I guess the presidential helicopter had a Mohammed nut rather than a Jesus nut.
Open Thread – Weekend 3 Feb 2024
- Bumtree #16
- Open Thread – Mon 20 May 2024
- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
It still looks like a flying dildo. Blue Origin flies thrill seekers to space after two year hiatus (Phys.org, 19…
Snowy 2.0 Sounds like a really good project to have a sub-contract on. Lots of money and no responsibility or…
Sounds like a really good project to have a sub-contract on. Lots of money, no responsibility or accountibility, wonderful stuff…
Yeah, I’m the same BJ. That, and needles make me pass out…
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
This Isn’t A Third World Country, An Apocalypse Didn’t Happen, A Nuclear Warhead Didn’t Detonate…. This Is Democrat Run Oakland, California
“Of all the bad places I’ve been to in the United States, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a city that’s as vastly rundown, abandoned, and out of control as Oakland, California. This is the side of town where most of the homeless camps are located. Some look like something you’d see in Haiti, lean to shacks made of recovered junk that serve as 4 walls and a roof but that’s just about it. Other areas just outside of downtown are home to 100 of people camped out in makeshift shannies among piles of trash with rats. Parts of West Oakland don’t even look like the United States.”
Correct. Hamas’ string-pullers will then have to find another subcontractor.
Great South Land of the Holy Spirit
This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Australia Day Mass at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary and St Peter Chanel, Domus Australia, 26 January 2024.
Tucker Carlson spotted in Russia, spurs rumors of interview with Putin
Exclaving troublesome parts of the country ought to be an option. They have to ask to be let back in.
https://www.tips-and-tricks.co/lifehacks/open-a-can-without-a-can-opener/2/
Pretty wild, really.
https://www.tips-and-tricks.co/home-and-garden/sticks-rose-stalk-potato-look-happens-week-later-amazing/
Went to the airport to pick up the kid arriving from the US. Driving through the 1 minute pickup area and saw there were a bunch of African arrivals. How did I know? One was carrying baggage on top of her freaking head. WTF?
Thank you, Freya Leach – so I hadn’t misremembered, moozleys did indeed bellow “Kill da Jooze” on their way to the Oprah House on the evening of October 9.
Let’s hope Albo jumps on this rake too.
I’m afraid it’s odds on the offender will turn out to be “known to police.”
Police have rightfully come in for criticism here, but the detectives who deal with such repeat offenders are being demoralised by the failure of the courts to impose sentences commensurate with their violent crimes.
The courts, in turn, are implementing the failed justice policies of Labor governments who no longer represent the people who vote for them.
Nearly every school has one of these. It’s where indig specific “withdrawal” classes are held and they are often a nice little ‘clubhouse’ at breaks.
Well knock me down with a feather.
As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do. (2 Feb)
That’s a headline that was in uberwoke New York Times of all places.
Watching Outsiders. I do wish they could gain control over the technical glitches that spoil every show when throwing to a recorded interlude. Mind you, very funny to see the supermarket in ?Mount Isa was it, stripped bare owing to flood isolation. Except for the manufactured Plant Meat section.
Sydney Moaning Herald not mentioning African Suspect
https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/grandmother-stabbed-to-death-at-shopping-centre-in-cowardly-attack-20240204-p5f273.html
Thanks Diogenes. Anyone else allowed in?
In my school days the Left would have called this segregation.
A local lady does this down the bottom of my street ( I am close to three supermarkets). Rural NSW town.
Peta Credlin:
Chris Bowen. To paraphrase Churchill, a prick inside a cretin wrapped in the Wong Chap’s pantaloons. A truly awful person who hates you.
Carr has a novel understanding of how the GG is supposed to operate within the Australian Constitution. Not sure that Handsome Boy is going to want a superstar with “knowledge of law, government and society” putting his own dismal self in the political shade.
And Peter Beattie has a strange and worrying constitutional vision:
How will next time be different?
What should we know about?
I believe Ita will be available.
Bob Carr should STFU.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Feb 4, 2024 10:15 AM
ExclusivePoliticsFederalPolitical leadership
Former Labor premiers back Indigenous governor-general as speculation mounts over PM’s pick
Lisa Visentin
By Lisa Visentin
February 4, 2024 — 5.00am
Former Labor premiers Bob Carr and Steve Bracks have backed the selection of an Indigenous Australian to be the country’s next governor-general, as speculation swirls that the prime minister may use the opportunity to make a historic appointment.
Can’t just be any darkie; got to be a trannie as well with pronouns. But seriously my money is on marcia; she’ be perfect.
The problem of internal sabotage of Outsiders has been going on for years because 90%+ of media workers (including Sky staff) are lefties.
I’m guessing the problem is now so severe that studio staff are now instructed to make sure microphones are always on (to avoid mics being off when they’re needed), meaning on-air staff coughing and/or clearing their throats goes out with the broadcast signal.
This is amateur hour but I think it has been caused by studio staff trying to sabotage the show.
PAULINE HANSON
A ( government?) school having an aboriginal only class?
Sounds like a return to that effective old practice of streaming, where kids of like ability were placed together and taught suitable subjects at an appropriate pace. Less disruption for those in the academic classes, too.
PRESIDENT Pauline Hanson.
This is why they wanted an appointment model so maldly!
The home-working revolution is harming young workers
Bosses who insist on a return to the office are demonised – but turning up is better for your career, especially if you are just starting out.
Camilla Cavendish Contributor
I know this sounds heretical.
But if I had a kid working at EY or Bank of America who was being told to show up more often, I’d side with the bosses.
While the younger generation is the most likely to demand homeworking, I fear they are also the most disadvantaged by it.
Over the past two years, I’ve been hearing stories from 20-somethings about the boredom, loneliness and frustration of internships and jobs that are exclusively or primarily online.
One bloke was thrilled to get into the public service. He’d been the first in his family to go to university, and his proud but poor parents bought him a suit. But on day one, his manager told him to dress down – and come in only two days a week. His excitement has dwindled.
Flexibility can be a godsend if you’re a parent. But if you’re just starting out, its benefits are less clear.
I’m not urging a return to presenteeism. But I do worry that staggering numbers of 20- and 30-somethings have never worked full-time in an office environment.
A survey in the US in October 2022 found that 82 per cent of Gen Z were in that situation, and many feared they lacked skills as a result.
They were probably right.
A new study bears out the old-fashioned idea that sitting with colleagues in a building can improve skills and job satisfaction.
Junior tech engineers wrote more code at home but got far less feedback, especially if they were female.
In the office, they had mentoring and advice, which made them less likely to quit.
Sense of belonging
Humans are social beings; we want to feel we belong somewhere.
We interact partly through the non-verbal cues that computer screens obscure.
Those of us who Zoomed successfully in the pandemic already knew and trusted our colleagues and had a pretty good idea of how our organisations functioned.
New starters don’t have that foundation – and a Microsoft study found that staff working remotely are less likely to get in touch with new team members.
The gurus who assert that working from home is better for mental health may be underestimating how fragile people can feel if they can’t bounce ideas off others informally, share worries in a low-key way or overhear colleagues discussing the normal ups and downs of working life.
There is still a gulf in opinion between staff who claim they are more productive at home, partly because they’ve cut the commute, and bosses who fear that work ethic and culture are being degraded.
It’s easy to accuse business leaders of knee-j@rk presenteeism.
But they might just be the best judges of how people are performing.
In India, a fascinating trial found that workers who were randomly assigned to work from home were 18 per cent less productive than their peers, either taking longer to finish tasks or getting less done.
While workplaces can be distracting – Professor Nicholas Bloom of Stanford has memorably described a worker being driven mad by a colleague loudly cutting their toenails in an adjoining cubicle – many “homes” are cramped flat-shares with ringing doorbells and pinging washing machines.
Senior executives with luxurious houses are partly to blame.
While EY is taking flak for monitoring how often its staff go through office turnstiles, and Bank of America for writing its employees “letters of education”, plenty of other organisations have senior managers who can’t be bothered to travel in on Mondays and Fridays.
They are failing to be role models to a younger generation that in the past would have benefited from a quick conversation in the lift, or watching experienced colleagues with clients.
In most sectors, a good deal of senior work is about face-to-face relationships. Yet some Gen Zers report feeling reluctant to even pick up the phone or talk to people directly.
Many academic studies find that hybrid work has a zero or slightly positive impact on performance. And some employers are happy with their own rigorously managed hybrid structures. But productivity studies tend to assess short-term output rather than the development of long-term attributes such as work stamina, creativity or communication skills.
Sadly, those who are the most in favour of remote work are youngsters.
Yet they are also the most likely to be overlooked – and miss out on promotion – if they are not physically present.
It’s hard enough to make your voice heard in a hybrid meeting if you’re on the screen and others are in the room; and juniors can find this especially difficult.
It’s harder to find a mentor if you’re not in the building.
And after an online session has ended, the others in the office are likely to be continuing the conversation.
Global market
Careers advice sites mention none of this.
They encourage people to insist on flexible schedules, “advocate for yourself” and prioritise wellbeing – with the assumption that wellbeing is enhanced by walking your lockdown dog, not taking a call.
They don’t mention what would scare me to death if I were in my twenties: the less your boss sees of you, the more likely he or she is to replace you with someone cheaper from a totally different country. Remote working is, after all, a global market.
The idea that WFH is liberating is a privileged position to take.
It’s not always true for young people stuck in lonely bedsits, wondering where they fit in.
Many students coming out of university in the past few years had already been left far too much to their own devices even after lockdowns, with lecturer strikes and teaching and exams continuing online.
As the labour market cools, leaders who insist on staff coming in more often – and who show up themselves – may be doing many of them a favour.
Start with Victoria.
‘Pretty bad psyop’: Wild Taylor Swift conspiracy theory gathering steam ahead of Superbowl
Nuts.
In the Land of Net Zero, The Man in the Diesel Tank is King
Gwythian Prins is quite right to express his concerns about the impact of Net Zero on the U.K.’s national security in a piece published the other day on this site, ‘Net Zero Threatens National Security‘.
I’ve been racking my brains to think of a time in human history when a kingdom or state consciously chose to retro-equip its army with inferior technology or compromise its capability by seeking to introduce unreliable equipment.
And I can’t think of one – what can I think of is all those who lost because they didn’t keep up.
Back in the middle of the 16th century BC, northern ancient Egypt was controlled by a group called the ‘shepherd kings’ or Hyksos. They’d invaded from what is now Syria and pushed back native rulers, establishing their own regime. They’d achieved this with one very simple tactic: they had chariots.
Now, the Hyksos chariots were a bit cumbersome and seem to have had four warriors in them. But when the Egyptians didn’t have chariots, the Hyksos behemoths were cutting edge.
When an Egyptian leader called Ahmose materialised on a cometh-the-moment, cometh-the-man basis, he didn’t try to push the Hyksos out with slower and more cumbersome chariots.
Indeed, the Egyptians didn’t have any chariots.
So they started making chariots.
And what’s more, they made their chariots smaller, lighter and faster so that they could fight a Bronze Age Blitzkrieg war. Ahmose led these vehicles into battle and, just like Heinz Guderian’s Blitzkrieg war of 1940, he pulverised the Hyksos whose chariots had become obsolete in an instant.
The blistering Ahmose established the 18th Dynasty, reunified Egypt and ushered in its greatest line of kings who presided over an unprecedented era of wealth, power, and – most important of all – national security.
One of the last of the kings of that dynasty was Tutankhamun in the late 14th century BC, whose tomb was famously found almost intact in 1922. On his body was an iron dagger, made of iron from a meteorite. At this time this spectacularly hard metal, which cut through bronze like a wire through cheese, was beyond the wit of man to smelt. Only a king could own one.
Within a few centuries the secret of the high temperatures needed had been discovered and humanity, for good or ill, entered the Iron Age.
No-one went to war with a Bronze Age sword after that unless he wanted to lose or be conquered.
The Roman Empire was an Iron Age state.
When the Romans went to war against the Carthaginians in the First Punic War (264-241 BC) they were not a naval power, even though the Carthaginians were.
The Romans used a wrecked Carthaginian ship as a template and built their own, adding improvements in the form of the corvus boarding ramp. Yes, it was trial and error, but they won their first engagement with the Carthaginians in the Battle of Mylae in 260 BC because their ships were better.
