It’s well into winter in the southern hemisphere and Australian ski resorts are rejoicing. Most of the football codes are in the meat of their season. Fortunately, my AFL team has decided to shit the bed early on so I don’t have to waste time hoping.
Birthdays: June 20: the original “in like Flynn“; an actress whose eyes were wide shut when she married for the first time; an aboriginal who really did face discrimination; June 23: an actor whose starred in some decent, if not great, films; a musician who has been a member of two decent bands; June 25: a guy who started as a politician but is best remembered for helping create the closest thing Australia has to civil war; June 27: a great cricketer from days gone by; June 28: a bloke who came from the wrong side of the border, but was still pretty damn good; June 29: a warrior who, sadly, died as fast as he lived; June 30: a singer who fronted one of Australia’s more successful musical exports; another warrior who was one of the fifty murdered in 1944; July 1: an actor who had a bigger career than a brief appearance in one film may lead you to believe; a race driver who never quite delivered as much as the nation hoped; a singer who took over from the June 29 guy; July 3: a woman with one of the more haunting voices to come out of Oz; another soldier who won the Victoria Cross in the Great War but, damn, if he didn’t enlist again – this time one war too many; a guy who should be celebrated but is usually condemned; and one of the best cricketers New Zealand ever produced.
This week in history (a little light on this time around):
- 1942, July 1: a “fog of war” tragedy
- 1977, June 25: Australia wins the 8th Rugby League World Cup
- 1978, July 1: Northern Territory granted self-government
- 1986, June 26: US informs New Zealand it will no longer be a defense partner
- 1987, June 20: All Blacks win inaugural Rugby World Cup
- 2021, June 23: New Zealand win inaugural World Test Championship
News from the Lucky Countries:
- YIMBYs rising
- Obviously true but, seriously, you needed a report for this?
- Nothing left to cut, New Zealand version
- Calling Homer Simpson
- The tide may be turning slightly in Australia
- Tragedy, but they can probably order them from across the ditch
- Wild weather in Australia and New Zealand
Music. I’m going with four links – one for each of the birthdays (meh, quit complaining, you don’t have to listen)
- June 25 birthday boy
- June 30 birthday boy (his band’s first Oz hit)
- July 1 birthday boy (not his signature song, but my favorite)
- July 3 birthday girl
Not music, but this popped up on youtube the other day. It’s about 8 minutes and looks at a few outback roadhouses. There’s quite a few characters here.
And with that, happy Thursday cobbers!
Am I going to miss our on the nationwide Cosplay event?
Just hide in your basements everyone.
His private army is not doing a very good job of stifling dissent. Do better Fascists!
Also I noticed this tidbit for a few weeks….He, like Hitler, controls all of government.
The right does the same just not with as much….vigor?
This whole situation worries me. It’s not a small number of people who believe they’re fighting Hitler and hiding Anne Frank. Eventually formerly normal people will accept violence and pitch in.
The self delusion is what angers me the most, the people claiming to be the type to hide Anne Frank were the same people calling in tips on their neighbors for having a cookout in the backyard.
whaddup doh’
Ribs rubbed, sat for a few hours, and about to meet the grill.
I did three racks of spare ribs trimmed down for work mates.
I laugh at places like Chilies back in the day offering full or 1/2 rack of ribs..but really it was 6 ribs or 3?
A full rack of ribs is anywhere from 10-14 ribs. Give or take
If you changed “grill” to “girl” you’d have a great euphemism.
Garden is in full swing lots of lettuce and herbs. Tomatoes are just now coming in. Onions drying, figure green beans or such will go on that place.
Its an amazing feeling to nurture nature
Mine is doing really well too. We had weeks of hot and humid weather with rain. I had one red tomato this week, the earliest ever. And lots of lettuce.
I didn’t know they had skiing in Australia. I thought it was all in New Zealand.
“an actress whose eyes were wide shut when she married for the first time”
One of my brother’s childhood friends was a pilot for them, and had good things to say about them. She stopped her car to get out and chat with the kids who were watching her film a movie not too far from my house (not Eyes Wide Shut). My kids have a picture with her.
She was quite attractive before she had her face frozen in time.
Trump has his private army and his concentration camps. He has full, complete, unchallenged control of all three branches of government, and the press is quickly falling in line.
What did I miss?
Apprently everything if not living that person’s world.
The Republican-controlled legislative branch passed one bill, the supreme court sided with him on some cases, and a guy on CNN defends him. We are now in the Fourth Reich.
Aren’t we at like the Tenth Reich at this point?
I don’t know, apparently I’ve missed something like Brooks.
What number was Robert? That was the dumbest one.
I don’t know the number, but that was the shortest one.
He’s the craftiest mofo ever!
TWO SCOOOOOOPS!!!
I see the quote above but I dont see a link. What nitwit said this?
1986, June 26: US informs New Zealand it will no longer be a defense partner
The community lost an eye …
Thank you for the birthday girl’s song link. I’d not heard that one before! I do, however, feel compelled to link to my favorite of hers/theirs. And, of course, my my other favorite. 🥰
So many good songs.
