many detailed the complex planning and math involved in budgeting and buying the right amount and types of food, and…
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You never used ‘time machine’ earlier when I raised Iraq and WMDs? Sure I have, but what I said was…
I don’t suppose the Taxi Driver took home much of a lesson from the incident? Arseholes never do – they…
To set the record straight the Rasmussen poll reportElection 2024: Trump 47%, Harris 46% as at 5 Sept 2024.https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/election_2024_trump_47_harris_46
Only if they have a supplier of the missiles and associated gear. Ignore them, cut off the suppliers.
oneth!
Air hellair!
Triploid!
quatre
fiffth!
5th but 1st with MAGA nostalgia ..
https://youtu.be/uWPIN4uzXgk
but remember if you’re not first then you’re LAST!!!
Noice.
That painting is horrible. The devil on his throne in hell.
It looks to me like the king’s portrait artist was fantasising about killing him.
Hands look a little weird on that pic of Chaz.
I guess its some sort of comment on the evils of late-stage capitalism … and the double plus evils of the patriarchy.
From the previous OT;
Another symptom of Sicktoria. After the tyranny inflicted on Victorians by Vikplod during covid, a reasonably sane population would have hated them deeply since 20/21. But only now some 3 years later does their performance become an issue.
It has indeed. It’s a Marxist insanity in league with Islamic barbarism.
Take the picture of the four women, and put it within ANY other context, and the world would just about universally condemn it.
But because the perpetrators are Muslim, it is accepted and even encouraged by some.
Pauline Nails it. Thredbo at Michael Smith’s site https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/pauline-hanson-please-explain-the-man-from-snowy-hydro.html
I don’t need any opportunity to engage in yet another anti-ALPBC pile-on, you stupid arrogant bovine bint. Its mere existence is opportunity enough.
*shingles
An interesting one to watch:
Swiss renewable energy battle moves to the ballots (TechXplore, 6 Jun)
The elites in Bern and Zurich vs the proles everywhere else…get out popcorn! Rarely do the poor put-upon voters get asked about such things, so like Brexit the chance of a nice surprise is real.
For those feeling the urge to engage in yet another anti-ALPBC pile-on …
Sydney chemicals manufacturer Indorama to close its Botany plant.
How are we going to be a “renewable energy superpower” without an industrial base?
The quiet, but constant sounds of “Are you listening?” emanating from the peasants may just be breaking through the “Cone of Ignorance” that the media continues to employ.
Broome astronomer, tour guide and TV star Greg Quicke, known as ‘Space Gandalf’, dies aged 62.
Far too young.
That could have been a decent portrait, given that the artist at least produced a likeness of his subject (fat fingers and all) – something few Archibald entrants seem capable of doing – before mixing up the crimson.
…and it will be yet another nail in the coffin of patience in a long suffering people.
“How does one go bankrupt? Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.”
“How does one enter a civil war? Slowly at first, then all of a sudden.”
And those who have continually pissed on the people, thinking that they would do nothing, are still surprised every time they get thrown into the tumbrils, or propped against a wall like that Ceausescu chappy and his missus. They never learn.
Please Explain: The Man From Snowy Hydro.
“That could have been a decent portrait”
My thoughts exactly Roger, it’s a good likeness, unlike the dreadful amateurish portrait of the Princess of Wales.
So simple
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1798746367214641550?t=H9WSMCszXMI-6fVOOutW8Q&s=19
And surprise.
When people call for a ceasefire they really just mean for Israel to lay down its weapons and if they are lucky, get back the bodies of the remaining hostages in exchange for all the hamas terrorists they have captured, then the west can rearm hamas so they can do a bigger and better 7 October.
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1798780721420550229?t=mXyoM6uza523Gg78T5UzsQ&s=19
And the UAE
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1798250178954088475?t=tsbHRObbNc1MnafeV3sJbg&s=19
Ftb, you asked yesterday or the day before whether the strike on the Iron dome battery was old news, real news, or fake news. It appears it’s real news.
Yes, it’s real fake news.
If the video doesn’t show aftermath then it didn’t happen.
Not even haaretz said it’s a cert.
No, it’s real news, Rosie. If you see video of the drone incoming on the battery and then the following picture its confirmed.
Welcome to WA … where the police now make the law as well as carry it out.
“ It is incumbent upon the WA Police Force, as the responsible regulator under both the existing Act and the impending Bill, to ensure that existing licences and new applications are assessed appropriately and that consistent decisions are made that achieve the required public safety outcomes.
You are currently licensed to hold [More than 5] Rec/Hunt/Shoot and applying for an additional one.
Your application is of a nature that will be directly impacted by the provisions of the Bill and its associated regulations. If your application was granted, the Bill, when passed into law, would highly likely result in the immediate reversal of any decision to grant this application.”
Dear Sir,
I have proposed legislation that would reduce your pay by 50% when passed. Please be assured that treasury will be taking this impending legislation into account when paying your salary – we would not like to have to demand a refund from you for any potential over-payment, and will therefore be immediately reducing your salary as paid.
Not happy about that?
Don’t really blame you.
Perhaps you can understand then why I want you to do your duty under the law as it pertains at the time, not as it may pertain at some future and unspecified time, and certainly not before all the appropriate rules and regulations associated are finalised and in place.
If you should refuse to accept my application without a valid legal reason under the current legislation, be assured that this will result in appropriate legal actions, which may include disciplinary action against you personally.
