No wonder the Houthis have kicked the USN out of the Red Sea.Difficult lessons here.
Open Thread – Wed 7 Feb 2024
- Hydrocarbons are not dispensable
- Open Thread – Weekend 7 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 5 Sept 2024
- Report on Russia and Ukraine
- Open Thread – Mon 2 Sept 2024
Do they even know where the money for their salaries came from? I’d be sceptical it was even Russian. After…
Willis Eschenbach Sorry to be pedantic.
I see m0ron deflecting again, throwing out distraction squirrels while his DEI deviant team continue to ruin our economy and…
But, but, how will the fem skipper be able to watch the Kardashians without the dish? Priorities people! 😀
It’s a non-definitive act of the Magisterium. Respectful criticism, per Donum Veritatis is allowed.
Russia Losing The Economic Battle
JC and econo types, care to comment?
I’ll be heading out for a bit but would like to know if this has any merit.
There might be something to it because there are many reports of freezing Russians due to a very cold winter, collapsing infrastructure, and fuel shortages.
I would think it allows time to get back to the club for lunch. Of course.
tlhIngan Hol: tugh qoH nachDaj je chevlu’ta’.
Apart from some sort of feel-good statement, what could the ‘settlement’ involve?
Who’s the real head of Judaism? Or of Protestantism?
Queenslanders not happy. Then again they voted the clowns in who are running the show:
What should be the Qld Government’s first move to fix the youth crime crisis?
Better education/early intervention 3 %
Better rehabilitation programs 1 %
Boot camps 8 %
Parents held criminally responsible for child’s actions 11 %
Youth offenders for serious crimes are treated as adults 53 %
Mandatory minimum sentences 24 %
3054 votes
Courier-Mail article with poll at the end
Reminds of those studies arguing don’t go before a hungry judge. searching …
Lunchtime Leniency: Judges’ Rulings Are Harsher When They Are Hungrier
Judges granted 65 percent of requests they heard at the beginning of the day’s session and almost none at the end. Right after a snack break, approvals jumped back to 65 percent again.
I’m inclined to disagree based on my reading of the levels of authority of the magisterium.
But, in any case, the days when the pope could order the arrest of a lay civilian on doctrinal charges are long gone 😀
Unless you were teaching in a Catholic institution…in which case keep the integrity of the on-line alias intact.
My two bobs worth on the Islam vs The World issue:
The conflict starts with the decree by Islam that everybody is a Muslim at birth.
So anyone who belongs to any other religion is an apostate.
This gives Muslims the right – in fact the duty – to forcefully – if peaceful means do not work, to return everyone to Islam.
This makes as much sense morally and legally as me declaring that everyone is born belonging to The Religion of Winston, and that I am allowed to kill them if they do not follow the decrees of High Priest Winston the Magnificent, Munificent, and Magnanimous.
And yet 2 Billion people believe Islam and practise* it at any opportunity.
But it doesn’t look right.
I’d rather die then drink 4X Winston.
Pope Francis and capital punishment by Edward Feser – 2018
Did you notice that the immigrant population was only mentioned once, in terms of ‘doing the jobs no one else will do?’
I did notice that particular “dog that didnt bark in the night”.
I don’t know enough about Judaism to comment about its leadership structure. Having said that though, there doesn’t appear to be agitation between Jews and Christians, so it not a problem. It would pose the problem if the relationship between Jews and Christians was as bad a Muslims and basically everyone else.
Or of Protestantism?
Protestantism is a broad description of various Christian sects that rebelled against the Catholic Church. It’s not a unanimous religion as such. There are Anglican, Lutheran leaders for instance.
Islam is decentralized and there are numerous schools of Islam and tons of muftis with their own ideas. I don’t see it as a religion in the same way as I see Christianity. It’s more of a religious/ political ideology.
Er…
60%+ of Queenslanders did not give their primary vote to Labor at the 2020 election.
We need electoral reform!
Sancho
Perhaps shoot one thousand, educate a million is the speedier way to educate the large number needing education?
Old Ozzie:
I couldn’t find any comments, where are they?
I think that’s more a pious belief than an actual doctrine of Islam, Winston.
Mind you, it’s the pious ones you need to watch out for.
No, It was more than that. There were continual discussions that went on throughout the decade from what I recall. It came to nought because while the RC would be talking to Saudi muftis the Muslim Brotherhood was left out, for instance. Muslim is a go for all religious/political ideology. It has no equivalence in the West except for say communism or Nazism.
Oh and climate change ideology. 🙂
Albanese has today pledged to end domestic violence against women and children.
And no Australian child will live in poverty by 1990.
It would seem strategists have advised him that the female vote is the only area where he can wedge Dutton.
Off to Sardinia this morning, out on the quai, bit early to sir in the ferry waiting room. The bar this end isn’t open yet.
Just me and a flock of giant French seagulls, fortunately not directly above my head.
Argentine President Javier Milei Visits Israel, Announces Embassy Will Move to Jerusalem
Surely you could speak with the heads of the specific sects within Islam. I’m not sure the absence of a single head presents a problem.
Or of Protestantism?
Haven’t you just described Protestantism as structurally similar to Islam?
