Winston
The good news, Arky, is that yes, there was a pot.
The bad news is that it only held rotten apricots.
Arky
You bastard.

Still chuckling at this. A blast from the past with Arky’s apricot tree!!

Juicy Lucy.

That the corpse is still in the race should tell you that a sizeable proportion of the populace are fuking idiots.

Indeed.
Covid showed us this.

Despite what Arky says, I still don’t think he will contest the election. I hope he does because Trump will win.
If Mr Obama has ruled herself out for good then I don’t know what option is left for a last minute “save the Union” populist.
People will have to excuse me for taking some pleasure in watching the corpse decay in plain sight.

Party strategists had banked on a bounce after Ms Palaszczuk quit as premier in December, following months of internal pressure for her to go to allow the third-term government to “rebrand” ahead of the state election.

Where they blew it was making the most punchable face in Australian politics leader, and keeping proven non performers in Cabinet, Yvette Death and Sharon Fentanyl being the biggest examples.

Soooo .. 2 dayz ago we got all upset cos “bend-it” has been rorting “our” travel allowance but no one getting overly excited by the consistent rorting by foreign benefit organizations .. have a look at this lot .. how many more of these, bloody, operations are sucking on the taxpayer dollar .. FFS!
Can anyone name any “true blu” mobs that get funding, specifically, to promote “white” folk ..?

The ABC has learned the government will provide $1.25 million in additional funding to 13 organisations already delivering community multicultural projects that enhance social cohesion and foster community integration.
The organisations “identified” for this funding include:
Noorul-Islam Society
Afghan Australian Noor Association
Arab Council Australia
Assyrian Australian Association
Centre For Muslim Wellbeing
Edmund Rice Centre WA Inc
Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Services
Salamfest
William Langford Community House
Australian — Iraqi Association for Women
Australian Islamic Mission
The Turkish Islamic Society of Victoria; and the United Muslim Womens Association

Rita Panahi 1:

Let me start by disclosing my friendship with Diane “Dee Dee” Dunleavy.

Now, let’s get down to the business of own goals, brand damage and clueless management at radio station 3AW which seem determined to irritate its once rusted-on audience.

Never mind the notion “if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it”, the genius strategy at 3AW appears to be “if it ain’t broke, then smash it with a sledgehammer until it’s shattered into a thousand useless pieces”

Why would any radio station, particularly one long accused of being a boys club, sack a popular female host who was rating number one in her hotly contested timeslot?

That ill-considered decision, and others, in June last year looks all the more foolish now that the first radio ratings survey of 2024 has been released.

For reasons few listeners can comprehend, the brains trust at 3AW axed Dunleavy during a reshuffle at the station last year that saw Jacqui Felgate become the drive host, while Tom Elliott moved from drive to mornings and Tony Moclair went from overnight to afternoon.

But while Elliott has thus far held up Neil Mitchell’s strong ratings, and even improved them marginally in the latest ratings survey released on Thursday, the drive timeslot is in free fall.

It’s not surprising that the woman who scolded Victorians for protesting against draconian Covid-era policies and was so enamoured with Brett “lockdowns” Sutton that she promoted mugs featuring his face is proving to be a ratings disaster in the crucial drive timeslot.

As reported in the Herald Sun, Felgate has plummeted to 8.2 per cent, recording the worst ratings result for the 3AW timeslot in more than a decade.

It beggars belief that anyone with a modicum of sense, or editorial judgement, would get rid of a stalwart of Melbourne radio in Dunleavy who was winning her timeslot and winning it well.

In news that will surprise no one in the industry, a number of 3AW insiders said the daft decisions were coming from Sydney.

I think I see the problem. The bolded shit wouldn’t be the only one, because Nanny Mitchell was a keen lockdown enthusiast who flogged off masks for calls he liked.
Just that Ms Felgate is a bit of an airhead who tries too hard to be liked. Like her brief sojourn into the footy programmes.

I suspect the time is not too far away when this country will need houses with high walls and barbed wire and gated communities, much like a number of third world countries (PNG, Philippines).

Some years ago I met a bloke who purchased a house at Boggabilla – it was cheap, but the security measures to harden it were not.

So we are devolving into the feudal era when the rich and powerful built castles to shelter in while keeping out the serf class who can fend for themselves.

I haven’t heard lately any snide remarks about white picket fenced homes in the 50s. Maybe the luvvies are becoming nostalgic for clean and neat suburbs and even city centres.

Latest from Pauline ..
Please Explain … 2024

https://youtu.be/Zkwmb5R0VTE

The Worrying Correlation Between COVID Vaccines & Rising Cancer Incidences in Children and Young Adults

Canadian police advise home owners to leave their car fobs outside so armed thieves can steal them more easily without confronting home owners.

How to void your insurance in one step.

The whole concept is a revolt against reality.

