Open House 7/28/18

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Darin

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    • Michael in Nelson says:
      July 29, 2018 at 07:38

      I’ve heard some of my relatives in the area are among the evacuated. You never know when some far distant disaster will suddenly become personal.

      • Darin says:
        July 29, 2018 at 07:44

        Very true,I have friends in Redding I haven’t been able to contact.I hope it’s just the lines down or they had to evacuate.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_sad.gif

  2. KG says:
    July 29, 2018 at 07:40

    A fascinating Fred post, on a subject that’s become rigidly enforced orthodoxy rather than science:

    ‘To judge by my mail, I suspect that many people, thanks to popular television, think of mutations as major changes that just happen, such perhaps as the rhino’s horn appearing all at once . In fact mutations are changes in the nucleotide sequence of DNA that may produce a new protein. The mathematical likelihood of getting multiple mutations that just happen to engender a complex result is essentially zero. The mathematics is clear but not easily explained to a television audience, no matter how intelligent.’
    https://fredoneverything.org/more-on-evolution-from-the-mail-room/
    and:
    https://fredoneverything.org/signature-in-the-cell-and-intelligent-design-an-introduction-to-protracted-desperation/

    • Darin says:
      July 29, 2018 at 08:43

      Excellent read,some points came to mind-
      When discussing what conditions were like in the ancient world,that discussion must be tempered with the fact that what happened last week is debatable.

      If spontaneous generation really existed,then there is a high probability that at some point in the past a virus or even a simple protein may have spontaneously popped into existance that would go on to kill all life as we know it.No,I think there is an underlying set of precise rules that govern what life can and cannot do.

      Orthodoxy,dogma and arrogance have no place in science.Science should always be about asking questions and keeping ones eyes open to seeing the answers.Questions about our origins are just the same as our lack of a unified field theory.How can we claim to have read the book,when all we can see are a couple pages?

      On a side note,I just love it when observed data throws a curve ball-
      https://gizmodo.com/new-south-african-telescope-releases-epic-image-of-the-1827572028

      • Michael in Nelson says:
        July 29, 2018 at 13:54

        The most improbable and unique event to have happened in the history of the earth and life thereon is the incorporation of one unicellular organism by another that did not get digested but rather developed a symbiotic relationship. All complex life developed because of that one ingested organism, the mitochondria. Simple life had been around for over a billion years with trillions of organisms and an exponential number of reproductive events. The event happened only once after all that time and has never happened again. The odds for complex life on other planets is therefore equally unlikely.

  4. mawm says:
    July 29, 2018 at 08:13

    For all those idiots who voted for what they could get rather than for the good of their country – well, I don’t think you’ll be getting much at all and it’s still going to cost you a fortune later in your life as you pay for the “borrowed” money. Socialism = Venezuela/Cuba/Zimbabwe.

    “New Zealand has tumbled down the OECD business confidence rankings to the second lowest among countries in the developed world.

    Two years ago New Zealand was the third highest in the OECD, but now everyone except South Korea is above New Zealand.”

    A few more years of Jacinta and we will not be included in the OECD and be recognised as a 3rd world shit hole. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cry.gif

    • KG says:
      July 29, 2018 at 08:34

      “A few more years of Jacinta and we will not be included in the OECD and be recognised as a 3rd world shit hole”
      Yep. And still juvenile leftards don’t get the connection between cause and effect. We’re rapidly approaching the point where China will offer to save colonise us and leftards will jump for joy……mission complete.
      http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_unsure.gif
      ‘The supremacy of stupidity’
      https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-supremacy-of-stupidity.php

      • mawm says:
        July 29, 2018 at 08:50

        Well, it certainly seems to be outnumbering rationality.

        I see China has now infiltrated South Africa. The usual story – the politicians need more money (mainly personal) and the Chinese step in to help. When they can’t repay they forgive the debt for the worlds second largest source of platinum, not to mention gold production (which has been falling because of union demands) and other rare metals. They’ll soon find out that the new masters are not as nice as the old and even make the Belgium Congo look good.

