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Open Thread – Weekend 24 Feb 2024
Victoriastanis would be distressed to learn how much of their current wealth is based on Bass Strait gas and associated…
m0nty May 9, 2024 12:38 pm Hey Indolent, got any links explaining how your boy RFK Jnr had a literal…
Yep, very much UniParty policy. For Lieboral policy add 3 years to any quoted figure.
Dr Faustus May 9, 2024 2:41 pm Reading through the detail of the Albanese Future Gas Strategy; Mrs Faustus has gone…
Muddy?
Putting off the comment plugin change for the moment.
*Marks his territory*
This thread dedicated to homo celebrity-stalking love triangle double murders by poorly-recruited and incompetent cops.
Incredible.
Dover
Wages & salaries are going up there at around 4.5% a year and median wages are around $US61,000. They aren’t starving. 🙂
A walk in the forest you say…
https://youtu.be/w15kcCq5tfg?si=rx2vT1-xzXy9H8Pj
Also looks like the gearbox I couriered back from filth to feraldton was the wrong model.
Poor nephew can’t take a trick at the moment, car has been on the blocks for a month now.
Has anyone worked out how backwards in purchasing power people’s wages have gone using real figures rather than the government’s ones that deliberately avoid certain costs.
Oh and during the drive back and forth I heard a truely Staknovite effort from their ABCcess on plans to drop a lot of country road speed limits to 80 permanently.
See the problem wasn’t shit road maintenance, it’s people who have moved to the regions who aren’t used to the roads….
So 110 was fine in every shitbox car and driver until ” current year” when mysteriously, for no reason at all, despite massive improvements in vehicle design, accidents started increasing.
The resolution of the Shishkin is too low. Does the bloke facing us really have a beard you could lose a cat in? Does the tree behind his female companion have a perpendicular sign fixed to it? What are the dead looking things on the rocks in the foreground? We can’t tell.
He does nice trees.
Esther Krackow should passively accept her role as a vaguely aesthetically pleasing blak bimbage prone to expressing staggeringly stupid ignorantly informed bleedingly obvious o’pinions about everything.
And that’s about that. Give it a rest, Sky. Allowing her to open massive maw was never going to end well.
Annaliese Nielsen
Kosha Garda
Shazza of the tight sleeveless tops
Lara Jays
Bimbo j’ismists. It’s an outrage that they’re allowed to even open their gaping maws to express the most bleeding obvious factlets about the most irrelevant uninteresting non-stories about, well, anything. Here’s a typical example:
Bimbo Nielsen: “Fatty Trump is a very bad Orange Man, the Kamala told us so, after we had the recording of her remarks analysed by our in house team of speech therapists and voice analysts”
The transcripts prove beyond any doubt that she considers herself ready to possibly board a yellow school bus and explore many, many future and past possibilities while engaging in the oral application of her facial orifice to the engorged, engorged, I tells ya(!) member of any wally who may just have had the misfortune to have been passin’ within 100 metres of her!
“We willl never know what we might have done until we haven’t done it, I tells ya!”
If any of the above is laden with typos and misquotations, Cats, then feel free to sue me. I’m with Tasha Smithies KC, formerly of Channel Ten, I tells ya! 🙂
I read it in Forbes … it must be true
I’m drunk, unhappy and looking for a stoush.
Astonishing.
A Walk in the Forest, Ivan Shishkin, 1869.
Not sure you can argue that merely from a median salary of 61K if groceries alone are actually up 7K-12K more per year.
Jack, Jasmine and the kids.
Jack Out The Back:
Sunday Fly to Carnegie
Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private (
St Louis Fed shows July 2020 at $29.11 and Jan 24 $34.70.
Annualized rate of wage growth is 5.15%.
The only way to look for inflation is to see it work itself through wages.
Oh, I read it $605 as an annual rate. Forgive me. 🙂
I haven’t seen any analyses for the USA. The figures I looked at suggest purchasing power is going backwards. That is consistent with reports from the USA that while wages are climbing and unemployment is extremely low people are still complaining about rising costs. Corporate profits are doing very well. Everyone has to eat, everyone needs electricity and fuel. When companies implicitly agree not to drop prices below a certain floor so profitability can be maintained or enhanced, things go awry.
water depth on average, I could walk from Perth to Auckland and it would barely reach my ankles
I remember when you said that none of this was inflationary JC
in fact you ranted like bitch about how everybody had it wrong
here’s a natural remedy to help you
Here’s the Food index from the St Louis Fed.
July 2020 Index 268.54, Jan 2024 327.81
Annualized rate is 5.81%
I never said such a thing, you drunken dickhead.. You’re just making it up. Show where I said that, or just fck off and sleep it off. There’s no point ever talking to you because you’re stupid and an angry drunk.
You haunt the place at night looking to pounce on someone for a stoush, you senseless drunk.
Building site lingo, we can’t understand.
