Nice stats posted by Zafiro last evening about the not so illustrious AFL career of professional whinger Tony Armstrong. Uncontested…
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In any event EV made me a serious load of cash in 24, Cronkers. I bought Tesla at decent levels…
But will he really be 47? Won’t he be 45 again?
@catturd2 ?There’s a huge security issue going on here. This has nothing to do with the weather.
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I’ve very chuffed.
The bus ride from Skibbereen to Kenmare was delightful.
Narrow winding road, managed a few glimpses of the coast with west cork’s long fingers of land stretching out into the sea, then kerb hugging as we brushed along the high roadside vegetation, through the harbour town of Bantry then rising up high as we entered Kerry of the bare green hills and deep valleys. A short tunnel then through three man-made stone arches
From dairy country to black headed sheep country.
Kenmare is rocking out this bank holiday, not at like quiet Skibbereen where most everything was closed.
I have a quiet studio just behind the main drags
Now trying the local mussels at the bar that manages my accommodation.
Meanwhile in the Territory….where not to leave your car or truck while you go fishing…
Happens once a week.
8 metre tides don’t forgive.
ladies, being a drama queen isn’t a way to win an argument
about time you all faced up to the fact that your own relativistic gibber is what got youse Olympic scale drama queens into the position where trannies are kicking sand in yr face every day
men are laughing their arses off at your stupidity
Yeah nah.
Men weren’t standing up to the drama queens either.
Childbirth does make your eyes water a bit though.
As the old joke goes which is worse childbirth or a kick in the testicles. The answer of course is that no one goes back for another kick in the testicles
LOL
Yes. Just like the medieval rack and the Iron Maiden.
Stings a bit.
Recent surge in Endometriosis Awareness ads suggests to me that the Clot Shot has exacerbated the condition.
Or funding has created another industry like DV.
How lucky was Australia, to have the intellects of Kelly, Scummo and Hunt, looking after the “well being” of Australians in 2020?
Must have “saved” millions of lives!
Didn’t realise it was a competition.
Does passing a kidney stone count?
It’s all to do with personal experience and pain threshold. A sister-in-law remarked after the birth of her first child “I don’t know what all the fuss is about”.
Bloody awesome woman.
The dog owner though, needs thrashing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13709663/Woman-Sydney-Harbour-dog-rescue-Woolloomooloo.html
Bloody awesome woman.
Tough, competent and gorgeous to look at.
I think the point being made was that many women have experienced and dealt with severe pain without making an extraordinary fuss about it.
I’m very dubious about the claim that 2 out of 5 women live with chronic pain though.
that wasn’t yr point yesterday
It’s called advertising Rosie.
Pretty funny
https://x.com/babybeginner/status/1820343919529623952?t=tmc7C35Y33lhd69zqCyWDw&s=19
reminds me of the old adage .. “There’s one born every minute” .. LOL
More, bloody, money than sense …….!
The possibility of existential physical pain for women must be leavened a bit by the gender orgasm gap.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Rarely do I like Broelman’s toons but that one made me chuckle.
Once I realised they were sitting on toilet seats, yes.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Eat our heart out, Obama.
This is how memes come home to roost.
your
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Steve Kelley.
Ben Garrison.
Totally un-woke and racist to boot.
Apologies.
Don’t remember much of him, too young and not my kind of music.
I recall he was very fond of the USSR.
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Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong
Did you know that Jazz Legend Louis Armstrong wore a Jewish Star of David necklace for most of his life?
Armstrong was born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901 (died July 6, 1971).
He was raised by his grandmother and also cared for by his Lithuanian Jewish neighbors, the Karnofskys.
Louis started off as a delivery boy for the Karnofsky family and was soon given meals, a place to sleep when needed and even included at their Shabbat table.
Armstrong would later write in his memoir that the Karnofskys treated him as though he were their own child. Mrs. Karnofsky used to sing Yiddish and Russian lullabies for him at night before bed.
Soon Louis earned $5 from Mr. Karnofsky which he used to buy his first instrument – a $5 cornet.
“When I reached the age of Eleven, I began to realize it was the Jewish family who instilled in me Singing from the heart” Armstrong recalled. “They encouraged me to carry on.”
Armstong always had a special relationship and good memories of his time spent with the Karnofsky family. He wore a Star of David until the end of his life in memory of the family who helped raise him.
Louis Armstrong proudly spoke Yiddish, loved matzah, had a mezuzah, and always wore a Star of David around his neck, which was given to him for good luck by another Jew who played a significant part in Armstrong’s life, his manager, Joe Glaser.
When gentlemen dressed in style.
Not a torn jean in sight.
If you have a proven track record of terror and bloody mayhem,
Two Tier’s got your back.
They have a communist party ruling them. What did they expect?
For those with VPN’s Blazing catfur has a bunch of threads on UK violence of the muslim counter violence, policing and political threats.
Police have doubled down on the “far right” arresting people for posting support on facebook for the working class protests.
Head pig of UK Met snaps at a Sky News reporter asking if the 2 tier policing will end:
https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1820417630680895636
Well done Sky and LOL how long before an angry Starmer phones Murdoch to tell him to pull his reporters in. Is there tension that this could be spiralling out of their control.
News.com actually found a real Nasti at one of these protests, LOL only been a week jismist kiddies so keep regurgitating the far left AP crap.
My father was an operating theatre orderly at Tobruk, they might have met.
Plod too.
Met Police’s Mark Rowley breaks silence after being caught on camera throwing mic on floor (5 Aug)
Oooh, we’re a bit touchy about that subject are we…?
“Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”
Apt, I believe.
COBRA meeting? What we need is a MONGOOSE to take care of the COBRA.
Acronym for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
Snap RD!
This is probably why the Sky reporter asked that question.
UK riots: Police officer filmed telling men ‘stash weapons in mosque’ (5 Aug)
Be interesting to have a look inside the mosque to see what they have in their basement.
Mosques have always been armouries.
It’d be interesting to see ground penetrating radar shots of them.
It’d also be interesting as to why no one has looked yet.
Malfeasance
The world didn’t end last night.
Just letting youse all know.
How’s your back?
Is Elsie helping by walking over it for you? 😀
Wearing stilettos?
snicker. 😀
No, but she knows something is up – she tries to sleep curled around my head.
Tom- thanks
It’s no wonder the country are fkd.
Pain scale? I had it explained at Canberra Hospital, 4, panadol; 6, endone; 7, tramadol; 8, morphine; 9, ketamine; 10 fentanyl. GreyRanga pain scale, live on panadol and nurofen; 7, red flashing in head; 8 white flashing in head; 9, goes grey in head little pain; 10 black no pain have passed out. 7 and 8 several times a week, 9, every 2-3 months, 10, every couple of years. Endone does very little to nothing. Tramadol I take occasionally as it does nothing quickly enough except a few days ago the pain didn’t stop after a few hours so I took some. If I took painkillers every time I hurt I’d be a junkie. I’ve heard people say they wouldn’t have had orthopaedic surgery of all sorts if they’d known it was going to hurt so much. That means it never hurt much in the first place. Surgery is a last resort. My arm and hand surgeon said he only does a little bit at a time as the body responds better to less intervention. BTW I have the most extreme surgery on my wrist short of amputation. Its not quite right but 50 million times better than it was. Endone for a week when it still was working for me. Pain is relative. Get used to it. Psychological pain is far far greater yet very little seems to help. I don’t know how they cope and most don’t seem to. I’ve witnessed love for family having the best effect but its still not enough at times. I meant to say up comment that I take tramadol after I’ve had a particularly bad time but not until I feel a lot better and then that seems to be good for a few days.
I’m still cranky about the chronic headaches I got after the transplant. Started a few days after the op, didn’t let up for 8 years. Treated like a junkie, no one listened. Constantly having to ask for pain relief and grudgingly given.
Started getting desperate and was going to get abusive at the team for failure of investigations. Came the day, the Pharmacist at Prince Charles was called in to defuse the situation – he casually remarked that “These two medications potentiate each other to get chronic headaches. Change that one and stop the other. That will fix it.”
Less than 1% occurrence, but headaches gone, no narcotics needed for over a year now.
Still furious that pharmacy wasn’t called in, and I have no problem reminding them of it.
Chronic pain is disabling and life threatening, and I’ve seen too many cases where schoolmarm doctors have denied needed relief to patients because they’ve been brainwashed into the “Narcotics are evil” school.
rant over.
Nephew went to walk-in medical centre across road from hospital. Excruciating pain in neck. Treated like a junkie looking for a fix. He left to go to EMD, passed out in the middle of the road. Ive had a pretty good run from the medical system but have heard horror stories. A psyche patient had an episode 2 months ago and another 3 weeks later still hasn’t been able to see a specialist. That is the latest. A schoolboy in Brisbane for a footy tournament fractured his arm, no X-rays, given panadol. 6 weeks later in Canberra Hospital in the bed next to me waiting for a space in the operating schedule. Another, old lady been sent home several times when surgery times blew out, not considered urgent. Young Indian nurse goes and gets Indian surgeon, he comes to look at her, you’re up next. She’d been sent home with panadol beforehand in absolute agony. These are a few of the things I’ve personally witnessed. I’m sure everyone has their own ones to tell.
Sorry to hear about all that, GR. Hope you find a better level to live on.
So……..
English Defence League = bad
Muslim Defence League = good
“What’s the most ridiculous, desperate thing CNN could do to try to get out the $ 1 billion defamation suit against them?
This is it:
CNN cites Sharia law for their innocence in defamation suit, argue Navy vet is a criminal for saving women”
The above is a quote from an excellent piece at Ace, about a little known case against CNN. The filthy “media morons”, are desperately fighting against having to shell out ONE BILLION DOLLARS for defamation against said Navy vet.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=410917
That’s incredible. The nexus between the Communists and the Muslims is even tighter than anyone expected.
GreyRanga
August 6, 2024 7:42 am
Pain scale? I had it explained at Canberra Hospital, 4, panadol; 6, endone; 7, tramadol; 8, morphine; 9, ketamine; 10 fentanyl.
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Seems a bit idiosyncratic, but of course dosage matters.
I take Tramadol every day for arthritis, low dose slow release, it keeps the pain down to a dull roar. When I broke my arm, I got endone as well, and it was completely different – zero pain, but I was zombiefied.
Yes, pain is subjective to some extent. That doesn’t make it less real.
