Rabz September 19, 2024 10:43 am Rabz wins the comment of the day.
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I followed dover’s instructions to the letter and still did not get it to link correctly. Never mind….try this: https://x.com/rebekkarnold/status/1835663229013405909
Linky no workee, Megam at 10.55am.
Hezbollahs responsible for procurement were clearly too focused on bribes, kickbacks etc to consider that their supply chain from outside…
Leaving the endless pager memes momentarily, this marketing video by the Royal Armoury in Leeds is a modern classic.
You miss the point. The Palestinian version of the conflict is the version they believe. If the victors write the history why isn’t the Israeli version believed? This is unrelated to anything about Hamas. As it is today, if Hamas is gone, the Palestinian version of the conflict, its history and causes will still be the dominant version spread around the world. That’s the war the Soviets with Arafat began in the 1960s – it has succeeded.
Fight For An Elite That Despises You?
It was just a grenade. Lots of grenades on the streets in Sweden. It’s a mystery how they get there though, a completely inscrutable mystery.
List of grenade attacks in Sweden (wiki)
I note that the serial downthumber has visited Knuckle’s post at 04;41.
Miserable cowardly prick.
Poland’s new leftist government is acting like a dictatorship.
Poland’s Growing Turmoil Sparks UPROAR
Just had a read of the Treasury “justification” for the re-write of Stage 3 Tax Cuts (https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/tax-cuts-treasury-advice.pdf). I read it so you didn’t have to.
The people that work there should hang their heads in shame.
It is just a Political (as in capital P) Statement supported by wishful thinking:
that low income earners in the $20k to $70k will supply more labour if they get a tax cut. Of course the so-called-analysis ignores the obvious point that this income cohort are already strongly supported by taxpayer provided assistance. And this support greatly blunts the incentive to work more as a result of a tax cut. So this “benefit” is just a fantasy.
And the so-called-analysis gives faint acknowledgement that the high income earners pay almost all of the income tax revenue, and as a consequence, any tax cut at the top end involves the most revenue foregone. Treasury also ignores the point Dr John Humphreys made when the Liars announced the changes – which is that the reduction of taxes on the highest income earners creates the biggest increase in work, and therefore savings and investment. Which of course increases the size of the pie so there is more to go around.
Treasury now is just a branch office of the Liars Political Party.
And to think in 1970s to the mid 1990s, Treasury had a well deserved reputation of excellence.
Rant over.
Why give the thing is craves? Acknowledgement. The sensible thing is to simply ignore.
Ireland, immigration and the fury of the masses
*it*
Eyrie
What’s going to happen with Boeing?
The people at the top will, in essence, demand every inspection certificate have instead of one signature, will now have 5 signatures.
I’ve seen it happen in Nursing, and it only got fixed when a patient died and the Coroner tore strips off management for ignoring multiple complaints from Pharmacy and Nursing.
They cannot help themselves – managers think that only management can fix problems with more management.
Could Tusk be the straw that breaks the EU’s back.
As a Pole, he has no understanding of Poland.
Overnight Jewish comic Aaron Berg appeared at a comedy club in Toronto.
Pali protesters tried to disrupt the event.
It’s 1930’s Germany all over again.
I’m presently in the North Central Vic, 38 for the weekend. Having spent bit of my teens a 100km to the east and my uni years around here.
Walks out back looks at sky hand raised and challenges the gods. I that the best you can do?????
Z2KA
That hottest eva or homoginised hottest eva?
How demographic imbalance is working out in China. The preference for boys in the one-child policy has created a very sad nightmare.
The technological ‘making’ of internet girlfriends for all of the lonely men.
This in addition to a great deal of prostitution of young women as an easier pathway to earning a living than some others on offer; sometimes the only available choice.
When we were in Korea we heard about the kidnapping of young North Korean women to be sold as brides to Chinese farmers in the border counties. Another sad outcome.
Regarding the Burgatory saga.
Firstly KD if you called it right on the chop chop angle and I doubted you then my apologies.
Had never heard of Burgatory chain or its owner until that time. My thought was inside job due to falling business and would get the insurance. Plus odd that it was his store near Jewish neighbourhood. That may have been why the people behind the arsonists chose it as it made the locals suspect. Naturally Burgatory owner could deflect from real motive.
Somebody the other day mentioned $60 for normal smokes and only $20 for the illegal stuff. A friend was telling me that his elderly mother is a regular buyer of the cheap ones as are many of her pensioner mates. I know the location and you would think not too difficult for the authorities to be aware of what is going on.
Regarding Kennelly son he most definitely should have got jail time. On the scale of things a cop can do framing somebody is high up for jail time. Having said that he was I think less than 2 years service at the time and I have no doubt there was more senior people involved in getting him to frame the guy who was a major irritation to police. However there was a recording which made it difficult to plead innocence and really not much point in him bringing down others with him. No doubt there are some happy cops thanking him for keeping quiet.
No.
Donald Tusk knows the rules don’t apply to him because he’s the EU establishment tasked with destroying European democracy,
He represents the unelected EU bureaucracy.
Like horseface in New Zealand, Tusk demonstrates how minority parties can subvert the will of the majority by forming alliances with other minority parties.
It’s similar to the method Adoph Hitler used in the 1930s to destroy German democracy and replace it with fascism and his pogrom against Jews.
The United States of Allah: It Happened in My Neighborhood, Yours Is Next
“We are witness to an obscene version of reality” Israel speaks at the UN Security Council
The young women in China seem also to’ve caught the social media disease like young women in the West have*.
A vast demographic change is occurring due to the choices women are making.
(* see the second graph, it’s scary.)
If only the Lieborals liked punching on with the Liars as much as each other. It’s Howard-Peacock redux.
A medical worry now off my mind and thanks to well wishers here.
