Open Thread – Weekend 27 July 2024


The Tea Set, Claude Monet, 1872

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Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 27, 2024 7:32 pm

“Sturgis is on shortly”. “Who will be brave enough to man the Harley stand”?

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.

Rabz
July 27, 2024 7:34 pm
Last edited 6 months ago by Rabz
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 27, 2024 7:38 pm

illegitimate illiterate innumerate ignorant ahistorical syphilis addled kiddie sniffing imbecile

That’s pure poetry Rabz!

Loser – Beck (1994)

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 27, 2024 7:41 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3rBVb3v4g

Devil’s haircut seeing we’re going all nihilistic tonight

Rabz
July 27, 2024 7:44 pm

BoN – let’s lay into some strawpersonages!

While not admiring some pure beauty … 😕

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 27, 2024 7:48 pm

It appears the Biden administration is secretly allowing the Houthis to get more funding.

[S]hortly after taking office, on February 12, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially removed the Houthis’ designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. This decision marked a significant shift in U.S. policy: it delisted a group that, according to a Yemeni government intelligence report, has close affiliations with Al Qaeda and ISIS, and, according to other reports, regularly commits crimes war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  • The administration… needs to redesignate the Houthis as a full-fledged “Foreign Terrorist Organization.” In January, after pressure, the Houthis were ultimately named “Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” a level below “Foreign Terrorist Organization”, which enables them still to receive funding and enter the United States.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:21 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Bring on Trump, please please bring on Trump.

I want those Hoothies knobbled, for the sake of the world and also because I’m travelling the Arabian Sea in December.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 27, 2024 7:49 pm

You really find it hard to believe what the frogs did with their opening ceremony. Obscene blasphemy. What’s next? Orgies inside Notre dame?

Rabz
July 27, 2024 7:52 pm

Cats – the Great Curve – a seven minute Saturday Night Epic. 🙂

Gabor
Gabor
July 27, 2024 7:55 pm

Attention conservatives, this is how you use power.

Muddy
Muddy
July 27, 2024 11:01 pm
Reply to  Gabor

I haven’t yet figured out why, but conservatives appear to believe that being ‘liked’ will win them respect (from those who will never respect them, even if they were paid to do so).

Arky
July 27, 2024 7:55 pm

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.

Zatara
Zatara
July 27, 2024 9:25 pm
Reply to  Arky
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2024 7:56 pm

PeterM
 July 27, 2024 3:26 pm

I thought I read that the WTC towers were designed to withstand impacts from light aircraft – not commercial passenger jets

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2024 7:56 pm

First-class outdoor pursuits presented themselves for attention today, followed by some comedy value from Roofie T Troofer at 10.49:

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?????

And:

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!

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.

I can see the confused look on your face KD

You have confused ‘confused’ with ‘mirth’.

As I said, even we suspend reality and say that the fires were hot enough to weaken the steel supports

You don’t have to suspend reality for this, Roofie T.

The fact that in 120 years, only three steel supported skyscrapers have collapsed due to fire

An ‘office fire’, right? Your words, remember.

Enjoy the day KD, try not to hurt yourself.

Tick, and tick.

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.

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.

No one was patrolling in Mogadishu from October 1993

Especially not you.

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Arky
July 27, 2024 8:03 pm

I thought this 9/11 truther stuff ridiculous.
However, just to piss you off KD, I’m going to start backing it.
I am currently in the process of building a scale model of the world trade centre in my back yard out of old tennis shoes, garden lime and dog shit, and manning it with 3000 ants superglued into each room.
I am also in the process of smoking enough cigars in order to produce a 747 out of the tubes to crash into my model. I am looking for suitable insect life to represent the terrorists and passengers.
I will soon be able to prove all your theories as complete bullshit.

132andBush
132andBush
July 27, 2024 9:18 pm
Reply to  Arky

Real science!
I love it.

Arky
July 27, 2024 10:42 pm
Reply to  132andBush

Just wait to see how I prove climate change real.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2024 11:27 pm

This I Can’t Believe it’s not Bird is nearly as good as the real thing.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
July 27, 2024 7:57 pm

Effin hell that Dutch guy in his swim short – it’s embarrassing

Gabor
Gabor
July 27, 2024 8:22 pm

Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2024 7:56 pm

First-class outdoor pursuits presented themselves for attention today, followed by some comedy value from Roofie T Troofer at 10.49:

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?

Arky
July 27, 2024 8:26 pm
Reply to  Gabor

I refer you to Nakatomi Plaza and that evil genius, Hans Gruber.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 27, 2024 9:25 pm
Reply to  Gabor

This is exactly where the 9/11 troofer bullshit dies in the dust.

Unfortunately, propped up by fevered a-scientific, comic book imagination about the apparently magical powers of thermite/thermate/nano-thermite or whatever, it is so far beyond serious technical discussion that it keeps bobbling along like a turd in the conspiracy swimming pool.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2024 8:31 pm

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

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.

bons
bons
July 27, 2024 8:49 pm

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.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 7:06 am
Reply to  Indolent

Our problem is that Driscoll and his family have our sympathy – the victims of the Covid injection don’t have theirs.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2024 8:53 pm

But 9/11?