But that is also true of Christianity in important respects as I hinted at earlier today by reference to the doctrine of the two powers.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment, however if offered a stark choice: “Drink this stubby of XXXX or get pushed off the top of Australia Square” – well I’m chugging down the Castlemaine.
But what were they discussing? You say it was more than ‘feel-good statements’ but never specify anything about what this ‘settlement’ was supposed to involve?
It’s a novel pious belief, now fashionable in the West I suspect because nominal Christians are converting there is a level of discomfort with the indelible mark of baptism and claiming all as muslim including Jesus Christ Himself somehow overrides it.
A variation on Satanists unbaptising morons.
Winston is right. When you become a Muslim, you “revert” to Islam. All the prophets and Jesus are regarded as Muslims.
As Cassie sez, disendorse these arseholes.
FMD
As a direction changer, fans of SF may remember Larry Nivens stories where he uses a MacGuffin called “Wireheading”. A wire is inserted surgically into the users brain and delivers a minute electric current to the “Pleasure Centre”. The people who are unhappy, suicidal, etc etc, are encouraged to have these installed so they can lead productive lives.
Illegal drug use is largely cleared up because there is no pusher to control the supplier of electricity from tiny batteries recharged in the same way that you can recharge your phone.
Interesting concept, but unworkable – the pharmaceutical industry wouldn’t allow it.
Kids-in-short-pants due for a win. Been a while between drinks for the Liars. Brittany not here to help this time. Munching down on a croissant.
The expression is “Shoot one, educate a thousand”.
Im willing to trial the reverse as long as its Canberrrrraaaaahhh which is trailed.
You mean ECT … I had thought it was done & buried after “one flew over …” but it seems to be surviving.
I suspect it has some basis in the belief that all children are born with an innate faith in God. Islam, after all, does not have a doctrine of original sin. That has been embellished over time, but I don’t think it can be found explicitly in the Quran or the Hadiths.
Next election will be fought on Tax Cutz 4 Girlz … anything else considered to be full-on misogyny. Who can say No?
Protestants don’t issue fatwas calling for the death of unbelievers.
Yes, that was a big hint as well.
Do barbers not get the tax cut?
During a fiery Question Time on Wednesday, Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri asked whether the government would cancel Labor’s deal with the Israeli Defence Ministry.
She claimed that without walking away from that deal, the government risked being “complicit in genocide”.
Gabby is a looker. FMD.
Melbourne office of Births, Deaths and Marriages … “Hold my beer!”
Apparently a yuuuge number of them now “work” from home and simply do nothing. Nothing comes out of there short of six months.
So, if you are looking to get a passport, you will have to deal with both of these sloth-riddled cesspits in series.
The suds have outstanding criminal stats.
Frolickingmoll:
Intergenerational poverty?
Are the parents who own their own home or two or three homes going to die and take the homes with them? All their superannuation and shares?
Bloody Hell! This generation is going to be the inheritors of one of the greatest transfers of assets in all human history and they’re already whinging about it already?
The assets will be in the trillions of dollars over the next twenty years!
Stop the whining you greedy little bastards!
Numerous applications for Pickett to be released from jail have since failed, however on Wednesday, Justice Anthony Derrick granted his freedom subject to 45 strict conditions which included GPS monitoring, a curfew and regularly reporting to police.
Derrick’s decision came after a psychiatrist found Pickett felt “horrible inside” about his crimes, and that he had matured and had an “earnest and genuine” intention to comply with the conditions of his release.
If pickett goes on a new rampage the judge and the doc are the ones who should be nuked.
Winston – I wouldn’t call that a MacGuffin. Prophetic is a better word.
Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted wireless brain chip (BBC, 30 Jan)
Big Pharma would have a fight on its hands taking on Elon.
Zipster:
Nealy all the pros you speak of are, to me, negatives.
Do not want!
Want!
Roger I found an article written in English obviously by a muslim scholar that said it wasn’t a belief properly referenced. I linked it here at the time but can’t find it again.
In any case if everyone is born muslim, then everyone is muslim and there is no such thing as kaffir.
Right?
I need more commas!
Indolent:
What Gina Carano says about “the Jews being beaten in the street” is quite correct, and it shows how dangerous is the line being taken by the NSW Police in regards to the “Gas the Jews” disgrace.
Ripe for a death tax.
In the name of fairness.
An unstoppable uprising!
The Greens need to be disendorsed.
Are you not familiar with Calvin’s Geneva?
Yep. Can’t take it with you. Ask as Egyptian.
So far as the Criminal Justice System works ..
I hate to burst the prurient bubble of some… it just doesnt work that way …
“Bubba” is just a figment of your imagination … I know how many of you glory in the concept but it is a myth .. at least in Australian prisons.
In fact a Man can say “Boss dont put me in a cell with XYZ … or there will be blood on the walls… put me in the SHU or put me any where just not with that nonce…it wont end well ” Where in Boss goes ;
” Thank You for your maturity … of letting us know up front ..” We will work something out ” And they did .
That schtick is very much for the true believers. Xenophonesque.
Sigh!
Roger I found an article written in English obviously by a muslim scholar that said it wasn’t a belief properly referenced. I linked it here at the time but can’t find it again.
In any case if everyone is born muslim, then everyone is muslim and there is no such thing as kaffir.
Right?