This is the recording of their farewell performance in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XR34gwnFMI&list=PL901D655F86AC8638
My parents owned the album and I think I knew the old thing by heart by the time I was about 10.
It’s criminal gangs, all the way down
<em.Waly said the state's authority to govern is rapidly shrinking as gang control expands with cascading effects. Criminal groups are stepping into the vacuum left by the absence or limited delivery of public services and are establishing "parallel governance structures," and gang control of major trade routes has paralyzed legal commerce, leading to soaring prices for cooking fuel and rice, Haiti's staple food, she said.
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca told the council "the ongoing gang encirclement of Port-au-Prince" and their strengthened foothold in the capital and beyond is "pushing the situation closer to the brink."
"Without increased action by the international community, the total collapse of state presence in the capital could become a very real scenario," he warned.
How can the average Haitian even tell the difference?
Sounds like a real shit hole.
We have half a million Haitians in the US. They’ve had a few years to learn how a (more) functional society works. I think shipping them back to Haiti would do a lot to turn that place around.
Worth a try, anyway.
I haven’t gotten much news from my son-in-law lately. I got about 5 minutes on a video call last week. Sounds like things are status quo for now, hopefully they get shifted back to the Pacific.
All hopes thats the way the sea takes him.
USS Ford is headed that way, Carl Vinson is due to head home, and China continues to push things in the Pacific. It’s complicated. I complimented my daughter on knowing how all these ships move, and she said she wished she didn’t.
China supposedly has a new, more pragmatic and less bellicose leader. Who knows? Things haven’t been going so great lately on Xi’s watch, so maybe he’s been pushed aside.
At least the FBI is getting more creative in naming its goons
I believe this as much as I believe the Michigan folk trying to kidnap a governor.
In response to the gangs, the UNODC’s Waly said there has been a rapid growth in the number and activities of private security companies and vigilante self-defense groups, with some trying to protect their communities while others act illegally and collude with gangs.
“Over the last three months,” Jenca said, “these groups reportedly killed at least 100 men and one woman suspected of gang association or collaboration.”
We should air drop small arms and ammunition. Let a million flowers bloom.
˙ʎpɐǝɹlɐ ǝɯoɥ ɯɐ puɐ ʎlɹɐǝ ʞɹoʍ ɟo ʇno pǝɔunoq I
Nice of you to write it upside down for the Aussies.
So wait, does he give them a thumbs down?
Thanks mate!
🙃
I worked way too late on a bug that I’m making glacial progress on.
I’m drinking mead now.
I had a comment about one of the articles but the server squirrels ate it.
And I have an interview with Sandy Petersen running in the background.
oh mead
whatcha drinkin?
whatcha drinkin?
Honey Sheré. I picked it up in Grand Junction on my FreedomFest 2022 road trip.
Sounds delicious and dangerous at the same time.
I thought there was only one Lucky Country?
Bonus obligatory.
The self delusion is what angers me the most, the people claiming to be the type to hide Anne Frank were the same people calling in tips on their neighbors for having a cookout in the backyard.
These are also the people who clapped and nodded in unison when Biden said the (right wing) resistance wouldn’t have a prayer against tanks and F-16s.
All the tanks and F16s have been sent to Ukraine.
Luv that band – or at least their Greatest Hits album 🙂
Defend our right to distort the news!
“This is a shameful decision by Paramount,” Clayton Weimers, executive director of Reporters Without Borders USA, said in a statement. “Shari Redstone and Paramount’s board should have stood by CBS journalists and the integrity of press freedom. Instead, they chose to reward Donald Trump for his petty legal assault.”
Spineless capitulation. Stand up for our right to sling mud and defame those we do not like.
They were just trying to help Kamala get her message across.
“This moment marks a dangerous precedent for the 1st Amendment, and it should alarm anyone who values a free and independent press,” Gomez said.
I’m sure that’s what you said in 2020.
I wonder what Gomez had to say when Obama was jailing journalists for not coughing up their sources.
We have half a million Haitians in the US. They’ve had a few years to learn how a (more) functional society works. I think shipping them back to Haiti would do a lot to turn that place around.
Worth a try, anyway.
I like it. Give them each a pocket Constitution, a copy of the Anarchist’s Cookbook, a High Point 9mm and 500 rounds of ammo.
Without USAID how will we accomplish that?
Keeping in line with both cultures’ beliefs, each Haitian is given a mule on their journey. They are eaten raw shortly after takeoff.
Our Haitian family friend declared once the last member of her intermediate family passed away, that she’ll never set foot in that shit hole again.
Can we give them something a little more useful than the Anarchist’s Cookbook? Like an old Boy Scout manual?
https://www.daisybrand.com/dips/
For a store bought dip, their French onion is quite good. Recommended.
I don’t like their sour cream. 🥴
I buy either Friendship or even the Wegmans store brand is good.
Whelp, that may be a limiting factor. 😂
I am a fan of their sour cream.