Yes, this has always worried me about pure Liberatarianism. I just couldn’t get the open borders schtick. I used to…
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But, but Dover since talk of Nork soldiers being involved you’ve rubbished the suggestion at every turn. What gives? Surely…
The definitive history on the disaster of Covid school closings is here
the French taxed the peasants in the same way we do today: for everything, at every turn, while the rich…
Look at the plethora of parasites we are forced to pay for who’s effects on society at large are almost entirely negative.
That odious Jew hating whackerdemic on $800,000, the Langton’s and other professional blackfellahs, and the enormous number of whining agitators who’s only modest request is we completely dismantle society to chase rainbows and unicorn farts.
Entire industries of grievance paying people 6 figures gained by stealing from people on 5 figures.
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/12/29/its-too-bad-that-jimmy-carter-didnt-live-even-longer-n4935516
Very good article. The Carter Administration was a disaster for the ME, and Israel.
The creation of that monster – the Department of Education – for which there is no mention in the Constitution, continues to advance the Communists who now run it.
Dr. John Campbell
Cholera, important lessons for today
Entire industries of grievance paying people 6 figures gained by stealing from people on 5 figures.
Agree, it’s outright theft.
Gin isn’t my drink
It’s NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb’s favourite tipple.
Climate Scam Unraveling: World Bank Really Doesn’t Know Where $41 Billion in Funding Goes
Cheney’s Pending Immunity Whiplash
Meme
Meme
Bloomberg publish a (visually) clever statistical analysis of the triumph of DEI that explains the “flub”. The 6% is based on the Top 100 companies who are obliged to report DEI – so very for from representing the US population.
The statistics are however highly revealing:
Safe to conclude that as social engineering policies go, DEI is a far cup on stilts. Perhaps not a surprise that companies are unwinding.
Also Bruce:
Not sure who the white guy with straight A’s was, but I’d guess there’s just a possibility that there is a back story behind his apparent unemployment.
Not from the report (via Winston).
https://x.com/jlippincott_/status/1872811016540586048
Goodness me:
That would be this Josiah Lippincott:
Pro Tip: If you are looking to be headhunted for training for a prestige job in software engineering, probably demonstrate your interest by doing a degree in Computer Science, or engineering, or one of the hard sciences. But probably not Politics at a liberal arts university – not even with a thick spread of FIGJAM.
Albanese and the unmarked matching SES was an obvious fake.
Such is the smooth brain egotism of the man, who is basically a student trot on a spree with the chancellor’s keys, that he posed a flog selfie. I sense a spicy end-of-career montage of him, yukking it up backstage at the Voice concession speech, getting teary about cwedible threaths to hith family’th thafety, etc etc
That’s a good impression of Luigi, I caught the spray.
Monty, like many leftwits, is still reeling after being reamed by reality post Nov 5th. He’s only just been able to sit down without one of those special “donut” style pillows to cushion his rear (he ate the first one the hospital gave him).
eeeuuwwww.
Why do so many ladies wear bathers with 3/4 off the ass cheeks hanging out?
Seems to be a trend for yummies mummies bringing their kids to the pool.
I will intensify my studies into this mysterious phenomena…
Report back. No crimes against Lycra though.
Only three quarters? Some seem to have 95 percent visible.
There is a reason you can’t see your own bum.
Not just yummy mummies. One prestigious (and expensive) girls school in Perth features that … look … in the school uniform bathers! Very hard not to feel like a DOM even when you’re NOT peeking!
Thank you, Mole, for your efforts. Enquiring minds… well, some enquiring minds… maybe one or two like creepy Uncle Brian, want to know.
Mole is doing a fabbo job, one that most of us wouldn’t even think of doing.
>snork<
Yeah right, Winnie.
Now our very own khunt in monty said we shouldn’t attack the families of political members of those he disagrees with. So I expect him to denounce this type of phuckwittery.
Monty has had a bad year. Who can forget his immortal words….
Biden can govern
and
Harris will win Iowa
Then was the electoral result of November 5, followed by the Deeming verdict.
He’s currently receiving counselling.
Reeks of desperation’: Dutton’s marriage mocked in Labor attack ad
“The Age” aren’t allowing comments on the story..
My Mum had two favourite shops, Sportscraft and Spotlight.
Today I met a friend and we went fabric and button shopping at Spotlight Bondi Junction. Whilst enjoyable, it wasn’t the same as going with Mum. I would normally go to Spotlight with Mum and whilst I would get lost in the craft and knitting section, Mum would spend ages in the Manchester section and she’d walk out with sheets and towels that she’d put into a cupboard when home and then forget about.
I miss my Mum.
Time for a trip to Sportscraft, Cassie. For yourself.
They’ve been having great sales recently at Rose Bay. Enjoy.
I understand, Cassie.
I might just pop in to Bunnings tomorrow and inhale the sawdust at the “tradie’s” end.
This intrigues me. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
FM and WA Bruce need to work together on a video blog – it would have milliyuns of hits, I am sure.
Europe made a big mistake. Huge.
Yuuuge Mistake.
Frigging YUUUUUGE.
I think I can add a couple more U’s in that.
YUUUUUUUUUGGGE!
Some have 3/4 hanging out and they’re not even wearing bathers!
Offspring have been advised that any partners, current and potential, sporting that look in public are to be given a wide berth.
This is what Vivek said which sparked the bullshit controversy led by fringe loons like Big Boobs Loomer and the grubs of the MSM who have lied about Trump for 10 years. Every word Vivek says is right and describes what is wrong and self indulgent about the West:
(14) Vivek Ramaswamy on X: “The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if” / X
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg
He’ll be ragging on ALF and Vinny Barbarino next.
That’s excellent.
this is the australia I lived in.
all throughout the 70s when I became concious of others opinions, it’s this pop culture of I could not be bothered. You are laughed at or derided if you worked at your school work.
the most vitriolic mouths were the kids who wanted to be pop musicians and just kept talking and going on and on about pop artists.
even at uni the kids from the state schools who were the smarter ones in the room, were disrespectful of peoples beliefs, cultures and would laugh at you if you mentioned doing your best, doing the harder things.
the people in the work force who I admired the most are those with the hard core reputations, those with the short tempers and who demanded doing something, learning, doing your best and meeting the deadline no matter what it took.
… for Bruce (and also BoN)
… Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips are good value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQh_7LYg-g
Why The Media Won’t Tell You What Milei Did In Argentina…
Yummy mummies are a bit hit and Miss. The post Pilates crowd at my local cafe need to be reminded that Lycra is a tough look to pull off unless you are mid 80s Elle Macpherson. Even she has given it away for pure moonbattery.
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The simple answer is “yes”. The WEF monarch.
Is King Charles a traitor?
If you think that China and India have a great working culture, then feel free to take your business over there. We wil not miss you.
They are nearing the limits of their growth potential because of the corruption which is endemic to their culture.
I don’t understand why people cannot see this – perhaps they are too wedded to their “all cultures are equal” even when it is abundantly clear they are not.
Has Elle lost the plot?
Let’s just say she would be right at home with Pete Evans and the Northern Rivers crew.
Byron Bay sorta thing?
But wait, that’s not all, Cats – Jimmah Carter’s most memorable moment in office …
He didn’t have the holy hand grenade of Antioch.
The best way to find out if you are John Galt is to go on strike and see if the motor of the world stops.
Of course, when questions were asked about the Sprog of Luigi being granted membership of the Chairman’s Lounge, Luigi hit the phones to editors with the plaintive cry to “leave family out of it”.
There is a world of difference between asking how a relative of a PM might be granted privileges not available to others, and attacking the spouse of a public figure who has not sought the limelight or done anything questionable.
I hope Dutton warns Luigi that, if they keep throwing shit, there will be a return of serve.
Ironbar wouldn’t be so understanding. Ask Paul Keating.
I think there has been a powerful response as the offensive post has gone.
I wonder what was the magic insecticide – mention of a young Labor rape or a Sydney massage joint or….?
I suspect that the inverted-Basque-cup for the arse is partly a function of mass slab-shop consumption. The same style, cut, fabric reigns everywhere from the Aldi middle bins to DJ’s new release rack.
Try the male equivalent- go look to buy anything other than “skinny stretch chinos”, tropical print rayon shirts or womens-length jackets for men right now.
I occasionally. wonder what happens to my (infrequent) comments. Don’t care, just curious.
Mmmmm.
Oh.
Apart from red whine, gin is my favourite tipple, but I don’t drink as much as well-meaning gift givers might think. I happened to do a little stock-take of the booze cabinet today … nearly 5 litres of the stuff.
