Re the discussion about China, an interesting report: Heaviness and Hope in China (20 Feb)
Open Thread – Mon 23 Sept 2024
- Destroying Trust
- Open Thread – Weekend 22 Feb 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 20 Feb 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 17 Feb 2025
- The Holistic Rewards of Christianity
I liked his performance in Darkest Hour. Very convincing.
Mendelssohn is rubbish. He’s a pretty good actor.
Further to a good laugh, last night I went to a Shabbat Seudah and a woman with Trump Derangement Syndrome…
Sunny and Joy…two of the most misnamed angry old bats on the small screen! And don’t get me started on…
My comment on the Paywallion:
Uni boss ‘arrogant and condescending’ to Jewish leaders
A terrible and horrible state of affairs. All student activist protestors involved with the anti-Semitism protest and intimidation of Jewish students on the university grounds should have their courses cancelled and expelled from the university.
Not appeased by Vice Chancellor Mark Scott.
11 hr(s) ago
Status REJECTED
Retarded moderators.
+1
JC hope all will be well for your little darling.Such a worry.
I’m guessing this is Bekaa Valley residents driving over the border into Syria?
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1838329958491676673?t=XxVovGxE1KSG5KH2va35Eg&s=19
Outstanding.
More like, educated beyond their intellectual capacity, as Sir Jim Killen used to say.
Can anybody reproduce the column in the Herald Sun by Jeff Kennett on the topic of Disaster Dan Andrews
Jeff Kennett would be better served penning an explanation for the disaster in his own party
Jeff Kennett puts on the hobnailed boots and lays into Dan Andrews in the Hun in a piece headlined:
“Time for the truth about the conspiracies that have protected Dan”
Some extracts:
Last week when more evidence was reported in this paper about the failure of normal police procedures that followed Daniel Andrews’s car accident, which almost killed a young man, on the Mornington Peninsula in 2013, Andrews responded with his normal trademark rejection, this time of “appalling conspiracy theories”, and a typical personal attack on the late Dr Raymond Shuey AM, a former Assistant Commissioner of our Victoria Police force.
Has the biggest boot in the final line of his article:
.Don’t believe a word Daniel Andrews says.
IMHO every time there is a inflammation triggered there is a tiny % chance of an adverse outcome.
I do think part of the autism/seizures etc is the sheer number of “events” kids are exposed to.
So while you were getting 15 or so vaxes in childhood with a .0001% chance of an adverse result each we how have dozens with the same .0001% so the numbers are bigger.
I am coming to the opinion that every round of vaccination should start and stop with a pre-vax assessment, followed by a post vax assessment 2 weeks or so later.
As much to restore the reputation of vaccination as any other reason.
Glad the little one worked out ok JC, sometimes the seizures can roll on and starve the brain of oxygen/sugars with lifelong consequences.
Marked Scrotum flaunts its anti-Semitism as well as defends the indefensible.
https://x.com/MikeCarlton01/status/1838436906914451626
This is not journalism, it’s vicious vendetta. NewsCorpse has not forgiven Mark Scott for being a senior Fairfax editor and then running the ABC. He is, in fact, one of the most honourable, able and decent men I know.
……
Truth was at least entertaining, and it made no pretence to be anything much else. The Israelian, on the other hand, is preposterous, self-lubricating drivel.
The catamites supporting him need Monty to visit…
Another dirty old stink that won’t go away.
Is it just me, or does Mark Scott resemble Dr Strangelove in that image?!
He looks unwell and quite stressed.
Serves him right. A disastrous VC choice.
He should resign, for his health’s sake if nothing else.
He clearly has no genuine repentance for what he has put Jewish students and staff through.
Jeff Kennett: Time for the truth about the conspiracies that have protected Dan
Ray Shuey’s report into the Dan Andrews crash found the Andrews’ version of events “implausible”. Now he joins a conga line of people the former premier has thrown under the bus to protect himself.
Jeff Kennett 3 min read
September 24, 2024 – 4:24PM
Last week when more evidence was reported in this paper about the failure of normal police procedures that followed Daniel Andrews’s car accident, which almost killed a young man, on the Mornington Peninsula in 2013, Andrews responded with his normal trademark rejection, this time of “appalling conspiracy theories”, and a typical personal attack on the late Dr Raymond Shuey AM, a former Assistant Commissioner of our Victoria Police force.
Let me deal with that first.
Ray Shuey was a highly respected member of our police force. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner by a Labor government.
On retirement he served overseas and here because of his excellent reputation. He was highly respected for his impartiality and professionalism. At his funeral, four former Police Chief Commissioners attended, as well as current Chief Commissioner Shane Patton.
Andrews attacking Shuey was cowardly, but tactical.
Shuey’s report into the failings of the police force in letting Andrews leave the scene of the accident without the police following normal procedures, including breath testing Andrews after he had been eating and drinking at a local sailing club.
Shuey’s investigations found “the version, as provided by Catherine and Daniel Andrews, is considered improbable and implausible”.
The only conspiracy that appears to have been done is not against Andrews but by him and sadly one or more members of our police force.
No other citizen would be able to leave the scene of such a major accident, so quickly, without the police following normal procedures even before young Ryan Meuleman had been picked up by an ambulance.
Shuey now joins a conga line of people Andrews has thrown under the bus to protect himself.
The late Jane Garrett, Jenney Mikakos, Gavin Jennings and 800 Victorians who died while Andres oversaw hotel quarantine, and when asked at the royal commissino of a salient point, you had your great lapse of memory with the reply: “I don’t remember”.
You don’t remember when it suits you, Mr Andrews.
Misuse of taxpayer money in the Red Shirts exercise which you fought to the High Court using taxpayers money and lost.
Let’s not forget your accident, falling down two steps on to grass, which caused you such serious injuries. Again, Andrews is being protected by friends and members of his staff and some in our emergency services.
With one exception Andrews can’t be trusted.
He did say he would not honour the signed contract by the previous government to build the East West Link project.
He did honour that, and on gaining office in 2014 promptly tore up the contract saying it would not cost Victorians a cent.
Sadly, he was wrong. It cost us Victorians more than $1.1bn for which we got absolutely nothing. No freeway, no road, no footpath, no potholes repaired. Nothing except more debt.
The Meulemans are suing their former lawyers Slater and Gordon because the Meulemans believe Slater and Gordon did less than a professional case in representing their interests.
Slater and Gordon, a well-known Labour legal firm, where today the chairman is one of the brains behind the Suburban Rail Loop, James Mackenzie.
The Meulemans are to be congratulated for continuing to have the truth be established, and we the public must support them to take the case to court.
And then there’s the cancellation of the Commonwealth Games. He promised and then reneged.
Andrews easily could have brought the Games back to Melbourne and avoided all the cost overruns.
But no, just cancel, and now Victorians are going to partly fund the Commonwealth Games being staged in 2026 in Glasgow. Victoria is the butt of jokes around Australia and in all Commonwealth countries. How can you trust anything Andrews says?
Last today, the extraordinary infrastructure build, all at once, mismanaged, and late on delivery, that is going to cost generations of Victorians for decades.
At his last caucus meeting, when trying to secure the deputy Leadership of the ALP for Tim Pallas, his authority was challenged, he exploded saying “what have I done to deserve this?”
Well Mr Andrews, you have destroyed the state’s economy, the people are hurting as never before, and you have for your entire time as premier attacked others for seeking the truth for your behaviour.
The Meulemans’ court case must go ahead in the public interest. The public is entitled to know the truth about the conspiracies that have protected Andrews to date.
Maybe that’s why Andrews’ mates rushed to have him receiveAustralia’s highest civilian honour before the truth became public.
But then, I know of cases where an honour given has been withdrawn. As it should here.
Don’t believe a word Daniel Andrews says.
Jeff Kennett is a former Premier of Victoria
Phooey, that shoulda been nested under Chris L’s request.
(so embarrassment)
Thanks Sal
What a pig ( not you )
chrisl
September 24, 2024 6:23 pm
Can anybody reproduce the column in the Herald Sun by Jeff Kennett on the topic of Disaster Dan Andrews
This one Chrisl? :
Jeff Kennett: Time for the truth about the conspiracies that have protected Dan
Ray Shuey’s report into the Dan Andrews crash found the Andrews’ version of events “implausible”. Now he joins a conga line of people the former premier has thrown under the bus to protect himself.
Last week when more evidence was reported in this paper about the failure of normal police procedures that followed Daniel Andrews’s car accident, which almost killed a young man, on the Mornington Peninsula in 2013, Andrews responded with his normal trademark rejection, this time of “appalling conspiracy theories”, and a typical personal attack on the late Dr Raymond Shuey AM, a former Assistant Commissioner of our Victoria Police force.
Let me deal with that first.
Ray Shuey was a highly respected member of our police force. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner by a Labor government.
On retirement he served overseas and here because of his excellent reputation. He was highly respected for his impartiality and professionalism. At his funeral, four former Police Chief Commissioners attended, as well as current Chief Commissioner Shane Patton.
Andrews attacking Shuey was cowardly, but tactical.
Shuey’s report into the failings of the police force in letting Andrews leave the scene of the accident without the police following normal procedures, including breath testing Andrews after he had been eating and drinking at a local sailing club.
Shuey’s investigations found “the version, as provided by Catherine and Daniel Andrews, is considered improbable and implausible”.
The only conspiracy that appears to have been done is not against Andrews but by him and sadly one or more members of our police force.
No other citizen would be able to leave the scene of such a major accident, so quickly, without the police following normal procedures even before young Ryan Meuleman had been picked up by an ambulance.
Shuey now joins a conga line of people Andrews has thrown under the bus to protect himself.
The late Jane Garrett, Jenny Mikakos, Gavin Jennings and 800 Victorians who died while Andrews oversaw hotel quarantine, and when asked at the royal commissinon of a salient point, you had your great lapse of memory with the reply: “I don’t remember”.
You don’t remember when it suits you, Mr Andrews.
Misuse of taxpayer money in the Red Shirts exercise which you fought to the High Court using taxpayers money and lost.
Let’s not forget your accident, falling down two steps on to grass, which caused you such serious injuries. Again, Andrews is being protected by friends and members of his staff and some in our emergency services.
With one exception Andrews can’t be trusted.
He did say he would not honour the signed contract by the previous government to build the East West Link project.
He did honour that, and on gaining office in 2014 promptly tore up the contract saying it would not cost Victorians a cent.
Sadly, he was wrong. It cost us Victorians more than $1.1bn for which we got absolutely nothing. No freeway, no road, no footpath, no potholes repaired. Nothing except more debt.
The Meulemans are suing their former lawyers Slater and Gordon because the Meulemans believe Slater and Gordon did less than a professional case in representing their interests.
Slater and Gordon, a well-known Labour legal firm, where today the chairman is one of the brains behind the Suburban Rail Loop, James Mackenzie.
The Meulemans are to be congratulated for continuing to have the truth be established, and we the public must support them to take the case to court.
And then there’s the cancellation of the Commonwealth Games. He promised and then reneged.
Andrews easily could have brought the Games back to Melbourne and avoided all the cost overruns.
But no, just cancel, and now Victorians are going to partly fund the Commonwealth Games being staged in 2026 in Glasgow. Victoria is the butt of jokes around Australia and in all Commonwealth countries. How can you trust anything Andrews says?
Last today, the extraordinary infrastructure build, all at once, mismanaged, and late on delivery, that is going to cost generations of Victorians for decades.
At his last caucus meeting, when trying to secure the deputy Leadership of the ALP for Tim Pallas, his authority was challenged, he exploded saying “what have I done to deserve this?”
Well Mr Andrews, you have destroyed the state’s economy, the people are hurting as never before, and you have for your entire time as premier attacked others for seeking the truth for your behaviour.
The Meulemans’ court case must go ahead in the public interest. The public is entitled to know the truth about the conspiracies that have protected Andrews to date.
Maybe that’s why Andrews’ mates rushed to have him receive Australia’s highest civilian honour before the truth became public.
But then, I know of cases where an honour given has been withdrawn. As it should here.
Don’t believe a word Daniel Andrews says.
Jeff Kennett is a former Premier of Victoria
Ps:
Just looked at my strike rate for comments accepted on this rag.
Not that good.
Thanks Beertruk
No worries Matey.
Sal beat me to it. 😉
Must go and have a beer at his pub one one day. 🙂
Where ever it is !
Snap snap snapitty snap! That was an Eleven minute gap between postings.
You’ll get your beer quicker than that.
You may already have been in.
At one stage I pinned down (after the fact) Rockdoctor as having been within 30 feet of my office a couple of times. A few others over the years have been close.
The mystery pub…. I am a looong way south , almost Tassie
FFS. Chris Uhlmann (married to a former Labor MP) has just announced on Sky News he’s a maaaate of Sydney University vice-chancellor Mark Scott and therefore has no opinion on USyd’s persecution of Jewish staff and students, even though he admits that’s what has happened.
Uhlmann has already shown he’s prepared to lie to promote leftwing ideology.
IMO, he’s not a real journalist’s bottom. Get rid of him, Peta Credlin.
Those red pills and blue pills do seem to offset each other.
At least he’s been putting the boot into the renewbulls scam.
So there’s that.
Journalists shouldn’t have mates who are in public life.
But at least he’s declared it.
It feels like Anthony Albanese’s re-election strategy is to turn up to Perth and bag out Keep the Sheep.
That’s right, he’s in Perth again today, and yet again, he can’t escape being asked about the ban on live sheep exports and our campaign.
“The campaign, Keep the Sheep, in my view, their name is an admission, because it’s not keep live sheep exports”.
He still doesn’t get it.
Keep the Sheep means keeping our rural communities, it means keeping our farmers, our shearers, our truckies and our livelihoods.
I’ve got a message for Albanese.
If you’re sick of being asked about live sheep exports and Keep the Sheep: Drop the ban.
In the meantime, we’ll keep campaigning and keep being a thorn in your side every time you come to WA.
Keeping the Sheep,
If you want to stuff a dead sheep up the orifices of Albo and Chalmers, Zulu, I will help. Might take some KY jelly but I’m sure we could do it.
Albo should remember the welcome West Australian farmers gave Gough Whitlam at Forrest Place in 1974!
Make sure you pick an old scrubber whose fleece is full of thorns.
You know, for that extra thrill of scratchiness.
And forget the KY Jelly, ya wus.
Sheep are naturally lubricated with lanolin
Just sayin
The headline (the Hun):
Can relate.
I had a girlfriend for a time a couple of years back I called ‘spanner’ because she made my nuts tighten.