Turning to yesterday’s discussion about pain in childbirth, a couple of people demanded to know if I had experienced it. Apparently, they are of the view that only gay actors should portray gay people, and writers should only write about things they have personally experienced. Nobody can express a view about anything outside their own experience. I must say that these commenters break their own rules in relaation to most of their comments – but hey!
Oh, and whether or not I have ever delivered a child is none of your f-ing business.
You are right Jo, pain is very very subjective. For a greater part of my life I suffered from debilitating back pain. Tried a lot of treatments – chiro, exercises, physio etc – trying to avoid medication since the body becomes to accustomed to it. Finally found a physio who was amazing – recommended by a friend who worked for an insurance company – this physio could pick the malingerers. Finally I worked out a pattern to the relapses – almost always corresponding to difficult periods when emotions were high.
incidentally, a family member is an orthopaedic specialist & owned diagnostic centres reckons that some X-rays showed no tissue damage of consequence in complainants while other incidental X-rays showed extensive problems in those who reported no pain at all. Weird.
Also strangely, my back improved since buying the farm many years ago. Quite possibly due to the exercise it gets! But who knows?
Endone doesn’t work for me anymore. When I had shoulder reconstruction I was on ketamine. Second total knew replacement frozen peas on it worked better than drugs.
Muslims cheating lefties out of winning an election…
Progressive Dems In Michigan Tell Undercover Journo They Were ‘Ballot Harvested’ Out Of Office By Muslim Voter Fraud Network (6 Aug)
It’s getting even more blatant it seems. Let the most efficient ballot-stuffer win in November!
And a Yemeni Mayor in Michigan!! I read this on Jo’s blog. What an eye opener! BTW Obama was the master of ballot harvesting – I always thought it was legal stuff ( such as visiting voters who would normally not bother to vote) but who knows?
Demographics changes everything. The West is in the fight of its life to survive.
Not sure about Louis Armstong being a Commie sympathiser, maybe you’re thinking of Paul Robeson?
Tony Thomas did a good story about Paul Robeson at the Midland Workshops when he came to WA.
Armstrong was definitely my kind of music.
I had a black cat many years ago who I named Satchmo, after the great man.
Wierd ..! Why would an anti-semite country like Turkey maintain an official presence in Israel ..? FFS! https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/08/05/turkey-lowers-flag-at-embassy-israel-honor-slain-hamas-terrorist/
Not sure about Louis Armstrong being a Commie sympathiser, maybe you’re thinking of Paul Robeson?
Correct.
This situation has been going on for a few weeks.
Bangledesh PM resigns, flees country after deadly protests (5 Aug)
Something like half of government jobs are reserved for the children of government workers, and there are all sorts of other quotas. The recent expansion of the quota system got so bad that uni students had little chance of winning a job on merit. That’s when they exploded.
Sounds like the army has now tapped the PM on the shoulder…
You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
We’re currently half way through the process – and it’s going to be an ugly and painful lesson.
My lady experienced two aherences late in life. The first wasn’t my finest hour.
We were alone up on the property standing in for the managers who were on holidays. I had no idea what brought on the extraordinary pain and had no idea what to do.
Neither the ambulance nor the helicopter were available for genuine reasons and I was unable to get the strip lights to turn on for the RFDS who told me to take her to a neighbour’s place. (And who subsequently delivered me a very angry rocket).
That didn’t work out so she faced a brutal drive down our apalling highway hoping to meet the ambulance on the way. High index stupid; only trucks drive on that road at night.
We met the RFDS at the local town strip. They decided to fly her direct to Rockhampton. The Rocky hospital people were outstanding.
To my shame, I was curled up asleep on the treatment room floor when she was wheeled off for surgery.
Bush life.
Is Miles the dopiest Premier in Queensland history?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-06/queensland-labor-state-owned-petrol-stations-state-election/104186768
Queensland Premier Steven Miles says Labor will establish 12 publicly-owned fuel stations if re-elected in October, with the sites to be determined by where competition is most needed across the state.
Mr Miles said the state-owned fuel stations would operate on a cost recovery basis and would sell petrol and diesel alongside electric vehicle fast chargers.
“Publicly owned fuel stations will charge a fair price for fuel, increase competition, and ensure Queenslanders have more choice when it comes to filling up,” he said.
He says they would operate on a ‘cost recovery’ basis, i.e. on a non-profit basis. In other words, they would destroy the livelihoods of the owners and employees of service stations that need to make a profit to survive.
Leaving aside the improbable nature of this brain-fart, way to lose the votes of thousands of owners and employees across the state.
As the great political analyst Bugs Bunny would say – what a maroon.
Yes he is but his replacement may be worse.
We’re already half way to communism, what’s a little more?
Meanwhile the servo attendants will be paid as Qld public servants I guess out of our tax money?
Just incapable of dealing with the real world. Fix a problem they caused by making it worse. The worst of both free enterprise and communism.
Being paid as a pubic serpent will ensure the cost will be more than the privately run ones are.
Didn’t the ACTU get into petrol retailing back in the day? Before Hawke’s time.
Yes. It didn’t go well.
GreyRanga
August 6, 2024 7:42 am
Special K is my favourite.
Note to self … if admitted to Canberra hospital, say “9”.
If you want to be seen straight away depending on what it is, hold your chest and stagger as you go to sit down coz they are watching you.
In my experience, fentanyl doesn’t so much stop the pain as make you feel sorry for that other guy you’re looking down on who’s in pain.
Gotta laff .. sob stories in the media about the “horror” losses for the wealthier folk cos stock market downsurge .. Bezos, Furgleburger, Gates ect .. The average punter dropping $5 on the ponies/sports betting feelz more hip-pocket pain than any of the billionaires losing 1 or 2 zeros off their bank accounts .. FFS!
It’s an interesting phenomenon.
Most commentary from the media revolves about the Billionaires and their losses.
But most people don’t give a shit – they’re concerned about fuel and grocery prices.
Can the media be any less focussed on what their readers are concerned about?
Ordinary folk aren’t considered newsworthy ::
ie .. England .. ordinary folk = far right
James Lindsay – Why Marxism is a Religious System
Wonderful day ..! Grandaughter (13) being released from hospital after 5 dayz .. went in for what seemed like a, panicky, mum response to a, minor, ailment .. ended up in the operating theatre .. Nuttin’ that would kill but enuf to worry about ..
Anywayz all’s well that ends well and home today …….!
Great news.
UNRWA: Nine Members Might Have Participated in October 7 Attack on Israel
Yeah, that’ll solve the problem UNRWA. Don’t bother reporting how they got there and what you are doing to stop it happening again.
Mrs D is about to start on the pain relief treadmill because of damage to her back. Currently under control (just, and about 60% of the time) with Panadol. Dr is offering endone, which she really doesn’t want.
I saw my haemo specialist yesterday, kidney function over 50%, which is a massive improvement from 0, 8 weeks ago, gained back 7 of the 18kg I lost in that time, and I don’t need venisections ( take half a litre of blood) for a while, and the oral chemo ( no side effects any more yay!) has my chronic leukaemia under control.
I feel so good that I was thinking of going back to work next term, but it looks like I will be looking after her instead. Our GP is suggesting that she “upgrades” from Jobseeker to the DSP and I become her carer.
Not good, Diogenes.
Forget the Panadol and get her some decent pain relief. Chronic pain is exhausting, depressing and takes all of the joy out of living – I know of what I speak. It also makes anyone who is not a saint very grumpy.
Best wishes to both of you.
Good to hear Diogenes. You’d be one of lucky ones with no dide effects from the chemo.
Side not dide.
I awake to a world still here. We grind onward.
I see from the frankly sad comments from the men last night that they believe the faint possibility that their ladies might not have a headache tonight trumps the truth.
Meanwhile, if some dark and handsome Tom Jones type was serenading the town, nickers would rain down like a sticky ticker tape parade.
Or else they actually believe “Ohhhh me ovaries hurt, I can’t mow the lawn and change the tractor tyre”.
Sure, sure.
The thing you have, that we can’t verify anything about, is the very thing stopping you getting off your fat arse (too far? Probably too far. Rein it in a bit) and do the tiny bit of work assigned.
Meanwhile men, have you seen the absolute glee and delight elicited in the women should you get violently smacked in the two extremely sensitive organs that nature has cleverly designed to place OUTSIDE your body? In a flimsy skin bag. Good one nature.
Unbelievably they then pulled the “I gave birth to you” schtick. And youse all fell for it!
Beta.
A lady salmon has to navigate her way miles up a river system using only the occasional waft of chemicals in the water from the soil she were born in, starving, throwing her dying body repeatedly up waterfalls, only to be confronted by a fuggin’ great big bloody bear which wants to skin her alive, bite her head off and eat the little baby fishes out of her guts. Because bears love caviar.
Finally.
The brave mother salmon finds the very pools in which she was hatched and lays her eggs and then lays down her life for her country, her fishy people, and the future gastronomic delights of the bears.
And you have the gall to complain about a few hours of mild discomfort.
Don’t believe it men. The baby’s heads collapse and the womanly bits are designed for this very thing, they having more space between the bones of that area.
It won’t stop them holding it over you for the rest of their life though. Or your life, should you sensibly decide like most of us to pull up stumps early because of the nagging.
And you wonder why our forefathers stayed in the pub.
Props for provocation Arky.
I’ll just stand riiiiight over there m’kay?
I can now understand what Monty gets out of it.
Exciting, isn’t it?
Had an argument with the missus, Arky?
Naw.
She is one of the slightly better ones.
Let’s hope, for their sake, the male salmons don’t give in to the temptation to invent some device to make the whole effort safer and easier for the lady salmon, or else they’ll have to suffer our fate.
better times … no hats and no Sheilas
Arky is lucky humans aren’t like the praying mantis.
We can add women to the list of things you don’t understand.
No matter how badly you simp for them, they won’t let you press your sad and pudgy body up against them.
And, as if woman wouldn’t eat our heads if they could get away with it. AND somehow blame us for it.
This is not a joke. Unbelievable.
@MikeBenzCyber
“We are arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic communications network.”
“So it’s a Facebook crime, is it?”
Nice story about Nicola Olyslagers, the highjumper, and her journal/diary.
Extraordinary focus.
Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules
All the right pigs are squealing.
Pollster Luntz Said Trump Made Wise Choice By Picking Vance
UN admits UNRWA employees may have been involved in October 7 massacre
PeterM
August 6, 2024 8:14 am
Now that you mention it, I am sure you are right.
Sorry I got it wrong.
The Bee, but this is where we are.
