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What a kunt Corbyn is but this is typical: RoP terrorism is the West’s fault he says because we provoked the poor bastards who would have been content to remain as simple goat fuckers if we hadn’t picked on them. To be plain it would not have mattered what the West did the RoP would still be attacking us; they do so because the West is not RoP and is better than RoP.
C’mon Knuckles,
What’s the word around the stand?
Lesbian vampyres?
And after bailing on the paganic druggening, proceeded to shag her ‘warlock’ exbf out of her operating system.
The altRight &the Witch.
Dude.
Doesn’t matter.
As soon as he adds the qualifying “but” after any statement about the attack, people know straight away what he is up to.
Pally terror apologist always.
The Labor vote will totally tank from the lofty heights of 22% that Jezza has dragged it to.
Also today:
67% of Jeremy Corbyn supporters hold at least one antisemitic view – poll (2 Dec, JPost)
That “far-right” I would think is more “the other far-left” since the fascists are just a different sort of lefty.
Yessss!
Darwin is the most dangerous joint in Australia and came in at 50th on the list of the world’s most dangerous cities.
The NT murder and manslaughter rates double and even triple the nearest Australian competition.
Pull your socks up, the rest of you. Let us know when you want a shot at the title.
You don’t survive a fortnight out here on a packet of bickies and a voddy can Gunner.
They’re all Radio Rental as well. Drinking each other’s claret isn’t off the table.
Crossing one of our state borders today and came across the rare event of the fruit fly flying squad manning the checkpoint:-
Him : “Any fruit or vegetable matter or grapevines?”
Me : “Yep. Apple core.”
Him : “Throw it in the quarantine bin over there.”
Me : “OK. When can I get it back?”
Him : “What? No. It gets destroyed.”
Me : “Well if I don’t get it back it is not a quarantine bin then. It is just a bin-bin.”
Him : “Yes, sir. Just put it in the bin.”
lol …still chuckling
Barilaro is worried about the SFF but he’s a greenie at heart and believes in alarmism.
If one can pin blame for the NSW Liberals leftward drift on Photios and Hawke, who exactly are to blame for the NSW Nats’ current political hue?
It’s a smaller party, closer to its constituency than either Labor or the Liberals could ever dream of being, so shouldn’t it be more representative, rather than less?
For years we have talked about the “doctors wives” phenomenon.
It is now time to talk about “farmers wives” I’m afraid.
A few I know have swallowed warminism whole and joined the Green anti-fracking “lock the gate” crowd.
What they don’t realise is that, when the Greens have finished off oil and gas, they will come after farming with a vengeance.
Darwinian?
Poncharse Pirate
Deal or no deal for Folau? No deal, so far. While it would be good to end the drama, I would be loathe to see Rugby Australia pay him a red cent. Let the law decide.
https://twitter.com/Peter_Fitz/status/1201614913472360448?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Numbers + the sock drawer
Almost all farmers I know supported ‘lock the gate’. In my experience there was a special loathing reserved for the one farmer among their ranks who sold out, to a miner, leaving their neighbours farming next to a mine and sitting on a dropping water table.
One of the sellouts is Tony Windsor, and having burnt that bridge with his community, he could never mount a serious political comeback.
O’Sullivan’s Law. It’s like gravity: sucking, sucking.
They sell more than they produce … a la Tesla
these tossers invent spectres to agonise against … it seems like there’s more demand for bigots than there is supply
even Alinsky would be face-palming
This is Sir Elton John, throwing his nappy out of the pram. In God fearing WA of all places.
“Hey, you two security guards with the girl. F— off. Bring her back here immediately,” he said, as the audience cheered him on. “Come on you c—s. Morons, you both are, morons. You don’t treat girls like that. Leave her alone, you turds.”
Not All Farmers … heh?
What, did you do a survey?
What’s a Mexican’s favorite boy band?
Only to the slow witted.
Juan Direction.
Running on Chinese electric power no doubt, mostly solar, wind, water and none of it Aussie or Chinese coal, of course.
Almost all farmers I know supported ‘lock the gate’. In my experience there was a special loathing reserved for the one farmer among their ranks who sold out, to a miner, leaving their neighbours farming next to a mine and sitting on a dropping water table.
My gates wide open.
No bloody minerals and only salty water under our country.
Jacques can probably tell by IP addresses, but IMHO Septimus has several socks on the go at any one time – some agreeable, others contrarian or outright [email protected]
Agree, egg.
Juan Hand, 8 Wangs.
Seven days with no food makes Juan week.
Juan Cuckoo Jumped Over the Rest
Juan Direction
Bamn
8th level of hell is Septimus
Obi Juan the phony be.
From WIP
https://imgur.com/1YUXv0o
Better ‘cuckoo’ than ‘cuckold’, IMHO. 🤣
and its Juan, two three
What are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam
– with apologies to Country Joe And The Fish
Cuck holds 8 wangs?
Matrix Transform wins the internets for the day!
Hopefully, sans burritos.
Juan Kerr
A leading Australian entrepreneur says the looming federal Government ban on using cash to make payments above $10,000 could lead to physical money being banned altogether.
Scott Morrison’s Government wants to introduce laws banning cash payments of more than $10,000 – with fines of $25,500 and two years’ jail for those who break them.
But the controversial proposal – which the Coalition claims will fight organised crime and stamp out unscrupulous business practices – has a new enemy in Freelancer.com founder Matt Barrie.
Potty mouth aside, Sir Elton could teach St Adam Goodes a few things about how girls in the crowd should be handled.
Probably because the stuff in the Bloomberg article is nothing to do with Trump and merely the opinion of some random nobodies.
The job of Washington is not to grovel to farmers. There’s nothing in the US Constitution about that.
Federal Reserve controls the strength of the USD and they chose to defend it, which is quite a reasonable choice IMHO. They understand that there is a marketplace, it’s competitive, many competing interests must be considered and what helps some parties generally hurts other parts of the economy. The best you can do overall is maintain stability, and that’s the job of the Federal Reserve.
If Australia’s reserve bank put more effort into stability then we wouldn’t be facing an AUD death spiral.
Not to worry a focus on indigenous maths, English and science will soon sort this out.
