DumbASS have put out a statement saying resumption of hostilities is a death sentence on hostages.
Open Thread – Mon 17 March 2025
- WolfmanOz at the Movies #97
- Open Thread – Mon 17 March 2025
- Give Peace a Chance
- Open Thread – Weekend 15 March 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 13 March 2025
Friends of Hamas dutifully reporting the score: Gaza rescuers say death toll from Israeli strikes rises to 121 Gaza’s civil…
Er, yes it has, we are well past the second act. Israel has been fighting Hamas in Gaza for years……
I’m not a fan of car chases, but the Bullit one is amazing, and able to be watched again and…
I still frequented there till it started getting a tad out there and lurked a lot longer till it went…
Irish boxer Conor McGregor in full flight in White House visit:
‘What is going on in Ireland is a travesty. Our government is the government of zero action with zero accountability. Our money is being spent on overseas issues that is nothing to do with the Irish people.
‘The illegal immigration racket is running ravage on the country.
‘There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop, that have become a minority in one swoop, so issues need to be addressed and the 40 million Irish Americans, as I said, need to hear this because if not there will be no place to come home and visit.’
Any chance he can enter Irish politics?
Daily Mail
Any chance they can dig up the thousands of weapons the IRA buried in the countryside and do something about it?
Or is the IRA on the wrong side?
The NIMBY noise complaints about late night venues in Sydney:
Snork.
Nobody laughs with him anymore.
Today’s ABC article on energy moves the debate towards gas as the best and cheapest option for relieving power prices whilst the big renewables transition occurs. To do this we should cut back on gas exports and build up reserves. Ian Verrender’s article unlike Kohler’s article yesterday (see my post at 9.15am yesterday) doesn’t mention the futility of pursuing net zero but moves into why gas is needed, coal is out of contention because plants are old and and they can’t fire up quick enough and have to compete with “cheap” renewables. Nuclear according to Verrender is also out of the equation because it’s too expensive and takes too long to construct and he tosses in the word “dangerou” for good measure. My guess is that this is now close to the position that Labor will take to the election. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/household-electricity-prices-gas-exports-nuclear-renewable-power/105060854
Yep, faced with the reality of disastrous ‘net zero’ policies, proponents are now weasel-wording and deflecting all over the place. The targets for blame vary, but they never admit what the actual cause of the problem is.
How long they get away with it remains to be seen, but the SFLs are certainly not helping to introduce rational discussion. In fact, they are just doing the same thing.
Still, it could signal the beginning of the end. Let’s hope so.
COP30 in Brazil should be the last such meeting as the world can no longer afford any more of renewables wastefulness. By the way, I wonder how much of the funding for this shindig came from the USAID billions since Brazil could afford a whole new highway through the jungle to the venue.
We are now at peace with Eurasian gas.
We have always been at peace with Eurasian gas.
Wont wash with the Greens. Will the Liars risk those preferences?
Bowen still very much in “Let them eat cake” mode.
The Salvadorians do have a quite firm approach, I must say:
Photos: First Look at Trump’s Deported Gang Members Arriving at El Salvador’s Mega-Prison (17 Mar)
It certainly seems to work.
Salvadorans have a Trump-like president who is doing what they want and not to please the elites and the criminals.
Not so frigging smug and tough now, are they?
what did joe know?
Quite witty writing style, and worth reading for that alone. “A few fries short of a happy meal”!
@baldwin_daniel_
The DOJ responds to Judge Boasberg:
Bondi highlights immediately “the Court lacks the jurisdiction” to interfere with Trump’s national security and foreign affairs authority.
They also say Trump’s role as Commander in Chief is “not subject to judicial review or intervention.”
This is rubbish. The quicker these lines if argument get put to SCOTUS the better. I don’t think they’ll overrule Marbury v Madison.
Seems that the Toodyay Land Corporation has got their milch cow established. Now no-one will touch a wet rock without paying simony to the Mob, lest they scare away the snuffaluffagus snake who also is the water.
Note, their ABC also aims a spit at Tony Maddox.
Dammit, link.
