I missed Rabz’ radio show, but couldn’t let it go without posting one of the most magnificent love songs ever.…
Open Thread – Wed 28 Feb 2024
Rabz, the problem is that climate catastrophism is a replacement religion for athiests who have rejected Christianity. And they are…
Maybe it is just entertainment for them?
The mega rich are funding the revolution, not a new phenomenon. The question is, how do we combat this? I…
Sharri had further on the ridiculous inquiry into terror threats. There is one feature most prominent. It’s 9the one they…
The manoeuvrings in this case are bizarre.
Britnah saying she will only appear if Ten didn’t settle (I had been wondering why they hadn’t made an offer, but now we know).
Her brief, Zwier, saying she won’t appear if Ms Crysanthou represents Wilko.
What a shit-show.
I like Cassie and Lizzie and wish both would come back, we need many and varied opinions and comments which make for lively discussions. I expressed my wish for Calli’s return as I have a particular affinity with her attitudes and life experiences and miss her contributions. I didn’t mean to leave out anyone.
The price-performance ratio of the T-90 needs to be considered in their relative price and supply during main production against their time to be repaired or built new now.
Only 60/270 (roughly) have been produced post-invasion. At least 34 have been destroyed. Oryx says about 100.
I would not want to be reliant on old soviet technology, but after the what we’ve learnt about our own countries in the last couple of years, I wouldn’t place too much faith in our own propaganda.
Pogs,
It was Vic Dominello
Wiki:
On 18 August 2021, while fronting the media in a press conference, Dominello’s face was seen to be drooping and he was blinking slowly with his left eye. Concerned viewers contacted his office to urge him to seek medical help, which he did later that afternoon and was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy.[25] On subsequent days, he wore an eyepatch to prevent infection.[26]
It has become ridiculous. Cassie always took any opportunity to insult me. She often expressed contempt for various individuals and groups. Gets attacked and goes all SJW with outrage and flouncing. Hypocrite.
Like Really? It’s perfectly fine for the dictator and his cocksuckers to be making threats about nuclear attacks on the West every 24 hours or so during the last 2 years. Like how a big bomb dropped in close proximity would cause a tsunami and thereby drowning the UK .
Russian nuclear threats every 24 hours is fine. NATO also drawing a line in the sand. Oh my gosh, how could they do such a thing!
I’m sorry.
It’s the threats of violence at the Grarfelly Bearch Raof PUB isn;t it???
Don’t need many to make a mess, I’d guess.
I wonder what Vlad P will do during the nuke winter? Perhaps retire to an eternal life machine buried deep under the Kremlin to be woken in 999 years.
Oh my.
George Galloway has parliamentary privilege again.
I can live for 10000 years down a meinschaft with Sidney Sweeney dressed in feathers in a mechanical bed invented by my Uncle…Dr Duran Duran.
It won’t be easy, the living will envy the dead.
It’s the threats of violence at the Grarfelly Bearch Raof PUB isn;t it???
I’ll consult the relevant maritime law to see if you have standing.
John H
Please don’t do that. You’re perfectly aware who I was referring to in that comment. I like Cassie and I like your comments, but your argument with her is not something I know about or have any interest in.
So it’s going to use them all on Russia and leave nothing for China, Iran, or any other threat? Leaving aside the Tomahawks already being used up elsewhere, how many are already sequestered for nukes? And even if it launches a third of this arsenal it still won’t mortally wound Russia. And what of China and Iran, does anyone imagine that a conventional strike on this scale would not cause China and Iran, or even NK, to release someone their cruise missile/ rocket artillery inventory to Russia? Especially if the US is stupid enough to attack Russia’s Pacific Coast.
This scenario involved NATO being reckless enough to put NATO troops in Ukraine, not RuAF planning dance parties in Biarritz by late summer. Leaving aside the conga-line of states, since Macron floated this idea, has said, No, no, no, Hell no, Russia wouldn’t fight an aggressive campaign in this circumstance, it would be defensive.
I reckon this sovereign citizen stuff was thought up on a CIA psyop planning weekend after a dozen beers.
Catallaxy Compensation Court Case.
Minor violence, drug use and a small degree of TRAITORS, no (((conveyances))) though.
Roger earlier.
Was it Battersea power station in the UK which was housed in a beautiful art deco building?
That I did, Thancho. How could I? The second best treasurer after shane wand, the second best fm after benny wonk, where does the greatness end, oh yes as you say, 11 votes.
There may have been moments of satire.
SP,
During the defamation case, Justice Lee was less than impressed when it was revealed that Higgins’ had originally insisted that she would not cooperate with the case if Sue Chrysanthou was involved. To which Lee noted that if he was still at the bar and a witness demanded similar he would have subpoenaed him/her.
As to the West Botany St Rockdale sinkhole, I had only been reading Judith Sloan’s article in the recent Speccie entitled Age of Incompetence. Whilst probably not up there with Snowy 2.2 as engineering disaster, it might be a North Sydney Pool level eff-up, it will almost certainly put a cloud over the freeway construction.