Australian students have recorded their worst results in international tests, failing for the first time to exceed the OECD average in maths while also tumbling down global rankings in reading and science.
Since 2003, Australia’s results in maths have declined further than any country but Finland. Compared with the top-performer, Singapore, the students who sat the test last year were three years behind in maths, a year and three months behind in reading, and a year and nine months behind in scientific literacy.
They were also more than a year behind the 15-year-old Australian students who sat the original tests in the early 2000s.
PISA national project manager, Sue Thomson, said Australian students were either declining or treading water while other countries in the OECD were improving. “There’s no sign of any change,” she said. “There’s no sign of anything recovering.
My cuckoo is a very well dressed birdie! Satin suit and all. He even managed to attract a lady to my yard a few days ago – she almost accepted food from my hand so appears to be one of the females who were around last year. But in the end I gave a bit of mince to him and he gave it to her as a present. No nooky though, more gifts will be required.
Just had the wayward son arrive for the third time today: the previously missing grey butcherbird. He’s making up lost time restocking his larder with mince, which in this ultradry weather will be beef jerky within a few hours. Smoked beef jerky. The Sun is red as Cardimona’s SIL’s face and radiating a baleful tint to the whole area because of smoke and dust from the west.
The most interesting visitors today are a family of three tawny frogmouths, who have been snoozing in a tree in a neighbour’s yard. Rare event and welcome, although it’s so dry I don’t know how they survive right now.
And more hungry visitors – a family of blue-faced honeyeaters, who are also uncommon visitors since the noisy miners usually chase them away. But they had several chicks and were hungry, so I was able to introduce them to bread – which they worked out was food because the noisies were eating it. So they experimented and thought ‘hey, this is good stuff!’ A small victory.
P – bless you and thank you for this
BoN
China is undergoing the Earth equivalent of The Shoe Event Horizon.
Considering that schooling is no longer about education but indoctrination, no wonder core skills are being pushed aside. At least children know how to penis tuck or chest binding.
But I’m sure they hold all the right opinions on climate emergencies and trannies. The important things.
The true depth of Holden’s sales disaster will be exposed 24 hours from now, with official figures expected to show the former top-selling brand sold just 2665 cars in November.
That’s half what it sold at the same time last year and its weakest monthly result since the company was established 71 years ago.
It is the sixth record low for Holden in 11 months. The figure is so low that each of the top three selling cars outsold the entire Holden line-up last month
The idea of the restrictions in cash is to force the bulk of people’s money to reside in bank accounts, before the introduction of negative interest rates. That way you will be forced to pay the bank to hold “your” money and you won’t have any choice in the matter.
If negative interest rates developed without such a restriction, everybody would simply withdraw their money on payday, and go back to paying everything by cash.
Once everybody’s money is locked into bank accounts it will only be a matter of time before a withdrawal transaction fee is introduced, much like the $2.50 fee for withdrawing “your” money via an ATM today.
Welcome to the Brave New World, folks.
Brought to you by your friendly, conservative, coalition government.
And the hell of it is, most of you will STILL vote for them next election.
Mark Textor was right – you really don’t matter.
Tell that to President Trump; but he’s trying.
It’s a good thing the US has a trade surplus with Australia otherwise Trump might have accused Australia of being a currency manipulator.
The Australian Dollar is a commodities play and with high commodities prices and the resulting current account surplus, the fundamentals suggest the Aussie should be higher and would be were it not for a deliberate RBA policy to force down the dollar.
I wish I got paid in ounces, but working in a gold mine means we LIKE the AUD death spiral. Our labor-based costs go down in ounce terms.
If all else fails they can revive the proposal to demonetise the $100 note.
Who get to stay random nobodies.
Trump Campaign Will No Longer Credential Bloomberg News Reporters Until It Restarts Investigating 2020 Democrats
Well done Mr Bloomberg, you just emasculated your own news company.
Diversity is our strength
German education system has room for improvement: report
First the good news: The latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) report shows German schoolchildren are on par with their Australian, French, Irish, New Zealand, Norwegian, Swedish, British and US peers in terms of competency in literacy, mathematics and natural science.
Now the bad news: German schoolchildren did worse than in previous years. Literacy rates fell to 2009 levels and mathematics and natural sciences competences have deteriorated as well, with the former dropping well below 2012 PISA levels, and the latter below 2006 results.
Growing number of pupils from non-German speaking households
So, what’s with Trump’s latest tariff gambit?
And since I lost my overseas job when the USD price of gold went down, I am become a bit sensitive to that hazard.
And more hungry visitors – a family of blue-faced honeyeaters, who are also uncommon visitors
Sweet biscuits, crumbed up, bring my yellow faced mob to table. Desiccated coconut may interest your lot as well.
Exit Buttner; enter Inchcape?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billionaire Alki David was hit with more than $58 million in damages after a jury found him liable for battery, s3xual battery and s3xual harassment against a former employee in the latest lawsuit targeting the owner of several media companies, the plaintiff’s attorney said.
Jurors on Monday awarded $50 million in punitive damages to Mahim Khan, a former production assistant who worked at his Los Angeles-based firms, attorney Gloria Allred said.
The same panel last week awarded $8.25 million in compensatory damages.
Khan alleged in her lawsuit that in 2014 David thrust his pelvis into her face and simulated oral s3x. Allred disclosed the name of her client in a news release.
“I hope the punitive damages verdict sends a message to Alki David to never, ever think of violating another woman’s body,” Khan said in a statement provided by Allred’s office.
David plans an appeal. In a statement Monday, he denied the claim and accused the judge of blocking witnesses who would have exonerated him.
“This trial proves that not only is the system broken. It’s in a state of emergency. It’s an emergency for employment law, for business and innovation in the state of California,” the statement said.
David is heir to a Greek Coca-Cola bottling fortune. He heads several media firms, including FilmOn Networks, Alki David Productions Inc. and Hologram USA Networks Inc.
It was the third verdict this year against David, who has been accused of inappropriate behavior by former employees, according to the Los Angeles Times.
A jury in April awarded another employee $11.1 million. She said he fired her after she refused to have s3x with him. She later agreed to a reduction in compensatory damages. Punitive damages remained at $8 million.
