We really are in the age of incompetence especially in the US. A guy with a target on his back can’t be protected by the very entity that’s supposed to prevent this type of assassination
. The internet almost went down.
I reckon the reason for this is DEI.
And no one ever seems to get fired.
JC
July 20, 2024 9:10 pm
War could be over soon
Former President Donald Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and unlike their last controversial phone call, both sides claimed to be satisfied with how the conversation went.
Trump said that it was a “very good call” and that he will work to negotiate a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. A person close to Zelenskyy who requested anonymity to discuss the private conversation said it went “exceedingly well” and that Trump pledged to “achieve a just peace in Ukraine” if he wins back the White House.
Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X that he and Trump agreed to schedule a “personal meeting” to discuss “what steps can make peace fair and truly lasting.”
Trump has pledged to swiftly end the war in Ukraine if reelected in November, going so far as to state he would negotiate peace before he assumes office in January
bons
July 20, 2024 9:16 pm
It has been intriguing oversighting the communications between our once close English upper class and elite friends who are realising that their mindless pursuit of BDS (Brexit Derangement Syndrone) has actually destroyed the future for their precious grand children.
There is much agitation around the village box for the Sunday morning shoot. “But, but, Kier is not like Tony, he actually wants to destroy us”.
They destroyed the Party in the arrogant belief that the little people of the Left would respect their betters and permit them to preserve their privilege.
Morons.
billie
July 20, 2024 9:26 pm
JC “We really are in the age of incompetence”
Do all the investors in windmills and solar farms continually hold their breath, waiting for someone to say, “Nope, that just doesn’t work, defund it!”
They must live in fear that the rubes will finally wake up and pull the funding carpet away.
Ever seen the Simpsons episode of the Monorail guy?
That’s the Labor party, CSIRO, our universities, all in a conga line behind our version of the Monorail guy .. the solar and windmill guy. (also the Green Hydrogen guy and the electrical cable to Singapore guys)
You know, a town with money’s a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it!”
?Lyle Lanley Lillard Lewis “Lyle” Lanley (possible full name) is a con artist and shyster who sold faulty monorails to several towns, including Springfield
That’s us in Australia, fools with money.
I love Leak’s money hose that Albo uses, so appropriate.
I like the approach. Might take that on board. But from my experience so far once they have committed to the Green machine there is very little chance of bringing them back. It’s a death cult. Jonestown next.
I may be incorrect in attributing this to The Simpsons, but I recall an episode where an enormous escalator is built that goes to nowhere; it simply ends in the air. Because it’s the ‘hip, new, thing,’ everyone lines up to ride it, even though it is obvious that all those who rode before them dropped to their death. I guess it’s an allusion to the behaviour of lemmings.
Regardless of attribution or may admittedly dodgy memory, to me, that escalator to nowhere sums up the present state of humanity (or we First Worlders anyway. Maybe if we didn’t have so much leisure time and affluence? Oooooh…. hang on! What if The Simpsons’ Itchy and Scratchy were two sides of the one personality, meaning they were performing those acts of insane violence on themselves? Now that – in a less visceral sense – is First World humanity).
I searched for references to the swamp, the deep state and regime and bureaucracy and couldn’t find any in that speech. Draining did not seem to be on the agenda any more.
It has been intriguing oversighting the communications between our once close English upper class and elite friends who are realising that their mindless pursuit of BDS (Brexit Derangement Syndrone) has actually destroyed the future for their precious grand children.
Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly, all the worst human traits. Now that the hoi polloi can see their uselessness the only unknown is how long they will be tolerated.
KevinM
July 20, 2024 10:42 pm
And believe it not, that is how we got the original railway gauge.
Sadly, not (although the starting point was a rational size of horse drawn vehicle).
The ‘standard gauge’ was set by the UK 1848 Gauge Act, which recognised the success of Robert Stevenson’s adaption of the 5’ Killingworth rollyway to allow his steam locomotive to run around corners fitted with iron plates without binding.
Rosie
July 20, 2024 10:42 pm
Trump said shoot me in the ear and kill and injure a couple of people so I can win the election?
Makes sense … he needed something, being so far behind in the polls (sarc)
KevinM
July 20, 2024 10:47 pm
Crossie
July 20, 2024 10:37 pm
Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly, all the worst human traits. Now that the hoi polloi can see their uselessness the only unknown is how long they will be tolerated.
I don’t know how to knit or crochet, but would be willing to learn and sit in the front row to see them marched up for a decent flogging.
Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly
they may control local, state and federal govt they may be the politicians, union leaders, judiciary and lobbyists they might be the media, the police, the armed forces or school teachers
they may have a monopoly on violence
but…
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact.
So don’t fuck with us.” ? Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Steve trickler
July 20, 2024 11:17 pm
The stage production is off the charts. So good to watch on the big screen!
I’ll repeat, this music is not for everyone …. understandable. Half of the fun is watching the crowd.
Betcha Biden’s off the ticket by the election, M0nts.
He’ll be kept upright until then, but won’t be the candidate.
Who won’t be Kamala either. New young blood coming in.
Can’t imagine how awful that will be, ‘woke’ central on puerile display.
That is not happening, Lizzie. And happy birthday! You don’t look a day over 67.
There is no mechanism for the party to roll Biden at this point. He has the primary votes, the funding, and the power of incumbency. I don’t care how many anonymous stories come out about his wavering mindset, he ain’t leaving.
August 5 is apparently the date after which Biden has the nomination officially, which should be the end of the current silliness. But probably won’t.
Tonight I rewatched The Searchers. It’s a film I like to watch every 2 or 3 years. There are some movies, all classics, that I like to sit down and rewatch every few years, classics such as The Wizard of Oz, The Great Escape, Rear Window, North by Northwest and a few others. They are the great American films of the last eighty years, and The Searchers, as far as I am concerned, is the greatest Western, and a highly allegorical one at that. It’s themes have not dated at all.
I’ve written here before how the main character in The Searchers, ‘Ethan’, played by John Wayne, reminds me of Donald Trump. ‘Ethan’ is a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, a tough and intelligent man, plain speaking, hardened by battle in war, embittered, unforgiving, prejudiced, not a likeable character. But he’s filled with ‘true grit’, and he embodies something unique in American culture, he’s a rugged and brave individual but he ain’t perfect, far from it….like Donald J Trump.
You might not know this but when The Searchers was released in 1956 and was a success on its release, it was watched by a young musical genius by the name of Buddy Holly who was inspired to write a song using words spoken by ‘Ethan’ in the film. That song was called….’That’ll be the Day’.
There’s a scene in the film where the young Jeffrey Hunter, who plays Marty, furiously confronts Ethan on his prejudice and he says to Ethan….
‘I hope you die’
To which Ethan replies…
‘That’ll be the day’.
Over the last eight years so many have wished Donald Trump would die and go away, and last week they very nearly succeeded in killing Donald Trump. And whilst Trump, standing on that podium in Pennsylvania, didn’t utter the same words as ‘Ethan’ in The Searchers, you can see the same character traits and Trump’s message to the shooter, to the elites, to the MSM, to all of those who’ve spent years disparaging him, smearing him, ridiculing him, demonising him, silencing him, lying about him, trying to jail him and lastly, last Sunday morning (Oz time), trying to kill him, the sentiment was exactly the same as what Wayne’s character ‘Ethan’ said in The Searchers….
“There was one shooter. If there were more Trumpster would be deadsky”
I have watched many experts (former Seals, snipers, Secret Service etc) in past few days.
If there were two shooters then Crooks would be the “patsy” and the 2nd shooter would be the better shot. However the timing had to be exactly right. You would think the 2nd shooter would also have a better specialist sniper weapon which would ensure he hit target.
Former SEAL Tim Kennedy made an interesting point. That was that the Government via Homeland Security (Mayorkas) and Secret Service had ensured that Trump had a week security team. The many errors support the conclusion that he did not have his A team on duty that day.
Plus you have the constant flood of comments from Democrat side that Trump was Hitler and a danger to democracy. They created the atmosphere that would make attempts more likely.
Or the Secret Service sniper was below the patsy in the building. They had direct line of sight to Trump and would know exactly when to fire. Robert Barnes
Zatara
July 21, 2024 12:22 am
Wokester: “Trump is wearing that huge bandage for theatrical effect.”
Normie: “What? I couldn’t understand you through that mask you’re wearing.”
Top Ender
July 21, 2024 1:07 am
Postcard 3 from Romania Romania features the interesting capital of Bucharest. Ravaged by successive competing ideas of government, enough remains to capture attention in a walk around. There are small old churches with painted panels; stately buildings in a Romanesque style, and fountains as a feature. Intermixed with all of this are horrible communist-build blockhouses of “apartments” and offices: featureless concrete everywhere. The temperature however was getting into the 40s by mid-afternoon so one had to be a bit careful walking around. We toured the Parliament House – the world’s second largest building, and you might wonder why a country that’s not that rich with a population of 20 million builds such a thing. The answer was that underNicolae Ceau?escu the general secretary of the Communist Party he wanted to and they complied. It is now 70% empty and a tourist attraction – magnificently built out of all-Romanian products. One interesting aspect of where we were staying right in the middle of town was in the evening – when it had cooled down a bit – was the Romanians coming out to play. A major occupation in a closed off main street was walking up the length of it – about five blocks – and then back down again. Lots of street cafes. The Romanian idea of a diet is smoked meat so we were able to help out a bit. This narrative is jumping around a bit but we are on a river cruise for the next 10 days.
Isn’t the building you described the largest marble building in the world? Top Gear is my reference for that. The boys raced sports cars underneath it to see who could make the loudest noise.
Romania. Christmas Day 1989, when the people finally rose up and overthrew the tyrant and executed him and his missus in the street.
This comes as Germany struggles to manage migration and assist asylum seekers while also appeasing a growing proportion of voters who are being enticed by Right-wing politicians pushing anti-migrant rhetoric – a stark contrast from former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border migration policy, through which she allowed one million refugees enter Germany in 2015.
I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?
Rosie
July 21, 2024 3:22 am
I’m going to postcard too.
A miserable day in Dublin, I went to mass at the Carmelite monastery in the morning. They first arrived in Ireland at the end of the 1200s, got booted by Henry the 8th, went into hiding for 200 years, then got a small section of their Dublin land back and started rebuilding in the early 19th century. One priest found an old Madonna and Child (probably from a dissolved Cisterian monastery on the north bank of the Liffey) in a second hand shop and she is now ‘Our Lady of Dublin’.
My cultural activity was the emmigration museum, €23, in former underground warehouses on the north side.
Also had to do a bit of eye rolling there and move on, it’s entirely modern and interactive but interesting in parts, some stuff I knew well enough.
I don’t know why the Magdalene laundries needed two mentions. Is it possible that Catholic nuns also did good things in Ireland?
