He’s an ambassador without ambassadorial skills, kinda fits.
Open Thread – Weekend 19 Mar 2022
- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
- The Sweetest Victory
- Open Thread – Weekend 9 November 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 7 Nov 2024
- US Presidential Election 2024 Thread
If true, and if it really happens, this is a very significant win for Trump. Senate Majority Leader Candidates Agree…
Cats disparaging Mr Rude the Ambassador should be aware that they are upsetting the OZ’s Paul Kelly by doing ‘Trump…
One hell of a movie. Great Sydney scenery too.
Just cancelled your -1. I think it’s a bot. Pathetic, some smartypants imagines that he (oh, yes, it’s a he)…
Good morning all
Mark McGowan sparks outrage as he launches a ‘COVID ARMY’ that will go door to door and test Aussies for the virus with new technology still to receive TGA approval
Turd!
Startin’ half dozen
Cinque!
They (the political establishment) seem to be intent on bringing about another 70s style energy crisis. It was political then (Carter) and it is political now. Plenty of oil in production or waiting to be extracted.
I wonder how much oil we could extract here with courageous political leaders
I live in a suburb supposedly chosen for this bullshit. I feel sorry for the students who have to go door to door. I can imagine the vast majority of respondents will be “get fucked”.
Click on the McGowan link and the main pic is the slimey cunt with his Mrs.
What makes women stick with tyrants? How does Sarah McGowan love a man who gleefully destroyed lives, stopping mothers mourning dead children and denying children seeing dying mothers.
She’s a psychopath. An evil bitch. Eva Braun had the excuse she was mentally ill and tried to top herself several times before marrying Hitler. Sarah has no excuse.
Harry’s on the Boat:
Wasn’t that his cousin?
Made it into the Dirty Dozen!
(Not sure if good or not?)
Also, happy weekending, Cats! 😀
Bonhomie!
Fascinating that 45 out of 117 residents of a single aged care facility dying within a one month period is dismissed as ‘news at eleven’.
in first ever Vatican criminal tribunal Cardinal Becciu says donations went to charity, not brother
Herald Sun now has article up with interview of Diane Asmar
Headline is ‘Labor Party bullies wrecked Kimberley’.
I guess Albo isn’t going to be able to keep this one buried.
I’d have more respect for Adem if he’d acted in 2020 to stop the soe legislation go through.
I’m sure many more than me wrote to him asking him to vote, but he didn’t and there we were.
Adem Somyurek isn’t letting go either, this time it’s Victorian Labor bullying
another thread on the Asmar interview
one of several threads where commentors point out that the mean girls rebuttal statement effectively calls Kitchings a liar
Hawke, in many aspects of his private life, was a nasty, self-obsessed, unpleasant, boring narcissist. For much of his life he was a shocking, savage drunk, an alcoholic despite his reluctance to admit it, a compulsive and reckless sex addict who would treat some women with contempt and a man who repeatedly failed in his obligations to his family.
One of his political supporters, Gareth Evans, told Bramston: “Bob was never a bloke you went out to dinner with … He was utterly uninterested in the normal association you develop with someone over time which involves going out to dinner and chatting over things. His interests were having a beer, sex, sport, gambling and making a buck.
Paul Kelly in the Oz
Being a professional athlete and a father Jenner knows it’s not fair.
pink news castigates Caitlyn Jenner over his opposition to trans in women’s sports
No more Saint Bob patron saint of Labor.
I hope Elbow didn’t name Bob as one of the Labor prime ministers he hoped to emulate.
Biden ‘I may be Irish but I’m not stupid’
What was the name of that bloke in NSW? that killed the bloke who broke into his house?
MURDER CHARGE – KATHERINE
Northern Territory Police have this evening charged a man in relation to a shooting death of a man in Katherine earlier this week.
A 38-year-old man was taken into police custody following an incident in which a 26-year-old man was shot dead on Thursday morning, 30kms outside of Katherine.
The man has been charged with one count of murder, and has been remanded in custody to appear before Katherine Local Court at a date that is yet to be set.
Good article in the Oz. First half is a recap; second half here:
We can, and must, stop the violence and dysfunction
NYUNGGAI WARREN MUNDINE
Many see Walker’s death as being about Indigenous deaths in custody. I see it as about the epidemic of violence and dysfunction destroying so many Indigenous families and communities in remote Australia.
The tragedy of Walker’s death took place in 2.6 seconds. The tragedy of Walker’s life took place over decades. Generations in the making, being repeated over and over across Australia.
Walker was loved by family and community members, many who tried to help and take care of him over his life. He was also feared. His violence towards his girlfriend Rickisha Robertson in the years before his death was savage and brutal, beginning when she was a child of 14. Nurses based in Yuendumu, evacuated shortly before his death due to escalating attacks on their homes, spoke of their particular fear of Walker. A visiting government worker had to be hidden after Walker threatened to bash her with an iron bar.
Walker’s life is a litany of violence from a young age: perpetrated by him, around him and most likely against him.
Handed to friends by his mother at birth, he was raised by community and extended family members in dysfunctional environments, with domestic violence, fighting, filthy homes, alcohol abuse and adults unable to take basic care of him.
He barely had any schooling and was frequently sick with ear and chest infections, nits and scabies. From a young age he began consuming alcohol and marijuana and sniffing aerosols. He was on this pathway even before birth, his mother reportedly drinking heavily during pregnancy and with a history of petrol sniffing.
His story suggests that his own parents had their struggles. And there are families across Australia with multiple generations who’ve had similar lives to Walker.
A few years ago, senior police in an Australian state showed me extensive mapping of troubled families put together by police and family services. They found a small number of families took up most police and social services resources, some over five generations; with extensive criminal histories, family violence and murder, mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse, juvenile and adult criminal records and detention, and so on.
All those families’ members were known to police or family services as victims and/or perpetrators of child abuse. The saddest part was the sixth generation, aged 0 to 5, were already known to social services and police.
