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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 10:51 am

They’ve opposed the religious discrimination Bill “on principle” to quote Albo.

Or hopped into bed with the trannies might be another way of putting it.

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 10:51 am

The performance of Higgins and co is disgusting given the trial hasn’t gone ahead or even started. It reminds me of the Get Pell operation where you whitewash the entire scene so any jury/juror has their mind made up before the case begins.

She should have announced her intentions to go to court and then buggered off from the public spotlight. Our judiciary really need to grow some balls and do something about this type of behaviour (guilty or not).

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 10:53 am

Rogersays:
February 10, 2022 at 10:46 am
What have they done now?

They’ve opposed the religious discrimination Bill “on principle” to quote Albo.

It’s 2019 all over again.

Please explain.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 10:53 am

They’ve opposed the religious discrimination Bill “on principle” to quote Albo.

Their problem is it doesn’t discriminate against two particular religions enough.
The Lib wets agree.

The Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill (2021) has passed in the lower house after a 10-hour long Parliament sitting.

In a blow to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Liberal’s Trent Zimmerman, Bridget Archer, Fiona Martin, Katie Allen and David Sharma crossed the floor to vote with Labor’s amendments for LGBTQ+ students in the Sex Discrimination Act.

The five MPs backed Labor in support of a crossbench amendment to provide stronger protections to include transgender students.

Five MPs cross floor to pass religious discrimination bill after 10-hour debate (Sky News, 10 Feb)

The usual suspects are usual.

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 10:55 am

“When they get sick, yeah, we look after them, but there is not much sympathy for the unvaxxed,” he said.

The majority of yesterday’s 24 recorded deaths, he said, were of people over the age of 80.

“For the elderly dying of pneumonia, (COVID-19) is said to be the old person’s friend,” he said.

Nasty little cult that the “health profession” is becoming.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 10:56 am

Sounds suspiciously like the stupid narcissistic petulant li’l bint has made it all up.

One other thing. For all those pushing the line “ the libs must be destroyed”.

Think about this petulant dishonest little bint then let the realisation set in that there would be three years of various versions of this thrown at you every single day including weekends by the liars party.

That’s what the liars party will be like.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 10:56 am

Speaking of China, apparently they’re hosting the winter Olympics.

Speculation now abounding that the atrocious conditions – poor accomodation, inadequate food, random covid testing and forced isolation – on offer to foreign athletes are a ploy to dampen their performances.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 10, 2022 10:57 am

Rogersays:
February 10, 2022 at 10:46 am
What have they done now?

They’ve opposed the religious discrimination Bill “on principle” to quote Albo.

Labor now opposes freedom of religion? Even the Mueslis might be upset.

local oaf
February 10, 2022 10:58 am

They have to do something with the stocks, and dumping them would be an admission of error, and therefore unacceptable to both politicians and bureaucrats.

Who knows what is in the agreements the Government signed with pharma?
Could there be penalty clauses? i.e. financial penalties for every dose not actually administered to a citizen? Perhaps no further doses if they didn’t actually inject the maximum number possible.
Or maybe, financial incentives for every dose over an agreed threshold.

All the world’s governments were desperate, having seen the virus weaponised and used to destroy Trump.
They’d have signed anything put in front of them for the chance to hang onto power.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 10:58 am

Geebus! Roger. That bill was a trap from the start.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 10, 2022 10:58 am

Anyone see the body wriggling and other assorted contortions that she was putting on in front of the Liar’s party press club to express herself? She really is disgusting.

Death throes of her Fifteen Minutes of Fame.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 10:59 am

Roger

Really, who gives a shit about the China sponsored Winter Olympics. Viewers are down by multiples in the US as no one cares. It’s a massive PR fail.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 11:01 am

Death throes of her Fifteen Minutes of Fame.

Advice to the boyfriend. Run, sprint .. hire an e-scooter. Just get the hell out of Dodge.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:02 am

The majority of yesterday’s 24 recorded deaths, he said, were of people over the age of 80.

We could have done with that information 2 years ago. It would be interesting to see an aged death profile of the various strains. I won’t hold my breath.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:03 am

Please explain.

Shorten alienated the Christian vote in 2019 with his pro-alphabet people rhetoric, particularly the ethnic Christian vote, which can be electorally significant in certain seats in the east coast cities.

Albo’s just done the same, after two years courting that vote with various summits and a senator appointed as a “faith group ambassador” to woo them to Labor.

JMH
JMH
February 10, 2022 11:03 am

Link to Petition to get Dr. Bruce Paix some justice. I believe it has been started by his daughter.
https://www.change.org/p/australian-police-freedrpaix-veteran-kidnapped-by-australian-police

DB, if you think fit, could it be added to the Petitions sidebar, please?

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:04 am

Really, who gives a shit about the China sponsored Winter Olympics. Viewers are down by multiples in the US as no one cares. It’s a massive PR fail.

Yeah, I know.

Glorious, innit?

But the treatment of athletes does highlight how petty and insecure the Chinese government is.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:06 am

Labor now opposes freedom of religion? Even the Mueslis might be upset.

Heh…they’ll get a free pass. Too many votes at stake.

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 11:07 am

Today in Australia Post.

Product ordered from Castle Hill Sydney on Sunday. Posted Monday and tracked to arrive here (Port Stephens).

Now in Melbourne and on its way back to Sydney.

Very High Tech and mechanised. If the robots do become self-aware, it will be the self awareness of an amoeba. On take over, they’ll last a week and then self destruct. We have nothing to fear.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 11:09 am

Why was the bill necessary anyway?

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 11:11 am

Rogersays:
February 10, 2022 at 11:03 am
Please explain.

Shorten alienated the Christian vote in 2019 with his pro-alphabet people rhetoric, particularly the ethnic Christian vote, which can be electorally significant in certain seats in the east coast cities.

Albo’s just done the same, after two years courting that vote with various summits and a senator appointed as a “faith group ambassador” to woo them to Labor.

I see. Does the ethnic vote really have that much influence? I assume those Labor scum have done poling.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 11:12 am

Rog

I didn’t mean to sound condescending.

They are insecure and petty, which I worry about because it makes them dangerous in terms of war. They may just gun it and go for broke with Taiwan.

miltonf
miltonf
February 10, 2022 11:14 am

It’s interesting to speculate on why they (the marxist meja red skool teacha left etc) hate Morrison so much seeing he has completely abandoned his supporters and given them everything they want. I reckon it’s hatred of the people who voted for him in 2019. The loathsome macquarie uni caro said it all.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 10, 2022 11:14 am

Comedian collapses on stage after taunting Jesus

As usual for an ‘edgy’ comedienne her punchlines are about the female body and its functions – here she elicits a great whooping and clap by talking about her period.

I have heard feminists claim that proof of misogyny lies in the fact that the worst swearword in English refers to the female anatomy – the ‘C’ word.

My sense is that it is the greatest swearword, the most potent one, the one that transmits the greatest contempt, because it is the word most forbidden. You are not supposed to say it at all. To invoke something so out of bounds is an insult indeed. Look at the other words which are swear words, words for fornication and male anatomy – these are not hated or despised things. Just ones you are not supposed to talk about in public, or casually. (‘Shit’ is another. Not a favourite idea, but once more something about which you are not supposed to speak. Unless you are German.)

When a guy calls another guy the ‘c’ word, female genitals are not hovering about in his mind.

“We will treat as mundane and un-special something you have been brought up to attach a certain respect to.” The result is to de-mystify women, to make them not worth running into burning buildings for, to make them no longer the soul of a family that a man should labour long and hard to provide security, to make it permissible for a man to hit her, to expect them to ‘harden the fuck up’, etc.

While claiming to be lifting themselves to the level of men, women such as this are lowering themselves to the level of men. And I do not think she is really aware of what a rough world that is.

