The Federal Court ruled at 930 am this morning that the Classification Review Board did not understand the overwhelming majority…
The Federal Court ruled at 930 am this morning that the Classification Review Board did not understand the overwhelming majority…
Hope you’re putting your money where your mouth is Monty.
Funny how they use the term ‘investing’ to describe spending on long overdue basic maintainance. Typical Labor (Labour).
The document comes from Politico. I looked at the url, but didn’t follow it. Anything that comes from Politico is…
Maryland. LOL. The establishment knows who butters their croissants.
Woo Hoo! Podium!
Ticketty Boo
+1
+0.5
Salvo, 😀
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.
+0.25
+ 35.
It used to be a tick infested region. From a couple of previous comments it appears we now must tick ourselves with + or – values to the second decimal point. Golly, what a gerat improvement.
– 17.93
“gerat” = great
-0.67
Alito goes for the jugular
Greetings all.
+1
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
Haha, was apportioning a depreciation value to comments, with “1” as the first, halving in value for each subsequent.
Btw: +0.99 for you.
Nothing says saving the planet than Sardinians burning imported Canadian wood pellets for home heating.
Still, overcast day, the particulate pollution is magnificent.
@ Salvatore, Iron Publican
Feb 10, 2024 1:15 AM
I know you are having an employment drought – So you gonna hire me or what ?
Will this help? 😉
+ 6.02214076 ^E 23
Or what.
There’s no employment drought – I’m swamped in applications from hot Euro-honeys.
They’re desperate for a job. There’s hundreds (but not as many as a thousand) job applications I’ve not opened, all received since December.
My strike rate is close 1:1 applications to jobs filled, likewise 1:1 ratio jobs offered to accepted & turn up for work.
Usually it is >30:1 for applications to job filled with an arrival ratio of 5:1
I’ve never had so many willing & capable staff.
I’ve so many that this afternoon I sacked 2 x girls, for dobbing me in to WH&S.
It’s years since I’ve had the luxury of being able to freely sack people who deserve it.
@Salvatore, Iron Publican
Feb 10, 2024 1:38 AM
I was just making that comment in jest. Bad Joke perhaps so forgive Please. I know some aren’t doing so well in the bush. Nothing on you … But I have seen “young blokes rocking up to work with black eyes … more than one Monday in a row. And they were 30 !!!
Look after your people Mate and it will be fine …
Hope
That street has lanes going both directions.
I expect the other lane to be used, not just me using the Zil lane.
Almost 340 mph @ 10:17. Insane!
Trackside at the PRO Superstar Shootout! Clay Millican and Bob Tasca FIRED UP on Day One!
What happened to the thumbs?
They’ve been retired – due to the site’s most Turnbullian ego chucking a major sad at receiving downticks.
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.
Grow a skin. Sleep well folks.
Tickler, Dover got rid of them because sniveling frauds and other assorted feral swine were gaming the system to screw over commenters they disliked as well as pretending they were more popular than they were.
It’s unfortunate because the plug-in had its use.
+1
JC
Feb 10, 2024 3:18 AM
Tickler, Dover got rid of them because sniveling frauds and other assorted feral swine were gaming the system to screw over commenters they disliked as well as pretending they were more popular than they were.
It’s unfortunate because the plug-in had its use.
Noted.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Feb 10, 2024 3:05 AM
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.
This matches my lived experience, of three hours sans ticks.
As someone said upthread (or on da previous thread) it is barely fathomable that those ticks are a serious topic of conversation.
Don’t these people have a life?
There may be a significant portion of regulars who have no hobby or pastime.
Thumb-one thought them thumb-what demeaning so they’ve been relegated to the pool of cancel culture. Thumbs and Likes are infantile emotional expressions that don’t matter. Without that extraneous coded “if then” hopefully the blog will load faster.
+1 or thumbthing thumbwhat like that.
Katzenjammer
Feb 10, 2024 3:28 AM
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.
Oops, forgot to uptick my post.
+1
Grow an ethical spine , bush hog.
-1
You seem intelligent & emotionally well adjusted. :-))
Yep, and you’re entire life is a lie and blowharding. You haven’t fired anyone, you blowhard, It’s all in your imagination to promote someone you’re not and never will be. An ethical individual, which is totally alien to you and always will be. Everything you utter is a lie.
Trigggggggeeerrrrrreddd.
This bile of yours cannot be healthy for you.
It’d be prudent to have your house fitted with handrails & stuff in readiness for your upcoming stroke.
Johannes Leak.
