Heh, I’m in Rocky and seat too.
Open Thread – Mon 7 Oct 2024
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- Singling out Steve Waterson’s writing
- Open Thread -Weekend 8 March 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 6 March 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 3 March 2025
Just cancelled out your downticker.
Bike gangs in NSW are mostly Lebs
I didn’t know that, sorry to hear it. At one stage , one of his staff was Chris Barrie. I…
How firm is the CCP grip on power? How many in government will be concerned for their Little Emperor’s?
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
A.F. Branco #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
The Brits and the French could do it under the sea in 1990, maybe we should hire them to do the bit for the M Turnbull folly?
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How was the Eurotunnel built across the English Channel?
It took 7 years, 4,000 workers,to complete the most daring engineering challenge of the 20th century.
The Eurotunnel, or Channel Tunnel, is 50.45 km long and connects Folkestone, England, to Coquelles, France – near Calais, in just 35 minutes of crossing. It is an incredible feat of engineering characterized by the longest underwater tunnel in the world with an underwater section that extends for 39 km under the bed of the English Channel.
The entire infrastructure is made up of two railway tunnels with a diameter of 7.6 m and a service tunnel, in case of emergencies, with a diameter of 4.8 m. It took 7 years, 4,000 workers.
Through the geological study of the subsoil it was possible to establish the trajectory of the excavation and the route that the Eurotunnel would follow.
The construction technique of the Channel Tunnel
But how was the Channel Tunnel built?
The great challenge to face was to understand at what depth to position the tunnel and which geological level to drill. One of the key techniques was the so-called “seismic reflection”, a kind of X-ray of the ground that allows to visualize the geological layers and whether they are wavy, deformed or crossed by faults.
To carry out the drilling, drills called Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) were used: these “mechanical moles” are 200 m long, have a diameter of 7.6 m and a rotating disk with steel blades, and are capable of excavating 36 thousand tons of rock per day.
The TBM is controlled by a computerized system that, together with a laser, calculates the trajectory. As the cutter advances, the TBM then creates a ring of reinforced concrete lining for the tunnel, made up of 5 curved segments, which serve to resist the intense pressure from above.
On December 1, 1990, the French and English teams met halfway, with a difference in height of only 35 cm thanks to constant measurements. The two completed tunnels are equipped with 245 passages to reach the emergency tunnel, fire doors and a highly efficient cooling and ventilation system.
The only way to cross the tunnel is by train, such as the high-speed train that takes you from Paris to London in just two hours, or the shuttle service for vehicles.
This train takes on board the entire vehicle you are traveling with until the transit is completed, taking you from Calais to Folkestone in just 35 minutes.
source: Geopop By Videostorie
Have only travelled through it once on the train. Very very interesting!
Never been on it, always fly and hire a car at the other side.
I shudder at the thought of fire prone electric vehicles in any long underwater tunnel, even though I regularly travel the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.
Thank you Tom
Loath him or like him, Andre Rieu can produce a glitzy but good show.
Here he is doing it for the great actor A Hopkins.
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Emotional Sir Anthony Hopkins watches as Andre Rieu’s Orchestra plays the Waltz he wrote 50 years ago. Sir Anthony Wife contacted Rieu and shared the sheet Music nearly 50-years old composition.
Legendary Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins also a Pianist and Composer with a deep love of Music. The concert was in Vienna.
You could be forgiven, thinking you are somewhere in Europe looking at a medieval structure, maybe even of Roman origin.
Nope, it’s Texas.
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The Possum Kingdom Stone Arch Bridge is the longest and most substantial masonry arch bridge in Texas. State highway engineers chose the heavy masonry form to withstand flood waters released from the Morris Sheppard Dam one mile upstream.
The bridge features fine craftsmanship and is argued to be one of the best examples of WPA road work in Texas. Many of the WPA laborers were unemployed coal miners who had acquired their stone-cutting skills underground and were drawn from places like Thurber, Strawn and Mingus.
The bridge includes eighteen spans of locally quarried limestone varying in length from twenty-three to thirty feet. All piers are founded on bedrock; most are 3′-0″ wide, although piers seven and thirteen are heavier “bracing piers,” tapering to a 5′-0″ width at the top.
The structure’s total length is 433′-4″. Despite having been overtopped by floods over the years, the bridge remains in virtually unaltered condition —- a testament to the skills of the men who built it.
Good doggy.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 8, 2024 3:43 am
3.33 and insomnia has crept in and woken me up.
It happens. Have some milk and a nibble. Best to get up and read something, then go back to bed.
I miss Attapuss so much as he used to get up with me on insomniac nights, which are not frequent, but arrive when I get overtired. Attapuss would give me the benefit of his company and his sage purrs.
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Get another Cat dear lady. Mum told me the other day she felt Birdie walk on her chest. I buried her.
The brain playing games.
No, Birdie is there, steve.
Arky
I’m not sure, but whenever I use the word “Jew’, I immediately block it mentally – the same with ‘Jewellery’ or any other word with those three consecutive letters.
It’s probably due to the ban on the word in the previous incarnation of the Cat.
It’s surprising how subtle mental conditioning can be.
Your taxpayer dollars at work:
A three-year university research project that seeks to disprove the “protectionist myth” that Australia is “an island continent girt by sea” has been awarded nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funding as part of a grant program that no longer allows for government vetoes.
Other peer-reviewed projects that will next year share in the $93m fund delivered by the Australian Research Council include one from the University of Queensland that aims to “identify the causes of gender bias in the staged English-language translations of Ancient Greek tragedy and to redress this problem”, which was awarded more than $460,000.
Nearly $4m was awarded to a project run out of the University of Sydney that seeks to “advance the role of the arts as the ‘missing link’ in global movements of multispecies justice using innovative musical approaches to communicate the urgency of climate change and lead social change”.
The three projects are among $20m worth of grants distributed by the ARC that the Coalition is claiming was a waste of taxpayer funding.
University Project summary Amount
Sydney
Identify the “missing link” in global movements of multispecies justices using innovative musical approaches to communicate the urgency of climate change
$3,768,211
Monash
Innovate new ethnographic methods to investigate the role of future human values in developing a path towards technologically supported environmental sustainability
$3,154,326
ANU
Idea of humanity. Critique the contemporary phenomenon of humane-sounding exclusion of refugees
$1,222,727
WA
“Ground-breaking research” into Aboriginal ‘restorying techniques’ … to produce a NEW general Aboriginal history of WA
$1,204,666
Sydney
New understanding of women’s contributions to philosphy and greater appreciation of women’s role in European thought and culture$1,167,659
RMIT
Understand role of mobile media in grief rituals as a reflection of social and cultural lives
$1,107,631
NSW
Investigate how performance contributes to cultural diplomacy between Australia and South East Asia.
$1,077,256
WA
Bring Australia into the global history of slavery by exploring the legacies of British slavery in SA and Vic
$658,520
Grants awarded funding under the ARC have come under scrutiny in the past, with former Coalition ministers having vetoed a number of humanities projects selected by the research council that they claimed were not an appropriate use of public funding.
However, under legislative changes passed by Labor in November last year, ministers are no longer able to directly approve or veto such grants.
Opposition government waste spokesman James Stevens said the recent examples of projects given funding “could not be further removed” from the challenges of everyday Australians who were struggling to pay their household bills after 13 consecutive interest rate rises.
“Committing almost half a million dollars to challenge the fact that Australia is an island continent is farcical,” he said.
“Australians know our country is an island. What they don’t know is why the Albanese government thinks we need to spend half a million dollars to challenge it.”
Other projects funded by the ARC include one from the University of NSW investigating how performance contributes to “cultural diplomacy” between Australia and Southeast Asia, which was awarded more than $1m; another project from the University of Sydney was given more than $430,000 to explore the relationship between policing and popular music in Australia.
Mr Stevens said while many projects funded through the ARC were absolutely necessary, there needed to be better vetting as to what kind of research was appropriate to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on.
“The same fund that is supporting important research into extreme weather events, space exploration and human brain function, has also allocated $3.7m to explore ‘innovative musical approaches’ to ‘multispecies justice’,” he said. “It is utterly absurd.”
Former education minister Simon Birmingham vetoed 11 grants worth $4.2m while in office between 2017 and 2018, including a La Trobe University project titled Writing the struggle for Sioux and US modernity, an Australian National University project called Price, metals and materials in the global exchange, and a Macquarie University project on “the music of nature and the nature of music”.
Senator Birmingham’s successor, Dan Tehan, vetoed five more grants in 2020 on national security grounds, while Stuart Robert vetoed six grants while acting in the role of education minister at the end of 2021, including Playing Conditions: How Climate Shaped the Elizabethan Theatre, Finding friendship in Early English literature, and Cultural Production of Religion by Science Fiction and Fantasy novels.
The ARC is currently headed up by former Western Sydney University chancellor and Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Peter Shergold, with several other academics making up the council’s board.
Following a review into the ARC after Labor came to government, Education Minister Jason Clare announced the government would no longer have the power to veto grants unless on national security grounds.
Due to Labor amendments, an education minister who wishes to veto grants must now also provide an explanation to parliament.
The move followed then-ANU vice-chancellor and Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt warning that interventions would stop high talent international researchers from coming to study in Australia, claiming some had “expressed their concerns to the point of saying ‘I am not going to come to Australia until you sort this out’.”
“It literally affects my ability to attract talent to Australia,” he told a Senate committee following the vetoing of grants by Mr Robert.
Mr Clare stood by his changes to ARC funding and the inability for projects to be vetoed under the minister’s discretion, criticising the Coalition of having undermined the program while in government.
“Over the last 10 years, the ARC has been bedevilled by political interference,” he said.
“I have ended that by getting politicians out of the decision-making process.”
Oz
It is now a sinecure for ideological largesse by the usual suspects.
If the calibre of the bludgers wanting to get on the gravy train are represented by the above, then they can just piss right off.
And I would like the names of those who have made these demands on the public purse.
I did a short stint at the ARC about 20 years ago. The scientific bods were OK, but the humanities lot were leftist luvvie central even then.
I think they should just amend the legislation to confine the grants to scientific/technical subjects. You will otherwise never stop the wasteful and self indulgent theft of taxpayers’ money.
Just abolish the ARC.
And putting it into the safe hands of Labor maaaaaates.
I would support a study into the correlation between recipients of grants and donations to the Labor Party.
Thanks for posting, Top Ender.
Unless you’re paying close attention, Labor never forgets that our money is their money for the tribe to piss against the wall on whatever hare-brained schemes it wants to.
And so the Liars have stacked the Australian Research Council with Labor maaates as an up-yours to taxpayers.
Outrageous.
“Ground-breaking research” into Aboriginal ‘restorying techniques’ … to produce a NEW general Aboriginal history of WA
Who’se writing this history – Bruce Pascoe?
A politician interferes in the funding system of the Australian Research Council to stop politicians interfering in the process? Staggering, though at least his Coalition successor can then interfere to change it back. We are governed by morons.
I’d like to see the ARC defunded, its assets used to fill the Parliament with Vegemite and all the kids of Australia shipped in to eat it.
(Plagiarising Ron Saw from years ago, only he wanted the Opera House filled with strawberry jam.)
Oh, and heads on pikes too.
While they are lining up for taxpayer dollars Ministerial oversight (and veto) is never “interference”. Don’t like it? Get off the teat. Ditto the ALPBC.
It is outrageous to think that in a city the size of Dallas that voting machines would fail an initial validation test but that is exactly what happened. During the recent Logic & Accuracy Test, the Central Accumulator, the main tabulation computer that counts votes on election night, made serious tabulation errors for multiple Dallas County races.
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This a feature not a fault.
How else could you bypass the voters?
Today’s Tele:
Hamas and their mates are sooking for themselves
Tim Blair
8 Oct 2024 2024
There would have been no deaths in Gaza for protesters to protest were it not for the declaration of war that was Hamas’s October 7 blood and rape orgy, writes Tim Blair.
It takes a special kind of dumb arrogance to brutally victimise more than 1000 men, women and children – and then turn around and claim victimhood yourself.
Yet that’s what we’ve seen from Hamas ever since October 7. First they kill, and then they cry. And lie. Every casualty calculator in Gaza automatically adds two zeros.
Versions of this victimhood two-step have also been displayed lately during pro-Palestinian marches in Sydney, Melbourne and much else of the formerly civilised world.
Pals of Palestine arranged a sentimental ceremony in Sydney Monday night, on the first anniversary of October 7.
“We’re just planning a small candlelight vigil,” one organiser said, “to commemorate those that have been killed over the past year.”
Chronology always confounds these people. They seem incapable of placing events in any kind of causal sequence – unless they can plant an initial cause so far back in time that everybody’s great-great-great-great grandparents hadn’t even been born.
So they got together to mourn the deaths of those killed in Gaza, who wouldn’t have died if not for the declaration of war that was Hamas’s October 7 blood and rape orgy.
An enormous number of lives would also have been saved if Hamas released all the hostages captured on October 7.
Hamas is still holding many of them, and presumably expressing hurt feelings every time Israel tries to get them back. Similarly confused emotions were expressed here during a Sunday pro-Pally rally. “Free, free Palestine,” participants chanted. “1, 2, 3, 4. We don’t want your bloody war.”