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 11:16 am

Dunno bespoke… I can see why you might want to legislate that, say, a Jewish school CAN discriminate against a fully qualified, Oxford trained, ISIS member?

Our kids Catholic school took a pretty sensible approach with a gay teacher who was getting married. They told all staff: “You’re here to teach, not to tell kids about your private life.” It’s the activists that are the problem – not always the qwerty folk.

miltonf
miltonf
February 10, 2022 11:17 am

Why was the bill necessary anyway?

Because all those lawyers that graduate every year on the tax payer dime (how many bum law skools are there across the nation now?) need something to do in order to lift wealth from productive people.

Dot
Dot
February 10, 2022 11:17 am

Nonovax just injects the pathogenic spikes right into you.

Just like getting Omicron, right?

Pathogenic spike proteins are everywhere in nature. Novavax uses small fragments of virus. Don’t overegg the pudding.

Cassie of Sydney
February 10, 2022 11:17 am

Speaking of Australia Post, I noticed that Christine Holgate was in the audience listening to Ms Tame and Ms Higgins. Unlike Tame and Higgins, Ms Holgate actually does have a legitimate beef with Morrison.

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 11:18 am

Lysandersays:
February 10, 2022 at 11:16 am
Dunno bespoke… I can see why you might want to legislate that, say, a Jewish school CAN discriminate against a fully qualified, Oxford trained, ISIS member?

Our kids Catholic school took a pretty sensible approach with a gay teacher who was getting married. They told all staff: “You’re here to teach, not to tell kids about your private life.” It’s the activists that are the problem – not always the qwerty folk.

You can bet that fudge packer did tho.

Gays need to recruit. It’s fundamental to their chosen lifestyle.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:19 am

Heh…they’ll get a free pass. Too many votes at stake.

Western Sydney gets what Western Sydney wants. Ask Tony Burqa.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:19 am

Labor is putting itself in a position where they won’t be able to form government without the support of the Greens. Their ineptitude would be hilarious if the consequences weren’t so serious.

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 11:19 am

Dotsays:
February 10, 2022 at 11:17 am
Nonovax just injects the pathogenic spikes right into you.

Just like getting Omicron, right?

Pathogenic spike proteins are everywhere in nature. Novavax uses small fragments of virus. Don’t overegg the pudding.

Im not stopping anyone from getting Nonovax. Just don’t mandate any of these poisons.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:23 am

They are insecure and petty, which I worry about because it makes them dangerous in terms of war. They may just gun it and go for broke with Taiwan.

There is that possibility…one wrong word from Mrs. Tsai Ing-wen and it could be on.

Just as well Joe is obssessed with the Ukraine or it could get serious.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 11:23 am

That’s why I think it was a trap, Lysander. Long established practices in the schools have are now become a matter of public debate.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:24 am

I wouldn’t object to a few old fashioned Old Testament smitings of unfunny female comedians. Might even get a laugh.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
February 10, 2022 11:25 am

I did hear an intelligent take on the religion bill this morning on the radio.
She saw it as a proxy for what should be in place.
A bill to protect freedom of speech.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:27 am

Why was the bill necessary anyway?

It’s necessary because anti-discrimination law has become a weapon in the hands of Christophobes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:29 am

That’s why I think it was a trap, Lysander.

Like a couple of poofs who just want a wedding cake but end up in the Supreme Court which doesn’t even do wedding cakes?

local oaf
February 10, 2022 11:29 am

I reckon it’s hatred of the people who voted for him in 2019.

Yeah, it’s always the voters the Left hates.

The only way Krudd got Labor into power in 2007 was to get them to shut up and stop openly insulting the voters.
Labor had spent the previous 10 years incessantly insulting the voters. e.g.

“Howard is mean, stupid, ugly, vicious, warmongering, wicked and evil – and you morons voted for him!”
“What are ya, evil yourselves? Or just too stupid to understand?”

Krudd got them to hide the insults by calling Howard “clever” – in other words, sinister and Machiavellian. This enabled them to attack the Libs, while excusing the stupid voters for having been duped by the evil man.

Dot
Dot
February 10, 2022 11:30 am

Just don’t mandate

Of course.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:30 am

She saw it as a proxy for what should be in place.
A bill to protect freedom of speech.

Not just freedom of speech but freedom of religion, which includes the freedom to practice a religion, a right upheld in all the international human rights covenants to which we are a signatory.

What it comes down to is are we going to be a pluralistic society in which everyone shares the same freedoms or are we going to be squeezed into the mould being prepared by the prog-left?

Cassie of Sydney
February 10, 2022 11:31 am

So a teenage boy decides to identify as a girl, retains male genitalia, and demands entry to a girl’s only school.

No thank you.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 10, 2022 11:31 am

Banish the use of the four-letter word
Whose meanings are never obscure
The Anlges and Saxons those bawdy old birds
Were vulgar, obscene and impure
But cherish the use of the weak-kneed phrase
That never says quite what you mean
You’d better be known for your hypocrite ways
Than be vulgar, impure or obscene.

Cassie of Sydney
February 10, 2022 11:36 am

Why shouldn’t a religious school have the right to discriminate?

Another thing re. this bill, Morrison, who’s been too busy fellating his ideological enemies, has left this bill until almost midnight when it should have been tabled two years ago.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 11:38 am

A freed of speech bill would protect religious schools without the need for special exemptions

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:41 am

For what it’s worth, my position is that adults should be free to lop off or add as many dicks as they like. Any rights attaching to (no pun intended) stops with that individual and cannot affect another person.

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 11:42 am

I’m always dubious of freedom of speech bills.

The only one I’d support would need to be drafted by Abbott, Pell and some other solid citizens!

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 11:45 am

I’m always dubious of freedom of speech bills.

Not only. Become dubious about freedom from tax bills 🙂

I just received a land tax bill on some real estate which is 50% more than last year. 50%!

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:47 am

A freed of speech bill would protect religious schools without the need for special exemptions

That would depend on how it’s draftred.

As I mentioned, most human rights covenants specifically address freedom of religion along with freedom of speech.

Baba
Baba
February 10, 2022 11:50 am

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has gone into more detail about NSW’s 24 latest COVID-19 deaths.

Fifteen were men and nine were women.

One was in their 40s, one in their 60s, five in their 70s, nine in their 80s, seven in their 90s, and one over 100.

Dr Chant said eight had received a booster shot, nine had received two doses and seven were unvaccinated.

Why is the age/vax status data for each
deceased always undisclosed? Is the public too stupid to process such data? Or is the data ‘misleading’ *cough*?

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 10, 2022 11:51 am

I just received a land tax bill on some real estate which is 50% more than last year. 50%!

Where is it you live JC? – oh yes, I remember, Dan’s Victoria ! Expect more of the same.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:51 am

The only one I’d support would need to be drafted by Abbott, Pell and some other solid citizens!

Which presumably means it could be redrafted by Gillard, Wrong and Plibbers. Be careful what you wish for.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 11:52 am

Some clause needs to be added like. ‘Your free speech does not trump others.’

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 10, 2022 11:53 am

Holy poop.
Thats having a serious lend.

I just received a land tax bill on some real estate which is 50% more than last year. 50%!

Dont you mean
.50%

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 10, 2022 11:55 am

Bear:

If I was the fiancé, I would be getting taped video consent on the wedding night and as required.

Why anyone would want to go near that toxic victim harpy, I will never know. It would be like hooking up with your mother-in-law. 24/7 vocalised disapproval.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 11:55 am

Why is the age/vax status data for each deceased always undisclosed?

It’s like Covid Wordle.

Roger
Roger
February 10, 2022 11:55 am

Is the public too stupid to process such data?

Weren’t we told that early on by the Commonwealth CHO?

The one whose staff used the wrong multiplier and wildly overestimated deaths, proving that data is in fact too precious to be left in the hands of the “experts” alone.

Funny how that was consigned to the forgettery. And the CHO got a promotion!

