Open Thread – Thurs 14 Nov 2024


The Morning, Caspar David Friedrich, 1822

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DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 14, 2024 12:27 am

Boo. Again.

John H.
John H.
November 14, 2024 1:25 am

Could a pill provide the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise? A study in mice raises the possibility

No, because exercise does much more than just provide compounds from muscles, irisin being a prominent one. Exercise, with resistance exercise being an important component, will help but by how much? On the weekend I read trials on humans with simple interventions which stalled neurodegeneration. There’s no single approach but there is enough research out there now to construct interventions that should markedly decrease the risk of dementia. This type of research only took off this century and is still in development. It is promising.

JC
JC
November 14, 2024 1:43 am

You know, this election result appears to be more of a counter revolution to the decadence of the Western left.
With God’s help we will see this occurring in Europe.

JC
JC
November 14, 2024 2:26 am

Aussie dollar pole vaulting on a cliff edge. Now 64.80 cents.

JC
JC
November 14, 2024 3:00 am

Bear:

Those morons in Canberra have no idea—a semi is hurtling toward them on their side of the road.

JC
JC
November 14, 2024 3:04 am

This is potentially very true.

Bill Ackman.

The business community is giddy with excitement about the

@realDonaldTrump administration. I am hearing this from everyone, including from people who didn’t vote for Trump. Business confidence is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Business leaders are becoming more confident about the country and the economy. This means they will be making more investments in our future which will drive the economy and the stock market, reducing the cost of capital and bolstering confidence further, catalyzing more investment and more growth in a self-reinforcing, virtuous cycle. Merger and acquisition activity is about to explode as there are an enormous number of deals that have been deferred pending a more favorable regulatory environment for transactions. M&A will drive efficiency, greater profitability and growth. It will also enable the return of capital to investors who will seek to redeploy their profits and proceeds in new investment opportunities. The DOGE and deregulation will drive government efficiency and make America a vastly better and lower-risk place to do business efficiently and effectively. I am also hearing about non-US companies that are desperate to immediately create a presence on U.S. soil. They are frightened to be locked out of the most important economy in the world. They will build factories and make new investments here to avoid the risk of tariffs and because they don’t have a better place to invest capital. China’s economy is in trouble. Europe’s is a mess. The U.S. has now become by far the best country for investment. Growth is about to explode.

We had one little part of Australia that could be doing well, and that’s gold mining seeing where the gold price is. That Croation shitforbrains closed it down. It wasn’t much, but it’s certainly a signal to anyone else. But hey, at least we’ll reach net zero by 2035 (?).

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JC
JC
November 14, 2024 3:11 am

Around 70% of my net worth has always been in in the US. The only thing I recommend is putting some money over here because this place is going motor along like a Musk rocket.

Tom
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Miltonf
Miltonf
November 14, 2024 5:10 am

Abbott praising that spiteful nincompoop is up there with Howard’s embrace of Trumble. A pair of uniparty frauds.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 6:38 am

Bugger.

RINOs Keep Senate As Thune Beats Rick Scott To Replace McConnell (14 Nov)

As Axios notes, Thune’s win “is a victory for the post-Trump establishment,” as he’s “not a natural, true-believer Trump guy like Rick Scott and his supporters are.”

Several of Trump’s most prominent supporters, including Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson and RFK Jr. had endorsed Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) in the race.

John Cornyn, an underdog to Thune, ended up finishing in a close second.

So Rick Scott didn’t even come second. A couple of X polls I’ve seen made it clear that righties overwhelmingly wanted Scott. Well all we can hope for is the RINOs get primaried to oblivion.

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2024 6:54 am

Interesting story from the Oz……….

Albany candidate ‘harassed, threatened’ after LGBTQI+ commentsPAUL GARVEY

12 hours ago

A West Australian Liberal candidate who made controversial comments linking pedophilia to the LGBTQI+ community has ­secured a restraining order against a woman behind repeated alleged threats and harassment of him and his family.

Thomas Brough, who is running for the seat of Albany in WA’s southwest, secured the court order on Monday after going to police with details of multiple instances of disturbing behaviour towards him by a fellow resident.

Dr Brough’s police statement details a series of incidents in which the woman entered the emergency department where he works and repeatedly hurled abuse at him. According to Dr Brough’s statement, the woman at one point allegedly said words to the effect of “I know where you live and I’m going to make sure you f..king die”. She also allegedly said, “you and your woman and kid out there, year I f..king know where you are”.

He claimed in the statement that a psychiatrist colleague who had interacted with the woman had told him that she had described her intent to inflict physical violence on him and that the psychiatrist believed the threats were credible.

Last week, after visiting the ­Albany Court House to collect a violence restraining order application, Dr Brough was in his car preparing to leave when the woman parked her car across the front of his vehicle and blocked him in.

According to Dr Brough’s statement, she stepped out of her car while holding a large glass jar that he feared could be used as a weapon. A passer-by stepped between the pair and another man called the police.
The woman had also posted a photo of Dr Brough’s driveway on social media, in which she said “I’m ya neighbour ya sly dog see ya at Nanarup real soon for a nice neighbourly how ya ‘garn we’re both farmers after all”.

