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I can rub my belly and pat my head at the same time.
Did you trade in the gas guzzler JC and if you did how much.
Wally Dalí
September 23, 2024 7:19 pm
This is standard procedure during litigation:
It has a sound basis in fairness and expediting cases by settlement before court.
Assume I say something defamatory about Elon Musk.
He sues me.
I immediately see the error of my ways, apologise and make a generous settlement offer.
However, he decides he is going to break me by running a long-winded case with a battalion of lawyers racking up costs of hundreds of thousands per day.
Should I be bound to pay his costs in pursuing a settlement which is no better than I offered at the outset?
Makes sense in a civil case, this isn’t. If I am accused of murder and am acquitted do I get costs from the government?
Agree. Given the massive power inbalance surely the State must be held to a higher standard in such cases (if only the courts weren’t largely complicit).
Where is the most societal harm?, possibly encouraging non-settlement when an ‘offer’, any offer, is made; or shoring up a retrospective administrative ‘cure’ to wrongful arrest.
That said, she should probably not have represented herself.
Change the caption to ” genocided” numberwang.
Ironic the ” survivors” are only around because the noble savages sold their women to them.
In the 2016 census, some 23,000 Tasmanians – some 4.6 % – of the population – identified as Aboriginal. Genocide?
Saw Beetlejuice 2.
(Don’t. See Beetlejuice again instead.)
Keaton can act, and lip sync, but demasculates his old original character by chasing the lame script.
Ryder spends the film in a pained rictus.
Ortega does deadpan without botox, which apparently makes her The Next Big Thing.
Bellucci is wasted, barely shares a soundstage with any other character. Theroux does a piss funny Seagal, whats-her-name does a piss funny Marina Abramovic, but, wasted on a Hallmark-schmaltzy denoument and endless hours of spoken exposition.
It is amusing to read of the trials of the inner city folk and their pets being held to ransom about foxes. In rural Victoria, every wild dog is a dingo, ergo untouchable. Pity the farmers.
Dingoes are an introduced species from 4,000 years ago. Mention that to the Greens and indigenes and they will become apoplectic.
Yep – introduced with the most recent wave of pre-European colonisers, both the humans and the dogs originally from South India, I understand.
50 minutes into Horizon An American Saga. I thought Yellowstone and its offshoots were tough.
Started watching this a couple of months ago and it’s better in small doses. Slower than a politician’s funeral but a tad more enjoyable.
Just watch “How the West was won” again – it’s 50 times the movie Costner’s unwatchable dross turned out to be.
I gave up on it after an hour or so, that’s an hour I’ll never get back.
Harris Allies Continue Calling Trump ‘Threat to Democracy’
Transition to hyperinflation has already begun: The Fed’s own charts show dollar’s purchasing power nearing zero – Lynette Zang
Our So-called ‘Experts’ and their Silly Group-speak Letters
Mystery of Andrew Bridgen’s vanishing votes
Lots of winning for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon atm.
https://x.com/Osint613?t=b7hXdNSXQjYMw8dt4UgegQ&s=09
The usual.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-16/dingoes-protected-wild-dog-control-ends-in-north-west-victoria/103591516
With every bullet fired, they are out of pocket$. .Gov contributes nothing.
What I would like to see is the ADF become involved in helping out. In the field, in the heat, dealing with the flies and help make a dent. Millions of camels out there.
I know, wishful thinking. It would be a whole lot better compared to firing at a target at a firing range.
Just saying.
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Jack Out The Back:
Camel Control Air Mobilised
They did that on feral cats in SW Queensland about 40 years ago. Got some monsters!
An army friend of mine mentioned that. He said his dogs would be no competition for some of those feral cats. Cats of all kinds have amazing reflexes, so fast they can easily fend off snake lunges.
Sanchzer, maybe that scenario of megabuck defamation cases- and their close cousins, the loss of future earning megabucks- is a symptom of a rapacious court culture and the Vogon sect of legal parasites…
…it’s certainly not a justification, and certainly doesn’t add any honour to the lil’ guy, who is paying Danegeld.
You might be onto something …
Here’s Why Legal Documents Are So Hard to Understand, According to Science : ScienceAlert
It is rarely a lawyer who is a party to a proceeding. Defamation does tend to attract the “It’s the principle” crowd, as is on full display with the Brittany Blob. The common law is essentially around dispute resolution. If you chew up court time and resources and fail to achieve an outcome as good as a previous offer – tough luck. I agree with the argument that in many cases the process is the punishment, something Codes of Conduct, the law itself and practice and procedure can only do so much when the State is on the other side. Whining about lawyers is unhelpful.
Closing thought-
I’m breathing a sigh of relief- Oprah Winfrey was probably the only hypothetical candidate who might be able to perform against Trump without debasing her own glamour, and mobilize enough voters to get herself over the line-
but she’s now complicit in the Harris sham. Ninety minute interview, seems the big O did little more than wave through a helluva lotta verbal garbage from Madam Vice, and let plenty of big porkies past too.
The link to article about Andrew Bridgen votes is interesting. I remember at time of election specifically checking that result and being shocked at how few votes he had got despite being a long term popular MP.
For those who don’t know he was the most outspoken UK MP in relation to vaccine issues.
Having friends with different interests and tastes in life can introduce you to people and events you never heard of.
Sometimes good, other times maybe not.
Here is one singer I never heard of but wish I had done so earlier.
Definitely would not be a part of Rabz’s repertoire.
Jean Ritchie.
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Jean Ritchie, often called the “Mother of Folk,” was a singer, songwriter, and dulcimer player whose music captured the soul of Appalachian life. Born in 1922 in the small town of Viper, Kentucky, Jean was the youngest of 14 children in a family steeped in the traditions of old-time music.
From a young age, she was surrounded by the rich sounds of ballads, hymns, and mountain songs passed down through generations.
Growing up in the Cumberland Mountains, Jean learned the songs of her ancestors by heart. Her family’s front porch was her first stage, and the haunting, unadorned melodies of her youth became the foundation of her life’s work.
After graduating from college, she moved to New York City in the 1940s, where she became part of the burgeoning folk revival scene. There, she met and performed alongside legends like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Alan Lomax, bringing her Kentucky roots to a wider audience.
Jean’s music was distinct not only for its authenticity but for the stories it told. Her songs like “Black Waters,” which protested strip mining, and “The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore,” which lamented the decline of rural Appalachia, were deeply personal yet universally resonant. With her clear, lilting voice and simple dulcimer accompaniment, Jean transported listeners to a world of hard work, heartache, and enduring beauty.
Beyond her own songwriting, Jean Ritchie played a vital role in preserving traditional Appalachian music. She collected and recorded countless folk songs that might otherwise have been lost to time, ensuring that the voices of her ancestors would be heard by future generations. Her work helped shape the folk music landscape, inspiring countless artists who followed.
Jean Ritchie’s legacy is one of preserving and celebrating the culture of Appalachia. She wasn’t just a musician; she was a storyteller, a teacher, and a bridge between the past and the present. Her songs continue to echo through the hills she loved so dearly, reminding us of the power of music to connect us to our roots and each other.
She certainly left her mark on Appalachian culture and history, don’t ya think?
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A sample of her music.
Thank you for that introduction – gorgeous voice.
Oops, here is her pic.
Perhaps overdoing it a bit?
Saving the earth?
Johannes Leak.
He captures Pong’s sneering contempt and hatred perfectly.
Mean Girl. One of the worst of the worst.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
She is 90 and looking good.
Swiss resident Sophia Loren celebrates 90th birthday
Old photo I have friends who are plastic surgeons not the cosmetic ones and we have been looking at her photos for years All the work collapses as you age .
I understand not all are Crowder fans. So be it.
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Steven Crowder:
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Steve, many think that we have unlimited time to sit and watch over an hour of blokes talking to pad out a ten minute show to over an hour.
I’m not one of them.
It isn’t that I don’t like Crowder, but I have better things to do with my time – especially when they refuse to subtitle their shows.
It’s always up to the individual if they want to watch. You know that.
I dont watch TV in any shape or form. Finding an hour is easy for me. A lot of times I have such shows running in the background on the big screen. I’m not glued to the screen per say.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
INFO ALBO’S ANTI-SPEECH DREAM IS A US IMPORT
TIM BLAIR
24 Sep 2024
Instead of using new laws to counter dangerous misinformation and disinformation, the Albanese government should try a simpler and much less expensive approach.
It should sack itself. After all, being among the nation’s largest sources of mis and disinfo, Albo and co surely must just up and go.
And it’s not as though the Albanese government doesn’t qualify for self-punishment, given that it swamps our online environment with absolute megalitres of the ol’ mis-n-dis.
Labor does what it condemns. Online platforms, according to the government, “serve as a vehicle for the spread of misleading or false information that is seriously harmful to Australian’s health, safety, security and wellbeing”. (Incidentally, that misplaced possessive apostrophe is as originally published. Albo’s mob wants to control your language, but they don’t even know how to use it.)
Here’s a perfect example of what Labor might describe as misleading or false information. Late in 2021, prior to the following year’s federal election, Anthony Albanese told a press conference that electricity prices under Labor would “fall from the current level by $275 for households by 2025”.
Asked how he thought this was possible, Albanese replied: “I don’t think, I know. I know because we have done the modelling.”
With Play Doh, apparently. The Prime Misinformer has kept to that low standard ever since.
Remember his parliamentary slur against proponents of nuclear energy? “No one loves a reactor like a reactionary,” Albanese told parliament, evidently forgetting that non-reactionary Labor PM Bob Hawke had been a longstanding member of Team Atomic.
“Nuclear power would be a win for the environment,” Hawke declared in 2016. “It would be a win for the global environment and a win for Australia.”
He’s now in the afterlife, but Hawke would still avoid Labor’s misinformation gulag.Not so sure about Albo, though.
Not sure, either, about Albo’s cabinet colleagues, especially those who think they can shoot down pronuclear arguments with decades-old Simpsons cartoons of three-eyed fish.
Those cartoons came from the US, which is where Labor and the rest of the Australian left these days obtain all of their bad ideas.
Campaigning against free speech is just the latest. US President Joe Biden and the conscious members of his administration have been crying about terrible freedom for years.
“Another day, another White House ‘disinformation’ task force,” the New York Post reported in 2022.
“The Biden administration on Thursday created a new internet policy task force – this one led by Vice President Kamala Harris – with goals including ‘developing programs and policies’ to protect ‘political figures’ and journalists from ‘disinformation,’ ‘abuse’ and ‘harassment’.”
A quick learner, presidential candidate Harris now protects herself from scary “harassment” by expertly dodging any potentially challenging interviews – all the while doling out as much unchallenged disinformation as possible about her opponent, Donald Trump.
The US isn’t bringing its finest to this issue, yet Labor is lapping it up. “We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment,” US baby commie Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ordered in 2021, using the Capitol riots as a springboard. “You can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.”
Her tone is indistinguishable from that of Michelle Rowland, our Minister for (Restricted) Communications. “Misinformation and disinformation pose a serious threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy,” Rowland said earlier this month.
“Doing nothing and allowing this problem to fester is not an option.”
Very well. Let’s look back again at the year 2021 to see how President Joe Biden was going, on the subject of Covid. “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalised,” Biden misinformed CNN viewers.
“You’re not going to be in the IC unit, and you’re not going to die … you’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations.”
