https://x.com/i/status/1859563084269941164 I’d like to see a 90degree shot of the impact pattern – that’s a fairly close cluster. OK, just…
Open Thread – Weekend 28 Sept 2024
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- From darkness to the promise of light
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Not that uncommon. Do a Google Images search for the gargoyles on Freiburg cathedral.
While the U.S. economy continues to chug along, and will perhaps gain considerable speed once Trump II takes the visible…
Tough looking guys.
Is this true? How people in Thailand wait?
Hassan Nasrallah dead.
I have only one word……amen.
Dr. John Campbell about a new film of that name.
First Do No Pharm
Neil Oliver
The truth is the leaders we are cursed with are not in charge in any meaningful sense, we are.
Roger
September 28, 2024 2:35 pm
And yet, they’re called “private” rather than “subsidised” schools. That’s the most bizarre aspect of all.
His railing against the term ‘private’ is Quixotic.
All education is subsidised no matter where it’s carried out.
Best solution offered so far is a voucher system for each student to spend it in any way approved, even pay the parent for home schooling.
I suppose his beef is that there is a competition to the state system and as a confirmed socialist/communist he can’t have that.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/well-done-israel.html
Seems there are a few vacant positions on the Hezbollocks chain of command. Well done, the Israelis.
That was a sh*t walk. A dog got run over. The owner was distraught. The bloke in the car was a mess. I was a mess. The howling of that dog is ringing in my ears.
A need a pick me up.
Wings – Silly Love Songs (Official Music Video)
Our wombat friend photographed near our place tonight. Very happy to have humans watching him dig for 10 minutes.
Reading Al Murray’s monumental work on the crucial day of the battle for Arnhem “Arnhem: Black Tuesday.”
Murray’s father had served as a parachute engineer in the Territorial Army, of the mid 1950’s – some of his officers had been at Arnhem, and one of his N.C.O’s had fought at the bridge itself.
“So, we went to see “A Bridge Too Far.” ‘Wrong tanks, actor’s haircuts, rotten saluting, the mischaracterization of people he knew and events he had heard about, first hand.” But I was bitten by the Battle’s bug.
Good reading – highly recommended!
NumbNuts obviously didn’t pay much attention during his time in boarding school. If he had he would have become aware of a group called the Great Public Schools.
IIRC, they played competitive Rugby Union against each other, among other things.
His research skills don’t seem to be well developed. It’s even in Wikipedia.
Reading M Steyn is depressing sometimes.
The difference between the US justice system and the erstwhile USSR system is merely cosmetic.
In a way the soviets were more open what they were on about, they declared the victim an enemy of the state and the trial was simply a confirmation of same.
How anyone can praise and celebrate the US as a whole including its justice system is beyond my comprehension. Those good people of the land have no say in how the place is run, they might think so but they don’t.
Quote from Mark
“You prove your innocence, but at the end you’re a charred, smoking lump, and so is your career and so is your savings account.” @MarkSteynOnline describes the great costs of “winning” in a court where the process is the punishment.”
And of course the small picture – Steyn’s own ongoing travails:
“.@MarkSteynOnline I didn’t think it would take four months to litigate a four-paragraph blog post. My case is now in its thirteenth year! “We are currently on our fifth trial judge-“
And the British system is as bad, or worse!
In celebration.
Magic.
“You Make Loving Fun” Fleetwood Mac performed by Rumours of Fleetwood Mac (2022)
Good Lord. I have just seen the big boys of Penrith Panthers in the middle of the ground., gasp, pray!
Cannot be allowed to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNM6IuA87eM
The original Fleetwood Mac – “Go Your Own Way.”
They kicked it out of the park.
Stunning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhWrggrJ20I
Having been incommunicado for the past two days, I’m now catching up on what Minister Wong actually said at the UN General Assembly* (as opposed to what had been reported).
Unsurprisingly, apart from briefly (and with no supporting rationale of how anything might work) recommending that Israel promptly surrenders to the Iranian agenda and hopes for the best, it is an extensive and wide-ranging display of 360° twaddle and motherhoodery.
Aside from a plea for big people to stick to the rules for the benefit of little people, it’s a FIGJAM message to the world, covering off on Team Albanese’s golden triumphs in saving the climate, bringing development to the Pacific, developing a novel national energy system, and learning from our First Nations ancient knowledge of science and technology.
Oh, and a quick bollocking about the lack of female representation at the UN.
Apparently:
It would perhaps be an earnest and slightly embarrassing Year 12 debating society performance – but is profoundly cringe-making in the context of the UN General Assembly.
A string of Senate Dorothy Dixers that will be instantly forgotten around the world.
Not serious.
* Worth a quick, but disturbing read.
Electric car demand slumps to four-year low
This has to be bollocks.
‘Must be done’: Russia’s wild sex rule as birthrate plummets | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Killing Nasrallah
Israel shows America how to win wars
About that Secret Service Agents’ free trip to LGBTQ conference at Disneyworld …
The Shadow of the Shadow
“As shocking as it may sound, the institution of the State itself is the real enemy. It’s time to carefully analyze your relation to it.” — Doug Casey
Even the NY Times is Trashing Kamala’s MSNBC Interview
Andrew Lawrence
Free gear Keir’s walk-in wardrobe.
LA Freeway Explosion & Montreal Port Fire: Lithium-Ion Battery Crisis
The Death of the Anti-War Left
Cash and Stevo.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Day of the Dog 2024 in Santa Monica (3 of 7)
Cool.
I Say a Little Prayer – cover inspired by Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin and H.E.R.
Good God, they were good.
Bee Gees – More Than A Woman (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 – One Night Only)
She’s a stunner.
Belinda Carlisle-RARE-Heaven Is a Place on Earth-RedFlowerVer(hair in bun)- TOTP, USA (11/1987)4K HD
Week In Pictures.
Wilson Phillips – Hold On (Official Music Video)
Pet Shop Boys – Go West (Official Video) [HD REMPASTERED]
A big smile on my face.
Pet Shop Boys – Always on my mind (Official Video) [4k Upgrade]
I like this one, witty and true.
Daily Mail UK has article about Boris Johnson upcoming book.
He believed virus from the lab and at one point contemplated raiding a Dutch warehouse to get vaccines that were being held by EU.
Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Suzanne Vega – Luka
Electric tractor?
Wonder why it never caught on.
Keep this in mind, may save your life.
I just keep away from places with wild animals, coward as I am.
Another song from the skating RINK in Carnarvon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0
Age headline describes Hezbollah’s now dead leader as “messianic”. If I had a subscription I’d cancel it. FMD.
“The military targeted a mid-level senior Hezbollah official in the area, Army Radio reported.
The IDF eliminated senior Hezbollah intelligence array terrorist Hassan Khalil Yassin in an additional precision strike in the Dahieh district in Beirut on Saturday, the military reported”
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-822231
I don’t know what I will put on the next census as my occupation.
But I have drawn a line through “Austere Religious Scholar”.
Some discussion about the wisdom of automatically ‘mainstreaming’ all kids with disabilities in schools.
Bad idea, driven by ideology, not reality and practicality.
But, they never stop.
TheirABC is running a sob story about PWDs being exploited because they don’t get paid at least the minimum wage:
“While it would be great if [we] were earning super profits and able to reinvest those into the business in the form of wages, we don’t make a profit … and we are determined that no one will lose their jobs,” he said.
“We have existing contracts with other organisations that have been quoted based on wages as they are … they haven’t signed up for [higher prices].”
‘It makes me feel important’Not everyone working in segregated settings is unhappy, however.
Many people have worked for decades at an ADE where the connections and familiarity of going to the same place to do the same tasks has been helpful.
Mr Stokes now has a leadership role at his ADE and gets a kick out of knowing his workmates look up to him.
“It makes me feel important … [coming to work] gives me something to do every day,” he said.
https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/ea8400fe3c1a313b2da45f170c1e0c11?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2307&cropW=3461&xPos=27&yPos=0&width=862&height=575
Terry Symonds says some of his employees aren’t interested in working elsewhere. (ABC News: Loretta Florance)
Mr Symonds said he welcomed the royal commission’s “ambitious” recommendations for change but ADEs couldn’t be shut down overnight.
“Some of [our workers] don’t want to work anywhere else,” he said.
“For some of them, these are safe places and … open employment might not be safe because they might be exposed to discrimination.”
Look, I get that these outfits need to be carefully monitored to make sure that they are not ripping people off. But, having some personal experience, they serve many other purposes.
They provide a routine, social interaction and productive activity.
The workers earn money that they own.
They temporarily allow the families of the workers a time where they know that their family member is safe, so that they can do other things.
As for raising it to the minimum wage: see Aboriginal stockmen in the NT.
Why do leftists refuse to learn lessons from history?
Israelis aren’t going to die wondering. Straight from the Viv Richards circa mid 1980s playbook.
Cassie of Sydney
September 28, 2024 8:11 pm
Hassan Nasrallah dead.
But ten will replace him.
I figured it out.
If the “replacement with ten” factor is repeated and we knock off each new batch every week, by Christmas we will have eliminated 100 billion of them.
H B Bear
September 29, 2024 6:48 am
Hassan Nasrallah was a Pakistani leg-spinner?
Something about it not being done properly before and if we do it now, our way, it’ll work for sure.
Hadbollocks appear to have a leadership deficit.
With all applications sent to Teheran via carrier pigeon, selection of replacements may take some time.