Retired, income rough ballpark $50k pa from share dividends and part pension. Assets have remained stable over the last half decade, so I guess that means purchasing power hasn’t had a major effect. If it had, I would expect assets to have been noticeably reduced. An advantage is rent capped as a percent of income in a public housing self managed co-op scheme.
This is definitely not an example of struggles of families on salaries and mortgages or market rent. But it’s one example of a medium income part self funded retiree with rent support.
Stone Age ‘megastructure’ under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Palaeolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago
This makes sense. Similar findings elsewhere, animals corralled into a location where they can killed.
JohnH
There’s a lot of bitching about cost of living pressures. Some of that is warranted, but the economy is doing reasonably well despite every single thing Dementia has thrown at it has been a negative.
The stock market at record highs, albeit with some of that concentrated in about 8 or so stocks, is an indication of optimism. There’s an AI led boom in Silicon Valley/ San Fran at the moment and employment demand is red hot. Also, productivity increases in the past few quarters has been very decent.
Cost pressures, cost of living pressures are being felt in the mortgage belt both here and the US. That would have to be the biggest gripe.
I don’t get is the discrepancy between the figures and public perceptions. The economy is booming, the best in decades, though I wonder how much of that is driven by the huge stimulus for infrastructure and renewable construction. I appreciate what you are driving at, that it is possibly about perception than reality. One test might be household savings, rising or falling. With labour shortages being a big problem is it reasonable to expect wages to eventually outstrip costs by such a large margin that people change their attitude?
Get a load of this chart.
Net private saving: Households and institutions.
The COVID period is nuts. There appears to be a draw-down in aggregate but I suspect it could be due to increase borrowing costs.
My idea was bonkas. In the COVID period perhaps people were hunkering down for the long haul.
This one is even weirder because the personal saving rate was through the roof during COVID.
I can’t make any sense of that because during COVID it was very high. I can’t see any pattern either but all this is not only above my grade I’m far too ignorant to see nuances in these numbers.
Hungary, Sweden sign fighter jet deal before NATO membership vote
Hungary is buying 4 Gripens. Too small to be militarily significant, perhaps just a gesture of good will.
Sweden will now be able to join NATO.
They were throwing the cash around around 2021. Wifey and I receive social security and there was a one off of around $US 2,500 over the monthly payment in one month as a “stimulus”. They were so panicked about getting the money out there, they weren’t even concerned about domicile of recipients.
Thanks, that helps.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Well.
I did not have that on my bingo card for February.
Questions may be asked of the NSW Police vetting process when a fantasist loon like this made it through.
Imagine having to work a shift with a “celebrity fanatic”.
What the fukuyama is a “celebrity-fanatic”?
Tried to Google it but no meaningful results.
It doesn’t sound like a real job for grown-ups.
The most worrying thing (apart from the double murder, obviously) is that he was continuing this fetish on the job, trying to stalk one of the very pneumatic Karkrashian family in Bellevue Hill last week.
That makes him about as corruptible as you can get.
You can’t beat Luigi’s exquisite timing though. What a day to pick to attend the opening of a Fag Museum in the old police station at Darlinghurst and make bum jokes.
celebrity-fanatic-turned-cop Beau Lamarre-Condon
From the Oz.
A week out from mardi gras & the killer cop participating is not the promotion they were looking for.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/6b1566ec96a7f883bd1395617bc07ea0?width=2048
It’s odd in this day & age that Albo hasn’t flooded social media with his Taylor Swift adventure (or that I can see at 5am the morning after).
I wonder why?
A week out from mardi gras & the killer cop participating is not the promotion they were looking for.
Or as Ace Of Spades is wont to say, “and this in Pride Month?”
Because that’s how long this parade will go for.
Just another day in Victoriastan. Aren’t we lucky to have these types working for you? Herald Sun with Shannon Deery:
$600k for doing bugger all. Just wow.
Vice to lay off hundreds of workers, BuzzFeed is in the verge of collapse too.
Gawker?
HuffPost?
Everything woke turns to shit!
Now all we need to happen is for the legacy Gawker IP to die as well as Cracked which stopped being funny ages ago.
I cheer on the Reddit IPO. It is the last chance for Reddit.
Good. May the demise make haste.
Highest payroll tax in Australian iirc for rubbish like that.
Imagine the damage he could do if he was a conscientious psychopath.
Oh dear. The utter state of the Liberal Party.
Plenty of Vicco engineers in public transport on 180k packages doing about 3 hours of work per week (not an exaggeration, I know several).
It’s quite difficult to appear to be working for the remaining 35 hours, so they need two days at home to help.
No chance of advancement unless you pretend to be a tranny or an abo, so I really don’t have much of a problem with what they are doing.
You’ve got to think what would happen if old mate was forced onto a 66% productivity increase.
*More pop up shops!
*Higher payroll taxes
*More DEI targets
*More “training” involving regurgitating the WHS White Card
*More sensitivity training
*More graft for contractors with patronage
…am I missing anything?
Why did I immediately think of the first 15 seconds of this?
