Not being there, and how Adam Ant you are about such, I will concede for the moment.
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Ha! Made the team!
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Tom Stiglich.
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Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
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useful idea for those with an artistic bent?
Reading some stuff this morning on how the Elon Musk ecosystem is the biggest transactor of USDC, the USD pegged stable coin.
Their average holding period is less than a day and by using it, it saves approximately $US3bill a year once you add up all the spreads & fees that they would be charged by banks and other intermediaries around the globe.
If this is accurate, you wonder how long before other multi nationals start using USDC as part of their internal treasury operations.
This can not be good for tradition banks.
I did a largeish transfer from my Westpac account to the Coinspot crypto exchange the other day. Westpac rewarded me by freezing my account for over 12hours to ‘protect me from fraud’. This despite me being a Coinspot customer and making similar transfers literally dozens of times over the preceding years.
Getting unfrozen required hours of navigating Westpac’s automated help ‘service’ … where you get transferred multiple times before being electronically told to ‘contact us via the app’ /…. which you cant do because your account access is frozen.
I eventually found a human, who asked me multiple intrusive questions about the reasons for the transfer etc etc etc . I answered each Q the same “1) – none of your goddam business, its my money, I am the customer and you work for me” “2) Realise I am only answering this because I am under duress and you have frozen my money….”
At the end I told the human ‘you sound like a nice intelligent young man (he did) – I hope you realise this whole interaction illustrates why AI and crypto are going to eat your banking lunch and kill your job – I hope you realise this and move out of the banking space and into crypto to secure your future’
Good. Fractional supply of money, like the derivative market on the stock exchange is illusory, based on you and I will bail them out when they fall over.
Well that was a fun day and a bit! Power went out with a flash and a bang on Wednesday night. Groped around in the pitch black for my phone with its handy (and very bright) torch. Of all the features on these devices, this has to be the most practical. Nothing else for it…early night.
Woke up to find still no power but zero telecommunication also. Couldn’t get into the garage because some clever person had latched the connecting door…from the garage side. So no vehicle. Battled the elements down to Mum’s house to check up on her. Find her sitting at the window, reading. She lamented that she didn’t have a hurricane lamp! Tough old bird.
The entire Bay was shut down yesterday, even the service stations. Having genset backup is one thing. Being able to process payments is another. Today I expect a great throwing out of perishables by the supermarkets. My own fridge remained quite cold because full icemaker and my great store of frozen stock in the freezer kept the temperature way down. Nothing defrosted!
We will now seriously look at gensets, a small chest freezer and a camping gas ring (double) – you can’t boil water for a cuppa on a Weber!
Calli,
checkout Generac, generators. I have had mine for almost two years now, swear by them. I live in a remote area so a Gennie is a must.
Mine comes on automatically. Less than ten seconds after power goes out.
I have mentioned before, the Generac runs on LPG or Natural gas. I have LPG.
Gas never goes off like fuel does, so it was a no brainer for me.
Macfarlane Generators. The have been around for decades. They supply small petrol gennies up to house sized ones for industrial situations.
And no, I do not receive anything for my endorsement.
ps, Generac are US made, NOT China.
Thanks. Will investigate. I like the idea of gas rather than diesel. Don’t fancy having full jerrycans in the garage.
Excellent recommendation Pogria. At the farm we have 10kw solar system in the paddock but not a battery – so it will shutdown if a blackout is initiated. Then we start up the generator. However it is a diesel gen and I would much prefer an LPG gen. Will start agitating husband for a change over!
Vicki,
the Generac can be controlled via an app on your phone. Useful for the times you are away from the farm.
Pogria, which model do you have?
Cannot see any gas powered Generac gennies.
Leon,
I have pasted a link for you, but it is waiting for approval. Don’t know why.
I have the 13kVA Home backup Gas.
I could have bought the 10kVA, but I plan on building a big shed eventually so, better to have the extra backup now, than wishing I had done so later on.
Thanks Pogria.
Found a site with info.
😀
100% agree on the Generacs – the fuel stores essentially forever. Perhaps resist the urge to get a big thumper diesel – they dont like low load running and a ‘quiet’ house can be pulling less than 1kV.
Exactly. While ever the bottle is intact, Gas is fresh for a thousand years. At least.
Where you live Pogria it gets very cold. Don’t let your gas bottle get too cold as the lpg separates with the butane burning first.
Thanks Ranga. Will do.
Reccomend the above Calli the way even the grids close to capital cities have become unreliable.
Our grid in NQ is creaking through decades of patching/poor maintinence. Then we have cyclones. 90% of houses up this way have a genset even if it is a little 1kVA Honda inverter. A few servo’s too so they can contue to trade.
Mark Dice:
Media analyst Mark Dice delivers a biting commentary on Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation, breaking down the president’s warnings about oligarchy and “tech industrial complex” while providing sharp counterpoints about George Soros, illegal immigration, and social media regulation. The video covers the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, Trump’s influence on international negotiations, and a humorous take on a View host’s MAGA hat promise. Dice wraps up with analysis of Trump’s new presidential portrait and what it signals for his upcoming term.
Biden’s BIZARRE Farewell Speech Backfires as Trump Scores MASSIVE Win!
Bonus George Alexopoulos.
Remember these leftist and Muslim screeches, screams and shouts from Monday night 9 October 2023….
Where’s the Jews, Where’s the Jews, Where’s the Jews
Well, they’ve certainly found us and they’re coming for us, thanks to the Jew hating slug from Grayndler and his merry Jew hating comrades. How long before a Jew is torched?
Cars torched, anti-Semitic messages sprayed in Dover Heights attack
Cars in an affluent Sydney suburb have been torched and anti-Semitic messages sprayed on them in the early hours of Friday.
At least two cars were set alight on Military Road, Dover Heights around 4am with anti-Semitic words sprayed across them and others.
A home was also splashed with red paint.
Officers from Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command were notified of the incident shortly after it occurred and have launched an investigation.
“The NSW Police Force takes hate crimes seriously and encourages anyone who is the victim of or witnesses a hate crime to report it,” a NSW Police spokesperson said.
“It is important that the community and police continue to work together to make NSW a safer place for everyone.”
Firefighters were dispatched to the scene, quickly extinguishing the car fires before they could spread to nearby buildings.
“Crews arrived to find two vehicles on fire and a third damaged,” NSW Fire and Rescue Acting Superintendent Aaron Ross said.
“It was rapidly extinguished and didn’t spread to the adjacent property.
“The blaze is being treated as suspicious and has been referred to NSW Police for further investigation.”
On Monday, a wall near a footpath close to Sydenham train station in Sydney’s inner west was defaced with graffiti that read “Gas the Jews.”
Just days earlier, two synagogues in Sydney were subjected to anti-Semitic attacks.
CCTV footage released over the weekend captured individuals targeting synagogues in Newtown and Allawah within the past week.
Both buildings were spray-painted with swastikas, and a fire was set at the Newtown location.
Geez, the slug’s ‘soshul coheshun’ is working to plan.
Oh and no doubt we will hear more pretty words from Pretty Boy Minns.
Pretty Boy Minn-som.
They walk among us:
?Cars in an affluent Sydney suburb have been torched and hate messages sprayed on them in the early hours of Friday.
At least two cars were set alight on Military Road, Dover Heights around 4am with anti-Semitic words sprayed across them and others.
A home was also splashed with red paint.
Officers from Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command were notified of the incident shortly after it occurred and have launched an investigation.
Daily Tele
They do more than that, they torch among us.
When he had kids he walked away. Fair enough.
That’s my take on it.
Casey Stoner.
Why This MotoGP Rider Was FEARED By Everyone
He did interesting stuff.
Legendary Hollywood director of cult series ‘Twin Peaks’, David Lynch dies at age 78 (Sky News, 17 Jan)
I have a soft spot for his original 1984 Dune movie, which was fairly cheesy but which had a lot of imaginative scenes and effects.
It was certainly eccentric. But stylish.
Sad news – I was huge fan of his work (with the exception of eraserhead, which was quite simply, excruciating). Frank Booth being his most legendary character. His turn as Gordon Cole in Twin peaks was also great value.
The Two State Solution died a long time back, but various politicians plus various MSM (looking at you BBC) are still banging on about it.