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 11:55 am

Damb just up ticked my own post, Lol!

Rabz
February 10, 2022 11:57 am

Regarding that pair of histrionic political harlots and their appearance at the National Collectivist J’ism Club, one can’t help wondering if their incessant whining was audible in space.

Chris
Chris
February 10, 2022 11:57 am

This comment about using the c-bomb. I am in a male-dominated workplace where a manager used it endlessly, until booted two years ago.
When we talk about the use of forbidden words we forget that male-only spaces have been pretty much abolished. In our parents time, when many of us started work, our parents or grandparents still had a ‘front room’ in the house, and men left their swearing at the gate because the home was ‘women present’ or ‘family rules’.
Shearers would shout ‘NINETYNINE’ when the boss’s wife appeared in the shed to prevent accidentally swearing in front of the ladies – a shameful act for gentlemen.

Derek and Clive’s ‘I met this c— today’ sketch what, 1973? kind of punched a hole in the wall.

The C-word was applied to men, outside family rules spaces; the modern English definition might be ‘a complete, TOTAL a—hole’.

That article on ‘women’s tears’ being used to take power in the business/government world…

So when we take notice what evil has been done to boys by appropriating success and resources for women’s status war on ‘traditional’ society, we should re-examine the abolition of ‘men’s rules’ spaces and ‘men’s rules’ language – is it actually good? The language of rationality and reasoned argument are essential to the modern, liberal project. They are being driven out by spurious claims for status using victimhood and emotion.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 10, 2022 11:59 am

Damb just up ticked my own post, Lol!

There is a word for that.
Filthy creature.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 12:03 pm

Damb just up ticked my own post

Sssssh. That’s a dirty little secret.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 12:04 pm

Speculation now abounding that the atrocious conditions – poor accomodation, inadequate food, random covid testing and forced isolation – on offer to foreign athletes are a ploy to dampen their performances.

On the other hand maybe they’re just trying to save money. If there’s one thing that Chinese insiders love it’s green stuff.

Olympians in tears over poor living conditions, lack of food at Winter Games (7 Feb, via Instapundit)

It’s apparently not all fun and games at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Complaints from athletes and officials are pouring in about the alleged poor living conditions, dining options, isolating rooms, and debilitating weather conditions, according to social media posts.

German Alpine skiing coach Christian Schwaiger criticized the catering in Beijing and raised concern about limited food options to fuel the high-performing pro athletes.

“The catering is extremely questionable because really it’s not catering at all. “There are no hot meals,” Schwaiger said, via the Sun.

“There are crisps, some nuts and chocolate, and nothing else. This shows a lack of focus on high-performance sport.”

Team USA reportedly came prepared and brought extra food to the Winter Games, including bags of pasta.

It takes real effort to turn the Olympic Games into a cheap sideshow event, but Xi seems to be managing it.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 12:06 pm

If chicks are going to talk like Housos and get spoken to like Housos they shouldn’t complain.

Simple.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 12:06 pm

Damb just up ticked my own post

Sssssh. That’s a dirty little secret.

Doing it a dozen times is naughtier.

Baba
Baba
February 10, 2022 12:06 pm

Thank God for state-owned media.

NPR@NPR
Some white people may choose ? because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of ?? signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.
https://t.co/9g3rochT0K

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 12:08 pm

How dare you! IR.

slackster
slackster
February 10, 2022 12:12 pm

Any predictions on what the verdict will be in the McClown v Palmer court case next week, and what, if any fallout for McClown if he loses?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 10, 2022 12:13 pm

Scroteland here we come..
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/09/how-scotland-is-dismantling-its-justice-system/

Footballer David Goodwillie was dropped by Scottish club Raith Rovers last week, before he could play a single game. He had only joined the club in January. The decision to sign him had been denounced by Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, former UK prime minister Gordon Brown and bestselling crime author Val McDermid, who rescinded her ties to the club in protest.

In 2017 Goodwillie was found, in a civil court, to have raped a woman in 2011. And he has already been punished by the legal system. But legal punishment is not enough for today’s illiberal elites. Astonishingly, there have been few if any concerns raised about this development. Until relatively recently, it was liberals and left-wingers who would denounce as reactionary those who argued for the never-ending punishment of individuals who had already been dealt with by the legal system.
…..
This is not justice. It is vengeance. Even more concerning is that Goodwillie was never put on trial in a criminal court, because there was not enough evidence against him. Instead, in 2017, he was found culpable for rape in a civil-court case – the first case of its kind in recent times.

Civil courts have no jury, only a judge, who makes a decision on the balance of probabilities – a much lower benchmark than the ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ needed in criminal cases. If you are judged culpable, you can be fined or forced to pay damages but not imprisoned.

This would strike most people as an odd form of justice. On the one hand, it appears to be unjust because a man now defined as a rapist by the courts is allowed to walk free. At the same time, this man has been branded a rapist without the need of a jury trial or the high level of evidence that is needed to convict someone of a serious criminal offence like rape. In essence, civil-law cases are determined by the belief of a judge that in balancing up the evidence, there is a 51 per cent chance that the person is culpable.

Exclusive footage of Grace tame finding out about this..

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 12:14 pm

Our kids Catholic school took a pretty sensible approach with a gay teacher who was getting married. They told all staff: “You’re here to teach, not to tell kids about your private life.” It’s the activists that are the problem – not always the qwerty folk.

Having gay “married” teacher in a christian school is a pretty loose definition of the word “sensible”.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 12:15 pm

Mole

No. It’s 50%.. and not .50%. It’s a vacation home and obviously not our primary residence and it’s in a zone where values skyrocketed last year.
I also received notice last year that the marginal rate was being pushed higher above a certain threshold, but I don’t recall the magic number.

I’m thinking of divorcing wifey and making that my primary residence. 🙂

In the past week, I’ve been pinged for quarterly income tax, BAS, ASIC fees, and now Land Tax. But hey, we’re a low taxed country, right?

miltonf
miltonf
February 10, 2022 12:18 pm

These turds are all singing from the same playbookcooincidence not

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 12:18 pm

Rabz says:
February 10, 2022 at 11:57 am

Regarding that pair of histrionic political harlots and their appearance at the National Collectivist J’ism Club, one can’t help wondering if their incessant whining was audible in space.

Don’t be silly. You can’t hear noise in space, but Boeing is using the whining to run their new jets on the Dreamliner. It’s a renewable energy.

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 12:19 pm

I see that now the protests have arrived in Canberra, the creep-machine down there has spun up ASIO to begin denouncing and pointing the bone at unvaccinated people.

“Radicalised and angry”, “most not violent” (only most? I’d say all – definitionally given what we put up with).

You know what’s the worst irony? The far-left were warning dumbo rightists post 9/11 that the vast internal security apparatus the right were gleefully building under the orders of “neo-conservatives” in the 2000’s, would not be used against muslims in any meaningful way (the left would not allow it) – and instead would be used against all of us.

They were 100% correct.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 12:19 pm

Teacher, teacher, have you read Romans 1?
Can you explain it to us please?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 10, 2022 12:22 pm

Shearers would shout ‘NINETYNINE’ when the boss’s wife appeared in the shed to prevent accidentally swearing in front of the ladies – a shameful act for gentlemen.

“Ducks on the pond” was the warning in Western Australian sheds, but, yes, swearing in front of ladies was the act of an oaf and barbarian, indeed.

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 12:23 pm

Weirdo American turtle-on-a-post Kristina Keneally, who hangs around Australian politics for nobody can be quite sure what reason, is running around making a lot of noise about the Aussie Cossack being a foreign agent.

He was born here, and she wasn’t.

But let’s talk about foreign agents corrupting our body politic. Indeed!

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 12:23 pm

You know what’s the worst irony? The far-left were warning dumbo rightists post 9/11 that the vast internal security apparatus the right were gleefully building under the orders of “neo-conservatives” in the 2000’s, would not be used against muslims in any meaningful way (the left would not allow it) – and instead would be used against all of us.

