The most reprehensible politician in Australia bar none is now lecturing us about what to eat because of “climate change”:

Now the Senator for Pakistan wants to force her ‘eating habits’ on Australians. – Michael Smith News

Arguably, the Rich Ditzes declaring that they will support a Labor minority government is a huge win for the LNP.

The cloak has been thrown off. They are just dilettants playing with the little Labor people but maintaining their class superiority.

At least half will be booted.

…even describes Pocock.

Catch of the Year news (the CM):

A Central Queensland mother of nine has been sentenced after she stole a man’s debit card and went on a spending spree with it.

Be still, my beating heart.

Belinda Jane Gambrill, 41, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court to one count of stealing and five counts of fraud.

The court heard that in May, Gambrill, who had previously been homeless

Where are these nine kids then?

was staying at a man’s house

Oh my lord. Reeks of ‘I believe we can come to some arrangement’.

and on parole

Ah geez.

when she stole his debit card from his wallet.

During a one-day spending spree at various stores, she racked up $105.50 worth of fraudulent purchases with the card including cigarettes, soft drink and scratch-its.

Gambrill had a 10-page criminal history.

Almost one page of criminal history per child.

‘But soft! What light in yonder window breaks? ‘Tis the east, and (Belinda Jane Gambrill) is the Sun. The brightness of her cheek doth shame the stars….’

Lysander.
From an ex car salesmans perspective (dad).

1: Its engine was cooked or buggered at one stage and its sat on blocks for a couple of years before a bodgy repair and sell job…
2: Stolen at some stage and recovered..
3: The odometer has been “black and deckered” backwards a few hundred thousand KM. (not easy to do on most cars now – highly illegal and usually leaves signs a mechanic can pick up)
4: Just a dog of a car.

Cenk wants in on team Elon.
Good for him.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1858799002042466461?t=iR9T9x-oUsw3x4ytyO7kQw&s=19

Another substantial surrender in northern Gaza.

https://x.com/HilzFuld/status/1858794753829089695?t=R28EVjmOJN6ii_mqEAcPGQ&s=19

I enjoyed Chris Uhlmann’s presentation tonight. Well constructed, easy to understand arguments covering just about every aspect of the renewable scam.

The glaring takeaway – we are so far divorced from the hard reality of power generation in this country – we are global village idiots.

Something I didn’t know…it is illegal to build a nuclear power plant here.

We are a global disgrace. Clever country? Dumb as a bag of hammers.

The documentary by Chris Uhlmann was excellent. Exposed all the fluff about ruinables and the idiot talk of “wind and sun is free” that stupid Bowen sprouts.

But, as with all the sensible commentary, it fails to make the point of the false premise that carbon dioxide has anything to do with a constant changing climate apart from being plant food and an essential part of life on earth.

Human addition of carbon dioxide to the mix of climate variables is as much influence as a fart in a hurricane. But Uhlmann made the point that, if Australia shut down completely, it would make fcuk all difference to the global climate. Or the weather.

Bowen should be ripped to shreds over his insane dribble.

We had our non announced power out for the first time in my memory.
Only a local one, some idiot was going to go “off grid” and tripped the fuses at the local transformers, or so the linesman told me.

Computerwise I was OK the server and the other devices are protected by UPS and shut down in an orderly manner.

We have been without power for 4 or 5 hours, no problem with the fridge or freezer but I work from home so it’s inconvenient to say the least.

Engine powered generator is out of the question, is there some other solution that could deliver power for that duration?

I see Robert Kennedy wants to stop half or more of America getting hooked on Ozempic or derivates of it. Once you start this stuff you don’t stop. Whacko for big pharma.

as John H notes, Ozempic may have a place in cases of extreme obesity as the food habits and possibly celluar responses are so ingrained. Thee people are not going to change food habits much. So tackle the issue at the next generation, and at production sources.

Ozempic should never be used on children, imho, unless it is for intractable diabetes and even there I’m dubious. The fact that it slows digestion and can cause a form of digestive paralysis should be raising red flags everywhere. Do not do this to children. Certainly in cases of pre-diabetes and early type 2 then a change in dietary habits should be considered first.

The American diet is appalling, and Kennedy knows this. The problem has to be tackled at the societal level, re food production and food advertising. High sugar soda drinks and high carbohydrate meals could be put under critical scrutiny and loads of TV shows should do case studies to educate those in thrall to these food empires about their noxioius products. This doesn’t necessarily mean places like Makkas and Kentucky Fried are all wrong. It’s their buns and chips and sweet treats that do the most damage.

I’ve lost weight using Makkas and KF foods. Just ditch the buns and the chips. Eat the meat and salad in the burgers. Tasty and trims you. Makka’s chicken wraps are ok too.. You get two tasty pieces of crumbed fried chicken with lettuce and tomato. Eat those.and ditch the bready wraps. (My keto lunches for trips up and down the coast; I lost 1.5 kilos over the 4 days away making good keto choices at various restaurants and having scrambled egg with no toast breakfasts).

I am not in favour of taxing poor quality foods, see the cigarette tax here which shows how taxes complicate matters, as well as being authoritarian in the extreme. Change what is available to eat. Replace the seed oils used in processed and ‘fast’ foods with better altrnatives.

Most of all, teach portion control regardless of what it is you are eating. Start with restaurant servings. Charge more for high carbs like potato, pasta and bread products, and subsidise good quality meats for both home and restaurant consumption. Leave deserts as the treats they were meant to be – small in size and high in quality ingredients.

Produce more meat and get rid of the anti-meat greenies and purveyors of foods popular in meat-short countries such as lentil-driven India and pasta and rice cuisines with limited meat. Recognise humans can’t survive as well as the meat-eaters we are evolved to be by living on vegies alone. Meat consumption produces stronger and taller people (as long as they don’t do excess carbs and processed fats, which produce CHD).

Small changes incremental and cultural, can do a lot. Good luck to RFK.

You will not believe this, only a few minutes after I posted my query about power generation, this popped up in my feed!

PS; generator noise is prohibited where we live, along with a lot of other things as we discovered.
In the process of selling. Seemed like a good idea at the time, safe and secure.
Now? More like a prison.

Fluffy Annaliese expresses no opinion about the fake charges against Trump. She reports as if fair and reasonable charges are being thwarted by procedural matters.

Thanks for the link BoN

For those interested the live coverage of the 6th Starship test launch has now gone live:

Just in case you didn’t thoroughly detest NSW plod yet.

Protest pests given green light after cops withdraw court action (Tele, paywalled)

Court action to stop climate protesters blockading the state’s busiest port this week has been cancelled at the eleventh hour, as the port authority warns protests could create an environmental disaster and a pose significant risk to life.*

You wave an Israeli flag in Hyde Park and you will be arrested instantly. But if you disrupt the biggest port in Australia, costing companies millions of dollars, you get a free get out of jail card.

(* Tele mainpage version of the blurb.)

BREAKING: Australia’s misinformation bill dead in the water

It’s due for a vote on Monday. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Wind the clock back two months and you get a sense of how Captain Successful will likely play this:

‘Quite strange’ for Coalition to reject disinformation crackdown it originally proposed, Albanese says

Albanese defended the purpose of the bill at a press conference in Melbourne, explaining it addresses concerns of media organisations about misinformation such as promoting the injection of bleach as a Covid cure on social media.

Not immediately clear exactly who promoted the “injection of bleach as a Covid cure”. That actually sounds like an echo of Biden’s misinformation about the media’s disinformation about Trump’s 2020 comments.

Shirley that little scamp Albanese wasn’t misinforming anyone about that…