Open Thread – Weekend 16 Nov 2024


In St Cloud Park, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1866

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
November 17, 2024 1:14 am

Cash! So good with kids … and they are clearly spinning out along with their parents.

When they know he is a gentle giant, they relax.

Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Granada Hills Street Fair 2024 (2 of 10)

Tom
Tom
November 17, 2024 4:00 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 17, 2024 6:51 am

Greens really are thin skinned.

Germany: Police Raid Pensioner’s House, Drag Him To Court After He Retweets Meme Calling Green Minister “Idiot” (16 Nov)

After a 64-year-old pensioner retweeted a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, in which Habeck was described as an “idiot,” Bavarian police raided the man’s house and arrested him. The crime has even been recorded as a “politically motivated right-wing crime.”

Given the disaster that Habeck has inflicted on Germany I would say that is a very mild description of him. He and Bowen should get together, that would give them half a brain to share between them.

P
P
November 17, 2024 7:45 am

In reaction to the pending arrival of President Trump, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now saying the conflict with Russia is possible to end with diplomacy:

(Via CBS) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would like to end the war with Russia next year through “diplomatic means” as both countries prepare for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

In an interview with the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne, Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end “sooner” than it otherwise would have once Mr. Trump becomes president.

Sundance, CTH

shatterzzz
November 17, 2024 7:46 am

Not Powerline .. but worthy of .. LOL!

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lotocoti
lotocoti
November 17, 2024 7:54 am

If you’re looking for something to watch, try Say Nothing.
Don’t be fooled by the trailer, though.
It’s grim and brutal and doesn’t spare the Price sisters.
Gerry “I was never a member of the IRA” Adams gets it good and hard.

Ceres
Ceres
November 17, 2024 7:55 am

Good news. The mis/dis information Bill is dead. Senator Payman and Senator Lambie are voting against it. So Albanese will not have the numbers in the Senate to pass it. He won’t give up though so watch out for some tinkering with the wording. Bring on the election and Libs, make sure this hideous Bill never sees the light of day again.

P
P
November 17, 2024 8:00 am

This interview was done before he was announced as Secretary of Defense.

Pete Hegseth – Secretary of Defense Nominee | SRS #143

It’s good, and also time stamped. I watched it last night.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 17, 2024 8:09 am

Hertz hurts.

Car rental giant Hertz posts $2 billion loss after EV strategy fails (16 Nov)

Global car rental giant Hertz has posted a $US1.3 billion ($2 billion) loss for the third quarter of 2024, which the company blamed on its failed electric vehicle strategy.

Reading another version of the story it looks to me like the punters aren’t renting them either:

The company plans to maintain only enough electric vehicles to meet actual customer demand for EV rentals, marking a significant scaling back of its original electric mobility ambitions.

The carnage these vehicles cause is really something. Ford also is hurting:

Growing Electric Car Sales Slump In Germany… Ford Cuts Back Production In Cologne Plant (16 Nov)

Currently there’s a “growing crisis in the e-car market” and the production of the Explorer and Capri electric models at the Cologne, Germany plant “have come to a standstill for a total of three weeks.” The reduced work hours are expected to continue until Christmas – all in response to “rapidly deteriorating market conditions for electric vehicles”, says a Ford spokeswoman.

Something approaching 85% of EV sales have been to fleet buyers…like Hertz. So if other rental car companies and leasing companies do what Hertz is doing then the collapse in sales will be enormous.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 17, 2024 8:11 am

After a 64-year-old pensioner retweeted a meme of Green Economy Minister Robert Habeck, in which Habeck was described as an “idiot,” Bavarian police raided the man’s house and arrested him. The crime has even been recorded as a “politically motivated right-wing crime.”

Don’t think albo wouldn’t like to do the same.

KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 8:14 am

We had a gathering of oldies and ABBA songs were played over and over.
I don’t mind them, some are actually very listenable.

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KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 8:16 am

Every home should have one.
Wonder why they stopped selling them?

The world is full of mysteries.

Every-Home-should-have-one
KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 8:18 am

There is more to cooking than having a ritzy kitchen.

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alwaysright
alwaysright
November 17, 2024 8:22 am

The Bee

Fattest, Sickest Country On Earth Concerned New Health Secretary Might Do Something Different

KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 8:28 am

Bruce of Newcastle
November 17, 2024 8:09 am

Hertz hurts.

Reminds me of;
Jumping on bandwagons, all eggs in one basket.

Is the CEO who made the decision sacked yet?
Losing 2 B is a big one for any company.
I suppose there was a sweetener by way of gov. subsidy.
Looked like a good idea at the time.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 17, 2024 8:35 am

Currently there’s a “growing crisis in the e-car market”…

I put this down to the lack of EV’s with a manual gearbox. After years of enjoyable sneering at people with ‘auto-only’ licenses, we’re being forced to the dark side.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 8:41 am

@LauraLoomer

Why are @SenJohnThune and @SenatorTimScott both SILENT over the fact that the Democrats are trying to Steal the Pennsylvania Senate race for @SenBobCasey?

This is what failed leadership looks like. 

Senate Republicans should be helping @DaveMcCormickPA fight this instead of staying silent.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 8:52 am

I doubt you’ve seen anything quite like this before.

@TheFigen_

Woow this surf instructor.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 8:53 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 8:55 am

@iluminatibot

Having been called a liar by Anthony Fauci for saying that “not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested”, RFK Jr. sued Fauci.

After a year of stonewalling, Fauci’s lawyers admitted that RFK Jr. had been right all along.

“There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front-end safety testing… and there’s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year.”

“What better product could you have? And so there was a gold rush to add all these new vaccines to the schedule… because if you get onto that schedule, it’s a billion dollars a year for your company.”

“So we got all of these new vaccines, 72 shots, 16 vaccines… And that year, 1989, we saw an explosion in chronic disease in American children… ADHD, sleep disorders, language delays, ASD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, ticks, narcolepsy.”

“Autism went from one in 10,000 in my generation… to one in every 34 kids today.”

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 8:56 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 9:04 am
Black Ball
Black Ball
November 17, 2024 9:07 am

Peta Credlin first:

On Friday, the federal opposition released modelling claiming that the cost of the Albanese government’s energy policies would be at least $642bn by 2030, or nearly double the maximum estimated cost of acquiring our nuclear submarine fleet, and some five times the government’s own current estimates.

That’s some $25,000 for every single Australian.

The stage is now set for a new chapter in the long-running climate and energy wars that have been turbocharged by the re-election of Donald Trump as US president on a platform of: “drill, baby, drill”, pulling out (again) of the Paris climate accords, and declaring man-made climate change is largely a “hoax”.

Over the life of the Albanese government, hardly a week has passed without Energy Minister Chris Bowen proclaiming that wind and solar provide the cheapest forms of power. And there’s certainly a superficial plausibility to this assertion, given that the sun and the wind do indeed come free.

Yet converting this to electricity requires solar panels and wind turbines, and they’re certainly not free. And getting the electricity to homes and workplaces requires extra transmission lines, and they’re not free either. And as for the storage or the alternative generation to keep the lights on when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining; well, that too, is hardly without cost.

The killer question that the government can’t dodge is simple. If renewables are as cheap as they tell us, why are our power bills going up and up the more of Labor’s “free” power we have in the system?

Prior to the 2022 election, the ALP published modelling purporting to show that a grid with 82 per cent of our electricity from renewable sources would, somehow, cut power bills by $275 per household per year, even though – as Bowen declared shortly after the election – this would require the installation of 22,000 solar panels every single day, and 40 large wind turbines every single month for seven whole years; plus the erection of at least 10,000km of new transmission lines; an energy transition that even he admitted would be the biggest transformation since the industrial revolution.

Labor’s modelling claimed that moving to net zero would create more than 600,000 new jobs, even though it would also destroy nearly all the existing high-paid jobs in the coal- and gas-fired power that, in 2022, produced about 80 per cent of our electricity.

And that’s before we factor in the economic suicide of losing all the jobs in the mining of coal and the extraction of gas that, most years, are two of our three biggest exports.

And the billions in budget revenue that comes with those exports – gone as well!

Unsurprisingly, given all this, a steadily increasing proportion of wind and solar power (now about 30 per cent of our total electricity) has so far led to an increase in household power bills of about $1000 a year and coincided with local power prices roughly double those in the United States – which achieved energy self-sufficiency under the previous Trump administration via increased oil extraction and gas fracking.

Eventually, in response to increasing demands to provide an overall cost for the government’s energy transition and based on the CSIRO’s “gen-cost” (or cost of generation only) modelling, Bowen said the total cost to 2030 was just $122bn – even though, before the election, the ALP had separately released material claiming that new transmission lines alone would cost up to $80bn.

Even then, Bowen’s figure still amounted to about an extra $5000 per Australian man, woman and child over just seven years.

This was always implausible – and especially after the Net Zero Australia study, released last year by three universities and including Australia’s former chief scientist, Professor Robin Batterham.

