Open Thread – Weekend 27 July 2024


The Tea Set, Claude Monet, 1872

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johanna
johanna
July 28, 2024 4:15 pm

Channel surfing, I find that Better Homes and Gardens is doing a puff piece on Marrickvile – multi culti livin’ the dream and so on.

Coincidentally, it is in the heart of PM’s electorate.

What a coincidink!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 28, 2024 4:17 pm

My reply to one of Sancho’s posts above mentioning posts from a few of us yesterday. I say building was weakened by impacts then the steel structure holding up the building was weakened by heat and finally gravity took over.

I was one of them mentioning that the strength of Iron Carbon steel at 500 deg C is at figures of 49% compared to steel at 100% at 21 deg C. Fires were estimated at 1000-1100 deg C in the immediate vicinity of the crash. That would have radiated some way down the steel which is a pretty effective conductor of heat.

Also mentioned the steel would have been designed for a Ferrite-Fe3C phase of steel which is known for it’s strength. It then from about 600 deg on transitions into a ferrite/austenite mix to austenite. Different properties.

Lastly Doc Faustus brought up gravity causing the house of cards type collapse that would have overloaded the structure. Which reminded me of a tv doco seconds from disaster program on a South Korean department store collapse. Very similar forces in play as the lower structures were overloaded by the cascading collapse of upper structures.

Mc 2 worth, people get remorseful and on death bed or even depressed to the point where they spill secrets demonising them Does anyone think if this whole event was a conspiracy that 24 years later it would still be a secret with the amount of bodies that would have been in on it? That’s assuming government or even spy agencies are totally competent…

Oh come on
Oh come on
July 28, 2024 4:18 pm

Anthony Albanese moves Clare O’Neil, Andrew Giles and promotes Malarndirri McCarthy in cabinet reshuffle

Headline says it all. According to the ABC, in an ALP government you can be promoted but not demoted – just “moved”.

If Dutton and co win the next election, I suppose it’ll be reported that they ‘failed to remain in opposition’ whilst the ALP will ‘move from government’.

Viva
Viva
July 28, 2024 4:19 pm

People are rightly outraged and/or saddened by the quasi pagan overtones of the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris

I must say given the French reputation for louche sexually transgressive attitudes it didn’t surprise

We focussed on the beauty of the setting in contrast to some of those currently living there

I was more chilled by the arrival of the spectral figure galloping up the Seine like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 4:26 pm

Can’t link (thanks Apple) but the photo of La Tingle chatting to Mincing Marr in Teh Paywallian makes you nostalgic for the Men who look like Old Lesbians website.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:32 pm

BobtheBoozer
 July 28, 2024 12:30 pm

 Reply to  Steve trickler
You needn’t have bothered, Steve. We just don’t care.

—-

Sad state of affairs.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 4:36 pm

12m agoJuly 28, 2024

Indigenous group backs McCarthy’s promotionPaige Taylor
Malarndirri McCarthy will be an excellent Indigenous Australians minister because she understands that past policies have ongoing impacts for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, according to the Healing Foundation.

The Indigenous foundation — which helped the Morrison government design a redress scheme for the Stolen Generations in the NT — says Senator McCarthy brings a “nuanced understanding and lived experience to the many priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities”.

Senator McCarthy is a Yanyuwa woman who grew up in the remote Aboriginal community of Borroloola on the edge of the Gulf of Carpentaria. When she finished highschool, she got a cadetship at the ABC in Darwin and worked as a television presenter and reporter for 15 years.

Indigenous leaders have told The Australian they believe she was compelling during the voice campaign but her role was too small. She featured in a series of televised advertisements advocating for the Yes case in the last weeks of the campaign, after successive polls showed the referendum would not succeed.

In parliament in 2021, Senator McCarthy said:

‘The separation of families and the destruction of communities on a systemic scale cannot simply be forgotten, and the fear and pain remain with not only the members of the stolen generations but their children and grandchildren too.

“We continue to see the long shadow the trauma has cast on relationships, on health and mental health, on people’s economic prospects and on culture, language and identity.

“The Stolen Generations have haunted not only the victims but also our national history and conscience. I’d like to think the Stolen Generations are a faraway memory—something that did happen a long time ago. Instead, it happened so recently—right up to where we are now.”

The “Stolen Generations” happened so recently….Bollocks.

JC
JC
July 28, 2024 4:36 pm

Having done 911 and the question of heat exchange, rate of impact, plane weight and the amount of av-fuel, we should now move on to the holocaust. Was there enough gas intensity per square meter to kill 6 million people in those ovens?

After that, we should discuss whether Americans really landed and walked on the moon or was it a Hollywood staging? Did the Russians land on the dark side?
Finally, was it a bullet or a plastic fragment that lopped off a bit of his ear?

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
July 28, 2024 4:40 pm

At the very least, those who challenge the official narrative have to present enough evidence to render their alternative explanation plausible.”

What of the “Official Narrative” Roger?

?Why has NIST held back over 3,000 documents and refused to pass on its “assumptions” for its modelling?
What could it possibly have to hide, right?

