Firstly, you don’t live in the electorate. Secondly, pedant confirmed. Thirdly, despite what you may think, Warren Mundine is not…
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Do you live in Bradfield, Roger? No, I didn’t think so.I know the electorate quite well, Cassie. Pedant? If that…
I know the electorate quite well, Cassie. Pedant? If that means someone who bases an argument on facts & figures…
Put it another way, Mundine is too good for Bradfield. It’s not an aspirational sort of area. It’s stuffy and…
Whoops. Elsie.
This story about an NDIS recipient is bad news, but hardly surprising given what we know about the slipshod design and implementation of the program:
I’m assuming I’m like a lot of folk who have no contact or need of the NDIS except thru what I read/see in the media …. I’d always thought that these “care” package sums referred to “maybe” money (on paper not available cash) that could be accessed to cover costs when specific needs arose .. I’ve had no idea that individuals or organizations were able to make decisions and draw on the funds whenever ..
Also, as Tinta states … If your supposed to be classified as capable of handling your own “package” how would anyone on a mental health assessment have access or influence over the disbursement of their “package” money ..
No wonder Billy-boy quit even a grifter like him understood when he’d been out-grifted ………..!
A $670,000 package with seemingly few controls. No wonder Australia’s going broke with a Rolls Royce system for a few.
The NDIS is just like so many big Government programmes – the aboriginal industry, NBN, intermittent power generation, childcare, French submarines…. – all DESIGNED to have many cash leakage points to mates and allies.
Salvatore – Iron Publican
December 17, 2024 10:11 pm
She can’t be sued for being a shitty pollster.
What she can be sued for is manufacturing data out of thin air.
Front Page Mag and Andy Ngo have done a bit of social media spade work on the 15 year old school shooter. Whoa nellie, was she a piece of work or what!
Teen Shooter Kills 2 and Self at Christian School in Madison (17 Dec)
Far far far lefty radical feminist, although that term doesn’t quite fit either. She hated all men and wanted to exterminate them all. No wonder the Left isn’t writing reams of columns on this creature.
Bruce. where do you source the Earth’s ice and snow cover data?
NDIS support is based on a “needs” assessment with the provider having no incentive to minimise costs. Hence visits to sex workers, holiday packages (I rarely go on a tour without a disabled person and their “carer” coming along), or someone I know got a wonderful garden fully maintained. These are hardly essentials.
A contribution or co-payment arrangement like the pharmacy system might temper things a bit – and a public register of all beneficiaries, all suppliers and dollar amounts, updated in real time.
Reports of multiple-storey buildings ‘pancaking’ during the Vanuatu earthquake.
Fools!
Has nobody considered that they were controlled demolitions all along?
Shirley Energy Weapons were involved.
There are easier ways to demolish a building than dialling up a 7.x earthquake on the Sphincter scale.
Welcome to your future. Daily Telegraph:
There is more but you kind of get the drift.
Unplanned outages. My goodness gracious me. Code for we aren’t governed by people who have the nation’s interest at heart.
Entirely predictable except for the moron in Chris Bowen.
Does that mean the Teslas are out of action?
Surely not in Kenneally’s abode in Steagall’s electorate? Aren’t these privations supposed to be reserved for the rednecks and bogans in the western suburbs and the regions?
House GOP accuses Liz Cheney of tampering with J6 witness, ask FBI to investigate criminality
Oh Dear!
Someone might want to check their passport – or alternatively – their private jet – is ready for a dash to a Sanctuary in Canada.
@EricLDaugh
REPORT: Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Trump concerning “conflict of interest” rules for Elon Musk being a top adviser – WaPo
In response, Trump’s team called her “Pocahontas.” LMAO.
From the comments:
And more than 700 residents across Sydney’s Northern Beaches in suburbs including Church Point, Scotland Island, Ingleside, Bayview, Elvina Bay and Mccarrs Creek have also woken up in the dark, with crews predicting the lights will turn back on before 9am.
Ha ha!
Teals/doctors’ wives territory. The kind of people who believe in saving ‘da planet’ as long as it doesn’t affect them.
More, please. 🙂
And I’ll bet they wondered why they were getting no power from their gargantuan rooftop solar arrays. They go off automatically when the grid goes down.
Oi! That’s just a few suburbs away from me!
Did he ever!
@SteveLovesAmmo
Trump just went OFF on Juan Merchan!
Will – Snow cover from Rutgers Snow Lab here. The graph I tend to put up is the Snow Anomalies one, since that reflects the position of the snow line – whether it is receding north or expanding south. Only northern hemisphere data since there’s not much snow in the southern hemisphere, except Antarctica.
You can go to WUWT’s sea ice data page for Arctic and Antarctic sea ice coverage data. Anthony Watts has included links to the sources. See also https://www.climate4you.com/
The sea ice graphs tend not to be great since they’re from climate activist government agencies, and a set up to “show” maximum alarmism. In practice the Arctic has plateaued since about 2007 in line with the plateau in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). The last link is from Tony Heller – he has a lot of excellent posts and graphs of sea ice extent, but you have to search for relevant ones by putting ‘sea ice’ etc into his search box.
Keep in mind the after affects of the Hunga Tonga volcano have messed things up for the last three years, due to a massive injection of water vapour into the stratosphere.
If you want to destroy/conquer a country, first destroy the power stations and/or power grid.
I’ve played enough war games to know this.
once upon a time there was a game/computer past-time called SimCity. From what little I saw of it I thought at the time it would be a brilliant learning tool for things like how electricity works
@_johnnymaga
I can hear the sounds of a rusty dumpster lid being prised open, ready for some garbage…
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Nagi Maehashi, of Recipe Tin Eats Corp fame, is a braggard and a carpetbagger.
Yeah she has great books full of great recipes full of lots and lots of sugar and salt out of bottles and jars. But her “I was a flat-out high flyer, so I decided to set up my own corporation to deliver food to the needy” is pure egotistic Anywhere person w*nk. If she was Somewhere, she’d go to a pre-existing food kitchen, you know one with grass-roots experience and engagement with people on the streets, and give her time as well as give herself away, instead of going all-out to launch her own personal mega brand.
I don’t give a shit … the mole can cook
Yes, you’d be hard pressed to find this mentioned anywhere.
Woke Police Chief Claims School Shooter’s Trans Identity Irrelevant, Slams ‘Biases’
And, for all her dog-snogging, why does this single lady have no cats?
Yes, you know exactly what I’m suggesting.
Mitch McConnell Is The Personification Of America In Decline
Australian doctor who criticized COVID jabs has his suspension reversed
He got suspended though, not clear for how long.
As Mark Steyn said, the process is the punishment.
Our resident fascist was won’t to remark that those who took the Fifth Amendment were clearly hiding guilt.
I wonder what he thinks about the DemonRats and RINOs who are now seeking pre-emptive pardons? Surely seeking a pre-emptive pardon is a clear indication of guilt?
“wont”, not “won’t”.
Stupid spellwreck.
How to Stop the West’s Decline – Konstantin Kisin Holberg Debate Speech
He only has to survive the rest of today since their Parliament then goes into a WEB until January.
Not guaranteed he will survive the rest of Tuesday though. It sounds knife edge.
Bit more on the Ezra Mam conviction verdict, which wasn’t included the snippet I saw yesterday .. The judge besides fining him and suspending his driving licence (something he didn’t have anyway .. FFS) also deemed it a “NO conviction recorded” matter cos the Broncos, in their “character” reference stated that a, recorded, conviction would be detrimental to Mam’s playing career…..
Apparently, the NRL Integrity Committee rules on whether your suspended (X amount of games) or not from playing if a conviction is recorded but not if “no conviction recorded” is returned ……..
Suspect that isn’t the last we’ve heard on that one. Fails the pub test.
Whole thing is being completely ignored by the “mainstream”media .. so, I guess, the fix is in ..
There won’t be any appeal cos QLD DPP was happy to accept the “watered down” plod charges …….