The study concluded that achieving net zero – across all sectors of the economy: transport, agriculture, manufacturing and construction, as well as energy – would cost up to $9 trillion by 2060, and up to $1.5 trillion even by 2030.

Building the up-to-seven 1000-megawatt nuclear power plants, on existing coal plant sites, that the Coalition has said are needed to get to net zero, while also keeping the lights on, won’t be cheap either. And it can’t happen over night.

Yet the United Arab Emirates has just brought to full operation a giant new 5400 megawatt nuclear power plant costing $30bn. Based on an existing Korean design, it took less than 15 years from conception to conclusion. And it is now providing up to a quarter of the Emirates’ total electricity.

The Coalition has promised to provide its nuclear costing well before the election.

Compared to the costs of the 2000 megawatt Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme – originally estimated at $2bn and taking five years, but now blown out to $12bn and a decade-plus – these are likely to be both reasonable and plausible.

What’s now clear is that the next election will be a real contest, based on strong evidence, about a subject that really matters, because almost nothing is more central to the daily life of a modern economy than reliable and affordable electricity.

Low information voters are apparently what got Trump back to the White House. You know, those apparent racists and bigots in flyover country.
These are also the low to middle income people who know what the cost of living is.
One cannot look at these figures and think to themselves that this is dissimilar to the US. Labor are a pack of arseholes who are hellbent on taking you back to horse and buggy, candles and a shit way of life.
At a mindboggling cost. Just horrendous.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 9:20 am

Labor are a pack of arseholes who are hellbent on taking you back to horse and buggy, candles and a shit way of life.

Yes they are and that’s what they want to do but be assured they will not be included in such a regression. This whole attack on prosperity is very much class warfare- very evident in pommyland and here it’s ‘bogans shouldn’t have nice things’. Also evidenced by the elevation of rubbish like suspender belt and steggles by affluent voters.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 17, 2024 9:21 am

Then Piers Akerman gives the Wong Chap and the government she represents a nice kick up the quoit:

The Albanese government has rewarded the actions of terrorist regimes with its recognition of the “permanent sovereignty” of Palestinians to natural resources in the disputed territories.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong hasn’t explained this dramatic reversal of Australia’s longstanding bipartisan support at the UN for a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict.

Not a hostage will be freed, there will be no end to terrorist rockets and nor will an entity called Palestine be created by this capitulation to terror.

In a weasel-worded statement from Wong’s office, a spokeswoman said Australia had voted with an overwhelming majority of UN member states.

Given that the UN is full of tinpot Third World nations ruled by autocratic dictators and, in some cases, extremist Islamist governments, it is not surprising the majority would vote against the only liberal democratic society in the Middle East.

Support of this particular kind for Palestinians, descendants of those who fled Israel when it was attacked by surrounding Arab nations in 1948 and who have been encouraged to stay on welfare for the past seven decades by a uniquely designated UN welfare agency which harboured terrorists in its senior ranks, goes against every principle Australia has previously upheld.

The UN vote, which still has to be rubber-stamped by the General Assembly, might have come from a meeting of inner-urban Young Laborites.

It is difficult to see the vote as anything but appeasing offensive pro-Palestine protesters and Muslim voters in the seats held by Labor ministers Tony Burke (Watson) and Jason Clare (Blaxland).

Clare accused Israel of trying to “bomb its way to peace”. Bombs seemed to have ended WWII and brought peace to Europe and Asia.

The newly-formed Muslim Vote party has said it will target Muslim voters in those seats as well as in Werriwa, currently held by government whip Anne Stanley.

The move to placate Muslims resident in Australia puts us at odds with the incoming Trump administration.

US president-elect Donald Trump has named former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to be his ambassador to Israel. Huckabee rejects the notion of an “occupied” West Bank, referring to the area using the biblical term “Judea and Samaria”.

Prior to the Albanese government, Australia referred to the region as “disputed” territory. Wong chose “occupied” territory, in line with her undergraduate approach to international affairs.

During his last administration, Trump moved the US embassy to Israel’s capital Jerusalem, historically the capital of the nation since King David’s time, about 3000 years ago. Frightened at losing heavily Muslim populated electorates, the Albanese government’s embassy remains in Tel Aviv.

Trump also imposed bans on travellers from 13 countries which had fostered international terrorism following a terrorist attack by a Somalian who drove his car into a crowd of fellow Ohio State students, before slashing others with a knife.

President Joe Biden rescinded the ban in 2021.

Under Albanese, Wong and Burke, some 1300 Gazans have been brought to Australia though security scrutiny has been questioned. More than 3000 Lebanese-Australians took advantage of taxpayer-funded flights to return to Australia as Israel pursued Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.

There has been no questioning whether those arriving or returning accept the Judeo-Christian Australian culture, and clearly many who turn out in protest do not subscribe to liberal Western values.

The dissonance was highlighted on Thursday when Melbourne’s Myer store was forced to cancel its annual family-friendly Christmas window unveiling event because of a pro-Palestinian protest planned to disrupt the event. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan said the protest “wouldn’t change a thing in the Middle East”. Neither will the Albanese government’s anti-Israel stance.

Hate filled pricks only in it to seat their tax payer income bloated arsecrack on the plush green and red seats in Parliament and give a hearty up yours to the people they purport to represent.
I’d almost go as far as saying this Muslim Votes party is a terrorist group. Espouse the same shit as Hamas cockroaches.
Piss off.

bons
bons
November 17, 2024 9:22 am

The ‘dunny brush’ is not the first ambassador to the US to be hated by the embassy staff.

When retiring ambassador Peacock returned to Oz the Washington embassy staff planned a memorable celebration party.

But they were cautious. One of the staff who escorted the ageing ‘colt’ to the airport was nominated as ‘wheels-up officer’. Only when the WUO reported back that Peacock was definately airborne and not coming back did festivities begin.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 17, 2024 9:29 am

How’s the shoulder going BB?

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 17, 2024 9:29 am

‘bogans shouldn’t have nice things’

Aye sir.
These prescient words remind me of a Tim Blair article giving it to Elizabeth Farrelly.
Farrelly was most annoyed because plumbers and electricians were making more coin than her. Why? Because these essential workers, gasp!, never went to university. And as a graduate in whatever, she wrote she should be able to have an income comparable.
So detached from reality, they may as well be circling Neptune.

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 9:32 am

You know, those apparent racists and bigots in flyover country.

It’s increasingly changing, as people wake up. Cali has swung significantly red. Other major urban centres had big swings to red with blacks, latinos, women etc going MAGA. Major damage to the Demorats.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 9:45 am

The ‘dunny brush’ is not the first ambassador to the US to be hated by the embassy staff.
When retiring ambassador Peacock returned to Oz the Washington embassy staff planned a memorable celebration party.
But they were cautious. One of the staff who escorted the ageing ‘colt’ to the airport was nominated as ‘wheels-up officer’. Only when the WUO reported back that Peacock was definately airborne and not coming back did festivities begin.

That’s interesting- I always thought (through Dad) Peacock was a light weight, I didn’t know he was a deadshit too!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 17, 2024 9:48 am

Farrelly is an Architect, probably not very good as I can’t find anything she has designed. Got a PHD in talking and writing about it but not doing it. Grifter. Compare this to my nephew, also an architect. Won a national competition as he graduated, won several since. I know who I’d listen to.

Min
Min
November 17, 2024 9:49 am

Just watched Insiders who rubbished everything y trump doing including appointments I am sure if those he has appointed don’t perform to make things better you’re fired will be heard.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 9:49 am

I can never forget a revolting post on the Sinc cat by one John Adams (‘worked’ for Sinodinos) and its lip curling contempt for ordinary Australians. Off the planet and nasty too.

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 9:53 am

Just watched Insiders who rubbished everything y trump

Excellent! P*ssing of the right people is an imperative for success.

m0ron will be going through pallet loads of nappies.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 9:55 am

Clare accused Israel of trying to “bomb its way to peace”. Bombs seemed to have ended WWII and brought peace to Europe and Asia

Yes indeedy.

There were over a million more people alive in 1948 than there would have been otherwise, because the Yanks dropped a couple of big BANG barrels over the Land of the Rising Sun.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 10:00 am

It’s grotesque watching these ALP grifters throw our money around to save their fiefdoms, their income streams in western Sydney.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 17, 2024 10:09 am

I tried searching for the Blair piece, to no avail.
However I got this from Farrelly in the search. Get a load of it:

As a child I had a corner bedroom with a big bay window opening onto dark trees. When, as kids do, I worried about a bogeyman coming in to get me, I’d send up a silent prayer: “Just let him be smart”. An intelligent bogeyman, I figured, was one you could reason with. It was the stupid, emotion-crazed bogeyman, inaccessible to logic, you had to fear.

I feel the same now about Malcolm. Already, after only a few weeks, the country feels different. The air itself has a new edge. And that edge has a name. Intelligence.

