HAW!!!
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Did you slap him?
so you are driving down the highway at 110 kph and your battery dies, and behind you is a large…
Can you do it in reverse? Change the hands you normally use?
don’t ever because the left never sleeps
And will still get less than half of the remaining hostages.
Israel Will Release Mass Murderers, Terrorists in Hostage Deal
If they don’t get them all, start razing Gaza to the ground.
‘Million Dollar Listing’ star says up to 70% of Palisades residents will not return after devastating LA fires
If it wasn’t California it’d be a nice place to live.
The Mayor will be happy. The land can be resumed, re-zoned, and high density housing for the “poor” and refugees built there
Another excellent article by Peter Smith, an extract of which follows.
Our Way or the Highway
You might say most Muslims live peaceably. That is true but not to the point. It is a mistake to think that a few can wreak havoc for very long without a groundswell of support. The head dies without the body. Hitler and his henchmen did not attain and survive in power without a strong mass of popular support. Have look at those old newsreels and the adoring crowds.
We have demographic problem. Hate speech laws will damage the fabric of our society without solving it. What then to do? Two things in my view. First, stop all further Muslim immigration. That’s not racist. Religion has nothing to do with race. Religion is a free choice. Second, continue to embrace the existing Muslim population as valued citizens of Australia. But, at the same time, call out without timidity, and ridicule unmercifully, un-Australian behaviour. Some of those Islamic preachers provide rich material for comedians. Monty Python would have field day. Think of Charlie Chaplin playing Hitler.
Beautiful
The evidence to hand is that any Muslim isn’t a valued member of Australian society. They are capable of great acts of violence against every nation they infest, and are incapable of change.
Send them away.
A dog turd is of more value.
Definitely. I might start saving my dogs’ turds. Ammunition.
When you get enough to fill a uniform, send them off to Vicplod.
Sadly, this was predictable from the time of Al Grassby.
Labour’s tax plans trigger exodus of millionaires from UK
Daniel Pipes’s take in the Paywallion:
Israel ceasefire deal: ‘Victory’ sets up Hamas’ next war
Daniel Pipes
12:00AM
18 January 2025
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas announced on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) has implications nearly as momentous as the October 7, 2023, massacre that precipitated it.
The deal comes after 15 months of protracted indecision by the government of Israel, during which Jerusalem followed two contradictory policies towards Hamas: destroy the organisation; make a deal with it.
The first policy, victory over Hamas, clearly appealed more to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. By my informal count, he mentioned “victory” 216 times in 76 discreet statements, from the immediate aftermath of October 7 to lighting the Hanukkah candles three weeks ago.
At times, as in a statement on French television, his sentences amounted to a barrage of victory talk: “Our victory is your victory,” he said. “Our victory is the victory of Israel against anti-Semitism. It is the victory of Judaeo-Christian civilisation against barbarism. It is the victory of France.”
Nor did Netanyahu seek just plain victory. He spoke variously of “absolute victory”, “clear victory”, “complete victory”, “decisive victory”, “full victory” and “total victory”. Of these formulations, “total victory” led the pack, mentioned 81 times and showcased via a “Total Victory” baseball cap during a visit with former president Donald Trump.
Internal Israeli debates confirmed Netanyahu’s preference for victory. For example, Netanyahu banged on the table and told off his national security team, according to Israel’s Channel 12: “You are weak. You don’t know how to run a tough negotiation.” An informed source concluded: “He has given up on the hostages.”
It is pretty lengthy but I can post the rest of it if anyone is interested.
More than a few years ago I regularly read his blog about his take on the middle east.
Rabz I’m sorry but I have to get Crash Craddock’s report on some Cricket Australia phuckwittery:
Patrick Cummins is a moron. As is Ash Gardiner.
The only stakeholders you should be concerned with you dunderheads is the paying public, of which there would be many a black fella among them.
And sensitive discussions? What the hell does that entail? Just another captive to woke dickheads.
Why does she derive her income from a colonial invaders game. Must hurt.
Morning blackball
Bournemouth, what a result.
Brentford – almost.
Leicster in real trouble under the Rudd.
its great seeing where Tottenham and the two Manchester sides are.
Championship no real surprises. Sheffield Utd under Wilder doing great with Burley and Sunderland drawing.
Blackburns run has stopped. Going through a tough patch after steering themselves into the play off.
I am wondering with players being offered big money to play in the Saudi league, China , whether more English players will comprise of the teams.
