Open Thread – Tues 5 April 2022


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Struth
April 7, 2022 8:36 am

Imagine that song played these days.
Back then, we all had a laugh, we all could pull the piss out of each other.
And the singer was……..
Now JC’s screaming RACISM and playing the victim.
Pathetic.

Struth
April 7, 2022 8:38 am

As a matter of fact, in the healthy society of days gone by, the Australians took it upon themselves to take that song and make fun of themselves, with Peter Perfect’s reworded version called “Bite cha Bum”

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 8:38 am

Mitt Romney one of three GOP senators to break the deadlock and open the way for a woman who can’t or won’t publicly say what a woman is to the SCOTUS.

The long march rolls on.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 7, 2022 8:46 am

Teenage girl develops appendicitis after holding in farts around boyfriend for two years

Better an empty house, then a bad tenant, as my grandfather used to say.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 8:53 am

Teenage girl develops appendicitis after holding in farts around boyfriend for two years

What stopped her from walking outside or to the next room?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 7, 2022 8:55 am

Got to hand it to the Philippines, the have great names for pollies.

Why Bongbong Marcos, a Philippine Dictator’s Son, Leads the Race for the Presidency (29 Mar)

He has a lot of shoes to fill.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 8:59 am

Iv been told girls don’t fart. So it fake news.

Struth
April 7, 2022 9:00 am

Stuth

Those last two jokes aren’t funny. Don’t try them at the next standup in FNQ.

As the resident comic, you know rubble is a joke, doofus.

OK

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 7, 2022 9:01 am

One of the fox’s victims was California Democratic Rep. Ami Bera. “Thanks everyone for the well wishes! I feel healthy and am glad to be back at work,” he tweeted.

Foxes are sly, territorial and vicious.
The fox recognised a rival and was merely defending its territory from like.

shatterzzz
April 7, 2022 9:04 am

Methinks TWTR will suddenly find an atrophied sense of humour inside one of their dusty cupboards. After all he is the richest man on Earth, they wouldn’t want him to buy another 40.9%.

Apparently, the seat on the board comes with conditions .. hands off the rest of the stock for 2 years ..!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 7, 2022 9:06 am

Teenage girl develops appendicitis after holding in farts around boyfriend for two years

Ah! Young love.

That brought tears to my eyes. Excruciating.

And lacking in enterprise. These days women could fart in jars and sell them on e-bay – every other body function seems to have a market of freaks. If she spent the money in part on her boyfriend every poot, peep, and blaaarp would be as welcomed into the world as a newborn. In fact, he would be ramming beans, lentils and cabbage down her throat every chance he got.

Franx
Franx
April 7, 2022 9:06 am

There is so much in the way of a defeatist attitudes. Not from Struth, though, irrespective of whether or not one agrees with his arguments.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 9:10 am

Yes the keyboard worrier is verry inspirational.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 9:11 am

What stopped her from walking outside or to the next room?

Just let ‘er rip and go and kick the dog.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 9:12 am

Dover please ban Mother Lode for his gross posting.

Franx
Franx
April 7, 2022 9:13 am

Try it, Bespoke.

Indolent
Indolent
April 7, 2022 9:14 am

Noticed yesterday that Woolworths ‘strongly’ advised wearing masks while shopping.

Where? Hopefully, it’s just one stupid manager.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 7, 2022 9:14 am

A senior women’s football match was called off on Saturday after fighting broke out between players.

Not the Battle of Strathaird Reserve.
Maybe the Battle of Strathaird Reserve.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 9:15 am

These days women could fart in jars and sell them on e-bay …

Only to the Japanese … or maybe the Germans, although they would probably rather a turd.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:16 am

Concerned mother who questioned NY mayor on toddler mask mandate fired from city job

Yes. Democrats don’t just disagree with free speech they punish it.
How very Soviet of them.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 9:18 am

Lol, lotocoti!

Must have been the Full Moon driving them crazy. No other explanation.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 9:19 am

My wife’s guard/companion dog is female, Bear

So the solidarity is an obstacle.

Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito
April 7, 2022 9:21 am

I see their ABC are having a go at the French for wanting their country to themselves at the expense of immigrants. The surprising part about the story is that the youth are starting to take up the movement rather than the usual lefty issues of climate change and gender issues. They even identify and vilify a young woman not afraid to speak out. She says the streets are no longer safe for white women. Thanks to the ABC for telling me she has a Youtube channel. I will check out what she has to say. Maybe the tide is turning.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/zemmour-french-election-far-right-foreign-correspondent/100968198

Ironically, a few stories down on the ABC page is a story about the street harassment of women in Australia. Not a drop of irony to be seen.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 9:21 am

Must have been the Full Moon driving them crazy. No other explanation.

Just another Saturday night in Manchester.

Zipster
Zipster
April 7, 2022 9:21 am

Daniel Andrews sensationally blamed the Prime Minister and declared he’d do it again”

of course he would, he is a marxist

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 9:23 am

Noticed yesterday that Woolworths ‘strongly’ advised wearing masks while shopping.

Where? Hopefully, it’s just one stupid manager.

The announcement comes over their in-store “radio” station, so it’s probably heard in every store throughout the land.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 9:26 am

Ironically, a few stories down on the ABC page is a story about the street harassment of women in Australia. Not a drop of irony to be seen.

That level of cluelessness takes real effort and at least 3 years of J School. Maybe it’s something in the watercooler at Ultimo?

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 9:27 am

Daniel Andrews sensationally blamed the Prime Minister and declared he’d do it again

There is nothing “sensational” about blaming the PM for anything these days.

See the toons this morning.

Megan
Megan
April 7, 2022 9:27 am

of course he would, he is a marxist

And a despicable piece of excrement.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 7, 2022 9:30 am

And a despicable piece of excrement.

All Marxists are!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:31 am

And then I said “a woman is a female like me, an adult human female, who has a real vagina, not a surgically constructed one, a woman who has a female reproductive tract, just like your wife I presume (he’s newly married), so no, there’s nothing really complicated about it, is there?”

Brava, Cassie. Absolutely nails it.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 7, 2022 9:31 am

Dammit.
Forgot to bid on a bijou fixer-upper.
Might’ve taken a bit more than a couple of trips to O’Bunnings and some Orelly men though.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:35 am

Anchor Whatsays:
April 7, 2022 at 6:58 am
Wanna see something really scary?
American Thinker – Andrea Widberg.

Yep. I posted this last night. Thanks for reposting.
I guess on this fast moving blogue most people don’t read back-thread.
Something to bear in mind.

Indolent
Indolent
April 7, 2022 9:35 am

#TheJimmyDoreShow
How The Left Lost Its Mind Over COVID & Became Authoritarians

Jimmy Dore reads an outstanding article by Professor Christian Parenti and then interviews him.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
April 7, 2022 9:35 am

You’re on fire, Cassie. AI gets it’ revenge writing his bio.

