There’s a lot of that about.
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Never gets old. 10m views, and I’m guessing not from fans.
It probably couldn’t be any worse than the manufactured processed rubbish they serve up now. If it was properly cooked…
The Media Watchdog offers some thoughts on the late George Fungus. Woof woof.
Bloody greenies and their sacred tree fetish. They ruin all views, aspects and vistas that are part of our heritage.
Leading Flat White, Phil Shannon writes with news that the Labor Party in South Australia has pushed ahead with their Aboriginal ‘Voice’ despite the majority of the state voting ‘No’. Instead of listening to the ‘voice of the people’, Labor has decided that it’s going to put together a racial bureaucracy anyway.
They need to be punished for voting NO. That’s how these psychopaths think. They’ve been to the Uni dontchaknow?
If what some people here are saying is true about Aboriginals, then that Brit may be somewhat accurately pointing out the true feelings of people that live in close proximity.
He’s a kid and a limey to-boot. They’re quite opinionated without fully grasping the lay of the land.
There’s frequent negative comments thrown about here by people about abos and I wouldn’t be surprised if similar commentary wasn’t discussed with the kid.
Andrew Hastie might have something to say about plonking a big-arsed nuclear facility in the middle of his federal seat of Canning. After an eight-point swing against him last election, he doesn’t need that sort of support.
China’s GDP has just recovered to a pre-covid 2019 level.
The forecasts are negative (not good for us, obviously).
Atm, the major economies – China, US & the EU – are in danger of stalling and we’re probably in reverse.
“Interesting times” indeed.
Wisest, most trusted cat? Dead tie between Roger and Doctor Faustus.
Funniest/cleverest cat?
Still working on that.
Bear or Sancho
Dr Faustus is alway good value but Roger is a trouble maker.
Yeah, I know, right? But there are a couple more that crack me up.
Still considering.
Bruce invokes David Blackmon, who has been a fossil fuel shill for decades.
Try someone with an ounce of credibility.
Bear.
I’m humbled, Delta.
Truly.
Going through a tough time atm, which I won’t bore Cats with, but if I’m making a contribution that’s welcomed here that lifts my spirits considerably.
I will also add that both Faustus and I are but humble Queenslanders. 😀
I’m not averse to a tad of constructive trouble.
Roger is still in the race for top spot.
JC gave terrible advice on Sydney Airport.
I actually crib some of Bear’s jokes. Especially pleasurechook ones.
about plonking a big-arsed nuclear facility in the middle of his federal seat of Canning.
“everyone living here gets free electricity forever”.
And a pony.
Monty is filling space with facile observations on the politics of practical matters.
A fashion show in a steel factory.
Bear and Sancho are both a hoot.
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That being said, health concerns and likely prognoses mean my wife and I are finding the upkeep of our beloved country estate (tongue in cheek) a bit much and are contemplating a move to the local metropolis out of necessity.
Small beer compared to what many are facing presently, but leaving here after all the work we’ve put in will be a wrench.
I’ll say no more unless the move does eventuate and interrupts my posting here.
I know a bloke who says more then one of her staff has been able to pay out their mortgage as a result of such a gesture.
Andrew Hastie might have something to say about plonking a big-arsed nuclear facility in the middle of his federal seat of Canning.
We’ve been talking about SMRs dickless. One of those would fit in your big fat arse. You’d probably enjoy that so it would be win win.
Neocons Reveal War Secrets To Prepare MORE WAR!
What’s wrong with that Monty? Everything in the article is accurate. Not as if CO2 does anything much except improve agriculture. A few HELE coal plants would be an excellent thing to build. Quicker than nuke plants, I think you’d agree.
Maybe I need to explain the chemistry of water to you, right after you explain nuclear physics to me.
(Monty needs a reminder every now and then why arguing science on the Cat is not something he’s good at. Once his arse-burns heal he usually shuts up about science for several months.)
and it would be a lot more hyper-thetically, if the Vik Libs could even act a little bit normal
the missus said yesterday that as long as Pesutto is charge, there there is no effing way she will vote for a Lib candidate
and she never voted anything except Lib all her life
what Pesutto did to Deeming was a red-line
If Monty is really annoying I’ll put up the analysis doing the rounds lately from Willie Soon. After his head explodes he will flounce off. The good thing is Dr Soon is getting a hearing, especially amongst Republicans. (Was that a faint boom I just heard from the direction of Melbourne?)
