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I wasn’t impressed. If they had spent less on the flash packaging and more on the whisky, then I would…
Sadly I missed it with my children, they were not interested but we had a jolly good time when I…
More of British. Love it or hate it. Yum. Pork pies.
Nostalgic Brits reminiscing. Picture, As we were not so long ago. some of the comments; “Powell tried to warn us,…
“I wonder how long before Albo brings in similar legislation?”
Don’t worry, the Coalition will beat him.
two weeks ago Germany was still ruling out maintaining its nuclear capacity
Russian disinformation.
They promised they would let them stay at school. Even double-pinkie promised.
I’m on a mailing list for Noni B (must have given them my email in a weak moment). Anyways, the copy writer must have been watching all the Ukraine and Covid shock and awe on the tv. Because this is what I recieved in my inbox this morning:
It’s time for TRIPLE Threat Thursday
I now have to make a decision. Do I open the email or contact a bomb disposal squad?
When I were a kid in school, we were taught that in an electric circuit conventional current flows in the opposite direction to the electron current.
It seems when the Berlin Wall came down the convention was to believe West Germanies governance flowed into the East, but in reality…
“Because Germany failed to sufficiently replace energy output from nuclear with renewables, its coal consumption increased. Its non-nuclear options were slowed by budget constraints and even protests, such as strong opposition to wind power lines.”
Germany fossil fools
Received
Must be one of the “threats”. Inability to spell.
That’s some serious arm twisting from Noni B.
Bob Moran cartoon today is as good as Leak Snr ever did.
Quick trip to Melbourne yesterday, off the ring road, Banksia St to Eastern Fwy, down Eastlink to Keysborough then back along the eastern to Alexandra Pde and through Collingwood, Brunswick etc.
I’m astounded at the amount of graffiti everywhere I went. It’s almost everything, particularly bad in the trendier, greenie suburbs but still everywhere. Graffiti has always been a problem but compared to a few years ago it’s exploded. I can’t see how the problem can be fixed. It would take a small army working constantly for months just to get rid of what is there.
Melbourne is a cesspit.
In the smh, Savva says ScoMo should butt out of the whole Kitching affair.
What a surprise.
Seriously, after the Danby claims today how can an inquiry not be held?
I’m surprised Labor didn’t immediately announce one when the bullying claims came to light.
It would have defused it until after the election & they could have released fake results from a fake inquiry.
Looks like the Mean Girls had too much pride to allow that to happen.
This’ll be fun for EV fans and the big battery boosters.
Lithium Prices Have Nearly Doubled In 2022 Amid Insane Commodity Rally (23 Mar)
So only a 472% rise in a year. You can replace the more exotic elements like nickel and cobalt in Li-ion batteries but you can’t do without lithium. The prices of EVs and grid support batteries are going to rise substantially you’d think.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been turned on its head and they claim that Kitching was bullying them, and that they are the real victims here.*
A typical MO for crybullies.
* could be a bridge too far to blame their former colleague. More likely to be a surrogate like “certain right wing media” and the ever-useful soshul meeja
Insider blows whistle on Australia’s greenhouse gas reduction schemes
Professor Andrew Macintosh is the former chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee.
A big bucket of money left unattended, with a sign saying ‘Government Money, Please Take Some‘. And thieves come and take it?
Shirley not.
[Note: Their ABC doesn’t want this theft to stop, just to be done with ‘greater integrity’. And by Albo.]
Re the allegedly litigious Senator Wong:
There is only one way to deal with the litigious – call their bluff. The Libs have enough SCs in their entourage of supporters to defend their people. But it requires intention to brook no BS. The Libs ain’t had that sort of gumption for a long time.
Sub Editors just wanna have fun…
I was in a very trendy inner city suburb a couple of years ago, and looking around at the graffiti, bottles strewn over the streets, and the drunks walking by I made a comment about it being a better dressed Frankston. At least with Frankston people were comfortable with being bogans, unnamed trendy suburb had their noses in the air.
Cassie at 6.58am
Brilliant stuff, Cassie. Thank you.
In Ratfucker news:
Former PM Kevin Rudd’s chilling China warning
Lu Kuwen warming up the relevance.
Y’know, you don’t get them there insights off the back of of a cornflakes box.
Sorry calli, accidentally reported your 7.25 comment when scrolling!
My guilt is overwhelming. 😉
So, it is being announced this morning that Moderna is establishing a facility in Australia. The MSM is falling over itself in reporting what they think is a massive bonus for Australia. No discussion of the massive fall in Moderna’s share price recently. And no discussion of why the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory does not perform in the way it’s title would suggest. Oh – & should we expect any outgoing pollies at the next election to be appointed to the Moderna Board? Of course not!
Personally, I have always thought that graffiti really diminishes a place and makes it feel dingy and dilapidated. When it is done on public property the attitude seems to be there has been no property damage since it is public property. So no great effort need be made.
They make an effort near some infrastructure but not because they want to prevent graffiti, but because graffitists have a rare talent for being mangled by trains, cars, frazzled in HV power boxes, drowning in drains.
It is funny to contrast the puffed up buoyant shit-grinning politicians standing in front a plaque slowly revolving in a euphoric state before the cameras on opening a pristine highway or train station, with the prematurely aged sepulchre to their own egos a mere year or two later.
Perhaps a page in the newspapers dedicated to matching pictures of pollies with the gaudy ravaged shambles their erstwhile glories have become. Seriously, if they are going to let them become to defaced, why the hell do taxpayers have to foot the many times multi-million dollar bills for exciting facades and outdoor art installations. You will have seen some of the extravagant designs of bridges that could have been planer at a much lower cost.
And we are not talking about an underground trying to rally the people to rise against invaders or dictators grinding the people into the dust. We are talking about nobodies who need proof that they exist so they paint their names in as elaborate a fashion as they can, with improbably elastic stylised characters of who they wish they were and tags they have given themselves while confusing unique for special.
