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Wow. This looks flash, eh!
Let’s see how this performs.
How to login?
above the comment box. right side. In blue.
I think I prefer the other.
IT’S LIKE DRIVING A NEW CAR,
YOU WILL GET USED TO IT.Reply to a reply
The new format is a bit strange I must say, but we shall see.
I welcome the ticks but.
Dover I messed up my registration with error email address and now it is saying my user name is taken – i don’t want a new one as I have used it for over ten years
I tried to email the proton address but it said proton address invalid
Can you please fix?
Thank you
Ps I think the font needs to be darker
Yes, darker print. Looks spiffy though!
Those penalties are no joke.
Works
Fingers crossed, this works.
‘Extremely serious allegations’ over Brittany Higgins’ $2.4 million payout
What the? Upside down feed, no time stamps, grey letters and no pics on me avatar? I don’t like it.
I used to be “with it” but then they changed what “it” is and now “it” scares and confuses me.
-Grampa Simpson
I don’t like the new format, sorry, I know it makes no difference but had to say it.
Is this some type of voodoo
Scrap the they didn’t manage to steal my credit card. She had another go and it’s gone. Tried to take out €1000 exactly at a brasserie but CBA blocked it. Got a few atm withdrawals I think don’t know how without my pin number. Can’t even buy a bus ticket here without a credit card. Now waiting til CBA have finished overnight maintenance to come up with a solution to get access to some of my money. I think I have enough cash to pay train fares to Paris but that’s about it.
Still only time I’ve been robbed not bad after so many trips.
A poor couple of Chinese tourists, might even have been Australian citizens came into the police station at the same time. They’d had the lot stolen, passports credit cards, driver’s licenses and €4000 cash.
I felt really bad for them.
I can’t figure out how to attach cartoon images to comments.
Test.
All of my postings are going to moderation.
Sorry, no toons ’til I can figure out how to attach content to posts..
I said it in reply to a comment, I don’t like the new format at all, for Tom the link button is there! It’s squiggly thing third from the right.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
I’m finding the new system very frustrating as all my posts are disappearing into moderation before eventually being displayed.
I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually, but for now, I’m surrendering and retreating.
PS: WordPress’s predictive text software is infuriating — half-arsed AI designed to make a nuisance of itself.
Good morning gatti — good luck with it all
This
This looks a bit different. They do say a change is as good as a holiday.
True but not all holidays turn out good.
With later contemplation, only the ticks are an improvement. Maybe putting the comment field to the bottom would help?
Wow!
Nice new look!
I like that the replies are all linked to the original comment. It will make it easier to follow a conversation. Also will hopefully make it easier to scroll right pass infantile stoushes and petty name callingm
I’ve a feeling this feature will mean the end of petty stoushes. The one common denominator in stoushes won’t do it when there is no audience.
As was proved with the stoush thread.
However it may also mean the end of some interesting public conversations.
Herald Sun Shannon Deery:
Not filled with a great degree of confidence. What’s another 3 terms in opposition? Good Lord.
Moira Deeming might be a good choice……
The up and down ticks are an improvement though the comment box needs to be at the end of the thread where the discussion ends. Any way of installing the time stamp?
Nested comments, too.
For people who like that sort of thing.
They could show contrition for their failure to offer a credible opposition and also signal a true change of direction by extending an olive branch to Moira Deeming.
She may or may not accept – they still have to earn trust and Moira will have moved on – but it would be a start.
i had that information also from a close link Hope it is not someone who has never had a job except in a politician’s office John has not learnt how to handle narcissists
I find my comments, when posted, appear at the top of the page rather than at the bottom where I expect them. They move to the bottom when the page refreshes.
You would have posted the comment and it gone to the top. When you put in the next comment the previously posted one would then appear at the bottom and the new one gone to the top.
Might that be what you are taking as being put in moderation?
FWIW – I don’t think you have to log in.
Just enter your comment.
Ah, but you must be logged in to vote.
Font definitely needs to be darker.
Comment box should be down the bottom.
Just a few thoughts.
I think the font for some, should be in white. But that’s just me.
And as others have said, you wrote your comment, then it appears up the top, then on refresh it’s down the bottom – odd….
BBC sees no irony in criticising the Russian election, even raising the treatment of political opponents (up to and including the death of Navalny), but nary a peep about the treatment of Trump in the USA.
If it loads more quickly it will be ahead of the former one in at least one aspect. Time will tell.
A slightly larger and darker font if possible?
Tastes like chicken.
Let them eat–snake?! Python farming could offer one of the most sustainable sources of meat in the world – ‘Much less carbon intensive’ (14 Mar)
Well it’s an improvement on bugs, but these people are still bonkers. On the other hand Burmese pythons are so large they could easily eat something the size of a PETA activist, so there’s that.
Yuk
Guardians of the Glades on ch96. Blokes in the Everglades who catch them
Pythons are carnivores though the fewer pythons the better.
