Sure, then they can return to Saudi Arabia.
Open Thread – Weekend 3 Feb 2024
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- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
- The Sweetest Victory
- Open Thread – Weekend 9 November 2024
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Identity politics reaches it’s nadir after the US election: Democrats not sure whether to blame the misogyny of “black and…
Oh dear, it appears I’ve upset Anne Aly. I wrote to her last night and asked why she laughed at…
“Where people have their primary identity as something other than Australian.” So that makes Jewish-Australians sus, eh? What about: Christian-Australians…
I understand he takes some chemical supplements, too. Sorry, better clarify – the supplements taken by the bloke on the…
That is about the most that one can conclude about this, Vicki, unless one is a serious scholar of middle eastern politics, and even then perhaps clarity might not emerge.
Opinions would differ, things would be said by some to be unsaid and things said would be claimed to be false. It does all seem rather Byzantine and it is notably time dependent. What was so yesterday is not so now, and may change by tomorrow.
Still, we do try to keep up, with the Cat’s help. 🙂
Putin the comedian.
BOM Forecasting strikes again can’t get it right on the day – How in the Hell can they forecast 2050
Forecast for the rest of Sunday
Summary Max 32
Partly cloudy.Chance of any rain: 5%
Sydney area
Mostly sunny. Light winds becoming northeasterly 20 to 30 km/h in the middle of the day.
Fire Danger – Moderate
Sydney Observations 4 Feb 2024
High Temp °C time
31.0C 03:29pm
04/ 04:20pm 30.0C
Indigenous leader Lowitja O’Donoghue dies, aged 91
NT is a blight. Good riddance.
Not such a gay time in Melbourne:
Melbourne’s Midsumma Pride March has been marred after protesters clashed with Victoria Police’s pipe band.
More than 10,000 Victorians braved the sweltering heat for the annual pride march in St Kilda on Sunday in a show of support for the LGBTQIA community.
Towards the end of the parade, a Herald Sun photographer captured a small group of protesters clashing with Victoria Police’s pipe band on Fitzroy St.
Others in the crowd booed the protesters and uniformed police quickly broke up the clash.
One woman wearing a pig mask with red paint on it carried a banner that said: “VICPOL + SERCO QUEERS HATE YOU.”
Victoria Police has not yet confirmed if any arrests were made.
Queer rights activists, including a group called RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees, have previously disrupted Victoria Police’s participation in the parade and called for a boycott until they were banned from marching.
“Enough is Enough! Recognising the injustice, oppression, and institutionalised violence against marginalised groups is another aspect of queerness. There is NO pride in police, politicians, military, navy and other architects and profiteers of detention torture,” the group posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
Like this?
Enjoy. And look stylish at the same time.
There was not much of a wait for that.
I do hope the downstairs unit is unoccupied. Unless by lefties.
Oh, and I meant to say above, I have no idea what the toilet paper rolls on the balcony reference made about me by Johanna refers to. Some long lost and poorly comprehended comment perhaps? If so, I can’t recall it. Tossing around ‘loo paper is nothing somthing I normally do. Keeping those holders in two bathrooms full of paper is the best I an do. Have sometimes wondered with the pole type if I could play quoits with it, but only for a sec. They’ve got poor aerodynamics for that. 🙂
It’s so easy to place the blame solely on Israel but perhaps if not so Israelis, Jewish, Christian, Druze, Muslim etc could recount a story of family members robbed, injured murdered, driven from their homes by muslims, there would be far less fanaticism in Israel, a fanaticism that seems to be easily forgiven of muslims but unforgivable in “lambs to the slaughter’.
The land is an excuse, it’s just the current disguise being used by militant islam.
Perhaps Gaza and the West Bank can live in peace with Israel but it seems only possible if Hamas and “unwra schools’ are eliminated.
Hamas have it very clear that the welfare of Gazans is the responsibility of unwra, the time had come for it to be the responsibility of Gazans.
the 22 October 2023 NYT article where the hood ornament theft was mentioned
again Toyota’s View of the World Reality
https://www.toyota-gib.com/eng/vehicle-sales/models-by-usage.html
Thanks again, Oz! I love this website! How amazing that they still produce the 70 Series – that venerable truck for so many uses.
We loved our 80 Series Anniversary Landcruiser the most. An amazing vehicle which carried us safely many times across this continent. Our latest 200 Series, not as much – although it is still a hardy, trustworthy vehicle. We also love our old petrol/gas farm Toyota ute – which, after a recent head overhaul – is back to its incredible reliability on all terrains. We also have two amazing city cars – which stay in the city – but it is the Toyotas that we trust.
And yes, after the last laundry list she presented I did go back and read all of her original spray, which included some unknown bog roll saga. Shouldn’t have bothered.
Nothing else to see there but the usual.
Whilst looking for a suitable image to sum up my day, I came across this in my meme library.
Words cannot express my disgust at that fraudulent, anti-semitic pustule that is Greta Thunberg.
nothing somthing = not something
Gremlins at work again.
Euro emission standards
Bring back the bongo vans.
Its amazing how these “will save you money” things people seem to need to be compelled by regulation to uptake.
A great pictorial meme re Greta the Hypocritical One, Calli.
No idea, but the claim isn’t new.
Are you not “incentivised”?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/04/fuel-efficiency-standards-labor-unveils-proposal-highlighting-petrol-savings-of-1000-a-year-for-motorists
The Albanese government has unveiled its long-awaited plan for fuel efficiency standards for new cars while highlighting potential savings of $1,000 a year and predicting a Coalition-led scare campaign.
The proposed model, announced on Sunday, would place a yearly cap on the emissions output for new cars sold in Australia to incentivise carmakers to supply low- and zero-emissions vehicles and penalise companies that do not.
Piranah brothers government “they were lovely people, the best”
“Didnt they nail a table to your wifes head”
“Naaaah, they just incentivised her, didnt they love”?
You are missing the point, first the Obama administration, now the OBiden administration, have been operating with the clear intent of reducing or destroying US power.
Then they suddenly decide they need to “Do something!”, and then wonder why nothing works properly.
The great-grandparents of my half-Greek archaeologist friend in the UK were driven out of Turkey 1923’s ‘population exchange’ when all Greeks were violently expelled in a much nastier manner than Muslims were suggested to leave Greece. If she was Palestinian she could now be still called a refugee, living in Saffron Waldon and dreaming of Turkey. These long ago claims become ridiculous when applied to partitions made in historical and agreed circumstances in other eras.
Turdball times reports on stabbing murder of grandmother in brisbane:
Woman killed in front of granddaughter in random car park attack in Ipswich
No mention of course that the scumbag was a black african. The bug eyed premier hopes they throw the book at him. They will: the book of every concession possible given to shitheads like this.
Gruinaid/ governments – Trust the science!!!!
The Science:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point
Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every year, scientists have warned. Medical research is being compromised, drug development hindered and promising academic research jeopardised thanks to a global wave of sham science that is sweeping laboratories and universities.
Last year the annual number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. Most analysts believe the figure is only the tip of an iceberg of scientific fraud.