Should that be plausible and open, or, shall we just swallow it, like all the other “truths”, for example:

Men can have babies,
Maths is racist,
Covid,
Climate Change,
Vietnam Domino theory,
the Biden crime syndicate,
JFK & RFK assassinations, (the RFK investigation makes the Warren Report look believable),
Russiagate,
Iraq WMD,
Epstein hanged himself,
Ukraine is winning, ……..

If you can’t trust the US Govt, who can you trust?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:40 pm

BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 12:30 pm

What happend to the cars on FDR Drive that day?

Let’s see what you got.

JC
JC
July 28, 2024 4:43 pm

Tickler

One of those cars on FDR drive drove my pal some of the way back to Larchmont..Dunno about the rest though.

Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 4:43 pm

Twitter told me the murdered Israelis were not citizens but Druze residents who maintained Syrian citizenship for various reasons including the safety of family members who remained in Syria.
It was Golan.
Nevertheless the Israeli government will respond as it would with any other attack on it’s people.

Crossie
Crossie
July 28, 2024 4:44 pm

“The Greens will be running to win 10 seats, and the most recent statewide polling released last week is pointing to a huge breakthrough for the Greens at this election. We’ve already mobilised hundreds of volunteers right across Brisbane and we’ve already knocked on 17,000 doors (since April).”

Just consider this, European voters are moving away from Green parties and voting for centre or centre-right parties while our voters are flocking to the Greens who are not just immoral but completely ignorant of science, geology or meteorology. Who do we blame? The media or our education departments?

That Europeans are ahead of us means that we really are the arse end of the world and once again ten to fifteen years behind what is happening elsewhere in the Western world.

What is even more interesting is that green parties never took off in the US. Some people could suggest that there is no need since the Democrats already cater to the green loonies which is debatable since Democrats are interested in power first and foremost and everything else is negotiable.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 28, 2024 4:44 pm

Will say been entertaining going down the metallurgy rabbit hole and remembering about allotropes, cementite (Iron Carbide)/ferrite phases, strength/hardness’s/malleability and crystal structures like body centred cubic/face centred cubic.

I have touched this stuff since the 1990’s and funnily enough a lot came flooding back.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 4:44 pm

Reshuffle will do little for farmers: LittleproudJames Dowling
Nationals leader David Littleproud has argued the Albanese government’s ministerial reshuffle does little to improve the prospects of Australian farmers.

“During the past two years, Labor’s agenda has increased taxes, cut funding, abolished industries, and failed to stand up for farmers, which is driving up the cost of living for Australian families at the supermarket checkout,” Mr Littleproud said in a statement.

“(Incoming Agriculture Minister) Julie Collins won’t change anything because agriculture is seen as a stepping stone into cabinet for Labor members and Minister Collins will toe the line.

“When Julie Collins was last shadow minister for agriculture, she visited farmers outside Tasmania on two occasions over 18 months and could not detail one Labor policy in the election debate.

“Julie Collins has no interest in agriculture and has been punished for her poor performance in housing, so now not only farmers will pay but all Australians will pay through higher prices for their food and fibre from a government uninterested in agriculture.”

Mr Littleproud similarly critiqued the performance of former agriculture minister Murray Watt, who has since moved to the employment portfolio.

“There won’t be too many farmers sad to see Murray Watt’s departure and if this Labor government’s track record over the past two years is anything to go by, his successor won’t treat farmers much differently,” he said.

“This Labor government’s treatment of farmers has caused the industry to take an extraordinary vote of no-confidence in this government, Murray Watt and Anthony Albanese which hasn’t been seen for more than 40 years.

“Murray Watt has left a legacy of treating Australian farmers with contempt and ignoring their needs.”

Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 4:44 pm

And I guess my question was answered a couple of hundred less people and bags didn’t make a difference.

JC
JC
July 28, 2024 4:47 pm

Crossie

Before we do post-mortem on the election we should probably wait for the result.. There’s no point reading and listening the the scum’s vote gathering strategy as it may not work for them the way they believe.

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Top Ender
Top Ender
July 28, 2024 4:56 pm

Any chance anyone who watched the Frog Olympic opening ceremony can sum it up in a few bullet points.

I can show them to Mrs TE to convince her we don’t need to sit through a re-run.

Roger
Roger
July 28, 2024 4:57 pm

You’re conflating a lot of issues there, Rufus.

If you can’t trust the US Govt, who can you trust?

Ps 146:3-6 is my rule.

Roger
Roger
July 28, 2024 5:00 pm

European voters are moving away from Green parties and voting for centre or centre-right parties while our voters are flocking to the Greens who are not just immoral but completely ignorant of science, geology or meteorology. Who do we blame? The media or our education departments?

What say we start with Greens voters?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 5:01 pm

JC
 July 28, 2024 4:43 pm

Tickler
One of those cars on FDR drive drove my pal some of the way back to Larchmont..Dunno about the rest though.

___

They got fried. The plastic lights on the cop car didn’t. Metal got zapped that day.

