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Seeing that Byron Bay has almost 50% Green primary vote I suspect they will like it…won’t they?
An equally informative documentary film is “San Andreas”.
Greens are they?
Then they had bloody well better like it!
If it helps you, the research paper in which I found that information (i.e. offshore landslips that can cause 5m tsunamis) said they they occur “at multi-millenial timescales”.
has relied on everyone having defective bullshit detectors.
It’s possible to be a Jooo hater and admire Hitler’s nationalism without taking on his entire socialist manifesto. I have met small govt racists – my parents were both right wing and racist. It’s just vastly less frequent to find rabid anti Semitism without going full hard left.
DavidH – Have you seen the Royal Society report into Krakatoa from 1888? It’s a very interesting read.
The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena
Free download in various formats.
Alabama.
As much fight in them as Brandis had on the free speech legislation.
Queenslanders….
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/woman-caught-urinating-on-floor-in-queensland-foodworks-store/news-story/df60ed2fa5ae28ffdd8238704573b182
From areff’s link:
Dr Woolfe says it best when she says nothing at all.
Opinion piece in NY Post re the 20th anniversary of JFK Jnr spearing into the sea.
Some of it a bit caustic (probably a reaction to the canonization of JFK Minor by the MSM) but generally on the money, notably
(1) The myth that flying was his only refuge from the paparazzi and tabloids. He revelled in media attention and craved it constantly,
(2) The fabled “Kennedy curse” which, in many cases, was nothing more than the natural consequences of narcissistic personality disorder which runs strong in the Kennedy genes,
(3) The disgraceful treatment of his wife’s family by the Jennedy enforcers in the days after the prang.
I particularly liked the following dose of reality check:-
Indeed.
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And this particularly scathing – but accurate – view of political dynasties generally and the current crop of Kennedys in particular.
Ouch!!!
I was only thinking via that day how earthquakes happen in my part of Australia about every 50 or so years and we’re due for another big e
Roberts was a great disappointment to Republican voters when he cast a deciding vote for Obamacare justifying it on the grounds that it’s a tax.
Alito is the real deal.
That part just says that whatever I feelz is true and everything everyone else work to understand or quantify through observation analysis and experimentation is oppressive white privilege.
Day After Tomorrow?
San Andreas?
2012?
Nothing beats Knowing. Nothing.
I’m seeing the future.
Bandanna man tweeting, commenting, writing in his column (is that still a thing) about Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence.
That’s right, he really, really, really loves Jesus.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trevor+lawrence&rlz=1C1ASUM_enAU767AU767&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiJn_rZp93fAhVNtIsKHZGnDU0Q_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=969
Queenslanders….
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/woman-caught-urinating-on-floor-in-queensland-foodworks-store/news-story/df60ed2fa5ae28ffdd8238704573b182
She’s wearing thongs. If you’re planning to splash and dash, at least wear sensible shoes.
Punctuation is everything.
Dr Woolfe should try it.
Also, writing in English would be helpful.
Roberts was a great disappointment to Republican voters when he cast a deciding vote for Obamacare justifying it on the grounds that it’s a tax.
But it is/was a tax.
Just because the GOP were a pack of morons & couldn’t sell that to the punters isn’t JR’s fault.
A John Roberts supreme court is a safe supreme court.
Kavanaugh will disappoint all his supporters when he does what all swampies do, tries to be friendly with the left.
Kavanaugh will let you down.
Don’t get too invested in him.
Justice Kennedy was a Californian weed head whose obergefell ruling was one of the most fuckwitted twusted judgements in human history. I got the feelz says the judge because I’m terrified of dying. He should havebeen put into a psychiatric home years ago.
I’ve seen Alabama lose before.
But I have never seen them be on the wrong end of a beat-down.
Bookies erections bigger than Bill Clinton’s when he was on Epstein island.
I agree with the feels on Kavanaugh though.
Well I did say that was information from 3 clairvoyants . I won’t ask them for the lotto numbers.
Not so dumb! Blondes have more complex DNA, study reveals
Blondes may have a ditzy reputation, but their lighter locks are far more complex than scientists thought.
For true blonde hair requires some 200 genetic variants – compared with 60 for brown hair and even less for redheads.
In one of the biggest studies of its kind scientists at the Medical Research Council’s human genetics unit analysed DNA from 39,397 blonde women and men of European descent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6563471/Not-dumb-Blonds-complex-DNA-study-says.html
Kavanaugh is not a mental giant.
That’s why GWB was boosting for him pre his confirmation vote.
Roberts & Gorsuch are the hard-men of the supreme court.
You have to give RBG credit. She’s showing more fight than Paul Ryan with only 10% of the physical capacity.
Wow, W Hogg. What a life you must have led, to get you to this intellectual position. “Nazism, but with more immiseration of the poor.”
University seminar teaches faculty not to judge ‘quality’ of writing when grading
GRADING AIN’T JUST GRADING:
RETHINKING WRITING ASSESSMENT
ECOLOGIES TOWARDS ANTIRACIST ENDS
This plenary will argue against the use of conventional standards in college courses that grade student writing by single standards. Inoue will discuss the ways that White language supremacy is perpetuated in college classrooms despite the better intentions of faculty, particularly through the practices of grading writing.
https://edspace.american.edu/ariwa/
That digs up a very old memory of an acquaintance telling me that there is evidence of tsunamis far inland in SE Qld.
Historical evidence uncovers a story of thousands of tsunamis hitting Australian shores and washing over Sydney Heads, the imposing headlands that border Sydney Harbour.
Some rather interesting Vaccine news.
In asking for Naziism without socialism, he shows he wants less immiseration of the poor. I doubt he will get it, totalitarianism inevitably leads to the immiseration of everyone.
Woohoo!
World Bank President, Jim Kim resigns.
Jim Kim, him, very evil.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/world-bank-president-resigns-paving-way-trump-appointee-helm-global-n955781?fbclid=IwAR1lKIR7AcNu9o3fEOgTH3cXQm22ia_jvq9Em8ODgHHJIDXYMWGKzfHtCHk
Maybe. Colour me sceptical.
The “Day After Tomorrow” informed me… An equally informative documentary film is “San Andreas”.
The graphics in those films were impressive. Acting, not so much.
Another was Deep Impact. (Same comment about the acting).
When you compare Valentine Holmes to every single player on the field today for ‘bama v clemson, he would not beat a single one of them.
How does he expect to replicate what Hayne did, who at the time was explosive in everything he did?
I wish Holmes well, but I can’t see him succeeding.
No, Medicare is a tax as everyone is covered by it and the levied via taxes. Obamacare forced people to buy insurance from private insurance companies.
What’s the story with the World Bank, Annie? Give us the scoop.
No, Medicare is a tax as everyone is covered by it and the levied via taxes. Obamacare forced people to buy insurance from private insurance companies.
No.
It forced people to pay horrendous penalties if they did not take out the insurance.
That’s why it was so insidious.
People were free not to purchase it, as long as they paid the penalty.
Like a gazillion dollars.
Yes it’s technical, but that’s what laws are.
I believe Thomas Moore was of the same opinion.
It’s outrageous that College athletes can not earn a dime., but the networks and colleges earn billions from them.
They should be able to earn millions, but the money must be held in trust until they graduate.
When I studied geomorphology there was a fierce debate between 2 professors (well, by fierce I mean they occasionally sneered when talking about each other) about whether the river trench just NW of Lochinvar was caused by glaciers, tides or a Tsunami. If anyone is interested when you travel on the old road through Lochinvar and leave the town going west as you go through the hill crest to the right there is a pronounced U shape with a trickle being the Hunter river running down the middle. Whatever caused the U shape was big.
John Roberts was right in his ruling that the Federal government had the right to tax its citizens.
