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Open Thread – Weekend 10 Feb 2024
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Mike Pompeo@mikepompeoIn Ukraine, the Biden-Harris administration stumbled into war through weakness. President Trump would introduce peace through strength. Here’s what…
Tax cuts and income splitting. Simple.
It would be rough if he said it, but he didn’t.
Not at all surprising.
Trans earlier …
mmmyes
i see wot you are getting at
but you forget
this was dealt with a while ago
a mong with posting rights went off tap
loose cannon
lost cat trust
questions asked about access
assurances given
pretty much had editing access to his own posts and could see stuff in moderation
thats it
my guess is moderation files would contain lotsa bird, a fair smattering of st ruth and that other one whose name escapes
so wot
+100
We get the tedious daily battles ad nauseum with no way of providing feedback except by dealing with them i.e. getting abused and called names.
Sigh!*
* while it’s allowed here …
Yum, yum, yum … 🙂
Rooster
Commenting isn’t a popularity contest, if want popularity go to Tinder. Apparently Tinder has a sub-site where people can meet new friends, which is what I think you’re looking for.
As for bullying Woddenhead? Have you seen what he’s been up to in the past 24 hours. You’re such a biased dimb bulb. If you don’t like the site, you can always go. Nothing is stopping you and won’t be missed. It’s not as though your opinions set the world on fire.
Yes BoN, It is a delight, something so simple can give such joy.
Darn it, Rabz. I clicked, hoping it was some exciting new recipe.
Sigh.
@GreyRanga
Feb 10, 2024 8:09 PM
No Mate you are right . I was one who cheered when the Wall came down !! No More Cold War !! But hang on…. some have been done out of a job ..
I have been watching this disgusting conflict right from the sorry beginning … the one hat should have been an END…
But Papa Pu said nothing that wasn’t completely True.
May the Lord Have Mercy ..
You’re confused.
You and I don’t hold voting shares here.
You’re applying that very soft-left concept of “the stakeholder”.
That is, someone who risks nothing and contributes nothing, but wants to make consequence-free decisions by usurping the proprietor’s rights.
Just gave a carrot to young sir possum, who has been booted out by mum this week. He was happy. Life for male brushtails is nasty and brutish, often ending up as dinner for a powerful owl. I wish him well on his journey.
law firm, ffs.
Yes.
Lizzie’s dinner parties are among the most exclusive in Sydneystan. I’m allowed to attend as an example of “how the other half lives”* 😕
calli, enquiring at 8:21pm:
err, what?
*only joking, I tells ya!
Still working on calli’s questions P?
It’s an interesting question.
Anyway, if you want to bring my pointless existence to along overdue end, then feel free to join that massive queue over there …
You’ll be there for a long while, I tells ya! 🙂
I would never attack you Rabz, I like you.
If I attacked what you said then that is another matter. I’m sure you understand.
It’s not “the other half“.
Jeez, you’ll be in big strife if that gets back.
Not that I would say anything.
As opposed to one of the most beautiful womanages in human history.
Miss Eva. I’ve stopped trying to objectify her, as there is no point.
She is the among the best. Miss Maggie and her Hollyweirdettes would agree. 🙂
Was it? In reality world, this world, Dover never said anything that he acceded to requests and judging by he operates this blog, he doesn’t appear to be the type to get pushed around. He was likely sick of the cheating. Ask him.
It can be a tough place. It’s not Tinder Friends. Skip commenters you don’t like or perhaps avoid the blog if it upsets you.
Hmmm.
“Do it and you’re finished!” sounds totally like an ad hom attack or threat than questioning what someone said.
Somewhat unbecoming of an elderly lady, too, if I may be so bold to say.
Spot on.
You’ve nailed it perfectly.
P, I revel in all the opprobrium inexplicably attracted over these many, many years.
You don’t get to be as o’pinionated as I could allegedly be alleged to be without attracting some blowback, I tells ya. 🙂
No no, it’s
Rooster is correct.
If gives it that color like it’s coming from the boss.
Perhaps you could resurrect the Pubbler blog and allow all manner of ticking and voting on everything.
A true democracy.
Go on.
Do it.
… or it sounds like totally normal shit-talk
What to watch tonight
The fascinating and educational splendour of MAFS or… COCINEBEAR!!!!
Ahem
Cocaine
I didn’t know I was supposed to compare “Halves” and etcera .. I normally just go and get treated like a guest ..just people being people . and we have a chat. I dont go and compare circumstances .. How Rude?
Could be Old Mate next door chucking a barbie .. or the bloke with the yacht and a tub of crayfish and gallons of champagne ..
Social graces?
Citation required.
What are you on about?
Hey, Mark Steyn – I’m not happy, I tells ya!
Sacré bleu, Cats – the symmetree!
Tick junkies can always go to Jonova’s blog. She does an open thread every day with up ticks and down ticks.
You might need to know a bit of climate science though, to survive. 😀
Yeah, nah.
I’ll settle for a few (many) glasses of sav blanc and a bootleg of “The Beekeeper” while the Leader of the Opposition is down south.
Indeed.
COCAINE BEAR!!!!
Cats, it is absolutely bloody hilarious. 🙂
I think Driller should re-open his old blog. He’s an experienced blogger, having operated a very successful site for 15 years, attracting 279 replies over those years, and appears to have quite a following of sturdy commenters here. There appears to be a real desire for the plug-in, so with his interesting posts, lots of people would follow him there. I know I would, in a heartbeat. Such a boss.
Is that me, so hard to know with nicknames.
If so, which of my blogs do you reference?