Israel has proved that the UN just doesn’t matter. Civilised countries can look after themselves without the permission of the First Ave nanny.
Bad idea, driven by ideology, not reality and practicality.
But, they never stop.
I think you’ve said it best.
Seeing TOON had the early kick-off (9.30pm) last night I kept myself up and watched.
?End result was a draw (1-1) and, probably, the best reflection of the play. Toon dominate d the 1st half yet Manchester City scored and took a 1-0 lead into half-time.
?2nd half a bit more even tho MC the more aggressive. TOON penalty (deserved) evened up the score & that’s how it remained .. Very watchable game so worth the late night ..
?Have to admit I don’t see much of Man City but reading the sports pages extolling their “invincibility” & class either TOON played well above themselves or that “wonder” team tag of MC was missing this time around ……
?Earlier watched Penrith demolish the Sharks and on that display will have to go with Storm winning the GF ,, Penrith attack consisted of one up hits for, maybe, 70% of their
?plays and tho their defence was good so much one up attack is not gonna auger well against Storm, they’ll need to do a lot more ball spreading to topple the Storm defence ..
?And on the very bright side .. I had 3multi bets still alive by the end of the TOON game all relying on my home town team, GATESHEAD winning .. Which they duly did 3-1 and added $127 to this OAP’s pocket ……
A good, good night .. LOL!
Nice.
Hopefully it was the Lebanese government grabbing the opportunity to FU the mullahs, not Israeli radio games.
Snoopy for the win this week.
Indolent
If Aliens landed tomorrow and sold us a battery system that gave us the energy density of a tank of hydrocarbins, at the same cost, and with even less danger than one, I’d still have the diesel version.
Why?
Because to take my fuel reserves, the government would have to send around a couple of large chappies and a truck to haul the loot away.
With electric it’s a matter of flicking a switch, and passing legislation deeming our electricity to be a National Emergency Reserve to make up for their utter incompetence in managing the power network.
“…and ‘poof!’ it’s gone.”
Just heard on the opinion, aka news, a reminder from some health chief that we should get vaccinated against monkeypox. I think my method of not allowing gaybois near me will work better. Do these people ever listen to themselves.
shatterzzz
September 29, 2024 7:15 am
I’m not interested in soccer as you can tell from my question, but you keep mentioning ‘TOON’.
Which team is it and why is it important?
Israel has proved that the UN just doesn’t matter. Civilised countries can look after themselves without the permission of the First Ave nanny.
I think there’s another message in this sublime elimination of Nasrallah. Israel has known for decades that the UN doesn’t matter, that it has long been a venally corrupt organisation captured by the Jew hating left and Islamists. The rot started in the 1960s and it’s continued unabated to the point where the UN has no place in civilised discourse. It cannot be taken seriously and in a half decent world nobody would take it seriously but sadly we no longer live in a half decent world. We have countries such as the one we live that pays homage to the UN and worse, sends lots of our hard earned dosh to it’s affiliates, affiliates such as the venal Jew hating UN organisation called UNRWA, an organisation that not only helped plan the butchery of October 7, many UNRWA workers participated in the savagery, the butchery, the rapes and the hostage taking.
And remember, there’s been a UN ‘peacekeeping’ force on the ground in southern Lebanon for decades, a force that is supposedly meant to monitor and curb Hezbollah’s activities. Yet under their watch Hezbollah has built up an army and perhaps hundreds of thousands of ammunition.
From the Oz….
In his first public remarks since the strikes on the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, the Prime Minister said Israel had “settled the score” with a “mass murderer” responsible for the killings of countless Israelis.
Hezbollah’s central headquarters in southern Beirut have been hit by huge Israeli airstrikes.
Shortly after arriving home after giving an address to the UN, Mr Netanyahu said Nasrallah and his fighters were “the architects of the plan to destroy Israel.
“He wasn’t another terrorist; he was the terrorist, the central engine of Iran’s axis of evil,” he said in a video statement.
Mr Netanyahu said that he had realised early last week that despite the bombardment of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and the deaths and injuries caused by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, only Nasrallah’s death would allow Israel’s northern residents to return home.
“Eliminating Nasrallah was an essential condition for achieving the aims that we have set out — returning the residents of the north safely to their homes and changing the balance of power in the region for years,” he said, adding that as long as Nasrallah remained alive, “he would have quickly rehabilitated Hezbollah’s capabilities.
“So I gave the order and Nasrallah is no longer with us.”
In a direct warning to Iran, he said: “Those who strike at us, we will strike at them. There is nowhere in Iran or the Middle East beyond the reach of the long arm of Israel, and today you know how true that is.”
So what is the other message by Israel? I think it is also a big middle finger, a big F*CK YOU to countries that should know better, to countries that should be standing with Israel but instead prefer to cower and quiver quisling like in the face of barbarism and Islamism, those countries being the UK, the US, Canada and Australia, countries who, rather than speak truth instead prefer to dump blame and opprobrium on the one Jewish nation on the planet, a country that it simply trying to exist in a very unpleasant neighbourhood.
The next time Putrid Pong puts on her strap on and struts around the world stage like the hideous Jew hating totalitarian dyke she is, I want Israel to tell her to F*CK OFF.
The gloves are off. There will NOT BE another October 7.
Brigitte Bardot in the news as she is turning 90. God bless you, you beautiful woman.
The media is spinning that she has gone to the “Dark side”, because for decades she has loved and saved animals, but the worst sin, she hates Mussies and is against the Mussification of France. She is not afraid to speak out. Many ridiculous fines later, she is still a woman to be reckoned with.
Happy Birthday Brigitte.
I don’t think many in the Sunni world are mourning Nasrallah’s demise.
Winston Smith
September 29, 2024 7:36 am
In rare circumstances electric would work where you have a running water source to generate it, of course you’d only could go half the distance of your range at best as no recharging at the other end.
Gasoline engine would be better as you could use gas generated by wood combustion like they used to do in wartime Britain.
Unless you have access to vegetable oil and such?
I’m not interested in soccer as you can tell from my question, but you keep mentioning ‘TOON’.
Which team is it and why is it important?
Speechless, just speechless .. wanders off, shaking head .. LOL!
Indolent
September 28, 2024 11:10 pm
The Shadow of the Shadow – Post last night:
The question remains – “Who will be the one to throw the first Cheese and Vegemite Sanga?”
‘Border czar’ Kamala Harris panned for wearing reported $62K necklace to southern border: ‘You look ridiculous’
@DMichaelTripi
BREAKING: US Embassy in Iraq has been surrounded by thousands of protestors.
@TrumpWarRoom
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way.”
Meme
@anissa_zappala
.@primantibros refused to let @JDVance in to their restaurant full of customers waiting to greet him. They all paid for their drinks, cancelled their food orders and left after hearing that VP candidate was not welcome. Here was his response
A very good collection of thought provoking links last night Indolent – far better than multiple videos of big dogs and wailing singers.
The Bee. No comment.
Kamala Announces Construction Of ‘Murderers Only’ Express Lane At Southern Border
From the biggest intelligence failure in their history, Israel has crafted a brutally precise elimination of the enemy leadership and corrupted their command and control system with electronic skullduggery that you only find in a Bond movie.
Defence planners around the world will be pouring over Israel’s response to the Oct 7 attacks to understand the multi layered planning and operational capacity that has produced such stunning results.
Iran has been left more isolated than ever in the region. There is not a hint of surrounding Muslim countries wanting to assist, except for the Houthi’s, who should have been served up a US carrier group belting if only there was someone mentally functional in the White House.
@atensnut
“Pretend you’re on the Titanic?”
Girls. It’s not Pretend! Kamala is the Titanic.
@lakemonstercl1
I dont usually agree with Maher, but I’ll make an exception here!
Piers Akerman:
Start by scrapping Welcome to Country. Made up tosh that is.
Trump on Kamala’s border visit
shatterzzz
OK then, shake your head and keep it a bloody secret.
Jesus Christ.
One more to scroll.
Can’t answer a civil question.
@nataliegwinters
Reading Bannon’s letter from prison on air.
He will not be silenced
Tim Blair dropkicks the Wong Chap dropkick
The Sunday Tele:
WONG’S WAR ON SENSE
TIM – BLAIR
29 Sep 2024
There are some who believe throwing soup at Van Gogh paintings will somehow save the planet from climate change. Until now, those people represented the absolute apex in arrogant, self-deceiving and privileged protesting.
And then along came Penny Wong with her speech to the UN General Assembly in New York. Our foreign minister came across as more detached from reality than even the most temperatureobsessed soup chucker. Besides delivering another load of her standard anti-Israel hectoring, Wong broadly attempted to rewrite basic concepts as they relate to our shared physical universe.
It was quite the performance.
“The world cannot wait,” Wong announced, before calling on the poisonous UN to establish “a clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood”.
“The world cannot keep hoping the parties will do this themselves. We cannot allow any party to obstruct the prospect of peace.”
Tell that to Hamas, Ms Wong. Tell that to the October 7 butchers whose wilful and obscene atrocities should forever deny Hamas and their followers any role in peace talks.
Wong told the UN that a two-state solution was “the opposite of what Hamas wants”. It is of more than passing interest that our foreign minister apparently possesses Hamas mind-reading powers, but she does have a point. Hamas, as everything said and done by this murderous band of 7th century throwbacks makes absolutely clear, wants a one-state solution. Themselves and no Israel.
