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“Eighteen Days inn October” contains the statement that, on October 20th, 1973, an Israeli pilot named Giora Even notched his…
I would have thought having poisonous malefactors like Chaney attacking him would only boost his standing.
feel free to correct or adjust where necessary. Beery – Willis Eisenbach had a good one last week also. How…
The Tea Set, Claude Monet, 1872
Impressive.
Classics.
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International Boogie Nights:
Piano-Boogie-Medley, Stefan Ulbricht, Chris Conz u.a.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUOG0Mxgu64
Hi from Luzern in Switzerland.
Question: is this the land of appeasers, over-management, and $crooge McDuck personified, or just a country of reasonable people being logical?
Probably not of interest to most here.
I have read as many Hornblower novels as I could lay my hands on in my youth, but one crucial maneuver of sailing ships was never mentioned or I missed it.
That is entering harbors and docking without tugboats.
Well here is the answer, excellent seamanship and blooming hard yakka.
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Back in the age of sail, how did big ships maneuver around docks or in narrow rivers, congested harbors, etc., with no engines and no tug boats?
The age of sail was a remarkable period in maritime history, a time when the oceans were highways and tall ships were the carriers of dreams and commerce.
Without the aid of engines or tugboats, sailors relied on several ingenious methods to navigate their ships. One common technique was to use a combination of minimal sail and the ship’s helm to make small forward progress.
This required a deep understanding of how the ship’s sails could be used to catch even the slightest breeze and how the rudder could steer the ship with precision. In conditions where there was little to no wind, or when precision was paramount, crews would resort to warping.
This involved taking the ship’s anchor out a distance, dropping it, and then pulling the ship towards it. It was a laborious process, but it allowed sailors to move their ships with a degree of control that sails alone could not provide.
Another method was kedging, which was similar to warping but involved using a smaller anchor known as a kedge.
Sailors would row the kedge out in a boat, drop it, and then use the ship’s capstan to pull themselves towards it. This technique was especially useful for making fine adjustments to the ship’s position or for moving against the wind.
Sailors also made use of the tides and currents to assist in maneuvering. By timing their movements with the ebb and flow of the tides, they could gain additional momentum or achieve a favorable position without having to rely solely on wind power.
In some cases, sheer manpower was the answer. Crews would take to the ship’s boats and row, towing the larger vessel behind them. It was a grueling task, but in the absence of wind, it was often the only way to move a ship. Onshore, teams of dockworkers or even crowds of volunteers would haul on ropes to drag ships into or out of berths.
The evolution of sails also played a role in maneuverability. The most effective sails for maneuvering a large warship were those at the bow, which underwent significant changes over time to increase their effectiveness. The farther forward such sails were deployed, the greater the leverage they exerted, allowing ships to turn more quickly, particularly through the wind.
Navigating through the age of sail required a blend of brute force, delicate finesse, and an almost symbiotic relationship with the natural elements. It was a time when the mastery of sailing was not just a job but an art form, one that has left us with stories of skill and daring that continue to captivate us to this day.
Any of the intrepid travelers visiting Japan noticed this?
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One of the rarest forms of sand, star sand, is both a beautiful sight and a scientific marvel. Found on the Taketomi, Hatoma, and Iriomote islands of Japan, (Taketomi District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.) star sand is exactly what the name implies — small, millimeter-sized pieces of sand in the shape of stars.
At first glance, the beaches look like any other. Only when visitors take a closer look at the beach they stand on does it become clear that this is no ordinary sand. Despite the small size of the sand particles, beach-goers have no problem seeing this incredible five-pointed star shape with the naked eye.
Unlike most beaches, the sand on Hoshizuna Beach and other surrounding Japanese beaches is made up not of rocks and minerals, but rather of the remnants of previous organisms. Each little star is the exoskeleton of small, single-celled organisms known as Foraminifera.
As the waves roll in on the beach, the water carries with it the shells and exoskeletons of these tiny organisms, constructing the unique shoreline.
This particular, star-shaped species of Foraminifera, known as Baculogypsina sphaerulata, is found only in the coral reefs of East Asia, making this special sand shape one of the rarest in the world.
Vikki Campion: One-eyed view of extremism is missing the bigger picture
?The Senate inquiry into ‘right-wing extremist movements in Australia’ needs to widen its focus, not be used as a grandstanding political platform, writes Vikki Campion.
Focusing the lens on one point is not enough to see the whole picture — you must look behind you. Yet it is obvious the Greens-led Senate inquiry into “right-wing extremist movements in Australia” has no plans to widen its focus, choosing instead to zoom in on this dish that Climate Minister Chris Bowen denounces as “cooked”.
During hearings this week, Greens deputy leader and NSW Senator Mehreen Faruqi pushed for an “anti-racism curriculum” with “truth-telling about discriminatory policies”; complained that far-right ideology was increasingly mainstream, thanks to “dog-whistling”; and pressed academics to agree with her proposal for strong civil and criminal penalties for what she determines to be hate speech.
Senator Faruqi is correct in that we are seeing a rise in extreme behaviour, but those she blames in politics and the media who “normalise or inflame far-right views” are not at fault.
Step back from the photograph, Senator, and look behind you.
Take something as innocuous as a regional mayor’s social media post about NAIDOC Week, where, in the past, any local politician could acknowledge and celebrate Indigenous culture.
For more than a decade, we have been making such innocuous posts, reminders, really, about local NAIDOC events – but this year the responses were brutal, racist and sad. Once, people celebrated together; this year, many shunned it and spewed bile online.
Look behind you.
Australians have been activated and inflamed. The recipe for this is simple.
Force-feed your population an unhealthy dose of race worship and corporate guilt. Change the names of towns or islands to deny their story and rewrite their history to demonise the 1788 immigrants and celebrate the immigrants who came 50,000 years earlier – and from 1988 onwards.
Close historically significant mountains to any Aboriginal, Caucasian, Asian, African or Islamic women, and only open them to certain Aboriginal men.
Kick the locals off Queensland beaches and allow only descendants of certain families to use them. Not all Aboriginals. Not those from the wrong families who aren’t on the right land council.
Change the flight route to Narrm, not Melbourne.
When you land, welcome passengers to the country where they were born.
Before school or any meeting, make them apologise for their ancestors, even if they came here escaping the persecution of one of the worst extremists in history, such as Adolf Hitler, or came here in chains for daring to steal food in a famine.
Make the poor white kid skip the school excursion because her family can’t afford to pay, while the child whose family tenuously ticks the Indigenous box — but who has not lived an Aboriginal life, regional or disadvantaged — travels free.
When they can’t swallow any more guilt, ram pipes down their throats and pump in extreme climate socialism.
Let Blockade Australia cancel hundreds of passenger train trips because it doesn’t like the coal sent out of Newcastle to keep families overseas warm.
Let Animals Australia shut down live-sheep exports, which fed Muslims in Gaza.
Let Extinction Rebellion break into homes and farms and threaten livelihoods and safety.
Let the pro-Palestine Hamas protesters scale the roof of the nation’s parliament.
Let them vandalise our war memorials and justify their actions as “freedom of expression”.
Keep force-feeding.
Make sure they know that if they break the law in the name of environmental socialism, the judiciary will treat them gently.
This rise in what Senator Faruqi calls “right wing” has been prepared by her chefs.