Colonoscopy results were good; no recurrance of bad things, clear now for some years, but advice is to still keep watch. The kicker is that it’s up to you to decide the trade offs – depending at your age how many years do you think you can give yourself. That was the bald truth put. In three years time, will I be more likely to outlive any incipient cancer found? Depends on one’s state of health. If dicey, then don’t worry.
Gastroscopy showed a mild hiatus hernia causing the occasional flare up, and some unusual cells but not worth worrying about, again, at your age.
I’m rather inclined to simply put my age down to seventy and act accordingly. 🙂
Might as well have a G & T and enjoy it.
I’ll raise my glass to your good health, Cats and Kittehs.
This is live
Dramatic Scenes At EU Parliament | Fire & Tractor Barricades As Belgian Farmers Scale Up Protests
“Jordan Peterson: This Story is so UNBELIEVABLE!!”
North Central Victoriastan Rockdoctor? Charlton area?
Steve T
I don’t leave the laptop plugged in all the time, it is only plugged in when I need to charge the battery,
I don’t have your fan problem, indeed I wonder if the fan is not coming on enough.
What’s going to happen with Boeing?
Eventually they will go out of business/be split up/bits sold off. See the article.
By not doing new aircraft development, instead just returning money to shareholders, they are eating their seed corn.
They have F-18 Super Hornet and F-15EX on the military side but neither have great sales prospects and their space division has made a complete hash of the Starliner capsule for flying people and cargo to the Space Station. They got $ 4.2 Bill to build it on a fixed price contract and are about $1 Billion in the hole after some basically inexcusable screw ups. SpaceX got $2.6 Bill for Dragon 2 and delivered a flying, superior product.
People, DO NOT leave laptops, tablets, phones etc plugged in and charging all the time.
Some devices have a battery saver mode that stops charging at 60% to give better battery life. It it is there, use it. Lithium batteries are best stored at around 40% charge for longest life.
Bolt makes a good point about Liar inner city MP’s wearing Akubras.
It truely is beyond parody. These clowns simply have no understanding of the intelligence of the Australian people.
They make Gillard look like a politician who was in touch. And she was, she wore a satellite dish to the Royal Wedding which permitted her remain in communication with her Martian handlers.
BJ – Do you have a Nvidia graphics card on your laptop? My reason for asking is Brave did an update fairly recently too, and I’m not completely sure which is the cause for the power use issue. I was driven a couple days ago to try Edge briefly* but it was so awful I gave up.
(* It’s the only other browser I have on board, I can’t get rid of it as whenever I do MS just reloads it again. So I just ignore it.)
I think you’re right, Eyrie.
Boeing’s demise is the result of the company’s takeover by Chicago accountants, who have replaced the Seattle engneers who ran the company until 20 years ago.
Boeing has surrendered market leadership to the engineers who run Airbus.
Ultimately, accountants can’t built aeroplanes that customers and airlines like.
Kevin Rudd was photographed in a paddock of wheat in Western Australia – brand new R.M. Williams clobber, and waving away the flies…
e bike fire in applecross
There appears to be a league of otherwise strange bedfellows – from libertarians to the nurses and midwives union – pressuring the Albanese government to keep its election promise to hold a RC into the covid response.
They’re not happy with the limited powers of the commission of inquiry presently set up and due to report on September.
When you’ve lost the nurses and midwives union…
One guaranteed solution for both of the above, buy a Mac Book (anything with M1 or M2 chip) and use Brave. Probably not what you’d like to hear but Windows can’t be fixed and Edge is the spawn of the deeble.
How to put a Mac Book in sleep mode with zero issues .. close the lid. Charge if needed at any point, it makes no difference.
A lot of people may have missed the stale pale trotskyst males education agreement with WA yesterday.
In effect its the full Gonski with a poison pill for private schools which will turn into a budget wrecking “HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENNING”attached.
shot version state tips in 500mill, feds tip in 500mil all to state schools.
The poison pill is any private school which goes over “guaranteed funding” due to fees & money from the government will have its government money reduced so it can never exceed “fully funded” level.
ie: They are “levelling” education
Now even as a mole of small brain, I can imaging a lot of private schools reducing/holding school fees steady because, why bother??
In 10 years time the polihogs will be squealing the amount budgeted has been blown through
Health warning…..
I was there in November.
Apart from the Maori activists, Ardern is a nightmare they are trying to forget.
Don’t know, I am a Luddite about what’s inside, other than the Intel CORE i5.
It is as it was when it came out of the box.
Re the Colac hospital ring-ins.
Firstly, the fact that they were all screaming “I haven had me mefadone today!” when the Minister arrived should have been a giveaway.
Secondly, the overcrowding in Colac is more likely to be at the dental clinics than regular hospitals.
It seems to be true that women ( esp. wives) lose interest in sex after menopause (age 50?) but that men do not.
Discuss.
Alamak – I use Brave already. It’s just that this weird stuff started happening last week right after the Nvidia driver update. Seems more than a coincidence that BJ and I are getting similar stuff happening on Dell laptops. But there was a Brave update about that time also, which I noticed because it adversely changed stuff I do using Brave. As usual geeks when improving software seem to make things worse rather than better.
Alamak!
Feb 1, 2024 8:25 PM
At the moment my laptop is very annoying to use since even if I have a browser going on it it sounds like a noisy industrial fan.
It’s the only other browser I have on board, I can’t get rid of it as whenever I do MS just reloads it again. So I just ignore it.
One guaranteed solution for both of the above, buy a Mac Book (anything with M1 or M2 chip) and use Brave. Probably not what you’d like to hear but Windows can’t be fixed and Edge is the spawn of the deeble.
How to put a Mac Book in sleep mode with zero issues .. close the lid. Charge if needed at any point, it makes no difference.
Don’t leave them flat on a table. Prop them up with some spacers for airflow. I use two old zippo lighters on the backend under the monitor.