No payment to the maaaates fund?
More than a thousand e-scooters were packed up and transported out of Melbourne’s CBD on Monday night, just hours before a ban imposed by the city council took effect.
Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece pulled the plug on the popular transport option in August, moving a motion to tear up the city council’s contracts with e-scooter operators Lime and Neuron.
The motion, which was supported by a slim majority of councillors, gave the companies 30 days to remove their e-scooters from the 14 suburbs that make up the City of Melbourne, with Tuesday marking the beginning of the ban.
News out of left field:
The ethnic Arab mayor of the US’s only Muslim majority city, Hamtramck MI (greater Detroit), has endorsed Trump for POTUS.
Amusingly, to me at least, the Coles under HQ in Tooronga – for non Melbourne people
Tooronga is sort of a dead spot between Toorak and Glen Iris – is palatial. Over run with staff and speciality items like flash cheeses and lobsters. Heaps of womaned check outs. Nothing reallly sells because it’s a show room to impress the dickheads upstairs. Fabulous discounts if you know when to go. I walked out with a bucket of French cheese and some exotic fish for about $10 not so long ago. Pathetic people. Potemkin village. Parking good.
I drove past Battlestar Galactica a few times. Just bizzare. Didn’t a Coles Myer CEO do time for fraud?
Sounds like Woolworths in Double Bay (known as Double Pay).
Hairy insists on shopping there for the easy parking.
He doesn’t do prices – just hands me the receipt if I ask how much something costs there – and he rarely buys specials (and these only because I tell him to look out for them). My choice is Coles at Westfields Bondi Junction, as it’s much more a normal sort of place.
Testing:
Pricks
All areas around Griffith, Winston.
From what I’m hearing it’s 100km+ radius.
I haven’t heard any reports from further out.
As Gez mentioned earlier the Mallee region of Vic has been hard hit as well.
That’s not good news, !#@. (haha. I capitalised your 132 name and it looks cool.)
For various reasons, I get nervous when crops fail, and while Australia has an enormous reserve of capability, that news doesn’t help much.
I’m hoping something can be salvaged – cattle feed/grazing?
Overall we’ll still be harvesting something.
It’s now a case of an average to below average year with above average input costs and depressed prices.
Test:
arsehole
Nope, it’s a mystery what triggered the moderator.
Arsehole is one of my favourite descriptors. I use it often.
Perhaps you’ve burnt out the Arsehole Modulator?
Oh.
It’s j.*.r.k
Yes, it makes talking about Jamaican cuisine problematical.
Jamaican J*rk Chicken
You deleted the whole post because I called magpies j*rks?
WTF Dover.
J*rks is an Americanism. Can’t see why it is on the list, but I am glad the magpies got off scott free this time. They are quite nice birds, more polite than the Currawongs, and beat the Lorikeets who have bossy bully hierarchies.
The black building right Dunny Brush? Didn’t know there was a supermarket in it- interesting. Been there for yonks back to before it became Coles-Myer?
That’s the one. Cnr of Tooronga and Toorak Rd. Next to the St Kev’s hockey field thing. There’s a chemist, big box boozer and a few other retailers hidden in there.
gotcha
I mean, it’s not even a swear word really, is it?
Arky, it was put in the forbidden words long ago due to a commenter’s persistent taunting. I can’t even remember their name. Used to link to an economics site.
Also, due to some strange dispensation, I have been able to read your forbidden comments!
I’ve given you an immediate uptick because some j*rk usually gets in with a downtick any time you reply to me Calli.
It’s a food word!
In Jamaica. Sold on all the street stalls.
I think Americans use it with ‘off’ in a manner similar to ‘w*nk’.
That’s not wink, btw. Put in an ‘a’. Makes it rude in polite company.
Oh, there it is.
Bullying j*rks of a magpie couple still showing up expecting food.
I made the mistake of reading some advice online, which said the bloody things need ground up mealworms added to any steak you hand them.
So today I went out to the pet shop and specifically bought the special magpie dietary additive.
What a sucker.
I added the powder to the porterhouse steak specially cut up magpie gob hole sized.
Took it outside.
Male magpie eyed me up suspiciously and turned his beak up because I had left the steak in the Tupperware. So I took the steak out and placed it deferentially on the ground before his majesty. Who preceded to wipe the steak on the grass to wipe off every trace of special magpie powder, before glaring at me and flying off. His missus repeated the same.
Pricks
They know what they want.
Greenies don’t.
(I do limit the amount I give the western magpies, since I want them to forage as well. But by and large they thrive on what we give them. The Cafe has graduated several dozens of magpie chicks over the years, and aside from accidents they’ve done well.)
Are yours j*rks as well?
Read Arky’s priceless comment on feeding magpies to husband – who is the bird feeder in our family. Laughed a lot.
I am slow out of the blocks. It was only tonight listening to Dutton that I realised the yawning difference between he and Albanese.
Dutton discusses, considers and debates. His statements are nuanced and leave room for questioning.
Albanese stands rigidly behind the microphone and delivers Andrews model monologues based exclusively on assertions and implied threat.
The fading old memory dragged me back to the Sydney Uni refec where lefty moron PolScience and Econ students insisted on disturbing our snatched time off out of the lab with rants that are carbon copies of the utterences of current delayed adolescent clowns in Government.
That assertion does not encompass Wong. She is different. She is true bolshevic fossil.
Enjoyed your descriptors.Great post.
Sydney Uni Refectory – in the long hall with the massive Socialist Realist style mural along the whole of one wall, shades too of Renaissance grandeur, which I watched being done on scaffolding in the early 60’s and which was savagely attacked some decades later for its misogyny during the rise and further rise of feminism, until the Refectory was closed and turned to other uses.
The long Refectory benches where we used to eat and make new friends, the ladies from Glebe’s public housing who wore big aprons and served home-cooked goulash, mashed potato, sprouts and gravy in big sploshes on your plate, and whose nightly cooking saw me through my first two years at uni before I joined a group house where in a new sophistication we mostly made curries to accompany our flagons of wine.
err, Arks, anyone might think they’re doing this to you because they can and they enjoy it. Obviously they aren’t in danger of starving to death any time soon.
They’re shit.
I’m adding them to the list.
Monica Smit story on Current Affair tonight. She was arrested 3 times in one day . Looking back at the footage of the Vicpol thugs I wonder if the average person would look back in pride or horror .
Good analysis bons- Anal and Wong haven’t grown beyond their days as uni agitators. They have nothing good to offer.
Herc flew into the ‘Ville today. As the domestic flight I was on taxied past it was chock a block full of supplies.
Now that in itself isn’t definitive as we share an airport with a RAAF base. Also not the bigger C17’s weren’t present.
However wonder if the word has gone out to grip up and centralise all the kit around to support a protected evac. Surprised the Bankstown boys haven’t already been screaming from Tripoli…
I misread the word ‘supplies’ as ‘apples’ and spent the rest of the post wondering why an airport would be full of apples.
Old age – it ain’t for sissies, or the easily confused.
JC saw upthread the bad news, god speed to the little one.
I have this and that word, email address in auto-moderation. Not perfect but saves time.
Knuckle Dragger
Supra, 6:50 pm
Not quite on point, but we had a one-armed bloke at work years ago.
We knew him as “Digital” – because he didn’t have a second hand… (tish boom).
Best wishes for your granddaughter JC- sorry missed your earlier post.
Elsie just decided she wanted either – some attention – or some of that special milk you give them instead of normal milk.
So she’s been scratching around my feet, trying to look half starved – unsuccessfully – and generally being a pest.
As the leg scratching and plaintive meowing hasn’t worked, she jumped up onto the other chair and then the bench top, only to come face to face with the laptop screensaver. She doesn’t like dogs with lots of teeth, drops back to the floor and watches the office ready to ambush the predator that lives on the desk.
She’s come back and the screensaver has gone to the next in line – one of Monets Haystacks – she walked warily past the screen and checked to make sure the dog wasn’t hiding behind the haystack then came up and demanded feeding. With special milk.
Now that she has scoffed the bloody lot, she’ll go and have a nap – her fifth or sixth today.
Has.not.caught.one.mouse.in.nine.months.
Sounds like a freeloader.
Time to make a deal with the Haitian neighbours.
Good on you for fostering her, Winston.
Cats are like lions. They sleep for around 17 hours daily. In snatches.
One of my favourite Video Channels, Cutting Edge Engineering.
Small one man operation in Queensland that does heavy haulage and mining equipment repairs etc.
This one show has 5.7 million views!
Which is quite amazing that such a small operation gets that much attention.
Small update to this morning’s update re the frost.
Barley has been badly impacted.
I spent over an hour this morning getting a proper gauge on all the barley. Some areas are 80%+ gone while others are 10%.
Overall somewhere between 30-40%. Hopefully some rain in the next 24hrs will give the plants enough to fill late emerging heads which seem to have escaped the freeze, there’s not many of them but it could claw back 5%.
I have also heard a lot of anecdotal reports of the grape vines in and around Griffith being 50% hit.
!#@ – I managed to find one local paper not behind a paywall and they mainly covered the grape damage. No news on the grain crops, although it sounds a little more positive than the first reports.
Given their role in fighting Salafists in Syria, I’m sure they will be welcomed.
Sorry to hear about the little tyke JC.
You’re right about the slow train analogy.
Until maybe some “grown out of it” stage is reached you don’t get good news.
All you can hope for is an absence of bad news.
Fantastic.
Stranglers – Always the Sun
Dunno Dover.
My vague recollection is that the borders between the Bekaa Valley and the west of Syria were always pretty open as many members of the same tribes lived on both sides of the border. Looks like Tartus being majority Alawite would be reasonably safe.
Not so much Sunni majority areas of course.
Huge kerfuffle around here just now. A very large and extremely noisy police helicopter drew out all the neighbours and us at our good ventage point to watch as this copter put a searchlight all around the shores of Watson’s Bay, seemingly following someone or something, along the bay which we overlook, and now it’s headed up to The Gap – Sydney’s suicide central. So noisy the whole neighbourhood has come out.
Don’t know what it is about yet.
Now they are heading back to the city, searchlights still busy all along the harbourside waters.
Some sort of drug bust? The suicides don’t usually get this sort of attention. You only hear the helpicopters when they are rescuing the body. So I suspect drug bust rather than a would-be suicide.
Sydney life.
They’re back. Still one enormous copter, very noisy. Multiple searchlights going. They’ve just gone over Neilson Park and Parsley Bay, then going around The Crescent foreshores just below us, and now seem to be honing in somewhere nearby.
Mysteries.
Get a load of this errant nonsense of an economic plan coming from the kamaltoe campaign.
This campaign is a disaster even in the age of incompetence.
So, I’m in my local bottleshop, treating myself to a good bottle of single malt, and I cop an earful from one of the local grifters
“Jeez, hundred and thirty bucks for a bottle of grog. I wouldn’t mind having that sort of money. Man works his guts out to feed his missus and kids.”
The results of the casual couplings of the lower orders just don’t know their place any more…
Vaucluse resident Andrew O’Keeffe’s obviously out and about again.
Well, it seems someone of significance to Police is up to no good.
Wonder if there is someone down there armed. That thought made me draw back from the verandah balustrades. With the light behind us we’d be prime candidates for some lunatic to take a pot-shot.
The things that go through one’s mind at such times.
They’ve just gone over to Camp Cove and done a low sweep, the place where Governor Phillip set up camp on his initial foray up from Botany Bay in late 1788. All of these twenty-million dollar plus harbourfront properties they’ve been disturbing even more than us seem to be likely places for some sort of landing craft? The copter has now gone over to the entrance to Sydney Heads. Maybe their target has fled out to sea now.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20966/persecution-of-christians-august
If you think the Lebanese are going to fight and win, you are wrong.
A true mighty machine.
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Whoweee, thanks. Big Boy is one of my favourite steam locomotives.
Will watch this later.
Hairy has just found out what the kerfuffle seems to have been about. Waverley police are searching for an old bloke, a missing man called Rudiger Burns, aged 84, who went missing from his home in Vaucluse around 4.30pm. The police helicopter must have been out looking for him. At least we know and if some old codger blunders into our unlocked gate (not too many around here are unlocked) then we shall know who he is. A very worthwhile use of police resources, says my nice Hairy.
Something that came to my mind when I was in heightened imagination thinking that someone might be going to take a pot shot at us on our verandah, and Hairy now admits he thought the same, that he should turn off the light while we were out there, was that Donald Trump must live every moment of his life under this sort of pressure. Six groups have been identified as having the intent to kill him, and now this previous attempted assassin has been shown to have been part of a wider group of ideologues who want Trump dead. The Donald must worry at every twitch in the curtains even at home, for these people will stop at nothing, especially if given ‘help’ by those State ‘protectors’ set up to ensure such things don’t happen. Man of Steel. Vote Trump.
Pray for Donald until at least November 5th (gunpowder, treason and plot) when the sane part of the world hopes he achieves the Presidency and can implement his policies once again, getting ride of the Biden era forever.
I hope that Trump will be in less threat once he is President again, because his Presidential backstop is JD Vance, who will assuredly take no prisoners if Trump is assassinated in Office.
The interesting part in that was left out. What speech that he mentions in the beginning is he referring to?
@WallStreetSilv
Kamala Harris has an IQ of 78 ?
I believe it.
Well, I hope this meme gets cracking and goes into the multi-millions of views. Yes, I believe it. She’s definitely in the lower ranges of being quick on the uptake. Just the thing you need for a President, sorry, for a Presidential Puppet.
Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?
The Wong chap talking especial bollocks at the end.
Aboriginal academic and human rights lawyer Hannah McGlade has criticised the overseas travel spend for the Ambassador for First Nations People, saying the role should be focused on a more serious issue.
Exclusive: The overseas travel spend for the Ambassador for First Nations People is “extraordinary” and the role should instead focus on “children suffering appalling abuse,” says an Australian on the United Nations’ top body for Indigenous issues.
Academic and human rights lawyer Hannah McGlade launched the stinging rebuke on Tuesday as Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong stepped up her defence of the role of First Nations People ambassador, Justin Mohamed.
Senator Wong was stirred into action after Peter Dutton vowed to abolish the role, with the Opposition leader declaring the $350,000 budgeted for Mr Mohamed’s business-class international trips last financial year would be better spent on “Australians who are struggling at the moment to keep a roof over their head or to pay their electricity bill.”
In New York, Ms Wong hit back, saying it was “disappointing that Mr Dutton doesn’t see a role for Indigenous Australians in representing Australia.