Amateur.
I tell the family they are trade goods for when all the power goes out and I’m the only one with a genset to run the ice machine.
They agree I am a forward thinking man.
Pull your finger out.
Yeah, no, Rog.
Eh?
Yeah, I don’t understand. Christmas eve I was at the beach with the Grandkids when I failed to not stare at a gorgeous tall blond creature walking by.
As she passed I noticed a full colour tatt of a 70’s cartoon blond bobby soxser that extended from behind her knee to under her bikini and finishing at the small of her back.
My time has passed!
Why is it that listening to the endless eulogies to Jimmie Carter that I think of that other moralising failure Tony Abbott?
That’s a bit harsh.
Peanuts laid a solid foundation for Reagan and Thatcher.
I don’t see many parallels
Carter achieved a lot of good things prior to and after his presidency – naval officer, farmer & businessman, governor. He had a fulfilling life outside of politics, while his presidency was the nadir of his life.
Abbott’s chief achievements – stopping the boats and axing the carbon tax – are in the political realm and were achieved as PM. Outside of politics he seems to be lost.
Both were/are family men, which is to be commended.
I’m not sure that being a pillar of his local bushfire brigade and surf club counts as “lost” outside politics.
I’ll certainly grant that.
But I still maintain he seems lost outside of the political arena, which was his life, even as a young journalist.
Time for a trip to Sportscraft, Cassie. For yourself.
They’ve been having great sales recently at Rose Bay. Enjoy.
Mum and I used to always to go to Sportscraft Double Bay. After we’d shopped at Sportscraft, we go to Cafe 21 for lunch and or coffee and pancakes. Mum had been dining at 21 since the early 1960s, not long after it opened. It’s a hub of Jewish Sydney, very Hungarian, it serves Vienna schnitzels, Hungarian pancakes, shopped liver, matza ball soup and so on. It’s an institution. I haven’t been to 21 since Mum passed away, I’m almost scared.
Sportscraft closed the Double Bay store midyear. Mum was quite upset, I now think it was an omen.
Lizzie, when you’re back, let’s go to Sportscraft Rose Bay and then we can head back down the hill to to Cafe 21 in Double Bay.
Cassie, I am sure you know that everyone is thinking of you here. I am guessing that Lizzie will have one of her famous get-together s when she returns. Till then – all the best.
With apologies to the Rog. 😕
Insert appropriate emoticon here.
Matt Keane and Chrissy Pyne are always sorted.
… and they have no trouble buying clothes, as well.
Crass – check out my Maake Dick Ash or his former business Okanui
Stylish
I think Dutton has already handled this with great aplomb…..unlike the idiot Morrison.
The Oz is reporting……
With the election due to be called within months, and possibly as soon as the end of January, Opposition Leader vowed his campaign would be clean and would not target family members such as the Prime Minister’s fiancee Jodie Haydon.
“I can assure you the Liberal Party I lead will not be targeting Jodie Haydon,” the Opposition Leader said in a statement.
“I respect and like Jodie but she is not an elected official and will not be the subject of humiliation, attack ads or public smear by the Liberal Party.
“I would ask the PM to equally respect my wife.”
A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said later: “When the tweet was drawn to his attention, the Prime Minister demanded it be taken down. Families should be off limits.”
Nice, very nice Mr Dutton.
And now, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is on. A beer will be had, good times
Gold. Perfectly succinct, on point and leaves absolutely nothing for the Labor dirt-diggers, other than painting them exactly as they are.
Dutton should start every single presser from now until May 2025 with that sentence. Ram that blade home between the fourth and fifth ribs.
Shit like this doesn’t just go to air. It gets authorisation by higher ups.
Can’t tell me that Albo knew nothing of this brain flatus.
It’s straight out of his Uni Maoist playbook – except it blew up on him and he had to backtrack.
Bloody weasel that he is.
Agreed Winston – all these turds do is throw verbal shot at everyone else
Peter and Kirrily Dutton were sucker-punched by leftist progressive Nazi scum. Peter Dutton, instead of turning the other cheek and instead of cowering in a corner, returned serve with a thinly veiled warning, and it’s utterly sublime.
That’s how you do politics with the left.
More like leftist “regressive” Nazi scum!
Be interesting to see what changes the Indians make for Sydney. Age in issue for both dressing rooms.
How a Steam Locomotive Works (Union Pacific “Big Boy”)
incredible engineering
Happily for the fireman, it had a mechanical stoker.
The ignorance of the channel 7 cricket “analysts” manifest again. A blonde bimbo has just asserted to a wassa (Finch maybe) that Australia needs to win the 5th test to regain the trophy. Finch didn’t correct her. A draw will be enough
‘Mr Dutton, how do you respond to Mr Albanese’s claims that you are not fit to be Prime Minister?’
…
‘Look, I’d like to be perfectly clear that the Liberal Party is not interested as to whether Jodie Haydon has an unregistered car and wears Spanx.’
Does she?
Ooh, ooh … any links??
I really think Rohit Sharma’s time is up as both skipper and player, which is a shame because he’s been at the top of the tree for years. The only question is who to give the captain’s hat to, and the only real candidate is KL Rahul.
Kohli should be gonski, but he won’t because he’s such a deity that he’ll get to choose when he goes – which I think will be at the end of the Sydney Test and series, unless he wants to finish in India.
What changes can they really make? Shitfully out of form captain and ex-captain will play. Maybe bring Gill back, and drop of of the quicks (Siraj or Deep) if Sydney is still a two-spinner wicket.
Jaiswal
KL Rahul
Gill
Kohli
Pant
Sharma
Nitish Reddy
Jadeja
Washington Sundar
Bumrah
Siraj
Summat like that.
Mohammad Shami being unfit and not touring hasn’t helped India. Instead of two top class quicks, just Bumrah.
I remember the time the left targeted then PM Abbott’s youngest daughter.
They can’t help themselves.
Unsurprised this latest scandal involves Victorian Labor, easily the grubbiest in the country the last ten years or so.
Cute owl.
?
Then flick over to strange bedfellows. Djokovic and Kyrgios playing doubles. Riveting
‘Mr Dutton, how do you plan to revive the economy?’
…
‘This is not the time to mention Tanya Plibersek’s husband, who is a convicted heroin trafficker.’
How many convicted heroin traffickers have risen to such heights in the New South Wales public service?
Darts KD. Lovely darts!
And now for something completely different.https://www.themusicman.uk/africa-keurspel/?t5=
the way
Heh heh
Ah … the old ones are the best!
42% of German Teens are Foreigners
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/12/42-of-german-teens-are-foreigners
And it wont be slow – it will be over in three years time.
Germany will probably be the first Islamic state in Europe, even before Britain.
I recall a couple of years ago the government crowing about more than half of Australian citizens had one or both parents born overseas…
Thanks everyone for your input about my crown.
all spot on. My mouth has become swollen as my cheeks are resting against my teeth.
thanks mem and duck – spoke to my dentist tonight and it may be a mis alignment or root canal. The crown was put in about 6 mths ago – I has discomfort since then but now it’s painful.
have to sit down while the pulsating waves of pain decline.
thanks team cat – really appreciate your replies – overwelhming really.
Two worst pains … toothache and earache!
Antibiotics, now, ed department for as long as it takes.
You have a gum/ jaw infection, don’t stuff about or you will be extremely sick extremely fast and possibly have dental/ jaw damage.
Dentists generally won’t do any work until infection is under control anyway.
@RickyDoggin
Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller says “Everything in the world is gonna change on January 20th”
EVERYTHING ends for illegal migrants https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f447.svg
– There will be no benefits
– No entry
– No asylum
– They’ll be arrested and prosecuted
– Absolutely deported
Anyway, “Sliante”, to all you mob.
As 2024 grinds to an end, there is a grim resolution in the camp that 2024 will be the last of the run of sh!t years, and 2025 will be the start of the years when it all happens.
God I hope you’re right! But somehow …
@RickyDoggin
Remember the D.C. Madam who ran an escort service for government elites
She told Alex Jones she wasn’t suicidal and then was promptly suicided.
Guess who blocked her client list from being revealed? Judge Merrick Garland
That goes double for me.
@catturd2
Not a chance in hell.
Is justice coming for lawfare prosecutors?
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/afghanistan-in-zimbabwe-2024-25-1457916/zimbabwe-vs-afghanistan-1st-test-1457926/full-scorecard
Shocking Test this one.