But Hamas’s free-Palestine Stormtroopers obviously did want a bloody war. They started one, after all. And now they’re wailing because that war is being lost to a superior opponent. As usual.
Which brings us to the bright side of all this Middle Eastern apocalypse business. Hamas isn’t just losing. It’s copping the sort of losses that might just take it off the terror table.
“Hamas today is, without question, a badly diminished force,” the Washington Post delightfully reported on the weekend.
“The group has lost its top civilian leader along with dozens of military commanders and an estimated 15,000 fighters, according to regional intelligence officials. Cash and weapons stockpiles are dwindling; swathes of the Strip lie in ruins …
“Many of the group’s estimated 5700 tunnel shafts have been destroyed by Israeli bombs.”
A reminder, because too many people need one: Hamas kicked this off, and now they’re getting kicked. Don’t start none, won’t be none, as the saying goes.
The problem with Hamas is that is just never gets the message. The problem for Hezbollah, by hilarious contrast, is that they very much did get the message.
Further details have recently emerged about Israel’s Mossad counter-attacks against Hezbollah last month, firstly using explosive pagers. Not only were the devices loaded with terrorist-stopping boom juice, but they were ingeniously designed to be detonated by the terrorists themselves.
“Thousands of Hezbollah operatives got a message telling them they had received an encrypted message that required pressing two buttons – effectively forcing them to use both hands, and to be injured in both hands when the blasts occurred as they pushed the buttons,” The Times of Israel reported.
An Israeli official pointed out, a touch redundantly, that targeted individuals who suffered injuries to both hands would be rendered “incapable to fight”.
Or much else, one imagines.
Hamas and Hezbollah are diminished on the battleground, but maintain armies of reservists in Western universities and media.
Canada-based academic Dr Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui last week revealed possibly more than she intended about the strategies of Islamic advancement under Western cover.
“You know what the colonisers didn’t count on?” Dr Sabreena, the daughter of Pakistani parents, wrote online. “Those of us born and raised in the West, in the mothership of the colony, turning on them.
“They thought we’d be forever indebted to them for their benevolence in how they imprison us. They thought they could colonise our minds like they colonised our lands.
“They didn’t know we’d take their gab and garb and use them as tools … They didn’t know their empire would eventually end by implosion.”
Just quietly, it looks like our Canadian correspondent is some kind of coloniser herself. And on multiple levels. According to an Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Dr Sabreena is “currently directing one of Canada’s largest government-funded Equity Diversity and Inclusion initiatives”.
Hands up if you’d prefer to live in a world free of such horrors. And my sincere apologies for triggering any handless Hezbollah readers.
Too many good bloody points to highlight.
Tim’s point goes along with Douglas Murray’s point:
But Hamas’s free-Palestine Stormtroopers obviously did want a bloody war. They started one, after all. And now they’re wailing because that war is being lost to a superior opponent. As usual.
Douglas Murray:
“There is no law of war that says you’re allowed to start
a war and then complain when you lose it.”
Linky:
“Tell that to your Hamas Friends” Douglas Murray Digitally DESTROYS Medhi Hassan live
It’s amazing what they can build when they put their minds to it yet they want the rest of the world and the UN to build their schools and hospitals. Now that we know they have the skills they can get on with rebuilding Gaza on their own.
Dr Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui and her ilk in Western Sydney need to start having “accidents”.
Peter Dutton received a roaring reception as he addressed a 12,000-strong crowd at an October 7 vigil, but the reaction to Anthony Albanese’s appearance could not have been any more different
Daily Mail
The same publication wraps up the article with this:
There is no mentioning that this figure is contested and includes murderers, rapists, child-killers, and mercenaries.
So yeah but nah, but nah.
Anyone noticed that Ch 9 seemed to have moved away from any support for Dutton and/or conservative political positions? Karl Stefonovic, who has been a supporter of Right politic positions in the past, has been markedly quiet on the political front these days.
The Fairfax parasite has finally overpowered the host.
Hamas and Hezbollah are diminished on the battleground, but maintain armies of reservists in Western universities and media.
A keeper, and off to the pool room.
My daughter sent me a message last night – over 12,000 attendees at the memorial.
This one’s for BoN, in appreciation, for years of delightful whimsy from the Cafe de Bruce …
link
Thanks LB2, marvellous photos! I confess I’ll never be much of a photographer myself though.
The very first pic looks like a Penguin Raygun. 😀
The third picture in the sequence, of a penguin in the surf pipeline reminded me a little of a penguin doing the same many years ago in the surf of NSW Port Stephens. I didn’t know there were penguins that far north though it could also have been a seal, they look similar in the water.
The older I get the more I love and appreciate birds.
Thanks, Bruce.
I always liked birds, even though their silly chitter chatter and liberation stupidity can be very annoying.
Obviously, given Labor’s cynical political gameplay (and abject abandonment of leadership) over the Hamas atrocities, it would be natural and quite proper to enjoy the public failure of their ‘clever, politics.
However, I see this as a fairly significant and sinister watershed moment. For the first time in my direct experience, I’m seeing Islam (assisted by useful fellow travelling idiots) move out of ‘guest mode’ and starting to take explicit control of the national agenda.
This will not easily fit back in the box of ‘Australia the tolerant secular nation’.
Labor’s legacy.
Fraser’s legacy too.
We are a step behind GB.
Already have the 2 tier policing.
Now for the censorship laws.
Someone mention Labor’s cynical political gameplay…?
PM to pressure Greens, crossbench on housing (Paywallian)
Labor’s migration target to be overshot by 100,000 (also Paywallian)
Funny how this always seems to happen whenever Labor gets in. It’s a mystery.
Turnbull and ScoMo started the ball rolling and gave Labor a high number to build on.
It suddenly occurred to me.
We had an Empire, and we were ruled by a Emperor.
Then we were a Kingdom and were ruled by a King.
Now we’re a country…
This is from Tim Blair’s article.
Dr Sabreena is not well read or she would know what happened to Germans in east European countries at the end of WWII. They were all deported to Germany even if they were in those countries for centuries. The mothership Dr Sabreena states has been colonised by her type of colonisers can also be repurposed to take them back home.
She is assuming that the west will take it forever yet all she has to look at is how Eisenhower deported over a million Mexicans as recently as the 50s for evidence to the contrary.
Deportations are in the air. Trump has a great ad showing Kamala wittering on about can you imagine what a mass deportation can look like – and Trump does a voice over to it saying I am Donald Trump and I approve this message. If you don’t make yourself welcome in a country by assimilating, or if you march in without invitation, then you can be returned to where you came from.
Bumped into a neighbour this morning whilst bringing in the bins.Both of us bundled up in warm clothing. I commented how cold it was and she immediately pulled out her phone and proclaimed the temperature here was 2.5 deg. She went on to tell me that since she had her new phone she had more accurate temperature readings! I wonder how many others think their phone actually records temperatures?
haha mem, that’s funny!
She will jave location turned on which gives a better temperature reading.
Hi everyone, last night this Jew attended the rally at Vaucluse along with 12,000 other Australian Jews. I am quite emotional about it, even this morning.
When Peter Dutton arrived, before the official proceedings began, the crowd roared and many many people, myself included, stood up to cheer him.
Businessman Steven Lowy, son of Frank, and not someone who’s prone to hyperbole, began his calm and measured speech by saying that there were around 12,000 people in attendance before him. How we roared
Lowy, not someone for political grandstanding, thanked both Chris Minns and Peter Dutton for their unswerving and steadfast support for Australian Jews. Despite Mark Butler being in attendance, Lowy did not thank him nor did he mention federal Labor, the grub from Grayndler or Penny Pong. Telling, very telling.
Whilst Minns was roundly cheered, whilst Dutton was given a hero’s welcome, Labor MP Mark Butler was treated respectfully but very coolly, and he would have known it.
By the way, the whore of Wentworth was absent, or if she was there, she was not invited to speak. Telling. That whore signed a letter requesting more Australian taxpayer financial support for JEW KILLERS.
For Pogs and other canine lovers, you’ll be glad to know that many Zionist dogs were also in attendance!
Further to rancid Labor and a window into the left’s domination of everything, I read this vomit in today’s Oz
A prominent Sydney charity leader and a self-described “amazing mate” of Governor-General Sam Mostyn leads Sydney’s pro-Palestine beating a “f..k Israel” drum at the head of the weekly march.
The Australian can reveal that Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore has led 50 of the 53 Sydney rallies as they march through the CBD, and was also charged earlier this year after allegedly attacking police officers during another pro-Palestine rally.
Pictured again leading Sunday’s 10,000-person pro-Palestine march in the Sydney CBD, Ms Moore is one of the socialist left’s most vocal anti-Israel activists, even flying to Melbourne last month to take part in the Land Forces expo rally, and was a mainstay at Anthony Albanese’s electorate office picket and also hurled abuse at Labor Inner West councillors in August.
A prolific Instagram figure, Ms Moore has also shared pictures of a cartoon viper snake, coloured in the Star of David flag, strangling the globe.
Wow, the last paragraph is a classic Goebbelian anti-Semitic stereotype, straight out of Der Sturmer. Our new GG has chummed around with such Jew hating garbage. Now, just imagine for one sweet second, if a Liberal GG appointee was found to have had a past association with someone of the far-right who’d engaged in similar anti-Jewish activities? Oh wait Cassie of Sydney, don’t you know, there’s one rule for those on the right and no rules for anyone on the left. The hypocrisy is eternal, the double standards nauseating. But I think the above tells us a lot about activist GG ‘Samantha Mostyn’, grubby and ugly progressive she is.
To end last night’s wonderful rally, we Jews never miss an opportunity to have a laugh. The security last night had been massive, the rally ended just after 9.30 p.m. and everyone, dogs included, wanted to get home because it was school night. Several entrances had barricades to funnel us out through one entrance so there was a bottleneck. As we were crammed trying to leave, one big burly Jewish male said….WTF and he then proceeded to pull down some barricades so we could stream through and spill out down to New South Head Road. I heard one voice call out….
Nahshon!
We all laughed!
That’s how we left Egypt. Thanks to Nahshon the Israelite. When we reached the Red Sea it didn’t part automatically. The Israelites stood at the banks of the sea and cried out in despair, but Nahshon entered the waters. Once Nahshon was up to his nose in the water, the sea parted and we streamed through.
Remember this, there is good and there is evil. We know who is good and we know who is evil. We Jews will prevail, Israel will prevail because good will always triumph over evil.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Sharri is reporting from Israel this week.
Watched her report last night. Her interview with the hostage was powerful.
There are people imprisoned in holes in the ground. They’ve been there for a year. Brutalised, starved, tortured.
And I’m supposed to feel sorry for their captors? I don’t think so.
What a fantastic culture that can share a joke about Nahshon the Brave
coming down the ages from well before Christ to today.
Thanks for that wonderful report, Cassie.
Wow Mostyn even worse that I thought. What is it with the slaggy scrag look? Another Canbra mediocre abomination.
Isn’t the “whore for Wentworth” actually Jewish herself?
No.
A reminder of how the death cult changed the narrative from Hamas rocks! to Apache helicopters and Hannibal directives when their own videos of them massacring, raping and mutilating started getting wider circulation.
https://x.com/just_whatever/status/1843248927933686232?t=Ny557RVmiSbBax0qkLjKNg&s=19
How nice. Assisting Hezboll officials who can no longer point?
“See what I can do?
I can point at things.
Something an awful lot of Hezzies can’t do any more.”
>doublesnork<
Meanwhile in the USA Florida is looking at a Cat 5 hurricane bearing down with five million people in its path.
Things did not go well in the White House when discussion of the present weather damage issue came up:
Karine Jean-Pierre stormed out of a White House press briefing after a fiery exchange with Fox News’ Peter Doocy over funding for Hurricane Helene victims and misinformation about the government’s response.
The duo have butted heads in previous press briefings but Monday’s showdown was their most intense to date. The two rapidly exchanged back and forths, talking over each other at various points and arguing about what the other said.
It ended when Jean-Pierre, wearing an oversized blazer with a bright purple blouse, slammed her briefing binder shut and left the podium, ending the briefing after 49 minutes of questions.
Daily Mail
It’s hurricane season. They expect it and De Santis is ready for this one.
Every Republican leader shoud slam down hard on those blaming natural hurricanes, which haven’t so far increased in number and intensity, on some mythical ‘climate change’. Do not let them get away with that so close to this election. People vote on these sorts of emotional things.
From Tucker Carlson’s morning roundup:
“NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Says Male Voters Support Trump Because They Hate Women”
On the contrary, a lot of women can’t handle the fact that we love them so much.
Mitchell should be in a geriatric hospital with Pelosi
Yes, because name-calling is outrageous, but largely non-Caucasian girls who are denied an education, have part of their genitalia removed without consent, are referred to legally as a man’s property, are married barely out of puberty, and can be murdered by their own family if a perceived slight occurs, is all completely fine. Nothing to see there.
I believe that the latest selective, elite, ‘feminist’ wave is the most primal form of misogyny that exists.
