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Red E is the best fish around I reckon. It’s the best by far.
Victoria Police is reportedly charging the Canadian provocateur than $67,000 for their presence at the event.
Want to get paid?
Do you’re fucking job.
No private security company would get paid on the performance that the turds in blue put in.
Smaller, weaker, inferior cousin to the Moreton Bay Bug.
“Thousands of people around the world have watched this wonderful young girl come to the realisation that animals don’t belong on plates.”
[ and we must have a global totalitarian dystopia, where State death squads crush all free thought.]
http://www.unleashed.org.au/blog/2016-09/I-WONT-EAT-ANIMALS
Baldchin groper/bluebone any day of the week.
Followed by WA jewie.
Victoriastan, first time I’ve been grocery shopping here for some time, Government approved produce on the shelves, at least at the moment they seemed to be well stocked, horrifically expensive, then I am forced to carry the produce home in a surplus cardboard box like some peasant.
But it would have been acceptable if I had called it “dhuie”? (dhufish)
I just had a vegetarian terrine and then waxed my balls.
I approve of vegetarianism. It will bring the price of meat down.
Or a j-wfish, Bruce.
Mmmmm.
Filter feeders. Just say no.
ORTHOREXIA
Although not formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, awareness about orthorexia is on the rise. The term ‘orthorexia’ was coined in 1998 and means an obsession with proper or ‘healthful’ eating. Although being aware of and concerned with the nutritional quality of the food you eat isn’t a problem in and of itself, people with orthorexia become so fixated on so-called ‘healthy eating’ that they actually damage their own well-being.
Without formal diagnostic criteria, it’s difficult to get an estimate on precisely how many people have orthorexia, and whether it’s a stand-alone eating disorder, a type of existing eating disorders like anorexia, or a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Studies have shown that many individuals with orthorexia also have obsessive-compulsive disorder.
https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn/by-eating-disorder/other/orthorexia
Truffles?
Fresh picked paddock mushies fried with butter/salt/pepper are hard to beat. Shop bought varieties never get the same depth of flavour. Always avoided what we called Tree mushrooms, big but tasteless.
As long as you moisturised after , you should be fine artiste.
Bruce, in the new Manglish, “fish” is spelled “ghoti”.
J-wfish and Dhufish are completely different fish.
J-wfish is an average eastern seaboard meh fish.
Dhufish is superb. Almost as good as Baldchin Groper.
““But Vegetarianism,” say the Socialists, “is a snare and delusion, because the adoption of food-thrift by the working classes would bring with it a further depression of wages, with the result that the whole advantage would go to the Capitalist.”
That was before new wave vegynsyms wymynsys. Being vegan is no longer about food thrift and making do like the poorest of the worlds meatless peasants, it is about godless commo wymynsys vegans eating the most expensive meals at the most expensive and exclusive places, and overthrowing capitalism as they do it.
http://www.henrysalt.co.uk/bibliography/essays/socialists-and-vegetarians
The girls picked upon by crazed wymynsys activist vegynsys because meat is ‘an avoidable error’ in a socialist’s diet will conform or be crushed.
Comrades.
The reasons for the GFC are not rubbish. It’s fact. The CBs royally fucked up as they misunderstood the reasons why commodity prices were rising.
When the banks, pension funds and other financial institutions are choked with complex unmanageable derivatives that while going up performed fantastic but when going down detonated balance sheets, you must ask yourself why and how these instruments came into being. It was a huge multi-billion $ scam.
And when the inevitable happened and the tanking toxic derivative owners tried to bail out of their billions, panic set it and fundamental trust in the financial system temporarily evaporated. Lending stopped. The mechanism that valued banks – their shares- collapsed because the derivative implosion, much of it off books, sent confidence through the floor because nobody knew the true value of the institution. It wasn’t until the FASB changed it’s ruling on how derivatives would be valued- marked to make believe – that the world financial system stabilised. That was the initial phase of the GFC.
How did these derivatives come into being? De-regulation of the banking industry; something all banksters hate to admit. JC will argue until he is blue in the face on this but the scumbags on Wall St in collusion with the corrupt US legislature (with lot’s of help from Secretary Rubin) brought forth the legislation enabling the genesis of the GFC.
https://www.thebalance.com/what-caused-2008-global-financial-crisis-3306176
Wow. What am I missing out on. You sandgropers have all the good stuff.
Balmain bugs are fucking awesome
and mud crabs
Dutch did tip toe through the tulips.
WA, from about Geraldton on down, has the best seafood in the world.
https://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/pigs-transport-trucks/
“When I Look Inside the Trucks, I Look With My Heart”
and mud crabs
Oh yeah. Hard to beat, on fresh UNsliced bread, lots of butter and a cold XXXX. Heaven!
Makka
Zero Hedge bullshit explanations for the GFC have been refuted here before. Look at the back pages and pages of refutations , as it’s too boring to go through again.
“completed a degree in Buddhist studies.” That should help no end in gaining employment, shouldn’t it?
https://freefromharm.org/common-justifications-for-eating-animals/vegan-dogs-and-cats/
“Ethical vegans hope and work for a world in which some day no animals are considered property, no animals are born or bred into captivity, and no animals are domesticated or unfree. A belief in animal liberation is thus not compatible with a belief in the continued institution of “pet” ownership. We absolutely have an obligation to rescue, adopt and care for animals for as long as these victims of domestication exist, but a truly liberated world will be one in which no animals have their liberties denied, and none are owned.Our goal must be one of total liberation”
Comrades.
You eat great food, but contaminate your taste buds with XXXX?
I guess it really does take all kinds.