They were 100% correct.

But did you peg it, Stix. When libertarians were complaining about this all through the decade where were you? Can you show us what you said in the old Catallaxy blog?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 12:27 pm

Having gay “married” teacher in a christian school is a pretty loose definition of the word “sensible”.

Once you start why stop?

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 12:28 pm

I must admit JC. I was dismissive of those concerns back then.

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 12:28 pm

Doing it a dozen times is naughtier.

Dover knows.

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 12:30 pm

But did you peg it, Stix. When libertarians were complaining about this all through the decade where were you? Can you show us what you said in the old Catallaxy blog?

I can’t help that you’re losing your memory.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 12:31 pm

Bespoke

I was against them and there would be a record in the backpages. But I recall Dot was absolutely deadset against that crap warming people away from supporting the bullshit. Unless I’m mistaken he wrote a few threads critical of those laws and the reasons why.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 12:33 pm

I can’t help that you’re losing your memory.

I’m asking you to show us where you criticized those laws. Can’t, can you.

Harry Hindsight has become your best pal.

duncanm
duncanm
February 10, 2022 12:33 pm

turtle-on-a-post Kristina Keneally

the most accurate description I’ve seen of her.

duncanm
duncanm
February 10, 2022 12:34 pm

twostixsays:
February 10, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Weirdo American turtle-on-a-post Kristina Keneally, who hangs around Australian politics for nobody can be quite sure what reason, is running around making a lot of noise about the Aussie Cossack being a foreign agent.

He was born here, and she wasn’t.

But let’s talk about foreign agents corrupting our body politic. Indeed!

all I can infer from this is that the “ASIO busted an agent” news relates to the Labor party.

KK is running interference

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
February 10, 2022 12:39 pm

Know your enemies.
It came to to light that the WEF have been actively planting their “agents” in powerful positions around the world (thanks Klaus Schwab). This has no doubt exacerbated the evil we are seeing worldwide.
Take some time to see who their agents are that are undermining freedom, and sowing the seeds of tyranny;
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&status=alumni&sector=&region=a0Tb00000000DCNEA2#results

Chris
Chris
February 10, 2022 12:39 pm

all I can infer from this is that the “ASIO busted an agent” news relates to the Labor party.

I was surprised it wasn’t Malturd and Crissy Pyne being ‘influenced’ by the Frogs.
You might wonder if France had enough money to do this; of course it would eventually be taken from the Australian taxpayer. But really, Malturd and Crissy Pyne would not be bought for cash, because all the foreign agents needed to give them was another mirror in their birdcage.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 10, 2022 12:40 pm

KK is running interference

Bambi is typically the Liars organ grinder’s monkey (can I even say that). Will say or do anything to advance the cause.

twostix
twostix
February 10, 2022 12:40 pm

I’m asking you to show us where you criticized those laws.

No thanks. You were there.

I was criticizing the militarised tacticool police state when were getting smacked by IT for ironing your jeans and demanding the complete abolition of borders because Byran Caplan said so.

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 12:41 pm

How do you uptick multiple times? I tested it and I can’t. Only allowed one. Discrimination, I say! I want to speak to the manager!

Dot
Dot
February 10, 2022 12:42 pm

You know what’s the worst irony? The far-left were warning dumbo rightists post 9/11 that the vast internal security apparatus the right were gleefully building under the orders of “neo-conservatives” in the 2000’s, would not be used against muslims in any meaningful way (the left would not allow it) – and instead would be used against all of us.

They were 100% correct.

…and those awful gloating libertarians questioning why someone should be detained for questioning 48 hours straight…

Simply awful and I hope no one likes then.

Dot
Dot
February 10, 2022 12:43 pm

Who is the guy who thumped Duk’s car?

Is it a crime to name him? There’s a good chance he is a spook. (No joke).

Dot
Dot
February 10, 2022 12:44 pm

The LNP…serves no purpose.

Yep.

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 12:47 pm
bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 12:49 pm

I took 911 too personally that’s my reason still not an excuse for being so blinded, JC.

Kneel
Kneel
February 10, 2022 12:51 pm

“I’m always dubious of freedom of speech bills.”

Me too.
It should be part of a bill of rights in the constitution, not a statute law – statute laws can be changed on political whim and power, changes to the constitution require “we the people” to agree.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 10, 2022 12:53 pm

I want to speak to the manager!

OK Carenalli.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 12:55 pm

No thanks. You were there.

I was there and so were you. I was against those laws, but I don’t recall you talking about them and seeing you’re so boisterous about it now, I’m wondering if your opposition is a Harry Hindsight moment, which with all the twisting and turning, it appears to be.

I was criticizing the militarised tacticool police state when were getting smacked by IT for ironing your jeans and demanding the complete abolition of borders because Byran Caplan said so.

Two lies are always better than one, right Stix? I don’t have jeans ironed with pleats although I suspect the ironing lady does iron them, but I’m not sure as they always end up in the closet after I dump them. Secondly, no one really supported those open borders you’re describing. You’re either just just lying or visualizing another movie.

Back to the real world. When did you actually oppose those laws?

shatterzzz
February 10, 2022 1:00 pm

I notice that with AnAl looking the goods come the election there is one topic that both Lib & Lab or steering well clear of! .. ILLEGALS .. you an bet your last dollar that one of Labor’s 1st acts will be to set free those Tamil bludgers, closely followed by all of Phelps, “get us to Oz quick, we’re dying” scumbags .. then the flood gates will open and it’ll be open water from Indonesia courtesy of the RAN Taxi service ….

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 1:01 pm

There should be a half uptick.

For when you agree with only part of a comment and you’re too lazy to challenge the rest.

C.L.
C.L.
February 10, 2022 1:01 pm

Our kids Catholic school took a pretty sensible approach with a gay teacher who was getting married. They told all staff: “You’re here to teach, not to tell kids about your private life.” It’s the activists that are the problem – not always the qwerty folk.

Marriage is not ‘private.’
The whole point of marriage, historically – leaving aside theologically – was to publicly proclaim that this was the person you were now living with/sleeping with/having children with/legally associated with. Your parents’ and grandparents’ banns of marriage were published by law.

The teacher should have been asked to leave – not because he’s a homosexual but because he’s a heretic.

shatterzzz
February 10, 2022 1:03 pm

Good news if your old folk like me! .. lotza your favourite groups are updating their greatest hits .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/NyW4dmm

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 1:03 pm

One mans heretic is…

local oaf
February 10, 2022 1:05 pm

I notice that with AnAl looking the goods come the election there is one topic that both Lib & Lab or steering well clear of! .. ILLEGALS ..

The instant albo wins, they’ll be fitting out the boats and arriving here within a few weeks.

Regardless of any tough talk pre election from albo, they’ll be expecting the welcome mat and will show up and dare him to keep them out!

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 10, 2022 1:13 pm

You have to wonder, in his church, are they just in child-like awe of the old imposter, or do they perceive what a week and morally vacuous man he is and feel ashamed that he is among them.

Had a visit day before yesterday from someone who goes to ScoMo’s church – my comment was that ScoMo is not a Christian with which this visitor wholeheartedly agreed.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 1:14 pm

How do you uptick multiple times? I tested it and I can’t.

Secret WordPress business.
I should build a bridge out of upticks.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 1:17 pm

Ok someone has upticked three times my dozen upticks!
That’s insulting.
You know who you are.

miltonf
miltonf
February 10, 2022 1:18 pm

Here’s an interesting WEF ‘young leader’

Tulsi Gabbard
Congresswoman from Hawaii (D), 2nd District, United States House of Representatives, USA

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 10, 2022 1:19 pm

Sorry. I’ll behave now.

