Ticketty Boo

This thread dedicated to snivellers who must now make an actual argument instead of anonymously downticking personalities rather than content.

Weep tears of rage. Go on now. Have some Doritos afterwards.

Reposted from the last. Apologies If , for you, i repeat mys self ;
Thanks Folks ,

I enjoy scrolling through these convos just to see where you are with these topics of conversation. Sometimes some of you do throw really great links and for that I am most trully greatful .

As Per the recent conversation as to all this unedifying ad hom vitriol. I can see where it came from. It has evolved from what was once a bit of “spicey rough and tumble” into now what has turned into an un edifying infantile sledgefest that serves none of you well.

What is even more corrosive to your presumptive purpose , when you , little ruffians get all excited and pile on, what happens is you derail the blog. All the folks who would be minded to engage in a civilized conversation go off and make a cup of tea and dont come back.

Sure you get to blow off some steam and glory in your’e red hot badinage . But all you have done is killed (or at least stunned for a few hours) a discussion by you being boring.

It isnt my blog, You Guys Live here , I dont . I am just pointing this out in so far as a helpful and well meant suggestion might help improve the atmosphere.

Peace

Salvatore, Iron Publican
Feb 10, 2024 3:05 AM

Steve trickler Feb 10, 2024 2:51 AM
What happened to the thumbs?

They’ve been retired – due to the site’s most Turnbullian ego chucking a major sad at receiving downticks.

I don’t know who was influential enough, if anybody, to persuade Dover to get rid of a very nice, useful feature, but the blog will survive as it had under the previous admin.

Still a shame but.

There were spectacular flounces and teary retirements only to return without the ticks, so nothing will change.

Using the tick feature has no significant, if any influence on the speed, says my daughter who is an IT whizz.

Katzenjammer
Feb 10, 2024 3:28 AM

Without that extraneous coded “if then” hopefully the blog will load faster.

My memory goes back a bit well before the ticks were introduced.
Remember the days the blog was down for half a day or for many hours at times?

What was the cause then?
Anyways, it is what it is, we can join in or not, not compulsory to participate.

Have some Doritos afterwards.

Last week I saw peanut butter puffs in the Kosher aisle at Coles Bondi Junction.
My snacks of choice are cashews & pistachios but I am tempted to try this salty treat.

Baris is saying that Biden had a meeting with Dem bigwigs yesterday (unsure if it was before or after the press conference).
I can’t see anything on social media about it.
It degenerated into a session of Biden being “a nasty prick” according to one of the attendees who’s leaked it.
Will keep an eye out for anything further.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
Feb 10, 2024 4:16 AM

Tom; Thanx

+100

The German bureau for statistics (destatis) is separately tracking the production of the energy intensive industry and you can clearly see that this industry sector is nearly collapsing. Their production output declined by app. 25% and is now even lower than during CoVid Lockdown high time. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Industrie-Verarbeitendes-Gewerbe/_Grafik/_Interaktiv/produktionsentwicklung-energieintensiven-industriezweige.html (red line is energy intensive industry production index, blue line is general industry and mining).

Rinse and repeat for 80% of today’s pollies I would have thought.

I saw the Carson Putin interview. I am quite prepared to believe Putin is an evil shit, you don’t get to be in charge of a country like Russia if you’re a nice guy. But he’s an educated, intelligent man who has thought about things. Completely different from our pollies.

Tom; Thanx

👍 👍

We’ll find out at some stage who/what the Russians have wanted in exchange for the American journo.
Considering the Americans gave them the guy the movie the Lord of War was based on, how much worse could it be?
Just do the exchange already.

How do you do that?

Type the following starting with an ampersand (upper case 7 on the keyboard)

#x1F44D; is the up thumb

#x1F44F; is the down thumb

put the whole thing somewhere where it is easy to copy and paste.

Test
&#x1F44D

The semi colon is important

Test again
👍

Our feral member is an apparatchik call Sam Rae who hails from Canbra originally so I just read. Not a good start.

Test again

✓

alwaysright

#x1F44D;

Clever Cat that you are.

That calli is my favourite image.

Sam Rae loves Hawke’s vibrant community. They all say that.

oops

✡

#x2721;

If you ‘pay peanuts & get monkeys’ our chocolate-coated macadamias don’t seem to be getting us a decent return on our investment either.

Maybe we (think we) have so many nuts, it doesn’t matter who or what we fling them at? There’ll always been more where they came from?

Took a while to listen to that Carlson-Putin interview but I stuck to it.
It had to be prearranged as he had no control over it.

It was worth my time Putin is a smart operator, others may disagree.
Saying “worth my time” I usually won’t listen or watch any link longer than a few minutes.

KevinM, I thought Putin looked uncomfortable.
What did you think?

Hey Topender – would love to have heard your talk on the midget subs today in Sydney. Unfortunately we are not in the city. You should let us know in advance !

So – Trump has now won Nevada…….