Either he, or whoever wrote the opinion (or whatever they call it) said that if the plaintiffs wanted to get rid of the tax, that’s what the legislature is for.
I would have thought a non-reactionary justice was up your ally.
It’s outrageous that College athletes can not earn a dime., but the networks and colleges earn billions from them.
Agree.
They are allowed to receive:
* Free education;
* Free accomodation;
* A meal allowance.
All strictly monitored by the NCAA.
It’s nuts how a top tier college coach can earn $US7m p.a.
But the players get $0.00.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Endless Wars, especially those which are fought out of judgement mistakes that were made many years ago, & those where we are getting little financial or military help from the rich countries that so greatly benefit from what we are doing, will eventually come to a glorious end!
11:50 AM · Jan 8, 2019
JC, just wait, next devil to drop off the perch is Rothschild sprog, Christine Lagarde.
2019 is going to be glorious!
The Robot War Has Begun.
I warned you this was coming.
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom
QAnon – vengeful, sprawling, non-sequential, self-referential, uncommitted to democratic process and full of hot air – is the perfect conspiracy theory for the Trump era.
9:45AM Jan 8,2019
m0nty at 1520
“Nazism, but with more immiseration of the poor.”
So, the Labor/Greens political program? You should be appluading.
Dr BG at 1551
In asking for Naziism without socialism, he shows he wants less immiseration of the poor. I doubt he will get it, totalitarianism inevitably leads to the immiseration of everyone.
Not quite everyone. The nomenklatura do very well from socialism. m0nty hopes to be a member of that group.
The face of Get-Up:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156184968374370&set=a.10150149146444370&type=3&theater
High Schools in Texas are spending $50mn+ on stadiums.
Roberts may have been right about changing the law via the legislature but he was still wrong about the tax part. Fines are not taxes, they are fines.
Roberts was very reactionary, he reacted to the media bullying which is certainly not up my alley.
The irony of Nicola Roxon on the Bupa board. But this bit of news which I missed – she became chair of the board in March last year – explains why providers and customers have been very unhappy with Bupa in the as it removes to socialized medicine.
Lefties destroy everything they touch.
Incredible how much Dems have changed in such a short time.
2003 Elizabeth Warren was a sensible women:
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1082451296890834949
Apparently, the world bank chief resigning puts trumpy in a spot of bother.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/world-bank-chief-s-sudden-exit-to-test-trump-20190108-p50q5a.html
Sigh.
Not surprised. It seems only very white people have the right to determine who will represent the rest of us.
Hopefully that mad root-rat DSK gets the gig at the world bank.
He could root his way around the world.
In all the fuss about Cottrell and Anning by dickheads here and elsewhere the opposing left were once again unscrutinised:
But hey neo-nazis.
Any idea why the scum is verballing me in saying this quote represents my position? It has been alleged that there are people of the right who simultaneously admire Hitler and are anti Semitic. I observed that a small % of Jooo haters are not socialist.
If people have a major problem with this view, I’m happy to retract and accept that 100% of anti Semites are socialist.
Why is anyone giving a shit about that puncy gathering at St Kilda on the weekend?
Get back to me when you have a full blown Cronulla shindig on your hands.
@Cohenite
When researching my project, I came across such debate. I contacted Dr Bryant (mentioned in the article Mitch M posted) and he sent me several papers. Another academic said to ignore them, as they had refuted all the sites as being storm effects and not tsunamis. I had no way of deciding who was right … so I cited both lots! It seems that this science is not settled.
Another paper said that tsumamis of less than 5m runup don’t leave deposits that last over time. And that’s about the largest expected size of undersea landslip tsunamis … so (if that bit is settled) it explains why evidence is so uncertain. Tsunami deposits are easily recognisable, e.g. sediment grading inland and upslope as the wave loses energy. You’d think a wave washing over the heads 10k years ago would have left incontrovertible evidence.
From small things big things grow.
As I recall, and this was 45 years ago, other suggestions for this striking land feature were huge river flows and tides.
Up to 23000 years ago the sea level around the east coast of Australia was 135 meters below what it is today; even as recently as 10000bya the sea level was 50 meters below what it is today. During the same period Tasmania had glaciers which also occurred through Victoria.
I forget the time spans and most of my thesis but geomorphological factors on this planet creep me out.
Ten years since the Victorian bushfires. How Victoria’s “best and brightest” provided leadership.
From Michael Smith News.
Fatty Nixon is in Victoria’s hall of fame.
With Joan Kirner.
& John Cain.
Since when do number of genetic variations correlate with intelligence ?
Maybe the mutations are wot makes them ditzy.
A Forest of Bare Branches
by Mark Steyn
Steyn on the World
In 2006 I wrote an international bestseller about demography. Which is harder to do than you might think. But it was leavened with Dean Martin gags and whatnot. Nevertheless, it made some big-picture points:
Will China be the hyperpower of the 21st century? Answer: No. Its population will get old before it’s got rich.
China’s population shrank last year for the first time in 70 years, experts said, warning of a “demographic crisis” that puts pressure on the country’s slowing economy…
The number of live births nationwide in 2018 fell by 2.5 million year-on-year, contrary to a predicted increase of 790,000 births, according to analysis by U.S.-based academic Yi Fuxian.
Yi is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and he’s been tracking just how old China’s getting:
China’s median age was 22 in 1980. By 2018, it was 40. That will rise to 46 in 2030 and 56 in 2050. In the US, the median age was 30 in 1980 and 38 in 2018. In 2030, it will be 40, and 44 in 2050. India, by comparison, had a median age of 20 in 1980 and 28 in 2018.
What happened between 1980 and 2018 to make a country age that fast? Well, for two generations Chinese mothers gave birth to boys and aborted all the girls. From page thirty of yours truly’s America Alone:
The People’s Republic’s most distinctive structural flaw [is] the most gender-distorted demographic cohort in global history, the so-called guang gun – ‘bare branches’: Since China introduced its ‘one child’ policy in 1978, the imbalance between the sexes has increased to the point where in today’s generation there are 119 boys for every 100 girls. The pioneer generation of that male surplus are now adults. Unless China’s planning on becoming the first gay superpower since Sparta, what’s going to happen to those young men? As a general rule, large numbers of excitable lads who can’t get any action are useful for manning the nuttier outposts of the jihad but not for much else.
A good read and the link-out are wirth readubg
Yep. They have annexed it and will never give it up.
For one thing they produce fantastic wine there.
China’s population shrinks for first time in 70 years despite two-child policy: experts
and
Worse than Japan: how China’s looming demographic crisis will doom its economic dream
Yi Fuxian says a look at China’s ratio of working-age population to the elderly is ominously similar to Japan’s in the early 1990s, boding ill for the Chinese dream and the global economy as a whole
You may be interested to know that Ms Nixon is now chair of the Monash College Board. Failure has it’s rewards.
And totally unrelated to man made atmospheric CO2.
In 2003, Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about how the entry of mothers into the workforce has been a disaster for families and the country
Particularly in her case.
Another nice little article from John Nolte on Clint Eastwood’s latest.
Box Office: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Mule’ Crushes Spike Lee, Michael Moore, ‘Vice’
Hollywood moguls and network executives should be made to memorise it. Give the audience stories not diatribes guys.
Interesting – one name evoking one of the most inspirational examples of leadership in Australian history, one name evoking one of the least inspirational examples….
Now up to talk of millions of fish dead in the blue green algae caused oxygen deprivation event in the Murray darling basin.
The frantic dumping of water out to sea, using fresh water to irrigate a salt water Marsh could be part of it.
Undoubtedly fertiliser overuse and poor placement of nutrients is part of it also.
Fertiliser users will be heavily regulated very soon, as the unwavering transnational obligation, signed by stabby mcstabbyface Bishop to keep fertiliser away from land that interacts with water that interacts with the rivers that interacts with the Reef, is open enough by intention to control all fertiliser users.
