Armadillosays:
November 3, 2021 at 9:16 pm
Mail out ballots in a country without compulsory voting is the biggest election rort imaginable.

And intended to be so, it allows ballot harvesting.

3. The job takes as long as it takes. Perth brass knob jockeys would have immediately thought ‘Madeleine McCann’ and screamed for A RESULT, as of an hour before they said it. If you fuck something up, best case is you allow a wormhole for the crook to get through months or years later. Acting alone? No? Motive? Psychological state (for court, later)?

4. They would have had a line on this bloke within 24 hours, I reckon, and had not only his phone but everyone he’s ever contacted through that phone in the last 12 months up in lights. Panzer’s right with the Bayley job some years back, though – although I will say Bayley was a likely for that job anyway.

5. Because it’s not CSI and all over in 45 minutes, this sort of thing requires actually speaking to people. A decent witness statement for a job like this can take six hours or more. Then you (apparently) make your enquiries on the strength of that and other statements, and when you find a discrepancy you go back and you go over it again with those people, and other people if necessary, and you watch them carefully while they’re doing it, and you use your instinct if you’re good enough.

They may well have had a statement taken off the crook early in the piece, before he firmed up as the crook.

Nothing new in that

Well, no.

But using faults in a gypped-from-the-word-go submarine design as the excuse woulda been pretty novel in Canberra…

6. Parallel enquiries. While digging through garbage in Perth (ostensibly and publicly saying they were looking for a body, which is an excellent tactic if you want the crook watching the news back in Carnarvon to breathe a sigh of relief, perhaps to the point where he reckons buying nappies won’t be a problem) the jacks should have been firming him up.

7. Reasons. Namely, judgment calls of the detectives on the ground and running the job. I think they may well have known this girl was alive for a week or more, thanks to waaaay more than one informer. Once they’d seen him buying nappies and kiddie food, they may have slowed an extra day to make the job absolutely watertight.

Then, after you’ve been watching the joint for a week, you kick the door in at the time the crook is most likely to be either zedding out or passed out.

Easy peasy, Carnarvonesey. People take too much stock of TV shows, and never think of what lies ahead after a pinch. In this case there must have been enough to suggest the girl was relatively unharmed, and not likely to come to said harm so they nailed the job down before tapping the bloke.

Not a simple job, though. Small towns don’t like giving their secrets up.

Allegedly.

I assumed the police work was over when the arrest was made.

Pedro, a bloke I am acquainted with swears by the adage that an arrest and/or confession is the start of an investigation, not the end – if for no other reason than if your confession, however righteously obtained, is blown out of the water by a court packed with dunderheads, then you have nothing.

You (apparently) must continue as though you never had the admissions in the first place. It’s the only way to get it right in the end.

I was wearing Aussie uniform and body armour and such; my people were wearing US gear. However I was their CO, and not in a symbolic way either.

We were 100% integrated into the US military in Vietnam. We were identified as USN EOD Mobile Unit Pacific Team 35 and RAN CDT-3. We replaced a USN EOD Team, carried out US operations, had a US radio callsign, wore Australian or US uniforms, carried US weapons, lived in a US Naval Support Facility in Da Nang, drove US vehicles and operated with US and Vietnamese military forces in all of i Corps….

Digger says:
November 3, 2021 at 10:00 pm

old bastard eh!

I think this one relied on informers too.

Of course it did. I think.

It is no secret that on certain jobs, the jacks will release certain things to the public to generate conversation in the right areas.

For example, and this should in no way relate to the Carnarvon job, but hypothetically – if the jacks were to say ‘there was CCTV footage of a white car’ then two things will happen:

1. Exactly what happened here. Discussion about where any CCTV footage would be, what quality it was, and all sorts of other rabbit holes; and
2. The actual crook, who remains firmly in the frame, thinks ‘they’re not looking for my little red car’ and relaxes a bit. Which is exactly what the jacks want.

Informers are like red headed chicks. Either 10/10 or 0/10, and you can never have enough of them.

old bastard eh!

Easy up…

In my favour, I was the youngest CD to serve in CDT-3, Vietnam but is was over 50 years ago.

That may have been accidentally-on-purpose, Sancho.

For nostalgia’s sake.

Sorry to harp back to the Virginia election… But came across something interesting. As the vote was passing through 70/80/90% McAuliffe was closing the gap and at one stage was less than 60K votes behind. At that point though, Youngkin moved out ahead again.

Well… apparently: Republicans held back reporting from their three most favourable counties Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and.Chesterfield. They dropped these (which explained the Youngkin increase) and the Dems (and networks) conceded.

This should be a tactic that may need to be looked at. Pass a law that all the votes drop simultaneously. No chance of then manufacturing deficit overcoming numbers.