Toodyay Shire has their blackmail delayed, probably because being public serpents, they’re perpetually in and out of hand-patting workshops, and so can plead guilty and innocent simultaneously. No such luck for Maddox, even though he was *checks notes* doing exactly the same thing as the shire workers, ie repairing an existing structure.
There’s a long letter in the local paper, from the chairman of the local Aboriginal Corporation, complaining that Noongar people have unfairly taken the brunt of the issue, and continue to be targeted…
Masterclass indeed.
@EricLDaugh
STEPHEN MILLER GOES OFF ON ROGUE JUDGES: “If a district court judge can be involved in the conduct of foreign policy, under no definition do we have a democracy in this country.
“If we get into a place in this country where district court judges could interfere and direct specific targeting or non-targeting, and say who to control territory? Could direct which general on the battlefield is gonna be in charge of making which decisions? Could direct where we can send this military asset to this country, but not this country? Could direct what intelligence we could share with Israel versus with Saudi Arabia?”
“I mean, you know, not to get too philosophical, but the for a long time in this country, its power has been concentrated principally in, in two areas, the unelected bureaucracy and the unelected judiciary.”
“And power has been increasingly concentrated in these two areas. And in the case of, the hard left, the the judiciary takes steps to protect the bureaucracy, and that further shrinks the circle in which democracy is occurring.”
“This is really fundamentally about democracy. The American people said to get these terrorist gangs the H*LL out of our country, the president has plenary authority under the constitution, under the Alien Enemies Act, under core Article 2 powers to achieve that.”
“And no district court judge who presides over some small, like, little geography of the whole country could possibly presume to have the authority to direct the expulsion of terrorists from our soil, who, by the way, are also here illegally.”
Masterclass! @StephenM
A judiciary that overlooks the “illegally” part of the whole thing is not to be taken seriously as they have completely abandoned their duties.
@JDVance
There were violent criminals and rapists in our country. Democrats fought to keep them here.
President Trump deported them.
The people understand that but the media are not capable of it.
The media aren’t aware of it because they choose to be unaware of it.
So that tells us the murders, rapes and bashings have been happening to the wrong people, doesn’t it?
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: The FBI’s Joint Terror?sm Task Force is now getting involved with the swattings of conservatives, including the attack on my father
The FULL FORCE of the federal government is now investigating this as TERRORlSM!
Kash and Bongino’s FBI is taking this INCREDIBLY seriously, and I can’t express to you how thankful my family and I are.
This means Tulsi Gabbard’s Office of Director of National Intelligence assets will be deployed, as well as CIA and Department of Defense.
Trump’s FBI is NOT screwing around. You are evil pieces of crap fcked with the wrong people
Apologies for the length of this but it’s behind a paywall.
It exposes an issue in the UK which would certainly appeal to the rorters of our NDIS.
The Motability scheme was never designed to buy 50-grand Mercs for bedwetting boy racers in balaclavas with made-up mental illnesses. Scrap it now!
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
My local BMW dealer once told me the only thing keeping his business afloat was knocking out 1-series hatchbacks on the Motability scheme.
That was 14 years ago, in the wake of the financial crash. I wrote about it here. Even then I was astonished to learn that the government was leasing flash German cars for people on disability benefits.
Today, Motability is responsible for a staggering one in five of all new cars sold in Britain. Last year a record 815,000 people took advantage of the scheme, an increase of 170,000.
Since Covid, the number of people claiming to be disabled has gone through the roof and the definition of ‘disability’ has been stretched to breaking point.
Even the obese and those allegedly suffering from anxiety are eligible. I’ve heard of Money For Nothing And Your Chips For Free but this is ridiculous.
Feeling a bit grumpy? You can drive away in a brand new £50,000 Mercedes coupe, courtesy of the mug British taxpayer. That should cheer you up. Cue Janis Joplin.
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?
No problem, madam. Sign here. In exchange for a modest down-payment and portion of your Personal Independence Payments (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance you’re good to go.
The Mail’s Glen Keogh and Sam Greenhill exposed the scale of abuse in a brilliant special report on Saturday, demonstrating how easy it has become to cheat the system.
