Open Thread – Mon 17 March 2025


The Voyage of Life: Manhood, Thomas Cole, 1842

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Rossini
Rossini
March 17, 2025 12:16 am

A little cool in Melbourne at the moment

alwaysright
alwaysright
March 17, 2025 9:12 am
Reply to  Rossini

It be the warmin, the global warmin.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
March 17, 2025 1:08 am

Happy St Patricks Day all who are Irish especially descendants of convicts.

Fill up with Guiness and good Irish whiskey and talk shite and tell outrageous yarns.

If you’re a boring tit and don’t drink, fill ya guts with colcannon and black pudding.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:00 am
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 4:21 am
Reply to  Tom

Ha, ha, ha. General Disaster Abalone.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:14 am
Reply to  Tom

This is one of Leak’s best ever.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:04 am
Beertruk
March 17, 2025 8:21 am
Reply to  Tom

<snort!!!>

Well done…I’ll pay that one… 🙂

Last edited 14 hours ago by Beertruk
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:08 am
Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 10:35 am
Reply to  Tom

Bill Burr needs to go back to wanking in front of Sarah Silverman.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 4:11 am
Helen
Helen
March 17, 2025 3:25 pm
Reply to  Tom

Sniffy!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 4:33 am

Elizabeth is due for surgery. This place is digital family.

Last edited 18 hours ago by Steve Trickler
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:17 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

Steve, thanks for thinking of me. In fact they have delayed the surgery till Wednesday, so I have two more sleeps before the knife falls.

It’s annoying when they do that, but I guess others more needy have surgical priority. Private payment doesn’t trump real need.

So I hope it is not just for the surgeon’s golf day. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:20 am

This delay explains why I have still been around to fight the Downton fight on the weekend thread this morning.

All done and dusted now. 🙂

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 11:37 am

Good luck Liz. Just keep in mind that you were warned about traipsing around cruise ships and now look what’s happened to you. Hope it’s a lesson to stay off these horrible contraptions forever.

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
March 17, 2025 11:28 am

All the best for Wednesday, Liz. Hope you’re back to your best soon after.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 4:37 am
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 5:34 am

“Oopsie, Too Late” El Salvador President Mocks Judge Boasberg After Flights Land With Several Hundred Venezuelan Gang Members Deported by President Trump

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/oopsie-too-late-el-salvador-president-mocks-judge/

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele mocked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg after two flights from the U.S. carrying nearly between 250 and 300 Venezuelan and other gang members landed in El Salvador despite Boasberg’s emergency order issued Saturday evening in a case brought by the ACLU to turn the planes around and return the gang members to the U.S.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 5:36 am

Trump Administration Defiantly Tells Radical Judge to Pound Sand Following Controversial Ruling

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/trump-administration-defiantly-tells-radical-judge-pound-sand/

Boasberg, who serves as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., appears to believe he has the authority to override the President of the United States and dictate immigration policy from the bench.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 10:40 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

And THAT’S how it’s done.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 5:40 am

Rep. Brandon Gill Moves to Impeach Obama Judge James Boasberg for Blocking Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act

Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) announced plans to file articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.

This action comes in response to Judge Boasberg’s recent decision to temporarily block President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, aimed at expediting the deportation of members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua.

Looks like someone has decided to kick a certain Judges arse.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/rep-brandon-gill-moves-impeach-obama-judge-james/

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 5:44 am

Judge Merchan and his daughter: A million-dollar business at Trump’s expense.
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/03/judge-merchan-and-his-daughter/

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, has opened Pandora’s box: Merchan and his family are neck-deep in a mire of dirty money and conflicts of interest that would make any “rule of law” advocate blush.

Patel doesn’t mince words. In a recent interview, he announced that the FBI has issued a subpoena to Loren Merchan’s company—Judge Merchan’s daughter—to investigate whether she pocketed millions thanks to the judicial persecution of Trump. “I want to see the bank records because money doesn’t lie,” Patel said. “How much of the over $15 million that Authentic Campaigns, Merchan’s daughter’s company, earned came into the family after this sham conviction?”

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 5:46 am

And just to wrap it all up:
Activist Judges and the Overreach of Judicial Authority: A Case for Sedition and Treason
?https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/activist-judges-overreach-judicial-authority-case-sedition-treason/

The balance of power among the three branches of government is a cornerstone of the United States Constitution.

However, activist judges have increasingly encroached upon executive authority, undermining the separation of powers.

When judges exceed their constitutional authority by obstructing or overturning executive actions without legitimate constitutional grounds, they not only overstep their role but may also commit acts tantamount to treason and sedition.

Last edited 17 hours ago by Winston Smith
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:20 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

You bet they do.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 6:01 am

It looks like the Trump Administration has the Democrat Wreckers in a bind.
Their radical wing is pushing for Judicial Anarchy, but President Trump will – I think – take the opportunity to impeach multiple senior Judges.
Of course, the Democrats will double down.
I wonder if there’s a bag limit on Judges and other administrators at this time of the year?
This week is looking rather exciting.

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 8:10 am
Reply to  Winston Smith

I wonder if there’s a bag limit on Judges and other administrators at this time of the year?

The visual image of Trump and Vance triumphantly returning from the hunt with a bag full of judges, followed by their pack of hounds (doggies), set me cackling!

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 6:24 am

The Tories have made an offer that Nigel Won’t refuse. He’s a turncoat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1jZUh9dFg
What is Nigel Farage up to? This latest gaffe is just another of his recent moves that just further damages Reform UK – his own party!

Helen
Helen
March 17, 2025 3:45 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Rupert will start another party with Elon’s backing and he will have the 80% of regular voters who want to deport criminals (99% Reform voters) and Farage will loose.

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 7:10 am

Carney kills the carbon tax in Canada

JUST IN: Canada Kills Carbon Tax, Gas Prices Expected to Plummet

“The new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has officially scrapped the consumer carbon tax…”

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 9:46 am
Reply to  dover0beach

If Carney wins. It will be a signal to a large number of demons to ease to the centre. Just watch over the next 3 plus years.

billie
billie
March 17, 2025 7:27 am

Great picture…

Cassie of Sydney
March 17, 2025 7:33 am

Imagine the howls of outrage if Peter Dutton appeared on a Youtube channel hosted by a far-right Nazi supporting Jew hater?

But a few weeks, Abalone appeared on a Youtube channel hosted by a far-left, Nazi supporting and very skanky Jew hater. Did you hear any howls of outrage? No, you heard crickets.

Ho hum, the hypocrisy and double standards are never ending.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 7:39 am

Too crazy to leave late on the old fred:

Law students at Macquarie University face the threat of failing a key exam if they perform an ­underwhelming acknowledgement of country or refuse to ­acknowledge traditional Abor­iginal owners at all, in a move ­labelled “indoctrination” by Indigenous leaders.

The presentation is worth 30 per cent of the final course mark and students have been told the acknowledgement of country is one of the key five marking areas. The demand to perform a “thoughtful”, “culturally respectful” and “exceptionally well-written” ode to Aboriginal traditional owners at the start of an oral law exam is despite the course on “age and the law” having no direct ­relation to Indigenous matters.

Longstanding academic and founding chief executive of the Ramsay Centre for Western ­Civilisation Simon Haines described assessing a compulsory acknowledgement of country as “dangerous”.

“The critical error here is the confusion of categories – the academic and the political activist,” Professor Haines said.

“Wherever you may stand on acknowledgement of country etc, the fact is that being obliged to make an acknowledgment statement as an assessable element in an academic process is basically shocking. Social justice activist projects should not be confused with an academic assessment project. And that’s what’s happening here.”

Professor Haines, an academic for more than 30 years, called on the university’s vice-chancellor, Bruce Dowton, to review it.

“I actually think the VC (of Macquarie University) should ­review this,” he said.

“It’s his job. If I was running a university, I would call them in and basically say you just can’t do this. It’s an academic process, not a political one.”

He said tertiary administrators were becoming too detached from the mainstream to notice the problem with the welcome to country test. “The metaphor that I use is it’s a bit like an ice flow that’s broken away from the mainland. The entire sector has shifted so far in this activist direction that they don’t even realise how far they’ve got from popular community opinion. This kind of thing is why universities are on the nose more than they even ­realise or acknowledge,” he said.

Conservative Indigenous leaders have criticised Macquarie University for the assessment. Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta ­Nampijinpa Price said it showed universities were “more interested in indoctrination than genuine education”. Warren Mundine said he was “flabbergasted” and called it “pure indoctrination by a group of fanaticists”.

This latest controversy at Macquarie University follows 18 months of intense scrutiny on its anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah. Her taxpayer-funded $870,000 research funding was recently suspended after she bragged about bending ­research rules.

University management conceded she had made “anti-­Semitic” statements during the last 18 months but said it could not take disciplinary action.

The rubric for the “law reform campaign” presentation assessment, seen by The Australian, says a student would fail if they “did not present an acknowledgement of country or welcome to country at the beginning of the presentation or did so in a way that was inappropriate or did not comply with the instructions”.

“There is significant room for improvement and further thought required for this to be considered culturally respectful,” the rubric offers.

A high-distinction acknowledgement of country would see a student present “a brief, thoughtful, exceptionally well-written, culturally respectful ­acknowledgement of country or welcome to country at the beginning of the presentation”, the marking rubric reads.

The course guide also refers students to the university’s “Aboriginal cultural protocols” document. The document contains a table of terms that “are now considered offensive to Aboriginal Australians and provides appropriate alternatives”. Examples ­include “Aboriginal Australian people/s” instead of “Aborigine”, “Aboriginal Australians or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait ­Islander peoples” instead of “Aboriginals”, “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples” ­instead of “ATSI”, and “Indigenous nations” instead of “nomadic tribes”.

Senator Nampijinpa Price said “mandating that students participate in what is arguably a reinvention of culture in order to attain a tertiary qualification is an indictment on our education system”.

“Australians are fed up with being made to feel like they are guests in their own country, and requirements like this only serve to confirm that our educational institutions have become more interested in indoctrination than genuine education,” the Northern Territory senator said.

“The Albanese government has allowed activist behaviour like this to take root in our schools and tertiary institutions.

“That is why a Dutton ­Coalition government will get our country back on track, and ­ensure universities are focused on core academic instruction and research, rather than political agendas, and to treating people on the basis of need rather than race.”

Mr Mundine, a prominent No vote campaigner during the voice to parliament campaign and unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the NSW seat of ­Gilmore, said universities had become “centres of indoctrination”. “It is a dangerous step,” he said. “What has that got to do with the actual course?

“We are training lawyers. At the end of the day, they’re going to use that legal knowledge and everything to make Australia a better place in business and in the general community, and within the legal profession and in politics.

“This is pure indoctrination by a group of fanaticists.”

Mr Mundine said the acknowledgement of country was a “nice and great idea that had been ­hijacked by activists”.

A Macquarie University spokesperson said late on Sunday: “An acknowledgment of, or welcome to country is a requirement of this assessment because it is relevant both to this specific task and to the overall learning outcomes of the unit, Age and the Law. This unit addresses Indigenous young people and their relationship with the legal system in Australia.

“Age and the Law comprises three assessments. This is the only assessment in this unit that requires an acknowledgment of, or welcome to country.

“An acknowledgment of, or welcome to country is not a requirement of all assessment tasks at the university, nor is this a requirement of all assessment within the Macquarie Law School.”

Oz

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 9:09 am
Reply to  Top Ender

That has to lead to legal action against McQuarie – did the students give ‘informed consent’ before starting their degrees that political correctness would be marked, not just legal knowledge? Did McQuarie fraudulently represent their course as a ‘law degree’ when in reality its a ‘law-political correctness’ degree?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 10:40 am
Reply to  Top Ender

OK. I’ll play the game –

“Welcome to OUR Country. The end.”

Now give me a High Distinction for creativity, being succinct, to the point, etc, etc, etc,

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:42 am
Reply to  Top Ender

“Indigenous nations” instead of “nomadic tribes”.


Neither is correct. They moved around constantly in small familial (lineage) ‘hordes’, as described by earlier anthropologists, necessitated by the sparse carrying capacity of the land on which they hunted and gathered foods. They met in larger groups for rare ceremonies around occasional seasonal food sources, such as the appearance in one area of plentiful Bogan Moths. They had no wider political unity in these meetings and the small groups continually fought each other over women and food. They existed in an ongoing situation of petty raiding.

The glorifying of a simple social system living hand to mouth is to be deplored. It is untruthful nonsense. Traditional aboriginal culture had certain strengths to ensure its continuation, but it was hardly admirable nor political in civilised terms.

Megan
Megan
March 17, 2025 3:02 pm

I actually like the concept of Bogan Moths, but I think it was the Bogong variety the indigenies went after.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 17, 2025 2:21 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Its a humiliation ritual, not academia.

Debase yourself white boy, dance, dance for us!!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 17, 2025 7:51 am

Fresh from eviscerating brave men for doing terrible things under terrible circumstances, Paul Brereton is himself under fire for his management of Albanese’s signature National Anti-Corruption Commission.

Former senior beaks are queuing up to bag Brereton, on account of:

The commission has received at least $125m from the taxpayer since its inception on July 1, 2023, but has delivered no independent convictions and has initiated only one matter currently before the courts.

The irritated beaks who were happy to croak to the Unlinkable OZ:

Former NSW Supreme Court judge Anthony Whealy KC doesn’t mince his words about the performance of the integrity body for which he had such high hopes.

“For the NACC and for what people expected of it, it’s hard to think of anything useful they’ve done in the time they’ve been ­operative,” Mr Whealy said.

“There have been the occasional release of statistics and so on, but no one really knows what’s going on there.”

…former Victorian Supreme Court judge Stephen Charles KC, who wrote a book advocating a federal anti-corruption body and campaigned relentlessly for years, won’t even give it a bare pass.

“A bad fail,” he told The Australian. “I think the appointment of Paul Brereton has been shown not to be a success.”

Centre for Public Integrity director Geoffrey Watson SC told The Australian he was very disappointed by the “overwhelming culture of unhelpful secrecy” and the “appalling response to the Robodebt referral”.

“It has been so far a waste of time and money,” Mr Watson said. “I’m putting that down to the leadership, that it’s just not being led adequately. As a corruption agency, it seems to go out of its way to find that it’s incapable of moving.

“It’s got the money, the skills and the resources to do it. If you can’t produce a report on anything in two years it’s time somebody went in there with a scrubbing brush.”