Makes a mockery of Chrisifulli’s tough on crime stance.
Regrettably he is already proving a hollow man there.
Quite possibly. Teh Paywallian ran a story yesterday including a few choice quotes from a disgruntled criminal lawyer who would see the book getting thrown at his scrote clients week in week out.
What happened to “Dangerous driving causing injury”.
I hope so. Disgraceful.
I hope the crowds have the decency to boo him when he takes the field.
Scotland Island too? That’s where Nobody’s Girl Kristina Keneally lives. How sweet it is.
Can’t argue with that.
I read that one of the reasons most Snowy Hydro power stations are under the mountains so that they are protected from attacks.
What do we do now? We put our power infrastructure out in the open so even storms can knock them out. As for enemy action, we bought all the pieces from China who will know exactly their weak points and how to put them out of action.
This is not just the fault of the politicians, our top bureaucrats are more to blame as they are there to point out the problems to stupid ministers. The top bureaucrats are not worth a tenth of the money they are paid. In fact they are more deadly than the external enemy, nobody suspects them of working against our national interests.
Spot on
Canbra is the enemy within.
In a perverse sort of way the proliferation of intermittent and all round dodgy forms of power generation will ensure a lot of local backup generation capacity. This will primarily be private homes buying a small generator to keep the lights and fridges going.
This will be a lot harder to neutralise.
Bowen and co should be congratulated for their strategic far sightedness.
In the event of a grid failure, the private gensets will be confiscated for emergency services. In other words, hospitals, power stations, ambulance etc.
But in reality, they will be used for the Duty Sergeants Beer Fridge and the Local Members office printer.
I’ll take an axe to mine before they get it.
The couple who are purchasing my property on the Gregory are reporting a significant increase in Green/greenie presence and activity in the district.
There are always greenies making a fuss because of the coal but it is mainly childish performative nonsense and graffiti vandalism.
The suggestion for this mob is that they are planning a Christmas anti-cow farts ‘end of days’ publicity stunt.
Ok. Whatever pops your cork. If you wish to spend Christmas in non-hospitiable countryside, digging out your bogged kombi in torrential rain – enjoy.
PS. Mobile reception is terrible, how will you survive?
It is predictable that they will all scurry back to Townsville to be with mum and dad for Christmas freebies.
The kaftan population of the district correlates directly with the semester dates of that global educational powerhouse – JCU.
It would really tickle my funny bone if they were found to be using Starlink.
I’d actually say more Airlie-Cannovale-Prossy.
There is a small band of greenies in the ‘ville mainly out JCU way in Douglas that are mostly elderly and not much more than nuisance value. Academic year has finished so the rent a crowds from the uni’s marine science faculty have disappeared back south or back to the US.
Whitsunday Region seems to be full of green left types, just have to listen to 4MK when they have local content. Yikes and some run businesses too.
That said I’ll be coming through that way in Jan if the roads are open.
Wet has started early this year and look a good one.
My memory of working on Carmichael was that if in early December you see all the station hand leaving from stations further west like Dongmuballa we were told best to leave as well. Otherwise you would be stuck unless airlifted out till February.
Even the sealed Gregory Dev rd is bad in the wet in narrow places.
I can sell them a booster kit… 🙂
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/beatrix-von-storch-speaks-for-me-every-word.html
From the river to the sea we need to be muzzie free.
Brilliant. I had hoped the AFD would rise and scream “Nazi” at the Quislings of the Left, but it was not to be.
What is it with this supercilious, grotesque creature that he/she continues to pour our taxpayer’s money into the hand of terrorists? Grandstanding? Our money paying for her future UN job?
I am livid.
Australia to provide aid to Gaza after ceasefire, says Penny Wong
P.S. Comments are scathing.
No love for kd there. Increasingly I think the next election will be baseball bats at dawn.
communist and islamists a locked in 69
Chief Quisling Wong.
Will turn up in four months or so, and with devastating and compelling insights such as:
‘Trump lol’
I loved the way that Rainbow Sparkles Christia Freeland’s resignation speech was all about Trump. He owns her.
Long term TDS is far more debilitating than any dope. The crazy bint has exercised black witch destructive power for far too long, but it is thrilling to watch her burn.
What will her sharman Schwab and spiritual guide Merkel have to say about her failure to complete her mission? Take care sweetie!
A real headache for Fidel’s boy.
He got suspended though, not clear for how long.
I’d say a civil case for lost income, reputation etc would be fair.
What, a reputation as a killer of an infirm little old lady with a walker?
The top bureaucrats are not worth a tenth of the money they are paid. In fact they are more deadly than the external enemy, nobody suspects them of working against our national interests.
Defence procurement anyone?
subverting human flourishing
@ChiefTrumpster
Trump’s America
Amazing…the population has grown at well above it’s usual 2.8% annual rate since the beginning of the conflict.
Worst.genocide.evah!
I like this sort of stuff. It shows that the lefty MSM is in terminal cancer mode.
LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong tells editorial board to ‘take a break from writing about Trump’: report (17 Dec)
Nobody Wants to be the Editor of the Washington Post (17 Dec)
Bezos and Soon-Shiong know that their newspapers are dying. So they’ve instructed their journos to tack towards the centre. And the journos don’t want to.
All of this is pointless though, since lefties will flee any taint of wrongthink, and righties will never subscribe to pestilent leftist parrot cage liners like LA Times and WaPo. So all the owners are doing is accelerating the inevitable collapse.
Accelerating the crash might save money in the long term, particularly if a lot of the senior j’ismists resign in disgust.
A cunning stunt?
Lefty editors do exactly what their Lefty owner’s want. Lefties have zero contribution to civilisation. Destroyers not builders.
Wally Dalí
December 18, 2024 8:59 am
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Nagi Maehashi, of Recipe Tin Eats Corp fame, is a braggard and a carpetbagger.
I like the youtube channel “souped up recipies”, it’s all asian cooking but is presented in a way that even my idiot oldest children could understand.
Earlier:
I stand by this comment.
Also, there are reports that ten minutes before the quake, chemtrails were seen to criscross the entire island.
Chemtrails from military aircraft. Which can, of course, carry Direct Energy Weapons – as used in Under Siege 2.
Coincidences? You decide!
Can we work Bible Trees into the narrative? After all Vanuatu is a very Presbyterian country.
If you parse this article carefully, it looks like these methods are being normalized now, at least when they are conducted by actors favoured by the Regime.
A Christmas miracle required.
Call centre takers finally bowled out for 260. Straya lead by 180-ish.
Required – a giant smack-up from the top order to put on close to 200 as quick as possible, then clean up 10 more Injun poles.
Without any rain whatsoever. Big ask.
Newly named psychedelic fungus points to African origins of world’s most popular ‘magic mushroom’ – ABC News
McKenna’s Stoned Ape Hypothesis has some support?
Wastrels
Mongs
Reprobates
Scum
Window licking catamites.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/18/myefo-australian-federal-budget-forecast-release
Australia’s federal budget is on-track for a deficit of $26.9bn this financial year and is not projected to return to balance until 2034-35, according to the mid-year economic update (Myefo).
On Wednesday the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and finance minister, Katy Gallagher, released the update, which breaks Labor’s streak of two full-year budget surpluses with a deficit in its third year, albeit one that is $1.3bn smaller than projected in May.
….
The update reveals a total of $5.56bn spending over four years in “decisions taken but not yet announced” and measures for which the cost is “not for publication”.
Commonly used as an inexact metric for the size of an unspent election war-chest, the figure includes confidential sums paid for Aukus nuclear submarines and an undisclosed sum for “enabling a reliable and secure energy transition”.
…
The update reveals the government will provide additional funding of $1.2bn over six years from 2024–25 for the energy grid through recapitalising the Rewiring the Nation program “to provide additional concessional finance and underwriting support for transmission and distribution projects critical to Australia’s energy transformation”.
Always expected MYEFO would be ugly.