        • Darin says:
          July 29, 2018 at 09:44

          I had to laugh at “low unemployment because people are working two jobs”Cortez,proof that pretty+stupid = pretty stupidhttp://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

      • paul scott says:
        July 29, 2018 at 22:18

        One interesting side effect of Maori separatist sovereignty in New Zealand is > ferocious resentment to China, and Asian, and Arab influence. I don’t give Winston Peters credit for much. I think it is a side effect, but if there is any social opinion likely to influence the NWO zombies in the media party Maori could be it.

    • Michael in Nelson says:
      July 29, 2018 at 13:58

      Yeah, shifting back to the States is looking like a good move the longer this lot try to run things.

  5. Darin says:
    July 29, 2018 at 09:08

    Rebuilding Tally Ho-Re-lofting and re-flaming also the Shipsaw in action http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

    https://youtu.be/lWDzeYBstKE

  9. Darin says:
    July 29, 2018 at 17:17

    Shop tour: Nickolas Hacko Watches,Sydney,Australia-

    https://youtu.be/wU_6cY3UBUI

    Some very expensive machines too http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

  11. KG says:
    July 30, 2018 at 06:51

    ‘Please God save my Australia from Malcolm Turnbull!
    The thin edge of the Same-Sex-Marriage wedge, as predicted on the blog, has become a broad sledge assault upon society, especially on the Royal Australian Navy. This madness allowed to fester by those from the prime minister down to utterly idiotic Royal Australian Navy officer, Lieutenant Maritime Warfare Officer Jonathan Milton, defies any suitable word for condemnation and international shame. Malcolm Turnbull has eclipsed Rudd and Gillard as the worst leader this nation has ever suffered.
    …The office of Defence Minister Marise Payne did not respond to inquiries.’
    http://morningmail.org/mcturnbulls-navy-sinking-disaster/#more-87027

    • Pascal says:
      July 31, 2018 at 02:15

      I still don’t get how Turnbull managed to push out Abbott.

      From my vague view it is a if Abbott somehow got further than any TEA Partier in America and with wide public approval, but the Oz version of the GOPe, the Liberal(e), knifed him in the back. What was the slimy machination that was played and what has happened to Abbott since?

      I wonder how much of it has a lot to do with voters letting Labour disarm them years ago? (Not that being armed seems to matter much here.)

  12. Michael in Nelson says:
    July 30, 2018 at 07:37

    I (as well as many others here) have expressed frustration and sometimes anger at the left for its hypocrisy in the way it insists on not being offended whilst using the most offensive tactics against those it claims have offended some aspect of its credo. I believe Jordan Peterson covers the fundamental reason of the dichotomy. He refers to two of the foundations of life as Chaos and Order. Chaos being the unexpected that disrupts Order. Things like the company you worked for suddenly going out of business, the drunk driver that crosses the centerline and smashes into you. What the Left is doing is using Chaos to insist on order (‘don’t offend me’) with no guidelines on how to go from one to the other. For whatever reason, they don’t realize that without reason and rational thought, Chaos only breeds more Chaos.

    • KG says:
      July 30, 2018 at 08:45

      I think they simply don’t care – have no interest – in such questions, Michael. At the foot-soldier level, it’s only about “what feels good”.
      They’re petulant, uninformed, propagandized puppets.

  13. KG says:
    July 30, 2018 at 18:18

    ‘National Disgrace’: UK Rejects Christians, Refugee Intake 100% Muslim
    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/29/syrian-muslim-uk-rejects-christians/

  14. Michael in Nelson says:
    July 31, 2018 at 08:48

    I finally retired last Friday. I really enjoyed my job for the most part and felt the work I did made a difference in the management of NZ marine fisheries. Like any occupation, there were the not-so-nice bits but at least i wasn’t Hillary’s gynecologist.

    • KG says:
      July 31, 2018 at 09:46

      Now for some serious fishing. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_smile.gif

    • mawm says:
      July 31, 2018 at 10:49

      ‘..but at least i wasn’t Hillary’s gynecologist.’

      I’m sure it would have been like waving a stick around in a dark cave.

