Open Thread – Mon 21 Oct 2024


The Course of Empire, The Savage State, Thomas Cole, 1836

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Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 3:23 pm

Undoubtedly they have done so but you can bet they’ll just thumb their noses at us. They are both traitors, but they’re hardly alone in that.
Charles III and Keir Starmer have violated the rule of law and must step down

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 3:27 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 5:47 pm
Reply to  Indolent

The Gem hidden in the sewer outfall of the ideologues output:
“There Are No Working Class Fact Checkers.”

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 23, 2024 3:28 pm

Siesta.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 3:34 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 6:05 pm
Reply to  Indolent

They are panicking. Every time she opens her mouth, except to have a drink – Trumps vote number goes up, and Harrises vote tally goes down.
Yo know what?
The Hildebeast is lining up to take over for the next Democrat Presidential Candidate.
She will come in as the “Breath of Fresh Air.”
…and there will be cheating.
Much, much, cheating.

shatterzzz
October 23, 2024 3:41 pm

Youngest daughter got to meet King Charles & Queen Camilla yesterday, my eldest daughter’s eatery did some of the catering for yesterday’s visit to Parramatta .. Youngest was working/waitressing but the eldest was elsewhere ….. too excited to take a pix … duuuh!

Pogria
Pogria
October 23, 2024 3:56 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

You are one good Dad.
I always enjoy reading the little bits you tell us about your kids and grand kids.

Pogria
Pogria
October 23, 2024 3:52 pm

Any Cats remember a great video of a super entitled geezer cyclist giving a young bloke a raging sermon on his personal entitlement? The young bloke was great, very polite in the face of an obvious nutjob threatening the young feller with all sorts of payback once the Police arrive.

There’s a great follow-up to this story. Watch the old turd filling his Depends when the Police explain to him how Karma works. Epic.

The earlier video is in the article, the follow-up is a little further down. Enjoy.

https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2024/10/22/update-video-road-raging-cyclist-schooled-by-22-year-old-caught-whimpering-to-cop-for-mercy-n2180940

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 6:12 pm
Reply to  Pogria

The car driver pulled into the centre of the road. Just how much frigging room does the cyclist want? He’s allowed 3 feet,

Bill P
Bill P
October 23, 2024 9:12 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Pogria, oh how I enjoyed that. You can bet your bottom dollar that self entitled moroon is a demonrat. (And I’m older that that POS)

Vicki
Vicki
October 23, 2024 3:54 pm

Re, embedded comments, I wish people wouldn’t do it or the replies should be automatically visible.
If you hadn’t called attention to it I would’ve totally missed Vicki’s comment.

And I did it again! Forgive me, I have just returned to the city!

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:43 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Hee hee hee!

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:44 pm
Reply to  Chris

Ha! Ha ha!

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:44 pm
Reply to  Chris

O say can you see

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:45 pm
Reply to  Chris

How deep recursive memes can be?

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:45 pm
Reply to  Chris

And the rockets red glare

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:46 pm
Reply to  Chris

The bombs bursting in the air

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:47 pm
Reply to  Chris

Like a coruscade of Toms toons

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:48 pm
Reply to  Chris

Or parade of left-wing loons

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:49 pm
Reply to  Chris

Give the word to those who battlements man, (sorry, person…

Chris
Chris
October 23, 2024 4:50 pm
Reply to  Chris

WATCH YOUR FRONT!

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 3:57 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 6:28 pm
Reply to  Indolent

And it speaks volumes for the perversions some ‘christians’ are prepared to go to to push her policies.
Jamal Bryant needs to be aware of his place in Hell as he pushes this monster toward the presidency.

Vicki
Vicki
October 23, 2024 3:57 pm

Cassie –

We had a great lunch today at Avner’s! Just had to do it. It was PACKED! So good to see.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 3:58 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 4:00 pm
Old Lefty
Old Lefty
October 23, 2024 4:05 pm

Notice how Kamala’s old colleagues in hipster Democrat California have now withdrawn all charges against Roman Polanski. He may be a pedophile rapist, but he’s our sort of pedophile rapist.