“The situation has become appalling,” said Professor Dorothy Bishop of Oxford University. “The level of publishing of fraudulent papers is creating serious problems for science. In many fields it is becoming difficult to build up a cumulative approach to a subject, because we lack a solid foundation of trustworthy findings. And it’s getting worse and worse.”
So why can’t people sue the commonwealth for importing people who attack you? Duty of care sort of thing. It wouldn’t surprise if the mean, small, canbra pubes have4 a bit of a giggle about this.
thefrollickingmole
Feb 4, 2024 4:39 PM
Euro emission standards
Bring back the bongo vans.
Its amazing how these “will save you money” things people seem to need to be compelled by regulation to uptake.
thefrollickingmole,
better than the Bonho Van and for you Vicki, Toyota should bring this to Australia
The Toyota IMV 0
Look at the 18 Pictures Gallery for Options – An Ideal Pickup for Australia
Toyota IMV 0 Release Date: A New Era of Affordable Pickup Trucks
By David Baker- January 21, 2024
Toyota, the Japanese automaker, has been making waves in the automotive industry with its latest offering, the IMV 0. The IMV 0 is a single-cab pickup concept that was presented on 14 December 2022 in Thailand.
It was designed and engineered by Toyota Daihatsu Engineering & Manufacturing (TDEM) in collaboration with Japanese and Australian engineering teams.
A Look at the Toyota IMV 0
The IMV 0 is based on the IMV platform, an automobile platform for SUVs, pickups/light trucks, and passenger cars from Toyota. The name “IMV” stands for “Innovative International Multi-purpose Vehicle”. It uses a ladder frame chassis construction.
The IMV 0 intends to fill in the low-cost space beneath the Hilux with a target starting price of $10,000. It made its debut at the 2023 Japan Mobility Show, wearing cool Land Cruiser 70 Series style.
Toyota IMV 0 Powertrain Options
Reports suggest that the IMV 0 will be offered with diesel, petrol, hybrid, and fully electric powertrains.
However, Toyota has yet to release detailed specifications. The exact powertrain specs have not been disclosed, but it is presumed that the IMV 0 will be fitted with the Hilux’s entry 2.0-liter 139-hp four-cylinder gas engine and a five-speed manual transmission.
It’s also speculated that the diesel will be the 2.4-liter 150-hp Hilux unit, but several engines are likely to be offered.
Toyota IMV 0 Release Date
The production version of the Toyota IMV 0 is anticipated to make its debut in 2024. It targets emerging markets with a price point below that of the HiLux.
The Japanese automaker introduced the series production IMV 0 as the new Hilux Champ customizable pickup truck for the equivalent of just US$13k.
Toyota IMV 0 Dimensions
The Toyota IMV 0 measures 5,300 mm (208.7 inches) long, 1,785 mm (70.3 inches) wide, and 1,740 mm (68.5 inches) tall. It has a wheelbase of 3,085 mm (121.5 inches).
Toyota IMV 0 Towing Capacity
Yes, the Toyota IMV 0 can tow, but Toyota hasn’t released formal towing and payload figures yet. However, it’s worth noting that the gasoline-powered Hilux, which shares the same platform with the IMV 0, can tow over 5,500 pounds.
Conclusion
The Toyota IMV 0 is a promising addition to the pickup truck market. With its affordable price point and versatile powertrain options, it is set to make a significant impact in emerging markets. As we await its official release in 2024, the anticipation continues to build for this innovative and cost-effective pickup truck.
Thanks for the link Old Ozzie- very interesting. No company is perfect but I hold Toyota in very high regard.
Me at 4:03
Interesting that seven people think that outright lies, slanders which I have rebutted, have a place here. No doubt there will be more to come too. There always are.
It clearly is the person not the content that is being downticked here. Which says quite a lot about the desire for truthfulness and reality here.
Or do you downtickers think my replies to slanderous statements are lying, untrue? If so, say so here. Now. Only cowards hide behind downticks. I would genuinely like to know who you are, and put some sort of psychology to your other statements here.
People murdered in Melb, Sydney and Brisbane thanks to canbra.
Pertinently, while a recent student at Notre Dame was taking her Counselling degree she was instructed not to cite papers older than two or three years. This in a highly regarded school.
So the papers that explore the seminal ideas of a field are dropped from citation, in favour of those that have been written by current lecturers, tutors and PhD students therefore more likely to have veered to the field’s groupthink.
Papers that include broader perspectives even three years old are overwhelmed by the field groupthink and are unlikely to even be noticed.
Lizzie, please ignore downtickers. If they were worth responding to they would speak.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Feb 1, 2024 – ISW Press
Download the PDF – 25 Pages
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 1, 2024
Key Takeaways:
. Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi presented an overarching strategy to seize the theater-wide initiative in Ukraine and retain it to facilitate
. Ukrainian battlefield victories despite Russia’s numerical advantages in manpower and materiel. Zaluzhnyi’s strategy aims to offset Ukraine’s existing challenges and pursue advantages over the Russian military through widespread technological innovation and adaptation.
. Ukrainian forces successfully struck and sunk a Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) vessel in the Black Sea near occupied Crimea on the night of January 31 to February 1.
. Russian milbloggers continued to voice frustrations about Russian forces’ continued tactical blunders during offensive operations in western Donetsk Oblast.
. The European Union (EU) unanimously approved a financial support package for Ukraine for 2024 – 2027.
. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Joseph Borrell stated that the European Union (EU) will not be able to send the promised one million shells to Ukraine by March 2024, but is planning to fulfill this promise by the end of 2024.
. Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov appointed another one of his children to a senior position in the Chechen government as of January 31.
. Russian forces recently made confirmed advances near Kupyansk, Avdiivka, and Donetsk City amid continued positional engagements along the entire line of contact on February 1.
. Turkish banks have reportedly started closing Russian companies’ accounts due to the threat of US secondary sanctions.
. Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted Russian plans to integrate occupied territories of Ukraine into Russia over the next six years.
Hey, if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing.
Okay:
vr, Milanese Risotto. What rice do you use? Don’t use Arboria, it takes too long to cook. Carnaroli is much better. Add the wine first till absorbed then add the stock slowly 1 cup at a time, not all at once. Don’t use that powdered parmesan cheese.
I like the concept and the shape appeals to me, it’s sort of a Landcruiser twin cab vibe.
But, i”m currently driving the 2.5 litre turbo auto Hilux twin cab and it is one of the most spineless motors on the planet. It makes the GWM Havel twin cab out of China with the 2 litre turbo look like a bullet.
I hate the damn thing, before this i had the Hilux 3.0 litre in manual and it was a great vehicle to drive, i can only hope they make a manual version because the automatic transmissions suck a donkey d!ck.
Bard Question – February 2024 miltary strategy in russia ukraine who is winning
Answer:
As of February 3, 2024, the war in Ukraine remains complex and fluid, with both sides employing evolving strategies and facing significant challenges. It’s difficult to definitively declare a winner, as victory can be subjective and depend on different metrics.
Here’s a breakdown of current observations and expert analyses:
Current Situation:
. Stalemate with potential for limited offensives: The war has transitioned to a prolonged phase of positional warfare, with neither side achieving significant territorial gains recently. Both sides are likely preparing for potential offensives in the spring.