Dr Brough’s statement also detailed vandalism to his car, which is covered in political branding, that occurred around the time of their emergency room incidents. The woman posted photographs of the vandalism on her Facebook page, under the caption “For my Gays and They’s”.

Dr Brough, who sits on the City of Albany council, led a successful push to sever Albany’s sister city relationship with the Chinese city of Linyi after arguing that the arrangement could be a vehicle for Chinese Communist Party’s influence and interference.

He has also been criticised over comments made at a council meeting in which he argued that the plus symbol in LGBTQI+ could include “people who identify as minor-attracted persons”.

Those comments, and Dr Brough’s support for a group seeking to have two sex education books removed from the Albany library, saw him labelled a “dickhead” in the WA parliament by Culture and Arts Minister David Templeman. The minister ultimately withdrew the comment.
Dr Brough and his wife, who is 36 weeks pregnant, are upgrading their home security in the wake of the incidents.

“She hasn’t been sleeping, she’s been hyper vigilant. It’s just been extremely unpleasant, and that’s not what you expect when your husband wants to have a crack at being a representative,” he told The Australian.

He said his appetite to pursue a political career had not been affected by the incidents. “It just reaffirms the fact that we need people of courage and conviction and character to participate in the public arena,” he said.

Liberal MP Rick Wilson, whose federal electorate of O’Connor includes Albany, said the threats towards Dr Brough were some of the most egregious he’d ever seen.

“When you’ve got a wife at home on a small block just out of town with a two-year-old toddler and a baby due in two weeks, and you’re at work at the hospital where you’re getting constantly harassed by this person who’s (allegedly) threatened to kill you, and has posted on Facebook a photo of his front driveway saying, ‘I know where you live’, it’s really concerning,” Mr Wilson said.

“And quite frankly the pile-on, which was led by Rebecca Stevens, the member for Albany, and jumped on by David Templeman, calling Tom Brough a dickhead and hoeing into him in the parliament, I don’t think it reflects well on them.

“People in senior roles need to take some responsibility for their words.”
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam said Labor had used the cloak of parliamentary privilege to incite the harassment of Dr Brough.

“Political candidates of all stripes do an enormous service to our democracy when they choose to run for office, and they should be able to do that without needing a VRO,” she said.

“It is typical of Roger Cook’s WA that people are having their families threatened because they stand for election.”

Mr Templeman said no one should be harassing or attacking anyone for their beliefs.

“Violence and threats against anyone are not acceptable and I urge everyone in the Albany community to treat each other with respect and tolerance,” he said.

“As I said at the time, libraries should be safe spaces for all people, no matter their age, gender, race, religion, disability, cultural identity, sexuality, language, educational attainment, socio-economic status, political allegiance or social viewpoint.”

Good on Dr Brough, I hope he wins. Two points here…..firstly, the left constantly use threats, intimidation and violence against people who have opinions they don’t like. The left are rarely called out for it and they never incur any consequences.

Secondly, Dr Brough is 100% right about the ‘plus symbol in LGBTQI+’. As far as I am concerned it is an pointer, an interference to those who ‘identify as minor-attracted persons”, or in plain English to those people who are PEDOPHILES.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 7:10 am

Couple of interesting MENA stories:

Report: Iran ‘Postpones’ 3rd Attack on Israel in Hope of Deal with Trump (13 Nov)

Saudi Royals Ask Trump to ‘Finish What You Started’ in Middle East (12 Nov)

Reagan sank half of the Iranian fleet in a day, and Trump is cut from similar cloth. But the carrot that comes with the stick is the Abraham Accords, and Saudi are keen for that process to continue it appears. And as Dover reported Saudi and Iran have been having meetings lately, so maybe that will also help cool things down.

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2024 7:15 am

Brough’s treatment is a classic rule from Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

The woke progressive left just love to dish it out but they hate it when it’s thrown back, just like here when we saw Monty complaining about being called a ‘Nazi’ despite the fact that for years he’s come on here throwing the smear Nazi around with gay abandon.

I guess that’s why I’ve adopted the following Alinsky rule….

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

Muddy
Muddy
November 14, 2024 7:23 am

Just one day for Remembrance of our fallen, but a whole week for trains awareness?
Oh, hang on…
As you were.

calli
calli
November 14, 2024 7:29 am

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

Exactly what was done to me on Monday. They do it automatically, this playing of the man not the ball. Obsessive and childish and very dangerous to relationships.

The Beloved was watching Paul Murray last night and I caught a short segment on the cancelling of family members who may have different political opinions (this was in reference to that insane psychiatrist on the View recommending cutting off of Trump voters at Christmas).

What ever happened to changing the subject? And when they persist, changing the subject again and again? They have no interest in your views, just their own. Keeping the peace has always been difficult, this type of thing isn’t new. Like toddlers, they need diversion.

Which will work just fine until they pick up the meat cleaver.

