Open Thread – Tues 15 March 2022


Caesar Crossing the Rubicon, Adolphe Yvon, 1875

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 9:46 am

The Oz is running an editorial about the shooting of Walker, and allowing comments.

Geoff
1 hour ago

” The tragic life and violent death of Kumanjayi Walker is further evidence of the bleak conditions that persist for many in the nation’s remote Aboriginal communities. Repeated attempts to intervene have failed to deliver safety for the most vulnerable, who are overwhelmingly women and children. Walker was fatally shot by police who were arresting him for, among other things, earlier confronting officers with an axe.”

That’s a nice way to say attacking officers with an axe.

Walker was a hostage to his circumstances from birth, just as he was a perpetrator of violence against others.

Also not everyone in these communities end up like Walker… a habitual and violent offender. Walker was a substance abuser who could not control his behaviour, impulses or emotions, unlike most people. His upbringing in community obviously led to this lack of control. Let us and let those in his community not make excuses for his behaviour.

‘ Nurses in remote communities must be able to work without fear of being terrorised by gangs at night. Children living in remote communities deserve to feel safe from abuse and to have access to an education to help them find their way in the world. Women everywhere are entitled to protection from violent partners and predators and to know they are not to blame for the abuse they receive. ”

Aboriginals in remote communities need to own this problem and change their behaviours and stop making excuses. Most are good people… most deserve protection from people like Walker.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 9:47 am

This includes his teenage girlfriend, Rickisha Robertson, who blames herself for the beatings she received from a substance abuser who social workers said could not control his impulses or emotions.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 9:49 am

I’m still only getting the Soros pay check.
Yes mine said bronze level. Sigh.
I know some people think they have powers way beyond those of mortal men but the ‘influencers/marketers’ shtick being leveled at anyone here who questions the holy martyrs narrative needs an update, because you know, it’s just stupid.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 16, 2022 9:51 am

Over 700 comments on the mean girls column in the Oz.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 9:51 am

Does anyone have any further insight as to what might be going on?

I have had a similar experience using Tap and Go once too often. Turned out that one of the fraud triggers is using the function multiple times on the same day without interspersing with a PIN entry.

I was blithely doing my Christmas shopping, tap tap tapping when the wheels suddenly fell off. Fortunately I had the trusty AMEX to fall back on.

A call to the bank (Westpac) when I got home fixed it and I received an explanation.

P
P
March 16, 2022 9:52 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 9:52 am

Daily Mail.

Tunisian woman, 45, has a GLASS TUMBLER removed from her bladder four YEARS after inserting it for ‘erotic purposes’

Unidentified woman went to hospital after suffering painful symptoms for a year
Scans revealed a ‘giant’ bladder stone had developed around the drinking glass
She confessed that she had used the glass as a sex toy in her early 40s

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 9:54 am

The girlfriend iirc who in 2019 claimed he was not violent.
It’s all impossibly sad.
Pity the government just didn’t stop funding remote settlements.
Let them stay only if they pay their own way.

Franx
Franx
March 16, 2022 9:55 am

So, rosie, the teachers for whom there is no sympathy deserve to have been sacked by the Andrews’s diktat but it’s Andrews who is to blame for the teachers having been sacked. Is that right.

duncanm
duncanm
March 16, 2022 9:56 am

Eyriesays:
March 16, 2022 at 8:54 am
People can sign up for green power. Just explain that they get a smart meter and get cut off first.

you don’t think that will happen?

I’m quite happy sticking to my spinning aluminium discs, thank you very much.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 9:57 am

When will Louise Milligan & 4 Corners investigate Labor’s “mean girls club”

Michael Smith News

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 9:58 am

Okay. ANZ card system down.

Keep the tap and go thing in mind if you’re doing a lot of shopping though. Do the PIN as well to be sure to be sure.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 9:59 am

I’m still only getting the Soros pay check.

The reason I was so incensed was because I wanted to access my payments from the Liberal Party and the WEF for spreading propaganda and disinformation. Don’t know why they have to pay on the same day.

Normally when I go shopping I can see the respect I garner from the check-out chicks as a minion of the global conspiracy. This morning I will have looked like a normal person. How embarrassment.

Shit! Did I type that out loud?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 9:59 am

Mother Lodesays:

March 16, 2022 at 9:29 am

Does she mention cloud seeding?

Bloke getting off the bus today left a chemtrail on the way out.

You travel by bus?
I’m sorry.
We can’t be friends.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 10:00 am

Any love for kd wrong? The Liars are going to need another elder statesman. Most people can’t stand the bloke. Gillard era deadwood, there’s a lot of it around.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:00 am

And thanks to all above answering my question.

ANZ’s twatter feed says the problem has been resolved now, which might be true.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 10:02 am

Nothing wrong with public transport. OK, maybe the public.

Indolent
Indolent
March 16, 2022 10:02 am
P
P
March 16, 2022 10:03 am

AGATHA CHRISTIE, CHRISTIAN WRITER
by John Wilson
3 . 15 . 22

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 10:03 am

From the Oz.

CLP Senate candidate Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who lives in Alice Springs, said she could not support stripping police of guns in remote communities while family violence in those communities remained at such alarming levels.

“We know there have been 500 Aboriginal deaths in custody since the royal commission (in 1991) but since then 951 Aboriginal people have died of homicide and 700 of those were caused by other Indigenous Australians,” she said.

“Until the rates of interpersonal violence, domestic and family violence are dealt with, I don’t see how there can be a call to remove guns.”

Ms Nampijinpa Price said Walker’s death was a tragic event but overall she believed taking guns off police would have unintended consequences.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:04 am

You travel by bus?

I walk up to the shops grabbing coffees on the way, and then take the bus back home.

My usual coffee consumption on these trips is two double espressos and a large flat white.

If I drunk this much caffeine after lunch I think the only way I would sleep at night would be to suspend a frying pan above my bed, climb in, and sitting suddenly up with uncommon targeted force.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:07 am

Pity the government just didn’t stop funding remote settlements.

So long as they are far away people will think promises of more money will tackle the problems.

If instead they saw what happened…

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 10:10 am

Genuine question.
Why is Gonzo Lira worth listening to?
I’m all for independent sources, but he seems more like an aggregator of questionable click bait.
As I said, it’s a genuine question.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 10:13 am

My usual coffee consumption on these trips is two double espressos and a large flat white.

Bullshit, you latte drinking son-of-a-bitch.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 10:14 am

Now we need to organise another large volcano during an El Nino.

Hope not. Agriculture is in a bad enough way already because of green policies and the war.

The climateers won’t analyse this much because they dare not. If they did they might notice that seeding in the troposphere causes more rain. That’s because natural seeding is insufficient to get to equilibrium humidity.

And that’s the problem for the climateers (whose models have never managed to correctly model cloud cover). If natural seeding isn’t enough then extra seeding can cause more cloud cover. Sulfate from volcanoes can do that. And so can high energy cosmic rays.

