I knew it wasn’t Texas, just by the word ‘arrested’.
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From my perspective, Communism is demonic. That doesn’t excuse its practitioners from moral culpability, but it does explain where their…
Communists can be pragmatists because the end always justifies the means..They could never have seized power if they were not…
There are some Israeli accounts on X saying Israel and Hamas were close to an agreed ceasefire but Hamas’ demand…
Motive isn’t everything.. When dealing with psychopaths and psychopathic regimes, motive is everything, unless you have some way to deny…
Death duties, Lysander.
Can’t have the thrifty passing on their hard earned.
Except the seriously wealthy who can make other arrangements.
Yes… whatever happened to:
-Numbers,
-Monty,
-Bird,
-Other non-notable mentions?
I guess they must’ve all gone off to be foreign fighters for Russia, right? (Given left leanings, spitting hate of capitalism and the US)…
Of course! How did I miss death duties!!! Thanks Calli!!!
“And, as Cats know, you shouldn’t be in the business of making predictions, but I predict (!!!)”
All, umm, predictable.
Same old same old.
All done to same playbook.
“Here is this problem – more government will fix it and it won’t cost you a cent!”
“yay for gov, yay for free stuff – here’s a vote, go do it”
“it is done, you are saved”
“yay”
…
“Oh look – our glorious fix didn’t quite work out how we intended. Never mind, we can fix it. More government and it won’t cost you a cent”
“yay for gov, yay for free stuff – here’s a vote, go do it”
…
Rinse and repeat. And repeat… and repeat…
Eventually we get to either communism or oligarchy. Or collapse. Or civil war. Or some sort of war, anyway…
Oh look – Ukraine!
Surprise!
Might become WWIII!
Surprise!
You can all be as indignant as you want that someone dares question your moral compass…You…..I mean YOU after all it’s YOU……. how dare he question your actions or talk about right and wrong.
You’ll do what you want, fuck everybody else, and you won’t hear another word about it.
How very convenient.
If only the real world was like that.
It isn’t.
It has not been a pandemic in Australia without changing the definition. It was Bullshit from the start when the Ruby Princess docked. Incompetents running the show. If it was a pandemic why were there exemptions for anyone? Show me one thing that wasn’t a stuff-up from start to finish and it hasn’t finished yet.
Struth, you are just obsessed. I am in my eightieth year and took the vaxx. And I have the temerity to travel in the last good years of my life, spending our own earned money. Evil incarnate, I am.
Best you leave it at that before you get any more obnoxious.
Im looking at the “ok groomers” insult being directed at the “educationalists’ who are trying their best to introduce tranny crap to pre and primary age schoolkids.
Its a brilliant insult.
(and you wont guess where its come from)
Most kids have no idea about sexuality other than boys have cooties and girls are gross.
So you have to ask why do you need to inform them if they feel like that they must be trans?
because thats about the stage its at, kids are being told they are gay/trans because their best friend in the world is the same sex.
At the best its confusing kids.
At the worst its a deliberate tactic to swell numbers of ‘confused’ kids to be harvested/enrolled into the deviant lifestyle.
These are seriously sick weirdoes.
Today in Moloch:
Hungary announced overnight that they’ll pay for Russian gas in rubles.
Haha, well done Eurocrats, that’s what sanctioning Orban got for you.
FMD. His pandemic fiasco is being presented as a ……. positive?
FMD x 100
Government does not have a dollar they haven’t taken from someone else. To give that dollar they have to receive a lot more coz only the private sector actually pay tax, all the rest are on the government teat which the private sector pay for. The private sector are the only ones paying down debt. If you think the public sector pay tax, think again, where does the money come from in the first place.
Well I thought digging post out of the ground at that time was essential work and the government agreed. Amusing it was driving though towns with signs saying “locals only stay out”.
King of the road I was and never forget it.
No. Morrison did not. He set up the secretative and unaccountable National Cabinet and handed his responsibilities to assorted State despot.
That remains to be seen.
No argument from me there. Dutton has stood out as the more competent front-bencher under Scummo’s leadership.
Untrue. The sort of garbage laurels that idiotic politicians love to grant themselves.
Australia got Morrison through the pandemic. He did half of bugger all, and what he did do was counter productive.
He deserves no reward.
St Ruth.
Your assertion that I am, or was, a public servant.
Do you have a source for that?
State despots !
I agree. A pandemic is when a disease takes its natural course, killing many hundreds or thousands or millions in the process and ending when a population develops a degree of herd immunity and as the virus or bacterium mutates to milder forms. Cov-2 spread in Australia was artificially limited, but at a very great cost for a disease that had, in the event, a significant death rate only amongst the elderly and immune compromised. This much was obvious by October 2020 when top epidemiologists introduced a call to end lockdowns, never the way to fight any epidemic, in a document known as the Great Barrington Declaration, which I signed as an MPH. Did my bit there, Struth, sticking to what I had always done, assessed risks, as I did in March 2020 still going on my travels then too.