Murphy is an attractive man. He has kept up his body as of not long ago. Additionally, the man has an extraordinary tallness and astonishing character.
Brendan is unquestionably a hitched man. The man got married to teacher Sally Walker. Sally was a previous bad habit chancellor of Deakin University.
He studied medication from a presumed college.
Plus, he is likewise a specialist and a warning part.
Perhaps he is too bustling dealing with the country.

Hah!

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 9:36 am

Prioritites at the ABC:

‘Refugees stuck in hotel rooms as Perth’s rental crisis continues’

“We are getting people housed — it is just taking longer than it would normally take in a normal market,” [a Red Cross representative] said.

She said some families had chosen to remain in hotel rooms to wait for a property that was suitable for them.”

I’m sure local renters would welcome being put up in a CBD hotel whilst waiting for a property “suitable for them.” If only that were an option.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 9:36 am

lotocotisays:
April 7, 2022 at 9:31 am

That’s a refreshing change from the bomb Shelta rubbish.

Franx
Franx
April 7, 2022 9:40 am

Yes, the sexes. Apart from anything to do with genitalia – which, after all, is not what one first finds attractive about anyone else – there is also such a thing as a female brain. Quite distinct. And a male brain, too, I think. Marvellous

amortiser
amortiser
April 7, 2022 9:42 am

bespoke says:
April 7, 2022 at 8:59 am
Iv been told girls don’t fart. So it fake news.

I was told they shit chocolate, fart eau de cologne and piss lemonade. Not true?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:44 am

I’m not sure where the author gets the notion of ‘special circumstances’ from. The Presidential Succession Act is a federal statute. Obama isn’t in the line of succession.

From CL in response to me. So, yes, my point was if they can do it for the Vice Presidency they can surely also do it for the Presidency. It all pre-supposes, as I said, that the Rule of Law, i.e. the Presidential Succession Act, can be dismissed or subverted in some way, for either the Vice-Presidency or even the Presidency. I wouldn’t put it past them that they think they can deem that the rules of appointment evade the notion of ‘election to’ the position if they can somehow make Obama VP. After thinking that way, evading the rules re the VP, it struct me that maybe they could even use the same ‘excuse’ of ‘difficul times’ to directly appoint Obama to the Presidency.

The future of such shennagins is in the hands of the Supreme Court, n’est-ce pas?
They don’t exactly have a stellar track record in being firm on electoral procedural matters.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 9:46 am

Forgot to bid on a bijou fixer-upper.

Vacant possession. I’m guessing the last tenant lost their bond.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:47 am

Note though that this author in America Thinker was speculating.
Wild speculation is worth making imho in order to be prepared in the event to counter things previously unheard of. For look at the unheard of things that we have seen happen already.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 9:50 am

Just another Saturday night in Manchester.

Ahh…the great northwest. Thought it might have been Cornwall, as this seemed appropriate:

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

Though I doubt either young “lady” could compare to Bess, the landlord’s daughter. More like the landlord’s ale cask.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 9:50 am

Reporters call for White House to ‘simply ignore’ Supreme Court decisions

What do the think it is? The Family Court?

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 9:52 am

The heavy economic sanctions regime and its speed surprised many Western observers and yet Moscow appeared to have countermoves already in place.

They are long practiced at it.

And wouldn’t their preparations rather serve to confirm their larger objectives?

Biden had all but green lighted a “minor incursion” into the Donbass.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:52 am

I’m sure local renters would welcome being put up in a CBD hotel whilst waiting for a property “suitable for them.” If only that were an option.

Plenty of people living on the streets in our major cities would also welcome such an opportunity.
The best that some, and only some, of them have been offered is a free camping swag.
Lucky them.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 9:54 am

Reporters call for White House to ‘simply ignore’ Supreme Court decisions

What do the think it is? The Family Court?

lol.
Indeed. Subversion of the Rule of Law starts lower down the food chain first.

Franx
Franx
April 7, 2022 9:55 am

The ostler loved Bess. Or thought he did.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 7, 2022 9:57 am

there is also such a thing as a female brain. Quite distinct. And a male brain, too

Male brain Female Brain

Can reverse park Can’t reverse park
Can shop for 1 item Can’t shop for 1 item
Has domestic blindness Hasn’t domestic blindness

Could go on for hours…

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
April 7, 2022 9:58 am

What’s the chance that the lead singer of a reggae band is called Jacob Hemphill?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
April 7, 2022 9:59 am

Don’t worry Dot the jabs you took were perfectly safe!!!

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/04/06/pfizer-help-wanted/

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 10:05 am

The best that some, and only some, of them have been offered is a free camping swag.
Lucky them.

I was involved in that for a couple of years but it was a privately funded endeavour, not government or one of the larger corporatised charities. Iirc the swags were sewn by prison inmates, and very well done too. The thought of people in this country sleeping rough for lack of an alternative* is something I find intolerable. At least those swags provided some protection from the elements and vermin.

*Granted there is a minority that choose to do so, which is something else.

areff
areff
April 7, 2022 10:08 am

ZK2A: Here’s the direct link to the pub story:

https://quadrant.org.au/the-pub-that-doesntwant-conservatives/

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 7, 2022 10:09 am

Clearly an unfortunate coincidence.

Zipster
Zipster
April 7, 2022 10:09 am
JC
JC
April 7, 2022 10:11 am

Dover

The Rubble is no longer a traded currency and the exchange controls are now extremely harsh. The rubble has no real value outside of Russia.

The Kremlin can set the Indicative bullshit rate anywhere it wants.

You can have a Dover currency too and set exchange rate at 1:1 with the US Dollar.
Hell, set it at 10:1 if you like. No biggie.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 10:11 am

Yes, the sexes. Apart from anything to do with genitalia – which, after all, is not what one first finds attractive about anyone else – there is also such a thing as a female brain. Quite distinct. And a male brain, too, I think. Marvellous

There is also the chromosomal biology. Women are xx and men are xy. The gender benders use the fact that there are occasional mistakes in mitosis and meiosis, where chromosomal elements attach where they should not during the cellular reproductive process of creating a human zygote, to argue that chromosomes are irrelevant. Similarly they argue that people who are biologically intersex in genitalia indicate that more than two ‘sexes’ exist. Biological mistakes in copying chromosomes and in embryological development do not constitute a whole other world. They are simply rare mistakes.

Human men and women are the two forms of a species with sexual reproduction, as seen in most of the animal kingdom, producing two sexes with different urges and behaviours. That’s us. Men and women. Those differences may be smoothed away or overlooked in much of today’s ‘equality’ drive, but they are still present, still real, still affect human behaviour and will always mould human cultural forms. Those who claim otherwise are nuts. Good article on this in Quadrant Online, which I linked to before.

JC
JC
April 7, 2022 10:12 am

And there are no “counter moves” in place.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 7, 2022 10:13 am

Putin cancer scare keeps coming up.