Gaza was the Palis best bet for proving that they could live adjacent! They blew it big time even before October 7, with rockets of increasing quality and number coming from there over the years, and ardent grooming of youngsters to hate the Jews and want Israel gone.
Even earlier, a wall had to be built to stop bombers coming into Tel Aviv to kill people in restaurants and on buses.
“The dispute involves the identities of several prisoners Hamas is demanding to be released, and it is expected to be resolved soon, the US official said.”
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/benjamin-netanyahu-delays-vote-on-ceasefire-as-israeli-strikes-kill-dozens-in-gaza/36rpzlu9d
Apparently Trump had told Hamas this is the best deal they will get and it’s downhill from here.
Good.
And the reaction of Hamarse was to hit the accelerator and cut the brake lines.
Releasing a large swag of prisoners will be like a blood transfusion for Hamas, giving it a boost rather than finishing it off with a stake to the heart.
Just like comic book hero Dick Tracy, Pretty Boy Minns is onto it, the pretty words dribble from his pretty face, not so much ‘pretty action’……
NSW premier Chris Minns has described the attack as a “disgusting and dangerous act of violence”.
“I’ve been alerted to the anti-Semitic attack in Dover Heights overnight,” Mr Minns said.
“This is a disgusting and dangerous act of violence that is the latest example of a rising level of anti-Semitic attacks in our community. Civil society stands united in condemning this flagrant racism,” he said.
Watcha gonna do about it, Pretty Boy?
That is the $64 question. We know what he is going to do about it.
Jiggle his shoulders like Newsome.
Brothers in hair mousse.
Those pretty words are getting mighty repetitive, he is running out of descriptions, may need to resort to a thesaurus.
Talk, waffle, avoid a decision.
Pressure maintained.
https://x.com/IDF/status/1879925825069252731?t=39Uk9_otHYukGvk-xmhyYQ&s=19
Excellent!
Looks like a good choice by DeSantis.
Florida AG Moody to Succeed Rubio in US Senate (16 Jan)
Apparently Hamas have backed down on the release of (some) murderers.
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1879937418939318629?t=wxgEgJNcYgybIMVoqmCliQ&s=19
Israel released 240 prisoners in November 2023. Now there are thousands more from the surrenders over the last 14 months to choose from
Everyone has been photographed, fingerprinted and DNA tested, hopefully fitted with trackers.
Not sure if any are going to be released to the West Bank where Hamas are fighting a mini war with the PA (who have banned pro hamas al Jazeera from the Territory).
@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: Trump Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent just flipped the script on a Democratic senator trying to false-frame the energy race with China as needing to be ‘environmentally friendly.’
He is spot on here.
SENATOR WYDEN: Trump wants to reverse Biden’s clean energy policies. It’s gonna be good for China. Are you on China’s side?
BESSENT: Let’s frame this correctly. China will build 100 new coal plants THIS YEAR. There is NOT a clean energy race – there is an ENERGY race. They will build 10 nuclear plants this year. That is NOT solar – I am in favor of more nuclear plants.
@827js
Kash Patel revealed: Bill Gates has been lobbying the Senate day and night to block the release of the Epstein Island list…
Isn’t that up to the FBI, that is the executive branch?
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: The FBI shut down its DEI office – FOX
CNN pundit Scott Jennings goes absolutely nuclear on Biden’s ‘farce’ of a farewell speech — and he’s not alone
Heh heh heh “….he got ChatGPT to write the speech for him”!!!
@MJTruthUltra
Whoa….
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The Senior Pentagon Official James O’Keefe just caught on Camera talking about Sabotaging Trumps Inauguration —— was busted in 2021 for Soliciting an Underage Girl for S*x
How in the hell was Jamie Mannina a Top Senior Pentagon Official after this?
How was he allowed to stay an FBI agent?
The same way there was a mentally challenged president in the White House.
You spelled “corruptocrat commander-in-nappies” wrong
Knowledge is power. The more you have on people, the more you can control them.
145 Democrats voted against deporting illegal aliens found guilty of rape. And their whole election platform was based on “women’s reproductive rights”. Ha ha.
@Riley_Gaines_
I never want to hear these misogynistic dunces tout about “women’s rights” ever again
OUTRAGEOUS: Pro-Trump Georgia State Senator Who Previously Tried to Impeach Fani Willis Assaulted and Arrested While Trying to Enter Georgia House Chambers
For those Cats who like a good show, Elon’s megarocket is about to attempt another launch. Live coverage starts in about 15 minutes time:
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1879290988285620717
I hope they can do chopsticks this time!
Watched the launch and the “chop stick” catch
Really impressive.
We live in interesting times
https://x.com/i/status/1880027534915666254
One of the stages didn’t make it – but a spectacular reentry anyway.
Loathsome from beginning to end.
Biden Leaves Office Warning of Danger of Lack of Censorship
No, Climate Change Is Not Causing California’s “Insurance Crisis”
Trump’s Inauguration Day Expected to Be Coldest Since Reagan’s in 1985
That ought to keep the protesters away.
Wretched glowball warming.
Calli,
I think the correct term is “gerbil worming”, as per Rabz.
Here are some indisputable facts…..
The left don’t mind a bit of wape wape, when it suits their side.
The left don’t mind when white working class girls are waped.
The left don’t mind when Jewish women, men, girls, boys and babies are waped.
The left are such verminous hypocrites.
Another attack on Jews in Sydney for Albo to unreservedly condemn….
It’s become an NRL apology.
Secretly implanted explosive trackers that can be remotely detonated in the event that they don’t behave themselves would be neat.
OK…I’ll go sit in the human rights naughty corner for a while.
It will have to be a big corner to fit all those who agree with you.
You can share it with me.
My suggestion of irradiating the bastards so they can’t have kids has gone down like a lead balloon. It looks like some believe monsters have the right to father children as well as rape whomever is in the shit this week at Friday (Salah) prayers.
@catturd2
More climate change.
Watching the SpaceX launch, via Starlink, on a ship inbetween NZ and Tasmania.
Does Musk kick arse or what?
Cool!
I’m watching too. The show is really very good.
They mentioned that one Starship launch can put up 20 times more Starlink capacity than a Falcon 9.
He kicks it Royally.
Even the failure of stage 2 gave a spectacular light show!
https://x.com/i/status/1880027534915666254
That is a seriously awesome rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Cool!
How is that the authorities is Sydney are not using traffic cameras and cell phone towers to identify the perpetrators of the now regular attacks on the Jewish community?
Because there’s no money or votes in it.
No votes?
To the contrary, most people view these incidents as an ugly stain on Australian life would like to see the offenders caught and punished swiftly.
While that is primarily a state responsibility, the weakness of those in authority will definitely be a sub-theme as Albanese’s leadership is tested in the upcoming federal election.
Roger,
I meant Muslim votes.
Labor has a blind spot toward any other vote.
That will be their achilles heal, as I noted yesterday.
Minns is not up for re-election for another three years so he is hoping this will blow over and we will forget by then.
The marchers have promised to continue until there’s a Palestinian state and Netanyahu has been indicted on war crimes.
Too busy identifying Assryian Christians?
A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
Yes. We know there is the technology and capacity to solve these crimes. The willingness is lacking in this instance.
Because that will identify the perpetrators of the now regular attacks on the Jewish community.
And we can’t have that, can we? It may interrupt the flow of platitudes and lies from the Anal Fissure.
Calli:
re the Hurricane lamp, a couple of years ago I bought 4 of these because they were so cheap.
https://www.mitre10.com.au/primus-hurricane-lamp-medium
They have a good light, and run on power kero – the blue one.
Thanks Winston. Mum (93) was reminiscing about her days in the Islands where there was no electricity, no running water and they used safes for refrigeration.
I should have known she’d be unfazed by a blackout. 😀
Unfortunately her phones are on the blink (both mobile and land line) so busy getting them back on line. Dealing with telcos is a Dantean circle of hell.
My daughter is not so lucky. On the outskirts of Sydney, tank water, no power. The family has moved in with friends until the power is restored.
Also, not everyone here has power…it’s being dished out in dribs and drabs. Nelson Bay went online last night, we cranked up at 3:30am (the house started beeping like an army of crazed crickets) but other areas remain blacked out.