Morrison could have taken good advice at that time and come down hard on the Premiers and their obscene lockdowns. The Swedish example was one to follow, even if he had done it in a lesser way, he could still have saved the mass of the population from the effectively mandatory vaxxes and harsh lockdowns. Instead, we took the Chinese model, which they are still clinging to. Thankfully, we have thrown all that away now, in most places, but residuals remain, unfair and unnecessary except for those who have face to save.
Link brocken mole.
Again!
Wot? I find myself in agreement with JMH quite a bit.
This blog is always surprising.
Gag!!!.
In much the same way Ruddles and Goose Swansteen got us through the GFC. By blowing hundreds of billions of other peoples’ money. With precisely zero to show for it after all the hysterical chicken little screeching had finally died down.
Digger, you’ve lost your marbles. In case you hadn’t noticed, most people here don’t take kindly to commenters cheering on the gliberals. The gliberals are as bad as labore and the greenfilth and in many ways worse, as the former are actually slightly more efficient at implementing the latter bunch of idiots’ insane anti-human policies – if such destructive cloud cuckoo land brain farts could be dignified with the term.
Whoever wrote that has certainly had a free ride in life.
Morrison and the lieborals deserve to be booted out but Australia does not deserve an Anal government. All the trust that voters extended to ScoMo eg not inflicted more climate change bullshit was pretty much dishonored.
I think it’s terrific cats are travelling overseas.
Harlequin Decline gone and returned, Bons left a couple of days ago , next cab off the rank Lizzie, others with definite plans and no doubt a few shy lurkers.
The more the merrier.
Reply from
I know Sancho.
From the same place he sources everything.
Election in the air, perhaps the libs have decided to get with the whole new media thing and hire some staffers to engage digitally with the proles.
Smells ham fisted enough to be plausible.
What Rabz said too.
Agree Rosie- enjoyed your travelogue
Judge somebody on their deeds, not their words.
That’s right Lizzie, you’re special.
A special case, compared to the millions who are holding the line.
Pathetic.
I am disgusted at people like Notafan for doing the same….having a holiday while others fight this.
If all of the special cases like you refused to show your Nazi pass, maybe the little Irish poof might have applied some pressure on government.
Digger has been around a long time.
Just found out about QLD quietly droping the ban on prescribing HCQ for Covid:
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/legislation/cho-public-health-directions-under-expanded-public-health-act-powers/revoked/revocation-of-prescribing,-dispensing-or-supply-of-hydroxychloroquine-direction
Amusing it was driving though towns with signs saying “locals only stay out”.
The view that country people are all lovely & welcoming is not truthful.
#BoycottQandA is trending because they’re allowing Gideon Rozner on the show.
So… does that mean QandA won’t reach its weekly 15 viewers?
Everyone fine with that?
From a so called Catholic?
bespokesays:
April 7, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Link brocken mole.
Again!
Bugger.
Similar one.
“Ok groomer”
2 (not on topic but sometimes the internet throws up gems)
3
Bespoke, you need to see a doctor for that problem you have with gagging.
It could be something nasty.
Yes he has, bespoke.
I live in a solid red electorate, so my vote counts for naught. I will not be favouring Labor, that’s for certain.
Judge somebody on their deeds, not their words.
Like sitting on the couch while the ANZAC spirit was strong at the Canberra protests.
PS ANZAC.
PPS Christian values.
PPPS Did I mention ANZAC in this post?
Amusing it was driving though towns with signs saying “locals only stay out”.
where was this? I heard some arseholes round Vicco surf coast did something similar
My observation still stands, bespoke. When did you last read a comment from anyone here defending the gliberals?
That’s why digger’s comment has attracted so much ire.
“Yeah, but, Goose Morristeen got “us” through a non existent pandemic while managing to only run up about $600 billion in taxpayer debt, while destroying the economy and the lives of millions as well as ensuring the wholesale destruction of our rights and liberties, which because he’s such a fat gutless clown, he outsourced to an even more pathetic and obnoxious assortment of tinpot tyrants.”
Said no gliberal apologist on this blog, ever.
Not so. I just have my reasons for doing what I do.
Millions of other people have their reasons for doing similar things too.
There doesn’t have to be any special about any of us just going about our own business.
Maybe you should mind your own business too, Struth, and stop bothering others to agree with you.
I’ve just noticed, I’ve never felt the need to respond to feelthebum.
It’s like a yapping little mutt one boot could silence, but …………..it’ll wear itself out.
To be fare it was a local SA government signs. In the hills.
I blame tree changers.
But you just did.
Bing Bong.
Stolen Valor.
Bing Bong.
There’s definitely nothing special about you.
That’s right Lizzie, as I said, you’ll do what you want, fuck everyone else, …..after all, we are under the same freedoms we were in 2019…nothing is different now, it’s all tickety boo.
Why should anyone judge you on your personal behaviour, or make a fuss?
Delusional and disgusting.
God help us all.