+100 (chortle)
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Tom; Thanx
Well that’s it for the day. Got through the night without anybody being hurt.
* phew *
Crowd dispersed in an orderly fashion – an achievement of its very own to manage that.
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.
Mollie
@MZHemingway
Democrats Spun Biden’s Classified Docs As ‘Six Items,’ But Special Counsel Report Reveals It Was 300-Plus
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/democrats-spun-bidens-classified-docs-as-six-items-but-special-counsel-report-reveals-it-was-300-plus/
I’d forgotten the narrative all the Biden boosters were pushing.
“It was only a handful of documents”.
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.
4 Lies Joe Biden Spouted Off In Angry Special Counsel Press Conference
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/4-lies-joe-biden-spouted-off-in-angry-special-counsel-press-conference/
Hur’s report, however, said investigators found classified documents in the “garage, offices, and basement den” of Biden’s Delaware home.
“And the place where the Afghanistan documents were eventually found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware garage — in a badly damaged box surrounded by household detritus — suggests the documents might have been forgotten,” Hur’s report noted.
+100
Listening to T Carlson ‘interview’ it seems to me like a monologue by Putin and actually he makes a lot of sense as far as I can see.
If you have a different opinion, fine.
Downtick me.
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).
My previous post was from a comment to an article “Green Energies Shattering German Economy…Industrial Production Falls 7th Consecutive Month”. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/09/green-energies-shattering-german-economyindustrial-production-falls-7th-consecutive-month/
Steve Price:
Rinse and repeat for 80% of today’s pollies I would have thought.
As homework you could check your Federal member. Ours be ‘Dr’ Anne Webster.
Okey dokey, work with vulnerable people etc which is good. What was the topic of her doctorate?
Via Wikipedia. Um, not a doctor then.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uagp1zrPfmw
For those that missed this report watch until end.
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alwaysright
Feb 10, 2024 6:27 AM
How do you do that?
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.
Now and then BB I get the feeling the Lib-Nat-ALP in Vicco are all one party. The chick who’s name escapes me who had an ALP lover and ‘worked’ for red Ted and now a state Nat MP. Something like that. ‘Dr’ Webster gives me that feeling too.
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.
As in &
Test
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In Sydney, doing a talk this morning at the Kokoda Walkway on the midget sub raid of 1942.
We got a train from Central to Rhodes. It was speedy, clean, and it cost $1.73 each. Efficiency – what’s going on!
The semi colon is important
Nope
Test again
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Good morning. Looks like the gladiators can gladiate with a thumbless Caesar looking on.
He might have to actually say something disapproving now. What a treat.
Our feral member is an apparatchik call Sam Rae who hails from Canbra originally so I just read. Not a good start.
Lol, Gabor! How do you do that? And how well timed!
✓
Some connection with PwC too- all a bit sketchy.
alwaysright
#x1F44D;
Clever Cat that you are.
Poop. I’m a dumbo.
*swigs coffee*
Try again.
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That calli is my favourite image.
From what Book of Magic do you get these devilish symbols of great power?
And is Hope pressed between the sheets of the final page?
Sam Rae loves Hawke’s vibrant community. They all say that.
For cassi
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https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_symbols.asp
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?
Cat is refusing to post my links to HTML symbols.
👏 👏
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.
Thanks alwaysright
😘
KevinM, I thought Putin looked uncomfortable.
What did you think?
Borka might’ve broken the hyperbowl barrier over Tucker’s interview.
PJW looks at an actual bit of moist gusset fawning.
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 !
Tick x infinity
So – Trump has now won Nevada…….
“I don’t want anybody else, when I think about you I uptick myself.”
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.
Price, not Pirce! Proofread.
Well, after yesterday morning’s rumpus I do ask if it is safe for me to pop my head up here? Given the out of control Jew hatred running amok across the West and particularly in this country in 2024, I wonder, am I going to be verballed by a nasty, lonely and very bitter person and told to “harden up”. Am I going to have ‘my culture’ traduced?
The only other Jewish commentator I am aware of here is Katz, and I can guarantee that he is feeling just like me. Since 7 October, Jews across the world are feeling very, very insecure.
Last night I went to Shabbat dinner, and despite being Shabbat when we’re supposed to be happy, we are instead all rather subdued. It’s been like that since 7 October. We’re feeling how our ancestors felt, whilst the Cossacks, the Nazis and all the rest of the unhinged Jew haters aren’t yet knocking down our doors, they’re not far away, we can feel their hatred and we can hear them baying for our blood. In order to counter some of the subdued atmosphere, I tried to instill some Seinfeldian humour by stating…’oh well, we had it really good for decades but now it’s back baby, big time! I did manage to make some people laugh. You see, we Jews will always see and speak humour even in our dark times.