Ireland until at least the 1950s was mostly poor and life was harsh for many, it’s why so many people left.
Missed the regular palli rally by that much, saw a few walking back as I made my way home.
The Spar supermarket on one city corner was ‘Gay Spar’.
Really?
All in all I don’t like the city centre, crowded, grubby, with homeless encampments and other flotsam begging.
According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months.”
There are a few international borders Israel had to cross to get at them. I suspect there are a few Arab nations that were not unhappy to have them pass through on their way to say hi to the Houthis.
That may have also had the effect of letting Iran know that they still care.
If the IDF coasted out at Eilat they could have stayed over water the whole way. Or crossed through Saudi, who has no love for the Houthis (and would likely have granted permission).
Some of these “terrorist” organizations are slow on the uptake, aren’t they? .. Time after time they get demonstrations of the Israeli reaction and still they think, “Let’s try again, this time it might be different” …. furglewitz …….!
bons
July 21, 2024 7:00 am
What fun watching some MSNBC teeth and hair airhead intoning today’s criticisms of the RNC. My favourites:
“They couldn’t even attract a single celebrity”.
“They had ordinary working people on stage”.
“These people are white surpremacists, how dare they insult people of colour by having token minority preachers on stage”.
I realise it is all just a scripted production but geez, Goebbles they ain’t!
lotocoti
July 21, 2024 7:23 am
I still have nightmares about trying to colour grade
a faded 16mm print of The Searchers on the fly.
Back in the days of the Cintel Flying Spot Scanner,
there was nothing racist about the technical term crushing the blacks.
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Mak Siccar
July 21, 2024 7:38 am
The unbelievable gall of these precious ‘victims’.
Pro-Palestinian activist Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding $300,000 and an apology from The Australian after the newspaper revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants.
The Australian has categorically rejected Dr Abdel-Fattah’s defamation claim, pointing out that she led children in chants that were widely understood to be anti-Semitic.
Lawyer Adam Houda, for Dr Abdel-Fattah, said The Australian’s articles contained false imputations that the Macquarie University academic “compelled children to chant in support of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed and maimed thousands of Israeli civilians, … groomed children for violence and indoctrinated them into extremism”.
The defamation threat from Dr Abdel-Fattah comes as Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi threatens to sue The Australian over a Johannes Leak cartoon she claimed was racist
The PhD has been devalued everywhere in the past twenty years, with some ridiculous efforts being awarded the honour. However, Macquarie has always veered more to the left than elsewhere, especially in its law school. I taught at Macquarie on a part-time sessional basis for a while in the mid 70’s while pregnant with my second child. I never liked the place, coming from a Teaching Fellowship, tutorship and Commonwealth post-graduate scholarship at Sydney University. Things were still bearable at Sydney Uni, scholarly and measured, even during those heady anti-Vietnam and then Whitlam years. Macquarie didn’t excite with any originality of thought.
Whilst the UK is quickly descending into a sectarian & tribal ethno-religious state, it’s far easier for the UK to blame one of their devils for the Leeds riots……Nigel Farage.
LOL
Meanwhile, whilst sections of the UK media are now blaming Farage, all because of a tweet he put out, the same UK media are now lauding a Leeds based Islamist pin-up boy for his spurious attempts at ‘social cohesion’, even though this same Islamist was just recently elected as a ‘Greens’ candidate in Leeds, and he wasn’t elected on much of a ‘social cohesion’ platform because when he won he shouted, screamed and screeched…….
‘Allah Akbar’
and
‘Free Palestine’
Hmm, forget about ‘social cohesion’ in the UK (and coming here), it’s now ‘Islam cohesion’.
Hmm. Still looking at cruising in the Arabian Sea in December.
I’m hoping things will have settled down by then.
Glad this came now not later.
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 7:53 am
Yes I’m afraid so Cassie. The insane green policies have shades of Romania in the late 80s too. The despicable establishment seems to have fully quashed all the excitement and optimism of 2016.
The Theros was a wind and solar-powered vessel piloted by the pair to show how travel can be done without using fossil fuels.
Considering how many millennia mariners have managed to
sail the seven seas without the added benefit of fossil fuels,
it must’ve been the solar power wot done it.
Thanks to all of you for the extra names.
It’s a great start.
Perhaps Dover could run a side bar with the names of the Good ones, which we could add to as we find them.
With a short bio of each.
Gives you an idea of how the elites think of our cities. These are no longer showcases of the best we have to offer but illustrate the capitulation of our leaders to urban terrorists.
Whenever confronted by the truth, leftists will always fall back on their one true talent; lying through their teeth.
Consider the contrast: While President Trump has shown he’s an exceptional leader, the “Democrats” are down to the level of demonizing his movement by bringing up Project 2025. What it shows is that they have nothing to offer the country but lies, projection, and fear.
They have all decided – as one – to demonize Project 2025, the plans to shrink the size of our behemoth bureaucratic state.
There is no mechanism for the party to roll Biden at this point. He has the primary votes, the funding, and the power of incumbency. I don’t care how many anonymous stories come out about his wavering mindset, he ain’t leaving.
August 5 is apparently the date after which Biden has the nomination officially, which should be the end of the current silliness. But probably won’t.
I don’t think Biden will be the candidate but that they’ll keep him breathing and upright just long enough to open up the Convention to a new candidate. That said, Biden may upset this applecart by simply being stubborn and staying put. With all the money.
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 8:23 am
Lizzie, thanks for the pointer on getting a good looking Burmese(or two). I’m feeling the need for a couple of cats since the little black and white female cat from over the corner back fence got moved to Wagga for a year. It took a while but she became very friendly. I called her “Taxi” (Black and White) and found her early one morning sleeping on our front steps. It may have been a hint.
Eyrie, Burmese are expensive but I think you are ensuring their future if anything happens you. If you can afford it and cope with two, then two cats are a wonderful team. They get to love each other so much, and you equally as much. They don’t get lonely especially if you are out much during the day. In the 60’s we always had ‘two cats in the yard’ in our group house. One was a Siamese, the other a rescue tabby. In the turmoil of bringing home my first baby to the group house, and in the utter chaos of its disintegration after one of the members was having it off with my husband. This led to my departure with the baby, as I was taken in during my great distress by other kindly academics, and the cats disappeared in all the shouting and side-taking. I don’t know what happened to either of them, but I knew the Siamese would have found another home. There were rumours of that. The tabby, I fear not. I suspect she ended up as roadkill, but no body was ever found. People told me later they did search for them both.
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 8:26 am
Every day both here and in the US, the meja continue to reveal themselves to be the idiotic, spiteful and condescending, blinked liars that they are. Agree there are some good writers in the Oz but the muck served up by Kelly, Sheridan and Ullmann to name but three mean that I cannot in good conscience let any of my hard earned go their way.
I cancelled when I lost my job; its not like there are professional job ads any more.
Now I often want to resubscribe because I want to read some articles from behind the paywall. But I KNOW I will be enraged, and waste time commenting only to see the nasty mods leave my comments in purgatory until its too late to have others read them.
This weekend’s edition was well worth throwing them a few dollars to read in hard copy. That might be the best solution for those not wanting to subscribe.
Pogria
July 21, 2024 8:26 am
Cassie,
your comment on the UK led to comparing what is happening there, to the film “28 Days Later”.
UK is the Lab experimenting with Rage Virus on Chimps. Muslims were nick named Rage Monkeys years ago. Coincidence?
Do gooders release the poor little chimps from the lab in the the “name of freedom”, doncha know.
This is equivalent to flooding the UK with rag heads because, “poor little things”, will be different in a “free” country.
But, it doesn’t work out the way the do gooders had planned. The Rage Monkeys attack and kill without remorse or any sort of human feeling whatever. The worst part is, the rage is contagious. It is Rabies like in it’s effect.
The Government has no way of dealing with the problem because it has become weak and dissipated over the years. The ordinary person tries their hardest to avoid the contagion but, they are stymied because they are not allowed to defend themselves.
The decision is made to abandon the UK for six months. It is an island. Hopefully, the contagion will have killed itself by then. If there are survivors, they will most likely be imprisoned upon discovery and quarantined, “for their own good”.
And never heard of again.
Miltonf
July 21, 2024 8:32 am
Seeing the discredited old Chills and his old slag regurgitating lawyer Starmer’s Marxist poison made me feel quite ill. The British establishment.
I don’t know why the Magdalene laundries needed two mentions. Is it possible that Catholic nuns also did good things in Ireland?
About 15 years ago when I was commenting at Butterflies and Wheels, a lady there was describing sitting in the gallery of court hearings at that time, making rosaries as a visible show of the way they as child inmates were forced to work.
It sounded pretty harsh.
The times in general were pretty harsh, especially in Ireland.
Dare I mention ‘Angela’s Ashes’. Why yes, I think I can.
Farmer Gez
July 21, 2024 8:40 am
Never bought a cat in my life.
Our oldest cat was picked up at a country show. The sign read ‘free to a good home’ and my then ten year old daughter raced over to me and said “we’ve got a good home dad, can we take him?”
What can you say to that?
Same here, never bought a cat tho it’s been at least 25 years since there wasn’t one living here .. at one stage I had 7 but, thankfully, ageing has them down to 2 now .. Both will, probably, outlast me .. LOL!
Fatso was gift from the Child Bride and she was very cagey about where he came from, Buddy was a stroll in who adopted us.
Elsie is just a loan.
I think she will be my last cat.
I gave her a bit of a brush down a week ago. The lacerations have mostly healed but I think some scarring will be evidence of her enthusiasm for the process. I got quite a lot of fur from her – enough, I think, to knit another cat if I want a small one.
I’m looking for a dog – more as a bit of protection and company than anything else, if anyone has a spare they don’t need any more, I’m after a middle aged mid size derg. My block is 2000 square meters so plenty of room for hole digging etc.
Apparently I have a good home.
🙂
Roger
July 21, 2024 8:41 am
Apropos yesterday’s discussion of prog-lefties defriending normies, I see Usha Vance, previously a liberal darling as a high-profile lawyer at a progressive firm, has been targeted by left-leaning media outlets in the US with borderline racist jokes, including deportation memes (note: she is US born).
Romania. Christmas Day 1989, when the people finally rose up and overthrew the tyrant and executed him and his missus in the street.
Should be more of it.
The Ceausescu’s ignominious demise is one of the most heart warming tales of the last forty years.
Farmer Gez
July 21, 2024 8:47 am
Trump is worth bottling.
He just said in Michigan that Kamala is crazy, not Nancy Pelosi crazy, but she’s crazy.
He’s Baaack!
Roger
July 21, 2024 8:49 am
The Australian has categorically rejected Dr Abdel-Fattah’s defamation claim, pointing out that she led children in chants that were widely understood to be anti-Semitic.
Our Muslima friends seem to have difficulty grasping the truth defence and fair comment.
Why is that, I wonder?