DrBeauGan
Feb 10, 2024 6:13 AM

Rinse and repeat for 80% of today’s pollies I would have thought.

I saw the Carson Putin interview. I am quite prepared to believe Putin is an evil shit, you don’t get to be in charge of a country like Russia if you’re a nice guy. But he’s an educated, intelligent man who has thought about things. Completely different from our pollies.

Indeed.

He also is a patriot, with a deep love of Russia, its history, and its culture. Not many politicians in western nations match that. Trump certainly, Abbott probably, Jacinta Pirce definitely.

oh semi colon, where art thou semi colon?

So – Trump has now won Nevada…….

And it’s even worse for Haley and the Rinos than it looks on the surface.

Trump wasn’t alone on the caucus ballot:

Donald Trump Wins Nevada GOP Caucuses in Blowout Fashion (8 Feb)

Trump was one of two candidates on the caucus ballot, along with pastor Ryan Binkley, who failed to secure a delegate in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. As of 11:02 p.m. ET, NBC News had called the race when Trump garnered 96.4 percent of the vote to Binkley’s 3.6 percent, with one percent reporting.

Ryan Binkley is a bit of centrist but with very good credentials otherwise. So there’s no reason why the never-Trumpers wouldn’t at very least register an anti-Trump protest vote. Yet Binkley only got 3.6%. By contrast Haley was swamped by over 60% none-of-the-above.

The Republican ordinary voter wants Trump and no one else.

So – Trump has now won Nevada…….

👍 x 1000

The silence yesterday by some, in the face of the Queanbeyan resident’s nasty words spoke volumes to me.

I see what you’re doing there, Cassie. I presume I am part of the “some”. Apparently by not “speaking out” and instead trying to get a sensible strategy from Joh in the wake of her comment is a form of moral cowardice.

As for not feeling what you are feeling, I see will have to make my private worries public so that there is no misapprehension about where I stand.

You know I have Jewish grandchildren. Everyone on the blog knows. Every school day I wonder, will it be today? I have my strong daughter on the phone to me in tears, bewildered that she is so afraid to drop off and pick up her kids. She has never been afraid in her life. The unspeakable has happened elsewhere, why not in Sydney? My Christian friends are faithfully praying for divine protection for the school and indeed, the entire community. We did so yesterday morning.

And now I have spoken my volume. It’s deeply personal, but I have no other method of conveying to you my thoughts on the matter.

Russia has no desire to invade other countries in the region

Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Kuril Islands…

Makes as much sense as Fatmuricans spreading democracy at the bombsight of a B1-B Lancer.

To describe yesterday’s thread as awful is to understate the extent of the inane stoush trolling that occurred.

Cassie, I have expressed my support for you and Israel on other occasions, but I was not willing to enter the sewer yesterday.

I think Lizzie yesterday described you best.

Thank you Cassie. The scales have fallen from my eyes.

The words weren’t “flippant”. They were directed at those who enjoy this blog and repeat our comments ad nauseum on their hate threads. Yes, I’m looking at you Chilli.

I wish you a long and happy life, Cassie. There’s nothing more I can add.

our historians

History belongs to those who write it.

e.g. Pascoe

We Australians are governed by a bunch of dangerously self- absorbed out of touch ego maniacs motivated by self-interest

BINGO! Except I’d switch out governed for ruled. And ask the question as to why most of the MSM, with very few notable exceptions, this damned long to notice.

SLUG! Forget the drink…the missing ticks have obviously infested my typing finger.

Sometimes…people, otherwise known as you lot!, of course….

feelthebern
Feb 10, 2024 7:34 AM

KevinM, I thought Putin looked uncomfortable.
What did you think?

Have to admit I was listening not watching, the bits I saw I thought he was relaxed and as comfortable as anyone would be during an overlong sitting.

I have the feeling that he speaks English well, but I’m not sure, at times he took too long to respond as if to gather his thoughts, at others he responds immediately.
I don’t know.

If anyone was frustrated it was Carlson, the rules were clearly laid down well in advance and he had no control.

Whatever anyone thinks, he beats Biden in the intelligence race.

Gerard Henderson in the Oz.

BTW, as I mentioned up-thread, I missed all the ructions on the Cat in the last few days.

It probably doesn’t need to be said as I have strongly spoken out here, and in many other places, since 7 October, but for the record I strongly oppose “Jew Hatred”, fully support Israel’s pursuit of Hamas, and am very sympathetic towards all my Jewish friends and the Cats of that persuasion.

Gerald’s column is on the money as far as I am concerned.

ABC adds another sorry chapterto Lattouf shame file
Readers of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories will recall that his character, Sherlock Holmes, once solved a case by drawing assumptions about a dog that did not bark.

The ABC Media Watch program resumed on Monday with presenter Paul Barry stating the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster “has launched into 2024 with a hot new political drama”. The reference was to the ABC’s decision in late December not to allow Antoinette Lattouf, whom Barry described as a “Lebanese-Australian journalist”, to present the final two days of her five-day contract filling in on ABC Radio Sydney.