Last month a jury found in favor of another woman, awarding her $650,000 in compensatory damages and $4.35 million in punitive damages.
In 2016, she alleged David put his hands on her throat and pushed her chair into a wall, among other claims. According to her lawsuit, David told her that he needed to buy supplies for his “[email protected] room,” the Times reported.
David faces two additional lawsuits; a suit filed in 2016 was settled out of court.
David has disputed the reports of sexual misconduct, saying, “I never touched any of these women.”
David remained belligerent, defiant and disruptive throughout his multiple trials in Los Angeles County Superior Court, according to the newspaper.
He frequently erupted in profanity-laced outbursts while mocking his accusers and their attorneys, earning him nearly $10,000 in sanctions; he was ejected from the courtroom on several occasions.
That’s a good idea E Pluribus Juan.
If the mofos do that, I will be trading ‘dark’ ounces troy in the pub car-park.
US farmers are being hurt by the high dollar:
A pride of lions
A murder of crows
A smug of activists
covfefe
Amazing.
Turns out if you import the third world, you end up with third world education standards and a third world economy.
No one saw this coming.
A sneer of activists.
Democrat 2020 hopeful Pete Butterbean
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/02/in-spanish-mayor-pete-buttigieg-promises-government-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants/
A wank of activists.
the AUD is rattling down like a Kerplunk marble and has been for 3 years at least
turns out everybody has their own dirt
A fart of activists
A Greta™ of activists
Cohenite 17:ish
Stop beating about the bush n tell us what you think about the prick.
Because of a shared habit of posting another post immediately after a previous post, I would like to declare that I am not Juan.
I do it because I thought of something else after I hit the button.
Not a good sign.
The Juan doesn’t like to repeat itself.
It said so several times yesterday.
so like …yr good OB
I think that Juan is in fact Mike Nolan.
Juan Juan was Juan racehorse
Two Two was Juan too
Juan Juan Juan Juan race
Two Two Juan Juan too
A festering gangrenous puss eruption infection of puerile O2 thieving … activists.
The Plesmans, like the woke of Braidwood, seem to me like the type of deluded urban romantics who have zero understanding of the Australian bush and think they are moving into the Black Forest.
Sources tell me, by the way, that Braidwood was colonised in the 90s by lesbian separatists from Canberra.
Yeah vargan yeah nah yeah no vargan way mate.
So apparently Dan Andrews has admitted (reported in The Age) that he accepted money from an apparently dodgy property developer, but insists there was no quid pro quo. Yet O’Farrell quit over a bottle of wine…
Juan’s video clip of the topping of the statue of Lenin reminds me of a priceless Patrick Cook cartoon from the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. A team of soldiers are removing Lenin’s embalmed corpse from the Kremlin. One officer asks another where they are taking him. The second officer looks at his papers and says : He’s been offered the chair of sociology at a … Monash University in Australia’.
Andrews will be furious. The investigation by his ‘independent’ anti-corruption bureau was only ever meant to be a hit job on the Liberals.
Dan Andrews has had enough of hairy legged corn pops such as yourself. Now when I was a lifeguard, if you wore pomade…and I had to run dickety six miles to catch the kaiser, I’d say, give me five bees for a quarter.
https://youtu.be/jGUW0uAwDyw
Another all time favourite Leon Redbone Shine on Harvest moon
Ooo u got me there Frank
Delayed flight into Melbourne, apparently the weather. Jetstar this time. Was windy but seen & landed in a lot worse… Wonder if they are having problems with crewing issues, aquintence in the bussiness says pilots are becoming harder to find…
As for Melbourne they really deserve everything they get. Am noticing NIMBYism is rampant. No wonder infrastructure doesn’t get done…
Try paying a bit of attention to interest rates.
The AUD collapse is closely linked to the RBA interest rate drop trying to prop up ponzi property prices. It doesn’t work of course because the property is now priced in devalued AUD which makes it still going down in real terms. All it does is make everyone go through another round of fighting for higher wages to get back where they already were sitting at. Get ready for a bunch more pointless industrial disputes in Australia as inflation starts to kick in.
Fn hard to be Sassy when your not
Tx Tel
Now I’m back to thinking whether to sell wait and buy back or just stfu
I got no idea
Really, I’ve been long since Friday night for a trade. I want to go long Funnells too.
Re the plunge in education rankings…
In areas such as History, we are now seeing government departments – and the taxpayer-funded ABC – promoting stories such as Dark Emu, which is totally at odds with the discipline of historical studies.
Students in History are usually taught sources are sacrosanct – you never leave bits out without showing you have done so; you never change a person’s words, and so on. There is a lot of work done in showing students how to verify a source: was the person who wrote it biased; were they misinformed; what date was the source recorded and does that jell with other information, and so on.
That such “books” as Dark Emu are promoted is disgraceful. Yet Education Ministers are tied to the altar of political correctness, and won’t criticise such chaotic thinking – or what’s worse, they go along with it because of their own ideologies. This muddle-headed thinking is just another part of the downfall of education in Australia.
Zippy
Good catch
No They’re not. Stop making excuses for the lying bastards.
The only thing an Australian politician, state or federal, is tied to, is their own desperate desire to get re-elected and so maintain their snouts firmly in the slops trough.
And they will say and do anything, tell any lie, throw whoever required under a bus, to achieve it.
Ender
Lets agree the crap they are teaching is indeed crap and bullshit. However we have to assume the testing is also based on the crap they learn at school. Australian kids will be tested on the Dark Emu, while say, English kids will be taught their own historical bullshit. In this narrow context, Australian kids don’t appear to be retaining anything about the Dark Emu let along the light one. Do you see what I’m getting at?
I reckon a lot of kids understand that Dark Emu is a trash fire.
Woke academics do not.
The dude is a fake Aborigine. His whole cache was that he was blacker than King Billy Cokebottle.
As for Melbourne they really deserve everything they get. Am noticing NIMBYism is rampant. No wonder infrastructure doesn’t get done…
Victoria is no longer investment grade.
What’s next areff? A Babs Streisand song?