Chris
Chris
February 10, 2022 1:20 pm

If people were excommunicated for being vacuous hypocrites we would by the standards of the ‘slightly better person’ one pew ahead of us, all end up in Hell.
But todays political media are in a moral status auction with each other so intense that the internal differences of Christians are trivial.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:21 pm

C.L. says:
February 10, 2022 at 1:17 pm

Oh God.

‘I want people to see me’: Son reacts to MP’s emotional religious discrimination bill speech

Yep and I don’t want to hear any freaking complaints from the “Libs must be destroyed” crowd as we approach three years 24/7 of this emotive, ridiculous laughable crap. 🙂

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 10, 2022 1:22 pm

Nonovax just injects the pathogenic spikes right into you.

If I *had* to get one of these experimental therapeutic products, I would go with Novavax. Injecting a small and finite amount of the spike protein into you, as opposed to commanding your cells to manufacture who knows how much spike protein for who knows how long, seems less risky to me.

But I won’t get any of their vaxxes any time soon. Every passing day makes me more determined to refuse to bow to their bullying and shaming tactics. With every authoritarian measure they introduce to make my life more difficult, the more I enjoy telling these people to go fuck themselves.

Rabz
February 10, 2022 1:23 pm

You can’t hear noise in space

JC – it was an oblique reference to the “in space no one can hear you scream*” tagline from Alien.

Although I still maintain that the incessant screeching of various collectivist harpies blighting this continent may have disproved that statement, on numerous occasions.

*Or whine.

JMH
JMH
February 10, 2022 1:26 pm

Sorry. I’ll behave now.

Why? The rest of us aren’t!

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:26 pm

Rabz

I know you know you can’t hear noise in space. I thought the better alternative was to strap those two harridans underneath the wings of a Dreamliner and then off you go, sourcing renewable energy from the endless whining.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 10, 2022 1:28 pm

‘I want people to see me’: Son reacts to MP’s emotional religious discrimination bill speech

No shit. That’s EXACTLY why you’re a boy wearing makeup and dress and insisting you’re a girl. Daddy didn’t have much time for you when you were younger, so now you’re seeking attention from other sources – and as much as you can.

shatterzzz
February 10, 2022 1:29 pm

If chicks are going to talk like Housos and get spoken to like Housos they shouldn’t complain.
How do Housos talk? .. I tend to use a Geordie accent but most around me talk various brands of woggese

Rabz
February 10, 2022 1:30 pm

Does anyone know if those courageous conservative culture warriors* on Sky are aware of Dr Duk’s egregious imprisonment in Canberrastan?

*Description may bear no resemblance to reality, even coincidentally.

Rabz
February 10, 2022 1:33 pm

strap those two harridans underneath the wings of a Dreamliner and then off you go, sourcing renewable energy from the endless whining

Or could install recordings of their whingefests (on a loop) in electric vehicles so pedestrians can hear them approaching.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:33 pm

This is happening now 24/7.

That’s the trailer to the real show. Enjoy.

Rabz
February 10, 2022 1:33 pm

This is happening now 24/7.

And has been for decades.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 10, 2022 1:34 pm

Tis a bit early for JC to be running Liberal party ads.

Written and authorized by I. Ramble, any bridge, Bumfsckistan of the south.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:35 pm

Rabz says:
February 10, 2022 at 1:33 pm

This is happening now 24/7.

And has been for decades.

Have you dudes forgotten the Rudd and Lying Slapper years?

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:36 pm

Shut up Rambles.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 1:38 pm

shatterzzz
I was inferring to the ones that talk like Housos(the show) to be one of the ‘boys’ and still be need to be treated as a delicate petal.

P
P
February 10, 2022 1:38 pm

UNDERCUTTING VATICAN II TO DEFEND VATICAN II?
by George Weigel
2 . 9 . 22

Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, recently sent the world’s bishops instructions regulating local usage of the Traditional Latin Mass.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 10, 2022 1:39 pm

The next Liars party government will be formed from all these females.

Mos Eisley cantina intesifies

See Kimbery Kitching is still there. Burrowed in like a troughing tick after lying her ass off.

Rabz
February 10, 2022 1:39 pm

Have you dudes forgotten the Rudd and Lying Slapper years?

No, which was entirely my point.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 1:40 pm

I do, Dover.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 10, 2022 1:40 pm

The far-left were warning dumbo rightists post 9/11 that the vast internal security apparatus the right were gleefully building under the orders of “neo-conservatives” in the 2000’s, would not be used against muslims in any meaningful way (the left would not allow it) – and instead would be used against all of us.

It’s okay to make mistakes – to admit you were misled, that you trusted people you shouldn’t have trusted – as long as you learn from your mistakes and you realise it’s not a left-right issue, you won’t get fooled again.

However, for most of those on the left that criticised the post-911 response from anti-war or pro-civil liberties perspectives – where are they now when their guys are in charge, madly beating the war drums and ferociously curtailing civil liberties? Crickets. Their ‘resistance’ during the Bush era was based on tribal affiliation, not principle. They can fuck right off.

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 1:43 pm

Oh come onsays:
February 10, 2022 at 1:22 pm
Nonovax just injects the pathogenic spikes right into you.

If I *had* to get one of these experimental therapeutic products, I would go with Novavax. Injecting a small and finite amount of the spike protein into you, as opposed to commanding your cells to manufacture who knows how much spike protein for who knows how long, seems less risky to me.

But I won’t get any of their vaxxes any time soon. Every passing day makes me more determined to refuse to bow to their bullying and shaming tactics. With every authoritarian measure they introduce to make my life more difficult, the more I enjoy telling these people to go fuck themselves.

Crom laughs at their 4 vax’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWG-nHuuCRc

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 10, 2022 1:44 pm

‘I want people to see me’: Son reacts to MP’s emotional religious discrimination bill speech

I can imagine his father putting his head in his hands and saying “Geez sin, stop helping us!”

He is of course not refuting the bill because the bill does not empower the religious to stop him from dressing up as a woman, claiming the rafts of support, and being feted as ‘brave’ or ‘stunning’. (Or ‘Fabulous!’)

All it does is say that other people are allowed to hold the opinion that it is wrong. They will do nothing to him. They will more likely pray for him than hate him. It just means he cannot demand that they act in a certain way with regards to him.

This MP’s son really seems to have no problem with other people being denied their beliefs, insisting that the state should force them to have his.

This is where they reveal how weak they are in their identities – that they need it confirmed everywhere, always, by everyone. Does he have no sense that “I am a chick. They are wrong.” that other people sitting far away in their living rooms probably not even thinking about him at the time, are an existential* threat.

*Used on purpose – existence and essence.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 10, 2022 1:44 pm

What are the odds ATAGI says yes to booster and National cabinets blindly follows the advice and we are now coerced to get 3rd shot that was created before Delta ?

Saw one paper today saying ATAGI would be saying yes.

How long does it take to get a truckers licence ? Asking for a friend ! Uh oh, ASIO will be triggered.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 10, 2022 1:44 pm

and then off you go, sourcing renewable energy from the endless whining.
Unlike jet engines, the noise doesn’t stop after you’ve stopped outside the terminal.

miltonf
miltonf
February 10, 2022 1:45 pm

Another WEF boy

Leo Varadkar
Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leader of Fine Gael, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment of Ireland, Ireland

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 1:46 pm

Why do you care about the disciplinary policy of Christian schools?

Not a top priority for me, Dover but I do support there right to choose staff.

Is that support un welcome from you?

cohenite
February 10, 2022 1:51 pm

The great man Latham sums up tame and our brittany perfectly on Boltitude’s program. If only some one in the federal government had the balls to call out these harridans as the liars they are like he does. Scomo has shat his pants and the stench is terrible. But here’s the bite; if rub and tug and the filth get in this tame/brittany kuntswaddle will seem like a walk in the park. At this stage I think the liars and their proteges have over played their hand. Scomo is now heading for a sympathy vote.