Joylord Gumbie is surely the coolest name in Cricket.
No frills ingenuity.
That is the Russian. As long as it gets the job done.
Louis – in case you miss the nested comment.
Antibiotics, now, ed department for as long as it takes.
You have a gum/ jaw infection, don’t stuff about or you will be extremely sick extremely fast and possibly have dental/ jaw damage.
Dentists generally won’t do any work until infection is under control anyway.
Poor dentition results in cardiac issues.
Don’t know why, it just does.
One of the dental caries bug, a variety of strep I think, has a propensity to lodge on heart valves. A bad mouth will shed bacteria into the bloodstream even in tiny numbers, and those bacteria stick to the valves where they grow happily.
Not a heavy spirit drinker, but quite partial to Bols gin.
Right. Had a girlfriend 20 odd years ago. Early 2000s. Her standard sip was Yalumba Chardonnay in the 2lt cask. Occasionally she’d like to get on the Bombay Sapphire. Yeah nah, Gin is rotten. You don’t just get pissed badly, it’s like getting cooked on some drug too.
Social media is so powerful,
Youtube started feeding me recipes for orange whips.
I’ll admit this evil plot by orange growers to get me drunk has succeeded.
What I want to know is what they get out of it?
What’s an Orange Whup, bro? Doesn’t sound like something a man would drink.
The scene from Blues Brothers in the concert hall where John Candy orders everyone an orange whip.
By the way:
If you’re a man you can drink whatever you f*cking want.
I watched Blues Brothers the other night. On free to air. I can’t recall that scene.
Sure you aren’t confusing it with Back to the Future?
When they are at the concert.
”Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.”
If you haven’t watched it at least ten times what are you doing? Ditto Caddyshack and The Big Lebowski.
“Bro”.
i want a Fluffy Duck
Four fried chickens and a Coke.
I’d rather “gramps” than “bro”.
OWW Remastered.
Bartender: “What you having?”
Jake the Muss: ” A crate of longnecks, and an Orange Whip for Uncle Bully”
Bartender: “On to it!”
You just know those responsible for a concrete WALL at the end of a runway runoff will not be sleeping well in South Korea.
Effin d*ckheads for approving that!
Stupidity has no bounds.
Jordan asks questions and listens.
Good interview.
Click baity headline.
Netanyahu Makes Peterson Go QUIET with PROOF that Israel Belongs To The Jewish People
Sticks and stones may break my bones.
But infection really makes a mess of them.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Andy Davey.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
“Secondly, some of the proponents of the pogrom in Amsterdam have been tried and sentenced. Of course, this news has somehow been overlooked in media reporting. However, you can read a great summary on X, here. As you will see from the details of the trial, these convictions have also truly exposed the vile wretches who sought to blame Jews for their own hunting”
https://mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/four-christmas-and-chanukah-gifts
People are in gaol in the UK for watching protests.
https://www.uklfi.com/doctor-suspended-by-gmc-following-complaints-by-uklfi
UN cult head honcho “Gutyoureconomizz” Gutierrez is at it again, doubling down on the climate scam rhetoric.
“Ten hottest years evah” seems to get the BBC seal of approval. None of that guff about “evidence”.
A body calling itself the World Meteorological Organisation must be trusted completely, although actually a PR front for the UN.
Vicious to the very end.
@libsoftiktok
Parts of Western North Carolina are now running out of propane. People are still living in tents. They’re still relying on donations from kind strangers.
The Biden admin just authorized nearly $6 billion to Ukraine.
@EricLDaugh
And here is E. Jean Carroll admitting on camera that her encounter with Trump was not sexual. This clip was not permitted in evidence and this travesty is still on going.
@ericmmatheny
The only lockdown Fauci should ever be involved in again includes 23 hours in a 9×9 cell and one hour for yard.
@akafacehots
This needs to change.
Most prolific Canadian actor ever
They left off the famous Nazi costume with the mustache, death’s head cap insignia and the swastika. It’s hard to find for some mysterious reason. /s
They also forgot this one. Possibly for the same reason.
Best performance – Ninja.
Closely followed by “heterosexual “.
There is a God – he didn’t try Catholicism.
CIA Whistleblower Reveals Biden Admin Covered Up Attacks on Officers Injured by Direct Energy Weapons
I mentioned this story yesterday but this version from Sky News is worthwhile because of the serve Duniam gives to Albo and Bowen:
Jonathon Duniam tears into Labor’s green energy ‘zealotry’ after $2b offshore wind proposal application gets withdrawn (30 Dec)
He goes on a fair bit more, which I won’t put up for reasons of length. But nice barbs Mr Duniam! I didn’t realize the cancelled wind farm was an offshore one, which suggests the companies pulled out because it wasn’t going to be economic.
It was a sight to behold. His description of Blown as the stupidist politician in Australia was spot on. Why don’t every SFL say the same thing. This to counter the free flowing BS he repeats at every opportunity.
Rain due today in our valley. Thank the Lord. NPWS has sent in choppers with water & our bushfire in the adjacent range, which burst into our lives two days ago, appears to have to have submitted somewhat. Hopefully even a small amount of rain may render it less dangerous. Even so, the fire started (lightening? Bush walkers?) in an area with difficult access & no access for machinery. It is virtually impossible to be sure that no hot spots remain.
Next week we are having a community meeting to discuss attention to the containment lines that have become overgrown since our last big fire 5 years ago.
My daughter is working on an international project on fire detection. Cheap and nasty instead of expensive and sophisticated. Many detectors giving relatively accurate sources instead of vague unknown sources.
The Trump and E. Jean Carroll case illustrates a couple of things – firstly that a Manhattan jury will find a ham sandwich guilty if it’s not a leftist one.
Secondly, and much more importantly, there’s the repeat pattern of allegations of sexual misbehaviour, calculated to smear in the eyes of the religious right. They used it against Clarence Thomas, they used it against Kavanah. They have used it against Trump.
And again, the media, which should be on the side of truth and real justice, are players.
I seem to recall a Labor affiliated scribbler named Bob Ellis who defamed a couple of politicians’ wives.
The offending book was pulped.
Goodbye Labor Party.
Ellis, of course, was a paragon of moral rectitude.
Whats that again, Labor – The standard you walk past is the standard you accept?
Repeated lampooned by Tim Blair. Also liked his under age girls.
Indeed he did: especially the daughters supplied free by that pillar of the lefty Yartz establishment Dorothy Hewett. But that wasn’t abuse, of course. He was helping Hewett with sexually liberated, socially and politically aware Socialist parenting.
Gerard Henderson called out Bob Ellis more than a few times on Media Watch Dog.
I disagree with Vivek, and his assumptions about how westerners raise their children, I might know a very smart young women who at school was encouraged to work part-time, play lots of sports, socialise, travel, possibly went shopping at malls! watched big brother, even cooked meals for the family, and attended mass every Sunday, did very well academically and graduated with a double degree (one in engineering) first class honours.
Someone else also got the same degree with first class honours after years of many hours of forced piano practice, regular beatings, and constant pressure, and is quite gloomy and anxious and never plays the piano .
Children can have normal childhoods and go on to be successful high achieving adults.
Sydneysiders
Where the hell is this in Sydney? It’s like almost anything there is more expensive than 5th Ave and Mayfair.
Australia is the rip off capital of the world. Overcharged for every service. There is no competition. Paying the most useless to sit on their collective arses.
Is the link broken? I was going to have a guess, but the page won’t open.
firstly that a Manhattan jury will find a ham sandwich guilty if it’s not a leftist one.
Melbourne juries aren’t much better. Just ask Cardinal George Pell.
Another rat flees the sinking deep state.
Jan. 6 Prosecutor Graves Announces Resignation (30 Dec)
He’ll go down in infamy as the man who brought the Stasi to America.
Poor children. But, of course, their welfare would be the last consideration for these ideologues.
New Law Forces Parents to Abandon Religious Beliefs to Become Foster Parents
Don’t be in the military either.
I am sure Islam will not be any impediment.
Are we starting to see the effects of DEI hiring on the engineering side?
Norway Flight Makes Emergency Landing Following Hydraulic Failure, Pilots Lose Control and Skid off Runway
A bit early, Indolent. Wait for the engineers report which will inevitably be ‘due to pilot error’.
Certainly something is *very odd* about the Korea crash…. high speed wheels up landing attempt, all apparently due to a ‘bird strike’ … this is a long way from a competent crew dealing with an engine out.