Vaccinated Biden subsequently caught Covid three times. Happily, he only died from the neck up. Oddly, pushers of information laws can’t imagine ever being subject to such laws themselves.
They can’t conceive of a world where what is initially perceived as misinformation can quickly become fact, and vice-versa.
They can’t picture themselves being vilified as frauds, as they do to others.
And they can’t understand how fantastically laughable it is to have the likes of Albanese and his team deciding to arbitrate our opinions.
Especially when their playbook on this has been handed down from some of America’s most factchallenged, reality-averse and handcuff-happy benders of truth.
Unfortunately Politicians, public servants will be exempt from these laws. For thee, but not for me.
That is how I understand it as well Matey.
That would be some Australians, those of the Labor, Green and Teal persuasions who occupy parliamentary seats. The threats to the rest of us are the proposed laws to protect them. This is the clearest illustration of how the politicians are no longer our representatives but our rulers. Not how the constitution sees it.
Right now, we’re observing the onward march of Australian politics against a background of fear and loathing.There are two prominent threats – climate change and an emerging China. The fear refers to climate change; the loathing to China and its system of government.
Across the two issues we see the two major parties adopting largely opposing positions. It was ever so. In this country for the last twenty years or so, if one party takes a position, the other opposes it.
You could say that this is how it is, how it should be, and how it always will be. Isn’t democracy a contest of ideas? – I hear you say.
Perhaps there is another way of looking at it. If these two issues are about existential threats (and we are told they are) wouldn’t it be a great idea if the two major parties formed a war cabinet to deal with them? This has been successful practice in the face of existential threat in the past.
In the case of energy policy, each party talks about a mix of energy sources, but with one party locked into total renewables, and the other using nuclear as a foil and a point of separation, the investors will be just as confused about the future as they have been for the last decade. Lack of investor confidence will delay any solution to the loss of energy capacity caused by the closure of the coal fired generators.
A bear of little brain would understand that if our elected representatives got together and produced a joint statement, clarity would emerge, and we wouldn’t be stuck on the merry-go-round that got us into the invidious situation that we’re in now. If indeed the various lobbies (both fossil fuel and renewables) understood whatever the carve-up of energy sources provided them, the competition might end up in a draw, and we’d all be better off.
The fear of China has produced nothing of benefit except the AUKUS agreement, that is if you believe that we will ever see these boats actually in the water. Frankly I doubt it, and I’m in good company. The US Studies Centre describes the AUKUS agreement as a “hospital pass”. Given the political volatility evident both in the USA and the UK, there are too many minefields to cross, if you’ll excuse the military metaphor.
More fundamentally, why do we need submarines capable of cruising waters off China and Taiwan, given we are an island, and could build many more modern and stealthy diesel boats that could prowl our littoral and defend our sea lanes for a fraction of the cost? There are those who believe the era of manned boats, nuclear or otherwise, is well and truly over. How many underwater drones could we acquire for the price of one nuclear sub?
More fundamentally, we could give a strong message about our sovereignty to both “friend” and “foe” alike if we separate our fleet from those of countries who seem intent on a policy of containment of China and redirect it towards an emphasis on littoral security. The last time the US attempted to contain an emerging Asian power did not end well. The use of quotes around friend and foe by the way is more than accidental.
Our Westminster system does not hold the formation of political parties as absolutely necessary. They have grown out of a convention largely of convenience, which should ensure stability and consistency. The achilles heel of the party system is paralysis caused by two parties adopting contradictory positions on critical issues. That’s what we’re seeing now.
Perhaps the growth in numbers of independent candidates elected is evidence that the situation is self-correcting. I hope so.
What we’re seeing now is dysfunctional.
you’re dysfunctional ya starry-eyed fool
listen to you singing Kubayah and heaping all your hopes and dreams and wishes into the bargain
another pile of disconnected gibber
Scroll, scroll. Too many other things to do than to bother with Numbers.
A bloke went to Fort Denison in 1860 fearing climate change. He’s still there living in fear of the rising seas.
😀
Love it, I’m stealing it.
It was bad enough having Monty spewing daily, now we have Numbers as well. “There goes the neighbourhood” indeed.
Wot I said too, Bee, in a scrolling sort of way.
I’m scrolling right past both of them nowadays MuntHead is an unreformable moron and the Numberskull with his long-winded screeds is yawn inducing boring.
It’s like being trapped at a party between a demented alcoholic and your 98yo deaf grandad who tells his war stories on repeat.
Where’s the Mater bat signal?
I sent it out last week. No response, sadly for us.
At least Monster knows how to be brief. Bob fancies himself as an impressive essayist. He could be impressive if he could write more economically. And informatively. And on anything that is interesting. He can’t do any of those. He is just a lefty dullard.
Putting this up as a main comment as well as in a reply to JC . Yesterday I said the same thing as JC today in support of Cassie. My support was offered in a reply I made Ellie’s unhinged slander of Cassie.
I repeat my reply to JC’s support:
“Cassie is a top commenter and Jew on Jew hatred is incomprehensible.
Get lost, Ellie.”
As JC notes, this issue needs to be fully dealt with.
Ellie’s .. er.. unique commentary style is no worse than JC’s historical conduct on this blog.
Ellie’s ‘unique commentary style’ reflects certain aspects of the mental illness that has landed her in hospital at times. I say this as someone with a modicum of professional training and also personal extended familial experience in coping with people in psychotic states. I have every sympathy for Ellie’s miserable illness, but coming here and spewing forth delusional bile, especially about Cassie, won’t help her and is a gross insult to Cassie. Good counselling and medication might do better for Ellie.
I don’t think JC’s past history exhibts such mental states, however else people may wish to characterise it. I like JC and enjoy his commentary but in the past he has hit on others in ways that Dover asks no longer occur. I am sympathetic to some of those ‘others’, as I have been hit on pretty badly myself in times past, though not so much by JC. Ellie isn’t robust enough to defend herself nor bounce back. That is not good.
Shape up Ellie or ship out. From what I hear, the Freedom Furniture site (I don’t go there and have lost the URL) doesn’t mind taking a ‘therapeutic’ role allowing hysterical outbursts slandering others, but it is different here.
What this august journal of records needs is more MX5 posts.
Numbers, simply put.
Nuclear, hydro, gas and coal could each run an entire system without renewables if enough resource existed and was utilised.
Renewable cannot be the sole source of power without backup from the above sources – electrical engineering and systems stuff.
The government has put all the investment incentives into renewables and then we get the inevitable lack of firming supply – gas.
Apart from the absolute necessity of gas underpinning renewables, gas investments are supposed to explore, extract, pipe, store and deliver for the dubious opportunity of being a standby supply when wind, solar and batteries fail to deliver sufficient energy.
You’re right to ask for a bipartisan policy on energy but that’s not possible when Labor are complete dribbling idiots who are steering a renewables titanic straight at the iceberg. There’s more than sufficient warnings from systems and engineering experts but Labor sees the bright lights of political advantage and not the dull reality of running robust and reliable power grid.
Thanks, Farmer Gez, for taking one for the team and replying to Numbers who apparently (I didn’t read his screed) refuses to see any problems with Labor’s headlong rush to a full-on energy disaster. He seems to want ‘co-operation’, the usual crap from people who refuse to see the necessarily adversarial nature of democratic politics. The Opposition is not given this name because they are expected to ‘co-operate’. Labor and the Greens are not by nature co-operative. They are Marxist domineering bullies.
I’ve lived confrontation, Lizzie.
I saw it degenerate to mines, IEDs and napalm.
I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
There is a better way.
And not just that, financial advantages from subsidies for their friends is even a bigger draw. Those friends then kick back donations to those awarding them subsidies, ostensibly for their re-election and continued power and influence. A perfect self-sustaining cycle.
Simply put.
Nobody’s investing in coal.
Nuclear is a quarter of a century down the track.
And you have not addressed the AUKUS issue.
Strangely, we have a bipartisan policy on AUKUS.
I wonder why?
Does the “Communist” trope still have traction?
Even though China hasn’t been “Communist” in a very long time…
lol. And why is that? Because the market is artificially skewed by climate dogma.
There is nothing wrong with good, black Australian coal.
We export enough of it to be certain of that.
Bam. Perfectly encapsulated.
Plus liebore know perfectly well the gutless and incompetent coalition creatures will never overturn any of the country destroying measures they put in place
Given the billions upon billions upon billions of dollars being plastered all over the Australian landscape it’s very evident the “renewables” carpetbaggers are very confident where the rivers of cash are to be found.
It’s also very obvious that so-called “environmentalists” are hypocritically selective about which bits of nature should be saved, and which bits can be sacrificed in exchange for political power and lots of vulgar munni.
The future, full of broken down windmills and shattered poison-filled solar panels, is not pleasant to contemplate. My grandchildren will have to live with that and be involved in the expensive clean up, although much prime agricultural land may never recover.
I love birds, and the depopulation of amazing eagles and other birds by windmill chomping will be a sad legacy too.
Bush takes on the spinner and smacks a slow turner over the ropes.
I am not up on the lingo but it sounds positive and a good thing.
Go Bushie. A great guy, I can vouch for that, after a pleasant Bendigo lunch.
In agricultural news.
As Bush posted earlier, the impact of below zero temperatures last week on crops is continuing to grow.
Seems many southern Mallee crops were badly hit in the flowering stage or had formed grain snap frozen by the cold.
Stem frost damage is now evident as the crop hit turn white. Many that hoped that late stage canola could push through are now opening pods only to find the odd one or two viable seeds.
The mad rush to cut frosted cereal crops for hay begins. Frosted crop doesn’t make the best hay but at least you get a return that would go some way to recovering your outlay once the costs of producing hay are added on top of cropping expenses.
So very sorry to read this Gez.
I hold Farmers as dear as I hold Israel.
Both being treated as Pariahs because they do the right thing, are good at what they do and want to be left in peace to do it. Which, in a just world, benefits many.
That doesn’t sound good, Gez.
Are there any projections of the final crop?
Traffic must be very slow over at the Jelly Beans in the Jungle blog.
NumbNuts is trying to become Blogmeister here, by leeching on Dover’s work in an almost certainly vain (in more than one sense of the word) search for relevance.
C.L.’s absence has made for some very interesting reading. JC doing sterling work over there with a perv apologist.
It always gets back to the children.
That perv apologist is impervious to argument. It acts like an AI chat bot.
Speaking of misinformation, this in from Reuters and blazed on ABC.
No by-line, naturally. I love the scare quotes, and the “hiding out with a gun”. Apparently the writer is of two minds. Maybe the would-be assassin was there to pot bunnies.
Worthy of Minitrue.
Hezbollah’s discriminating rockets now hitting targets on the west bank.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1838229519880101890?t=ASCZvmB7QOvUn_mQgqiE0Q&s=19
Possibly in relation to the above, a short season update.
One word – frost.
I mentioned it last week but now the damage is a lot more evident.
Lentil paddocks 80-100% gone.
Barley thankfully relatively untouched. Only 10% but looks worse from a distance.
Some wheat paddocks 80-100%, some 50%.
Canola 30-40% (My canola is at least 30%)
Not an isolated area either, very widespread.
While with the agronomist last week he showed me the historical data.
This is the 7th time in the last 124yrs a frost has happened at this time. With now the last five within the last 20yrs, the other two being in the early 70’s.
I rejoice in the knowledge of the hundreds of 300m high wind turbines soon to be erected all over the Hay Plains which, I’m assured by our toppest of top men, will bring an end to this catastrophic heating of our land.