Jorge
Jorge
February 10, 2022 1:51 pm

So no consequences for the five Libs who voted against their own party last night. This is the kind of lofty, seigneurial free pass for gays and trans they want in churches.

The Labor head kickers understand what to do when people put selfish virtue signaling above the Party.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:53 pm

Interesting read in Barrons about predictions across the real estate market from this sheila who manages a lot of real estate money.

The interesting grabs after the intro.

Carly Tripp grew up playing in corn fields in Olney, Md., about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C. But by the time she graduated high school, five grocery stores had popped up within a one-mile radius, turning the town into a bustling suburb—the type of development she now tries to spot early, as a real estate investor.

Tripp oversees $144 billion as global chief investment officer and head of investments for Nuveen Real Estate, one of the nation’s largest real estate investment managers, which scooped up more than $10 billion in U.S. property last year. While many other investors were bearish on retail property as the pandemic hit, Tripp rightly spotted opportunities among the subset of retailers that correctly anticipated how shoppers might want to buy in a pandemic. Tripp talked with Barron’s from Davidson, N.C., about some of her latest contrarian ideas, including why renting may be preferred to owning a home, why office space isn’t dead, and the best types of malls, senior housing, and industrials to own. An edited version of our conversation follows.

Barron’s: What is the state of the housing market?

Carly Tripp: There’s still a three-to-five-million unit shortage across the U.S. There was a lot of scar tissue from the housing crisis; investors were skittish to invest and home builders were slow to build. We had a whole decade of underbuilding and are playing catch-up now. Housing starts in multifamily units are at record highs. Delivery delays have moved from an average of seven months to more than 16 months. It’s a perfect recipe for a strengthening in the overall housing market.

Home prices have soared. Is this a bubble?

There has been a ton of appreciation postpandemic, but people aren’t considering that mortgage rates have come down so much. If you look at median housing prices between 2006 and 2021 and bump that up against the cost of a mortgage based on rates today, a $250,000 home in 2006 is a $400,000 home today. Even in the top 20 composite markets, in inflation-adjusted terms we are just back to 2007 levels. I don’t think there’s a bubble.

and

Where within the country are you finding the most opportunities?

Migration patterns have been staggering. This exodus from coastal cities into the Sunbelt—across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Texas—has been massive. Living outdoors in warmer climates with access to beaches and mountains is how people want to live today, and tax advantages for corporations is top of mind, too. Technology has created these micro urban areas across the U.S. that didn’t exist before. There are a lot of places where people can get gainful employment and access to education for their families. The coastal cities are not going to go away, but there’s a lot more population dispersion.

And

How much of the workforce is expected to return to office?

Long term, the disruption and decrease in demand [for office space] is likely 10%. It’s going to vary by location and type. We are still very bullish on specialty-use property like studios, medical life sciences, and highly amenitized, smaller office buildings across the Sunbelt. In a lot of these markets where people are moving, office is undersupplied. There’s still a lot of positive momentum. Selection is key, and there’s some risk with the need to transition from heavy carbon usage to net-zero usage. There’s no bigger risk for that [energy] transition than in office space.

Then it gets a little too specialized.

I’m guessing, the equivalent in Australia is the very big move in real estate prices along the beach front areas just out of the two big cities. Dunno about the rest as no one really gives a shit. 🙂

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:55 pm

Cronkers

Can you sum up what the great man (Latham) said? Be useful for once.

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 1:55 pm

‘I want people to see me’: Son reacts to MP’s emotional religious discrimination bill speech

Thanks for that, Paddy. We see you.

Anything else? Any other demands from your special form of Special Specialness?

Don’t keep us in suspenders.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 10, 2022 1:55 pm

This MP’s son really seems to have no problem with other people being denied their beliefs, insisting that the state should force them to have his.

Bam.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 1:56 pm

dover0beach says:
February 10, 2022 at 1:40 pm

Have you dudes forgotten the Rudd and Lying Slapper years?

No worse than Morrison.

Come on, you can only realistically compare the couple of pre-covid years.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 10, 2022 1:59 pm

Have you dudes forgotten the Rudd and Lying Slapper years?

Shambolic, chaotic, but no significant long term damage done – apart from massive deficit spending, but the coalition hasn’t been any better on that front.

Not turfing a shit government because the opposition will probably be worse is not a compelling argument to remain with the status quo. It means Shitsville is still the destination, but sticking with the status quo means the journey is a bit longer.

I think the Australian electorate is going to get what it wants anyway, and is going to get it good and hard (thanks Mencken). There’s no reason not to go scorched earth on the coalition. Maybe something half decent will arise from the ashes and sort things out. Maybe not. I’m assuming not and planning accordingly.

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 1:59 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
February 10, 2022 at 1:55 pm
This MP’s son really seems to have no problem with other people being denied their beliefs, insisting that the state should force them to have his.

Bam.

And if I believe in the lizard people, everyone else should be forced to as well. If they don’t they are racists, nazis, homophobes, white privilege, fringe dwellers……..

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 2:02 pm

If I see Paddy walking through the fruit and veg aisle of Colesworths, am I allowed to have a little giggle too?

Or do I avert my eyes from the power of his awesomeness?

What exactly is the protocol here?

P
P
February 10, 2022 2:04 pm

There was discussion late last night on newcatallasy and that this might be of some interest crossed my mind.

Edward Pentin is always IMO worth a read. This is a long article.
Traditional Latin Mass: Canonists Question the Legislative Force of Recent Vatican Guidelines
ANALYSIS: The interpretive document considerably tightens already-sweeping restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman Rite.
Edward Pentin – Vatican – February 8, 2022

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 2:05 pm

Shambolic, chaotic, but no significant long term damage done – apart from massive deficit spending, but the coalition hasn’t been any better on that front.

Not true. The Libs were actually beginning to repay debt when covid hit. The budget was finally under a semblance of control.

Not turfing a shit government because the opposition will probably be worse is not a compelling argument to remain with the status quo. It means Shitsville is still the destination, but sticking with the status quo means the journey is a bit longer.

Why does the magic only work by turfing out the Libs. In fact one could mount an argument that by rejecting the Liars, the impact could be to move the Liars more to the right, which could nudge the libs too.

There’s no reason this magic equation of turfing out the libs would work and I’d argue it would work better the other way as it may force the Liars to reject some looneyism.

cohenite
February 10, 2022 2:05 pm

Can you sum up what the great man (Latham) said? Be useful for once.

There is a podcast. But for just for you head prefect. The great man said tame will be a filth or liar candidate shortly; she’s lying about her claim she received a threatening phone call; both tame and our brittany have contaminated brittany’s hearing of her rape claim and thrown in the shit-house the notion of the presumption of innocence; and that scomo is a cuck; and rub and tug is a commie and lying through his teeth by pretending to be a moderate, and that he will open the borders, abolish private businesses and generally do a biden on Australia. He also said the pervert activists have got their way with the sex discrimination bill, that the real motive is to abolish private schools and that religious schools will be soon full of little boy perverts in dresses chasing girls around the girls’ toilets.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 10, 2022 2:05 pm

We’re all in this together (the Hun):

Victorians locked out of Western Australia have vented their fury and frustration over Western Australia’s decision to allow two AFLW teams to fly in and out of Perth to compete this weekend. AFLW teams Carlton and Collingwood will penetrate the WA hard border in fly-in, fly-out games on Saturday and Sunday with no quarantine requirements.

The granting of the exemption by the Western Australian government has sparked anger among Australians who have not been able to enter the state because of its hard Covid border stance.

If you’re going to leap out of the pulpit, at least do it for something worthwhile. Normal people had this to say:

Adrian Gissara from Melbourne said it was “ridiculous stuff” from the Western Australian government.

“ppl (people) can’t go and visit family but they let in AFL and AFLW players,” he tweeted.