Peter Walsh must be turning in his grave.
Notice the terminology used by Daniel Greenfield of frontpagemag.com, who wrote the article linked to by BoN at 10.40am.
Greenfield — correctly — regards “the media” as a leftwing political party. In the US, that means “the media” doesn’t report news or act as the public’s eyes and ears, which it is supposed to be.
Ninety-nine per cent of the US news media campaigns for the Democratic Party and its “reporting” is little more than party press releases. As the self-appointed source of the correct narrative (newspeak for official lies), 99% of US journalists think ordinary people are too stupid to vote and need to be told what to think.
Until newspapers like the Washington Post and the LA Times decide to become the public’s eyes and ears again, they have no future. But evidently the staff of those papers now regard doing actual journalism as a fate worse than death. They deserve to be unemployed.
Nothing could make this clearer than the election night coverage. I’ve watched quite a few of these and in every case it was clear from the first moment that they were barracking for one side. Guess which.
Its taking too long.
Like Murpharoo, lots just moving to political spin and cutting out the middleman.
I note Australian Associated Press is now seeking donations from its website readers.
Yet they can’t manage to update their stories before midday.
Gurgle.
Eventually Bezos and Soon-Shiong will get fed up with all this and sell the mastheads for fire-sale prices. The buyer will be someone like Soros. Maybe he could rename them Pravda and Izvestia.
Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff to be saved by Spanish rivalRescue deal worth £70 million for the historic shipyard is expected to secure more than 1,000 jobs across four sites
Emma Taggart
, Business Reporter
Tuesday December 17 2024, 5.00pm GMT, The Times
The historic shipbuilder that built the Titanic is on the cusp of being rescued by a Spanish state-owned rival in a £70 million deal expected to safeguard more than 1,000 British jobs.
The board of Navantia is set to sign off on the rescue deal for Harland & Wolff, backed by the British government, in the coming days following several months of negotiations.
As part of the deal the Spanish company will take over Harland & Wolff’s four sites in the UK, located in Belfast, Methil, Arnish in Scotland and Appledore in north Devon.
• Harland & Wolff creditors ‘unlikely to be repaid in full’
Navantia will pay £70 million for Harland & Wolff’s assets and is also set to agree improved terms on a contract to build three support ships for the Royal Navy.
The Spanish shipbuilder is understood to have agreed to retain Harland & Wolff’s existing workforce for a set period of time, securing more than 1,000 jobs across the four shipyards, according to Sky News, which first reported the agreement.
The rescue comes after months of uncertainty and financial problems for the historic shipbuilder, best known for building the Titanic.
Harland & Wolff fell into administration in September after a review found it had no long-term funding available to support continuing costs.
Commie Spanish government helping out Commie Pom government.
70 meg seems cheap for the assets.
Paid for by Germans via the EU.
Still gotta employ people (unionised Poms) to use them.
to strip out and sell it all a la Bell Resources?
Well that’s a turn-up. The Orangemen’s Dole Office bought out by Spaniards.
Gosh the soapdodgers failed to get the extra 400 odd runs required to beat the sheepshaggers.
Frolics, didn’t we pay through the nose to gold plate the distribution network under the Lying Slapper. Only to be told we’re now Rewiring the Nation. Is there nothing Useless Effin Lying Labor can’t stuff up? You already know the answer, carry on.
That was then. Ten years on the socialists cant chuck enough cash at newables and transmission and requiring. Riddle me this. If private capital is paying north of 250 billion for this kit, won’t they want a return? In which case how do electricity prices come down unless most go bust?
Rewiring not requiring.
Coincidences? You decide!
Only a 4/10 – no tartarian involvement…
This is in response to a comment that he seems to be anti-U.S.
@MikeBenzCyber
@MarioNawfal
ELON’S MONTESSORI SCHOOL: STEM, SNACKS, AND ZERO “WOKE PROPAGANDA”
Elon’s latest project isn’t a rocket, a tunnel, or a meme—it’s Ad Astra, a Montessori school near Bastrop, about 30 miles southeast of Austin, Texas, where kids ages 3 to 9 can learn STEM skills, solve problems, and snack on carrots and hummus.
The school sits on 40 acres of land near his other ventures, including SpaceX and The Boring Co., conveniently located for employees’ kids—or Elon’s own ever-growing fleet of offspring.
A 4,000-square-foot house is being converted into a classroom for up to 21 students, with a focus on hands-on learning, outdoor play, and “authentic Montessori” methods.
While tuition will be subsidized at first, parents can eventually expect private-school price tags.
Elon, who’s made his views on education crystal clear, wants fewer kids growing up to become political science majors and more learning “useful” trades like engineering or plumbing.
This isn’t Elon’s first swing at schooling—he started a similar Ad Astra school in California back in 2014 and has childcare centers popping up near SpaceX facilities.
But his Texas version lines up neatly with his growing political influence, where he’s pushing back on diversity and inclusion efforts and aligning himself with Trump’s education agenda.
For now, Ad Astra promises to raise the next generation of “builders and problem solvers,” because if there’s one thing Elon loves, it’s creating the future—preferably one STEM project at a time.
A well deserved broadside at Benny and Sleazy. Shame on them.
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar rips into Penny Wong in ‘heated’ call
Well done.
Note the still craven silence of the opposition.
Wong has barely a punch laid on her.
Artificial courage?
Barbarian warriors in Roman times used stimulants in battle, findings suggest (Phys.org, 2 Dec)
It will be interesting to see what happens now that Syria has been conquered. The Captagon pipeline must be at risk. On the other hand the new owners might find it a useful revenue source, once they learn enough chemistry to run the equipment correctly.
An old friend suggested to me that the Silk Road was very much about drug transportation.
The weirdest example I read about was northern Europeans would feed deer some fungus and then let nature do its thing …
McKenna suggested that human cognition was boosted through magic mushrooms. I can’t make any evolutionary sense of his argument.
Long dark winter nights call for some boiled deer poo.
So what you’re saying is that Assassins weren’t the only ones searching for hashish?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93pg0gnkvxo
The Son of Castro has survived the No Confidence motion.
Is it like surviving the (first) leadership spill? …. ie the beginning of the inevitable end?
Saw a Youtube short the other day. I think it was from his interview with Tucker.
A plus sized employee of Twitter approached Elon and said my pronouns are they/them. Elon replied that your pronouns are kilograms and pounds and you’re unemployed.
Lol!
Elon, incidentally, has a definite ‘vegan/metabolically unhealthy’ look about him
He is doing keto atm, eggs and steak for breakfast.
Snoozer Kelly copping another pasting in today’s Paywallian. God he’s hopeless.
I will give the Wong chap this:
She is prepared to unequivocally nail her colours to the mast on this issue, as detestable as that position may be.
This is in stark contrast to her boss, who is a world-class ditherer and superficial weathervane, eager to curry favour with anyone on any matter while trying (and failing) to appear Churchill-esque.
Like Albo, kd wrong won’t be seen for dust after the election. All decisions are being made fully in the knowledge they won’t be around for the consequences. Very Gillardian.
Never been a better time to be No 3 or 4 on the Mainland Tasmanian Liars Senate ticket.
Agree – no shortage of undergraduate zeal in that one.
Interesting contrast to the previous Private School Adelaide Girl we had as a Foreign Minister- too lazy and disorganised to find out what the DFAT position was, let alone have the horsepower to sabotage it.
Wong is an ideologue. History demonstrates how dangerous they are. If you have watched them closely it is disconcerting how much humanity they can jettison in the pursuit of “ideals” and ideas that they imagine elevates them above everyone else.
NDIS just gotta fun-duuh it .. LOL!
A comment from a thread on the $650K+ a year NDIS coverage story ….
Come in spinner …… if it weren’t sooo serious it would be funny FFS!
My kid just got approved for speech and OT. The hospital speech therapist was explaining to me an hr session used to cost $85-95. Now that ndis covers up to $280 for the hr magically all speech therapists just happen to charge the exact amount. $280 for an hr.