Bathing in deer antler blood sounds a bit too Sunday Sport to me.

areff
areff
April 7, 2022 10:15 am

Ah, Calli, memories of Mr Brophy in sixth grade using that snatch from the Highwayman to teach the difference between similes and metaphors. After that, we had to memorise the poem. Do kids still memorise rollicking verse? Probably not, not without the incentive to avoid the cuts, which might explain a few things about both command of english and behaviour.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 7, 2022 10:15 am

When you get into the guts of the ABC story on refugees living in hotel rooms – about FORTY families have been living in hotel rooms for more then six weeks….words fail me, they honestly do..

Some refugee families have been living in Perth hotels for more than six weeks as they struggle to find a home in an extremely competitive rental market, support workers say.

The ABC understands about 40 families, mostly from Afghanistan, are living in hotel rooms in the city.

A shortage of housing, inflated rental prices, prejudice among landlords and a lack of rental history are among the disadvantages faced by refugees seeking a place to call home, according to support workers.

“There’s an incredible amount of mental distress when people don’t have safe, secure housing for themselves and for their families,” Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees acting general manager Esther Deng said.

C.L.
C.L.
April 7, 2022 10:16 am
Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 10:16 am

ZK2A: Here’s the direct link to the pub story

If the brewery manager with a “background in science” and 11 years experience teaching maths and science is so confident of the scientific correctness of his views perhaps he could debate Prof. Plimer on site?

It would be sure to draw a thirsty crowd.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 10:17 am

Just another Saturday night in Manchester.
Ahh…the great northwest

Actually could be anywhere in the UK. Possibly not Surrey.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 10:18 am

Possibly not Surrey.

No. No fringe on top.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Linked above is Andrew Widberg at American Thinker lays out a pathway back to the Presidency for Obama:

2. Have the Democrats declare that, because world instability (Ukraine, Putin, China) puts us at unprecedented risk, only a politically seasoned person can be vice president, with Obama graciously accepting that role.

Andrea Widberg should apprise herself of the Twelfth amendment to the US constitution, which states:

….no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States

C.L.
C.L.
April 7, 2022 10:21 am

James Jennings in The Australian has written a review of the new Mercedes Benz C-Class. new It has a ‘giant touch screen,’ he says. Apparently, the young want a giant screen to help them drive.

The 2022 C-Class.

I’ll take a 1972 SE any day.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 10:21 am

Thanks, C.L.

a confirmed non genius

That’s a keeper.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 10:22 am

Gez at 7:32

Must say I’m with Kennett on ripped jeans for both male and female.
In the old days, blokes who worked hard tore the knees out of jeans and they would be patched by the women to get more use before they fell apart.

Haycarting.
A pair of jeans might last a week before needing patches sewn from mid thigh to below the knee.
It was a big overhead when you were pulling 2 cents a bale.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 10:23 am

Rogersays:
April 7, 2022 at 10:05 am

Know a bloke who was involved in doing the same thing.

Leaders are always the unsung hearos.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 10:26 am

“Sancho commenting on heavy vehicle driving is like a Bedowin talking about deep sea fishing.”

Just a minor niggle, you should probably ignore it…

Perhaps you should leave the medical advice and foresight to those qualified and experienced in same as well.
Ditto ethics.

But it might be good for a laugh, as you say…

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 10:27 am

“There’s an incredible amount of mental distress when people don’t have safe, secure housing for themselves and for their families,” Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees acting general manager Esther Deng said.

No doubt. Just do a search on “mum living in car” or similar.

Call me parochial, but why are we bringing in refugees by the thousands in the midst of a rental affordability crisis? Migrants at least bring some capital to get into the private market, but refugees are competing for a scarce resource with our poorest and most vulnerable. And now we’re to get 5000+ Ukrainians who could have been easily been accommodated in Europe because it makes the PM look good.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 7, 2022 10:28 am

The mysterious case of the missing UN human rights report on Xinjiang:
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/mysterious-missing-un-report-human-rights-abuses-xinjiang

Hardly a surprise.

Even Pope Francis has denounced the UN as useless.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 10:31 am

“…can they not just replace Biden with Barrack…”

Barred by an amendment to the constitution – he’s had two terms already, can’t be Prez again without changing said amendment, which requires much, much work and seems unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all.

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 10:32 am

Know a bloke who was involved in doing the same thing.

Leaders are always the unsung hearos.

I didn’t mean to blow my own horn bespoke but when you come into contact with people in this situation you come to realise that homelessness is a largely hidden blight on our society.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 7, 2022 10:32 am

about FORTY families have been living in hotel rooms for more then six weeks….words fail me, they honestly do..

Are the Biloela family still in Mordy’s Christmas Island holiday camp? Maybe they’d like some company.

C.L.
C.L.
April 7, 2022 10:32 am

Queensland deliberately asked Canberra for a half a billion dollars in the lead-up to the election – ostensibly to buy out flood-prone homes or some such idiocy – and Morrison refused. After all, the Budget is done and delivered.

That was Monday.

Today, he has agreed to pay.

Motto for the Liberal Party: Pay The Ransom.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 10:34 am

Apparently the amendment only forbids him to run. Nothing about being parachuted, Kneel.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 10:36 am

I didn’t mean to blow my own horn bespoke

Didn’t take it that way Roger. Not at all.

areff
areff
April 7, 2022 10:37 am

I’ll take a 1972 SE any day.

Very nice, but the 420E 4.3 litre V8 is the shot if you like old Mercs. And the 350E straight six from 1992 is another worthwhile model.

(as it happens, I have the latter in my shed, which any Cat keen on a bit of tinkering is welcome to take off my hands for the very modest price of $2k. Sunroof, leather, under 200,000kms. Only problem is that it takes three or four turns of the ignition key to get going when cold. Serious offer)

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 10:40 am

I was involved in that for a couple of years but it was a privately funded endeavour, not government or one of the larger corporatised charities. Iirc the swags were sewn by prison inmates, and very well done too. The thought of people in this country sleeping rough for lack of an alternative* is something I find intolerable. At least those swags provided some protection from the elements and vermin.

That’s what I thought too. We had a couple of almost unused camping swags which I later donated to a group who had provided food and a place to meet, but no accommodation, for my son when he was living on the streets, of his own choice because he was mentally ill and beyond our reach at that time. Good on you for supporting a proper scheme to offer at least this level of private help.

I found too, although this organisation accepted the swags I had, that sometimes the ‘helpers’ wouldn’t take anything but things they considered ‘ideal’. They didn’t really approve of swags, seeing them as too temporary and readily stolen. At one stage in this awful saga, my son was offered a one room high-rise housing commission flat but his ‘helper’ in this organisation said no, he’s better off on the streets than in what she called ‘suicide towers’. I disagreed. There were rats where he was sleeping rough which he continued to do for many more months.
It broke my heart.

Mission Australia were very good though with their ‘half-way’ accommodation apartments, offering accommodation and other services, including psychiatric care. The one my son was in was developed as an initiative of John Howard with much corporate sponsorship. We were finally able to reach out to him there. Yet the left are often scornful of such private charitable initiatives.