Not sure about that AUD long, JC.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/
JC
The acid test will be deleting some of this data, if they haven’t already
Appearing in Australian libraries in the junior section, this tawdry book about transgender, including a 6 year olds account of oral sex, what the hell are they doing to our kids! https://caldronpool.com/transgender-book-for-teens-includes-account-of-6-year-old-performing-oral-sex-and-liking-it/amp/
Remember when Tuesdays were the best day to fill up?
BP Edgecliff, well closer to Rushcutters Bay, has 98 octane at 195.9¢/litre.
Bern
I bought the crap just a tad below 68 cents. My stop is where I got in, so it’s a free trade in that respect. I think it needs to blow of steam to perhaps around 70- cents and then you can short it. Market feels really short of Aussie dollars. If I’m wrong, well I’m wrong. I’ll be out by the end of the week most likely, so don’t despair for me. 🙂
Frank of National Tiles
Maybe it’s a feels thing.
I reckon the bloke is indig, just because why would ya?
Not being able to trace where you are from doesn’t mean you aren’t what you think you are.
Having said that, he is a total fuckwit and for sure mate show me your proof.
It’s The Stuff Of The Soul
Only at David Thompson, performance art at its very best. Goose Studies as an appetiser, followed by the Michelin Man’s missus; just standing there shielded by rolls of tremulous fat. The latter hides the really naughty bits; but, alas, the colossal udders are full frontal and perky they are not.
Sorry about the bold. Something amiss.
KD, it happens. The most difficult part is getting an x-ray showing the globe intact… (second answer, third image).
Magenta (Beyond Magenta is Gab’s book) is IT’s favourite colour.
Just caught Pauline Hanson on Paul Murray. Never heard so much incoherent, rambling, disjointed, naive ignorant, confected emotion. Seriously she does seem to take the opinion of the last person she talks with, the CFMMEU are good guys looking after workers….Australia is awash with ‘white collar crime’, multinationals pay no tax…. I keep my word.
There was so much craziness in her rant, it was hard to know just what she was trying to say. But, then perhaps she do not know either.
Unless he is an Elizabeth Warren or Rachel Dolezal.
I didn’t cite an Australian example and I know a few.
Dan Andrews
@DanielAndrewsMP
This is absolutely shameful.
“I’m just visiting a friend.”
If you want to go visiting convicted child sex offenders, surely you would think for a moment that this is bigger than you and him and your friendship.
I’d say Dan needs to hire a new tweetwriter. That last sentence makes little sense and the whole thing shows – if we needed further proof – that he’s unfit to govern.
Not sure if you are joking … but no doubt there’s short term ups and downs … you might make a quick buck if you are good at that stuff. Long term trend has been down and since I get paid in AUD and also I can’t easily escape by moving all my accounts offshore I’m a bit grumpy … I want a genuine store of value.
http://davidhamiltonthomson.com/wordpress/main/
This David Thomson?
I’m not. I’m very honest about my trades and stuff like that. Mid week last week, the Aussie was looking ratshit again. I always look at a US holiday to set some direction. If there’s vulnerability in a currency trade it will always show up the day before a US holiday. People square up. The Aussie was down below 68 cents but didn’t continue. To me that meant the shorts were vulnerable. I went long and here we are. It’s heading lower I think but not this week. This week, the algo traders may end up with a red hit poker up their rear.
Put it this way … politicians think that political correctness is their ticket to a successful reelection because the people they pay the most attention to are the churnalists, the focus groups and the Twitter mobs. They never talk to regular Australians and for the most part aren’t interested.
Jesus Christ Hands. A cassette tape? Really? Someone put a cassette tape up their own arse, on purpose.
One of the others looks like an EPIRB.
Great advice from the X ray chick at your link, though:
‘If someone is bound and determined do practice prostate massage, they should find safer, tethered objects that can be retrieved’
Tethered, people. Tethered. If in doubt whack an ocky strap on it.
Oh and Tel, I’ve had a really shitty year in trading currencies, so you probably shouldn’t listen to me. 🙂
The Grauniad is copping a bit of stick on twitter… #TrollingTheGuardian is trending.
KD
Thanks for the opportunity to recall the time she asked me if I was taking precautions and I told her I had tied my ankles the the end of the bed.
This David Thomson?
The David Thompson davidthompson.typepad.com
…to…
There you go OB.
Tethered.
A trap for young players who refuse to learn from the experience of others.
Got a warning re that site
Like throwing a carrot up Pillar Valley as the saying goes KD.
Well,
Certainly not the X wing fighter heading into the Death Star.
Couldn’t afford to rattle around there.
FMD, talk about a pile-on in the latest series of Ray Donovan. I know each series puts the poor bastard behind the 8 ball but they’ve outdone themselves this time.
Last season was a disgrace., Cronkite. It was unwatchable crapola.
google may have set out to build the star trek computer but china has already built 1984 on a scale orwell couldn’t even imagine.
this only ends in one way, death for the ccp or the west.
I’ve had a shitty year getting paid in AUD only to watch them turn to dust in my hands now sitting in the high 60’s so I’m also watching myself get constant pay cuts in real terms.
I dunno, I’m probably better off than most but if you are young and middle classed in Australia right now you really aren’t getting much of a deal. Couples both work, spend most of it on rent, electrical bills and petrol, can’t even think about affording kids, and if they try to put a bit aside as savings it gets destroyed by the devalued currency.
I’ve heard Peter Schiff carry on about how the Fed will send interest rates to zero any minute now and the USD will crash. But that’s not what the Fed have been doing, possibly for the wrong reasons they raised rates when Trump came along and they defended that USD and the other banks sat there with dumb looks on their faces. Australian workers all got pay cuts while US workers have not.
But dim-sum with a crooked property developer at the Flower Drum is just fine, eh?
calli
#3250715, posted on December 3, 2019 at 12:43 pm
Keep your wits about you. You might be in for some ground shakes. You are in a silent zone. That means a EQ will pop in the void. Peru.
https://www.twitch.tv/dutchsinseofficial
China is not getting ready to start a war with anybody.
China is getting ready to close the door and lock the gate.
Fucking unbelievable.
They pulled the “Lobster with a Mobster” shit on Mathew Guy before the last election, but now we have a paid for lunch AND a donation from a crook and the line is “well, I am honest and would never be influenced by the donation.”