Well yes but Islam, just like it’s not known for its tolerance, is also not known for its logic.
Listen to this and listen hard … it has a message I pray you will NEVER need but if you do …
Hope you have at least a slight “Heads Up”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJUHq5ympAc
Do we really have to go back 500 years to find something horrible that the wicked Proddies did?
I could go the Oxford Martyrs for all the good it would do me.
This is historic wickedness.
Why not concentrate on the problem before us?
If I’m not mistaken, Servetus had already been condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition on account of his published anti-Trinitarian writings and was avoiding Catholic territories on account of that.
Further, Servetus was not prosecuted by Calvin but by the civil magistrate of Geneva.
That’s not to defend his trial and execution, but to put it in its historical context.
Bother. I have bought into sectarian shyte.
As Bespoke would say…
*sigh*
Sectarian?
There are possible parallels with book worship , fortunately one book is infinitely superior to the other.
OK Lets just say I am a happy clappy fashoinable … what is ever your bag Christian … ?
A Moslem would say I was born a Moslem ..
(We Christians could make the same contention but prefer not to in the interests of not being boring)
If you call yourself a Christian would you be prepared to go … “But If not” ?
A Moslem says No we haven’t the authority granted to force you .. if we were to we would propound both you lack of proper faith but force you to be a liar as well – we would be complict in the Sin … you will meet with the Almighty in your own shape …
Malaysian Rag heads are OK by me …
And that’s it for me.
Tomorrow might be better.
Very difficult to walk the path of history without treading in it.
Looks like I’m the only passenger on the return journey to Sardinia, they got me to put my suitcase in the car truck bit rather than lug it up the stairs, for which I am grateful, not a vehicle in sight though maybe someone arrived after me.
Sitting outside at the back, weather is mild and I get a view of both coasts once we exit the harbour, all of which is fabulous plus inside smells like fuel.
What a strange decision.
Though in light of the conscription of the Australian population into a drug trial I suppose my body/my choice doesnt matter anymore.
Teen who believed her cancer was cured by ‘miracle from God’ ordered by NSW court to continue chemotherapy
Judge found girl had ability to refuse treatment, but ‘sanctity of life’ was also a consideration
Meek found the girl did have ability to make a decision about refusing treatment, but that he had nevertheless considered that he should make a court order authorising it to continue.
“Events bearing upon the inestimable sanctity of life and its intersection with faith beliefs tend to give rise to some of the most palpable forensic debates and challenging legal decisions,” he said.
“The sanctity of life is an important consideration to be not merely accorded respect but appropriately weighed, as is the medical evidence, AC’s religious beliefs, AC’s autonomy of decision-making, and her right to bodily integrity.”
Forcing treatment on someone, outside specific criteria is an assault.
Either she is mad, or in some way disabled from making a choice about treatment, other than that this is a shakey judgement.
Yes some days are like that Calli. I had the feeling this afternoon I should have called in sick rather than go to work. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.
Dot:
Feb 7, 2024 3:14 PM
This question has probably been asked multiple times before, but is there any reason my Will can’t be run through the courts before I kark it, so I can make sure there’s an outcome I want?
If people were decently educated (I do not just mean school and the universities – they will require an Augean cleaning) the greens would shrivel into a little fringe party for people who wear rope sandals, thick rimmed glasses, and buy lentils by the hessian sackful.
@Roger
Feb 7, 2024 6:22 PM
Propps to you Mate .. You know about Christianity from a more learned perspective. I dont … I do the best I can with what I have.
This is supposed to be a “horrible Jews” pictorial, but its actually a great thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/06/israelis-carry-arms-in-public-in-pictures
A few years ago I read an interesting book on the reformation in Geneva. The book is a diary by a Catholic nun named Jeanne de Jussie. It is Jeanne’s account of how the reformation came to Geneva, and its impact on the community, particularly on the Jeanne’s convent, the Poor Clares and their families.
It was a tumultuous and revolutionary time. There were bitter disputes in families and among friends. Without a doubt Calvinism was the progressive wokeism of its time, it was always a far more radical theology than Lutheranism. What’s interesting is that many people tried to resist the religious changes and upheavals, but to no avail and so they gave in.
I see parallels with what we are living through.
Propps to you Mate .. You know about Christianity from a more learned perspective. I dont … I do the best I can with what I have.
Which doesn’t sound like much.
George Orwell noted the type already in the 1930s…
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”
– The Road to Wigan Pier
I see daytime soapies have been on in earnest today.
Specifically, The Bolton The Beautiful.
Boeing 737 Max in door panel blowout lacked four bolts, regulator says
I don’t know the exact size of the plug but have seen photos of aircraft investigators holding it up on its side. It looks about 80cm x 150cm giving an area of 12,000 sq/cm.
The aircraft is pressurised to 75625 Pascals (0.756 bar)
The outside pressure at 16,000 ft (4877m) is 55479 Pascals (0.555 Bar)
Air pressure at sea level is 101325 Pascals (1.013 bar) [18,000 ft or 5,400m is half atmospheric pressure]
The difference between inside and outside pressure is near enough 20,000 Pascals (0.2 Bar) or 0.2 kilogram per square centimetre.
