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Playing Scales, Carl Larsson, early 1900s

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 7:50 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Didn’t the Brits learn anything, when Harold Wilson declared “The rich would be taxed until their eyes bled” – and they wondered why so much money moved off shore, to tax havens?

Arky
January 23, 2025 8:09 pm

They don’t care.
Their plan is to bankrupt western nations so they are ripe for communist take over, and at the very least unable to oppose the global domination of the communist bloc, who have spent the last thirty years playing doggo.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 8:35 am

But but but …. we neeeeeeed to make the greedy bastards pay their ‘fair share’ ….

John H.
John H.
January 23, 2025 8:25 pm
Reply to  Indolent

The joint is falling apart. Masses is trying to get out of Britain. There are YT channels documenting the decline of once thriving cities and towns. Very sad. The millionaires are lucky, at least they have the means to escape.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 23, 2025 8:35 pm
Reply to  John H.

Bet they won’t receive a welcoming reception at Australia House if they try to emigrate here.

Wrong colour in many cases, and wrong political complexion in all cases.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 23, 2025 9:34 pm
Reply to  Indolent

UK’s millionaire exodus equal to losing 530,000 average taxpayers, study says

Adam Smith Institute (ASI) research, seen by The Daily Telegraph, showed that each of the millionaires who left Britain last year would have paid at least £393,957 in income tax per year.

So, around £4.25 billion pa fallen out of the UK tax net.

Not a problem, says a Top Man.

A Treasury spokesman said: “The Office for Budget Responsibility does not expect the non-dom reforms to negatively impact the economy, including indirect tax receipts, but do expect them to raise £33.8 billion over the next five years to help fund the public services and investment projects needed to drive growth.

So, with at least £21.5 billion gone already, that account means someone, somewhere is getting squeezed for an additional £55.3 billion by Starmer.

Luckily it’s going to be transferred out of the productive economy and spent on public services and government stuff.

So that will drive growth.

vr
vr
January 23, 2025 8:15 pm
Reply to  JC

Not surprising. This applies in other areas as well.

For example, UBER rates are different for personal and business rides.

John Brumble
John Brumble
January 24, 2025 5:26 pm
Reply to  vr

No. They aren’t.

You can choose a “Business Comfort” option, which essentially puts some of the same old-school Uber standards back in play and has a slightly larger minimum size for a vehicle (but since every single damn car is a Camry, it hardly matters), but there’s nothing stopping you ordering the standard ride from a business account. Or guarantee yourself the Camry you were going to get anyway and order a “Business Comfort” from your personal account.

Morsie
Morsie
January 23, 2025 7:48 pm

Watched 2 minutes of the eomrns semi.Dounds like a lesbian argy.Turned off.

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2025 8:51 pm
Reply to  Morsie

WTF? huh?

Foxbody
Foxbody
January 23, 2025 10:20 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Turned off spellcheck, I think.

Little Gidding
Little Gidding
January 23, 2025 11:43 pm
Reply to  Morsie

I expect you mean the Aus Open women’s semi finals. It’s good to watch with the sound muted.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 23, 2025 7:52 pm

Had to have a nap this arvo.
The winning.
It’s too much.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 23, 2025 7:57 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

If you just watched legacy media news services you’d know about 10% of what went on in Washington this week.
TwitterX has won on every front.
The reporting and the analysis.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 23, 2025 8:21 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Man, I nearly threw up my chicken parma watching Nein news tonight.
They did a hit piece on anchor babies.
They had footage which would topperer the best Pallywood can do.
A sad-faced Latino looking woman with her pregnant belly exposed being examined by a doctor/nurse/soundman with stethoscope out in the open air.
I think the messaging is that she can’t get time off from picking cotton/avocados/corn to go to the doctor.
They are totally missing the point.
Trump’s Secretary for Chucking Out Illegals has already said he doesn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about anchor babies.
If the parents are illegals, they’re out. If they choose to abandon their kid who was born in the US, that is on them.

Last edited 21 days ago by Sancho Panzer
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 23, 2025 10:26 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Whilst we can feel sympathy for them in their plight, these women probably got themselves pregnant to cheat the system.
One or two we can deal with but a hundred thousand is too much to ask for.
If there was a way to allow them to stay – with absolutely no family reunion, these women and their children would be a boon to the nation they came into. But it won’t stop there. The next bleeding heart administration would drop all the safeguards and allow the entire village in.
So we have to say no.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 8:37 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Lots of message traffic in the US about the constitutional meaning of the 14th amendment, and whether anchor babies are eligible for automatic US citizenship anyway

Indolent
Indolent
January 23, 2025 7:53 pm

May they long continue to be so. Even better if they ceased to exist.

The WEF is Afraid

Roger
Roger
January 23, 2025 7:56 pm

Had to have a nap this arvo.

The winning. It’s too much.

If you’d like a synopsis of today’s Diagnosis Murder episode…
Dover has my email.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 23, 2025 8:12 pm
Reply to  Roger

All good thanks.
I think I’ll pass.

Roger
Roger
January 23, 2025 8:20 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

No…it was a cracker!

Roger
Roger
January 23, 2025 8:21 pm
Reply to  Roger

Er…you do realise I’m joking?

My wife chides me that my humour is so dry only the dead get the punchline.

All in all it’s a lonely existence.

Insert appropriate emoticon here.

Last edited 21 days ago by Roger
Little Gidding
Little Gidding
January 23, 2025 11:45 pm
Reply to  Roger

You’re lucky that your wife even knows when you are asserting your humour. My wife needs explanations from my daughter.

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2025 8:55 pm
Reply to  Indolent

meh. They got what they voted for.

Arky
January 23, 2025 8:02 pm

We need on the occasion of Trumps victory remember how many died due to the communists over the last 100 years.
That few today know of the battles and the global struggle to contain this mad ideology is because we are not doing enough to tell it.
Because we let the communists fill our schools and universities and media with their lackeys.
This is why we came so close to losing America.
Make no mistake, the communists had spent the last few decades renaming, dressing up their old ideas in new clothes and infiltrating everywhere they needed to be to put an end to a free world of independent democracies.
Their plan was to take over politically in all countries and fool the people into thinking their ideas were popular and necessary, across many countries simultaneously and in coordination.
We were close to losing.
Thank God for Trump.

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2025 8:16 pm

Without a doubt, back in July 2024, Donald Trump’s life was saved by God.

As my late mother said at the time, watching the footage, there were angels on the podium that day. It was a miracle.

cohenite
January 23, 2025 8:17 pm

One of Trump’s best executive orders is summed up by this little ditty:

You can’t wave a wand
To alter your gender.
Science won’t fit in
With Your diversity blender.
I said it once
And I’ll say it again:
Women are women
And men are men.

