Greatest plane ever built.

Perhaps unique among prewar aircraft, the DC-3 continued to fly in active commercial and military service as of 2021, eighty-six years after the type’s first flight in 1935, although the number is dwindling due to expensive maintenance and a lack of spare parts.

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A Douglas DC-3 aircraft, is on a pedestal in front of the Yukon Museum of Transportation, where it was moved to in the summer of 2009.

The title “World’s Largest Candle” is no joke. Perched on a specially-designed pedestal, the aircraft spins and moves slowly and silently with the breeze, so that its nose always points toward the wind as if it were on a perpetual and endless flight.

It only takes a five-knot wind to spin.
Purchased in April 1946 by Canadian Pacific Airlines, the aircraft served as a military cargo aircraft, civilian aircraft and later a “mountain aircraft”.

In classic Canadian style, the plane was equipped with skis to land on remote snowy plains to deliver supplies. After logging 31,851 hours, the DC-3 made its final flight in November 1970 and was donated to the Yukon Flying Club in 1977.

Although the DC-3 has been relegated to the flyover category, flying eternally against the headwind remains a pretty good final mission for a retired aircraft.

A group of workmen widening a road in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia in about 1919.

And they still probably finished the works quicker than what they do today!!!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-hospitalized-after-unspecified-injury-luxembourg

Pelosi has broken her hip in a fall in Europe. When I audited the mortality data at my hospital in Adelaide, these had a 50% mortality rate within 6 months.

The new Secretary of Nato, (the extremely disagreeable Mark Rutte), made his first speech since assuming the role.

He said that European countries should stop spending so much on things like, pensions, welfare etc and should spend more on, ……, weapons!
These f*ckwits are so removed from reality, they just don’t understand how vile and ridiculous they appear.

He ended his sermon with, “We need to do this to preserve our way of life!”
This is the same clown, that flooded the Netherlands with Muslims, when he was PM.

Too good not to share, though many items will, I suspect, not be crossed off.

What a national treasure she is.

All I want for Christmas is… to make Australia great

Gina Rinehart

Merry Christmas, Aussie Spectators! Yes I know December is not looking too Chrissie prepared, with rising electricity costs, aircon over summer subject to government planning, that is looking rather unreliable, record business failures, farmers and pastoralists struggling, especially under government tape burdens (like the rest of us), dwindling investment, the resources pipeline list turning into the 80 per cent causality list, and the costs and housing and crime and hospital crises fuelled by far too many government selected immigrants, such crises hurting too many Australians. And seven continuous quarters of standard of living decline, this long decline is a record.

Well, isn’t it time for Gina’s Chrissie wish list? Yes, I was inspired by the President of Argentina, when his list items achieved, he crosses each off, can’t wait for the crosses!

Chrissie wish list to help the forgotten people

For all those struggling with the cost of living crisis

Immediately cut the excise tax on fuel, would help costs everywhere. And cut payroll tax, stamp duty and licence fees, that were meant to go out decades ago when GST came in.

For struggling pensioners, veterans, uni and college students and the marginally disabled

The above, plus, let all our Aussies work as much as they like, with no onerous paperwork and no unfair consequences, just pay income tax on their earnings.

For struggling businesses

All of the above, plus as government tape and regulations have got too high, even according to the ASIC chair, cut ASIC for all those private companies not on the stock market.

For those in agriculture 

All of the above, plus appreciation of fire season, let farmers and pastoralists and others in the agriculture industry, clear land as much as they think helps them keep families, staff and pets safe, and their infrastructure safe too. Immediately release all those in jail for clearing, and repay any fines they had to pay. And, let farmers and pastoralists graze stock in national parks (as they used to), helping to restrict the national parks being giant tinder boxes.

And, let farmers drill for water, make turkey nests, save and use rivers overflow water, build and install water pipes, water tanks, pivots, irrigation, troughs and trough shelters, install solar water pumps, without any government tape or regulations.

And, let farmers kill any critters that can kill humans.

For those on smaller wages 

All the above, plus cut all tax on tips.