Always have an escape plan. As Faustus would say, this is an Iron Law.

calli
calli
November 14, 2024 7:35 am

Always remember…

Opinions
shatterzzz
November 14, 2024 7:35 am

Could a pill provide the dementia-fighting benefits of exercise? A study in mice raises the possibility

I take lotza these medical “discoveries” with a large pinch of salt! .. read, earlier in the week ( ABC), that folks who have had Cancer are, more likely to be, immune to Dementia .. As someone who’s had, & recovered from, 2 different types of Cancer over the past 15 years I’m guessin’ I’m guaranteed to go out full compus mentis .. LOL! …

shatterzzz
November 14, 2024 7:37 am

Slight setback for the “Don” .. one of McConnell’s maaate’s elected Senate leader ……
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/13/john-thune-elected-senate-republican-leader-in-tight-race/

mem
mem
November 14, 2024 7:39 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 14, 2024 7:42 am

Is anyone watching the use of public money?
In a last ditch attempt to get landowner consent to build the VNI West inter connector, AEMO’s mongrel pup TCV is throwing money around in a vain attempt to bribe farmers.
-$100,000 just to do on ground surveys.
-We’ll pay for a new house.
-Name a price per tower.
-Name a price per Km of line.
These are the offers by TCV to farmers I know right now.
How does a company that only exists through government mandate, whose funds are derived from government approved levies on the distribution and retail network, get to behave in this manner?
Call me old fashioned but I think this is wrong.

shatterzzz
November 14, 2024 7:44 am

We had one little part of Australia that could be doing well, and that’s gold mining seeing where the gold price is. That Croation shitforbrains closed it down. It wasn’t much, but it’s certainly a signal to anyone else. But hey, at least we’ll reach net zero by 2035 (?).

And 2 lithium mines have/are in the process of being snowballed cos low market price for product with a lot more job losses than Blayney but a lot less media publicity ..

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 7:47 am

Exactly what was done to me on Monday. 

There’s been a fair bit written this week on the insanity that seems to’ve broken out on the Left after the election result. I read this one yesterday:

The Heartbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome (12 Nov)

Unhinged examples of disappointed Kamala Harris supporters abound on the internet, especially at the Libs of TikTok account on X (formerly Twitter), which shares the emotional breakdowns of progressives who feel compelled, inexplicably, to exhibit their mental instability on social media for the wonder and entertainment of all.

Is it virtue-signaling? A catharsis of some kind? An existential cry into the void? Who knows, but these performances include such eyebrow-raising examples as the woman who shared a message for her family to “f[***] off and choke on your turkey” at the holiday dinner she now won’t be attending. Another Kamala fan suggests to her fellow women that they should immediately divorce their Trump-supporting husbands, if not poison them.

Couple all this with the data which suggests that half of young lefty women have been actually diagnosed with mental conditions of one sort or another. I fear that abandoning the family model outlined in the Bible is having a very bad effect on the mental health of women.

calli
calli
November 14, 2024 7:49 am

On another issue, I just heard Clennell telling me that “Rudd will survive”.

I don’t care about the little sh*t’s “survival”. This loose-lipped nincompoop is currently our representative to our most important ally. With whom he has Net Zero credibility. Why do the Australian people have to suffer this purely political appointment?

The guy has been reduced to going cap in hand to his old political enemies to give him entry into the new administration. Which means he hasn’t been doing his job, his duty to us.

Recall him and replace him with someone who can do the job.

shatterzzz
November 14, 2024 7:50 am

Abbott praising that spiteful nincompoop is up there with Howard’s embrace of Trumble. A pair of uniparty frauds.

Looking after his own self interest .. rumoured to be hoping for an ambassadorial appointment if Dudzy getz up .. sooo no rockin’ the boat! ……
Oz politics 101 .. it’s ALWAYZ about the “money” …!

calli
calli
November 14, 2024 7:56 am

Ha! Nincompoop is a much under-utilised word!

A good Word For the Day.

Here’s a visual cue.

X
shatterzzz
November 14, 2024 8:05 am

Liquidators for embattled Victorian publisher Shawline have confirmed hundreds of authors and the tax office are owed more than $800,000.
And if you keep reading you arrive at ……
 they had received claims from 51 authors seeking to recover losses of between $5,000 and $8,000.
Lotza “would be” authors on the “books” tho ..
The liquidators said 470 authors were on Shawline’s books ..

Maybe I’m a cynic but one publisher & 470 authors in the Oz book market? ..
I had no idea the “make money out of writing” market is/was booming in OZ .. LOL!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/shawline-publishing-collapse-authors-money-liquidation/104565730

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 8:15 am

Kaboom!

Trump Selects Tulsi Gabbard to Serve as Director of National Intelligence (13 Nov)

I hope she cleans the place out very thoroughly, especially the CIA.

P
P
November 14, 2024 8:20 am

Matt Gaetz for AG.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 14, 2024 8:26 am

they had received claims from 51 authors seeking to recover losses of between $5,000 and $8,000.

Riting must be a hard row to hoe if you have to knock out 6 to 8 books a year to make minimum wage.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2024 8:31 am
mem
mem
November 14, 2024 8:33 am

From Gez at 7.42am

How does a company that only exists through government mandate, whose funds are derived from government approved levies on the distribution and retail network, get to behave in this manner?

Call me old fashioned but I think this is wrong.