Yeah. I remember them as a kid. Also Kero heaters. The good days will return.
The smell of the kero heaters still lingers.
I have this uncanny and at times annoying gift if I may call it that, that if I see a fire or a BBQ I can actually smell the smoke and the flavorsome aroma of the steak on the grid.
Talked about it with my doc and he reckons it’s all in my imagination.
He is not wrong there.
Now and again I have excellent taste recall of one particular meal I had from a roadside stall in Nepal, rice, tomatoes and peppers. I must have been really hungry, nevertheless, it was fabulously delicious and I can salivate remembering it !
But, but … capitulated!
Having a larf at some of the Hamarse up for release from Israeli jails, but hearing about exploding pagers, toasters, walkie-talkies, coffee tables, doorbells etc.
“Yeah, nah, I must just stay here, thanks.”
Catch of the first stage of the Starship done beautifully.
Musk and his people are gods!
Looks like the second stage has gone kaboom.
The catch of the first stage was ridiculously surreal and beautiful.
Debut flight of this second stage design with 300 tonnes of extra fuel, so a kaboom is not unusual.
Not only a clever parody of the LAFD, but a hell of a voice.
https://youtu.be/3EK9YpcOACk?si=qd8g83v_O9obCBNE
Brilliant!
Gary Nuisance! hahahaha
Brilliant AI.
Looking forward to some clever duck making one with Nero or Downfall theme.
Newspaper Cartoonist Who Mocked Conservative Concerns About Child Grooming Arrested on Child Porn Charges
But of course, because leftard.
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
Ace has a way with words!
“Trump recently banned a bunch of people from working in the Administration:
Endangered species like Brauntons Milkvetch should be saved with captive breeding programs. They should never be used as an excuse to stop fire mitigation, dams, reservoirs, power plants, housing, etc.
I for one accept our new milkvetch masters.
I find all these weight loss ads pretty funny. No one ever walked out of a prison camp fat.
Western Universities Taken Over By Anti-semitism | Sir Niall Ferguson
Science fiction in action. SpaceX has a vid up of the first stage being caught in the chopsticks. Amazing!
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1880024050048589841
It’s just extraordinary isn’t it, something so complex made to look like child’s play…
Christopher
45 minutes ago
Israel is keeping the body of Yahya Sinwar as a hostage to ensure Hamas does not attack them. I do not blame Israel for that. They are using the only tactics that Hamas understand. And I wouldn’t criticise Israel if they burnt his body in front of Hamas if they attack again. That is the only action that they use and respect.
I’d feed Sinwar’s worthless carcass to the pigs..
As a kid I was not aware pigs were omnivores. That soon changed when the old man shot a couple of kangaroos, opened them up and threw them into the station pig pen. He also used to love finding roast chicken in the hospital scraps for his chickens, “Lovely protein.”
and then make them eat the pig. ooh i’m feeling vicious today !
Disappointing for SpaceX that they lost the pointy end.
The scope of this program is mind boggling. How can they have both the money and resources to construct another ship within a couple of months?
Mentioned in the telecast they now have 4.6 million Starlink customers. That’s $130 Aussie per month minimum, so eight billion in Aussie dollars per year.
NBN?????
If I were a betting personage, I’d have $5 on a Stage 1 recovery of hostages – followed by resumption of heavy duty hostilities once Hamas inevitably make pigs of themselves during Stage 2 negotiations.
This time with full-throated US support, and the Trump Administration stamping on the UN enablers.
The concept of asymmetric exchange is long established – so release of hundreds of Hamas animals probably makes no real strategic difference to Israel’s military objectives. But, whatever the political cost, Netanyahu can’t walk past the opportunity to retrieve some of the victims of sub-humanity.
And also highlights that a single Jewish life is worth many times more than multitudes of Palestinian thugs.
Consider this…before most of these kids got to university they were so
dumbuninformed they couldn’t even give you a definition of antisemitism, let alone explain the history of modern Israel.Don’t tell me this is a “complex” problem.
Agitators are preying on the naive idealism of young people and instilling a hateful ideology in them with the aim of driving the wedge of division further into our societies. It needs to be systematically countered within the universities and their funding needs to be on the table as part of the discussion that needs to be had.
After the utter failure of Communism time to move on …
Some die hards are still backing the Chinese.
Same ideology, different exploited class of people to leverage their misanthropy and dreams of power off.
In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity
for you Aussies. including that Wong chap who keeps popping up, and the Ambassador guy who keeps reminding us he was once your PM.
That’s not true, right? Anyway, you can have him back too.
State PoliticsState election 2025
exclusive
Libby Mettam backs Peter Dutton’s stance, vows not to stand in front of Aboriginal flag
Jessica PageThe West Australian
Thu, 16 January 2025 7:53P.M
Liberal leader Libby Mettam is taking a leaf out of Peter Dutton’s playbook and vowing she would not stand in front of an Aboriginal flag at official State Government press conferences — if she becomes Premier.
Roger Cook has declared Mr Dutton “unfit to be Prime Minister” over his flag stance, but Ms Mettam said the Opposition Leader was right.
“There is one national flag and that is the Australian flag,” she said.
“It’s Roger Cook who is unfit to be leader. He has overseen a cost of living crisis, a broken health system, we have skyrocketing rates of crime across the community and a housing crisis as well.”
Asked to clarify whether she will stand in front of the Aboriginal flag, often alongside the Australian and WA flags at Mr Cook’s press conferences, Ms Mettam told The West Australian she won’t.
“I will stand in front of the flag that represents our country and the flag that represents our State,” she said.
“When I speak to West Australians, I intend to speak for all of them and only the State flag and the national flag achieve that.”
On Wednesday, Mr Cook told the Broome Advertiser that Mr Dutton’s declaration he would not stand in front of the Aboriginal flag was problematic for voters.
“Such language divides the community and spreads hatred,” he said.
The Cookie Monster sniffs the breeze.
In which Arky offends everyone all over again for no good reason.
Women! (Or ladies, depending on your current disposition towards me).
I just don’t understand you. Explain it to me, because I really want to know.
Today, in these modern times when ubiquitous third world slave labour has has granted us the twin boons of ridding our immediate surrounds of the yucky working classes while supplying masses of impossibly cheap apparel, more than mortal female could wear in a lifetime, why, for God’s sake, I say boy, WHY do you still insist on preparing luggage for a trip as if you were about to cross the arctic tundra for a year complete with pack animals, porters and sled dogs?
You know that you can smash a random assortment of socks, jocks, a pair of shorts for laundry day, and a full change of clothes in a back pack, stow it on board, give the entire check in and luggage carousel routine a miss and be first in the queue for a taxi? You know that. I know you know that. You know, that I know, that you know that.
Yet you will insist upon putting your husband through the entire ritual and rigmarole and humiliation of packing as if for an expedition.
Why? Why. Why. Why. Why.
Look, I fear this will be a repeat of the voting thing, and I will again be taken to a dark and terrifying place by your female replies. A place of feelings and pure, wanton power wielded without any accountability. I fear the answer as to why you put your men through this will be: “Because we can”. But dressed up in a lot of rubbish about dress sizes and brands and “formal occasions”.
This is the voting thing all over again, isn’t it?
Look, if I were a part of a cohort of persons who ritualistically voted by a wide margin for mayhem, chaos, and death, if you were to come to me and say, “Wouldn’t it be good if we could exclude this group, that you are a part of, from voting such that law, order, sanity and goodness can return to the land”? I would agree with you. Even though it would disenfranchise me personally.
Let us give a concrete example. If I were, say, a teacher, and teachers voted, let’s say, six to one for the Death and Mayhem Party, I would still gladly vote to exclude them, including myself, from the vote. In an instant, without a murmur of regret. What decent person wouldn’t? It’s logic, innit? You let go of this small trivial, completely ritualistic and symbolic act in order to gain this much betterer thing: order and sanity.
I mean, you could at least, while the possibility of such a disenfranchisement is nigh impossible, indeed purely hypothetical, agree that it might be a good thing. And not personally attack the man making the observation.
LOL and LOL Lizzie’s diamond jewelry would have to be left behind.
Only joshing Elizabeth.