Comrades.
Israel is full of hard-working, ambitious, smart people, some of them nuts. Their neighbours are full of idle, complaining, dim people, almost all of them nuts. Loser loony lefties naturally support the latter.
Transnational conventions cause the environmental disaster that has killed every living thing in long stretches of the river.
Means we must sign more transnational conventions.
It was never about the environment, it was always about Tyranny.
Comrades.
Israel is a one word refutation of islam. Churchill on islam:
You can see the attraction of Islam. It’s the same as the attraction of leftism. Both are irresistible to losers.
B1tchops is a fertiliser expert!
In a memorable radio interview after Ms Nixon was appointed to her Monash sinecure, Jeff Kennett stated that Sir John Monash would have had her shot for deserting her post on Black Saturday.
The woman who tucked into a Chicken Kiev while dozens of Victorians died responded in the only way the Left know by calling Kennett a mysoginist……
It’s the appeal of dogmatism throughout the ages. You never have to think again.
In a memorable radio interview after Ms Nixon was appointed to her Monash sinecure, Jeff Kennett stated that Sir John Monash would have had her shot for deserting her post on Black Saturday.
The woman who tucked into a Chicken Kiev while dozens of Victorians died responded in the only way the Left know by branding Kennett as a misogynist……..
Much ABC concern over the Saudi teenage girl.
Lots of Muslim countries to choose from but she wants to come to western democracy like Australia.
Why would that be ABC? Best not to ask.
Feel-good story from the U.S.
I infrequently post links here, but this is an awesome story about people who persisted and may have saved a man’s life. The Vietnam veteran had been living in the desert for about 20 years apparently, and if it wasn’t for the couple in the story, he may have died there, with no-one even noticing.
Likely numpty unintended consequences, which is worse than malice.
Café Bruce has a duo of idle, complaining, dim visitors as of yesterday.
Two currawong pairs arrived, each with a gigantic and very loud channel-billed cuckoo chick.
Channel-bill chicks make indian mynahs seem nice.
Fortunately if you stuff them with enough food they eventually shut up, which is what the foster parents proceeded to do in endless relays from café to highchair.
Hopefully they should depart in a couple weeks.
Unlike Thailand, Cambodia is a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention. Go seek asylum there.
ABC promoting an aerial survey that counted ducks in the Murray Darling basin.
The drought has decimated duck populations we’re told.
Uncle Dan must want a justification for a shooting ban.
We’ve got thousands of the buggers around here after the big rains. A selective count perhaps?
There’s a parable in there, BoN. Currawongs aren’t smart enough to see when they’re being exploited.
Neither are some human beings. They will persist in feeding politicians.
She apostatized, which means can’t be a muslim country or one with a lot of muslim ferals.
I think publicly stating apostatization is enough to give her a hearing, given her bravery.
“I forget the time spans and most of my thesis but geomorphological factors on this planet creep me out.”
Planetary surfaces are bad places for civilisations, cohenite. Which is why Musk is wrong about wanting to settle the surface of Mars. Fortunately the great ships will be capable of other things, including the Moon, asteroids and space habitats.
Speaking of which: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=47113.0
Scroll down to the jpeg of the spaceship – right off the front cover of Astounding circa 1955 . Yes, it is going to be shiny polished stainless steel for real.
Farmer, you fule.
Everyone kno that ducks are chained to a block of concrete, and cannot migrate to where there is food and water.
Sheez!
More generally, when will the con job whereby so called environmentalists spend our megabucks counting and tagging plants and animals, to then announce that any change in the population is a sign of impending doom because humans.
Less than last year? Extinction is nigh. More than last year? Possibly good, but also may upset the delicate balance of yin and yang in the area.
It’s a Magic Pudding for these tax-hoovering alarmists.
Which will set a precedent for queue-jumping entry into Australia.
Best duck shooter in our family was my brother.
He hated biting on shot pellets in the roasted ducks, so he’d sneak up a dam bank and shoot them through the head with the air rifle. He’d get three or four before they got wise.
I’m foul in moderation because I’ve mentioned sh??ting ducks. This is getting ridiculous
Count on it. This is the man that cried over euthanizing dogs in Puppy Farms while fighting tooth and claw to euthanize humans and jailing doctors who refuse to kill unborn children. Of course he wants to ban duck shooting.
Uncle Dan must want a justification for a shooting ban.
Count on it. This is the man that cried over euthanizing dogs in Puppy Farms while fighting tooth and claw to euthanize humans and jailing doctors who refuse to kill unborn children. Of course he wants to ban duck sh–ting.
And yes farmer Gez I got stuck in moderation too.
Count on it. This is the man that cried over euthanizing dogs in Puppy Farms while fighting tooth and claw to euthanize humans and jailing doctors who refuse to kill unborn children. Of course he wants to ban duck sh00ting.
And yes farmer Gez I got stuck in moderation too.
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Count on it. This is the man that cried over euthanizing dogs in Puppy Farms while fighting tooth and claw to euthanize humans and jailing doctors who refuse to kill unborn children. Of course he wants to ban duck sh–ting.
And yes farmer Gez I got stuck in moderation too.
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Count on it. This is the man that cried over euthanizing dogs in Puppy Farms while fighting tooth and claw to euthanize humans and jailing doctors who refuse to keel unborn children. Of course he wants to ban duck sh–ting.
And yes farmer Gez I got stuck in moderation too.
Count on it. This is the man that cried over ew-thanizing dogs in P-ppy Farms while fighting tooth and claw to ew-thanize humans and j_iling doctors who refuse to keel unb0rn children. Of course he wants to ban d-u-ck sh–ting.
And yes farmer Gez I got stuck in moderation too.
Hmm maybe I just misspelt my email address instead hahaha
Correct. We had plenty of bullshit artists claiming to be Christians or gay during the Gillard boat people years. And there you had public Servants having to determine hether somebody’s religion or sexuality was genuine. That’s also a president I don’t want to see
None, you’re in moderation because something changed in your profile. Did you pop in a different email address?
Ha! You twigged.
Such an epic burning of bridges is a great way to indicate loyalty towards your adopted country.
However I wouldn’t recommend her coming here.
Our law enforcement is insufficient to guarantee her safety.
Thanks Calli – I realised that when doomlord or whoever released my comments and my Avatar it was different. It was just me being the typo queen.
The left, returning to their old tactics in Germany and hoping it will turn out better this time…
German far-right MP injured in ‘politically motivated’ attack
Frank Magnitz of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party assaulted by gang in Bremen
A far-right German MP has been seriously injured in a “politically motivated” gang attack in the north of the country, according to police.
Frank Magnitz, the leader of the anti-immigration populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Bremen, was assaulted in the city centre on Monday afternoon.
“Given the victim’s work, we believe that this is a politically motivated act,” police said.
The AfD published a picture of Magnitz unconscious on a hospital bed, his face bleeding and swollen with a gash on his forehead. It said three people with their faces covered had carried out the attack.
“They hit him with a piece of wood until he was unconscious and then kicked him on the ground,” a statement from the party said, adding that a construction worker had intervened to stop the assault.
The AfD leader, Jörg Meuthen, said Magnitz was “beaten almost to death”.
Last week, an explosive device detonated in a rubbish bin damaged an AfD office in Saxony.
The AfD entered Germany’s parliament last September with almost 13% of the vote.
Idiots who think the failed tactics of the 1930’s will work better this time.
Hopefully they will get the full Rosa Luxomberg treatment.
Play stupid games you deserve to win stupid prizes.
Monty of course supports beating politicians nearly to death.
Good grief they even give their girls the name Muhammad. She should just claim that she’s a man trapped in a woman’s body and wants a sex change operation and she’ll be in like Flint
Quite so. We’ve been discussing tsunamis. How about a global mile-high tsunami?
