Open Thread – Wednesday 23 Mar 2022


Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1851/52

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Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2022 1:08 pm

So many mysteries so little time

Mysterious ‘super cold’ hits Australia

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 1:11 pm

‘What are you afraid of?’ Albo grilled on mean girls claim

Albo roasted on Breakfast TV, by Stefanovic.

’Do you accept action hasn’t been taken, when Labor heartland wants action to be taken?’ he asked.

Mr Albanese fired back: “There was no complaint made by Kimberley”.

“Do I have confidence in Penny Wong as Senate Leader, yes, I do, yes, I do. And Katy Gallagher and Kristina Keneally are part of the solution. They’re not part of the problem,’’ he said.

Obviously.
But, there is no problem:

“Will you call an inquiry into Senator Kitching’s claims or not?’’ Stefanovic asked.

“No, I won’t, Karl, what I’ll do is take the words from Bill Shorten at the funeral, which is that Kimberley Kitching would want us to move on and dedicate ourselves to a Labor victory at the election,’’ he said.

Luckily, Albanese brings out the suave media skills for Koch:

Speaking on Sunrise, Mr Albanese suggested that it was Senator Kitching herself who may have created some of the tensions.

“I think that in politics, there are a range of people who are involved in party politics who play it pretty hard’’ Mr Albanese said.

“One of those was Kimberley Kitching. She was somebody who engaged in politics and was passionate about her belief and from time to time, that could produce some conflict.”

Sunrise host David Koch then shot back: “So are you saying that Kimberley Kitching was part of the bullying?”

“No, I am not saying that at all, I am saying that Kimberley Kitching like other senators and members of the Labor Party could put forward ideas and in a robust fashion in debate. I have engaged in robust debate,’’ he said.

Putrid little creature.

Imagine, just imagine, the National shitstorm if Moron had dipped his toe into a spot of victim blaming…

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 1:11 pm

I’m hoping you meant you would do a nice drawing on your ballot paper Mr Bear

It will all be done in the best possible taste. Naturally.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 1:12 pm

Not a good look for the party. The MSM will latch onto it.

Unless they throw it back and tell anyone who shoves a microphone in their faces the party is made up of people who sometimes disagree but they are free to follow beliefs, as opposed to the big parties. Then ask “Do you really believe everyone in the Libs, Labor or Greens all believe the same thing, or that they tow the party line that perhaps no actual person holds in order protect their position and privileges? Who are they loyal to, and why? Is that what makes a good MP?”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 1:13 pm

Pedro, and reposted from 11.10 last night on the OOT because it’s accurate:

BRS isn’t a very nice bloke.

Hard core (legal) killer and standover man, intolerant of lesser beings and drunken bints.

Just the sort of bloke you would like to have in uniform when the shit hits the fan.

Being an unpleasant human doesn’t make him a murderer as alleged.

These people are supposed to be unpleasant. That’s what makes them both efficient and effective in their chosen field of endeavour.

I care about BRS punching his missus (IF that’s what happened) as much as I care about Barry the shitkicker from Werribee doing it. It is shithouse, but it is not made worse for one of the two because he also has a VC*.

I tire of the media class lauding these people as Galahads, because undoubtedly not all of them are. Or, more correctly, the vast majority of them aren’t – and that’s the way it should be.

BRS is not Robinson Crusoe within the ADF in having a string of mouthy pissed girlfriends, of whom one or more become spouses before rooting everything in sight once he gets on the plane again. I fail to see how this is news. It’s been happening as long as there have been soldiers.

The approach to BRS seems to have been standardised. It is NOT the same as the Rolfe matter in the NT, but there are parallels – that is, when the prosecution starts obviously failing on their primary charges, they go for ‘yeah but he’s a nasty bloke’.

*I’ll also bet heavily there were plenty of (windmilling, power-free) lefts and rights coming BRS’ way from this cavalcade of tarts as well.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2022 1:15 pm

Libertarians, in particular, are not only idealists, but believe in liberty only as an abstract concept and are terrified of actually being in government and having to make the hard day-to-day, pragmatic decisions.

They can rest their minds. There will never be a libertarian government in Australia but somebody has to express and push those ideals against ever creeping regulation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 1:16 pm

Albo is having his GST on a birthday cake moment. Same result?

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2022 1:18 pm
areff
areff
March 23, 2022 1:19 pm

Ash Barty quits tennis, according to ABC.

Why? She was what they used to call ‘a great ambassador for Australia’. She on top of her game right now and had at least 10 more years picking up nice purses ahead of her.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 1:20 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 23, 2022 at 1:11 pm

I’m hoping you meant you would do a nice drawing on your ballot paper Mr Bear

It will all be done in the best possible taste. Naturally.

Which means no depictions of ejaculation, right?

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 1:21 pm

“Unless they throw it back and tell anyone who shoves a microphone in their faces the party is made up of people who sometimes disagree but they are free to follow beliefs, as opposed to the big parties. Then ask “Do you really believe everyone in the Libs, Labor or Greens all believe the same thing, or that they tow the party line that perhaps no actual person holds in order protect their position and privileges? Who are they loyal to, and why? Is that what makes a good MP?””

Quite so…I’m also not aware that the “alleged bullying” in the Liberal Democrats has resulted in anyone dying.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 1:21 pm

areffsays:

March 23, 2022 at 1:19 pm

Ash Barty quits tennis, according to ABC.

Why? 

There is always a nagging concern with these sudden announcements that something untoward has gone on.
I hope not.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 1:21 pm

they tow the party line

toe the party line.

Sill miss Take.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 1:21 pm

New improved Albo (with less Albo!) from Faustus’ quote upthread:

what I’ll do is take the words from Bill Shorten at the funeral, which is that Kimberley Kitching would want us to move on and dedicate ourselves to a Labor victory at the election

She’d just been told she wasn’t going to be preselected. Her remaining trough time could have been measured in days rather than decades.

Are you sure about that Albo? That all she wanted now was a Labor win?

You fibby fibber.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 1:21 pm

KD – BRS is unusual in having Kerry Stokes in his corner and paying the QC bills. But yes soldiers (and footballers) generally don’t make great rolemodels.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 1:25 pm

Barty has quit tennis before, admittedly she was not No 1 at the time. As I have previously said, it is a pretty ordinary game.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 1:30 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 23, 2022 at 1:16 pm

Albo is having his GST on a birthday cake moment. Same result?

As someone said the other day, the ALP have a well worn baseball bat which they bring out every election, emblazoned with “……… has a woman problem.”
I don’t think we will be seeing it this time.
Sadly, though, if it does come up, I can’t see a Lib saying, “Well, Karl/Kochie/Lisa, no-one in our party has been bullied to an early grave.”
They will lean back into the ropes with both gloves up, hoping the beating will stop.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 1:30 pm

My desktop internet seems to be playing up so I switched on my brand new, super-duper, 14inch, 8gb ram, 128gb SSD, 256gb card & 500gb HDD laptop running W11, which I bought not because I needed it but because it was on special for $250 over at Kogan several weeks ago .. now into it’s 2nd hour of “updating” … sooo I’m back on the desktop with its weird internet behaviour (slow, normal, verrry slow, normal depending on the site), and all ……. the joys of computing .. LOL!

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 1:30 pm

Because it did appear you planned to do something that might be construed as unhygienic though obviously pretty easy for the unpanted.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
March 23, 2022 1:31 pm

Ash Barty quits tennis, according to ABC.