Pythons (and snakes in general) carry multitudes of parasites.
My missus used to live chewing python. She gave up after marriage.
I was thinking of calling it an ‘endearing idiosyncrasy’. Then it becomes a bit of an ‘being an insider’ thing.
I am having trouble with new set up replies disappear
The only way to find the nested replies seems to be to go all the way back.
Tomcheck if numbers of replies have changed, but after a while it becomes impossible to remember the numbers after each comment.
This feature will almost certainly hamper the flow of conversation.
I like the ability to add a picture without needing a url. Here’s two top men relaxing from their stressful job of buggering up Australia.
One more attempt to see if I can post with ‘Awaiting for approval’.
It started hitting posts suddenly and now the comments so afflicted, while earlier visible at least on my thread, have now disappeared completely.
Huh. Now they are back, but still ‘Awaiting…’
Ok , here we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRF1YTVJ1Q4
A faulty seat switch the cause for the 787 sudden dive the other day.
dover,
Thanks for the format mods. Possible to darken the font a little for older eyes? Cheers.
Third and final test.
Check test
I like the new format. As others have said, the font could be a shade or two darker.
Login; where?
Just above the comment box. On the right
Cheers, got it Z
new format makes scrolling easier
big thumb!
… omg! there’s an edit button
How did you manage -2 thumbs ups
one is my own
dunno who the first one was
Fon ta bit too light .. otherwize …!
dover, my email addy has changed. Is that why my comments are awaiting approval?
Deborah Conway ‘too controversial to be interviewed by Their ALPBC’ in the Paywallion::
Deborah Conway says she won’t be silenced by anti-Israel activists
My comment:
Hamas started this war on October 7 regardless of whether you think they were justified or not,” Conway says during our interview this week in her Melbourne home.
Sadly Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris, General Curtis Lemay, Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets and Major General Charles W. Sweeney, U.S.A.F. are unavailable for comment.
Rejected.
Getting absolutely nowhere trying to login .. even tho my user name & email are shown below the box .. it sez I don’t exist! .. tried to change password & sez check email .. nuttin’ turns up .. so no tixing for me, then duuuuuuuuuuh!
Same here.
Two posts. Gone to moderation.
Now disappeared.
Not sure about the choice of a TEAL font. First they took our pouftah MP’s electorate, now they are invading this most venerable blog.
RIP mofo.
Leak brilliant.
The only missing bit is a Chinese flag on the bulldozer.
Jacinta Allan is rolling out a back door Belt & Road project. She should be exposed.
One of my comments disappeared after having a waiting for approval status.
Three interesting speeches/interviews over the last two days.
Firstly, that vile piece of sh*t Schumer in the US. Why now, I wonder.
Secondly, the train wreck of an interview by “Jupiter” himself, the President of France. If he vacillated any more strongly, the chair would have collapsed.
Without doubt however, the most powerful address was given by Kaja Kallas, the PM of Estonia.
She warned Russia, that she had NOT ruled out sending Estonian troops and weapons to Ukraine.
No doubt, that sent the bureaucrats scuttling all over the Kremlin.
You will recall that Kallas, last year, offered ten F-16’s to Ukraine. This statement was quickly followed up with, “Estonia doesn’t have any F-16’s, but, ….., if we did, we would send ten.”
What a bitch, ……, only offering ten imaginary F-16’s.
Why not a thousand, or ten thousand imaginary F-16’s.
That was about the time, when her husband’s company, was found to be dealing with the Russians, thus breaking Estonia’s own sanctions.
Clownshow!
Tucker Carlson has an absolute genius for clarifying an issue and Rand Paul makes eminent sense.
The people who’ve handed our country to China are banning TikTok to protect you from China? Probably not. So what’s really going on? Rand Paul joins us to explain.
I hope this works.
Well, Dover’s got rid of the beige wallpaper and some brighter shades replacing. Looks nice. I like the laurels particularly.
How do you quote now?
Where is the edit button?
After you post it pops up as an icon when you move yr mouse over the lower edge of yr post… shows as a little gear icon
Why did my comment appear on top?
Hi everyone
the demoralization of surrender
Chatted yesterday with a bloke I work with. A Saffie whose sister was on a kibbutz on Oct7. She lived there 30 years , her life and family are there. He told me about the trauma they suffered , the family, over the loss of 2 teen kids. The horror of their deaths, which we didn’t go into in detail.
The takeaway from that conversation was how very careful he was discussing it initially and acknowledging the fate of Gazan’s with the IDF pounding them – he wasn’t sure which side I was on until I told him. He has obviously been intimidated by all the Pro Pali propaganda and not freely talking about the conflict.So I told him;
” Mate, I lived in the ME for over a decade. Moslems have been at this barbarism for over 1500 years. IMO, the IDF shouldn’t stop until they do the job FULLY. Preferably leaving behind nothing but a vacant lot.”