The NASA effect.
No.
Just shitcan the whole thing.
“Dim Jim” sez, ” Enuf is enuf” .. Treasury dept to apply for NDIS grant to cover the “budget” deficit …..
?”There is no alternative but to apply for NDIS help .. after all, the gummint has an incurable, long term disease .. OVERSPENDING .. from Luigi thru to “plenty wrong” &, that f**wit, “blow-in” our prognosis is dire and without full time care it will be prove to be terminal” …
The accountability for the disastrous black hole that is the NDIS needs to be shared equally between Labor and the Liberals. In fact I would go so far as to say that the Liberals are more to blame than Labor. In power from September 2013 to May 2022, that’s nine years, the Liberals did nothing to rein in the NDIS. The first first act of the new Liberal government back in late 2013 should have been to abolish the then new scheme or radically alter it. But the Liberals, as they did with so much else, sat back and did nothing. What a joke.
A wet day at the Cafe so lots of hungry customers. Not least wet elderly mum kooka (aged 16) with attached kid.
As to other birdies, just watched the launch by SpaceX of two medium orbit communications satellites. Narrated by bird colonel John Insprucker, who is a fine guy.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1869143869264126054
Does mum let you touch her? As in stroke her feathers?
Yes. She’s the very first Cafe birdie, arrived in 2011.
You do good work,Bruce.
Elite Powerlifter Anatoly embarrasses 2 gym clowns. They really deserved the humiliation
Oh dear!
I hope they don’t get a STI.
Doctor’s warning as people ‘catch’ chlamydia from gym equipment (18 Dec)
The Unbearable Slowness of Being
Technical, interesting approach.
Rubbish. I’ve never bothered to become a speed reader but they can easily do 3000 words per minute. My mum can. That’s 50 words per second, so roughly 20 kbps.
And visual perception would be many megabits per second.
Does she remember all the words? Has she been tested for recall? If she does remember all that she would make a fortune on game shows.
You don’t know much about speed reading.
I did a brief course, enough to see what was possible. Brain training. But since I was STEM it wasn’t necessary and I like reading novels at a conversational rate.
My mum is an English BA so needed both speed and comprehension. She can read a novel in an hour or so even now in her late eighties.
Conscious or unconscious?
There must be some filtering/prioritisation. The eyes are best thought of as part of the brain.
Conscious is slow. The filtering happens at many levels, a primary one being the brainstem. The vast majority of sensory input remains unconscious but “danger!” can change that. The eye is part of the CNS, there are two primary components in relation to speed. The slow and fast visual pathways. Conscious thought is very slow because so much has to be integrated from so many regions of the CNS.
Sounds a bit fishy. You would imagine that processing rate would be contingent upon context. The whole time slows down during a crash thing and athletes that return serve before the nerves have had time to send the signals that far.
The athlete conundrum is interesting. I think it based on the idea that the typical visual functions are used and they may not have known about the fast visual pathway. Studies have shown even the retina can measure speed and direction, and there is the possibility of alternative routing from the traditional pathway. Also, as Glenn McGrath once said, he only has to move the ball a few centimeters to get the batsmen out. Prediction plays a huge role, hence the critical importance of practice and bowlers concealing how they are holding the ball.
What a load of frog-shit
So who was the climatically illiterate idiot at Cricket Australia who decided to switch the Gabba test from its normal slot in November (Brisbane rainfall average 97mm) to the middle of the tropical wet season in December (rainfall average 133mm) – triple the city’s winter average (45mm in August)?
As an enthusiastic promoter of everything woke that cricket fans loathe (like Welcome To Country), Cricket Australia has a special kind of dumb that replaces what works with what doesn’t.
As we speak, cricket fans are twiddling their thumbs as the time lost to rain at the Gabba approaches two of the five days scheduled for the third Test.
Mentioned same on day 1.
Subtropical ridge is now set well to the south. Though the monsoon trough is still getting going there’s a nice feed of moist air into the sub tropics and even gets down to the more temperate latitudes as some of my Vic relatives have told me over the last few weeks.
At Brisbane’s latitude the earlier the better to hold it.
The cynic in me says it’s to justify a roof on the new stadium that CA (and AwFuL) want the Qld govt to build them ( sorry that should read “for the Olympics”)
I think timing a result of Adelaide and Perth timings. TV like the Perth test going into the Eastern capitals.
Ooof, -4 for my “Nagi got no cats” quip?
…youse lot realize I’m being racist, not sexist-ageist, right?
…this bloge, sometimes…
The Wright Brothers first flew in 1903. In the same year, the schoolteacher from Kaluga, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky publish his book on spaceflight. It was all there, the best fuels, how to keep humans alive etc etc.
The ISS should have been called the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky. Maybe Elon will name a Starship after him.
Mars Base.
He really should do that.
Via Michael Smith news:
Indonesia is developing 20 nuclear energy plants – the first scheduled to come on-line in 2028
Not only a nuke but appears to be a Thorium plant.
https://thorconpower.com/
Rain might yet save the sandpaper team.
3/16
4/28.
Aussies falling apart.
sorry 5 for
5/33
5 down. I thought this might happen.
6. Head’s out.
7. Are the Aussies going for a loony declaration?
A rained out draw. Disappointing. I hope all players will be fit for Melbourne.
Not only a nuke but appears to be a Thorium plant.
Breaking news: Dot has been sighted in Indonesia.
Whatever happened to Dot? Long time no see.
Taking an extended break he said at the time.
Amazon unloading its dog of a satellite business.
It’s expected to attract state owned buyers.
Bezos realised he just can’t compete with Elon.
Bugger, re-reading that & got it 100% wrong.
Amazon continuing with it’s dog of a satellite business.
And looking for state owned companies to use the service.
Good luck with that Jeff.
He doesn’t even have the rockets to launch the constellation yet. He’s bought some launches from SpaceX.
Bezos is a classic case of how not to do it. I get that his heart is in the right place re space but when Musk is eating your and everyone else’s lunch surely you’d change gear.
New Glenn due to launch very soon. I hope it works. Not as large as Elon’s enormous Starship/Superheavy but still nearly Falcon Heavy sized.
Blue Origin edges closer to New Glenn rocket’s maiden flight (17 Dec)
Admittedly first launches tend towards rapid unscheduled disassembly…
Calling Mr Francis Drake!
The historic shipbuilder that built the Titanic is on the cusp of being rescued by a Spanish state-owned rival in a £70 million deal expected to safeguard more than 1,000 British jobs.
Will Mr Drake please leave the bowling green and report to his ship?
The British shipbuilding industry can’t be saved.
The Unions and the State have destroyed it.
If you can’t beat them, buy them.
Aussie, looks like it’s about to slow walk through 63 cents.
Tell your US friends to come down for a cheapish holiday.
LOl. Why now, it’s going to get cheaper… 🙂
Most here already know about this ruling.. It’s good to see many people having no qualms speaking with him. Avi is leaps and bounds above legacy media.
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Avi:
Suspended Brisbane doctor William Bay has won a significant legal battle after challenging the official COVID-19 narrative at the height of the pandemic madness.
Aussie doctor took on the CORRUPT health system and won!
“Greenfield — correctly — regards “the media” as a leftwing political party. In the US, that means “the media” doesn’t report news or act as the public’s eyes and ears, which it is supposed to be.”
And the public knows this – most of them anyway.
While it would surprise no-one to know that politicians are among the least trusted people about, it surprises many that the MSM is trusted by LESS people than trust congress!
And consider this: in the 18-54 demographic, Tim Pool’s nightly TIMCAST IRL live show (runs for 3 hours, 8-11PM eastern) regularly gets 300k+ viewers while CNN is dropping slowly and is under 60k viewers in the this key demo at the same time period.
Dan Bongino’s rumble podcast (also live at 11AM) regularly has in excess of 100k live viewers (at 11AM on a weekday!) and on-demand sees well more than 1 million views regularly.