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused a mile-high tsunami around the Earth (today)
Big splash.
My family tell stories of how during World War 2 various lefty groups were busy killing or extorting ocal civilians ( elderly women or children – the men were away fighting Nazis) . Post war they presented themselves as some sort of heroic underground resistance groups.
Patronymic. Surname al Mohd or bint Mohd is the equivalent of a Swede named Erika Thorsson (or for that matter a Swede named Ayish’a bint Muhammad).
Italy’s populist leaders have thrown their support behind France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ protesters in a remarkable show of defiance against French President Emmanuel Macron.
Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Prime Minister Matteo Salvini urged rioters throughout France ‘not to weaken’ as they threw their support behind the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ on Monday.
‘Yellow vests, do not weaken!’, Di Maio, who heads the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), wrote on his party’s blog.
‘I support honest citizens protesting against a president who governs against his people,’ Salvini said in a statement, while ‘firmly’ condemning recent protest violence.
How high does a tsunami wave have to be to escape the atmosphere and if it gets that high will there be a vacuum effect that sucks the Earth dry? That sounds like a section c physics question.
“Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
#2901908, posted on January 8, 2019 at 7:28 pm
Australia prepared to offer visa to Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun if she is assessed as refugee
Greg Brown
Journalist
@gregbrown_TheOz
36 minutes ago January 8, 2019
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The Morrison government is prepared to grant a humanitarian visa to Saudi Arabian woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun — who believes her family will kill her for leaving the Islam faith — if she is assessed as a refugee by the United Nations and passes character and security checks.”
WTF….what about Asia Bibi…a woman who is currently in hiding and has spent the last 9 years in prison on trumped up charges of blasphemy? When is this spineless cretinous uniparty government going to step up to grant humanitarian visas to Asia Bibi and her family…….a woman who has more than one fucking family after her…she has a whole fucking country of inbred Islamic fanatics after her.
Dunno if this will work, but tree hit by lightning…
Minneapolis’ ‘Little Mogadishu’ Sees 56 Percent Increase in Violent Crimes Caused by Somali Gangs
Authorities attribute the violence to rivalries between Somali gangs, such as the Somali Mafia, the Somali Outlaws, the Hot Boyz, and Madhibaan with Attitude,
Everybody would be a bint Muhammad, Hoggy. Do you know any male Muslim who’s not named Muhammad. Pretty incestuous.
Zyconoclast,
but think of the wonderful, enriching diversity.
Agree Cassie. In fact I don’t understand out immigration policy regarding refugees because there is no point giving Asylum to the persecuted if you bringing the persecutors as well. I would have absolutely no qualms if we offered Asylum say to Jews and Christians that never to Muslims who are one of the chief persecutors of both. The problem with that of course is you would then have public Servants assessing other people’s religion which I grossly disagreement but I think trump’s idea of just banning immigration from certain countries for a few years at a time is not a bad proxy.
When the Mars-sized planetsimal hit proto-Earth it vaporized everything on the surface. Some of the bits reformed as the Moon. But the terrestrial oceans were back in business remarkably quickly, since the steam just reaccreted on the larger mass.
Giant-impact hypothesis
(28 sec audio)
Tennessee judge goes on tirade about crime among black men being ‘more effective’ than KKK
I am not particularly interested in the difference between, say, Joseph Goebbels and Hugo Boss. Any minor quibbles over policy they might have had are immaterial.
I hope you rebelled against your parents’ politics with some fierceness, W Hogg.
Agree Cassie. In fact I don’t understand out immigration policy regarding refugees because there is no point giving asylum to the persecuted if you bringing the persecutors as well. I would have absolutely no qualms if we offered Asylum say to J-ws and Christians but never to Muslims who are one of the chief persecutors of both. The problem with that of course is you would then have public Servants assessing other people’s religion which I grossly disagree with but I think Trump’s idea of just banning immigration from certain countries for a few years at a time is not a bad proxy.
but think of the wonderful, enriching diversity.
The names are more imaginative than the Apex Gang.
Perhaps we can send them over there to learn how to name better.
Secure housing….police protection….change of identity..she’ll never be able to work…
As Irish abortions begin, gov’t makes plans to censor pro-life dissent
The strategy by which the pro-abortion side wish to silence debate on abortion is through censorship zones, similar to those deployed in the UK around abortion centers. These zones prevent peaceful witness close to abortion centers, as well as prohibiting the offer of practical and emotional support to pregnant women, and the offer of an alternative to abortion.
The teenage girl may have a non Muslim or Muslimboyfriend here or hereabouts probably. There may be some trickery going on.
Why is not very complicated and complex to ask a white woman to denounce a white man?
Linda SARSOUR: It’s actually not very complex at all. Minister Farrakhan absolutely says anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic remarks. And we have unequivocally rejected all forms of racism and hate including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc. What people need to understand – that is the organizers of the Women’s March, those of us who are seasoned organizers – we are trained in Kingian (ph) nonviolence. And those are the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, and one of the most important teachings is go after the forces of evil, not those doing evil. And it is very complex and complicated to denounce black – to ask a black woman to denounce a black man.
It is unknown to what extent rising drug costs are due to inflation in the prices of existing drugs versus the entry of new products. USA
We used pricing data from First Databank and pharmacy claims from UPMC Health Plan to quantify the contribution of new versus existing drugs to the changes in costs…
The rising costs of generic and specialty drugs were mostly driven by new product entry, whereas the rising costs of brand-name drugs were due to existing drug price inflation.
Isn’t that racist?
Homos3xual Statistics
Dr BG at 1829
It’s the appeal of dogmatism throughout the ages. You never have to think again.
Bit over ten years ago, I had a discussion with my local (ALP) MP. I suggested that, just as we have secret voting for MPs, to reduce the possibility of garnering votes by threat or bribery, so we should have secret voting by MPs, so that they could vote under the same conditions.
He rejected the idea outright, and would not consider the proposal as being worthy of discussion, much less implementation. But what stuck in my mind was a comment from him that shut off further discussion. Paraphrased, he said that “If he had wanted to think about how to vote, he would never have joined the ALP, which did the thinking for him”.
Graphic: Chairman Of Germany’s Far-Right Party Brutally Beaten Within Inch Of His Life In “Assassination Attempt”
Their non socialist politics was just fine. They were suitably aware of my disgust at their appalling racism. To be clear, they were neither Nazis nor anti-Semites – their racism was directed at other targets such as Skips.
Mole at 1930
Monty of course supports beating politicians nearly to death.
Only those whose politics he doesn’t like. Glance sideways at one whose politics he likes and you are a nazi stormtrooper.
Happy Clapper Morrison has absolutely no idea. His whole life is a sham. A farce. He believes in everything and nothing.
Ducks around here Gez are quite plentiful. Ibis Rookery here isn’t just for ibises. More ducks than you can poke a stick at. And along the irrigation channels there a many that keeps the bellies of avid duck hunters full.
A push to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms is getting closer to being on the ballot for the May municipal election.
cohenite
#2901810, posted on January 8, 2019 at 4:07 pm
Thanks am going to look at next time I am in the Hunter… As for strange rocks in strange places, welcome stranger I believe it is known in a paddock near Lake Eppalock in Vic is a lump of granite originating in NW Tasmania carried on a glacier & dumped there at the end of the last ice age. Caused much consternation for geologists till modern analysis could tag where it came from…
zyconoclast
#2901940, posted on January 8, 2019 at 8:10 pm
Graphic: Chairman Of Germany’s Far-Right Party Brutally Beaten Within Inch Of His Life In “Assassination Attempt”
Brings to mind the photo of Peter Baldwin of the NSW ALP Left many years ago, after he had been beaten up by members of the NSW ALP Right over an internal dispute, possibly about how many socialists could mount a picket line on the head of a pin.
the smelly shit meter just went off the scale
Secure housing….police protection….change of identity..she’ll never be able to work…
Valid points ZK2A
These high profile cases do show up modern day barbaric practices in certain countries. Governments in countries that are potentially sympathetic are their own worst enemies. There must be nearly 20 countries that would quietly take the responsibility of accepting these individuals. But the publicity scares them so much they blunder around. Better that 20 countries come out in unison and say “we will take X and are implementing plans to do so”. The hit squads then have to organise in 20 countries, not just one (and meanwhile the individual is whisked away into country 21).