Zafiro
Bit of a mix – lobster and rabbit canning.
Tuff call, Roger. Have reached out to some volunteer services?
Boambee John
Mar 4, 2024 5:26 PM
Eyrie
Reminds me of trying to explain the concept of Defence Purchasing ships and aircraft “Fitted ‘for’, but not ‘with’.”
He’s Drag Queen Story Time in an abbatoir, at midday on a Friday arvo.
It is lobster country around there. Home to the Big Lobster IIRC.
They mention canning Snipe and Swan elsewhere in the article. Gotta be better than crickets and cockroaches.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do Roger. Always enjoy your comments and I WILL get that article about Donald Horne for you one day. I have gone through a few mid 80s Quadrants without success as yet.
How to make money from “standed coal assets”? 1. Greatly encourage all the talk that nobody wants coal and it is a dead-end industry that banks won’t fund. 2. “Reluctantly!” buy mines at low prices (using private equity) from spooked publicly listed companies. 3. Reap lovely profits as Asia buyers improve the wellbeing of their populations and expand their economies through intelligent use of fossil fuels.
mUnty reminds me of Rik from The Young Ones
Unless you have good help country estates are a burden.
JC
Mar 4, 2024 7:11 PM
Wooden Top and Pompous Windbag to boot, get back under that rock.
You really are a ‘Stoush Nurse’.
I have replied to MontyPox Virus many times and will continue to do so if and when I please.
And that famous late night post of yours will go down (in flames) in that ‘Legend in your Own Lunchtime’ World of yours –
“I’m bored, depressed and, and, and ……..”. LOL.
Tosser.
what Pesutto did to Deeming was a red-line
I agree and can hardly believe it but after what that idiot Zoe McKenzie said, it’s par for the course unfortunately.
McKenzie is engaged to Rodrigo Pintos-Lopez, a Harvard-educated barrister who is currently Chief of Staff to Leader of the Victorian Opposition, John Pesutto MP.
German Health Minister Said We Need to Boost Healthcare in case of “military conflict”
“I have been reporting that it is the West that wants war because the financial system is collapsing. They are reaching the point where they know that the are rapidly approaching the point of collapse which HISTORICALLY always takes place when governments run these Ponzi Schemes where they NEVER intend to pay off what they borrow, so they constantly issue new debt to retire the old. This is the failure of Marxism, where they always spend more than what they have and then blame us. The German Minister of Health says they must expand the healthcare system to deal with a future pandemic or more likely World War III. But they intend to default on all outstanding debts. The CBDCs will be the new currency, and they get to restart everything and collect $200 for passing GO.
This war would have been over in six weeks. Both sides agreed in Istanbul, and then Boris Johnson was told to hop on a plane and kill any peace deal. Since then, over 500,000 Ukrainians are dead and around 8 million have fled the country. There is NOBODY among the leaders of the pretend Free World who cares about the people. They want war at all costs, and they are going to get it. They have their bunkers and pray that 50% of the population will be eradicated so they can reach their fictional CO2 targets.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/german-health-minister-said-we-need-to-boost-healthcare-in-case-of-military-conflict/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I am a hometown Kingaroy girl. You don’t get more Queenslander than that.
I wonder why anyone invests in them then.
Even if that were to happen Nikki Haley will only have the number of delegates that she has now. Trump’s delegates will not automatically go to her but to whomever his campaign assigns them and that is likely to be Ron DeSantis, in spite of their earlier animosity. Even if Trump’s delegates were released to choose on their own they are even more likely to go to Ron DeSantis.
The organisation that confused “optional” and “optimal”? Riiiiight.
All the best, Roger. I do also enjoy your posts, and I suspect I brought a couple of books you recommended.
Speaking of funny posters:
Is this like ‘part time bovver boy’?
Funnily enough you’ve never mentioned that since.
Me too.
We checked. You don’t meet that standard.
So far too much ad nauseum media luv surrounding this Broncos 251 being called a “monkey” and having a sniffle ..
I’ve, no doubt, being “proud” he’s using selective memory and misplaced the number of times he’s yelled at decent folk with that standard 251 epithet ..”white c***ts”.. over the years .. but your not gonna hear that question asked by anyone in Oz media …
After all, ya can’t grow up “proud” if ya ain’t mouthed off at ‘whitie” .. it’s a cultural thingy like “welcome to country” but without any money …..!