Crossie
Crossie
October 23, 2024 4:59 pm
Reply to  Old Lefty

Bill Cosby then better make a pro-Kamala video so he too can be rehabilitated.

Muddy
Muddy
October 23, 2024 9:27 pm
Reply to  Old Lefty

The rules of the tribe or gang come first, the rules of broader society second. Hence there is no longer such a concept as hypocrisy when wielded by the latter against the former. We don’t have to like it, but we need to realise what a waste of energy it is using it as a primary tactic. It’s way past time we evaluated what works and what doesn’t in this new paradigm.

cohenite
October 23, 2024 4:11 pm

This is weird, as bad as queers for Islam:

Jewish Dems Create New Religion Around Kamala | Frontpage Mag

Following on from above this sums up cackles, tampon tim, the demorats and anyone who votes for that filth:

New York Times Claims Kamala Worked at McDs Because Her Friend Claims Her Mother Told Her So | Frontpage Mag

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 23, 2024 8:10 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Where you work when you are thirteen or so always stays with you.

If she’d worked there she wouldn’t have forgotten it. Just another lie.

JC
JC
October 23, 2024 4:20 pm

Theres always a certain clarity in what he says and never leaves something to the imagination.

Trump in Miami — ‘Kamala is lazy as hell, she’s got that reputation.’

Vicki
Vicki
October 23, 2024 4:25 pm

Winston – in answer to your question re meter reading – he writes it down & also calculates the consumption.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 6:36 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Vicki – that’s liable for error – not that he’d make a mistake, but that’s the line the company will take in court.
Photos please Vicki.
And back them up on portable hard drive – not every day, that’s burdensome. Just each week when he recharges the phone from the computer.

Rosie
Rosie
October 23, 2024 4:26 pm
Roger
Roger
October 23, 2024 4:56 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Didn’t get past the asinine comparison between Elizabeth II & Nasrallah.

Last edited 2 months ago by Roger
calli
calli
October 23, 2024 5:18 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Hezbollah never set out to impede the Israeli war machine, only to scare it and pressure it.

Yes. Sure. Totes believable.

The entire article is a mixture of blame shifting, cry-bullying and faux victimhood.

It was great while the party rolled on, the money rolled in, and the political and religious enemies could be persecuted and subdued one by one. And a restless population could be distracted by rocket fire into the neighbour’s yard.

Not so nice now that the writhing, headless snake is bereft of prey and income stream.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 6:40 pm
Reply to  Rosie

The juxtaposition of QE2 and Nasrallah the Psycho is telling.
The idiot speaks of the destruction and chaos around him and has no perception of its cause. But he has to blame someone else.
Double Idiot and Bar.

JC
JC
October 23, 2024 4:27 pm

This is weird, as bad as queers for Islam:

Jewish Dems Create New Religion Around Kamala | Frontpage Mag

Think of them like the Uniting Church—kind of like a weekly green party meeting, but with hymns.

Lee
Lee
October 23, 2024 4:56 pm

A tattoo covered moron with most of his muscles between his ears accuses Trump of a lack of masculinity:

Dave Bautista Shreds Trump’s Masculinity

Yes, a man who was just shot and gets up almost immediately is very effeminate.

What does that make girly-man Tampon Tim who boasts about his non-existent war-time experience?

Last edited 2 months ago by Lee
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 23, 2024 5:01 pm

Rosie.

An interesting read, but wallows in ” poor bugger me” at the end.

Pogria
Pogria
October 23, 2024 5:39 pm

The way he rabbits on, you’d think Lebanon had been a Muslim country from the beginning.
Gutless also. Wouldn’t give his real name.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 23, 2024 5:35 pm

Trump is going on Rogan on Friday their time.
However I would much prefer to see Kamala on Rogan.
Imagine her having to answer real questions for 2 hours. He staff outside would need a defibrillator for themselves.
Would be cut short by Secret Service jumping in with an excuse to take her away suddenly.