Feds offered Jeffrey Epstein a deal for incriminating dirt on Trump, ex-cellmate says
And no one else believes it either.
Federalist CEO Sean Davis Drops Stunning Details About The Butler Trump Assassination Attempt In Tucker Carlson Interview
He got exactly what he wanted.
Gavin Newsom rocked by blood-soaked crisis gripping bay area city… as furious residents beg for help
IRS Head Forced to Resign 3 Years Early as Trump Prepares to Drain the Swamp
Overnight, whilst we slept, there was yet another ‘pro-Palestine’ Nazi march in London, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a motley group of left, far-left and Islamist Nazi scum. It’s interesting isn’t it that this march went ahead despite the cease fire agreement. Since October 7 2023 these Nazi marches have occurred almost weekly and the route they’ve been allowed to walk has been smack bang right past a synagogue, London’s Central Synagogue to be precise.
Like here, Jews now avoid parts of inner London and they avoid Central Synagogue. But this time London Plod insisted that the Nazi marchers slightly change their route so the Jews could be left in peace.
Fat chance. Fifteen months of soft policing has empowered and enabled Nazis and Nazism on the streets of the UK and Australia. So, of course the Nazi PSC didn’t like the change of route, nor were they willing to accept the police directive to alter the route slightly.
From the Jewish Chronicle two days ago…
After over a year of the Met taking a soft policing approach to the marches, no matter how frightening the presence of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of fanatical anti-Israel protesters has been for many Jews, it has finally demanded that the next march leaves Jews alone. The PSC have been ordered to change the assembly point so that congregants attending Central Synagogue are free from intimidation by protesters travelling to the march. Over the past year, the synagogue has had to shorten and cancel services. Many congregants have simply stayed away as they are too intimidated to run the gauntlet of the protesters.
The route change ordered by the police is a minor tweak that in no way restricts the protesters from marching. It simply seeks to minimise the impact on Jews going about their business on Shabbat. But the organisers have said that they will ignore the police’s demand. Let us be clear what this means: the PSC considers that the need for them to be able to intimidate Jews is more important than obeying the law.
Like here, these ‘marches’ have never been about ‘Palestine’ or ‘Israel’. They are about Jews, specifically about intimidating and threatening Jews.
The scenes overnight from London are not pretty, the leftist and Muslim Nazi scum tried to push their way through the police lines so that they could walk past the synagogue to intimidate and threaten Jews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4E6DAwq2jw
As I write there are other videos coming in. When they shout, scream and screech the words Free Palestine and From the River to the Sea, they mean……..
Kill Jews
The not-so-great Khan becoming London’s successor to Ken Livingstone was a warning.
@sav_says_
Washington, DC- The beginnings of the Women’s March.
Featuring drag queens up front and signs reading “The Bible never prohibits abortion” and “2.8 million abortions since 2022, you will never stop us”
@GuntherEagleman
Can we deport them too?
@ImMeme0
LMAO
As of today, individuals participating in the “Women’s March” still don’t know what a ‘woman’ is.
Interviewer: “What is a woman?”
Various women reply: “A woman is someone who identifies as a woman.”
A circular argument is not a definition.
Especially since it would just give Europe an excuse to hang their hat on in relation to attacking X.
@catturd2
Rand Paul just joined TikTok. Lol. I don’t want it banned. It’s a slippery slope.
Sports news (sort of)
I haven’t watched a second of time of her playing, but I’m disappointed that Danielle Collins is not progressing in the tennis. Her personal philosophy is to be admired, encapsulated in her statement “Good luck getting under the skin of someone who doesn’t give a …” . Her taking it to the crowd reveals a moral courage to be admired in these times.
(I rather hope that that the Australian “slam” disappears, or is at least moved out of Melbourne.)
As for the BBL, how can it be taken seriously as a sporting fixture when it’s good players not only move around the teams from one season to another, but just prior to the finals go and play in another competition?
Are you at the Hay truck stop?
@WallStreetApes
The Supreme Court upholds the TikTok Ban
Many members of Congress bought META stock as they were voting to ban TikTok, they’re getting rich while eliminating their donors competition
Congressman Michael McCaul who wrote The TikTok Ban Bill invested $1.15 Million into META after writing the bill
– On March 3rd, he authored the TikTok Ban Bill
– On March 22nd, he invested $150,000 in META
– On the 26th, he invested another $150,000
– On the 28th, he invested another $150,000
So about three weeks after writing the TikTok Ban Bill, this man invested $450,000 in TikTok’s competitor.