For those in northern Queensland and northern west Australia

Who already struggle with many things, all the above, plus increase their tax rebate, so they effectively pay no tax, encouraging people to work in those more difficult northern regions.

For those in the Northern Territory

All the above, plus full ANDEV policies, cut government tape and regulations (NT is a territory, not a state, so can’t argue constitution might restrict).

For the indigenous, and the frightened terribly abused ones

All the above, plus move the Canberra indigenous department to Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing, so that bureaucracy gets a better understanding of the needs of actual indigenous people and refocuses its $30 billion plus into ways that help the indigenous. Convert the indigenous Canberra department offices into secure accommodation for women and children indigenous or otherwise, suffering from domestic violence, boys up to 12 years old. No rent, no water or electricity charges (note, the bureaucrats don’t pay these charges either, so why should the suffering forgotten ones? And note, with the increasing work from home provisions, there are available offices already – should be promptly reassigned to the women and children who need).

For our grossly under-resourced actual defence, and fantastic veterans 

Move the defence department up to the north of the NT, e.g. Tindal, so they can better focus on defence. Convert their Canberra offices into accommodation for veterans and their families. No rent, no electricity or water charges.

For the Treasury, especially pensioners 

Move the department up to the Pilbara region, so they can better understand where the majority of their taxpayers’ revenue comes from. Convert their Canberra offices into accommodation for pensioners, who have contributed to Treasury for years. No rent, no water or electricity charges.

For the taxpayers and other contributors, DOGE

All the above, plus close the departments that duplicate the states, e.g. federal agriculture, e.g. resources, departments. Their offices can be used for any of the above forgotten Australians, again without rent, electricity or water charges. Plus, use for the new office of DOGE, to eliminate government waste and significantly reduce government expenditure, tape and regulations, paving way for Australians to enjoy opportunities, higher living standards and tax cuts.

This would bring much Chrissie cheer for those struggling, and those working hard to support their families and save and build their businesses, i.e. all the forgotten people!

And a New Years message for those corporate appeasers of anything left or woke. Just like ‘River of Tears’ famous book, appeasing the crocodile in hope will devour you last, doesn’t work. Woke is not a real friend of business or corporates. Woke is on the decline for Aussies support, too many corporates are out of touch. And nor is the left a real friend of corporates, well except for those wrongly chasing taxpayer money or other costly privileges. Hopefully a well-run DOGE will put an end to that misuse anyway.

As mosquito time approaches for the Australian summer, let’s not forget the saying: ‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.’

Haven’t we had enough of the down path our country has been on, please fellow patriotic ‘mosquitos’, join me leading the up path.

And let’s move fast, because the USA will be after the January inauguration, and we’ll be left behind.

Beertruk
December 14, 2024 8:57 am

TEENAGE THUGS INVADE VETERAN HEALING RESORT Terrigal

Police Minister Yasmin Catley said: “ In every case the police have done everything that police can do.”

Really…but I don’t think you are trying hard enough…I know a few ex Army boys who would be more than happy to do what the police cannot do and go and sort out the little turds.

Ps: They would be happy to visit arse kicking until their noses bleed on the anti-Semite pro Pali idiots as well.

Not as simple as you put it.
First, the police would come down on those army boys like a ton of bricks, if they were fast enough to get there before the clans!

Those young aborigines have clans, and while they are not too concerned what the boys are up to criminally, they would certainly come out in defense of them.
Same goes for the Palis, they are now a multitude and more willing than us to inflict damage.
Do you want wars? We lost that war a long time ago, thanks politicians.

It has come to this then?
It’s in the DT paywalled.

Jewish families ‘preparing to flee’ Byron Bay as hate spreads
Jewish families facing devastating doxxings and appearing on “mass-circulated boycott lists” are learning self-defence or fleeing the communities they call home

Jewish families ‘preparing to flee’ Byron Bay as hate spreads
Jewish families facing devastating doxxings and appearing on “mass-circulated boycott lists” are learning self-defence or fleeing the communities they call home.

Is this not incitement to racial/religious hatred?

Sorry for the word wall

The Turing Dawes-Hall Test. Is this cartoon drawn by AI or Leak Jnr?