“We see again his character on display. He divides us at home, and frankly, he diminishes us in the world,” she said.
While Ms Wong was prepared to take on Mr Dutton, her office had nothing to say about Ms McGlade’s comments.
Ms McGlade, who is Aboriginal and has been a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) for nearly five years, had said: “Honestly I think it’s an extraordinary amount of travel and costs associated with the role of Ambassador to date.”
Writing on LinkedIn, she added: “As a member of UNPFII I’m disappointed the Ambassador [role] does not appear focused on advancing Indigenous people’s rights, especially the rights of children suffering appalling abuse in Australia”.
This masthead was unable to contact Ms McGlade directly. On LinkedIn, she was replying to a post by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss.
Ms Kiss had defended the Ambassador’s role and described Mr Dutton’s view as “disappointing.”
Mr Mohamed did not respond to a request for comment; nor did his employer, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
On Tuesday, this masthead revealed the Ambassador’s role has a salary range between $240,000 and $326,000.
The revelation has brought more scrutiny of the role, which the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on Monday vowed to abolish after this masthead brought to light the full extent of the position’s overseas travel budget.
The world-first role was established in March 2023, with Labor declaring the “new position ensures, for the first time, that Australia will have dedicated Indigenous representation in our international engagement.”
At a Senate estimates hearing on June 3 this year, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price asked Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade bureaucrats for details of Mr Mohamed’s salary.
The officials said Mr Mohamed was “engaged at the SES band 2 level.”
The 2022-23 DFAT annual report shows that the Senior Executive Service band 2 was paid between $240,000 and $326,000.
Senator Price asked for Mr Mohamed’s specific salary. The bureaucrats didn’t know and said they would “have to take on notice the exact package he’s on.”
It appears no answer has been provided to date.
However, on Monday, the Albanese government confirmed to this masthead that the pay grade and range was correct.
Mr Mohamed declined to comment on Monday, other than to say he was not upgraded to first class on any of the nine overseas trips he undertook in 2023-24. Four of the journeys were to the US; two were to Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr Mohamed’s business-class flights cost more than $100,000; the bill for his overseas hotels was more than $30,000.
Including the travel expenses of Mr Mohamed’s support staff, DFAT budgeted more than $350,000 for the nine trips.
Mr Dutton told Sydney’s 2GB radio that “if it is the case that we win the next election, that position will be abolished on day one.
“That money will be spent to help Australians who are struggling at the moment to keep a roof over their head or to pay their electricity bill. We’ve got higher priorities at the moment.”
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong attacked the Opposition Leader over his call to abolish the position in the wake of the revelations.
“It’s disappointing that Mr Dutton doesn’t see a role for Indigenous Australians in representing Australia,” she said.
“We see again his character on display. He divides us at home, and frankly, he diminishes us in the world.”
Senator Wong said Ambassador Mohamed was rebuilding Australia’s “relationship with the Pacific family.
He “and his team are delivering results for all Australians including our First Nations communities,” Ms Wong said.
“Ambassador Mohamed has helped secure greater access for Indigenous Peoples to the Human Rights Council, he was essential to delivering a groundbreaking treaty securing formal legal recognition of First Nations people’s genetic resources and traditional knowledge, and has boosted First Nations trade.
“First Nations diplomacy is a powerful element of our engagement with the Pacific given the strong First Nations cultural and historical connections with our region.
“It is one of the ways we are rebuilding our relationship with the Pacific family after Mr Dutton and the Liberals disrespected Pacific leaders and neglected Pacific priorities over nine long years, leaving a vacuum for other countries to fill.”
– Additional reporting by Tom Minear.
Daily Tele with comments off to the races
Daily Tele with comments off to the races
Now at 364 and rising.
Companies Are Quickly Firing Gen Z Employees
The video seems like an advertisement for paying more HR employees more money.
The problem is that the HR employees awon’t do their jobs – and will only do those things they can’t get away with not doing and are too busy saving the world from whatever current issue is trendy, than make sure everyone is paid correctly.
@GuntherEagleman
@Jules31415
Tucker Carlson: “I actually don’t really want to show up in somebody else’s state and like attack their politicians…but I saw a photograph of your Governor Josh Shapiro standing with a foreign leader, signing an artillery shell that is going to kill civilians in a country we’re not at war with, with a grin on his face…I was disgusted by it, actually, I was enraged by it.”
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 24, 2024 10:25 pm
Codgers on the loose in Vauclause?
It’s what Colin Powell or Stormin’ Norman Schwartzkopf used to describe as “a target rich environment”.
Could be your aging parents Sancho. Then I bet you would not be laughing so much.
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms ? pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine (theconversation.com)
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms ? pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine (theconversation.com)
And now, in a new study, a team of experts have detailed how certain cells, when provided with the necessary stimulation, have the ability to “transform into multicellular organisms with new functions after death.”
What is this ‘third state?’
Death is slow.
For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after organismal death. In mice, skeletal muscle cells can be regrown after 14 days postmortem, while fibroblast cells from sheep and goats can be cultured up to a month or so postmortem.
After seeing how my failing heart replumbed itself in straight lines was amazing to me. The size of small arteries increased manyfold.
Zombies.
Zombies are the third state.
🙂
Reminds me of reading some recent evolutionary anthropology, which suggested that our concave hand shape (can readily take up a rounded pounding rock) and our increasingly demanding growing brain size were both the selective response of being able to eat lot of luscious FAT. It was found in the pounded out bone marrow of big animal carrion left lying around dead on the savanahs even after the lions had finished with it. Apparently the marrow can stay sweet and luscious for months after much else has gone rotten in the surrounding flesh. It took a canny australopithecus to do what no other animal could do and get at the marrow in the big bones. By smashing them up – in an iterative process that produced our amazing brain development.
H B Bear
September 25, 2024 12:08 am
Reply to Dunny Brush
Quite so.
Brian Quinn.
Diverting company money to renovate his house in … Templestowe.
I know, right?
Apparently his wife Trenna ran up the tab on very lavish finishes.
A new word was coined in her honour to describe OTT house improvements … “a trennavation”.
Brian Quinn.
I remember that, She wanted bevel glass window panes fitted to an unsuitable window frame, frame too small for that and looked shyte, tried for 3 or 4 times.
And that was just a minor thing.
Carnarvon 1981.
I was getting looked after by a bunch of teenagers for the night. I was 6. Come midnight I decided I want to go home. I just walked out the front door and proceeded to walk home from East Carnarvon. It was a bloody long walk. I got to Robinson street in the centre of town … Port Hotel was on the other side of the road ( Hello Wilson Tuckey ). I was bawling my eyes out.
This bloke came along and calmed me down. He then picked me up and put me on his shoulders and proceeded to walk me the rest of the way home.
Got to about kilometre from home when dad and mum went past in the car and hit the brakes. The bloke put me down and dad amd mum were relieved to have found me. It was all hands on deck that night.
Anyway, a conversation ensued and I distinctively remember him telling father he was just released from jail. For what crime I can not remember.
Dad proceeded to take the bloke home, mum and I walked the rest of the way home.
Did I cause a fuss? You bet i did.
This song brought all the memories back. I found my way home.
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home (with lyrics)
The option to edit posts appears sometimes but not all the time.
Ignore. I figured out the edit function.
Can someone please tell me?
I’ve no idea and always make typing errors.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Genius.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Pop star Taylor Swift has received a barrage of negative feedback for backing Kamala Harris, much of it from mums vowing to never spend a cent on her concerts or merchandise.
Rita Panahi
When it comes to Taylor Swift and poor choices, the jokes write themselves.
After all, she’s made a fortune writing songs about picking the wrong person and she’s done it again, endorsing Kamala Harris.
But her endorsement of the Democrat appears to have backfired as the star’s popularity takes a battering.
She has closed comments on her Instagram page after a barrage of negative feedback, much of it from mums vowing to never spend a cent on her concerts or merchandise.
The decision means Swift’s 284 million followers are currently banned from commenting on her posts.
And, her backing of Harris – a Vice President so hopelessly inept that she had record low approval ratings as VP before the media propaganda campaign rebranding her as capable and visionary – has seen Swift record a favourability rating that is lower than Donald Trump’s.
According to latest polling by the New York Times and Siena College, a reputable survey that typically favours the left, Trump had a favourability rating of 47 per cent, while Swift was at 42 per cent.
When it comes to Republicans, Swift’s popularity is down to 23 per cent.
This is not the first time Swift has become highly political.
In 2018 she emoted widely about “being on the right side of history” and spoke out against Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn, labelling her “Trump in a wig” and accusing her of breaching “basic human rights”.
The ill-advised hyperbole did not seem to hurt Blackburn, who won Swift’s home state with a healthy 10.8 per cent margin.
The celeb class were warned to stay in their lane.
To stick to what they’re good at and not use their profile to push their uninformed views on their fan base and the wider public.
Ricky Gervais said it best when he told the Hollywood elite at the 2020 Golden Globes to resist making a political speech if they won an award.
“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world,” he said.
“Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”
But, alas, they cannot help themselves, particularly when it comes to the US election.
Swift joins a long list of celebs backing Harris.
We saw a similar phenomenon in 2016 with the A-list endorsing Hillary Clinton.
It didn’t help her and it remains doubtful whether celebrity power will get Harris over the line.
Herald-Sun
Thanks, Tom.
Bending over or kneeling, sitting down even is a cinch.
Getting up is the problem.
18 wheelers?
Pfft.
Good decision, bit pricey but.
The sign looks like a symbol for turn around and go back or no entry.I would have done something a wee bit more welcoming and not as confusing for drivers.
The Secret Salim!
Disgraced former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer has been secretly jailed for brutally attacking his ex-girlfriend – as she breaks her silence over her horrendous ordeal.
Mehajer, 38, was sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison at the District Court for a raft of offences last May – including domestic violence and fraudulent use of documents.
A jury had found the former politician and property developer guilty of suffocating, punching and threatening to kill his ex-partner during ‘four bouts’ of anger during the ‘abusive’ relationship.
However, the lengthy jail term could not be reported until this week when a court lifted a non-publication order after Mehajer pleaded guilty to a series of separate offences.
Daily Mail
I can’t understand the four bouts thing, I would be out after the first time, there would not be another opportunity to do me harm.
Reasonable decision, but I am not keen on secret trials.
What a winner.
Lets import some more like his parents.
Speaking of supermarkets.
From humble beginning.
Tesco
We’ve been here before…
The Dunciad: Book The Fourth.
By Alexander Pope
ARGUMENT.
The poet being, in this book, to declare the completion of the prophecies mentioned at the end of the former, makes a new invocation; as the greater poets are wont, when some high and worthy matter is to be sung. He shows the goddess coming in her majesty to destroy order and science, and to substitute the kingdom of the Dull upon earth; how she leads captive the Sciences, and silenceth the Muses; and what they be who succeed in their stead. All her children, by a wonderful attraction, are drawn about her; and bear along with them divers others, who promote her empire by connivance, weak resistance, or discouragement of Arts; such as half-wits, tasteless admirers, vain pretenders, the flatterers of Dunces, or the patrons of them. All these crowd round her; one of them offering to approach her, is driven back by a rival, but she commends and encourages both. The first who speak in form are the geniuses of the schools, who assure her of their care to advance her cause, by confining youth to words, and keeping them out of the way of real knowledge. Their address, and her gracious answer; with her charge to them and the Universities. The Universities appear by their proper deputies, and assure her that the same method is observed in the progress of education.
“Mad Mathesis alone was unconfined,
Too mad for mere material chains to bind,
Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare,
Now running round the circle finds the square.”
Today’s Paywallion:
It’s time Labor held Indigenous land councils to account
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
25 Sep 2024
I firmly believe land councils can be valuable and meaningful bodies; places where traditional owners are informed and enabled to pursue economic development and independence on their land. But in order to function at their peak, land councils must be accountable. We must have an effective way to scrutinise and track both their governance and outcomes.
It is becoming overwhelmingly clear, however, that the Albanese government’s approach to accountability is severely problematic. Not long ago, the federal government commissioned the Australian National Audit Office to audit all four Northern Territory land councils. At the outset, that sounds like a positive step toward accountability. The usual process then followed in that the audit recommendations were left to be implemented by each council.
Now, in theory, those land councils were still subject to scrutiny because the Senate is entitled to interrogate their progress at Senate estimates. But I say “in theory” because it is remarkable how well and compliant an organisation can present itself to a committee at Senate estimates, and how different that presentation can be from reality.
The Anindilyakwa Land Council is a prime example of this. It came before the estimates committee I was on in June this year, and proudly announced in relation to the ANAO audit recommendations that it had “completed 85 per cent of the responses to those recommendations”. Great. But enter the report from an independent review of the ALC after estimates, and a starkly different picture emerged.
Of the 14 ANAO recommendations agreed to be implemented by the ALC, the independent review found none of them had been fully implemented or closed. None. The review found that the recommendations should be reopened until they had been implemented to an acceptable standard.
It was damning. Yet no one would have known that from the Albanese government’s system of auditing and self-reporting. All we would have known was the nice, neat picture given by the ALC at estimates.
And the problem is, technically, those assurances the ALC gave at estimates were true. Thanks to the self-assessment process, a land council can truthfully say it has fully complied with the audit recommendations because, according to its definition of compliance, it has.
This Albanese system of accountability is at best lazy and at worst encourages corruption to abound in organisations that are meant to protect and advocate for our most marginalised.
But the Albanese government doesn’t care – even Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy’s recent announcement to withhold funding from the ALC due to the review findings was tokenistic. It didn’t address the underlying weak system of accountability, but it also came just before the council was to hold its election.
The self-serving timing was impeccable – if the board was returned to govern, then the ALC members had independently affirmed the failing leadership and the minister could step away from the problem; and if the board was changed, the ALC had taken steps to sort out the mess itself – both eventualities standing as the pinnacle of self-determination.
As recently as last week, McCarthy continued to tout the ANAO audits as the answer to providing “oversight and recommendations to improve internal governance of these bodies”. We are left only to imagine the situation of the three other Northern Territory land councils that haven’t been independently reviewed. But as the example of ALC demonstrates, the current system of ANAO auditing doesn’t reassure anyone of the good governance of these bodies.
That is why I will continue to push for a formal inquiry into land councils and registered native title bodies – an inquiry specifically focused on matters of governance, accountability and transparency, that wouldn’t rely on self-reporting and would afford the Indigenous Australians who these bodies are supposed to serve the opportunity to go on record about how those bodies have or have failed to serve their interests.