We have been fed a solid diet of extremism from those who think they are heroes for gluing themselves to a road or throwing soup over a painting, and who go to court and are told by the judiciary they are doing it for the right reasons.
We have a level of acceptance for activists stopping coal trains that we do not extend to farmers and Aboriginals fighting to keep their land from being taken away for industrialised intermittent power.
In terms of terrorism we have had in Australia, the Lindt siege had no right-wing ideology attached and neither did the recent stabbing of a bishop at mass.
Even academics representing universities appearing before the Senate inquiry urged senators not to “narrow the focus to only right wing, but to take the full depth of extremism”.
Queensland University of Technology’s Dr John Byron said suppression of discourse often comes from the middle, in the limitation of speech and expression.
He spoke of his mum, an amateur photographer, taking a picture and then looking behind her to see what elements created that moment.
Look behind you.
Herald-Sun
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
A tea set Dover.
Nice.
I like it.
I am having a cup of tea made with loose leaf tea in a tea pot as I type.
🙂
Todays Saturday Tele:
James Morrow: Albo more concerned with peace at ALP conference than in Middle East
ANALAYSIS-JAMES MORROW
27 Jul 2024
The Prime Minister’s last-minute drop of a statement calling for an end to hostilities in Gaza feels more like it is about appeasing protesters than securing stability in the Middle East, writes James Morrow.
How cynical can this government get?
Just a day before the ALP was expecting massive anti-Labor and anti-Israel protests at its state Labor conference, the government hands down a call for an urgent ceasefire in the Middle East.
But while the statement was clearly written to tell the weekend’s protesters “we hear you”, the government dropped it at 4.59pm on a Friday, presumably in the hope no one else picked up on it.
Talk about “each-way Albo”.
For all its fine words asking Hamas to release hostages, the document — co-signed by the prime ministers of Canada and New Zealand — is nothing more than a call for appeasement.
Perfunctory calls are made for Hamas to lay down arms (as if!) and release its remaining hostages.
But with that throat-clearing out of the way, the statement quickly turns to blaming Israel.
Israel must “listen to the concerns of the international community”. Israel is called upon to respond to the International Court of Justice.
Israel is responsible for the deaths of civilians used as human shields by Hamas, despite Hamas profiting from Palestinian suffering in the court of public opinion.
And so on.
Not that it matters much.
Given the sort of weight Australia carries in the halls of the Knesset and the tunnels of Gaza (very little), the statement is best marked as “for domestic consumption only”.
Thanks to skilled propaganda and protest efforts, much of it directed by Iran, the world is in danger of forgetting that Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 in a way designed to maximise civilian brutality.
Since the attacks, Labor has slowly but surely lost its moorings and allowed itself to be dragged further and further to the left by radical Palestinian activists and by the anti-colonial rhetoric of the academy.
The case of Fatima Payman, and the lengths Labor went to accommodate her (ultimately unsuccessfully), is instructive and shows where the party is going.
Labor’s push for a peace deal, no matter whether it actually does anything to secure long-term peace, reflects the broader problem centre-left parties have around the world.
But a two-state solution will never be achieved so long as Palestinians are governed by, and support, leaders who have something far more sinister in mind.
BBC Newshour skates over Kamala’s slight to Bibi but instead hypes past divisions with Trump as they meet at MAL.
The preponderance of left leaning journalists in our mainstream media has resulted in successful propaganda. So much so that many people are convinced that climate change must be fought, renewable energy can work, and that having all state and federal governments run by the green left is ok.
Having seen what this phenomenon has done to the USA, I fear for Australia’s future. The end run of the Labor-Green-Teal group will be to destroy our ability to earn export dollars, and thereby reduce our standard of living and at the same time brainwash voters that they have our best interests at heart.
I see that Nine’s journalistic crowd appear intent on doing to Nine what they did to Fairfax.
Reposted for excellence – Digger, late on the OOT, and in response to some resurrected nuffery from over 20 years ago:
There we go. A sack whack for the ages.
Still, some would have you believe that ‘an office fire’ (their actual words) brought down the towers.
Nine’s cough, churnalists, cough, going on strike for five days. Is anyone really going to notice except for the local barista. Lock them out for another five days, reduce the pay offer to half of what they were prepared to pay. What passes for news these days could be done at home on a laptop. It all seems to be regurgitating talking points from the hive.
Sacre bleu.
A drag queen receives the Olympic flame in Paris.
Still in today’s Saturday Tele:
PM TURNS ON ISRAEL IN TIME FOR CONFERENCE
ANGIRA BHARADWAJ
JAMES CAMPBELL
27 Jul 2024
Australia has joined Canada and New Zealand to call for an “urgent” and “immediate” ceasefire in Gaza with Anthony Albanese using his strongest language against Israel yet – a move Jewish leaders likened to emboldening terrorists.
Australia has consistently called for a humanitarian ceasefire as part of a two-state solution but yesterday, in a joint statement, the three leaders escalated their position saying the conflict is at risk of growing wider.
Jewish groups condemned the pointed statement – released on the eve of Labor’s state conference – that demanded Israel “listen” and stop the “catastrophic” suffering of Palestinian civilians while the Opposition accused Mr Albanese of prioritising “electoral politics”.
“The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue. Israel must listen to the concerns of the international community,” Christopher Luxon, Justin Trudeau and Mr Albanese said. “Palestinian civilians cannot be made to pay the price of defeating Hamas. It must end.”
The three nations said they stand behind the ceasefire deal outlined by US president Joe Biden and endorsed by the United Nations and were concerned about escalating tensions along the Blue Line, the border of Lebanon and Israel.
“We are gravely concerned about the prospect of further escalation across the region,“ the trio said.
Jewish leaders were struggling to respond to the statement that dropped late on Friday before the religious period of Shabbat began but the Zionist Federation of Australia accused the three leaders of emboldening Hamas.
“The government cannot have it both ways. It cannot simultaneously call for the dismantling of Hamas and to demand that Israel unilaterally end the war in Gaza – thereby leaving Hamas in power,“ president Jeremy Leibler said.
“The war would end tomorrow with the release of the hostages and the surrender of Hamas. Applying pressure on Israel to end the war unilaterally only serves to embolden Hamas and prolong the war.”
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson accused Labor of issuing the statement in a bid to quell internal Labor pressure for more action on Gaza.
“The Albanese government should also explain how they think Hamas’ rule in Gaza will be ended if their advice for an immediate ceasefire is followed,” he said.
“Insensitivity timed statements during Shabbat won’t end this conflict – the return of the hostages taken on October 7 will.”
It comes after the Albanese government placed sanctions on Israeli settler group Hilltop Youths over violence that included beatings, sexual assault and torture of Palestinians.
Labor left sources said the timing of the strengthened position on Gaza was ”opportune” for Mr Albanese who has been struggling with internal tensions over the conflict after Senator Fatima Payman quit the party.
He is set to appear at the NSW state conference today — coinciding with a planned pro-Palestine protest.
NSW Police will be present at the protests slated for both days of the conference and Labor sources said the Gaza conflict was set to dominate the event.
“The party is trying to manage the internal tensions this issue of Israel-Palestine is creating,” a source said.
packer and bibi: p 15
Review of multiculturalism proposes the Voice on steroids.
The Charlie Hebdo tableau was a non-starter.
Nice painting. Simple subject but masterful execution.
Paint what you see, not what you know is what they say, and Monet does it superbly. The checked damask, complete with creases, the reflection of the teapot in the lacquer tray, soft furry leaves of the plant.
