Amazing what’s out there and I didn’t know about. Hats off to folks who are up to date with it…
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where’s my dancing baby?
Steve trickler July 6, 2024 12:13 am This should jolt your appetite. So? He basically built a one use clay…
seems that the only difference between JC and mUnty is the jocks
People say on Y-tube, where are the girls? There are a heap of clips with them enjoying the food on…
What the parties lack is not a solution but the will to seriously address the issue because they’re beholden to vested interests which benefit from it.
This goes to the Judith Sloan piece I posted this morning about the way policy is now formulated, who benefits and who pays (not just in monetary terms but in declining quality of life).
Predictably (the Tele, apologies if posted earlier):
Uh huh:
The standard Radio Rental defence, now applying to people yet to hit their mid-teens.
Oh, huzzah!
He’s either radicalised or mental. Either way, he should never have been roaming the streets.
Coles, in the last annual report showed sales of $41.5 billion and a net profit of $1.1 billion. That’s 2.6%. Wafer thin.
OK…I’ll repost my reply here:
Dutton is useless and actually as much of a negative to the Right as Morrison.
He’s a former cop and should be nowhere near the levers of power. He needs to go.
Coles and WW are paying suppliers too much. Cartel like behaviour including stocking exactly the same lines, agreeing to not pressure suppliers, tacit uncompetitive actions like not parallel importing, laws against grey imports, trademark laws, suppliers with too much cartel market power eg dairy, over regulation of food safety, global suppliers effective monopolies. Coles and WW are happy clipping the ticket but not performing their role which is to represent customers in the fight against supplier power. More competition is the only answer.
There are solutions, JohnH.
Stop increasing wages through legislative fiat and allow the market to decide. Open up the labor markets.
Increase the supply of housing by removing all sorts of imposts and assorted taxes on construction. Ensure that in a country the size of continental US and twice as large as Western Europe provides ample land for housing.
Remove obstacles to increase supply of electricity by not closing down coal plants.
Eliminate all obstacles in the production of oil&gas.
There’s much more, but there’s a start.
Reduce immigration, Not eliminate it, but reduce the numbers.
It’s illegal in Australia for the big supers to arm twist suppliers.
And prioritise carpenters and bricklayers, not dogwalkers and beauticians.
For heaven’s sake!
Roger cost of living is a problem across the OECD. You’re right about vested interests but that is not national vested interests, it is global vested interests. Apart from that a law preventing retired politicians occupying high flying commercial positions is worth a thought. Think tanks they can join but most of them lack the intelligence for those roles.
It is surprising how many politicians state they are doing it for the country and when they retire they don’t go into non-profits or community organisations, rather positions with huge incomes and influence. Lying ass wipes.
Klaus Schwab Accused Of Sexual Harassment
Andrew Neil – ‘I don’t see how Macron recovers from this’ | SpectatorTV
This is how they operate.
@catturd2
So are the policies that led to it, John.
It’s both. Domestic real estate developers and large businesses both benefit from high immigration, for example.
The reason the invisible hand is invisible is because it doesn’t exist. Wages are already not keeping up with cost of living and your proposal will make that worse.
The housing supply is a labour and materials supply problem. The size of a country is irrelevant, it is proximity to employment opportunities that matter. It is also a NIMBY problem because local councils won’t allow rezoning for more apartment complexes.
Coal plants are old and will close. Build gas plants and do what WA did, secure local gas supply.
30% of doctors and 20% of nurses are overseas trained. We don’t have enough skilled labour here. Immigration needs to be cut but solving the housing problem will take several years and a huge increase in skilled labour intake.
Justice Sotomayor is an evil, stupid kunt; she has literally unleashed the hounds of the demorats with her hypothetical scenarios about Trump using SEAL teams to assassinate his rivals.
It’s impossible for there to be real increases in wages without corresponding increases in productivity. Increases in nominal wages simply fuels inflation.
It’s why real wages in Australia were stagnant and now begun to fall.
The problem with competition is that the winners become so powerful they can crush any opposition. A recent example. Aldi was advertising cheap oranges, within a couple of days Coles was advertising the same. Coles can take the momentary hit. In any domain once domination is established it is very difficult to cause their downfall. They might do stupid things like fail to read the trends(Kodak) but mostly when dominance is established it remains. IBM tried to overthrow Microsoft Windows with OS Warp. They spent a fortune and it was a complete failure.
Have a good night, Cats.
Cold & wet here.
Wood heater taking the edge off it!
Greg Sheridan slams ‘hysterical’ reaction to Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump immunity
The best and most frequent way to increase productivity is reduce labour costs.
Traitor And WEF Devotee Keir Starmer Is Your Next Prime Minister – UK General Election
Having a twatter fight with a mong whos stating
“aktually, theres only about 160 people employed by the live sheep industry”…
After Ive informed him of his family tree missing a few branches hes come back with “thats the right figures”.
So he walked into my trap.
Then why is the government shutting down such a value adding sector? At about $1,000,000 per full time employee?
Roger
July 2, 2024 5:14 pm
One of the largest changes resulting in increased cost of living is that real estate markets have become globalised.
And real estate in Western nations is much more attractive than real estate in China, maybe because it’s freehold.
Thats not the measure of productivity.
15 Secretaries Blow Off Congressional Subpoenas While Subpoena Refusal Lands Trump Adviser In Jail
@Bitcoin_Redneck
I’d like to thank Congress for using my Tax money to buy Zelensky’s wife a Bugatti.
Zelensky’s wife purchased the newest Bugatti Turbillon for 4.5 million euros.
DEI efforts in US Armed Forces ineffective, run ‘opposite of the military ethos’: study
But that’s not in the script!
Norwegian police interact with pali protestor.
Odd how she and her mates speak unaccented English…
Bullshit.
Indolent
That story is bullshit. The invoice had a BSB number. French banks don’t use BSB numbers. You need to be more discerning with these conspiracies.
Not another satire site unwittingly posted by the uber-spammer, surely?
Seriously, that’s his name?
Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind news (the NT News):
This is what happens when you kill the elderly. Crooks have parents too. The screws are obviously very distraught as well:
Aaaahahahaa. Yeah righto.
Just in from Israeli media…..
Liora Argamani, 61 years old, mother of rescued hostage Noa Argamani, has passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. Throughout her battle with cancer, she also fought tirelessly to bring her daughter home. On June 8, Noa was rescued in a heroic IDF mission after being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza for 8 months. Fortunately, Liora was reunited with Noa before her passing, and her dying wish came true.
Liora was born in Wuhan, China. She married her Israeli husband in the mid 1990s and converted to Judaism, taking the name ‘Liora”. Liora means ‘my light‘ in Hebrew. Clearly a providential name because Liora, despite her cancer, remained a burning light that refused to be die whilst her daughter, Noa, was held captive by Nazis in Gaza. Now that Noa has been brought home, Liora’s light has finally extinguished and she’s finally at peace now.
May the memory of Liora be a blessing.
re: Trump’s immunity.
On the one hand, obviously the president should not be an unaccountable king above the law.
Luckily, that is not exactly what Justice Roberts found. The president can’t be prosecuted for exercising their constitutional powers. So if Orange man did something unconstitutional he can be prosecuted for that still.
There’s just no chance a court will be convinced that “fight like hell” was anything more than a colourful metaphor that was well within character for Trump. He didn’t order a break-and-enter at the Capitol, nor a coup, simple as that.
Catchy little number from North Korea. Please include in Saturday radio show.
https://youtu.be/bj2_py2Ab3k
Not to mention this classic rendition …
I was in the showroom at same time and noticed Madame Z, along with Putin’s gardener and Trumps personal lawyer all buying Bugattis.
True and I have a pic to prove it.
This is so funny.
Susan Sarandon’s daughter married for the second time, and no one took any notice.
A quick email to Daily Mail and bang!, ooooh, Eva Amurri doesn’t care about the mean comments about her wedding dress. What do you think?
LOL LOL 😀
cohenite
July 2, 2024 5:46 pm
One of the more bizarre “judgements” I have ever heard.
The Dimocrats are losing what remains of their tiny little minds.
Cats from WA,
do you know anything about this? Is this for real? Does it matter, or do you reckon it’s meh?
Asking as an East Coaster who has yet to visit WA.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13590561/The-Pier-Hotel-closes-worlds-toughest-pub-shuts-doors-130-years.html
JC
July 2, 2024 7:19 pm
Indolent
Ya think?
It’s hilarious. For four years now they’ve been running with the hoax that the corpse has one of the most agile minds in the world. They then send him into a debate early, and all of America finds out the Demons, along with the corp media, have been running the lie that the crook is fine.