And this is just public property. Crank it up to eleventy for private property.
For crimes against aesthetics, both for what they damage and what they create, they should be dipped in paint stripper and their bodies used as rags to clean up their mess.
Retired Air Vice-Marshall Blackburn says renewables would help in the event that our oil imports were interrupted!
How did this moron ever make AVM and why is anyone listening to him? It’ s a worry.
For crimes against aesthetics, both for what they damage and what they create, they should be dipped in paint stripper and their bodies used as rags to clean up their mess.
Then flogged in the town square at 11 am on Saturday morning with a rattan cane.
Gateshead, born & bred ….. it’s hard to be humble .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/JvFyDRW
twitter now putting warnings stories that are critical of Jackson.
Unbelievable.
Whoa!
No one has thought of that!
Poor fragile heart. He thought by now he would be the main act in the great opera of the UN, where adoring diplomats faces would be glow softly reflecting the limelit radiance of the diva KRudd, like the moon does the sun.
Instead he finds himself standing on a blanket in front of Wynyard station kitted with a marching drum on his back operated by his foot, an acoustic guitar, and a harmonica held in front on a frame, singing other people’s songs for pennies.
I am just glad his dog Jasper isn’t here to see it.
Sod his wife and daughter – they both cashed in when they could.
JCsays:
March 23, 2022 at 10:32 pm
That’s 14,650 turns, Cronkers.
At 10 blokes a day, it would take her 4 years to pay it off. That’s pretty heavy duty.
If she gets hold of a camera operator, she can make a follow on to Debbie Does Dallas. Perhaps Stormy Sucks Lake Superior?
Results from the Moderna pediatric covid vaccine trial: if this is success, I’d hate to see failure
The extent of their “talent”.
John Stockton claims to have list of hundreds of vaccinated athletes who have dropped dead on the field
I was impressed how some structures on the Monash managed to be hit by graffiti even as the construction work went on around it.
One further down the hill on the Monash says “Dank Draw” on the sign that spans the opposite carriageway. Those guys get around. I saw the same name on the back of a smaller sign at Cape Patterson this summer.
Anyway, whenever I see the sign, I can’t help but think the K looks like a pistol pointing to the left. Is that wrong?
There is a Twatter account called Defiant L’s which uses only actual quotes from people or from MSM sites like WaPo, NYT, MSNBC etc. It is a great read.
They got suspended for while recently too.
Apparently saying back to people the very words they have uttered, usually dripping with hate and malice, is a hatecrime.
Of course.
Leftist Pro-Court Packing Group Pushing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for SCOTUS Got Soros Money
Here’s Newsweek putting their own spin on what Gonzalo Lira has been saying for weeks.
Putin’s Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He’s Holding Back. Here’s Why
Well…perhaps I was hasty suggesting it couldn’t be art…
Rare
34-Yr-Old Mom and Loving Wife Dies of Rare Brain Bleed One Day After Getting COVID Jab…Coroner Blames COVID Vaccine
Russia to switch gas invoicing to roubles for European buyers
Gas sales agreements don’t usually have optional currency convertibility provisions – for obvious reasons.
So, unless Gazprom has snuck one over on wood-duck European gas buyers, this must be a direct market intervention by Putin over the top of contracts.
And a pretty unguided one given the daily complexity of revaluing Euro-denominated purchases against an appreciating/fluctuating/thrashing minor currency. The scope for unexpected outcomes is eye watering.
Plus, I’m not sure how deep the rouble market is to allow €275m/day to be picked up for commercial settlement – so this will be very interesting.
All that aside, however the war in Ukraine turns out, the Poot has permanently fucked over the Russian €100bn pa export market to Europe and forced the Brussels cockheads to wake up to themselves.
Well played that man.
Emperor Xi’s winged monkeys will be waiting at the bottom of the hill with a win-win deal of Everlasting Golden Friendship.
So there IS still such a thing as a safety signal, for everything except the Covid vaccines, from which thousands, tens of thousands, of people are officially known to have died without any reaction at all.
Pfizer Recalling Some Blood Pressure Drug Products With ‘Above Acceptable’ Levels of Cancer-Causing Impurity
Shock As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Declares Martial Law, Seizes Control Of All Media And Outlaws All Political Opposition To His Own Party
The weaponisation of the DOJ has reached a new level.
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/microsoft-corporation-legal-documents-show-biden-doj-spying-on-project/
The Bee got put in twitter jail until they take down the offending tweets.
Bee said get stuffed.
So twitter then banned the editor personally too.
Such a charming bunch.
Babylon Bee Defiant 24 Hours After Twitter Lockdown for Calling Rachel Levine a ‘Man’ (21 Mar)
Twitter Now Suspends Babylon Bee Editor Following ‘Joke’ About Satire Site Being Suspended (24 Mar)
I can see see he’s tweeting away. Not coming up as suspended.
Gee, I’ve never seen Rudd state the bleeding obvious in such a succinct manner*. Relevance deprivation syndrome really does terrible things to people.
*As opposed to stating utter codswallop in a lengthy excruciating and invariably incomprehensible manner, which was previously his forte.
And herein lies the risk for wannabe lithium producers.
Lithium resource occurrences aren’t particularly rare. But the investment in defining bankable reserves sufficient to support the capital for a lithium carbonate plant is a stretch.
Punters love the price spike in speccy exploration stock holding ‘world class spodumene deposits’. But not so much the reality of laying out the big money to prove up large-scale JORC reserves and a mine – while 100% risk exposed to a stupidly volatile commodity they don’t actually understand.
Programmatic specificity.
There, I said it.
Retired Air Vice-Marshall Blackburn says renewables would help in the event that our oil imports were interrupted!
Did the thought enter his brain (he is a knuck, after all) that Australia actually has large reserves of oil, and we could pump and refine our own oil?
Did the thought enter his brain (he is a knuck, after all) that Australia actually has large reserves of oil, and we could pump and refine our own oil?