It was a long and hard struggle with catastrophes along the way, but Rome won that war, and the next two wars against Carthage and ended up as the most powerful naval force in the Mediterranean.
There are so many other stories like this that I could go on for hours.
The principle is always the same and the dynamic is the process of technological development, which at its fastest is and always has been driven by warfare.
The unavoidable fact that it is impossible to stand still or diminish the effectiveness of a nation’s armed forces without making that nation a sitting duck for a more ambitious nation’s greed.
Anyone wondering why people are reluctant to open or maintain small businesses should look no further (the Courier-Mail):
That would usually be enough, I would have thought.
Gonksi. Particularly as an apprentice – gonski.
Clearly.
I see the dead hands of Mumsy and Dadsy in this, appalled that their perfect angel was being treated in such a horrid manner.
And:
Of course she was frustrated. The salon lost a full-time, high-paying client along with tremendous goodwill and untold word of mouth value.
This idiot FWC bloke will announce what he termed an ‘appropriate remedy’ in the next week or so. I would suggest part of that ‘remedy’ would be commissioner Lake’s missus being compelled to undergo the shoddy apprentice’s handiwork personally for the next year.
Then we’ll see if he still he thinks it could have been ‘handled better’ when Lake has to endure his better half’s perpetual moaning about her hair giving her the visage of Yahoo Serious.
What a brilliant idea!
Let’s make it an epidemiologist.
I would have said that’s nuts but the mafia did have a more active involvement in the NFL. What cut them out was TV replays.
20 years ago, I would have said international cricket was a clean sport too.
I’d say it’s hysterical. COVID totally destroyed people’s trust in institutions.
Swift is obviously a Democrat asset. I don’t know if that’s a psyop. It’s just *coincidental* her dating the jab poster child is made prominent just after Aaron Rodgers started getting attention.
Medals haven’t clanked since Queen Victoria was annoyed by the noise at Royal functions, and the practice of Court Mounting was introduced.
Used Carr claims to know history, but demonstrates, again, his gross ignorance.
Lockdown Was Ruinous and Masks Were Useless. Here’s What Worked For My Business
by Alastair MacMillan
2 February 2024
I recently submitted, below, to the Covid Inquiry a journal of the actions we took as a business to ensure that we remained open for our customers whilst making sure that our employees could work without risk of catching the virus.
When reading it one has to cast one’s mind back to early 2020 when our politicians and many members of the public were filled with fear and hysteria of catching this unknown disease.
Thank goodness those days have passed though in many ways there is now a bigger divide within the population. There are those who were always going for tests every time they had a sniffle who now regard it as little more than a mild cold to those who did what the Government told them to do and are still slavishly getting their boosters and wearing masks in certain situations.
Mankind has had to cope over millennia with respiratory viruses and has learnt many lessons as to how to deal with them. In March 2020 all of this was forgotten and instead the approach taken by China, an autocratic one party state, was followed. The cornerstone of this was a lockdown where people were required to shut themselves in their homes. It seems unbelievable looking back on it and it would appear that no thought was given to the long term effects of this on everyone from children acquiring socials skills to the elderly spending their final years in confinement. Not forgetting, the colossal economic cost and the waste of having people perfectly able to work being paid by the taxpayer to stay at home.
Virtually the only practical advice given by Government was on how properly to wash one’s hands, after that it was go home and await orders.
Taking what we knew from the past and applying it here we carried on operating and by the end of our financial year had almost equalled our previous year’s turnover and profit. We have never had any internal transmission, we ditched masks before we were technically allowed and we ignored the diktats coming from the Scottish Government. We had to be careful on this front as we had to keep employees on side as otherwise I could have been in serious trouble should there have been any internal transmission and I lost their trust. It is again easy to say that in a way we were doing the Government’s bidding but that forgets the panoply of fear induced Covid regulations, many aimed at employers and how they ran their workplaces. Many of these regulations were of the micro-managing, one size fits all variety and were like many of the ones aimed at the general population, stupid.
Almost every practical measure we took to prevent transmission – replacing door handles and touched surfaces with copper, air cleaners and UV scanning – is applicable to the prevention of transmission of any virus.
We continue to run the air cleaners as they appear to have reduced the number of days off sick and improve the air quality in the office when it is too cold to have windows open.
If we were struck with another viral pandemic I would encourage widespread adoption of these as they both filter out airborne particles and the inbuilt UV light kills viruses, bacteria and other microbes.
To stop infection from respiratory viruses in particular, proper vitamin D supplementation, about 4,000 IU a day, and gargling with salt water or preferably a solution of grapefruit seed extract before bed seems to successfully aid the body to repel the viral invaders.
Where employees have not supplemented with Vitamin D3 or gargled and then caught the bug, high dose Vitamin C has helped them recover quickly.
These are all measures that are part of humankind’s acquired general knowledge and should have been adopted rather than the costly and draconian lockdown for which we are now paying the price. That these and other physical methods were not adopted more widely is the real crime from the pandemic
Creating a policy of burying one’s head in the sand and waiting for vaccines, which have brought their own problems, is not and should not have been this or any county’s policy.
One of the reasons for making this submission to the Covid Inquiry was that none of the inquiry modules relate to how businesses dealt with on one side the legal requirements put upon us and on the other survival.
To date I have had a general acknowledgement of receipt and an email saying that it has been passed to the “relevant team”, the name of the team was not mentioned so, for all I know, it may be the wastepaper basket one!
The first hint of likely trouble ahead was in her name, “Jorja.”
Good article on remote working OldOzzie.
1. Give verbal warning. Make a note of warning. 2. Give written warning. Write down the person’s response and get them to sign it. 3. Next time sack them.
Anyone know of a transvestite aboriginal scientist who supports the Greens? A shoo in, if one can be found.
I thought instinctively of Tim Flannery, but he isn’t dusky and is too hetero.
Goodness me. Plunged into moderation.
The only seriously offensive language seems to be “Chris Bowen”.
I would like to nominate
Evonne Cawley or Margaret Court for GG.
I love watching heads explode.
I will see myself out.
No. Not even that.
Reports coming through now that the American base at the Conico gas field in Syria was targeted for the second time since yesterday’s US air strikes in Iraq and Syria.
And after all this publicity, who is going to risk giving “Jorja” a job now?
No doubt, another “great decision”.
Probably the best Submission I have seen on Covid
December 28th 2023,
Rt. Hon. Baroness Hallett DBE
UK Covid-19 Public Enquiry
London
Dear Baroness Hallett,
I find it strange that the enquiry you chair goes into lots of aspects of the Covid pandemic but I can’t see that any of the modules actually look at practical ways of mitigating the effects of future respiratory virus pandemics.
It also is surprising that there is little on how business handled the situation thrown at it; for the engine room of the economy to be virtually disregarded by your deliberations seems rather amiss.
As a business we could not afford to shut down for an indeterminate amount of time when lockdown was announced.
As an engineering company selling into the agricultural and materials handling markets with more than 70% of sales overseas, if we had shut we would at the very least have been seriously knocked back and our customers would have been forced to go elsewhere.
In an engineering business there is only a limited proportion of people who can work from home.
The Prime Minister used, when announcing lockdown, the unfortunate term “essential worker” when referring to those who could go into work.
Many of our employees felt that referred to those working for the emergency cervices whilst I understood it to be those essential to this business.
As we had a substantial percentage who did not agree with me, I decided to furlough them and work on with those who were happy to come in and some of the office staff who could work from home.
The initial advice about washing hands was about the only truly practical advice we received.
However, working on the basis of Covid being a respiratory virus we researched as to what had been shown to work against these in the past.
We also worked on the principle that we wanted to keep the disease out of the building and if anyone came in with it then they could be identified quickly and helped to get home.
Equally we wanted to help those who were fit and healthy to stay that way and be strong enough to repel the virus should they come in contact with it.
As spring was on its way we were able to make sure that there was plenty of air movement in any enclosed spaces where employees were working.
We also ensured that there was a ready supply of salt should anyone want to clear their throats and noses through gargling salt water.
The correct strength of hand gel could not be purchased at this time, so we purchased raw Aloe Vera extract and Isopropyl and mixed in the WHO recommended proportions.
As it was believed that the virus could be transmitted through touching surfaces, initially all surfaces including computer keyboards were treated with isopropyl (rubbing alcohol).
Knowing that viruses are killed by ultra violet light we made a number of handheld UV scanners that allowed us to rapidly treat large areas twice a day.
Knowing that copper kills viruses on contact we made and replaced all the original door handles with copper ones and fitted copper sheet to the tops of work benches and the canteen table to prevent any chance of spread through touch.
The door push plates were also replaced with copper.
Our forefathers used copper, brass and silver specifically because they were known to stop the spread of pathogens, however, this has been forgotten and now most door handles are made from aluminium or stainless steel which have no anti-viral properties.
The other measure we took in summer 2020 was to install an infrared thermometer that took our temperatures on entering the building.
I am not sure if it has ever detected someone with an elevated temperature due to Covid but it has picked up plenty who have come in after sitting in a hot car or been outside in the sun during their lunch break.
With summer 2020 turning to autumn we needed to find ways to keep the air in enclosed spaces clean without having lots of doors and windows open.
We were also keen to find ways of encouraging all our employees to boost their immune systems in make them more resilient against the virus.
To solve the first problem we installed a number of air clearers with Hepa filters and built in UV sterilising lights. I had over the years found UV extremely effective at killing all sorts of micro-organisms and these cleaners have been very effective.
As to the second problem, I had read a considerable amount of research prior to the pandemic into how winter supplementation with Vitamin D3 with K is very effective in helping one’s immune system fight off respiratory viruses.
As the pandemic progressed there were a number of reports coming from Sweden and Spain that confirmed that Vitamin D3 was similarly effective in helping the body fight COVID-19.
Using a commercial testing company we arranged for everyone who wanted it to receive a Vitamin D and general health blood test.
Virtually everyone had very low and some almost non-existent amounts of Vitamin D in their blood.
We then made available enough Vitamin D3 in either spray or pill form to give everyone at least a daily amount of 4000 IU which we understood to be the amount required to achieve the optimal blood level.
Though we had had one person going down with what later turned out to be Covid in February 2020, we had no cases until just before Christmas 2020 when two went down with it, one having caught it from her son and the other from family or friends.
The first person stayed away from work but the second one initially tested negative and was told that he probably had flu.
Feeling better after Christmas he worked with us in the three days prior to New Year but then tested positive, on New Years eve 2020, but did not pass it on to any of the rest of us who had been working with him.
So far to date we have not had any on premises transmission, all cases that we have had have been isolated ones or between two people car sharing to and from work. A number have had it more than once but no one has suffered seriously.
Throughout the pandemic we were bombarded by rules and guidelines issued by the Scottish and U.K. Governments.
Initially we tried to follow and obey them but as almost every week more were added and they became ever more specific we just ignored them as we could not apply many of them to our circumstances and from our experience they were not going to help the situation. By late 2021 we were beginning to notice a number of things:
Firstly the vaccine did not offer long term protection, contrary to what we had previously been told.
Secondly: those taking boosters often seemed to go down with Covid within a month or so of getting the shot.
Thirdly: tests were often giving a negative result when ill but a positive result when better.
Fourthly: mask-wearing was ineffective and in fact seemed to exacerbate the illness if it developed.
Fifthly: gargling with grapefruit seed extract in water after testing positive would clear the virus from your throat and nose and lead to a very quick recovery.
In response to points three and four, we reverted our policy to if you felt ill to stay off work but when you felt better to return and not to bother doing a Covid test.
We have not yet had any internal transmission resulting from this change. We also allowed people to go maskless when not in close proximity to others and fairly soon dropped the need to wear masks at all and again this has not led to any sort of internal transmission.
I can’t speak for everyone in the business but most have not taken any more than the first booster and some nothing more than the initial two vaccine doses. The key lessons from our experience has been:
1. Boosting natural immunity with winter D3 supplementation is very effective protection both against the disease and also helping to fight it should you go down with it.
2. Our UV air cleaners seem to be very effective at preventing transmission within an office or other enclosed environment.
3. Virucidal effects of copper can be harnessed to prevent spread through door handles and other frequently touched items.
4. Masks were completely ineffective at preventing transmission between those sharing cars.
Despite being visited by council employees early on during the first lockdown who asked why we were open, we stayed open throughout the pandemic and though our U.K. business dropped off steeply over the first few days of the first lockdown we had by the end of our financial year made up almost all of the lost ground.