I know. We’ve had clever prime ministers before. Hawke was a Rhodes scholar. So, even more mysteriously, was Abbott. But neither of them approached us, the country, with their intelligence unholstered.

Indeed, it seemed some protocol required them to keep their IQs unloaded, safety-catch on and locked in some secret dungeon where none would suspect.

Of course, in the intelligence department, Keating was the standout. PJK, as we knew him, had three extraordinary intellectual skills. He could soak up information like a sponge. He had an intense strategic imagination. And he could mix both with the vernacular to emit a spray of one-liners with the perforating lethality of a Gatling gun.

So yes, Keating used his intelligence, as both weapon and wand – but not as bridge. Never, in my experience, has an Australian prime minister used intelligence to connect with the country. Never has the PM conversed with us as if we were functioning adults.

That’s why the Abbott years were so unutterable. Sure, the policies varied from dismal to disastrous. But more than that, during the winking and smirking “ditch the witch” years, when the country seemed to be run by a gang of schoolboy inebriants, most depressing was the shared presumption that public debate is a game of idiots.

Malcolm is different. His intelligence has light in it. I often disagree with him. We don’t see eye-to-eye on tax, I’m suspicious of the TPP, I believe the sale of Darwin’s port to the “private” company of Chinese government billionaire Ye Cheng was unwise and the approval of Adani’s coal mine shocking. There is no moral case for coal.

And yet. And yet. Malcolm speaks to us not as a rabble of blithering chimps wanting their buttons pushed but as grownups, capable of considered argument, reasoned reflection and conscientious decision. For Australia, this is huge.

So here’s my prediction. Malcolm – who like Beyonce is known universally by his first name – will be the longest-serving prime minister since Menzies. Possibly ever.

Malcolm has occupied the middle ground so thoroughly that Bill Shorten – who against Abbott looked almost plausible – is suddenly Mr 15 Per Cent, and shrinking.

This was always on the cards. It’s been rumoured for years, and from inside sources, that, back at the start, Malcolm either courted or was courted by Labor. Malcolm denies it and perhaps it doesn’t matter, except that from the moment he crossed the floor for climate change, he was a shoo-in for the chattering classes.

Before that, throughout his Republican push, people tut-tutted. “He’s no politician,” they grumbled. “He’s arrogant. He’s rich. He lacks timing.” Lately, though, Malcolm’s timing has been impeccable.

To join one party yet please the other is a high-risk strategy – if strategy it is – that in retrospect looks like genius. Starting softly, he fell (42-41) at the first hurdle then, when all seemed lost, hit his stride just when our “plague on both your houses” clamour reached fever pitch.

But this is more than a prediction. It’s a judgment. Malcolm’s political longevity will be a Very Good Thing. Not because he’ll necessarily manage to repurpose the crazier cowboy fringes of the Coalition. But because – far more importantly – the explicitness of Malcolm’s intelligence makes it OK for us to be intelligent too.

Not just OK. Intelligence is almost expected. And expectation, as we know, is the best single predictor of performance.

I’m kind of surprised to care. I never considered politics terribly important in a “comfy bloody country” like ours (to quote Bob Hawke from Keating!), where everyone will eat tomorrow and the parties are virtually indistinguishable. Certainly it never seemed to matter much who was in charge.

But I was wrong. Who knows why, but people take their lead from leaders. The worst effect of the Abbott years was the way intellectual thuggery became normalised. Trickle-down ethics.

So I’m not just talking political smarts or intellectual agility. The lucid intelligence is one that operates on higher principles than crowd-pleasing, rabble-rousing or the routine party hackery of the common-or-garden political mind.

To have an intelligence of this kind leading Australia is a shift of immense significance. Deriving from something that, at risk of sounding naive, you may almost call goodness, it gives Malcolm the potential to be not just a practical leader, in the usual way, but a moral one; a leader of minds.

Pick any of Malcolm’s speeches, interviews, even media releases. His first act, within a week of becoming Prime Minister, was to give $100 million to counteract violence against women and children. Since then he has killed the dopey knighthoods, established a $250,000 prize for scientific innovation, launched a book on Whitlam, dudded Christopher Pyne’s $100,000 degrees and promised to change the ludicrous “publish or perish” funding that has so white-anted academia.

But that’s not all. When Malcolm says “good teachers change lives”; when he reminds the G20 of the “potential for renewable energy, especially solar”; when he warns China “not to fall into a Thucydides trap”, bringing war to the South China Sea; when he promises friendship and support to Indonesia or insists – in contrast with Abbott’s relentless “bomb them” belligerence – that Paris demands a political solution: throughout, you sense the cool and true moral intelligence at the helm.

Relief is what I feel, like the southerly buster after a 40-degree day. It says my inner child was right. The weak and stupid are the ones to fear.

November 25 2015 she wrote this sneering bilge. Never did she hide her contempt for Joe Public. FMD

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 17, 2024 10:09 am

The Japanese finally get to invade Australia…

Very significant’: Japanese military to join US Marine rotations in Northern Territory (Sky News, 17 Nov)

Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles has commented on the Japanese military joining the US Marine rotations in the Northern Territory. Mr Marles has labelled it a “very significant” meeting.

Maybe we can have a visit from some subs and a Japanese aircraft carrier too.

Zippster
Zippster
November 17, 2024 10:12 am

Summary: In a conversation on “Forbes Newsroom,” Philip K. Howard discusses how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can potentially reform the U.S. government by focusing on improving operational efficiency rather than simply reducing budgets. He emphasizes the necessity of changing the underlying processes that govern federal operations, such as procurement and bureaucratic red tape. Howard argues for the establishment of a “Department of Government Efficiency” that prioritizes accountability and responsibility over compliance-based bureaucracy. He believes the success of these reforms will depend on bringing public opinion along and may require several years to implement effectively. ### Key Points: #### Introduction: – Britney Lewis interviews Philip K. Howard, Chairman of Common Good. – Discussion revolves around Trump’s election win, Musk and Ramaswamy’s roles in government efficiency. #### The Proposal: – Musk and Ramaswamy to co-lead a proposed “Department of Government Efficiency.” – Mixed reviews about their ability to bring about genuine change. #### Government Functionality: – Focus on changing government operating systems by removing red tape. – Advocating for a shift from a compliance-based model to one that emphasizes human responsibility. #### Outsider Perspective: – Howard believes Musk’s practical approach is beneficial for government reform. – Ramaswamy’s background in biotech and politics could contribute to the mission. #### Executive Powers: – Certain reforms could be made via executive orders, including terminations of non-performing public employees. – Legislative changes may require public support and involvement. #### Initial Steps: – Suggests targeting the Defense Department for operational improvements, using pilot projects to test new methods. – Advocates for efficient procurement practices that allow timely acquisition of essential resources. #### Budget Cuts: – Skepticism about the feasibility of cutting $2 trillion from the budget; majority constitutes non-discretionary spending. – Identifying wasteful practices rather than indiscriminate cuts. #### Civil Service Reform: – Advocates for protecting civil service employees who make responsible decisions from retaliation. – Suggests that senior officials should have greater management authority. #### Manageability of Government: – Reform depends on bringing in knowledgeable personnel and creating simpler operating frameworks. – Transition to efficiency cannot happen overnight; it requires a long-term strategy. #### Transparency and Conflict of Interest: – Importance of transparency to prevent corruption and self-interest. – Musk should avoid decisions directly benefiting his companies to maintain integrity. #### Signs of Effective Government: – Improvements will be evident through quicker decision-making and execution in various departments. – Better procurement processes and efficiency will lead to public satisfaction. #### Narrative Shift: – Howard calls for a shift from the current “slash-and-burn” rhetoric to one that inspires capable individuals to serve in government. – Advocates rebuilding pride in public service. #### Draining the Swamp: – Discusses the idea of cleaning up ineffective government processes as akin to “draining the swamp.” – Emphasizes a positive direction in reform rather than merely targeting villains in the system. #### Closing: – Howard expresses optimism about the potential changes and hopes for future conversations on the subject.

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 10:18 am

She’s quite a looker too. Dr Casey Means on Bill Maher;

The Vigilant Fox

Dr. Casey Means Wows Liberal Audience and Gets Them to CHEER for RFK Jr.’s HHS Nomination

“And Trump has asked RFK to do three simple things. He’s asked to get the corruption out of the U.S. health agencies, produce uncompromised evidence-based research for our health guidelines, and reverse the trends of the chronic disease epidemic in two years for children and adults so that we can show up for our 250th anniversary of America stronger than ever. That sounds pretty good to me.”

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1857626646007644507

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 10:34 am

Wall Street Apes

@WallStreetApes

The Pentagon has just failed its 7th audit and says it cannot account for what its $824B budget is spent on

THIS IS INTENTIONAL: Congressman Tim Burchett says if anyone were to leak where the money goes when The Pentagon fails their audits, they’d be murdered

“Pentagon that has billions of dollars that they hide, we don’t ask for any accounting of. They never pass an audit in the history of audits. I’ve often said the only way we’re really going to get to the bottom of this is somebody’s going to walk out of one of these labs with this information and puts it out on the internet before they commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head five times.”