Don’t believe anyone who says this is caused by poverty. It’s not. I grew up in abject poverty. My siblings and I were always well cared for, our home was clean and tidy and we went to school every day. Most people I grew up with were poor and they were the same. My father and his family lived in tin and bark huts with dirt floors and the men and boys slept outside but they were also well cared for, clean and tidy and went to school every day. And in all of these families, all the adults worked.
A few key elements make almost all the difference between stable and healthy communities and those in complete dysfunction. These include adults going to work, children going to school, good early childhood care from conception, and respect for the rule of law.
All these elements are intertwined. High intergenerational welfare dependency goes hand-in-hand with all aspects of dysfunction including alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse. These in turn give rise to unhealthy pregnancies and poor early childhood care, with the next generations behind before they’ve barely begun.
Communities aren’t safe if laws are routinely broken and no one does anything about it. Jobs are created by commerce, but businesses won’t set up in places where violence and property damage are rampant; nor will communities have proper services if nurses, teachers and police are not safe there.
Rickisha Robertson’s experience is a chilling account of the bashing and terrorising of an Aboriginal teenage girl; an experience being repeated day after day for thousands of Aboriginal women across Australia.
The 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody said Indigenous people are more likely to die in custody because they’re more likely to be in custody. And damaged men who can’t control their anger and who terrorise their families and communities with violence will inevitably have more encounters with police – some of which will have fatal ends.
We as a nation, as well as Indigenous communities, need to face up to the violence and dysfunction plaguing so many Indigenous families and communities across Australia and speak openly and honestly about it. Its root causes aren’t a mystery; nor the solutions. What’s missing is the will.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine is director of the Centre for Independent Studies Indigenous Forum. @nyunggai
Johannes Leak.
Benjamin Batterham?
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran. Brilliant.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
`Dilbert
Now the Guardian is giving ‘zero covid’ policies a big smack.
Without a vaccine option there is no way out of zero covid except economic ruin and the inevitable death catch up.
“New Zealand, which also attempted a zero-Covid strategy, has a 2% unvaccinated rate among the over-80s; in Hong Kong, when this latest wave hit, 66% of over-80s had not been vaccinated”
yes it’s the Guardian
“The city’s daily death rate has surpassed several European countries and now far outstrips that of nearby nations which abandoned their zero-Covid ambitions: it is 10 times greater than South Korea, 23-fold higher than Singapore and 37-fold higher than New Zealand.”
a comparison
new york times also on Hong Kong
An old Moodies to go with the painting.
Which is very autumnal. Love the backlighting reflected in the windows.
The BBC attempted to paint Poland’s acceptance of Ukrainian refugees as hypocritical, since they had been less welcoming of ME “refugees” previously.
As an arse cover they sneaked in a brief mention that Poles and Ukrainians are very close and familiar, but at the same time implied that it was “white christian” syndrome.
Moran’s toon is a beauty!
I see Knight still thinks Covid is some sort of genuine threat. I love (d)* cricket, but the Warne worship is becoming tiresome.
* pre ball tampering and subsequent beta blubbing
Some mighty cartoons. Thank you Tom.
Ridiculing the powerful.
It’s why they try to censor the humble cartoonist.
Quite and at times such censorship is deadly.
Thanks, Dr. duk re. rundown on today’s SA election. Given the Lieberals Greens preference above all others, I hope the routing is huge. I will be watching the count tonight as I suspect the result will be indicative of what may be in store for Morrison and his rabble.
What was the name of that bloke in NSW? Pretty sure Ricky Slater would have known but couldn’t be reached for comment.
The BBC attempted to paint Poland’s acceptance of Ukrainian refugees as hypocritical, since they had been less welcoming of ME “refugees” previously.
As an arse cover they sneaked in a brief mention that Poles and Ukrainians are very close and familiar, but at the same time implied that it was “white christian” syndrome.
do they still talk down to you with a fruity I-got-a-first -in- PPE accent?
I heard Russell Brand in one of his podcasts this week coin the term – imperial media – and I thought how apt. Let’s give them what they deserve rather than what they prefer like being called mainstream. What’s more, it’s a throwback that will rile them.
Top Ender:
When I was working in Remote, a common thread was the mothers who didn’t have a clue about babies and child rearing were farming the job out to Aunties and Gran.
The issue was that by the time the kids grew up and had their kids, the Aunties and Grandmothers didn’t have a clue either – apart from one or two in the community who did.
A gap of three generations who didn’t know the basics about child rearing. All that knowledge had been lost.
So here we are today, at that point in time that was predicted generations ago, and we are still unwilling to take the steps that are needed to solve the problem.
I like it, Crossie!
Imperial Media – it comes with a musical score, too!
Are we doing any better handing and sometimes forced to give owe kids over to people with a Cert in social experimenting.
So the South Australian Liberals are preferencing the Greens above parties like One Nation and Family First. Is this in all seats? Even if it is in one seat only then the SA Liberals deserve to be annihilated. Once again we have a Liberal state government, let’s be honest here, a Labor lite Liberal government, heading for defeat after one term. There is simply no point voting Liberal.
Wasn’t that his cousin?
Dunno,
but he rode Hedy Lamarr in 1938.
Gave her a gold cigarette case adorned with a Swastika inlaid with diamonds and Hedy wasn’t shy about showing it off until the day she died.
Shameful silence is a killer in communities
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
After the jury’s unanimous verdict last week finding Zachary Rolfe not guilty of murdering Kumanjayi Arnold Walker, Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves asked: “When are we going to get justice?”
“When?” he cried, in front of a media pack.
Justice in the eyes of Walker’s family and many in his community means putting a young white policeman in jail, irrespective of his innocence. They want answers for their boy’s death. The easiest one is to blame a white cop, ignoring that Walker was a troubled and violent man who savagely bashed his girlfriend, attacked a policeman with an axe, used a pair of scissors as a dagger to stab Rolfe and was threatening to stab Rolfe’s partner Adam Eberl before he was shot.