I think I could write a computer program for generating this stuff. No knowledge of reality required.
Via Instapundit.
m0nty, get in here and explain these blatant acts of political corruption by the Demorats!
Reports show Democratic operatives engaged in a second misinformation campaign in Alabama ahead of the 2017 special election.
Operatives behind a so-called false flag campaign in Alabama did it to combat conservative memes targeting Hillary Clinton in 2016, the Washington Post reported.
The so-called false-flags targeting Republican Roy Moore in Alabama were much more widespread than previously reported.
A series of new reports reveal the full extent to which Democratic operatives engaged in a social media disinformation campaign targeting Alabama voters ahead of a special election campaign in 2017.
Progressives created a disinformation campaign exploiting concerns that former senatorial candidate Roy Moore would reimplement prohibition, The New York Times reported Monday. Another spate of reports in December revealed a similar project designed to harm Moore.
Operatives created a “Dry Alabama” Facebook page with a blunt message attached: Alcohol is evil and should be prohibited. The page included images of car wrecks and ruined families, the report notes. Its contents were targeted at business conservatives who are inclined to oppose prohibition.
One person who worked on the project, Matt Osborne, believes that such tactics should be made illegal but is not willing to give them up so long as Republicans are engaging in similar antics. He said Democrats must do whatever is necessary to rebut conservative memes made popular during the 2016 election.
…
The Washington Post, for its part, obtained a document Sunday describing the so-called Project Birmingham as being “a digital messaging operation to influence the outcome of the AL senate race” by targeting hundreds of thousands of likely voters with messages on social media platforms while disguising the fact that the effort was designed to help Moore’s opponent, Doug Jones.
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[The false-flag election interference campaign] attracted attention from local and national media, falsely suggesting Russia was backing Moore’s candidacy. The Montgomery Advertiser, for one, was the first to cover the story using the Russian-bot angle. National media outlets quickly followed suit.
Breaking, from the Oz.
Sometimes I don’t mind Musk. The rocket looks like the one in Tintin goes to the Moon.
As for Tsunami:
Cohenite, I think there has recently been some research published providing proof that glaciers were in the Glen Innes area (northern NSW). Fairly high country around there.
TheirABC
Was 12 December the Cain clan’s revenge on the DLP?
The Saudi girl will get asylum in record time because she has ABC approval. No the other refugees who point out the double standards.
https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaf84427714/status/1082206036038082560
The best solution is that the girl gets refugee status say in Canada
Fence within stone wall, ‘moat’ surround Pelosi vineyard estate
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/fence-within-stone-wall-moat-surround-pelosi-vineyard-estate/
Thanks Bruce. Not quite the question I was asking but even so that model ( if one can assess anything that’s on Wikipedia) has got problems. Like no evidence of molten mass see and the one that just really doesn’t pass the pub test with me: flying debris coalescing into one round moon. Interesting read though as I used to wonder as a kid what would happen if we collided with something in space. There’d be no way that we could avoid it and everyone would go stark raving mad before.
The Saudi girl will get asylum in record time
Not our problem. Let the Saudis and Thais deal with it.
Just in from The Australian….at last someone has stepped up to point out the bleeding obvious….good on David Leyonhjelm
Fellow senator defends Anning’s right to attend St Kilda rally
15 MINUTES AGO JANUARY 8, 2019
“Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm has defended crossbench colleague Fraser Anning, declaring the independent senator is not “anti-Semitic or a Nazi”, and backed his right to charge taxpayers for his flights to and from Saturday’s far-right protests.
The support for the Queensland independent came as senior politicians, including Tony Abbott, continued to line up to condemn his attendance at a neo-Nazi rally in Melbourne.
Earlier this week, Scott Morrison labelled Senator Anning a “repeat offender” when it came to racism, while Bill Shorten said the Queensland independent was “siding with neo-Nazis”.
Senator Leyonhjelm, who will run in the NSW state election in March, said calling Senator Anning “anti-Semitic” would be a distortion.
“I’m no champion of Fraser but he’s not anti-Semitic or a Nazi. He’s a big supporter of Israel. I think Nazis are supposed to be anti-Semitic,” he said.
“I have actually worked with and supported motions of Fraser in the Senate supporting Israel. To call him an anti-Semitic Nazi is to distort him.
“If you want to find anti-Semitism in the Senate, look at the Greens and the Left of the Labor Party who support the BDS movement, who are pushing Labor to recognise Palestine.”
Senator Leyonhjelm said he would not have attended the rally but Senator Anning had the right to express his views and charge taxpayers for “parliamentary business”.
“It wasn’t wise … It’s within the guidelines. He has made issues around immigration his parliamentary business,” he said.
“If Fraser Anning has to pay back this money, then there’s a lot of people who’d have to pay back the money for travelling to support their particular views … I’m a free-speech advocate; he’s entitled to go and give those views.
“Most people are annoyed at him because they don’t like the people who were at the rally … The appropriate response is to disagree, not shut speech down.”
Senator Anning has also received support from Shooters, Fishers and Farmers NSW upper house MP Robert Borsak.
“These people (at the St Kilda rally) are anathema to me — my father was a prisoner at Buchenwald — but I defend to the death Senator Anning’s right to free speech,” he said. “If he wants to slum it with low-life criminals, that’s up to him. People in the Labor Party have no problem associating themselves with criminals in the union movement.”
Mr Abbott condemned Senator Anning’s attendance at the rally and his defence that he was there to criticise the handling of African youth crime.
“I don’t know what the rules are here … certainly I think it was pretty poor judgment for the senator to go to Victoria on the taxpayer for something like this,” he told 2GB radio.
“We’re all against soft-touch policing, against kid-glove policing, but that doesn’t mean we should be supporting extremists.’’
Mr Abbott condemned Senator Anning’s attendance at the rally and his defence that he was there to criticise the handling of African youth crime.
“I don’t know what the rules are here … certainly I think it was pretty poor judgment for the senator to go to Victoria on the taxpayer for something like this,” he told 2GB radio.
In parliament since 1994 and says he doesn’t know the rules…
“Extremists” are the only ones who care about our immigration policy. I’m happy to be an extremist when the alternative is the unipartt.
This shit happens all the time. From both sides.
Tony Abbott’s dirty Hanson trick – and he lied about it, of course (2003)
Last night’s Johnathan Harley Lateline report Hanson’s fall the result of long campaign is instructive. Abbott got disaffected One Nation member Terry Sharples a barrister with close Liberal Party connections to mount a civil case against the registration of One Nation and promised Sharples he’d help fund the case. He denied this on the record to Four Corners. When confronted with a document proving his lie, he said misleading the ABC was not as bad as misleading Palriament. We know from the last couple of weeks that misleading parliament is cool these days. Here’s an extract from Deborah Snow’s SMH feature Absolute Abbott published March 11, 2000.
After One Nation shocked the Coalition by winning 11 seats in Queensland in June 1998, Abbott determined to dig up every piece of dirt he could on Hanson and her associates. He soon hooked up with Terry Sharples, a Gold Coast accountant and disgruntled One Nation candidate.