Why? She was what they used to call ‘a great ambassador for Australia’. She on top of her game right now and had at least 10 more years picking up nice purses ahead of her.

If she has quit to live a debaucherous lifestyle then that’s great and I applaude her.

Hopefully she hasn’t quit to fight climate change or some other woke cause.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 1:33 pm

Albo is having his GST on a birthday cake moment. Same result?

Yes he is. And it looks like he can firmly blame Wong for being put on the hot plate.

Same result?
Probably unlikely. The Morrison Government is deeply on the nose with nothing much to point back to – more so than Keating at that time.

The biggest risk for Australia is Albanese needing the Greens to form/hold Government.

Greens last: every time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 1:34 pm

So I take it you won’t be taking one of my HTV cards? I expect you won’t be the only one.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 1:41 pm

what I’ll do is take the words from Bill Shorten at the funeral, which is that Kimberley Kitching would want us to move on and dedicate ourselves to a Labor victory at the election

Ant Elbow doing his best ‘I dont know what he said but I agree with it” moment using the chap who suckholed that line the first time.
How meta of him.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 1:42 pm

Soooo, clicked on one of my seniors sites and greeted with a wonderful headline .. “One party to give MASSIVE pension rises to OAPs if elected” .. “Wow”, sez I, “Who am I voting for?” ..
Then the, expected, disappointment comes with the detail …
The , bloody, GREENS promising manna from Canberra for, selected, welfare recipients .. IF & it does say IF they end up holding the balance of power …
I’d rather go without and have the Greens involved in the running of the country ..
Gonna be bad enuf with either AnAl or BRADBURY but the Green-filth propping someone up and having a say .. GOD FORBID!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 1:48 pm

Greens only want to top up the dole a bit…

$270 a week was mentioned in one interview

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2022 1:50 pm

but believe in liberty only as an abstract concept and are terrified of actually being in government and having to make the hard day-to-day, pragmatic decisions.

Why snipe like this? It’s not necessary.

jupes
jupes
March 23, 2022 1:53 pm

Greens last: every time.

Second last. Liberals last.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2022 1:53 pm

My desktop internet seems to be playing up so I switched on my brand new, super-duper, 14inch, 8gb ram, 128gb SSD, 256gb card & 500gb HDD laptop running W11, which I bought not because I needed it but because it was on special for $250 over at Kogan several weeks ago .. now into it’s 2nd hour of “updating” … sooo I’m back on the desktop with its weird internet behaviour (slow, normal, verrry slow, normal depending on the site), and all ……. the joys of computing .. LOL!

you should always be using wired internet over wifi

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 1:58 pm

Greens only want to top up the dole a bit…
$270 a week was mentioned in one interview

The seniors site said OAP (single).. $88 a day plus quarterly inflation rises ..

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 2:00 pm

Kimberley Kitching would want us to move on and dedicate ourselves to a Labor victory at the election

He said, stepping over her dead body.

Albo now has the mother of all women problems.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 2:02 pm

you should always be using wired internet over wifi

Folk still have wired? .. I’ve got NBN stuff to the wall plug then wifi from the modem .. haven’t had fully wired for at least 10 years .. was all running perfect until yesterday and another Windows upgrade …

Franx
Franx
March 23, 2022 2:04 pm

Roger, thanks re parsing warfare.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 2:07 pm

So I take it you won’t be taking one of my HTV cards? I expect you won’t be the only one.

Please say that it’s not Faulty01?
The disappointment would be too much.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 2:08 pm

Indolent:

I still can’t play Bridge in person and, at this rate, I never will again because they seem to be following the aged care sector.

I still can’t go to the pub for a beer, and I missed out out on an important funeral.
ALL of them are responsible for downgrading my social standing without cause.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 2:09 pm

Kimberley Kitching would want us to move on and dedicate ourselves to a Labor victory at the election
Y’all knoze the rules, shirley? … Anything prior to BAT FLU (2019-ish) required proof of ..
everything since (2020) just needs to be stated and IS accepted as truth (ref: Britnee) ..
Sooooo, if AnAl believes Kimberley wanted Labor dedication then Labor dedication .. it is! .. LOL!

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2022 2:12 pm

Roger, thanks re parsing warfare.

I’m no expert but that’s what I do know, Frank.

Convention is that attackers need at least a 2:1 advantage over a defender to have a chance of victory.

But a lot can go wrong in warfare even with that advantage on paper. Morale is crucial, for e.g.; so a motivated defender in a good position can be very hard to dislodge.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2022 2:14 pm

Folk still have wired? .. I’ve got NBN stuff to the wall plug then wifi from the modem .. haven’t had fully wired for at least 10 years .. was all running perfect until yesterday and another Windows upgrade …

wired works, wifi is crap and not secure

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 2:16 pm

Greens last: every time.
Second last. Liberals last.

If I vote that way in Brisbane, there is a serious risk that my preference could elect young Master Bates, the Green thing.

My subsequent obligation to commit seppuku with a butter knife would be inconvenient.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 2:21 pm

The seniors site said OAP (single).. $88 a day plus quarterly inflation rises .

Not sure of the exact calcs but according to some online estimates you’d need something more than half a million in investment assets to be able to give yourself that kind of deal for the rest of your life from when you reach retirement age.
There are about 2.6 million people on the OAP. Assuming they’re very roughly spread across relevant life expectancies, that would be an unfunded liability with a NPV of about two thirds of a trillion.
Sounds alarming. [Anyone with real skills in this kind of analysis please correct me if I’m way off.]
But don’t worry. Sarah Sea Patrol once worked as a bank teller, so I’m sure she’s got the numbers worked out.

Lysander
Lysander
March 23, 2022 2:24 pm

Folk still have wired? .. I’ve got NBN stuff to the wall plug then wifi from the modem .. haven’t had fully wired for at least 10 years .. was all running perfect until yesterday and another Windows upgrade …

Have you tried switching it off and on? 😛

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 23, 2022 2:25 pm

I am going to put an erect penis on my HTV cards.

I’m going the meat and 2 vag drawing.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 2:25 pm

On HTV
Western Australia is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 2:28 pm

Folk still have wired?

Wired is more secure. Paranoid, who me? I only turn on wifi if I want to buy a Kindle book, since Amazon disconnected the 3G option.

Different if you prefer iPads and daiquiris by the pool and whatnot. The big screen is what I like about a desktop.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 2:30 pm

Have you tried switching it off and on? ?

Several times! .. I was/am gonna use the laptop internet to check if it might be the desktop itself playing up .. after all, it is 15 years old & although I’ve added upgraded lotza the insides the motherboard and most of the cards are the originals …….

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 2:33 pm

Different if you prefer iPads and daiquiris by the pool and whatnot. The big screen is what I like about a desktop.
Yep, can’t beat the big screen .. bit like TV .. imagine going back to 21 inches .. which is why th elaptop needed updating .. LOL!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 2:39 pm

Journalist, editor, pioneer — Max Walsh dead at 84
Legendary Australian journalist Max Walsh has died, aged 84.
Legendary Australian journalist Max Walsh has died, aged 84.

James Madden
Media Editor
15 minutes ago March 23, 2022
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Legendary Australian journalist Max Walsh has died, aged 84.

Walsh, who was an early champion of opening up the Australian economy — long before the Hawke/Keating governments implemented such change — enjoyed significant roles in both newspapers and television over five decades.

Starting his career as a copy boy with Sydney’s Daily Mirror in the late 1950s, Walsh was chief political correspondent of The Australian Financial Review for several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before being appointed editor of the newspaper in 1974.