Wild Boys
Chosen as the most beautiful woman in Germany.
Equal of much better looking than Claudia.
Who would you pick?
…or….
Russians have been begging to talk for years. US told them to talk to the hand. Here we are.
I trust you are aware that Tomahawks are so 20th century and the USA now has much more capable missiles including very long range stealth missiles. That Iran is still using F14s and even worse F45s. That China has is facing an economic crisis and the USA has hundreds of super hornets, F16s, and F15s stationed in SE Asia. That the USA has long maintained a military strategy of being able to fight at least two major wars. If the USA can afford to drop 100 precision weapons on ragheads in huts, launch hundreds of sorties in Yemen, and simultaneously maintaining a presence across the world, while Russia is struggling with just one war against a country 10% of its size less than 5% of NATO military capacity, that your argument is little more than wishful thinking.
Alamak
I have wargamed this all the way to the end. I have a telepathic small dog and I will kill for cans of beans.
Oh Yeah, Russia takes Crimea, causes all sorts of typical underhanded Russian trouble in Donbas.
What is the basis of our Britney’s objection to Sue Chrysanthou representing the Mrs. Pirate?
Just on the Cassie/Calli situation, they will be back, I believe. They are just having a break. The Cat is like a pub, not a prison. People can come and go, have a break as they please, without it becoming a drama.
Toyota Mirai price cut by 60% as demand for Hydrogen cars evaporates!
Oh dear! How sad!
Never mind.
SNL on the weekend was the highest rating in twenty years.
Amazing how a corporation will shun such a large part of the population.
As Michael Jordan said : Republicans buy sneakers too.
Have a listen to this bitch on the phone.
Hilarious! James O’Keefe Gets Cancelled by His Gym
Yes. Yes it is.
What is the basis of our Britney’s objection to Sue Chrysanthou representing the Mrs. Pirate?
Janet A had a decent piece on it in last Weekend’s Oz.
Ten votes plus her own, if I must be pedantic.
After being fêted by the Media as the Glass Ceiling Gal.
What is the basis of our Britney’s objection to Sue Chrysanthou representing the Mrs. Pirate?
…she was of course terrified that with Chrysanthou, Wilkinson might win.
The Cat is like a pub
The Star Wars cantina.
But in a good way.
If you want evidence of the decline of our civilisation – check out the Victorian-eraCrossness Sewerage Pumping Station in London.
Totally prepared – sounds like. Dog is named Mad Max, no?
she was of course terrified that with Chrysanthou, Wilkinson might win.
It had more to do with Zwier (is that how you spell it) and his grudge with Chrysanthou.
Neil Oliver: ‘There’s a storm coming….’
Indeed.
No drama?
Come on, man!
Putin has been looking for talks since 2007 when the writing was on the wall. Once the US manufactured a coup in 2014 they knew they had to act re Crimea. They mistakingly let things go in Donbas and acted too late in 2015. And yet they still left the door open but…
Pub with no beer.
Dover
You should do opinion writing for Pravda. 🙂
The Gillis patreons are angry.
Shane was absent last week, understandable, as he was in NY doing SNL.
He is absent this week and the dawgs are angry.
Some of his best podcasts have been him reading the patreon comments.
They are some of the funniest abuse you’ll ever read.
I must be the only person in the last 40 years to have watched a A Boy and His Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/01/young-matildas-grace-wilson-comes-out-nonbinary-adelaide-united?CMP=soc_568
What (or who) does a non-binary person do in a team full of lesbians, anyway?
Are you a lesbian, or are you now hetero if you chase the girls? Do you girls want you to chase them?
This is all so confusing.
Whatever gave you that idea? The poms are more practised in hiding corruption, not in having none.
And I am a barfly, seated hunched over my drink, suddenly and erratically crying out about some figment that scuttled across my brain like a sudden panicked insect.
Well, except for a sudden impulse buy in O’Connell street in Sydney today. The nearest bar is in the Radisson. They are strangely insistent on a micturition/urinal policy that I cannot fathom
must have been hungry like the wolf
Didn’t Calli have the job of cleaning up the old Cat, when the patrons fell to breaking the windows and smashing the furniture?
I worked on O’Connell street in the the 80s. Horrible building that’s no longer there. Sometimes the elevator would stop at your floor at an angle.
Which I think has the potential to get Zwier in strife, if it can be shown that he was acting out of personal malice, rather than in the interests of his client.
It seems he didn’t articulate any reason for the refusal along the lines of, say, disagreement with Crysanthou’s case strategy and tactics.
Why would it not be in Britnah’s best interests to appear and help win the case?
You think after the 2005 Lane Cove apartment debacle, Rockdale would not be possible.
https://mtecc.com.au/lane-cove-tunnel-collapse-and-sinkhole-a-forensic-review-1-the-collapse/
IIRC, Russia has entire military units dedicated to repairing railways/trains under combat conditions. Railways are quite difficult to put out of action for any great length of time.
