Tom Stiglich.
Open Thread – Mon 29 Jan 2024
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Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
Roger – were good. It was sheep.
Not possible. Implies motion exists.
One clears one’s diary for MAFS.
I guess that leaves me dependent on updates from someone, first I do not own a TV, second, I have never owned a diary, third, who gives a F***.
GG!
Why not Warren Mundine or some other sensible representative of the indigenes?
Because … I think we know why.
“Re Bolt’s warning about violence: there is a clear darkness descending – you see it in the rise in violent home robberies & the rise in shootings. “
This sort of things (violent response to a fringe element) are like bankruptcy – they are slow, then fast. The majority are quietly waiting for our “leaders” to do something – anything. Most are too busy going to work, taking the kids to sport etc etc to turn up at any sort of protest – until they are severely affected, and then they will “snap” and lots of undesirable things will happen. Only then might GovCo do something. And if it be the wrong thing, then the MPs will find themselves the target of violence too.
Not good – never good, don’t want to see it, don’t want it to happen, asking for it NOT to happen. But suspect it is on the way, suspect it is inevitable, because our “leaders” do not lead, they follow – the loudest part of the mob, not the most common.
When was the last time and motion study done in a Commonwealth PS office?
The T&M person was injured in the sudden rush for the tea trolley.
Work from home would have reduced the maintenance costs on the office coffee machine. Might run into some desal plant type issues now.
Lidia Thorpe for G.G., anyone?
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/air/b-21-raider/b-21-news4
Already in production. For $700 million its yours. The USA spends a fortune but the results are amazing. This bomber, with or without a pilot, is a threat to every nation on the planet. Test flights for the first hypersonic fighter will probably happen latter this year. While some sweat the decline in munition stockpiles the USA has to use those up because so many new weapons are in production.
The last time we were in Fiji we drove past a large hydro-electric dam project.
The driver explained “the Chinese are building it for us.”
Some research subsequently revealed that the project is funded in large part by the China Development Bank, which is a major financier of Belt and Road infrastructure projects around the world. Not sure how much of the funding is via a grant of money and how much is via a loan.
Population of Tasmania = 541,071
Senators = 12
Population of Northern Territory = 246,500
Senators = 2
Population of ACT 431,215
Senators = 2
Now I know what you’re going to say!
Nope, reduce Tasmania’s to 2 as a Mendicant State.
Ah…but where did the money come from to buy the sheep station?
Actually, I may have to look into this myself.
Roger
Jan 29, 2024 12:31 PM
We are being taken for such a ride.
When was the last time and motion study done in a Commonwealth PS office?
Roger,
There would be nobody in the Commonwealth PS Ofiice, or BOM, or State Offices
Rang Service NSW re their letter syaing needed Cardiologist Drivers Renewal Review
Was at 4.10pm on Friday Afternoon 2 weeks ago – Lady who answered had kids in backgtound & dog barking
Said she would not have time to contact Supervisor as I said had submitted OK Cardiologist Report last week November
She did get back to me on Tuesday and said problem was Cardiologist Report submitted before GP Driver OK assessment and the System could not handle
(I go to GP about a week after Cardiologist to get 2 for 1 – Next Years Referral and Driver Assessment)
And let’s forget – BoM scientist sacked for secretly working from overseas
A Bureau of Meteorology scientist has failed to get his job back after he was sacked for secretly working overseas for several weeks while telling his bosses he was working from home.
The Fair Work Commission rejected research scientist Diandong Ren’s unfair dismissal claim and backed the BoM’s case that lying to his boss about his location and accessing his employer’s systems from overseas without permission had put the Commonwealth’s IT network at risk.
But nine days after he was due back in Australia, Mr Ren’s supervisor noticed he had not been seen in the office, was unresponsive during work hours and failed to attend meetings, even ones he was supposed to chair.
When the BoM traced the IP address Mr Ren was using to log onto its network “from home”, the agency discovered it was coming from Austin, Texas.
Mr Ren claimed that was because he had left his personal computer overseas “running python and unix scripts”.
But when his supervisor directed him to provide evidence of his travel dates to the US, he did not do so.
Several months later, he claimed his return flight had been interrupted because of a positive COVID-19 test in Doha and that when he got back to Australia he had to quarantine and work from home for two weeks.
However, travel records provided by the Department of Home Affairs indicated that he did not return to Australia until October 6, more than two weeks after he was supposed to have returned.
The records showed that, even as he was under investigation for secretly working overseas, he had again travelled to the US for three months despite telling his supervisor he was working from home and despite the BoM refusing his request to take personal leave to visit the country.
Reject romance, return to clothes-swaps
By Philippa Martyr – January 29, 2024
Responses to the ICJ decision are often a Rorschach test of a sort.
Get on board
Bigger than the Mexican Wave!
AL-Boo
P
Jan 29, 2024 12:49 PM
Reject romance, return to clothes-swaps
By Philippa Martyr – January 29, 2024
P,
conceptually already being done
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OldOzzie
Jan 29, 2024 10:05 AM
Most consumers aren’t buying cars on the basis of what’s best for the planet. They’re choosing what’s best for their needs and their hip pocket. Unless you only drive around the city, EVs lose on every front.
And data out of the UK has now revealed that EV owners are paying twice as much to insure their cars as combustion engine-owners because the cost of repair is so high.
It doesn’t matter how many tax breaks or rebates are given – people don’t want to buy EVs on a large scale. Toyota knows it. We know it. It’s time to give up the charade.
Interestingly, Toyoda also said that “No matter how much progress (electric vehicles) make, I think they will still only have a 30 per cent market share. Then, the remaining 70 per cent will be (hybrids), (fuel cell electric vehicles), and hydrogen engines.”
The Japanese government, and vehicle manufacturers in particular, have long been keen on hydrogen power. We are all aware of the issues with hydrogen – but I am also very doubtful that EVs are the best answer despite various legislation enacted by governments under the malevolent eye of the UN. Companies like Toyota have vast resources in consumer research and plan at least a decade in advance (sometimes more). It takes a very long time to bring a new car to market and Toyota is one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world – and it wants to stay that way.
Separately, whilst battery development continues, what happens to those batteries when they reach the end of their useful life in 12-15 years. Governments will not allow them to go to land fill. Discarded EV batteries are estimated to reach 100,000+ tonnes per annum by 2036 and be growing exponentially. Recycled? Maybe, but most batteries are not currently manufactured to allow easy recycling to keep the cost down.
By the way, as your EV approaches its 12th year, what do you think will happen to the re-sale value of the vehicle when the next owner is soon to be faced with a multi-thousand dollar bill to replace the battery?
Discarded EV batteries are estimated to reach 100,000+ tonnes per annum by 2036
That’s in Australia only. Globally, the number would be in the millions of tonnes.
However will the B-21 compete with Tu-95s?
That’s very encouraging but I will add that it’s not just a Catholic phenomenon; stay at home mothering is a deliberate choice among evangelical Christians too.
Btw, P (or anyone who can answer) is home schooling popular among Catholics or is it still expected that children will be sent to a Catholic school?
I’m curious as these trends seem to spring up simultaneously in different sub-cultures as a reaction to wider societal changes.
I’ve mentioned this here several times, for several years.