My golden rule of packing…
You pack it…you lift it.
I only renege if the portmanteaux contain quantities of alcoholic goodness for the return journey. In these circumstances, My Man the Beloved lifts it. Particularly if it is scotch.
I can never resist the opportunity to type “portmanteaux”.
It conjures up visions of Phileas Fogg and unlikely methods of transport.
Truly an excellent word. Should be used far more often. If only to explode heads. 😀
Reminded me of the eternal “Did I turn off the iron before we left?” conversation in the late 70’s as we drove north to Coffs Harbour.
So I pulled over, went to the boot, took out the iron which I had put there just waiting for this conversation to begin.
Walked around to the passenger side and the Dearly Beloved wound down the window:
“What are you doing?
Winston holds up the iron, obviously not plugged in and by now cold.
“See? It’s turned off.”
The next twenty minutes went by in silence. Then the dam burst:
“You think you’re really funny don’t you?”
hahaha That’s funny!!!
Forget it, Arky. I’m not giving up my vote.
Because feelings, presumably.
Now answer me on the luggage question woman.
Why do you think Best Man bought the caravan? Finally, I could pack as much as I liked.
My lifetime goal has been to reduce my travel packing to absolute minimum. Six weeks in Italy and Malta last year saw me achieve it. One wheeled carry-on and one medium backpack.
Best trip ever in terms of luggage freedom. Highly recommend.
Airline food.
Never eat this dish on a flight, according to a plane food expert (Tele, 16 Jan, not paywalled)
Ok, no pasta.
And no salad.
Ah, stew is good. Stew glorious stew!
And don a pair of noise cancelling headphones whilst eating your stew.
Like hospital food, mush is your friend.
Cook filth is another example of the cultural Marxist identity pollimuppet that infest this country. They have nothing to offer but misery, division and poverty (not for them though).
About the only thing going for him, he was not da bruvvas first choice. Poor old Amber Jade reduced to a noddy.
Such much of the western political class believe the people they are elected to serve are actually deserving of punitive treatment. They can fuk right off.
Pong.
‘Like day old vomit’: Sydney corpse flower to bloom (17 Jan)
I’d avoid the Sydney Botanic Gardens for a few days.
I honestly started reading that thinking it was about the Foreign Minister.
Buy a durian instead.
Chuckle
They should make it the State flower.
Or at least the official flower of the parliament – only does productive work for a day every 3 years and stinks doing it, you say?
That’s an evan better idea, Foxbody.
Should send the idea to Tim Blair. He would run with it for sure.
Outstanding!
The Oz on why Stephen Smith refused to attend an Australia Day function:
Barbs, wonderful barbs!
I just received my 2025 Social Security Stimulus Package. It contained:
? a fortnightly pension increase of five cents
? one Albozo ‘Let’s Get a Treaty’ bumper sticker
? a prayer rug
? a Linda Burney Speech Decoder Ring
? one coupon for a free oil change on my Tesla
? a copy of the Uluru Statement from the Heart
? a copy of Blackout Bowen’s speeches
? a copy of Charmless Jim’s book ‘How to Spend your Way to Prosperity (Using Other Peoples’ Money)’
? three Aboriginal flags
The instructions were in Arabic.
Yours should arrive soon.
Cheers,
Oh my kidneys! 😀
Costs for rebuilding Gaza’s health system estimated around $10 billion, WHO says
Is that with new Hamas tunnels or without?
You can’t expect your modern, technologically cutting edge hospital system to operate without terror tunnels.
I myself, before I visit a doctor’s office or pathology ask “Are you terror tunnel compliant”?
And if I doubt their veracity, ask to see their hostage cells.
Why bother??
How come the Left aren’t talking about shooting the CEO of WHO in the head, like they were doing about Brian Thompson?
There’s plenty of Arab money about and charity is a religious duty for them, is it not?
The usual platitudes….
NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley said the “act of hatred” would not be tolerated.
Except it is, your side of politics not only tolerates it, you secretly like it.
“Police are doing everything they can to identify and arrest those responsible,” she said.
Oh really? What about identifying and arresting the leftist and Muslim Nazi scum from Monday night 9 October 2023?
“There is no place for hatred or anti-Semitism in our society.”
Except there is, and it is being cultivated and fomented by your government and your political party.
Arky, I have a book about restoring a Model A if you want it.
written by Victor W Page, titled Model A Ford, Construction, operation and Repair for the Restorer.
Dover has my email if you are interested
Thanks for the offer Bill, appreciated, however I’m well covered, having put the thing together and pulled it apart multiple times at this point.
My first car was a 30 tudor at age 16. A great learning curve to start with. I had to rebuild most of it, some of it more than once but a solid foundation for anything mechanical.
My automotive education was on a Ford Cortina.
Likewise requiring multiple rebuilds.
Was an awful car, the Model A is much more solid.
I’d still love to have that Cortina back though.
My first car was a ’66 Cortina. Olive Green.
I loved that car.
My first car was also a 1966 Cortina – rust red, and a lot more user friendly then what I’m driving today!
Mine was a 1952 Ford Consul. A bit of a rustbucket, but it got me around.
My late husband’s first car was also a Cortina, don’t know the year. It was a very nice looking white two-door. Once the passenger door started to fly open in a curve he traded it in.
The gear lever on mine could be lifted out of it’s mount and passengers (I hesitate to call them “friends”) began doing so and waving it around the cabin for fun and the annoyance of me.
How To Avoid Harmfully Stereotyping A Muslim Immigrant Who Is Assaulting You
Just occurred to me- the God Emperor just won his third election in a row, but it doesn’t look like he had to flog any NFTs this time. Has the fad passed? Have the o.g. NFTs now become collectible rarities?
Not long to go…
?https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/palestinian-mother-every-year-there-will-be-another-october-7
Is the real issue that we refuse to take their statements seriously?
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1879866631683256345
They’re making an excellent case for carpet bombing.
Then crank up the Glass furnace.
?Glass Furnace?
I don’t get the reference.
I think this is where the concept of ‘Total War’, as distasteful as it may sound, comes into play.
Good article about muzzie jihad and a list of terrorist attacks in the West by muzzies in recent years:
Jihad Must Have No Place in the West :: Gatestone Institute
Anyone who defends islam is either a fuking moron or a traitor, or both.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/leak-masterpiece.html
NSW Premier Chris Minns has condemned a suspected targeted attack on the former home of high-profile Jewish community leader Alex Ryvchin.
Methinks Pretty Boy is getting worried and so he should. People might not know this but NSW Labor did not romp in at the last state election in March 2023, rather they limped in, it was no landslide, most of the seats won were won by a narrow margin. NSW Labor won in 2023 for two reasons only, firstly the NSW Liberals, despite good economic governance since 2011, were a tired, dysfunctional and woke government and the electorate was scarred after Covid. But secondly, and this was the critical factor in Labor winning, NSW Labor put up a moderate and pretty face to front the party. His name was Chris Minns.
Minns is already on the nose because of the rail dysfunction and this incessant Jew hatred which is just growing and becoming more dangerous by the day. I said last week that Minns’ pretty words are ringing hollow among Jews, and after today, we know his words to be just empty. Do I think Minns is a Jew hater? No, but most of his party are Jew haters.
If this was a deliberate attack on Rychvin’s former home, then the Jewish community should be very, very concerned.
As for those two hideous Hogarthian Gin Lane hags, Catley and Webb, both should have been sacked after 9 October 2023.
There was supposed to be a hearing in the UK today about the Muslims who assaulted the coppers at ?Manchester Airport, but the only news I can see is where the Daily Mail tells us the police assaulted the innocent Muslim travellers last year.
Nothing else on a search.
Anyone got any news?
(The Blackbelt Lawyer has an article but after about 8 minutes of waffle, I looked elsewhere.)
Blackbelt Lawyer can be very hit & miss.
Yes, he’s quite verbose.
I hate that.
This Luke Sayers situation is causing much, much merriment.
They’re saying that it’s going to be a sch-long year for Carlton.
Should we still be enjoying this Carlton suffering? Big John was worm food years ago.
A lot of senior execs jumping ship from his eponymous consulting firm too – I reckon revenue must have taken a big hit after Andrews quit.
Could it be that for the women, travel IS about the luggage?