In 1981, he shifted to television, becoming a regular on Channel Nine’s current affairs program, Sunday.

He later had regular stints with the ABC, where he co-presented The Carleton-Walsh Report with Richard Carleton, and Channel 10, where he fronted The Walsh Report.

Former journalist Maxine McKew said Walsh was a “pioneer”.

“We’ve lost one of the country’s most important and consequential journalists,” said McKew, who was the news anchor alongside Walsh on The Carleton-Walsh Report.

McKew said Walsh was also known as a mentor to dozens of journalists.

“He was particularly supportive of female journalists. Max would look at you and if you had a bit of talent and a bit of energy he’d give you a go,” McKew said.

“It wasn’t actually driven by a sense of feminism. He’d say: ‘Women work harder, they’re just hungrier’.”

From 1983 to 1998, Walsh was a columnist and correspondent with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

In 1998, Kerry Packer sought to have one final go at reviving The Bulletin and appointed Walsh editor-in-chief of the magazine.

He worked at The Bulletin until June 2007.

Walsh, who battled dementia in recent years, is survived by his wife, Geraldine, and two daughters.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 23, 2022 2:39 pm

imagine going back to 21 inches

And they say size does not matter.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2022 2:39 pm

Timothy N

But don’t worry. Sarah Sea Patrol once worked as a bank teller, so I’m sure she’s got the numbers worked out.

Perhaps she studied under Homer P, and he taught her everything he knew? Teaching bank tellers to balance their cash seems to be about the limit of his capabilities. Going beyond that into accrued liabilities is far beyond him.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2022 2:40 pm

There are about 2.6 million people on the OAP. Assuming they’re very roughly spread across relevant life expectancies, that would be an unfunded liability with a NPV of about two thirds of a trillion.
A guide to Green dreams .. all $94billion of them .. LOL!
https://www.thesenior.com.au/story/7665289/greens-unveil-89b-income-support-increase/

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 2:41 pm

Arizona judges strikes down the emergency legislation passed under emergency provisions by the fake GOP controlled state house.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 2:47 pm

UAP appears to have gone with the ‘elect-a-chick’ strategy, judging by their candidates across the board (and with several exceptions).

This will not sit well with the anti-cow faction.

dopey
dopey
March 23, 2022 2:48 pm

Albo at the next party meeting. ‘We’re struggling comrades, how about a long drive up to Queensland? ‘

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 2:52 pm

Anti-establishment champion Dick Pussey, sticking it to the man yet again (the Hun):

Notorious Eastern Freeway Porsche driver Richard Pusey has said he plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery during his latest bizarre court appearance.

Pusey, 44, represented himself via video link from prison at the Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday after he allegedly posted a picture of a dead police officer from the freeway crash in an online review of a Melbourne Porsche dealership.

During an argumentative appearance, Pusey dressed in prison greens and with a blue towel wrapped around his head, told the court he is looking for a hospital so he can transition genders.

“I’ve had discussions with clinics in Melbourne in relation to my gender reassignment surgery and was two seconds into being put on to a bus to spend the day running to hospitals,” he said.

Flogging his missus and trying to hang her in his Fitzroy warehouse must have been a cry for help.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 23, 2022 2:55 pm

Non-traditional protein farming offers food for thought, CSIRO report suggests

The report titled Protein: A roadmap for unlocking technology-led growth opportunities for Australia found a $13 billion market opportunity for a variety of proteins on the global market, and outlined how investing in this sector could create up to 10,000 jobs.

Up to a third of Australians are now either seeking flexitarian or reducetarian diets.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2022 2:56 pm

An independent group of European Members of Parliament (MEPs) has called for the immediate resignation of the European Commission’s President, Ursula von der Leyen. Led by American-educated Romanian Christian Terhe as well as MEPs from France, Lithuania, and Croatia, the group demand the immediate ouster of Ms. Von der Leyen due to several charges of conflicts of interest, ethics violations, and breaches of the public trust.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2022 3:00 pm

But don’t worry. Sarah Sea Patrol once worked as a bank teller

Gawd!

Imagine chancing on her when you lined up at the bank.

Your first unnerving hint of what is coming would be when she looked up from beneath those malevolent arched eyebrows.

Then she would be disapproving of what you were going to be spending your money on, pushing you to spend your money on strange obscure causes including her lifestyle.

bons
bons
March 23, 2022 3:04 pm

Could Barty be yet another zoomer victim of wellness coaches?
There have been a lot of instances of high profile performers bowing out for spurious ‘wellness’ reasons.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 3:05 pm

‘Bare-faced lie’: Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-mistress grilled over lewd photo claim
Stephen Rice
NSW Editor
@riceyontheroad
An hour ago March 23, 2022

Ben Roberts-Smith’s former lover has claimed she was approached on a beach by a stranger and shown photos of herself and the war hero having sex in a hotel room.

The woman, known as Person 17, told the Federal Court on Wednesday that the photos appeared to have been taken through the window of a hotel where the couple had stayed during their affair.

She said the man had told her she was to tell Roberts-Smith’s wife Emma about the affair, or the photos would be made public.

Person 17 denied repeated challenges by Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Bruce McClintock, in cross examination that she had invented the whole episode.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing Nine newspapers over allegations that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan and that he punched Person 17 in the face after a function at Parliament House in Canberra in which she had got drunk and embarrassed him. Mr Roberts-Smith denies all the allegations.

Person 17 gave evidence on Tuesday that Mr Roberts-Smith punched her in the face after they returned to their hotel and left her with a black eye.

On Wednesday Person 17 agreed that she was very drunk that night and that she had told the person she was sitting with at the function that she was having an affair with Mr Roberts-Smith. She denied being so drunk she had to hold the walls to walk steadily.

She agreed she had fallen on stairs and injured her forehead but said the injury was not on the same spot where Mr Roberts-Smith hit her

Person 17 was asked about notes made of a visit to the doctor in which she described a lump on her head from falling down stairs but did not mention that Mr Roberts-Smith had hit her.

Mr McClintock: “So the real reason why you didn’t tell the doctor that my client had hit you was because he hadn’t, that’s correct, isn’t it?

Person 17: “That’s not correct.”

Mr McClintock : “You hadn’t at that point made up the story that my client had he hit you.”

Person 17: “The story is not made up.”

She said she had blamed herself for the incident and was afraid no one would believe her.

Person 17 also claimed she was approached on a beach by a stranger and shown photos of herself and the war hero having sex in a hotel room.

Mr McClintock showed Person 17 copies of a message she had sent to Mr Roberts-Smith later on the same morning the event was alleged to have occurred, but did not mention it to him.

Mr McClintock: “Didn’t you think that my client might have a lively interest in the fact that some random gentleman approached you on a beach and shows you photographs of him and you having sex?

Person 17: “ I didn’t think that at the time. I was more concerned about trying to just have the relationship and in a way that was better than it had been when we left Canberra. I didn’t trust him at all.”

Mr McClintock: “Can you tell me what interest my client would have in you going to his wife or the photographs becoming public?”

Person 17: “I think the interest in me going to his wife would be so that he could do what he ended up doing and making me out to be the bad person in the situation.”

Mr McClintock: “You see you’ve just simply made up as you sit in the witness box this suggestion that my client had something to do with this, haven’t you?”

Person 17: “No.”

Mr McClintock: “It’s a straight out barefaced lie, isn’t Person 17?”

Person 17: “It’s not.”

Mr McClintock suggested that the couple had never stayed below the 20th floor of the Milton Hotel and that all the hotel rooms were above the 20th floor.