A body-builder who claimed he was too weak to grip a knife and fork and couldn’t move more than a few yards without a wheelchair was caught lifting weights at a gym and pulling his car across the parking lot with a rope attached to the tow bar. He’d uploaded the video on Instagram.
A notorious ‘dine and dash’ couple, who fled restaurants without paying, were using their Motability motor as a getaway car. You couldn’t make it up.
Sadly, none of this surprised me. When I wrote about my conversation with the BMW dealer 14 years ago, I heard from dozens of readers with tales of how the scheme was being exploited.
I learned about ballroom dancers turning up in Motability cars; and an estate in South London where most people were unemployed yet managed to swan around in brand-new Nissan Qashqais. In Northern Ireland, apparently, Motability cars were being used as minicabs.
My favourite was the part-time Elvis impersonator who pretended to be disabled and lugged his gear from gig to gig in a subsidised Renault Kangoo.
It’s one for the money, two for the show, call Motability go, cat, go.
At the time, the new Conservative/Liberal Coalition government was said to be increasingly concerned at the ease with which people could qualify. But they did nothing.
Even 14 years ago, the parents of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were eligible. Why should someone whose kid can’t sit still in class get a free car?
Since then, it’s become even easier. Mental Elf Ishoos are impossible to prove one way or the other. Three million people claim they are too sick to work, many with anxiety. Presumably they all qualify for a gratis Beamer, too. And why should you get a free car simply because you’re fat?
In such cases, GPs and the Department for Work and Pensions appear to take the line of least resistance. Motability’s customer base grew almost 15 per cent last year ‘thanks to a growth in the eligible base of recipients’.
It’s not just ADHD, either. Thirty-five per cent of people who claimed Personal Independence Payments for ‘bedwetting’ were successful. Talk about taking the proverbial.
So were 66 per cent who claimed for agoraphobia, 51 per cent for depression, and 54 per cent said to be suffering from Munchausen syndrome – a psychological condition which involves pretending to be ill.
But you don’t have to be ‘disabled’ to benefit. Every vehicle comes with free road tax, breakdown cover and insurance for three named drivers. So friends and family of the claimant are entitled to drive the car, too.
There are TikTok videos on the internet boasting about how simple it is to game the system. One features a young man in a red balaclava – he looks like an Isis terrorist – boasting about how he managed to get a £30,000 Fiat sports car.
In another, the mother of an autistic four-year-old daughter shows off her shiny new Skoda Kodiaq so she can be ‘driven around in style’.
Motability is a private company, but receives the lion’s share of its income from the taxpayer. It also keeps the cash when the cars are sold at the end of a three-year lease.
Why do claimants need a new car every three years? I had my last car for 12 and only got rid of it because it was a diesel and I refused to pay Genghis Khan’s extortionate Ulez charge every time I took it out of the garage.
While the country is drowning in debt, Motability is sitting on a £4 billion cash pile. Its annual turnover is £7 billion. The chief executive is paid £750,000 a year. His predecessor got a mind-blowing £1.7 million. Nice work if you can get it.
Look, I’m not opposed to the genuinely disabled being given help to get around, even a free car. The scheme was introduced in 1977 to replace those ghastly three-wheeled invalid carriages to which the disabled had been consigned up until then. Think Del Boy’s van with a canvas roof.
My old neighbour Miss Davey, who was crippled by polio as a child, drove a modified Daf 33, with Variomatic transmission. No one could begrudge the essential mobility, dignity and independence it bestowed upon her.
But Motability was never designed to buy 50-grand Mercs for bedwetting boy racers in balaclavas with imaginary mental illnesses or be overseen by a boss on three-quarters of a million a year.
Nor was it ever envisaged that one in every five – repeat one in five – of all new cars bought in Britain would be paid for by the taxpayer.
It was revealed that more than 1 million foreign nationals are receiving benefits in Britain, costing us £7.5billion a year. Are we going to buy them all a new motor, too?
The Mail also reported that one-in-four Gen Z youngsters are considering giving up work for good and living on benefits because of, you guessed, Mental Elf Ishoos. How long before they’re all swanning round in a BMW 1-series?