Megyn Kelly also has high viewership numbers on her Ewe-tube channel, and who knows how much on the Sirius platform.
It’s not that these people are unbiased, it’s that they let you know exactly where they stand, and are willing to talk to people from all sides, not just those who follow the “party line”. They ARE the mainstream now, and the legacy MSM is “fringe”.
It only takes 20 years in Australia because of bureaucratic sabotage.
And the unions
Regardless of how the Fed tries to sabotage Trump, his goal has to be to get the US 10 year to settle around 3.5% for most of his term.
If it gets much lower, too much dodgy shit finds capital.
Much higher, too many decent opportunities struggle to find capital.
Only after a short period of much higher rates to blow out the accumulated shit.
There are 2 ways Trump and his team can attack the lawfare creeps like merchan who has just refused to void Trump’s jury conviction in the slut stormy bookkeeping case:
Judge Merchan Denies Trump Immunity Motion To Set Aside Jury Verdict in NYC Criminal Case
First, he can appeal immediately to the higher courts since merchan has now made a ruling.
Secondly he can investigate the background to the case: whether laws were concocted, evidence manufactured and any other irregularity. Then he can look into the private lives of the creeps, for instance merchan and his daughter made money from the jury conviction.
I would suggest he do both. He can’t have this BS hanging over his head during his term and waiting for him when he finishes.
A more blatant case of a judge (Merchan) having a massive conflict of interest I have never heard of before.
As bad as third world judicial corruption.
Poilievre Delivers JAW DROPPING SPEECH As Parliament IMPLODES
AUD now 0.6313
Dim Jim says ‘all is well, remember the lobsters in the tank in the Titanic’s restaurant? They thought it was all downhill’
I remember in the late 2000’s our dear leader in Qld, Peter Beattie, declared there would be no such thing as drought breaking rains in the future. Two Brisbane River floods, mostly full dams and by looking out my window I think it is safe to say Peter Beattie got it wrong. But he will never say it. I bit like Fonzi. Actually he got many more things wrong and he will never admit those either.
Was that I’m sorry, I made a mistake, I’m only human, it won’t happen again Peter Beattie?
Asking for a friend
Anyone else have issues with this?
Proton VPN keeps blocking my CC details unless I turn it off, then there are no problems.
It kind of defeats the purpose.
Why trust a mammalogist to predict the weather decades hence?
Would you go to your dentist for a knee replacement because he’s a top bloke?
Flannery is an instance of the celebrity scientist speaking outside his area of research and being granted an authority to do so by a credulous media & political class.
We got another round of it during covid with the celebrity epidemiologists.
Most of what they said about masks and distancing and the vaccines is now known to be false and was known to be contentious at the time.
People in ordinary life lose their jobs for mistakes of less consequence.
What penalty did they pay?
Beattie just proved the 2 tier journalism of this country.
The stench of corruption was deep in his Government, Mackinroth, Nuttall, Kaiser to name a few.
Teflon Pete emerged from it all with barely a scratch.
Whatever it was – if there was one – was nowhere near sufficient to make me happy. And it doesn’t take much to make me happy.
Legacy carmakers are in trouble.
Meanwhile, Tesla has a market capitalization of approximately US$1.5 trillion. I did say Tesla stock was a gimme at $170 (compared to last night’s close at around US$480). However, I don’t think Tesla is being valued solely for its car-making prowess. Robots are coming, and if Tesla releases the first and most highly regarded one (very likely), this could end up being a US$5 trillion company. This doesn’t even take into account the robotaxis that are also on the horizon. Tidbits are emerging about the latest self-driving software tested in Tesla cars, and it’s said to be revolutionary.
The African-American’s net worth is now around US$400 billion and if the company reaches the US$5 trillion, Musk will be the first trillionaire.
Correction: Google says Musk is worth $US439 billion.
And this is after he took about US$35 billion hit on Twitter.
Thank God this dude is on the right side, and he should also count his lucky stars Trump won, otherwise the Orcs would’ve found a way to put him in jail.
Naughty Mr Setka has been caught being naughty.
Victorian government to implement recommendations for construction crackdown after damning reports of CFMEU corruption (Sky News, 18 Dec)
And the Labor Party will return all those donations imminently of course…
Setka and Fiona Patten were effectively Andrews’ deputy premiers.
Islamic cleric Wissam Haddad fronts court as Jewish community’s milestone case beginsAlexi Demetriadi
6 minutes ago
Lawyers representing Australia’s peak Jewish body have said their case against Sydney cleric Wissam Haddad would seek to ensure the “safety and dignity” of the community as a potentially groundbreaking legal case kicked off.
It comes as Mr Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd, recently took to social media to dismiss allegations he had ties to the al-Muhajiroun terrorist network, and its high-profile leaders Omar Bakri and Anjem Choudary, despite recent correspondence with them.
On Wednesday, Mr Haddad fronted Sydney’s Federal Court with his solicitor, Elias Tabchouri, who said his client would be “defending the matter” but they “remained committed to conciliation” with the applicants, two of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s leaders.
Judge Angus Stewart – who recently ruled that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson racially vilified senator Mehreen Faruqi – said “upon quick reading” the imputations alleged by the lawsuit were “damning” and provisionally listing a four-day hearing from June 10.
The Australian has covered since 2023 Mr Haddad’s sermons at his Al Madina Dawah centre in Sydney’s southwest and how the ECAJ had filed vilification complaints at the country’s human rights body.
When mediation at the Australian Human Rights Commission failed, the ECAJ’s deputy president, Robert Goot, and co-chief executive, Peter Wertheim, filed court proceedings against Mr Haddad and the centre.
They allege a slew of sermons given by Mr Haddad or hosted by the centre, which were posted online, racially vilified their community under Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Among other things, Mr Haddad, or speakers at his Al Madina Dawah Centre, have allegedly called Jewish people “descendants of pigs and monkeys”, recited parables about their killing, described them as “treacherous people” with their “hands” in media and business, encouraged jihad, and urged people to “spit” on Israel so Israelis “would drown”.
In most cases, he has claimed he was referring to or reciting Islamic scripture.
I’m noting the name of the learned judge.
Interesting judge.
Lets see how he handles this…
Justin Trudeau’s days numbered as sun sets on his sunny ways
Cameron Stewart
Justin Trudeau is finished. It’s just a matter of time for the one-time poster boy of progressive politics, as an angry nation and his own party turn on Canada’s Prime Minister.
After almost 10 years in power, the man once dubbed by Vogue as “the new young face of Canadian politics” has seen Canadians tire of his so-called “sunny ways”. They are ready to dump him comprehensively at the next election.
It may not even get that far. Trudeau may resign within days amid a growing revolt in the parliament, including from within his own party, after the resignation of his well-regarded finance minister Chrystia Freeland.
The resignation of Freeland, who accused Trudeau of fiscally irresponsible “political gimmicks” to shore up his falling popularity, has unleashed a wave of frustration against the Prime Minister that had been building for some time.
One-third of his own Liberal Party caucus and New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, whose party Trudeau’s ruling Liberals have relied upon to stay in power, have now called on him to resign.
If he does not, it is increasingly likely they will pass a no-confidence motion that would force an immediate federal election at a time when polls show his Liberals trailing the Conservatives by a whopping 20 points, 43 per cent to 23 per cent.
An election must be held by October. Trudeau’s approval rating has slumped from 63 per cent when he was first elected to just 28 per cent, suggesting the once-loved “Trudeau brand” has become toxic politically.
So what went wrong? How did the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, a progressive icon when elected in 2015, appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone, lose his mojo?
The political decline of the now 52-year-old began in 2019 when videos emerged of a young Trudeau, then 29, dressed as Aladdin in brownface makeup for a party, a revelation that dented his progressive image. He had been widely mocked a year earlier for wearing Hollywood bling on a visit to India.