Is the resident of Queanbeyan an anti-Semite? Probably not but her commentary yesterday, particularly about my ‘culture’, was nasty, unpleasant, vicious and damning. I’ll just remind people here about some of her choice commentary she hurled at me……
Stop whining and do something about it!
If the Jewish community really cares and wants to act, what’s stopping them?
Curling up into a ball and demanding sympathy only goes so far. Maybe that’s your culture. It’s not mine, we harden up.
As her unsavoury words above attest, her longstanding and well known dislike of me yesterday plummeted to rather low depths. This person knows nothing about my culture, just because one might have eaten a bagel or two, watched an episode of Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, visited NYC, or once shared digs in Sydney’s eastern suburbs doesn’t instill in anyone expertise in Judaism, Jewish history or what it is to be a Jew. Here’s the truth, she knows nothing about what it is to be a Jew, she knows nothing about how my community is currently feeling given the unhinged levels of Jew hatred running amok across the west and in this country.
Further to this, I open up today’s Oz and I read this…..shades of 1930s Germany.
Leaders and business savage Australia’s rising anti-Semitism
Widespread anti-Semitic attacks on small, medium and large Jewish-linked firms have been savaged by prominent Australians and the peak business body as authorities assess evidence of offences after the October 7 atrocities.
Government agencies and police face pressure to deal with a wave of attacks against Jewish businesses that also include a heavy focus on vulnerable smaller enterprises.
Businessman Joe Gersh, a former ABC director, said it was “unbelievable” that modern Australia had descended into overt anti-Semitism with potentially major impacts on smaller businesses, which are more vulnerable to campaigns compared with the relative stability of larger enterprises.
He said Hamas supporters had been blamed for much of the campaigning, which often involved harassment techniques including writing bad online reviews, negative social media posts, and direct intimidation by anti-Israel activists.
“Some of the stuff is absurd,” Mr Gersh said.
Anti-Semitism has been left to ‘boil away underneath the surface’
It was “extraordinarily unfair” and misconceived to target small businesses “just because they have a Jewish connection’’.
Anti-Semitism is rife on social media, thousands of businesses and people have been slapped with offensive stickers or faced vandalism, large companies such as shipping related to Israel have been targeted, as have suspected defence related firms.
One of the nation’s most respected lawyers, Allan Myers KC, said he abhorred the attacks on Jewish businesses and was concerned about what it meant for broader society.
“It’s simple, straightforward, old-fashioned anti-Semitism,” he said. “It’s detestable.’’
“It is detestable to try to hurt them. It’s a symptom of the way our society is developing.’’
Mr Myers said he was concerned Australia may be shifting away from a culture of not punishing people for their heritage or beliefs.
“We were not only free, prosperous but we were also tolerant,’’ he said.
Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler said the anti-Semitism threatened not only Jews but all Australians.
“We cannot afford to sit on our hands, everyone has a role to play, especially governments,’’ he said. “The so-called progressives attacking Jews and Jewish-owned businesses are raising the bar for racial hatred in this country. They’re doing loudly and proudly what the neo-Nazis who march down the main streets of Ballarat surely only wish they could do.
“With anti-Semitic propaganda being plastered against Jewish businesses, it’s a hop, skip and a jump before their windows are being smashed in.”
Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black said: “There is no place for intolerance in businesses or in our communities. Whether this emerges in the form of anti-Semitism or any other hatred, these ugly ideas are dangerous to our way of life.
“Put simply, it’s not who we are as Australians and it’s not who we should aspire to be.”
Law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler is representing some of the 600 Jewish people on a WhatsApp group that was targeted by anti-Zionist activists.
The activists have published the names and images of hundreds of people in a bid to embarrass them. Some companies have reportedly been targeted on social media through phone calls and emails with pressure to sack some people.
“This an appalling, orchestrated campaign to intimidate and harass members of the Australian Jewish community by placing them on a hit list of Jews to be targeted by hateful extremists,” Mr Leibler said.
Rochelle and Adi Daboush run prominent Jewish street food restaurant Tavlin in Melbourne’s southeast that has been harassed from the moment the conflict broke out last year.
The harassment has included abusive phones calls, offensive stickers, a campaign of bad online reviews and a “visit” from men opposed to the Israeli cause.
“It’s been an emotional time, no doubt, especially earlier on,” they said.