Which region is this, 132andbush?
Is it just localised or widespread?
Can you give us a like to a reliable information site, please.
Those wind whirly things are actually dual purpose and will be turned on as blowers to dispel frost when needed. Our betters have cunningly kept this quiet and will only use them when their benevolent magnificence can be best used to political advantage. /sarc
Local farm and business weather records are so important.
When the BOM data has been fully recreated to comply with Government information requirements, this privately held detail, shared and preserved, will be our window on an otherwise erased truth.
Bit like old family bibles used to help historians and genealogists.
Snap, Gez.
“It is critical that Australian consumers are able to rely on the accuracy of pricing and discount claims.”
Adam Smith nods sagely.
Australia is the world capital of scams, monopolies and anti-competitive duopolies.
Given our size, population and place in the world it will probably always be so. We will never enjoy the competition of Europe, the UK and especially the US.
I should add that scams, monopolies and anti-competitive duopolies have their own bastard child, the get-rich-quick scheme, of which Australia is also a world capital. Australia of full of losers trying to get rich quick down a neverending array of gold and opal mining burrows.
Let’s wait till it hits court under the rules of evidence. ACCC record could be described as patchy at best. Old show pony Alan Fels out enjoying the lime light on The Green-Left Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM this morning. With Colesworths it’s less about pricing, more about market power as anyone who has the misfortune to deal with them would know.
Arky
Not if your family motto is “L’Etat est Moi.” Which just so happens to be mine as well.
German Greens.
Monty and Bob’s favourite kind of politicians.
https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1838221007984964059?t=Vcx2IYKhaCEZXeq1Jnm98A&s=19
Which one is blob and which one mutley?
I almost threw up in my mouth.
Giving the Addams Family some real competition.
Vomit inducing.
Have no fear, climate-sensitive producers-
Turning the Hay plains into a turbine array will built [sic] resilience.
Their ABC also assures us mere innumerate non-climate-scientists that it will also- simultaneously!- spew out watts and watts of super cheap discount power, and ALSO rain lotsa lotsa cash on farmers, and ALSO pay for lotsa lotsa regenerative construction jobs, but still with cheapo electrickery, and ALSO give aboriginal sit-down groups the filthy lucre they desperately need to healing on country once and for all. Or, maybe, ongoingly renewable country on country stuff. It’s unclear, but it’s VERY obvious eternal rivers of renewable cash megawatts, so who needs to eat, really? Or even work?
Not the Hay plains. A place that enjoys a special place in the Cat heart. Particularly the truck stop.
“Southern Lebanon is Lebanon. The Bekaa is Lebanon. Dahye is Beirut. They’re not separate entities because Israel says so. Lebanons is tiny. Everything is close. They’re bombing Lebanon. They’re killing Lebanese. They want to reoccupy a piece of our land. They won’t succeed.”
We didn’t do nuffing.
https://x.com/EylonALevy/status/1838228367570587980?t=u4mBa9FoW1xWyvFJV4b-DA&s=19
Symptoms
A smile to start the day. Noice.
Thinking on the ACCC taking ColesWorths to court over misleading ‘discounts” .. Does anyone really think we, the mug shoppers, will be better off ..?
I’m summizing that if it ends up with the duopoly being fined (cos what other punishment is available?) then, over time the fine(s) will still be paid by the shopper thru higher prices ….
Add to that we all know the pair have been doing this for donkeys so why did it take ACCC so long to work it out …….?
WE is gummint and we is here to help …….FFS!
There’s plenty of reason to be suspicious of Colesworths, but I’d observe that they can’t win, if they hold prices down, ACCC investigates their supplier conduct and if they increase prices they are accused of gouging customers. How long before that twit Stephen Miles promises a government owned supermarket with fixed pricing? We know where that would lead.
More evidence Hezbollah is winning.
https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/1838218648894243158?t=D8h0fUxeKQD3_bGUItJGOA&s=19
Rashida Tlaib is perfectly content to see Hezbollah shooting thousands of rockets at tiny Israel killing scores and displacing thousands but when Israel fire back, they are the bad guys.
https://x.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1838216342605799594?t=zKyvE9wN8l6CYreEej3k-Q&s=19
Fetterman on the other hand.
https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1838216833804939291?t=194FRKzY_Uf4tu9wFSFS2w&s=19
It would be far better if there were opportunities for other grocery retailers to enter the Australian market but something is stopping them.
Every modest little town in Ireland has a Supa Value, an Aldi, a Lidl, the bigger ones have a Dunnes and a Tescos as well, perhaps even a M&S.
What’s stopping other chains coming to Australia?
Perhaps the government could look at the barriers to entry instead if fussing about supermarket discounting.
I suspect it comes down to the entry barrier of distribution logistics, Rosie. You could fit 20 Irelands into Queensland by area – and service roughly the same population.
Aldi does well here. I thought Lidl was going to set up shop also but that came to nothing.
On the latest supermarket scam, for scam it is…consumer beware. It’s been going on a long time. Not quite bait and switch, but close.
I had a little conversation with a bloke from TotalTools a month or so ago, when I went to their site and saw what I was after.
Put in an order for one and got a call back –
Then why advertise it?
No your catalogue tells me you have one at that price.
No, the catalogue is for this month.
OK. Lets look at what is happening here. You have advertised a product at a price you don’t have. And now I’m at your site, you think you may just be able to sell me this other one at a higher price. You do realise that’s illegal, don’t you?
The conversation ended there and I couldn’t be bothered taking it further, but should have. I’m over these arsehole scammers.
I do not intend doing business with Total Tools ever again – I don’t trust them.
That is classic bait and switch. Illegal.
If it’s an online catalogue even worse – they can mark “Out of Stock” at a moment’s notice. Triggered by the electronic inventory system.
Lidl had trouble acquiring sites, and councils were making it very difficult for them. They were supposed to be looking at the old Bunnings site at Lakehaven on the Central Coast, but gave up on the site because of council conditions, that was before they gave up entirely.
Colesworths tie up retail sites 2 and 3 years out in newer suburbs. Try getting planning permission for a new supermarket in an established suburb. Aldi has been at it for nearly a decade in one of Perth’s western suburbs. For now supermarkets are a property game although online might change that. I suspect that would substitute a delivery oligopoly for a supermarket oligopoly.
Watching this one with interest. At the moment the Colesworth behemoth dominates home delivery. But there are an emerging group of delivery options – Uber, DoorDash – plus a rash of airtaskers.
I suspect the eventual economics is going to be driven by proximity to a distribution point, cost of doing the picking, and order-size vs transport mode ($1.50 per job gig guys on bikes probably won’t cut it with a 10-bagger $200 shop – even on a short haul).
You may be right in your suspecting.
Long time since you could get 10 bags for $200.
Daughter described a recent scene in Tel Aviv. Sitting in a café, the sirens start. She’s looking around trying to find the fire, others calmly getting up and moving indoors to shelter. They are used to it.
Today, I’m watching traffic chaos in southern Lebanon as people are trying to get out. After a warning, no less. Much, much ree-ing from locals and commentators.
Compare and contrast. They don’t like it up ‘em.
That’s why a threat to hit Tehran with a nuke by Israel will do more economic damage than a real one.
Make the threat, use a Daisy Cutter, or a MOAB and watch the chaos.
It should be enough to topple the mullahs, or give them heart attacks.
Save the nukes for when the time is right.
Wally Dalí September 23, 2024 7:41 pm
You agreed to this horrifying abuse?
Must have been drunk at the time.
I know a good lawyer that can get you off this one, get you a lovely divorce, custody of the kids, all the property and get the harridan certified – all for quite reasonable rates.
And I don’t get any kickbacks for this splendid advice either. That’s because I’m a lovely bloke.
Nurses agitating and striking because pay and conditions.
Speak to the Foreign Minister – she might consider diverting the additional 80 million for Gaza to you!
Nah. Who am I kidding.
Nurses get bloody good money when the total of shift allowances etc get taken into account.
I don’t see what they’re complaining about.
“Nasrallah, your bunker under the Iranian embassy in Beirut is no longer safe.”
Perhaps he should join Sinwar.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1838290672954331286?t=uwnH2BiRkTSUgcOBWZajXw&s=19
Palliwood needs better child actors.
https://x.com/khalidi79397/status/1838286008808349745?t=BHnav6gEx2WGx9asLsi-9g&s=19
Classic. Reminds me of another video I saw once where a group of men were carrying an ‘injured’ person past the news cameras. The men were shouting about the inhumanity and women were wailing. At first pass, it looked as if the injured person was badly hurt.
Unbeknown to the group of men and wailing women, a cameraman followed the group past a wall and thinking they were out of sight, the ‘injured’ man was placed on the ground and stood up! The women stopped wailing and the group stood around talking. A miracle – God himself has intervened. That or it was merely another show for the consumption of the stupid West.
In more positive news, I’m sitting overlooking a beautiful piece of Sydney’s urban bushland. Children delivered to school, time for a cuppa.
A glorious King Parrot just fluttered past and now sits in the tree opposite.
Like the crimson rosella, not one of the local species back home, and I do miss them.
I see our Palli sympathiser is back and twerking the downticks.
Bugger off to Gaza numbskull.
She’s unhappy…
Tlaib Cries ‘Islamophobia’ Over Cartoon Showing Her with Exploded Pager (23 Sep)
Tom linked Henry Payne’s fine toon on the old thread, so I’ll repeat it here:
Germany fed up with islamists.
With the Assad amnesty they could start some high volume remigrations
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1838138595078439225?t=UBsEdgzTxAAGESdfAhGm4Q&s=19
It’s good to see the Germans have had a gutful of the idiots.
Hah! Watch the slag with the black mask being carted off by two of the burly ones. She is desperately trying to keep her mask over her face. Mummy and Daddy may see her on the evening news. bwahahahaha
Interesting that Tim Blair article on Misinformation Bill is not allowing comments.
Joe waiting for Barack to authorise raises for teachers.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1838324251709051045?t=9dDyfKvf7p_UoiHug2cV0Q&s=19
Iran will sit on their hands?
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1838273962880459104?t=xFVnSFgWBw7gDsuWB2XVMw&s=19
The exit of German grocer Kaufland after they’d already bought land for their initial stores should have prompted an inquiry.
It’s hardly fussing if they’ve broken the law.
For the ABC, whatever Israel does is a crime:
In ME correspondent Eric Tlozek’s report this morning Israel was accused of using “collective punishment” by displacing residents in southern Lebanon.
If Israel hadn’t warned residents to leave ahead of bombardments the charge would have been “Israel is committing genocide.”
For the ABC, Israel is a crime.
It’s not collective punishment of course to drive hundreds of thousands of Israelis from their homes under Hezzie bombardment in the north of Israel.
In fact the Chief Leprechaun’s letter was published on an Iranian’s website.
Ya wee eejit.
https://x.com/leekern13/status/1838204993515471161?t=TeX7HDnMOfw-y418xyTJaA&s=19
Early morning coffee, and reading Jonathon Dimbleby’s monumental work “Operation Barbarossa.”
In the 1920’s, in exchange for extensive loans, the Bolshevik Government exported huge amounts of grain to the Reich. In 1923 alone – in the immediate aftermath of a famine in which in which 5 million Soviet citizens in Western Russia died from starvation and related diseases – this amounted to more then 3 million tons. (Page 16.)