More serious problems emerged in 2021 when his Covid pandemic response went sour amid a populist backlash against harsh lockdown laws and vaccine mandates.
When he was narrowly re-elected in 2021 with a minority government, Trudeau fell victim to the same ailments that have plagued post-Covid incumbent governments around the world: rampant inflation, a soaring cost of living, a housing crisis and excessive immigration. He has not moved fast enough on any of these issues.
Inflation hit 8.1 per cent in 2022 and Trudeau has been forced to slash overly generous permanent migration targets by 21 per cent after a backlash, admitting the government “didn’t quite get the balance right”.
As his approval ratings plummeted, Trudeau tried to win back voters by playing Santa – sending $C250 to every Canadian earning less than $C150,000 annually and a temporary tax break on essential items during the holidays.
This was too much for Freeland, who said Canada could not afford such “gimmicks” at a time when US president-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports unless Ottawa does more to stem illegal immigration into the US.
Trudeau’s trouble is that his personal charm now holds no sway with voters or his colleagues. There is a backlash against his perceived “wokeness” similar to that in the US that helped Trump defeat Democrat rival Kamala Harris, and in New Zealand that saw the comprehensive defeat of another progressive hero, Jacinda Ardern.
The sun is fast setting on the Trudeau era — and for most Canadians it can’t come fast enough.
Getting booted before Xmas would be a nice present for Canadians.
Oz
And beside all of the above, he is a dickless bampot.
I’m noting the name of the learned judge.
It’s Angus Morkel Stewart and he is a woke dickhead. The judgment he gave against our Pauline is a shocker. Basically he convicted our Pauline not on what she said to the muzzie skank but because of all the other so called racist things she has said and done elsewhere. It should fall on appeal.
He’ll side with the muzzies.
He’ll side with the muzzies.
Yep.
President Trump is starting a newsletter called Road to 47, to speak directly to the people about his transition plans and what is happening — and bypass the lying mainstream media! Creating a parallel media stream…
News | Donald J. Trump
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Cool 23min video on the history of Las Vegas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4isJouVEaw
Fries with that?
World’s Smallest Violin Plays As “Depressed” Biden Bureaucrats Can’t Find New Jobs (18 Dec)
Better get your applications in to Maccas quickly, staffer peoples, because you’ll have a whole lot of competition for those burger flipping jobs after 20 January.
No point learning to code either with the advent of AI. hah.
Hunting season’: soldier’s words on alleged war crimeMiklos BolzaAAP
Wed, 18 December 2024 12:43PM
“Got to love hunting season.”
Those were the words Special Air Service Regiment trooper Oliver Jordan Schulz wrote to a fellow soldier the day after he “notched up another one” by allegedly committing the war crime of murder.
The 43-year-old has been accused of unlawfully shooting a local man, Dad Mohammad, three times as he lay on his back in a wheat field at Dehjawze in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province on May 28, 2012.
Schulz, who is yet to enter a plea, was arrested in March 2023, becoming the first former or serving Australian Defence Force member to be charged with a war crime-related murder.
Evidence in the landmark case, previously obtained by AAP, can be revealed after a wide-ranging court order was lifted and replaced by narrower reporting restrictions on Tuesday.
Footage from a helmet-mounted camera shows Schulz and his patrol coming into Dehjawze by helicopter before disembarking, running past a compound and across aqueducts, before coming across Mr Mohammad.
Schulz walks into the field and points his rifle at the Afghan, who lies down on his back before being shot three times.
Military documents show his patrol had been sent to Dehjawze for “Objective Young Akira” to capture Mullah Payend, who was known by various other aliases.
The wanted man was thought to be providing religious training for insurgents in the area and was allegedly connected with suicide bombings in Tarin Kowt.
A report summarising Mr Mohammad’s death claimed he was seen “tactically manoeuvring” on the ground as Schulz’s helicopter approached.
Smoke and flares were dropped but the Afghan could not be engaged from the air and soldiers were sent out on foot, the document said.
Allegedly displaying “hostile intent”, Mr Mohammad refused to stop when ordered before being killed.
Soldiers claim they found a radio on the dead Afghan’s body and a mobile phone he had dropped that connected with Young Akira.
The report expressed skepticism about complaints made by local elders that Mr Mohammad had been unlawfully killed, saying they had a history of making similar claims spurred on by insurgents.
Despite no locals witnessing the shooting, the elders said Mr Mohammad had been shot in the head and stabbed in the neck and heart.
“The intent of the allegation is to discredit (operations) in the area and to capitalise through compensation for incidents that occur,” another report said.
But Australian Federal Police allege what Schulz said after the killing revealed his frame of mind at the time.
“I had a f***ing gooooooooooood day yesterday brother,” he wrote to another soldier the day after the shooting.
In late November, two SAS soldiers, who cannot be legally identified, were ordered to face questions at an upcoming committal hearing at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court after refusing to speak with the AFP.
In June 2012, Schulz spoke with a superior about the incident.
That soldier will face questioning at the April committal hearing about how the interview was conducted and what was said.
Prosecutors alleged Schulz made admissions and possibly lied during the discussion.
The soldier will also be grilled over documents created after the incident, including claims Mr Mohammad had been carrying the radio and mobile phone.
The crown case is these items were planted on the body afterwards.
A second soldier on the ground with Schulz when Mr Mohammad was shot will also step into the witness box at the hearing.
He will be asked about where he was at the time of the shooting, what information he was given in briefings before and after the mission, and conversations he had with Schulz regarding the killing.
A third individual will also be made to give evidence about what he saw on the day, what he observed about Mr Mohammad and the mobile phone allegedly found on the dead Afghan.
who would believe anything uttered by local terrorist sympathisers in Afghanistan? They believe in FGM after all.
Just like Gaza, all casualties are women, children, journalists, aspiring doctors, UNWRA volunteers etc.
The key phrase here:
The commentary about hunting and good days can very reasonably be explained as bravado on the part of a young bloke, ensconced within other alpha males, and who in all likelihood is still processing the details around ending someone else.
This is, of course, something that career carpet walkers will not (and never) appreciate, let alone understand.
In a nutshell KD. Very well said.
I remember reading years back, Mark Knopfler stating he hung up the guitar was because he got bored playing out to packed out stadiums.
It bacame all to repetitive. Fair enough I say.
Dire Straits – Telegraph Road (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK / July 1983)
Was at the Sydney Entertainment Centre when they played Telegraph Road in 1986. Vividly remember despite being in the pleb seats at the back. The acoustics were awesome even there.
One of the few ex schoolteachers worth feeding.
One of the few guitarists who is immediately recognisable (like Carlos Santana).
One of those few very positive freaks of nature.
Saw Dire Straits at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1981? They played Telegraph road. Knopfler introduced the song as something that was inspired on the road tour through Aus.
The concert was acoustically “mind blowing” but the audience atmosphere was underwhelming with typical Adelaide theatre polite clapping between songs.
The double bonus for me was Paul Kelly and the Dots were the support act. I didn’t know much about him other than a “Countdown” song he had moderate success with called “Billy Baxter”. I left that concert a fan for life.
We were there too in 1986, Bruce. Left our little son and 2month-old daughter with my parents so we could drive down from Newcastle. Just showed the clip to our son, now 41, who is over from WA for Christmas. Major fan of Knoffler’s guitar work.
President Trump is starting a newsletter
Hopefully form letters are next.
Dear [insert name],
You are fired. Please leave immediately from your office, you will be escorted out by security. The contents of your desk will be sent to you by courier.
Have a nice day.
(signed) Donald Trump
Appropriately vetted for approval, of course.
An Israeli politician, particularly a male Israeli politician, is not going to be scared of Penny Pong.
Despite no locals witnessing the shooting, the elders said Mr Mohammad had been shot in the head and stabbed in the neck and heart.
This use of the term “elders” has to be revisited.
They make it sound almost mythical.
How about “villagers advanced in age, most suffering from failing eyesight, probably an organ on the way out too”.