Anti-Israel campaigners are using a sophisticated social media strategy to encourage harassment or bans on Jewish companies, singling out established Jewish families such as the owners of Sportsgirl and Sussan, the Besen Family Foundation, Chemist Warehouse and Spotlight. Schwartz Media is also a target.
One social media post reads: “Anyone who gives their time, creativity or labour to a recipient of Besen family money should be disgusted, enraged and actively demand divestment from genocide.’’
Another post implores people to sign a pledge: “I will never shop at Spotlight or Anaconda again.’’
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this week that Victoria Police were pursuing a protection order for a Jewish couple who had received a photograph of their five-year-old son from an anti-Zionist activist with the threat: “I know where you live”.
“All reports of threats and/or violence will be taken seriously, and members of the community are strongly encouraged to report any incidents of concern,’’ it said.
“We will continue to work with our partner agencies across Government and community to monitor the situation.’’
The October atrocities were committed by the terrorist group Hamas, which controls what is left of Gaza, with almost 28,000 Palestinians reported to have died in the aftermath.
The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network did not respond for comment.
As for Mr Gersh’s words ““Some of the stuff is absurd,”. Mr Gersh is right, but you see Jew hatred isn’t just absurd, it’s deadly.
A few months ago, after 7 October, and after the the unspeakable events at the Sydney Opera House two days later a Rabbi I know said from his pulpit that it’s high time that non-Jews spoke up and took to the streets to condemn this ferocious Jew hatred. On Sunday 18 October, here in Sydney, there will be a rally to support Jews and Israel. It is being organised by non-Jews, mainly by Christians, to say to Australia’s Jews that “we have your back”,
The silence yesterday by some, in the face of the Queanbeyan resident’s nasty words spoke volumes to me. However, fortunately some did speak up, and I want to say a big thanks to those who did speak up for me (and Katz) and our culture yesterday, you know your names, but I’ll mention some, Lizzie, Dragnet, Rosie, JC, Tinta and a few others. Some have reached out to me privately. Poor wonderful Lizzie, she puts her neck on the scaffold, and for her bravery she draws mean and uncivil opprobrium from those who are less brave. But I have noted those who remained silent yesterday, who rather than condemning the disgusting commentary hurled at me yesterday morning instead preferred cowardly silence. This I know, you don’t have my back.
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Apologies everyone, it is…
Sunday 18 February 2024
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oh semi colon, where art thou semi colon?
I agree in both respects, but it must be hard to conduct an interview in two languages when you can’t communicate directly with the guest. Putin did like to give a full answer and didn’t let himself be distracted, but it didn’t mean he avoided the question. He always went back to it. He was quite diplomatic at times but he couldn’t have made it clearer that –
1. Russia wants to end this was by negotiation and has done for at least a year and a half, and
2. Russia has no desire to invade other countries in the region.
I’m sorry to say it, but the warmongers are in America and Europe. This is based not just on this interview but on long term behaviour, the most obvious and disgusting example being Boris Johnson rushing to Ukraine to scuttle any peace agreement. It couldn’t have been clearer at the time that they wanted to extend the war, never mind the cannon fodder.
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)
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.
I don’t think Putin is comfortable with any journalist.
👍 x 1000
My MP is Chris Bowen. Nuff said.
Chris Minns government can make trains run on time.
Actually it turns out Trump got over 99% of the caucus votes in Nevada, that 96.4% must’ve been an early booth. I had to hunt for numbers but both BBC and Al Jaz say over 99%.
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.
Meme
Does anyone else note the parallel between Nikki Haley defeat in Nevada, and (the cyclops) Polyphemus after Odysseus (who was using the name Outis, or ‘nobody’ in English) blinded him.
Polyphemus’ fellow giants come running in response to all the commotion and ask him “Who has hurt you?”
“Nobody has hurt me! Kill nobody!”
Nikki will be be stomping about the hotel room “I am so angry nobody has beat me!”
Oh, and another new OT.
The last one being only a single day?
The sneakiness continues unabated.
From The Age:
Kurtley Beale was arrested and charged on 20 January 2023.
Cassie of Sydney
Feb 10, 2024 8:33 AM
I get it. But then again, try being a ‘Pom’ in Convict’s Paradise.
Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Kuril Islands…
Makes as much sense as Fatmuricans spreading democracy at the bombsight of a B1-B Lancer.
Except that it’s not.
We need a Royal Commission into False Accusations.
I think they gave the game away years ago.
Dem senator torched for calling illegal migrants the ‘people we care about most:’ ‘Giving away’ the game
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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.
No, that is not what ensued yesterday. And I recall your flippant words…..