Mr McClintock: “Did you address your mind to how these photographs had been taken?”

Person 17: “Not really at the time. I was just shocked to see them.”

The trial continues.

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2022 3:10 pm

I can’t make sense of the BRS case anymore.

The defence counsel has done well.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 3:15 pm

Just received this from the Lib Dems…

“Earlier today you may have received an unauthorised email from Kirsty O’Sullivan announcing that she was leaving the party. We would prefer not to spend time talking about internal party matters at this crucial time, but there were a few issues raised that need to be addressed.

Last week Kirsty resigned from her role as Administration Officer. The Board of LDP Admin (the entity that employs staff) has accepted her resignation and thanked her for her contributions, and are working quickly to find a replacement on short notice. We hope to have an announcement to report soon.

Kirsty’s email makes a number of baseless accusations. To be clear, all funds raised for the national campaign are being spent on the national campaign, with no campaign money going to LDP Admin or the National Executive or the High Court challenge. Your donations are treated at all times with the utmost integrity and accountability. Suggestions of bullying, nepotism, and sexism are also unfounded. In particular, we have been delighted to announce an excellent lineup of women as candidates across the country, all of whom were selected on merit.

As a final note, with the federal election less than two months away I’d like to comment on the amazing job being done by the candidates and volunteers from across the country. We will be running more candidates at this election than ever before, and they are high-quality, dedicated, and hardworking people who are doing the party proud. The campaign teams and organisational committees are full of volunteers (very few people get paid by the party) who are working insane hours to help in the political fight for smaller government and more freedom. Thank you all.

Yours in liberty,
Liberal Democrats

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 3:28 pm

Please say that it’s not Faulty01?

Careful, that’s actionable.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 3:33 pm

Sancho Panzer:

Mrs Upticks may or may not be related to another poster here, who seems very coy about it.

It isn’t me.
I gave Calli my extra upticks as I don’t need them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 3:36 pm

Who hasn’t been at the beach and had a stranger come up and show them nude photos of them having sex in a hotel room?

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2022 3:40 pm

Imagine chancing on her when you lined up at the bank.

That’s when you grab some hapless pensioner and shove them in front!

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2022 3:41 pm

Who hasn’t been at the beach and had a stranger come up and show them nude photos of them having sex in a hotel room?

Try wearing pants and things will be a lot more normal for you!

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 3:41 pm

HBBear:

Health inspectors accused of ‘maliciously’ meddling in independent audit of I Cook Foods”

aka get a slug up ya

“It’s not the crime that does the damage, it’s the cover up”. And this one goes all the way to the top.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 3:44 pm

Obviously another covid vax statistic, after all what else could it be? I used to read him religiously in the 80s. He was actually a very big time journo.

Journalist, editor, pioneer — Max Walsh dead at 84
News Limited journalist Max Walsh for new Business section column in The Australian.

The legendary journalist was an early champion of opening up the economy, long before the Hawke/Keating governments implemented such change.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 3:45 pm

But don’t worry. Sarah Sea Patrol once worked as a bank teller

My first job was a graduate trainee with the NAB in the 80s. Some unusual characters around in those pre-Internet days. I didn’t last long -which suited us both fine.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 3:46 pm

Indolent:
https://twitter.com/MdBreathe/status/1506203058954551303?cxt=HHwWjoC-ifbsjecpAAAA
The kit is produced for $2. It retails for $140.
They can get stuffed.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 3:47 pm

“Obviously another covid vax statistic, after all what else could it be?”

Indeed, couldn’t possibly be old age.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2022 3:51 pm

remaining trough time

The engine room of Australian politics.

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 3:54 pm

This whole Charlton / Parramatta thing makes one realize that the political class at best holds us in contempt and at worst hates us.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 3:55 pm

Thinking about SloMo and birthday cakes there are a few parallels between the SloMo and Keating governments. Both fell over the line at their first election. Neither was a “bad” government in the R-G-R class. Keating was terminated with extreme prejudice at the first opportunity with a viable alternative and I fully expect SloMo to go the same way. Australians just couldn’t stomach Peanut Head as PM.

Vicki
Vicki
March 23, 2022 3:56 pm

I can’t make sense of the BRS case anymore.
The defence counsel has done well.

Dot, I’m with you – I can’t either. Much of the testimony was previously improperly released to the Lefty press years ago. But there was much extraneous, salacious detail accepted as “testimony” that muddied the waters.

All I know is that this man acquitted himself beyond the normal course of duty in defending the lives of the men in his unit in situation(s) where they could have anticipated being wiped out.

For that he earned the highest distinctions that can be awarded, and they can never be taken from him.

JMH
JMH
March 23, 2022 3:58 pm

Re. the “Brown” Jackson Supreme Court nominee. Somebody posted a Tucker take and it was brilliant. Right over the target. There is something really nasty about this nominee.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 3:59 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

March 23, 2022 at 2:47 pm

UAP appears to have gone with the ‘elect-a-chick’ strategy, judging by their candidates across the board (and with several exceptions).

This will not sit well with the anti-cow faction.

Nearly half the UAP candidates in Queensssland are COWS.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 4:03 pm

The legendary journalist was an early champion of opening up the economy,

Traitor.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 4:04 pm

makes one realize that the political class at best holds us in contempt and at worst hates us.

milton, meet Michael Malice.
Michael, meet milton.
You have much to discuss.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2022 4:09 pm

Not a cult.

Save the Children rejects $1m Ukraine donation from North Sea oil company.

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 4:09 pm

Max Walsh at the 1987 election – ‘we’re winning’

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 4:10 pm

Just another meja fuckwit

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 4:16 pm

miltonfsays:

March 23, 2022 at 4:09 pm

Max Walsh at the 1987 election – ‘we’re winning’

Red Kezza … “Well, in some electorates we are seeing big swings to the ABC … er … ALP, sorry.”

Gab
Gab
March 23, 2022 4:18 pm

JCsays:
March 23, 2022 at 3:44 pm
Obviously another covid vax statistic, after all what else could it be? I used to read him religiously in the 80s. He was actually a very big time journo.

Please, JC, we all know no one dies from the vax. Everybody says so. 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 4:19 pm

I can’t make sense of the BRS case anymore.
The defence counsel has done well

Given BRS brought the case I doubt there is anyone who doesn’t think less of him. Unless you are a politician, defamation is rarely a good idea.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 4:24 pm

The legendary journalist was an early champion of opening up the economy,
Traitor.

Back when a few journos had a clue. Seems a long time ago.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 4:25 pm

He was okay, Miltonf, but like all scribes, he did write some crap. By the early 80s we were really ending up in the bog house if we didn’t do something about the closed economy and he championed opening up. However, he wrote some really stupid shit at times and I recall a piece he wrote that was beyond stupid.

He said he visited a jewelry store in Mosman, Sydney, and saw a dude buying silver trays and stuff. He reckoned that the purchase was an indication we were in trouble as the dude was stocking up on silverware.
hahahahahhahahahaha

I kinda stopped reading him after that, but was pretty decent about deregulation though.

Covid vaxes take another life.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 4:26 pm

Who hasn’t been at the beach and had a stranger come up and show them nude photos of them having sex in a hotel room?

Cutting out the middleman is far more efficient. Take your own pics and hand them out to strangers.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 4:29 pm

Please, JC, we all know no one dies from the vax. Everybody says so. ?

I know, Gab. I know.

Let’s not be woke though unable able to take a joke at times.