Rosie
Rosie
October 23, 2024 5:41 pm
Pogria
Pogria
October 23, 2024 6:27 pm
Reply to  Rosie

No words…

Rosie
Rosie
October 23, 2024 5:43 pm

“An interesting read, but wallows in ” poor bugger me” at the end.”
Yeah the bit about being replaced by a new improved population was nuts.
He pretty much admitted Nasrallah and the Shia have destroyed Lebanon.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
October 23, 2024 8:25 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Indeed they have.

Rosie
Rosie
October 23, 2024 5:45 pm
calli
calli
October 23, 2024 5:50 pm

He pretty much admitted Nasrallah and the Shia have destroyed Lebanon.

Yes Rosie. He mourned him and made excuses, even while describing the elimination of cultural enemies and the damage done. I don’t think you can reason with such people.

Thanks for posting.

cohenite
October 23, 2024 5:55 pm

King tampax chuck and cammy are off to fight global boiling in the Solomans which is run by a pack of climate grifters milking the suckers of the West, inbred like chuck, or otherwise.

Chuck could have saved some dosh and checked with the BOM which has been running the Pacific Sea Level and Geodetic Monitoring Projectsince 1994. According to the BOM, the sea level, sea temp and air temp in 2024 is the same or less than it was in 1994:

Solomon Islands

Worth repeating:

Chuck: “Oh, God. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!” After Camilla laughs, jokingly asking if he wanted to reincarnate as a pair of underwear, Charles exclaims: “Or, God forbid, a Tampax.

Come back Elizabeth.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2024 6:08 pm
Reply to  cohenite

The fuzzy wuzzies will love him long time. Smell the panic.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 6:08 pm

@robinmonotti

2022 NOBEL PRIZE QUANTUM PHYSICIST: CLIMATE SET BY EARTH’S SELF REGULATING CLOUD COVER, NOT CO2!

“Contra the IPCC and other major institutions, he argues that climate is primarily set by what he refers to as the “cloud cover thermostat,” a self-regulating process whereby more clouds start to enshroud the Earth when the temperature is too high, and vice-versa. Although he accepts observations showing that atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, he believes that gas’s effect on heat transfer is swamped by a great natural cloud cycle.

“It [the carbon dioxide] may or may not be made by human beings,” Ms. Clauser said. “It doesn’t really matter where it comes from.”

The physicist believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics. The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate.

“We’re talking about trillions of dollars,” he said, adding that powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made “trillion-dollar mistakes.”

Concerns about such mistakes may have been relevant after Mr. Clauser was slated to speak before the U.N.’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 25.”

Dr. John Clauser, Nobel Prize Recipient for Physics, 2022

‘We Are Totally Awash in Pseudoscience’: Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist on Climate Agenda

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 6:12 pm

@ViralNewsNYC

NYPD officers were denied entry to a migrant shelter in Times Square after responding to a 911 emergency call for help from the location.

They were only allowed in after a supervisor arrived to escort them, leaving them waiting outside for over seven minutes. Officers have shared with me that some hotel staff have been causing issues when it comes to allowing police access to these sites.

mareeS
mareeS
October 23, 2024 8:36 pm
Reply to  Indolent

This is why you sell your boat through a broker.

Tom
Tom
October 23, 2024 6:15 pm

Sky News just had to cut Peta Credlin’s 6pm program because the audio had stopped working. And then it cut out again when the zombies staffing the program tried to return.

This is not accidental, IMO. Sky’s staff are all lefties and want to sabotage it, especially now their Greenfilth fleas are about to lose an election riding on the Liars.

calli
calli
October 23, 2024 6:31 pm
Reply to  Tom

I opined just that to the Beloved.

Either that or they’re poorly trained. Earlier, Kenny wanted to “re-roll the tape”. No go.

I call b/s. There is no tape. A screen full of digital files, mouse down and press “play”. Our church techie can operate a media console better.

calli
calli
October 23, 2024 6:34 pm
Reply to  calli

Confirmed! Some unprofessional deadshit just switched it back onto Peta with her head in her hands.

Sack them.

They wouldn’t last five seconds with Kerry Packer.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 6:21 pm

Unfortunately, he is absolutely correct. This election is pivotal.