You’ll forgive me if I require more than mere speculation.

And simple repetition of tired old memes about “the melting point of steel” and “beams turning to dust” which have been conclusively disproved.

Gabor
Gabor
July 27, 2024 8:57 pm

True.

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Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 27, 2024 9:36 pm
Reply to  Gabor

Mates Thai mrs speaks 5 languages including English as one.

He reckons as he is partly fluent himself it is funny to listen to her and sister (Married to a Pom) switch languages mid sentence without a beat when talking.

Apparently the word best suiting is used and switching is common practise in that part of the world if the recipient understands.

mareeS
mareeS
July 27, 2024 9:01 pm

Fox Docos tonight had a great Rock Legends segment on the 1960s California scene. Catch it if you can.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 27, 2024 9:12 pm
Reply to  mareeS

There’s Farnham doco knocking about somewhere on the teev too, good stuff.

Zatara
Zatara
July 27, 2024 9:28 pm
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John Brumble
John Brumble
July 27, 2024 9:31 pm

You people respond to Monty and thuthers. Frankly, I have to come to the conclusion that you want them here.

Muddy
Muddy
July 27, 2024 10:57 pm
Reply to  John Brumble

For those unfamiliar with the regular pixels, it might be easily believed that such unorthodox comments left unresponded to, was indicative of the consent and approval of the remainder. That, I gather, is the purpose of those who challenge such outliers.

John Brumble
John Brumble
July 28, 2024 10:37 am
Reply to  Muddy

You tell yourself what you need to to excuse your complete lack of self control and desire for more of the same from trolling idiots.

I mean, the fact that it demonstrably does not work and, in the case of Gomers, has not worked for at least a decade should not in any way give you pause.

Don’t. Feed. The. Trolls.

Megan
Megan
July 28, 2024 1:24 pm
Reply to  John Brumble

The Munsterous One turns up with the current lefty idiots point du jour, without fail, whether he is fed or not.

Might as well have some fun at his expense. Plus fellow Cat responses have given me a whole new handbag of unique insults. It’s a win for me.

calli
calli
July 27, 2024 9:36 pm

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.

😀

calli
calli
July 27, 2024 9:40 pm

And now the Beloved has decided to watch Richard Roxburgh hamming it up as Dracula in Van Helsing.

Time for a good book.

Rosie
Rosie
July 27, 2024 9:42 pm

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.

Last edited 6 months ago by Rosie
John Brumble
John Brumble
July 28, 2024 10:38 am
Reply to  Rosie

Well that was as dishonest as expected from a regular poster of sea lion links.

chrisl
chrisl
July 27, 2024 9:45 pm

Can you name three sports where you win while going backwards ?

MatrixTransform
July 27, 2024 10:34 pm
Reply to  chrisl

back-stroke, ice-skating and chess

(if car racing is a sport then so is chess)

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 27, 2024 10:48 pm
Reply to  chrisl

High jump, rowing, backstroke.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 27, 2024 9:52 pm

Rowing, ballroom dancing and transgender charades.

Rosie
Rosie
July 27, 2024 10:02 pm

I guess I won’t be watching the Olympics.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 27, 2024 10:02 pm

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…..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2024 10:03 pm

Can you name three sports where you win while going backwards ?

The Quadruple Trump Shooter Biathlon.
The 1500m Steel Melt Doubledown.
The Reverse Triple-Pike Dive Into Conspiracy Pools.

chrisl
chrisl
July 27, 2024 10:09 pm

Come on guys.. these are serious questions !

Muddy
Muddy
July 27, 2024 11:04 pm
Reply to  chrisl

As others have noted: Swimming (backstroke), Rowing, and (in the Winter Olympics) Curling [spellink?].

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 27, 2024 10:18 pm

Penis developments (the NT News):

Political rivals went head to head online after a Palmerston-based candidate’s election sign was graffitied with penises.

This week, the corner of a Palmerston street was filled with election signs by both Member for Blain Mark Turner and Country Liberal Party candidate Matthew Kerle.

However, within hours of being placed, Mr Kerle’s signs were vandalised, with at least two of the candidate’s corflutes splattered with crudely-illustrated, bright red penises.

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.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 27, 2024 11:30 pm

Member *he he*

Indolent
Indolent
July 27, 2024 10:51 pm
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Indolent
Indolent
July 27, 2024 10:58 pm

It seems the American Medical Association is TOTALLY corrupted.

Strict mask, vaccine rules could have saved as many as 250K lives, says new study

Indolent
Indolent
July 27, 2024 11:01 pm
KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 1:17 am

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.

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KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 1:20 am

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.

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MatrixTransform
July 28, 2024 2:15 am
Reply to  KevinM

basically a mullet with wings

Rosie
Rosie
July 28, 2024 2:17 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:30 am
Reply to  Rosie

We found small locally-run hotels in Ireland were very hospitable and clean enough. Often old and a little run-down, but the hosts made up for that.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 28, 2024 2:19 am

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.