Further, Wong declared, any future Palestinian state “must not be in a position to threaten Israel’s security”.
Sounds like she’s calling for Hamas and their homies to get out of Gaza. If so, it’s the best idea she’s ever had.
“There can be no role for terrorists,” Wong said. But slow down there, champ. If it weren’t for October 7’s vicious terrorism, would Wong and other pro-Palestinian activists have subsequently amplified their demands for Palestinian statehood?
Elsewhere in this nonsensical speech, Wong declaimed on the nature of regulation in wartime: “War has rules. Every country in this room must abide by them. Even when confronting terrorists. Even when defending borders.”
The circular logic exhibited here is breathtaking. Hamas obviously didn’t abide by any rules when its gangs of murdering rapists swarmed a music festival, torturing and killing hundreds of innocents and kidnapping others.
Ah, but Israel’s foes may point out: Hamas represents no specific country. And, as Wong said, only countries must follow the rules of war.
“These rules always matter – never more so than in times of conflict – when they help guide us out of darkness, back toward light,” this absurd individual said, subjecting sweet logic to further mistreatment.
Of course any rules of law are important in times of conflict. There’s otherwise no need for them. As Wong could have said, road rules always matter – never more so than in times of driving.
The UN has for years provided financial and ethical cover for every demented leftist cause you could imagine, so Wong naturally adores it.
“The world’s peoples are counting on all of us here,” she said.
Let’s cut that number back a little. Instead of fussing about the “world’s peoples”, perhaps the UN and its Wong-like minions could do something, or anything, to rescue those desperate survivors held hostage by Hamas for nearly a year.
“We convene this week,” Wong summarised, “with so much of the human family enshrouded in darkness.
None more so than those held at gunpoint in the caves and tunnels under Gaza. Speak strongly and primarily of their plight, Ms Foreign Minister. Speak of their freedom. Speak of their justice.
Too many good points to highlight.
This is unbelievable. Why go to the trouble of holding an election if the result is capable of total manipulation?
@MarkDavisGOP
PAY ATTENTION!
Hearing On Dominion Encryption Keys!!!
I have just learned Judge Scott McAfee will hold a hearing in Fulton County, Georgia on Monday in the case of Dekalb County Republican Party v. Raffensperger, which will be televised, and it blows my mind so few people are even talking about this case!
Let me give you a small preview of what to expect from an article I wrote that hasn’t come out yet!
“Kurt Olsen, one of the attorneys in the Dekalb County action, told me he first raised the encryption key issue in connection with the March 2024 petition for writ of certiorari filed in the Supreme Court in a case entitled “Kari Lake and Mark Finchem v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State”, et al.
He also said:
“Since at least 2019, Dominion Voting Systems has placed the master cryptographic keys, used to encrypt/decrypt system passwords and election data, unprotected and in plain text on an election database table within Dominion’s voting systems in every system our experts inspected from six states.
Thus, it appears these keys may be stored this way on all Dominion systems. If so, in any jurisdiction using Dominion’s systems, Dominion – or any actor who knows where to look – can gain total unauthorized access and control over election systems and election data which can then be altered, fabricated, and transmitted. Key logging features recording system activity can be manipulated to render any penetration of the system nearly undetectable.”
In a declaration included in the suit, cyber-security expert Benjamin Cotton said, “Simply put, this is like a bank having the most secure vault in the world, touting how secure it is to the public and then taping the combination in large font type on the wall next to the vault door.”
Folks – there are people, including me, who have discovered or have been told the global password, and some are even talking about printing it on T shirts to emphasize the severe lack of basic security protocols!
Haha the Wong Chap thinking she’s the most smartest person in the room, much like all of Labor:
I could be wrong kind reader, but do we not have a 2 state setup now? Where Gaza is the territory parliamentary ruled by Hamas? Who continue to work towards the destruction of Israel?
And this Josh Lees bloke. Terrorist enabler.
Rita is being picked up on the U.S.
@its_The_Dr
Morally Bankrupt Western Media Praises Wicked Terror Leader Hassan Nasrallah in His Death: “A Father Figure, A Moral Compass” and “A Revered Muslim Scholar”
Kamala Harris and the Dumbing Down of America
I could hazard a guess, hazard being the operative word.
Why are homeowners losing coverage after installing solar panels?
writing history to avoid repeating it
Start by scrapping Welcome to Country. Made up tosh that is.
Can be done by the people. Just takes a brave soul to stand up and yell “Bullshit, this is my country: then get the rest to join in, “C’mon, Bullshit, this is my country”.
Won’t last 2 days after that.
Deary me, Farmer Gez, have at it. Our betters in action:
Or maybe just get rid of them Mr Riordan and keep coal fired power going.
Palestine Action Group Sydney spokesman Josh Lees
Hmm…a native of Ramallah or Jenin or Hebron? I’m not aware of any West Bank clan called “Lees’.
Black Ball
September 29, 2024 8:38 am
Deary me, Farmer Gez, have at it. Our betters in action:
We’ve got twenty brigades who have written to CFA command refusing to attend fires at renewable facilities.
Absolute BS around training and adequate safeguards from the Vic Gov, no such work had been done. A battery approved near bushland in just eight weeks is proof of the lie. I asked our regional commander if they had any input into the fire risks posed by this project, a big fat NO.
Dangerous and desperately stupid people are in charge of Victoria. We have warned them and put it in writing. Any deaths resulting from this reckless attitude to fire risk will find the coroner asking the government why the warnings of experienced local firefighters were ignored.
Yep maliciously incompetent- just look at the mediocrity of a premier
Why can’t Australia have a Pierre Poilievre?
https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1840025804329365651?t=szT53o3DPLPvVaHZEu6x7w&s=19
Dangerous and desperately stupid people are in charge of Victoria
Actually, most of the World with a few exceptions.
Noice trolling by J.D. Vance. They would have known what they were up to…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/28/after-staging-event-for-kamala-harris-primanti-brothers-a-pa-based-restuarant-chain-blocks-jd-vance-from-entering/#more-264533
Fluffy Annelise was just on Andrew Clennell on Sky to breathlessly report that North Carolina looks promising for a Kamala win due to some Republican state official and a candidate who seems to have been naughty on porn sites. Yet the only person she could find to talk to her said things were much better economy wise four years ago and therefore she will be voting for Trump.
It is becoming more and more clear that politics in the west is polarising according to class and wealth. The rich and managerial classes are not doing without anything so they are not feeling the pinch they created.
Being isolated and insulated from those who live pay to pay and are sinking under the supposedly non-existent inflation the well-off cannot even sympathise and even demonise those who refuse to follow their lead in voting intentions.
The Just Stop Oil and Free Palestine protests and intimidations by the children of the rich and powerful are perfect illustrations of the political and philosophical divides between the classes. Their insistence on getting their way no matter what anybody else thinks is the height of arrogance.
Looking back on the 60s protests, they were also indulged in predominantly by the children of the rich and comfortable while children of commoners were too busy getting jobs and trying to get ahead.
I just hope that in reaction to the current situation we don’t go down the path of the French Revolution but the 1991 reformation in the Soviet bloc where the powerful were swept aside in favour of the oppressed multitudes.
After the discussion last night on the ABC asserting alleged Lebanese with “Australian passports of convenience” whining they can’t get out of Lebanon. Despite Beirut’s Rafic Hariri still being operational. Well just found this on Blazing catfur, Castro’s son has beaten sleazy and has jumped at evac flights with troops as well:
https://globalnews.ca/news/10779454/canada-commercially-assisted-flights-lebanon/
Just checked FR24, some 71 flights scheduled today. There will be some cancellations but Israelis seem to be leaving the airport alone.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/28/led-by-pygmies/
More examples of the rubbish that is the political class.
Listening to 2SM talkback (yeah I know!) and Brent Boltitude explained the difference between misinformation and disinformation by reference to KD and Trump and the haitians eating the cats controversy: JD was disinformation because he deliberately lied about it but Trump was misinformation because he was too dumb to know it was a lie! And boltitude is one of the better ones!
In fact complaints were made by Springfield residents about haitians stealing pets. Haiti is a voodoo based failed state. Voodoo involves the ritual sacrifice of animals.
Venezuela is another failed state and the locals there are eating zoo animals to avoid starving. There are no zoos in haiti so I guess the voodooers didn’t kill any zoo animals but I’m with JD on them killing and at least sacrificing pussies in Springfield.
The biggest eaters of dogs and cats in the world are the chunks and 16 other nations eat them so no big deal. The big deal was bringing 20000 haitians into a town of 50000. That’s the real scandal.
Sunday Tele:
ALBO’S APPOINTMENTS AN ABUSE OF OUR TRUST
PIERS – AKERMAN
29 Sep 2024
Last year’s referendum on a Voice to Parliament cost taxpayers a minimum $450m, probably closer to half a billion, and there was a clear result.
The Australian people rejected the full proposition overwhelmingly.
However, the Albanese government which proposed it has blindly failed to accept the reality that 60.06 per cent of the population voted No.
This mulish obstinacy dishonours both Yes and No voters and undermines the democratic process. Not only has the Albanese government abused the trust of the people in ignoring the express will of the majority, it has subsequently made a series of appointments which show an enormous disrespect for all Australians.
The most significant was the appointment of Sam Mostyn, a long-time left-wing Labor staffer, to the $709,000-a-year position of governor-general.