High energy cosmic rays of course are the key feature of the Svensmark mechanism of indirect solar warming. Which explains over half the warming last century. The climateers hate it because if the Sun caused the warming then CO2 didn’t. It collapses their entire narrative and turns off the money taps.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:14 am

So, Franx what are you on about?
Did I say the teachers were not deserving of sympathy?
No I didn’t.
Did I question Reignite Democracy’s targeting of only Catholic Schools in this supposed ‘class action’
Yes I did.
I’m well aware that you have never forgiven me for questioning your complaint that a Catholic presbytery did not answer the doorbell one weekend during the first lockdown because either no-one was home, they didn’t hear the doorbell, they chose not to answer because of the lockdown rules or because they had a policy of not answering the door to random strangers but it’s been two years.
Find someone else to be perpetually ‘disgusted’ by.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 10:16 am

Gabor says:
March 16, 2022 at 9:18 am
Dr Faustus says:
March 16, 2022 at 9:11 am

So, (sorry) what you are saying is that there were no US funded and controlled labs?

Far from it.
For 15 years US governments have made no particular secret of the fact that the U.S. Defence Department has been/is funding biolabs around the world.

The response to that has been a shit-storm of speculation, much of it with a conspiracy, or misinformation bent. If you were slightly curious, you’d be able to look at that with no effort.

My amazement is at how seemingly unprepared the Biden Administration has been in the face of Russia taking control of these facilities and spinning a WMD narrative. (Less amazed at the MSM’s slack-jawed acceptance that these labs have only just come to light.)

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:17 am

Is funny Calli
I watched the Bosch series in the evening the last three weeks I was away and ‘circle back’ was a regular line used by various characters, I’m sure the episodes predate Psaki too.
(Michael Connelly is definitely on the progressive side of politics).
He also loved ‘the question answers itself’

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:20 am

“Until the rates of interpersonal violence, domestic and family violence are dealt with, I don’t see how there can be a call to remove guns.”

Jacinta and her Mum are good people. Yet activists in the cities who insist upon the homeopathic potency of their drop or two of Aboriginal blood will shout them down and call them ‘Uncle Toms’ – the left is hopelessly derivative and would not even realise that they have just co-opted another Americanism.

Jacinta’s point to me suggests that the violent confrontation that lead to Walker’s death is endemic in these communities and it has only overflowed into mainstream consciousness because a racial aspect could be attached – and I mean attached, as in I don’t think it was part of the raw confrontation itself.

This Walker thug would have been similarly violent elsewhere when he did not get his way or he thought someone was squaring up against him. And similarly there will be a whole lot of this which is ignored because there are no whitey involved.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:22 am

One hour wait time for a call back from commbank.
Banks must be flat out dealing with flood related issues.

Franx
Franx
March 16, 2022 10:23 am

My mistake, rosie.
So, I take it, then, that teachers, deserving of your sympathy, should not be required to be vaccinated as part of the campaign wrought by Andrews towards whom you are not sympathetic on the matter. Is that right.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 10:24 am

Does anyone have any further insight as to what might be going on?

ANZ is a shit bank, we stopped using them years ago

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 10:26 am

Yikes! Rosie is Jen Psaki!

Psaki gets the Goebels award for 2022

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 10:26 am

Meanwhile, others are doing things.

The key word being ‘others’.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 10:30 am

Sars-Cov-2 Kills T-Cells, Just Like HIV

Key quote from the article:

Additionally, gp120 protein is located in the spike protein of Sars-Cov-2, and spike protein is used in all “Covid vaccines”.

This is in keeping with many other studies showing the spike protein is binding irreversibly with T-cells, such as Dutch et al.

Not much can be done about it now, but if they finally stop forcing boosters onto everyone natural immunity and those T-lymphocytes should slowly regenerate from stem cells. Neither the Covid virus nor the vaccine have the ability to hide in DNA like HIV does.

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 10:30 am

ANZ is a shit bank, we stopped using them years ago

If the sign on the door of the branch I occasionally walk past is anthing to go by, they have a special relationship with the alphabet people. The average normie not so much, it would seem.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:30 am

Bullshit, you latte drinking son-of-a-bitch.

The latte drinkers are our eternal rivals. They think you should use the frothy milk with the espresso shot, dandified fops that they are.

We like our espresso shot covered by the heated milk itself. You know – drinking hot milk from a round-bowled cup with a handle large enough for a kid’s pinkie. Like a real man!

Years ago there was a place in Stanley Street East Sydney called Bill and Toni’s. It had a coffee shop downstairs where you could get a sambucca with your coffee. That was the only alcohol they sold. They would float a few coffee beans in it and everyone thought it was the height of chic.

I discovered afterward that the Italian was was to pour the sambucca into the coffee. And the coffee – none of your cappuccinos or lattes or flat whites.

A bit like all those Irish bars you go to with lines from Joyce or Yeats or GBS all over the walls, and Guinness posters from over a century ago, and rusted rustic farm implements strung up. No pub in Ireland would do this.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 10:31 am

Bourne1879says:

March 16, 2022 at 9:51 am

Over 700 comments on the mean girls column in the Oz.

An interesting insight into the salacious and petty factional politics of the ALP.
However, the main story is buried in there and barely touched upon.
Why was k.d. wong so desparate to bury the Magnitsky Act which would identify and target individual human rights abusers overseas?
Seemingly a worthy aspiration.
Could it be that it might turn up a few Chinese individuals with links to the ALP?

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 10:32 am

I drink bulletproof coffee. Sets me up for the day.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 16, 2022 10:33 am

Someone here was using the expression “Top men”.
It has left me pondering the Venn Diagrams of the other types of men.
Bottom Men?

cohenite
March 16, 2022 10:34 am
incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 16, 2022 10:34 am

Middle men?

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 10:35 am

I discovered afterward that the Italian was was to pour the sambucca into the coffee. And the coffee – none of your cappuccinos or lattes or flat whites.

Isn’t it an Italian rule that once breakfast is over you do not add milk to coffee?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 10:35 am

Speaking of lies and misrepresentations, a random question.
Has anyone here ever deliberately falsified entries in a heavy vehicle driver’s logbook?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 10:36 am

I had one of those nitrous coffees at place in Glebe pre COVID.
I have no idea how it works but it was like I was mainlining caffeine.
Never again.
I like the hit to wash over me, not jam it’s thumb up my arse.

Delta A
Delta A
March 16, 2022 10:36 am

Psays:
March 16, 2022 at 9:08 am

Oh, my goodness!

That is scary.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:37 am

Where does it come from?

Top…Men.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 16, 2022 10:37 am

“MAFS bride in nude photo scandal”.

Anchor, I watched 30 mins of MAFS recently (for research purposes only!)
The plot of the scene was two “experiment” participants leaving their “spouse” to hook up with a different “spouse”.
Cue outrageous outrage amongst the other participants and the 3 psychologists.
The stern lecturing by the psychologists had me wondering about the concept of “no judgement” during psychological intervention.
But the dog that didn’t bark in the night was the total absence of the blindingly obvious – it was those 3 psychologists who had orchestrated the matching of “spouses” which had failed so spectacularly.
Anyway, back to re-runs of Midsommer Murders and Dalziel and Pascoe.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:39 am

Yes Sancho
Seems the ALP are very focused on not upsetting China.
Very why.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 10:41 am

A bit like all those Irish bars you go to with lines from Joyce or Yeats or GBS all over the walls, and Guinness posters from over a century ago, and rusted rustic farm implements strung up. No pub in Ireland would do this.

