It is fair to say the Right has been feeling the ideological pinch lately. While the fussing and feuding has been going on, the Hard Left in Australia continues its moral decay at an impressive clip with hardly a mention.
Take the animal liberationist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Usually PETA spends the bulk of its energy and time routinely supplying the ABC’s Four Corners with free footage, allowing the current affairs program to work within its budget. It’s a win-win, provided you’re a card-carrying member of PETA or a journo with an insatiable thirst for a gold Walkley.
Yesterday it surfaced PETA had written to the management of Hunters and Collectors urging the band to change its name to something less violent and antagonistic. The thought being the band, first formed in 1981, might now be inadvertently encouraging young kiddies to load up the shotties, the pig dogs and several cartons of Emu Bitter and go out blasting away at ecosystems various in a frivolous manner.
Full column here.
A lot of wonderful tributes for Bill Leak today; none more revelatory than from Leigh Sales. From what i read he was a larger than life, generous character, spirit and man. His intelligence, humour and insight has been no secret to we who have seen his cartoons, portraits or read his words. Perhaps little solace now for his wife, kids, family and friends, but I hope they keep them for a later, private time.
Put my order in for his new book at the local bookshop today, Milt. I enjoyed his work – he was honest and stuck it up the PC brigade.
Cummins and Pattinson both taking wickets and getting through a couple of shield games Behrendorff took a heap in his return a couple of weeks ago and is a lefty. Chad Sayers has over 50 wickets in the shield this year but will not get a look in. Actually that skiddy quick from WA Richardson might go ok on those pitches over there? With Hohns running the show who knows who might get a call maybe one of QLD 5 quicks? Brad Hogg says Aussie selectors need the courage to play Maxwell. The big show is viewed as a very good player of spin everywhere but not by the Australian selectors it seems.
Our quicks need to be quicker Dismayed. About 160 KMH with a change up to around 170 with the occasional judicious use of the slower ball from the back of the hand. They should move the ball sharply off the pitch to off, but occasionally tailing it back in, interspersed with the surprise straight ball and a vicious ball rising off a good length to strike the batsman in the ribcage. Followed by a skidding grubber coming through at ankle height or a toe crushing yorker.
These fellows are paid ridiculous amounts of money compared to quicks who gave their all in the past for peanuts in comparison, and should provide a commensurate improvement in performance. Pro rata they should be bowling at around 900 Kmh, while that is unrealistic they should be quite a bit faster than they are.
I feel I have provided a very good plan for the employment of an effective quick attack and hope the administration gives proper consideration to it.
I’m working on a training regime for spin bowlers currently with some very good ideas for mechanical training apparatus that should produce astonishing results if applied to budding cricketers early enough.
I’m pleased to say the AIS and the Academy have expressed a great deal of interest in the concept.
Give ’em Heaps.
Hear, hear, JB.
Bella :
Off to do the Overland on Tuesday, Bella. Weather looking good too.
God, I am so looking forward to being in the wild. I shall give the trees a hug for you 🙂
Enjoy Boadicea, a friend has just come back from doing the same and is very elated!
Good to hear HB. I am looking forward to it.
Have a great time Boadicea should be wonderful at this time of year.
Just an aside, I wish you’d bring back ‘Yvonne’ it’s all a little pointless really & I still can’t get my head around ‘Boadicea’ living in Tassie at your place!
Keep safe, Bella
I like my new name, Bella. ! Doesn’t really matter anyway. Just off up North in a little while. I hope the weather Gods are smiling on us. I hope to climb Mt Ossa – but fear that it’s the only day where rain is forecast – so might not be able to 🙁
Worth climbing Mt Ossa around the halfway point. Off the track but great view.
Hope to Triv. All weather dependent.
The great Bob Hawke campaigns a few days ago in the WA State election, Mr Insider, some 34 years ago since he became PM. Loves his beer too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd3efqcIJgg
Elon Musk, the eccentric genius, Mr Insider, who amongst other things says he will land a man on the moon next year FGS, now claims to be able to easily solve South Australia’s Electricity supply problem, see linked article for full gasping details. I want some of what Elon is drinking please!
http://tinyurl.com/hcpbgeg
I’m fascinated HB. Installed in 100days? Holy shit, I’ll believe it when I see it – who’s paying for it?