Everything went perfectly at his inauguration; even when the music didn’t play. Carrie Underwood waited for the accompanying music to sing the national anthem; she was told the player had broken down and she gave the most moving rendition without music. Watch it; its about 4 minutes. Amazing.

CARRIE UNDERWOOD sings ‘AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL’ A CAPPELLA after the soundtrack didn’t turn on

As for the church service and nitwit bishop bitch; she’s had her 5 minutes in the Sun. Good riddance. If any federal money goes to her DEI fuking parish I hope Trump stops it.

Ceres
Ceres
January 23, 2025 10:06 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Carrie Underwood is an absolute star who handled the prolonged absence of music, and then was told just sing, magnificently.
“If you know the words, help me out” and proceeded to showcase her beautiful powerful voice with America the Beautiful. Finished off with a lovely gesture to the surrounding people. Full marks. The whole inauguration was wonderful in that breathtaking rotunda. Every day one can look forward to another “win” as Trump gets busy with chucking Biden’s crap, on the tip. It’s exciting.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 23, 2025 8:17 pm

We’re organising an age care package for some very reluctant parents in their late 80s. They can still vacum, wash clothes, clean benches etc but can’t bend over to scrub floors/ do the skirting boards etc. So we had a meeting with whoever organises this racket to say can you just get the cleaner to do the stuff they can’t (some of these cleaners are Toorak wives who turn up in luxury cars and are getting amazing hourly rates). Computer says no. OHS guides say they can’t bend over. But they can vacuum, wash clothes, clean benches etc.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 23, 2025 8:28 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

Just pay some cleaners. I do that for my late eighties mum. Hundred bucks a week.

calli
calli
January 23, 2025 8:37 pm

Agree with BoN. We went through all of this nonsense too. Ended up paying a cleaner who is a treasure.

Forget government programs.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 23, 2025 8:51 pm
Reply to  calli

We’ll end up doing that. The only reason we got involved in the racket was because it was rammed down their throat by some busybody after a minor fall and I had a brain fart moment and carried on about them paying usurious taxes all their lives and receiving very little back so why not claw a bit back now. As expected, it’s become a nightmare. Imagine spending that last years of your life being told by a nice lady with a clipboard how a generous government is going to carry you to the grave. At one point the nice lady was insisting on nutritious pre-made meals.
They told her to stick it. Their whole
routine is shopping, cooking and knocking of a good Shiraz. Governments disgust me.

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2025 9:00 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

DB,
what Bruce and Calli said.
Also, if you hire a non NDIS Cleaner, you can generally be sure they will do an excellent job.

John H.
John H.
January 23, 2025 9:17 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

Seligman will be turning in his grave. He was the asshole who did those terrible experiments on dogs and established the concept of learned helplessness. One of the worst things we can do with age is become idle. Housework is an excellent form of productive and meaningful exercise which is both aerobic and resistance training, enhancing balance by promoting co-ordination and muscle strength, which is vitally important because falls are a huge risk factor for older people that lead to broken bonesand brain damage which precipitates dementia, and then they’ll need much more than cleaners!

I mean Fme, who are the idiots designing these programs? Are they that effing stupid that they can’t think about second and third order consequences? Are they that incapable of thinking things through over months that I and many others can do during a social media rant?

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
January 24, 2025 5:49 am
Reply to  John H.

I think Seligman is still with us.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 8:19 pm

US troops at border as Operation Deport beginsDonald Trump’s border security and immigration crackdown is being implemented, with 1500 troops sent to the southwest border and deportation operations commencing.

From the Oz. Take note, Albo, this is how it’s done!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 23, 2025 8:34 pm

From the Oz:-

The use of the military to buttress security at the border came as congress passed the Laken Riley Act aimed at requiring the DHS to detain those living in the US illegally and who had been arrested for offences such as theft and ­assault of a police officer.

The new law, which makes it easier for immigration officials to detain and deport illegal migrants charged with crimes, will likely become the first bill signed into law by Mr Trump.

It passed the house by 236-156 with the support of 46 Democrats.

The law was named after a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed by an illegal migrant from Venezuela, Jose Ibarra, who had previously been arrested for theft, after she went out running in 2024 around the University of Georgia campus.

Despite the pleas of Bishop Bleeding-Heart, a few Dimocrats have sniffed the wind.
Twenty pussent of Dimocrats crossed the floor and a few others abstained or were no-shows.
The winning.
I need another Bex and a good lay down.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 23, 2025 8:42 pm

No-one makes fun of Diagnosis Murder and gets away with it.
No-one.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 23, 2025 8:48 pm

I think people will tire of Executive Orders in a few days.
Orange Hitler might want to re-brand them.
How about “Royal Decree from the Court of Donald the Second”?
Too wordy?
What about “Fatwah”?

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2025 9:00 pm

The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi

That’s how you deal with the left, you mop up the swill they throw your way and you chuck that swill right back in their faces.

As someone just texted me, citing Jewish Uncensored….

The same people that supported the real Nazis on October 7th are the ones now calling Elon Musk a Nazi. Let that sink in…

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2025 9:04 pm

Abso-f**king-lutely.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 23, 2025 10:29 pm

Some idiot said that he’d prefer not to trust the space program to someone who does the Nazi salute.

The replies have not been kind. The most subtle are along the lines of, “Who wants to tell him?”

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2025 10:44 pm

I can’t stop laughing!

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 8:45 am

Paging Werner Von Braun…..

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 24, 2025 9:16 am
Reply to  flyingduk

Exactly!

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 23, 2025 9:12 pm

DrBeauGan January 23, 2025 7:37 am

A religion which urges you to kill members of a race and murder apostates is going to be attractive to homicidal lunatics.

Their ABCess 7:30 just had Labor minister Ed Husic on who wanted to emphasise “In Australia nobody should feel uncomfortable and feel intimidated about practising their religion.”
That misguided fool is making the mistake of treating all religions the same, as though there are no significant differences. Newsflash, some religions are worse than others, but nobody on the news will dare actually say that.

Apparently islamophobic “attacks” (whatever that means) have been way up since Oct 7 2023. I think we can all agree that nobody* here is responsible for the actions taken half a world away in Gaza. That cuts both ways.

___
*= except for the 3000 Gazans given tourist visas.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 23, 2025 9:21 pm

“Islamophobic attacks” equals: Someone tugged my hijab on the train/bus.

Perhaps.

If they were more serious, the screeching would be audible beyond Mars.

Last edited 21 days ago by Boambee John
Top Ender
Top Ender
January 23, 2025 9:12 pm

At one stage Australia was considering the F104 Starfighter.