Just resolved the inevitable overseas commbank hassle. Netcodes stopped coming through the app and of course I don’t have my Australian sim in.
Updated my contact number to the Italian one and then had to reset both the in app and Android notifications (with the assistance of an Australian based call centre person)
Now the codes aren’t coming via sms even though they say they are but via the app.
Don’t care as long as it works.
I might ditch the Italian Vodafone sim when I get to Malta and have to go through the rigmarole again.
I realised that time was getting on and there is no point in hitting Spain after malta so it ten nights in Malta then fly to Lyon (the cause of the netcode need) maybe somewhere in between that and Paris then home, still have a ten days in Sicily to go.
No hurry.
I’m going to struggle to do all the things in Cefalu as it is. It’s 270 metres of stairs to the top of the Rocca and the temple of Diana and I’m not sure I can be bothered with the early start that that requires.
Cathedral, museum, walk on the bit of Roman road and around the peninsula might have to do.
Always next time.
If not stopped, this is going to destroy first the public service and then the rest of the economy. This is how the Soviet Union and its east European satellites went down. People simply stopped doing anything, a particularly funny quip went like this – they pretend to pay me and I pretend to work. Another saying in a similar vein said they can’t pay me as little as I can work. It was the wide scale corruption that brought down the whole edifice as those not part of it worked against or not worked at all.
too much even for muslim friendly conservatives
Oh no!
…anyway, …
Not to mention cruelling Village People tribute ticket sales.
Saturday & the rural shows have begun & we are off to the local town for the first in our area. Otherwise the only weekend entertainment here is the Trivia competition at our local Farmgate cafe.
Grass is waist high on some properties in our area & the terrible grass fires in Victoria are making us concerned. We slash constantly on our holding – but is relatively small & manageable, while big acreages like a couple of our 10,000 acre neighbours rely on high cattle numbers to keep the pasture under control. It is all about management. We are lucky to have an immediate property which is expertly managed but further up the valley is a different matter.
I have long maintained that everyone born in Australia should declare themselves to be Aboriginal.
Disinformation?
A notorious lefty rag tries to say that Trump’s Nashville rally was a failure, and that hundreds of empty chairs had to be removed from the venue. His rallies have been a huge success and Biden has been totally disgraced, unable to fill a small car park. But that’s how the modern left play it these days. The Democrats aren’t an alternative political party any more – they are the Cloward-Piven Party.
Too many in the GOP could be called the Coward-Riven party.
Brought to us by the man with a plan to nuke the moon.
Good news from a trash news service:
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-ipo-warning-wallstreetbets-stock-volatility-meme-1851280986
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price
WallStreetBets is already pissing all over it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1axkf69/for_those_wondering_about_the_ipo_reserved_share/
Prediction: This will be RDDT right after its IPO
Patrick Cook did a cartoon decades ago that had an arms dealer showing off a new bomb:
“This one destroys the government but leaves the public service standing”.
The jury is back: No to RDDT.
It’s raining in Crawley, although admittedly not very much. And 23°. Half an hour to sunrise.
The massive heatwave seems to have gone without killing me.
Bungonia Bee
Feb 24, 2024 8:13 AM
Disinformation?
Same as last time and Biden still won, don’t fool yourselves.
Fool us once, shame on us, fool us twice, we won’t get fooled again!
Maybe taking stock advice from “wingnut5k” who doesn’t know the difference between “by” and “buy” might not be the best move. But who noes?
Business acumen, Texas Style:
The Jimmy Wychard, Ph D Story.
SF is Science Fiction. Government cost of living numbers are EF, Economic Fiction.
I’m hoping Biden can crack 100 million votes this time.
Ok, yes, that should be “votes”.
Crossie
Except the pay here is definitely not at pretend levels, it is very good. Much of the work, however, is definitely pretend.
It’s bad enough they’re giving away tax payers’ hard earned, but they’re not even doing it with due diligence:
A Moss Vale based record company on the brink of bankruptcy, Blue Pie Records, received a $300K grant from Regional NSW and an undisclosed amount from Austrade while owing $200K the ATO.
Meanwhile, artists based in the US & UK report that the company has been using their music without permission or royalties being paid.
.. put in place (no doubt) for DEI quotas.
insane.
They should be forced to spend 6 hours watching ‘aus dash cam’ on youtube, then it might just sink in why there are so many accidents.
Policing anyone?
Of course, it’s not who votes but who counts the votes. I understand in the US it’s nothing like our own electoral process where every party has observers when votes are counted, they can dismiss observers if they wish. How is that even remotely justifiable?
Yes, they are.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Purposely trying to start WWIII.
Turncoat Mike Pence Announces $20 Million to Fight GOP’s Turn to Populism Just Months Before the 2024 Election – Is Pence Plotting to Throw ANOTHER Election?
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Here’s another perspective on the Democrat-sponsored illegal invasion currently destroying America.
Jake Tapper: Biden Gets ‘Unfiltered’ Off Camera with Fat Cats, But Avoids Interviewers
How GovTech Will Control Your Life.