I wonder if he has heard of Australia’s planning laws and what they can do to any schedule.
At current pricing, I think it’s just short of $300 million. And that would be us paying.
1000 naysayers will never stop 1 progressive.
I am very, very sad to hear about your mate, Jack. Bill was a lion amongst sheep.
It’s been said that a soldier is never so alive as in the moment before he stops the bullet that ends his life.
Bill Leak was never so alive, never so sharp and on his game than he was in the last couple of years and if there is any silver lining to this very dark cloud it is that he left us in a long, fine flash of incendiary brilliance.
Take care, mate.
TBLS
Lets all wave goodbye to WA Premier Colin Barnett today as WA set to go to Labor. One Nation has again imploded, a poorly run Party for non thinking people imho.
http://tinyurl.com/h3scegl
It will be interesting to see how PHON goes in the final count, HB. There will be no one more interested than Malcolm I reckon!
They certainly seemed to have lost their way Henry
bye col.
Unsubsidised levelized Cost of Energy.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/03/tesla-humiliates-nothing-australian-government/
Dismayed, did you notice the bit in your link that says: “its a gimmick” ?
Please explain.
Sigh, CoTC. The initial announcement by Musk’s cousin the previous day at the Powerwall 2 launch and Twitter discussion is what that term is referring to. But now discussions with the Premier and PM have moved the Advertising tweet on. You really are living in Bizarro world. “We don’t need to go back in time to stabilise the grid with coal. Personal and industrial scale storage can do it. Solar and wind are already the cheapest levelised cost of power at the utility scale”
Thanks for that Dismayed.
Your “sigh” prefacing your response appears to signal an indication that you have a superior understanding than many others on here (especially those of us who inhabit what you rather childishly now refer to as a “bizarro” world) about the technology concerning battery storage and how it has the potential to solve SA’s power problems in just 100 days, according to Musk.
But putting all that to one side, and to settle the difference of a technical opinion that has arisen amongst some of us Bizarros, and one you would obviously be aware of, are you able to advise if an AC inverter integrated on the Powerwall 2 you refer to, prevents it from being connected directly to solar panels? Or do you need a separate solar inverter to convert solar DC to AC to connect to the PW2?
If I am able to help stabilise the grid, I’m up for it mate.
I’m also interested in the sudden enthusiasm for pumped hydro (which I actually suggested to a few deaf ears back in the eighties) which some people seem to think can also be thrown together in 100 days.
Saw a bit of a show about that not long back, Trivalve. Not sure how much it would cost but is seems like a great idea.
There are some here who should read this. Disability support pensions numbers have dropped markedly. The number of people on benefits who are eligible for all benefits is 2.5% of all recipients. Of the Australians who receive any benefits “Overall, 0.04 per cent of customers were convicted of fraud over the three years.” Class warfare deliberately divisive misinformation by the coalition cons.
http://insidestory.org.au/them-and-us-the-enduring-power-of-welfare-myths
I am presently in an Administrative Appeals Tribunal court with C.Link. They claim i did not respond to one of their letters and have cut our family benefits. Now this was 2 yrs ago…how am I supposed to remember this? I won the 1st Appeal but they will NOT accept the umpires decision and have challenged the outcome. Can you believe this?
This time, I have retrieved the metadata associated with the letter I sent from the bowels of my computer to provide proof beyond doubt I sent the letter they required months before their deadline. It is not my fault if the postal system is stuffed. Also with C.Link receiving thousands of letters a day there is every chance mine did not get there. Yep you guessed it. We were picked up by the C.Link Robot!!
Not sure what your issue involves, Bassman but forget the letters and get on the phone buddy.
Funny Milton. A report I was reading the other day advised exactly the opposite. Forget the phone, write the letter. Just takes longer. About 6 weeks to get a reply.
Make sure its registered or tracked though!
Give em heaps. as JB would say.
Sadly death never takes a holiday, Mr Insider, and takes many way too soon. Vale genius Bill Leak at only 61yo.
His final speech at his book launch this week was wonderful. HB. Epitomised everything he stood for
In a way he was giving his own eulogy. We will miss him.