Piles of skulls – the Socialists greatest achievements.
And people still vote for them.
There are two prominent threats – climate change and an emerging China.
1/2 right boofhead. Right about the chunks, wrong about the climate crisis, global boiling bullshit. Actually 3/4 right. There’s nothing wrong with the climate but everything wrong and disastrous about the solutions to the non-existent climate problem. Ironically the chunks are behind the green activism which is driving alarmist hysteria in the West. So, 9/10s right. You’re a fuking genius numbers. Have the rest of the day off.
If the Chinese are a threat, and they can be if we want it to be so, it’s not because of Communism, but out of grievance following centuries of abuse from historical imperialists.
Strangely perhaps, that’s exactly the motivation that drives Trump’s supporters.
sounds like “intergenerational trauma”
like any 16yo school-girl you sound ridiculous
IT was first formulated in relation to the descendants of Holocaust survivors. First documented in the 1960’s. Tell Jews it doesn’t exist and then run.
Wait until Wussia is weakened in Ukraine, then the CCP will raise the issue of “unequal treaties” with Putin.
Bye bye Siberia.
Aldi is here but not yet ubiquitous like it is in Ireland.
@TheRabbitHole84
Democrats dominate academia
From Daily Mail USA article. I don’t follow NFL but this was predictable based on his jet setting all around the world.
“Travis Kelce told to RETIRE by analysts and fans amid career-worst stats, Taylor Swift controversy and TV distractions”
Rumoured to have been paid $20m to promote Pfizer jabs.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
“An initial sign that a man (a term that includes men and women) is dangerous, is when he starts pretending to be good”
– The Idler. In a whimsical piece on Trump, his detractors and saints.
I wonder if the MUA will put on a black ban?
Aussie Firefighters Warn of Lithium Battery Vehicle Fire Danger (23 Sep)
Interesting that lefty Nein Fairfax is reporting this. Watch out 9News journo peoples, you are risking being cancelled for wrongthink.
@atensnut
Trump: They are getting ready to cheat.
What the Biden-Harris Administration Just Did With Ukraine’s Zelensky Should Be Impeachable
Zelensky Attacks Trump and Vance to U.S. Media, Tours Ammo Plant in PA at Taxpayers’ Expense
This is a depressing but important article. The hatred has penetrated deep in to academia and just about every tertiary institution. It needs to be publicised widely:
https://quadrant.org.au/features/qed/hating-and-hounding-jews-on-campus/
Interesting article. I would add that, Jewish students and academics need to get angry. The mob relies on fear to control the ones they hate. It is time to fight back.
Parents of children at Jewish schools, Jewish Uni students and academics.
Go release your inner mongrel. The filth are cowards. If they were stood up to, the tide would start to turn.
First ones to head butt are slimebags like Mark Scott.
Nazism took an early grip in universities. IIRC, Heidelberg was the first German university to declare itself “Judenfrei”.
@charliekirk11
Jonathan Conricus.
Jonathan was wrong about the smarter option, the smarter option would have been to destroy its weapons stockpile and be at peace with Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/09/22/its-last-call-for-hezbollah-to-opt-out-of-war-israel-wont-ask-again/
There’s no point in negotiating with Hexbollah – they have NEVER enacted any agreement they have signed.
Winston… (*ties up man-bun) .. the no-repeats clause was a mutual agreement. Me, to wean her off dropping a brick on Bruce Springsteen every time his jet pulls in, her, to stop me wasting five days getting shickered with You Am I every year or so.
Still…
Do you want the house and kids, with herself certified and ‘in care’?
Or just the threat?
In which case, I know a carpenter who can make a set of stairs quite dodgy – a previous contract with Dan from Victoria is proof of his skills – he can take time out from his vacation in the French Riviera with his company secretary for a not very modest sum.
…and what’s “You am I”?
Some kind of breakfast spread for cannibals?
Just like blackout bowen spruiking himself as some sort of expert on nookular energy, yet he can’t even pronounce it correctly.
Remember the leftard sneers about the way that George W Bush pronounced the word? Leftards don’t.
Latest UK polling:
60% don’t think Labour will win the next election.
52% don’t think Free Gear Keir will survive as leader.
The Telegraph (UK)
The problem with replacing the woeful Starmer is it’ll have to be someone untainted by the donations & gifts scandal.
Which means ambitious deputy PM Angela “It’s just the way politics is done” Rayner won’t be doing a Gillard, one would think.
OR… they can just say “I’m the Boss for the next 4 years and ten months. What are you going to do about it, peasants?”
Because he can, you realise.
He certainly could attempt to tough it out.
But it doesn’t look promising.
Word is he’s in Labour Left’s sights.
There’s a Foodworks near me along with Aldi and IGA so there are alternatives to Coles which I loathe almost as much as I loathe Woolworths. I guess those three are relatively small player though.
IGA are great. Yes, a little more expensive, they don’t have the mass buying power of the big two, however, they champion Australian and local producers.
There are a number of alternatives in Perth which typically have a better range and greater support for local suppliers. They are rarely as cheap as Colesworths, which screws suppliers as much as consumers. As Roger noted above, the issue is really market power.
Nice to see word salad entering the lexicon.
Lebanese taking off storm water? covers and calling for Nasrallah to come out.
Lol.
https://x.com/Robiiin_Hoodx/status/1838200236591706137?t=oat95GqfobV3GTjsD3XtGQ&s=19
Zelinsky just providing more proof that he’s a puppet of the military-industrial complex.
The USA, Australia, and Britain have been puppets for decades. What’s your point?
Bowen and Anal- alumni of Sydney Uni. Doesn’t say much for Sydney Uni.
Anthropology Department and the Faculty of Medicine were OK until the late 80’s. I am a proud honours graduate and post-graduate of that period and so is Hairy, where after a Cambridge MA in the UK he did a Sydney Science PhD.
The fetid halls of the Merewether Bldg.
Milt – albansleazey’s “political economy” degree is even more useless than a yaaartz degree.
Got him a staff position with Tom Uren. That may not contradict your argument.
Do Cats believe that Cole’s and Woollies are the only traders to play with prices I receive emails from a well known women.s dress shop offering 60 % off today They do a similar thing manipulating prices . One item Ihave been thinking of buying has not changed price only the cross outs have
Hmmm. 16 year old girl driving stolen car.
First offence or was she on bail?
Pity about the lady truck driver.
A boy is fighting for his life and three others, including two teenagers, in a horror collision between a truck and an alleged stolen car.
The alleged stolen Holden Cruze was travelling through Shepparton East, in northern Victoria, at about 3.30pm on Monday when it collided with a truck.
Emergency services rushed to the intersection of Hosie Road and Benalla-Shepparton Road and treated the drivers and passengers.
An 11-year-old boy, who was a passenger in the Holden Cruz, was rushed to hospital with critical injuries.
Another passenger, a 15-year-old boy, was also taken to hospital with serious injuries.
A 16-year-old girl, who was the alleged driver of the Holden Cruz, was taken to hospital with injuries.
Meanwhile, the driver of the truck, a woman in her 50s, was also taken to hospital with serious injuries.
When there are no repercussions for breaking the law, there are no boundaries for uncivil behaviour.
The Judiciary are to blame, along with the legislature for this breakdown.
And parents. The teenagers, I get, their raison d’etre is defying their parents but a parent should know where their 11yo is at any given moment.
Possibility they are siblings and the 11yo. wasn’t given an option by the older two.
Shepparton East?
Isn’t Shepparton the jewell of the multicultural crown?
Wasn’t that claimed by mUnturd recently?
Agree Rabz. My contempt for Arts ‘degrees’ and what they have become doesn’t extend to ones that scholarly young ladies used to undertake studying say Goethe, Schiller, Shakespeare and Austen.
I encountered an individual who received top marks in his BA and received some type of award. I expected him to be intelligent and had extended his learning beyond his degree. Stupid expectation, won’t make that mistake again. He was just parroting his lecturers, the student had never transcended the teacher. Pomo to the hilt. I asked him if philosophy was in any way taught in high school. He stated that English teachers were doing that. He was an English teacher. FFS!
The difference is the existence of a virtual grocery duopoly versus a never-ending sea of clothing stores, especially in the modern world of on-line shopping.
Not to mention the impact changing seasons has on clothing sales.
I just got delivery of 5 pairs of thongs from Rivers for $6 each.
I could have bought them from here or Longreach – however all they have on offer is overdecorated thongs for $20. Or Online for $45 + $7.95 shipping.
I want plain thongs to wear. The concept of the thong as a fashion statement is alien to me, and just about every other Australian male.
Either the Australian thong manufacturer comes to grips with the regulatory or the marketing environment, or go broke.
There’s a Foodworks near me along with Aldi and IGA so there are alternatives to Coles which I loathe almost as much as I loathe Woolworths.
Apart from a certain few items our local IGA is more expensive than Colesworths.
We did a consulting job for Foodland who were ultimately swallowed up by Metcash, the buying group for IGA. They were big, incredibly lean and could not get near the cost position of Colesworths. Hard to see what the ACCC will achieve beyond a bloody nose and some headlines. I’m not dealing with them but did the Banking Royal Commission actually change behaviour and culture?
IGA here is open longer hours, eg on weekends & public holidays, & are more convenient to get in & out of.
Their hot food section is a mile ahead of anybody else, attracting the bachelor/fifo/couldn’t-be-bothered-to-cook-tonight crowd.
IGA trumpets their local credentials & support for local programs. They may as well not bother, as the genpop don’t give two hoots about anything except what they’re getting.
Their trade would be a fraction of either Coles or Woolworths.
It’s always a pity when those in the stolen car involved in the almost inevitable accident, survive the experience.
Trees get a few. Ask Peter Bro… nevermind.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 24, 2024 6:46 am
On the money.
It sure does.
Enough with “Muh fweedom of speech” [insert coquettish eyelid-batting here] and the pathetic “I’m being silenced” which no doubt some still fall for.
It’s created more than one dumpster fire through fair means and foul over the journey.
You know what to do.
It’s created more than one dumpster fire through fair means and foul over the journey.
The entire Ellie/Numbers/Monty charade isn’t about freedom of speech – it’s about using the concept to damage and destroy the site.
The three of them are not here to have a conversation at odds with us, they are here to create the scenario that will see the site fall afoul of the new regulations.
And if DB doesn’t deal with this nonsense, that’s precisely what will happen under these new Socialist Misinformation rules.
+1
I believe dress shops are excluded from studies on rational choice theory.
I’d like to see you tell your wife that.
Last count was edging towards 100.
An entire walk-in wardrobe.
Must be time for a cull soon.
She could give some dresses to Kier Starmer’s wife, whom I believe has not been given a big enough allowance to buy them, she’s accepting donations.
The horror!
In defence of my wife, she’s a pretty lady and still working so I don’t begrudge her the indulgence.
But I must suggest a spring clean review of the wardrobe with a view to a donation to the charity bin.
My friend in Tassie has a whole room devoted to ‘asirational’ purchases which she hoped would look and fit better than they do. Widowed and living alone in a seven-bedroom Federation mansion with lovely formal gardens and a swimming pool beside the Derwent that sort of wardrobe room is a luxury most don’t have.
Either divide this place up to get some company or move to a more sociable environment, I have encouraged her. She’d have to sort out the wardrobe issues first though. Having moved from a large house to a smaller apartment, I share her pain. Three wardrobes for me simply doesn’t cut it. Gas-lift beds to store bags of aspirational stuff have certainly helped recently.