Mostyn’s salary is $214,000 more than her predecessor’s, justified by the fact that she wasn’t in the military or judiciary (as previous G-Gs have been) and didn’t qualify for a government pension.
That overlooks two things, the first being that the honour and the pre-existing salary level should have been sufficient enticement.
The second is that Mostyn was a wealthy businesswoman in her own right, a member of a number of boards, including the deluded and politicised Climate Council and Reconciliation Australia.
Five years on the public teat was not going to send her bankrupt.
Her utterances since taking office read like rejected scripts written for NZ’s former and unlamented disaster of a prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, all full of love, hope and charity but singularly lacking in practicality.
The Albanese government has also been using your money to pay $326,000 annually to Justin Mohamed, the nation’s inaugural ambassador for First Nations people.
Mohamed turned in a travel bill of $145,000 last financial year after visiting Honolulu for the Festival of Pacific Art and Culture, San Francisco for APEC Economic Leaders’ Week, Dubai for the COP28 climate conference and Geneva for United Nations meetings, among other overseas trips. On these junkets he has talked about nothing that couldn’t have been discussed by a bureaucrat from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Mohamed is the head of the Office for First Nations International Engagement, which has a budget of $13.6m over four years.
On Friday, we learnt of yet another appointment, Latrobe University professor Clare Wright, who has been appointed chair of the National Museum of Australia’s council.
Wright, who is not Indigenous, says she was “adopted” into the Yolngu in northeast Arnhem Land in 2010.
“I took an active role in a political campaign (the Voice referendum) that was important to me. I thought constantly during that campaign of what it would mean to my yapa (sister) and the children and grandchildren of the Yolngu people to have a voice to parliament,” she told The Australian newspaper.
This appears to be a blatant politicisation of a role which should be free of politics, but everything is political to the Albanese government, even when that political position has been rejected by the people.
In fact, despite Australians kicking the Voice proposal into touch, the federal and state governments are doing all they can to put into place the demands that were defeated.
Such outrageous contempt for the will of the people is rare in democracies.
It is to be hoped the Albanese government’s disdain will be rewarded with a thumping rejection when it has to answer to the public.
Pogria
September 29, 2024 7:53 am
Some of you who paid even a fleeting attention to my musings in the recent past may remember my searching for an answer in various religions.
Didn’t find it but that is not my point.
What I’m interested in this time is;
What is it in Islam that is so compelling and attractive to a vast number of people and new converts as well, that a religion like it not only survived many centuries but it’s on the cusp of conquering the world anew?
Think about it, it’s not for lack of ‘inventing’ new religions, yet none of them have the success Islam had.
We my find it abhorring and inhuman, whatever description you can find, but there is an appeal for it, specially for our young.
Why is it so?
Who the buggery is Brent Boltiude?
World’s greatest historian calling for WW3
https://x.com/HistoryBoomer/status/1839840373159424118?t=JEZSXQwQfJeUqC_PmxRIYg&s=19
“The Iranian response to the elimination of arch-terrorist Hezbollah will come. The type and scope of their response will be shaped by the stance the US will take. Very important hours now as the East Coast comes online.”
https://x.com/jconricus/status/1839988351862034494?t=x6pLodK2C2jnn4ci1ggHGg&s=19
A Sunday morning…
Life’s good.
What is it in Islam that is so compelling and attractive to a vast number of people and new converts as well, that a religion like it not only survived many centuries but it’s on the cusp of conquering the world anew?
Islam has been designated a victim by the leftoids running the West. That means they are immune to criticism because like blacks, trannies, lesbians and the climate they are a victim of Western hegemony, colonialism and getting rooted up the clacker. Therefore every thing islam does is a legitimate response to being oppressed. The prime example is what is happening to Israel as the proxy for the West: the terrorism directed against it by the muzzie scum is justified but any response by the Israelis is morally wrong.
The upshot is that islam has free rein in the West.
It’s the leftoids who are the problem because muzzies are hopeless shits and a concerted effort by a non leftoid West would have them back rooting goats in no time.
Wow, Elon puts in a safety system and makes it fun. You could sell tickets to use it!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1840061440386052269
Christianity is by far the most “successful” religion insofar as its numerical superiority of adherents enjoying civilisation and prosperity far beyond all others.
But for every yin there must be a yang, and Islam is it.
Diametrically opposed to Christianity in many areas, key being individual liberty, Islam rejoices in oppression, hostility and hierarchy.
Both Jews and Mohammedans greet each other with “Peace!”, but only one means it.
“Fitzroy bashed South Melbourne”
Yeah about that, I’m sick of getting speedballed by the Swans. I’ll be supporting my second favourite side next year, Carlton. At least I can handle being disappointed in perpetuity.
“What is it in Islam that is so compelling and attractive to a vast number of people and new converts as well, that a religion like it not only survived many centuries but it’s on the cusp of conquering the world anew?”
It’s a bit like communism, it specifies exactly who is behind all the evils of the world.
Believers are told that “All we have to do is eliminate the following people and we can all live in Paradise.”
Capitalists/Jews – what the difference if you’re angry and bitter and looking for a fight. Commies & Muslims, a marriage made in hell.
Good catch
Twitter comment
cohenite
September 29, 2024 9:58 am
Thanks cohenite.
That is a political answer to the current situation and is correct.
My question was more along the line of a philosophical.
Why are the adherents of Islam so protective of their religion that they are ready to sacrifice themselves and why is Islam in these days of diminishing religious belief in most religion still attracting new converts when Christianity is losing members?
There simply must be something there I don’t see.
What is it?
KevinM,
On Islam;
It’s not a religion. It’s a cult.
The “young” are obsessed with the concepts of fairness and equality. They see moslems as downtrodden. They also see a cult that does not have a “church” between them and God. Young females embracing Islam are just silly, like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. They become chattels and breeding cattle.
And it’s a fad among the humanities dummies. Clueless but belonging to a cause, demonstrating against the man. Giving them meaning and odd fulfillment. And news headlines. Airheads basically.
Finally but importantly, wokeism elevates this barbarous cult to the top of the victimhood pole because Crusades and the exploitation of poor downtrodden Arabs by the nasty white man western powers over time.
Stupidity and ignorance got us here. The vile left has succeeded in disappearing studies of the History that can teach and inform us and supplanted it with woke versions meant to poison young western minds against their God given endowment.
This is funny (from WIP):
“Damn!” says Albo.
But if he wants to top Turdeau in the compassion stakes he can send across more planes so that all these ‘Aussies’ can get first class (for the men) and business class (for women and children) seats.
Ha! That will show him.
I find it pleasantly amusing that at the exact same time Mr Wong was mewling thusly:
One of the said parties was doing just that – kinetically separating Mr Nasrallah’s meat, fat and bone over a considerable area while also managing to air-fry it at the same time.
Roofie Firefly will be spewing.
Globally, Christianity is not in decline but is expected to continue to grow in numbers of adherents and maintain its status as the world’s largest religion* throughout the 21st century.
Islam in the West is growing through migration and procreation, not conversion.
Something to ponder:
If present religious and demographic trends continue, it’s quite possible that secularism, which tends to be regarded by those who’ve grown up under it as the normal state of human affairs, will be dead and buried by the end of the century.
*Note ‘religion’ these days is a sociological rather than a theological term. Can all religions really be of the same genus when their doctrines contradict each other? Something else to ponder!
This passage brought to mind the argument used by Gillard justifying the CO2 tax – businesses wanted ‘certainty’, she told us.
Politics never sleeps
“What is it in Islam that is so compelling and attractive to a vast number of people”
It was spread by the sword and the penalty for leaving is death.
In other words, it’s compelled not compelling.
Women are confined to the house as breeders and dogsbodies, that’s how they increase numbers in the west now, thanks to the welfare state.
Why are the adherents of Islam so protective of their religion that they are ready to sacrifice themselves and why is Islam in these days of diminishing religious belief in most religion still attracting new converts when Christianity is losing members?
I think that Makka is right, but there is more to it.
Islam has a very long tradition in regions that have not progressed economically, but more importantly have not derived their political system from concepts of individual rights. Autocracy is entrenched in both their religion and in their politics. Human rights, women’s rights et al are not endemic in their thinking. They look to their mullahs and to Islam to elevate them to what they see as their true position in the world.
And why does Christianity seem to be losing believers? Well, the West has become flabby and spoiled & less likely to reflect on our place in the Universe. Fortunately, I think that will change as we grapple with rapid technological change and understand the fragility of our prosperity.
Haha nice one Knuckle….
kinetically separating Mr Nasrallah’s meat, fat and bone over a considerable area while also managing to air-fry it at the same time.
If you believe Brisbane Lions is Footscray and Sydney is South Melbourne…
…then you probably kneel for the Welcome to Countrieses
…and sit down to piss
Chris Rufo on X
Rufo is a good follow .
My question was more along the line of a philosophical.
There is nothing philosophical about islam: it’s all psychological and political.
Cutting to the chase is this question: does islam attract people who are already nuts; or does it make people nuts. The second option is much worse of course.
Islam thrives where there is a captive audience, so to speak, and inculcates from birth. Where there is not a captive audience as in the West islam is the easiest ideology to join and the hardest to leave: apostasy is punishable by death.
One of the other hard things about islam is that it does not have a central core such as the Christian pope. So despite the Israeli tactic of cutting, or blowing off heads, islam is literally a hydra.