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:31 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Lucky you, TE. The steamer sounds amazing with such an interesting past.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 3:48 am

Sancho Panzer
 July 27, 2024 8:53 pm

But 9/11?

You’ll forgive me if I require more than mere speculation.

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.

KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 3:54 am

Hmm, I’ve been there a couple of times but can’t place it.
Must have changed a lot since.

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KevinM
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.

Tom
Tom
July 28, 2024 4:00 am
KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 4:06 am

Jeeeez, even mentioning a street name in Tel Aviv gets you into moderation.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:17 am

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.

—-

Clay Millican:

Fast Friday 331 in Sonoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ooApLhIEUE

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:21 am

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.

I’ve posted the doco from Dr Judy Wood, twice.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 8:15 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

We don’t care.

Bruce in WA
July 28, 2024 10:36 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

It’s fiction, not a “doco”.

KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 4:28 am

Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:21 am

I’ve posted the doco from Dr Judy Wood, twice.

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:33 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

Rita does a wonderful job slating Kamala. And all done with her trademark smile.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:43 am

KevinM
 July 28, 2024 4:28 am

Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:21 am

I’ve posted the doco from Dr Judy Wood, twice.

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.

You are blind. It’s embarrasing for you to dismiss what was captured on camera.

Any commemts on the fried cars on FDR Drive?

KevinM
KevinM
July 28, 2024 4:45 am

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.

Luzu
Luzu
July 28, 2024 7:57 am
Reply to  KevinM

Michael Heiser’s film “The Unseen Realm” speaks directly to this question. It’s on YouTube if you wish to take a look.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:43 am
Reply to  KevinM

Kevin, ask your Chemist for some anti-histamine based tablets labelled ‘Sleep Right’ which you can buy from his over the counter system provided he offers advice. The chemical is doxylamine succinate 25mg. I found it best to take only a half, as they can make you groggy the next morning till you recover from them. Use only for a couple of days and not often. They help break the insomnia cycle. About ten bucks off script.

If your doc is willing to prescribe some better then sleeping tabs of the Valium/Serepax type they are an improvement, but so many docs resist this, treating you like a child who will get hooked on them.

I always like to have something handy for travel when sleep can get time disturbed.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 4:56 am

KevinM
July 28, 2024 4:45 am

—-

Insomnia sucks. We are in the same boat.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 5:44 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

M. Tricolor should be listening to some soporific radio, peut-etre?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:44 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

See my note above about some ‘break the cycle’ chemical assistance.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 5:25 am

The Top Fuel Engine rebuild is so much fun.

Repeat.

The motors are about 11000 HP, hot 15.

—-

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

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 5:28 am

Not 15 ….

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 6:47 am

Reaction to the Paris opening ceremony (?) ranges from gushy praise to dismay at the LGBTQ and satanic references.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 28, 2024 7:02 am

We will be watching news other than 9 news for the foreseeable future. I swear the first 20 minutes was Olympics crap, 10 minutes local (something happened at the Alp conference, a couple of hit and runs, some corruption scandal in Qld police/ firies?? ) news, then another 30 minutes Olympics crap, then 10 minutes local sport, then another 10 Olympic crap.

What I saw of the opening during that first 20 minutes looked like absolute garbage. What’s wrong with marching the athletes in, light the torch, arsehole declares the games open, everybody pisses off again?

#soOvertheOlympics

Zatara
Zatara
July 28, 2024 7:26 am

@CSpire

We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.

And they aren’t alone.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 8:19 am

My reaction was to try to turn the TV off.
I failed because it hasn’t been turned on in 30 years.
I’ve saved about $35,982 in electricity costs since then, but blew it all on interacting with WTC conspiracy theorists on the New Cat.
Doesn’t matter – I don’t care.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 6:58 am

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.

eric hinton
eric hinton
July 28, 2024 7:00 am

KevinM

 July 28, 2024 1:20 am

Fish that fly? At 60K, amazing.

MatrixTransform

 July 28, 2024 2:15 am

basically a mullet with wings

Tasty too. But more like sardine than mullet for mine.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 28, 2024 7:09 am
Reply to  eric hinton

Imagine the damage if one flew into a tall building, it would have to rely on the laws of physics to hold the building up.

MatrixTransform
July 28, 2024 10:23 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Gatling Gun Fish

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 28, 2024 7:07 am

Nuff,nuff,nuff,nuff,nufff,nuff,NUFF, nuff,nufffff,nuff,Nuffff, nuuuuffff, ENOUGH.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 28, 2024 7:37 am

Nuff,nuff,nuff,nuff,nufff,nuff,NUFF, nuff,nufffff,nuff,Nuffff, nuuuuffff

Some decorum, if you don’t mind.

One should not just start belting out the National Anthem of Tartaria unannounced.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 28, 2024 7:59 am

You’ve given yourself away Knuckles, only Tartarians know the words.

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 7:39 am

Thanks Tom.

At last!

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 28, 2024 7:40 am

Scooby Doo news (the Hun):

An explosive device has detonated in the hands of an alleged kidnapper as he threatened a 29-year-old man with the homemade bomb, police say.