Surkeir Starmer admits that the welfare system is out of control and the Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is due to announce money-saving reforms, despite fervent opposition from the Labour Left. Let’s hope she keeps her nerve.
She should start by taking an axe to the scandalous abuse of the hideously expensive Motability scheme.
Parp, parp!
Wow. The noise is apparently well run by comparison.
NdIS
‘Ullo’ John, ‘gotta’ a new motor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqMZ6XqMfc
“I keep tropical fish, in me underpants.”
@nypost
Trump vows to ‘look into’ Hunter Biden’s government-funded security detail after first son evaded deposition for South African luxury getaway
There’s talented, and then there’s completely ridiculously talented…
Trump Wins Golf Championship at Palm Beach Club, Says It Will Be His ‘Last’ (16 Mar)
He’s 78 and is winning his local club championship while holding down a 20 hour a day job.
I wish they’d publish his score, but they never seem to. It’s a tradition I think since Obama’s and Biden’s scores were never published either.
Biden fell off the stool at the 19th hole. Too many ‘sherbets’ for him.
I saw a short clip of Biden swinging a golf club while president. He looked awful.
Biden might have been an okay golfer in his day, but he wouldn’t have got near 100 in the last five years.
HB & Beerturk, mentioned he was going to call the accountant today. They sent his some electronic letter via the ATO portal that he hasn’t looked at in 5 months, he was considering blowing it off till tax time but that could cause more dramas.
Feel for him, got back and had to stay in accommodation an extra week because the tenants took their time moving out past lease end date, their dogs which he can’t refuse as a landlord ripped up the backyard and now despite a generous offer to settle for a third of the bond they are fighting it.
‘…their dogs which he can’t refuse as a landlord ripped up the backyard…’
Which was brought in by the Palacechook IIRC…’because tenants rights to have pets regardless’ to overrule the landlord’s say on anything regarding the property…
Something I hear about every day since when I wander the street with my morning coffee. I totally agree. Now the entitled nuffies are complaining when bonds erode to nothing.
Be interesting to see the figures before and after of escalations to mediation the QCAT from pet damage. I’m tipping the RTA and QCAT are dealing with increased cases.
You watch, next step in 4 years will be to change the guidelines in QCAT. The guy here has already said if he moves away again he’s leaving the house empty, he owns it so doesn’t need to service a mortgage.
Ditto, Rockdoctor.
Go for a week, stay for a year.
Watch: Astronauts Stranded by Boeing and Biden Express Gratitude to Elon Musk and President Trump (17 Mar)
Well said sir and lady. NASA has moved up the splashdown by a day to avoid bad weather in the target area off the Florida coastline. So the coverage of the undocking commences at 3:43 pm my time and can be seen here:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAGRDeoDwaxl
Takes 17 hours for them to get to splashdown, which will also be covered. That would make it about breakfast time tomorrow AEDT.
From The Oz….
Trump administration tells South African ambassador to leave by Friday
Excellent.
I wouldn’t have given him any more than 24 hours.
There are reports now of strikes on US ships in Red Sea.
Strikes at not strikes on. Pentagon says “nothing came close to hitting US warships, and any threat was intercepted”.
I’d go with that as USS Mason has been in the hot zone for a decade and despite numerous missiles fired at her has never has so much as a scratch on her paint. The USS Truman escort contingent has three of her class plus a missile cruiser and frigates.
Mind you there is an F-18 on the bottom of the Red Sea that should not be there.
If the USN can do that they can miss an incoming.
There is always the potential for ‘leakers’ in any missile attack
Well yes, except it was the USN which shot down the F/A-18…
Exactly. Which goes to incompetence or the fog of war. Sooner or later there will be a leaker.
More an overexuberance on the part of the CIC defense peoples I think. The own goal was during a wave attack by the Houthis – which was entirely shot down.
Supercarrier defense groups are designed to take out nuclear ballistic and cruise missile assaults. The Houthis are a Mickey Mouse operation compared to Soviet bloc capabilities.
No, I don’t think that is a spelling mistake.