But the NACC has performed as designed by the Prime Mollusc: senior public servants off scot free from criminal allegations over Robodebt and any review of the overnight award of Aussie Brinny’s payola lost to sight.

Bruce
Bruce
March 17, 2025 11:14 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

It is ALWAYS about the “SPILLAGE”.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 7:52 am

Happy St Patricks Day!

And a shout out to Gab, our much missed four leaf clover Kitteh.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
March 17, 2025 7:57 am
Reply to  calli

To be sure, to be sure.

Gabor
Gabor
March 17, 2025 8:55 am
Reply to  calli

Must have been a different Gab?
The one I am thinking of is definitely not Irish, though long time missing, years, if I am correct.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 9:13 am
Reply to  Gabor

Hungarian, IIRC.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 10:46 am
Reply to  Gabor

Yes, the Gab we miss these days was not Irish. I had the good fortune to spend an hour or so yakking with her one night when I gave her a lift home from the Lord Nelson. We had been at one of the Blair mob get togethers. Very interesting and lovely lady.
Much missed.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 11:15 am
Reply to  Pogria

Gab’s gravatar was a four leaf clover. She changed it one St. Pats Day and it stuck.

That’s how I remember her.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 7:53 am

One for navally inclined Cats:

US Starts to Build Submarine Presence on Strategic Australian Coast Under AUKUS (16 Mar)

Around 50-80 United States navy personnel will arrive by the middle of the year at Western Australia’s HMAS Stirling base, which is undergoing an A$8 billion ($5 billion) upgrade to prepare for the “Submarine Rotational Force West,” Australian officials have said.

In two years, those numbers will swell to hundreds of U.S. navy personnel and support crew.

Under AUKUS, Australia’s most expensive defense project, Australia will buy two used Virginia class submarines next decade, and build a new class of nuclear powered submarine with Britain, to replace its aging diesel powered fleet.

In preparation, there are 115 Australians in the U.S. nuclear navy training pipeline or on Virginia submarines, plus 130 training for nuclear submarine maintenance at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, U.S. navy officials said.

Meanwhile more Collins class woes:

Upgrades to Collins-class submarines delayed (Sky News, 17 Mar)

A $5 billion plan to extend Australia’s Collins-class submarines has been left up in the air.

Government-owned shipbuilder ASC revealed it is not ready to upgrade the first boat.

Labor is now considering scaling back the life-of-type extension.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 10:47 am

A $5 billion plan to extend Australia’s Collins-class submarines has been left up in the air.

Will be diverted to making ‘green steel’ and blowing up power stations I expect

Vicki
Vicki
March 17, 2025 11:16 am

Well, it is a start. Personally, the more US naval staff at the WA base, the better. Also, can we please have some permanently stationed in Darwin – if they aren’t already there.

shatterzzz
March 17, 2025 7:58 am

TOON ………..!!!

Toon
Last edited 14 hours ago by shatterzzz
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 10:27 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Well done and well deserved from a Long suffering ‘Tottering Hotspur’ supporter.

shatterzzz
March 17, 2025 3:11 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Gotta laff tho .. i’m old enuf to remember when the English Football League Cup (Carabao Cup) was a 7th rate, oft ignored, event ..
“course, that was before we lost in 2023 & now we’ve won it in 2025 .. LOL!

Cassie of Sydney
March 17, 2025 8:14 am

Ireland, the most rabid Israel and Jew hating country in Western Europe.

Ireland, where recently an Israeli businessman, sitting in a cafe, was spat on by Irish Jew haters.

Forgive me if I don’t and won’t wish wish anyone a ‘Happy St Patrick’s Day’.

duncanm
duncanm
March 17, 2025 8:17 am

Yup – they’re doubling down on their performance during WWII

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 8:36 am
Reply to  duncanm

While destroying their own society

shatterzzz
March 17, 2025 8:46 am

100 years of screaming “Brits out” but never mentioned “Migrants in” once ……

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 9:11 am

spat on by Irish Jew haters

were they ‘Irish jew haters’ or ‘new Irish jew haters’?

Cassie of Sydney
March 17, 2025 9:36 am
Reply to  flyingduk

I’ve seen the video. They were ‘Irish Jew haters“.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 17, 2025 9:38 am

Reminded me of the shithole back in the good old days and the contrast with Norn Iron, where everyone knew words had consequences.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:36 am

FISA is Foreign Intelligence Surveillance. This is the Judge who told the government to turn around planes deporting violent criminals. He belong in gaol himself.

@themarketswork

As many know, Judge Boasberg was a FISA Court (FISC) Judge. But it gets worse. He also reviewed James Comey’s memos prior to release in 2018 and oversaw release of Clinton emails in Judicial Watch case back in 2016.

Boasberg gave FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith probation for lying to the FISC by fundamentally altering a CIA email that exonerated Carter Page. Boasberg appointed deep-stater Mary McCord as amicus curiae advisor to the FISA court—AFTER McCord played a material role in personally misleading the FISC in the Page FISA.

Boasberg was also involved in Ray Epps case, giving Epps probation and calling Epps and his wife “victims” of conspiracy theories. Finally, Boasberg took time out to personally attend Trump’s DC trial, seemingly just for the enjoyment of it…

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 17, 2025 8:39 am

An old school Marxist rabble-rouser gets it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 17, 2025 8:40 am

Reposted for excellence, from the OOT:

Your average woman of these days….. marries the man she is attracted to, and then spends the next several years trying to turn him into one of her girlfriends

Ahahahaaa.

I have a mate of mine undergoing this unfortunate process at present. His dress sense has ‘improved’ beyond measure.

tommbell
tommbell
March 17, 2025 12:32 pm

then she dumps him because he’s not responsive to her “needs” …..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 2:42 pm
Reply to  tommbell

He had a lucky escape.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:42 am

There’s one benefit to all this. These people are really outing themselves.

@julie_kelly2

James Boasberg, along with 16 DC judges, signed off on the unlawful use of 1512c2–the corporate fraud obstruction statute–against J6ers.

He presided over 70 J6 cases, both guilty pleas and conviction at trial. In nearly every instance, Boasberg imposed prison time even for the petty offense of “parading” in the Capitol.

He sent 60-year-old Sandra Weyer, a woman from Pennsylvania who committed no violence on Jan 6, to 14 months in federal prison on the unlawful 1512c2 count.

After denying several defense motions including change of venue, Boasberg convicted Cynthia Ballenger after a brief bench trial of the 4 common misdemeanors. He then sent her to federal prison for four months.

He sentenced former NYPD officer Sara Carpenter to 22 months in federal prison on the unlawful obstruction count, nonviolent civil disorder, and misdemeanors.

I could go on (and might later.)

Boasberg with gusto threw the book at Americans exercising their 1A rights on Jan 6 then denied J6ers other constitutional rights to ensure convictions and imprisonment.

But now he’s going to bat for illegals suspected of ties to a dangerous foreign gang.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:44 am

@WesternLensman

Tapper: Tren de Aragua is a murderous gang that operates in your state of Texas. Do you support the Trump admin using any tool available to remove them?

Crockett: “We can’t trust this administration to actually use a scalpel, but instead they love to use a butcher knife on things.”

“And so giving them this wide latitude to just kind of go across and just claim that anybody is anything is wrong.”

Democrats won’t support using the Alien Enemies Act to remove foreign terrorists.

Lee
Lee
March 17, 2025 12:33 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Crockett is one of the stupidest Democrats.

And that is saying something.

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 12:38 pm
Reply to  Lee

Crockett by short nose. Sandy Bug Eyes gives her a run for the money.

The stupidest would have to be Maxine Waters.

Last edited 10 hours ago by JC
Zatara
Zatara
March 17, 2025 1:49 pm
Reply to  JC

Waters is unquestionably the most hideous in appearance and manner. Her ignorance is beyond compare.

She has also won the ‘Most Corrupt Member of Congress’ award at least 4 times.

She is also massively incompetent. In her 35 years in Congress she has managed to pass only three bills. A Haiti relief bill, a modification to the national flood insurance program, and the naming of a post office.

Crockett aspires to be her.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 2:44 pm
Reply to  JC

I thought it was an open field any day of the week.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:45 am
Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:50 am

@Bubblebathgirl

238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in El Salvador on Sunday from the US.

23 MS-13 gang members also arrived.

Thank you President Trump or deporting these criminals and President Bukele for taking them.

Trump personally thanked the President.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:53 am

More threats to independent journalists

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 8:54 am
Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 9:02 am

How on earth was she accepted for the pool!

@LauraLoomer

SCOOP

I have identified the reporter who hit President @realDonaldTrump in the face with a boom mic this week while he was speaking to the press on the tarmac.

Her name is Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka. She is the newly appointed White House reporter for @NPR and a massive Trump hater and LGBTQ advocate who once suggested during the 2024 campaign that Trump only spoke in Howell, Michigan because it has ties to the KKK.

Did she hit President Trump in the face on purpose?

RECEIPTS

Bruce
Bruce
March 17, 2025 11:24 am
Reply to  Indolent

That is an “interesting ” surname for young Danielle.

“Short Life”?

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 9:02 am

Brisbane’s never-ending homelessness battle has taken another twist, leaving as many questions as it has delivered answers.

The city’s camps will be shut down on Thursday and cleared out in a stunning directive by the Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner.

Mr Schrinner said council now knew the vast majority of those living in the camps – particularly at hotspots like Musgrave Park and Kurilpa Point near the Gallery of Modern Art — had been offered safe accommodation but had declined it.

Consequently, he said those living in the camps would be given 24 hours to move on.

After that council officers, supported by police, would move in and remove all the tents and other items.

Courier-Mail

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 9:06 am

@BreitbartNews

DEFSEC @PeteHegseth: “Peace through strength is back — The minute the Houthis say ‘we’ll stop shooting at your ships, we’ll stop shooting at your drones,’ this campaign will end.”

“But until then, it will be un-relenting.”

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 9:48 am
Reply to  Indolent

Peace through strength is back 

Si vis pacem – parabellum

Bruce
Bruce
March 17, 2025 11:30 am
Reply to  flyingduk

See also, from Sir Arnaud Amalric, “holy man”::

“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius”

alwaysright
alwaysright
March 17, 2025 9:08 am
Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 9:08 am

The President of El Salvadore.

@nayibbukele

Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).

The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.

Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.

On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.

This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.

As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.

May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States.

alwaysright
alwaysright
March 17, 2025 9:11 am
mem
mem
March 17, 2025 9:15 am

You know the end is nigh for net zero when the ABC runs an article admitting that Net Zero is an impossible goal. This article by Alan Kohler reminds me of articles that were written by some of the old communists hacks following the fall of the USSR and which continued for years to trumpet the wonders of the Soviet regime. The mental gymnastics and careful wording here aims to shift the narrative far enough away from the truth (i.e. that Climate Change caused by CO2 is and always was a scam and net zero was a political construct without scientific backing, impossible to measure and achieve) to protect themselves, the scammers and their vulnerable and stupid followers. This article aims to set the tone across the nation for dealing with the crumbling net zero narrative. ABC Pravda doing what it does best. A must read. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/climate-change-religion-trump-zeldin-epa-wind-back-rules/105057538

Jock
Jock
March 17, 2025 9:31 am
Reply to  mem

You watch or read Kohler? I wouldn’t p@ss down his mouth if his chest was on fire. A hopeless biased journalist well at home in the ABC.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 10:08 am
Reply to  Jock

Probably should attract more criticism than he does. Not from you obviously. His News segments carry all the weight of something from Annabel Crabbe.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 10:54 am
Reply to  H B Bear

snork!!!

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 10:33 am
Reply to  Jock

I read him because he is pulled in by the ABC in times of lefty narrative crisis to write its way out of trouble. That he contradicts himself several times in the same article doesn’t bother him or the ABC audience. I think he has the art of double speak down pat. I wouldn’t piss on him either.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 9:51 am
Reply to  mem

And thats without even realising that ‘net’ zero is a fraud – it means ‘on average’. It requires carbon fuel backups even if you can ‘net it out to zero’ via some accounting chicanery. You CANNOT eliminate carbon fuels, they have been part of human activity forever – wood fires probably being the oldest example.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 10:08 am
Reply to  flyingduk

They are actually trying to eliminate the key human technology of control of fire.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:57 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Yep. Really going back to nature there, aren’t they?

Uncooked, and red in tooth and claw.

Humans evolved with fire, cooking made more food edible and contributed to our greater brain size. It allowed expansion into different environments and was also defensive at night against predators, and warm in a cooling climate.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 17, 2025 10:23 am
Reply to  mem

Kohler asks the rhetorical question: Why have we failed to limit warming?
And answers it:

Obviously, a big part of it is the fossil fuel industry’s success in turning climate change into a political issue instead of a scientific one, persuading the right side of politics that it’s all part of a left woke conspiracy, even a “religion”, with the right-wing media facilitating that project, led by Rupert Murdoch.

Obviously.

But I think the more fundamental reason is the scientific community’s failure to tell the truth.

There has been systemic reticence on the part of scientists to spell out what’s actually going on, first because science is inherently uncertain, so they are always reluctant to be definitive, and second because they worry that if the true nightmare was revealed, politicians and everybody else would either refuse to believe it or just give up.

Personally, I find it surprising that a few paras prior to those sensational revelations, Kohler had noted a rather simpler fundamental reason:

Energy scientist, Vaclav Smil puts the total cost of achieving net zero by 2050 at $US444 trillion, or $US17 trillion a year for 25 years, “requiring affluent economies to spend 20 to 25 per cent of their annual GDP on the transition”. 

Just a wacky, way out suggestion here, governments don’t think that scale of value destruction is actually a practical idea. They talk big games, but nobody believes in climate change salvation enough to vaporise their social economy (even if that were possible).

A little virtuous wounding – a different matter.

Disclaimer: as a paid up member of Big Fossil, unless I pointed this out, I would be found ‘suicided’, zipped into a sports bag full of scorpions.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 10:56 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

“requiring affluent economies to spend 20 to 25 per cent of their annual GDP on the transition”. 

And this in a world where few countries can even keep their spending within their actual receipts, much less cut spending to the point where 1/4 of GDP could be redirected.. Most spending is ‘baked in’ to meet interest payments and entitlements. Diverting 25% to the green dream would require ‘WW2’ level austerity at home, and of course, economic productivity will *fall* precipitously once resources are directed into the self destructing of our existing energy systems

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:53 am
Reply to  mem

An interesting take on the role that Kohler is performing, Mem.
I think it is important for us to keep up with what is being said more widely, to see the left at their game, and then for us to keep ahead of it, rather than just rely on echo chambers for our information, useful and confirming as our usual sources may be for us.