The irony of this, of course, which has the media running soft is … blek on blek .. LOL!
Harvard educated ain’t what it used to be. And what it always was from those in a position to know.
Haley Wins Washington D.C. = Labor Wins ACT.
???
Does your car or house contain any steel?
You have an interesting definition of progress – just like a Great Leap Forward.
Bruce of Newcastle
I’ll get interested in QM when I can purchase a zero point energy battery/generator that weighs less than a kilo and can replace all the power I use in my house. That includes the still I have in the garage. And all for less than $100.
You worry me when you say that, Roger, because you rarely mention personal issues.
I sincerely hope all turns out well for you.
Drumgold decision for those interested. Best not to rely on j’ismists in these matters.
https://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/judgments/drumgold-v-board-of-inquiry-and-ors-no.-3
Winston
Don’t get me started. I recall discussions about some new ships. Offered the choice between fewer ships fully fitted out and more fitted “for but not with”, the Navy reps favoured more ships.
Thanks Delta. I wish I was Ackman though. 🙂
Mole, did I? What advice did I give? I wanted to croak with the stock certificate stuffed in the casket so i could take it with me to the afterlife.
Bloke I knew in the Army Reserve was a slaughterman in an abbatoir. Passing General asked him the usual “What do you do in civilian life?” The response was on the lines of “Sir, I’m a trained and licensed killer”. The General didn’t appreciate the joke.
Roger, two of my friends, a husband and wife, have done just that last month. They love their new place particularly now that the garden and grounds are looked after by someone else and they can just enjoy them.
I hope you find something really nice that both of you will love. Of course, it will be a wrench which is why I am putting it off until absolutely necessary. All those years of happiness and memories will be hard to let go.
Roger, I say this without an atom of exaggeration. You’ve been on the Cat for a very long time, and I’ve found you to be one of the best contributors and finest examples of a human being one could ever meet on an annon blog.
Best of luck with everything.
Both very safe traditional ALP seats and well outside the Greens public-service/university/two-fussy-boys-with-a-deep-commitment-and-French-Bulldog catchment areas.
Superb good Doc Faustus.
Please keep us posted, Roger. I can only offer a sincere prayer as help.
Heh…
‘I have the support of my team’: Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto claims Liberals united despite senior staff exodus (Sky News, 4 Mar)
I smell a black cat crossing his shadow at midnight while an owl hooted warningly. Is it too early to make popcorn?
French bulldog catchment areas. Just fantastic, much like the Tesla curtain. Will be chortling for a while lol
Another lady for Dot to wife up.
As his dating spirit animal Im finding his recalcitrance to actually contact my suggestions deflating.
Last summer, I slept with a man with whom I had a rare, electric chemistry. But at 7am, after about four hours of sleep, he woke me rudely and asked me to leave – he told me he “couldn’t sleep” while I was there. I gathered my stuff and left, after asking him to book me an Uber. Five minutes into the ride, the driver informed me it had been cancelled. When I called the man to ask what had happened, he said I “had been cold to him” upon my departure. My jaw fell to the floor as I found myself stranded somewhere in Upper Manhattan.
Last autumn, I met a man via a dating app and slept with him on the first date. After we were done – it was already 3am – he declared that he’d have to go home now.
…
I counted the number of people I had bedded in the last year – 20. I was shocked by the relatively high number, considering almost none of them had made me feel fulfilled, excited or empowered.
…
But sitting at the Thanksgiving dinner table surrounded by my happily married parents and my sister, her fiance and toddler, I found myself sobbing uncontrollably. The juxtaposition between my life and theirs suddenly dawned on me: “I can’t remember the last time someone I liked held my hand or hugged me.”
A lady found out she was an onohole as opposed to an actual person. After acting as an onohole for most of her life.
And here it is Dot, the final pitch for you to wife her up
While my body is closed for business, my heart is open for romance.
French bulldogs doing it tough at the moment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13152201/Influencer-rehomes-dog-shes-busy-posting-videos-partying-friends-organising-spice-cabinet.html
What advice did I give?
To get and hold forever…
You never mentioned a predatory bald headed flog for compulsorily acquire the joint…
I only made 30%….
STFU Woddenhead. You’re in no position to be throwing criticism at anyone, even Fatboy, you blog virus.
I hear you Queen.