They can’t control you so now they’re trying to SILENCE you | Neil Oliver on tech giants

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 7:15 pm
Reply to  Indolent

At 10:30 on the video featuring the Biden spawn, watch his gait as he walks int the court.
Early Onset Parkinsons from coke use? Stiff arms, robotic gait.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 6:31 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 7:23 pm
Reply to  Indolent

What a great video!
And she’s right, the Democrats can’t relate to the wukkas of America because they don’t ever mix with them unless it’s in the context of master/servant.

Rosie
Rosie
October 23, 2024 6:36 pm

The article is also an admission that Hezbollah’s war is not going as expected.
Where is our second front on the Golan!
Why is Assad sitting on his hands!
Maybe not the west, but I suspect the Sunni and Christian Lebanese would like a lot less Shia.

Last edited 2 months ago by Rosie
Old Lefty
Old Lefty
October 23, 2024 8:27 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Indeed they would.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 6:38 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2024 9:25 am
Reply to  Indolent

Read the comments. Everyone wants to have a beer with him. So good.

calli
calli
October 23, 2024 6:50 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Everything is AWESOME! 😀

calli
calli
October 23, 2024 6:47 pm

Sheridan just did a most excellent rant about the ACU walkout. Spares no one. Good stuff.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 6:54 pm

Something that popped up in my FB page in the midst of carting 4 meters of garden loam to the new garden beds…
THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW IF YOU MOVE TO THE SOUTH.
1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one’s seen before.
4. If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha.
5. Onced and Twiced are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!
7. Jawl-P? means: Did you all go to the bathroom?
8. People actually grow, eat, and like okra.
9. Fixinto is one word. It means I’m going to do something.
10. There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there’s supper.
11. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you’re two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.
12. Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
13. The word jeet is actually a question meaning, ‘Did you eat?’
14. You don’t have to wear a watch, because it doesn’t matter what time it is, you work until you’re done or it’s too dark to see.
15. You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH em.
16. Y’all is singular. All Y’all is plural.
17. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
18. You carry jumper cables in your car for your OWN car.
19. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning, Tabasco, and ketchup.
20. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, motorsports, and gossip.
21. Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss (first name), or Mr (first name)
22. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
23. You know what a hissy fit is..
24. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
25. We don’t need no dang Driver’s Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!
26. You understand these jokes and forward them to your Southern friends and those who just wish they were from the South.
AND one more:
27. Why did the chicken cross the road? To show that stupid possum that it CAN be done!

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2024 7:22 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

The South is a bit like non-metro QLD.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 7:44 pm
Reply to  Roger

That was precisely my reaction as I went down the list – Qld without the sharks, crocodiles and drop bears.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 24, 2024 9:36 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

Makes me nostalgic for my Louisiana cousins. All seven of them (two now deceased) and their families and the whole big clan of their relations and friends.

Y’all know they’re fine Christian gun-keepin’ folks from Bayou Country.

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2024 7:01 pm

In case you needed another reason to despise the Liberals:

Jane Hume & Sussssan Ley have poured cold water on Jacinta Price’s calls for a discussion re late term abortion.

calli
calli
October 23, 2024 7:03 pm

Credlin assures us that Albo isn’t in the control room! Bless her. 🙂

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 23, 2024 7:06 pm

Hume is someone I’ll never vote for. As for Lay she was a canbra punk rocker. Hard to imagine anything worse.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2024 8:02 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Ley is on her 2nd chance after some fast and loose rental inspections. Probably in her natural environment.

bons
bons
October 23, 2024 7:11 pm

Ttumps’s Maccas stunt was pure genius. Talk about force multiplier. A couple of hours investment has dominated the news for days.

The genius was the respect he showed the staff and the work. “I like this job, it is a good job “.

A couple of million sneered at tip jockies just felt good about themselves and became Trunp devotees.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 23, 2024 7:16 pm

As I’ve said before Trump is one hell of a guy. I don’t think he had any idea 8 years ago how corrupt dc was. I sure didn’t.

Last edited 2 months ago by Miltonf
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2024 7:24 pm

Trumps’s Maccas stunt was pure genius. 