All the best to your daughter and little one.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 5:02 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrBUdUYL71s

I didn’t watch the Paris debauch, but from reports I read it reminded me of Fellini’s Satyricon

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Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 5:03 pm

I’ve sorted my self for the next couple of weeks, after Cork it’s Skibbereen, Kenmare, Limerick then Galway, I’m thinking Sligo after that, not sure because finding reasonable accommodation has been a pain.
My fault for picking August, the high holidays.
I see some sun this morning woohoo.
Only me and one other fellow here, he’s mostly straight upstairs to his room when in so more or less to myself.
I bought a museum pass, medieval museum and silver museum yesterday.
Medieval mostly a beautiful set of 14th century vestments that were hidden for well over a hundred years and resurfaced in 1773 when the church of Ireland demolished the medieval cathedral.
Most of the old churches in Waterford disappeared because after Henry 8/Cromwell people refused to attend, ministers to minister and they fell into disrepair.
There is also a famous charter relating to the hundreds of years Waterford fought with New Ross over importing rights.
You get to watch a couple of short films too.
Of course the destruction wrought by 8 and Cromwell means there’s not a lot of artefacts, a few statues taken from churches and hidden in a hospital, a couple of bits held by families and stuff recovered from middens.
The Silver museum had lots of silver, I was hopping from one foot to the other by then and didn’t last long. Apparently there are ruins under the shopping mall, I shall have a squizz at those today.

I also have a walking tour to do, perhaps around the ‘Viking triangle’ the original town where the rivers intersect.
It’s all very interesting.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 28, 2024 5:17 pm

Still no condemnation from Penny Wong of the Hezbollah killing of a dozen kids. Instead she seems all het up today about Myanmar. Hypocrite.

JC
JC
July 28, 2024 5:21 pm

If only we had Anrie Bertrand around to tell us the Chinese banking system is as solid as a rock. Arnold always inspires confidence in a 180 degree sort of way.

In all seriousness though, if half of this is true, Australia’s largest export market is fcked, which means we are too for about a decade. We will right back to the 90s.

Cracks are surfacing within the Chinese banking system, driven by years of lending to the troubled real estate sector, according to reports in Taiwan. A major Taiwan newspaper with anti-Beijing leanings is reporting that nearly 40 banks have disappeared in recent days, merging with larger institutions, and that as many as 3,800 banks are in varying levels of trouble.

Bankruptcies continue to happen. Amid increasing international reporting, earlier this month, Jiangxi Bank of China went under with rioting depositors pounding on the doors, further exacerbating the scope of the crisis. The country is home to the world’s largest banking sector by total assets, while China’s “big four” banks are also the largest four banks globally.

According to other sources, the 3,800 troubled institutions have RMB55 trillion (US$7.5 trillion) in assets, accounting for 13 percent of the banking assets although 13 percent is not enough to constitute a meltdown. Despite their numbers, they are mostly small lending institutions. Nonetheless, long mismanaged, they have accrued significant amounts of bad loans. In recent years, some have revealed that they have an average bad loan ratio of nearly 40 percent, though most concur it is an underestimate.

Although banks have used asset management companies to offload toxic loans, the National Financial Regulatory Administration has begun to go after them, imposing fines and increasing oversight.

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/china-banking-system-crisis

if 40% of the loan books are residing in death valley it basically means these banks are gonesky.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 28, 2024 5:22 pm

Liked your small ship travelog Lizzie.

We did one of those years back with Ponant, a Frog small ship line. Everything French: food, wines, crew.

One of the interesting scenes in the Zodiac runs was a traveller in a wheelchair. He was winched by small crane into a Zodiac each day where his chair was bolted down.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 5:23 pm

Burqa rewarded for delivering for da bruvvas. Take note Lieborals.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 5:27 pm

They still seem to be between a rock and a hard place Bear- having to placate their vote herd without pissing off the mainstream. Maybe I’m wrong.

Roger
Roger
July 28, 2024 5:35 pm

They still seem to be between a rock and a hard place Bear- having to placate their vote herd… 

Their vote herd is not as monolithic as we imagine.

There are deep ethnic and religious fault lines to be found within it.

The Gaza conflict has simply exposed one aspect of it to scrutiny.

Arky
July 28, 2024 5:38 pm

I remember my first contact with a genuine conspiracy nutter.
I was stuck doing bag checks at the gates of a racecourse, and this numpty was working with me.
About five foot two, unshaven and a bit Downes syndrome looking, I’m not sure where they recruited him from, but I never saw him again after that day.
Which was more than enough for me.
The passion he put into insisting all this utter drivel was Godzone truth, was, well, pathetic.
When you come on here with all the loony stuff, I see that particular Herbert in my head.
I suppose most people have a picture in their mind of someone similar they have had this misfortune to be stuck listening to gibber insanely for several hours.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 28, 2024 5:40 pm

JC
 July 28, 2024 1:41 pm

You forgot his dick boils.

marx was such a filth wizard he suffered from dick boils.
https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon6/works/1867/letters/67_04_02.html

It should be a disqualifying thing “Have you now, or ever, suffered from boils on your dick”…

Muddy
Muddy
July 28, 2024 5:47 pm

Rafe over on his latest Roundup has provided a link to a new Australian ‘sensible conservative’ party, ‘Democracy First.’ With some trepidation, I scanned their 15-point Charter and tried to be open-minded. The acceptance of ‘global warming’ in Point 13 closed my mind.