According to the ABC, it took action against Lattouf after she defied an order not to post comments on social media. Lattouf had forwarded a post by Human Rights Watch that claimed the Israeli government was using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war in Gaza. As Barry pointed out, the ABC had run the HRW story the previous day. However, he did not mention that HRW is an avowed critic of Israel.

I argued on these pages on January 27 that it was a mistake for the ABC to employ Lattouf in the first place, and a further mistake not to allow her to conclude the final two days of her contract.

Barry was broadly sympathetic to Lattouf. Yet he did acknowledge “she had been vocal about the Israel-Gaza war for weeks and … made it clear where her sympathies lay”. Barry added that Lattouf was “not a Hamas supporter” but conceded she had been “scathing about Israel’s justification that it acted in self-defence” – following the atrocity of October 7 in which more Jews were murdered in one day than at any time since the end of the Nazi Germany Holocaust.

In short, Lattouf is an activist journalist – who is hostile to Israel. Jon Faine, until recently an important presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne, is a strong supporter of the public broadcaster. Asked to comment on the case by Nine newspapers on January 27, Faine said ABC journalists must “surrender yourself” in order to take a presenter’s position.
He added: “On Friday, Ms Lattouf was an activist, on Monday she was an ABC presenter; well, it doesn’t work.” Quite so. It is true that, as revealed by Nine newspapers, a group called Lawyers for Israel complained to ABC management. It is not at all clear that Lattouf’s removal (on full pay) from two shows resulted from this.

Lattouf was an anti-Israel activist before the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7 and remains one today in an atmosphere of virulent anti-Semitism in many Australian cities, especially Sydney and Melbourne.

The rise of anti-Semitism has been evident in recent years in many European nations. This is well illustrated in Jews Don’t Count, by London-based writer and comedian David Baddiel, published by The Sunday Times in 2021. Baddiel, a proud Jew, writes that we are told “that those who do not experience racism need to listen, to learn … when others speak of their experiences – except, it seems, when Jews do”.

Baddiel gives examples of anti-Semitism in Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and, yes, Melbourne. It’s much worse now – in London, Melbourne and elsewhere.

October 9 was modern Australia’s day of shame. A group of protesters undertook an illegal march from Sydney Town Hall to the Sydney Opera House. On the way they called for the elimination of Israel – from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. They were accompanied at the rear by NSW Police.

Despite the fact that this was an unauthorised march, the only arrest made by NSW Police was of a man carrying an Israeli flag. He was subsequently released.

Anglican clergyman Mark Leach told the Sky News Sharri program on February 6 that, at the Town Hall, he heard protesters chanting “kill the Jews” and was chased down the street by a man “running behind me threatening to slit my throat”.
NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns has criticised the protest as “violent and racist”. For its part, NSW Police acknowledged that at the Opera House the chants of “f..k the Jews” and “where’s the Jews?” were heard, but not “gas the Jews”. This despite the fact that, to many who have viewed the video, the protesters seemed to be saying “gas” rather than “where’s”.

In one sense it makes little difference. No one is going to get away with gassing anyone in contemporary Australia. But demanding to know where Australian Jews can be found is deeply threatening. Little wonder that many Jews feel unsafe in their own country.

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon said at a media conference on February 2 he had overwhelming certainty that the protesters made no reference to “gas” – and that this was the finding of an expert report. He did not state whether the finding was made by someone with expertise in Middle Eastern languages/accents. Lanyon recognised that some witnesses reported hearing the word “gas” but had not been able to identify any such individual. And he did concede that the video footage had not been doctored.

Writing in the leftist Crikey on December 13, Lattouf was probably the first journalist to dismiss the gas comment. On February 2, she said NSW Police had confirmed that this was not the case and said she was looking forward to receiving apologies from those who had criticised her article. She did not suggest that apologies were required from those who shouted “f..k the Jews”.

Which brings us back to Media Watch. Barry declared that Lattouf “was right to question” whether “gas the Jews” had been chanted at the Opera House. He seemed to be of the view that the opinion of one person, which has been accepted by NSW Police without further testing, should be accepted without question. Barry went along with Lattouf’s call for an apology.

However, Barry did not allow viewers to make their own judgment by listening to the actual words that were chanted. Instead, he talked over the video while the volume was turned down. In short, Barry didn’t allow viewers to come to their own opinion. Why? – as Sherlock Holmes was wont to ask.

Gerard Henderson is executive director of The Sydney Institute.

GERARD HENDERSON COLUMNIST

I think the shrill protestations yesterday about the demise of the ticks were very revealing.

Perish the thought.

They will definitely post something original today, not reposted from elsewhere or otherwise complaining about “blog wreckers!” – surely!?

A tickless Catallaxy. Transitioned from new to trans. A pretense of femininity. Ye shall not enter my RAM!