I doubt it. I know the guy who was in the job after him. He actually made Chief of Air Force and is no fool but also was a fighter pilot. So was John Boyd who turned out to be pretty smart.
Because it comes with a “Nazi Pass”
And the booster will most likely, from all we are witnessing Kitchens them into a coffin quicker than need be.
But this will probably be blocked again so you can go on deluding yourselves , all in desperate agreement.
Talk about a “bubble”
Faustus – Add that the process is very energy intensive and emits vast amounts of CO2. Also ends up with huge amounts of acidic or alkaline tailings. Nimbies and bananas would be coming out of the woodwork like termites.
I thought you got booted, St Ruth?
No.
We need engineering stuff and proper scienz stuff to do that.
Besides where would the pumps and electrickery for the pumps come from? Huh? Huh?
Today you can have Idiocracy Rambler at no extra charge.
Struth
The covid vax is so, so 2021.
I think KRudd thinks he has extra credibility because he can pronounce the names ‘properly’.
Speaking of which, I did not know that Jussie Smollett insists that his name is pronounced “Juicey Smoll-yay”
Reminds me of Palacechook.
To the Bread-mobile, Robin!
No time to waste!
It’s hot cross bun season.
Eyriesays:
March 24, 2022 at 8:37 am
Retired Air Vice-Marshall Blackburn says renewables would help in the event that our oil imports were interrupted!
How did this moron ever make AVM and why is anyone listening to him? It’ s a worry.
Both a knuck and a test pilot, a sure fire winning combination!
In Spam news:
$400M budget boost for inland highway
With extra benefits:
So, next time the Bruce is cut at Gympie, I’ll just pop 500k West to Mungindi and then up to Charters Towers and then 300k back to the coast.
Job done.
I’m voting 1) Beetrooter.
Same ‘come to bed’ eyes.
The country is at war. Remind me, would Japanese, German and Italian internment at the outset of WW2 be similar (ish) to what’s going on in Ukraine as I read these groups were pro-Russian. Yes, no?
JC.
The increasingly shrill propaganda from both sides of the Ukraine shit-show is reaching Comical Ali levels.
They’re not there yet but they are getting close.
Remind me. Did England ban all political activity during the war? Did they turn their own country into a total dictatorship? There is more at play here This was linked yesterday or the day before.
Warning: Ukraine is the Great ‘Enslavement’ Reset Laboratory of the Global Tech Elite
The struggle is real, reduce Russian reliance, limit economic pain and cut carbon emissions
Especially as energy costs on Spain, for example, were high before Putin came along.
Europe split on how to share consumers energy price pain, at Hellenic shipping news
Kharki clad doctors wife.
You can’t eat coal.
A cartoon for the times.
The news outlets? It may be that the news being reported within Ukraine is not as uniformly glorious as martial rage stirring as is being reported in the West.
Now there is a shock. (Not)
I have heard it said (and seen it written) that in WW1 the hatred of Germans by the civilians back in Britain shocked the soldiers sent back to recover from their injuries. In the trenches there was no room for weaving fantastical monsters out of the enemy. Your best chance of success was to know them for what they were – the enemy, sure. But people like you.
It was the press that stirred up the rage in Britain. At the war’s end, the soldiers just wanted to go home. The civilians wanted Germans punished to the full extent of their worst imaginings.
Reaffirming that supporting the man made climate change agenda is a hobby reserved for the polo playing Aspen skiing rich and assorted loonie tunes
Greenpeace; reasons why nuclear energy is not the way for a green and peaceful world
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My gut tells me that appreciating the big buy was not the first priority.
The poor get poorer and the Canon Brookeses get richer.
Perfect opportunity for the LNP to capitalise on what won them an election last time, a rejection of climateering.
But no it will be more limp wristed me tooing.
‘Big buy’
Freudian slip Bespoke?
Blam.
The single biggest reason why the Liberal Party in Victoria will never get anywhere. At the exact moment they begin to gain traction, this or something very much like this happens (the Hun):
A bit vague, but fortunately she clears it right up:
Naturally, she was then chopped to bits by all assembled except the rest of the Libs, who probably wondered what the problem was with keeping po’ chillen in Tarneit or Jacana. Labor’s Mark Gepp, walking through the wide open door:
Richard Wynne:
Postcode snobbery. Never, ever heard of it. Can there be such a thing?
Nope, rosie.
Why?
‘Get blocked’ matryr oblivious to the myriad anti vaxx comments by indolent et al here every day.
lotocotisays:
March 24, 2022 at 10:17 am
Is the interviewer the same airhead who beclowned herself spectacularly trying to “verbal” Jordan Peterson?
Heard reports from Greeks lately in Mariupol that are not flattering about the UKR soldiers.
Oh! I get it.
When he said 2 million Ukrainians he would have been talking about refugees, wouldn’t he?
Please tell me that disastrous woman is playing her word games again.
Or is it a clip from years ago?
A recent study from Stanford published in Cell might shed light on this phenomenon. Researchers observed a decreased immune response to new variants among those vaccinated for the original strain because the shots are teaching the body to respond improperly. “We find that prior vaccination with Wuhan-Hu-1-like antigens followed by infection with Alpha or Delta variants gives rise to plasma antibody responses with apparent Wuhan-Hu-1-specific imprinting manifesting as relatively decreased responses to the variant virus epitopes, compared with unvaccinated patients infected with those variant viruses,” observed the Stanford pathologists. They note that the extent to which this causes original antigenic sin “will be an important topic of ongoing study.”
Just fucking terrific. So, you’ll need a vaccine for every strain of the chunk virus, which mutates as fast as stormy’s tits. What a business model the vaccine manufacturers have. God bless the chunks.
Because Hillsong is a prosperity gospel church.
More interested in the ability to buy than the guy.
I see ee have no early morning cri de coeur for the Cat to be turned into a safe space today.
Cheers rosie,
Stark comparison with Sweden where women refugees are afraid of being attacked by people of no describable ethnicity, religion or gender. Ok not the gender bit: they’re male. Maybe someone could ask Judge Jackson if she knows what a man is.