Just watch Fewfacts, their ABC and Nein news toe the line on that one.
Last season was the best show on tv; ffs head prefect do you have to confirm your abysmal taste all the time; except with real estate porn, which you need to put up an example now to partially erase that fucked comment.
I just received Saxo bank’s outrageous predictions for 2020…
This one scares the living life out or me.
I Like this one. It may occur.
This would be fun.
I’m not in the least surprised you loved the season. That’s because Ray took on a gay lover.
You’ve been watching Queer Eye.
MV, darling, are you awake?
China was mentioned on the Q&A thread many times. 💋
Oh dear lord – those lips are not a representation of the real thing!
As predicted: The IG report is just a cover up of the criminal behaviour of the deep state.
Remember, this is the dickhead who couldn’t find any bias in the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Report: AG Barr Disagrees with IG on Whether Trump Surveillance Justified
Slow night tonight.
I blame Juan.
Yes, yes indeed.
The B-52’s bombing the PAVN sanctuaries that they had established in Cambodia were clearly violating Cambodian neutrality up to the 18th March 1970 at any rate..
18th March 1970 an important date to remember.
This was the date of the Lon Nol coup. It was Lon Nol who threw Cambodia’s lot in on the side of the RVN and the Free World Allies. It was Lon Nol who issued an ultimatum to the North Vietnamese who had abused Cambodian sovereignty to to leave.
After 18th March 1970 the RVN, Australia and the US were allies fighting a common enemy. I just want to stress that date again – 18th March 1970 😉
I want to stress another date. 9th December 1971. This was the date that the last Australian battalion in South Vietnam, sailed for Australia marking the end of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province.
Most National Servicemen who saw active Service did so on the strength of 1ATF based in Nui Dat. The vast majority. Unfortunately service with 1ATF tends to crowd out those members of the second National Service scheme who fought and died in Borneo countering Indonesian aggression. The existence of these ‘Nashos’ are so inconvenient to those with a polemic barrow to push that they are simply ignored. Sadly.
National Servicemen are so strongly associated with service with 1 ATF that it would be reasonable to expect that after 1 ATF went home 9th December 1971 that there would be no more Nasho’s left on Active Service in Phuoc Tuy Province.
A fair assumption.
But wrong.
(There’s a critical point I’d like to make at this stage. Unlike those of the Mark Dapin school, I have never confused ‘A fair assumption’ with a ‘Myth’ – But then again I don’t have books to sell or a Marxist row to hoe…)
There were 29 ‘Nasho’s who served in Vietnam with the elite Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. After the Task Force had dragged bags, AATTV remained serving in the Phuoc Tuy training centres.
The last Nasho’s to serve in Phuoc Tuy were AATTV’s Captain Bill McLaughlin (On his second tour!) Captain Peter Fletcher and 2nd Lieutenant Rod Margetts in 1972.
Who were AATTV training in 1972?
Mostly our Cambodian allies…
Australian Advisors in Phuoc Tuy trained a total of 27 Cambodian Light Infantry Battalions who were fed into the fight against the PAVN interlopers back at home the minute they were deemed combat ready.
The resident spokesperson for Nashos in general and Cambodia in particular should know this but doesn’t…
“Training the Bodes: Australian Army Advisers Training Cambodian Infantry Battalions- A Postscript to the Vietnam War” Written by Terry Smith published in 2016. Highly recommended.
There is one more important fact that the resident spokesperson for Nashos in general and Cambodia in particular should know but obviously doesn’t. That one critical fact that makes his Cambodia ‘story’ utterly implausible. Carved in stone impossible. Cringeworthily unfeasible. But I’ll let those dates and this information sink in first 😉
Big hint. It’s not even this.
One of the most bombed places on earth was another ‘neutral’ associated Indochinese State – Laos.
Laos was bombed by B-52’s far more intensely than Cambodia ever was. Unlike Cambodia this severe bombardment sent no Laotians mad and into the arms of the Pathet Lao. Despite Laotian territory being bombed to buggery by the USAF there was no genocide in Laos when it also fell to the Communists in 1975. There was no massacre similar to that occurred in Hue when it was seized by the NLF in 1968. Why was this so? Was there some sort of critical difference between the Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the Communist Pathet Lao in Laos? Why yes. Yes there was. It’s something I shall return to.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
They always claim to be SASR or “covert agents”…
A serial liar and bogus war hero who faked having terminal cancer to dodge court dates has had fresh court action thrown out by the Court of Appeal.
Neville Donohue, 67, of Wantirna, who also claimed to have been a covert agent for Australia’s top secret spy agencies, was sentenced to four years’ and five months’ jail last year after he was found guilty of 18 charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Donohue’s long history of lies started when he was charged with falsely claiming to be a decorated Vietnam War veteran after photos of him wearing medals he wasn’t entitled to went viral online.
He then forged phony letters purportedly written by doctors from The Alfred hospital and sent them to the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court between 2010 and 2013 that stated he had an inoperable brain tumour and had entered palliative care, and that he was unable to attend court.
He also lied about being a covert operative in 2014 and 2015, despite the fact Department of Defence employment records showed he served in the army for just six years between 1970 and 1976.
All up his case was adjourned at least 25 times before he was convicted and sentenced in September last year.
Last December, he sought an extension of time to appeal his sentence, which was knocked back by the Court of Appeal earlier this year, and on November 25, the court yet again slapped down fresh proceedings lodged by him in July that sought an extension of time to appeal his conviction.
Judges Phillip Priest and David Beach said his appeal, which tried to argue the prosecution lied about his work as a spy and said his poor mental health should have been considered during the trial, was “bereft of any substance” and “utterly devoid of merit”.
They said a County Court jury rejected his claims he was a covert operative based on the “strength and quality of the evidence” provided by the prosecution during his trial last year.
They also noted that besides his “bizarre” claims during the court proceedings, there was no reason why the trial judge should have doubted his fitness to stand trial.
Donohue, a father of three, must serve at least two years and nine months before becoming eligible for parole. Herald Sun
We’ve sprung two “clearance divers.”