Kevin Andrews has gone to be with God age 69.

Wowsers can’t force us to conform on flagging call to unify the nation
Chris Uhlmann

Wowser is a sturdy old Australian word that should be retooled for combat in an era where war has been declared on the past.

It neatly sums up the sanctimonious scolds hellbent on forcing everyone to conform to their shape-shifting, alt-morality.

Wowser was born in 1899 in the pages of Sydney scandal sheet The Truth. Newspaper proprietor, politician and scoundrel John Norton claims to have invented it, and that was one of the rare occasions when he appears to have been speaking the truth.

In Wild Men of Sydney, Cyril Pearl notes that in a libel action in 1914 Norton admitted that when he first coined the term, he didn’t know what it meant. “I had to find meaning for it afterwards,” he said.

Norton went on to define it as: “A single simple word that does at once describe, deride and denounce the numerous, noxious, pestilent, puritanical, killjoy push.”

Former NSW premier William Holman defined a wowser as someone who “being entirely destitute of the greater virtues, makes up for their lack by a continuous denunciation of little vices”.

Modern wowsers are as humourless as their 19th-century counterparts but today they invent virtue and arbitrate vice. They decide what should be said or unsaid; what can be done, or must be undone.

Wowsers rage at the past and punish those deemed privileged in the present. They trade in grievance and division. They distil the essence of totalitarianism by demanding objective punishments for subjective crimes.

The crimes are the sins of commission and omission in words and deeds against new and arbitrary rules.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton recently offended alt-morality by declaring that, if ever elevated to the job of prime minister, he would discard the current practice of adorning national events with three banners: the Australian flag, the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag.

Flying Indigenous flags alongside the standard is a relatively recent feature in Australian politics. It has been in vogue with the left for some years but was given the government imprimatur with the rise of the Albanese government and has been embraced by all federal agencies.

No one was consulted, it just came to be. It was well intentioned and marketed as a sign that Labor is more inclusive than the Coalition. But to embrace the idea you have to clear a pretty big logical hurdle: that three flags are more unifying than one.

The imposition of multiple flags, without consent, is a good example of the garbled ideological mission creep of alt-morality and the gaslighting of any dissent.

Retooling the existing order always follows the same pattern. An idea is imposed and declared normal. Anyone who dares object is decried by wowsers as waging a culture war, when all they are doing is erecting defensive barricades.

This rhetorical judo was deployed in a recent Sydney Morning Herald editorial, which declared Dutton’s stance on the flag as his “latest foray into the politics of separatism”.

The leader concedes that the three-flag era began when “Anthony Albanese took to the podium in May 2022 for his first press conference”. It then assumes this novelty is now the natural order and, by refusing to conform, Dutton is guilty of an alt-morality sin.

“Peter Dutton’s undertaking not to stand in front of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags is the kind of red-rag-to-a-bull politics that feeds off false division under the guise of unity.”

Here we are simply expected to agree that multiple flags symbolise unity, that one is the new standard of division, and that Dutton started this fight.

The editorial then concedes that Dutton “has proven to have a good radar of public sentiment”. Here the writer is a tad uneasy that some people, maybe even most people, would prefer one flag to represent the nation and that Dutton might just leverage the tyranny of the mob to bully his way into government.

Comforted in the certainty that alt-morality outranks the false consciousness of populism, the wowser ploughs on: “But even if you accept some people don’t like the idea of three flags being displayed, Dutton has shown callous disregard for community harmony by weaponising such unease.”

The grudging acceptance of the “unease” of “some people” suggests “community harmony” began to unravel with the imposition of three flags. Like the vote on the voice, in wowser world dividing the nation by race is the very definition of being inclusive and it would be good if the majority of Australians just shut up about it.

The editorial hits peak wowser as it ends in a flourish of alt-moral outrage: “His bogus flag-waving is more of the same disgusting, divisive short-term politics, unworthy of a man who would be leader of our nation.”

It’s remarkable how quickly wowsers become whingers when people refuse to conform to their worldview.

This is unlikely to be a big issue at the next election but symbols are important. If Dutton makes this part of his campaign it will be the first time the Australian people have been asked to make a choice about what symbols they want to represent them. We call this democracy.