In fact the UPU has been deliberately scammed by poor countries using their collective voting powers as a way to get free money from the west, I think there was an adjustment made to give high postage volume countries more say.
Always love it when people assume free postage from China is evidence that Australian domestic retail are ripping people off.
However will the B-21 compete with Tu-95s?
The Tu-95’s will compete with the USAF B-52J (they are re-engining them with RR bizjet engines).
ZK2A:
Whoever it will be, take it for granted that it will be another Communist – just waiting for the chance to make a difference for the cause.
I know of a few Catholic home schoolers, more in rural areas I wouldn’t say it was huge, possibly depends on the calibre of local Catholic schools.
Like all things they vary.
Instead of electric or hydrogen I’d be putting effort into synthetic fuels.
CO2 + H2O + heat -> CxHy It is a two stage process or so I read.
John H.
Jan 29, 2024 12:34 PM
Roger
Brownian Motion exists down to the molecular level, so still possible.*
🙂
I remember an old photo. Seated together watching a Wimbledon final, Bobby Simpson and Colin Cowdrey.
Speedbox
Jan 29, 2024 1:03 PM
Discarded EV batteries are estimated to reach 100,000+ tonnes per annum by 2036
That’s in Australia only. Globally, the number would be in the millions of tonnes.
Speedbox,
Problems already at Northern Beaches Council Tip – Fire caused by incorrectly disposed batteries at Kimbriki
Thursday, 4 January 2024
Batteries might be small, but they’re creating big problems for workers and our environment on the Northern Beaches.
Without safe disposal, used and unwanted batteries can create fire hazards and leak toxic materials. Batteries don’t belong in the bin and they should never end up in landfill.
Even used batteries may contain residual charge which can create a spark and start a fire. This puts workers in danger at all stages of waste collection and disposal – from picking up and transporting waste to uncovering battery hazards in landfill.
Staff at Kimbriki have recently experienced a number of near misses from overheated batteries that have ended up in landfill.
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Household Chemical CleanOut event (car and household batteries)
Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, Ingleside (all battery types)
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P
Jan 29, 2024 12:49 PM
Lovely article. Thanks for posting, P.
P
These women have husbands too, don’t they?
I have a lot of clothing I don’t wear any more, and still some of my wifes clothes that I don’t want to throw out but would be happy to donate to one of these get togethers. Our local St Vinnies just cut them up or chuck them out, and I’m damned if I will cop that.
Perhaps a section for blokes would be worth it.
The closest thing Russia has to a flying wing is a flying T 72 turret.
Speedbox:
Perhaps those batteries could be burnt in a closed environment.
They carry their own O2 for combustion, and they seem to burn readily. Really readily.
🙂
“Tom
Jan 29, 2024 11:30 AM
Humphrey, don’t blame Tasmania for Jacqui Lambie; blame the Senate gerrymander.
In 2019, Lambie was elected to the Senate with 31,383 votes.
In the same election it took Pauline Hanson 788,203 votes to get a Senate seat in Queensland.
All to make sure big Australian states don’t dominate the little ones — re-interpreted by loony fringe parties like the Greenfilth and the Jacqui Lambie Network as a way of getting into office with a few tens of thousands of votes via a massive gerrymander.
It’s all for our own good, donchaknow.”
Since referendums are current, I suspect that a referendum to abolish Tasmania and incorporate it into Victoria, with the 12 Senate seats distributed to the remaining five states (two each) and the territories (one each) might even get up.
This article by Jeffrey Tucker in the Epoch Times argues what many are recognising here – that the government claim of economic prosperity is an illusion. This article refers to conditions in the USA but could well apply here:
For a few days, ever since the supposedly amazing GDP report from the fourth quarter of 2023, we’ve been blasted by the media about how great the economy is doing. It’s exasperating because these claims don’t fit with human experience.
Last we heard from the Census Bureau, real income is down, and no one doubts it. Everyone has felt strong downgrades in living standards over these past four years.
And yet, no recession has been declared. This is for technical reasons. A recession is supposed to show up in the technical reading of the GDP plus unemployment. We’ve known for years that the unemployment data are broken. They don’t account for labor dropouts or adjust for multiple job holders or otherwise reveal anything about labor participation or remuneration. Unemployment is technically low, but so what?
As for gross domestic product (GDP), it isn’t a measure of the standard of living or even economic growth. It is a measure of output—stuff going on as measured in dollar terms, whether necessary, productive, society-serving, efficient, or not at all. The aggregate was concocted at a time when economists believed that spending was itself productive, whether it flowed from a sustainable capital base or government itself. Anything moving and churning was regarded as good.
When the latest report came out and everyone cheered, I dug around the data a bit but figured I would wait for my favorite analysts to weigh in. Sure enough, Peter St. Onge writes it up and it is a doozy:
“Fresh GDP numbers came in and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout that only a $2.7 trillion government deficit can buy while the private economy crumbles around it. Another couple blowout GDP reports like this and Americans will be living under an overpass.”
The essential ruse comes down to unfathomable amounts of government spending that is being recorded as productivity and output, and interpreted by media as growth.
“In the past 12 months, the federal deficit increased by $1.3 trillion. Yet we only got half that in GDP—about $600 billion. In other words, everything else shrank. It’s even worse for that brave and stunning Q4—there we got just $300 billion in extra GDP for—wait for it—$834 billion of new federal debt.”
To put a fine point on it: “Essentially, [GDP is measuring] the pace at which we’re going Soviet, replacing private wealth with government waste.” In his interpretation of the data, we are destroying wealth at the fastest rate since 2008.
An analysis by ZeroHedge echoes the same thought:
“While Q4 GDP rose by $329 billion to $27.939 trillion, a respectable if made up number, what is much more disturbing is that over the same time period, the US budget deficit rose by more than 50 percent, or $510 billion. And the cherry on top: the increase in public US debt in the same three-month period was a stunning $834 billion, or 154 percent more than the increase in GDP. In other words, it now takes $1.55 in budget deficit to generate $1 of growth … and it takes over $2.50 in new debt to generate $1 of GDP growth!”
To further the analysis, and doing the math:
“Every dollar in GDP growth cost $1.69 in new debt, and also means that every new job cost future generations of Americans $957,100.48.”
To say this is unsustainable is more than obvious. It is a disaster, and this is dragging American prosperity into the pits, if by prosperity, you mean quality of life. No matter how many gizmos to which you have access, the resources for living a good life are depleting very fast. The idea of a one-income family is nearly extinct, whereas it was the norm three-quarters of a century ago. Even the gizmos are falling apart and not serving us well.
Household appliances don’t work unless you somehow get your hands on the most high-priced models. They are trying to shove everyone into urban commuter cars so that you cannot drive on those big vacations that used to be the American norm. College is out of reach, and the degree is increasingly worthless anyway. People are ever more despairing for the future and thinking that this is just the new normal.
Even looking at output data over the long term, you can see the trend, even given all the manipulation and fakery. It’s still very obvious where things are headed.
. The United States has been the world center of technological innovation during these years, and the historical home for free enterprise and entrepreneurship. We should have had the greatest boom times in our history! Instead, government stole all that energy for itself. It’s a tragedy.
