Open Thread – Mon 3 June 2024


The Angels’ Kitchen, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1646

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Pogria
Pogria
June 3, 2024 12:44 am

Can it be?
First!

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 1:19 am

Lovely painting.

Shame it isn’t still in Seville. Reflecting today that no one beat the French for looting and destruction. They had a go at the Alhambra also, wrecking the water channel that delivered water to the gardens. Because reasons.

The week-long Corpus Christi celebration here in Andalusia continues apace – there was a big procession here in Granada today ending at the cathedral.

Visited Ferdinand and Isabella yesterday. Simple coffins under the ornate sepulchre. Impressive on all fronts.

KevinM
KevinM
June 3, 2024 1:26 am

On a different note.
May your belts and garments be more benign and complying.

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calli
calli
June 3, 2024 1:30 am

On the Alhambra and Generalife – they’re a must-see for any garden lover.

I have been guilty of pinching design ideas…but so have many others. The pomegranate trees are just coming into bloom, and there was a definite absence of tourists. Apparently they all “did” the gardens yesterday! I did the tourist thing and came away with a golden pomegranate vase (irresistible) and an equally irresistible marquetry plaque.

There was a cat fishing for goldfish in one of the reflection pools. And a green striped frog in the lily pond, waiting patiently for insects. The roses nodded, the cypress stood to attention and the poppies blazed, all under the ferocious Spanish sun.

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 3:59 am

Well lookee here, turns out Vonshitzenpants becoming a convicted criminal actually hurts him in the polls, according to Fox News.

A new poll conducted immediately following former President Trump’s criminal conviction in New York found a significant number of Republicans say they are less likely to vote for him in November.

One in 10 registered GOP voters said Trump’s felony conviction for falsifying business records would make them less likely to support him for president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday.

Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 4:00 am

Haha. Johannes Leak.

Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 4:04 am
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
June 3, 2024 5:13 am

Knuckle Dragger
 June 2, 2024 7:09 pm

The stunning and brave statement by WA’s answer to Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins

Bang on the money.

Reply to:  Knuckle Dragger

It must be good to be a mind reader.

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 6:09 am

Postcard from Granada

Last evening here – I convince the Beloved to check out “Tapas Street”, a fairly decent walk from our hotel.  Sunday night, nothing much happening, we stop for a drink only to be moved on – you must eat also!  At 6:30 in Spain?  Pull the other one.

So we shift ourselves across the Reyes Catolicos to a little, Linden lined square closer to the cathedral and settle in.  A central fountain, balloon sellers, children playing.  Drinks then dinner, all to the passing parade of tourists, Granadans, and in the background a carousel powered by bicycle (eco friendly).

And then the bells start.  I think it is the call for evening mass, but the bells go on.  Moments later the beat of drums, and just like Seville, the trumpets.  Forty five minutes later, dinner eaten, the music and drums persist.  As we wend our way back to our hotel the way is blocked.

The last of the Corpus Christi “floats” goes past, a glorious affair of silver covered in lilies and upheld by some very hefty Spaniards.  They toiled up the hill under its weight.  The music…the Beloved and I recognised it as an old hymn, but simply couldn’t place it.  The joyful riot of bells, drums and brass was overwhelming.  It was a little, anticipatory glimpse of the triumph of heaven.

As the final drummers passed, the people gathered behind to follow up to the cathedral. 

Gabor
Gabor
June 3, 2024 6:23 am

Resilience in the Face of Terror

The play, the latest from Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, brings the stories of victims and survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks to life.

Quote from the play;
“Zaki saw over a thousand of his countrymen slaughtered for being Jewish and was witnessing the global rise of antisemitism and a growing discontent with Israel. He has every reason in the world to be bitter and vengeful, and yet, he just longs to be accepted.”

Seeing your enemy making the desert bloom, creating a thriving industrial society, where you, for 2000 years only managed to eke out a meager living, will do that.

They hate you for being successful, being prosperous, the opportunity is, was and will be there for all, you only have to get off your backside and grab it.

By the way, not all Jews are geniuses or business magnates, just enough to make it happen.

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 6:24 am

Here is the float I saw. This was taken a couple of days ago.

The music tonight was deafening. No polite applause!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0o1oa4zQZY

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 6:30 am

Forgot to add – women beautifully dressed in suits and…mantillas. The ones held up with those tall combs. They were clearly city office holders.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
June 3, 2024 6:50 am

This could be why the BBC was invoking WW2 imagery the other day and tarring Meloni with the Mussolini brush!
Orban suggests that Meloni and Le Pen should form an alliance. Leftist heads will be exploding.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/right-wing-eu-super-group-hungarys-orban-urges/

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 3, 2024 6:53 am

This can’t be right (the Hun):

More than six in 10 Australians now support the principle of nuclear as part of the nation’s future energy mix, including a majority of Labor voters, new polling shows.

The Lowy Institute poll, released on Monday, asked more than 2000 Australian voters if they “support or oppose Australia using nuclear power to generate electricity, alongside other sources of energy”.

More than one in four respondents (27 per cent) said they “strongly support” nuclear energy and a further 34 per cent said they “somewhat” support it, leading to an overall approval figure of 61 per cent.

But Mister Bowen said.

Gabor
Gabor
June 3, 2024 6:58 am

The belt meme, he could be a Sitzpinkler?

Gabor
Gabor
June 3, 2024 7:09 am

women beautifully dressed in suits and…mantillas

Didn’t see them in the video, do you have a better one?

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 7:10 am

In London on the weekend there were two marches/rallies. I won’t call them ‘protests’, because they were not ‘protests’, rather they were rallies of very ordinary decent people. On Saturday 1 June 2024 it was ordinary Brits and their friends who turned out in their thousands to take back their city from the left/far-left and Muslim scum who’ve taken over the once great city of London.

Yesterday, on Sunday 2 June 2024, there was another rally through the streets of London, this time UK Jews and their friends, many of whom had been in attendance at the Saturday rally, coming out to say ‘terrorists off our streets’ and holding up pictures of the innocent Jewish men, Jewish women and Jewish children taken hostage on 7 October and who are still being held hostage by Muslim Nazis, those who remain alive that is, because here’s the thing, I have no doubt that most of the young Jewish men are dead, probably tortured to death, but the young Jewish women? No, I suspect they’re alive and are being kept as sex slaves. Muslim men have long been partial to keeping Jewish women as sex slaves, in this they imitate their cult founder, Mohammad (the same one who fancied six year old girls and married one) himself was rather partial to female Jewish sex slaves……but I digress, the rally yesterday was peaceful, just like Saturday’s rally was peaceful, there were one or two arrests, as this video shows, where a very ugly, fat female was arrested after slapping a Jewish woman in the face…..

Woman arrested at pro Israeli rally slapping a Jewish woman across the face 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEYLhcDbmi4

Perhaps the very ugly fat slag being arrested is a friend//relative of our resident Jew hater?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:12 am

Knuckle Dragger
 June 2, 2024 7:09 pm

The stunning and brave statement by WA’s answer to Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins

My best mate’s dad had a brain tumour when we were in our teens. He went from a top bloke to an angry mad man within months. His wife and my mum were great friends and nursed together, they concluded before the diagnosis that it was a brain issue because the personality change was so abrupt.
My mate isn’t around as he died way too early in a car accident as an unfortunate passenger. He was like his dad, the best of men.

Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 7:22 am
Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 7:24 am
Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 7:27 am

“Record crowds have celebrated the largest Walk With Christ since the COVID pandemic, with more than 15,000 Catholics joining the procession through the streets of Sydney for the Feast of Corpus Christi.”
Not just in Spain.

https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/record-crowds-return-to-walk-with-christ/

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:27 am

I was hunting around the gospels trying to find the protocols for the taking of female slaves from defeated enemies and using them as concubines.
Nope, not there.

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 7:33 am

In London yesterday over 40,000 people attended the rally, they walked through London streets waving union jacks and Israeli flags, singing songs and shouting “bring them home” and “terrorists off our streets”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctrk_lbMxBo

Good, time to reclaim the streets from leftist, far-left and Muslim Jew hating scum.

Crossie
Crossie
June 3, 2024 7:35 am

Just looking at the Australian media* our population has reached a dangerous level of obesity. People being interviewed on news and contestants on various game shows are predominantly overweight and in many cases morbidly obese. It used to be that people would put on some weight as they aged and slowed down but the young and very young are now horribly fat, and young women seem to lead the charge there.

Forty or fifty years ago young mothers with preschool children were very thin as they were running around a lot, young mothers today are mostly waddlers. Is it the food? The food pyramid and the low-fat campaign have certainly done a lot of damage. Is it lack of activity? Probably more likely as everyone is glued to the screens of their devices. The lockdowns have also done their damage as this situation has become worse in the last few years.

What is the solution? Certainly not more work from home. Get a dog and walk it? Ozempic-like drugs for the obese?

*It doesn’t help that there are artists like Lizzo who are promoting the fat culture. I suspect it’s to excuse herself from having to do anything or make changes.

Funnily enough I see hardly any obese or even overweight people in church.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 7:36 am

Hey, m0nster, tell us the one about the golden shower with hookers in the Moscow hotel room again.
That’s a classic.

Beertruk
June 3, 2024 7:38 am

Anthony Dillon in today’s paywallion:

Laura Tingle’s racism claims are the latest in a long lineage

Anthony Dillon
3 Jun 2024

Claims that Australia is a racist country are all over the news again. This time, chief political correspondent for the ABC’s 7.30 program, Laura Tingle, recently stated at the Sydney Writers’ Festival: “We’re a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing and a terrible prospect for the next election.”

It goes without saying anyone who challenges any claim of racism is seen as being in denial of racism, or worse, a racist themselves. So let me state upfront, I am not denying the existence of racism in Australia, I am challenging the sweeping generalisation Australia is a racist country. The existence of racism in some Australians does not necessarily mean we are a racist country.