Referee Warns Olympic Women’s Boxing Finalists Not To Punch Each Other In The Testicles
But it’s OK to punch real women in the groin?
Stop the world …
Democrat Raskin Says Congress will Stop Trump From Taking Office Even if He’s Chosen by the Voters and Create “Civil War Conditions”
Raskin needs a reality check.
This isn’t 2 Jan 2020 and the Dems don’t control the House anymore. Nor are they likely to anytime soon.
The days of the kangaroo Congress impeaching Trump are long gone.
Reporting in on the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Lotsa bands and marching talent, and a very good rifle squad from the USA with Queen Anne salutes and more.
However about 30% dance teams, some modern songs with albeit military solo singers, and not enough of the old stuff of dogs and gun runs.
But then again Princess Anne was the VIP, so that was good. Terrific reception from the crowd, who may have been thinking as I was here’s a Royal who just gets on with it, unlike Hazza and Megs – long may they stagnate in the States.
“So……..
English Defence League = bad
Muslim Defence League = good”
Lebanonisation in the UK
They’re only the Builders.
TE. The Air Miles Audit Authority have sent out an APB on you.
How Did the FBI Get So Corrupt?
Vivek Ramaswamy
Comment, from the Oz, on the article of the passing of the last of the “Rats of Tobruk.”
Greg
3 hours ago
It’s a real pity that this veteran saw statues & memorials paying respect to his mates’ sacrifices, vandalised, defaced or damaged.
Commie ratbags, feminists, peace activists have been vandalising memorials since 1971 at least that I can remember.
Figure 02 Trailer
OpenAI’s robot, looks like a dyson ad
Will the Commissioner of the Met be charged with criminal damage after seizing and throwing a Sky news reporter’s microphone to the pavement?
Or will this be an example of “three-tier” policing?
One rule for minorities…
Another for the majority…
And yet another for police themselves?
Peter Costelllo here in Oz lost his top job for something similar.
Not a policeman though.
Paywallian:
?
Who?
A fairly prescient analysis of the events of the last few days by Brownstone Institute:
The Emergency Deepens
The real economic crisis was kicked off with the lockdowns of March 2020. Since then, the whole system has been held together with scotch tape and bubble gum, plus an overlay of manipulated data. So the panic that has suddenly hit – recession in the air! – is not about underlying realities but sudden revelations.
Brownstone readers knew this all along of course. But as usual, the situation is worse than is being admitted. The inflation rate over four years is extremely high, so much so that we are still trying to get a read on the specifics. The stimulus payments of 2020-21 dramatically accelerated the offshoring of production. The debt is rising in ways that induce fainting.
Now we have the present administration calling for nationwide rent controls. Even during the Great War, that didn’t happen. Such talk is really without precedent, and will only lead to further shortages. Such brutal tactics of control are coupled with a continued refusal to admit the truth: the calamity was caused by a fire-hot printing press that created a phony-money boom followed by an ongoing bust.
So yes, we already know the next stage: an out-in-the-open economic and possibly financial crisis. The elite classes, meanwhile, are in a continued state of denial, and ready to scapegoat anyone with fundamental doubts about the wisdom of their masters in government, media, tech, and medicine.
I think it would be better put as…
…is about sudden revelations of underlying realities.
The weak jobs and factory order data are real.
Until now, healthy consumer spending in the US has masked those realities.
In my habit of pronouncing only to be proved wrong three minutes later, I was about to pronounce eternal truths.
Then I realised my track record, and deleted the comment.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/dont-lay-down-the-law-you-ungrateful-prcks.html
If I were Supreme Dictator of Australia, the Royal Australian Air Force would keep one of the oldest, slowest aircraft on the inventory for repatriating no hopers like this – flying upside down!
Bring back the orange lifeboats!
Keir Starmer’s approval rating down 16 pts.
Seems the British don’t appreciate being treated as second-class citizens in their native land.
Zippster
August 6, 2024 9:18 am
How Did the FBI Get So Corrupt?
Vivek Ramaswamy
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Have you never heard of J Edgar Hoover?
The FBI has been corrupt from its inception, although who was holding the strings has changed over the years.
I say it again – many commenters here are shocked by the latest scandal in the US, meaning that they have no grasp of the political history of the country.
All the ‘this is the end’ commentary could just as easily have been applied 100 years ago, and probably was by a bunch of old farts sitting on a verandah in the midwest.
BTW, what happened to the experts here who predicted that the US was just about to split into red and blue States? Become two separate countries?
Zoe Daniel is not the only one who hasn’t got a clue about US politics.
The demise of the hatted Australian is one of life’s great tragedies.
We still wear them on the land, eric!
Even more a tragedy that a leprous little swine wears one to show he is visiting the proles.
But enough about John Howard, Tim Fischer and Albo.
When I bought my first Akubra in Meekatharra (Tammy Fraser’s favourite town) it was more or less for laughs. I was a country boy not a bushie, and I thought real men wore giggle hats.
I got LOOKED AT when I wore it in the city. I think the only ones seen in town before that were on top of Gold Coast parking inspectors.
I see Jenna Ellis flipped on Trump and Giuliani in the Arizona fake electors case. Good.
Alina Habba should be taking notes.
Personal lawfare threats are very dangerous. Do be careful Monty you don’t get caught in such things. That case has no merit anyway since alternate electors can be appointed pending legal wrangles, and that has been done so many times.
The election was indeed stolen, there’s vast amounts of evidence showing that, but the Dems and their pet legal beagles are reacting violently to deter scrutiny. We’ve seen this over and over. J6, Guiliani, Trump. Ditto Arizona where it looks a lot like Kari Lake was robbed too.
But now that it is getting really brazen, as I linked upthread, with different factions of the Left stealing elections off each other, it is increasing hard to hide the fraud. Raskin might just start a civil war if he uses the fake Stormy court case to 14th Amendment Trump.
The Kraken! LOL. Sixty failed lawsuits later, no evidence that could stand up in court was forthcoming. 2000 Mules is not evidence, you clowns.
(Cue a snarky response, since Monty is so ignorant of the US elections process.)
I’m a prophet!
Dem lawfare strikes again. Invent enough charges and make it prohibitively expensive to fight and crooked political parties can accomplish some really dirty business.
mUntyfa approves of this tactic (so long as it is not used against lefturds).
Don’t forget Roger, whites can’t be Indigenous so nothing for you.
BTW, what happened to the experts here who predicted that the US was just about to split into red and blue States? Become two separate countries?
Give it time. It is within the range of possible outcomes as Elon would say.
That could be said of any prediction.
Worthless.
No, just still possible. The possibility has not gone away.
Paywallian:
As Watt Street and the Middle East melt down, why doesn’t Barack Obama just step out of the shadows and assure Americans he’s in charge of the US government and the US military?
Barry Bummer is not in charge of anything Tom. A useful idiot as a mouthpiece.
It’s a mystery.
You knew this was coming, didn’t you?
And here it is for Kiwi neighbours.
And what will we do when it gets here?
Acquiesce?
Or fight?
Amazing how the old songs are new again:
Meet the new boss…..same as the old boss!
Oh, know these rights
[Verse 4]
Number three
You have the right to free speech
As long as you’re not
Dumb enough to actually try it
[Chorus]
Know your rights
These are your rights
Oh, know your rights
These are your rights
All three of ’em, ha
[Outro]
And it has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough
Well, get off the streets
Get off the streets!
Texit anyone?
The Civil War Didn’t ‘Settle’ The Question Of State Secession (4 Aug)
Add in other initiatives like the roughly 2/3rds of Oregon counties who want to join Idaho instead, and have serious ballot initiatives to do so coming up.
Texit is as old as Jehas. I commend the Mitchener book on the subject of the history of the Lone Star state,
Once again, an Australian misunderstands the sound and fury of American politics for reality.
These things happen gradually, gradually…then all at once. Like the Bangladesh link I put up earlier.
I doubt you’d like Colonel Kurt Schlichter’s Kelly Turnbull novels Johanna. The irritating thing is they keep on sort of coming true. Wildfire especially creeped me out.
At Garma the NT Police boss made a grovelling apology for past police deeds. Had white paint on his forehead and some of his senior officer standing behind him.
Seems the NT Police Association not happy and said so. Now police boss has resigned from the Association.
Has also said he will be going to town of Constables Rolfe shooting to apologise to the community. Plus the big one of saying aiming for 30% indigenous police officers.
I think the frontline officers will get the message on how much support this guy will give them in any incident involving Aboriginals.
Should be good for other states looking to recruit cops from elsewhere.
A few years ago I spoke with a senior Qld Police officer about why the Commissioner did not stand up to the Government more. We were discussing the 50% female recruiting target and damage it was causing. He said officers could not speak up about it for fear of damaging career.
My thinking was that a Commissioner had reached the top and should have nothing to fear. He made the point that once retired as Commissioner there were still plenty of opportunities for further Government related jobs such as Royal Commission, inquires and boards which paid in addition to pension. Can see that in other states.
It turns out the previous Qld Police Commissioner Sinclair was all in on the 50% women and it went on for 4 years and screwed up recruiting numbers and quality.
Either way the NT boss has damaged his standing with the officers on the ground.
Given he has resigned from the Police Union what does this now mean for his legitimacy and for ongoing policing? It has not been discussed anywhere that I can find?
Pole vaulter who went viral when his manhood stopped him winning Olympic medal ‘is offered $250k PORN deal’
Daily Mail
That should be a Bee headline!
Where is the 2020’s version of The Clash?
Black man got a lotta problems
But they don’t mind throwin’ a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick
[Pre-Chorus]
And everybody’s doin’
Just what they’re told to
And nobody wants
To go to jail
[Chorus]
White riot, I wanna riot
White riot, a riot of my own
White riot, I wanna riot
White riot, a riot of my own
Went to Naziworks Elsternwick this morning, for some supplies. When I got to the counter I said the guy, in a whispered tone , that I was Jewish and if was okay to shop there. Dude was shocked as I tried to put on a very earnest face avoiding a smirk. He said that there has never been a problem. I looked confused as I said I had been told Jewish people weren’t allowed to shop there anymore and was heartened to hear “we” could.
To really fck them over, people should call the head office and ask the same question in an earnest tone. They will shit themselves if they think people actually believe that.
Tub thumping.
Why would Tehran “warn of an imminent attack”?
Give me a break.
See Nixon, Christine (“I had to eat”).
See also Ashton, Fatty.
WA Governor for example. $400k tax free, good working hours. Meals and accommodation provided. Nice gig.
