Victoria: named for Queen Victoria.
Queensland: named for Queen Victoria.

Regal privilege right there.

NATO Standard when I’m working.

And mocha when I’m feeling fancy, and a Maccas or Muzz Buzz is nearby.

And Cats, never discount the restorative value of a cup of black tea when you’ve been working hard on the footplate. Puts a real pep in your fireman, and cleans the smuts out from between your teeth… 🙂

Nelson_Kidd-Players says: WA, SA, NT, ACT

I’d be happy to rename the above.

Don’t go there. Don’t open that door. They’d all end up with unpronounceable un-spellable “aboriginal” names.

Patton that he personally perverted the course of justice and would in all likelihood end up in the bin.

VicPol is a pus-oozing, institutionally corrupt extension of the Premier’s office and state Treasury. On so many fronts it seems The Filth aspire only to disgrace, the careerism of toadies and savouring the incidental perks of office, such as mounting bent prosecutions of conservative clerics.

Apparently there is someone in Victoria by name of Matthew Guy, who is reputed to be the leader of a perhaps mythical entity known as “the Opposition”.

Personally, I believe Guy is a fiction. Were he more than a chimera he’d be demanding a Royal Commission into Lawyer X, Pell, violence against Dan’s critics, rubber bullets fired at fellow citizens, revenue-inspired speed traps, I Cook Food, Red Shirts….

But this is Victoria where the best course — the only course — is to hit the Hume and never turn back.

that your sock (Ed Case)

Let’s get this straight.
SockPuppetry occurs when someone comments under another person’s identity.
e.g., Struth, Rosie, RunnyBum & etc are Sancho’s creations, but they’re not his SockPuppets, since none of them exist independently of Sancho.
I hope this clears up your confusion.

Don’t go there. Don’t open that door. They’d all end up with unpronounceable un-spellable “aboriginal” names.

It’s not that bad, TE.

Western Australia (in these dreary McGowanist times) could be very easily renamed Bugardup.

I believe it’s a local word for “It’s f****d, mate!”

most ABC watchers have seen enough of Geoffrey Robertson AO QC to last them infinite lifetimes, but here he is on p. 38 of the
Weekend Australian:

… And we should take a hard look at the Russian Orthodox Church, which ha property and followers in Australia.
Patriarch Kirell [sic] is Putin’s biggest cheerleader and has turned his Christian congregation in favour of the slaughter in Ukraine.
If there is a Hell, he will burn in it, but for the present, we should deport his acolytes.