‘But Muddy,’ you’re about to type, ‘you’ll never find a party you perceive to be perfect!’ True, but I value my vote now.

(It strikes me that the constant repetition of the phrase ‘mainstream centre’ suggest they want to be all things to all people; stand for whatever the loudest demand. Nope. I fell for that when the local Full-Contact Lesbian Knitter’s Collective claimed to ‘inclusive.’ No more).
(Oops, just read Bear’s 4:26 p.m. post. The thematic thievery is unintentional).

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 5:52 pm

EXCLUSIVE’I was raped, two held me down, there was spitting, screaming… I was a Jewish doll to them, to do whatever they wanted’: Male victim of October 7 describes horrific gang rape by Hamas and how they slaughtered people around him
Daily Mail.

yackman
yackman
July 28, 2024 6:08 pm

re Rockdoctor 4.44 pm.
In my student days (early 60’s) the Applied Chemists at a certain institution did the Engineers Metallurgy course.
Practical work involved a common steel with a carbon content I cant remember (0.4%?). Each Prac pair was given a different heat treatment regime one of which was from above 725 C with water quench. Others were air cool, oil quench etc.the next step was to polish to a mirror finish and examine under microscope. The unfortunate pair with water quench and resultant martensite had a very long job polishing. Our Textbook was published in Russia and sold via the International Bookshop. I still have it.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 28, 2024 6:29 pm

Geez that Lennon was an odious prick.

My ex-wife used to teach at a girl’s school in Liverpool, which was next to the boy’s school which Lennon attended. The stories she heard were to the effect that he bullied small boys.

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 6:32 pm

My favourite Lennon meme.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 6:40 pm

I was 18 when Lennon was shot and i wasn’t too put out but the mawkish hysteria was just stoopid.

cohenite
July 28, 2024 6:51 pm

The Western media, or at least 95% of them should be horsewhipped and then imprisoned. If cackles wins it will be entirely due to the arse licking by these creeps. Here is an article highlighting this brain dead chippie’s complete incompetence:

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/27/top-five-kamala-harris-word-salads/

My favourite:

“The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time … and there’s such great significance to the passage of time…”

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Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 6:58 pm

It’s a small town Waterford.

Just attended mass near the centre then walked back out to the boonies to get a coffee.
There’s father with a couple of companions having the full Irish breakfast.

Roger
Roger
July 28, 2024 7:01 pm

“The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time … and there’s such great significance to the passage of time…”

She will never be permitted her to extemporise thus again.

If she debates Trump, the questions and her answers will be scripted.

cohenite
July 28, 2024 7:02 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
 July 28, 2024 5:17 pm

Still no condemnation from Penny Wong of the Hezbollah killing of a dozen kids. Instead she seems all het up today about Myanmar. Hypocrite.

You’re a nice man BON. This slant eyed, pussy papping kunt has revealed her true evil. She hates Israel, Western values and is up blackout’s rectum.

In the past you could name a few liars worth saving. This bunch are simply  fusillading fodder. Metaphorically speaking.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 7:04 pm
Arky
July 28, 2024 7:05 pm

From History.com:

The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos. In Southeast Asia, the U.S. government used the now-discredited domino theory to justify its involvement in the Vietnam war and its support for a non-communist dictator in South Vietnam. In fact, the American failure to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam had much less of an impact than had been assumed by proponents of the domino theory. With the exception of Laos and Cambodia, communism failed to spread throughout Southeast Asia.

Oh really?
How many Southeast Asian countries are there?
Eleven. So this article admits that communism spread to three out of eleven. How many would it need to spread to for it to make “a row of dominos” Three isn’t a row?
How about four? Is four a row? Because Burma was ruled by a communist party, which was infiltrated by another brand of Chinese backed communist rebels who were only purged from the BSPP in 1977.
So is four a row?
How about 5? In 1965 Indonesian communists attempted a coup.
As always with claims about history, one should go back to the original source when questioning claims.

Eisenhower speech, 1954:

You have, of course, both the specific and the general when you talk about such things.

“First of all, you have the specific value of a locality in its production of materials that the world needs.

“Then you have the possibility that many human beings pass under a dictatorship that is inimical to the free world.

“Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the ‘falling domino’ principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

“Now, with respect to the first one, two of the items from this particular area that the world uses are tin and tungsten. They are very important. There are others, of course, the rubber plantations and so on.

“Then with respect to more people passing under this domination, Asia, after all, has already lost some 450 million of its peoples to the Communist dictatorship, and we simply can’t afford greater losses.

“But when we come to the possible sequence of events, the loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following, now you begin to talk about areas that not only multiply the disadvantages that you would suffer through loss of materials, sources of materials, but now you are talking really about millions and millions and millions of people.

“Finally, the geographical position achieved thereby does many things. It turns the so-called island defensive chain of Japan, Formosa, of the Philippines and to the southward; it moves in to threaten Australia and New Zealand.

“It takes away, in its economic aspects, that region that Japan must have as a trading area or Japan, in turn, will have only one place in the world to go—that is, toward the Communist areas in order to live.

“So, the possible consequences of the loss are just incalculable to the free world.