Big Govt must do it all, with their usual success rate/sarc off.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 10:41 am

How much does it weigh areff?

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
April 7, 2022 10:42 am

A woman can be defined as people with the ability to not say something, and then convince you later that they did in fact say something just that you did not recall them saying it. Even though we know they never said that to you. But ok if you insist you said it to me then Ok. …but we know what really happened.

shatterzzz
April 7, 2022 10:42 am

Are the Biloela family still in Mordy’s Christmas Island holiday camp? Maybe they’d like some company.

Naaah! .. they’ve been lodged in Perth for several months now .. just waiting on AnAl acquiring the Lodge before they’ll get the Biloela go ahead .. either way they know whoever wins the election they’re guaranteed “true blue” status both BRADBURY and Dud-one’s pathetic attempts at legal fiasco have guaranteed them the Oz dream ………

Lysander
Lysander
April 7, 2022 10:44 am

I thought, under the 22nd (?) Amendment that someone can be Prez for a max of ten years? So how does that reconcile against two terms (8 years)?

Parachutes?

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 10:47 am

Parachutes?

Getting the job without getting elected.

Lysander
Lysander
April 7, 2022 10:48 am

Getting the job without getting elected.

Do “a Ford?”

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 10:49 am

homelessness is a largely hidden blight on our society.

Yes. This area has a disproportionate share, many in cars moving from place to place. Beach facilities provide showers and loos at least, and they are cleaned regularly. The neighbourhood centre is constantly after suitable food to hand out, and heartbreakingly, nappies for homeless little ones.

Cassie of Sydney
April 7, 2022 10:50 am

How can you “believe all women” if you don’t know what a woman is?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The final sentence of the 12th amendment to the US constitution makes it clear.

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

shatterzzz
April 7, 2022 10:50 am

“There’s an incredible amount of mental distress when people don’t have safe, secure housing for themselves and for their families,” Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees acting general manager Esther Deng said.

Strange how Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees suffer mental distress over their housing situation and need help (and if it comes free all the better .. LOL!) but for born & bred homeless Oz folk it isn’t a real concern ………!

areff
areff
April 7, 2022 10:51 am

No idea, Bespoke. The 350 isn’t fast off the mark, but if you want to pass a truck on a single-lane highway, bang! and its in the rearview mirror.

This particular 350 has an interesting history, sold new to the Embassy of Bhutan as the ambassador’s vehicle, then passed to a Toorak lady interior designer, who gave it the infamous ‘green piss plates’ it now bears — so called because the old lags who made the plates in those days used to have a squirt in the paint hopper, which didn’t encourage the paint to stick. After that it belonged to a Williamstown lawyer’s wife, who went blind and left it sitting on blocks for eight years until, eventually, her son sold it to me so he could park his jet ski in its place.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 10:52 am

Noice, Cassie.

And all those Strong Women. Apparently some are stronger than others. Much stronger. 😀

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 7, 2022 10:53 am

More -bashing from the Stalinist left of the ALP and the ABC today:
This https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/wa-government-referred-women-to-esther-foundation-/100971818

and a conspiracy theory about Hillsong. Nothing to do with trying to bring g down Morrison, if course.

And how’s this for a tendentious headline on the UK’s new no-fault divorce laws: ‘People trapped in loveless marriages can now walk free’? Their hyperbias has reached the stage where they don’t even pretend to be objective.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 10:53 am

Just a note. We offered this son private accommodation of several sorts, some which we owned, and some assisted rentals (where previously when he was working he had always simply run through the bond, neglecting to pay any rent), but he always refused our help, living in his own nightmare world at that time. Only later did he come home for a while, start to hug me, and get stable accommodation.

miltonf
miltonf
April 7, 2022 10:55 am

Call me parochial, but why are we bringing in refugees by the thousands in the midst of a rental affordability crisis?

Because the canbra pubes hate skips (but still want their money).

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 10:59 am

Strange how Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees suffer mental distress over their housing situation and need help (and if it comes free all the better .. LOL!) but for born & bred homeless Oz folk it isn’t a real concern ………!

Driven by “feelings” while being shielded from the consequences, shatterzzz.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 10:59 am

Afghanistan was the current thing.
Now it is not the current thing.

Marc Andreessen
@pmarca

A billionaire having fun on twitter.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 11:00 am

On The Current Thing

Remember the Mean Girls?

The press doesn’t.

miltonf
miltonf
April 7, 2022 11:02 am

As I’ve said before, very few elected politicians will take on the canbra cockroaches. Remember when Dr Parkinson said Tony Abbott was ‘damaging’ the pubic service. Says it all. Never forget the secret Parkinson-Trumble-Palmer dinner either.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 11:03 am

This is why Afghanistan was such a great country to wash the grift through for 20 years.
A population that was so on board with it.
The country was “over there” & hard to get to, so it made it hard to report on.

miltonf
miltonf
April 7, 2022 11:06 am

Poms in London still trying to ingratiate themselves to the illegitimate junta in DC I see. Greeks to the American Romans.

Pathetic.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 11:06 am

“Apparently, the seat on the board comes with conditions .. hands off the rest of the stock for 2 years ..!”

Owning 9% of the stock gives you tremendous leverage on the board members, because most of what they “earn” are options on stock and bonuses based on stock price (capital gains tax is much lower than personal income tax). What would happen to Twitter stock price if Elon sold and made that public? It would lose everything it gained when he announced he had bought in, and probably more.

How do you think Blackrock and other institutional investment funds make companies like Disney do what they want? The exact same way! That’s why Disney is so stupidly woke – the employees have nothing to do with it.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
April 7, 2022 11:06 am

All right, areff, you’ve pricked my ears. My son wants wheels and has been looking at classifieds ranging from VKs to RX-8s to Charades. Not sure about old-school kraut, but it could be in the mix. Colour?

Lysander
Lysander
April 7, 2022 11:08 am

Latest swings and roundabouts for Fed Election:

-NSW – 7% swing to Liebor,
-Vic – 7.5% swing to Liebor,
-QLD – 9% swing to Liebor,
– WA – 14% swing to Liebor,
– SA – 5.5% swing to Liebor,
– TAS not included.

Note: A uniform swing of 7% will see Liebor win 96 seats (and an additional four “independents”).

We’re fucked.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 11:12 am

– TAS not included

Lol!

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 11:13 am

Apparently, the seat on the board comes with conditions .. hands off the rest of the stock for 2 years

How is this posible?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 11:15 am

Glad we are going to be out of the country for this election. We had a party in 2019 where Cats attended and all was gloom until suddenly it wasn’t. That was a great boost for all. Then of course Abbott did nothing for the next six months and then appointed Natasha the Despoiler to a top job.
This time it may be impossible for the Libs to create a miracle.
And we’re wiser now to the way they just stuff things up even when they do get it.
No Trump on the horizon for us, so yes, it will be good to be on the outside looking in.
Less painful somehow.

will
will
April 7, 2022 11:17 am

Poor Murphy. Does he know his wife is a woman…or is she something else? Has he ever had a good look, or does he close his eyes and hope?