Way back when (1990’s) I had dealings with a bloke in hospitality who looked at these “pubs”.
They came in kit form right down to the last artificially aged Guiness poster and the tam-o-shanter sitting on Danny Boy sheet music on the shelf.
Cost a bomb but they were being knocked out at the rate of one per day to meet world-wide demand.
Buyers could not depart from the plan once it was installed.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 10:42 am

Has Pelosi had a stroke or is it some other sort of brain damage? That was slurred and almost incoherent.

Except for wanting to “take out” the forty miles of tanks.

And the wild gesturing as she searched for simple words. What is going on there?

Franx
Franx
March 16, 2022 10:43 am

A corretto in a North Melbourne dive, surrounded by illegal card gamers checking out what the cat dragged in.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 16, 2022 10:43 am

feelthebern says:
March 16, 2022 at 7:28 am
Trouble getting out of bed this morning?
Kickstart your heart the old fashioned way

I for one was suckered in by your introduction.
Assumed you were referring to some Morning Glory.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:44 am

Whatever.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 10:44 am

Isn’t it an Italian rule that once breakfast is over you do not add milk to coffee?

My mate’s girlfriend’s parents were Italian migrants – so she grew up in an Italianised environment, spoke perfect Italian, but had not been there.

She went for a holiday. She went into a place to get a coffee and had trouble asking for coffee made with milk. The quizzical expression on the shopkeeper’s face suddenly lifted with realisation and he said (in Italian), “Ah, American coffee”*.

*He might have done better to say something like ‘Starbucks coffee’ as I always think Americans do not reliably even use cream or milk.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 16, 2022 10:45 am

Topper topped.
Apparently.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 10:45 am

If you feel like reading about the FBI targeting a retard, google Fortenberry.
The retard is a Nebraska Republican.
But the FBI’s main charge, once all the noise is dealt with, is lying to the FBI.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:48 am

Who is the target audience for ye old Irish pub?
Expats, descendants of the Irish diaspora?
I saw a few in Spain and France, always looked so out of place.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 10:48 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 10:50 am

OSG, the clue was in the Kickstart your heart.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:51 am

‘American coffee’ is a coffee menu item in Europe including Italy.
It’s usually the biggest coffee serving size.

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 10:52 am

Has Pelosi had a stroke or is it some other sort of brain damage? That was slurred and almost incoherent.

She’s 81.

And who knows what meds she’s on other than her doctors?

132andBush
132andBush
March 16, 2022 10:53 am

Quick Dick McDick on the Canadian Trucker Convoy.

Link

A good precis of what happened.

You can see what’s happening on the farm too. Just little snippets that convey the reality.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 10:53 am

I checked on google, it’s espresso diluted with hot water to mimic brewed coffee.

Struth
March 16, 2022 10:53 am

It seems any excuse for Kitchen’s death is acceptable , except for the real one.
What insane theatre.
No one WANTS to know what she died of, and so they actually become all superstitious and Salem on each other.
Technology may change, but humans without Christianity are a sight to behold.

It was the Salmon mousse.

It’s similar in much of basic human instinct that there needs to be an enemy.

The people that have killed us, imprisoned us, and destroyed millions of Australian, and billions of lives in the west, over the last two years, completely at war with the once free populations of the west, demand that we now stand with them against Putin.
Um….[…] that.

A pox on both their houses.
I neither support Putin, or the WEF controlled west.
A west that has a WEF slut of a Canadian Tyrannical PM talking about freedom and democracy!!!!!!!!!
FMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talk about gaslighting and ‘avin’ a larf!

I have to say this.
Putin may be as bad as his opposition and their puppet Ukrainian President, but he’s not a globalist, and as he knows what the WEF Davos crowd are up to, he’s not letting them get Russia.
The more dangerous people to us, the ones that can and have proven to have done more harm to us, claim to be on our side, and demand we should be on theirs, after what they’ve done?
BE […].

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 10:55 am

Why is Gonzo Lira worth listening to?

Take it all with a grain of salt, cross reference to other sources. He does makes good sense.

Tom
Tom
March 16, 2022 10:55 am

“We know there have been 500 Aboriginal deaths in custody since the royal commission (in 1991) but since then 951 Aboriginal people have died of homicide and 700 of those were caused by other Indigenous Australians,” she said.

Thanks for getting that stat into the MSM, Jacinta: the rate of black-on-black violence in Aboriginal communities is 73.6% — as horrifying as it is in America, where the vast majority of blacks dying violently are at the hands of other violent blacks.

But, hey, let’s blame whitey and/or the cops – anyone but who is actually responsible. Between the Democratic Party and the Australian political establishment, this is socialism good and hard where everything is never your fault if you’re in the designated helpless victim group – provided you don’t stray off the plantation and start thinking for yourself.

Winston Smith
March 16, 2022 10:55 am

Cohenite:
re the “Everyone is building new coal plants except Australia:”

With Sir David Attenborough by his side at the Science Museum, Boris Johnson declared “a year of climate action” in the run-up to the Cop26 summit.
Flanked by a large picture of Planet Earth, the Prime Minister argued that Britain – as the first industrialised nation – had a duty to lead the fight against climate change.

And then the solid brick wall of reality smacks the stupid buggers in the gob.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 10:56 am

Cookie cutter Irish Pubs have all the charm of a Maccas with beer.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 10:57 am

Topper topped.

The TOW guy will probably end up the same.
Very different combat environment from Afghanistan and Syria.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 10:57 am

I went to an “Irish” pub in Dubai in the mid 90s when it was still a bit of work required to find a drink. Rolled out into a dusty limestone car park in century heat around midnight. It may not have even been run by a real Irish expat.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 10:58 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 10:59 am

Um….[…] that.
WEF slut
FMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BE […].
A pox on both their houses.

[Picking scabs; stop]

Cassie of Sydney
March 16, 2022 11:01 am

“CLP Senate candidate Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who lives in Alice Springs, said she could not support stripping police of guns in remote communities while family violence in those communities remained at such alarming levels.

“We know there have been 500 Aboriginal deaths in custody since the royal commission (in 1991) but since then 951 Aboriginal people have died of homicide and 700 of those were caused by other Indigenous Australians,” she said.

“Until the rates of interpersonal violence, domestic and family violence are dealt with, I don’t see how there can be a call to remove guns.”

Ms Nampijinpa Price said Walker’s death was a tragic event but overall she believed taking guns off police would have unintended consequences.”

Well said Jacinta. My understanding is that Walker was kin to Price, through her mother Bess. Jacinta knows all too well the chronic dysfunction and violence endemic in indigenous communities across the country but particularly in and around Alice. Jacinta herself has personal experience of being on the receiving end of violence from indigenous family members.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 11:02 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

March 16, 2022 at 10:26 am

Meanwhile, others are doing things.