Cats, just a reminder that I’m not into womanages of the blonde persuasion … 😕
Public House, Driller. The most successful Australian blog in history. Open it back up, including the old stories. Shame it was taken down.
Cocaine bear??
Done nearly 20 years ago in Kiwiland …
The violence of the lambs.
Bourne1879
Feb 10, 2024 8:36 PM
Brilliantly stated and it perfectly identifies and exposes those who will not sit back and allow all of us to express what we think or believe. Sad really and a reflection of the antics of MSM and Big Tech. If they disagree they simply drown out any dissent of their narrative.
If the feature was there I would certainly have given you a thumbs up in an anonymous gesture of support. Alas, the feature is no longer there.
It is not taken down.
That you cannot see something does not mean it does not exist.
A piece of shit like you is not welcome there. Deal with that, you’re not popular, as downticks revealed.
Deal with that, you deadshit.
You-are-not-welcome-and-there-is-nothing-you-can-do-about-that.
That blog, & all my others, are a deadshit-free zone.
To any lurkers or occasional commenters who are rolling their eyes and remaining silent – not through fear of being attacked by a sequence of pixels on a screen (yawn), but because as the physical body matures, so too does the emotional intelligence (absent the off-days/weeks/years we all have, and the subjective sense of humour which maybe no-one else on the planet understands) – you are not alone.
We expect disagreements, expressions of frustration, and the clash of personalities on an open forum, but when the well-worn pattern of emotionally returning to adolescence to show the mean grrls (back then) that you too can be a top dog (four or five decades later, but ‘better late than never, huh?’) becomes the dominant theme, it pushes the whole blog into a catatonia which no-one can read or participate in.
Those who want to be competitive (go for it) COULD do so on the thread Lord Dover provided for that purpose, but they choose not to. My Nutri-Grain psych certificate (of participation) tells me they choose to compete (irrationally) on the main thread because they WANT to disrupt. They NEED to prove something.
That’s great, kiddies. Good for you. Good for effing you.
Q [sic] the predictable response.
So you’ve appointed a blog manager and staying clear of it then?
Oh come on, Driller. Don’t be like that.
Link to it and moderate me out as it looks like you took it off offline. Great blog.
With any social media, blog post, or forum comment commencing with “So”, whatever follows is a fabrication by the author of that comment.
As is the case with your comment. You’ve been pulled into line before on this, perhaps you’re a slow learner? Or perhaps your recent comment confessing to fading memory means your powers of recall are weakening?
Drills, Oh good, it’s back up. You took it offline when I looked a while back. Did you edit it, or is the story that you ran a halal kebab stand in Western Sydney still there?
@Muddy
Feb 10, 2024 9:52 PM
Great spray Mate … but such a contention would require that this Cat’s Brains Trust Cathedral had all of those stellar attributes.
Care to re frame that hagiography on the more realistic premise that they dont ?
Much more convincing ..
The photo is magnifique, as is the subject, but redefining the concept of “Swan Necked”?
It never went away, however you’re looking at the old url, archived. You don’t have access to the site & haven’t for years.
You-are-not-welcome-in-that-community.
It has never even slowed down. That you aren’t allowed access does not mean it isn’t functioning.
You aren’t welcome, don’t have access, this will never change. Deal with it.
You’ve behaved like a bloody child on here over the past 24 hrs.
You’re likely not welcome anywhere.
That is something which comes from being of bad character. You’ll be well accustomed to this. Out.
I was told the story, from a reliable source, of one survivor of the “Voyager” , who was in his bunk, at the time of the collision. He ended up in the water.
He was posted to one of the sister ships of “Voyager” and was allocated the same bunk that he had had, on “Voyager.” He fell to pieces after that!
Oooh La La!
@Muddy
Feb 10, 2024 9:52 PM
Sorry Mate .. just re read that tract you wrote… it has intricacies “if you know what I mean” .. I hope you are doing OK .. just be carefull, eat well and get sober time. I am not being rude and making a snotty point … even if it isnt the Devils Dandruff … sleep … food ..sunshine .. too much good healthy natural stuff is never enough ..
with that I plan to hop in the pool !!
Speaking of the original Driller, Prince Andrew, he could move from number 8 to number 7 in the succession batting order if Chuck 3.0 pops his clogs.
There doesn’t seem to be a clamouring from an adoring public to elevate him further, even though the intensely unpopular Ginger Prince is listed to come in at 5.
Imagine that?
Being more toxic than Ginger.
One of my uncles was on the Melbourne, another was on the Voyager.
They knew each other, the one on the Melbourne was quite distressed at not finding in the water, or rescued, the other one, fearing him lost.
Turned out he wasn’t aboard – he either was ashore on a motor transport course, or he’d been posted elsewhere – it is lost in time now & it is no longer possible to ask either of them about it.
okay, A few years ago, I placed a comment you posted on the old Cat on Public House, which was about you dissing Indians. You took it off very quickly. That was very amusing seeing you felt it was fine to post it on the old Cat but not the exalted Public House.
Fine, I’m banned, but go re-birth it as it’s one of the finest blogs around and you could take a few pals over there with you and tick each other to infinity.
Hmm.
Watching some trash TV, a documentary that apparently absolves the poison Ukrainian dwarf. Who’d thunk it that an early 2000s Ukrainian document could be forged?
This is interesting. Keep in mind this test is the basis of her being absolved.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37702598/
This study shows that Elastic Net (EN) DNA methylation (DNAme) clocks have low accuracy of predictions for individuals of the same age
She’s a con artist. She can sue me.