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1857855746245050629

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 10:35 am

Evidently Melbourne has retained its title of fourth most liveable city in the world. Patrick Carlyon has some questions (longish, but very very good):

Dear the Economist Intelligence Unit,

I am writing to request an urgent review of Melbourne’s recent fourth place in the most liveable cities in the world ratings, given Melburnians are increasingly convinced that their city does not even sneak into the four most liveable cities in Australia.

You see, it’s kind of embarrassing, for us and for you, that Melbourne rates more highly than Sydney, where they start AND finish road projects, or Hobart, which has fine eateries AND customers.

Adelaide has churches. Perth has beaches. Brisbane has river walks.

And Melbourne? It has taxes.

TBC

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 10:37 am

II.

Did you visit the city before awarding its high status? Arrive at the Soviet-style airport, and note an absence of chairs of any kind throughout much of the tin shed?

Did you queue for the bus to go to the city, after searching in vain for a train station, for the trip which can take as long as the flight?

Or did you get an Uber or cab, and brace for the dead ends of road spaghetti which locals refer to as a “network”, but only when they’re joking.

Victoria slashed 95 per cent of its regional road repair budget last year, which means lots of potholes, old and new, many big enough to swallow beachballs whole. Locals compare hilarious stories about car damage and foiled claims for state compensation.

On the way to town, did you pass the big Ferris wheel which hasn’t carried a customer since the pandemic? Or analyse its storied history, which involved opening in 2008, then breaking down?

Did you talk to locals (and avoid the trigger word which starts with D and rhymes with Ban)? Did you talk to interstaters who pity Melbourne as just too sad to be a rival city anymore?

If you answer yes to any of those questions, can we then also explain that since your survey result, a few months ago, the powers-that-be in Victoria have unofficially given up.

TBC

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 10:39 am

III.

Melbourne feels like a British movie about the monotony of life in an 18th century mining town. Sometimes, the workers go to work. Sometimes, they don’t. The state and the capital is trapped in limbo. No one wants to look back, but nobody dares throw forward either.

The fall of Steven Miles as Queensland premier a few weeks ago freed up the worst-state-leader-in-the-nation category. Jacinta Allan who, to be fair, you’ve probably never heard of, is a worthy contender for the vacant title.

Just the other day, in a world first, her government catastrophically botched Year 12 exams, then pretended it hadn’t.

She told Victorians to get on the gas before tightening rules on the use of gas.

She promised not to padlock Victoria’s state forests before padlocking Victoria’s state forests.

House prices continue to fall in Victoria while they rise everywhere else. Some Victorians face selling homes which are worth less than their home loans.

Debt drives the state tax gouging. There is no Robin Hood dogma here: more, how do we squeeze more money from successful Victorians to pay the interest bill on failed major projects?

TBC

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 10:41 am

IV.

The problem with wealth taxes, of course, is that ordinary people end up paying for them. Land tax here goes up overnight, just ‘cos. Investment property owners cannot afford to pay; instead, they raise their rents, which they can, because there aren’t enough houses.

You can’t even say that today’s Victoria is where people should go to die. Don’t – it’s too expensive. Fees for smaller estates rose 650 per cent this month, while the highest fee is almost three times the fee of NSW.

True, Victoria still boasts some fun moments. The Melbourne Cup earlier this month sung to the rhythms of a brighter age. But such staples have been cut to exceptions. Few Victorians dare to celebrate them, lest their joy prompts a Sunshine Tax.

Disbelief and disillusionment is now the Victorian way.

Here, it’s not about making it better anymore, but smudging what is wrong. Confidence belongs to the other states. This engine has been stripped for spare parts.

Once fantastic, Victoria is fantaxic. Its mojo has gone dodo.

There is no governing for the people here, not unless blowing the books and clinging to power counts as a community service.

In short? May we humbly suggest that Melbourne is relegated in the most liveable city rankings to properly reflect the absence of hope each of its drivers feel when they hit yet another of those bloody potholes?

*thunderous applause*

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2024 10:44 am

…how do we squeeze more money from successful Victorians to pay the interest bill on failed major projects?

Did someone say “inheritance tax!”?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 17, 2024 10:45 am

From Michael Smith – pulls pin, shouts “grenade” very loudly..

Robert Wells said in reply to 1735099…
Poser 1735099.
Poser, from past experience no one can believe anything you post.
You are not Robert Whittaker whose service number you pose under.
When challenged on the namesof men in Whittaker’s platoon you failed in naming them correctly.
When guys like Mark Benson discredit the ‘facts’ you post as being fanciful or wrong you wriggle like a snake in a bag.
When you quote the figure of how many Gazans killed since their settlement came under a defensive action by the IDF you quote an exact figure given by Gazan authorities. Even a goose like you couldn’t believe any exact number can be given.
You are a queer individual, indeed you are.
Reply Saturday, 16 November 2024 at 07:04 PM

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 10:54 am

When challenged on the namesof men in Whittaker’s platoon you failed in naming them correctly

In fairness, Liability Bob abandoned his platoon before he was in it long enough to know the names of its soldiers.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 17, 2024 10:59 am

My two bobs, not numbers and his twin, worth is that Donald John Trump doesn’t expect to do what he’d like to do but in choosing J D Vance as a much younger person brings on board younger voters and to expose the Deep State within the Republicans so as to weed them out. All the Rino’s holding up D J Trump’s agenda on view to the voters. “Are you going to vote for these traitors again in the primaries?”, it becomes an easy choice. The base voters see in Trump a way to improve their lot. Hope is very strong motivator. They’ve already what he can do and what the demonrats haven’t.

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2024 11:08 am

Lessons here for the Liberals…if they have ears to hear:

Biden’s Economic Time Bomb: A Warning to Trump

Daniel Lacalle, Mises Wire, 13 November 2024 [written prior to the election -R.]

The insane neo-Keynesian policies implemented by the Biden-Harris administration have created persistent inflation and record levels of debt with two objectives: to bloat Gross Domestic Product and jobs with public spending and government jobs.

The United States’ insane inflation is solely due to out-of-control spending and currency printing. Corporations, wars, or supply chains cannot cause aggregate prices to rise, nor can they consolidate the increase even at a slower pace. Although this can have an impact on individual prices, the only factor that causes aggregate prices to rise year after year is the decline in the value of the US dollar that the government issues.

Over 20.5% accumulated inflation over the past four years, government deficit spending has reached nearly $2 trillion annually despite record tax receipts and a growing economy, public debt has reached almost $36 trillion, and the monthly job figure includes an astonishing 43,000 new government jobs each month. In 2023, nearly 25% of all job gains were government ones, and the entirety of the growth of the labor force in the past four years came from foreign workers. The latest jobs figure is so poor it seems disingenuous to blame it on hurricanes and strikes, as if economists and forecasters had not considered those two factors in their estimates. Furthermore, the only factor that continued to increase uncontrollably was the number of government jobs, adding 40,000 new positions to an overall total of just 12,000 jobs. No wonder the labor participation rate and employment-to-population ratios remain below 2019 levels. Furthermore, in the latest GDP figure, government spending accounted for 30% of the annualized growth, while investment was basically stagnant. In the past nine quarters, government spending has been one of the top drivers of GDP growth, and its contribution to GDP in the third quarter of 2024 was the largest in a year.

This is upside-down economics in full swing. Private sector investment weakness, higher taxes for the productive economy and government spending and debt driving the economy. Of course, this never ends well.

The Harris-Biden administration arrived in January 2021, when the economy was bouncing back strongly. Instead of allowing the private sector to thrive, it embarked on a strategy of out-of-control spending and tax increases with two objectives: increase the size of government in the economy so much that the next administration would be unable to reduce it enough in four years. The second objective was to bloat growth and job figures so aggressively that the next administration will see a recession if it reduces public sector growth. You may ask yourself why they would do it if Harris intended to win the elections. If Kamala Harris wins, she will continue to expand the size of government, inflate prices through spending and printing, and blame companies and stores for these actions.

The Biden-Harris administration has left a massive time bomb for Trump and Elon Musk’s government efficiency office if they win. It will be almost impossible to avoid a recession if they cut discretionary spending and eliminate duplicate jobs. It is the same strategy that the socialists followed in Greece, Spain, and France, by the way.

However, the socialist strategy may backfire. The evidence is that citizens do not value Biden’s policies and the state of the economy. The approval rate regarding the economy is atrociously low, 39.8%, according to RCP. United States citizens do not believe that they are better off than in January 2021. Inflation, immigration, and rising taxes have crippled small businesses and families. Furthermore, a strong pro-growth strategy and lower taxes will likely boost the dormant investment figure, create jobs in the private sector, and help small businesses achieve critical mass and grow. In Argentina, Milei recognized the necessary actions and cautioned the citizens about the inevitable reduction of the bloated state. The Kirchner socialists left a more significant time bomb legacy than what Trump might inherit. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Lower inflation led to lower taxation, an eight-month budget surplus, and rapidly improving public finances.

