Carpet bomb & glassing solves the problem very quicklyIt actually doesn’t. It’s success in weakening the military is limited.
Open Thread – Weekend 27 July 2024
- Hydrocarbons are not dispensable
- Open Thread – Weekend 7 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 5 Sept 2024
- Report on Russia and Ukraine
- Open Thread – Mon 2 Sept 2024
Okay, so you agree, they weren’t identical. Sheesh.? There would be no loss of prestige because if the US decided…
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 202 (rumble.com) Got through the lot. The usual featured.
Thank you, Indolent. What has occurred in respect to both the bioweapons gain-of-function virus development, and the subsequent mRNA “vaccines”,…
That has ALWAYS been my thought. When a mother apologises to for her sons being boisterous, I always say it’s…
Whoever manned the “Bud Lite” stand at last year’s Sturgis will be able to give the HD staff a heads-up on what to expect.
The best illegitimate illiterate innumerate ignorant ahistorical syphilis addled geriatric kiddie sniffing imbecile, evah, Cats, I tells ya! 🙂
That’s pure poetry Rabz!
Loser – Beck (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3rBVb3v4g
Devil’s haircut seeing we’re going all nihilistic tonight
BoN – let’s lay into some strawpersonages!
While not admiring some pure beauty … 😕
It appears the Biden administration is secretly allowing the Houthis to get more funding.
You really find it hard to believe what the frogs did with their opening ceremony. Obscene blasphemy. What’s next? Orgies inside Notre dame?
Cats – the Great Curve – a seven minute Saturday Night Epic. 🙂
Attention conservatives, this is how you use power.
Watching Trump’s turning point address,
Thought “Meh, another stock Trump speech”.
No. Not at all.
He is more formidable, more relatable, funnier and somehow more human than ever.
They did this.
They made him this.
He is going to rampage across the rest of this campaign like Godzilla. I hope Kamala and the rest of them enjoy cosplaying as hapless Japanese at the mercy of a great, big, brilliant and highly radioactive prehistoric monster.
PeterM
July 27, 2024 3:26 pm
They did the calcs based on a 707 in a similar scenario to the B-25 which hit the Empire State Building in 1945.
That is, loitering in fog at low speed, say, on approach to JFK.
A 707 weighs about 114,000 kgs and would have a landing approach speed of 140-150 kts.
That is a world of difference in impact energy to a 145,000 kg 767 travelling at 500 kts.
First-class outdoor pursuits presented themselves for attention today, followed by some comedy value from Roofie T Troofer at 10.49:
And:
No, I’m not actually stating that. Someone else, with a far greater grasp of reality than yourself ‘actually stated that’, and it’s something I wholeheartedly agree with.
You have confused ‘confused’ with ‘mirth’.
You don’t have to suspend reality for this, Roofie T.
An ‘office fire’, right? Your words, remember.
Tick, and tick.
I know where Baidoa is, thank you. Quite a few of my still-close friends conducted those patrols, and not one of them remembers squealy RAAFies in the arse-end Arnold position complaining about the heat and lack of pillows and Tim Tams.
The fact that you referred to those grunts as ‘The Australian Battalion Group’ reveals you as clueless.
Especially not you.
Effin hell that Dutch guy in his swim short – it’s embarrassing
Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2024 7:56 pm
There is one single thing I can’t fathom.
Granted, the loonies are right and it was all prearranged and loaded with explosives.
How in hell did they coordinate the blasting with the arrival of the airplanes?
And if it was ready to be blasted to smithereens anyway, what purpose did the airplanes have?
Did they know which floor they would hit, or all floors were wired up for an impact?
Relevance?
I only cited MTOW for relativity with the 707 used for the original design calculations. Because they assumed it would have been on approach to a nearby airport they wouldn’t have assumed full loading of the 707 either.
Let’s assume both the 707 used for theoretical impact calculations and the hijacked 767s weighed in at 100,000 kgs, and the 707 speed postulated was 150 kts.
The impact of a 767 travelling at 300 kts* is 4 times that of the 707.
The impact of a 767 travelling at 500 kts* is 12 times that of the 707.
…
* Source for 300 kts?
Most sources say 380-400.
Which makes the multiple over the 707 impact 7-8 times.
Why are our multi million dollar swimmie kids not holding smoking ceremonies in the blocks.
Idiocy. For the sake of a few hundred bucks for the ceremony, plus first class fares and five star accommodation the Elders have been forced to point the bone at the team.
That must explain their failure.
Leftist Journalist Who Regularly Harassed the ‘Unvaccinated’ Dies Suddenly at 43
But 9/11?
And simple repetition of tired old memes about “the melting point of steel” and “beams turning to dust” which have been conclusively disproved.
How Dems staged coup after coup — skirting democracy to hold power
Kamala Harris’ top VP pick is dragged into shocking sexual harassment cover up fight – as rival makes haunting prediction
Netanyahu meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, offering measured optimism on a Gaza cease-fire
True.
Fox Docos tonight had a great Rock Legends segment on the 1960s California scene. Catch it if you can.
Link to “Trump speaks at Turning Point USA Faith’s Believers’ Summit” Arky mentioned above.
Scroll to 3:40
You people respond to Monty and thuthers. Frankly, I have to come to the conclusion that you want them here.
Since all eyes appear to be on gay Paree, with an emphasis on gay, I decided to watch a nice local travelogue movie tonight.
Taken.
😀
And now the Beloved has decided to watch Richard Roxburgh hamming it up as Dracula in Van Helsing.
Time for a good book.
Forgive us to not sticking to the Bob agrees with John agrees with Joe formula for good forums.
And I appreciate the expert responses to 9/11 dust storms.
Can you name three sports where you win while going backwards ?
Rowing, ballroom dancing and transgender charades.
I guess I won’t be watching the Olympics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-dLH5YqeU
The Rhodesian Army had a recruiting office, in South Australia, in the late 1970’s.
Certain of the mob of mildly alcoholic, heavily armed mob of sex maniacs, that comprised the Australian Defence Forces of the time were threatened with the direst of penalties, if they ever thought of enlisting…..
The Quadruple Trump Shooter Biathlon.
The 1500m Steel Melt Doubledown.
The Reverse Triple-Pike Dive Into Conspiracy Pools.
Come on guys.. these are serious questions !
Penis developments (the NT News):
It’s in all the NT travel brochures. The chance of being splattered with a crudely-illustrated, bright red penis is low but never zero.
PA Teachers Union Accused of Laundering $1.5 Million in Union Dues to Bankroll Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro’s 2022 Campaign
@RNCResearch
2019: Kamala Harris calls the border wall a “vanity project” because “by definition,” illegal immigration is “not an emergency.”
This individual is now the “Border Czar.”
Paywalled
American Life under Liberal Conformism
Don’t be fooled by Kamala’s pro-Israel platitudes. She is pro-Iran and pro-Hamas.
It seems the American Medical Association is TOTALLY corrupted.