      Congratulations on your retirement – it’s a wonderful time! http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

      • Darin says:
        August 1, 2018 at 06:16

        Yes,congrats!http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

        • Yokel says:
          August 2, 2018 at 05:17

          Well done for joining those of enjoying a well earned life of leisure. Hold on a moment, did I just hear “Dad, can you just … “. Seems to be quite a lot of it about, and I’m only too glad to help!

  15. KG says:
    July 31, 2018 at 09:47

    ‘The carbon ´leak´ under the Southern Ocean that may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years and paved the way for human civilization’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6007857/Carbon-leak-Southern-Ocean-warmed-planet-11-000-years.html

  16. Gregoryno6 says:
    July 31, 2018 at 13:40

    Do we have an Ian Mountjoy here?

  17. mawm says:
    July 31, 2018 at 18:39

    The Israeli military are getting soft. Tasers! What next?

    Unite Union leader Mike Treen reportedly tasered repeatedly by Israeli military

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12098292

    • Darin says:
      August 1, 2018 at 05:10

      ” The boat was said to have been loaded with medicines. illegal arms”

    • Michael in Nelson says:
      August 1, 2018 at 06:00

      I see where the Green co-leader is standing in ‘solidarity’ with Treen because she was in the same situation a while back. She suffered ‘unease’ not knowing what was going to happen to her. Obviously her fears were unfounded and she was released without harm. These idiots try to break a valid blocked and then whine when they are detained. Typical of the Laft everywhere. Just tie them up and drop them overboard, sharks gotta eat too.

      • Darin says:
        August 1, 2018 at 06:15

        I think Israel should use those flotillas as target practice for their sub fleet http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

        • KG says:
          August 1, 2018 at 07:49

          Every time a Green gets killed another fluffy kitten in born. :evil:

          • Pascal says:
            August 1, 2018 at 08:22

            Well, at least it that is one less jerk insisting on the sterilization of pets.

            My explanation is simple. The “greens” hate all human life but their own, and in recent years that hate has been extended to any animal that would provide happiness as a pet. So in a way your fun observation is made more likely than you might think by such an elimination.

            • mawm says:
              August 1, 2018 at 08:37

              This is our feminised world! The castration of male puppies is rampant and scourge. It is blatant cruelty to take away testosterone in a developing dog as, amongst other things, it affects the way the skeleton develops which leads onto a lifetime of misery for the dog. Ever wondered why so many dogs have anterior cruciate injuries these days?

              I spent a number of years working in women’s health and one thing I noticed is when told they need an hysterectomy the first question they ask is “can you preserve my ovaries” in an attempt to prevent sudden onset of menopause. Taking testosterone away from dogs has as severe a physiological response. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_mail.gif

  18. Gregoryno6 says:
    August 1, 2018 at 21:52

    He’s Out!
    “Tommy Robinson has been freed on bail by the Court of Appeal after winning a legal challenge after he was jailed for 13 months for contempt of court.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/tommy-robinson-learn-appeal-outcome-jailed-contempt-court-084122823.html

  19. KG says:
    August 2, 2018 at 08:43

    NZ’s very own bureauscum Gestapo, getting away with blatant lawbreaking:
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12095828

  20. mawm says:
    August 2, 2018 at 10:37

    It just keeps on getting more insane! Auckland Council paid $260 000 for a mirror to be hung between 2 buildings “to reflect the area’s architectural heritage”. All in the good cause of “art” of course.

    Excuse me while I vomit. This Council under mayor Philkoff has oodles of our money to throw around on useless vanity projects while claiming the need to tax us extra on our petrol and diesel for roading development, and this is on top of massive rate increases that defy the laws of gravity and inflation.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12099146

    • KG says:
      August 2, 2018 at 17:28

      See comment above..
      These bastards need a flogging. :evil:
      Whose idea was it? Who got the money? They’re not so concerned about any area’s “architectural heritage” when it comes to flogging stuff off for high-rise developments or handing it to Maori, are they?
      I’d love to see the results of an honest audit of politicians’ and councillors’ wealth. I wonder what they list “kickbacks” under?