After being on furlough for three weeks a number of employees started calling to find out if they could come back in and by September 2020 we were once again back to a full complement.
Come the end of our financial year we repaid the furlough in full as it seemed wrong for our profit to be inflated by the taxpayer.
Based on our experience with Covid I would certainly not be as trusting of Government and its advisers next time round.
Much of what came out of Government has proved to be either wrong or plain stupid.
An example being of banning people from meeting outside which flew in the face of all experience with viruses that they do not survive in almost any sort of sunlight.
I believe that we demonstrated that by applying known practical, anti-viral measures the disease could be controlled and spread prevented without affecting economic and general well-being.
Yours sincerely,
Alastair MacMillan
Alastair MacMillan is the founder, with his father, of White House Products in Scotland, manufacturing and selling hydraulic pumps and other machinery around the world.
Dr Faustus
Feb 4, 2024 11:15 AM
Goodness me. Plunged into moderation.
The only seriously offensive language seems to be “Chris Bowen”.
Did you check J@rk – Got caught on AFR Article
Do you have a citation for this?
I have no memory of an Australian made 180-B.
I have a rarely used account with a fake name, no profile and a dodgy birthdate.
I wonder what Tucker is doing in Moscow, apart from enjoying fine culture?
Sancho Panzer
Feb 4, 2024 11:30 AM
Winston Smith
Feb 3, 2024 5:45 PM
I remember many years ago, Fraser got Datsun to start building 180bs here. Specifically the LPG type.*
Do you have a citation for this?
I have no memory of an Australian made 180-B.
Sancho ,
bard.google.com
Questio: Did Australia manufacture a Datsun 180b with an LPG powered engine
Answer: No, Australia did not manufacture a Datsun 180b with an LPG powered engine from the factory. However, there are some key points to understand:
Factory LPG option: Datsun did offer an LPG-powered version of the larger Datsun 200b model in some export markets, including New Zealand and South Africa. It’s important to note that the 200b is a different car than the 180b.
Conversion kits: In Australia, it was common for aftermarket companies to convert Datsun 180bs (and other cars) to run on LPG. This was a popular option during the 1970s and 1980s due to rising fuel costs and LPG’s relative affordability. So, while you wouldn’t find a factory-made 180b with LPG, many on the road today might have been converted aftermarket.
Identifying converted models: It can be difficult to tell if a 180b has been converted to LPG without inspecting the engine bay and checking for specific components like the gas tank, mixer, and additional lines.Consulting resources like forums dedicated to Datsun enthusiasts or seeking help from a mechanic familiar with older cars can assist in confirming the conversion.
Additional notes:
The L20B engine used in the 200b LPG model had some modifications compared to the standard petrol version for optimal LPG operation.
Converting a car to LPG requires proper installation and maintenance to ensure safety and performance.
I hope this clarifies the information about Datsun 180b and LPG options in Australia.
Commissioner Nicholas Lake is a Scott Morrison appointment to the Fair Work Commission, he is considered an employer friendly member of the Commission.
His previous career was HR executive in BHP.
(** Her name: Jorja, is a message to employers, one that was missed by the salon owner)
Sancho
Draft 2 – No, Australia did not manufacture a Datsun 180b with an LPG powered engine from the factory. While LPG conversions were popular in Australia during the 1970s and 80s, including for Datsun models, they were aftermarket modifications, not factory options.
Here’s what we know:
Factory LPG engines were not offered: Nissan, the manufacturer of Datsun vehicles, never offered an LPG-powered 180b in any market, including Australia.
Popular aftermarket conversions: LPG conversions were popular in Australia for various vehicles, including the Datsun 180b, due to the lower fuel costs and government incentives at the time. These conversions were typically performed by independent specialists, not by Nissan or its dealerships.
Limited information on specific details: While there may have been some unofficial factory-backed trials or prototypes, there is no evidence of an official factory-produced LPG 180b available for sale in Australia.
If you’re interested in learning more about LPG conversions for the Datsun 180b, you could try searching forums and communities dedicated to the model, like the “OZDAT” forum mentioned in your search results.
Draft 3 – No, Australia did not manufacture a Datsun 180b with an LPG powered engine from the factory. While LPG conversions were popular in Australia during the 1970s and 1980s, Nissan (the maker of Datsun) never offered a factory-built LPG option for the 180b in any market, including Australia.
However, it’s possible you might encounter an 180b with an LPG conversion today. Back in the day, many people had their cars converted to LPG due to its lower running costs. If you come across an 180b with an LPG system, it would have been a custom aftermarket conversion, not a factory option.
Here are some additional details to consider:
The larger Datsun 200b did have a factory LPG option in some markets, including Australia.
It’s possible you might be confusing the two models.
Even though the 180b didn’t have a factory LPG option, converting them to LPG was a common practice in Australia. There are online communities and forums dedicated to Datsun enthusiasts where you can find information about LPG conversions for the 180b.
I hope this clarifies the situation!
Dover – Iraqi jihadi kiddies are now saying ow it hurts make the pain go away.
Kataib Hezbollah announces halt of attacks on US forces (Al Jaz, 31 Jan)
That of course was before these strikes. It took real talent to force Joe Hussein Biden to take action. So this suggests they do really want to kiss and make up if they can find a way to keep their excitable rank and file under control. That’s always the issue with these scenarios.
Knuckle Dragger
Feb 4, 2024 10:58 AM
I’m sure it’s true but I don’t believe it, it can’t be.
/s
“Employer-friendly” Fair Work Commissioner Nicholas Lake has a history of similar themes in his decisions.
Any barrister who may obtain a fair or balanced decision from him deserves the Order of the Golden Wig or something.
IS THIS AMERICAN REPUBLICANISM MANIFEST?
I WAS ENJOYING A SUCCULENT BEEF STROGANOFF! AH YES, IT APPEARS YOU KNOW YOUR BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU! HANDS OFF MY PENIS! MR WRAY, WHY ARE YOU SEEKING MY LIMP PENIS?
FAREWELL AND TA TA, AMERICA!
Interviewing Vlad. It’s obvious.
Been telegraphed for a while, including again today.
The Waler – a remarkable horse and an Aussie legend
“By members of the Desert Mounted Corps and friends, to the gallant horses who carried them over the Sinai Desert into Palestine, 1915-19. They suffered wounds, thirst, hunger and weariness almost beyond endurance, but they never failed. They did not come home”.
Inscription on a monument erected by returned soldiers in Sydney
As we stop tomorrow to remember those who fought in wars but didn’t return home, I thought I would share an Australian story about a unique horse breed in Australia.
The story began at a time when horsepower did everything. It was a time when a good horse was valuable and provided status in the community. In the first 30 years of European settlement in Australia, about 3,000 riding and draught horses were used for farming and moving goods. Breeding horses for our needs became an important industry.
Around 1816, the first shipment of horses left New South Wales for Batavia and India. Many ships advertised for horses as part of their cargo. The following year, 25 horses travelled on the Fame to Batavia. The Lynx was after a matching pair of bay, brown or black geldings 14.2 hands high for carriage work and a brown riding gelding for a customer in Calcutta. In 1818, the Laurel took 23 horses to Batavia, and the Pilot took 34 from Hobart. In 1835, traders sent more horses to Madras.
By the 1840s, there were many horse traders and a strong export market to India. It coincided with the fall of the Sikh kingdom in the north-west frontier region of India called Punjab after the death of their ruler Ranjit Singh in 1839 and the subsequent rise of disorder and internal ructions between competing factions for power and influence even as the Sikh army increased its numbers from 29,000 to 80,000.
What are Walers?
Many varieties of horse breeds were brought to the Australian colonies from across the world in the nineteenth century. They came from India, the Cape Horses from South Africa, the Timor Pony, Thoroughbred, Welsh Pony, Sumba, Chile horses, Arab, Clydesdale and Percheron, and many more.
Governors of each colony encouraged the breeding of horses to meet their transport needs. Owners of large properties were breeding horses by the thousands. They were looking for a horse that could thrive in a big country with good bones, hard hooves, endurance, the ability to thrive on low-quality feed and possessed wisdom. Keen breeders wanted the best of the best, using stayers raised in rugged country to develop strong survival traits.
As a type of horse, the Waler filled a broad concept that was difficult to define. It was essentially an Australian-bred bush horse. It was not a purebred of one breed. Many types were created, from heavy through to pony, to meet the local demand – riding horses, gun horses, light draught, heavy draught, packhorses and polo ponies were all known as Walers. It was a breed in the making “using the best of the best when horses were at their best”.
The practice of cross-breeding from the available breeds resulted in a versatile working horse with good weight-carrying capabilities, speed, endurance, and the ability to thrive on native pastures.
Initially, breeding filled a considerable demand for domestic needs of the colonies – coach, carriage and post horses. But as the strong export trade in remounts for the British Army in India developed, the Waler was recognised as the finest cavalry horse in the world.
The early horses that went to India were surplus Cobb and Co. horses. These horses were called coachers, a cross between a trotter and a draught horse. They were between 14.5 and 16 hands tall, wide-chested, strong and muscular. They were known for their speed and stamina.
PS Dover – the Painting at the top of the Article A favourite charger with its groom, WWI. Painting courtesy Australian War Memorial would make a good blog painting
A Western interview Vladimir Putin would be the international media story of the year, especially one that asks him about his relationship with the USA.
Amazing the lengths people will go to to pretend the Americans have this under control.
Bit Confused – appearing on article on skynews.com.au but not other articles????
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Excellent article posted by Old Ozzie at 10.46 am.
Perhaps I was a slow learner, but the vast majority of stuff I learned about work and the workplace came from being on site. As the author correctly notes, at first remote workers had corporate memory and connections to help them do their jobs. Over time, it all fell away and a newbie is completely at sea, especially in a large organisation.
I get that newbies especially prefer it. Who wouldn’t rather sit at home in trakkies than front up (as I did) is a business suit, stockings and heels for always more than 8 hours.
But, there will always be people who will do the hard yards when you don’t, and the children demanding ‘flexible’ are going to learn it the hard way.
On another note – great news for Wodehouse fans! Gutenberg has just released a new book of his, and it’s one I’ve never seen or heard of before. It’s a series of short stories called ‘Divots’. It’s golf-themed, but full of the similes that have caused readers to LOL for many decades, containing riveting profiles of American millionaires, English butlers and so on.
No link, I’m in the middle of a story where links don’t work. Go to Gutenberg, P G Wodehouse and you will find it.
A magnificent late Christmas present!
Miltonf
And people wonder how the White Supremacists get the ammunition for their whacko theories.
No, not ‘j@rk’ – although that’s obviously an appropriate application for ‘Chris Bowen’. No links in the post, so no indirect banned vileness.
Just ‘prick’ – which surely gets a free pass.
Church aiding asylum claims on mass scale, say Patel and Braverman
Former home secretaries question clergy’s role in conversions from Islam
Edward Malnick,SUNDAY POLITICAL EDITOR and Charles Hymas, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
Suella Braverman and Dame Priti Patel have hit out at Britain’s churches for their alleged support for “bogus” asylum claims.
Writing for The Telegraph, Mrs Braverman said that during her time as home secretary she “became aware of churches around the country facilitating industrial-scale bogus asylum claims”.
Separately, Dame Priti, also a former home secretary, accused church leaders of “political activism” in their approach to asylum seekers, claiming that religious institutions supported cases “without merit”.
The clergy’s role in offering conversions to asylum seekers and support for their applications is likely to be considered by ministers in the wake of the chemical attack in London that injured a mother, two children and 10 others.
Abdul Ezedi, who is suspected of carrying out a chemical attack in Clapham, was twice denied asylum before being allowed to stay after claiming he had converted from Islam and that his life would be in danger if he returned to Afghanistan.
A government source said: “There are clearly general questions about whether it is really possible to credibly substantiate the solidity of a religious conversion, particularly where that view might carry important implications.”
Ms Patel cited the case of Emad Jamil Al Swealmeen, a Christian convert who detonated a bomb outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital in 2021, having been confirmed at Liverpool Cathedral in 2017.
In 2016, the dean of the cathedral at the time said he had converted 200 asylum seekers in four years, but added: “I can’t think of a single example of somebody who already had British citizenship converting here with us from Islam to Christianity.”