Sometimes you cannot tell

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
April 7, 2022 11:19 am

Also, do the 350E’s fluids stay where they’re meant to?

Struth
April 7, 2022 11:19 am

Glad we could stay here and fight for you, Lizzie.

Frank
Frank
April 7, 2022 11:22 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
April 7, 2022 at 8:07 am
…the pompous, Guardian reading fart, who a few weeks ago over a work lunch tried to bring Tony Abbott into a conversation that had nothing to do with Tony Abbott,

George Orwell has some good lines about cranks collected here.

“Socialism,” George Orwell famously wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier (1936), draws towards it ”with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” His tirade against such “cranks” is memorably extended in other passages of the book to include “vegetarians with wilting beards,” the “outer-suburban creeping Jesus” eager to begin his yoga exercises, and ”that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”

The point being, perhaps to drop his name into things apropos of nothing in particular and then point out of few of his quotes while suggesting that he was referencing the Guardian (small lies don’t matter after all). The obvious conclusion being that the Guardian has been a punchline since Orwell’s times at least.

Probably better to bite your tongue though.

Struth
April 7, 2022 11:23 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 11:28 am

Kneelsays:

April 7, 2022 at 10:26 am

“Sancho commenting on heavy vehicle driving is like a Bedowin talking about deep sea fishing.”

……

Perhaps you should leave the medical advice and foresight to those qualified and experienced in same as well.

Bam!

C.L.
C.L.
April 7, 2022 11:31 am

The Mayor of Mariupol puts the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000 as of Wednesday, reports the ABC.

The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner says 1,563 Ukrainians have been killed in the entire war so far.

areff
areff
April 7, 2022 11:34 am

NKD, it’s silver, blue interior.

If Dover would be so kind as to pass along my contact details, I can send you pics and other details and the Cat can stop being confused with the Trading Post.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 11:38 am

… every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist …

Sounds like a Greens or Friends of the ABC meeting.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 11:40 am

areff – got any jousting sticks?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 11:40 am

Glad we could stay here and fight for you, Lizzie.

No need for the snark, Struth, just because I took the vaxx.
I’ve never supported anything mandatory re that.
You and I were on the same side re the carbon tax in the days of the Convoy.
Now I just can’t bear to think of the future of my country with the climate loons in charge.
I will be coming home as my children and grandchildren have their future here.
A future that is not looking rosy. Why indite me for my despair at that?
Your aggro calling for unrealisable action hasn’t helped anything over the past few years.
All it has done is divide people who should still work together.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
April 7, 2022 11:40 am

Thanks, areff. My handle here can be converted to an e-mail address if you wish to go direct.

shatterzzz
April 7, 2022 11:43 am

Apparently, the seat on the board comes with conditions .. hands off the rest of the stock for 2 years
How is this posible?

I have no idea how these big business thingys work .. just something I read on a twitter account yesterday .. can’t remember who it was so can’t provide any link ……
I assume the current board met and took a vote on conditions to offer a seat ……

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 11:46 am

I thought, under the 22nd (?) Amendment that someone can be Prez for a max of ten years? So how does that reconcile against two terms (8 years)?

Parachutes?

I think the intent was that a VP taking over post mid-term could be elected for two more terms in their own right.

C.L.
C.L.
April 7, 2022 11:47 am

Thanks, areff.
I’m kind of wedded to the 68 to 72 models.

After that era, Merc aesthetics went haywire.

God knows what sort of ‘issues’ would come with them but I have actually checked out a few good – old lady who drove it to Mass on Sunday – examples recently.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
April 7, 2022 11:49 am

Lysander says:
April 7, 2022 at 11:08 am

We’re fucked.

Lysander Johnson is right!

C.L.
C.L.
April 7, 2022 11:51 am

Former arms inspector Scott Ritter posted to Twitter that it was Ukrainian police who committed the murders in Bucha and then set up the aftermath to blame the Russians.

Naturally, he has now been banned by Twitter.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 11:51 am

“I assume the current board met and took a vote on conditions to offer a seat ……”

SEC filings were that Musk had purchased… oh, I forget the exact term, but essentially was not interested in a controlling interest as it were. Not non-voting stock, but something like that. But yeah, I think they offered him the spot so he would be somewhat more circumspect in what he says – he’d be bound by law and employment conditions on what he could say and when. Obviously a double-edged sword, but still from the existing boards PoV, probably better to have some control over him – he’s clearly not backwards when it comes to coming forward.

Struth
April 7, 2022 11:53 am

Yes we should work together, Lizzie.
Why aren’t we?
Maybe you could ponder that while you do a Notafan and flash your good Nazi pass and go on Holidays.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 11:53 am

H B Bearsays:

April 7, 2022 at 11:40 am

areff – got any jousting sticks?

Yep.
$400 the pair.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 11:54 am

Struthsays:

April 7, 2022 at 11:53 am

Yes we should work together, Lizzie.
Why aren’t we?
Maybe you could ponder that while you do a Notafan and flash your good Nazi pass and go on Holidays.

Why aren’t we?
The question which answers itself in the very next paragraph.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 11:54 am

“Yep.
$400 the pair.”

You’re dreamin’

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 11:58 am

SEC filings were that Musk had purchased… oh, I forget the exact term, but essentially was not interested in a controlling interest as it were. Not non-voting stock, but something like that.

It is somewhat different to Corporations Law here.
JC might be able to fill us in there.

But yeah, I think they offered him the spot so he would be somewhat more circumspect in what he says – he’d be bound by law and employment conditions on what he could say and when. 

Didn’t stop him saying stuff about Tesla and his shareholdings in it that would have caused the fainting couches to be rolled out at ASIC.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 11:59 am

Kneelsays:

April 7, 2022 at 11:54 am

“Yep.
$400 the pair.”

You’re dreamin’

Nooooo!
It’s …

Tell him he’s dreamin’

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:00 pm

Perhaps you should leave the medical advice and foresight to those qualified and experienced in same as well.

Bam!

There’s no bam here, you embittered failure in life….(a public servant!)
God, that explains so much…..anyhow.
Kneel is trying to twist things again.
You guys taught him well.
But, this is why it’s easy for me, I’ve got the truth on my side.

And the truth is pointing out that submitting to tyranny because the jab came with a passport, has nothing to do with giving medical advice.

Although when it comes to medical advice, you dumb bastards that have injected yourselves with something that has aready killed thousands and has only just got started, might want to look at those you feel are qualified to give you advice……………………………………..

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 7, 2022 12:02 pm

CW McCall obituary
Advertising executive turned country singer who had an unexpected Seventies chart hit with the trucking anthem Convoy
Thursday April 07 2022, 12.01am BST, The Times
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“Breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck, you gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon?” has to be one of the strangest opening lines to a pop song ever written.