Not for Maccas. The Left are now gunning for them.

Democrats Target McDonald’s for Price Gouging After Trump Served Customers (22 Oct)

McWeaponized: CDC Unveils E.coli Outbreak In Quarter-Pounders, Day After Trump Photo-Op (23 Oct)

The announcement of the outbreak sent MCD shares down 10% in the after-market (before bouncing back a little)… The timing of the sudden share-price-crushing contagion comes after McDonald’s corporate office dared to actually accept and welcome ‘hitler, stalin, and mussolini’ into their fast-food joint.

Go off the reservation and you are in a world of hurt. (Btw 99.95% of political donations from CDC employees go to the Democrats. Colour me sceptical abut the E. coli “outbreak”.)

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
October 23, 2024 7:41 pm

If Trump asked the people to support Maccas, it would bounce right back.

Crossie
Crossie
October 23, 2024 8:30 pm

McWeaponized – that was my first thought when I read about it. First the COVID disaster and now this, CDC are making it hard for Americans to listen to anything they have to say.

Lee
Lee
October 23, 2024 9:03 pm

The Democrats are evil.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 23, 2024 7:27 pm

The dc and canbra abominations have much in common. Spiteful, maliciously incompetent mediocrities.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 7:47 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Would you like to clarify that, Miltonf?
I’m not sure I get your drift.

Crossie
Crossie
October 23, 2024 8:38 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

It’s really curious how the political and bureaucratic classes throughout most of the world have the same attitudes and methods.

Muddy
Muddy
October 23, 2024 11:24 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

A grotesquery of reptilian anthropomorphs.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 23, 2024 7:31 pm

I see the evil old Warren is leading the charge against maccas. What a fuked place Massachusetts must be with morons electing trash like Warren Ted Kennedy and Ed Marky.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2024 8:14 pm
Reply to  Indolent

One of the lying Liars lies for some time now. UniParty policy.

Rosie
Rosie
October 23, 2024 8:07 pm

“This is among the most prepared, trained and experienced army Israel has ever put in the field. A year of war steeled them for this. Maj. Gen Gordin embodies this steel and it is being brought to bare on Hezbollah in the most serious way possible. These soldiers have iron will. Hezbollah never expected to meet this kind of iron and steel. Now they have met it.”
Crushed.
https://x.com/sfrantzman/status/1848848847952334915?t=6c7mZt5Qx2U99LDZ_GZo8A&s=19

Anon
Anon
October 23, 2024 8:26 pm
Reply to  Rosie

The result of an organisation built on merit. I walked behind an ACT female police officer today in a Mall who was about 5’5″ and whose backside was twice as wide as mine, me being a 5’9′, 68kg, 77 year old. These people are supposed to protect people like me?

Muddy
Muddy
October 23, 2024 9:08 pm
Reply to  Anon

Since surviving the covidiocy, I’ve lost the respect I had for those in blue (or pink sequins during mardi gras), so to answer your rhetorical question: No, they are not supposed to protect you.

Having written that, there were honourable police officers who refused to be waxed, and suffered because of it.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 23, 2024 9:38 pm
Reply to  Muddy

 there were honourable police officers who refused to be waxed, 

Jeez Muddy, I hope you meant vaxxed.
Because the ones at the MardiGras were certainly waxed.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 23, 2024 8:14 pm

Is anyone else hoping the combination of being made irrelevant on the ground in Gaza/Lebanon, and an unfriendly Trump might signal the deth knell for the UN??

Because as far as I can see their legacy will be one of wars never allowed to end and despotic regimes treated as respectable.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 23, 2024 8:17 pm

Has been for some time. Alas, like the ALPBC I suspect they will be with us for the foreseeable future.

Roger
Roger
October 23, 2024 8:28 pm

That would leave a big hole in Penny Wong’s political afterlife.

Megan
Megan
October 23, 2024 9:13 pm

Like all wounded animals, they will fight to the death…literally…to continue the status quo.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
October 23, 2024 9:42 pm

Oh it would be BLISS to have the UN nuked.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 23, 2024 8:38 pm

God she is gorgeous. All behind are having fun, too.