Sharples had evidence he believed could show One Nation had fraudulently registered as a political party in Queensland. This was potential dynamite. If successful, it could stop One Nation receiving half a million dollars of public money under the State’s electoral funding laws, money that otherwise would flow into the movement’s Federal election war chest.
Abbott’s troubles began with a meeting he instigated with Sharples at the Brisbane offices of solicitors Minter Ellison on July 7, 1998. Also present were the late Ted Briggs, a disaffected former State treasurer of One Nation, and Tom Bradley, a solicitor and a mate of Abbott from student politics.
The meeting discussed how to raise money for a court application by Sharples to stop public funds being paid to One Nation. Within days, the action had been mounted and would ultimately succeed – although not without a massive and convoluted falling-out of the anti-One Nation players along the way.
What has been at issue since is to what extent Abbott promised to bail Sharples out if he got into financial difficulty (Sharples is now being sued for bankruptcy by One Nation in Queensland).
At the original Minter Ellison meeting, Sharples maintains, Abbott asked him to “keep his name out of things” because, claims Sharples, Abbott didn’t want the action seen to be connected with anyone from the Liberal Party. A few days later, Sharples asked Abbott for a written undertaking to cover Sharples’s costs.
That agreement, a copy of which has been obtained by the Herald, was handwritten by Abbott and promised “my per-sonal guarantee that you will not be further out-of-pocket as a result of this action”. It was witnessed and dated July 11, 1998. A few days later, when interviewed by the ABC’s Four Corners, Abbott denied any such deal existed.
The morass worsened when Sharples entered the witness box in court on August 21, 1998, and also denied any agreement over funding with Abbott. He now claims he believed the questioning related to the injunction, not to possible cost orders.
Sharples, citing Abbott’s indemnity, is now furiously pursuing the minister for money to cover his massive court costs. To date Abbott has publicly ducked the indemnity issue, insisting his involvement came to an end within weeks, when Sharples sacked the pro bono lawyers that Abbott had arranged.
But, as recently as four months ago, correspondence seen by the Herald shows Abbott’s lawyer writing to Sharples asking him to accept $10,000 to call the whole matter quits (although still maintaining this is not “an admission of liability”). How does Abbott explain the inconsistencies?
When the Herald first put to him Sharples’s claim that he’d promised money at the outset to be paid into a solicitor’s trust account, Abbott said: “No, it’s not correct.”
But later he concedes: “I had secured the agreement of a donor to provide up to $10,000, if necessary, to cover any costs award made against Sharples. This person had no connection whatsoever with the Liberal Party. That was the basis of my letter. I wouldn’t accept that it was an indemnity.”
Challenged about the conflict between this and his denial on Four Corners, Abbott initially replies: “Misleading the ABC is not quite the same as misleading the parliament as a political crime.” But later he argues that he took the reporter’s question to relate solely to the provision of Liberal Party funds.
Abbott also denies speaking to Sharples and asking him to keep his name out of things in court. “I said to him, ‘Terry, this thing is out of control … You should just terminate this action. There’ll be a costs order against you and I’ll look after it.’ And he said, ‘No, I’m on a crusade’, or words to that effect, and away he went. Sharples thinks he can take this matter to the High Court if he wants and Abbott’s going to pay every step of the way.”
On signing the indemnity, Abbott says: “Obviously in hindsight I shouldn’t have done it. But if I had my time again and it was necessary to make an alliance with some pretty unusual people to stop a very serious threat to the social cohesion of the country, well, I would do it. I mean, how else were we going to stop One Nation at the time?”
Yet many nagging questions remain. Sharples says Abbott began referring him to a man called John Samuel for money: “Abbott told me a number of times that I should speak to Samuel about the dollars and cents.”
Samuel turns out to be a character of obscure provenance from Western Australia, who first turned up exposing cost overruns at the State’s casino and questioning its deals with the now-disgraced former Labor government. Later he was involved in efforts to split the Democrats in Western Australia, and later still, joined One Nation, only to lead the revolt from inside the organisation in that State.
Samuel won’t reveal who his backers are. But he styles himself as Abbott’s protector, telling the Herald: “I didn’t want to see someone of Abbott’s credibility involved. I spoke to my friends in the West and they all agreed. I spoke to Tony and said I’d take it from here.”
Abbott admits that “in discussions with a number of One Nation people – and One Nation people were always wanting money for this or that – I would say go and talk to John Samuel. He has access to people who might be able to provide access to that sort of thing.” He says he doesn’t know where Samuel’s alleged financial backing comes from, and admits asking few questions.
Meanwhile Sharples, who has fallen out with a number of his erstwhile collaborators, fights on. He is now single-hand-edly battling an appeal by One Nation – with no funds for legal representation.
Abbott is adamant he’s got nothing to hide: “Look, I really want to stress, the anti-One Nation thing was all my doing. Were any senior Liberal Party people involved? No. Were any junior Liberal Party people involved? Well, apart from me, no. Was I doing this because the Liberal Party had told me to? No. Was I doing this because I thought the Liberal Party wanted me to do it? No. Did I get any encouragement from the Liberal Party after I’d been doing it? No. Has anyone in the Liberal Party ever said to me, ‘Well, Tony, thank God you did that’? No.
“All my doing, for better or for worse. It has got Tony Abbott’s fingerprints on it and no-one else’s.”
Which is precisely what has got some of Tony Abbott’s colleagues worried.
The Saudi girl will get asylum in record time
Not our problem. Let the Saudis and Thais deal with it.
Agree.
Australia is acting like Hyacinth Bucket.
None of our fucking business.
A great Abbott weakness was his own dodgy expense claims – such as the pollie bike charity event. He needs to STFU about others.
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
@AnnCoulter
BREAKING: TV Networks Will Not Grant MS-13 Gang Opportunity to Respond to Trump Oval Office Speech on Immigration, as Dems Expected to Cover that Ground
6:06 AM · Jan 8, 2019
SBS Viceland delving into the issues of the day with a show titled Do Communists Have Better Sex?
Watching the Waterboy on fox tonight.
One of the all-time greats.
That & Happy Gilmore were Sandler’s best work.
Compare Hanson and gillard and hawke and rudd and keating.
Compare total current wealth with wages earned.
The one party State has a lot to answer for.
Lets do a lot more forensic accounting, hmmmmm?.
Comrade Maaaaates?.
https://twitter.com/fraser_anning/status/1082552338131210240?s=20
Interstellar. Am I the only person that hated that movie?
Why? It was quite a sceptical movie.
Interstellar was awesome apart from 2-dimensional Anne Hathaway.
Terrible.
How many votes did Fraser Anning get like 19 wasn’t it? I’v only seen one interview with him which was just after the final solution brouhaha and he was steady articulate and unflappable. While I can’t remember details, I don’t think he even put a foot out of line. I’m not sure that I would be jetting down to Melbourne to attend a rally but if it’s within the bloody expense rules than our f****** expense rules need to change. Buddy jet it down to Melbourne to attend a rally at which there were some unsavoury types well name me one rally that doesn’t? If however he’s able to use this to highlight African gang violence or immigration issues then it will be a good thing but I’m afraid that our media is just playing its usual hypocritical small-minded leftist lies.
Interstellar – why do I hate it? I suppose it’s because it was sold as being “scientifically accurate” when the only part of that seemed to be that time dilates in strong gravity and people got off on “yeah – I get that”. The tsunami scene was atrocious. The clip that was posted here shows them splashing about – apparently without effort – in water up to the knees, but saying “the gravity here is really intense”. Then a 1000 foot wall of water overtakes them. I don’t recall – was that water attracted by some super-dense orbiting body? We’re mostly water, so why weren’t the characters sucked upwards too? “The Room” was more scientifically accurate than “Interstellar”.