Everyone underestimates the wild effect of 2020 and the following chaos caused by lockdowns. Those sent the workplace into upheaval, wrecked data collection, made property rights and liberties far less secure, and entrenched a professional managerial class in government and industry that conspires against the public.
On the good side, we are seeing the evaporation of trust in media, medicine, academia, and government. Large media organizations are laying off workers in droves just to survive, and the woke agenda generally seems on the ropes.
Dramatic reforms are possible, but are they likely? We will see. There needs to be wholesale reform in government and much more besides, to save what’s left of the great American prosperity machine. As it is, the more likely outcome is to go the way of empires past, a long slog through the miasma of corruption and stagnation until generations hence will speak of the United States in the past tense the way we talk about the Portuguese empire.
That’s a big departure from the way this article opened, so let’s go back to the point. The GDP data are not reflective of anything real except government profligacy and stagnation in every sector that counts. You can read the headlines or look at the underlying realities. One perpetuates existing myth-making and the other reveals that the myth is not long for this world.
John H.
“. It reminds me of what 30 years ago an economist noted about the USA: it is unique in being a first world country with a third world living inside it.”
Not quite, both India and China are now similar.
This is the article referred to above:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-great-growth-hoax-5574854?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge
“Bungonia Bee
Jan 29, 2024 12:35 PM
GG!
Why not Warren Mundine or some other sensible representative of the indigenes?
Because … I think we know why.”
Anthony Dillon?
Boambee John
Jan 29, 2024 1:29 PM
Sell it to the Israelis.
(Yes, they wouldn’t take it, I know.)
Yes, Anthony Dillon for sure.
Why on earth would the IDF gas tunnels, apart from being a war crime, hostages are being kept in them.
I noticed in the linked article that hamas leaders had marble floors in their private tunnels.
Aren’t Gazans a little bit sick of how aid funds have been used?
Even the tunnels with cages used to hold hostages had fancy wall tiles, no expense spared.
Imshin had a series of posts on a particular family and their luxury homes acquired as the result of running online donation scams, now the UN is crying about lack of infrastructure in southern gaza means many internally displaced people have water running through their tents
No money for sewerage or storm water, might have interfered with hamas tunnels.
Flooding was a problem in Gaza pre 7 October but they always just claimed wicked Israel was sending excess water from dams.
So much water but Gazans rely or desal.
Logic not a strong point.
OldOzzie
Jan 29, 2024 1:13 PM
In the USA, it’s estimated that over 2 billion batteries are sent to land fill every year but these are small batteries such as AAA, AA, C, D 9V etc.
An EV battery is (usually) the size of a suitcase and weighs around 400kg although this obviously varies according to the size of the car. The biggest EV battery, out of the electric Hummer, weighs 1500kg. Try taking that to Bunnings and asking where you can drop it off. 🙂
But the problem with EV batteries hasn’t really become an issue yet as most EVs are relatively new to the market and, battery disposal is only tiny at the moment. We can be certain however, that there is no way government will allow EV batteries to be dumped.
Separately, there was another electric scooter fire in Brisbane a day ago. Recharging in the garage and the battery caught fire. Burned the entire house down.
Digger
Jan 29, 2024 11:04 AM
The Army had her pegged about right. After 12 years she rose to the dizzy heights of corporal…
Corporal was the base minumum rank in the MPs.
Unless it has changed.
So yes, she reached her ceiling rank in the military in the Meatheads.
India has Ashwagandha. China has Ginseng. Both are adaptogens. Now I understand why the USA is so psychologically messed up. Instead of relying on drugs and doctors they should have asked the locals for their magic herbs and spices.
‘the Meatheads’
Which was once universally also known as the ‘No Mates Corps’.
Wasn’t a family member of a hostage recently in the Israeli press complaining that the IDF gassed her son?
Rosie
Jan 29, 2024 1:46 PM
Why on earth would the IDF gas tunnels, apart from being a war crime, hostages are being kept in them.
Indeed and, it would be a PR ‘own goal’ of monumental proportions. The Jews, who were subject to gassing during the Holocaust, use gas to kill their enemies! WTF.
She was busted to LCPL for assaulting a colleague.
She then conveniently experienced her ‘accident’ which saw her medicaled out.
A subsequent review of her medical pension found no evidence of disability.
It simply sucks that this scammer is anywhere near the levers of power.
Statistically, I’m really freaky, but fortunately it doesn’t show.* And I belong wherever I happen to be.
Except when I am tired or intoxicated and use words like ‘sedulously’.
Interesting.
When I first read this article early this morning, the people of interest were described as Asian. Reading it just now, there is no mention of “Asian”, at all. Only what they were wearing.
The E. Jean Carroll case gets more absurd:
IT WAS A UNITED FRONT… Trump’s Legal Team Reveals Shocking ‘Conflict of Interest’ in E. Jean Carroll Case: Judge Lewis Kaplan and E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer Roberta Kaplan Worked Together at Same Law Firm — Judge Allegedly Served as Mentor
What we know about the kunt:
She couldn’t recall the date, month, season, or year the incident happened
She never told anyone about it, despite being publicly obsessed with her own sexuality
The dress she claims to have been wearing didn’t exist at the time
Her description of the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman was inaccurate, making her sequence of events impossible
Her lawsuit was bankrolled by Jeffrey Epstein pal and Democrat (and Nikki Haley) mega-donor Reid Hoffman
Democrats created a law (The Adult Survivors Act in 2022) to enable her lawsuit to proceed
Her accusation is the exact plotline of an episode of Law & Order (one of her “favorite shows”)
Trump’s Apprentice was also one of her favorite shows
She has a history of falsely accusing men of rape, including Les Moonves
She told Anderson Cooper, “most people think of rape as being sexy. Think of the fantasies.”
She made a career promoting promiscuity, even writing glowingly of sexual assault and naming her cat Vagina
“The Jews, who were subject to gassing during the Holocaust, use gas to kill their enemies!”
Sydney demo ‘Gas the Jews’. Reciprocation seems fair to me.
I read “…possibly being of Asian descent.”
Flying grandfather’s axes. Amazing to think a century-old aeroplane can be so useful.
CO2 + H2 + heat -> methanol. One step over a cheap catalyst with good efficiency. Don’t have to go any further since methanol has the right properties as a liquid fuel. The energy density is a tad low but vastly more practical than hydrogen or methane.
We’re not going to run out of fossil fuels for thousands of years, but we’ll still be using ICEs and jet engines running on synthetic methanol, unless someone invents antigravity. That would be cool.
She needs a good dose of clonazepam, thorazine and a lie down on the in built furniture with no sharp edges.
Anyone know what Combet is being paid for running the Future Fund into the ground?
I’m a little surprised there has been no discussion of the report of 3 US soldiers killed and dozens of injuries reported earlier this morning from a drone attack of a US base.
Good news on my friend who had a heart attack on Saturday. 99% blockage in one artery and a stent put in, so he’s up and about.
His wife who was in a car accident on the way to be with him is in a neck brace and told not to move until they assess an MRI.
He’s ready to leave hospital feeling better than ever and she’s stuck in hospital very shaken and sore. Knowing them as we do that’s right on the money for their relationship.
Evergrande ordered into liquidation by HK court.