Continuing with my awards (don’t fret, there’s something for everyone): most way out, probably wildly intelligent, but I rarely understand a word he says?
Has to be dot.
Because you don’t understand the limitations of air defense.
Numbers are always relative.
Black Ball, add the goat cheese curtain to the Tesla curtain. It trended as a cultural marker just before the China virus debacle.
Mole
Gee, thanks for reminding me. You don’t realize the pain I went through over that. The closest I’ve come to crying was having to cut a cheque to the ATO for that year because a stock I wanted to keep was compulsorily taken.
Gonesky is a total turd for what he did. He was in on it. And the freaking CEO received a $10 million payout because of the change in ownership and both these scum are still there.
Don’t get me started.
Mole –
Most likely to be appointed Executive Producer of new reality series “Dot wants a Wife” soon to be appearing on Ch 10 as they desperately try to staunch the bleeding.
LOL. How do you become “stranded in upper Manhattan? The bint wasn’t stranded. She didn’t want to pay for the Uber ride.
Oops, better slip this one in quickly if I’m hoping for tickability: best and most intelligent blog owner (who saved me when I stupidly doxxed myself) and graciously allows us this exemplary forum for civilised discussion?
No contest! Our own Dover.
(Any chance of ticks now?)
JC – you should be made to pay to park at Sydney Airport for eternity. Talk about living off immoral earnings. Just roll the proceeds over to BAT.
mUnter! You have a blog!
Redress this travesty!
Oh. Hahahahaaaaaa, hang on.
The Jimmy Olsen award for best, reliable newshounds: Blackball, Old Ozzie, ZK2A. And highly appreciated, as well.
Different rings. The Tesla curtain would take in the Teals. The goat cheese curtain would be the feral Greens, since they don’t have any money. An inner ring of the goat cheesers would be mung bean central, whose denizens wouldn’t be seen anywhere near goat cheese.
Add in the pork free zone and you start to get a feel for the interesting patchwork arrangement of the Left, geographically speaking.
The Funniest, Cleverest Award: tight field. KD ahead by a nose atm.
Mole
The dating market is a hellish nightmare for sheilas in NYC. I know from my kid, who’s now luckily in a relationship. The problem appears to be that the gals are all highly “edentucted” and girls, being gals, only consider dating upwards. The trouble is that, by my estimate, the ratio is about 3:1–5:1 gals to the cohort of available men they want to date and/or marry. 99.934% of that cohort (dudes) are absolute freaking arseholes, as they have zero problem finding pretty gals in the dating market. They just burn their way through the gals without any guilt or second thoughts.
They call NYC the graveyard for ovaries.
The horror stories, that I’ve heard from my kid are incredible.
A close second is the Furniture Shop.
Then cab, Uber it or walk. No one is made to park there. Sydney is an expensive city and scarce land like the carpark is priced at the rate people are prepared to pay. Stop whining.
But on second thoughts, after my treatment, I agree with you. 🙂
The Deliverance Blog, where having three ears means you can always hear someone talking behind your back, literally!
He copped a well deserved flogging.
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Steve Inman:
Another Community comes together to take out the trash
Been watching the Cranbrook 4 corners story. Big Nothingburger thus far.
There was a hot blonde young maths teacher who used to cop a bit of attention from the boys. One year 12 class bought her a pair of pink fluffy hand cuffs as an end of year parting gift. Just good fun and boys being boys.
So they can be useful? Oh, silly me.
Looks like the Brittany circus is coming to Perth. I can report in person if someone will stump up lunch money for sandwiches.
Chicks who get maths are hot. Ask Dot.
Silly indeed. A weapon for every occasion. Stealth bombers have tactical advantages, hence while the MCI is a problem, US stealth fighters have huge advantages. You think I didn’t notice you shifting the goal posts, again?
JC
Mar 4, 2024 8:35 PM
Mole
Gee, thanks for reminding me. …
Don’t get me started.
Guest Post it JC. You’re anonymous here, it’ll be a good cautionary tale- and we need to annotate the implosion of a once perfectly sensible civilization.
One day I might, Wally.
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Tyler Clement:
My favourite horror movie deserves a tribute this awesome 🙂
Based on the story by John W. Campbell Jr. called “Who Goes There?” and the 1951 film, “The Thing from Another World”… John Carpenter then gave us the ultimate in alien terror. In 1982, John Carpenter gave us one of the greatest horror movie remake of all time, The Thing. 12 men stationed out at U.S. Outpost #31 in Antartica are then forced to try to find out which members of their team are shapeshifting-aliens trying to absorb them. This film is most famous to the dog kennel scene, the defibrillator scene, and the blood-test scene…and not to mention it’s amazing ambiguous ending by not knowing who was the thing.