Be open about hanning and I think he said this at that interview that I saw is that he’s about 70 or something –
way past the age of giving a s***. He’s also getting 2 to 300 k a year to not give a s***. In many ways the media can’t touch him. I hope no one gets violent.
DrBeauGan
#2901956, posted on January 8, 2019 at 8:39 pm
I think I could write a computer program for generating this stuff. No knowledge of reality required.
No need, they already exist.
Just written this.
Using this site.http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html
Far better than my usual stuff.
BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) – Spain has replaced Italy as the destination of choice for migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, according to European Union estimates published on Friday.
The border and coast guard agency Frontex said around 150,000 people entered the EU through irregular crossings in 2018, the lowest number in five years and far below the peak of more than a million recorded in 2015.
Arrivals in Spain doubled to 57,000, making the route from Morocco to the Iberian Peninsula the most active in Europe and putting immigration in the spotlight in Spain ahead of a spate of elections this year.
The number who reached Italy, which has taken measures to prevent rescued migrants landing, fell 80 percent to around 23,000, the fewest since 2012.
Arrivals in Greece and Cyprus through the so-called Eastern Mediterranean route rose to 56,000, most coming from Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq.
Spain’s coastguard said it had stopped posting regular information about rescues of migrants at sea on social media, though it continued to give information to journalists who call.
It’s hard to know Anning’s motives. The African gangs is the issue. I think Dutton is the only one who has tried to address it and got no support from his peers.
Still 19 more votes then Kimberly Kitching, or a certain former New South Wales Premier, who’s name escapes me got. Oh, and how many votes did the Perfumed Persian get?
Well, my own Hairy Ape is now reposing in hospital with wires all over his chest recovering from being the proud possessor of a Stent, put in today. We were unsure last night whether it would be that, or a bypass. It has not been an easy few weeks since the two weeks before Christmas when all of this started to happen, especially running to hospitals and specialist offices in the last week of Christmas cheer. They discovered that apparently he’d already had one ‘heart attack’ maybe years ago, which did some small damage, but in investigating that they noticed a big monster about to blow a major whistle.
Stents seem to be a modern miracle, substantially bringing down the number of coronary bypass surgeries. I hope the inventors are receiving in return the big bucks they deserve. My Big Sis had a stent put in the same place about six months ago. Hairy proudly showed me his ‘before’ and ‘after’ pics. The extent of improved blood flow is quite remarkable and very visible.
I walk in and drop a little kiss of relief on his head and offer him his book back – the Bernard Cornwall one on ‘The Last Kingdom’. All the time he was in theatre and recovery I sat reading it, so I’d have it finished to give back to him for R & R reading. It was a useful distraction for me – all that page-turning Viking murder and mayhem – until I could ring and get the OK to see him. I have been worried sick, but he’s fine now. Thanks me for what he cutely and dreamily calls ‘da lifestyle lecture’ which I delivered at his bedside. I will be lucky if he complies with a fifth of it. Love him to bits though, in spite of his wayward and type A ways. Ban him from driving for two weeks, I beg the doc, as those Rose Bay retiree road hogs have their pacemakers set far to low for Hairy’s toleration.
Relief!! It is so sweet.
M0nty, I am thinking of your wife, and how worried she must be. Hope you are on the mend now.
And once safely in Australia she will miraculously reconcile with her family and work to bring them here as well.
Wasn’t e-medicine of the main benefits of the NBN
Millions of patients to see hospital doctors by Skype under NHS plan
Theresa May wants digital consultations to become NHS norm in order to give patients greater control.
Or my latest ‘scientific’ report generated in 2 seconds.
Pass on all good wishes for a full recovery, would you, LizzieB?
Lizzie darling…..I hope Hairy is okay.
I really liked Interstellar.
For such an ostentatiously self-proclaimed Christian as ScoMo he certainly has very little fellow-feeling for other Christians, particularly those in very dangerous or precarious situations. I’ll believe he’s the real deal when he does something worthwhile but until then ScoMo is just another egotist in the Turnbull mould.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
#2901998, posted on January 8, 2019 at 10:17 pm
That’s good new, all the best.
The “Hairy Ape” and the “fat lesbian” are both recovering.
Time for a lifestyle change, fellas.
Nolan hasn’t made a bad movie.
He’s a bit like David Fincher or Michael Mann.
True artists.
Federal appeals court sides with Trump on military transgender ban, but injunctions remain in place
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the partial ban announced by the Pentagon, but never implemented, should not have been blocked by a district court while it was being challenged.
Thanks, late nighters, for your good wishes. Appreciated.
Koch Network to Push for Legal Status for Dreamers in 2019
The politically savvy donor network helmed by billionaire Charles Koch plans in 2019 to use its deep pockets to push for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, including permanent legal status for for young people who came to the country illegally, according to an email obtained by TIME and verified by a Koch spokesman.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
“But I’m special!”
“Shut up and finish digging your grave, useful idiot”.
Jeepers. Who is the fat lesbian? What is she recovering from?
Clearly I have been out of circulation lately.
Also known as the Fascist Hyena – the blog’s resident Lefty – monty.
Let me guess. Height and width, but no depth? 😁
Monty – the fat lezzo.
Recovering from donut scarfing.
Every best wish to your husband, Lizzie. And to you too. What a worry for you as well. I’m glad it’s all sorted now.
Get well Hairy Ape, herds of Cats are interested in your many escapades (as narrated by Lizzie). But as a proof of life check, can Hairy post on his own account (just once)?
Leyonhjelm scoring at will by stating the bleeding obvious, on “inequality” and “Nazis”.
Best retail politician since Joyce.
What odds on NSW upper house, Des Deskperson?
Out of circulation? You’re a treasure, Lizzie, and I value your every diasystolis.
Best to Hairy.
I hope it’s not at the expense of Latham or the SFF.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
….The Fake News Media in our Country is the real Opposition Party. It is truly the Enemy of the People! We must bring honesty back to journalism and reporting!
12:01 AM · Jan 8, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone
Hehe. I will forgive him for tweeting on an iPhone.
McConahuey wrecked his appearance Interstellar (rubbish movie btw) with his hideous crying. Which also wrecked the gay-AIDS-Mexican drug co-op flick, name of which escapes me just now.
But he was brilliant as the voice of Buster Moon in Sing.
But unlike Latham, he’s a cleanskin, and level headed. A smart LNP operative would be doing everything possible to get him in and get him onside, with, say, an offer of a preference swap.
All the best to you and hairy, Lizzie. Xx
Thanks, Zulu. Yes, M0nts needs to revise his ways too. His wife should give him the lifestyle lecture; I expect she already has done so, focusing on donuts.
Not allowed ta do anything for two weeks that raises my heartrate, Hairy says disconsolately.
I’ll turn the aircon right down and put on a flannelette nightie, I say helpfully.
And I’ll buy you some PJ’s, I add. He doesn’t own any. Took a t-shirt to hospital. 🙂
The Koch brother, Bloomberg, Steyer, the Silicon Valley billionaires, all working feverishly to impoverish American middle and working classes. Yes, that’s the way to endear yourselves to the masses.
I bet every one of them thinks that if Trump can do it so can they and if they can’t become the president they will try to buy one.
Weak as piss. Why give those self-serving UN arseholes any credibility?
Why give up our sovereignty to those clowns?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lizzie, hope the Hairy Ape gets well soon and then you can get back to your commenting duties.
The kids took me to see Mary Poppins in gold class as our family Xmas present.
That is 2 hours of my life that nearly made me cry tears of rage at the extreme boredom I had been sucked in to seeing.
Only reasons consented was the nice setting, food and beverages on order and my kids.
Disney needs to be sandblasted back to basics and start over again.
Best wishes to all going thru life’s ups and downs.