Dame Priti said: “In that particular case [Al Swealmeen] and any other examples where Christian conversion is involved it is right that those cases are scrutinised and that there is a degree of honesty in establishments, including the Church of England as to what their motivations were.
“It’s no coincidence that religious leaders are constantly speaking out against any reforms and work introduced by us as Conservatives in this area.
“We are seeing it actively with the Rwanda Bill.
Political activism is coming in from these quarters. It is important that the public question their motivations.”
Mrs Braverman said: “Attend mass once a week for a few months, befriend the vicar, get your baptism date in the diary and, bingo, you’ll be signed off by a member of clergy that you’re now a God-fearing Christian who will face certain persecution if removed to your Islamic country of origin.
It has to stop.”
A Church of England spokesman said: “It is the role of the Home Office, and not the church, to vet asylum seekers and judge the merits of their individual cases.”
The church was not aware of any links with Ezedi.
Dover – Either you believe the news article or you don’t. Not my problem. Since the source is as close to being plugged into the situation as any in the ME, and since Al Jaz is no friend of the US, I’d say you might be suffering a tiny tad of denial.
But as I said that article was from a couple days before the current airstrikes. The Iraqi Hezbie leadership will have difficultly getting their guys to do what they instruct, before the B-2s come by to flatten their leaders’ swish mansions in Baghdad.
Joe’s staffers will be pushing him hard to declare victory and leave anyway, since the Dems are currently getting lots of stick from their base, especially muslims and the Jew-hating left wing.
GreyRanga
GR:
Connoisseur and most of the other smooth ice creams are vegetable gum. The trend started about 20 years ago. They have the texture of snot.
Greta Thunberg is a ruffian masquerading as a latter-day saint
Since Hamas’s invasion of and massacre in Israel, the fate of trees seems to have gone by the wayside for Thunberg and her crew
ZOE STRIMPEL
There’s no other way to say it: Greta Thunberg, the feted 21-year-old climate activist and two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is a ruffian.
As she laughed mockingly at Westminster magistrates’ court last week, charged with a public order offence for disrupting a conference of oil executives at the InterContinental hotel on Park Lane last year, she wiped her eyes with insane jubilation.
No doubt she was recalling fondly her troupe’s smoke flares or their deafening din of drums, or their refusal to budge even a few feet at the pleading of the police so that delegates could actually leave the hotel.
The boorish swagger of the girl is a wonder to behold – and her acquittal will make her all the cockier.
A few years ago, when she began her path to worldwide fame and adulation as a pearlescent-skinned teenager, her passion for righteous awareness-raising evoked, among the generous at least, a modern-day Joan of Arc.
It was all a little over-zealous, a bit loony, but she was 17, and she was changing the conversation, albeit in a mixed direction, ennobling climate hysteria and malignant politicisation on the one hand, but on the other getting substantial numbers to rethink their use of plastics and fossil fuels.
In Switzerland alone, according to a study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, her legendary “school strikes for climate”, also known as Fridays for Future, resulted in a third of Swiss people changing their daily habits.
She always had a taste for spreading disruption, which, to a certain degree, goes with the territory. Thunberg began skipping school to protest climate change in 2018, and by 2019 Fridays for Future saw four million pupils around the world do the same.
The road from there to here is not all that hard to follow: most climate loonies diversify into a more explicit engagement with a wider constellation of nasty, connected ideas.
I once debated Roger Hallam, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, who was soon ranting to the Cambridge Union crowd about genocidal racism, apparently connecting what he saw as Western climate complacency with ongoing racialised exploitation on a grand scale.
This is the crude idea behind “climate justice”, a centrepiece of the cod politics yelled by Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Greenpeace and the rest of them.
It means: “The West is evil, and everyone who hates it is good.”
No surprise then that Thunberg has devoted herself since October 7 to ostentatious support for the Palestinian cause.
Her court appearance in London saw her wearing a big keffiyeh along with a bizarre T-shirt reading: “hide a refugee and if that becomes illegal hide too”.
Since Hamas’s invasion of and massacre in Israel, the fate of trees seems to have gone by the wayside for Thunberg and her crew.
Demonising Israel is fast becoming a full-time job.
Her boorishness has been on full display since she became a useful idiot for those who mean Israel harm.
At a climate rally in Amsterdam in November, Thunberg’s 70,000-strong crowd chanted “Palestine will be free”.
Later, after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman up on stage, a man jumped up and, briefly grabbing the microphone from Thunberg, said with total rectitude: “I came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view.”
Thunberg got the mic back quickly, and ordered the man to “calm down”.
After a brief pause she started chanting: “No climate justice on occupied land.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a professor of political theory to realise that this slogan makes absolutely no sense.
Especially given that the only occupier of Gaza has been Hamas – which certainly doesn’t care about the climate – and in the parts of the West Bank that Thunberg and co get their knickers in such a twist over, it is Israel which does.
In fact, Thunberg was a fixture in Israeli schools’ learning materials until she began preaching “Free Gaza” after October 7, at which point she was deemed ineligible to be “an educational and moral role model”.
And slips of land as tiny as those Thunberg and friends demonise as “occupied” could never obstruct any mission to save the planet – they are irrelevant to the cause.
She doesn’t care.
On January 26, as the International Court of Justice announced its judgment on South Africa’s false case against Israel, in which it accused it of genocide, old Greta was right there at the Hague protesting.
The case was an insulting finger-wag at a righteous war against an invasion by an evil enemy, but Thunberg was miffed that the court hadn’t actually concluded Israel was genocidal.
And so she wrote online that: “Israel – as well as those who support Israel’s brutal attacks and occupation – must be held accountable for their actions. We cannot remain silent during a genocide.”
It’s not the first time a youth hailed as nobly focussed on the great cause of the day has revealed themselves in their true colours – the former surfer dude and tree hugger Jackson Hinkle, now a notorious “anti-Zionist” social media influencer, began as an exulted climate activist.
How many more celebrations of Palestinian “resistance”, how much more wrecking-ball behaviour, must we endure before people stop seeing these brave young climate warriors as saints and instead recognise them for what they are: loutish emissaries of a destructive creed?
A lesbian tattoo shop that offers personal styling.
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Incidentally Dover it’s quite clear that Joe told the IRGC that the strikes were coming three days ago, and probably which targets were going to be hit. So they could get the good stuff out of the blast zone beforehand. There’re a lot of stories about that in the news today. What that means is Joe (well not him really) is telling the Iranians that he was forced politically to “do something”. Not a bad diplomatic stratagem actually, since it leaves it in Iranian hands to accept that this was their fault for overstepping, and thereby making it easier for them to back down a bit. Carrot-or-stick may be old but it works pretty well.
https://images.wsj.net/im-916095/?width=2000&size=1.5003750937734
Bruce, there are other militias apart from Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and they’ve pretty much blown off the last air strikes. Sorry to say, but right now the US isn’t deterring anything and if the reports of the US begging the Iranians to please let us bomb somewhere, anywhere, in Iran and not responding and the latter rofl it appears that they have the USs measure atm.
Given the several days’ notice, I doubt anyone that mattered was at the sites struck. Likewise weapons, comms gear etc would have likely been moved. They may be evil but the opponents aren’t stupid.
Dot
If there’s one thing we should have learnt, it’s that cancer must be excised – it never stays as just a little mole or blemish on the skin.
Once it has a safe place, it metastasises.
We either learn the lesson, or it gets taught to us in a way that we will not like.
UAE takeover bid of Telegraph ‘potentially dangerous’, says Bishop Baines
CofE’s lead bishop on media issues in House of Lords says Abu Dhabi should not be allowed ‘anywhere near our free press’
Will Hazell, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
An Anglican bishop has spoken out against the attempted takeover of The Telegraph by the United Arab Emirates, saying it should not be allowed “anywhere near our free press”.
The Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Rev Nick Baines, said that ownership of a British newspaper by a foreign government was “potentially dangerous”.
Both The Telegraph and The Spectator are subject to a takeover bid from RedBird IMI, a fund backed by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the vice-president of the UAE.
The potential acquisition has raised concerns about the editorial independence of the titles, as well as fears that the UAE could use them as a tool for influencing British politics and foreign policy.
Bishop Baines, the Church of England’s lead bishop on media issues in the House of Lords, said he shared worries about the deal.
“There is a particular argument I think about whether any foreign government should own a media outlet,” he told The Telegraph. “You’d say there is something potentially dangerous here.”
He added: “Personally I don’t think the Emirates or any government should be anywhere near our free press.”
Before entering the Church, Bishop Baines worked as a French, German and Russian linguist at GCHQ.
His first career meant that he “read Pravda everyday” and therefore “fully understood what it was to have a state-owned media”.
“It doesn’t take much to go from what I’d call freedom, the whole framework of freedom, to something which is much more sinister,” he said.
Bishop Baines said he saw the takeover bid as part of a wider crisis relating to the UK’s constitutional culture, linking it to developments such as the Government’s controversial Rwanda Bill.
“I’m 66, and 10 years ago if you’d said we would consider passing legislation that on the face of it, the Secretary of State cannot guarantee that this bill is consistent with our obligations under international law, we’d have said that’s impossible,” he said.
“So the culture which is a bit Trumpian, which is we can just break everything, means that it’s harder I think to resist things like overseas ownership because we’re quite prepared to break everything else, ignore other I think ethical obligations.
“I think this question for The Telegraph and The Spectator simply forms part of a much wider cultural, constitutional – would I call it a crisis? I think it is, it raises fundamental questions that can’t simply be brushed off.
“There needs to be a much more serious and deeper debate in this country, not just about The Telegraph and The Spectator, but about ownership of media, about the constitution and the way we’re behaving in relation to our institutions.”
Last month, Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, ordered a second Ofcom investigation into the takeover, prompted by an 11th-hour change to the corporate structure via which RedBird IMI plans to own The Telegraph.
Ofcom is now due to report back by March 11.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
When you look at the breadth of artilces on the main page of the Telegraph UK, think what a takeover by UAE would do
Similarly – https://www.spectator.co.uk/
Guar gum finds its way into a huge range of manufactured food products.
It’s also the #3 ingredient in fraccing fluid – as demonised by Michael Moore and the Greens Orchestra – by mass, way after water and sand and a fair way before some form of bactericide and a trace of NaOH.
Channel 10.
Could someone post The Australian Editorial.
Opera House protest was a disgraceful, anti-Semitic event
Forensic analysis of audio-video files of the protest has led police to conclude the phrase ‘gas the Jews’ was not chanted. This news does not redeem the deplorable spectacle in any way.
By EDITORIAL
Yep, I do know about such things, and as I said there’s also a difference between what the boss guys want and what the kiddies do on their ownsome. However they are one of the bigger bunches, and they are favoured Iranian clients, unlike others like populist Mr al-Sadr.
You will have been watching the events on the northern Israel border. It’s kabuki. Hezbollah doesn’t want a war and Israel doesn’t want to have to fight on two fronts. But the Hezbie leadership is under immense pressure from their rank and file. So they’ve been in “do something” mode like Joe is. The Hezbies fire off a few rockets then the IDF flattens some fairly dispensable Hezbie target. Plus the occasional IRGC general officer for spice. It’s been going on like this for four months now. It fulfills all the niceties and Hezbollah keeps their gunpowder mostly dry. They are in a fairly precarious position in Lebanon after destroying Beirut’s port and causing galloping hyperinflation.
Two very interesting Covid inquiry submissions put up by Oldozzie above.
The Australian CHO’s were a disaster during Covid. Wear a mask, stay home, distancing, wash hands and take the next jab was pretty much their mantra.
Pretty much nothing about exercise and vitamins. In fact their policies seemed designed to keep you at home and restrict exercise. You could not go to the gym and walk or sit in a park or at the beach. I read very early on about Vitamins but never saw a CHO mention them.
If you caught Delta before the vaccines the “cure” was stay home. They prevented the use of therapeutics that Dr’s had success with in USA. This was done purely to ensure higher jab take up as those therapeutics had been used safely for decades and if Dr prescribed posed no risk. Far less risk than the rushed jabs.
The statistics provided were incomplete and in many cases misleading. I think deliberately so to ensure jab compliance. This was most obvious in relation to cause of hospital admissions where going in for a broken leg and being tested positive counted as a Covid admission. This went on for years. Plus they were reluctant to note average age of dying was mid 80’s anyway and with comorbidities.