What are you going to take out the railways with? Can’t use fighter bombers, subsonic cruise missiles are vulnerable to AA missiles and radar guided flak guns and even theatre ballistic missiles can be shot down/GPS spoofed. INS probably won’t get you enough accuracy to cut a rail line at hundreds of kilometers.
BTW what happened in Avdeevka a week ago?
John H.
China has been making its usual propaganda points about “unequal treaties” (Aren’t most treaties between victor and loser “unequal”?), and President Eleven has Vladivostok squarely in his sights. Poot beware!
Makka
Mar 1, 2024 2:34 PM
Well, that’s a big fkg problem. It’s the ONLY problem that matters….. air superiority, trains, tanks will all be forgotten once the nukes start dropping.
Yep. Putin has made crystal clear that nukes are off the agenda unless the very existence of Russia is threatened. That doesn’t mean some border incursion that is fended off, but refers to the wholesale invasion of Russian territory. I would add that this approach/policy is uniform with every nuclear armed country on the planet.
JC
Mar 1, 2024 2:18 PM
In any event, the idea of a conventional war with the West or NATO is unrealistic….. a response from NATO, in which case Russia would no longer exist. It doesn’t mean the West wouldn’t be hurt, but Russia would be gonesky.
It depends which nation fired nukes first. If it was, say, the UK, that small island nation would cease to exist under the Russian retaliation. If other NATO nations engage (if they hadn’t already) the Russian response would mean most of the entire European continent would be permanently uninhabitable. Yes, Russia would be ‘gonesky’ but it would be 1000 years before humans could occupy Berlin, Paris, London and a host of others cities/countries again. On the plus side, Brussels would be wiped from the map.
Even those not directly targeted, such as the Swiss, will be devastated due to nuclear fallout.
The cynic in me says that the USA would not fire nuclear weapons in the belief that Russia will not fire nukes on them – meaning the USA survived the nuclear exchange. Ditto China. As for the Indians/Pakis, not so sure. Israel – who knows.
My point JC is that the West will be more than just hurt – the entire European continent, as we know it, will cease to exist.
the UK, which is supposed to be “clean” of corruption
Just like Australia. My sister tells me there is no corruption in Australia. My now moved next door neighbour from Pakistan told me the same. I told him that we just legalise it.
That’s amusing because the Matildas keep on marrying each other.
They’ll need some help from the Socceroos and a few turkey basters if they want to keep the genetic line going.
The Cat is like a pub.
Billy Joel – Piano Man (Official HD Video)
I didn’t think Brinny had the mental plasticity to think her way through such tactics, but then I suppose she was only acting on the advice of Sharaz anyhoo
And still not opening the Red Sea? Notice the problem?
Projection, butressed by useless stats, while ignoring what I have already mentioned. Moreover, every first hand account I’ve listened to by Western mercs on return has admitted that the conflict in Ukraine is like nothing they’ve experienced.
Or is it more like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8mTM-z9Oc
Trump coins California Gov. Gavin ‘NewScum’ during border visit
That whole part of Sydney is at angles. Vertical as well as horizontal. I think the council must send out teams on Sunday mornings to look for spaces where dead unwary tourists have jammed themselves like the black stuff between elephants’ toes.
Its on the tube of yous.
boy and his dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfWS0BniJE
Needs more threads though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHoMSRZOS4
Bad look Albo not turning up at Dunkley. Could you imagine Howard or Keating pulling this stunt?
A bit of paranoia always greases the wheels of diplomacy.
Beijing Silent Over Russia’s Reported War-Gaming of China Invasion (29 Feb)
Be fun to’ve been a fly on the wall. The Great Game is still going with gusto!
Wilson is considered a bright talent
I think you mean, Wilkinson are considered some bright talents.
If rainbowbrain wants us straights to give her plural nouns, then “they” should get them good and hard.
Sure, I don’t disagree, Speedbox, but I was referring to the West that would include the US.
If Grace were binary, I would assume she likes both boys and girls. She is however non-binary, does that mean she hates everyone.?
He didn’t?
So what was he doing in Melbourne then?
abandoning the Mardi Gras is telling.
duncanm
Mar 1, 2024 3:54 PM
Laughing my box off!
What is Sam Dastyari up to these days?
Maybe ask Vlad about that also.
Russia’s LNG Cargoes Bound for China Avoid the Red Sea (28 Feb)
Sounds like Russia isn’t entirely sure that their alliance with Iran will guarantee safe transit of the Red Sea. Admittedly an LNG tanker would make nice TikTok video when hit by a missile.
Xi would nod his head: Who hasn’t wargamed a similar scenario. ‘Dude is no joke’ (Reference to movie: Heat).
Won’t be around when the numbers come in.
Mine’s a drambuie.
Frenemies with benefits Dover?
This really is an amazingly inconsequential event.
All it means is that she has identified herself as one option or other in a silly game that most of the country is not playing.
She might as well stick her head up and told us she is an orc in Dungeons and Dragons.
My local Aldi and Coles are both out of soda water and home-brand soft drinks. Apparently it is a country-wide + NZ problem caused by a shortage of carbon dioxide.