Immediately after the debate, the media acted surprised and called for his resignation. Now some of them have begun to walk this back, suggesting dementia should stay on.
The media appears to be more demented than dementia.
As someone said
Vote for Trump. It’s a no brainier.
The best line in the history of debates has to be
Things must be getting desperate when you release your talking points plan to all your known supporters via email.
Watch for those to appear here, some already have.
Damn!
I forgot to add the link for the Susan Sarandon article.
Damn you Sacred Hill Shiraz. 😀
Here ’tis;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13590835/Susan-Sarandons-daughter-Eva-Amurri-critics-breasts-wedding-gown.html
This is a true statement.
It popped in and out of his skull regularly, did cartwheels and pirouettes despite copious amounts of brain freezing icecream for more than four years. And managed to control the dribbling and widdling – a masterful performance.
Being super agile though, has its drawbacks. It left the building once too often, the doors are now locked and there’s no one home.
Opinion from Henry Olsen / New York Post:
Also 4) doesn’t zone out mid-sentence, but that was a given.
Can Trump hold off announcing his veep until the Dem replacements have been announced?
Warnock-Whitmer might be the one to watch??
Calli,
with the increasing use of the word “Corpse”, to describe Biden, that would make Dr Jill, the “Corpse Bride”.
Extremely fitting.
JC
July 2, 2024 8:42 pm
And one of the great own goals of debating history was the Dimocrats insisting on muted microphones.
The best possible way to expose an opponent’s inherent weaknesses is to give them enough rope to hang themselves.
Trump’s “long rope” is his excessive ebullience and jumping all over an opponent verbally. OK, it plays well to the base, but turns off any marginals.
Dementia Joe’s noose is his fumbling and bumbling and, worst of all, the dead air.
The muting of microphones simultaneously played down Trump’s weakness by eliminating interruptions and hung Biden out to dry when he became lost for words.
With open mikes, a 2016 Trump would have jumped all over Dementia Joe and possibly masked his now obvious mental deficiencies.
So true, and the other big mistake was to split the view. Every time the corpse was talking there would be Trump moving and pursing his lips, and pulling subtle faces with the occasional look over.
David Aaronovitch, who presents BBC Radio 4’s “Briefing Room” programme, tweeted:
After a rapid barrage of responses which included people pointing out that he had probably just committed incitement to violence under UK law, he deleted it and responded:
It was satire, so you deleted it, and it was all the “far right’s” fault. Got it.
Gorged to repletion, confit de canard floating on a sea of Bourgogne wine, I would make two observations:
1) There really is no follow up of spirit or liqueur that does not rob you of the splendid interplay of duck and wine
2) FJB
I appreciate the first point might be controversial.
‘Can’t stick at a job’, judge tells top legal agentEllie Dudley
4 hours ago.
Updated 1 hour ago
The head of Australia’s largest Aboriginal legal service has been condemned by a judge for failing to hold down a job, sparking fresh criticism of his appointment, and raising serious concerns about his competence.
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chair Hugh Woodbury has faced growing calls to step down after The Australian revealed he bashed his pregnant partner by standing on her stomach, pushing her to the ground, slamming her arm in a door and calling her a “c..t” in front of their two-year-old child.
Coalition MPs have also raised questions over whether Mr Woodbury, who handles about $30m in federal government funding a year despite having no official legal qualifications, has the appropriate background to restore the embattled organisation after it was last year forced to suspend services in Alice Springs due to a staff exodus.
In sentencing remarks during Mr Woodbury’s abuse proceedings, Northern Territory local court judge Greg Borchers described Mr Woodbury as “someone who doesn’t stick at jobs”.
“I am not sure how I am to consider that you have had so many jobs, but you have never stayed at one,” Judge Borchers said when sentencing Mr Woodbury in October 2020.
“You come to this courthouse, as you have, Mr Woodbury, almost each and every legal practitioner in this court house has one job, as a legal practitioner. You have had so many jobs and you have never stuck with any, apart from a long period of time with Parks and Wildlife.”
Before working at NAAJA he had spent time managing Aboriginal hostels, working as a fencing contractor, labouring, working in a bank, and held positions within the Federal Circuit and Family Court and the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service.
“I don’t know why, but that’s a record of someone who doesn’t stick at jobs,” Judge Borchers said.
Mr Woodbury was fined $200 and sentenced to a 12-month good behaviour bond. No conviction was recorded.
The sentencing remarks revealed Judge Borchers was hesitant to convict Mr Woodbury because “a conviction in itself is a serious sanction and it does have an effect upon people’s futures”.
“I do accept that you may, at some stage, wish to consider entering a legal course,” he said.
He also did not convict Mr Woodbury “because of the attitude to your wife, who says that you are very supportive of her”.
“You are a good father and that you need some help,” he said.
South Australian Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle criticised the appointment of Mr Woodbury, and said there was an issue within community-controlled organisations where senior management are appointed because of their heritage.
I’m fed up with unshaven men who sport scruffy beards that make them look as if they’re about to pull a knife and scream allah akbar.
Just putting that out there.
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chair Hugh Woodbury has faced growing calls to step down after The Australian revealed he bashed his pregnant partner by standing on her stomach, pushing her to the ground, slamming her arm in a door and calling her a “c..t” in front of their two-year-old child.
…..
Mr Woodbury was fined $200 and sentenced to a 12-month good behaviour bond. No conviction was recorded.
The sentencing remarks revealed Judge Borchers was hesitant to convict Mr Woodbury because “a conviction in itself is a serious sanction and it does have an effect upon people’s futures”.
…..
The Sanctified Generation. Women and children most affected, God help them.
I really think, at this point, that the best the Dims can hope for is to let the shambling aphasic old tard lose and then make the point forever more that Trump’s victory over a flatulent colostomy bag of a homonidae was an empty one.
As I have opined before, the Dims would do well to let America resuscitate and replenish its blood supply before sinking their fangs in and exsanguinating her. Again. Truly she be bled near white now and could not sustain a Dimocrat class more that a couple of years as she is.
Where would the Dims have been if Reagan had not let the Republic take a desperate post-Carter gasp and begin to knit its tissues and soul. Seriously, imagine if Carter’s America had been allowed to be the basis of America’s future!
TE. I have just been reading your commentaries on Malta.
You are making me fat!
A Brit colleague and I were detached to Munich for four months.
We hated it.
It was a boarding school populated by goody goody two shoes pomposities who spent their whole time looking over each others’ (and our) shoulders.
Our escape was to take the train to the airport on Friday afternoons to seek out the ‘last minute’ offers taped up on the corridor walls. Malta was often on offer and became our favoutite.
Broiling under a Mediteranian sun on the terraces around the Grand Harbour scoffing enormous bowls of the richest pasta in the universe and slurping buckets of Malta wine was absolutely irresponsible, but it did innoculate us against the forthcoming week in kraut central.
Pasta, nuclear puree, thick cheese, veal and chicken, rich red – no wonder that they are such happy chaps.
Sack some people, automate, increased productivity for the remaining staff. That happens.
The increased productivity theme ignores the reality that productivity enhancement is limited in some domains. There are only so many bricks that can be laid in an hour, but there is a machine that can do that much more quickly. Customers can only be served one at a time and AI is already taking some of those jobs. I caught a snippet of a program about a factory in Poland that makes prefab houses. It is very efficient and it requires much less labour than traditional methods. The saving grace for many workers is declining fertility leading to labour shortages.
JC
July 2, 2024 9:16 pm
And the reverse.
When Trump was speaking (and, incidentally, arranging his words in such a way that they sounded like English sentences), Hiden looked like he had gone into power-save mode.
The slack-jawed vacant stare into the middle distance.
Or, as Jon Stewart put it, “his resting 25th Amendment face”.
BobtheBoozer
July 2, 2024 9:27 pm
Settle down Betty.
I doubt you’re on their list.
Not something you didn’t already know.
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1807630696610935174?t=TJhu1_mrLrX_3MytTFCIdQ&s=19
This method really works!
Had one staff who was constantly using their phone instead of working, back answered continually, snarkily questioned everything, agitating disquiet among the crew, culminating in her asking a serious question: “Why are we expected to work fast?”
I sacked her, sharply & without notice.
Instant & sustained improvement by the remainder of that team
Despite being one person down they’re doing more, doing it better, & doing it faster.
Indeed Bons, the people on Malta do seem very happy.
Big feast day weekend, for St Peter and St Paul if I got that right. Enormous explosions from fireworks for about 30 minutes; much eating and drinking and lotsa flag waving in the little village of Rabat where we’re staying.
The Maltese also seems intent on having a lot of babies. Three and four per family wherever you look.