What Tingle’s statement lacks in evidence and credibility, is offset by its highly emotive tone.

This tone results from claims of “let’s face it” and “we always have been” — phrases which are intended to deter anyone from challenging her inflated claim we are a racist nation.

In the absence of robust evidence for Tingle’s claim, we need to ask why she, and many others over the years, persist in making these claims.

American economist Thomas Sowell, a man many would consider one of the great thinkers of modern times, provided a clue when he stated: “ … people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.

They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer …”

Applied here to Tingle’s claims, she becomes the instant heroine to many, and Australia becomes the villain.

And, of course, as social media activity is showing, there are many Australians who are very emotionally satisfied through hearing Australia is a racist country.

Until Tingle or someone else provides solid evidence Australia is a racist country, I’ll stick with Sowell’s insightful description of human nature.

In response to widespread criticism of her recent remarks, Tingle issued a statement giving examples of what she believes is racism in Australia. Her examples included anti-Semitism, racial profiling, and surveys claiming to show the majority of Australians of non-European backgrounds report experiences of discrimination and racism.

None of these examples, I would argue, is definitive. At best, they demonstrate possible examples of racism, but not that Australia is a racist country.

Tingle is one of many over the years who have made similar claims, so let’s take the spotlight off her and focus on why people love to make such claims and what the implications are of these claims.

There are a few reasons why many cling to the claim Australia is a racist country. Naming a country as the villain and not naming individuals is intellectual laziness and virtue signalling at best, and utterly false at worst. Those revelling in the claim we are a racist country can tell themselves it’s not they as individuals who are racist, it’s Australia that is racist. They can see themselves as saints and not sinners.

Another reason for believing Australia is a racist country, in the absence of clear evidence for such a claim, is somewhat obvious.

When a falsehood or unproven claim is heard often enough, people come to believe it as true.

Psychologists have a term for this — illusory truth.

For as long as I can remember, certain sections of the media, most notably left-leaning media, have been telling us racism is rampant in this country.

Once the belief we are a racist country is planted in the minds of ordinary people, confirmation bias takes over and they interpret events and claims in ways which support their existing beliefs.

For example, I continue to hear the defeat of the Indigenous Voice campaign is unquestionable proof Australia is a racist country. And, of course, any talk of reducing immigration numbers is also proof positive for some Australia is a racist country. Both claims are nonsense.

Or, people may see examples of actual racism, assume these examples are widespread, and then generalise Australia as a racist country.

I believe we do a great harm to ourselves when shouting endless claims we are a racist nation.

British author and intellectual giant Douglas Murray has stated: “Few people think that a country cannot be improved on, but to present it as riddled with bigotry, hatred and oppression is at best a partial and at worst a nakedly hostile prism through which to view society. It is an analysis expressed not in the manner of a critic hoping to improve, but as an enemy eager to destroy.”

Yes, let’s stamp out racism where it exists, but I believe the far greater problem facing Australia are the false claims our nation is racist. Let’s stamp out these claims.

Anthony Dillon is an Indigenous commentator, and an honorary fellow at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 3, 2024 7:42 am

In Further Trump Loses 10% of the Republican Vote news:

The Reuters/Ipsos survey showed Biden and Trump nevertheless remain in a tight race, with 41% of voters saying they would vote for Biden if the election were held today and 39% saying they would pick Trump. The poll surveyed 2,556 U.S. adults nationwide with a 2 percentage point margin of error for registered voters. 

Amazing that a convicted felon – who is also a person widely known to be a hideous fascist dictator, a constitutional traitor, a convicted financial fraudster, a convicted sexual assaulter, and someone so criminally reckless that he is facing multiple felony charges in multiple states from his previous administration – is statistically line ball with Biden in the poll.

And equally amazing the conclusion that 20% of Americans, considering a two horse race, want someone else.

Institutionalised Trump hatred has certainly moved the dial…

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 3, 2024 7:45 am
Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 7:45 am

Re nuclear energy debate:

We went to an amazing symposium on the stupidity & danger of Bowen’s crazy plans & the efficacy of nuclear energy in Sydney on the weekend. It was organised by the IPA, God bless them. Addresses by panel of nuclear scientists and others who debunked all the false data of the CSIRO. I don’t know if papers will be published but keep an eye out for that. All the theories about difficulty of disposal of waste etc were all debunked by reference to the nuclear facilities OS etc.

Various luminaries were there such as Dick Smith, Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Roberts, Dr Peter Ridd, but most of all – experts in the energy field. It is such a shame that the MSM don’t feature the actual energy scientists in discussions.

Got to speak to some of the above. A real treat. Only found out about the symposium the day before when we returned to Sydney. Even so, the auditorium at Dee Why RSL was full.

shatterzzz
June 3, 2024 7:48 am

So the probable becomes reality involving Public Serpents who devised and operated ROBODEBT for personal “points scoring” rather than legality ..
Read this story thru and you know they will all get away with it .. Apparently, all that is required to avoid criminal charges is “resignation” and all is forgiven & soon to be forgotten …. Furgling gummint always has an “out” and who’s name crops up as the top “outer-enabler” but “Billy -mushrooms-Shitten” ……
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-03/robodebt-lawyer-annette-musolino-resigns-from-government-job/103909090

shatterzzz
June 3, 2024 7:55 am

And being Monday how can we go without “our” ABC’s “IsraelBad” roundup .. the totally unbiased account from life in Gaza by “Oz” folk with true-blu, dinki-di monikers..

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-03/nsw-doctors-and-psychologist-return-gaza-israel-conflict/103890956

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 3, 2024 8:10 am

Thanks beer truck for the article. I wonder how hard it was for Tingle to get into germalism in the first place being a member of the fruit tingle dynasty. Maybe she resents it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 3, 2024 8:12 am

In today’s Paywallian Jamie Packer provides an opinion on Cuddly Costello’s 11 years at the helm of his old man’s media company. Hint: not much. Legacy media is a tough gig in a declining industry, although it’s hard not to agree with him.

132andBush
132andBush
June 3, 2024 8:16 am

Institutionalised Trump hatred has certainly moved the dial…

They’ve rammed this sham trial through and now the ground is softened for a last minute switch to a more populist candidate.
In spite of what the rules say, they will find a way.
The rules mean nothing anymore.
There’s no way they can pump enough drugs into the corpse to get him over the line.

I also wonder how many of those 20% would be picked up if it was DeSantis?

shatterzzz
June 3, 2024 8:22 am

Geordies .. gotta luv us ..LOL!
This’ll take some beating for the HEADLINE story of a newspaper ..
the Newcastle(UK) Evening Chronicle …….. 3 June 2024 …..

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-doctor-goldfish-garden-pet-29281438

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 8:29 am

Hundreds of thousands of Australian households are being charged electricity prices based on their single biggest point of usage across an entire month, fuelling claims power firms are using sneaky tactics to gouge consumers.

ABC

I recall Vicki complaining about an unusually high electricity bill for a second residence unoccupied most of the time. Does this explain it?

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Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 8:33 am

This can’t be right (the Hun):

More than six in 10 Australians now support the principle of nuclear as part of the nation’s future energy mix, including a majority of Labor voters, new polling shows.

That’s been fairly consistent for quite a few years now. Iirc, the highest support is in SA.

Trust me…the Liberal Party wouldn’t have gone near the issue if it wasn’t so.

Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 8:34 am

They’ve rammed this sham trial through and now the ground is softened for a last minute switch to a more populist candidate.

“More populist”? You are joking?

Tom
Tom
June 3, 2024 8:37 am

Roger Franklin in Connecticut on popular reaction to the conviction of the man that America’s flyover country sent to Washington DC:

I don’t know if the hillbilly with hot sauce in his beard will be voting in November, but if does, it will be for convicted criminal Donald J. Trump.

RTWT

billie
billie
June 3, 2024 8:40 am

Apparently, all that is required to avoid criminal charges is “resignation” and all is forgiven & soon to be forgotten.

No not even that, this one got more publicity so she resigned, usually they just change jobs, or titles and keep going. (same in the ABC by the way, no one gets fired, unless they are a contractor and then the contract is not renewed)

The pool of available people in Canberra is just too small for quality people to be in all the decision making roles and people just shop jobs constantly.

Often zig-zagging from role to role, completely unsuitable, but now it is on their resume.

If the number of people applying for a job is small even, one of them will get it even if no one meets the criteria. Even if they have no clue and are not suitable, it’s easier to give it them, let them waste everyone’s time for a year or two then leave to their next role.

The PSU, Public Service Union ensures someone is picked, even if unsuitable and there are never any repurcussions.

If you have ever worked with government in Canberra, you know what a low bar is held for employment there.

That government is such a squalid mess there, is no surprise at all.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
June 3, 2024 8:41 am

An excellent critique of the appalling ‘management’ of the Covid debacle.

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/06/choosing-china-over-sweden/

Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 8:43 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 3, 2024 8:43 am

Knew this was going to happen.

Half Of German E-Car Buyers Regret Their Purchase Or Lease! (2 Jun)

Citing an article published in the online Merkur.de, Blackout News reports: “Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”.

Apparently German e-car owners are disappointed due especially to “rising electricity prices”.

Now the punters are finally noticing that it’s cheaper to pay for petrol rather than for the electricity for an EV, especially from a commercial fast charger.

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 8:45 am

Nigel Farage is reportedly hoping to absorb the rump of the Tories into Reform after the election. (The Sunday Times – paywalled.)

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 3, 2024 8:45 am

Piers Akerman:

Australia has never been more vulnerable internally and externally since World War II.

Most millennials don’t have a clue what are the real threats. The febrile nature of political leadership in our greatest ally has been highlighted by the dubious conviction of former US president Donald Trump by a politicised New York court.

If Trump wins in the November election, he will certainly be distracted by the numerous court suits that Democrat states have brought against him and will be unable to give his attention to the foreign crises reaching a boiling point. The near certainty of the election of UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in July does not instil any confidence or certainty in the delivery of Britain’s contribution to AUKUS.