There’s been a lot of bullshit on both sides incidentally. See my earlier comment about the CDC.
Frankly, I’m just anti- bullshit from either the left or Right.

Have to rush to Kieser now for my workout routine. 🙂

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 4:30 pm

I guess being devil’s advocate JC, even if a journo doesn’t have anything intelligent to say on a particular week, the column still has to be written.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 4:32 pm

This is old but it blew my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

I think DMT is the key to this.

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 4:33 pm

Who hasn’t been at the beach and had a stranger come up and show them nude photos of them having sex in a hotel room?

Depends on the beach I suppose

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 4:34 pm

Have to rush to Kieser now for my workout routine. 

Kieser?
Isn’t that owned by Klaus Schwab?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 4:34 pm

The can be little doubt the AFR was better back in the day than under Stuch. At least it wasn’t overtly opposed to business.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 4:35 pm

Actually:

Who hasn’t been at the beach and had a stranger come up and show them nude photos of them having sex in a hotel room?

Why is this relevant to kicking a goatie off the Matterhorn/a steep cliff/small cliff/small hill/mound?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 4:36 pm

miltonfsays:

March 23, 2022 at 4:30 pm

I guess being devil’s advocate JC, even if a journo doesn’t have anything intelligent to say on a particular week, the column still has to be written.

Yes.
Three long lunches in a row with Hawkey, Richo, Rene and Co and suddenly it’s deadline day again.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 4:37 pm

Depends on the beach I suppose

True. Sometimes you do just want to walk the dog.

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 4:38 pm

that’s what they all say

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 4:40 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 23, 2022 at 4:34 pm

The can be little doubt the AFR was better back in the day than under Stuch. At least it wasn’t overtly opposed to business.

Occasionally you might stumble upon a gem in amongst the dross, but it became rarer and rarer.
In the end I was reading Peter Ruehl’s article twice a week and not much else.
He’s been gone ten years.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 4:41 pm

The woman, known as Person 17

Why is her identity protected?
Is she SAS?
Also on the news (ABCcess afternoon show) “after BRS punched her in the face her husband (Cucky McPegme)* advised her to go to the police. Her husband was aware of the affair”

*This may not be his name.

But don’t worry. Sarah Sea Patrol once worked as a bank teller
Standing outside a building dressed only in a sandwich board with “BANK” written on it isnt a teller. Someone should tell her that.

Keith Forwheels
Keith Forwheels
March 23, 2022 4:43 pm

This is old but it blew my mind.

Hi Bern, it’s been work in progress since the early 1900’s, alongside the rise of the technocratic state. Patrick Wood has written a few books, quite scary how accurate he has been.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 4:43 pm

Greentop bully (that word again) Mitchell Starc appealing for everything, including a pill that hit a Paki bloke on the hip.

Fuck off idiot.

Pogria
Pogria
March 23, 2022 4:46 pm

John Nolte at Breitbart nails the desperately woke Hollywood agenda.

Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was so desperate to be multicultural, it snubbed the Jewish men who created the film business.

The whole world is upside down.

A Hollywood museum without Jews is like a Holocaust museum without Jews or an electric lightbulb museum without Edison or a telephone museum without Don Ameche.

Jews invented Hollywood! They didn’t just work there. They didn’t just thrive there. Jews created Hollywood. Jews gave us the film business, the art of the motion picture. Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, Adolph Zucker, David O. Selznick… Why not just open a museum about water and leave out the wet?

How about a jazz museum with no black people?

How about a hockey museum with no Canadians?

Just a couple of paragraphs to give you an idea. It isn’t a long read, but it is excellent.

Link to article.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 4:49 pm

Sancho Panzer at 4:40 – yeah it’s been slim pickings for a long time. Most sit unopened in foyers across the country.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 23, 2022 4:51 pm

Nearly half the UAP candidates in Queensssland are COWS.

Should I fetch my tower?

Or my towbar? 🙂

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 23, 2022 4:53 pm

Finally a good news story about from the US.
Lax border controls, good and hard.

South American ‘criminal tourist’ gangs are targeting affluent Silicon Valley homes for burglary, police say

Officers in Hillsborough, California, just under 20 miles south of San Francisco, claimed in a community bulletin on Sunday that residents were being targeted by sophisticated burglary gangs.

In a previous bulletin last month, they said: “Criminal tourism has become very prevalent in the United States, with many sophisticated burglary crews coming from South America…

Both cities have an a median household income of more than $250,000 (£198,886), according to the 2020 US census, and the vast majority of residents own their own houses.

The claims come amid a string of high-profile burglaries and robberies in the San Francisco Bay Area, many of which have been blamed on organised theft rings hailing from other states or from abroad.

Describing the “tourist” gangs in a February bulletin, Hillsborough police said: “Groups can range in size from a few to dozens of members. Groups often enter the United States legally.

“Once they arrive, groups will acquire vehicles by either renting or buying a slightly used luxury vehicle to easily blend into their target communities.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 4:53 pm

Ash Barty’s retirement speech (the Hun):

“Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way, I’ll always be grateful for the lifelong memories we created together.

“I know that, I am spent, physically, I don’t have anything more to give.

“I have given everything I can to this beautiful sport…and I’m really happy with that. For me, that is my success.”

I sincerely hope she hasn’t ‘given everything she can’ to all those indig extended family that have no doubt come out of the woodwork since she started making a dollar, and that retirement was the only way she could think of to get them off her back.

Be a goddamn shame if it was.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 4:55 pm

Porn star Stormy Daniels owes Trump $300,000 in legal costs after US libel defeat
David Charter, Washington
Wednesday March 23 2022, 12.01am GMT, The Times

The adult film star Stormy Daniels has vowed to go to jail rather than pay Donald Trump a penny as a judge awarded him $300,000 in costs after he won a defamation case against her.

Daniels, 43, lost her claim that the former president defamed her by suggesting she lied about being threatened by a man to keep quiet about her allegation of having sex with Trump.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, before the 2016 election in a deal not to make her allegation public. She was later released from a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and gave lurid descriptions of the alleged 2006 sexual encounter.

Trump, 75, said: “As I have stated many times throughout the years, I never had an affair with Stormy Daniels, nor would I ever have wanted to. The ruling was a total and complete victory and vindication for, and of me.”

Daniels was teased on Twitter about having to pay his costs and replied: “I will go to jail before I pay a penny.” In response to Trump she added: “Woah! I never said it was an affair. I have said over and over that he CORNERED ME coming out of a bathroom. Well … I guess to him, that IS an affair.”
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She won an order against Trump for $44,000 in legal fees in 2020 when a judge ruled that she was the “prevailing party” in the legal tussle over the NDA signed 11 days before the election. Her latest court reversal came after a protracted fight over a tweet by Trump in 2018 dismissing her release of a sketch purporting to show a man she claimed threatened her and her daughter in 2011. Daniels said the man came up to them at a car park in Las Vegas, saying, “Leave Trump alone, forget the story” and “That’s a beautiful little girl. It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.”

According to Trump, the man was “non-existent” and the artist’s impression was “a total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools”.

An appeals court ruled in 2020 that Trump was expressing his opinion and ordered Daniels to pay costs.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 4:57 pm

Criminal tourism

At least they can leave and return to their own State. Here the very act of being a tourist makes you a criminal.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 5:02 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 23, 2022 at 4:55 pm

The punchline to Stormy?

The crooked lawyer (Avanetti?) flogged a pile of her money.
How much?
$300,000.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 5:14 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:

March 23, 2022 at 5:02 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 23, 2022 at 4:55 pm

The punchline to Stormy?

