Just let churn reach the point where you are spending more on customer acquisition.
Open Thread – Weekend 23 April 2022
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- US Presidential Election 2024 Thread
Back in 2013 this is what Kevin Rudd said about Abbott…. Asked about the growing likelihood of armed conflict, Mr…
We live in a joke of a country.It’s disgraceful, but I’m not sure there’d be a different outcome anywhere else…
Sancho Panzer November 13, 2024 5:46 pmOn Spud logic (which he used on Sinc-Cat to try to say 93.1% of Americans…
I think it’s called empowering the consumer with choice.
Elbow now facing another leadership test after failing to deal with the mean girls; what to do with his deputy, Richard Marles, who is slated to be defence minister in his government?
Seems like a good time to be in the market for Japanese autos.
China yuan devaluation coming up.
More evidence that the political class are contemptible trash.
I wonder what they’re after and if there might be two of them?
Was reading something a few years back about the Falklands War. It seems the carrier HMS Hermes had nuclear weapons on board throughout. From memory they were depth charges.
“The consequences of a war between the US and China” – Kevin Rudd
MIT Security Studies Program
Pressure from the right has led Macron, who in 2018 said there was no such thing as French culture, to crusade for Muslims to assimilate. The older demographic may have given him a pass for that and preferred the devil thay knew to the alternative.
Thanks for that but might give it a miss, I have just eaten.
Chuckle: “He’s fluent in Mandarin”!
From PM and aspiring UN leader to addressing a couple of dozen people as CEO of the “Asia Society.”
I think Rudd has finally found his level.
Oh my.
1h 17 mins.
Mmm…my gutters could do with a clean.
Or declare those who didn’t choose precisely that form of protest as lacking in patriotism.
I’m happy to criticise anyone who doesn’t consider the last years to be an absolute disaster entirely built by government.
Oh my.
Prepare for the usual drill, Scumo wakes from his slumber and then does something really stupid.
From memory they were depth charges.
What’s the sub kill radius on a nuclear depth charge?!?
I get the impression that Macron has zero tolerance for Islamic extremism.
The French police monitor mosques pretty closely and close down the naughty ones.
Can you imagine that happening here?
I also get the impression the protests on Place de la Republique are from the left.
Le Pen does seem to like government spending.
le pen mixes hard-line policies with social welfare to widen appeal.
Lathe of the week for WA cats!
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/the-vines/power-tools/machine-lathe/1294048202
Mill of the week for Northern NSW cats!
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/taree/power-tools/milling-machine-bridgeport-model-jb/1294043960
There are no parties (outside the lunatic fringe) of small government.
What’s the sub kill radius on a nuclear depth charge?!?
Dunno, but I suppose it depends on the size of the charge.
Macaroon just sounds like another WEF clone similar to Trudoe. Another dead soul.
He’s only reiterating what the US delegation to the Solomons said on Thursday. That led to Sogavare, who is feeling domestic heat as well, agreeing to further talks to address American concerns. What are the odds his government is replaced next year and the deal torn up? Pretty good, I’d think.
She’s not alone there or elsewhere.
I would find it difficult to vote for le pen, the background is a one policy party, the destruction of french culture with mass migration. migration was a thing in france even in the 70s, now its an invasion. aside from reverting the tide, all parties in france seem to be leftist.
the single most underlying problem in western civilisation is the below replacement birth rate, fix it and many problem disappear, ignore it and we stumble from one catastrophe to inevitable decline and fall.
I think so too. I can’t see the locals putting up with a close relationship with Chinese , no love loss there. No different to most Melanesian islands really. The green eye arising from Sogavare’s new bestie’s “gifts” won’t do him any good at all. This whole event looks rather temporary.
kevni sees the writing on the wall, it’s commendable that he thinks there is a way out. the agendas though are a done deal
the single most underlying problem in western civilisation is the below replacement birth rate
Pretty much what Musk is saying.
But after his political demise he’ll be able retire to a mansion in Auckland or Sydney with harbour views.
rickw that mill and lathe is a good buy.
Some good impressions done here.
https://twitter.com/themattfriend/status/1518353178282102784
Daily Tele:
Rugby league is great at honouring Anzac Day and the Diggers who fought so bravely for our country.
That’s what makes it so disappointing to witness Canberra Raiders forward Corey Horsburgh disrespecting the tradition by chewing gum and blowing a bubble during the pre-game ceremony at Penrith on Sunday.