Strict mask, vaccine rules could have saved as many as 250K lives, says new study
This Is Actual Communism. I’m Not Being Hyperbolic
‘Anyone spotting a PATTERN?’ Globalist ruse EXPOSED as global elites ‘do AWAY with democracy’
It’s Saturday, or was, let us remember the quiet people who changed our lives just a bit for the better.
Of course depending on your view
Here is one I never heard of.
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A Son of ‘the Red Centre’
Kurt Gerhardt Johannsen (11 January 1915 – 23 January 2002) was an Australian bush mechanic and inventor who developed the world’s first commercial road train.
He was also an aviator, fencing contractor, labourer, mailman, and miner, known as a “true son of the Red Centre,” referring to the southern desert region of the Northern Territory in Australia.
Johannsen was born at Deep Well Station, 80 km south of Alice Springs, to Gerhardt and Ottilie Johannsen. The family often experienced discrimination throughout Kurt’s childhood and was often referred to as “The German” or “The Hun.”
When Johannsen was seven in 1922, the family moved to Hermannsburg Mission Station, where Gerhardt worked as the station manager. The family remained there until 1924 before returning to Deep Well. However, Central Australia was experiencing a harsh drought, and both of his parents experienced ill health. In 1928, the family abandoned the station and moved to Alice Springs.
Johannsen acquired his first driving license at 11 while living at Deep Well. After finishing his schooling at 15 in Alice Springs, he was driving his own truck and held the government contract for sanitary and garbage services in the town.
In 1932, he took on an additional contract as a main contractor for the region east of Alice Springs; one story from this period recounts that he once broke an axle far from assistance and managed to fix it well enough to get back to town using a mulga tree and a knife.
In 1936, he started his most remembered innovation, the ‘Bitzer’ Mulga Express, designed to haul more and handle the bad roads around Central Australia. The ‘Bitzer’ Mulga Express was followed by the ‘Bitzer’ Mulga Express II and III, with the latter able to haul an unheard-of 22 tonnes.
The post-war period was a boom for Johannsen, who, with the help of financing from a pastoralist, could purchase many trucks and other mechanical items from army disposal sales.
Johannsen was inducted into the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame in 2000. He died on 23 January 2002.
Fish that fly? At 60K, amazing.
What next.
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This is a Flying fish up close. They can propel themselves out of water at speeds of more than 56 km/h. Once in the air, their rigid “wings” allow them to glide for up to 200 meters.
Flying fish, belonging to the family Exocoetidae, are remarkable marine creatures known for their unique ability to glide above the water’s surface.
These fish are equipped with unusually large pectoral fins that function like wings, allowing them to leap out of the water and glide for considerable distances to escape predators. They are primarily found in warm oceanic waters around the world, including the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
Typically, flying fish can glide up to 200 meters at a speed of about 60 kilometers per hour, using their tails to generate the necessary thrust by rapidly beating the water surface before takeoff.
Trying to book accommodation in Ireland is trying.
Lots of guest accommodation in homes says no access to washing machine or kitchen facilities, a couple have said no bathroom. What?
You would be better off in a hotel.
On board the paddle steamer Stadt Luzern in Switzerland. We are travelling up Lake Lucerne to join a train for the rest of today’s trip.
She is the flagship of the SGV fleet that includes 18 other vessels. Originally built in 1928 as the last steamboat for a Swiss lake, the ship has hosted numerous notable guests during the past 90 years. In July 1940 General Henri Guisan and the entire Swiss Army officer corps sailed on the steamer from Lucerne to the Rütli meadow for a military conference following the fall of France.
A few years later in August 1947 Evita Perón, the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, was ceremoniously hosted on Stadt Luzern during an official visit.
Another famous guest was Queen Elizabeth II in May 1980 for an lovely Alpine cruise. In honour of the British queen, the ship’s upper deck lounge was later renamed “Queen’s Salon”.
Midships is the three cylinder engine with exposed pistons. The top cover has been removed and replaced with plexiglass so types like me can appreciate the pistons – each about four metres long – doing their thing. The two paddlewheels are housed one a side with glass doors so you can see them spinning.
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2024 8:53 pm
But 9/11?
And simple repetition of tired old memes about “the melting point of steel” and “beams turning to dust” which have been conclusively disproved.
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No, it has not. The vision of it happening is clear for all to see.
Hmm, I’ve been there a couple of times but can’t place it.
Must have changed a lot since.
I wish I had that clear vision you speak of.
Wouldn’t need bifocals.
Week In Pictures.
Jeeeez, even mentioning a street name in Tel Aviv gets you into moderation.
Good to see some solid runs. The team owner, Rick Ware, has been forking out a lot of cash for engine parts from previous race events.
Nitromethane has no mercy on engine blocks.
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Clay Millican:
Fast Friday 331 in Sonoma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ooApLhIEUE
KevinM
July 28, 2024 3:57 am
No, it has not. The vision of it happening is clear for all to see.
I wish I had that clear vision you speak of.
Wouldn’t need bifocals.
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I’ve posted the doco from Dr Judy Wood, twice.
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:21 am
Yes you did and I looked at it and disagree.
Sorry about it Steve but I have technical engineering knowledge to rely on and I cannot reconcile those claims with what I know.
Naughty Rita.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/sky-news-host-rita-panahi-reacts-some-kamala/
KevinM
July 28, 2024 4:28 am
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:21 am
Yes you did and I looked at it and disagree.
Sorry about it Steve but I have technical engineering knowledge to rely on and I cannot reconcile those claims with what I know.
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You are blind. It’s embarrasing for you to dismiss what was captured on camera.
Any commemts on the fried cars on FDR Drive?
Still can’t sleep, bugga.
An idle question how does this verse Genesis 6:1-4 New International Version fit into the whole?
Sons of God? Indeed.
KevinM
July 28, 2024 4:45 am
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Insomnia sucks. We are in the same boat.
The Top Fuel Engine rebuild is so much fun.
Repeat.
The motors are about 11000 HP, hot 15.
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Cleetus amd Clay:
1,500 vs 15,000 Horsepower Drag Race!!! Our Turbo Corvette Got DESTROYED By a Top Fuel Dragster!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLquxbZvWSk
Not 15 ….
Reaction to the Paris opening ceremony (?) ranges from gushy praise to dismay at the LGBTQ and satanic references.
After the French trains were the subject of technical attacks this week, all governments should consider whether it is desirable to continue allowing (i) non-assimilating cultures to arrive as part of immigration programs, and (ii) employing them in infrastructure areas where sabotage can happen, or even in offices where important documents can be faked or identity theft implemented-like driver’s licenses and passports.
Tasty too. But more like sardine than mullet for mine.
Nuff,nuff,nuff,nuff,nufff,nuff,NUFF, nuff,nufffff,nuff,Nuffff, nuuuuffff, ENOUGH.
Some decorum, if you don’t mind.
One should not just start belting out the National Anthem of Tartaria unannounced.
Thanks Tom.
At last!
Scooby Doo news (the Hun):
I must say, the plot lines are starting to improve.
I used to enjoy the ‘limpics. No more.
Sydney was my favourite for obvious reasons (went to a few events with the children who were old enough to get a kick out of it). And we got some good and much needed sporting venues out of it.