I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry so I’m just doing a lot of giggling.
hzhousewife
Mar 1, 2024 3:59 PM
Being a normal male, if I may say it, I wasn’t sure what binary and non-binary actually meant.
Looked it up, binary is someone who believes in two genders only existing!
This was a surprise to me as I assumed the opposite.
Howard certainly went down with the ship. Unfortunately for taxpayers he later bobbed to the surface.
Prudence. Why wait for a mistake? BTW, Rubymar appears to be carrying higrade fertilizer and is now adrift, heading NW.
He’s covering his arse.
Nonbinary sounds like having a Bob each way. Or maybe not.
Absolutely brilliant! Every word that slapper says to him is classic HR/powerskirt, both in tone & lexicon.
She refused to give him a reason his membership is cancelled. Within 90 seconds he’s managed to trigger her to the point she tells him the reason he was cancelled. She was tightly wound sufficient that she won’t realise she gave him en clair the reason he was cancelled.
You just can’t assume that all soccer players are only interested in boys any more.
JC
Mar 1, 2024 3:59 PM
Ok. As I mentioned, the cynic in me says that the US wouldn’t fire nukes as they have previously said that they will not use nuclear weapons first. Nukes are (rightly) a weapon of absolute last resort. The USA believe their conventional forces, manufacturing base and population (number of men eligible for military service in war time) are sufficient to overcome any armed incursion against them. Ok, fair enough.
So, if the US didn’t fire a nuke at Russia and made plain they don’t intend to unless Russia fires first, the USA could be the ‘last man standing’ whilst the European continent glows in the dark.
Having said that, I hope to Christ we never find out.
Nice peppery nose. Brilliant winter drink. We really should lobby the BOM to forecast snow, so with their 5% accuracy record we might get the right weather for coming in with numbed face and frost flakes on our shoulders, stand before a blazing fire, and knock back a mighty, fragrant dram.
Hotel California?
Ah, gotcha.
Apparently back to Sydney for his birfday pardee.
Declined the invite to wear the arseless chaps down Oxford St.
I think one of the remaining adults in the Liars has figured out that the “down with the cool kids” vibe isn’t cutting it.
The problem is that you then believe people are binary or non-binary.
Two specific states.
So back to binary again.
Amazed she hasn’t sunk yet, she’s hanging in there somehow. No one seems to want to tow her anywhere, I don’t know what’s going on with that.
Probaby a good idea for the Russians to avoid the Red Sea. The Chinese seem ok with it though. I think Iran just lurves all the oil Mr Xi buys from them, any Houthi who accidentally pots a Chinese ship will wish they and all their family had never been born.
Have to think the Saudis are getting a bit annoyed with this rubbish, since a lot of their port capacity is in the west. They sell oil to China too.
The bit where Sinodinos got off his death bed to accompany Waffleworth to the vote had me quite misty eyed. Truly deserving of a posting to the US.
You are ignoring the one insurmountable problem Russia has. It can’t fight a war on 4 fronts.
I’m sorry but that is ridiculous. You are not moving tanks, SPGs, troops, ammo, etc. over distances of 100s or 1000s of km without rail.
Finally back online after 48 hours in cyber darkness. I recommend everyone who spends time online get a tech nerd and hold him close: mine is a bloke named Lachie, a cyber wizard at my local Officeworks, who took two minutes to figure out and rectify my laptop’s reluctance to marry my iPhone.
In celebration, here’s today’s brilliant Leak.
Swimmer,
thank you for the name of the pollie. I knew it was Italian.
Jung started this nonbinary business.
Wally Dalí at 3:52
Dave is a Svengali.
Thank you Dover for being such a gracious host.
Might be a while before we see DJ Albo bustin’ a move on the decks.
Ammonium nitrate in the holds of a ship fueled by oil? Possibly with some leaks from the fuel tanks to the holds?
Glad to hear you’re back in business, Tom. A noble bloke called rugbyskier stood in for you today, many thanks to him.
Yeah, I think the blow-back from him carrying on like a 13 year old over Tay-Tay, followed by him rubbing shoulders with Torries at Pratt’s pile has come as a bit of a surprise.
Tay Tay is political Kryptonite.
Fighting and winning are not the same thing.
That would be a fine bang!
I think though the Rubymar got holed in the engine room. She’s down by the stern but hasn’t sunk. I can’t wait for all the climate bedwetting reef scientists screeching about nitrate and ammonia contamination of the poor oppressed Red Sea corals. Maybe they should declare war on the Houthis, for the Planet!
Perhaps I should have been more specific. The tanks and other heavy gear can only be moved by rail and reading in AFR it seems the Ukr secret service is doing pretty well(with CIA help) tracking & attacking Russian logistics.
Abbott in his wheel chair at Eagle Pass looked to be moving more freely than Biden did at Brownsville.
Perhaps so, but if you were a salvage operator, would you want to risk your sailors and tugs in the vague hope that there had been NO leakage of fuel into the holds?