George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue, Maja Babyszka – piano

WolfmanOz
October 23, 2024 8:42 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Superb performance of one of my favourite pieces of music.

Pogria
Pogria
October 23, 2024 8:45 pm
Reply to  WolfmanOz

Hi Wolfie!!! So good to see you.

WolfmanOz
October 23, 2024 9:05 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Yup still here . . . often lurking.

Been extremely busy these last 6-8 months with one thing and another, including a special passion project I’m working on.

Going on a 2 week holiday to Vanuatu next week with my good wife.

When I return I’ll be looking at resuming my weekly movie posts – I just ran out of words and interest early in the year.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2024 9:09 pm
Reply to  WolfmanOz

Will be looking forward to that! But I suggest you pace yourself and do it monthly instead. I hope Dover will be supportive.

WolfmanOz
October 23, 2024 9:15 pm

I’ll probably post more on tomorrow’s new Open Thread

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2024 9:16 pm
Reply to  WolfmanOz

For whatever reason, I was once offered citizenship of Vanuatu..do sometimes wonder what would have happened had I accepted it…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2024 8:52 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

The fun thing was that Gershwin originally composed the piece to be played at the usual 1920’s frenetic pace.

Then he or someone tried instead playing it slowly, and history was made.

Which leads me to this one:

The Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz

Awesome!

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
October 23, 2024 8:57 pm

Pair of gay high-flyers in the finance sector indicted for trafficking in (male) sex slaves:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj4j05wy31o

How long before nien pensant opinion denounces the charges as a fascist redneck homophobic conspiracy?

KevinM
KevinM
October 23, 2024 9:15 pm

Sorry I spook.
Others mentioned their dislike of embedded comments.

If people think us plebs are not worthy of reading their post without scrolling back and forth and unnecessary extra clicking, so be it, I can live with that, no more griping.

Just enjoy the ride as is.

shatterzzz
October 24, 2024 10:00 am
Reply to  KevinM

I don’t mind the embedded stuff but alwayz think if the addition is good/clever then cut’n paste the relevant piece and create a new post is worth doing …….
Tho on another site I frequent (using a different variety of WordPress, obviously) the follow-ups are always visible ………

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2024 9:19 pm

Millions of Australians could get a new public holiday as part of negotiations for Victoria’s treaty

Daily Mail.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 23, 2024 9:22 pm

Washing at the Cafe is always an event. Doing it and then attaching the clothing to the Hills Hoist went without any notable news this morning.

Recovering the clothing though was an adventure!

I had a whole team of helpers. Several noisies, two rainbow lorikeets who wanted to sit on my hand, three kookaburras and a very dirty cockie. She was obviously a she since her front feathers were lignin brown from climbing up and down their nest hole. She got a slice of bread.

The special washing helpers though were special: two Pacific Black Ducks. They arrived out of nowhere at the foot of my stairs. So I gave them some bread. Yum! Then they followed me to the back yard, and if they didn’t help me take my washing in at least they watched with interest.

Someone obviously has another Cafe where they also get bread. It’s nice that they came to my Cafe this afternoon and helped me with my washing.

shatterzzz
October 24, 2024 9:54 am

had to google “Pacific Black Duck” image .. doesn’t look much different to lotz I see on my biking ……… is it a common variety?

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Gabor
Gabor
October 23, 2024 9:41 pm

Tell me he is dreaming or joking.

NSW skipper queries Warner’s motivation over shock comeback call
David Warner’s shock offer to come back for the upcoming Test match series against India, and fill the void he left at the top of the order

In the DT, I have no sub.