The crooked lawyer (Avanetti?)

Remember when he made 100 appearances on CNN, MSNBC, etc etc over about three months, feted as the great whistleblower and even touted as a Presidential candidate.
No-one … but no-one … in all those TV appearances ever questioned his motives or challenged him, despite him displaying the obvious traits of being a spiv and a grifter.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 5:18 pm

Zyconoclast:

The report titled Protein: A roadmap for unlocking technology-led growth opportunities for Australia found a $13 billion market opportunity for a variety of proteins on the global market, and outlined how investing in this sector could create up to 10,000 jobs.
Up to a third of Australians are now either seeking flexitarian or reducetarian diets.

Bullshit.
Time to sell/purge the CSIRO.
Or both…

JMH
JMH
March 23, 2022 5:20 pm

I sincerely hope she hasn’t ‘given everything she can’ to all those indig extended family that have no doubt come out of the woodwork since she started making a dollar, and that retirement was the only way she could think of to get them off her back.

Be a goddamn shame if it was.

I bet we can take that as read, KD. Poor Ash.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 5:20 pm

The stench coming from the Pony Club is rising.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2022 5:26 pm

Oh no!

Racism is a “festering sore” on Australia’s national psyche, former Socceroo and human rights activist Craig Foster has told the National Press Club.

In a forceful speech, Foster said the nation had failed on indigenous and refugee rights and on climate change.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2022 5:29 pm

Please say that it’s not Faulty01?
Careful, that’s actionable.

Obviously I’m banking on a ‘no standing’ defence.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 5:29 pm

Thanks Keith, I’ll have a look at this work.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 23, 2022 5:30 pm

In a forceful speech, Foster said the nation had failed on indigenous and refugee rights and on climate change.

Is he going to boycott Qatar 2022?
And all the money he earns once every four years?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 5:37 pm

Observation.

Very few Bosi ‘despatches’ coming through at present. The last one was telling people that their most recent scheduled gathering would not be catered.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 5:39 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

March 23, 2022 at 5:37 pm

Observation.

Very few Bosi ‘despatches’ coming through at present. The last one was telling people that their most recent scheduled gathering would not be catered.

No party pies?
For the party which isn’t a party?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 5:41 pm

Racism is a “festering sore” on Australia’s national psyche, former Socceroo and human rights activist Craig Foster has told the National Press Club.

A psycho psyche psychologist?
He should get together with Psaki.
And with the climate pscientists.

areff
areff
March 23, 2022 5:41 pm

At least it wasn’t overtly opposed to business.

Don’t know about that. It was woke before woke was a thing when Robinson and Suich, who (God forgive him) gave Anne Summers her start, ran the joint, and that was a long time ago.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2022 5:45 pm

Racism is a “festering sore” on Australia’s national psyche, former Socceroo and human rights activist Craig Foster has told the National Press Club.

One of the main festering sores in Australia is baseless and endless claims of racism.

The slave ship has sailed Mongs, give it up FFS.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 5:45 pm

The report titled Protein: A roadmap for unlocking technology-led growth opportunities for Australia found a $13 billion market opportunity for a variety of proteins on the global market, and outlined how investing in this sector could create up to 10,000 jobs.

I vote for koalas. If they were good enough for the noble first peoples then they are good enough for me.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 5:47 pm

South American ‘criminal tourist’ gangs are targeting affluent Silicon Valley homes for burglary, police say

Officers in Hillsborough, California, just under 20 miles south of San Francisco, claimed in a community bulletin on Sunday that residents were being targeted by sophisticated burglary gangs.

I can’t remember who it was at the old site who wrote this and I may not have got the words exactly right:

“Margaret Thatcher famously said that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. In the same way, the problem with open borders lunacy is that eventually you run out of other people’s neighbourhoods.”

Delta A
Delta A
March 23, 2022 5:47 pm

Why is this relevant to kicking a goatie off the Matterhorn/a steep cliff/small cliff/small hill/mound?

Precisely!

I’ve been wondering that for ages now. His marriage, his affairs, his behaviour towards the women in his life: none of that happened in Afghanistan.

I don’t have an opinion on his actions overseas. But I must say, it sounds like a major stitch-up to me.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 5:49 pm

I bet we can take that as read, KD. Poor Ash.

I was once assured by a prominent, West Australian “faux Aborigine” that, after all, Aborigines had this “wonderful rich tradition of sharing…”

John H.
John H.
March 23, 2022 5:53 pm
bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 5:54 pm

miltonfsays:
March 23, 2022 at 4:30 pm
I guess being devil’s advocate JC, even if a journo doesn’t have anything intelligent to say on a particular week, the column still has to be written.

This is what used to set blogs apart from the MSM. Know not so much and for what?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 5:56 pm

I was once assured by a prominent, West Australian “faux Aborigine” that, after all, Aborigines had this “wonderful rich tradition of sharing…”

Sure did wonders for Lionel Rose.

East Perth Football Club and the Department of Native Affairs used to have minders round Polly Farmer at his WAFL games to stop other indigenous people “sharing” in his success. RAAAACISTS!!!

Diogenes
Diogenes
March 23, 2022 5:57 pm

I vote for koalas

I once horrified a science class for suggesting we could use whale oil for lighting. Whales are “renewable” using every definition we could find. 🙂

jupes
jupes
March 23, 2022 5:58 pm

One of the main festering sores in Australia is baseless and endless claims of racism.

Aborigines are the only beneficiaries of institutional racism in Australia. To the tune of $30 billion a year.

The slave ship has sailed Mongs, give it up FFS.

Give up a cash cow? Why would they do that?

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 5:58 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
March 23, 2022 at 4:34 pm

Have to rush to Kieser now for my workout routine.

Kieser?
Isn’t that owned by Klaus Schwab?

You’re possibly not that far off Klaus owning it. It’s supposed to be Swiss owned or Swiss franchised gym with exercise “scientists” and lots of equipment. It may be a little more expensive but it keeps the riff out of the place. 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 6:00 pm

Texans are tough. Really tough.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 6:05 pm

That’s been reported as a climate change induced truck roll, Brucie. No biggie.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 6:08 pm

Racism is a “festering sore” on Australia’s national psyche

Funny how much of it seems centered in institutions which have spent decades and oceans of (generally) OPM “combating” it.

Racists in the last few weeks
Canberra check in chicks
Drs/ nurses in remote locations
Police being stabbed
AFL
Child protection workers
Federal government

I think the common thread is most have been racistly educated for upwards of 12 years. And since the uni professions seem to dominate they must the beating black heart of anti-gollywogism in Australia.

calli
calli
March 23, 2022 6:17 pm

I know the original is the best, but this one would suit FlashCat better.

😀

srr
srr
March 23, 2022 6:17 pm

‘First Time Any Of Us Have Seen’: Cruz Accuses White House Of Not Giving GOP Info On Judge Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ccOp1RwR0

… interesting … considering …

JACK_MAXEY @JACK_MAXEY
· Mar 19
254 days since these people received copy of #Hunter ‘s #Laptop from me on July 8th 2021.

What are they doing about it?

Since they got it we have had Afghanistan, fuel, food and fertilizer off charts, Kazakstan and now Ukraine.

Their silence allowed all that to happen

EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THEY DESERVE THEIR OFFICES? #dutyhonorcountry #gopcucks They are not worthy of YOU.