Ammonium nitrate in the holds of a ship fuelled by oil? Possibly with some leaks from the fuel tanks to the holds?
Whoa, Beirut had 2750tonnes of AN. It only caught fire then exploded later. The damage was impressive.
Rubymar (if AN) has 147,000tonnes of the stuff aboard. Better hope it’s been contaminated by seawater rather than even one hold by diesel.
What did Marvin the Martian say about that boom?
Your point being?
I dunno, but people will do a lot for money. I can’t be bothered looking up the price of AN but at say $200 per tonne salvage price that’s a cool $30 million. The ship itself would be worth a bit too.
The Dow Breaks Out to New High Closing
“The Dow exceeded the January high and closed February at 38,996.39. The NASDAQ composite has yet to exceed the 2021 high despite the AI Bubble. This still reflects the international capital flows, and our Chaos Models show there will be a trend emerging with a gap between the main turning points ahead. The atmosphere of WAR is impacting the market and the capital flows. Comments from Macron calling to send in troops to Ukraine to prevent somehow its fall, which is inevitable, has only led Putin to say that then opens the door to nuclear warfare.
They are determined to start a war this summer before the 2024 US elections. Both European leaders, NATO, and the Neocons are living in sheer terror of a Trump victory, for he is anti-war, CBDCs, and climate change. If they cannot prevent Trump from taking the White House, I fear they will assassinate him, for there is way too much at stake for these people. I would be very concerned about July, for things appear to be heating up and going into Panic Cycles in many markets come August/September.
We have reached our target of 40,000 we set back in 2011. Our resistance now in the Dow, given a continued rally, is forming at the 42,000-43,000 area. Exceeding that overhead barrier opens the door to a test of 50,000.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/stock-indicies/dow-jones/the-dow-breaks-out-to-new-high-closing/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
One of the many unknowns in discussing war involving US troops, is the extent to which the military has been degraded by the Obummer and Biden administrations.
I’d back Putin against a few hundred admiral Levines.
Well, she is when people see a PM fawning over her like a teenager when they are tossing up between groceries and electricity.
Wodney at 5:26.
Three paragraphs.
Thin ice, Wodney.
Thin ice.
It’s an unknown. What’s your point?
Glorious stuff from UnZud.
Dear old Cheaty McSook and his twitching partner Labbashagnee gonski early once again. McSook in particular demonstrating that a specific (i.e., really suited to the jagging pill on divoted decks) technique is required to open the batting at Test level, instead of waiting until the pitch has flattened out and the ball’s scuffed up a bit at No. 4.
Straya 2/fckall at stumps, albeit with a healthy lead, thank you very much to Cameron Green.
Sancho Panzer
Mar 1, 2024 5:40 PM
Wodney at 5:26.
Three paragraphs.
Thin ice, Wodney.
Thin ice.
I am watching you, Sancho. Very carefully (with others).
In Melbourne today again, 1 weak left with a couple more appointments and we head north again before the Easter rush.
Greensborough rd-Lower Plenty-Rosana-Bulleen rd, hadn’t been down it since the new links was started. Wow what a mess especially around McCleod and why there? Have to be a few corridors east of that and entry to the Eastern Fwy closer to or other side of Ringwood… Screw trying to get anywhere on the Eastern Fwy anywhere east of the Chandler Hwy when they finish it and the bottleneck at the Mullum Mullum tunnel, wooee.
Easy to see who runs Vic too with all the CMFEU flags over the building sites.
Haha, Facechook has today decided Australian news is worthless, ABC hardest hit.
Meta bails from Australian news; ends deals with major publishers (Sky News, 1 Mar)
The luvvies are wetting their panties in unbelief. How could Facechook champion of all things lefty betray us like this?
Political leaders unite across Australia to declare war on Meta amid ‘disappointing’ decision by social media giant to stop paying for Australian news content (Sky News, 1 Mar)
Good luck with that local pollie critters. I somehow doubt your cries of pain and anguish will be heard all the way over the ocean in Californistan.
Until NATO engages with troops fighting in Ukraine, there is almost no chance of a nuke exchange. The US threatening to fight Russia in Ukraine will bring a nuke exchange front and centre. This is the US saying ” we will risk a nuke exchange with Russia by fighting in Ukraine”.
You think the Ukraine Biden money laundering scam is worth risking the US engaged in a nuclear war with Russia? Really?
Donald Trump’s Policies Are Actually Popular
So, in today’s news, I had a meeting with a WA client today (gubbermint). All the bigwigs of the place.
Director General: Female
Deputy Directors General (2): Female
Executive Directors (4): Female
Directors (8): Female.
Other management staff (10): 8 Female, 2 Male.
The only **good** thing about this is that the 23 females, were **female**
I look at my three boys (light olive skin) and there’s no chance for them in the future world.
I’ll add that my daughter got a job at Bunnings and she doesn’t get any shifts because we refuse (as I would) to let anyone work on a Sunday, it’s against our beliefs so they just ignore her; professionally of course because they’d be done for discrimination (or perhaps I’d be done for it these days)…
Apparently my truck was driving on City Link in Melbourne without me knowing.
