Poll: Nearly Half of Federal Employees Say They Plan to Resist Trump’s Incoming Administration Add in an isolated touch of…
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I loathe the smarmy leftist clennel.
Depends if it is smoked, or not. Hickory -smoked camel is pretty good stuff, Roast it low and slow, basting…
Chris Kenny has been putting up some good columns for the Oz though. Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world…
Clennell is no loss.
Flying Renewable Death news (the Hun):
Of course they are.
And:
Surely not. Wind turbines damaged by wind?
Our betters wouldn’t have – you know – lied, would they?
New Zealand’s Chest Pain Crisis: What’s Going On?
I’ll show you.
Not sure where I got the graphic…
Whoa! That’s a – no pun intended – killer graphic!
Banning AI Memes Already Blew Up in Gavin Newsom’s Face
The critique of Churchill might attract more credulity if it was backed up with some primary source facts instead of fever dreams.
Okay try this. Was there a common trait that you saw in murderers during your time?
Had a fall two weeks ago trying to navigate my way to bed after a bottle of wine.
Hit my head on my bedside table. I lay there and couldn’t get up. Called 000. I am on blood thinners.
My father died two weeks ago. Not sure how to process any of this.
Sorry, Dover. Going off line.
Lucky you didnt bleed to death then.
Decent scalp wound and blood thinners plus a doze off on the floor and it can be lights out.
Come back good person.
Ellie, I think you need to be with other people, in real life, not online.
Drinking alone and pondering your woes is never a good idea. I’ve done it, never heavily because I had kids, years ago, in the months or so when my first husband walked out. Getting over that absolute despair and loneliness involved getting out and mixing with other people in whatever ways I could. It works. Join in things, volunteer, meet others, share and enjoy. Luckily I had a job, which I kept. Retirement though produced new challenges. Same cure though. Get out and take all opportunities to be involved in life.
Bedside table exsanguination… that’s exactly how Hollywood’s William Holden bought it… take care Ellie
Guess what? You’re old.
No-one will ever know what it’s like to be you, so it can be an incredibly lonely task trying to find that one reason to keep yourself going at times. We can inspire others (or attempt to), but not motivate them; the latter is internal.
Sometimes there is no answer to your question, nor a solution to your problem. Some things just have to be lived through; survived.
[I forget who wrote that; not me].
P.S. I’m fine at the moment; just trying to sound wise and humble.
I can’t say much about Numbersnuts because, honestly, I’ve never bothered reading anything he writes. He’s excruciatingly boring and I don’t believe that’s changed. Fatboy, though, likes to troll. It’s like he wakes up in the morning thinking, “How can I get a reaction today?” But hey, credit where it’s due—he’s doing us a service. Instead of us having to wade through the latest left-wing nonsense, he does the dirty work, then brings it right to us so we can have a little fun tearing it apart.
The common trait in murderers is that they are shit people. Sometimes they kill other shit people, sometimes they kill people that are not shit people.
When they are pinched and binned, they are removed from their natural habitat. By the time professional handpatters get to them years later, they are so well versed in the ‘oh I’m rehabilitated’ and ‘it was all someone else’s fault’ lines that said handpatters are blinded to their inherent shitness, and they persuade themselves that their ineffectual, State-paid-for mewlings are actually effective.
The reality is that the handpatters are actually attracted to murderers’ ‘dangerous, bad boy’ personas. This is why chicks working in corrections can’t seem to stop themselves throwing handjobs at crooks who should never see the light of day again.
Succinctly put.
I have never thought I could “improve” someone.
I would rather work on making a bad dog good, than a bad human.
Wasn’t there a TV series a couple of years ago, part time crim/bad boy with a 10? year old Asian daughter keeps on getting into trouble with the law.
Ends up in some kind of rehab because he beat the crap out of a couple of louts who knocked the daughter around/ spilt her ice cream.
Part I like was when he told the smug git welfare worker that there were so many arseholes around because gits like him kept protecting them.
Trying to remember the series but can’t.
Mr Inbetween
Ben Shapiro: The INSANE Reaction To Israel’s Genius Hezbollah Operation
Hard hats, eh?
And what if one of these shards landed in your chest, or cuts an artery on a limb?
They can’t possibly rule such an event out, but I suppose because it’s “green” technology it gets a free pass in our otherwise workplace health and safety obsessed culture.
Just wear a hard hat. Yeah, right.
They forgot to add wear masks.
The cladding on the apartment block in London which caught fire, everyone in construction knew it was highly flammable and dangerous.
I want to approach this with the utmost care. On the old blog.,you used to share that you had experienced difficult and painful events in our early life, and at times it seemed to deeply affect you emotionally. Given the personal impact this must have had on you, I was wondering how you managed to stay emotionally detached when working on cases related to this area of criminal behavior. I ask only out of curiosity about how such experiences shape one’s ability to navigate similar situations professionally. I also ask because I’m somewhat sceptical anyone could not let these experiences color their view.
Are you asking me, JC?
I loved my job for so long. To work with the worst of the worst is a challenge.
My statement is – they have been judged in a court of law. I am not there to judge them.
How to affect change to the criminal element.
The sociopaths-no go there .
If you’re interested? Maybe your message was for someone else
You have an inmate coming up for parole. It can be highly political. My job was to work with them. Are they ready to be released. In many cases NO. But it was taken out of our hands. I never signed the refusal for parole. Got put into the witness box many times.
My degree is Social Work (shock-horror).
I have personal experience at perverted suffering.
I wondered how I could help other people experiencing the same.
So I decided to “educate” myself. Theory.
A leftist dive did I delve into.
That aside, I worked in child protection as an investigative interviewer of children.
I then realised that working with adults, who are ultimately responsible for their own change, is easier.
Too much information?
Yep, I’m asking you.
OK.
@robinmonotti
A young man with Cerebral Palsy, has always wanted to ride in a Super Car.
His dream came true. Watch the “good man”, who made his dream possible.
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1837240693892210855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1837240693892210855%7Ctwgr%5Ec9ef67591088997637895c922fc01cf80801fe88%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Is America Facing a New Soviet Union? | Victor Davis Hanson | The Way I Heard It
Words to live by.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/violence.jfif
I wonder if border security was on the agenda of Albanese’s 90 minute meeting with Biden today?
Why do I get the feeling we are reading the first chapter in Kurt Schlicter’s book “The Attack”.
“I wonder if border security was on the agenda of Albanese’s 90 minute meeting with Biden today?”
The two of them would have been having a nap.
That would be the best possible scenario!
Kitties gorn!
Kitties beat kitties?
95-85.
Talking about shit people…
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1837199576127922287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1837199576127922287%7Ctwgr%5Ec9ef67591088997637895c922fc01cf80801fe88%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Shit personage, clearly defined.
I upticked this.
But.
Just as you say, this woman is a truly shit person.
The beak, assuming it was a beak and not a TV person in some appalling reality thing, was quite right. The mother is a turdperson.
Should show this clip to everyone in year 12.
Yep.
The Dangerfields, aka Geelong, have rightly been consigned to the stinking bin of also-rans for the season. I hear hair product sales are tanking already.
The GF will now be scratched over by the Sydney Mancravers and the Brisvegas Lions.
Sigh.
This is Ken Hinckley fault
That would be the Sydney Türkiyes, thanks very much.
I do this.
Squeeze – Cool For Cats (1979)
But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash…
I’m remembering certain low dives of my youth – if you went home with any of the ladies you met there, wear two condoms – what they could give you could eat clean through one condom, without pausing to draw breath..
Advance‘s political campaign for the next feral election – putting the greenfilth and their vile toxic idiocy and hypocrisy under the microscope:
Indeedy.
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 8:11 pm
Yep.
Somewhere tonight, a grown man is making his way home in a full cat outfit with tear-streaked cat face-paint running down his whiskery cheeks.
frigging ridiculous trying to find a reply to a question asked earlier on.
This format is shit, Dover.
I like the reply function. It’s a way to return serve to the commenter without bringing in everyone else. Which can distract from the OT vibe.
The Meanjin Lions have won some sort of sporting competition and now face the Gadigal Swans.
The only upside I can see is that this will enrage the Naarm sodomites.
OK.
Bye bye for now.
Everyone knows you are a c.u.n.t, leigh lowe
Love that I have drawn you both out
Suck knuckle dragger. You failed
I see you and knuckle dragger are laying on each other
Now it is the sancho – knuckle dragger intelligence
I’m reading Thomas Fleming’s book “The New Dealer’s War.” Interesting reading, to say the least!
How do you identify a Jihadi? He’s using pen and paper.
It truly is incredible that there are imbeciles existing on this planet who think that Fatty Trump and the Pute are besties and that “wussians” of various indeterminate identities helped the Orange Man (bad) win the election in 2016.
Collectivist crackpot: “Fatty Trump fraudulently beat shrillary in 2016 due to wussian interference”
Normal person: “and geriatric joe won eleventy gazillion votes in 2020 entirely legitimately campaigning in his basement while gifted with advanced dementia”
The cackling kamel will stagger over the line in November, Cats, unfortunately there is no way to prevent it.
Yes there is but the 2nd amendment wankers will sit on their arses, masturbating over their guns.
The best army in the world is useless if it won’t fight.
The Furniture Shop is missing one of its mascots.
You drop by often. Love your support.
Drag your knuckles, as you hate on your wife
Whack a moll!
One of the most interesting guys on the internet is cyber expert Mike Benz. Just listened to him being interviewed by former SEAL Shawn Ryan.