A group of men allegedly took the 29-year-old from a venue in Cranbourne last month to a Dandenong property, where he was allegedly threatened with explosive devices.

Police believe a homemade explosive blew up in the hands of a 38-year-old alleged kidnapper, who was later dropped off at a hospital with critical injuries.

I must say, the plot lines are starting to improve.

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 7:51 am

Wile E. Coyote was not available for comment. Perhaps Acme Bombs have embraced DEI?

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 7:47 am

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.

Tom
Tom
July 28, 2024 8:03 am
Reply to  calli

Sodom on the Seine …

Thanks, Calli.

shatterzzz
July 28, 2024 8:44 am
Reply to  calli

Couldn’t afford the “real” Olympics but took the kids to the Paras a coupla times ($10 a day family tix) .. My son, then 17, working for Maccas was seconded to the Olympic Village venue .. His Games highlight was a, 5am, coffee sit-down with Monica Seles ……..

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 7:51 am

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 28, 2024 8:05 am

On This Day:

1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:15 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:19 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:50 am

We also considered three Zodiac trips a day might be a bit much in terms of drying out wet clothing and footwear. Two will do.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:27 am

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

MatrixTransform
July 28, 2024 10:28 am
Reply to  Indolent

excellent behaviour Catturd … and hardly a capital letter in sight

Zatara
Zatara
July 28, 2024 8:28 am

As Islamic Groups Vow Massacres, Paris Olympics Target Christianity

Every Western leftist’s favorite jihad group, Hamas, released a video a few days before the Olympics opened, vowing that there would soon be “rivers of blood flowing through the streets of Paris.” French police recently arrested two would-be Islamic State (ISIS) jihad suicide bombers who were planning to target the Olympics. The Islamic State also called upon Muslims to carry out drone strikes on the Eiffel Tower during the Olympics. After all that, the Olympics Opening Ceremony featured full-scale, open mockery not of Islam (of course!), but of the religion leftists love to hate: Christianity.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:28 am

Of course, Catturd has his own, more succinct way of putting things.

@catturd2

The Nutsack Olympics is getting the boycott they deserve.

Pogria
Pogria
July 28, 2024 8:43 am
Reply to  Indolent

Way to nobble the competition.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 8:53 am
Reply to  Indolent

Luckily food here on board in Fiji hasn’t yet been captured by greenery, although the five (yes five fully funded) marine biologists certainly have been. Vegans on board can eat lettuce leaves or tropical root vegies, as island food is pig and fish based. Very tasty.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 11:33 am
Reply to  Indolent

“They are saying the Games are more sustainable and there is way more plant-based food but sometimes if you go at peak times it’s challenging to even get a piece of chicken,” the Times of London quoted one British athlete whose name was withheld as saying.

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:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 11:48 am
Reply to  Indolent

I don’t like Bidens chances of serving out his full term – can the Supremes initiate the 25th Amendment?
From the Brave article:

  • President: The head of the executive branch, who can temporarily transfer powers and duties to the Vice President or declare their inability to discharge duties.
  • Vice President: The second-highest-ranking official, who becomes President upon the removal, death, or resignation of the incumbent or assumes the office temporarily due to the President’s inability.
  • Cabinet: A group of high-ranking officials who, along with the Vice President, can jointly determine the President’s inability to discharge duties.

Are we looking at a pathway to to suspension of the Bill of Rights and a State of Emergency?
The odds are not looking that bad but who knows with the scum and villains running the joint?

Zatara
Zatara
July 28, 2024 8:31 am
Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:33 am

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

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 11:53 am
Reply to  Indolent

Wait and see – Israel will be blamed for not destroying the rocket. That’s what the demonstrations will be about.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to  Indolent

Kamala has just been preloading.

Tom
Tom
July 28, 2024 8:37 am

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.

 

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 9:43 am
Reply to  Tom

She’s perfectly qualified – brown, no penis. What more do you want?

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:38 am

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

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 28, 2024 11:49 am
Reply to  Indolent

Another bunch of BS studies written with the outcome decided. Who writes this drivel.

Earths sea levels over 500mil years and zero point is today:

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Been 200-400m higher and had little affect on our day.

Earth has a wicked wobble that is dampened by the moon, the moon is moving further and further away per year. Fortunately for us by the time it has an effect our sun will have swelled into a red giant & the climate will be very tasty indeed.

Lastly, we are three hundred thousand years overdue for a magnetic reversal. There are fluctuations in that and the inner core atm that most of us in the earth science field think that the early stages of that reversal may be on. Most reversals take 1,000-10,000yrs.

Megan
Megan
July 28, 2024 1:54 pm
Reply to  Indolent

My geology studies are in the far, far distant past, but RocDoc has reminded me of some geological realities that were filed at the very back of the memory shelves. I tried retrieving them when I first read of this study yesterday and I thought ‘Utter Nonsense!’ but the retrieval system is as old and creaky as my joints and simply could not be motivated to go and look for them.