But aside from an inquiry into governance of these bodies, we desperately need to undertake an audit of the money being funnelled into these bodies, and the Aboriginal industry more broadly.
Quite unlike the ANAO audits this government has commissioned that examine financial trails and ensure money is dealt with properly, I am calling for an audit that scrutinises the effectiveness of that money. An audit tasked with evaluating whether money is being spent where outcomes are being delivered and Indigenous lives are being improved, or where it is being wasted on unproductive projects.
Like me, I know most Australians want to see these bodies functioning at their best, and that requires close scrutiny of both their governance and their outcomes. But in order to do that, we need both an inquiry for governance and an audit for effectiveness.
The Albanese government has explicitly opposed an inquiry into land councils and registered native title bodies, and is content with its current method of auditing. Its obtuse attitude holds all Australians back – marginalised Indigenous Australians, the bodies that are supposed to represent them, and the rest of the country, who are lifted when our most vulnerable are lifted too.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman.
Stop making sense Jacinta, you’ll go nowhere. Jacinta speaks for the majority of Australians, clear, concise, fair and equitable. There is nothing political in what she says. The scumbag Liars party have no interest in improving Indigenous lot. Nobody has dibs on being right all the time but Jacinta gives me hope in the political future of Indigenous. This does not mean they have anything extra, just politicians listening to and acting upon their genuine concerns.
She is impressive by any standard.
Easy to see why she is particularly loathed by the moral dwarves and pigmies of the Canbra Class.
And “unknown” to Numbers and his ilk.
Jacinta Price has had two speaking engagements here in Toowoomba over the last few years prior to her being in parliament..
I have been to both of them and had a yarn with her both times.
‘Numbers and his ilk’ might have learnt something if they had attended.
What we need to do is get rid of all these councils, bodies and entities which are nothing more than money gobblers while doing nothing constructive. They are very good at disadvantaging the country and anyone who doesn’t sit on these bodies. Cut the funding and they will all go and get a real job, hopefully. The same should be done to the ABC as reforming them is just another money wasting activity.
Silly sausage.
I wonder if someone sabotaged his teleprompter text…
Ron Burgundy wants his teleprompter back…
Really looking forward to the rain promised tomorrow for the NSW Central West. Getting pretty dry for Spring here. Clover has been good this year, but cows have pretty much eaten it out. No bloating, thank goodness. A bloke in the valley lost a cow a few weeks ago.
Dry here in the Southern Tablelands also Vicki.
Sculpting contentions ABC style.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-24/israel-deadly-attack-lebanon-not-deterred-hezbollah-analysis/104387312
BBC Fails Self-Awareness Test Again!
Reporting on the Murdoch Succession matter, the Beeb made reference to Lachlan having views more in line with his father’s, that is to say falling on the conservative side of the line. They went on to say that the empire included far-right Fox News, which had promulgated debunked conspiracy theories, and that the succession would determine how people heard the news!
Never mind that people now hear mostly left-leaning news from about 90% of the MSM, including the BBC itself.
Alexander Pope – Timon’s Villa is a nice bit of satire on the overblown estates of the rich. There’s quite a bit of it about these days too!
And don’t forget A.D. Hope’s Dunciad Minor – where he slices and dices literary critics, particularly those who want to reduce Shakespeare to “extended metaphor”.
I recall one wag at Uni many years ago submitting an essay in verse he entitled “Dunciad Minimus”.
And don’t forget A.D. Hope’s Dunciad Minor – where he slices and dices literary critics, particularly those who want to reduce Shakespeare to “extended metaphor”.
I haven’t read it but will look it up. Of course, smacking down literary critics is shooting fish in a barrel.
In May 2022, here in Oz land, the electorate kicked out a useless, spineless, craven and quisling Coalition government and replaced it with a motley crew of ghastly far-left mediocrities headed by the grub from Grayndler.
We here in Oz land have paid a heavy price since then. Whilst we all knew it would be worse under the grub from Grayndler and his comrades, we knew we could no longer continue to reward Coalition uselessness and cowardice so we have been lumped with the mediocrity from Grayndler since May 2022. But we should count ourselves lucky, our PM and his motley crew are models of propriety and competence compared to UK Labour under Fuhrer Sturmer. Since being elected in early July, and particularly since the Southport massacre of little girls, Fuhrer Sturmer and his merry comrades have merrily spent their time smearing and branding their ideological opponents as far-right and Nazis. You might ask why? Well, ya see, if you dare to oppose the increasing (and quickening) Islamification of the UK, and if you dare to critique mass legal and illegal immigration into the UK, according to Fuhrer Sturmer and his comrades, you are a Nazi, you are far-right.
Overnight, at the UK Labour Conference, Fuhrer Sturmer, no doubt dressed in Savile Row attire (Fuhrer Sturmer has long been enamoured of all things Savile), attire donated to him by an Islamist millionaire, stood on a podium and said…..
“I call again for all parties to pull back from the brink. I call again for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages.”
Now, if anyone else had said the above, I could and would forgive them for such a verbal lapse. It’s something we all do at times, although you would think a man with years behind him as leader of UK Labour, a man who trained in law, a man who practised as a top London barrister, and a man who once headed the DPP in London would be more careful with his words, particularly when addressing others. But you see, I think Sturmer’s Freudian lapse is an insight into his sinister totalitarian mind. He has no heart, rather he is a hardcore freezing cold Marxist, a man who has accumulated over 10 million pounds but who takes dosh from a sleazy Labour donating Islamist millionaire to dress his wife.
You see, socialists never stop taking other people’s money.
Despite the UK MSM doing their best to cover up the grift and the stench of this new Labour government, watching Fuhrer Starmer is like watching a slow moving train wreck.
Back to the ‘sausages’ remark, no Mr Sturmer, those hostages in Gaza are not ‘sausages’, they are Jewish men, Jewish women and Jewish children.
For the record, I believe most of the hostages are now dead. The IDF are searching for graves.
I agree with you Cassie on that last. I believe in miracles, but prepare for the worst.
It would also explain the ramping up of Israel’s activities.
And being cloth eared, counterintuitive numbots, our government is busy denouncing Israel via the Wong chap.
Netanyahu appears to regard them as expendable, but “sausages” is a bit beyond the pale.
Absolute bull. You’re beyond the pale.
Since the savage tunnel murder of six young hostages I too doubt whether very many of them, if any, are still alive. They have most likely also been murdered. Perhaps a few still held alive in order to create more agony in further ‘negotiations’.
This extra-legal kidnapping at a rock concert and the rapes and then killing of those held is never raised by the stupid young women of the West who support ‘Palestine’. They have been so badly raised and conditioned to leftism.
FMD. Your children are being taught by arseholes. Hun:
Mmmyes something rotten in the state of Denmark, er, Victoria.
Well she could have been a flute player. So what piqued the interest of her colleagues that something was amiss?
Entirely reasonable one would have thought. But this being Victoria:
I feel reassured judge. As is the union involved.
All perfectly fine, except when it isn’t.
Good Lord what a shitshow.
The Victorian courts will probably find that any problem was George Pell’s fault.
The use of “they” and “their” really grates on me but seems logical when you realise who is the new royalty and it certainly aren’t the normal people. How important must you be to have reality and grammar bend to your wishes?
mental is the new normal
Sounds like one for NamBob to deal with. Subaru driver fo sure.
Dover Beach, 1032 last night:
I’m thinking it was this one.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-815412
This can fixed by killing the women and children first. The Christians brought this upon themselves. What did they think was going to happen? Judging others by your own sentiments is fraught with danger. Muzzies only understand submission or death. I’m only willing for one of the options.
Army! Tanks! news (the Hun):
Tanks! Must have been spectacular.
Military Tanks!
Tanks!
Ahhh. Not tanks after all, then.
Suggestions the Singaporean drivers were attempting to parallel park at the time have yet to be confirmed.
snork!
Don’t laugh a relative of mine as a jubie driver following a tank in front to close in dust at Mt Bundy did same. Actual Leopard tanks. No injuries.
Yes he was handed the obligatory punishment at the time which was swift and brutal. Never did it again.
What’s a Jubie Driver, Rockdoctor?
And just what was the punishment? Flogged around the Parade Ground? Extras in the kitchen?
Don’t keep us in suspenders, FFS.
Told to me a jubie driver is new march in, refers to the lollies being soft. Townsville infantry had a different term lids that apparently goes back to WWII as the newbies had fresh clean helmets. (Happy to be corrected if a misconception on the above).
Yes you are warm, said driver being kicked a number of times by loader/gunner in his drivers hole…
lids : Low Intelligent Digger/s
Sergeants Mess : Live In Divorced ( ‘s’ to denote plural 😉 )
Apparently this isn’t ..er… entirely unknown in the Sg armed forces, though usually performed in a more discreet & very clandestine manner.
one tank rear-ended another.
105 Battery…the Kabana Boys…hehehe… 🙂
who wishes to be known as Mx
íAfuera!
Sheesh it’s not that hard to tell is it?
As an alternative to BOM I also check the weather forecasts on Weather.com. It seems they are about as good as their government financed colleagues. They had the rain due tomorrow with today just cloudy. It just rained, slightly, at my place so I checked again and, lo and behold, the forecast is now to rain today. How prescient of them?
Windy has good graphics, but to be honest, the BoM rain radar at 512km resolution gives me all the data I need.
Mind you, it does seem to pick up when the sprinklers are on at Longreach airport.
I’m a fan of Windy. The BOM is close to useless.
Qld State Erection (sic).
My interpretation of the LNP propaganda received in the mail the other day:
Labor has had ten years to kick you in the head while you’re down, now it’s our turn! (You’re already semi-conscious – We won’t feel a thing).
And also:
We wear a different brand of lippy*, so we’re not COMPLETELY identical twins.
* We’re Not Them (W*NT)(TM) – Now with 2% extra glitter, made with Klimate Denier labour.
Voters are like condoms – Use once, as quickly as possible, then discard.**
** We discarded you during the covidiocy – it was easier than we thought, and consequence-free – and we know that you know we’ll do it again. Let’s keep this respectful: You’re morally floppy.
Muddy…aaand that’s why I’ll never vote Liberal again.
BoM fail.
Supposed to be average rain in the SE with a possible La Nina in Spring.
Farmers know it stopped raining in August. A dry pattern has set in, though it takes some time before the paid experts confirm what we simply observe.
The old man would say “If it doesn’t rain in August, it seldom rains in September.”
Jane Bunn on Channel Stokes news last night hedged her bets by saying we would have 5-20mL by now. A nice range of measurement to be sure, but as of writing, have received what Paddy shot.
That supercomputer working a treat for the Top Men.
Are you talking about Jane herself, or the rain?
Anyone for cat stew?
Haitian Group Asks Ohio Court to Charge Trump, Vance (24 Sep)
Who knew that funny memes are “telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing”? Well if they thought they were unpopular in Springfield before this they now are going be detested by 80 million Trump supporters too.
Idea-deficient NSW guv dips his wick into the rental market because… something something fleeing domestic violence something.
Idiot council here is swinging at the AIR B&B list, threatening all sorts of stings like “refuge availability” requirements, garnisheeing money, and higher rates. Immediate result- lots of doctors’ wives, usually the right-on sort for the Blob, are withdrawing from the app and going word-of-mouth, cash only. Less rentals available, rental rates rise, cleaners and dry-cleaners cool off. Brilliant.
What can you expect from Rose Jackson who used to be commentator on Paul Murray’s Sky programme for the Labor side of arguments? She irritated me as much as Linda Scott does, nobody can do smug like Linda.
Rose managed something her husband Sam Crosby failed at which was to get elected. She is also Labor royalty, daughter of the late Liz Jackson, an ABC personality as I refuse to honour any of them with the title of a journalist.
Would this be the bimbo known as “Pavlova Rose“?
They actually put that airhead into a parliamentary seat? Seriously?
So glad we sold up all of our rental properties.
Far too much trouble these days.
Democrats are so scared Trump will win, they are bringing in the “Big Guns”, to help. Lol!
https://x.com/ForAmerica/status/1838292435019178154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1838292435019178154%7Ctwgr%5E1d909a338c52b04ff2573267211bf9c64c89b608%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
I think this will go down badly with many voters looking for a way out of Ukraine’s war. Lead balloon territory.
Hobbes…salient…
OK. Watched a bit of Paul Murray last night. He’s loud and I was trying to stay awake. But what got me was the level of economic illiteracy. Now Murray isn’t on his tod in lacking economic nous but at least he admits it. But one thing really annoyed me. Interest rates. And the correlation with inflation. He was banging on about what people were paying for mortgages as compared to during the pandemic. The rates during the pandemic were “emergency levels” because the treasury and the rba thought there was a risk of economic meltdown. This was the worldwide thinking. Since the gfc we have had QE and emergency rates a few times especially in Europe. The point I’m making is that monetary policy has been skewed by these events. People now think interest rates should be continually low, and yet a 4% cash rate is hardly excessive and frankly it was the same or mostly lower than inflation. Rates possibly should have been higher. And if inflation abates what does the rba see as neutral rates? 2 or 3 %? The only people who gained from the extremely loose monetary policy last time were IT grifters, and asset owners. It was always going to increase inflation particularly with the extremely loose fiscal settings. Oh and that’s the other reason inflation remains high. Treasury needs a good clean out.
An excellent piece from ACE.
“Ever since the Six-Day War, Israel has diddled and vacillated and tried to please the elites in the West (primarily America) while simultaneously trying to protect its citizens from the existential threat of Islam.
Land for peace…political autonomy…hundreds of thousands of jobs for the West Bank and Gaza Arabs within Israel itself…carefully titrated responses to the never-ending terrorist attacks against its citizens.
Nothing worked. What did Israel get? Hezbollah to the North, Hamas to the South, with the even more kleptocratic but equally homicidal Palestinian Authority to the East. Thousands of Israelis have died, and the threat of both home-made and Iranian supplied missiles has never been greater. And all of this culminated in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. October 7th should have been the catalyst for a radical departure from the status quo, but because of pressure from the Iran-loving American administration and Israel’s fear of Western media disapprobation, The military response has been drawn out and muted. Yes, tunnels have been destroyed, rockets have been destroyed, thousands of Hamas terrorists have been killed…but the war has been going on for more than 11 months! Israel’s goals have been muddied by the intense pressure from both the West and its own fifth column of ardent leftists.
But the magnificent operation of last week has handed Israel a tremendous opportunity to snatch back the initiative, and return to the Israel of old…lightning strikes on its enemies, daring and unconventional operations, and finally taking the fight to its real enemies.