Hairy doesn’t do aspirational. It either fits, he likes it, needs it, or it’s out.
Very good.
Permission granted here to despairing husband. You all saw it. Big clear up coming to a Charity Bin near you, Roger.
H B Bear
September 24, 2024 9:45 am
Reply to Rosie
Colesworths tie up retail sites 2 and 3 years out in newer suburbs. Try getting planning permission for a new supermarket in an established suburb. Aldi has been at it for nearly a decade in one of Perth’s western suburbs. For now supermarkets are a property game although online might change that.
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Very astute comment, Bear.
There is a local saga about attempts to establish and expand a supermarket in a Canberra suburb that has been going on for at least eight years.
Between absurd plannng laws, lobbying by competitors, some very dodgy ‘local residents groups’ and the odd legal challenge along the way, the site has sat empty for all of that time.
‘Barriers to entry’ is putting it mildly. More like ‘fortresses defended by torrents of boiling oil and catapults full of explosives.’
There is an Aldi here in Queanbeyan, but it’s quite small. I hear that they have been looking for a larger site, but all sorts of mysterious problems keep arising if they are known to be sniffing around one.
Hmmm.
your ubiquitous suburban shopping village is often owned in it’s entirety by an investment group like ISPT
even when Coles builds out the initial green-field site it will get sold on later to an investment group
Coles is just the branding and the draw-card
and mums and dads don’t own those little shops
For smaller developers a Colesworths lease usually made the whole development bankable. Was certainly true for anything but the major regional shopping centres for the longest time. Not sure if that is still the case. Our shopping centre is trying to get DA to demolish for residential apartments. All major bank branches went years ago.
Makes a change ..! The Oz High Court getz one right .. wonders never cease ..!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13883925/Major-blow-Australian-ISIS-brides-stuck-Syria-begging-come-home.html
“Marry in haste – repent at leisure.”
In other words, bitch – you made your bed now sleep in it.
Islam embodies everything bad about humans:
Is Islam Really the ‘Religion of Peace’? – Intellectual Takeout
This is a mild expose of this vile ideology.
Dot no longer plays here which is unfortunate. I miss his furious attacks whenever I indulge my contempt for most things Irish.
But the latest de Valera on steroids performance of the President of Ireland can’t be let pass without a good sneer.
Sending condolences to Iran on the death of their senior terrorist is unremarkable, that sort of insanity is normal Irish fare. But then blaming “the Jews” for leaking the letter is a whole new level of bigotry, remarkable even for a nation of bigots.
Ireland, the ‘heart and soul’ of the EU – explains a lot about that putrid bureaucracy.
Ireland is lost.
No one is holding a gun against anyone’s head and forcing them to shop at Coles or Woolies.
You could buy everything you need and never darken their doors.
Margins are slim.
If you think they are some type of really really profitable bandits you could buy their shares, which are the most boring consumer staple 3 to 4 % dividend, non volatile shares you can buy.
The only reason they have dragged the supermarkets out yet again is because politically they need someone to blame for inflation.
If there is anything outside of cyclical economic conditions to blame for inflation it’s the idiots who gave politicians medical cover for lockdowns.
You missed the point – it’s not about profit margins, it’s about clarity and truth re pricing.
Any capitalist economist will tell you that’s necessary if exchanges in the market place are to be for the benefit of all who take part in them.
Higgins? What a creep. Still can’t get my head around how the Irish establishment has followed the rest of the West and declared war on its own people. I thought Ireland was a bit different with 1916 and all that.
Is it just me or do others have troubles when clicking on a link then when you click off to return instead of ending up where you were your at the bottom of the page and need to scroll back to wherever …. Bloody frustrating ..!
Using BRAVE as the browser …….
Yes. I get that on an irregular basis. Sometimes it will do so for an entire posting, other times it won’t.
Wordpress is shit.
Go back to the old style, DB. This is ruining the site.
Even worse, I sometimes lose the whole threat and have to reboot.
Hairy can’t understand it, but then he reflects that it’s me, and then he does. I don’t know what it is I do wrong. It’s a puzzlement.
It was designed so people could save the comment link(top right hand corner) as a favourite and keep track of threads that way.
The only reason they have dragged the supermarkets out yet again is because politically they need someone to blame for inflation.
correct- not that I like Coles or Woolworths of course. Baddies vs Baddies again.
Albo loves his distraction squirrels. Nearly as much as fighting Tories.
Milton:
Why are they “baddies”?
Australian publicly listed companies who buy Australian products, rent Australian property, return dividends to Australians, employ Australians, don’t have overseas call centres, pay tax in Australia and provide a nationwide service to almost every Australian.
What’s the bad stuff?
Ramming left wing propaganda down customers’ throats. Underpaying staff.
The propaganda stuff is just a product of the modern managerial class.
They aint Bud lite.
What’s the underpaying situation?
Sweetheart deal with the shoppies I believe
Was Billy Shortone involved?
Inflation? Devaluation?
Gold I bought nearly one year ago has gone up 29%. ($2874/oz now $3856/oz)
But perhaps I should say that the $A has devalued 29% in one year.
And don’t start me on those whining clowns, Australian producers, who apparently can’t negotiate with the supermarkets “power” but who at the drop of a hat drop their pants to sell into China, starry eyed at the massive market opportunities that instantly evaporate any time the CCP wants to make a point.
Producers actually produce something. They are not clowns.
While that is correct, along with the contract to buy is the Chinese “If we want something, we’ll just turn turn the contract off and you can pressure your government to give it to us.”
China is not an honest broker, and it’s time we stopped supporting them.
Awww, sads.
Would-be cattle baron Sam Mitchell slides into bankruptcy (Paywallian)
When will they learn that carbon offsets are a double scam? Not only don’t they work but they’re totally unnecessary since global warming isn’t much happening (except in Bowen’s fevered imagination).
Timing.
https://x.com/moghaoui/status/1838270040942289370?t=cUs7n9doRxzg-rBjM-k0EQ&s=19
You’ve been the bearer of such good news lately Rosie.
Zelensky’s strategy has always been avoiding any compromise by depending on overseas support to by time in the hope that events it may have engineered precipitate a wider war involving NATO. If I were being mischievous, I would describe this as Churchillian.
Well duh. Of course Zelensky wants all of that. One would imagine very little will happen on any of those fronts until after the US election. Unless Biden has something cooked up?
Putin is holding out for a Trump win. He’d better start praying because Trump’s big endorsement of Robinson has come undone because most of Robinson’s staff have resigned over social media comments(I’m a black Nazi, bring back slavery). North Caroline is in play.
It isn’t about a wider war with NATO. Russia was so desperate they put those silly cages on tanks. 3,000 destroyed tanks later … . Russia can’t even repel the Kursk incursion. Pathetic. Putin knows a wider war will be disastrous. Military production capacity is at full pelt and still Russia must import hardware from Iran, China, and North Korea.
The Kursk debacle is working just fine for the Russians. The Ukrainians have thrown their best troops in the fire for nothing, and as they are destroyed they are losing all their strongholds in the Donbass.
It should not have happened at all. That is a stuff up.
Don’t be ridiculous. You can’t stop your opponent conducting an offensive at some point on a front that long. All you can do is organise the defense, etc. well or ill once it’s launched. The Russians contained it pretty well and our now conducting an effective clean up last I saw a day ago. It was an idiotic move by the Ukrainians but they are desperate at this point.
Woollies has owned land in San Remo, ready for a supermarket for over 10 years, waiting for all that empty land around the old Munmorah power station to be developed for housing( it sits on what would be the SE corner) PFAS contamination found around the old power station, it looks unlikely that the land will be developed for years
Woollies is building us a new branch library in Rosanna. In exchange for a brand new supermarket and essential parking on council land.
Woollies will do well, directly opposite the majestic Fortress Rosanna railway station.
Tom warned me that watching Daytime Sky was a mental health hazard!
I’ll switch to Fox The Five etc soon, but a short exposure yielded plenty of evidence that Tom is correct.
Not many Coalition pollies want to talk to Laura Jayes so she takes what she can get.
Moral to that story is- don’t watch TV in the daytime. Better still, don’t watch it at all.
ACCC going Colesworth about pricing shenanigans, yawn. If they don’t think the regular shoppers are all across this practice, they don’t understand the Australian domestic mind.
It’s not all housewives, to be clear, but the stereotype certainly applies to a lot of housewives who spend a lot of mental energy minimising their weekly shopping spend. People like me don’t give a tinker’s about such things as we are more interested in making money rather than saving it, but large swathes of the populace have a fixed wage and thus the only way they keep more of their dosh each week is hunting for deals, and understanding when they are being fleeced by dodgy pricing tactics.
Correct.
Displaying your sympathy for the working class? Just another champagne socialist.
Never forget, mUnty was not asset rich.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/looks-like-the-correct-address.html
Ignore all the secondary explosions…
That “whoosh whoosh” sound you hear is a rockets fuel igniting.
A thing of beauty.
Bit o’ help for ACCC .. LOL!
Sydney Morning Herald
” As a subscriber to Al Jazeera, I have seen no evidence of bias either for or against Israel: It simply reports a comprehensive collection of the facts.”
Douglas Mackenzie, Deakin (ACT)
Thanks for reading the SMH for us, Dopey. I don’t have to read it now!
Only buy for the crosswords really.
Leftist who regularly emits talking points at The Canberra Crimes.
Thanks Doug. Canberra in a nutshell.
Thinking on the ACCC taking ColesWorths to court over misleading ‘discounts” .. Does anyone really think we, the mug shoppers, will be better off ..?
Reminds me of when there were 20c per litre discounts on offer regularly. That had to end as someone, somewhere wasn’t organised enough to take advantage so no one could have them.
I remember them – you had to have some docket or other. I was living on board a yacht at the time and rather than paying the marina prices, I turned up at the servo with ten jerry cans. I’d fill five, go and do some shopping, then come back and fill the other five (Limit of 100 litres at a time for diesel.)
It was a bloody good discount but didn’t last for long.
In fact, a couple of times I sailed from Coffs Harbour up to Queensland to fill up. (Yacht had bloody big tanks for a 44 footer – about 1400 litres IIRC)
The product’s prices are clearly marked.
It isn’t the pricing, it’s the promotion, i.e advertising.
That’s going to help grocery prices.
While inflation was running at 9% and there were massive shortages, disruptions and fear mongering nonsense from governments and their agencies.
F*** off ACCC
Not happy with Michael Smith news today.
I used to think I was special and in an elite group. You know like the 300 Spartans but the internet version.
However it turns out I am one of 11,000 blocked by Mike Carlton and he is still adding to the list.
I bet the good people of Whale beach bet they could block that tool’s wanger when he swans about in the buff.
People like me don’t give a tinker’s about such things as we are more interested in making money rather than saving it,
The only thing you’re interested in is gluing on a dildo and pretending it’s a dick.
we are more interested in making money rather than saving it
Funny thing, there are two ways to make money – run a business that’s profitable and spend as little as possible while doing do.
WTF is fantasy football, anyway?
The opiate of the masses.
Insert pic of man with head in hands here.
Yep, it’s all politics. The ACCC is carrying water for Albo and Chalmers in the lead up to the election.