Pardon me,as I am just a D.c from rezza,but aren’t up ticks a. ,I like it! And down ticks a I don’t .what’s so bad about that!
No you didn’t.
If you want to take this offline, think very carefully before you do. Very carefully.
You seem obsessed with micro-doxxing of others, of intruding into their real lives, be warned: It may not pan out how you believe it may.
Stick to abusing people on a protected blogsite – much safer.
There’s a valuable tip for you – heed it.
Of course I did.
Yeah, I’ve thought about it very carefully, quite carefully in fact and the information available was ALL ONLINE. I think, you’re making a sort of guarded legal threat and I’d be happy to defend it as a reverse the action against you too for the comments you’ve made. In fact, I welcome you to do so.
I’m offering the exact same advice to you and be very careful with what you’re threatening because I don’t like threats and it could be more than a little worrying for you.
Heed this champ, after all all the racist putrid abuse you’ve thrown my way, the things you’ve said against family etc, will not go well for you. I’m not going to stop until you do and that ain’t changing one bit. So either do what you have to do, or stick you’re threat up your sister’s backside, you clown. You don’t frighten me one little bit. You fraud.
Rank slander like that is actionable by the way. Keep that in mind next time you seek legal advice, you two-bit fraud.
Of course my comment about housing is in reference to the fairly constant complaints about the proliferation of airbnbs and other short term accommodation.
I notice Venice now has a day tripper tax of €5 during the high season. Apparently all of Italy just gets too many visitors.
Japan is also groaning under an inundation of tourists.
In Livorno I had to pay €1 a night tourist tax, in cash, which was just annoying, a smart landlord would just include it in the total but not my one roll tightwad.
ffs
Do you need the waaaaambulance you little sook?
Don’t like it when it is fired back at you?
Heed the advice you got upthread – talking tough about taking it offline ain’t a good idea.
You didn’t have what it takes to back your mouth with your chequebook. You haven’t got what it takes in any area – you know this, hence you stick to tough talk on a protected blog.
Otherwise you’d be bigtalking to all of us on Facebook, Twitter & the like.
You haven’t got the balls for even that.
Call the waaaambulance, pussy. Stop alluding to doxxing.
Someone may have given you their phone number – others of us will be harder to find.
You haven’t the balls to back your mouth. STFU & let this site recover from your 36 hours of bullshit.
Out. I’m done with you – I don’t engage with bloody idiots.
Don’t talk, act.
Can’t wait. Legal threats. Wow, you far king hero. You have no idea who you’re dealing with – that’s risky.
I know who I’m dealing with, a pussy who didn’t have the chequebook to back their mouth.
Get a room & a large tub of lube, enter that room with Sancho, don’t come out until you two cougars have satisfied your upsy-downsy urges.
Now there’s some advice you should heed.
Out.
china wins the carbon race
filthy
Outrage as Biden administration admits surveilling Americans’ private financial transactions for words like ‘MAGA’ ‘Trump’ and ‘Kamala’ in wake of Jan. 6 riots…with people buying BIBLES on top of their watchlist
Smoke and mirrors.
Biden, 81, ‘plans to make AG Merrick Garland fall guy for bombshell special counsel report that branded him senile old man,’ as aide releases panicked statement and insiders claim better MAKE-UP could help solve age issue
The ex husband and adoptive father is throwing his ex wife and adoptive mother under the bus.
Also: dorf girl claimed to be overdosed with one dose of three different medications. Not likely at all, even as the same medication.
The old lady in the apartment complex ruins her story. She claimed to be 22, was inappropriate with children, promiscuous with elderly men and her story about the old pervert was contradicted by the old lady neighbour who disliked the older man.
Concerned Citizen
@BGatesIsaPyscho
Boris Johnson on Tucker Carlson – Vladimir Putin interview
“Don’t believe this ludicrous interview”
Putin claimed Boris scuppered an available peace deal months after the conflict began – this was reported widely in independent media.
Who do you believe – Putin or Boris?
The mother was a manipulative psycho.
No, the Ukrainian dorf was a manipulative psycho.
Why can’t it be both!?
I’m not the one who made the threat about thinking very carefully. You did, you dishonest clown. It’s you that needs to call 000, that is if Mud Island has a service.
Everything you’ve claimed has been “online”—even the laughable comment about feeling like an “ANZAC at Lone Pine”. Dickhead.
That applies to you with these threats, you clown.
Having what it takes means not blowharding and misrepresenting yourself for 20 years, you fraud.
Here we go. Driller having balls means someone doesn’t lie, doesn’t blowhard, and most certainly doesn’t misrepresent their status. It also means don’t make racist comments about others and don’t criticize people’s families the disgusting, depraved way you do. it would also apply the non-bet, you accuse me of and then suggest I welshed. It’s all filed, by the way.
I’m not doxxing if your comments are inconsistent with previous ones, dickhead. And stop it with the accusation of doxxing, because that’s slander that can be easily shown in court and it’s actionable.
I don’t know what that means, so please explain, as I’ll add to the list of lies.
That applies to you, dickhead. You’re constantly inciting stoushes, like the response to Rooster, which was directed at me, and then claiming my responses are examples of initiating arguments. You ought to follow your own advice, you loser.
Oh, I hope so, and I also hope it also applies to the indirect slights and innuendo too. I hope it also means you won’t be joining in other stoushes. Now go talk to sis.
Biden REJECTS Putin’s Offer To Negotiate But Neocons FURIOUS Over Carlson Interview Revelations
lemme guess … JC running around with his cock out again is “saving the forum”
Keep in mind this also actionable as depraved slander if you decide to take legal action with the “think very carefully” threat, you clown.