The key word being ‘others’.

[Picking scabs; please stop]

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 16, 2022 11:04 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 16, 2022 at 7:59 am
“Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
Why is it that filthy rich, powerful rent seekers in Russia are known as ‘Oligarchs’ but here in Australia they are called ‘renewables investors’?”

All living in electorates such as Warringah, Wentworth, North Sydney, Higgins and Curtin.

All of which electorates a sensible conservative party would leave to the Liars and Slime to fight each other over, preferably at exorbitant cost.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 16, 2022 11:05 am

H B Bearsays:
March 16, 2022 at 10:00 am
Any love for kd wrong? The Liars are going to need another elder statesman. Most people can’t stand the bloke. Gillard era deadwood, there’s a lot of it around.

Right there Bear. Has Benny Wong ever had an original idea in her life. Mind you that goes for every other Poliwit we have. How does one become a political fuckwit? I suppose they start off without the wit. Over the years I’ve known quite a few of politicians from both sides and most are excellent with a smattering of scum. Sad to say almost none now.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 11:05 am

Who is the target audience for ye old Irish pub?

People who want to make it look like their getting hammered was more of an enriching experience than passing out on the tiled floor down the street at ‘The Imperial’ or ‘The Trough and Lolly’.

In Osaka there was a popular pub called Murphy’s. Apart from the name, and a large carving of a genial if bibulous, largish gentleman in early 19th century attire, on one wall, had nothing much more than a few small-framed quotes from Irish authors on the walls. Apart from that it was a bar and some tables and stools. But, it was a gaijin bar so it was also usually crowded.

And it was somehow a little more homely to see a pint slammed down with some of the head sloshing over into the splash tray, rather than the meticulously filled daijoki you got in Japanese places.

Then another place opened called ‘Dubliners’. You could guess from the name that it was going to be one of those gaudy comically Irish pastiche places, and you would also have been right. Japanese loved it.

Surprisingly Murphy’s lost much of its business, yet I never saw that many gaijin in Dubliners. No one who had been in Japan more than a couple of months and for whom an Irish pub was more familiar than street level.

Winston Smith
March 16, 2022 11:07 am

Calli:

And the wild gesturing as she searched for simple words. What is going on there?

Alcoholic Dementia.
Another aspect is Korsakoffs Psychosis.
Even more distressing for the relationships that exist, is the uninhibited behaviour that sometimes occurs.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 16, 2022 11:08 am

Very different combat environment from Afghanistan and Syria.

Call of Duty too.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 11:09 am

Flat White
Jacinta Price forced to beg activists: don’t exploit my nephew’s death
Dave Pellowe

Dave Pellowe

12 November 2019

5:25 PM

Activists inciting racial division and hatred have disrespected a grieving family’s wishes for calm and peace while investigations into the death of an Aboriginal man shot by police continue.

Jacinta Price has been forced onto social media to urge restraint from jumping to conclusions following the death of her nineteen-year-old nephew, Kumanjayi Walker.

Warning against turning the incident into a witch hunt against police, Price explained, “People need to understand that his grandfather was a highly respected police officer when he was alive and his father’s brother is a police officer in the community of Yuendumu.”

NT Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Michael White alleged an armed man had lunged at two officers who had attended a residence with an arrest warrant to apprehend him for breaching his parole conditions, stabbing one of them on the shoulder. One officer fired two or three shots.

There were no medical staff in the community because they had evacuated just days earlier following a series of break-ins to their accommodation. An ambulance arrived some hours after the shooting from another nearby community.

“The key thing for me now, the focus is making sure the community is engaged as much as possible and provided as much information as we can provide to them, to allay some of the fears, to ensure there is no misinformation getting out there to cause further harm,” said Acting Deputy Commissioner White. “There’s always rumours. There’s always misinformation.”

Jacinta Price shared a live video from outside a Northern Territory police station on Sunday afternoon where shameless activists were exploiting the tragic incident to promote their political agenda and racist narrative, some smearing red paint over the station. Five police officers calmly blocked the entrance.

“You are kardiya [white], this is not your family, and you need to go away,” Jacinta told a person with blonde hair, white skin and painted red hands wearing an Aboriginal flag activist t-shirt and holding a sign which said, “We want justice.”

“You’re not going to be at his funeral. And neither are you,” to another white person who also had painted red hands holding a sign which said, “NT Police: stop killing Aboriginal people.”

bons
bons
March 16, 2022 11:12 am

Health insurance snake oil.
Under the email headline ‘Premiums Frozen’.
Your fund has saved a squillian due to reduced activity … Covid etc.
Unused funds will be returned to members through frozen premiums.
As you have paid your premium 12 months in advance there will be no effect upon your premiums.
Followed by: “The Fund’s savings for the last financial year have been returned through support to members”.
Bald faced deception.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 11:13 am

Then another place opened called ‘Dubliners’. You could guess from the name that it was going to be one of those gaudy comically Irish pastiche places

Commonly referred to as “Plastic Paddies”.

Tom
Tom
March 16, 2022 11:14 am

First LOL moment of the day.

Tucker Carlson on Silicon Valley’s seamless switch from masks and Kung Flu lockdowns – and banning everyone who doesn’t obey — to everything bad is caused by Putin: “It is like watching synchonised swimming in Pyonyang”.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 16, 2022 11:16 am

Mark Latham’s Outsiders

THE MEMO PERROTTET WON’T WRITE

Coming back into parliamentary service three years ago, the thing that has surprised me most about the NSW Government is the huge amount of time and money wasted by senior public servants in the workplace.
Since 2019 I have been alerted to and collected information on the following activities inside government departments during work-time:

Welcome to Country ceremonies
Rainbow Flag-raising ceremonies
Rainbow Cake-cutting events
Harmony Council meetings
Reconciliation Units
Critical Race Theory training
White Privilege shaming walks
Time in the ‘Imaginarium’ room contemplating the future
Personal Well-Being Sessions
How to Laugh lessons, like the disgusting one held last week during the flood crisis
Yoga and other ‘relaxation’ classes during Lockdowns
How to bake Indigenous cookies
Hanging expensive Indigenous paintings in the Treasury tea-room
Setting up special Yarning Circle rooms
Paying for Busker entertainment during Zoom meetings
LGBTIQ Alphabet hand-wringing sessions
Handing over floor space at the Powerhouse Museum to the ‘Department of Homo Affairs’
Unconscious bias therapy training
Bruce Pascoe Book Clubs
Wear It Purple Day
IDAHOBIT Day
Meetings to get rid of girlie photos in the toilets of construction sites
Gender Equality Units
So-called Cultural Sensitivity training.

After all these activities have been completed, they must have 7 minutes left before knocking off for the day – enough time for sorting out their personal pronouns (as Transport for NSW did recently).

There’s your answer as to why the trains aren’t running properly, our school results have gone down the drain and hospital emergency rooms are over-crowded. Instead of doing their day jobs, senior public servants on big money are involved in woke political rubbish. More junior public servants tell me they resent this campaign as they, quite properly, they just want to do the job they signed up for.