You might say they lost the (cold) war but have won the peace.
Er…it’s not that sort of blog.
Infidel Tiger used to opine that dental should have been publicly subsidised rather than medical general practice. I think he had a valid point in regard to general public health outcomes.
Damn straight. Leave that for your dogging chums.
You would struggle to find people with teeth in Colac. Not ideal dentist country.
Yeah.
I should clarify.
I meant the “all on four” replacement clinics.
Good to hear, Lizzie!!
My kind of people then.
😀
My teeth are made in Germany.
Seriously.
hzhousewife
Feb 1, 2024 12:05 PM
Haven’t most hospitals got their own generators? Every hospital I’ve worked in had their own – and I notice that nearly all police stations have their own as well.
So, can I suggest the issue isn’t too many aircons – it’s the State institutions aren’t being allowed to use their own resources, probably due to cost of the fuel to run them?
When I speak German, native speakers are amazed, albeit somewhat puzzled as to which region I’m from.
Kevin Rudd was photographed in a paddock of wheat in Western Australia – brand new R.M. Williams clobber, and waving away the flies…
The flies were waving away imbecile Kevni
Träum süss, Kats.
Ardern is a nightmare they are trying to forget.
A bit of a wait ’til 1 August for the horse birthday.
I had not previously been aware of the case of the ‘Central Park 5‘ which apparently a cause celebre for reparationists.
“Roger
Feb 1, 2024 8:58 PM
You would struggle to find people with teeth in Colac.
My kind of people then.”
Roger,
I thank God, and my genes, everyday that I still have all my own teeth, my eyesight is excellent and my hearing is as good as it was when I was twenty.
re your people wondering what region you are from when you speak German, when I would speak with Slovenes from Slovenija, it took them awhile to understand what I was saying. A Slovenian born friend who grew up here, said that it was because I spoke Slovenian with an Aussie accent. Lol.
I was born here.
Muddy,
the Central Park 5 was a terrible thing. That poor woman. The slender fingers of wokeism were just beginning to weave their way into dreadful crimes at that time. The case was a harbinger of what was to come.
BTW, how is your doggo? Have you been able to have his teeth seen to?
That is so funny!
I have been down-dicked for my comment to Roger.
Gremlins aren’t supposed to turn evil unless they’ve been fed after midnight and then had a bath. 😀
Dot
One of the Matrons* used to call us “Chimbley Sweeps” We assumed she meant Chimney Sweeps, it was probably a bit of a slur, but we thought it funny.
*It was probably the alcoholic matron.
Of course.
Donald Trump’s role in the tragedy of the Central Park Five case.
[Warning: Dodgy source. Shower twice after reading].
Powerball, two winners, $100,000,000.00 each.
Yeah I’m not paranoid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27162401
It seems to be true that women ( esp. wives) lose interest in sex after menopause (age 50?) but that men do not.
Rubbish, and a lot of men also suffer from sexual issues after 50, particularly erectile dysfunction.
I listened to the audiobook. It’s full of Trumpisms. If it is ghostwritten then Trump basically cowrote it.
Hi Pogria,
Thanks for asking, but no: Standing on the street corner wearing short-shorts has not brought the extra income required for four-paws’ dental work. It might be the drooling that puts people off? I’ll have to stop it.
Her teeth are not an emergency case yet, but I’d prefer to go the prevention route. I do have a more positive feeling about 2024 though, so hopefully I’ll soon meet a filthy rich older woman on the verge of senility whose expectations I can disapp … ummm, well, anyway.
I’m in a reasonable frame of mind at the moment, which is a positive start to the year, and if my new job as a pole dancer works out (the chafing is horrendous!), I’ll have the money in no time.
They’re fat.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6479091/
World J Mens Health. 2019 May; 37(2): 138–147.
Published online 2018 Jul 25. doi: 10.5534/wjmh.180026
PMCID: PMC6479091
PMID: 30079640
Obesity and Erectile Dysfunction: From Bench to Clinical Implication
Ki Hak Moon,1 So Young Park,2 and Yong Woon Kimcorresponding author2
Author information Article notes Copyright and License information PMC Disclaimer
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Abstract
Obesity is a major public health issue worldwide and is frequently associated with erectile dysfunction (ED). Both conditions may share an internal pathologic environment, also known as common soil. Their main pathophysiologic processes are oxidative stress, inflammation, and resultant insulin and leptin resistance. Moreover, the severity of ED is correlated with comorbid medical conditions, including obesity.
Will a “truth and justice commission” filter out all the ‘Stories my Nanna told me?”
how things are in melbourne post covid
the seagulls have learned to be sneaky and while yr sitting there with your banh mi enjoying lunch they’ll get around behind and then take a strategic flying swoop to snatch it from yr hands.
ya gotta be careful these days
but that’s nothing
this morning sitting at a Kenny’s franchise (the chain of Vietnamese bakeries) having our usual egg bacon and cheese roll and a coffee.
dropped a bit of bacon and a seagull cant decide if its quite brave enough to get it from under my feet
of course i’m taking the p155 outta the seagull for not being as brave as the sparrow who is skitting from crumb to crumb
I swear the seagull looked at me knowingly and then picked up the sparrow
dashed it against the concrete
and ate it
not making this up
was bloody disturbing
More cut through
Oct. 14, 2008, 1:52 AM AEDT / Source: Discovery Channel
By By Eric Bland
Vocal cords were overrated anyway. A new Army grant aims to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. No need to type an e-mail, dial a phone or even speak a word.
Known as synthetic telepathy, the technology is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG. Similar technology is being marketed as a way to control video games by thought.
“I think that this will eventually become just another way of communicating,” said Mike D’Zmura, from the University of California, Irvine and the lead scientist on the project.