So their evidence is corrupted as “Farmer Jo” was shot and not “stabbed in the neck”
Bruce of Newcastle
December 18, 2024 7:11 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Was at the Sydney Entertainment Centre when they played Telegraph Road in 1986. Vividly remember despite being in the pleb seats at the back. The acoustics were awesome even there.
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No music like this today. I cringe at all the people going to Taylor Swift concert.
It’s muck.
Sitting on a verandah overlooking an expanse of Pokolbin paddocks. The setting sun is glowing gold, reflecting on the smooth stems of spotted gums.
The day’s mists and gentle rains have ended, blown away to the north east. Below my perch I spot a lone eastern grey roo. The lorikeets are chattering above.
I love this country, and I understand why my great great grandfather decided to make it his home.
I’m visiting the auld country and it is beautiful. But I am reminded of ‘My Country’ by Dorothea MacKellar. “I know but cannot share it, my love is otherwise.”
My family came here when I was a child. Australia is the place for me.
I suggest a .223 for the roo, and a shotty for the noisy bastard lorrikeets.
If you get lucky, a saltie will crawl out of the river and you can use the .308 for a bit of handbag action.
What calibre is a frying pan? I heard they’re good on crocs.
Some thoughts….
I love James Macpherson’s moral and verbal clarity. Can we have the Macpherson Report…..please?
On the Alan Jones’ media spectacle today outside Dowling Centre courts, I refer to Jones’ words, words which are worth repeating…
“I will not be engaging in a running commentary in the media, but I want you to understand this: These allegations are either baseless or distort the truth.”
He claimed prior to his arrest that he was given “no opportunity by police” to answer the allegations.
“I have never indecently assaulted these people,” he said.
“The law assumes I am not guilty, and I am not guilty.
“I am emphatic that I’ll be defending every charge before a jury in due course.”
Interesting how Jones was given no opportunity by NSWaffen to answer the allegations.
I remember how Alan Jones stood by Cardinal Pell during his trial and imprisonment. I now stand with Alan Jones. Jones, like Pell, has been targeted by the left for his unflinching conservative/right of centre politics. If he was a stalwart of the left, none of this would be happening. I thought Josh Szeps’ words (Szeps is a gay man) about Jones a few weeks ago hit the nail on the head.
Now I can read behind Szeps’ words, the kind of behaviour exhibited by Jones is part and parcel of homosexual culture. It’s the norm. We all know this, it’s obvious, Jones is being brought down by the same ideologues who went after Pell.
I should add that in no way are the two men, Pell and Jones, similar. One was a holy man, the other a complete libertine. But they shared forthright conservative/right of centre views which they were passionate about and for this some in our society decided that each must be silenced and destroyed.
Cassie, this is exactly the same hateful warfare that is being brought against Bernard Gaynor.
It goes to the warped personalities who become incandescent at someone not acceding to the gay mafia demands for worship of their lifestyle.
The grannies who think the gay men they meet are so cute, have never been on the receiving end of their rage.
Beautifully written Cassie. Thankyou.
Nailed it, Cassie.
The 43-year-old has been accused of unlawfully shooting a local man, Dad Mohammad, three times as he lay on his back in a wheat field at Dehjawze in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province on May 28, 2012.
Ah Uruzgan province.
Australia’s dirty little secret.
Not the servicemen on the ground.
But the shiny bums at the top of the ADF abomination.
And the kitchen cabinets that agreed to it.
Which is why the Brereton report will never see the light of day.
To the person who hates me so much that they must, regardless of any comment I make, “dislike” it.
Grow the hell up. You need psychiatric help, right now. Before you escalate.
Saddo.
You most likely ignored a comment of its, and it has now vowed to destroy you by the only means at its disposal.
The dreaded DOWN tick.
One little tick at a time.
Calli, are you trembling yet? 😀
Just ignore it, calli.
Probably a bot. Ignore.
It bothers me that you keep referring to it. Why?
It’s either a nutter or a bot. Who cares?
Concentrate on the rest of the Cats who enjoy your posts, Calli.
It difficult to ignore deeply ingrained psychopathy. This has gone on for a long time. I want the person to forget about me and go on with their life.
Perhaps a new year and a fresh start.
Of course, in the modern woke West, if you’re a soldier and victorious, these days you are not supposed to say anything triumphant.
I think I might have mentioned it here before, but my late mother was an excellent cook, and in particular she cooked both a mean steak…a la Francais and she was a dab hand at cooking omelettes that looked like souffles.
Tonight I cooked a steak in her honour, and then I smothered the steak with hot English mustard, the accompaniment for a steak. Now, whilst my steak was okay it still didn’t match Mum’s steak.
I miss Mum.
Always cook what she’d like, Cassie. It’s how you remember the very best.
I “tidy up” everywhere I go. Dad was aways quipped as “Tidy R…..”. A tidy site is a safe site!
We are the product of our past, and it’s how we continue to love them after they’re gone.
Cassie, I feel sure you have been a daughter who made your mum’ s life very special – particularly in her last days.
Cassie,
my mum was a dreadful cook.
But, she made the BEST apple strudel.
She was a product of her poverty riddled times. She had about eight recipes in her repertoire, as was the custom of her time. They were ingrained deep into her during childhood. She found it hard to embrace something different.
She did though, enjoy my cooking and as she grew older, embraced new flavours and ingredients, if they were cooked by someone else.
To refresh peoples memories, the allegations (conspiracy theories ?) partial reporting are as per below.
From early 2009 onwards Australia said yes to every US request because they wanted to ingratiate themselves with the sexy new Obama administration.
There were rare occasions, allegedly, when the CIA & DEA asked the US DoD for resources to support whatever they were up to and the DoD politely declined.
And then the CIA & DEA knocked on their old mates (Australia’s) door.
Krudd etc & the shiny bums at the top of the ADF said yes.
We’ll all be long gone when the papers are released showing whether or not Australian forces were involved in a three letter organisations narcotics racket.
The Late Debate on Sky without James McPherson and Caleb Bond is not worth watching. Liz Storer, Joe Hildebrand and some woke chick now agree with each other. It only takes two other people to turn Liz woke, so much for her principles.
Crossie,
I said earlier, that I would like to have a drink with her.
Now, I want to smack the f**king stage make-up off her in a scrag fight.
I would win.
Benny Wrong wants Australia to stump up money to rebuild Gaza.
‘Release the hostages’: Israel-Gaza war will only end when Hamas surrenders
Just when I thought I couldn’t utterly despise her and Albosleazy more.
Assist (not fully fund) only on the condition that all of the “refugees” who came here return there.
It only takes two other people to turn Liz woke, so much for her principles
As far as I’m concerned Storer is a loon, an offensive one at that. She’s tunnelled down a rabbit hole of woke right conspiracies, and is now hostile to Israel. I cannot stand her and will not watch her.
Ditto.
She shouts. We turn off.
Channel surfing and see Candace Owens has appealed her visa rejection.
Proud to say I was onto her retardedness early on, well before her antisemitism became apparent.
Considering an ally (despite Wong’s efforts) is currently in a hot war, don’t have a problem with her being banned.
I would also like the religion of peace chappies who are coming here to “preach” also banned.
Tonight’s Late Debate misses the point that we have already imported way too many anti-jewish people, such as the “I am elated” imam and his cheer squad.
The case they were discussing, albeit rather scrappily and more along lines of political alignment, was the cancelling of Candace Owens’ visa. The figleaf used – her criticisms of how Netanyahu’s government might be acting – isn’t enough to justify her cancellation – it is censorship. It isn’t anti-semitism to critique any government.
It is blatant hypocrisy (the core talent of the left) to ban her while engorging this country with those I can’t mention, en masse.
Re the pile-on on Alan Jones-
So far, as I understand it, Jones has been accused by a number of people (men) of “indecently” assaulting them. It would appear that this assault was basically “groping” or something of similar status in terms of assault. I assume that the allegation will be that he used a position of authority to indulge his inclinations.