Well that was quick. The moment this discussion started there was a blanket vegan curse issued from HQ on all carnivorous Cats. First victim, yours truly. Why me?? Sit down to a few slices from a haunch of roast beef and trimmings, and the f***ing top comes off the salt cellar. Everything smothered and poisoned. Beware ye predators.
How much did they charge to frame Cardinal Pell?
Like I said, JC will blame anyone but his precious banksters and Wall St assorted arseholes. They caused the GFC.
The problem was the Fed actually didn’t have a fkg clue what those derivatives would do or how big the derivative pool was , so when they raised interest rates, as they have done many many times before without triggering a financial melt down of these proportions, the derivatives imploded. The derivatives were like mines sitting inside bank balance sheets.
Only a complete idiot would claim that the derivatives and those who created and enabled them were NOT the root cause of the GFC.
Here, I’ll post it again;
Clear enough?
The way to snare wymynsys voteherds is through Diet.
Low Fat Cruelty Free Happy veganism is all well and good until young activist girls can’t focus on the discipline needed to keep all required nutrients and traces up, and then spiral into nutrient deficient wasteawayland.
Then her hip smashes as she hops down off the footpath, smashes like chalk and smashes at forty.
Comrades.
Very nearly child abuse to drive girls sick with worry and fretfulness over their diets.
Also noting that the turnfailure has floated the thoughtbubble of requiring all schoolchildren to be regularly weighed [ for their health].
Is this thing on?
Hey Stimson
Was Mike Sandwich responsible for getting that director booted, you think?
Of course he was.
Cernovich is Gorilla Mindset.
I told you this would happen.
I am like an expert unpaid unqualified media analyst/journalist/mentally ill fortuneteller.
And my bald head is the crystal ball.
Woo-Hoo!
I think so.
From the Oz. How much were they invoiced for a police presence?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/school-kids-height-weight-measured-plan-tackle-obesity-000701006.html
“The Turnbull Government is considering a plan to have every Australian primary school student’s height and weight recorded in a bid to tackle the country’s obesity crisis, ”
Maybe the cakes and chips and donuts and lollies and bikkies and slices and not moving much might be more chubbying than a few chops?.
Monty, serious question.
Has your Soros Merch handbag turned up in the mail yet?
All the cool kids in Budapest have them.
JC
#2769435, posted on July 21, 2018 at 7:33 pm
boambee
Long story short is the belief that CBs are fallible. They can’t nor should be expected to hit the right spot with interest rate policy all the time and when they fuck up, they can really fuck up royally sending the economy into a tailspin.
Indeed, no one is perfect.
However, when the CBs screw up, the responsible individuals generally do not suffer. The advantage I see with what you describe is that there is skin in the game. Get it wrong, take a financial hit.
…
…
Who cares?
MV is in da ‘oose!
Important new talk from the University of Cambridge –
Feminism Meets Economics.
Took ’em long enough. Most of the game resembled a bunch of cross-dressing lezzo leaguers.
Not any more.
MV has episodes of Sweeney and Minder to watch.
That’s all I’d use vegetarian terrine for too.
Fresh picked paddock mushies fried with butter/salt/pepper are hard to beat. Shop bought varieties never get the same depth of flavour. Always avoided what we called Tree mushrooms, big but tasteless.
You have activated the craving Farmer Gez. Haven’t had that gastronomical pleasure for years. Grandmother always warned never to pick mushrooms growing close to trees or dead timber. Because of their size they were very tempting, but allowing her advice to go unheeded always had perilous consequences.
MV – then it’s a good thing “we don’t matter”, so to speak.
Take care, you ol’ curmudgeon.
Didn’t see it but sounded like they couldn’t buy a goal.
13:31 is atrocious in dry conditions.
Public Health is recruiting:
https://imgur.com/MHwKfp5
Good call on the baldchin groper IT. Top fish. Could almost justify the cost of a 22 foot centre console by itself.
President Franklin Delano “Alphabet Soup” Roosevelt caused the GFC when he started GNMA.
The Freo Shockers drag the opposition down to their level. Always [email protected] Saw Lyon’s presser – carried on like a pork chop as usual. What an utter c()ckhead.
LL – half the ALPFL can’t kick. It was embarrassing to watch.
“Minder” was never the same after Dennis Waterman left.
I’ve just had my Chinese ubereats delivered by a bloke riding a Kawasaki ninja. I thought that was nicely multiculti, and told Spiky, who trumped it by saying she had her Japanese food delivered last night by a Muslim woman wearing a burqa.
Thanks for that. Really, thank you.
JC, this is why Traders can’t have nice things.
Absolute degenerates.
Thanks for that. Really, thank you.
No problem Frank.
After all, Economics is the reason why we are all here.
The funniest burqa wearing woman I saw was in Paris CDG airport with a bag with Paris Fashion Show written on it.
VFL too many behinds?
Maybe in that case. But think of some typical professional criminal, say a mid-level drug importer. With one successful shipment he can become a millionaire. Good reward. also high risks. He can be caught or killed by rivals.
Of course this does not apply to those at the bottom of the chain, the junkies who break into homes to buy drugs, or those selling drugs on the street.
Check out the girl standing with the chap with the yellow hat. (:
There are times in life when you should put your phone down and just soak up everything going on around you.
Not her though.
and these people call themselves right wing. Hilarious.
The funniest burqa wearing woman I saw was in Paris CDG airport with a bag with Paris Fashion Show written on it.
The best I witnessed was four of them, fully bagged in black, disembarking from a chauffeured Roller at Harrod’s (side entrance.) Fragrant they were too, enveloped as I was in all the perfumes of Arabia.
JC – The GFC was a panic like all these panics.
List of recessions in the United States
That’s a lot of panics.
Ok I admit the Fed seems to have more success in the last half century in limiting panics and maximizing the time between recessions.