Islam also has a good way of motivating young men, who are the best suckers/soldiers: it promises lots of rooting after death and controls rooting during life.
Finally islam is a complete ideology: it does not comprehend a separation of church and state as Christianity does (thank henry V111 and his sex drive) so any opposition is immediately classified as blasphemy.
A new religion, which seems especially to appeal to women: green-progressivism. It’s just as nasty as Islam, but while Islam appeals especially to men, this one seduces women.
(I’ve just put on my asbestos undies in readiness for flaming. 😀 )
There is no cake. We like to pretend there is, safe in our presumption that nuclear weapons won’t be used in any event. However, if they are, say, used to strike the submarine base at Garden Island near Perth, there is zero chance that the US will retaliate on our behalf if they think not doing so will spare their soil.
It may be a somewhat unusual scenario in which an adversary strikes us and not the US, but it isn’t out of the question. So what is the value in being under the American nuclear umbrella? If the US strikes or retaliates on our behalf, it will only happen if they have been hit themselves or they believe they will be. In that case, how have they actually done anything on our behalf? They would be doing something they would have done anyway.
It is only when you consider a situation in which we are hit but the US is not that the absurdity of another country’s promise to treat our territory as their own in such circumstances fully comes to light.
I’m not saying we should develop our own nuclear deterrent. Maybe we should. However, we aren’t even grappling with this decision at all on the entirely false belief that it means a pinch of shit to be under the US nuclear umbrella.
Mass shootings leave 17 dead in South Africa: policeStaff WritersAP
Sun, 29 September 2024 3:19AM
Seventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two mass shootings that took place at two homes on the same street in a rural town in South Africa, police say.
A search was underway for the suspects, police spokeswoman Brigadir Athlenda Mathe said in a statement.
The victims were 15 women and two men, she said.
One other person was in critical condition in hospital.
That person was among four women, a man and a two-month-old baby who survived one of the shootings.
Authorities did not immediately give any details on the age or gender of the person in critical condition or the medical conditions of the other survivors.
The shootings took place on Friday night in the town of Lusikisiki in Eastern Cape province in southeastern South Africa.
Three women and a man were killed in the first shootings at a home, where there were no survivors, police said.
Twelve women and a man were killed at a separate home a short time later.
The survivors were present at those second shootings.
The shootings occurred late on Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
Video released by police from the scene showed a collection of rural homesteads along a dirt road on the outskirts of the town.
Residents sat on the edge of the road as police and forensic investigators blocked off areas with yellow and black crime scene tape and began their investigations.
National police commissioner General Fannie Masemola said he had ordered a specialist team of detectives be deployed from the administrative capital Pretoria to help with the investigation.
“A manhunt has been launched to apprehend those behind these heinous killings,” police spokeswoman Mathe said.
Local media reported that the people were attending a family gathering at the time of the shooting but police gave no indication of any possible motive, nor how many shooters there were and what type of guns were used.
Police were treating the shootings as connected, however.
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said at a press conference that it was an “intolerably huge number” of people killed and those responsible “can’t escape justice”.
“We have full faith and confidence in the team that has been deployed to crack this case and find these criminals. Either they hand themselves over or we will fetch them ourselves,” Mchunu said.
South Africa, a country of 62 million, has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
It recorded 12,734 homicides in the first six months of this year, according to official crime statistics from the police – an average of more than 70 a day.
There has been a lot of talk in certain quarters recently about how Israeli intelligence is overrated. And how Hezbollah is as tight as a drum – impenetrable.
Well. Such talk isn’t looking so sharp now, is it?
There was also a lot of whining about the pager and walkie-talkie attacks, how this was a war crime, innocents would have been hurt or killed etc etc. Um yes I suppose but it was still pretty bloody targeted, was it not? I mean, were there really loads of Lebanese civilians regularly using these pagers, let alone pagers in general? Doubt it. I haven’t seen an operating pager in decades. Cannot see why it’d be much different for the average Lebanese civilian.
And yes, if you use exploding pagers to take out targets that intermingle with civilians, some civilians are going to get hurt or killed. That is the problem with terrorists living side-by-side with civilians. With that said, I saw some of the footage of those pagers when they exploded and it looked to me that you would have needed to be very close to the person carrying the pager to be harmed.
And yes, maybe you had some small children who said Daddy here’s your pager, it’s beeping *kaboom*. Of course that is awful. No child deserves to be harmed or killed in such a way. But such eventualities come with the territory of being a member of Hezbollah, don’t they? If these people had regular jobs, they probably wouldn’t need to worry about their family members being harmed by exploding pagers.
Questions we neve rsee in the media ..! Given israel/Mossad, generally, know where their enemy leadership is and then bide their time before saying “Hello” what does the CIA with its bottomless budget achieve in the Mid-East ..?
Americans, mainly military tho, occasionally, civilian get killed, wounded, kidnapped and US property destroyed/captured, regularly, yet very rarely does the US via the CIA do anything about any of it ..
What has the US dun, covertly or military, in the mid-east since the “Don” offed Suleimani ..?
A 19th C Islamic firebrand,* baffled by the dominance of the West once asked: How come Christian technology is so advanced when ours is the superior religion?
*Name escapes me. Came across him reading up on Islam after 9/11.
Endless conflicts involving vast amounts of OPM transfers.The generation of a very large pool of black money transactions that is dispersed among corruptocrats and CIA retirement funds as “dividends”.
Agree, but would add, identifying with an authoritarian or fascist movement or religion gives the weak and disaffected person the structure and courage to blame others for what is wrong in the world and in their own lives. Add to this a need to be popular and be seen to be part of a group to demonstrate one’s “modern” credentials, and you have the makings of the mob.
14 centuries of marrying your cousin may have something to do with it.
Could be the new Nasrallah.
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1840128156629643645?t=GH0n2v7xi7gAg8li9TWXow&s=19
It seems to me that there is a decades long push to make everyone unhappy with the natural state of their endocrine system.
Does it occur to anyone else that the common strand in a bunch of social disorders is those who manufacture fake hormones?
Young ladies are convinced to have meaningless sex and take fake hormones to prevent conception.
Old blokes are convinced their ailments are due to a natural decline in testosterone, and to take TRT in order to prolong the sort of stupidity and trouble that particular hormone produces. While their bodies are telling them “time to deploy wisdom and intelligence old boy”, their doctors are telling them “go for it”!
Those girls frightened by adolescent changes to their bodies are told they might be men. Take hormones for the rest of your life.
Males are told they might actually be females and to do likewise.
Once women hit the menopause and become even more annoying, but without the beauty of youth that makes them partly bearable for short spells, yep, you guessed it: hormone replacement.
Youths who want to encase themselves in a muscle shield: hormones. Gym rats, athletes and just anyone unhappy with their appearance. Hormones. Every year there is a large crop of these hormonal “influencers” who drop dead in their late 30s and early 40s.
Who is making this shit, and why are people so stupid that at every time of life there are great masses of them who think that hacking their body’s natural and healthy system of regulation is a good idea?
Bozo Johnson having second thoughts about lockdowns:
I was going to aver that he doesn’t seem to be very bright, but then he’s no doubt soft-pedalling this revelation to protect his reputation.
Parents still get judged for ‘medicating children’ despite awareness about mental health growing – ABC News
Apart from the broader question regarding whether the drugs and psychotherapy confer any significant benefits(for mild to moderate at least 2 recent meta-analyses argue exercise is better), not one mention in the article about why a huge increase in anxiety and depression in teens is happening. Stop scaring the children at school with so many doomsday stories and telling them they are bad because of what happened long before they were born.
Nor is there any mention that antidepressants can cause significant weight gain, emotional numbing, which a friend told me teenagers in particular don’t like, and withdrawal can be very difficult. They call it “serotonin discontinuation syndrome”, a euphemism for overcoming addiction.
Birdie in space.
‘Aurora’ the baby falcon plush toy takes flight again as SpaceX Crew-9 zero-g indicator (29 Sep)
Nick Hague is pretty amazing. He survived a failed Soyuz launch (which exploded) and is now back on the horse. The two astronauts are due to arrive at the space station in half a day or so.
I’ve just been watching the coverage of the launch last night. NASA and SpaceX were doing pissing matches all throughout the coverage, which was fun. SpaceX won.
Get off the meth Wally
If you believe Brisbane Lions is Footscray and Sydney is South Melbourne…
…then you probably kneel for the Welcome to Countrieses
…and sit down to piss
Fitzroy sonny, not Footscray
Nasrallah, dog turd that he was, was a good, albeit belated start:
Exclusive | Brother of Navy diver killed in Hezbollah hijacking in 1985 reacts to Nasrallah’s death (nypost.com)
The A$ is currently at 0.69c US.
Any particular reason for the strengthening over the US$ over the last 6 months?
Some good news:
IT HAPPENED! Elon Musk FINALLY Reveals NEW Warp Drive Starship! (youtube.com)
Sky News host Rowan Dean has slammed Foreign Minister Penny Wong for making a “complete fool of herself” at the United Nations.
Mr Wong has given a speech at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York where she called for a ceasefire in the Middle East.
Some times grey haired blokes should just fkcu off.
British PM “Free Gear” Keir Starmer’s approval ratings have slumped further after last week’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool, falling to 24% with 50% disapproving of his performance in the job.