‘We Are Afraid’ – Ukrainian Refugee Women Fear for Safety in Multicultural Sweden (21 Mar)
Mark Gepp.
Got his marching orders from Andrews but still fighting the good fight.
Also bizarre because there are in fact housing commission houses in Brighton, I know someone that scored one a few years ago.
I watched the clip, Ukrainians were mentioned so I’m guessing recent.
Suspect quite a few Ukrainians will opt to never return.
Eurotrash and the UK learning the lesson about energy:
https://mailchi.mp/6cb247367876/climate-change-on-the-back-burner-as-foreign-secretary-orders-radical-review-of-international-development-strategy-187914?e=38089d59cb
In Australia we’re about 2 years behind them; so Liddell and Eraring will close and blackouts will occur before we wake up, hang a few greenies and start the coal plants back up.
Every time I ring the radio I’m told coal is finished and over. Sometimes I get the reply in that if coal is finished why do we export 85% of the coal we dig up but are going to use none here? Fucking idiots.
Finally:
Ketanji Brown Jackson Can’t Define What A Woman Is: “I’m Not A Biologist”
This skank will be trouble.
The vax is not oh so 2021.
Unless and until the mandates and emergency laws are revoked, it’s jabs all the way down.
2 years is optimistic, I would say ten or more, cohenite
“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.”
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Gee, I wonder.
I wonder if a cat champion or few, of the Lib Dems, are examples of others amongst the Lib Dems.
When you think of their natural readiness to bullying (including threats & libels), & teaming up with Mean Girls, if any of that behaviour is experienced by others within the party, well …
… oh, and all those with ‘old’ Labor connections …
… and the desperate back peddling from the proudly, “Well what are you gunna do about it! That’s right nuthin’, cos we got all the power!”, to a pathetic pretence of possessing the character they enjoy trashing … funny how both stories have melded into one 🙂
No wonder everyone’s desperately, madly whistling past the graveyard so clearly described by Gonzalo Lira –
The USA is Committing Suicide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbVwFPgSk4
The USA Is Committing Suicide Part II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16C4CTZNKQc
They note that the extent to which this causes original antigenic sin “will be an important topic of ongoing study.”
From John Button’s autobiography:
“”You’ll be pleased to hear, Minister, that we’ve commissioned a study on the effects of high interest rates on investment.”
“You mean”, I asked, “that you’ve been advising us all along that high interest rates are necessary, without understanding their effect on investment?”
“Well,” he said, “we’ve commissioned a study, which could be important.”
After they’d gone I talked to some of my staff. “We have”, I said, “fallen among fuckwits”.”
Fast forward and it’s being done with people’s lives.
That’s a big problem for all the non biologists heading out on a Friday night.
hee hee …
… yeah, apparently, but, re-writing the ‘hate criminal’s’ words as your own, ooh, now that, that makes ’em awesome.
Funny old world. 🙂
Even so, I still mourn the disgrace that’s been piled on Houston, and by extension that particular part of the church. They’ve been after him for a long time.
34-Yr-Old Mom and Loving Wife Dies of Rare Brain Bleed One Day After Getting COVID Jab…Coroner Blames COVID Vaccine
Heavily pregnant neighbour and daughter dropped past yesterday to say a quick hello. She said she had just finally got the vax, her Doctor had said it was now ok to get vaxxed. What fucking rock does her Doctor live under? Thoughts and prayers are with her. People have to much trust in their fucking Mong GP’s.
““This is an appalling example of the Liberal Party’s postcode snobbery.””
Hmm, so why do so many Labor ex and current pollies choose to reside in “snobbish” Liberal party postcodes? Such as Richo, Keneally, Whitlam, Keating, Hawke, Dreyfus and many others. They don’t waste any time, post politics, quickly moving to more salubrious areas.
About eight years ago I was invited to a boutique fashion night here in Woollahra (I live in Sydney’s eastern suburbs). Anna Bligh was there. It wasn’t long after she’d lost office in a landslide. She and her hubby hadn’t wasted any time fleeing QLD for sunnier shores here in Sydney. Our stupid Liberal lite premier at the same, Fatty O’Farrell, had installed Bligh’s hubby in some senior bureaucratic role…..coz mates look after mates. Anyway I digress. I remember asking Anna where she was living and she remarked around the corner, in Woollahra, so in one of Sydney’s toffiest areas. I said to her…oh so post-politics you’ve moved on from the hoi polloi, how very convenient. She didn’t engage with me after that.
Eyrie
I doubt it. I know the guy who was in the job after him. He actually made Chief of Air Force and is no fool but also was a fighter pilot. So was John Boyd who turned out to be pretty smart.
My point was that the Air Force is (largely) a fighter mafia. Even dumb ones can go a long way.
More evidence that the best and brightest aren’t being promoted to the highest ranks.
I’m imaging a significant number of Sydney elite running for their lives when they see you coming Cassie .
Good on you.
This one is fun.
Ouch.
(Via Instapundit)
In Melbourne Labor royalty like Williamstown.
Turns out it’s from 2018.
Should’ve worked out who the Pollack was first:(
Old School Conservativesays:
March 23, 2022 at 11:51 pm
“The Science” is getting different interpretations in NSW hospitals.
RNSH entry process – compulsory QR code, mandatory double vaxx proof required, security guard assigned to assist the numerous clerical staff who check you in, masks compulsory. Once inside each department and ward has its own visitor rules.
Northern Beaches Hospital – optional QR code, zero staff checking entry, no need to prove vaxx status, no security guard. Masks required though.
Yet another example of the craziness of decision making during the plandemic, but its all going into the collective forgettery now.