Naughty truck!
The Filipino fines section member must have had a night on the turps.
Wrong plate reading I was told. The invoice is now in dispute – great terminology for their stuff up.
Facechook has today decided Australian news is worthless
Most of us have decided that the USA MSM is worse than worthless, it is detrimental to the republic. You cannot have a properly functional democratic process without honest media and an honest legal system.
The USA today has neither.
GMH!
Welcome back!
Where you bin?
Director General: Female
Deputy Directors General (2): Female
Executive Directors (4): Female
Directors (8): Female.
Other management staff (10): 8 Female, 2 Male.
Oh, OK – so how’s that equal pay thingummy going?
My pet theory on the Higgins / Chrsanthou imbroglio is to look at who the recently exited COO of Ten‘s employment history.
Islamophobia: Speak Out While You Still Can
Via David Thompson. A tale of woe. Read down for the woman in question new venture.
Re the best tipple to enjoy the bonhomie at this wonderful establishment, I’m reading the book From Blenheim to Chartwell: The untold story of Churchill’s houses and gardens, by Stefan Buczacki.
In the re-building of Chartwell, the owner incurred a great deal of expense, which resulted in much and heated argument about who should pay, given the extent of the rectification work that seemed to keep going.
At one point, and to be experienced on more than this occasion (1926) economies were required.
‘…domestic staff would be reduced, no bill was to be paid without Churchill personally approving it, there would be no more champagne, no port was to be opened without special instruction, cigars would be reduced to four per day, no fruit would be bought other than on special occasions, there would be no cream, two courses and a sweet only for dinner and one for luncheon; visitors would be invited only rarely…It was all frankly ludicrous; and for a man whose bills for vintage Pol Roger champagne, port and cigars alone regularly exceeded all other household expenditure, wholly impractical. So apart from a reduction in the livestock activities, almost nothing changed…’ (pp. 224-225)
Best guess by their software more like it. Doubt even a Filipino has clapped eyes on it.
Please essplain?
I’ve Been So Busy! Anthony Albanese
Finally we are seeing equality in the workforce. No limits for anyone excepting competent mens who should know their place by now.
Not long ago I had two plod turn up at Cafe.
You drove off a $35 petrol bill in Mt Druiit!
No, says I, I wasn’t anywhere near Mt Druitt on the day of the ghastly crime.
Nor said I am I a young blonde lady.
They took note of my lack of young female hotness.
I gave them my VIN and all my details and suggested they check for false plates.
Haven’t heard anything since.
I infer that there’s a shedload of fake plates out in suburbia. My chariot is a silver Mazda 3, very common (except for various aircraft). Not at all surprising someome has cloned my plates.
Jo looking back believe you were asking about guns & PNG.
Know a bloke who did asphalting all through the Melanesian areas. He lived in gated communities but reckons small arms were common such a pistols & shottys with rascal gangs.
Another guy did time out in the Highlands more mining/earthworks and lived in fortresses. They if needed had access to assault weapons if needed as a last resort. Fortunately never needed.
Ex Army bloke who did time on training teams in the ’80’s remembers some SLR & M16’s around. More so Police shooting up rascal haunts in POM though.
Myself saw a few SR88 (SG m16 variant) and SLR’s at times in the Solomon Is when I was there. I was told by local employees that there’s plenty of guns all over that Region due to the instability in Bougainville. That was over 20 years ago now so possibly different.
My opinion likely a lot of Lithgow’s production lines buried under family huts or in convenient boltholes out to our nations periphery.
Such a pity.
Meta bailing from Australian news to have ‘absolutely disastrous’ impact
Quite contrasting to my experience described only a little earlier Rockdock.
And, no I’m not (entirely) a chauvinist, but I believe 100% in merit-based selection and that was not what I saw today. I don’t think too highly of myself at the best of times, but I could personally save that organisation about 10+ roles (given the level of “thought” there) and a couple of Mil a year, easily.
This week’s Media Watchdog reports that Kaz Maz has been freed from the ignominy of the Jewish vanity press for the sunlit uplands of Lord Waffleworth’s Grauniad. Phew.
Well it is Castreau’s Kanada. Makes perfect sense.
Well done Tom
Sancho – past life industry connection to Britnah’s legal counsel who arguably seemed an unusual choice.
Among a huge number of others, implying that speculation about who would win in a war is largely idle. Or, as some might put it, a silly wank.
Albo
abandoning the Mardi Gras is telling.
Albo doesn’t hold his hose.
I took a swig on a cup of tea, just before I read that, Bear.
I now have two rivers of English Breakfast flowing down from my nostrils.
Thanks a bunch.
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 1, 2024 6:27 PM
My chariot is a silver Mazda 3…..
Hey Bruce – Toyota may offer you a good trade-in on a Mirai hydrogen car if you want it. Go on, you know you do. Be part of the solution to a greener world. The birdies will thank you.