Worse for Labour, 58% thought the government was not restoring faith in politics and serving the people, as Labour pledged to do during the election campaign.
A prominent backbencher, the member for Canterbury, Rosie Duffield, has also just resigned from the Labour Party in protest at the gifts scandal and will sit as an independent. She appears to have taken Starmer at his word when he stated that “the Labour party is either a moral project or it is nothing.”
Fitzscray, Footsroy… same difference
This one’s for nautical cats – “The Battle of Tsushima”, by Phil Carradice, is very well worth reading. Tsushima is almost forgotten today – in 1905, with Russia and Japan at war, the Japanese wiped the floor with the Russian Far East Fleet. Czar Nicholas the Second sent his Baltic Fleet halfway around the world to take revenge. It was an outstanding feat of seamanship, but the Ivans were clobbered by the Japanese at Tsushima. The battle was the start of the slippery slope that ended in a smoke filled cellar, in the Urals, with the deaths of the Czar and his family. Good reading.
It was stupid of Israel to take out Nasrallah.
A thousand will rise to take his place. The Jews must concede, or feel the wrath of the United Nations.
/duhhhhhhhhhh
Wong thought.
‘We have to find a way out’: Penny Wong doubles down on two state solution and urges Australians to leave Lebanon (Sky News, 29 Sep)
‘We all would hope for peace’: Foreign Minister speaks out on Ukraine-Russia war (Sky News, 29 Sep)
Saving the world! She doesn’t seem to be in Kiev, Moscow, Gaza, Beirut or Jerusalem doing diplomacy though. It’s a mystery.
Suzanne Vega – Luka | The story behind the song | Top 2000 a gogo
@bennyjohnson
@catturd2
Imagine believing in the global warming hoax. Low IQ sheep.
It was spread by the sword and the penalty for leaving is death.
In other words, it’s compelled not compelling.
Correct. Islam, after it invades countries and consolidates power, uses a combination of forced conversions and/or the imposition of the dhimmi status and the jizya tax as very effective cudgels to use against those who try to desperately cling to Christianity and Judaism (the only two religions ‘tolerated’ by Islam). Further to non-Muslim communities being ‘suffocated’ by Islam, over the centuries, depending on the whims of the Muslim rulers, the always mandatory jizya tax could either be fairly lax or it could be draconian, and when it was draconian it led many Jews and Christians to convert to Islam rather than having to pay the tax. Those Jewish and Christian communities who managed to cling to their faith were deemed dhimmis and lived in great penury and constant danger. Rape jihad against Christian and Jewish women was (and remains) a huge problem for non-Muslim minorities living in Muslim majority lands and nations. Christian and Jewish communities that managed to survive intact were often geographically isolated, that isolation helping to protect them. The reason why the Maronites survived and prospered in Lebanon was due to the fact that they lived in the isolated mountain regions north and east of Beirut, the mountains were a buffer.
One of the biggest lies propagated over the last few decades is that Muslim ruled Spain was some kind of kumbaya paradise where Jews, Christians and Muslims all lived together in equality, peace and tolerance. It is bullshit. The so called golden age only lasted about two decades under a benign Muslim ruler. But Christians and Jews were still second class citizens even under that ‘benign’ ruler, and when that Muslim ruler died, the normal harassment, rape and persecution of Christians and Jews became the norm again.
If you want an insight into how life is for non-Muslims in Muslim majority countries, look at how Pakistan and Bangladesh treat their Sikh, Christian and Hindu minorities, look at how Iran treats its tiny timid Jewish and Christian communities, who all live in mouse like fear, even Turkey, where Christians are attacked and churches are bombed.
I am dumbfounded that the West has opened its doors to open slather Muslim immigration. This is already destabilising the West, and my prediction? It will be disastrous.
I think that Vance did a good job of trolling them, too. They had nothing left to say.
After Staging Event for Kamala Harris, Primanti Brothers a PA Based Restuarant Chain, Blocks JD Vance from Entering
Bozo Johnson having second thoughts about lockdowns:
Yeah, like Dom Parrothead having second thoughts about vaccine mandates.
They can all EFF off.
Lawyer for Diddy’s Accuser Alleges Tapes Featuring Diddy Now Circulating in Hollywood Black Market — Claims Shocking Involvement of Even Higher Profile Figure!
Just on 2SM praising Trump; the guy on is a typical media hack who hates Trump because dogs and cats and Jan 6 blah, blah. Get on there if you have time and praise Trump!
Ring 131269. John Certori
Unless I’ve misread the news, Israel has express-delivered to Allah the first of the “Ten more will rise in his place”.
This would mean Hezbollah has had Three leaders within 24 hrs. (.. stand by, this score may rise)
Once women hit the menopause and become even more annoying, but without the beauty of youth that makes them partly bearable for short spells, yep, you guessed it: hormone replacement.
Wow! that was a bold claim Arky! As someone who declined hormone replacement (wisely in view of the cancer consequences) I have no regrets. A happy soul tends to show on your face and affect your disposition.
My annoying tendency towards critical thinking seems to annoy women, more than men.
Fentiman flails in WaterfordShannon Fentiman, the woman most likely to be Labor Opposition leader if Steven Miles is trounced on October 26, is in trouble in her own safe Labor seat.
ALP insiders say the Health Minister is facing a monster two-party preferred swing of 13 per cent in her outer Brisbane electorate of Waterford, which she holds on a Covid-boosted margin of 16.02 per cent.
There’s confusion about who commissioned the dire phone poll by Labor’s preferred pollsters Talbot Mills (business partners with banned lobbyists Evan Moorhead and Fentiman’s ex-husband David Nelson), but the smart money is on the MP’s own union, the AMWU. The union did not respond to Chooks query about whether it commissioned the poll.
The fact there’s even polling in such a safe seat reveals the ALP’s tremors entering the campaign, which officially kicks off with Miles’s visit to Governor Jeannette Young on Tuesday.
A young local councillor, Jacob Heremaia, is the LNP’s Waterford candidate.
And the result of the expensive interviewer-led phone poll doesn’t help: a dramatic erosion in the 2PP vote versus the LNP, from 66 per cent in 2020 to just 53 per cent now.
On those numbers Fentiman will hold Waterford – which Labor has lost for just one term since 1992, by the aforementioned Moorhead – but it’ll become ultra-marginal.
And it bodes terribly for the outer-suburban battleground where the election will be fought and likely lost.
Fentiman had been out for the past several weekends doorknocking, Bunnings barbecuing, and selfie-ing with voters; will it be enough?
The three-term MP, who was elected when Palaszczuk became premier in 2015 and elevated straight into cabinet, says: “It’s a privilege to be the member for Waterford and I’ve never taken the support of my community for granted”.
“I’m confident they’ve seen my achievements as their local MP including the largest ever expansion to Logan Hospital, more police and housing, more bus routes and 50c fares on public transport,” Fentiman says.
Her main rival for the Opposition leadership is Right faction caucus leader, Deputy Premier and Treasurer Cameron Dick, sitting happily in the state’s safest seat, Woodridge, on a 26.3 per cent margin.
Will the pair of lawyers-turned-politicians be fighting over the spoils of defeat after October 26?
Let the games begin.
The rise of small, fighter-like drones in US Air Force thinking | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au)
Together with the development of air-to-air missiles less than half the size of the latest AMRAAMs and like or superior performance(cuda, peregrine), this development represents a qualitative leap in air power that puts the USA a generation ahead of the world.
This is the speech RFK Jnr has made in support of Donald Trump:
Summary of speech:
“I spent a significant amount of money to get on the ballot in every state across the country. We gathered a million signatures from Americans for our petitions and built a network in every state. Throughout this process, polling consistently showed that 57 to 60% of people who supported me would vote for Donald Trump if I dropped out of the race. I was impacting Donald Trump and the Republican Party, yet they did nothing to prevent me from getting on any ballot. Donald Trump was critical of me but in a respectful and congenial manner.
In contrast, the Democratic Party spent tens of millions to defame me, spread false information, and marginalise me, trying to prevent me from appearing on state ballots. Despite these efforts, we succeeded in getting on the ballots. The Democratic Party even sued to keep me off the ballot in Michigan, but now my name will appear there. However, I urge you not to vote for me but for Donald J. Trump.
I have been a lifelong Democrat and initially believed negative portrayals of MAGA during the 2016 election. However, when Hillary Clinton criticised Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian plant despite her military service, I began to question these narratives. When President Trump was elected with 80 million votes, I realised we couldn’t dismiss so many Americans as deplorables.
I approached President Trump offering my help because I wanted to support efforts to end chronic disease and other issues affecting our nation. Many Democrats view MAGA as a return to the 1950s, labeling it racist or isolationist. However, after speaking with Donald Trump, he clarified that his vision was akin to the era of John F. Kennedy when America was at its peak economically and globally respected.
During that time, America had a thriving middle class and robust union movement ensuring dignity for workers. Today’s generation does not believe in that American dream due to economic challenges. A recent poll showed only 17% of young Americans are proud of their country, highlighting a disconnection from national pride.
My uncle John F. Kennedy believed the primary job of a U.S. president was to keep the country out of war and promote peace globally. His legacy includes numerous monuments worldwide due to his peaceful foreign policy approach.
Donald Trump’s vision aligns with these principles—he aims for America to be admired globally through diplomacy and economic strength rather than military might. He wants peace and prosperity for all nations through fair trade deals.