Sodom on the Seine has shamed the good people of France. At least their ruling class has exposed themselves. In more ways than one.
The media are still going “shock/horror” over some old comments Vance made about Cat Ladies. An earnest looking but likely duplicitous spox on Sky said that anti-Democrat statements were not a good look!
This completely ignores the vile statements about Republicans made so often, and completely ignores the damage Democrat leftists are doing to the USA – which will likely end in its disintegration.
The same people who sift through statements and feign outrage over them are totally ok with years of vile statements and dodgy appointments. The president can appoint lots of people to positions in the administration and the armed forces where they will do damage.
Other important positions (Governors, DAs, State legislators) might be elected ones, but with the well-known super-funder at work for years, now to be replaced by a son (in similar fashion to the News empire) who will no doubt continue that work, expect more of the same.
Hollywood can’t escape blame either, for their propaganda via films and their funding of people like Biden and Harris.
The Supreme Court is now offensive to the left because it has a majority of judges who will adhere to interpreting laws of the land rather than “making laws” through their activist judgements.
On This Day:
This was actually part of a wider plan to bring down the Empire State Building, devised by the mysterious Stonecutters to further their nefarious interests by prolonging the war.
A Direct Energy Weapon in a nearby weather station was supposed to fire at the building at the time of impact, melting all its steel and turning it to dust, but the bloke on the trigger was distracted by swing music and forgot.
A Sliding Doors moment for the ages.
This Fiji Islands Captain Cook Cruise is like nothing we’ve done before in ocean cruising. It is only a hundred or so passengers, rooms are thankfully called cabins not staterooms, and as the small ship is called the Caledonian Sky, fitted to sail the Western Isles and the Orkneys, all permanent fixtures have a Scottish emphasis. Which means a minor key of ‘baronial’ with sandstone fireplaces, oak-panelled walls and decor to match. There’s even a vague sense of the 1770’s as Cook might have experienced these islands; he did sail in these parts. This is all accompanied with a Fijian island overlay in pictures and strategically placed shells. The ship is apparently leased and will only operate this cruise for a year. The room attendant is from the Philippines but all other staff are Fijian, except the Captain and senior officers who are Scottish. It’s dress-up cocktails at six with them in the Caledonian Lounge and after dinner there is a Fijian fashion parade of grass skirts and other items of tradition, although I expect non-traditional coconut shell bras will feature for decency’s sake.
The days are spent in reading and in adventure activities such as diving, ocean snorkelling, beach snorkelling (us) and beach lounging (also us). Internet is weak. You travel from the ship in small rubber dinghies called Zodiacs, seating ten, five a side, with a strong outboard motor at the back. You expect to get wet, but not as wet as yesterday, when a strong wind was up and our Zodiac went into it full pelt, all of us hanging on for dear life. There are two sorts of life preservers in the cabin, one for when one abandons ship, consisting of huge blocks of foam front and back, more awkward than anything I’ve ever worn; and then there are the ones for the Zodiacs, which are narrow and hang around the neck and are secured at the waist. These Zodiac sort have a cannister in them that let loose and inflates when in the water. So rough indeed was our trip yesterday, when one waved came over us into the Zodiac, that the life vest of the woman opposite me was activated and she was suddenly wearing a very large balloon around her neck and chest.
This arvo we visit the island where the movie Castaway was filmed. Looking over at it from breakfast on the upper deck it looked small and attractive in the sun with a lovely white beach. Will report back on its reality later. We will also attend a Sunday Methodist Church Service on another nearby island later today. If there are any maritime themed safety prayers I might even join in.
This morning some people took the Zodiacs over to another island where the TV Series Survivor was filmed. We haven’t seen it and decided to sleep in instead. Some Cats may know of it though.
Bad Cattitude has a very elegant way of expressing things. I just hope he’s right. If people can’t see it now, they never will.
the global “let them eat cake” moment
As Islamic Groups Vow Massacres, Paris Olympics Target Christianity
Of course, Catturd has his own, more succinct way of putting things.
@catturd2
The Nutsack Olympics is getting the boycott they deserve.
Olympic Athletes Hit With Shortages, Horrible Woke Food as Green Movement Spreads
Biden set to unveil major Supreme Court reform plans next week
All the best memes from the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony
Somehow I doubt that you’ll see worldwide demonstrations with waving flags over this outrage.
At least 12 killed, dozens injured, in rocket attack in Druze town
The Bee
Kamala Admits She Can’t Remember If She Was In Charge Of Border As She Was Pretty Drunk These Last 4 Years And Honestly It’s All A Bit Hazy
Again, is this actually satire?
Malarndirri McCarthy will be named as the new Aboriginal affairs minister replacing Linda Burney in the federal Cabinet reshuffle later today.
Of course, being Labor, Albo has to observe the rules of identity politics, so the other new face is also a female, Jenny McAllister. You go, gurrrl.
That means the incompetent immigration minister Andrew Giles and incompetent home affairs minister Clare O’Neill will both stay in Cabinet, but Albo will probably move both of them elsewhere where they can do less damage, while maintaining Cabinet’s factional balance — Giles being socialist left and O’Neill being Labor right.
My brain’s already wobbling from reading this garbage. It’s another example of the “let them eat cake” syndrome where they think we’ll simply swallow anything they say. It surely must get to a point where people will wake up.
Earth is wobbling and days are getting longer — and humans are to blame
WSJ, so largely paywalled, but good news in any event.
Merit, Excellence and Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On
Kamala Harris’ pro-Palestinian stepdaughter Ella Emhoff campaigns for step-mom after staying silent during Biden’s run
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Meme
I don’t watch Olympic opening ceremonies. I haven’t for decades. I have long found them shallow and ridiculous. But I do watch some things in the Olympics, I like the swimming, hockey, and the track and field.
Speaking with my mother on Friday about the Olympics, we both agreed that the whole shebang died a slow death a long time ago, in our family it died back in 1972 for reasons you all know about. In 1976 my father forbade us children from watching any of the Montreal Games however we were lucky he went away on a business trip so we were able to get up early in the morning and watch Australian swimmer Stephen Holland swim in the 1500 metre race and come third. He was the hot favourite to win. I was a champion swimmer at the time and I was obsessed with swimming. I recall how Australia did not do very well in that Olympics, if I remember correctly we didn’t win one gold.
I’ve now read and seen visuals of the Paris Opening ceremony. The ceremony was obscene, and if anything accurately reflects the decline and looming collapse of the West that Paris ceremony does. No wonder Islam is laughing at us, they are right to laugh at us.
The whole ceremony was a celebration of death, of the devilish, of the satanic and of the obscene. The use of the ‘Last Supper’ left me aghast, and I am not a Christian. But any decent person should be appalled.
Whilst In Judaism we don’t believe in a physical Satan, we do believe in evil and how evil can take hold of a person and a society and destroy everything in its wake. Call this evil ‘Satan’, ‘devil’…whatever, it is very real and it manifests itself where and when humans and the societies they live in succumb to filth and obscenity. And this is now the West we’re living in, a crumbling putrid edifice where evil dominates and worse, where evil is celebrated.