Maybe against Iranian weapon transfers to hizbollox over Iraqi territory. On that matter, how does the houti tooties get all their weapons from Iran. Ship or plane. Surely the spy satelites track these things. Let them deliver to the port the a cruise missile into the ship or airport. Can’t be that hard.
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
?https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
The only thing about the forced posture adopted is that it puts a lot of strain on the guards backs.
Better to put a light chain around the prisoners necks and attach it to a willy ring.
That will solve the potential lower back problems for the guards.
breaking
JFK files: Trump to release 80,000 pages with no redaction on Tuesday, says content is ‘very interesting’
There was no grand conspiracy – Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone…
And managed to fire shots from both in front of and behind Kennedy …. quite an achievement for one person 😉
No shots came from in front.
The medical evidence agrees with you.
ah ok …. dont bother with the doc release then
So many people are so sure that they’ve figured out what really happened to JFK that they don’t think they’ll be surprised at whatever is released tomorrow. e.g.:
@GrayConnolly 3h
From Truth Social:
And now nuclear is suddenly OK – to power them ‘data centres’ to watch over your every move.
These activist judges need to be dealt with. The normal method of appealing is not working and they are not a bulwark against government tyranny but are part of it, on the demorat side:
Trump goes all-in on deportation fight, claims national security powers – Washington Times
In a hearing Monday, Judge Boasberg grilled the government’s lawyers over their actions last weekend, demanding to know why they ignored his oral instructions to turn around planes headed for El Salvador.
Two planes appear to have already been in the air when he held his hearing on Saturday, while another seems to have departed the U.S. airport after the judge’s hearing. It’s not clear whether it left before the judge issued a written order.
Judge Boasberg demanded to know if any of the people he was trying to block from being deported were on that third flight, and he said he wanted the information fast.
He’s the latest judge to sharply question the veracity of Trump administration claims amid a flurry of lawsuits challenging the president’s executive actions.
Just preemptively pardon anyone who ignores the activist judges orders and sign it with an autopen. EZ.
You’re a judge, the President tells me what to do not you. Take it up with him. If you want a second opinion, you’re a scum sucking arsehole who deserves a bullet, but that’s just me being me. You can have that one for nothing.
I saw an interview on Fox between Trey Gowdy and some judge who was very ticked off that judges may be impeached by Congress. Her answer is that if you were unhappy with a judgement you can always appeal. I thought what a crock, to get some justice you have to shell out more and more money and drag out the process into infinity while there are no consequences for ratbag judges. She didn’t do her cause any favours, at least not with me.
I noticed the hue & cry because Rubio didn’t turn round aircraft in international airspace. Meh.
Heh, gotta love the Bee.
via Tony Heller.
I really like this one
Federal Judge Appoints Himself President
https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-appoints-himself-president
Love the last line
Even better would have been “unseated by All Aspen Teen Talent Spectacular Judge Gwen McKinley (D-COL, Dip. Dance Coreography)”
Climate 200 was one of the parties that funded the Greenwich case against Latham.
Was that known before today?
I think I heard something about this last year but it was buried.
Greenwich hearing adjoined to a future date.
because Greenwich didn’t provide all his funders details UNTIL YESTERDAY.
Greenwich has to wear all costs associated with todays micro hearing.
Greenwich is a slimy sinister snake. I regard him as evil.
Not to my knowledge, FTB.
I don’t see the relevant connection between Latham and the Climate.
Because Climate 200 is not about climate, it’s about getting naive environmentalists to vote for whoever is hiding behind that facade and give them political power.
Be interesting (slightly) to see what types of activities have been written up to be funded under climate200.
Well well well. We are beyond past where more than a cursory look at Climate 200 is needed by whatever regulatory body oversees the elections. If the AEC won’t touch it then maybe it is up to the liberal party through the Federal Court.
My guess would be Chinese dosh.
And more than we’d care to think.
I don’t believe in targeted assassination but if it’s good enough for the demorats to take pot shots at Trump:
Soros-Linked Network Attempting to Stop Trump from Deporting Gang Members
Birds of a feather, flocking together.
They live in a vibrant fantasyland.