Premier Perrottet could end this with one simple memo to Departmental heads: announcing a new productivity measure of saving hours every day by abolishing the woke politics and getting back to actually serving the people and taxpayers of NSW.

How hard is that? But Perrottet is scared to act. He knows of the problem but finds it too hard to stand up to his Leftie public service bosses. In practice, he’s not running the State, they are. And taxpayers are being ripped off badly – paying for politics, instead of customer service.

Mark Latham MLC
16 March 2022.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 11:16 am

“Biden Is as Good a Man as God ever Created” and “He Needs to Go After Anybody and Everybody Who Tries to Prop Up [Putin]” – Lindsey Graham

another fag rino

Tom
Tom
March 16, 2022 11:18 am

…Pyongyang…

duncanm
duncanm
March 16, 2022 11:20 am

Zipstersays:
March 16, 2022 at 10:24 am
Does anyone have any further insight as to what might be going on?

ANZ is a shit bank, we stopped using them years ago

the top four are shit banks.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 11:20 am

to everything bad is caused by Putin: “It is like watching synchonised swimming in Pyonyang”.

They’ve just swapped out Trump for Putin. Covid was simply a waypoint.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 11:21 am

Lynne D
1 hour ago
I had a friend that for many years worked as a nurse in the remote aboriginal communities, after being attacked and injured one too many times she finally left. Then her church then sent her to Africa and it’s remote communities, she simply couldn’t believe how different the people were, no welfare , in fact very little of anything except enormous amounts a gratitude for any help she could give them, after the years of physical and verbal abuse in the aboriginal communities she was completely blown away by the respect shown to her. The dysfunctional nature of our aboriginal communities runs deep, until they make the decisions to change I see no hope of improvement.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 11:22 am

I drink bulletproof coffee. Sets me up for the day.

Delicious.
No need for lunch.

Struth
March 16, 2022 11:22 am

Um….[…] that.
WEF slut
FMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BE […].
A pox on both their houses.

So emotional.

Racist.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 16, 2022 11:22 am

Ms Nampijinpa Price said Walker’s death was a tragic event but overall she believed taking guns off police would have unintended consequences.

No, the consequences will be exactly what is intended. Anarchy, followed by bleats for more gummint munni.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 11:23 am

Now the white can’t be Blak?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
March 16, 2022 11:29 am

bons says:
March 16, 2022 at 11:12 am

Health insurance snake oil.

Last year mediwank sent me notice that they were returning “savings” to members. This was in the form of “free days” can you imagine my joy at receiving 3 days free for 2021?
These people must think we are all drongos less than 1% saved during a year where most elective surgery was cancelled and people stayed away from doctors in droves.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 11:31 am

After all these activities have been completed, they must have 7 minutes left before knocking off for the day – enough time for sorting out their personal pronouns (as Transport for NSW did recently).

Ritual is important for the new religion Mr Latham. Surely you realize that. Gaia must be placated.

JohnJJJ
JohnJJJ
March 16, 2022 11:32 am

I went to an “Irish” pub in Dubai in the mid 90s
It was at the airport in Dubai. Everything in Dubai is faux to attract the European management level workers. Brilliant concept. A country, UK, France, spend 25 years to trains its people to the best (a burden) , Dubai attracts them with 20 -50% extra wage and a bunch of faux playthings. They work for 20 years or so, then return to home country to become a burden again. Best ROI ever. The West is just plain stupid, but at least they feel superior.

johanna
johanna
March 16, 2022 11:33 am

P says:
March 16, 2022 at 9:52 am

7 News re ANZ

People fuming because they couldn’t pay for their morning coffee, FFS.

Who goes around without even $10 in cash on them?

After the first time I experienced a card provider outage at the shops, years ago, I (a) made sure I had a decent stash of cash tucked away at home, and (b) never left the house without at least a pineapple’s worth of cash on me.

Relying on cards with no backstop is just plain stupid.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 11:34 am

Ukraine will not join Nato, says Zelenskiy, as shelling of Kyiv continues

“It is clear that Ukraine is not a member of Nato; we understand this,” the Ukrainian president said. “For years we heard about the apparently open door, but have already also heard that we will not enter there, and these are truths and must be acknowledged.”

Shame he didn’t suggest this a few weeks ago.

bons
bons
March 16, 2022 11:34 am

“Synchronised swimming in Pyongyang”!
An unbeatable descriptor of our age – brilliant.
It deserves masthead treatment.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 11:36 am

And as long as LL doesn’t turn up and warn us off watching it.

That bloke was a real downer. Never appreciated the value of sinister music in advocacy documentaries.

shatterzzz
March 16, 2022 11:37 am

If the sign on the door of the branch I occasionally walk past is anthing to go by, they have a special relationship with the alphabet people. The average normie not so much, it would seem.

Same with the NAB .. I’ve an online account and all the heading advertising is always WOKE .. either some ‘special needs” pix or the obligatory “mixed” colouring family unit .. normal white folk are, apparently, classed as arare species, nowadays .. LOL!

Cassie of Sydney
March 16, 2022 11:40 am

From the Daily Terror…

“Brittany Higgins rape case: Bruce Lehrmann to apply for trial to not proceed

The man who is defending allegations he raped Brittany Higgins will make an application to permanently stop the trial going ahead.

The man charged with raping Brittany Higgins in Parliament House will apply to permanently halt the six-week trial.

Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister David Campbell SC on Wednesday told ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum that Mr Lehrmann would be seeking a permanent stay of proceedings or, alternatively, a temporary one.

It comes a week after Chief Justice McCallum gave the deadline of Wednesday for an answer on whether an application would be made amid concerns over whether Mr Lehrmann could have a fair trial.

The trial is set down for six weeks in June.

Mr Campbell also told the court that they would be writing to the media, asking them to take down publications relating to matters before the court.

If the media did not consent to this, he told the court that Mr Lehrmann might apply for certain material to be taken down.

Further, Mr Campbell said Mr Lehrmann would be making an application to prevent any further publication if a permanent stay of proceedings was not granted.

Chief Justice McCallum set down a hearing for April 1 with regard to the foreshadowed applications.

She again gave a stern warning to anyone with interest in the proceedings.

“The more this case is ventilated in public forums the more likely it is that the accused will not be able to have a fair trial and the consequence that must follow is a stay, either permanent or temporary, of the prosecution,” she said.

It comes a week after she warned in court: “The more people keep talking about this case the greater the risk the prosecution will be stayed.”

Mr Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent.

Police allege he raped Ms Higgins in the office of senator Linda Reynolds on March 23, 2019.

shatterzzz
March 16, 2022 11:43 am

Last year mediwank sent me notice that they were returning “savings” to members. This was in the form of “free days” can you imagine my joy at receiving 3 days free for 2021?

What does a 3 free days entail ? .. stay in hospital for 7 only pay for 4.. LOL?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 11:50 am

Shame he didn’t suggest this a few weeks ago.

Zelensky is desperate for this to end.

shatterzzz
March 16, 2022 11:52 am

The man charged with raping Brittany Higgins in Parliament House will apply to permanently halt the six-week trial.