#Grassley, Chuck (IA), Ranking Member
#Graham, Linda (SC)
#Cornyn, John (TX)
#Lee, Mike (UT)
#Cruz, Ted (TX)
#Sasse, Ben (NE)
#Hawley, Josh (MO)
#Cotton, Tom (AR)
#Kennedy, John (LA)
#Tillis, Thom (NC)
#Blackburn, Marsha (TN)

Posted on 9:51 PM · Mar 19th, 2022

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 6:24 pm

It’s missing something, calli.

A Can and/or smokes?

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 23, 2022 6:28 pm

H B Bear says:
March 23, 2022 at 11:29 am

I am going to put an erect penis on my HTV cards.

I had to fold mine three times to fit on my HTV cards.

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 6:29 pm

Be wary of people that want to be moderators.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 6:29 pm

A Can and/or smokes?

How about a stubbies vs cans stoush? Could be another epic.
Unless stubbies are just so obviously superior that it’s no contest.

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2022 6:31 pm

Laughed out loud:

Notorious Eastern Freeway Porsche driver Richard Pusey has said he plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery during his latest bizarre court appearance.

This bloke understands the Australian political system and how it allocates power like few others.

He’ll run for — and win — a Senate seat sometime in the next 20 years.

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 6:33 pm

Graders wone the last one cans will win this one, TN.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 6:34 pm

I know the original is the best, but this one would suit FlashCat better.

It’s missing something, calli.

Music!

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2022 6:36 pm

Diogenessays:
March 23, 2022 at 5:57 pm
I vote for koalas

I once horrified a science class for suggesting we could use whale oil for lighting. Whales are “renewable” using every definition we could find.

Once had a staff member rabbiting on about natural products. I suggested whale oil lamps and asbestos as clear natural products. Not happy.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 6:37 pm

Tom says:
March 23, 2022 at 6:31 pm
Laughed out loud:

Notorious Eastern Freeway Porsche driver Richard Pusey has said he plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery during his latest bizarre court appearance.

This bloke understands the Australian political system and how it allocates power like few others.

He’ll run for — and win — a Senate seat sometime in the next 20 years.

He possibly reads the Cat. If he identifies as female I guess he’d have to change his name from Dick Pusey to Pusey Dick, no?

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2022 6:37 pm

Racism is a “festering sore” on Australia’s national psyche

Take it up with Melbourne Croatia FC, Wendy ball boy.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 6:39 pm

bespokesays:
March 23, 2022 at 6:33 pm
Graders wone the last one cans will win this one, TN.

What’s the etiquette for epic stoushes? How quickly are they supposed to degenerate into mindless personal abuse?

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 23, 2022 6:42 pm

Regarding this Ukraine business, it just shows what an absolute waste of money the UN is.

Several of the eastern provinces of that benighted country, and the Crimea, were part of Russia till the 1960’s when Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, gifted them to the Ukrainian SSR. The people who live there are Russians, they speak Russian, and they want to live in Russia.

The UN should have a mechanism which enables a referendum to take place in those provinces which would allow those citizens to choose their destiny. The UN could run the referendum and provide peacekeepers to effect a safe and smooth transfer should the people choose to return to Russia.

This whole mess could have been avoided if the UN had done its job.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2022 6:44 pm

“Good morning, hello Legal Aid. Listen it’s Craig Thom- yes, Craig, you know me. Yes, that Craig – used to be an MP. So I’m banged up again.”

“Hey, so I used the union credit card for a few dodgy purposes! So? And a few Covid grants for a couple of things! So what? Do you reckon you can come down and do the usual? What do you think about the slightly insane defence?”

Former Labor MP Craig Thomson has been granted bail after being charged with four Covid payment fraud charges to the value of $25,000, with a court hearing he allegedly used the money for mortgage, school fees, credit card payments and other personal reasons.

The fresh charges were laid following Thomson’s arrest on Tuesday for an alleged breach of an apprehended violence order (AVO).

Thomson, 57, spent the night in custody and appeared via audio visual link at Gosford Local Court on Wednesday before Magistrate Jennifer Price.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 6:47 pm

Javlin missile. What a great name for a tank wrecker.

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 6:50 pm

It subjective TN, my preference is number one.
1) thoughtful criticism and creative insults.
2) The one’s that feature victimhood are only useful as a warning to others not to descend.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 6:52 pm

John H. says:
March 23, 2022 at 5:53 pm

Trump on Ukraine

By God he’s good, John H. He’s just so good. He says that other than massively helping Ukraine militarily, the one thing the US could do is to materially change the supply of oil so that the price collapses. Why? Because what you need most of all to conduct a war is money, money and more money.

rosie
rosie
March 23, 2022 6:53 pm

Best ask the SME Tim.
He’s around somewhere.

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 6:54 pm

Racism is a “festering sore” on Australia’s national psyche

are these people stupid or evil?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 6:54 pm

If Anthony Albanese becomes the next PM, he faces the same economic woes confronted by Gough Whitlam in 1972 Robert GottliebsenFollow @BGottliebsen

8:00AM March 23, 2022
163 Comments

On December 5, 1972, Gough Whitlam became the 21st Prime Minister of Australia.

Almost 50 years later, in 2022, the opinion polls are telling us that voters will elect Anthony Albanese as Australia’s 31st Prime Minister.

What alarms me is that the economic challenges Albanese looks set to face are close to a mirror image of those that confronted Whitlam. He made changes to the social fabric of the nation but his government could not handle the economic issues. Given the similarities between 2022 and 1972 both parties can profit for examining the Whitlam mistakes but the exercise is particularly important for the ALP.

This commentary is not about politics and who should be Prime Minister but an alert to both parties of the dangers ahead as we go through the eerie parallels between 1972 and 2022.

In March 1971, Billy McMahon toppled John Gorton as Prime Minister. Around the same time Whitlam was preparing an ambitious spending agenda directed towards social issues. The Vietnam War had caused massive US spending and inflation. President Nixon tried to stabilise inflation with a prices and wages freeze which did not work.

In Australia with the 1972 election approaching McMahon ignored the fact that inflation had jumped from the 1969 level of 3.0 per cent to 5.7 per cent in 1971. Instead of restraint, McMahon and his Treasurer Billy Sneddon in March 1972 embraced a massive stimulus program including lower taxes and higher pensions. Whitlam did not realise the dangers of super imposing his agenda on an already over stimulated economy.

Sure enough, up pops a commenter informing us that Gough Whitlam ended the war in Vietnam…..

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 6:55 pm

are these people stupid or evil?

Both?

Delta A
Delta A
March 23, 2022 6:59 pm

He sidles in every day and posts some of the funniest, most insightful one-liners.

Kudos, HP Bear.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2022 7:00 pm

are these people stupid or evil?

Yes.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 7:04 pm

Delta

I find the Bear extremely rude and arrogant and always uses sobriquets for people. Some spouses find it very hurtful. Very hurtful and he should be banned.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2022 7:05 pm

I can’t make sense of the BRS case anymore.
The defence counsel has done well

Who’s footing the bill, and why?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 7:07 pm

This gets better and better. The NT News:

POLICE Commissioner Jamie Chalker was “as shocked as anybody” at the speed of the charging of Constable Zach Rolfe following the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker.

Speaking at a press conference for the first time since his infamous speech directly following the Rolfe ‘not guilty’ verdict, Mr Chalker said he had been kept “at an arm’s length” from the case.

“I’ve remained at arm’s length during the whole period of this investigation, and that remains to this day,” Mr Chalker said.