The buying of the luggage.
The selection of items to go into the luggage.
The carrying of the luggage to the car.
Getting the luggage into the airport.
That addictive moment when the luggage is entrusted to complete strangers and rough, burly handlers. Thrilling!
The wait at the carousel. Will the luggage come?
There it is!
The hotel valet.
The unpacking.
The little dramas about what was left behind.
The trip itself? Just an excuse.
So it is with voting.
Who the hell cares about voting?
Women, that’s who. But why?
The point for the woman, as demonstrated by the entire response to the question, is the act of voting itself, not the election of good people who will govern sensibly.
Like a new driver, the fact that they are allowed to drive far outweighs where they’re actually driving to.
The women take great pride in the fact they can vote.
It’s a pain in the arse, and numerically
your vote is completely worthless. Makes no difference at all. Zero.
Your vote only matters in how the various cohorts and interests you belong to vote.
As an individual, vote worthless.
As a woman, or a doctor, or a student, veteran, or a tradesman, your cohort can be targeted, corralled and exploited.
Voting.
Pah!
So Arky, what’s your solution?
To what?
I just want to see what
peoplewomen say for themselves.It’s very informative.
You said it was a pain in the arse.
Don’t you want to stop the pain? 😀
Voting is a pain in the arse.
Yes.
Keep em barefoot and pregnant
I live in Chris Bowen’s electorate so my vote is practically useless though I still vote just to add to the national total and add federal funding to my chosen party that they get per vote.
I am a woman and I would give up my right to vote because most women are venal and stupid. The fact that some of us aren’t doesn’t alter the bigger picture.
When I travel, I pick a colour, work around that and make sure there are interchangeable outfits and footwear. I took less than 15kg to my recent trip to Japan. I take one small suitcase and a carry on piece of luggage. That’s it.
I said last week that Minns’ pretty words are ringing hollow among Jews, and after today, we know his words to be just empty. Do I think Minns is a Jew hater? No, but most of his party are Jew haters.
I agree, Cassie. Minns has presented an attractive face for Labor. But he has not been able to transform the ideological hard core of his Party.
Most significantly, he has not been able to deal with the anti-semitism crisis in the community. It has always been clear that this required the moral clarity and commitment to use all legal means available (and they are available) to contain the disgraceful weekly demonstrations which almost certainly have encouraged the escalation we are now seeing in the defacement of homes, cars, and now synogogues.
There is much going on within the NSW Labor Party that we are not privy to. I think it was in the last twelve months that there was a move to permit prosecutions via the police department, without the imprimature of the DPP. This may indciate the political positioning within the Party. Have you heard anything about this, Cassie?
Minns is an automaton. He doesn’t have a single original or personal thought in his head. He can memorise and not lose his cool.
That’s all he is good for.
This shtick is wearing thin though. More people are seeing through the cling wrap. I would dearly love to slap him.
Bernie Sanders is such a fraud.
https://x.com/sensanders/status/1879956030144262621?s=43
Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
Right now, in America, 22 million workers make less than $15/hr. 40 million make less than $17/hr.
Shamefully, the federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised since 2009 and remains at $7.25/hr.
I asked Trump’s nominee for Treasury if we should raise it.
His response?
“No sir.”
Odd how Bernie didn’t mention this in January 2021 when the DNC had control of the House, Senate & Oval Office.
Georgia & Pennsylvania still work off the federal minimum wage (there’s only a handful that still do).
Pretty sure that if the DNC was serious about this, they might have campaigned in these states on the issue during the 2024 campaign.
But they didn’t.
Because they aren’t serious about it.
He also neglected to mention his personal wealth, including his carbon-rich lifestyle, which has never been impeded by his ‘socialist’ babbling.
Delta A
January 17, 2025 1:45 pm
Reply to Arky
Why do you think Best Man bought the caravan? Finally, I could pack as much as I liked.
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Make sure you go over a weigh bridge. Many get caught out towing over the limits.
H/T Dad.
Only three days to go until the corpsicle is gone from the White House.
Will he blow the world up just to spite the US public?
Can he let in another million Nicaraguan males to punish the Middle Class that rejected him?
All these questions and more will be answered – or not, as the case may be.
The FBI is STILL arresting people over Jan 6.
Are you off on holiday, Arky?
Soon.
Can you write me a note?
I don’t want to go.
Dear Immigration Department.*
The dog ate Arky’s Passport and he doesn’t want to pay the usurious fee for a new one on account of Cost of Living Crisis brought about, in part, by the burgeoning bureaucracy.
Please excuse him from all international travel for the forseeable.
*or is it DFAT? I can never remember. It might even be some newfangled department that has sprung up to spend the revenue from passport applications. Wouldn’t put it past them.
Ta.
But the government isn’t the relevant authority.
There are some Higher Authorities that even I would fear to coerce.
That may, or may not include Mrs Arky and Miss Arky.
There’s a funeral involved.
So I gotta go anyway.
Is it yours?
My condolences. It seems to be a season of loss.
Things I love about voting…
I “exude power”* for 30 seconds using only an HB pencil (or these days a pen on account of fear of fiddling)
I get to stand in line and check out all the locals who suddenly have become “political”. Some even man the booth. This can be a great revelation.
Also chatting in line to anyone who will listen about the latest Labor Pardy horrors
Refusing to take a Greens HTV card
Labor ditto
Being kind to minor party people who are being cold shouldered by the well financed
Things I hate about voting…
Finding parking
Aggressive forcing of HTV cards
Fake grins and good cheer by visiting candidates
Having to tell Greenies that they are actually Marxists (as if they didn’t know). This can be satisfying at the time, then I suffer a fit of remorse.
*I stole that
Aha!
Did you notice something?
Nowhere in that list is any enthusiasm for the people you are actually voting for.
I’m right! I’m right! Right again!
It’s about the luggage, not the destination.
I’m supposed to be enthusiastic about politicians? That’s a new one.
I’m more enthusiastic about head lice. And I don’t want to be fined for non attendance.
If you had them you would be enthused to be rid of them, not with the rituals of obtaining the lice killing paraphernalia.
Your original question was about voting, not politicians.
Arky will start stamping his foot soon. lol.
Politicians are the result of voting.
Luggage results in travel.
And pouring poison on one’s head results in the death of lice.
Focussing on the arcane social rituals around voting, luggage, or buying insecticide, disrupts electing good men, enjoying trips and eradicating vermin respectively.
Breaking:
I’m not surprised. The reason is Shabbat, and no time for review by the voters. It may also be to push the deal out into the new US administration for prestige purposes.
And, as I gaze into my crystal ball, I foresee a few hostages released, a poop load of terrorists exchanged, and a return to rocket fire and general mongrelish hostility because that is the nature of the thing.
What would surprise me is the denizens of Gaza abiding by the deal for any length of time.
Agitators are preying on the naive idealism of young people and instilling a hateful ideology in them with the aim of driving the wedge of division further into our societies. It needs to be systematically countered within the universities and their funding needs to be on the table as part of the discussion that needs to be had.
Roger, the proverbial march through the institutions is well and truly accomplished. Some years ago I chatted with my old professor (still participating as Emeritus) at a function and he lamented the decline of the universities. Innocently, I concurred that “postmodernism” was a curse. “Oh no!” he replied, “It is much worse!”
He was talking about the scourge of Marxism and all of its awful contemporary totalitarian manifestations.
Whether cutting off funding to universities can be effective, or even possible, remains to be seen. But a revamp of technical education and better support to this wellspring of our society is badly overdue.
Things I love about voting…
Telling Greens that I don’t vote for Nazis.
I’ll use that next time! Seriously!
Last time I told the Greens volunteers to GGF’d (in gentler terms) they followed me home (I walked to the booth and back), sped past me and slagged on me from an open window in the car.
Lovely people.
Talking to some people a couple of days ago.
Scene supermarket car park on a hot day.
Ladies notice Mussie lady in full letterbox putting groceries in car.
As they go by the remark to her, “isn’t it hot in that?”
Mussie says ” Don’t worry love, you’ll all be in one soon”.
Mrs Eyrie comment “In their effin dreams”.
Missed a chance to say “your prophet is a paed*phile”, Eyrie
I wonder if Trump would consider banning contact between Federal Employees and the WEF and its associates?