If you wish to play stupid games, you can certainly win stupid prizes. I would prefer that you did not play such games and simply follow current law, as is your duty under the oath you have taken.
Thank you and have a nice day.
I promise you the painting merely stylistically reflects his avowed wish to be Camilla’s tampon. ?
The artist got the hands right. I noticed their shape at the coronation when Charles was signing something. I think it indicates some medical condition or disease though I can’t think of it at the moment.
I have unashamedly copied this from Jo Nova’s blog. The news is too good not to be seen by our bloggers.
Major fight against cashless revolution threatens Aussies with $25,000 fine
Australian businesses and companies could soon cop huge fines if they don’t accept or carry cash. Politicians Andrew Gee and Bob Katter have introduced a bill that aims to keep physical money in circulation.
With the rise of digital payments and wallets, the use of cash has been declining rapidly over the last few years. But plenty of Aussies still love and depend on cash and they’ve told Yahoo Finance the slow transition to a more cashless society is impacting their ability to pay for essentials.
Gee and Katter’s bill hopes to prevent that from happening.
The Keeping Cash Transactions in Australia Bill 2024 was submitted to parliament this week and the MPs believe it’s “crucial in protecting the availability and acceptance of cash payments across the nation”.
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“Many people, across both my electorate of Calare and around our great country, hold concerns and fears that the use of cash for transactions in Australia is being phased out and will soon disappear,” said Gee said.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/major-fight-against-cashless-revolution-threatens-aussies-with-25000-fine-231536295.html
God save the King.
“Australian businesses and companies could soon cop huge fines if they don’t accept or carry cash. “
I was under the impression this was already the case – that a public facing business cannot refuse to accept legal tender (cash). Am I wrong?
“God save the King.”
Because nothing will save the Prime Minister!
Vivat! Vivat Rex!
Although he has lived pretty long already. But still, if he makes the likes of Pirate Pete groan and squint in constipated pain then, yeah, long live the King.
I actually think the portrait is pretty good. Maybe a different background would have worked better, but I think the face and hands are really well done, as is the uniform, livery, sword, etc. And the butterfly is a nice touch too.
Dover, are you trying to give us nightmares with that “painting”?
I posted a few items at the end of the old thread, before noticing the new one, if anyone is interested.
Someone earlier was incredulous that Victorians are only now becoming hostile to their police force. But I don’t doubt that – even if it is astonishing.
We have well educated and delightful friends (even if they are lefties!) who last night told us that they were unaware that there was an epidemic (so to speak) of home invasions in Qld and Victoria. Well, blow me down. And they quite sceptical when we said thousands of people had protested in the streets of Brisbane over the issue.
Honestly, some people live cocooned lives and just don’t read the news.
Retiring Defence Chief Campbell Leaves Military in a Mess – Malcolm Roberts (malcolmrobertsqld.com.au)
How about green instead of red?
It was fun that the artist got Chinese painters to do all those leaves. Subcontracting artists are a thing! Maybe that’s a service Archibald artists could draw upon.
Meanwhile the artist himself is in the wars:
Obama presidential portrait artist accused of sexual assault in Instagram post (21 May)
There you go, not only was Obama’s portrait artist a Chinese-exploiting black guy, he also is gay. My PC bingo card just melted.
And not to be outdone, this pustule in the US:
The Silent Insurrection: General Milley’s Hand on January 6 (declassified.live)
Terrible Obama portrait. It’s way too photographic. Just compare the above to Obama’s. The skill of the former is an order of magnitude or two above Obama’s.
Dad used to call him a “butterfly watcher” when all the fawning stuff started about his green leanings.
His expression reminds me strongly of the old Duke. The red background is a stupid distraction – the artist had a gazillion choices and just got lazy.
I like the portrait.
Rosie I think in places like the UAR and Saudi are only one firebrand Imam away from the rulers being deposed. The general populace are pootly educated and pay more attention to the Imams than the rulers. Its in the rulers own interest to keep a lid on them.
Where is Michael Mosley? A real whodunnit. However, I suspect that as with the late actor Julian Sands, who disappeared in the San Gabriel Mountains whilst hiking, Mosley went for a long hike alone, slipped and has died.
I took six months before other hikers stumbled upon the remains of Sands.
When the Gulf War was over and the Iraqi’s left the oil fields aflame they tried to get Red Adair to put out the fires. He wasn’t available so sent his Irish cousin, Green Adair instead. His Lockheed C130 landed in the desert near the fires, the loading door came down and Green Adair drove his Landrover out over to the contingent waing for him. He drove straight past into the flames over the well and put out the first fire. When he drove back to the waiting contingent they were absolutely amazed and asked what he was going to to next. “Get the brakes on the Landrover fixed”.
Opinion polls showing another Labor victory in Victoria.If I could I would leave
Opinion polls showing another Labor victory in Victoria.If I could I would leave
Might help if there was an opposition in Victoria.
I must be one of the only ones that doesn’t mind the portrait of King Charles. Reds a strong emotive colour if I interpret it as encompassing the history of the Monarchy but not so much Charles his back drop should have been windmills and solar farms a weather vane and a brussel sprout.
When I see the Charles portrait I am reminded of the 90’s movie Spawn.