No doubt Raiders coach Ricky Stuart will be having words with his player about this bad look. Horsburgh is a decent fella and will hopefully learn from this.
Indeed.
Probably guaranteeing some sort of Chinese naval visit to Honiara during the erection.
A very stupid man.
According to son who mixes with movers and shakers , Monique Ryan who is trying to oust Josh from Kooyong , has $12 million to do it .
Any cats know if this is true , what have you heard?
Diggers fought bravely, for what?
It’s not very based to proclaim we are free now because of the Diggers.
Macron is a weirdo: one of Klaus’s graduates from the World Economic Forum, married his mother, has no biologic children.
Speaking of French Presidents…
When Mrs. Thatcher dined with French President Giscard in Paris he insisted on being served first because he was a head of state whereas she was merely head of a government.
When the pompous Frenchman later visited Thatcher in No. 10, she sat opposite him at a table flanked by busts of Wellington and Nelson on the mantle behind her.
Chuckle.
Mrs T had her faults and was a bit silly now and then but what a giant she is compared to the trash that has followed her.
Major pretty much did a Howard and outed himself as a bush/clinton globalist
Oh dear. Another Fox News host I can no longer listen to – ex-Pom (originally from Hungary) Steve Hilton has a Sunday night (US time) show called The Next Revolution and, like Shaun Hannity, most of it is a lecture against the leftards trying to destroy America, from the Biden White House down.
It’s not information you can learn from; it’s doctrine – the mirror image (i.e., the polar opposite) of what Marxists are inflicting on university students.
If I want to be indoctrinated, I’ll go to a scholar I want to learn from, like constitutional scholar Mark Levin, whose excellent hour, Life Liberty and Levin, precedes Hilton’s.
Sadly, I can no longer tune in to Hilton’s show without the sound turned down because he has turned into a wild-eyed zealot.
I blame the Hungarian revolution, which Hilton’s parents endured.
Chewing gum and blowing a bubble while the “Last Post” was being played..
I guess my point re Le Pen is I see little common cause with more freedom, less government.
Yes but she seems to have a soul.
France is accepting election results in the traditional way:
Police have opened fire on a car that was hurtling towards them in Paris, killing two people inside, as riots broke out in the wake of the French election.
We have a booked and fully-paid ten day holiday in Sri Lanka which we couldn’t take in lockdown in 2020 still awaiting for us. We thought we might take it later this year, before our October cruise to the Panama, also one that replaces the one we missed in 2020. But reading the link about ‘descent in chaos’ it seems that we would be revisiting the Sri Lanka I lived in for nearly a year with my first husband and baby in 1973. I was wanting to see how much things have changed since those dreadful times, when typhoid and cholera was endemic with epidemic spurts, and food and other shortages were rampant as imported goods were axed and nothing was available. At least then a lot of the population were still subsistence farmers although the ruling class sounds exactly the same.
It presents like hell on wheels now. Won’t be reprising my memories there any time soon.
Well my $500.00 is gone, no regrets as only pocket change.
Sorry for the French who get to bend over for more of the same but harder.
I’d be taking a suitcase full of cut lunches to Ceylon, Lizzie.
She planned to introduce popular referenda on laws, effectively bypassing the parliament.
Whether that would have resulted in more freedom, less government is moot for the time being. I don’t see a hankering for small government anywhere much these days, alas.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
April 25, 2022 at 11:42 am
Expect a fleet of Sri Lankan refugees soon:
Sri Lanka’s descent into chaos
We have a booked and fully-paid ten day holiday in Sri Lanka which we couldn’t take in lockdown in 2020 still awaiting for us. We thought we might take it later this year, before our October cruise to the Panama,
Don’t worry all will get better soon as China finishes their take over.
I think I said here a couple of weeks ago that the LePens seem to always do OK in the initial ballot, drawing on a protest vote.
But the raised hopes are invariably dashed when they fall short in the final ballot.
I’ve heard nothing, not from Vic though. Allegra Spender is wealthy by family connections but cries poor about ‘living in strata’. lol, ‘strata’ around here can mean anything up to and beyond $10m, especially in ’boutique’ blocks. She is certainly not short of compaign funds, and we know their source even if not their amount.
Possibly Min this is a reference to Monique Ryan’s nett worth? Sounds a lot even for an ousting joust.
A bold move that would virtually ensure Mr. Sogavare’s demise.
Plenty of green filth multi millionaires in Kooyong.
Who knows?
Yes. The Chinese were sniffing around even in 1973, but very low key, and didn’t do much.