Also:

Steve Palmer from Korumburra in Victoria’s southeast described the move as “inhumane”.

“It’s inhumane and a disgrace that both the AFL and that idiot megalomaniac Mark McGowan would put sport before families,” Mr Palmer said in a Facebook post.

And:

Nadia Vago said the move was “deeply shameful”.

“This country has lost its moral compass, devoid of any compassion and sense,” she tweeted.

“People dying alone and afraid while sports people have free tickets. They have had two years to get this right and have failed miserably.”

Melina Murata from Sydney slammed Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan, saying she had been locked out of the state despite facing a family emergency.

“I have a family emergency going on in WA I need to get there to be with my mum,” she tweeted. “I am double vaccinated and have had Omicron and recovered. Yet I can’t get in without seven days isolation.”

Dr Erin Watson from Melbourne said the decision was a “joke”.

“This is a joke and completely unfair to all of us who have ‘played by the rules’ for 2 years,” she tweeted.

P
P
February 10, 2022 2:05 pm

newcatallaxy

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 2:07 pm

What exactly is the protocol here?

Look away, smile or just go about your business it’s up to them and the power they crave over you.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 2:08 pm

The ideal is to move the ENTIRE electorate more to the right rather than one side. Look at what happened last time. Tits was going all out for a glorious win with real live socialist policies and he was basically rejected big time. Big time as in not winning an election he should have won easily. To a small extent, this has nudged the Liars Party a little more to the right.

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 2:09 pm

WA State Government, Labor 2PP down to 64%.

So, only 45 more points down to give the WA Libs a chance in 2025…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 10, 2022 2:09 pm

‘I want people to see me’

Careful what you wish for.

‘Behold me. Gaze upon my stunningness and bravery!’

”Take yer Mum’s dress off, ya pooftah-pansy.’

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 2:10 pm

I will never ever forget Programmatic Specificity and Gingerella.

It was like a circus from day one. Highlights:

2020 Summit with celebs, crayons and butchers’ paper
Empty suitcase carrying in floods
Flak jacket and rejected sandwiches
The blowsy female grinner in tow, along with a host of parasitic family
Loose bottom lip

Parliament House riot
Lost blue shoe
Carbon Tax
Seventeen minute speech from two preening halfwits
Hairdresser and dog
Kangaroo knitting
Cash for clunkers

Fried tradies
Fly tipped insulation batts
Skywhale
Stimulus cheques sent to dead people and dogs
Red underpants
Radioactive milk

Roll up! Roll up! Australian politics at its nadir!

But wait, there’s more….

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 2:11 pm

Small edit to this:

To a small extent, this has nudged the Liars Party a little more to the right.

To a small extent, this has nudged the Liars Party a little more to the right or at least they’re lying about it now.

Real Deal
Real Deal
February 10, 2022 2:13 pm

This is now a soap opera. From the Oz

Liberal Senator Amanda Stoker has accused a Labor adviser of calling her a “f***wit” and a “c***”. The man says he was talking about someone else.”

Talking about someone else? Oh, that’s alright then.

calli
calli
February 10, 2022 2:14 pm

Bespoke! I can’t look away!

Paddy demands that I see him. If I don’t I’m a double dog discriminator with pike and half twist.

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 2:14 pm

I’ll prolly put a few of the Minors (Christian Dems, UAP, PHON) in my first few preferences. My last preferences will go, in this order, to:

-LNP;
-Lib Dems;
-Labor;
-Greens.

I suspect most here would do the same? Lib Dems could go up a bit or down a bit… I’m not sold either way.

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 2:14 pm

CPI this evening at 8.30 US east coast time. If it runs hot, it will be interesting to see the response. I’m sure, though that the Brandons will try to rig it, like it’s not as thought they haven’t rigged shit before.

C.L.
C.L.
February 10, 2022 2:15 pm

This exodus from coastal cities into the Sunbelt—across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Texas—has been massive.

Seems almost counter-intuitive but the great coastal cities have been turned into gigantic toilets by Democrats. The loss of San Francisco to the zombies is one of the greatest tragedies in American history.

Cassie of Sydney
February 10, 2022 2:17 pm

Dover…..I accidentally reported your comment at 1.41 p.m. Apologies.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 10, 2022 2:17 pm

In fact one could mount an argument that by rejecting the Liars, the impact could be to move the Liars more to the right

Well, they’ve been rejected three times on the trot and I don’t see any evidence of them moving to the right. The lesson they appear to have learnt from 2019 is that they need to make themselves as small a target as possible.

Fundamentally, I see no evidence that the coalition’s vision for the country is significantly different or better than Labor’s vision for the country, even though the coalition makes a lot of promises to the contrary. The coalition deserves the harshest punishment for the prolonged fraud it has perpetuated on the country. Labor generally does what you expect it to do.

shatterzzz
February 10, 2022 2:19 pm

shatterzzz
I was inferring to the ones that talk like Housos(the show) to be one of the ‘boys’ and still be need to be treated as a delicate petal.

No probs .. it always amuses me whenever a Housos generalization comes up it always is about specific others never all of us .. actually, where I am they can’t talk like in the show(s) .. English as a 17th language is the norm! ..
I’ve always been impressed by SBS finding so many English as a 1st language for “STRUGGLE STREET” .. LOL!

JC
JC
February 10, 2022 2:21 pm

C.L. says:
February 10, 2022 at 2:15 pm

This exodus from coastal cities into the Sunbelt—across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Texas—has been massive.

Seems almost counter-intuitive but the great coastal cities have been turned into gigantic toilets by Democrats. The loss of San Francisco to the zombies is one of the greatest tragedies in American history.

CL

I’ve been a few times in the 90s before SF became a cesspool. No kidding, you just fell in love with the place as it was beyond beautiful. Going around places like Pacific Heights – one of the burbs. It was just gorgeous.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
February 10, 2022 2:22 pm

I looked up a new company referred to in the Australian called Zeroco. The company was crowd funded $5m to help develop a sustainable world. I looked Z up. Essentially soap products with refillable bottles. (Buy replacement product in bags). Products look v plain and expensive…which is the fashion.
What made me laugh was their website showing their crew cleaning up at K’gari …where? Oh you mean Fraser Island. Well dummies I went on a Fraser Island cleanup 20 years ago with my then employer. 250 volunteers over a weekend. No word of a lie we struggled to find a cigarette butt. Over 2 days we had enough to fill one large black kitchen garbage bag … and we drove all over that island. Granted others towed back an old vehicle wreck. That place was pristine 20 years ago…Before this lot were out of nappies. So if you want to clean it up? too late. As were we. People have been looking after the environment for a while now despite what social Media tells you. But we’ll done for getting $5m out of other dummies.

sfw
sfw
February 10, 2022 2:27 pm

Rugbyskier

“I’m a blindside flanker”

I have no idea what that means, you may as well be speaking Russian. You’re only a professional at something if you’re paid for it so how does semi professional skiing make you money? Plus I’ve never liked ball games and rugby just has way too much man to man contact in a disturbing way.

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 2:29 pm

Dover

How about this. My sis has just put her kid in a catholic school. I have no I idea if she converted ( unlikely), divorced single mum.

Is she welcome?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 10, 2022 2:30 pm

Shorten rape accuser Kathy Sherriff confirms – neither Laura Tingle nor NPC have contacted her.

Michael Smith News.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 10, 2022 2:32 pm

Top Ender says:
February 10, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Bloody Romans!

Dozens of beheaded bodies have been discovered along the new HS2 railway route in the UK, as well as more than 400 skeletons.

They were probably LGBTQIA legionaries who were discriminated against.
Tearful apologies from Italian PM a must.

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 2:34 pm

I started reading Hendo’s book on Pell last night – at first I thought it’s not nearly as good as Windschuttle’s but its warming up now…

I never realised Victoria Police have basically been corrupt since their inception..