(The only sliver of silver on the RNSH cloud was that compulsory boosters were not required for entry.)
mandatory double vaxx proof required
As a Patient mandatory double vaxx proof not required – at RNSH yesterday (second home), since with smurf hat obvious I am a patient – never used QR code and yesterday could have passed by entrance with just getting dot, but as always gave name – seated secondary check into Department/Ward did not bother to question me
In theory as unvaxxed have to supply Result PCR or RAT test for Cancer treatment, but no one asked last time
Yeah, kids whose Mum’s buy their clothes at K-Mart will have a ball living in salubrious multi-millionaire suburbs. They will find a way to keep up with their peers’ hobbies and spending habits.
In fairness, I know Labor understands this and they are just using this to attack the hapless libs who occasionally say something smart and then can’t remember what they were thinking when they said it.
Interesting vehicles, many somewhat beaten up.
Lots of photos from both sides. The armoured tricycle with the Maxim gun is the most amazing.
There’s hardly a prog-left candidate running for public office in the US who hasn’t received Soros money.
His son, Alexander, distributes the cash.
I’m generally not one for conspiracy theories but there’s no shortage of material to work with.
lotocotisays:
March 24, 2022 at 10:17 am
Blam.
Don’t the politicians of Europe have a moral humanitarian duty to step in?
No.
He should have asked the stupid blond bint how many Moooslim reffos she would personally host in her home. Because that is what she wants the Poles to do in their home(land).
But….but….but how will the elite get to Davos?
It will be interesting to see how the denialist’s spin Gonzalo Lira’s, “Suicide of the US”, or if they keep doing what’s popular here and ignoring it.
I think back to all the, oh so clever, economists, who kept attacking the ‘idiots’ ‘too stupid to understand’ why putting local people out of work & sending their work to far off, foreign, enemy lands, was ‘really smart’.
I think back to all the, oh so clever, educators, who backed up the economists while sneering down at the, ‘lower classes’ who ‘deserved to be poor’ if they weren’t ‘smart enough’ to move with the times, move away from their families, move away from generational supports, set no permanent roots, learn to code & shit.
I think back, and look around now, and I see a lot of Gambling Addicts who will never admit that they backed the wrong whores, and so, simply keep taking pot shots at the working stock that could drag their sorry selves out of the bog if they weren’t too repulsed to get close to honest sweat.
rosiesays:
March 24, 2022 at 10:30 am
I watched the clip, Ukrainians were mentioned so I’m guessing recent.
Suspect quite a few Ukrainians will opt to never return.
Given that the Soviets essentially picked up the borders of Poland and moved them some considerable distance east in 1945) and did the same with the eastern border of Germany), they probably have family members in Poland. Lviv used to be a Polish city, as a simple example).
Franx
There was a mandate of sorts for two shots. There’s nothing being said about others.
Covid vax mandates are over.
Not in Victoria.
It’s a Double Bay vs Queanbeyan thing.
YES. Look up Mosley as a famous example.
Next.
..
Get off those shit sites and make an effort at an unbiased assessment.
For fuck’s sake.
rosie
Sorry, compass confusion. The Polish borders were moved west in 1945.
Every cloud etc etc.
Scomo has finally discovered respectful silence and sub judice in relation to sexual misconduct charges.
Bing Bong!
Blog traffic re-direction ahead.
Bing Bong!
Also bizarre because there are in fact housing commission houses in Brighton, I know someone that scored one a few years ago.
There is an entire street in South Strathfield, NSW of 12 HC houses on one side (park on the other) behind Strathfield South Public School nestled in amongst the doctors/lawyers mansions tree lined streets …
The estate I live in (69 dwellings) in, far western side of Fairfield, is surrounded by commercial/gummint operations ( hospital, high school, shopping centre & plod shop) .. the nearest private residential lot are 100mts away (behind treeline) on the other side of the main thoroughfare thru the area ….
All the news that’s fit to choose.
I lived for 10 years in a little house at the end of an old Williamstown dunny lane, directly behind a low-rise Fifties housing commish estate on The Strand (which afforded the residents magnificent water views of the CBD skyline).
It wasn’t so bad, just so long as
1/ Your insurance was paid up (three break-ins)
2/ Security window screens (see above; didn’t do much good, the last time they came through the roof)
3/ Deranged layabouts knocking on the door to request “loans” because of whatever latest crisis in their mismanaged lives.
4/ Park the car in a locked garage (side window smashed, small change taken, iPod too. Subsequently, garage broken into, spare keys found on the nail in the rafter, car stolen and written off)
5/ Wear gloves when gardening, as there are apt to be used syringes tossed over the fence.
6/ Have telephone number handy for Lort Smith Animal hospital for the boxes of kittens left in lane
I could go on but won’t, except to note that the disenfranchised and oppressed ethnics who were my neighbours had some very, very nice cars in the parking lot. If they can afford slick wheels, they can afford to pay market rent like the neighbours they drove up the wall.
And yes, Brighton is the perfect spot for Layabout Housing — right next door to the mansion of Frank McGuire MLA, brother of Eddie, who his happy to represent the good people of Broadmeadows but doesn’t want to live anywhere near them.
They’ve been dumping housos in leafy suburbs for decades. Hasn’t made an iota of difference to anyone as far as I can tell. Perhaps SBS could do a heartwarming series I won’t watch to change my mind.
Sancho, that’s as good as the best of Tom’s ‘Toons.
People are still being laid off or fired because of them.
Theodore Dalrymple did a column on how you could pick public housing regardless of where it was. It is an attitude not a location.
We lived four doors down from housos in Perth. Fights, loud grog parties and domestics, syringes chucked over the fence and frequent evictions…
Prof Jim’s latest missive. Well worth the read. The final paragraph.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/03/the-room-where-it-happened/
how you could pick public housing regardless of where it was
High wire fences, guard towers and gate attendants who only let the inmates out to go to work (there’d be very little exit traffic of a workaday morning) would aid identification — and neighbourhood security.
Old Ozzie, I’m glad the RNSH gave you some latitude.
I’m following you in next time!
Is the French MoD and Gray Connolly now Russian disinformation?
BoN
The control movements on the F22 reminded me of a fish.