Retired colonel Kobi Marom urges Israel to target Nasrallah in IDF ground maneuver
Exactly. Israel does not have the luxury of time. A war of attrition favors the terrorists, who are content to conduct low-level attacks from all sides until the Israeli body politic is exhausted and ready for the existentially awful “Two State Solution.”Take the gloves off. Let the military planners do their work without political considerations that ALWAYS temper their plans.
And then conduct fast unrestricted war against Hezbollah and the remnants of Hamas. Make them shiver with fear, unsure when the next Israeli operation will come, but knowing that it will be fierce and from an unexpected direction.
That is how Israel can win its war.”
Absolutely.
Pog, that noodle-arm spaffing on the warhead is Josh Shapiro, who was very nearly the Dems’ VP candidate.
Tucker Carlson called it disgusting, putting a mark on munitions which will inevitably kill innocents, in a war which the US has no active part in…. outside photo ops, exporting pallets of cash, and the buy-up of a nation by Blob allies in Black Rock and Vanguard. Disgusting, he’s right about that.
Hi Wally,
yes, I knew it was Shapiro. Another run-of-the-mill self-hating Jew.
He sincerely believes the crocodile will not eat him.
Hard to believe
The Lumberjack song was prophetic.
That’s a funny Dad joke!
Glad they clarified that.
Otherwise people might’ve assumed there were shenanigans involving Singaporeans hamster-wheeling water tanks.
Progressives at 12 paces:
Leon was one of 12 public servants found by an APS inquiry to have breached the APS code of conduct 97 times.
She’s now VC of Charles Sturt University.
Is there any Australian University, any at all, with a Vice Chancellor who has a respectable reputation as an academic, or are they all failed politicians and public servants?
I don’t suppose scholars don’t cut it in the PR battle for students, BJ.
Indicative of what our tertiary education sector has become.
University of the Third Age ?
I cannot comprehend the new wave of VC’s drawn from the bloated bureaucracy and with no academic qualifications of note nor any understanding of what it means and takes to lead a significant national institution such as a major university.
22 years ago when I left academia and any Vice Chancellorship became available the usual procedure was to put out an international search for candidates of high academic and managerial merit – combined. Whatever happened to that, and to selection criteria and procedures that meant no jumped-up bureaucrat could ever achieve such a positiion.
All gone with the wind in only 20 odd years.
Even worse, they’re now drawing them from the failed political class.
Another useless, parasitic twit rewarded by failing upwards.
We are ruled by useless clowns.
Javier Milei has scrapped Argentina’s rent control system. The rental market is now booming.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/24/javier-milei-scrapped-argentinas-rent-controls-now-the-rental-housing-market-is-booming-n2179713
He fights Tories:
The SMH reports that Mr. 32% is about to take on negative gearing.
It’s as though he walks into his office every morning and asks, “Who can we p*ss off today?”
He’s going back to the issue that lost the Liars the 2019 election.
Just do it, Albo!
The word you are looking for is “on”, not “off”.
Good point, but “take on” highlights the combative nature of Albanese’s personality, which is coming to the fore as he’s wedged between Dutton & the Greens and growing smaller by the day.
Will there be an exemption for politicians?
Didn’t Paul Keating scrap negative gearing? There was such a shortage of rental properties, that the policy was re – instated eighteen months later?
Correct around 1985
Mr 32%?
Mr 31%, Shirley.
Chasing greens preferences
He can’t help himself.
If this clownfest can even hang on to minority government I’ll be amazed.
Not content with running destroyers into civilian shipping the USN has other troubles:
https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-oiler-usns-big-horn-aground-forcing-carrier-strike-group-to-scramble-for-fuel/
From Pogria’s post above:
all of this culminated in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust
Be a good hook for an article. List all of the wars Israel has been involved in, maybe with a precipitating action.
Then list all of the fatalities.
Argue a) the wars are caused by self-defence, and b) the fatality count is now the worst and totally unacceptable.
And of course the Pogria’s concluding comments are right. Wars are won by Offensive Action – one of the Principles of War I used to teach at the Naval College. Go in hard, as much as possible, and keep punching forward.
B,b,b,b,but shirley that involves trying to win, not make 10% on the side and a motza for your boss. Line up the antagonists aka front bar urgers and the propensity for war will diminish.
Top Ender:
Don’t forget (I know you haven’t.) Economy of effort.
Threaten to nuke the top ten Iranian cities if the rockets don’t stop.
Iran won’t stop until the cost of their aggression costs them their positions, wealth, and power.
And if the rockets don’t stop, do it.
This half measure bullshit has to stop – it is crippling Israel
Have the Principles been updated to include dominance of the information space?
It speaks volumes about the incompetence of our political class that this appointment had to be made.
That being said, perhaps the next QLD Premier could also appoint Collins Commissioner for Revitalising the Small & Medium Business Economy.
Beer costs a fortune, random breath tests, cigs cost a fortune and you can’t smoke inside. Good luck bringing back the great days of pub rock.
We won’t even mention the bands.
Well, apart from the The Church, The Sports, Vs Spy Vs Spy, George Thorogood, INXS, and The Angels as just a few seen in smoky, heaving pubs.
Now it’s DJs and pokies.
“Bring back pub rock” … Lol.
If my place makes any sound louder than the tea & scones room at the saleyards, there’s “noise complaints” & I enter a world of regulatory pain, of which the eventual penalties are the most minor part.
Nailed it. NIMBYs have killed it nearly everywhere.
Der Milesy, der. er rah der rah der.
Milesy needs to pay a bluddee Commissioner to tell him this?
We can expect ALP to cut red tape alright. Expect the removal of the requirement to have a double vertical ruled line between the “print name” & “signature” columns in the kitchen temperature ledger of cafes.
That’s about as close as the stupidocracy will ever get to;
a) reducing red tape, and
b) any meaningful improvement, and
b) any changes being relevant to the ‘night-time economy’
Yay!! Yesterday I had to fill in the long (take a coffee with you) computerised St. Vincent’s Private hospital admission form to get knocked out again in Day Surgery for another pain-relieving injection into my busted coccyx – to get me through the months of booked travel in December and January. Happily, much of this form was already pre-filled by me for the same procedure last June. So we come to Weight, and that horrifying June figure from all of that South American food.
A number from which I can now edit to remove THREE KILOS.
Yes. A modified Keto diet really works, and I haven’t been hungry once since I started it nearly five weeks ago. Nor have I had to substantially change how I eat with Hairy, we always have plenty of meat, so I now I simply don’t eat any bread, rice, pasta and potatoes which he has (I eat ‘cauliflower rice’ instead plus a few low-carb vegies with cream and butter, and have berries and cream with Greek yoghurt for arvo tea – yum). Scrambled egg and mushrooms all done in butter and cream for a ‘savoury’ brekkie instead of sugar-rich Sultana Bran, and various meaty things for lunch.
Thinking about those australopithecus on the Savannah helps. 🙂
Cheese is also allowed, especially my fave blue vein mouldy cream cheese, andlotsa mozarella.
I’m not sure this much fat is long-term suitable but for a short-term I think it is good for making your body use stored fat for fuel rather than use the glucose that carbs add.
Bear in mind I am 82 years old, but in very good nick generally, don’t look my age, and don’t intend to lose my strong dancing muscle and gain fat as I age further. So it IS possible to lose weight in your older years, which some people can can’t be done. Must though be done sensibly.
some people say
We’ve been on that diet for the last 10 years. Works great.
Australopithecus is thought to have been largely herbivorous. Perhaps early Homo sapiens would be a more fitting comparison.
Not from the recent article that I read and put up here around a week ago, Hugh. They thought that meat eating started in the pre Sapiens hominids even as early as Australopithecus. Marrow bones provided the fat necessary very early on for increased brain development, plants just wouldn’t cut it. Associated too with earlier tool using (simply rounded unworked stones) and the concave hominid palm (quite unlike modern apes) was likely an evolutionary adaptation too. Concave palms can be cupped to gain water from shallow pools and also to get a good grip to pound major bones.
What is your source, and how old is it?
I said that Australopithecus is thought to have been largely herbivorous, not that it never ate meat. I thought that was uncontroversial. I did not see the paper you posted, but it must have presented some very exciting new evidence in order to overturn decades of previous research into the diet of Australopithecus.
I’ve just looked at the Wiki article, Hugh. Some new work on hand evolution in general and tool assisted meat-eating in oldest Olduvai circa 2.5m years ago but overreliant on earlier (circ 1980’s) work re diet. Doesn’t mention latest Olduvai papers I was reading recently.
Of course, many skeletons and skeletal parts are called Australopithecus and some may be quite distinct in type and environment over different time periods. It is all fairly speculative, but we’ve got what we’ve got.
Hugh, on reflection, I think the articles I read referred to Homo – specifically Homo Erectus. I haven’t kept the URL’s but did link them a few weeks back.
Agree that Austalopithecus was a bit earlier, though part of the story. So many skeleton parts and so many theories about each of them. But tools and meat eating do seem to align.
I agree that an increase in meat eating was very likely associated with the development of more powerful brains and use of increasingly sophisticated tools. The process might well have started with Australopithecus, and continued with Homo habilis, Homo erectus, etc. However, the diet you described in your initial post probably does not have much in common with that of Australopithecus. 🙂
Well done. 😀
Thanks, Pogria. I really do think we evolved via a lot of meat eating, and from what I know of hunter-gatherer cultures in Savannah environments, such as the central Australian desert tribes, the meat protein diet (much of it ‘gathered’ as insects or small animals) is only supplemented by roots and seeds, nuts and berries. Coastal communities relied on hunting but also a lot of protein from seafood, and Bruce Pascoe be damned.
Our omnivore dentition, used in the past by anthropologists to suggest a high plant-based diet during human evolution, is also explained more recently by a focus on the early presence of the use of fire, and hence – cooking! – which makes our modified dentition explicable for predominantly meat eaters. It is fascinating on the internet to see the debate between the ‘carnivore’ dieters and the ‘food pyramid’ orthodoxy of plant-based existence, being fought so fiercly.
The greenies, of course, are all plant-based freaks, and the whole science of metabolic disorders due to plant-based diets, is anathema to green ideologues who want to prohibit meat eating. I suspect too that over millennia since the Neolithic where a major dietary shift occurred certain populations have accommodated physiologically to different sorts of diets.
Kennedy, now a Trump supporter, is onto this quite a bit.
Not to mention the “capital gains tax concession”. Surprised the ALPBC didn’t refer to it as the “capital gains tax subsidy”.
Apparently various labore MPs are out and about furiously attempting to hose down the “rumours” of these inevitable new tax increases. Wonder if they’ll wheel out teats peanuthead as well, given his magnificent efforts in 2019?
I have no problem at all if they go back to the old CPI formula for CGT.
The current CGT system is supposed to “simplify” that. Oddly I suspect the tax revenues increased significantly after this simplification.
Or Chris Bowen with is winning personality.
Albansleazy the Arsehole is a wrecker. It’s really that simple.
Under Lenin or Stalin, he would occupy an insignificant place in one of the mass graves the Communists love to fill.
He has to navigate the internal politics carefully. These two stories are fun when seen together…
Falklands panic as Argentina sparks fresh fears of land grab in cryptic statement (24 Sep)
Argentina Sends More Gold To London (23 Sep)
Putting 60% of your gold in the hands of the British Government when planning to invade a British territory seems unwise!
The problem is of course that the Argie-in-the-street is completely loopy when it comes to the Falklands. Romantics one and all despite Argentina never actually owning the place, except for a couple times when they invaded and were unceremoniously booted off again by the Royal Navy.
Whose military “romantically” crapped all over the little occupied cottages in Stanley like the low rent burglars they were. They had to be hosed out.
Deeply unimpressive savages.
Calli, I remember the lines of Argentinian PoWs after they got their arses kicked.
No sign of arrogance there. Not any more.
They still intensely memorialise that war (see my travelogue re that from our recent visit). And you cannot for love or money fly out from Argentina to the Falklands.
You catch a plane there from a weekly flight out of Luton airport in the UK.
Calli, they booby trapped many/most of those cottages.
Teacups in the cupboard upturned on a saucer, innocuous, however a hand grenade sans pin is inside under the teacup.
That sort of thing.
There’s a heap of variable quality information on Youtube re diets of various types. I mostly tend to watch more those who come from a genuinely academic biochemical or cellular biology perspective rather than the pushers of various theories and associated products. Some very interesting work is being done and published in the keogenic metabolic field now.
Hairy laughs to visitors that Lizzie’s study has long and intense monologues on the chemistry of human metabolism coming down the hallway keeping her busier than political blogging right now. Makes a change when the surge for Kamala was getting me too cross to continue.
The keto diet seems to work for the birdies…just had beautiful lady koel cuckoo arrive again. She accepted two nice lumps of mince. Then a very handsome satin-suited suitor landed in the camellia too! He wasn’t interested in mince, but was very interested in her.
Much flirting going on as I type…
Lovely, Bruce. Good luck to them both.
What I find interesting with my birides is that ALL of them, including the Lorikeets, will eat meat when they can get it and if they are hungry. The Lorries do prefer grained bread though and fight and squabble over it very mightily. The Currawongs will often throw up a crop full of various seeds in order to tuck into the meat on offer and fly off with it to the larder to keep it handy for their nestlings. It seems to be only part-digested when they do this.
Go figure.
But what speech is he referring to there at the beginning.
More taxes and more illegals to be granted asylum.
No wonder Britons are depressed.
Democracy – good and hard. Only 5 years to go.
You mean to say that not everyone on the interwebs can be trusted?
Shirley not!
😀
I can. And trusted bloggers.
Eyrie
September 25, 2024 9:20 am
More on this fuel issue.
We really do have to ask what the Hell is going on in the supposedly professional US armed forces.
That, however, would bring the lesson home that we need to have a navy/army/air force ourselves.
Meanwhile, we are closing facilities to build and supply the equipment we need while making recruiting for these forces is dropping like a Hezbollah Pager.
I wonder why he chose that name for his company?
Scrap law making schools serve meat, urges Labour donor (Who Owns A Vegan Food Company!) (24 Sep)
Calling a vegan food provider to primary school children “Devil’s Kitchen” is really rather interesting. I should read Good Omens again.