. Ukraine prioritizes defense and innovation: Ukrainian forces seem focused on “active defense,” aiming to inflict casualties on Russian attackers while preserving their strength. They’re also emphasizing technological innovation to counteract Russia’s numerical advantages.
. Russia seeks incremental gains: Although Russia claims the “strategic initiative,” its advancements are slow and costly. Analysts predict they might aim for limited territorial gains in eastern Ukraine.
Challenges for both sides:
. Resource limitations: Both Ukraine and Russia face difficulties repelling major offensives due to limitations in manpower, ammunition, and equipment.
. Domestic pressures: Both countries grapple with internal concerns like public sentiment and potential economic strain due to the prolonged conflict.
. Uncertain future: Predictions for the war’s trajectory vary, with some expecting a stalemate and others anticipating potential escalations or breakthroughs in 2025.
Who’s winning?
. Difficult to define: Victory has different interpretations depending on goals.
. Focusing solely on territorial gains doesn’t provide a complete picture.
. Both sides endure high costs: Both nations have suffered immense human and economic losses, making a “winner” unclear.
. Global impact: The war’s effects extend far beyond the battlefield, impacting global energy and food security.
Reliable Sources:
. Institute for the Study of War: https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ukraine-conflict-updates-ctp-isw
. Security Council Report: https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2024-02/ukraine-25.php
. Stratfor: https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/bracing-protracted-war-ukraine-ukraines-challenge-2024-and-beyond
Remember, the situation is constantly evolving.
It’s crucial to consult reliable sources for the latest developments and avoid oversimplifying a complex conflict.
she was instructed not to cite papers older than two or three years.
The longer more classic version.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
If that’s in Sydney then I am horrified. I’d suggested that degree to my 20 year-old grandson, thinking Notre Dame might give him a good unbiased grounding, but clearly it is fully woke captured.
No discipline can ignore its original papers and the developments that followed on from these. This doesn’t mean an uncritical acceptance of the parameters of the past, for paradigm shifts can be important, but not acknowleding the foundations and shifts leads into the dangerous territory of current ungrounded fashions that feed only on each other, unaware of the wealth of past explorations that might still bear fruit.
The powdered stuff is ok if you are on a budget, but the shaved parmisan from the block of cheese is next level for taste.
I do love my stinky cheese.
PS – If anyone doesn’t like blue cheese you are a heathen.
Well noted, Mole.
Frolics, I knew a guy with a Bongo Van that had a mid engine 6 cylinder Ford in it. Go like the clappers.
Mother Lode
Feb 4, 2024 5:09 PM
“Indigenous leader Lowitja O’Donoghue dies, aged 91”
I have a bit to say for her and none of it without love and respect…
Aewsome headline.
“Woman in leather lingerie is arrested as she allegedly ploughs into an e-bike rider – leaving him in a serious condition”
MAFS escapee?
Cream blue cheese after dinner is my downfall. Don’t buy it, I say to Hairy.
Why didn’t you buy some? I wail as the evening settles into the TV.
Poor Johanna. She simply doesn’t comprehend this level of discourse between an old married pair. Harassment, dominance, henpecking. She. Is. So. Wrong.
GreyRanga, I had the Risotto in Milan last night.
From TE’s link at 4.30:
I am absolutely down with this. Queerness! In all its aspects!
Queers and the advocates of queers should rule. It’s that simple. Just a few details to be ironed out:
1. No military, no navy (I note no mention of Ronnie RAAF, who are queers by default). No jacks. No profiteers of detention torture;
2. In the interests of strategic/dynastic goals, and to make sure this isn’t just a flash in the pan, then the Queerulers must ensure a constant supply of further queers, or people designated as queers;
3. Therefore, all non-queers (henceforth known as ‘breeders’) should be contained in a series of areas away from queers, lest they pollute the queerulers;
4. All breeder offspring must be handed over to the queerulers at four years of age to ensure appropriate indoctrination/education, and the breeders must not be permitted opportunities to attempt to change future queers’ mindsets;
5. There should be CamPs to hold the breeders (both free range and battery) – see point (3); and
6. Under no circumstances should they be DeaTh CamPs – UNLESS teh Breeders SpeaK Out, in which case Gas Pipes to Teh CamPs should be AuthoriSed with Standing.
It’s pretty straightforward. Show those breeders what’s what.
“GreyRanga
Feb 4, 2024 5:13 PM
vr, Milanese Risotto. What rice do you use? Don’t use Arboria, it takes too long to cook. Carnaroli is much better. Add the wine first till absorbed then add the stock slowly 1 cup at a time, not all at once. Don’t use that powdered parmesan cheese.”
Also, you must use marrow fat to saute the onions, and use the best saffron you can afford. Milanese is beautiful in its simplicity, but you have to use quality ingredients, particularly the stock. As ranga says, Carnaroli is the best.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point
This is one of the biggest stories afoot. Yet you won’t see it in the general MSM or on talk TV shows.
What can you trust in relation to medical research when “prestigious” journals publish medical research that is fraudulent and/or financed by pharmaceutical companies? Many here will argue that this is nothing new – & that is right. But when it is admitted by The Guardian – it cant be seen as a “conservative” or “conspiracy theory”.
I have seen these accusations often in the last few years – especially as the attempts to silence respected epidemiologists and virologists in matters affecting Covid19 have intensified in the last few years.
The controversy in respect to cholesterol levels and responsibility for cardiac problems, the prescription of Statins to the exclusion of all else etc etc, have been central to the accusations of false research publications.
It goes without saying that “Climate Change” has inspired a lot of rising careerists.
Russia’s latest weapons are clearly superior to NATO weapons! Putin, Russia, Ukraine
I don’t think it would be wise for him to test that in a real shooting war where the west bring their real weapons…
Spent the day in the Upper Goulburn valley. Seymour to Tallarook up the back road to Trawool then up through Yea back for Picnic lunch around Hughes ck. Lovely day for it and as green as. Summer, what summer.
Oky doc now for the irritating stuff, a lot of WTF 80 zones. The clean up from the storm that left deadfall everywhere & flooding done to minimal levels.
Heard some home truths about the flooding in 2022 that was a carbon copy of Brisbane later Townsville in 2019, GV water instead of running down Eildon gradually they held on to it till it was too late. Result 6m of water dumped into the Goulburn when the feeder tributaries were already in flood and the surrounding ground saturated. Raw nerve for some still.
This one was out of left field and sounds tin foilish. Apparently Arabs have moved into the wrecking business, they are buying up yards or burning out rivals like tobaconists accoding to the anecdote. Only thing I could think of is would be a good way of moving chop shop parts and laundering money.
Bolton, you are an oleaginous, anfractuous arsewipe who makes decent people puke. Foad.
Also, you must use marrow fat to saute the onions, and use the best saffron you can afford. Milanese is beautiful in its simplicity, but you have to use quality ingredients, particularly the stock. As ranga says, Carnaroli is the best.
Yes.