Ended up with the Dassault Mirage instead.

John H.
John H.
January 23, 2025 9:26 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

At Gulgong I remember watching them blasting through the sky.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 23, 2025 9:26 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

AM Scherger flew a Mirage and lurrrrrved the experience.

The RAAF choice for the Canberra replacement was the A-5 Vigilante, a carrier borne nuclear strike aircraft which the then Defence Minister rejected. It was withdrawn from service in November 1979, the F-111 stayed in service for many years after that.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 10:09 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Story reached my ears that the R.A.A.F regarded the worst possible case as loosing eight F- 111’s in the first two years.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 8:57 am

The Starfighter was dubbed the ‘widow maker’: Loss rates by country

  • Canada: Lost 46% of its F-104s, or 110 out of 235 
  • Germany: Lost 292 out of 916 aircraft, or about 30% 
  • Italy: Lost 137 out of its F-104s, or 38% 
  • Denmark: Lost 12 out of its F-104s, or 23.5% 

But Aussie Mirage losses were scarcely better at 42/116 = 36%.

F18 Losses have been much lower, 4/75 of the original classics and ? 1/12 Growlers and 1/24 Superhornets (loss numbers a bit iffy for those 2 variants).

Foxbody
Foxbody
January 24, 2025 10:41 am
Reply to  flyingduk

Was the loss rate due to the fact that the Starfighter- just about the most science fiction looking thing in the sky when new- was designed as a high speed, high altitude interceptor, but in service in Europe it mostly flew at lower altitudes and often in poor weather, as a strike aircraft?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 23, 2025 9:39 pm

“In Australia nobody should feel uncomfortable and feel intimidated about practising their religion.”

My dear old mum would have been pleased to hear that. She used to conduct human sacrifices by the light of the full moon. There were hardly any virgins left in the northern suburbs in her later days. Of course, there weren’t many before.

Last edited 21 days ago by DrBeauGan
Nelson_Kidd-Players
January 23, 2025 9:41 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha January 23, 2025 4:29 pm

JOSHUA

1 hour ago

New Zealand has about the same population as Queensland. NZ has 62,000 public servants and Queensland has 260,000 public servants…..anyone see a problem

From the Oz.

That’s running a nation, not a state existing below a federal government.

Foxbody
Foxbody
January 24, 2025 10:47 am

Exactly what I noticed – NZ has to run Foreign Affairs, “ Defence” etc. which Queensland does not have.
Does NZ have major Govt. activities carried out by contractors, or by local Govt?
If not, even allowing for geographic issues, QLD. must have at least twice the public service it needs – maybe 4 times, incredible though that seems, even for Australia.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 9:54 pm

Couple of after dinner single malts, and reading Jeffrey Cox’s monumental account of the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War Two – the futile attempts by the American, British, Dutch and Australian navies to halt the rapid Japanese advance of 1942.

Suffering a total defeat, his flagship, the De Ruyter a glowing blast furnace, the Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman ensured that the last lifeboat was filled with wounded sailors, and saw it pushed away from the ship. He then retired to his cabin and shot himself.

I’ve seen his memorial in Rotterdam – rather moving.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 23, 2025 10:49 pm

Doing up a book Australia’s Coastal War, about ALL of the actions around the continent in WWII.

Came across a Dutch civilian ship I’d never heard of the other day being sunk by Japanese surface units off NW Australia in early 1942. It was trying to make it to Oz, like so many others. It was such a big war.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 11:03 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

I’d look forward to reading that, Top Ender.

Foxbody
Foxbody
January 24, 2025 10:50 am

Me too.
I was surprised to learn, maybe 15 years ago, of the U-boat activity off Victoria and NZ.

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2025 9:56 pm

President Trump has reinstated Houthis as a Terrorist Organisation.
Winning!

MatrixTransform
January 23, 2025 9:58 pm

insane “anti-racist” conference at the Queensland University of Technology

these people are mental

Lee
Lee
January 23, 2025 10:33 pm

As I have said before, “anti-racists” are often themselves racists of the worst kind.

John H.
John H.
January 24, 2025 12:06 am
Reply to  Lee

They are great fun to debate because they are so easily maneuvered into stupid statements that reveal their hypocrisy.

MatrixTransform
January 23, 2025 10:10 pm

Mate in 1 … white to play

board-3
Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 23, 2025 10:41 pm

Well you’ve got me snookered.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 23, 2025 10:48 pm

D8 -D5 should wrap it up

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 23, 2025 10:49 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

D8- D4

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 23, 2025 10:50 pm

Q-D4 mate

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 23, 2025 11:04 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Parking queen bang up against king with a net around her is a great victory. Not as good as when you slay king with no queen and wide net though. Rare games

MatrixTransform
January 23, 2025 11:56 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

dunny … yr a player?

MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 12:04 am

and TE … righto, I’ll scale it up

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 24, 2025 5:55 am

On Chessworld,net as Aussietom if you want a game.

MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 10:39 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Tom, a year ago I bought my nephew a chess set

then I got on chess.com and rapidly found out exactly how bad a player I was.

started doing puzzles because I had no tactical vision

excellent at puzzles (95th percentile)

utterly average in a rapid 10minute game and I do much better with more time

busy lately learning defensive openings for black (Alekhine, Benko, Kings Indian etc)

haven’t been to chessworld.com … will sign up and find you when I get time

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 6:40 am

WQ- d4
Checkmate

Last edited 20 days ago by GreyRanga
Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 24, 2025 7:22 pm

got it now. Thanks.

Indolent
Indolent
January 23, 2025 10:12 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 10:20 pm

Regarding the Java Sea Campaign, earlier in the campaign, the British cruiser H.M.S. Exeter, suffered a hit by an 8 inch shell, from a Japanese cruiser.

Dock yard workers, repairing the damage, discovered the base plate to the shell – and discovered it was stamped “Made in Britain.”

John H.
John H.
January 23, 2025 10:28 pm

Damn Mr. Jung and his synchronicity! Before a FB prompt alerted me to some doofus I was watching below. Yeah, Drachinifel is back!

(44) Who had the best torpedoes of WW2? – YouTube

Lee
Lee
January 23, 2025 10:36 pm
Reply to  John H.

I often watch Drach on YouTube.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2025 11:01 pm
Reply to  John H.

The Japanese “Long Lance”, surely?

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:03 am
Reply to  John H.

Snap, I watched that last night!

JC
JC
January 23, 2025 10:35 pm

Prank calls, really stupid but had to laugh

Do you deliver?

Yes, we deliver.

I’d like a large pizza with liver and pineapple

We don’t do liver with pineapple

But you said you do-liver?