Digger says:
November 3, 2021 at 10:22 pm

old bastard eh!

Easy up…

In my favour, I was the youngest CD to serve in CDT-3, Vietnam but is was over 50 years ago.

Wasn’t meant as a put down.

Merely acknowledgement.

The Truth of It | Christians and Transgender Rights | Ep. 68
Apr 23, 2021

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Victoria – to Outlaw Christian Prayer – Conversion Therapy | Martyn Iles on Vision radio

https://ne-np.facebook.com/ACLobby/videos/206446194255595/

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This should be a tactic that may need to be looked at. Pass a law that all the votes drop simultaneously. No chance of then manufacturing deficit overcoming numbers.

Interesting observation, but it shouldn’t matter if nobody cheats. A new reality I guess. We were thinking that Fox County were holding back to see how many votes were needed.

Salvatore:

With a bit of luck Gough Turnbull will take French citizenship, & that’ll be that, we won’t have to worry about him any more.

I’d rather the rancid old fart took cyanide, but that’s just me.
*shrugs*

Rex Anger:

Say…whatever happened to Louis XVI?

Unfortunate ‘accident’ with a bladed tool of some sort, I think.
I blame the intelligentsia and their utter lack of concern for his safety, or theirs…

It’s item #35 on the OH&S Annual Meeting.
A bit delayed, but the investigation is thorough.
Shorten has been completely exonerated from any involvement.

tough life though.

lol

… and on the lower edge of old, to boot…

a scary bastard!

FlyingPigs

Was you associated with the F111’s?

Digger says:
November 4, 2021 at 12:37 am

FlyingPigs

Was you associated with the F111’s?

@Digger

No.

The name came out of Pigs Might Fly.

They were dumb bastards.

I’ll change my handle to HogHollow.

Johannes Leak. Brilliant.

Warren Brown.

Graeme Bandeira.

Peter Brookes.

Michael Ramirez.

Tom Stiglich.

Robert Ariail.

Lisa Benson.

Patrick Cross #2.

Saw Johannes Leak’s cartoon previewed on Chris Kenny’s show — absolutely marvellous I am printing it off and keeping it on the fridge with a few of his great father’s beauties

FYI – Johannes Leaks Caartoons available at his online shop.

Gateway Pundit:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/breaking-fairfax-county-delayed-reporting-vote-count-wont-results-8-pm-deadline-mcauliffe-camp/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily

Wow just watched that vid of Latho and Kean filth. What a poisonous little worm.

Dilbert

Dilbert 3

Let’s see if Matthew Guy has learned anything at all from the demise of his predecessor, Whatsisname (the Hun):

Car-crash MP Tim Smith has lost his most important Liberal Party allies after two “train wreck” interviews in which he contradicted himself several times over his drink-drive smash.

More questions have been raised about what the MP was doing in the lead-up to Saturday’s incident when he ­careered into a child’s bedroom wall in Hawthorn, as police probe whether to lay further charges.

Furious colleagues accused the 38-year-old of “treating us all as if we’re stupid” after his two media appearances on Wednesday during which he refused to walk away from state politics – in defiance of Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.

I don’t know what the coin is for that gig. Perhaps the networks are a bigger lure:

After issuing a statement on Sunday saying he had been at a dinner and didn’t think he was over the limit, Mr Smith on Wednesday morning claimed he had just “a couple” of wines before getting behind the wheel of his Jaguar. He also said he hadn’t eaten all day.

Sources close to the event rubbished his claims, saying he had been “smashing cocktails” with a small group of people at the home of a prominent QC before he ­recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.131, almost three times the legal limit. By his midday interview, he was saying he had “quite a few glasses of wine”.

Please let that QC be Burnside.

“As for him dragging it out, he doesn’t have the ability to make Tim see reason,” one source said. “For Tim, it’s all about Tim. Matthew Guy is hoping that at some stage the penny will drop.”

No, Matthew. No, no no.

You don’t ‘hope the penny drops’. You publicly bare the fangs, ram that penny down Smith’s throat with the aid of a broomstick, and then kick him in the nuts until it comes back up again.

Until that happens, you’ll have demonstrated that you’re just another soft-handed go-along-to-get-along nancy man.

From rosie’s Guardian link:

The first and most important takeaway of the governor’s race is that this is normal. Without a major crisis like 9/11, the party in power will always lose ground in elections like this. It’s as close to an ironclad law as there is.

Riiiight…

So a global pandemic and the introduction of forced inoculations, lockdowns and the spectre of vaccination passports isn’t a “crisis”.

Thanks for that clarification.

