Truckies

Non Catholics are welcome in Catholic schools but their numbers are limited, baptised Catholics get priority and usually the percentage is limited.
As long as people send their children there eyes wide open that there will be prayers and RE classes and the occasional mass, but in any case what Catholic schools tend to fail to do, is inculcate the faith in their Catholic students, let alone convert anyone else.

I’m double jabbed! I don’t judge anyone.

Ah, perhaps it was Rosie… yes, that’s right it was. 😛

long Jeremiad

Hmm I think that’s actually tautologous. My apologies everyone, I’ll do better I promise.

I didn’t bother to click on the story but get a load of the headline! ..
luv it when the media does fair, even-handed & honest .. after all, WE IS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, except! .. LOL!

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/grace-tame-brittany-higgins-and-a-visceral-palpable-moment-in-history/ar-AATFHfY?li=AAgfYrC

Have you dudes forgotten the Rudd and Lying Slapper years?

Gotta take your lumps.

No probs MiltonF.

I’d still conceded, despite Hendo’s points, that money would help…. not everyone can afford a Richter/Shann combo!!!

Taliban sniper becomes Afghan mayor

By Afp
AFP
4:01PM February 9, 2022
11 Comments

Strolling through the town of Maymana, the new mayor appears to inspire goodwill from war-weary constituents in the Afghan provincial capital.

But Damullah Mohibullah Mowaffaq has a reputation as one of the top snipers in the ranks of the Taliban, waging war to take control of the country until last year.

Mr Mowaffaq, 25, was made mayor of Maymana, capital of Faryab province in the far reaches of northwest Afghanistan, in November, three months after the Taliban ousted the Western-backed government and seized power.

He rose to prominence as a fighter, but now his schedule is packed with the daily tasks of local government – unblocking sewers, planning roads, and smoothing over neighbourhood quarrels.

His switch reflects the broader transformation that the Taliban are undergoing, as the insurgents grapple with administering territory.

“When I was fighting my objectives were very specific: to end the foreign occupation, discrimination and injustice,” he said.

‘Ups and downs’

On walkabout through the streets of Maymana, the new mayor talks with municipal workers clearing roadside gutters.

Residents of the city of 100,000 approach with complaints and suggestions, which are dutifully added to an ever-growing to-do list.

“The new mayor is young, well-educated and, very importantly, from the city,” says his non-Taliban deputy, Sayed Ahmad Shah Gheyasi. “He knows how to deal with people.”

Unlike the poor, madrassa-educated rural men who make up the Taliban rank and file, Mr Mowaffaq comes from a family of wealthy traders and grew up in Maymana, where he excelled at school and in sport.

Memorabilia from his youth decorates his office, including a certificate from a martial arts competition as well as his high school diploma.

After joining the insurgency at 19, he was promoted to command a small unit deployed in Faryab province.

Others describe him as one of the Taliban’s most talented snipers, although he appears reluctant to be drawn into telling war stories.

But on walkabout he pauses in front of a house blemished with munition marks near the village of Doraye Khoija Qoshre, where his unit once held sway.

Here he used to hide himself away, scoping Western troops with his rifle and honing a reputation as a crack shot.

“He killed an American with his rifle from this house, then a plane came and bombed him,” said Saifaddin, a local farmer, who like many in Afghanistan goes by one name.

Although it cannot be confirmed Mr Mowaffaq was responsible, in mid-2019 the US announced a member of their special forces had been killed in fighting in Faryab.

A year earlier, the Afghan Analysts Network said Maymana was “practically under siege” owing to “an astonishingly widespread Taliban presence”.

MrMowaffaq witnessed several comrades killed in fighting but remains evasive about the horrors he both inflicted and suffered.

“I have had many ups and downs,” he says.

Going on schools and who gets to go to them .. have a look at the names on this roll call of the best & brightest from Canley Vale High .. not a lot of diversity on display .. not knocking the kids or school but WOW when it comes to ancestry ..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1491238103633506304

Update on Dr. duk’s Petition: 2,595 have signed when I last looked. Target 5,000. Dover has kindly placed the link in Current petitions top r/h/s. Please sign if you haven’t as yet.

Have signed the petition & trying to send money via Paypal. Why do they make these mechanisms so difficult? Currently Paypal not connecting……

Husband and I will try to get to Canberra on Saturday…. trying to fit in Sydney commitments.

Why the voices of Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins are so crucial
Lanai Scarr, Sarah-Jane Tasker, Rhianna Mitchell & Annabel HennessyThe West Australian
Thu, 10 February 2022 2:00AM

Very much “You go, girls.” For some strange reason, comments have suddenly gone down the “memory hole.”