Garbled abuse and hang up.

——

Do you do takeaway?

Yes, we do takeaway

Okay, what’s 12 minus 6

Garbled abuse and hang up.

Zafiro
Zafiro
January 23, 2025 11:32 pm
Reply to  JC

An old Dago, who was a regular at the local pub where I lived 20 years ago, used to get me to score chicken livers for him. I was working at Steggles.

Fry-a dem up-a with-a de On-ion. Reckoned it was choice tucker. Nostalgic food from his peasant upbringing in Calabria etc I imagine.

Last edited 21 days ago by Zafiro
Lee
Lee
January 23, 2025 11:43 pm
Reply to  Zafiro

Yuck!

Bruce in WA
January 24, 2025 12:45 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Liver?

tenor
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 7:03 am
Reply to  dover0beach

Late FiL made lambs liver and onions worthy of Michelin star restaurants. Only thing he could cook. Wife liked his lobster mornay but he never used Gruyere so the sauce didn’t have the right taste.

MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 12:53 am
Reply to  JC

Fegatini di Pollo was the Old Man’s favourite

Little Gidding
Little Gidding
January 23, 2025 11:41 pm

I just spent half an hour on Facebook and now I need a hot shower to decontaminate. What a vile place it has become.

MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 12:40 am

removing the defender

white to play

board-4
MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 1:14 am

whoops … black to play

Hugh
Hugh
January 24, 2025 4:45 am

RxQ

MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 9:29 am
Reply to  Hugh

correct
white is in big trouble and will be checkmated in 1 or 2 moves

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:37 am

How did white get into that position in the first place.

Last edited 20 days ago by GreyRanga
MatrixTransform
January 24, 2025 9:32 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

probably castled queen-side

JC
JC
January 24, 2025 1:26 am

It’s a wonder chess hasn’t been called out as racist.

Simple Simon
Simple Simon
January 24, 2025 2:17 am
Reply to  JC

Wonder no more.

From 2020:

Why does white always go first in chess?

Protests over racism have rekindled a longstanding discussion about whether chess promotes white privilege with its rule that the first move always goes to the player with the white pieces. In this Q&A, Daaim Shabazz, an international business professor and chess journalist, offers insight into whether there’s any merit to the idea that the rule is meant to uphold white privilege.

https://theconversation.com/why-does-white-always-go-first-in-chess-141962

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:05 am
Reply to  Simple Simon

In true ‘never apologise’ … just agree with them: of ‘course whites go first’

JC
JC
January 24, 2025 2:35 am

lol

John H.
John H.
January 24, 2025 2:44 am

dover0beach

 January 24, 2025 12:31 am

 Reply to  Zafiro

Beef liver cooked just right (medium) in olive oil and a splash of vinegar served with a side of chips, with the oil/ vinegar mixture from the pan drizzled over the top is delicious.

Liver is an excellent source of a neglected nutrient: choline. Egg yolk also which is why I bought an egg cooker because it keeps the heat down to prevent nutrient destruction.

In fact, just 3 ounces (85 grams) of cooked beef liver provides 359 mgTrusted Source

, or 65% of the daily value (DV) of 550 mgTrusted Source

 for this nutrient.

Choline is a necessary substrate for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Ach falls through the floor in Alz. Ach plays a vital role in modulating brain inflammation, memory consolidation, and alertness. Studies suggest most people do not receive enough choline.

I checked …

Choline: The essential but forgotten nutrient | UNC NRI

BTW anyone who promotes paleo\carnivore but doesn’t promote organ meats is way off base.

Last edited 21 days ago by John H.
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 7:10 am
Reply to  John H.

Animals already know this. Thats why the internal organs are eaten first.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:06 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Factcheck: true

Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 24, 2025 4:06 am
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 24, 2025 4:18 am

A better account of the Afghani stabber in Germany:

Omarzai was known to police for at least three prior criminal offences. In each case he was sent away for psychiatric treatment and later released back to his residence. On one occasion he attacked and wounded a Ukrainian woman in his Alzenau refugee centre with a knife. He also attempted to rape another Ukrainian refugee, and locals in Alzenau report that the police were called to the centre multiple times because of Omarzai’s behaviour, which included public urination and breaking into his fellow residents’ rooms. Fellow refugees describe him as unpredictable, psychologically disturbed and dangerous.

In other words, the authorities knew of his behaviour, knew he wasn’t allowed to be in Germany, and refused to deport him.
Instead they waited until he completed the task he left in Germany for – murdering and terrorising the citizenry.
This is no longer excusable by the authorities. It is the deliberate foisting of a dangerous criminal onto a defenceless public for ideological ends.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 24, 2025 5:44 am

Beef liver cooked just right (medium) in olive oil and a splash of vinegar served with a side of chips, with the oil/ vinegar mixture from the pan drizzled over the top is delicious. (don’t forget the gently cooked onions)

Fegato alla Veneziana is delicious and is a family favourite – we mostly ate calf’s liver from our own hand-raised vealers — until I left home we ate only white meat, chicken, fish, veal and pork — it is very difficult to get good veal these days the butchers try to sell yearling as veal– nuh, if it bleeds red it ain’t veal

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Pogria
Pogria
January 24, 2025 6:45 am

Tinta,
I love liver and kidneys and heart.
I particularly love liver cooked Spanish style.
Slice the the liver thin, rub it with a paste made from fresh garlic, parsley, salt and pepper. Lemon zest is also wonderful.
Then, dip the slices into breadcrumbs, egg, then breadcrumbs again.
Pan fry quickly in olive oil.
Liver Schnitzel, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

And yes, that is correct, NOT flour, egg, crumbs.
Crumbs, egg, crumbs. The initial layer of crumbs prevents the gooiness that can sometimes happen with flour. If you want to go flash, crumbs, egg, then Panko crumbs. mmmmmmmmmmm

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 24, 2025 7:27 am
Reply to  Pogria

Wow sounds sensational will certainly give it a go – the Sunbather needs to have some of that good stuff. We had our own chickens and Mum would include in her ragu the liver, heart and kidneys (tiny though they were – it added a certain sappore – I miss my mamma even after a quarter of a century that she’s gone. Her sister, my Zia Ida in Italy died last Saturday, the last of my parents’ generation, it makes me very nostalgic and sad.

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:31 am

Ladies it is so nice to engage in food discussion. The young women I come across have very little interest in food. One DiL is the finest pastry chef yet has no interest in other cooking. Other DiL can’t cook at all. Was brought up on takeaways. Son is slowly introducing her to a wide variety.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:21 am
Reply to  Pogria

Is there a cuisine around the Mediterranean thats not fantastic. Saw Rick Stein in Turkey. His Turkish guide and interpreter suggested they are really just variations ofthe same things ,such is the mixing of cultures over millennia.

