It’s his handlers.
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snork!
The Logies are now the equivalent of the AFI awards or whatever they are called now.
Cassie of Sydney January 18, 2025 9:43 am Prestigious girls school Collegiate apparently has some girls who identify as cats.…
continuous impacts of colonisation like sit down money and a reliable food supply? Sounds like the mental vomit out of…
Sems there are a lot of “terrorist” attacks going on in the US, for the most part pretty incompetent and ineffective.
Someone sending a message or false flags?
I have to admit that the pattern can only be described as ‘chaotic’.*
It’s as if there are three players and none of them are very good at what they’re doing.
*yes I realise chaos isn’t a pattern, but this is like a bowl of spaghetti and ice cream dropped on the floor, walked over by a tribe of schoolkids, and then licked up by a Golden Retriever.
What we have left is the product of the dogs alimentary system after a particularly violent bowel motion.
Yes. There may be a pattern, but only God knows what it is.
I think I’ve worked out why muzzies are always so angry. They are just lonely.
All these terrorist attacks are done by ‘Lone Wolves’.
They need to hug each other in the mosques. As they detonate their vests.
The more terrorists attacks, the greater the excuse to restrict numbers at Trumps inauguration.
Good luck with that.
And the more sympathy for mass deportations of the illegals.
I am looking forward to January 6th when we’ll see the return the usual suspects where they’ll solemnly tweet “see that’s how you have an orderly transition of power”.
It’s my birthday tomorrow, my first without my mother. I’ve just returned from a very nice lunch with an old friend at Chiswick in Woollahra.
Chiswick, run by Matt Moran, is a lovely restaurant, set in a beautiful garden on Ocean Street, it’s a family favourite. It was targeted by Jew haters two months ago, daubed with nasty Jew hating graffiti, not that Moran is Jewish.
I had the flathead, my favourite fish (along with snapper) followed by chocolate torte and drank two beautiful glasses of very crisp Riesling.
I now feel sleepy!
Happy Birthday Cassie! 😀 😀 😀
Happy birthday beautiful lady, not that I know what you look like more than likely but your heart and that is where beauty comes from.
Hope you’ve found time for a birthday nap, Cassie!
Happy birthday!
Best wishes for your birthday and 2025, Cassie. Never think you don’t have well-wishers.
Happy Birthday, Cassie.
Riddle me this one, thrillseekers. When we were borrowing customs from other cultures, to make up this multicultural society, who passed up the siesta?
Glad you had some fine and civilised dining to celebrate. See you in three weeks now. Pub meal probably but with some other Cats and Kittehs for fun times.
Since we are taking about the prospect about mining the moon, can I suggest we consider the risk of Covid?
When you lie on your resume, but get the job anyway.
Just in from The Oz. The woman is a nasty, vicious, hideous Jew hating cockroach……
Former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis apologises for sharing comments ‘seen as anti-Semitic’
The ZFA chief executive further criticised Mary Kostakidis on Friday for apologising ‘while continuing to regularly post deeply offensive content’.
Former SBS presenter Mary Kostakidis has apologised for sharing “comments (that) may be seen as anti-Semitic” from former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, but may face a longer legal battle with the Zionist Federation of Australia.
ZFA chief executive Alon Cassuto said he was “considering (his) options” after calling Ms Kostakidis before the Australian Human Rights Commission in July, where the pair failed to reach agreement over remediation.
Ms Kostakidis sparked the ire of the ZFA after engaging in a “campaign of vilification” online, sharing material that veered into conspiracy and advocated for “the ethnic cleansing of Jewish Israelis in Israel”.
On Thursday, she apologised online for originally retweeting a video of deceased Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in which he said there was no place for Jews in Israel.
“I condemn anti-Semitism and racism of any kind,” she said on Twitter/X.
“I did not, and do not, endorse the content of the speech made by Hassan Nasrallah, which I shared on my X account on 4 and 13 January 2024. I accept that some of his comments may be seen as anti-Semitic but that is not a barrier to reporting them.
“To the Jews and/or Israelis in Australia who took my posts as an endorsement, I am sorry for their hurt, distress and pain.”
Mr Cassuto further criticised Ms Kostakidis on Friday for apologising “while continuing to regularly post deeply offensive content, including conspiracy theories about the firebombed Adass synagogue in Melbourne”.
Ms Kostakidis presented SBS news for 20 years before quitting in 2007, lodging a claim for breach of contract and alleging she had been bullied by fellow presenter Stan Grant. The matter was settled out of court.
She previously denied ever inciting hatred against Jewish people, saying the legal action was an attempt to silence her and an attack on free speech. Mr Cassuto, represented by Arnold Bloch Leibler, alleged Ms Kostakidis had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which makes it unlawful to publicly offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate a person or group on the basis of race, colour or national or ethnic origin.
Other posts included her suggesting Israel knowingly allowed the October 7 attack to occur to justify a retaliatory war, and sharing tweets claiming pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was an agent of Israel who “ran a honeypot for Mossad”. In June she shared a theory that Israel was responsible for the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, asking “Why has Israel been avoided when discussing the Kennedy assassinations?”.
In making her apology, Ms Kostakidis said the complaint had incited “a number of highly defamatory and gratuitous comments”.
“On 11 December I engaged in Mediation with the Complainant at the Australian Human Rights Commission,” she said. “The matter has not resulted in an agreement.”
“Consequently I have decided to post the following statement with respect to my posts of Nasrallah’s speech, the offence taken, and accusations I am an anti-Semite, in the hope that it resolves any dispute.”
Mr Cassuto argued the apology was a concession of having shared unlawful hate speech.