It did, however, drag out a fragment of a part of a tiny detail garnered from somewhere after the massive Banda Aceh earthquake/tsunami disaster which claimed that it jolted the earth’s axis off by about a 1/4 of a degree. If true, then that too will impact climate over time. The reality of geological time seems to be ignored by the ‘We’ll be boiled to death next week” numpties.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:42 am

WSJ, so largely paywalled, but good news in any event.
Merit, Excellence and Intelligence: An Anti-DEI Approach Catches On

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:47 am

@DonaldJTrumpJr

Resurfaced video shows Kamala Harris suggesting that young people should not have children due to climate change

She calls climate anxiety “the fear of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children.”

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:48 am
Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 8:49 am

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.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 9:03 am

A superb historical piece setting certain things straight, Cassie.

And an excellent comment on the Paris opening ceremony. Luckily we are far from Olympic fervour here in the Fijian outer islands. Internet locks us in but as its weak we haven’t watched anything, maybe we would have done so anyway, given what I’ve read of the general tenre of things Olympic in France right now. There are some French people here on board, but they are keen divers, so not around much.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 9:04 am

would NOT have done so.

WolfmanOz
July 28, 2024 9:23 am

Superbly said Cassie.

For me I’ve never had much regards for the Olympics since 1972.

I was only 11 at the time but even then I found it obscene after the horrific events the Olympics main focus was to resume “the games”.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 28, 2024 9:31 am

In 1977, while backpacking around Europe, I took a tram ride ( or maybe bus) out to the Munich stadium, I suppose I expected a memorial. I was able to wander around freely all through the seating areas and grounds, no-one was there. I can’t imagine being able to wander freely around the MCG.
I found the short vids from the Opening Ceremony ugly, just as I find Melbourne graffiti ugly.
Cassie that story was fascinating.

vr
vr
July 28, 2024 10:12 am

Learned a lot from this post, Cassie.

even the Russians, at the height of Communism, never publicly celebrated and mocked the wholesale slaughter of the Imperial family in that Ekaterinburg cellar.

This is a great observation.

Crossie
Crossie
July 28, 2024 3:40 pm

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.

If I were Austrian I would be insulted at the lampooning of the beheaded queen who was entrusted to the French people. If this is how they treat others they shouldn’t expect to be treated with any dignity themselves.

As others have already pointed out there are nice French people however, their culture is vile.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 8:49 am

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!

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 8:50 am

@OliLondonTV

This is the man who mocked 2.4 Billion Christians last night.

‘Queer’ artist Thomas Jolly directed the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Jolly was behind the idea for recreating Jesus’ Last Supper with drag queens, which featured a near-naked blue Smurf man and a drag queen exposing his testicle next to a young child.

The artistic director said he wanted ‘everyone to feel represented.’

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 9:06 am
Reply to  Indolent

That is so disgusting. The meme above, of a lunatic tranny wanting everyone to change to suit this small minority, says it all.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 9:08 am
Reply to  Indolent

It’s just a deliberate game of up-you, says Hairy, and they do it because they can get away with it. Time for some curtailing actions.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 9:40 am
Reply to  Indolent

His definition of “everyone” seems to be rather exclusive to his favourite groups.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 9:45 am
Reply to  Boambee John

It is representative of his bathhouse on Saturday night.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to  Indolent

A lightning bolt from on high?

Megan
Megan
July 28, 2024 2:02 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

If so, well deserved.

Makka
Makka
July 28, 2024 10:05 am
Reply to  Indolent

Good.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 28, 2024 4:10 pm
Reply to  Indolent

God is not mocked!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 28, 2024 8:56 am
calli
calli
July 28, 2024 9:11 am

Gee, those Mormons have changed.

Last time I was in Utah, they looked askance at swearing!

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 9:42 am

Relevance Deprivation Syndrome.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 9:46 am

Romney puts his dog on the car roof too.

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 9:01 am

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!

Eternal Father, strong to save,

Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,

Who bid’st the mighty ocean deep

Its own appointed limits keep;

O hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 28, 2024 9:12 am
Reply to  calli

Thank you, Calli. It’s a hymn I remember singing from my days as a church-going child with my nana in the UK. Also recall the prayers for the Royal Family. The old Book of Common Prayer, full of redolent words and phrases.

Makka
Makka
July 28, 2024 10:08 am
Reply to  calli

Thanks calli. I remember singing this when a nipper at church when my father was in the RAN. Daily in fact around the time of the Voyager disaster.

Megan
Megan
July 28, 2024 2:03 pm
Reply to  calli

Thanks calli, my ex- RN grandad loved this hymn and would sing all the verses. Still one of my favourites.

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Bruce in WA
July 28, 2024 11:10 pm
Reply to  calli

Thank you. Dad was a CPO in the RAN and my father-in-law was a Commander in the RAN. They both loved this. Sadly, both now gone.

132andBush
132andBush
July 28, 2024 9:02 am

Olympics?

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 9:02 am

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

Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 9:07 am

A Hezbollah rocket has killed 10 children playing soccer in a field on the Golan Heights.