Do they perhaps view themselves as privileged and above criticism?
Do they perhaps view themselves as privileged and above criticism?
Actually, they do. They are steeped into the beliefs of their cult from day one. They honestly believe they are Allahs Chosen People and are genuinely perplexed by our refusal to acknowledge this. I’m not being disingenuous about this – their entire world view centres on them being special – and they genuinely do not understand how we cannot see the validity of their religious viewpoint. Of course this position leads them to the supposition that we are servants of Satan and must be destroyed, which is where kitman and taqiyya become necessary.
Another reason for the popularity in the Arab nations is the automatic superiority of men over women. If you are a male with an IQ of 70, you are automatically superior to every woman in the world. It must be a great relief to know when you get out of bed in the morning that you are better than Marie Curie, Golda Meir, Amelia Earhart, and Indira Gandhi. So now he can go about herding his goats with a clear understanding of his greatness in the Islamic world.
Amazing ..! I had to look it up cos wondered how at that age he could fly a Spitfire .. saw the pix and its been modified with a 2nd seat .. Incredible ..!
IIRC, the Spitfire is an original trainer, “The Duchess of Somewhere or other”.
Going on memory here – I’ll look for a link and post it – see how well the memory is working.
OK. Can’t find it. Bugger.
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Zippster
July 21, 2024 8:50 am
Australian economy in ‘recovery phase’ following major IT outage: Clare O’Neil
It’s more important for the Arabs of ‘Palestine’ to not ever have a Jewish state than it is for them to have a ‘Palestinian’ state alongside a Jewish state.
And they tried to murder its king, kill its soldiers and take it over.
Black Ball
July 21, 2024 9:06 am
Joe Hildebrand must have had an interview with Jacinta Price.
Indigenous leader Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has declared that her first act if she was made prime minister would be to tackle disadvantage without focusing on race and instil a sense of national pride in Aboriginal Australians.
The firebrand campaigner also said that a new “enlightenment” is needed to advance First Nations people.
Senator Price said she believed Australia needed to tackle disadvantage without regard to race.
“First things first, I would want to focus on supporting Australians on the basis of need, not race. Because one thing that I absolutely understand is that being Indigenous doesn’t automatically make you disadvantaged. It’s your circumstances. And then we could focus our efforts on supporting our most disadvantaged,” she said.
And she said she would promote a more rounded understanding of history that would encourage Aboriginal people to be proud of being Australian as well as Indigenous.
“I would push to understand our nation’s history in its entirety and work on being proud to call ourselves Australian,” she said. “If our children don’t have pride in who they are, how are they going to be the future leaders who want to resolve some of our tough problems and recognise what it is that makes us a wonderful country?”
Senator Price, whose profile soared after her work for the No campaign for the Voice, said that just as the West had rejected its historical misogyny, so too did Indigenous communities need to move on from some outdated traditional beliefs instead of “romanticism” about them.
She cited a traditional belief that mothers should be punished or ostracised following the death of a child, because premature deaths were attributed to sorcery and a scapegoat was needed.
“We don’t burn women at the stake and accuse them of being witches anymore. So why should we suggest that sorcery is the cause of any premature death or illness?” she asked.
“We’ve got to have our enlightenment stages as well. But we’re continually told this romanticism about being the world’s oldest living culture. Yeah, that’s great. But what does that mean for trying to establish ourselves in a modern Australia? And not just survive, but thrive?”
Senator Price said her family were once dyed-in-the-wool Labor voters but that she felt the left had worsened the plight of Aboriginal people by treating them as victims and denying them personal responsibility.
“I think like a lot of people, I feel like Labor have abandoned the working class,” she said. “And for Aboriginal people there’s such a dependency, it’s ridiculous. It’s what’s destroying Aboriginal people out in communities … telling Aboriginal people it’s not your fault you’re in this takes away their agency.”
And yet by becoming more conservative and coming out against the Voice she is now treated as a traitor or an apostate by many of her old friends.
“The expectation of activism, activism, activism; just fight for everything to be handed to you. Well, actually, where’s it gonna get you? Where do you stand on your own two feet as a human being?” she said.
“You need to be able to have the opportunity to provide for yourself and your family. That’s the ultimate freedom but that’s not what the left encourages. And growing up in a place like Alice Springs, surrounded by lefty friends and family, all of a sudden there’s all these people that don’t want to know me, don’t want to have anything to do with me. And it’s like: Wow. I’ve known you since I was a kid. The tolerance of them? There’s no such thing as tolerance.”
This might be extracts of a book of Price’s actually. Matters Of The Heart
Whatever, they are sage words.
Can I shorten her message somewhat?
“An Aboriginal Enlightenment.”
… or “How we forced Aboriginal Australia into growing the Fark up by cutting off all subsidies and racial legal empowerment which turned out to be velvet chains.”
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Crossie
July 21, 2024 9:15 am
Is God having a laugh at us or is it humour from hell? The boss of the Secret Service is called Cheatle while the assassin is a Crooks.
I do Eyrie.
I do volunteer work in the imaging section at the museum workshop on the Army Aviation Training Centre base most Wednesdays.
Wednesday last week marked 50 years of the CH47 Chinook being in service with the ADF. The function was held at the display area where Scott is doing the interview.
Next week the conversation is going to be ‘Did ya see Scotty’s interview???’… ‘Yair…hope he is putting up a couple of cartons for us’…’didn’t think he would scrub up so well’…etc etc etc… 🙂
Scott was also an Army loadie on the Iroquois.
Very interesting and very informative.
I was surprised at the level of enthusiasm for the Pilatus Porter – wasn’t it supposed to be a deathtrap with doors falling off and similar?
Also the Eurocopter being well thought of or am I mixing up the Tiger and the Eurocopter?
Damn. I’ve driven past the place many many times on the way to Brisbane but have never had the time to stop.
I should make the time….
Steve trickler
July 21, 2024 9:25 am
Farmer Gez July 21, 2024 8:40 am
Never bought a cat in my life. Our oldest cat was picked up at a country show. The sign read ‘free to a good home’ and my then ten year old daughter raced over to me and said “we’ve got a good home dad, can we take him?” What can you say to that?
Good stuff, Gez.
The cat I just buried was born in the wall cavity of mum’s laundary. She lasted 20+ years.
Crossie
July 21, 2024 9:29 am
The firebrand campaigner also said that a new “enlightenment” is needed to advance First Nations people.
Senator Price said she believed Australia needed to tackle disadvantage without regard to race.
Any other consideration is either racism or classism, it is like telling people you will never be able to look after yourselves or your families because you are black, brown or even poor white*.
*JD Vance is a shining example of a poor white person rising to the top purely due to his own determination and actions. The left hates him because he undercuts their message, he wants to deprive the left of their dependent voters.
BobtheBoozer
July 21, 2024 9:29 am
Indolent
July 20, 2024 11:26 pm Why They Hate Let me see if I have this right from the article: Considering that Allah has left the world to Islam, there can never be peace. All lands not occupied by Islam belong to Islam – they are occupied by the Infidel. Therefore they must be liberated and any Muslim who treats with the enemy – unless it is under the auspices of Kitman deception – as an apostate who must be killed for his apostasy.
Hamas must be defeated, unequivocally, and following the end of the present wars against Hamas, a multi-generational effort by the civilized world will be required to reeducate the Middle East to renounce Jew hatred among the Muslims of Gaza, Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon, and Judea and Samaria.
That leaves us with little choice. Either we submit or we die. ?There is the third option. We kill every Muslim who fails to convert to Christianity, destroy every Mosque and burn out of existence every trace of Islam. Those are the choices that Islam presents us with – they are certainly not mine, but they are theirs. Choices, choices, choices.
Australian economy in ‘recovery phase’ following major IT outage: Clare O’Neil
what would we do without these bozos?
Oz economy is on Elon’s space rocket flights level .. gotta be cos Luigi is throwing $600 million taxpayer funds at PNG to create their very own NRL “thugby” team ……
Morsie
July 21, 2024 9:34 am
Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding a huge payout and an apology after it was revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants. Havent looked but I wouldnt be surprised if its Marque lawyers again.
Morsie
July 21, 2024 9:40 am
James Clyburn will go apeshit if Kamala is booted and replaced by a non black.
Stanley Kubrick really nailed the lighting and angles for that shot. Good thing he was such a stickler for details and insisted on filming on location!
And just to show, yet again, how utterly depraved and repulsive the MSM is, it’s worth watching Nigel Farage demolish the excrement called Emily Mateless……
Sen. Josh Hawley: “Today when I went to that sight, the FBI has got more security on that sight now than they did the night Trump was shot out. FBI trying to totally control the information. They try to kick me off of the sight. They said ‘Get Outta here ! You shouldn’t be on the sight’. I had the permission from the local, the FBI came out and said you have got to leave, we don’t want you here.”
Zippster
July 21, 2024 9:55 am
Hillary Clinton is reportedly considering a run for president in 2024 against Donald Trump, according to various sources and social media discussions. This potential candidacy has sparked a range of reactions, with some expressing skepticism and others supporting the idea. The discussions also touch on the implications of such a run, including the potential impact on the Democratic Party and the dynamics of a rematch with Trump. There is also speculation about the role of other prominent figures, such as Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election. (Test)
Well, Clinton is totally unelectable and isn’t risking a thing to run. So there’s that.
On the other hand the Dems would have to pitch hard to get their core voters over the whole ‘ignoring the entitled “black” woman’ thing and that’s not going to happen.
Too many of them remember bitterly when Bernie got shafted/bribed by the party to end his run for the party preferred candidate.
This comes as Germany struggles to manage migration and assist asylum seekers while also appeasing a growing proportion of voters who are being enticed by Right-wing politicians pushing anti-migrant rhetoric – a stark contrast from former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border migration policy, through which she allowed one million refugees enter Germany in 2015.
I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims? And what will they do about it?
Pro-Palestinian activist Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding $300,000 and an apology from The Australian after the newspaper revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants.
The Australian has categorically rejected Dr Abdel-Fattah’s defamation claim, pointing out that she led children in chants that were widely understood to be anti-Semitic.
Lawyer Adam Houda, for Dr Abdel-Fattah, said The Australian’s articles contained false imputations that the Macquarie University academic “compelled children to chant in support of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed and maimed thousands of Israeli civilians, … groomed children for violence and indoctrinated them into extremism”.
The defamation threat from Dr Abdel-Fattah comes as Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi threatens to sue The Australian over a Johannes Leak cartoon she claimed was racist
To which we can add that ghastly thing Fatima Payman.
Why is that muizzie sheilas are at the forefront in promoting muzzie values in the West when it is the West which gives them the freedom to act like hezron loons; and if they were still in their muzzie shithole from whence they came they would have a burqa stapled to their mugs and be perpetually preggers. They personify cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
Methinx the “musso” political hardliners have seen the advantages of pushing their women to the front, after the very soft Labor & Coalition response to Senator “Fat Paycheque’s” defection …..