For every pot hole in a road, the MPs of the responsible government should have their pay docked by (say) $10,000.
The pot hole problem would cease to exist in a matter of days.
Canadian Politicians Introduce Bill Removing Christianity, Bible as ‘Hate Speech’ Defense
Perhaps a one way ticket to the Midsommar Festival if they have any monies owed by EOFY.
We sort of got that when the federal government went to the Supreme Court to prevent Texas from putting up barriers.
The Illegal Immigration Invasion Isn’t Due to ‘Incompetence.’ It’s the Plan.
The Theory That Mail-in Voting Is Secure Just Died a Horrible Death
In JC’s idiotic fictional re-write I suppose he’s supposed to be something like a doe-eyed Bambi sort of character
Why did CBS want to keep Catherine Herridge’s reporting files?
all votes concentrated in 4 or 5 corrupt democrat controlled counties.
Trans
The try harding to sound intelligent and witty doesn’t work for you and never has as we can see through it. You dickhead. Guess we’ll see you this evening all tanked up and ready to prove you’re a genius with your witticisms.
Democrats are able to field candidates with true Messiah-like gifts.
Obama was able to ‘slow the rising of the seas and allowed the planet to begin to heal itself’.
And Joe raises the dead.
Morning saw the odious Mike Kaiser come up in the old thread. Amazing how many of these corrupt Beattie allies got away to ruin the state again.
This bloke is an absolute dirtbag and if, big if, Chrisafulli wins all these ALP appointments should be on notice.
Bet you they aren’t though…
Dover
$605 more per month is $7250 a year.
The St Louise Fed suggests food inflation is around 6%. That means the whale is spending
7250/ .06 =$ 120,833.
Sure.
T
love the projection JC
accusing people of exactly what you do yourself
it’s your calling card
you may think you sound like a victim today but the truth is that you just sound like a lying tosser again
… it’s how we all know yr completely mental
For a succinct podcast description of the Israel situation from an historical Jewish point of view:
https://www.econtalk.org/an-extraordinary-introduction-to-the-birth-of-israel-and-the-arab-israeli-conflict-with-haviv-rettig-gur/
Apparently of the 3m odd Jews expelled from Russia roughly 2.5m ended up in America at the time.
. The demise of woke media is mind-boggling — the worrying thing is what CBS has done to probably their only decent, hard-working, curious and honest journalist Catherine Herridge because :
link
and witty doesn’t work for you
love the projection JC
you may think you sound like a victim today but the truth is that you just sound like a lying tosser again
… it’s how we all know yr completely mental
Oopsy.
American spaceship facedown on the Moon after dramatic touchdown (24 Feb)
At least it didn’t end up upsidedown like the Japanese lander. Space is hard.
“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
Get ready for higher lamb meat prices.
The processors are doing their usual trick of playing boom bust pricing.
Contracts in the low 600’s for lamb won’t keep farmers with good soil moisture in sheep. Agents are telling them to offer 700 cents and they’ll hold producers. Lots of young farmers are happy to crop from fence to fence without the constant work and care needed with livestock. They can go on holidays with the wife and kids and not give a damn about the farm for a while.
Joining will be well down and breeders aren’t selling on-line or at saleyards.
We sold our first cross lamb wool recently and lost $2,000 after costs. Merino wool is just rolling along at poor to just adequate pricing. The whole show would collapse if the dollar wasn’t so low.
Costs are killing the off-farm sector and that’s all down to the usual culprits.
I hear the chief wrecker thinks Tay Tay is the basis for an economic recovery plan.
I so wish you were talking higher prices for me, Gez.
Murpharoo will be on the case.
The ignorance on display in the video is incredible.
needs to be preserved at the beginning of each open thread as a warning to other to ignore the provocation.
I’m drunk, unhappy and looking for a stoush is why JC is here?
That’s a big selling point. Not just with young farmers. Have a look at the fences when you are driving around.
Teh Grauniad might not be the ideal background for that kind of work.
Lunar Module Eagle didn’t tip arse over head in 1969.
We just put up a new fence HB and I wondered if it made any sense.
Robert Frost came to mind.
If only.
Gez – there is something Zen about fencing. After mowing a lawn there is possibly no better job to look back at. Hope this helps.
Another balloon, scrambles NORAD jets;
How TF did it get to Utah undetected till now?
The figures used are from the NY Post. Also, the 6% is average inflation, not necessarily food inflation which could be higher. [Correction: I see its ‘Food in U.S. City Average’. What’s the basket of goods here though; and the graph shows a marked increase since 2020. Would love to see what NY Post’s figures are based upon too.]
I’m fixing lifted terra cotta tiles in the patio at the moment.
Zen all over it.
The glue is weak but the grout is strong.
Make the effort, Rosie. The view from there is fabulous. And have an almond granita in front of the Cathedral for me.
Dover
The St Louis Fed food inflation chart was linked upthread.