Tucker Carlson
This is Rep. Dan Crenshaw as he walks out of the Capitol after voting to give Joe Biden the power to shut down news sites that dare to challenge him. Crenshaw tells reporter Liam Cosgrove that U.S. intel agencies don’t meddle in domestic news coverage, when of course he knows that’s untrue. Watch his face as he says it. Liar.
Noyce artwork at the top. Black is a good colour for the font. (#000000)
Does this mean we can test downticks by giving
What happens if I try now…
Huzzah! I am no longer ‘Awaiting…’
Someone asked about the edit button. I think it might just be temporary – to provide a chance to correct any errors and ambiguities in your comments.
by giving JC a hard time?
Bold
Italic
Can’t login. I blame AI.
A word of warning- wordpress logins are notoriously insecure. It is like giving your email address to scamsters incorporated.
Ignore the spoiler question.
Ben Shapiro: I Would Walk Over Broken Glass To Vote For “Deeply Flawed Human Being” Donald Trump
Tyson Foods BOYCOTTED as it sacks 1,300 staff at Iowa pork plant and offers ‘job-and-lawyer’ packages in bid to hire 42,000 asylum seekers in New York
Great news from the IDF. Sinwar having his sphincter checked for tightness. Mutley will be disappointed. The hezbees have gone a bit quiet, wonder why?
WordPress finally let me log in. I still blame AI.
Well done Dover, works well for me.
Elon Musk
The far left US administration is using your tax dollars to fly violent criminals into America
I have to go all the way up here to post?
Suddenly everything I post is awaiting approval.
I, for one, welcome this Teal takeover.
Testing
New wave of immigration detainee releases expected.
Meanwhile, Penny Wong bleating about how government prioritises the safety of Australians when issuing Gazan visas.
This is not the usual government stupidity; this is malign.
PS
Where’s my avatar?
Oh…there it is.
And why is the blog upside down?
We oldies don’t like change, you know. 😀
Rog – I’m just testing the reply function. Wendy Pong is indeed an evil arrogant imbecile.
For dover I give:
Fani still on the case but her stud is gone; and Bragg is up to his fat neck with manure in his lawfare case against the great man:
Andy McCarthy: ‘This is a huge win for Trump – more than he realizes’ (youtube.com)
Good morning, Cats. Any way of getting rid of the floating green blob?
You talking about Monty again?
All eyes on Brisbane council elections…will there be a greenslide?
Fingers crossed ?
Test
Dover – Whatever you do don’t put up any paintings of the English countryside!
British museum warns that paintings of the countryside can evoke “dark, nationalist feelings” (15 Mar)
There you go, looking at a painted landscape can turn you into a Nazi.
?What feelings do pictures of rolling English hills with windmills perched on top evoke?
Radio check, over.
Roger , out.
Read you loud and clear. How do you read? Over.
I can’t log in.
No upticks from me then.
You need to register first. I had the same problem.
Why is the box to enter a comment at the top of the page and not the bottom?
Well, if this bran nu format doesn’t purge the stoush trolls and get the ladies back, I don’t know what will.
(…which squiggle is the /sarc tag?)
Fat Fani and fatter bragg in trouble.
I may have missed it but has/can Dover put a post up re the changes and what you can/can’t do.
Hang on… you can edit your own old comment.
Madness. Chaos loosed. Forever Stoushes.
Plus, the ASIO spooks will be all a-flutter logging the metadata trails. And on a weekend too, Dover, how could you?
Ramadanadingdong news.
How Atrocities, Beheadings, and Carnage ‘Heal Muslim Hearts’ (14 Mar)
Bear in mind we’ve {i.e. the government, at our expense} recently repatriated several IS families from Syria.
Wow…can add images…here you go if you’ve been watching Masters of the Air – how many seconds does it take you to see the fighter coming up at your bomber in this pic?
Any more than five and you’ve had it with a stream of .50 coming at you…
Oops that last one somehow posted itself before I added another link:
10-Year-Old Kids Denied Drinking Water In Class Because Of Three Muslims Observing Ramadan (15 Mar)
Another excellent reason for getting your kids out of the public school system, since I betcha this sort of thing will arrive here.
Frankfurt is controlled by The Greens.
2nd try…
3rd try…if no image in this one can’t do it Dover…
What are you trying, Top Ender?
Here you go TE, the add image button is on the far right
Re the edit function, you have 15 mins to pick up any typos.
I think I am out of this… It wants a password from me to tick or reply and it won’t accept any attempts I make…
The failure of modern Psychology.
Masters of the Air was better than I expected at first look. Last episode yesterday.
OK you write a post and hit post comment and your post appears at the top. Refresh the page and it is at the bottom. Didn’t need to Login.
You need to login to tick, not post .. Site sez I don’t exist whilst showing me at the bottom of the box …….. LOL!
Ed Feser applying Popper’s paradox of tolerance to the woke.