Voters pressure Labor on cost of living as election draws near (Sky News, 23 Sep)
Newspoll reflects the fact Australians are ‘feeling the pinch’ (Sky News, 23 Sep)
Housing tops list of cost of living concerns: Newspoll (Sky News, 23 Sep)
How kind of the ACCC to release a squirrel just now! It’s a mystery.
If it wasn’t price gouging it would be supplier conduct for holding prices down
That’s no squirrel, that is a scrofulous smelly ancient feral tomcat.
feeling the pinch, that code for slapping an extra 40% tax on everyone
Missiles hidden in attics’: IDF targets Hezbollah arsenals in Lebanese homesJacquelin Magnay and Anne Barrowclough
2 minutes ago
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The Israeli military has published what it says is evidence of Hezbollah weapons hidden in Lebanese homes, after an unprecedented wave of Israeli air strikes killed nearly 500 people and wounded more than 1600 in the deadliest day of conflict since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Highways out of cities were jammed with cars as families desperately tried to escape the devastation across southern Lebanon, with the Israeli Defence Forces launching more than 1600 strikes targeting Hezbollah militants and their arsenals – which included cruise missiles, short-range rockets and attack drones.
In a post, the IDF showed off what is said was a long range rocket, “stored on a hydraulic system” in the attic of a Lebanese family’s home. The IDF said the rocket was “directed toward Israeli civilians and ready to be launched at a moment’s notice. This is just one of the 1,300 targets including long-range cruise missiles, heavyweight rockets and UAVs that were struck today in Lebanon and were going to be used to cause major damage in all areas of Israel.”
Slum clearance in down town Lebanon…
Neither major party has a plan to do that.
Labor is aiming for 250 000 per year but allowed c. 440 000 in during 2023/34.
The last word from the Liberals, in Peter Dutton’s budget response, was that they intended to “cut” immigration to 160 000 per year, which is about the average when Howard was running his immigration ponzi scheme and telling Australians that they’d never had it so good.
They need to be much more selective. 30% of doctors and ~20% of nurses are overseas trained. Alternatively I’ve had my haircut by a South African, Israeli, Japanese, and Spanish barbers, all on 457s.
Immigration is about rigging economic numbers and maintaining population levels. That must change.
seems fair, the m*hamad*ms cleared out the xtians
Fantasy Football is rubbish for cucks.
I went along to one on invitation once, believing it was a lot like Lingerie League gridiron. I was so very, very wrong.
er … isnt it like … for kids….
Miltonf
September 24, 2024 11:26 am
Moral to that story is- don’t watch TV in the daytime. Better still, don’t watch it at all.
Absolutely God damn straight.
You be talking to the converted. Haven’t had a TV since 1990. Then my sister gave me one that she didn’t want. I didn’t plug it in until 5 years later when I threw it out. Haven’t had one since.
Amazing isn’t it? Nassssty supermarketses!
What they’re going for is not price gouging, it’s deceptive advertising.
Price A is inflated to price B, usually 40% higher than A. A few weeks later and Presto Changeo! Price B becomes a “permanent markdown” (cue virtuous statements about saving you more) at Price C (35% higher than Price A).
There’s savings, right there! It’s odious, but probably not illegal. Dress shops do it all the time. Specials ain’t Specials, Sol.
Local Woolworths do this regularly with Greens cake mix packs .. They hoisted the price from $2.10 to $3.50 about 4 months ago .. At $$3.50 not worth buying (you can get a discount ready baked for $3 most dayz) so once a month as the “use-by” date comes up they reduce the cake mix back to $2.10 as a weekly special ………
“What can we do to help Prime Minister?”
Price A is inflated to price B, usually 40% higher than A. A few weeks later and Presto Changeo! Price B becomes a “permanent markdown” (cue virtuous statements about saving you more) at Price C (35% higher than Price A).
Product is running out with delivery of new product some time out so you put up prices. Those who really need the product will buy, those who don’t need right away will wait. Product stays available for those who really need it.
Then you get delivery of new lot and there’s plenty of product so you reduce prices to clear it. Simple supply and demand.
Then it would be back to A or say, A + 5% to cover costs plus a little more profit.
You’ve put t he kindest slant on the shenanigans, plausible deniability, and good for you. As I said, not illegal but deceptive.
What I find amusing is its usefulness as a distraction squirrel.
Yep.
The cure for high prices is high prices.
Unless the government interferes.
Which they do.
Every. bloody. time.
I’m also going to weigh in on the ruinables debate. I negotiate power across the business group including a timber mill in Gippsland. At that site there are two NMI’s, both with decent sized solar arrays and other associate gear. The company that oversaw this instillation of this system at the mill wants us to use a company that’s sourcing their electricity from 100% ruinables.
One of these main 100% ruinable retail players has taken over a month to not get back to me with a price, as they don’t have detailed interval data and can’t get it. When I pushed and said we use X MWh peak and Y MWh off peak per year, the response was;
So there you go, ruinables are high “complex” risk and this needs to be taken into account when quoting for businesses that use large amounts of power. Or they go broke.
Hopeless.
Incidentally, this company offer no feed in tariffs for solar. As in Zero, Zip Nada, for 2 x 81kW arrays or any other solar arrays of any size.
I tried the red kite bread which donates a few cents to charity for each loaf. Very poor quality, goes moldy very quickly. A con job. If they are going to fund a charity it must come out of revenue not through the sale of some product.
I buy it for the cockies…
Another commie in need of a helicopter takeoff, I see.
The ACCC are commies?
This is a problem.
A true arse clown from NYC moves to Florida would have brought his voting habits with him. The sh*t this guys spews is unbelievable and he has the audacity to call people brainwashed.
No doubt he will be on the couch watching CNN come the evening.
Always good to see Kaitlin on the beat.
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Liberty Hangout:
Jeffrey Epstein-Looking Leftist Goes Nuts
WTF is fantasy football, anyway?
A gateway drug luring poor little innocent punters/kids into a lifetime of gambling degeneracy.
?
It’s pretty full-on too…
Personal Foul: Philadelphia Man Pleads Guilty to Swatting Fantasy Football Rival *Twice* (22 Sep)
I hope Monty doesn’t get swatted.
….brain damaged.
Perhaps its not a “them” problem??
Mike Carlton
@MikeCarlton01
Just checked. I’ve blocked more than 11,000 accounts. Muted more than 2,000. But the f***wits keep on coming…
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Not very bright is Mike ..? .. Be a lot simpler to quit than spend your day blocking folk ……… furglewit …….!
Wonderful – so a certain select bunch of alleged needies can get their food for free while the remaining mug punters pay labore’s inflation fuelled prices for their groceries (and no, I’m not just referring to those who shop at colesworths).
Don’t you just love collectivism?
In the meantime, Aussie food businesses are struggling because of high energy prices and restrictive government regulation.
If you are forced to fund a charity, it isn’t a donation – it’s protection money.
Of course, what will happen is that the money going to the original charities will stop, and then go to the mandated one.
calli, do you really think the people doing the shopping care about anything other than the price they have to pay? Blokes generally have a list and buy what’s on it and are out of there. The ladies, in my experience are hawk eyed, know what the price was last time and aren’t fooled at all by these “deceptive” shenanigans. Mrs Eyrie simply refuses to buy if the price jumps up.
Also do not forget that fuel (transport) and electricity (lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning) prices have gone up hugely and all of these will end up being paid by the end consumer, the customers of the supermarkets.
Nobody runs this kind of business at a loss for very long.
Inflation is caused by government policy. Print or borrow money in order to buy votes. See ALP and Queensland election. Got $1000 from those gits to help with electricity bill and cost of living. Haven’t paid a leccy bill for 10 years as we have solar panels and export to the grid. They pay us.
Yes, it is stupid.
Geez at this rate I’m almost starting to feel sorry for Colesworths. More canbra wealth destruction.
Never ask a question if you don’t know what the answer will be…
From Instapundit couple hours ago. 😀
Proof abounds, 12.3% of the US population are mentally defective. With the ones voting demonrat making another 45% there is no hope. The numbers here won’t be much different.
There is not a single policy (if the ridiculous malicious brain farts could be dignified with such a term) introduced by this stinking joke of a so called government that hasn’t resulted in the following:
driven up prices for consumers driven up the cost of employing peopleshut down/banned existing commercial activities/businessesreduced choice in housing, motor vehicles, employment optionsdestroyed existing infrastructure (e.g. coal fired power stations)the misallocation of precious resources (e.g. agricultural land for solar/wind farms)wasted hundreds of billions on sh*t that doesn’t work and/or is heavily subsidised increased taxes/charges more red/green/blak tapefunneled more taxpayers’ money into the coffers of corrupt violent braindead union knobheads
That’s not an exhaustive list by any means, nor does it include any of the evil deadsh*ts’ utterly vile “social policies”.
People – do not use the dot points function – it’s a joke – here’s the list in correct format:
driven up prices for consumers
driven up the cost of employing people
shut down/banned existing commercial activities/businesses
reduced choice in housing, motor vehicles, employment options
destroyed existing infrastructure (e.g. coal fired power stations)
the misallocation of precious resources (e.g. agricultural land for solar/wind farms)
wasted hundreds of billions on sh*t that doesn’t work and/or is heavily subsidised increased taxes/charges
more red/green/blak tape
funnelled more taxpayers’ money into the coffers of corrupt violent braindead union knobheads
We ignore those tickets because we know they are meaningless.
We only look at the per unit price.
I too, almost feel sorry for them.
I feel sorry for anyone who would eat those American biscuits.
At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate target unchanged at 4.35 per cent and the interest rate paid on Exchange Settlement balances unchanged at 4.25 per cent.
Statement by the Reserve Bank Board: Monetary Policy Decision | Media Releases | RBA
Key statement:
Our current forecasts do not see inflation returning sustainably to target until 2026
Our elections aren’t as important as US elections…
Suicidal Jews
Very well said.
Here’s what really happening.
Governments want companies to do their bidding in return for a “social contract” to operate.
”Global warming” and the “oh noes, the LGBGTs might kill themselves” are just the mechanisms used.
Government wants its fingers in every aspect of your life, and the companies better swing along. Or else.
That’s why the supermarkets find themselves under all the “duopoly” talk.
There is no duopoly. Every direction I drive to reach a Coles or Woolies I have to go past an IGA or ALDI or a dozen bakeries, butchers or delis.
It’s stupid.
This latest idiocy covers exactly the time when supermarkets had to deal with government induced inflation and massive workforce and supply problems.
Meanwhile, the same shenanigans killed off so many businesses.
It’s all very capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
The Chinese didn’t just learn a lot from capitalism, the “capitalists” learned a lot from China.
Yeah, my local Coles has just completed a humungous retrofit and put all their cooled items behind clear plastic doors. Must’ve cost a mint, but the financials are probably very positive because the electricity they save.
In other words it’s Bowen that is the problem, the supermarkets are just reacting to him raping the electricity system.
NHS Whistleblower: ‘We Were Instructed to Euthanize Patients to Inflate COVID Death Toll While Hospitals Sat Empty!’
Hey, Jimbo, your splurging of our money trying to buy votes is what’s causing your political pain and our inflation. Stop the splurging and your pain stops.
If you had half a brain, which you don’t, you would see the simple solution to our problem, which is also yours.
#EconomicsForDummies.
Inside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ wild parties: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sarah Jessica Parker, J.Lo, more spotted in resurfaced pics
Hurricane expected.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declares State of Emergency in 41 Florida counties
Very weak hurricane season so far.