Lost interest in cricket years ago but still tune in from time to time.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 24, 2024 11:14 am
Reply to  Gabor

I lost interest when Ricky Ponting on his first Test Match, after being declared out, sulked his way off the grounds for 97 runs.
Life is full of disappointments isn’t it?
To me it was the start of the media personality game and the end of the gentleman’s game.
Watched a couple of others, but the rot was in.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 23, 2024 10:00 pm
Bazinga
Bazinga
October 23, 2024 10:18 pm

Looks like an opportunity to complain about every time a LaborGreen opens their mouth

cohenite
October 23, 2024 10:17 pm

Gates gives cackles 50 million to stop epstein’s list from becoming public.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2024 10:24 pm

Reading “The Duff Cooper Diaries.” Statesman, soldier, Member of Parliament, wit, poet, diplomat, clubman and scholar….and dedicated to womanizing, to such a degree that said diaries were nearly destroyed, after his death, by his nephew, who was shocked at how frank they were…

Rafiki
Rafiki
October 23, 2024 11:14 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Maybe the homeless, or those who want to avoid correspondence can collect their mail.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 24, 2024 8:00 am
Reply to  Indolent

Extended family?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 23, 2024 10:32 pm

Happy Wife, Happy Life news (the Hun):

The wife of the disgraced boss of the Nomad restaurant group has turned on her husband saying she is “furious” after he displayed a Nazi symbol during a pro-Palestine rally in Sydney and was charged for the act.

Clearly this wasn’t brainstormed prior to the rallies.

Rebecca Yazbek, who co-own the exclusive Reine & La Rue in Collins St, Nomad Melbourne and Nomad Sydney, issued a statement on Wednesday saying her husband Al was “no longer involved in the management of the business”.

“As both his wife and business partner, I was furious with his actions and heartbroken by the harm they caused. I fully understand the disappointment and frustration felt by those affected, and I am committed to doing everything possible to restore your trust,” she wrote.

This – apparently Islamic – bloke must be gutted to have a mere woman instruct him on such things.

Repeat after me, Mr Yazbek:

‘Yes dear’.

Aaahahahaaaa.

Rafiki
Rafiki
October 23, 2024 11:12 pm

Some surprising naivete there KD.

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 10:33 pm

@DC_Draino

You’re telling me the CDC announced an E.Coli outbreak at McDonald’s just hours after Trump served fries there and it’s not a political hit job?

This is how Communists work

They punish dissidents

Gabor
Gabor
October 23, 2024 10:34 pm

Wife of Nomad restaurant owner apologises to clients, takes the reins.He is out of the management loop.
One has to wonder how genuine it all is?
Lying to infidels is permitted.

Rafiki
Rafiki
October 23, 2024 11:10 pm
Reply to  Gabor

Their primary concern might be the prospect of a successful prosecution and how that would affect his international travel. It’s an acid test of the integrity of the police, the prosecution service and the magistracy

shatterzzz
October 24, 2024 9:49 am
Reply to  Gabor

Using the full extent of media hype to publize the “removal” reminds me of a “let them eat cake” moment …..
When profit margins are threatened folk can become very contrite …… !

Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 10:34 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 23, 2024 10:37 pm

Globalist Misinformation: No, the Earth is Not Warming

World War III is well underway, both conventional wars, as in NATO versus Russia via Ukraine, and the US playing both sides of a battle between Israel and Iran and their proxies. There is also a psychological war underway.

This is the war against the First Amendment in America and the longstanding Western concept of freedom of speech in many other countries. Misinformation and disinformation are the new enemies, concepts known only in the eyes of the beholder.

One man’s disinformation is another man’s speaking truth to power. Who is the referee? We, the people, or the administrative state?

This is a multifaceted war, including all things COVID, vaccinations, election integrity, crime statistics, illegal immigration, and the Earth’s climate. I want to focus on climate change, once known as global warming.

Arky
October 23, 2024 11:20 pm

IDF now killing Hezbollah leaders at such an accelerating rate that soon they will only know who their leaders are after the Israelis have ex’ed them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 23, 2024 11:52 pm
Reply to  Arky

Sorry, there is a certain amount of uncouth sniggering going on in dark corners…The Palestinians backed every swivel- eyed loon as a leader since the days of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – he who had tea and bikkies with Adolf Hitler – and now wonder why no-body takes them seriously?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
October 24, 2024 11:28 am
Reply to  Arky

I’m not seeing a downside here, Arky.