The company pays handsome salaries to those at top. Co will be on contract to deliver. Biggest priority is to deliver quickly otherwise flow of taxpayer funds may be jeopardised. Throwing money around to achieve deadlines doesn’t hurt them. If things get tight the top guys will move on but given Trump’s win the writing is on the wall for the big renewable boom.There will be fewer opportunities worldwide and finance will dry up.You would have to be blind Freddy (or Bowen and the Labor/Greens) not to see the end of the scam coming.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 14, 2024 8:40 am

A comforting cup of pabulum for the broken hearts of Hartford.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 9:00 am

A Cat mentioned Have Spacesuit Will Travel this week. Perhaps it should be compulsory reading for NASA astronauts…

NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: ‘None of our spacesuits are spring chickens’ (13 Nov)

NASA’s EMU spacesuit was first developed in the 1970s and flown in the 1980s, during the space shuttle program. The EMU has experienced several coolant leaks in recent years, most famously an incident in 2013 when Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano’s helmet filled with water during a spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA). …

NASA plans to replace the ISS with commercial space stations in the early 2030s, and is also working on next-generation spacesuits in partnership with industry for both the ISS and the moon. Collins Aerospace was expected to create the newer ISS suits, but the company withdrew from its contract in June because its anticipated timeline “would not support the space station’s schedule and NASA’s mission objectives.” NASA has not yet announced what will happen next.

Well yes an emu isn’t a spring chicken, there is that. I’ve linked to the Instapundit entry because they have a tweet about SpaceX’s spacesuits, which were used in the recent spacewalk. NASA are now so far behind they are irrelevant.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
November 14, 2024 9:04 am

An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.
She will carry out Presidents Trumps wishes right up to the point of where she doesn’t – and like Pence, will show her colours when it is most advantageous to the Left.
And with John Thune in as Senate Majority Leader, the Deep State is creeping back into the pivotal positions.
Trump has learned nothing about the Left.
One cancer cell in your organisation is one too many. They always multiply.

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Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2024 9:14 am

But, but Victoria – you love this sort of thing!

A group of climate change protesters have caused traffic chaos for thousands of Melbourne commuters this morning after they blocked off a key road. 

A group of around 30 protesters linked to Extinction Rebellion stationed themselves on Punt Road and the CityLink overpass as they held up flags and large banners. 

The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged, blocked multiple lanes leading to significant traffic delays of at least 20 to 30 minutes for anyone travelling from the St Kilda area toward the Eastern Freeway. 

Punt Road, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, was backed up with traffic preventing drivers getting to work, with a few furious commuters getting out of their cars to confront the protesters. 

One man ripped a banner away from the group near the Alexandra Avenue intersection and walked off with it, though the protesters simply help up another. 

‘I understand the importance of the message, but there must be better ways to protest without angering people,’ one annoyed driver, heading to university for an 8.30am exam, told 7News. 

One banner the group help up referred to the COP29 climate summit which is being held in Azerbaijan this week. 

Other flags showed the Extinction Rebellion logo, a protest group notorious for their disruptive stunts. 

Daily Mail

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 9:16 am

Good doggie!

The guy is amazing.

He’s launching yet another rocket this arvo, at about 4 o’clock AEDT.

Zippster
Zippster
November 14, 2024 9:20 am

FITTON: The Biden FBI Came to My Home! I WANT JUSTICE!

Judicial Watch

Summary: In the video titled “The Biden FBI Came to My Home! I WANT JUSTICE!” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discusses his personal experiences with the FBI under the Biden administration. He expresses concern about what he perceives as a growing threat of government overreach and corruption, particularly following his four-hour interrogation by the FBI regarding Trump-related documents. Fitton argues that Judicial Watch plays a crucial role in uncovering government corruption and advocates for transparency, election integrity, parental rights in education, and the protection of free speech. — ### Key Points: #### Introduction: – Tom Fitton reports on the visit by the Biden FBI to his home with a subpoena. – He describes his experience of being interrogated for four hours about inquiries related to the 2020 election and alleged corruption. #### Government Accountability: – Judicial Watch is positioned as a watchdog that holds politicians accountable. – Highlights past accomplishments, like uncovering Hillary Clinton’s emails and exposing the Russia investigation as a hoax against Trump. #### Reflection on Political Corruption: – Lists key figures (Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc.) involved in the alleged “worst corruption scandal” in U.S. history. – Critiques the current administration for attempting to jail political opponents. #### The Left’s Agenda: – Argues that the Left is attacking various societal aspects: education, government transparency, courts, the right to life, sovereignty, and free speech. – Advocates for a pushback against these attacks to protect the rule of law and citizen rights. #### Personal Experience with FBI: – Details a traumatic visit from the FBI, likening the experience to media stunts. – Calls the Biden administration’s actions a political abuse of power. #### Judicial Watch’s Role: – Emphasizes the importance and effectiveness of Judicial Watch in fighting government corruption. – Cites successes in election integrity, aiding in the removal of millions of names from voter rolls. #### Election Integrity: – Expresses concern about voter fraud and the Left’s opposition to election security measures (e.g., voter ID). – Warns of the implications of foreign interference in U.S. elections. #### Call to Action: – Encourages Congress to hold corrupt officials accountable, including potential impeachment. – Urges citizens to stand up for their rights and the principles of democracy. #### Conclusion: – Warns of the serious state of the Republic and the need to confront Marxist influences in politics. – Concludes with a message of hope and resolve for the future of America.