Here:
Just broke a personal speed record. First baby currawong of the season arrived yesterday with her parents. Today I got her to accept mince from my hand. 😀
I like corrupting the young. Fortunately I went to the shop for more mince this morning, I have a feeling I’m going to need it.
I did not have that on my bingo card for February.
Questions may be asked of the NSW Police vetting process when a fantasist loon like this made it through.
Imagine having to work a shift with a “celebrity fanatic”.
I sleep better at night knowing the quality of the poofas the wallopers are employing.
True, I’m inclined to think that this is just messaging. It’s the regime signaling that it intends to attack anyone that dissents on marriage, abortion, trans, etc. on the grounds of natural law theory or the like. And its priming its audience for just this, and it plans on doing this under the guise of ‘Christian nationalism’.
There appears to have been a serious spike on global food prices going from about mid 2020 to 2022, but since then prices have been saw toothing down.
That spike has more to do with supply chain disruption.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PFOODINDEXM
I really wish the ticks were back.
Can’t believe CPAC invited Liz Truss to speak. Bonkers stuff.
Costs are killing the off-farm sector and that’s all down to the usual culprits.
The usual culprits need to be nuked.
See above, appears to be.
Two things occurred that would be impossible to untangle from 2020 to 2022.
1. Massive supply chain issues
2. Reorientation of suppliers and consumers as a result of the war and sanctions etc.
As I keep saying, the only way to figure most of this out with respect to inflation is to ignore almost everything and just see what is happening to wages and salaries.
On our daily walk, we watched a white-faced heron pair nest and raise a chick last spring. They hung around a bit , then mama came back to the nest after New Year for a bit. It got hard to see the spot due to tree growth and we thought they had abandoned the site, but this morning, TWO chicks ! Papa flew away as we arrived, mama is busy!! SO exciting.
Another balloon on the west coast of US.
She got all Trumpish when she acceded to the PMship. That’s when the CINOs got excitable, booted her out and installed Squishy Rishi into the job in flagrant defiance of Conservative Party rules.
Christian Nationalism is a real phenomenon in the US.
Has been on the radar of the msm since January 6th.
But I was thinking of her consternation that there might be people who imagine rights to be God-given.
I would have thought this would be the perfect habitat for a rainbow serpent but the indigenes know better, particularly when money is at stake.
Will, you’re so observant. Too much so. Go back to the recent open threads for say the past three months , go through each day between 9 to midnight each night and you’ll see the Trans making needless , stupid provocations. It’s all he does.
Now piss right off.
Hello Dr Pangloss.
Not just money but also power.
Funny how 50 years ago you could do everything better with a pen and a slide rule.
Just wondering, did they employ Google’s AI?
Retributive justice > community protection
Christians who don’t betray their principles will be slandered as “Christian Nationalists” by the surrogates of the regime (“the *Cathedral*”), regardless of polity, doctrine, origin or any other political beliefs.
JC
Feb 24, 2024 11:17 AM
I’m drunk, unhappy and looking for a stoush
I told you this would happen when you spurned me.
No.
A better society would see less people like her subsidised into motherhood.
What would retribution look like? The idea that “retribution” is civilised and comes down to time served is nonsense. It’s not even possible for the worst criminals.
What are you going to do, hang Martin Bryant 35 times?
Keeping her out of society for 25 to life is community protection.
Who could have guessed that fifty years after the racial melting pot of the 60s we will be waist deep in a race war?
Sure, but Christian nationalism is more a niche Protestant position. I wouldn’t describe integralism as Christian nationalist, nor would I describe someone upholding a natural law view of marriage as Christian nationalist. The play here is to associate every position on the right that isn’t secular liberal as Christian nationalist.
People who might have read the Declaration of Independence, for instance.
The Carlson Benz interview is very interesting. I’m not 100% bought, but even 25% is a serious worry.
If true, the Demons could nominate Dementia in a casket and he’d still win.
Note that she distinguished “Christian Nationalists” from Christians.
In her mind the former aren’t Christian.
Is she then claiming the authority to determine who is, and who is not, a Christian?
Or would she approve of the state doing so?
Progressivism very often masks a desire for power over and control of others.
Truss was terrible. All the wrong beliefs and instincts for a Conservative PM.
It’s funny declaring “space is hard”.
Australian public spending on COVID to 30 June 2022 was 47.9 bn, net of stimulus packages.
If you math it out, globally 2 – 3 tn AUD likely was spent all up for those two years.
It’s party a political choice. NASA had a budget of 25.4 bn USD in 2023.
This ability to read is becoming a problem.
Let’s dumb down the public education system.
Albo announces visas for 2,400 persecuted Nigerian Christians. Oh wait, my mistake.
‘Importing hate’: Albanese govt grants 2,400 Palestinians visas in ‘political move’ (Sky News, 24 Feb)
In other news Albo has erected a sign at Sydney International Airport which says “Welcome Nazis!”
(Ok that may also be in error. I’m not having a good run am I?)