Heading to the football at Docklands later and they only do EFTPOS
“No, it’s real news, Rosie. If you see video of the drone incoming on the battery”
Really israel havent confirmed any damage but someone with access to a secure area released a photo?
seems likely.
My dentist left Sydney during the COVID years.
Since then I’ve been using the BUPA dentists.
I went today for a check up and clean, all covered by my policy.
I don’t know how a new dentist can start up today and not work for one of the health insurers or one of the dental chains.
Sicktoria indeed. In set your jaw on the floor noos, Hun:
I’d put it on the Ambos to dispense of these animals. Then bill these idiots for wasting their time.
My optometrist has given everyone notice that he’s leaving Sydney too.
I suppose I’ll give the BUPA optometrist a go as well.
Same goes with a new optometrist.
How do you start if you don’t work for the big guys.
Remarkably light damage if it were the real macoy.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1798783445256020232?t=rfL_V9IO2xQcH8IzaKv0Hg&s=19
GreyRanga,
Regarding Blondie, you might like this photo of Ms Harry singing( you may have seen it before).
I recall parasites on the welfare gravy train in NSW were using Ambos as taxis
Drones don’t have large payloads but the damage to the tubes of that launcher is considerable. And I’m not surprised Israel isn’t rushing out to confirm the strike.
End of an era.
The salubrious Cafe penthouse has just fallen off the tree. The plywood support plate rotted, and the Indian Mynahs had filled it full of sticks and rubbish, so the extra weight was too much.
Good run, the nest box gave rise to five kooka kids, including these two. Then the kookas lost interest and the mynahs moved in last year, having five kids of their own.
Thus endeth the great war between the Mynahs and the Kookas, which was pretty full on at times.
There Is A Fatal Flaw At The Heart Of The Left’s Lawfare Strategy
Dinesh D’Souza
That cartoonish portrait of Tim Winton won the Archies.
Fair dinkum the woke left are scum. Poor Gaynor:
So what is my crime?
Well, in November last year, a Greens candidate at the recent Brisbane City Council elections threatened a large family because they opposed a gay pride parade through the local children’s park on a busy Sunday afternoon (as it turned out a gay pervert exposed himself to children during the parade – this occurred right in front of police yet no action was taken). This Greens candidate published photos of the family’s home and address online and urged gay activists from all over South East Queensland to show up at their house before the ‘Pride March’.
Please note that all of this has to do with stuff that happened in Brisbane. Which is in Queensland.
I helped to organise local men to defend this family’s home.
While ‘Dykes on Bikes’ did show up at the family’s home, the gay mob was scared off by the Rosary beads and prayers of about 50 men who stood guard outside it.
For sharing a video about this, I now face a $100,000 fine in New South Wales.
Yes, the rainbow New South Wales ‘Thought Police’ seemingly don’t have the time or inclination to do anything about the Islamic extremists publicly calling to ‘Gas the Jews’ outside the Sydney Opera House. But they are prepared to invade Queensland and harass Catholics because they stop gay mobs turning up at family homes.
Like I said: this is cuckoo land.
He needs financial assistance:
I need your help.
Please.
On Wednesday I was back in court. For the 43rd time. At the hands of the NSW ‘Thought Police’ and a vexatious gay activist Gary Burns
This latest complaint is crazy and I provide details below.
But right now, I need you to know that I am facing defeat for the first time. Not because I have done anything wrong. But because I can no longer afford to defend myself. After beating 42 malicious complaints designed to bankrupt me, I am now at the edge.
I have no ammunition left for this battle. I simply have no money left. Next week I do not know how I will feed my family or pay my rent, let alone pay for my ongoing legal fees.
I cannot explain fully how stressful the last few weeks have been for me and my wife.
It was with your help that I was able to defend myself from the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal all the way to the High Court of Australia.
So I turn to you again with hope. It is all I can do. If I am to defend myself against this latest complaint it will once again be because of the generosity of people like you.
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I found Tim Winton’s stuff unreadable.
@DC_Draino
Gary Burns is the serial (pest) litigator who has been targeting Bernard Gaynor for years now.
Truly, Burns is sewer scum.
Hillary Clinton blasted over ‘sick and disgusting’ D-Day anniversary post
Daily Mail.
Just when you think the lesbian bitch can’t go any lower,. there’s that.
You wonder what sort of a home could incubate such a foul creature
Delta A
Strap in. ( :
LYNCHY launches BURNOUT MASTERS by POWERCRUISE USA at WESTEN CHAMPLIN’s Kansas compound!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8y-OYtCQM
poor Ambos
so hard-done-by
the local Ambos, while we were locked down and they were still getting paid,
got together and themed a new cafe in the local village shopping strip
they put it under management
styled the food
and staffed it with tattooed Arts Grads
just the concept of it gives me indigestion
I wonder what they’ll do with their $5600 dollar gift from Vik Govt?
…poor struggling Ambos can hardly concentrate on their jobs
Franchising. Strangely, he’s sticking to the Obama model.
Opinion: Congress agreed on something bipartisan — and Biden vetoed it
JC
June 7, 2024 5:18 pm
The Victorian Liberal party is NOT an opposition party, it simply consists of a motley group of MPs that are a reflection pond to Victorian Labor. To be fair though, this ‘reflection’ is a common problem endemic to state Liberal parties.
The Oz has a column up on Albo & Bowen approving small scale modular reactors.
But for other countries.
Not Australia.