Old fashioned teacups too. No handles.
Keep force-feeding.
Went to a Mass in a cathedral yesterday.
Before the service, there was a Welcome to Country.
I can’t describe the sorrow as I watched small children mouthing this nonsense. Christ, there on his Cross, was silent. He won’t always be.
The very antithesis of a statesman.
Yep.
Outrage after kindergarten students at one school given radical BLM colouring activity (Sky News mainpage headline, 26 Jul)
Five year olds are now being soaked in this propaganda. What hope do they have of growing up sane?
He’s not silent.
He speaks in the Gospel reading.
Hopefully I am proven wrong but I am worried that something very big and bad will happen in Paris during the Olympic Games.
Get the feeling rapes, burglaries and sabotage are just the start.
Look behind you.
Nice one Vikki. I am quite sure Vikki is reminding the fat, ugly Jew hating Islamist senator of her own ‘extremist’ associations and views, particularly the fatso senator’s attendance last November at an anti-Jew protest here in Sydney’s CBD, where the fatso senator was pictured smiling in front of a group of young woman who were holding up extremist Jew hating messages on hand-made placards, and one of the young girl girls held up a placard which had a drawing of a figure ‘placing an Israeli flag into a trash bin’ with the following words written underneath….
“keep the world clean.”
So, according to this fatso Jew hating Islamist Senator, we Jews, almost all of whom are Zionists, are unclean, dirty, and filthy. Words and imagery straight from Der Sturmer.
Vikki is right, Senator Fatso Faruqi clearly didn’t and doesn’t ‘look behind her’.
In fact, the fatso Jew hating senator was so proud of her picture that she posted it online, until she deleted hours later.
And let me just restate this, we have a Nazi party in this country and that party is called the Greens. Anyone who votes for the Greens is no different to those German men and women who, in January 1933, voted for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
In better news this morning, in attendance at Netanyahu’s speech to Congress two days ago were Elon Musk, Douglas Murray and other luminaries, including James Packer. In today’s Daily Telegraph James Packer says…
I stand by my mate Benjamin Netanyahu
Kol Hakavod, James Packer.
Obviously Paris has many historical and cultural attractions it can highlight during Olympics.
My concern is that Brisbane is going to go nuts on First Nations stuff to highlight.
Already doing it with the Brisbane Meanjin references.
Ceasefire? Can happen today or tomorrow, as soon as Hamas releases the hostages.
Two State Solution? Impractical – Gaza has confirmed that.
Hopefully I am proven wrong but I am worried that something very big and bad will happen in Paris during the Olympic Games.
There’s a mini army protecting the Israeli team.
Back to pre Oct 7 then? When Gaza ruled itself?
She doesn’t know much about the place, does she?
Tesla FSD 12.5 is a HUGE Leap Forward (First Impressions & Highlights)
I am surprised they get enough paramaters in limited hardware in FSD chips to self drive. llama 405b requires multiple A100 80g cards to run, but then its a general knowledge LLM, this is a highly specialised neural net.
the thing about 10x the parameter count is that it only provides linear improvements.
But apparently no decent singers.
ABC radio reports Celine Dion & Lady Gaga starred in the opening ceremony.
Strange.
WOOLWORTHS .. taking your shopping to the next level .. LOL!
This isn’t a meme but from this week’s catalogue .. FFS!
Paris Olympics cultural tip.
When playing sports trivia in a French pub the answer to “Who won the 1940 Paris marathon?” is apparently not “Panzer Group Guderian”.
Hopefully I am proven wrong but I am worried that something very big and bad will happen in Paris during the Olympic Games
Poor old Frogs. They live in their little arrondissement of Paree and rarely interact with the muz. Peut-être this will change as the military convoys power around the avenues, insha’alla.
@robinmonotti
The most open admission for the real purpose of the man made climate change hoax: MORE TAXES! After “carbon” they will tax H20: water!
Disgusting. My interest in these Olympics which was already zero has now gone into negative territory.
@libsoftiktok
Actual opening ceremony of the Olympics.
This isn’t parody.
RIP Olympics.
DEI is “Speaking Bitterness”
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EXCLUSIVE Kamala Harris the ‘soul-destroying bully’: Former staff expose shock details of degrading tirades, decades-long ‘toxic’ behavior that left people in TEARS – and saw them quit at unprecedented levels
Continuing on from Top Ender’s Vikki Campion’s Saturday Tele piece:
EVEN LABOR MINISTERS CAN’T GET STORIES RIGHT ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Vikki Campion
27 Jul 2024
According to senior Labor cabinet ministers, nuclear in the water in Sydney Harbour is not a problem, nor is nuclear waste on land, but nuclear on land will cause radiation on farms within an 80km radius.
Confused? Join the club.
As Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy told the ABC that “there is no risk to the community” to store nuclear waste in WA, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt told ag bible The Land that radioactivity would threaten farms within 80km of a nuclear power plant.
That’s a lot coming from Mr Watt, who struggles to keep farmers breathing air in the same room as him. ( 🙂 )
He told The Land that nuclear power would put “more than 11,000 farms at risk of radiation” – but had no warning for the homes around the existing nuclear reactor in Sydney.
Nor has he looked at any peer-reviewed papers. A French study of 22,393 workers employed over a 42- year period at 58 nuclear power plants found relative risks of cancer lower than those in the general population.
An analysis of cancer in 42,200 Canadian nuclear energy workers found no increase in the risk of cancer mortality due to their occupational radiation exposure.
Mr Watt’s political lie shows he has zero interest in agriculture and total interest in his next portfolio, to be announced in tomorrow’s reshuffle.
Farmers stormed out of his 2024 budget breakfast after he used them as photo-shoot props for BeefWeek and then flew to WA to shut down live-sheep exports.
His office has even been caught out making and distributing social media tiles celebrating the banning of live sheep, using images from animal activist websites.
This has forced farmers to start campaigns, such as The Livestock Collective, to show the reality of animal husbandry. He has also supported Bills forcing the compulsory acquisition of farms for transmission lines, and reduce their water allowances, all of which prioritise climate socialism over farming.
For all his bother, farmers and industry leaders at this week’s NSW Farmers Conference ignored Mr Watt’s doomsday warning and overwhelmingly supported the location of nuclear power plants at coal-fired power sites.
LIFTER :
Nuclear for Australia founder Will Shackel, who, while abroad to study at MIT, in the US, found time to eat locally fished seafood from Avila Beach, near Diablo nuclear power plant, and, to the ALP’s shock, survived.
LEANER :
The nation’s treasurers for injecting $60bn into the economy, driving inflation as a record 11,049 businesses fall insolvent – a rise of 124 per cent on 2022 figures, according to ASIC.
Obama’s scheming has spectacularly backfired
Since the attacks, Labor has slowly but surely lost its moorings and allowed itself to be dragged further and further to the left by radical Palestinian activists and by the anti-colonial rhetoric of the academy.
NO, Labor hasn’t lost its way! .. Its been dragged out of the “closet” to try to convince its RoP populated seats that it really does luv ’em ……..!
@TonySeruga
Kamala Harris’ graphic designer Ana Rice has history of calling for arson, political violence
The Bloodless Coup of Joe Biden Will Not Work Out Well for Democrats
J. D. Vance and the Emerging Counter-Elite
Looks like a freak show.
And appears to be getting panned in the press.