Then on the other side you had the institutes and virus experts pretty much dictating how the country should be run. The politicians ignored all other aspects that might affect well being and health. The CHO’s had zero concern for the economy or human rights etc.
If you look at the institutes and experts pretty much all benefited greatly during Covid from grants, contracts and increased profile. Etc. Pretty much all expert witnesses for the Government in the mandate court cases were part of the problem and benefitted from mandates ensuring more jab take up. Some will have made good money in court expert payments and advising various organisations.
The whole period was a disaster as far as health policy and how to balance other aspects of life. I think many will not recover from what happened to them.
Most CHO’s are still in their job because the Governments don’t even acknowledge or are not interested in how badly things were done. CHO Qld was made Governor and CHO VIC got a job at CSIRO in Biosecurity. The head of TGA now works for Medicines Australia.
No inquiry will get to the truth of the disaster as just too many failed the people.
Rant over.
lol. Sheep are easily led.
Never change your daily habits. They are time tested.
You may of course modify them when you are travelling or otherwise feel like a change. It’s perfectly ok to make your own rules and break ’em. Just don’t be swayed by the likes of Greta. 🙂
Watching the numerous lawsuits against Trump, it is obvious that the Dimmocrats are very frightened of a direct electoral contest, even with all their fixes in place.
And, given the turbulent history of American politics, let’s hope his personal security is AAA+++Diamond grade.
Meanwhile in Australia, I don’t believe that Blackout Bowen has a lot of supporters in marginal seats. Cost of living, especially energy, is not going away. His infallible choice of the wrong option strikes again.
Incidentally the other guy in the car when Soleimani was shredded was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis: the founder and effectively leader of Kataib Hezbollah. That adds to the weight of their offer to stand down, since hitherto they’ve been furious about their guy being assassinated.
For those who enjoyed Julian Fellowes’ series called ‘Belgravia’, set inthe aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and the early industrial revolution in Britain, there is now a second series, using characters descended from those in the first series and set in circa 1871 during the time of the Paris Commune (there’s a French aristocrat in it, a woman playing the part of a modern woman of the era, a rich investor). It’s not quite as good as the earlier show, but Fellowes oversighted it all, even though the script was not his, so the production values are still excellent. We watched the first two episodes last night, fearful ‘woke’ elements might have intervened, but thankfully not.
Worth a look if like me you are a fan of the first series, and its themes of upstairs/downstairs – don’t forget Fellowes also wrote the highly successful Downton Abbey series.
This is getting silly (the Hun):
Okay….
I am assuming the players got him the cold, esky ice rather than the other ice.
I looked Mr Clothier up. He is 58 years old, and if he is not 130kg then I’m not here.
Both of those things, even if combined would sort of be all right – but on top of his weight he clearly has some ‘protrusions’ hanging out of his considerable gut, and on top of that he appears to be as healthy as scabies.
He looks like he’d time-out after 20 minutes in the garden on an 18 degree day. God only knows what condition the other umpires are in if they’re issuing ‘urgent heat warnings’.
Sancho Panzer
I have no intention of getting into another of your pissing contests, Sancho. So just go away.
The screeching headlines about Melbourne’s hottest day this summer have been fun. It’s like as if a 38 C day in Melbourne is unheard of.
Melbourne will sizzle through its hottest day of the year (Sky News, 4 Feb)
I recall in 1977 or thereabouts it was 110 F for a week in Melbourne. We were on holiday and it was memorably hot and sweaty.
I thought instinctively of Tim Flannery, but he isn’t dusky and is too hetero.
I thought his current squeeze was a trannie prostitute but I could be mistaken; maybe it’s a shemale.
At this stage in the US electoral cycle, it would be a disaster for the Biden Administration (or whoever the Obama-adjacent Democrats have picked out) if Iran test-fired its ‘bomb in the basement’.
At the moment they can get away with most people not knowing what the Iranian stockpile of 80% enriched U235 actually means.
Just discovered second son, aged 49, on the dole, and suffering from recurrent but untreated (his choice) bipolar episodes, has run up a $10,000 electricity bill which now requires him to repay $75 weekly from his dole.
We are going to have to do something about that. First thing is to take his on 24/7 in winter electric heater away and insist that more than shorts and a t-shirt be worn inside during winter. Second thing is to contact the provider and see what they say. If he doesn’t pay the $75 a week repayment (in addition to his usual power costs) then he will be cut off and being cut off will lead to him losing his public housing and being on the streets .. again.
I’m thinking we may have to pay the lot ourselves to keep him housed. Hairy has, reluctantly, agreed, if that is the last resort.
Things wouldn’t have got to this extent if power bills were more normal.
Effing climate maddies.
There’s a few of them about, in very influential positions. I just hope I live long enough to see them get in full measure what they truly deserve.
History suggests that is unlikely to happen.
The problem of internal sabotage of Outsiders has been going on for years because 90%+ of media workers (including Sky staff) are lefties.
Yes, and apparently it is also happening at GB News in the UK.
I just hope I live long enough to see them get in full measure what they truly deserve.
Unless you do it, they won’t.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Feb 4, 2024 1:02 PM
I’m sorry to hear this, Lizzie.
Just had a friend message me complaining about the noise and nearly naked men from the pride parade in st Kilda.
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It’s not me who chose to live there!
Failing memory, at least you recognise & acknowledge your decline.
BREAKING NEWSMike Gill DIES five days after being shot by carjacker: Former Trump administration official was collecting lawyer wife from work in DC
You have to wonder at where the leverage is for this kind of behavior by the US, if true. I suspect it’s not the ME , even though an oil price spike wouldn’t be happy news to The Sniffer in Chief. No, I’m suspecting that the only worthwhile leverage to force this behavior is plausible mainland USA threats. The weakness is not feigned?
Rowan, Rita and James didn’t mince words on Outsiders this morning about the disgraceful NSWaffen Police. The statement by the NSWaffen goon on Friday morning was a cover up.
I spit on the NSWaffen Police.
Zulu – Thanks for The Australian Editorial
Melbourne didn’t get over 35 degrees for the entirety of January. The last time it was so cold was 1984.
No, I’m suspecting that the only worthwhile leverage to force this behavior is plausible mainland USA threats. The weakness is not feigned?
Larry Correia (SF/monster writer) once wrote that he met with half a dozen former Special Forces guys who reckoned just them could shut down a small town. The small town they had in mind was Chicago. For obvious reasons he didn’t go into detail.
We could do with an errant subcontinental driver with a chicken truck . Might help to focus NSWaffen as to the real job they’re supposed to be doing.
Oops, stuffed up the quotes
This son is not Hairy’s own child, btw. I have two sons from a first marriage, and both have long-term psychiatric issues, one with autism and the other with bipolar episodes. Neither is on the DSP, although both should be; both exist in public housing. They stagger around on the Dole and its hopeless bureaucratic management, getting occasionally ‘cut off’ due to non-compliance, with occasional forays for the latter one into employment, which always ends in trouble (once leading to a prison sentence due to bipolar gambling and fraud to sustain it). Both should long ago have been shunted by the Rudd-style employment agencies into a medicalised welfare system, which doesn’t exist, rather than keeping them on these agencies’ books as a sort of canon fodder with unaddressed needs. Advice for me to just let them sink further is not useful advice; it would likely kill them, it certainly leads to further harm as past attempts at ‘tough love’ have done, both have lived on the streets, and more of that would kill me as well as them.
My two children with Hairy are normal, highly capable, married with children, employed and doing well, so I have been lucky to know the joys of that type of life, bringing up one’s children within a stable marriage. These two children with Hairy are not necessarily without problems and glitches in life, but normal sorts of problems.
One of my responses on retirement was to help other families similarly afflicted as a telephone counsellor. I came to believe that Australia has a vast underclass of people who have fallen through the cracks throughout life, who don’t get the help they need, who serve the purpose of bureaucrats, and to whom the culture of ‘woke’ and toleration of drugs has done a great disservice. Similar to the aboriginal situation, but with far less help and concern.
Rant over. Sometimes I just have to let off steam.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Feb 4, 2024 10:15 AM
ExclusivePoliticsFederalPolitical leadership
Former Labor premiers back Indigenous governor-general as speculation mounts over PM’s pick
Lisa Visentin
By Lisa Visentin
February 4, 2024 — 5.00am
If only we could pick a GG using the criteria Cosgrove mentioned, instead of thinking about skin colour or what is between their legs.
Military types have generally been pretty good. Sir Michael Jefferies I thought was a standout. Discreet and straight up and down.
Apart from when she was splashing the cash in Africa on behalf of the ALP, I thought Bryce conducted herself with decorum and her offer to resign upon the change of government in light of her family connections was the right and honourable thing to do.
If I could hypothetically nominate some candidates from amongst Cats and Kittehs, Cassie, Calli, ZK2A and Struth (that will put the cat among the pigeons) would be at the top of my list but it could end up quite long with the numbers of interesting and erudite commenters here.
I might start making a list of ministers for if I ever manage to get my hands on the levers of power. Rabz will be Minister for Communications with one job. If I don’t see smoke coming from the ABC within 24 hours of being sworn in, I shall be saddened.
We’re gonna need more helicopters.
Lamp posts will suffice until they arrive.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price slams ‘romantic’ myth about Aboriginal Australia as Indigenous senator reveals her special message to Voice Yes voters – as her ‘Peter FitzSimons’ interview trick is revealed
Daily Mail
Bruce of Newcastle
Feb 4, 2024 1:00 PM
With temperatures tipped to reach 37 degrees, it has informed umpires to take drinks break every 10 overs, and to “immediately rest or seek treatment” if feeling unwell.
The screeching headlines about Melbourne’s hottest day this summer have been fun. It’s like as if a 38 C day in Melbourne is unheard of.
Melbourne will sizzle through its hottest day of the year (Sky News, 4 Feb)
I recall in 1977 or thereabouts it was 110 F for a week in Melbourne. We were on holiday and it was memorably hot and sweaty.
BON,
3 Days above 35C in Feb 1977 – 38.3C, 37.5C, 40.3C
None in Dec 1976, Jan 1977 & Mar 1977
Wimpy compared to 1968
7 above 35C with Max 43.7 31st Jan 1968
9 above 35C with 2 sequential days above 40C in Feb 1968 with 41.4C Max
3 above 35C in Mar 1968
What’s he running, a Bitcoin mining operation? How does he accumulate 10K electricity debt and hope he can pay off the debt while still consuming power?
Rant PS.
Forgot the failed mainstream media and those in Government who asked social media to take down and censor dissenting voices.
Special mention to whoever it was who asked for a Vax injured groups Facebook page to be taken down as it might create vaccine hesitancy.
Informed consent my arse.
I see that Liie is once again telling everyone about what a good person she is – something that nobody else would do.
Here’s the thing, Perky Tits.
Many (perhaps not all) of the contributors here do what they can to help less fortunate members of their family, or friends.
The difference is that they do not try to puff themselves up by recounting the details here.
I have helped members of my family, and one or two friends, when they were going through hard times. Undoubtedly many/most here have done the same.
Boasting about it on the internet never entered my mind, or the others who did it.
Go back to throwing toilet rolls off your balcony. Oops – don’t want to be reminded of that? 🙂
Tammy Peterson speaks about her healing from cancer and journey to Catholicism
I think we really need a re-look at the Therese Reine Rudd-style make-a-lot-of-money from the dregs ’employment agencies’. They put basically sick people through useless courses as they hang out for non-existent jobs. These misnamed agencies take plenty of government money for doing this favour of keeping the DSP numbers lower and propagandizing that something is being done to help ‘the unemployed’.
The only job my now-diagnosed 50 year old autistic son was ever offered was some part-time supermarket shelf stacking (which he could not sustain, it sent him into panic attacks of what to put where – recent testing has shown he has very, very low ‘executive function’ for certain tasks), or more recently, some telemarketing sitting in a basement booth for six hour shifts (which also sent him into a panic of claustrophobia and anger at the script he had to constantly repeat). A diagnosis of his autism twenty or thirty years ago, which these agencies might have suggested and paid for, might have helped him recover to some other capabilities. Less so now.
I’d question that bill. I wonder if his power supply has been hacked to grow some herbs and spices in an adjoining house. Do some sums on the power usage of the heater etc.