A song by Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler
Neighbourhood bully
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man,
His enemies say he’s on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive.
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin,
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He’s always on trial for just being born.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
‘Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
A song about Jews, a song about Israel.
Giving curry in Kiwiland.
Clash between pro-Palestine protesters and New Zealand’s Destiny Church unfolds in Auckland (7 Oct)
Hopefully they won’t be persecuted like the Assyrians were.
They will be. Thou shalt not challenge the leftard “narrative”.
Over the weekend talking to a guy who works for the largest multinational in their category. The scale is amazing. Nett profit is less than an average of $2 per item. A price sensitive market where the limit is less than $50. They are sensitive to anything that affects advertising and bottom line. Someone made a complaint about the advertising of a certain product, no arguing, the advertising was pulled. The complaint was rediculous, made by a woke karen. DEI came along, no problem, no pushback. Everyone treated exactly the same, stuff up badly, you’re down the road. The management believe the staff are their best asset. One of the managers was sacked recently to be replaced by someone off the production floor. The same rules apply to the boss to the spill cleaner. No one is special. This blokes boss told him he’s got his back but always put our verbal discussions in emails in case he forgets and things go wrong.
Iran tested a nuke, well done Obama you piece of sh!t
We’re hearing a fair bit of this, is it true and do you have links/evidence?
Greenies caught damaging other political advertising in Canbra.
RNC Sues Fulton County Elections Director for Refusing to Hire Republican Poll Workers — Only 15 Republicans Hired Out of More than 800 Election Staff
She could teach master classes in lying and stonewalling.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre promoted to senior adviser: Exclusive
A bot advising a zombie.
I get the impulse to lick her face every time I see her.
Her skin has the colour of a choctop.
All we need is hundreds and thousands of hundreds and thousands to finish it.
On another subject…the artwork. Lots of symbolism, reminds me of Ecclesiastes 1.
And, if you look closely, it’s a sneaky self-portrait.
Don’t quite know what being a lesbian has got to do with it, but there it is. A DEI appointment?
New Zealand’s Lesbian Navy Captain Loses $100M Naval Ship in Peacetime Disaster – Ship Runs Aground, Catches Fire, and Sinks, Unleashing Oil Spill off Samoa Coast
So in NZ, homosexuality is now a prerequisite for a navy career if you’re female.
Australia take note: NZ already bludges off us for its defence. Now it’s taking the piss.
Clean this s**t out, Christopher Luxon, or you will be seen across the ditch as a joke of a nation and a candidate to become an Australian state for your own protection.
An inability to handle a long vessel full of seamen?
As Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Bronwyn Bishop declined a trip to sea on a submarine.
She is said to have refused so that the media could not have the headline “Bishop goes down on cylinder full of seamen”.
Can’t control the joystick.
If they talk about it, they’ve got nothing else to talk about.
The wonderful Bee.
Democrats Cruelly Make Fun Of Autistic African-American Jumping For Joy
Good on him.
Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris’ call on Hurricane Helene
Douglas Murray: A Time of War
Why JD Vance might be Reagan’s real Republican heir
The Left continue to view Vance through their distorted ideological spectacles, and it will be their unforced error in the ping pong match of American politics.
This article says everything that I thought about the debate.
Vance entered the debate as a support act but came out as a true leader.
It was a turning point in America’s political future.
If Vance can sustain this till 2028.
@DC_Draino
Milton is now a Cat 5 and still heading for Florida.
Are hurricanes intensifying more rapidly than ever before?
Theory of Relativity, Part II
No. If anything they’re weakening. But as Joe Bastardi warned last week the sea surface temperature in the Gulf has been a lot higher than usual. Conversely the SST in the mid to north Atlantic has been very cold.
I can dig up links if necessary.
Follow up to Arky’s post on the proper role of women, nice little article in German (Brave gives an English version) on a couple who got their start in 1955 manufacturing fiberglass blades for wind turbines. The turbine business didn’t last long but the wind turbine mob were next door to a group building the first fiberglass sailplane (I’ve seen it in the museum on the Wasserkuppe) and the couple were glider pilots. The rest is history.
The lady, Ursula, remains the only designer and series manufacturer of sailplanes ever. As fate would have it, one of hers was my first sailplane. Well worth reading. Note the name of the sailplane is Libelle in German. This is translated as dragonfly in the English translation but nobody calls it anything other than Libelle.
https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/eugen-haenle—der-vergessene-windkraft-pionier-35117760.html
Now name another lady designer of a sailplane.
Are there any?
Or just the one who got into it because of her husband?
The Kiwi ship is labelled as a survey vessel, so looking out for large submerged thingies is part of the job.
It certainly looks like they found at least one.
Channeling Captain Smith, “what rock”.
I worked on her predecessor Monowai when she was in dry dock on more than one occasion.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/105172739526717/
I see no ship!
That’s funny, there was one there a minute ago…
Didn’t they tell her that she is supposed to use instruments for the task, not keep sailing until she hears a crunching sound.
‘Amazing mate’ of Governor-General Sam Mostyn rants and ragesAlexi Demetriadi
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A prominent Sydney charity leader and a self-described “amazing mate” of Governor-General Sam Mostyn leads Sydney’s pro-Palestine rallies beating a “f..k Israel” drum at the head of the weekly march.
The Australian can reveal that Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore has led 50 of the 53 Sydney rallies as they march through the CBD, and was also charged earlier this year after allegedly attacking police officers during another pro-Palestine rally.
Pictured again leading Sunday’s 10,000-person pro-Palestine march in the Sydney CBD, Ms Moore is one of the socialist left’s most vocal anti-Israel activists, even flying to Melbourne last month to take part in the Land Forces expo rally, and was a mainstay at Anthony Albanese’s electorate office picket and also hurled abuse at Labor Inner West councillors in August.
A prolific Instagram figure, Ms Moore has also shared pictures of a cartoon viper snake, coloured in the Star of David flag, strangling the globe.
She describes the Governor-General as an “amazing friend”, understood to be from the pair’s association with Marrickville’s Addison Road Community Centre and charity work, frequently posting pictures on Instagram with, or of, Ms Mostyn – more than 12 in number.
Upon her securing the role of mental-health organisation Beyond Blue chair last year, Ms Moore congratulated Ms Mostyn – with the caption “love you Sam” on Instagram – and applauded her for appearing on the ABC, calling her one of her “favourite people” and that she felt lucky to have Ms Mostyn in her life.
“Watching our amazing friend @sammostyn on the Drum tonight,” Ms Moore wrote.
A spokesman for Ms Mostyn said the Governor-General did not condone Ms Moore’s actions.
He said: “The Governor-General volunteered alongside Ms Moore during Covid, packing food boxes and assisting with mental health organisations.
“She has not spoken to Ms Moore since well before taking office and has never discussed Ms Moore’s protest activity with her.”
It is also understood the description of “amazing friend” is an overstatement, and that Addison Road Community Centre allows people of all backgrounds to connect and help one another.
Moore sounds like a flea looking for a dog.
A good example of the Palli fellow travellers.
Mostyn is one of Albo’s cuckoo’s eggs. Will she be able to stay quiet?
Interesting how the left are always allowed to ‘distance’ themselves from unsavoury chums but the right are not.
A free pass for me but not for you!
Just ask Moira Deeming … !
Not looking good.
We’ll see what the Dems do about it, seeing that Florida is a red state now.
Thankfully, a very rich state with Ron De Santis in charge.
Question:
Of course it is. Think of all those martyrs, joyously lining up at the Paradise Gates. The Mullahs BELIEVE they are saving souls by killing their hosts.
Looked it up and read as much as I could.
I obviously am not well equipped mentally to get the meaning of it.
Why live, being/staying alive at all? What’s the point?
Just to worship a maybe existing God?
“Ecclesiastes 1:2–3 Teaches Us Life is Vain Apart from God”
I and many others can still do good humane things despite not being a believer.
‘Ecclesiastes Chapter 1’ reflects on life’s futility and cycles, questioning the value of wisdom and toil in a world where “all is vanity.”
Sorry no offense meant to those religiously inclined.
PS, on second thought, I should not post this, but since I spent precious time reading about it, I will. Condemn me if you will.
I don’t condemn you and I doubt if others will. We all think about these things and find our meaning in living life as best and being as good as we can. There is much in the bible about faith, grace and hope as well as the futility found in Ecclesiastes, which I regard as a sort of test of wrongthink. I am an agostic who simply doesn’t know and hasn’t felt any certainty of faith.
Though I have certainty about the value of human life and thought.
So it is all very mysterious.
Interesting parallels between Solomon and Chandragupta Mauya. Both were enormously blessed with wisdom, riches, power, conquests and certainly in the case of Solomon: wives (although that was definitely a mixed blessing…).
Both figured out that material things were overrated. Mr Maurya lived before the time of Christ so he had no way to hear that salvation message, so he turned to Jainism.
I remember years ago pulling out the Gideon in a hotel room and reading Jude. It was complete crazy-talk.
Now I find it completely different, having read the whole thing and studied what it means.
Ecclesiastes is awesome. You realise that the writer about 3000 years ago was in the similar human condition to us; faced with observable reality, seeing things without the certainties that received social platitudes offer, and finding God does not prove himself with audible speech and miracles on demand.
The sting in the tail of Ecclesiastes is (obviously) at the end of the book:-
Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.
A life ignoring God is meaningless ultimately.
Eyrie
October 8, 2024 9:11 am
Actually there was at least one lady who started a record label or recording company, which she sold to a major only to start a new one later.
Can’t be arsed looking it up now, it was in my news feed a couple of days ago but not being too much interested in pop music, I let it go.
Some more here.
Some more what?
Women who no one has heard of because compared to the men in their business they have achieved so little?
Spare me.
If she had been really successful, she’d be a household name and you wouldn’t have to look her up.
You know I’m right.
As with most books, to get the author’s point you have to read to the end.
We are up to Ch 18 of Revelation in our home group.
BANGER ending for the Good Book.
I don’t know about reading to the end being necessary. Mark 11:22 springs to mind as a TL;DR.
Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore
Viv claims to be the founder of Welfare Alliance, but I cannot find anything at all online about it.
Does it exist?
Is it like so many institutes and such, that have one member only?
Why do we give so much time and attention to the people who are clearly having mental health issues, it doesn’t help them in fact, it probably puts them in an endless loop.
The ABC is very fond of quoting self-styled institutes operating from someone’s garden shed – as long, of course, as they are suitably left-wing.
Hurricane Milton. Already at 917mb, on Dvorak scale that’s a Cat 5 monster.
US fly Herc’s & PC3’s into these things so would have a much better idea of her than the BOM does with out storms.
Problems she is about to encounter, vertical wind shear and lots of it. Her convergence-divergence-vorticity are already dislocated from the low level centre of circulation which fits as she’s moving into an area of moderate wind shear. as she closes on the Florida coast that environment becomes high wind shear. She still will be a Cat 3 though enough to damage some structures.
Problem is even though she will be weakened it will carry a punch with convection, bit like Cyclone Jasper in January. Going to be a lot of flooding. Also dry air that could alleviate the convection is keeping well north on the US continent.
Can see why the White House Spokeswoman is a bit flustered. FEMA is already under fire and DeSantis won’t take their s%$# in his state.
Couple that a month out from polling day for POTUS and the goings on in the middle east if Israel chooses to do what it should.
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Burke to review pro-Palestine speaker’s visa
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is considering cancelling the visa of a US-based academic who attended Monday’s Hizb ut-Tahrir-associated rally in Sydney’s southwest and said the October 7 terrorist attacks were, in some ways, a day of “celebration” and “growth” for Palestinian people.
Monday was the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks.
“Today is not a day that is full of mourning, today is a day that marks celebration,” Khaled Beydoun said, adding that Yemen Houthi rebels went “one better” than simply implementing Boycott, Divest, Sanction policies by attacking ships in the Red Sea.
Mr Burke said that “as soon as I heard about these comments I asked my department to conduct a visa check”.
More ?
Prediction:
By the time Burke comes to make a decision based on his department’s advice the fellow will have departed our shores untroubled by the authorities.
Go on, Tony Burke…prove me wrong.
Maybe Sylvester is cracking the sh1ts because the muzzies are ganging up on him in his electorate? He’s never had any cohones before – why else is he starting now?
Something else the Albanese of the North, Manu Micron, said last week, as he tries to recapture his mojo in the face of the threat of impeachment:
The EU risks “death” if it doesn’t invest in its future.
Among his proposed solutions is more debt and higher taxation to fund investment in artificial intelligence, quantum information, space, biotechnologies and new energies.
Oh…and decarbonisation.
I suggest they start writing the obituary now.
Bruce of Newcastle
October 8, 2024 9:48 am
Reply to KevinM
Interesting parallels between Solomon and Chandragupta Mauya. Both were enormously blessed with wisdom, riches, power, conquests and certainly in the case of Solomon: wives (although that was definitely a mixed blessing…).
Nothing has changed since.
All the rich are saying the same today.
Still flying their Gaia destroying planes and living a life of luxury.
Funnily, the poor covet those but can’t get them.