On a different tack, I thought it odd calling it a “Royal Dutch Airlines” plane. Yes, that is the translation of what KLM stands for. What’s next? Hansa Air instead of Lufthansa? Fully spell out QANTAS? Person Who Has Not Had Intercourse Airlines?
The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media
Jimmy Carter’s aid to the Ayatollahs
@TedCGoodman
THE LAW FIRM WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER’S POLITICALLY MOTIVATED LAWFARE AGAINST MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI
Why is @WillkieFarr’s Michael Gottlieb—a former law partner of Hunter Biden who worked on business matters surrounding the crooked Ukrainian energy company Burisma that paid the Biden’s MILLIONS OF DOLLARS—continuing the politically motivated lawfare against Mayor
@RudyGiuliani and President Trump’s supporters?
It seems that Michael Gottlieb is pursuing a political vendetta against Mayor Rudy Giuliani on behalf of the Biden Family, and the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher is using its massive resources in support of this mission.
Is Willkie Farr & Gallagher proud of what their attorneys are doing here?
Not to be confused with Farr King Hal.
Pay attention, Gliberals…
The NZ government will henceforth limit tax payer funded grants for academic research to science and tech, excluding the humanities and social sciences, with the relevant minister saying NZers deserve a better return on their investment.
It’s a good move but I’d also be reviewing the nature and quality of STEM applications in these days of politicised science.
As I’ve said before my old department started sending me their glossy magazine a few years back. It quickly became apparent that something like 80% of the projects were climate crap. I now bin it without looking at it.
It would be a good start, but Bruce is correct about the corruption of genuine science.
I’d suggest that any scientific innovation with merit is eventually going to attract private funding. In which case and any taxpayer funded monies received should be paid back with interest or taxpayers receive a dividend from the profits down the track. But this whole area of government expenditure needs reviewing, as does foreign aid.
The UWS study into the effect of natural disasters on LG….. Rumoured to have been facilitated by a certain PM’s sister.
As one wag concluded – “fat guys can t run fast in high heels”.
Cassie of Sydney
December 31, 2024 8:15 am
firstly that a Manhattan jury will find a ham sandwich guilty if it’s not a leftist one.
Melbourne juries aren’t much better. Just ask Cardinal George Pell.
There’s a very good piece about the corruption of Victoria’s justice system in this month’s Quadrant. It’s too long to post here unfortunately. The author is a former chief crown prosecutor who clearly knows a lot about what was going on.
Victoriastan is a failed state. Chairman Dan cannot be held responsible for VicPlod and the justice system. That was already broken.
I suspect he just enthusiastically co-opted the wreckage he found- mucho mutual favours followed.
Someone hasn’t been reading Romans chapter 1 lately, or at all.
Anglican Group Says Bible Affirms ‘Trans, Intersex, and Queer People’ (30 Dec)
Or Leviticus. I suppose it is technically correct that it “affirms” qwerties. It affirms quite forcefully that they are going to hell if they don’t repent.
Romans 1 is a fine net. It also groups in slanderers and gossips. And people who don’t obey their parents.
Critics always worry themselves into a lather about the sexual sins, but there is a smorgasbord of others to choose from.
Somehow they seem to miss the story of Sodom & Gomorrah
This is why Christianity is losing.
Black ball
after the overnights results ManU are looking at relegation – like it’s 1975.
Forrst are second and Ipswich great win over Chelsea provides hope the traditional mid land teams will again dominate English Football.
Small to medium christmas miracle- returned to a beachside cafe to happily find my abalone kit bag sitting out the front, where i’d left it two days ago.
Then went to rocky spot to find a dozen camper vans parked up overnight. Now i’m not a wowser, i just hate t*rds dumped in the bush, and methinks the ranger is not game to take them on because moorish french diversity.
On 24 June xxxx I boarded the Stockholm – ?? train in order to cross the Arctic Circle on my 25th birthday. Late in the evening there was a holdover and shunting and an announcement which I pretty much ignored. Soon I was in central Sweden on a branch line, sans baggage which I had stored in my sleeping compartment next car up. I myself, had come to a dead end. I found the station office, burst into tears and was handed over to the guy and gal in charge of customer service. They had enough English to help, assured me they would get my bags held at a certain upline station, and promptly took charge. They had accommodation, so we slept three to a double bed. Next morning, they had access to a car and so we toured the district, visited farms, shopped, and joined the return line train to join the main branch. When I got to ???, there was my travel bag on the platform in plain view, it had been taken from my sleeper. I was was naive enough to actually search out the station office in order to get permission to take my own luggage. I still think that whole experience quite remarkable.
just obeying orders
Very good.
heh, cheeky.
I can imagine the conversation mum and dad will have later.
OK, I don’t want to imagine it.
I’ve defended Elon over the Visa BS but there’s no defending this:
Sorry, Elon, You Are 100% Wrong on Taiwan :: Gatestone Institute
In other news:
21 House Dems Demand Biden Aid Black Klansman | Frontpage Mag
And a big question:
Can Australia survive more Muslims?
Biden Admin Singled Out ‘Pro-Life, Pro-Family’ Americans as Terrorists House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government’s 17,000-Page Report Explains
Kash Patel on The Deep State and Who’s REALLY Been Running the Country
In the BlazeTV video, Kash Patel discusses the concept of the “Deep State” and its influence on key political events in the U.S., suggesting that a network of coordinated individuals and institutions, rather than elected officials, are exerting significant control. Patel argues that the response to Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal, the DNC server hack, and Russiagate are all indicative of this deep-seated coordination aimed at shaping narratives in favor of certain political interests. He highlights the roles of key figures from the Obama administration, such as Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, in continuing to influence the Democratic Party and the Biden administration. Patel also criticizes individuals like Andrew McCabe and Kevin Clinesmith for their roles in perpetuating the so-called double standards of justice, emphasizing how they moved from government positions to media and private sectors. The discussion ties together elements of government, media, and private legal firms as part of this overarching network that aims to suppress certain information while advancing specific narratives. The conversation also touches on the strategic importance of targeting officials like Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland, who allegedly facilitate these operations, rather than solely focusing on President Biden.
Good laugh.
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Steve Inman:
Best of 2024: Animals FAFO
Oh oh, super Christmas oops.
Folks down the street set up their car fridge in the laundry to store all of the Christmas day fare to ensure consistent cooling and to declutter the main fridge. Seafood, the joint, the ham and the drinks.
Early Christmas morning the hostess opened the fridge to extract the ham for glazing and was instantly and violently ill. A visiting daughter had mistakenly turned off the fridge at the wall believing that it was on by mistake.
Speaking to them on Boxing Day they soon recovered from the shock, assigned the incident to the family lore and got out the barbie. The fridge contents were buried.
I had actually knocked on their door in the forlorn hope that they might take half of our ham that was well in excess of our needs. Gratefully accepted.
They refrigerate the joints?
They don’t draw very well, especially if they get frost on them.
However the problem can be fixed by purchasing an Orchy Orange Drink + …. A lathe will come in handy for other attachments.
Elon’s support for GAE interests is entirely transactional.
BTW, you know a good portion of those Indian H1B visa entries are going to be Muslim.
No refunds. No returns. All sales final.
So hot that people are freezing to death.
Cold Weather Deaths Double In US, Minorities & Elderly Most At Risk (30 Dec)
It’s a mystery…
Today’s Tele:
2024 WAS A GREAT YEAR TO SHOOT YOUR BOOT
TIM BLAIR
31 Dec 2024
Feet are made for walking – except during 2024, when feet worldwide copped an extraordinary amount of self-inflicted gunfire.
From Canberra courtrooms to the White House in Washington, and from the Paris Olympics to Sydney radio studios, all manner of colourful types just couldn’t wait to pull the trigger.
Let’s run through this year’s list of foot-shootin’ fools, beginning with …
PRIME MINISTER
ANTHONY ALBANESE
No matter at who or what Albo takes aim, his attempts at a bull’s eye always end up with a bullet lodged somewhere between toes and ankle.
That $4.3m Central Coast mansion purchase, for example, would have been a terrific deal – except during a devastating housing crisis.
And Albo’s luxurious treatment from his Qantas mates sure was sweet – until contrasted with the cost of living agony suffered by ordinary Aussies.
The PM’s promise of $275 in electricity savings isn’t looking too good either. No matter which way you examine it, the prime ministerial foot is permanently perforated.
KYLE SANDILANDS & JACKIE O
The classic form of the old shot-in-foot is – according to Dictionary.com – to “foolishly harm one’s own cause”.