I am surprised they don’t, but for my knowing that they don’t have the smarts.
Give someone like Mundine the gig and they can at once proclaim their even handed mess in appointing so recent an opponent and be quite sure he would not compromise his performance by publicly taking sides in contemporary political issues.
Like that scene in Yes, Minister where the PM was going to close Jim Hacker’s department and ‘kick him upstairs’ to the Lords – because the PM still wanted to dispose of Hacker who had stood against him earlier for party leadership.
It was summarised:
“Approbation, elevation, and castration.”
I still sometimes ponder that, however dangerous our politicians are, how much more dangerous would they be if more than 10% were clever.
My brother works at a Li battery recycling facility. They have the old batteries spaced carefully on pallets in a big flat area. He said usually a couple pallets of old batteries self-ignite each week. Sounded like an interesting job.
In Mundine’s case, not just a recent opponent but a Labor turncoat.
“Very courageous, Prime Minister!”
Dover – it was in Jordan. A few weeks ago Jordan rather unusually bombed some jihadis in Syria, so this is a particularly murky incident – it could be Iran making Jordan’s life difficult with a bit of payback. Or it could be the Iraqi militants seeing a softer than usual US target. Or it could be all of the above.
It is probably Iran also trying to destabilize the Hashemite dynasty as well, as I suspect there’s no particular love between the Sunni Jordanians and the Shi’a Iranians. Plus the millions of Palis in Jordan are a powder keg.
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“dover0beach
Jan 29, 2024 2:42 PM
I’m a little surprised there has been no discussion of the report of 3 US soldiers killed and dozens of injuries reported earlier this morning from a drone attack of a US base.”
Still waiting for more details.
Remember the adage: Things are never either as good or as bad as the initial reports suggest.
If you go down to Tasmania and spend a bit of time there when the weather is acceptable – about Feb 5th to the 10th – after a while you start to understand how Jacqui Jackie Lambie got in – and the secret to her staying power.
There is a mentality down there that argues simultaneously a) Tasmania is wonderful and you are lucky to have us, and b) gimme munnee now and lots of it. There is also much resentment at not being richer even though the place is an economic basket case.
Tasmanians paid $3,650 (21½%) less per head of population in personal income tax in 2022-23 than the national average, while receiving $1,320 (20¾%) more per head of population by way of social security benefits.
Saul Eslake | Economist, University of Tasmania
The economic performance is hardly surprising. 40-50 years ago they had mining, apple exports, woodchip exports, and tourism. Now they’ve only got the last. Even a few newer startups like Incat aren’t as big as they might be.
Most of the economic basketcase the state has become was caused by the Greens. They managed to get everything closed down while replacing it with nothing. They also dislike tourism. At one stage there was a proposal to not allow scenic aircraft flights over the south-west because of “risk to birds”, and, some said, in case a crash wrecked the landscape. That it would also have wrecked the pilot and passengers was secondary.
Every time something new gets proposed at least half the population opposes it, almost entirely on environmental grounds. Strangely on Facebook there is a group entitled “That’s it – I’m moving to Tasmania!” It’s quite amusing seeing the reasons people talk about going there – most of them seem to think it will be a quiet pleasant scenic place, but they disregard anything negative like lack of jobs and the frequent depressing drizzle.
Still Tassie gets 12 senators. and Jackie Jackie has tapped into the psyche. Gimme more money and shutup you mainlander bastards is basically her shtick. And the closed loop mentality of many vote her back in again.
I’m hearing it was either Tower 22 on the Jordanian border with Syria or Tanf base which is just on the other side within Syria. Probably become clearer in the next few days. None of the reasons you provide excludes the other and there are other reasons too into the bargain.
Evenhandedness!
I have noticed recently that my phone offers alternatives to correctly spelt words. It also highlights completed words where you used auto-complete with other words and, if you just keep typing, deletes the word.
Altogether a function that, as minor tweaks are laden on one after another, major benefits are being overwhelmed by minor ones.
Also, Siri is a bitch.
I get through a lot of shirts by burning holes in them. This is because I relight cigars too often.
These guys do me a fitted shirt, with monogram, based on measurements taken yonks ago when I went to China. So getting measured again is an imperative.
The women here, some more than others, have given me a license to rattle on about clothes. And similar important things.
Expect pix of Spiky’s baby boy next.
Wait! What! There’s a US base in Jordan?
No one even expresses any surprise.
The reported location, al-Tanf, is actually in Syria. Jordan claims the attack was on Syrian territory.
Who is lying?
Police allege the 41-year-old fatally shot Dad Mohammad
Am re-reading Zenji Orita’s I-boat Captain at the moment. A Japanese submarine commander, he survived the war, and wrote it in the 1950s.
He comments at the end of the book on another surviving captain, Hashimoto, who in late 1945 was “seized by Occupation authorities and taken to America.” There, he had to testify in the trial of Captain Charles McVey, whose ship the USS Indianapolis he had sunk.
Orita writes in a bemused way: “I do not think such a happening has any precedent in history: summoning your enemy to testify against your own fighting men.”
Hashimoto also wrote a book: Hashimoto, Mochitsura. Sunk: the story of the Japanese submarine fleet, 1942-1945. London: Cassell, 1954.
Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 29, 2024 2:56 PM
They have the old batteries spaced carefully on pallets in a big flat area. He said usually a couple pallets of old batteries self-ignite each week.
Really?! Good grief. Then the electric Hummer batter, at 1500kg, would be a hoot. 🙂
But seriously, this is going to be a big issue. Ten years from now, EV batteries will be a significant emerging problem. I am aware of 2-3 recyclers who are gearing up but the recycled value appears, at the moment, marginal at best. Therefore, in the future, will the EV purchaser be required to contribute to a ‘battery disposal levy’ that offsets the cost to recycle? Who knows, but as EVs are forced on the public, this issue will only grow.
Also, I recently saw an article where the journalist was blithely talking about how people will simply recharge their cars at home. Uh huh. No mention for the 3 million+ who live in apartments, townhouses, villas or other premises that don’t, and never will have, access to a private charging point. (I am aware of one business in Melbourne trialling private lockable kerbside chargers at $7000+ per supply/installation)
Sure, also why these admissions now but not previously from similar drone attacks.
Jesus Christ, this stuff is like Vegemite. When you lay it on thick, it’s sickening.
That is, “I can’t work out if my country that lost the war, or if these idiots, are more dysfunctional”.
Imagine attacking Federation in favour of a strong central government for over fifty years now and you don’t put these mouth breathers in straight jackets.
As I mentioned at Sinclair’s Cat, a five day visit to Tasmania to discuss how the latest Brian Harradine slush fund should be spent was a revelation.
First we met the bigwigs in the Premier’s Department and relevant agencies, then we got down to meetings with other Departments and agencies. After about 1.5 days, there were familiar faces at every meeting. By the end, we had met the 20 or so bureaucrats who run the place, plus a few aspirants, several times. That’s it. That how it is.
I am amused by ‘tree changers’ who move there. On the second day, in Hobart, the wind was so strong we had to bend over to walk up the street. A hanging metal sign attached to a building blew off and bounded down the road.
More like northern Scotland than Australia. Mind you, it was winter.