(walks away chuckling. Bait set)
To repeat myself (to repeat myself), The Cat is like an infinite episode of South Park (with multiple Kennys), sometimes with metaphorical old-style Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons thrown in.
Gotcha.
Yeah, Zwier is more commercial litigation than defamation or criminal.
And sounds like a bit of an attention seeker into the bargain.
So is speculating on whether Putin is superior to a 100s Levines.
Using evidence to argue a case is not idle. Humans do that all the time and in most domains.
Militarily the USA is a generation ahead. That is across all branches of the military. It has not degraded, it continues to advance at an astonishing pace and with absurd costs.
Speedy – I’ve worked at two sites with hydrogen plants. One electrolytic the other reforming. I even have a US patent using hydrogen! It was for QNI so Fat Bastard may own it now.
I like hydrogen, it’s fun. Not in a car I want to drive though.
Goodness gracious!
I just spent 30 minutes just shaking my head.
Juan’s analysis of this incident is top notch.
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Blancolirio:
Pakistan International Airlines #8303 Shocking Final Report!
Please replace metaphorical with textual.
Same-same.
Carry on.
Got tipped off and doing a runner?
A man suspected of being the infamous ‘Moore Park rapist’ – who terrorised Sydney by sexually assaulting at least 10 women at knife-point between 1991 and 1993 – has been arrested.
The city’s exclusive Eastern Suburbs were plagued in the early 90s by a man dubbed the ‘Night Stalker’ who would approach women around railway stations asking if they were interested in modelling or cleaning work before taking them to a secluded area and raping them at knife point.
At least six of his victims were Asian women.
Despite a massive public appeal for information and the establishment of a specialist police task force, the culprit was never caught.
But in a major breakthrough on Friday, NSW Police announced a 60-year-old man suspected of being the ‘Night Stalker’ had been arrested at Sydney International Airport.
DAILY MAIL
Bongino:
Obama is Pulling the Strings
Hardly new but some of the detail is interesting. In respect of Michelle, will he or won’t he run. The first trannie POTUS!
Actually the US has been at war with China for a few decades and is losing badly. Not a shooting war, that China might lose. The fact that shooting hasn’t occurred means that most people, possibly including you, haven’t noticed. Sun Tzu and other Chinese much prefers it that way.
I like hydrogen, it’s fun. Not in a car I want to drive though.
What then? Surely you’re not disagreeing with Australia’s formerly second richest human who espouses H for all transport.
Dr B that’s funny. The Chinese are playing poke the bear. They are not dumb: they know exactly how outclassed they are, and that is by a couple orders of magnitude.
So they are using irritation tactics. It’s what you do when you know how weak you actually are. Of course in the MSM they are awesomely striding in conquest into the 22nd Century and Beyond, manliness and victory, but their strategic methodology is obvious to anyone who knows this stuff. The best you can say is the Chinese understand perfectly well how far behind they are. The first step to success is to know your actual circumstance.
Hydrogen in rockets is pretty cool, although lately there seems to be a convergence on liquid methane/LOX. The temperatures are more forgiving.
Want tech nerds? Jaycar staff are unbeatable. I suspect a lot of them get up to weird stuff in their spare time.
There is actually a title “No More Champagne” by David Lough, on the parlous state of Churchill’s finances – he lived most of his life, until 1940, on the edge, financially.
I saw today an interview on Fox with Governor Abbott and Trump. I have a sneaky suspicion he may be asked to run as Trump’s VP.
Breitbart had this headline:
Jean-Pierre on Riley Death: ‘We Have Done the Work’ on Border and GOP Got in the Way
They would not publish my comment:
Why are all demorat black women horrible humans?
I saw today an interview on Fox with Governor Abbott and Trump. I have a sneaky suspicion he may be asked to run as Trump’s VP.
Compare the potential Trump VP candidates with the demorat POTUS and VP candidates.
They are indeed outclassed in traditional military terms. Which is why their attack is not a traditional military one.
The US is getting a few million invaders a year. It has considerable debt. It’s leaders are corrupt and have no interest in their people. Look how it’s gone in the last thirty years and project this continuing for another century.
The Chinese may not survive either, but they plan to. One way or another. And a century to defeat the West is nothing much.
BON, I agree. Rowland called Metas move “a threat to journalism”. Dear god I thought I agree with Z baby. What journalism?? There is very little worth purchasing.
My query is whether Meta can get around things by NOT publishing any Australian news. Or simply creating their own.
Will be inrteresting.
Sancho Panzer
Mar 1, 2024 5:40 PM
Sure…………………………..
The same applies in politics (and professional sport and business; in any competitive endeavour).
How is it that the faux conservative parties have not figured this out yet?
Lysander LOL. Sorry, exploration miners and drill crews tend to be very blokey oriented and still are in the smaller players tenements. I’ve met some very interesting characters and tend to remember their anecdotes especially if I have experienced similar.
Believe it or not one of the most fearsome woman I have ever met was in a Muslim nation. Past child bearing but was very outspoken for the region and respected by the body language I came across. The men kept out of her way making me think she was from a prominent family or tribe.