“Let’s be clear about what Ms Kostakidis’ statement does say: when Hassan Nasrallah declared, ‘Here you don’t have a future. From the river to the sea, Palestine is for the Palestinians only’, it was anti-Semitic hate speech,” he said in a statement.
“Echoing such calls in Australia constitutes unlawful hate speech.”
Mr Cassuto should go for her jugular, legally speaking.
I agree. She should be subjected to the maximum lawfare possible. The left have needed to be given a dose of their own medicine for a long long time.
Anyone know much about ibogaine?
Rick Perry was on Rogan talking it up as a potential treatment for a range of things.
Ibogaine (wiki)
Other than a quick search I know absolutely nothing about ibogaine, but psychedelic treatments seem to be a fad at the moment. Low dose LSD for example. This one today:
Psychedelic drug therapy may address mental health concerns in people with cancer and addiction (MedXpress, 2 Jan)
Magic mushies, yum!
The real benefit of psilocybin may not be 5 HT but Trk B, growth related receptor(the two can exist in a bound complex). That’s counter-intuitive but there is research to support it. One of the biggest blind spots in understanding brain and behavior is ignoring nearly everything except neurotransmitters. As a psychologist hinted to me 30 years ago: psychiatry is amine obsessed. There was a lot of psychedelic research in the 60’s but Leary spooked the government so it was shut down. A NY friend said many professionals were very angry at Leary.
Note that early trials often over state effects. Anything that is argued can treat so many conditions needs to regarded with deep skepticism.
Criminy jeepers.
Rishabh Pant (the Indian batsman) is taking more hits than Brittany Higgins at an after party.
Err um, err um…
How did that fat ugly pig get given a job?
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Malcom Roberts:
Ayonyone slipping up that thing should root a cow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLPxGylRLg
A good watch thanks Steve; the guy is a legend!
(But its the second time I’ve noticed he has like a hand palsy or something going on; he’s really shaky!)
what’s that about?
Malcolm did not say that. I idid.
Deutsche Bank weighs in.
Deutsche Bank: “A Wake-Up Call For Sixth Gen” (3 Jan)
The US has certainly been complaisant in military capability lately, especially their naval procurement and air force.
The USA has at least 2 hypersonic fighters ready for testing this year. It has 6th gen fighters in test since 2022 but are not going forward because of cost considerations though with this recent announcement that might change. The USA now has by far the longest range air to air missile ready to go. It has also developed two new relatively cheap air to air missiles that the F-35 can potentially fit 8-12 internally.
The J-20 has canards, not a good idea for a stealth aircraft. It appears to be a serious threat to tankers and AWACs but is not an air superiority fighter. The weak spot of the USA is the almost complete reliance on those support aircraft. The Su-57 has an RCS similiar to a F18E(Sukhoi’s data) so not 5th gen and there is still no explanation why so few are operational.
All Kostakidis has done, since her SBS career ended in 2007 is sit on her big fat greek arse spending her “SBS settlement money” (cos Stanned Grant bullied her, apparently).
She’s a 70-year old washed up old Leftard with nothing to contribute to Australia; probably drinking ouzo for breakfast. I mean, even Germaine Greer managed to develop some sense once she entered the autumn years…
She describes herself as “Libertarian” **rolls eyes**
Call centre takers now 6/120, strangled out nicely by Straya.
Naturally, Boland has 4/19 so far, and is on a hat trick to boot.
Webster has been having a fine day also. A boa constrictor with the ball and two catches on debut at the SCG!
Doesn’t matter.
He could end up with 8-fer, but as soon as Hazlewood can hobble up to the crease and trundle a few down, Boland will be carrying the drinks again.
It’s a lot easier for a Victorian to get out of the test side (even if he hasn’t really failed) than to get in in the first place.
Kostakis headed a multiculti listeninh commission for something or other. Republican sleeper campaign, IIR.
“…the Jews and/or Israelis in Australia…”
Yep, instincts comfirmed. Anyone who can type out a cold, dehumanizing phrase like that is a sociopath.
Her second hubbie (god knows what happened to the first) is Ian Wilcox, a cardiologist in Sydney (who cozies up with the likes of Clover Moore)…
So, if I were in a Sydney hospital with a heart condition and Ian walked in I’d say:
“Nope! Next!”
Has she got an Only Fans account yet?
Ewww!
It just seems like a natural progression.
Its called “gollum’sgothertitsout@whocoulddrinkthatmuch”.
So bloody glad I wasn’t eating or drinking when I read that!
She was 21 LAST YEAR!! 2024.
Only under the Tiny Tits section.
Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger’s wife broke up with him days before explosion outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas: sources
Not knocking your sources, Lysander, But I’ve heard so much bullshit now that I don’t think I’ll come to a conclusion for at least a couple of weeks. Or months.
I heard he divorced her a while back.
Only in Melbournistan:
This Australian city wants to charge people to work on their cars | CarExpert
The City of Casey in Melbourne’s south-east, which includes suburbs like Cranbourne and Berwick, requires residents to apply for a private land use permit if they’re planning to store more than two unregistered vehicles for up to 90 days, store long heavy vehicles, and even dismantle, repair or service vehicles.
According to the City of Casey’s Community Local Law, those without a permit mustn’t dismantle, repair or service vehicles on private land “in circumstances where the activity or use is detrimental to the amenity of the area in which the private land is located”.
While the City of Casey doesn’t have explicit guidelines on what it defines as being “detrimental to the amenity of the area”, the laws mean residents could be made to seek approval to do something as simple as an oil change, which could cost more than $400 before purchasing the relevant equipment.