Oh, and then what did he do once he saw his TikTok ban was gonna be included with all the Ukraine funding:
– Well, on April 1st, he invested $350,000 more in META, followed by the fifth where he invested that again.
Then about a week later, of course, he voted yes on the bill he wrote.
So within the span of 40 days, this dude wrote the TikTok ban bill, proceeded to invest $450,000 in the competitor, and then invested another $700,000, taking his total investment and META at a $1.15 million.
And then he voted yes. Now, obviously the word most people are using here is suspicious, but the word we should be using is criminal.
This man wrote the f***** bill to ban TikTok, proceeded to invest more than a million dollars in its competitor, whose stock will skyrocket if TikTok actually gets banned, and then voted on the bill to ban it.
Are you paying attention yet?” #tiktokban It’s all about censorship.
My wife saw the Iranian Princess (Rita) on sky last night. Lefties losing it. Hasn’t laughed so much since the last time I did something stupid. Her comment was, “are these people for real”?
Lefty Tom Connell leads the daytime Sky contingent who scored a trip to America to cover the protests against Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Of course, Trump is a “climate denier” who has no respect for the lefty climate religion, given free rein by Connell this morning in his Never Trump protest roundup from Washington DC.
However, climate is now only the No.2 lefty religion behind Jew hatred, which is being covered devoutly by Sky’s UK affiliate, which has sent its zombies to Israel to campaign against Bibi Netanyahu’s ceasefire deal with the Devil.
Sky Australia has also sent its laziest sod Chris Kenny, who has never broken a story on his 5pm weekday show, to Washington to do the usual talking points from the inauguration.
Meanwhile, Sky Outsiders is back on the air today. The only Sky laggard still on holidays is political editor Andrew Clennell, whose Sunday Agenda program went on vacation in December and still hasn’t returned.
Clennell is no loss.
Chris Kenny has been putting up some good columns for the Oz though.
Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world speeds past (Paywallian today)
That’s his latest, but he’s been regularly writing about idiot renewables policies.
I loathe the smarmy leftist clennel.
And hopefully won’t.
Daytime Sky doesn’t have to be just another lefty MSM clique, but it is.
We don’t need more of that. There’s plenty of it in the media already.
Having lefty opinions all day “as part of our broad church mix” is foolish.
Clennell is a dickhead.
Why do need these 10th rate pricks to tell us what is going on in the US? Just seems to be a nice free trip for the meja in crowd.
The days of the foreign correspondent are delightfully quaint. The Quiet American for TV.
Add in an isolated touch of rough stuff and – Bingo – you’ve got the standard US DOJ definition of ‘insurrection’.
Areff has been calling Winston about Elsie, but there’s been no answer. 😀
It is comforting to see life returning to normal.
The ‘pussy hats’ are back in the Mall.
The pathetic dregs of 2017 will all catch pneumonia before being hit by the Trump train. Enjoy losers.
Selected Essays on Political Economy (FEE ed.) | Online Library of Liberty
An English translation of some of Bastiat’s most famous pamphlets, written as part of his opposition to the growth of socialism in France in the 1840s. Contains “What is Seen and What is Not Seen”, “The Law”, and “The State”.
Inquiring minds will find a wealth of texts freely available at this site.
Recommended especially for any young and aspiring ‘free thinkers’ in your family (seeking to think themselves free themselves from socialist indoctrination, that is!)
WIP great as usual; the Hegseth memes are especially good but the California lesbian and dikes ones are great too.
Hamas is “surviving” because everyone from the garbo and dogcatcher up is a Hamas member or official.
Nancy Pelosi has been San Francisco’s representative in the House since 1987 when San Francisco was far less dirty and dangerous than it is now. The fact that she is now 84 years old and in her ten gazillionth term is an indication of San Francisco leftists’ taste for bad governance. San Francisco residents will cheerfully vote for a sinister corruptocrat who affirms the transgender madness over an honest and upright public servant who would set things right in the city, but who refuses to pretend that men can become women.
Charles Barkley Slams ‘Rat-Infested’ San Francisco – PJ Media
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 19, 2025 11:00 am
Awaiting for approval
Dutton to revive the long lunch, just don’t order a drink.
Alas the Keating FBT was well in place by the time I started work. The NAB cafeteria was possibly my major source of nourishment during my (short lived) Melbournibad share house days.
On the “UK is farked”, my daughter has just returned from a holiday there.
She was confronted outside Tower Hill station by Mueslis pushing English translations of the Koran onto her. Free copies.
What sort of paper were they printed on?