But I flatly refuse to turn this forum into a slanging match for the entertainment of the peanut gallery. Unfortunate for popcorn sales, but there it is.
Having the back of a people with thousands of years of murderous persecution behind them is not “slanging”.
I think Lizzie yesterday described you best.
There are no longer any upticks or downticks so at least cowardice on this forum can no longer be rewarded as it was yesterday.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Been away from the Cat for a couple of days and scrolled back.
Not sure what to say?
Anyway, thanks to Dover for this (usually) magnificent blog.
In entertainment news, I went to an Ian Moss acoustic concert last night (in Canberra).
As usual, Ian was fantastic.
In other news, Netflicks has a great Australian movie on it “The Big Dry”, with Eric Bana.
Excellent drama with many red herrings.
Worth having a look IMO.
Hamas Declares It Will Not Accept Existence of Israel as Biden Admin Touts ‘Two-State Solution’
The caucus result also suggests the 30% she did get in the state-run primary were almost entirely Democrats in drag.
This stuff says a lot about the political dynamics going on in the US right now. Pretty much a grass roots uprising against the privileged class. I wonder what the Dems and deep state will try next?
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.
The Censorship Industrial Complex Strikes Again
The train is still bearing down on us and our politicians can be relied upon to tie us to the track.
As WHO Pandemic Treaty Nears Completion, Critics Raise Red Flags for US Freedoms
Cassie, I have expressed my support for you and Israel on other occasions, but I was not willing to enter the sewer yesterday.
This I know, and it wasn’t directed at you.
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.
Thought for the Day.
Trump Demands Jack Smith Drop Classified Docs Case After Biden Gets Off With No Charges
Putin inspired me to read up on Russian history. Proto Russia probably existed since at least the 830s (so roughly as long as England as a nation, just like England at the time without a formal, unitary nation State) The question is if the Swedish Vikings married into the existing Khaganates, set up their own cities or asserted themselves by force.
What’s more likely is the Swedes and Russians were probably more alike than past historians realised and had been intermarrying otherwise well before the known establishment of Kiev etc.
The Holy Roman and Eastern Emperors correspondence mentioning the early Rus is biased against the Scandinavians (Vikings) and anyone they otherwise may consider in their sphere of influence who would asset full political autonomy.
More historical documents from the time would be delightful.
Biden and everyone in his orbit are pretty corrupt, so they have big hands.
Tucker Carlson Shares His Impressions of Interview With Putin
Dover,
Is it possible to have a reply button (like Michael Smith’s blog) where you can reply directly to a comment in a thread and it and all subsequent replies stay together like a thread within a thread?
It may contain the stoushers to one part of the thread, making it easier for those not involved to by pass it.
It may make it easier for commenters who delve into a discussion on a topic that gets raised to continue their discussion, rather than have to search through for any replies.
The blank slate idea of history we’re cursed with seems to be an Anglophone thing. We had a Eurocentric view of the expansion of the Empire and creation of America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
I think it’s been a stumbling block for our historians or at least the teaching of history for at least 100 years.
Vladimir Putin Drops a Truth Bomb on US Politicians: Why Is America Fighting for Ukraine’s Border but Refuses to Defend Its Own Border?
I should go, as a young boomer, before he retires.
Matchbook is likely one of the greatest albums of the 20th century and possibly the best Australian album ever.
Out of the Fire is a masterpiece.
Cassie of Sydney
Feb 10, 2024 8:33 AM
The only other Jewish commentator I am aware of here is Katz, and I can guarantee that he is feeling just like me. Since 7 October, Jews across the world are feeling very, very insecure.
You are not the only Jewish commenter here, but certainly the most articulate. Here in Melbournistan things are just as horrible as in Sydney. There was a news item recently about Jewish families leaving certain suburbs north of the river because of overt anti-semitism.
Last week I happened to pass the landmark Melbourne Hebrew congregation synagogue on the corner of Toorak and St Kilda Roads and noticed the star of David that was a prominent feature on top of the dome for many years had been removed. Admittedly that congregation has been in decline for the last couple of decades but the removal of its symbol made a powerful impression on me. You can imagine that happening in 1930s Germany.
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I get the impression they don’t believe in letting the proles judge for themselves.
@amuse
@amuse
SHOCK: President Biden and the Democrats have accused RFK Jr. of illegal activity and have opened a federal investigation into the independent presidential candidate to remove him from the ballot.
History belongs to those who write it.
e.g. Pascoe
How close is Israel to defeating Hamas?
Genuine question. Gaza isn’t that big after all.