The Democratic Party I grew up with valued constitutional rights and freedom of speech as fundamental democratic principles. Today’s party seems more aligned with corporate interests and censorship under the guise of combating misinformation.
During Trump’s administration, economic indicators excelled compared to current conditions under Biden-Harris, which have seen inflation rise significantly alongside increased living costs while wages stagnate.
The Democratic Party has shifted from its roots supporting working-class Americans to aligning with big corporations like Big Pharma and Big Tech. Meanwhile, Trump has distanced billionaires from the Republican Party.
I believe we need a president who will prioritise American jobs and manufacturing rather than outsourcing them abroad. We also need leadership that will secure our borders effectively.
In conclusion, I urge you all to vote for Donald J. Trump this November because he represents the best chance for restoring America’s health and prosperity while maintaining peace both domestically and internationally. Thank you very much, and God bless you all!”
LIVE: Middle East Celebrate The End Of Hezbollah
Vicki
September 29, 2024 1:45 pm
Once women hit the menopause and become even more annoying, but without the beauty of youth that makes them partly bearable for short spells, yep, you guessed it: hormone replacement.
Wow! that was a bold claim Arky! As someone who declined hormone replacement.
Wise move.
If my hormones start playing up, at least they’re mine and not some concoction brewed in a lab.
I’m sure there are cases where treatment might be required, particularly physiological conditions where a woman has no prospect of generation.
So much of this is fear of ageing. One can always age disgracefully, which is much more fun. Let the laughter lines run free.
Spot on Johanna – the ABFNC has been give credence to the ideologues at every turn and it never stops — this with the place of employment has been in the Federal court for over 12 years and the exploitation of people with disabilities has been all on the part of the activist/advocates who DO NOT listen to the people who work in specialised places of employment because so many ARE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED and can’t speak up for themselves so of course THEY DON’T COUNT —
These activist/advocates could not give a tinker’s cuss on whether the people with disabilities have a place to work as long as they can pat themselves of the back, nominate themselves for Human Rights Awards — this is how it goes:
A/As to PWDs:Gee, we got you the same wage as everyone else, Oh? you say all the places of employments have closed down and you don’t have a job and you don’t see your friends that you worked with any more, and you can’t go out with them after work? oh what a shame but remember if you did have a place to work you’d be getting the same wage as people without disability.
And the activist/advocates do it all on the taxpayer funding. — I will say no more at the moment – except thank God the ABFNC has such a small reach.
Farmer Gez
September 29, 2024 8:10 am
Quite so.
Whilst it didn’t inflict debilitating physical casualties which would, of themselves, cripple Hez-ball-less, it is a devastating blow on so many fronts.
The process of destabilising confidence in the mobile phone system (no doubt via carefully leaked intel) forcing them to conclude that pagers were the answer was brilliant enough.
Kaboom!
But then anticipating the next step to walkie-talkies was an absolute master-stroke.
That would have helped the kill stage of the operation because the Hez-ball-less would have done two things.
Firstly, met in person to share plans and, secondly, reverted to mobile phones with crude coding which would have been easily hacked.
I know Dover dismisses the psy-ops aspect of this, but that is yuuuge.
The remaining Hez-ball-less now don’t trust each other, their comms systems or the previous “safe spaces”.
Praise be to Allah, they don’t even trust their toasters and microwaves. Talk about living in their heads rent free.
On the appeal of Islam. It’s seductive for those who love power and want to exercise it behind a cloak of religiosity. Even if it’s just domestically.
It will never appeal to those with a genuine servant mentality, despite the fig leaf of service/reward for doing deeds even if they are evil. The men strut, they subdue, they harangue. Women, if they are allowed outside the house, are branded as property by clothing and a host of other restrictions. If they achieve any sort of influence, particularly in the West, they become clones of the men.
The fatalistic aspect, combined with the need to subdue others, is a toxic mix. The result is societal decay and dependence on other, more robust economies. Which are envied and ripe for conquest.
Awwwww. I’ve triggered a hormonal downticker.
Thought I might.
I’m ignoring it because it has no bearing on the question of whether or not the US supported jihadis in Afghanistan.
Mr. Inbetween is one of the best crime dramas. Made in Aus.
Why you never mess with Ray [ Mr Inbetween ] (youtube.com)
Depressing article by Alan Moran:
West and East divide along the economic green line (substack.com)
In reality, the two contrasting economic management models are that of the Euro-US world and that of the Eurasian counties, principally China, India, Russia, and some countries adjacent to them.
The focus in the Western economies is on plans that seek to transform their economies by an approach that marries prospective new technologies with a restoration of the pre-industrial natural environment.
The policy approaches have their separate names like Build Back Better (US), Industrial Strategy (UK), Energiewende (Germany), and our own Future Made in Australia. At the heart of these measures designed to transform economies is the replacement of commercial carbon (and nuclear) based energy by wind and solar together with fanciful measures designed to migrate supply to the mirage of green hydrogen. The plans also involve a goal of reducing the impact on the environment from dams, agriculture, mining, and industrial developments – albeit, where there is conflict between land-extensive activities like wind and solar, regulatory arrangements are in place to ensure the latter will prevail.
Vast sums are to be spent on transforming energy. Agora Energiewende, Europe’s go-to establishment green think tank, estimates that 462 billion euros a year is needed to cut EU greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040. That is about 20 per cent of non-dwelling investment to be spent on destroying rather than augmenting income, which the think tank argues would help grow the EU economy by around two per cent. Similar sums are envisaged for the Future Made in Australia and other Western nations’ signatory approaches.
The difference could not be starker with the non-Western Eurasian bloc of countries. With them, the pace of development is underpinned by using the proven energy sources: coal, gas, and nuclear and using natural resources to further advance living standards – policies that have paid rich dividends in bringing higher levels of growth.
Thus, since 2020 China and India have added 1,588 GW of coal capacity compared to only 63 GW in the rest of the world (with only Poland building significant new supply in the EU-UK-US and Australasia Western nations).
With nuclear, China, Russia, and India have 36 new plants underway. The rest of the world has 23 with only 4 in the UK-EU-US. Although the US ostensibly has a bipartisan policy to reduce the onerous regulations that have priced nuclear out of contention, this will require a considerable turnaround as successive administrations since Carter in the late 1970s have turned their backs on nuclear.
Not coincidentally, as well as leading the world on a downward wealth trajectory, Australian policy has been among the most aggressive in dismantling reliable power, subsidising the industries that government regards as ‘winners’ and impeding the search for and utilisation of mineral and agricultural wealth. Characteristic of policies forcing land out of productive investment, is Rio being incentivised to buy 3,000 hectares of prime land to convert it from cattle raising to producing bio-oil, a product that is worthless in the absence of subsidies. Even more significant is the return of waters being used for agriculture to their natural state, particularly in the Murray-Darling, Australia’s only major irrigation province. A similar policy is followed in California. By contrast, China has a $64 billion water diversion development called the Move South Water North Project. This is to shift water from the underpopulated areas oversupplied with water to more heavily populated areas.
For those of us convinced of the merits of democracy the foregoing contrasting patterns of income growth offer little solace. Of the key Eurasian bloc countries, only India is democratic, while the Western world’s mostly failing economies are all democracies. Moreover, most Latin American voters (Argentina excepted) have – more or less democratically – elected left-wing governments in recent years, with predictable effects on their living standards.
While the Albanese government has proved so socialist and incompetent that it will not win the next election, unless a Trump government is elected in the US, any future Australian government is likely to feel obliged keep in harness with the Euro-US policies. And, whatever the outcome of the US election, even a Trump victory would not be an endorsement of electors in a democracy rejecting poor policy approaches since Vice President Harris is certain to win the popular vote.
Judging by growing impediments to free speech being enacted all over the world, democracy is not performing well as a guarantor of liberty. As Matt Canavan says, he would have been prosecuted for misinformation if the Australian government’s proposed laws had been in place in 2021 for saying, ‘We should pause the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine because almost every European country now has concerns over its safety. There is no imminent threat of coronavirus here so why would we blindly rush on when others are concerned?’
Islam is a near perfected surveillance society dressed up as a religion.
With social and in many cases legal as well as informal punishments for back sliders.
Hotel Calif- ornia
Islam is on the rise in Western Europe because of many factors….
Immigration
High birth rates among Muslim families
Marriage to Muslim women (Muslim women are forbidden to marry outside the faith whereas Muslim men can)
and
Conversions.
Yes, conversions are on the rise. Why? Well, because men and women, particularly men, are looking for certainty and Islam provides that certainty. Unlike Judaism and Hinduism, Islam makes it easy to convert, very easy.
The churches are collapsing as I write, the CoE is a joke, too interested in wokery and guff such as slavery reparations, white guilty, climate change and LGBTQITP+ crapola.
It’s a tragedy.
One of those fronts is the Y-Fronts!
Just embrace becoming fat and less badgered by males.
Are you kidding, Arky, I am a farmer and daily work (&walk) off the kilos. That, and a revised diet after Covid, ensure that I weigh very little more than when I was married a very long time ago.
Don’t think I was ever “badgered by males”.
I still can not believe they even attempted this. 11000 horsepower. Kenny Bernstein back in the 80’s put a nitro engine on the dyno. 8000 horesepower at the time. The roof of the work shop was blown off!
Cops, fire brigade and ambos were called.