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 7:31 am

Wish I’d been brought up on wog food. Nana had a restaurant, mum never got the cooking genes. Managed to make everything taste the same. My Italian aunt never got the genes either. Ate the plainest food. Had a magnificent garden but I don’t recall it coming across the table. I lived with them for a while and guess my memory is failing. I miss them more than my parents, thats not hard as I don’t miss them in the slightest.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 24, 2025 8:56 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

That’s sad GreyRanga but sometimes the old adage you can pick your friends but not your relatives is true for some. My daughter-in-law a case in point – but takes all kinds to make a world. I miss my Dad too — he was a violent alcoholic with no education and I guess he dragged his father’s brutti vizi into his life. But he was a very staunch loather of Cough-up Whitlam and the Labor spivs

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 24, 2025 6:00 am

Nice work promoting the Democratic vote around the country:

The Trump administration has started rounding up violent undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities all over the country, including the alleged leader of a Haitian gang and murder and rape suspects in Boston.

The agitated Haitian migrant, who wasn’t named but who has 17 recent convictions, said he ‘ain’t going back to Haiti’ as he was placed in a police car.

‘Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!’ the migrant added.

ICE officers in Boston said they also arrested multiple MS-13 gang members in the Boston raids.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 24, 2025 6:01 am

Try 2:

Nice work promoting the Democratic vote around the country:

The Trump administration has started rounding up violent undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities all over the country, including the alleged leader of a Haitian gang and murder and rape suspects in Boston.

The agitated Haitian migrant, who wasn’t named but who has 17 recent convictions, said he ‘ain’t going back to Haiti’ as he was placed in a police car.

‘Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!’ the migrant added.

ICE officers in Boston said they also arrested multiple MS-13 gang members in the Boston raids.

Daily Mail

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 24, 2025 6:04 am

More Trumpening!

Hundreds of transgender federal prisoners are living in fear after a ’round-up’ that will send them packing to men’s lock-ups following a day one executive order from new president Donald Trump.

Now lawyers are desperately trying to find a way to fight the order saying the prisoners will have ‘a target on their backs’ as they move in with hardened male inmates.

‘It’s going to be incredibly dangerous,’ one lawyer told DailyMail.com.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 7:34 am
Reply to  Top Ender

I thought they’d like hardened male inmates, or were they just saying they’re trannies to get access to women in prison.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 24, 2025 9:27 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

I thought they’d like hardened male inmates…

Wording!

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
January 24, 2025 1:23 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Why can’t they just put trans in their own prisons? Seems to more of them in the system than women. Actually, don’t bother. It’s known why.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2025 6:10 am

BHP sacking labour hire companies because of no-show jobs really should be getting more coverage.

What does a union official do when they call time?
Get a job in the union super ecosystem (we really need to stop calling it industry super).
Or set up a labour hire company that gets sweet deals from larger labour hire companies.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
January 24, 2025 7:05 am

Winston Smith – 23/1 @ 06:06
Spot on. Think back to Hardrian in Judea which caused the first Jewish Disporea.
A lagre cutler of people of a similar race in a foreign country sticking to their rules, customs, langauge, trading on with eachother and marrying each other and then asking the homelanders to change for them.
this causes resentment, hatred, impatience and then violence.
The filthy USSR did this on steriods.
Hawke and Evans, that so called giant intellectual, agree now that opening Australia to Chinese immigration was a mistake.
these people are immature post pubescent adolescence.They are Rick/Spotty/Silent P from the young ones.
Albo/ Wong etc do not understand what they are doing.
All they are “are wonna be Eastern Suburbs English Protestants”.
The afternoon of tennis in Perth with Albo and Weatherall – Far out.
We can take solace people have been this dumb for over 150 years – maybe we are not as useless as we think.

Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 7:29 am

What does a union official do when they call time?

Get a job in the union super ecosystem (we really need to stop calling it industry super).

Or a $50 per hour bag carrier with NDIS. Or get an abo mate to set up an indigenous company with him to plug into the abo industry pigs trough. Many options for union parasites.

vr
vr
January 24, 2025 7:30 am

So, the Journal has an article about a new restaurant (Butterworth’s) in DC where all the Trump connected and MAGA people hangout. It has a photo of Rita Panahi taking a selfie with one of the investors.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 24, 2025 7:58 am
Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 8:16 am

What is shocking is that there is no comment from any governments, none are even surprised. Doesn’t this mean that the UN is at war with Israel?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2025 8:06 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:13 am
Reply to  feelthebern

I recognise they are all muzzie-commie shiiteholes.

Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 8:07 am

I see Dutton has again displayed his total lack of a spine by doubling down on his commitment to the global warming hoax and keeping us in the ruinous Paris accords. His WEF credentials remain intact, a good UNiparty apparatchik. I’m sure he reckons the SFL’s will win on a Bradbury just by standing in front of the one Aussie flag, removing yet more freedoms and getting digital ID up. Wow, so much winning!

PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
January 24, 2025 12:43 pm
Reply to  Makka

Makka – I have had considerable success saying ‘no’ to digital identity. It is written into law as ‘voluntary.’ ANAO did an audit of Finance (who ran the DI Interim Oversight Authority) and pinned them on the question of non-DI alternatives. Which Finance have been acting on now. The Departments and Agencies are fighting it (via a devious ‘failing to disclose’ basis) but the law also articulates, ‘federal agencies and departments do not get an exemption’ from the law. Always refuse, no matter what. Always flag the law and that no agency/department get an exemption. Always demand the non-DI alternative.

KevinM
KevinM
January 24, 2025 8:10 am

True?
Better get ready for the couch then.

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Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 8:22 am
Reply to  KevinM

I had it even worse than that, used to wrap up an ice pack in a towel and put under my feet.

Hot flushes were quite embarrassing, I had one while talking to a client who became concerned and asked if I was OK. I had to sheepishly explain the cause.

Bruce in WA
January 24, 2025 10:17 am
Reply to  Crossie

Friend of ours used to claim she didn’t have “hot flushes”; she had “power surges”.

KevinM
KevinM
January 24, 2025 8:13 am

 The Far Side by Gary Larson 

I’ll still take the worst accordion polka over the best rap tune any day.
Or;
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2025 9:10 am
Reply to  KevinM

A gentleman is a man who can play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.

Pogria
Pogria
January 24, 2025 11:06 am
Reply to  KevinM

I have the complete set of Gary Larson.
I have been a fan for decades.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
January 24, 2025 8:14 am

Dutton is differentiating around the edges that we do not care about. He won’t touch hyper-immigration or the net zero scam, or preserve freedom of speech or bodily autonomy.