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Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2024 9:21 am

they had received claims from 51 authors seeking to recover losses of between $5,000 and $8,000

There’s hundreds of would-be authors out there desperate to get published and companies like this make money from them. (One of my genuine publishers gets about 30-40 unsolicited manuscripts a week. They don’t even reply to them unless a stamped self-addressed envelope is inside in which case they get a slip of paper advising them thanks but no thanks)

Typically the author-to-be pays $5-10k to get “published”, which results in a run of a few hundred books. They sit in the author’s warehouse and don’t get sold much.

The more cunning “publishers” tell the author their books have sold and a new edition needs to be done – for another $4k – and so on.

The “royalties” paid are in fact a portion of the money the punter paid up front.

mem
mem
November 14, 2024 9:25 am

I recall reading a couple of months ago that some of the big banks had decided not to provide finance to fossil fuel projects even if the projects were financially viable. I have been hoping that someone might take them to court over this as I would have thought it constitutes a form of discriminatory behavior. The CBA was one of the named banks. Last night I received an offer from the CBA encouraging me as a client to swap my energy provider to a so-called green energy company with the hook of a big discount/bonus if I did so. It made my blood boil. The CBA should stick to its knitting and get out of politics as sooner or later it will be up to its neck in litigation again. My intention is to pull all my banking from the CBA as a consequence. Perhaps a journalist out there might investigate and expose what is clearly a marketing racket sopped up by the banks thinking they are virtual signaling.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 9:30 am

Why do the Australian people have to suffer this purely political appointment?

Because Albanese is a political hack for whom looking to the national interest is far down the list of priorities.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 14, 2024 9:31 am

ANZ is into virtue signalling woke meddling too.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 14, 2024 9:32 am

In a bookshop recently, can’t remember which one, Australian section, 95% female authors, I’d never heard of most. Jane Harper was not one of them.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 9:33 am

Speaking of which, we now have the US, China & India placing their national interest ahead of cutting emissions and what is Albanese’s priority “in this space”?

Hosting the COP meeting in 2026.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
November 14, 2024 9:33 am

I use comm bank ATM to withdraw cash from my building society free of charge. Their propaganda suggests they don’t want white male customers. Vile people.

Morsie
Morsie
November 14, 2024 9:38 am

Bolt showed a clip of the Azerbajani President at the COP conference.Just delicious as he basically told them all they were fantasists.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 14, 2024 9:39 am

Excellent crop of toon theree today, Tom.

They have such a lot to work on since the big win.

cohenite
November 14, 2024 9:44 am

The headline painting, The Morning, reminds me of the great scene in the 2005 adaptation of our Jane’s Pride & Prejudice where Darcy strides down the mist shrouded moor towards Lizzy who is in convulsions watching the big stud come towards her:

Mr. Darcy Confesses To Elizabeth | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | Screen Bites

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 14, 2024 9:44 am

The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged
Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 14, 2024 9:45 am

I am glad to see Trump acting early on the chainsaw mechanisms re the bureaucracy, which is clearly bloated and Democrat-leaning.

This means that economic recovery can power away before the 2028 election. I’m bearing in mind what happened to Campbell Newman in Queensland went he went in hard and fast and made a lot of people unemployed with no major economic uplift for them to then get jobs in. Added to this of course is that many of the government teat-suckers were essentially unemployable outside their sheltered workshops.

When you cut you must also build. I think Trump and Vance are aware of this, although in his memoir Vance does place a lot of emphasis on the American dream being realised by ‘college degrees’. That depends what they are in, and how they can transfer to the private sector. A rework of university (aka College) education will also have to be part of Trump’s reforms. Success also depends on turning a significant number of youth away from College as the route to success and good jobs. We have that problem here too, with a lack of good trade skills and no job-readyness.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 14, 2024 9:48 am

Harvest, in the Eastern Wheatbelt of the Wild West, yielding wheat at just over two tonnes to the hectare. Pretty damnfine for a crop that was dry seeded……

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 14, 2024 9:50 am

More pressure on Kevin 07 in the Daily Tele:

New video of Australia’s ambassador to Washington Kevin Rudd exclaiming about the “American predisposition to episodic craziness” has come to light.

The footage shows Dr Rudd giving a lecture in Switzerland for the Asia Society in 2022.

“Never take a backwards step in saying we’re allies with the United States,” Dr Rudd told the audience.

“For all the American predisposition to episodic craziness … Look at Trump: how did that happen? That was a walk on the wild side for all of us.”

The lecture was delivered just nine months before Dr Rudd was appointed as Australia’s ambassador to America.

Gabor
Gabor
November 14, 2024 9:50 am

Winston Smith
November 14, 2024 9:04 am

An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.

And with John Thune in as Senate Majority Leader, the Deep State is creeping back into the pivotal positions.

Trump has learned nothing about the Left.

One cancer cell in your organisation is one too many. They always multiply.