I don’t believe Netanyahu is unpopular. I think he has a crap sandwich as to what to do next.
“I’ve beaten Hamas, now what!?”
Conservative outlets and Texas request court halt Biden ‘censorship scheme’ in lawsuit
‘Trusted Messengers:’ Volunteer Censors Trained to Control Your Community’s Speech
Vagabond
Feb 10, 2024 9:18 AM
Thank you.
You know
Sometimes think I’m trolling if I say something provocative.
I’m not.
In light of what happened to Hayne and Beale, is it worth considering having your Tinder dates recorded on CCTV?
I’m only half joking. Look, there’s affirmative consent! Well, off camera, he threatened me to enthusiastically consent.
Reminds of the doc who got accused of rape and the missus who made that accusation basically rode him until he was physically broken for the night.
I can’t understand why angry young men who feel like they have been given a Kafkaesque choice in life start becoming Islam curious.
“Well a jury can be trusted” is about the most chilling statement one could make.
What’s the alternative? Give up? Screen all gfs for mental health? Have your mother in law chaperone you after marriage? Constantly give out alibi vibes…”special girl is wearing me out trying for a baby, I can’t keep up…”, post that to group chats as an “insurance” policy?
On the other hand, I did see an online sex worker state the other day that she won’t date men unless they drive a a car “worth” at least 300k USD car and her wedding ring should equal the average US mortgage.
I can’t figure out what has gone wrong with society.
The cream of the crop of men get treated like creeps and they’re not even good enough for online sex workers.
Now gentlemen:
You will own nothing and you must be happy, for your own sanity.
You like potato salad? Show me potato salad!
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.
…why it took…so long etc. I need another slig of single malt. Is it too early?
SLUG! Forget the drink…the missing ticks have obviously infested my typing finger.
Turns out the first flounce of the year was from the…upticks.
Sometimes…people, otherwise known as you lot!, of course….
Cassie, thank you for recognizing that I did my best yesterday to stand up for Israel, Jews, and the reputation of this blog for decency. I see that for my pains I have as usual simply copped a serve of ‘flounce’ and other ‘usual suspect’ stuff. I didn’t support removal of the upticks, although I did see the downticks as a problem.
I will be down the South Coast for the weekend. We leave shortly, and I will be giving myself a break from this blog then, and perhaps for longer. The sort of hatreds piled upon me do take their emotional and physical toll. I don’t think I contributed to any ‘sewer’ yesterday, but the blame game against me has already started. I will come back in when I am ready to do so, that seems fair.
#x2721
Blog running like greased lightning since the ticks have gone.
It was very revealing what came out of the woodwork yesterday when that was announced.
Israeli flag; didn’t work.
Chin up, Cassie. I don’t know if you want to continue on here, yesterday you quite understandably did not want to, and neither did I. Let’s see how it pans out.
feelthebern
Feb 10, 2024 7:34 AM
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.
Some very beautiful music:
Hanna Marti — Orpheus
I heard that in the US (and probably here) there are more women in college than men. It does not entirely surprise me as there has been a definite spike in what they call the ‘soft sciences’ but I would call Bull Tish degrees in politics, women’s studies, and so on, as well as the re-design of curricula of traditional humanities courses like literature and history to focus on race, gender, systems of oppression.
Imagine reading something like Great Expectations and only seeing white male privilege and the oppression of wymmin, and the studied absence of transsexuals, class-power structures, and even racism because the wealth Pip makes in Egypt must be somehow stolen from Egypt. Imagine reading such a book and just having your convictions confirmed. To be satisfied at having read such literature and at the end being no wiser, no better, untouched by the vicissitudes and spirit of the characters (who, while they are fictitious the empathy and insights are not), but instead to get to the last page and and Estrella should dye her hair purple and start a Women’s Collective.
So, with all that said – I think there is a ‘feminisation’ of schools where lessons and classes are designed more to accommodate the girls natural tendencies than boys. It’s a theory.
It would be interesting to compare the results of boys from co-ed schools and boys from boys-only schools (but not the elite schools, obviously). At a boys only school there would be more energy burned off in the playground, more forgiving for minor acts of boisterousness in class and mischievous quips, and less of the belittling of maleness that teaches boys they have inherited the guilt for all the worlds ills.
Has such a comparison been done?
Quite so x 45.
I think the shrill protestations yesterday about the demise of the ticks were very revealing.
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.
Olympics trougher John Coates, who was instrumental in convincing Palaszczuk to bid for the Olympics nobody in SE QLD wanted, now complaining that “suddenly we’re on the nose in Brisbane”.