The family’s grief is understandable. Harder to digest are kneejerk and stubbornly blind reactions from community groups, from legal bodies, from elite elders, and from sections of the media. Not to mention the silence from high profile women who almost daily use their media platforms to condemn violence against certain kinds of women. They have not said a word about the violent abuse suffered by Walker’s teenage girlfriend.
Justice has many sides. While the jury delivered a unanimous decision about the circumstances leading to Walker’s death, what about the circumstances of his life? Who cares about the injustice that turned a baby into a violent and deeply troubled young boy named Arnold Walker?
As The Australian reported this week, this is a story about a little boy whose mother was a “sniffer” and drank heavily while pregnant, a boy given away and reared in different homes where he was surrounded by alcohol abuse and domestic violence, shunted from place to place only to endure more dysfunction.
At 15 months old, Walker was suffering from various infections, nits and scabies. At 11, he was breaking into properties. By 13, he was drinking and taking drugs, inhaling petrol, paint, and deodorant. He had no real home.
There will be a shot at justice when Indigenous babies can avoid Walker’s fate. That will only happen when Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia alike wakes up to the epidemic of dysfunction and violence in some Indigenous communities. When we demand that it be addressed by all levels of society: government, civil society, and by the communities where violence and abuse hides and thrives behind walls of silence.
There will also be a shot at justice for Indigenous girls when they can avoid the fate of Walker’s girlfriend, Rickisha Robertson. Walker was barely 15 when he started bashing the teenage Rickisha. But no one has uttered a word about the injustice to a young girl who was regularly and brutally bashed by Walker.
The Australian detailed that horrifying story this week too. It started when Robertson was 14. Walker beat her with a piece of steel. He punched her, kicked her, in her face and to her body. He bit her face. He choked her, holding her neck with two hands, lifting her off the ground. Not once or twice. But regularly. Not alone. It happened in front of others in the small Yuendumu community.
“It was really hard that he was assaulting me but he always said: ‘I forgive you’,” Robertson told The Australian in an interview.
“I’m the one who was getting in his way,” she said.
Who cares about the ingrained injustice where an abused young Indigenous girl blames herself for being bashed? If white feminists can’t condemn this, what is their point?
Alas, on Indigenous matters, we prefer to obsess about the safe, the symbolic moves. Australians got behind Kevin Rudd’s symbolic apology in parliament. That must have made plenty of white people feel better.
Now we’re obsessing about a constitutional race-based voice for Indigenous people, another device for elites to chat and debate and complain. That will make us feel better too. Look, we will say, we are doing something.
And then we can carry on in studied ignorance while more babies are neglected and abused and grow into men like Walker. And we will continue to run scared from racial discrimination claims so that Indigenous children are not removed from dire neglect and abuse.
After the verdict, Indigenous man Warren Williams demanded that Indigenous people be “recognised as true owners of this land. We need to have control of our lives. We have our own yapa system in our culture, in our law.”
For how long will land rights be the focus of Indigenous elders while young Indigenous girls suffer horrific violence? Where is the call for justice for Rickisha Robertson from those in the Yuendumu community who are demanding justice for Walker?
After the verdict this week, another elder said that the community is deeply disappointed with the trial: “I can’t with honesty say that it’s been fair … this is not the last you will hear from Kumanjayi Walker’s family.”
Yes, we need to hear more. When will we hear elders condemn men in their own community, men like Walker, who repeatedly abused a teenage girl?
Nurses who worked and lived in the Yuendumu community faced constant and horrific violence too? Perpetrators were not prosecuted. Instead, the nurses were evacuated from the Indigenous community for their safety.
There will be a shot at justice for Indigenous girls, and those who work in these communities, when violence against them is treated as a crime, and when we face up to the uncomfortable double standard where we ignore violence inside Indigenous communities but agonise over cross-racial violence. Is that not deeply and dangerously racist? Speaking outside court after the verdict was handed down, deputy chair of the Parumpurru Justice Committee Valerie Napaljarri Martin said: “We demand an end to guns in our communities. We have every right to speak and to say: this must stop. Do not silence us.”
Silence? No one is silencing Indigenous elders. Rather than blaming guns and pointing the finger at a white policeman who tried to defend himself and his partner, Martin could have said: “We must confront the violence within our own communities. The violence must stop.”
Because where there is horrific, entrenched violence, there can only be policing with guns. None of that is comfortable. But truth rarely is.
More young Indigenous girls will be bashed and bitten and choked by Indigenous men because elders would rather allege racism and jail an innocent white police officer than confront Walker’s violent past.
After the verdict, The Guardian’s Lorena Allam suggested that Walker’s death had brought back memories for Indigenous people of “when police acted with impunity along the colonial frontier”.
This is comfort journalism. It follows a safe story, one repeated again and again, one that won’t upset the sensibilities of Indigenous people. By turning a blind eye to violence within Indigenous communities, this form of journalism has surely contributed to more Indigenous violence. And no justice for Indigenous women.
Women who have built profiles from the same supine media outlets, as the new voices speaking out against abuse and violence against women, are also silent. Those women are portrayed as brave, yet they dare not tread here. Grace Tame? Brittany Higgins? Lisa Wilkinson? Louise Milligan? Where is your voice?
There might be a better future for young Indigenous women when the newest batch of white-skinned feminists who band together in little cliques, dressed in power suits and primary colours, condemn abuse of Indigenous girls by Indigenous boys.
There might be a better shot at justice when having a Minister for Women in federal parliament means something. Surely the first priority is exposing the abuse of Indigenous women, the most vulnerable Australians in the country, and demanding that we all work to change that.
Ignoring violence perpetrated by Indigenous boys and men lets them off, but it lets us off too.
After the verdict, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Atkins said that “lessons must be learned by police about this tragedy.”
No doubt true. But what of lessons to be learned by Indigenous people about this tragedy?
More silence.
There will no prospect of justice for Indigenous girls until this widespread silence is broken so that we confront the tragic dysfunction that produced a boy like Walker.