Danger Dan Reviews:
I’ve been so busy! Anthony Albanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oP6ywfADj8
Further to Burns and Gaynor, just like the cock in frock aka ‘Roxanne Tickle’ in the ‘Tickle v Giggle’ case, Garry Burns uses taxpayer funded statutory organisations like the AHRC and state equivalents to pursue legal action against people like Gaynor and Sall Grover. He (and Tickle) have doing it for years.
You couldn’t make this shit up, except it’s real.
And you might ask what successive state and federal Liberal governments have done about this problem and these perverts? Instead of shutting down these mendacious and malicious organisations, no, nup, nyet, they’ve indulged them, particularly under that sleaze bucket here in NSW, the now opposition leader called Mark Sleazeman. He was Attorney-General under Baird and Gladslag for years, and he did nothing to rein in the likes of Burns.
Little Wednesday?
From the Old Thread
Sancho Panzer
June 7, 2024 12:12 pm
Vicki
June 7, 2024 7:41 am
I disagree.
The fact that he couldn’t stand up to JW and Hyacinth Howard and challenge means he didn’t have the balls for the job.
I understand the thinking behind these type of comments on Peter Costello.
In Paul Keating’s case he demonstrated to the caucus that he would stop at nothing to dethrone Hawke, including destroying the government. Which led to Button and others to go to Hawke telling him his time was up.
IMO, a pretty usual state of affairs in governments of both sides.
Perhaps a way of viewing Costello’s decision to not destroy the government over the top job was his joint contribution (with Howard) to the success of the government over a number of years. Also, the party room made it clear to Costello that they believed the myth the Howard had won all those elections off his own bat, and so would never vote for Costello.
So my alternate view is that Costello was loyal to the government and that he wasn’t prepared to wreck the government just because Howard started to think it was Howard that had won all those elections.
I’d say it will work out just fine.
Right up until the very first team gets slaughtered by a methed up looney.
It’s indescribably awful, yet still sums up that preposterous inbred collectivist Bourbon style imbecile ‘orribly well.
As for the cronks and his owls, enough – here are some real young womanages, shaking their taut li’l derrieres … 🙂
Here in sunny QLD, the LNP’s alternative premier has just endorsed Labor’s upcoming budget despite not having read it.
In the interest of stability, he says.
Stability in this case means a predicted $3bn deficit “going forward”.
What’s the point of an election then?
“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
Mike Tyson.
A Friday Night R ‘n’ R blast, Cats
Turn it up to eleventy … 🙂
And surprise.
When people call for a ceasefire they really just mean for Israel to lay down its weapons and if they are lucky, get back the bodies of the remaining hostages in exchange for all the hamas terrorists they have captured, then the west can rearm hamas so they can do a bigger and better 7 October.
All of the terrorists involved in an exchange, need to spend 20 minutes each with the Elastorator, so they can never again feel the urge to rape.
Will they be damaged by it, sure, just like the hostages are being damaged, do you think they will be returned in pristine condition?
Consequences ..
Go to eleventy one for an anthem:
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
This:
Paul McCartney leads tributes as legendary music mogul who discovered Queen dies aged 78 (5 Jun)
He will do the fandango no more, but thanks Tony for all the wonderful music you brought to us.
I’m reminded of the State Departments spokeswoman replying:
“At this point what does it matter?” as if it was yesterdays news and not worthy of our attention.
This rolling boulder continues to gather extra coatings…
According to the resident experts my last cute owl was AI generated. She was flawless but here is the real deal; even her flaws are tops:
(2629) Pinterest
“democracy” is a bust, Rog.
Opining on this for many, many years, I have been.
Humans are incapable of governing themselves.
Sooner or later, it all goes ‘orribly wrong.
If that failure doesn’t end up in mounds of skulls, the threat is always there.
Democracy not being the solution, but the problem.
The “voting for some other wallee’s stuff conundrum”*.
Not to mention that “thou shalt not covet thy neighbore’s woife**.
*ad infinitum
**Yeah, good luck with that, which I cannot go with, I tells ya … 😕
I laughed
https://x.com/dahrinoor2/status/1798826316965552383?t=ARIX2u10te38TiHVusaZxQ&s=19
Flamin’ Groovies Slow Death
Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer
another franchise ruined
Tom – we’ve been virtual mates for many moons, but I must disagree with you about democracy – it always reaches its lowest common denominator, whereupon it severely impedes human progress and enables totalitarian authority figures.
As much as I hate to admit it, a military dictatorship without a parliament appears to make the most sense*.
That way, the market can work its magick, unimpeded.
*For example, Thailand 2019 – I was there – the place was awesome. Not a soldier to be seen, as well. 🙂
Cohenite made me do this:
https://youtu.be/lqgN6lXZb9A?si=GqXIPHOobpEOAfr9
Hong Kong Money – that precious territory and the industrious western Chinese residing there as well – handed over to the evil chinese communists (BIRM) with barely a whimper, by those stupid english labore shitheads, ignoring the inevitable human rights abuses …
But yeah, western democracy … 😡
Well there’s always this option.
The Man Who Would Be King – Maurice Jarre (1975)
Just don’t let anyone called Charles onto your throne.
I’m just rewatching last night’s Sharri Markson show on Sky News.
It turns out the Paywallian’s Liam Mendes, who physically clashed with former treasurer and Nine network chairman Peter Costello, was a researcher on Markson’s last book, so Sharri is all in defending Mendes.