That said, the food was magnificent, especially the seafood, and my beer-loving companions told me that it was very good as well.
Back in the 1990s when Telstra was sold and Harradine prised many millions of dollars from the proceeds (as one Telstra executive said, ”If we build anything else on Tasmania, it’ll sink”) the narrative was that all Tasmania needed was up to date and comprehensive telecommunications, and the warm sunlit uplands awaited.
Build it, and they will come.
And here we are today.
You mean, familiar faeces.
Doc
What does he charge for a bag of fruit.
Need to go to a wedding in June and need an update.
Look up the latest annual report as it has directors fees. It shouldn’t be that much different from what Costello Is currently on.
Can’t remember how much suits cost; he’s made me three or four but not for a long time. Lately he’s done only shirts for me.
He’s much cheaper than Savile Row, I remember noting that.
WSJ carried the story. No real market impact, I guess because it was expected.
Top Ender at 3:19 – it’s not entirely the Tasmanians fault. They have been screwed by Cth policies. Always accompanied by lots of $$$. Hawke and Richo screwed the forestry industry for votes elsewhere.
Hang Seng is actually up just over 1% on the day.
It turned out it was the same person each time.
Fanging round Tasmania on a bike has a lot to recommend it (if it’s not raining or snowing).
Ex-SAS soldier accused of war crime could engage in ‘hand-to-hand’ combat with police, court told
Harrison Bergeron, here we effing go
40%? Go 75% and you wouldn’t notice any difference.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/report-new-fbi-agents-are-lazy-racist-entitled-selfish-mental-health-patients/
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jan 29, 2024 3:15 PM
Ex-SAS soldier accused of war crime could engage in ‘hand-to-hand’ combat with police, court told
Lauren FerriNCA NewsWire
Mon, 29 January 2024 9:41AM
This place is a shit-hole
Here’s more from Miranda Devine about the new crack team at the FBI>
https://nypost.com/2024/01/24/opinion/dei-hires-are-making-the-fbi-more-woke-than-qualified/
It clearer now, why these fat, lazy slobs are going after Christians.
H B Bear
Jan 29, 2024 3:59 PM
I did quite a few Targa Tasmania and Rally Tasmania events. Also great fun.
There are a couple of places where a ‘moss like’ substance seems to grow on the roads that are permanently shielded from sunlight due to road angle and cliff overhang. That stuff has to be one of the most friction-less substances known to man. Still, entertaining. (Can be bad in a car for the unaware but would be very dangerous on a bike.)
Dr BG
Dunno if this is of any interest, but Danny Ipp of Biemonte Wong is coming to Oz in February. One of the best Tailors in Hong Kong, if not the best.
Does he do suit pants with elastic waists? Asking for a friend.
Speedbox – I was (mostly) on major roads and legal speeds. The slipperiest place I ever came across was the roads behind Apollo Bay in the leaf litter. 2nd gear just trying to stay in the tyre tracks. Targa has claimed a few over the years. Cars and trees aren’t a great mix.
There’s a story about a Brooklyn couple, who are just getting by on a combined gross income of US$466,000 a year.
They’re not exactly on struggle street, but they have to half-watch their pennies.
One smallish monthly expense kind of hit me.
They make a monthly donation to abortion clinics. How apat.
https://thepurse.substack.com/p/home-economics-ad-executive-brooklyn-mom
Dunno, but I expect so if your friend asks nicely.
Might give him a bit of a shock.
A bunch of pro pally demonstrators protested outside Fetterman’s house.
He replied by waving the Israeli flag from the roof. 😀 boo yah!
Must have been around 20 bikes on the ferry. You don’t really see that out West – too flat, not enough corners.
Here’s more of the Fetterman story.
I’d sit next to you, John H. But you’d probably want to move.
😀
This bloke Nathan is an absolute JET with a rifle. I knew we had a feral pig problem in OZ, but damn! It’s taken a few clips to get the scope it.
Jeepers, they are abundant as flies.
Kudos to the pilot.
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FVR375:
Shooting the sand. Land management based aerial shooting Australia
Optics not great on that approach. It would also be exploited for PR with videos showing multitudes of Palestinians dead, dying or suffering in Gaza – all on prime time news.
I read a deal is being worked out, lets hope something can be agreed as the longer this goes on the worse it gets for both sides.
Meanwhile in the NT:
Police have expressed their growing frustration at the unrest turning remote Aboriginal community Wadeye into a war zone, with officers forced to intervene in an all-in fight on Sunday night involving a variety of weapons.
About 6pm, local police responded to reports of up to 100 people fighting within the West Daly community, armed with various weapons, including crossbows, NT Police said in a statement.
“The crowd dispersed upon police attendance,” the statement read.
“An adult man was located with a crossbow bolt in his leg and was conveyed to the local clinic for treatment while another man suffered a fractured leg that also required medical attention at the clinic.
“NT Police are continuing to monitor the situation and investigations are underway to identify the offenders involved.”
Acting Commander Virginia Read expressed her organisation’s frustration.
“Once again, NT Police are responding to large-scale fighting in Wadeye that has resulted in injuries,” she said.
“The community needs to come together and work on solutions to these conflicts. The ongoing fighting is causing a great deal of stress for the people who call Wadeye home and is completely unnecessary”
“Police are committed to maintaining community safety and we will continue to respond to these incidents as well as working with Elders, traditional owners and the community to facilitate calm.”
After a period of calm in the wake of the death of a 33-year-old father-of-three in April 2022, and before that, in 2021, an estimated 500 people displaced due to violence and criminal destruction, the town’s troubles have returned with a vengeance.
Earlier this month, after attempts were made to breach Wadeye Police Station by ramming it, with police vehicles also rammed, NT Police Assistant Commissioner Travis Wurst said police were responding to a month-long escalation in violence in the troubled region.
On December 30 last year, NT Police dispatched five officers from the newly formed Territory Safety Division to Wadeye, in the hopes a high-visibility presence would help quell the unrest.
“The community needs to come together and work on solutions to these conflicts.”
But, but…they are.
“And if Israel is attacked by united Arab forces again, they just may be forced into the nuclear option.
Is this what the Obama/Biden administration wants?”
If my memory serves me right during the Yom Kippur war in 1973 when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, the Israeli’s almost succumbed because of the nature of the attack and the overwhelming numbers in the attacking forces. The US Congress debated giving the Israelis the Concussion Bomb (CBU-55B or 72 or similar), a thermobaric [fuel/air explosive, FAE] cluster bomb with very heavy explosive force) which would have levelled the playing field a bit (literally). The Americans (through recommendations from DoD) refused the request on several occasions and were willing to see Israel go under before they would allow Cairo and or Damascus to be levelled.
After the war, which Israel won, president Ford authorised the sale of the weapon to Israel but Carter put it on hold in February 1977 after his inauguration before any were delivered. The then Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance delayed any decision by holding a study and his department recommended no sale because of the tilt in the balance of power it would cause. Indications are that no transfer ever occurred.
There is some indication though that Israel has possessed such weapons since about 1990. They would be a suitable alternative to nukes.