So, according to Eisenhower, the dominos started with the communist takeover of China. We can then add China and Korea to the row of domino’s. Is seven enough to constitute a row? How many Asians were we prepared to lose to communism?
It took not just one war to stop those dominos falling, from the Malayan Emergency in 1948 to today, the threat continues.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 7:06 pm

@just_whatever

After realizing what they have done, Hezbollah is backpedaling with a crazy speed. Just 30 mins ago they claimed responsibility, now they began to deny it

Look at all those Hezbollah fanboys, they will delete their initial tweets praising the attack and pretend it never happened

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 7:07 pm
bons
bons
July 28, 2024 7:13 pm

So the Greens think that they will win ten seats.

Perhaps not. There is oceans of buyers remorse in Brisbane’s wealthy western suburbs following the ‘wives’ election of Green Federal reps.

I have just returned from my suburbs mid-winter street bunfight. The fury against Labor and the left was surprising given that the participants were just irrelevant suburban nobodies.

Interesting times. Non metropolitan Queensland is safe but Brisbane and the Melbourne Gold Coast are a worry.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 7:13 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 28, 2024 7:14 pm

Miltonf
 July 28, 2024 6:40 pm

I was 18 when Lennon was shot and i wasn’t too put out but the mawkish hysteria was just stoopid.

I remember coming home that day to our share house to one of my house-mates (a copper and a man of few words):-
Him (not looking up from his large meal): “John Lennon’s been shot”.
Me: “Dead?”
Him: “Five in the chest point blank. I’d reckon.”
No further chat.

Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 7:16 pm

Went to the footy today to watch the Swans. Met various family members there. The Swans played appallingly, the Western Bulldogs easily beat them. It’s a bitterly cold day today in Sydney, I had four layers on and a blanket over my feet and I was still cold.

Despite the lousy game, it distracted me from the fact that I now live in a country governed by unapologetic Jew haters. They’re not even trying to hide their contempt for us Jews.

Depressing, isn’t it? Prior to the game I had a shock. On my way to the SCG, I thought I’d make a detour and pop into a bakery I rather like and buy a nice pastry to take to the game to munch. Normally this pastry is $7.50 (as if that isn’t ridiculously expensive) but on a Sunday, thanks to penalty rates, this same pastry is $8.62. My jaw dropped. I bought the pastry but I won’t be buying from there again on a Sunday.

By any measure, this government is the worst since federation.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 7:19 pm

A few months ago a very ordinary large coffee at Coles-Shell went up from $3 to $3.50

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 7:20 pm

Worse than Trumble – remarkable. Worse than Gillard, that really takes some doing.

Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 7:24 pm

Can I just say how much I enjoy reading the travel writings of Top Ender, Lizzie and Rosie.

Please keep it up. We’re blessed to have them.

My favourite travel writer was the late Eric Newby. Whilst I also like the travel writings of Paul Theroux, Newby is my favourite because I suspect he was a tad eccentric in real life and this eccentricity was evident in his writing.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 7:25 pm

Tasmanian Greens target Wilkie seat, back Bandt on Israel
Matthew Denholm
2 hours ago.
Updated 38 minutes ago

5 comments
Greens in the party’s birthplace, Tasmania, are eyeing Andrew Wilkie’s federal Hobart seat, and firmly backing federal leader Adam Bandt’s stance on Israel’s “genocidal, heinous” war in Gaza.
Greens MP Vica Bayley, speaking as acting leader, said the party, riding high after winning five seats at the March state election, had Mr Wilkie’s federal seat of Clark as “top of our list”.
“Clark is going to be on our agenda, there’s no doubt,” Mr Bayley told The Australian. “Clark is a seat we’ll always challenge strongly – select our best candidate and run a good, solid campaign.
“I’m 100 per cent confident that we can get there one day. Exactly when that is, and the circumstances, time will tell but it’s one that’s top of our list.”

While Mr Wilkie was a “strong incumbent” who would be “very, very difficult” to dislodge, recent state results had demonstrated the seat was increasingly turning to the Greens.
Tasmania’s state seats mirror its five federal seats and each elects seven MPs to the House of Assembly, under proportional representation.
Clark elected two Greens MPs at the March election – Mr Bayley and Helen Burnett — the same number as the two major parties, and the Greens secured more than 20 per cent of primary votes.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 7:26 pm

Eyes

5 minutes ago
Could someone ask the Green members for their position on the kidnapped Jewish teenage girls, still held by Hamas? It’s about time they were asked some challenging questions.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 7:31 pm

@dbongino

IMPORTANT The Secret Service scandal is about to get A LOT worse.

Apparently, Secret Service counter-sniper assets were routinely denied to the USSS Donald Trump Detail if the locations weren’t within “driving distance” of Washington DC. This is a shocking piece of information that Acting-Director Ron Rowe should immediately have to answer for.

A trusted whistleblower sent this shocking piece of information during my show on Rumble yesterday. You can watch the show here if you’d like to.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 7:33 pm
Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 7:34 pm

“There are deep ethnic and religious fault lines to be found within it”
The religion of peace is never at peace.
Only have to know a little history, and its not just Shia versus Sunni, it’s a constant battle for power within sects, all given cover by takfir.

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 7:40 pm

Shame on The Bee!

It’s meant to be a surprise!