Follow your own advice and don’t talk to me, don’t post indirect innuendo and don’t join stoushes that have nothing to do with you. I wouldn’t initiate any action, but I won’t stop referring to you as a fraud if you continue. Take heed of your own heed and just piss off, you loser freak.
A group of Scottish soldiers, in a boozer on the Royal Mile, encountered an Australian tourist, who knew all the words, and who had a taste for single malt…
11.12 pm. Trans is a little early to the party. Usually 11.34.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
The memo to replace Turnip Brain in 2024 has been sent to the fake news propagandists.
Winston Smith
Feb 10, 2024 5:36 PM
KevinM
Feb 9, 2024 11:38 AM
Roger
Feb 9, 2024 11:28 AM
KevinM/Roger:
Because it’s a matter of trust, and someone is abusing that trust.
Well that was a half hour ill spent, scrolling through today’s blog.
Yes, yes I know, no need to tell me.
👏
Winston Smith
Feb 10, 2024 7:37 PM
Lizzie:
Reminds me though, hope Elsie is still doing well, Winston.
Duty of Care to absent owner owed there while he’s Gonzo-ing in the US.
Send him some home videos; nothing like getting a view of a loved kit when far from home. Awwww. He looks so happy in his liddle basket And doing some stretches in his fave spot under the table. Awwww.
I’ve sent a few photos, but that’s not the same.
I’ve never emailed a video, Lizzie. I suppose I could try, but aren’t there restrictions on size?
I’ll give it a try.
Winston Smith
Feb 10, 2024 8:01 PM
That was the dementia coming out. I’ve long predicted that he will have a public meltdown that will shock America and it will be physical.
He is losing self control by the month.
Winston Smith
Feb 10, 2024 8:08 PM
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Valid point, however the page would need a different setting out, I think. It would need to be a wider print margin to cut down the lines.
it goes like this JC
while your’e wanking yourself stupid here, I spent all night improving my chess
looking at this forum at the end of the night I see you again running around with your cock out
so I offer up a smart-arse remark just to see if you actually have the stamina to wank 24/7
I think you really can do it … you truly are the most remarkable wanker
hey JC
… Im still waiting for the Feds to call me after you last shrieked about legal and threats
should I pack a toothbrush in case they’re still getting a case together?
There’s more to Hiden’s fall from grace, even with the demnetia.
WSJ
Ignore the last part of the header as you often have to be careful with the news section of the WSJ, as lefties inhabit that part of the site. There haven’t been any legislative achievements as everything he’s done on this score has been terrible.
It does, though explain, how people just don’t see him as presidential material as he doesn’t have what it takes with or without dementia.
this is what you end with with a candidate who lost the election and is only in the oval office because of cheating.
Trans
What’s with not capitalizing sentences? It’s kind of stupid looking after all this time.
the left SHIFT key on my keyboard is rootedwhy are you such a perpetual wanker?
But isn’t wanking coming on just looking around to stoush? That’s 95% of what you do here. Aren’t you the grand wanker then?
JC, your’re so stupid and paranoid
you couldn’t possibly blame yr keyboard
… it’s probably genetic
Great comment. Now go to bed, Trans.
Please be fair. I have seen no condemnation here at all for the cause of yesterday’s issues, which was an early morning spray of insane vitreol against me by a woman called Johanna, with Cassie as collateral damage. Johanna has ten-year form in producing these fixated and highly confected sprays at regular intervals. I don’t encourage them nor enjoy having to defend against them. I strongly object to being categorised as having an ongoing ‘stoush’ with this woman. There is no ‘stoush’. I initiate nothing. Sinclair did several times tell her to moderate her behaviour.
When her behaviour yesterday turned to clearly anti-Semitic abuse of Cassie and she was encouraged rather than sanctioned in some way by adverse commentary or lack of upticking, indeed the opposite ocurred and she was strongly endorsed, I was outraged and I still am.
I refer you to my comment to Dover yesterday towards the end of the thread outling exactly why the comments were anti-Semitic and of a different order to similar issues he suggested as comparitors. I still hold by my analysis of that very substantive difference. Johanna may be culturally illiterate enough to not comprehend exactly how historically Jew-hating her words were, but Cassie certainly does.
I don’t think Delta’s analysis is at all helpful. It blames me and Cassie for the position we hold and allows the majority of argumentative and often childish intruding and secondary comments from many others which flew around all day to become our ‘fault’. And yes, moral courage is sometimes required and from my standpoint and also Cassie’s it appeared lacking in many genial bystanders yesterday.
Good night and quite possibly goodbye. I am not sure I have much to contribute here any more. I will lurk for a while and see. The ticking is not really my issue of interest. Dover is his own man re those.
This is an actual comment from JC. Just a pity for most of us that he does not follow his own advice.
“Skip commenters you don’t like or perhaps avoid the blog if it upsets you”
Rooster.
If it applies to me it would most certainly apply to you. I actually follow that advice with you as I have a low regard for your commenting. Don’t read them as they’re very low quality, but I do if they’re about me and I’ll respond.
You miss the point in the advice I was giving, There is always the option of ignoring comments.
Option = choice.
why do you choose wanking ?
I am sorry Lizzie but I disagree. Nobody encouraged her or endorsed her. However what was very obvious was that there was some very odd upticking and downticking going on. You may also wish to note that in Qld the timing of the comments were mainly before 0700. Somebody did comment on the high number of upticks Johanna’s post had got so early. I saw no actual comment supporting her post.