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 12:18 pm

Thankyou for feedback Lizzie. I try to read across the political spectrum for this reason. Good luck with your forthcoming surgery.

alans
alans
March 17, 2025 5:55 pm
Reply to  mem

Wasn’t Kohler one of the spruikers for every thing concerning unreliable renewables?

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 9:16 am

They have an interesting system where the new PM is not a member of parliament and has never held any elected office.

A new Canadian PM

Diogenes
Diogenes
March 17, 2025 11:39 am
Reply to  Indolent

Technically possible here, limited to 3 months.
Section 64 of our constitution

After the first general election no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than three months unless he is or becomes a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.

Rafiki
Rafiki
March 17, 2025 1:26 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

Yes, I’ve said here that if NT Aboriginal politics trumps Jacinta Price’s return the Senate, and the LNP forms government, she could, after a policy reform package for the Aboriginal sector is settled, be appointed a Minister to make the critical decisions.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 9:17 am

The best of Ireland were transported or forcibly removed. Scotland ditto.

I can’t deny my heritage, degraded as the place has become. Like Australia, Ireland is going through a wicked, shameful stage. Once out of the cycle, they seem to shrug it off as if it was unimportant or never happened. Our pollies will probably do the same.

St George’s Day will be coming up at the end of April. I wonder if Starmer will outlaw the parading and waving of the St George cross? Wouldn’t put it past him.

Jock
Jock
March 17, 2025 9:28 am
Reply to  calli

Tend to agree. Scotland is now a basket case where every political party is left of centre including the pretend conservatives. Busily destroying the place and its heritage while saying they carry the traditions of Wallace. What a joke.
A Greek friend tells me that the best Greeks migrated after the war and left the sh#t behind.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 10:58 am
Reply to  Jock

We met one old shepherd in Scotland who wasn’t having a bar of the climate change luvvies. So some good ones still remain.

Bruce
Bruce
March 17, 2025 11:37 am
Reply to  calli

“Once out of the cycle, they seem to shrug it off as if it was unimportant or never happened.”

And there will be a multitude of catchy songs “celebrating” the event, within a week.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 9:26 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 9:25 am
Awaiting for approval

John Hancock reflects on the estranged relationship with mother Gina RinehartGina Rinehart’s son unloads about the bitter battles within Australia’s richest family, the ‘non-existent’ relationship with his mother and how some of her investments are ‘toilet flushes’.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 10:06 am

Does he like the money though?

Entropy
Entropy
March 17, 2025 10:26 am

perhaps if he had the grace and lacked the greed to wait until he was old enough to access his trust this estrangement would never have happened.
Plus all that Treasure lost through expensive litigation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:21 pm
Reply to  Entropy

As with the Bond – SGIC case it represents a valuable transfer of wealth to the Perth legal community where it can be used to buy Koppers logs for the Margaret River winery getaway property.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:26 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

As an aside, a mate used to run into Gina in the lift when he was renting in Crawley after being left with nothing after a divorce. I’m sure they both abhor the idea of a shared lift these days. I think he picks up lots of work from Roy Hill so it wasn’t a complete loss.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 10:58 am

“John Hancock”. An unfortunate name. 😀
Most Cats would be familiar with the US meaning of the name. 😀
Seems appropriate for him.

Crossie
Crossie
March 17, 2025 1:54 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Aren’t Gina’s children all Rineharts? Has he also denied his father?

Last edited 9 hours ago by Crossie
H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:17 pm

A family that changes its surname with each generation is always going to struggle.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 2:54 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Try telling that to the Saxe-Coburg-Mountbatten-Windsor-FitzHewitt-Sussexes.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 9:29 am

More Trumpening!

The US has deported over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be held in a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador after US President Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them.

El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, said 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 had arrived and were in custody.

The deportations took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, apparently as planes were already headed to El Salvador.

Herald-Sun

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 11:00 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Good. I am glad they just got on with it.

Rafiki
Rafiki
March 17, 2025 1:19 pm

What? .. and legal niceties about the rule of law be f***ed?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:31 pm
Reply to  Rafiki

It will be picked over to death. They will be the best defended deportees in history, although there would be a few here too I suspect. The timing might need some work but I’m not losing any sleep.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:32 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Losing 20 years of your life in detention or Nauru is a different question.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:27 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Trump Air!

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 10:02 am

Indolent

 March 17, 2025 9:06 am

@BreitbartNews

DEFSEC @PeteHegseth: “Peace through strength is back — The minute the Houthis say ‘we’ll stop shooting at your ships, we’ll stop shooting at your drones,’ this campaign will end.” 

“But until then, it will be un-relenting.”

Sure, that is until the Hootie Tooties find a friendly judge in the DC court system who issues an injunction and stops the bombing. Anyone can get an injunction against the administration in a DC court.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 10:11 am
Reply to  JC

The infestation of judiciaries by activist wannabe politicians too gutless to run for office has become a plague throughout the Western world.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:38 pm
Reply to  Tom

Separation of Powers has evolved from the Magna Carta to deal with it. On the whole it works as well as any human system could be expected IMO. There are instances of overreach on all sides. The USA is perhaps the most visible but our own High and other courts are not immune. Requires constant vigilance.

Crossie
Crossie
March 17, 2025 1:57 pm
Reply to  Tom

I thought it was the other way around, leftie politicians appoint activist judges as a safety measure and another arrow in their quiver.

Russia_Today
Russia_Today
March 17, 2025 10:13 am

Test.

Just working out user registration.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 10:16 am

From the Spectator Australia – Part of the Post –

Dimitri Burshtein and Peter Swan
15 March 2025

“Australians are frequently reminded that we are facing ‘the most complex and challenging strategic environment since the second world war’. Yet given recent exercises by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), Australia does not seem anywhere near prepared. It was left to a Virgin Airlines pilot to report live firing since apparently Australia lacks the capability to monitor potentially hostile warships in our backyard.

The primary role of a military is to deter, engage in, and win wars. When it comes to deterrence, former US Strategic Command chief General Kevin Chilton noted that deterrence the combination of will and capability. The Australian defence establishment’s lack of awareness and response to PLAN’s exercises underscores Australia’s weak deterrence posture, highlighting both a deficiency in will and a shortfall in capability. Rather, the Australian military seems to excel in the bureaucratic stakes.

In a classic episode of Yes, Prime Minister, PM Jim Hacker is shocked to learn that the Royal Navy has more admirals than ships. Never want for reality to be outdone by comedy. The Royal Australian Navy has approximately 51 commission vessels and 78 admirals (one-star officers or higher).

This administocracy is not limited to the Royal Australian Navy. The Australian Army has 91 starred officers and the Royal Australian Air Force 69. In toto, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has 238 starred officers for 57,000 active-duty personnel. This equates to approximately 1 starred officer per 240 ADF members.

In contrast, the US military comprises approximately 1.3 million active-duty personnel. To lead the US forces, there are approximately 650 starred officers or approximately one starred officer per 2,000 soldiers. Australian soldiers, it seems, require eight times more oversight and administration than do soldiers serving in arguably the most lethal military in the world.

It is not just the number of starred officers. The Chief of the Australian Defence Force earns approximately $1.1 million. The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff earns approximately AU $420,000 per annum (US $260,000). Unless there is some unique Australian way of military organisation, it is unclear why the head of the Australian military, who oversees a force one-twentieth the size of the US military, earns two and a half times the salary of his American counterpart.”

General Disaster Abalone, are you up to the job of PM? And Marles, are you up to your job.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 10:24 am
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

The first job in any war is to root out all the ‘peace generals’

Entropy
Entropy
March 17, 2025 10:36 am
Reply to  flyingduk

True, the trouble is how many grunts they take with them.

Vicki
Vicki
March 17, 2025 11:05 am
Reply to  flyingduk

You mean like Angus Campbell who reckons that there is no place in the army for “exceptionalism”?????

Vicki
Vicki
March 17, 2025 11:08 am
Reply to  Vicki

BTW I asked Richard Marles (at a Sydney Institute meeting) what does this mean for the respect towards our VCs? He spluttered that Campbell meant that they should be more like a football team – or words to that effect!

Last edited 11 hours ago by Vicki
Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 11:16 am
Reply to  Vicki

Isn’t the Chief of Army supposed to be chosen as an “exceptional” leader?

Oh, hang on, Morrison, Campbell, et al! I will show myself out, simply noting that at least he lived up to his claim. He is an unexceptional excuse for a soldier.

Last edited 11 hours ago by Boambee John
Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 10:53 am
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Epic fail by canbra. Again.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 10:56 am
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Try and keep up!

It’s not General Disaster Abalone.

It’s General Disaster Abalone VC and Bar, KC, AM. (Knighthood pending)

This place resembles North Korea in several ways…

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 11:01 am
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

The primary role of a military is to deter, engage in, and win wars

To paraphrase Conan….. ‘the role of the military is to crush your enemies before lunch, then to enjoy his cattle and his women (in that order)’

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 10:22 am

With the sun about to set in northeast Florida, Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun (tied on -12) will return tomorrow for a Monday playoff in the Players Championship.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 10:33 am

Another offshore windmill disaster.

Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation (16 Mar)

According to Blackout News, a decisive factor for dismantling the pioneer project is the expiration of generous subsidies made possible through Germany’s EEG renewable energies feed-in act. The subsidy meant that the Alpha Ventus wind farm got 15.4 cents per kilowatt hour after being put in operation. Now that the subsidy has run out, the wind farm operators receive only the basic tariff of 3.9 cents per kilowatt hour, thus making the farm unprofitable.

Seventy percent of their revenue was the subsidy! And that is for a wind farm in probably the best location, since it was the first one built. I suspect it is clapped out anyway after 15 years of pounding by waves, and that will’ve influenced the decision to pull the plug. It really does say that Blackout Bowen’s offshore wind pipedream is never going to happen.

Entropy
Entropy
March 17, 2025 10:38 am

Imagine the scale and complexity of the offshore logistical operation to remove and replace the blades and turbines.

Nos_Pullum
Nos_Pullum
March 17, 2025 1:15 pm
Reply to  Entropy

A small charged at the base of the pilon, a nice habitat to local fishes to boot.

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 10:36 am

Morning email from an investment bank that I receive.

Overnight news

China will take steps to revive consumption by boosting incomes, stabilizing the stock and property markets, and offering incentives to raise the birth rate, Xinhua reported. Monday data may show a resilient economy in January and February, with retail sales picking up and investment steady from 2024’s full-year figures.

They’re trying everything from the income side, ie. to stoke demand. Until they come to terms with around US$18 trillion of bad debt floating around the economy, it’s all for nothing. It’s japan all over again. The CCP can post anything they want like GDP growing at 5%. No one will believe them.

Bruce
Bruce
March 17, 2025 10:43 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 12:02 pm
Reply to  Bruce

A terrible tale of Jew hatred and murder by the same people currently being released in a prisoner exchange with Hamas.

I don’t know about perspective, it gives me a white hot anger.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 17, 2025 10:45 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 17, 2025 12:20 pm
Reply to  lotocoti

Elon is wrong to think that people incapable of violence are harmless. They may be malignant, back-biting, vicious shits like Rory Stewart and capable of doing much damage.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 12:04 pm
Reply to  JC

JC we are booked on the Queen Anne to go to Los Angeles from Sydney in March 2026. We haven’t made any further plans, but America always turns up something interesting to do and to see.

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 12:14 pm

We’re in NY around May/June. Drop in 🙂
Cut out the cruise and just fly to LA.

Last edited 10 hours ago by JC
Vicki
Vicki
March 17, 2025 2:57 pm
Reply to  JC

We love America, except for the west coast. Except for you, JC, I think LA is just the pits.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 8:03 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Yep. San Fran used to be fun, but not any more. The Big Sur drive between San Fran and LA when we did it in the early 90’s was pretty good though.I have old friends in LA, in Bel-Air, but I haven’t visited for some years now. Perhaps I should catch up. The canyons are nice, and the Hollywood architecture is dreamy and very OTT but otherwise I’d give LA a miss. JC, we’re booked for that ocean voyage, a Pacific crossing, where the Queen Anne is what clinched the deal. Dates are in March, fixed now. It seemed like a great relaxing way to get to the US. We’ll fly around when we arrive. Hairy wants to see Yellowstone, so maybe we’ll go there.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 17, 2025 12:17 pm
Reply to  JC

Yes.

Last edited 10 hours ago by DrBeauGan
cohenite
March 17, 2025 12:50 pm
Reply to  JC

Outstanding.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 10:49 am

Global boiling in action.

Global Warming Researchers Rescued From Snow (16 Mar)

300 people rescued from climate conference amidst Big Bear snow storm

The San Bernardino County Fire Department rescued some of them by making 3 trips to pick them up in a snow cat.

You’d think after such things they’d start to wonder. But no, they never seem to.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 11:20 am
Reply to  Indolent

Answer: Fear, simple fear of discovery of the extent of their corruption.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 10:57 am

The ironic thing is that St. Patrick was born in Britain –

“Patrick was born in Britain of a Romanized family. When he was 16 years old, Irish raiders tore him from the villa of his father, Calpurnius, a deacon and minor local official, and carried Patrick into slavery in Ireland.”

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Patrick

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
March 17, 2025 11:46 am
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

British? Did he eat kippers for breakfast?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 12:14 pm
Reply to  Titus Groates

As he was from a Romanized family, then maybe it was olives with garlic bread. As well as wine.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:42 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

No Pommy muck.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:16 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

No Poms in Britain then Only Britons (Celts), Picts and Romans.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 11:17 am
Reply to  Indolent

Britain continues to trash itself. Dons are evil. BIRM.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 11:21 am
Reply to  Indolent

If there ever was such an ideology, it has long since ceased to exist.

The ideology of Islamic supremacy, on the other hand …

Last edited 11 hours ago by Boambee John
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 12:06 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Now you know what happened during the Dark Ages – it wasn’t dark, just the culture got wiped out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 11:01 am

flyingduk

 March 17, 2025 9:51 am

 Reply to  mem

And thats without even realising that ‘net’ zero is a fraud – it means ‘on average’. It requires carbon fuel backups even if you can ‘net it out to zero’ via some accounting chicanery.

The other day I got to thinking about that very thing.
For something to be “net” it implies you are using some of the “negative” energy which is offset by “positive” energy to arrive at zero.
If your energy demand is 100 units, and you use 15 units of “negative” energy (coal and gas) you generate 115 units of “positive” energy to offset to net zero.
So you generate 130 units of energy against a demand of 100.
A completely nonsensical concept.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 11:02 am

Welcome to Country is killing the planet.