I’m wondering how much Chinese investment there has been since in Sri Lanka though. One thing I wanted to see was the way in which, once opened up, the economy seemed to boom. They were always good with textiles and clothes manufacturing in a local sense, and that seemed to have been developed further as I found myself looking at imported Sri Lankan children’s clothing at times in the 80’s and 90’s. The war dragged them down, but the place when we booked to go seemed so vastly different to the Venezuela-type of place that I remembered in the 70’s.
Perhaps they are one of those countries that have a skill for constant disintegration.
The price of fuel for the boats might be a spanner in the works of the people smugglers’ business plan for now.
NT wallopers persecuting knife attack hero:
https://nationalshooting.org.au/stabbing-hero-nt-cops-raid-rons-place-seize-vinegar-chilli-oil/
Like I thought, it’s not Le Penists out in the streets.
“Several hundred demonstrators from ultra-left groups took to the streets in some French cities to protest Macron’s re-election and Le Pen’s score. Police used tear gas to disperse gatherings in Paris and the western city of Rennes”
news.com.au
A bold move that would virtually ensure Mr. Sogavare’s demise.
The entire exercise does that.
The local Chinese population is the target of choice when the Red Mist descends on the Malaitans/Guads every few years.
Having the PLA step in won’t play well – especially for those whose bag of used fivers has gone missing.
… what to do with his deputy, Richard Marles, who is slated to be defence minister in his government?
Give Wong the job?
Any truth to the old rumor that Richard Marles had become a Muslim?
And more evidence Trump belted the old scumbag in 2020:
A STOLEN ELECTION: State Totals Minus Illegal Ballot Trafficking Numbers Give President Trump Decisive Victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI
Wut?
They don’t use much fuel.
The plan was always to tow them ten miles off Indonesia where they ring DFAT Tugboats and Towing on a satellite phone.
Better wait a few more weeks boys.
A bunch of casho in USD would be more useful, as I know from past experience. You can get anything on the black market if you have Sterling or USD and contacts (we did, it is a very corrupt place and we stayed with an elite family in a local town; I purchased all my baby’s milk imported as local powdered milk was contaminated – more corruption – and killing babies).
People always seem to view Le Pen as left vs. right, when the way I see it is she is nationalist vs. globalist. Increasing numbers look like they’re waking up to politicians selling out the people they are supposed to represent in favor of various global organisations, but it’s not been enough to change it via peaceful means.
Can’t buy anything if there is nothing for sale.
What Sri Lanka seems to need is free stuff because they don’t have any money to pay for imports.
Doctor Monique.
Prominent on all campaign flim flam.
Read: trustworthy, compassionate, expert.
Don’t ask how a medical degree qualifies you for politics.
She does seem to be splashing money on Ted Baillieu’s son (think apple not far from tree) and a team of Getup style of young people who make a lot of noise in local shopping centres at lunchtimes.
Sri Lanka is collapsing. Its economy is at a tipping point. The country is witnessing one of the worst economic and political crises in its history, with massive protests demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation. The protests were sparked by a marked decline in living standards as Sri Lankans have been battling long and frequent power cuts and a 25 per cent increase in food prices.
splashing money on Ted Baillieu’s son
The plot thickens. Does he work on her campaign?
Losing control of the borders would destroy a Labor government.
Well, it’d destroy Albanese’s premiership, at least.
Hard to imagine who’d have the mettle to take over once “a good government lost its way” though.
Fascinating and revealing how many old lieboral names are popping up amongst the ‘voices’- Baillieu, McPhee, Spender, Tink. Tells us a lot.
An ABC Anzac day: 774 down here in Danistan has just spent the best part of an hour soliciting criticism of RSL clubs, their “lack of diversity”, poker machines, “overwhelming whiteness” and alleged cold shoulder for ethnic minorities whose forebears may have fought against Australian forces. This last will come as news to the several Italian names on the office-holders list at my local branch, but no matter.
Crowning the cavalcade of critics was a final caller who griped that (bet you can guess!) the RSL offers little to trans ex-servicefolk and needs to lift its game so the caller can “feel more welcome and enjoy acceptance”.
The good news is that a number of callers, punctuating the critiques of those with purple hair and nipple rings, defended and explained what the RSL is all about. The compere, some vapid fill-in for Triolli, actually had to back off and start making nice noises about community spirit.