Speaking of pooftas:
Alfred Tennyson, Male Friendship, and the Gay Appropriation of History
This on top of some Google AI representing all historical figures from Rome, England, US etc as entirely black or oriental. It’s happening everywhere with Australian history being all 3rd nations and going back to Adam and Eve who were really two gay black guys.
Anal is a nasty little man. What drives him? Shame on Mr Urine for giving him a start.
‘Importing hate’: Albanese govt grants 2,400 Palestinians visas in ‘political move’ (Sky News, 24 Feb)
“That’s [antisemitism] completely unacceptable. It’s not the Australia I want to see.”
Anthony Albanese, 9th February 2024 on 3AW.
Dover – It was fun to watch. The big beasts played games with Conservative Party rules to get a run off between Squishy and Liz, thereby excluding candidates like Kemi and the Moggster that the members really wanted in the job.
Then in the party election the members chose the wrong candidate…
Liz, despite her rather wet CV, rewarded the members by going all Milei with tax cuts and other nice Thatcheresque stuff. Screech!!! said the big beasts, and got rid of her. Then as I said they installed Squishy without another internal election. And here we are.
Well the Tories are going to be absolutely destroyed in the election that’s coming. I saw one estimate that they might have 4 MPs after the dust settles.
The message to the Tory Party, the Libs and the Republicans is go MAGA or die. The base are completely happy to accept the latter option if you guys, gals and weird intersexuals don’t get with the program.
Nice to have some rain over here.
A leaked staff memo reveals Woolworths management has told staff not to wear indigenous flag, LGBT flag and the LGBT Ally flag stickers on their name badges.
Staff were previously encouraged to wear the stickers, which were provided to them by Woolworths.
I see we had tall tales from the Wild West Saloon overnight.
Welcome to the Hotel Capricornia
Such a sleazy place (such a sleazy place), wanna punch in the face
We’re living it up at the Hotel Capricornia
Oh, what a nice surprise (what a nice surprise), tell your big fat lies.
I just a Ozito sds+ for doing just that and bolting the shed to the slab.
We are certainly paying the price for SloMo and the lack of talent of the modern Liar party. The Great Man recognised Albo’s potential on put him in a corridor.
Cop that!
—
Steve Inman:
Classic BLM FAFO Moment
The local indigenes, particularly the local elders, are all quite relaxed about the matter – it’s their “fellow travelers” and non – indigenous supporters who are raising the roof.
The Fed’s measure of food inflation from just before covid to now is up over 25%. Meanwhile median household income are down around 6% for the same period.
I think the accumulated price pain since covid is what is gettiing people’s attention , even if the rate of price increases has moderated a bit. I note too that lower income folks are getting royally pissed with the elites pushing migrant hordes into their midst, creating even more competition.
At this stage of his life I’d suggest its maximising his parliamentary pension entitlement.
To that end he does whatever his union masters dictate.
That bad huh? Always fun to see executives FAFO.
Do they stock Bud Light in their BWS departments?
That Alabama court ruling in IVF is just insane. “Extrauterine children” is a rather fascist phrase.
I am sure just about everyone here is fully in favour of it, of course.
The message to the Tory Party, the Libs and the Republicans is go MAGA or die. The base are completely happy to accept the latter option if you guys, gals and weird intersexuals don’t get with the program.
Every conservative institution in the West, including the political parties, have been infiltrated by the steaming turds of the left. Their job is to destroy the conservatives and leave their voters with no one to vote for apart from a few nut case minor parties.
The battle is over folks. The conversation should be a speculative one about how fuked our society will be when the left go into overdrive: ie venezuela or california fuked.
Would any of our legal eagles, or legal adjacent eagles look at the Janet A/Stephen Rice article in the Oz on the Higgins legal guy and care to give us an opinion? The story is getting more and more febrile.
Anthony Pratt matters.
Explain how.
Albo’s EV dream ?
No it’s not.
That lady in blue…
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Steve Inman:
Third World Community Justice
My take on the supposed upgrade to the naval fleet – published yesterday in The Spectator magazine:
It’s corvette time!
By Top Ender
Once again Australia prepares for war, this time with a new class of warship, called light frigates or corvettes. They have just been announced by the federal government. 84 years ago a class of corvettes was announced by the government – it’s corvette time again, or should we call it, playing catch-up with Defence. But these new ships will be too late and too few.
In September 1939 Australia was a country unprepared for war in many ways and would be for years. Nevertheless, in February 1940 it commenced a ship-building program which would be the biggest in the country’s history. Fifty-six ships were built of the Bathurst-class, to reach an average of one vessel produced every 26 days.
It was a pity it wasn’t matched in other ways. Despite the Battle of Britain being fought in 1940, there were none of the superb Spitfire and Hurricane fighters built in Australia. When the Japanese arrived with their aircraft carriers the entire air defence of Darwin was flown by 10 United States Army fighters. Nine were shot down and four pilots died. It was to get worse. Submarine-launched reconnaissance aircraft, clearly marked as Japanese, overflew eastern coast capital cities, and no-one fired a shot at them. Midget submarines raided Sydney Harbour with impunity.