At publishing time, France had decided to give Sodom a run for its money by doing a closing ceremony featuring a live virgin sacrifice to Beelzebub.

Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 7:43 pm

I’ll make another comment about Ireland that might now change.
I’ve seen several young children with Downs, including at mass, another child with a severe disability I don’t know the name of, a little girl with cerebral palsy.
Very rare in continental Europe.
All appeared loved, valued and were greeted with enthusiasm by others.
What a pity that opportunity to love is becoming lost, here and elsewhere

billie
billie
July 28, 2024 7:43 pm

Roger Waters endorses “sham election”

That’s what the Americans have .. sham elections

If it wasn’t a sham, a country as advanced as they are could have it done., dusted and a result the same day.

I still reckon the UN should offer to do election monitoring for them.

It would be funny to see the USA reaction to be treated, quite rightly, as worse than a 3rd world dictatorship.

Pogria
Pogria
July 28, 2024 7:51 pm

The Opening Ceremony fallout is being “managed”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13680627/Paris-Olympics-opening-ceremony-Christian-supper-da-vinci-dionysus.html

Do NOT believe your lying eyes.
Snork.

Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 7:51 pm

I’ve seen several young children with Downs, including at mass, another child with a severe disability I don’t know the name of, a little girl with cerebral palsy.

Interesting. Unsurprising and comforting, you see such children in religious communities of all persuasions.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 28, 2024 7:53 pm

Outdoor pursuits were first-class in D-Town, as usual.

Please briefly indulge me while I, equally briefly, respond to Roofie T Troofer at 12.14, and who for some reason only mentions me instead of all the other normal people who believe the conspiracy theories behind 9/11 to be horseshit:

Australia’s modern day Clauswitz – Knuckledragger

It’s ‘Clausewitz’, thank you very much Flight Sergeant.

Where were you, when “your still-close friends” were conducting patrols in Baidoa?

Oh, ….., I see. It was a tad dangerous for you was it? Fair enough.

You. Were. In. The. RAAF. And. Far. Away. From. Nasties.

We went through this ages ago, after which you disappeared for quite some time.

I was deployed to Mogadishu, as part of UNOSOM II, Oct 93 – Apr 94.

Got the AASM to prove it.

Thousands of people have those. I am not denigrating it nor the people that have them, but I am most certainly denigrating those who wave them like flags, and use them to profess devastating insight into geopolitics elsewhere in the world 30 years later.

I like to keep all of your posts, for future amusement.

Liability Bob did that too. Didn’t help him in the least.

“Tell ‘your ‘nobody went outside the wire’ horseshit to 1RAR and the reinforced 2/4RAR company supporting it, you mincing light blue poodle.”

Knuckledragger’s own comment.

You see, what you did there, was to show all and sundry, that you have no idea what you are talking about, because, for some reason, you thought that the Battalion Group was in Mogadishu, where I was deployed.

The Battalion Group was in Baidoa, as I pointed out to you.

Ah, no. Roofie, read that again and you will realise that once again you have backed the wrong chemtrail.

I knew in 1993 they were patrolling there, because in our pre-deployment briefings in Randwick Barracks, we saw the videos of them doing so.

Aaaaahahahahahaaaaaa. ‘I saw the videos.’

I’ll say it again, no-one was patrolling in Mogadishu whilst we were there.

I asked where you were “deployed”, to which you replied:

“Deployed, but not in war or warlike zones.”

Hmmmm……

Do I have to repeat this every two weeks? If you keep my posts as you say, you will know exactly what is what.

I wonder then, if you can explain to me, this comment that you posted:

“‘Deployed’, to me at least, means going outside the wire and hunting down enemy regardless of season, weather or terrain.”

Yes I can. That is the essence of the infantry mission statement. The RAAF mission statement, as you well know, is ‘Will show up from 8 to 3.30 weekdays, no public holidays, with a 90 minute lunch and mornos in between’.

This is very simple. Unless you were a gunship pilot or a doorgunner – oh yeah, 5AVN were doing that then, so you weren’t – you’re a 120-decibel perfumed milquetoast and a conspiracy nuffer to boot using your service as a shield from any and all criticism.

Mincing, light blue poodle. Handbag dog, if you will.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 28, 2024 7:55 pm

When Trump debates Kackles, he should insist upon live transmission, audience, no devices and no earpieces.
When they object, he can remind them that the cold collation he agreed to with Biden was only showing kindness to an old man.

132andBush
132andBush
July 28, 2024 8:12 pm

Active thermatic material discovered in dust from 9/11 site.

Ref: Open Chemical Physics journal – 2009.

Golly gosh, how on earth did thermite, get into the rubble?

Was it Climate Change?

This is a reference to the abundance of microsperes of iron oxide in the dust. The claim being they can only be produced at extremely high temperatures, thus thermite was used.

Microspheres of iron are produced in many ways.
Welding
Grinding
Ripping steel beams apart
Steel striking steel or another hard surface, eg concrete or rock
Fire (even a low intensity one) impacting the steel and ablating away microscopic particles.

All of the above were present either during construction of the WTC or as they fell.

“Active thermatic material” Sounds really really scary doesn’t it?