  22. Darin says:
    August 2, 2018 at 17:43

    Today was Rush Limbaugh’s 30th anniversary on the air.He got a special call in from a VIP-
    https://youtu.be/qrZNK-9K1fA

    http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  23. Darin says:
    August 2, 2018 at 17:47

    Our governor is a bit miffed about a recent break in at his farm,but not as miffed as the first lady

    https://www.wapt.com/article/governor-frustrated-by-burglary-at-his-farm/22593784

    “Had a burglary at our little farm in Copiah County. Asked the first lady not to go down until we find the perpetrators. Her response: I’m taking my AR down and waiting on their a~~~s!!!!” http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  24. Darin says:
    August 2, 2018 at 18:10

    Liberals say the darndest things-gun control edition

    https://youtu.be/oePCncK77i0

  25. Michael in Nelson says:
    August 3, 2018 at 08:09

    When will these idiots ever learn that correlation is not causation. There may well be other factors but since it is in line with what I want to believe, this sounds good although they have the dosage wrong. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wink.gif

    https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/08/not-drinking-alcohol-middle-age-increases-dementia-risk-says-report/

  26. KG says:
    August 3, 2018 at 08:20

    ‘The Imposters Are Preparing The Final Act in Their Coup d’état
    To all TGP readers and all American patriots we are informing you to prepare yourselves. This country is at a precipice. America is either going to be overrun by a power hungry Deep State or it will survive one of the biggest attacks to its existence since the Civil War. We must all be vigilant and prepared. The acts of the Deep State are as appalling as they are criminal. An unelected and elected power hungry minority is attempting a coup d’état of the Trump administration…’
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/get-ready-and-say-your-prayers-the-time-is-now-the-imposters-are-preparing-the-final-act-in-their-coup-detat/

  27. KG says:
    August 3, 2018 at 08:21

    ‘Why have modern cars suddenly become so fat?’
    https://spectator.org/their-zippers-bust-their-buckles-break/

    The numbers are astonishing. :shock:
    and:
    ‘Mind Your Own Damn Business’ (Melissa Mackenzie)
    https://spectator.org/americans-need-to-mind-their-own-damn-business/

    • Gregoryno6 says:
      August 3, 2018 at 10:35

      ‘Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has’ – William S. Burroughs.

      • Darin says:
        August 3, 2018 at 11:54

        With modern cars and fuel economy it comes down to three things-emissions,emissions,emissions.
        You can have ultra clean emissions,or you can have fuel mileage,you cannot not have both.
        Todays cars are built with multiple emsssions systems on board,dual catalytic converters weren’t enough,now many cars have four cats and all the redundant gear that goes with them.
        Some perspective,we had one time a 1982 Oldsmobile 98 Regency 2-door,similar to this one-
        http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=50804&country=us

        Same color,same body style,but with a 403 V-8 and automatic overdrive.That car would get 20-22 mpg all day long and do so with tons of room and comfortable as the living room sofa.IIRC it cost $8600 out the door and weighed about 4500lbs.

        • KG says:
          August 3, 2018 at 17:03

          I think weight is one of the crucial factors where fuel economy is concerned. Small engines having to work hard to push heavy cars while strangled with emission controls are never going to be economical.
          And that’s before we get to the plastics problems…

  28. Gregoryno6 says:
    August 3, 2018 at 23:47

    I never wanted Latham as PM and I’m still not sure he’d be good for the role today. But as an observer of the political scene there are few that match him.

    Yesterday’s news

    Mark Latham The Spectator Australia 4 August 2018

    It was the best news Fairfax ever published: the story of its demise. Yet to listen to the wailing Fairfax staff and their barrackers, you would think the world was ending. The Channel Nine takeover has been described as ‘a blow to Australian democracy’ and ‘the end of Australian journalism as we know it’.

    We can only hope the second point is true. Fairfax’s demise will improve our democracy, freeing Australians from the fraud of Green-Left advocacy masquerading as ‘journalism’. And let’s not forget the big winners in the new arrangements. The hospitality industry in inner-Sydney and Melbourne will thrive, as unemployed Fairfax scribes occupy their coffee shops and tofu restaurants bitching about the universe.