A huge thankyou to Dover. The nesting of comments means I can scroll past “commenters” who enjoy their flame wars.
Anyone looking for the comment panel, just hit the Home button on the keyboard and it should take you right here.
Thanks Dover
Totally agree re the nesting of comments – probably the best of the new features.
What makes you think that the Stoush Trolls are going to stay in the replies lane?
A selection of the better cartoons I had hoped to post earlier today (in spite of the upside down posting format):
Brett Lethbridge.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Mmmmkay.
Al Goodwyn.
What’s been happening?
Oh knoes! The inflatable church at the Adelaide Fringe has been knifed and deflated. Which Fringe are they going to have an inflatable mosque at? Silly question, modern comediennes and performers are only risque and edgy in the most predictable ways.
Tina Norton.
That’s about the chunkiest toon I’ve ever seen from Tina. Tasty! (Am I allowed to say that?)
Scroll up.
Scroll down.
Scroll up.
Scroll down.
Hit the big green message icon in the bottom left corner and it will fast scroll you to the top.
I think I’ve fixed people’s log-in probs.
Possibly not.
Not mine ………!
What are you’re problems, specifically?
Login won’t recognize email/password even tho it’s displaying logo & address under the box
More companies cautiously walking back from the green precipice.
Shell waters down emissions cut pledge despite crucial climate decade (15 Mar)
Accelerating the electric vehicle doom loop (15 Mar)
It’ll be interesting to see what the Davos WEF weenies do. They must be getting very frustrated with us proles not buying into their kooky religion.
Rishi Sunak walked back from Net Zero this week.
Gas plants to provide back up for wind and solar means the UK will never be net zero on emissions. Even if Labour wins the next election the promise will haunt Keir Starmer as the cost and reliability of renewables worsens. I’d also suggest that a second generation of wind and solar to replace redundant plant will never be built.
It’s a weird upside-down format, but at least I now know how it works.
Thanks Tom
Hallelujah! The upticks have returned. Thanks, Dover.
And the time display. Thanks, Dover.
To celebrate the new blog format, I’d like to have a long and involved discussion on conscription.
Ask the Germans…
Germany mulls reintroducing conscription (15 Mar)
More on the Fani Willis absolute shit-pile.
?How do you put links in the comment wording?
Highlight want you want to be a link, and then click the button left of the curly brackets {}
Highlight the relevant text, click on the “chain link” icon button (3rd from the right among the buttons at bottom of comment box), cut and paste hyper link from desired website. Hit post.
Hmmm. I can’t remember my WordPress details given I created it in 2007. No ticks for me then.
PS. Like the edit function.?
And when I request a new password I check my mail account as requested, click the link back to the login site, but it doesn’t recognise me. Something is awry.
Alan Dershowitz predicted that Fanny would not be booted – the judge presiding over her hearing, when it was announced that there was now a progressive challenging for the judgeship for which he himself was re-running, announced that his decision had been written before the progressive challenger was announced and that he was not going to be changing his opinion.
The Dersh interpreted that as meaning that the judge wanted to convince his conservative supporters (he apparently leans conservative and relies on their support) that he was not swayed in his decision by political concerns – which he would only need declare if his decision was going to be something conservatives would not like.
I’m learning this new upside-down WordPress commenting software as we go.
If you scroll down the right margin, hidden icons appear. If you click on one of them (the wheel symbol), it gives you an option to “manage” a comment you’ve already posted. That means CHANGE a comment you’ve already posted, opening a Pandora’s floodgate of worms.
Onwards to the brave new world!
Still Waiting Approval?
Still waiting……………………………….
Just checking.
<a href = “http://www.bom.gov.au/”>BOM</a>
Leave out the spaces, like so:
<a href=“http://www.bom.gov.au/”>BOM</a>
Ok, you’re right, that doesn’t work. The link icon thingie does work though.
I’ll try once more to see if it was a character code issue:
<a href=”http://www.bom.gov.au/“>BOM</a>
Nope, got to use the link widget.
BOM
Dunno why the html came out differently in the second reply. Go figure.
http://www.bom.gov.au/
Good luck trying to break this format,
blogwreckers.Oh yeah?
Nested!
Oh my.
15 mins to correct any typos. That’s all.
You just know that right this second, someone somewhere is frantically working out how to ‘manage’ upticks.
Testing
Fani link
Seems CHO Qld caused quite the upset worldwide. Released research that says long Covid is not a specific thing and symptoms are same as what people get after flu.
ABC and Daily Mail has article about it and been majorly trending on Twitter.
Can’t login, system tells me it knows neither my username nor my email address.
Have you registered?
I’ve registered, my password is refused – supposedly a link has been sent to my email – half an hour later still not there.
Same here, Beaugy.
Same here
To celebrate the new blog format, I’d like to have a long and involved discussion on conscription.
Conscription is slavery. End of discussion
Pauline’s latest on D.I.E. and its impact on jobs, notably medicine.