Worse, UK Labour is as riven by identity politics and as beholden to Islamists as is Anthony Albanese’s ALP. None of our enemies regards identity politics as an issue, but here the use of personal pronouns is of such supreme importance, even joking about them can pose a threat to employment and reputation.

Starmer has already indicated his government would implement green-Left policies, such as giving the vote to 16-year-olds and implementing a green energy plan that would end what remains of UK manufacturing and send power prices soaring. Sound familiar?

It is as lunatic a plan as the expensive and inefficient unreliable wind and solar program Energy Minister Chris Bowen is hellbent on inflicting on Australia. Adolescent truant Greta Thunberg may as well have written Starmer’s and Bowen’s platforms.

While our great and powerful friends are entangled in domestic problems, China is intent on expanding its hegemony in our region and we have no viable defence capability.

Israel is bravely committed to eliminating the monstrous, murderous and barbaric forces of Hamas but the pro-Palestinian lobby’s false narrative has swept through Western universities where Left-wing academics actively promote anti-Semitic tropes.

They aren’t alone. Our ABC has repeatedly shown its anti-Israel bias and reluctance to acknowledge the facts of the October 7 massacre as painfully laid out in last week’s Sky News documentary hosted by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

The total lack of leadership from Anthony Albanese and his failure to accept any responsibility for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’s release of murderers and rapists into the community has again highlighted his lack of any redeeming ethical traits. Constantly hedging his bets, Albanese has always placed his petty political goals against the greater national good.

Sacrificing our foundational ties to the state of Israel to placate radical Muslims in Labor electorates is utterly reprehensible, but typical of the abominable divisive behaviour we now expect from our Prime Minister.

There should be consequences for those Muslims who rallied to celebrate the rape and murder of civilians last October, but there has been none. Supporters of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, continue to occupy university campuses and disrupt Australians.

The mosques where so-called imams exhort rabid followers to eliminate Jews should be bulldozed to demonstrate that this hate speech has no place in Australia.

Our nation has striven since its earliest settlement to promote the concept of the fair go, not always successfully, but certainly not under this government while Jewish people are now fearful of assault and in fear. This government is promoting division, not unity.

We cannot continue to be split by race and religion if we are to meet the challenges we face. There must be consequences for this contemptible government’s actions.

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 8:52 am

 “Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”.

Friend of the wife who lives on a property with an off-grid set up complained the other day that they can’t both charge the Tesla and keep the spa going without a further expensive investment in generating capacity and/or storage.

First world problems increasingly resemble third world problems, I retorted.

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Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 8:56 am
Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 8:57 am
John H.
John H.
June 3, 2024 9:00 am

oger

 June 3, 2024 8:52 am

 “Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”.

Friend of the wife who lives on a property with an off-grid set up complained the other day that they can’t both charge the Tesla and keep the spa going without a further expensive investment in generating capacity.

First world problems increasingly resemble third world problems, I retorted.

If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.

Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 9:02 am
m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 9:07 am

I see Rupert got married again at the age of 93, wearing black sneakers.

Cat fashion gurus, your thoughts?

shatterzzz
June 3, 2024 9:08 am

Hundreds of thousands of Australian households are being charged electricity prices based on their single biggest point of usage across an entire month, fuelling claims power firms are using sneaky tactics to gouge consumers.
ABC?

I’ve got a “smart” meter, had it for several years, with no noticeable differences in usage/cost other than the never ending price increases .. but, then, my plan is two fixed rates usage ( basic & above).. so what are these folks signed up too …….?

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 9:14 am

Nigel Farage is reportedly hoping to absorb the rump of the Tories into Reform after the election. (The Sunday Times – paywalled.)

Yeah, and he has about the same chance of dating Taylor Swift.

It has been many decades since a major party in a Westminster system failed hard enough to actually disband or merge, as far as I know. I would love to hear of recent examples if there are any. Seems like institutional inertia is too much. Or have the Tories really fallen that far?

If the Teals were more organised in Australia, they could pick the carcass of the Libs and reform the centre right without those toxic ties to fossil fuel billionaires. Sadly that is probably not going to happen.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 3, 2024 9:17 am

Shots fired!
https://davidvstewart.substack.com/p/a-generation-of-sociopaths-review?utm_medium=email&utm_content=post

Bruce Cannon Gibney takes a different approach with his book, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. His book is all about the macro, backed up by data. The verdict? The Baby Boomers have collectively (or as the emergent behavior of the collective) acted like sociopaths and engaged in what amounts to inter-generational war. They inherited wealth of many sorts, including decades of economic, intellectual, and social investment, and squandered them, breaking all social mores and plundering their birthright while making none of the investments that would have allowed their children to experience the same prosperity and freedom.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 3, 2024 9:21 am

Indolent put this up on the old thread but it deserves repeating here.

Just emerging from rumour into some press reports is a bill Demothieves are putting up to strip Trump of his Security Protection Detail if he goes to jail. i.e. it is an outright assassination strategy should this bill be passed.

Worth keeping an eye on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrUtaPmkNA

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 9:23 am

Health Minister Mark Butler is continuing to advocate for a global pandemic agreement, telling WHO “we can’t afford to fail”. Speaking on behalf of Australia at the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Mr Butler advocated for a way forward for the WHO Pandemic Agreement. This comes after the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) was unable to reach consensus on the draft text of the treaty after nine meetings.

The Epoch Times 31 May 2024

Pogria
Pogria
June 3, 2024 9:25 am

The De Niro memes are mushrooming. Breitbart has a nice sampler. The 90 second, dubbed monologue is a hoot.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/06/01/robert-de-niros-anti-trump-press-conference-inspires-wild-memes-stormy-de-niro-im-just-a-mook/

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 3, 2024 9:33 am

I see Rupert got married again at the age of 93, wearing black sneakers

Makes a change from the red leather shoes made from enslaved tunnel children’s skin, right mUnter?

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 3, 2024 9:36 am

The effwit whining about Boomers apparently is a global warmunist. Enough said.

Zippster
Zippster
June 3, 2024 9:41 am

Rouven L., a 29-year-old German police officer, died from multiple stab wounds to the head and neck after intervening in an attack by Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan refugee, during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim. The incident occurred as Sulaiman targeted Michael Stürzenberger, a critic of Islam. Rouven was attempting to protect others when he was attacked. The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.

islam is a death cult and needs to be dramatically reformed

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 3, 2024 9:43 am

Mr Butler advocated for a way forward for the WHO Pandemic Agreement.

Not seen this covered in the Oz or Courier Mail etc.

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 9:46 am

The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.

While elements of the German press are attempting to blame the intended victim, anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 3, 2024 9:57 am

News Corp chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch marries partner Elena Zhukova at his LA estate
By james madden

  • Media Editor
  • 8:51AM June 3, 2024

News Corp chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch has married his partner Elena Zhukova in Los Angeles, surrounded by their close family and friends.
In a ceremony decorated in white and leafy green flowers, the couple wed in the vineyard of Mr Murdoch’s secluded Bel Air estate, Moraga.

Mr Murdoch’s son and News Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his wife Sarah were among the wedding guests, along with News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson and wife Wang Ping, and Mr Murdoch’s niece and The Herald & Weekly Times chairman Penny Fowler.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and wife Dana Blumberg were also in attendance.
Mr Murdoch and Ms Zhukova – a retired biologist – met at a family gathering last year.

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 9:58 am

Despite the hopes of the pervert apologist, most of the Teals will be gonski at the next election.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 3, 2024 10:00 am

If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 3, 2024 10:00 am

Rouven L., a 29-year-old German police officer, died from multiple stab wounds to the head and neck after intervening in an attack by Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan refugee, during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim.

This the copper who tackled the victim, not the perp?

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 10:02 am

If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.

And trackie daks.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 3, 2024 10:07 am

Hairy said he’d heard ‘rumbles’ on Fox News – is there any hope of the Republicans putting their Presidential Convention Confirmation date any earlier, to foul Bragg’s timing of Trump’s ‘sentencing’ as prior to this Convention?

Bragg would then be faced with trying to jail a confirmed presidential candidate, which the Supreme Court might start to see as election interference (though they have been vewy quiet so far on a State prosecutor dealing with a Federal matter outside the range of State jurisdiction, so no promises).

Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 10:07 am

Roger – thanks for that tip re the ABC story on electricity company trickery. Husband just told me that the latest electricity bill for city property did not record a meter reading! They must know that we are recording regular readings of meter!

The subterfuge that we are encountering by big retailers these days is scary.

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:07 am

Lizzie, recent de-industrialisation of the West was a neoliberal project driven by the right (including the ALP Right) on behalf of their billionaire donors. Privatisation and outsourcing delivered terrible outcomes for Western countries, shuttering entire manufacturing sectors and leaving us defenceless against powerful state investment in green tech by the controlled economy of China. Rich owners of multinational conglomerates made off with humongous economic rent, largely tax-free, further assisted by the right dismantling antitrust regulation after the 1990s.

Biden has turned the industrial tide in the US through the IRA, bringing new government investment in green tech to try to close the gap in the battle against China, and to a lesser extent India. Trump would reverse that, of course, because he wants to build Trump Tower Beijing and his family has extensive business ties in China.

Albo is trying to copy Biden’s tactics in Australia, and it remains to be seen whether that is possible given our higher cost bases. At least he is trying something, unlike Potato Head with his radioactive fantasies.

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 10:18 am

Yesterday afternoon I went to hear Peter Dutton speak at Moriah College. The room was full, with about 700 people attending.

Dutton spoke very well, and offered comfort to the Jewish community.

Unlike the grub from Grayndler, Dutton does not speak with a forked tongue.