    Australia’s fish are especially relieved, in avoiding the embarrassment of being wrapped in the pages of Fairfax Fake News. The company’s closure will also ease the pressure on psychiatric hospitals, with fewer journalists presenting for treatment of Trump Derangement Syndrome. At last, the Hitler Comparison Industry can have a day off, with the Sydney Morning Herald no longer publishing headlines such as ‘Donald Trump And Adolf Hitler Have More In Common Than Slogans’ (as it did in October 2016). Also, imagine the relief among the world’s asylum seekers. After the Tampa incident in 2001, Fairfax editors started campaigning for the abolition of offshore processing. The Rudd Government took them seriously and 2,000 boatpeople drowned, including babies and infant children. Now at least young asylum seekers have got a chance of reaching adulthood, free from Fairfax’s encouragement of people smugglers. For this alone, the end of Fairfax is a huge win for humanity.

    There’s also an important lesson here for business students. Forget the baloney about a media outfit hard done by. The 177-year-old company was a victim of its own incompetence. Two decades ago Fairfax had a chance of transitioning from lucrative print advertising to online classifieds, but they blew it. The rivers of gold turned into rivers of stupidity.

    Eric Beecher, a veteran of the newspaper industry, recalls fronting the Fairfax board in 2004, warning of ‘a catastrophe scenario under which the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age would lose much of their classified advertising in coming years.’ The board ignored him. According to Beecher: ‘One director in particular became quite agitated about what I was saying. “I don’t ever want anyone coming into this boardroom again”, he told his colleagues as he held up a copy of one of Fairfax’s hefty Saturday papers, “and telling us that people will buy houses or cars or look for jobs, without this”. He then dropped the lump of newsprint onto the boardroom table with a thud.’ The director was Roger Corbett, who subsequently became chairman of the board.

    The Channel Nine/Fairfax announcement also flushed out the great Labor hater Paul Keating. The former PM had to toss a coin to see which outfit he despised the most. It came down on the side of Channel Nine, a legacy of the way in which 60 Minutes raked over Keating’s piggery investments in March 1999. At the time, I was the only Labor MP who defended Keating in parliament. This prompted a visit to my office by the 60 Minutes reporter Paul Lyneham, who told me I had made a big mistake. ‘We are going to put Keating in jail’, he assured me. No wonder the old clock polisher is still cranky.

    Years earlier, as Treasurer in the 1980s, Keating had wanted to destroy Fairfax because of its attacks on the NSW Labor Right. He especially detested the gaggle of female investigative reporters gathered around Brian Toohey, whom he labeled ‘the Manson girls’.

    Fairfax’s fate offers a glimpse of where all newspapers are headed. Public trust in journalists has collapsed, such that they now rank below used car salesmen and even politicians. Very few reporters research public policy or understand political history. They run mostly on propaganda – callow, gentrified types who take their material from the online sewer of Twitter.

    Recently the editor of South Australia’s Murray Pioneer reported on the incompetence of journalism graduates applying to join his paper. In attempting quiz questions on their application form, a majority did not know the name of the Federal Treasurer or Opposition Leader. Only one could name the location of Ned Kelly’s last stand, while none could name the day on which the Melbourne Cup is run. These people have got no culture and no brains.

    The quiz was not a one-off. ‘The abysmal results have been consistent (over many years) and, if anything, are slowly getting worse’, the editor wrote.

    In truth, the people reading newspapers these days are smarter than the people writing in them. In the era of Facebook and Internet websites, consumers have never had so much choice and diversity of information available to them. Regulation of media ownership and content has become outdated. An open market of tens of thousands of media outlets (old and new) means that competition can sort out questions of reliability and profitability.

    Instead of lifting their performance, traditional media houses such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have reverted to special pleading: urging governments to heavily regulate Facebook and Google.

    What a sad sight they have become. The Princes of Print have morphed into Rent-Seeking Royalty.