Saw it last night. Great punchline!
Collingwood now $8 for flag. Massive unders.
The filth bad luck
Masters of the Air was a good series, but not great when compared to Pacific or BoB IMO.
The aerial combat sequences were way too short and could have done with much more intensity- as it was at the time. They went light on the carnage of the early years over Germany I thought. They could have put more into the music theme- Pacific especially was haunting (Zimmer). But still, a wonderful series for sure.
I haven’t watched the last episode yet, but I am in total agreement with Seth & Bill from Unauthorised History of the Pacific War in the review of episode 8. Episodes 7 & 8 were a dumpster fire. Stories were started that didn’t go anywhere. In 7 & 8 lots of chopping backwards and forwards, and nothing in the bits that chopped advanced any of the story lines.
After episode 4 it turned into box ticking and took the focus off the 100th. We have to show Resistance helping downed fliers, ARC girls, POW, cattle cars of Jewish victims, Tuskegee airmen, yanks making babies with Pommie girls etc etc.
They could have shown more of Crosby ( without the emphasis on the adultery) and the only survivor of the raid, name escapes me right now, he made right through the war.
Thanks Dover. Looks good now.
And I’m in, rocking and rolling.
Beaugy at 11.41am, type in: DON’T YOU KNOW WHO THE F*** I AM? (in caps). If it lets you in, it’s like the rest of Silicon Valley’s software junk designed to respond to identity politics prompts. QED. See you soon!
PS: I still can’t figure out how the text quote format works. Like all internet formatting, the anti-social nerds who designed it have no desire to explain to real people how it works.
?
Thanks, Tom. 🙂
Of course not Tom. Tech nerds take every opportunity to piss on their customers who are not as nerdy as they are. It’s a power game to them, as they snigger behind their keyboards, mumbling to themselves about “learning to code” while eating packs of twisties and drinking caramel flavoured coke.
Tom, you are not the only one, I don’t know how to do text quote either.
I see AGL kyboshed Dutton’s brain fart about using existing coal power plants to build nuke plants. Oh well. What else you got, Spud?
Gas…plenty of gas. A domestic reservation policy would put the east coast gas cartel in their place too – firmly behind the national interest.
AGL is green as grass Monty. I thought you knew that.
Odd you haven’t commented about the second graph in this article yet.
Hmm, a back-of-napkin analysis of the costs of running existing plants versus building new ones. As if that’s the choice we’re discussing here.
Confected rubbish, Bruce. No wonder you love it.
AGL wanting moarrrr of those luverrrly ruinables subsidies had no effect on the response? For self-proclaimed leftard, you are surprisingly easily taken in by capitalists.
When did the left adopt the “privatise the profits, socialise the losses” philosophy?
If at all, AGL should only have ever been leased the power station sites contingent upon them not reducing baseload generation.
They’re all an incestuous bunch of lefties.
Friendly Reminder: Judge Scott McAfee Donated to Fani Willis’s Campaign in 2020 – And So Did His Wife (15 Mar)
Weird that the judge didn’t boot Fani too. It’s a mystery.
The ruling caste.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/japan-ramps-up-drive-to-restart-world-s-biggest-nuclear-plant-1.2047179
Is there any chance we could run a long cord out of Darwin?
The Japanese know well that you don’t manufacture cars only while the sun shines.
Fair to say I don’t think AGL makes decisions in the Australian national interest.
Did someone say ‘social license’?
Why should AGL have to make that choice.
What’s the Govt’ for!
AGL should be acting in its shareholders interest
Fair to say I don’t think AGL makes decisions in the Australian national interest.
No doubt about that- what a rent seeking shitshow electricity ‘privatisation’ has turned to be
Green filth clogging up Melbourne:
Climate group to block Melbourne CBD (Sky News, 16 Mar)
Meanwhile here’s a nice primer for Vicplod from Sweden on how to handle such things…
Greta Thunberg’s latest protest ends in humiliation as she is dragged away by police (15 Mar)
I like the photo especially! She looks a tad unhappy.
Seems to me yet another of the maline outcomes of the Hilmer reforms was canbra being able to meddle in power generation.
*malign
There you go, looking at a painted landscape can turn you into a Nazi.
In which case look at a Turner painting as he usually painted seascapes with ships, sunsets, sunrises, etc. Maybe that will make someone a pacifist.
Turner’s skies were portentous. Ban them lest they scare the peasants.
Test.
Dutton this week;
“In their joint communiqué, they commended (and I quote) “… the solidarity expressed by Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States during the G7 meeting […] in supporting nuclear energy as a means to provide affordable energy that reduces dependence on fossil fuels, helps address the climate crisis, provides jobs and growth, strengthens global energy security while providing baseload energy and grid flexibility”.
“So, what is it that Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen know that these countries do not?”
The Albanese Bowen clown show being exposed and eviscerated.