“It will take a lot of research, and a lot of time, but there are also a lot of commercial applications, not just military applications,” he said.
The idea of communicating by thought alone is not a new one. In the 1960s, a researcher strapped an EEG to his head and, with some training, could stop and start his brain’s alpha waves to compose Morse code messages.
Avi nails it the Burger blood libel…..
Australia’s BUSTED ‘Jussie Smollett’ hate crime hoaxer REFUSES to apologise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huK3Sq-xiHg
Synthetic telepathy for fighter pilots, tank commanders or other weapons platform commanders or operators would be incredible. The challenge is humans can only actually have one conversation at a time though.
All I can say is imagine if they have mastered the photoelectric effect to a point where messages can be transformed into sound in your head using your calcium-rich skull as a receiver.
(Maybe too paranoid before 11:30 PM).
Oh shit.
https://gizmodo.com/schizo-beam-can-put-voices-in-your-head-from-afar-357656
No, I’m not crazy, the people running DARPA are monomaniacal.
“I’m in a reasonable frame of mind at the moment, which is a positive start to the year, and if my new job as a pole dancer works out (the chafing is horrendous!), I’ll have the money in no time.”
Muddy,
I knew a heap of pole dancers a few years ago. I can give you tips on eliminating the chafing. 😀
The Algorithm is now suggesting that I watch videos from the Richard Nixon Foundation.
What did I do wrong?
Synthetic telepathy is real
The schizo beam is real
Real-time audio-visual editing is real
If AI ever goes rogue and decides to war with us to exterminate us, it will hit us with mind viruses, paranoia and deception.
Exquisite. Just an experiement. Just as planned.
No need for a throne of skulls.
This is not true.
It’s not, I tell you.
Sancho 31/1 @3:21
The Vietnamese are self reliant and quite inspirational like all the other migrants from countries with no social security.
Theses people hare grounded, know you start at the bottom and work up and are ready to go without, not go out and are happy if they break even
If their business fails they will get a job – they just keep going.
The South Africans were the same but copped it from us because of where they came from.
At the moment I am inspired by a Chinese migrant who set up his own business.
I used to think technology would liberate us. About two weeks ago I described myself as a technological optimist to my sister.
Good lord. Finding this stuff out makes me a saboteur who wants to live in a log cabin somewhere.
Let’s reiterate:
Synthetic telepathy is real
The schizo beam is real
Real-time audio-visual editing is real
https://phys.org/news/2008-02-pentagon-lasers-voices.html
A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon from 1998 has revealed an investigation into using laser beams for a few intriguing potential methods of non-lethal torture. Some of the applications the report investigated include putting voices in people’s heads, using lasers to trigger uncontrolled neuron firing, and slowly heating the human body to a point of feverish confusion – all from hundreds of meters away.
Oh, oh MAFS is on!!!
No wonder the Blouge is quiet
Tim Blair under a most wondrous heading “Fictional Julia will always be their Favourite Julia”
I’m here til Monday thanks to the dearth of public transport in Corsica.
I’m going to day trip to Corti on the train tomorrow and then probably to St Florent on Friday though I’ll probably only get an hour or so there as the bus leaves Bastia at 11 am and the last bus back is at 2 pm, cash only, pay the driver.
Furthest one can go to the north east via public transport is Erbalonga, after that you are on your own, I’ve been there before, it’s very pretty bit will pass on going again.
Plenty of nice walks around town.
Corsica is efinitely car hire country, but not for me, I hired a car once when I took a couple of my kids to St Malo, they still tease me about it.
Black Ball,
have you read Ace today?
Fani Willis has gone from carting her Meat Tuba in a wheelbarrow to a droopy, slackwalled, choadbucket.
Outstanding!
If AI ever goes rogue and decides to war with us to exterminate us, it will hit us with mind viruses, paranoia and deception.
Don’t cry, this is the future you chose..
https://imgur.com/7tYUfoE
Rosie, will you be able to bring back some Corsican Honey?
And my French is so bad.
Ordering ‘un grand creme s’il vous plait’ gets a blank look, then can see see cogs whirling, and it gets repeated back to you and you are sure that’s how you said it, but obviously not 🙂
If anyone is paranoid about AI then that 2 Nd cartoon will soothe their jangled nerves.
Probably not Pogria, it’s too early in my trip to start buying souvenirs.
Though I suppose I could get a little jar to have with my baguette. The supermarket has a Corsican corner, I’ll have a look for some of the November crop.
I’ve never had a problem. “I beg your pardon, I speak French very badly” serves.
No Pogria but you are correct. He rips into her with excellent ferocity.
there is a little synagogue across the way from me.
I prefer to make the attempt, at least. Both my daughters speak it it much better then I do, one studied French at university and spent a year in France working as an au pair.
I wish I had made more of an effort with it at school.
I’ve borrowed a couple of books from the street library that I might try to bumble through.
Special call out to you on that, Bushie. When we met I didn’t know about your brush with the Big C which you mentioned here, and great that you’ve conquered it now. I think I’ll keep having the 3-year check ups, next one when I’m 84 nearly 85. I’ll develop a ten year plan then till I’m 95. 🙂
I can’t believe I’m that old though. Have to get serious about going back to 70 and being a year younger than Hairy. Dance class tomorrow early, so will sign out for tonite now. Best to you and your family and to Mater and his lovely crew whom we met at that lunch with you in Bendigo.
You’ll never go wrong meeting up with other Cats/Kittehs, that’s been our experience, with some good lunches and pubbing and many shared views on politics and life.
A good phrase book is always useful, Rosie. You get the basic grammar and vocab in ready-made sentences. At a pinch, you can always show them the written form.
There’s a lot online, some of it free too, but I get by with the neat little books.
Do we understand synesthesia yet?
Ha! Thanks, Pogs.