“vr
Feb 4, 2024 5:28 PM
GreyRanga, I had the Risotto in Milan last night.”
vr,
shame it wasn’t up to scratch. I have never been to Italy, but I grew up with lots of Italians. Their Milanese was great.
Or do you downtickers think my replies to slanderous statements are lying, untrue? If so, say so here. Now. Only cowards hide behind downticks. I would genuinely like to know who you are, and put some sort of psychology to your other statements here.
Let it go, Lizzie. There is no joy in pursuing it.
At Agur – easily procured from Harris Farms. It actually looks greenish blue. Creamier than other blue cheeses and less crumbly. Smeared onto fresh bread crust and accompanied by crisp chardonnay – let the wine mingle with the layer of cheese that builds up on you pallet, let the acid and fat interact – heavenly.
Quite so, Chris. It’s clear they are just a cheer squad for a sad and lonely old woman who has nothing better to do than makeup untruthful stories about a happy and not lonely old woman. I think they also do it to encourage this lonely and bitter soul to keep on trucking with it, because they think it enlivens this place.
It doesn’t. It gets her rightly called the Queanbeyan Cow. All she has to do is stop doing it. Seems the temptation to be a Cow, get told off by me for her lies because I cannot let them stand (no sane person would), and sit back and watch the downticking piggies root around my response is too great. The downtickers have that on their conscience. They are encouraging a mental case.
Yes Dover found the quote as I linked.
I’m not putting the blame on what is happening in Gaza Israel on ‘Israeli settlers’
After all as far as Gazans are concerned all Israelis are ‘settlers’, and all Israeli muslims are collaborators.
Hamas still hold three Israeli muslims as hostages.
As for ME politics, it’s a never-ending swirl of competing Islamists.
Gaza alone has at least five different terror groups.
marrow fat
I love bone marrow fat. I remember my grandmother had those special spoons to extract the unctuous marrow from the bone. I’ve often wondered whatever happened t those spoons.
I think she also used to make pastry with marrow fat.
You are right, of course, Vicki. Downtickers are an unknown quantity.
But personal slanders on a public site are slanders. I will correct those.
Lizzie.
Gorgonzola … Maximum Yummmmmmmmm,
If only it could happen to John Oliver.
Chris, I would appreciate if you would point me to a link re this statement.
No love for Ligurian cuisine???
LOL.
Pogria,
It was a reasonably nice restaurant near the Duomo (next to the Apple Store) that had a menu in English. That could be the problem. A tourist trap.
That is a strategy designed to boost the citation count for the current mob in academia. It will give the impression that the current mob are the ones who generated the new ideas in the field. A degree in counselling is nonsense. I love to see the course work justifying 3 years full time study in counselling. All this is credentialism on stilts. Another indicator of how corrupt and bereft of intellectual integrity modern education has become.
I really would like to see a genuine ginger group arise around the spurious ‘science’ that is being published, and the political promotion of it, with regard to matters climatic.
So often people object to renewables and move on to ‘nuclear’ with a tacit acceptance still that CO2 is ‘a problem’. That is an unproven hypothesis which needs to be challenged,
I’m trying to imagine being subject to so few personal slanders on this site that correcting each of them is a viable proposition.
I agree about ignoring the down ticks. It’s advice I should also heed, but we women, even the kittens here, as strong as we are and as opinionated as we are, are a tad different to the men here. We are a little more sensitive and emotional about some thing. But you’re right, I too should ignore the down ticks.
However, Lizzie has a right to defend herself against the unhinged abuse from the Queanbeyan resident. And I’ll defend Lizzie too. I know it gets her down. The Queanbeyan resident’s abuse is incessant and it starts for no reason. As mentioned earlier, Lizzie came here today, posted innocuous comments about her son and his electricity bills etc, and then the Queanbeyan resident started with her unhinged anti-Lizzie shtick. There was no reason for it, enough!
It goes without saying that “Climate Change” has inspired a lot of rising careerists.
If you can build entire university departments and government agencies from quackery, why stop there?
Hockey stick Mann come on down…
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2019-8-26-michael-mann-hockey-stick-update-now-definitively-proven-to-be-fraud
The story of Ball’s vindication, and of Mann’s shame, is a somewhat long one, and turns on Mann’s flat refusal to share publicly the data and methodology by which he constructed the Hockey Stick graph. In about 2003 a very talented Canadian mathematician named Steve McIntyre began an effort to replicate the Mann/Bradley/Hughes work. McIntyre started with a request to Mann to provide the underlying data and methodologies (computer programming) that generated the graph. To his surprise, McIntyre was met not with prompt compliance (which would be the sine qua non of actual science) but rather with hostility and evasion. McIntyre started a blog called Climate Audit and began writing lengthy posts about his extensive and unsuccessful efforts to reconstruct the Hockey Stick. Although McIntyre never completely succeeded in perfectly reconstructing the Hockey Stick, over time he gradually established that Mann et al. had adopted a complex methodology that selectively emphasized certain temperature proxies over others in order to reverse-engineer the “shaft” of the stick to get a pre-determined desired outcome.
Indeed, John. I put it forward as an alternative to a ‘communication’ degree in a totally ‘woke’ faculty. He had set his mind upon ‘gaining’ a degree to prove something to himself. A laudable aim, but hard to execute in a modern university.
I had thought that at Notre Dame counselling might have a decent sort of background in traditional social sciences. Not so, it seems.
Then be ready to be conveyed to the sunlit uplands of an ALPBC free universe, Squire. 🙂
Thanks, Cassie. All true. 🙂
ps. I did get a few helpful hints from here about that electricity bill too. 🙂
Dover
Let me get this right.
You’re being somewhat cagey.
Is your point overall that Iran has cleverly turned much of the Mid East to their side in a few short years/months?
I’m not putting the blame on what is happening in Gaza Israel on ‘Israeli settlers’
Indeed, besides, when it comes to Gaza, the “settlers” pulled out in 2005.
And even if every settlement was disbanded tomorrow on the West Bank or as I prefer to call it, Judea and Samaria, and if every settler left Judea and Samaria for Israel pre-1967 borders, the hatred of Israel and Jews would continue along with the desire to eliminate the state of Israel. They are not interested in 1967 borders, they mean the destruction of 1948 borders. When Palestinians talk about Judenfrei, they mean from the river to the sea.
No, I’m making a different point; namely, that Iran is stronger than it was 20 or more years ago, that it isn’t as isolated as it once was, that it now has strategic interests that are similar to those of other regional powers, and that the US is in relatively weaker position than it once was.
I’d also add that blaming this simply on the Dems is unfair to the Republicans who arguably did more to bring this circumstance about than the Dems. Credit where credit is due.
Are we going to see the Muslim MENA split into Eastern Shia and Western Sunni?
Bons
Anywhere to find the riding candidates for the council elections? ECQ website is beyond pathetic and I can’t even find whose challenging the nast bint in my riding. Also anything MSM is paywalled then anyone I do find, their Linkedin profile is semi private.
As if they don’t want you to know who you could be voting for…
As for Townsville looks like the nasty corrupt ALP bint of a mayor will win another undeserved term. Only viable rival Fran O’Callighan has bowed out on health grounds, didn’t help PHON put a spoiler which would have torpedoed Frans campaign. Guess my mayoral vote will be invalid this year.