6 weeks set aside for a trial that if it goes ahead boils down to what he sez, she sez with very little, if any, physical evidence/witnesses .. wonderful what being on BRADBURY’s fast dial can achieve …..

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 11:56 am

Who goes around without even $10 in cash on them?

Umm… me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 11:58 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

March 16, 2022 at 10:59 am

Um….[…] that.
WEF slut
FMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BE […].
A pox on both their houses.

So emotional.

[It’s not only the picking scabs here that annoys it’s now the gratuitous repetition of profanity arising from a single comment]

Struth
March 16, 2022 11:58 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 12:00 pm

Brittany should be praying for a stay. A trial for her would basically be like an ASX penny dreadful actually drilling a hole. Why would you do it?

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:06 pm

Me too Bear.
$6 in my wallet, I’m richer than I thought.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 16, 2022 12:06 pm

Zelensky is desperate for this to end.

I image he’d be pretty keen for a cease fire in place before Kiev is invested and Vlad starts landing troops near Odessa.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:09 pm

The last thing Brittany could want is a trial and a not guilty verdict.
It’s also odd that when the courts normally go to great lengths to preserve victim anonymity she’s a household name.

Kneel
Kneel
March 16, 2022 12:09 pm

“I dunno, Cats. Does anyone else see what’s off about this?”

Oh, certainly – clearly there is an issue with his pay, right?
I mean, there should be an extra zero on the end, shouldn’t there?
He’s so clearly worth more, inne?

Kneel
Kneel
March 16, 2022 12:11 pm

“Justice is where she gets off with hunting out of season.”

There’s a pig season?

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
March 16, 2022 12:11 pm

I’m glad I worked in remote Aboriginal communities in the old days (1995-2010) when they were merely completely dysfunctional.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 12:13 pm

It’s also odd that when the courts normally go to great lengths to preserve victim anonymity she’s a household name.

I think you’ll find it’s not the courts putting out media releases.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 16, 2022 12:13 pm

Jacinta Price – bravery award stat!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 12:13 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

March 16, 2022 at 11:36 am

And as long as LL doesn’t turn up and warn us off watching it.

That bloke was a real downer. Never appreciated the value of sinister music in advocacy documentaries.

I know, right?
What a dick.
And badgering poor old Faulty to publish the actual patent numbers of those very fuzzy photos of “damning documents”.
That was elder abuse.

Indolent
Indolent
March 16, 2022 12:15 pm

Why is Gonzo Lira worth listening to?

I suggest because he’s on the spot and tells things as he sees them. I entirely disagree with him that there’s no overarching plan, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t worth listening to on what is happening on the ground there.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 12:16 pm

Gentlepeople, please.
Can we cease and desist with the faux Irish pub commentary.
That isn’t on the PDS (Party Distraction Schedule) until Friday afternoon.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:17 pm

True Bear.
The BF produced a dossier for Labor to belt the liberal party around the head with.
Seems to be working well, pity about the collateral damage.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 12:19 pm

rosiesays:

March 16, 2022 at 12:09 pm

The last thing Brittany could want is a trial and a not guilty verdict.

I don’t think they care.
If they get a guilty verdict, all good.
If it is not guilty, cue the hand-wringing about the patriarchal judiciary and “growing calls” for “believe all women” provisions in Evidence Acts.
Followed by some half-arsed civil case.
Win-win-win.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:20 pm

I have a confession to made.
Never been inside an Irish pub, faux or otherwise.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:25 pm

Yes, I figured she’d still get by with the believe all woman nonsense but you never know something said at trial might have proven she had misremebered.
And besides that ‘believe all women’ might wash with some people but not everyone.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:27 pm

And I’d expect any civil action to be as successful as that multiple cases against Cardinal Pell.

Struth
March 16, 2022 12:27 pm
Kneel
Kneel
March 16, 2022 12:27 pm

“Phrasing.”

At risk of being accused of same, might I suggest a slip of the tongue?

JohnJJJ
JohnJJJ
March 16, 2022 12:31 pm

rosie says:
March 16, 2022 at 12:20 pm
I have a confession to made.
Never been inside an Irish pub, faux or otherwise

Well Rosie, here is a pop up one sans Guinness.

Struth
March 16, 2022 12:31 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 12:34 pm

I have a confession too. I’ve been to fake Irish pubs, real Irish pubs and possibly the Guinness factory tour.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 12:36 pm

It was in February. Pretty hard core.

Indolent
Indolent
March 16, 2022 12:40 pm
Struth
March 16, 2022 12:42 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 12:43 pm

I image he’d be pretty keen for a cease fire in place before Kiev is invested and Vlad starts landing troops near Odessa.

Neither is going to happen. The Russian forces are stretched very thinly and are really short of warm bodies. Also ammunition. One of the issues with their poor logistics (only 200 trucks per division in prewar TO&E) is that artillery ammunition is really really heavy. So as the emphasis switches from penetration columns to siege and assault is they’re having trouble getting ammunition up to the front. Running out of combat rations is also a bit of a tell, as Adams touched on in his toon this morning (thanks Tom!). (I commented on the Russian request to Mr Xi for rat packs yesterday.)

Maj Gen Mick Ryan is one of the more neutral commentators, the thing about ammo shortage comes from his previous boss Lt Gen Ben Hodges (ret US Army). Hodges is very UKR partisan, but his comments about ammunition were interesting.

Russia’s effort to conquer Ukraine may culminate within the next 10 days (15 Mar)

At the moment the Russians are concentrating on the south, plus edging around the northern cities to try and isolate them. But the more they do so the more thinly spread they are, and rear area security is suffering. Which the UKR territorials have been taking advantage of with hit and run tactics.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 16, 2022 12:43 pm

Gentlepeople, …

[…] off. Only Roughmen, who are prepared to do violence to keep you safe, are welcome here.

Zatara
Zatara
March 16, 2022 12:46 pm

Ukraine will not join Nato, says Zelenskiy, as shelling of Kyiv continues

We’re not going to join a defensive union because we are being invaded and shelled by our biggest threat and they don’t want us to.

Umm… never mind.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 12:47 pm

incoherent ramblersays:

March 16, 2022 at 12:43 pm

Gentlepeople, …

Fuck off. Only Roughmen, who are prepared to do violence to keep you safe, are welcome here.

Ooooohhh!
You’re so … (flutters eyelashes) … manly!

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 16, 2022 12:47 pm

Meanwhile in the NT, it just keeps keeping on:

A coronial inquest is examining how a 17-year-old boy who fell from a power pole was failed by NT Health, Territory Families and mental health providers.

‘Chronic issues’ failed NT teen haunted by the devil

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 16, 2022 12:49 pm

Oirish pubs are for lightweights.
Try a GAA* hall for the full feckin’ Crown and feckin’ Pikeys experience.
*Gaelic Athletic Association.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 12:49 pm

Thanks Johnjjj.
You’ve been everywhere, Bear.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 12:52 pm

Never been inside an Irish pub, faux or otherwise.