Well I’m not voting for Scomo but my options (and voting intentions {not that they count})are:
5. Anne Aly;
4. Libs;
7. Greens;
6. Animal Welfare Party;
1. Australian Christian Party;
2. PHON;
3. UAP.
Bing bong.
Why weren’t you in Canberra.
Bing bong.
…cos I’m gonna have a screeching goat herder as a MHR..
Areff:
(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)
Do you have a photo?
Any dings?
How far away from Barcaldine are you?
According to Teh Worst polling the Lieborals may have a problem in Curtin. The “Independent” was at Law School when I was. Her Uncle is Red Fred Chaney which is not promising. If the Lieboral primary vote is 42% somewhere like Curtin they deserve to lose anyway.
Fair enough, eggs on my face then. Apologies to Digger.
I’m trying to think of a reason to vote Liberal.
I can think of plenty of reasons to not vote Liberal.
This is not a reason to vote Liberal:
“We’re only 90% as bad as ALP & will implement ALP policies at least 24 months later than the real ALP will do it“
“How very convenient.”
Isn’t it though?
I mean, if you were aware enough to actually apply the same to yourself, we might actually get somewhere, might actually have a productive conversation.
But no-one else has moral values as high as yours, do they?
They’re so hideously beneath contempt, aren’t they?
Must be very tough for you, being such an upstanding citizen of perfection in a land full of defectives, traitors and selfish pigs.
Still, these things are sent to try us, are they not?
And that’s your salvation isn’t it? To put up with the rest of us without “going postal” and killing the lot of us. So tempting, isn’t it? But never fear, you’re such a good man, I’m confident you’d never do it – how could you live with yourself afterwards? And if you just have the patience, we’ll all be gone soon anyway, so what’s the hurry?
Lysander, vote the sitting member last.
I believe someone recommended that an election or two ago.
Not sure who.
Probably a selfless chap who would be too humble to claim credit.
Winston Smith says: April 7, 2022 at 1:38 pm
This cockhead is not a real publican.
What’s he so worried about? People have always been talking shit in pubs.
I can’t Bern. Two electorates have been merged into one so, technically, there are two sitting members vying for the one spot.
No response to my email asking when emergency powers would be revoked in WA so far.
Im sure they have top…men…. working on it.
TOP
MEN
Lysander at 2 pm:
Mine are UAP, 3 Indies (1 Communist and 1 nuf-nuff) plus 1 Nat.
Heard the UAP candidate speak and was impressed.
UAP 1
Better Indie 2
Indie nuff nuff 3
Commie Indie 4
Nat 5
Wanna buy a bridge?
Someone earlier mentioned Canbra cockroaches…
I recall having a chat with a Minister who had received advice from the Public “Service” that was contrary to what he wanted to do (fund a program in his electorate)…
The advice suggested it wasn’t proper yadda yadda, despite the program being funded in other nearby “enemy territory.”
My advice to him was to “fuck the public service” because “none of them vote for you anyway.”
And so… it was funded 🙂
But, then, public “servants” tend to get a bit leaky when things don’t go their way. You honestly can’t win with those cockies. They are the swamp.
Seriously Struth you give anti vaxxers a bad name. I am double jabbed and won’t be getting any more. I took the first two of my own free will. However any who speak to me know my views and the CHO Qld and Hadley etc would definitely classify me as anti Vax.
Give it a rest on attacking Lizzie and anybody else who mentions taking the Vax or even the booster. It is clear that Lizzie assessed what is best for her in regard to age, health and ability to travel. That is her right and I don’t get why she has to explain herself to you or anybody else.
I understand in WA you have to be double vaxxed to visit your own children in hospital. The thought disgusts me but nobody who caved in to that pressure should be criticised for doing so. Any anger should be directed at the Govenment or CHO etc for these policies.
“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”.
Morrison got us through the pandemic
Morrison kept us safe?
I’ll take two Bear.
FM – I’m sure its made its way to Daniel Pastorelli’s bin. 😛
“Bourne1879 says:
April 7, 2022 at 2:16 pm “
I once thought as you do. But you don’t know the power of the dark side!
Etc.
At the height of the wuflu madness, Falls Creek in Vic was closed to all but residents. The gov ‘Resort management’ literally closed the place off to all, except permanent residents. Funny they were allowed to come to Mt Beauty to do their shopping or Wodonga etc and go home but the gate was manned and only the permanents could get back in. Disgusting.
Thanks for that link, I wondered why we weren’t allowed to leave the country, it made no sense to me. The bureaucrat offers the international treaty as an excuse but I think other countries, who presumably signed up for the treaty did not have such restrictions e.g UK.
In addition you could leave Oz but had to submit documentation for approval to justify it . There was no specification of what was required other than going for 3 months would be more favourably viewed.
So how does that 3 months work with the treaty? It starts to sound like a fucked up overreaction between Health and Immigration.
CBS are amplifying the Biden transactions that Chuck Grassley presented in the Senate during the last few hours.
Lysander at 2:00 – Jebus what a freak show.