If you are interested in big picture stuff they cover :
The disinformation censorship industry and why they need to control Musk / X.
What has been happening in Brazil in relation to US supporting Lula. Plus X and Starlink in Brazil and China involvement in Brazil.
Talks about Atlantic Council which has 7 former CIA heads on its board and is funded by 11 US agencies.
A lot about Hunter Biden / CIA / Burisma / Ukraine / Gas and why Ukraine so important to US policy.
Where once one could wear an Akubra, made from a genuine renewable resource, one now has to wear a hat made from the products of evil fossils.
To protect oneself against products made from evil fossils.
To save the planet.
And Trump is Hitler.
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 9:08 pm
You don’t speak for me!
…
Or do you?
Here we go. Why send me a come-on email. You and your buddy are being exposed. Knuck Feck
Check your email.
Feck off! I will not respond to your flirtatious emails!
Aaaaaahahahahaaaa.
Yeah nah. Pay to play with your gal. Not me
And this is where it was born. Knuck feck and Leigh Lowe. Triggered
Chicago Schools Tell Teachers to Pass Migrant Students Regardless of Performance
Wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Trump Assassins: Off-the-Books Assets?
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 9:30 pm
Bwah ha ha ha.
Good times.
Went off like a Lebanese pager.
In your arse.
The thing you thought you bullied, is now in control, sancho and knuckle dragger.
Let’s dance.
Money? Heh!
Driving west to east in Melbourne this afternoon there was an electronic sign recruiting women to be part of the first all female built tunnel.
Nuts.
https://x.com/ACCIONA_EN/status/1833331057032368326?t=d7aIBWn535yox9TeykxHZw&s=19
Nice nails.
Paging Dr Freud.
Very good indeed, Esteemed Bear
Might end up like that all female designed and built bridge that collapsed.
DEI: A cancer on the Armed Forces
Meme
Eeeeeexcellent. (Cue Monty Burns’ voice).
@catturd2
The Kamala Harris fascist regime is coming for all political opponents through lawfare.
Scratch the bullies. Why are they silent.
Knuckle dragger and Leigh Lowe?
pretty soon there’ll be no voices left that aren’t mental
True
Were you bullied by them?
Leigh Lowe aka sancho. A prolific bully.
Who is this Leigh Lowe?
A leg-spinner from Geelong.
Sancho
Spot on. The parents at those remote & rural schools;
a) make sure their kids attend.
b) make sure their kids learn. [very different to point (a)]
b) turn up to working bees, or even when there’s not a working bee.
c) raise a helluva lot of money, some raise enough to pay for running the school [yes, this includes salary for the teacher & every other cost]
d) put in no end of their own time & a considerable amount of effort, to ensure the school operates.
e) make the school the hub of their community & the hub of social life.
In every way, they’re the opposite of the other remote schools.
Nothing is holding back the parents at the other remote schools, the ones not in productive farming communities.
… except the parents themselves. They clearly have no culture of ‘having a go’ & no overriding urge to ensure their kids have every opportunity.
Silly me thought a realtively innoccuous comment at the Paywallian might get though…..
There was an article by Chris Kenny abou how awful people were to disparage those unhappy about Welcome To Country and such like. My comment was:
As I understand it the Welcome to Country was invented by Ernie Dingo and Richard Whalley in the 1970’s to assist with a ceremony for some foreign dignitary.
Then the smoking ceremony: also invented, there seems to be no record of this being a legitimate activity by aboriginal people. Mind you they did generate plenty of smoke with the burning of the bush that was practiced to flush out some food.
Ditto the ‘dot paintings’. No paintings anything like dot paintings found among the rock art and cave ‘paintings’ of aboriginal people.
All are fabrications and totally made up.
When you have to lie and make things up about your past, then either you did not have one worth much or are embarrassed about it.
Without honesty there is not much.
Indigenous kulture only exists and is celebrated because NON-INDIGENOUS Australians value it (and ascribe monetary value to it).
Does anybody know who The Currency Lad is? His blog has abruptly stopped.
He said he was going away for a break on one of his threads.
Week In Pictures.
Well deserved honor.
Martha Raye was a comic actress and singer who entertained U.S. troops in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. She was the only woman buried in Fort Bragg’s Special Forces cemetery, where she received full military honors in 1994.
I would’ve started from a more modest height first, just in case.
I’m guessin’ .. he had “faith” .. LOL!
Hilarious Kevin
On your bike!
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In the world of human-powered feats, speed is often the ultimate benchmark. And in 1962, an astonishing gear ratio and physical endurance pushed the limits of what seemed possible. A single-speed road bike reached an incredible 127 mph, which is an almost unimaginable accomplishment for any cyclist.
This daring feat required both extraordinary engineering and superhuman endurance.
The most curious aspect of this achievement, beyond the sheer speed, is the setup of the bike. Not only was the bike a single-speed—a type of bicycle typically used for much slower, controlled rides—but the front fork was also turned backward.
This might seem counterintuitive, as a backward fork would normally result in unstable handling. However, there may have been aerodynamic or mechanical reasons behind this unusual modification, possibly to shift the rider’s weight in a way that would reduce drag or improve stability at such high speeds.
The feat becomes even more mind-blowing when we compare it to other land speed records of its time. Just over 50 years earlier, in 1906, a steam-powered vehicle broke the land speed record. Steam technology, though seemingly antiquated by today’s standards, was at one time the pinnacle of innovation.
In fact, that 1906 record, set by Fred Marriott in the *Stanley Rocket* at 127.66 mph, stood for several years and demonstrated that steam engines had tremendous potential for speed.
In 1909, however, the record was broken again, this time by a Mercedes with an internal combustion engine, marking the dawn of a new era in speed and mechanical performance.
The Mercedes record was lower than the 1906 steam-powered speed, but the internal combustion engine would soon dominate automotive engineering.
These land speed records, whether powered by steam, combustion engines, or sheer human force, tell a story of mankind’s relentless pursuit of speed and innovation. The 1962 bike achievement, with its backward fork and single gear, represents a triumph of both mechanical ingenuity and human endurance.
Below from article up at Daily Telegraph.
Two years after its launch, online radio platform TNT News has been wound up due to a lack of funding.
The Gold Coast-based conservative news platform, which purported to “separate fact from fiction, truth from propaganda” and committed way too much uncensored and unchecked airtime to conspiracy theorists espousing their views on anything from “government tyranny” to “Covid malfeasance”, closed its operations yesterday after its financial backers withdrew.
The platform had, in recent years, given sanctuary to some of the industry’s more polarising voices, among whom, notably, was serial sex pest Chris Smith, longtime understudy to 2GB’s breakfast king Alan Jones”.
I listened to a few shows early on in 2022. They did provide an outlet for Covid commentary that was not allowed in mainstream media. It was a interesting organisation as it operated 24 hours and had hosts from Australia, UK and USA. One was Jim Hoft from Gateway Pundit. One Nation Senator Roberts was frequently on it.
No idea who was behind it but must have been some big money. They did not get much advertising money and perhaps this fits in with something Mike Benz was discussing with Shawn Ryan. He was talking about an organisation called Newsguard which rated different media outlets but also sought to deprive them of advertising funding. I would however say TNT radio did cover out there type issues and would be hard for an advertiser to be associated with them.
Mike Smith has now gone to ADH TV which is where Alan Jones was until health issues.
Top story at Daily Mail Australia at time of writing concerns Ingi Doyle.
“I was a super-fit mum-of-two who ran triathlons – until I got the second Covid vaccine. I mourn my old self every day”.
She was one of the first vaccine injuries stories I heard about. Naturally it was not from mainstream media because to mention her case might cause vaccine “hesitancy”.
Apart from Covid-19, there is another virus circulating at the moment.
It is just as dangerous as the Covid Pandemic, but it originated in the USA, not China. It has seeped across the Pacific like leaking fluids from an overstocked fridge, carried on the bonkers blogs and nutjob social media accounts of some in the land of the shooting spree. Recent events close to home at Wieambilla provide an instructive example. The consequences are real, as can be observed by the chaotic state of US politics.
I’m referring, of course, to the epidemic of distrust of institutions and government across the Pacific since the Tea Party movement emerged towards the first ten years of the new millennium. That movement grew out of a sense of grievance and entitlement precipitated by globalism, automation, and the GFC.
Political movements generated by national grievance rarely end well. Examples include Brexit, which is wreaking havoc on daily life in the UK right now, and the Tea Party itself, which has changed some Republicans from a credible conservative movement to a baying mob, despite the fact that it largely disappeared from the scene in its original form. National grievance was one of the major factors driving the rise of the NAZI movement in Germany in the thirties, and remains a large component of Chinese nationalism, used extremely effectively by the CCP under Xi Jinping.
Another component assisting the rise of grievance politics is the role of US corporate media, exemplified by Fox news, and these days, Newsmax. Gone are the days when the corporate media reported the public mood. These days they make a profit by exploiting that mood, monetising it, and then selling it back to the consumers of that same media.
These same consumers are always prepared to pay for what they want to hear. They become opinion junkies, and this phenomenon leeches into social media. Recently, social media platforms have belatedly started to arrest the tide of misinformation and disinformation that feeds this sense of grievance. Facebook and Twitter (now X) have begun to do this, although with reluctance, as it messes with their business model. It took an insurrection for Twitter to give Trump the shove. And the twit from South Africa reinstated him.