Terry McCrann (Paywallian):
How Clive Palmer’s pot of cash twists the political pot
Journalists in the mainstream media and particularly those in the ABC-Nine-Guardian Axis of Idiocy are utterly clueless about Clive Palmer.
They haven’t the slightest idea of why he does what he does in the political space – something he’s been “doing” far longer than anyone else who’s still there, approaching 50 years now.
They have even less understanding of what his impact has been, most critically over the last 10 years and in particular with Scott Morrison’s 2019 “miracle”.
Like the more generic, more secular, “success”, Morrison’s “miracle” had many fathers – Opposition leader Bill Shorten and Tasmanian Dark Green Bob Brown to name but two – but Palmer’s $70m ad-spend was, arguably, the most potent.
This was because it didn’t only work in the utterly key state of Queensland, where Brown and his convoy did such sterling work, but importantly also in NSW, Victoria and WA, where Shorten did his best to re-elect Morrison.
By the conclusion of this coming election campaign, Palmer will have spent something more than $200m – just let that sink in, nearly a quarter of a billion dollars – in his three key campaigns, 2013, 2019 and now this year.
This is something utterly unprecedented in down under politics; an individual spending that sort of money in political campaigning. And on the surface, it has delivered very little reward.
He personally won a lower house seat in 2013, but that was short-lived and his party imploded as “his” three senators all went rogue, with only Jacqui Lambie reconstructing herself into a successful, separate, personal brand.
In his Covid-delayed speech to the National Press Club – in the very belly of the beltway bubble beast — Palmer unveiled three keystone policy proposals.
They were the 3 per cent cap on mortgage interest rates, the 15 per cent tax on iron ore exports, and mandating superannuation funds “bring back” $1 trillion of money they have invested overseas for reinvestment in Australia.
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Were they serious policy proposals? Of course not. None of them stand even the most cursory scrutiny; but nor were they intended to.
Were they potent political gambits into an election campaign, and very specifically tuned to the Palmer dynamic and his ability to spend tens of millions of dollars in advertising? You betcha.
Each touches on raw points of irritation – both on the right and the left – and in the process hoists both of the major parties on their own petards.
Every pet shop galah, in the words of a former treasurer, is now parroting interest rate rises galore. Never have we had more housing debt. Never has the average mortgage been a greater share of an individual – and even more pungently, of a two-person pairing’s – disposable income.
Palmer has a “solution”: just wave a magic legislative wand and cap the rate at which home loans rates could rise to at 3 per cent.
How could the experts, the insiders ridicule it? After all, we’ve just had two years when the Reserve Bank has done exactly that; mandating a base rate of 0.1 per cent and so, effectively, a mortgage rate of 2 per cent?
If the RBA could “do it” for two years, in the Covid emergency, why couldn’t it be done for five years in a housing debt emergency?
Of course, two years of bad policy – the consequences of which, we are in the process of discovering – does not make a continuation into a further five years of an at least similarly bad and arguably much worse policy either justifiable or effective.
The same formula applies with the other two.
Why should our major iron ore miners wax ludicrously rich for selling our dirt, with the level of prices having nothing to do with the fundamentals of the projects themselves? Why shouldn’t our number one enemy pay 15 per cent more to get our iron ore?
In truth it wouldn’t; the cost would be split between buyer and exporter; and then only while our iron ore was so dominant that we could be price-setters up to a point; after that it could be carried by the exporter, just another tax.
Why shouldn’t super funds which get the multi-billion dollar benefit every year of compulsory super be required to invest some part of that money into Australian jobs and development?
Like all populist proposals, they have more than a kernel of validity in them. Further, pompous “elite” dismissal of them, founded in stupidity, ignorance and arrogance, just serves to make them more credible to the very voters at which they are directed.
What else are existing royalties? Doesn’t the RBA’s official – and officially manipulated – interest rate effectively cap home loan rates?
But, more relevantly, to go down this sort of analytical path is to completely miss the Palmer point. The object is not serious policy proposal, discussion and validation, but vote-harvesting – drawing from both the left and the right – leveraged by Palmer’s unique ability, and willingness, to spend big, very concentrated dollars.
No, it’s not going to elevate him into the Lodge or indeed anywhere near it; of course Palmer knows that and it’s not the point, even in the privacy of Palmer’s fantasies.
But the proposals plus the spend – plus the voter dissatisfaction with the party and the PM in power; the lack of enthusiasm and more than a dash of distrust of the fake seeking to sneak through – will impact on the election outcome just as it did very significantly in 2019.
What should be the “known unknown”, is that whereas in 2019 Palmer spent his $70m in effect as free advertising for the Coalition, this time it is not nearly as clear-cut.
That’s captured in the messiness of how the Senate vote will play out in Queensland, with four “candidates” for the third and fourth slots nominally in the gift of the right. Indeed, worse case, it could “lose” that fourth slot to the left.
Just keep watching those increasingly ubiquitous “yellow spaces”.

I still call it Ayer’s Rock. I can never remember how many loos or roos there are in ooralooraroolaaiaddiay.

Fat Clive’s Magic Maths:

“The United Australia Party will introduce a 15%-export licence for all iron ore exports from this country, and will pledge the proceeds from such licences to be used for the retirement of the one trillion-dollar debt mountain that Australia faces.

“Our modelling which we will release before the election confirms the export licence proceeds will reduce the debt level by 70% within 15 years and in the process save Australia from high interest rates.

The Australian iron ore industry at a glance. Based on record pricing, the realised export value in 2021, all grades, was likely around A$149 bn.

Assuming the high A$ price holds and buyers are prepared to swallow a 15% increase on top and maintain volume, Cloive’s tax would raise ~A$22 bn pa, or ~$335 bn over 15 years.

About 50% of his nominal policy target – which must be built on very, very heroic assumptions.

As Terry McCann observes, the fact that UAP’s policies fall apart at a gentle touch is irrelevant. Fat Bastard is just having a lark with his munni – and taking the piss out of his 70,000 fans.

And Australian politics thoroughly deserves it.

Gruinaid has the usual “ogga-booga” Le pen story.

But realistically what is wrong with all these bad things?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/french-politics-marine-le-pen-france-europe

Le Pen’s economic programme is an incoherent mess. Her European policy is Frexit by stealth* – unilaterally reducing payments to the EU budget and breaking EU laws she does not like**. She also wants to ban all Muslim women from wearing veils in public – not just the burqa***, which was outlawed in 2010. She plans to discriminate against foreigners, including EU nationals, with regards to eligibility for benefits.****

*French been given an opportunity to opt out lately??? No? Then voting for someone who will is the next best proxy.
** So keeping french money from french taxpayers for the benefit of the french?- How old fashioned.
*** So in effect helping liberate these ladies from a shame culture which treats women as second class people and allowing them to assimilate into the wider french culture…
**** Emergeeeerd, shes going to restrict benefits to French people…

Seriously, if thats the worst they can throw at her???