The climate bedwetters forecasted a hurricane season from hell.
The MSM is of course completely silent about this.
11:23 AM
Sep 24, 2024
Greens senator condemns Israel, Labor over Lebanon strikes
Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi has slammed “Israel’s killing machine” and declared Labor’s response in expressing its “concerns” over the airstrikes in Lebanese were “unacceptable”.
Senator Faruqi reiterated calls for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled and said it was “disgraceful” that all Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong could do was “express grave concerns” over the attacks in the past 24 hours.
“For God’s sakes, they are the government and they are choosing to be complicit in a genocide,” she said in a video on Instagram.
“The Greens will keep fighting for justice, we will keep calling for sanctions on Israel and for the Israeli ambassador to be expelled from this country.”
She should get rid of the pager that someone gave her.
The Greens will keep fighting for justice for all except the Israelis….
I wonder if she’s aware that the contempt she has for us is less than the contempt we have for her?
Why are Michelle and Barack Obama so closely linked to rapists and sex traffickers?
It’s not just them, it’s the whole Democrat Party. It’s a rite of passage for them, like abortion.
Mike Lee DISMANTLES Kamala’s Entire Campaign in POWERFUL Thread About What Just ONE Vote for Her Means
Sad, but true.
@catturd2
Senator Claire Chandler. Outstanding.
Labor’s second attempt at a Censorship Bill undermines free speech
Old and busted – Baseload reliable electricity at a steady price.
New and hot- variable renewables…
https://reneweconomy.com.au/absolutely-world-leading-why-australia-is-leading-the-charge-away-from-baseload-power/#google_vignette
It has become the key part of the debate around Australia’s energy transition: Will a future grid depend on the old paradigms of baseload and peaking plants? Or can a grid dominated by variable renewables and supported by dispatchable power support a modern economy?
It’s a fundamental question, because those arguing that the life of Australia’s ageing coal fired generators should be extended and then replaced with “always on” nuclear power plants insist that baseload is the only way to power a modern economy.
Those that support a green energy transition, based around low cost variable wind and solar, backed up by storage and other flexible and dispatchable power sources, say otherwise. And that accounts for just about everyone in the Australian energy industry.
….
The institution that finds itself in the middle of this debate is the Australian Energy Market Operator, which now has the dual responsibility of keeping the lights on, and laying out a multi-decade roadmap of how the grid should transition beyond coal.
And it has no doubt that a transition to a 100 per cent, or even a near 100 per cent renewable grid is not just possible, but necessary and the lowest cost option given the options that Australia has available to it – namely its wealth of wind and solar resources.
“The construct of base load and peaking is that you want consumers to have the lowest cost generation possible, the lowest cost way to meet energy consumers needs,” AEMO CEO Daniel Westerman says in the latest episode of Renew Economy’s weekly Energy Insiders podcast.
“And historically the lowest cost has been coal. Always on, it provided the base load of the power system because it was the cheapest. And it was supplemented by peaking capacity … and that peaking was often gas, because it was the next most expensive.
….
These people are mad.
Jacko
2 hours ago
“Now remember son, if you go into the attic don’t mess with Dad’s rocket, I need that to shoot at those Israeli infidels.”
“Aww Dad, you’re no fun!”
We need a musical interlude.
https://youtu.be/_yExwkQYcp0?si=kfb4PA_26IHdhlKZ
Dennis McKenna: One of Western Australia’s worst paedophiles to be considered for parole in NovemberPhil HickeyThe West Australian
Tue, 24 September 2024 6:38AM
One of WA’s most depraved paedophiles could walk free from jail in a matter of weeks, prompting one of his many victims to urge authorities to keep him locked up for as long as possible.
Dennis John McKenna’s abhorrent crimes have previously been described by a District Court judge as staggering, brazen and repetitive.
McKenna was the hostel warden of the Katanning Residential College in the 1970s and 80s, a place where he committed shocking child sexual abuse on almost 30 young boys over a 12 year period.
McKenna was most recently sentenced in 2013 to nine years in prison, after he admitted to 34 counts of sexual offending against 17 young victims who resided at the college, also known as St Andrews Hostel.
McKenna had previously been jailed in 1991 and 2011 for other child sex crimes committed on 11 other boys.
This douche nozzle should have been given a fair trial, then shot at dawn.
Let him out so we can organise a welcome out party.
They just found the perfect description of Hillary Clinton.
Just Plain Evil
Nothing important.
Does anyone else like watermelon? I tend to like it more during the summer, as it pairs well with the warm weather. It’s quite popular in the U.S. (okay, not just with blacks), and interestingly, they season it with salt. I learned off them and surprisingly, the salt really enhances the flavor. Try it on a wedge and you’ll season it forever.
JC
If you get a sour orange, add salt as well.
Coming soon – JC’s Soul Food
Try a strawberry with black pepper.
The amount of intelligence you can pack into a brain the size of a baked bean continues to amaze me.
Outside just now putting out the recycling bin (yes, well) and a bird calls…
Sure enough she was a female koel cuckoo. The first one I’ve seen or heard this season so far. Last week some channel-billed cuckoos arrived, but she’s the first koel.
She graciously accepted three bits of Coles mince from my hand. So this bird has flown all the way from Ncl to Papua New Guinea to escape winter and has now come all the way back again to the same house, and recognized the same human, after thousands of kilometres of flying. All that knowledge packed inside a brain the size, as I said, of a baked bean.
Ah yes Bruce, but did you recognise her?
🙂
Yes, because she landed on the exact same branch of the camellia.
There’re a few differences in colouration between them, at least with the females. The males are a uniform satin black. Can’t tell them apart. The tell is their various habits and behaviours – they develop different styles.
This one I think is an old friend seeing she came to me immediately and happily. In April I had a newly minted young koel go through a traumatic experience, which required a few days in the Cafe hospital (a cage). She eventually recovered and migrated a couple months late. Which was a win, although her chances aren’t good. This one isn’t her. Maybe she’ll return. Migration is tough.
… and didn’t Albo fly back from PNG in April this year?
Old mum Currawong, who was a young mum here a few years ago, rearing her babies just a metre away under our noses in the tall Jacaranda, is coming round again now, taking some of Attapuss’s frozen meats and yes, she is storing it in the same ‘larder’ used by the young pair of parents who have been regularly here for their own nestlings tucker over winter. The young parents know us because it was here that they were raised and fed by us. And now grandma is there helping out too.
They really do seem to know us, and arrive with a choral warble when I appear on the open part of our verandah.
A young kookaburra family also come to visit now and then.
Lorikeets galore of course, and occasional magpies, plenty of noisy miners incuding one with a crooked wing feather, who is here every year. A few other types of birds too, Hairy identifies them for me.
I’ve only a couple of pairs of currawongs at the moment. The rest seem to be nesting too far away to get here.
My elderly kooka lady arrived twice today. She has a nest in a dead tree to the north of the Cafe. She’s 16 or 17 years old, and flew onto my hand this morning with enthusiasm.
The 21st century version of villains is really stupid.
Apparently the worst people in history are:
Winston Churchill and Australian supermarkets.
Sure enough she was a female koel cuckoo. The first one I’ve seen or heard this season so far. Last week some channel-billed cuckoos arrived, but she’s the first koel.
Funny you reporting that, BoN – we saw our first one this morning as well. In fact there was a pair. Husband and I were sitting on verandah at farm having morning tea when there was an almighty commotion in our Mulberry tree. One Koel (the other flew away) set upon by about 10 Mynor birds – with others joining the fray! Two Eastern Rosellas amazingly just sat in the Mulberry (still devoid of leaves) nervously watching the war. Finally Koel departed with the squadron of noisies following.
My noisies are well trained and don’t give the other birds a hard time. Lots of food helps!
About the only angst is from western magpie male, who is the ripe old age of 2. She is 3. This is their first nesting season and he is keen. So the indian mynahs have been getting curry, as has my neighbour’s dachshund. I had to apologize to her.
Our Mulberry tree is going full pelt into spring greenery now.
These people are mad.
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Barking mad or even, like King Charles, Dagenham (two stations past Barking).
Yes, climate anxiety is a thing. Psychotherapist Natacha Duke describes it thusly: “Also known as ‘eco-anxiety,’ ‘eco-guilt’ and ‘eco-grief,’ climate anxiety is characterized by a chronic fear of environmental doom that’s often paralyzing and debilitating.” It is one of the most effective and widespread psyops of our time, having traumatized an entire couple of generations into believing that we must take immediate, radical action to completely dismantle the capitalist, systemically racist, heteronormative, fossil-fuelled power structures and exploitative mentality that purportedly have driven us to the brink of planetary annihilation.
Climate Hysteria and the End of Hope | Frontpage Mag
Kids have been targeted by the alarmist bastards; look at these:
1 Angry kid: Angry Kid (youtube.com)
2 Exploding kids: 10:10 video (youtube.com)
I’ve had a couple of really bad months, which, hopefully, I can talk about now because it seems to have settled down. Our granddaughter was born in January, and she’s a gorgeous little thing. My wife spoils her rotten and will do so forever.
The only downside is that her mother is English, which means the gene pool is narrowing again, away from Southern European roots. She also looks English, with fair skin and blue eyes.
Two days before we were set to leave New York and return home (in early June), we received a call from our son. He informed us that the baby had suffered seizures and was in the children’s hospital.
The trip back was hell. We later found out that the baby had suffered what they called infant spasms (West Syndrome), and the initial prognosis was grim if she didn’t respond well to the heavy-duty drugs the doctors prescribed. She was on the medication for about two months, and after a couple of weeks on the treatment, the seizures stopped.
Since then, she’s been fine, although it left her lower body a little stiff, which should resolve over time. The doctor told her parents that it was the equivalent of a stroke. The baby underwent various tests, and while the EEG (brain scan) confirmed the problem, genetic testing showed no issues. Two weeks before the seizures began, the baby had received a whooping cough vaccine. I know it can’t be proven, and I also know the medical establishment would never attribute the vaccine as the cause, but I really wonder. There are some vague references to a connection in Google searches.
JFK Jr. made a very interesting comment about vaccines and kids a while ago. He said that when he was growing up, kids were given about 6 or 7 vaccines. These days, it can be up to 72 by the time they reach their teenage years.
I’m not anti-vaccine in the least, but you really have to wonder with the stuff they’re injecting into kids these days if they truly know what they’re doing.
That’s sad, JC. Glad she has recovered somewhat. Hopefully no long term effects.
They just assume it is safe to have all those vaccines. I discussed this years ago with an old friend. We were playing with the idea that the multiple hits also an inflammatory response because many vaccines are designed to induce an inflammatory response. That struck us as worrisome.
The problem is that AFAIK they never did a “controlled Mendelian randomized double blind” study. The gold standard in biomedicine. So we can never know.
Tough time. Condolences.
Good to hear she’s on the mend.
I’m so very sorry to hear this JC. Glad that the poor little one is on the mend. It’s hell to watch the ones you love suffer.
Like you, I’m pro vaccines in general. But, and it’s a big “but”, one size does not fit all.
Blessings to your little one JC.
What you and Calli said about Immunisation.
I also, have been firmly in the pro camp, until Covid.
Thank you for sharing this part of your life, JC, It is sad, we can only hope for the best. If there is anything that I can do to help, then advise.
Thanks everyone.