Vote 1 Cock & Balls
This may come as a surprise ‘bern, but rural and regional ‘Straya has just as many dickheads per capita as the Big Smoke.
Inevitably these signs are erected by selfish shut-in types who fancy themselves as Preppers and want to suck the whole town into their fantasy.
Millions do…millions.
And they are living by them.
Not those millions, they’re inspirational.
It would be easier without them.
They certainly are.
Most definitely are.
Incredibly correct.
As long as I am not part of the submission, and have tried my best to do the right thing.
After all, these things are sent to try us, like you say.
I’ll never do it.
Never.
I feel good about myself, yep, yes I do.
I’m not you.
I’m not jabbed.
I’m not owned.
I’ve lived by my values and principles.
Those same principles people here declared they had in 2019.
And, by the way ‘bern, if you really must plagiarise my Bing Bongs, at least be faithful to the original.
You must include an exclamation mark after both Bongs.
Capitals and/or bolding is optional depending on the urgency of the message, but we recommend against over-use of CAPITALS and bolding.
Absolutely.
And it personally offends you, which makes it even better. 🙂
But the gratuitous sectarianism suggests you have something of a bias problem, Struth…
Today I learned that post 2014, Russia amended all their sovereign bond docs to be able to pay interest in rubles.
For a bond holder to pursue Russia for a ruble payment (not USD, GBP or EUR) they would have to be sued in the jurisdiction where the bonds were sold.
We can add that to the list of things that would highlight sanctions being escalated.
Is that true, Smollett?
Which is why you keep dodging every question asked of you about where the DeAtH CaMpS are…
My bing bongs are a homage to your bing bongs !
I’m not sure how you achieve such a thing even with an alleged nod and wink from ‘Western powers’. If those same powers cannot achieve that same outcome through negotiation, by pressuring UKR to accept those terms, why do you or anyone else believe that those same ends are achieved by force of arms that are also resisted by UKR? Given that, why would Putin limit this ‘minor incursion’ to the Donbass when doing so means he will be met by increased UKR resistance, and not also maneuver north and south to pin UKR forces in those areas as well while he fixes the order of battle in the East to his advantage? In other words, the ‘riskier’ measure would have been to have limited your area of operation to the south east, and allowed your enemy to concentrate his forces precisely where you most interested in engaging him.
And frankly, given the impotence of the Western powers to make UKR abide by the Minsk 1 and 2 protocols which it continued to flout for 8 years, Putin had no reason at all to trust the ability of the Western powers in the matter.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that Putin doesn’t need an out; Zelensky does. We are probably a 2-4 weeks away from a major battle south of Izyum. Russia is redeploying its 1st Guard Tank Army into the area. They are going to create a cauldron enveloping a third to half of the Ukrainian Army and once that is finished, they are likely to seek out the UKR in the field until it surrenders or is destroyed. I’m also convinced that the longer this goes the less RUS will return to UKR. Donbass is done, same Crimea. UKR will have nothing on the Sea of Azov. I’m inclined to think that Odesa is likely done too which will mean that the Black Sea is shut off from them as well. Morale in the Territorial Defence Units is also going to dive if RUS decisively wins the battle south of Izyum, particularly in Dnipro, Kharkov, and Nikolayev. If each of those respective oblasts falls to RUS that will be considered a substantive victory in RUS domestically, and a substantive defeat for UKR. Putin would probably be quite happy to bank those victory conditions.
How can a man who can’t define a woman navigate his way around a female body?
OH SHIT.
REX IS HERE.
I’m going to fuck off now, because he’s just to/ two/ too bright.
He’s got my number alright!
I’m starting to quiver.
Where’s my mummy…
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Bing-Bong!
Pharisee alert. Please remove planks from eyes to cancel this alarm.
Bing-Bong!
Hard truths need to be spoken on this blog…
Red lights to keep an eye on.
Russian gas stops being sent west.
Russian gas is no longer accepted by the west.
Banks banned from transactions related to Russian energy.
A Russian bond holder sues Russia in a wester court regarding a ruble payment instead of the currency they were issued in.
“Which is why you keep dodging every question asked of you about where the DeAtH CaMpS are…”
Harsh, Rex – very harsh.
Give him a break – arm, leg, neck, you choose. 🙂
“Lysandersays:
April 7, 2022 at 2:00 pm”
Good choices.
I’d go for C6-T2, but the man has no discernible spine…
…And his Glass Jaw breaks itself daily.
There is no confusion. His inability to answer is precisely the same inability that the courtiers have standing about a naked emperor. They are afraid to say what is obvious because it is impolitic in the present milieu.
I’m seeing Albanese as Prime Minister as a re – run of the Whitlam years.
I see it as making the Biden administration’s 15 months a stunning example of good government.
“Hard truths need to be spoken on this blog…”
And you called his integrity into question, yet he posts such truths as you replied to.
How very ungentlemanly of you, Rexy.
Mean, even.
You could at least acknowledge when he posts the truth – hey, it’s rare enough, it won’t take too much of your time.