Changing Walker’s birth name after his death from Arnold to Kumanjayi cannot hide the fact that justice has many faces.
Oz
As Murray Walters said, zero shame from Walker’s family about how they dragged him up.
Ear infections because aborigines can’t tolerate Milk.
Which means he was deaf.
So, he was deaf, yet the Nurses and other Health fuckwits that infest aboriginal “communities” never picked that up.
We do infinitely better that families in remote indigenous communities.
Sexual and physical abuse of children is not tolerated, for starters.
And while day care has definite downsides the standard of care is infinitely better than lice, scabies, parasite ridden, ear and chest infection failure to thrive babyworld.
Bluey
That said, there is a lot of ocean out there, and much of it is beyond the range of air attack. Whether countries buying our coal, iron ore, grain and similar bulk exports would be willing to provide their own escorts (perhaps with a discount on price) is an open question. But we will still need that export income.
A quick wrap up on the threat of Blockade.
There is good news and bad news. The good news includes that we can take measures to reduce our dependence on bulk imports like oil, and small, urgent, items can be flown in. Also, maintaining a blockade is not easy, particularly given the size of the oceans around Australia. It would take a lot of expensive resources to maintain even a limited blockade, probably beyond the means of any but a superpower.
The bad news is that we would still have to import some bulky items (think tanks and heavy artillery), and would need the resources to ensure that can occur. How much more then we currently have in naval combatants and maritime patrol aircraft would be needed than we currently have is open to question.
Invasion next (later this morning), since the comments by you and others suggest that is where a lot of interest lies.
Miltonfsays:
March 19, 2022 at 1:05 am
I wonder how much oil we could extract here with courageous political leaders
More than enough to meet our needs, but we also need to have refining capability.
Then there is coal-to-liquid, …. And all that gas ….
shock news about Melbourne cbd bike lanes, no one uses them
rosiesays:
March 19, 2022 at 2:44 am
Herald Sun now has article up with interview of Diane Asmar
Headline is ‘Labor Party bullies wrecked Kimberley’.
I guess Albo isn’t going to be able to keep this one buried.
Good. He leads a party of lying hypocrites, time they got some exposure.
There’ll be more Kumanjayi Arnold Walkers, he wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last. I don’t expect anything to change until the day comes when Aboriginal communities are willing and able to stand up and take responsibility for the endemic grog and substance addiction, the endemic sexual and domestic violence, the endemic dysfunction and we see indigenous communities and individuals willing to bravely say ENOUGH. However I don’t expect it to happen any time soon because the ultimate drug that Aboriginal communities are addicted to, a drug that’s far more destructive than grog or glue, is the chronic combination of welfare, dependency on progressive police makers who live in Canberra or other cities, the Greens and other bugmen and bugwomen on the far-left who use Aboriginals for ideological purposes and the “white Aboriginals class”….who aren’t indigenous because the bottom line is that having an indigenous great-grandmother doesn’t make you Aboriginal. A recent example of this ideology is here in NSW, where Labor and the stinking rotten Greens teamed up together to defeat a very reasonable bill (which the likes of Jacinta Price supported) which proposed removing Aboriginal children at high risk from their Aboriginal families. All this proves is that the left prefer dead Aboriginals, because it suits their putrid progressive narratives, over living, breathing and functional Aboriginals who are able to contribute to this country.
Until the reckoning happens, nothing will change and there’ll be more Kumanjayi Arnold Walkers.
Albo’s being taken out.
Wonder what PeanutHead will say in the Eulogy on Monday?
Does anyone else find this over-the-top blame game on the heart attack that killed Kitching just a tad ridiculous? .. I mean, hundreds of folk a year in Oz die of heart attacks without the least comment but here we have so someone “stressed”over “words” out whilst knocking over $200K a+freebies a year for doing nothing, useful dropping dead and it’s all from “mean” words .. FFS! ..
not to mention the fact that this “stress ” showed no signs of, nasty, side effects when she, happily, lied to an RC and thus ensured her elevation (without election) to the Senate as a reward ..
as that F-W-ed Labor wanker, Richo sez .. “Whatever it takes” ..
The kids name was Arnold Walker.
The “Kumanjayi” is something journalists cooked up to dehumanise him.
Bottom Line:
He had no Criminal History to justify killing him, so NewsCorp has made up a lot of lies instead.
Fair enough, rosie. Still I don’t think this tragedy is an excuse for complacency. The future is kids get raised by committee and not parents if we let them.
Imperial media. Establishment media works too, in much the same way.
Dick Ed
but he rode Hedy Lamarr in 1938.
Visual record, or it didn’t happen.
Yes.
Because photos of her in recent months indicate that she was obviously dying of something Heart Related.
So, no, Wong and Her Crew weren’t to blame, but that’s not what this is really about anyway.
It’s a well planned Political Hit on Albanese, using Kitching’s death, which could not have come as a surprise to anyone who knew her, as a blunt instrument.
Hi shatterzzz
What other ALP Talking Points have you got to share today?
This isn’t the first generation to have been raised through child care.
On the subject of Kitchings the discussion isn’t about what was the immediate cause of death.
It’s about the exposure of internal culture of the Labor party.
Their get Morrison strategy using the highly powered Higgins-Tame weapon has backfired spectacularly.
rosie just wondering how the smoked salmon tagliatelle turned out the recipe looked delish wanting a heads up on whether to try it this evening.
Ed Casesays:
March 19, 2022 at 8:21 am
At 15 months old, Walker was suffering from various infections, nits and scabies.
Ear infections because aborigines can’t tolerate Milk.
Which means he was deaf.
Dr Ed diagnoses a person he never met, truly a genius for our age!
Strangely, none of his family members nor the many medical staff who dealt with him over the years noticed this deafness.
Two items from Bad Cattitude. Both have no trouble at all revealing the dishonesty and outright lies fed to us from the start.
the CDC analysis on pediatric vaccines is pure garbage
CDC reports of historical covid deaths drop by 70k to correct “coding error”
So, he was deaf, yet the Nurses and other Health fuckwits that infest aboriginal “communities” never picked that up.