As an aside I presented a paper at a management course in 1978 on the potential use of FAE in the ADF because we possessed probably the finest delivery system for such weapons in the world, the F-111 Aardvark. I don’t think anyone took any notice…
Perhaps they should be forced to protect non-violent individuals but it is all so paternalistic and patronizing for whitey to intervene in indigenous violence. Leave them to their own devices, ring up the activists and tell them to fix the problem. I’m not being sarcastic, the activists need to called upon to address these situations.
Digger, is this bomb you’re referring to something resembling the daisy cutter used in Vietnam?
Five houses Albo’s son getting the qantas bung showed his true character – just another grifter. Tradie radio tells me Susie Quattro is touring again. Wow.
Had a chat with an old bloke today about rollie tobacco. It came out of the inexpclible shortage of B&H Extra Mild, aka Blue, recently. Like the other two souces, they had none.
Anyway, we got chatting, and he said that I didn’t look like a ‘rollie’ woman, and I said not if I can help it.
I said Champion Ruby, and he raised me a couple of others. (BTW, Drrum was the only one I’d consider).
Then it was White Ox. He said that anyone who smoked White Ox had been inside, because that was all they could get there.
Nowadays prisoners are not legally allowed to smoke anything, but if you ever see an old bloke with a pack of White Ox …
Amazing what you can learn from old blokes at the grog shop. 🙂
Mustering was good fun in that country. Above 60kph you seemed to be able to stay on the surface of the sand. Periodically you would just fly off into it. Good fun when you’re young.
maybe Kate Osamor could reflect on the genocide of Tanzanians committed on 7 October.
Statistically, I’m really freaky, but fortunately it doesn’t show.
Your song?
https://youtu.be/8Uee_mcxvrw?si=Fopd7SA4ZWdgsXZT
WSJ has a decent wrap of the US servicemen killed & injured.
Maps to go with it.
No doubt more details will follow.
Definitely not. Their freakiness is very obvious.
Who would this coalition involve?
“The community needs to come together and work on solutions to these conflicts.”
If only they had a Voice …
Hamas killed a few IDF observers in their barracks using gas grenades.
No-one much talking about that.
I see the white phosphorus allegations against Israel have petered out.
You can guarantee the slightless hint that Israel had used anything unusual there would be a parade of dead babies.
And yes hamas does appear to get the odd helping hand from within Israel, getting stolen weapons as well as stolen uniforms.
There’s a picture in the link that isnt an Apache helicopter.
Much of Hamas’s explosives comes from IDF fire that failed to detonate — report
BTW, any news on Lizzie’s latest brave trip from home? Her Public must have bated breath. (Not ‘baited’ you internet illiterates.) People everywhere can’t wait to hear about it.
Cheer up, Lizzie, I might die before you do. 🙂
Don’t hold your breath, though. Dad just turned 97, and I strongly resemble him and his mother, who piked out at 89.
All true.
Unlike you, I don’t have to try to remember my lies, because I’ve always told the truth.
Any news on the perky tits?
Syria, Hezbollah and a few phantoms from Iran?
ohn H.
Jan 29, 2024 4:58 PM
Top Ender
Jan 29, 2024 4:47 PM
Meanwhile in the NT:
Police have expressed their growing frustration at the unrest turning remote Aboriginal community Wadeye into a war zone, with officers forced to intervene in an all-in fight on Sunday night involving a variety of weapons.
Perhaps they should be forced to protect non-violent individuals but it is all so paternalistic and patronizing for whitey to intervene in indigenous violence. Leave them to their own devices, ring up the activists and tell them to fix the problem. I’m not being sarcastic, the activists need to called upon to address these situations.
The Hezbies have been using it on Israel. Crickets from the usual outlets.
Hezbollah rockets fired at Israel contained deadly white phosphorus, reports claim (JPost, 24 Jan)
I can’t wait for the ICJ to denounce this war crime. Surely they will leap into action!
“You Never Can Tell”
I stumbled across this today (9:26):
Australian Agenda
Activist Backfire: Australia Day more popular than before
Maybe there is hope.
Make Wadeye a test case for a few of the main Voice proponents. Give them a free flight in and accommodation so they can demonstrate their special knowledge to resolve it and set the place on a peaceful and productive track. Allow a budget for as long as it takes – they may need to stay there for a few years and we’ll not need to hear from them for a while.
Well, the blinds are now up, the doors open and the mourning period officially over.
Back at Stitch ‘n’ Bitch today. 🙂
All agreed that if the mother you’re caring for is a nice old lady rather than an eldermonster, you’ve got it covered. I am truly blessed with great friends. Plus a good Mum.
Kelpie has just been bathed and fluffed up in one of those fancy, mobile doggy wash vans. Gone are all the exquisite aromas he rolled in and revelled in: mud, rotted beef bones, sheep dung and stinkweed. Now he smells like a freshly washed and powdered baby’s bottom.
He’s not a happy boy.
Too bad school goes back tomorrow Johanna, missed your chance. Back on the piss again.
I really don’t see this happening.
An independent journalist has released a piece on Mundine’s business dealings.
It stinks of running some form of cover for Noel from Noosa if/when some news outlet runs that story.
Bernie Sanders stumping for Biden. Wow. That is some great, inspirational marketing there. Okay our man sucks and in fact we’re insulting your intelligence by offering you such a poor quality candidate and pretending he’s the business in the hope you won’t notice what an entirely unpolishable turd he is…but that other guy sure is worse!
Interesting strategy. Brave, even.
Maaaaaates!
Peter Dutton takes swipe at The Guardian’s outgoing political editor Katharine Murphy as she’s hired by PM Anthony Albanese (29 Jan)
No irony in any of that, no sirree. Who could have possibly believed that Ms Murphy would leave the noble role as totally unaligned and unbiased guardian of the Guardian to go work for Albo? Unthunkable! I’m sure she’ll fit right in.
Touching upon matters sartorial above, I remain an unabashed devotee of the tie. Selection requires taste and the knot requires a personal touch – I have seen far too many that are twisted rags dangling lifelessly below the top button.
Often guys will ask “Why do you bother with a tie”, but I have never known a woman who complained and a great many who have complimented me on it. But then I appreciate women who make an effort also.
The modern mode of men’s fashions (the right high-rise and ankle-length pants, the short, tight, narrow shouldered jacket that runs out halfway down the butt – as if it is something worn by an immature and still growing boy) seems to me to be a deliberate retreat from masculinity toward a mischievous boyishness which must be subject to the governance of a mother or big sister.
They can’t do ties either.
Minns bans Islam in NSW.
NSW Premier Chris Minns vows crackdown on all displays of ‘demented fascist ideology’ following series of neo-Nazi demonstrations in Sydney (Sky News, 29 Jan)
(I should write for the Babylon Bee, I really should.)
the tight high-rise
The activists have little support. Maybe most people, like me, see them as silly buggers with too much time on their hands and too little sense.
Gosh. She’s just accepted the stoker’s job on the Titanic.
Bye bye.
So let me get this straight, white power is racist and banned and black power is OK?
I agree, Lode. Nothing like a Windsor Knot.
The New Broom is an expert, often approached by less sartorial mates for assistance.
Which is odd, because he sports that two day sandpaper growth so beloved of males these days. At least you couldn’t call him a soy boy. Not with his front row shoulders.