Cassie has had much public support on this blog pretty much everyday since 7 Oct yet you and her decided to attack the “silence”. Read several of the comments since and you may actually notice some did not have a good reaction to that.
Personally I would like to see Dover instituting some sort of time out function where a troublemaker is sin binned for a few days. However we know that is not going to happen.
“she was encouraged rather than sanctioned in some way by adverse commentary or lack of upticking, indeed the opposite ocurred and she was strongly endorsed, I was outraged and I still am”
JC,
Mission accomplished.
Congratulations for turning this blog into a sewer of never ending conflict. Your devotion to picking fights with so many people is just an extraordinary effort.
You are like the green slime in the Ghostbusters movie.
Golfo Aranci
Perhaps not a good choice in the rain* in the off season, the train got cancelled and we all got told to walk to Stazione Terranova to catch a bus.
Well I heard ‘bus’ and decided to follow the crowd and the terranova fell into place.
There are these two great granite hills here but they aren’t visible from the seaside village.
I’ve stopped at a little caf for some foamy milk, there are a few old fellas inside watching the football.
Not one of them with a beverage of any kind on the table either.
About as exciting as it’s going to get.
It’s a pretty impressive coastline though, could see that from my front seat perch on the bus.
Going to wander back towards the station and see if I can get a better view of the capes.
*More damp than raining, I should say.
This sort of barney is expected on low intelligence forums like The Conversation that prouds itself for exposing the follies of high academia, where I’m in my fifth or sixth reincarnation under fake names after numerous excommunications for heretical opinions.
Can anyone advise a conservative forum where reasonable responses to the ratbagery of this era are discussed. Comments on Spectator, Quillette, Quadrant, Spiked – for instance – are like sniping. Proposals never get discussed and canvassed at length because their website software platforms don’t allow extended chewing the chud of ideas. It probably requires platforms like PhP BBS where specific topics can be initiated and discussed at length, rather than blogs with chronological series of unrelated opinions, like this one.
Congratulations for dishonestly attributing conflict to me. Go back and see the pollution Wodney has deposited in the past few days. Have a look at trans comments and then look and see that driller started it all.
You’re a very low quality commenter with a dishonest side. Low credibility and low ability.
And conversely, Bourne, I saw no actual comment disendorsing it either, particularly at first. In the spin of later comments there may have been some mildly supportive of Cassie or that related back to previous support. My recollection is that Johanna was highly chuffed by the reaction and doubled down on her initial spray. Anyway, the end result is that I am fed up with the whole idea of blogging, indeed of writing any more for any publication or blog. I just want to live my life quietly now as a private individual with my husband and family. That may be the best thing for me at least until some sour taste about it diminishes. The blog will be no worse off and some will cheer the end of ‘that creature, Lizzie’, as JMH charmingly put it.
I am not asking for commentary on this here, btw. I am way beyond that and it would embarrass me.
Just play more fairly, everyone, which will improve things for future entrants here.
don’t you hate that?
Many people do not agree with your take on events yesterday. Perhaps easier for you if you could accept that people can disagree and that doesn’t make them bad or racist or anti-semitic.
Week In Pictures.
Who could know?
hamas server farm directly below UNWRA complex in Rimal (toorak of gaza)
mexico deploys tanks on border
barrier reef in the news
Is that real!?
Unreal how people submit.
Next thing it”ll be “make sure all women are covered (bagged)”
I wondered about that 132.
I suspect it’s fake but as to who faked it?
city of Pitt Meadows disclaimer
test
Eerie.
A wasteland, or the silence before the storm?
Does seem like that ML.
sleepy Joe
rosie
Feb 11, 2024 4:23 AM
mexico deploys tanks on border
And these are the tanks –
https://www.bing.com/search?q=water%20tanks%20for%20sale&FORM=ARPSEC&PC=ARPL&PTAG=30168
I missed this with everything going on over the past few days.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 8 rejected an attempt by the Biden administration to avoid a lawsuit stemming from false debt reporting, with the landmark ruling opening the door for consumers to sue federal agencies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-biden-administration-must-face-false-debt-reporting-lawsuits
Imagine the resources spent trying to defend this.
Instead of fixing the problem and ensuring accountability & transparency.
But it’s the federal government.
I’m loving the travel reports, Rosie!
Your Twitter links usually have me wondering if it’s worth clicking in with the inevitable few seconds of spinning wheels that accompanies each one, buy they usually are worthwhile, too.
JC,
Mission accomplished.
Congratulations for turning this blog into a sewer of never ending conflict. Your devotion to picking fights with so many people is just an extraordinary effort.
You are like the green slime in the Ghostbusters movie.
LOL. Junior Cretin was doing the ‘Argy Bargy’ well before I even got here. Look in the mirror Junior. No. Not a good look is it.
Congratulations? Does JC get a prize?
I can only conclude this behaviour is being rewarded, or otherwise something in his head is broken
It is Sunday. I hope everyone settles down & plays nicely.
I love this blog & want it to continue. The slagging matches have always been a feature. It doesn’t worry me but it seems to worry some of the protagonists. We all have the option of being aware of what we are saying. Simple as that. Some have self awareness, others do not.
Anyway, I value this blog particularly because “the times they are a-changing” & the global situation is becoming particularly ominous. I value the thoughts of some of the deep thinkers here who are more informed than many others in our daily lives. As society churns on in its obsession with entertainment & generally unaware of global developments, it is important to me to address issues here.
Anyway – these are just thoughts for this morning, as I’ve just scanned my newsfeed with the usual dire stuff. Cheers.