Markson has roped in the Paywallian’s media reporter Sophie Elsworth to agree with her, but these media types are in denial about how poorly journalism and journalists like Mendes are regarded by the great unwashed.
The Paywallian blocked reader comments on the Costello story earlier today because it instinctively knew the plebs would side with Costello.
Once again, journalism and journalists have been exposed as not giving a shit about the public interest, in my opinion, but are simply trying to defend their status as official arbiters of political truth.
The plebs shouldn’t be allowed to make up their own minds about the stories of the day without the guidance of journalists.
It’s Friday so some titles for the jaded with an historical flavour:
An Essay upon Wind, Cramps and Turgidity, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Persons’ Flatulence and Sly Victuals. (1787)
The Adventures Of An Irish Smock, Interspersed With Whimsical Anecdotes Of A Nankeen Pair Of Breeches and a Soiled Leglet. (1783)
Moles and their Meaning: Being a Modernised and Easy Guide to the Ancient Science of Divination by the Moles of the Human Body (1807)
How to Ride a Velocipede: Straddle a Saddle, Then Paddle and Skedaddle (1869)
Mighty shoulders and generally sound on most topics.
She especially detests labore politicians*.
*As we all do.
What? Of course they shouldn’t.
Pearls before swine, and all that. Now, if one doesn’t mind, I must direct Jenkins to retrieve another Chateau d’Yquem from the cellar, the dozy commoner.
Be grateful Knuckles, if you’d had a basement Jenkins could have appeared with a Mutley.
err, are we allowed to viscerally hate both entities described above?
I certainly do.
Tom, this is from 1981…
Here Is the News – ELO
Melanie thinks WW111 will start in Israel rather than Ukraine; although I think it’s an even bet:
The Middle East’s fateful moment – Melanie Phillips (substack.com)
Alternate lyrics to the Bee Gees songs. 😀
https://x.com/CardioFixer/status/1798207003384574161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1798471225968386250%7Ctwgr%5E10412c0599f3d79f290d97d75017613dfb5a649b%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Speaking of mis hearing the lyrics;
“Paul Young: “Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you.” (Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.)
ABBA: “See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen.” (See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen.)
The Eurythmics: “Sweet dreams are made of cheese” (Sweet dreams are made of these.)
Johnny Nash: “I can see clearly now, Lorraine is gone” (I can see clearly now the rain is gone.)
Bon Jovi: “It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not” (It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not.)
Selena Gomez: “I’m farting carrots” (I’m 14 carat.)
Queen: “Kicking your cat all over the place” (Kicking you can all over the place.)
Kings of Leon: “Oh, dyslexics on fire” (Oh this sex is on fire.)
Sister Sledge: “Let me just staple the vicar” (Let me state for the record.)
Will Smith: “Kick a chicken with it” (Getting jiggy with it.)
Elton John: “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” (Hold me closer tiny dancer.)”
Off and up the yellow brick road, Cats – we don’t need no re-Ron, I tells ya!
Going down for the third time under the third degree, like a Saturday morning cartoon show, featuring this young womanage … 🙂
Postcard from Rome
Rome has one of the problems of some big cities, which is that the detractions it brings upon itself almost outweigh its attractions. Here it’s beggars and (warnings of) pickpockets, and sadly graffiti everywhere, as well as those horrible big garbage collection “tanks” which sit everywhere on the streets surrounded by rubbish either not put in them properly or which has overflowed.
We are right in the middle of central Rome – about a kilometre’s walk from the Colosseum; six from the Vatican. Our apartment on the second floor has a tram line right outside and they are old and thunderous (but our windows are double glazed). Added to that are the local drivers who match their enthusiasm for zippy driving with their happiness at leaning on the hornin including the ambulance. Our building is old and handsome – ex-family home with their paraphernalia and furnishings.
The weather is perfect – sunny about 25-30 in the daytime with no rain, falling to maybe 20 at night. There are cafes with fair to excellent food everywhere, and we are a minute’s walk from what apparently is Rome’s best gelato. It is in an echoing huge hall-like enterprise from 1880 where you pay a bloke for your choice and he gives you a ticket. Mrs TE paid for one in a cone – which turned about to be 2 huge scoops for 2 euros. I got a cup of two flavours and surprisingly, the waitress took mine to a mixer and blended them together before I knew what was happening. As there were about 100 flavours presumably that is to allow the customers to experiment for years on end.
We have toured the Colosseum and the Forum fairly extensively, paying extra “skip the lines.” The guides were very knowledgeable. As I am doing a ship-talk on “How the Colosseum worked” I was hoping to do a tour of the subterranean sections. However, should have investigated earlier. The authorities have cut many of the specialized tours by 75% – due to safety and continuing archeology digs – so they are well booked up. Apparently, there is a vigorous discussion going on about how tourism damages all these places. At 22,000 visitors a day to this one it’s understandable.
Mrs TE noted at the supermarket the staff all wore white coats – very quaint. You have to weigh your own fruit and veg – quality very good. Prices reasonable, but wait till we move on to Switzerland…
Vatican to come, and then on a ship to Athens via Crete and Turkey.
Perfect lead into this one:
Alex The Seal – Spiderbait (1996)
Remarkably they never included this excellent track on an album. Maybe they were afraid of being sued by the Go Gos.