Even Belgium has 7 Nuclear Power Stations. And both Egypt and Uganda are each having a Nuclear Power Station built (with foreign help of course). Meanwhile, Australia has Lucas Heights.
helps address the climate crisis
What climate crisis?
Danger Dan Reviews
Freeloaders of the week. Anthony Albanese Tony Burke Adam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ChhVgDPUY
Hope posting this entire article is OK.
Ramadan ceasefire calls ignore the truth about Hamas in Gaza
Gemma Tognini
MARCH 16, 2024
One of the most famous lines in recent cinematic history belongs to a (then) youthful Tom Cruise in the blockbuster flick A Few Good Men. Cruise plays a hot-shot young navy lawyer with thinly veiled daddy issues, and in the film’s most famous scene he has a perfectly wicked Jack Nicholson on the stand in a tense courtroom showdown.
Nicholson plays a decorated US marine colonel who secretly has gone rogue, and Cruise is trying to goad him into confessing to murder. Nicholson is, of course, brilliant, channelling hints of Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as he stares down Cruise’s impassioned demands for the truth. You can’t handle the truth, he bellows in return. And thus a legend was born.
This was a work of fiction but we are living it today, this aversion to the truth. Australia collectively is incapable of facing up to so many of the things challenging who we are and the values we’ve built across generations, the values hewn from the blood, sweat and tears of Australians from all backgrounds, creeds and faiths.
We may not be able to handle it, but believe me when I say Australia needs a headfirst encounter with the truth.
There is no greater example than the war against Hamas, which I might point out is a war against terrorism that the global community is happy for Israel to fight alone.
As this awful, necessary conflict continues, as the Israel Defence Forces edge closer to the goal of wiping out Hamas, there have been repeated calls for a ceasefire because of the start of Ramadan, which began this week.
As the Muslim holy month began, Australians, both notable and beautifully including the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, wished our Muslim community Ramadan Mubarak. This represents the Australia we want to be part of, truly tolerant in the face of significant differences.
However, the calls for a ceasefire because of Ramadan ignore important truths. Let me lay them out for you. Hamas broke the ceasefire and started this war on the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day. Not only was it the Sabbath but the violent orgy of murder, rape and mutilation was carried out on Simchat Torah, a time of Jewish celebration to mark the completion, and the restart, of the annual cycle of reading the Torah.
Another truth, courtesy of 1973: the Yom Kippur war was started on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Day in, day out, every month of every year since, rockets have been fired at Israel and its citizens on any and every single day, especially on the Sabbath. Israel’s enemies know many soldiers will be in synagogue.
What I’ve just shared isn’t my opinion. It is the truth that Hamas started the war last year on Simchat Torah and the Sabbath. It is the truth that the Yom Kippur war was started on Israel’s holiest day. It is truth any ceasefire without surrender is simply an opportunity for Hamas to regroup and do what it says it will – repeat October 7, not only in Israel but in all Western countries. It has promised it; we best believe Hamas means it.
This is the awful truth, and millions of Gazans are suffering because Hamas continues to knock back every ceasefire deal put on the table. This is the truth.
So many Australians, especially in the progressive left, simply can’t handle it. They continue to deny the cancerous culture of anti-Semitism that has been laid bare in this country since October 7. They deny. They deflect. They gaslight anyone who dares call it out. They follow any conversation around the brutality of Hamas’s use of sexual violence with the word “but”.
Ah, the truth is hard, the truth hurts. There’s a reason that’s a cliche and that’s because it’s true. Psychologists have studied a phenomenon called the backfire effect, a term to describe what happens when someone presented with irrefutable truths on a matter that should shift their thinking instead doubles down.
Gregg Ten Elshof is a professor of philosophy at Biola University in the US. In 2009 he wrote a book called I Told Me So, in which he unpicks humanity’s seemingly unmatched capacity for self-deception. Ten Elshoff unravels, with excruciating accuracy, what happens when finding the truth becomes the secondary motivation for asking questions. It turns out humans are masters in the art of embracing denial when it suits us.
So, in the Australian context, what is the primary goal? Is it electoral? Is it fear of being wrong, is it the pain of having to look at your ideology and accept it’s flawed?
Beyond the war in Gaza, there are many examples of what I’m talking about, few as striking as the treatment of gender dysphoria in children.
This past week in Britain, the National Health Service announced that puberty blockers would no longer be prescribed to anyone under 18. This follows the damning scandal and subsequent closure of that country’s Tavistock gender identity clinic and a growing bank of evidence on the danger of these treatments more broadly, which includes links between transgender hormone therapy and cancer.
This is truth. Australia? Still stuck on the fence. Clinging to the idea that gender-affirming care is the only valid approach.
The British decision is based on truth, based on science. Finally, the truth in this space is being accepted but here in Australia so many still hold that children who the law recognises are too young, too emotionally (and in all other ways) vulnerable to consent to sexual relationships, can decide to take life-altering medication from which there is no return.