Heed this champ, after all all the racist putrid abuse you’ve thrown my way, the things you’ve said against family etc, will not go well for you.
LOL. Who is the Fat Face Mafioso Bully who says words like ‘Limey’ and ‘Crook’? Stand on a soap box Junior and Look in the mirror. Not a good look is it.
Tim Blair on Dementia Joe:
Sunday Noticeboard (10 Feb, not paywalled)
The report about Biden squirreling away documents is fun. Somehow the special prosecutor had to find a way to not prosecute Biden for worse things than the DoJ is prosecuting Trump for. So they chose the dementia defense, and boy has that caused a first rank political mess.
We’ll see what Jill does. She does appear to be trying to keep the reins, Edith Wilson style.
How Jill Biden and Aides Control Biden (Daniel Greenfield, 10 Feb)
I still think she must have control of the dirt file Joe built up over fifty years in the system. It neatly explains why all this is happening.
Is there any doubt?
Mail-In Ballot Fraud Study Finds Trump ‘Almost Certainly’ Won In 2020
Boambee John
Feb 10, 2024 9:00 AM
Wot BJ said.
+ lots.
It would seem that the majority prefer the upticks / downticks function and it was taken away on the request of a minority without adequate debate.
+100
I agree, one of the main reasons I post here is to ‘test and adjust’ my ideas against a rare pool of intelligent commentators. Upticks/downticks are a great rapid feedback, not everyone has time to reply in longform, and if they do, the replies can be lost downthread.
If ticks have to go, can the blog be reformatted to allow replies directly under the relevant comment, like Michael Smiths blog for example?
Me too + 100
Dave Allen and the English Language –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfoUM6a4bA
Perplexed of Brisbane
It was one of the options in the initial setup. And yes, it does segregate the topics as it means an entire screed can be bypassed.
Chinese friends have alerted me to Albo flooding the predominantly Chinese mainland app “Red Book” with lunar new year wishes.
Reply button is a great idea. It certainly would enable you to scroll past the scraps.
There’s no real reason for Open AI to buy Reddit.
Reddit has throwaway accounts and you could get AI to build a Reddit clone.
I think it is speculation to pump up Reddit before an IPO, which would see them eventually die without more cap raisings within 2-3 years.
It’s a sinking ship that can’t make money but is currently well funded.
It has existed for 20* years and has only ever made losses.
Ohio Sheriff Sounds the Alarm After Meeting with FBI, Orders Every Cruiser to Carry an AR-15 and Extra Ammo
The Leftwing Media Says “Biden Has Dementia, And Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing!”
Oh, I don’t know, will. Referring to people as a dago, wog, wifebeater, and many other slanderous, defamatory and derogatory names deserves not just a response but also retribution.
Removing the plug in seems to have created a lot of anger yesterday for frauds and the crooks who were abusing it.
Just take a look at the Limey crook’s behaviour this morning with his unprovoked attacks.
The Rooster has been outraged for the past decade because I occasionally highlight his low quality contributions and when I respond to his attacks.
You need to be a little more analytical and try to suss out what’s going on.
These are the people persecuting Trump.
EXCLUSIVE: Fani Willis Campaign Funds Appear To Be Money Laundering Scheme
What rat#%^*ing bastard!
Let’s hope Lu Ke Ben helps him craft a tactful and comprehensible message of amity & prosperity in perfect modern Mandarin.
REPORT: Joe Biden Angry Attorney General Merrick Garland Did Not Prosecute Trump Sooner – Wanted Trump On Trial and Potentially Jailed BEFORE 2024 Election
No. It’s funnier not correcting my grammar.
Chamath’s comments on AI were fascinating.
The output from the models will move towards infinity.
The financial value of the models will move towards zero.
I had to re-listen to that a couple of times.
Friedbergs comments regarding the value in Youtube in relation to AI being a moat that no one will be able to penetrate were also pretty good.
Former FBI official: Similarities between Biden and Hillary Clinton reports ‘nauseating’
Tell me something I don’t know.
The Green Energy Cult is Killing the West
Peter Dutton has just done a 20-minute interview with Andrew Clennell on Sky News and despite Clennell’s hostile questioning performed very strongly. He would not, for instance, allow Clennell to talk over him.
Clennell repeated the Labor talking point that the SFLs have no hope of winning the March 2 Dunkley by-election in Frankston, Victoria, even though internal Labor polling shows a 4% swing against the government.
But here’s the thing: the Liars internal polling is identical to recent polling by the Ponds Institute that the Liars are up 52-48% 2PP.
In my recent experience of Australian politics (and Australians’ reluctance to talk to pollsters), 58-48% means the parties are dead-set tied.
Saturday, March 2, will be a fun night in Australian politics.
Trump takes over Haley’s home turf: Former president is greeted by enormous cheering crowd at South Carolina rally – as his only remaining rival trolls him with mobile billboard taking swipe at his age
He’s been busy going in the back door to look at moderated comments from 2022.
Stoicism, blogging, collections and Russian boo boos: Environmental innovator and entrepreneurial thought leader Anthony Soprano Sr. on being “The Happy Wanderer” .
I think there’s something in that for all of us.
Passenger dies mid-flight after liters of ‘blood erupts from his mouth and nose’
Chamath made the comment a few weeks ago that what businesses are currently paying OpenAI a million a quarter for now will be going for 250k per annum within a couple of years.
Reminds me of my former place of work.
A single data pipe between Sydney & Melbourne cost a mill a year in the late 90’s.
Two years later, four data pipes cost 100k.