If you strike me down, I shall come back even stronger.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C74cq5uATem/?e=ecee3db3-15dc-4ca8-83ad-b0e7ef7c0b54&g=5
Anyway, all the best to most of you, on the Cat.
An excellent meal – Mme Zulu is taking an interest in cooking and food, for the first time in some time – washed down with a couple of glasses of very fine Shiraz, a log fire, a leather armchair, a decanter of single malt and a good book.
Life as a self funded retiree is HELL!
Make sure you have sound.
Almost peed myself. 😀
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5F0q6fosBX/?e=64c40436-0a07-4ea7-b8f3-747bbf56df99&g=5
one move, one square … https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/2562124
hey, BoN – Superstylin‘ … 🙂
Bill Shorten getting satirised in the Hobart Mercury:
Draft speech for Bill Shorten’s by his new (much cheaper) speechwriter
Dear Australia,
I really, really love the NDIS. But what I really, really don’t like are all those spivs and shonks in the system ruining my life and this wonderful scheme.
The NDIS has been a lifeline for all those with a disability – regardless of how many crooks enjoy a luxury lifestyle on the back of your hard earned dollars.
But what I want you to know is that for the past two years I have been getting the NDIS back on track. That was until this annoying John Dardo guy, chief of integrity or something, told everyone how really, really bad it is.
Apparently, NDIS cash is being spent on heroin and ice and every other drug available.
‘You name it, you can get it,’ he says.
And, if that’s not bad enough, taxpayers’ money is also being splurged on alcohol, prostitutes, holidays and new cars.
That’s outrageous. It is illegal. It must stop.
People say I should have known how bad it was, but it’s not my fault.
For one, it wasn’t in any of my speeches, so how was I to know? All I know is that I am getting the NDIS back on track. (Editing note – emphasise the repetition).
Some people may say I should have sorted this out by now. Yes, I have been in the job 24 months.
But I want to make it very clear, this is all the fault of the Coalition.
It is very unfair to blame me.
Again, as I have said hundreds of times since starting the job 738 days ago, I am getting the NDIS back on track and I will put an end to these rorts, which now appear to have risen to $2 billion a year.
That’s nothing compared to the $40b a year it costs to run the thing.
And don’t try and link me to that very expensive speechwriter. I’ve now got a new, much cheaper one.
Link
Topical soccer match coming up on 11 June.
Australia vs Palestine.
You can see where I’m going with this already, can’t you.
At full time better check the Aussies still have all their eye sockets intact.
Maybe some mobile SAM sites to watch out for Paramotor M0nty.
Okay, fine, #notallpalis
Many thanks to Michael Smith.
Tom Jones sings a ballad at Normandy.
Damn good for an 84 year old.
I have some dust in my eye…
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/2nd-world-war-baby-tom-joness-85th-birthday-today-lest-we-forget.html
Dear Ozzies,
I really, really love the NDIS. But what I really, really love is bonking my my mistress, who is the CEO of a not for profit that receives hundreds of thousands dollars in taxpayers’ money per year!
But yeah, we’ll soon be off to Paris on a fully taxpayer funded sinecure, for evah!
Sucked in wage slaves! 🙂
Yours,
Teats Peanuthead
FFS, Emily, that is an awful photograph – you look so much better in this one…
Just look at that stupid goil … 🙂
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/linda-burney-resurfaces-because-too-much-is-never-enough.html
Adam Creighton has good article up at The Oz. Comments open.
Former CDC chief Dr Robert Redfield has blasted Covid-19 vaccine mandates, lockdowns as a ‘terrible mistake’.
Cats might like to prepare themselves for the planet axis altering denials.
I am not a liar, not a hypocrite, a very flawed human being and fed up with ignoring blatant hypocrisy.
If that renders me a supposedly bad or dangerous person, then here I am not giving a rodent’s backside … 🙂
Trying not to lie and/or be a hypocrite has presented the main challenges in my existence on this planet, cats.
You can’t lecture young peoples about being a hypocrite or engaging in criminal activities if they know who you are – they have that sixth sense.
Which they deserve …
Opinion polls showing another Labor victory in Victoria.
The last opposition leader in Victoria with a skerrick of media presence was Jeff Kennett in the late 1990’s.
The Liberals in Victoria are a non entity and deservingly so…
Is she really going out with him?
Named – you braindead lamestream meeja morons (BIRM) …
Helping Disadvantaged People News:
Nooooo. They would never.
Miss Maggie
Miss Emily
The top one has it all over the other …
Miss Ellie – blasting imposter goils into outer space … 🙂
Neil Oliver: ‘…a storm is coming!’
Floating down the Hudson
The man at his bombastic best … 🙂
We don’t get time to watch Rita at 11.30 weeknites but do catch up with extracts from her show at 9.30 Friday if we are home for Lefties Losing It. It’s mingled with some non-lefties doing well etc.
Tonight she showed the Trump footage from his visit/s to New Jersey. The scene where the black boxer races straight to Trump to give him a big tick of approval as he picks his winning self up from the canvas is one for the ages.
Hope they use it in the campaign ads. New Jersey workers, males especially, black and white, overwhelmingly for Trump, hero of the working class now.
You just get the feeling that the NDIS heat on Short’n has come at just the right time for Giles.
Although it would be a perfect alignment of Labor cock-ups if it turns out one of Giles “tag and release” country shoppers is running an NDIS scam.
I see the signs of a lifetime …
What if it’s not meant for me … ?