None of this would bother me very much, except that it is beginning to have an effect locally. One example of this is the imported outrage from the US about vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Despite the fact that the Australian death rate from the virus per head of population is about 1/25 of what is it across the Pacific (67 per million here vs 2297 per million in the US) there are Australian nitwits jumping on the culture wars bandwagon, and bleating, post-event about mandates and restrictions.
The most recent example of this trans Pacific virus is the push for legislation designed to require voters to present ID at the ballot box. It is designed to solve a problem which does not exist in this country, and has already been resolved in Queensland, where people on the electoral roll are posted an ID card to their address, to present when they vote. I’m accumulating a collection.
A far greater problem than electoral fraud in this country is the rate of participation in state and federal elections – (91.9% at the last federal election). Despite the Electoral Commission seeing this as an achievement, we’d be doing better as a democracy if everybody got to vote. Full participation is essential to democracy. How about the legislature take measures to ensure this disenfranchised 8.1% of the Australian electorate votes, rather than chasing the less than the 0.001% of the electorate who allegedly voted more than once at the last federal poll?
I won’t hold my breath for an answer.
numb-nutz is going full percentage frenzy this morning
Synopsis:
– cannot actually be summarized
– total incomprehensible ramble
– 91.9% of it is disconnected gibberish
– the author(s) seem to believe that more words can make you less mental
The perseveration is strong in this one!
Oh do shut up, Numbers. I’ve just spent three days staying with a friend in Tasmania and putting up with a lot of ABC/SBS and I am not in the mood for coming to Catallaxy to hear more of the same propaganising garbage. Go and bother some other site.
1735099 – are you Phillip Adam’s?
Pagers, walkie-talkies, solar panels & …….. GPS navigation systems .. Israelis gotta luv ’em … LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/israel-gps-spoofing-against-missiles-disrupts-civilian-life-aviation-in-lebanon-and-middle-east/ar-AA1qXNof?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=66130fdae4f44283b4d3915ffab79466&ei=31
Marxism. It’s endemic.
Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo were completely harmless.
Humour is always funny. Political Marxism never is.
Political Marxism destroys and kills. Learn some history.
a plague no less
TDS will be an issue for a few months.
Numbers, when you wake up you will realise that governments are merely criminal organisations that have seized control of a country and maintain it by threats of or actual violence.
After all, a government seized you and threw you in to the Army, a form of slavery.
Yet lefties like you want more government.
I don’t hold with notions of “left” and “right”, unless you’re talking about handedness.
But if you want to use that outdated and irrelevant taxonomy, it was the “right” that threw me into slavery….
That’s because they assume they will be holding the whips and guns. It has very little to do with improving the human condition – just their human condition.
A virus of experience Numbers.
Mistrust of government and their institutions is well placed and only becomes more apparent when dealing with them directly.
A good comment came from a mate who’s dealing with the renewable roll out with government mandated bodies and private companies trying to access his land for their purposes, he said “I used to trust people working for the government and think that in the end their trying to do what’s best for us, I don’t any more.”
Working in government I have almost the same conversations daily, “No, making your job easier is not in the public interest.”
I should also add that industry bodies might, in the end, sell you out quicker than government. More efficient at it.
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine.”
William Blum
his augments are not rational or logical
numbers will now continue fill the pages here with more even gibberish
The good ol’ days. Paging Mater. Boom.
He will also be carefully noting the replies and their authors.
Just in case, you know.
<wink>
John
September 22, 2024 2:36 am
The chances of him buying a cheap Lebanese pager are low.
But not zero.
CL is receiving a foot massage.
Oh yeah.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-18-at-12.24.43%E2%80%AFPM-768×542.png
Totally agree with this.
“I used to trust people working for the government and think that in the end their trying to do what’s best for us, I don’t any more.
Governments employee numbers are rapidly expanding in Australia and as more Government jobs are created they have to justify themselves by creating more rules and regulations for this rest of us.
As more jobs are created the managers have more subordinates and their posts have to be upgraded to reflect their bigger responsibilities. It is called “empire building”.
You could easily do a head count cull of all admin positions at all levels of government. Would save us billions.i suggest at least 20% of all non customer facing jobs.
Someone snuck in and drank my Chardonnay while I was asleep
CL is having a WEB.
War pagers are legitimate targets.
https://x.com/persianjewess/status/1837190059113472048?t=4viLtV2qXv1hrDH29HslJQ&s=19
ABC news featuring Australian “Lebanese community” members claiming Israel is “targeting civilians.”
Angry at Albanese government for not criticising Israel more strongly.
No mention of Hezbollah’s indiscriminate rocket & missile attacks.
I think we’re only days away from calls for “tourist visas” for Lebanese with Australian family connections.
I’m sick of the lies.
.
Thanx TOM ..
Week-in-pictures has outdun itself today .. an excellent selection ..
Week In Pictures.
The bestest evah WIP. I’m still laughing.
Good Morning Rosie, reading your interesting travelogue about Ireland gave me the impression you wouldn’t be going back. You don’t recommend visiting it anymore? I’ve been reading about Nth Ireland- looks very beautiful and it’s got me interested.
Here’s some of our Ireland postcards from last year if that helps…they were posted to the Cat at the time…
Ireland
Well, landed in Ireland on an Air Qatar flight – excellent – to find the air bridge at Dublin International would not connect with the Dreamliner. After a bit everyone got told to sit down again and wait. About 20 minutes later airport management managed to connect two flights of ramp stairs to the plane and we seemed to enter the back door. No technology on arrival – old style booths and passport stamped – airport seemed to be over-whelmed with Ryanair flights returning.
Welcome to Ireland!
Dublin….mmmm. Has a fair bit not to like. Uber is unobtainable – there is a strong taxi union that had kept it out. Graffiti plentiful everywhere. Some rubbish on the streets in the suburbs, although the city itself is clean. There is a high level of tacky and/or disreputable shopfronts in the city area, often allowed to exist two or three at a time next to an old Georgian public building or a still-majestic church. The police force, by the way, aren’t called “police” – but The Garda, and known as “the guards”.
On the good side there are a lot of old buildings, statues with a story, or interesting landmarks. We took in a lot on a 2.5hr walking tour of the city, which took in most of the major ones south of the city, including the Dublin Castle and Christchurch Cathedral. Strangely enough the tour didn’t go north of the river to the Post Office which was a major part of the 1916 Easter Rising, so we checked that out ourselves. The bus/tram service is excellent, which is just as well, as there is no other public transport.
Toured Old Kilmainham Gaol – many Irish revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, were imprisoned and executed in the prison by the orders of the UK Government. Thousands of Irish immigrants/convicts left from here to Australia. Our tour guide said that Ireland overall is one of the few places in the world where the population decreased from the 1800s to the 1900s – about 70% of the people left for better opportunities overseas. Our guide also told us that living here now is expensive and people are still leaving!
Cool and showers. Don’t think any Dubliners go out without their jacket with hood and umbrella.
Belfast and the Titanic Experience
We picked up our car and travelled north where we visited Newgrange for some photos – it was fully booked, so no viewing. So onto nearby Dowth another burial tomb smaller, but not developed. It was great to walk around it and see the two passage entrances that have been explored by archaeologists. Passage tombs date back to well before the Romans – maybe back to 4000BC – and look to be the burial efforts of the local tribes for their most important leaders. One of the signs we photographed tells some of the story: essentially they seem to be stoneworks which were then covered over by earthworks.
Onto Belfast and visiting the Titanic Museum. It’s a very well curated “immersive” theatrical style walk-through, which adds in a host of facts and stories, blending the engineering in with the human tragedies.
The centrepiece is an amusement park style ride into the gantry construction depths of the Titanic hull, with the noises of the riveting and hammering blended in with the workmen telling you what they are doing. The Experience covers not only the building but the fit-out, the fatal first voyage, but also the discovery of the shipwreck in 1985. By the time you go through it’s around about two hours of the complete story of the most famous ship in the world.
Outside is the Nomadic, the only ship of the White Star line left – she was a tender to take people out to the liners if they were anchored offshore. We finished off at the docks by having a look at the outside of the WWI warship HMS Caroline – a light cruiser – nearby.
Finally, after arriving at our Airbnb, we plundered the local Tesco in memory of the Vikings, who seem to have been a major influence in Ireland. It’s been a big day!
Pieces of Eight etc
We went to the Ulster Museum today to look at the Spanish Armada collection. Following their 1588 defeat by Francis Drake and Co, some of the surviving ships fled north around Scotland and then west of Ireland. One of them, the Girona, got wrecked and sank with the loss of 1500 lives.
There’s a good collection of artefacts in the Museum including three guns and a lot of personal items, including jewellery. In one case was a heap of gold coins – known as “pieces of eight” if you remember your Treasure Island, along with silver coins too.
That was followed by Carrickfergus Castle, north of Belfast. Dating from the 11th century, it has been in constant use including into the 20th century – its last starring role was as an air raid shelter.
Over the hundreds of years it has been hacked about, with gun firing fissures piercing the walls, and then anti-ship guns on swivelling rails put in place. Underground storage for shells was added too. Although a small castle, it was still a fascinating example of the type.
On to Londonderry, or if you’re really Irish, just Derry.
Flashback to Belfast murals+
Very warm in Belfast that you can shower with the window open! (I don’t think) Typical street scene of houses curving around and hills in background. Belfast is still quite divided from The Troubles, the 30 year struggle between two sides – once labelled Catholic (Republican) and Protestant, but now with “Anglican” taking the place of the latter. We visited the murals in the Republican sector, but also took a photo of a bridge with the many British Union Jack and St George flags flying.