Next, they will want to charge a fee so you can mow the lawn or clean your bathroom. People blindly vote these a**holes into council;. They deserve what they get.
Not really. With compulsory preferential voting and multiple candidates (15 in my ward)- it’s verging on impossible to sort the shit from the shoe polish.
Yeah good luck with that in estates like Endeavour Hills.
Amazes me the number of people commenting at the link who are quite happy for the council to interfere with what people do legally on their own property.
Very interesting!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/house-speaker-vote-2025-ee2e6762
If no speaker is elected by Jan. 6, Congress likely won’t be able to ratify Trump’s election or the election of Vice President-elect JD Vance. If there is still no speaker, no functioning House, and no certification by Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, then the new GOP-controlled Senate’s president pro-tempore, 91-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), would become president, according to the presidential line of succession.
The RINOs could have some “fun” with this!!!!!!!!!
Totally mystifies me why an elected president and VP should have to be “ratified” by anyone.
Seems to me it is potentially wide open to abuse.
This Australian city wants to charge people to work on their cars | CarExpert
I’ve been to some less than totally salubrious suburbs in LA notable for the Mud Monsters up on blocks in the front yard.
OTOH if they want to improve the amenity of an area, banning dogs would be a good start.
There is a house not far from mine where they have had a wrecked car in the front yard for over 20 years.
Whereas I have been threatened with a big fine if I don’t cut back tree branches hanging over the footpath from the nature strip, which should be council responsibility, as it owns the nature strip.
Poor Mr Krishna equals his Test batting average…
Two tests, three innings, top score of 0 not out.
Now 9/169.
Someone has too much time on his hands. Pretty funny though. Make sure you have sound. Tip, a new use for Alexa.
https://x.com/CNviolations/status/1874904982941823039
I still have my Billy Bass in the garage.
Now I want to buy one just so I can do that.
All out 185.
Mr Bumrah had a fine time, hitting three fours and a six before holing out to his opposite number Mr Starc.
Jimmy Carter Was Never a Good Man – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org
One thing mentioned in another article which I never knew was Carter’s links to the Rockefellers.
Yeah Dover:
As Kyle Bass said, the J36 that you showed earlier this week was a PR exercise.
We should wait a little longer and see what comes off the production line before giving the CCP a standing ovation, don’t you think?
Given that no one is arguing that J-36s are coming off the production on mass, but rather that the one we saw was a prototype, I’d say that Bass is just helping people cope.
Only a couple of these got bail, it appears.
Criminals of no particular appearance.
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/41-arrested-7-days-across-melbournes-east-and-southeast
Good, except that this should be what they are doing all day, every day, not just as an unusually well resourced special operation.
LOL
Yeah Dover, it’s a hard cope.
Sounds like those concept models carmakers take to shows and that’s the last time you see them or the production variant is so underwhelming,
But hey, wait until 2034 to see what they come up with! I guess being aspirational is a good thing.
Mohammed bowled out by Bumrah on the last ball of the day! 🙂
Caught in slips in not bowled out.
I LOVE this modern monster.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1873967319686537332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1873967319686537332%7Ctwgr%5Ed4c3359a91576f5a6d2f0de4033b9ee4d8bfd9c7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F413087
Love it.
I can see myself doing 60k down the Great Ocean Road and giving the finger to everyone behind me furiously blasting their horns. 😀
So Israel has been delivering aid all along and the U.N. hasn’t distributed it
This looks like the outcome of infinite tolerance and understanding when logic kicks in with Kroner.
Sweden says to pay immigrants up to $34,000 to leave
The Scandinavian country was for decades seen as a “humanitarian superpower”, but over the years has struggled to integrate many of its newcomers.
Immigrants who voluntarily return to their countries of origin from 2026 would be eligible to receive up to 350,000 Swedish kronor ($34,000), the government, which is propped up by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, told a press conference.
“We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in our migration policy,” Migration Minister Johan Forssell told reporters, as the government presented its latest move to crack down on migration.
Currently, immigrants can receive up to 10,000 kronor per adult and 5,000 kronor per child, with a cap of 40,000 kronor per family.
Immigrant groups could not immediately be reached for comment on the change.
“The grant has been around since 1984, but it is relatively unknown, it is small, and relatively few people use it,” Ludvig Aspling of the Sweden Democrats told reporters.
Forssell said only one person had accepted the offer last year.
Aspling added that if more people were aware of the grant and its size was increased, more would likely take the money and leave.
He said the incentive would most likely appeal to the several hundred thousand migrants who were either long-term unemployed, jobless or whose incomes were so low they needed state benefits to make ends meet.
“That’s the group we think would be interested,” Aspling said.
A government-appointed probe last month advised the government against significantly hiking the amount of the grant, saying the expected effectiveness did not justify the potential costs.
The Nordic nation has struggled for years to integrate immigrants, and the head of the inquiry, Joakim Ruist, said that a sizeable financial increase would send a signal that migrants were undesirable, further hampering integration efforts.
Other European countries also offer grants as an incentive for migrants to return home.
Denmark pays more than $15,000 per person, compared to around $1,400 in Norway, $2,800 in France and $2,000 in Germany.
Integration struggles
Sweden’s conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson came to power in 2022 with a minority coalition government propped up by the Sweden Democrats, vowing to get tough on immigration and crime.
The Sweden Democrats emerged as the country’s second-largest party with 20.5 percent support in that election.
Sweden has offered generous foreign development aid since the 1970s and has taken in large numbers of migrants since the 1990s.
Most of Sweden’s immigrants have come from conflict-ridden countries such as the former Yugoslavia, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran and Iraq.