Facebook has an ecosystem. I hate it, but it can’t be AI cloned effectively.
Reddit is there like a less snobby version of Quora (save for the anti poor, anti wealthy and disgusting hotbed of middle class insecurity, r/Canberra ) – Reddit can be cloned and there’s nothing Reddit can do. It could be made a plug in of any other email account or stuff like Parler or Twitter.
Bern
Ai is one of the most fascinating technologies that’s ever been introduced. It has the potential to be a universe smarter than humans , but I don’t think it will be allowed to progress because humans will place limitations on its abilities.
Imagine the left side of politics asking AI to help determine if its ideas offer any contribution to the improvement of human life. Imagine the reaction to its reply.
AI will be limited through regulation.
The comment:-
The question:-
The answer:-
Observant readers will notice that the original comment has “JC” in capitals, a capital F in “Feds” and two capital “I”s.
So it seems the shift key is only recalcitrant at the start of sentences, but comes good mid-sentence.
It would seem that there is one part of the Putin interview that was mistranslated and has, at least as recently as yesterday, not been corrected.
It is where Putin is translated as having said that the Soviet Union was given additional land that did not belong to them. The Russian speaking woman on this Dave Rubin interview insists he said Soviet Ukraine.
What’s going on is that commentators react viscerally. If everyone was like BoN and just let the stupidity slide, it would be a more pleasant and productive experience. Few people like agro and it would turn the casual visitor off. I assume what we have in common is more than what causes the conflicts.
Further to my (apparently contentious) conclusion that the IDF could not defeat Hamas due to the asymmetric victory conditions of insurgents v government forces:
In todays ZeroHedge:
US Intelligence Officials Say Israel Not Close To Defeating Hamas
Israel has not even come close to defeating Hamas through its military offensive on the Gaza Strip, US intelligence officials have said. According to the New York Times, the officials told members of Congress earlier this week that while Israel had managed to degrade Hamas’s fighting capabilities, they were still very far from crushing the organization itself.
Officials also said that given the nature of Hamas’ military wing as a fundamentally “guerilla” force, defeating the group might not even be possible and that simply weakening their combat strength might be a more realistic goal.
Jacksy and Rent Boy have lubed each other thoroughly and are ready for another day of “deep Anal”ysis.
Buckle up people, it’s going to be a boring day.
To see innocent critters enjoying themselves is a blast.
This is what we love about the natural world. Husband has built a bird feeder on fence directly outside our bedroom doors (glass panes) so that we can watch the red dumped parrots eating the seed in the morning. Of course, it has attracted others – including the magpie family & lately “top knots” (gorget their official name). We have watched the Maggies rear their 2 infants. I am sure that it is their first batch because we have watched them feeding their “babies” for far too long. Husband gets very annoyed as they diligently put the seed in the mouths of these big “babies”. Finally, we have noticed in the last week that the parents are beginning to harass the children.
Our big joy is also large birdbath which we can see from the windows on two sides of the house. Some of the little birds are “clean freaks” & have protracted baths. But it attracts a huge range of birds. A great joy.
Less of a joy are the raids of the crows and others on not only our small household vineyard, but on the grapevine on the pathway trellis from our gate to the house. Similarly the fruit trees which are a nuisance to net successfully.
Still – there are benefits and drawbacks to living in the natural world.
Megan
It hasn’t been done because the results would be contrary to the bulk of the teachers ideology.
There is an AI controversy in clothing women!
There is an app, Dignif AI which puts clothes BACK on women and removes tattoos.
Apparently it’s all about men loving nothing more than having women not consent.
What it’s really about is internet hoes being mad if their livelihood and easy lives ended.
Could you imagine a second wave feminist demanding to be sexualised?
I like the now widely used description of AI being a great co-pilot for an already productive person/business.
indeed
Yep. We already see this with the climate models, they are based on garbage and produce garbage. The current AIs have all been trained on curated lefty stuff which is also garbage, so they will produce more of it as soon as they have to extrapolate.
It all might work better if real world material was used for the training process and sourcing, but the Left won’t allow that. They’re also getting increasingly frustrated that their fantasy world isn’t being believed by the proles.
Study: Psychological Interventions Do Not Work on Climate Skeptics (9 Feb)
Commentary: “The Tone Against Alleged ‘Climate Change Deniers’ Is Becoming Harsher” (10 Feb)
As usual communism is the answer and as usual the proponents want to shut up the dissidents’ inconvenient voices. Unfortunately we’re going have AIs doing that for them very soon.
It’s just a few people have been going cold tickey since the tick-toy was taken away.
MatrixTransform
You’ve noticed that too?
Will
Go upthread and tell me what trans comments added to the wealth of knowledge. If you can stomach it, read through Woddenhead’s contributions, and then look at Piggria’s most recent just up from mine. It’s not me. All unprovoked.
They can be ignored, but they shouldn’t be.
It’s just anger at not being able to tick harvest.
That’s all I’ll say
Shows how smart Musk is.
TwitterX is so limited via a browser now trying to force app only use.
And he turned off all the free API usage.
He knows he has a unique model that he’s going to restrict access to.
Cohenite:
No. I think you’ve pretty much called it.
Passenger dies mid-flight after liters of ‘blood erupts from his mouth and nose’
American pal of mine died that way. Drowned in his own blood. Allegedly from too much alcohol over years. He never drank that much when I knew him and died 9 years after our last meeting.
The good news is the MSM whores are covering and running interference for Biden.