Given thermite itself is usually a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium oxide and given the WTC buildings would’ve been full of things aluminium and constructed from steel, not to mention the aircraft themselves, it’s not surprising in the least that oxides of these basic ingredients were found together in the dust.

However what that really really impressive and scary sounding report does not mention is the fact no one has found the residue of “burnt” thermite, (which leaves a very distinct signature when used to cut steel), in any of the debris from the two buildings.

One of those inconvenient little facts.
Like the lack of someone, anyone, “breaking the silence” after 23 years given the vast numbers of people who would’ve been privy to the plans and their execution.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 8:27 pm

Superwogs.

The Gay Best Friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89TZH7KQ7Wc

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 8:29 pm

Now that Tony Burka has been, in effect, the task of “fortifying” the western Sydney seats, he might learn some of the vexing details of multiculturalism.

Such as the many mutually loathing sects of Islam, and the many unhappy refugees from Islam in the area. He’s going to be herding a mixture of wildcats and timber wolves.

Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 9:33 pm

Heartening to read and see images of the rally in London yesterday, organised by my hero Tommy Robinson, a man I regard as a modern Wat Tyler. Thousands of ordinary British men and women took to the streets to demand their country back from far-left Islamists and leftists. Thousands took to the streets, many draping themselves in the Union Jack and the Israeli flag. Those who spoke were Tommy, Laurence, Carl and others.

Kol hakavod to them all.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 9:38 pm

I remember posting this years ago. The Americans have since responded.

We have a contingent of blokes over there running amok as i type.

——

WAR BIRD’S First American Burnout!!! 1,700 Australian Eagles DESTROY The Freedom Factory Skid Pad!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddOb9G8c2o

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 9:50 pm
Gabor
Gabor
July 28, 2024 9:53 pm

Indolent
July 28, 2024 9:38 pm

France celebrates wokery instead of athletes at its Olympics opener

I am glad I didn’t watch any of it, what intrigues me is, what message the organisers wanted to send?

Was it a simple up yours I wonder?
We do it because we can.

JC
JC
July 28, 2024 9:53 pm
JC
JC
July 28, 2024 10:00 pm
Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 10:02 pm

Take a look at this, proud patriots, proud Britons….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ELTTWaWQvA

Thousands and thousands and thousands of men and women on the streets of London yesterday, carrying Union Jacks, carrying the St George’s flag, carrying the Israeli flag, carrying the flag of Imperial Iran. Decent men and women, who stand for decency, who don’t support terrorists, rapists and murderers, who love their country, who believe in their country.

Oh, silly me, according to the left, according to Islamist and leftist scum, according to the likes of the Nazi here, the men and women in the linked video are…..

waacists and Islamophobes

So be it, it’s time for ordinary people to say…

sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 10:28 pm

Further to the opening ceremony’s open mocking of Christianity (and it was), here is Jonathan Sacerdoti and Jonny Gould, both Jews, talking about it on Gould’s Talk TV programme…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywZZ3hVpsc

Arky
July 28, 2024 10:40 pm

I’m not seeing an end to these attacks on Israel.
With Iran making drones in Russia, China supplying the Russians with all manner of equipment for the war in Ukraine, and conducting joint operations, I think the mask is coming off this axis and their aims.
Which is to pick apart the West, and their number one target is Israel.
I fear that embroiling Israel in as much conflict as possible and for as long as possible is the means, the aim is it’s isolation and it’s destruction,

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 28, 2024 10:49 pm

With the benefit of hindsight, Israel should have ended the war on about the 9th October 2023. (ka-boom)

Trite & easy as this is for me to say.

JC
JC
July 28, 2024 11:04 pm
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KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 11:08 pm

A lovely story, probably hundreds like it.
I thank for their service.
Looking at the world today you have to wonder why they sacrificed so much?

Wow, even 20 years later they looked old men, that war must really have aged all survivors

———————–

The World Is Small

The world is a small place after all! Away back in 1904 two of us, complete strangers to each other, were the only passengers on a mail coach bound from Muttaburra to Longreach, Western Queensland. At the latter town we parted, each going to destinations far apart.

Eleven years later, whilst watching some new reinforcements arrive for the unit to which I belonged in Egypt, I recognised amongst them my coach mate of 1906. That night I looked him up and old memories were revived.

The stage moves on another twenty one years, to be correct to Anzac Day, this year. A stranger in Sydney and not expecting to meet any of my unit, I had intended to take my place in the march with some friends belonging to a New South Wales battalion.

Delaying a time near the falling-in point, I was surprised and pleased to see a couple of familiar faces. I was more pleased still when I learnt that quite a number of my old unit, a Queensland one, were about and that we had had a place allotted us in the march.

Away the three of us went to find the others, and there lining up with some forty of the old mob was my old coach companion of 1906.

Both of us are inclining towards the sere and yellow, but I am wondering now when and where we are likely to meet again. Somewhere in the outback I suppose, unless the call comes again. —’Old Timer.’
21 May 1936

[‘Sere and yellow are descriptive of an autumn leaf. Thus “in the sere and yellow” is a metaphor for being near the end of one’s life. In the quoted passage, it is used to mean that he has not yet entered the autumn of his life, and is yet fit and hale.’] – Ed.
Photo: WW1 veterans marching through the streets of Sydney during an ANZAC Day march in 1938. AWM A03638.