I’m afraid you are right on both of those bolded observations.
That’s the problem with people who are overly sure, may I say narcissistic, of themselves, they think they can’t go wrong.
And they always do!

His only excellent pick so far is the choice of VP, and I’m not sure how much input he had there?

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 9:54 am

“There is a popular image of assisted suicide: a swift, straightforward procedure, backed by the awesome authority of modern science, sure to send you off in a comfortable doze. Dignity in Dying, for instance, claim that assisted suicide can “guarantee” a calm and peaceful death. Terry Pratchett expressed his wish to die “sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod”.

The vision of people like Pratchett “is not the clinical reality”, says Mark Taubert, palliative care consultant and professor of medicine at Cardiff University.”

The painful truth about assisted suicide: Lethal drugs don’t promise dignified death 

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Gabor
Gabor
November 14, 2024 9:56 am

LOL.
I don’t travel by air unless I have to and then I’m too zonked out to notice.

But would this be an acceptable retaliation?
I think it’s a fake but it could happen, stranger things do.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 10:05 am

More pressure on Kevin 07

Trump is going to boot him over the horizon.

Trump ally issues pointed warning over Rudd’s future (Paywallian)

A member of Donald Trump’s inner circle has signalled Kevin Rudd’s days as Australia’s US Ambassador could be numbered.

I don’t know who that person is, as I am not a subscriber, but if they’re publicly saying Rudd is persona non grata then I suspect he’ll be given a cheap economy flight ticket and will be bussed to LAX on inauguration day.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 14, 2024 10:07 am

Roger

 November 14, 2024 9:33 am

Speaking of which, we now have the US, China & India placing their national interest ahead of cutting emissions and what is Albanese’s priority “in this space”?

Hosting the COP meeting in 2026

To be re-branded as COP THAT!

shatterzzz
November 14, 2024 10:13 am

Curently watching PARIS HAS FALLEN .. Ludicrous plot but quite watchable .. lotz & lotz of shoot-outs .. tho the amusing thing about all the gunfire is the reliability of the uniforms of the numerous special/riot plod .. They keep ending up one-shot dead wearing bulky protective/armour clothing ..
And a coupla dayz ago I slipped in the garden & bruised a coupla ribs .. quite sore for a minor tumble yet here I am watching our 2 “heroes” one male, one female being battered from pillar to post and immediately springing back into the action leaves me a bit .. either I’m a softee or TV isn’t quite as real as they want us to believe .. LOL!
Up to episode 7 of 8 & Paris has still not fallen .. gonna have to get a move on or maybe season 2 is in the workx .. 7/10
..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33184638/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_in_0_q_paris

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 10:14 am

To be re-branded as COP THAT!

China wants $1.3 trillion from the West for them to worship climate fairies.

Per year.

It’s amusing.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 10:24 am

China wants $1.3 trillion from the West for them to worship climate fairies.

A developing nation with an advanced space program!

They’re having a lend of us.

John H.
John H.
November 14, 2024 10:25 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 14, 2024 10:33 am

Legendary actor Timothy West, who enjoyed a glittering six-decade career on television and the stage, has died aged 90.
Mr West, who starred in shows Brass, Edward the Seventh, EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys with his Fawlty Towers star wife Prunella Scales, passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends.

Daily Mail.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 10:34 am

Why was Elbridge Colby passed over?

Melts easily.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 14, 2024 10:37 am

Alan

4 minutes ago
Australia’s worst ever Prime Minister installs Australia’s second worst Prime Minister as ambassador to America, what could possibly go wrong.

From the Oz.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 14, 2024 10:39 am

dover0beach
 November 14, 2024 10:26 am

Why was Elbridge Colby passed over?

Deep state.

cohenite
November 14, 2024 10:44 am

His only excellent pick so far is the choice of VP, and I’m not sure how much input he had there?

You’re kidding? The list of Trump’s appointments is outstanding:

Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet nominations, staff appointments

cohenite
November 14, 2024 10:50 am

John H.
 November 14, 2024 10:25 am

Small Nuclear Reactors Have A Big Problem

Sabine is hit and miss: on nuclear and global boiling she misses.

cohenite
November 14, 2024 11:01 am

Dems Claim Pete Hegseth Unqualified to be Secretary of Defense | Frontpage Mag

While at the same time:

Democrats and their media however decided that Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, a Pennsylvania health official whose conduct during the pandemic was accused of causing the deaths of many nursing home patients, a transgender man who claims to be a woman, is qualified to be an admiral.

Who would you want running defence: Pete or that fat trannie? Or milley sprouting white supremacy and white rage tropes?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 14, 2024 11:02 am

Bezos’ penis rocket attract lesbians, it seems.

“Power Lesbian” Chops Father Up With an Ax In Election Night Meltdown (Ace of Spades, 13 Nov)

A Blue Origin employee married to a prominent trans author has been accused of killing her elderly father with an ice axe on Election Night.

Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.

Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos’ rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.

After emerging from the house with blood ‘dripping’ down her face, she confessed to police that she ‘freaked out,’ claiming there was ‘something important about Election Day.’