The Thing {Who Can it Be Now – Men at Work}
Pesutto …
the missus calls him Lord Farquaad
because he’s an evil little shit
My red line as well, MT. #istandwithmoiraandyourmissus
Class enemies. The ABC doesn’t like kulaks, even though I’d wager a large number of ABC denizens attended private schools.
Oops. Forgot Beertruck in the Jimmy Olsen award.
I’m glad Janet A has thrown the correct perspective on the findings by Justice Kaye.
Early media headlines give a misleading view, suggesting Dumgold had achieved a significant victory.
Not so. He’s just copped another judicial flogging.
Down-to Earth, Commonsense Award. Multiple finalists, including Crossie, calli, Milton F, Silstone, Ranga, Vicki… Too many to mention. All winners.
thefrollickingmole
Mar 4, 2024 8:25 PM
Another lady for Dot to wife up.
That would be cruel to dottie. From the bint’s bullshit:
For years, I saw sex as a competitive sport. Then I realised how empty I felt
Cornelia Holzbauer
These bints have zero self awareness, one of the defining characteristics of lefties. Also no sense of irony. She feels empty after having half of Manhattan blow up her zooter. And who was she competing against. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again the progenitors of feminism, the suffragettes, should have been rounded up and put to work darning and repairing lumberjack’s clothes and polishing their axes. Every woke bit of bullshit fuking Western society today can be traced back to this. Women are unhappy and instead of returning to motherhood they get full of bitter dust, vote for the filth and bitch about how unfair everything is.
Great name though.
R v Lehrmann has more spin-offs than Fast and the Furious. And they haven’t even started on the AG and the settlement.
…and Toad, of course.
Of course.
They were trying to sink the slipper into the pommy headmaster. Some trivial Cranbrook stuff and something or other when he was previously at Geelong Grammar.
Comes across as proper and old school. Not concerned with the whiny offence takers of the modern day.
It’s not my job to mend things I didn’t ruin.
And thanks ZK2A for posting the response by Janet A.
Bunsen Burner Award for sciency stuff: Rockdoctor, Eyrie, cohenite (again), but all just pipped at the post by Bruce of Newcastle.
I trust that is a euphemism.
I see the Hunt scold is now a perfesser at Melb Uni. Very cozy.
My pleasure, Barking Toad.
There was a really sad story on the news involving the case of the Malaysian Airliner that went missing. A father refuses to believe his son is dead speculating the boy is holed up on some desert island somewhere waiting to be rescued.
But get this.
He’s refusing to accept any compensation from the airline and clings to this belief.
Cheffie award finalists: Matrix, callie (again), my hopeful self… and the clear winner: Tinta.
PS: Tinta also takes the award for most courageous, dedicated and inspirational Kitteh evah.
I did tell a young gal I coach to deal with a school bully who accused her of stealing said bully’s boyfriend: “Bitch, he was never yours, it was just your turn”.
Mine too. I look forward to the Kellie-Jay Keen Minshull court action later in the year, both here and in NZ.
Neither do I.
A handle I wanted but Dover was a meanie over was “Off the Reservation Piss Drinking Libertarian Wizard”.
You’ve got to be a fan of Jimmy Page and David Bowie to get the reference.
Doing God’s Work award: again, several in a tight field, but it has to be our highly valued P. Thank you for your posts.
Crazy petrol-head of the year… and last year, and the one before that: It was always going to Steve T.
My best wishes and prayers for you Roger and your wife, also. Always value your perception and wisdom. And your great memory for detail.
Funniest/ cleverest award: I still can’t stop laughing at Winnies Redbacks quip. Still searching.
Did I? The use-case is long range strike capability. You made the claim that IRBMs were easy to intercept even though you can count the countries with that capability on one hand, and its still not fail-safe. Further, we can’t afford to have a weapon for every occasion, so IRBMs or sub-launched missiles, either cruise or ballistic, are a better bet.
At the tail end as ever, but if I may echo what a number of other Cats have written above: All the best to you and yours, Roger. It is indeed concerning that one who so rarely writes about himself expresses such anxiety. JC expressed it effectively with his 8:21 PM comment.