You may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful woife
And you may ask yourself
Well, how did I get here, I asks ya? 😕
I don’t agree with the sort of slanders you have had to face, Sal, though again, so many get them from the one source that supporting just one person is also not such a ‘viable’ proposition.
You have always fielded them well though.
If you need more support then perhaps we should offer more:
JC, give Sal and others a break. I don’t know which one you mean by your pet names, I totally lose track, but they all seem like good guys to me.
How’s that?
Steppin’ out … 🙂
Iran’s military spending has been steady at at 2.5% of GDP. US military spending has been around 3.5%.
Where are you getting this “relatively stronger” and “relatively weaker” stuff from?
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=US-IR
Time to visit my handy library for useful calliCards.
Card 1
Card 2
I reserve the right to be amused by obsessive behaviour. It’s all I have left once the astonishment wore off.
For some good ol’ special emphasis, Cats! 🙂
35c predicted by BoM today. As if that wasn’t terrifying enough, temp peaked at 40.
40! I tells ya! (H/T Rabz.) And no accurate warning. We all could have died, or at least, been seriously uncomfortable. No-one told me to stay out of the sun, or have a drink or anything safety like.
Tell ya what, if I’d died today from the boiling heat I woulda hauled BoM up to the highest court in the land. Dereliction of Duty of Care, that’s what it was. It better not happen again.
BTW, while writing this, temp has plummeted to 27c. Low 20s predicted for the week. That’s what I expect from my BoM.
For the censorious oenological downticker – I was unable to get my fave so went with a Deutz NV. Note the despite the name it is actually in the Ay area of champagne.
I was at one point directed toward a Blanc de Blanc but, truthfully, I miss the flavour of the Pinot Noir and (I must suppose since it is an NV) the Pinot Meunier.
Hope this compromise of enjoyment grants you some small whit of solace in your endless soul-draining loathing of yourself.
I shall drink a bubbly while it does.
Lode, are you short, elliptical and wear overalls with a monocular dive mask?
You sound just like Card 1.
😀
Both! The Battle of Norfolk was an example of what happened in the real world when Western combat power met Soviet era equipment. Breathtaking.
On the other hand the Z War is like WW1 and WW2, it is a hothouse of military technical advances. Remarkable progress in the production and use of drones. We’ve seen a little of that already seep into the Red Sea situation…it is now bleeding obvious that we could not dare send a RAN ship there, so outclassed we are.
The rate of advance in such conflicts is amazing. WW1 saw aeroplanes go from glorified paper kites to aluminium monoplanes, and from horses to tanks. WW2 saw advances from biplanes to nuclear weapons in a similar timeframe. The Z War is doing something similar for Russia and Iran. It will be interesting, and probably very challenging, what comes out of this hothouse developmental cycle.
ehem … love youse all
Oh yea, the vulnerable narcissistic shows up with his vulnerable narcissism playing the victim.
Numerous Dago comments, slanderous comments towards family, recently a wifebeating accusation eagerly adopted from the sites Glen Close (out of Fatal Attraction). The faux publican playing the victim.
Delts – 27 degrees yesterday, which came with a “terrible heat” warning on the iphone weather app.
31 degrees today, which courtesy of my wondrous air conditioning was not even remotely experienced. Although the washing did dry very quickly. 🙂
But you’re right, I too should ignore the down ticks.
Look at them as a badge of honour.
Simply view them as you, along with others of us, living in some moron’s head and that should give you rise to rejoice. The idiot/s waste their day reading things they don’t agree with or believe they are striking back at someone who outsmarted them in the past and try to get a high by down ticking for no reason except to stoke their own insecurity…
You win big time when you ignore them…
Please Please People .. just continue to do what you do .. it is delicious … like running your finger over an old piece of furniture you plan on chucking in the skip… just trhis one last time ..
Alan Bennet … Harold Pinter …both have done thier run … but you guys are keeping the flame alive .. mocking the leafy suburbs …
Oh and a certain other name is well loved and much missssd Barry Humpfiesssss …
You guys are all just so Sandy Stone …. and I love you for it …
The original well spring has dried up but you guys keep the fluid flowing …
Please never stop being You ..
Iran is still flying F14’s that were sold to Iran when the Shah was in power. The USA scrapped all the boneyard stored F14s to ensure spare parts could not be salvaged from those units. Iran is acquiring Russian Su-35s, very good aircraft, but will only have a handful of them. Militarily the USA is stronger now than in previous decades, mostly because of very substantial increases in hardware capability. It would be foolish to commence an invasion of Iran and not worth it.
Politically the USA is weaker, perhaps Iran is stronger, but militarily the USA is more powerful now than it has ever been.
Which now all vote for the teal bimbeciles.
champagne is only good for cooking
Bolton, being a pretentious poof and a crass cretin is a horrible combination.
Cassie,
roasted marrow bone, scooped out and spread onto lightly buttered, seeded Rye toast. Salt and pepper only, with a few drops of freshly squeezed lemon juice. 😀
As for the downdicks, the personal abuse, the generally made-up lies from saddos with hemorrhoids, sticks and stones etc. If anyone needs a little extra, I have always liked this;
“: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them.”
cheers!
H/T Michael Smith News
Masters of the Air, Episode 3 Review:
Schweinfurt had a lengthy special mention. Cap’n Queeg’s balls being all important, until they weren’t.
And they’re now in the middle of Algeria. Which is presumably no longer under the rule of Vichy.
FFS, just bring on the Merlin powered P51s.
Unsurpassed in their many roles:
Bomber escorts
Fighter Bombers
Fighters
Ground attack
Until encountering the Bibi in the skies over Romania …
Sorry, Spitfires, but enough.
@Rabz
Feb 4, 2024 6:27 PM
I always vote One Nation and, down ticket vote for someone that seems to have a clue …
Parched earth though it seems ..
I assume you are saying while cooking, not in.
This is an outrageous lie, for which you will suffer an eternity of bundaberg rum.
But anyway I didnt mean to involve myself in this discussion …
Just had to give two thumbs up for perfect parody …
Please continue …
the otto and diesel cycles haven’t changed and nor will they
a truck with a smaller donk doing the same amount of work as a truck with a larger donk will use that same amount of fuel
more or less
but the real point is that a truck with the smaller donk cannot do the same job as the truck with the bigger donk.
US ’24 won’t be fighting US ’91, it will be fighting an adversary from ’24. And their is simply now way that the US in ’24 enjoys the superiority over its opponents that it did during the ’90s.
People will be happy to know Aussie bogans and Corsican bogans have much in common, women with tattoos between ear and eye, as well as everywhese visible, necks, back of hands, and who are in their thirties and forties.
The Corsican separatist party have been busy with graffiti, they have a martyr a Mr Columna who was killed in prison after being jailed for the murder of a local politician.
Much ‘FLNC’ (national liberation front of Corsica), they must have watched Life of Brian and ‘IFF’ graffiti, IFF means French Go Home, apparently eight holiday homes and a camp-site have been vandalised.