Delta A
June 7, 2024 8:05 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Oh,my goodness, Steve! I think I would faint if strapped in to that little blue car.* Or throw up – chances are 50/50.
BTW, what car is it? Looks like a Camry from what I saw of it, although my old Camry never performed like that.
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Flashback.
Toyota Corolla my dear. Running on methanol.
WILDEST Burnouts Ever, in a 600hp Corolla!? Lynchy Goes Insane With Help from ULEGAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4MDgigN6o
Canada takes the lead in the race to peak human stupidity.
Canadian Cancer Society Apologizes to Alphabet Soup Brigade for Using ‘Cervix’ Instead of ‘Front Hole’
From my inbox
By Lisa Kristine
It took over 2,000 years and countless human lives sacrificed to construct The Great Wall of China that winds across the country’s deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus.
Unfathomably stretching approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) from east to west, the ancient, serpentine structure is like a dragon or snake that slumbers undisturbed upon the land.
That is, until it was fractured, when two people in the Shanxi province were arrested for allegedly using an excavator to dig a shortcut in the wall. Attempting to reduce their daily commute, they caused what officials have called “irreversible damage” to the Ming-era wall.
Which caused me to think about this wall that was originally built to prevent enemies from Mongolia from invading northern regions in China. Instantly, the wall was more than a structure between two dynasties at war. Its meaning expanded beyond a barrier that is, remarkably, a pure, artistic, iconic landscape sculpture I had visited while making images to share with the world.
The wall, revealing its vulnerability, became a symbol of fragility and precious in its value. Like trust, which takes so many years to build, both can be destroyed in mere minutes.
A historic landmark like China’s Great Wall represents also a source of security, durability, ever-present beauty. It is a demonstration of human commitment and cooperation that leads to impossible dreams becoming realities. Have we become so shortsighted that we devalue such splendor for simple convenience?
If interested to find out about the misdeed, here is a link to various sites.
Hi TE! Just got into Rome also!
We’re staying at a hotel on the Via Nazionale up near Plaza della Republica.
I dropped some coins in the Trevi back in 2001 and again in 2008. Must have been just the right amount because here I am back again.
The traffic hasn’t changed.
Off to the Vatican tomorrow. Think I’ll catch a cab and walk back.
Although it would be a perfect alignment of Labor cock-ups if it turns out one of Giles “tag and release” country shoppers is running an NDIS scam
Please, please, please let this be the case.
Tom must have slept in.
Hi Calli…I don’t mind the traffic but I reckon a big cleanup is needed with graffiti and street rubbish in Rome. Seems to have gone downhill.
We’re off tomorrow for a one week cruise and then have four days on a Greek island. I hope that bloke Michael Mosley who’s gone missing on Symi turns up!
It is difficult. I go a husband and wife team that set up a new practice in 2021. From what I hear it is a struggle. The spiraling regulations take their toll. Said they pay the equivalent to a mortgage for advice from an outfit that helps dentists with their businesses.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
A.F. Branco.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom
Apparently the old perv pooed his pants again Europe. The old perv and ‘dr’ Jill, the foulest of the foul.
How diminished the us has become.
Do you really think a wall, or a fence, prevents ingress? Do you think your enemies cannot scale it?
No, the Great “Wall” is actually a road: note how wide it is. It is a road to get troops to where they are needed for battle quickly and provide a height advantage.
It is also a public works program, that typically rewards your supporters with lucrative contracts and demonstrates to the people your commitment to their security, even if it doesn’t really help much.
Fun fact: Sticky rice was also used to bind sections of it together.
Amazing isn’t it that people like John Howard and Dubya seem to think the old perv is preferable to Trump.
I despised Dictator Daniel Andrews however I respected his canny, Machiavellian leadership. The man was a genius politically. He understood the essence of politics and he was ruthless in how he applied that understanding.
Dictator Dan was succeeded by a mediocrity named Jacinta Allan. Whilst Allan is also, like Andrews, from the hard left of Victorian Labor, she lacks Andrews’ political nous, plus she’s uninspiring, prosaic, dull and mundane.
Given Dictator Dan’s sudden retirement and the elevation of this mediocrity, an opposition party, one half decent that is, could be and should be romping ahead in the opinion polls.
But not in Victoria.
Ha. The ‘break’ below where that Vlamingh memorial is now? Was it always called that?
Will the wall was built to keep the horsemen out. The Mongolians are brilliant horsemen.
I am not that surprised with the Bushes seeing as they are much like the Roosevelts, the elites, but John Howard’s animosity is inexplicable. Coming from the middle class you would think he would understand another such, even if nouveau riche, and to at least appreciate the good he did while in office. I can only ascribe it to old age dementia.
Which caused me to think about this wall that was originally built to prevent enemies from Mongolia from invading northern regions in China.
Rabbits .. you forgot the rabbits .. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yckqyg75oE
Leak’s characterisations are getting better and better. Bowen and Albanese as two rabbit-hares burrowing around the stuck-once-again Florence are perfect pictures of anthropomorphised stupidity. Their little rabbitty faces are so perfectly evoked.
Unfair to animals though.
I think people have the right to be wary of any vaccine moving on from that intolerable covid era. Daily Telegraph:
Wouldn’t have thought it misinformation to say that the covid vaccine rollout was the most destructive brainfart to hit Australia, aided by a spineless SloMo and abetted by an incurious media.