But no.
Tut tut, my good chap. Sorry, one has to call you out.
Painful, I know.
Sorry for the lifelong devastation it will cause you and all that.
But it’s only a few more
weeksmonthsyears, you’ll manage to deal with for that length of time, I’m sure. Stiff upper lip and all that.Carry on…
They are afraid to say what is obvious because it is impolitic in the present milieu.
It’s similar to the Horus Heresy.
Morrison has been an excellent
PMtyrant for the times…Fixed it.
Bourne at 2:16.
I do wonder what St Ruth’s objective is.
If the objective is to win people over to the cause, then it appears to be failing miserably.
And I am wondering what, in fact, “the cause” is at this point.
Is it various ‘Elf mandates?
Is it vaccines themselves?
And, if it is about vaccines, it can’t be about doses 1 and 2, because that horse has bolted.
Is it about boosters?
Mater posted here a while back about that being where the anti-vaxx focus should be.
Enlist the wavering 2-shotters to push back against mandating boosters.
Maybe the objective is to just exact retribution on those same 2-shotters who could be valuable allies.
Or, as someone alluded to here the other day, is it just a case of a sad middle-aged man whose life hasn’t panned out as expected, and who is shaking his fist at the world?
A fast charge might end in disappointment.
Morrison enabled the autocracy of Andrews.
Never forget this.
Sure, Andrews has much to answer for. All of it made possible by Morrison.
A big part of St Ruth’s ‘work’ these days appears to be insulting and abusing people here. Also generally disrupting interesting discussions.
As a keen amateur, I’ll give it a go.
That is why I posed the questions.
If it isn’t just “pureblood” virtue signalling, what is he hoping to achieve?
For all the word walls & abuse, Struth is harmless.
Considering other Cats drove significant distances to the Canberra protests without a hint of the shit that Struth goes on about daily, he’ll never live that down.
There were no restrictions.
But he thought he’d protest from his couch.
Which is fine….if he hadn’t spent two years saying he was the leader of the movement and all to follow him.
bespoke at 2:28 – the Left have been co-opting language to their ends forever. Nice to see them on the back foot for once.
Harmless?
Was “impotent” the word you were looking for?
It’s very Australian that Cats can only define terrible PMs and nobody says who was a great PM. Here’s a name and a typical Cat response… 😛
Scomo – Tyrant
Maolcon – Lefty embed
Abbott – Onions
Rudd – Egomaniac
Gillard – Liar
Rudd – Egomaniac V1
Howard – Big spenda
Keating – Recessioner
Hawke – Alco-slut
Fraser – Cardboard
Whitlam – Shittest/racist
McMahon – Who?
Gorton – Ears!
McEwen – WHO!?
Holt – Fishfood
Menzies – Ok, he was alright…
😛 😛 😛
Warhammer tragics.
Bounderish caddishness of the worst kind, I do agree…
#Whatwhat
McMahon – ears
Gorton – battle scars
Can someone introduce Struth to Warhammer?
It would keep him occupied for a decade or two.
“Harmless?
Was “impotent” the word you were looking for?”
Ah Sancho – you always pick the most appropriate words. The allusions are so amusing.
I tips me hat, sir! Youse is a jean-ee-us.
Keating – Recessioner
Keating – Reformer.
Like the rest of us – you just fumble around till you get told to stop it. And then you just fall asleep.
I had to look that up. It’s toys!
Now I don’t feel nearly as lame about the cross stitch and patchwork.
Keating – clocks
“Bounderish caddishness of the worst kind, I do agree…”
Indeed, indeed.
Still, what’s done is done, eh old bean?
One can only attempt to better oneself – and I know you do.
And that’s all that really matters, what.
Neo-con/ NeverTrumpers, completely rancid.
Gorton – bottle scars…
On one occasion, Gorton had “lunched well” and was being strapped into his seat of a VIP aircraft, when he suddenly leaned forward and was copiously ill.
Recovering, he said to the cabin stewardess “I’ll bet you’re surprised to see an old Air Force hand, like me, still gets airsick.”
“Quite surprised, Prime Minister” was the reply “We haven’t taken off yet – we are still on the ground.”
Could the cat’s most esteemed moral theologian explain what the religious issue is in hoping people enjoy their overseas travels?
Then how about this one for an improvement?
-Turnbull – Leigh Sales’ bicycle.
Not today thanks Rosie 😛
Gillard – Slaanesh
Could never figure out what was ‘conservative’ about the ‘neo-cons’ who largely seem to have been marxists at some stage.
Is it? Valuable as in what exactly? As “valuable” as the Greenback, the Euro or the Aussie. Don’t kid yourself.
In any event, you export in order to import and that’s going to be difficult for the Russians. Their exports are on balance going to sell at a discount and their imports will be at a premium. Why? Because they can be gouged as they’re in no position the bargain.
People need to stop thinking Russia has all the answers.
Three things came out of Russia.