In which case, step on up, Kyle and Jackie O. The then top-rating toilet-tongued Sydney duo began 2024 by arrogantly predicting that by year’s end they’d also be Melbourne’s No.1 breakfast team.
“I don’t think it’ll be straight away,” Kyle said in March. “I don’t think it’ll be immediate, but by the end of the year, yes.”
No. Not only did The Kyle and Jackie O Show tank down south, but by the year’s final ratings survey it had even fallen to second place in Sydney.
Any more predictions, Kyle?
US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
This was a big one. A historic one. A mega one. Even a MAGA one.
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” US President Joe Biden declared in May.
“Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice.”
Sadly for Joe, he wouldn’t. Despite his powerfully-worded debate challenge, Biden’s solitary debate performance was such a disaster that he was forced by his own party to abandon a second debate and pull out of the presidential race.
Following Trump’s easy election win, Biden further damaged his own reputation by granting a pardon to scandal-prone son Hunter – after vowing to never do such a thing. Bye-bye, Biden.
LISA WILKINSON
At one point during her successful defence against Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation lawsuit, media veteran and very-serious-taker-of-self Lisa Wilkinson took icy exception to lawyer Matthew Richardson’s view of her work.
“Please,” Wilkinson responded, “don’t make me sound like a cheap tabloid journalist, Mr Richardson.”
Oh dear. What a terrible, shameful slur. Except, of course, that Wilkinson’s entire very rewarding career has been firmly in the tabloid oeuvre.
Dolly magazine? Tabloid. Cleo magazine? Tabloid. Nine’s Today show? Tabloid. The Project? Tabloid as hell, but without being popular.
Mr Richardson, SC, may proceed.
AMBASSADOR TO THE US KEVIN RUDD
Considering the amount of times ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd has pointed projectiles at his pretty little pedal pushers, it’s a wonder the little fella has any feet left at all.
But he does, and Rudd must have felt confident about keeping them when he launched into Donald Trump with a series of brutal attacks written prior to Trump’s re-election.
Trump was, Rudd claimed, a “traitor to the west”, a “problem for the world” and “the most destructive president in history”.
“He drags America and democracy through the mud,” Rudd went on. “He thrives on fomenting, not healing, division.”
In his own attempt at healing, Rudd deleted that abuse from social media. But here’s the thing about shot feet: you can’t unshoot them.
FORMER LIBERAL STAFFER BRUCE LEHRMANN
Australia’s legal case of the decade initially ended with the abandonment in 2022 of Bruce Lehrmann’s trial for allegedly raping his fellow federal Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins.
Lehrmann pleaded not guilty in that trial, which collapsed due to a juror’s illicit private research. The DPP then dropped the charge. Then followed Lehrmann’s own legal pursuit of Lisa Wilkinson and her employer, Network Ten, for allegedly defaming him.
Fortune on this occasion did not favour the 29-year-old, who not only lost the case and copped more than $2m in legal costs but who was also found by Justice Michael Lee to have on the civil standard of balance of probabilities “raped Ms Higgins”.
Justice Lee’s summary was a perfect version in legalese of a foot-shooting: “Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat.”
Lehrmann is currently appealing the defamation finding.
HEZBOLLAH
In most cases, to shoot oneself in the foot is metaphorical. But Lebanese terrorist gang Hezbollah almost went literal in 2024, when a plan to use pagers was brought undone by Israeli remote explosives technology.
Israel’s plan, dubbed Operation Grim Beeper, caused thousands of Hezbollah operatives to shoot themselves in all sorts of painful and sometimes fatal places. The odd foot may have been involved. Roll on 2025, and further feet defeats.
As someone who always regards a trip to Sydney as a chore, the success of Kyle Sandilands, Alan Jones and John Laws shall always remain a mystery to me.
HisBollocks, no doubt, takes the podium.
Lee J’s jibe that Lehrmann went back for his hat is not “legalise”. It is a gratuitous insult unworthy of a judge. I see now that Brandeis is lining up with Lee and adding more insult. He might note that Lehrmann remained loyal to Morrison et al, while Higgins, working with the ALP, attacked him.
Yep, struck me as unnecessary. Perhaps best left as an aside over lunch in chambers.
On the balance of probabilities I have determined jurdge Lee is an F wit.
Lee wrote a book didn’t he, entitled something like “He went back for his hat”
No, Melbourne University Press, without Lee’s consent, simply published his judgment as a book. Given that it’s freely available on the net, it will be of interest to see whether MUP makes a profit. Lee gave them the catchy title.
An article in the Worst Australian warns of the hiccups coming for the mining industry in WA, you know the one that pays all those royalties for polliecritters to pee up against walls.
Many of the Pilbara iron ore mines will be affected along with iconic gold mines like Gwalia and the Super Pit. I have read that GMD have done a deal with the Watarra mob for all their mines which include Gwalia, but the same Wattara mob were involved in an attempr to get $1.4 mill from a junior explorer to convert leases to Mining leases, so we can guess that GMD were violated in a similar manner.
Meanwhile the streets of our little bush town still have the same social issues that all this compensation to the so called traditional owners was supposed to heal.
Assuming crime is a factor in those social issues, are the culprits ever punished?
In regard to the increasing costs imposed on mining, as we’re finding in QLD, capital will simply up and invest elsewhere where the risks are fewer and returns safer.
we are at the stage where we need to wipe the legal slate clean and start again from first principles
Could it be that ensuring any “Native Title” extorted funds are always annually audited to the dollar, with the results publicly available, might limit the worst excesses?
Aaaahahahaa.
Heh, and here’s another perfect example. It’s always fascinating to watch a really Grade A woke megadisaster unfolding in slow motion:
Disney’s Latest ‘Snow White’ Trailer Suffers Another Massive Dislike Ratio: ‘My Children Will Not Watch This’ (30 Dec)
Disney should deep six it, that at least would spare them even more bad headlines and all the promotional costs.
Zegler needs to do some hard yards at the Macca’s drive-thru. That’s if she could last a shift without abusing the patrons.
Camada called, they can help you out with your wish
Michael McIntyre — What day is it?
No.
You don’t want governments funding anything.
You don’t want them running or funding education in particular. Research also.
Government funding comes with a bunch of ideological requirements. At the moment these are all orientated towards identity and climate.
Also, the sort of people who seek out government funding are the very worst sort who should not be artificially maintained in their positions when otherwise they would hopefully fail and leave. I give you the example of failed teachers who are given a lifeline to join the department and oversee the system they are incapable of operating within.
It also creates an entire ecosystem of brown nosers and people whose entire modus operandi is to network themselves into safe funded positions.
Burn it all down.
People need to pay for their own children’s education, and if they don’t value education no amount of government funding will make up for the shortfall of enthusiasm within the home.
Likewise with research. If no one wants to research something, then it probably wasn’t a profitable line of research.
Governments in the 21st century have one task: to f*ck off and leave people alone unless they are committing a crime.
No one good wants your help. Just piss off.
That would be my ideal position.
In the meantime, baby steps such as this from NZ’s government are welcome compared with the Gliberals complaining about grants to the humanities funding ideological activism but never doing anything about the rotten system when in power.
Taking note that the last LNP governments could not rely on Senate support, what could they have done? Reducing the supply of money to the States maybe, but that requires legislation too.
Do you have ideas?
Don’t waste control of both houses when you have it!
In the meantime, if you promise to cut waste in an election campaign you have a mandate to threaten recalcitrant cross-benchers with.
Was working in the SOG pit 28yrs ago.
Same pit but now an underground show.
There are plans to do some cutbacks on that pit when the railway line is removed. Meanwhile the portal is in the pit and they are currently mining about 1600 down, with mineable mineralisation to 2000 metres.
I was at AAL Balcatta probably running the occasional sample from SOG.
BTW, you know a good portion of those Indian H1B visa entries are going to be Muslim.
I don’t know that. Sikhs maybe but not muzzies.
Around 15% of the population, some 200 million, Muslims live in India.
They’ll demand a quota because ‘special’ and ‘fair’.
As well as permits for the 36 uncles and aunts and their families.
…and the village over the hill.
The Muslims will be even worse.
According to a 2011 census, India is 14.2% Muslim.
Snap.
How many Pakistanis are Hindu?
They’re shameless.
Labor hints at ‘Mediscare’ campaign ahead of New Year’s Day welfare increases (Sky News, 31 Dec)
These tired lies are getting well past their use by date. In fact they were past their use by date in the last five Federal elections. But Labor just keeps trotting them out again every time. You have to wonder when the voters will wise up.