Now we’re in much the same situation. Years of neglect have left us with a nuclear submarine program that won’t see the first HMAS boat for several years. We have the Hunter-class frigate program, but instead of nine ships we will get six. And now we will get a new class of ship described either as corvettes or light frigates.
Warship descriptions can be annoyingly vague. An aircraft carrier or a submarine is definitive enough, but what is the difference between a destroyer and a frigate for example?
In World War II the descriptions were a bit like this:
• Battleships: heavily armoured, heavy guns,
• Battlecruisers: armoured, faster, heavy guns
• Cruisers: lightly armoured, faster, medium guns, torpedoes
• Destroyers: fastest, maneuverable, light guns, torpedoes, depth charges to attack submarines
• Corvettes: slower, maneuverable, light guns, depth charges
Patrol boats appeared, although some navies – the United States, for example, had them in WWII; small and very fast. The term frigate was resurrected after WWII by some countries to describe something inbetween corvettes and destroyers.
Warship descriptions can be manipulated to build something so as not to alarm a potential enemy with whom you’re on doubtful terms. The British in the 1960s for example announced they were building a class of “through-deck cruisers” which were in reality aircraft carriers.
Modern ships don’t use armour any more. Guns, although useful especially for shore bombardment to support army operations, have been relegated to a usual one per vessel. It is the age of the missile, and these new ships will be so-armed. It looks as if a helicopter will be carried, essential for submarine-hunting.
But as usual they won’t be enough and they may be too late. And there is the usual insistence we must build some ourselves. Having a home-grown naval ship-build industry is a great idea, but not if it is allowed to plunge into disrepair and dissolution, which is what happened with the Collins-class program, which saw its last submarine become operational in 2003. Just buy a proven design off the overseas shelf please!
One of the major problems in the forces though is personnel. There are not enough, and in the Navy, not enough people going to sea. Government could fix that, but they aren’t decisive enough to do it. Simply remove income tax on all Defence personnel, and regarding the sea duty allowances for the Navy – triple them, or remove income tax liability for days at sea. And how about preferred immigration status for anyone willing to join up from suitable overseas countries?
The Bathurst-class build was the largest single shipbuilding program in the history of the country. But it was not the only WWII ship-building program Australia saw – much bigger destroyers were also built. A new build will be nowhere near that – government sources say the first light frigate/corvette will be in service by the end of the decade and expects eight of eleven to be built here. Hardly up to the Bathurst-class schedule.
Those WWII corvettes were small but efficient. They had sonar and were designed to hunt submarines. HMAS Deloraine did just that when she sank the RAN’s first Japanese submarine kill outside Darwin. The 80-man I-124 remains there today.
The Bathursts initially had no radar but that was added – it made them roll more, and they were now more crowded with the necessary technical ratings added. Two 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns were fitted; they were soon found not to be sufficient against air attack and another was added. It was with such a gun that Teddy Sheean earned the Navy’s first and only Victoria Cross as HMAS Armidale sank under him – sadly it took 78 years for it to be awarded.
The Navy might do well to call the new class of ships the Sheean-class, and then name the rest after some of the best of the numerous heroes of the Navy, rather than the oft-used innocuous rivers or bays. Ron Taylor of HMAS Yarra would be a good second ship name source – despite fighting to the last as Sheean did he received nothing. It’s a sad world sometimes.
All up we are seeing what happens when government after government neglects defence, just as it did before World War II. At least then the government had the Great Depression to justly blame. Now Australia has a booming economy, and it’s just a lack of direction that is to blame. We spend liberally on foreign aid – around five billion a year, more than the proposed entire build cost for the corvette program. We must change directions and speed up defence acquisitions and decisions before it’s too late.
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Top Ender is a military historian whose latest work The Sinking of HMAS Sydney studies living, fighting and dying aboard WWII cruisers, as well as providing an analysis of the Sydney versus Kormoran action. His book Eagles over Darwin looks at how the entire air defence of northern Australia was flown by the USA in the dark days of 1942, while Bombers North covers the USAAF, RAAF and Dutch offensive operations of 1942-1945.
Did you never read Aldous Huxley in school Monty?
(He, Orwell, Lewis and Tolkein are going to get 451Fed before long. Too inconvenient to the Left.)
That strategy comes unstuck when the minor parties grow in support & threaten the political consensus, as the Germans (and the western Europeans more generally) are discovering presently.
Elections are still useful for something.
Chelsea Tractor says “crunchies, yum!”
mUnty!
Substack article below is interesting and gives a good look into our dystopian future. Via Revolver News.
How GovTech Will Control Your Life by Noor Bin Laden
Europe has a different relationship with politics and political parties than we do. Generally ours revolves around apathy and handouts. Deeper thinking or understanding isn’t really the Oz way.
No.