I take it that you have a high chain link fence to protect you from the locals at your place Ed.
He had no Criminal History to justify killing him, so NewsCorp has made up a lot of lies instead.
Dick Ed doesn’t believe that self defence is acceptable.
Lol. The Beloved is reading me snippets as we speak.
Someone want to start a book on Plibbers getting the top job?
I’m a very ordinary cook Tinta but while it wasn’t as good as the one I had in Corsica I was happy to eat it.
I served with a little parmesan and my beloved white pepper.
Next time I’ll make sure I have some parsley too.
I think the recipe is machine translated, as some of it was a little odd, I switched in brandy for cognac too.
But it was very quick and easy to prepare.
If you make it come back and let us know what you thought.
Oregon’s Top Children’s Hospital Teaches Young Boys To ‘Tuck’ Their Genitals, Directs Kids To Sex Shop.
We really need to start investigating just what these monsters do when they are not being watched.
Because photos of her in recent months indicate that she was obviously dying of something Heart Related.
Dr Ed diagnoses deafness without ever meeting the patient, and heart problems from photographs. Truly a medical paragon, we are so lucky to have him here to share his wealth of knowledge.
You have to wonder. No mention.
‘Bubbly’ girl, 12, died suddenly as she played in park with her family
..
Don’t people realise that’s that plan?
We have always been blessed with medical experts at the cat.
“Good. He leads a party of lying hypocrites, time they got some exposure.”
Correct. I’ve watched in dismay how a supine and cowardly Coalition, over the last year, has laid down and surrendered to Labor and the Greens over all the hysterical sexual stuff, be it the “wape allegation”, the disgraceful Porter and Tudge allegations. The truth is that we all know that Labor is a party of absolute hypocrites and that a lying and corrupt MSM has spent years happily covering up shenanigans in Labor for political purposes. Perhaps that grotesque frightful ABC spectre, Laura Shingles, at the next National Press Club’s soiree, can ask the member for Grayndler who, when he’s not pictured smiling with an anti-Semite, likes to smash non-existent Tories*, the following questions (in a similar vein to her opening questions to Scott Morrison when he appeared at the NPC a few weeks ago)….
Mr Albanese, are you sorry about what was done Senator to Kimberley Kitching?
Mr Albanese, did you and the party deal with Senator Kitching’s complaints about bullying?
Mr Albanese, will you finally deal with that trio of “mean girls” in the senate…..Senators Wong, Keneally and Gallagher?
Mr Albanese, why are you and your party such hypocrites?
I expect to hear crickets from the ABC spectre.
* I’m still yet to find Tories in this country…has anyone ever met one?
Exactly the same in Sydney.
It’s Poetic Justice for the very PC Wong.
She can hardly come out and announce:
“Hey, Kimberley was Triple Covid Vaccinated, gimme a fuckin’ break.”
Yes, and it works well.
I never go into the CBD voluntarily.
Ultracrepidarians-R-Us
Alex Berenson
The light at the end of the mRNA vaccine tunnel looks more like a train every day
Plibersek refused to take action on Kitching’s Bullying claims, so that’s the end of any Leadership aspirations she mighta had.
I’ve met a few people who have Whigs.
No offence rosie. But I bet back in your day your kids didn’t come home from kindy burdened with adult concepts like ‘gender’, climate change and “How to make sport more fairer to women”. And at what age? Five or six not two.
And please separate owe discussion with you and Ed.
Okay. If Albo gets the punt, who’s next in line?
Remember their names: These are the 50 former “intelligence” officials who colluded to interfere in the 2020 election by signing a letter saying that Hunter’s laptop was a Russian plot:
James Clapper (Former DNI)
Michael Hayden (Former CIA Director)
Leon Panetta (Former CIA Director)
John Brennan (Former CIA Director)
John McLaughlin (Former CIA Director)
Michael Morell (Former CIA Director)
Marc Polymeropoulos
John Sipher
Doug Wise
Nick Rasmussen
Russ Travers
Andy Liepman
John Moseman
Larry Pfeiffer
Jeremy Bash
Rodney Snyder
Glenn Gerstell
David Buckley
Nada Bakos
Patty Brandmaier
James Bruce
David Cariens
Janice Cariens
Paul Kolbe
Peter Corsell
Brett Davis
Thomas Finger
Roger Zane George
Steven Hall
Kent Harrington
Don Hepburn
Timothy Kilbourn
Rick Ledgett
Ron Marks
Jonna Hiestand Mendez
Emile Nakhleh
Gerald O’Shea
David Priess
Pam Purcilly
Chris Savos
Nick Shapiro
Stephen Slick
Cynthia Strand
Greg Tarbell
David Terry
Greg Treverton
John Tullius
David Vanell
Mike Vickers
Winston Wiley
Kristin Wood
Nine further “intelligence” officials colluded with those listed above but decided to remain anonymous
I don’t earn my living by being a Snoop and a Snitch on my neighbours, FarmerGez, so I don’t need to worry about my safety all that much.
A near 10 point gap in the much vaunted polls shouted from the rooftops and the filth are booting Albo? Has Albo got a wymmens problem?
Indeed Bespoke.
Family are very conscious of the controversies facing my grandchildren in daycare.
Bill Shorten.
The Victorian Liberals had success with this ploy, Kennett lost 2 elections so he stood down, replaced by some dud, then he returned shortly before the 1992 Election and beat Kirner.
callisays:
March 19, 2022 at 9:09 am
Okay. If Albo gets the punt, who’s next in line?
Dick Ed has just proclaimed that it won’t be Pliberserk, so it seems that she is a sure thing.
How can they punt Albo under the leadership election rules?
From an ABC article.
While booster vaccines are, in most cases, not mandatory, they’re recommended for everyone aged 16 years and over to help maintain immunity against COVID-19.