Wowsers don’t really like democracy because their ideas don’t fly so well with the mob. That is because alt-morality is philosophical smoke; drifting, intangible and often nonsensical. The list of contradictions and idiocies at their core is long. What follows is a work in progress. Feel free to add to it.

In alt-morality race is intersectional, but white is irredeemable; privilege is permanent, but biology is optional; tradition is tyranny, but dogma is freedom; progress demands tolerance, but not for dissent; fitness is fatphobic; beauty is ugly; speech is violence, but silence is complicity, and; expression is free, as long as you agree.

Wowsers also have a long list of grievances with education.

Maths is racist; English is colonial; engineering perpetuates patriarchy; architecture enforces inequality; science is oppression; economics reinforces capitalism; astronomy is Western cosmology, and; law is injustice.

These risible ideas infect all of academia and the bureaucracy. The rise of “unconscious bias” training courses in the Australian Public Service shows the totalitarian state now even seeks to cleanse the dark corners of your mind.

In the words of one harried bureaucrat: “Once they have got you for the things you actually are bigoted about, they come after you for things you never knew you were bigoted about.”

The compass of compassion now points everywhere and is a road to nowhere.

In the Oz… Interesting – as many would know Chris U is a former ABC luvvie and leftie, as his Wiki shows.

For the Aboriginal youth (& indeed for young white criminals) I would support A LOT of money being used to set up “Outwood Bound” communities in the bush to “re-educate” these thugs.

I’d kneecap the little shits. Quicker and cheaper.

Trumble on Kevin Andrews’s death:

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said Mr Andrews was a “champion for his faith and his conservative values”.

“His untimely passing has shocked us but as we mourn him, we should remember and honour the strength of his convictions, even those we may not have shared,” he said.

Of course Trumble couldn’t resist using a moment like this as an opportunity to make it all about him and his opinions. The guy has absolutely no class whatsoever. It’s difficult to express how viscerally I dislike him.

The Liberal Party cannot be punished hard enough for making this vile snake our Prime Minister.

Daniel Penny accepts VP-elect JD Vance’s invite to be his “personal guest” at the Army-Navy game Saturday.

Vance and Penny will join President-elect Donald Trump in his private suite during the game.

VANCE: “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage.”

Yes

Just attended two very listenable and informative lectures at sea as we head up into the beginnings of the Arabian sea, going past the entrance to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, with those two wonderful countries Somalia and Yemen on each side of that entrance.

Top Ender might be interested or even know these lecturers currently on the circuit, as he is. Dr. Dean Allen publishes popular history and is based in South Africa. His lectures have been comprehensive and well-illustrated with video clips, which do enliven things. His topics have varied from Empire and Cricket in South Africa, to the historical backgrounds of our various African and Indian Ocean island ports of call. The lecture on African slavery we’ve just heard was excellent overall, and particularly good in that he was very firm in stating the slavery was an African tribal institution and Islamic Imperial institution into which European slavers intruded with industrial-designed ‘slave ships’ built to carry human slave energy to the New World, starting from the C15th with the longest-term and biggest traders of all, the Portuguese, who had a headstart on the British and others who ‘scrambled’ for Africa. He also detailed the European reaction to slavery and dates of its abolition.

The scramble for Africa in the C19th was well covered in another lecture by Mr. David C. Litt, a retired US Ambassador to Africa and the Middle East, and a very comprehensive speaker who provides excellent historical detail, again well illustrated with pics, maps and video clips. The lecture we’ve just heard has been on ‘the two commodities that propelled the Arabian Emirates to fortune. One was oil.’ The other was pearl diving and trading of these treasured jewels, ultimately destroyed in the 1930’s by the Depression and by the rise of the Japanese cultured pearl industry. He discussed the far-sighted ruler of Dubai who after this and then the departure in the 60’s of the British, pushed for his Emirate of Dubai to create the necessary infrastructure for both oil exploration investment and diversification beyond oil. One man, as we see in history so often, can change so much.

About which I’ll now say, Go Trump, you great change agent.