So many other issues. Our energy mix and reckless refusal to consider anything other than renewables. The plight of Indigenous Australians who live in places that are out of sight, hence out of mind.
What will it take? This question runs laps around my mind and my heart daily and this is where I have landed.
We need an encounter with the truth. Australia and Australians need a headfirst, deep-hearted, full-frontal collision with the truth.
Not “my” truth, or his or her truth, the facile indulgence that allows people to construct and reconstruct various matters to suit their own narrative. But the truth.
Most of us in this country do not understand existential threat. We have the luxury of not knowing what it’s like to have to defend our borders or go catch the bus wondering if you’ll be knifed or shot by a terrorist. So many times I’ve said to people, in relation to the Hamas war, what if it were your daughter who had been raped and desecrated? What if it were your son who had his eyes gouged out in front of his children while being forced to listen to the sexual brutalisation of his own wife? Would that be an encounter with truth enough?
Gemma Tognini has written a number of superb articles in The Oz since Oct 7th.
Gazans are suffering because they overwhelmingly supported Hamas and still do presumably. They rejoiced at the Hamas barbarism, many joined in the orgy of violence. Too fkg late to whinge and moan people. Now you have to suffer the revenge.
Gemma Tognini should declare that she enjoyed a study visit to Israel in 2023 (some months before October 7) funded by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC).
And?
This shows that she is more likely than most of us to understand Israel and its state of affairs at the moment.
I’ve got another one. Paying people not to work indefinitely and providing them with everything they need for a decent life regardless can only lead to their moral and physical degradation and dependence.
If you want to close the gap, close the remote settlements.
Indeed.
If others agree I would prefer to have replies visible rather than having to click on View replies twice. It never works for me on the first go.
It isn’t immediate. Just press it once and it should appear in a sec or 3.
So far, so good, Dover.
Like a new car. I just want to try all the buttons.
There’s something for everyone.
Not for me. I can’t still get past the registering page. The password updater hasn’t sent me a link to…. update my password.
Good luck Winston. I’m sure you’ll get there. I think I tripped, fell and rolled into it.
Working good for me. Registering took a couple of attempts until I worked it out.
Well I know where the local mosque is now. On the ground floor of my new building. Packed for Friday night prayers but it was very quiet when I went to buy milk. Obviously under some noise restrictions.
Well I know where the local mosque is now. On the ground floor of my new building. Packed for Friday night prayers but it was very quiet when I went to buy milk. Obviously under some noise restrictions
Well I know where the local mosque is now. On the ground floor of my new building. Packed for Friday night prayers but it was very quiet when I went to buy milk. Obviously under some noise restrictions
Going back to the top of the page to make a comment?
That means losing my place in the comments.
Of all the suckiest aspects of the new blog, that ranks “Suckiest” in the whole universe of suck.
And not being able to downtick? Even more suckier.
Click the green balloon bottom left of the page.
If others agree I would prefer to have replies visible rather than having to click on View replies twice. It never works for me on the first go.
It works well on Jo Nova’s Blog.
I assume my comment will move to the appropriate spot when I finally get registered?
I just ate two meat pies for lunch, they were delicious.
From Costco, works out at about $1.20 each
(but you have to buy them in a box of 15, and at the “on special” price)
/test
Why is it that anyone who gets into even the lowest rung of the ladder turns into a Dhimmi?
https://modernity.news/2024/03/15/10-year-old-kids-denied-drinking-water-in-class-because-of-three-muslims-observing-ramadan/
So, then, what do we have here then?
Noice!
Aww it says it would *love* to hear my comments! Really? I don’t think anyone’s ever said that to me before. Well, they have but they’ve always been sarcastic. But I feel this little widget thing is genuine. A touching moment.
Edit: and the edit function is awesome! I hope it times out after a few minutes though.
Fonty test, go away autocorrect
Emoji thingy ?????
Whoever advised the Avast virus program – you were quite right. It is annoying. Having been interrupted 5 times this am with an earsplitting BING BING BING to remind me I have surplus files that can be deleted, but only after I shell out another $3.99 a month for the privilege, I’ve had a gutful of an antivirus that promises the world but is only another link to multiple offers to buy, I’m deleting it and losing the years subscription as well.
Back to Trend, I think.
I get the impression that post is not entirely serious. Although if it is, it’d be hilarious!
Let Them Eat Cake, WA eastern suburbs (ie. your western suburbs, easterners) edition:
Okay that sounds reasonable enough. The council should consult residents before whacking a tree on their nature strip – particularly if the resident has been maintaining it. And if they are planting jacarandas, that is definitely a legitimate point of contention. Bloody pains in the arse, those things. And not even native.
But here comes the mayor:
Headline should have been ‘Mayor to ratepayers: drop dead’.
People just love being insulted by their elected officials, being told they’re embarrassing and uneducated and whatnot. I’m sure Nadia is a shoo-in at the next local govt election and her voters will overlook the fact she seems to believe she is the mayor of the Shire of Peppermint Grove* rather than the City of Armadale**.