Those boomers.
Australia upped the pension age then opened the ndis box.
https://x.com/daveg/status/1807388422249558251?t=5-9AIdR3b8s6wulBZhP7vQ&s=19
Kohler warned of Mr Trump’s disregard of climate change He said Australia should prepare for second Trump presidencyStop winning me over, I already love the magnificent bastard!
ABC star issues an urgent warning to Australia about Donald Trump
Alan Kohler is starting to look more and more like an absolute tit. Plus I’ve always hated his moronic both-buttons-done-up jacket wearing- seriously, a sign of brain death if ever there were one.
A visit to the Malta Air Museum.
Small and privately run, but worth it.
Main attractions: two fighters which fought in the ferocious air wars around Malta in WWII – a Hurricane and a Spitfire; and two Gloster Meteors. Several other aircraft, and they are busy bringing back to life a few more.
Productivity isn’t about sacking people; it’s about getting more output by reducing the cost/time of inputs. It could mean sacking people at the micro level, but then it may not. If it meant sacking people, the rate of unemployment would have been close to 99% since the Industrial Revolution. But, as you appreciate, it hasn’t meant that at all. In fact, productivity actually complements employment elsewhere in the economy.
Sure. Absolutely. However, productivity enhancement, if it’s wide enough, will impact all incomes and not just the ones at the center of innovation. Think of something as simple as hair cuts. To a large extent, productivity increases in hair cutting have barely nudged. It’s done with scissors, as it was 300 years ago. But a barber’s wage isn’t the same as it was 300 years ago. That’s because productivity improvements in the industrial economy have enabled barbers to be paid at continually higher rates.
I’ll give you another example. When AI was first introduced, the CEO of Microsoft cam out and said AI’s impact on his firm would see large numbers of people being let go. About a year or so later, he took that back and completely reversed his view. He suggested that while there would be displacement, demand for workers could actually increase because Microsoft would be able to afford to have workers explore areas that needed more focus while AI did its thing. In fact, he added that AI would actually cause demand for more workers. He’s basically summarizing what’s been going on since the Industrial Revolution.
An interesting article about Ilhan Omar.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/ex-somali-pm-rep-omar-doesnt-represent-america-she-represents-somalia/
It’s something happening in Australia as well – people who have been elected to the Senate are representing others than the Australian people, and to their detriment.
But how do we stop it?
Edward Snowden – Dissident Journalists Are Being Silenced
Huh? Why would someone not be on their list?
They seem to want all of us dead.
The best and most frequent way to increase productivity is reduce labour costs.
But the most bestest, but increasingly illegal way, is to link labour reward to that productivity.
Case in point: grapevine pruning season starts soon. The best years had pay running at piece rate, just like picking buckets at harvest time- the handy chaps got stuck in, the girlfriends who could live with maybe being on 75% of comparable stuck around, the useless or grumbly pissed off. All the fun of vintage, with no great rush, day after day- conversation got less ditzy, toilet breaks got rationalized, we’d do an extra hour if the weather was nice or if it looked grim for the next day.
I followed the stats in vines/man/hour pretty closely accross the patches, based the rate on past years, set a rate going into each patch with the understanding i’d bump it up if it proved unrealistic- it never did- everyone got faster accross the season, I constantly pruned back the rate/vine as we went because i could see it getting eaten up, and still everyone ended up earning more per hour as the days went on. Only had to send a few kids back through for a tidy-up once or twice, the pain of the oppurtunity cost sharpened them up toot sweet. Questions from the crew became a shedload more sensible and focused on itcomes, everyone got proactive about maintaining gear. I was under budget, and raced through ahead of schedule. Great times.
Now, it’s impossible. Workers must be provided with a minimum hourly equivalent, which I have to factor in to the overall job cost- it coddles the mugs, but more dangerously dilutes the reward to the troupers. The role of the supervisor then also gets de-fanged.
It’s barely worth the bookwork.
Someone sent me this, purports to be Assange after sitting next to Rudd on the flight back to Oz.
Isn’t all life wonderful, mysterious and interesting?
MATT GOODWIN: Why FARAGE is WINNING and SUNAK is LOSING
Two days to go in the UK general election – and the traditional dirty pool is being played.
Without actually attracting much of an increase in support from 2019, Labour is a dead cert for Government – and 97.3% for government with a majority somewhere between ‘huge’ and ‘extremely comfortable’.
The existential battle now is between the Tories and Reform.
The Big Guns have been wheeled out, arms twisted, and a second Reform candidate has defected to the Conservatives on the grounds that the “vast majority” of her fellow candidates are “racist, misogynistic and bigoted”.
In the UK these are toxic accusations, however the Conservatives are so badly on the nose that may not matter much. Late polling shows that whether Reform replaces the Tories as the ‘party of the Right’, or fizzles, is within the survey margins of error.
The one thing that is not in doubt: Britain is neck deep in scalding shit – with the tide coming in.
Sad but true Dr F.
A fair bit of the blame can be laid at the feet of air-head Boris and timid Theresa.
They win a massive majority and pinch a swag of Labour stronghold seats and what is the reaction?
“Hey, let’s try to look a lot more like Labour!”
I wouldn’t have to lie awake solving the problems of Brit politics if my freakin’ blood glucose would behave.
Grrr.
Sancho, is your blood glucose level actually keeping you awake?
Perhaps you need a Semaglutide, the latest drug craze for weight loss. A couple of days ago I read a review of the potential benefits of that drug for preventing protein aggregation in the grey stuff. It wasn’t addressing that drug specifically but mentioned the target of the drug, which if elevated not only helps prevent aggregation but potentially can resolve “type 3 diabetes” a term used to refer to insulin resistance in the brain.
Postcard from Malta
Guest post from Mrs TE
We have loved Malta. Yes, definitely trying to “sell” it to you. Put it on your bucket-list. So interesting, quaint, fabulous architecture, clean, great food, music, festivities, countryside, very devout, 100’s of cathedrals, bells ringing, Malta flag flying everywhere, beaches, infrastructure, prices very reasonable.
In some parts, it is like going back 50 years – small workshops, dress, shoes, I bought some sausages from a butcher who had been there since 1850. Most importantly, lovely HAPPY people. The family unit – three generations seems important, babies in prams everywhere; laughing, drinking, hugging…
Just before we arrived, the Feast Day of St Peter and Paul had begun and there had been a music festival in the local park, where they ate lots of fried rabbit. There are now no rabbits on the island, but they farm them.
The next day I caught horse riding events, which turned out to be a trotting race, featuring young boys racing up a hill with tiny horses – TE thinks Shetland ponies. Last night there was a huge gathering at the local cathedral near us in Rabat. The church at the square was packed; all lit up, with a band and all the families mingling.
Most people were wearing red t-shirts celebrating the 250 years anniversary of a saint. Others then arrived holding lots of balloons and religious banners and flags. The band played and mostly men sang, jumping and wildly gesticulating. It was fun to watch. For much of the time here, strangely daytime as well as night-time, fireworks have been going off and the echo around the limestone buildings is deafening. Bells are constantly ringing.
Wonderful!
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Gentlemen, start your engines.
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Was an explosive bolt or cartridge ever used to start up a piston engine aircraft?
Yes, explosive cartridges were used to start piston-engine aircraft, and one of the most notable systems employing this method was the Coffman engine starter. This ingenious device, often called a “shotgun starter,” was widely used in the 1930s and 1940s for aircraft and armored vehicles.
The Coffman starter worked by using a cordite cartridge, similar to a shotgun shell, which, when fired, produced high-pressure gas. This gas would then drive a piston or a geared mechanism to crank the engine and initiate the starting process.
The system was particularly advantageous in remote or harsh environments where traditional electric starters might be unreliable or carrying heavy batteries impractical.
Several notable aircraft utilized the Coffman starter, including some versions of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine used in the Supermarine Spitfire, as well as the Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest, which employed the system to start their powerful Napier Sabre engines. The Coffman starter’s reliability and simplicity made it a popular choice during the war years.
The concept of using explosive cartridges for engine starting wasn’t limited to piston engines. It was also adapted for early jet engines, where the high-pressure gas from the cartridge would drive a turbine to start the engine. This method provided a quick and effective way to get engines running, especially in field conditions where other starting methods might be less feasible.
Thanks for the Malta travelogue, Mrs TE! Loved it.
And now I want to visit more than ever.
It was a relatively quiet day in Venice. As in busy but not vilely so. We taxi-ed in from Mestre. Always stayed on the island before, but not this time. Some shops have closed for good, many old favourites still open, like the mask and linen shops. And, of course, the calligraphy shops.