It wil last as long as it furthers the ‘we is victims” cause ……!
Roger
July 21, 2024 10:03 am
I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?
Even though there aren’t many remaining from the ones who fought the last war, they have an institutionalised memory of the chaos and death that was visited on them.
The disgraced and inept Alejandro Mayorkas has time to comment at length on things said by random people on Twitter – but no time to appear before Congress & the people to ANSWER QUESTIONS about how his Dept nearly allowed Trump to be assassinated
Before I could get my exact question right, Vance launched. “Israel is a country and a nation that doesn’t hate its own fucking people,” he said. “I really admire that.”
aargh. Sorry I forgot the asterisk in ‘f*ck’ and comment on Vance is in moderation. Shame when we can’t quote others using the f word. it’s pretty common in parlance today. I loved it btw when at his Conference speech, and as the movie showed, Vance said his Mamaw used the f word freely.
Roger
July 21, 2024 10:15 am
‘Net zero’ and Keynesian ‘stimulus’ are making us poorer
Daniel Lacalle Mises Institute 07/20/2024
If you read the latest OECD publication, “Employment Outlook 2024: The Net Zero Transition and the Labour Market,” you would imagine that the world has not gone through the largest monetary and fiscal stimulus in decades.
The results are so poor, they are embarrassing. Furthermore, the report illustrates the impoverishment of citizens and subtly suggests that achieving the net zero goal will present an even greater challenge. Translation: You will be even poorer.
According to the OECD report, 20% of the global workforce is in jobs that will expand due to the net-zero transition. The report basically tells us that the remaining 80% will face significant challenges.
Furthermore, it highlights that “low-income and rural households usually spend more on goods and services with larger carbon footprints, such as energy and food, because they are typically necessary goods.
Therefore, climate-mitigation policies, by increasing the relative price of carbon-intensive goods, will tend to affect these households as consumers disproportionally, with a strong impact on the real value of their income and wages. Recent carbon pricing reforms in many countries have indeed proved regressive. Recycling the revenue from carbon taxes in the form of transfers to households, however, can make this type of reform progressive. Yet targeting these transfers towards household needs is key to cost efficiency. ” Thus, we are doomed. Just look at the disastrous result of the carbon tax in the European Union, what it has done to price inflation of non-replaceable goods and services and the widespread increase in discontent among citizens.
Why do we know that policymakers will not counteract Keynesian policies’ regressive impact? Because they have never done it. To argue that this time will be different is irresponsible when the same OECD report shows the disastrous results of “inclusive” and redistributive policies since 2019.
The report hails the good news of low unemployment rates. However, this publication fails to acknowledge the ease of manipulating unemployment rates. Indeed, the report does not make that connection but highlights how labour force participation has stagnated or declined and how real wages have fallen while average working hours per employee have slumped in the United States.
If the unemployment rate has fallen but the average hours worked per worker are flat, the labour participation rate has slumped, and real wages have declined, then there is no real improvement in employment.
According to the OECD report, average hours worked per worker have declined in all countries except three of the entire OECD, and real wage growth is negative in the United States as well as many other economies.
Now remember that these dreadful statistics come after the largest so-called “stimulus package” in decades. The largest monetary experiment, combined with an unprecedented level of public debt increase, has left workers poorer. The worst is yet to come.
The OECD report warns that the net zero transition will increase price inflation in essential goods and services as well as generate significant displacement of low-skilled labor. They even warn that low-skilled jobs in high-emission sectors pay better, and this will create challenges for citizens.
There is no way in which one can defend this social engineering. Keynesianism always leads to malinvestment, misallocation of capital, higher indebtedness, and worse outcomes for workers and the middle class for a very simple reason: governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society, and they spend money that comes from somebody else.
Malinvestment does happen in an open economy. However, creative destruction takes care of it. Malinvestment when the government controls the economy is the norm. And instead of creative destruction, we get subsidized misallocation of capital.
The era of constant Keynesian stimulus plans has eroded the middle class and created record levels of public debt. The net zero plan, which is the ultimate Keynesian top-down government-imposed system, will add scarcity, persistent price inflation, and impoverishment.
The only way to achieve net zero is to let technology flourish, allow free competition and open markets to work their way, and create a transition that benefits the majority with cheaper and cleaner goods and services. When governments make decisions with public funds, they ensure a negative result. They will overspend, perpetuate price inflation, and impoverish the same ones they claim to defend. Socialism never works. Climate socialism is bound to fail miserably, resulting in increased poverty.
Leaving aside the question of the desirability of pursuing net zero via the free market floated toward the end of this piece, Lacalle is describing our government’s policy (and that of the UK) – essentially, the malinvestment of public funds – and explaining why it will lead to greater poverty for the majority of the population.
It’s the new economic paradigm, according to Dim Chalmers.
I come from an honor culture and was taught to be a man of honesty, unafraid to stand up against liars and manipulators, which is why I will proudly tell a mealy-mouthed lukewarm quisling f ck like you to take your sanctimonious shame attempt and shove it up your a ss.
They should NOT be putting Trump and JD on the same stage together at the same time.
It isn’t over. We live in a world of drones and more and more state actors with the ability to reach out and touch anyone.
Maybe a lot of commie traitors will be tuning into Trump rallies live hoping for a repeat, but accidentally getting a lecture on reality instead.
Bourne1879
July 21, 2024 11:09 am
Interesting comment on an Oz article. Says he was on a Finnish plane with Finnish pilots designated as a Qantas flight. Cabin crew Singaporean. Flying Singapore to Sydney and Singaporean crew welcoming them to country!
Just proves how ridiculous it has become.
Dr Faustus
July 21, 2024 11:19 am
Keynesianism always leads to malinvestment, misallocation of capital, higher indebtedness, and worse outcomes for workers and the middle class for a very simple reason: governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society, and they spend money that comes from somebody else.
This invariable Iron Law invariably gets lost in what passes for public discussion.
governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society
True, however this is not the same as saying there is NO role for governments in industry.
All levels of government are required to respond to changes in the economy brought about by new technologies.
The problem today is that governments driven by an insane religious fervour have tried to be the initial driver of a technological change which the general public does not want, instead of responding to technological changes readily adopted by the public.
The process should be:
New technology invented.Private investors speculate on public uptake of technology.Public embraces technology.Companies invest in the successful speculative activities.Public begins using new technology at increasing levels.All levels of government develop policies to help production of new technology.Like the way railroads were built. Some towns were built around stations, Whereas cities had to accomodate themselves to get stations. If cities hadn’t planned for stations and tracks, railroads might not have been so successful, but if governments had tried to pick a successful technology to do what rail did after the steam engine was invented, they would have chosen something stupid and killed off the whole thing.
…we must recognise there is a new and widespread willingness to make economic interventions on the basis of national interest and national sovereignty.
And – critically – none of this is being left solely to market forces or trusted to the invisible hand.
The heavy lifting of economic transition and industrial transformation is not being done by individuals, companies or communities on their own.
It is being facilitated, enabled and empowered by national Governments from every point on the political spectrum.
This model has government inventing and attempting to impose ‘transition’ and ‘transformation’ for political purposes – and then being ambushed by the fact that market forces have different information and don’t agree.
governments do not have better or more information about the requirements of society
True, however this is not the same as saying there is NO role for governments in industry.
It’s another way of saying that governments are bad at picking winners. The role of government in the economy is basically to establish the legal framework for business at all levels of investment, be it small, medium or large, to be able to operate and succeed, providing the public with goods and services, employment and tax revenue for essential public services and so on.
There is a case to be made for governments building infrastructure that genuinely increases productivity where private capital is not immediately attracted to directly invest to a sufficient level, eg. roads. railways and ports in the 19th C. But even then, the governments that did so were borrowing private funds from overseas on reasonable terms and the cost was spread over a long period of time.
An article at TheirABC about the Twiggy implosion quotes these figures for the efficiency of energy storage:
There are some simple dynamics working against hydrogen as a fuel. It might be more efficient than petrol but it doesn’t rate against a battery-driven vehicle.
When it comes to batteries, roughly 70 per cent of the original energy produced at the source performs useful work in the vehicle. With hydrogen, that drops to between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, while internal combustion engines at best deliver 20 per cent efficiency.
I don’t understand these figures, and no citation is provided.
I suspect it is all about the efficiency of the conversion of one source to another. As usual the ALPBC are being economical with the truth, BoN has noted hydrocarbons are very energy dense (by weight, volume whatever). Given the choice between a truck load of coal and a few windy days I know what I’m choosing.
Yeah. The problem with water electrolysis is that it takes an overvoltage to start the production of hydrogen. About a volt. That extra overvoltage translates directly to heat, which is wasted. There’re overvoltages on both the positive and negative electrodes.
Vast amounts of effort have gone into reducing these overvoltages, with very limited success.
Overall it takes about 50 kWh of electricity per kg of hydrogen. The theoretical minimum is 40 kWh/kg. All you need to know is that hydrogen has an energy content of 0.142 GJ/kg, thus one GJ is 7 kg of hydrogen.
The price of one GJ of natural gas is about US$2.10 at today’s price. So you can only equal that in hydrogen by producing it at 30c/kg. Which means, since it takes 50 kWh per kg that the electricity price has to be 0.6c/kWh.
Which is ludicrous.
And that’s even before the capital cost, interest, depreciation and manning costs.
Just thought on the ‘outage’. As A.I. rapidly takes over, there will be no guarantee of the veracity of any information delivered digitally. A.I. can subtly change everything digital and people will not pick it up. Each issue will be fixed by digital repairs which will create more issues. It is an IT circle. My guess is five years before the A.I. destroys the trust. Noting will happen much for a few years. Issues- patches- security, a coverup whirlwind until a sudden the panic. Everything: your bank, your contracts, your history can be changed in a second. Even me and this statement may be fake. You will never know.
I recently bought a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for about $800. When I explained why, my family looked puzzled.
“Because they can’t change this copy from the internet.”
I expect the blokes from the Fire Department to turn up any day now.*
*Gratuitous reference to Fahrenheit 451.
🙂
there is a theory that Google and Microsoft have archived all the information now (pre AI) as the future information will be untrustworthy and the two companies will be the only ones with the truth. So you are on the right track.
Eyrie
July 21, 2024 11:47 am
When it comes to batteries, roughly 70 per cent of the original energy produced at the source performs useful work in the vehicle. With hydrogen, that drops to between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, while internal combustion engines at best deliver 20 per cent efficiency.
Depends exactly what they are talking about.
Lithium batteries may be a bit better than 70% charge discharge efficiency.
Just compressing or liquifying hydrogen gives a round trip efficiency of 35% or so and then depends whether you simply burn it in a internal combustion engine with the usual thermodynamic inefficiencies in which case you get maybe 35 to 40% of that 35% or use a fuel cell.