All I know, apart from the excellent $18 roasts when I can’t be bothered cooking, is that the RSL did a terrific job helping Dad in his final years. He was a lovely but habitually difficult man who never followed instructions, doctors orders and, often, good sense, but the RSL welfare officer coped with all of that and more.
They were terrific with Mum too, who was just as difficult as Dad and politely declined all invitations to join the widows’ outings. She quipped that she had enough lavender in the garden already and didn’t need to inhale it on a bus full of old biddies.
All in all, what this morning’s broadcast brought to mind wasn’t what a low and loathsome organisation is the ABC, but the lower and even more loathsome jellyback who just gave the national broadcaster a further $3.3 billion to keep pumping out this crap for the next three years.
It will be front of mind come election day.
Roger I don’t think they’d be able to help themselves- it’s an integral part of ‘social democrats’ playbook since bLIAR.
Managing the campaign, Milton, while declaring the Libs are backward looking, hard right conservatives.
Dog named Spot saves man stuck headfirst in septic tank
Questions. Fat bastard or tard?
News at 11.
Trump was a do nothing windbag, though he did manage to pardon
Susan B. Anthony
Jack Johnson
a Timber Rattlesnake Smuggler
a host of Jewish scammers, including Charles Kushner
a few black Bank Robbers and Coke Dealers
and Roger Stone.
It’s electoral poison in Australia, milt.
Besides which, they fly them in nowadays.
Sorry to those who have heard this before: In Sri Lanka we moved into an elite family’s large house on a walk-in basis, including servants. It was partly occupied by the owner’s brother and his wife; the brother was a friend of the DFAT friend of mine who introduced us by letter to pre-arrange all of this. I found the servants wouldn’t obey her because she was of a lower caste (he was an airforce elite Kandyan aristo pilot who married for ‘love’ and then regretted it.) I had to take over the running of the household in its basics just to keep things like the cleaning going. The Major Domo was the brother, who thankfully did all the ordering and food and wages bills went to the owner who was in the UK who settled them locally. We pre-paid full board accommodation costs to the owner in Sterling in the UK as they couldn’t take any Sterling out of the country.
Every morning the cook would come into our bedroom with tea for us, put it down, bow to my husband ‘good morning, Masta’ and to me ‘good morning, Lady’ and to our baby in his cot ‘good morning, Baby Masta’. Old Colonial ritual ways were still alive and well at that time in that house, the bastion of civilisation in a disintegrating outer world. We ate a formal meal in the dining room every night, sometimes accompanied by the brother (but not his wife), with the cook standing in as butler, waiting unless we dismissed him, and servant girls bringing in the dishes.
Like living in a Jane Austen novel in the midst of a dream of manners, more British than Britain ever was, little traditions of a more stable time fending off the chaos outside . They were Christians. Sometimes the bishop would arrive for a meal and an evening of sitting on chairs circling the walls in the great reception room with local bourgeoisie invited. The house was originally the home of the Colonial Administrator.
List of Trump’s Pardons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump
Swapped his 22 Timber Rattlesnakes for 22 American Alligators?
Not seeing any upside in that deal.
When discussing Anzac commemorations the annual two up game after the races at Flemington today rarely get a mention.
Not sure if it is RSL endorsed.
The spirit of a different time is resurrected briefly.
True Roger
Gallipoli ceremony gone woke!
Click.
Managing the campaign, Milton, while declaring the Libs are backward looking, hard right conservatives.
ah ok thank you- these people really haven’t got a clue how the standard of living they enjoy really comes about. Talk about Eloi.
I actually handed out how-to-votes for failu senior. What a fool I was.
Our booked trip was going to go through this town, and I was looking forward to viewing again the home of the Colonial Administrator, to see if it was still there. It was from there that the servants lined up in a row to say a final goodbye to us, and to each receive our monetary gifted thanks for their services to us. It was from there too that my sister arrived ten years later to adopt a six week old baby girl (now my dearest and totally Aussie-girl niece) that had been born to one of the servant girls in the household, who has now disappeared without trace when my niece returned to find her.
I suspect that the father was the jack-the-lad brother. Very hush-hush though all done legally with ‘father unknown’ written into the paperwork. The brother was later killed, so I’ve heard, in the civil war. The married couple owners of the house have long since migrated to join the Sri Lankan community in Melbourne and both have since passed away. My niece still knows their children, who although welcoming, claim to know nothing of her heritage, but strangers comment on their likeness.
Very evocative, Lizzie.