So much for the Howard Battlers. Turned out they didn’t matter.

They are 2/3rds of the way through a 3 point turn.

The trousers came off pronto and were shaken out.

My neighbours are too polite to mention it. Goodness know what the golfers thought.

My grandmother was a deeply religious lady. Her sister, also religious, was paying her an extended visit.

My grandfather had had an unfortunate episode with a bull ants nest. He had torn his trousers off, and was beating said trousers against a tree, when the Catholic priest drove past, to take afternoon tea with two True Believers.

JMH.

I was prescribed zinc pocolinate to treat Covid.

Trudeau Gets Heckled in The House of Commons & Told To Follow The Science & End Mandates

Morrison just boosted their funding. They are laughing at us.

So BAU then?

‘Inaccurate and incorrect’: row intensifies over lawyers in Ben Roberts-Smith case
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
February 10, 2022 — 4.14pm

A dispute over legal advice allegedly received by two witnesses that The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald intended to call as witnesses in war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case has intensified after the Federal Court heard that “inaccurate and incorrect” claims may have been made by the media outlets in court.

Nicholas Owens, SC, who is acting for the media companies, alleged in the Federal Court on Wednesday that a barrister for Mr Roberts-Smith, Arthur Moses, SC, contacted a high-profile Sydney silk, Phillip Boulten, SC, and “expressed concerns” that the interests of two SAS soldiers the newspapers intended to call as witnesses “may not be being properly protected” in relation to their potential involvement in the trial.

Mr Owens said the newspapers’ legal team understood that Mr Boulten then contacted Peter Hodges, a partner at law firm Mills Oakley, and one or both of those lawyers “have been placed in contact” with the soldiers, dubbed Persons 56 and 66, “by means unknown”.

The potential witnesses already had lawyers acting for them who had been approved by the Defence Force, the court heard.

Mr Owens said there was “a prohibition on the true identity of Person 56 and Person 66 being made known to anyone” apart from authorised lawyers in the case.

Mr Owens said one of those potential witnesses, Person 56, initially suggested he would not oppose any application by the newspapers to call him to give evidence, but had now changed his position.

The newspapers’ legal team issued a subpoena to Mr Boulten and Mr Hodges and a notice to produce to Mr Roberts-Smith, seeking what Mr Owens described as “evidence of communications between those groups of people and these two witnesses about their participation in the proceedings”.

On Thursday, a barrister acting for Mr Boulten and Mr Hodges, Anthony Cheshire, SC, told Justice Anthony Besanko that “we do not know the basis upon which leave to issue the subpoenas was granted”.

“We’ve been informed by the … [newspapers’] lawyers that no evidence was relied upon, but they’ve refused to provide us with copies of the transcript of the submissions that were made,” Mr Cheshire said.

“Although the respondents’ lawyers have refused to provide us with a copy of the relevant part of the transcript, we note that the respondents have published at least extracts of the oral submissions on their website to the public at large.

“We have reviewed those publications, and if what has been reported is a full and accurate representation of what was said to justify the issuing of the subpoenas, then I should record that it included facts [and] inferences that were inaccurate and incorrect.”

However, Mr Cheshire said that Mr Boulten and Mr Hodges did not wish to delay the trial and were content to hand over documents “within the ambit of the subpoena”.

“I should make it clear, however, that by doing so they are not intending to waive any legal rights that they may have, and they reserve of all their rights, including the right to argue, if it becomes necessary, that the subpoenas should never have been issued to them,” Mr Cheshire said.

He produced five packets of material to the court, including a category of documents that he said may be covered by legal professional privilege. That privilege was claimed by Mr Boulten and Mr Hodges on behalf of Persons 56 and 66, he said, but it was now up to those men to assert that privilege, or not, as they saw fit.

Mr Moses said there was “nothing to produce” in relation to the notice to produce served on Mr Roberts-Smith.

Lawyers for the potential witnesses will now review the documents to ascertain whether any of the material produced by Mr Boulten and Mr Hodges are legally privileged and cannot be used in court.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing three media outlets for defamation over a series of news reports in 2018 he says portray him as a war criminal.

The Age and the Herald, owned by Nine, and The Canberra Times, now under separate ownership, are seeking to rely on a defence of truth. They allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement.

Mr Roberts-Smith maintains any killings were carried out lawfully in the heat of battle.

Later on Thursday, a serving SAS soldier dubbed Person 14 returned to the witness box.