I’m finding that the Vicks Vaporub serves a handy double purpose, though it does tend to clump the glitter in embarrassingly random places.
Night all.
The A.B.C gets made fools of, again.
SHUT! IT! DOWN!
FIRE! THEM! ALL!
A phrase book, never though of that.
It’s rubbish alright, if they do, then they never had a healthy libido to begin with.
Too late.
My phone has been on the charger all the time except when I am out (and sometimes not even then) for seven and a half years now. It still works fine.
It may be that some makes/models do not take kindly to this, but it’s certainly not universal.
reverse exodus, sorta
Retreating male sex appetite in advancing years?
All very MAFS adjacent, this topic.
johanna
Feb 2, 2024 1:59 AM
The secret of keeping the battery charge longer is to turn off all the unnecessary functions like bluetooth etc unless you need it.
nice thread on Jan Sobieski
Johannes Leak.
David Pope.
Brett Lethbridge.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Albo getting plenty of ‘Truth Telling’. Happy Friday.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
Judge Kathaleen McCormick rescinded Elon Musk’s $55 billion Tesla compensation package, overturning the company’s board and 80% of its shareholders.
McCormick also ruled against @elonmusk during his Twitter acquisition.
Before becoming the head of the Delaware Chancery Court, McCormick worked at a Delaware law firm called Young Conaway.
This firm and its employees have been major donors to President Joe Biden for decades.
In 2016, Hunter Biden hosted a gubernatorial campaign event for Congressman John Carney, with then-Vice President Joe Biden as the guest speaker.
This event took place at the Law Offices of Young Conaway in Wilmington, Delaware.
Carney, a close friend of Joe Biden for the last four decades, later became governor and nominated Kathaleen McCormick, a partner at Young Conaway, to her position on the Delaware Chancery Court.
In a March 2018 email, Hunter Biden claimed to personally know every judge on the Delaware Chancery Court while threatening legal action against his Chinese business partners.
“I will bring the suit in the Chancery court in Delaware – which as you know is my home state and I am privileged to have worked with and know every judge on the chancery court.”
After Elon Musk purchased Twitter with the stated goal of restoring free-speech, President Biden called for a federal investigation into Musk on the podium at the White House.
Following this, the Biden Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission initiated legal actions and investigations against Tesla, SpaceX, and X.
This recent decision by Judge McCormick, who worked with Biden’s top donors and was nominated by Biden’s close friend, to override Tesla’s board and the majority of its shareholders is another clear example of the Biden administration and its allies weaponizing the American legal system against their political opponents.
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1752967434439663935?s=20
Varvel #1 nails it
Garvel
wtf – Varvel!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/sheriffs-deputy-who-aided-rosanne-boyland-on-jan-6-faces-up-to-14-years-in-prison-5576877?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2024-02-01&src_cmp=mb-2024-02-01&utm_medium=email&est=bg4YvdU9mvEsPJ1hvrmlwCvbSFkp6d3RGI3Vx8U%2B%2Bz%2BxnxKq2kKtzClTvrcHNVVD
Sheriff’s Deputy Who Aided Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6 Faces Up to 14 Years in Prison
Jack the Insider said a few years ago that lotto entries are “a tax on people who do not understand probability”.
Tell that to the two people who just won $100m each, one in NSW and one in QLD. Even the dozens who scored second division consolation prizes of $117,000 will be cheered up by it.
Depending on what stage of life you are at, the big prize could be a bit of a burden, and deciding what to do with $100m would be your first challenge – after the hangover wears off.
deciding what to do with $100m would be your first challenge – after the hangover wears off.
Think I could handle it.
Can’t believe the ability to whinge some folk have! .. I live in NSW “houso”, I’m 76 not only do I have no, installed, a/c I don’t even have batts in the roof .. nuttin’ between the tiles and chipboard ceilings but hot air (summer) & cold air (winter) so what do I do .. the bloody obvious .. bought a portable a/c ($300) which does its job great in summer and a gas heater (EBay $50) for winter …..
I’m grateful to have a roof over my head without expecting someone else to supply everything .. my place is 35 years old .. a/c & heating weren’t standard fittings back then (tho batts were LOL!) …….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/no-aircon-in-social-housing-leaves-68-year-old-woman-furious/103415076
I’m all for a Truth Telling Commission ala’ Bandt style. First up, Bandt, you’re a flog of the highest order. Prove me wrong. My Nana told me and she’s been dead for 67 years.
Johannes has Albo almost naked in today’s cartoon. The emperor is losing his clothes, I wonder if the next cartoon of him will have a fig leaf.
Shatterzzz, do the right thing, invite her over in winter to warm things up and not in summer by giving her the cold shoulder. Simples.
You mentioned gremlins last night, Pogs. And Muddy is contemplating pole dancing for the dental bills.
So, as it’s Friday and none of us won Lotto, I give you both this.
😀
Why doesn’t the gummint deal with this closure/reluctance to use cash scenario the banks are running .. All banks are licensed and their main function is “money” so why aren’t they being told, “You’ve got a licence to provide folk with monetary services either do what your licensed to do or lose the licence” ………..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/red-cliffs-bank-closure-empty-atms-challenge-businesses/103404280
Crossie, his Y fronts are nice and white. Leak should turn them dingy grey over the next few ‘toons.
I would have liked an opportunity to try coping with a $100M windfall.
I have just watched the video of Queensland girl teenager Rosie Wightman wrangle with a python that had Rosie’s guinea pig in its mouth. Rosie is quite a fearless, brave, and determined young woman. You go gal!
Bandt is a carnt
Acid attack in South London, many injured.
I”ll give you one guess as to the ethnicity and religion of the perpetrator.
Another quality import.
Wasn’t it the Foreign Minister who was rabbiting on about Israelis “never living in safety”?
Perhaps the idiot should focus his telescopic mendacity closer to home.