The tourism that sustains the island economy is of no value to the liberation front.
The locals will buy all the €8 150gram jars of honey.
the French of course are mostly understanding, I too am sitting on Rue Napoleon sipping a coffee, but have so little French blood, the graffiti could not apply to me.
The title puzzles me because the bombers were not masters of the air and if not for the escorts the bombing raids would have ceased.
I’m not impressed by this series. The theme has been done too many times.
World’s most liveable city in a nutshell. You don’t have to be queer to hate VicPlod and Serco.
Remarkable progress in the production and use of drones.
The swarm attack by suicide craft/water drones on the Russian ship would have a few freckles twitching at Admiralty all over the world.
Probably ineffective against a group of ships such as the carrier task force, but can you imagine the RAN ship HMAS Elbow steaming along somewhere by itself suddenly beset by a dozen aerial drones and another 20 or so little explosive speedboat versions?
On another tangent, how would any potential invasion of Taiwan look if your landing craft might cop the same swarm tactics?
Anneliese Nielsen on Sky News:
“The remaining sections of Trump’s border wall have done nothing to stem the flow of migrants …”
Sack her now.
World’s most liveable city
those days long gone Bear, I’m sad to say. Thanks to canbra. People say it was in the 90s.
@dover0beach
Feb 4, 2024 6:47 PM
As to your good self I have the greatest of respect… I have never once seen you post anything but plain good sense and diligent research …
Well done that Chap !!
Nobody let the grigglebot click on this link,.
Im off to get the greens to ban its extraction, for the children…
“The remaining sections of Trump’s border wall have done nothing to stem the flow of migrants …”
just shows what a steaming trash heap the 21st century meja is. Poison, spite filled mediocrities. People subscribe to this shite?
Years ago I was making Entrecote Bordelaise for some friends. When the butcher asked me what I was cooking with the bone marrow, he gave it to me. Said he appreciated it as he just about never sold it. We’ve lost so much coz we’re in to much of a hurry.
Anyway, why do we need to Australian uni trained marxist to tell us what going on in the US? The internet allows us to go direct to the country of interest.
Of course they do Cassie.
Everything else is a figleaf.
… bring it
So I caught the good bits? I’m not sure I would’ve gone that far but I was happy enough with my time in Melbournibad. A few big Friday nights along Collins St, the Paris end naturally.
Protesting a pipe band at a gay pride march?
Wife finally home. Uncle has traced family back to the 1400’s. French. I love French women.
Hence my frustration with the delayed introduction of the P51s, which truly were the game changer.
Until late ’43 the Allied bomber crews were massacred in unprecedented numbers, which presumably this series is trying to do justice to.
Are you just being deliberately stupid, Liz? This is the pos that has joined any pile-on attempt against me and then calls himself slandered. Have you bothered to watch this bush pig in action?
If you want to play that tilted game then why don’t you give Johanna a break because nearly every occasion faux pub owner starts with me or plays Tonto to the Turtlehead.? 🙂
blow into this bag, sir
Bomber County
Military might will not save a country. When a country, a society, a culture has lost its purpose and hates itself, all the tanks, guns and armies in the world will not save that country from collapse.
The West is crumbling before our eyes because it has lost its belief in itself, it has lost its moral spine and it doesn’t believe in anything anymore.
The stormtroopers are on the streets spruiking for Hamas and rape, Jew hunting is now de rigour on the left, and commissars infest our corporations ready to report our thought crimes. 1984 is here. Orwell was right, but he should have titled his book…..2024.
Speaking of Old Fashioned virtues , humility in conjectue and good manners , was one I was embuded with and still clasp hard. I have never sworn at any of you ..called you filthy names .. to me it just isnt a thing ..
but apparently we share different values .
Their kilts may have been mismatched.
Carpe Jugulum at 5:13 – you would never accuse the original RAV4 of being overpowered. Could break traction (understeer naturally) in the first rain after 3 or 4 months of a Perth summer.
Which can be turned around to show the other side you missed.
An adversary won’t be fighting US 91, it will be fighting the US 24.
No way? How is that possible if the US has been spending a higher basis of GDP and a much, much higher multiple than Iran since 91?
Sour old man yells at cloud. 😀
pleats to the rear
Boiled bunny scene in Fatal Attraction.
Blondes fight back!
Where are the enemies lining up to attack the USA? The USA doesn’t need the numerical superiority of yesteryear because qualitatively it has made huge leaps forward. Compare the modern missile capabilities on land, air, and sea to 30 years ago. Much longer range, much more accurate targeting, better spoof protection. Compare the super hornet to the 18c. Or even more starkly the F15E to the F15EX.
Qualitatively the USA hardware is at 20 years ahead of European countries and moreso for Russia and the rest. Iran is still flying F5s, F4es, and F14s. All these the USA abandoned last century. Iran is so militarily weak several years ago it made a laughably clumsy attempt to show off its “stealth fighter”. Its submarines wouldn’t even get a single torpedo off, its navy is for shite, its main strength is on the land but the USA won’t there.
Thanks Bird. Coming from you it means a lot. How’s your Dad?
thefrollickingmole
Feb 4, 2024 5:55 PM
It goes without saying that “Climate Change” has inspired a lot of rising careerists.
If you can build entire university departments and government agencies from quackery, why stop there?
Hockey stick Mann come on down…
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2019-8-26-michael-mann-hockey-stick-update-now-definitively-proven-to-be-fraud
Mann is a fraud as is his Hockeystick which purports to show unusual modern temps compared to temps over the last 2000 years. The 2000 year record is based on tree rings or varves. The leading expert on varves was a guy called Tiljander.
When Tiljander did the study on the varves, they were interpreted as :-
Thin varve = warm temperatures
Thick varve = cold temperatures
When Mann used the Tiljander data, he changed the scale so it became:-
Thin varves = cold temperatures
Thick varves = warm temperatures
This is equivalent to taking a thermometer and interpreting 100C = freezing and 0C = boiling. A nonsense interpretation of the physical properties of the data.
He did this because, in modern times, the data was compromised by human activities which increased the amount of sediment in the lakes. This produced thick varves which, coincidentally, correlated well with temperature. Mann therefore seized on the correlation to make the assumption that thick varves must represent temperature. An assumption that he would have noticed was clearly incorrect if he had bothered to read the work done by Tiljander.
After Mann had flipped the scale, he then flipped both the data and the scale so down became up. This didn’t correct the fact that the scale was wrong to begin with.
What I always loved about this song (apart from it being a flawless work of art) was the mystery about the central figure – who was clearly not to be messed with.
The foreboding …
There is a very entertaining German fighter pilot diary, I Flew for the Fuhrer. Knoke went up against the bombers and escorts, together with a couple of mates devised a means of bombing bombers with delayed fuse bombs dropped into the bomber squadron. He was very lucky, shot down a number of times but survived, ironically his most serious injury was from a bomb that exploded under a car. It was written through the course of the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Knoke
Hey I managed to find it still on sale:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/i-flew-for-the-fuhrer-heinz-knoke/book/9781784386023.html
If you want a more honest and exciting account of what happened over the skies of Germany I can recommend it.