My dear friend, the winged lion, still sits atop his pillar. And Saint George still vanquishes the dragon on his great pedestal.
A change since last time – bubble bummed trout pouters taking endless selfies against the glorious backdrop. Almost impossible to get a good, quick snap and move away for others to do the same. So much for modern, self absorbed womanhood.
In Mestre…a very noticeable population of Chinese, and the ubiquitous weirdbeards and their letterboxed property.
Postcard to Malta #2
Out of all of the many countries I’ve been to in the Mediterranean, Malta is the best. It’s a mix of architecture and history dating back thousands of years, with empire and era buildings piled sometimes on top of each other. It has survived to the present day without burying the past, but managing to attain modern amenities in the Western style: everything works. Electricity, water supply, roads, shops, technology – all are here and they work all the time. However, you can walk down streets that still bear the marks of the bombings of WWII, and just around the corner is a mighty fortress dating back a thousand years, and ancient Valetta Harbour is one of the most beautiful in the world.
I paid a visit to the Malta Air Museum. Small and privately run, but worth it. The main attractions were two fighters which fought in the ferocious WWII air battless around Malta in WWII – a Hurricane and a Spitfire. They also had two Gloster Meteors jets. Several other aircraft, and they are busy bringing back to life a few more.
We visited several other museums and walked the city walls. It was not only WWII that saw tremendous battles here, but also spirited defence by the Hospitaller Knights, who commanded the island for hundreds of years, with the main event a huge attempted Muslim invasion culminating in the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. Many of the houses and walls bear testimony to all of this. Some of them have graffiti dating back hundreds of years – you can make out three masted sailing vessels for example. (Many thanks to local historians Keith and Dennis who walked us around and explained so much)
We spent almost a week in Valetta, and then moved to Rabat, staying in an excellent old four-storey old-made-new apartment. It was rather in a Rapunzel’s castle style: one lounge room on the ground floor; then up a winding staircase to the first bedroom, up again to another, and up again to the kitchen and a rooftop terrace to eat on.
The house was right next door to a pub hosting a wedding on our first night. Interesting – Western music, inc Tom Jones and Frank Sinatra, and then a lot of old Maltese standards. We spied down into the courtyard and worked out the couple are in their 50s. Then followed some traditional Italian and maybe Maltese – and then the ambulance has turned up and was carting away a groovy grannie in an oxygen mask. The next night featured an 80th birthday. Fortunately the local ordinance said the music must be turned off at 11pm, so all good.
We also made a visit to Gozo, one of the five islands of Malta. Fairly much the same, but it did have ?gantija; one of the more prominent “megaliths” – Stonehenge-like monuments dating back some 5,000 years. It was a ferry ride there and back, past some of the prominent guard towers which have served the lookouts for enemies for ages – a reminder that here in the middle of the Med battle was always feared.
How curious. Someone doesn’t like Leak’s cartoon.
The truth always hurts.
No comment, just an observation how the the world changes around us and we hardly notice, or do we?
Canadian soccer team in 1984 and today.
Probably applies to most western European teams too.
Today’s Tele:
FIRST LADY IS SWIFTLY BECOMING A LAST RESORT
James Morrow
3 Jul 2024
Sometimes it is the little details that are the most?telling.
Did you know that First Lady Jill Biden used to have her own walk-on music to be played whenever she entered an event, much like Hail to the Chief is played for her?husband?
Washington journalist T. Beckett Adams broke the story in 2022, back when it was the sort of item that might feature at your local pub trivia’s US politics round on a slow night.
Adams reported that in 2021, Mrs?Biden’s office instructed the ceremonial US Marine Band to come up with a tune they could fire up whenever she took the stage.
The piece was a first. Never before had a first lady asked for her own official “theme song”, to be played by the official US Marine Band.
What the band came up with was bizarre – a bleating, blatting trumpet number that sounded like a Year 6 brass ensemble warming up.
Much to the relief of the Marine players, the work was quickly shelved once Adams started asking questions about it, threatening to out the First Lady’s sense of self-importance.
Yet seen in the context of the past week, the brief episode of what was known as “Fanfare for the First Lady” looks increasingly like a piece of foreshadowing.
Behind the scenes, as Democrats melt down about their candidate’s debate performance last week and the fact they can no longer gaslight voters about the President’s condition, Mrs?Biden is said to increasingly have “main character syndrome”.
Not only is she in love with the trappings of office, but Mrs Biden increasingly sees herself as the Democrats’ co-candidate for 2024.
Thus the recent images of her swanning around fundraisers in the Hamptons and ditching her husband to chat up Emmanuel Macron at a D-Day state dinner in France.
This sense of entitlement was also on display on Monday as the latest edition of American Vogue hit the stands, with Mrs Biden on the cover in a white Ralph Lauren coat dress saying: “We will decide our future.”
Inside, the profile opens thusly: “If?you want to know what power feels like, try to get yourself driven around in a motorcade.”
The author of the piece gushes: “Flashing police chaperone lights form a perimeter as you blaze down an empty highway, waiting cars backed up on entry ramps as you pass … rules don’t apply.”
Is it any wonder that Jill Biden – and the rest of the Biden family, which contains more than its fair share of grifters – reportedly urged the President to stay in the race when they gathered at Camp David this past weekend?
As a last-minute note added to the online version of the Vogue profile put it, Mrs Biden told the magazine: “We would not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been president … we will continue to fight.”
And why wouldn’t they?
After all, once out of office, Mrs Biden may still get a Secret Service detail when she goes to the supermarket, but that’s about it as far as the trappings of power will go.
No wonder she wouldn’t let her husband recover from last week’s debate debacle in private, instead offering utterly clueless encouragement in front of the cameras shortly after.
“You did such a great job!” she shrieked in front of a crowd of rattled?supporters.
“You answered every question!”
Three more stars on his Big Boy President chart and Mr Biden gets an ice cream, presumably.
Stories have also emerged about the extent to which Mrs Biden has controlled access to the President, using a small in-group of advisers to shield even fellow White House staffers from knowing the true extent of the commander-in-chief’s failings.
It goes without saying that this is a terrible state of affairs.
The list of global crises that could kick off at any moment would fill this page three times over, yet Mr Biden is?increasingly compromised and said?to be only “at his best” between 10am and 4pm for what is a 24-hour-a-day job.
At the same time, the First Lady is?running a routine that runs somewhere between Madame Mao and Edith Wilson, whom it later turned out all but ran the country after her husband, then-president Woodrow Wilson, had a stroke in?1919.
Not only is the First Lady committing what increasingly looks to be an act of elder abuse in pushing her husband to stay in office and in the race, with six months to go until Inauguration Day, she is also putting the security of the West in jeopardy.
From a kindergarten teacher awarding a participation ribbon to everyone:
No wonder she wouldn’t let her husband recover from last week’s debate debacle in private, instead offering utterly clueless encouragement in front of the cameras shortly after.
“You did such a great job!” she shrieked in front of a crowd of rattled?supporters.
“You answered every question!”
Three more stars on his Big Boy President chart and Mr Biden gets an ice cream, presumably.
Therapeutic and salivating stuff watching these clips and you learn so much.
After watching the butchering of that carcass on the back of the tractor and for them to proceed to bag it up and share it with the village is emotional stuff.
This was a great hour.
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Wilderness Cooking:
Secrets Of Wild Cuisine! Discover New Facets Of Taste With Fish And Meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJOkAxHCVpw
Shocking news! The News website levels with its readers and says that the disturbing performance by Biden in the debate was not a one-off, but that he has had some 20 worrying events over the past few years!
Most Australians probably don’t follow US current affairs as closely as we do here. If they rely solely on the MSM it would explain why normally sensible people have a bad impression of Trump and no idea that Joe is damaged goods, or that there are so many bad actors in the Dem world.
“Not only is she in love with the trappings of office, but Mrs Biden increasingly sees herself as the Democrats’ co-candidate for 2024.”
Very apparent early on, that this evil woman had tickets on herself when she insisted she always be referred to as Dr Jill Biden. She has a doctorate of education from the University of Delaware 2007, and taught at a public high school and a community college. A Ph.D not a medical degree.
In the UK these are toxic accusations, however the Conservatives are so badly on the nose that may not matter much. Late polling shows that whether Reform replaces the Tories as the ‘party of the Right’, or fizzles, is within the survey margins of error.
The one thing that is not in doubt: Britain is neck deep in scalding shit – with the tide coming in.