Lysander
Lysander
February 10, 2022 2:35 pm

I never realised Victoria Police have basically been corrupt since their inception..

Does Vic Plod have to take a Masonic Oath or something before commencing service?

Razey
Razey
February 10, 2022 2:35 pm

bespokesays:
February 10, 2022 at 2:29 pm
Dover

How about this. My sis has just put her kid in a catholic school. I have no I idea if she converted ( unlikely), divorced single mum.

Is she welcome?

My kids go to a Catholic school. They dont deny anyone from enrolling.

The idea is that anyone can be saved, provided they want to be saved. But I think they believe everyone should get the chance to repent.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 10, 2022 2:36 pm

I have no idea what that means, you may as well be speaking Russian.

Don’t know what a blindside flanker is? Let me Google that for you.

Yes, I do earn income from skiing but I’m not going into any detail here. Happy though for Dover to give you my email address if you want to know more.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 10, 2022 2:37 pm

This lot Lysander.

only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Bailiffs or english landlords which is better known as Officers of Justice or Victorian Police who some calls honest gentlemen . . .

bespoke
bespoke
February 10, 2022 2:38 pm

Cool, thanks.

C.L.
C.L.
February 10, 2022 2:39 pm

“I’m a blindside flanker”

I have no idea what that means, you may as well be speaking Russian.

It means he’s the slower of the two flankers.
I was an open-side flanker. 🙂

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
February 10, 2022 2:39 pm

WOO HOO…I spoke quickly to a Brisbane trucker who hauled three , yes 3 trailers of flour to Perth. ‘First time in 8 years I’ve done this ‘ he said. “it normally goes on rail’. Cakes , cakes and more cakes .. ohh and bread will be back on the shelves . Life is getting back to normal.

C.L.
C.L.
February 10, 2022 2:40 pm

How about this. My sis has just put her kid in a catholic school. I have no I idea if she converted ( unlikely), divorced single mum.

Is she welcome?

OF COURSE!

C.L.
C.L.
February 10, 2022 2:41 pm

JC, I was fascinated by SFC from boyhood. We had a collection of colour books at home on the great cities and the pictures were just breathtaking. Probably, they were taken in the 50s.

Cassie of Sydney
February 10, 2022 2:43 pm

I am of the understanding that Catholic schools welcome Catholics (of course), Anglicans, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists. In fact the Catholic system is truly non-discriminatory.

My understanding (and Catholics here can confirm) is that if you choose to send your child to a Catholic school and you’re not Catholic, your religion is respected however your child will be expected to attend Catholic religious classes. All of this is laid out at enrolment. I don’t have a problem with that.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 10, 2022 2:44 pm

I was an open-side flanker.

Ah, the pretty boys of the forwards CL. And yes, I’m slower but being a skier means I can jump high in a lineout however I need to suppress the skiing muscle memory to bend ankles, knees and hips – I have been dropped from the top of the jump because I kicked the prop in the nuts.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
February 10, 2022 2:45 pm

Dont you worry about that road train catching alight on the SA/WA border…it was haulin’ danish butter.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 10, 2022 2:49 pm

‘Somebody shouldn’t run at police with an axe’: Video of key moments before NT shooting
By Zach Hope
February 10, 2022 — 11.24am

Shortly after 7pm on the evening of November 9, 2019, five Alice Springs police officers left the Yuendumu police station to roam the red-dirt streets and miserable housing on a mission to find a teenager who, within minutes, would be dying on a mattress.

Each man had his police-issued semi-automatic Glock and regular accoutrements. In addition, a court heard this week, the team was kitted with at least one AR-15 assault rifle, a bean-bag shotgun and dog.

The arrest target had days earlier fled court-ordered alcohol rehabilitation, and had a history of violence and escape.

In his 19 years, Kumanjayi Walker had notched 21 entries on his criminal history, dating to the week after his 13th birthday, according to the facts in Constable Zachary Rolfe’s trial for murder.

On their journey through Yuendumu, officers were stopped by Aboriginal woman Elizabeth Snape.

“Why has he got a gun?” she asked officer Adam Eberl. “It’s not right.”

The prosecution said she was probably referring to Senior Constable Anthony Hawkings and his assault rifle.

“Yeah, we all carry guns,” Constable Eberl replied. Ms Snape suggested he was aiming to shoot someone.

“He’s not aiming to shoot anyone, is he,” the officer said. “We don’t have a holster for that one, so we just carry it.

“Someone probably shouldn’t run at police with an axe.”

This and other exchanges captured on police body-worn videos have been played to Supreme Court jury examining Mr Walker’s death but, until now, had been suppressed and could not be described.

The court heard this week Constable Eberl was referring to an incident three days earlier, in which Mr Walker threatened Yuendumu-based policemen Christopher Hand and Lanyon Smith with a hatchet before escaping into the scrub.

These two officers told the jury on Wednesday they believed Mr Walker only wanted to escape and did not want to hurt them.

“Next time he does that, he might get shot,” Senior Constable Hand prophetically warned Mr Walker’s family members immediately after the incident. “Community policeman is different to town policeman.”

The travelling Alice Springs officers had watched the video of the incident several times before leaving for Yuendumu. The prosecution alleges Constable Rolfe criticised the would-be arresting officers for their actions, though the specifics remain unclear.

Video captured by a camera worn by the accused once they arrived at Yuendumu on November 9 shows him asking community members about Mr Walker’s whereabouts.

“Hi, I’m Zach, nice to meet you,” he said in one of the exchanges. “We’re here to gather [Mr Walker] up.”

At 7.20pm and 56 seconds, Constable Eberl entered Yuendumu house number 511, where intelligence suggested Mr Walker was staying, the court heard.

The video shows that Constable Rolfe followed his partner inside three seconds later. They were met by a man dressed in a dark Chicago Bulls T-shirt with a red satchel over his shoulder who gave his name as Vernon Dixon. It was, in fact, Kumanjayi Walker.

The constables told him several times to keep his hat off while they checked his identity.

The video shows Constable Rolfe bringing up a photo of their target on his phone and holding it next to Mr Walker’s head.

Apparently satisfied they had their target, Constable Rolfe told Mr Walker to “just put your hands behind your back”.

In the chaos that followed, Mr Walker stabbed Constable Rolfe in the left shoulder with a 10-centimetre pair of surgical scissors. The officer responded by firing three times — 2.6 and 0.53 seconds apart — into Mr Walker’s back and torso.

The prosecution says the first shot was justifiable, but the second and third, when Mr Walker was “pinned” on a mattress under the weight of Constable Eberl, were not reasonable or necessary.

Constable Rolfe will argue he was acting in good faith that evening, and all three rounds were fired in self-defence and within the reasonable duties of police.

“It is the defence position that Constable Rolfe, having been stabbed by a known violent offender and having lawfully shot him once, was justified in continuing to defend his mate and fellow police officer, who was just doing his job, as was Constable Rolfe,” barrister David Edwardson, QC, said.

Mr Walker moaned and called for his adoptive or kinship mother, Leanne Oldfield.

“You mob been shoot me,” he cried to the officers.

The court heard Constable Rolfe yelled to his partner: “He was stabbing me, he was stabbing you.”

Crown prosecutor Philip Strickland, SC, asked the jury to consider whether Constable Rolfe was referring to Mr Walker trying to stab him and his partner while they were standing up — before the first shot — or when Constable Eberl and Mr Walker were on the mattress.

“Or, did he say those words because he knew that he had gone too far when he fired the second and third shots?” Mr Strickland asked.

Outside, Constable Rolfe and other frantic officers did their best to save Mr Walker’s life, the court heard. He died in the Yuendumu police station at 8.36pm.

The trial continues.

Cassie of Sydney
February 10, 2022 2:49 pm

I forgot to add Muslims into the mix. There are a lot of Catholic schools in the western suburbs of Sydney that have many Muslim students.

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