That’s exactly how much they respect us.
@robinmonotti
The FBI reluctantly admits that Trump was actually struck by a bullet.
@TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING – FBI statement on Trump assassination attempt: “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle.”
By Denying Kamala Harris’ Border Czar Role, Media Admits Biden-Harris Immigration Policy Is A Total Failure
Democrat Civil War Watch: Black Lives Matter Isn’t on the Kamala Coronation Train
Barack Obama FINALLY Endorses Kamala… But He Likely Didn’t Want To
Kamala Harris Failed to Connect One Person with High-Speed Internet with $42.5 Billion from Infrastructure Bill
So much for trying to circumscribe Trump’s campaigning. He is really amazing.
PM TURNS ON ISRAEL IN TIME FOR CONFERENCE
I suspect that this will bite him on the rear end in the end. Less than a year out from the election campaign and there a many more who are quietly getting on with life who’s views range from that they don’t agree with this to those repulsed.
Unsure what Wong’s stake in this is being from SA and in the Senate, not like she has to worry about the Islamic vote block. Albo get it, Sydney & his electorate full of wealthy far left types but as usual he’s all party politics rat cunning but dim witted anywhere outside this bubble.
Polite conversations with people I have had from different walks tell me as much as some have concerns about Israel behaviour with settlements etc the fact lost in all this pro-Gazan noise is that the Gazans raped and murdered it’s way across southern Israel on Oct 7. These people are not out there protesting as they don’t have time or are significantly cowed by potential backlash aided by a 2 tier policing regime.
Albo’s focus groups need to get into middle Australia where all those swing seats are as I’d say there’s more than a gram of discomfort with bellicose statements being issued on their behalf.
As for Trudeau probably the most authoritarian far left leader Canada has had and the dripping wet Luxon who is watering down most of his election promises like the 3 strikes laws already, meh, I expect nothing more from Wellington or Ottawa despite who is in control.
Blackest black comedy of the day award goes this story.
‘Let them rot in jail’: Calls to ban euthanasia for rapists, murderers (Tele, paywalled)
So the Left who opposed executions is now promoting executions? And calling them a “get-out-of-jail-free card”? Oh well I suppose that’s one way of reducing overcrowding in gaols.
‘The West’ in Paris. What a spectacle.
ps..
As for the steel girders somehow turning to powder as they fell from the World Trade Centre.
What a lot of crap. It is probably past time for some people to get a grasp of real life comprehension.
Those vertical girders would have been covered with 1-2 cm of concrete dust, smoke ash and other forms of dust because of the collapsing building and fire. That dust and ash is not glued to the girders and is held there by electrostatic forces.
As the girders dropped vertically they accelerated much faster than the dust could sustain its electrostatic hold so the dust dislodged from the beams and shielded the view of the girders falling.
Dust that has a positive electric charge will be attracted to objects that have a negative electric charge, and vice versa. The greater the amount of dust in the air, the larger the amount of dust that clings to objects within a space.
What we saw in the videos was exactly that and the attention seeking fool who wrote that the beams were disintegrating was gaslighting anyone without the intellect to actually understand the physical world.
Wong and fellow Adelaidean Butler are Albanese’s “praetorian guard.”
This is to shore up his position in the face of criticism from the floor.
Guarding his left flank, as it were.
Just in case you’re wondering, the plant in the painting is a Verbascum sp., or Mullein.
And yes, it does grow at Giverny.
Crowder is going to have cameras at all swing states in the up coming Election and full Live stream, just saying!
I see the French flew the Olympic flag upside down during the opening ceremony.
Yes Kevin M, a master earned his stripes during the era of sail.
Here is a photo of Balaklava Harbour during the Crimean war.
.., which got me wondering if the -acle in spectacle and debacle share the same etymology. They don’t but debacle is “from Latin baculum “stick” (see bacillus).”.
BoN. I find it intriguing that the left are against capital punishment, but enthusiastically support chopping up late term babies in abortion procedures. Perhaps we should rename capital punishment to “retrospective abortion “. The greens would then be able to support it!
Until it comes time to line up the counter-revolutionaries against a wall.
I’m all for extra late post term abortions for the left, greens in particular.
“1788 immigrants” is a hilarious phrase.
Digger FYI.
BoN please correct if I err, likely as my metallurgy never went past 2nd year first semester and a long time ago.
I normally stay out of this sort of argument but I did metallurgy in my first year which is mainly steel/cast irons. Delve down memory lane and internet research.
Couple of links to back up the theory the steel got too hot and failed. Also my underqualified interpretation.
Strength of structural steel at 500 deg to 21 deg is down to 49%, whith little engineering I know that’s in colossal failure territory:
https://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Matter/Temperature_effects.html
Iron/carbon phase diagram. Note structural steel is at 0.02% carbon so to the uninitiated almost on the left margin. Ferrite is a phase of steel that has it’s own distinct properties, note when the temperature rises above between 600-800 deg the phase changes to Austenite with different distinct properties that weren’t designed for in the engineering:
https://fractory.com/iron-carbon-phase-diagram/
Cont…
Lastly. Google tells me from a number of different sources jet fuel burn was estimated at between 1000-1100 deg C. Not high enough to melt this phase of steel but high enough to significantly alter the structural properties and strengths of the material.
Long and short, loss of strength due to heat above 1000 dec C and the differing properties in the steel would have consigned this building to the whims of gravity without all the other shocks like (Lifted from a post this morning) a Boeing 767 weighing in at 80 tons traveling at about 500 mph and 15,000 gallons of jet fuel. Impulse of the force from the momentum and the time of impact being seconds would have been astronomical.
Been busy and missed that. Thanks, KD and thanks Digger.
Basic facts that when presented to anyone with a modicum of intelligence explains everything that happened.
The real IQ of the conspiracy theorists is below room temperature because they cannot use basic facts to form a conclusion, the windows blowing out being a prime example, as anyone with an ounce of sense could see what was happening as the buildings fell.
They instead turn to fantasy to explain what they cannot, which long term leads to paranoia and everything becomes a conspiracy.
So what do Cats think about JD Vance’s proposal to increase taxes on the childless? Benefits for parents are one thing, but whacking penalties on childless cat ladies and incels seems to be a step further.
“For a starter every floor of those two buildings weighted around 4,500 tons. A Boeing 767 weighs about 80 tons and both planes were traveling at about 500 mph and were carrying about 15,000 gallons of jet fuel.”
Oh Lordy Lordy Lordy!
So KD, the weight of every floor was 4,500 tons.
Ok, ……, are you saying that the engineers and architects didn’t take that into account when designing the building?????
FMD!
Are you actually stating, that the jet fuel could create a fire hot enough to “melt”, or at the very least, weaken the steel supports?
Not only that, but magically the heat on the 75th floor is somehow transmitted to the 65th, 55th, 45th, 35th etc causing them all to be “melted” or at the very least, weakened, causing the towers to enter “free fall”?
I would VERY MUCH like you to expand on that!
Personally, I think the engineers and architects did take weight into account, but, you can believe what you wish.
As I attempted to tell you yesterday, (with little success evidently), high rise buildings are designed to support these weights, which, seems to come as a surprise to you.
Moreover, the supports for these buildings are stronger on the lower floors, for obvious reasons. (Perhaps I had better spell it out for you again, the lower floors support more weight than the higher floors, ……, got it?)
