANNES LEAK. I explained carefully on the way out that their bias was clearly showing.
Canberra looked totally unkempt and scrappy. Long grass verges. Graffiti. Black mountain trail signs damaged and defaced. Less I say about Australian Museum the better, predominately acrylic dot paintings from 2011 onwards, simply appalling.
Not puffing Google’s sails, but when I goggle ‘Warren Brown Cartoons’ the first thing I see is the Wikipedia link, followed by cartoons by Warren and a plethora of links.
We are heading out west of the dividing range tomorrow for a couple of days R & R.
It’s been a hard weekend already for Attapuss, with a raucous Australia Day party on Friday, and our autistic cat-obsessed four year-old here yesterday seeking out his hiding places, and us packing get-away bags today. When my son turns up as cat-sitter tomorrow Attapuss will see it as the seal of doom. If only there was a way I could tell him it’s only for two days. And two more days away in Bateman’s Bay in the week after that. Just the blink of one of your golden eyes each time, tabby tiger kitty with your snowy white bib, paws and tail tip.
We are directing our anger at frontline police when it’s their commanding officers and the two people right at the top, the Police Minister and the Police Commissioner, who are calling the shots. Second the man ultimately in charge is the premier, Chris Minns and I blame him for everything. If he didn’t like being blamed he can change what is happening or he can tell us that Albo and his governing committee, the Greens, are not allowing him to put a stop to the Palestinian protests. Let’s see who is the boss here?
I think you might be putting “Warren Brown cartoons” in quotation marks. That makes Google search for that phrase – you will get very little.
Try it without and you get 4,090,000 results.
Second the man ultimately in charge is the premier, Chris Minns and I blame him for everything.
Yep, Minnsy talks a good talk, but he doesn’t walk the talk. He’s a bullshit artist and a pretty face that the Labor machine installed to win them the election.
Dr Faustus, the reason I get a different result in my Google search for “Warren Brown cartoons” is that I specify results for “up to a week ago” because I know Warren Brown cartoons were featured in both the Saturday and Sunday Herald Sun this weekend.
That then generates the following message from Google:
Credlin might be having a lend blaming the Population Ponzi on the Liars. True UniParty bipartisanship there on show.
Few road pizzas on a Sunday morning is evidence of a healthy polis. They all hose off.
That’s just a version of a Nuremberg excuse. I was just following orders. Except that if they were really against what they’re doing, they could resign and find another job. They’re all in on it from the lowest level on up.
Nevertheless, Google hasn’t heard of Warren Brown, the cartoonist for Sydney’s top-selling daily newspaper.
Warren Brown and Mark Knight – excellent cartoonists . And young Leak soon to be the best.
The left try to bury the awkward truth but they’ll always be mocked.
In j’ism circles working for Newscorpse is one rung above child trafficking.
PK seems to have thrown off the stain but it’s been an effort.