And this is why we need to fight for our right to eat meat as our human ancestors have done for aeons. The vegan diet is known to be extremely unhealthy, deficient in Vitamin B12 and many other trace minerals and vitamins, most of which are well supplied by animal products. The debate now rages on the internet – are the products of ‘Big Food’, not just the stuff in packets but also the specially bred and chemically-sprayed variants of vegetables we eat, doing us in via cancers etc due to the plant poisons that many plants contain? The extreme of this argument, perhaps taken with a grain of salt, is that we should avoid many so-called ‘healthy’ plants ‘of colour’ because unlike animals, plants can’t run so they produce poisons to deter herbivore predators. Centuries of trial and error has been used to lessen this impact of course.
Vince is the British equivalent of Cannon-Brookes. A rent seeking flog who makes his fortune off government grants.
Excellent point, BoN, which my accountant agrees with.
However, there should be no tax on capital gains at all, as it is simply blatant extortion.
Having said that, some other winning policy positions for labore would be CGT on principal residences and death duties, as per their greenfilth bedmates’ “policy” manifesto.
We all know they want to.
CGT is theft
“It’s just the way politics is done.”
Deputy PM Angela Rayner on the BBC this week.
Not sure this is first class analysis by CBD at Ace. I get the feeling when this doesn’t work, and it hasn’t in the past, people will just say the strategy hasn’t been tried.
Scale of existing turbines in NW Vic and the new Bowen Fan Club merch
Gaza, Gaia…only one letter difference, easy to mix them up.
Greta Thunberg: Palestine’s fight & climate change are linked (24 Sep)
Victoria again leading the way in corruption. Top story online at The Australian.
“Victorian public servants found to have hacked fire chiefs’ emails to help union boss Peter Marshall”.
Marshall was getting inside information taken by IT guys from Fire bosses computers and discussing with Ministers before they had even received the information. Fire Chiefs could tell leaking was going on.
BAU in Victoriastan. Will it make any difference?
“And what are you rebelling against, Greta?”
“What have you got?”
Herald Sun now covering the story with more to come.
Militant union boss Peter Marshall has been implicated in a major corruption report, after it was revealed he pressured senior Fire Services Victoria staff to illegally share confidential information to further his own interests.
A bombshell report, published by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission on Tuesday, revealed Mr Marshall worked with senior staff at the former Metropolitan Fire Brigade, now FRV, to access sensitive data after he became convinced he was the subject of a WorkSafe bullying investigation.
It found he also used illegally shared information to pressure the Andrews government and former emergency services minister Lisa Neville over a range of matters.
Heh.
I really do hope he launches his giant rocket without FAA approval. They’re being bastards.
I pointed out 6 months ago, that this was going to happen.
Greta Thunberg. She looke like the product of a brother and sister that had a root. The looks of inbreeding.
I know, it’s a harsh thing to say.
Funninly enough, her family lineage goes all the way back to Svante Arrhenius.
Arrhenius was the first to use the principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in the atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth’s increasing surface temperature. His work played an important role in the emergence of modern climate science
The only achievement of “modern climate science” is in the art of deception: convincing a generation of scientific illiterates that a trace gas, CO2, drives the Earth’s temperature — without a shred of evidence.
Likewise, “climate change” is a clever rebranding of natural climate variability for propaganda purposes.
I agree.
Voice to Parliament by any other means than, you know, democratically elected. Read and weep, Daily Telegraph:
There’s more to the item at hand but you get the drift.
Whilst most blacks are on Struggle St, along with a fair proportion of the nation as a whole, these turds are pissing on your neck and telling you it’s raining. A deplorable set of circumstances.
Shut it down, fire them all.
More obscene waste by Canbra.
Dutton disappoints me too but that’s not what he said.
That’s rich given Wong’s recent performance.
When you’ve lost Dick Smith…
Dick Smith weighs in on the nuclear energy debate, saying Australia is ‘dumb’ (25 Sep)
Interesting how some greenies like Dick Smith and Bob Brown are getting red pilled lately, at least a little bit. Says everything that Bowen is now to the left of them.
From my reply to Pogria, for more general dissemination re diet.
I really do think we evolved via a lot of meat eating, and from what I know of hunter-gatherer cultures in Savannah environments, such as the central Australian desert tribes, the meat protein diet (much of it ‘gathered’ as insects or small animals) is only supplemented by roots and seeds, nuts and berries. Coastal communities relied on hunting but also a lot of protein from seafood, and Bruce Pascoe be damned.
Our omnivore dentition, used in the past by anthropologists to suggest a high plant-based diet during human evolution, is being explained more recently by a focus on the early presence of the use of fire, and hence – cooking! – which softens meat and makes our modified lesser canine-teeth dentition explicable for predominantly meat eaters. It is fascinating on the internet to see a major debate being fought so fiercely between the ‘carnivore’ keto-style dieters and the ‘food pyramid’ orthodoxy of plant-based and grain dependent existence.
The greenies, of course, are all plant-based freaks, and the whole science of metabolic disorders due to plant-based diets is anathema to green ideologues who want to prohibit meat eating. I suspect too that over millennia since the Neolithic where a major dietary shift occurred certain populations have accommodated physiologically to different sorts of diets.
Kennedy, now a Trump supporter, is onto this quite a bit.
Meat eaters unite, you have nothing to lose but your American obesity.
Especially the epidemic of obese children, who are now being dangerously put on Ozempic, with all of its side effects, when a dietary change is what is most needed.
Courtesy of Michael Smith. Laugh out loud funny!!!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/the-horror-the-horror.html
Priceless.
Karens are a plague on humanity, change my mind.
Sad update on Molly the magpie and Peggy the staffy (24 Sep)
The photos are charming! Here’s the rub of the story from the A Current Affair link:
Over one magpie?! This is mad. The waste of time over this when the birdie is obviously happy is just insane.
Russell Broadbent MP has a short clip on YouTube called Tell your stories.
He is talking about how the vaccine injury compensation scheme will end on Monday.
Is asking people to tell their vaccine injured stories to local MP or to Daily Mail.
The problem with vaccines is not “too many too soon” or “have they done a randomised double blind placebo trial with an actual placebo”?
The problem is epistemology.
If people had bothered to approach medicine using a modicum of thought rather than “let’s make up a theory that enriches lots of people and justifies totalitarianism and simply ignore every obvious and relevant fact which proves we’re wrong” the whole thing would have been sorted out thousands of years ago.
The incredible thing is how astonishingly obvious it all is when you actually step back, ignore the brainwashing and actually think.
You simply can’t not see it. Unless you’re an abject imbecile.
Take blatantly obvious phenomena that anybody in history could have observed – no need for microscopes or PhDs or whatever – and the cause of disease is obvious to anybody with an IQ above 10.
1) Most people get sick much more than once in their life (which means that most people recover from most illnesses). This means that disease is an endogenous process (ie controlled from start to finish) or, at the very least, is dominated by negative feedbacks.
2) Symptoms sometimes cluster around multiple people. So disease is caused by something multiple people can experience.
3) Doctors and their patients are clearly not in any danger (doctors never have any trouble getting life insurance). So whilst disease is shared (as in 2)), it is not spread. Sick people are not the cause of disease.
4) Rashes are typically focused. So disease is caused by something that understands and differentiates between different parts of our body.
5) Animals often physically freeze when they’re trapped (tonic immobility). This is made famous by the opossum (why we have the term “playing possum”). So disease can be related to trauma.
Now, the cause of disease is blatantly obvious from all this – the mind’s response to emotional traumas. And all of this could have been realised before anybody looked through a microscope. The fact that not one person in a million saw it in history is testament to how dumb and easily brainwashed people are.
But we can go even further today though because we do have microscopes and they are telling us that germs are completely ubiquitous – if they had anything to do with disease there would be no living organisms to experience it.
We also have phenomenon surrounding antibiotics. Most people would consider this as proof that germ theory is correct when it is actually the exact opposite. People can have specific germs which are clearly killed by antibiotics (as shown in a petrie dish) and yet they fail to improve. Conversely, people can have specific germs that are not killed by antibiotics (as shown in a petrie dish) and yet they still see their symptoms improve.
IOW, antibiotics do kill germs and they can suppress symptoms, but it is certain that they do not suppress symptoms because they kill germs. Antibiotics cause a change in our subconscious mindset (a reaction to being poisoned) which makes us feel better (like when we go out and get drunk when we have a cold) in the short term but make the eventual healing (sickness symptoms) much worse.
And of course there is vaccination. The most obvious scam in history. 99% of people have fallen for it though – even people who claim to be vaccine skeptics tend to have a far better view of them than they deserve.
All anybody ever had to do was look at total rates of paralysis since the polio vaccine and they would have understood what a gigantic fraud it was.
Astonishingly, even though everybody always says “you never see polio anymore hurr durr” not one person in a million bothered to check to see if paralysis rates had actually fallen since the polio vaccine.
They had not. Or if congenital defect rates had fallen since the rubella vaccine or sterility had fallen after the mumps vaccine or liver cancer rates after the Hep B vaccine etc etc.
None of the diseases fell – doctors just refused to diagnose them in vaccinated patients (and the diagnostic criteria was often strengthened so that lab tests were now required).
This cover band still spins me out.
Homage at its finest.
“Little Lies” Fleetwood Mac performed by Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
Whether or not there has been a true placebo in any vaccine trial is irrelevant.
Randomised double blind placebo trials are completely invalid regardless of whether you use an actual placebo.
For a hundred years epidemiologist imbeciles (but I repeat myself) have said that this is the gold standard of testing – that there could be no bias from such a brilliantly conducted study.
Complete nonsense. If you’re not a retard you will see the obvious flaw:
Anybody in the trial who gets the vaccine (rather than the (inert) placebo) will know that they got the vaccine if they experience a reaction (even if it’s just a minor one). The study is no longer blinded for many of the participants.
As every participant is presumably a vaccine zealot (given they are self-selected) they are likely to try and use this information to manipulate the data to make the vaccine look safe and effective.
This is what happened in the polio vaccine field trials. Everybody marvelled at how “scientific” the study was. It was complete horseshit.
Of course, if you use a poison (eg an older vaccine) as the placebo instead, you are just comparing one poison to another. You get around the problem of participants being unblinded but create a different but equally devastating problem for the validity of the trial.
Note that the same problem holds true for any kind of chemo drug trials.
And this is why I say it comes down to epistemology. We got it horrifically wrong with epidemiology – an absolute joke of a “science” – because we were only concerned with being told we were already right. The germ industry was already worth the equivalent of trillions of dollars and formed the basis of the power of so many politicians before there was a way to verify if any of it was true.
I can do that.
Researchers determine female gibbons dance for attention (Phys.org, 24 Sep)
I had a memorable month in Perth once, in an apartment next to Perth Zoo. The gibbons would wake me each morning. They were loud and musical!
So I suspect female gibbons also add vocals to their dancing, sort of like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmAz62Ys3oY
Maybe the female gibbons should wear red dresses too.
How good is the Sunday Park footie management .. ? .. Yesterday they announced that “addled” was on a 4 game suspension & $15 000 fine for bringing the game “into disrepute” .. What they didn’t shout out was it’s, actually, a 3 game suspension .. cos .. drum V’Landy’, pleeeze ..! …. He stood himself down from the Manly game so that counts as one game …….. LOL!
?They then invoked another $3 000 suspended fine from last years “koori” rubbish cos it’s inside the 12 months good behavior clause ……. !
I don’t know if many Cats read the daily sub stack of the German academic eugypius. He is a sensible conservative and was a great supporter of the unvaccinated during the Covid madness. Today he has written about the decline of the Greens in Germany, where he resides. I hope this is an omen for the loss of support for those clowns here.
Make no mistake about it: If you live in a developed Western democracy, you have spent the last decades wrestling with the insanity of the Greens. This is true whether or not your political system has allowed this noxious force to condense into a specifically named Green Party, or whether – as in the United States –the Greens exist instead as a nebulous, diffuse faction within your progressive establishment. Whatever the politics of your country, the Greens have specific features that make them easy to identify. They are worried about carbon emissions, they cast themselves as defenders of the rights of racial and sexual minorities, they support mass migration, they believe ardently in technological progress and they cultivate a distinctly internationalist political outlook. Those are the Greens I’m talking about.
I have been thinking a lot about the Greens since their drubbing in the recent German elections. Something strange and unexpected is happening to them – something that even two years ago I wouldn’t have predicted. They are bleeding support; they are on the defensive and suddenly everybody hates them. In East Germany you could even say that they are in outright collapse. The party of the future, the party of the youth, the party at the cutting edge of progressivism, is now withering on the vine. And I suspect that this is not just happening in Germany. It may be happening here faster than it is in other countries, but the Greens are an international phenomenon, and Green politics is in trouble in many places beyond the Federal Republic.
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What is going on with the Greens? Are they really done for? And if they are, what kind of politics will replace them? These questions are hugely important, because the Greens are not just another political faction. They are an entire elite-centred movement, distinguished by a peculiar body of moral doctrines and religious beliefs. To understand what is happening to them, we must begin by asking where they came from, and who they are…
Vicki:
A link for the article.
I am a little confused by the statement “they believe ardently in technological progress”.
That’s obviously a misprint. They’d rather die from a burst appendix than use a scalpel to extract it. Especially if the scalpel came from a carbon spewing blast furnace.
I wonder if they’d accept one performed by a responsibly farmed elephant tusk sharpened on a granite pebble.
He’s referring to German Greens, who’ve embraced subsidies for new tech like EVs & innovations that lead to energy efficient household appliances, etc.
I spoke with a German colleague last week for a big greenie he is. He is in shock that VW are closing a big plant and has or is relocated a replacement plant in Chy-nah. The country ‘feels depressed’ as he says. Reality bites.
I follow eugypius, Vicki. Have done ever since Covid. A clear thinker.
Rumours of Fleetwood Mac:
“Gold Dust Woman” Fleetwood Mac performed by Rumours of Fleetwood Mac (2022)
Of all the Albanese regime’s Big Government fantasies, the High Speed Rail Authority — to which the regime has allocated $500 million — is one of the most ludicrous.
Albanese, of course, was transport minister in the RGR circus and regularly used high speed rail to pump out feelgood fantasy press releases.
I am the only true conservative on this blog.
Thanks, KD. First laugh out loud for the day.
KD is Mutley.
No. I’m a Collingwood supporter.
I’m Spartacus.
I win!
That you iampeter?
The moment the Greatest historian of modern times learns the Holocaust is a hoax.
Wonder how much he got paid ..? .. Must have been a tidy sum to trash his world renowned reputation .. FFS!
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/166/584/357/playable/98d3aa66fc7e279a.mp4
Science!
Fecal transplants reduce ADHD and anxiety symptoms in dogs with epilepsy, researchers find (Phys.org, 24 Sep)
Well yes, I would indeed characterize squirting shit up a mad dog’s bum as being on the absolute bleeding edge of the frontiers of veterinary science.