But the principle is the same. The boom runs up asset prices under some impetus. That may be tulips, nickel, dotcoms, leveraged financial engineering (BS & Lehman) or whatever.
The cause of the boom is different every time but the arc of the cycle is the same.
When the market turns the sheep bail, liquidity dries up and no one wants to catch the falling knife. Margin investors go bust. PEs drop from highs to low single figures. Businesses batten down, fire employees who then can’t buy stuff and you have a demand trough. None of this has anything to do with central banks.
CBs can help pick up the pieces, but they can’t make government adopt business friendly policies which let businesses invest capital. If there’s nothing worth investing in you don’t get much of a recovery, even if the Fed makes the rate so low that project financial hurdles are easier to reach.
In the US since the GFC most low interest borrowing for “investment” by companies has been to buy back their own shares. That’s not a vote of confidence in the strength of the recovery.
Then Trump cut corporate taxes…
Lol, Stimps.
“Why aren’t more people doing this?”, Putin masked Dildo Man asks.
Because we aren’t all insane weirdos like you.
Used to make me laugh on the leg between Dubai and Amsterdam, or Heathrow, back in the day. All the black letterboxes diving into the loo to emerge dressed in the height of (revealing) fashion, with the process reversed on the approach to Dubai.
He owns a ramen bar.
I bet it’s Vegan.
Donny’s latest bimbo has a really bad set of fake cans … so I’m told.
BorisG
#2769537, posted on July 21, 2018 at 9:04 pm
The funniest burqa wearing woman I saw was in Paris CDG airport with a bag with Paris Fashion Show written on it.
The funniest burqua wearing woman I saw recently was at Hungry Jacks. I ordered my meal at the drive through and was asked to wait in one of the parking bays as they prepared my order.
A few minutes later a lady wearing a brightly coloured burqua came out with my meal, it had all the colours of the rainbow and a few more too.
I commented on her brightly coloured burqua and she said….
“The burquas are better at Hungry Jacks”
interesting. was it in First Class?
that does sound hilarious.
This, I do not believe.
Lovely figure.
Fragrant they were too, enveloped as I was in all the perfumes of Arabia.
Tons of cheap perfume with an underlying whiff of goat has never really been my thing.
(Once I was in a hotel in Al Ain, UAE, the letter box emerged from the lift, ripped the top half of the letterbox off and swaggered past me, very friendly I thought!)
Hard ball is what they’re playing.
Bruce
Australia has had almost 30 years without a recession and we’ve had some decent bumps. Your theory of periodic recessions doesn’t work. Recessions of the nature we saw with the GFC can only be monetary mismanagement .
When I was much younger, say 50 years ago, it was always “J_wfish” in WA, said to be named after the early explorers used the otoliths — which resembled mother of pearl — to make joolery. Hence, originally, “j_welfish”.
Of course, that was waaaaacist, and the more PC “dhufish” was then adopted by the great unwashed.
But I still see “J_wie” occasionally in fish ‘n’ chips shops — and from the price, believe me they’re not referring to the Eastern states “mother-in-law” fish!
But a quick look at the references for it tell a different story:
Is “hebraicum” any clue as to what the name was originally?
Business class, KLM.
Imagine the lip numbers gives every non white person who delivers Uber eats to his home.
He didn’t much like non white people did he.
Tons of cheap perfume with an underlying whiff of goat has never really been my thing.
I have a nose for perfume rickw, dunno why. But some of it drives me wild. I understand some women actually complement the perfume they wear. I was by accident quite close to this bevy of Muslimas, and remember well the Roller door being opened and a katabatic blast of scented vapours making their escape. The goat perfume base was totally muffled, praise Allah.
I’m remembering the experience of being stuck, between floors, in a lift in Kuala Lumpar, with a bevy of the burqua clad faithful, on a hot day. The smell of goat became quite pronounced..
Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E-a27xwcLfU
Excellent work.
This is the best video about Bitcoin I have ever seen.
That one was mild, no overhangs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg
Steve trickler, excellent work, indeed. Do you enjoy the occasional mind altering substance? Your clips blow my mind! Amazing! Thank you.
Helluva comeback by the Cats.
Considering we have more than a few outdoor/shooter types on here, I offer up the following short safety video:
Spot of spacechooking for Western Australian Cats – Alicia’s Restaurant and Winery , up in the Julimar, does some pretty damnfine Bavarian style food, and a pretty damnfine red.
If it makes you happy … it can’t be that bad!
https://youtu.be/Xl2H5ba7-8c
http://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/579516/lecturersenior-lecturer-physical-biosciences-female-only-position
“”The Female-only requirement is a lawful special measure under section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act and section 7D of the Sexual Discrimination Act””
Australia is a shithole
Something weird.
https://youtu.be/d-dI_pu_Z0g
Steve trickler
#2769567, posted on July 21, 2018 at 9:50 pm
Thanks Steve. That was visually awesome (I was listening to Threshold of a Dream while watching). It’s a reminder that the IPCC certainty and the 2 degree target of Paris is absolute nonsense. How can they have a handle on global climate when we have no clue when it comes to the fluid dynamics of clouds?
https://youtu.be/d-dI_pu_Z0g
Trip through the menger sponge.
Elle
#2769570, posted on July 21, 2018 at 10:04 pm
Steve trickler, excellent work, indeed. Do you enjoy the occasional mind altering substance? Your clips blow my mind! Amazing! Thank you.
Hello again.
Alcohol is the substance. And i am having a sip…..right now.
Enjoy the short flight. A good view from the pointy end of the aircraft.
Busy Day;
Days of old, and days gone by, and rock classics of long ago..