And this ties into the ‘Teals’ or as I prefer to more accurately call them, Svengali Simon’s whores (because that is what they are). I doubt very much that Spender will win again in Wentworth.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
June 3, 2024 10:24 am

What any thinking person knew anyway – OBumma pulling OBiden’s strings.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/radical-barack-obama-comes-shadows-announces-joe-bidens/

cohenite
June 3, 2024 10:27 am

Zippster
 June 3, 2024 9:41 am

Rouven L., a 29-year-old German police officer, died from multiple stab wounds to the head and neck after intervening in an attack by Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan refugee, during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim. The incident occurred as Sulaiman targeted Michael Stürzenberger, a critic of Islam. Rouven was attempting to protect others when he was attacked. The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.

islam is a death cult and needs to be dramatically reformed

The bastard was radicalised according to the media wimps. No muslim is radicalised; they’re all radicals and hate the West.

Pogria
Pogria
June 3, 2024 10:29 am

All Cats and Kittehs know muntsac is inordinately fond of old men. He has been a Biden fluffer since before the 2020 election.
He faps away furiously to the image of Donald Trump.
His latest senior fantasy is Rupert Murdoch.

This short clip is on a continuous loop in muntsacs’ frontal lobe. Yes, he only has one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0eILBa_cpM

Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 10:35 am

BTW at an anti-vax meeting (yes, the groups that formed in those awful years formed permanent and rewarding friendships) an activist called Topher Field ( from Victoria I think) gave a great address on the continued activities of political supporters of authoritarian government and the dangers they present for democracies. I think he is a libertarian & is very impressive.

John H.
John H.
June 3, 2024 10:35 am

m0nty

 June 3, 2024 10:07 am

Lizzie, recent de-industrialisation of the West was a neoliberal project driven by the right (including the ALP Right) on behalf of their billionaire donors. Privatisation and outsourcing delivered terrible outcomes for Western countries, shuttering entire manufacturing sectors and leaving us defenceless against powerful state investment in green tech by the controlled economy of China. Rich owners of multinational conglomerates made off with humongous economic rent, largely tax-free, further assisted by the right dismantling antitrust regulation after the 1990s.

De-industrialization was about profits. Companies have no obligation to the community. They are a private good not a public good so why people whine about how they moved their production facilities to cheaper lands is beyond my comprehension. When it began everyone thought it was a great idea and everyone loved the cheap products. Complaining now is just being a Captain Hindsight.

The drive towards small government is one of the reasons the Tories are getting smashed. The jokes in Britain about privatized waste water disasters and rail commuting costs and failures are legion.

Frank
Frank
June 3, 2024 10:37 am

If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.

The main Hobart ugg boot emporium has quite a good bridal section, apparently.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 3, 2024 10:38 am

This system of top of page commenting does my head in.

I’ve just written a little essay in response to M0nty’s attempt at reasonableness. Buried in the reply function, of course.

He really does get my dander up. So much fake belief in his plaints, to say nothing of the way in which his ‘side’ tends towards the Nazi. Not nice.

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:44 am

Roger upthread brought up the example of the merger in the 1990s to form the Conservative Party in Canada.

Seems to me the only way something like that would happen in Australia is if there is a significant gap between vote share and seat share. Dutton’s strategy of abandoning blue-ribbon seats to the Teals and chasing Labor’s strongholds in satellite suburbs has thus far delivered a lot less seats (38.7%) than votes (47.8%).

It is almost deliberately designed to minimise seat returns as a ratio of votes won. If someone wanted to lose every single seat by five per cent, you could hardly do worse than Dutton’s plan in the short to medium term.

I guess there is a long term strategy to refashion the party from a nation of forgotten Menzian shopkeepers to a new Trumpian paradigm of nativist incel-coded resentment, but the transition is going to be painful and will result in some awful electoral results before it is supposed to turn around.

A split seems more likely than a merger at this point. Or a slow draining of Liberal wets away to the Teals, which would eventually give the same outcome.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 3, 2024 10:47 am

If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.

Roger @ 9:53 am

I thought Mr. Toyoda was rather cool on EV prospects?

Originally I thought exactly that.

It is now starting to look like Toyota has been playing a smart, long game. The limitations of Li-Ion batteries in EV’s have always been apparent. It seems Toyota has adopted them to an absolute minimum (but nonetheless effectively) in its limited hybrid range, while developing a more automotive-applicable alternative battery technology.

Toyota, with the backing of Japan Inc, is now tipping big billions into solid lithium battery technology – or, perhaps far more importantly, the manufacturing technology for cost-effective mass production of this generation of EV batteries.

Strategically, this puts the Toyota brand ahead of the other EV OEM’s (who are also following up on fast-charge, higher power-density, longer-lived batteries). It also avoids the brand legacy issue of leaving behind piles of BetaMax Li-Ion vehicles and distressed owners.

Fiendishly clever, these Orientals.

Interesting article on the subject here (although one that falls into the ‘mineral resource vs reserves trap’).

cohenite
June 3, 2024 10:49 am

Biden has turned the industrial tide in the US through the IRA, bringing new government investment in green tech to try to close the gap in the battle against China, and to a lesser extent India. Trump would reverse that, of course, because he wants to build Trump Tower Beijing and his family has extensive business ties in China.

Your first paragraph made sense dickless then you reverted to shit. Green tech is the chunk’s weapon against the West. It began when china was exempted from the Paris accord rules on emissions reduction until 2030 and thereafter on an optional basis. This while the West crucifies itself on the alter on ruinables the chunks power ahead with fossils, nuclear and the biggest hydro in the world.

Trump revitalised the US economy by reinvesting in fossils and nuclear and by reducing company tax from the highest to the lowest in the world. He increased employment, especially amongst minorities to its highest levels. By comparison the golden boy obuma also increased employment by increasing and politicising the bureaucracies.

It’s clear that the demorats are the tools of the chunks. How ironic is that dickless.

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:50 am

Pic of Rupe and sixth wife, plus those black sneakers.

https://x.com/markdistef/status/1797216667719860237?s=46

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:56 am

If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.

The tech is real, Mercedes has it too.

The trick is to lower its production cost. That is generally a problem that can be solved if you throw enough engineers and industrial capacity at it, as China did with solar PV.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 3, 2024 11:01 am

Anyway, Cats, a day to be spent sorting out this mob of grifters, squatting on the farm…seems, if you get a court order to have them evicted, they trash the place, to show how important they are..a teenage schoolgirl, in her mother’s police uniform, say the police are most reluctant to get involved in cases like this..

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 11:01 am

Pic of Rupe and sixth wife, plus those black sneakers.

No Nazi, his new wife is his fifth wife.

cohenite
June 3, 2024 11:05 am

If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.

The tech is real, Mercedes has it too.
The trick is to lower its production cost. That is generally a problem that can be solved if you throw enough engineers and industrial capacity at it, as China did with solar PV.

You really are a fuking moron dickless. No doubt bright ideas about battery function will emerge, hell they’re talking about a nuclear battery. The problems with the rare earths and minerals to make the stupid things and disposing of them will remain. Plus the fundamental battery issue: they don’t make electricity, they store it, currently very inefficiently. And if your only source of electricity are weather dependent ones how the hell are you going to get excess power into the batteries.

Idiot.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 3, 2024 11:17 am

A split seems more likely than a merger at this point. Or a slow draining of Liberal wets away to the Teals, which would eventually give the same outcome.

I doubt that it’s only the Liberals facing a split. Looking the Australian political landscape with a nearly uniform level of disdain for all practitioners, I’m seeing national politics move away from the regulation Two Party model.

Purely on ‘policy’ preferences we’re pretty much there now: a Hard Left (Greens and 35% of Labor), a Soggy Left Centre (Labor Centre Right, Teals for the time being, and Liberal Wets), a Soft Right Centre (traditional Roots and Boots Labor, Dry Liberals and some Nats) and a Right (at present, mainly a motley of disorganised individuals).

This has yet to catch up in terms of formal organisation – and perhaps that’s a way off. But what will become an urgent need to address the looming economic and social quagmire is going to produce some interesting non-traditional alliances.

John H.
John H.
June 3, 2024 11:19 am

Roger

 June 3, 2024 9:46 am

The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.

While elements of the German press are attempting to blame the intended victim, anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger.

The debate has ended in some European countries. New policies on immigration restriction and enhanced deportation possibilities. Denmark has a remarkable policy.

Denmark Declares War on Multiculturalism – VisualPolitik EN (youtube.com)

I suspect the subtext is about a specific religion. A BBC journalist accused Polish PM Tusk of being racist. He retorted that Poland accepts thousands of refugees but it doesn’t accept refugees of a certain religion and then said, “we haven’t had terrorist attacks.” Which isn’t true but perhaps he was specifically referring to terrorist attacks arising from that religion.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 3, 2024 11:22 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 3, 2024 11:27 am

There’s quite a back story to the new Murdoch nuptials:

she could help to further whet the public’s voracious appetite for scandalous details of Murdoch’s life — the life that inspired “Succession,” HBO’s hit drama about a media tycoon and his emotionally crippled, backstabbing brood.
So, who is the next Mrs. Murdoch? A member of the Soviet intelligentsia, Zhukova worked at the state-run Hematology and Blood Transfusion Institute and then continued her research in molecular biology in California after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Like many women moving from the former Union to the U.S. at the time, she might have hoped for some “Pretty Woman” luck — with a wealthy man showing up to deliver the kind of opulent lifestyle that Soviet citizens associated with the West. That is what the Czech-born Ivana and Slovenia-born Melania found in Donald Trump.
But Zhukova is not exactly new to the billionaire lifestyle. Her first husband, and father to Dasha, was the Russian businessman Alexander Zhukov — one of those early-1990s talents who made money by hook or by crook in the post-Soviet “Wild East.” This lent her a certain Russian-oligarch glamour even as she moved on to her second marriage, to a fellow immigrant biologist.
Zhukova is also a former mother-in-law of another Russian billionaire-oligarch, Roman Abramovich, who gained notoriety in the West during his nearly 20 years as owner of London’s Chelsea Football Club. A Kremlin insider, Abramovich has often served as Putin’s back channel to the West, most prominently as an envoy in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the weeks after the full-scale invasion of February 2022. It was because of his links to Putin that the British government forced him to sell Chelsea that year.
Despite her father’s wealth, Dasha Zhukova entered the public eye only during her 10-year marriage to Abramovich. Eager to be considered more than a socialite, she worked to establish herself as a gallerist and art collector, and became known as a key force behind a posh Moscow art project and exhibition space, Garage. I was introduced to Zhukova there, though when I reached out to shake her hand, she offered me the sleeve of her white silk dress instead.
Zhukova’s union with Abramovich ended in 2017, but she did not remain without an oligarch for long. She married Stavros Niarchos, the grandson of a Greek shipping tycoon, in 2020, at a star-studded ceremony in Switzerland.
With her impending nuptials to Murdoch, Zhukova’s mother will undoubtedly contribute yet another chapter to a family story of wealth, power and tabloid glamor.