A good modern IC engine gets a thermodynamic efficiency up in the high thirties percent and Mazda claim they an get over 50%.
Also hydrogen is a total bitch on equipment.
1) Atoms are small and treat containment like a dry airborne virus particle going through an N95 mask. Expect storage to be expensive and not lossless.
2) Hydrogen damages steel, reducing its strength. When I went parachuting years ago, one of the articles we had to read explained hydrogen embrittlement as it applied to harness buckles. TLDR: electroplating puts hydrogen into the steel, eventually making it liable to snap. A long bake in a furnace after plating is necessary to prevent embrittlement.
Yep, even rocket engineers avoid hydrogen as fuel unless it is absolutely required for performance reasons.
Musk and others have chosen methane which is liquid at temperatures not too different from liquid oxygen and doesn’t
There was one shooter. If there were more Trumpster would be deadsky.
Exactly
My thinking as well. If the patsy was being engaged then a number of dei hires would have died
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 195 (rumble.com)
God I hate the left.
We really are in the age of incompetence especially in the US. A guy with a target on his back can’t be protected by the very entity that’s supposed to prevent this type of assassination
. The internet almost went down.
I reckon the reason for this is DEI.
And no one ever seems to get fired.
War could be over soon
It has been intriguing oversighting the communications between our once close English upper class and elite friends who are realising that their mindless pursuit of BDS (Brexit Derangement Syndrone) has actually destroyed the future for their precious grand children.
There is much agitation around the village box for the Sunday morning shoot. “But, but, Kier is not like Tony, he actually wants to destroy us”.
They destroyed the Party in the arrogant belief that the little people of the Left would respect their betters and permit them to preserve their privilege.
Morons.
JC
“We really are in the age of incompetence”
Do all the investors in windmills and solar farms continually hold their breath, waiting for someone to say, “Nope, that just doesn’t work, defund it!”
They must live in fear that the rubes will finally wake up and pull the funding carpet away.
Ever seen the Simpsons episode of the Monorail guy?
That’s the Labor party, CSIRO, our universities, all in a conga line behind our version of the Monorail guy .. the solar and windmill guy. (also the Green Hydrogen guy and the electrical cable to Singapore guys)
You know, a town with money’s a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it!”
?Lyle Lanley
Lillard Lewis “Lyle” Lanley (possible full name) is a con artist and shyster who sold faulty monorails to several towns, including Springfield
That’s us in Australia, fools with money.
I love Leak’s money hose that Albo uses, so appropriate.
I like the approach. Might take that on board. But from my experience so far once they have committed to the Green machine there is very little chance of bringing them back. It’s a death cult. Jonestown next.
I may be incorrect in attributing this to The Simpsons, but I recall an episode where an enormous escalator is built that goes to nowhere; it simply ends in the air. Because it’s the ‘hip, new, thing,’ everyone lines up to ride it, even though it is obvious that all those who rode before them dropped to their death. I guess it’s an allusion to the behaviour of lemmings.
Regardless of attribution or may admittedly dodgy memory, to me, that escalator to nowhere sums up the present state of humanity (or we First Worlders anyway. Maybe if we didn’t have so much leisure time and affluence? Oooooh…. hang on! What if The Simpsons’ Itchy and Scratchy were two sides of the one personality, meaning they were performing those acts of insane violence on themselves? Now that – in a less visceral sense – is First World humanity).
Here is the transcript (according to NYT) of Trump’s RNC speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/politics/trump-rnc-speech-transcript.html
I suggest it is evidence that the assassination attempt succeeded.
Can you guess why?
because elephants have flat feet?
Because NYT needs click bait as it is losing audience at the rate of knots.
It scared him enough to change tactics and possibly policy?
Yes. wrt the swamp.
nope
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 20, 2024 9:46 pm
You have to help me out here.
Why do you think that?
I searched for references to the swamp, the deep state and regime and bureaucracy and couldn’t find any in that speech. Draining did not seem to be on the agenda any more.
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Steve Inman:
Cornfed Fred Compilation
https://rumble.com/v57oe5p-cornfed-fred-compilation.html
Elites everywhere are showing themselves to be incompetent, naive, malicious and cowardly, all the worst human traits. Now that the hoi polloi can see their uselessness the only unknown is how long they will be tolerated.
And believe it not, that is how we got the original railway gauge.
Or so the tale goes.
True or not?
Sadly, not (although the starting point was a rational size of horse drawn vehicle).
The ‘standard gauge’ was set by the UK 1848 Gauge Act, which recognised the success of Robert Stevenson’s adaption of the 5’ Killingworth rollyway to allow his steam locomotive to run around corners fitted with iron plates without binding.
Trump said shoot me in the ear and kill and injure a couple of people so I can win the election?
Makes sense … he needed something, being so far behind in the polls (sarc)
Crossie
July 20, 2024 10:37 pm
I don’t know how to knit or crochet, but would be willing to learn and sit in the front row to see them marched up for a decent flogging.
they may control local, state and federal govt
they may be the politicians, union leaders, judiciary and lobbyists
they might be the media, the police, the armed forces or school teachers
they may have a monopoly on violence
but…
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on.
We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep.
We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.
We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t.
And we’re just learning this fact.
So don’t fuck with us.”
? Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The stage production is off the charts. So good to watch on the big screen!
I’ll repeat, this music is not for everyone …. understandable. Half of the fun is watching the crowd.
People that suffer from epilepsy, be careful.
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Paul van Dyk – Live from Transmission Prague 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7WRX64uOrk
Says the man who raced over there three months after it started to make sure it didn’t end.
BORIS JOHNSON: Why I am more convinced than ever that Trump has the strength and bravery to save Ukraine and end this appalling war
‘Loophole’ that could see Biden booted out the election race if he refuses to go
That is not happening, Lizzie. And happy birthday! You don’t look a day over 67.
There is no mechanism for the party to roll Biden at this point. He has the primary votes, the funding, and the power of incumbency. I don’t care how many anonymous stories come out about his wavering mindset, he ain’t leaving.
August 5 is apparently the date after which Biden has the nomination officially, which should be the end of the current silliness. But probably won’t.
PISS OFF, NAZI. GO PLAY WITH YOUR HAMAS FRIENDS.
“and the power of incumbency”
yeah stfu mUnty … gawd you talk crap
Lefturd talking points arrived early today.
Still, it’s good to see them “fortifying” the corpse and his bride as the sacrificial goats.
Why They Hate
Why They Hate – American Thinker
Tonight I rewatched The Searchers. It’s a film I like to watch every 2 or 3 years. There are some movies, all classics, that I like to sit down and rewatch every few years, classics such as The Wizard of Oz, The Great Escape, Rear Window, North by Northwest and a few others. They are the great American films of the last eighty years, and The Searchers, as far as I am concerned, is the greatest Western, and a highly allegorical one at that. It’s themes have not dated at all.
I’ve written here before how the main character in The Searchers, ‘Ethan’, played by John Wayne, reminds me of Donald Trump. ‘Ethan’ is a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, a tough and intelligent man, plain speaking, hardened by battle in war, embittered, unforgiving, prejudiced, not a likeable character. But he’s filled with ‘true grit’, and he embodies something unique in American culture, he’s a rugged and brave individual but he ain’t perfect, far from it….like Donald J Trump.
You might not know this but when The Searchers was released in 1956 and was a success on its release, it was watched by a young musical genius by the name of Buddy Holly who was inspired to write a song using words spoken by ‘Ethan’ in the film. That song was called….’That’ll be the Day’.
There’s a scene in the film where the young Jeffrey Hunter, who plays Marty, furiously confronts Ethan on his prejudice and he says to Ethan….
‘I hope you die’
To which Ethan replies…
‘That’ll be the day’.
Over the last eight years so many have wished Donald Trump would die and go away, and last week they very nearly succeeded in killing Donald Trump. And whilst Trump, standing on that podium in Pennsylvania, didn’t utter the same words as ‘Ethan’ in The Searchers, you can see the same character traits and Trump’s message to the shooter, to the elites, to the MSM, to all of those who’ve spent years disparaging him, smearing him, ridiculing him, demonising him, silencing him, lying about him, trying to jail him and lastly, last Sunday morning (Oz time), trying to kill him, the sentiment was exactly the same as what Wayne’s character ‘Ethan’ said in The Searchers….
‘That’ll be the day’.
Buddy Holly was also a Texan.
But you knew that 😀
Great comment Cassie. Must now catch up with the movie.
Hope you’ve seen Hillbilly Elegy. If not, it’s a must see.
@catturd2
No he didn’t act alone and the worldwide outage wasn’t a glitch.
A dress rehearsal for the election?
Here’s Why Tech Billionaires Are Leaving The Radical Left In Droves
Agree with JC when he said.
“There was one shooter. If there were more Trumpster would be deadsky”
I have watched many experts (former Seals, snipers, Secret Service etc) in past few days.
If there were two shooters then Crooks would be the “patsy” and the 2nd shooter would be the better shot. However the timing had to be exactly right. You would think the 2nd shooter would also have a better specialist sniper weapon which would ensure he hit target.
Former SEAL Tim Kennedy made an interesting point. That was that the Government via Homeland Security (Mayorkas) and Secret Service had ensured that Trump had a week security team. The many errors support the conclusion that he did not have his A team on duty that day.
Plus you have the constant flood of comments from Democrat side that Trump was Hitler and a danger to democracy. They created the atmosphere that would make attempts more likely.
Stochastic terrorism.
Or the Secret Service sniper was below the patsy in the building. They had direct line of sight to Trump and would know exactly when to fire. Robert Barnes
Wokester: “Trump is wearing that huge bandage for theatrical effect.”
Normie: “What? I couldn’t understand you through that mask you’re wearing.”
Postcard 3 from Romania
Romania features the interesting capital of Bucharest. Ravaged by successive competing ideas of government, enough remains to capture attention in a walk around. There are small old churches with painted panels; stately buildings in a Romanesque style, and fountains as a feature. Intermixed with all of this are horrible communist-build blockhouses of “apartments” and offices: featureless concrete everywhere.
The temperature however was getting into the 40s by mid-afternoon so one had to be a bit careful walking around. We toured the Parliament House – the world’s second largest building, and you might wonder why a country that’s not that rich with a population of 20 million builds such a thing. The answer was that under Nicolae Ceau?escu the general secretary of the Communist Party he wanted to and they complied. It is now 70% empty and a tourist attraction – magnificently built out of all-Romanian products.
One interesting aspect of where we were staying right in the middle of town was in the evening – when it had cooled down a bit – was the Romanians coming out to play. A major occupation in a closed off main street was walking up the length of it – about five blocks – and then back down again. Lots of street cafes. The Romanian idea of a diet is smoked meat so we were able to help out a bit.