Demonstrates the understanding of 3d environment.
Truly amazing stuff.
White folk proving they do care! .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/0GvkWX6
Mak Siccar at 11:39 – you get the feeling James Allan despises the Lieborals on a whole new level we can only aspire to.
I could go on but won’t, except to note that the disenfranchised and oppressed ethnics who were my neighbours had some very, very nice cars in the parking lot. If they can afford slick wheels, they can afford to pay market rent like the neighbours they drove up the wall.
I think a lot of folk don’t realise that most of the HC inequality is from WOKE gummint policy .. nowadays you can “inherit” HC nothing to do with ability to afford private but the fact that your related/ living on the premises at the time circumstances changed plus the sitting tenant can re-assign the rental to offspring at any time thus ensuring continuing family tenancy ..
Then there is the reality that short of murder NSW HC will NEVER attempt to evict ethnics for fear of bleeding heart & media outlets outrage! .. example: the pole & lighting is still there & working in Guildford months after being declared illegal by BOTH plod & Housing ……..
Sounds like your treatment is quite intense, OldOzzie. I often think of you, and wish you all the best.
Even with two shots, people in aged care must have a booster. Regardless of whether they’re in contact with “clients” or not.
Mandated or no job.
Because the vaccines work so well.
Human headline reappears.
Lambie says Albanese has ‘no choice’ but to call review into Kitching bullying allegations (24 Mar)
Must be an election soon.
At one point in his reign Emperor Barney attempted to enforce some basic tenancy standards on housos for the benefit of their neighbours ( usually other housos). The bleating from the usual suspects was immediate and loud. Naturally the Aboriginal Industry screamed racism.
Calli
There is not going to be a mandate past the third vax. We’re done.
From what I understand (and I could be quite wrong) he said something a staffer didn’t like and walked into someone’s room, which he back-pedalled out of quiktime.
On this one, I’m with the shut-up sub judice crowd.
We all witnessed the Pell bullsh*t.
The Mocker: Labor’s weaponising of abuse claims comes home to roost
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If we are to understand Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese correctly, it is never an appropriate time to ask him to respond to reports that his Senate leadership team ostracised, marginalised, and bullied Labor senator Kimberley Kitching, 52, over a prolonged period that ended with her death this month from a suspected heart attack.
Doing so, he said on the weekend, would not be “constructive”. Trying to fob off questions last week, he said it would be “totally unbecoming” to comment on “who might have had a disagreement here or there”.
Yesterday he again refused to commission an inquiry into the allegations, even implying Kitching’s behaviour was the real issue. “She was somebody who engaged in politics and was passionate about her belief and from time to time that could produce some conflict,” he said.
This was the same Albanese who in March last year declared himself a champion of women’s safety while lambasting the Morrison government for its failings in that respect. “Women need to feel safe in every workplace and, indeed, every part of society,” he said at a doorstop conference. “And what we need to do is to make sure we listen to those concerns and respond.”
Great news: Albanese has finally responded. Although he will not initiate an investigation, he has announced he will lobby ALP National Secretary Paul Erickson to have the National Executive institute a ‘Kimberley Kitching Human Rights Award’. How good is that? The only way he could be any more feckless and maladroit would be if he asked one of the alleged perpetrators to present it.
This supposed honouring of Kitching is as unseemly an attempt at deflection as Albanese’s confected outrage. When Sharri Markson of this newspaper revealed Kitching and her supporters referred to senators Penny Wong, Kristina Keneally, and Katy Gallagher as “mean girls”, he spluttered that use of this term was “extraordinarily disrespectful” to the trio.
Having spent the last few years weaponising abuse allegations against their political opponents, senior Labor Party figures have discovered to their dismay it is being used against them – and on the eve of an election. “Parliament should be upholding the highest standards of employment,” tweeted Deputy Opposition Leader Richard Marles in February last year. “So long as there are women who feel that it’s not safe to work here, that is a terrible indictment on all in the workplace. “We need to hear from the Leaders of all political parties.”
But as with Albanese, Marles has developed a case of chronic reticence. Last week he reacted angrily when a journalist put to him: “It does seem to an observer that you might be using these eulogies to mask answering”. On Friday he refused to answer questions from Today show co-host Ally Langdon regarding whether Kitching had raised allegations of bullying with him, instead saying the party’s focus was on “honouring” her. Presumably Labor intends ‘honouring’ Kitching in this manner right up to the election and indefinitely after that.
So where does Tanya Plibersek – the shadow minister for women – stand on this? “I just don’t want to keep raking over this terrible loss and treating like it’s a political issue to manage,” she told Sky News last week.
“The sort of things we need to be focusing on now is talking to the Australian people about the things that matter to them.” She even implied the allegations were a non-issue. “Yesterday I was in Queensland,” she said, “(and) people weren’t asking whether there was bullying in the Labor Party”.
If hypocrisy were a portfolio, Plibersek would be a worthy holder. This was her in 2018 castigating the Coalition: “To have respected women on the opposite side talking about a toxic culture of bullying, and then having the now Prime Minister dismiss that and refuse to take it seriously, refuse to investigate, shows just how unfit this mob opposite is to govern.”
By her own words, she has tacitly admitted her party is unfit to hold office.
Wong, Keneally, and Gallagher have denied the allegations of bullying Kitching. Nonetheless it cannot be disputed the behaviour alleged would at the very least, if proved, constitute serious misconduct. No doubt they would correctly say in response they are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
But compare that to what each of them said last year concerning former attorney-general Christian Porter, when it was revealed a woman, now dead, had accused him of raping her in 1988 when he was 17. He has steadfastly denied that allegation.
Wong: “The reality is unless there is some form of investigation, some form of process that gives Australians confidence in the first law officer, these questions will continue. It is a matter for the Prime Minister. He is responsible for the membership of the Cabinet, and he is responsible for all of us, for ensuring Australians that everyone in that Cabinet is a fit and proper person for the office they hold.”