That’s because COVID-19 vaccines steadily lose their effectiveness over time, most notably against infection and symptomatic disease.
“With two doses, you still get some protection against serious illness, but you have virtually zero protection against infection with Omicron,” Professor Esterman said.
Does anyone know this miracle in infection protection Esterman speaks of?
No studies are shown to support this and raw data for the hospitalisation rate of booster patients don’t back it up.
Internal Polling must show that he’s a turn off for Women Voters.
So, he’s gotta go.
I’d say their own Polling might also show that Wong loses a lot more votes with Male voters than she gains with Women Voters.
And it appears that she’s made a helluva lotta enemies.
Gez
According to Dick Ed, he doesn’t
earn [his] living by being a Snoop and a Snitch on my neighbours, FarmerGez,
He does it for free?
Meme
Apparently this is being censored all over social media. Which is why it needs to be posted here.
“How can they punt Albo under the leadership election rules?”
They can’t.
Hoists and petards come to mind. Popcorn anyone?
I don’t earn my living by being a Snoop and a Snitch on my neighbours, FarmerGez, so I don’t need to worry about my safety all that much.
Move to Katherine and try that logic out.
Kompromat.
He can either go quietly and be looked after or he can be discredited and disgraced.
Get yourself a spell checker.
“Two items from Bad Cattitude. Both have no trouble at all revealing the dishonesty and outright lies fed to us from the start.”
Don’t miss this either:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdc-removes-24-percent-of-child-covid-19-deaths-thousands-of-others_4345083.html
This is how dumb Wong is:
She’s told lies about apologies, now she’s attending Kitchings Funeral.
Kenneally went straight to ground, made no comment whatsoever, which is the only smart move.
Nice new teef you got there. Shame if anything should happen to them.
During the height of the Joh era, politically smart people were telling conservatives to stop calling him Joh.
Their argument was that the use of first names or nicknames humanises an unrepentant totalitarian crook. Using formal names removes any sense of these scum being ‘of the people’.
The rule applies even more to Albanese. ‘Albo’ gives the false impression that the prick is a man of the people, a nice bloke to have a beer with, anything other than a totalitarrian marxist thug.
You often read the comment “Albo is a nice bloke, but..”. Ask independant truck owners about him being a nice bloke. All non-corporate, non-union small business will be destroyed by this nice bloke.
Yes very disappointing.
The full Epoch Times article linked by Kneel.
And being four foot nothing is no excuse.
Bespoke:
That’s a fine question, Bespoke.
…and I just deleted about ten lines of personal opinion because I don’t really know the answer.
In short – yes we are doing better, I think, but there is a pattern emerging of a lack of control over the child’s development in favour of trendy and ephemeral issues.
From the Epoch Times article:
“Slightly worrying”?
Wong has never faced any real scrutiny, so she’s totally unprepared for what’s just hit her right between the eyes.
I’d say Albanese’s goon squad has told her she’s attending the Funeral. Newspaper photographers are gonna have a Field Day.
NSW weekly hospital cases.
Three or more doses. 104 5 20
Two doses 102 13 16
One dose 17 2 2
No dose/Unknown 88 10 9
No sign of infection protection here.
Cassie, Cassie, Cassie….
I expect to hear crickets from the ABC spectre.
Dont be silly, instead they are focused laser like on the real issue.
Using the term “mean girls” is sexist and abusive and worse than Hitler.
(actually i have to admit this surprised even me for gall)
Kimberley Kitching’s death has exposed a battle within the Labor Party that is playing out in sexist language like ‘mean girls’
ABC Radio Melbourne / By Virginia Trioli
Here we go again.
“Mean girls”.
It’s a bit coy, isn’t it? A bit retro, a bit high school? At the very least it’s not at all honest.
Because what are the critics, and the opportunists and the political players itching to really call the powerful women in the Labor Party they’d like to blame for an unexpected and untimely death?
Don’t they really just want to call them a pack of bitches?
Sorry.
These tables never come out right.
The figures are hospitalisations, ICU and deaths the third number.
Boambee John:
Ed is just trolling, he doesn’t know shit from clay.
Still too simplistic.
They are unfit to govern because they cannot govern themselves.
Don’t they really just want to call them a pack of bitches?
If ViTrioli says it, who are we to disagree?
My new word for the day. Thanks, calli.
BTW, whilst googling the above, I came across this:
We have a new collective noun: A throttlebottom of parliamentarians.
Love it!
Albo’s new squeeze might be rueing the wisdom of signing that last contract.
A veritable polymath and humble genius, is our Eddles.
On politics (again). The concept of Albansleazey being punted before the election is preposterous. Thanks to Elmer Rudd, that possibility is a no go. The utter idiocy and uselessness of Michelin Marshmallow Morristeen will see the noxious grub from Grayndler going full gollum on this nation’s collective house sized backside.
As for who’s next should ol’ turkey neck decide to spend more time with “da family” it would be Blabbersack, a proven world class mediocrity, shameless hypocrite and utter failure (she’s only been waiting for over two decades, after all) – and her elbows are far sharper than Pansy Marles’, for starters.
Winxi the Poo would be barely able to contain his glee at such a prospect.
no. let’s not mince words, a pack of communist cunts
As ftb said yesterday, each of those named should lose their security clearance.
Vitrioli sweetie, that would just be stating the bleeding obvious. Your ever dwindling radio audience of inner city imbeciles are way too sophisticated for such ol’ fashioned concepts.
They wouldn’t be listening to the ALPBC otherwise.
What an idiotic comment. We can keep five or so names in mind, but 50- with at least 45 names we’ve never heard before.
Custard, go sell caravans.
What?
Speaking of Imperial media, we should also be weary of Imperial experts.
Although she did have one notable success.
She convinced Hadley to stop bringing up her husband’s drug and jail record on the air.
Now how she convinced him is unknown but would make a good novel in the vein of Ross Fitzgerlad’s Professor Dr Grafton Everest
FarmerGez, Peter Smith points out in another thread the appalling lack of consistency of NSW Health which makes any attempt to follow the ins and outs of COVID over the last year and the vaccines all but impossible. I think this is a feature, not a bug.