John H.
John H.
June 3, 2024 11:34 am

Dr Faustus

 June 3, 2024 11:17 am

A split seems more likely than a merger at this point. Or a slow draining of Liberal wets away to the Teals, which would eventually give the same outcome.

I doubt that it’s only the Liberals facing a split. Looking the Australian political landscape with a nearly uniform level of disdain for all practitioners, I’m seeing national politics move away from the regulation Two Party model.

Purely on ‘policy’ preferences we’re pretty much there now: a Hard Left (Greens and 35% of Labor), a Soggy Left Centre (Labor Centre Right, Teals for the time being, and Liberal Wets), a Soft Right Centre (traditional Roots and Boots Labor, Dry Liberals and some Nats) and a Right (at present, mainly a motley of disorganised individuals).

This has yet to catch up in terms of formal organisation – and perhaps that’s a way off. But what will become an urgent need to address the looming economic and social quagmire is going to produce some interesting non-traditional alliances.

I’m not confident the categories now have any meaning. There is a loss of a coherent political philosophy undergirding policy and parties. We may be in a transition period that has both promise and peril. The rise of independents reflects a shifting away from the major parties and political orientations. A decade of impotent coalition rule followed by the dismal government today is making people look for alternatives. Perhaps there will be a 4th turning(Strauss-Howe generational theory). It is a mistake to try and resurrect a true conservative or labour tradition. I may not live long enough to see this but at some time during this decade or next a new kind of politics will emerge.

That needs to happen in this decade because as you indicate we are now facing problems requiring solutions yesterday.

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 11:34 am

It was not Donald Tusk who pushed back against the BBC, it was the then Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

Donald Tusk is an EU globalist, who will do the bidding of the EU, UN, WHO and particularly the US under Biden.

Vagabond
Vagabond
June 3, 2024 11:37 am

If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.

The average EV battery stores 40 KWh, some as much as 100. If the vehicle needs to be capable of 1000 KM then the battery capacity would need to be more than 40 KWh but let’s just do the sums for a 40 KWh battery.

If a 40 KWh battery is half empty and needs to recharge in 10 minutes that’s 20 (KWh) in 1/6 of an hour which is 120 KW. A completely discharged battery would need 240 KW for 10 minutes. That sort of power (call it a quarter of a megawatt allowing for losses) requires a fast charger powered by 3 phase high voltage mains. That’s not something you’d have at home. A large number of them would literally cost the earth and put an intolerable strain on the grid both in capacity and infrastructure. For some perspective, a typical pole mounted transformer substation you see around the suburbs might be 500 KVA or half a megawatt.

I’m calling bullsh** on this claim.

KevinM
KevinM
June 3, 2024 11:37 am

Step back cohenite, here is a cutey.

Screenshot-2024-06-03-112742
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 11:37 am

Channel Nein running the latest media attempt to spring child killers from jail, with a very sympathetic account on 60 Minutes of the 2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.
They criticise the use of expert witnesses in criminal cases, then introduce … guess what? … their own expert witnesses, as follows:-
1. The crash simulation guy. He is very critical of the “cartoonish” simulation used in the trial, which seems more of a criticism of the quality early 2000’s graphics than the substance of the simulation. Incidentally, this is something of a moot point, as this simulation wasn’t presented at Farquharson’s second trial at which he was also found guilty. The “expert” takes a very careful survey of the site and creates his own simulation which is very schmick … except for one little detail. Back in 2005 when the murders were committed this was a two lane highway. It is now a completely reconfigured four-lane dual carriageway.
2. The psychologist. He goes to great lengths to describe Farquharson’s probable narcissistic personality disorder which explains why he appeared detached and uncaring after the murders. However, he isn’t asked (and doesn’t offer up a view) as to whether this detached narcissism could be a factor in deciding to kill his kids.
3. The “car sinking” expert (yes, there is such a thing). He opines that the filmed re-enactment presented by VikPol was misleading because it showed a car taking eight minutes to sink in 2.5 metres of water (because the nose hits the bottom and the rear slowly settles) whereas the dam where the murders took place is 7 metres deep and the car would sink much more quickly. This might be so, but is somewhat academic as the time it took to sink doesn’t alter the key facts. This “expert” says the car would sink like a stone once Farquharson opened his door and got out. He accepts the view that Farquharson was in the car when it entered the water. The prosecution case is that he drove the car to the edge, got out, shut his door and rolled the car in.
The push is to have a permanent panel of sciency types reviewing “problematic and potentially unsafe” convictions.

MatrixTransform
June 3, 2024 11:41 am

The tech is real, Mercedes has it too

what?

LFP batteries … so does Jaycar

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 11:47 am

H B Bear
 June 3, 2024 10:00 am

If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs …

… a straw boater, a tartan waistcoat and a cheesy grin.

John H.
John H.
June 3, 2024 11:54 am

Sancho Panzer

 June 3, 2024 11:37 am

Channel Nein running the latest media attempt to spring child killers from jail, with a very sympathetic account on 60 Minutes of the 2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.

They criticise the use of expert witnesses in criminal cases, then introduce … guess what? … their own expert witnesses, as follows:-

2. The psychologist. He goes to great lengths to describe Farquharson’s probable narcissistic personality disorder which explains why he appeared detached and uncaring after the murders. However, he isn’t asked (and doesn’t offer up a view) as to whether this detached narcissism could be a factor in deciding to kill his kids.

The issue is settled because narcissists and psychopaths are beyond recovery therefore he should never be released. Courts and the general public need to face the brutal truth that some behavioral pathologies cannot be cured. I’m not even sure narcissism is the issue because psychopathology seems more appropriate but that’s me guessing from a position of ignorance … .

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 11:59 am

2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.

The best book on this was written by Helen Garner. It’s called ‘This House of Grief’. Garner is a fine writer. I’ve read most of her books.

Frank
Frank
June 3, 2024 12:06 pm

Courts and the general public need to face the brutal truth that some behavioral pathologies cannot be cured.
It is true but also, the people that would be doing the diagnosis are psychs

bons
bons
June 3, 2024 12:07 pm

I just turfed a young punk from the doorstep.

He was earnestly informing me that it will soon be compulsory for every house to install a battery and I should get in early – special deal.

What was disturbing was his sneering, agressive arrogance when I told him to leave. Obviously has no fear of frail old men.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 12:09 pm

Cassie of Sydney
 June 3, 2024 11:59 am

2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.

The best book on this was written by Helen Garner. It’s called ‘This House of Grief’. Garner is a fine writer. I’ve read most of her books.

Thanks Cassie.
I will try to get a copy.
The 60 Minutes thing was totally skewed to the “Farquharson as a victim” narrative.

Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 12:09 pm

Lizzie- re your concerns about mRNA technology being employed in flu vaccines & other products. Yes – it is not just the vax contents that have provoked concern. For example, the use of pseudouridine in the mode of delivery is a matter of concern. Others are concerned about the modification of RNA that may be occurring. It is too technical for my understanding but I am connected to many sources in respect to the push back by research scientists to know that it is a huge concern for them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 3, 2024 12:23 pm

From mUnturd

Albo and Biden are on the side of local workers whose jobs were shipped overseas to benefit the 1%.

It’s pretty clear that the fat fascist fool knows bugger all about what AnAl and Creepy Joe are doing.

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 3, 2024 12:29 pm

Monty pox knows nothing of workers or work.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 3, 2024 12:54 pm

“DEMOCRAT CRIMINALS! Hillary Clinton & the DNC Committed the EXACT CRIMES Trump Was Convicted For!” [9m:42s]
https://rumble.com/v4z6o9u-democrat-criminals-hillary-clinton-and-the-dnc-committed-the-exact-crimes-t.html

Viva Frei points out that Sussman billed the DNC for legal services for the meeting where he slipped the Clintons’ Steele dossier to the FBI, so misrepresenting the purpose of the payment, i.e. falsifying a business record to skew the election.

Hypocrisy is unsatisfying in the sense that it always arrives too late.

John H.
John H.
June 3, 2024 12:56 pm

Vicki

 June 3, 2024 12:09 pm

Lizzie- re your concerns about mRNA technology being employed in flu vaccines & other products. Yes – it is not just the vax contents that have provoked concern. For example, the use of pseudouridine in the mode of delivery is a matter of concern. Others are concerned about the modification of RNA that may be occurring. It is too technical for my understanding but I am connected to many sources in respect to the push back by research scientists to know that it is a huge concern for them.

I read a study showing months long presence of the pseudouridine spike protein presence which contradicts the claims that the mRNA is quickly degraded and that mRNA does not move beyond the injection site. It is a serious concern.That might be reverse transcriptase in play but the activation of that enzyme should be rare.The spike protein is a “danger signal” hence in itself will initiate an inflammatory response. Unfortunately, IIRC, the studies did not test for inflammatory markers.