“You have to wonder when the voters will wise up”. Bruce, Bruce Bruce. You are talking about Australian voters. These are the same people that think reality tv is real.
Spare us the lectures and insults from canbra.
Obviously you are one of those stupid voters.
Oh yes what was the only state/ territory that voted for the voice. None other than ACT.
Not this kid.
Getting towelled up in the comments. The further this goes the more it feels like a baseball bat election.
Labor is venturing into Malcolm Fraser’s “put your money under the bed because the banks won’t be safe” territory.
Morning coffee on the verandah, overlooking the valley, and reading a collection of essays by Tony Thomas – Cat’s may know the name’ he’s a regular contributor to “Quadrant – “Come to Think Of it.”
Seems it’s a piece of Noongar folklore that, when Rottnest Island served as a prison for Aborigines, during the term of one Henry Vincent as superintendent of the prison, a guillotine was set up on the jetty, and an Aboriginal prisoner would sometimes be beheaded when a transport of new prisoners arrived. The new prisoners would be responsible for burying the body.
As Thomas points out, there is only one flaw….Vincent’s term as superintendent of the prison ended in 1867, and there was no Rottnest jetty until 1906…. (Page 306.)
Stories my nanna told me.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/monster-who-brutally-murdered-two-female-bankers-makes/
7 years ago. He murdered two young women 7 years ago and wants to be let out because his sentence is psychologically harmful.
See above, and about 13% of Indian immigrants to the US are Muslim.
As I said above:
No refunds. No returns. All sales final.
More on defunding moron academics.
What if every pet was vegan? Here’s how much it would help the planet (Phys.org, 30 Dec)
Every time you think you’ve seen the dumbest possible science paper another even dumber one comes along. Here’s who he is:
Wow can we breed ’em in this country or what!
No, they breed themselves. And there’s just no stopping them.
Where the f is the animal welfare in feeding a cat a plant based diet?
Once upon a time nutters would gesture and shout in Speakers Corner and then work usefully the rest of the week – now they are lavishly funded in full time bullshit jobs to the same end.
So why don’t they first persuade all the big cats in Africa and South America to go vegetarian?
Read elsewhere but can’t find it now that Jeju Air had landing gear problems with another 737 close to the crash.
Apparently there’s a proposal to review the whole 737 fleet by SK as well.
Dunno about anyone else but I’d be pouring over the airlines maintenance records and procedures as well. I’ll wager that and pilot training will feature strongly in any report.
Major Bat Guano!
Harmful fungus in bat feces used to fertilize marijuana plants found to have killed two growers (MedXpress, 30 Dec)
They probably weren’t preverts, but they surely were Darwin Award recipients. Bats are choc full of nasties, especially flying foxes.
Earlier today I saw Batya Ungar-Sargon demolish the whole H1B visas keruffle. She closed by stating how the whole thing started with outsourcing manufacturing jobs and displaced workers were sneeringly told to learn to code. Now they are being told, no you can’t have the coding jobs either, we are bringing in foreigners to do that too. She said the whole thing shows the disdain of the rich and powerful for the common workers and nationalism of those same workers.
I’m old enough to remember a year or two after retrenched Virginia coal miners were told to “learn to code” by the haughty media caste – when the legacy MSM started losing jobs (coz internet & progress), anyone who told sacked j’ismists to “learn to code” found themselves cancelled & their social media insta-deleted.
Also, the sort of people who seek out government funding are the very worst sort who should not be artificially maintained in their positions when otherwise they would hopefully fail and leave.
this X 100.
governments also love to glom onto anything claiming to be a representative body so they can avoid dealing with individuals.
nearly all of them turn into captured catamites for big government.
the very pedestrian council, cancer ( raise the tobbacco tax!!!) Council and multitudes of others.
eg: the Geraldton scallop fishers association was made up of our of town boats, but state government loved having a ” group” to deal with.
in the end there were no Geraldton boats left, all were driven out by the ” recommendations” of the out of town vessels.
hates them we do, Gollum, Gollum
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Hey Dover,
Were you living close to this?
BREAKING: MASS SHOOTING AT BRONX CONVENIENCE STORE.
Your afternoon read over coffee or a NYE beverage.
Comments appear to be positive. However, whilst there could be positive aspects of decisions being made by residents, it seems to me that financially it is taxpayers money just being recycled, unless those who are paying house rent are employed by private (non-government related) enterprise. I can’t see how they can be economically independent particularly with restricted tourist access. Moreover, many skilled workers and supplies will need to be externally sourced. Great partnership with Barker College though.
I’m optimistically sceptical.
Gunyangara town lease a model for economic independence
How long will it be, before the first reports of “humbugging” are made?
It’ll all collapse when those payments cease. NE Arnhem would be alumina and Groote Eylandt is manganese. I don’t know whether “Jabaru” is Jabiru, but that suggests uranium.
“I would prefer barley be fed to pigs than it be used to turn men into swine.” This was the cry of Lady Jane, wife of Governor John Franklin, the man who enacted the very unpopular Prohibition Distillation Act, banning spirits production in 1839 and effectively stunting Aussie whisky innovation for 153 years
900 horsepower under foot.
Great racing.
Sprintcars | Brandt Speedweek – Avalon – 30th Dec 2024 | Clay-Per-View
The Sprinter clip above.
The annoucer is a clown. Who goes to a event like this and watches the event on their phones?
F*ck wits! Just like people glued to their phone walking on the footpath down the street.
Sheep.
Victorian taxpayers slugged $40,000 for new dining table for Parliament HouseIn the middle of a cost of living crisis and skyrocketing debt, the Victorian government has been criticised for going on a “Saddam Hussein-inspired spending spree” for a new table.
From the Hun.
I haven’t read the Troy bramston piece on Carter. By the sounds of the headline it will be full of misinformation and disinformation on his presidency and a big quiet on his antisemitism. And the licking and gesticulating would be full on. Pathetic.
Not reading Mavis is always good practice.
It’ll be as good as Dim Charmers fellating of the French clock collector.
It’s a twofer today. He’s got one tongue-bathing Keating as well.
Wonder what else Keating got for Christmas?
come offit
Merrick Garland corrupted the Justice Department with political persecutions
The Great Christmas H1B War of 2024
Strange, isn’t it, how everything they do damages their own constituency. And when it always goes just one way it’s not possible for it to be just accidental.
CA Gov. Newsom is Banning Gas Cars, Gas Stoves, Gas Furnaces, Gas Water Heaters – California Globe
Is California’s war on gas supposed to crush the state – because it will?
Bill From the Bush
December 31, 2024 11:11 am
An article in the Worst Australian warns of the hiccups coming for the mining industry in WA, you know the one that pays all those royalties for polliecritters to pee up against walls.
It’s worse than pissing up a wall. NT and the rest of the 3rd nations grift is a fundamental attack on our democracy by basically useless and undeserving bastards who wallow in the guilt and gutlessness of our pollies, especially the fuking faux conservatives. The whole 3rd nations edifice is a testimony to self loathing and cowardice by our institutions. It’s a toss up as to which is going to do more damage and in fact destroy our democracy: 3rd nations grift or global boiling and ruinables.
Somehow Native Title taking us all back to the Stone Age seems somehow appropriate. I would contemplate it over a cup of tea but you know …
Report: Trump Team Orders Cabinet Nominees to Cease Social Media Posts Ahead of Confirmation Hearings
And this is simply unbelievable:
BREAKING: Appeals Court Upholds E Jean Carroll’s $5 Million Judgment Against President Trump – Team Trump Responds | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
I don’t know how but Trump has to rid the US of these corrupt judges, AGs and other demorat bureaucrats. From the article:
The jury decided that E. Jean Carroll did not prove Trump raped her.
However, the jury said E. Jean Carroll proved Trump sexually abused her when he ‘inserted fingers into her vagina.’
In a separate defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll, In January 2024, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll.
The defamation was based on Trump saying he was not his type. From the comments:
He can prove beyond all reasonable doubt he didn’t do what she alleged….HE STILL HAS ALL HIS FINGERS!
Would have worked for OJ.
If the pussy don’t fit, you’ve got to acquit.
For propaganda purposes, why else.
Why On Earth Is Soros Buying Radio Stations?
Musk Calls Ukraine’s Zelensky ‘All-Time Champ’ for Greatest ‘Heist’ in US
He’s today made Starlink direct to phone live in Ukraine…
Always watch what the hand does.
Also reading Russian government press outlets will rot your brain.
really! We have had enough of the cricket.