As for the hideous ‘Marie Antionette’ visual*, even the Russians, at the height of Communism, never publicly celebrated and mocked the wholesale slaughter of the Imperial family in that Ekaterinburg cellar.
Both King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antionette were good people, victims of a maelstrom decades in the making, a maelstrom they could not rein in. Neither Louis nor Marie Antionette deserved to be executed. Louis was an intelligent man but he lacked forcefulness. He should have transformed France but he inherited from his corrupt and syphilitic grandfather a decaying and rotten monarchy. However the story of both Louis and Marie Antionette is at its core a sad story of a doomed little family. Louis and Marie Antionette were a devoted mother and a father, with two small children when the revolution happened. Overwhelmed by revolutionary forces, both were forcibly separated from each other and worse, both were forcibly separated from their children.
What happened to those two children is ghastly, and it should not just be a footnote of history. It is very telling story of revolutions and those who like and foment revolutions. The little heir, Louis, was cruelly tortured, both physically and emotionally, and he died two year later. HIs sister, Marie Therese, lived and she was ransomed off to the Austrian Imperial family (her mother’s family) where she lived until the 1850s. After what she endured, after what was done to her family, she loathed France and the French, and who could blame her?
But the little heir? It would be over two hundred years before little Louis could be buried in the crypt of his ancestors. After his death his heart was cut out of his body and this heart was passed around for decades as a ‘curiosity’. Meanwhile, as with Anastasia, many ‘pretenders’ claimed to be the lost little prince/King (Louse technically became ‘King’ after his father was executed). As with Anastasia, they were fakes.
In the 1990s, DNA testing was undertaken on the heart using DNA from various living royals from the royal families of Austria, Spain and Romania. The DNA matched and little Louis’ heart was finally given a funeral befitting a prince/King in the Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis (where all French royals are interred), in the presence of European royal descendants of his mother and father’s families. More importantly, he now lies with his mother and father. His soul is at peace.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/the-sick-olympics.html
Seems the Israeli’s aren’t allowed to wear a ribbon calling for the release of the hostages, but the Pali team can wear a shirt, depicting the Israeli Air Force dropping bombs on Pali Children.
Words fail me, they honestly do!
@OliLondonTV
@catturd2
This is what Coup-mala is worried about after she and Joe has destroyed our country and you can’t pay your bills.
@MarioNawfal
BREAKING: MAJOR POWER OUTAGE HITS PARIS
Reports indicate a massive power outage has struck Paris.
Details are still emerging, but the large-scale blackout could disrupt plans for the Olympics.
Well, one guy liked it.
Mitt Romney Praises Olympics Opening Ceremony: ‘Imaginative, Inventive’ (26 Jul)
I can give you a prayer to music. In other words, a hymn.
My gran used to sing it often, not as often as Men of Harlech, mind!
Olympics?
if anything accurately reflects the decline and looming collapse of the West that Paris ceremony does
Yes I thought that too. Also the cowardly bullying- they wouldn’t dare mock Islam
A Hezbollah rocket has killed 10 children playing soccer in a field on the Golan Heights.
I suspect all the dead are Druze.
Good old France. They murdered their King, only to install an Emperor.
As for Robespierre, having his jaw broken with the result that he couldn’t mouth off at the foot of the guillotine is divine justice.
‘Too Big To Rig’: Crowd Explodes Into Cheers As Trump Predicts A ‘Landslide Victory’ In November
Melbourne playwright Ray Lawler dies aged 103
Alan Howe
11 hours ago
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Melbourne playwright Ray Lawler, whose landmark play, Summer of the 17th Doll, changed the direction of Australian theatre, has died aged 103.
His famous play is set in the then working class suburb of Carlton in 1953 and revolves around an annual trip down south by two robust sugarcane cutters and the women with whom they spend the summer. The characters were working-class Australians speaking in the vernacular that was familiar to us all but which rarely made the stage.
It was an immediate success, first being performed in Melbourne, quickly moving to Sydney and then on to London, the first Australian play to be performed internationally. Lawler played one of the shearers, Barney Ibbot, here and in London, where later billionaire cardboard king Richard Pratt played another of the roles in London and America.
But its New York season was sort: the cultural gulf was too wide and it lasted just five weeks. Critics were not so much disappointed in it, as mystified.
Nonetheless, an Americanised version of it was soon filmed there starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills (playing Lawler’s role as Barney) and later Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury.
Lawlor was born to working class parents in Footscray, an inner west Melbourne suburb on May 21,1921. There were eight children and, in a then not uncommon move, he went to work as a labourer in a local factory aged 13. He stayed there more than a decade.
But, bright and ambitious, he studied acting and by 1946 had a play that was warmly received. Six years later he wrote another, Cradle of Thunder, which was again well received.
Then, nine years later, came Summer of the Seventeenth Doll which won first prize in a now forgotten local competition, and was enthusiastically acclaimed.
His famous play has since been translated into many languages and performed across the world and is regarded as one of the landmark pieces of writing of the 20th century. It was adapted for British television in 1964 and for Australian screens in 1979.
It has been performed locally and around the world ever since.
Lawler lived in Europe for years, but was enticed back to Australia to fill the role as associate director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, as long as he stretched Doll out to a trilogy, which he did.
The first play, Kid Stakes, set before Doll, had a character who often used a phrase common in Port and South Melbourne 50 years earlier: “Up there, Cazaly”. It was a motivational saying referring to local AFL hero Roy Cazaly. Singer Mike Brady attended an early showing and went home with the idea for song.
Lawler died in Melbourne on July 24.
Has Penny Wong condemned this act yet? And demanded Hezbollah cease firing rockets?
Keeping the theme of Leak’s excellent work:
McCarthy has impeccable credentials. FMD.
The worst of the Canberra bubble, Chesty Blonde and flog Giles, if they tried this shit in the private sector, they would be rissoled. But alas, likely to be given new portfolios to complete the process of rooting Australia dead.
Buckle up kiddies
Oh, Canada!
I’d say Australia is about halfway down the Canadian road.
Like them, we’re one of the few developed economies that hasn’t experienced a post-lockdown recovery.
Another term for Albanese and Chalmers ‘ll see us there.
The whole Paris abomination just reinforces my disgust of and contempt for Western elites.
Excellent article by Brendan O’Niell
Paris Olympics: a smug spectacle of wokeness – spiked (spiked-online.com)
Hezbollah fires a rocket at a soccer field, killing 10 children.
I look forward to hearing and seeing the shouts, screams and screeches of outrage and condemnation from Pong and the Slug.
Oh I know, silly me, there won’t be any votes for them.
Further to evil, evil manifests itself in many ways. It’s a shape shifter. We here in this country are currently living with an evil federal government, and make no mistake, they are evil.
Elon Musk Kamala Harris Ad Goes VIRAL!
I reckon the Dauphine is finishing off the job of wrecking the place started by his/her despicable father in 1968. The old Margaret slag comes from a political family too.
James O’Doherty in the Daily Telegraph:
Disgusting people. The worst.