To NSW Cats, last night, with Tinta, I attended the inaugural Free Speech Union meeting/meet up here in Sydney. It was held in a Sydney pub. In attendance was a prominent journalist. It was a great meeting, had some interesting conversations, and I would urge other Sydney Cats to join and come to the next meeting.
I am aware that other meet ups are planned for Melbourne and other cities. I do believe this organisation is worth supporting.
Cassie,
CL has a link to a pic of the filthy perp.
I was a little disappointed not to score 100mil last night. Must remember to buy a ticket next time it gets to 200mill.
“So, as it’s Friday and none of us won Lotto, I give you both this.”
Oh Calli,
I am so glad that years of riding horses have left me with iron clad pelvic floor muscles. There could have been an accident! So funny. Thanks for the early morning laugh. I hope Muddy sees it. Cheers.
The West is committing suicide.
Wally Dali
I’ve never watched MAFS and the comments here just prove how fortunate I am to have missed it.
The headline says it all.
London chemical attack suspect seen on CCTV as it’s revealed Abdul Ezedi is asylum seeker (1 Fed)
Come on, Cassie, surely you can come up with a tougher question than that. Clearly a Scottish highland Presbyterian.
Calli:
I won $79.90
I’ll pass on the Gremlin.
Cassie of Sydney
Feb 2, 2024 7:41 AM
I’ll have a guess:
Sub Continental.
Muslim.
Well done Shane Gillis.
Scores the biggest payday of his life from Bud Light.
Many of dawgs in his Patreon community are calling him Jesse Jackson in reference to the South Park episode where Randy has to kiss Jackson’s arse as payment to be allowed back into society (with Bud Light being Randy).
Kiss your super goodbye.
Super funds should step up and not ‘shy away’ from big issues (Paywallian)
Putting an ABC journo in charge of superannuation is like appointing an Aztec priest as head of a cardiac surgery department in a hospital.
Well, he was nabbed on Caledonian Road, so there’s that.
A bit swarthy for a highlander. Perhaps the Outer Hebrides?
Randy (Bud Light) apologises to Jackson (Shane Gillis & non-work America).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz5Gd-6bqoM
No, no, no!
It was so simple, and I got it wrong. The mention of “acid” should have given me the clue. It was that well known dropper of LSD (“acid”) tabs, the Irish-American Timothy O’Leary,
A three year old. What a hero.
Since he is “seeking asylum”, I suggest Broadmoor. Padded cell. Locked at His Majesty’s pleasure.
Oh, it was a dusky Mooslime man. That was far too obvious to be the correct answer. I demand a recount.
I refer to King George VII here, not his grandfather. Although George might like to pass the baton to his own child. I would.
Shane Gillis finest work.
https://youtu.be/0Vx8E4kg1bo?feature=shared&t=224
NSFW.
non woke.
not work.
I have just watched the video of Queensland girl teenager Rosie Wightman wrangle with a python that had Rosie’s guinea pig in its mouth. Rosie is quite a fearless, brave, and determined young woman. You go gal!
And the guinea pig survived and is now, happily, living in her bedroom + the vid has gone into the millions views category ..
Word association: whenever I hear that name, the word “incel” pops into mind.
Go figure…
You know, whilst I was schizoposting last night, the content was real with documented research grants and FOIA’d documents.
Maybe there’s something more to Havana Syndrome after all?
I was a little disappointed not to score 100mil last night. Must remember to buy a ticket next time it gets to 200mill.
Over the past 3 weeks it jackpotted I invested about $80 for a return of $87 not exactly retiring money but a profit .. 3+supx 2, 2+supx2 ……..
and that’s it until it tops $50 million again ……… LOL!
It was a vengeful chunk of coa….coral.
Part 2 of Paul Keating’s compulsory superannuation dream is now playing out.
First unions were put in charge of the nation’s compulsory superannuation savings and all the management fees those savings incur, removing the need for unions to have members (now less than 10% of the workforce outside the public service).
Now, unions are putting ideologues in charge of directing superannuation investments, which means our savings are about to be destroyed.
Dumbest country on earth.
Chalmers:
“All your money belong to us now’.
” Look at me, I am the captain now”.
Jim Chalmers hints Labor will never abolish 37% tax bracket as planned under stage-three cuts
The treasurer indicates the government is unlikely to revive the Coalition’s plan even when economic circumstances improve
Funny, weve just had the completely automated ratchet on booze again, yet a similar ratchet for income tax triggers is beyond the ken of any government to legislate.
Today’s Paywallion:
Political activists exploit Indigenous Australians for their own ends
JACINTA NAMPIJINPA PRICE
2 Feb 2024
There may have been some people surprised to hear a Federal Court judge describe a “cultural mapping” exercise and other key components of the Environmental Defenders Office case against the Santos Barossa gas project as “so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed on them” and tainted by “confection” and “construction” of evidence. But I wasn’t one of them. Using Indigenous Australians and our history to push a particular agenda is nothing new; indeed, the whole country witnessed the practice on its biggest scale yet during the 2023 voice referendum.
The euphemistically named Environmental Defenders Office, which has received more than $8m from the Albanese government, knew exactly what it was doing when it was, in the words of Federal Court judge Natalie Charlesworth, “distorting and misrepresenting” the words of traditional owners. The “subtle coaching” of Indigenous Australians, and the attempts to “encourage and hint” to come to particular conclusions, are common examples of activists trying to manipulate and use Indigenous Australians to pursue their own agendas, regardless of the best interests of those they are using.
This is all too common in Indigenous Australia: activists, academics and bureaucrats, with good education, opportunity and financial security, pursuing their own agendas, with complete disregard for and indifference to the genuine challenges being faced by Indigenous Australians in remote and rural Australia. Organisations such as the EDO, and the individuals who run them, are only too happy to use the plight of some of our most marginalised Australians to further their own ideological or political agenda.