Thancho;
I’m pretty sure the 180B was made in Australia. I guess at Datsun’s Clayton plant. My neighbour had a 180B SSS Coupe that she loved because it was imported from Japan and well made, unlike the lesser locally made sedans. Not sure if they were locally assembled CKD kits or fully manufactured here. Great revvy engine, like the 1600 predecessor, but rusted terribly.
Money for nothing Lizzie. The current govt has cancelled a number of contracts and tried to revamp it but won’t do anything drastic because of public opinion. The previous government increased the power of employment agencies. In a nutshell, the problem is that both governments use those agencies as for Centrelink enforcement purposes so if they dissolved the network they would have to employ more public servants for that purpose.
Unfortunately, IIRC, recent moves by the NDIS are to the effect of limiting ASD as an NDIS option. The sad truth is that as has so often has been the case in history behavioral disorders are often perceived as moral failure. That crap about will power and resilience doesn’t work with people suffering from behavioral disorders.
The venerable 180B was the car of choice in PNG back in the day. The 180B Wontok Wagon (ute) was highly sought after, so much so you had to remove the distributor rotor each night if you wanted it there to use the next day.
Oh do shut up, you stupid fool of a woman. Ypu know nothing about the issues I raise. I haven’t read all of your comment, nor will I.
You are as useless about tits and anything else as tits on a bull.
Go ply your bile elsewhere.
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now (Live at the Newport Folk Festival 2022)
Joni Mitchell is set to make history by performing live at the 2024 Grammy Awards for the first time at the age of 80.
Bruce of Newcastle & other Cat Bloggers
just a reminder on how to get Maxium Temperature for varying years from BOM
Bureau of Meteorology product IDCJMC0014. Produced: 03 Feb 2024
Australian stations measuring total monthly rainfall/temperature
Site Name Lat Lon Start End Years % AWS
in Alphabetic Order
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_139.txt
Select Station Number from above list for loaction & start end years in use for year required
Post Station Number into
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/?ref=ftr
Selecting Daily Max Temperature in 1
and in 3 insert Station Number
I wish I knew, JC. I only know that about three years ago he had a debt of about $2000 lingering from previous non-payment of bills, and that he was supposed to be paying it off at $40 a week, which he told me included his current electricity usage.
Now it’s balooned to $10K or more. I shall have to ask his signed permission to chase this up. He probably fell back on paying the $40 and was using a lot over two or three winters. Or else the meter is wrong. I don’t know yet.
He wouldn’t have the general nous to be into Bitcoin.
‘Kiddies’ don’t have access to missiles without the knowledge and approval of the bosses.
What I’ve seen over 4 months is Hezbollah slowly destroying the IDFs IRS infrastructure in the north, attriting their personnel, and keeping about 200K Israelis from returning to their homes, but sure, this is all Kabuki theatre.
LOL.
Thanks, John, that’s a good thought and I will raise it with him and with the supply company. It did seem excessive, although 24/7 heaters can be costly too. I’ll try a few numbers, see what emerges.
Oh dear;
Knuckle Dragger
Feb 4, 2024 12:32 PM
And after all this publicity, who is going to risk giving “Jorja” a job now?
Channel 10.
An LNP government?
Cass is a good friend who has never married and had children, and I have another good in friend in Tassie who is similar, but neither of them would ever show the bile and nastiness shown by the childless, husbandless, and bitter female called Johanna. They are happy with their lives, reconciled as we all get to loss as we age, and they are happy for others too.
I feel sorry for Johanna, as her life and mind-set could be so different, which these two other very dear friends show in spades.
Rowan, Rita and James didn’t mince words on Outsiders this morning about the disgraceful NSWaffen Police. The statement by the NSWaffen goon on Friday morning was a cover up.
I spit on the NSWaffen Police.
Cassie, I would like to see the entire NSW Police Force (& those of other states) required to view the 45 minute footage of the atrocities of 7 October.
Lizzie uses this place as Instagram, right down to what she and her unfortunate spouse have for dinner, and when they go to bed. At times (I avert my eyes) this exhibitionist liar has even described what happened afterwards.
The ‘I’m a lady out of academia’ schtick’ is laughable. She lied to Catallaxy readers about her past for years, in every case to make herself look better. She lied about the book thst never appeared. She lied about her surgery, having had the same, I proved.
The only words out of her mouth you could trust are ‘I care about me.’
I see that the BOM employee whose sacking was upheld by FWC is co playing that she will struggle to get another job.Do ya think?
I also note that despite overwhelming g evidence to the contrary FWC held that she had made honest errors.
The leverage is pretty much that Iran holds the cards regionally.
Old Ozzie – Just be aware that BoM adjusts historical temperature data downwards, as do most of the usual suspects like NOAA and UK Met Orfice. This can be by two or three degrees. It’s known in climate blogging circles as “cooling the past”, and is very Orwellian.
I recall what I experienced vividly and it was a lot hotter than 38 C. I’d gotten a place at the ANU Maths summer school, then flew to Melb afterwards to meet up with dad and my younger brother. We did a road trip up the Princes Hwy from Melbourne to Sydney in our old snot-green Dodge ute (5 L of horsey goodness). Windows open and we had water pistols to spray each other with. It was fun, but it was searingly hot.
Reserve Bank revolution begins – but inflation remains its key issue
The Reserve Bank has, like clock-work, met on the first Tuesday of the month to set interest rates. That is about to end as it embarks on major reform.
Like clockwork, members of the Reserve Bank board have taken their seats in the RBA’s Martin Place headquarters about six storeys above the passing traffic on the first Tuesday of every month bar January. Over a few hours, they would consider a recommendation from the bank governor (more often than not to hold interest rates steady) while quizzing senior staff about the economy before agreeing on a course of action.
But as part of changes set in train by the independent review of the Reserve Bank, the board members will now sit down on Monday afternoon.
Over several hours, they will tease out issues raised by staff in their various reports and consider scenarios for the economy while testing senior officials on their views.
The next morning, the board members will re-convene to determine whether interest rates need to change and then work with governor Michele Bullock and other staff on a statement that will be released at 2.30pm.
An hour later, Bullock will hold a press conference to explain the bank’s thinking and to discuss updated economic forecasts from the Reserve that will be released alongside the interest rate decision.
And, rather than go through the entire process on March 5, the next two-day meeting will be on March 18. Instead of 11 monthly meetings a year, the bank will shift to eight.
For a bank that until 2008 waited a full day before announcing an interest rate change, and which did not hold a formal press conference until 2020, the reforms are extraordinary steps.
Luci Ellis, a former Reserve Bank assistant governor who is now Westpac’s chief economist, says the change to a two-day meeting will give members more time to drill down into the economy.
“This will give the board more time to discuss the outlook and risks, and the staff more time to present scenarios and other analysis that could not easily be fit into the agenda in the previous shorter-format meeting,” she says.
The economic outlook and risks have changed dramatically since Bullock’s last public comments on December 12.
Pressed on whether the bank was behind its international peers in terms of interest rate settings, the governor explained the RBA’s then-current thinking.
“We are trying to make sure we slow the economy enough to bring inflation down to our target band. Provided inflation expectations don’t get out of control – and they are not at the moment – we think we can do that in the next couple of years and we can do that while preserving the employment gains that we’ve won through the pandemic and coming out of the pandemic,” she told a summit in Sydney.
Apart from the two-day meeting to consider interest rate settings, the other major recommendation of the RBA review was the creation of a standalone committee to consider monetary policy.
At present, the RBA board manages both rates and the institution (with its 1575 staff), which last financial year suffered an accounting loss of $6 billion.
The Reserve is responsible for the nation’s money supply and the high-level functioning of the financial system.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers remains hopeful these responsibilities will be split into separate committees from July 1, with one focused solely on the ins and outs of monetary policy while the other will concentrate on the bank’s other functions.
Currently, the board is made up of Bullock, Treasury boss Steven Kennedy, trained economist Ian Harper, Carolyn Hewson, Iain Ross, Elana Rubin, Carol Schwartz and Alison Watkins.
New deputy governor, the Bank of England’s Andrew Hauser, has yet to take up his post.
While the board will issue the statement setting out Tuesday’s rates decision, it will be Bullock facing a room full of journalists explaining the bank’s thinking about the economy.
I’ll never forget my January 1973 in a three storey house in Carlton, Melbourne. It was baking hot. I went and stood under the shower fully clothed to cool down.
They are making stuff up,
Re Question Jorga – then when Polish Response – please respond in english to Bard
Answer: My apologies! I misunderstood your preference.
Here’s the information about Jorja Smith in English:
Jorja Smith is an English singer-songwriter born on June 11, 1997, in Walsall, West Midlands. She’s been writing songs since the young age of 11. In 2012, a friend uploaded her cover of Labrinth’s “Earthquake” to YouTube, catching the attention of record producer Guy Moot.
After her initial singles gained recognition, Jorja signed with Sony/ATV in 2016, releasing two EPs in the following years. Her critically acclaimed debut album, “Lost & Found,” came out in 2018, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart.
Jorja grew up listening to reggae, punk, hip-hop, and R&B, writing her first song at 11.
As a teenager, she was inspired by Amy Winehouse’s raw songwriting approach on her debut album “Frank.” Jorja believes her music addresses social issues, stating, “When things happen in the world, I think it’s important to touch upon them because, as a musician, you can make people listen.
As soon as they press play, you have their attention.”
Her influences include Lauryn Hill, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Sade, Nina Simone, Alicia Keys, Mos Def, and The Streets.
Here are some of Jorja’s achievements:
Nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in 2019
Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2019
Won the Mercury Prize for her album “Lost & Found” in 2018
Performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2019
Jorja Smith is considered one of the most promising young musicians globally. Her songwriting talent and powerful voice have garnered her international recognition.
What else would you like to know about Jorja Smith?
Irish leader, surely.
They holds cards, sure. But regionally is not enough to explain why the US has been behaving so timidly. Tentatively. Perhaps what is manifesting is the US Prog Left’s locked on embrace of their comrade moslems at home and their fear of alienating them. We see it here and the UK as well.
I see the Queanbeyan resident continues with her obsession towards Lizzie.
Sad.
I should remind people here that not once this afternoon has Lizzie engaged with the Queanbeyan resident, all Lizzie has done is share some benign commentary about her son, his astronomical electricity bill and so on, yet this commentary triggers the Queanbeyan resident into nasty, hostile and unhinged commentary towards Lizzie.
It’s pretty obvious that someone doesn’t have much of a life, and that someone is not Lizzie.
The day that I take any notice of your unprovable, probably fictitious ‘friends’ is the day that I resign from reason.
Nothing in your history indicates that anything you say is true,
OTOH, … you get the drift, faker and liar.
I suspect that the forecasts were over 35 for much of the month, and they are the important measure. //sarc//
Dover, please. You are playing dumb, you know exactly what I mean and how I use ironic language for jihadists. Who deserve much more impolite language than that, but this is a polite blog.
What are you smoking? It is very widely known that the Hezbies have about 100,000 war missiles ready to go in Lebanon. Not bootleg ones like the Hamas guys made out of water pipes, the real thing. Supplied by Iran over many years. Literally miles of column-inches have been written about this issue. Have you been living under a rock for the last two decades? Yet they’ve been firing off only a few at a time. The IDF has lost barely any casualties, the Hezbies a lot more: something like a couple hundred last count I saw. In war speak this practice is known as “harrassing fire”. Just enough to be seen to do something (for the rank and file fire-eaters and the IRGC handlers) and to be able to say they’re supporting Hamas by pinning those brigades in the north. The IDF doesn’t mind because they rotate between Gaza and the northern border, to spell the troops.
If the Hezbies were serious the sky would be raining metal. They aren’t, it isn’t, and you know it.
Those are facts that are easily verifiable. We’ve discussed both of these things on New Cat OTs quite a lot. You can look this information up in about thirty seconds. I am surprised that you never seem to. For example it’s abundantly clear you didn’t know who Kataib Hezbollah are until I linked the Al Jaz report. One search and you’d have dozens of reports describing their place in the Iraqi food pyramid.
I read that typo as “emergency cervixes” and immediately thought of cavorting TikTok nurses.
People lapped that CCP crap up too.
Thunberg as Thug is not surprising either. She just had to grow into the role. Pippi Longstocking has become Pippi LongKnives.