Sure, but the Houthis have managed to shut down navigation in the Red sea, massively impacting Suez traffic. Thats a *strategic* victory irrespective of whether they actually hit any Western naval assets. They are also likely well ahead on the economic scoreboard, causing Western naval forces to expend large amounts of expensive air defence missiles to counter their attacks.
The logical next step is the US will interdict all sea traffic to Yemen, and all air traffic.
That would cramp the style of the Houthis quite a lot, and wouldn’t take all that much effort.
Is that what the complaint is against Yemen?
Semper fi. Amazing how history repeats.
Precisely.
Also, keeping a CSG under fire counts as suppression. If the CSG has to take a more defensive posture, that impinges on its ability to attack the Yemenis.
Doesn’t seem to be suppressing them all that much. It appears the US pasted Sanaa last night for the third night in a row.
Truman was 700km from Yemen yesterday, its now 1300km away.
Probably needs to go get more bombs.
It should be getting more from underway replenishment vessels.
The damage may have required a port to fix, or she’s being rotated off site. Is there another carrier arriving?
Doesn’t seem to be any damage, seeing that when she was sideswiped by that Egyptian cargo vessel in February she had to go to Greece for repairs.
Pulling back a bit would be reasonable precaution though. With refueling the air groups are still well in range of Yemen.
and achieved what? …. pasting gaza hasnt destroyed hamas
Yet.
Patience Grasshopper, the second act hasn’t started.
Er, yes it has, we are well past the second act. Israel has been fighting Hamas in Gaza for years… ever since the 1st Intifada (1987), then 2008, 2012, 2014, and now 2023.
Perhaps this time it will be different tho?
More Trump good stuff:
Trump strips Hunter and Ashley Biden of Secret Service protection ‘effective immediately’
Not sure that is a good idea.
always, always before doing something think about how the other mob will use this precedent when they get in again, as they eventually will.
See Australian examples of the EPBC Act, Corporations Act etc.
Children over 15 years of age & relatives of former president’s are not on the compulsory protection list …….
It’s a great idea. What makes Trump so important is he is not incapacitated by the cowardice of usual conservatives who prevaricate and pretend there are rules which leftoids will abide with. Think little johnnie and tone from Australia. There is only one way to deal with the left and that is to destroy them. Because guess what: no matter if you act politely towards them when they get back into power they’ll still stick it to you.
No offence but to do or think otherwise is really naive.
Great news for KD, he wont be deprived of his precious David Warner after krikkett after all.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/mar/18/australia-news-live-trade-tariffs-budget-jim-chalmers-economy-inflation-cost-of-living-election-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-ntwnfb
David Warner teases potential move to politicsFormer Australian one-day and T20 cricket captain David Warner is seemingly testing the waters for move to politics.
After retiring from international cricket last year, Warner posted on X last night:
Responding to one user, he suggested he wanted to lower income tax but raise the GST:
A perfect fit for oz politics…a cheat; a self absorbed narcissist; a moron, and a ranga.
He was pretty handy with the bat. But we always thought suited to the short game – and the Big Bash stuff.
And thinking about politics? Just part of his limitless self belief. There are some intellectually challenged MPs..but…….
About as much appeal as Adam Goodes political aspirations .. LOL!
Something to amuse at morning tea time.
The Wombat Whisperer
Worth almost ten minutes. But not near your keyboard, mind.
Thanks, Calli — video of the day, now in transit to like-minded friends!
Apparently the new PM of Canada has had his child surgically/chemically mutilated.
As was the fashion of the time.
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1901740316669206929
Oh Tranada
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/daughter-of-canadian-pm-mark-carney-claims-to-be-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns/
What is it with all these perverts who want to tell the rest of us how to live?
Comes with the territory. Would have made a good academic.
LOL. Pass the maple syrup.
“fashion of the time”
Exactly.
?
What do we do with the onion?
One for naval Cats.
Study reveals the illusion of ‘dazzle’ paint on World War I battleships (Phys.org, 17 Mar)
Which suggests the dazzle paint actually worked, although the authors don’t seem to think that. I, on the other hand, thinks the dazzle paint was pretty.