As to the many wives, I wish I had one more like my dearly beloved, I could retire.
On the other hand I’d probably be extinct or work twice as hard if they’d gang up on me, so best leave that thought alone.
She is the best of the best
I got one of those too.
Worth everything.
Me too.
Ecclesiastes 1?
Condensed version – Life is short, don’t waste it on rubbish.
As for the other question, the Westminster Confession is a good place to start.
Man’s.
Nice coverage of the Hera space mission on SpaceX’s website. The mission launched in the early hours.
Dinosaurs didn’t have a space agency
(You’ll have to watch it to see where that tag comes from… 😀 )
Why do I only ever see a black screen, BoN when I hit play. And there doesn’t seem to be a replay link.
Oops, sorry Winston. It works for me. They also post it on the SpaceX twitter feed, that might play better.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1843298058693390642
What I find extraordinary about Albo, Pong, all of Labor and the Greens MPs is how they all pretend to be humanitarians and care about the people in war zones. They caterwaul about Palestinians yet not a word about Israelis still held hostage by those Palestinians.
If these people were the real deal every time they demanded a ceasefire they would have demanded the release of all hostages still being held in Gaza.
But this is not about being humanitarian, this is about choosing sides and being anti-semites, hoping that their voters are too stupid to notice.
One more thing, every Labor and Green MP who does not demand the release of hostages is an anti-Semite and everyone who votes for them is the same. No more excuses that they didn’t know.
Pope Francis’ Latest Cardinal Picks
Prior to Sunday’s announcement, some observers noted that the College of Cardinals lacked any representatives from either the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — a notable omission, given the ongoing war in Ukraine — or the Church in Australia, which hasn’t had a cardinal since Cardinal George Pell’s death in January 2023.
While Bishop Bychok is likely a fine leader, his selection may be perceived by some Australian and Ukrainian Greek Catholics as less than ideal, because it signals that neither Archbishop Shevchuk nor Archbishop Fisher will be likely to get a red hat any time soon.
Read on twitter that Hamas admits that 80% of Gazan casualties are Hamas and their families.
They wouldn’t spend so much time creating Gazawood videos with dolls otherwise.
Kaplan has an interesting bio. Aside from being behind Leiden Collection, member of the CFR, UANI, and the like. In other words, well-connected to the Blob. Interestingly, also a promoter of Kurdish independence. Hmm.
Now now, dover…you’re too smart to fall into the genetic fallacy trap.
It’s some funny shit reading through this morning’s crop of idiots trying to justify women in the workplace by finding ever more obscure wymmins who actually did create something. (Usually at the behest or inspiration from their husband)
I especially like the one who said “I can’t remember her name but I could look it up”!
No one was stopping you women. You could create whatever you wanted, throughout history.
How many fat arsed women sat about their stately homes with all the leisure time in the world and created nothing more than some stupid romance novels or a movement to force their way into places they were neither wanted nor required?
Nothing was stopping women from producing and creating.
No one but your own nature, which is to follow and obey man, as man must follow and obey God.
This is the natural order and those societies which break that order must suffer and fail.
And none of this is my judgement on your personal circumstances within a society that is in the process of suffering and failing.
Indeed, one must cope with the circumstances however one can.
Sweet, Arky.
You do you.
You working at the moment?
Canada-based academic Dr Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui last week revealed possibly more than she intended about the strategies of Islamic advancement under Western cover.
“You know what the colonisers didn’t count on?” Dr Sabreena, the daughter of Pakistani parents, wrote online. “Those of us born and raised in the West, in the mothership of the colony, turning on them.
“They thought we’d be forever indebted to them for their benevolence in how they imprison us. They thought they could colonise our minds like they colonised our lands.
“They didn’t know we’d take their gab and garb and use them as tools … They didn’t know their empire would eventually end by implosion.”
As I say islam is not here to assimilate but to destroy and replace. It’s bemusing: the muzzies are completely open about their intentions but our leaders, especially the leftoids, the liars and the filth, ignore what the muzzies plainly are doing and pretend they will be good little citizens. Either the liars and filth are doing it, importing the goat fukers, to destroy the West and think when that happens they will still be in control of the goat fukers, or they are doing it hoping they will be eaten last.
Sabreena:
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui (@drsabreena_gs) • Instagram photos and videos
Just imagine how long this arrogant kunt would last in pakistan,
She openly admits that the aim of Muslims is settling and colonising, the very things she accuses others of doing.
We don’t need to imagine. We already know.
And in the search page, there were 13 other links bragging about how well off these women were.
The Media is complicit in their subjugation and abuse.
Also interesting that none of the “right of centre” women have responded by conceding that in any way has feminism gone too far.
Only that the sexist has hurt their feelings.
Which is as I stated it would be.
Which was my original premise: It isn’t just the women on the left who are the problem.
Bullshit.
Actually I take it back. I thought you were attacking women generally but your have evolved to taunting kittehs.
Arky you can be awesome; but I think you need to get out more and see the good.
Still no admission of the evils of feminism?
How are you any different to the left females?
Was the HMNZS Manawanui a victim of woke?
There’s a fair bit of alphabet involved.
https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/yorkshire-woman-takes-command-of-royal-new-zealand-navy-ship/
No serious commander of a ship or aircraft would put on a smile like that.
The ladies do good stuff, thinking as I am of Marie Curie. This lady seems to be doing good stuff too.
‘Golden handcuffs’: Young electrician reveals insane yearly salary (News.com.au, 7 Oct)
Good on her. Being a sparkie is a pretty good trade for a lady, less demanding than fitting and turning or (gulp) bricklaying. We need more electricians.
I don’t know Bruce, some of the spaces electricians have to work in aren’t the cleanest of most comfortable.
I wonder how many electrical firms will ask the girl electricians to rewire the cramped, rat shit and loose insulation filled attic on a hot summer day?
Working in the Qld mining sector will get you all of that. She seems to be able to hack it.
My first mining jerb was in uni hols. At a copper roaster in NT. Seriously hot. Two of my colleagues on our crew were ladies and two were guys (including me). This was in 1980. They can do it, but there’s a difference between can and willing.
All of them, Arky.
There’s a streak of fair play in most companies at the job allocation level in Australia.
Once Upon A Time in WA, I went to a nursing conference in ?Halls Crik. There were 4 of us, and I got elected to drive.
Not a problem. I don’t mind driving.
We got to a 100meter bridge that had about a foot of water running over the middle. There were a couple of sedans that weren’t going to try it, but we’d passed several 4WD vehicles that had obviously made it.
Pretty young thing in left front seat suggested she’d drive while I waded ahead making sure the road was OK and no potholes.
“No” said the Winston. “Passenger in front seat pays for the privilege of extra leg room by opening and closing gates, and walking the road when required.”
Much pouting eventuated, but soon stopped when I turned the engine off and stated we weren’t moving until the water went down.
As she waded through the water, there was much subdued giggling from the back. PYT had obviously not made much headway in the popularity stakes with her more ‘seasoned’ mates, I fear.
Mate employed female sparky. More a problem creator than problem solver. She got back to the workshop in time to knock off without fixing the job. He gave her a verbal warning, wrote it up and got her to sign it. He went out to the job, 15 minutes to fix it, she’d been there for 2 hours. Never charged the client. Next morning asked her about the job. She gave him a rundown of what was wrong. She didn’t know he’d fixed it. Gave her a written warning. Too much for her, she pulled the pin. My wife is a problem solver but don’t let her hands anywhere near a problem. It’ll only get get worse or broken. It is only in the past few months she has realised this and refrains from fiddling if something doesn’t work. I think this is a basic difference between men an women. My daughter is much more like me and can do anything with the smarts of her mother.
In an addition to our farmhouse a few years ago we had the best tilers we have ever seen. One of the lead tilers was a young lass who was dedicated to her craft and an indefatigable worker. The boss was retiring soon, and remarked that he would probably sell the business to her as she was the best and most conscientious worker he had ever had. And had topped her class at TAFE. It is a damn hard trade, so I don’t know how long she would last physically. But then she was so smart, she would probably cut back slowly and take over admin.
LoL
How many fat arsed women sat about their stately homes with all the leisure time in the world and created nothing more than some stupid romance novels
Now, now, that’s no way to talk about our Jane. And she didn’t have a fat arse.
I wouldn’t reject it because of its origins but on its substance. It’s clearly tendentious.
Sky daytime kiddies at it again, have Bilal Nassour on, just got a free trip back to Oz courtesy of you and I.
Why couldn’t this POS afford his own flights? Looks like he’s not short of coin writing for quite a few publications both English & Arabic:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=bilal+nassour
I notice he has set all his social media to private too, guess the above is an inconvenient fact… Too bad it’s all over google.
I note this is the second time in as many weeks they have put someone on camera with questionable background.
Arky
October 8, 2024 10:41 am
I resemble that, can’t you find some other epithet more demeaning?
Look, many women have done great things and achieved more than their fair share, despite the restrictions placed upon them in the past.
I totally agree with you regarding the current situation, bugger all I can do about it but.
There are lot of silly women and same for dickhead men, what of it?
Bullshit.
Name five battles won by female generals.
Now you are being silly.
It was hardly possible for a female even as short a time ago as WWII to become a war leader.
But many were defending, successfully, medieval forts in the absence of their husbands.
Boudica would be one leader I can quickly think of but I think she screwed it up.
BTW, what’s with this line of thinking about women and their role in society? Any problems with the missus?
So, you can’t name any successful female general, your words “despite the restrictions placed upon them”.
So we can agree that you were wrong, that women did not overcome their restrictions.
Who was putting those restrictions on them?
I suppose you would say “men”.
So when men want to restrict women, they can?
So women are weaker or in some way less able than men? Yes?
We must either come to the conclusion:
Which do you choose?
Bit of both. There have been women who could out compete most men, but very few of them. You can add Zenobia and Joan of Arc to BoN’s list. It’s a generalisation, but women mostly are not leaders, they are mostly followers and supporters. But I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell Margaret Thatcher that she wasn’t a natural leader. It’s just very, very rare for a woman to want to be one, and much rarer again for one to be any good at it.
Liz 1, Catherine, Marg Thatcher and Elizabeth of Russia did pretty good against the Spanish, the Muzzos, the Argies and the Prussians. Well over five if I dig down into individual battles.
Meaning Francis killed two birds with one stone?
Or Australia remains without a cardinal?
Was the HMNZS Manawanui a victim of woke?
Possibly, since so many people who have been in the NZ Navy for years were all overlooked by a recent blow-in from the UK for the position.
Was she one of Adern’s people?
Yes for her appointment, her poaching from UK under John Key’s tenure.
Again from what I’ve been told, Australia and NZ seem to addicted to poaching UK laterals at the end of their UK careers though.
Mate tells me it has caused some resentment as they leap frog our boys and they are a mixed bunch. Lets just say the best of the UK army move or have already moved higher at their 21 years and we aren’t poaching the best…
Just look at the Australian Rail industry – it’s the same. Washed up Poms who hit their career ceiling due to Parkinson’s Law. Come over here and cause rank havoc.
Ancient Cats will recall the insanity of bringing in used pommie officers during the Vietnam War.
Their purpose was exclusively to gain a second pension. They were allowed to hang around by dinosaur senior officers who believed that a plummy accent and being a good member of the mess denoted competence.
They were universally despised by young officers.
And what isn’t in inter-national affairs?
Even neutrality is a stance vis a vis others.
That being said, his thesis that the mullahs have gravely miscalculated is hardly controversial.
Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore
Viv claims to be the founder of Welfare Alliance, but I cannot find anything at all online about it.
Does it exist?
Is it like so many institutes and such, that have one member only?
Why do we give so much time and attention to the people who are clearly having mental health issues, it doesn’t help them in fact, it probably puts them in an endless loop.
I’ll just preface this by saying that over the last decade and a bit many people on the right, both men and women, have been silenced, cancelled, doxed, lost their jobs, had their lives ruined and so on for far less offensive opinions and activities than the likes of Ms Vivienne Moore. In fact, many on the right have had their lives destroyed because they might have once shared a stage or platform with someone ‘unsavoury‘. So why does our new GG, the far-left progressive activist and best mate of the grub from Grayndler, get a free pass?
Do I believe Ms Vivienne Moore has any mental health issues? Fortunately I don’t know ‘Vivienne’ personally but here’s what I think, I do not think she suffers from mental health issues and if she does it is only because of her rancid far-left progressive woke ideology. That would be enough to make anyone mentally ill.
I note Ms Moore has been very busy over the last year participating in weekly Jew hating festivals in Sydney’s CBD. Let’s just reread what the Oz piece says about her…
The Australian can reveal that Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore has led 50 of the 53 Sydney rallies as they march through the CBD, and was also charged earlier this year after allegedly attacking police officers during another pro-Palestine rally.
Pictured again leading Sunday’s 10,000-person pro-Palestine march in the Sydney CBD, Ms Moore is one of the socialist left’s most vocal anti-Israel activists, even flying to Melbourne last month to take part in the Land Forces expo rally, and was a mainstay at Anthony Albanese’s electorate office picket and also hurled abuse at Labor Inner West councillors in August.