The entire post by me:
Winston Smith
Feb 3, 2024 5:45 PM
Notice how Sancho Panzer omitted the last line which was the addendum to the LPG type*
Just another piss weak attempt to misrepresent my post.
Wow, that was quick! Do you live here?
The US is providing the spare parts, munitions, etc. that enables Israeli to maintain their campaign.
Straya 2/21 after three overs against the Windies.
Go you (Caribbean) good things.
Warning after charging e-bike sparks garage inferno in Tavistock
Luckily no one was injured
By Maxine DentonReporter 17:34, 3 FEB 2024
Firefighters have issued a warning to e-bike users after a garage caught fire in Devon this morning (February 3). Crews from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue service were alerted to the blaze at a property in the Tavistock area at around 5am.
Two fire engines were called to battle the fire, with a further appliance from Yelverton joining shortly after the initial crew’s arrival at the scene.
Crews wearing breathing equipment and using hose reels were able to quickly extinguish the flames.
Once the blaze was brought under control, firefighters were able to establish that it had been caused by an e-bike which was likely left on charge.
Whilst there was significant damage to the garage and its contents, luckily no one was left injured.
In a post shared on Facebook, a spokesperson for Tavistock Fire Station said: “At 0500 this morning we were alerted to a garage fire in the Tavistock area. Both of Tavistock’s appliances attended on the initial call.
A detached garage fully involved in fire with normal garden and garage contents including gas BBQ, bikes and garden items.
On arrival a third appliance was requested from Yelverton for additional water and breathing apparatus.
“Two breathing apparatuses, two hose reels and a jet were used to extinguish the fire using water from appliances and a hydrant.
Thermal imaging cameras were used during the fire to allow us to identify hot areas.
“The fire believed to have started in an e-bike which was most likely left on charge.
As far as we could tell everything on the bike i.e. charger and battery were the original as often cheaper batteries or different chargers are often the cause.”
The blaze is said to be the second incident in two days relating to charging batteries.
It has prompted Tavistock Fire Station to issue a warning to all e-bike users to consider where they recharge their batteries and to be prepared in case they catch fire as the results could be “catastrophic”.
The post continued: “Whilst there was a lot of damage to the garage and contents at least no one was injured and the damage can be repaired and items replaced.
E-bikes, scooters and other rechargeable items do catch fire with little or no warning with catastrophic results.
“Please consider where you recharge your batteries, if this is in your house make sure you can get out if the worse should happen, do not charge things in passageways or near your escape route and ensure they are turned off as soon as they are charged.”
The day that I take any notice of your unprovable, probably fictitious ‘friends’ is the day that I resign from reason.
What? Somebody is losing the plot. I’m a friend of Lizzie. I’ve just pinched myself and there’s nothing fictitious about me because I can see the bruise from the pinch. I’m a friend to Lizzie and her husband, as are others here such as Rabz, Jupes, Tinta, Dragnet, Gilas, Harlequin, Rafe, Vicki and her husband and others.
I think the day you resign from reason is already here.
“Happy Valentines Day”. Up yours Woolworths.
Sunday, 04 February 2024
Couldn’t observe Australia Day or sell a flag.
But happy to milk Valentine’s Day.
Up yours Woolworths.
A genuine question to Old Ozzies post:
Why is the Government setting interest rates? Why not the market?
Don’t anybody laugh at that. Perplexed may be unwittingly correct.
The employer-friendly fair work commissioner who upheld her case is an LNP (Scott Morrison) appointment.
Lovely Religion of Peace – Islam
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and wife convicted of marriage law violation in a fourth case
A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law, officials and a lawyer said.
The latest verdict follows another case in which Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for corruption.
It comes ahead of February 8 parliamentary elections in which Khan has already been disqualified because of graft convictions while his party is struggling to run an election campaign.
It was Khan’s fourth conviction since 2022, when he was ousted from power. His sentences total 34 years and will be served concurrently.
Analysts say Khan’s multiple and apparently hasty convictions are seen by his party and supporters as punishment for his rhetoric against Pakistan’s powerful military leadership, which has ruled the country for half of its 76-year history.
During his final months in power, Khan had broadened his fight with opponents to include the military.
The lawyer for the couple, Intisar Panjutha, said the verdict was announced by Judge Qudrat Ullah a day after the trial ended. Khan and his family insist the trial is politically motivated.
The prosecution said Khan and his wife violated the law that a woman must wait three months before marrying again.
Bibi, Khan’s third wife, was a spiritual healer who was previously married to a man who claimed that they divorced in November 2017, less than three months before she married Khan. Bibi has said they divorced in August 2017.
She and Khan, who had been married twice before, denied they violated the three-month waiting period — a requirement of Islamic law and upheld by Pakistan.
The ruling was condemned by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
Its head, Gohar Khan, told reporters that Khan will appeal. “This is a bogus case against Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi, but still they were given maximum prison sentence by the court,” he said.
The couple were also fined 500,000 rupees ($2770) each.
Khan is currently serving multiple prison terms at Adiala prison in Rawalpindi, where his trials were held because of security concerns.
He is embroiled in more than 150 legal cases, including inciting people to violence after his arrest in May 2023.
During nationwide riots in May, Khan’s supporters attacked the military headquarters in Rawalpindi, stormed an air base in Mianwali in the eastern Punjab province and torched a building housing state-run Radio Pakistan in the northwest.
Local Government elections coming up. You have to be so incredibly careful these days. The greens, nannies, DEIers, blackfella power, play foreign policy, etc loons are becoming much more expert at hiding their true intentions. It is absolutely irresponsible to not attend a ‘meet the candidates’ night. It takes only one green/commo council to permanently damage your shire.
So far we have six nominations for mayor. More to come. Careful parsing of their blurbs allows for a number to be bounced early. Two cases of “Net zero by 2030”, catchment health, environment, environment, environment, restrictions on tourism, one “highly experienced HRM executive at national and international level”.
That leaves two. One a very experienced businessman national and international focused on council efficiency, the other a local and popular small business fellow involved in everything.
Past experience demonstrates that the late nominees can be the most dangerous.
It could be amusing if it wasn’t so bloody important. Fortunately, most loons think that everyone agrees with their ideology and can’t avoid using give away loon speak.
Keep in mind Commissioner Lake is an employer-friendly appointment. Y’all can imagine what it is like when you’re defending a case & draw an employer-unfriendly commissioner.
Winston Smith
Feb 4, 2024 2:51 PM
A genuine question to Old Ozzies post:
OldOzzie
Feb 4, 2024 2:10 PM
Reserve Bank revolution begins – but inflation remains its key issue
The Reserve Bank has, like clock-work, met on the first Tuesday of the month to set interest rates. That is about to end as it embarks on major reform.
Why is the Government setting interest rates? Why not the market?
Winston,
I have not got a Clue!
But I note the RBA Government Dept needs 1575 staff to do so!
Winston – exactly.
Real Deal
Feb 4, 2024 1:47 PM
I had a 180B SSS. Great car. British racing green colour. Had it for about 18 months before some drunk lunatic drove his car through a red stop light (on my left) and T boned it. The SSS was totally buggered and that started off a fight with FAI Insurance (remember them) about value.
Reminds me of an episode of Dr Who (Tom Baker) where he is confronted by a nasty planety-invadey character called Stor who explains that he is of the Sontaran Special Space Service.
The Doctor responds “The Sontaran Special Space Service? Don’t you think that is carrying alliteration a little too far?”
Yep, the current Dr Who, with episode budgets the size of whole old seasons, with all its CGI, the brilliant colours flashing across the screen, terrifyingly credible monsters, sound that you feel passing through you in the 70% water in your body as much as your ears, and teams of writers and researchers – yup, this new Dr Who pales in comparison to the old.
Makka
Feb 4, 2024 2:19 PM
What is surprising is that the Left have completely forgotten what happened to the Left who allied with the Muslims to topple the Pahlavi? Kingdom.
What? Somebody is losing the plot. I’m a friend of Lizzie. I’ve just pinched myself and there’s nothing fictitious about me because I can see the bruise from the pinch.
Maybe I shouldn’t comment on this issue – but I will. I have been a contributor to this blog (& Sinclair’s original) for a very long time. I have frequently commented how grateful I am – not only for the opportunity – but for the patience and generosity of my fellow Cats. The blog has provided such intellectual stimulus and enjoyment – often at a time (especially in during the Covid years) when it was deeply appreciated.
I will also say that I have appreciated for forbearance of others – especially the blokes! There have been almost no intolerant remarks in respect to the opinions of us women amongst the Cats. Our arguments have been subject to the same critiques as any others. I am not shy in saying that I have been humbled by the bonhomie.
So, I would say to some of the grumblers ……get a grip! In many ways, it is no different to the general forum “out there”….if you get a little above yourself – others will pull you up smartly! This is very “Australian”.
So there it is…..love you all.
Why take issue with ‘kiddies’ rather than address the substantive point?
Bruce, please. This idea that unless A does X he can’t be serious is just imposing your own priors on events rather than analyzing what is actually going on.
How was it abundantly clear, Bruce? I read the news about Kataib Hezbollah a few days ago on twitter before the US even commenced the strikes including the complaints that the Iraqis had again lost their nerve. But, sure, my declining to accept your interpretation of events establishes my ignorance.
They aren’t, it isn’t, and you know it.
odious
more canbra meddling-piss off pubes, you toxic parasites
Iraq: Iraq February 2024
February 2, 2024: Iran-backed Iraqi militias continue to attack American troops in Iraq.
On January 28 an Iran-backed Iraqi militia used a UAV armed with explosives to kill three American soldiers at their Tower 22 base across the border in Jordan.
Other recent inside Iraq attacks involved ballistic missiles as well as the usual unguided rockets and occasional gunfire.
The primary base for American troops in Iraq is the Ain al-Assad air base, which the Americans have equipped with anti-missile and anti-aircraft systems.
These intercept most missiles and rockets fired at the base but occasionally one gets through and causes some injuries. So far injuries have been minor.
There are few Israelis in Iraq, all of whom work with the Kurds in northern Iraq as technical and military advisors. Iraq continues to resist Iranian efforts to dominate local politics and much else.
Iraqi efforts to reduce corruption played a part in convincing a growing number of formerly pro-Iran Iraqis to change their minds about backing Iran.
The current Iranian government has been an economic, diplomatic, and military disaster for everyone in the area, not just Iranians.
Few Iraqis want to emulate Iran, and this now includes Iraqi members of pro-Iran militias.
Initially Iran encouraged and maintained pro-Iran attitudes in Iraq by supplying Iraqi militiamen with weapons and regular cash payments.
Increasing economic problems inside Iran reduced the money available to pay the Iraqi militiamen enough to keep them loyal to Iran.
The longer the Iraqi militiamen went unpaid, the less willing they were to serve Iranian interests.
How much is left is questionable, but certainly enough that some militias are currently attacking American troops and bases at Iranian orders.
Iraqis were also put off by the brutality Iran used to suppress the hijab protests that began in 2017 and intensified in 2022 when Iranian lifestyle police killed a young woman for not covering her hair.
After most women were simply not wearing hijabs to cover their hair, Iran insisted that foreign women, even those allowed into the country to help Iran with economic projects, cover their hair.
Meanwhile there were too many Iranian women refusing to cover their hair for the Iranian government to arrest or otherwise punish.
The Iranian government has not given up on enforcing the use of hijabs and is seeking ways to force women to comply.
A proposed new law would criminalize failure of women to wear hijabs, but the government is unsure what impact trying to enforce such a law would have.
Most women and many men oppose the hijab restrictions and consider these laws another reason to overthrow the religious dictatorship that has misruled Iran for decades.
Iraqis see this Iranian obsession over the hijab as odd and scary because this is the sort of thing Iran would try to impose on Iraqis if it could. Iraq and Iran were long known as much less fanatic about this sort of thing than, say, the Saudis.
That is changing in Saudi Arabia, as it already has in Iraq and, until recently, Iran.
Currently Iran is seen as the most fanatically religious nation in the region.
Before that Saudi Arabia held the title for decades.
Yes and they have also forgotten what the Bolsheviks did to the Socialists in 1917/18. Bloodthirsty psychopathic maniacs will seek to kill and destroy any opposition to their supremacy, those on their own team included.
The Doctor responds “The Sontaran Special Space Service? Don’t you think that is carrying alliteration a little too far?”