The story was posted on the Cat yesterday as I recall. But I didn’t know the perp was a lesbian married to a tranny. And I have to suspect its father voted for Trump, which would explain the violence.

Good luck getting to orbit, Jeff, if this person is typical of your employees.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
November 14, 2024 11:20 am

Fun listening this morning in the car as Tom Elliot revealed Melbourne city’s plans for Christmas this year. There will be a “Koori Christmas” space, and a “Christmas Camp” space. The “camp” does not refer to outdoor stays in the wilderness, oh no, it refers to the woke variety, lets all be gay together. Hasn’t Mayor Nicholas Reece been busy !

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 14, 2024 11:23 am

cohenite

 November 14, 2024 11:01 am

Dems Claim Pete Hegseth Unqualified to be Secretary of Defense | Frontpage Mag

Well yeah.
I mean, the guy has got no background in interpretative dance or choreography generally.
The Army entry in the next Mardi Gras could be a complete embarrassment with him in charge.

m0nty
November 14, 2024 11:26 am

Trump’s announced appointees:

Deputy CoS (policy): dead spit of Goebbels
Deputy CoS: same guy that didn’t get it done last time
Border czar: same guy that didn’t get it done last time
CIA: same guy that didn’t get it done last time
DNI: Russian asset
EPA: some random NY loser
Homeland: ineffectual lightweight
State: ineffectual lightweight
UN ambassador: ineffectual lightweight
Israel ambassador: maximalist neocon war hawk
National security adviser: maximalist neocon war hawk
Special envoy to Middle East: one of Trump’s rich golf buddies
Defense: richly tattooed white supremacist
Attorney-General: child sex trafficker

Still to be officially given roles, but locked in:
Various anti-vaxx psychos
Various other billionaires
Trump blood relations
JD Vance (what happened to that guy, anyway?)

It’s going to be an even bigger clown show than the last one.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 14, 2024 11:38 am

Monty is not happy.

May he be unhappy for a long time. Your mob lost, dickhead. Bigly. Trump WON! Trump WON! Trump WON!
Now piss off back to your basement you ghastly authoritarian communist.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 14, 2024 11:38 am

Brucey at 10:05

I don’t know who that person is, as I am not a subscriber, but if they’re publicly saying Rudd is persona non grata then I suspect he’ll be given a cheap economy flight ticket and will be bussed to LAX on inauguration day.

The ambassador is not appointed by the host country.
Sure, ambassadors have been expelled before, but that often proves to be a high threshold (see also, Iranian ambassador to Straya).
Kokoda Kev isn’t going to be chucked out by Trump.
That is where this is so delicious.
Luigi can’t yank Kevni’s chain because that would unleash Vindictive Kevni coming up to an election.
And Kevni won’t pull the pin because “most important man in the world at a critical time”.
So the rat will sit peering through the dunny brush at the cobwebs accumulating on the White House hotline.
As for those who cry, “But we will suffer from this” I would say you grossly overestimate the influence an ambassador has over foreign governments.
Luigi is actually hoping that Trump will bag out Kevni so he can use it to rally the faithful in Straya.
Again, sadly mistaken if he thinks people will man the barricades here in defence of the Rat F-cker.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 14, 2024 11:39 am

m0nty
November 14, 2024 11:26 am

Trump’s announced appointees:

Your impotent tears of rage are a sweet liquor to me

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 14, 2024 11:40 am

RUOK m0nster?
You sound a bit out of sorts.
What’s happening?

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 11:41 am

What a shift just in the last two decades.

Being the US’s “most favoured nation” was crucial.

Arky
November 14, 2024 11:43 am

cohenite

 November 14, 2024 11:01 am

Dems Claim Pete Hegseth Unqualified to be Secretary of Defense | Frontpage Mag

While at the same time:

Democrats and their media however decided that Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, a Pennsylvania health official whose conduct during the pandemic was accused of causing the deaths of many nursing home patients, a transgender man who claims to be a woman, is qualified to be an admiral.

Just listened to a couple of military establishment types on Newsnation opining that Hegseth doesn’t have the connections, experience, blah blah blah to handle such a big and complex organisation.
Basically what they are admitting to is that they have made the entire state apparatus so damn Byzantine that no ordinary, capable human can master it.
Wait and see, pricks.
Like the guy who retires from his long career and imagines his replacement will be phoning him up every day asking questions, only to discover how little he actually mattered, the deep state is going to find out that the new guys are going to run things their way.
Best thing to do, establishment guys, is toddle off to your clubs and golf courses and leave the job of repairing the damage you have done to others.
You. Are. Done.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 11:45 am

Timothy West played the police inspector with John Hurt as Raskolnikov in a TV serial adaptation of Crime & Punishment in the 1980s.

Try getting that produced these days.

bons
bons
November 14, 2024 11:48 am

Oh dear, poor old Elon. He must be devestated.

The Guardian will no longer contribute on X.

Cassie of Sydney
November 14, 2024 11:49 am

Oh look, our resident Nazi appears. Where’s our Nazi been over the last seven days? He suddenly disappeared, vanished into thin air. It was quite odd, strange and weird! Perhaps he was hiding behind a rock like a spider does or perhaps he was out frolicking with his Jew hating Hamas buddies, I hear there’s quite a few in Melbourne.