Dark Emu booted some more…
For Dr BG
If more parents were like this, Greta won’t have a chance 🙂
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/letter-how-to-advise-a-teenage-daughter-on-climate-change/
All this talk about Juan.
Which Juan are we talking about?
Juan of Antonio’s Salmon Ranch?
Indeed.
Here is great clip of what our air force used to be like back in the 80’s:
The consequences may well be similar to “Rabbit Proof Fence” – the local school showed “Rabbit Proof Fence” so often that the children couldn’t have cared less about Aboriginal issues.
As I understand it with Laos, the most heavily bombed place on the planet, one of the problems was American aircraft up north were told that if you couldn’t bomb your target, you could just dump it on interdiction routes in Laos on way home.
Thanks JD. I’ve sent it to Maria.
I’m going back to Cuba over Christmas.
I can’t do much for Maria. She can’t do much for herself. Between the US embargo and the Cuban government there’s not much can be done for the Cuban people. Pity, because they are good people caught in a feud between governments.
I’ve just come back from watching Knives Out and it was very good. Intelligent and witty, with a good ending. The good guys win and the bad guys lose. That’s why it’s called fiction.
Dr BG, can you take Numbers with you?
Some more footage of what was a very professional air force:
Laos wasn’t really on the way home from anything…
‘Arc Light’ B-52 strikes of targets in the RVN, Laos, Cambodia and the DRV were always directed by a radar system called ‘Combat Skyspot‘ . That didn’t change and in fact made it easier when the ‘secret’ Operation Menu bombing of Cambodia began.
One of the first Australian commitments to the fight against the Malay Communists were the Lincoln Bombers of 1 Squadron RAAF in July 1950. Doubt they ever saw a secondary. RAAF called these attacks on random pieces of jungle – monkey bombing…
No matter how effective the bombing was, the dates are important. 😉 The Australian commitment to the fight against South East Asian Communist expansion predated even our involvement in the Korean War. It all started in Malaya.
Because 8th Division…
Loved your the Butterworth Mirage footage above. Even in 1987 there was still a keen Australian interest in defending Malaysian skies.
We don’t have so many worries on that front anymore because nowadays as far as air defence of the Malay peninsular is concerned Singapore can do a better job than we ever could…
The last vestige of the days when Australia had an interest in assisting fellow Commonwealth Countries and forward defence is the Rifle Company Butterworth.
RCB. Responsible for gash tattoos and virulent doses of the clap for 48 years. Still going strong…
Great. I’ll have something to amuse me when the news business shuts down.
Can you turn Maria into a successful small businesswoman fighting the communist state? Too much travelogue will barely be enough, Beaugy. Go for it.
Hazmatic, off to bed but Mum did tell me how she remembered seeing Gordon Bennett booed on Anzac Day marches. Even till quite recently, like in the late 90’s when the WW2 contingent took hours to go past past in Sydney, 8th Division was a shadow of the others. So yeah, that experience must have had huge impact on our thinking post war.
Excruciatingly slowly.
Just been catching up with one of my Favourites, Conservative Woman, which is UK based. One of their long term contributors has cancer, and has been describing his experiences with the NHS as he undergoes treatment. It’s a horror story, and the comments reveal even more.
Four weeks to get an appointment with a GP. OK, that’s not everywhere, but it should not be anywhere.
There are a lot of complaints about Asians bringing in and even cooking their own food in the wards. I get that this is annoying, but given the slop or dessicated slop that is fed to patients, I can’t blame the families for trying to get proper nutrition for their family member.
I read recently that the nannies are trying to get rid of any source of what they call ‘junk food’ in Australian hospitals. Vending machines, sales outlets, the lot. Unless it is carrot and celery sticks, you must be banned.
When I spent ten days in hospital being fed food even worse than what was served in my university college (and that’s saying something) I would have paid $100 for a Maccas and chips. Or a serve of Kingsley’s chicken and chips. And so on.
What’s more, being chock full of fat and protein, it would have aided my recovery from surgery. But, I digress.
The sacred cow that is the NHS is defended more fiercely the worse it gets. There is even a rumour going around that Donald Trump wants to buy it. Why the President of the United States of America would want to buy something that is not for sale, and which nobody in their right mind would want to buy anyway, is never explained.
The NHS has lots of executives paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, layers and layers of bureaucracy, and crappy service at the pointy end. Like universities, the resources have steadily been sucked away from the core mission, costs go up, service gets worse.
I have a couple of family members who work at a big hospital in NSW. The waste, inefficiency and sheer lack of accountability they describe is appalling. Yet, whenever anything bad happens, politicians always prescribe throwing more money. None of them have the guts to ask why there are as many administrators as there are patient care staff.
Being a cancer patient here might be better than under the NHS, but watch this space.
Oh, and people only just caught on that ‘Juan’ is our old, boring troll Septimus? It was so obvious to me, I didn’t bother mentioning it. But, like trout after a fly, he hooked the gullible again and again.
I suppose that arguing with trolls makes some people feel good about themselves.
Johannes Leak.
John Spooner.
Paul Zanetti.
You just knew David Rowe would do Trump in London. Demented.
Mind you, the rest of the British cartooning business are losing their minds, too. Christian Adams (London Evening Standard).
Brian Adcock (London Independent).
Woops. Brian Adcock (London Independent).
Patrick Blower (London Daily Telegraph). More here.
A.F. Branco.
Robert Ariail.
Al Goodwyn.
His new best friend.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrollingTheGuardian?src=hash
Johanna,
Being a cancer patient in South Australia is far and away from the horrors of the NHS.
Five sessesions into chemo, with no private coverage I cannot complain about a thing.
Confuses Old Misfit, all the best with it. (Confuses?, I thought you were merely confused in the past)
You’d be getting to the stage where it starts to “hurt”.
Best of luck, COM.
Billions pissed away for no great improvement:
Education, Aboriginal Welfare, New Submarines, NBN.
123,
Been very, very, very fortunate so far. Negative chemo effects almozt non existent.
Oxycodone keeps the “hurt” at bay.
Maybe I should make that “Confusing”?
Stick with it, Misfit.
Prior to my first bout of open heart surgery last year, they gave me a less than 25% chance of surviving it. Now I may not be quite ready to run a marathon anytime soon, but at least at least I can sit here and joke about it, and should be able to for a while yet.