I knew a bloke who was a Mirage pilot back when we were flying them not long before they were phased out. ARDU had test aircraft painted red and white but it was sent to a squadron. Mate was a bit late getting to the flightline for an air to air air combat session and got stuck with the red and white Mirage that nobody wanted to fly. Surprisingly it turned out to be more difficult to see than the camo ones at altitude.
I’d meant to say that radar has made all this stuff pretty irrelevant, but the naval history is very interesting.
For some reason, the iconic ‘Ferry Across the Mersey’ is painted in dazzle. The first I have ever seen. Stands out !
At one stage navies experimented with blue paint – fairly recently too.
Chewing gum is killing the planet.
Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem (Phys.org, 17 Mar)
I was hoping this guy would turn out to be an Aussie academic, but sadly no, he’s a pom.
Another loser academic doing loser academic studies because he’s too shit at his job to do something worthwhile – like where do all the left socks go to when they’re washed.
Does his chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
Another institution for Rabzing.
Re the US district court judge meddling in foreign policy and justice administration – didn’t the UK’s former foreign secretary Jack Straw get involved in this space? From memory a regional magistrate in Spain attempted to have Pinochet extradited from the UK while he (Pinochet) was in London for surgery.
From memory Straw’s comment was, ‘The UK does not allow magistrates from regional Spain to conduct UK foreign policy.’
Famous Fords continued.
(Note, this is Famous Fords, not necessarily good Fords)
Harry Potter 1966 105E Ford Anglia.
Never watched the movies, read the books or liked the car, in fact the only thing I like about the Anglia is the backwards slanted rear window, that looks cool on other Fords of the era.
I remember I bloke I worked with used the almost fluorescent orange paint we painted the centrifugal pumps made there to paint his Anglia, and it wasn’t an improvement.
Ford Anglia 105E: 997 cc OHV “Kent” engine.
Maybe the best thing about the Anglia was the engine, which in the Anglia produced a shit 39 HP, but after the Anglia and a redesign with a cross flow head would go on to power Escorts and Cortinas, and be the basis of Cosworth racing and rally engines.
Contrast to the Model A Ford from thirty years previously which had slightly more horsepower and more than twice the torque of those pre cross flow Kent mills.
The Ford Consul had similar styling, but better proportions and a bigger engine.
My yr 9 art teacher used to drive me around in her orange Anglia, chain smoking.
It might have been grooming… hard to say. I think if she were seriously predatory she’s have had a wagon, at least.
I’m not very attentive to techno stuff. I’ve just noticed that Foxtel is now carrying Britain’s GB News on Foxtel channel 658 — a welcome alternative to the increasing contempt that Sky News has for its audience. So instead of Princess Peta Credlin’s regular no-shows at 6pm and the Trump-deranged Blot’s ravings at 7pm, I can now watch the GB News brekky show. Thank you, Foxtel!
Thanks for the tip, will definitely watch it.
What is the point of clicking on a link when, afterwards, you end up back at the start page & have to scroll back to wherever you were .. duuuuuuh!
Now 83 ….!
Ford Mustang in Bullit.
Saw that movie at the Crows Nest fleapit when it first came out.
From your words to Wolfman’s ears!
After Gene Hackman in French Connection you have to say Bullitt is a worthy topic.
Can’t resist. Bullit car chase.
That poor little VeeDub was being stalked by those lunatics!
And they show the little green bub twice: once going down and once looking up. I guess the film was so good they had to double up.
And your copy of the chase is the truncated one: here is the full 10 minutes:
Bullitt Chase Scene
I’m not a fan of car chases, but the Bullit one is amazing, and able to be watched again and again.
I intend my next (retirement reward) car to be the rumoured mustang raptor.
Sure it’s not canon, but I am sure it will get me to lawn hill with a few Jerry cans of fuel on top of the boot
The judge who tried to stop Trump from deporting the gangbangers is a real POS. Trump has to nail some of these bastards before he leaves office.
The Deep State Strikes Back | Frontpage Mag
This is the very same problem that Pinochet was confronted with in Chile when he started throwing people (3,000) of them out of helicopters and into graves without trials.