Is here a plod commish anywhere thats not a fat fool only doing what scum pollies tell them. Mutley might have found a job that pays.
Fatty had a post-retirement gig on the committee advising Adam Giles on the release of detainees, as I recall.
JC
August 6, 2024 11:30 am
Bwah ha ha ha.
Good one.
That is better than outrageous outrage.
Telling them you genuinely believe they are going the full yellow Star of David.
Elsternwick Nazis.
”I hate Elsternwick Nazis.”
Not sure about that tactic. If it’s meant to appeal to satirise anti-Semitism, I don’t think it will work with either the stupid, or the anti-Semitic, or both.
Am I the only person who thinks Nixon did the right thing? She did what she was good at. Imagine trying to put a fire with a dessert trolley.
Probably ate the whole trolley too.
In a military context, dereliction of duty while people died and properties burnt she deserved to be taken out the back and shot.
Keir Starmer’s approval rating down 16 pts.
I’m sure he doesn’t give a stuff. Next election 2029. Plenty of time to run amok and give it to the voters long and hard.
Peter Dutton says Australian aid for UNWRA should be reconsideredJoanne Williamson
less than 2 min read
August 6, 2024 – 11:58AM
NewsWire
heraldsun.com.au07:41
‘Utterly unacceptable’: Dutton calls on Labor to ‘reconsider’ UNWRA funding.
Peter Dutton has called on the Albanese government to reconsider its funding of a UN aid organisation in Gaza following revelations staff “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on Israel.
The United Nations said on Monday nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, had been fired as a result of their possible involvement in the Hamas attack that killed 1200 Jews.
“It’s obviously a very significant revelation and not one that will come as a surprise to many people,” Mr Dutton told Sky News Australia on Tuesday.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/3fe34d89f7f38e385e31138c45144daa
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the Albanese government needs to reconsider its funding of UNWRA. Picture: Dan Peled / NewsWire
“It should cause the Albanese government to reconsider their involvement, their engagement, their funding of UNWRA.
“It’s completely and utterly unacceptable that a UN agency would have employees involved in, or alleged to have been involved in, the October 7 tragedy.”
Australia was among more than a dozen donor countries that paused funding to the UN’s Relief and Works Agency in late January after Israel alleged 12 staff members were involved in the Hamas attacks.
But in March, Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced Australia would resume its $6m in funding to the United Nation’s “lifesaving” aid agency in Gaza.
She said at that time the government had received assurances that UNRWA itself was not a terrorist organisation, and additional safeguards would “sufficiently protect” Australian taxpayer funding.
Dickless bleating there was no fraud; some random facts:
1 Demos lied about Hunter’s laptop which greatly influenced voting amongst independents
2 2000 Mules shows verified ballot harvesting and forgeries
3 In all of the 6 swing states at the close of counting on election day Trump was ahead by 10s of thousands of votes. At the beginning of counting next day he was behind.
4 Biden got more votes than obama while Trump received more votes than any losing candidate. The combined totals of Trumps and biden’s votes was MORE than the number of registered voters.
Mere petty details. Shirley those honest, upright, DemonRats would never cheat.
Well,OK, it is now accepted that the Mafia intervened on behalf of JFK in 1960, but never again.
For the benefit of mUntyfa, that’s sarcasm.
When you count votes, it’s normal to only see an increase in the number any candidate has – you “lose” in the totals, you should never lose individual votes. Yet during 2020 US election, there were several key states where DJT saw his numbers go down. This ONLY happened for Trump, Biden never saw his total votes go down, only ever up. This was even visible on the TV feeds of CNNBCBS, which got LIVE data from official sources.
So what happened that night?
Dunno.
I suppose it might have been genuine mistakes (Those are DJT – no, wait, JRB! oops too late, now we have to fix it!), but you’d expect genuine mistakes to spread equally between candidates, which didn’t happen. Still, it could just be a statistical anomaly, the exception the proves the rule, as it were. In which case, one would expect that someone would have investigated and said “a ha – this one was such and so, because x,y,z” and each and every anomaly would be explained in detail – who made a mistake, what the mistake was, and when it happened. But no-one ever looked. In fact, no-one even had a full list of such anomalies as far as I know, and I haven’t heard a single such anomaly explained.
Anomalies like how votes that needed to be adjudicated by humans (1 x D, 1 x R, 1 x Indy) could be done in such a hurry that over 200,000 were done in under an hour with less than 30 indy adjudicators – well more than 1 a second, and I fail to see how you could do them in under 5 seconds each (“Look R, this is for DJT. yes” “yes” “You agree D” “yes” “Push the button for DJT. Next!”) so that’s sus right there. No investigation on how that happened.
Err, is that what I think it is? Is is huh? OK.
Most secure election EVA!
eric hinton
August 6, 2024 11:55 am
Different thing if she’d been in Hawaii.
The media would of really got into her.
The thing is, leadership isn’t always about issuing directions and making decisions.
Sometimes it is just about showing up and being seen.
People in the call centre were taking horrendous calls from those on the ground and were swamped. Even just turning up, making a cuppa for them or giving them a reassuring word or nod is what leadership is about.
Doubtful that Mz Nixon would look as good in a Hawaiian shirt.
“Even just turning up, making a cuppa for them or giving them a reassuring word or nod is what leadership is about.”
A la DJT buying a McDonalds burger for 100’s of East Palestine residents after the train wreck – in the grand scheme of things, it hardly matters, but it shows compassion and it shows your pain is known about by the country, that you MATTER to someone close to power. And that can help in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
Haha, the nuclear milkman gets radioactive.
‘Enormous pressure on Albanese government’ as Australia is in ‘per capita recession’ (Sky News, 6 Aug)
I wonder if he was hoping for the cushy gig that Kevni now has? Anyway he’s certainly gone off the reservation. Be interesting to know what the kiddie staffers are advising Albo about election timing. Go a snap election now, or potentially wait for even worse atmospherics?
Per capita recession? I’ll check with my statistician.
This is already happening here:
News Network Forced to Abandon Broadcast by Masked Muslims Making Gun Signs. (thenationalpulse.com)
A reminder of the importance of FOI.
Now a repost of
Honest Government Ad | Freedom of Information Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6O7gHI5YKA
“Childbirth does make your eyes water a bit though.”
Expectant mother in delivery, speaking to husband: “Ooow it hurts! You did this to me you bastard, this is all your fault!”
Husband: “Actually, if I remember right, I wanted anal sex and you said it would hurt too much…”
Sorry ladies, but it IS a joke, OK? Admit it – you smiled, at least.
Cite you the mum giving birth, who got her husband in a headlock and half throttled him…”This is all your fault, you c###, you were drunk and didn’t wear a condom..”
My wife seriously hurt the doctors arm during delivery.
She reached out to what she thought was my hand, but I was too smart to go anywhere near where she could get her hands on me while she was that angry.
How we laugh about that now.
I smiled at this, Kneel,, because I did tell my husband “This is your fault” when he was telling me to breathe. No. 1 son arrived happily and healthily regardless.
Bought and paid for.
Just one way in which elites exert control.
Never get off the gravy train, the truth (not your truth) might come out.
Integrity is certainly in short supply atm.
Haha. Amateur hour Third World propaganda tactics. The mad mullahs are actually signalling the opposite: um. our Biden billions only finance surrogates in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen; we don’t actually do sh*t ourselves.
Footnote: As has been shown, the Revolutionary Guard is Iran’s version of the US Secret Service and is not fit for purpose.
Iran probably burned through at least $100 million doing the last futile and completely ineffective attack. Lot of money if you are an aspiring IRGC mafiosi.
Russia pays for the stuff Iran makes. Having a glorified fireworks night wastes all those yummy rubles.
Putting Makarrata on the back burner was a big clue.
As was the cabinet reshuffle.
Elbow is trying to tidy his government up so he can go to the polls before Christmas.
The window for calling an election opened on Saturday.
I got robocalled in the now marginal seat of Curtin a couple of weeks ago. More likely than not.
Rachel Merton is a Liberal MLC:
Promote this woman. Team her up with Jacinta. They would be unbeatable.
I was in Parramatta Easter Sunday and they were testing the trains on the Metro Line, one every twenty minutes .. Still not open nor any forecast date .. Why testing 3 months ago if your not nearly ready to go ..?
I can’t help wondering whether the whole story of Mossad hiring Iranian traitors to place the explosives wasn’t just messing with the Mullahs’ heads for the purpose of setting off a very satisfying witch hunt.
You think?
😀
Just wondering, it would be a very Mossady stunt to pull.
Whatever the case, it’s a sublime piece of work!
Messing with the Mullah’s heads is standard for Mossad .. as is removing them .. LOL!
Starmer’s new moniker: Two-Tier Keir.
Wan Keir!
Robert Gottliebsen had an article in the Australian Business Review “Nuclear a part of profound debate between Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Ted O’Brien. In it he introduces O’Brien, as the Shadow Minister who unknown to me, has significant applied business experience having built a family up into a competitive international company. Gottliebsen also foreshadows the opposition’s development of an integrated energy plan involving not only nuclear, but renewables, gas and coal to be released prior to the next election for public scrutiny.Gottliebsen is looking forward to a debate between Bowen and O’Brien and whilst Bowen might have the CSIRO and bureaucrats on his side, O’Brien with his business approach has the potential to cut through Bowen’s and the CSIRO’s smoke and mirrors approach. Note this is my summary and not exact wording. If anyone can post it online it would be helpful
Apologies for a couple of grammatical errors but one of those noisy honeyeaters got through the back door and into my office and I pressed the post button before reviewing. Caught the intruder in a towel and released it outside. A trail of feathers and bird poo awaits to clean up.
It’s completely explicable.
Unions still holding up Metro opening (Tele, paywalled)
Safety issues! Lots and lots of safety issues!! The unions viscerally hate the Metro because the then Lib NSW government got through an unmanned train design.
So they are fighting tooth and nail against it. They will fail of course, but it’s all a part of the usual union humbuggery – they will trade standing down from their bastardry for some other payoff from the Minns government.
On the NT Police Commish, wonder if he was about to be thrown out so jumped?
KD would probably know more but it seems odd he would just resign unless there was something the wind with the potential to undermine him…
Resigned from the Association.
Truth-telling: Should have been his Commission.
Sorry can see how that was unclear.
Was meant to be about the Police Association.