This narrative is jumping around a bit but we are on a river cruise for the next 10 days.
Very interesting. Quite a big country by European standards I think. A lot of western countries seem to be like Romania in the late 80s.
Love the travelogues, TE. Interesting places.
We did a Danube river cruise, might consider another river cruise soon.
Thank you for your travelogue, TE.
I’m in Bucharest next year following in your footsteps, including Vlad’s castle and a Viking cruise up to Vienna. I promise not to maraud too much.
TE.
Isn’t the building you described the largest marble building in the world? Top Gear is my reference for that. The boys raced sports cars underneath it to see who could make the loudest noise.
Romania. Christmas Day 1989, when the people finally rose up and overthrew the tyrant and executed him and his missus in the street.
Should be more of it.
Yes, i should have mentioned the tunnels – we watched that Top Gear episode. They are only occasionally opened to the public.
A rich country – the cakes are the richest in the world.
it could be the most country in the world.
Small footsteps but, at least, a beginning .. shoud be lotz more of it .. Welfare cut-back if you don’t want to work …..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/german-state-cuts-benefits-for-lazy-migrants/ar-BB1qglaW?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=932a8cb5b0834649ac172be9a6cdb242&ei=27
Should be the same here.
I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?
I’m going to postcard too.
A miserable day in Dublin, I went to mass at the Carmelite monastery in the morning. They first arrived in Ireland at the end of the 1200s, got booted by Henry the 8th, went into hiding for 200 years, then got a small section of their Dublin land back and started rebuilding in the early 19th century. One priest found an old Madonna and Child (probably from a dissolved Cisterian monastery on the north bank of the Liffey) in a second hand shop and she is now ‘Our Lady of Dublin’.
My cultural activity was the emmigration museum, €23, in former underground warehouses on the north side.
Also had to do a bit of eye rolling there and move on, it’s entirely modern and interactive but interesting in parts, some stuff I knew well enough.
I don’t know why the Magdalene laundries needed two mentions. Is it possible that Catholic nuns also did good things in Ireland?
Ireland until at least the 1950s was mostly poor and life was harsh for many, it’s why so many people left.
Missed the regular palli rally by that much, saw a few walking back as I made my way home.
The Spar supermarket on one city corner was ‘Gay Spar’.
Really?
All in all I don’t like the city centre, crowded, grubby, with homeless encampments and other flotsam begging.
Week In Pictures.
Some of the stuff in the comments section is bloody hilarious as well.
Thank you Tom.
Ricky Gervais meme:
You found that offensive?
I found it funny.
That’s why I am happier than you.
My favourite:
And Leake’s cartoon with Biden in the hospital bed and Obama at his bedside is in the Comments!
Houthi drone strike in Tel Aviv. One civilian dead and ten reported wounded.
IDF responds.
“Around” 10-12 F-35s are reported to have carried out the response.
About time.
There are a few international borders Israel had to cross to get at them. I suspect there are a few Arab nations that were not unhappy to have them pass through on their way to say hi to the Houthis.
That may have also had the effect of letting Iran know that they still care.
If the IDF coasted out at Eilat they could have stayed over water the whole way. Or crossed through Saudi, who has no love for the Houthis (and would likely have granted permission).
Some of these “terrorist” organizations are slow on the uptake, aren’t they? .. Time after time they get demonstrations of the Israeli reaction and still they think, “Let’s try again, this time it might be different” …. furglewitz …….!
What fun watching some MSNBC teeth and hair airhead intoning today’s criticisms of the RNC. My favourites:
“They couldn’t even attract a single celebrity”.
“They had ordinary working people on stage”.
“These people are white surpremacists, how dare they insult people of colour by having token minority preachers on stage”.
I realise it is all just a scripted production but geez, Goebbles they ain’t!
I still have nightmares about trying to colour grade
a faded 16mm print of The Searchers on the fly.
Back in the days of the Cintel Flying Spot Scanner,
there was nothing racist about the technical term
crushing the blacks.
The unbelievable gall of these precious ‘victims’.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/randa-abdelfattah-wants-300000-over-antisemite-claims/news-story/39fdf3dbefc30f257df1ae5d4c2ebe73
Oh Lord. A ‘doctor’ from Macquarie uni. That tenth rate intellectual cesspit.
The PhD has been devalued everywhere in the past twenty years, with some ridiculous efforts being awarded the honour. However, Macquarie has always veered more to the left than elsewhere, especially in its law school. I taught at Macquarie on a part-time sessional basis for a while in the mid 70’s while pregnant with my second child. I never liked the place, coming from a Teaching Fellowship, tutorship and Commonwealth post-graduate scholarship at Sydney University. Things were still bearable at Sydney Uni, scholarly and measured, even during those heady anti-Vietnam and then Whitlam years. Macquarie didn’t excite with any originality of thought.
The Parkinson humourless mediocrity is VC there. Very appropriate.
They don’t like it up ‘em…
Deport, problem solved.
Whilst the UK is quickly descending into a sectarian & tribal ethno-religious state, it’s far easier for the UK to blame one of their devils for the Leeds riots……Nigel Farage.
LOL
Meanwhile, whilst sections of the UK media are now blaming Farage, all because of a tweet he put out, the same UK media are now lauding a Leeds based Islamist pin-up boy for his spurious attempts at ‘social cohesion’, even though this same Islamist was just recently elected as a ‘Greens’ candidate in Leeds, and he wasn’t elected on much of a ‘social cohesion’ platform because when he won he shouted, screamed and screeched…….
‘Allah Akbar’
and
‘Free Palestine’
Hmm, forget about ‘social cohesion’ in the UK (and coming here), it’s now ‘Islam cohesion’.
The UK is crumbling before our eyes.
Having learned exactly zero from the past week in the States, the UK media and their prog masters are now putting Farage in the bullseye.
And being the UK, he will have very little protection.
Farage isn’t a stupid man. He knows the burley is in the water and the stage is being set.
Better start praying for him now, those who pray.
Maybe I could try it too. I think there is some unusual power in prayerful thoughts.
Remember Chesterton: “We are the people of England and we have not spoken yet.”
Oil facilities in Yemen’s largest port are on fire.
FAFO.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1814710537324011561
Boo Yah!!!
Muslims never learn. You don’t fcuk with Israel.
Thanks Tom.
My favourite isn’t funny at all, but a reflection of a broken voting system.
Israel has attacked Yemen.
Hmm. Still looking at cruising in the Arabian Sea in December.
I’m hoping things will have settled down by then.
Glad this came now not later.
Yes I’m afraid so Cassie. The insane green policies have shades of Romania in the late 80s too. The despicable establishment seems to have fully quashed all the excitement and optimism of 2016.
FFS.
Considering how many millennia mariners have managed to
sail the seven seas without the added benefit of fossil fuels,
it must’ve been the solar power wot done it.
Bugger, won’t link.
Solar powered bilge pumps would only go for so long if you spring a leak.
Hand powered, just like the old days?
Solar powered – legislation being passed that ships only get leaks during cloudless days and not at night.
Yeah. I’m being sarcastic yet again.
I wonder if they are going to have masts and carry sails as back up?
Statement by PM Netanyahu
There are FOUR Great Men in the world at this time.
Benyamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump.
Victor Orban.
Javier Milei.
God, I hope more have the nads to step up.
Add Pierre Poilievre to that list. He’ll be booting out Trudeau sooner than later I think and the man takes no BS from anyone.
And JD Vance? Coming up.
Add Elon Musk to the list, even though he is not a politician he can see and express what is happening.
The center has shifted so far to the left, that a progressive like Musk is now far right!
Thanks to all of you for the extra names.
It’s a great start.
Perhaps Dover could run a side bar with the names of the Good ones, which we could add to as we find them.
With a short bio of each.
And even the alien who owns space chook said he was moved to tears by Trump’s reaction to being shot.
Modi.
Haha. Sly News Australia has been live-casting Donald Trump’s Michigan rally speech, including his allegation of medlia “lies and disinformation”.
Thankfully, the rally is indoors so it’s harder for the Secret Service to get him killed.
cheerful squalor, the left’s favourite environment
Gives you an idea of how the elites think of our cities. These are no longer showcases of the best we have to offer but illustrate the capitulation of our leaders to urban terrorists.
Fearful squalor.
Chaos – the Lefts favourite environment.
If only we had here in Oz pollies with the gonads to pursue and implement these four strategic objectives. I can but live in hope ….
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/project_2025_the_video_that_refutes_the_leftist_lies.html
By this definition, fascism is what we have here in abundance, particularly in Sicktoria, NSW and Qld.
You forgot WA, SA and Tasmania along with the NT.
trump back on the circuit.
Comrade Montgomery upthread;
Fervently hoping necromancy is not dead.
lol, Bush.
I don’t think Biden will be the candidate but that they’ll keep him breathing and upright just long enough to open up the Convention to a new candidate. That said, Biden may upset this applecart by simply being stubborn and staying put. With all the money.
Lizzie, thanks for the pointer on getting a good looking Burmese(or two). I’m feeling the need for a couple of cats since the little black and white female cat from over the corner back fence got moved to Wagga for a year. It took a while but she became very friendly. I called her “Taxi” (Black and White) and found her early one morning sleeping on our front steps. It may have been a hint.
Eyrie, Burmese are expensive but I think you are ensuring their future if anything happens you. If you can afford it and cope with two, then two cats are a wonderful team. They get to love each other so much, and you equally as much. They don’t get lonely especially if you are out much during the day. In the 60’s we always had ‘two cats in the yard’ in our group house. One was a Siamese, the other a rescue tabby. In the turmoil of bringing home my first baby to the group house, and in the utter chaos of its disintegration after one of the members was having it off with my husband. This led to my departure with the baby, as I was taken in during my great distress by other kindly academics, and the cats disappeared in all the shouting and side-taking. I don’t know what happened to either of them, but I knew the Siamese would have found another home. There were rumours of that. The tabby, I fear not. I suspect she ended up as roadkill, but no body was ever found. People told me later they did search for them both.
Every day both here and in the US, the meja continue to reveal themselves to be the idiotic, spiteful and condescending, blinked liars that they are. Agree there are some good writers in the Oz but the muck served up by Kelly, Sheridan and Ullmann to name but three mean that I cannot in good conscience let any of my hard earned go their way.
I cancelled when I lost my job; its not like there are professional job ads any more.
Now I often want to resubscribe because I want to read some articles from behind the paywall. But I KNOW I will be enraged, and waste time commenting only to see the nasty mods leave my comments in purgatory until its too late to have others read them.
So blow it, no subscription for them!
I stopped buying it after they made krudd Australian of the year but that’s ancient history now
I was disappointed Ullmann shat the bed as well, albeit he was only ever ‘relatively’ sensible to begin with.
This weekend’s edition was well worth throwing them a few dollars to read in hard copy. That might be the best solution for those not wanting to subscribe.