1. Oil&gas
2. Second rate military crap (we know that now)
3. Hookers.
Oil&gas is basically fucked and if they sell any, they will generally be forced to sell below the world market. Military sales may waver as the Russians may need it themselves as most of their crap is getting blown up in Uke. Hooker? Hookers aren’t allowed out of the country as the West has blocked travel from and to Russia.
Where’s the upside that this genius Putin has considered and allowed for?
Indeed, Bear
Also worth noting of St ruth adopting Alinsky’s rules and insults. Crudely and without any original spin. But hey cover singer!
Yea Bern, the rancid bogan is basically an armchair warrior and it’s a dirty armchair too. He reminds me of someone out of Deliverance.
whoops not “someone”, it’s something.
Even below market prices for oil and gas might still be higher than the price a year ago though.
Russia also produces wheat, lumber, vanadium
You know who should be thinking of ‘outs’ right now, European countries whose cost of living is shooting through the roof right now.
“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.”
The Liberals have destroyed themselves.
Morrison has been an excellent PM for the times.
Really? A smidgen of Morrison’s excellent decisions for the times….
1. Morrison’s decision to set up a “national cabinet” has been a disaster. All it did was empower leftist premiers and has helped trash federation.
2. Not once has Morrison ever spoken up when our liberties were being assaulted and trampled on. When people were being physically assaulted by police in Melbourne…Morrison said nothing. When tradies couldn’t go to work to earn a crust, Morrison said nothing.
3. Morrison has led a fiscally irresponsible government.
4. Morrison has further empowered their ABC by throwing yet more money at it.
5. Morrison has refused to engage in any culture wars. This is the same man who once said that “free speech doesn’t create one job”…or words to that effect.
6. Morrison prejudiced several trials…he trashed Cardinal George Pell, he trashed our SAS soldiers and recently, in an act of grotesque irresponsibility, he’s prejudiced any chance that the accused in the Higgins’ allegation can ever receive a fair trial.
7. Morrison refused to stand with Christian Porter and Alan Tudge. Both men were thrown to the lions by Morrison. The Porter allegations were ludicrous…..yet, in an effort to curry favour with progressive scum who would never vote for him, he deliberately fellated the whole “woman problem”.
8. Morrison left an important piece of legislation, the “Religious Freedom Bill” to just before midnight. It didn’t pass.
The above is just a smidgen of his faults and failings. Scott Morrison won’t be missed….a total mediocrity. Perhaps after he loses the election next month (and lose he will), he can travel with his wife to Cornwall and search for more of his ancestors….you remember don’t you? How, when attending the G7 conference in the UK last June, when the rest of us were forbidden to travel overseas to see our loved ones, when the rest of us were masked like hostages and when the rest of us were subjected to a variety of nonsensical Covid restrictions, Morrison took time out from the G7 to search for his ancestors and was pictured smiling, maskless and huddled together with some Cornish folk.
Here’s the truth….
Scott Morrison has been a mediocrity for the times.
Leigh Sales’ bicycle.
That is pretty savage.
Deliverance is a movie I wish I could un-see.
Like The Road.
I wish I could un-read The Road.
This morning I went to an inner city location* where I was reminded, several times, ‘this is aboriginal land, always was, always will be’.
The things you do to entertain toddlers.
Not surprisingly, will never go back.
*Except it clearly wasn’t.
Oh yea, and how would you solve this “out”? Would the best solution be to accept one European country invading another and killing its civilians?
Gillard – blue suede shoe (single)
Or
Big fat Greek bulltish artist
Such a wealthy seam to mine.
“Gillard – blue suede shoe (single)”
Dangerous – she might think it a glass slipper…
Rather than being invaded by hostiles, be invaded by tourists. With lots of lovely foreign spending money.
I’d be in it, provided they returned to pre-2020 requirements for entry.
You disappoint Lysander. 🙂
I saw a movie that had a kind of lasting impact on me, but I cannot recall the name. Lasting impact in the sense that I recall the plot pretty well.
It’s about people traveling along a road at night. It’s always at night. You eventually find out that this is the endless road in hell.
What’s the name?
Spectator on scomo:
• The disgraceful Labor and media pile-on against Scott Morrison on his character is excruciating to watch. Morrison’s Tuesday sit-down with Leigh Sales of the ABC’s 7.30 programme is a case in point. Sales threw everything but the kitchen sink at Morrison’s character, with no pretence of objectivity. Whatever one thinks of his transactional politics and his values vacuum, Morrison’s undoubtedly a tough bastard. His attempts to appear warm and cuddly look contrived and fake. Morrison should just seize just the initiative from his tormentors and simply say, ‘I’m a bastard when I need to be in the interests of Australians and my government. I make no apology for that. If I need to crack heads, I crack heads. Just live with it.’
Thanks Frank.
When is the West going to put pressure on this clown to negotiate?
“Negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv have become harder as evidence of alleged atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine has been discovered, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.”
how convenient
Better still, retrospective death duties by raiding people’s superannuation.
Oh, wait.