Am wading through Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet. It is superb, and your Jane Austen comparison is spot on. Scott draws attention to the way in which expat elites became dimly conscious of the receding tide of support back in England after the war. Left betrayed and stranded but continuing on comically and bravely and a touch pathetically.
Scott drank himself to death.
Trump was a do nothing windbag
LOL; donut, Trump literally brought world peace. The chunks and wussia would be still in their boxes if he hadn’t been cheated.
Whoops. Meant to say Scott drank himself to death so the Jane Austen comparison can be taken only so far.
Meant to say Scott drank himself to death so the Jane Austen comparison can be taken only so far.
It can’t be taken anywhere; no comparison at all.
Russian Tree disqualified from European “Tree of the Year” comp:
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/ok-this-is-seriously.html#disqus_thread
Take that, Rooskies!
Ed Case says:
April 25, 2022 at 12:22 pm
A STOLEN ELECTION: State Totals Minus Illegal Ballot Trafficking Numbers Give President Trump Decisive Victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI
News at 11.
Trump was a do nothing windbag, though he did manage to pardon
Susan B. Anthony
Jack Johnson
a Timber Rattlesnake Smuggler
a host of Jewish scammers, including Charles Kushner
a few black Bank Robbers and Coke Dealers
and Roger Stone.
Back on the drugs again?
Anzac Day. And people free to go to services as before.
That is something to be glad about.
We didn’t manage it this year, although in past years we have taken children.
Best wishes to those who went to remember and found encouragement and hope there.
I recall my grandfather Thomas, mum’s dad, who took the King’s Shilling in 1914 and spent part of his war in a prisoner of war camp in Turkey. He returned a broken man, and had no time for the Turks.
There is a great deal of similarity in the work of both writers.
Stick to what you know, cohenite.
Thanks, Jorge. I will see if the book is on Kindle, I think I might enjoy it.
And Lil’ Wayne, [rapper].
Pardoned him too.
But not James Fields [currently serving 400 years with 395 to go]
and anybody from Jan 6 2021.
Part 20 in what was initially an 8 part essay.
https://patelpatriot.substack.com/p/devolution-part-20?s=r
I’m remembering one of my grandmother’s relatives. Gassed on the Western Front, never recovered his health, in and out of “repat ” hospitals until he died in 1941, and was so disgusted at the standard of treatment he received that he returned his Service medals, in protest.
It’s a quartet, Lizzie, 2000 pages or so. I’d recommend starting with the second or third instalments. I’ m sure you’d love it knowing your taste for Amor Towles.
I’m very taken by today’s Liberty Quote. Even Everyman deserves a bit of a shout out on a day of hero’s.
the less the government does the better. time to burn 3/4 of all regulations
Ed Case,
Just how would Trump be able to pardon anybody from Jan 6 since he only had two weeks to go as President?
1/6 Prosecutions Proceed with Little Attention – Interview with Journalist Julie Kelly Glenn Greenwald
this seems completely pointless?
the less the government does the better. time to burn 3/4 of all regulations
That’s what the Boris Yeltsin Government of Russia said too.
After 5 years of that, Oligarchs were buying $300 million Super Yachts and average Russians were freezing to death.
Ukraine’s Forces “systematically and on purpose violate” Article 3 Human Rights – OSCE
In this time of change and uncertainty it is reassuring to know some things strand against the tide, the very small rock that passes for Sad Case’s brain being one of them.
rickw:
At the very first chance of showing moral leadership, they, like so many others in our society who endeavour to portray themselves as superior, balked.
And went with moral cowardice.
And by God, we’ve not forgotten.
this seems completely pointless?
It could be. In his latest part he references a constitutional crisis. How about that?
Have you even read it?
Today in Liberalism:
Three generations of the family at our dawn service today. Granddaughter#2 sang in the choir. No welcome to country, just the solemn ceremony and laying of many wreaths.
Best Man estmated the crowd c500. Not bad for a town of about 5,000. Sadly, covid meant I was forced* to stay in bed, warm and toasty, while the temperature struggled to rise to double figures.
*May contain traces of exaggeration.
Yep. Boats were a sop to the Liar Left by KRuddy( primarily in the Senate). When it became a $10bn problem, now just a rounding error, it was too late. Have the Liars learnt anything? History would suggest not.
” Understanding Women ” is now out in paperback
I might get the audiobook.
It is interesting to watch the exit from the last two years of what was largely street theatre.
I am seeing and hearing significant numbers of people who want to cling to the restrictions even after they are lifted.
Example. I saw two women in restaurant the other night wearing masks whilst at their table, only taking them off to eat.