12,000 x 0.2 = 2,400 kg. Therefore the total force on that plug at 16,000′ was 2.4 tonne pushing outwards.
I can understand the requirement for an aircraft door to open outwards and there are significant diameter stainless steen locking bars to prevent it blowing out.
For the life of me I cannot understand why door plugs, which don’t have to open are not fitted with a flange around the plug on the inside of the aircraft so pressure differential helps to seal it better and it is impossible to blow out.
Stopping idiots from killing themselves by sheer stupidity is a terrible mistake. Let them serve as a horrible example of how the universe works on lunatics. We might get fewer lunatics.
This too Roger…
In his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell defended “the ordinary decent person” against “the intellectual, book-trained socialist”. He wrote that the latter:
“… type is drawn, to begin with, entirely from the middle class, and from a rootless town-bred section of that middle class at that. …It includes…the foaming denouncers of the bourgeoisie, and the more-water-in-your-beer reformers of whom [George Bernard] Shaw is the prototype, and the astute young social-literary climbers…and all that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”
LOL, Rog.
He put it so much better.
Mark Bolton
Feb 7, 2024 6:50 PM
What are you on about? Do you work for the KGB?
…and all that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”
Great writing from Orwell!
IIRC the device that wireheads connect to is called a “droud”. There you go Elon, the name for your neural interface. Niven might want royalties though.
Yes, Orwell pointed out that the “real” socialists he spoke to were interested mainly in improved labour conditions and a better standard of living for working people.
I don’t know if he mentions this but they were also inclined to be socially conservative Christians and anti-revolutionary monarchists – the political wing of the Methodist Church, so to speak 😀
This is supposed to be a “horrible Jews” pictorial, but its actually a great thing.
It’s beautiful. And remember, the kibbutzim that fended off and survived the Nazi scum on 7 October did so because they were able to get their guns.
You’re no slouch with words either, ML.
Oh, for goodness’ sake – Blot hyperventilating about Tucker’s visit to Moscow and his interview of the Pute.
That would kind of make it impossible to fit.
Andrew Bolt doing a big sledge at the moment on Tucker Carlson and his interview with Putin. Unworthy of you, Andrew.
Ol’ commie Phillip Adams to retire from the ABC in June – will continue writing his one page a week for the Oz.
When isn’t he?
Hey Sophie Ellsworth – Tucker has already clearly stated he will not be paywalling his interview with the Pute.
Very poor j’ism on her behalf.
Snork, snork!
Why do the words “Good Riddance” spring to mind?
Orwell must be read in the context of “Homage to Catalonia” … getting shot in the back by those you counted on as Comrades.
It does seem to be his de facto setting.
I think it’s an act for TV (ditto Carlson, btw, mutatis mutandis).
Privately, Bolt’s said to have quite a mild personality.
Well, for a Dutchman, anyway.
(Chuckle)
Specifically, The Bolton The Beautiful.
Needs more devil dolls…
and mannikins..
@Roger
Feb 7, 2024 7:32 PM
Well Bolt behaved exceedingly mildy when the Thought Police came for him. He caved. Unlike Mark Stien who told them to take a long walk on a short jetty …
No Quentin Dumpster Long Goodbye for you Phatty. That must hurt. At 84 too old to pick up some extra cash at Bunnings.
tlhIngan Hol: bISeH’eghlaH’be’chugh latlh Dara’laH’be’
Brian Howe with a Methodist minister iirc.
“… type is drawn, to begin with, entirely from the middle class, and from a rootless town-bred section of that middle class at that.
Today called “anywheres” or the “laptop class”. Orwell nailed it.
See Adams, who despite his frequent incantations to Our Farm- always parked carefully clear of the Stolen Land dirge- is a sandal-and-skivvy townie, through and through.
The ALPBC must have a no dying on the payroll policy now. No more leaving Ultimo in a box then.
I wouldnt have known that Phatty was gone .. THX for the tip .. I haven’t taken the slightest notice of MSM in decades… Good job you folks still do.
ABC Radio’s pockets considerably shallower than the TV division, presumably.
Credit where credit is due, KD.
That soap opera crack was excellent.
That would kind of make it impossible to fit.
Why? Carry it inside the aircraft, turn it in the correct direction and put it inside the hole. Bolt it from the inside and fit/rivet an outside cover around the shape of the door to prevent noise. Cover the inside flange with the standard interior dressing of the aircraft.
And Bob Hawke’s father was a Congregationalist minister (although Hawke left the faith early on).
The non-conformist manse gave birth to many a Labour/Labor politician before the ‘dregs of the middle class’ usurped power.
@Wally Dalí
Feb 7, 2024 7:43 PM
Oh “Our Farm” !! … yup I had forgotten about that … I wouldn’t put that wanker in charge of a set of nail clippers let alone a piece of farm machinery… forget about a mic .. but the ABC did and I switched off.
I always liked Adams in the Oz. A great example each week to remind us how awful socialism is. The Oz fittingly puts him at the absolute arse end of their leftiest product, the Weekend Aussie glossie mag.
John H
The Russian economy has been surprisingly stout, with the IMF upping their GDP forecast to around 2.5% in 2024. However, let’s not lose sight in terms of where the GDP growth is coming from. It’s military Keynesianism writ large when you consider 20% of the Russian GDP is now being directed to the war effort. In other words the war is eating up 20% of its annual production. All said and done, when the war ends, the standard of living will be lower in Russia than it was before the invasion – even if we hear now the shops are full.