Trans Ideologues Would Rather Revolt Against Reality Than Admit They Were Wrong

Nolte: To the Surprise of No One, Electric Vehicle ‘Euphoria is Dead’

West Point military academy drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement

For anyone who read the story about the, “privately owned” Oz transport company going electric with its on-road fleet, yesterday, and wondering why Luigi & “blow-in” were both in attendance for the company announcement ………
We (as in the mug taxpayers) threw $20million into the pot to switch start this innovative “it’s good for the environment” change-over ………..!

Lisa Simpson – ‘Beware the Ides of March.’
Homer – ‘No.’

Chortle.

Bowen I think maybe, gasp! Lying! James Morrow reporting:

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has low-balled the cost of transitioning the country’s power grid to net zero by as much as $100 billion, experts have claimed, amid revelations the energy regulator’s own modelling does not support his assumptions.

Last Sunday, Mr Bowen told the ABC’s Insiders that “the best guide to the cost” of the transition, published by the Australian Energy Market Operator, “looked at the total cost out to 2050 of the entire generation, storage and transmission and came up at $121 billion”.

However, AEMO documents, including a public webinar held by the agency on the latest version of the “Integrated System Plan”, reveals that the $121 billion figure “excludes consumer energy resources, distribution networks upgrades, and the explicit cost of carbon”.

This includes the cost of improving transmission networks as well as what the agency calls “consumer owned storage”, or home-based battery systems which Australians would purchase and use to return power to the grid during energy shortfalls.

Centre for Independent Studies energy economist Aidan Morrison said: “the additional cost for all of this, including small-scale aggregated batteries like Tesla Powerwalls, at today’s prices it would work out at $100 billion to buy that today.”

“The other thing that complicates this is that (the AEMO) hasn’t included most of the system we have and the cost of extra growth in that, which is also valued at around $100 billion and which might have to increase its capacity by 50 per cent or more to accommodate the electrification they expect to occur.”

Former ANSTO chief Adi Paterson, who ran Australia’s sole nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights from 2009 to 2020, said that there would be more costs involved because of the unstable nature of renewables.

“Grid expansion is expensive and integrating too much intermittent wind and solar — unclouded daylight — is very costly,” he said.

“The engineering reality is that we are producing low quality 50MHz electricity and AEMO does not even acknowledge we have a problem.”

“Nuclear is costly to build but global experience shows that consumers pay less and industry benefits.”

Other experts were similarly scathing.

Ben Beattie, a Queensland-base electrical engineer and publisher of the Energy Wrap newsletter, said that “just doing the numbers on Powerwalls, it would be tens of billions of dollars … and that’s before you look at the blowouts of Snowy 2.0 and everything else.

“If they are looking at $121 billion and they’ve got some transmission costs and some generator costs, many of which could be plus or minus 50 per cent, the real figure could be anything.”

Mr Bowen said: “We take our advice from experts like AEMO, not from the discredited Liberal Party.”

“AEMO says the annualised capital cost of all generation, storage, firming and transmission infrastructure has a present value of $121 billion.

“The most conservative estimates of the coalition’s most recent in their string of nonsensical energy policies over the past decade, is $387 billion just in capital costs alone for new build nuclear plants.”

However opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien said, “Chris Bowen is peddling more lies to distract from the fact that he has no credibility on costs … the last time Chris Bowen came out with a number it was to promise a reduction in household electricity bills by $275, but Australians are now paying among the most expensive bills in the world.

“By deceitfully ignoring billions of dollars’ worth of network and integration costs, the minister is deliberately telling lies and is consigning Australians to energy poverty.”

The answer of course is moar ruinables!
In their own electorates of course.

Russell Brand

“A DISGRACE!” So, Trump was RIGHT About Clintons Haiti CORRUPTION

So, being backward and behind the times, EV mania — supported by millions of dollars in advertising from the manufacturers — will continue in Australia for another decade or so.

Doing dumb shit longer and harder than anyone else. Straya! Oi!Oi!Oi!

Pony Girl should be receiving hospital hand passes not giving them. I’ll never understand Queensland politics.

I see Chris Minns is all in for the NSW ban on “gay” conversion therapy.

Weren’t some here touting him as a social conservative?

I see Chris Minns is all in for the NSW ban on “gay” conversion therapy.

Where would you start?

Dot, you can blame LBJ for the Great Society. He was bribing the blacks to vote Democrat.
Look at pictures of US backs in the 20th Century before that and since. Free shit ruins people.

Well…not in a Labour Party beholden to a progressive agenda, to begin with.

I was thinking Darlinghurst and working outwards in concentric circles.

BoN, I believe they did not get to re-light a Raptor in space. I think the article is wrong on that point. However it was a great effort and that makes it two flights where all 33 Raptors lit and ran full duration on the booster. All three sea level Raptors and Vac Raptors also lit and ran full duration on the ship. I would not be surprised to see, after a couple more flights, a lauch of a ship in expendable mode to launch Starlinks. They already built a couple with no flaps and no heatshield.

Regarding the Presidential race odds published by JC last night.
The odds were clearly framed considering that neither Dementia Joe or Orange Man win the White House.
And not just the obscure “both get hit by a meteor” type odds.
The odds clearly consider a significant probability of something other than a simple two horse run-off.