If that is the extent of the assaults – good grief. I mean – homophobia is now a contemporary sin for the Woke brigade. So why is there a clear theme here that Jones’ alleged assaults are so heinous.
Am I missing something?
My take is that the libel laws don’t work any more. So it’s O.K to attack him.
You’re missing the hate that comes from being gay while having an expectation that people must genuflect at your perversions.
Saying ‘no’ is blasphemy to them.
“How dare you!”
Used to be a lot of heterosexual men around back in the day whom we called ‘gropers’. You slapped them or kneed them depending on how offensive they were. Mostly you just ignored it or laughed it off. Seems that the zeitgeist of that time spun over into homosexual land too. You can’t blame people for the culture and feelings of another time as long as they don’t tip over into genuine criminal behaviour.
No way. I’m not even inclined to stump up federal funds to save Victoria. I don’t want our money to go to the UN either, they can fund their activities from donations. I’m sure all those WEF billionaires would be just happy to donate to the UN causes.
UN staff who currently pay no tax should pay tax to the UN.
Owens has been banned by this federal government meanwhile this same federal government hands out visas to 3000 genocidal Jew haters.
I don’t like Owens, I think she’s a loon. Her ignorant obsession with Jacob Frank confirms her idiocy and lunacy. But Owens has never advocated violence and somehow I don’t think that my life is in danger with Owens visiting this country. But I cannot say the same about the 3000 Gazans.
This.
Still sitting on my verandah and watching the Evening Star rise. The glow of sunset behind the encircling hills, cicadas chirping in the trees.
I’ve been reading Humphrey Carpenter’s “The Inklings”, and I’ve reached the spot where Tolkien and Lewis are comparing notes on their inner imaginary worlds…
Well, that was Tolkien. Pretty good stuff when one imagines what a planet could be in an alternative world.
Calli, I think of Tolkien’s Earendil when I see that little red star in the night sky (not Mars, whatever the red star is – possibly Antares). Beautiful, lyrical prose of yours. Thanks.
And yes, Owens is an anti-Semite.
October 7 has flushed (like turds) many of them out into the open.
She’s Antisemite of the Year even.
I don’t disagree.
I thought that honour would go to Penny Wong.
Sadly,
October 7 flushed out relatives whom you would never have believed harboured Jew hate.
Wong is now saying that Israel is not giving enough humanitarian aid to Gaza!
Apparently, she said nothing about 100 Israelis still being held hostage and that the Palestinians can end the war at any time by surrendering.
Repellent woman.
Albo should send her there to oversee our aid money.
Just to ensure it isn’t stolen bay Hamas.
And avoid tall buildings lady.
FMD! Aid to the murders? I’d prefer to see Gaza levelled. Down to the level of the lowest tunnels.
Then start again with Israelis settling back in this part of their country.
Wong is mother/father, to two children. Obviously, it did not sire them. Perhaps, most likely, this is why it has NEVER shown the least amount of empathy toward the hostages.
IT has no blood connection to ITS children.
It, did not have anything to do with bringing its children into this world.
I do wonder what the conversations around its kitchen table are like.
What opinion, or thoughts, on the murdered children and the hostages, does its WIFE have.
Perhaps ITS wife is also a hostage?
In the specific case of Wong, define ‘woman’.
In my book, she/her/xe ain’t it.
What We Do In The Shadows just wrapped up.
Not an awful finale.
But as they joked during the episode, it really should have wrapped up at the end of the last season.
Just saw Keith van on Selene on sky opine that we needed tax reform. We probably do but the reality is that tax always trickles to the great unwashed. In second place he says we need to cut expenditure. This should be number one priority. This government has added hundreds of billions to the deficit despite nearly doubling tax receipts in the past ten years. We need to cut the spending big time. In my view a 20 percent head count cull of non customer facing public servants. Get rid of the waste in the ndis. No personal program should be more than 100 thousand. No buying lite and easy. No sex workers. No grass cutting. A limit to occupation therapy. The whole thing is a farce. And for the coalition none of these people vote for you!
get on with it.
Bloody non spell check. Leith van onselen
I understood whom you meant, saw that segment.
I just skimmed through the last episode. Not sure what this format achieves. I don’t think agreeing or disagreeing is the problem so much as the quality of the discussion. Is it woke? Not sure. They at the end seemed to agree that the story of a civil claim over a pub called Saracen’s Head was silly which isn’t particularly woke.
I gave up after the first ten minutes.
Damn! you are a bugger for punishment.
Great name for a pub. I’m going to Adelaide in the new year and will visit it.
Go the crusaders!*
*not to be confused with the Canterbury Crusaders. I’m a Waikato Chiefs man, because a bruh on my work crew says I am. “Jake the Muss would have been Chiefs too, bruh”. Ken oath cobber!
I love James Macpherson’s moral and verbal clarity. Can we have the Macpherson Report…..please? …Cassie of Sydney
Couldn’t agree more. Has really found his feet and his presentation, calmness and cutting to the chase is very impressive. A standout of the new brigade at Sky.
Huge fans in this house, he can really put across a verbal presentation and is quite funny at times.
John Marsden has died, aged 74.
Good author, prolific (if a bit light) YA adventure, polymath, had his own vision for education which was gangbuster.
Vale for a true little battler.
He believed “helicopter parenting” was bad for children, and they should make their own mistakes.”
I read a book of his once. Nothing super flash Literature wise. Written for adolescents etc. Good read all the same. A very pure and concise writer who was easy to understand, and it flowed well IIRC.
English teacher at Timbertop back in the day. Must’ve been next level.
I was scanning around on Twatter, earning my Israeli Dog List Badge of Honour the other day, for a mild query was the graffiti on the mosque or nearby a blue on blue because we cant have those nasty Jewels winning the phobia stakes … Phew it is a jungle out there!
Anyway nested in the evil comments was Candace Owens with an explanation of why she has had her eyes opened or some such and she referred to some USA ship that was sailing nearby in international waters, was viewed by Israeli planes with the Star of David on them then some other planes that looked French with no insignia started shooting the ship up with great loss of life.
Bollocks I thought, but I wasn’t going to query it there, sorry I dont have the link. Have any of you heard of this?
She used it for her ‘reasoning’ to be anti-Semitic.
Probably referring to the USS Liberty. 1967. “Six Day War”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
It was kept quiet at the time. ‘nam was in full swing also etc.
Regarding kd wong, some say:-
Pretty sure she’s on Cronkite’s cute owl list.
It’s funny that I see a lot of hate for Wong on here and a lot of hate from pro-Palestinians on Twitter for Wong. This doesn’t mean she’s doing it right, but it does indicate unmet expectations.
Wong is getting what she deserves. She can barely even string a sentence together without ums & ars. Not only that she has the demeanour of a hard faced scold.
If the opposition don’t have a set to call her out the rest of us should. Someone upthread mentioned Peter Beattie, another that skated through political life with very little other than superficial scrutiny.
Problem is I don’t think Wong cares at the end of the day, her eyes are on higher things.
My 2c for what it’s worth.
I have no time whatsoever for Minister Wongs politics or policies, which are bad news for Australia and Australians. Who would trash social cohesion for – maybe- short term advantage? Playing the victim while she and her partner feast on the public trough is repellent.
Having said that, she is smiley and friendly away from the cameras, believe it or not.
Helen, you’re referring to the USS Liberty incident. Jocko did a good podcast on it 2 years ago, and Forbidden History did a good video last year.
Thanks Dover, I will have a look.
Marsden plagiarised 1984’s Red Dawn when writing Tomorrow When the War Began (1993).
Although instead of American exceptionalism and Russians, it was full of expressing self fears and doubts.
Yeah, well my boobooks got them werewolf eyes from ’89, so there. I had to hold the gun torch in one hand and snap with the samsung at max finger-zoom too, wasn’t easy. Veranda post for support.