People used to call Russia the gas station and as someone said, it’s now a gas station producing tanks and ammo.
Note that “don’t” implies past tense. Is Calvin still alive?
Here’s to you Phatty … “forgotten but not gone” …. most likely we will hear a moving self eulogy if we were to listen to the ABC …
You suspect Phatty’s missus exempts them from the “Pay the rent, pay our share” on the little Sydney pied a terre and the Hunter getaway. That stuff is for the little people, Clinton style.
Vicki:
That’s the only way I’d buy even a hybrid. Have a charge point connected to the Solar panels. My rate of 13 cents/kWhr for export, and import 30 cents/kWhr means it would be worthwhile having a connection to recharge/top up a hybrid.
However the equipment cost would probably be equivalent to a new car.
I don’t think the current coming from a solar farm would be stable enough – or made stable enough – to charge a car battery safely.
Would be happy to look into a gadget that could help defray the costs of the solar panels.
Ive let the black wobblebottom know how much he will be missed..
Replying to
@PhillipAdams_1
No more listening to you snuffle in your own crotch for moist nuggets to mutter about with the usual suspects.
https://twitter.com/PhillipAdams_1/status/1755066456046494074
Feel free to leave your own observations.
Well, yes.
It makes for lively conversation as the port decanter is passed around.
Although I must go on record as saying that I am not a massive fan of summary executions as “teaching moments”.
Who knows?
You park in someone’s spot at the club in a hurry and, nek minnit, there’s a cold 9mm barrel being pushed up behind your ear.
Bespoke
Feb 7, 2024 5:12 PM
Drinking your preferred swill, will finish you off anyway.
Because he’s such a bowtie libertarian buffoon, it’s anything but Blot at my place so I’m Watching an old MASH episode until Sharri Markson comes on at 8pm.
As a journalist, Blot can’t lick Tucker Carlson’s bootlaces.
Carlson goes anywhere — like Moscow — to break big stories, such as an interview with Vladimir Putin. He doesn’t sit on his arse like Blot recycling the day’s news.
In other words the war is eating up 20% of its annual production
Ouch.
And its not like that equipment is covering itself in glory for export sales afterwards.
Ol’ commie Phillip Adams to retire from the ABC in June
More of a champagne socialist. Former advertising guru, sometime Ferrari driver, cushy sinecured ABC eminence grise, and so on.
Poor Andrew.
@H B Bear
Feb 7, 2024 7:53 PM
Speaking of Clinton and “thanks very much if I do” … didnt a certain Australian Prime Minister of the fem persuasion give 20 mill to the Clinton Foundation?
Oh no !! I expect nothing in return but respect..
I doubt if Carlson would lose much sleep over Blot’s explosion. Blot just making himself look ridiculous.
Quite right, Tom.
John H
Keep this in mind. Russia is spending 20% of its GDP on the war effort, while the economy is expected to grow by 2.5%. It means, by definition, that the non-military economy is experiencing a pretty decent contraction.
Employment is being directed towards the war. Non-military employment has been totally discombobulated by about 1 million employment-age men in the military, and about the same number have left the country to avoid military service. Add in the numbers that have moved to jobs supplying the military. In the war effort, companies are paying much higher wages to attract labor, and the consequence is that there’s a serious labor shortage on the non-military side. Eventually, the piper will have to be paid, as it’s an overheated economy with lots of imbalances created.
‘Ex’ lefty.
Sounds like something Bolt would write.
What’s the bet Carlson has already interviewed Putin and it is already in edit mode.
@hzhousewife
Feb 7, 2024 8:09 PM
Not odds I would consider. Bets are bets but no gambler goes slaughter. Of Course Tukka was always going to do that . And it will be fun to watch.
Daily Mail.
Blot hyperventilating about Tucker’s visit to Moscow and his interview of the Pute.
Interesting hypocrisy from Blot. He likes to talk the talk about free speech. Hmm, I remember how, a few months ago after 7 October, after the ABC interviewed a highly unsavoury senior Hamas operative by the name of Basem Naim (who is the Hamas head of international relations) Blot defended that ABC interview.
The GayBC frothing at the withdrawal of forcible ratepayer funding for drag story time:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-07/hills-shire-council-votes-to-stop-supporting-drag-story-time/103438586
Want to expand on this short statement or you think it’s enough? Explain what you believe is missing.
What is more Tukka will make hay over the moves the “swamp” went to to try to stop Him…
Incoming .. another Tukka Boomerwaffen homily .. boring but fair.
Snort, cackle.
And the GayBC frothing about a prospective coal mine:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-07/winchester-south-coal-mine-approved-by-qld-gov/103438576
The official inflation rate is is just under 8% and not looking like it will come down. The rubble lost 30% of its value against the US dollar in 2023 and the lead interest rate is 16%.
Perhaps Dover, you could explain how the private sector is enjoying the war and what it means for the Russian consumer.
FFS, under the Sky formula, Sharri Markson has the sleezy Labor creep Andrew Charlton on to recite the government’s talking points. He’s almost as slimy as Stephen Conroy who speaks for the union thugs on Paul Murray’s show.