The biggest risk for the United States economy and the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency is out-of-control public spending and constant currency printing added to tax hikes. Healing public finances and reducing government jobs may have a temporary negative impact on GDP, but higher exports, investment, and private sector jobs will likely compensate for it, and the result will be better for the US dollar and American citizens.

More government is always poorer citizens. The potential of the United States economy’s private sector is much greater than the short-term negative impact of efficiency and budget control on headline GDP.

Angus Taylor has recently shown signs of getting it…but he might have an uphill battle persuading Dutton (and the party room), who last week walked back stage 3 tax cuts on the grounds that it would be inflationary. No…it’s government spending, stupid.

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cohenite
November 17, 2024 11:08 am

The ladies go crazy:

Woman Forces Police to Act as Her Mental Health Episode Leaves Over 800 Homes Without Power

Actually she was a climate zealot.

Seattle Woman Accused of Hacking Father to Death During Election Night Argument

Lezzos and trannies have really high rates of violent crime.

Some good news though with one of the ratbags who destroy works of art for the climate sentenced:

Judge Humbles Climate Change Activist, Says Targeting of the Constitution Was Just ‘Plain Old Vandalism’

cohenite
November 17, 2024 11:14 am

Apart from anything else the next 4 years are going to be a meme paradise. From WIP:

Pete
Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 11:19 am

Donald Trump has nominated Chris Wright, who runs the Colorado-based oil and natural gas fracking services company, Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department. Like many other Trump picks, Wright, LIberty’s CEO, has no previous Washington experience, and instead has made a name for himself as a vocal proponent of oil and gas, saying fossil fuels are crucial for spreading prosperity and lifting people from poverty. And in news that will surely infuriate the green lobby and brainwashed progressives everywhere, Wright has said that the threat of global warming is exaggerated.

-ZH

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 11:25 am

KD, all of the above is sadly true. Sir Henry Bolte wouldn’t recognise the place. Over a decade of malicious marxist incompetence at state level plus canbra dumping unsuitable migrants. I remember when they closed Hazelwood- the irrational economic vandalism made me feel physically sick. The evil and stupidity. Such is gubmint by people with BAs. I once enjoyed the Melb CBD- it was fun. Now I avoid it.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 11:28 am

As for the Economist- just more condescending, haughty pommy twots from the LSE and Oxford.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2024 11:48 am

Currently there’s a “growing crisis in the e-car market” and the production of the Explorer and Capri electric models at the Cologne, Germany plant 

I had a look at images of the e-Capri on the internet and it looks just like every other car today. It looked bulky instead of sleek, I suppose that’s what you get when you need more room for the battery than passengers. The only trace of the original were oval back passenger windows.

The original Capri was the prettiest car I had seen in that era. If Ford wanted to grab a big slice of the small car market today all it needs to do is resurrect the 70s Capri with modern mechanics. Screw the EVs.

Rosie
Rosie
November 17, 2024 11:56 am

“You are not Robert Whittaker whose service number you pose under.”
Please don’t bring MS BS here.
For all his deficiencies he is who he says he is.
He wrote a Vietnamese war autobiography, used to author a woeful blog, a LinkedIn page and has a Facebook presence with photos and everything.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2024 11:58 am

Over the life of the Albanese government, hardly a week has passed without Energy Minister Chris Bowen proclaiming that wind and solar provide the cheapest forms of power. And there’s certainly a superficial plausibility to this assertion, given that the sun and the wind do indeed come free.

This is from Peta Credlin’s article. Peta, our coal, gas and uranium are also free so right there coal and gas have an advantage as the infrastructure for these is already there. The Coalition needs to push this as hard as they can as nuclear can be for later once we have knocked over the windmills and solar panels.

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 12:10 pm

Over the life of the Albanese government, hardly a week has passed without Energy Minister Chris Bowen proclaiming that wind and solar provide the cheapest forms of power. 

Is there anywhere to find the TRUE total cost of ruinables that contains calculations to include things like ;

  • opportunity costs vv coal/gas
  • subsidy in the form of debts to be paid by taxpayers – with compounded interest.
  • Long term maintenance costs – 30 years min.
  • Maintenance logistics pipeline costs – 30 years min
  • Geopolitical risks of maintenance supply disruption.
  • Cost overruns of existing and planned ruinable projects.

There should also be a public register of all beneficiaries in and outside of parliament who are financially associated with Govt subsidy to ruinable corps.

This “cheapest form of power” needs a true very deep dive/audit into what exactly are the cost to taxpayers of this ridiculous ruinable “cheapest” energy scam.

P
P
November 17, 2024 12:11 pm

Williston Basin Petroleum Conference 2024

Chris Wright

Extract from the first comment on this vid:

Chris you are a beacon of rational hope in an irrational world. Absolutely absurd this video was slapped with this “caveat” in regards to Climate Change.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2024 12:19 pm

Given that the UN is full of tinpot Third World nations ruled by autocratic dictators and, in some cases, extremist Islamist governments, it is not surprising the majority would vote against the only liberal democratic society in the Middle East.

From Piers Ackerman’s article.

The UN is way past its use-by date, it is now used to spread tyranny instead of democracy or freedom. It needs to be disbanded and a freedom block established. However, under Democrat administrations even the US tended toward tyranny. Does it really come down to the people deciding they want freedom and voting accordingly?

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 12:24 pm

Enjoy!

Greenies invoke God on climate while Africans are dying
Gemma Tognini

“Restore the sacred balance,” the sign told me.

“No public money for coal and gas.” 

Walking past the dark, imposing church on Collins Street in Melbourne last week, my first ­response wasn’t especially godly. Oh, go take a flying leap, you sanctimonious cretins, I thought as I kept walking. It wasn’t until later that night that my train of thought meandered back to that sign.

I wondered about the people who made it. What kind of lives they live. I wondered if they go home and switch on the lights, turn on the heater with the flick of a switch in the dead of a bitter Victorian winter. Perhaps they like long, hot showers, fuelled by gas hot water systems. I suspect they all use a mobile phone, also dependent on the existence of fossil fuels. Did they drive into the city to put that sign up, or take the train? No matter. Neither would be possible without the contribution of coal and gas. I thought about how borderline offensive, not to mention manipulative, intellectually flawed and indefensible, it is to infer that it is God’s will to stop investing in fossil fuels. That doing so would restore some kind of holy alignment on the earth. 
I wonder if these people realise that their “sacred balance” is someone else’s prison. Their death sentence. Let me explain. 

Here in Australia, the unbridled race towards an unachievable net-zero target by 2030, born of rank ideology, is biting hard. 

For families and for some sectors of the economy more than others, the biggest sting has been the crippling increase in the cost of power. It’s energy poverty, and the creep is slow but sure and growing in impact.
On the other side of the world, energy poverty is life or death and the best-case example of this is in sub-Saharan Africa. There are many others, obviously, but today we’ll focus there.

For context, according to the International Energy Agency, approximately 600 million people (more than half of the population in the region) live without access to electricity. It says there are a billion people globally stuck in the same impoverished revolving door. Most are in Africa and South Asia. They don’t go home and switch on the lights. They don’t flick on the stove to get dinner ready. They burn animal dung, firewood, and kerosene.

The fumes and the smoke cause chronic respiratory disease and various forms of eye disease which research says is (conservatively) responsible for the deaths of more than 1.5 million women and children each year.
Additionally, house fires sparked by cooking on open flames is a leading cause of death throughout the region. 

This is just one facet of the horrendous human toll directly linked to a lack of access to the energy the “only renewables” brigade take for granted. There is, of course, a broader developmental weight that continues to crush populations who don’t have the privilege of jumping on hobby horses because they’re too busy trying to exist. 

Insufficient access to reliable energy means things like the inability to develop industry, agriculture, manufacturing. This obviously dominoes into lack of opportunity for employment and socio-economic advancement which leaves the poorest countries trapped in disadvantage. All because they can’t access the energy needed to lift them out of poverty. Meanwhile, women, children and infants die from preventable diseases directly linked to a problem nobody in Australia or anyone else who’s calling for a fossil fuel ban, would ever have to consider.

But sure, restore that sacred balance, why don’t you.

It’s the definition of out of sight, out of mind, isn’t it?

Nobody pushing to ban gas exploration and development ever talks about this stuff. They never mention that millions are dying for lack of access to the very thing they want us to believe we don’t need and shouldn’t have. They peddle hysteria, wrap it in emotion, and now invoke the almighty, and to what end? 