True, Sancho at 12.34pm. But the Fat Bastard’s policy wishlist, designed as it is to attract low-information voters, is not what he is spending his advertising dollars on.

The TV ads are pure protest party for pissed off LNP voters, of which there is an avalanche on account of Scotty From Marketing believing in nothing and selling out the party base with stunts like Net Zero. a neo-communist strategy designed to destroy capitalism, the free market and Western culture.

The ads are creating plenty of business for the Fat Bastard party, which will probably replace the Filth as the dominant minor party in the next decade – if he stays interested for long enough.

The second major ambition of the Fat Bastard party, as far as I can tell, is to reduce the LNP-ALP primary vote to a record low at the next election, which the FBP will do easily, in my opinion.

Because it canr be said enough.

Biden is a brain diseased old high stepping (When I was at greylands all the loonies had distinctive walks) mong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeXW1Ys1KHg

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
April 9, 2022 at 12:32 pm
His grand daughter is an ALP MP.

Wow, which one is she?

Sharon Claydon, Member for Newcastle since 2013. Said to be his grand daughter, but I have not done a genealogical search.

Ground Hog Day. How many times has this ATO story been mentioned now as I have lost count ? and so it goes on. Nobody cares except JC.

It is unfortunately JC’s routine to keep repeating things so each day is a repeat of the day before.

Then when he is called out on it he is like the kid with chocolate around his mouth saying it wasn’t me.
“JC says:
April 9, 2022 at 11:18 am
Oh oh oh I had 4 audits and an apology letter from the ATO in one year. Ho Ho Ho”

You know, much like watching Trotsky mongs and Stalin spastics attacking each other its enjoyable to see old guard feminists and the twitter feminists at war with each other.

In this case I think the legbeard brigade is bayoneting the wounded and unwell who havent been able to crawl off the battlefield.
Ive got a legbeard crush on Bindel just for her savagery.

Worth a RTWT for savagery and some seriously bizarre connections between mentally ill people.
https://thecritic.co.uk/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-narcissism/

Gender Goblin Laurie Penny, who is equally invested in the “some women have penises” school of logic, is an ex of Lavery’s. I mention this only because Penny has often bragged about it on social media. Penny was conversing with Lavery, prior to them chickening out, about their debating skills.

Penny, replied, “Yes darling I know. You told me on our first date. That’s why I’m glad you’re on our side.” The exchange between the pair then turned into discussing Lavery’s skills in the sack, which Penny remarked she* might put on a T-shirt. I will spare you the details.

…
I think we have a new Liberty Quote here.

I will not use female pronouns for Lavery because of the sheer amount of willy in the book

…
Keeping it classy.
In their new book, Lavery describes their penis as feeling “as though I were laying my own miscarried foetus across my hand”.
…
As one feminist friend remarked when I was explaining the use of the term “her erect penis” in a liberal British newspaper when reporting on the trans-identified sex offender Karen White who had sexually assaulted female prisoners: “The only time the use of the phrase ‘her penis’ is acceptable is if a woman castrates her rapist and holds it up as a kind of trophy.”

A lot of American city names are Indian. I think Chicago is one I think.

So to is Manhattan, a native word for island with hills.

So St Ruth.
In relation to the quarantine facilities, you never described them as “concentration camps” or “death camps” or used phrases like “Arbeit macht frei” in relation to those facilities?

Before I answer this lying cockhead, JC, please don’t use the word c..t here, in it’s full.
Have some fucking class.

I am not backing away from anything.
I believe, if we don’t beat these people, YES, they will be concentration camps. Prisons for the innocent, just the wrong people according to the government.

Now if they’ve made the jab mandatory outside the walls of the camps, and people are dying already, Sancho can’t possibly work out what might happen inside the camps.
This level of denialism is so incredibly dangerous.
This delusion.
This complete break from reality.

Fucking Australia is already a big death camp, you great fuckwit, and the people doing the killing via jabs, have built the camps!!

Scoff away, wanker.
It’s either fear or stupidity with denialism.

I believe the correct course of action is to be highly suspect of criminal tyrannical government where you Sancho, believe in waiting to be carted away in the cattle cars before you’ll entertain the idea anything is wrong.
You’re a prize goose.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s the Qld government

Lizzie, you need not worry about explaining capital gains tax. That’s what Hairy is for.

Yes, quite right, Rabz. He has tried to explain capital gains tax to me many times and I always get it wrong. What is tax free proportion and what is not and how to calculate and apply the damned tax and all of that. The accountant does it anyway, but it is good that one of us understands what is going on there.