Chrisifuli just on Sharri…
Zaap.
expect that the announcement wouldn’t be given without the green-light
Welcome to the club, have Woodstock can.
This POS should never have been released after the deaths of Margaret and Shane Blurton – Master Kingsley was trying to out run WAPol in a stolen car, and one year old Shane Blurton never got any older.
@Bespoke
Feb 7, 2024 8:28 PM
and murdering Gonzalo Lira to name but one…
@Bespoke
Feb 7, 2024 8:28 PM
Folks in the donbass were happy enough to mind their own business.
Perhaps eminence graisse.
I picked up a book of essays by C K Chesterton here called ‘the common man’ the very first essay covers this ground and iirc GBS gets a mention.
ABC .. just dont .
tlhIngan Hol: Heghlu’DI’ mobbe’lu’chugh QaQpu’ Hegh wanI’
I prefer juiced beard drinkers.
No. It is too impractical even if it was possible.
The best you can do is follow the statute and precedent to the letter.
Been listening to Shane Gillis on Rogan.
They are victory lapping hard over Bud Light.
Digger at 7:11.
You mean what is commonly called a “plug door”?
(Which is like the normal access doors towards the front of the aircraft).
This door was never meant to be opened except in emergencies. In it’s closed position it is held in place by stops (six on each side of the door and a corresponding six on each side the airframe) to stop it blowing out.
There are two variants of this door:-
1. Emergency Exit. On 737s above a certain passenger capacity these extra exits are required by regs. On these aircraft the doors would be held in place by a locking mechanism which held the door up behind the stops. Upon emergency activation, the locking mechanism would pull the door down clear of the stops, allowing it to open.
2. Door plug. Where the emergency exit is not required – as was the case with Alaska Airlines – the emergency mechanisms are removed (including the evac slide, and opening mechanism) and the door is prevented from sliding down clear of the stops by four bolts (one in each corner).
This aircraft left the factory without the four bolts.
The only surprising thing for me is that it hung on for two months.
Not quite.
Next time you fly watch them close the main door.
The hinge mechanism is very complex, which enables the plug door to be pulled back inside the aircraft, rolled upright, then pushed back into the aperture and locked into the airframe.
The elegance of this design is that the higher the pressure from the inside, the tighter the fit. It is like a wedge with the thick end on the inside.
Just further to the ABC’s reports on “drag queen story time”, one the ABC was sponsoring in Rockdale Library and second one about the the Hills Council.
The Hills Council covers the most conservative and Christian parts of Sydney. It is often called ‘the Bible belt’. It is filled with very conservative and very aspirational Sydneysiders, with diverse backgrounds (unlike the progressive northern beaches and eastern suburbs, all still mainly white). The Hills is made up of Anglos, Chinese, Koreans, and Indians. They are all rock solid conservatives. The conservative faction of the Liberal Party reigns supreme in the Hills. Personally, I’m glad that the council has stood up to this, but note how it has taken a conservative Liberal with some spine to do so. We need more like him.
As to the ABC’s decision to cancel a drag queen story time event at Rockdale Library after a lot of blowback, I find this curious and again, methinks the ABC is deliberately withholding information because it doesn’t suit the narrative they want to push. Apparently Rockdale Library cancelled the ABC sponsored drag queen story time event after receiving “hateful and offensive” responses to a callout for the event. Okay, well Rockdale, like the Hills, is not some progressive paradise like Paddington, Darlinghurst, Mosman or Manly. Rockdale is filled with recent and not so recent migrants, many of whom are conservative Turkish and Arab Muslims. I suspect the ‘hateful and offensive’ blowback came from them, but of course that doesn’t suit the ABC narrative and so the ABC leave it so that people will assume that the offensive hate emanates from white Christians. I’m curious as to why the ABC chose Rockdale Library? Rockdale is not and has never been a bastion of LGBTQI+ Pride. I can attest that during Pride month last year, driving through Rockdale I didn’t see one Pride flag. I don’t think the whole LGBTQI+ shtick is welcome in a area like Rockdale or Kogarah. Odd that the ABC didn’t choose a library in inner-city, in Alexandria, or Darlinghurst, or here in Surry Hills. Wonder why?
Dr Goldberg on Gonzalo Lira, aka Coach Dead Pill.
Totally not possible.
The will doesn’t take effect until death, so it can’t be litigated before then.
Conversely, the same as Powers of Attorney expire upon death.
To provoke a predictable response.
You may think you hate the greens enough, but really, you don’t..
https://x.com/DavidShoebridge/status/1755159788470894766?s=20
You just can’t.
It means you’re painting the usual critical picture despite the fact that the Russian economy is doing better than you or the GAE expected given the sanctions regime put in place back in early ’22. Guess what, of course wars pervert the normal economic arrangements of a domestic economy. So what? Countries are more than aggregates of consumers so in war domestic consumption has to give way to strategic necessity. As soon as conditions improve, there will be a further readjustment that will take into account the new circumstance.
https://x.com/DavidShoebridge/status/1755159788470894766?s=20
Shoebridge lives in a mansion in Woollahra with his lawyer wife. He inherited the mansion.