It’s difficult to say what the most damaging part of this sort of behaviour is: the legal damage, the economic deprivation or the division and hurt it causes among all Australians. In the case of the EDO against Santos, distortion and misrepresentation were used, as Tasmanian senator Jonno Duniam put it, as a form of “environmental lawfare’’ that frustrates the courts, brings important projects to a standstill, and puts vital industries – and the thousands of Aussie jobs they create – at real risk. As even a former Labor MP, Joel Fitzgibbon, said following the Santos decision: “Hopefully the broader community is beginning to see activist lawfare for what it is, ideological and a threat to our living standard.”
The absurdity of the Albanese government funding an organisation hellbent on undermining government processes beggars belief and points to a government that is both out of touch and out of its depth. The claims that these activists are working for Indigenous communities while pushing their radical environmental agenda is likewise absurd. We know the quickest and most effective way to permanently improve the lives of our most marginalised is to encourage and facilitate economic advancement. However, as West Australian Labor Premier Roger Cook said: “We now see environmental groups undertaking that same strategy that we all condemned in the early 2000s, where they pull people away from the group and use that to undermine their own self-determination in relation to projects.”
(The Northern Territory government will review its funding of the Environmental Defenders Office over its conduct during a Federal Court challenge to the Barossa gas project. Santos won the case, and work has now resumed on laying the pipeline from the Barossa field to Darwin, with the first gas expected to be produced early next year. In the Federal Court’s judgement, Justice Natalie Charlesworth found the EDO had “distorted and misrepresented” what Tiwi Islanders had said. “Yes, there does need to be some consequences for anybody who’s lied, particularly about something that’s so important to the Territory economy,” Northern Territory Chief Minister Eva Lawler said. “We fund them $100,000 a year, and I’ve asked Kate [Worden] to have a look at the contract and the details around that because we need to work together in partnership with the Environmental Defenders Office.”)
Indeed, far from wanting to help, activists attacking mining and energy companies – attempting to stymie new development and trying to revisit and change past decisions – are actually hurting investment and depriving Indigenous Australians of those economic opportunities. We now find ourselves in the incredible situation where the federal government is actually funding organisations pursuing the deprivation of Indigenous economic participation, while simultaneously spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to implement ill-conceived, silver-bullet policy solutions to Indigenous disadvantage.
Is it any wonder Indigenous disadvantage is so entrenched, when the rich and powerful see something like the Barossa gas project as a greater environmental threat than an opportunity for Indigenous economic advancement. I believe we must also consider the damage these acts do to the goodwill of so many Australians towards Indigenous issues. A recurring theme of the 2023 referendum was the amount of taxpayer money being spent, both directly and indirectly, on Indigenous issues, and its efficacy.
At a time when Australians are struggling with a cost-of-living crisis, finding out millions of dollars in taxpayer money is going to an organisation filled with radical environmentalists, which seeks to obstruct progress and opportunity, and exploits Indigenous Australians to do it, only damages that goodwill and stokes more division.
The Coalition has repeatedly called for an audit into spending to understand what’s working, what isn’t, and where the waste is – calls routinely rejected by the Albanese government. That Anthony Albanese and Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek would continue to allow taxpayer money to be wasted like this is simply astonishing. It begs the question: is this all just a thinly veiled attempt to, as Queensland senator Susan McDonald puts it, “secure votes in inner-city seats under threat from the Greens”? This was on display on Wednesday when Solomon MP Luke Gosling fell into line, saying he “still sees a role for the EDO”.
The truth is that what was uncovered by the Federal Court is not uncommon. Instances such as Santos’ Barossa gas project and the “white hands on black art” exercise are just the tip of the iceberg. The EDO needs to be defunded not just because it is a proven bad actor, but also to send a clear message that the age of exploiting Indigenous Australians to achieve political goals is at an end. This is what Peter Dutton and the LNP are ready to do, and what Albanese and the Labor government are incapable of doing.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is opposition spokeswoman for Indigenous Australians.
@jason
@Jason
My firm invests in 100+ new tech startups a year & like everyone we standardized on Delaware C corps because our lawyers told us it was the most just & trustworthy jurisdiction
Given the corruption in Delaware we will be changing this immediately.
#standwithelon
https://x.com/Jason/status/1753073747656130832?s=20
This is from a hard core DNC donor who uses any opportunity to boost Biden.
Delaware just f*cked itself.
Tell me about it. It’s going to take over a month all up to get out of a super fund into a SMSF and someone else is doing most of the work.
No more screen door factory tours in Wilmington for millions of bright little American girls from the Midwest and PNW.
Washington DC has fallen.
Can we get over it and move onto the question of what will replace it? *
* Texas stands firm.
Hmm….one of my WhatsApp groups is lighting up this morning re how hard the Woollies universe is pushing Lunar New Year.
It’s not until next weekend & from what’s been shared they’re going multiples harder on this than they did for Australia day.
Which economically was really nuts as it was long weekend Australia day which should have been a food bonanza.
Beertruk:
I’m regretting the 15 odd years I spent in the top end, when I could have stayed in the big smoke, getting the same money and enjoying myself with all the mod cons.
The difference I made was miniscule and defeated by the activists who wanted the Aboriginals to rot in place.
The Activists care not one jot for the Aboriginal people – they’re just a means to an end – a political statement being made to advance the Collective Dreamtime of Marxist thought.
Got to love Texas.
https://twitter.com/hollyshansen/status/1753055407541514530
The BBC is downplaying the vicious attack as “only an Alkali substance”, not acid.
Apparently it was Caustic Soda so, even though it is as nasty on human flesh as Sulphuric Acid, alkali doesn’t sound as bad. effing FILTH!