Superannuation funds are already full of jobsworths and maaates on bloated salaries, propaganda via ‘newsletters’ and their digital equivalents, political decisions about what to invest in (e.g. no fossil fuel companies) and none of the constraints of the Companies Act to keep them in check.
We were promised that universal compulsory superannuation would ensure a comfortable retirement for full time workers.
How’s that turned out in practice? Many decades later, for most people, it just means that the trifling income from their super is deducted from the Age Pension.
But, what a bonanza it has been to the spivs of the financial world, clipping a ticket here, directing an investment there, gigantic pots of gold conveniently in one place.
If anyone here still has money tied up in super, be watchful.
In the private sector, that is. For many public servants, all judges, and a few other privileged classes, generous superannuation is underwritten by taxpayers and can never be taken away.
I see violence has been spoken about by the New Nazis as a Vay to shut up ze Untermenschen .
All this plus having Rex the retarded here as well.
What a fun place.
Of course that’ll go straight through to the keeper, Dover?
It was after all, one of your koalas.
He’s only pissed coz nobody can drive a truck with an 18 speed Road Rearranger but him.
bwahahahahahhaha we were of course promised full pensions before this chestnut
The thickness of the liar knows no bounds.
He wonders why I’m here.
I’m only here because he is.
Hume Hwy travelling south.
I met a woman who had a lasting impact on me, but I cannot recall her name.
Stuth
Faultyverse was looking for you over at the factory. Go see what he wants.
“So, which ones are they? Well, there are 15 countries in total that have so far lifted either all (or essentially all) of their travel restrictions.”
here you are Calli
“He wonders why I’m here.
I’m only here because he is.”
But your in his head.
Right…
The Road was a bit hard to watch.
Bit cool for that sort of thing in Perth isn’t it?
Vegan activist Tash Peterson has staged another half-naked protest outside a Perth court – just moments after she was found guilty of disorderly conduct for storming into a Louis Vuitton store smothered in her own period blood.
The 28-year-old walked out of court and took off her top to expose her breasts, with just a strip of pink tape covering her nipples as a message: “Wear ur own skin!” was scribbled on her chest.
Her actions come just moments after a magistrate found her guilty of disorderly conduct for storming into the luxury boutique store during peak hours, wearing minimal clothing where children were present.
“It doesn’t bother me at all. I’m here to speak up so I’m not going to stop,” she told reporters outside court on Wednesday. “There’s no stopping until the animal holocaust end.”
Peterson entered a Louis Vuitton store in Perth wearing nothing but a skin-coloured g-string and what she claimed to be her own period blood on August 21, 2021.
The controversial activist held a placard that read: “I would rather be naked than wear someone else’s skin”, as she yelled at customers for being “animal abusers”. “Who was murdered for your leather bags, down jacket, and woolen jumper?” she shouted at the time.
“If you’re not vegan, you’re an animal abuser. Louis Vuitton are responsible for the murder of cows, sheep, goats, foxes, minx, ducks and geese. “Louis Vuitton have blood in their hands, and so do you if you’re not vegan.”
The 28-year-old posted a video of her standing outside Louis Vuitton following the court outcome as she showed no signs of backing down.
“I’ve just come out of court and I was charged for disorderly conduct so I’ve been found guilty for a protest I did here in Louis Vuitton last August,” she said in a video posted on Instagram.
“The reason I was charged is because it’s not normal to be naked in a Louis Vuitton store so apparently that’s considered disorderly conduct but also because of the fact that I was calling people out for animal abuse and murder which is in this store.
“This store is responsible for the murder of cows, sheep, crocodiles, snakes, minx, foxes, ducks, geese – there are so many species in this store and their bodies are turned into fashion items and sold for thousands of dollars.
“And apparently that’s considered disorderly conduct for trying to stop animal abuse. It is just absurd.”
Peterson will be sentenced on Friday.
Sky News
The thickness of the liar knows no bounds.
He wonders why I’m here.
I’m only here because he is.
that must be very flattering for him and you must have a lot of time to spare
Monty was looking for you JC.
You actually bought the fucker..the “punch a Nazi” fucker a steak, and you have the audacity to comment about who hangs around who?
Rosie, the Netherlands and Croatia are my problem countries at the moment.
I am confident that they will be completely open in a few months.
I enjoyed No Country For Old Men though he could have written it with a happy ending.
The Road, read the synopsis, sufficient.
It’s about people traveling along a road at night. It’s always at night. You eventually find out that this is the endless road in hell.
What’s the name?
Might have been the Twilight Zone episode written by SF writer Greg Bear. This would be not the original Rod Serling series but the reboot.
Anyway, I’m off soon on a grand tour of the SA, Central Qld and Top End.
But not Western Australia – the Gate is Shut and guarded by trolls.
No, it was a movie.
Walls are closing in St ruth. All but a few supporters and hand patters left.
Still you’ll always have MV to shack up with. With the highlight of the month is a perv on his Dil while she hoses out the house.
I presume it has bilious children running their hard feet up the driver’s seat and asking “are we there yet?” every five kms.