Not sure about mRNA modification cause but I suspect alternative splicing. That is, a gene does not always code for a single protein, at the RNA level alternative splicing can result in different proteins, some studies suggesting thousands of variants! There are also studies showing even longer presence of COVID mRNA and as yet no clear explanation why that is happening. I should get back to some reading but don’t care anymore.

Don’t worry Vicki, if we’re not puzzled by the complexity we don’t understand the problem. There is a wonderful joke about that …

the kidnapper threatens to shoot one of them. but will spare the one who has made the greater contribution to mankind. the cardiologist says ” i’ve developed drugs that saved millions of lives”. the kidnapper turns to the immunologist: ” and what have you done…? ” the immunologist pauses and then says, ” the thing is, the immune system is very complicated..” And the cardiolgoist says ” just shoot me now” (credit to Jessica Metcalf, Princeton Univ)

Funny but misleading. I don’t use the phrase “immune system” because it isn’t an integrated set of functions, rather a series of kludges, which is why antagonistic pleiotropy is a fundamental problem in aging.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 3, 2024 1:03 pm

Vickie and Lizzie,
Moderna building MNRA production facility in Melbourne with 100m jabs per year capability. Bill Gates, Moderna boss and many others have been talking about jabs being made for viruses within 100 days but with no human testing.
My concern is not for myself but grandkids as the medical establishment is very keen to keep adding more and more jabs to the kids schedule. RSV jab is one they are pushing now.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 1:06 pm

Cassie of Sydney
 June 3, 2024 12:17 pm

 Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Farquharson was/is no victim. Rather he was and remains a pathetic, weak, spineless and very nasty man. He set out to punish his wife, and punish her he did, by murdering their three children.

Quite so.
The most telling thing was that the first thing he wanted to do was get a lift into town to “break the news to his ex”. Not thinking, “what if they are in an air pocket in the submerged car?”. One own goal by Nein was casting doubt on a witness who saw Farquharson’s car, but was accused of being mistaken because she was 50 kilometres away in Colac having dinner at the alleged time of the murders (I refuse to use the word “accident”). This could be even more damning evidence against him. What if she saw him at, say 6:15, and was buying dinner at 7:15 in Colac. This would mean he sat by the dam for an hour making sure the job was done before strolling out onto the road and flagging down a car.

Re. the 60 Minutes crap, I’m reminded of the Seven nonsense a few years ago when they tried to cast doubts on Bradley Murdoch

An epic moment in the history of Cat gullibility! Remember egg_ster buying into the “saggy man, little red car” story? A total fabrication from a discredited and disbarred coke-head lawyer looking for a payday.

Anders
Anders
June 3, 2024 1:13 pm

Albo and Biden are on the side of local workers whose jobs were shipped overseas to benefit the 1%.

LOL at lefties like monty purporting to care about local workers while they shepherd millions of illegal immigrants across the border who compete with local workers for low skilled jobs, housing and goods – and then smearing them as racists and Nazis when they complain.

Rabz
June 3, 2024 1:24 pm

mUttley opining on economics will never end well.

132andBush
132andBush
June 3, 2024 1:47 pm

That Monty thinks the teals represent the “centre right” is a huge tell as to how hard left he really is.

shatterzzz
June 3, 2024 1:48 pm

Lethbridge “newie” .. 10/10

Appropriation
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 3, 2024 1:50 pm

Monty hitting the glass BBQ early this morning?

Trumpian
paradigm
nativist
incel-coded

Meth, its not just for dinner now!

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
June 3, 2024 2:05 pm

Hi Roger
With in the past week you pasted an article about Fiedman and the Federal Reserve clearing 1/3 of he stock of cash from banks.
I am looking for it to save and use it in my arguements with everyone – could you tell me what date and time it was posted.

Pogria
Pogria
June 3, 2024 2:12 pm

Nein and the Sixty Minutes mob appointing themselves as Farquharson’s personal fluffers is no surprise.
Children have become the ultimate disposable item. Witness full term abortions, training them from pre school to be available for all sorts of sexual and sadistic practices from the adults who are supposed to protect them. Not forgetting their ultimate use as lab rats in the Medical world.
Also, the use of children as human sacrifices to the “Climate Boogey Man”.

Western civilisation is fast regressing to pre-Columbian savagery and barbarity.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 3, 2024 2:33 pm

The female pictured at 1137 seems to come under category barely legal.

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 2:39 pm

Sancho Panzer
 June 3, 2024 1:06 pm

Read Garner’s book, it is heart-wrenching. She doesn’t pull any punches. What I like about Garner’s prose is that she’s acutely precise, succinct and brutal. She’s not one for sentimentality and gush.

Of Farquharson’s guilt I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 3, 2024 2:47 pm

Andrew Giles is rather daft.

The Immigration Minister has been forced to concede drones are not being used to monitor freed detainees.

It’s the latest twist in the detainee debacle that has been dogging the Albanese government.

Last week, Andrew Giles told Sky News anchor Kieran Gilbert that drones were part of a suite of measures being used to monitor the 153 detainees freed into the community in the wake of the High Court NZYQ ruling.

From Sky News.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
June 3, 2024 2:56 pm

The female pictured at 1137 seems to come under category barely legal.

I will wait.

johanna
johanna
June 3, 2024 3:06 pm

Black Ball
June 3, 2024 2:47 pm

Andrew Giles is rather daft.

You are way too kind.

Phrases like ‘grossly incompetent, chronic liar and time-serving factional tax-hooverer’ spring readily to mind.

Leak’s cartoon this morning (thanks, Tom) is one of his funniest and best:

https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/dabdad34bd021d0a643c92b82b9a7103?width=1024

KevinM
KevinM
June 3, 2024 3:13 pm

Bourne1879
June 3, 2024 2:33 pm

The female pictured at 1137 seems to come under category barely legal.

LOL.
I doubt it, you maybe too old and anyone under 60 looks like a teenybopper?

Pogria
Pogria
June 3, 2024 3:51 pm

Remember the “It’s Time”, Labor jingle?

I have found the PERFECT Labor theme song for the next Federal election.

“It’s Raining Bullshit Tonight”. It is a fair dinkum song!
Listen carefully to the lyrics. It’s all there. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1SGvnvMYwM&t=119s

JC
JC
June 3, 2024 3:53 pm

You really are a fuking moron dickless. No doubt bright ideas about battery function will emerge, hell they’re talking about a nuclear battery. The problems with the rare earths and minerals to make the stupid things and disposing of them will remain. Plus the fundamental battery issue: they don’t make electricity, they store it, currently very inefficiently. And if your only source of electricity are weather dependent ones how the hell are you going to get excess power into the batteries.

Idiot.

Not only. At the current level of technology, server farms that will be required to run AI at optimum capacity will require 35 times current US electricity consumption. That’s without EV demand. Good luck with plastic panels and propellers on sticks.

Harlequin Decline
June 3, 2024 4:04 pm

In the Cotswolds, UK we were based at Chipping Campden and then Upper Slaughter where we did a number of daywalks, nothing too drastic 10-17km and a bit of up/down per walk. To answer Lizzie’s earlier query the weather was OK-no rain.

The chief hazard was shit from scouring cattle.

At the Upper Slaughter hotel ( run by a bunch of expat Saffies) I had booked the main restaurant for dinner the first night and then a different one, which I thought was the casual option for the next night.

The first night was an excellent meal helped by a decent bottle of plonk. I decided not to drink on the second night since the following walk was one of the longer ones.

Turned out it was not casual dining but one of those gourmet/tasting menus with 8+ courses and only 4 tables.

 Over the years I’ve had a few of these but always with alcohol and invariably enjoyed them.  However sober it is a different matter.  

The food wasn’t that exceptional the dissertation with each morsel was bullshit and the whole drama dragged on for far too long. The lowlight was a small greasy chop accompanied by ewes curd wrapped in a vine leaf. 

As we scuttled out before they served tea/coffee I mentioned to the earnest and well meaning maitre de that the ewe’s curd turned my stomach. He looked very disappointed and said everyone else thought it was the best course.

Clearly drinking should be compulsory for such meals.

Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 4:07 pm

There is a very lovely piece in The Quadrant Online in the last few days. Very reflective of our current , and past, traumas in Oz.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2024/06/hermits-and-home-truths-in-old-borroloola/

bons
bons
June 3, 2024 4:18 pm

Those enduring the frozen communist wasteland of the South will no doubt be overjoyed to learn that the water temperature here remains at 22 degree and the sets are smooth and holding up in the absence of any wind.

I would like to shout also that we will soon also be ridding ourselves of our corrupt union fascist Goverment, however I don’t believe that that will actually happen.

Politics in QLD is based upon habit and the five o’clock news which is of course Government bough and paid for. Govt advetising comprehensively exceeds commercial advertising. It is obvious that every Dept has been told to produce ads, no matter how irrelevant they are. It is continuous.

It is certainly witin recent memory that Government advertising resulted in a significant backlash from taxpayers. That no longer happens.

Now we are told not to bully, bash, drink, rape, drive, talk to women without prior written approval (well, almost), smoke (but drugs are OK), be nasty to blackfellas and muzzies, get upset about windmills destroying the environment (the Big Build FFS) and my current favourite – prepare for cyclones – in winter.

It would be less of a burden for the taxpayer if the Govt just bought the bloody networks. Not even public servants could make them any worse.

johanna
johanna
June 3, 2024 4:20 pm

H B Bear
June 3, 2024 3:38 pm

Reply to  johanna
Certainly not one of the ACT’s best. Whatever that might mean.

Andrew Giles is the MP for Scullin, in Victoriastan.

He is a loyal member of the faction of the Member for Rub ‘n’ Tug.

He merely attends the ACT to tax-hoover.

Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 4:21 pm

The suburbs where the Teals have won seats were certainly ‘centre right’ in the Menzies era. What has happened is that while those areas still form a large pool of the managerial class, over the last half century or more the managerial class has taken on a left tinge. This is the real problem for centre-right parties. Why and how that happened is an interesting question.