Republican Glenn Youngkin found a powerful coded way to stoke white racial fears and anxiety with his attacks on critical race theory. Democratic Terry McAuliffe refused to forcefully refute the racist message and thereby let white voters off the hook. All this in the state where slavery started and the Confederacy based its capital.

Hard to read this nonsensical piece of race-baiting sh*t without gagging. The halfwit who wrote it must think aliens abducted all the righteous people of Virginia and replaced them with antebellum drones.

But these same people have been filling my inbox with agonized stories about school administrators and teachers pushing a contentious racialized ideology on their children – which in many cases they were able to witness in person as classes moved online during the pandemic.

This ideology wasn’t critical race theory per se, in the sense that students weren’t reading original CRT texts.

No, no! It wasn’t real CRT! It was just what the teachers said it was. Bullsh*t on stilts.

Face it, Guardian inksters. The Dems stink. The President is illegitimate and widely loathed. The people know it. The Dems failed this time to cheat enough to get their (and your) man over the line.

No amount of “but Trumping” is going to change that.

Let’s go Brandon!

Geez Mother Lode. Who’s your mate in the news room?
Word perfect forecasts.

That was as perfect a REEEEEEE! piece as you’ll ever find. Hard to fault.

The Guardian never fails to deliver. It’s Maddow, Lemon and Cuomo wrapped in newsprint.

On Virginia, from the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund president Jenny Beth Martin

“Glenn Youngkin’s success in the bellwether counties shows that a strong conservative agenda can lead to victory. Too often, the media has a false narrative that conservative Republicans are less electable than moderate Republicans. The opposite is true, and we see that in Virginia. Youngkin’s agenda of standing for individual liberty and against mask and vaccine mandates, and putting parents back in charge of their children’s education, cut across partisan lines and energized not just conservatives, but Independent voters and even some Democrats. Youngkin’s big win, especially in the bellwether counties, holds important lessons for 2022 and beyond.”

Shatterzzz, I’m finding I’m spending zero money too. These lockdowns and restrictions have broken the habits of a lifetime.

Cher should have been keelhauled on (and under) the USS Missouri after that excremental film clip.

How old is she now? 98? That’s all she’s remembered for, aside from once being married to a bloke who refused one skiing lesson too many.

For the serious Faithful – and anyone else who wants to join in – a request from Fr Pius Noonan OSB, Prior of Notre Dame monastery in Tasmania

Dear friends,

There is no doubt we are living in troubled times. In these dark days it appears good is considered evil and evil, good. Let us not despair, but rather remain at the feet of Our Lord, as did His blessed Mother, fortified by prayer and fasting.

For those of you who are able, united with the monks of the Priory of Notre Dame, we invite you to join us in a triduum of prayer and fasting, commencing on Thursday 4th Nov and finishing on the first Saturday of the month, Saturday 6th Nov.

In addition to the three days of fasting, each day we we’ll be praying St Mother Theresa’s Irresistible/Emergency Novena, which consists of 9 consecutive Memorares and a tenth in thanksgiving.

Our petitions will be:
For an immediate end to the vaccine mandates in Australia.
For consolation and assistance to those who have lost jobs or are about to lose their jobs.
For the conversion of the hearts and minds of our prelates, politicians and legislators and a healing of the division in our nation.
For the courage and fortitude to hold fast to our faith, no matter the consequences.
Any private intentions you or your families may have.

For those unable to observe a strict fast for three days for whatever reason, a lighter fast, eg. no eating between meals, no chocolate/desserts or some other mortification will of course suffice! The important thing is that we are all united in prayer on the same days for the same intentions, and fast according to the demands of our state in life.

Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy, and find grace in seasonable aid.

-Hebrews 4:16

The Memorare

Remember, O most gracious
Virgin Mary, that never was
it known that anyone who
fled to thy protection, implored thy
help or sought thy intercession was
left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence,
I fly to thee,
O Virgin of Virgins and
my Mother; to thee I
come, before thee I kneel,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions, but
in thy mercy, hear and answer me.
Amen

Many times I thought a commentator very astute and sane and then oops, they blurt out something asinine and ruin their whole reputation with me. Once you see their blind spot you tend to disregard them, even if they may be right, on other issues.

Absolutely correct, Lode.

The ‘one goat’ principle.

Long Creighton piece in Tuesday’s Oz had him trotting out the “Trump said statue protest killer is a fine people” lie. I think that the derangement has set in, and a pity cos he’s otherwise apparently got his head screwed on right.

Day by day, it is becoming clearer that Premier Perrottet is under the thumb of those who really run the NSW Liberal Party: juvenile Matt Green, his wacko ‘Moderates’ faction and the LGBTIQWTF MPs cabal. Perrottet is in office, but not in power.

— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) Nov 3, 2021

Zactly. Add Kean.