I suspect all the dead are Druze.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 28, 2024 9:24 am

That s what the BBC said.

calli
calli
July 28, 2024 9:09 am

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.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 9:12 am

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.

Muddy
Muddy
July 28, 2024 10:12 am

Fascinating. Thanks for posting that.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 11:15 am

At school we had to read The Passage by Vance Palmer. It was almost enough to put one off Australian authors, but Lawler’s SOTSD was much more appreciable.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 28, 2024 9:14 am

A Hezbollah rocket has killed 10 children playing soccer in a field on the Golan Heights.

Has Penny Wong condemned this act yet? And demanded Hezbollah cease firing rockets?

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 28, 2024 9:37 am

Foreign Affairs Minister Benny Wonk will concernedly tell us mistakes happen and it wasn’t hisbollocks fault.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 9:44 am

Not a hope of that.

Muddy
Muddy
July 28, 2024 10:09 am

Morality is context-dependent now. Gazan children = victims. Israeli children = infidels (on ‘stolen land’). Insider vs. Outsider. Hunter vs. Prey.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 28, 2024 12:09 pm

I doubt it – she’ll probably claim Israel refused to shoot it down because they could tell where it was going to hit.
Islam the victim again!

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 28, 2024 9:17 am

Keeping the theme of Leak’s excellent work:

Northern Territory Senator Malarndirri McCarthy and NSW Senator Jenny McAllister are expected to become ministers when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces his first Cabinet reshuffle.

The big change was triggered after Labor stalwarts Brendan O’Connor and Linda Burney announced they would retire at the next election.

Sky News reports Senator McCarthy will likely become the new Indigenous Australians Minister.

It is believed Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil could be moved from their ministerial roles in the reshuffle, into new portfolios.

But the reshuffle is expected to be a minimalist one, with the major portfolios remaining in the same hands.

Defence will likely stay with Richard Marles, Treasurer will stay with Jim Chalmers and the Energy portfolio will likely stay with Chris Bowen, Sky News reports.

There is also growing speculation the Home Affairs department could be reorganised.

Mr Marles, speaking with Sky News on Sunday morning, refused to rule out a potential refit of the department.

“All will be revealed, I’m not going to pre empt any of that,” he said.

Ms O’Neil and Mr Giles have confronted months of criticism after a series of failures in their portfolios, including the NZYQ high court decision that forced the release of immigration detainees, some of whom went on to commit crimes against Australians.

The reshuffle comes as the government prepares for an expected 2025 election.

“There is a opportunity to refresh the front bench, the Prime Minister is taking that opportunity,” Mr Marles said.

“This comes after a remarkably stable ministry in the first term of the Albanese government.”

Sky News also speculated current Agriculture Minister Murray Watt could be elevated to the Home Affairs ministry.

Liberal Senator James Paterson, responding to the suggestion on Agenda, said he feared Mr Watt would be “even worse” than Ms O’Neil in the role.

Senator Paterson said Mr Watt had opposed offshore processing, referencing a motion the Queensland Senator moved at a 2015 Labor conference opposing the policy.

Ms McAllister has served as a senator since 2015. She served as national president of the Labor Party between 2011 and 2015.

Ms McCarthy is a Yanyuwa woman from the Gulf country in the Northern Territory.

She was elected a senator in 2016 and then again in 2019. Before politics, she worked as a journalist with the ABC and then SBS and NITV.

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

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 9:31 am
Reply to  Black Ball

Repulsive people- unlikely to have ever done an honest day’s work in their lives. I know retired canbra pubes just like that.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 28, 2024 9:46 am
Reply to  Black Ball

BB, those impeccable credentials? Shirley you’re not implying the Liars have credentials, little impeccable ones. I’d hazard a guess and say all of the were repeatedly dropped on their heads as babies and have never recovered. Loathing does not even begin to describe my feelings for the left.

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Jock
Jock
July 28, 2024 10:05 am
Reply to  Black Ball

Methinks you are overeating what would happen in the private sector. Most large corps are now led by people who are terrific brown posers and poseurs. Talent and ethics are not really required.

Jock
Jock
July 28, 2024 10:05 am
Reply to  Jock

Overegging

Rohan
Rohan
July 28, 2024 1:27 pm
Reply to  Jock

It’s not overegging it with respect to SME’s. They would be out on their derrières in a heartbeat if they pulled that kind of crap.

Roger
Roger
July 28, 2024 9:18 am

Oh, Canada!

Canada’s standard of living is on track for its worst decline in 40 years, according to a new study by Canada’s Fraser Institute. The study compared the three worst periods of decline in Canada in the last 40 years — the 1989 recession, the 2008 global financial crisis, and this post-pandemic era. They found that unlike the previous recessions, Canada is not recovering this time. Something broke.

In fact, according to the Financial Post, since 2019, Canada’s had the worst growth out of 50 developed economies. Inflation-adjusted Canadian wages have been flat since 2016.So, yes, something broke. And it’s nowhere near over: Canada’s per-person real GDP is still falling, and with a looming US recession — the US is 75% of Canada’s exports — Canada could crash again before it ever recovered.In previous videos I’ve talked about the disaster that is Justin Trudeau’s Canada. In short, incomes are West Virginia level, house prices are Los Angeles level, and Canadian taxes are half way to the Soviet Union. It’s not rare for a middle-class family in Canada to pay half their income in taxes.