And I am hearing (particularly on talkback radio) things like:-
“Shouldn’t we just stay safe rather than take risk …”
“I know we are allowed to, but Perfesser Sutton says it is advisable and prudent …”
Being told they can fill their boots and don a hazmat suit if they like doesn’t satisfy.
They want to impose it on others.
I am enjoying their feeling of disenfranchisement.
Global Shipping Update: China Is About To Wreck Your Summer
This is how many vessels are waiting to enter the port of Shanghai. Raising interest rates will not solve this problem (just saying)
Current Maritime Tracking
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:123.4/centery:30.4/zoom:8
The flip side of those who said the restrictions would never be lifted because globalist conspiracy.
Absent religion people still need to believe in something to make some sense of the world.
Of Eloi and Morlocks:
I thought we were comparing Jane Austen to Bon Scott.
Cohenite is the only bloke here whose missus (Jane) is older than him by a larger fraction that Manny Macron.
The elites are weird!
I never thought Novavax was going to be approved. I thought I’d lose my job or the government would give up on mandates first.
You go, girl:
Less than a month after I met my soulmate, I ended my 14-year marriage
Two kids left amongst the wreckage caused by this revolting woman’s overweening, adolescent self-indulgence.
Where’s Covaxin’?
How long before they take Zev Zelenko down from Twitter?
https://twitter.com/zelenkozev/status/1518432166153097217?s=21&t=GFxR9fGW-192z2DHQnOx_g
What the Fake Gulf War Atrocity Allegations Can Teach Us About Ukraine
Americans should reflexively distrust every claim about “Putin’s war crimes.”
Still, Trump and his supporters have plenty of reason to be skeptical of claims that the Russians are committing atrocities. We Americans have a long and proud tradition of being lied into war with false and lurid claims of war crimes abroad. We would do well to develop a healthy sense of distrust for anything about which the media, White House, and both parties are in agreement—especially when it comes to American intervention abroad.
Most Americans, at this point, know that the 2003 war in Iraq was based on the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them. The infamous image of Colin Powell holding up a vial of white powder before the United Nations is proof positive of the willful deception engaged in by the Bush Administration to push us into war.
Less well known is that the first Gulf War was also based on a lie.
Unpacking the precise nature of that lie is instructive for our contemporary situation.
China Is in Charge of the COVID Coverup
Legal agreement allows Wuhan to destroy documents at a University of Texas lab funded by Anthony Fauci’s NIAID.
A 2017 memorandum of understanding between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston gives the Chinese government-owned biological research lab the right to demand the U.S. taxpayer-funded facility destroy documents, a new report reveals.
According to the MOU: “All cooperation and exchanges documents, data, details and materials shall be treated as confidential by the parties. . . The confidentiality obligation shall be obligatory through the duration of this MoU and after it has been terminated. The party is entitled to ask the other to destroy and/or return the secret files materials without any backups.” (emphasis added).
The document was signed by UTMB investigator James W. LeDuc, WIV coordinator Zhiming Yuan, and UTMB senior vice president and general counsel Carolee A. King, an expert in “health care and regulatory law, hospital compliance, fraud and abuse, medical liability, physician practice and clinical research.”
U.S. Right to Know, which obtained the memorandum, headlined its story “Wuhan lab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab.”
You could rewrite that article, making the author a husband, and change ‘Jason’ to ‘Jasmine’ – it works perfectly, even down to the bit where the author can’t stop checking out Jason’s/Jasmine’s chest – imagine the screeching from the sisterhood.
He’s a poon hound.
Yes, your genitals are some sort of interdimensional portal. The gate of Venus matters more than your children. They are adornments for your crown.
High level physics seems to be tamed by her poon. What a magical poon it is, children.
That was the Hamster Wheel if Rationalisation going harder than you the night before, at 45,000 rpm.
Seems like a well thought out idea with no downsides.
You don’t have a family anymore. Your husband does.
Our Spanish Civil War?
Deep and brutal strife in 1930s Spain was a prelude to the barbarity of World War II. Now with the war in Ukraine, we’re reminded that the veneer of civilization is very thin.
From 1936 to 1939, the civil war in Spain became a European laboratory of new tactics, strategies, logistics, wartime morality, and weapons. Right-wing nationalists under General Francisco Franco finally defeated loyal supporters of an evolutionary socialist republic—but only after much of the Western world had variously weighed in.