Mag: ‘Email signatures are harming the planet & could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them’ – Adding ‘gender pronouns in emails…may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year’ (16 Mar)

My recent study explored the environmental impact of lengthening email signatures, focusing specifically on two types of information: gender pronouns and land acknowledgements because both are relatively new additions to email signatures.

In both cases, the extra carbon emissions for each email for the extra characters is estimated and aggregated over the population that uses them.

The results showed that in Canada, where about 15 per cent of people include gender pronouns in emails, the resulting carbon emissions from this small change (three extra words) may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year, according to the 1,000-ton rule.

The environmental harm and human mortality caused by this seemingly minor digital habit is evident. Large blocks of text like legal disclaimers and land acknowledgements cause even more harm. Images and logos, which contain even larger amounts of data, cause more emissions and deaths still.

Pronouns too are killing the planet! I am about 99% sure this isn’t satire, he really means it. He’s an IT professor with interests in solar energy from his bio. I wonder what he would think about a smoking ceremony?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 11:22 am

LOL!

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 11:26 am

What has he been smoking is the question? Must be good stuff.
Memes must be absolutely killing the planet.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 12:11 pm

What about those smoking ceremonies by Hippies in the late 60s and early 70s last Century.

Pot smoking ceremonies that is, along with a Love -In.

Emissions anyone?

dopey
dopey
March 17, 2025 2:31 pm

Pronouns too are killing the planet. Split infinitives will finish it off.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
March 17, 2025 11:09 am

Great, so Albo says we will stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes”. Might be helpful if he could tell us what “it” looks like. No young Ukrainian men left to fight? Kyiv a pile of rubble? The start of world war 3? Come on Albo, as long as it takes to what?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 17, 2025 12:14 pm
Reply to  Not Uh oh

Well said. Put some parameters around it, Abalone.

You can’t, so shut up about things you don’t understand.

Jock
Jock
March 17, 2025 4:05 pm
Reply to  Not Uh oh

If I recall UNIFIL has been in Lebanon for more than forty years. And they were useless.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 17, 2025 11:17 am

elonmusk 17m

Whatever you think the rules should be, they should be consistent for all people and countries

Uh oh. Does Elon know where this line of thinking leads?
He’s on the One World Government track.
Hopefully he has made a miscommunication here and he just means the way the USA treats people and other countries.

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 11:18 am

“We’re not fcking around”

Week 8

Bessent interviewed Sunday morning US time.

“I’ve been in the investment business for 35 years, and I can tell you that corrections are healthy, they are normal,”

What’s not healthy is straight up, that you get these euphoric markets. That’s how you get a financial crisis. It would have been much healthier if someone had put the brakes on in ‘06, ‘07. We wouldn’t have had the problems in ‘08.

“We are putting the policies in place that will make the affordability crisis go down, inflation moderate and as we set the sails I am confident that the American people will come our way,

“..the American Dream isn’t contingent on being able to buy cheap goods from China.”

“The American dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility and economic security.”

“Because I tell you that this massive government spending that we’d had, that if that had kept going, we have to wean our country off of that.”

“I am confident that the American people will come our way” on Trump tariff policy”

“I’m not worried about the markets” following worst week in stock market in two years”

There are no guarantees that there won’t be a recession”

“The American dream is not contingent on cheap baubles from China”

More and more I’m getting the impression that this is an administration focused on the middle class. I’d describe it more as a Main Street administration with its eye on raising incomes. It’s not inimical towards Wall Street but it’s not its focus.

In other words its an income administration rather than asset appreciation focused one.

If real incomes begin to rise. If living costs go down, the markets will follow along.

The interview is here.

Arky
March 17, 2025 11:30 am

Famous Fords continued

ZZ Top Eliminator car.
1933 Ford coupe. Chev 350 V8.

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Arky
March 17, 2025 11:35 am
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alwaysright
alwaysright
March 17, 2025 12:02 pm
Reply to  Arky

If you sound system in your car is any good, you can try this.

alwaysright
alwaysright
March 17, 2025 12:08 pm
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Foxbody
Foxbody
March 17, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Arky

Visited Australia back in the day – a friend who arranged to bring the 33 here ran the old SA Hot Rod show as it was then called, and drove it around Adelaide one night.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:45 pm
Reply to  Arky

The first couple of ZZ Top albums get a regular airing. This era, less so.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 6:45 pm
Reply to  Arky

Chev? wtf??

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 11:34 am

Apparently an underlying logic behind shipping the gang thugs to El Salvador is terror.

Previously gangbangers had nothing much to fear from being apprehended. But now, the idea of spending 20 years duck walking dressed in boxers and singlets while spending twelve hours a day in the prison workshop has many of the scum either running or considering a different lifestyle.

It must be a great strategy because it has the BBC reaching stratospheric levels of hysteria. Sweet to watch.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
March 17, 2025 12:25 pm
Reply to  bons

I have seen some Yewchubes of the El Salvador system, one in particular from a young man who was given a full tour. There are multiple levels of incarceration. The felons who have committed lesser crimes are being comprehensively rehabilitated, taught to read and write and trained in basic behaviour, then allowed to learn basic skills, particularly in construction, all with the aim of bettering their own country. The worst of the worst are literally duck walking. Bukele is very popular but of course there are human rights concerns.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 2:08 pm
Reply to  hzhousewife

When you don,t behave in a humane manner, you lose those rights.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 12:45 pm
Reply to  bons

Any chance we can bring it in here?

Might drive the prison population down by deterring lotsa crims.

Win win for everyone.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 1:12 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

No chance at all “gross violations of ‘ooman rites”.

Last edited 9 hours ago by Boambee John
Bluey
Bluey
March 17, 2025 5:24 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

I seem to recall that wasn’t an issue mandating covid shots for the general population outside prison.
Inside prison however…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 11:54 am

It’s possible that Hamas launched their genocidal attack when they did because they feared this system would render all their bootleg missiles and fire balloons irrelevant.

Katz confirms Iron Beam defense laser to be operational within several months (JPost, 16 Mar)

The Iron Beam is a ground-based high-power laser air defense system designed to counter short- to mid-range aerial threats, including rockets and mortars.

The Iron Beam laser air-defense system produced by Rafael will be operational before the end of 2025, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday.

This integration will significantly enhance Israel’s defense capabilities against current and future threats while offering substantially lower operational costs, with some estimates as low as $2-$3.50 per laser shot, compared with $40,000-50,000 for an Iron Dome interceptor.

Of course by the time it is operational they won’t need it anymore, since Hamas will have been obliterated and Hezbollah severely reduced and cut off from supply from Iran because of the Sunnis now running Syria. But I am sure the IDF can think of a few things to do with it, once it’s up and running.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 12:10 pm

Mosquito and fly control?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 12:21 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

And I’m not being flippant with that – invading bees – if they can be distinguished from others -? wing beat rate? – would help honey/pollination efforts in the agricultural sector immensely.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 12:52 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Done in David Brin’s “Earth”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 1:31 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

I’m a bit hit or miss with David Brin’s work, but one of my all time favourite SciFi novels is The Uplift War. I must read it again.

I liked The Practice Effect too, which is silly but a fine “what if” novel.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 3:54 pm

‘Eon’ and Stephen Baxters ‘Evolution’.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 3:47 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Thanks Eyrie – I knew I’d gotten the idea from somewhere, just couldn’t remember where.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 17, 2025 2:36 pm

As long as the power draw causes blackouts in the Pallyweirdies territory every time its used.

Kneel
Kneel
March 17, 2025 12:18 pm

“Ho hum, the hypocrisy and double standards are never ending.”

It’s not hypocrisy nor double standards.

It’s always and ever about power – they are in charge and you are not, so they can do as they please. When you are in power and they are not, you abuse your power (which they NEVER do).

You are “on the wrong side of history” you see, while they are on the right side of it. Hence whatever they do is good, and whatever you do is bad. Therefor, ipso facto, their violence is speech, while your speech is violence.

I’m not saying it makes sense, just that it is their justification.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 12:20 pm

Tranny terrorist.

Trans Tesla vandal – who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at cars – lives with mum and calls herself ‘baby’: sources (Sky News, 17 Mar)

A 42-year-old transgender woman [man in a frock] who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and spray-painted “Nazi cars” at a Colorado Tesla dealership lives with her [his] mother due to “emotional problems” and calls herself “baby” online.

Lucy Grace Nelson, also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, is accused of hurling incendiary devices at a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Northern Colorado, and vandalizing the business and vehicles on multiple occasions with graffiti “offensive and hateful in nature,” police said.

I might’ve made a couple of edits for clarity. His photo is exactly as you will have imagined.

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If he’s still living with mum at age 42 maybe she will pay for all the damage.

Aaron
Aaron
March 17, 2025 7:30 pm

Big bad Bubba in the the men’s cells will have a ball.

Even if this woman still has hers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 12:43 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

The strategy has changed. Trump is going after the senior leaders. Reports suggest he got several of them, although there’s an obvious difficulty confirming that.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 12:53 pm

How exactly do you know where they are? Wasn’t that the problem with Saddam? Where is he?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 1:19 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

I’m repeating the reports I read this morning, which is why I mentioned the difficulty of confirmation of the US claim.

However I point out that Trump is just carrying out the same strategy that Israel has been so successfully doing to the Hamas and Hezbollah senior leadership.

I could probably go find the reports, but it’d take a lot of time. I suppose we’ll find out as new Houthi talking heads magically replace the old ones.

Zatara
Zatara
March 17, 2025 2:31 pm

That strategy seems to work pretty well on keeping ISIS quiet.

In fact they just got the Chief of Global Operations for ISIS with a precision airstrike the other day.

I’m guessing that they aren’t getting a flood of CVs from eager applicants to replace him.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 3:43 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

No names but three was the number I saw. And the targets look to be salubrious homes in Sanaa. As I said I’d have to dig to find the reports, since I read twenty or thirty sites each morning. It’ll be reported somewhere if you want to chase the claims up.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 12:30 pm

Australian news and politics live: Greens announce policy push seeking four-day work week, without pay cut
From the West Australian. Words fail me, they honestly do.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 12:45 pm

I’ve never heard of a Greenie working more than 1 day a week so how are they going to work 4 days a week.

As for a Policy for Australia, it won’t work. Ever heard of Productivity?

And the Greens are trying to do a deal with Laybore for the Feral Election and a hung Parliament where they can create the most damage ever.

The Greens think that money grows on trees.

Madness.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 12:39 pm

Smelly hippies.

How often should I wash my exercise clothes? (MedXpress, 16 Mar)

Earlier this year, the French government caused a stir with advice about how often you should wash your clothes. For sports clothes, it recommends up to three wears before you wash them.

This stems from legitimate environmental concerns—each laundry cycle consumes significant water and energy. Frequent washing can also degrade fabrics more quickly, contributing to textile waste.

But what about our health? If the thought of rewearing your stinky t-shirt or damp sports bra makes you squeamish, here’s what you need to know.

Here’s who she is…

Carolina Quintero Rodriguez – Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program, RMIT University

There you go, even RMIT fashion academics have a role in saving the planet. I wonder how many yummy grants she is getting to write tripe like this?

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Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 12:55 pm

Fire them all. Bulldoze the buildings. Salt the Earth.

Kneel
Kneel
March 17, 2025 12:56 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Harsh – but fair.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 12:56 pm

aaargh! I wear everything once, then wash. Except for jeans, if they haven’t had much use involving sweat or dirt, I will wear them again tomorrow.
Sports gear! sheesh. When I was doing Judo, my suit was washed “every time”, sweet and fresh for the next day of training.

At the club there were many adults who threw their suits into their gear bag, then left them in the car and wore them again next training session.
You soon smelt who you didn’t want to train with. Mostly blokes I will add.

Cats here are always whining about women yet, we are, as a rule the fresh, clean, and sweet smelling ones. 😀

Many of the children same, only you blamed the parents of course. A lot of the kids smelt like pee. yeerrk.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 1:04 pm
Reply to  Pogria

The ladies are complementary to their blokes who can from time to time use a little civilising. Without women, men would live like bears with furniture.

Bill From the Bush
Bill From the Bush
March 17, 2025 1:38 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

What is this furniture you speak of?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 1:52 pm

Milk crates, bricks, lengths of wood, the floor.

Last edited 9 hours ago by H B Bear
Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 2:25 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Sounds like my first house.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:03 pm
Reply to  Pogria

A clean tshirt, underwear, socks, every day. Jeans – wear for two days.
If I can smell them so can everyone else.
Shower every day – unless I’ve done jack shit all day, and tomorrow I’ll mow the lawn.
But I like the simile:
“Men are bears with furniture.”

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
March 17, 2025 4:22 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

Would make a great shirt slogan, Winston.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
March 17, 2025 1:22 pm

Ferkin academics, trying to sidestep the obvious degeneracy of wimmin wearing crack-tight aactive wear on the civil street.

132andBush
132andBush
March 17, 2025 1:32 pm
Reply to  Wally Dali

In Griffith (NSW) I have not seen that to be a problem.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 12:46 pm

That’s me in that boat. I remember it well. The day started overcast but cleared. The fish were biting and there a couple of dusky maidens skinny dipping at the bottom of the gentle rapids.

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 2:03 pm
Reply to  cohenite

What happened next?

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 2:28 pm
Reply to  mem

Nothing, he fell out of the boat as he had become so excited. When he swam to the women and tried to introduce himself, they caught sight of his saggy y-fronts and ran off screaming!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 2:48 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Not cute owls then. Cute owls would never run off screaming.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 2:53 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Snigger.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 3:34 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Are you the little man in the boat?

Foxbody
Foxbody
March 17, 2025 4:20 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Sounds more like he was hoping to meet a couple.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 1:19 pm

Top Ender,
you might have better facts that what I’ve gleaned from ChatGPT, but it notes Australia’s military “capabilities” as:

  • 3 destroyers;
  • 7 (shitty) frigates;
  • 6 (shitty) submarines;
  • 3 amphibious warships;
  • 6 patrol ships (aka coastguard);
  • 763 bushmasters;
  • 330 armoured cars;
  • 2268 “multipurpose” vehicles;
  • 3580 military trucks;
  • 96 “attack” aircraft;
  • 38 transport and reconnaissance aircraft;
  • 14,000 navy personel;;
  • 27,000 army personnel;
  • 14,00 air force personnel.

19 days worth of petrol reserves.