None
#2769019, posted on July 21, 2018 at 9:43 am
The Saturday Telegraph can today reveal the ACTU this week agreed to a plan to push for an inheritance tax, which was abolished in Australia almost 40 years ago.
“An inheritance tax on the wealthiest estates can restore fairness to our tax system and ensure the very wealthy and big business pay tax,” an ACTU spokesman told The Saturday Telegraph.
They just handed Turnbull the election. Death taxes literally killed people and made them homeless. Like farmers and farm families. If the Labor party had any sense they’d cut all tiesto the union movement bu they won’t. Remember unionists who represent (cough) about 10% of workers (so maybe 5% of Australians) determine Labor party policy, not Labor party or the people. Fascists.
I’m afraid, you are wrong there None.
This is just about the only aspect that I’m not concerned about re. the Labor party and trade unions.
You see, the Labor party was specifically created as the political wing of the Aust. trade union movement.
Despite the fact that shysters, spivs, chancers and lawyers infiltrated the party and parliament, nothing changed.
The Labor party is still owned and controlled by the various trade unions, rightly so in my opinion, the own it and pay for it.
If people want an other social democratic party, then they can start one, or easier still, join the Liberals.
Bruce, I have no idea what you mean by panic, but it sure looks like you’re confusing sudden market movements (panics) and recessions. These aren’t the same thing.
Take the most famous panic – the 1929 crash. There was absolutely no reason that crash had to turn into a depression. The 1987 crash was a panic that didn’t immediately manifest into a recession.
No, the fed has caused every single recession by tightening monetary policy until the economy tips over. The degree depends on how observant it is.
If that is the case then Australia should have experienced a real estate crash in the GFC – much more than the US. That’s because we were more stretched. But we didn’t.
What you’re doing is describing a crash (panic) which is NOT a recession. Those events occur quite frequently, but it doesn’t cause the real estate market in Idaho to keel over.
Do you think an inverted yield curve would cause people to fear going forward with investment decisions?
Of course it is. Don’t take my word for it. Take Warren’s. If firms believed the economic future was bleak they wouldn’t be borrowing but hunkering down and preserving capital or not borrowing. Buyback’s a form of dividends and nothing else.
Thank you, Steve. I enjoyed that. I am so freaked out by the landing. It leaves me hyperventilating. Apart from Queensland NZ, I can’t think of a more terrifying landing.
Following the show, Giraffe.
Cheers.
LOL, Arky, nice touch with the grilled tomatoes and gherkin! No wonder it tasted horrible. Noticed the black and whites tiles early on and wondered if you were doing the refit in the kitchen?! Then the final shot, ah, not in the kitchen.
Good video. Keep ’em coming.
It sure is clear enough. You’re too pig headed and narrow minded to consider other points of view.
The derivatives crash we saw at the beginning of the GFC was caused by credit drying up. Have you bothered to ask why credit became more expensive? That’s first base. Explain why.
Just starting to realise how big a job this is.
An “Oh Shit” moment when I put what is left of the roof on.
*Queenstown not Queensland.
Jo Bejeke Peterson (spelling?) was the first State Premier to abolish “death duties” and money poured into Queensland, as a result.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha, my favorite.
https://youtu.be/S3DhXcQepbY
Guys haven’t it been established that the root cause of GFC was unsustainable subprime lending to thr poor encouraged by both Clinton and Bush administrations ?
*my favorite Fleetwood Mac song.
My compliments, Elle, and thank you. I hadn’t heard that song for some time.
And spread to both sides of the Atlantic by badly calculated derivatives.
Almost spot on, Mark. However, the only time there is a “Labor Party” is when an election is in the offing. The rest of the time it is a motley collection of mutually exclusive union groups stabbing each in the back for control. The unions cross this spectrum of interests. They spent the eleven years of Howard in the wilderness because the factional spats made them unelectable. Then they elevated a non-aligned nonentity to the throne, and we all know how that turned out. Ultimately Labor Right ascended – but only just – which is why they have struggled ever since.
The Libs fell into the same bickering rabble, and so in 2009 they made their own nonentity Grand Poobah. Abbott in turn was displaced by Turdbull, as the Wets rose to ascendancy. There are few dries left in the Liberal Parliament, they are nearly all wets.
Meanwhile Labor Left has once again grabbed the upper hand, with the recent election of Wayne Swan as Party President. Stand by now for Albosleazy – of the Left – to replace Shortfilth of the Labor Right, before the next election.
Thanks, mate … we’ll give it a whirl.
F$cking Gold.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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1h
Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!
Make a booking, first, though.
Would be F$cking Platinum if he’d ditch Sessions.
For lunch in the Swan Valley – we do this once a week or so – I’d recommend Sitellas, Jane’s Estate or Chapel Farm/Hill. All fairly laid back…the bogans are beginning to discover the Swan Valley, so, if there’s a tour bus parked outside, we do a reconnoiter before deciding on lunch.
Some of the vineyards in Margret River don’t accept bus tours, others ask a charge for tasting, refundable if you buy their wine, so the bogans don’t go home and buy off the Internet….F.M.S.
Not really. Cleaning up the sub-prime mess would have meant a shallow recession in the US and localized real estate markets, where sub-prime lending was focused should have fallen. However, the entire US real estate market fell by a minimum in 20%.
Credit became very expensive and it was almost impossible to borrow between the banks because they couldn’t lend to each other. Moreover the crisis expanded into a western Atlantic crisis also due to the hamfisted monetary policy from the ECB.
It’s wrong to look at the GFC as one crisis. There was the sub-prime, the collapse in economic activity in both the US and Europe, then a banking crisis is Europe as well as the US and then a shake down in the European sovereign bond markets. In other words it was one abortion after the other.