I noticed yesterday but have been unable to find the comment since, that Pam Bondi has stated that she will go after the Southern Poverty Law Centre. That would be thrilling, a direct confrontation between Soros and the Trump administration. Up ’em Spot.
I’m not sure what the actual question is here because all you appear to be saying is that Israel, like Russia, is merely responding to circumstances. Sure, but the same can be said of those other actors, that they are also responding to threats presented against them by other bloc/s in the ME, whether Saudi, Turkish, whathaveyou.
Nice dodge, but it is a simple question.
Russia was responding to the perceived (not actual) threat of Ukraine joining NATO, which Russia views as hostile to it’s interests. It invaded Ukraine in response.
Given that Israel has hostile players on it’s border – actually firing shots and slitting throats, so a little more than mere perception – would they not be justified in excising a suitable protective buffer zone in those neighbouring territories?
If not, how can you justify Russia’s actions using the same rationale?
The actual threat arises from US bases being stationed on the Russian border via NATO membership. You don’t need those bases actually being used for the threat to be real.
But let’s leave that aside. They have buffer zones in two through agreements and one through recent occupation, as well as US protection. Give the relevant doctrine, I’m not surprised at any of this
Calli
I have what I think is a slightly better version of HTV street theatre.
Mrs P walks dutifully two steps behind.
As we pass the Greens HTV she takes the card.
I turn and say, “Oi! I told you! You’re not voting for them!”
She meekly hands the card back and follows me inside.
I think you need to add “and when we get home you’d better get in the kitchen and fix me some lunch” lol!
Speaking of pedo’s, full blown American lefty cartoonist Darrin Bell has been arrested for pedo activity.
He’s a leftard, it’s part of the genre.
From the Tele:
The first choice the PM needs to make is whether to allow parliament to go ahead as scheduled for the first two weeks of February or to visit Governor-General Sam Mostyn to call the election … Might Albanese break convention and surprise us all by ending the guessing game — and catching almost everybody off guard — by calling an unlikely poll in mid-January for February 22? …
The attraction of a March election is made difficult by the Western Australian state election scheduled for March 8, which is also a long weekend in the southern half of the country, while March 15 clashes with the Formula 1 Grand Prix. March 29 and April 5 are a possibility, especially if there’s a February rate cut. April 12 is emerging as a red hot option as the WA election would be over on the weekend it needs to be called. That scenario would allow for parliament to be dissolved without having a budget …
?If he waits any longer he will have to deliver another budget as there’s no chance of an election on April 19 or 26 due to a later than usual Easter then Anzac Day commemorations. The final window is May 3, 10 or 17.
Will Bradfield even have a by-election? An elected MP there might “sit” for a month, or less, before having to try to be elected again?
April 5 & 12 are start and middle weekends of Easter Holidays
Sky Headline: Disinformation Fears over Meta Free Speech Changes.
Yeah, we can’t have people saying Climate Change is a scam on Facebook, can we? But those 50 former intelligence characters saying that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation, all over the MSM, that was ok.
H B Bear @02:43pm….
Should we still be enjoying this Carlton suffering? Big John was worm food years ago.
Any misfortune involving the Carlton Football Club (aka caaarrton) provides gleeful mirth for Collingwood supporters.
Genuine question, maybe Cassie and others can shed some light on this.
Why are there so many Democrat voters who are Jewish in the USA?
For that matter, why are there so many leftist voters in Israel when their best interests are not served by leftist governments? Hamas is about to get a huge transfusion of terrorists released in return for a small number of hostages. The government appears to be bending left at the moment, and probably in response to demos – there were huge demos even before the October 7th outrage.
Oh, ohh, ohhh. Ask me.
There has been plenty of discussion about that on US forums.
A lot of it is historical – the Republican party was not exactly Jewish-friendly in the first half of the C20th, such as excluding Jews from their fancy clubs and more broadly from social, civic and economic activities.
By the time things began to change, the damage was done for a couple of generations worth of Jewish voters and donors.
Also, a lot of Jews in the US are JINOs, who may have some peripheral attachment to their religion, but in reality live completely secular lives. They are not interested in Israel, but in their social circles the mindset is overwhelmingly ‘liberal’/Democrat. Especially in New York.
Recent events do seem to have solidified the views of some Jewish Americans in favour of Israel and Trump.
I’m not an expert and I’d defer to others, but I did hear Yishai Fleisher, the
Israeli podcaster, talking about this in an interview a few years ago when he was doing a US Tour.
Basically “the feels.” Hugs and kisses and Leftards who don’t understand Realism, rather than Neo-cosmopolitanism, as the most effective foreign policy stance.
‘Neo-cosmopolitanism’????. Aaarrrggghhh!!!
US State Department publicly expresses concern about anti-semitism in Australia.
‘Rising antisemitism in Australia is deeply concerning, with attacks on synagogues and Jewish communities as recently as this week. There is no place for such acts of hate in Australia or anywhere across the globe.’
Office of International Religious Freedom (@StateIRF) / X
Australia named and shamed.
And shamed not for the first time. The same office in 2016 – i.e. at the end of the Obama administration, please note – singled out Victoria for the rash of unsolved arson attacks on churches that accompanied the Hunchback’s ascent to power and were celebrated by the ABC and Fairfax.
…and yet funny how “ Damage to Australia’s international standing” has been raised a hundred times by the left, without any evidence thereof.
“This is why multi-culturalism fails – you dont have shared beliefs about how things work”
Not quite right, IMO.
If there are small numbers, it is easier for them (and more importantly, their kids) to become part of the existing culture. Some – like Islam – don’t work very well in that regard, but most can manage if they are forced by low numbers of the “home culture” to adapt.
That’s what is so ruinous about our current immigration numbers – 500k p.a. is too many and allows the “old country” culture, complete with old hatreds etc, to stay alive. THAT’S where it “breaks” and we have issues.
This. I’d argue we are well past the point where anyone can assimilate. A majority of people in the country have no real connection to the Australian nation.
When one or both parents were born overseas, like the government was trumpeting as a great achievement a couple of years ago, there’s a minority who have any connection to the people who built the nation in the first place.
And no, nation and country are not the same. Jews are a nation despite being spread across the globe, Thai’s are a nation. Multicultural “Australia” is a country.
The UK won’t be around in 100 years:
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/europe/uk-signs-100-year-agreement-with-ukraine-20250117-p5l52i.html
Had a look at the vines… decent flash of cooked berries, maybe 5-8% loss.
Some leaf-plucking enthusiasts may well be kicking themselves.
I don’t know why ASIO are holding the terror threat level at “probable:”
Current National Terrorism Threat Level
It should be changed to “happening” or “active.”
Oh, I think cutting off funding would be effective, Vicki! 😀
But, more realistically, I had in mind tying tranches of funding to the implementation of anti-antisemitic programs and measured results therefrom.
The culture of our publicly funded universities needs to change if they are to fulfill their role in Australian culture.
Btw, has anyone else noticed that Bond University doesn’t have this problem?
Ministerial level scrutiny if the research grants scam is a critical prerequesite to refocusing university activity on national priorities.
No grants for humanities ‘research.
NZ is ahead of us here.
And you can always support Campion College.
Tony Burqa:
Labor pours $106m over four years into fighting terrorism and violent extremism | The Nightly
That’s $26M this year, pretty much on par with $25M provided to Palli organisations in Australia this year.
“Priorities”
This sounds like the precis for a Seinfeld episode.
Lol! My matched set of Louis Vuitton (including hatbox) agrees!*
*This comment may contain minimal traces of truth.
A hatbox?
I am impressed!
A lovely group of siblings singing a sweet song – Think they call this love — reminds me of when I met the Sunbather — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJMaA7NyQM8
Why is Trumpy allowing a controversial Imam from Dearborn to give a benediction at his inauguration?
Knowing Donald Trump – which I don’t – he’s put him there to let him make an arsehole of himself.
And I reckon he will.
Could the “Palestinian” prisoners being shipped to West Bank be put on splodey busses? 😛
First time I travelled to Italy in 2008 took too much luggage a very large brightly-spotted suitcase full of clothing and stuff I could have (and wished I had) left at home, Second time in 2019 I took less but still too much when lost in Venice lugging suitcase up and down the steps – Never again — went in 2023 took carry-on luggage and that was it. Much better.