I read a claim that he was going to go all Trumpish on us but pointed out that it isn’t possible because Dutton has the charisma of a fence post.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
January 24, 2025 8:14 am

But “I” pointed out…

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 8:35 am

I read a claim that he was going to go all Trumpish on us but pointed out that it isn’t possible because Dutton has the charisma of a fence post

It is debatable whether the Australian political system could ever deliver a Trump should one emerge on the political stage. Certainly Dutton is not it, although his lack of charisma is neither here nor there for mine. On the Voice he got there in the end but it hardly inspired confidence. The fate of Kennett, Newman, even Abbott suggests there is no hidden appetite for hard decisions, rapid change or tough love in the broader electorate. At best you get some amelioration after the damage is done. That would seem to be where Qld is and Victoriastan hasn’t even made it that far.

Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 8:40 am
Reply to  H B Bear

On the Voice he got there in the end but it hardly inspired confidence.

Yes- if it wasn’t for Jacinta, all Dutton would manage is a few squeals while hiding behind the bushes. No spine, no conviction.

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:24 am
Reply to  H B Bear

That would seem to be where Qld is and Victoriastan hasn’t even made it that far.

It doesn’t help that most of Victoria has moved to Queensland.

Roger
Roger
January 24, 2025 10:12 am
Reply to  Crossie

Public service refugees from Kennett’s VIC changed the political landscape of SE QLD noticeably.

It is hoped the current crop have a different mindset.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 24, 2025 8:20 am

Well you should’ve thought about that before illegally issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

ICC fears Trump sanctions will destroy organization (23 Jan)

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is afraid that it could be “destroyed” by American sanctions imposed by the new Trump Administration, ICC officials told the Guardian.

The officials stated that US sanctions could “shut the court down entirely.”

Good. Rabz the lot of them.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:41 am

and this is a negative.

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:25 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

I expect you meant to put a question mark there.

KevinM
KevinM
January 24, 2025 8:20 am

Rugged Beauty

At first glance you might think these Bison must be cold, after all the temperature was below zero the morning I came across this scene. There is, however, a way to know that they are not.

Wildlife of all sorts grow protective Winter coats and layers of fat that keep them warm. If they are well fed, healthy and not overly stressed, their coats will not allow much body heat to escape.

If these Bison had been unwell, the snow would be melted by escaping body heat.
It is a gritty life in Yellowstone but they do this grand place justice with their own rugged beauty.

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Pogria
Pogria
January 24, 2025 11:09 am
Reply to  KevinM

Kevin,
SBS had an excellent documentary series on the American Bison.
It is probably available to view on SBS on Demand.
Well worth the time.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 24, 2025 11:11 am
Reply to  KevinM

We can play “Count the Bison”.
You’d think if they were cold, they would clump together, but they’re not even doing that.

cohenite
January 24, 2025 8:21 am

This is the worry for Trump:

Two Republicans voted against advancing Mr. Hegseth’s nomination: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

Pete Hegseth narrowly clears Senate test vote, poised for final confirmation on Friday – Washington Times

Just like here, conservatism is always betrayed by faux conservatives. Duttie has come out and said he’s staying with little johnnie’s Paris suck up, ruinables and trannies are great.

Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 8:29 am
Reply to  cohenite

Such is the growing loathing for Albo and Labor, Dutton figures that all he has to do to get the big job is show up. We are hopelessly fkd.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 8:40 am
Reply to  Makka

He may be right. Australia has been here before. I would say Abbott and Albo fell into the same boat.

Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 8:43 am
Reply to  H B Bear

He is. That’s why I said we are hopelessly fkd.

“Would you like the sh*t sandwich? Or the sh*t sandwich with jam?”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:56 am
Reply to  cohenite

Collins is up for re-election in the mid terms but Murkowski 2028. Hope Trump disendorses Collins.

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:28 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

Even if the election goes to a Democrat how different would that be from how Collins votes in Senate?

calli
calli
January 24, 2025 8:57 am
Reply to  cohenite

Chicks.

Every. Single. Time.

Wake up wymmyn! You are on a losing strategy. The noodle armed will not protect you.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 24, 2025 9:24 am
Reply to  cohenite

It doesn’t help but the Senate sits (nominally) at 53-47.
So this won’t defeat the nomination.
I can’t figure out how a dead-set conservative state like Alaska keeps returning that RINO, Murkyowski.
I suspect both Collins and Murkyowski know their cards are marked, so are just digging in.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
January 24, 2025 10:12 am
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Alasks instigated Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in 2020. Their system of our preferential voting system.
Wonder of Wonders, Moocowskid, was behind after the first round and then the left wing loonies BIRM second votes started its ascension to victory.
Perhaps there is a need for Alaskans to call for a recall election and send this creature to the ignominious defeat it deserves.

KevinM
KevinM
January 24, 2025 8:25 am

Sheep farmers have always some tasks coming up.
You’d be surprised by the number of sheep there, what do they eat?
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January is crutching time on our merino sheep husbandry timetable.

That’s removing the wool from around their eyes (so they’re not ‘wool blind’), their bum (so the poo doesn’t cling, attracting blow flies) and for the guys, their pizzle (aka their old fella, also to stop blowfly strike).

The crutching team work their way through our sheep once the fellas get them to the yards, and we take over again post haircut.
The weather has been pleasantly cool thus far, a far cry from
summer! (2021)

Trilby Station

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Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:27 am

@GuntherEagleman

HOLY SHIT HE DID IT!

Trump signed the Executive Order to unseal the RFK, JFK, and MLK Jr. files.

This is HUGE!!!

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:11 am
Reply to  Indolent

My only concern is they have had 60 years to ‘misplace’ whatever they want to

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:30 am
Reply to  flyingduk

There will be nothing there worth the effort.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:28 am

@EricLDaugh

HOLY SHLIT. Trump called him out!

TRUMP: Speaking of you [Bank of America CEO] – I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives. People are complaining the banks aren’t allowing them to do business. Bank of America – they don’t take conservatives.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:29 am

And the usual, supposedly R, suspects are already saying they’ll vote no on Hegseth.

@SenRickScott
By day three, the Obama Admin had 12 nominees confirmed, but it’s now four days into Pres. Trump’s term, & Democrats have only allowed one cabinet nominee to get a vote.

Democrats clearly want to undermine the American people & Trump’s agenda by stalling his nominees. We can’t let it happen!

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:31 am
Reply to  Indolent

If it’s a simple majority, Republicans have it therefore it’s the recalcitrant Republicans who are holding them up.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:30 am

He can give them his last cent, but that still won’t make America take any notice of their rubbish.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg offers to step in after Trump withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 8:50 am
Reply to  Indolent

Aren’t I such a hero, saving the planet from nothing.