What’s particularly interesting is observing how the UK establishment, particularly the MSM, are spending lots of time smearing, belittling, ridiculing and desperately trying to bring down Farage and Reform. They are all working overtime at the moment, from planting actors in so called ‘stunts’ to trying to paint Farage as some kind of Putin agent. No doubt many ‘Tories’ are behind this, working hand in hand with the far-left MSM to destroy Reform.
Who do I blame most of all? Probably Bonking Boris Johnson. He was gifted a huge electoral majority, yet what did he do? He squandered it. Waylaid by his toffy green girlfriend (what is it with dopey men and their dicks?), her equally toffy grifting green mates, then the disaster of Covid and lockdowns, you could see the disaster show unravelling from early on. Boris’ biggest crime was succumbing to net zero and so his legacy, along with Sunak, May and Cameron, should be ‘net zero seats’.
And no, I haven’t forgotten Liz Truss, a PM for five minutes. Truss, whilst not perfect, was the choice of the Tory base and during her brief tenure, she actually tried to make some changes. For her crimes she incurred the wrath of the establishment and was terminated in a globalist putsch, and that’s how the UK got Sunak.
Farage is desperately trying to save the UK but I suspect it is all too late. The UK, within a few decades, will have an Islamist government, and St Pauls, Westminster and so on, will all be converted into mosques. I know, I know, I’m engaging in hyperbole but you see all of my hyperbole over the last fifteen years has come true.
Spot on as always.
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Mark Dice:
Meet the NEW Joe Biden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmte3XfTEUg
The French “also ran” leftoid parties and spent force Macron are trying every trick in the book to avert a win on Sunday by the National Rally headed by Marine Le Pen. I note the absence of the normal media slavering over the possibility of a female doing well!
Being opposed to uncontrolled immigration is enough these days to get you labelled as “extreme right”. Across the Channel the BBC is working a line that says the UK shouldn’t oppose illegal immigration or demonise those who are “seeking asylum” from terrible things in their home country. Heaven forbid, however, that the regimes in those awful countries should be condemned at the UN or dragged off to the ICC. That’s reserved for miscreants like Israel.
I thought it was a bit rich of them to say that the sacred cow NHS had a lot of immigrants working in it! These are probably not Venezuelan criminals.
Dr Jill has been given another Vogue spread….you gotta laugh. It’s Dr Jill’s third spread in the magazine. Melania Trump, who speaks five languages, is exquisite in real life and was actually a model before becoming Mrs Trump, was never gifted a spread by US Vogue, in fact during the four years Melania was First Lady she was ignored, maligned and ridiculed.
Now normally I couldn’t give a shit, and in fact such stuff is shallow however it’s always worth noting the hypocrisy.
Another hypocrisy is this, I’ve seen the Vogue pictures of Dr Jill and they are very edited, touched up, photoshopped and so on, designed to make the old hag look twenty to thirty years younger. Now remember how Princess Catherine was put through the ringer by the MSM only a few months ago because she lightly touched up a picture of her and her children?
The colossal, staggering front of that woman. The Mount Everest of arrogance.
Not even Michelle Obama demanded her own fanfare whenever she took the stage, and that’s saying something.
She is the paragon, the absolute apex of the ‘You will address me by my husband’s rank’ line used by Byzantine empresses and medieval queens by marriage.
In reality though, she is merely Biden’s latest (and last) root.
Everyone should be familiar with the Coffman Starter.
Ponder this fact…..
Women do not have penises.
Michelle Obama might have interfered with school dinners, Melanie Trump certainly knew she hadn’t been elected but was the gracious ornamental wife but Dr Jill, I remember her getting herself photographed on an international junket reading some important documents, she has certainly inserted herself, and being unelected that’s a Jill dictatorship.
“We will decide our future”
Was that a Freudian slip first lady?
Apparently that shoot would have all been organised in April May.
She obviously coached hard
‘you answered all the questions!’ While he stood there looking like a stunned mullet.
Now her perfectly timed vogue messaging is just a juicy meme source.
“Ensure that in a country the size of continental US”
How big is Australia really, if you remove the deserts and other unproductive land?
Spot on Damon
Australia produces about as much food as four mid western US states.
We have little quality soil and even less with reliable rainfall. That’s why building renewables on good land is a crime of monumental stupidity and greed.
Team Handsome Boy is introducing its Future Made in Australia legislation today, enshrining a $23 billion 10-year cash splash on things
that make you go hmm?that support Net Zero and Australia’s Renewable Superpowerdom.Productivity Commissioners, past, present, and emerging are hooting like gibbons that this will be a colossal misallocation and waste of public funds.
Nonsense, says Treasury (the agency apparently anointed to oversee this historic transformation). The private sector has no idea what ‘National Interest’ is and can’t do the job of securing Australia’s world-leading Green industries without the guiding hand of government.
Not everyone will have read all of Treasury’s Future Made in Australia National Interest Framework. It’s a truly terrifying roadmap for how $23 billion of OPM is going to be shelled out to the Right Sorts:
In those other instances, where business and investors are floundering spastics in the cold cruel world of innovation, a stream of golden winners will be picked by Dr Chalmers and his Top Men.
Hydrogen Barons have captured Australia.
Notice with all this carry-on around Senator “Fat Paycheck” that none in the media have speculated on this whole thing being a set-up by the musso “we is coming for you”politico wing ….
They’ll have tasted the camel dung and noted Luigi & all the infidels are well on the nose so ripe for wiping and with several musso dominated seats in the “pardi” circle why not fan a sandstorm …..!
Sooo, “Fat Paycheck” throws a wobbly and exits the tent .. Luigi “almost” reacts but on opening the fridge door realises the lettuce is too hard and adds more marinate .. Instead of the big “slap” intended he, being “leafless”, blows some “pardi” hot air .. no sacking and the suspension Labor has when they aren’t having a suspension tactic plays out ..
“Fat Paycheck” then ups the ante and playz that time honoured & media luvved .. musso minority victimization card ..
“Oooh”, squeals the Senator, ” They’ve locked me out, I’m all alone, won’t allow me into meetings or chatz around the water bubbler, woe is me, 3 years & $200k + freebies but NO friends”.
The media luv this and, vigorously, shake the palm with, exclusive, frond-overs to the musso political arm who are happy to sway,
” Shock, horror” yells the selected, most outspoken, iman, ” Once again, we, an under-represented minority are being casbah-ed for having, honest, opinions concerning the evils of Jewry” ..
“Time for change we needz our own representation and will be looking at candidates in our “chosen” seats to launch, our beloved, muslim jihad” ..
Media, of course, is lapping this up & adopting their “we luvs all RoP so won’t you come for us last” attitude by expecting, the, now elevated to, Mahdi “Fat Paycheck” to take the “hump” and change oasis to form her own musso luv tribe & wave the scimitar across, what is regarded as, Luigi’s sandland(s) ……..!
Cos one thing the media will guarantee will be the upcoming Mahdi “Fat Paycheck” will be elevated above the “corporal”, Chlamydia & the “teals” when it comes to political “victim” publicity ..
Not even a 251, one eyed lesbian, domestic violence candidate could top an aggrieved musso wommenz ( tho it would be a close call) .. !
Oh, about the size of Western Europe.
Meanwhile, in the formerly united Kingdom, Gammon Man Bad looks like he’ll be getting a seat at Westminster.
Murdering trannies is first on his evil and hateful agenda.
Apparently.
Wheatbelt locals baulk at Bullwinkel, call for new Federal seat in State to be named ‘Beard’
Dylan CapornThe West Australian
Wed, 3 July 2024 2:00AM
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The family of a WWII nurse killed by Japanese soldiers in a 1942 massacre have lead calls to name WA’s new Federal electorate after their aunt, rather than the sole survivor of the horror — Vivian Bullwinkel.
Relatives of Toodyay-born Sister Alma Beard, one of 22 Australian nurses killed on Bangka Island in 1942, made a submission to the Australian Electoral Commission to rename the vast seat — which stretches from Perth’s eastern suburbs to Northam — “Beard”.
The Beard family letter was one of dozens that flooded the redistribution process, calling for a name change to the new seat of Bullwinkel — added to WA because of population growth — arguing the previous namesake was not born in the State.
Lieutenant Colonel Bullwinkel, who was a prisoner of war in WWII, was the sole survivor of the Bangka Island massacre in Indonesia, pretending to be dead as 22 colleagues were gunned down around her in the sand.
Nieces and nephews of Sister Beard wrote that while the change would not diminish Lt Col Bullwinkel’s service to WA, it would recognise her strong desire to honour the victims of the massacre.
“We consider naming this Division after Alma Beard would honour the memory of a local victim of a war crime, particularly a nurse, who were so often overlooked for their dedication and service during war,” the family wrote to the Commission.