A prolific Instagram figure, Ms Moore has also shared pictures of a cartoon viper snake, coloured in the Star of David flag, strangling the globe.
Boy, the last paragraph is particularly nauseating, ‘Vivienne’ has engaged in spreading Goebbels like memes on social media.
You see, I’d like to hear her ‘amazing mate’ aka GG Samantha Mostyn roundly condemn the ghastly Jew hating opinions and activities of ‘Vivienne’. And until Mostyn does, I’ll put her in the same category as her mate. Because you see, after years of watching people being smeared, silenced and cancelled for far more innocuous associations, I reckon the very woke Ms Mostyn should explain herself. Call me a tad old-fashioned but I do rather like that old adage, ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander‘.
Spender on with Kieran on Sky right now doing a big snowstorm.
Just had a look at Moore’s Insta. Looks like a cosplaying old dyke to me. Could be wrong with that last, but she does like to be photographed with the young and pretty ones. It’s a bit of a tell.
Clover in that studded dog collar and close-cropped hair always had me wondering.
Well, well, well.
It seems we have stumbled into a contentious and confused arena.
I must go out and complete the dolly wheels I am fabricating, and will be unable to respond for a bit, but I’ll leave with this.
You can’t name five successful female generals, because there weren’t any.
You can’t name a female Henry Ford, or a female Thomas Edison, because such doesn’t exist.
Obviously.
But that isn’t to condemn women.
Only those stupid enough to think that women should be judged by the standards of men in the fields of endeavour in which men excel would think something that dumb.
Women have their own fields of endeavour, their own measures of excellence.
And the sooner they go back to that the better we will all be.
Which is why the sane do not expect a female to box against a man. Or swim. Or run. Or most anything which requires physical strength and speed. Like combat in any shape or form.
Men and women are not interchangeable widgets, as much as communists and crony capitalists want to demean women by indoctrinating them to believe that to be true, it never will be.
I named four successful female wartime sovereigns, who were the supreme leaders of their armed forces. Which effectively means they were 5 star generals and admirals. I’ll add Zenobia as a fifth. She did a number on the Arabs rather nicely.
Yes men do succeed more than women because the normal curve for men is wider than for women. More men are exceptionally capable than women, and more men are complete morons than women are. That’s us: the male of the species.
“More men are exceptionally capable than women, and more men are complete morons than women are.”
I was trying to reason with Arky along the lines of lack of opportunities etc. in the past and offering places for women, almost forced upon them at present, but he had none of it.
The practice of the past was wrong and the practice of the present is equally wrong.
As you said, being an idiot is not sex dependent, I know quite a few dingbats and probably just as many dickheads.
“Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”? Samuel Johnson
That’s pretty much it, a backhander to Australian mainstream Catholics. Archbishop Anthony Fisher, who would have represented and looked after all Australian Catholics, is well known and has a definite doctrinal presence while Bychok is a complete unknown. What’s more, being only 44 he is likely to stop anyone else being given that position for decades. It is obvious that the Vatican Curia sees us as a threat to their plans.
Costelloe of Perth must be spitting chips: all that toadyism, including promoting the synodal sludge and crackdowns on the traditional Mass, and still no red hat.
Earthquakes In Iran And Israel Fuel Theories Of Covert Nuclear Testing (ndtv.com)
The Klimate crazies are feeling neglected so one of their front groups attempts with the help of the ABC to hype-up their own war. In today’s ABC “trusted” news we read:
Load of rubbish. I could easily pull up half a dozen graphs showing not much is happening.
Chris Barrie should stick to defence, not science. We could do with a bit of the former right now since we’re wide open to anyone with a half decent military.
He was CDF in the late 1990s, he must be close to 80 now.
Sad case of Relevance Deprivation Syndrome.
ALPBC turned up to 11. Made the early Green-Left Weekly News(now Half) Hour formerly known as AM naturally.
This hysterical old woman was in charge of our troops?
Yes
Brittas should stick to comedy.
https://youtu.be/1ttiVoqYAX4?si=Zfm05gjSn321MRwJ
Previous head of MI6. Watch the last couple of minutes – “only a Kamala win can lead to stability in the ME, because of Trump’s unpredictability “.
Terrifying hive mind.
More hive mind:
Former Chief of Staff: Ben Gvir and Smotrich are the threat, not Hamas (7 Oct)
He’s the Israeli version of Milley.
Just got back from visiting Dad. Nice new flowers, made sure the plot was well weeded and mulched and beat the rain to boot!
That’s the beauty of living in a small town. You can run these sorts of errands quickly without oodles of traffic. Though I noticed that the rain has brought about an exodus of holiday makers from the peninsula.
Calli, the other good thing about living in small towns is the entertainment.
Our annual Ferret Races are on this Saturday. 😀
The Anna Bay Pig Races aren’t until January.
Be there or be square!
Barcy has Annual Goat Races.
Apparently.
Our town has rubber duckie races along the river.
Reform UK launching private prosecution on muslims that beat up cops at Manchester Airport because CPS won’t. Noice:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/07/reform-u-k-plans-private-prosecution-of-men-in-manchester-airport-fight-with-police/
Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore
Why this photo of Governor-General Sam Mostyn with her ‘amazing friend’ is raising eyebrows | Daily Mail Online
Viv looks as butch as Frank Thring’s pout. I spoke about Canada-based academic Dr Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui earlier who at least looks like a sheila, and pondered the motivation of these idiots. Why are they idiots? Because they support muzzie causes when if they were in a muzzie hell hole they would be treated the same as the fruitcakes in Queers for Palestine; which is to say in a mzzie hell hole the good looking one would spend her life dropping sprogs and the ugly ones would be thrown off a building; although since muzzies would fuk a hole in a cactus, they may have a shot, as long as their burqa doesn’t slip off.
No, these fools don’t think about islam at all. All they care about is a cause which they can use to bash up the West, the only society which tolerates them, and vent their amorphous frustration with themselves. In short they are nasty people taking out their inherent frustration against the soft target and being existentially ignorant of the snake, islam, they have wrapped around themselves to attack their Western benefactor. To call them hypocrites is to say biden is demented.
Something about people who love getting their photo taken.
So this is what home-grown Nazis look like.
When you get cross you get seriously cross!
I have zero respect for the pommy establishment from the King down.
How Conscious Thought Fades Under Anesthesia – Neuroscience News
Interesting result because it demonstrates how different frequencies are fundamental to our conscious awareness. There is no single centre of consciousness, it is achieved through coordinated activity in specific areas of the brain. It was Llinas who first proposed that consciousness was dependent on 40Hz rhythms coming from the brainstem that served as a foundation for consciousness. It is more complicated than that. Differences in neural synchrony frequencies are useful indicators of cognitive function and indicators of pathology.
Xavier Hollander.
Well, I’m being knocked unconscious in hospital again on Monday.
I’ll let you know how the brainwaves manage.
Admiral Grace Hopper
Hedy Lamarr
MIne were Liz 1, Catherine, Thatcher, Elizabeth of Russia and Zenobia.
Lynn Margulis
I’d certainly choose Mrs T over bLIAR
Precisely, it’s of a piece.
Trump is like a Rorschach test for people. Howard is a good example.
An unreliable test. Trying to determine something about people based on a single position is far too simplistic. Our cognition is much more complicated than that.
Eyrie
October 8, 2024 11:38 am
Admiral Grace Hopper
Hedy Lamarr
For sure, Smart and a looker and actress.
Read somewhere that she was the inspiration for the dancer-scientist in the ‘Get Smart’ sitcom.
This doesn’t look good for FL.
See my post above DB, 897mb is below the 917mb I found this morning but as the US fly planes into these monsters so likely accurate.
Conditions for intensity aren’t good and fortunately she’s started being affected by vertical windshear and according to what I’ve seen this morning she is already being affected slightly. From what I can glean from the Yanks, predicted to be a Cat 3 when it makes landfall but has a huge amount of convection which doesn’t bode well for flooding.
At the moment it is night there too and tropical storms go through diurnal strengthening stages, be interesting to see if she matches 880mb which is our record at the moment and wiped out the settlement at Princess Charlotte Bay in 1897 on Cape York.
Interesting dynamics in the US prez race. It looks like the Dem brains trust have realized that keeping Kamala in a basement isn’t working. So they’ve started having her out and more in view.
And every time that happens it’s a disaster.
Kamala Harris’ ‘word salad’ answer on Israel alliance confounds viewers: ‘Someone please interpret’ (Sky News, 8 Oct)
It is really interesting this arc. She’s an airhead. Even Biden in his dementia can say more joined-up-stuff than she can.
And the worst is that the USA is corrupt enough to put her in power. No-one knows who (or what) the hidden cabal of puppet masters is.
Or even if there really is anyone awake there.
I make more sense than her after 6 Schooners of XXXX Bitter and a bottle of Glenfiddich…
Err…
Hang on, lets go to the Fact Check Video.
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I was wondering if you lot got any of that rain yesterday?
Roger
October 8, 2024 10:59 am
…neither Archbishop Shevchuk nor Archbishop Fisher will be likely to get a red hat any time soon.
Meaning Francis killed two birds with one stone?
Leave this for the better informed, but the Vatican-catholic hierarchy is known for its forward planning.
Takes 50 years? A grain in the sand glass.
Leave nothing to chance.
A pretty good run.
Radio legend John Laws announces retirement (Sky News, 8 Oct)
That’s a lot of talkback radio.
Bandstand ’62
He can sing! Bit lugubrious though. 😀
Funny Way of Laughing
Don’t expect human life expectancy to grow much more, researcher says (9news.com.au)
Take that transhumanists. The longevity movement is huge and hopelessly optimistic.
Good luck with that Sandgropers.
Can drying them out stop the cane toads’ invasion of WA? (Phys.org, 7 Oct)
Get out your one woods. Ok and yes a nulla nulla would do just fine too.
I see the problem – I’ve been using a 7 Iron.
It’s a bastard trying to get the flat of the damn thing to hit those critters dead on. Perhaps if I shorten the power cord?
Well you’d get more height out of a seven, but not so much distance.
whoosh…
Geography might be the only thing that stops them. The Nullarbor stops a few bird pests (with Dept of Ag help). Hopefully things get tougher past the Kimberley.
whats a Traditional Owner. some bulldust term for an abo
And he’s also…Ukrainian.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that (!) but when he goes back there (or to Canada or the US, which both have large Ukrainian diasporas) his cardinal’s hat goes with him.
Meanwhile, even NZ has a cardinal.
I know it’s not a geographically based office like bishoprics, but in practice it works that way, doesn’t it?
Speaking of lessos:
New Zealand’s First Lesbian Commander Sinks Her $150 Million Ship (youtube.com)
How can she be a lezzo when she’s just fckd a ship full of sailors?
When I worked for (but not in) the Navy here, it was a court-martial at least for running a ship aground, even a scrape that you managed to survive. Having it sink (and in flames) isn’t a good look at all!
Well, at least she’s not going to pass on her genes.
I really didn’t want to buy into the men vs. women struggle session, but Golda comes to mind.
Don’t even have to provide a surname.
Golda was there when they hunted down the Munich rats and disposed of them.
Maggie also earned her place.
Excellent pick calli
Preach it Arky:
God made women to specialise in the one thing men can’t do, and their bodies and talents reflect this.
Talk a lot?
Duck, BoN.
But wrong – it’s having babies.
Well it’s certainly not golf. 7 day memberships exist for a reason.
An unpopular take Winston.
Especially among the ladies.
God did it – not me.
They can take it up with Him.
another meme
Mmm…the word is God made Eve to be a helper suitable for Adam.
As the 17th C Bible commentator Matthew Henry put it, “the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
A wife who, through no fault of her own, cannot give birth, can still fulfill that function.
I haven’t read that quote of Matthew Henry. It is lovely. Thank you, Roger.
Vicki, you’re welcome!
Suitable helper is a gross understatement. He forgot the critical part: without women there would be no human race. Doh!
I think the difference between men and women isn’t what they are *capable* of but what they want.
For example fewer than 5% of glider pilots are women and amongst shooters I reckon it is about the same. Mrs Eyrie is usually the only woman on the range (and is thrashing me which the blokes think is a fine joke). Both activities don’t depend on physical strength.
OTOH there is the theory that men are all about the pursuit of pussy and do the things they do in order to get it.
Physical capability comes into it, but I think in general you have nailed it Eyrie. We often want different things, or if we get to certain positions or activities, then we may want to do them our way. Not always the best way, but it sometimes can be. We have good things to bring to the human table of knowledge and experience. Just as men do. And we do require good opportunity to develop of minds and skills, just as men do. This seems fair and just. To say we are the same however is simply not true. As Eyrie notes.
“Ohad Hamu said now in the Channel 12 studio that a Palestinian official linked to Hamas abroad told him that the organization understands/admits that 80% of the 40,000 casualties in Gaza since the beginning of the war are Hamas operatives and their families.”
https://x.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1843054564037042571?t=Kx41EiiznLlkZ0cNmM3TiA&s=19
For Arky.