Bizarrely, some Saffers still feel very strongly about the Boer War, over 120 years later. After 80+ years (to me), it’s time to get over most things (not the Holocaust or Holodomor for example, though). It’s verging on SIMPing for Jefferson Davis levels of delusion. I haven’t really heard Australians crying about Breaker Morant in a long time. We get it. He was a bastard. The British were unfair and had a show trial. That was over 120 years ago.
Australians don’t even care, it started BEFORE Federation. There’s a good chance 90% of young Australians don’t even know what it was.
I think the Woolies CEO is being a hate-filled, anti-Australian prick, that’s all.
I don’t think he cares about woke crap at all: Imperial China had slaves etc. If he was woke he’d make some lame protest about slavery.
Collective Dreamtime of Marxist thought
You would think a civilisation unable to advance past the stone age, while living as close to Marx’s’ imagined “original state of communal man” might have served as a warning to its usefulness.
Like lye?
Bathe in the shyte numbnuts and get back to us.
Im suspecting MAFS is sponsored by gyms, steroid sellers and tattoo parlours.
Due to lack of available channels on the TV I put it on while reading a book..
5 minutes and my IQ dropped 5%.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13031091/Married-Sight-2024-Sex-crazed-Jack-shuts-wife-Tori-asks-sexual-chemistry-setting-outrageous-rule-bedroom.html
mole, calli.
After recent popular culture indoctrination…
I have a proposition for you both, in the interests of science.
I am willing to take the DSP for the rest of my life, for soyience.
Leave your futureless sh*thole of a country, get a fantastic job and future in a fresh new one, proceed to turn it into the sh*thole you just left. There’s a pattern there.
He hates himself for leaving the country of his birth, he despises the bolthole that has given him shelter because somehow inferior (how is anyone’s guess, we’re not talking rational here). Best way out – to transfer the self hatred onto the unsuspecting, but worthy new joint.
Great tracts have been written about projection. This is an example.
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This Woolworths – try to phone, can’t get through because wifi.
Last Thursday, missus put in an online order for groceries and also included a 6 pack for me for Australia Day. Happened many times before – she’s at work I’m home ready to collect.
Dusky Lad turns up and because there’s grog in the order wants ID. I suggest I’m about 50+ years over 18 but show him my licence anyway. Needs to take a photo of it. I ask why – and where is this going to be stored?
Then comes the next bit of fun. Because the ID doesn’t match with the person who placed the order he tells me he’ll have return the order to the shop. Not going to happen sonny. Never been a problem before.
I feel a bit sorry for him as he’s just following instructions so he gets onto his boss. Eventually gives me his phone so I can talk to his Indian boss. And give him a right old serve. Just following protocol he says . You can stick your protocol up your arse I suggest.
Door shut, groceries put away, beer in the fridge, one necked for stress relief. Poor driver still in the driveway talking to his boss wondering how he’s going to return the order to the shop.
Woolworths – they fcuk up Australia Day and fcuk up the simple matter of delivering groceries. And they have a fcuked up website where you can’t contact them to point out their shite service.
American Psychological Association claims merit-based hiring is UNFAIR in new study
J6 Committee Admits Its Show Trials Were An Election-Year Publicity Stunt
Chuckle. The fan club has finally rolled out of bed. With the usual hangover.
Gov. Noem to Newsmax: Cartels Infiltrating Protected Tribal Lands
Is Nihilism the Logical End of Atheism?
His bolthole is actually a vineyard in Otago, NZ.
If they have any sense the Woolworths board will provide him with the opportunity to tend his vines there sooner than he expected.
Speaking of NZ, Woolworths there (which Banducci also oversees) is in pretty bad shape, having just announced a NZ$1.6 billion write down.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Joe Biden’s home state where he was Senator for 36 years, where Joe Biden’s son Beau Biden was the Attorney General in charge of the state’s legal system, is being directly weaponized against Biden political opponents.
They’re balkanizing the legal system of the whole country.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
W/ @bennyjohnson, I explain the origin of news cycle about Taylor Swift, the Pentagon, NATO, & why it’s something people should be concerned about.
Quite right to stand your ground on that.
All the driver needs to do is sight your license.
Privacy Act prohibits them from copying and/or storing it in their database.
I am willing to take the DSP for the rest of my life, for soyience
Well if its for soyience, how can anyone object?
Ordinary science done by pale stale males only got us to the moon, Soyience has got us into ladies changerooms!
I did not have Tay Tay starting the US Civil war. Just goes to show the world is a strange place.
Woolies is pushing Chink New Year becoz Chinks got cash. Whitey broke.
Follow the money.
It is sad to read that and you’re one among many thousands who went forth thinking they could make a difference only to find an entrenched dynamic sustained by activists more interested in politics and power than doing the good you had envisioned yourself enhancing.
That would explain Gillard’s Carbon Tax modelling.
Woolworths – they fcuk up Australia Day and fcuk up the simple matter of delivering groceries. And they have a fcuked up website where you can’t contact them to point out their shite service.
I have made a decision to avoid purchases in Woolies as much as possible – & certainly not for the weekly shop. This involves (when in Sydney) going to a pretty awful carpark further afield. But the political decision making of HO at Woolies has firmed my decision.
The West is committing suicide.
Yep. Becoming clearer and clearer. Our only concern now is to create the safest haven possible for our grandchildren to weather the storm that comes.
At least two young junior officers in our armed forces – from families known to us – have been told that we will be at war within three years. It is very sobering. I fear especially for my 21 year old grandson who I expect may be called up. Heartbreaking.
Update to the illicit smoke market. I worked with a youngish bloke yesterday from QLD. He smoked Double Happiness smokes. He lives in Redfern and at least 6 convenience type stores sell them for $15 bucks a pack. 100 for a carton of 8. The Chinese have flooded the joint apparently.He said indistinguishable from Winfield Blues.