I think it was in Sept 08 when Lehman collapsed. Lehman bros. fell in the early to the middle part of the month, but there was little reaction in the stock markets as soon as it fell. The collapse in asset prices came later in the month when it became clear to the markets, from Fed guidance, that the CB was going to continue being tightfisted. It was then we saw markets falling over the cliff.
I cannot understand how on a right wing, market friendly site, people discount the possibility there was any government failure. The GFC was one large example of government failure. Even the Sub prime can be market down to government failure as a result of the US government pushing the banks to lend to minorities (the end of redlining). I’m speechless.
Boris and the Doctor-
sub-prime lending not encouraged by Clinton, but quotas legislated and enforced.
Jane Brook is our favourite — we were there yesterday for lunch. Try to go once a fortnight.
You can damn well bet your net worth it was. I even recall the exact moment too, as I was watching Greenspan’s testimony to Congress on TV at work. Greenspan was asked specifically if banks were discriminatory in their lending practices.. ie redlining. And he answered they were. Out of that came fed supervision that the banks were no longer blocking minorities from the lending market. It was that exact moment when I thought US banks should no longer be considered to have pristine balance sheets.
Tahs win in a withering second half comeback!
Played badly in the 1st half, giving fans conniptions.
JC, Dave says it was not merely encouraged. Read his commment.
And then there was a domino effect…
Jeez lord, this is one of the best but worst pieces I’ve ever read. What happens to the bodies of murder victims and how their families cope. They don’t.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/body-of-evidence-dealing-with-the-trauma-of-homicide/news-story/973ead2116613b7ebad6b38f7eb0e615
It seems that the coroner has the brain of the deceased removed from body and possibly in almost every autopsy. How shocking.
I am disappoint.
I f$cking love Ted Cruz now.
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
US Senate candidate, TX
Wow. These #JamesGunn tweets are just horrible. Child rape is no laughing matter. As Texas SG, I handled far too many child sexual assaults. Truly evil. I’m glad Disney fired him, but if these tweets are true, he needs to be prosecuted.
That was magical, Steve T. Never seen anything like it! Thanks for posting it.
Oh wow. Put that on the bucket list. Thanks Steve.
Trump is almost better than Iowahawk. Amost.
Feel the Bern on a hierarchy of seafood.
I agree with much of your thinking but you didnt state 1) King Georg Whiting or 2) Red Emperor
Huh? Isn’t that what was asserted (except I wouldn’t say it was Clinton and Bush but Carter and Clinton; oh yeah the Kenyan was also apparently involved in a famous legal precedent regarding sub prime lending although he was just a junior paper shuffler I believe or just another communidee organizerrrr)
Greetings, Gab and None.
One more before bedtime.
An insanely huge gun for an insane time.
The Heavy Gustav.
What were they thinking of?
For fans of the Queen of England and the leftard lunatic who put a gun in his mouth and blew his head off, a splendid edition of Week In Pictures.
Re. pictures.
Kelley Lucas got it right,
“If you think you’re so much smarter than Trump, Always remember: He is a billionaire president and you’re sitting at a computer throwing tantrums.
And that goes for at least 60% for all successful people in the world, they got where they are because of drive and ability.
The other 40 odd %? God only knows.
Mark A
#2769639, posted on July 22, 2018 at 5:18 am
PS, By successful people I didn’t mean politicians, although some were.
I don’t know who got smote, but if it was nemcat, then it was only a minor loss/irritant to griggsy, a new puppet will emerge soon.
Cut at the roots if you want to remove a noxious weed. Mild application of a greeny approved weedkiller won’t do the job.
Steve, that lightning vid is very clever. Thanks.
Oh dear. Gargoolery still here and offering up his googliferous info on bone spurs. The neighbourhood’s not quite reformed yet’ with Montblank and Boorus still faffing around.
It being Sunday, perhaps some contemplation of the chaos we find the world in can be imbued with something more intellectual than Monty’s obsession with illicit affairs and their supposed legal implications.
So here for those inclined is amshort analysis of Gerard Manly Hopkins’ poem “That nature is a Heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the ressurrection”.
Miranda Devine has a piece in today’s Tele on Lush Cosmetics. Worth a read, but paywalled.
They’ve just been pinged for underpaying their employees to the tune of millions (Di Natale come on down) but are yuuuuge donators to Get Up!
Why am I not surprised?
Most of them got their money from men.
What a crop, Tom. Hard to pick the best.
Gipper redux
Vogue.
Who are they stack? I don’t have a sub
I didn’t know that poem, Hero. In all the years of study and reading for pleasure, I had never come across it. Thanks for posting.
Good stuff. I told youse all I plan to live forever. 🙂
Steve trickler at 12:58
Beautiful. It goes with Hero’s poem somehow.
This seems just. Whilst the ALP would like to associate this bloke with a growing group of really reprehensible ‘pretenders’, I don’t think his situation fits. Put simply:
He never wore a medal he wasn’t entitled to.
There are two common medals:
The Australian Service Medal, and
The Australian Defence Medal.
On his website, he wrote Service rather than Defence. That is, he essentially mixed up two words.
When referring to these medals, this mix up is common amongst veterans – especially for those who served before the Defence Medal came into being.
He didn’t claim to go anywhere he hasn’t, didn’t wear a medal he hadn’t earned and isn’t claiming his service was anything more than it was.
A simple typo, and quite a common one.
First up will be the town’s Mayor Steve Edgington.
with local voters accepting LNP candidate Trevor Ruthenberg’s false military medal claim was just a mistake.
The ABC were all over this, TV and radio.
You’d think they’d be more sympathetic to claiming things not honestly earned.
Pay checks, for instance.
Mrs Eyrie just came up with the term for extreme vegans pushing their mental illness on everybody –
the VEGANG.