Derry
Pictures:
· On a walking tour on top of Derry Walls built 1613-18, only remaining completely walled city in Ireland – defence for early seventeenth century settlers from England and Scotland
· Getting ready for bonfire celebration looking towards “Free Derry”
· “Derry Girls” is a TV series – we only watched one episode, but it brought a female and children perspective of the Troubles, which was one of the causes of its end
· One of the fences remaining between protestant and catholic areas
· Pub and music scene in the city
Cliffs of Moher near Doolin
Some sunny weather, temperatures up to 18, but every now and again a few drops fall! Our breakfast area at the Airbnb. The view from the windows was worth the price – so peaceful, cows, stone fences, fields, views of the other cottages and she had some lovely plants including flowering begonia. Our host Marcella was a real chatterbox (I could only understand every 3rd word!). They serve edam cheese and salami as well as cereal and toast – sometimes Irish soda bread.
On the west coast, in a coastal area now known as Wild Atlantic Way. The Cliffs of Moher are the No.2 attraction of Ireland – the number 1 is the Guinness factory in Dublin. Very impressive. We did a cruise as well as a walk along the top. The cave shown in our pictures is the “Harry Potter” one which featured in the second last film made (for you Lilia).
This is the first area I have seen clothes on the line! The farm areas feature stone fences and narrow laneways – the Irish scene you always imagine. We visited a few more pubs and listed to more Irish music. So far not overly impressed with pub food – think we do it better (and cheaper) – fish, chips, mushy peas & tartare was E20.
One of the villages we visited – Liscannor – was the birthplace of John Holland, who’s pretty much credited as the inventor of the submarine. Strangely, he was originally a Christian Brother and a teacher. He emigrated to the USA and pursued his submarines design ideas there, with the first launched by the US Navy in 1900. One of our pictures shows him in the hatch of one of his boats.
We walked up to the Moher cliffs and a Martello Tower. Scores of these were built along Britain and Ireland’s coasts in the Napoleonic Wars. They each contained a small garrison – maybe 10-25 soldiers and one officer depending on size.
The idea was to light a fire atop the tower if an enemy invasion force was sighted. The next tower along – each was in eyesight of two others – would then light its fire, in a chain reaction. This was to give warning in time to land forces to get ready for attack.
Flowers of Ireland, and a Music Night
For friends and relatives interested in plant life. Most wild – heather, daisies and this amazing large-leafed plant in flower etc. Wild fuchsias are prolific along the roads. Gorgeous. And there are hydrangeas everywhere, including these beautiful colours. Hope mine might look like this one day…
We went to an Irish Music Evening at Doolin Music House. This was held three times a week by some local musicians who had tired of the model of being in a hotel, and instead used one of their largest rooms in one of their houses for a recital.
We arrived to join about 12 other people: some Americans, Germans, Brits, and Italians. The lady of the house greeted us an showed us into the room where a peat fire was burning. The two musicians came in and introduced themselves. One did all the talking, and he did a lot of it. We got stories of his childhood; local legends; explanations of the music and more. Over an hour and half the two played their flute and violin, but they were also joined a visitor known to them both. He was a local hurling (sport) champion. This is a game that is like supercharged hockey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling and sounds extremely dangerous to play. He was said to have had all his fingers broken in his day, but he still produced an accordion and also sang two songs.
Wine and smoked salmon and cheese were also served. Towards the end the flautist produced some spoons which he played with vigour and talent. An excellent night with a difference.
The Ring of Kerry, southern Ireland
One BnB host recommended that we NOT do the Ring of Kerry – “you’ll see nothing but buses”, so we were incredibly surprised when we didn’t! Not sure where they were, but we had mighty fine views, short walks and easy driving. We also drove around the Skellig Ring – beautiful sandy beaches, brooding mountains and colourful villages. Charlie Chaplin and family holidayed at Waterville for 10 years; the local liked him so much they put up a statue and still have a Chaplin film festival. We particularly enjoyed Killarney National Park and Muckross House (traditional farm display and gardens).
Visited the local supermarket and in the car park were a bank of washing machines/dryers – up to 18kg load. Thought was good idea for those Irish still washing their “smalls” in the basin. Meanwhile upstairs you can stock up with groceries. Someone will catch on soon and import the concept to Oz.
At Portmagee we drove around Valencia Island and in one spot walked down to a beach to see the “tail drag marks” and some footprints from a 380 million year ago tetrapod. The sign said there are two such places in Australia so get going! Took a photo of a salmon statue as it’s a famous fishing area. Saw the memorial to the Lusitania, sunk in 1915 by a German U-Boat, and one of the spurs for the USA entering the Great War.
Around Tipperary TE took in Cahir Castle, and thought it “well preserved”. It was used as a location site in many film and tv shows, including The Tudors – a series we loved – and Excalibur. It is unusual in that is said to have the only working portcullis in any castle in Ireland. We also went to The Rock of Cashel, which is a collection of fortified buildings atop a limestone crag.
Stayed overnight at a farmlet which had its own donkeys and a variety of sheep types – the host used to breed sheep. Now back to Dublin to fly out to Madrid.
Thanks TE! Very informative.
Lovely memories of all these places for us. Ireland’s people are warm (real Irish people, that is) and the scenery is spectacular; the history fascinating.
Building off the grid. Away from the MSM. Start storing supplies. Tunnels. Get ahead before it happens. One Nation.
Following the Trump campaign. Do you play golf, sancho?
You take the time to downtick me, but won’t engage in verbal intercourse.
“tourist visas” = backdoor PR. Public admin in Australia= malicious incompetence. The canbra way.
Aaannd here we go…
Number of asylum seekers in Australia reaches six-year high (Sky News, 22 Sep)
Oooh hurrah Newcastle gets its first… (checks notes) …man with silicone t*ts in council.
Because visibility. Or something.
Celebrated, of course, by the GayBC. I wonder what Charlie Jones would make of it.
For those who don’t remember Charlie, he was one of the last of the blue-collar Labor politicians. An old scrapper from the boilermakers’ union, he could be stubborn and wrong-headed on industrial relations and economics, but on ‘progressive’ social issues (the sexual revolution, Whitlam’s encouragement of welfare dependency etc) he had the values of an old-fashioned Methodist. Though nominally a member of the Left, he confided to a friend late in his career that he felt he had more in common with Frank Stewart (a Sydney Labor MP who was indistinguishable from the DLP) than with the middle-class trendy ratbags (his words) of the New Left.
Better when Newcastle was famous for steel.
Piers Akerman sinking the boots in. Deservedly so:
But if there was any truth to be aired, we would be hearing about the brutish existence of pre-settlement Aboriginals.
For shame, don’t you know that pre-settlement Australia was just the Garden of Eden?
thanks for posting bb
Do my eyes deceive me or has Akerman failed to mention out of control immigration numbers on top of a housing crisis?
Even that old ratbag Rex Connor wanted a national has pipeline and a nuclear industry.
The shooter was there 20 odd hours in advance. It couldn’t be clearer that he was told.
@wendyp4545
From ther Hun.
Clementine Ford threatened with legal action by Kingston Council candidate Jane Agirtan over social media spatA social media spat that kicked off over a designer handbag could end up costing Clementine Ford more than $150,000, after an aspiring councillor claimed she’d been defamed.
Fingers crossed.
The member of the Senate who told me (re AGW) “It’s bullsht and everyone knows it, it’s just a giant wealth redistribution scheme”, had nothing more in their sights than the obscene remuneration and fat super package available upon obtaining office.
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Just in case you don’t detest the UN enough yet.
UNRWA demands immunity for employees implicated in October 7th massacre (22 Sep)
The US needs to kick them out. They’re a blot on NYC.
Why couldn’t the planes have hit THAT tower?
Go The Mossad.
Kamala Harris, AOC, Al Sharpton praised Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2020 townhall dedicated to COVID, honoring black Americans
I note the Gazans here on “tourist visas” are now demanding work and study rights and Medicare cards.
I think they intend to settle down.
Until it’s safe enough to go back on extended family holidays.
Joining Hawke’s Chinese and Fraser’s Lebs.
I watched Hawke’s Chinese “demanding(!) their entitlements to welfare and Medicare.” The words “Fvck off back to where you came from” did suggest themselves.
NBC’s Simmons: Israel Didn’t Bring Hezbollah Commander Responsible for Killing Americans to Justice by Killing Him
LAWLESS KINGDOM: A Rape Is Reported Every Hour in London
This Is the Most Deliciously Devious Part About Israel’s Exploding Pager Attacks
Well said PJ Media. Do not feel sorry for terrorists.
Think too of what Hamas did recently to some hostages kept in dark tunnels, murdering them, including two young women.
The Beloved’s birthday today. Busy child wrangling – the little ones thought there would be a party and were up at sparrow’s.
Himself ran away from the mayhem to wash the car! Amazing how urgent such things become, even on your birthday.
Should have co-opted the ankle biters as assistants!
Should have co-opted the ankle biters as assistants!
Incharge of the hose. 😉
I reckon you should bestow the Beloved with a pair of Westies for his birthday. 😀 😀 😀
‘Massive Victory’ — Irish Government Drops Draconian Hate Speech Legislation After Backlash
They won’t stop – they say so in the article.
Our governments are becoming the citizenry’s biggest threat.
This is where she really outperforms.
The art of vacuity
One of the news services in Australia mentioned this in their evening news. They commented that the audience was “made up of uncommitted voters”. WTF!! Really? Oprah Winfrey’s researchers allowed actual, you know, real people or maybe even ‘disbelievers’ into the audience for this love-in with the Kamel. hahahahahaha As if. Every attendee would have been carefully screened.