Cassie,
your comment on the UK led to comparing what is happening there, to the film “28 Days Later”.
UK is the Lab experimenting with Rage Virus on Chimps. Muslims were nick named Rage Monkeys years ago. Coincidence?
Do gooders release the poor little chimps from the lab in the the “name of freedom”, doncha know.
This is equivalent to flooding the UK with rag heads because, “poor little things”, will be different in a “free” country.
But, it doesn’t work out the way the do gooders had planned. The Rage Monkeys attack and kill without remorse or any sort of human feeling whatever. The worst part is, the rage is contagious. It is Rabies like in it’s effect.
The Government has no way of dealing with the problem because it has become weak and dissipated over the years. The ordinary person tries their hardest to avoid the contagion but, they are stymied because they are not allowed to defend themselves.
The decision is made to abandon the UK for six months. It is an island. Hopefully, the contagion will have killed itself by then. If there are survivors, they will most likely be imprisoned upon discovery and quarantined, “for their own good”.
And never heard of again.
Seeing the discredited old Chills and his old slag regurgitating lawyer Starmer’s Marxist poison made me feel quite ill. The British establishment.
He doesn’t get any choice, despite probably agreeing with much of it.
I reckon he would agree with most of it
Thanks for your travel notes Rosie!
About 15 years ago when I was commenting at Butterflies and Wheels, a lady there was describing sitting in the gallery of court hearings at that time, making rosaries as a visible show of the way they as child inmates were forced to work.
It sounded pretty harsh.
The times in general were pretty harsh, especially in Ireland.
Dare I mention ‘Angela’s Ashes’. Why yes, I think I can.
Never bought a cat in my life.
Our oldest cat was picked up at a country show. The sign read ‘free to a good home’ and my then ten year old daughter raced over to me and said “we’ve got a good home dad, can we take him?”
What can you say to that?
Same here, never bought a cat tho it’s been at least 25 years since there wasn’t one living here .. at one stage I had 7 but, thankfully, ageing has them down to 2 now .. Both will, probably, outlast me .. LOL!
Fatso was gift from the Child Bride and she was very cagey about where he came from, Buddy was a stroll in who adopted us.
Elsie is just a loan.
I think she will be my last cat.
I gave her a bit of a brush down a week ago. The lacerations have mostly healed but I think some scarring will be evidence of her enthusiasm for the process. I got quite a lot of fur from her – enough, I think, to knit another cat if I want a small one.
I’m looking for a dog – more as a bit of protection and company than anything else, if anyone has a spare they don’t need any more, I’m after a middle aged mid size derg. My block is 2000 square meters so plenty of room for hole digging etc.
Apparently I have a good home.
🙂
Apropos yesterday’s discussion of prog-lefties defriending normies, I see Usha Vance, previously a liberal darling as a high-profile lawyer at a progressive firm, has been targeted by left-leaning media outlets in the US with borderline racist jokes, including deportation memes (note: she is US born).
The true haters are lefturds.
Take one step off the plantation…
The Ceausescu’s ignominious demise is one of the most heart warming tales of the last forty years.
Trump is worth bottling.
He just said in Michigan that Kamala is crazy, not Nancy Pelosi crazy, but she’s crazy.
He’s Baaack!
Our Muslima friends seem to have difficulty grasping the truth defence and fair comment.
Why is that, I wonder?
Do they perhaps view themselves as privileged and above criticism?
Yes.
Takiyya says that they are permitted to lie to the infidels. The whole of their code of ethics is summed up in one word, depends.
Depends.
Yes, they are full of piss and shit. 😀
I’d think “Lies” is a better descriptor, but yours is OK.
“These people lie.” IDF Spokesheila.
Isn’t it waaycissst to have different words for men and women?
Wodger:
Actually, they do. They are steeped into the beliefs of their cult from day one. They honestly believe they are Allahs Chosen People and are genuinely perplexed by our refusal to acknowledge this.
I’m not being disingenuous about this – their entire world view centres on them being special – and they genuinely do not understand how we cannot see the validity of their religious viewpoint. Of course this position leads them to the supposition that we are servants of Satan and must be destroyed, which is where kitman and taqiyya become necessary.
Another reason for the popularity in the Arab nations is the automatic superiority of men over women. If you are a male with an IQ of 70, you are automatically superior to every woman in the world. It must be a great relief to know when you get out of bed in the morning that you are better than Marie Curie, Golda Meir, Amelia Earhart, and Indira Gandhi. So now he can go about herding his goats with a clear understanding of his greatness in the Islamic world.
herding? Is that what they call it. Procreating with goats to produce more little mo’s.
And yet it is only the males that are special, the females are the workhorses and chattels.
Hero of the skies again… at the grand old age of 94! Scots Dambuster fulfils his life dream to fly in iconic Spitfire
Daily Mail
Amazing ..! I had to look it up cos wondered how at that age he could fly a Spitfire .. saw the pix and its been modified with a 2nd seat .. Incredible ..!
IIRC, the Spitfire is an original trainer, “The Duchess of Somewhere or other”.
Going on memory here – I’ll look for a link and post it – see how well the memory is working.
OK. Can’t find it. Bugger.
what would we do without these bozos?
Gotta hand it to West Yorkshire plod .. ensuring the streets are safe for “peaceable” rioting ……..!
https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1814559045576982627
Mutt of the week– $100 is as close to Free To A Good Home as it gets these days.
Yep. My brother’s beautiful purebred young kelpie, a cattle dog rescued from a box in a paddock on Victoria’s western plains, cost $1000.
They don’t seem to have the ability to match an owners requirements up to a specific list of dogs.
Am I missing something here?
Tom @08:08am…
Thankfully, the rally is indoors so it’s harder for the Secret Service to get him killed.
Haha – nice one centurion.
So they have managed to limit his rally numbers. I would call it a win for Cheatle.
It’s more important for the Arabs of ‘Palestine’ to not ever have a Jewish state than it is for them to have a ‘Palestinian’ state alongside a Jewish state.
The Arabs of “Palestine” have had a Palestinian State since 1947. It’s called “Jordan.”
And they tried to murder its king, kill its soldiers and take it over.
Joe Hildebrand must have had an interview with Jacinta Price.
This might be extracts of a book of Price’s actually. Matters Of The Heart
Whatever, they are sage words.
My friend has reached out back to me and we are agreeing to disagree.
There is more that unites us than separates us, we both know that.
Can I shorten her message somewhat?
“An Aboriginal Enlightenment.”
… or “How we forced Aboriginal Australia into growing the Fark up by cutting off all subsidies and racial legal empowerment which turned out to be velvet chains.”
Is God having a laugh at us or is it humour from hell? The boss of the Secret Service is called Cheatle while the assassin is a Crooks.
For anyone that is interested in Army Aviation:
Australian Army Flying Museum | Oakey 2024
It goes for 1:10:08 minutes
Ive booked marked it to watch the rest later when I have time.
You could just go there.
I do Eyrie.
I do volunteer work in the imaging section at the museum workshop on the Army Aviation Training Centre base most Wednesdays.
Wednesday last week marked 50 years of the CH47 Chinook being in service with the ADF. The function was held at the display area where Scott is doing the interview.
Next week the conversation is going to be ‘Did ya see Scotty’s interview???’… ‘Yair…hope he is putting up a couple of cartons for us’…’didn’t think he would scrub up so well’…etc etc etc… 🙂
Scott was also an Army loadie on the Iroquois.
Very interesting and very informative.
I was surprised at the level of enthusiasm for the Pilatus Porter – wasn’t it supposed to be a deathtrap with doors falling off and similar?
Also the Eurocopter being well thought of or am I mixing up the Tiger and the Eurocopter?
Damn. I’ve driven past the place many many times on the way to Brisbane but have never had the time to stop.
I should make the time….
Farmer Gez
July 21, 2024 8:40 am
Never bought a cat in my life.
Our oldest cat was picked up at a country show. The sign read ‘free to a good home’ and my then ten year old daughter raced over to me and said “we’ve got a good home dad, can we take him?”
What can you say to that?
Good stuff, Gez.
The cat I just buried was born in the wall cavity of mum’s laundary. She lasted 20+ years.
Any other consideration is either racism or classism, it is like telling people you will never be able to look after yourselves or your families because you are black, brown or even poor white*.
*JD Vance is a shining example of a poor white person rising to the top purely due to his own determination and actions. The left hates him because he undercuts their message, he wants to deprive the left of their dependent voters.
Indolent
July 20, 2024 11:26 pm
Why They Hate
Let me see if I have this right from the article:
Considering that Allah has left the world to Islam, there can never be peace. All lands not occupied by Islam belong to Islam – they are occupied by the Infidel. Therefore they must be liberated and any Muslim who treats with the enemy – unless it is under the auspices of Kitman deception – as an apostate who must be killed for his apostasy.
That leaves us with little choice. Either we submit or we die.
?There is the third option. We kill every Muslim who fails to convert to Christianity, destroy every Mosque and burn out of existence every trace of Islam.
Those are the choices that Islam presents us with – they are certainly not mine, but they are theirs.
Choices, choices, choices.
I accept your counter offer
Its not a choice, its us or them.
what would we do without these bozos?
Oz economy is on Elon’s space rocket flights level .. gotta be cos Luigi is throwing $600 million taxpayer funds at PNG to create their very own NRL “thugby” team ……
Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding a huge payout and an apology after it was revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants.
Havent looked but I wouldnt be surprised if its Marque lawyers again.
James Clyburn will go apeshit if Kamala is booted and replaced by a non black.
How about another dark skinned Indian, which is what Kamala is if we are going to play the race game? (1/2 Indian, 1/4 black, 1/4 white)
via Instapundit:
Stanley Kubrick really nailed the lighting and angles for that shot. Good thing he was such a stickler for details and insisted on filming on location!
It was my 26th birthday. I remember it well, sitting watching it in Manning House at Sydney University, shadowy figures on the TV in the cafeteria.
I see Buzz’s hashtag is “TheRealBuzz”. What a lost opportunity when it could have been “TheRealBuzzLightyear”.
Biden calls Obama ‘puppet master’ as the White House slips into chaos
Somebody is behind Biden. If not Barry,who?
And just to show, yet again, how utterly depraved and repulsive the MSM is, it’s worth watching Nigel Farage demolish the excrement called Emily Mateless……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIqeQzc1t8&t=9s
That’s how you deal with the scum.
He would have been better off walking past and ignoring her entirely.
Politicians need to learn that all microphones are not good microphones, but I suppose that’s too much to ask of most of them.
