Open Thread – Weekend 21 Sept 2024


Picnic Under The Trees, Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1895

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 6:41 pm

Flying Renewable Death news (the Hun):

Victorian farmers are being told to wear hard hats on their properties as shards of sharp plastic fly off brand new wind turbines.

Of course they are.

Locals in Victoria’s rural west have reported finding pieces of wind turbines, including serrated trailing edges, in the vicinity of the $3 billion green-energy project.

Owners of the federal and state government-backed Golden Plains Wind Farm — 65km northwest of Geelong — contacted neighbouring landowners earlier this month to warn them about “blade serration detachment” following wild winds.

And:

Western Victoria Liberal MP Bev McArthur, who raised the issue in parliament last week, said her constituents were finding pieces as far as 750 metres from the turbines.

“One of my constituents, Russell Coad, found these serrated trailing edges 750 metres from the turbine on his farm, and other pieces fell within metres of the Barunah CFA fire shed,” she said.

“The extreme weather event which caused this problem for the turbines was — you have guessed it — wind.”

Surely not. Wind turbines damaged by wind?

Our betters wouldn’t have – you know – lied, would they?

Indolent
Indolent
September 21, 2024 6:45 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 21, 2024 6:47 pm
132andBush
132andBush
September 21, 2024 6:48 pm

The critique of Churchill might attract more credulity if it was backed up with some primary source facts instead of fever dreams.

JC
JC
September 21, 2024 6:55 pm

Ellie

September 21, 2024 6:45 pm

Reply to  Steve trickler

Yeah. I am very thin skinned. First to admit it.

Okay try this. Was there a common trait that you saw in murderers during your time?

Ellie
Ellie
September 21, 2024 6:57 pm

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.

JC
JC
September 21, 2024 7:04 pm

Ellie

September 21, 2024 6:48 pm

Reply to  Steve trickler

No, not really. It’s one-sided. Numbers and Monty can’t post without being piled on. The echo is … ouch

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 7:06 pm

Was there a common trait that you saw in murderers

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.

Roger
Roger
September 21, 2024 7:13 pm

Victorian farmers are being told to wear hard hats on their properties as shards of sharp plastic fly off brand new wind turbines.

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.

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JC
JC
September 21, 2024 7:15 pm

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.

JC
JC
September 21, 2024 7:28 pm

Yep, I’m asking you.

Indolent
Indolent
September 21, 2024 7:29 pm

@robinmonotti

THERE IS NO MAN MADE CLIMATE CRISIS AND THIS IS THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

“The timeline, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most rigorous reconstruction of Earth’s past temperatures ever produced, the authors say.”

The timeline shows we are at a historically cold low, no wonder then that there may be warming, and that therefore if the planet heated up considerably before homo sapiens even existed, it is not likely at all that the reason for any warming is really man.

Pogria
Pogria
September 21, 2024 7:29 pm

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

Pogria
Pogria
September 21, 2024 7:41 pm
Roger
Roger
September 21, 2024 7:50 pm

Retired border chief ordered to not report border crossers with ties to terrorism

‘We have no idea who and what entered our country’

‘Retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said he was instructed by the Biden administration to not publicize arrests of illegal border crossers identified as “Significant Interest Aliens” with ties to terrorism.

Heitke testified before a U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Wednesday about how Biden-Harris “open border policies have undermined our safety and security.”

“We had an exponential increase in Significant Interest Aliens … with significant ties to terrorism,” illegally entering in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection San Diego Sector, he said.

Prior to the Biden-Harris administration, the sector averaged 10 to 15 SIAs per year. “Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023 and more than that this year,” he said.’

The Centre Square

I wonder if border security was on the agenda of Albanese’s 90 minute meeting with Biden today?

Pogria
Pogria
September 21, 2024 7:55 pm

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.

Rabz
September 21, 2024 7:58 pm

Kitties gorn!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 21, 2024 8:11 pm

Kitties gorn!

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.

Rabz
September 21, 2024 8:28 pm

That would be the Sydney Türkiyes, thanks very much.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 21, 2024 8:32 pm

Kitties gorn!

I do this.

Squeeze – Cool For Cats (1979)

  1. 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

  2. Kitties gorn! Yep. The Dangerfields, aka Geelong, have rightly been consigned to the stinking bin of also-rans for the season.…

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