Last time I went OS, I took a spare pair of shorts, a t shirt and a pair of thongs.
Stuffed ’em in the glove box.
Bribie Island ain’t that formal any more.
Bribie Island! You are posh.
I slummed it on South Stradbroke in 1980.
Had a bit of a win today.
While showing a visiting English friend the Bendigo Pottery I found, in the antiques and collectibles area, an Australian made 200x25mm Sidchrome cold chisel in virtually brand new condition, $11.
Also “The world of Henry Lawson” in excellent condition, $5.
Wow! Very fortunate.
johanna
January 17, 2025 4:01 pm
Thanks, you’ve said it best. Most of the immigrants who poured into the USA in the 1800s and 1900s, be they Jews, Irish, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian and so on generally voted Democrat.
Jewish voting patterns are slowly shifting to the GOP, particularly in states like Florida.
But it is even more nuanced, the voting patterns of religious Jews, be they Ashkanazi/Sephardi/Mizrachi differentiate from secular Ashkenazi Jews and the religious have long voted GOP. Also, the huge wave of Russian Jews who came to the USA in the 1970s and 1980s and settled in NYC and New Jersey, are solidly RED.
As an aside, whilst many American Jews have clung to the Demonrat party with occasional aberrations such as voting for Reagan in the 1980s, the voting patterns of Jews in other English speaking countries, such as the UK, Oz, Canada and NZ has always been much more divided and it even leans to conservative parties. But that’s because the right of centre/conservative parties in those countries have been more welcoming to Jews.
It seems a long time ago since Syd Einfeld was deputy leader of NSW Labor and Abe Landa the Attorney-General. Landa, by the way, succeeded that stalwart of the Knights of the Southern Cross Reggie Downing. That also seems unthinkable these days.
In global warming news it’s right at the middle of summer and the Cafe is frigid.
Amusingly via my nearest BoM AWS the maximum temperature for the day was at 12am. Yes: as in midnight last night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
Just after posting that comment I went outside…I’m not the only Cafe denizen suffering from global warming:
Noice!
I’m wearing a puff jacket to cope with the cold and wind here in western Sydney.
Democrat Climate Zealots Implore Lee Zeldin To Prioritize ‘Green’ Agenda During EPA Confirmation Hearing
Michael Shellenberger Exposes Who’s to Blame for the LA Fire Disaster
LOL
I had no idea the Larvatus Prodeo site is back.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Is Dover actually Peter Garrett?
My hunch is that the Whore of Wentworth will be goneski after the next election.
We can only hope.
Interesting hearing oral history directly.
An Israeli Arab dude claims that in 1947, his grandfather and others living in what is now Israel were instructed by Arab leaders—not by Jews—to leave. He adds that when the IDF arrived in their village, residents were left unharmed.
Ahaha!
Just watched Kamala delivering her final (hopefully) word salad with a side of jazz hands.
She’s the complete package. A Temu candidate.
Barry was right.
To paraphrase.
I hope they extend the ban to “legal” mussies.
Is this peace or appeasement?
?We need to be honest: the ceasefire deal is a boon for Hamas and a blow to Israel.
They need to learn the lessons from Sri Lanka. The last of the Tamil Tigers were driven into the sea. Don’t know what the Middle East equivalent would look like.
You won’t solve the puzzle of “why do people vote for the left” if you refuse to answer “who is voting for the left”.
The well off and the upper classes or more precisely, the idle rich.
As promised – a date (fnarr) with a mop handle awaits this woman (the CM):
And:
Consequently:
But:
Exactly. You don’t get to make that call, Mr Legal Aid.
At some point tonight, a burly tattooed chick in prison greens will remark:
‘Bend over. Yew got that purty mouth.’
Phenergan?
NSW Premier Chris Minns: “Those responsible for these attacks (on Jews) will be met with the full force of the law”.
Haha. No they won’t, sport. The muzzies are laughing in your face because they know they’re untouchable as they control suburban Sydney seats vital to the survival of the federal government.
The wallopers won’t be coming for the muzzies — they’ll be coming for the Jews.
My bet is there won’t even be arrests of token muzzie lunatics.
The NSW government and its law enforcement operation, NSW Plod, are fully onboard with the Jew hate epidemic. Chris Minns is just their powerless useful idiot.
Along with the Incredible Luigi, Chris Minns will go down in Australian history as one of the co-authors of the great Jew hate festival of 2023-25 because he said he’d fix it, but did nothing.
They have already established the template.
Remember the bishop who had his eye gouged out in his own church? And his flock arrived and wreaked havoc and mayhem?*
“We will hunt you down, we know who you are” and they did.
But that was for Christians.
The special people can get away with anything in Sydneystan.
*information after the event gave perspective on their actions, however abhorrent to the chook’s bum mouths of the media and a section of the offenderati, keen to denounce anyone who follows something other than Islam or climate change
As James McPherson wrote today, someone will have to die for Labour Party politicians to spring into action.
So, the latest episode of Trigggernometry informs me that 7% of all deaths in Quebec were via MAID. That’s on par with their road deaths. I couldn’t believe it so I googled it and, its true.
Quebec is now considering expanding MAID for people with “irrevocable suffering and pain” (whatever that means) and, the lady in the interview, says legislators are making this available to anyone over the age of one.
So “technically” (or realistically), a child born blind could be suffering and a mum can decide, at age one, to have them MAID.
In my humble opinion, I believe MAID exists to save the State money for palliative care, it helps the State “free up” hospital beds to give them better KPIs and there is, non-conspiracy, a depopulation agenda at play.
Saving money in a period of high defects will be a major part of the trend.
How can a leftard gummint pay off favoured groups if money is wasted on the sick, elderly or simply unhappy?
MAID exists because we lost Christianity and have become a death cult.
The victims of “euthanasia” feed the transplant mills.
Death cult.
100%!!!
Rodger Cook, in Western Australia, spruiking the same old nonsense about “the oldest living culture…”
Repeat a lie often enough…
And pollimuppets and race hustlers will believe it.
As much as I loathed McClown, Crook is as inspirational as wet cardboard.
I once had a chat with him at an aboriginal art gallery that I was sent to go to (to “represent” someone who couldn’t make it)… he was as dull as a sponge. Things only got exciting when I told him who I was representing cos it made him stop talking completely, stared at me for a second, and then walked away without saying another word… what an arseclown.
so many pollimuppetts aren’t normal people
For all of WA Liebor’s 8 years in power (sheesh!), I’ve met most, if not all of them and Amber Jade is the devil incarnate (she makes the Wong Chap look centrist and Christian), Crook is cardboard, Saffioti isn’t too bad on the planning stuff (sorry HB Bear I know you’ll disagree as a Perth “Westie”), McClown an egomaniac and generally an arsehole, and the rest are a useless bunch of muppets.
The only one I had the time of day for (and I still don’t agree with much of his views) was Ben Wyatt.
Saffioti going OK although the Liar contract blowouts aren’t coming under any real scrutiny at the moment. Wyatt was at UWA law school around the mid90s, although I don’t really remember him (I’m sure it’s mutual). Clearly now he’s decided it’s time to fill the boots.
I think it is actually factually correct to refer to them as Pigmy genociders?
A harsh, brutal and often murderous “culture.”
Is that something to be proud of?
There was a linguist around a few years ago who mentioned something momentous happened to Aboriginal Australia about 4000 years ago and the languages changed radically. I think he meant a new a
wave of people came in. He seems to have been memory holed.
That which must never be spoken of in the aboriginal industry – the third wave of invaders/settlers arrived, possibly from South India, about 4-5000 years ago bringing the dingo with them.
Kaine: Biden ‘Is Sincerely Worried About’ the U.S. Under Trump
Turdie Tim is back. Like a clone of Waltz or vv.
An email from a Sydney rabbi, sent today……
A rabbi’s job is to inspire Jews to connect to their Jewishness. But antisemites are doing that for me. I don’t know if I’m needed anymore.
Attempts to terrorise the Jewish community are having a profound effect. But not the intended one. They want us to cower and hide. But we are getting bolder and prouder. They want us to retreat. But we are stepping up.