The reason this is important in the WTC cases, is because 0.5 seconds after the collapse began in the towers, the building was in “free fall”.
I can see the confused look on your face KD, that means there was NO resistance to stop, or even slow down the collapse.
Given the increasing strength of the supports as you descend, this is only possible if:
a. an external force has affected the strength of the supports, or
b. everyone lives in your special universe, where the laws of physics AND thermodynamics do not apply.
As I said, even we suspend reality and say that the fires were hot enough to weaken the steel supports, the building is extremely unlikely fall into its own footprint, rather, the top portion would topple.
The fact that in 120 years, only three steel supported skyscrapers have collapsed due to fire AND they all did so in Manhatten on 9/11, is merely an amazing coincidence, right?
Enjoy the day KD, try not to hurt yourself.
Oh, have you checked out Baidoa yet?
It is about 120 miles NW of Mogadishu.
The Australian Battalion group conducted patrols there when deployed in 1993.
No one was patrolling in Mogadishu from October 1993.
No need to thank me, happy to inform people.
WTC explosive demolition nuffery has arrived earlier than usual – must be a sign of the uncertain times.
Pretty much correct, RD.
From an engineering perspective, steel structures have effectively completely failed at a little over 500°C. As noted in posts above, load transfer and gravity will usually do the rest.
the-allied-fleet-in-balaklava-harbour.jpg
Sorry, I stuffed up the other link.
Sounds great Monty. Let them make babies.
JD Vance Makes First Public Comments Since Media Latched Onto His ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ Remark From 2021 (26 Jul)
Two of the comments:
That they have to dig this accurate observation up is very funny. He’s a cleanskin.
For dessert, this:
The Daily Chart: The Marriage Gap | Power Line (26 Jul)
Social media and smart phones are driving young women nuts. The young men aren’t affected.
It would be nice if at least one US president censured their track team athletes for dishonouring their fellow competitors by egotistical prancing after they win.
The great Michael Johnson hated it and called it out during his time at the top. He basically said that you devalue your success if you treat the other athletes with a lack of respect.
Cackles prevaricating about debating Trump. The talk is she wants to do it in a field with a building with a sloping roof.
Trump Vs. Harris Cancelled? Debate Plans Fall Apart After Campaign Deems It ‘Inappropriate’ (westernjournal.com)
And WTF is this:
FBI Wants to “Interview” Trump About Assassination | Frontpage Mag
Catherine and Daniel Andrews reportedly fail to hand over phone and other court-ordered records. – Michael Smith News
This is why I will never by in the same room as that pair of grubs
Dickless:
So what do Cats think about JD Vance’s proposal to increase taxes on the childless? Benefits for parents are one thing, but whacking penalties on childless cat ladies and incels seems to be a step further.
I’m disappointed Barstool and Portnoy is saying this: what JD said is that folks with kids should be taxed at a lower rate than childless, usually demorat, cat ladies. JD was not advocating increasing taxes for the catties just giving a break to the kiddies.
Kids are the future. Conservatives have to press this point because for the left kiddies are merely things to manipulate to justify transexualism and other perversions.
@tedfrank
Biden administration launders $1.2M payment to Peter Strzok (and likely a similar payment to Lisa Page) through settlement of likely-doomed lawsuit.
I don’t know if I have just not seen it, but I have not caught any news on TV newscasts of the sabotage of the rail network in France. It had caused widespread disruption to the movement of tourists coming for the Games, & travel within France. But the dizzy commentary of the MSM has not mentioned it.
I’ll bite (assuming you’re framing his argument correctly…)
I’m against taxes that have a punitive purpose on principle.
And there’s already a tax credit for children in the US; consider changes to that and child-rearing deductions if you want to lighten the tax burden on families.
Just saw an Olympic team selection thing about female rowers and the muscular power effort they put in.
Perhaps some of those Nine investigative journalists could do something useful and find the men pretending to be women in that sport in any country.
Why, simple.
Making any sort of false statement to the FBI in connection to a Federal offence is a felony. And it can be a false statement honestly believed.
How elegant to put Trump in jeopardy of a Federal charge relating to his own assassination attempt.
Social media and smart phones are driving young women nuts. The young men aren’t affected.
Interesting. I have noticed as much in the case of my two grandchildren. The granddaughter is very smart, but very Woke, and very “into” social media – although this has diminished as she has become a young adult. The grandson has never been a slave to social media, is street smart” & has a great “BS detector”.
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Recreates ‘Last Supper’ with Drag Queens & Trans Performers (breitbart.com)
How fukked can you get? Probably why I have close to zero interest in the whole Olympic shitshow.
How fukked can you get? This much..
‘Degeneracy’: Barely Clothed, Bearded Drag Queen Dances Seductively at Paris’ Olympic Opening Ceremony (breitbart.com)
Obscene and evil- talk about a civilization trying to destroy itself.
Haven’t been to France since 1995 and must admit I rather liked it (except the Riviera- too built up). No wish to go there ever again.
Nothing too low for the demorats:
Left Claims Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Used Racial Slur While Discussing Kamala Harris – Watch the Clip for Yourself (westernjournal.com)
The demorats claim he said coloured when he plainly says COLLEGE.
GreyRanga
July 27, 2024 7:09 am
And apparently the heat is on the “sports churnalists” in Paris to man the barricades too.
That’s gotta hurt.
Roger
July 27, 2024 11:06 am
Not a new one, been tried before in Europe under communists.
With a variation of being a bachelor after a certain age, can’t remember if it applied to the ladies but.
There’s a parody in that. Start with Billy Idol…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1oM7LBbxE
“Facts for fantasists…”
Yes. Two of them got mugged…
Two Olympic Broadcasters Suffer ‘Significant Assault’ in Paris Robbery Attempt (26 Jul)
Nein doesn’t so far seem to be doing well out of this qwerty extravaganceapolooza. It’s a mystery.
Naturally enough, that’s not what Vance proposed:
Which the regime Media subedited as:
As opposed to, the more accurate:
A case study in why the US media is widely distrusted.
OK, buildings:
After the floor that was hit and burned, when the supports buckled, the upper part of the building is essentially in free fall.
Lets suppose it falls 2.5 meters before the bottom the top part and the top of the bottom part contact each other and act as a 0.5 meter crumple zone.
At contact the top of the building is going close to 7 meters per second due to acceleration due gravity.. To decelerate the top part to zero relative velocity takes a decleration of 5 gravities. So the remaining bottom of the building experiences a vertical downward force of 5 times the normal load.
Any civil engineers here? I don’t think building is designed for such loads.
I’m minded of a building in Cairo I think some years ago. The lower floors had been designed for a 5 story building but 8 were built so one day it collapsed.
Arky’s Green Real Deal Party.
Arky cannot help but notice that the green new deal, the Teal types and the WEF have spent years if not decades pushing for the expungementisation of the rights of the ordinary fellow to live with any of the little enjoyments that most of have as compensation for a lifetime of toil.
Rich little indoctrinated snots have taken to the streets to implore the destruction the very things that allow an ordinary man to enjoy modern life.
I say it’s about f***king time we return the favour, using their favourite bogus Karen excuses:
Saving the stupid planet.