Reports that Yemenis have struck Lewis B Puller are incoming.
Is he okay?
Some actual good news.
Iconic Australian dessert maker Sara Lee sold after going into administration (Ncl local news, 29 Jan)
Best wishes Mr and Mrs Quinn! I grew up on Sara Lee cheesecakes for dessert. It’s a tough business these days but Aussies like Aussie stuff, so I hope it goes well for you and your people.
Digger, is this bomb you’re referring to something resembling the daisy cutter used in Vietnam?
No, JC. I am familiar with the ‘Daisy Cutter’. It was a conventional but very large bomb and they only made 225. It was mostly delivered out the back door of a C130 but was retired in 2008. They used them primarily to create an instantaneous helicopter landing site in the jungles of Vietnam and also in the first Gulf War and in Afghanistan against Taliban strongholds in the north of the country.
FAE utilises a very volatile gas mixture like ethylene oxide whereas the Daisy Cutter used GSX, a conventional but very stable water gel explosive (slurry). The Daisy Cutter was enormous (15,000 pounds but has been replaced by an even bigger one, the GBU 34B, MOAB ), whereas the FAE bombs are typically 500 to 2000 pounds. The technology of FAE is in the detonation sequence. There are a number of steps involved which happen pretty close together and can’t be separated by human sensors. First, the canister (bomb shell) explosively opens and disperses the gas mixture and spreads a number of detonators throughout the mixture. The detonators then simultaneously detonate, generating a blast wave outwards and inwards at an identical speed. When the inwards detonation wave can go no further inwards it has a rebound factor and goes out again faster than it went in. It catches up to the outwards detonation wave and is held for a millisecond before going back inwards at an even faster rate and does the same again…. this blast sequence greatly expands the detonation force and heat generation by several factors and therefore the term “concussion bomb” or thermobaric detonation….
War is hell… especially for those on the receiving end…
Murpharoo going in-house after all these years.
Rats joining a sinking ship. You don’t see that every day.
“JC
Jan 29, 2024 5:59 PM
Reports that Yemenis have struck Lewis B Puller are incoming.
Is he okay?”
Long dead, but the ship bearing his name seems to have been damaged.
The Dark Side Of Col. Douglas Macgregor, Tucker’s ‘Go-To’ Military Expert
I suspect there is a newfound spirit of defiance after the wondrous floundering of Da Voice – ordinary people discovered they were not fossils from some ancient time but very much the soul of modern Australia.
And this is a good thing, because these are the people who actually make the economy run. Not the grey drab droning masses of the public service, or the tackily garbed poseurs with feathers and possum skins claiming to be the incarnate spirit of the times.
Now we can see them for what they are.
When I was a kid growing up in the late 70’s Australia Day was just a holiday. What could it mean? Australia was everywhere you looked? American Independence Day marked a definite act of rebellion, a declaration that ‘that is you, but this is US!” Battles followed, lives surrendered heroically, and stylish hats worn. Independence Day encompassed a lot.
Beauteous creation that we are, we created a complete, independent nation without wars, bloodshed, or battle. The kind of boring that people from more spectacular times could only dream of. So there was nothing to which we could attach a special ‘Australian’ thing.
Until these gap-toothed, smooth-brained, banner-waving morons turned up on the scene. Now we have a clear distinction of how things are how they might sickeningly yet be. Point is we now have a sacred vision to celebrate.
And remember kids, every time you use soap or put your clothes in a washing machine, a hippie dies.
Remember when rolling tobacco was much, much cheaper than pre-rolled? Then of course the fun police got onto it and equalised them out. Wasn’t all that long ago, if I recall correctly. No more than 10 years ago?
Love the smell of rolling tobacco. Reminds me of my grandpa who died when I was in my early teens. Old bloke chain smoked unfiltered Drum cigs and was a total pisshead. Still made it to 76, which was higher than average back then!
He was in naval intelligence based out of Darwin during WW2. He was appointed 2IC up there when he was only 22. They all drank like fish and many returned home chronic alcoholics. Grandpa was senior enough that he was offered a middle management bureaucratic job after the war ended and he kept it well into the 60s, despite routinely being drunk at work, or so I heard. People looked the other way. I know he was pensioned off early.
Sad, really. He was actually an extremely intelligent man – apparently he got an extremely high score on some empire-wide examination when he was in his teens. But constantly drinking will mask that after a while I guess.
He was decent, too – he always did the right thing by people. He never spoke poorly of others. He’d always ensure he was sober and spruce when us kids were around. I never saw him drunk. He would happily listen to me chatter away endlessly, and he’d tell me about all of the unusual knick-knacks he owned.
And he was stoic. I remember that about him.
She’s whatever whoever is paying her at the time wants. I think there’s a word for that.
Is Nikki Haley a Soros Plant?… Haley Tells Meet the Press: “I Absolutely Trust the Jury” in Crazy E. Jean Carroll’s Disgusting Lawfare Case Against Trump
Trump says NATO will not come to rescue if US attacked
They are “preparing” for it in the sense of being absolutely determined to have one. It couldn’t be clearer.
They Are Definitely Preparing for a Major War
Blokes with front-row shoulders could wear pink bonnets and still silence to the tune of a hundred emptying bladders anyone who even conceived that their manhood is…atypical.
The World According to the ABC:
“Toyota stays focused on hydrogen despite EV popularity.”
Thanks Digger.
🙂
In a public statement she’s called it a “new chapter” in her career.
More likely an epilogue.
Even The Guardian won’t take her back after this.
The ability to tie a Windsor knot is a sign of breeding not available to the dregs of the middle class who vote for the Filth and the Rich Bitches.
For blokes, a well-tied Windsor knot is also a chick magnet.
There are serious labor shortages in the US and this would be one major factor impacting recruitment.
Indolent
NATO lacks the capability to “come to rescue” the US.
Lol, Lode.
His son is a dead ringer. And being a sensible lady, said grandson’s mother opted for a “Caesar” once young sir was on the way.
Kudos.
Tom
You really need a long tie for that knot that has to reach the bottom of the belt or else, any shorter and you look like right royal doofus. You see very old dudes with ties reaching the sternum.
Wendy Bacon joining Peter Dutton’s office. Now THAT would be news.
I don’t know who this is, but I like him.
The time for “effing around” is over…
My tie is elastic. I’ve spoken to Props but they say that’s all they’ve got and to suck it up.
JC, judging the length of a tie is part of the art of a Windsor knot.
A tie that’s too long is daggy. So is a tie that’s too short.
You should practice the Windsor knot and seek wifey’s feedback.
I’m tipping a well-tied Windsor knot would increase wifey’s desire.
Lol. Since The Punisher is abroad, I’ll go another personal comment (not that it matters).
OCO, Dad didn’t smoke rollies, but a pipe. The fragrance of Dr Pat will stay with me till the day I die. As will the picture of him stoking, poking and lighting his old pipe, and like Gandalf, wreathed in smoke.
He could never do the smoke rings though. Frivolity.
The banning of motorbikes!
I agree 100%.
If this coincides with a substantial breakdown in our electrical grid, the only thing that may save the elites (including the parasitic media and acadumbic (h/t Faye?) class, will be the disruption to communications and transport, preventing any localalised tensions from coalescing into larger, more organised threats.