(That’s twice in one week I’ve started to think JC is actually human. Obviously there’s a short circuit in my brain somewhere).
JC
Mar 4, 2024 8:21 PM
Aspiring lexicographer of the year and all round good guy: bespoke.
Bureau Of Mythology on fire again.
ACT forecast (Canberra Airport) for Tuesday:
– Website: Min 9C, Max 28C
– Phone App: Min 10C, Max 30C
A joke.
Valued Kitteh of 2024: too many to mention, but special mentions for Bushkid, hzhousewife, Helen, Tinta… ah, darn it, all of them.
Daily Mail is now allowing comments on this article.
Funniest/cleverest Cat award: huge field including BJ, ML, Sancho and (sometimes) JR, but for snappy, droll, pointed and persistent laughs, sans pantaloons HB Bear can’t be matched.
Congrats, oh ursine one.
Cranbrook 4
I was impressed by the gravitas, the shots of the wind blowing the palm trees, aerial shots of streets and stuff and the serious tone and eyebrows of the presenter.
Great reporting! about erh… erh… something….
Chuffed, Delta. I had a lot of fun with Bunsen burners, although in my first lab, under our house in Kendall, I only had a metho wick burner.
Check your legs.
I think they amputated your brain by mistake.
Barking Toad at 9:18
Sofronoff’s sustantive findings remain largely undisturbed. Albrechtsen’s comments regarding the ACT Bar Association and the ACT Supreme Court should provide cause for concern (but probably won’t in that Green-Left rabbit hole).
As mum used to say, there’s more ways of skinning a cat than by stuffing it’s arse with butter.”
Pretty novel way to skin a cat…
I’ve lived in the US, and I can tell you we REALLY don’t want racial politics in Australia.
Surely there needs to be a Hatfield-McCoy award for ongoing stouches ala the Roy & HG Book of Feuds. Plenty of choice there. mUnty must get the troll award on the Albo approach – there is no one else left. Err … congratulations.
Huh? We just walked off from a referendum in which 40% of the punters voted for eggsactly that.
Jess Rudd on X posted:
Lady falls in airport. Very distressed. Hurry over. A woman rushes towards us. “I’m a nurse,” she says and begins to treat the patient. Man rushes over. Takes over. We all assume he’s a doctor. “Are you a doctor?” asks the patient. “No,” he’s says, and continues to dominate.
was he this effective?
Link fail!
Catturd ™
@catturd2
If you’re wondering why nobody wants to join the military under Biden.
the Navy reps favoured more ships.
Safety in numbers makes sense. Technology, size and stature didn’t save Yamato or Bismark…
Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilv
Now Fauci admits that COVID vaccines actually cause MYOCARDITIS particularly in young men.
Joe Biden knowingly and purposely blew up the border in 2021 — don’t believe his blame game now
Russell Broadbent
Drop the Mandates Now!
Happy hammond’s back. These days he trots in by making a snide remark towards me because he thinks it’s ingratiates him with others.
Just watched Equalizer 3. Very slow burn, totally improbable but strangely satisfying. Denzel is pushing 70 but still looks as though he could kick Reacher’s arse.
Lmao
Didn’t Edward Woodward star in the original?
SCOTUS rumoured to rule on Trump’s removal from the Colorado ballot tomorrow.
$1.01 bet that they will back Trump, of course.
The anniversary of the sinking of HMAS Yarra is today. When will Robert Rankin and Ron Taylor be given medals for their bravery?
VC’s… The RN has awarded 74 VC’s since 1901 when Australia formed its own Federal Parliament. Australia has awarded only 1 and then only after extensive lobbying for decades before it was awarded 78 years after the fact in 2020. PM Morrison accepted the recommendation of the expert panel for the VC to be awarded to Teddy Sheean despite the adverse recommendation of that maggot Chief of Defence Force, Angus Campbell…. But you already know all of that TE.
mUnty, why are you shortening so fast?
did somebody drop a whack way back when you were more confident ?
The movie is crap but there’s a ripper docco on YouTube about Mossad rescuing Israeli hostages from Entebbe, Uganda, 1976.
https://youtu.be/9lHAvWBxixw?si=Ha9ah7idTr8yo3Jj
I can’t believe the Israelis managed to land two massive planes in Uganda without enough return fuel home, all the whilst entering an unknown airport terminal (where the hostages were stowed) by 10 terrorists and 180 Idi Amin soldiers. Only to have all 101 hostages rescued safely, one IDF soldier was sadly KIA.