Hmmm feeding croc’s at a causeway crossing, real smart now a father is dead though I’ll leave the obvious lack of experience of the north out, by keeping at least croc lunge length from any water up these ways. Article, others filming feeding the croc’s near bottom of the report:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13712581/Cooktown-crocodile-attack-David-Hogbin-identified-victim.html
Honestly there are some dead set brainless effwits in this world, like not feeding the Dingo’s on Fraser Is.
Evidence that you can have education but no brains.
I doubt it. The iranians probably know whether the explosion was placed, delivered by drone, or some other delivery system. The one thing they are probably curious about is how the Israelis knew the target would be in that apartment. More likely this was targeting Westerners and possibly Iranian diaspora.
I want the helmeted and plexiglass shielded Plod nicknamed Sturmertroopers.
Very good!
I am so stealing that!
Heh. Seems this is the Cat medical horrors thread.
Just got back from abdominal surgery. Thank goodness for the wonders of keyhole and the deliciousness of Endone. Not impressed by my bright cerise stomach though. I’m certain it will glow in the dark.
Keyhole is great, but still rest up Calli. Abdom surgery is still big surgery.
Hope you recover well soonest.
Take it easy. Do you get ice cream in hospital now, or is it reserved for tonsillectomies still?
All the best for a full recovery!
Stay strong, Calli. You’ll be right!
Hope you are recovering OK, calli. I have a little breast surgery thing coming up, after I take the spouse across to WA for the son’s 40th this weekend. No dramas.
Ooh, calli! This doesn’t sound like planned surgery. Hope you’re fully recovered soon.
Childbirth hurts. A lot. And natural childbirth hurts even more.
Unless you are very, very lucky. If its forceps then thank the Lord for epidurals. The agonies that women went through in past times simply don’t bear thinking on.
Mother Nature and Father Evolution have done some terrible things together. They only care for pushing things to the limits if it suits them. Hence female pelvis, upright stance and huge homo sapiens brain, even with overlapping bone sutures, is going to do some damage to female internal organs and tissues unless Lady Luck waltzes in to help. And everything then springs back into place again. Which it often does. Oxytocin, that kindly Nymph, then throws a dance party with your hormones and you forget all about it till the next time, when, after some biting contractions start, you look for the nearest caring human to blame. Usually, these days, the vitriol befalls that Evil Perpetrator known as a husband.
In my epidemiological search about my coccyx fracture suffered after an ice fall seeking the northern lights, I discovered that many coccyx fractures happen to women during birth, as well as fractures of the pelvic bone in front. Another set of childbirth terrors to add to the creation of fissures between vagina, bladder and rectum. Fissures can be repaired with modern surgery but in the past and in the third world still they still cause untold disability and misery. Catherine Hamlyn, working in the third world as a recorrection surgeon well into her nineties, was an Australian angel of charity. A worthy cause for your donations, imho.
Thoroughly agree re Catherine Hamlyn.
The Brittany Blob hits boiling point on Day 1. Kitching, kd wrong …it’s got it all.
Awwwww…did I hurt someone’s feewings?
Here’s a virtual hug.
Obviously not trying hard enough calli, only 2 thumbs down. I’d give you one myself so to speak, to make you feel better but I don’t do thumbs down
Between, someone else and I have cancelled two of them
Elbow might want to have a word with his Foreign Minister, who last week labelled the drone strike against a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza as “intentional” and “inexcusable”, despite the government’s appointed investigator, former Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, finding that the attack was “not knowingly or deliberately directed against the World Central Kitchen.”
Now that is inexcusable.
Liars def walking both sides of the fence here. And elsewhere.
Will be heartening to see Albanese finally bury the hatchet with The Greens when he requires their support to form government.
Cough.
Just finished watching TIKs 1hr 15 min Open Letter to my Prime Minister.
TIK is from Southport.
Magnificently sarcastic with some genuine truths thrown in.
https://youtu.be/FvA9odna5dw?feature=shared
Just seven?
How many unwra employees were killed in Israel on 7 October, seeing as how over a thousand terrorists didn’t make it home.
I suppose unwra will write off all those killed fighting the idf inside Gaza as innocent civilians.
Hopegully, those sacked workers will take up unfair dismissal cases with the relevant legal authority within Gaza.
Maybe Mrs Clooney will pro bono.
They will be able to plead to Gillard’s Fair Work farce. They will all be living in Australia on Albanese’s terrorist protection visas.
But yes, Wong is now an existential threat to our nation. A million cheers to Dutton for at least beginning to call her out.
Landmark appeal win: patients can disagree with doctors without being called ‘delusional’ | GB News
Ah…
But can doctors disagree with the government without being called delusional?
And subsequently deregistered?
Trump paid Stormy Daniels 130 large from a Russian slush fund to stay schtum about their root while his third wife was suckling their baby. So I guess that cancels out.
LOL no it didn’t. It has been laughed out of court.
Trump before the election: hey my Republican voters, don’t vote by mail, vote on the day.
Trump’s voters: okay chief!
[Trump takes early lead based on votes on the day then, as was entirely predictable, gets mown down overnight by postals from Democrat voters]
Trump: what the… I don’t understand! No fair!!
There was no steal.
Piss off, Nazi.
Signal to noise ratio of that Monty effort is about 5%.
The steal was obvious within a day, just from data analysis: Benford’s Law.
That was even without the mysterious 3am “ballot” drops.
Benford’s “Law”, LOL. Arrant nonsense.
I have to say that the Republicans seem to have learned zilch from the example of Obama’s success in having his people relentlessly canvass old people’s homes (single & community) & “helping” them fill out postal ballots. It was very naive to ignore his previous success.
I hope they don’t repeat the error this time.
Kamel Toe’s husband screwed the baby sitter and got her pregnant. No word of criticism about that?
This discussion is not complete without at least mentioning The Navarro Report.
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/The-Navarro-Report-Vol-I-II-III-Feb-2-2021.pdf
e.g. page 11
m0nty, the overnight postal dumps shouldn’t have been counted if they were fake and there were significant numbers of fakes relative to margin of victory. Remember neither Trump nor Navarro are the source of this observation, it comes from the truck driver.
Richard Donoghue, former Trump deputy AG, said the evidence for this claim was just not there.
But the eyewitness statement is the evidence. It wouldn’t be the first time a dodgy cargo wasn’t on the manifest.
Plus the steal doesn’t go away just because of one claim, you’ve still got the rest of the Navarro report to go.
I found some of the other opinions stated on that NY1 page to be not credible, like they’re even pretending nothing fishy happened in the State Farm Arena video which is one of the clearest examples. Notice how the Jan6 committee avoid mentioning anything about oversight of that counting process. They say the re-scanning was legit but don’t mention the counting happened without Rep scrutineers being present (in violation of election regs). All very fishy.
“Get Them Deported!”, Douglas Murray SLAMS Islamists Amidst UK Immigration Protests…
😉
We’re All ‘Far Right’ Now
Peaceful protest got us to where we are now.
mem – for you.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/nuclear-part-of-profound-debate-between-energy-minister-chris-bowen-and-ted-obrien/news-story/8a666544752003c32044bb7fa738f4ab
Nuclear part of profound debate between Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Ted O’Brien
Robert Gottliebsen
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are already skirmishing on environment and carbon reduction issues.
But that’s just a prelude to an emerging profound debate between the Energy Minister and his shadow counterpart.
The government’s Chris Bowen is a professional politician while his shadow, Ted O’Brien, is a business person who rose through the ranks of his family-owned Toowoomba flour milling operation and then took its marketing into China. Later he joined the Accenture group in China.
Chris Bowen communicates well and is no stranger to election contests but will always be remembered for being a big contributor to Bill Shorten losing the 2019 election because of a botched franking credits policy.
Ted O’Brien’s ability to perform in an intense public debate is not known, but he is one of the few people in parliament who helped develop a major family business (now owned by Goodman Fielder) and recognises the need to be backed by skilled people.
The Bowen-O’Brien contest might not only decide the outcome of the looming federal election but is likely to deliver Australia’s first detailed energy master plan.
O’Brien is vowing to put before the nation “well before the election” a detailed, integrated energy plan to co-ordinate wind, solar, hydro, gas and nuclear facilities, plus existing coal, to set achievable carbon reduction targets.
Bowen will harness all the expertise in the public service and the CSIRO in an attempt to blow the O’Brien plan out of the water. But that will require details of a rival Bowen plan.
That will test Bowen because O’Brien is using his knowledge of business planning to put together what looks set be a unique plan for the nation.
The Bowen plan will rely on wind, solar, hydro and batteries to dominate the production of power in the next decade, although more recently he added gas to his power mix.
Bowen is a good political marketer, and given his public service and CSIRO backing, he will vigorously oppose following other nations down the nuclear route.
Given that Bowen is the incumbent and O’Brien has the analytical skills he developed in the business community, if either leave out facts or make mistakes, both combatants have the firepower to expose them.
Already O’Brien has picked up Bowen when he ignored key costs in a renewables cost estimate. Politicians on both sides often leave out facts so this has the potential to be a rare high-quality debate about the nation’s energy future.
Normally an opposition policy that included nuclear in the mix would be in trouble but young, carbon-concerned voters are showing increasing support for nuclear in opinion polling. And there is no doubt that the renewable energy program to date has boosted power prices and the cost of living.
Bowen will attract many supporters for his plan. On the O’Brien side, people are emerging from the shadows.
Few are more vocal than one of our top nuclear experts, Dr Adrian Paterson, the former chief executive of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), which operates the Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney, which is important for nuclear medicine.
He asks: “Why are we as a modern democracy banning nuclear at the federal level and then a number of the states when low-carbon nuclear provides the cheapest consumer costs? It would transform and electricity grid which is getting … less reliable plus getting very, very expensive.”
Regarding a CSIRO report that claims nuclear will be too expensive, Paterson says: “CSIRO has no expertise in the cost of generation.
“What they do is take publicly available figures of the construction costs of nuclear power plants – usually in countries that have got regulatory environments that are kind of designed to stop nuclear – and convert them into a generation cost using an algorithm which is provided to them by a private sector firm that is not an expert in the nuclear industry,” he says.
“I’ve engaged the CSIRO for a number of years both directly and also through the press to say that we can work together to sort this out and they have no inclination to do it. People don’t know that to build all of the planned solar panels and wind turbines we’re going to have to double the size of the grid, which is 40 per cent of electricity bills.
“The eastern grid in Australia is the most complex machine in the southern hemisphere. The policy of this government is to make it twice as big as it is and twice as complex if you have to integrate intermittent sources into it.
“How do people believe that we can create a grid that’s double the size with lower energy density and still have the current quality of life?