Trump says he is prepared to wait to strike US-China trade deal
Stock markets sell off as president warns that agreement could come after US election
And of course the biggest billion buster of them all, the one that the marxist left and useful idiots are using to wreck the western democracies: the climate and energy scam.
It helps this process that kids get a “progressively” worse education. They and many of their parents don’t understand science or maths, but are willing to “respect da science”.
Read it and weep…
‘Generational leap’: Navy to pay $22 billion for 9 nuclear-powered submarines (3 Dec)
Six vaporware Frog diesel subs delivered by 2050, if then, for $50 billion (and we all know that is going to blow out). Contrast with 9 nuclear subs with the first off the slip in just 5 years, for $32 billion Aussie. The Virginias could literally run rings around ours.
Madness.
This is real and they go back to their day jobs after a night like this.
I wonder what would be a suitable benefit.
How about a tax break?
How about no stamp duty when they buy a house (because fellow writers told me this is a state not federal issue)
Can’t afford it?
We seem to be able to keep jousting at windmills with billions of dollars.
Wenlou demonstration: Copycats bring Hong Kong‑style protests to the Chinese mainland
Lastest Dummino Dimocrat to drop out of the Democratic Party nomination is Kamala Harris — talk about Democrats jumping ship.
Kamala Harris has become the most high profile candidate to drop out of the Democrat presidential race, announcing her surprise withdrawal after a series of poor polls, a lack of cash and negative media.
The decision by the California senator to quit follows a steady decline in the polls from a high of 15 per cent support in July to only 3.4 per today with many Democrat complaining they did not know what she stood for.
The withdrawal also comes only days after a scathing New York Times article, headlined “How Kamala Harris’s campaign unraveled”, which detailed fierce infighting within her campaign and frustration at her uneven performances on the campaign trail.
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To my supporters, it is with deep regret—but also with deep gratitude—that I am suspending my campaign today.
But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the People. All the people.https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/i-am-suspending-my-campaign-today-6dca8cefb252 …
I am suspending my campaign today
But I want to be clear with you: I am still very much in this fight.
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“To my supporters it is with deep regret — but also with deep gratitude — that I am suspending my campaign today,” Ms Harris tweeted.
“But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the people. All the people.”
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In a statement, the 55-year-old blamed her decision on a lack of funds.
“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,” she said.
“My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue. I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.”
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Thank you @KamalaHarris for your commitment to fighting for the people, for justice, and to holding Donald Trump accountable.
Kamala is right—our system is deeply broken when billionaires can buy their way in. I’ll fight with you to make sure our government works for all of us. https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1201929958496571392 …
Kamala Harris
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To my supporters, it is with deep regret—but also with deep gratitude—that I am suspending my campaign today.
But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the People. All the people.https://medium.com/@KamalaHarris/i-am-suspending-my-campaign-today-6dca8cefb252 …
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The rapid demise of her campaign is all the more surprising given that Harris was once one of the frontrunners in the Democrat race, with the former criminal prosecutor of Indian and Jamaican parents commanding a high profile in a crowded field.
But her popularity began to fade when her message to voters failed to catch on. She spoke often of the need for greater justice and truth in politics but was vague in her policy proposals on issues ranging from health care to taxation.
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Kamala Harris is out of the 2020 U.S. presidential race.
That leaves 6 candidates — all white — qualified for the Dec. 19 debate:
▪️ Joe Biden
▪️ Pete Buttigieg
▪️ Amy Klobuchar
▪️ Bernie Sanders
▪️ Tom Steyer
▪️ Elizabeth Warren
Her campaign was also disorganised, with disagreements among staff about where to invest resources and time and about what sort of message was needed to capture voter attention.
Ms Harris’s withdrawal comes only days after Montana Governor Steve Bullock also withdrew from the race after barely registering in the polls for months.
There are now 15 contenders left in the Democrat race with the four clear frontrunners being Joe Biden (27 per cent), Bernie Sanders (16 per cent), Elizabeth Warren (14 per cent) and Pete Buttigieg (11.4 per cent). The first caucus for the Democrats will be held in Iowa on 3rd February.
Cameron Stewart is also US Contributor for Sky News Australia
About thirty years ago my husband’s colleague announced his wife had run off with his best friend, who I asked — Oh I don’t know his name but he’s my best friend now.
Who is One Belt, One Road, One Dan going to make pay to fix the death trap napalm panel apartment cladding debacle?.
The generous Ponxi developer donor class, or the viktorian proles?.
Fresh from observing the communist party of China crushing dissent in its occupied territories, dan andrews puts his loyalists in charge of creating paramilitary units to crush dissent in viktoria.
Now there’s to be a police command called “Gender Equality and Inclusion”.
Daniel Andrews former Chief of Staff Brett Curran will head it up.
Bureaucracies find work for themselves.
Only this one is particularly scary.
It will have all the powers of police – the ability to get search warrants, telephone intercepts, powers of arrest – the whole police box and dice.
To enforce “Gender Equality and Inclusion”.
Comrades.
The comparison between Trump and Biden is amazing. Trump gets crowds of thousands everywhere he goes.
Biden, who is apparently 9 points ahead of the rest of the Dem candidates, gets a sleepy 30 odd.
Biden campaign stop turns into embarrassing Sleepy Joe ad when tiny crowd won’t get excited (3 Dec, via Lucianne)
In a fair world this would not even be close.
Know an old mate that has had a hand from the past show up to help over harvest. He is happy that she could squeeze into the narrow gap and change the air conditioner belts on the header during the cool weather downtime, but a bit conflicted that his retired rams that were grazing around the fruit trees down the back have to go to the mutton market. New broom sweeps clean.
Saw an interesting article about Biden and why credit card companies are based in Delaware.
The guy really is a grub
Son of grub:
Hunter Biden’s lawyers want to pull out of his paternity case (2 Dec, via Lucianne)
When even Arkansas lawyers won’t represent you, you’re really on the nose.
Run Hillary! RUN!
Harris out? Good. Horrid woman.
In Santiago, Chile for the night, then onto the ship. No, not a windjammer around the Horn, a bit more sedate.