KevinM
KevinM
October 24, 2024 12:00 am

Some people just love birds, the feathered kind.

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“Our friend, PJ, built us this owl house that has been standing empty since installation in 2022. My joy at finally seeing a pair of pointy ears peeking out last week, knew no bounds! That, of course, means that eggs have been laid and that mom and dad are taking turns to keep them warm. Because owls like silence as much as they like thorny trees, all staff and children were immediately informed to stay far away with no mowing or shouting for a good distance from the sacred tree. The hooting at night is better than classical music to my ears.”

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No wonder owls avoided it, as one S African poster pointed it out.

Right in ZULU’s alley this;

“Die uil boks is nie reg gebou nie, dit is hoekom die uile nie daarin gegaan het nie. Geen beskutting. Jul moet die boks toemaak aan die oop kante vir beskutting en net een groot opening voor oop los by ingang
Hulle is te veel blootgestel aan koue in winter en son in somer.”

It simply states that it’s too open, I agree, only a desperate homeless owl would move in there.

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KevinM
KevinM
October 24, 2024 12:03 am

Imagine 11 days to travel to AUS from Europe by plane?
We are grumbling at 24 hours.

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Passengers on Eastern Airlines in 1935. Planes were so loud back in the day that the cabin crew had to use megaphones so the passengers could hear them. Flights from the UK to Australia took 11 days. 

The plane could drop 100’s of feet randomly thus motion sickness bowls were placed beneath the seats.

east
shatterzzz
October 24, 2024 9:43 am
Reply to  KevinM

My, 10pound tourist, flight from England via USA in 1967 Left Heathrow Thursday noon arrived Sydney 5.00am Sunday …….

KevinM
KevinM
October 24, 2024 12:04 am

Don’t drink and drive!

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KevinM
KevinM
October 24, 2024 12:08 am

We complain endlessly.

Look at this, wall propped up to prevent falling over, she is doing the laundry with no washing machine in sight.

He looks on, with kids happy sitting on the front step.

cond
shatterzzz
October 24, 2024 9:40 am
Reply to  KevinM

Reminiscent of my childhood in a County Durham pit village, 1950s ..

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 24, 2024 10:01 am

47 minutes ago
HIGHLIGHT
Burke’s Palestine study tour partly funded by pro-Hamas group

Tony Burke is among a number of Labor MPs who went on a study tour to Palestine partially funded by a lobby group that has accused Israel of genocide and opposed the full designation of Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) also partially paid for WA Senator Louise Pratt’s trip to Palestine just before she spoke at an APAN fringe event at the Australian Labor Party’s annual conference in 2023, according to the Herald Sun.
According to APAN’s latest annual report, the lobby group had received $22,400 from “ALP” and $50,000 from “Union” to pay for study tours to Palestine.
The Opposition’s Home Affairs spokesperson James Paterson called on Labor to be transparent about its financial relationship with APAN, which he said he was concerned was becoming “an increasingly extreme organisation”.
“Labor must be upfront about their funding of APAN,” Mr Paterson said.
“What is the purpose of Labor’s payments to APAN? What was Labor’s money spent on? Were all relevant electoral laws complied with and disclosures made for these contributions?”

Vicki
Vicki
October 24, 2024 10:40 am

Heard Julian Leeser speak last night at the Sydney Institute about the rise of anti-Semitism in Oz. I thought he spoke eloquently and sensibly. He seems a gentle man, but spoke passionately about his concern for the Jewish community, and the continuing and worsening street agitation against Jewish Australians. I suggested that the problem was a failure of leadership at both state and federal levels which was only encouraging violence through lack of control and protection of the public. Suggested that we are looking forward to a response from a future federal LNP government which reestablishes civility and accepted standards of conduct in the expression of freedom of speech.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 26, 2024 9:27 pm

Wayne Swan BA (Hons!)

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 26, 2024 11:11 pm

I’d be shocked if the lnp didn’t win. Whether the new premier will pick up the ball and run with it is another matter.

Damon
Damon
November 14, 2024 7:06 pm

He looks on, with kids happy sitting on the front step”

Not much has changed, eh?.

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