Shirley not ..! we is paying the “lodger” to be waited on hand & foot .. is there no lurk these troughers aren’t into .. FFS!
You wouldn’t believe this. Anthony Albanese is claiming $310 per day to live in the lodge in Canberra. That’s right folks. The bastard is claiming the living away from home allowance even though he’s the PM and living in a fully staffed house. $2,170 extra per week. ..

The rot began with FDR.

Agreed.

Roger

Thanks, your memory is better than mine.

What are you talking about?

There’s no regard for others lives in far too many cases, and no regard – as you say – for consequences beyond those that apply in a gang. It can’t be only because their fathers are unknown in the vast majority of cases.

When woke society grants you a”free” pass why wouldn’t you take advantage .. do the crime .. get rewarded …. working well! ..

Hallward, fuk off please.

But some of the videos coming out of the US depict a degree of savagery and hatred that is completely incompatible with any civilised society.

Exactly.

It was never like this in the 90s, and there’s a reason. Since 2008, ironically, at the beginning of the Kenyan’s presidency, the US media has been on a single course direction to portray whites as evil and blacks as permanently oppressed. All communication in fact has run that way from the MSM, blue states and the federal government. The brainwashing is real and has taken its toll. Blacks have been taught to hate whites. Whites are mostly responsible for this too.

Australia to fail as a ‘manufacturing nation’ and ‘modern economy’

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s former CEO Dr Adi Paterson, warns the country is set to “fail” as both a “manufacturing nation, and modern economy”.

Mr Paterson’s comments come as Labor rejects nuclear energy as a source of power.

“The problem we have is intermittent renewables, wind, for example only blows two days out of five,” Mr Paterson told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“If you only had to go to school two days out of five, you wouldn’t get very far at school, but we are are designing an energy school which we are just not going to pass.

“As a result, we are essentially going to fail as a manufacturing nation, and as a modern economy.”

Small Modular Reactor project at Clarington’s Darlington Nuclear on time and on budget

And from Canada – Just for MontyPox Virus and other pessimists –

https://www.insauga.com/small-modular-reactor-project-at-claringtons-darlington-nuclear-on-time-and-on-budget/

Australian Enterprise in the Good Old Days –

A three minute video –

https://youtu.be/eWXFnVT5Wj0

What’s the word of today? I think we’ve exhausted ‘moist’.

“Beware”

This was everything the late Queen Elizabeth dreaded: The Sussexes commodifying royalty, using it to shill some copper cookware…

Reverse alchemy – turning something golden, like royalty, into base mettle*.

Harry was once ranga beefcake in the Royal Marines. But it seems he was not too bright.

On the other hand we have the gauche and tawdry Meghan. She saw royalty as a kind of Hollywood showbiz – how could she not? A combination of her paucity of understanding history and tradition, and her filling in the blanks with her tinsel and plasterboard experience.

In ten years she will be walking door to door peddling Royal Sussex teaspoons, always eager to get home and check the answering machine to see if any of the big names she reached out to have got back in touch to discuss an interview – the big one that will put them back on top.

Harry will be slumped in an armchair, in an old threadbare uniform, tarnished medals, eyes floating upon gin and tears, muttering about his past great achievements, until Meghan impatiently snatches away his bottle and scolds him that he has to look after himself better if they are to return to their earlier estate. He will look at her in stunned silence while her pique exhausts itself then return to his muttering but in a quieter, more guarded, voice than before.

At least in the time of the Restoration actresses knew exactly what a princes favour was worth and how it was to be spent. Meghan Markle is certainly no Nell Gwynn.

* Not a misspelling.

Ramadanadingdong is a hoax.

It is a time where the Mueslis are allowed to eat a large breakfast before sunrise and then, after not eating anything during the day, they have a huge feast every night after sunset.

Fasting? My assssssss…..

It’s more like skipping lunch.

What are you talking about?

Fagin, it took me a while to recall the name.

You missed the joke, BJ.

Firefly has drawn criticism for generating historically inaccurate and racially insensitive images.

I think both sides of any debate will be clearer if we extirpate ‘muh feels’ words when talking of objective reality.

What if an ‘insensitive’ image is nevertheless an accurate one? It might be misleading (such as depicting all violent criminals as black) and the objection to that is to appeal to demonstrative facts (“But they aren’t all black”).

We are now at a place where some groups have learned that amplifying their sensitivity to facts will lead to those facts being treated as false. And worse still is that the ‘sensitive’ fantasies are being used as if truths – such as docking the cocks off pre-pubescent boys who instinctively crave the approval of those they se as look after them – like the thick-painted gargoyle tranny that reads to them in school (and since no one else is preaching heterosexuality to 10 year olds).

Following generations will be paying the price for the cravenness of this one.

Fork auto-corrupt!

I put ‘feelX’ in repeatedly.

Even now it keeps changing ‘feel.z’ to ‘feels’. ‘Feelz’.

This is how bright AI is, right?