Been in a couple of Irish pubs – in Dublin.

Struth
March 16, 2022 12:54 pm

90% of covid deaths are in the vaccinated…….who really thinks they are dying of covid?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 16, 2022 12:55 pm

Bruce of N

I commented on the Russian request to Mr Xi for rat packs yesterday.

When asking Chynerr for food, I would avoid the term “rat packs”. The supplied product might turn out to be exactly that!

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 12:57 pm

Zelensky is desperate for this to end.

Let’s see what he says to Congress later today.

Meantime, is Mr. Xi going to climb through the window of opportunity and be Europe’s saviour?

He appears tobe the only one who has any sway over Putin.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 12:58 pm

[…]
Bloody typical.
Trying to de-rail a serious discussion on Irish pubs with a “Hey! Look over there! War in Ukraine!”

Struth
March 16, 2022 12:59 pm

[picking scabs], the people you trusted are laughing at you .
Hey look, over there, Ukraine and oooooo Russia!All giggles at the CDC.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 1:00 pm

A coronial inquest is examining how a 17-year-old boy who fell from a power pole was failed by NT Health, Territory Families and mental health providers.

I think he was badly let down by the law.
The Law of Gravity.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 1:01 pm

A coronial inquest is examining how a 17-year-old boy who fell from a power pole was failed by NT Health, Territory Families and mental health providers.

The inquest heard Reginald may have started sniffing petrol at 13, and was experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations at 16.

His family took him to Katherine District Hospital in January 2020, and psychiatrist Nandini Das said the teenager was suffering from a psychotic episode triggered by cannabis use and a brain injury from chronic volatile substance use.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 1:03 pm

Oh, certainly – clearly there is an issue with his pay, right?

As someone said yesterday, Bill has a heart for the wukkas…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 1:05 pm

[so does picking it out]

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 1:09 pm

Who are the thugs in this scenario?

In this instance the UK Sports minister, who is leaning on Wimbledon to “do something”.

I imagine the last thing tennis officials want is the world no. 1 not playing.

The Left make everything about politics, now faux conservatives are following suit, oblivious to the nightmare world of social conformity they are enabling thereby.

vr
vr
March 16, 2022 1:10 pm

Why is the WSJ editorial board still publishing Rudd?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 1:12 pm

The problem for the Russians is similar to the problem Julius Caesar faced at Alesia in Gaul. He had to build 25 miles of trenches, walls and forts to keep Vercingetorix’s guys under siege. Then he had to build another 25 miles of trenches, walls and forts outside the inner line to keep Mr Vercingetorix’s friends from freeing him. Hence his nickname The King of Spades.

Kiev, Chernigov and Kharkov are each much bigger than Alesia. So the Russians have a terrible dilemma how to keep the defenders isolated and under siege whilst preventing the territorials from chewing up the besiegers. I think the frontages are just too large with the forces Russia has available. Julius Caesar had about half the forces the Russians have: but he only had one city to besiege, not an entire country the size of France/Gaul.

Rabz
March 16, 2022 1:19 pm

Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent.
Police allege he raped Higgins in the office of Linda Reynolds on March 23, 2019.

What evidence exactly are the cops going to tender at the trial?

They have zero DNA evidence. There will be some video evidence (presumably) of the pair of useless drunken parasites blundering into parliament house at 2:00am on a Saturday morning demanding access to the ministerial office wing and some footage (again presumably) of them proceeding to blunder towards and into Reynold’s office (from within the ministerial office wing). Unless some video footage emerges from within Reynold’s office of the alleged without consent intercourse taking place, the prosecution’s case is likely to go precisely nowhere, very fast.

The testimony of the equally useless security guards could be interesting, but if you were Lehrmann, all you’d have to state is that “I did not have sex with that woman”*. Guilty of sexual intercourse without consent, beyond any reasonable doubt?

Not a chance. Still, after the Pell debacle, nothing is out of the question.

BTW, I am not a lawyer and have never claimed to be, although I did have the misfortune of being a juror in a particularly sordid abduction and sexual assault case in the ACT about seven years ago.

*It’s not as though that has never been used before.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 16, 2022 1:19 pm

A report released Greece’s Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs has found 2,339 incidents of desecration of the country’s Greek Orthodox churches during the five year period between 2015-2020, making them the main target among the various religious groups in the country, accounting for approximately 92.57% of the cases

There appears to be a correlation between the increase in illegal migration and the incidents of attacks on Greek Orthodox religious churches and religious spaces during the five year period which occurred during the peak of the migration crisis

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 16, 2022 1:24 pm

What is insane is idiots like Struth attributing her death to the vaccine without any evidence.

I am definitely anti Vax mandates but the idea that heart attacks should be put into the vaccine death column is a bit of a stretch without actual evidence. Does Struth or anybody even know when her last shot was?
“It seems any excuse for Kitchen’s death is acceptable , except for the real one.
What insane theatre”

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 16, 2022 1:28 pm

Going to be interesting and hopefully we’ll reported on by the press. Need a Janet A or Panahi inside.

“What evidence exactly are the cops going to tender at the trial?”

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 1:29 pm

That’s the horror of it, spending a week in Dublin and not going to an Irish pub, faux or otherwise.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 1:34 pm

Still, how did it end for the Gauls?

Must concern them that the ides of March have passed – if that was part of their strategy.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 1:35 pm

has passed.

Zatara
Zatara
March 16, 2022 1:35 pm

He tells those coming to Ukraine to fight, not to come it’s a trap.

He wanted to go play war and got one handed to him.

I mean seriously, WTF did he think was going to happen?

Speedbox
March 16, 2022 1:36 pm

Dr Faustus says:
March 16, 2022 at 11:34 am
Ukraine will not join Nato, says Zelenskiy, as shelling of Kyiv continues.
Shame he didn’t suggest this a few weeks ago.

Up until a few weeks ago, Zelenskiy had the opportunity to milk this like a bandit. He could have negotiated a vast and profitable deal for Ukraine that would have enriched the entire country. And not just with Russia, he could have engaged the EU, in particular, if only he would have pledged neutrality. A new ‘Switzerland’. The opportunities would have seen the streets paved with gold, not pitted with bomb craters.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 1:36 pm

A report released Greece’s Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs has found 2,339 incidents of desecration of the country’s Greek Orthodox churches during the five year period between 2015-2020

The headline cutely fails to mention that some of the muslim immigrants were using churches as toilets.

Greece: Muslim Migrants Desecrate and ‘Turn into Toilets’ 2,339 Churches (14 Mar)

The Occupy London protesters did the same to St Pauls. Seems to be a thing.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 1:37 pm

I watched that video earlier this morning, shades of how the Spanish Republicans treated the international brigade.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 1:40 pm

Still, how did it end for the Gauls?

They ended up exporting Irish pubs.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 1:49 pm

Thanks, Zulu:

Tunisian woman, 45, has a GLASS TUMBLER removed from her bladder four YEARS after inserting it for ‘erotic purposes’

Unidentified woman went to hospital after suffering painful symptoms for a year

Trying to avoid imagining how the “erotic purposes” would have worked out – but she was obviously quite happy with things for three years.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 1:53 pm

Still, how did it end for the Gauls?