I was a passionate and loud opponent of feminism from the time it raised it’s dangerous head in the 60s. In part, that was because I felt no need to be liberated: I was not oppressed or constrained by my marriage or, indeed, by any of the significant men in my life (husband, father and three older brothers). Secondly, I could not see how it was so liberating having a home to run, children to raise, marriage to foster AND working full time as well.
It was a con!
Yes, there were some women who could have done with some liberation: my poor, alcoholic neighbour whose travelling salesman husband (yes, really) demanded three hot meals a day, served on time etc whenever he was home. And TV ads always depicted the helpless little wife worrying about cooking odours and puffing perfume before hubby strode in from his white-collar job. But she was not in the position – emotionally, physically or psychologically – to balk at her circumstances. She did not want to be liberated.
And that’s the point. Feminism demanded that every woman conform to its style of freedom: deriding and canceling men – remember their new PC language; chairperson, personcover, women, not ladies and girls? – smearing their foreheads with menses, burning their bras. I could expand on the insanities of the feminist movement, but much of the doctrine was repulsive to me and to the remaining sensible people of the day. Everyone else – beta males, politicions, media – kowtowed to them, pleased to find another craze to go with the emerging sexual revolution.
From the time I was a little girl, my sole ambition career-wise was to be a good wife, mother and homemaker, but I was denied that dream by Keating’s %18 interest rates. Then, with eager grandparents stepping up for child minding and my career taking off in ways I couldn’t have imagined, it was too easy to stay in the work force.
But I was never a feminist! I’m Delta A and that’s my story.
Ps: I was delighted to hear #3 granddaughter recently declare that she is going to be a stay-at-home wife and mum and home-school her six children. That’s true liberation: the freedom to choose.
Too right Delta. It was always a con job.
Also my inspiration in the face of physical difficulty to keep going. Thanks Delta A.
Thank you, Ranga.
Taking a break from cutting steel.
You know, I’m stuck in my ways a bit too much.
The first thing I reach for when cutting mild steel is the grinder. But the battery powered saw does it better and with less mess and less safety gear required.
Anyhow, good comment Delta.
Tell us more Arky!
I reckon the 1mm disk in a 4″ or 5″ angle grinder is one of the inventions that truly beats sliced bread. What kind of saw and blade do you refer to?
Bravo Delta. 😀
I second that.
PS: feminazis had no hope of selling ccrporate slavery to strong Cat women like Delta and Calli.
Thank you, Tom.
It wasn’t always easy. For many years I worked with a large team of teachers, psychologists and social workers. All women, several lesbian.
Most thought that I was wasting my talents on my family. It all became somewhat easier, however, when I was promoted to their boss.
Happened to me too, Delta. Disappointed a leading feminist friend by having my fourth child and ‘wrecking my career prospects’, but still went on to become formal Head of a large university department.
My family, the one I came from and the one I helped to make, always comes first with me, and always did, even though some people thought I should ditch my family of origin for my own future’s sake. I never did. Nor do I ditch miscreants in my family now. Families need women to survive.
I do recall though, how as a young woman in the 1950’s, I wanted more from life than a husband and family living in the world I saw around me; I had marriage proposals which I rejected well before I was eighteen. I wanted to know so much more about life elsewhere, which after various adventures and misadventures led to taking the difficult path to matriculation and higher education.
Was this foolish? It may have been. The balance though tends to favour the no case.
Historian Phillipa Gregory’s tome ‘Normal Women’ is a collection of data, largely not much over-interpreted with feminist dogma though some of that is there, about how women in history, when you dig into the available records across the ages, did many things considered men’s work and did them well in addition to being supportive wives, mothers and toilers in the workshops and fields. They were also political beings, joining in riots and protests and sometimes leading in their communities and in the broader public sphere, often against much prejudice.
The argument Arky puts is pretty simplistic. Like the Curate’s Egg, only good in places.
From the Daily Telegraph:
“The marriage of controversial rapper Kanye West and his Australian wife Bianca Censori is believed to be over after just two years.”
Right. It’s not as if Bianca was controversial.
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I would say they are equally and oppositely controversial.
She seems to be quite impatient with the restrictions of clothing.
Kanye and Bianca are a sort of extremer version of Harry and Meghan.
And less attractive than Harry And The Hendersons.
Her family rumoured to be involved with Italian mafia in Oz.
Personally I don’t think this is or ever has been news. Just aplifies how vacuous modern jismists are and how bankrupt the MSM is. Only found out she was Aussie earlier this year and never cared enough to click the story…
She’s the one whose boobs had to be delivered in two boxes.
Bacteria implanted in fungi hints at ancient relationships that helped cells evolve (nature.com)
What they won’t admit is that to accept natural selection as the sole driver of complexity requires many leaps of faith. I accept evolution happened, I don’t accept the current model. I play with a different approach that also requires a leap of faith.
John, can you expand on that? It is always an fascinating area.
I can’t. My position is like that of Freeman Dyson. He believed that mind and intelligence is embedded in the universe. “Mind” and “intelligence” though are poorly defined concepts. I’m not criticizing him for that. He was vague because we don’t know, we may never know, and I haven’t found a convincing argument to explain the remarkable complexity of life.
The mathematicians were telling the biologists it was impossible decades ago – not enough time.
Roger my approach is different. It doesn’t matter how much time is involved, without quantities and the relevant processes probability statements like “given enough time” are guesses.
Germany announced ‘strict border control’ after copping ‘belting’ at state election | Sky News Australia
Remember when Australia was lambasted for adopting offshore processing? Took them 20 years to catch up the mugs.
BTW, am I the only one who finds Liz Storer’s voice irritating?
No, you’re not.
No, nor the overdose of vivid lippy, horrible.
Liz has a great individual style.
I suspect she may have had a corrected ‘hare’ lip at some time though I may be wrong. She has a most defined ‘cupid’s bow’ now. Good on her for being proud of her mouth and presenting it in a 30’s Hollywood style. She is the best-dressed woman on Sky. Not hard, as most of them seem to grab one of the coloured jackets off a rack on their way out of the make-up room.
It may be irritating, it’s highly Australian and combative in tone, but it is a refreshing reminder that not all civilised, educated and attractive women are out of the same even, smooth and posh-accented middle-class mould.
Good on her, I say. Linguistic snobbery is alive and well in Australia and should be recognised as such.
Kamala reading that piece about October 7 was a shocker.
Having a quick coffee.
Anyone found any successful lady generals to offset the thousands of the male variety throughout history?
Ladies, where are your Julius Caesars? Where are your Alexanders?
If the boot were on the other foot, would they have been limited by “female oppression”?
I think not.
You have two choices only.
Either women are so lame they let men stop them from excelling for thousands of years, hundreds of periods and empires, or else women belong in a different category to men and both choose to and are fit to excel at the most important task of all: the institution of marriage.
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Liz 1, Catherine, Thatcher, Zenobia, Elizabeth of Russia, and as Calli said: Golda.
You’re serious.
That’s even worse.
The generals were their subordinates.
And those ladies were extremely successful. I’ve read the histories, or directly lived through the times of all of them except Golda.
Men are better tactical generals and admirals though. Women aren’t bad at top level leadership as these ladies attest. They aren’t great at tactical leadership, as a certain kiwi ship can give example to. (The incident off of Japan was especially funny – cat fights at 10 paces!)
Evil wrongthought.
Lash yourself 100 times, or get a feminist to do it.
As an aside, I just discovered magpies are little deterred by the sound of angle grinders.
Boudicca of the Iceni in Britain, and Joan of Arc in France also come to mind. Women can lead if they have to, in varioius ways, not necessarily as Generals. Warfare is men’s business, always has been, but women are there too. Elizabeth the First claimed she had the ‘stomach and heart of a man’. She did too.
Give it up, Arky, you have put up a straw woman. The do-nothing sort. They aren’t even typical.
Joaner Varc.
But I was never a feminist! I’m Delta A and that’s my story.
And a very fine story too. It’s grand to hear from real women.
If Western civilisation, or parts thereof at least, can be saved from the approaching darkness, it will be young women like this who do it.
Like the Celtic monks of old, mutatis mutandis.
Even though it did not work out that well for me (some Cats know of the continuing drama I have with daughter), I don’t regret putting my studies and career on hold to stay at home with my child until she was of school age.
I still remain convinced that it is the”natural order” of human society.
I pray that things may turn around for you there, Vicki.
I was never convinced by the thesis that men have been oppressing women for thousands of years, and nobody noticed until Germaine Greer pointed it out.
We’re different to men, BG, and can be just as smart when given half a chance. Eyrie was right – we do want different things, and we make choices that reflect our biology, however we express that.
Just saw Kevin McCarthy, the former US Speaker, say pretty much the same on Greg Gutfeld’s show. He said that Biden used to read from cards during their meetings and when Kamala would join them Biden was still the smarter of the two.
Never knew this:
I’m glad the Hebrews got a much more fitting homeland (that was their homeland anyway!).
Pity they didn’t get the idea up. Rather than a fifth rate nation like we are now we’d be a top rank nuclear armed superpower.
More specifically, we would have had an influx of hard working, focussed, and super intelligent citizens.
Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, “We have no time for bureaucracy and red tape”. That’s why the people vote for him. He knows the priorities and sets the tone.
Hamas currently firing rockets into Southern Israel…
Last gasp?
The more rockets they fire from their dwindling stock the better, provided the Iron Dome holds up.
Dutton is unleashing more of his inner mongrel. I hope he keeps it going.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13935341/Peter-Dutton-Anthony-Albanese-October-7-massacre-motion.html
Whoopie doo. The only people that ever paid serious attention to the WTO was Australia. Plus maybe NZ.
everyone else gave lip service to the WTO and then did what they wanted to anyway.
So, who will check the checkers?
CCC report handed down on Ombudsman, finds ‘serious misconduct’ (watoday.com.au)
If the Ombudsman has engaged in nefarious practices, what hope do we have for other offices.
Lysander
So what you’re saying is Barnett’s
canalpipeline could have been up and running by say, 1950, WA could have had nuclear power by…1955?Essentially, yes!
It seems some in the arts think they have a right to include their personal political beliefs into a performance. Remember the Sydney theatre company where a lot of their funding was cancelled by donors.
Just play the music as political views going to offend somebody and may affect the finances of the organisation paying you to perform.
Pro-Gazan pianist and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra open to mediation
Tricia Rivera
Jayson Gillham has indicated he is “keen” to settle his legal action against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra through a mediation process after the pianist was dropped for making onstage comments in support of Palestine.
In a case management hearing before the Federal Court in Melbourne, lawyers for the classical musician, as well as legal representatives for MSO chief operating officer Guy Ross and the orchestra’s sacked former managing director Sophie Galaise discussed their willingness to settle the matter before a trial.
The Australian-British pianist claims the cancellation of one his scheduled shows by the MSO violated his human and workplace rights protected by Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act and the federal Fair Work Act.
Legal proceedings were launched after the pianist performed a piece, dedicated by the composer to Gazan journalists, at Melbourne’s Iwaki Auditorium on August 11 and in his introduction of the song, told the crowd that over the last 10 months “Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinian journalists”, and that a number of the deaths had been “targeted assassinations”.
The MSO then cancelled Mr Gillham’s August 15 performance, and blasted his statements as “an intrusion of personal political views”.
I’ve been thinking about feminism and chocolate and how similar they are.
A little bit, say equal pay for exactly the same work (my experience in the early 70’s), the ability to take out a loan in my name, hold a bank account and the like…well, that’s sweet and necessary and essential.
A bar of chocolate is a must for a survival pack. You need those calories at a pinch. Even as a little treat after a hard day’s yakka. Yum!
We all know you can have too much of a good thing. Here, have the whole bar! You’re worth it! It’s so good you don’t need anything else…here, have some more. Not enough to be paid the same…you must be chosen instead of your better qualified male rival…here, have some more. Want no-strings-attached sex? Sure…have some more! The boys will like that too! Unwanted pregnancy? Here…have some more. Kill your child, it’s just a clump of cells. Feeling tired and worn out by endless carreer-ing? Here…have some more! The feeling will go away. Look how far you’ve come, baby!
In the end, many women are propped in the corner of the kitchen, bloated, force fed by their sisters, gorged to imbecility and immobility by entitlement and addiction.
They still have agency though. It involves looking at their situation realistically, stepping off the merry-go-round and out into the unknown.
There might even be chocolate there, but only a square or two at a time, mind.
The whole bank account thing is misleading. Women weren’t held responsible for debts – their husbands were – hence not being able to access bank services without their husband’s approval.
To think we have murdered hundreds of millions of babies and are on the path to destroying civilisation just because women wanted to open a bank account without their husband’s signature.
I hope it was worth it.
Very cynical, Figures.
Even for me – the King of Cynicism.
One must seperate the personal from the attempts at widespread social engineering and indoctrination.
It is the difference between: “A woman should be able to become an engineer/ pilot/ lawyer” and “Not enough women are engineers/ pilots / lawyers so we have to change the way men and women think, because it has to be down to discrimination”.
Gold $3925 on A$0.6738
Holy moly!
2016 it was 1300USD and the Aussie dollar was over $1.00 USD
AUD’s been worse than now.