*the most elite and exclusive LGA in Perth and arguably Australia – it is the smallest LGA in Oz and consists of a single riverside suburb, Peppermint Grove (funnily enough), which also has an overabundance of tree canopy
** one of the bottom 3 LGAs in Perth, very possibly the bottom, where many (most?) can’t afford to worry about things like the tree canopy along their street
This dopey Green idiot has just guaranteed that every tree in the suburb will be pulled out or get an injection of Zero.
And she won’t understand why.
Hang on. Ruth’s the mayor, not Nadia. The edit feature does time out. Good.
Sorry Dover, same problem as Helen won’t accept me. BTW I like the new look.
Weird
Just had an hour long kidney stone attack.
Sweating in pain, so so decided to divert myself by taking my blood pressure.
125/85 pulse 80.
I would have taken bets it would be through the roof.
NSW Premier Chris Minns lobbying the federal government for more immigration.
Labor is not on your side, working Australians.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13201583/Americas-meat-poultry-firm-BOYCOTTED-sacks-1-300-staff-Iowa-pork-plant-offers-job-lawyer-packages-bid-hire-42-000-asylum-seekers-New-York.html
It really is a replacement program – replacing American wukkas with illegals. Just like we said would happen.
It looks like the same thing is happening here – I doubt there’s an abattoir that doesn’t exclusively (or nearly so) employ only muslims to get the sticker.
Will he accommodate any in his own home? Push for a multi-story apartment block next door to his own home, to accommodate them? No? Then he can shut up.
Test
A demographic crisis in so many countries. Crisis what Crisis?
Inside Russia’s Looming Demographics Crisis
Whoah! that’s taken awhile! .. managed to login .. at last .. didn’t realise you had to be register with “wordpress” to activate .. but got there , eventually ..!
You just have to minns’s bio- the useless degrees from useless institutions like UNE. Just another apparatchik.
Small point, Doverlord –
The blockquote/bold/italics buttons do not appear at the bottom of the comment window on my iPhone 13.
The picture button is there though.
Within the borders I am taking as a comment box there looks a line’s height of space that cannot be typed in. I thought this might actually be the space for those buttons. If so then they are not only invisible but disabled because when I press within that space at the bottom nothing happens.
And the ‘insert picture’ icon is outside all the borders.
This is just info. Not urgent. I think you will have had a busy enough day already.
Fixed it.
Farmer Gez
March 16, 2024 2:11 pm
Weird
Just had an hour long kidney stone attack.
Sweating in pain, so so decided to divert myself by taking my blood pressure.
125/85 pulse 80.
I would have taken bets it would be through the roof.
That wasn’t kidney stones then.
Pence: ‘I Will Not Be Endorsing Donald Trump
What a backstabbing RINO POS.
Yes despicable is not a strong enough word to describe Pence. A dirty stink.
Speaking of despicable, tell me it’s not true that Howard is backing Anal’s push for 4 year terms.
Boeing, going, going………………..
Incidents have plagued Boeing airplanes in the past few weeks: on Monday, a United Airlines Flight heading from Sydney to San Francisco, was forced to turn around mid-flight due to a hydraulic leak. The Boeing 777-300 plane, which was carrying 167 passengers and 16 crew member, landed safely back in Sydney.
Hours earlier, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner en route Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand experienced a technical issue that resulted in injuries to 50 passengers. Then, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Japan diverted to Los Angeles International Airport on March 7 after a tire on the Boeing 777-20 fell off after takeoff, damaging cars in a parking lot on the ground.
If the GOP can get a decent handle on the cheating, Trump will win big time.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/15/2024-is-shaping-up-to-be-the-we-were-right-about-everything-election/
Woddenhead, you really are a freaking, loudmouth, limey imbecile. We can’t determine if these Boeing issues are really a new risk level for Boeing without looking a previous history, or just the media going hysterical. Go take the Porsche Miata out for a spill and leave us alone. Moron.
Mmmm. Just logged in…what a shock……Well done, Dover. Hope all goes well.
Extraordinary if true. Means the US’s cupboard is close to bare.
Biden is trying to force Israel to kowtow by withholding ammunition. It isn’t working though.
Senior Israeli official says US slow-walking aid, which US disputes (15 Mar)
I don’t seem to be able to login. Tried new entry with new password etc etc….goodbye Cats….
Oh here it is…..
Login is is only necessary to tick up/down
Check your email spam folder.
Thanks Baba
now I can log in to comment
If you want to login (use ticks) then you have to register/join with “wordpress” (separate to Cat) otherwise just comment as usual ..
Vicki at 3.14pm, whatever ID you are using to comment at the Cat is working as we can see what you posted. There is no need to leave — and we can ill-afford to lose commenters like you.
Senior, unnamed Israeli official quoted on American ABC. 99.876% confidence it’s complete baloney.