They didn’t do that again.
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Clay and Cleetus and crew.
We Tried To Dyno a TOP FUEL Dragster In Our Shop!!! (It Was LOUD)
Why are middle eastern invaders of Europe so angry and hateful?
Why are the Voice mob here so angry and can’t accept defeat?
Perhaps it’s because they are constantly told, like so many groups, that they are superior and yet when confronted by the truth, that the West is not a disaster as their own original places of living are, e.g. Pakistan, Syria, outback Australia, they become unbelievably envious.
Observe the attitudes of young middle eastern men in Europe (because that’s who came to Europe) they all expected what?
That the Westerners would all be in awe of them?
That their supposedly superior religious culture was actually inferior and they had nothing to offer, that no one really wanted them and they only survive because a Christian based society is generous to them.
Man, that must burn ..
It burns the Voice mob here too, that after all their efforts, they still got rejected, that we don’t want their version of racism.
To Londoners having to tolerate religious take over of their streets to pray, I feel the same way about having to tolerate the Welcome to Country rubbish.
Being angry at a superior culture, is not going to solve the problems of your own culture’s poor and ongoing decisions.
Envy is poison isn’t it?
(Rhetorical question, one that requires no answer)
For the record. Nitromethane tastes good … it does.
… the wrinkles that fanned out from his eyes were like the remnants of a 1,000 good natured smiles.
Hamsun, The Wanderer.
There is a trade off with HRT and TRT. Place your bets. Brains like estrogen. Men whose TRT falls too low will also have an E deficit. There is some interesting evolutionary biology behind this that goes all the way back to Williams(1957).
Thibenzole isn’t bad either according to my uncle – who was a bit of a softy and wouldn’t deworm his dogs with sheep drench without tasting it first.
Reading the account of the Russian Baltic Fleet, on their way East, in Phil Carradice’s book “The battle of Tsushima.”
Russian gunnery was so bad that, in one exercise, the target was missed by every ship in the fleet, in another exercise, the only hit scored was by one of the Russian battleships – on the bridge of the cruiser actually towing the target…
Conversions are of little consequence to the growth of Islam in Western Europe compared to immigration and procreation.
More people in W. Europe leave Islam – about 30 000 p.a. according to a Pew Research study c. 2017 – than convert.
A significant number of those who leave become Christian. Those are stories the msm doesn’t report but the Christian alternative media does.
Oh, come on, you’re being willfully evasive. Ignoring the Soviet screw-up in Afghanistan and pretending the chaos starts with the U.S. is like chopping off half the story because it doesn’t fit your continuous anti-American narrative. In any event, you can ignore whatever you want while I am at liberty to include it. Others can make judge for themselves.
The reality is pretty simple: the Soviet led communist coup and the subsequent Soviet invasion turned the whole place upside down.
But I’m guessing you’d rather skip over that part because it messes with your “blame America first” agenda.
Like I said in that other thread, if you’re hunting for who destabilized the world post-WW2, you wanna start HERE. The place is arsehole central.
“Why not pick Catholicism if “virtue through victimhood” is what one was after.”
Que?
Protesters in Melbourne wave Hezbollah flagsJoanna Panagopoulos
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Protesters in Melbourne on Sunday waved Hezbollah flags and carried framed pictures of assassinated Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Pictures from the large protests for Gaza and Lebanon show dozens of masked and unmasked men walking through the Melbourne CBD seemingly commemorating Nasrallah.
Overnight, the Israeli Defence Forces and the Iran-backed militant group confirmed the death of Nasrallah in a massive air strike on Beirut, with what is believed to be 5000-pound bunker-busting bombs.
In a statement, the IDF said Nasrallah, who has led the Iran backed group for 32 years, “would no longer be able to terrorise the world.”
Hezbollah also confirmed his death, posting a picture of their leader on Telegram with the words “Sayyed Nasrallah Martyred.”
One man at the Melbourne rally wore an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps T-shirt and waved a yellow and green Hezbollah flag as he stared into the camera.
Another man wearing a hooded sweatshirt held up a framed picture of Nasrallah with what appeared to be Hezbollah flags behind him.
Melbourne Islamic community leaders said these men were a tiny minority.
“They are definitely a minority. An absolute, tiny minority. For my own experience, my knowledge of the community, there is no support of Hezbollah, no love of Hezbollah, right now, this is all about support for the Lebanese people,” Islamic Council of Victoria’s president, Adel Salman, said.
“The community is concerned about the escalating violence, but our concern primarily is about what’s happening in Palestine, in Gaza, that’s still the main focus in the community. But clearly the escalation in violence between Israel and Lebanon, that’s causing a lot of concern. And we have to be careful we don’t reduce the battle to one between Hezbollah and Israel, effectively this is an attack on Lebanon that is a sovereign country … and people are outraged,” he said.
“It’s not about supporting Hezbollah in any way, shape or form, this is about supporting the Lebanese people, this is about concern for the deaths of Lebanese civilians and the destruction of Lebanon.”
Watch the Melbourne Islamic community leaders distancing themselves…
Rockdoctor
September 29, 2024 4:04 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
My first experience with top fuel was as a 19yo going along to Willowbank to watch them and all sorts of other cars on a Saturday night.
Awesome how they trick those engines up, then the sound as they launch into their run.
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G’day bloke. Check this rebuild out.
One cylinder produces more power than a F1 engine.
Teardown at #USNats with the Dodge / Mopar Team
And while we’re at it, let’s talk about your selective outrage. You seem to pick and choose which Islamist groups you hate and which ones you’re weirdly okay with. How come you’re not foaming at the mouth about Iran and their lovely mullahs, but you’re so quick to trash the Afghan jihadis in the 80s who were fighting communism? I mean, it wasn’t like they were all religious zealots- see Massoud. But Iran? Those pigs get a pass? And how about your soft spot for the Tootsies? Honestly, it’d be fascinating to hear why you’re so hostile to some, while okay with others?
Both sides of the line are faceplanting, but in different ways. The West is crashing because of green ideology. China is crashing because of red ideology.
Chinese Financial Executives Resign In Droves Amid Heightened Scrutiny (29 Sep)
Rats are fleeing the ship.
Conversions are of little consequence to the growth of Islam in Western Europe compared to immigration and procreation.
All of which I addressed in my comment and whilst conversions are still small, they’re are growing, particularly among those who are religiously inclined and who are searching and seeking spiritual comfort only to be dismayed by the mainstream western churches and their dalliances with and outright adoption of putrid progressive talking points. Islam doesn’t do this. I can see why there is an attraction to Islam I don’t like it but I understand why some people are drawn to it. A vacuum has been created and it will be filled.
Interestingly, it is not the mainstream churches in western Europe that are reaping a harvest of Muslim converts.
Fabulous footage.
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B2B Castaways – Strick and Fran.
Day 7 Camping On the Ocean (GIANT MUDCRAB Catch & Cook)
I’m becoming less bearish on China since the start of last week. The CCP has rolled out several significant measures in two separate phases. While I still don’t think these steps are entirely sufficient, they are certainly moving in the right direction. If this continues, we could start seeing notable improvements in the economy by 2025. Additionally, I expect the CCP to continue in easing monetary policy to support their economic goals.
Principally, China’s economy is in deflationary doldrums because of tight monetary policy. Of course, there are other problems but this is the biggest concern.
True evil on display in Melbourne.
This scum should be deported immediately:
Australian Jewish Association on X: “HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST SUPPORTERS RALLY IN MELBOURNE Holding memorial pictures of vile murderer and terror leader Hassan Nasrallah, and flags of Hezbollah, a Muslim mob marches in Melbourne. This used to be unacceptable in Australia. Why are they here? *** AGAIN we ask why is law https://t.co/P04Havv8i6” / X
That whale interaction was bonkers.
I can see why there is an attraction to Islam I don’t like it but I understand why some people are drawn to it. A vacuum has been created and it will be filled.
This is true- I’ve thought about it. Also was interested in Mormonism but it seems that some of the vilest US pollimuppetts like Harry Reid, Mitt Romney and Jeff Flake are Mormons and it put me right off it.
This used to be unacceptable in Australia. Why are they here?
Ask the pubes in canbra. No penalty for the malicious incompetence of canbra pubic parasites.
I made a general remark about the US supporting jihadis in Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Syria, etc. You jumped in and denied that they even supported jihadis and then ran a ‘moderate jihadi’ line re US support to Afghani rebels. Finally, you switched to ‘Ok, the US supported jihadis in Afghanistan but it wasn’t their fault, the Soviets made them do it’. How the above makes me ‘willfully evasive’ is curious.
A couple of years ago a pal and I went to the drags in Brisbane.
Exploring the five star pits we laughed at seeing a small woman literally swinging off the extension shaft of a huge socket attached to the supercharger pully.
She laughed as well. My journo mate convinced her to join us for a lousy pie and worse coffee. She told us that she was a chalkie who became involved in dragster maintenance through a now discarded boyfriend. After time as a roustabout the team trained her in external systems and now she is the manager and engineering authority for blowers and pumps etc. And loves it.
They have a few tradies, but prefer to train people to very high standards on specific parts of the system, leaving the tradies to focus on overall system performance.
Fascinating, a copy of US miIitary maintenance philosophy.
But, I could do without spending my life in earmuffs and having my body vibrating to disintegration every time an engine is let loose.
She now apparently has a byline in various vroom vroom publications.