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KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 11:56 pm

On a different track.
Anyone for pizza?

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Pizza
The man on the right was Raffaele Esposito. He revolutionized a dish considered “poor” in Europe and transformed it into a globally famous dish.

He was the inventor of the Margherita pizza. Today, you can find Margherita pizza in almost every pizza shop or pizza brand around the world.

Before this, pizza was a popular dish only in the poor neighborhoods of Naples, Italy, and it was made without cheese, with just tomato sauce, garlic, and oregano, known as Marinara pizza. But in 1889, during the visit of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy to Naples, Chef Raffaele Esposito surprised the queen by preparing a pizza in the colors of the Italian flag.

He used red tomato sauce, white mozzarella, and green basil to create the flag on the pizza. Thus, in 1889, thanks to pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito, we were introduced to the Margherita-flavored pizza in Naples.

This teaches us that creativity and innovation can turn something ordinary into something extraordinary. By thinking outside the box and addng a personal touch, even a humble dish can become a global sensation. This reminds us to embrace our creativity, strive for excellence, and recognize that even small changes can have a big impact.

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Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 29, 2024 12:16 am

Pizza Margherita, you need to put the mozzarella on top of the basil leaves, so the soluble oils cook through the animal fat- high and dry they just scorch and turn tasteless bitter.
Pineapple chunks can go anywhere, even in the stuffed crust, just as long as they’re fresh out of the tin.

KevinM
KevinM
July 29, 2024 12:27 am

Wally Dalí
July 29, 2024 12:16 am

Pineapple chunks can go anywhere, even in the stuffed crust, just as long as they’re fresh out of the tin.

I was tempted to redtick you for this blasphemy but I allowed for being contrarian.
Behave yourself.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 29, 2024 12:38 am

What’s all this angst about pineapple on pizzas? Pineapple is a core ingredient.
If it hasn’t got pineapple, it isn’t even pizza.

Zatara
Zatara
July 29, 2024 3:10 am

Paris 2024 apologizes for ‘Last Supper’ sketch after criticism

Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps said at a news conference. “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.”

A dishonest non-apology for abusing the access granted by the Olympics to grossly insult hundreds of millions of people.

Focusing on anti-Christian and anti-western themes, not having the balls to take on Muslims and the east in the same manner, tells it all.

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vr
vr
July 29, 2024 6:12 am

Perhaps not. There is oceans of buyers remorse in Brisbane’s wealthy western suburbs following the ‘wives’ election of Green Federal reps.

I am in the western suburbs that used to be a blue-ribbon liberal seat that now has green reps at all levels. Don’t think it will change locally as

The super wealthy folks I know that voted green because of the environment have buyers remorse. It’s funny they never buy carbon offsets for all the travel they do.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 29, 2024 8:44 am

Rosie
 July 28, 2024 7:43 pm

I’ll make another comment about Ireland that might now change.

I’ve seen several young children with Downs

I remember thinking the same thing in Spain. I don’t know if my observations are supported by statistics.
It struck me years ago when Michelle Payne won the Melbourne Cup on Prince of Penzance. Her brother Stevie has Downs and led the horse back to scale.
All the tall willowy blondes on morning teevee cooed about how “gorgeous” and “heart warming” it all was.
Except I knew they would all have the first trimester test for Downs and abort in a heartbeat if it was positive.
And be declared “stunning and brave” for doing so.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
July 29, 2024 11:09 am

Sancho Panzer
 July 29, 2024 8:44 am

Rosie
 July 28, 2024 7:43 pm

I’ll make another comment about Ireland that might now change.

I’ve seen several young children with Downs

I remember thinking the same thing in Spain. I don’t know if my observations are supported by statistics.
It struck me years ago when Michelle Payne won the Melbourne Cup on Prince of Penzance. Her brother Stevie has Downs and led the horse back to scale.
All the tall willowy blondes on morning teevee cooed about how “gorgeous” and “heart warming” it all was.
Except I knew they would all have the first trimester test for Downs and abort in a heartbeat if it was positive.
And be declared “stunning and brave” for doing so.

Indeed Sancho, it’s the measure of our brokenness that feeds the need to get rid of what has been portrayed as a challenge so great it must be killed. I remember being at a L’Arche retreat 20 years ago and met a family with 11 children the 11th being a Down’s Syndrome boy whom the family celebrated as a gift to their family – very heartening.

I know my life would not be as it has been, I would never have undertaken what was undertaken, were it not for the humanity and vulnerability of our son. The stoics laid out a banquet on adversity.

Helen
Helen
July 30, 2024 10:45 am

Re Barbara McCarthy

She will fail. You cant have an aborigine in charge of aboriginal affairs because the extended familial pressure is enormous. I wouldn’t wish it on any one.

That aside, she will also fail, for not highlighting the vast majority of aborigines who live very successfully in mainstream society.

She will fail because she is not meant to succeed. If there are no remote communities, then there is no need for rivers of cash to run down the industry feeding troughs.

But most of all, the children and women and men who barely exist in those communities will have been failed, sentenced to slavery for the cause.

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