You hitched your wagon to a horse with no legs, John.
Sancho Panzer
Feb 10, 2024 9:46 AM
Blog running like greased lightning since the ticks have gone.
It was very revealing what came out of the woodwork yesterday when that was announced.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, they were thumbs. Get along to Spec Savers and get tested.
And what came out of the woodwork? More worms?
This has been a long time coming.
Don’t believe it will be for long though.
Perish the thought.
They will definitely post something original today, not reposted from elsewhere or otherwise complaining about “blog wreckers!” – surely!?
…and. Here. We. GO!!!
A tickless Catallaxy. Transitioned from new to trans. A pretense of femininity. Ye shall not enter my RAM!
The BBC Damages Our Culture. From Racist Employees to Gary Lineker to Deflecting Acid Attacks
So taunts about knotted hankies and an aversion to bathing are the equivalent of Hamarse terrorism, eh, Wodney?
I assume “Convict’s Paradise” is another reference to Marty Armstrong?
Low-dose lithium attenuates kidney aging in mice
The required dosage is much higher than I am taking; the equivalent of about 600mg for a human. Still well below the toxicity threshold. The interesting aspect is the claim the benefit revolves around an enzyme implicated in sugar regulation. That is intriguing because an epidemiological study of centenarians published just a few days ago found two key variables: good blood sugar regulation and preserved kidney function.
Dot
Feb 10, 2024 9:11 AM
Lot of Byzantine influence as well
The Tsar was a Caesar role
And the Caesar was the Eastern Roman one.
Two-three-four or five problems:
“Normal” single sex schools are rare these days. Even elite schools are usually coeducational.
Sometimes the single sex non elite boys schools were a dumping ground for unruly/bad kids. So normal kids had to endure a prison like existence because 1% – 10% of their cohorts were anti social, mildly retarded, abused at home or had useless parents.
How do you account for different measures of performance and multifactorial outcomes later on?
Then there’s also the issue of men on average having a slightly higher IQ with a far larger variance and society has falling IQ – which is difficult to disentangle also coincides with the increase in women’s participation in universities and the prevalence of knife and fork “degrees”.
Morn all.
Gawd the average age of Vic Pol is young. Cpuple of interactions this week.
Speaking of cops Katrina “you can’t arrest your way out of a crime wave” Carroll assures us she has the solution to Aboriginal/ethnic crime. Spare me if I don’t care.
And this is why people have so little respect for police now. Oh, they will call for them in emergencies – it is the only straw allowed to be clutched at. But people now see the police as a politicised, partisan, and timid organisation. People know that if your car is stolen, your house burgled, your property vandalised, or even attacked without being able to see your attacker, all the police will do is file a report. Occasionally they blunder into miscreants and catch them in flagrante delicto and may then solve a crime or two other, but you do better playing the Lotto.
Truthfully, when I see police talking to civilians now I don’t have the feeling any more that someone is getting their comeuppance. I have as strong a suspicion instead that they are just pushing someone around because they can.
The chick who’s name escapes me who had an ALP lover and ‘worked’ for red Ted and now a state Nat MP.
Steph Ryan, retired 2019. Husband/partner City of Yarra ALP member that she is now very shy of admitting, wiki profile cleansed of his political affiliation, google searches same unless you put in his exact name & alp councillor.
Good riddence anyway from what I saw interstate she was even more dripping wet than the Photios faction in NSW.
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.
Hes way too kind.
Shes a race pimp.
Devoid of other talent she reverts to just being a basic bitch race pimp.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/how-to-lose-friends-and-influence-white-people-9781761044007
Brisbane Sudanese community representative Beny Bol is blaming Australian culture for youth crime (not for the first time).
Yet a recent study of “offences against the person” committed by youths found a “significantly higher” rate of offending among Sudanese born youth compared to indigenous and non-indigenous Australian born youth. As the study also notes, ethnic Sudanese youths and adults feature “prominently” in violent crime statistics.
Denial will get us nowhere, Beny.
Indolent
Feb 10, 2024 9:10 AM
Trump Demands Jack Smith Drop Classified Docs Case After Biden Gets Off With No Charges
This is extraordinary. Biden is not guilty because he is senile, but wasn’t when he was a senator and VP when he committed the offence. Trump had an absolute right to take home classified material, which he had sole power to classify, but he is charged. Jack Smith is being directed by biden. This is the nadir of double standards.
It’s fascinating mole. Of course historically the significance of the conversion of an overlord monarch and marrying into the old Imperial family cannot be understated but of course Russia and Ukraine had monks and missionaries from the time of the Roman Principate into the time of the national conversion. So why would a national conversion be possible without a great standing army and strong central authority?