My position remains unchanged. I sit in the centre, in that I believe we need to have the cleanest, cheapest mix of energy possible. Yes, the climate is changing and will likely continue to change. No, there is no evidence that we’re in an emergency (Messieurs Flannery and Gore say hello, the Great Barrier Reef says, I’m doing fine, come visit). 

It’s curious, isn’t it, the aggressive push from certain quarters in the West who rail against oil and gas exploration and development in Africa and other places. Do its citizens not deserve a standard of living commensurate with our own? It’s saying, you don’t deserve to live like we do; and it is outrageous that this position has been tolerated without question for as long as it has. 

It’s not just data, but the history of civilisation that tells us that access to reliable power is critical for social and economic development. By extension, for the eradication of systemic disadvantage. 

In a study release in June this year, World Development Sustainability shared a study that spelled it out clearly and simply. Improved access to electricity, modern cooking technology and developed fuels significantly reduce infant, under-five and maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. And for those who might suspect a conflict of interest, not a cent of money from the oil and gas industry was involved in the work. 

I don’t understand how people can, with a straight face, be so indifferent to the plight of others. To a small degree, I understand that it’s human nature to be focused on issues and problems closer to home – but people are hurting here in our own back yard. 

Friends, neighbours, colleagues. Family, too, in many cases. They seem invisible, especially to the activist class. Meanwhile, out the front of a Melbourne church, the privileged seek to invoke heaven to further their cause. I suppose they can afford the luxury of such an elitist position because, among other things, they’re not heating cow dung to make ­dinner, and their babies won’t die from inhaling the smoke thereof.

Public money should be spent on energy sources that are reliable and affordable, and our energy mix should be diverse and multi-layered. Gas, nuclear, clean coal, renewables. We should be making it easier for private companies to do the same. 

That, to me, would restore a balance. Nothing sacred about it, but highly sensible instead.

In a study release in June this year, World Development Sustainability shared a study that spelled it out clearly and simply. Improved access to electricity, modern cooking technology and developed fuels significantly reduce infant, under-five and maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. And for those who might suspect a conflict of interest, not a cent of money from the oil and gas industry was involved in the work. 

I don’t understand how people can, with a straight face, be so indifferent to the plight of others. To a small degree, I understand that it’s human nature to be focused on issues and problems closer to home – but people are hurting here in our own back yard. 

Friends, neighbours, colleagues. Family, too, in many cases. They seem invisible, especially to the activist class. Meanwhile, out the front of a Melbourne church, the privileged seek to invoke heaven to further their cause. I suppose they can afford the luxury of such an elitist position because, among other things, they’re not heating cow dung to make ­dinner, and their babies won’t die from inhaling the smoke thereof.

Public money should be spent on energy sources that are reliable and affordable, and our energy mix should be diverse and multi-layered. Gas, nuclear, clean coal, renewables. We should be making it easier for private companies to do the same. 

That, to me, would restore a balance. Nothing sacred about it, but highly sensible instead.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 12:25 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 12:26 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 12:27 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 12:29 pm
cohenite
November 17, 2024 12:40 pm

Donald Trump named savage Karoline Leavitt as his press secretary, Republican RINO Trey Gowdy was absolutely shredded on Fox News over the Matt Gaetz AG selection, and democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz might actually be in trouble for slandering Tulsi Gabbard.

The clip is 6 minutes and it exposes the 3 groups against Trump: demorats, media and RINOs, Ms Leavitt looks the goods; ugly trey gets his shrivelled balls handed to him and this wasserman schultz skank is yet another Jew who is with the people who would harm her type:

New Trump Press Secretary SAVAGELY Shreds Media LIARS

Zippster
Zippster
November 17, 2024 12:44 pm
Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2024 12:47 pm

During his last administration, Trump moved the US embassy to Israel’s capital Jerusalem, historically the capital of the nation since King David’s time, about 3000 years ago. Frightened at losing heavily Muslim populated electorates, the Albanese government’s embassy remains in Tel Aviv.

Some more from Ackerman’s article.

I seem to remember there was talk during ScoMo’s reign to move our embassy to Jerusalem yet, like with everything else, he never got around to it. With every recollection and passing day that man becomes smaller and smaller.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 12:47 pm

The scum are everywhere.

Radical Trump-Hater Who Supports Communist Antifa Allegedly Unmasked as Secret Service Agent

Another shocking allegation involving the Secret Service could potentially endanger President Trump’s life further following two assassination attempts.

Counter-extremism researchers with the Justice Report say they have discovered that a lifelong anarchist, left-wing extremist, and devout follower of Anfifa is working as a Secret Service agent. Moreover, the individual reportedly has made a series of disgusting comments regarding Trump.

Upon learning about the horrifying report, Real Clear Politics National Correspondent Susan Crabtree contacted the agency for comment. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugilielmi responded to her by saying they had launched an investigation.

The U.S. Secret Service recently became aware of alleged social media posts by an employee that have prompted an internal review,” Gugilielmi said in a statement. “We are taking this matter seriously, and this employee’s assigned duties have been modified while this review is underway.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 12:48 pm

Outstanding (the Hun):

Families have turned out to enjoy the Myer Christmas windows in defiance of a small group of protesters who tried to destroy the opening.

The protestors – calling themselves ‘Morons 4 Palestine’ – gatecrashed the famous Myer Christmas windows on Bourke St just after 10am.

‘Morons 4 Palestine’. Like that moniker won’t dog those halfwits for years.

The name of the protest seemed to be mocking Jacinta Allan who had called the protesters morons only days earlier.

Duzzenmadda. Every single keffiyeh-clad fat local screecher will forevermore be dubbed a ‘Moron 4 Palestine’. Ill-thought-through, and truly hilarious.

Eight protestors turned up to the flagship store where they chanted slogans while blowing bubbles.

Eight. Bubbles. That’s the spirit.

But the short-lived protest wasn’t enough to ruin the Christmas cheer of the hundreds of families who turned out to Bourke St to enjoy the Australia Zoo-themed windows.

Huzzah! By the way, those people would have included hundreds of husbands who, having had a gutful of these idiots ruining their childrens’ fun, would have been only too willing to perform some amateur dentistry on the Morons 4 Palestine.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 12:53 pm

Could be another excellent appointment.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Emerges Top Candidate to Lead NIH
Perhaps the last four dreadful years in the wilderness for Trump were a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for what is shaping up to be a golden era for not only for the USA but the world as well, provided, of course, the RINO’s are kept under control.

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 12:54 pm

Video of the arrest of an elderly UK citizen by half dozen UK cops for posting that he doesn’t want to see Palestinian flags all over the UK, calls them terrorists.

East German Stasi would be proud of this.

By importing shitholers, the UK is now governed by tyrants appeasing shitholers. We aren’t far behind.

https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1857432557379338615

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 1:02 pm

It seems quite ridiculous that we still have the Windsors playing dress ups and being duchessed around opening this and that while the country has pretty much turned into Airstrip 1.

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Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 1:10 pm

US DoD tendering for the supply of Industrial Shredder- on November 6th.

https://x.com/realErikDPrince/status/1857958305110327630

Bill P
Bill P
November 17, 2024 1:23 pm

Crossie: Peta, our coal, gas and uranium are also free so right there coal and gas have an advantage as the infrastructure for these is already there.

Indeed, and it needs to be spelled out that coal, gas and uranium are free as is sun and wind in as much as they are all there and do not have to be made.

Then compare the cost of getting them to where you plug in your appliance.
And again stress that we already have infrastructure for coal and gas

Bowen must be getting a backhander. Could anyone really be that stupid?

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 1:42 pm

Levity No. 1.

Yesterday I was at my local IGA buying a large bag of My Dog dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

What did she think I had an elephant?

So, since I’m retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Dog Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t because I ended up in hospital last time, but I’d lost 10 kilograms before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of me and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with My Dog nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in queue was now enthralled with my story.)

Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I was chasing a cat across the road and a car hit me

I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. I’m now banned from the supermarket.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 1:49 pm

Levity No. 2.

(There are some crackers here.)

When Insults Had Class

A Member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.” 
“That depends, Sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.” 

“He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”  Clarence Darrow.

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” – Moses Hadas

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” – Oscar Wilde

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second…. if there is one.” –  Winston Churchill, in response.

“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.” – Stephen Bishop

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” – John Bright

“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” – Irvin S. Cobb

“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” – Samuel Johnson

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” – Charles, Count Talleyrand

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” – Forrest Tucker

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” – Mark Twain

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” – Mae West

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.” – Andrew Lang

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder

“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx

Harlequin Decline
November 17, 2024 2:01 pm

Black Ball
November 17, 2024 10:09 am
I tried searching for the Blair piece, to no avail.
However I got this from Farrelly in the search. Get a load of it:

Yes but did she swallow?

cohenite
November 17, 2024 2:02 pm

Bowen must be getting a backhander. Could anyone really be that stupid?

Yes, yes they can.