Amazing story.
Additionally amazing was how Mossad/IDF invented land-sensing plane radar in 48 hours (as they thought the runway lights in Uganda would be turned off).
A truly remarkable people.
At Williamstown , the HMAS Castlemaine , sister ship to Teddy Sheean’s HMAS Armidale, has a display dedicated to Sheean and Armidale’s exploits during WW2. Awarding that VC should not have been so difficult. Fancy a desk soldier like Campbell passing judgment on the heroic, selfless, war time actions of young Sheean?
mUnty shortening
I think we may have seen this movie before
you know the plot … Trump is gonna get it this time for sure … LoL
I like to imagine the bobble-head doll on his dashboard is a mini Hillary Clinton in a purple mao-suit
Money, how’s the ass cancer going?
I’ve heard it’s a pain in the ass.
Money?
No.
Munty and money are NOT even vaguely synonymous.
I’m on the ferry.
After asking the customer service officer at Siracusa if by any chance the bus stopped at Pozzallo ferry terminal I got talking to an Irish gentleman and his American wife, both of whom were oblivious to the changed departure time schedule and so had been spared my time and money wasting.
They offered to share their prebooked Pozzallo taxi with me and I was very happy to acquiesce.
Bus approach Pozzallo and stops about 500 metres from the station, Mr Irish assures me it would stop again but I can see on my map the station receding into the distance so I dashed up the front and asked.
We got dropped off at a random corner and I would have walked but they couldn’t and they didn’t have phone coverage to ring their driver or even to work out where they were, but I did, rang him, and managed to convey our location, if there isn’t an Italian word ‘intersectione’ there is now.
Very happy to be on board the Saint John Paul II.
Rosie
Don’t pay the ferry man.
hey mUnty,
the supreme court rang and told me that they’d take your bet
they also asked if you could handle $1M
The most indefatigable drunken trolling that’s ever trolled the Cat in its 20 year life. Exogenous, derivative and Hegelian.
Hey JC, weren’t you only just whinging up-thread about people taking pot-shots at you for no reason , ya paranoid clown?
your’e a pretty much a retarded and vindictive sort of hypocrite aren’t you
eat shit mate … everybody knows full well what a complete cock-head you are
duel?
Trans
No one, but no one, I’ve ever seen here does deadhead, zombie trolling like you. It’s an art-form in its sheer ugliness.
you really are a ridiculous clown moaning about being trolled while trolling
goodnight you odious prick
I’m not kidding trans, you’re a master zombie troll. Keep at it as it’s a gift. No charisma just, zombie trolling at its best. Don’t ever stop.
Congratulations, NATO, you played yourself.
I had quite a bit of respect for a certain poster, but that last quip erased all that.
I only hope it was alcohol induced, no excuse but explanation.
Same for posting as drink and drive, if under the influence, don’t!
PS I said my piece about the ticks, stand by it, bring them back, both or neither.
Can’t open it’s paywalled, anyone posted the article?
Where is the source?
There’s been quite a bit about this on the ABC tonight.
Dumbgold.
See up fred where ZK2A posted the article in the Oz by Janet A.
No major win by Dumbgold at all.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
It’s back! The Please Explain cartoon series.
Your favourite President is back in the ballot!
ON!
Damn you autocorrect!
The ABC promoting the latest round of the Marxist pervert war on Christianity:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-05/vic-councils-face-pressure-opening-prayer-human-rights-violation/103516516
Quelle surprise, as Hendo would say.
Made it to Malta.
Was a bit rough at sea.Too rough and they cancel at the last minute and you have to find yourself a place to stay and hope it’s calmer the next day.
And I forgot Malta is another European country with different power points, think last time the apartment had an Italian power point in the kitchen.
Went hunting for an adaptor, first place I asked was a pharmacy because they sometimes sell travel goods, they didn’t but she had an unwanted Italian to Maltese one in a drawer and gave it to me.
Went back to apartment, was fiddling with lights as apparently energy is very expensive here, and noticed odd semi circular blue light in the kitchen floor, looked closely it is a ‘feature well’ partially under the wall, just what I always wanted. At least it’s under a thick layer of glass.