The manifesto:
Lawsuits for stating the hard truth are a tactic I saw used in south east Asia that seems to be getting a run in Oz lately for hurty feelz. Maybe that’s where Carr learned it…
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/exforeign-minister-bob-carr-threatens-defamation-against-new-zealand-deputy-pm-over-chinese-puppet-accusation/news-story/852b652e23fd198d288321826b6499af
Can’t see what Winston Peters said wrong and he doubled down in Parliament on it. Radio NZ to their discredit altered podcasts removing it.
Apparently Carr engaged lawyers to send a concerns notice, that 6 weeks later Peters office in NZ still doesn’t have:
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/07/the_tub_thumpers.html#comments
Similarly the ex-band Chumbawamba for using a song I associated with soccer hooligans who I came across, apparently their demand also hasn’t arrived either.
I remember a lawyer once I was dealing with that hated taking on civil matters across Australian borders let alone international ones. Apparently had more than one client skip on smaller bills and the recovery effort wasn’t worth the hassle.
I have no fixed position on 9/11. There is so much about it that is curious that keeps it open for me. The relationships between the those involved and the CIA, how quickly it was exploited to regime change Iraq, etc.
On conspiracy theories per se, many are often used to distract, occlude, and allow the actual conspiracy to pass. To paraphrase, the greatest trick of the conspirator is to make you think there are no conspiracies.
Been enjoying myself this morning demonstrating exactly how wrong someone with a masters in education is about European colonial history.
Sadly, this is someone with a masters in education. Currently employed teaching this stuff. Very much admires the Chinese. Suspect I’m shortly going to be blocked.
Re, the ‘limpics WTF knew?
EswatiniSovereign state in southern Africa
• thekingdomofeswatini.com
Eswatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast.
Crowder did great investigative journalism after 2020 election. He got a guy in Las Vegas to check out some of the people on the voter role and their addresses. Asked courier companies if they could make deliveries to some addresses and then followed up with videoed site visits. Some were highway underpasses or parks etc. His report resulted in the LV city taking down the public web site from where he got the addresses. Clearly showed many dodgy voting addresses.
Weird how mainstream media did not do the same.
“Crowder is going to have cameras at all swing states in the up coming Election and full Live stream, just saying”
LOL. As usual, the DNC talking points lie about Vance, and as usual, the mindless drone mUnturd repeats the lies mindlessly.
He must be a verrrry slow learner, unable to understand that repeating lefturd lies isn’t going to convince anyone but mindless leftard drones like him.
Vance has also proposed giving parents extra votes for each of their children.
Trump is having second thoughts about this loser.
https://www.facebook.com/BikeBoyScandal
The Andrews are refusing to hand over their phone records as the courts have ordered.
It’s certainly looking like someone has something to hide.
Vance putting the family unit first in the social order.
No wonder the perverts of the progressive proletariat are outraged.
It’s curious and more than a little suspicious, that when eco terrorists want to protest oil, they stop highways providing transport for the poorest and hardest working citizens, but they never block access to ski fields or superglue themselves to Daddy’s private jet.
Didn’t the repulsive Dr Ryan say she only got into ‘climate change’ because she was concerned about the future of skying or sumpin. Some serious creepy doctors out there. This time I’m talking about MB BS ones.
Apropos of the attempt on Trump’s life, yesterday morning the below email arrived from Gab (a social media site) Other Cats who have a Gab account may have received the same email:
Nice idea, but it hasn’t worked in places where it’s been tried and there’s only tiny incremental improvement in the birthrate.
In any event, I thought the US had a tax credit for kids.
Inequalidy saw an increase in the US this week.
So, the Obamas have endorsed Kamala.
I would imagine she dropped down on her knees in gratitude – not through prayer, but to express the same thanks she gave Willie Brown.
Both Bambi and The Wookie will have to overlook the fact Kamala is not a guy, but that is realpolitik for you, I suppose.
GreyRanga July 27, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to Indolent
It’s not the private hands as such so much as the elements being subject to agendas. I think the Victorian power generation privatisations under Kennett worked well enough for a while and wonder how much longer we would have been paying $2.40/minute for international calls had the government Telecom monopoly remained.
It all goes to custard (Hi, Custard!) when political agendas find their way in. I guess if the political agendas are directed at government organisations then the government itself wears the pain as opposed to the private entity that thought it was on a good thing, so there’s that.
If a guy with an Indian accent calls to offer solar panels with government incentives and you suggest that you have an apartment with no roof, does that prevent further calls? 🤔
It’s almost as if Extinction Rebellion is an elitist project.
How much is government incentives to raise the fertility rate actually costing?
Tax cuts and income splitting. Simple.
Not sure what is attractive to Russia about this ‘peace plan’.
Hahahahahahaha
breath
Haaaa, haaa, haaaaaarr
Walkouts and shouts of ‘shame’ at NSW Labor conference as Anthony Albanese calls for unityPrime minister Anthony Albanese’s speech boycotted by some union members as protesters rally outside Sydney conference
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/27/walkouts-and-shouts-of-shame-at-nsw-labor-conference-as-anthony-albanese-calls-for-unity
Albo simpering “but the crocodile was supposed to eat me last”!
Miltonf
July 27, 2024 2:08 pm
milt, Income splitting is available in the US
Rockdoctor earlier …
I did the sums on this the last time this idiocy came up.
The WTC towers were designed to withstand a hit from a much smaller aircraft travelling at a much slower speed. They were obviously postulating an aircraft on approach lost in fog, with full flaps and gear out and travelling at well under 200 kts.
Not a fully fuelled 767 with the balls to the wall.
?
That was John Howard’s mantra in opposition.
When in government we got middle class welfare instead.
The question of having more children is simple.
It is wrongly said that the more wealthy people become, the less children they have.
This is not correct.
Increased wealth was accompanied by urbanisation.
It is that living in modern, urbanised societies is more expensive, and also that credentialism has meant that younger people start families later and therefore have less children.
People will automatically have more children if they start their working lives earlier and if homes to raise children in are more affordable,
Those who want conservative and traditional social values to re-emerge must eliminate the education Ponzi scam and de-regulate land use.
It’s not March ’22 anymore. The new starting point was set out a month or so back.
Basic facts.
The WTC was designed to take a hit from a 707 on approach.
Don’t know exact approach speed of 707 but it would be around 140-150 kts.
The Maximum Take Off Weight of a 707 is 114,000 kgs.
The MTOW of a 767 is about 142,000 kgs. If it was travelling at 500 kts …
The Paris opening ceremony had me thinking of this straight away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUTlE90j7n8
Oooops. Epic Nike fail…
https://forward.com/fast-forward/634683/adidas-sl72-olympics-bella-hadid-antisemitism/
I thought I read that the WTC towers were designed to withstand impacts from light aircraft – not commercial passenger jets
Americans possess a unique gift in the esoteric arts of ‘splitting’ after which the rest of the world can only emulate.
Splitting atoms and splitting incomes being obvious examples
But surely the most uncanny example would have to be splitting the infinitive.
In the 1960’s the TV series Star Trek had Captain Kirk intoning “…to boldly go…” When that was written, and uttered, it was bad English. Should have been “to go boldly” but in the early 21st century the OED declared that split infinitives would now be acceptable. So, when it was written it was wrong, but for the future where it was set “to boldly go” was fine.
How did they know?
Watching the series now I find the grammar of the opening speech more persuasively futuristic than the rubber faced monsters and standing mannequin-still when transporting so the special effect masks don’t slip.
Q’pla!
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2024 3:01 pm
Basic facts.
The WTC was designed to take a hit from a 707 on approach.