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 2:04 pm

Britons warn of dangers of shared home ownership scheme as Australian government mulls Help to Buy plan

Going into partnership with the Govt for the roof over your head? The results are predicable.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-17/australian-shared-home-ownership-schemes-help-to-buy-uk/104540712

KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 2:10 pm

Miltonf
November 17, 2024 1:02 pm

It seems quite ridiculous that we still have the Windsors playing dress ups and being duchessed around opening this and that while the country has pretty much turned into Airstrip 1.

If you are ideologically opposed to them, I can understand, but in cost to the taxpayers???

I support the monarchy, they are, as it was said elsewhere ‘mostly harmless’ and good entertainment at a minuscule cost to us compared to the cost like that of a climate policy of a nincompoop politician like Bowen.

And the world is full of the likes of him.

I tell you, Soros and Bill Gates, not to mention WEF are a thousand times more dangerous and costly then the house of Windsor.

The economic benefit they provide via the gossip magazines far outweighs any cost to the state.

But if hate you must, hate away.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 2:10 pm

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologise.

Mark Twain

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 2:15 pm

The economic benefit they provide via the gossip magazines far outweighs any cost to the state.

I don’t think so

But if hate you must, hate away.

Not particularly liking them is not hating them.

As I said in the British context it’s absurd playing dress ups and duchessing them around like it’s 1970 when it’s now the future O’Brien predicted- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

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132andBush
132andBush
November 17, 2024 2:15 pm

Yes, yes they can.

Stupid AND getting backhanders.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 17, 2024 2:17 pm

“Restore the sacred balance,” the sign told me.

Meat and three veg!

WATCH: After Demanding Meat Tax, Activists at UN COP29 Climate Summit Gobble Up Meat & Avoid Vegan Offerings (16 Nov)

Attendees lining up rows deep for two separate buffets that serve meat. All the while, the vegan buffet is looking pretty barren.

There are roughly four people in line at the vegan buffet side of things. And perhaps a tumbleweed or two that blows through. One can almost hear the Western music with the whistling as Morano pans away from the hypocrites and over to the herbivores.

“Here is the line at COP29’s food court for the buffet serving meat … another buffet serving meat, and here is the vegan-only restaurant,” Morano says. “Doesn’t quite look like the same amount of interest by the U.N. delegation here.”

The Azeri host of the climapalooza said that oil is a gift from Allah. I don’t think things are quite going according to plan, or at least not the Greens’ plan.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 2:23 pm

Chilla’s also very close to Biden and Kerry- I thought he was harmless once but not anymore.

alwaysright
alwaysright
November 17, 2024 2:34 pm

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

W. C. Fields

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 2:35 pm

PHON’s fighting fund has crept up to $640k, slowing down by the look of it.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 17, 2024 2:55 pm

Groomers in a state school? Who would have thought?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-17/illawong-school-principal-stood-aside-year-6-graphic-sex-talk/104611526

Now wait till the Greens and the woke left start complaining that NSW Labor is dominated by repressive Catholofascists.

Chris
Chris
November 17, 2024 3:19 pm

My compliments; today’s postings have been excellent reads.
And as for the full length premature obituary for Michael Trumble, I intend to read it with great pleasure. One day.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 3:24 pm

Yep there are some great contributors here. Best source of news and info.

P
P
November 17, 2024 3:28 pm
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Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 3:52 pm

Zulu.

You appear to be lurking here again.

I posted this linky for you the other day but I am uncertain that you saw it.

Here ’tis again.

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/history/resurrecting-the-sphinx-sir-nevill-smyth-vc/

P
P
November 17, 2024 3:54 pm
Gabor
Gabor
November 17, 2024 3:56 pm

Winston Smith
November 17, 2024 3:04 pm

I’ve already donated, but I’m looking at the Rum Collection.

The only problem with that is that I detest rum.

Oooh! Look – Gin! I hate Gin.

Wodka! Yummy.

Is buying a bottle of rum a donation or some of the money is going her way?
Is it the only way to donate?
I’d rather donate the full amount and buy my booze at Dan’s.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2024 4:04 pm

I tell you, Soros and Bill Gates, not to mention WEF are a thousand times more dangerous and costly then the house of Windsor.

That nincompoop Al Gore cost us plenty by convincing all education establishments to follow his non-science. And then there are the Hollyweirdoes who are too stupid to realise that how they live is the epitome of hypocrisy. Come to think of it, denizens of the House of Windsor belong with the Hollywood crowd.

Of course, all of the above makes sense if you look at COP not as an environmental activity but imposing a class system on the world where some are above what they insist others must bear.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 4:05 pm

The prolific and insightful Mark Twain.

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” 

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” 

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” 

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” 

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” 

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” 

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” 

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” 

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” 

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.” 

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” 

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” 

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” 

and finally

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” 

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 17, 2024 4:08 pm

Gabor
 November 17, 2024 3:56 pm

Winston Smith
November 17, 2024 3:04 pm

I’ve already donated, but I’m looking at the Rum Collection.

The only problem with that is that I detest rum.

Oooh! Look – Gin! I hate Gin.

Wodka! Yummy.

Is buying a bottle of rum a donation or some of the money is going her way?
Is it the only way to donate?
I’d rather donate the full amount and buy my booze at Dan’s.

Linky is given below.

https://www.onenation.org.au/free-speech-now

Pogria
Pogria
November 17, 2024 4:14 pm

Indolent posted a link upthread about a Secret Service agent who was an anarchist and had made extremely nasty texts and threats about Donald Trump. I hope this turd, and many others are caught in the purge that is happening right now.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/11/16/the-purge-of-wokeness-from-the-government-has-already-begun-n2182081

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 4:19 pm

Come to think of it, denizens of the House of Windsor belong with the Hollywood crowd.

Yes I think it’s come to that

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 4:26 pm

The value of the monarchy is in the power it denies to others

certainly not in modern Britain- maybe here funnily enough

Makka
Makka
November 17, 2024 5:03 pm

Dutton is a cuck… advocating FOR censorship. Just another cop.

https://x.com/QBCCIntegrity/status/1857707101176676566

Aus Integrity

@QBCCIntegrity

Hi @PeterDutton_MP

We see through you and know you’re ignoring @LiberalAus

values attempting to force through U16’s ban on social media.

We know it’s to force Digital ID and allow total surveillance of our accounts.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
November 17, 2024 5:03 pm

Are you on the turps, Mak? And, um, was it you who recommended one of the travelogue Cats luncheon at a hotel in Glen Innes some years ago? If so, which one?

Min
Min
November 17, 2024 5:13 pm

On Outsiders today an advert was played offering people to be put out for the four years Trump is in Sleep through and avoid the stress of living through his presidency I hope it was a joke.

KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 5:15 pm

Regards to donating to political party, or any other entity.

Just beware, once you do that you are on their mailing list for ever.
Years ago I signed up for a US Repub info site, all was well for a long time until they shared my email address with a few others, then that grew to dozens, including individual politicians.

It turned out to be nothing more than a digital begging bowl.
I was hoping, that the flood would stop after the election, and it did for exactly 2 days.

Now it’s back to full flow, they find a new reason to solicit funds without providing any useful info, stuff them. (it’s always oh the dems are raising more funds etc… please donate 25-50 or other)
I’m ready to move them to junk.

Pity if I lose useful sites but I can always look them up.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 17, 2024 5:35 pm

Trump apparently turned up at UFC overnight. Elon, Kid Rock in tow. My mate saw Kid Rock with Robin Williams in Kuwait rotating into Afghanistan at a US airbase, says he didn’t think much of the guy before that but came away a fan.

Maybe a bit early for tunes at 4:30pm in Qld but I’ve always been partial to All Summer Long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkFygPCTwE

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:00 pm

It would be nice if Musk could save us from this our own government’s determination to muzzle and digitalise us.

Elon Musk Has Gone To War With The UK Government Again – And That’s A Big Problem For Starmer

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2024 6:00 pm

And in news today, I see that in South Australia Labor has won a seat off the Liberals in a by-election. From The Oz…..

Peter Malinauskas has cemented his position as the most popular Labor leader in Australia after the South Australian Liberals suffered a second humiliating and historic defeat at a by-election this weekend.

Having coughed up former premier Steven Marshall’s seat of Dunstan to Labor in March, the Liberals have now been trounced in the once-safe seat of Black, where former party leader David Speirs has quite politics amid a drug scandal.

The last time a government won a seat from an Opposition at a by-election in SA was in the 1910s – now Labor has done it twice in one year.

The Liberals held the seat by 2.7 per cent but Labor candidate schoolteacher Alex Dighton has registered swings of up to 18 per cent on early counting and is ahead 60-40 two party preferred.

His lead is unassailable and there is no way Liberal candidate Glenelg Mayor Amanda Wilson can catch up on pre polls.

Do we laugh or do we cry? I guess that’s what happens when you stand for nothing, you just disappear into dust.

And in some further jolly news (sarcasm), it seems that Nazis in Melbourne have gatecrashed the opening of the Myer Christmas windows.