Some from list:
So all of them got their start from husbands or fathers.
A quick check of the rain gauge this morning shows just how hopeless rainfall readings from BOM are here in Perth.
I’m 14 kms north of the CBD and had 32mm. The official metro reading was 16mm! Swanbourne on the coast and level with the CBD (well almost) had 34mm. Bickley (the dam catchment area) had 45mm
http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/flood/swan_avon.shtml
Yes! But keep it quiet!
The PGiC is now channeling Nicolae Ceaușescu.
ABC:
Remember that these people are illegal immigrants, not “asylum seekers”. The ABC has deleted “illegal immigrant” from their dictionary. And the “strange and inexplicable” is only so to the interminably left wing ABC.
BOM gauges sited for any reason? Or has Perth landscape been changed by developers? I know Sydney has been changed by over-development.
Peter – Perth rainfall has always been patchy, have a look at the radar and see what that looks like. I’m more or less inland from Swanbourne and I reckon a third of that rainfall could have come from a single 5 minute cloudburst just prior to lunchtime. BOM records for yesterday show 20mm in 20 minutes around 11AM. It was dumping it down.
BOM is dodgy but automated rainfall readings aren’t the problem.
ALPBC now re-printing Teh J3wish Vanity presss? Shut it down and save $1.1bn a year.
If you want to talk to real refugees Ol’ Leathery normally has a couple on his couch as they were cast out by collapsing Fauxfacts and sought the charity of Teh Grauniad to put crumbs on the table. I think he also provides charity to an unemployable photo j’ismist too.
Steve trickler, at 12:54am.
I read about the story associated with that video clip in National Geographic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2018/01/bird-man-flying-france-microlight-spd
Thanks, Stacks.
Now I know why I gag every time I pass one of their stinky stores. It’s the odour of bigotry.
Actually Trump claiming he did nothing wrong may be correct on a legality basis but morally he remains a creep. Such a shame too as I’m enjoying his trolling of lefties.
Calli, I’m about to watch Insiders. Will see if there are any fishnet wearing leftists. Need a strong cuppa to get through it. Too early for an alcoholic beverage. The coffee is brewing.
stackja,
I seem to recall that the metro gauge was once in Kings Park, and has now been relocated to Mt Lawley. Perhaps a more meaningful reading would be the average of all gauges?
A quick check of the rain gauge this morning shows just how hopeless rainfall readings from BOM are here in Perth.
Obviously you’re using a non state sanctioned gauge, Peter. Please switch it from ‘reality’ to ‘virtuous’ or ‘alarmist’ or desist from using it. Sneakers McGowan will have the BOM squad around otherwise.
I had one of the many ABC news radio stations on this morning. Bad move. First story was about farming. Not like an Alan Jones farming story where farmers are shooting livestock because of drought, this story focused on women taking over traditional male roles on the land. Next story, Wikipedia.. oh I wonder what what this story is about? Yep, you guessed it, women. Apparently the Wikipedia pages are updated by white males from Europe and North America, and there needs to be more wimmin involved in keeping Wikipedia updated.
Shut.It.Down.
Fire Them All.
Peter Castieau
#2769698, posted on July 22, 2018 at 8:58 am
stackja,
I seem to recall that the metro gauge was once in Kings Park, and has now been relocated to Mt Lawley. Perhaps a more meaningful reading would be the average of all gauges?
Just needs a bit of homogenisation!
CARACAS (Reuters) – Dead palm trees and a dried-up lagoon are what you see when you enter Caracas’s botanical garden. A UNESCO World Heritage site and once one of the city’s most important tourist spots, its directors are trying to rescue it from abandonment.
No living thing is safe when Socialists are on the rampage. Even the plants are copping the full brunt of the equalidy in Venezuela. Meanwhile down at the zoo…
JC;
Can you explain why GDP targeting would be a better form of monetary policy? Just something simple, please.
I’ve always been a bit sus about interest rate targets – interest rates are a price signal, why would one fiddle with those?
Gina R played the key role in transforming her father’s business into the behemoth it is today. So, unlike the men and women who may inherit and rest on their laurels, she hasn’t sat idle. Give her that.
Put the remote down. Now step away from the television.
Wow. What am I missing out on. You sandgropers have all the good stuff.
Including Great White Pointers?
For many years a rain gauge was sited at Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview, Tambourine Bay Road, Lane Cove NSW. Now no longer listed by BOM.
mh, haha. It’s not as painful as Q&A, as there is no audience mindlessly clapping.
To be fair, Stacka and Dr BG, Gina Rinehart might have started out with a fairly decent pile from Dad, but she has certainly made it a lot, lot bigger. I am pretty sure the next gen will squander it all though.
The secret strategy has selected Labor seats of Bundamba, held by Jo-Ann Miller, and Peter Russo’s Toohey as potential parachute targets for Ms Trad, who won on LNP preferences last November on a 36 per cent primary vote.
The uniparty in action.
Snap Mr chowder.
To be fair, Stacka and Dr BG, Gina Rinehart might have started out with a fairly decent pile from Dad, but she has certainly made it a lot, lot bigger. I am pretty sure the next gen will squander it all though.
Agree Gina R’s a pretty impressive individual which explains why the FMIC has tried to make her a hate figure.
Labor candidate being interviewed by Ol’ Leathery refers to adjustments in numbers of nurses in Campbell Newman’s time as “atrocities”.
These idiots are the Humpty Dumptys of our time.
I did boycott Insiders for a while after they ditched Piers Ackerman, but enjoy seeing Rowan Dean and Ross Cameron’s take on the show on Outsiders.
Humpty Dumpty had a higher IQ.