Don’t know exact approach speed of 707 but it would be around 140-150 kts.
The Maximum Take Off Weight of a 707 is 114,000 kgs.
The MTOW of a 767 is about 142,000 kgs. If it was travelling at 500 kts
…
The official narrative has more holes in it than a sieve. Those toasted cars should get you thinking The ones on FDR drive got fried and they were 0.6 of a mile away
Find the 2:20:23 and watch the 20 point presentation.
9/11 Breakthrough Energy Technology | Dr Judy Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadSaWyiozg
Chinese Nationals Plead Guilty for Bribing US Official | China In Focus
The 767-200 carries about 250 passengers. Each plane on the day carried 92 and 65 total, passengers and crew. The first plane was flying a little over 300 kts, and the secondly, slightly over 500 kts, both reportedly. And both are carrying about half their max fuel load (roughly 20,000 gallons), roughly 10,000 and 9,000 gallons, respectively, which is about 40,000 kgs less their MTOW. Add that to passengers and cargo not flying, less another 15,000kg and 18,000kg, respectively.
Splitting churches…
During the Civil War Protestant denominations Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists split into northern and southern branches and most haven’t reunited since.
Good observation about split infinitives!
An Olympic balls-up! Eagle-eyed viewers spot performer’s TESTICLE hanging out during opening ceremony of Paris 2024 as dancer suffers x-rated wardrobe malfunction
Daily Mail.
‘What Was That?!’: Paris Olympics Opens with Suggested Bisexual Threesome (breitbart.com)
Obscene. I don’t even think Sodom of the south aka Sydney went that far in 2000.
However, one of the prerecorded dance segments was even more explicitly LGBT, as three dancers in gender-ambiguous costumes ran through the streets of Paris and into a building. Their segment ended with the three — two males and one female — nearing each other in dramatic kisses, then entering a room to further their amorous acts.
How’s the SNCF running today I wonder?
Harley Davidson Faces Boycott as its DISGUSTING Woke Agenda is EXPOSED
Rufus,
This video explains the physics behind what happened …
https://youtu.be/1NkBfLBov5Q?feature=shared.
Following the links in the pinned comment on that video for more information.
Obscene. I don’t even think Sodom of the south aka Sydney went that far in 2000.
If the muslims want to bomb Paris in response, I shan’t blame them.
As I recall Sydney was very much general viewing rated.
Paris would be…what, PG at least? And in many countries, particularly Muslim or Christian majority countries in Africa, not allowed to be televised.
I don’t think the Olympics is going to recover easily from this.
I don’t think I would either Dr BG- I feel nothing but contempt for contemporary Europe.
Did Macaroon do the official opening?
“Each plane on the day carried 92 and 65 total, passengers and crew”
How does that aid the conspiracy theory?
A full passenger load would have made it more likely to be a genuine terror attack?
The reduction in weight from less passengers makes it more likely the towers fell for some other reason, laser beams, controlled demolition etc?
The Houthis getting lessons on what happens when you play with the “big” boyz as well as Iran and their Hezzi mates getting Cc-ed in .. LOL!
https://youtu.be/j-1e6di6CUc
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/kamala-doesnt-believe-theres-such-a-thing-as-radical-islamist-terror.html
No need to thank me, happy to inform people.
comprehension is not your strong point is it?
responding to your diatribe of fantasy about the collapsing WTC is not worth it.
I will speak to a brick wall instead. It is smarter.
I’m a little more comfortable in my share house. Not a full house and I’ve the ground floor to myself at the moment.
The host switched me to a first floor room at the back, from a second floor room on the street so one less flight of leaning stairs to negotiate.
The ground floor of sitting room dining room and kitchen has been open planned, the main fire place is gone, the mantelpiece of the dining room fire place remains with a modern wood stove on the hearth in front.
There is a long narrow garden out back, just like you see on the telly.
Mine is full of plants and garden furniture but next door is just grass, which got mowed last night and will probably need mowing again tomorrow.
Waterford is bigger and more tourist full than Wexford, only one opp shop spotted so far. I pop in to look for books but Rankin Patterson Connolly reigned supreme.
Wexford had a very high density of opp shops, it’s a wonder they can stock them all.
I’m not keen on especially for tourist attractions, there is a ‘famine ship’ experience along with a JFK memorial in New Ross, clearly for Americans. No thank you.
I’ll going to hunt down a coffee place and then explore.
Yesterday the old bus driver that picked me up declared it a grand day, mostly overcast with a patch or two of blue, it wasn’t raining.
Today though it’s back to normal.
I suppose people thinking it’s more likely 9/11 was a convenient excuse/cover for a war in Iraq are far more likely to on the money.
The very idea that the religion of piece would have a second go at taking down the towers!
It’s good to see Paris put another nail in the Olympics coffin.
Was RuPaul the artistic director?
Watching the Nine spermalists walking out from their strike meeting or whatever,
What a sad, beta looking bunch of turds.
Packer would have fisted them to death like the Tom Cruise character from Tropic Thunder.
Regarding the World Trade Center collapse: I have it on impeccable (hush-hush) authority that the primary hijackers on BOTH aircraft had given their mothers a toaster the previous Christmas.
Make of that what you will, but I’m happy to bring the discussion to a conclusion based on that startling revelation alone.
From my morning WhatsApp chat with my French-married baby sister, it appears that provincial France is somewhat less than impressed with the Olympic opening extravaganza.
C’est con.
Typical of Paris.
And yet, France chose to showcase it’s Globohomo , Satanic and Trannie freak credentials. Disgusting opening ceremony. France deserves to be under the Islamic sword.
At last!
Something to get our teeth into.
It’s been a while since someone has been interesting about 9/11 (G Bird, nuclear cavitation).
Delusional.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-living-with-parents-affordability-financial-support-2024-7
Digger
July 27, 2024 5:02 pm
No need to thank me, happy to inform people.
comprehension is not your strong point is it?
responding to your diatribe of fantasy about the collapsing WTC is not worth it.
I will speak to a brick wall instead. It is smarter.
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Watch the doco posted @ 3:32 pm.
Cork is my next stop.
I shall certainly check out the gaol.
I’ve no idea where I’m going after that, Kerry, Limerick or just go west.
It is astonishing the amount of people that accept the official 911 narrative from the MSM and alphabet agencies.
How does Greg Sheridan still have a job? Another long meandering boring,predictable hit job on Trump with such journalistic delights as
“Could Kamala Harris be a worse president even than Joe Biden has been? More importantly, could she be worse than Donald Trump?”
Omitted to mention her meteoric political rise via her “friendship cough cough” with Willie Brown 30 years her senior. Greg has not been listening to Sean Hannity who has outlined forensically all her looney past statements. Republicans have a treasure trove for their ads.
Enjoying your travelogue, Rosie. Ireland was the last place I expected to go all PC woke tbh although horrors like Mary Robinson and Louise Milligan where an ominous sign.
A Theological question for the Theologicians:
If a Christian – say a Presbyterian – was to give a dying man, woman or child, the Last Rites, does that man, woman or child become a Christian?
Does the giver of these rites have to be a Minister of the Church, or can it be just any member of a congregation? And can it be just the Last Rites equivalent or does it have to be a Baptism like with the water and stuff?
Yes Sheridan and Kelly plus many others no doubt serve up insulting muck. Does George Megalogenis still write there ..and Phillip Adams?