The lyrics went on to describe “smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper” and a “bear in the air” in language that was incomprehensible to anyone unfamiliar with the citizens’ band (CB) radio slang used by long-distance truckers to communicate with each other as they drove America’s interstate highways in their 18-wheelers. Yet that did not prevent the song from selling more than 20 million copies and topping charts around the world, or Sam Peckinpah from turning it into a film starring Kris Kristofferson as Rubber Duck.

The song and the film were titled Convoy, and the idea for it came to the singer, CW McCall, one day in his Jeep when he tuned in by accident to the truckers’ short-range radio chatter.

“They were forming convoys and they were talking to each other on CB radios. They had a wonderful jargon. It sounded like a war going on out there,” he recalled. At the time he was in his fifties and had no background as a performer. His name was not even McCall and he was working as an advertising executive.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:03 pm

“Nooooo!
It’s …

Tell him he’s dreamin’”

I know.
Which is what I did.

Roger
Roger
April 7, 2022 12:04 pm

Lastly, given the number of troops UKR had in the south this was never going to be minor .

The south, like Kiev, was not anticipated, although it should have been given Putin’s track record and his propensity to take risks.

By “minor incursion” was clearly meant a “readjustment” of the border in the east to accomodate Russian speakers in the separatist republics recently recognised by Putin, which would be tolerated by Western powers, albeit with the usual sanctions.

Be that as it may, unless Western powers really do want to walk into a war with Russia, they need to offer Putin an out, convince Zelensky of that and also somehow neutralise the neo-Nazi influence in Ukrainian politics, which is the biggest obstacle to a peace settlement. Raising the tone of the rhetoric, including talk of a war crimes prosecution before investigations have even been completed, is distinctly unhelpful at this stage.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 12:06 pm

Thanks to all participating

Struth, the CCP were onto digital surveillance long before the pandemic with their social credit systems and also the digital world was intruding into the West with the constant public CCT camera presence and movements away from cash. Blockchain, btw, is in its infancy and has a long way to go before it is a world fiat currency, and it has other aspects to its use, if you’ve ever read any of Sinc’s work on it. I did try to struggle through a couple of his lectures. The Soros, Agenda 21 and and One World Government stuff has also been around for a while.

Yes, these are all aspects of the world political scene that digitisation has unleashed. You, by chosing only the vaxx and its use of digital recognitions, have been thumping just one tub, and probably the one least likely to convince people, because they were terrified (some of them justifiably) about a disease. Don’t try to play the solitary hero who has had his finger in the political dyke holding back the flood of disaster until everyone else joins you. Instead, you could reflect more upon the nuisance you have caused here with accusations about good people who simply don’t agree with you on your one fixated issue, which is only part of a much wider problem, and not one to be best tackled your way.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 7, 2022 12:06 pm

Still scrollin’.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 12:08 pm

C.W. McCall brown bread?
Deepest condolences St Ruth.

Digger
Digger
April 7, 2022 12:08 pm

Note: A uniform swing of 7% will see Liebor win 96 seats (and an additional four “independents”).

We’re fucked.

Not sure this is the right forum for such negative statements because many of the prolific commentators on this site are wishing for and actually promoting actions to ensure your prediction occurs…

For some unknown reason they seem to think by destroying the Liberals they are not empowering the ALP… Possibly caused by something in the water.

Morrison has been an excellent PM for the times…

I expect those very same commentators will be ruing their decisions within 12 months.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:09 pm

“And the truth is pointing out that submitting to tyranny because the jab came with a passport, has nothing to do with giving medical advice.”

Err… you did say it was gonna kill us all, didn’t you? Or at least a large proportion of us. In 2-4 years, IIRC. Which sounds like a medical prediction to me (and I did include “prediction” in that too, you’ll note).

Just trying to hold you to your own, self admitted, high standards. It wouldn’t do to expose yourself to charges of hypocrisy, would it?

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:11 pm

When will the dumb bastards of this country realise the war in Ukraine is a continuation of the war that has been raging for two years here already?
The enemy is you.
The enemy they are fighting(And massively winning against) are the people of the west, so thick, soft and dumbed down, they’re cheering on different sides of a war between a socialist tyrant and the socialist tyrants that want to see your green tick before you can do anything.
The ones that are about to starve you.
Denialism means you’ll scoff.
Why not?
You’ve been wrong about everything else for the last two years.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 12:13 pm

shatterzzzsays:
April 7, 2022 at 11:43 am

Neither do I, Just seems odd there they can set terms. Perhaps one of the nerds can elaborate.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 12:18 pm

Seems there are a few miserable sods here who really resent someone taking a holiday.

Tough titty. Put up with it.

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:20 pm

Yes, these are all aspects of the world political scene that digitisation has unleashed. You, by chosing only the vaxx and its use of digital recognitions, have been thumping just one tub, and probably the one least likely to convince people, because they were terrified (some of them justifiably) about a disease. Don’t try to play the solitary hero who has had his finger in the political dyke holding back the flood of disaster until everyone else joins you. Instead, you could reflect more upon the nuisance you have caused here with accusations about good people who simply don’t agree with you on your one fixated issue, which is only part of a much wider problem, and not one to be best tackled your way.

No Lizzie, wrong wrong wrong.

There’s no way I’m a solitary hero, there’s millions of us.
They just aren’t here on this blog.
A blog of so called right wingers.
What a joke.
There are millions on twitter far more up to speed than at this blog.

You can call arseholes good people Lizzie, I’ll call them as I find them.
What proposterous tosh you come out with to justify the unjustifiable.

But we’re only the little people here Lizzie. You being special and deserving of a Holiday, should take it, after all, Ma’am, we wots don’t ‘ave your bloodline Ma’am are born to fight for you and proud orv it we are too, Ma’am.
Fighting tyranny is very inconvenient.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 7, 2022 12:21 pm

Digger, Moronson has been an excellent PM for the times. He has caused the times by being useless, aided by the useless. Do you want more shit with your shit sandwich. Australians need a real good dose of the liars, special extra shit with your sandwich and a side of shit. Other commenters please forgive my overuse of adjectives to describe how shit government in Australia really is, most of you already know. Execution followed by trial is the only way. Oh shit I’m starting to sound like Ken Worth only not as shit.

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:22 pm

Seems there are a few miserable sods here who really resent someone taking a holiday.

Tough titty. Put up with it.

That’s more like it.
You’re only taking a Holiday that only good Nazis can take.
How dare the New Jews make comment.
Banish them, o keeper of the blog.
They’re very unpleasant types.

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

I expect those very same commentators will be ruing their decisions within 12 months.

I’m seeing Albanese as Prime Minister as a re – run of the Whitlam years.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 7, 2022 12:24 pm

A long-standing feud between missing man Paddy Moriarty and his neighbour was likely the cause of his disappearance, the Northern Territory coroner concluded at an inquest today.

Mr Moriarty, 70, and his dog Kellie went missing from the tiny town of Larrimah, 500km south of Darwin, on December 16, 2017. Despite an extensive search, his body has not been found.