Just for the record, here are two of our Nazi’s pearler predictions in the lead up to Tuesday November 5 2024…..

Back in June our Nazi insisted that….’Biden can govern’.

Two days before the November 5 election, our Nazi maintained that Harris was on track to win Iowa.

Roger
Roger
November 14, 2024 11:50 am

“Gabbard a Russian asset.”

Monty borrowing his talking points from Hillary.

Chuckle.

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JC
JC
November 14, 2024 12:03 pm

Will be interesting to see which country is the buyer.

It’s marketing bullshit to suggest it’s a red hot product. Everyone does it. You need to see the buyers before this is confirmed.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 14, 2024 12:06 pm

Turnbull backs Rudd to remain in Washington: narcissists of the world unite!

Arky
November 14, 2024 12:06 pm

Monty having his “I’m a little teapot” moment.

I’m a little teapot

Short and stout.

Here is my handle,

Here is my spout.

When I get all steamed up Hear me shout:

Tip me over And pour me out!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 14, 2024 12:19 pm

JC
 November 14, 2024 12:03 pm

Will be interesting to see which country is the buyer.

It’s marketing bullshit to suggest it’s a red hot product. Everyone does it. You need to see the buyers before this is confirmed.

The pinnacle of marketing hype can be found at Apple product launches and airshows.
Aerospace companies rival politicians for “re-heated leftover repeat announcements” or “vapourware announcements”. If you added up all the airshow sales announcements as new, unique sales, Boeing would have sold about a trillion jets by now.
“Inked deals” at airshows have a habit of not materialising as firm orders.
Really hold it up to the light and take a good look at it if they don’t disclose who the “customer” is, citing “National Security” or “commercial-in-confidence”.

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Rosie
Rosie
November 14, 2024 12:20 pm
JC
JC
November 14, 2024 12:25 pm

Thanks for the UN report, Dover, but I stopped reading it when I got to these sorts of comments.

For industrialization to foster sustainable de-

velopment, it must follow an environmentally sus-

tainable trajectory. This implies weaving sustain-

ability into the design and implementation of

industrial policies, ensuring that economic growth

occurs without depleting natural resources or

causing severe environmental degradation. Fur-

thermore, sustainable industrial development

should prioritize inclusive job creation by focus-

ing on generating high-quality employment op-

portunities that provide fair wages and safe work-

ing conditions. This dual approach not only drives

economic prosperity but also protects the health

and well-being of both the environment and peo-

ple.


UN projections is okay with you, right?

m0nty
November 14, 2024 12:25 pm

2016, yep, that one election my prediction was wrong. For the next eight years of US elections, I was correct about everything and you lot were dead wrong, every time. You were particularly wrong about 2020, and you were also demonstrably wrong about The Steal, which never happened.

I got 2024 wrong as well. It appears there was a residual groundswell of disappointment over how Biden handled the aftermath of COVID, specifically inflation caused by supply chain problems. This has been the case across every single Western democracy, putting every incumbent at the time out of office (Canada is next). Harris did the least worst of these leaders both in ameliorating the effects of the inflation spike and in minimising the swing against her government, but the inexorable effect was still enough to put her out of office.

The Biden/Harris economic strategy was based on the IRA to restart manufacturing, embracing fracking to build energy independence, and raising wages for the lower classes. These were all wildly successful to the extent that Congress allowed them to be, watered down as they were. However, the middle classes got left behind somewhat, as they tend to do during times of economic upheaval, and that was a cardinal sin for politicians to ignore.

Harris would have been well-served to take a leaf out of John Howard’s playbook. What the middle classes in America were screaming for was some Howard-style welfare to ease cost of living pressures. Cheques with her name on them, just like Trump did during COVID, would have been advisable.

It’s all very well to say that in retrospect, of course, and it would have been very hard to get that through Congress. Running against the Republican Congress for being obstructionist against the Democratic agenda and hurting their constituents as a consequence would have given Harris much more lucrative areas. Sadly, there were too many veteran centrist losers in her campaign.

Trump didn’t have anywhere near as big a victory as Nixon did for his second term. Let us see if his administration can last as long as Nixon’s did.

Gilas
Gilas
November 14, 2024 12:27 pm

Winston Smith
November 14, 2024 9:04 am

An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.

Her relaxed, overwhelming facial stunning-ness made it easy for someone with a XY genotype to keep watching her YT videos, both pre and post-defection from the Dems.
What became obvious was how polished and consistent the delivery and content of her messaging both are.
Yes.. a bit too polished and consistent, from someone who’s not trying to avoid all-too-close scrutiny.
So, yes, I have also suspected guile that goes beyond that which is endemic to female-ness.
As with my pessimistic Election prediction, I’m also hoping to be utterly, totally wrong here.
Orange God deserves better than to be so easily fooled.

  1. Winston Smith November 14, 2024 9:04 am An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.…

  2. 2016, yep, that one election my prediction was wrong. For the next eight years of US elections, I was correct…

  3. Good news from the Netherlands? https://x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1856753778814308733?t=xv5kBPk-3W4HRXH8Ugn9Hg&s=19

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