A mate of mine whom I haven’t seen in years and now works as a “strategist” for our DoD told me yesterday that our frigates can’t even make it to Cocos Islands with needing refuelling and an accompanying “replenishment ship.”

Laughable.

Consider China:

  • 400 ships
  • 1500 “attack” planes;
  • Over 6000 tanks;
  • Over 2M active personnel;
Diogenes
Diogenes
March 17, 2025 2:00 pm
Reply to  Lysander

763 bushmasters

Given how many I see broken down on the side of the Bruce Highway… Makes the old Acco F1 I went down Bulli pass on( pulling the handbrake up the whole time, my driver pumping the brakes for all they were worth ) look positively reliable.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 2:20 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Looks a bit odd.

No mention of tanks?

There are more patrol boats than that.

Last time I looked there were nine operational frigates.

To get to Cocos is within range of a frigate from Sydney. They can do about 11,000 k’s before refuelling.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 2:47 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

No mention of tanks?

They just gave a large bunch of them to Ukraine…

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 2:56 pm

The ones about to be replaced with newer models?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 3:05 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Do we have solar powered electric tanks already? Or very long extension leads.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:20 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Top Ender – my mate’s “facts” (?) told me an Australian frigate can’t make the journey there as it won’t have enough to get back???

There’s no refuelling options at Cocos…

True story?

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 5:36 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Dunno about Cocos, but why would you go there in one hop from Sydney, say, and not refuel in Darwin? Warships generally do that wherever they can – no captain wants to be running with 20%.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 17, 2025 2:41 pm
Reply to  Lysander

I’m told reliably that our 6 subs are tied up at Garden Is due to lack of crews. We can’t even put 1 to sea at moment.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 2:57 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Crewing has been a problem since they were built.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 2:55 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Out main military asset is $1 trillion of renewables. The chunks will land, look at the stupid things and die laughing.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 17, 2025 4:57 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Heheh.
That is funny.

But seriously.

Australia’s main military asset is the ANZUS treaty and the US Navy 7th Fleet moored at Yokosuka.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 6:48 pm
Reply to  Lysander

19 days worth of petrol reserves.

And therein lies the real story …. ‘amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics’

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 1:48 pm

Ugh so it’s looking like the Greens will hold the balance of power in WA’s upper house…

cohenite
March 17, 2025 2:56 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The Australian electorate is brain dead.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:09 pm
Reply to  cohenite

…and deserves everything it gets.

mareeS
mareeS
March 17, 2025 5:35 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Balance of power only matters if the two main parties can’t work out a deal.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 1:50 pm

H B Bear

 March 17, 2025 1:42 pm

 Reply to  Johnny Rotten

No Pommy muck.

That’s how I like my food reviews.
Short, sharp and accurate.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 1:55 pm

Trump is making Demonrats go fossil:

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1901342361420198280

Democrat Senator Mark Kelly shows off his new gas-guzzling Chevy Tahoe after selling his Tesla to protest Elon Musk. “Here I am with my new ride Chevy. Good old Chevy Tahoe here in Washington, D.C got one of these in Tucson as well.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 2:01 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Zinger:

Kate Hyde@KateHydeNY

Gotta love that while Mark Kelly was trading in his Tesla, Elon Musk was flying into space to save Kelly’s fellow astronauts who were abandoned by Joe Biden’s autopen.

7:53 AM · Mar 17, 2025

Mark Kelly rather famously is an ex-astronaut.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 2:13 pm

Wonder if he put his trust in DEI hire in space.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 1:59 pm

Paywalled:

Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid – The New York Times

But an interesting “turn around” from the NYT…

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 2:01 pm

Just received notification that our special saver electricity plan will run out in April and that we will be put on a new plan for the same supply that will cost an extra $528.00 per year for the first 12 months not allowing for price increases which may occur. I will try to negotiate a better deal. Haven’t heard from gas yet but given what I’ve read it will likely go up even more. Not happy Jan!

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:07 pm
Reply to  mem

Talk to Blackout Bowen about cheaper electrickery. A $500 rebate coming your money in the March 2025 Feral Guv’ment Budget, Getting your own tax money/borrowed money as a ‘rebate’.

LOL.. LayBore Accounting.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
March 17, 2025 2:03 pm

The claims and counter claims related to Wombatgate throws up another opportunity to say that allowing people to keep native animals as pets would be a way to avoid extinction. This is a verifiable, nay, self-evident assertion.
We saw the fuss over a pet magpie as well – those people nearly lost custody.
We have a ridiculous situation where deadly poisonous snakes are protected even though in many areas they are at near plague numbers. But try and keep native animals and you risk the law coming down on you like a tonne of ambulance chasers.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 2:30 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Better still, raise them for meat. There’s no shortage of cows which are delicious.

Entropy
Entropy
March 17, 2025 4:09 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

I am not sure but I suspect wombat might be a bit gamey.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 2:12 pm

So the CFMEU is still engaged in corrupt practices and women bashing, even under the admin of Mark Irving KC.

Hardly surprising.

Victoria Police operation announced into alleged ongoing CFMEU underworld infiltration of construction industry – ABC News

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 2:24 pm
Reply to  Lysander

This one sounds like revenge against Labor, who in August put the CFMEU into administration. The timing (just before the election announcement) is interesting.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 2:53 pm

I think, given the billions poured into CFMEU projects, it has the potential to be one of Australia’s largest government scandals since the Khemlani loans.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 2:31 pm

There was talk about seed oils a week or so ago.
Here’s the story with references, proper studies etc.

https://www.malone.news/p/do-seed-oils-cause-heart-attacks

Vicki
Vicki
March 17, 2025 2:51 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

We dropped seed oils some years ago. Only use virgin olive oil now – and Australian brands. A friend had an olive grove years ago and had learned the trade OS but reckons process used by some Italian brands to purify the oil leads to an adulterated product.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 3:50 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Ditto. The other oils I use for cooking are coconut oil (high smoke point) and butter.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Vicki

That’s handy to know – I went Olive oil – no seed oils a year or so ago.
Have no idea what effect it has on me, but I can brag about it to my family and it shuts them up.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 6:41 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

So how do Japanese and Scandinavians (to name just a couple of examples) manage to live so long?

Over the years, we have been told that everything from sugar, salt, animal fats, carbs, to the latest bogey, seed oils, are killing us. Yet, overall, people keep living longer.

Me, I am with Yogi Bear. An apple pie is much more attractive than foraging for nuts and berries.

The endless search for the magic bullet food poison du jour is wildly unscientific, but makes a lot of money for food entrepreneurs.

That huckster, Maggie Beer (who happens to sell olive oil) advocates using it for everything, including frying chips. That’s all very well if money is no object, plus the best temperature for good chips is more like that of peanut oil, or even safflower oil.

As I have said before, dietary ‘science’ is rivalled only by astrology.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
March 17, 2025 2:32 pm

Wife and I both shopped this morning. She went to Coles, I went to Aldi. We both bought frozen beans. Hers were product of Australia, 825g for $4.90. Mine were packed in France from imported product, 1kg for $2.79. I doubt there will be any difference in quality. I know this isn’t new but can someone smarter than me tell me how we get out of this mess.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 2:58 pm
Reply to  Not Uh oh

You’ll have to get a new wife.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:00 pm
Reply to  Not Uh oh

Just shop at Aldi and don’t vote for Major Disaster Abalone’s Mob. Or the Green Blob Mob or the Teal Cult Mob.

Then cross your fingers.

And blast off.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 5:37 pm
Reply to  Not Uh oh

Only buy one lot of beans?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 6:27 pm
Reply to  Not Uh oh

packed in France from imported product = Chinese

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 2:56 pm

A reminder to all Cats to turn all the lights, and devices, on, on Saturday night.

Join the Biggest Hour for Earth | Earth Hour

Of course, it’ll cost you a pretty penny but worth it.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 3:40 pm
Reply to  Lysander

I can burn a heap of green wood and belch heaps of smoke into the sky.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:19 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I have a stack of old gidgee wood I use during the winter, + a bit of dead tree and cardboard boxes to burn.
Thanks for the reminder.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 2:58 pm

Can anyone identify the ten idiots pictured in this story who paid $10K each to have dinner with Elbow?

Anthony Albanese’s $100,000 dinner with super donors at Sydney’s Aria restaurant as Aussies struggle to get by | The Nightly

Lee
Lee
March 17, 2025 3:00 pm
Reply to  Lysander

They couldn’t pay me to have dinner with him.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:34 pm
Reply to  Lee

There is a very, very, very long list of others me included. I could easily spend the $10,000 on something else. Like a nice holiday.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:19 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Or beer.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 3:42 pm
Reply to  Lysander

For punters with ten grand to spare on Abalone chewing, they dress very badly.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 3:52 pm
Reply to  Lysander

A true Man of the People.

Vagabond
Vagabond
March 17, 2025 3:59 pm
Reply to  Lysander

It’s the modern version of bribery. They obviously want indulgences, favors, subsidies etc if the liars are re elected. I’m sure most of the wouldn’t have anything to do with a mediocrity like him otherwise.

Entropy
Entropy
March 17, 2025 4:10 pm
Reply to  Lysander

As I recall Dutton was able to pull $20k.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 5:38 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Another great PR move from his tin-eared advisors.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 2:59 pm

I found this channel prior to Alfred @12k subs. Now it is close to 100k in just over a month.

Why? No fear-mongering BS you get with the BOM who tries to link the climate scam with every weather event.

—–

WeatherWatchTV:

Australia: Thunderstorms & downpours across the nation next 7 days

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:23 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

A great find.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
March 17, 2025 3:31 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Phar Lap
Max Merritt
John Clark
Rusty
et. al.

NZ weather bloke (pending).

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:24 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

I’ve been expecting it – ants have been getting inside the last couple of days.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:05 pm

Houthi media is reporting they have hit the US SS Truman with ballistic missiles.

False, fake? Dunno.

(They’ve previously reported sinking the entire US armada so I’m leaning toward no, but is breaking “news”)

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:08 pm
Reply to  Lysander

A different commentor is saying Houthis launched 18 missiles and drone at SS Truman but none were successful.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:28 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Thanks DB
It appears the Houthi reporting is tosh.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 3:26 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The Arleigh-Burkes are very adept at shooting down what the Houthis put up, and I recall there’re three in USS Truman’s task force. The US should build more of them.

So far the tally is Egyptian cargo ships 1 : 0 Houthi missiles.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 6:52 pm

The Arleigh-Burkes are very adept at shooting down what the Houthis put up

1) There will always be ‘leakers’
2) The idea is to run them out of missiles with saturation attacks

Crossie
Crossie
March 17, 2025 3:18 pm

Is there a problem with Michael Smith’s blog? I can’t see any comments, I keep clicking on them but nothing happens, on any article.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 3:31 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Same for me Crossie.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:38 pm
Reply to  Crossie

And no updates since Sunday, yesterday.

Lee
Lee
March 17, 2025 3:45 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Same with me.

Michael had the same problem about a week, ten days ago.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:35 pm
Reply to  Lee

Loads up for me, but different format.

Vicki
Vicki
March 17, 2025 5:24 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Don’t know why, but Smith will not accept my comments. I have stopped trying.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
March 17, 2025 9:03 pm
Reply to  Crossie

I think he had a ‘denial of service’ attack on his site last week. Probably the same again.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:21 pm

Sancho Panzer
 March 17, 2025 1:50 pm
H B Bear

 March 17, 2025 1:42 pm

 Reply to Johnny Rotten

No Pommy muck.

That’s how I like my food reviews.
Short, sharp and accurate.

Historical stuff – No Poms in Britain then.

Only the Britons (Celts), Picts and Romans.

They all had their own muck,

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 3:35 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Poms invented fish and chips. Probably their sole magnificent culinary achievement.

There’s a hole in the wall establishment not too far from the Cafe that does awesome fish and chips. Very cheap too. Yum!

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 3:45 pm

Bruce,
the Portugese invented fish’n’chips.
The poms perfected it, for a while. 😀

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 4:01 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Oi how can the wiki be wrong?? Unthunkable!

Anyway the Portuguese wouldn’t just leave it as fish and chips, it would have all sorts of amazing spices and stuff.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 4:13 pm

Wiki is full of rubbish. There is no independent verification process.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 4:15 pm

The Portugese also introduced dipping food into batter and frying it, to the Japanese.
Of course the Japanese then turned it into that exquisite delicacy, Tempura.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 17, 2025 4:22 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Katsudon. Karaage. Yumm

Rosie
Rosie
March 17, 2025 7:05 pm

Portuguese food is pretty bland. Maybe it’s especially for tourists but rice and chips with every meal?
And it’s generally considered that a Jewish man, Joseph Malin, invented fish and chips in the UK, fried fish is a long time Jewish tradition.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 3:48 pm

Actually, the first fried fish with chips started in Portugal. Learnt about that on an SBS Ch 33 cooking show recently.

And then, the idea migrated to ‘Pomgolia’ somehow. Could have been by the prevailing winds or seagulls. They didn’t say or I have forgotten.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:35 pm

Cassie
this is why I think you need to be careful around these cnuts:

Why did the kidnapping of a Jewish man in the UK receive relatively little coverage?

Sadly.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 4:00 pm
Reply to  Lysander

But if someone even accidentally touched a hijab on a crowded train, the screeches would be heard beyond Mars.

Damon
Damon
March 17, 2025 7:05 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Saddest thing I have seen in quite some time. Two little girls, approximately 3 and 5, in hijabs.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 4:44 pm
Reply to  Lysander

And no one mentions the Marxist/Islamic nexus?
But, ‘Islamophobia.’ from our leaders.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:40 pm

“And now for something completely different:”

Can anyone name a single people that, upon defeating their adversaries, just “flippantly” decided to go spend 40 years in a desert?

It doesn’t seem like a very logical thing to do.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 4:21 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Technically it wasn’t them that defeated their enemies.

I’ve mentioned Thutmose son of Amenhotep III a few times. He never got a burial and his younger brother Ankhenaten got an extreme case of monotheism after he inherited the throne…

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 3:40 pm

Starship Troopers comes to the big screen again! Hurrah!
Neill Blomkampf being a Saffer of a certain age has seen both compulsory national service, and a reasonably functional democracy be taken over by the bombs-n-communism ANC, so I sincerely doubt he’ll make the same spurnious undergraduate slop that Verhoeven served up.
Plus, with Weta studios, he’s proven a wunderkind of special effects, so the mech suits are gonna be lit!