Olympics receive MASSIVE BACKLASH over opening ceremony
The Pleb Reporter
Brutal memes.
@MichelleRM68
Oh boy!
@stillgray
Russia is absolutely making fun of the woke Olympics.
Meme
This hypocrisy is seriously depressing.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/the-sick-olympics.html
From The Australian below. As I have said before they had to wait for Angus Campbell to be gone as he is one of those who earned such a medal. However still nobody has even been put on trial for any war crimes. Do you lose your command type medal covering say 6 months because of one “proven” war crime where you were not even present ? This is going to affect Majors through to current Generals.
“A pending decision on whether soldiers who oversaw alleged wrongdoing in Afghanistan will have their medals stripped will be made before the next election, Defence Minister Richard Marles has said.
Speaking on Sunday, Mr Marles comments come more than a year after a Federal Court judge found former SAS trooper Ben Roberts Smith to be a murderer and a war criminal in a civil defamation case.
“This is a decision not in relation to the person who mentioned but in relation to those who had command or authority,” Mr Marles told Sky News.
“That is a process that I’ve wanted to go through thoroughly to make sure that we get the answers to this right … it is one that has been on my desk and we’ve been going through in an enormous amount of detail.
“It won’t be long before we are able to make those decisions
Tickler in the wee hours …
Only by those who have been suitably pre-prepared by a series of Troofer and Prepper sites.
Melbourne playwright Ray Lawler dies aged 103.
Thanks for posting that ZK2A @ 09:12am.
The opening ceremony was the $57 dior bag* equivalent of high culture. They got exposed as being a low rent culture that was living of past glories. They couldn’t even find two French singers to sing at their Olympics.
*It was recently discovered via documents in a court case that is costs $57 to manufacture the Lady D bag that retails for over 2,000 USD.
That Olympics thingie doesn’t seem to be going well for the Frogs.
Pulling A Biden: South Korea Introduced As North Korea During Paris Olympics (28 Jul)
And managing to raise the Olympic flag upsidedown.
Maybe a climate scientist can explain something to me,
Let me see if I understand the argument.
The sun produces electromagnetic energy. Around half of it is visible light, around half is infrared. Something like that.
Animals produce CO2, and CO2 absorbs some slither of the infrared band.
CO2 makes up 0.04% of atmospheric gases.
Now the sun’s energy that falls upon the Earth mostly re-radiates back into space, unless it is absorbed by something. Either some molecule of a gas or a surface of the planet captures the sunlight.
Now, they are concerned that humans will produce more CO2 and that will increase the amount of that particular gas from 0.0004 of the total gases to 0.0005 (0.05%) and that thus, more of the energy reflected from the planet surface won’t make it safely back out to space.
Their proposed solution to this yet to be manifested problem is to cover every possible available surface with solar panels WHICH ABSORB ALL OF THE SUN’S ENERGY which fall upon them.
Does this make sense?
I don’t see how it does.
Shouldn’t these nutters, and they are nuttier than a circus clown’s turds, be out there painting everything white? To reflect all that solar energy back safely up into space? Shouldn’t they be insisting that new houses have white or silver roofs? That roads are made with lime to lighten the colour? That rather than planting trees, we should be out there painting rocks? Not insisting that we absorb more solar energy and turn it into the very heat they believe will be a problem?
In short, if capturing energy from the sun and turning it into heat is the worst possible thing, why is the solution to that to deploy lots of the very thing (solar panels) that are designed to do precisely that?
Anyone got a market on the Miles Dick govt canning the Olympics in favour of more footbridges over the Brisbane River?
They got exposed as being a low rent culture that was living of past glories. They couldn’t even find two French singers to sing at their Olympics.
just a carbon copy of the worst of the US
Sterling idea!
We’re going to need more bridges for the homeless to sleep under.
Is it possible to edit a post after someone has commented on the side road? I couldn’t find a way.
As, thanks to vr, I’d like to amend my earlier post to read:
Anyone got an updated market on the Miles Dick govt danning the Olympics in favour of more footbridges over the Brisbane River?
… and nominate danning as the verb (?) to describe the conspicuous cancellation of vanity events.
The passenger load is relevant to weight given the claim re design of the buildings being able to withstand a 707.
Hezbollah and hamas fire these rockets to intentionally kill civilians.
Israel tries to either eliminate or greatly reduce the chance of civilian casualties.
If this had been an Israeli bomb or rocket the screeching would be heard on Pluto.
Because it was hezbolloah there will be crickets.
Sancho Panzer
July 28, 2024 10:24 am
Tickler in the wee hours …
Only by those who have been suitably pre-prepared by a series of Troofer and Prepper sites.
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What happend to the cars on FDR Drive?
You are failing to account for the shade under the damn things.
It’s the shade that’ll save us.
Tell us what you think happened.
One
Trump says in Minnesota “They cheat. They cheated in the last election and they’ll cheat in the next one.” True.
But the mainstream media persists in meeting any such claim with the words “no evidence”.
The proof has been there since the night of the last election, and more has emerged every year since.
Two
I just reread my 10:30 comment and realised most people will snooze off at the second mention of CO2.
It’s almost as if the entire topic has been designed to make people go “yeah, yeah scientists, do whatever, just don’t keep telling me about percentages of gases and molecules and stuff”.
So I have an abridged version:
They say that we are stopping the sun’s energy leaving the planet and that is bad.
Their solution is to cover the planet with solar panels that will keep even more sun energy here.
The end.
Yeah, tell us. My close friend worked for Lehman Bros. and was in the World Financial Center that day. He was walking up FDR Drive after evacuating the building and saw people falling to their deaths as well as seeing both buildings come down. He hitched rides through to Larchmont.
Don’t forget yanks are much fatter than when 707’s were around. Although the figures I saw are conflicting but around 15kg for males and 10kg for females.
132andBush
July 28, 2024 11:06 am
Tell us what you think happened.
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Easy.
Direct Energy Weapons. Electromagnetic / Scalar / Microwave.
The same used in Maui.
Thomas Beardan ( RIP ) layed it all out on the table years ago.
A friend of mine was one of the 11 contract companies tasked with cleaning up the area. He invited me down there a few of months later to see the cleanup and what was left. There were still fires smoldering in the middle of the site. This was about 3 months later.
It’s not going to get read if I leave it in reply comment:
Reply to Indolent @1133
And there’s the major problem with the Woke crowd – they will punish those who don’t agree with what they want to force on us.
At what point is the punishment seen as excessive? Well, that’s the point isn’t it? Who is deciding the punishment/nudge agenda?
These tyrants are the ones CS Lewis wrote about:
It took a while, but here’s what set off the Muslim/Police fracas at the Manchester airport. The mohammedans tried it on with a copper and got their arses kicked.
I’ll post it again. Via Dutchsinse.
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4/29/2022 — Secret Super Weapons That Drive Disarmament Negotiations – Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden
Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden has passed away, and his website has been deactivated, or taken down!
His company, energetic productions, sent this DVD to me directly, with a hand written note:
“Michael,
Wasn’t sure if you had seen THIS ONE of Tom’s—-
Tahri
Energetic Productions
1988 lecture about Russian Directed Energy weapons, given at the World Trade Center of all places.