In 2015 alone, at the height of the migration crisis in Europe, Sweden took in 160,000 asylum seekers, the highest per capita in the EU.
With much higher rates of unemployment among those born abroad, the situation had widened Sweden’s wealth inequalities and straining its generous cradle-to-grave welfare system.
The 2015 migration crisis proved a turning point, with the then-Social Democratic government announcing soon afterwards that it was no longer able to continue its open-door policies.
A slew of measures have been taken by both left and right-wing governments since then to curb migration, including issuing only temporary residence permits to asylum seekers, tightening family reunification requirements, and hiking income requirements for work visas for non-EU citizens.
Kristersson’s government also plans to make it easier to expel migrants for substance abuse, association with criminal groups or statements threatening Swedish values.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentMulti/531750/Multimedia.aspx
Bargain
UK Labour Party Collapsing In on Its Unpopular Self
Good News. Let’s hope they are able to finish the job. The mother next.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14245311/Sara-Sharifs-killer-father-neck-slashed-tuna-lid-prison-attack-fighting-life.html
UK police, and Government, need the Tuna Can Lid treatment. Up every damn orifice.
https://nitter.poast.org/ImtiazMadmood/status/1874976470184907123#m
Has she got an Only Fans account yet
here it is..
Talking about cars. Over the weekend, I’m going to decide whether to pull the trigger on a new car—an electric model. I think it could suit me, but I’m not 100% sure. The model has a range of 580 kilometers, or just around 500 kilometers in city driving. I have a three-phase power supply at home, which means I can speed up charging by installing a home charger.
I usually fill up every two weeks with my old ICE car, which is the same model style, so charging every couple of weeks wouldn’t be much of a hassle. I really like the look of the car, and boy, the acceleration is mind-blowing.
The dealer started the haggling with an initial offer that was 40K higher than where we are now. He called earlier to tell me the carmaker has offered a bigger discount. Since we already have three cars, I’m not too concerned about range anxiety. One motivator for going electric is that I won’t be funding towel heads, and it has nothing to do with the whole “gerbil warming nonsense.
The journal has a review of the 911 Carrera today.
There are some funny readers comments about EVs.
You do realise its a throw away car. If you like that sort of thing go for it.
‘ a range of 580 km’ when it’s new. When it’s not cold. When there are no extra passengers. When there is no luggage. When it is fully charged. Before buying you should watch a few YouTube videos by MGUY.
When it’s not dark.
It certainly does sound like cope because, again, no one is arguing they are entering service imminently. BTW, the J-36 is quite a little beyond a ‘concept model’ if it’s captured flying and maneuvering in the air.
A good piss take mate.
Back in the 1970s, the B-70 was also “captured flying and maneuvering in the air.”
It never went into operational service.
Net Zero fantasy: Why “renewable” energy ISN’T renewable at all! | MGUY Australia
What do you believe that Bass got wrong with his observation?
The child murderer isn’t ‘fighting for his life’. He got a few stitches in the prison infirmary.
Does anyone know why the birth mother was not given custody of the child?
I heard a story from a reliable source some years back.
A bloke had transgressed prison etiquette a number of times – I’m unsure for what, but evidently these infractions were serious.
So serious, in fact, that he was held down by some people, and then the transgressor’s scrotum was subject to some impromptu surgery.
With a can opener. Almost all the way around, I’m led to believe.
Anyway – apparently it all turned out to be an accident of some sort, and everyone lived happily ever after.
Calli Jan @ 8:38am
Serb v Croat
in the late 1990 I had had this female school teacher come through the door.
In a memerable and pointed interview, she was telling me how she left a high fee school in the eastern suburbs for a Catholic school in Adelaide’s North.
The problem in the north was racism – I asked if this was the Vietnamese moving in taking over the market gardens – no it was between the Greeks v the Italians.
these were third generations – I doubt if they had been to their ancestral grandparents countries of birth.
Just before this, I worked with a guy (country Aussie guy – real good guy) whose girlfriend’s father was a Serb who left everything behind in Serbia. He did not even go to the Serbian clubs or churches.
With this race horseshit being pumped on us, I am becoming a racist myself. I feel sympathetic to the north Europeans and English, as overall they treated me better.
i just wish this rubbish of racism and loathing of Australia would go away – our pollies and media contributors should just come out and Denigh this nonsense.
Yeah, pretty much. Battery life is around 10 years or 160 K. I do around 12 K a year in the replacement (old car).
Ranga, the value of any 10 year old car or one that’s done 150K isn’t much anyway.
Ocrazyo-Cortez, Warren, Crockett, Omar, Waters, Wasserman-Schultz (the worst).
Phtt. They ain’t nothing. Our Democrats are far more smug, dishonest and corrupt.
Sales and Ferguson. They can’t be voted out or even criticised.
From his short thread he appears to be making two claims: needs long runways and it’s size gives it poor maneuverability. The first isn’t really a problem and the second is only a problem in circumstances where it’s opponent has already evaded detection or interception which would be difficult because it’s size indicates it will have significant detection capability and a large number of AA missiles.
I can believe the long runways.
It has three jet engines, two in normal locations and one on top of the fuselage.
China only fairly recently developed the tech to build their own jet engines, so I suspect what they did was to shoehorn as many of them into it that they could. Previously they got their engines from Russia. I’d be unsurprised if it is underpowered, but it’s still a massive achievement.
Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, is an eminently solid (conservative) citizen. But I’m not sure if this line was a promotion or sleight on Bourbon Street:
“You can’t run a bomb dog down Bourbon Street because of the smells you find on Bourbon Street”
Kohli was not out. Touched the ground, move on. Get over it.