“Her mother (our grandmother) later received a letter from Vivian Bullwinkel, the sole survivor, telling how Alma’s “brave conduct in her hour of crisis has added lustre to the service which she so nobly carried on”.
“We also think Vivian would be happy to see her friend honoured in such a way. We are Alma’s nieces and nephews, her direct surviving relatives. Aunty Alma’s story has always been an important part of our family history from our childhood and an inspiration to us all.”
A local historian told media at the unveiling of a Toodyay memorial to Sister Beard in 2022 that some of her last words had been to Lt Col Bullwinkel: “Bully, there are two things in life I’ve always hated, the Japanese and the sea, and today I have ended up with them both,” she said.
Queensland news:
Basically giving the unwashed the middle finger. All above board, nothing to see here, piss orf.
@WarlordDilley
This is why President Trump is the GOAT
Trump’s response to Supreme Court ruling
I do love Catturd.
@catturd2
Everyone who believes men can have babies believes in Climate Change.
Hardly a bombshell. More like business as usual.
Bombshell: FBI supervisor alleges bureau improperly pulling conservative agents’ security clearances
I’ve seen dozens of this type of story, up to and including murder.
Illegal Migrant Accused of Raping Teen Released on $500 Bail — Despite Pleas from Border Officials – Truth Press
Why is the braindead lamestream meeja suddenly getting hysterical about this nonexistent threat posed by nonexistent people?
To deflect from the existence of real actual nayzees in this stinking joke of a country?
Cue spooky muzak …
(From the Oz)
To paraphrase South Park, “you’ve got the wrong nayzees!” Or Star Wars, “these are not the nayzees you’re looking for (given they don’t exist)”.
Absolutely pathetic, you ridiculous z-grade dishonest dissembling clowns. Lift your game.
How delusional (or outright dishonest) do you need to be to post something like this?
@DanielAlmanPGH
Biden’s mental state is perfectly fine. The entire debate was a “cheap fake” created by “right wing conspiracy theorists.” The claim that he is not 100% mentally sound is nothing but “fake news.”
@Cernovich
Trump has spent over 100,000,000 dollars fighting false charges. Not including the money judgments in the civil cases. Bannon in prison. Navarro jailed. Freedom isn’t free. We are occupied by communists.
Zulu, I can’t get behind giving pre-eminence to victimhood, over service. Not dismissing anyone’s fortune or effort, but we’re not a Black Armband country.
One sentence slipped out in Jill Biden’s recent ‘Vogue’ interview that reveals the plot…
Gez
You can’t make a move in this place without running into regulatory disapproval or a tax.
Texas holds about 28 million people which is just a little bit more than Australia and the cost of building homes is much less.
A Texan real estate boom means more build rather than adjusting to price.
How Biden’s Mental Decline Went From ‘Misinformation’ To Fact In A Week
Counting The Most Horrific Crimes Allegedly Committed By Illegals Who Crossed The Border Under Biden’s Watch
Also in the once was great Britain, all those potential doctors and engineers fleeing war torn France better have side gigs as brickies and plumbers if the
LabourGaza First Party has any hope of building 25,000 houses per month.How thousands of Americans got caught in fintech’s false promise and lost access to bank accounts
Nominating Amy Cony Barrett was the worst decision Trump made in office. The democrats yelled and screamed every time they lost an election without any consequences whatever but the Supreme Court is now reduced to splitting hairs over Trump’s reasonable objections.
Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘Trojan Horse’
Wall Street Journal has reported that NATO Inc will be appointing a full time overseer for “Ukraine”.
I thought the Norwegian tailor said that NATO Inc is NOT a party to the conflict!
Anyway, NATO Inc countries are going to put up $45 Billion a year, to keep the grift going, ….., I mean, support peace and democracy.
I must have missed when Ukraine was admitted to NATO Inc.
In other matters, the Democrats cannot solve the problem of, the cash the Biden Syndicate has raised.
It cannot be transferred to another candidate evidently, not even the giggling VP.
As a result, they are going to stick with the hair sniffer.
Well, at least until he has an accident, which will need to be very soon.
What odds Hillary visits the WH soon, with a cake for Biden?
Donald Trump is the real President of the USA right now
Because once was not enough.
US Will Pay Moderna $176 Million To Develop MRNA Bird Flu Vaccine
Opinion | Was There a ‘Biden’ Presidency?
James Lindsay – How Woke Culture Was Created
Niall Ferguson: Are we the Soviets now?
JC I don’t know about now but not long ago the cost of building in Australia was cheaper until taxes, fees charges and whathaveyou were added.
Main attractions: two fighters which fought in the ferocious air wars around Malta in WWII – a Hurricane and a Spitfire; and two Gloster Meteors.
TE, did you know that in the early 1950’s the RAAF had a unit flying Vampires defending Malta. Apparently they did well against the RN , USN and others in exercises. The Vampire was a great little aircraft let down only by a M 0.72 Mach limit. Low wing loading, great ability to turn and fly at high altitudes.
Donald Trump is the real President of the USA right now
I wouldn’t put it past the Demonrats to claim just before polling day that Trump was ineligible because they cheated in 2020 so he’s already won two elections.
Due to unions, and the national ramifications of the actions of the idiots who comprise the Qld ALP state govt, that ratio may be changing.
Just read the article on Kohler feculating about Trump and Climate change.
Does this prick or close family have any renewable energy investments, I wonder?
No chance.
Urgent warning as shortage of bricklayers threatens plans to tackle UK’s housing crisis (2 Jul)
Amazing that all those country shoppers don’t seem to be flooding into building trades.
The Age
PM says Payman’s talks with Muslim-alliance aimed at unseating Labor MPs are ‘unacceptable’By Josefine GankoPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has responded to reports that renegade Labor senator Fatima Payman is on the brink of leaving the party, as she takes advice on the next steps from controversial election strategist Glenn Druery.
Druery is a political operative known as “the preference whisperer” for his success in securing seats for upper house independents and minor party candidates.
In an exclusive report, the Herald and The Age’s James Massola and Paul Sakkal revealed Druery is also in talks with an alliance of Muslim groups, who have thrown their support behind Payman following her decision last Tuesday to cross the floor to vote with the Greens on the recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The alliance plans to run candidates against half-a-dozen Labor MPs in the lower house and the Senate.
Albanese responded to the reports in an interview with ABC’s 7.30 on Tuesday night, saying “it’s not acceptable” for Payman to be speaking with operatives aimed at unseating Labor MPs, “which is why Senator Payman has been suspended from participation in the caucus”.
Albanese maintained that Payman would be welcomed back to the caucus if she re-committed to voting with the party, but noted her decision to enter talks with the alliance of Muslim groups was “unfortunate”.
“If you want to actually create change in whatever direction, you need to be part of a party of government,” Albanese said.
“Senator Payman had the privilege of being elected as a member of a party of government. And it’s a pity that she has chosen not to participate as a team member. At no stage has there been anything raised in the Caucus by Senator Payman, for example, about our policy on the Middle East.”
Don’t you just feel so sorry for poor old Albo? Naah, me neither.
Another Niall Ferguson article (via www. transterrestrial.com – rocket engineering and politics by real rocket engineers)
https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-democratic-party-awaits-gorbachev
I was reading something yesterday and have to admit I’ve forgotten where or even what the theme of the article/comment was but the bit that stuck out was a reference to “Gosford -by-the-sea suburbs” and the inference that they were, mainly, CentreLink long term devotees enclaves …. so any opinions they had didn’t matter …..
Thinking about it my son & family lives in one of these “by-the-sea” suburbs and you wouldn’t get alook in trying to buy a property where he is for under $2.5million plus, unofficially, require a ‘white folk only, permit to even think of living there ..
So whoever wrote it has no idea of Gosford water suburbs lifestyle or prices .. In fact the only “houso” I’m aware of outside Gosford itself is a “houso” estate up by The Entrance not in any of the 2 dozen other “by-the-sea” suburbs ……….
This will be interesting.
Geert Wilders’ Party Takes Over Dutch Immigration Ministry (2 Jul)
No doubt the Dutch deep state and stacked courts will fight him tooth and nail.
Trip to the urologist yesterday, basically, a re-hash of last week’s visit to the oncologist and agreement on the way forward with my enlarged prostate & Cancer .. Fortunately, both teams are of the same opinion the prostate is beyond repair/saving but with the C being benign and not spreading an op to deal with both at once is the best option ..
It will be in Liverpool cos Campbelltown doesn’t have the, necessary, equipment cos classed as a “biggie” tho not complex .. 3to4 hours on the table, 2 to 3 dayz hospital & a week easy going at home .. then, of course, several months, probable, “leakage” (based on severity & age) but if all goes well AOK by next Jan/Feb ….. may never swim/ride again but by then I’ll be 77 so not a priority duo .. LOL!