Keneally: “Are we all supposed to just pretend when Christian Porter comes back from leave that nothing has happened? We need to be clear that he is a fit and proper person to hold the position of attorney general, the first law officer of this country.” Given Keneally and Wong sit in the shadow cabinet, they must acknowledge this standard applies to them as well.
Gallagher: “At the moment we have the most senior legal officer in the land with these allegations swirling around, he’s gone on leave for some time … but these matters can’t be parked away because Christian Porter said they didn’t happen”.
Likewise, Gallagher cannot wish this affair away with a mere denial. By her professed principles, she must account for herself. Or would telling her that be mansplaining?
Given the impending election, the timing could not be worse for Labor, and its dilemma is obvious. It does not want to institute an inquiry, yet its refusal to do so will not just give the impression it is fearful of its findings. Stonewalling would reveal fully the Opposition’s mendacity and opportunism in attacking the government relentlessly for its shortfalls on providing a safe work environment for women. Who could forget Albanese’s proud declaration to Parliament a year ago tomorrow?
“I do want to pay tribute to … the shadow minister for women … the women in our caucus, who have shown incredible leadership and have come forward and worked so hard on developing a framework for the Labor Party of an updated code of conduct … a bullying policy and a complaints process,” he said. “That process also could be looked at in terms of being a model.”
A model, that is, for equivocation, obfuscation, and hypocrisy.
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Gold. I love how her ‘gotcha’ assumptions are just thrown straight back in her face. Yes, he is proud that Poland won’t accept Muslims refugees. Then he explains why. Streets are safe in Poland.
Australian politicians could learn a lot from this. They won’t of course.
Richard Wynne:
“This is an appalling example of the Liberal Party’s postcode snobbery.”
Another who believes sties make pigs, not the other way around.
Gillard would be the perfect head for any enquiry. Or that bird who does the “search and replace” and Print periodically at the football clubs. C’mon Albo – show some leadership. No whirring handbags this time.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha:
March 23, 2022 at 11:55 pm
You name it, it can happen to something even as seemingly basic and (allegedly) indestructible* as the AK-series of assault rifles.
I’m reading an account of the bush war in Rhodesia, by a former Selous Scout- “Three Sips Of Gin.”
He met Mikhail Kalashnikov at a dinner in South Africa, after the bush war. He told Kalashnikov he considered the AK 47 a most inferior invention. “I’ve been shot seven times with one, and, if it was any good, I wouldn’t be here to tell the tale…”
Was at the hospital yesterday checking in for day surgery and the admin lady behind the counter was from Rhodesia. Idle conversation turned the war in Rhodesia and she said that ‘any male highschool students who failed their ‘O level exams’ were autmatically conscripted into the army.’
She also said that ‘more than a few of them were sadly killed.’
There are some nine thousand homeless people in Western Australia, a third of which are indigenous.
areffsays:
March 24, 2022 at 11:30 am
You could have recouped at least some of the loss by finding out which of the residents did the chop chop run and got on their customer list.
There must be a reason why Kitching didn’t go to the Shadow Minister for Women about her difficulties.
I wonder what it was?
JC
Covid vax mandates are over.
Wrong
Im having to line up for shot 3 at the end of the month because I dont have “fuck you” money to allow me to quit my job.
Most of WA is the same.
And not one jurisdiction has given up its emergency powers yet. They just cant let it go.
Plibbers leadership ambitions on hold you figure?
Interestingly the speed of sound on Mars is 2/3rds what it is on Earth.
Analysis of sounds captured by Perseverance rover reveals speed of sound on the Red Planet (23 Mar)
Spock! Vaporize that rock. Yes, Captain.
That’s what they said after the second vax.
No.
Why do anonymous people have to keep telling people they don’t know about the numbers of Jabs they’ve ‘had’?
Because the Pro-Jabbers have to keep advertising* the multiple Jabs they’ve ‘had ‘that haven’t killed them (Yet? Who’s really sitting in the anonymous chairs of anonymous commenters?), and so push others they’ve suckered into trusting them, into Jabbing themselves and children.
What happened to your health & medical records being private?
When did strangers pushing drugs & medical treatments of strangers become a ‘virtuous’ thing?**
*As in, they don’t get paid if they don’t advertise.
** When it paid well.
Dover
Ensure to disclose opinions that agree with the thought leadership or you’re heading straight to the principal’s and likely facing suspension.
That was so gratifying to watch. Especially loved his answer to the last question ”No”.
Austrayan pollies are too gutless and too stupid to learn anything.
No.
They are Anti-Nazi.
Whilst it is always nice to get experimental confirmation the speed of sound in the Martian atmosphere would already have been known.
https://www.concepts-of-physics.com/waves/speed-of-sound-in-gases.php
for the choo choo tribe.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/mar/23/im-proud-to-be-called-a-nerd-the-pop-and-rock-greats-who-love-model-railways
Timothy Neilson:
March 24, 2022 at 10:21 am
lotocoti:
March 24, 2022 at 10:17 am
Is the interviewer the same airhead who beclowned herself spectacularly trying to “verbal” Jordan Peterson?
Yes.
Cathy Newman.
Some new about that kerfuffle over there.
Ukraine captures a Russian electronic warfare system.
What If Russia Makes a Deal?
Trump says he would send nuclear submarines to go ‘up and down’ Russia’s coast to pressure Putin
Does anyone know if there are a lot of dirt bike tracks in Harlem?
Disturbing video shows gang of dirt bikers beat down motorist and his son in Harlem
what’s extra crazy, is they are both under the Northern Sydney Local Health District – so those discrepancies are purely at hospital level.
Farcical.
That is some chutzpah.
Directing the blog owner as to which sites he should not look at or link to.
BTW, even if Dover was biased, so what?
It’s his site FFS.
He can post what he likes.
I missed dover’s new rules but figure this must break one (or more) of them.
Dirt bikes (unlicensed) are the transport of choice for the socially oppressed as anyone living in an outer metropolitan area will attest.