We should stock up for the next dunny paper shortage.
Last year it was hard to watch Chiefs games because the referees were giving them a helping hand all season.
This season, contrary to social media, the refs has been pretty straight down the line and the Chiefs have managed to win more games this year than they did last year.
Then today the refs put their thumb on the scale and do it pretty blatantly in some occasions.
The Texans still had their opportunities that they screwed up.
Still, no matter the sport when the refs decide the outcome it’s a shit spectacle.
The left push victimology: 3rd nations, global boiling and islam. All are destructive but I think islam is the worst.
In Dr. Peter Hammond’s book, “Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, (2009)” he documents the way Muslims slowly develop a presence in various countries and as their population numbers build, become more aggressive and assertive about exercising Sharia law.
“Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life,” Dr. Hammond notes in his book. “Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.”
How Islam progressively takes over countries | God Reports
This is how it works, according to Dr. Hammond:
When the Muslim population remains under 2% in a country, they will be seen primarily as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to other citizens.
As the Muslim population reaches 2% to 5%, they begin to recruit from ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, within prisons and street gangs.
“From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population,” Dr. Hammond notes. “For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food” and increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature such food on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply.
“When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions,” Dr. Hammond notes. “In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.”
The violence increases when the Muslim population reaches 20%. “After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues,”
“At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare,”
From 60%, persecution of non-believing “infidels” rises significantly, including sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia law as a weapon, and Jizya, a tax placed on infidels,
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out “infidels,” and move toward a 100% Muslim society,
Obviously the categories merge but Hammond has been vindicated in EVERY Western nation which hosts a muzzie population. But make no mistake islam is facilitated by the left in the West. In commie nations the left do not tolerate muzzies.
BB, earlier:
Well, yes.
Unfortunately, a very sizeable chunk of the public at large seem to believe that if one has a particular world-class skill, that person must also be equally skilful in all other fields of endeavour and/or a magnificent human being to boot. Sadly, this is in fact not the case.
This is true across the board, but particularly in sport. A very few examples:
Shane Warne
Pat Cummins
Wayne Carey
Don Bradman
Ray Shaw
David Warner
Hell, I’m not even sure if Ben Roberts-Smith VC is a decent bloke – as proficient as he was in his former career.
The reverse is also true. People brilliant in one particular area tend to think ‘I am awesome at X, therefore I am awesome at everything’. This is why celebrities, and actors in particular feel compelled to offer their opinions on geopolitics, science, geology and medicine.
There are polymaths who are good at everything; someone called me a polymath once.
Clive James was a rolypolymath.
Who are very good at different subjects and draw on them to sole complex problems. I tend to think you’re more like myself, a smart arse.
The 2 are not mutually exclusive; folk can have 2 or more positive attributes; for instance, I am handsome and witty and wise.
… and humble! 🙂
I can rub my belly and pat my head at the same time.
Can you do it in reverse?
Change the hands you normally use?
Warnie was just a simple bogan who enjoyed life to the full and got rewarded handsomely for an obscure skill. In his favour he never pretended to be anything else or lecture to others. Captain Carbon would do well to follow his lead.
Not only a great bowler but kept Liz Hurley happy for a while.
When Wayne Carey was enjoying one of his periods in exile (for beating up a then girlfriend I think) he was in a Port Melbourne restaurant where I was enjoying a post hangover late breakfast hamburger. Think he lived in the quite upmarket HMAS building or something.
Did you slap him?
Nice lady on The Big Weekend Show:
“It’d be nice for Joe Biden to have a library. Then he could go there and find out what he did”.
Perhaps Barry will take him to lunch one day and try to explain it to him.
Can you really study colouring in books?
HAW!!!
He should build it in his garage where he keeps all his other government documents.
I stumbled across “History Undone with James Hanson” on YouTube. The schtick is they have a regular historian, plus a specialist guest. They have 2 types of episodes , one busting myths , the other examines a historical event( a battle or campaign) , telling us what actually happened, then looking at how how it may have had a different outcome, then discuss the effect of the changed outcome on the future .
The latest is on the 7 Day War , very interesting
Linky…
https://youtu.be/_YV-TPyKngs?feature=shared
I’d just started high school in 67, the Six Day War started. Form teacher was telling us about it. The biggest difference was with the tanks. The Israeli tanks have6 forward gears and one reverse, just in case and the Egyptian tanks have 6 reverse gears and one forward gear, just in case. Then laughed. Today he’d be sacked.