Doesn’t matter really cos no alternative .. If I don’t go under the knife/lazer or whatever they plan .. Renal failure and as Bugs would opine,
………………………….. “That’s all for now, folks”………..!
Brady Heywood’s report is incredibly clear that CS Energy’s process and risk management systems and culture were terrible and the direct cause of the Callide C explosion. Slack maintenance was obviously a contributory factor, and maintenance funding a non/issue, but the absolute key was the notoriously dreadful CS Energy corporate management.
Wheeling no nonsense Sean Brady into Estimates would promptly show that the useless Minister was useless and, at best, stupidly gullible.
deBrenni’s only real excuse is that he’s a unionist, promoted way above his capabilities.
From Arutz Sheva:
Australia: Jewish org. supports anti-Israel university students (2 Jul)
Stockholm Syndrome to infinity and beyond, it looks like. I will defer entirely to Cassie for any comments though since I don’t know JCA at all.
Wow, hasn’t this last week been a disaster for the Dems or what?
Federal Judge sides with Louisiana and strikes down Joe Biden’s illegal assault on American energy (1 Jun)
Epic smackdown! The LNG export ban was all about green ideology and was the worst sort of high-handed fascism from Biden’s activist kiddies.
This would be the same Jill Biden who is now squealing that the recent Scotus judgement would make Trump a “King”
Back in the mid-2000s, after Howard opened up a “vigorous” albeit short-lived discussion on nuclear power which ended with him banning it (thanks John!), the Beattie government in QLD passed a law prohibiting the use of farmland for nuclear facilities or any negative impact that might result therefrom.
How times change.
Huge claim.
Evidence?
As with Payman, no plea for the release of remaining hostages, either.
Proppallies, like all progressives just repeat lies in the hopes they will come true.
There has been an admission by the UN that they had been grossly undercounting food imports into Gaza by not counting private importations and flour being delivered to bakeries.
Calorific needs are being met to 157% per head.
I’m sure there are a few going hungry, just like there was before the war.
Apparently now Israel is controlling imports via Kerem Shalom distribution is better that before when Hamas was taking it all with significantly better prices.
If there was starvation there would be thousands of photos not just verbal propaganda.
“Why?”, indeed.
Dr Jill coming under some scrutiny. Barry next?
As a comparison, I don’t think Mrs Bucket came under any during the Howard years that morphed into the Howard disaster that, arguably, the Lieborals are still working their way out of today.
Undoubtedly.
Hard to imagine the Hamas pigs passing up on the political value of images of skeletal children with dead, staring eyes. Were they available, or readily manufactured.
Haha, Tucker doesn’t like Sydney.
‘HOW DOES ANYBODY LIVE HERE?’: US host rips Sydney in fiery speech (News.com.au mainpage headline, 3 Jul)
I have to agree. Maybe Mr Carlson you could visit Newcastle while you’re here?
It’s pretty obvious that despite efforts to shore up the terrorist vote they have abandoned Labor. How many attacks and threats do you need Albo?
The widespread rumours that payme is about to start a muslim party should be enough to expel her.
She’s got four years of comfy seat warming ahead, before hopefully sliding into muslim female oblivion.
Meanwhile I hope they do form a muslim brotherhood/ hibz ut tahrir party which is then beset by infighting over who is the truest follower of mo.
I don’t know if Australia will ever say enough is enough l, I suspect it will only be after a spate of Bataclan/Nice type of attacks.
The Jewish Council of Australia
A tiny group of fringe far-left Jews, who do not represent the community. Let me tell you something, there’s nothing worse than Jew hating Jews.
I will not call these people ‘kapos’, because that’s an insult to those kapos who, during World War II, were forced to undertake activities under pain of death.
No, no, no, these people are utterly putrid, they represent less than one or two percent of the community.
I regard such people who make up the ‘Jewish Council of Australia’ as akin to the likes of Stella Goldschlag. Goldschlag, during World War II, denounced her fellow Jews, she worked for the Nazis as a ‘catcher’ of Jews. She wasn’t forced into that role, she chose that role, thinking that the Nazis would let her off.
Sarah Schwartz and her comrades are no different to the Stella Goldschlags of Jewish history.
I can’t quite believe Albanese is now holding out an olive branch to Senator Payman, saying she’d be welcome back in caucus if she amends her voting intentions.
If the reports are true, she is disloyal and can’t be trusted.
This is the biggest cockup by a federal Labor leader for quite a while.
(Since the Voice referendum, anyway!)
Hollywood is pulling out all stops in opposing the SCOTUS immunity Judgment:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/07/02/bette-midler-attacks-supreme-court-in-wizard-of-oz-parody-song-youre-scared-of-our-vaginas/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/07/02/watch-rosie-odonnell-says-shes-depressed-in-falsehood-filled-tirade-about-scotus-immunity-ruling/
The government now engages in threats with menaces.
One for Wolfman.
Robert Towne, Writer of Chinatown, Dies at 89
Vale. A lot of excellent fillums got Mr Towne’s gentle and expert touch. I have to watch Heaven Can Wait again, which I like (it’s a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, but with a NFL quarterback instead of a boxer).
Eyrie
July 3, 2024 9:29 am
Donald Trump is the real President of the USA right now
Bzzzt.
The Constitution refers to serving two terms, not winning two elections.
Push for defence system to go under the microscope after vets and diggers called for Angus Campbell’s medalEllen Ransley
The Nightly
2 Min Read03 Jul, 2024
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The Senate will be asked to put the defence honours and awards system under the microscope after it was revealed dozens of retired and serving personnel had written to the Defence Minister demanding urgent change.
The Nightly on Monday revealed Richard Marles had received numerous letters from veterans and serving personnel between November and March, requesting he revoke outgoing defence chief Angus Campbell’s distinguished service cross and make changes to how military honours are bestowed and reviewed.
Among their concerns, the group have questioned how General Campbell could have been “in action” – as the criteria for his medal stipulated at the time – when he spent two-thirds of his tenure as commander of Afghanistan troops in the United Arab Emirates and was never in close proximity or under fire from an adversary.
The group also put to Mr Marles that the honours and awards system was being regularly abused by high-ranking personnel, saying there was “tangible evidence of this abuse going back nearly 30 years”.
In an attempt to further escalate the issue – which members of the defence community say is contributing to serious morale problems – Senator Malcolm Roberts will on Wednesday seek to refer “the integrity and efficacy of the defence honours and awards system” to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade references committee.
In his notice of motion, he said an inquiry must consider: the integrity of awards to senior officers for conduct in the Afghanistan conflict; the experiences of defence force personnel progressing the honours and awards system; and the effect of awards and honours on maintaining morale within the defence force.
If his motion is successful, the inquiry will also need to focus on the effect of changes in criteria for some honours and awards, including the 2011 change for the DSC from “in action” to “in warlike operations”.
That follows multiple members of the defence community telling The Nightly the change in criteria was “dodgy”, with the group putting to Mr Marles the Letters Patent had been changed because “the ADF was aware, and had been for many years, that the requirement for recipients to be ‘in action’ was problematic”.
After some members of the community suggested decisions regarding honours and awards needed to be completely removed from Defence’s remit, Senator Roberts will request that should the motion pass, the inquiry consider the operation of the independent Defence Honours and Awards Appeal Tribunal, and whether there are any potential improvements needed to the defence honours and awards system more broadly.
The Senate will be asked to consider whether or not the matter should be sent to an inquiry later on Wednesday.
If it is successful, the committee will be asked to report back by November.
For those who don’t subscribe to Sky, you can get a lot of it online on Youtube for nix now.
Here’s a taste of The Late Debate with Liz Storer, James Macpherson and Caleb Bond – having a good old chop at Biden’s debate.
Sweet Jill Biden is replicating the behaviour of a previous ‘Whitehouse Queen’, Mamie Eisenhower.
Her years in the European Chateau post war convinced her that she deserved aristocratic priveledge, a state of mind that she applied in full force when she arrived in the Whitehouse.
One of her early stunts was to demand that the staff line up to greet or farewell her each time that she departed or arrived in the building.
She stayed in bed until noon conducting meetings with staff and outsiders whilst lounging in her gown.
Eisenhower’s valet quit when Mamie instructed him on how he was to put on the Pres’s boxers.
Apparently Eisenhower wasn’t far behind in viewing himself through Sun King lenses.
Marles and Albo also are having a very bad week defencewise.