When my late mother was still driving she showed me a speeding fine she got and pointed out that she had never been to where the notice said she was speeding. I rang Service NSW or whatever they called themselves at the time and related my mother’s story. I also asked if they could have a look at the camera image pointing out that my mother’s car was a little white Suzuki. The person came back to me and said not to worry about the fine, it was being cancelled. Obviously machines are not that good at reading number plates and there are no double checks with the vehicle’s specifications.
I’d wager no human eye set sight on the photo before the fine was issued.
Artificial “intelligence.”
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Mar 1, 2024 7:34 PM
In the re-building of Chartwell, the owner incurred a great deal of expense, which resulted in much and heated argument about who should pay, given the extent of the rectification work that seemed to keep going.
There is actually a title “No More Champagne” by David Lough, on the parlous state of Churchill’s finances – he lived most of his life, until 1940, on the edge, financially.
Exactly. Churchill lost a lot of his money in the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Because in Australia, nobody with any brains has gone into politics for a long time. Politics is for people for whom status, prestige, and the opportunity to bully people is really important. Nobody with intelligence puts much value on these things. They are for the empty headed.
What they are really saying is that Meta’s history on “curating” news has been to relentlessly push left leaning news sites.
This will now disappear.
Wodney at 7:42.
That’s it.
Nice and short.
Well done you, Wodders.
(Maybe go easy on the ellipsis).
DrBeauGan
Mar 1, 2024 7:40 PM
The US is getting a few million invaders a year. It has considerable debt. It’s leaders are corrupt and have no interest in their people. Look how it’s gone in the last thirty years and project this continuing for another century.
The Chinese may not survive either, but they plan to. One way or another. And a century to defeat the West is nothing much.
Yep. President Xi knows that he may not necessarily live to see the emergence of the East over the West but he sees his role as, in large part, setting up China to take its ‘rightful place’ in the world order. If it takes another 50 years, so be it. 100 years, ok. But there is nothing more certain in the minds of the Chinese leadership and bureaucracy.
As we shift ever more to a multi-polar world, China sees itself straddling the assorted divides as the indisputable global power.
Apparently my truck was driving on City Link in Melbourne without me knowing.
Apparently, my Mazda MX5 was parked on Park Street in Sydney one Christmas time while I was many many miles away somewhere else. Long story but I managed to convince the “authorities’ that they had got it wrong.
No apology or anything. R soles.
IIRC there was a case or two several years ago where a vehicle was clocked by a camera in (say) Melbourne, the fine sent to the vehicle owner in (say) Sydney.
Big kerfuffle.
Turned out there were cases of two states having the exact same number plate.
Their demographics suggest otherwise.
The next generation of the clan received an ultimatum. “You want to study commerce, medicine, agriculture, engineering, law, something relevant, the clan meets your HECS debt. You want to study lesbian dance or underwater basket weaving, you are on your own.
Definitely so.
The ACT has been using plates starting with “Y” for many years, NSW started using such plates around 20 years ago, which led to an ACT driver complaining about a fine when he had been nowhere near Sydney. I have no doubt that overlap with rego plates between states is now very common.
Sancho Panzer
Mar 1, 2024 8:03 PM
And Mrs Stencho Pantyhose –
Sure……………..
I would say the arrogance of these women is due to the DEI hiring policies. They know they will get the job no matter how awful they are and that getting fired is unlikely.
They were polite and competent when they had to compete with everyone else on equal terms. In the end DEI is very destructive to the very people it purports to be helping.
The CCP doesn’t care about the demographics. As long as they’re in charge, and there are enough people to bully, it’s fine. A population of a few dozen million is plenty.
One of my mums most pleasurable moments in winding up dads estate was telling one of the minions at the Vic state revenue office that a speed camera fine would not be paid as the recipient has passed.
The drone there wanted proof of name, address from her, one other intrusive piece of proof of her identity that I can’t remember and the death certificate. Mum by then had enough of dealing with government and was on the mend from the loss very politely told them they will receive a copy of the death cert that they have the ability to check and that would be that.
She did just that and never heard from them again.
Not if they’re all aged 60+.
Welcome to our messy neighbourhood*, Rockdoctor. Years and years of construction still to come.
(*Not Macleod specifically, but every suburb between Watsonia Station and the Bulleen Rd on ramps to Nunawading and the City are impacted)
That’s better Wodney.
Just drop a few of the ellipses and we are nearly there.
Your progress towards brevity is nothing short of ‘mazing.
In about five years they will. Ten maybe
China is turning into the world’s largest old people’s home.
DEI is affirmative action for blockheads. All the evidence suggests it has been working well. Lots of blockheads are now in positions of power.
Given the state of VIC’s finances, give it 10 years, after which a robodebt scheme will find it and send the bill to you.
New Vic plates have the numbers and letters jumbled. “1VR – 2XG” type of thing.
Sancho Panzer
Mar 1, 2024 8:27 PM
And you still have that lisp. Oh dear. It goes with being a Wooden Top I suppose.