Sucked in greenies!
Running an electric car is twice as expensive as a petrol one (21 Sep)
It’ll be even worse here, once chargers start upping their c/kWh rates. The price of petrol and diesel is much higher in the UK.
This is interesting because the rush to net zero will kill AI just the same as everything else. Perhaps when the lights go out such nuclear reactors can be repurposed for more immediate needs.
Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
And yet the rag “reneweconomy” claims nuclear is Caput.
Stockpile weapons, canned food. We need to go underground. If Trump doesn’t get up we are ruined. Complain on a blog for attention. Look at me – I write words, but don’t live up to the words. I travel and write travelogues. I am a Jew who writes on a blog about my time on a bus in the city. But do I do anything, but indulge the sensors. My grandmother’s nightmares have revisited me since October 7. No young leftist knows my pain. Frank Foley was our Schindler. Never would I imagine this. EVER in my lifetime.
Wow. No Chardonnay before breakfast.
Yeah, I know right. There was a dribble at the bottom of the bottle. Thing is there are three bottles with my sorry ass Jew butt on them.
I am no Cassie. She is strong. I am a weak victim. But how to stop the night terrors. Wine helps.
Too much emotion for this blog. It skirts between rational and irrational emotions here. I vomit it all at once. But that’s what I heard late at night. All Omi said was Hitler was a bad man. I am like who the feck is this Hitler dude. Oh, ok. he exterminated my family … because, why??
From Indolent’s link:
Wrong word. The Oct 7 massacre and abductions were diabolical. Endless rocket fire into civilian areas and the displacement of 60,000 civilians is diabolical. The murder of 12 children on a soccer field is diabolical.
The electronic pocket Kabooming of terrorists is justice.
https://youtu.be/t9wmWZbr_wQ
This one, Calli?
Kabooming.
A great word.
And funny!
[For the second time tonight, I wrote before engaging my brain. I’m a slow learner].
@ImMeme0
Fvcking EPIC
The woman featured during an Oprah Winfrey town hall endorsing Kamala DROPPED a new video to announce who she supports for the next president.
… and no one ever named a band The Albaneses.
They played at my high school formal back in 1934. Awful.
Poetic, is what it is. Brilliant, elegant also comes to mind.
I wonder if any of them have the koran on kindle?
Looks like they didn’t factor in insurance and depreciation.
Or average repair costs over a vehicle’s lifetime.
Which would make the EV figures much, much worse.
And governments are just biding their time until they can make those chargers a revenue source.
I foresee a day not far hence when EV owners will cry for subsidies.
I foresee a day where only EVs will be allowed.
Then the revolution …
If the VIC government caved on gas cook tops, EVs are already a lost cause for governments.
Nothing illustrates the intellectual and moral dead end that is Australian prog-leftism like the fetishisation of Whitlam.
Keating! the Musical. groan…
The Left love their myths. The Great Man.
Gave us colour TV and FM radio too!
And ended the war in Vietnam!
No.
That was Nixon.
Remember – Peace with honour.
The war was lost by 1968, but domestic politics in the US meant that they stayed until 1973.
That killed at least 20000 US servicemen, but hey, they were collateral, just like the 200 plus Nashos who died to keep the Coalition in power for a while.
Among other faults, Gough was a terrible snob. ‘The real trouble in November 1975? Kerr and Barwick: lower middle class.’
Death toll from Israeli strike on Hezbollah military leaders risesStephen Kalin
11 hours ago
Dow Jones
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Israel’s airstrike on a building in southern Beirut didn’t just kill a top Hezbollah commander – it took out an entire class of senior leaders of the militant group’s most elite fighting force, as the two foes lurch closer to all-out war.
Hezbollah on Saturday raised the death toll among its fighters from Friday’s airstrike to 16, including top military commander Ibrahim Aqil and many of the senior commanders of the elite Radwan force. The strike on top leadership followed a pair of broad attacks on the group’s rank and file, when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies that had been rigged with explosives blew up roughly simultaneously across the country.
According to the group’s own death announcements, the week’s attacks accounted for about 10% of the 500 Hezbollah fighters to have been killed since the group started firing rockets across the border shortly after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that sparked the war in the Gaza Strip.
Martyr payments will resemble the Victoriastan interest bill.
I thought Oprah’s body language showed embarrassment as Kamala avoided answering questions
Took one for the team.
I won’t hold my breath for an answer.
Please do you rancid POS.
Still, well done. That lengthy post reeked of elitism and the sole conspiracy that infects leftoids like yourself. Which is, any threat to the leftoid control of the narrative/institutions is a manifestation of hillbilly extreme rightwingers. The irony is it is not the patronising lies which leftoids embellish their narrative/institutions which is the zeitgeist but their control and power of the narrative/institutions. Being in power is the only quality leftoids have: all the descriptions of the right wingers are merely a rephrasing of that being in power and their suppression of any threat to that power.
Given that, you are merely a useful idiot, like all leftoid minions.
Here we go.
I have chickens and a big bag of rice. 😀
Didn’t end up working out too well for H@m@s in the end.
What’s REALLY In the mRNA Vaccine? Truth Revealed!
Would I be right in thinking the original author of the supplies and tunnels thing was a missionary from the Furniture Store here on a Temporary Activity visa?
I woke up, wondered down the Dr Phil path. I speak with a Texan accent.
Bombshell Court Order: FDA Admits Graphene Oxide Found in Pfizer mRNA Vaccines – Confidential Docs Exposed!
Starmer’s ‘PIOUS’ behaviour proves that his ‘holier than thou rhetoric’ doesn’t match his actions
Leftoids don’t do humour:
Never mind: Kremlin says Vladimir Putin was joking about backing Kamala Harris for president – Washington Times
“the impression you wouldn’t be going back”
Not during their school holidays for sure.
I’m not in a hurry, only because there are several, many, other places I would like to visit however if a family member wants me to return in the near future I will. So I might go back in late 2025. I might even catch the ferry to Bilbao.
There was lots to like, especially in the wild west, and the people are nice.
I’m pondering a short visit to Japan in November, then, as there is a happy event expected in February I’ll be home in the new year.
Gotcha- thanks Rosie. Fly into Madrid then catch the ferry from Bilbao would be an interesting way to visit. Would like to avoid London.
Yes lots of fun ways to arrive, there is also a Brittany ferry to Cobh if via France takes your fancy.
You can even fly Girona to Knock.
I see Kellie-Jay Keen copped another bowl of tomato soup to the face in Sheffield, this time by a bespectacled ranga beardo who works at the university as a diversity officer. The gentleman was arrested and charged with assault.
I am sure Cats will react to this news with suitably moderate thoughts.
Why are lefties violent like this? And against women!
Righties are polite, harmless, and even clean up all the rubbish after a rally.
Typical UK swampy. Brilliantly portrayed by Ric from The Young Ones.
What do you have against women and men standing up to fight against your restraints?
You condone violence against women??
Of course Monty does. He gets tumescent just thinking about it.
Waiting FAA bureaucrat peoples, waiting…
Light this candle!
At what point will Musk take the FAA to court on the basis of the Chevron decision?
Ah yes, problematic. Need for bipartisanship emerging.
“The regime”, as dover calls it, isn’t for power sharing.
Unless coerced into concessions, that is.
Atm, the European iteration is looking decidedly shaky.
Subsidiarity, with decisions devolved to the lowest practicable level, might offer some relief from the rule by minorities that the current iteration of “democracy” produces.
I didn’t get past the first cartoon in WIP before I was laughing:
Jimmy Dore is unimpressed with the Israeli pager/walkie-talkie attacks ion Hezbollah.
He doesn’t seem to like Israel at all. I suppose he must occasionally burnish those progressive bona fides.
Quite the screed from numbers this morning. It will be fun when he realises that teachers work for the government. Self awareness to follow in short order.
Even in non-government schools, teachers are largely bound by the government approved curriculum.
Roger, that Mises Wire guest paste is a great read, thanks heaps
I thought it clarified a number of things concisely, Wally.
The Mises site is here.
I’ve taken to posting one of their more interesting articles here every Sunday.
Asylum claims at six-year high as record numbers await decisionBy Natassia ChrysanthosSeptember 22, 2024 — 3.00am
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The number of people seeking asylum in Australia has hit a six-year high and a record 117,500 people are on shore awaiting a decision or deportation as huge backlogs and five-year wait times expose the country’s immigration system to exploitation.
The list of people in limbo is growing by about 1000 a month, creating a backdoor for people on temporary visas who run out of options, including students, to keep working in Australia by applying for asylum and entering the drawn-out appeal process.
It means those found to be genuine refugees are also forced to wait years for security.
The Labor government has spent $275 million to step up resourcing and accelerate processes after a review found delays were “motivating bad actors to take advantage by lodging increasing numbers of non-genuine applications for protection”.
But it faces a tough task in wresting control of the system as latest Home Affairs data reveals 25,210 people applied for protection visas in the 2023-24 financial year, the highest number of applicants since 27,931 people in 2017-18. More than four in five asylum claims were rejected, with applicants from Vietnam lodging the highest portion, followed by those from China and India.
Helen Duncan, chief executive of the Migration Institute of Australia, said it was “without doubt” that people who probably did not have legitimate claims were using protection visas to extend their stays in Australia.
“It’s not a situation we like to see because it means genuine refugees have their cases delayed because of huge backlogs and cases that have no merit,” she said. “If the processing was quicker, people wouldn’t be using it to delay their stay in Australia. But it’s there, so people use it in the wrong way.”