Not encouraged, but mandated by the Community Reinvestment Act.
Barrie just interviewed Jim Chalmers and Eric Abetz. Both for 5 mins 15 seconds.
No interruptions!
She controls important numbers for Bill Shorten, but questions are being asked about the method used to get union boss Diana Asmar re-elected.
Another star witness from the Trade Union Royal Commission. Weaving her devious arts in the witness box, turning obfuscation into award winning theatre.
Gina R. Started out with massive debt inherited from dad which she paid off and then she made her fortune. People really do not give her the credit for what she has achieved.
Ol’ Leathery presumes to know what “young people on the right” think.
FMD…
They both recognize that Pea Hon’s brand of forthright populism is a great danger to their standard operating procedure of doing everything in the back room and telling the Australian people they are too stupid to understand. Thus, the preference wagons go into a circle when needed.
I agree, Trump is a product of the culture that his critics created so the irony is amusing.
Encouraged is the right word (prominently used in your linked article). The requirement to eschew “redlining” applied only to those banks receiving FDIC insurance and also required them to operate:
Creating the derivatives and on-selling them resulted in the Ponzi that caused the world-wide financial crisis that crystallized in late 2008.
To make things more confusing, the Australian Defence Medal is awarded after a certain number of years of service. Go figure. I’m sure it makes sense to someone.
Lang really was a bit of an old duffer. Always had plenty of cashflow – when I did a brief stint at Tom Price in the mid 80s they said every train was worth $350k in royalties to Hancock and I think they sent three a day to the coast – God knows how many go today.
Australia has a highly variable rainfall, which is why you almost never see confidence intervals in any long range forecasts of future rainfall in climate models. Because the models can’t cope with present variability and any statistical analysis would not support the breathless headlines.
But I digress. For actual observations, the variability for rainfall even between neighbouring met stations an be quite considerable. you can have a cloud burst, or rain follows a narrow strip rather than g,eneral rain. This is even more pronounced in elmnino years like it looks like we are about to have. Storm rain, rather than general rain. Less of a driver for sand gropers of course.
Anyway, for modelling purposes (eg. Average Australian temperature or rainfall, future Temperatures etc) and account for this variability BoM and other forecasters use modelling called interpolation, which sets the land up in a five km grid with each grid point averaged to its nearest neighbours. Observation points feed into this interpolated grid. Obviously, the cost nnection to reality for this averaging process varies according to how many real observation points. Less of a problem in highly settled areas, but imagine what it is like in regional and remote areas. In central parts of Australia, there can be a hundred kms or more between met stations. Where the rainfall and temperatures are even more variable than they are in a place like Perth.
So, interpolation is intended to address this issue, But it’s efficacy declines as the number of close by met stations decline. Also the location of The remaining met stations can be an issue. Radars for example, do not seem to be located in places to maximise their usefulness for land use. And then there is the perennial argument of bushes that the original site of met stations, particularly in remote areas, generally was ofTen where it rains! Might be truth in it, the more favoured areas got settled first, but who knows. The thing is, does BoM see this as a problem? No. ‘Cause models.
In fact, in remote areas like SW Qld it has been closing met stations at the same time it invests more in modelling, so there is hardly any official met stations in an area as larger than Victoria. BoM management is keen on emphasising an expansion of services, and less so on being a depositary of actual data. It is hard to blame them. There is not much money in data collection. Not very sexy.
Modelling on the over hand, and its output attracts media attention.
NSW and WA state government recently have funded new radars and met stations to make up for the gap. This is appalling, as it lets BoM off the hook, it is shifting the cost of its core business onto state governments so it can go and play games with models.
I’m 14 kms north of the CBD and had 32mm. The official metro reading was 16mm! Swanbourne on the coast and level with the CBD (well almost) had 34mm. Bickley (the dam catchment area) had 45mm
I’d be happy with any of those totals. Northern Vic is very dry. The droughts usually start in Western NSW and drift south. Some chance in the next week for 10-15 mm but we’ve only had 140 mm for the year.
David Marr is irredeemable prick.
is an…
Uwe Boll
@UweBollRaw
Disney, I am available to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Together we will make the best superhero movie in the Marvel skinematic universe. If Chris Praat too expensive, we kill him at beginning & hire like, Michael Jai White & Jean Claude Van Damme as the dual Star Lords.
The worst. Smug, sanctimonious Lefty. Worst of the worst. Love it when Hendo winds him up though.
To be fair, in Trad’s current seat, the alternative to the LNP preferencing her would have been giving the seat to the greens. I reckon the vast majority of the few LNP voters in that electorate would have preferenced Trad even if the LNP didn’t put out a HTV ‘directing’ preferences. Which to be frank would have been a very hard call indeed. But sometimes you really have to close your eyes, hold your nose and learn to forgive yourself, because the alternative could be worse. Never reciprocal of course (S.F.L) as the LNP lost a nearby seat to the greens on ALP preferences.
The ALP hate Jan Ann Miller. She is old labor. Actually sticks up for her constituents, resigned ministry on some trivial misdemeanour that would be otherwise weathered by someone part of the machine, a short sin bin at worst, but she instead chose to get up the government on a regular basis. She is smarter than she appears too, regularly asked good questions in parliament.
Marr ends the show sliming Gina and the IPA. Fancy that!
Variability of rainfall in Perth is because it comes from showers which come from individual large cumulus or Cumulo-nimbus clouds. They may be in lines but there will still be areas of higher and lower falls.
The cumulus convection may be enhanced when the front or cloud line encounters the coast, causing higher falls near the coast and a while before the convection grows again to be enhanced again by encountering the Darling Range.
Also ambitious Trad needs a safe seat if she is to ever challenge factional enemy Palaszczuk.