Critical Grooming Theory though, my sort of CGT, I think it is a very good thing and so easy to apply.
All progressives take part in it, no matter how much they wail and complain they don’t. In that respect, it is like the rest of us with Critical Race Theory. Progressives are complicit with indoctrinating toddlers into gender bending so they are all groomers. Quad erat demonstrandum. Same logic as CRT uses, so they can’t complain.

From today’s party, however, I must say that indoctrinating toddlers into anything is a fairly thankless and difficult task. We’re back home now. Grandpa has had to retire for a lie down and I’m a bit queasy because I OD’d on icecream cake, some which now seems to decorate my clothing. Not my doing, that’s little toddler hands at work there.

Whada you fucker talk about, you bloody stupid dago, wop? .
Knowing that the jab also creates neurological disorders it should be funny to hear how me saying people know who I am, to me wanting to sue people.

There’s some fucking big dots to join.

Hey Stuth, just out of curiosity you keep repeating the nonsense that people know who you are. Is this some sort of veiled threat that you’ll try on a lawsuit against someone?

I’m seriously saying this JC.
Get checked out.

All the bright young parents of toddlers arrived carrying their colourful ‘Kidstuff – for a brighter child’ plastic bags containing the present ready-wrapped as part of the service, and we were no different, arriving with our similar offering from the same place too. We know how to behave at such do’s.

The difference is that at the conclusion of the presenting presents my daughter-in-law scoops up all the wrapping rubbish, tips it into one of the bigger Kidstuff bags, and then rams all of the other Kidstuff bags in on top to go to the bins. And she’s a rabid greenie with degrees in environmental engineering! I was shocked. I would have carefully folded up those various sized bags and put them away for further use, not because I’m in any way green but because I come from a generation of savers of useful things. Not so today’s millennial parents.

Why do you often say that people know who you are?

I don’t.

DOJ Sentences NextEra Energy for “Blatant Disregard”, Killing 150 Eagles

DOJ
ESI Energy LLC, Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Nextera Energy Resources LLC, is Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to Killing and Wounding Eagles in Its Wind Energy Operations, in Violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

According to the information filed in this case:

– ESI and its affiliates deliberately elected not to apply for or obtain any ETP intended to ensure the preservation of bald and golden eagles, and instead chose to construct and operate facilities it knew would take eagles, and in fact took eagles, without any permits authorizing that take.
– Because ESI did not seek any ETPs, it avoided any immediate federal obligation to avoid and minimize eagle take to the maximum degree practicable and to pay for compensatory mitigation for the eagle deaths.
– Because some other wind energy companies (1) altered proposed operations as required to avoid and minimize take levels to the maximum degree practicable, (2) applied for ETPs, (3) obtained ETPs that in some cases were impacted by take levels caused by ESI’s unpermitted facilities, and/or (4) paid mitigation for eagle takings, ESI, by not doing these things, gained a competitive advantage relative to those wind energy companies.
– ESI and its affiliates began commercial operations at new facilities on a schedule intended to meet, among other things, power purchase agreement commitments and qualifying deadlines for particular tax credit rates for renewable energy, and with production amounts not impacted by avoidance and minimization measures that might have been required under an eagle take permit. ESI and its affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits for generating electricity from wind power at facilities that it operated, knowing that multiple eagles would be killed and wounded without legal authorization, and without, in most instances, paying restitution or compensatory mitigation.

Wow, Michael Long – Cyril Rioli’s uncle – of all people tells the world that the King has no pants:

‘We all make mistakes, but this is not a colour thing. It’s about a pair of jeans and even though Shannyn might have felt humiliated, you don’t end someone’s football career over that.

‘That’s a sad state of affairs.’

Long, who won two premierships with the Bombers, also questioned why the other Indigenous players who were at the club at the same time as his nephew never reported any issues.

‘There were a lot of Indigenous players at the club at the time — Shaun Burgoyne was there, Lance [Franklin] was there and before that Chance [Bateman] […] there’s good leadership there,’ he said.

‘I don’t think any of those players spoke out about racial issues and I’ve never heard anything, and his mum has never said anything to me about this.

‘I don’t know where it’s coming from.’

Long obviously doesn’t want fake charges of racism to detract from the real thing. Good on him.

I would have carefully folded up those various sized bags and put them away for further use, not because I’m in any way green but because I come from a generation of savers of useful things. Not so today’s millennial parents.