Indeed. I personally lean towards the theory that post war (ie WWII) society in the West put increasing emphasis on managerial/administrative employment. This was the basis for the great emphasis on tertiary education for the sons and daughters of the working class.

It is the immense success of the big corporations in recent times that has influenced the emergence of the ubiquitous DEI (diversity/equity/inclusion) travesty. And why is this so? Because these policies tend to instil loyalty and conformity in workers who progress in said companies. Some would argue that heads of big corporations are altruistic souls who aspire to help the world.

Yeah, right!!!!! There may well be some of the elitist creeps who have fooled themselves into believing this rubbish. There are psychological explanations for such self deception.

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JC
JC
June 3, 2024 4:24 pm

Mexico just elected a female secular Jew as presidente.

Being Mexico, the cartels won’t be in any trouble. 🙂

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 4:44 pm

On the subject of Menzies’ forgotten people, I am old enough to remember actually agreeing with you lot that the right had a point about the left, specifically the leftist solution for technologically displaced workers who were told to learn how to code. So much so that I got an OP saying so published on the old Cat.

However, it has become clear over time that the right doesn’t have a solution for those people either. That was made bleeding obvious when the Libs waved sayonara to the auto industry.

The new Dutton pitch to these people seems to be blaming all of their problems on foreigners. That may work for crusty boomer retirees, but not as much for working-age millennials who grew up in a diverse, pluralist society, and can see through the nativist nonsense.

Albo actually has a real solution: rebuilding our manufacturing base with what we label in Australia as “industry policy”. This phrase is most often employed in our right-wing media as a pejorative, with elite pundits dating from the Cretaceous Period chuntering that it never works.

Except… China is currently using it to kick our arses. If we don’t reinvest in industrial capacity to secure a piece of new green tech sectors, we concede our future. Dutton is playing the wrong game, with rules set for him by donors who are on the other side.

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 4:46 pm

Gabor, the procession video for Corpus Christi in Granada was date stamped 30/5. The procession I watched was last night’s. The “float” was the one I saw and tried to describe.

The ladies in the tall comb mantillas didn’t feature because they weren’t there a couple of days ago. But they were there last night, with dark suited men, all carrying staffs of office.

And then there were the brass bands and drums.

Zippster
Zippster
June 3, 2024 4:49 pm
Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 4:54 pm

That was an interesting point about the ladies in mantilla and combs Calli, I’ve forgotten the special names for those combs though I did once know it.
They only appeared on Easter Sunday of the Easter processions too, when I was in Valladolid. The preceding week everyone was in penitent costumes, which makes perfect sense of course.

johanna
johanna
June 3, 2024 4:57 pm

Re TheirABC’s relentless undermining of the civilisation which enables its existence, did anyone notice that they have been running a series called ‘Stuff the British Stole’?

Not ‘stuff the Turks stole’ during the Ottoman Empire, or ‘stuff the Aztecs stole’ or ‘stuff the Romans stole’, to mention a few examples.

Apparently, throughout all of history, it is the British who were the worst, most destructive and morally repugnant conquerers.

The title alone is like a headline in a student newspaper.

Given their ever diminishing audience, the Coalition should not be afraid of getting in their collective face, not only in Estimates, but in Question Time and at every other opportunity.

The ‘Australia is racist’ thing was a cheap shot – here today, gone tomorrow. Culture wars are not won by one off embarrassments.

While thousands of Australians are homeless, and tens of thousands are on the brink, these wankers are receiving fat salaries and actively opposing the values of those who fund them – e.g. Da Voice.

The Coalition should announce that they are going to divert half of TheirABC’s budget – $550m or so – to putting roofs over the heads of Australians.

While they are at it, they need to get a team of top lawyers to rewrite the legislation. The typically gormless Coalition didn’t relaise that the legislation ensures that only the Collective controls TheirABC. Not the Minister, not the Board, and thanks to left wing stacking, management merely facilitate.

Like so many lazy and conflict-averse ‘conservatives’, they believed what they were told and voted for a structure which is Escheresque.

Just like their ‘complaints’ setup.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 3, 2024 4:59 pm

I’m amused that Monty has just written another five paragraphs of the most ridiculous green crud that ever has been excreted onto this blog.

Zippster
Zippster
June 3, 2024 5:01 pm
Black Ball
Black Ball
June 3, 2024 5:19 pm

FMD Tits Shorten.

More than 232,000 Australians struggling with the cost of living are waiting over three months to be approved for social security, welfare and health payments — of which a whopping 64,139 are waiting 200 days or longer.

The numbers refer to the time taken for the agency to process the applications for payments and get them approved so a regular payment can begin.

The exclusive figures come as the man responsible for handing out welfare support — Government Services Minister Bill Shorten — was revealed to have his own personal speechwriter costing the taxpayer an astronomical $620,000 over two years.

Julianne Stewart, who has written speeches for four former Prime Ministers and an ex-Qantas boss, was paid more than an MP to write speeches for Mr Shorten.

Since 1901, the House has sat for 67 days a year on average — meaning Ms Stewart’s salary equalled $4623 across 134 sitting days in two years.

Coalition government services spokesman Paul Fletcher said in the current economic climate, families needed applications to be processed “quickly and efficiently.”

“Vital Centrelink and Medicare claims are gathering dust under the Albanese Labor Government because there is zero focus on delivering great customer service,” Mr Fletcher said.

“Families are doing it tough and need claims processed quickly and efficiently. Instead, they are being subjected to an unacceptably slow system that makes life harder for them.”

Mr Fletcher said the figures failed the agency’s own timeliness standards but in a written response provided by Government Services Minister Bill Shorten to Mr Fletcher’s question, Mr Shorten said different claims had different waiting times and should not be measured against a 30 day deadline.

Spew worthy

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 5:22 pm

Cassie at 2:39:-

Of Farquharson’s guilt I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever.

Me neither.
Along with two juries and an appellate court.
This is why I object to this “expert panel” concept, reviewing “unsound verdicts”.
You can bet that they would have been beating the “Free Keli Lane” drum, but would decide that the Pell verdict was just fine. In other words, they would become the judicial arm of the ABC/SMH, but without the separation of powers.

johanna
johanna
June 3, 2024 5:42 pm

More than 232,000 Australians struggling with the cost of living are waiting over three months to be approved for social security, welfare and health payments — of which a whopping 64,139 are waiting 200 days or longer.

Well, they do have a problem with people called Ali Ali or Mohammed Ali or Ali Mohammed and so on.

That said, a big part of the problem is their determination to save money and get with the cool kids by doing everything online.

As part of the post war immigration cohort, my first name has been Anglicised. Many of my contemporaries had their surnames changed as well.

Rather like elderly people with chronic pain being treated like street junkies, decrepits like me are finding it impossible to use online services to access the many government benefits that are available to those who scam the refugee system, carer pension or the NDIS.

We have to compile documents (like my birth certificate in Holland in 1954 and my parents’ naturalisation certificate) and get certified copies and a whole bunch of other stuff and send it by certified snail mail and hope for the best, joining a queue of nearly a quarter of a million.

How the hell does Ali Ali with no documents get payments?

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 5:42 pm

Off to Cordoba today, so won’t get to see the golden church. But I will return to Granada if possible. Along with Oviedo, it’s the pick so far.

Muddy
Muddy
June 3, 2024 5:48 pm

It’s possibly my imagination, but on a Powerline article about former POTUS Trump visiting UFC 302, the linked footage begins with one of the Secret Service blokes seemingly eyeing an overweight local policeman.

It’s a reminder that potential assailants/assassins don’t necessarily look like obvious weirdos who easily stand out in a crowd. Infiltrating venue security, for example, would be an option for those so inclined.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 3, 2024 5:50 pm

Earlier:

Farquharson was/is no victim. Rather he was and remains a pathetic, weak, spineless and very nasty man. He set out to punish his wife, and punish her he did, by murdering their three children

The day following this triple murder, I was discussing the matter with an associate. He, as did I, at that time had at least one young child.

We both agreed that in that situation, where a car driven by one of us ended up in a dam and was sinking with children inside, that only two options were available:

  1. We all get out; or
  2. Nobody gets out.

Option 3, which is wandering off to a farm and asking for a durrie was not on the table.

calli
calli
June 3, 2024 5:50 pm

Speaking of everything done “on line”, we are now so wedded to our wretched dumbphones that churches are now using QR and your phone for commentary. Granada cathedral, for example. When we said we didn’t have our phone with us, we were met with a look of horror.

And don’t try to get a menu. QR and pictures of meals are the dish of the day.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 3, 2024 5:51 pm

Also earlier:

Remember egg_ster buying into the “saggy man, little red car” story?

Ah, the jelly man.

One of the great episodes in international blogging history.

Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 5:57 pm
Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 6:01 pm
Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 6:03 pm
MatrixTransform
June 3, 2024 6:27 pm

Also earlier:

KD, sancho … please try to keep the mutual wanking to a minimum

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 6:28 pm

Calli at 5:50

And don’t try to get a menu. QR and pictures of meals are the dish of the day.

Smartphone saved us in Japan.
Being able to walk in anywhere and point Gongle Translator at a menu or sign was a God-send.
And I quite liked the menu app where they had it. Where you wanted to order lots of little dishes (a bit like tapas or pinxtos in Spain) you can just press order.
There was one place where we were sitting up at the long bar along the open kitchen and I pressed the third re-order on the crispy spicy chicken drumsticky things. The chef looked at the ticket and turned around and looked at me as if to say “Really? Another one?”
I just shrugged and gave him the thumbs up.
He laughed.