This video includes clips added by Mr. Bearden himself at some point in 2010, long before he passed away.
This is a miracle and a half to get confirmation on pretty much everything I discovered ON MY OWN since 2011. He even has HAARP RINGS in the video but calls them “RADAR pulses”!
Listen to the parts about Ukraine and Russia, about nuclear reactors and earthquakes. About Scalar and Cancer. About the US Embassies being attacked with EMF radio wave devices, about Russia having cures to viruses using radio waves. Making ‘viruses’ also with the same technique.
This is a magnum opus of Lt. Col Bearden. The fact that it was just sent to me after he passed away , I feel obligated to carry the torch on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ggmi_6JFU
What are the fundamentals? Four planes, one each hitting the twin towers, one hitting the Pentagon, and one crashing in field in PA. Al Qaeda involvement. Is that about it?
That would have first been raised by the official narrative. Opponents are just addressing them on their terms.
Two downticks on a subject oblivious to the people who clicked the button.
Each downtick is a shoulder shrug at my end.
( :
They are fighting both in Yemen. So, the Houthis are close to both Iran and Al Qaeda/ISIS? It’s obvious the government intelligence report is pleading for US support.
Neither was at that weight and only one of them was travelling at that estimated speed, as I stated earlier.
Now looking like the Great Paris Blackout is more X Phenomenon than reality.
At least nobody used a DEW to demolecularise the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. I think we can all agree that’s a good thing.
That Bearden clip goes for over an hour yet 3 downticks already.
Amazing.
Perhaps they’ve seen it before and don’t agree. So be it.
Next door’s weatherboard suburban house with verandahs and air circulating underneath, was replaced by two modern 2 story concrete boxes on slabs. They cut down trees so no shading of the eastern,northern or western aspects, no lawns, no hedging along length of driveway to protect walls from heat and cold. Solar panels plastered on flat roofs of both houses. Both houses are like hot boxes in summer so each house is running 3 split systems and has ducted heating as well. My guess is the total carbon footprint of the site has quadrupled or more. I’d like to know if there has been any research into the energy efficiency of such developments.
Each downtick is a shoulder shrug at my end.
Meth will do that to ya Stevie.
But, then again, the Sans Francisco earthquake of 1906 was caused by the internet.
I posted a response to this last night.
Even if I generously assume the same actual weight for the theoretical 707 and the terrorist 767s, the impact difference driven by speed is huge.
The WTC designers postulated a 707 off course, probably in fog, so would have used landing approach speed of around 150 kts.
If we double that speed to 300 kts*, that quadruples the energy of the impact. If speed increases to 500 kts, the impact energy is multiplied by 12.
This is something of a moot point anyway, because the buildings actually withstood the impacts. The modellers wouldn’t have considered an impact which would have simultaneously disabled the services core of the buildings, and spilled tonnes of Avtur inside the building.
So what brought them down was the structural weakening caused by fire. Of course, this is where the cookers go to “melting point of steel”. As someone pointed out here the other day, steel structures do not have to melt to fail. It is the “plasticity” brought about by heat induced chemical changes. The example of a blacksmith’s shop was used as an illustration where you can see someone bend a hot (but not molten obviously) bar which they would have no hope of bending in it’s cold state.
If people don’t get that, they really need to stop pretending they know jack-shit about basic physics.
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* Incidentally, I can’t find any reliable source which puts the speed of either 767 below 380-400 kts.
Shut down coal and gas, say Queensland GreensSarah Elks
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The Queensland Greens will demand a ban on new coalmines and gas projects and an earlier shutdown of coal-fired power if the minor party holds the balance of power in a hung parliament after October’s state election.
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“I know where Baidoa is, thank you. Quite a few of my still-close friends conducted those patrols, and not one of them remembers squealy RAAFies in the arse-end Arnold position complaining about the heat and lack of pillows and Tim Tams.”
Australia’s modern day Clauswitz – Knuckledragger.
Oh dear, ….., I think I have hit hit a nerve, haven’t I wannabe?
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.
I was deployed to Mogadishu, as part of UNOSOM II, Oct 93 – Apr 94.
Got the AASM to prove it.
You?
I like to keep all of your posts, for future amusement. Enjoy the following.
“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.
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.
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……
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.”
So, let me get this straight, you were “deployed, but not in war or warlike zones“, yet somehow you: “went outside the wire and hunted down the enemy????”
Were you Leopard crawling down Burke Street to get to Melb Recruiting?
What wire were you going outside, in a non warlike zone?????
Over to you KD, I for one, cannot wait to hear your, …….., reasoning.
Make it a good one, it’s not just me that gets a laugh out of them.
Cheers!
Yesterday, I spent a few hours at a local gathering which featured, amongst other subjects, Fire Ants and Micro Bats. These talks were mildly interesting.
Then, an old bloke got up to lecture us about Sustainability and how to make our homes, properties more blah, blah, blah.
He had recently retired to a two acre property and “discovered”, how bad most of us were at caring for the land.
There were several Primary Producers who made their living from the land. We all walked out whilst he droned on for another half hour.
The highlight of the day was a woman who had spent 34 years living in France, earning her living as an Opera singer and singing teacher.
She lectured us about KULCHA. Lol.
She proceeded to tell us that, of course French culture was way more advanced than Australian. Also, the BIG KICKER, the Government paid for KULCHA in even the smallest villages via Grants. Even the smallest villages and towns had musical and theatrical societies with many employees, all fully latched onto the Government teat. Never once mentioned that, Government money is the PEOPLE’S money.
Then she lectured us on how the Frogs love their books etc. She held up a, supposedly four hundred year old parchment and told us how dear it was to her. Then fumbled and dropped it.
Then she held up a supposed two hundred year old book which slipped, she grabbed hold by the cover, which made most of us wince, then it too fell to the floor. Whereupon she informed us that, we could handle the book and parchment if we liked, but we would have to wear gloves. Much snickering curled around the hall.
After all the years in France, she and hubby retired back to Oz and, as her kind do, started an Alpaca Farm. snork
This morning, after seeing some of the lowlights from the Opening Ceremony, I laughed even harder than yesterday when we had been lectured to about the lack of Oz KULCHA. 😀
dover0beach
July 28, 2024 11:56 am
Do you have a source for your 300kts figure?
As I said previously, I only used MTOW to illustrate the relative weights of a 767 and 707.
See my post at 12:12 addressing the impact energy at equivalent weights.
Iron toothed dragons.
Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth to rip apart their prey, researchers find (Phys.org)
Pity they don’t breathe fire too, that would be fun.
Sp let me get this straight. The right has ceded football, beer, movies, pizza, casual sex, hot female pop singers, and now Harley Davidson motorcycles to the left.
Do you lot have anything left that you like in popular culture?
Pogria I’m surprised you didn’t take along your cluebat to beat some sense into them.
A man is laying in the hospital, waiting to be the first person in history to receive a brain transplant.