Going AWOL at RIMPAC bares our lack of fight (Paywallian today)
‘Extraordinary’: Albo lets fly after NATO snub backlash (Tele today)
Um, guys, hey! We can’t defend ourselves so we need sugar daddies. Which you aren’t doing the correct Only Fans thing to satisfy.
H B Bear
July 3, 2024 10:52 am
Yes, Hyacinth came to mind when I read that article earlier.
Was Jeanette just Dr Jill in sensible shoes?
The Constitution refers to serving two terms, not winning two elections.
Ah, yes. That interesting historical document that they aren’t using anymore.
Meanwhile, the Payman affair is sucking the air out of Elbow & Dim’s political moment.
Bungonia Bee @ 6.56am
On debate night I switched to CNN to see how they were taking it.
They showed a most brief clip of Biden’s mumblings, said it “wasn’t his best night” & said “Democrats are in panic”
Then ran several minutes of “debate summary”, being clips of Trump looking confused, dazed, mumbling & inarticulate, while Biden was aggressive, on the front foot & was really ripping it into Trump.
They made Trump seem like a spiv, while Biden seemed a controlled firm, solid commander.
Trump was presented in such a way that he really did seem to have the morals of an alleycat, they made it credibly seem that when out & about he may spy a women’s buttocks at random, push her into a corner “he even does it in department store changerooms” unzips to lower his trousers and forces himself into them.
And so on and so forth. It was so well presented that I was almost beginning to believe it.
To have such an comprehensive & misleading edit of the debate ready within a few hours is a credit to the CNN audio visual techs.
The NYT is Montys spirit animal.
https://x.com/emzanotti/status/1808270991639900645/photo/1
bons
July 3, 2024 11:44 am
I have been thinking about this over the last couple of days (in between educating m0nster about Draconian OH&S laws).
The Americans fought a War of Independence to free themselves from the shackles of living under a system of hereditary monarchy.
And yet they seem to want to adopt a facsimile of just such a system. Look at the field of candidates proposed for President every four years. From the Kennedys, through the Bushes and Clintons to Obama, the relatives of ex Presidents regularly come up as potential Presidential candidates, no matter how unsuitable they might be (see Kennedy, Edward).
And now the position of First Lady seems to have morphed from a cultural and charitable role into that of power sharing.
George Bernard Shaw.
A monster
https://x.com/i/status/1807961738995724706
King Charles would envy the constitutional powers of a POTUS.
I remember after Joe’s inauguration a photo of Jill walking toward the White House. She was moving briskly enough, wearing what looked like a black cocktail dress. Somehow the you could hear the breathlessness of the writer in the accompanying text, where they wrote that ‘finally glamour had returned to the Whit House’.
They were saying this after Melania had been First Lady, and hinting that she was not glamorous. And, of course, Melania entered the White House after that permanently scowling ogre, Michelle Obama.
The ogre and the elder-abuser both repeatedly marred the covers of fashion and style magazines during their husband’s Presidency, but those same magazines effectively boycotted Melania.
Just as the MSM gaslit gullible people into thinking Joe was of sound mind and unsurpassed genius, so they tried to make us think Michelle and Jill were somehow captivating and Melania was some foreign dull-witted drab.
The debate that finally revealed the advanced state of Joe’s decrepitude has also unmasked Jill as the vain, manipulative beast that she is.
If I remember correctly, there was never a shortage of chatteratii waiting to kick the bucket.
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I find it odd people bitching and moaning about coles and woolies, without acknowledging significant conveniences like extended opening hours 7 days a week and cheap home delivery.
I don’t like their prices.. so I only shop there when I need something Aldi doesn’t carry, or outside Aldi opening times.
Our old mate from the ABC resurfaces…
When it comes to power, solar is about to leave nuclear and everything else in the shade (Phys.org, 2 Jul)
by Peter Martin
Haha, the Ecommunist is as green as grass. I had to dump my subscription after a couple decades because even the foreign news section had become unreadably woke. Presumably both Peter Martin and the Economist have found a way for the Sun to shine at nighttime.
Gina Reinhardt is such a class act.
The slags from Netball Australia should have considered themselves bloody fortunate if she had offered them half a sandwich.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13594615/Gina-Rinehart-Cambodia-honour.html
Ah yes, one of those esteemed economists who are wrong about everything, all the time*.
*As opposed to the sole other type of economist – those who are wrong about everything 91.3% of the time.
And the sucking hasn’t really started yet.
Two obvious narrative streams:
Payman backs down and rejoins Caucus:
Payman heads off as a Muslim Independent or joins Muslim Vote:
No wonder Handsome Boy’s ring piece is twitching too much for him to fly off to junket with NATO leaders.
Pogria
July 3, 2024 12:54 pm
Yes she is, I like her acting quietly in the back ground doing good work instead of grandstanding like Forrest.
I’m sure she didn’t ask for recognition but if it comes her way it would be churlish to refuse.
Long may she live.
Looks like Steven Miles’s election campaign proclamation that SE QLD is full met with a sympathetic hearing in Canberra.
QLD’s 24/25 migration numbers will be cut with the placements going to WA, SA & TAS instead.
Share the love! And the traffic congestion…
Even the association of GPs in Oz is now allowing discussion of the possible adverse effects of the Covid vaccines:
see [email protected]
or
https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/abf6c70e-c2db-4035-8cf2-a60e3ae8d2c6/Letters.aspx?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
In the United States, plans are being drawn up to use batteries to transport solar energy as well as store it. Why build high-voltage transmission cables when you can use train carriages full of batteries to move power from the remote sunny places that collect it to the cities that need it?
I’d need to see the energy analysis on that. Instead of power lines you need railways, locomotives and rolling stock. I wonder what % charge on the batteries being transported arrives at the far end?. Could always run the locos on diesel I guess. LOL!
South Australia and Tasmania are the states that rely on renewables the most. They are the two states with the lowest wholesale electricity prices outside Victoria, whose prices are very low because of its reliance on brown coal.
So brown coal is cheapest? If we could run the power stations full bore I’d bet that black coal beats wind and solar and has the advantage of being available at night and when the wind don’t blow.
Mmyairs.
Because the free market isn’t able to overcome more than 60 years of compiled government regulations, then the only solution to our problem is moar gubermints.
This time it’ll work.
You know it’s true.
Reshuffle on the way. Geoff Chambers (Paywallian):
After serving in the NSW and federal parliaments for 21 years, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney is the most likely departure.
Sources close to Burney believe the 67-year-old is ready to pass on the baton after leading the government’s failed Indigenous voice referendum campaign alongside Albanese.
Murray Watt, a left-wing powerbroker and Albanese ally, is being floated as a contender to replace O’Neil as Home Affairs Minister.
The Queenslander, elevated into cabinet after Terri Butler’s shock loss to the Greens, has proven an effective performer in gruelling Senate estimates hearings.
An inner-city dwelling Agriculture Minister, Watt is a good communicator whose combative skills would have helped the government better manage immigration detention and border security scandals.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/dab81e7e0f2d3bbf185aad2914e65aad
Who’s in the ministry.
If Giles and Albanese can move on from the 2015 ALP National Conference where they failed to get up a motion rejecting the Coalition policy of turning back asylum-seeker boats, so can Watt.
Western Australia MP Patrick Gorman, now assistant minister to Albanese and a former WA ALP secretary, has been floated as a replacement for Giles.
You know I think this about right.
My mother did almost zero activities with us as children, didn’t read to us, or anything else that I can remember, other than once taking us to see a movie and a few times to the library or the pool when it was too far to walk when we went with my dad when he was working interstate. We played outside or watched TV and walked ourselves by ourselves everywhere; to school even as five year olds, to weekend sports, I caught the train on my own as a ten/ eleven year old, only time I got collected was if it were late at night. She did volunteer work at my brothers’s secondary school later on.
I mostly worked full-time and when I wasn’t I was helping with reading etc at primary school, ferrying children to activities, watching them play sports, reading with or to my children, sometimes even watching TV with them.
Whole different relationship.
https://x.com/emzanotti/status/1808138747793362974?t=9-VVlXquOKfrAcXspmGCnw&s=19
Ah, yes…nothing like the mid-winter break for
a bit of head loppinga cabinet reshuffle.I have a great idea! Let’s build a rail line from the bottom of the Snowy to the top!
Then we could rail water from the lower dam to the upper dam. Just pour the water out of the rail tankers into the upper dam and let it go back down to generate electricity! I’m sure I could get a million dollar grant to study this proposal. CSIRO could get another grant to do the modelling.
Did the inflation calculator for the USA for the last 10 years..
32.7% cumulative inflation.
Ours is 26%, but you cant chuck in 2024 yet.