Australia have been great beneficiaries of the system, as have other teams against them. I am heartily sick of Australian whinging. Not only Poms anymore.
Agree. Why would Smith attempt to flip the ball up if he thought he had it under control?
I’m going to decide whether to pull the trigger on a new car—an electric model.
Why wouldn’t you get an solid ICE car before they are all banned.
An Audi obviously.
Not a Range Rover.
C’mon, Audi’s are hairdressers cars…
John H, re iIbogaine, there are clinics in Mexico where US vet are taking this stuff in pretty big doses.
I don’t believe half the anecdotes about the success.
Sounds like they want a rushed VA contract under the new administration.
Vet = Veterans.
What’s with the Tesla bomber’s Horns of Odin tattoo on his arm?
Do the Horns of Odin carry any special significance or just some sort of “power symbol?”
It’s your money JC but I think electric cars suck. Batteries are fickle with complex chemistry and degrade as they’re discharged and charged. Known to go kah-boom when thermal runaway occurs. You can’t beat the energy density of petrol or diesel (or jet fuel or avgas). Quick refill time too.
Within 24 hours the FBI said it wasn’t a terrorist attack to it was a terrorist attack to he definitely was a lone wolf and then let a reporter do a walk through house with his bomb lab & Korans in plain site.
That last bit should thoroughly contaminate any investigation.
100%
That may have been the house of the New Orleans Bourbon Street truck jihadi.
Yeah but the reporterette had a nice arse.
Didn’t I mention that before?
Also over the past 24 hours the FBI has released footage of the Jan 5th & 6th DC pipe bomb suspect.
That’s Jan 5th & 6th of 2021.
Nothing suss.
JC earlier:-
I am something of an agnostic when it comes to EV vs ICE.
But I want to travel from the country estate to the city and back without re-charge.
I don’t think the EV range on offer (knowing that it will deteriorate with battery age) just doesn’t cut it for me.
But if I was just scooting around town I would definitely consider an EV.
@robinmonotti
Labour sacrificed white working class English girls to a cover up of mass rape gangs throughout England at the altar of power: in order to secure the block Muslim vote. This was a calculated cover up: it was “worth it” to them.
And guess who was in charge at the Crown Prosecution Service deciding who to prosecute for much of that time…
Was the King’s Speech used to suppress the truth about grooming and violence?
Quite so.
I heard Punter Ponting saying “it might have touched the ground, but it’s still out.”
Err, wut?
If the ball touches the ground in the act of taking the catch it is not out.
The fact that the ball was flicked up tells you he didn’t have control of it.
Both of these two sift through Chinese propaganda like jets ….pun intended.
The robots do make me laugh. Hahaaa!
D*ckhead Chinese. Some bots go down in electric spasms.
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China Fact Chasers:
China’s Next Generation Fighter Jet is a Piece of CRAP!
Weren’t Tories in power for a considerable period when the so called grooming gangs were operating?
Yes, and they happily continued the turbo migration Ponzi as well.
But I think most of the policing/ social work falls on local councils to handle.
And every area named had a Labor council.
One of the first pollies to raise the issue was a Labor lady who was drummed out of the party for doing so.
Tories could have highlighted the horrific goings on and offered support to the poor girls and their families but Theresa May, the Home Secretary at the time, was too busy persecuting Tommy Robinson.
Back in the 1970s, the B-70 was also “captured flying and maneuvering in the air.”
It never went into operational service.
Cancelled as an operational aircraft in 1964. The prototypes were finished as research aircraft. The mission was reach the target by flying at 70,000 feet at Mach 3. It was realised that SAMs were getting better and this wasn’t viable.
I’d bet the Chuncks aren’t as constrained by having accidents during development as the US is. They are pretty smart and are seeing how Musk is developing rockets. Bet they can get stuff in production much faster than the US.
Lots of Chinese bots on the channel.
Eyrie
January 3, 2025 7:50 pm
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They build quicker than then States and then they fall down.
Tofu dreg.
One motivator for going electric is that I won’t be funding towel heads, and it has nothing to do with the whole “gerbil warming nonsense.
Pal bought a Prius for exactly that reason. Reckoned the towelheads would use the money to buy guns with which to shoot each other. Damned if I could see the downside.
Whitehouse: ‘Nightmare’ Kash Patel Will Disable FBI that Protect Us Against Terrorism
get a load of this old turd
Well….
It depends on the position of the hand. If fingers are underneath the ball, spreadeagled if you will, when the ball touches ground and if that happened before the ball touched the ground and if control is retained, then it’s a fair catch.
In this instance, although the sniveller and cheat enabler lost control after that, the pill was still in the air – and hadn’t hit the turf of its own volition – and was able to be taken fairly by Labbashagnee, a decent argument exists that it was a fair catch.
I think the problem was that the pill also appeared to bounce off Smiff’s hand into the air, which reinforces the argument that it a) hit the deck, and b) that control was lost at that time.
The bigger problem is that the third (TV) umpire is Joel Wilson, who is a complete, A Grade potato.
It slipped out of his hand onto the ground, then was scooped up again in the same motion. Footage clear as crystal. I don’t know why there’s any controversy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/deutsche-bank-wake-call-sixth-gen
Some people seem to be taking the 6th gen Chinese aircraft seriously.
So why aren’t Germans perfecting their own defence aircraft instead of criticising Americans? Ah yes, the last time they did that they attacked all their neighbours.
Yes.
They have much to answer for, especially not taking on the lazy “anti-racism” of the police and prosecutors which served as the chief rationale for sweeping all this under the carpet.
Not the impression I’m getting from the aviation channels.