Excellent day yesterday. Had lunch with the great Bushie, Farmer Gez, Matrix, John and Mater. Along with wives of Mater and Matrix.
Fantastic to just sit and listen to these people and their experiences.
Skite! 😀
Mater is missed on the Cat..
Numbers will get him back.
and it was awesome to finally meet yourself and Gez, BB
… lunch with half a dozen INTJ personality types
… excellent stuff!
Close, Im an FJ
Me too. We’re actually terrifying up close.
Best not to scare the horses.
lol … same as the missus
Likewise, BB (of the broken wing)
Was sorry to miss out BB. Hopefully when I’m through this i can make the next one.
Ahem! Where was my invite? I could have used some sane conversation with the likes of you lot.
the missus kept asking about you
I just assumed you were a decliner
I’d have been there like a shot had I known. Next time.
Shall try harder. Promise.
I’ll vouch for Megan, who came to an arvo tea at our place once with Cassie, and have also met up with Bushie and Mater and wife and kids. When Cats network IRL, it’s a lot of fun. Good to put a face to an online persona.
From climate change to Islamic Jihad.
Global warming is coming for our toilets.
Many people in the Pacific lack access to adequate toilets—and climate change makes things worse (Phys.org, 21 Sep)
Here’s who they are:
Sigh. Maybe that august educational centre should go back to being the Mount Gravatt Teacher’s College.
For funding just apply greenwash.
Hard to out carpetbag the Pacific Islanders.
Thanks for the post Roger- got me thinking about the last 10 years. It’s almost as if the internet has allowed scrutiny of the elites to a degree never previously possible. Furthermore, it’s allowed genuinely populist candidates to talk directly to voters. This has caused the elites (the political-meja class) to reveal their true selves and their willingness to use Stalinist tactics to stifle dissent.
Trump v1.0 bypassed the MSM completely.
so not murder as no intent, but it surely is manslaughter and dangerous driving, or does everyone get away with that, not only senior labour figures?
Probably a connection to labour in there somewhere then.
I did suggest a look at his political donation history may just be fruitful.
The Starliner debacle claims a scalp…
The head of Boeing’s defense and space business is out as company tries to fix troubled contracts (21 Sep)
So I did as you do and looked him up. Yep, my woke bingo card got another box ticked.
Lot of brand damage being done by these bozos. QANTAS too.
will P Diddy survive the weekend?
Just received a message telling me to behave.
As you were.
Yes.
All the high profile conservative, and libertarians, et al, that I service.
Do you know … yeah nah.
Too polite. Just fvck off.
Not a bad feed either BB.
Keep that wing out of trouble.
If only Dawkins had become a winemaker…
Wiki: “He is the son of Muriel (née Lee Steere) and Alec Letts Dawkins. His father, originally from Adelaide, was an orthopaedic surgeon and military physician during World War II with the rank of brigadier.[3] His maternal grandfather Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere was a prominent pastoralist and businessman in Western Australia, while his uncle Sir Ernest Henry Lee-Steere served as Lord Mayor of Perth in the 1970s.[4]… Dawkins attended primary school in Cottesloe and went on to attend Scotch College, Perth. After leaving school he moved to South Australia to attend Roseworthy Agricultural College, graduating with a diploma in agriculture in 1968”
Numbers, the right/left thing politically is very simple. The Left wants more government – rules, regulations, hoops to jump through etc. The Right wants fewer of these.
I prefer to describe along these lines:
The Left is a parasite.
The Right is Ivermectin.
I think Griffith is a Menzies uni like Macquarie, LaTrobe, Flinders. Never much chop I suspect and none of them are much good now anyway.
Hezbies are getting curry.
Israel Unleashes Hell On South Lebanon With Giant Mystery Bomb As War Escalates (22 Sep)
I wonder if they found Nasrallah’s underground bunker? That would be worth a MOAB.
so not murder as no intent, but it surely is manslaughter and dangerous driving
If he’d been impaired due alcohol he’d be in jail. Diabetics surely have a duty of care to be fit to drive as do we all, all the time.
IIRC, an epilepsy sufferer got jail time in Sydney about 20 years ago, some issue about his capability to drive at the time.
On the subject of epilepsy, I am of the understanding that if you have a fit, and you have a driver’s license, you are forbidden to drive for six months. If you have another fit within that six months, the six month ban starts again.
Correct, similarly with certain heart conditions.
One hopes he has no current licence to drive.
I hope the families sue him into penury.
Most likely already started hiding his assets.
“The ability to supply the device to Hezbollah was helped by the fact that the terror group cannot make purchases on the open market, because of suppliers’ fears of US sanctions, and therefore must routinely work with intermediary suppliers”
Makes sense.
https://x.com/OliaOnX/status/1837651935001706822?t=lA5kb1c8UoXcaYA_focCNg&s=19
I suspect the Dawkins reforms were cribbed from the Poms where all the Polytechnics suddenly became unis eg Uni of Westminster.
“I’m not sure people grasp how brave the women at these events are. They know that trans activists are violent scum, but they come anyway.”
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1837495112827387924?t=XV_BnKliuCM9SP-p6grZnA&s=19
I’m really not looking forward NOT to the soon to be implemented extra security measures as a result of the Pager bombs. Start with airlines and go from there. I’m sure we’ll kill people as a result. Hundreds have already died after we locked the cockpit doors after 9/11
A can of worms has been opened.
Good point Eryie, I wonder if Mossad satisfied themselves there was no chance of any pager carriers being in range but airborne at the time?
Regarding Starship Flight 5 and the FAA:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/spacex-and-elon-musk-blast-the-faas-red-tape-again/
RTWT. The FAA are a pack of utter bastards who must be taking lessons from CASA which is yet another criminal organisation.
I’m told by a former insider that the only two things discussed at lunch at CASA are “how’s my super going” and ” Who in the industry I managed to screw over this morning”.
Common joke
CASA is not happy unless you are not happy.
?A great Message to quote back at the climate fanatics.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/09/20/the-real-climate-change-deniers-are-those-who-deny-the-climate-changed-before-we-started-burning-fossil-fuels-says-geologist/
Do these blokes get paid to go to work every day???
Secret Service admits its ‘failure’ during Donald Trump assassination attempt, reveals different radio frequency meant Secret Service unaware of shooter on roof
Sky
ASD
“They exhibit an intense and focused preoccupation with limited interests that are often unusual or abnormal in their intensity.”
Greta has switched from climate to jihad, it’s as though the climate is longer the pressing issue it was just a couple of years ago.
Weird.
Celebrity rapper turns out to be accused of pimping, and drug dealing.
I mean, who would expect that?
All that music with such positive, Christian messages!
I think I’m losing faith in humanity.
Sigh.
If you can’t trust the gangster rappers, who can you trust?
We know Van Fatham is on drugs.
But this unhinged screed is 2 pencils up the nose wibble wibble fingerpainting with poo all over the place.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/22/yes-more-australians-should-have-access-to-ivf-but-talk-of-a-fertility-problem-has-the-the-scent-of-old-patriarchy
The review recommends establishing uniform national fertility law, guaranteeing equal rights for same-sex and single-by-choice birthing parents and ditching the ridiculous must-be-unpregnantly-banged-for-a-year current definition of “infertility” (yes, true). It also proposes an expansion of reproductive health services and removing economic barriers to accessing reproductive care.
Awesome, lets subsidise the group with the worst outcomes for kids … single mums.
IVF is a conundrum for leftist hags.
On the one hand it involves disposing of dozens of unused fetuses, on the other there is the risk it brings new life into the world.
On balance, they’d like you to do it, but feel really bad about it.
Optimally, I think they’d like more research into how babies could be incubated in rectums.
Clementine Ford’s nearest rival in the stupidity stakes.
Does Israel turning its attention to the north indicate that it considers the situation in the south to be coming under control?
Take 2. Stinking buggy website, sorry DB need to vent.
As a lowly geo I jagged an invite to the 2 RAR INTERFET reunion recovery at the See View Hotel thru s mate.
Could be a long long long arvo…
33deg here beautiful spring day.
The more I read the offerings of of mtf trans on the internet the more obvious it becomes that most of them are porn addicted autogynephils.
“Autogynephilia is defined as a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female”
Why are you always carrying water for them Monty?
No dick, he feels like one?
Griffith was mooted by the QLD government as an extension of UQ for boomer kids right on the cusp of the cultural revolution of the late ’60s.
By the time it was opened it was ’75 and the long march was underway.
A mate did an Arts degree there in the late ’70s. I remember him showing me the texts – full on counter-cultural crap. Despite this miseducation he went on to build a successful business as a media entrepreneur.
No Shakespeare or Chaucer for him eh.
No. But in QLD at least we did those in high school in those days.
Same in NSW
“Trans Activists Set Off Explosion in Attempt to Sabotage Conference Critical of Gender Ideology”
Hahaha its just another tin of Heinz
https://reduxx.info/france-trans-activists-set-fire-to-venue-in-attempt-to-sabotage-conference-critical-of-gender-ideology/
so not murder as no intent, but it surely is manslaughter and dangerous driving
As does anyone with a medical condition which is likely to impair driving.
The mantra for diabetics is “over five before you drive”.
That is, blood glucose should be above 5.0 mmol/L before you drive.
But it is not required by law.
Below 4.0 is considered hypoglycaemic territory, but 5.0 gives a bit of a margin.
No excuse with the BGM technology available today (which this guy had, but chose to ignore).