Not well. But Julius Caesar was one of the most talented generals the world has ever seen, and he had less of a task tactically than the Russian GS have, relative to available forces.

One of the comparisons that can be made is this campaign vs the first Iraq War. Colin Powell’s guys overestimated the effectiveness of the the Iraqi Army, which was the third biggest in the world at the time. That is entirely forgivable. Powell assembled an assault force well over 500,000 guys, more than twice what the Russians assembled, and with full combined arms and air support. The US had total air superiority. The Iraqi Army was flattened. The wiki about The Battle of Norfolk is typical. US armor and infantry destroyed about 500 Iraqi tanks for loss of half a dozen (some from friendly fire). Many of those Iraqi armored vehicles still feature in the Russian T&OE.

You get this when the assigned forces are insufficient: the offensive grinds to a halt as the front line units suffer casualties and supply problems. Then they have to go over to hold-in-place. That is what has occurred a lot, especially in the northern front. They just don’t have the forces they need.

If the Russians could get clear air superiority and provide close air support consistently maybe they could get their ground forces moving. But I’m not seeing much sign of that. The influx of manpads has been breathtaking.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 16, 2022 2:03 pm

I just watched a clip of Dr Kerryn Phelps warning me of the dangers of the dreaded coof that is inhabiting my being like the creature in Alien.
I risk:
-Heart attack
-Stroke
-Diabetes
-High blood pressure
-Brain shrinkage
-Early dementia

I’m relieved that she didn’t mention my balls exploding. A silver lining perhaps.

Helen
Helen
March 16, 2022 2:03 pm

A coronial inquest is examining how a 17-year-old boy who fell from a power pole was failed by NT Health, Territory Families and mental health providers.

It was/is an unfathomable form of suicide, climbing a power pole and then arcing out on the cables. So much so that cages had to be placed to prevent access to the cables, like those that prevent possums from climbing.

The thing is, that even after seeing someone turn into a fried fruit bat, others still thought is was something to aspire to. Through chemical induced joy or despair, I dont know.

The community enables this.

Kneel
Kneel
March 16, 2022 2:06 pm

“Up until a few weeks ago, Zelenskiy had the opportunity to milk this like a bandit. He could have negotiated a vast and profitable deal for Ukraine that would have enriched the entire country.”

Russia offered that, pre-war – including free gas! – if they’d agree not to join a “block” (NATO or EU) and some other conditions. He knocked it back because “freedom” and “democracy” and “self-determination”.

So you might say their “self-determination” was to be destroyed by Russia. Who am I to argue?

Kneel
Kneel
March 16, 2022 2:08 pm

“The headline cutely fails to mention that some of the muslim immigrants were using churches as toilets.”

Imagine the outrage if you used a mosque as a abattoir for pigs…

P
P
March 16, 2022 2:12 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 2:12 pm

For military techheads this thread is quite interesting. The Russians are now equipping their ballistic missiles with decoys. Nice. The Americans won’t be happy at all.

https://twitter.com/DuitsyWasHere/status/1503562765536940032

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 2:18 pm

You’ve been everywhere, Bear.

It was only a quickie from London when I was in the UK. I think a mate just wanted to go so we could catch Air Lingus. Fair enough really.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 2:24 pm

My comment earlier that Odessa wasn’t likely to be taken may be in error. Observers today are seeing an amphibious force heading towards the city.

https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1503741551192723466

I still think the Russians are going to have a lot of trouble though. The Ukrainians have known the Russians want it for weeks now, and will have been fortifying the place with gusto. Worth watching though.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 16, 2022 2:25 pm

Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he:

Jussie Smollett’s lawyers and family are demanding an emergency suspension of the actor’s five-month jail sentence, saying “vicious threats” including a highly disturbing anonymous phone call raise serious concerns about his safety behind bars.

One of Smollett’s siblings received the alarming call Friday morning on the number that was given as his emergency jail contact when he was taken into custody Thursday night following sentencing for his hate hoax conviction, a Smollett spokeswoman says.

Rolling Stone, where darlin’ Jussie is shown to be trying every trick in the book to get out of the can…

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 16, 2022 2:27 pm

Wimbledon is threatening to ban the #1 tennis player in the world if he doesn’t publically denounce Putin and put his Russian family members in potential danger.

100% confirming that Wussia has replaced Wuflu as our current existential crisis

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 2:35 pm

Dr Faustussays:

March 16, 2022 at 1:40 pm

Still, how did it end for the Gauls?

They ended up exporting Irish pubs.

Please.
Can we hold off on the Irish pub talk until Friday?
The party strategists have a plan but if we get ahead of ourselves it will muck things up.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 2:36 pm

including a highly disturbing anonymous phone call raise serious concerns about his safety behind bars.

Could they hear if they were wearing MAGA hats?

Struth
March 16, 2022 2:36 pm

What is insane is idiots like Struth attributing her death to the vaccine without any evidence.

I am definitely anti Vax mandates but the idea that heart attacks should be put into the vaccine death column is a bit of a stretch without actual evidence. Does Struth or anybody even know when her last shot was?
“It seems any excuse for Kitchen’s death is acceptable , except for the real one.
What insane theatre”

Overwhelming Anecdotal evidence much of which I and many others have posted here regularly.
You can claim she died of being a politician and people will believe that over the bleeding obvious (anecdotal evidence) and I note no one here is disagreeing with the theory put forward that she died because that chap Wong was nasty to her,…….but the emotions surely start (above) when the obvious is stated.
If only you’d required evidence od covid before you all shit yourself.
Now every vax death you want a fucking autopsy!!!

Of course you do……

Lysander
Lysander
March 16, 2022 2:36 pm

“Dedollarization” – interesting strategic moves by China and Russia. Cats can look it up but it is what it says it is. 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 2:37 pm

What evidence exactly are the cops going to tender at the trial?

Let’s not prejudge Groogs expert testimony. I’m sure he has been diligently working on those tapes despite the appearance of being on here posting poorly Googled crap to annoy people.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 2:37 pm

Can we hold off on the Irish pub talk until Friday?

I was talking to a bloke about Ukraine and Russia in an Irish Pub…

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 2:38 pm

How Russia and Ukraine both fit into an Irish pub I will never know.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 16, 2022 2:41 pm

Never been inside an Irish pub, faux or otherwise.

Heres a small bit of hard won wisdom from my youth.

Dont enter a proper Irish inhabited pub wearing a “Margaret Thatcher Block” T shirt.

Struth
March 16, 2022 2:41 pm

Panzy Smollett’s lawyers and family are demanding an emergency suspension of the actor’s five-month jail sentence, saying “vicious threats” including a highly disturbing anonymous phone call raise serious concerns about his safety behind bars.

One of Smollett’s siblings (it wouldn’t have been his wife) received the alarming call Friday morning on the number that was given as his emergency jail contact when he was taken into custody Thursday night following sentencing for his hate hoax conviction, a Smollett spokeswoman says. The words “breaker, 10-4” were heard…..

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