Meanwhile, since the pandemic, Canada’s official food inflation is up 25%, and energy is up 30% — partly thanks to a carbon tax.

And keep in mind sales tax in most Canadian provinces is 13 to 15 percent on everything you buy. While Canadians post TikToks about trying to stretch a loaf of rye bread through the week or selling off their possessions to afford groceries, the cost of living is hitting harder with time. Canadian bankruptcy filings jumped 40% last year, while CIBC reports nearly half of Canadians have zero emergency savings.

According to StatsCan, Canada’s violent crime rate is up 40% since 2014.

An Ipsos poll found 7 in 10 Canadians agree that “Canada is broken,” — rising to 8 in 10 of those between age 18 and 34.

Angus found that 42% of Canadians are considering moving to another country. This is all a shock because it happened so fast —it’s night and day from the last crisis in 2008, which Canada weathered much better than America.

What changed? Justin Trudeau. Specifically, his campaign to convert Canada from a mixed economy like the US into a government-dominated economy like the sick men of the European Union. Under Trudeau, business investment has plunged by a third, while government spending nearly doubled to almost half of GDP. Government workers in Canada are growing almost four times faster than the private sector, and one in three Canadians now work for the government, raking in 30% more in salary and benefits than the taxpayers they lord over. Another 1.7 million Canadians — roughly 1 in 10 households — are on welfare.

Of course, that makes it very difficult to win an election in Canada on a small-government platform: You’re up against the government-provided livelihoods of 40% of voters. Meaning you’ve got to win, what, 80% of everybody else.

Peter St. Onge, Mises Institute 26/7/2024

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.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 9:52 am
Reply to  Roger

Fidel’s little boy has been busy.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 9:22 am

The whole Paris abomination just reinforces my disgust of and contempt for Western elites.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 9:23 am
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Cassie of Sydney
July 28, 2024 9:24 am

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.

Zippster
Zippster
July 28, 2024 9:29 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 9:41 am

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.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 28, 2024 9:48 am

James O’Doherty in the Daily Telegraph:

State Labor’s hardening stance in favour of Palestine will not do much to end human suffering in Gaza — but that was not the point.

Moving ever so slightly to recognise Palestine as a sovereign and independent state “as a priority” was never designed to have an immediate impact overseas.

The change in state Labor’s stance was intended to cauterise what Labor sees as a political gaping wound in parts of Western Sydney.

The semantic change will hardly make a difference to the Israel-Gaza war but will likely anger an Australian ally in Israel.

The main audience was voters here. Labor insiders have known for months that the war overseas was going to become a political problem at home.

Labor fears electoral backlash from Muslim communities at the next election.

It has already copped a rank and file revolt; more than half a dozen branches moved motions calling on Palestine to be recognised “immediately”.

The motion, agreed in days of backroom talks between Labor powerbrokers, will heap pressure on the federal party platform to change.

Federal Labor’s position is recognising Palestine as an issue of “important priority”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s call for an “urgent” and “immediate” ceasefire (cynically made on the eve of the NSW conference) did little to stop loud protests outside Sydney’s Town Hall.

Inside, the debate was all for show; the deal had been brokered. Albanese would have had his hands all over it.

The consensus did not go nearly as far as some wanted.

The most vocal pro-Palestine voice inside NSW Labor, Anthony D’Adam, is now completely isolated in the party.

When Albanese told the Labor faithful to “choose progress over protest,” it could have easily been directed squarely at D’Adam himself.

Disgusting people. The worst.

Crossie
Crossie
July 28, 2024 3:59 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Jihad Dib is no better.

Zatara
Zatara
July 28, 2024 9:54 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 10:16 am
Reply to  Zatara

I follow a French photographer on Instagram. His post is absolutely scathing.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 9:57 am

@MichelleRM68

It’s been nearly 3 months since Milwaukee Elections Director Claire Woodall was fired for printing 64K ballots with Biden’s name on them, in the back conference room of City Hall on election day 2020.

Trump only lost Wisconsin by 20K votes! The media remains SILENT as usual!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 11:18 am
Reply to  Indolent

AS I have just commented below, the MSM keep saying to this day “no evidence of voter fraud”. It was and is very evident, but both the MSM and the lefty politicians are persistent in rewriting history.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 9:58 am
LB2
LB2
July 28, 2024 12:01 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Looks like ABCess Sports Day

Crossie
Crossie
July 28, 2024 4:03 pm
Reply to  Indolent

It must be the first time in history Russia is looking like a more ethical and moral country that its European critics.

Indolent
Indolent
July 28, 2024 9:59 am
Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
July 28, 2024 10:12 am

This hypocrisy is seriously depressing.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/the-sick-olympics.html

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
July 28, 2024 10:15 am
Reply to  Mak Siccar

Woops. Zulu already posted this. (note to self – scroll back next time)

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 28, 2024 10:15 am

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

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 28, 2024 10:24 am

Tickler in the wee hours …

No, it has not. The vision of it happening is clear for all to see.