There is something very suss about this case.
Kidneys have recovered enough to come off Insulin and go back on Metformin (type 2 diabetic) – woohoo.
Until I was on insulin I never had a hypo, I have had about 10 in the last 3 months. After the first one, I knew what it felt like if my bg was 5.2 or lower and tested myself ( no continuous monitor here ), only once did it drop under 4, only because food I had ordered took a little longer than expected to come out.
That arsehat should be charged. A drunk/drugged driver can’t get away with ” I was so drunk/high I didn’t know what I was doing”. Funnily enough, being drunk/high is a mitigating factor for other crimes … It shouldn’t be either.
Possibly. It does have the smell of Victoriastan justice about it. I don’t think he’s quite out the woods yet. The timing of VicPlod’s arrest on the Easy St murders was fortuitous. I’m sure it was just a coincidence.
Sure is. Connections perhaps.
The pager attack in Hezbuttallah, reminded me that we are open to obvious threats . Jamesw Patterson has been banging on abnout security cameras from china, and for that matter, solar panels, EVs, Phones, etc etc. We are more wide open than hookers at a WEF Davos convention.
if the israelis did indeed put a fix on the pagers and other infrastructure of hezbolaknuts, then we would be far easier to fool, given we are so utterly open and trusting.
Hairy, who has expertese in computer security matters, thinks they’ve worked out a way to use code to overheat the lithium batteries. Of course they are happy to have people think it was due to hand-loading explosives.
Rosie
September 22, 2024 12:59 pm
Actually, come to think of it, I haven’t seen m0nster for a couple of days.
You’re keeping track?
I have met four blokes on the Cat. All addicted to porn. Married men and all.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
You think you know your beloved?
Talk to me sancho. You want at it! Do it! Long time coming.
You bullied me for years. I now have a voice. Come on!
You were Leigh Lowe back then.
Don’t know if anyone else has seen this but…
Mission: Incompetent
Oh God! That was pee worthy. 😀
You are a hoot! Lol
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My father died recently.
The best memory was deep sea fishing. We went off the coast of the Bay of Plenty in Tauranga, New Zealand.
I asked to jump off the boat. My father allowed me to. We were way off the coast. He said he would put the shark detector on. I swam. It was exhilarating.
On the way back the motor died. Dad put me on a crate to see over the top of the steering wheel
He said, see that light on the horizon … focus on that. Don’t take your focus off it. I steered the boat, focusing on the point he told me to.
I cried. I was 12. I made him proud. To cut a long story short, I made my dad happy.
RIP
My dad loves fishing. He’s very close to putting down his line for the last time though. But 88 is a fine innings.
My dad lost limbs. I hadn’t seen him for years. He was in his 90s. Longevity on his side.
Love the memory of catching a fish, scaling it, gutting it and cooking it.
My dad has a sink set up behind his garage. He mostly catches fish like whiting and blackfish these days. He cleans them at the sink and the local magpies have worked this out.
He now gets 18 of them when he cleans and guts his fish – they get the various bits, like fish innards, heads and the backbone.
I have infected my old dad with the bird disease… 😀
The bird disease? Lol
Get vaxed!
It’s a nice disease. Today so far I’ve had the beautiful lady from yesterday on my hand twice. The other two in the clan also arrived this morning. I hope I’ll get a chance to make friends with the kids!
(My dad for a long time had a satin bowerbird male who had a bower about 10m from his kitchen window. Much fine viewing! Especially when the rival males would come and demolish the bower.)
I loathe bowerbirds. Years ago I was gardening & took off a wonderful Lapis Lazuli (which is a blue semi-precious stone) ring which I bought in Egypt. I put it on the fence & it was snitched by a damn bower bird!
Get my email from Dover. Don’t be frightened, the fact I had an affair with a God loving, Turnbull libertarian. Oy vey!
Rubbish. You live in an alternative mental universe.
UN General Assembly Votes to Make Old Jerusalem Jew-Free – Orders Jews Out of the Old City
What a farking disgraceful act by Australia.
Gareth Evans in the Oz – 17 September 2024
Paul Keating, Bob Carr and I seem to have jangled a few security establishment nerves with our critique of the AUKUS submarine deal as having profound negative implications for Australia’s security and sovereignty.
Our former colleagues and advisers Kim Beazley, Paul Dibb, Mike Pezzullo, and the US Study Centre’s Peter Dean, were in full war-cry mode in The Weekend Australian. And they have now been joined by ANU’s John Blaxland, currently seconded to the Australian Embassy in Washington.
Our critique, much of which has either been misrepresented or ignored in these responses, has five basic elements.
One, there is zero certainty of the timely delivery of the eight AUKUS boats. Both the US and UK have explicit opt-out rights. Even in the wholly unlikely event that everything falls smoothly into place, we will be waiting 40 years for the last boat to arrive, posing real capability gap issues.
Two, even acknowledging the superior capability of nuclear-propelled submarines, making large assumptions about their continued detectability advantages, and accepting for the sake of argument the utility of “deterrence at a distance”, how useful will this eight-boat fleet actually be for Australia’s defence? When, given usual operating constraints, only two of them will be deployable across our vast maritime environment at any one time.
Third, even assuming the eye-watering cost of these boats is fiscally manageable, it will make much harder the acquisition of other capabilities — in particular, state-of-the-art missiles, aircraft and drones — arguably even more important than submarines for any kind of self-reliant capacity in meeting an invasion threat, were one ever to arise.
Four, the price now being demanded by the US for giving us access to its nuclear propulsion technology — achieving what is now described as fleet “interchangeability”, not just “interoperability” — has become indefensibly high.
The conversion of Stirling into a major base for a US Indian Ocean fleet will mean Perth now joining Pine Gap and the North West Cape, and probably the B-52 base at Tindal, as a potential nuclear target. It is hard to conceive of Australia ever being a target of any kind of Chinese military attack short of our being sucked into fighting alongside the US in a war not of our making, and manifestly not in our national interest. But that prospect is now very real. given the abdication of Australian sovereign agency inherent in the AUKUS decision as it has evolved.
Five, the purchase price we are now paying, for all its exorbitance, will never be enough to guarantee the absolute protective insurance that supporters of AUKUS think they are buying.
ANZUS, it cannot be said too often, does not bind the US to defend Australia, even in the event of existential attack. We can rely on military support if the US sees it in its own national interest to offer it, but not otherwise.
The issue that most troubles me, Keating and Carr in all of this — and which most seems to enrage AUKUS defenders — is what we see as the loss of Australian sovereign independence that’s necessarily involved. Those who deny that this is even an issue like Dean, or ignore it entirely like Blaxland, are simply defying reality.
And those who accept the reality of our loss of sovereign agency, but actually applaud it as a price worth paying for our protection — such as Beazley, Dibb and Pezzullo — seem to have lost not only any sense of national pride, but of Australia’s national interest.
Dean makes the risible claim that I and my colleagues are “claiming an elaborate conspiracy theory” in “asking people to ignore the statements of their own government about us having control of these (submarine) capabilities”.
Of course, our government will insist that it retains control as to how these assets are used, as will always be the case on paper. But the reality, should serious tensions erupt, will be very different.
It defies credibility to think that Washington will ever go ahead with its sale of Virginias to us in the absence of an understanding that they will join the US in any fight in which it chooses to engage anywhere in our region, particularly over Taiwan. Are we all just meant to ignore Kurt Campbell’s indiscreet observation at the time of the AUKUS announcement that “we have them locked in now for the next 40 years”? I have had personal ministerial experience of being a junior allied partner of the US in a hot conflict situation — the first Gulf War in 1991 — and my recollections are not pretty.
Even more troubling is the uncritical acceptance by Beazley, Dibb and Pezzullo of the loss of sovereign agency which they acknowledge, with varying degrees of frankness, is necessarily involved in our embrace of the AUKUS submarine project. Pezzullo goes so far as to cheer what he describes as a “‘pooling of sovereignty’ in the face of a belligerent China”.
All this is not just depressing, but sickening, for all those Australians who have long nurtured the belief that we are a fiercely independent nation, ever more conscious of the need to engage constructively, creatively and sensitively with our own Indo-Pacific neighbourhood. And a country which had put behind us the “fear of abandonment” which had been so central to our defence and diplomacy for so much of the last century: recognising, as Paul Keating continues to put it so articulately, that we need to find our security in Asia, not from Asia.
For all practical purposes, our AUKUS commitment may well now be irreversible. But so too is likely to be the judgment that this will prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions Australia has ever made.
Saw that when the Oz ran it. Laughed.
When you find yourself grouped with Keating and Used Carr you should probably stop and ask yourself where you’ve gone wrong. Biggles is not missed.
Evans got a leg over Cheryl Kernot. That says everything about his character.
In spite of a few of Evans’ arguments having some validity, the very prospect of agreement with the likes of Gareth Evans and Bob Carr – let alone the Machiavellian spectre of Paul Keating (!) – is just too sickening to contemplate.
This, from the Lotus Eaters, is essential viewing.
The Headless Tyrant
Gosh, almost 30,000 views in 9 hours, impressive. Wish the day had 48 hours…..
Trying to do a deep dive on the Diddy allegations, but I can’t understand a word they’re saying.
Does anyone here speak jive?
I think there is new term that replaced ‘jive’ in the ‘hood.
It’s called ‘ebonics’.
Much as I detest Evans et. al. they have a point about sovereignty.
As for Perth becoming a nuclear target…meh.