You just don’t know; the vermin with their claws up biden’s clacker are capable of anything:
?BREAKING: You Won’t Believe What The White House Is Planning To Do Before Trump Takes Over
The Biden administration is holding emergency meetings that could change everything – and the timing couldn’t be more suspicious.
Just 18 days before Trump’s return to power, they’re discussing declaring a state of emergency. But here’s what they don’t want you to know: This isn’t about terror attacks – it’s about preventing Trump’s inauguration. The same people who screamed “insurrection” on January 6th are now plotting the ultimate power grab through martial law.
We’ve obtained exclusive information about these emergency meetings, and what we’ve uncovered is chilling. Senator Kennedy’s cryptic warning – “I can, but I won’t” – when asked about future attacks speaks volumes. They’re laying the groundwork for something unprecedented in American history.
Meanwhile, a massive migrant caravan is heading toward our border, Elon Musk is calling out treason at the highest levels, and even MSNBC is finally admitting Biden’s border disaster. It’s all connected, and it’s all leading up to January 20th.
The evidence is mounting: growing calls to move the inauguration to Mar-a-Lago, a fortress in a red state. Why? Because they’re planning something big in DC. Tom Homan, former ICE Director, is warning that Biden’s policies are an “open invitation to terrorism.” Even Jim Acosta is in panic mode, desperately trying to spin the truth about border security.
But here’s the real bombshell: These terror attacks, the emergency meetings, the border crisis – it’s all orchestrated. They’re creating chaos to justify emergency powers. They’re trying to “gum up” the transfer of power, making it impossible for Trump to implement his agenda from day one.
Gary Franchi breaks down the connections they don’t want you to make, exposing how these “emergency meetings” are really about one thing: stopping Trump at any cost. From martial law threats to border chaos, from terror warnings to inauguration disruption plans – it’s all part of their desperate final move.
The question isn’t whether they’ll try to stop Trump – it’s how far they’ll go. Will they actually declare martial law? Will they force the inauguration out of DC?
The point is Trump does not need an inauguration to become POTUS; nor will a declaration of a state of emergency over-ride his election which was completed at the end of the election. But as I say the demorats are capable of anything so maybe they’re counting heads in the military, national guard, DOJ, FBI etc.
Florida man to become POTUS
complete, A grade potato
You say that like it’s a bad thing
Not the impression I’m getting from the aviation channels.
We have no idea of the mission requirements. Only the Chinese know that.
Eyrie
January 3, 2025 8:18 pm
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We will find out. All the best for 2025. Thumbs up.
Just an observation over time:
When I was a kid, eating outside in Australia was nearly impossible because the flies would eat you alive. They were everywhere—so much so that the “national salute” was the fly wave. Walking down the street at times and you’d see someone’s back covered in flies.
These days, there are hardly any.
Traveling in the country as a kid meant the windscreen was plastered with insects. It was sometimes so bad that you’d have to stop and clean the screen. But now? Hardly any.
What’s going on? Or am I missing something? Has fly-spray really done the trick?
Dung beetles. The release of dung beetles was the game changer.
Yes, This!
Plus the destruction of the sheep industry.
This is one reason why the demorats might try to insurrect against Trump taking office:
You Won’t BELIEVE What JUST Happened To Judge Merchan!
Was the King’s Speech used to suppress the truth about grooming and violence?
Worth watching (h/t Indolent).
Ashenden still pops up on the ABC providing commentary as an expert on matters of religion in England, most recently on the AofC’s very welcome resignation.
Raygun, you have NOTHING! Now eff into the ether. Stick your trade mark up your clacker. I’m so happy to read all the people in the USA just say, f*ck off you useless b*tch.
Legacy media keeps her going.
Grandmaster Flash – White Lines
Yes.
There are a bunch of “Trusted Sauces on the Innernet” who are playing Chicken Little to attract eyeballs and clicks.
Yes. No doubt the Dimocrats are trying to shore up the sleeper cells to run interference.
What’s going on? Or am I missing something? Has fly-spray really done the trick?
Partly, dung beetles were introduced. They break down the cow pats that the flies used to breed in.
My theory about less flies is better rubbish bins, not the old tins that that often had the lid off.
I never understood that until the first time I went to VIC in summer.
In SE QLD we never had those swarming little flies as I recall.
JC, rest assured the flies, mozzies and all manner of infernal six legged flying devils are still in plague proportions, perhaps it’s because Melbourne is too shit even for the flies nowadays? 🙂
Also no shortage of roos (everywhere) although I did reduce their numbers by three last night north of Conargo.
Well done!.
No, no, no it ain’t Pea Beau.
Several things.
1. The proximity of farm animals and other sundry domesticated beasts (chooks, pigeons etc). I’ll bet you live in a suburb where the nearest chook would be the grilled poulet at Pierre’s French bistrot.
2. Dung beetle.
3. Improved sanitation and waste treatment generally. Pretty hard for blowies to access those new bins compared with the battered old metal ones.
4. Climate change. (Obviously)
I don’t have flies or mosquitos because I have noisy miners! Insects, yum!
I’ve never actually seen a noisy eat one of either, but the complete absence of flies and mosquitos means something happened to them.
Nope, it’s just that Melbourne is too shit even for the flies nowadays.
Ya reckon? Try outback WA. Even in the relatively low stocked Pilbara the sh1t was everywhere.
Bush
Even if you say there are many around, do you think they’re as common as when you were a kid?
Truth is, I reckon JC wears one of those pungent after-shaves that doubles as a fly repellent.
But that is pure speculation on my part.
I have no evidence one way or the other.
Lol
Nice try.