Evil witches.
You mean, like blaming it on THE JAB with zero evidence?
The king, Wally Lewis took about three or four years to work out his child was deaf. No comment.
The Empire Strikes Back:
When a pundit says “Labor has a women problem”, do they mean Labor has a problem with women or that Labor women are the problem?
Groogs on the red cordial. Must be a Saturday.
Not to mention the silent scourge known as “selective deafness”.
Rather than a long drawn out national demise it might just be better to kill it with fire and end the misery. It might be fun to see how Blabbersack compares to the lying slapper in terms of competence in the top job.
It’s all just petty tokenism, dover.
With Russia doing so well and US/NATO paralysed by fear, the Bolshevik Faction of the ALP, ascendant until a few days ago, now has feet of clay.
Putinesque strike on Albanese, his days are numbered and he never saw it coming.
Trioli neatly sidestepping the issue of Kitching being isolated and bullied by her own party’s leadership team.
Incidentally I think it was Kitching who called them ‘mean girls’ and as the concept is one of forming a coterie to exclude probably quite apt.
Paging Mr Smith, please get back to your desk. Others are re-writing history faster than you can.
Dr Robert Malone reminds us of Pfizer’s 2.3 billion dollar fine for pedaling drugs.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/remain-skeptical-my-friend?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyOTY4NTI5NSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTA0ODY2MzksIl8iOiI4dk5GYiIsImlhdCI6MTY0NzY0NTE5OSwiZXhwIjoxNjQ3NjQ4Nzk5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTgzMjAwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.t640T09Gy84g_wz250ouUkqSMzV_9O08Y-o8FHekfIw&s=r
Last time, The Simpsons, this time, South Park.
Heathers
“Because what are the critics, and the opportunists and the political players itching to really call the powerful women in the Labor Party they’d like to blame for an unexpected and untimely death?
Don’t they really just want to call them a pack of bitches?”
Well yeah Trioli……they are a pack of bitches. For once in your life you’ve actually got something right you tax munching bullshit artist. Don’t you just love the “unexpected and untimely death” cheap hollow words from this tax hoovering mediocrity?
The women at the ABC, Trioli, Karvelas, Shingles, are no different to those three bitches in the Labor party.
You really couldn’t make this shit up and remember that we pay for this unadulterated shit from Trioli and don’t forget, this so called Liberal government has just given their ABC more money.
The Labor party isn’t fit to govern……nor is the Coalition.
Autocorrect obviously deleted the in from competence.
Good moaning!
Censored?
I’ve seen it twice on Facebook in the last couple of weeks.
It gives one a certain street cred to claim to being subject to censorship.
“Yuri Gagarin, has been stripped of his honours by the Space Foundation, which censored his name “in light of current world events.””
This is just cancel culture on steroids.
Thoughts for the day…
1. Lia Thomas is not a woman.
2. Lia Thomas is a cheat.
End of discussion.
Bluey
Commenters have largely focused on the Invasion element of national defence (from the four broad threat categories of Blockade, Bombardment, Invasion and Insurgency), so let’s turn to that.
As with Blockade, there is good news, and there is bad news. Starting with the bad news, Australia is a big country, with a lot of area to defend. The good news, however, is that Australia is a big country, with a lot of area to be attacked.
There is little point in an invader landing in the northern tip of the Kimberley, as the logistics of supporting an invading force there would be only slightly more challenging (think huge tidal ranges, and few beaches) than the practicality of moving from there to somewhere significant. While the idea of doing an end run via Ayers Rock, to take Sydney from inland might represent the ultimate indirect approach, the invaders will die of thirst and starvation before they get very far.
This argument applies to much of the continent. To deter even the thought of attack in remote areas, we need the capability to put sufficient force in place in a short(ish) time to require any potential invader to land a large force.
A combination of an armoured battle group and a motorised brigade located in likely landing places causes a lot of problems for any potential invader. It takes a lot to move a division, by sea or air, for a limited potential gain. Harass them when they land, then lead them into the wilderness, falling back on pre-cached supplies, while any invader has to carry everything forward.
Add in attack by aircraft and long range rockets/ballistic missiles on both the invading force in transit, and as it advances inland, and their problems increase geometrically. China is claimed to have ballistic missiles capable of terminal homing on aircraft carriers. Doing the same to amphibious fleets should be practicable.
Long range rockets/missiles (100kms or greater range) with multiple warheads guided onto a landed force by “stay behind” reconnaissance parties could be more effective than large tank forces. They fly rapidly to the scene, while a ground counterattack in the outback could take days to reach a reported location, to find that the target force had moved.
But enough about scrapping in the outback, thoughts on defending more developed regions to follow later.
All a bit pointless, isn’t it? Gagarin died in 1968.
Ha ha.
Polling musta shown that Albanese wasn’t getting thru to female voters.
That’s not surprising, since the guy has no charm or wit.
The Womans Weekly spread with his Beard was his last chance but evidently was a failure.
So, Plibersek was preparing for a coronation, then Kitching died.
A Hit like this takes months of Planning, it didn’t just come together over a few days.
?
Delta Asays:
March 19, 2022 at 9:54 am
Ultracrepidarians
My new word for the day. Thanks, calli.
BTW, whilst googling the above, I came across this:
What is a throttlebottom?
Definition of Throttlebottom
: an innocuously inept and futile person in public office.
We have a new collective noun: A throttlebottom of parliamentarians.
Love it!
Unfortunately, too many of ours are not innocuously inept, but dangerously inept.
I think this is a feature, not a bug.
It is Dover.
They throw ‘unknown’ into ‘no dose’ just to boost the figure.
Public officials manipulating officially collected public data to achieve an political purpose.
Delta A:
Cassie, please.
It’s no longer that sort of blog.
https://funker530.com/video/ukraine-fog-of-war-whats-really-happening/
Cassie, please.