Our little three year old grandson in Queensland was born with floppy lungs and other ‘floppy’ indices which suggested a particular syndrome, which can exist in minor form as a ‘habitus’ or major form as a severe disability. We went through anxious months with our daughter and son-in-law until the little one’s constant hospitalisations became less and the ‘habitus’ idea became the diagnosis.
Nothing that can’t be dealt with now he is growing older and out of it.
Sympathies for your terrible time of it, JC. When they are newly born and so vulnerable you just feel so anxious and helpless as supportive grandparents. Your little one will be OK, it just takes time and perseverence. Modern medicine has a lot going for it, if you ignore the extremes of vaxxes. Sadly for Hairy, his other grandson, via our son together, has quite severe autism. He’s now five though, and we see hopeful signs of progress in both talking and toilet training.
The strength of our arm is with you and your family, JC. You have all endured a very tough period. God bless your granddaughter.
Kids immune systems are designed to defeat a few nasty bugs every now and then. They were not designed to deal with a barrage of challenges year after year after year.
Too many vaccinations, too often.
It’s a medical madness.
But I am pleased to see the baby is improving. Refuse any more vaccinations for the next couple of years even though the authorities will try to force them on her.
Nothing worse when it’s the little ones.
Good to hear things are looking up.
All the best for your little one and her family, JC. Please keep us informed of her progress.
Will a future grid depend on the old paradigms of baseload and peaking plants?
I genuinely can’t tell if that is satire.
It’s not satire – its a Techno-Anal Word Salad – it signifies the speaker is talking through their arse.
When you’re reimagining the grid with a BA in gender studies.
Saw this on Google News yesterday:
A Class Action lawsuit filed in California. Seems a guy bought a Mazda CX-50, briefed his daughter on how to drive it. Two weeks later she goes to start it by pressing on the brake pedal. You then need to press the start/stop button again to start the engine (I have a CX-5). No, our budding rocket scientist, having failed to hear the engine start, put it in drive and cancelled the handbrake. Must have been on a slope in driveway as it started going backwards but as there was no engine power, brakes and steering were kind of ineffective. She bailed out of the car which ran backwards and hit a neighbor’s tree and the car received some damage.
The lawsuit is about the “dangerous” feature of the CX-50 and the loss of value to all the owners because of this “dangerous” feature being present.
Someone needs to pull the young lady’s license permanently and for heaven’s sake do not ever let her handle a firearm or an aeroplane.
She’ll probably marry some poor guy eventually.
?If I was the Judge I’d jail the idiot making the complaint and his lawyer for contempt of court.
We just (6 weeks ago) purchased a CX30. The number of times Mrs D forgets to put the car in park before turning off the engine, which only causes it to go in ‘Acc’ mode and beeps at her to remind her to put into park still amazes me.
This image is typical of how the alarmists regards kids:
Cos kids’ lives are important to Leftards?
**sighs**
I remember that ad. They should have been forced to explain themselves to us on live TV, with an audience who could deliver electric shocks or cancel them.
“The construct of base load and peaking is that you want consumers to have the lowest cost generation possible, the lowest cost way to meet energy consumers needs,” AEMO CEO Daniel Westerman says in the latest episode of Renew Economy’s weekly Energy Insiders podcast.
So the CEO of AEMO is on a podcast for this bunch of grifters?
The quiet one’s are often the worst.
Tik Tok on YT has a scathing vid on Churchill.
Churchill was an idiot (youtube.com)
Have you got around to the Apollo program yet?
I mean, a civilisation as rotten as ours couldn’t possibly have landed men on the moon.
All the best to the little one, JC.
A wonderful thing.
I have mixed thoughts on that, Rabz. 🙂
Check out this pigeon. I was not expecting that!
LMAO!
Pigeon Slams Cat
“It’s not all housewives, to be clear, but the stereotype certainly applies to a lot of housewives who spend a lot of mental energy minimising their weekly shopping spend”.
What? Who are these ‘housewives you speak so knowledgeablely about?
And a lot of mental energy?
It’s not rocket science to know there’s a pricing cycle with certain non perishable items on half price special every four or five weeks and to buy enough to last you til the next time.
Both my daughters just shop at Aldi for consistently cheaper groceries, only going to Colesworth for stuff Aldi doesn’t stock.
Only retirees have the time to spend hours doing price comparisons, just about everyone else is too time poor to put in all that ‘mental energy’ and I doubt most retirees bother either, a quick look at the price per unit/ gram is enough for me.
I am married, Rosie. I have observed this phenomenon for many years. As I said, not all obsessive shoppers are housewives and vice versa, but there is a correlation.
JFK Jr. made a very interesting comment about vaccines and kids a while ago. He said that when he was growing up, kids were given about 6 or 7 vaccines. These days, it can be up to 72 by the time they reach their teenage years.
My sincerest sympathy for you, JC. It looks like your little granddaughter may have overcome the problem, thank the Lord.
Re vaccines:
I am still “out to lunch” on the possible effects of vaccines on our physiology – and particularly their effect on infants and children. But I will tell you that the Covid experience and my fortuitous meeting (and now friendship) with an immunologist and pharmacologist of 40 years experience has affected my previous convictions. I now have renewed respect for what were once regarded as “way out there” theories of Robert Kennedy Jr. As you know, the occurence of Aspergers/ADHD/ADD etc syndromes has skyrocketed in recent years. RFK is noted as believing this is due to the rate of vaccination of babies.
In retrospect, I have wondered about the decision of my daughter to have a rubella vaccination when she was pregnant with our grandson. Ironically, I had not allowed her to be routinely vaccinated when the rubella vaccine became available through the education system when she was 14. I argued that she could make that decision as an adult. Grandson suffers from ADHD, although his younger sister does not. Hmmm.
Husband and I had all the travel vaccines (except Smallpox) over the years with no apparent ill effects. However, we have refused vaccines since – inlcuding influenza vaccines.
BTW I had a GP once try to force me to have the Pertussis vaccine when I presented with a continual cough – I refused & she threatened to report me to whoever….I later found that I actually had mild bronchiectasis, not Whooping Cough as she diagnosed. Went to a specialist for advice …. he said yes, you have mild bronchisectasis – but you have great lung capacity …off you go….
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Chuckle. This kids call it the “5 acre yell”.
I mentioned on another thread that a friend and I had a look at this. I kept a few references in my archives. A few statistical studies prove nothing, nor a dozen, but what is interesting is the paucity of data despite these very disturbing findings … .
Rat study:
Been some interesting campaign ads this US Election.
This one is really powerful George on X: “This is still one of my favorite political ads that has come out this cycle Hung Cao is running a phenomenal campaign for Virginia’s U.S. Senate. If Trump wins the state, Cao will win the senate race as well https://t.co/USKuk78nI1” / X
Then there is this by a Chloe Cole (detransitioner)
Chloe Cole ?? (@ChoooCole) / X
The big supermarkets here operate on around 5% or so margin. I think it could be even less, but it’s wafer thin.
Also, their net operating margin, which I looked at when this bullshit started was nothing out of the ordinary.
They’re expected operate 7 days a week until late, which with penalty rates makes their business extraordinarily difficult to manage.
Energy costs rising due to gerbil warming ‘solutions”?
And the Liars are going after them too.
Do people recall, when the ACCC was going after the petrol stations because they were discounting? In other words, they were selling cheap petrol.
The 2nd or third largest gas exporter in the world and we’re experiencing shortages.
This place is laughable.
Thanks all.
The worst thing about this is that it resembles something like a locomotive coming at you at 5 kph and it’s 100 K away and you’re stuck as you can’t move.
Perfect analogy JC.
Don’t forget to look after yourself also.
When we are confronted with a major fright like yours, we often forget to look to our own health.
Sorry to hear about your grandaughter, JC. Babies can be extraordinarily resilient though. Hopefully, it’s just a hiccup and she goes from strength to strength.
Here’s What’s So Messed Up About Bill Gates! w/ Calley Means
But JC Coles is fully on board with this ‘net zero’ shite, LBGTQ what ever and was all for the voice. Hectoring customers. So I have little or no sympathy for them. Agree their logistics are pretty amazing though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftUItehaIoo
Best analysis of Clinton. Evil.
Milt
Everything you say it true, but the issue is that the Liar’s falsely premised intervention will just make things worse.
Fair dinkum, is there a single thing these morons have touched in the past couple of years that hasn’t turned to shit.
Do Coles staff actually get penalty rates? I thought they had a deal with the shoppies.
Agree it will only make thing worse- more canbra meddling.
I was thinking about ASD this afternoon, it’s in my family and clearly in my family’s experience it has a genetic basis because it is intergenerational. I don’t think it’s on the increase, probably just exaggerated by some for NDIS purposes, just that people with those oddities are now more likely to be diagnosed and get some help in the areas they need it (or pushed into identifying as trans).
I see it now as just a different way of being, one that has a great deal to offer, it gives us people like Albert Einstein.
Obviously there are children with severe autism for whom life presents a particular challenge.
https://www.businessinsider.com/army-autistic-people-israel-idf-calling-up-military-conscription-2023-1
https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-causes-autism#:~:text=Is%20autism%20genetic%3F,autism%20comes%20from%20your%20genome.
Genetics are fundamental to ASD. Maternal immune activation is also strongly associated. Most admit ASD is increasing but diagnostic substitution is a big problem. ASD is trendy and attracts a lot of support. Clincians will therefore make an ASD diagnosis. There is also the recency illusion in play among clinicians, which is kinda ironic.
The environmental factors in your second link very much accords with what I read so long ago. The problem with people who focus on vaccines is that they don’t bother to look at all the evidence.
I haven’t seen any evidence that Einstein was an Aspie. Aspies on average have 10% higher IQ. Dirac probably had ASD. The explosion in numbers is in part because in 1994 DSM Asperger’s was included under ASD. Misleading in my opinion, I regard it as a separate condition.
I could never make up my mind about all this. A friend of mine has written a few books on ASD. He doesn’t think vaccines are a major issue but he does acknowledge that contaminants are a potential issue.
A lot of commentators missing the point about the supermarket prosecution, which is that consumers are entitled to clear information on pricing.
Milt Friedman & Thos Sowell both cover it in their basic texts.
There is a marked price, that’s all you need to make a decision. The rest is noise.
The prices are quite clear. You’d have to be catatonic to not understand the marked price.
Hands up who doesn’t keep a spare missile in their attic?
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1838279454658851224?t=iWLpI2Qi-9JVBgWY0AkXaA&s=19
Those stories have obviously been created and circulated to sully the discussion of events the details of which they would prefer never come to light. If you take 9/11, the DE weapons/ no planes/ etc. are clearly established so as to distract from the actual connections between the assailants and the Saudis/ intelligence agencies/ and the like.
I totally agree.
Since Rod Sims started it, I have supported ACCC legal actions against suppliers whose main fault is they can’t stop lying and deceiving consumers about pricing in their advertising.
There is no financial penalty for telling the truth.
Supermarkets are just the latest offenders. Before them, it was airlines and hire car companies among others.
Stop lying to us about consumer pricing, you dirtbags. It’s not that hard.
Alphabet agencies are captured by the Left.
All of them.
Pricing for many things we buy is designed to make comparison essentially impossible eg mobile phone plans. Electricity is getting tougher because time of use risk is being shifted to consumers. Airline tickets have always been hard because they fall to zero once the flight takes off. It’s complicated. I’m not sure supermarket margins are wildly greater than international comparables although I’ve never actually done any real analysis.