Never fell for all that Celtic Tiger tosh though.
‘Semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit.’
The necessity of proof rests with those who bring charges.
At the very least, those who challenge the official narrative have to present enough evidence to render their alternative explanation plausible.
Roger
July 27, 2024 6:12 pm
‘Semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit.’
The necessity of proof rests with those who bring charges.
At the very least, those who challenge the official narrative have to present enough evidence to render other explanations plausible.
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Dr Wood did, Roger.
Hilarious comment in the article about woke Harley.
“Sturgis is on shortly”. “Who will be brave enough to man the Harley stand”?
The commentator blamed HR. Certainly the HR mob carry some blame, but the true blame for these corporate disasters lies with the MBA factories.
Woke MBA’S only hire woke MBA’s. Entrepreneurs and specialists have been sidelined making corporates exact replicas of the public service.
Boeing.
Fatty Trump continues to bring peoples of black colorage over to his side.
He’s Public Enemy No 1.
As we have all witnessed over the last several years, Govts and particularly western Govts and their organs have shown themselves to be liars, thieves, hypocrites, tyrants, corrupt, overbearing , perverse, treasonous and devoid of even the barest honour. To the point where one is a gullible fool to accept the “official narrative” as it’s likely all a pack of lies and fake news.
That’s an interesting set of directions in Monet’s painting [top o’ th’ page]. The phrase ‘The rule of thirds’ (composition) pops into my head.
Politics live news: NSW Labor formally backs Palestine state ‘as priority’
From the Oz.
Irreverent souls, such as myself, want to know if New South Wales will accept thousands of Israeli refugees, when the new Palestinian State sets about it’s long cherished aim of wiping the State of Israel off the map?
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/1816708532441362576#m
H/T Michael Smith. The Palestinian Olympic team in gay Paree.
Must say – disappointed by the opening ceremony.
the Marie Antoinette image was off and uneccessary.
this part thing is ott – it’ for the entertainment peoples and artists.
Anyway looking forward to the real business.
Celine De Lion – what – the French have great operatic singers.
and to tease – the disrespect of the Mona Lisa.
maybe Italy should invade France
Roger
July 27, 2024 6:32 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Perhaps others who’ve watched the video might comment.
I’m not a great video watcher.
I rarely even watch TV anymore.
—
My TV has no aerial. I use it as a monitor for my laptop.
Some young American womanages …
“So long as they believe that Jesus is their saviour rites aren’t necessary”
now there’s a novelty, and unbiblical at that.
Mark 16.16.
Got to be this.
AC/DC – Jailbreak (1976)
Sure, question the official narrative…deny assent if you will, but without credible evidence only rabbit holes await and shysters hoping to make a profit out of credulity.
We are also inclined to over-estimate the competence of governments and their agencies to bring about not only good ends but also evil ones.
And the more complicated the plot, the more people involved, the higher the level of competence assumed. Therefore, I set a high bar of verisimilitude for alternative explanations.
A second shooter on the grassy knoll? CIA involvement? Plausible, given what we know.
But 9/11?
You’ll forgive me if I require more than mere speculation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5NQgU-9G4
WTC South Tower Sway 8x speed.
I suppose you could call the plane a “directed energy weapon”.
Hey Milt – I enjoyed those two classic tracks this morning.
Young Americans …
Indeed, Makka – but enough about their good points … 😕
Cats – the reaction of a certain branch of the DNC after realising the cackling kamel* had been endorsed …
*Unburdened by sanity or the passage of time …
And deservedly so.
Elon Musk Kamala Harris Ad Goes VIRAL!
2 aspects of 9/11 I’m still highly suspicious of and I still believe we have never been told the truth , only lies. WTC 7 and the swift almost clinical airborne Govt sanctioned evacuation of Saudis from the US while ALL civilian aircraft were grounded across the country. You can call it speculation, but what I’m hearing are implausible lies.
Bowie is wonderful. The track I’m linking is almost a cliche, but I will do so because of the the following story…
*NOW* Is It Cool If We Call Our Starliner Astronauts Stranded? (26 Jul)
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes (1980)
Paging Major Tom!
the lean-to behind my garage fell down
can’t prove it but I blame climate change
This is the type of person he really is.
“God Chose Him” – Why Dr. Ben Carson Went From Donald Trump’s Opponent to His Ally
I hope he gets more than the maximum 7 years – put him away for 10.
What an idiot – did he think of what would happen if he was starting a trend of people doing stupid and malicious things just to get extra ‘Likes’?
And who’s going to pay for the damage – $350,000?
Dinner time!
Chicken Maryland with garlic butter and Tarragon.
Good night all.
dover0beach
July 27, 2024 12:05 pm
There is very little doubt about the fundamentals.
But if you ever find yourself saying “but, but the melting point of steel …”, give yourself an uppercut.
Good night Roger. Enjoy. Kentucky colonel here.
Today the repugnant slushing slug from Grayndler made an appearance, together with his squeeze ‘Jodeeeeeee’ beside him, at the NSW state ALP conference. If you’re looking for a room of mendacious mediocrities, make sure you head down to Sydney’s Town Hall tomorrow, you’ll find a room full of them
But I digress
It appears from the footage I’ve seen and read of the conference, and I’m not sure I want to read or see any more because my stomach could not tolerate it, that the repugnant slushing slug spoke of his ‘fave’ topic…
‘soshul coheshun’.
From The Oz….
“(We, the Labor Party) help people inside our electorate offices as opposed to intimidating (people) outside of them,” Mr Albanese said.
The unity seen during and after NSW’s Bondi stabbing and Wakeley terrorist attack was praised by the Prime Minister, in a speech littered with promises that Labor were “bringing people together”, a possible test of campaign mottos.
“Disagreements don’t divide us and our differences don’t define us,” Mr Albanese said of society at large, but also referencing the two April attacks in NSW.
“Australians from all walks of life responded with bravery, unity and kindness toward one another (after those attacks).”
Note the omission in the above? Note how the Slushing Slug omits any mention of the volcanic levels of Jew hatred that have erupted since 7 October 2023, note how the Slushing Slug neglects to mention the infamous afternoon and evening of 9 October 2023, he neglects to mention that infamous evening in Caulfied last November, he neglects to mention the infamous night after when convoys of leftist and Muslim was were escorted through Sydney’s eastern suburbs to harass and intimidate Jews, he neglects to mention the weekly festivals of Jew hatred on our streets that call for the genocide of Jews, he neglects to mention the hate clerics who call for the murder of Jews, he neglects to mention the daily Jew hatred that goes unreported. I could go on, the omissions from the Slug are bald-faced.
I think, if I was the Slug’s speech writer, I’d compose the following for the Slug…..
‘We, the Labor Party, only desire to help those who vote for us, that’s much more important that believing or standing up for decency and any principles. We only care for those voters who go around intimidating Jews. After all, Jews and Zionists are fair-game, most of them don’t vote us, so why should we care about them?’
That’s better, that’s much more truthful.
We’re allocating 40+ likes to the bananaby beetrooter’s woife for stating the bleeding obvious?
After the beetrooter went all year zero with goose morristeen’s slimy “chocolate” bits on his nose, lips and tongue?
Pistol and Boo found him out.
Bested by a pair of Hollyweirdo Dogues.
It takes an unquantifiable amount of staggering stupidity to achieve that sort of millstone*, Cats.
*Deliberate
Benny Johnson
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