Melbourne; “It’s too shit for the flies”
The only thing you can thank Dan for in a positive way.
Nice one, Sanchez. I don’t own any aftershave. Natural good looks means that little extra help isn’t required. 🙂
It doesn’t matter at all, nothing can dislodge them until the next election which is not for another four and a half years. The King could dismiss the government but I don’t see him doing it – ever.
The world may be a completely different place by the time Brits get a chance to vote these pigs out and by then it probably won’t matter. Five year terms are visibly undemocratic, Americans at least get the opportunity to change their congress every two years.
Fixed terms of any length greater than two years are an abomination.
In all seriousness, JC, no.
You can drive at night up here and lose 30%+ of headlight brightness from mosquitoes and other small insects in under an hour.
The flies have backed off a bit since it’s dried out but they’re still plentiful, having both cows and sheep in the area is the reason.
Our poor dogs cop a hiding on their ears from flies, we spray twice a day with an antiseptic/repellant to keep them at bay. All doggo’s have pink ear tips as a result.
And yes, plenty of dung beetles around doing their thing.
Check out this young chap. His parents would be stocked
Bang!
Pet Shop Boys – It’s a Sin (1987) – Arranged by Wing – Ensemble and Solo Version (age 14)
The flies are all captured by Bakers Delight and baked into Christmas mince tarts.
Correction.
In all seriousness, yes.
Needless to say the ones at the Hay bakery have a little bit more “spice”.
Conargo
Wow memories. Used to spend NYE there at the B&S ball.
Pity the old pub burned down across the road. So I heard.
10 years ago. Apparently the facade survived, & the pub looks the same from the outside.
If you can see it behind the line of utes with 12 x spotlights, 8 x aerials, 4 x huge caterpillar mudflaps, & several dozen B&S stickers with slogans like “I drove my purple header into her golden crop at [insert district] B&S [insert year]”
I drove through as the remains were still smouldering. Couldn’t believe it, a very sad day.
As Sal says- it looks the same as before now and I haven’t been inside since but you can’t replace the feel that place had, nor the memorabilia that was hung everywhere.
Conargo Pub stickers on the back window of farm boy utes we de rigueur back in the day. Along with No fat chicks stickers and a Bundy Rum bar mat on the dashboard.
Just taken delivery of “Hunting the Falcon – Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage that Shook Europe.”
Seems the bill for the swordsman to behead Anne Boleyn was the equivalent of 46,000 dollars Aussie in today’s money.
I hope she was happy with his performance.
She made no formal complaint.
Sanchez
I read about the battery issue (degrading over time). Apparently, not all cells degrade equally, so if there’s a problem before the 10K lifespan, you might only need to replace some cells, not the entire battery pack. Also, BMW offers an 8-year warranty.
By the way, two friends of mine in NYC own EVs, and they love them. One regularly travels to the Hamptons—90 miles each way—sometimes twice a week. He charges up at his Hamptons home and, in the city, slips the parking garage attendant 20 bucks for a recharge. The other drives to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, which is 130 miles away. He charges at his home and does the same thing in the city. Both are said they were really happy. One drives a Tesla, and the other has a massive Mercedes SUV.
I take it you’re looking at the BMW i5 M60 soon to be released. 8 year warranty is good.
Conargo Pub story.
Everyone had one of those stickers back then.
https://www.rmwilliams.com.au/outback-stories/sticking-with-it.html?lang=en_AU#:~:text=The%20sons%20of%20the%20former,after%20a%20ruinous%202014%20fire.&text=Many%20moons%20ago%2C%20a%20young,sell%20over%20his%20Dad's%20bar.
Apparently a ‘sermon’ most likely to children at the New Orleans terrorists’s mosque in Houston.
America should do like France and close down hate mosques.
https://x.com/chalavyishmael/status/1874866625331290566?t=bDdsHA4RGHc7uXvKOeoljQ&s=19
As should we.
The Euro is down below 1.0300, as the Euroweenies are now attempting to run their economies on donations of bottled barbecue gas. FMD, what an abortion—late-term, in fact.
It got me thinking: if the Orange Oaf slaps the Weenies with a 10% tariff and causes their economy to crater, the Euro could drop like a stone. If the fall approaches 90 cents, that would be roughly a 12% drop. Let’s say it stabilizes at 10%. Where’s the gain for the U.S. with the tariff? Sure, the Oaf could escalate by threatening further action if the currency sinks, turning the whole thing into an absolute shitshow.
If the Euro falls, input costs would rise, so the drop wouldn’t be entirely compensatory.
Flies are just as bad as always out here in the country. Spring/Summer, I would buy fly spray by the case. I would have to spray the screen door before I headed out so hundreds wouldn’t fly in as soon I opened the door.
A friend recommended Fly Traps a few weeks back. Hanging plastic bottles that you partially fill with water, then add the sachet of attractant. The flies go in but they can’t find their way out. I bought a couple and gave them a go. Surprisingly effective. The bottles fill within a few days. I rarely have to spray before I head outside. Only a few follow me back in through the door.
I have one at each door and an extra one out the front where the dogs go when they aren’t inside.
A tip for those of you who try the traps. As the bottle fills with flies, a lot of maggots are hatched. Also, when you go to empty the bottles, there a still live flies in there. That was annoying and seemed to defeat the purpose. The instructions just state to dig a hole and empty the contents into it and bury.
I worked out that, if I put a good squirt of toilet bleach into it and left it for a few hours, the maggots and the live flies carked it. Slosh it around as the maggots crawl up the inside of the bottle. Then toss, and rinse the bottle and start again. Highly recommend. The reduction in flies outside the house has been phenomenal. Still need fly repellant when I work outside.