HE WILL BE THE CANDIDATE
WE WILL HAVE THE EBOLA-24 PANDEMIC
YOU WILL OBEY
YOU WILL VOTE BY MAIL IN BALLOT
YOU WILL EAT THE BUGS
YOU WILL BECOME TRANS AND FIGHT FOR ZELENSKY
I’m sure Americans can do the right thing mang.
Two things.
1. On a small screen with indented replies, it becomes squashed against the right margin and unreadable;
2. The sequential form has it’s advantages as it is less likely to miss something if you pick up where you left off and scroll through.
Serious question:
Besides hospital wukkas, who on earth is actually double vaxxed and quad boostered?
Does anyone know such a soyience experiment?
I was under the impression that Dover removed the up/down ticks was due to site performance not the gaming of them, or otherwise.
We have to remember that there’s a fair bit of time required to monitor/admin a blog like this which needs to occur day after day after day.
Although it’s not quite the same, I run a YouTube channel of some size now and the daily grind of keeping on top of it (including checking and moderating comments) is quite time consuming and frankly on some days you just need to take a break from it all.
I’m not an expert on the capabilities of WordPress but I would suggest to Dover, if he can be bothered, that he post a new thread on his thoughts on the site and what he can do (or not) as posting in the OT thread it would get lost.
Twitter says the Putin interview has had 184mill views.
I wonder what the all up tally will be by the end of the weekend.
I watched it via his website which was the first time I had been there.
Pismo ??
@Pismo_B
WOW! People’s President @realDonaldTrump visits the overflow crowd in Conway, South Carolina, Nikki Haley home state. WATCH
Rabz:
How about we just describe them as “The Terminally Confused.”
Johnny and Lady-boy?
Dot
Me. I’ve had four shots. I didn’t have the fifth, when l went to the US back in Nov and ended up in bed for 8 days with COVID which I caught on the plane. Never travel again without being vaxxed up.
To see innocent critters enjoying themselves is a blast.
All of which are looking around thinking ” what is going to try to eat me next?” and then ” what can I eat next?”.
There are no rules.
Rookie numbers.
FWCAAAC MMIWG2SLGBTQQIAAMAPS+1000
Besides hospital wukkas, who on earth is actually double vaxxed and quad boostered?
Only the terminally stupid.
flyingduk
And “US intelligence officials” have such an exemplary record on the subject of counterinsurgency, going back as far as the 1950s?
Dunkley should be interesting. A 4% difference in polling is irrelevant at this point. Expect there will be plenty of “help” from the Liars media mates in the run up. Bit riding on this one.
Vicki, crows are the CFMEU union thugs of the bird world.
PS: they’re also more cunning — far more magpies than crows wind up as road kill.
For those thinking Mike Obama is going to be the candidate. I listened to a podcast suggesting the chances of her running are absolutely zero. She hates politics and too lazy. If she was running, she would’ve begun to make noises by now like having “listening tours”.
It’s either Newsom or Phillips is my guess. Most likely Oldsom.
co-pilot-> agent-> autonomous -> independent -> taxed -> voting rights
oh Sherlock,
you really should not get into the bongs so early
The blue bloods and the blue risnses of the Cottesloe Lieboral party flex their muscle turfing out former Opposition leader (and possible cardboard cutout) David Honey from Emperor Barney’s old and unloseable seat ahead of the WA state election. Honey had the cut through of a blunt butter knife and would be no great loss, although you expect HQ might step in to keep him around.
Besides hospital wukkas, who on earth is actually double vaxxed and quad boostered?
My middle daughter works in admin for an imaging company (in Victoria) and has no contact with the public but is required to be fully vaxxed as she is classified as “working in health care” …..
this should be fun
the truth versus the combined paranoia of meta-cat’s brightest minds
Good Lord. Herald Sun:
A parasite of the highest order.
Just a note on the discussion re nested comments, ticks of approval/ disapproval, I’m going to leave things as is this week to see how the site performs. Next weekend I’m going to be trialing a new comments plugin for at least a week.
Disney is at it again.
Pirates Of The Caribbean fans threaten boycott over rumored Johnny Depp female replacement in Pirates 6: ‘If it ain’t Depp I ain’t watching.’ (10 Feb)
Hollywood Faces Existential Threat as Box Office Plunges to ‘Alarming Lows’ (10 Feb)
Weird how this happens.
in the periods where people pretty much just ignore JC and sancho’s antagonistic gibber
the pair of them usually just escalate and the spread the gibber wider and more often
when somebody eventually responds
the crap starts again
have you noticed their idiotic constructions to flimsily justify their own idiocy?
apparently, I also masquerade as half a dozen other voices … no-cap, random-caps, time of day …. it’s all about pattern recognition
and JC is protecting Lizzie from hordes of vicious tick assassins
and don’t forget that ticks, both up and down, are mortal darts blown from the bushes by pygmies without opinions
it’s pretty retarded and dont mean that in my usual sense meaning ‘the opposite of progressive’
no. I mean there’s something tragically wrong in their heads
missing you and JC is the whole idea Sherlock
Another classic from JC at 0145am. It isn’t me !
“Congratulations for dishonestly attributing conflict to me. Go back and see the pollution Wodney has deposited in the past few days. Have a look at trans comments and then look and see that driller started it all”.
It is mere coincidence that 80% of blog stoushes involve him. (Subject to fact checking as it might be 90%).
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i am your god oracle
uptick me
GOP Senators Block McConnell’s Migration Bailout for Sanctuary Cities
as far as I can tell, the tick removal has made no difference to refresh time
I checked with dev tools in the browser and the last one took 50 seconds to get a reply from the server