JJ Sefton over at Ace of Spades has linked to an excellent PDF called, “Profile in Incompetence”.
A Ten Part Series On The Worst President In American History.
https://ace.mu.nu/headlines/archives/IBDeditorials_CarterSeries.pdf
Elon Musk Changes Twitter Algorithm to Diminish MAGA Opposition to Silicon Valley Group and Support Influence Over Trump Policy
Almost half way through. Been very good so far.
S Korea is getting more energetic.
South Korea court issues arrest warrant for President Yoon, Yonhap reports (JPost, 31 Dec)
Do you think the beak might be persuaded to issue an arrest warrant for Joe Biden too while he’s at it?
Setting up a New Ukraine?
Paywallian:
It has been interesting to see what goes down on X (TAFKAT – ‘the app formerly known as Twatter’)
Labor is flooding the place with songs of praise for Albo and Dim, and how all these international acronyms like WEF and IMF say they are doing a bang up job. Near instantaneous responses each time go straight to the fact that real income has been sliding back and consumers have faced 7 quarters of consumer recession.
then there are the ones that demonise Dutton – silly images of him overlaid with some slogan. I could as easily post a picture of a balloon and claim that the Ideal Gas Constant is 12.3.
I think Labor is running scared and don’t realise they are making it obvious.
Those Monash BAs aren’t helping.
They don’t know how to help.
Deeming showed guts by not just knuckling under – unlike that limp soggy-SAO Prosciutto who flopped into an immediate posture of submission as soon as the BS story came out.
I don’t know enough about her in other areas but shadows minister for women might make her look like a one trick pony. Mind you, women do need someone to stand up for them now.
A bit of special forces news.
Israel raids Iranian missile facility in Syria in covert operation (JPost, 30 Dec)
Two hundred km inside Syria! Sadly the story is light on detail, but it sounds like it must’ve been successful. Hopefully the whole tale eventually comes out.
No, Hamilton Heights, but always a strange feeling when near Bronx. Riverside was nice though.
I gather that the TV series Star Trek -Discovery is being what they call de-canonised.
i mention this not because I assume everyone is a Trekkie (I’m not) but because it marks another step in the retreat from woke-ism. It is being done so future films can do things without needing to be consistent with all the guff introduced in Discovery.
Finally studios are thinking about making money by attracting fans – rather than losing money by calling fans names.
Using H1b’s to frame any part if the migration debate is as retarded as using income tax rates to frame tax reform or cutting social security to frame government spending reform.
It’s fake, it’s contrived and belongs in the early 2000s when this idiocy thrived.
Frolicking 30/13 @ 11pm
thats a lot Frollicking – reallybappreciate the advise.
picked up antibiotics this morning with Colgate pro relief.
thepro relief had immediate effect.
the gums are swelled, will contact dentist on Thursaday.
happy new year and thanks for the advise.
about to go to the gym.
one way to drop weight.
Laughed out loud when I heard Albo, with his fake smile and fake sincerity, deliver his New Year message on Sky News.
Mr Potato Head was marginally better because he wasn’t trying to pretend he’s something he’s not.
PS: “preferred PM” is a polling statistic that’s virtually irrelevant to the way people will vote in 2025.
“preferred PM” – is one of the useless numbers you will ever come across.
About this time of the week my TikTok feed gets flooded with NFL related content.
I do like it as the NFL shows a lot of highlights quickly which is better than watching hours of ESPN packaged highlights.
This weekend it’s been a little different.
A Washington player proposed to his gal post them winning Sunday night football.
Oh boy, anyone who says TwitterX is full of hate hasn’t seen some of the TikTok content.
Women of a certain demographic posting what you can only call extreme hate towards the both of them.
The player is black.
His bird is white.
And the women hate posting are not happy he’s not marrying a sister.
It’s like they have zero self awareness ie potential employers may see their posts at some time in the future.
Totally unhinged.
I liked the trophy for the Pop-Tarts Bowl. It’s extremely cool.
I bet they don’t protest that every advertisement has a diverse race couple.
What makes you think that they will ever seek employment?
DEI supporters and self-proclaimed “anti-racists” are often the worst kind of racists.
Tough to watch. I’m glad I did.
USS Indianapolis Survivor Relives Horrifying Experience | Memoirs Of WWII #38
Figures.
Melbourne (Australia, not Florida) still runs its train control system on a PDP-11 (30 Dec)
It is Victoria after all.
I believe Melbourne does not (cannot?) achieve the train frequencies it had in the 1930s.
To be fair it is not an actual PDP11, but an emulated one.
Well at least they could’ve upgraded to a C64.
Glaude: Greed, Selfishness, Hatred Is ‘at the Heart of Trumpism’
Don of the day. Perfesser is a dirty word.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the least self aware perfesser of all?
Walking along a quiet leafy street in Paddington today I had an verbal altercation with a pro-Palestine Jewish woman. Approaching her on the footpath I could see she was wearing a ‘Star of David’ or, as we say in Hebrew, a ‘Magen David’ (which means ‘Shield of David’).
As I walked past I said to her…..’nice Magen David‘ to which she responded….
Free Palestine.
Shocked, I swivelled my head and said…
Why would you say that?
To which she responded….
Because it is a human rights issue
I responded…..
What about the human rights of the hostages, still kept in Gazan tunnels?’
She responded…..
That’s Israel’s fault, Hamas has offered to release ALL the hostages
By now I was gobsmacked, and so I said to her…….
You’re a Jew hating Jew
to which she unleashed on me….
F*ck off filthy c*nt
to which I replied…..
You progressives are so tolerant, and yes I do have a c*nt but it isn’t filthy, it’s nice and clean.
This enraged her more, I could see her aggression rising, and she continued to scream at me….
you’re a filthy c*nt, you’re a filthy c*nt, you’re filthy c*nt
Smiling, I yelled back…..
Get help
I then walked off.
Lol! Good one. 😀
what a pathetic piece of excrement that thing is
The irony is she doesn’t seem to know that she wouldn’t last five minutes in Gaza for all her support for the terrorists.
Chickens for KFC.
That is a time when you have donned the hobnailed boots and gone for the world kicking in the cnut record!
Yep. The time for talking to these bastards is over, if it ever existed.
Cassie, I can’t imagine having to deal with “progressive” Jews barracking for terrorists obsessed with killing Jews.
To me, that’s like lesbians protesting against anti-abortion activists.
Extraordinary. But nice darts responding Cassie.
Quite frankly, Cass, you should have clobbered her – physically as well as metaphorically.
Sod them.
If you’ll permit a little self-indulgent pride in my beloved eldest son – he just phoned me as is currently driving to his station at Vaucluse (Sydney) where he will be until about 2 am.
For the last four days, he has been one of the large team of tech-heads setting up the extensive network of cameras, sound etc etc for tonight’s NYE fireworks in Sydney. (BTW, this is his second job, not his primary source of income.) The camera he is responsible for tonight is about 5 km from the bridge and its $250k lens can zoom out wide to see from the buildings in the city to the north shore or zoom in to focus on the flags on the bridge – amazing.
He reckons it will be his camera that will be used for the finale tonight.
There will be a domestic version of the show and a slightly different international version that their ABC will be transmitting from about 7.30 pm EDST.
Enjoy, and raise a glass to all the under-rated tech-heads of this world.
A very happy new year one and all, and many thanks to Dover for this blog – long may it continue.
Self-indulge away.
You and your son have earnt it.
I’m off to watch the last SpaceX launch of the year live from my study on the other side of the world. Just a Starlink mission but a fine thing for the final day of a long long year. Coverage starts in about five minutes.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1kvKpbodDZMJE
2024 has been science fiction: half dystopian and half space opera.
(You may need to do a refresh on the twitter broadcast link for it to work. I just had to.)
Thanks Bruce – always most impressive to watch.
Cassie I think your experience illustrates that so many of these causes du jour serve as emotional outlet for very messed up people. I’ve seen these kooks a few months back trying to disrupt Zim at Webb Dock.
Cassie, you may need to think about wearing a voice recording device for these encounters. If you do this, especially in a public area, it’s admissible in court should one of these lunatics get violent.
If in a place where you’re not covered, when you get home, write down the conversation then delete the recording. Make it a contemporary record of the event – it holds more weight than a memory in a courtroom under question.
It’s not about being safe because nothing is going to make you safe from people who are mental – it’s about winning and punishing someone in a “she said/he said” situation.
A mini Go-pro is very handy. Much easier than using your phone, and easier to disguise.