I’ll say it again, the Greens should be disendorsed. There is no place in this country for a Nazi Party.
It’s impractical in a way, that it would be meaningless, even if every beneficiary agreed in writing.
They can and will change their mind when the will become due, ie. when you cark it as you said
You would have to enact a new law that specifically binds all participants to the agreement, but there may be new unforeseen circumstances developing in the meantime, so back to the court.
Best is to rely on your solicitor to draw it up as watertight as possible.
Second best is what my uncle did, not going into detail but you can give money away without gift duty, depends how you go about it.
Guys … rogue doors on aircraft .. it isn’t a mystery … look to blancolirio.
all will be made clear.
For some years now, I’ve been referring to the ‘greens’ (intentional lower case) as the Year Zero Party; meaning, that if given the opportunity, I have no doubt they would revisit the purges of the Khmer Rouge (from 1975), or at the very least, as close as they could get away with. There is something deeply sinister about the Cult of Zero that portends nothing but misery for the individuals who wish to live their lives in peace and do the best for themselves and their families.
For military Cats – David Sabben, MG, was a platoon commander, in 6RAR, in the fun factory from June 1966 until June 1967, taking in the battle for Long Tan. His new book “Mentions in Despatches” – based on his letters home to his wife – goes through the day by day routine of infantry in the scrub, for a year, at the pointy end. Well illustrated and damnfine reading. Highly recommended, indeed!
Actually, it’s not doing better. If 20% of the economy is directed toward the war effort, how is it doing? As a Russian consumer, what material benefits do you gain from a day’s production of artillery shells? How do you consume an artillery shell? Do you fry it or bake it? You’re suggesting that I’m “Bolting” my opinion. Homer Paxton tried to tell us that military Keynesianism did wonders for Germany before the war and for the US too. It did nothing of the sort. Remember that?
In actual fact, the Russian economy has collapsed if you remove the 20% of GDP devoted to the war effort.
Inflation is at 8%, and 20% of the economy is devoted to war. The lead interest rate is at 16%, and the private economy is being choked by labor shortages and higher wage rates. The Rubble fell 30% against the US dollar in 2023.
Speak to those stats I provided instead of trying on this will-to-power thing.
Really, so what? Impoverishing the consumer, and you’re saying, So what?
Oh, okay, so what are they, then? Also, explain how great it is for the Russian consumer when 20% of the economy is being directed to war and the private economy is being rooted.
Conditions aren’t improving. When the war ends, the piper has to be paid.
You could make the argument that this is all necessary because the war is vital for Russia. I don’t buy that bullshit for a second, but it would be better than suggesting the Russian economy is doing fine with those dreadful stats. Military Keynesianism makes people poorer.
Here’s something to consider. Despite all the production for the war effort by the US in WW2 and coming out winners, the standard of living was lower in 1946 than in 1939.
The elegance of this design is that the higher the pressure from the inside, the tighter the fit. It is like a wedge with the thick end on the inside.
Without knowing the engineering of aircraft doors like you obviously do, Sancho, you have indeed elequently described what I thought would be common sense when playing with pressure. That is what we do in recompression chambers. The hatches don’t need a latch except to commence the pressurisation. The pressure does it all…
Thanks.
Seems that the pennies on the eye of corpses is what you folk find most apposite in this conversation.some o you seem to be well equipped.. .. Legal stuff I guess? And a way to make a crust ,,,
I wont be snotty beause the “frost will eventually settle on my brow too”
give me a decade and I am either found dead in a Hanoi brothel ..massive hot shot …
or making the best of what I have left ….
But either way I will NEVER go the Ad Hom nor be nasty and personal and impolite.
That seems to be the most watertight way of doing it.
Let them fight over crumbs.
Via Powerline:
Trendy ‘land acknowledgments’ distort more history than they claim to be revealing.
It’s about Minnesota in the U.S., but relevant to we bringers-of-the-benefits-of-modernity here also.
Will he apply the same rule to those Gaza “refugees” that the Wong Chap has invited into Australia?
JC
Feb 7, 2024 4:36 PM
You are demented.
Seek help. Elsewhere.
Hey, horses for courses and all that.
Oh no no. It’s just ‘a little pick me up’.
Right? I mean, right? Remember when you said that?
I find this extremely relevant, given so much discussion about wills today.
The ‘Booka will be forever grateful.
I’m on the bus, it was €160 for a taxi or €4.30 for the public bus, so bus it was.
I even managed to buy my ticket via the app, now that CBA sends you a net code via their own app instead of an sms.
Did my usual European service of minding someone’s bag while they nicked off for a smoke or in this case a quick visit to the cemetery?
The lady said I was ‘gentile’.
Bonus, twin usb ports in every seat so I can stop with the range anxiety.
Bespoke
Feb 7, 2024 5:12 PM
Heresy!
Shoot him in the head!
And before lunchtime!
🙂 NADT.
Turtlehead
Okay.
You’ve always sounded normal and intelligent to me, Turtlehead. In fact, I was wish I was you at times.
Odd that the ABC didn’t choose a library in inner-city, in Alexandria, or Darlinghurst, or here in Surry Hills. Wonder why?
Believe me, they (ABC) are clueless.
Of interest: Rockdale is the centre of Shia Islam in NSW.