Coroner Greg Cavanagh confirmed police suspicions that Mr Moriarty was dead and had likely been the victim of foul play.

NT Independent

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:24 pm

“You’ve been wrong about everything else for the last two years.”

Not sure about the “everything” part, but more than happy to admit I was wrong to think and suggest that your self professed abhorrence of authoritarianism would make you a natural ally in the fight against it. Yep, I was definitely wrong about that.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 12:25 pm

Yes, Zulu.

With extra Special Sauce.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 12:25 pm

“Yep.
$400 the pair.”

Will you sell separately?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 7, 2022 12:26 pm

I’m seeing Albanese as Prime Minister as a re – run of the Whitlam years.

If only we’d be that lucky.
He’ll go full druid, betcha.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 12:26 pm

I’m starting to sound like Ken Worth only not as shit.

I want this printed on a t-shirt.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 12:27 pm

C.W. McCall brown bread?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:27 pm

Hey Kneel, I’m just listening to experts that have everything to lose by speaking up.
This very great expert has predicted all that is happening as soon as the vaccines came out.

You continue to listen to Kerry Chant or Jeanette Young, who’s husband gets paid to push that shit you absolutely moronically let them inject you with.Here.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:29 pm

“I want this printed on a t-shirt.”

Easy enough done.

My fave is the ad I’ve seen for one: “My wife says I only have two faults: I don’t listen… and something else”

shatterzzz
April 7, 2022 12:29 pm

Morrison has been an excellent PM for the times…

Reminds me of this one .. comment & reply .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/Ybxdr4n

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 7, 2022 12:30 pm

My wife says I only have two faults:

Everything I say and everything I do.

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:30 pm

Not sure about the “everything” part, but more than happy to admit I was wrong to think and suggest that your self professed abhorrence of authoritarianism would make you a natural ally in the fight against it. Yep, I was definitely wrong about that.

Gobbledeegook from someone who thinks surrendering to tyranny is fighting against it.
I don’t need allies like that.
You’ll only become an ally when it’s too late.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:33 pm

” My wife says I only have two faults:

Everything I say and everything I do.”

Well, sure. But the other one tickles me more.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 12:33 pm

Kneel

“Shhh no one cares” for Bunnings and one for going to the flying club “I always go down on my maiden”

Are two of many.

shatterzzz
April 7, 2022 12:34 pm

Vale .. CW .. only 93 on the clock but ran out of petrol …..
https://youtu.be/lqYTX7parRw

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 7, 2022 12:34 pm

Seems there are a few miserable sods here who really resent someone taking a holiday.
Tough titty. Put up with it.

Not me. I’m worried about who will supervise the bathroom renovations.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 12:34 pm

But we’re only the little people here Lizzie. You being special and deserving of a Holiday, should take it, after all, Ma’am, we wots don’t ‘ave your bloodline Ma’am are born to fight for you and proud orv it we are too, Ma’am.

Same old stupid anti-wealth tropes, Struth. I am only 5.4 and quite a little person. I have Iceni (East Anglia Boudicca), Scottish, Irish, Welsh (Celtic), Saxon, French and Norse bloodlines. Proud of ’em all.

Fighting doing it your way does no bloody good at all. It merely gets people’s backs up. Forming useful political coalitions and getting out the message about digital over-reach and loss of democratic freedoms (not tainting it with anti-vaxx craziness such as your ‘we’re all gonna die’, as distinct from anti-vaxxer rights to choose) would be better ways. Going to demonstrations against mandatory vaxxes and insane lockdowns has been one very useful thing that many others have done; that has created worldwide attention to political digital surveillance and political over-reach in Australia. Even a Convoy at the right time and place makes a pretty good point, as with the Canadian truckies.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:35 pm

“You’ll only become an ally when it’s too late.”

Looking on the bright side, if you’re right, I’ll never have to admit it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 12:39 pm

Psaki is looking particularly haggard today.
Only 16 months on the job with a compliant media.

Sarah Sanders did the job with the most brutal press attacks for 2 years.

Winston Smith
April 7, 2022 12:40 pm

Bruce of Newcastle:

Methinks TWTR will suddenly find an atrophied sense of humour inside one of their dusty cupboards.
After all he is the richest man on Earth, they wouldn’t want him to buy another 40.9%.

Imagine the dust up in the board room.
The planet would cool even more than it did after the Vesuvius eruption.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:42 pm

“Are two of many.”

Oh yes, they exist aplenty I must agree. Many are very, very good. Just thought I’d share one I like.
Please don’t stop posting about them if you have a good one.

areff
areff
April 7, 2022 12:44 pm

…they seem to think by destroying the Liberals they are not empowering the ALP…

Digger, the Liberals destroyed themselves.

Winston Smith
April 7, 2022 12:44 pm

Calli:

Of course, we pupils from the 70’s could always rely on certain well thumbed pages of the Big Blue Messell science textbook for our sex edumacation.

You are soooo lucky.
We only had Playboy.

bespoke
bespoke
April 7, 2022 12:44 pm

Winston.
My boots are ready. Wipe the drool this time.

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:44 pm

Fighting doing it your way does no bloody good at all.

Not with the likes of you as my fellow countrymen.

Going to demonstrations against mandatory vaxxes and insane lockdowns has been one very useful thing that many others have done;

They haven’t been useful at all, because too many took the vax and are participating in a segregated society of good nazis and the new Jews.
Virtue signalling can be done on the right side of politics as well.
However, get your jab, have your boosters….as long as I’ve posted a few things that show just how utterly fucked in the head you’d have to be to take them, my conscience is clear.
But excuse me if I DARE criticise the participation in a segregated society and surrender to tyranny, especially to just go on holidays.
It’s not just me at all.
There are millions of Australians like me.
Millions.

It’s disgusting.
Your behaviour is disgusting.
You want tot stick your finger up at millions of Australians, Nurses doctors, good cops, the lot, go on holidays using your Nazi pass, and then get all put out because someone points it out to you.

Disgusting.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 12:46 pm

If you scroll to the bottom of this page you can sort by how long the press secretaries lasted.

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

I remember Tony Snow’s tenure.
Left Fox, became press secretary, diagnosed with cancer, brown bread.
Yowser.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 7, 2022 12:46 pm

Err… you did say it was gonna kill us all, didn’t you? Or at least a large proportion of us. In 2-4 years, IIRC. Which sounds like a medical prediction to me (and I did include “prediction” in that too, you’ll note).

Allow me to correct you.
It was a definitive “all the jabbed will die”, not a “large proportion”.
And the timeline was “within 18 months to four years”, from October 2021.
Which means Tobin Brothers are going to be working three shifts from April 2023 to October 2025.

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:47 pm

Looking on the bright side, if you’re right, I’ll never have to admit it.

You do have children?
You know there’s other people out there bar yourself?

Digger
Digger
April 7, 2022 12:47 pm

Ranga… Digger, Moronson has been an excellent PM for the times.