The Left in the US should thank their lucky stars that – despite their claims – President Trump is NOT Pinochet.
Nobody posting on the airstrikes in Gaza right now?
Some high-level DumaSS families taken out.
Israel Resumes Military Operations Against Hamas in Gaza – LIVE Breaking News Coverage
I can still hear Israeli military jets in the background sound of the live coverage.
Shelling from IAF at Eastern and Southern areas of Rafah as I type.
Of course the Soros/Dem ACLU lawfare thugs are behind the communist judges usurping Trumps authority.
Their games could lead to a positive outcome if they lead to DOGE and DOJ investigations. Ordinary Americans have lived long enough under the theat of ACLU employing their unlimited funding to impose their racist/communist ideology.
Equally positive is Trump ignoring the judges. Make them face the cost and effort of escalation.
Israel conducts ‘extensive strikes’ on the Gaza StripAFP
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Israel’s military has announced it is carrying out “extensive strikes” on the Gaza Strip, in the largest attack since the ceasefire with Hamas began on January 19.
In a post on Telegram, the Israeli army said it was currently “conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation in the Gaza Strip.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in ongoing talks to extend the ceasefire. It was not immediately clear if the operation was a one-time pressure tactic or if the 17-month-old war was being resumed altogether.
“This comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all offers it received from the US presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff, and from the mediators,” Mr Netanyahu’s office said.
The statement added: “The IDF is, at this time, attacking targets of the Hamas terrorist organisation throughout the Gaza Strip in order to achieve the objectives of the war as they have been determined by the political echelon including the release of all of our hostages, the living and the deceased.
“Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength.The operational plan was presented by the IDF over the weekend and approved by the political leadership”.
I think the response is: Good.
The question is: Is this escalating now (I mean beyond airstrikes to “hell raining down?”)
I have house guests at the moment which is nice. I enjoy hosting.
A slight niggle is the guests plonking themselves in front of ABC and SBS news which drives me to shelter in the more obscure reaches of the great estate.
I emerged last night to check the roast and was confronted by a literally insane rant by the ABC over reform of Voice of America. Not only spittle flecked invective, but dishonest.
I painfully bit my tongue and returned to the shadows.
Your house, your remote control.
Grow a pair and put Starship Troopers on.
Then crank up the Ted Nugent.
Throw in Rambo, First Blood, A Clockwork Orange, Top Gun, Full Metal Jacket, Death Wish and Dirty Harry.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t have a TV. No one who visits can watch the ABC.
It may also be why I don’t get visitors.
Win/Win!!!
Get into the parental control part of the TeeVee/remote and block their ABC and SBS.
Reading “One Day In September” by Simon Reeve – the full story of the 1972 massacre of the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics, the complete pigs breakfast the German police made of the attempted rescue, and the years they covered up the whole shambles.
Seems that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was one of those that urged the Palis to leave their homes in 1948, and they could return when the “Jews had been driven into the sea.”
The Israelis offered the services of their elite counter terrorism force – the Sayeret Matkal – the Germans refused – they didn’t have a counter- terrorism force, but their security forces would handle the problem….
Pallywood is back in full production.
Just popped over to Dash Cat for the first time in a long time. Looks like the shutters are down, the drawbridge up and not a peep for a week or so.
What about the Furniture shop calli. It’ll be developing a limp with ANZAC Day next month.
I still frequented there till it started getting a tad out there and lurked a lot longer till it went off the rails. Haven’t looked in there in months but last time I did there was stuff about chemtrails and only about a few commenters.
Note C.L.’s blog is limping along no sign of the man still.
Man with empty suit and forked tongue accuses opposition of having no spine. Both frankly are as bad as each other:
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/rearguard-attack-nsw-parliament-erupts-over-fake-terrorcaravan-probe/news-story/e53b1a62c08333607099974cbf9d4a61
Friends of Hamas dutifully reporting the score:
Gaza rescuers say death toll from Israeli strikes rises to 121
Odd how that seems to happen.
DumbASS have put out a statement saying resumption of hostilities is a death sentence on hostages.