Closet caravaner.
Gillard – Gingerella.
Yea, I bought him a steak because I lost a bet. I thought Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be dead inside six months after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. You know that too, but obviously you would have welshed the bet.
Netherlands abolished all entry rules from 23 March.
Only need to do a health form if arriving by air.
And some masking rules in airports and public transport.
No! No caravan, mercifully.
He’s done so much prep you’d think we were Burke and Wills. It’s around seven weeks up through the guts and across the top end, back down through Stasi country and home.
Might even swing by Barco.
Some good news:
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terrorist Dies When “Shot By Mistake”
No. By Grungni’s beard, no!
Struth is already a living avatar of That Guy.
Introducing him to the one discipline that would amplify all of his worst tendencies would be poison to every practising and prospective wargamer and hobbyist in his entire district for generations…
Really, rosie? I must have accessed an un-updated website. They were demanding either boosters or second jab under 270 days last time I looked.
You can tell.
I’m going to be even more intrepid and spend a week in Queensland next month.
And will drive up there again in June for two three weeks.
Interesting things sometimes happen there.
Oh and STFU Stuth, you fatmouthed bore. Go see what put-your-sitting-member-last goose wants.
You too/two/to had lunch together and stared longingly into each others eyes.
He said you put the hard word on him…………………..
all here calli,
Salvatore:
He’s a Lefty idiot who has conflated two issues:
.1 The Right of Free Speech, and,
.2 The right to impose arbitrary censorship on speech he doesn’t like.
The ownership of the venue doesn’t have any effect on the fact these are his opinions and I would suggest he also believes he should have the right to censor speech anywhere, not just his pub.
It’s about people traveling along a road at night. It’s always at night. You eventually find out that this is the endless road in hell.
What’s the name?
Don’t know it.
But it sounds like an adaptation of “Outward Bound” where people consigned to hell are stuck with each other on a cruise ship.
Or maybe that was a documentary.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terrorist appears to have only one hand which hints at a previous workplace accident.
Need a negative test or a vaxx cert to cross into Croatia from another eu country
European travel restrictions latest
The West Australian are running a short story comp with $50K for the winner.
Am thinking about writing a story about a chap who lives in a State that only has one major newspaper that is just as propagandist as the National Broadcaster and he takes things into his own hands…
It’s only a story…
That’s the one I looked at, rosie. If you delve deeper, you find this:
I am extremely reluctant to have a booster given my injured arm.
As I said, they’ll likely tone it down.
Similar, but on a desert Hwy at night and they drive for eternity meeting horrible people along the way.
Or maybe that was Australian democracy? 😛
Aaaand….Croatia:
The restriction I mentioned still stands.
Straight out of the CCP struggle session handbook.
Its a wonder Bold didn’t want Medvedev to disavow Russia and Putin while on his knees
Cassie this morning:
“… don’t forget there are still January 6 rioters rotting in Washington DC dank cells.”
That was exactly what I was referring to!
Michael Photios’ handpuppet.
For where Calli?
The Netherlands government site says
“There are no coronavirus entry rules for residents of:
countries within the EU/Schengen area
countries participating in the EU travel rules scheme.
These travellers do not need proof of vaccination or recovery or a negative test result.”
Half yer luck!
Please remember to post comprehensive & regular travelogues.
Yes Calli, but there is a simple alternative to proof of vaxx for tourists in Croatia, either a neg PRC test in 72 hours or a rat in 24.
Brother Number One emerges from the crypt to demand compensation for all the anti-logging protesters that have been arrested in Tasmania in the past.
Paywalled and not worth the click.
Bolt has always been a shallow thinker. Expecting Medvedev to accept blame undermines his own opinions on indigenes reparations.
Orcs, trolls hide under bridges
This is two minutes long and possibly the most frightening thing I have ever seen.
Scary but true and is becoming more real now.
We truly are dealing with psychopathic megalomaniacs who see themselves as god.
The most frightening film I’ve ever seen was a Dutch move called “The Vanishing”.
I recall when Medvedev said he was an avid follower of Hayek and von Mises. Putin corrupted the fuck.
The Road was a bit hard to watch.
You should try the book.
Cormac McCarthy is a sick freak.
Apropos of recent discussion of ANZ online banking.
Took a phone call this afternoon from ANZ.
Some very intrusive questioning;
The bank will want to see my tax returns, & lotsa other stuff.
I ended the call with a statement that none of this stuff is their business.
Don’t know where this came from, never had this sort of intrusive demand before – ever.
Here’s the Twilight zone episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Run_(The_Twilight_Zone)
It is their business if you
1. have a loan
2. run an overdraft limit
3. Applying for 1 or 2.
If that’s not the case then you’re bullshitting as usual, Driller. More appropriately referred to as blowharding.
I’m sure that in a few days time after you’ve pretended to write a strongly worded letter in the style of Hans Blix, they send you a letter of apology. Funny how you’re always receiving apology letters. 🙂