I didnt know Dot was in legal trouble.
To wit, the Stupid Frigging Liberals.
Good luck with the Wets, Mr Potato Head.
I think I solved the attack on the pipe band.
The request was the Gay Gordons, and they played Barren Rocks of Aden.
How we could ever forget blond Glen Close (blond) “fighting back” in the final scene.
The Battle of Norfolk was an example of what happened in the real world when Western combat power met Soviet era equipment. Breathtaking.
If the ego of George H Bush didn’t get in the way with his “look at me, look at me” moment and his 100 hour war fixation the Yanks could have driven that advantage all the way to Baghdad and the second Iraq war would have been negated entirely…
JC, give Sal and others a break. I don’t know which one you mean by your pet names, I totally lose track, but they all seem like good guys to me.
How’s that?
Nice comment. but somehow I don’t think that it will work.
vr
Feb 4, 2024 5:50 PM
Pogria,
It was a reasonably nice restaurant near the Duomo (next to the Apple Store) that had a menu in English. That could be the problem. A tourist trap.
vr,
my son’s Milan Flat is Via Amerigo Vespucci
We were there end May first 2 weeks June 203 we went to some nice restaurants around the area
https://www.google.com.au/maps/search/restaurants+around+via+mericgo+vespicci/@45.4805188,9.1914559,16.23z?entry=ttu
https://www.volemosebenemilano.it
Some great Gelati places too
GROM – Piazza Gae Aulenti, 20124 Milano MI, Italy
The Bungonia Bee
Feb 4, 2024 6:51 PM
Anneliese Nielsen on Sky News:
“The remaining sections of Trump’s border wall have done nothing to stem the flow of migrants …”
Sack her now.
Yeah, she’s a kunt.
Hey, the Swiftette!
This is how it’s done … 🙂
Looks like a “Jingle Ute” in waiting.
Anyone educated at a Scotch college finds bagpipes very triggering.
I see the BBQ* at Bolton’s address continues apace.
*Glass barbie.
There’ll be a few Green Mile references coming up shortly, mark my words.
Yeah, she’s a kunt.
A pretty one.
The whole edifice tumbles down when the reviewers undertaking the peer review process are either prepared to lie to push a certain ideology or are negligent and only give submitted papers a cursory look. Both of these possibilities were shown to be in play, particularly the negligence, when obviously stupid papers were submitted a few years ago and given a tick to publish. The writers of the spoof articles made quite a stir about it yet nothing seems to have changed since then.
Cats, she did inspire me to invent the portmanteau, “bimbecile”, so she’s not entirely useless. 🙂
Questions for the broader milieu:
How many ‘shop stewards’ always voted for One Nation?
Because Bolton said he used to be a said steward, and didn’t care about The Man, and yet always voted for ON. Apparently.
Enquiring minds, etc.
Joe Hildebrand on the Sunday Showdown tries to look conservative or “right wing” by saying kill all the sharks, but has a head explosion when Liz Storer wants MPs to own up to having been bankrupt, if they have been.
Queensland Police want these 4 black African-looking men over homicide of Ipswich grandmother
Sunday, 04 February 2024
Queensland Police
@QldPolice
Detectives from Ipswich and the Homicide Investigation Unit investigating the homicide of a 70-year-old woman at Redbank Plains overnight have released vision of four persons of interest, as investigations continue.
Gosh.
Now I’m offended.
You claimed Malcolm Fraser encouraged the set-up of a Datsun 180B LPG manufacturing plant in Australia.
I asked for a reference.
It would seem there isn’t one.
The closest thing we can establish is that there were a few LPG conversions of imported petrol cars, but I doubt it was many, given the 180B was relatively fuel efficient at the time, and no-one would have been very keen to take up 93.1% of the small boot for an LPG tank.
I am sure you are right. 98.2% of all the best ideas are not new, and usually there is a good OLD paper that states it in a clear form. New papers seem to take earlier ideas and assume into them baggage, halo of adjacent ideas, or criticisms that others have added; but not document those very well.
One thing in its favour is that if trash has been revealed it is not propagated.
The lecturers were not academic lightweights; as far as I saw they were practitioners of some regard. I think this reflects the wider practice of the university.
I have all the cynicism and thin skin about modern unis you would expect.
I saw and read the work. I got the feedback from the labs and pracs. I saw the training in multiple therapeutic approaches pay off in clarity of thought, tact of intervention and well-developed ethical behaviours. The personal growth was not accidental, but created by effective teaching including participating in counselling on both sides, role plays and pracs in the field.
My contact topped the course.
I have been to non-directive psychologists and consulted counsellors, and I can say that this person is very effective, many times the benefit of the psychs I have worked with. Just from association, I have derived considerable growth too.
The school started by filtering out the usual youngsters who at normal unis go into Psych 100. The people selected into this course were mature; a few even with histories of substance abuse, or past trauma. There is no doubt in my mind that it would be a growth experience but of course doing a lot of work is how the student gets the benefit.
Sorry P, I got it verbally because I proofread most of her assignments. I had asked what were the key early papers for referencing assertions that clearly reflected family therapy ideas we had read 20-odd years earlier!
Dinosaurs like sky seem to be stuck in the 90s.
I abhor mouldy cheese.
It tastes like – mouldy cheese.
And that runny cheese tastes worse.
The ONLY real cheese is Kraft Cheddar, and comes in wrapped and sliced packs.
Discuss.
I am confused. Wasn’t the leader from Arnhem land / Garma the best leader Australia ever had?
From the Oz.
“Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG, who led the negotiations that established Australia’s native title laws, was “our greatest leader of the modern era”, Noel Pearson said on Sunday”
‘Covid changed EVERYTHING’ – ‘Stockpiled absurdity was pushed like knock-off watches!’ | Neil Oliver
Cassie, they became parfait spoons as God intended before they were abused as marrow fat extractors.
How many ‘shop stewards’ always voted for One Nation?
What’s that old saying…..”as rare as hen’s teeth”.
Joe goes on next to say he knows at least four people who went trans, implying that there’s a real problem to be addressed, but that in other cases it may be the teenage years that create confusion. Really?
The trans craze is part of the left’s agendum to break down the family and ultimately western civilisation.
Iran is stronger today because the Obama admin allowed it to flourish and even aided it. The McConnell wing of the Republican Party is just as culpable as they did nothing about it while at the same time they made it difficult for Trump to correct the previous policy. Since Biden is a semi-vegetable the people pulling stings are all old Obama officials and therefore the current pulling of punches by the US military. The US still has overwhelming military power, they are just not using it.
Fatal Attraction references. Lol!
I’d wager all your school report cards stated, “Jacksy must try harder.”
It probably the al-Gore-ithim but I had an ad pop up for chatGP with a “we will populate your references” for academic papers.
More freckle twitching in the halls of higher academia, it appears possible that the finding of uncredited references can be at least semi automated.
Two things to check.
1. Is he running a grow house:
2. Has he got a couple of leads running into the house of his “new bestie” next door.
Not kidding.
That sort of power bill will eventually attract a knock on the door.