Only by those who have been suitably pre-prepared by a series of Troofer and Prepper sites.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 28, 2024 10:24 am

Melbourne playwright Ray Lawler dies aged 103.

Thanks for posting that ZK2A @ 09:12am.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 28, 2024 10:48 am
Reply to  Barking Toad

My pleasure, Barking Toad. Saw a production of “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll” way back when.

vr
vr
July 28, 2024 10:26 am

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.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 10:36 am
Reply to  vr

They got exposed as being a low rent culture that was living of past glories.

Could be said of anywhere in Europe. Frogs might be the worst – although it is close.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 28, 2024 10:28 am

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.

Arky
July 28, 2024 10:30 am

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?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 28, 2024 10:52 am
Reply to  Arky

The thing with solar panels is they’re black. They have about a 25% efficiency converting sunlight into electricity.

Which means they have up to 75% efficiency of converting sunlight into heat…

Arky
July 28, 2024 10:57 am

Even the sunlight they turn into electricity has to eventually become heat that remains on the planet.
So that’s 100% sunlight to heat.

alwaysright
alwaysright
July 28, 2024 12:16 pm
Reply to  Arky

Thanks for that post Arky.

they are nuttier than a circus clown’s turds, 

Indeed. If they couldn’t de-industrialize the west with the 0.04% gas they would have picked on Argon or Methane or …

Bruce might know about the study that liked bird deaths to reflected heat from solar panels?.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 28, 2024 2:11 pm
Reply to  alwaysright

Solar panels aren’t too bad. There’re studies that migratory birds can mistake solar farms as lakes, and try landing on them. But that’s pretty minor.

Rooftop solar panels even are good for birds such as Indian Mynahs, who like to nest in the gap between the panels and the roof.

Wind turbines though are nasty, and solar thermal plants.

eric hinton
eric hinton
July 28, 2024 10:35 am

Anyone got a market on the Miles Dick govt canning the Olympics in favour of more footbridges over the Brisbane River?

vr
vr
July 28, 2024 10:39 am
Reply to  eric hinton

I mentioned this possibility to someone just this week. Should use the Dan Andrews’ excuse for cancelling the commonwealth games. Verbatim.

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Makka
Makka
July 28, 2024 10:44 am
Reply to  eric hinton

Nah. Ours will be the Abo Olympics. Where the perception will be that all our accomplishments are due to Abo ingenuity, sporting prowess or at the expense of the Noble Savage. Guilt will be the overall theme. You know it makes sense!

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 12:12 pm
Reply to  eric hinton

They should, but lack both the smartness and the courage to do so.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 28, 2024 3:33 pm
Reply to  eric hinton

Love to see it happen but little problem in Oct.

Chrisifooli is doing his Springborg best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory but I’d say he’ll get over the line. Baseball bats are out up this way.

Chrisifooli is a big backer of the Olympic black hole with it’s bread & circuses for SEQ. It aint going anywhere yet and the sad thing is for the LNP who back it, IMO given how fickle SEQ is I think it will be an ALP premier opening the games.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 28, 2024 10:45 am

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

Roger
Roger
July 28, 2024 10:49 am

Anyone got a market on the Miles Dick govt canning the Olympics in favour of more footbridges over the Brisbane River?

Sterling idea!

We’re going to need more bridges for the homeless to sleep under.

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eric hinton
eric hinton
July 28, 2024 10:51 am

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.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 28, 2024 11:19 am
Reply to  eric hinton

Running out of time to do anything.

vr
vr
July 28, 2024 12:01 pm
Reply to  eric hinton

Or they could cancel the opening and closing ceremonies. And revert to the sports featured in the very first Olympics.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 28, 2024 12:14 pm
Reply to  vr

And all competitors nude, as in the original form.

132andBush
132andBush
July 28, 2024 10:51 am

Hezbollah fires a rocket at a soccer field, killing 10 children.

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.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 28, 2024 11:21 am
Reply to  132andBush

And the MSM continues to quote Hamas figures on the numbers of “civilian” casualties. Most probably false in numbers and false in “civilians”.

Zatara
Zatara
July 28, 2024 11:37 am
Reply to  132andBush

“Hezbollah, unsurprisingly, denied carrying out the evil attack saying they have “no connection to the incident at all, and categorically denies all false allegations.””

Right. It was some other terrorist group that controls all of southern Lebanon and indiscriminately shoots rockets into Israel to make Hezbollocks look bad.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 28, 2024 10:53 am

Sancho Panzer
 July 28, 2024 10:24 am

Tickler in the wee hours …

No, it has not. The vision of it happening is clear for all to see.

Only by those who have been suitably pre-prepared by a series of Troofer and Prepper sites.

—-

What happend to the cars on FDR Drive?

132andBush
132andBush
July 28, 2024 10:57 am

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.

You are failing to account for the shade under the damn things.

It’s the shade that’ll save us.

132andBush
132andBush
July 28, 2024 11:06 am