A doctor comes in and says, “Congratulations! But unfortunately, since this is a new procedure, your insurance isn’t going to cover it all. So we’re going to give you 3 choices for brains and you can decide which you can afford.”
The man says to the doctor, “Okay, what are they?”
The doctor says, “Well, first there’s the engineer brain, that’s $100 an ounce. Then there’s the astrophysicist brain, that’ll cost you $200 an ounce. Finally, there’s the politician brain. That’s the most expensive at $1000 an ounce.”
The man looks at the doctor, surprised… “that’s absurd! Why is the politician brain so expensive?”
The doctor turns to him and says, “Sir, do you have any idea how many politicians it takes to get an ounce of brain?” (H/T Hrothgar)
I think we may have stumbled on to the reason why the Frogs had to fly in Celine Dion and the Gaga creature.
Heh.
Nolte: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Breaks Record By Not Insulting Fans (27 Jul)
Make something normal people want to watch and they will come in. Make woke rubbish and they’ll stay away.
My mistake re the speed. I misread the wiki entry. It’s interesting doing the numbers for KE how much speed is the dominant variable. How do you calculate impact force though? What’s the stopping distance for a plane that disintegrates?
Dover.
On the balance of probabilities, do you believe the WTC buildings 1 and 2 were brought down by:-
(a) aircraft impact and subsequent fire?; or
(b) something else?
If (b) I would be interested to hear what your favoured “something else” theory is.
I’ve seen a map like this about Oz States. I believe the NT outranks North Dakota.
If you read the article, check the alcohol tax per gallon.
Small wonder it feels as though we are circling the drain. sigh…
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-that-drink-most-beer-north-dakota-1930606?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
On BoP, (a) re WTC 1 and 2.
I have not listened to this song in years. It popped into my head whilst taking shelter at a bus stop from a passing shower on my way back from the deli.
True story.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain (Official)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V8YRJnr4Q
Birth mum loses to sperm donor in landmark custody caseA lesbian birth mother has lost parental responsibility of her only child to the nine-year-old boy’s sperm donor father in what has been described as a landmark Victorian case.
2 min read
July 28, 2024 – 5:00AM
Sunday Herald Sun
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A lesbian birth mother has lost parental responsibility for her only child to the boy’s sperm donor father.
In what may be a landmark Victorian case, the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia last month stripped the mother of responsibility for the young child and awarded it to her former partner and the boy’s sperm donor, bringing an end to an almost five-year custody battle between the trio that has cost the parties hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
The boy was conceived through IVF using donor eggs and donor sperm.
The eggs were donated by a friend of the boy’s birth mother and her partner, while the sperm was donated by the man the boy calls Daddy.
That man first met the boy at his birth and has spent time with him regularly since, including overnight visits.
MIT say the 767’s were doing 429 mph and 503mph which agree with radar estimations. Some of the conclusions were the steel wasn’t thick enough on the outer walls, the floor trusses were too long and the flame retardant wasn’t thick enough nor had it adhered to the columns properly. 7 floors were at least penetrated and the planes entered the building to at least the lift wells at 11metres to the closed lift well.
Wonder if this is true.
I was watching the Alaska bear live cam last night.
All these brown bears gobbling down salmon.
One at the top of the waterfall was chewing the head off a fish and at the same time a torrent of disgusting, fishy, rust brown, diarrhea was ripping from its rear end, down the waterfall onto the bears below.
Now, if you or I were to go to Alaska and take a shit on a bear we would be labelled as eco terrorists and locked up.
All these filthy beasties are spewing out CO2 and methane, and nitrogen compounds at outrageous rates.
The eco loons are definite that we have to preserve the world’s fisheries, which is reasonable enough I suppose, except at the same time as they don’t want you or I overfishing, they want the sharks left alone. Oh, you can’t complain if a shark chews your leg off, you were in their world. Sharks that spend their entire lives ripping schools of fish apart and turning them into watery shit. Meanwhile, if humans build a pipeline to deposit processed human waste miles out to sea, we’re disgusting.
These same people will have little jigglegasms if they have the chance to see whales breaching and fantasise about climbing into a scuba suit to go swim among the whale turds.
Human bodily functions: eco terrorism. Whale crap: magic Gaia lotion.
Bear live cam, Alaska:
https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls
Gold.
OK. So the speeds are somewhere between 380 kts and 500 kts which, even if we call the weights between a 707 and 767 a wash at, say, 100 tonnes, puts the impact multiples at 7.5 times and 12 times.
That was my point and why I decided to make weight a constant, even though the actual 767s were probably slightly heavier than the 707 used in modelling.
Well, yes, an engine continuing on up the street does help dissipate some energy not absorbed by the building. But we’ve already agreed that v squared is the the big driver into the equation, so dropping 10-15 tonnes out as “energy not absorbed by the buildings” isn’t going to shift the needle very much
I vaguely recall an engine flying out the other side of the building in one of the vids.
I wish my friends wouldn’t send me material this on a Sunday.
Numbers game: Is math the language of nature or just a human construct? | Salon.com
Anyone who votes for the liars/filth is an idiot:
Delegates at NSW Labor conference call on federal government to make Palestinian recognition a priority (msn.com)
The member for the seat of Bankstown, Jihad Dib, told delegates the war in Gaza “must end”.
“We are the party of people like Tony Burke, of Ed Husic, and of Jason Clare, who have always been advocates of a Palestinian state,” he said.
There’s always been a pallie state. These creeps don’t want an Israelian state.
They found parts of the aircraft – engines and landing gear, several blocks away.
Here’s a story from 2013.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22319253
GreyRanga at 1:20.
You touch upon another point here which designers could never have factored in.
That is, the poor quality and coverage of fire retardant coating on the beams.
Whether this was deliberate cost-cutting, incompetence or corruption (this was about the time the Mafia were making inroads into construction) it doesn’t matter.
What matters is the fire retardant did not perform as designed when put to the test.
More than you wanted to know about Boeing767 maximum speeds at low altitude.
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/15407/can-a-boeing-767-200-fly-at-510-knots-at-a-height-of-400-metres
From memory, the fire retardant coating was insufficient over the intersections of the beams with the exterior structural elements and the central services column. The fire caused a catastrophic failure of the linkages.
From the ABC, which I refuse to link…
And that is why, no matter how bad the Libs are, I will NEVER vote for Labor simply to punish them.
Call me a Cuck, or whatever pejorative is trending, I refuse to support these despicable imbeciles.
Chris Minns, can raise his eyebrows and look innocent and photogenic, but he’s as guilty as the rest of the grubs.
Leaked document exposes China’s three-child policy plan | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
The Chinese solution is the only solution. We cannot send the women back to the kitchen. They were given economic freedom which now entails getting a degree and sustaining a career. Taking a decade plus to pump out a few sprogs kills a career. A classic case of unintended consequences because now economic growth is being eroded by population shrinkage.
I doubt the fire retardant is effective against temperatures caused by jet fuel.
This would be a Palestinian state government by Hamas.
Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah agree to form government (23 Jul)
So Minns is literally supporting genocidal terrorists.