Clown’s world:
https://x.com/RealMacReport/status/1814491691874955710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1814491691874955710%7Ctwgr%5Ec127b9c1d1ac4bcfd1bfc71a8c7973ab7f7ab0e4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2024%2F07%2Fcover-up-senator-josh-hawley-told-fbi-leave%2F
Sen. Josh Hawley: “Today when I went to that sight, the FBI has got more security on that sight now than they did the night Trump was shot out. FBI trying to totally control the information. They try to kick me off of the sight. They said ‘Get Outta here ! You shouldn’t be on the sight’. I had the permission from the local, the FBI came out and said you have got to leave, we don’t want you here.”
bwahhahahahahaha
Oh, I do hope that the putrid creature does run.
She’ll have to arkancide Joe first.
I have the feeling the more pressure they apply to him the more the stubborn old man is inclined to stay put.
But if he does go, he’ll hand the baton to Harris.
Btw, I had a laugh this morning when ABC reported that Biden’s doctor told the press his covid patient’s vital signs were “absolutely normal.”
Not just normal, but absolutely normal!
Chuckle.
Well, Clinton is totally unelectable and isn’t risking a thing to run. So there’s that.
On the other hand the Dems would have to pitch hard to get their core voters over the whole ‘ignoring the entitled “black” woman’ thing and that’s not going to happen.
Too many of them remember bitterly when Bernie got shafted/bribed by the party to end his run for the party preferred candidate.
shatterzzz
July 21, 2024 2:05 am
I wonder if the Leftists realise their refusal to to curb the invasions is merely creating resistance to their aims?
And what will they do about it?
Thanx, excellent link article ……..!
First Trump rally since the assassination attempt in blue state Michigan.
Not a spare seat in the house either.
Mak Siccar
July 21, 2024 7:38 am
The unbelievable gall of these precious ‘victims’.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/randa-abdelfattah-wants-300000-over-antisemite-claims/news-story/39fdf3dbefc30f257df1ae5d4c2ebe73
Methinx the “musso” political hardliners have seen the advantages of pushing their women to the front, after the very soft Labor & Coalition response to Senator “Fat Paycheque’s” defection …..
It wil last as long as it furthers the ‘we is victims” cause ……!
Ban any opposition.
The German ruling caste is attempting to do this.
Again.
And they don’t see the irony.
Even though there aren’t many remaining from the ones who fought the last war, they have an institutionalised memory of the chaos and death that was visited on them.
@HawleyMO
It’s a cover up. And when there’s a cover up there’s something to cover up.
Drinking With J.D. Vance
Interesting free floating article.
aargh. Sorry I forgot the asterisk in ‘f*ck’ and comment on Vance is in moderation. Shame when we can’t quote others using the f word. it’s pretty common in parlance today. I loved it btw when at his Conference speech, and as the movie showed, Vance said his Mamaw used the f word freely.
Leaving aside the question of the desirability of pursuing net zero via the free market floated toward the end of this piece, Lacalle is describing our government’s policy (and that of the UK) – essentially, the malinvestment of public funds – and explaining why it will lead to greater poverty for the majority of the population.
It’s the new economic paradigm, according to Dim Chalmers.
time to quit mucking around
just put the plantation to work on some decent pyramids
One benefit of reading the swill on Twit er X is that among the swine and NPCs are some real legends.
Larry is great, even before the sad puppies saga he was unafraid to fight back and say what he means.
I’ve been meaning to try his SF books. Must do so, although I’m still working through the various novels I’ve bought.
I enjoyed a few Monster Hunter books, but Son of the Black Sword series is RIVETING.
Maybe talk to FMG minority shareholders or Victorian taxpayers about misallocation of capital.
……… is playing his part trying to cover up the inside job he and the Biden Administration has orchestrated- the (attempted) assassination of DJT.
https://x.com/phsjr1/status/1814329661570097283
must see!
They should NOT be putting Trump and JD on the same stage together at the same time.
It isn’t over. We live in a world of drones and more and more state actors with the ability to reach out and touch anyone.
Yes, I think you are right there, Arky. Certainly not in open field territory anyway.
Maybe a lot of commie traitors will be tuning into Trump rallies live hoping for a repeat, but accidentally getting a lecture on reality instead.
Interesting comment on an Oz article. Says he was on a Finnish plane with Finnish pilots designated as a Qantas flight. Cabin crew Singaporean. Flying Singapore to Sydney and Singaporean crew welcoming them to country!
Just proves how ridiculous it has become.
This invariable Iron Law invariably gets lost in what passes for public discussion.
The unraveling hydrogen economy is a classic case in point: the central plank of the Government’s Net Zero strategy has been kicked away by a single actor in a sea of spivs and mainchancers (for masochists and tragic energy wonks: a listing of Australian hydrogen projects – mostly feasting on OPM).
After a day of media gasping and sniggering, it’s a forgotten non-issue, too hard or too uninteresting to unpick and reflect upon.
But the basis of the figleaf Renewable Superpower Masterplan has been gutshot – leaving behind the skeleton of a ruined energy economy.
Unremarked, for all to see.
Over to you, Peter Dutton.
True, however this is not the same as saying there is NO role for governments in industry.
All levels of government are required to respond to changes in the economy brought about by new technologies.
The problem today is that governments driven by an insane religious fervour have tried to be the initial driver of a technological change which the general public does not want, instead of responding to technological changes readily adopted by the public.
The process should be:
New technology invented.Private investors speculate on public uptake of technology.Public embraces technology.Companies invest in the successful speculative activities.Public begins using new technology at increasing levels.All levels of government develop policies to help production of new technology.Like the way railroads were built. Some towns were built around stations, Whereas cities had to accomodate themselves to get stations. If cities hadn’t planned for stations and tracks, railroads might not have been so successful, but if governments had tried to pick a successful technology to do what rail did after the steam engine was invented, they would have chosen something stupid and killed off the whole thing.
Wouldn’t disagree (and I believe there can be a place for government investment to lower the cost of supply of certain goods and services).
However, the Albanese Government is working on a wholly different basis:
This model has government inventing and attempting to impose ‘transition’ and ‘transformation’ for political purposes – and then being ambushed by the fact that market forces have different information and don’t agree.
Editing a post seems to lose some formatting.
It’s another way of saying that governments are bad at picking winners. The role of government in the economy is basically to establish the legal framework for business at all levels of investment, be it small, medium or large, to be able to operate and succeed, providing the public with goods and services, employment and tax revenue for essential public services and so on.
There is a case to be made for governments building infrastructure that genuinely increases productivity where private capital is not immediately attracted to directly invest to a sufficient level, eg. roads. railways and ports in the 19th C. But even then, the governments that did so were borrowing private funds from overseas on reasonable terms and the cost was spread over a long period of time.
I cant remember last week’s WIP so I’ll link to it because it’s so good:
The Week in Pictures: Anyway. . . | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
The EV and the milk girl are great.
An article at TheirABC about the Twiggy implosion quotes these figures for the efficiency of energy storage:
There are some simple dynamics working against hydrogen as a fuel.
It might be more efficient than petrol but it doesn’t rate against a battery-driven vehicle.
When it comes to batteries, roughly 70 per cent of the original energy produced at the source performs useful work in the vehicle.
With hydrogen, that drops to between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, while internal combustion engines at best deliver 20 per cent efficiency.
I don’t understand these figures, and no citation is provided.
Can anyone shed any light? TIA.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-21/green-hydrogen-forrest-fortescue/104120492
I suspect it is all about the efficiency of the conversion of one source to another. As usual the ALPBC are being economical with the truth, BoN has noted hydrocarbons are very energy dense (by weight, volume whatever). Given the choice between a truck load of coal and a few windy days I know what I’m choosing.
Yeah. The problem with water electrolysis is that it takes an overvoltage to start the production of hydrogen. About a volt. That extra overvoltage translates directly to heat, which is wasted. There’re overvoltages on both the positive and negative electrodes.
Vast amounts of effort have gone into reducing these overvoltages, with very limited success.
Overall it takes about 50 kWh of electricity per kg of hydrogen. The theoretical minimum is 40 kWh/kg. All you need to know is that hydrogen has an energy content of 0.142 GJ/kg, thus one GJ is 7 kg of hydrogen.
The price of one GJ of natural gas is about US$2.10 at today’s price. So you can only equal that in hydrogen by producing it at 30c/kg. Which means, since it takes 50 kWh per kg that the electricity price has to be 0.6c/kWh.
Which is ludicrous.
And that’s even before the capital cost, interest, depreciation and manning costs.
None of these problems are new. People have been looking to store grid levels of electricity since it was invented. Ditto vaccines for viruses.
Ian Verrender has done Google and come up with numbers he likes, but probably doesn’t understand.
This looks like a mix of different efficiency measures, for different technologies, incompletely described – certainly not comparable.
The thoughts of Robert Barnes – a fascinating discussion on the attempted assassination. 60 minute Youtube.
Just thought on the ‘outage’. As A.I. rapidly takes over, there will be no guarantee of the veracity of any information delivered digitally. A.I. can subtly change everything digital and people will not pick it up. Each issue will be fixed by digital repairs which will create more issues. It is an IT circle. My guess is five years before the A.I. destroys the trust. Noting will happen much for a few years. Issues- patches- security, a coverup whirlwind until a sudden the panic. Everything: your bank, your contracts, your history can be changed in a second. Even me and this statement may be fake. You will never know.
I know.
Clippy didn’t help.
I recently bought a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for about $800. When I explained why, my family looked puzzled.
“Because they can’t change this copy from the internet.”
I expect the blokes from the Fire Department to turn up any day now.*
*Gratuitous reference to Fahrenheit 451.
🙂
there is a theory that Google and Microsoft have archived all the information now (pre AI) as the future information will be untrustworthy and the two companies will be the only ones with the truth. So you are on the right track.
When it comes to batteries, roughly 70 per cent of the original energy produced at the source performs useful work in the vehicle.
With hydrogen, that drops to between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, while internal combustion engines at best deliver 20 per cent efficiency.
Depends exactly what they are talking about.
Lithium batteries may be a bit better than 70% charge discharge efficiency.
Just compressing or liquifying hydrogen gives a round trip efficiency of 35% or so and then depends whether you simply burn it in a internal combustion engine with the usual thermodynamic inefficiencies in which case you get maybe 35 to 40% of that 35% or use a fuel cell.
A good modern IC engine gets a thermodynamic efficiency up in the high thirties percent and Mazda claim they an get over 50%.
Also hydrogen is a total bitch on equipment.
1) Atoms are small and treat containment like a dry airborne virus particle going through an N95 mask. Expect storage to be expensive and not lossless.
2) Hydrogen damages steel, reducing its strength. When I went parachuting years ago, one of the articles we had to read explained hydrogen embrittlement as it applied to harness buckles. TLDR: electroplating puts hydrogen into the steel, eventually making it liable to snap. A long bake in a furnace after plating is necessary to prevent embrittlement.
Yep, even rocket engineers avoid hydrogen as fuel unless it is absolutely required for performance reasons.
Musk and others have chosen methane which is liquid at temperatures not too different from liquid oxygen and doesn’t