Last edited 7 hours ago by Wally Dalí
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 3:47 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

He did District 9 and Chappie, and intends to hold closely to Heinlein’s novel. Which sounds promising. Lefty heads will explode.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 4:03 pm

I’m believe that the scope and subtlety of the novel could only best be served, on screen, as a twenty-odd part teleseries.
But, here we go, and I expect the movie to shine.
Only question is, who in this generation could pick up the untouchable Carmen, as left by Denise Richards, thirty years ago?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

I really liked the casting by Verhoeven, especially Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown and the gorgeous Ms Richards.

Didn’t mind the flavour of that movie either, Verhoeven was trying to be satirical but the sheer alienness, and energy of his bugs made it a pretty good space opera. Shallow though, but hey that’s Hollywood.

Lee
Lee
March 17, 2025 3:56 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Heinlein was very conservative I believe.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 4:03 pm
Reply to  Lee

Went a bit weird on sexual issues in his later years.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 4:08 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Yeh, he definitely had a little bit of an Oedipus hang-up… but, it wasn’t his only wild idea.
And remember, at least he never advocate that girls be sent to the front line to be bonked in tents and dismembered by bugs.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 4:53 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Instead they piloted the space ships.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 4:37 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Allegedly a LOT earlier than that but kept very quiet. He was with the mob from Caltech who hung out with Jack Parsons, L.Ron Hubbard etc and dabbled in the occult around 1939 – 1940.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 6:29 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Happens to the best of us.

Entropy
Entropy
March 17, 2025 4:14 pm
Reply to  Lee

Hollywood didn’t like Heinlein’s idea for this novel that the franchise is only earned by providing service, be it military or some other service to the people at large.

hence Verhoeven portrayed the story as fascist. Can’t see that in the novel myself.

but…
would you like to learn more?

And Dina Meyer. Oh and Denise Richards doing her usual acting.

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Lee
Lee
March 17, 2025 4:38 pm
Reply to  Entropy

Dina Meyer and Denise Richards.

Yum.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 6:31 pm
Reply to  Entropy

… and Denise Richards doing her usual acting.

Who really cares?

local oaf
March 17, 2025 5:33 pm
Reply to  Lee

I think he was a full on lefty when young, even stood for office iirc.

I think WW2 changed him, then the cold war saw him on the side of the West big time.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 6:43 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Heinlein went a bit nuts with the liberation of literature and his emergence as an SF superstar.

His later novels are full of sexual freedom for himself as personified by the Heinlein Hero, a rough tough fighting machine (of either sex) who was able to cope with all of the universe’s challenges.

Got a bit tiresome IMHO.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 7:35 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

I don’t think very many authors at all held the spark of genius in all of their output, or all of their working lives.
Shakespeare, yes. Dylan, no.

Sean
Sean
March 17, 2025 6:47 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Are the Skinnies going to be in it. If my memory is correct, they gave the coordinates of Buenos Aires to the Bugs. No false flag nonsense.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 3:52 pm

So, the Houthis are so expert apparently one of their missiles landed on a town in Egypt. 😛

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 4:15 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

Link not working.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 4:19 pm
Reply to  Pogria

It’s Bwitish.
You’ll have to put a penny in.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 5:18 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

It’s old Irish. You will need a punt you punter. A Euro won’t work.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 5:16 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Whoops.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 17, 2025 4:22 pm

Why does a group devoted to sterilizing kids and mutilating people have a tax exempt status?
https://wpath.org/donate-home/
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is dedicated to promoting evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health. WPATH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization.

….

January 28, 2025 We are disappointed with this latest executive order. Policies that restrict or ban access to necessary medical care for transgender youth are harmful to patients and their families. Transgender youth need comprehensive, individualized, family-based care from multidisciplinary teams. Healthcare decisions should be made by patients, families, and their healthcare professionals, guided by evidence-based practices, clinical guidelines, and individual needs rather than government mandates. Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH WPATH President 

Lee
Lee
March 17, 2025 4:40 pm

A truly evil organisation.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 4:58 pm

patients, families, and their healthcare professionals,

Does this mean that taking action behind the family’s backs is unethical? If so, WPATH needs to start suing some educational organisations.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 4:23 pm

French MEP demands the US ‘give us back the Statue of Liberty|France24’

Trump should say “only if you rebuild the 500 churches burnt in France in the last ten years.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 4:33 pm
Reply to  Lysander

After you give your country back to Germany.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 4:59 pm

Or, at the least, give the province of Lorraine back.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 4:55 pm
Reply to  Lysander

A gift is a gift you Frogs.

How about the USA and the Allies send you the Bill for saving your arses in two World Wars.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 4:56 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Give us back the 19,000 American GIs who gave their lives for your liberty.

Can’t do that? Then peese erf.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 5:03 pm
Reply to  calli

A lot more than 19,000.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 5:19 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

I was being careful. Figures vary. Let’s just say the Frergs are being ridiculous here.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 6:47 pm
Reply to  Lysander

President Trump should say “Up yours, you cheese eating surrender monkeys, and good luck repelling the Hun next time they come over your non existent borders.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 5:13 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Stacy Abrams? Say it ain’t so!

She shouldn’t’ve taken that $2 billion of Biden funny money.

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 17, 2025 5:04 pm

If this isnt a forgery then shit just got really, really real.

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1901492986447569087/photo/1

Trump voiding the Biden pardons.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 5:10 pm

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect
Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby
declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,
because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other
words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he
did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning
Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He
knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have
committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect
Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained
during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other
innocent people, should fully understand that they are
subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is,
they were probably responsible for the Documents that were
signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of
the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked
Joe Biden!

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 5:14 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Bush and Obama also used autopens so I don’t think this is an offence (or negatable) as much as DJT wants it to be.

(However, I don’t believe {??} it’s ever been tested in any court or by congress)

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 6:52 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The people who hit the button are going to have some sleepless nights.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 5:11 pm

This is why I’m moving to US.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 17, 2025 5:27 pm

A rando on X mentioned the discovery phase of any legal proceedings could be very, very instructive with regards to who controlled the autopen.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 6:53 pm

…and that’s where the shit will hit the fan.
Even if they claim that Biden phoned them and gave them permission, there will be no PROOF of it.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 5:06 pm

To those who espouse washing clothes every time if they have been worn.

I must disagree.

Obviously, clothes that are sweaty or dirty need to be washed after use. But, washing something simply because it has been worn once, irrespective of the circumstances, is not only wasteful and destructive of the item in question, it perhaps hints at some sort of self-loathing for the body.

Why on earth would you wash a sweatshirt that has been worn over a T shirt for 8-10 hours, mostly indoors?

As for jeans or other trousers, unless you are going commando or wearing them while fixing machinery, they get washed when they are dirty or whiffy, not just because they have been worn.

The availability of washing machines has greatly distorted behaviour around clothes washing, not to mention the relative cheapness of new clothes.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 5:17 pm
Reply to  johanna

Wash soiled* garments. This is not a difficult concept.

Also, hang stuff you don’t want faded inside out on the line. Even if you’re using the dryer – inside out. The pockets dry faster.

And be grateful that you’re not using a washboard, a copper and a mangle.

*sniff them, examine them, when in doubt…wash them. Be aware that all sorts of parasites and pathogens hitch a ride on your clothes.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 5:22 pm
Reply to  calli

Hi Armadillo!

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 7:45 pm
Reply to  calli

Use at least warm temps.

Wash socks inside out.

Throw a squirt/splash of disinfectant into the machine. Especially now, with artificially lowered temps which mean that nothing ever gets boiled. Bleach does the same thing.

Cold water washing is a reversion to the past, no matter what the TV ads say.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 5:25 pm
Reply to  johanna

Underarm deodorant is killing the planet!

(Ok I just made that up. But hey the story was about gym togs not every day clothes. Phew.)

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 5:06 pm

French MEP demands the US ‘give us back the Statue of Liberty|France24’

It would make a fine artificial reef …..just kidding. Just tell the frog to f*ck off.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 5:31 pm

Excellence. It has to said ( not all ) modern music is sh*t.

I still can’t believe I watched a brief clip with a packed out stadium watching Taylor Swift. All I could do was laugh.

Little River Band – Reminiscing (Film CLIP) 1978

JC
JC
March 17, 2025 5:35 pm

This is going to get really ugly for the ‘pardonees’ if SCOTUS sides with the administration. Hiden can say he was present, but why then the need for an auto-pen?

@kylenabecker

JUST IN: President Donald J. Trump is challenging the LEGAL VALIDITY of the last minute pardons “signed” by former President Joe Biden. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.” “In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” “The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have committed a crime.” “Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level.” “The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!” @OversightPR and found that former President Biden’s pardons all have the same “autopen” signature: -Biden Family Members -Anthony Fauci -General Milley -J6 Committee The autopen findings could open up legal challenges to the validity of Biden’s pardons in a court of law. The U.S. Constitution requires a president be “present” for all legal signatures. The legal validity of President Biden’s “pardons” signed by autopen may be challenged in the Supreme Court.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 5:44 pm
Reply to  JC

A bit of precedence here that I discovered:

In 2011, President Barack Obama authorized the use of an autopen to sign a bill into law while he was overseas.

  • Some critics questioned its legitimacy, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) determined it was valid because the president had intended and authorized the signature.
  • No court challenge overturned it, reinforcing that intent matters more than physical presence.

U.S. v. Wilson (1833) – Pardon Case

  • The Supreme Court ruled that a presidential pardon does not need to be physically accepted by the recipient to be valid.
  • This established that the act of granting a pardon depends on the president’s intent, not a formalistic process.

Ex parte Garland (1867) – Pardon Case

  • The Court ruled that a presidential pardon takes effect when granted, regardless of how it is delivered.
Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 5:54 pm
Reply to  Lysander

That explains the wording of Trump’s comment. How can a presidential pardon be valid if the president himself did not grant it, irrespective of the method of signing.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 5:58 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The point is he authorised it.

If there is no evidence of authorisation, the use could be viewed as bogus.

This opens up a magnificent can of juicy worms.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:00 pm
Reply to  calli

Yes – and a close look at the financial affairs of the staffers will be most illuminating.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 6:35 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The point is the old corpse was Non compos mentis. We know he was because the Special Counsel, Robert Sur, refused to prosecute the old bastard because he was not up to it. Ergo the old bastard could not sign documents or delegate their signing. This is game set and match. Irony of the highest order.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 5:39 pm

Winston. Any updates on lady dog?

Said with 100% respect.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:07 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Sure, no problems.
She’s taken a bowl of bikkies every day so far, but is still very leery of human contact – despite being obviously hungry, she’ll abandon the bowl if I come out of the house and wait until I go back inside.
But oddly, if I put the bowl 3 meters away she’ll eat while keeping a close eye on the Winston.
Early days. but becoming hopeful.
She’s avoided the dog catcher for months, but she seems to have a round of the dogs in the area – when everyone has gone to work, she turns up to play with the dogs.
I wonder if that’s her routine that keeps her happy. In which case it would be cruel to register her and keep her locked up on my property.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 5:44 pm

CommSec account- check.
International platform- check.
Greenbacks loaded- check.
Buy order for TSLA- check.
Here we go. Knowing my luck, the whole company will get petrolbombed.
Next wunderkind to cop the Dali Touch Of Death- Bitcoin… stay tuned.
Actually I don’t quite know how I’m going to pull this off yet, both oz banks I have acc with have bulldozed through terms which have stated that they will not brook any transactions that have anything to do with cryptocurrency.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:10 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Probably a threat to their business. In which case tell ’em to go away. You’ll do your crypto stuff through a more welcoming bank.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 17, 2025 7:38 pm
Reply to  Winston Smith

(can you guess what I’m going to say?)
…which bank? They’re all in lockdown.
One backdoor method is to buy into a managed fund which leverages crypto, or tracks the market…. but then you’re a few steps removed from both the lovely volatility, and the fun buy-a-supercar-with-your-cryptowallet stuff.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 17, 2025 7:45 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Westpac ok so far

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 5:48 pm

I just settled into my alternative to Chris Kenny on Sky (a lazy sod who has never broken a story even though he calls himself a journalist).

I’m watching a documentary on one of the world’s great train journeys – the Pacific Surfliner from San Diego to San Luis north of LA, along 560 kms of a very pretty and famous coastline.

Alas, a middle-aged female zombie informs me that coastal erosion threatens the future of the Surfliner service because of “climate change”.

Um, sweetie, every ocean coastline in the world is constantly shifting as a result of erosion. The climate has little to do with it, but atheist zealots insist erosion is a recent invention, so it must be inserted into the animist religion that belongs exclusively to severely educated former Christians in the West.

The Surfliner is a marvelous service that’s in no danger – even from the loons who live in California.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 5:48 pm

PINNED
Dutton pledges up to $35m to rebuild Adass Israel synagogue

Peter Dutton has pledged a Coalition government would provide funding up to $35m to support reconstruction of the Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne that was victim to apparent anti-Semitic arson late last year. 
Anthony Albanese previously reportedly promised federal funding to aid in the reconstruction. 
Standing at the site of the burnt-down synagogue, the Opposition Leader said he wanted to “bring it back to life much bigger and better than what it was, and that is a symbolic response to those people who have hate in their hearts”.
“Anti-Semitism is not just an issue for the Jewish community, it is an issue for every Australian, and we have spoken with a very strong consistent voice, and we always will, in words of condemnation to those who would seek to attack, to do harm, to kill, to murder people from the Jewish community,” he said.

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Would the synagogue have been insured, and would insurance cover an act of terrorism?

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:13 pm

Most won’t but it depends on how the government classifies it.
IIRC, they also don’t cover ‘Civil Disturbance’.
Abalone will probably call it terrorism just to screw them over, then make it an election point to fund the reconstruction.

Last edited 3 hours ago by Winston Smith
Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
March 17, 2025 8:55 pm

How about just remove any govt funding for muslim causes and organisations, any islamic NDIS rorts and divert that to the synagogue?

Make the pigs squeal when they see ‘their’ money being used to rebuild the synagogue.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 5:56 pm
mem
mem
March 17, 2025 5:56 pm

Earlier today (9.15am) I posted a summary of an article on the ABC website written by Alan Kohler in which there was a significant shift in narrative and admission (albeit from a commissioned writer) that the net zero target might not be as achievable as previously espoused by Labor and the Greens, followed by lots of conflicting filler. Other posters also noted the contradictions (Dr Faustus and Bruce from Newcastle and others) and Lizzie picked up on my interpretation of Kohler’s role as a bellwether primer.