Anti-Israel protesters have gatecrashed the opening day of the Myer Christmas windows in Melbourne on Bourke Street.

Amid a heavy police presence, up to 10 protesters carrying banners, shouting slogans and blowing bubbles congregated in the middle of the CBD on the first day of the windows being opened.

Of course ‘anti-Israel’ is just code for Muslim and leftist Nazis. And Nazis don’t like Jews, even those Jews born two thousand years ago in a stable in Bethlehem.

Hmm, come to think of it, I’m not aware of any Jews here in this country ever gatecrashing the opening of the Myer Christmas windows. Or perhaps I have missed something? I’m pretty sure that no Jews nor Hindus nor Buddhists nor Taoists nor Satanists nor even Scientologists have ever taken to gatecrashing the unveiling of the Myer Christmas windows. But Muslims and leftists have.

I wonder, was our Nazi there?

On a happier note, just a few hours ago ’45’ soon to be ’47’ President elect Donald J Trump arrived at Madison Square Gardens for another Nazi rally (joke)…….

President-elect Donald Trump arrives at Madison Square Garden 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4st9LQZE-MY

It’s really nice, seeing the stupendous welcome accorded to the President elect.

This morning I went to my Jewish women’s study group. LOL, I arrived early and already in the room was the Rebbetzin and three other women. I said out loud how happy I was about the US election result and all us women, including the normally staid Rebbetzin, threw our arms up in the air and we shouted………hooray!

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:01 pm
Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2024 6:11 pm

Also from Daniel Greenfield..

What began as a last minute election gimmick by the Kamala campaign, which decided that its best strategy for winning the election was dividing us by sex, is now poisoning our culture, and further ruining relationships between men and women. And the media is spreading the poison.

CBS News, NBC News and the Washington Post are only a few of the many mainstream media outlets that have taken it on themselves to promote South Korea’s 4B movement to Americans with its ‘four bis’ or ‘four nos’ calling for no dating, no sex, no marriage and no childbirth.

More evidence that the legacy meja is evil and deserves to die

Feminists for Human Extinction – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:15 pm
Zippster
Zippster
November 17, 2024 6:23 pm

“Everyone else looked at AG as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. They talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bullshit. Gaetz was the only one who said: ‘Yeah, I’ll go over there and start cuttin’ f—in’ heads.’”

Amen

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 17, 2024 6:24 pm

Knuckle Dragger

 November 17, 2024 10:35 am

Evidently Melbourne has retained its title of fourth most liveable city in the world. Patrick Carlyon has some questions (longish, but very very good):

Dear the Economist Intelligence Unit …

I think I can clear things up here.
I once happened to stumble upon the criteria for a place to be classified as “most liveable”.
The normal amenity we would associate with that phrase – low crime rates, easy travel access, clean air – either doesn’t rank highly on their list of criteria, or doesn’t appear at all.
The highest ranked criteria feature all of the typical Elizabeth Farelly (thanks for reminding me – not) hobby horses.
“More than x% of people born overseas” or “thriving theatre communidy” or “availability of organic foods”.
If you could move about two dozen Bangarra Dance Companies to Mogadishu and they ran farmer’s markets in their spare time, it would make the list too.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2024 6:28 pm

Of course ‘anti-Israel’ is just code for Muslim and leftist Nazis. And Nazis don’t like Jews, even those Jews born two thousand years ago in a stable in Bethlehem.

Cassie, they particularly hate the Jew born in Bethlehem 2000+ years ago. He is still putting a crimp in their plans for world domination. They really hate it when Jews and Christians stick together. They hate it that the western civilisation is based on Judeo-Christian fundamentals.

KevinM
KevinM
November 17, 2024 6:31 pm

Sorry to interrupt the serious discussion, but I have this argument with someone.

Are my eyes (recently operated on for cataract) lying to me or he is right to say it’s an optical illusion.

The question is; is the horizontal flue pipe section sloping down or is it just an optical illusion?
If you compare it to the stonework, in my opinion it is, he says it is just an optical illusion the way the photo was taken.
Is it possible to do it via AI?

Did I imbibe too early or did he, is the more important matter?

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Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:40 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:42 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:46 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2024 6:48 pm
Jock
Jock
November 17, 2024 6:54 pm

For those who like barbed quips. I have an old book called “Scorn withextra bile” by Matthew Harris. A great read.

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2024 7:00 pm

I guess that’s what happens when you stand for nothing, you just disappear into dust.

Indeed.

But I’d be wary of reading any national significance into an election result in Adelaide.

For example, they think they’re running the city (the whole state, in fact) on wind and solar, but at night they have to plug into VIC’s interconnector for brown coal fired electrickery to keep the lights on.

That alone suggests an unhealthy level of tolerance for cognitive dissonance. Either that or the politicians are very good at lying and the population very gullible.

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Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
November 17, 2024 7:22 pm

Jschool toddlers lumped with an Age Sunday shift have quite a hot take on the Myer Christmas window protesters. Apparently the ten angry weirdoes who showed up “clapped back” at being called morons by the Premier. You’d think someone in management would tell them they should stop pandering to their mates in Brunswick who don’t read the rag anyway. Read the room kiddies.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 17, 2024 7:34 pm

Anthony Albanese’s hopes to recruit Papua New Guineans to serve in the Australian Defence Force have hit a stumbling block, with PNG expressing concern its people would have to take Australian citizenship to join up.

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Commenter on this article is claiming that any Papua New Guineans serving in the A.D.F would not be entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, and would be treated as mercenaries if captured?

Zippster
Zippster
November 17, 2024 7:51 pm
Rosie
Rosie
November 17, 2024 7:52 pm

Sometimes food for RKJ.
I wonder if Trump has a minimaccas on his plane.
That would be awesome.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1858053463608848812?t=fisefEIvq-wW2Jv35Z190A&s=19

Rosie
Rosie
November 17, 2024 8:26 pm

Trump could afford to have it prepared on board.
Doesn’t take long for it to be cold and inedible.
Apparently that’s pretty much all he eats. Though I am sure I saw him munching KFC once

Muddy
Muddy
November 17, 2024 8:29 pm

Would it be accurate to describe the legacy media as information launderers for the ruling class?

Muddy
Muddy
November 17, 2024 8:47 pm

During the covidiocy, masks were required to be worn when shopping at the supermarket. Yet, all and sundry were permitted to fondle unwrapped fruit and vegetables. True, we might argue that the heat applied to veges when cooked would kill the virus (maybe possibly), but what about apples and stonefruit? No danger, apparently. (I won’t mention wearing masks without gloves).

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2024 8:52 pm

masks were required to be worn when shopping at the supermarket. Yet, all and sundry were permitted to fondle unwrapped fruit and vegetables

Well yes, but as long as nobody handled a football it should have been fine.

h/t SA Chief Health Officer, circa 2021

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 17, 2024 9:05 pm

Ladies flogball on tv.
Nearly the end of the second quarter.
Score is

21 points :3:3
Vs
3 points
….

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 17, 2024 9:15 pm

Half time- score unchanged.

It’s like watching a pack of retarded pandas chasing a watermelon.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 17, 2024 9:35 pm

thefrollickingmole

 November 17, 2024 9:05 pm

Ladies flogball on tv.

Nearly the end of the second quarter.

Score is

21 points :3:3

Vs

3 points

They’re in a lot of trouble when there are more goals slotted in Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle than an AWFL match.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 17, 2024 10:03 pm

That Wong Chap, pissing down the pyramid.
TLDR: “Well yes I’m untouchably rich and secure, but I would be like president for life if I hadn’t had to struggle valiantly every day against this racist, sexist sh*thole of a culture that youse plebs embody.”

Muddy
Muddy
November 17, 2024 10:05 pm

President-elect Donald Trump arrives at Madison Square Garden alongside Elon Musk #UFC309
Tulsi and RFK also. Is that short bloke with them, Speaker Johnson? I’ve never seen him at a UFC match. What’s with that? Isn’t he a rino?

Frank
Frank
November 17, 2024 10:38 pm

Apparently that’s pretty much all he [Trump] eats.

Kennedy said recently (with some horror) that he only saw him eating MacDonald’s, KFC, steak well done and Doritos. He skips breakfast and lunch and the Doritos are for snacking. Steak veers towards the cremation end of the spectrum.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 17, 2024 10:50 pm

Anthony Albanese’s hopes to recruit Papua New Guineans to serve in the Australian Defence Force have hit a stumbling block

Are they forming a special unit ? The Headhunters?

Muddy
Muddy
November 17, 2024 10:54 pm

The Bee:
Satan Devastated After Kamala Loses Election.YouTube, 5 mins. Well done.

(The usual appatautlogies if this has already been posted).

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 25, 2024 8:30 pm

Steak veers towards the cremation end of the spectrum.

i get the impression that unless the steak still groans in pain Americans consider it overcooked.

it is just their way.

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