Pogria
Pogria
January 24, 2025 11:16 am
Reply to  Indolent

Tax write-off.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:34 am
132andBush
132andBush
January 24, 2025 8:35 am

Haha.
Trump to the WEF Davos scum. – GFYourselves!

And I’ll state this now, Dutton and the Stupid Fcking Liberals and Nats will NOT be getting my vote until they completely can the “green power” scam.
Almost everything else is secondary.
The volume of money set to flow OUT of the country if it gets up and running as planned will completely bankrupt us virtually overnight, as if things aren’t bad enough now.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 24, 2025 8:37 am

In Airstrip One, a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party.
Another Least Said Soonest Mended would’ve worked if it wasn’t for that meddling Musk moment.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 24, 2025 8:40 am

My colleague here isn’t prone to hyperbole so what she said was quite alarming.
The bloke who murdered the Quambatook woman threatened my colleague because there was no food in the bain marie. This was because the shop was just opened.
Cops said that she was lucky because they know his background.
And it isn’t his first rodeo. Already done time for murder.
So of course once out they can’t be in affluent areas like Teals seats. It’s disgraceful

chrisl
chrisl
January 24, 2025 10:28 am
Reply to  Black Ball

What age was the lady from Quambatook ? We think we might know of her daughter

KevinM
KevinM
January 24, 2025 8:41 am

The Beer whisperer
January 24, 2025 8:14 am

Dutton is differentiating around the edges that we do not care about. He won’t touch hyper-immigration or the net zero scam, or preserve freedom of speech or bodily autonomy.

——————
He should look at this option.

Maybe Dutton ought to ask Russia for a quote to get our nuke power plant on-line quicker.
Just delivered the billionth kWh of power, plus heating in winter.
Not bad for a floating barge, that could be placed practically anywhere.

Akademik Lomonosov is a non-self-propelled power barge that operates as the first Russian floating nuclear power station.

The ship was named after academician Mikhail Lomonosov. It is docked in the Pevek harbour, providing heat to the town and supplying electricity to the regional Chaun-Bilibino power system

lom
flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:13 am
Reply to  KevinM

NOt a bad idea… could potentially be towed out to see and sunk if there was a Chernobyl event

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:36 am
Reply to  flyingduk

And towed to any town along the coast at a few hours notice, practically quicker than fixing downed power lines.

KevinM
KevinM
January 24, 2025 9:43 am
Reply to  flyingduk

I didn’t look at the specs but I’m sure there is a provision for that.

BTW Chernobyl tech was like a stone age club against an AK 47, not to mention humans mishandling the situation, but enough said about that already.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 24, 2025 11:23 am
Reply to  flyingduk

Yep – move it out to the Marianas Trench if possible.
It could also be towed to any city suffering a weather related crisis – Darwin for example.

Jock
Jock
January 24, 2025 8:44 am

Just a few comments on Dutton and the fed libs. His statement that he is sticking to net zero because of trade repercussions is crape. The real reason Morrison agreed was the aukus deal and nuclear subs. Trade doesn’t matter. We export various stuff to the EU and UK but they export more finished goods to us. They need the stuff we send to them to make stuff. We can get by without a new Mercedes or champagne. The trade argument is a con I first heard from Matt kean. None of our other trade partners really give a fig for net zero. China?
I will point out that half the libs are moderates / wets who are really LINOs. He has to deal with them too.

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
January 24, 2025 9:22 am
Reply to  Jock

This is why grassroots participation is important. The wets got Gisele Kapterian up in Bradfield because they curate small branches with a few dedicated people they trust and exclude everyone else. They then play the politics of patronage, go along with the herd and reap the personal benefits.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 24, 2025 9:27 am
Reply to  Jock

We can get by without a new Mercedes or champagne.

Excuse moi?
Hush yo mouth, boy!

Kel
Kel
January 24, 2025 10:41 am
Reply to  Jock

Quite true Jock

4% of our exports go to Europe and 84% of our exports go to Asian countries who don’t give a cr&p about climate change cr@p.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 24, 2025 11:27 am
Reply to  Jock

The Australian economy is mired in regulatory ropes. Ant of them that are removed are replace by others so that there’s no net benefit.
The ONLY way out is mass deregulation and no party has the guts to do so.
We are ruled by intellectual pygmies with no intention of ever being brave.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
January 24, 2025 12:56 pm
Reply to  Jock

We need this guy to pay us a visit

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Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 24, 2025 8:47 am

https://nitter.poast.org/MargoMartin47/status/1882528183981146394#m

President @realDonaldTrump signs an Executive Order to declassify the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files!

It’S HaPpEnINg, It’S HaPpEnINg!

Cassie of Sydney
January 24, 2025 8:48 am

On 29 July 2024, a little indigenous white girl by the name of Elsie Dot Stancombe (a northern name if there ever was one) was virtually decapitated by the Welsh choir boy at a Taylor Swift holiday dance party.

Ahhhh but don’t you dare forget you ghastly, racist, far-right white working class scum, diversity is our strength, even when they’re slashing your throats and decapitating your children. Herr Sturmer and the UK establishment have told you! And yesterday, like the good progressive far-left Nazi Der Sturmer goons they are, the UK MSM are still continuing to gaslight and spruik lies about the Welsh choir boy. I suppose it’s understandable, they have to protect their man in Downing Street, the sinister adulterer and Stalinist, Herr Sturmer. Poor old Blob Johnson lost his job because of a Covid party cover up but Herr Sturmer remains safe in his job despite far worse cover ups.

So, do we laugh or do we cry? I will not laugh because doing that disrespects little Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King. Personally, I think we need to cry.

As for the Welsh choir boy, he should be executed.

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Anders
Anders
January 24, 2025 8:50 am

Paywalled so I can’t read it, but seems like the ‘renewables’ transition and our wonderful green future is going great in SA:

Emergency diesel backstop to prop up grid

A rule change will see two diesel generators used to prop up the South Australia grid as the state struggles to reconcile renewables with ensuring grid security.

This is after they got some new batteries online that were meant to shut down some of the peaking plants.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 8:55 am
Reply to  Anders

SA interconnectors are behind schedule to support the beggar thy neighbour renewable dream.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:14 am
Reply to  Anders

*Two* diesel generators, two?. Problem sorted then!

Foxbody
Foxbody
January 24, 2025 11:12 am
Reply to  flyingduk

Did they fail to mention any open cycle gas turbines? About the least “green” power you can have, quietly installed after that posturing ninny, Weatherall, blew up a coal fired power station to the acclamations of the greens and arts biased elite.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 8:51 am

Might pull this down from nested comment to see what others think. Too easily lost otherwise.