It is only now I realize that what was niggling at me, is that Labor maybe now contemplating a significant policy shift on net zero.

Think of it this way, if Labor now back peddles on net zero, blaming Trump for putting it off course, where will it leave Dutton? And what will Labor lose? All Labor needs to say is that we are realists. We understand that Trump has derailed net zero but we will work with all Australians to insure that our country is resilient to the impacts of climate change. This switch is now a real possibility. Are Dutton and the Libs ready for it ?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  mem

I didn’t comment about Kohler’s article but I was wondering if he has been talking with his fellow ABC colleague Chris Uhlmann lately. Chris has lately been scoffing red pills quite amazingly.

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 7:04 pm

Apols Bruce. It was the Flyingduk. As for CU swallowing red pills It may be a survival thing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 8:27 pm

Former ABC colleague … Uhlmann.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 6:05 pm
Reply to  mem

Probably not ready.

Lysander
Lysander
March 17, 2025 6:07 pm
Reply to  mem

It’s an interesting thought mem; worth merit.

But I think the one potential “blockage” to your idea is you forget it’s a religion with a faith that cannot be shaken nor questioned.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 17, 2025 6:37 pm
Reply to  mem

I dont think they would do it for the simple reason their industry funds will be up to their guts in sweet, sweet guaranteed renew-balls returns.

https://www.cbussuper.com.au/about-us/news/media-release/investments-in-built-environment-innovation-and-solar-energy

https://www.inpex.com.au/news-and-updates/media-centre/media-releases/inpex-renewable-energy-joint-venture-in-australia-acquires-asset-portfolio/

At the least they would have to give them a couple of years to weasel the worst assetts away.

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 6:58 pm

Nah, they’d keep the renewables running. It’s never been about the environment.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 5:58 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
March 17, 2025 6:06 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Gutsy call for a PM who is not even in Parliament.

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 6:29 pm
Reply to  Indolent

This bloke is a very very dangerous thug. Just ask Liz Truss.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 6:02 pm

How can Australia be rid of the Miserable Ghost?

He’s at it again, this time over AUKUS.

If the Libs put up a Go Find Me page to pay the creature out, I’d donate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 6:26 pm
Reply to  calli

I suspect he is very unhappy that Trump is laying waste to his pet cause de jour of climate rubbish.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 6:07 pm

FMD. Peta Credlin is a no-show — again — for her 6pm slot on Sky News, replaced by Australian TV’s most boring man, Adelaide nerd Caleb Bond.

A big up yours to the audience from Sky News management. I’m off somewhere else

Pull your finger out, Paul “Boris: Whittaker (Sky CEO) — there is ZERO reason to watch your channel if your lazy “stars” don’t turn up.

Last edited 4 hours ago by Tom
cohenite
March 17, 2025 6:38 pm
Reply to  Tom

Watters, Gutfeld and the Five are good.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 9:13 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Plus, they always turn up for work.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 6:10 pm

@realMaalouf

So 3 Muslims in Wales kidnapped a Jewish man, tied him to a radiator, and brutally beat and tortured him.

They intended to kill him, but he survived only because he managed to escape.

Can you imagine the global outrage if the opposite happened? Why is the media silent?

Anders
Anders
March 17, 2025 6:22 pm
Reply to  Indolent

*Yawn* Please, it’s not like they did something really serious like pick up a baby wombat off the road-side.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 6:16 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

The “Media Literacy” scam is accelerating way too fast & it has to be stopped NOW.

Here’s why:

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:29 pm
Reply to  Indolent

It’s all about directing people who want to investigate something, to only use government approved sources.
Watch his entire video – it’s as scary as hell.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 6:17 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

Instructive that the censorship ringleader at the FBI was using the “media literacy” censorship predicate — the idea that if you don’t read the right media sources (i.e., Blob-approved propaganda outlets), you’re deemed media illiterate and need to get your mind right

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 6:18 pm

Wales is a disgusting little place.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 6:32 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Charles was Prince of Wales for over 64 years.

Memo to Windsors (a) never name your sons Charles and (b) never make them Prince of Wales.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 6:18 pm

Gave us TLS too.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 6:19 pm

@RealStevefriend

Elvis Chan told social media companies to censor @mirandadevine’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He is still an Assistant Special Agent in Charge for @FBISanFrancisco.
.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 6:20 pm

Wiradjuri man invokes ‘illegitimate’ 200-year-old grants in fight over university property
He’s claiming the lands are Wiradjuri sovereign lands. Let’s see you defend that sovereignty.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 6:40 pm

The left will do it for him.

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 6:24 pm

Trump’s apparent sanguinity in the face of the judicial coup is surprising and confusing.

Obviously the criminality must stop or his whole term will be made ineffective by what is a tinpot tactic that should not survive scrutiny.

But there is no hint of a strategy emerging which is surprising given his counsellor Habba is a ballbreaker.

Perhaps they are afraid of the Barret risk, but arguably even someone as corrupt as her would baulk at bringing on a crisis that the Surpreme Court would inevitably lose. Or perhaps not if the dems can cheat a majority in the House, a judgrment would not be overgurned and Trump’s whole term could be negated.

Obviously, obstruction to completely negate Trump’ term is the strategy. But as Gingrich suggested, Trump should not tie himself up by going to the Supreme Court. Just ignore the judges and force the Dems to make the running. Sounds smart.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 6:34 pm
Reply to  bons

Federal district courts aren’t even mentioned in the US Constitution.

Mark Levin was red hot on the subject — judicial tyranny — today on Fox News.

Congress has the power to:

a) impeach activist judges.

b) abolish their jurisdictions.

GOP senators and Congressmen need to get off their arses and start cracking down on partisan wannabe politicians in the judiciary trying to usurp the executive branch of government.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:32 pm
Reply to  cohenite

And the lead shot in that cosh is the quiet threat to put in a dozen new Supreme Court Judges.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 7:56 pm
Reply to  cohenite

I think that is the strategy.
Clearly the JURDGE can’t appeal to a higher court if Orange Hitler ignores them.
The best they can do is charge him with contempt, which I imagine would have to ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
It is hard to imagine SCOTUS ruling that the Executive doesn’t have the authority to remove illegal aliens from the country, for example.
This is a yuuuuge risk for these lower courts … they may end up with the authority to adjudicate parking fines and fence-line disputes.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 6:26 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:47 pm
Reply to  Indolent

The Europeans have voted themselves into Socialism, and are now finding they will have to shoot their way out.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 6:28 pm

Rice Bran Oil, lovely lady.

—–

calli
 March 17, 2025 3:50 pm
 Reply to Vicki
Ditto. The other oils I use for cooking are coconut oil (high smoke point) and butter.

Delta A
Delta A
March 17, 2025 7:05 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Ghee has a higher smoke point than butter and, as I’m sure you know, is very easy to make and store.

I also rendered about 15 Kg of beef fat from our last bulk order. On keto now, losing the weight and living the dream.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 7:40 pm
Reply to  Delta A

Good on you Delta.
When we were butchering our own beasties, right down to the chooks, I rendered every bit of fat and turned every bone into stock.
Never wasted a skerrick.

Try Lamb fat for frying chips, heaven!

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 17, 2025 7:06 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Thems good oils

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 9:23 pm

Nothing wrong with promoting good oils. As you two have mentioned. there are many of them.

Don’t forget that a lot of them, in previous waves of food scares, were cited as contributing to early death.

Loads of ‘studies’ in support.

Do you really believe that the latest fashion ooga booga ‘seed oils’ are killing us?

Really?

cohenite
March 17, 2025 6:33 pm

JC
 March 17, 2025 5:35 pm

This is going to get really ugly for the ‘pardonees’ if SCOTUS sides with the administration. Hiden can say he was present, but why then the need for an auto-pen?

The point is the old corpse was Non compos mentis. We know he was because the Special Counsel, Robert Sur, refused to prosecute the old bastard because he was not up to it. Ergo the old bastard could not sign documents or delegate their signing. This is game set and match. Irony of the highest order.?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 7:16 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Gonna be a hard one to argue. That’s why the SOTUS get the big bucks (well not really).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 8:09 pm
Reply to  cohenite

That was always the risk once Robert Sur found Sleepy Joe was incapable of ordering his own lunch.
Staying in the Big Chair after that was always going to draw into question any major exercise of Presidential discretion.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 6:47 pm

Re evil ‘seed oils’.

Reply to  Eyrie
So how do Japanese and Scandinavians (to name just a couple of examples) manage to live so long?

Over the years, we have been told that everything from sugar, salt, animal fats, carbs, to the latest bogey, seed oils, are killing us. Yet, overall, people keep living longer.

Me, I am with Yogi Bear. An apple pie is much more attractive than foraging for nuts and berries.

The endless search for the magic bullet food poison du jour is wildly unscientific, but makes a lot of money for food entrepreneurs. Superfoods, anyone?

That huckster, Maggie Beer (who happens to sell olive oil) advocates using it for everything, including frying chips. That’s all very well if money is no object, plus the best temperature for good chips is more like that of peanut oil, or even safflower oil.

As I have said before, dietary ‘science’ is rivalled only by astrology.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 17, 2025 7:04 pm
Reply to  johanna

johanna Olive Oil is absolutely not good for frying chips even if you have the money — Maggie Beer is not a cook I follow at all, not at all appealing or inspiring – – I have never been tempted to use any recipe of hers never, ever.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 7:19 pm

Maggie Beer is one step removed from turning tricks for Colesworth. Stopped at the Barossa valley place. Spectacularly overrated. Wouldn’t bother.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 8:16 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Maggie’s series on fixing catering in Aged Care was instructive.
No F-cking Idea.
Maggie … 80 year olds with dementia and no teeth really don’t want quail cooked in verjuice with shiitake mushrooms.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 17, 2025 7:12 pm
Reply to  johanna

people keep living longer

But we are fatter, sicker, and more dependent on Big Pharma.
Something’s wrong, including the quality of life issues as we live longer.

Last edited 3 hours ago by Old School Conservative
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 8:14 pm

But we are fatter, sicker, and more dependent on Big Pharma.

Speak for yourself. I am height and weight appropriate. So there.

And tablets are cheaper on the PBS.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 17, 2025 10:56 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

I’m sure your extensive research into health issues with a test group of n=1 will meet with widespread academic applause.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 7:49 pm
Reply to  johanna

Why peanut oil for frying/chips? And how about potato fritters?

Last edited 3 hours ago by Winston Smith
Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
March 17, 2025 8:49 pm
Reply to  johanna

Luckily we use olive oil in a spray bottle. Otherwise I’d have to consider selling a kidney to buy some.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 6:55 pm

The last paragraph of the seed oils article that certain people obviously didn’t read:

So we are left with a situation where all the evidence we have is for the causal role of seed oils in ASCVD, where there is essentially no other theory presented for causation, and yet the ‘authorities’ continue to recommend a hypothesis they themselves debunked decades ago.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 17, 2025 6:58 pm

Donald Trump is a fantastic creator of nicknames — Mr Abalone is just beautiful — with the addition of a couple of consonants it becomes —— Mr AllBaloney — love him or hate him (I love him) President Trump is Mr Cool

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 17, 2025 6:59 pm

Ooops or was that Johannes Leak — I am getting so confused from lack of sleep.

mem
mem
March 17, 2025 7:12 pm

Trump’s secretary did it in Leaks cartoon. So you are sort of right.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 17, 2025 7:43 pm
Reply to  mem

Thank mem –

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 7:00 pm

Anyone got any suggestions for US ETF’s trading on the ASX?
I know about GQG.

cohenite
March 17, 2025 7:02 pm

Blot has terminal TDS.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 17, 2025 7:03 pm

This might put a pigeon amongst the Cats.
https://x.com/realmrsthatcher/status/1900807929730654333#m

Margaret Thatcher

@realmrsthatcher

Wars are not caused by the build up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

The war of 1939 was not caused by an arms race. It sprang from a tyrant’s belief that other countries lacked the means and the will to resist him. Remember Bismarck’s phrase: “Do I want war? Of course not! I want victory!”

Our task is to see that potential aggressors, from whatever quarter, understand plainly that the capacity and the resolve of the West would deny them victory in war and that the price they would pay would be intolerable.

[Video]

I saw this retweeted by a lefty Ukraine flag waver. Such is the power of TDS amongst the regressive Left that they are even positively quoting Margaret Thatcher in pursuit of continued war in Ukraine. And perhaps that’s no surprise here. At first glance the Iron Lady makes Orange Man sound like a nancy boy. But their argument is somewhat superficial.
When Thatcher says “the West” she clearly includes western Europe and does not mean only the USA. Thatcher gave this speech in 1985. What happened over the next 30 years is that western europe failed to maintain its own credible conventional deterrent and became dependent on the USA’s umbrella. Europe lost the capacity that Thatcher alludes to.

There’s an earlier part of Thatcher’s speech that isn’t quite so gung-ho.
https://youtu.be/NZIlM3QKmmY?t=1552

We do not believe that force should be the final arbiter of human affairs.

The alliance has given a solemn assurance to the world, none of our weapons will be used except in response to attack.

Well Russia hasn’t attacked the USA, and Ukraine had no defense pact with the USA or NATO, so under what reasoning is the Ukraine war the USA’s problem? This is the question Europe is grappling with which was unthinkable a year ago.
The members of NATO erred when the alliance began flirting with Ukraine. It was Putin who calculated that he had a window for attack in which the price was tolerable.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 7:12 pm

I suppose it’s only their problem because they’re financing it.

The reason why they’re doing so might lie with the previous administration.

MatrixTransform
March 17, 2025 7:15 pm

6/10

you should put your premise at the beginning

like an executive summary

this way normal people know when to stop reading

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 17, 2025 7:07 pm

Cyclone TDS Bolt is about to hit with wind-bagging expected to peak soon.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 8:14 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

That’s because the head of Shin Bet has been shafting Netanyahu.

It’s a tell that the AG immediately fell in line behind him.

Israel has long had a mini-me deep state.

calli
calli
March 17, 2025 7:09 pm

Chortle.

Conroy doing Sad Face over the CFMEU allegations.

No fwends of mine, sez he. Lying liar who lies. You took their money. All of you.

Tom
Tom
March 17, 2025 7:17 pm
Reply to  calli

Never forget the ALP is the parliamentary branch of the trade union movement — not the other way around. The ALP is owned and financed by unions to advance their interests.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 7:22 pm
Reply to  calli

What’s kd got to say about her old maaates?

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 7:52 pm
Reply to  calli

nderstanding Israeli politics is impossible. Especially so after Obama and Soros funded the pro-muslim left.