He has given damaging evidence that he witnessed three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2009 around “a black object which was … similar to a human” before one of the soldiers fired a “distinctive” machine gun, known as the F89 Para Minimi.

He said he later discovered the object was an Afghan man with a prosthetic leg, who had been shot dead.

Person 14 told the court he could not identify any of the three soldiers, but he “saw who had the Minimi” after the mission was completed, and it was “Ben Roberts-Smith”.

Under cross-examination by Mr Moses, Person 14 has agreed he was not suggesting this was the same weapon used in the alleged incident.

On Thursday, Mr Moses put it to him that he initially told investigative journalist Chris Masters, who co-wrote the articles at the centre of the case, that another soldier, Person 4, had shot the Afghan man.

“Incorrect,” Person 14 said.

“You are a liar, aren’t you?” Mr Moses said.

“I’m not,” Person 14 said.

Mr Moses referred to handwritten notes made by Masters and put it to Person 14 that he told Masters at a meeting in February 2018 that “RS [Roberts-Smith] had an M14” rifle, while Person 4 had a Minimi and “P4 had shot an old guy with a prosthetic leg”.

Person 14 said Minimis were typically carried by a junior soldier, and he initially believed Person 4 shot the Afghan man.

“That was based off me assuming that the Minimi carrier was Person 4,” he said. “That was my initial assumption on the ground … but I later came to learn who was carrying the Minimi.”

Mr Moses put it to him that “you never said to Mr Masters on the 27th of February 2018 that you understood that it was Mr Roberts-Smith who’d shot the man with the prosthetic leg”.

“What I accept is that my initial assumption was Person 4 had the Minimi as the junior person in the patrol, and that was my initial assumption on what I saw,” Person 14 said.

“You are a liar, aren’t you?” Mr Moses said.

“No,” Person 14 said.

The trial continues.

“Ben Roberts Smith had an M14 rifle..” M14 rifles haven’t been used since the days of the Vietnam war, by the United States Army and Marine Corps…

No I’m not.
These discussions have been had before on this forum (we user to have a poster who claimed to be trans) and in cases of genuine childhood gender dysphoria the literature regarding adolescence is quite clear.
The fact that it is now fashionable to claim to be trans is an entirely different thing.
If you weren’t so biased against me you’d have checked before attacking.

“According to prospective studies, the majority of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria cease to desire to be the other sex by puberty, with most growing up to identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, with or without therapeutic intervention.[5][6][7] If the dysphoria persists during puberty, it is very likely permanent.[5][7]”
A fourteen year old boy is likely to still be prepubescent.

here

Boys claiming to be girls and chasing them in the girls toilets will stop when one is found hanged by his school tie in the girls toilets.

“ , , , , M14 rifles haven’t been used since the days of the Vietnam war, by the United States Army and Marine Corps…

Sorry Zulu, bad info.

This from my ex SAS neighbour, (last paragraph of the article):

BRS and his M14 rifle.

Because gender dysphoria didn’t exist before Marxism.
And of course the solution to ‘Marxism’ is spouting nonsense about gee wizz some of those old guys knew something, my grandma said, blah Hegel blah Foucault and taking every possible opportunity to spit at people who admit to being practising Christians (which is about as currently fashionable as you can get).

Readers may recall I’ve always been a strong advocate for the M14.
It is the rifle I most like using. Never took to 5.56, never took to the SLR (beautiful sleek lines, I used to keep one mounted in the lounge room, coz of the looks, but never liked using it)

The M14 was beautiful to use, it was like an extension of my limbs. Modern accoutrements turn it into I believe the most accurate & most formidable rifle.
It is also much more robust than the SLR.

and there is plenty of literature on potential links between gender dysphoria and autism

Rainy periods from February to late April sometimes bring Bovine Ephemeral Fever to our area. We now call it Cow Covid as it is a virus that is not unlike a flu as it causes inflammation in the muscles & general lethargy. Mostly, like the flu, it lasts for about 3 days. But occasionally, for unknown reasons, it will decapacitate a cow to the point she just can’t get up. We had to euthanise a lovely heifer a couple of years ago.

Point of the story is this – since we have Ivermectin in stock for parasite use – I have decided to administer it this year prophylactically for BEF. Talked to our young vet about it last week. I argued it is said to have anti-viral & anti-inflammatory properties – & he said “Why not? Give it a go”. I wish the human medical profession was as smart.

Started with a few of the herd this arvo – the ones that are so tame they don’t have to be yarded. Oh…..and what a pity…..I got some of it on my hands! Damn…will have to be more careful!