Zippster
Zippster
June 3, 2024 6:29 pm

Albo actually has a real solution: rebuilding our manufacturing base with what we label in Australia as “industry policy”. 

never going to happen. Too much red tape, green tape, too much compliance work, wages way too high and often too complex to even calculate. Risk of unionisation is too great. Tax system is absurdly complex. Super, OH&S . Risk of sexual harassment claims. Directors risk are shockingly high. The list is endless.

I’ve had 4 companies out here to quote for replacing one of my ducted air-conds, 3 havent bothered to quote despite me pestering them for weeks and only one actually was honest, boss wont want to do it too much paperwork. What the living fuck has become of this country???

Manufacturing?? forget it!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 6:30 pm

“secure a piece of new green tech sectors”

It’s the way he tells em.

Crossie
Crossie
June 3, 2024 6:32 pm

The Coalition should announce that they are going to divert half of TheirABC’s budget – $550m or so – to putting roofs over the heads of Australians.

That won’t move them much, specify that it’s for aboriginal remote housing. Let them defend withholding that money.

Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 6:34 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 6:40 pm

Option 3, which is wandering off to a farm and asking for a durrie was not on the table.

Mmmyes.
Or wanting to get a lift into town to “break the news to the ex” rather than ringing 000 hoping that the CFA might find one or all of the kids in an air pocket in the car.
One of Nein’s “gotchas” was a woman who claimed she saw Farquharson’s car, but evidence shows that she was eating in Colac at the time of the murders.
How about this?
She actually saw the car on the road before the murders, but the c..t sat by the dam for an hour until the bubbles stopped, then strolled out to flag down a car and ask for a lift and a smoke.
Star reporter Nick McKenzie does his best to put Ben Roberts-Smith in jail, whilst simultaneously trying to spring a grub like Farquharson.

m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 6:41 pm

Government cannot pick winners. Ever.

Ah yes Alamak, the clarion call of the fusty old neoliberal.

China has blown that old furphy right out of the water. They not only picked winners, they manufactured the wins themselves. “Picking winners” presupposes that government is choosing between capitalist ventures. China’s controlled economy doesn’t bother with competition. State-backed enterprises are now dominating the small number of growth industries in modern economies.

What do the neoliberals have in response? Tired, obsolete ideology pushed by losers.

You lot faff on about right-wing populism and appealing to the working class, but you have nothing of policy substance to offer to displaced workers. Only racism and greater inequality.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 3, 2024 6:42 pm

please try to keep the mutual wanking to a minimum

Hang on. Let me just approach a control panel.

*flick*

Righto. Job done.

Roger
Roger
June 3, 2024 6:47 pm

NSW authorities are still pursuing monies owed by 3,628 children fined between 2020-22 for Covid-related offences.

The highest fine is $5K, most are $1K.

The political class wants to be forgiven, but is not willing to forgive.

Over to you, NSW Cats.

Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 6:49 pm

You can bet that they would have been beating the “Free Keli Lane” drum, but would decide that the Pell verdict was just fine. In other words, they would become the judicial arm of the ABC/SMH, but without the separation of powers.

Yep, I was just thinking eggastly the same thing this arvo. Oh and where are the penetrating investigations into the Pell Affair, or the Porter allegations……nothing, zero, nada.

As an aside, but related in the way the media are selective about who’s innocent and who’s not…..

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/child-sex-abuse-charges-against-qld-priest-david-lancini-dropped/103901084

I wonder what next for Ten, Seven, Nine and their ABC? Perhaps they’ll do a penetrating investigation into how Bevan Spencer von Einem might have been framed and be innocent? Spare me, but then again nothing surprises me.

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m0nty
m0nty
June 3, 2024 6:53 pm
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:09 pm

Oh dear Munty, you are a chump.
Murray Hogarth.
Tax sucking renewables chancer much beloved by the perpetually ignorant.
The Fifth Estate is more like a Chinese fifth column.

132andBush
132andBush
June 3, 2024 7:13 pm

Bruce of Newcastle

June 3, 2024 4:59 pm

I’m amused that Monty has just written another five paragraphs of the most ridiculous green crud that ever has been excreted onto this blog.

He, like the vast majority of his fellow travelers, live cocooned by the concrete jungle.
Completely ignorant of what is required to make things tick.

And what’s worse, no desire to comprehend anything more than empty slogans such as “Net Zero”.

The joint’s full of them.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:24 pm

Central Planning is all the rage in the suburban Soviet of Muntystan.

johanna
johanna
June 3, 2024 7:25 pm

My favourite ‘Hearing it for the first time’ guy Polo Mars. John Mayall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfwg_xKIatY

Polo is a black guy who grew up in Ohio and loved hip hop. He got out of his comfort zone and created this channel where he listens to everything and anything, luckily including good music of all kinds; been following him for a while, and he often says what I think and feel about music.

bons
bons
June 3, 2024 7:29 pm

Oh, oh, Adam Crieghton.

“If Trump is sentenced to a jail term it will be his fault for criticising the trial judge”.

On the Sunday night unwatchable ‘Jury’ show discussing Tingle’s behaviour one of the panel of ignorance announced “I would never like to see her lose her job”.

We’se stuffed.

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 3, 2024 7:31 pm

Why waste your time watching that rubbish?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:36 pm

Having identified the IPA as reactionaries we await Munty’s glorious defence of the revolution.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 7:39 pm

Hang on. Let me just approach a control panel.

*flick*

Righto. Job done.

Oops.
Just shit me dacks.
You are such a God Oracle, dude!

Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 7:45 pm
Rosie
Rosie
June 3, 2024 7:45 pm

Oh and what happened to Rudd’s Murdoch RC?

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
June 3, 2024 8:00 pm

Anyone see the great smackdown by James Macpherson of Tingling Cankles this evening? 24ct gold. Very interesting guy James Macpherson, certainly not a cocooned luvvie.

Vicki
Vicki
June 3, 2024 8:00 pm

Just by chance I learned that Energy Australia is not owned by an Australian company, but by a Chinese subsidiary. Out of curiosity I found that many other enterprises – including private hospitals are owned by Chinese companies. Would love to see a complete inventory of Chinese ownership of land, companies and other enterprises.

While, of course, foreign companies have owned much of Australia – land, commercial enterprises etc etc for a very long time. But in view of the current fractured relationship between this country and the CCP, I would think that we need to relook at their investment in certain sectors.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
June 3, 2024 8:00 pm

James Macpherson is filling in for Bolta for 5 weeks.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 8:03 pm

Lily D’Ambrosio told the Vic Energy Outlook meeting that they didn’t ban exploration or drilling for gas, it’s simply that there’s no gas to be found.
Nobody in the room believed her but there she stood bullshitting for Labor’s ‘lights out’ policy.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 8:08 pm

Labor’s running a back door Belt & Road Vicki.

Indolent
Indolent
June 3, 2024 8:09 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 8:09 pm

Lily D’Ambrosia is the dimmest bulb in the box of fly-shit speckled 40 watt bulbs which is the Liars cabinet.

132andBush
132andBush
June 3, 2024 8:10 pm

In “where you’ve got livestock, you’ve got deadstock” news:

My wife keeps a good mob of chooks and about late Jan, early Feb, one of them went down with a gammy leg (curled back under), couldn’t get around and was in danger of being pecked to bits by the rest of them.

In spite of my offer to wring its neck she stuck it in a cage, cut a sling with leg holes out of an old tea towel so the legs could stretch out and somehow nursed it back to relatively full health.

She’s had a pretty good time since, down on the grass in the sun most days and crapping over the back porch incessantly.

Anyhow, half an hour ago the bird had an enormous fit and my wife wrapped her up and brought her inside where, as a just run hot bath turned rather luke warm, “Chookie” slowly expired in her lap.

I think it’s the almond tree earmarked for this one.
Or the lemon…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 3, 2024 8:11 pm

Dealing with grifters, and the self entitled.

“Rent? Rent? You’ve got this house standing empty, you should let me and my family live here for nothing!”

Words fail me, they honestly vooking do!

cohenite
June 3, 2024 8:26 pm

The same party that sent Pelosi to Taiwan? With Austin in Singapore saying that China is firmly in their sights? Come on now.

Pelosi and Austen will get those chunks shaking in their clogs.

  • The Biden administration has eroded trust and damaged U.S. credibility on the global stage even further than it already had done after surrendering Afghanistan and allowing China to kill more than a million Americans with Covid-19, or poisoning to death more than 80,000 Americans each year with fentanyl, or permitting China to commit massive espionage and intellectual property theft with no consequences at all.
  • Biden’s decision has projected an image of weakness rather than leadership, further tarnishing America’s reputation as a steadfast defender of the free world. Instead, the Biden administration is seen globally as siding with terrorists — the Taliban in Afghanistan, the terror-funding Qataris, the genocidal Communist government of China, and the annual winner of the world’s top, largest, leading “state sponsor of terrorism,” Iran.

Trump put china in it’s box by personalising Xe and then attacking china’s trade and technology theft. More than anything he showed the chunks he meant business. China treats the current US leaders like they treat our handsome boy.

Zippster
Zippster
June 3, 2024 8:28 pm

Albo actually has a real solution: rebuilding our manufacturing base with what we label in Australia as “industry policy”. 

never going to happen. Too much red tape, green tape, too much compliance work, wages way too high and often too complex to even calculate. Risk of unionisation is too great. Tax system is absurdly complex. Super, OH&S . Risk of sexual harassment claims. Directors risk are shockingly high. The list is endless.

I’ve had 4 companies out here to quote for replacing one of my ducted air-conds, 3 havent bothered to quote despite me pestering them for weeks and only one actually was honest, boss wont want to do it too much paperwork.

What the living f#ck has become of this country???

Manufacturing?? forget it!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 3, 2024 8:32 pm

Told the Hockey Mums that I thought it’s a bit of a w*nk to call my dog a “rescue”.
“Oh what should we call her then, Wal? A stray, a pound dog? That’s all a bit American.”
“A Stolen Generations puppy.”
Oooooh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Looks like won’t be having the end of season wind-up at our place this year.

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