But the gold in my rings and necklaces is trying to outdo the diamonds.
I shouldn’t post this, because it will just encourage Arky. On the other hand, it is an absolute indictment of stupid DEI policy in the armed forces.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-10-07/too-many-women-wrong-places-again
Vicki, Arky is playing at Devils Advocate, again.
Sometimes the questions have to be asked as not asking them becomes self censorship.
More of an experiment to see how cliquey the women are, and how much they will oppose reason and logic to pursue the equality the say they want.
After all, if they’re equal, surely we no longer have to spare their feelings?
So how did we do, Arky?
They won’t be around much longer if they don’t fix this:
https://www.intellinews.com/iranian-cleric-warns-of-security-threat-from-collapsing-birthrate-325811/
Fertility rate was nearly 8 before 1979, is not 1.6.
Iranian women do seem somewhat pissed off with the mullahs.
That speaks of something a little more than just natural decline, but I wouldn’t want to try and guess it.
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/iran-demographics/
The Mullahs took over in 1979, and the population started contracting and hasn’t stopped.
It speaks to a decline in the control of Islamic Mullahs over the fertility of women, who want something more from life than raising more martyrs for Islamic jihad.
@JesseBWatters
BREAKING: @KamalaHarris completely bombed her @60Minutes interview.
She looks ridiculous
@EndWokeness
HAHAHA looks like “Middle Class Kamala” has never seen a shovel
Some of the comments are classic. Go and read them, you lot.
Only Royalty should plant things in memorium.
Politicians doing it is pretty tacky. They should lay wreaths and grieve with the people.
Dr. John Campbell discussing a study from Poland (he remarks on how interesting it is that nothing like it has been released in the U.K., U.S., Canada or Australia).
Changing Views toward mRNA based Covid Vaccines in the Scientific Literature: 2020 – 2024
Damn it.
After speculation he was killed, Sinwar said to renew contact with Qatar | The Times of Israel
Mossad took seven years, after the atrocity at Munich, in 1972, to hunt down and kill the “Black September” terrorists responsible.
If he’s starting to raise his head again, it won’t be raised long…
Do you bit. Don’t fly Qatar.
Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank) on Trump
Love it. See a deal, where both parties to it can prosper, and use any opportunity to progress it. Open eyes where they were shut before.
Dutton’s policy has reached Israel:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/australian-opposition-rejects-governments-oct-7-resolution-for-including-ceasefire-call/
Hillary Clinton ‘said the quiet bit out loud’
Got to pick up the daughter from school.
Rapidly becoming a teenager.
It’s truly horrifying.
Men, have children while you are young enough to have the energy to get away from them.
Don’t be nearing 60 with a teen. I can’t recommend.
Ha! Wait until she is old enough to go to university…….undergraduate certainty and high moral outrage……whew!
ha ha.
Over the weekend, Spain’s first soccer team consisting only of biological women who think they are men competed against a men’s team.
Transgender football team beaten 19-0 in debut game — RT World News
Yep, invading men’s spaces, especially in sport, doesn’t work the same way it does for men invading women’s.
Don’t be nearing 60 with a teen. I can’t recommend.
My daughter turned into a monster in her teens. Peak monster is about age fourteen. I was full of beans at the time, but it was still hard going.
Things get better when they hit their forties.
I have a friend – an unrepentant capitalist, as am I – whose daughters became rabid Lefties in their late teens. He invited the ladies to consult a dictionary, as to the meaning of the word “Disinherited.”
Well played that Dad.
My daughter turned into a monster in her teens
They all do. Piaget and Kohlberg are worth reading. Kids of that age become allocentric – allegiance is to their peer group. Hopefully they grow out of it and become sociocentric.- allied to their society.
With girls they become spiteful and exclude outsiders, not just parents. Any lady Cats want to tell us about “comment books” – the preferred nasty tactic before social media? Boys just clobber each other.
Little miss entropy and littlest miss entropy did nothing of the kind. They were too busy, and took after intelligent and beautiful Mrs Entropy.
they might even vote LNP.
I guess I got one of the good ones. Angel as a toddler and still is in her 20s
Our daughter remained pleasant and kind in her teens (very untidy though, to the despair of my husband until he learned to shut the door on the mess!). She and her best friend at their school gathered a group of the girls who were being bullied by the rich, spoilt brats there and looked after them. She has remained a very kind and very intelligent woman now in her 40s.
Yup, going through it now!
Tears for Fears wrote this song. They are on public record stating Gary Jules sang it the best.
Donnie Darko – Mad World
Good version …
(2) Mad World – Vintage Vaudeville – Style Cover ft. Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart – YouTube
Haitians interviewed in Springfield: admit to eating cats but not dogs. Trump vindicated again!
Real Haitians EXPOSE The Truth About Eating Dogs And Cats! (youtube.com)
The irony is Trump introduced the law in 2018 banning the consumption of dogs and pussies.
They’re eating the dogs, cats, pets is a very catchy tune.
From The Oz…
The Albanese government has teamed with the Greens to head off Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s attempt to bring a vote on the Coalition’s version of a motion commemorating the October 7 terrorist attacks.
The grub from Grayndler teams up with Nazis.
Scratch a lefty, reveal a Nazi.
Wong and Albo have been showing their true selves they’ve been hiding under the sheepskin for so long.
Nicely played by Spud.
The Albanese government has teamed with the Greens to head off Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s attempt to bring a vote on the Coalition’s version of a motion commemorating the October 7 terrorist attacks.
The SFLs need to repeat the fact that Albo is inseparable from the Greens and that the Liars are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Greens in all future speeches, announcements and election advertising.
Yep.
My mother has always said that teenage boys are much easier and much nicer than teenage girls.
Teenage girls = moody = bitchy = spiteful = mean.
My sister and I shared a large bedroom. At one stage, I think I was sixteen, she and I did not speak for months. We would eye each other off and I remember how she got some tape and put a line down the middle of the room so we wouldn’t cross into each other’s space. If we did slip over, the ensuing nasty cat fight was shocking, we would pull each other’s hair and scream insults at each other, I still recall her once calling me a ‘mole’….common parlance of the 1970s.
My sister had model looks (she was the image of Brooke Shields) and she was constantly naughty and very rebellious. I was not so naughty, being more studious and besides, I was a little scared of my mother whereas my sister was not. I still have a vivid memory of my mother, wooden spoon in hand, chasing my fifteen year old sister to thump after my naughty sister had called her a “bitch’.
My mother lost twin girls, and I always wondered what my life might have been like. Perhaps I don’t want to know.
I remember a book called The Madness of Young Girls about females in their early teens for whom feminism has proved an effective weapon.
For them modern leftwing ideology has just been a form of censorship to shut up anyone who doesn’t go along with feminism’s attempt to disempower men, even though blokes generally go along with what girls want to maintain the sexual peace (and to get a root).
As Arky has been posting here in the past day, sexual politics is way out of whack with girls now expected to prove they’re superwomen who can do whatever blokes can do (when they’re not) in everything from football to running the country.
IMO, feminism is a very self-destructive fantasy.
China’s doing great!
China’s ultra wealthy are fleeing and taking $1 trillion with them | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Surprised the CCP doesn’t know how to stop this.
Having one of each specimen, your ma is 100% correct.
There is a saying to the effect of, never take a teen girl on an overseas appointment.
Daughter two demanded to attend boarding school in Australia when we moved to France. We were bursting with excitement over her arriving for her first Christmas hols. To our horror, we were counting the days to her return. She was awful.
We chose to accept the outrage and tantrums and pulled her out of boarding school and sent her to an international school in Paris.
It still wasn’t completely easy but the international school kids appeared to be more mature and lived life at such a frantic pace that daughter two had only limited opportunities to be a monster.
She and a mate who was staying with us broke the rules one day and went into town by themselves. They were attacked by three arabs; not hurt but we were terrified.
The lady copper who brought them home proceeded to give us a lesson in teen parenting.
She told us to stay out of it and proceeded to have the girls admit that they were idiots and made them recount in absolute detail what happened. She told them that they were to appear at the station next morning to go through mug shots and to make statements. The girls objected but she cut them off at the knees.
When we collected them they were white, contrite and very reserved – for about two days!
Males can engage in thumping physical fights yet the next day they are able to sit down and have a convivial beer together.
It is not that way with females. Females never forget and we rarely forgive. Women who’ve engaged in fights/disagreements with other women would never sit down and have a drink together, not even after a millennium.
We are very, very different.
Grudges chapter VI, verses III-IX.
😀
Males can engage in thumping physical fights yet the next day they are able to sit down and have a convivial beer together.
I concur Cassie.
This is my authority for me to go and have a few beers at the pub with me mates and I have lived by it over the years:
For Cassie:
Orthodox Jewish Bible:
Timotiyos I 5:22-24:
No longer drink only mayim, but use a little yayin because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
For Bruce:
King James Bible printed 1853 (family bible inherited from me Mum…she went from the Church of England to the dark side…The Micks…Catholics 🙂 ):
Timothy I Ch V:23:
Drink no longer water, but use a bit of wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Deus Vult
Therefor it will happen.
Beers and/or Vino.
With the pair of you.
And me.
One day.
Hopefully.
🙂
Ps: Girly (nice young Lass) I once worked with is a Mormon and we had some good interesting discussions about the Bible. Needless to say she disagreed with my interpretation of Timothy I Ch V v 23. 😀
Keir Starmer JAILS Chicken Owners
Is Starmer actually nuts?
Watching Kenny right now. A clip of Anal going on about a “two-state solution”. What really angers me is that filthy collaborator seated behind, and to the left of Anal. Not a peep, or even a tiny, quizzical raising of the eyebrows to show at least a modicum of disagreement.
Dreyfuss deserves the WWII treatment of collaborators.
Someone should tell Anal that the Palestinians have rejected a two-state solution at least five or six times.
Five times since the late 1930’s.
SNL skit is really funny.
The clip didn’t work for me.
Really? I tried it on another computer and it worked fine. It’s at the top of the page on the NYPost. They’re also running ads before the skit.
I’ll give it a try on another tab.
Chuckle. She didn’t drink enough.
I reckon she’s the US Sir Les.
Walking back from the Deli. A Lark was on the footpath…..same colours as a Maggie. I walked to within 30cm from him or her. Didn’t even flinch. The head tilted, I copped a eyeball and it then proceeded to the grass to peck away.
No fear at all.
When they get friendly you have a friend for life. I sometimes see two of them who’ve long moved on from the Cafe. One, a male, has a territory to the south, the other is his sister, her territory is to the north.
When I walk in those directions I take a bit of mince for them: they will fly down and land onto the palm of my hand to collect it.
Over East we call them Peewees.
They are indeed fearless – I think they are like feisty Chihuahas, in that they imagine that they are magpies!
Hello.
“Peewees”
That’s new.
Yes, peewees! Technically “magpie-larks”, which is a bit clunky.
I will change my gravatar so you can see one. It’s a selfie, she’s on my shoulder. 😀
Bruce of Newcastle
The Bird Whisperer.
When it comes to sitting about on ones backside, a fat one is far more comfortable than a bony one. This becomes more apparent the longer one remains seated.
Ahahaha! Kenny has just previewed Leak’s cartoon for tomorrow!
Get ready guys, it’s a cracker (in more ways than one). 😀
I saw that. It just needs a little leakage!
Linky you two!!!
He’s always worth listening to.
Why I’m Off the Fence About Israel’s War – Konstantin Kisin
Why ‘Trust The Science’ Is Nonsense
Exactly, as every Thalidomide child’s parent knows
There is no such thing as “The Science”.
There is science, open to discussion, and keen to investigate the impact of new data on current theories.
And there is a pseudo religion that calls itself “The Science”, that ignores new data that might contradict a preferred “narrative”.
Is a Diversity Hire to Blame for the Sinking of a $100 Million New Zealand Navy Ship?
Letting Convicted Criminals Cross The Border Is Part Of Democrats’ Plan For Power
Know them by their actions.
John Laws:
“As for what he’ll do in retirement, Laws told his listeners, “I’ll travel, I’ll sit about, I’ll read more … and I’ll catch up with things that I should have caught up with a long time ago”.
?Like get a haircut.
A new toupee.
EVs Still So Unpopular that Car Thieves Won’t Even Steal Them
Argentina’s Javier Milei Marks October 7 with Hebrew-Language Message: ‘BRING THEM HOME NOW’
Daily Mail.
Anthony Albanese has sparked uproar by sarcastically asking a Coalition minister ‘do you have Tourette’s or something?’ while answering a question about tax policy – with a mother of three kids with the syndrome blasting the PM.
The Prime Minister made the comment during Question Time on Tuesday after NSW MP Angus Taylor asked whether Labor would rule out changes to the way owner-occupied homes are taxed.
Mr Albanese laughed and said ongoing questions by the Opposition about changes to property taxes were a ‘fishing expedition’.
‘Apparently now we’re going after the family home. The family home. We’re going after the family home,’ he yelled, as members from opposite sides started shouting at each other.
‘We have all of our tax policies out there, and all of the ones that they want to talk about are things that we are not doing … This nonsense that they carry on with.’