Advised against a look at the historic part of the city because d*ckhead “slacktivists” who schedule their demmos after noon. I have had enough chanting, bullhorns and teargas to last a lifetime, yawn. So…an immense G&T poolside on the 10th floor. No “our woman in Chile” report. Sorry. 😁
I’m still puzzled about Trump being impeached over something he might possibly have done when Biden actually did it and boasted about it.
How does that work?
Three weeks to Christmas calli, have you worked out a menu?
Oh. Welcome to the third world, Aussies.
And, Shut Up!
‘Hunter Biden’s lawyers want to pull out of his paternity case’
Possibly the greatest and most hilarious PHRASING ever.
I have indeed, Tinta. I hope to include some of that utterly delicious Peruvian yelliw pepper sauce.
Like Peruvian chocolate, it’s an entire food group.
yellow
Left MSM/Dems just make up fake.
2GB sound bite: teachers union wants more OPM. I am shocked!
Knuckle Dragger
#3251399, posted on December 4, 2019 at 7:55 am
‘Hunter Biden’s lawyers want to pull out of his paternity case’
Sometimes you do have one track mind KD LOL 😀
‘Gender Equality and Inclusion Command’
Making a sideshow like this topic an entire Command is apparently quite a big thing. My sources tell me Commands within police forces are massive enterprises and cover things usually related to cop stuff, eg Road Safety Command for all the woodentops, Specialist Services (or similar name) for intelligence and all the cloak and dagger stuff, another one for all the (allegedly) muscular and impossibly attractive detectives, several for the uniformed punters and so on.
Thousands of people in the bigger States. Devoting an entire Command to this rubbish is, according to my sources, one of the bigger (and there’ve been some doozies) backward steps VicPol has taken. Again.
These people make concrete look smart.
Of course, “La Vagabonde” consumed no energy in its production, nor does the outboard motor on its stern do anything useful – it’s there for decoration. And when the beastly vessel reaches the end of its useless, vainglorious life, it will be yet another layer in the West’s landfill midden.
Calli,
The GOP is a bunch of pussy whipped panty twisters.
back door communism
newspeak
Albo on ABC AM.
Every time the government sees a teacher or a nurse, they see a union thug.
Winning hearts and minds.
Mum did tell me how she remembered seeing Gordon Bennett booed on Anzac Day marches
Should have been court-martialled and shot!
Well done Tulsi.
Ripped Kamala a new one.
PS, Kamala out = increased likelihood of the Clinton Crime Cartel coming to town.
Trump steady at $2.25 this morning at Ladbrokes.
Albo on Setka?
I can’t remember how or why, but I do remember reading more than one source that said Bennett was quite the soldier.
At Gallipoli.
People like Monash, and to a lesser extent Blamey were said to have improved as they rose up through the officer ranks. The reverse appear to be the case for Bennett.
Albo reckons every time he talks to farmers about drought, they draw a direct link to climate change.
Fertiliser for the mind.
Oh my, those #trollingtheguardian memes are hilarious, thanks for the link Porter. Someone with IT skills should start doing the same here.
Any competent government would be negotiating a price drop with t
Hosle Australian subs aa Trump did with Lockheed,
Any intelligent government would cancel the deal.
We have neither.
Albino, this was my personal favourite, but they’re all magnificent.
LOL.
No wonder the left want meme engines shut down.
Remind me again how the dumbocrats running this embarrassing, senile ol’ imbecile against Fatty Trump is supposed to translate to some massive 2020 victory against the Rethuglicans as per JC’s posting upthread of that other incoherent imbecile’s mighty Ehrlichesque predictions?
Sleepy Joh ain’t no obama. The former isn’t even good for serving coffee, he’d be more likely to offer you a cup of his urine.
The only candidate who might save the dumbocrats from another wipeout would be the wookie, a possibility which is simply too hideous to contemplate.
Another view:
Gender Equality and Inclusion Command?
I’m predicting a staff establishment 80% female, 50% LGBTIQ, 1.5% OTW (other than white), 1% disabled (civilian staff).
https://infogalactic.com/info/Red_Terror
Excellent trolling of the Guardian. And I mean excellent. God they hate being parodied more than anything.
One rider – ‘grandiloquence’ is my word. I found it somewhere months ago, so no one can have it.
JD
#3251302, posted on December 4, 2019 at 12:15 am
Thank you for this excellent link.
Jessica Yaniv at it again.
https://twitter.com/trustednerd/status/1201665480504668162?s=11
She’s (?) the activist that wanted her nut sack waxed.
Now she’s (?) been knocked back at a gynaecologists.
Look out.
Jessica Yaniv
@trustednerd
So a gynaecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that “we don’t serve transgender patients.”
And me, being me, I’m shocked.. and confused… and hurt.
Are they allowed to do that, legally? Isn’t that against the college practices?
@cpsbc_ca
Alphabet (google) CEO stepping down.
Look for someone as pragmatic as Tim Cook to takeover.
Bowden, Vivian Gordon (1884–1942)
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Evatt again.
Calli, Ha!, that was one of my favourites too. Did you get to Valparaiso at all?
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These people.
Fortunately, Yaniv’s post was followed by quite a few people who advised her to ‘stop fucking bullying people into touching your privates.’
Some pretty good commentary there too – mostly by the ladeeees.
All is not lost.
Funny how this works, KD. Read this.
http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/5003191/Officer-breaks-rank-over-the-Battle-of-Crete
The key take away:
Never a truer word spoken.
We’ve sprung two “clearance divers.”
When were the two faux clearance divers exposed and were they passed on to ANZMI?
So a gynaecologist office that I got referred to literally told me today that “we don’t serve transgender patients.”
More likely in for a gratifying enema than a pap smear.
One of the keys to the USA’s enviable economic condition is cheap and abundant energy.
Why, oh why, in this country with more than enough coal, gas and uranium there is talk of risks to power supplies, defies rational thought.
One cloud is all it takes.
Cloud causes System Black event at Alice Springs affecting thousands (15 Oct)
Could you imagine what it must be like for grid engineers if scattered clouds sail over Sydney suburbs in the middle of the day? Voltages would be swinging like crazy from street to street with vast surges coming and going.