The Jewish response to antisemitism is to become more Jewish, and we are doing just that, more Shabbat candles lit, more Tefillin wrapped, more Mezuzas going up.
A jeweller in our community has sold more Magen David necklaces in the last year than he did in the last decade. His marketing didn’t work. Antisemitism did.
I have seen people at Shabbat services who never came before. I couldn’t bring them to shul. The antisemites did.
Antisemites, take note. We are not intimidated by you. We are not scared of you. You can’t weaken us, you will just make us stronger. You make Jews more Jewish. You sell Magen David jewellery. And you help us rabbis do our job.
Beautiful.
Teh interwebs inform me that almost 200 Hunter Biden original paintings were destroyed in the LA fires.
In some circles, it will no doubt be thought that this is the equivalent of the Mona Lisa and the Shroud of Turin being turfed into the ocean.
In most other circles, the prevailing view would be that adding another $7.40 to the total damage bill won’t hurt.
On the bright side, no doubt excessively insured.
Big battery news.
Huge fire at Moss Landing battery plant spurs evacuations, road closures, sends out plumes of toxic smoke (16 Jan, via Lucianne and Redstate)
It’s a very big battery: 3,700 MWh capacity. If the fire is out of control it could burn for weeks since there’s no way to put it out.
It’s okay. It’s a Carbon Neutral fire.
Thanks for posting this Bruce. Where I live there are a couple of tentative expressions of interest for these things and some small resistance groups. I’ll make sure my local council gets to know about this event.
And the gerbil warmies here think that coal is risky!
Via Tony Heller:
Martin Durkin Discusses California Wildfires
Get a load of this gobledgook passed off as a new antisemitic counterterrorism strategy
“We are increasingly finding people where it is no longer a set ideology, be it what would be viewed as an extremist ideology purporting to be based on faith or what would be described as a right wing, racist ideology,” he told reporters.
“It is now as well mixed ideologies as part of these rapid forms of radicalisation.
“That has meant that as the threat level has evolved, the government’s response needs to evolve as well.”
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/labor-launches-new-counterterrorism-strategy-amid-wave-of-antisemitic-attacks/news-story/281f65229ec27b125c1be82679cc116e
Wot???
Translate please.
Don’t want to scare the horses. See you at the Halls Gap pub. Look for the half track.
He’s channeling Kamala Harris. Word salads must be de jour.
Bruce of Newcastle
January 17, 2025 6:55 pm
Big battery news.
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Cover it in sand.
Not looking good for CNN.
CNN In Deep Trouble | Power Line (16 Jan, via Lucianne)
The judge is hostile, the jurors are hostile and the plaintiff has asked for a billion bucks in damages. He might just get it too, since smearing by CNN destroyed his business.
Bruce,
Ace has an excellent recap of what is happening to CNN. It’s riveting reading. I really hope Mr Young is awarded a Billion dollars in damages.
This clip will probably get banned again.
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Danger Dan Reviews:
The video Albanese didn’t want you to see.
Calls for Aussies to pay voluntary reparations ahead of ‘Invasion Day’ – as Indigenous ABC star says it’s ‘time everyone starts redistributing’ the wealth and hits back at racist trolls
Daily Mail.
SHUT! IT! DOWN!
FIRE! THEM! ALL!
It’s not the voluntary ones I’m worried about. It’s when the ATO steps in as agent.
They already have.
It just isn’t itemised in your assessment.
The aborigines should be paying us for giving them clean water, food, clothes, medicine, and the english language. They’ve gained enormously from joining us.
Not really, of course, we have been happy to share these things, but the idea of reparations is absurd.
“Calls”
Whatever
Is he “fully” indigenous, or mixed race? If the latter, he can lead by (percentage) example.
ABC News describes him as a “proud Gamilaroi man.”
He’s having a right, proper whinge over on the Tele website..
The rationale for this is:
“We’re bleeding electoral support.
We have to be seen to be doing something!”
Ask your Imam for a HTV card.
Anyone see the reply from the Treasury Sec nominee, Scott Bessent about energy and, indirectly, net zero?
Scott Bessent Bluntly Refutes Ron Wyden’s Claim That ‘We’re In A Clean Energy Arms Race With China’
Really impressive guy.
A Jockey and a Lawyer climb a ladder onto the roof of a Cafe…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/article-14294111/Jockey-Danny-Nikolic-charged-allegedly-trapped-house-steal-jewellery-handbags-burglary.html
Usually they shove kids through those little bathroom windows but hey.
Well, a jockey is normally the size of a kid. 😀
Got one at work. “Howzitgoinmate?” in high pitched voice. Funny as.
Jack Out the Back – Prenti Downs Cattle Station.
How far would you go for reliable internet? Join me as I tackle a steep climb to repair a storm-damaged WiFi tower. Armed with a 38kg (84lbs) tower component, I make my way up the rugged hill, determined to get things back online.
Just as I was about to finish plugging in the switch, everything shut down—ending the day without success. It was a tough and exhausting mission, but one that highlights the challenges of remote life.
Sometimes, the journey is just as important as the destination. Stick around for the lessons learned and what’s next for keeping the station connected!
Heavy Climb for Wifi: Fixing a Tower in the Outback
It’s a very big battery: 3,700 MWh capacity. If the fire is out of control it could burn for weeks since there’s no way to put it out.
I don’t understand why you would use lithium batteries for ground based fixed installations. Lead acid weighs more but who cares? Also easily recyclable.
Sodium sulfur.
They aren’t suitable for cars or electric gadgets as they operate at about 200 C. But for grid storage they’re fine. They don’t catch fire and don’t use expensive materials.
One part of the grand scheme is a Cloward-Piven extra cost. Why use cheaper, safe and as effective when a new burden can be put on the economy.
You’ve got people from all over the WORLD wanting time at Prenti. The truth is insurance would send Jack and Jasmine broke.
Haw!
New York passed legislation requiring ISPs operating within the state to offer service for $15 to low-income customers. AT&T said “okay, bye”. (Ars Technica)
AT&T only offered wireless internet in New York.
AT&T no longer offers wireless internet in New York.
The communists at Ars Technica are extremely upset that the entirely predictable outcome of such a law… Happened.
From BoN’s link at 7:12 re CNN about to lose their shirts in court:-
Hmmm.
Reading about the reckless and egregious behaviour by CNN, I wonder if there might be a clause in the insurance contract which leaves this shit sandwich on CNN’s plate.
I mean, there are limits to insurance … drive your car over 0.05, do illegal wiring on your house, set out to produce media hit-jobs on people without regard for the facts … bzzzt … insurance voided.
Anyhow, “Sliante” to all you mob. In celebration of her test results, Mme Zulu and I ate an excellent lunch at one of our favorite eateries in the Swan Valley, washed down with some damnfine wines.
I don’t think anyone in the camp is exactly sober at this point in time, so good night to you all.
@EndWokeness
This was 21 days before the fires broke out in LA. The firefighters tried to warn us:
@EndWokeness
Orange County, California poll worker caught TRIPLE scanning ballots on November 8, 2024.
Dems outperformed in this county.
No doubt all of the staffers working there are in on the fraud or she wouldn’t be so brazen about it.
Mike Benz: Global Censorship Industry Is Wounded But Far From Dead
@listen_2learn
Michael Popok tells us that democracy means Trump proofing “our bureaucracy” in order to thwart the will of 77M+ Americans.
Trump proofing our bureaucracy includes filing a SEC lawsuit against @elonmusk so that Trump has to spend part of his political capital and time to make the frivolous lawsuit go away.
Like I said, this is simply more of the years long coordinated lawfare since democrats can’t win on policies.
We must make sure that democrats stay out of power until they no longer view lawfare as a viable political strategy.
@MikeBenzCyber
US Censors-In-Exile will be working with foreign governments who are on their side and not bound by a First Amendment to impose fines and bans on US social media companies who don’t comply with censorship demands. Big Tech platforms now need the Trump State Dept to save them.
THAT demand for reparations…
GJohns said…
Like Albo, Tony Armstrong has never met his father. His girlfriend is not an Aborigine.
https://soundhealthandlastingwealth.com/tony-armstrong-parents/