Even The Guardian won’t take her back after this.
True, but their ABC will take her.
Well, dropping recruitment standards could mean they’re preparing for a major war, or it could mean that they aren’t recruiting anyone with the standards as are currently set.
Isn’t there a well-known calculation regarding military recruiting minimum standards, as once you drop below certain levels, the recruits become more of a danger/ liability to their own side than the enemy?
At this stage I question whether the US has the capability to come to rescue the US, so perhaps they are willing to hire people who couldn’t figure out which end of a bayonet does damage.
No doubt.
Operation Prosperity Guardian is collecting Ls almost daily.
Remember, the Guardian was originally and covertly funded by Malcolm the Munificent, a man who the Liberals installed as PM in September 2015.
How is this going for jobs in Europe?
Funny you should mention that, Calli – Grandpa smoked a pipe, too. When I was a little tacker, he smoked them quite regularly. When I got older, he had switched pretty much entirely to rollies.
I wonder why. I’ve never smoked so haven’t got a clue. Never thought to ask until now, either heh
Whenever I read Operation Prosperity Guardian, my brain turns it into Operation Prosperity Garden and I wonder why they named it after a Chinese restaurant
Bear, your tie might be elastic, but your tartan looks very Buchanan.
Excellent idea to help ease the Housing crisis.
An alternative to clothes swap, unless of course they no longer fit, is to wear your clothes until they are worn out then they can rightfully go in the rag bag.
One of my local opshops has it right, adult clothing is $2 a piece, kids 50c, so they turn it over, unlike some of the charity chains who can be more expensive than kmart.
Which is why there is so much crank about discarded clothing, a lot of which is because the bogan classes can afford nice kmart things.
Regarding the NIAA grants I posted about yesterday the document I referenced was sent to Louise Pratt , a senator from WA.
I looked at her Wiki entry. Her family life reads like a Monty Python script-
Pratt has a son, born in October 2014, who she co-parents with her former partner Aram Hosie,[7] a trans man and LGBTI community activist,[19] as well as Western Australian state Labor MLC Stephen Dawson and his partner Dennis Liddelow, one of whom is the biological father.[20] Pratt married her long term partner Rebecca Misich in June 2023.[21]
Someone should ask the Guardian’s Lesnore if Murpharoo has a guaranteed job to come back to – you know they would…
Top Ender:
Acting Commander Virginia Read expressed her organisation’s frustration.
“Once again, NT Police are responding to large-scale fighting in Wadeye that has resulted in injuries,” she said.
“The community needs to come together and work on solutions to these conflicts. The ongoing fighting is causing a great deal of stress for the people who call Wadeye home and is completely unnecessary”
“Police are committed to maintaining community safety and we will continue to respond to these incidents as well as working with Elders, traditional owners and the community to facilitate calm.”
The government were told repeatedly that this would happen when they first set up mixed communities.
But Canberra (From Where All Wisdom Flows or FWAWF) knew better.
Bulldoze the Wadeye Township, separate the tribes and build new townships far away from each other and take the cost from the four budgets. Then subdivide the new townships and make them private property.
But the Big Men won’t have a bar of it because a large part of their power comes from being able to turn the violence on and off, depending on the flow of White Mans Munni. And Canberra is in on the lurk.
It’s just effing outrageous.
Me neither Dover.
If only The Voice got up. It’d be fixing these kinds of problems if it did.
Digger:
I’m pretty sure I read that paper due to the issue of soft tissue injury and the blast effect on lungs. I actually thought it was pretty good esp. the effect in confined spaces like tunnels and bunkers. A weapon that went around corners? Very useful.
Yes, I noticed.
Do you have links or copies to the paper any more? I don’t have access to these now I’m out.
“The community needs to come together and work on solutions to these conflicts.”
A sentiment never aired in regard to inter-clan violence prior to 1788.
Progress, of a sort.
A nippy start here this morning, went in search of a morning mass, but either the diocesan directory was wrong or I misread it.
Did find the very fancy town cistern, coffee again a mild disappointment, asked for double shot but still tasted like tepid milk.
Told my landlady she should visit Melbourne for good coffee, I always qualify that by mentioning our Italian population to avoid giving offence.
Unlikely as she’s never even bothered to go to Corsica.
The coffee shop owner is one of those groovy gurus, long grey hair, ripped Levis and high boots ‘dal 1927’
dover0beach
All of them, DB. All of them.
How h@m@s [my edit] Manipulates Gaza Fatality Numbers. (PDF).
Yep. Slipped right past the J W Howard preselection committee.
Are you still in Livorno, Rosie? Where next?
I am proficient in the dark art of the double windsor, including judgment of the tie’s overall length.
In general terms, that should make me nigh on irresistible to the fairer sex. Unfortunately the facial scars make it a more level playing field.
Hawkey had a better nose for frauds. Unsurprisingly.
I am in Livorno until tomorrow when I catch the ferry to Bastia. Was reluctant to book ferry online because the booking site I used last time wanted you to print off your booking.
And after my idiotic excursion yesterday (at least I know exactly where to trundle to catch the Bastia ferry) I booked online directly with the Corsica Line and have an electronic boarding pass.
I’m then going south to Bonifacio which I’m a bit nervous about because there is only one early morning bus to Porto Vecchio that connects to a mini bus to Bonifacio.
I’m going to beleaguer the tourist office in Bastia to get those ducks in a row.
Poland is securing jobs in South Korea.
No direct experience, however I suspect a tie knot Windsor or otherwise, might be wasted in the Territory. Leave it up to the undertaker.
Livorno though obviously a bit run down, is a testament to centuries of wealth, so many town buildings both public and private of great substance.
Not to mention the creation of an artificial canal system for wealthy merchants
The chamber of commerce, for example dates, to 1696.
Oh and the cathedral has a beautiful Fra Angelico in the side altar, worth a visit for that alone.
I love the way you travel, Rosie. I would go that way too, except The Beloved likes all his ducks in a row at least six months out.
The closest we’ve ever come is not having a night’s accommodation booked in the States. And fortunately so. The town we were aiming for had Obama staying there overnight.
We moved on.
Yes, I’m a bit slow, but for anyone interested and not yet acquainted, I’ve just stumbled on The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center online.
Articles accessible include Documents brought back from the Gaza Strip…
Also in the NT, one bloke against four – well done that man!
An Alice Springs tourist park worker has allegedly been forced to take matters into his own hands by performing a citizen’s arrest after being caught up in the town’s ongoing fight against crime.
An NT Police spokesman said four men approached the business’s reception building on Larapinta Drive and damaged the front window and security screen at about 3.30am on Sunday.
One of the men then entered the building and allegedly began stealing bottles of alcohol and passing them through the window to the group outside.
Upon hearing the disturbance, the alleged victim entered the office area and was confronted by the man, who allegedly armed himself with a chair and threw it at him.
The spokesman said the alleged victim then performed a citizen’s arrest and a 21-year-old was taken to the Alice Springs watch house by police.
Investigators are now calling for help from the public to locate the other three men who fled the area.
Meanwhile, police have arrested three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy after an alleged aggravated burglary in Tennant Creek last week.
NT News