“The current policy is based on a failure to get proper engineers in the room. Engineers are being banned from giving talks as we speak,” Paterson says.
The debate between the various alternative energy strategies to reduce carbon should have been held years ago.
We wasted a lot of time debating whether we should lower the carbon content in power instead of working out the best way to do it. That’s what makes the Bowen-O’Brien debate so important.He asks: “Why are we as a modern democracy banning nuclear at the federal level and then a number of the states when low-carbon nuclear provides the cheapest consumer costs? It would transform and electricity grid which is getting … less reliable plus getting very, very expensive.”
Regarding a CSIRO report that claims nuclear will be too expensive, Paterson says: “CSIRO has no expertise in the cost of generation.
“What they do is take publicly available figures of the construction costs of nuclear power plants – usually in countries that have got regulatory environments that are kind of designed to stop nuclear – and convert them into a generation cost using an algorithm which is provided to them by a private sector firm that is not an expert in the nuclear industry,” he says.
“I’ve engaged the CSIRO for a number of years both directly and also through the press to say that we can work together to sort this out and they have no inclination to do it. People don’t know that to build all of the planned solar panels and wind turbines we’re going to have to double the size of the grid, which is 40 per cent of electricity bills.
“The eastern grid in Australia is the most complex machine in the southern hemisphere. The policy of this government is to make it twice as big as it is and twice as complex if you have to integrate intermittent sources into it.
“How do people believe that we can create a grid that’s double the size with lower energy density and still have the current quality of life?
“The current policy is based on a failure to get proper engineers in the room. Engineers are being banned from giving talks as we speak,” Paterson says.
The debate between the various alternative energy strategies to reduce carbon should have been held years ago.
We wasted a lot of time debating whether we should lower the carbon content in power instead of working out the best way to do it. That’s what makes the Bowen-O’Brien debate so important.
Thanks Mak
The report gave me some hope that what the libs come up with as a plan may in fact be feasible and bring costs down for private consumers and businesses.It is good to hear he is including engineers in the design.I hope he is working quickly as I can smell an election coming sooner rather than later.
Fatboy, he paid out with his own money. He wasn’t scamming the Ukrainians and using his addicted son to front for him. If you have evidence about the Wussian “slush fund” than show us, or STFU about Wussia.
The American voting system can’t be audited because it’s set up that way. If something so big and important can’t be checked the over-riding assumption is that people with commit fraud.
People brainwashed to believe Trump is Hitler, and a voting system that can easily be hacked. Sure, there were no irregularities. None. You fat, donut eating lesbian.
No need to brainwash mutley. He comes ready-made. To be honest I can’t make up my mind who is the stupidist? Mutley or Blown?
Both are dead set flogs. They could Ref for Australia.
They take turns wearing the greasy Gimp suit.
Even then, they can’t stop arguing over “who’s on first?”.
Terribly sad about the NSW doctor taken by a croc in front of his family, however am I wrong to wonder why anyone would take their family on a holiday to croc infested waters.
We have fished in the Top End since the 1980s, with our kids when they were young, always in a tinny, never from the bank, but people also get taken from boats. It is a wild environment and you take your chances if you don’t know what you are doing.
Reynolds links death of senator to Higgins saga
Linda Reynolds has asked for a break from giving testimony after saying that issues surrounding the Bruce Lehrmann–Brittany Higgins rape saga led to the death of Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching.
Senator Reynolds was granted an unscheduled break after she said a discussion of her final interactions with deceased Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching had triggered blood pressure issues.
She said the blood pressure issue was linked to a “particularly emotional point” in her testimony, “given that it led to Senator Kitching’s death”. She was then allowed to stand down.
Shortly before the break, Senator Reynolds had discussed how Senator Kitching had approached her during prayers in the senate chamber to warn her that Labor planned to “rain hell” on her and the government after they learned of the incident involving the 2019 alleged rape of Ms Higgins by Mr Lehrmann in Senator Reynolds’ parliamentary office.
“She came over to where I was sitting in the chamber, she said that she was really sorry but she had something to tell me and Labor knew about the incident in my office two years prior to that and they were going to rain hell on me and the government,” Senator Reynolds said.
“I was completely incredulous. I said to her why would anybody weaponise such an incident? I still can’t find the words to describe… even for Labor, and they pull some pretty nasty stunts, but this, I actually found it hard to believe.”
Senator Reynolds said Senator Kitching had the previous year received an anonymous letter from someone who worked in the building, making “a lot of allegations” about the mishandling of the situation within the building.
Senator Reynolds said the senator had decided to give the letter to the AFP.
Senator Reynolds said Senator Kitching had told her that Senator Penny Wong – now the foreign minister – was “incredibly angry” with her for handing the letter to the AFP, given Labor could have “weaponised” it. Senator Reynolds said she had no doubt that Senator Kithcing was angry and upset about Senator Wong’s position.
Senator Reynolds then stopped and asked for a break.
On Tuesday, Senator Reynolds told the court about how physical and mental health issues linked to the Higgins-Lehrmann saga had prompted her to abandon plans to seek another term in the senate. She said she no longer wanted to be in Parliament House.
“LOL no it didn’t. It has been laughed out of court.”
No, most were “lack of standing” (“you weren’t damaged”) or “latches” (“it’s too late now”).
They have learned – this time, they are going early and if they are told “can’t sue, no damage yet” then they can’t be ignored later and told “too late”.
JC
August 6, 2024 11:30 am
Kol hakavod, JC.
It was such fun because they would be expecting outrage rather than someone earnestly asking in the nicest possible way if Jews were allowed to shop there any longer. But you have to do it without even a smidgen of outrage being shown or the play doesn’t work.
Dickless on a roll:
Trump paid Stormy Daniels 130 large from a Russian slush fund to stay schtum about their root while his third wife was suckling their baby. So I guess that cancels out.
Trump paid stormy nothing and in fact she owes him a $mill for losing her defamation case against him. More random facts:
1 Cohen paid stormy out of his own money and then billed Trump and overcharged him. This was proven in the Merchan debacle.
2 Trump’s name and signature is not on the hush agreement, only 2 pseudonyms for stormy and cohen
3 Stormy had signed an affidavit saying she did not sleep with Trump. Merchan would not allow this to be tendered in the sham trial and stormy got away with perjuring her self.
4 Previously stormy and the creepy porn lawyer avenatti lost their case against Trump. US District Judge James Otero threw out their case which demanded damages for defamation and that the hush agreement should be dehushed and that Trump had rooted the whore. She lost all grounds of her suit in a court which was superior to merchan’s shit trial.
Keep going dickless.
No one believes that tosh, cohenite.
Trump lost fair and square. Keep squealing.
On the subject of voter fraud.
Fatboy, these a lefrwing demonrats saying this.
But voter fraud in the presidential election. No freaking way, Tussad. You’re delusional fatboy.
I have just discovered the interesting work of James Kunstler. This is an interesting part of his predictions for 2024 some time ago:
The big question for 2024 is where will the Gaza refugees go if Israel renders Gaza uninhabitable? The neighboring Arab states have refused repeatedly to accept them. Prediction: the “Joe Biden” regime will propose to accept a half million if Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon take the rest. That will not play well in the USA and might be another way to light conflict in the streets here. It will not be settled before November.
Europe has barely begun its journey into de-industrialization resulting from a cavalcade of bad political choices made over decades. Germany, France, and Italy have lost interest in the Ukraine fiasco that is costing them money they don’t have — and, with the blowup of Nord Stream, has already cost Germany the supply of affordable Russian gas to run its industries, which are now dying. In the UK, only MI6 (their intel blob) is on-board with America’s project in Ukraine. Viktor Orban in Hungary is setting an example that has a lot of appeal to the restive populations across Euroland. Just say “no,” he advises. It will catch on.
It’s otherwise impossible to understand the motive behind European officials allowing the invasion of the continent by millions of people clearly antagonistic to European culture. Euroland governments, including the unelected EU administrative blob, are taking one action after another to suppress their voters’ displeasure: extreme censorship of news media, threats to ban political parties, deep surveillance. Their green energy initiatives are proven failures and their prospects for any kind of future reliable energy grow dim. Prediction: Europe’s population will erupt violently against their own governments in 2024. Some will be overthrown by street revolts; others will be voted out. In 2024, the European Union will lose all its support and collapse when the first few nations vote themselves out.
Russia ought to be isolated from discord and revolt in the West. America’s stupid Ukraine project, and the sanctions imposed, stimulated Russia to follow an import-replacement policy that has made the country much more self-sufficient than was the case before Ukraine. Media chatter — probably US Intel propaganda at work — has Vladimir Putin being shoved out of office by — of all things — Russia’s still-active Communist Party, which, yes, puts up candidates for election. The story is preposterous. Mr. Putin enjoys something like an 80-percent favorability rating in Russian polls. He has managed his country through a crisis ably. He is certainly more esteemed as a national leader globally than any other figure, at least on a par with Modi in India and Viktor Orban.
Certainly if it came to Poots or his successor or the EU being here in 10 to 20 years time your money would be on Poot.
The artist formerly known as Kunstler?
Thanks for your kind comments, Cats and Kittehs.
I must be getting old – in their scrubs, my anaesthetist and surgeon looked about 15.
😀
Thanks, Calli. Marvellous late afternoon entertainment.
Socialism is all about stealing;
First they steal your votes.
Then they steal your guns.
Then they steal your food.
Last of all, they steal your lives if you don’t comply.
Relevant tweet?
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1798879185554788428
Christian extremists tactically rigged property, compromised police communications
Ever recall seeing a similar headline with the words…”Muslim extremists“?
No, of course you haven’t. You don’t and you won’t.
Two tier policing, two tier headlines, staggering double standards, staggering hypocrisy.
They were initially reported to be aboriginal extremists from Dubbo.
Weirdly that datum disappeared in the MSM within a week.
It’s a mystery.
Armed with rosary beads?
Nah.
Boxes of Brown snakes which they dumped inside Parliament House.
Traditional Brown Snakes, mind you.
Not going to happen.
Egypt has already stated they will not allow the Gazans over the border into Egypt. And just to make sure they built the fence on their border even higher, plus built a large prison camp for leakers.
As for Gaza civilians…
Report: Majority of Hamas battalions still intact, some have rebuilt (5 Aug)
So having knocked out something like 60% of Hamas combatants Hamas just filled up their battalions with “civilians”.
Gaza Egyptian border working better than the US.
It had a road tunnel and a metro.