Spent a bit of time in Victoria over the summer, was there for a week in May. My observations.
Only reason I know who the opo leader is because he has disgraced himself with the Deeming matter. His front bench I would have a clue. As for news you would think it is a one party state, only ever see the ALP.
The place unfortunately is irredeemably woke anyway. Even the country areas up to 100km out from the northern suburbs seem to have gone the way of Daylesford.
Feel free to correct me as always.
Big is beautiful.
Obese Woman Wins Miss Alabama And People Have Questions (8 Jun)
Not exactly a cute owl.
Notice the media has very, very quickly dropped the story that the Public Service “watchdog” has shelved any prosecutions over ROBODEBT .. ?
Not, apparently, cos no one is GUILTY but cos PS & Parliamentarians are both “protected” species .. FFS!
NY v. Trump: Judge reveals Facebook post implying juror discussed guilty verdict before trial concluded
As predicted on Sinc’s Cat.
Seriously, folks…we should be running the country.
😀
Amazing isn’t it that people like John Howard and Dubya seem to think the old perv is preferable to Trump.
Dubya isn’t all that bright and is part of the old establishment. Howard also isn’t all that bright but thinks he is and has zero belief in liberty. The prissy little shit.
Now, where have I heard this before?
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: New York Democrat Paula Collins suggests Trump supporters need a “reeducation camp” after the election.
Former Trump Aide Steve Bannon’s Unprecedented Prison Sentence Explained
All above board sez they.
Except when it isn’t. Monty may want to put his dick away for the foreseeable future.
“Danish police have arrested a male suspect”
Danish PM attacked and beaten
This is proof that even though the Borg may be all encompassing it doesn’t mean that all of them are even remotely smart. X (Twitter) is ruining their Big Brother approach.
Not really.
Odds on they also think Meloni is a Fascist.
The regime is cooking up its biggest and bloodiest election plot yet and Americans are sleepwalking right into it…
Crime stats disappear from public view amid LAPD records system overhaul
DOJ Indicts Doctor Who Exposed the Barbarism of “Gender-Affirming Care”
U.N. to Blacklist Israel — with Hamas — as Threat to Children; Netanyahu Responds: ‘Delusional’
When do they ever do anything else?
@PeterSweden7
Frankly, I’m suspicious of this judge doing anything halfway decent after the way he behaved during the trial. This information could lead to a mistrial. Perhaps he’s nervous about sending Trump to jail and wants to tie him down for another month or so with a new trial.
BREAKING: Merchan Warns Prosecutors, Trump Defense Team There Might Be a Problem in Manhattan Case
Like Festivus is to George, so monty is to this
Remember how the turd defended cocks in frocks reading to kids? Strangely doesn’t urge his Muslim brotherhood to do the same.
Not mentioned here is Bandt’s own past as a hardline Marxist activist who once advocated for Trotsky’s ‘entryism’ strategy – the infiltration of milder leftist parties by radicals.
Merchan Sends Out Letter Indicating Possible Juror Misconduct in Trump Trial
Styxhexenhammer666
It remains my opinion that the Robodebt was malicious compliance by the public serpents, aiming to harm the Liberal Government.
My employer is ‘woke’ and all sorts of insulting propaganda is fed through the it network on a daily basis. The employees mostly are not.
People used casually to believe that being vaccinated meant their kids would not catch diseases, but during COVID vaccines and their efficacy was much discussed with the ‘experts’ explaining how it all works.
They told us that vaccines do not protect the vaccinated but somehow instead protects other people. At the same time they have heard how (Covid) vaccines can have dangerous, even lethal, side effects.
So here is the proposition for parents: vaccinate your kid and they may still catch diseases and also risk side effects. Or let other kids get vaccinated, thus protecting your kid from diseases and from side effects.
Well, I don’t really imagine many people really think about it to that degree of granularity, but the old value proposition has been corroded and people are more nervous now.
mUnter’s favourite part of Festivus is the Airing of (‘legitimate’) Grievances.
See if this works
1960s Cottesloe Beach – A trip down memory Lane
Actually, I saw a Jordan Peterson clip where he very forcefully (even explosively) denounced the mRNA doses as not being vaccines at all, insisting they work in a completely different and unprecedented way. Vaccines trigger your natural immunological system to preempt possible large scale infection, but it is a natural biological response.
The mRNA ones co-opt cell functions.
Previously with vaccines the first of the processes cited above was synonymous with treatments to block future infection. Now there are two touted processes, so the question is whether they should both be called vaccines or whether there should be a new term to make clearer the distinction.
If the mRNA cocktails were not called vaccines, would they not have been harder to sell to the public?
Well, it provides a justification for the Appellate court to overturn the conviction without having to go into grotesque malfeasance of Merchan’s conduct.
Perhaps the Democrats have also twigged that law fare against Trump helps rather than hurts him. I hear that he has now raised $400 mill since the verdict. Take away the conviction and take away cause that is firing people up and stop them talking about just what a farcical political trial it was. And the Democrats can still keep saying he got off on a technicality but that essentially he was still ‘a felon’.
Albo’s speech the other day was the usual grab bag of platitudes, flim-flam and downright b/s. The quote that took first prize in my book was we are “repairing the damage that climate denial did to renewable energy investment”.
Johannes Leak has dealt very well with the Rabbit Hole comment!