Yep, the current Dr Who, with episode budgets the size of whole old seasons, with all its CGI, the brilliant colours flashing across the screen, terrifyingly credible monsters, sound that you feel passing through you in the 70% water in your body as much as your ears, and teams of writers and researchers – yup, this new Dr Who pales in comparison to the old.
Yep. I’ve hated the revamped Doctor Who since it first aired back in 2008(?). Yes, the new series had speccy sets and speccy effects but the stories and the dialogue left me cold. It also didn’t help having that buffoon David Tennant play the Doctor.
I remember a little over a decade ago watching old Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker episodes. Yes, the sets were wonky, but the writing was superb and both Pertwee and Baker were fabulous playing the Doctor.
Attrition: U.S. Army is Shrinking
February 3, 2024: The U.S. Army has problems finding enough new recruits to maintain its current strength of 460,000 active duty and 500,000 reserve troops.
These recruitment problems are getting worse. The number of troops needed in 2023 was 65.000 but only 55,000 were willing to volunteer.
The losses are disproportionately hurting the active-duty combat forces. The army blames the poor quality of many volunteers, who must be rejected because they are overweight, have low test scores or drug use.
Not mentioned are the many desirable young people who do not even consider enlisting because they come from rural areas which supply a disproportionate share of military volunteers in general but are put off by the military’s new social justice regulations, lectures and required lifestyles.
The U.S. military has had to cope with a lot of recruiting problems over the last few years.
These include financial, suitability, leadership, communications, morale, political and ideological/lifestyle conflicts.
Recruiters were increasingly unable to meet their quotas for enough new recruits to replace losses due to retirement, casualties, illness, or not-reenlisting. In 2022 and 2023 the recruiters had their worst time ever.
Each Recruiting Location has annual and monthly quotas for each service, as in the army, navy, air force and marines.
These quotas were based on past performance.
Recruits are easier to find in some parts of the country and this is reflected in the quotas.
From 2022 thru 2023 monthly quotas were not being met by a large margin. It’s worse for the army, which is attracting less than half the recruits the Department of Defense analysts expected.
The senior military leadership proposed offering record-high bonuses of up to $50,000 for eligible recruits. Polls indicate this will not have much impact on the current situation.
Many recruiters already realized that recruits were going to be difficult to find this year, something that was largely ignored inside the Department of Defense.
Unlike Pentagon analysts, the recruiters are constantly in touch with potential recruits as well as veterans’ groups.
This provides recruiters with real-time exposure to attitudes of potential recruits.
Veterans, especially recent ones, provide personal experience with family and friends about current conditions in the military.
Currently the news is bad, and older veterans, including the few still around from World War II, comment that the current military is not the one that fought and won battles in the past.
The number of young men who had a parent who served in the military declined from 40 percent in 1995 to 12 percent in 2022.
The cooling climate in southern Victoria is really something. By my recollection, we haven’t had a day of 40C or more since around 2015.
The problem is so serious that those who rely on the politicisation of the weather, including the Bureau of Meteorologgy, have redefined what a heatwave is. Temperatures in the high 20s Celsius are now laughably classified as “extreme heat”.
At the top of the current 60-year cycle in the 1960s and 1970s, weeks where the daytime temperature rarely dipped below the old century (38C) were not uncommon.
It’s astonishing that, in an era where we can access everything ever published via the internet, the public has never been so dumbed down and gaslighted by “experts”.
Cassie of Sydney:
I think the series went bust when they got rid of William Hartnell.
But that’s just me.
🙂
Not so much an observation on this particular case, but it reminded me (perhaps a little irreverently) of how St Francis of Assisi referred to his body as ‘Brother Ass’ – it is not quite as he meant it but to me the idea of the body as a mere beast of burden that bears the spiritual being has been quite satisfactory. Even if I am a little more inclined to petty my donkey to indulge itself when my spirit is elsewhere than St Francis will have exhorted.
In years long past a lot of people were content to beat their ass – choking its lungs with chain smoking, lying on beaches under a beating sun turning their skin to leather, or dehydrating themselves through sweat and re-hydrating with beer, which dehydrates further, requiring more beer and so on until they are passing an acrid dark brown syrup in the trough.
Now of course people are discouraged from having a Brother Ass. The have a fluffy poodle called Fifi with painted cuticles, has finicky dietary requirements, and must have an unending serial of medicines shoved up its clacker (poor Fifi can tell when you sneak tablets in) to keep it safe from germs.
Fuk I loathe this following Euro emission standards in this country. Europe is a declining, decadent, self hating, fading empire.
permit l my donkey…
Auto-corrupt must be working out and taking steroids.
Or perhaps it is Brother Ass – but not ass as in donkey.
Fork!
permit my donkey
Initially Iran encouraged and maintained pro-Iran attitudes in Iraq by supplying Iraqi militiamen with weapons and regular cash payments.
Increasing economic problems inside Iran reduced the money available to pay the Iraqi militiamen enough to keep them loyal to Iran.
ME political machinations do my head in. You would think that the Iran/Iraq war would prevent any future cooperation between the countries. On the other hand, I suppose Islamic State made bedfellows out of previous enemies.
The current role of Syria in all of this is also a mystery to me. Of course Assad relied heavily on the support of Iran against the Islamic State butchers and their influence in Syria. But we rarely seem to hear of Assad of late.
Iran seem to have its proverbial finger in a lot of Islamic pies.
Whoa, someone not impressed by my disparaging of the new Dr Who!
Well, on my side I have…whatever the opposite of applause is because the new Dr Who gets that by the truckload.
Multitudes feel the same way.
Russia’s latest weapons are clearly superior to NATO weapons! Putin, Russia, Ukraine
Feb 3, 2024 #VladimirPutin #Putin #Russia
Russia has increased the production of armor protection by 10 times!
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with active participants of the “Everything for Victory!” forum. The event took place on the territory of JSC Tulatochmash. In particular, Putin touched upon the topic of the crisis around Ukraine.
And our defense industry is demonstrating very good pace and quality of work here.
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Of course, if we compare modern NATO weapons and the weapons of the last period of Soviet
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times, then Soviet weapons are in some ways inferior to NATO weapons.
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By the way, not always.
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And if we take our latest weapons, they are clearly superior to everyone, this is an obvious
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fact.
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I mean missile technology, armored vehicles, and everything that is used on the battlefield.
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I must say that you not only provide, I am now addressing those who work at these enterprises,
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you not only provide such high quality, but also quantity.
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Armor protection is the most necessary thing.
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We have increased the production of armor protection for our soldiers tenfold, and the
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production of uniforms by 2 and a half times.
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Well, later, when speaking, I will also say how many times, not in percentage, but how
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many times the number of armored vehicles, other means of warfare, aviation equipment,
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missile technology, including high-precision weapons, including long-range ones, has increased.
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In general, for almost the entire range, both quality and quantity are provided at very
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good, high rates that the country needs.
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This is what our defense industry does.
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Yep. I’ve hated the revamped Doctor Who since it first aired back in 2008(?).
That is really weird formatting.
Not sure how I did that, but getting exactly the html tags would be beyond the blind mischief of auto-corrupt.
Apropos of nothing, Risotto Milanese is overrated.
Will be interesting to watch how this plays out. Silly move making this public given their circumstance.
miltonf
Feb 4, 2024 3:41 PM
Fuk I loathe this following Euro emission standards in this country. Europe is a declining, decadent, self hating, fading empire.
miltonf,
again Toyota’s View of the World Reality
https://www.toyota-gib.com/eng/vehicle-sales/models-by-usage.html
What a clown show.
Such a tired old meme, Johanna, and I fear a drunken one. I have written a book’s worth of articles for Quadrant and may even yet still put two of these major articles into book form. I have also written another book, during my academic career, published by the Australian Film Commission, now known as Screen Australia, and many other academic papers. I have far less free time than you, so what have you done?
Now this is a really weird little meme, concerning the surgery I had for suspected ovarian cancer in 2921. It was for removal of ovaries and to check upon a suspicious and growing lesion on my cervical area, remnants from a previous hysterectomy in 2004. Firstly, I doubt if you had the exact same surgery Johanna, and I doubt whether your surgery also required the presence of a specialised bowel surgeon as well as a gynaecological surgeon due to extreme adhesions from a childhood peritonitis. I simply said here my surgery took four hours of anaesthesia. You went absolutely spare about that, insisting that you knew better because yours took less. You ‘proved’ nothing.
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Extraordinary mind twists everywhere with you, I have to point out.
One does wonder why, what do you get out of it? If you get rebuttal, you are shown to be merely manufacturing scuttlebutt.
Give it away. You are no good at this. Hysteria will not suffice.
Hey, I’m hearin’ ya!
It was a little unfortunate that Tom Baker’s Doctor was contemporaneous with the release of the new quantum leaping standard set by Star Wars.
But the stories allowed me to bridge that chasm.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claims hacker ‘compromised’ his IP address to download child porn
The Trump curse strikes again.
Just why do so many of his attackers seem to be moral and legal perverts?
Apologies for the blockquote shift/fail, but you get the idea. Her words are obvious. Johanna creates scuttlebutt and I refute it.
It is not a game that I want to play and so these memes, along with her many others about me, should be seen for the nonsense they are.
Re the Reality of much Hotter Weather in Melbourne in the past
In Nov/Dec 1938 there were 13 days over 30C
In Jan 1939
1st 37.7C
8th 43.1C
10th 44.7C
11th 33.5C
13th 45.6C
The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were part of the devastating 1938–1939 bushfire season in Australia, which saw bushfires burning for the whole summer, and ash falling as far away as New Zealand.
It was calculated that three-quarters of the State of Victoria was directly or indirectly affected by the disaster, while other Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory were also badly hit by fires and extreme heat.
This was the third-deadliest bushfire event in Australian history, only behind the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires and the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.[1]
Eastern Australia is one of the most fire-prone regions of the world, with predominant eucalypt forests that have evolved to thrive on the phenomenon of bushfire.[5]
However, the 1938-9 bushfire season was exacerbated by a period of extreme heat, following several years of drought. Extreme heatwaves were accompanied by strong northerly winds, after a very dry six months.[6]
In the days preceding the fires, the Victorian state capital, Melbourne, experienced some of its hottest temperatures on record at the time: 43.8 °C (110.8 °F) on 8 January and 44.7 °C (112.5 °F) on 10 January.
On 13 January, the day of the fires, temperatures reached 45.6 °C (114.1 °F), which stood as the hottest day officially recorded in Melbourne for the next 70 years.
(Unofficial records show temperatures of around 47 °C (117 °F) were reported on the Black Thursday fires of 6 February 1851).[7]
Attracting downticks. I feel like Calli.
Well it is a hot evening so instead of cooking I shall go for simplicity and order in a chook to have with an NV champers (unless the local as l has restocked on 2015 or 2016).
Then I shall stand on the balcony and patiently wait upon wind conditions and piss on the balcony below. It is OK because I will wear a Richard Nixon mask to distract any local kids from my tactically deployed wedding tackle.
I await the downtick objecting to my choice of wine.
That tweet regarding the hood ornament got deleted.
Why is that?
The Greatest Night in Pop – making of We are the world on Netflix.
Very interesting show with filming of the 47 top American singers who had only one night to record the song.
Song written by Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson. Did want Stevie Wonder involved but could not contact him in time.
The studio recording was done straight after the American Music Awards which Ritchie hosted.
Some highlights:
Tried to get Prince involved but too many people around for him. Sheena E still trying to get him at 3am.
Bob Dylan looked very uncomfortable at one stage as his style of singing not compatible with the group singing. Dylan had a problem trying to work out how to sing his part. Stevie Wonder did a good impersonation of his voice to show him how to do it.
Stevie Wonder at one stage trying to get a line of Swahili into the song. Caused much debate and one country singer walked out over it.
Talk about peer pressure as famous singers fluffed their lines and fretted over getting it right.
One of the production crew saying Diana Ross crying at the end as never wanted the night to end.
Worked through the whole night recording. Quincy Jones the producer on the way home said “those white boys brought it”.
Probably the only song to have been played on so many radio stations worldwide at the same time.
An interesting bit of music history.
miltonf at 3:41
Euro standards are killing the bike industry as manufacturers struggle to keep up with the moving goal posts. Fortunately now they are just releasing Rest of the World bikes and abandoning the Eurotrash.