JC, I really like you, I’ve come to appreciate you greatly over the years, but I also like those you don’t. Seems a bit sad, really, and I wish we could all get along better. That’s all.
As for Johanna, I’ve previously offered to meet her IRL to discuss her antagonisms to me, without me having to say who and what I am here, so that’s a pretty big break, but she’s happy as she is. People happy as they are should accept the consequences of that. That’s just a fact of life. Some call it karma. 🙂
Meanwhile I have to get the dinner going. And then we can escape from all cares and watch episode 4 of the new series of Belgravia on Netflix. Johanna can read some more Wodehouse, and liking Wodehouse means she can’t be all bad. No-one is, imho.
I suspect it is seven years of accumulating debt. But I will certainly get the provider to check the fuse box and meter. I don’t think this son has such a devious character, though when he’s sailing it’s always with a high wind. Time will tell.
Thank you for your reply Chris.
Yup.
Alternatively, and dependent on whether he’s living in a house or a unit, he may well have had his power diverted by others to next door for one of the aforementioned grow houses.
However – if your kid is gullible in absolutely any way, shape or form it is likely to be options 1 or 2 above, because the single heater is not going to rack up a $10K bill on its own, regardless of whether he wants to wear shorts and singlets around the house in winter.
Especially if he’s already (supposedly) getting payments for an earlier bill garnished from the dole.
No offence.
I’ve been paying attention Rabz! Though mostly reading a book. That track is excellent and has been percolating in my hindbrain. This is what came out…
The Bureau – Only For Sheep (1981)
And yet the Iranians are making the US look weak. Either this is simply a matter of weakness of will on the part of the Dems, or its simply a recognition among those in the military apparatus that none of the options regarding a direct confrontation with Iran, given the circumstances, are pleasant however amazing the tech gap is between the US and the rest.
That was my first thought, second, which company allows you to run up a domestic bill like that without checking, nay, disconnecting even?
I wish mine would let me do it.
Cats – given the Dude‘s legendary antipathy towards the Eagles (man) one would not imagine that he’d be a fan of the Doobie Bruvvers …
“What a fool believes …
Eating cockroaches
can change the weather … !” 😕
Too tired to scroll up, so the usual apologies etc…
Amelia Earhart’s lost, wrecked plane possibly spotted by explorers in Pacific Ocean
This story interests me because her and Fred’s last landfall was Lae in the then Mandated Territory of New Guinea, an area which I find of great historical interest. (That area of Morobe Province in the 1930s was one of the most active for aerial transport in the world. It was these airfields – admittedly most small and in poor condition – that attracted the attention of the Japanese a few years later).
MatrixTransform
It makes a very nice ‘Spider”.*
*What we used to call a large glass of soft drink with a scoop of ice cream in it. Other states had different names.
Wrong Person
A husband was sitting with his wife while she sipped on her glass of wine, when she said, “I love you so much you know, I don’t know how I could ever live without you.” I said, “Is that you or the wine talking?” She said, “It’s me talking to the wine.”
By George, he’s got it!
With credits to My Fair Lady (IIRC).
I think the issue was that they were blowing not sucking.
Oh, sacré bleu – after all that monstrous hippee imbecilitee, Cats – let’s have some eighties disco weirdness, which will seem to be very normal. 🙂
Spider in Melbourne when I was young.
On Climate: “The Elites Have Flipped Worldviews” | Scott Tinker | EP 419
Although long, this interview is fascinating and touches on many many topics, including Greta, research and peer review, decent discussion of relative energy density etc
Liz
I’ve never asked you to take sides and feel free to mingle with whomever you want. You initiated a conversation with that worthless fraud by commiserating with his newest complaint that he’s a victim too, when in fact he tries to start stoushes, ends up leading with his stupid chin and then complains he’s a victim as a vulnerable narcissist would.
Like Woddenhead, (see the comment above) has only low IQ junk to say and is the first to start something up and then claim he’s a victim. Crooks and frauds. Don’t ever trust them.
The Dark Knight Rises. Shall be viewed again.
With reference to the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories.
Yes, during the latter parts of the season, the Chiefs did get some love by the refs.
But in the playoffs they beat the Bills fair & square.
And last weekend they beat the 3.5 point favourites Ravens, fair & square.
Both were away games.
The Chiefs are currently 2.5 point underdogs against the 49ers.
No point making predictions a week out as we need to see who’s injured etc.
The bigger issue is will Swift miss any of her Australian gigs.
It’s easy for her to get from Tokyo on the Saturday night to & Superbowl on the Sunday night in Vegas.
What’s harder is she then has to be in Melbourne on the Friday night, starting 3 stadium gigs back to back.
Then she has to be in Sydney the following Friday night, starting 4 stadium gigs back to back.
With all that extra travel, the Super Bowl partying, then the Australian tour, I reckon she’s going to get sick at some stage regardless of private jets & IV’s pumping her full of the good stuff.
I’d like to bet that either of her Melbourne shows gets bumped to the Monday or one of her Sydney shows gets bumped to the Tuesday.
champagne spider ?
…that is seriously classy
I agree.
Some more eighties stuff. Works pretty well with Frankie Goes To Hollywood!
The Members – Radio (1982)
US ’24 won’t be fighting US ’91, it will be fighting an adversary from ’24. And their is simply now way that the US in ’24 enjoys the superiority over its opponents that it did during the ’90s.
It us reasonable to suggest that nations have improved their military capacity over the last 30 years but comparatively the line has diverged in favour of the US. The F22, F35, F15 EX, long distance precision land sea and air launched missiles, B52 re-engine program, Autonomous air, sea, land and sub sea equipment developments, laser developments, autonomous swarm attack capability developments, Virginia submarine redesign, Ford Class aircraft carriers with enough power generation for laser defensive weapons, Ayrleigh
thefrollickingmole
Feb 4, 2024 6:51 PM
Interesting bit of speculation there, TFM.
“Battle” ships* as in what the US used during the latter part of WW2? Instead of an old Corvette or Destroyer, much of the superstructure removed and thousands of drones fired from the decks instead of rockets.
* Google doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish between Battleships and “Battle” ships, which could be anything down to a large barge with hundreds of rockets like Katyushas used for shore bombardment.
Our naval experts will know what I mean…
Arleigh Burke Flight lll is unmatched, the Virginia class submarines are unmatched and the work being done to upgrade them makes the space between them and adversaries wider.
Oh and all the GOP boosters saying there is a conspiracy theory, they really need to STFU.
Oh, Auto-corrupt changed to At Agur what was St Agur.
Funny. Retyping it just now attracted no offer to ‘correct’.
err, bern, you are some sort of swiftee?
WTF?
Pink and Bleu
“Miss Laydeee … “
If you think the Dems here are the problem you need to explain why they’ve thrown what they have into Ukraine, but have purportedly ‘soft-pedalled’ re Iran.
err, bern, you are some sort of swiftee?
He’s pissed again.
JohnH:
I have a copy. The interesting part is that the courage of the German fighter pilots going up day after day was equivalent to the Battle Of Britain fighter pilots doing the same thing, but because they were the enemy, they were ‘fanatics’.
Courage is courage – something the enemy is capable of as well.