My point is not to undermine Russia but to show it is likely older than Russians can reliably prove.
Moscow as Third Rome is still a thing among Slavophiles and Russophiles.
Some attribute eschatological significance to the Romanov regicide.
Some people can’t live outside a rabbit hole.
That was why I was hoping someone had done the study, with all appropriate caveats, coefficients, and considerations. I am not qualified.
I suppose I look back to my upbringing in a Catholic school, boys only catering to years 5 to 10. At recess and lunch we played sport or games (there would be three or four games of touch footy with a tennis ball on the main driveway at a time), running around the yard, and would get back into the classroom ruddy faced and panting. The lessons seemed to be tailored to boy-energy levels, lots of joking – guy behaviour – which the teachers harnessed rather than supressed.
Well, that was my recollection. And we never heard of ADD and all those medications.
I don’t know about that. I think watching muscular men winning all the women’s events would be quite entertaining.
From this sniveller:
thumbs down! where art thou thumbs down?
Purely because those stinking union sh*theads were conducting a sabotage campaign against the public and the government, which they were engaged in endlessly until we were gifted with minns’ abortion of a government, when it mysteriously stopped.
The rail network in Sydney is abominable and the behaviour of the idiots catching the trains is just appalling.
Haunted vagina is haunted…
Facebook’s endless back-to-school photos spark complex feelings for childfree people like me – but sadness isn’t one of them
Van Badham
Copium incoming..
There are countermeasures available, of course – and one of these, I’d suggest, is embracing active roles for the childless and childfree in the broad community of family and friends that actually helps people with kids raise their children – especially in scenarios where dual careers, other care commitments and ongoing economic demands so fiercely squeeze any parents’ time. Meaningful, personal connection to the diversity of lives lived positively reinforces a better and more compelling argument against gender roles than the manosphere could ever counteract.
Yet there’s another powerful – and more difficult – option, too … and that’s to drop the old gender hangups in ourselves.
That’s true, but I’m thinking Hur’s report was pretty much on target while the problem side is what they’re trying to do to Trump. Hur’s was absolutely devastating.
That may be because she’s been occupied at the trough since, Steve Price.
Oh, give it a rest – they’re doing nothing of the sort.
The damage is done and the malodourous moozley morons, whose stock in trade is racist misogynistic abuse and intimidation, have been emboldened. See Dragnet’s recent comment about their behaviour in Schlockdale.
The “authorities” have been asleep at the wheel and are worse than useless.
All of this is that despicable imbecile minns’ fault – and the stupid forking gliberals for being so hopeless they gifted us with his sorry excuse for a government.
Large bribes…er, subsidies to the union courtesy the tax payer.
The earliest, easy to find reference to missionaries to the Scandinavians is in 710 with one King openly converting in around 830, over 100 years before Harold Bluetooth.
The idea of the Rus’ Varangians (apparently from Sweden) being ignorant of Christianity is another blank slate type error. Keep in mind the Swedes peacefully traded and settled in/moved around Northern European countries such as England for centuries. It was an English Bishop who went as a missionary in 710 after all…
The labour movement is now basically an extortion racket with a political front.
…and I thought removing ticks would stop the moaning.
apparently not
Dot – all the history of the Rus I learned from that noted documentary, “Vikings“.
The Pute can go and pound sand.
Boy, the 24 hours to midnight last night was one of the biggest scrolling days ever.
And it continued into the early hours of the morning.
Hope there’s not a repeat today.
Meanwhile, Tom is up at 04:00am again to start the day with the cartoons and deserves our mighty thanks. Leak continues his brilliance.
Brisbane Sudanese community representative Beny Bol is blaming Australian culture for youth crime (not for the first time).
like spoilt brats- brought to us by canbra
I’m wondering in Sam Rae is related to former Senator Robert Rae?
Try being a small business operator in the Land of the Fair Go.
Astonishing Predictions from Dr. Richard Day, 1969 – Part 3 – They Planned to Announce – ‘The New World Order Was Now the System For The World’
No barking up the wrong tree- Robert Ray not Rae
I asked my wife to moan whilst we were having sex.
So what happens the next time we have sex?
“You’re always late, never on time, you leave your dirty socks on the floor…
Sad about the ticks ……. duuuuuuh!
Personally, I only ever regarded them as an acknowledgement that some folk whether for or against had , actually, read the post ..
I’ve never down ticked anyone as everyone is entitled to there opinion whether I agree or disagree ….