They have a stupid bottle deposit scheme here, 29c for a big bottle of water plus 10c deposit. Everyone puts out little plastic bags of organic waste which was being collected by a African gentleman by hand and taken to the green truck. I suspect it’s collected on a daily basis. Suppose that makes some sense in a high density place like this.
The guy that drove me to the apartment lived in Melbourne for a year twelve years ago, in Sunshine, thought it was very nice.
I didn’t argue.
Coming in to the harbour was as spectacular as last time.
Lysander, the IDF soldier that was killed at Entebbe was Bibi Netanyahu’s brother.
unanimous decision
Hi Roger – have just caught up with last night’s posts & discovered your advice that heath concerns are persuading you to move from country area to metropolis. Given that husband & I spend most of our life on our beloved farm, I really understand what a wrench that will be. We have also mulled over the probability that we will eventually find it difficult, if not impossible to maintain it. As we wish to keep it for our grandchildren, we will continue for as long as we can, but understand it will not be easy.
Sadly health is often the cause of older people uprooting from their beloved bush home.
It angers me that the state will likely use compulsory acquisition powers to steal land for a transmission line and claim it’s a vital and necessary but will not use any like effort to acquire medical services for country communities.
Our town will be without any doctors for three months in Winter as our long serving married medicos need to plan their own retirement. They cannot find any locum that will take on the task. It’s really a three doctor town but it’s likely we’ll be lucky to have one doctor take on the job.
It’s not good enough and we should be screaming the roof down but sadly neglect is often in silence.
If they hadn’t ruled for Trump the red states would counterban Biden for either the 14th or the 25th Amendment. Scotus would own the resulting massive constitutional crisis.
SCOTUS unanimously decides to overturn the Colorado ballot ban.
Leftists now declaring the SCOTUS is illegitimate – even though the progressive justices are included in ‘unanimous’.
In Australia we have on average 700 people per GP.
Our town will be one to three thousand. This is not any where near unusual in the bush and highlights the over concentration of medical care in cities and the complete failure of government to supply basic health care needs outside the voting city circle they care about.
My point was that they favoured numbers over armament. Ships with less than adequate armament are less than fully useful and less than safe for the crew.
Outstanding Please Explain for a number of reasons, not least because Elbow got sack-whacked in it.
Some discussion of IRBMs last hight.
They have their good points, but unless we can do a Space’X and recover/re-use the boosters, they are an expensive way to deliver HE, and unless they have some kind of area warhead (cluster bombs, anyone) they are best used against “pont” (broadly defined) targets.
Demolishing an airfield (known position, but that gives an advantage to the defence) is one suitable use. Hitting high value naval targets is also good, but some form of terminal guidance would be helpful, which adds cost and complexity.
Providing artillery cover for a ground attack? MLRS might be better.
Oh dear. Butter does melt. Daily Telegraph:
Isn’t this stupid woman a, er, woman of colour herself?
mUnter will be dressed in black until sunset.
On This Day:
point, not pont!
Although bridges would be suitable targets.
These “crimes” are ridiculous. If you can’t take it you shouldn’t be a cop.
The ABC is trumpeting Haley’s great achievement – being the first woman to win a Republican primary.
She did so in DC, which I gather stands for Democrat Central.
So Democrats switched to Republicans for a day to vote for Haley rather than Trump so she can delude herself that she has some fuel still in the tank. I assume it is the ‘Republican for a day’ mob because they have done this before, and any actual Republican in DC would be a marginalised minority where democrat delusions reign supreme who would want to see the swamped drained, not just with new curtains.
It’s a bloody stupid law (confiscation of vapes) but these people would be hell to deal with – you can’t arrest my son because he’s 14 and you’re a weak dog for beating up a kid but you’re also weak for taking him down without any brutality.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1b66i05/good_old_deniliquin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
The Reddit comments are peak cucketry, “well vapes are bad for kids…” – obviously everyone would have been better off without this latest ridiculous “crackdoon”.
Vapes are bad for kids. Perhaps we should ban sitting around a campfire too?
The ABC, using Louise Milligan and Four Corners as different layers of the same Tim Tam (the Tele):
Oh dear. Milligan:
A (presumably) disabled trans POC ABC talking head:
Now open – a competition to guess how many Cranbrook alumni will be described as having ‘chocolate drop eyes’.
Sort of
Sounds like a WOFTAM to me.
9-0. Tough day for Monty.