Apologies for the length of post but, the tip about killing the maggots and flies in the bottle before you empty it I believe, is worth knowing.
Cheers.
ps, I mention toilet bleach because the bottle has the curved neck, making it easy to squirt the bleach into the holes without having to open the bottle.
I have been using these fly traps this summer with good results.
Crossie, yes, they are that good.
I haven’t used up a full can of spray in the house so far this summer. Last summer, I lost count of how many cans I had to buy.
I make my own. Take a plastic bottle, cut off a good bit at the neck end, invert cut bit inside staple rim to rim, punch three holes with a red hot skewer, fix three long strings to holes for hanging up, add some meat scrap and a bit if water and let nature do its thing. When full chuck the whole lot and start with a fresh bottle!
Owner of Coco’s restaurant South Perth Ian Love speaks about closure of iconic eatery after 35 yearsSimon Collins and Jonathon NolanThe West Australian
Fri, 3 January 2025 4:01PM
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Mick Jagger dined there the night the Rolling Stones legend was told his long-time girlfriend L’Wren Scott had died in New York.
WA powerbrokers broke bread in the South Perth eatery, which also hosted the world’s biggest names in sports, music and politics.
Everyone from former US President Bill Clinton, Spice Girl Mel B and English cricketer Freddie Flintoff to Eagles footballers Ben Cousins and Dean Cox wined and dined there, looking out at the city skyline.
I’m remembering several long, boozy, rather raucous lunches at Cocos , back in the day.
Without wanting to cast nasturtiums being seen at Cocos was always rather gauche. I’m sure IT would agree with me.
Milt
I’m still deciding, but the discount is a real decent amount from the list. At a certain price point it becomes rational to consider. I want a wagon and I want the same series I currently have, but the only option is EV now. It sounds like the Euro carmakers are drifting away from flogging wagons in Australia because we’re buying most SUVs. I reckon it’s almost 50/50 SUVs now or close.
Melania Trump was utterly ravishing at the Trump NYE gala at Mar e Lago, she wore a Versace black gown.
Now that Melania will be FLOTUS again, I hope she will be finally and rightly honoured with a Vogue cover, something denied her when she was FLOTUS Take One. They won’t need to photoshop Melania the way they photoshopped Mrs Biden for her cover.
JC, best of both worlds here: https://www.bmw.com/en-au/models/m-series/m5-series/bmw-m5-touring.html#technical-data
And it’s a wagon!
Huck, yeah but they’re not discounting that model. 🙂
You don’t buy a discount.
Also,the M5 will have massively better resale than any type of EV. They’re being discounted up front because nobody wants them and when it comes time to get rid of it, no one wants to buy the inevitable battery issue so they’re going to be worth 2/3rds of f*ck all.
Huck, I’m aware that in 10 years the thing will be worth nothing. It’s fine. After 10 years cars are worth peanuts anyway.
America should do like France and close down hate mosques.
Yep, but they won’t. The mosque where the teenage murderer of Curtis Cheng was handed a gun remains open for jihad business in Parramatta.
Tolerating the intolerant.
I’ve tended to go for Jap or Korean cars JC. Must admit Cupra has got me interested even though they’re essentially reworked Hitlerwagons.
Perhaps … but very reworked!
they look good for sure
Drove one the rental company upgraded us to in Tassie last year. Loved it. Got a lot of second looks and hugely fun to drive.
Yeah SUVs are the fashion now or utes (at least on this side of the Westgate :))
Media: Remember That Whole Disinformation Thing? It Was All Made Up
Renewed Outrage Over Rotherham, Other UK Child Exploitation Cases After Elon Musk Demands Accountability
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Wow. Carnage in the out field in the Big Bash. Two Thunder players (Bancroft and Sams) poleaxed each other running to make a catch of a skied ball. Bancroft walking off with a broken nose. Sams getting stretchered off on the cart.
I listened to a really depressing podcast today while driving. The host mentioned that a former CIA agent gave an interview in which she claimed that Al Qaeda has reconstituted under Bin Laden’s son. She believes that AQ has sent around 1,000 operatives through the southern border with the intention of carrying out an October 7-style attack across numerous U.S. cities.
The U.S. could end up going nuts and blowing up the Middle East, and there won’t be any nation-building this time.
And so they should. And don’t forget Pakistan.
Cassie, it will not happen, Anna Wintour is a rabbid anti-Trumper. Should Melania get on the cover of Vogue it will have to be over Wintour’s dead body.
I believe Melania would knock back any offer to be on Vogue. If Melania accepted an offer to pose for a photo spread, it would demean her. Melania knows this. Melania has too much class and natural style for a boring rag like Vogue, and the others that joined in the veto.
The option proposed seems acceptable.
Gee that Lance Morris has serious pace, and a heavy ball. Not as skillful as the incumbent Test pacemen, but the occasional ball he sends down is very troublesome.
Sheer speed is a bit underrated. That Ashes series Mitch Johnson was up and about was extraordinary.
The WI never underrated Thommo. Quote, “you never knew where the ball was going……. mainly coz Thommo never knew either”.
A moot point considering the Aussies look odds on to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but they would be a better side if the Fat Paki retired last summer and Warner kept going.
I forgot to mention it before Christmas. As you know my wife is one the worlds worst drivers. We were coming home through Kangaroo Valley, going up the escarpment, came round a corner, fuel tanker on straight and an idiot coming towards uscrossing the double white lines. Wife immediately stopped. We waited for the crash. He just made it. There was no where for us to go at that precise moment. One second sooner, all over, two seconds sooner and we could have pulled off. That good driving was to be made up for later.