They must be doing something right then.
He is a very bitter man. I will never forget that time about a decade ago when he simply brought a paper on the set and pretended to read it when Akerman was talking about the warmening. Not only was that a disgraceful act, Insiders should never have invited him on after it. That they do tells you they loved it too.
Clam, Entropy, I agree that Gina deserves credit. Don’t know if any others on the list do.
Gina is a tough chick. I like tough chicks. There aren’t enough of them.
I don’t think that throwing poofs off tall buildings is a good idea, but I’d make an exception for David Marr.
Yep that’s Marr’s MO.
Oops! Spelt Piers’ surname wrong. Need more coffee.
I am thinking of founding a religion which wants to throw lefties off tall buildings. Yes, I know it would make a mess on the pavement, but eventually we’d run out of lefties.
Show some leadership. Throw yourself off first.
Da IPA supports eebil coal!
Oh noes!
Throw yourself off first.
Yeah, follow Rae’s example: Toss yourself off at every possible opportunity, especially in public.
Spelt Piers’
areff. I’m sure I said “throw”, you old tosser.
I’ll have a jug of Spelt Piers, thanks love.
Make it a facebook platform with smileys?
/sarc
It could be Death Giraffe. 🙂
By the way, where did your new name come from?
Please don’t feed the Troll 👹™
Enjoying your vids Death Giraffe. Keep ’em coming.
Happy to be your bar wench, DG.
I hope Tim Blair doesn’t read this blog. He would punish me for my poor grammar. There should be a comma after “It could be”.
The Goss: Cardinal George Pell lets his hair down
Cardinal George Pell is facing prosecution for alleged historic child s3x offences, but he is still finding time to let his hair down.
As he awaits trial on the charges he denies, the former third in line to Pope Francis attended a party in Cherrybrook, north-west Sydney, last month to celebrate the engagement of Brigid Meney, the daughter of Chris Meney, chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and a staunch supporter of Pell.
Many guests commented on the Cardinal’s attendance, which made some feel awkward. However, the man, who has been described as having a “several rhinoceros thick” hide, apparently looked as if he enjoyed himself.
He mingled mostly with guests his own age, but did venture out the back of the family home with the rest of the twenty-something party-goers to toast the soon-to-be-married, young couple.
One unlikely guest that the Cardinal crossed paths with on the night was Alisha Aitken-Radburn, who left Bill Shorten’s office to star on the upcoming series of The Bachelor.
Since being dumped by the not-so-charming Nick “The Honey Badger” Cummins, this year’s “Bachelor villain” has been seeking out #AusPol job opportunities, but her CV is being kept on file until it is clear how she behaved on the show.
I’m sure it was mentioned somewhere……
James Gunn’s “jokes” about [email protected] children, [email protected] his friends, Mexicans, the Holocaust, AIDS, and how kiddie pron gives him an orgasm don’t seem to be on Their ABC’s web site nor the SMH’s digital platform neither.
Hollywood gives him a free pass and a bunch of excuses. Our media follows suit.
Thanks to Breitbart the news is available though.
Sockie is busy throwing the chook feed.
To make things even more confusing, the Australian Defence Medal has “For Service” engraved on the reverse in large letters.
I’m also comparing this uproar with the “nothing to see here, let’s all move on” attitude where a certain Labor sitting member was found to have purchased HIS medal from a militaria shop, fabricated his tales of valor and heroism in Bosnia, and became the first sitting member ever, in Western Australia, to be threatened with expulsion from Parliament. “Barry Urban” ring any bells?
I followed Zyco’s link to the Pell story in the SMH
Also found a sad story about the media and police covering up the name of a female journo who ran over a cyclist while test driving a $500,000 McLaren.
Cyclist was very badly injured but no names from anyone involved, and “inquiries are continuing” from police.
Powerful people have their own rules.
Some people here have been lefties and seen the light. I’ve never been one. I first met leftism as an undergraduate; finding that I was an atheist and a Huxleyan humanist, the communists tried to recruit me, so I argued with them. It was easy to recognise an irrational and rather nasty religion, based on envy and power hunger. I found them repulsive then and still do.
Old school that incident you describe reminds of the Blairgowrie incident with VicPol.
‘LET’S FLIP THIS SEAT RED’: OCASIO-CORTEZ MAKES GAFFE CAMPAIGNING WITH BERNIE
https://www.infowars.com/lets-flip-this-seat-red-ocasio-cortez-makes-gaffe-campaigning-with-bernie/
TOMMY ROBINSON LAWYER: JUDGE DIDN’T VIEW EVIDENCE, ISLAMISTS THREATEN ACID ATTACKS ON HIS WIFE
https://www.infowars.com/tommy-robinson-lawyer-judge-didnt-view-evidence-islamists-threaten-acid-attacks-on-his-wife/
If you want to kill or injure someone with no criminal consequences wait till they go for a bike ride and just run them over. Particularly if you are a judge or member of the legal fraternity.
Some people here have been lefties and seen the light.
I’ve mentioned before, I started out as a lefty feminist. I was rebelling against what I thought was my ultra conservative father. Turns out I’m more right of centre than he is now. It took Trump becoming POTUS to make me see that. I’m the only one in my family who likes Trump. As such, he never gets mentioned by any of us when we’re all together.
HBB
Wasn’t there a case in Mainland Tadmania a few years ago involving a member of the legal class who hit and killed a bike rider?
Any West Australian Cats going?
Mainland Tardmania?
Present, suh!
(I also have a note concurrence from Lizzie, who was also a tribal lefty follower, but is unable to be here this morning on account of her exhausting, neverending world tour schedule.)
For those who want to find out if they are human.
Is there YouTube video of that? Sounds hilarious!