Germans and the study of poo is nothing new. Letting the Seppoes in on the act is. The use of dogs is the double blind aspect of the trial. No dogs were harmed in the test.
the procedure may help mUnty
but then again … he’s probably already full of it
Nevertheless, there’s some evidence that the microbiota of unwell people can – if altered by infusion of healthy shit – can help intestinal imbalance brought on by antibiotics etc.
And no, I’m not going to spend half an hour looking for rational examples of it.
There is something to it. The body of evidence is substantial. At present there is an ongoing debate about the role of the gut in Parkinson’s. It is important to remember that 80% of our immune responses are in the gut and immune balance is fundamental to health. The other aspect is the impact on the vagal nerve activity by altered microbiota.
The Frontiers journals though, stopped reading them. Something wrong with that group. As someone told me on the weekend, what is increasing is authors paying to have their research published so they can boost their citation count and score an academic position. Modern biomedical research is becoming sick.
I agree, my mum had a fecal transplant. Didn’t work unfortunately.
( don’t have a dog, fortunately, so I cannot submit he/she to this indignity!)
Endocrinology is flavour of the month. Get on board.
So…the spent Penny sees these First Nations as foreign and external to Australia.
She then goes on to say:
For what it is worth Dutton never said that there was one group that needed the money spent on it. He is so bad at being divisive!
Bottled water is killing the planet.
Bottled water has a huge and growing toll on human and planetary health, experts warn (Phys.org, 24 Sep)
Fine by me, we should drink beer instead.
WATCH: Toddler Seen Chugging Beer at Texas Game (24 Sep)
She’s going to grow up into a fine human being!
The can was Michelob. Did anyone run an analysis of the contents?
I spy with my little eye – clickbait!
I had a memorable month in Perth once, in an apartment next to Perth Zoo. The gibbons would wake me each morning. They were loud and musical!
Many, many years ago a bloke lived in the apartments overlooking the South Perth Zoo. He had to get up early for work so near first light he would get out on the verandah and beat his chest and scream in his best Tarzan imitation. Really stirred up the apes and monkeys, much to the annoyance of the other neighbours.
😀
Wrong side of the river. Plenty of zoo noises about.
“Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker!” (from Willy Wonka)
Nuclear is dandy but coal is quicker, or at least cheap, effective, and already here and we have hundreds of years of reserves.
Gas is dandy too, but the ideological useful idiots have hamstrung that as well.
Off with their heads, as the Red Queen said.
Dorothy Parker I think
I remember being depressed at having lost a leg.
But then I watched a few episodes of Fawlty Towers and, with my new-found glee another leg started budding off from the stump and I was dancing the next weekend.
Thanks, Mr Cleese. And real science.
Bruce, maaan, free your mind.
At first glance- and with a primer on gut-biota-brain interface in effed up kids- it’s sound science. And not the worst job a vet would have to roll up sleeves for, neither.
Plus, ADHD and anxiety-stricken dogs- read, outdoor have-a-go pack creatures who are locked up alone- are a great viaduct for the transfer of wealth from the doctors’ wives and WIFOs of the SW to my humble shack.
Double plus, if this frontier eventually gets the human kids off their soul-sucking pharmatasmagorical cocktail of uppers and downers, then it’s Nobel Prize stuff as far as I’m concerned.
True, true. I once became friends with stray cat who was psychotic. He was excellent, but every now and then his irises would dilate to infinity and he’d bite me. And hang on. Certainly mental problems. I eventually had to deport him to another suburb, since he’d give my own cat a hard time.
Figures: “For a hundred years epidemiologist imbeciles (but I repeat myself)…”
Epidemiology, like most fields of statistics, is valuable because it tells you things that are anti-intuitive, but easily shown to be true.
I’ve posted this to the old cat, but not, I think, here yet, so here goes…
I have a medical test for a condition that is 99% accurate and has no bias in the errors – that is to say, on average we expect 99 correct results and one erroneous result for every 100 tests we make, and it is just as likely that the test gives a false positive as a false negative.
We take this test and administer it to a random person we pull off the street.
The result is positive.
What are the chances this person has the condition the test tests for?
Write down your answer.
If I told you that the condition we are testing for is fairly rare, in that only 1 in every 10,000 people in the general population has it, does that change your answer? Write down that answer as well.
Done?
Good.
Now lets go through the math.
Let’s say we give the test to 10,000 people, and further more that we have a “perfect” sample of the population in that only one person in our test group actually has the condition – we know this a priori, 100% certain sure it is true.
The test results we get will indicate 99,or much more likely 101 people have the disease.
Why? our 1% error rate, remember? 1% of 10,000 is 100. The “99 or 101” comes because the error COULD be the one person with the disease going false negative, but it is much more likely they will test correctly – 99:1, right?
Yet we know, 100% sure of it, that only one does have the condition.
Meaning that our 99% accurate test, in this particular case, only gives us very close to a 1% chance that if you test positive, you actually have the condition – because of the 101 (most likely) that tested positive, only one actually has it, right?
Now go back and read the answers you wrote down – most likely, you said 99% and telling you how prevalent it was generally did not change your answer. If you did answer so – and most people, including medical professionals do – then you were not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong.
This is a very simple example of why epidemiology is important and required if you want actual evidence based medicine. It also gives you an insight into why most epidemiologists never say they have proof, only that “current data gives a strong indication” – they know they could easily have missed something. And they also know that if they do miss something, it could easily make them just as spectacularly wrong as most people noted above.
Very good, Kneel. And this is why years ago with four young children I struggled mightily every Monday morning at 9.00am in the SU Med Faculty School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine with Biomedical statistics, followed by Epidemiological Methods, then Actuarial Demography and finally made it to lunch with my cohort of medicos. Five days a week, morning and afternoon, full on coursework of this sort for most weeks of the year, then a year doing and writing up an original piece of research into a thesis. Followed by a viva and presentation. Hairy, who knows, reckons I did a PhD’s worth. It certainly felt like it. Still, I did learn a lot.
There is a lot of bad epidemiology, but not all epidemiology is bad.
I particularly enjoyed clinical epidemiology. How to learn from doc’s mistakes. lol.
make that plural- docs’
Typical female Demonrat and Kamaltoe supporter.
Cohenite’s cute owls are starting to look good. At least we know this type of female is less likely to reproduce.
greenfilth:
In which bizarre parallel universe?
They believe ardently in taking humanity back to the dark ages.
That would be Germany.
“Green tech” is a big thing there, particularly energy efficiency innovations and, of course, electric vehicles and other “mobility solutions.”
It’s all heavily subsidised.
A power grid where the power company buys electricity from its customers is a dope-smoking hippy fantasy from the 1960s — straight out of Nimbin.
I used to think they’d change their minds if one of them survived the 50% fatality rate during childbirth of the Victorian era, but now I’m starting to think that young women are that programmed they would allow the child to die if the required incantations to Holy Gaia didn’t work.
Lebanon: During a wild tirade, Reda Saad, a pro-Hezbollah commentator, did not even bother to hide a deep-seated antagonism against Lebanon’s Christians, who have historically been the largest demographic of the nation, although now they are a close second to Muslims:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20966/persecution-of-christians-august
If there is a further/longer speech, Gatestone don’t supply a link.
Lebanon has a power sharing arrangement whereby the President is always a Maronite Christian, the Speaker a Shia and the PM a Sunni Muslim.
I don’t imagine that will last given the demographic changes.
Yeah, I saw all that but Reda Saad refers to a speech at the beginning. It’s that speech I’m referring to as of interest.
Yes. So am I, but unfortunately no one has supplied a link or a clue as to how it can be found – and I’ve just spent half an hour looking for it.
So there we are.
Meanwhile in the UK:
I’m Britain’s ‘welfare Queen’ and I’ve spent taxpayers’ cash on a boob job, designer vagina and a horse – being on benefits has never held me back
I know a bloke who’s been on benefits here for 25 years and the system basically does nothing about it.
Daily Mail
What a waste of a life, not to mention taxpayer funds.
It’s worse when they have kids and the next generation perpetuates the dependence. And so it goes…It’s not an iron rule, to be sure, but without a working role model in the household they’re starting out with a handicap.
Sat through a presentation by the head of Ferron Energy.They are looking to establish a renewable energy source by burning iron .I got a bit lost after that.They do seem to be a long way down the track.Any technical cats know anything about it or care to comment?
Sumo wrestlers jockstraps and basketballers socks also have untapped energy.
My assumption is that they would cut the power cords off first, I suppose for the copper wire. Being new copper it would get the premium scrap prices.
But getting the rest of the iron – plastic and all – up to ignition temperature would take a fair amount of energy.
Probably need a subsidy?
Fine by me, we should drink beer instead.
Bottled water. Stubbies contain water.
BoN may correct me but I’d suggest over 90% of a stubbie is water.
We recycle empty stubbies.
Gays and hippies just dump plastic water bottles.
Shirley, this is a bit on the rubbery figures side ..! Using one-off payments to claim that inflation is coming down ..FFS!
Bit like headlining that once every 14 dayz OAPs are a lot better off than last week cos they got their fortnightly stipend ……. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-25/monthly-inflation-2-7-per-cent-august-2024-australia/104392940
Is ABC.
Is Lies.
They’re not totally off the planet but I would not be investing any hard earned in them.
Welcome to the New Iron Age (Ferron website)
All good until…
Green hydrogen is completely bonkers. Using green hydrogen to make iron is ridiculously beyond infinity bonkers. Burning iron for energy, made by green hydrogen, is so off the planet I wish for a dinosaur asteroid.
The subsidies and the grift are just so yummy though.
That’s an astonishing post Kneel given epidemiologists are the most dogmatic “scientists” that have ever walked the face of this earth. You never hear engineers or nuclear physicists or mathematicians tell people “you have to do exactly as I say because I’m an expert” – even though such people are dealing in an actually valid field of knowledge.
Epidemiologists told us we should shut down our economy and take a useless and dangerous concoction all on the basis that there was no possible way that they could have been wrong.
If you were to take a survey of epidemiologists I’m sure you would find at least 95% support for censorship of questioning the medical establishment. Not sure what the error rate or base sample of such a survey would be but I think you get the idea.
I mean, your example is fine and well made, but I can’t for the life of me understand how you think it supports the integrity of epidemiology. I was discussing the fundamental flaw in randomised double-blind placebo controlled trials. I am sure there are plenty of other flaws in epidemiology but why on earth would such flaws increase my confidence in it?
And this reinforces something I noticed. Absolutely nobody ever addresses any of my points. You just say “but look over here!”
Many epidemiologists were critical of lockdowns and some of the very suspicious figures on which they were based, Figures.
Talk about tarring all with one brush. You have a barrow to push though.
I’ve just watched, live, another Elon Starlink launch.
Some bits of civilization still work.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1838789456331223071
Elon Musk has made his fortune selling glorified golf carts to severely educated simpletons.
I’m dying to find his exit strategy from dumbdom.
A sucker is born every minute and he wants to get to Mars.
Right now his problem is the FAA.
Frigging bureaucrats!
Impressive CV …….!
It’s an interesting story that it ‘run aground’. Here’s AW:
Incompetence rather than enemy action seems really plausible.
Lets not forget Admiral “Rachel” Levine.
If you can’t work out what a woman is how are you going to fight off the Chinese?
Leigh Lowe
Your face looks worse than if a cat shat on it.
Your a gormless f*ckwith.
Going to America to collect the reward for his death?
Be about your style
Oh look, it’s Ellie’s soy boy.
Groan, tag team tofu.
Bewildering as ever. Only with fewer words.
Furniture store’s that way.
Typical female Demonrat
Again stretching my capacity to distinguish satire from tragedy.
It’s bizarre. Again, are we watching the consolidation of a Mass Psychosis in our young women?
This is not normal.
From Rafes latest newsletter:
It looks like the Victorian government is finally stirring in its slumber. But is it too late? Only time will tell.
It’s interesting to note that, in RFK’s case, everything goes way beyond the Covid jab. He’s been harshly critical of the whole childhood vaccine program for years.
@CollinRugg
Kamala Harris Blasted by Manchin, Sinema on Filibuster Plan: ‘Shame on Her’
Fecal transplants reduce ADHD and anxiety symptoms in dogs with epilepsy, researchers find (Phys.org, 24 Sep)
I’m in agreement with you Vicki.
There’s too much evidence of bacteria changing gut biome balance, and the efficacy of foods like yoghurt.
bifidobacterium longus.
Is that from the gut of a Dachshund?
These estimates of casualties for both sides puts the ‘Russian meat grinder tactics’ in a different light.
A 13:1 casualty rate in their favour is something Generals get tumescent about.
Add a nought to the Russian numbers.
Subtract a nought from the Ukraine numbers.
Q: What do you call the crew of a Russian aircraft carrier?
A: Infantry
The Surprising Evolution of Mark Zuckerberg – Dems Aren’t Going to Like This
Now you see me.
🙂
clever dick!
MSM’s Climate Narrative Takes a Major Hit as Journalists Unveil Shocking Data
That seems an interesting site, Indolent. No bullshit, no flood of superlatives disguising the facts.
‘I mean, your example is fine and well made, but I can’t for the life of me understand how you think it supports the integrity of epidemiology.’
You said epidemiology was “crap” or “useless” or whatever it was – can’t be bothered going back to check. I simply made the point that it provides anti-intuitive results that are provably true, and therefor it has value.
And I note that your arguments appear to be based on intuitive evaluation and “common sense”, which is not always correct as my example also demonstrates.
You may as well say all doctors are bad because a lot said “take the vax”, even though many also advised against it but were unable to provide you with any sort of exemption (I know, I tried!)
So individual practitioners of medicine and/or epidemiology may be somewhat lacking in moral virtues and/or be unable to assist you in avoiding the dictats from our inestimable political class, but that doesn’t mean the entire field is not worth a second of your time or a dollar of your money. They may often be wrong, as these are very complex and difficult fields of study, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to what they say – whether you take the advise or not is up to you, but I think it is something you should at least consider, especially if you have found a doctor that you trust. If you haven’t then keep looking – you can’t know everything, and it is more likely they will have better info than you at any one time on any one subject.
Your body, your life, your choice.
I advise at least listening to experts and getting second or even third opinions, but that is up to you. Listen to some dude on youtube if you prefer.