The cost to the Spanish people of such brutal and vicious strife was horrific. Over 500,000 Spaniards would die in a little over two-and-a-half years. The country was left in shambles.
Whether by design or by accident, Spain became a proving ground for many of the strategies, weapons, and tactics that would follow later in World War II. And it would be a preview of just how impotent democracies and international bodies were to stop aggressive powers.
Twitter reconsiders Elon Musk’s takeover bid after $46.5 billion in financing secured
Admire your work, dot.
That, um, lady’s new found world is going to come crashing down when the cad moves on.
Wtf is it with Dutton’s Peter Garrett-style makeover? I’m not sure chemotherapy chic is a good look…
From the final paragraphs on part 20…
These are the people I’m talking about. What if all the RINO’s in every state legislature holding back the decertification process are indicted? What if all those lawyers and corrupt judges, those Non-profit groups, those ballot stuffing mules – what if they all get indicted?
Definitive proof comes forth through these indictments that there was election fraud. How will the MSM spin this when they are also indicted as part of it?
How do we move forward as a country?
This would be the constitutional crisis I have been talking about. I could be wrong here but as far as I could find, there was no method for indicted individuals in our government to be removed from office other than to be voted out by their peers or resigning themselves.
I don’t imagine anybody would resign. Why would they? They would be handing over the little power they have left. Remember, an indictment is not a conviction, it just shows that a Grand Jury found enough evidence to justify a criminal trial. There are instances where indicted individuals are found innocent. That is why there is no rule in place to remove indicted members. Innocent until proven guilty.
A scenario like this would lead us to some sort of special election – a constitutional reset of sorts. It’s the only way I could see us getting out of a mess of this magnitude.
Is something like this what Trump is waiting for? A wave of indictments would shock the nation. It doesn’t matter what your political beliefs are because the indictments would cover both sides of the aisle. A scenario like this would be the taping open of the eyelids for the willfully ignorant, or otherwise brainwashed normie who has been blindfolded the past 6 years. Nobody would be able to look away.
Trump assisted the Durham investigation of Spygate and “certain related matters” (which he has been investigating in some form or another since at least April of 2017) by allowing our intelligence agencies (INCLUDING THE DOD) to declassify relevant material.
Trump issued a memorandum just so he could specifically declare that such declassified material can be used in Grand Jury proceedings. Grand Jury proceedings lead to sealed indictments, and that is the key. Literally thousands of individuals could have been indicted via sealed indictments and nobody would know, even those indicted, until they become unsealed. This is how you shock the nation awake and expose the magnitude of the corruption that has been perpetrated by the cabal for decades, if not longer.
I’ve always considered the Durham investigation to be just another piece of the devolution puzzle.
Is it possible the Durham investigation is part of the endgame?
I have skimmed through some of it, I can’t say I understand how it has any validity or applicability at this stage?
The SMH lifestyle pages want to make me take mine.
Preach it.
You answered your own question before you asked it, you stupid, self-interested skank.
Your children. Who will now grow up believing that you can and should choose to throw away raising children because you wouldn’t mind a bit of stray pipe.
I hope to God one or both those kids aren’t daughters.
Act like a 19 year old, and you’ll be treated like one – ie, used as practice until the other party gets bored and goes after another toy.
Enjoy your future cats, madam.
Let’s not blame ‘Jason’. She’s the one who threw over her husband and children because her marriage lacked the zing of a teenage romance.
It is difficult to overstate how damaging divorce is for children. It should never be undertaken frivolously. And what makes divorce even more damaging for the children is when things become acrimonious between the parents. Given this awful woman apparently feels entirely justified in her actions (proud, even – to the extent that she a book about them, it seems), she no doubt feels she’s entitled to the kids, the house, the works into the bargain. I suspect the unfortunate ex may not be amenable to this – I sure as hell wouldn’t be. Poor children.
Roger at 2:02.
Quite so.
The shrieking idealogues on both sides of this have been something to behold.
Why I hear angry heavy diesel revving and very expensive-sounding missed-gear-change noises?
It is an unimpeachable indictment of the degeneracy of our culture that the utterly shameful behaviour of this woman’s is celebrated (and thus tacitly encouraged). This is not as reprehensible as ‘shouting’ one’s abortion, but it isn’t so far off, either.
She shouldn’t, as a matter of law, be able to walk away with anything more than her personal property. Everything else should go to the wronged party, here, her husband and the children. And, he and the children, are, indeed, wronged. And we shouldn’t let the ‘poon hound’ off the hook either. A sound polity would fine people that knowingly have affairs with married people as they are willing participants in the harm that is caused.