Good question.
Happy New year.
Her social calendar is full then?
You think the reaction was contrived?
No.
But it’s similar to discussing how important the Uniting Church was when discussing 2000 years of Christianity.
The bigger picture is what’s important.
I think the general and the specific point was well -defended, and that is that large scale legal or illegal immigration is going to be resisted by the MAGA base and that those within promoting it are going to be meant with full force.
Is the AEMO roof top solar news new?
Or is this something that’s been released during the holidays so no one notices ?
The AMEO news as reported by the Oz.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/renewable-energy-economy/energy-regulator-tweaks-rules-to-boost-household-earnings-and-improve-forecasting/news-story/0d35c9e57352a949178ebe86e0981f10?net_sub_id=285072912&position=9&type=curated
Not many people are going to fork out for the battery.
This simply skews the “market” further. Solar and Wind already receive regulatory largesse. Retailers are forced to deliver increased amounts of renewables each year. AEMO knows this is crap. Electricity at noon is currently worthless. These rule changes to encourage batteries are pissing around at the edges.
Great to see Sadiq Khan gets a New Years gong.
He made London one of the safest cities in the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ln96d4yyeo
I can’t think of any British POS less deserving of it.
Good to see Starmer and Chucky are turning their awards system into the same farce as our Honours.
This is why Christianity is losing.
They are losing because they refuse to embrace cute owls as the next form of human evolution.
Sir Sadiq now? No worse than Sir Keir.
Don’t the socialists lurrrrve their “honours”?
The whole imperial ‘honours’ thing has been completely trashed.
Two days late and a dollar short (the Hun):
That’s it. That is the absolute extent of her statement.
Plus, she can’t demand that something be done which has already been done.
Idiot.
Today the part of the Liars will be played by Wile E. Coyote.
Even an NRL footballer being dragged from the wreckage could do better than that.
to which she unleashed on me….
F*ck off filthy c*nt
The good news is that the raving nutters are on the opposite side. You wouldn’t want to find them agreeing with you.
‘The scale of censorship is insane’ | Greg Lukianoff on Britain’s speech police
Violent crime, particularly knife crime, has soared in London under the loathsome Sadiq Khan.
Sadiq Khan knighted in New Year Honours list despite thousands trying to ‘stop’ it
“Page unresponsive” seems to be happening far too frequently. Anybody have any insight into what’s going on?
We should embrace cute owls. And give pats!
https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1873683615579877808
Via Ace today.
Those glorious eyes!
Nigel Biggar
Fake history is flourishing across the West. Just consider these three cases12:00AMDecember 17, 2024.
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Prime ministers, archbishops, academics, editors and public broadcasters are all in the business of exaggerating the colonial sins of their own countries against noble (not-so-very) savages – from Vancouver to London to Sydney. Why?
Throughout the English-speaking world elites are falling over themselves to believe the very worst of their own countries.
Let’s consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British Columbia claimed ground-penetrating radar had discovered “soil disturbances” that evidenced unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 “missing children” in land associated with an Indian Residential School.
The media quickly sexed up the story into one of “mass graves”, with all its connotation of murderous atrocity. On May 30 the Toronto Globe and Mail published an article under the title “The discovery of a mass gravesite at a former residential school in Kamloops is just the tip of the iceberg”. In it, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, professor of law at the University of British Columbia, wrote: “It is horrific. But it is not shocking. In fact, it is the opposite – a too-common unearthing of the legacy, and enduring reality, of colonialism in Canada.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered Canadian flags to be flown at half-mast on all federal buildings to honour the murdered children. Because the Kamloops school had been run by a Roman Catholic religious order, some zealous citizens took to burning and vandalising churches, 85 of them to date. The dreadful tale was eagerly broadcast worldwide by Al Jazeera.
Yet, more than three years later, not a single set of remains of a murdered Indian child in an unmarked grave has been found either in Kamloops or elsewhere in Canada. Indeed, not a single attempt to disinter an alleged grave has been made.
Judging by the evidence collected by Chris Champion and Tom Flanagan in their best-selling book, Grave Error: How the Media Misled us (and the Truth about the Residential Schools), it looks increasingly probable that the Kamloops story, and the ones that followed it, are myths.
I’ve just taken delivery of this book. In the light of the “Stolen Generations”, it’s making interesting reading!
I won’t mention the guillotine on Rottnest!
Oh, and Bruce Pascoe and “Dark Emu” rate a mention.
Australia’s equivalent is the extraordinary career of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. Published in 2014, this argues that Aboriginal people, far from being primitive nomads, developed the first egalitarian society, invented democratic government, eschewed “imperial warfare”, pioneered complex fishing technology, and were sophisticated agriculturalists. Such was the morally superior civilisation that white colonisers trashed in their greed, racist contempt and relentless violence.
Dark Emu was named Book of the Year and received the Indigenous Writers’ Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. It has sold more than 360,000 copies and has been made the subject of an ABC documentary.
And yet, while enthusiastically praised for challenging conventional views about Aboriginal culture and popularising the topic, it has been widely criticised for being factually untrue. While not a professional academic, Peter O’Brien has forensically dismantled it in Bitter Harvest: The Illusion of Aboriginal Agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, systematically exposing the many gaps between claim and evidence.
And in Farmers or Hunter Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, eminent anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe, while vigorously rejecting the description of Aboriginal culture as “primitive”, nevertheless dismiss Pascoe’s claims for Aboriginal agriculture and aquaculture, and expose his editing of primary sources to make them appear to support his thesis. Reviewers have described their book variously as “rigorously researched”, “masterful”, and “measured”.
LOL who wins here?
One set of older more accomplished cheats calls newer sloppier cheats out for cheating?
https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/clearly-not-out-india-erupts-over-contentious-jaiswal-dismissal/news-story/0e89743a0b2c55f5f29d871bf35e3c10
Circular firing squad anyone?
Given that none of the umpires is Australian, how is it “Australian cheating”?
Tongue in cheek ref to sandpaper gate. Didn’t work, I’ll have to work on that one.
Also ref Indians have been getting away with outright cheating for decades, this one is easily found in a google search I did.
RD, I meant the Indian accusation.
Do they think we bribed the umps?
This moaning by the call centre takers, and apropos of DRS tech amuses me.
Before he was (rightfully) given out by the TV umpire after renowned spud umpire Joel Wilson failed to note that a) the pill had clipped glove, if not the back of the bat on the way through as well, and b) the very obvious deflection, young Jaiswal was in the fact the beneficiary of the very same tech he’s sooking over.
In his 40s, Jaiswal was trapped plumb by Starc. Again, umpire Wilson said no. The DRS tech on review showed 75% of the pill hitting the stumps. Amazingly, the tech said it was umpire’s call so the not out decision stood.
Jaiswal was gifted over 40 runs by the tech. Now he’s neck-deep in tandoori-flavoured tears.
Weak as piss, and poor form for a young bloke with potential.
Yup and there’s a saying about glass houses the Indians need to take note of. Otherwise their bottom lips having gravel rash will be the least of their problems. Especially one Kohli, google tells me he has form for questionable behaviour.
The highlighted four words have no place in this article.
Gutless journalism.
From The Oz……
Bonza: Woolies puts Australia Day back on the shelf
Woolworths will be proudly celebrating Australia Day after its decision to ditch celebratory merchandise such as flags and thongs triggered protests.
Whilst ‘woke’ is still not dead, it’s dying.
Amen.
Next time Woolies or any corporate talks about “our Values” we can correct them saying “what values? You have none”
which protests what it sees as infringements upon women’s and children’s rights by transgender activists.
Not what ‘it sees as infringements‘……WHAT ARE INFRINGEMENTS.
The gaslighting and lies continue unabated.
May I suggest they donate all profits from the sale of the merchandise to a reputable charity that serves Australians in need.
to which she unleashed on me….
F*ck off filthy c*nt
“Use of obscenity is the hallmark of one who is incapable of intelligent self expression. “
I had to write that out two hundred times, at primary school, over fifty years ago – funny what sticks in the mind….
“Use of obscenity is the hallmark of one who is incapable of intelligent self expression. “
Fu*k yeah
This latest batch of our limoncello isn’t half bad…hic
Happy 2025 all
That’s the exception which proves the rule.
Andrew Lawrence
Now they’re targeting your kids…
Work has concluded for the day, and year. Time to avail myself to some beer before watching a fireworks display in our town. It’s very good. Have a great night Cats and Kittehs, be back tomorrow no doubt with a sore head.
Happy 2025 all