H B Bear
 January 24, 2025 8:35 am

 Reply to  The Beer whisperer

I read a claim that he was going to go all Trumpish on us but pointed out that it isn’t possible because Dutton has the charisma of a fence post

It is debatable whether the Australian political system could ever deliver a Trump should one emerge on the political stage. Certainly Dutton is not it, although his lack of charisma is neither here nor there for mine. On the Voice he got there in the end but it hardly inspired confidence. The fate of Kennett, Newman, even Abbott suggests there is no hidden appetite for hard decisions, rapid change or tough love in the broader electorate. At best you get some amelioration after the damage is done. That would seem to be where Qld is and Victoriastan hasn’t even made it that far.

Last edited 20 days ago by H B Bear
Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 9:01 am
Reply to  H B Bear

there is no hidden appetite for hard decisions, rapid change or tough love in the broader electorate. 

The majority of Aussies really don’t consider political issues past the next Budget. If they think at all about their Govt, it’s policies, their competence etc. The country is sinking fast into a 3rd world status before their eyes but far too many haven’t a fkg clue.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 9:15 am
Reply to  Makka

There does seem to have developed a “no one worse off” culture around political decision making. Politics is in essence making decisions about who benefits and who doesn’t. Turnbull’s 70c GST floor for WA has cost the Cth (ie us) billions.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 9:18 am
Reply to  Makka

The NVES (new vehicle emissions standards) might change that – they effectively outlaw Twin Cab utes and SUVs within 5 years. These make up 8 of the top 10 new car sales.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 9:21 am
Reply to  flyingduk

“Mate, not me Ranger.”

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 10:10 am
Reply to  H B Bear

I just ordered a DMax, too much message traffic about the ‘wet belt’ in the Ranger BiTurbo motor, and the reliability issues resulting from cramming 10 speeds into the box using only the space previously allotted to 6.

WTF does a torque rich diesel need 10 speeds btw??

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2025 10:43 am
Reply to  flyingduk

Its to keep it in the optimum rev range for fuel consumption figures. Being a non cvt gearbox the extra gears in the same space are probably better quality steel and the stress isn’t as great as the spread between gears is much closer. This time last year when in NZ I had a ride in a Raptor with V6 turbo with upgrades. Nearly 400Kw on tap.

Foxbody
Foxbody
January 24, 2025 11:15 am
Reply to  flyingduk

Same reason we get 4cyl Prados now – bullshit Euro CO2 emissions regulations.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 9:19 am
Reply to  Makka

The country is sinking fast into a 3rd world status before their eyes but far too many haven’t a fkg clue.

Donald Horne’s observations on the lucky country are as true today as when they were made.

Roger
Roger
January 24, 2025 10:20 am
Reply to  H B Bear

If only we had unimaginative second rate leaders.

What we have is wreckers driven by ideology.

Last edited 20 days ago by Roger
alwaysright
alwaysright
January 24, 2025 9:31 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Lack of money, overseas travel severely limited by exchange rate, utes banned, blackouts, excise creates a virtual prohibition, welfare reductions for starters. Then the peasants might get restless.

Don’t cry for me Austrantina.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 24, 2025 9:37 am
Reply to  alwaysright

Nothing like a trip to the FX dealer to tell you you are going backwards. Ask a Japanese.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 24, 2025 10:12 am
Reply to  H B Bear

It works both ways …my BTC and PMs go up when the AUD goes down

Cassie of Sydney
January 24, 2025 8:55 am

Almost everything else is secondary.

No, not for me, my safety is primary. I and other Jews no longer feel safe under the Jew hating Slug from Grayndler.

132andBush
132andBush
January 24, 2025 9:13 am

That’s why I said “almost”.
A very close second if not equal top is who’s coming in and dealing properly with the problem already in the door.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:55 am
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 24, 2025 11:40 am
Reply to  Indolent

Jeez.
That’s tough.
Someone treating them like the men they are.
FAFO.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
January 24, 2025 9:01 am
Reply to  Indolent

Good. Arrest, detention, trials and jail terms for them all.

calli
calli
January 24, 2025 9:40 am

Including Bowser, who runs the whole disgusting DC sh*t show.

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2025 9:56 am
Reply to  Indolent

Really stupid people who never imagined that there could be a change in government.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 24, 2025 10:17 am
Reply to  Crossie

Really stupid people who never imagined that there could be a change in government.

Not quite.
They thought Trump and the MAGA movement were done, and any incoming RINO administration would applaud what they had done anyway.

Last edited 20 days ago by Sancho Panzer
Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 8:59 am

@RealRyanNichols

I’m resharing this because I don’t think you fully grasp the highlighted words..

This is a Federal Judge in Washington DC admitting he believes I was tortured, and should be released, but refused to let me go anyways.

Imagine the green light this put on our heads when a corrupt DC Judge basically tells the world that, “Yes you were mistreated and abused, I should let you go, but I refuse to free you because of who you voted for.”

By making this statement, it gave the DC Jail the permission they needed to go even HARDER on us.

When you find out everything they did to J6ers on American soil, you’ll be sick to your stomach.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2025 9:04 am

@JamesOKeefeIII

‘THE DEEP STATE IS REAL:’ White House Advisor Reveals How Bureaucracy Protects “Its Own Interests,” Predicts Bureaucracy Will ‘Crush’ RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary; “If I Was Given an Order… I Would Either Try to Block It or Resign”

“RFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS… it’s probably a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him.”

“Can you give me an example of how you think they’ll do it when RFK, like if he gets in?”

Describes a ‘fake commission’ to “Make him [RFK Jr.] think something is happening when it’s not…”

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
January 24, 2025 9:15 am
Reply to  Indolent

A bunch of betas who don’t believe in their own agenda. If RFK is so horribly wrong, letting him fail miserably would be the quickest and most lasting way of discrediting his agenda. Instead, they play a bunch of silly games to stop anyone knowing what is real and what is not. It’s pretty much everything they do and pollymuppets that think they can just ride that bollocks are part of the problem.

Makka
Makka
January 24, 2025 9:19 am
Reply to  Indolent

Big Pharma and Big Food mega $$$$’s are all lined up against RFKjnr. He has a monumental task. May God bless him.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 24, 2025 9:33 am
Reply to  Makka

Also the health bureaucracy is entirely captured by the Left. CDC employees donated 99.95% to the Democrats.

Since the Democrats regard RFKjr as a traitor they will go all out to destroy him. Therefore he should gut the CDC and HHS utterly, since it’s the only way to remove the infection.