Ah, yes. I too am an Albert Steptoe when it comes to party detritus. I have a collection of gift bags ready for repurposing and transporting items, and a vast array of the odds and ends of napkins, paper plates, plastic “disposable”
cups and stemware. All unused, all destined for the bin. I saved some particularly nice napkins (about 200) and striped paper plates and platters just recently.

Need a small container for left-overs, some napkins, balloons? Visit the the two vast crates of “Party Stuff” and discover more – plastic tablecloths, straws, glitter scatters, poppers. Ghosts of long forgotten 18ths, 21sts, baby showers, engagement parties, hens, kitchen teas and christenings.

My morning tea girls are still using the napkins from a 21st. We’ll get through them eventually.

Sharon Claydon, Member for Newcastle since 2013. Said to be his grand daughter, but I have not done a genealogical search.

Stop your lying, SpongeBob.
Sharon Claydon [b. 1964] can'[t possibly be the granddaughter of a guy 73 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Claydon
Very scant personal info on Claydon, so there’s definitely more to the story.

People know who I am.
JC, that’s just a fact.
Look, every since you took the jab, you’ve been a different boy.
People are suffering all sorts of issues.
I’m serious.
Just go and make sure the blood is getting to all parts of the scone.

I haven’t had the Flu since 1972

That’s almost impossible in itself and nearly impossible to confirm.

Sure, never had a severe flu, that’s entirely possible.

No one is ever unknown.
Very strange claim, St ruth.

All I know struth is really Ken Worth, someone who purports to be the fountain of knowledge, a bit like the tree of knowledge. A poisoned old stump.

People know who I am? Do they point and laugh?

I’m pretty boring.

If people want to threaten me, I’m as boring as the guy in Force 10 from Navarrone who gets iced by the allies when he’s making a cup of tea.

“We doxxed the guy who…ZZZzzzzzzzzzz…….”

Weird as I noticed the same thing down Mackay way. Minor parties are very visible but majors are very low key. As if they aren’t wasting resources on a preordained outcome…

Palmer owns the billboard space, Labor just makes itself appear tiny by trying to compete.

There’s no fore ordained outcome, the Media are trying to talk up Albanese, but going on the way his minders protect him from unscripted scrutiny, he’s another Joe Biden.
With a nasty temper.
So, his only faint hope is for a Postal Only Election or to be laid low with Covid for the entire Campaign and allow more presentable Surrogates to argue Labor’s case.

You’ve never actually said anything, have you Frank?
You’ve sneered and called people names, keep trying to niggle and when you do finally tell us something, it’s all lies!
The whole story.

You are a sad fuck, with nothing to say.
Your schtick shows you to be lacking in confidence, unhappy with yourself as a man, because underneath you know you lack the integrity found in any average Joe.

Every sneer saying nothing, just here to niggle and cause shit, shows how sad you are.
Yet for someone with no opinions on anything, you are on here rubbishing the opinions of others 24/7.
You’re a sad fuck, that’s for sure.

There isn’t any evidence that RUS have used Tochka-U missiles since this began or since they ‘reportedly’ returned to service.

If you say so.

Given what’s going on, the launch of nuclear capable ballistic missiles in Eastern Europe is presumably being fairly carefully monitored by all sides.

If it is, in fact, a Ukrainian false flag (and you can’t discount the possibility) it’s obviously game over for Zelenski and his NATO buddies. It’s also a massive spike in US hegemony, probably the end of Taiwan, and a huge Fuck You Victory of historical proportions for the Poot.

Seems strange then that the Kremlin is relying on ‘Tochka? What is Tochka? Ukrainian missile. We sent a letter to the UN about no Russian Tochka’ – rather than slamming down the satellite evidence and demanding Joe Biden immediately comes to Moscow to perform ritual fellatio – before resigning in shame and dying of dementia.

Perhaps they’re teasing.

New videos expose Disney’s radical turn
Fox News

Pearl Harbor, the Americans knew it was coming, since they’d broken the Japanese Diplomatic Codes.
Sure, they moved the 4 Carrier Groups outta the road, but left the obsolete Battleships to be junked, along with 3,000 Sailors.

Summary – ADE Based Infection of The Immune Cells in Severe COVID
Drbeen Medical Lectures

Epping accent

No. No one in Epping speaks like that.

It’s straight out of NIDA – How Posh People Speak 101.

You can’t do this with a grader!

Scraper trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbjbqzEYjFM

Must be a Woodstock can man.

Sack him immediately for running an engine at that angle.

Ignorant 1D flat roader.

calli says:
April 9, 2022 at 2:36 pm

Ah, yes. I too am an Albert Steptoe when it comes to party detritus.

Albert Steptoe.

I just had a horrible image flash through my mind, Calli sitting in the bath with a large bottle of pickled onions.