I accept the principle, but absent the plausible means to defend our sovereignty ourselves, it’s taking one hell of a risk to eschew such partnerships and just hope for the best… it’s not like these clowns are suggesting we slash welfare to fund a sovereign defence.
Just kidding, Perthians.
😀
Phew. Losing Kwinana might not be a bad idea. Sneakers territory.
Nullarbor will look after the mushroom cloud like it does with starlings.
Bizarre and repulsive behaviour from a defence lawyer in the Pélicot case.
https://x.com/helenstaniland/status/1837599224466211185?t=CcOlfkmdA0DLUvH3TBTZYw&s=19
Kamala Crashes and Burns Even With Oprah As Co-Pilot
Oh my lordy.
The Seaview Hotel is (or was) unrivalled – absolutely unrivalled – as a Sunday session venue.
Godspeed, RD.
80’s joke: Why does Gareth Evans always book 2 seats on a plane?
One for himself and one for his ego.
Cheryl was impressed.
Adam Bandt knows the danger of getting into bed with the government.
Gareth Evans at last leaves a positive mark on international affairs, as thanks to his refined involvement, this sounds as polished & urbane as it would have on the original directive written in Mandarin.
His “positive” mark was the “Responsibility to Protect” theory or doctrine that probably encouraged western intervention in some shitholes, leading to much death and destruction, but not much positive.
If that “Doctrine” is not by now thoroughly discredited, it should be.
So whats the odds on one 9or more) of the 3 mentioned in numberwangs article being the Chinese agent of influence ASIO decided we didnt need the name of?
Bullseye! The odds would be so near to 100% that the margin would be ungraphable.
ASIO is our own alphabet agency. See also IBAC, ICAC et al.
Given that the Ukraine war is being fought on both sides with obsolete equipment that would otherwise have cost a fortune to dispose of safely, I’m highly suspicious of the entire enterprise at this point.
That men are being blown apart in vehicles decades older than they are, by munitions past expiration, over land that doesn’t seem worth a shit…
Um, no, they aren’t fighting with “obsolete equipment”. Exactly the opposite.
The advance of drone technology in the last two years has been breathtaking. Ukraine is now the world leader in that war tech. Russia is second.
We here in Australia are in the previous century in this aspect. We’re screwed.
I was in the Ukraine decades ago. I recall that it was then thought of as the “breadbasket” for the Ruskies.
You can tell Prenti Downs Station ( look it up on Google Earth ) has had some good rain this year. Lots of green to be seen. I’d love to spend a couple of months up there. People from around the globe have said the same.
Kudod to the blokes going up there to harvest the flesh*
*Don’t watch this clip if you are squeamish. Camels are a pest that need to be controlled.
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Jack Out The Back:
Last Camels in the Chiller
Arky, I know what you mean & totally agree, while acknowledging that’s actually some of the (if not the) best soil on this planet.
Just discovered you can’t completely delete a comment.
404 for me, calli
Snap! I found this out only yesterday.
Had an excellent meme too. Never mind.
I am a fecked unit.
Did rehab for $1,000 a day. Saw high profile peeps. No one is exempt.
I see kunck feck criticising a celebrity for his choices in addiction.
Any criticism; you don’t understand the addiction on the brain. And you were a pig, knuck feck.
No insight.
Demons.
Knuckle fecker, you and sancho are an inch away from my trauma.
Yeah. Downtick me sancho and knuckle feck. Speak to me. Why do I offend you? No balls to speak to me? Come on. Put it out there. I hurt your feelings. Why?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/kamala-harris-faces-fierce-criticism-cnn-could-this/
Easing her out so the Hildebeast can move in?
You get the impression Barry wasn’t on board the Kamala train from Day 1.
Saw a map the other day of the mineral resources in Ukraine. Huge in the east and south, significant elsewhere and great agricultural land.
Eastern Europe was the source of many of the slaves for Egypt and Rome. For a long time it was a white business.
What ‘primary source facts’ could conclusively show that a different approach was avail or preferable in early ’39, or immediately after the Fall of Poland, etc. ?
At which times Churchill was not PM.
The debate here is more than about Churchill, even though he was the most prominent opponent of Chamberlain’s approach before Sept ’39, and after was again First Lord of the Admiralty and in the War Cabinet.
Also, the etc. includes the period from May ’40.
Eastern Ukraine is worthless.
Bunch of peasant huts and Soviet era brutalist concrete flats full of toothless old women.
You could buy the entire joint for what slipped down between the cushions of Trump’s limo.
No, this game is about something else. Or somethings else.
Oh, dear.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-22/marxist-politician-leads-sri-lanka-s-presidential-vote/104381728
No doubt, promises of free stuff and prosperity for all characterised the campaign.
Looks like Sri Lankans are about to get it, good and hard.
“You can Vote your way into Socialism but you have to shoot your way out.”
Good ol’ ALPBC stating that Sri Lanka had a “problem”, in ’22.
Absolutely no mention that GREEN policies destroyed that years harvest. That was why the country couldn’t buy fuel and food.
Turds.
Well spotted.
And the ABC collective will be orgasming at the thought.
Correct.
Agenda Free TV:
Israel Hezbollah Fighting – LIVE Updates & Breaking News Coverage (Fears of War in Lebanon)
And not a lot different from US interests in Syria not being about ‘democracy’.
Oops.
Link here.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/australian-taxpayer-funded-free-healthcare-for-gaza-visitor-visa-holders.html
I hate to break it to you, Zulu, but we’re funding the whole shebang, including the living allowance that the Red Cross ostensibly provides.
And you can be sure none of these people are living in a tent or a car.
I bought VPN this morning – Proton – 7day free trial.
This afternoon, got an email that my trial period was over, and the funds were being deducted from my bank account.
I’m sick of these people who give you a free period and then are uncontactable to cancel.
Looks like a drive into Longreach tomorrow and have a rant at the girls at The Commonwealth bank.
After the Proton VPN trial period, it will be activated, and they take your funds.
I use Proton, they are very reliable
And I removed the software after 8 hours of nagging by Proton to upgrade my account.
I do not put up with nagging software – it was one of the reasons I tried Proton.
I won’t tolerate it in a wife, and I certainly won’t tolerate it on my computer.
Speaking of Israel and the garbage protesting and threatening Jews here…a question from my granddaughter…
Why do we have men with guns at school?
This is where our country is right now, you bwave servants of terror.
Having seen these gentlemen on the job, looking 100% business, I suspect the bwave servants of terror will be drawn to easier targets. If not, straight to the statutory 72 virgins, Do Not Pass Go.
What a state of affairs…
Allow me to upset a few regular posters.
Wheat?
Pffft.
With reference to Gareth Gareth Evans pontificating on AUKUS, to the extent that he made any useful contribution, his “positive” mark was the “Responsibility to Protect” theory or doctrine that probably encouraged western intervention in some shitholes, leading to much death and destruction, but not much positive.
If that “Doctrine” is not by now thoroughly discredited, it should be.
…waits…
That’s been happening for quite a while.
It’s officially been the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka since 1972 and socialism is enshrined in the constitution.
They’re stuck in the post-colonial Marxist mire.
Seeing the writing on the wall, anyone with any get up and go got up and left, starting with the burghers in the ’70s, quite a few of whom came to Australia.
Death gluten?
Apparently wheat farmers are too phlegmatic to respond to trolling.
bucolic indifference
Viva Frei looks at a video of demorat jamie raskin outlining what the demorats are going to do after Trump wins in November. Viva points out the irony of the demorats accusing Trump of being a threat to democracy (9 mins):
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New Bombshell – This is Why They Try to Silence RFK Jr
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FdPqhlVTjZo
October 7 … and 9 changed my life.
Yes. Get emotional. But noone gets the trauma. Cassie comes close. Sorry, Cassie. I am coming across as a fecked up unit. No one understands.
Spent part of today on a stall at the local picnic races, and I am pleased to announce the return of the micro mini skirt, worn by some seriously shapely young ladies, indeed…
pictures?
Minis are wonderful on the young and shapely.
Unfortunately, they are often worn by Michelle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simatCov_SM
At the Maroochydore Markets lots of minis, mostly on the shapely, but there were several shockers including a lady who very obviously qualifies for a Seniors card.
Like the rest of the trash who run this country, I expect this incompetent clown is immune to pressure (Paywallian):
We’ll see.
?
A cynic might aver that he’s been failing upwards his entire career.
What’s next…an overseas posting courtesy Albanese?
Ambassador to Yemen?
He should resign. He is not up to the job. He has brought the name of a respected unviersity into disrepute. And he has gravely wronged Jewish students. Goodbye.
My biggest issue with AUKUS is that it is a vehicle for Grift across the government, corporates and unions for multiple generations. I will be very surprised if any subs are delivered before 2040. Imagine the cost blow outs as well.
Let’s say we could eliminate the grift.
Would you be satisfied that the issues around sovereignty and strategic value to our defence were adequately resolved?
Must we tie Australia’s defence for the next several generations to the strategic agenda of a declining hegemon whose domestic political situation is unstable, to say the least?
Is that the best we can do and is it in our long term national interest?
I would prefer invest in small scale, large scale and swarm drone warfare. Something that is flexible and can be used on any scale of warfare.
And lots of guided missiles, aerodynamic and ballistic, linked with long range reconnaissance systems.
Random fact.
Twenty (20) boxes of ‘Cocaine for external application’ were damaged by water and written off by the Japanese 67th L of C Hospital at Giruwa, Papua, in September, 1942.
[ATIS Enemy Publication No. 24, via the U.S. National Archives].