He then stopped and looked at Mr Taylor, who was chanting: ‘Rule it out, rule it out.’
Mr Albanese asked: ‘Have you got Tourette’s or something? You know you just sit there, babble, babble, babble.’
There were audible gasps from all sides of the chamber, and from the packed public galleries.
Anybody imagine the screams if Peter Dutton had asked that question?
The Qantas lounge, the drunk lady worker, the dismissal and the appeal…
Given that the left in the USA (including of course the MSM) usually accuse the conservatives of doing what they themselves are doing or planning to do:
“Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe program is getting increasingly desperate as we get closer to the election.
He recently claimed that Trump is preparing for civil war.”
DERANGED: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Claims Donald Trump is ‘Preparing for Civil War’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance
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Confirmed – the Hamas terrorist that kidnapped Naama Levy on October 7th has been eliminated by the IDF.
H/T Michael Smith. I hope he was buried wrapped in pigskin, with a pork sausage rammed up his clacker.
Any Cats remember Art Bell’s Coast to Coast radio program in the US?
Random.
Hurricanes weaken as they approach landfall.
Playing with perplexity.ai…
I asked it what day does the sun pass directly over Port Douglas. It asserted that never happened but with subsequent questions I was able to point to the error of its ways, which it then acknowledged and also provided a plausible answer.
The fun of arguing with machines. Something is wrong on the internet!
The Fatal Flaw in Artificial Intelligence: Climate Change??? (6 Oct)
GIGO.
The conversation, reformatted for easy reading without hyperlinks and such:
Answer
Port Douglas, located in Far North Queensland, Australia, does not experience days when the sun passes directly overhead (at the zenith). This phenomenon, known as the subsolar point, only occurs between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Geographical Context
Port Douglas is situated at approximately 16.5°S latitude, which places it just within the tropical zone but not at the exact latitude where the sun can reach the zenith.
Sun’s Position in Port Douglas
The sun’s maximum altitude in Port Douglas varies throughout the year:
Closest Approach
The sun comes closest to being directly overhead in Port Douglas around mid-December and mid-January, when it reaches its southernmost position in the sky. However, it will always be slightly to the north at its highest point of the day.
While the sun never passes directly overhead in Port Douglas, the region still experiences intense tropical sunlight throughout the year, with long daylight hours, especially during the summer months.
What latitude is the Tropic of Capricorn?
Answer
The Tropic of Capricorn is located at a latitude of approximately 23.5 degrees south of the Equator. More precisely, it is at 23° 26? 22? S (or about 23.4394° S). This line marks the southernmost latitude where the sun can be directly overhead at noon during the December solstice, when the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun to its maximum extent.
If the Tropic of Capricorn is located at a latitude of approximately 23.5 degrees south and Port Douglas is situated at approximately 16.5°S, doesn [I accidentally hit Enter at this point before completing the question.]
Answer
16th parallel south: Circle of latitude 16 degrees south of the equatorial plane
Definition: The 16th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 16 degrees south of the Earth’s equatorial plane.
Crosses: Atlantic Ocean, Africa, Indian Ocean, Australasia, Pacific Ocean, South America
Border: A section of the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe is defined by the parallel.
If the Tropic of Capricorn is located at approximately 23.5°S latitude and Port Douglas is situated at approximately 16.5°S latitude, then the sun does not pass directly overhead in Port Douglas. Here’s why:
Geographical Context
Port Douglas is located about 7 degrees north of the Tropic of Capricorn. The Tropic of Capricorn marks the southernmost latitude where the sun can appear directly overhead at noon, which occurs during the December solstice.
Sun’s Position in Port Douglas
Since Port Douglas is north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun never reaches the zenith (directly overhead) at this location. However, the sun’s position in the sky does vary throughout the year:
Closest Approach
The sun comes closest to being overhead in Port Douglas around the summer solstice (December 22). On this date:
While the sun never passes directly overhead in Port Douglas, the region still experiences intense tropical sunlight and long daylight hours, especially during the summer months.
Is Port Douglas north of the tropic of Capricorn?
Answer
Yes, Port Douglas is north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Here’s why:
Geographical Location
Port Douglas is located at approximately 16.5 degrees south latitude. This places it well north of the Tropic of Capricorn, which is situated at about 23.5 degrees south latitude.
Comparison
The difference of about 7 degrees in latitude means that Port Douglas is significantly closer to the equator than the Tropic of Capricorn.
Climate Implications
Being north of the Tropic of Capricorn, Port Douglas experiences a tropical climate:
This tropical location contributes to Port Douglas’s popularity as a tourist destination, especially during the Australian winter when visitors from southern states seek warmer weather.
Doesn’t that mean the sun is to the south of Port Douglas at its most southerly elevation and therefore there shall be a day either side of the summer solstice where the sun is directly overhead at Port Douglas?
Answer
You’re right to question this, but there’s a misunderstanding in the premise. Let me clarify:
Port Douglas, being at approximately 16.5°S latitude, is actually north of the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5°S). This means:
Sun’s Position in Port Douglas
Why the Sun Doesn’t Pass Directly Overhead
For the sun to pass directly overhead, a location must be:
Port Douglas, at 16.5°S, is within the tropics but too far north for the sun to reach the zenith. The sun’s maximum declination of 23.5° south means it will always be slightly north of Port Douglas at its highest point.
Closest Approach
The sun comes closest to being overhead in Port Douglas around the summer solstice, but it will always be slightly to the north at its highest point of the day.
In summary, there is no day when the sun passes directly overhead in Port Douglas due to its geographical location north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Is there a confusion between the context of the northern hemisphere with the southern hemisphere, where the calculations are reversed?
Answer
You’ve made an excellent observation, and you’re right to point out the potential for confusion. Let’s clarify the situation:
Correcting the Misconception
Sun’s Position in Port Douglas
Given this correct information:
Zenith Days in Port Douglas
The sun will be directly overhead in Port Douglas on two specific days:
On these days, at local solar noon, the sun will be at the zenith (directly overhead) in Port Douglas.
Seasonal Context
Importance of Latitude
For any location between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the sun will pass directly overhead twice a year, except at the tropics themselves, where it happens once a year.
Thank you for bringing this to attention. It’s a crucial point that highlights the unique solar characteristics of locations within the tropics, like Port Douglas.
Given I have pointed out an error in the analysis by perplexity.ai and this has now been acknowledged, how is this new information incorporated into the information repository of perplexity.ai?
Answer
Perplexity AI does not have a centralized “information repository” that gets automatically updated based on user interactions. Here’s how the system typically handles new information:
It’s important to note that while AI systems like Perplexity are powerful tools for information retrieval and analysis, they don’t have real-time, self-updating knowledge bases. They rely on their training data and the specific information provided in each conversation to generate responses.
You insipid quisling appeasing pathetic failures. You’ve already got legislation to shut this down. Too frightened to upset voting blocks – greens and muslims. (extracts from the Oz)….
Police could soon have the power to reject protests that stretch over months, as a clearly frustrated NSW Premier Chris Minns decried the more than $5m spent on controlling pro-Palestine rallies and attacked the leader of the protest movement as a “professional demonstrator”.
The Premier hit out at Josh Lees, a leading member of the Palestine Action Group who has lodged weekly applications for the past year to march in Sydney since the October 7 Hamas atrocities in Israel, agreeing with the description of the activist as a “professional protester”.
Mr Lees writes for Red Flag, the outlet of Socialist Alternative, which declares itself “Australia’s largest Marxist group”, and regularly calls for the overthrow of capitalism.
NSW Labor in decades past would have sorted this prick out Josh Lees quick smart.
Bollocks.
And bollocks to you too, my friend.
Cackles on 60 minutes frothing that she will pay for her policies by beefing up the IRS to go after the rich. Great comment on X that this is the same IRS she and demented pervert had already beefed up by employing 87 thousand new agents and giving them guns:
(19) Alex Thompson on X: “.@60Minutes releases next clip from Harris interview. Bill Whitaker presses Harris on how she will pay for her economic agenda. https://t.co/AppgSTNVHw” / X
Are There Ulterior Motives Surrounding The Recent FEMA Controversy?
This one has been going around in my brain all day.
Thomas Dolby – Airhead (1988)
Sounds like the type of country to have a completely open border with!
Blackly comedic that despite the risk of being decapitated within a week there’s still no shortages of wannabe politicians standing for such positions.
Humans and power, it’s an addictive drug.
What is Israel’s endgame for Gaza? (youtube.com)
The watchtowers are a good idea.
Mmmmmm I like it.
It’s like an open-air prison. Perfect!!!
I’m still in favour of using the concrete in the Gazan buildings to make The Gaza Pier.
All of it.
D10’s are better.
@Teddy21btc
One minute explanation of why the State Department is pro-censorship.
And you’re a double poo bum.
Men rape, men kill at much higher rates. Men have higher rates of schizophrenia, ASD, ADHD, ODD, have poorer impulse control, commit suicide at a higher rate. Men don’t live as long, neglect their health more often, abuse drugs more often. Single women do better than single men and have a more supportive social structure.
Very, very different.
@TCNetwork
Tucker: “If [Kamala Harris] wins, how can they let X continue?”
@elonmusk: “They’ll try to prosecute the company. They’ll try to prosecute me.”
James Holland’s book on D-Day, and the Battle for Normandy cites the incident of the member of the Royal Canadian Navy, transferred off H.M.S. Hood, a matter of days before that ship sailed on her final voyage, then being one of a handful of survivors, when his next ship was sunk in the Atlantic.
Sky News are pushing hard their forthcoming coverage of the Queensland election headlined by the Palacechook. There is no way I will be watching that clown show. I would rather hear about it the next morning from the Outsiders.
It will be on here, so no probs, and the commentary will be better, funnier and more accurate.
Wouldn’t expect much mea culpa from the Chook. Might provide some LOLs.
Currently at Watford Gap services on the M1, heading to Northumberland in a borrowed Land Rover Defender that apparently is illegal to use in London because its exhaust is like chemical warfare.
The UK motorway system is a series of joined up roadworks.
Google maps tells me 6.5 hours to Alnwick (255 miles) – all on the highway. I have no idea how the UK manages to function.
But, First World problems. The egg (1), sausage (1) and baked beans (£7.99) is excellent. Cafe Americano (£4), less so.
I’ve only been to Pommyland once. But in those three weeks I encountered the worst hamburger ever (in Birmingham) and also the most horrid Maccas (in Marble Arch).
On the other hand I had a week in the latter location in a B&B, with two Spanish lasses doing breakfast duty. The breakfast bacon and eggs were to die for and they weren’t into wearing bras.
A Full English at a Pommy caff is a true lucky dip and can range from sublime to inedible.
A full Scottish breakfast is one of those experiences…
Nothing makes you appreciate wide open (and empty) spaces like being in the UK. Just too many people.
Yeah, but living in Perth causes you to feel that way. No one lives there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5akOOlGTI
4 quid for Pommy coffee? Rude.
Took my kids to lunch there in 2014 trying to get Maccas for lunch and doing my best to get WiFi internet attempting to get the score of the Sea Eagles v Bunnies semi final. Manly lost but I got the family and hire car back to London before they had heard of ULEZ. There was a congestion tax though.
Non-custodial sentence from Canberra’s ‘progressive’ judiciary:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-08/act-man-court-chasing-teenage-girls-shops-proposition-sentence/104446016
But no worries: he wasn’t a priest or a private school teacher.
On the Hurricane Helene debacle. I have been wary of some of the worse assertions coming out of this like bodies in the street but looks like the siphoning off of funds for illegals can now be put to rest as true:
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1843351318494359878
Via PJ media and they highlight the different standards the media applied to Hurricane Katrina:
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/10/08/the-morning-briefing-one-simple-way-to-tell-that-the-dems-are-full-of-it-regarding-fema-money-n4933130
And first in the world for moronic and/or malevolent politicians.
We have 100% of Albo, Wong, Bowen, Burke and Bandt.
The Lucky Country indeed.
Do you have a reference for your stats? I’d appreciate.
The problem is entirely the volume of, and poor quality of, our governments.
Imagine our standard of living, standard of education, crime rate and defence preparedness if we were managed to Singapore or Swiss standards?
My sincere condolences.
Whole lotta theft going on. Lately it seems to be the simple answer that fits best.
At the very least, electricity should be dirt cheap instead of among the world’s most expensive…(Hello, South Australia).
That would flow on to cheaper prices on just about everything.
Have politicians been involved?
We are experiencing what’s called the ratchet effect of increased supply chain costs, in this case electricity. It compounds at every step. The good thing is if you take out the lever that causes it, ie renewable subsidies, then it will drop back very quickly. We just need a government gutsy enough to pull the lever.Over to you Mr Dutton.
Politicians have sold us down the drain.
‘Lebanon has been kidnapped by Hizbollah and behind Hizbollah is Iran.’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zke9lqjro
A former Lebanese PM admits the truth that many know and few dare to say. The destruction of Hizbollah would be the best thing that could happen to Lebanon.
Wouldn’t be in this position if they didn’t allow the Islamic Cancer into their country when they got chucked out of Jordan (Palestine).