It’s no longer that sort of blog.”
LOL.
Heathers — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097493/plotsummary
No doubt at all that the small number of aged and frail dying of covid in Australia are double, triple maybe quadruple vaccinated.
It was never going to be 100 percent guarantee of survivability.
Seems that the small numbers are what should matter.
How long before Piroshki are banned?
Old School Conservativesays:
March 19, 2022 at 10:11 am
When a pundit says “Labor has a women problem”, do they mean Labor has a problem with women or that Labor women are the problem?
Embrace the power of “and”.
“lotocotisays:
March 19, 2022 at 10:27 am
How long before Piroshki are banned?”
It’s ridiculous.
Deafness is socially isolating, which may lead to anger and acting out when undiagnosed.
What do these fucking nurses at the Aboriginal Camps do all day, spy on Abos and keep dossiers on their activities?
How hard is it to know that Milk will cause Glue Ear in children and will leave them deaf if it’s not treated.
No wonder they live in fear behind the barb wire fence.
the trailer
Err, unless my hearing is playing up (again) various appendages of the vampire squid that is our beloved braindead lamestream meeja have been repeatedly stating that the deceased lady senator did not use that term when referring to that coven of evil slags.
Shazza Markson (?) was the perpetrator.
I don’t think so. They are requiring Medvedev to denounce Putin or not play in Wimbledon, they are forcing Abramovich to give up Chelsea. They have fired people from orchestras. They are requisitioning assets, freezing bank accounts, and so on, of ordinary Russian citizens, at home and abroad. Whatever they are doing now they will do in a heart beat if they feel they must against their own domestic opponents.
The Space Foundation.
A small step up from the Star Wars Foundation and a rung down from the StarTrek Foundation.
Yuri Gagarin is safe.
Not to mention these shameless commo hussies …
Dick Ed
So, Plibersek was preparing for a coronation, then Kitching died.
A Hit like this takes months of Planning, it didn’t just come together over a few days.
You seem to be getting very close to suggesting that the death was not natural. Be careful.
People seem to forget that hopefully sooner than later the war in the Ukraine will be over.
Corporations punishing ordinary Russians and disappearing Russia from history are doing far more harm than good. In fact it probably just reinforces Russian distrust of the west.
I despise them.
Far better to seek reconciliation as Pope Francis is with his dedication of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Lia Thomas has no shame, morals, or respect for real women.
I have mountains more respect for a Primary School captain who runs with the Kindergarten kiddies in their first athletic carnival, slowing to their speed, encouraging the runners, letting them beat him to the finish line.
I think it is a dead heat for gutless wokeism between Mr. Thomas and the swimming associations who let him compete.
“I don’t think so. They are requiring Medvedev to denounce Putin or not play in Wimbledon, they are forcing Abramovich to give up Chelsea. They have fired people from orchestras. They are requisitioning assets, freezing bank accounts, and so on, of ordinary Russian citizens, at home and abroad. Whatever they are doing now they will do in a heart beat if they feel they must against their own domestic opponents.”
Agree Dover…it is disgusting. Meanwhile they ignore China.
“Corporations punishing ordinary Russians and disappearing Russia from history are doing far more harm than good. In fact it probably just reinforces Russian distrust of the west.
I despise them.”
Well said.
Rabz
Err, unless my hearing is playing up (again) various appendages of the vampire squid that is our beloved braindead lamestream meeja have been repeatedly stating that the deceased lady senator did not use that term when referring to that coven of evil slags.
Classic Yes Minister, nothing is confirmed until it has been officially denied. Now officially denied by the Imperial Media, so Kitching must have used the term.
The first man in space, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, has been stripped of his honours by the Space Foundation, which censored his name “in light of current world events.”
Sad. Yuri had big brass ones. Launch on an early ICBM with no launch escape system (the ejection seat doesn’t help with a Lox/kero fuelled rocket and was probably of marginal use in Project Gemini with the UDMH/N2O4 fuelled Titan 2.
Im a buyer of Fabergé eggs @ $10.00 ,you know they are evil.
Police department tweets it has no weapons or ammo left. What an unserious country.
Let’s see what Andrew Landeryou has to say when he is ready.
Ukraine ‘Cannot’ Defeat Russia
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https://rumble.com/vxsi28-ukraine-cannot-defeat-russia.html?mref=5f67r&mc=7xi0y
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Ukraine ‘Cannot’ Defeat Russia
(from the old OT)
“Lia Thomas has no shame, morals, or respect for real women.”
Of course, this whole transgender cult is pure misogyny…..brought on by feminism.
It’s like a bad movie. There are many here who will say that they saw it coming a long time ago. But me?
I am just staggered by their ability to throw out 1) the lessons of history 2) bloody common sense 3) all the liberal thought of western traditions.
But you are right…….when will they come for the rest of us when we refuse to “tow the line” about one of their Woke issues????
“What an unserious country.”
No different to Oz.
Speaking of Mean Girls.
It should be the name of a Left wing skin care range. LOL!
It still will not affect Putin decisions Dover and is only a public display of virtue for domestic consumption.
Dumb thing about doing so is it may increase support for Putin in Russia that he will exploit.
Id don’t see it as an organized conspiracy just another reflection of trends.
I’ve just linked a Medscape article on issues to do with detransitioning – end of olde fredde.
Also the report in the Oz about Kimberley Kitching’s letter slamming Labor bullying. Whack!
Zulu and Arky have put up some good links there too. I guess it is always worth checking the end of the old for left behinds.
Another commo hussie that needs immediate banning.
Remember, people – they may look all cute and cuddly on the outside, next thing you know they’re donning the jackboots and marching into the ‘kraine …
Of course not. I can’t immediately find it, but in the last day or two I came across a post by an American volunteer to Ukraine who had served in Afghanistan & elsewhere. He was appalled at the lack of any feasible resistance with the armaments at their disposal etc. He reckoned he would be just cannon fodder if he stayed and was, with other US military volunteers, about to return home.