“The matter to charge (Constable Rolfe) was a matter for the investigation team and the DPP. I was as shocked as anybody.”

I will assert here that no copper, anywhere, gets charged with murder without the Commish’s sign-off. The ‘investigation team’ are already on record saying they violently disagreed with the decision, which was never in their hands to start with, as well as the speed of the process.

That does not happen on its own.

The Police Commissioner also declared that no meeting took place between himself, Chief Minister Michael Gunner and the Director of Public Prosecutions prior to the charges being laid.

“I completely reject any inference that I was in a meeting with the Chief Minister and the Director of Public Prosecutions,” Mr Chalker said. “That is simply not true. It did not happen.”

Uh huh. I hear different.

Chalker will be gone – either by his own hand, of Michael Gunner’s – by year’s end, if not before.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 7:08 pm

I think, for instance, if someone uses say Turtlehead as a nickname, that person ought to be banned. There’s just not enough banning going on and spouses are waking up at all hours in the morning (mostly drunk) protesting The Bear’s nicknames. He’s so awful.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 7:11 pm

“I’ve remained at arm’s length during the whole period of this investigation, and that remains to this day,” Mr Chalker said.

So even after his chap has been found not guilty, he chooses not to “involve himself” with the ongoing and Im guessing near unprecedented trawling through weeks of worn footage to find something else to slime him with.

Seems a distinct lack of leadership and failure to reign in an apparently out of control internal investigations mob.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2022 7:12 pm

Who’s footing the bill, and why?

Isn’t Kerry Stokes funding Ben Roberts Smith?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2022 7:13 pm

For that he earned the highest distinctions that can be awarded, and they can never be taken from him.

I think it can be taken away.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2022 7:13 pm

“I’ve remained at arm’s length during the whole period of this investigation, and that remains to this day,” Mr Chalker said.

Didn’t stop him giving interviews to the national press last year explaining how confident he was there would be a ‘successful prosecution’.

Unbelievable hubris.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 7:15 pm

Mr Ed

It’s sundown, so we’re expecting a ton of stupid shit to be posted. Hurry the F Up as it’s getting dark.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:15 pm

I once horrified a science class for suggesting we could use whale oil for lighting. Whales are “renewable” using every definition we could find

I told one of those paid collectors for Sea Shepherd the main problem with whaling is that they were too hard to kill. After that we had a mutual agreement not to acknowledge each other.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:17 pm

The price you pay for shopping at farmers markets. But they do the best bread by a considerable margin.

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 7:19 pm

Aways good to start the working day (or night) with a chuckle.

Cheers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2022 7:19 pm

Sure enough, up pops a commenter informing us that Gough Whitlam ended the war in Vietnam…..

Albo can do better than Gough.
Gough only ended one war.
Albo can end two of them.
The war on CO2 and the war on covid.

Ok, in my dreams.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 7:20 pm

Bear.

Get the wife to make it. I bought mine a bread making machine for a gift once (may have been birthday or Valentine’s, I forget). She makes really decent bread on weekends.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:21 pm

KD – they work on the assumption people have the memory of a goldfish. If you can get something off the front page of the local paper for 3 days- problem solved.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 7:21 pm

Richard Marles….”I knew nothing”….is a liar
Anthony Albanese….”I knew nothing”….is a liar
Penny Wong….”I knew nothing”…. is a liar

But the liars get away with it, because as far as the MSM scum is concerned, there’s nothing to see when allegations are against the left.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 7:22 pm

I told one of those paid collectors for Sea Shepherd the main problem with whaling is that they were too hard to kill. After that we had a mutual agreement not to acknowledge each other.

Use a fucking Javelin missile. A javelin would make it so much easier. That’s what they’re there for.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2022 7:23 pm

H B Bearsays:
March 23, 2022 at 7:17 pm
The price you pay for shopping at farmers markets. But they do the best bread by a considerable margin.

Next time ask if they have any of this.
https://sugoimart.com/products/canned-horse-meat-whale-flavor

https://www.food.com/recipe/baked-whale-49485

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 7:23 pm

Timothy Nielson:

What’s the etiquette for epic stoushes? How quickly are they supposed to degenerate into mindless personal abuse?

At the moment it appears to be:
.1 First post,
.2 Reply,
.3 Second post,
.4 WW3.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 7:25 pm

I think it can be taken away.

For “treason, cowardice, felony or of any infamous crime” under the revised rules of 1920.*
I wonder what was considered an “infamous crime” in 1920? If someone performed the same acts today, but they had been decriminalised, would they have to forfeit the award?

* Even that was against King George V’s wishes.
The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:25 pm

Thanks JC. Used to be a decent sliced sourdough into the freezer for toast and marmalade for breakfast. Bread now on the no go foods unfortunately.

JC
JC
March 23, 2022 7:28 pm

Bread now on the no go foods unfortunately.

Dude, really? Wow!

Winston Smith
March 23, 2022 7:28 pm

Old Bloke:

Regarding this Ukraine business, it just shows what an absolute waste of money the UN is.

The UN shouldn’t be allowed to even run a bloody chook raffle.
It has a long run of preventing situations being solved.
Is Cyprus still partitioned?

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2022 7:34 pm

I think Ash Barty is a lovely young woman, a fantastic tennis player and a fantastic role model for all Australians, young and old. Good on Ash for retiring on her own terms. Unlike Serena the Tank Engine, who’s spent the last few years chasing after Margaret Court’s GOAT crown….which she’ll never surpass, and humiliating herself in tournaments trying to do so, Barty is bowing out with grace and dignity…and as Number One!

Kol hakavod Ash.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 23, 2022 7:34 pm

H B Bearsays:
March 23, 2022 at 7:25 pm
Thanks JC. Used to be a decent sliced sourdough into the freezer for toast and marmalade for breakfast. Bread now on the no go foods unfortunately.

Bad news!
A friend recently discovered he’s ciliac and has been told no gluten.
According to him gluten free baked products are ghastly.
Hope you’re getting a second opinion on that one Bear.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:35 pm

Bread now on the no go foods unfortunately.
Dude, really? Wow!

Yeah – joining dry rice, steak and a bunch of other stuff. I’m not really on mush but most things require a degree of care most people wouldn’t even think about. Could be worse.

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 7:35 pm

The fucking climate activists blocking Botany are krauts.

They should be deported.

Cue some cute baby photos to enlist support from the Doctors wives.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2022 7:37 pm

I wonder what was considered an “infamous crime” in 1920?

Rape.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:39 pm

The bread thing is really a texture thing – it doesn’t really ball up easily for the throat muscles to deal with. Essentially the mouth and the windpipe get “confused” which is not a good thing.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2022 7:40 pm

According to him gluten free baked products are ghastly.

That’s true, but Gluten isn’t the issue, Grain is.
Because it’s so hybridised, true wheat has been lost.

bespoke
bespoke
March 23, 2022 7:40 pm

I don’t think entertainers or sports people should be expected to be role models.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2022 7:40 pm

JCsays:

March 23, 2022 at 7:04 pm

Delta

I find the Bear extremely rude and arrogant and always uses sobriquets for people. Some spouses find it very hurtful. Very hurtful and he should be banned.

FFS, dude!
Has wifey being looking at your Cat account again?
Did you change your password like I told you?
“MarlboroRed25s” is too easy to crack.

miltonf
miltonf
March 23, 2022 7:43 pm

So glad I didn’t buy a Volkswagen

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2022 7:43 pm

The fucking climate activists blocking Botany are krauts.

Here we go again.

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