A variation on the Italian vs British tanks of ww2
Didn’t the Churchill have a much lower gear ratio in reverse? Meaning the tank could reverse up a hill that it couldn’t go up forwards?
(I have no idea why that popped into mind.)
Now that’s an interesting site – I’d like to see them do one on Stalingrad and Kursk.
Gabor:
I bought a dough mixer a couple of months ago with an 8 – 10 liter bowl. give it al a very slow stir for a few minutes instead of kneading, then let it rise in the bowl for half an hour or so, do it twice and then let it rise in the tins before the oven.
Much easier on the wrists.
But on reflection, I think it’s a combination of using a mix of self raising and plain flour* and not enough bread improver.
*Don’t ask. Just don’t ask.
🙂
I finally pulled the plug (literally) and bought an EV. It’s going to be used essentially for very routine driving, to the family business a few days a week, and down the beach. I’m having a BMW charge unit installed later this week and can program the charge time so it’ll cost 5 bucks for a full charge. We’re a three-car family, and the other two cars are petrol.
Gerbil-warming wasn’t even number 77 on the list of 5 reasons: giving the towel heads their vig was.
You do know the wretched things have no resale value.
You should have gone E Type or if you wanted to be really dapper an Austin-Healey.
I know. I’m going to keep it for 8 odd years, and if it’s worth nil after that I really don’t care anyway. I’m writing it from day one. Picking it up tomorrow. I actually got a 33% discount from list, which does suggest they aren’t in huge demand, but it doesn’t worry me. I really wanted to replace this current wagon with the same and its now, only available in EV.
Did you trade in the gas guzzler JC and if you did how much.
In any event EV made me a serious load of cash in 24, Cronkers. I bought Tesla at decent levels and still have most of the position. Think of it as a form of philanthropy. I made some cashola in an EV company and just giving some of it back – making the world a better place. 🙂
My first car was an Austin Healy 6/100
During the year before the US Federal election a tall, dark, handsome and charming young bloke, John McEntee popped up many times in a week on Instragram eating a morsel at some fast food outlet while making a rather pointed observation on the Lunacy of the Left/Biden Administration and finishing with a knowing smile.
Well I nearly puked when I saw who thought it a good idea to try the same thing — none other than the ghastly Blackout Bowen — FMD haven’t seen it since — but can you believe it? the short, pasty, thin-lipped, chinless creep who is about as attractive as a canetoad with a personality to match. barrrrffff!!!
Genuine question:
When an EV runs out of charge, does it go slower and slower until it dies out, or does it run at full steam then stop dead?
Enquiring minds, etc.
My battery powered mower just stopped yesterday
saturday overton musings
From the link in the Bad Cattitude article.
Why Europe Fears Free Speech
If you buy an EV to help save the environment, what do you do with the old one?
Trade it ?
By rights you should have it crushed to keep it off the road
Yes.
@catturd2
?There’s a huge security issue going on here.
This has nothing to do with the weather.
But will he really be 47? Won’t he be 45 again?
Nice stats posted by Zafiro last evening about the not so illustrious AFL career of professional whinger Tony Armstrong.
Uncontested possessions outnumber contested possessions by a ratio of 4 to 1.
This indicates he is a squib who never got his own ball and relied on cheap hand-offs from others.
Unless they have some mercurial ability to kick goals from behind the hot-dog stand in the forward pocket, these types usually get spun out of the system pretty quickly.
I wonder why he lasted eight years with three clubs with such ordinary stats.
A sheepdog, to use the vernacular.
Never, ever to be found at the bottom of a pack. Detestable.
@bennyjohnson
Holy Smokes
The New Trump Cabinet just Assembled for their first group photo and it literally looks like team America
Will you get tired of winning?
don’t ever because the left never sleeps
Genuine question:
When an EV runs out of charge, does it go slower and slower until it dies out, or does it run at full steam then stop dead?
Enquiring minds, etc.
Lithium ion cells tend to catch fire when discharged too far so usually each cell turns itself off when it gets too low so it will just stop. Seen that on my electric drills.
They also can catch fire when over charged (charger and/or battery management system failure) or even when just sitting there minding their own business even under no load.
so you are driving down the highway at 110 kph and your battery dies, and behind you is a large truck.
Ranga:
It was a 2009 or 2010 5 series wagon 530 M. It had 190K on the clock and I got 3 grand as a trade in. Whoopee do.
The gear box feels like it’s about to go.
I was probably swiped for a couple of grand, but I couldn’t be fcked messing around trying to sell it some other way.