You have to remember that Dutton is no longer the Immigration Minister. Morrison took immigration off him and gave it to that f****** screaming No Name lefty.
I’m not sure, but does DoctorRandomercam read this site? Doctor?
Victim fight: He Ma’am vs Captain Soyhawk
I don’t touch soy mr DoctorRandomercam.
A smart LNP operative? Ha, ha, ha, ha!
What was so bad about it Peter m?
Hi Lizzie, all the best to Hairy, he does probably need just one beer.
How different was it to the original? Is it a musical?
I wish Latham Hatton join one nation. I didn’t think it was the right fit for the ldp either. Both of those parties attract lunatics and have the political judgement of 3 Malcolm Turnbulls and the policy depth of Formica. Latham I think is a natural fit the conservatives or the conservative wing of the Libs should such a beast have ever existed. I do hope he succeeds in returning to politics and I do hope he does so in a capacity where he can wield some influence -I would say one Nations education policy was all Latham – but it’s meaningless if it can’t be implemented.
I’m waiting for the first street protests in Lakemba – “This woman must die, for renouncing Islam. Australia granting her refugee status is an insult to all Muslims.”
Best of British to Mr H. Ape and you, Lizzie.
My gripe today is that the electrodes they put on for the ECG left icky gunk on my chest, arms and legs. Bloody hard to get off without tearing off chunks of body hair. So in the wide scheme of things, minor stuff. 😉
Told someone tonight I could not take her to Mary Poppins tomorrow as it will be too long and too boring.
Now we are going to Bumblebee.
Don’t believe everything you read Zulu it may well be that the Australian officials demanded she apply for asylum in the first safe country which is Thailand and they probably informed the Thais to arrest her and they are probably delighted that the unhcr is now involved because you can’t be granted a refugee visa without a un chr assessment and after that she will go into resettlement stream and she can wait her turn. If the Australian immigration people are smart they will force her to follow the proper process and wait her turn. Journalists however I very lightly to wrongly or falsely report that this somehow constitutes a promise of resettlement. Remember this girl has got the support of an ABC journalist so she now becomes a Lefty icon and a way of pissing on the Morrison government. Remember Abbott had only promised that they would *consider* a plebiscite for SSM after the next election but the media twisted it into a promise of a plebiscite now. Now no one wants to see a young woman executed for apostasy and the penalty for apostasy in Islam is death – but if our government is smart which is a very tall order I know they would force this girl to go through the normal channels and my own view is that she’s best resettled in Canada. It will also keep the boats away.
Check out “A Quiet Place”.
Cracking movie.
Emily Blunt is a fantastic actor.
And not too bad on the eye either.
I took Spiky to see bumblebee when she returned briefly for chrimbo. The heroine is a chick who is supposed to be 18, but looks 15, and wears far too much eye makeup. The hero is a crappy car that turns into a ten foot tall robot. It is not altogether plausible.
I hope I haven’t spoilt it for you.
“Best retail politician…”
Fair enough, a bit hyperbowl. But the parallel post about inequality was quality stuff, which anyone of the right should shamelessly rip off and riff on all through the coming election. If there’s anyone else in this god forsaken country who speaks more concisely, consistently, and spontaneously about their political philosophy, I don’t know who it is.
but if our government is smart which is a very tall order I know they would force this girl to go through the normal channels and my own view is that she’s best resettled in Canada. It will also keep the boats away.
“…if our government is smart…” they would work with other like-minded nations, and just shut up and handle these high profile cases behind the scenes.
I made it through Ralph Breaks…. so I will manage Bumblebee. She has seen all the Transformer movies and this one is arguably the best. Probably doesn’t say much for the others.
I’m quite looking forward to it now – because it’s not Mary Poppins.
Interstellar was very disappointing.
Firstly, there was the requisite background doom story- our agriculture was failing because of some Monsanto created monster. Secondly, it was supposed to be set 100 years in the future. The farm house had absolutely no mod-cons that you would expect 100 years from now. The house itself was from the 1950’s. We’re therefore expected to believe people 1oo years from now lived in the 150 year old farm house with no renovations. The farm truck was also 150 years old. Yea right.
NASA was the heroic organization kept alive and had developed a spaceship able to enter worm holes. This is the same NASA that has to hitch rides from the Russians now in order to send people into space because it no longer does that.
That is 2 hours of my life that nearly made me cry tears of rage at the extreme boredom I had been sucked in to seeing.
I feel for you Pete, but, two points! One, never watch something that has already been done on ‘The Simpsons’, see Sherry Bobbins episode. Two, use your shit movie radar in the first 12 minutes and flake out! Best sleeps I’ve had in my adult life are at the cinema.
The cheque is in the bank, the keys to the work vehicles and the town office have been handed over, the cartons full of PPE has been donated to the local aborigine employment mob, the accountant can pore over the suitcase full of alleged “financial records” to his heart’s content, the movers arrive tomorrow, the new, (well, very old) house in a quaint and historic WA town awaits its latest occupant.
No more endless red dirt horizons, stifling government regulation, shit gravel “roads”, remote and lonely mining camps, carping mine managers, stinking hot days and freezing nights, eating out of Heinz tins with one hand while batting away flies with the other, dealing with obstinate and stupid 20 y.o. old OH&S dickheads, wondering which upcoming job site will the one that kills me because some 457 visa reffo installed the electrics.
I will miss the beautiful starlit nights, the magnificent sunrises and sunsets, the joy of being your own boss and being beholden to nobody, but most of all I will miss the “salt of the Earth” types that I have had the privilege of working with over many years, who don’t give a rat’s ring about climate change, LGBTWQ crap, etc. but face the every day challenge of working the Earth to explore and mine Australia’s magnificent mineral wealth, making this one of the world’s wealthiest countries and a magnet for millions who want to come here.
In short, Cats and Kittehs, the Golden Day of retirement has arrived. Hallelujah!!!
Kip Thorne is a good physicist, but he should be ashamed of his association with that movie.
Congrats and enjoy, Pedro. I concur with your sentiments there fully.
Hope you got a big pay day Pedro.
The Interstellar wave scene is not in any way realistic, anywhere. Water would have drained at their feet, or be pushing like a tide with the wave possibly to prevent a wave breaking on shallows. It cannot be still like a lake with no current at all.
All the best for a happy retirement, Pedro.
You’ll be able to really cut loose at the next Diggers and Dealers, Pedro. Well done!
Oh yes. Good timing with mineral exploration booming in WA.
A niche tech business supporting mining and exploration sites with few competitors.
Happy little Vegemite.
Check out the Imperial Hotel in York – all refurbished – when you get time – damnfine lunch, and the “Snake and Herring” pinot noir goes down well.
Hope to see more and more posts from you Pedro now you are unchained.
Not too far down the road, Zulu.
Fine dining and some long lunches is definitely in the immediate future.
https://twitter.com/KevinFreyTV/status/1082447972770562049?s=20
Trump needs to stfu about the Dow.
It is not related to the normal economy in any way and it is probably pissing his base off that Wall St types are getting rich.
My best wishes to you both. As the proud possessor of both a triple bypass (~18 years ago) and a stent (mid-September 2018), I think I’ll take the latter any day 😀 Worst part of it all is — Hairy is going to struggle to find anyone who will give him travel insurance!
I don’t know if they put his stent in via wrist or groin, but if the latter — he’ll be in for some interesting testicular bruising that will make you wonder about his genealogy! 😀
Anyway, recover soon, mate. It’s all positive from here on …
WATCH: HOLLYWOOD PUSHES FLU VACCINES IN BIZARRE GOLDEN GLOBES STUNT
https://www.infowars.com/watch-hollywood-pushes-flu-vaccines-in-bizarre-golden-globes-stunt/
Of course the screenplay was written based on a gerbil worming disaster. But even DPRCal audiences found it too preachy.