There was a bloke … Kell Rodgers IIRC did “Word watch” on The ABC … sound chap.
Richards .. something .. still a cool Guy ..
JC:
You know Jack Shit.
I am the High priest of The Religion of Winston, and I decree that everyone is an acolyte of mine at the point of conception, which puts me 9 months ahead of the Mohammedans.
I am allowed to cast them all into the furthest Pits of Hell if they do not follow the decrees of High Priest Winston the Magnificent, Munificent, and Magnanimous.
So on your knees, Slave of Mammon, and kiss my ring.
I read that message out to Elsie, and she said “Meow”, shook her head, and proceeded to lick her bum.
So I guess that means she wants you to kiss hers too.
I shall nominate her “High Priestess of The Church of Winston, Savager of Chickens and Devourer of Sardines.”
Digger – your book didn’t make it onto the shelf, before it was borrowed…..
Turtlehead, what are you doing? Tell us you haven’t raided the cabinet and overdosed on the iodine with this last comment.
There has been a bit of discussion today about Quentin Dempster. His brother, Gary was one of my mob, a Clearance Diver who tragically drowned whilst training with his seven team mates before they were scheduled to replace our team in Da Nang in May, 1971.
The tragedy was that to make the training realistic they had rocks in their back packs and they were walking through chest deep water with weapons and weighted packs when the lake bed collapsed and he slipped into deeper water. He was instantly in too deep and couldn’t get his pack off quick enough to save himself.
His team was ultimately never deployed because the government decided to withdraw from Vietnam and we were some of the first ones out.
Alamak!
Feb 7, 2024 5:50 PM
No I commented at the time it seemed to work spectacularly with older women who were so depressed as to not even be able to move in bed and would get pressure area sores from being motionless. I assisted in about a dozen of them and it was amazing watching people walk out the next day after being unable to get the energy to even go to the bathroom.
Did it work with everyone? No but it had an excellent success rate with the older women.
Digger – your book didn’t make it onto the shelf, before it was borrowed…..
That sounds encouraging Zulu. I hope you and the borrower enjoy it…
U.N. ‘secretly working with banks’ to destroy American food industry
This is an incredible cope. It’s doing far better than you and the GAE expected. Sanctions were expected to ruin the economy and make the war effort impossible to continue and your coping by saying this or that stat moderately worsened even though they’ve been able to adapt pretty well to the new circumstances.
You’re imagining this will to power thing.
Unavoidable in circumstance of war. All you can do is mitigate it.
Citizens/ subjects of a nation
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I did make that argument.
I’m not arguing that going to war doesn’t have economic costs; how could I be when I argued that there are other considerations beyond the economic.
Mike ” smoothest frontal lobes in his tribe” Carlton trust an analogy…
Mike Carlton
@MikeCarlton01
Here’s a thought. For decades the Provisional IRA committed heinous atrocities in its bombing attacks in the UK, murdering more than 1700 innocent civilians. The British, however, did not respond by reducing Northern Ireland to smoking ruins and slaughtering 11,000 children.
He does know the Poms lost in Ireland doesn’t he???
This question has probably been asked multiple times before, but is there any reason my Will can’t be run through the courts before I kark it, so I can make sure there’s an outcome I want?
No. It is too impractical even if it was possible.
Totally not possible.
The Succession Act 2006, S. 80 allows a distribution of part or all of the estate before the death of the testator.
Only the well heeled have the means to be truly stupid and not have to face consequences of their actions. That’s why you don’t see any aspirational sin the Greens though their kids, not knowing how hard it is to earn a fortune, may dabble in the green ideology. In other words, the rich are green and the greens are rich.
I think it’s the opposite. I presented some important stats and it now appears you’re not coping at all. I actually don’t mind being wrong especially about these things. However, to suggest that the Russian economy is doing well when 1/5th of the economy is making bombs and other assorted destructive stuff is mind-boggling.
Earlier, you suggested that atomizing humans into economic units isn’t enough. It’s true, it isn’t. You should consider the hundreds of thousands of men and mostly young boys whose are dead, permanently maimed or will have deep psychological issues for the rest of their living in severe depression. And that’s on both sides of the border.
Excluding the war effort, it most certainly isn’t as the stats suggest.
Sanctions have caused a heavy cost to the Russian economy, and we’ve been through these in prior discussions.
War is hell and you should consider that.
Winston Smith
Feb 7, 2024 10:44 PM
Yup ECT works brilliantly despite Jack Nicholson … and Ken Kesey.
Any one that knows anything about it …. well
I wanted to object but hadnt the energy … If one were to deploy the cudgel at every glipse of bullshit on the Cat … well you know …
rest of their lives, living
Mike Carlton? Something about his second wife being nearly thirty years his junior?
The will has to conform to those provisions though. That’s not very likely.
Given that I said, the Russian economy is doing better than you or the GAE expected given the sanctions regime put in place back in early ’22, rather than just the ‘doing well’, its hard not to conclude that you’re just unwilling to admit the obvious.
I do, that is why I find the unwillingness to negotiate the matter in Dec ’21 and Jan ’22, and the sinking of the ceasefire agreement in late March ’22, terrible decisions.
Sure, but they have completely failed at their purpose and those costs have rebounded massively on the European economy.