IDF finds tunnel large enough for vehicles to drive through in Gaza-Egypt border area (4 Aug)
Railroad tracks found in Hamas smuggling tunnels under Philadelphi Corridor (5 Aug)
Victoria should subcontract Hamas for construction work, they’d save a lot of money.
Just taken delivery of Peter Navarro’s The New MAGA Deal.
Will post excerpts if any of interest.
Have Democrats floated the talking point that turmoil in the markets is because of a possible Trump win?
They will.
So predicable,
Trump just made that argument regarding Harris.
So predictable.
You know that Harris and Biden have been in office for over three years now?
It’s their economy.
The markets are not in turmoil. I have no faith in economic forecasting. A .2% rise in unemployment is not a harbinger of a recession, it may even be within the margin of error. The USA currently has a labour shortage. Check out the GDP figures, growth continues.
The US economy has been on a high for over 2 years, far better than during Trump’s years. Blame Biden-Harris for that.
The market isn’t the economy.
However, if you want to go into the economy,
Trump brought unemployment down from 5.1% to 3.5% until under the guise of the covid Democrat governors shut down the economy.
Under Biden and ol knee pads unemployment the last 18 months has risen from 3.6% to 4.3. Unemployment has risen the last four months in a row, Which I don’t believe has happened since the GFC, and is bigly an indicator of an incoming recession.
Surely a safe pathway to Iran is the answer.
Helicopter rides – perhaps US helicopters; they have experience in Iran.
More good work by Graham Lineham
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/skin-in-the-game?r=7rqwr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Had an Avi clip come through on my YouTube feed.
Was interviewing Monica Smit about her court case v VIC POL over her unlawful arrests during Covid. On one day she was arrested 3 X. Seems she has been doing her own cross examination and thinks case going well. Going for 10 days.
Will be interesting to see if case mentioned by MSM or Sky for example.
Hope she wins.
Thus will spill over, iirc in the UK it already has.
https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/genocide-of-hindus-bangladeshi-islamists-attack-minority-population-burn-houses-kidnap-women-as-the-country-descends-into-unholy-madness-440252-2024-08-06
Bad stuff. Sounds like it’s gone downhill significantly from even yesterday. I put up a link this morning about the PM being booted.
I wonder what the relative populations of Hindus and Mooslimes are in the UK, US, Canada and here.
Add in the Sikhs here also (not on the Muesli side of the ledger).
It looks like the Muslim war is on, doesn’t it?
The war that the Communists said would never happen because The Religion of Peace was all about “Peace’.
Their Peace.
The war that some predicted and many sneered at.
I give you two weeks and Europe and the US will be ablaze. The Democrats will do everything to delay/minimise the US response.
I would choose Hindus or Sikhs over muslims as neighbours at a hard point, but just good Australians of any sort will do just fine.
Half a million Gazan refugees?
There’ll be no-one left.
What was it Hamas was fighting for?
Oh that’s right
Jihad.
No doubt that Gaza’s population was grossly exaggerated to boost international funding.
So many well funded hospitals* but people with serious illnesses or even risky pregnancies got treatment in Israel.
*hamas fronts
From March. Can’t help but notice them.
I dont think they are the refugees Ireland finds troublesome.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/03/29/more-ukrainian-refugees-now-leaving-state-accommodation-than-entering-the-country/#:~:text=More%20than%20104%2C400%20Ukrainians%20have,for%20temporary%20protection%20across%20Europe.
In a French owned Cafe in Kenmare.
The owner calls you ‘lady’ why hasn’t someone told her madam is also an English word.
Being called lady is weird.
That’s your problem, not theirs.
You are the pretty lady wit’ t’ business for dem, lady.
Was the person Romanian? They use “lady” as an address. Not Irish.
Chara is the usual word for “dear” to a female.
Lady Rosie is more appropriate. Madam Rosie runs the knock shop down the road. Ha, runs away.
I had an all gal crew (including, nurses, the surgeon and sleep doctor) when I had my appendix out. I almost called it off. True.
Luckily, I survived.
I notice the Paywallian have had a lot of articles on this, but haven’t read any. Maybe the Gaystapo are running this story? We Xtians are very, very light on for extremist factions.
As if I need firearms… my brain is my weapon… well muh dirty socks really.
James Lindsay – Why Marxism is a Religious System
‘Starmer took the knee to the BLM MOB!’ | Jacob Rees Mogg calls out ‘TWO-TIER Keir’ in SCATHING rant
Farage has also.
Social media posts by Sharaz ‘creepy’ and ‘stalky’
Paul Garvey
Social media posts by Brittany Higgins’s husband David Sharaz have been described as “creepy” and “stalky” by Linda Reynolds.
Senator Reynolds is suing both Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz for defamation, although Mr Sharaz has already said he will not be contesting the case due to a lack of resources.
Continuing her testimony on Tuesday, Senator Reynolds said various social media posts by Mr Sharaz has left her feeling angry, depressed and frustrated.
“They’re incredibly hurtful. They are making allegations I know are not true,” she said.
“It’s not only distressing for me. In my mind they use their Instagram posts and Facebook as a press release. They will put out a tweet or an Insta post, then the media pick it up really quickly and run the story. What they’ve said then becomes a story that is published nationally.”
She said one post by Mr Sharaz, in which he said “I see you”, had left her upset and “a bit creeped out”.
“When someone says that, ‘Linda I see you’, apart from the stalky nature of saying something like that … it’s that subtle reminder of the lies they had been propagating for a long time then,” she said.
After that revelation, I’d say he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Bwahahahahahahaha “No two tier policing”
Via Michael Smith.
https://x.com/patcondell/status/1820467361797005464
UK is stuffed, 15 Aug 29 next is the next election.
A jet boat on a drag racing strip. You have to see it to believe it.
—–
Cleetus:
Hurricane Debby Flooded Our Racetrack Badly, Track Entrance Destroyed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIB_HZNLJmA
The usual suspects predicted a hurricane season from Hell.
So far it has been very ordinary. I looked up earlier: Debby was barely Cat 1 when it made landfall. Lots of rain and not much else.
Yep.
Question.
What’s to stop sacked UNRWA psychopaths applying for, and being granted Australian visas? No one appears to be checking.
Contact your local member to express your concern, calli.
If enough people do so, it can make a difference.
IDF ordnance.
Someone ring Handsome Boy now!
University of Melbourne student claims majority of tutorials were spoken in Mandarin
A first-year university student plans on changing degrees after claiming most of his tutorials were spoken in Mandarin.
Harry is studying economics at the University of Melbourne and said he was either the only Caucasian student, or one of few, in his subjects.
While his peers would often speak in Mandarin to each other, they would also ask questions to the tutor in the same language.
Harry claimed his tutor would then respond in Mandarin and not explain what was being discussed in English.
‘I was sort of left in the dark. It kind of dejected me from the conversation and interacting with the class as a whole,’ he told ABC Radio Melbourne Drive.
‘I was just sitting there for the attendance, essentially.’
Harry said that as tutorials are mandatory, he had to show up, but often, during group work, his peers would speak entirely in Mandarin.
Daily Mail
On track to fail Econs 101. Wouldn’t be the first.
They only teach neo-keynesian crap anyway, so no loss.
Ordinarily this wouldn’t be difficult for uni admin.
You’d sack the tutor.
Unhappily, these are not ordinary times.
Learning to speak Mandarin might come in handy. Find out who is with the Party.
It’s the one that doesn’t smile and looks away when you photograph the group. There are lots. The fellow Chinese students know who they are but have to play along.
Should have recorded the lessons. Then get them translated. Find out what was REALLY said.
Chris Kenny is a lazy piece of sh*t. Chris Ulmann doesn’t give a shi*t about Western civilsation and will cheer the mass slaughter of Westerners because he hates their values. He belonges in Gaza.
Mr Uhlmann seems more than a tad confused and conflicted.
I hope he is in a process of enlightenment and deprogramming.
(Uhlmann has been writing columns lately which are very critical of Labor’s looney energy policy. Those red pills are addictive. Once you consume one of them it’s amazing how your outlook to life, the universe, and everything, changes.)
Context?
It can be very difficult for people leaving a cult.
Haha! Monty fantasizing about Alina Habba. You need a functional dick for that.
Arky
August 6, 2024 7:32 pm
Reply to John H.
The market isn’t the economy.
However, if you want to go into the economy,
Trump brought unemployment down from 5.1% to 3.5% until under the guise of the covid Democrat governors shut down the economy.
Under Biden and ol knee pads unemployment the last 18 months has risen from 3.6% to 4.3. Unemployment has risen the last four months in a row, Which I don’t believe has happened since the GFC, and is bigly an indicator of an incoming recession
The US, Australia and probably also the UK and Canada have been in a per capita recession for some time, with per capita GDP declining as population rises faster than GDP.
Treasury (and their political masters) have papered over a couple of recessions with the Population Ponzi.
Forget it’s the economy stupid, think its productivity stupid.
There’s been a fair bit of buzz that employment stats have been, lets say, massaged. The market selloff appears to be in recognition that the real data is a lot worse than the alphabet agencies (looking at you BLS) have been making out.
Since they’re all in the bag for the Democrats it makes a lot of sense that they would play with the data (seasonal adjustmentedishly) to keep things steady before November.
But economic gravity sucks. If it sucks hard enough it will overcome the “adjusted” employment statistics, until it becomes obvious what the real reality is. You can like Wile E Coyote defy that gravity for a while, but eventually it’s splat time.
My feel is the financial screen warriors worked out on Friday that the government data was basically bullsh*t and thus the result was a market panic.
Global trust in executive government anything must be close to an all time low.
Whole world has gone 4Chan.
The increasing rate is not because of layoffs it is because of all the immigrants. Labour shortages continue because most of the immigrants can’t work. Hence even Sahm says not to take the unemployment metric too seriously. Economists are divided on the issue of a recession. Economic forecasting is as bad as temperature forecasting. Manufacturing growth has been steady under the current administration. Will you admit that the current administration has created a strong economy or is any such praise anathema here?
Sahm made a “rule” then says it’s not really a rule.
I’d not really be listening to that bint.
But here she is in 2019, talking about how the rule was designed NOT TO GIVE FALSE POSITIVES.
Arky, maybe it’s the bottle of Grenache I just drank, but that sounds like a big fat pile of bullshit from the bullshitters who have been bullshitting us for the last 30 years.
And I’ve a damn good feeling it isn’t he grenache that’s wrong.
Precisely.