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 7:52 pm
Reply to  calli

Oops.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 8:33 pm
Reply to  calli

The stink must be massive if all the traditional allies are backing away.

johanna
johanna
March 17, 2025 7:10 pm

Yet another example of what a systematic rort the whole overseas student business is:

Javier Yarza said his experience with GrowPro suggested financial issues had been present for months.

In February last year, the Spaniard applied for a student visa to complete a certificate of kitchen management in Perth, and said he paid GrowPro roughly $6,000 to cover the visa application, health insurance and school fees.

Why on earth would a Spaniard pay to go to Perth (FFS) to get a certificate in kitchen management? Last time I looked, Spain has a thriving kitchen management industry, and it was not necessary to travel thousands of miles to a country that speaks a different language to get a job or a qualification.

Oh, and props to ASIC for not noticing that the parent company had gone broke months ago.

What a racket!

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 7:23 pm
Reply to  johanna

Why on earth would a Spaniard pay to go to Perth (FFS) to get a certificate in kitchen management?

Nice beaches

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 7:53 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Better beaches in Spain and lots of boobies on display.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:06 pm
Reply to  bons

You sure? I can only speak to Barcelona,San Sebastian and various Basque beaches. Probably right on the boobies.

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 8:21 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Try the SW coast. The surf is reliable and shaped.

And on the East coast, beautiful clear cold mediteranean water and stunning food delivered to your couch.

Rosie
Rosie
March 17, 2025 10:52 pm
Reply to  johanna

Pretty standard for Spainards in the hospitality industry to speak fluent English. It’s the intersection language for communicating with all foreign tourists.
I’ve been entertained several times to be the only English as first language speaker on the ‘English’ tour in Spain or Italy.
Poles, Germans, Swedes, you name it.
So hard to get head around Europeans speaking two, three or four languages well.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 7:22 pm

Howard idiocy iirc like the ridiculous ‘jobs network’ that made Mrs Rudd wealthy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 7:26 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Or the Apu shelling out for dinner with Abalone.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 7:29 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Apu?

Rabz
March 17, 2025 7:38 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Stereotypical injun character (runs a 7-11 type store) on the Simpsons.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 7:43 pm
Reply to  Rabz

thanks Rabz

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 7:45 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Mahasapinapetalon.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:10 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Of the Kwik-E Mart.

Last edited 2 hours ago by H B Bear
calli
calli
March 17, 2025 8:51 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Thank you, come again.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
March 17, 2025 8:02 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Until we wake up to the fact that the European Leaders are Socialists and hate Europe and want to destroy it, we cannot even begin to understand what is happening.
The leaders hate the European people because they were offered Communism and the people rejected it. That’s what this is about, and until that ruling class is shoved into the line up to the guillotine, nothing will change.

Pogria
Pogria
March 17, 2025 7:50 pm

Bruce of Newcastle,
did you get sick of the shifty, demanding treatment you were receiving from the local Cockies?
You could have left the Corellas alone. 😀

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14506119/cockatoos-poisoned-newcastle.html

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 17, 2025 8:21 pm
Reply to  Pogria

That’s sad. I have severely restricted Cafe access for cockies, by simply not feeding them. Except for one, a female who has been coming for about thirteen years now – she has a wonky wing. The others were nice to me…but badly behaved to the other Cafe birdies, so they’ve gone on a diet. I would never harm them though.

Cassie of Sydney
March 17, 2025 7:50 pm

Cassie
this is why I think you need to be careful around these cnuts:
Why did the kidnapping of a Jewish man in the UK receive relatively little coverage?
Sadly.

Firstly, as with Ireland, Wales and Scotland are now cesspits of Jew hatred and Jew haters. Ireland has a long and somewhat sordid and tortuous history of anti-Semitism, and we all know the Republic’s stance and sympathies during World War II however despite this thousands of decent Irishmen crossed the Irish Sea to join the British army to fight the menace of Nazism. So I will not tar all of them with the brush of Jew hatred. No, the problem with contemporary Ireland, Wales and Scotland is the far-left progressive zeitgeist that has taken hold of their politics, their media and their so called ‘elites’. It’s sickening and it’s destroying these once great nations. Oh let me just clarify this, the Loyalists in the North are pro-Israel. And I also suspect there’s some sympathy for Israel amongst ordinary Irish men and women, particularly as they witness the invasion of their country by young Muslim men. But sadly I will never visit any of these shitholes. Next year I plant to travel to Italy and Israel.

As for being careful around such ‘cnuts’, well those here who know me can attest I’m no shrinking violet but I choose my battles carefully. However, like almost every other Jew on the planet post October 7, I wear my Magen David proudly, I wear my ‘Bring Them Home’ dog tag. If everyday I could wear a Magen David body suit I would, like the one the divine Deborah Conway wore a music award ceremony in November 2023.

Hear this, I will never deny my Jewishness, I will never deny my people…………..NEVER. If a Muslim or leftist Nazi comes to kill me I will recite the words uttered by every Jew down the millennia when faced with death…….

Hear, O Israel The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 17, 2025 7:57 pm

Bless you Cassie as Genesis 12:3 says

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
March 17, 2025 8:18 pm

I’m Irish (although Australian) and I will say this: the Irish’s great Achilles heal is their lust and insane absolute need to be victims. Absolves them of being serious. That’s why they side reflexively with terrorists. Plenty of Irish I know are ashamed of the place. It’s a dysfunctional country.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 17, 2025 9:54 pm

Nicely put as always Cassie!

Cassie of Sydney
March 17, 2025 7:56 pm

I got a shock tonight opening my annual letter from my health fund informing me of my premium increase. The increase is exorbitant.

WolfmanOz
March 17, 2025 8:50 pm

I got mine the other day – 1% increase.

I know there are so many variables for each individual so it is always hard to compare.

By the way we’re with AHM and we’ve been very happy with them now for 6 years now.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 9:01 pm

Mrs Eyrie did a little negotiating today and scored a 12% decrease in premium from the asking. Medibank Private.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
March 17, 2025 8:03 pm

Kohler recently had his house featured in one of those on-the-market features in the property pages (Kew/ Hawthorn near Pres Hill). Sold it it for north of $8 million. Wrote a hand-wringer the next week about the unaffordability of houses for kids. What a drop kick.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:13 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

How ALPBC. Although that would be after getting them a job at the cooperative.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:18 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

Eight mil around there would require quite a stately pile. Probably one of those early capitalist places.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
March 17, 2025 8:44 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

If you have to ask you can’t afford it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:50 pm
Reply to  Dunny Brush

I doubt I could meet the stamp duty.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 8:03 pm

Mark Drakeford and Nicola Sturgeon. Just ghastly. Not to mention the repulsive Michael D Higgins.

bons
bons
March 17, 2025 8:10 pm

What is with Farage wearing a driza and akubra?

Funny ol Poms. My Pommie grandson is demanding an Akubra for his birthday.

I have been left behind – probably appropriately.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:23 pm
Reply to  bons

Think Gina picked up Drizabone along the way. And Rossi boots. These old brands come and go out of fashion. Old Belstaff motorcycle jackets did the same.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:33 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Essentially they are picked up for the “authenticity” which is quickly milked and then lost as they become “uncool”. RM Williams,Billabong, Globe and Air Walk all spring to mind.

Makka
Makka
March 17, 2025 8:27 pm
Reply to  Indolent

This whole disgusting global web of USAID payoffs, kick backs, bribes and protection racketeering works quite efficiently at oppressing truth and justice.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 8:42 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Seems Biden is staying in $500 a night accommodation, with 24 hour protection…wasn’t he claiming bankruptcy at one time?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 8:54 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Biden and South Africa seems a good fit, although it’s usually dodgy Poms. Thatcher’s kid anyone?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 9:14 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Why is it intriguing?
Why would the USN provide a running commentary on damage (if any)?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 8:55 pm

A decision to break a long-standing tradition and remove Australia’s monarch from the $5 note, in favour of honouring Indigenous culture, has been blasted as an “attack on the Crown.”
The move by the Reserve Bank, which was approved by the Albanese Government, will see the late Queen Elizabeth II replaced on the $5 banknote by a design representing “the enduring, emotional, spiritual and physical connection of First Nations people to Country.”

“First Nations” my hairy aunt!

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 9:03 pm

It should be Charlie Boy or a Galah. Not much difference really.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 17, 2025 9:04 pm

Indigenous culture is a contradiction in terms.

Damon
Damon
March 17, 2025 9:18 pm

Probably appropriate. The $5 note is now pretty worthless.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 17, 2025 10:27 pm
Reply to  Damon

Must be close to becoming a coin. Won’t get you a beer or coffee in most of the country these days.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
March 17, 2025 9:55 pm

Change ‘Country’ to ‘cash’ and you’ve got it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 17, 2025 9:05 pm

Sleep safely gentle people, secure in the knowledge that the AFP are absolutely on the ball and delivering box office results (the Tele):

Australian Federal Police officers let the suspected “terror caravan” mastermind slip through their net after relying on the location of his mobile phone to check his whereabouts.

Noooo. They would never.

Sayet Akca, 35, was on bail for an alleged 600kg drug importation in 2023, when he fled the country hidden inside a luxury yacht bound for Indonesia.

Yes. Yes, he did.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that NSW Police alerted the AFP to the possibility Akca was preparing to flee, but the federal counterparts insisted the gym owner, from Sydney’s Sutherland shire, was inside a Queensland unit where his mobile phone was.

AFP uni graduates: ‘You’re wrong. No one can possibly go anywhere without their phone, even if they’re determined to get out of the country and know that the jacks can work out where you phone is. Never been done.’

But in one step ahead of authorities, Akca did not take his phone when he boarded the vessel at a port in Cairns, and headed to Indonesia where police believe he bought fake travel documents and made his way to the Middle East.

Amateur hour. Absolute amateur hour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 17, 2025 9:30 pm

I got two words for you …
Graham Ashton.
If you’re not convinced, I got two more …
Planet Cornelius.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 17, 2025 9:07 pm

Another canbra epic fail. To think those spiteful deadbeats take a large part of my salary every month.

Damon
Damon
March 17, 2025 9:11 pm

Appropriate picture. With great regret, saying goodbye to my record collection.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 17, 2025 9:13 pm

I wondered how people who live in Vaucluse got rich (also the Tele):

A cruise ship passenger is behind bars after allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine potentially worth $3m into Sydney.

Australian Border Force officers claim to have found 28 packages of cocaine, weighing about 10kg, hidden in the ceiling cavity of Adriano Gustavo Leonardi Thiem’s cabin when they searched a ship that had arrived in Sydney Harbour from Argentina on Saturday.

I suppose this is a bit different to the cruise ship punters hanging upside down pineapples on their cabin doors.

Or maybe not.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 17, 2025 9:17 pm

Serious question for those cats that know about tax or a BAS.

Guy I mentioned a few days ago just moved back into town to by stuffed around by tenants who now going through the mediation steps and likely QCAT if the screaming match they had with his real estate is anything to go by.

Well he logged on to Mygov for the first time tonight in about 5 months. In his inbox was a cryptic email about some PAYG or BAS statements. Not having a business or even an ABN was a WTF moment.

Turns out whatever it is was set up after his tax return last year without his knowledge or consent and he is allegedly overdue payments. He’s employed by a company so they pay his income tax, so not that. This is from what he researched could well be related because while living interstate he rented his house out. It doesn’t tell him what it is for and he cant cancel it. Any ideas?

If so how fricken sneaky is that, they want a cut of your rental income before the gearing reconciliation is even done. Chalmers must be stone motherless broke to resort to this crap!

Rosie
Rosie
March 17, 2025 10:41 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Why are HTS fighters in Lebanon?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 9:46 pm

Keep the Sheep plans second rally through Perth CBD as live sheep export firms as Federal election issue
Rodger Cook and the State Labor party are patting themselves on the back, here – they think the whole issue has gone away.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
March 17, 2025 10:08 pm

More Baaaaaaahd news for General Disaster Abalone coming up methinks.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 10:12 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

The tar is boiling and the feathers ready in this part of the Wild West!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 9:56 pm

These blokes are MAD. Anyone that thinks driving around in circles is easy ….it’s not. Figuring out the aerodynamic draft takes a while to learn.

F1 can only dream of putting on a show like this.

Delta A, choose your ride.

Talladega white noise: Seven minutes of uninterrupted sounds from the track

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 10:21 pm

I haven’t touched Lurpak butter since this started but would like to know what, if anything else, is polluted by this poison here, apart from Coles meat. Total silence in the media here.

@robinmonotti

BOVAER CONTAMINATION SCANDAL:
‘Lurpak boss: Conspiracy theorists are targeting our butter’

“Arla was caught in a row on social media in December, with customers claiming they would boycott its butter brand Lurpak and milk line Cravendale over a UK trial of methane-suppressing feed.
The supplement Bovaer promises to reduce emissions from cow burps by about 27pc. Arla already uses the additive in other markets.

Meanwhile, UK regulators have approved Bovaer, with the FSA saying: “Milk from cows given Bovaer, a feed additive used to reduce methane emissions, is safe to drink.” It is available for sale in 68 countries around the world.

The company is pushing ahead with its trial, despite having seen some signs that there was a short-term impact on sales in December amid the backlash.
Mr Padberg said: “We can only follow the science and not opinions. Opinions that are not based on science are just opinions.”

Hannah Boland

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 17, 2025 10:41 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Where’s the conspiracy?

They are pushing ahead with the trial, they are sourcing milk from cows fed the additive. Bovaer does have side effects like all pharmaceuticals.

People after the “Safe and effective campaign” are wary of new products. Natural.

I think their sales will tank anyway.

Indolent
Indolent
March 17, 2025 10:23 pm
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 17, 2025 10:47 pm

Lysander
 March 17, 2025 1:48 pm

Ugh so it’s looking like the Greens will hold the balance of power in WA’s upper house…

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It’s easy to deal with. I’ve told close friends to f*ck off! around a camp fire. Close friends no more, You are going to tell me about climate change!
Get in your car and f*ck off!

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  1. I’m sure your extensive research into health issues with a test group of n=1 will meet with widespread academic applause.

  2. Pretty standard for Spainards in the hospitality industry to speak fluent English. It’s the intersection language for communicating with all…

  3. Lysander  March 17, 2025 1:48 pm Ugh so it’s looking like the Greens will hold the balance of power in…

  4. Where’s the conspiracy? They are pushing ahead with the trial, they are sourcing milk from cows fed the additive. Bovaer…

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