I am in the fortunate position to sit back and see the results as they unfold and knowing that I haven’t bailed on the country for unjustified personal reasons.

What ever he has dished up will be quantum’s better than the alternative. Talking rubbish will not change that. You will regret your actions at this election and any number of profanities won’t change that either.

No matter what you think, Morrison got us through the pandemic in the best position of any comparable country…. Bar none. His defence actions have been the best of any Prime Minister in Australia’s history… Bar none. Ably helped by arguably the best Defence Minister in our history.

Struth
April 7, 2022 12:49 pm

Allow me to correct you.
It was a definitive “all the jabbed will die”, not a “large proportion”.
And the timeline was “within 18 months to four years”, from October 2021.
Which means Tobin Brothers are going to be working three shifts from April 2023 to October 2025.

I won’t allow a self confessed liar to correct anything by anyone.
Back in your box, tax eater.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 12:49 pm

And the timeline was “within 18 months to four years”, from October 2021.

Maybe that’s why he didn’t front up to the Canberra protests.
He was too concerned about punters karking it behind the wheel on his drive.
Far safer to stay seated on the couch.
For the ANZAC’s of course.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
April 7, 2022 12:52 pm

Liberals versus Labor – Baddies versus Baddies. (With a nod to T.A.)

Lysander
Lysander
April 7, 2022 12:53 pm

Not sure this is the right forum for such negative statements because many of the prolific commentators on this site are wishing for and actually promoting actions to ensure your prediction occurs…

…with numbers like that, we’re looking to at least 2 terms of Fed Labor as government…Spendathon for the next six years, wokeism, unionism, nationalisation of industries etc…the only good thing about Albo smashing Scomo is the Greens won’t have any balance of power (but Labor Left faction are just as bad anyway..)

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 12:53 pm

Seems there are a few miserable sods here who really resent someone taking a holiday.
Tough titty. Put up with it.

Not me. I’m worried about who will supervise the bathroom renovations.

I am more worried about how they will fare with my eldest son living there to mind the cat, as household neglect is his forte. I’m also more worried about the cat, as Attapuss is not fond of males in the house after the repeated influx in the past two years of noisy renovating tradies. Indeed, he barely tolerates the male who lives with me. You should hear the fuss Fatso creates when My Dear One and I have a tender en passant hug-and-kiss together while cooking our dinner. What about meeee, he screetches. Meeeeeow. Jealous, much, we say as we laugh at him. I pick him up for a cuddle and he purrs.

You are in for a bad four weeks, I murmur then to a happy cat, but needs must. Eldest son needs a break and where better, he suggests, than with all the comforts of home.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 7, 2022 12:54 pm

Could we get him to come over here for a few weeks as a state or territory premier?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will be be bussing thousands of illegal migrants who cross the border straight to Washington DC and leaving them on the steps of the US Capitol for President Biden to deal with.

Announcing the new plan at a press conference Wednesday, the GOP governor said: ‘To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who’ve been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington DC.

‘We are sending them to the US capital where the Biden admin will be more immediately able to address the needs of the people who come across our border.’

Abbott said the plan was to drop migrants off at the steps of the US Capitol building itself, and added: ‘The Biden administration, they’ve been dumping large numbers of migrants, on cities up and down the border, leaving cities to grapple with challenges they don’t have the capability of dealing with.

‘They themselves have been putting these migrants on buses to san Antonio. So I said, “I’ve got a better idea, instead of bussing these people to san Antonio, lets continue the ride all the way to Washington DC.”

Asked how many buses might be deployed for the scheme, chief of Texas’s Division of Emergency Management Nim Kidd said they’d deploy as many as needed – and cited the 900 previously called in to help tackled previous disasters.

Daily Mail

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 12:56 pm

Everything Struth does (including this non-stop abuse of Kneel) is for the ANZACs.
Everything everyone else does that ANZAC Struth doesn’t like, is for the nazi pass.

Kneel
Kneel
April 7, 2022 12:59 pm

“You know there’s other people out there bar yourself?”

Too late, isn’t it?
I’m a collaborator, aren’t I? Or enabler, or whatever.

See, I used to be sensible – according to you.
But now you’ve decided that I’m a filthy traitor to the country (not to mention your good self), I’m not worth allying with do what you say you want done, even though I asked you in all sincerity to do that.
No “enemy of my enemy” stuff from you, clearly.
And you abuse me to boot.

Maybe you should go to the death camp funny farm – if they still exist.

sfw
sfw
April 7, 2022 12:59 pm

Anyone know who ‘Digger’ really is? We haven’t had anyone around since Monty that came up with so much crap, the only difference is the side of politics.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 7, 2022 1:00 pm

the only good thing about Albo smashing Scomo is the Greens won’t have any balance of power (but Labor Left faction are just as bad anyway..)

Labor will institute a quick trot to Net Zero. After six years of it there won’t be much left, and the Libs, as usual will be called in to fix it (with some baseload power this time), just as the Chinese make their move on Taiwan.

Lysander
Lysander
April 7, 2022 1:01 pm

And, as Cats know, you shouldn’t be in the business of making predictions, but I predict (!!!):

Nationalisation of Early Childhood/Daycare: A Labor gubberment can’t but help get kids into school earlier so they can be taught to redetermine their gender, learn to speak Whadjuk and get anxiety about climate crap. The Left have learned that “education is their friend” since its a leftist stack.

Partial “Nationalisation” of Aged Care: Sure, NFP’s will continue their work but forcing a nurse into every single fucking aged care scenario (and periphery) will drive many NFPs to the wall who already operate on wafer thin budgets. Watch for much greater regulation in this space and then more Federal funding and greater control of NFP space.

-A Carbon Tax (by fiat): It won’t be named a “Carbon Tax” but Albo will albsolutely forced into adopting much higher emissions reductions. It won’t be called a “breathing tax” – it’ll be something like: Carbon Reduction Australia Program…

Rant out (I’m worried I’m beginning to sound like USSR) :O

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 7, 2022 1:02 pm

Lysander, I hope all these things come to pass.

Arky
April 7, 2022 1:05 pm

C.L. says:
April 7, 2022 at 11:31 am
The Mayor of Mariupol puts the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000 as of Wednesday, reports the ABC.

The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner says 1,563 Ukrainians have been killed in the entire war so far

..
From your link:

OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration. This concerns, for example, Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Popasna (Luhansk region), and Borodianka (Kyiv region), where there are allegations of numerous civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.

calli
calli
April 7, 2022 1:05 pm

Indolent says:
April 7, 2022 at 12:55 pm

It’s Australia’s CHO, Paul Kelly, not the Health Minister.

A quick Google would correct it.

I’m not arguing with the post, but it’s very important to be accurate. Otherwise it draws the tag of Fake, and can be easily dispensed with.

I’m struggling to see “health” good/“biosecurity” bad. What is interesting is the invocation of an international treaty to control the vaxxination status outbound citizens, rather than individual states controlling the inbound.

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