Arky
some posted an excellent article from Gobliebson here recently.
he was talking to a hr colleague. The hr colleague measured
job adverts from June 23 to June 24.
the June 24 adverts were down by 16.42% from June 23.
in my industry I am seeing emails for candidates at least once per week. Something I have not seen since 2020 – or earlier.
Further the candidates available are at the top if the pay scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRMH_bC6iAs
Bush Barbie with some new sports for the Olympics. (2032)
Goon bag bin chicken water polo sounds good.
Boy, she found some “interesting” people to talk to.
I was watching the “swimming with turds” event yesterday, also known as the mixed relay triathlon.
The winner deserves their gold medal. Plus a free course of strong antibiotics.
Bondi during the 80s would have been a good warm up.
bons
August 6, 2024 12:48 pm
Of course it was.
Who genuinely thinks Mossad would publish their real modus operandi for completed operations?
About as credible as Iran giving 48 hours notice of an attack on Israel.
I haven’t worked out whether the Hamas guy was bombed by Mossad in his mattress, hit by a short ranged missile, or F-35ed. It’s obfuscation all the way down.
On the other hand all three scenarios have their own embarrassment quotients for the Iranians, so fuzzing it out maybe a propaganda tactic.
I’d go with the plot to swap the Ayatollahs left slipper for a rightie.
That would muck his head around on a really primitive level.
Two Right foot slippers!
Aaarrggh! Those Mossad Swine – they’re everywhere!
New posts by Peter Smith and Speedbox on the Main page, in case you missed them.
Things may also be afoot in northern Israel.
PJW lays it out in 14 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qymh7qWwfQ
John H.
August 6, 2024 8:24 pm
Reply to Arky
The increasing rate is not because of layoffs it is because of all the immigrants. Labour shortages continue because most of the immigrants can’t work. Hence even Sahm says not to take the unemployment metric too seriously. Economists are divided on the issue of a recession. Economic forecasting is as bad as temperature forecasting. Manufacturing growth has been steady under the current administration. Will you admit that the current administration has created a strong economy or is any such praise anathema here?
https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8496fca5c81da5c86229aaf4d2130a8a?s=64&d=identicon&r=g
Arky
August 6, 2024 8:35 pm
Reply to John H.
Sahm made a “rule” then says it’s not really a rule?
I’d not really be listening to that bint.
But here she is in 2019, talking about how the rule was designed NOT TO GIVE FALSE POSITIVES.
One for Cassie.
Big sister, little sister: Australian Jewish canoeist Noemie Fox wins gold medal (Israel National News, Aug 6)
Nice that the Israelis have embraced the Foxes! I was visiting my old dad yesterday – he did Olympic level duty as a course official in the kayak events at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium for a while. He mentioned he had first encountered Jessica as a kid. My dad’s school (he was the Principal) had a kayak program for a long time – he would repair their beat up kayaks for them with carbon fibre FRP after they bounced off of rocks in Gloucester.
Sahm interview, 2019:
https://www.mercatus.org/macro-musings/claudia-sahm-sahm-rule-and-using-big-data-inform-policymaking
Possibly because of large scale tariff imposition. There’s not one single policy initiative by this administration in the last 3.5 years that you could say has been beneficial to the sector other than tariffs. The cost of production has gone up for a host of reasons such as energy costs and a countless number of regulations and anti-trust threats. The latest purchasing managers index actually showed the sector was in a contraction phase registering below 50, which is the marker for expansion or contraction.
The economy has grown despite this administration. the US economy is very hard to kill.
The other thing to keep in mind is that deficit spending is staggeringly large at 6% of GDP.
B John, it’s not a great way to determine if an economy is in recession or booming. A kid is born and straight away GDP falls by the numeric impact of a birth. Similarly it rises on the death of an individual.
What’s the problem with that? People are born and die at relatively steady rates.
Well okay, take household income. A couple have a kid. Counting the baby would statistically cause income to fall by a third for the couple. Really? Are the couple really poorer?
You never had children, JC? I beg to differ.
Seriously though, GDP is an aggregate measure so individual changes are not relevant.
JC
True enough, but that is different to bringing in half a million new immigrants a year, many of whom, if experience is any indication, will never work (on the books, at least).
You don’t need Claudia Sahm to know that unemployment bottoms out just before a recession.
You just have to eyeball the gradient of the chart.
My kayak comment was because I was checking out Dover’s observation that things might be afoot.
So far after checking several sites I’m not seeing anything much happening yet.
On the other hand (since I really like black humour) Iran has been warned. Warned!
US Message to Iran: Don’t Escalate at ‘Critical Moment’ for Mideast (Newsmax mainpage headline, 5 Aug)
I’m sure the Iranians will be wetting themselves in terror at this fearsome warning from Blink-n-you’ll-missim.
(I’m amused the story doesn’t mention who Blinken’s “Australian counterpart” is. It’s Bad Penny. She’s apparently in Washington:
Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Countering Foreign State Information Manipulation and a Joint Communique on the U.S.-Australia Landsat Next 2030 International Partnership Initiative (State Dept, 5 Aug)
Wow, impressive headline! I wish I could understand what it is about.)
John H
One other important thing to consider is that the house has been GOP and the senate basically evenly split. Hiden hasn’t been able to get anything through. He’s blocked.
An intriguing phrase from a recent Greg Gutfeld monologue.
It looks like the Muslim war is on, doesn’t it?
The war that the Communists said would never happen because The Religion of Peace was all about “Peace’.
Their Peace.
The war that some predicted and many sneered at.
I give you two weeks and Europe and the US will be ablaze. The Democrats will do everything to delay/minimise the US response.
People have been drawing on their savings to spend on consumption at higher prices.
Does that elevate GDP? Or is it balanced out somewhere else?
Governments borrowing money from overseas and spending it all has been elevating GDP.
Y = C + I + G + (X – M). “G” unfortunately includes money that governments borrow.
I don’t blame people drawing on their savings and spending it when government have been drawing on their next century of tax revenue and spending it. Growth!
Spending patterns in a household just change when a child is born. A couple doesn’t get any poorer as a result.
You’re also making yourself confused. As you claim, GDP is an aggregate metric. Therefore, why divide GDP by the number of people in order to establish whether a recession is occurring? That doesn’t make sense. I’m uncertain though if you’re defending the definition of a recession based on per capita or not.
A recession is characterized by a decline in nominal GDP that results in a notable decline in the employment rate. Although there is a much more technical definition, mine is also pretty good. 🙂
JC
August 6, 2024 8:58 pm
John H
There hasn’t been a lamer lame duck President since FDR and his callipers.
Just had a look at The Australian and Courier Mail online. Not one story about riots in UK.
USA CISA warning of potential denial-of-service attack against POTUS election infrastructure.
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1819453388809011601
Information security begins with physical security.
You have to watch all the ballots from the voter to the count. That’s why postal votes are a problem.
The 4am “Biden bump” fishiness was obvious because the bump is unexpected. But if you create a reason that a bump is expected it obscures the issue of correctness.
I thought the voting machines were supposed to be air-gapped from the internet…
And that’s been proven multiple times to be incorrect.
everybody wants a box of chocolates and long stemmed rose
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jim-quinn-everybody-knows
Leonard Cohen
JC, a 1% population increase, all else being equal, equates to a 1% increase in GDP. It’s this shot that gives Albo an excuse to pretend we’re not in recession. It’s smoke and mirrors.
GDP is broadly an income measure. How to you conclude 1% pop increase = 1% GDP increase?
And when you bring in 100,000’s of useless pretend refo’s GDP goes down. All those scam artists are on the public teat. Tent city in the Simpson Desert, then see how many come. Take out Pubic spending then have a look at how much GDP is. Even an economic dumbarse like me knows Keynesian economics is an Econ 101 failure dressed up to let politicians spend whatever they want on pet projects to get themselves re-elected.
The component of GDP that probably accounts for the US not being in recession is government spending.
Would that not have increased a lot due to interest payments on debt increasing as interest rates increased?
@JesseBWatters
Just watched a Dan Wooten clip on what is going on in UK.
One clip was Ed Balls of ITV interviewing the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper about the the role of social media.
They are husband and wife !
The usual MSM/lefturd politicians incestuous interview.
More insight into the braininess of cackles:
On storage of files in the cloud:
“No longer are you keeping those private files in some file cabinet. It’s on your laptop, and it’s then therefore up here in this cloud, that exists above us [at which points she waves her hands above her head to emphasize the point]. It’s no longer in a physical place.”
On inflation:
Prices have gone up, and families and individuals are dealing with the reality of the bread costs more, the gas costs more, and we have to understand what this means, that’s about the cost of living going up.
Still my favourite on the release of the Russian prisoners:
This is an extraordinary testament to having a president who understands the power of diplomacy, and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of the power of diplomacy.
The world is fuked; not because the potential leader of the West is a brain dead slut but because the institutions which control the West want this whore to be the leader, even if in name only.
You won’t believe what they are telling us to eat now
Starmer Just Can’t Handle it
Peter Whittle
The People vs The Elites – Starmer’s Two-Tier Britain
The ‘Crime’ Harris Was Toughest on was Journalism
Decades Of Data Stands Behind Trump’s Claims About Illegal Immigration And ‘Black Jobs,’ Experts Say
Harris says ‘everybody needs to be woke’ in unearthed clip spreading like wildfire on social media
Vivek Ramaswamy speaking with Laura Ingraham of Fox News about a Google anti-trust decision in the U.S.
The Reactions to the England Riots
It all depends upon what you’re expecting.
Trump, Joker, and the Year of the Five Emperors
‘Disunited kingdom’: Keir Starmer creates ‘utter chaos’ just 30 days in office
Melancholic.
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Slipping Away – Max Merritt & The Meteors (Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PQvbnwVh2Y
A face-scrunching electric guitar duet: Dovydas & Chena.
YouTube. About 15 minutes. (It takes a bit to start, but bear with it – it’s worth it).
The guys who run the Powerline blog are not going to be impressed. Not big fans of his.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris names Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as running mate – CNN
Given the guys at Powerline are the dumbest people on the Internet… good.
Not compared to you, they aren’t.
But that’s not how it’s measured, is it. It’s a measure of economic activity and assumes that variables within it even out such that years are highly comparable. If everyone consumes similarly, a 1% pop increase results in 1% more food and other consumption.
Stop giving Albo a way out 😉
Melanie Phillips has a good article about causes of UK riots at her Substack. Plenty of examples given. However she is not a Tommy Robinson fan.
Please, who or what is a “Substack”?