Errsactly. I doubt a thin fire retardant coat is going to effectively protect anything when you have thousands of gallons of av-fuel belting into you at 400 MPH.
Why is anyone even discussing this 20 plus years later, anyway?
We have the vids. A plane slammed separately slammed into the buildings and eventually they came down after a short time. How is this being curve-balled into something else?
Youth unemployment is cruising at around 25% in China, so I very much doubt the reason is purely from a population stand point. Uncle Xi has clobbered everything that promotes growth.
Japanese began on the extinctionist path before China and here is it’s youth employment stats.
General unemployment in Japan:
So no, there’s other serious shit going on in China than just population shrinkage.
And that is why, no matter how bad the Libs are, I will NEVER vote for Labor simply to punish them.
Me neither- sometimes I just vote informal in the lower house. They are horrible people- had a run in with Brian Langton once.
Because it feeds into a particular world view where everything, even the mundane, is considered fodder for conspiracy.
That doesn’t mean that there are no conspiracies, there are.
In this instance, I imagine it was a cynical attempt to draw out the more vocal ones on the blog, for and against, and enjoy the result. One of which is hurr, hurr, hurr! Guess what those dopes on DoverBlog are arguing about!
“None of the recovered steel samples showed evidence of exposure to [air] temperatures above 600 degrees F for as long as 15 minutes.”
Ref: NIST NCSTAR1 pg 180.
https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/the-official-theory-twin-towers
The melting temp of steel is a mere, 2850 deg F.
So, according to Knuckledragger, not only are the laws of thermodynamics magically overcome by the transmission of heat to the supports, at all of the lower floors in the WTC, but, somehow, they are magnified! Wow!
What next KD?
A trace gas is affecting climate on earth?
The Covid vaccines are not only safe, but effective as well?
And, of course, there is no possibility that any explosive devices were used on the WTC Towers or Building 7. None whatever!
Trouble is, these first responders and witnesses from 9/11 seem to think otherwise!
They must be mistaken, obviously, because the US Govt says otherwise, and really, if you can’t trust the US Govt, ……., well, ……, who can you trust, right?
https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/eyewitness-accounts-of-explosions
Shyam Sunder, the lead shill for NIST, proclaimed:
“We found no evidence of explosive material in our investigation.”
A person in the audience asked:
“Did NIST look for evidence of explosives.”
Sunder: No.
Oddly, thermite, (a military grade explosive), was found in the rubble of WTC.
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?
https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/high-temperature-thermitic-reactions
Sitting in member’s stand….about to watch Swans.
Re the Tel Aviv pic
My husband (being Israeli) reckons it shows Herzl Boulevard
1h agoJuly 28, 2024Highlight
O’Neil dumped from home affairs in cabinet reshuffleJack Quail
Anthony Albanese has unveiled Labor’s new frontbench, dumping Clare O’Neil from the home affairs and cyber security portfolios and replacing her with Tony Burke.
Mr Burke, who formerly served as employment and workplace relations minister, will now serve as Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister. He will also assume responsibilities of Andrew Giles, taking on the immigration and multicultural affairs portfolios.
Mr Giles will now serve as Skills and Training Minister, with the portfolio dropped from cabinet.
Ms O’Neil will remain in cabinet but have a much smaller role, serving as Housing and Homelessness Minister.
Senator Murray Watt, who previously served as agriculture minister, will serve as Employment and Workplace Relations Minister.
Senator Watt’s responsibilities will be taken by Julie Collins. She will retain the small business portfolio.
Pat Conroy will move into cabinet, serving as Defence Industry Minister, and as International Development and the Pacific Minister.
In a widely expected move, Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy, who previously served as Indigenous Australians assistant minister has been promoted from the outer ministry to sit in cabinet, assuming Ms Burney’s role.
Senator Jenny McAllister will be elevated to the ministry, where she will serve as Cities and Emergency Management Minister.
The cabinet reshuffle follows the resignation from cabinet of longtime Labor frontbenchers Brendan O’Connor as skills and training minister, and Linda Burney as Indigenous Australians minister. The pair have chosen not to re-contest the next election.
So, having made a complete pigs breakfast of Agriculture, Murray Watt is now unleashed on Employment and Workplace relations.,
Well, that will please Burke’s constituents.
This poor bloody country. We’ll be like the Midlands in no time flat.
Opposition home affairs spokesperson James Paterson similarly attacked his new Labor equivalent, incoming Immigration and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
“Tony Burke is a failed immigration minister from the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era,” he said.
“On his watch in just 80 days as minister 6634 illegal arrivals showed up on 83 boats. His appointment to Home Affairs sends a shocking message of weakness to people smugglers.”
I listened to the Jordan Peterson interview with Elon Musk. It is frustrating. Peterson is a highly irritating interviewer. He constantly butts in and goes off on tangents. I want to hear what your subject has to say, Jordan!
Peterson is just too engaged and over-focused on the discourse – to the extent that he appears to tune out significant parts of what his interlocutor is saying (or simply doesn’t allow him to say what he was going to say). This means Peterson’s conversational turn-taking is a mess. I seriously wonder whether he is on Adderall or dexamphetamine or one of these kinds of medications that can have this effect.
Roy and HG on the Olympics a few paras down:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-28/roy-hg-paris-olympics-equestrian-medals-cheese-2024-podcast/104146654
Equestrian has perhaps had more time in the spotlight this year than the sport’s governing bodies might like, with British three-time gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin withdrawing from the Games after video emerged of her “engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare”.
“Sure, people accept that on a racetrack, but they don’t accept that at the Olympic Games,” Nelson says.
“If you knew how a sausage was made you wouldn’t bloody eat it. It’s the same with the equestrian. I’ve seen a threepenny bunger put up a horse’s date and blown up its arse just to get it to make a jump.
“That’s fine, and you do get a medal, but if people understood the rigours, the difficulties, the hardships experienced by some of our horses, then they wouldn’t watch.”
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Nothing good, nothing good whatsoever, can come out of the current abomination in charge in Canbra and they have to go. Pretty much what Jacinta Price said when I heard her speak a few months ago. I’m sure she knows a lot more than me regarding what Anal and his pals are up to.
Very timely, because the government’s “independent” multicultural review last week called for the creation of just such a “super department” with a focus on furthering the multicultural agenda.
At the time I dubbed it “the Voice on steroids”, because it won’t merely advise government on policy but will be embedded in the heart of government.
As I recall, one of their demands was for a position akin to the e-safety commissioner which will have oversight over the citizenry’s adherence to multicultural dogmas, with a similar power to initiate prosecutions.
I saw Leyton Hewett as a coach at the Olympics.
Funny to see a resident of the Bahamas (for tax reasons) now become an Australian again, when his playing career is over.
Same as Pat Rafter, who did the same thing, didn’t want to pay tax here, but returned so his wife could have a baby here.
Parasites .. neither wanted to contribute to their own country, so moved to the Bahamas to avoid tax. Not just minimise it, avoid completely.
No one claims this. The lower floors were demolished by the weight of all the floors above them.
Did they test every single piece of steel? If not, statistically, the heated steel makes up a small fraction of all the steel in the tower.