None of the above makes sense. Retributive justice is simply the claim that the justice requires restitution, that the wrong committed demands some form of punishment that restores equilibrium to the scales of justice. How is this ‘uncivilized? It’s pretty obvious from your argument that you are trading in the illusion that proportionate means identical; it doesn’t necessarily. There is no reason why retributive justice implies that Byrant must be killed 35 times; it entirely satisfies the requirements of retributive justice that Byrant be either put to death or serve the rest of his natural life in prison without the possibility of parole. We don’t, for instance, believe that a single murder that involves a conspiracy of more than one must involve a reduction in sentence simply because their is only one victim and X number of wrongdoers.
Moreover, focusing on community protection is unmoored if their is no grounding in retributive justice. Under the guise of community protection, you could deprive this or that person of their liberty for fear that they may offend without their being any wrongdoing. Indefinite detention, precrim, etc. would then be justified. Further, how are you going to scale actual fines or prison sentences without any recourse to principles of retributive justice like proportion, wrong, etc.?
Generally ours revolves around apathy and handouts.
and what do theirs?
It’s funny that your “retribution” cannot be quantified, it basically morphs into community protection but that is “unmoored”.
The retribution argument is either sleight of hand or redundant. It really only works with capital punishment for a singular murder.
Nor would I ever argue that. Murder involving a conspiracy is much worse, by definition it is premeditated, usually with a motive involving lust, money or the continuation of a formal or informal criminal enterprise.
It’s too much to ask that Woolies’ woke management has learned its lesson from dabbling in politics that have nothing to do with selling stuff.
More like management is being embarrassed by leaks and pushback from disgrunted suppliers and customers.
PS: duopolies are just monopolies observing ceasefire agreements with their duopoly partners.
How long is the A(bo)BC going to persist with the quasi-religious acknowledgement to country every morning? It does nothing for the aborigines, and is simply a public sneer at the society that pays their wages.
To the tune of “Money for nothing” :
I want my.
I want my.
I want my thumbs and ticks
[ guitar intro]
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That ain’t blogging, that’s not the way to do it.
A blog is nothing unless the ticks are free.
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I think it’s funny that the atheist Left replaced the Lord’s Prayer with prayers to the Rainbow Serpent instead.
You can count on monty to have idiotic, shallow takes on such issues. The interesting thing about the case is that it was brought by the parents against the clinic for failing to properly protect the embryos in their custody and care. There was a break-in, the thief removed the embryos from safe-keeping, and left them on the floor to die. There is a lot about this I don’t like, namely the entire practice of generating children ex utero, but this is entirely beside the point here; what is produced here are children. Their location makes no difference so to the extent that they exist, they should enjoy the same entitlements to the protection of the law as the child in utero.
N.B. That the parents actually sued the clinic here indicates, strongly, that parents in general think of the embryo as children, phenomenologically, and thus as human beings. The same is true, perversely, regarding the vehemence with which many support abortion; they are not denying the humanity of the child, they simply want to avoid the obligations they owe the child as a human being.
Woolworths isn’t the only one pushing LGBTI etc. The coles here had their delivery vans plastered in the pride flag for ages.
The last time I went into a JB hifi the employee that wandered over to me had a rainbow lanyard on and an air of having a chip on their shoulder. I couldn’t work out if it was a male or female homo, or a trannie. Either way, I think I’d rather go somewhere else than deal with that again.
I’d like some actual helpful customer service, not some begrudged mumblings. Not “I support XXXX” politics. Definitely not someone who has an air of spoiling for an excuse for drama.
It sounds like Zwier is an egotistical prick.
I think we might find staff have been complaining to the union about the stick they are getting from the public.
But this is a yuuuge turnaround.
Last September if a staff member had said No to “Yes!” badges, they would have copped a patronising chat from HR about “unconscious racism”.
Five months later they are actively discouraging staff from wearing any woke slogans.
Let’s be honest. A lot of people in HR are complete psychos.
Why is it that leftards get so excited (almost orgasmic) about destroying or experimenting on foetuses?
True, and probably true of the anglosphere generally other than the USA.
A legacy of having a stable system of government that, until recently, more or less served the interests of electors.
That attitude could change.
Liz Truss made the cardinal error of not knowing that a large fraction of her party and the economic establishment are actually woke lefties, and considered her economic ideas heretical. Not wrong, false or impractical. Just heretical.
Milei at least identified the enemy.
Deeper thinking or understanding isn’t really the Oz way.
True, and probably true of the anglosphere generally other than the USA.
A legacy of having a stable system of government that, until recently, more or less served the interests of electors.
That attitude could change.
Casual convos I have with guys at work and my gym suggests quite a few people out there ‘get it’.
Liz Truss seemed to get it to some extent too. Which is why she was removed I imagine.
I won’t be surprised if Coles follows suit.
They dropped the Voice stuff before Woolworths did, at least in my neck of the woods.
It’s a long time since the Australian electorate experienced declining living standards.
That’ll be a wake up call for many.