They obviously have great taste and discernment, even though in general their music is shyte. 🙂
Houston covered up for his father didn’t he?
I’d expect any religious leader actually involved in abuse cover up to fall on his sword.
Oh dear.
Speaking of evil propaganda –
This is from those of you who run fast & hard from the facts of over 8 years of US & EU Backed Ukrainian Nazi bombing, slaughter & terrorism against Ukrainian civilians who refuse to hate Russian speaking Ukrainians.
It is not the Russians doing these evils to Ukrainians, which is why so many Ukrainians do not hate the Russians and why the Ukraine Govt moved in to violently re-establish their Nazi control over the eastern Ukraine’s that the Russians moved to prevent.
Yeah, when you talk propaganda and leave out what the US & EU Backed Ukrainian Nazis had been doing & were about to do, you are the propagandist for The Evil.
Gab
I think after no 3. it’s pretty much over for the compulsion side. I think we’re done. It’s just my view. No biggie.
Some not so sad news, madeleine albright dead.
University students behaving in a very civilised manner in 1998.
Short video clip.
madeleine albright confronted by an ohio state university student in 1998 on why the US continues to bomb iraq while selling weapons to israel used on palestinians. her response is accusing the students in the room of defending saddam hussein
That’s the charge.
Ah, look, JC.
I don’t know how to break this to you, but Dover is the principal.
Wait- They were bombing Nazis?
But haven’t the Nazis really been in charge all along?
So if Ukraine is all Nazis, why were they bombing fellow Nazis for 8 years with the US and EU’s support?
This shilling and venom-spitting so furiously for Vlad Bae’s Holy War* is admirable in its tenacity and dedication, SRR. But do you not agree that it is starting to take its toll on you? Why not step back a little, take a breath and regain your coherency? Even your holy warriors under the banner of the almighty ‘Z’ take operational pauses.
You don’t want to sound like some sort of AI, after all…
* He may not be fighting one for himself, but he certainly is for the Nuffies…
Was there a commitment ever made that after people were ‘fully’ vaxxed they’d never have to get another?
Vichealth is hustling people to get boosters.
Someone I know has had the two jabs and then got covid in January and is not surprisingly in no hurry to get a booster.
But not that’s the same as mandating which I thought Andrews had abandoned.
Every state seems to have different rules.
Yes, the charge is flimsy, but that wasn’t my point.
ScoMo has been busily pushing people under various buses on sexual misconduct matters, but went strangely quiet on this one, simply because there is a chance that some collateral mud might stick to him.
Come be Premier of WA.
We need at least one pragmatist who can slap the more vaporous of the Health Department Unions around and tell them The Carnival Was Over last December, when everyone else gave up and opened up.
The current one sniffed too many of his own farts in 2020…
I understand that Sancho and I got the point.
UPDATE 24 March 2022 10:38AM: Less than 24 hours after announcing plans to resume manufacturing in Russia, Renault has reversed the decision.
“Renault activities in its manufacturing plant in Moscow are suspended … We are acting responsibly towards our 45,000 employees in the country,” the French manufacturer said in an official statement.
“Renault Group reminds that it already implements the necessary measures to comply with international sanctions.”
I was in a shop yesterday eavesdropping on the conversation between the lady behind the till and the guy in front of me. He was in his thirties and said to her that he had already had covid, it gave him a headache for a day and that was it. He then went on to say how he now had the best antibodies and vaccination possible, natural immunity. Finally he said he was still going to get vaccinated so that he could travel later on.
For what it was worth he was wearing a suit. Ginger though.
Ooooh.
And there it is ladies and gentlemen.
Sancho gets the red card and goes in the book for mansplaining.
Which means he will miss the quarter-final against Real Madrid.
Sancho Panzer says:
March 24, 2022 at 1:28 pm
ScoMo has been busily pushing people under various buses on sexual misconduct matters, but went strangely quiet on this one, simply because there is a chance that some collateral mud might stick to him.
Not least of which were his outrageous comments in support of Brittany Higgins whilst her alleged attacker hasn’t yet had an opportunity to defend himself in court.
Lol.
You have to admit it was a stylishly restrained red card. Minimum amount of guilt edging for a start.
For what it was worth he was wearing a suit. Ginger though.
Like this?
Phweeeeep!
FOUL!
Gratuitous vowel leading to either terrible innuendo or general confusion.
2 free throws to the Panzer. Players, take your marks.
For what it was worth he was wearing a suit. Ginger though.
Like this?
I dunno. Not crumby enough…
One of our chaps on site had a little fracas with a shark yesterday while diving.
Lacerated finger, bite around the ribs a bit, small cranky noah.
Treatment given…. alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol.
Oral.
And a band aid on the finger.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Like this?
No, dark violet suit, tan dress shoes and red hair. Pant legs short enough that you could see his ankles while he was standing up. Someone should have a word with his mum and let her know he has grown a bit since she bought the outfit for him.
Can’t remember if he was wearing comedy socks.
Did the shark cop a punch on the nose for its trouble?
Or was it served crumbed and with fresh chips at dinnertime for its temerity?
Nazis had been doing & were about to do, you are the propagandist for The Evil.
Nobody expects the Ukrainian Inquisition.
Chief weapons are surprise, fear, ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to Putin.
Clown show ssr. Grow up!
Was it wearing a man-bun?
Oh, and even after people have been to court, he can’t fucking help sticking his oar in to scoop up a few votes.
When the Pell conviction was quashed he started going on about “victims”.
Not guilty.
There are no “victims”.
And, by using the plural, it seems he is OK with scapegoating an innocent man if it makes victims of other perpetrators “feel better”.
I have cut ScoMo a bit of slack on some issues, but not this one.
It has been cynical opportunism all the way, until it struck less than two degrees of separation from his front door.
Shall I fetch the Comfy Chair? 😉
#CONFESS!
Surely a ginger wouldn’t go man-bun?
In these wretched times, anything is possible.