Yep. That’s why on Youtube my preference is to listen to credentialled scientists who at least know something about the things on which they speak. You will note, as Kneel says, that these people don’t insist on certainty and often express reservations and conditions in contrast to those spruikers who ‘know’ what is best for you ‘just because they do’.
I also like to see published research studies or lab experiments referred to in support of claims.
World’s biggest banks line up behind Trump’s plan for nuclear energy
having ideas vs being ideas
How Soros-Backed Organizations Leverage Waves Of New Immigrants To ‘Sway’ Elections
WOW! Sounds Like Chuck Schumer Gossiped About Kamala With Cardinal Dolan and What He Said Is EYE-OPENING
Javier Milei’s debut speech to the UN, is a cracker.
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/09/24/javier-milei-torches-u-n-at-general-assembly-covid-lockdowns-a-crime-against-humanity-ridiculous-wef-leading-world-to-bleak-future/
Bloody amazing. Go Javier.
dover0beach September 25, 2024 2:51 pm
From the link within the link:
Interesting theory with a high percentage of accuracy in my humble opinion.
We are at Step 7 (aproximately) in the Traditional Crises section on Herman Kahns 44 step Escalation Ladder. *
Plenty of time to stop the game of Nuclear Chicken.
Two big assumptions:
We may have to rethink those two assumptions.
*All my downloads are in PDF and linking to them are difficult. This link will help, I hope.
No, incompetence here is not the most plausible scenario. How do you damage the rudder and flood the engine compartment through ‘DEI’ which has become the go-to argument for every negative event or incapacity suffered by the US.
It is actually a very smart move by the Russians if it was them. You immobilize a carrier group at an important time by hovelling it’s oil refueller. You also increase its vulnerability. And you do this without bringing about a massive escalation.
Heh. If you’ve seen the news today you’ll appreciate the irony of Russia supposedly immobilizing a carrier group…
The Kremlin Pulled Sailors Off The Decrepit Aircraft Carrier ‘Admiral Kuznetsov’ And Sent Them To Fight, And Die, In Ukraine (22 Sep)
The sailors are now mechanized infantry fighting the Ukrainians, and the Admiral Kuznetsov looks to be headed to the scrap yard.
That just sounds like cope. I’ll also add that a ship designated USNS is manned by civilians.
Maybe ask what the crew of Admiral Kuznetzov think…as they cope.
I will underline it for you.
Russia is so desperate for warm bodies that they just took the entire crew off of their only aircraft carrier and turned them into a mechanized infantry battalion. Then immediately sent then to Ukraine.
Think about that.
If the estimates I included upthread are anything to go by, the Russians are having no problems with ‘warm bodies’; that is almost wholly a problem for Ukraine.
The Soviet Union has a history of pulling ship crews off their vessels and forming them into units with Army veterans. There was a Brigade sized unit involved at Krasnoarmeysk?(sp) as well as a Regimental sized unit in the encirclement of 6th Armee.
I don’t have the information to hand to supply a link.
There was a theory circulating years ago that the Soviet Union torpedoed the USS Scorpion in 1968. Supposedly discredited.
How Civilizations Rise and Fall | Victor Davis Hanson
Best historian alive today. A BOLD claim, I know. But I maintain it.
BBC & Government Won’t Discuss DEVASTATING CONTENT in EXPLOSIVE New Immigration Report
You may as well say all doctors are bad because a lot said “take the vax”, even though many also advised against it but were unable to provide you with any sort of exemption (I know, I tried!)
Kneel, I agree, there ARE some great doctors around. But, as in all fields, the cream is at the top, and most of us only partake of the milk.
Quite frankly, I think that that Covid had yet another consequence – namely, it destroyed the myth of many patients that their GPs were better than they actually are. Like all professionals, they acquire knowledge with years of practice. But although there are basic premises on which modern medicine operates successfully, there are also areas in which research has overturned previous assumptions (think cardio). It is my experience that very very few GPs keep abreast of research that is readily available in journals. Of course, Covid has also brought many of these publications into disrepute because of links with Big Pharma – but that is another issue.
I still think surgery is one of the most proficient, skilful and successful areas of medicine today. (Although, having read the material of Prof.Ian Harris on dubious back surgery, I might make exceptions). But the astonishing failure of the medical profession in general – in particular the retirees, since the practising medicos were compromised – is something I will never forget.
My GP is also a Doc I worked with out bush and there is a lot of mutual respect in the relationship.
But there is also a different perspective.
I was disappointed with his stance on the vaccine, and I tested him a couple of times while he knew he was being tested.
We still get on in the same way that we did when we were working together but we also realise we have different perspectives when it comes to medicine and health.
“And this reinforces something I noticed. Absolutely nobody ever addresses any of my points. You just say “but look over here!””
You say there is a flaw in the double-blind process, and perhaps there is. However, the entire point of such processes is to reduce extraneous factors as much as possible, including “I took a pill that’ll fix me!” etc. Everyone gets a pill, they all look the same to the doctor administering it, the patient doesn’t know and the doctor doesn’t know who’s getting the one with the active ingredient and who’s getting the one that is all sugar. Same with injections, everyone gets one, some are active others are not.
If you have found a flaw, then publish on it – or perhaps better yet, ask someone who does such studies if they have a way to control for what you perceive is the flaw. They may already do something about it. Or perhaps not because there are ethics involved as well – you won’t get them to do things that can or can potentially harm a patient, so that’s a limit you have to live with. You can’t deliberately give someone what is called an incurable disease because you think you have a cure – what if you are wrong and it is no cure at all?
This, from Dr. Suneel Dhand, is quite interesting.
SORRY: But YOU are going to get DIABETES (a terrible illness)
Kneel, I appreciate your thoughts but as I keep alluding to, the key is epistemology.
Some forms of medicine are systematically sound, others are systematically terrible.
It’s all to do with epistemology. How are some views in medicine formed compared to others? Now, I submit that it is pretty much all by accident because there has basically never been any kind of useful philosophy of medicine – although Ryke Hamer and Stefan Lanka have touched on it. Nonetheless, even if it’s by accident, some forms of medicine have sound epistemological groundings compared to others.
In emergency medicine, it’s pretty easy to determine if you have stumbled upon a useful intervention because it’s unlikely the guy hemorrhaging heavily from multiple gunshot wounds would have survived if you just patted him on the head and said “good luck”. The surgeon can personally observe the efficacy of their intervention.
But how does that apply to disease? The assumption is that all cancer patients will die sans intervention. So if there is intervention and the person survives we believe that the intervention must have been responsible. The problem is that the assumption is wrong. People absolutely can spontaneously recover from cancer – nobody ever bothers to quantify it though because it would destroy all of oncology. According to doctors it must be very very rare (but they admit it occurs) but, like I said, they won’t quantify it so it could be anything from 1 per cent to 99 per cent of cases. For all we know, every second person right now has cancer cells in them and we just don’t know. They never go very far and never lead to death until they have some symptoms for a time and so decide to get checked out and then get given a horrendous prognosis and told their best option is to take highly toxic drugs.
For polio or smallpox or measles this problem is the same. Indeed, with vaccines, not only are we looking at people’s survival rates we are also looking at the possibility that they will get the disease in the first place. The link between the intervention and the result is impossible for anybody to personally observe and can only be done on a massive population basis using epidemiological data which is completely worthless (for reasons I have covered).
So how does the epistemological framework underpinning emergency medicine apply to vaccines? Clearly it doesn’t. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Nobody would bother doing a random double blind placebo trial on the efficacy of sewing up gunshot wounds. But these same trials are lauded as the height of scientific endeavour for vaccines. The doctor giving the vaccines cannot personally observe the efficacy of the vaccines. They have a massive bias towards them, but no actual useful observations to rely on. When it comes to vaccines, doctors are literally the last people on earth to provide a useful opinion. You would get more useful analysis if you took a survey of parents asking them if their own children were beautiful.
Tldr: if a phenomena can be personally observed, then it is unlikely to be open to systematic flaws. It can still be wrong, but the errors tend to get corrected. If it can only be seen using statistics then there is often no correction and instead just institutionalisation of the error (particularly if the error is lucrative).
This is why there has never been systematic errors in engineering philosophies but we have them all the time in economics and (disease based) medicine.
“But the astonishing failure of the medical profession in general – in particular the retirees, since the practising medicos were compromised – is something I will never forget. “
If your own doctor is any good, then they would have told you during COVID that it may not have been of value for you to take the vax, and/or that it was not actually fully tested and so on, but that they had no valid reason under the law to provide you with an exemption. And further that if they did a “dodgy” for you and got found out, they would lose their license and livelyhood, so basically “Sorry, I don’t think you need it but I can’t get you out of it.”
That’s what mine told me.
That’s why I trust him.
That’s why I don’t want him to go out of business.
He put the blame squarely where it belongs – on the politicians.
Grubs, Vicki, absolute grubs that broke their own rules to try and save their own jobs, with no regard to the lives or rights of those they say they represent.
Never forgive, never forget.
Another reason to vote Trump:
Michael Cohen: If Trump Wins I’ll Change My Name, ‘Leave the Country’ (breitbart.com)
Bye!
I suggest Yemen.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-missile-attack-on-central-israel-targeted-mossad-hq-in-response-to-pager-blasts-terror-commander-killings/
“This is why there has never been systematic errors in engineering philosophies but we have them all the time in economics and (disease based) medicine.”
I disagree.
In engineering, systems are normally deterministic and tests that endanger no-ones life or livelyhood can be run as many times as required to obtain the data needed to correctly predict the system response (eg Does the building collapse in force 7 gale winds?)
For econmics and even more so for medicine, the system is not deterministic at the current level of understanding (if ever), and we cannot exactly duplicate all conditions and vary only one thing at a time because the complexity of the systems involved is so large and/or it is unethical to do so.
In such situations then, collecting data and performing a statistical analysis that at least gives an indication of correctness (or not) is the best we can do.
If you believe we can do better while maintaining all ethical constraints, then by all means propose how. If you know of ways to improve such systems, tell us all how.
If, as I suspect, you do not have such improvements available, then STFU about how “bad” these things are – they are as good as we can make them and as you have no solutions, complaining about it adds nothing of value.
Figures doesn’t perceive the huge difference between engineering and biology. We use statistics because it is impossible to model even a single cell. Engineering can use math to great effect. In biology the best I’ve seen is modelling a few protein interactions. At any given moment there are potentially thousands of protein interactions occurring in a cell and those interactions are not independent of each other.
Approach medicine the way von Mises approached economics.
Using logic as the basis and statistics as purely an illustrator.
Have you seen the satellite footage indicating the aftereffects from the Toropets strike? Did you see the actual footage of the strike I posted last week? I would say we maybe higher than 7 on that scale.
No. I took your opinion and description as good enough. If you’d like to give us a link, I’ll review my opinion, but the verbal description is quite sufficient to come to the conclusion of an acoustic torpedo and insufficient to explain the damage of running aground.
How many people read the methods section or the sample selection of a paper? How many people ask for the primary data? How many people check references to be sure they are accurate? How many are aware of Ioannidis and others which point to a huge error rate? The reasons for that are complicated. One issue. Pleiotropy: epistemic nightmare, can’t be modeled.
There are at least 3 major publishing houses I typically won’t bother reading because the journals are littered with bad studies. Most people don’t even get that far in their analysis.
It is impossible to keep abreast of the current research. There is so much published and a critical analysis of a paper can be so time intensive that expecting GPs to be informed across many different areas of medicine is unrealistic. No-one can do that.
I would not argue with that, JC. Indeed, analysts like Ioannidis are not only pointing to errors in conclusions, but in many cases – are concerned about the influence of Pharma & other career influences.
What I was suggesting is that many practitioners don’t seem to be even aware of new research. For example, there are many articles relating to the apparent long term adverse effects of Covid – ranging from nerve damage (in my case to the nerves in the cochlear of the right ear), to gut problems, to cognitive decline, and to quite a range of autoimmune effects. But, in my experience, neither GPs nor some specialists seem to be aware of the data and research.
After 11 months and 8000 rockets Hezbollah are now ‘warning Israelis to move out of a ‘red zone’ part of that red zone is the west bank, where are these people supposed to evacuate to?
Isn’t it deemed to be eeeevvvvilll when Israel warns people living near their intended targets to move? Something about forced re-location?
I look forward to criticism of this action by Hezbollocks from the usual suspects.
I reckon we are somewhere between 8 and 18 on the Kahn scale.
If your own doctor is any good, then they would have told you during COVID that it may not have been of value for you to take the vax, and/or that it was not actually fully tested and so on, but that they had no valid reason under the law to provide you with an exemption.
I didn’t seek advice from the surgery I have attended for decades. Husband went early in the pandemic for another issue & was startled to see the surgery fitted out with every sort of barrier & the physician in virtual operation garb. Said it all – as well as frequent communications about getting the jab (nothing that I can recall about precautionary info).
We had already decided against the novel “vaccines” when someone known to our family died within 24 hours of receiving AZ. She was the first (& was one of very few) who was acknowledged by the government as having died as a result of the vax.
Our decision was reinforced when, months later, we met a prominent (& retired) pharmacologist of 40 years experience who absolutely advised against being vaccinated. He and his wife have subsequently become good friends and his advice proved invaluable. Before retiring he operated a medical consultancy which conducted clinical trials of new drugs for the TGA. He told me what I had already discovered in my own research – that vaccines, and indeed all new drugs – were subject to years of research and trials before release on to the market. He could hardly believe that a vaccine which was developed to use nanotechnology to affect a genetic response could be released with so confidently. I figured we were talking about a Trojan Horse containing soldiers with unknown weaponry and intentions. The rest is history.
“Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone. I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before. Thank you to Congress for unanimously approving far more money to Secret Service – Zero “NO” Votes, strictly bipartisan. Nice to see Republicans and Democrats get together on something. An attack on a former President is a Death Wish for the attacker!”
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1838802596066209994?t=uT5-e1CPJU3VZku36lNdxw&s=19
The Kuhnian paradigm shift in operation.
Re GPs, however much they read the literature and attempt to keep up with developments, they’re now effectively muzzled in regard to speaking and constrained in regard to acting by the government’s health bureaucracy, which now decides what science is approved and what is not.
When one considers that bureaucracy’s [plural if we include state health departments] performance during covid, one can see just how potentially dangerous this is.
Kuhnian paradigm shifts are rare. That recent study I posted here on cells from dead bodies undergoing changes represents a shift but otherwise it is nearly always building on what has gone on beforehand. If one considers how much modern medicine has progressed in recent decades, one can see how potentially beneficial the current bureaucracies can be.
Kuhn might disagree. 😀
Covid changed everything.