Just to continue a previous theme, before I head off elsewhere to watch the Pies v Dons:
James Sicily is a ginger flogbag who needs to be shirtfronted.
On the field, getting a haircut, doing the shopping, looking at himself in the mirror. Open licence.
If they went around shirtfronting every flog in the AFL it wouldn’t leave a lot of time for the footy.
Ummm, we do have “no fault ” divorce. The Family Law Court sees “property as being of very little importance” and this silly bint could probably argue that ‘she has become accustomed to a certain standard of living during her marriage, and she now wants any property settlement to maintain her in that standard.” Yes I am speaking from experience.
As it turns out, he did.
And it formed the basis of the whole book.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/restoring-menzies-australia/
A man of conviction. I wish him every success.
I agree, although he is not nearly as culpable as she is. However, if he behaved in the manner that she described* in the presence of her husband, well…countless men have been killed for less.
*there is, of course, a fairly strong probability she’s embellished their encounter with the Mills & Boon treatment in order to justify to herself and other women how this ‘sensible family-oriented person’ could be swept off her feet in such a fashion. But Dover’s point is well taken – there should be a penalty for men who act knowingly as an accessory to the destruction of a family and the futures of its youngest members. I would be tempted to resort to what has been described as the ‘father’s solution’ (cf. appropriate penalties for rockspiders), but the law takes a dim view of such measures. However, the law offers no deterrence for predatory behaviour of certain kinds of men, and I think the wronged party deserves some kind of recourse here. Muslims have got this more correct than we have, it seems.
The Port Augusta Botanic Gardens are great. Fantastic collection and beautifully presented. Then on to the Wadlata Outback Centre which was also worth it – presentations on geological formation of the Adelaide rift, development of flora and fauna, early pioneers and settlers and industry.
Two must sees if you visit here.
No need to fine, treat it as tortious interference.
Of course.
She has invested very heavily in her lust and now wants to feel it was all worthwhile. And if she can tempt others to follow, so much the better.
It really is just garden variety self-serving fornication dressed up as something special.
From Rex’s link:
This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday in a state government housing unit with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand, her exit from this life serenaded by the cheerful babble of a TV shopping channel dialogue. Such a superstar! So self-actualised! So miraculous!
Boambee John:
Yes, but that would be so untidy. My inner Montgomery would be appalled at such a messy map.
🙂
I hold a harsher view.
As the Lord Commander says, the wall is undefeated.
I have the Coof dammit. Inevitable I guess wandering around amongst the unwashed blue faced Pics and Jummies.
It hurts a damn site more than I anticipated. The chesty stuff is not good.
My extraordinary landlady moved me out of the BnB and into their granny flat. The care lavished by her and her son has been amazing.
She managed the impossible in the UK and arranged a face to face with the local GP. ‘Doctor Finlay’ lives on. This caricature was better medicine than anything in a foil packet. “Margaret informed me that you do not drink scotch whiskey”. “Aye, defying the Gods of the Glenn is never wise”.
Fortunately, this won’t lead to expensive changes to travel plans. Travel insurance exclusions related to Coof are agressive.
In other news, people here are still insisting on wearing masks even though the don’t have to. And parents forcing their children to wear them as well.
Not a majority, but a worrying minority.
I sense the caravan has well and truly moved on but some are clinging, possibly as a result of fear and brainwashing. We know some are more resistant to it than others.
Milton:
Can I just take it as granted?
Not sure I can keep up with more evidence.
I think we can all see why the “soulmate” moved on from Amanda.
Cohenite is the only bloke here whose missus (Jane) is older than him by a larger fraction that Manny Macron.
I can only dream. If I had a time machine I’d be back proposing to our Jane in a flash.
In respect of Scott versus our Jane, there is a vast difference. Scott was, at the time, the world’s most admired novelist with a prodigious canvas of characters and scenes; in a sense he was the harbinger of the Russian novel with its broad canvas. Our Jane was the first of the modern novelists; in her books we see characters interacting in a way we did not see in Scott. Our Jane’s characters interact to a specific theme: the morals of relationships in a specific social setting. Our Jane also was conscious of the form and composition of her novels in a way Scott was not.
Now, I’m off to build a time machine.
Sorry to hear it bons. Is it the first time you’ve had it?
So much for all the jabs and hysteria.
That POS gates shorting Tesla to undermine Elon’s takeover of twatter.
I wonder if head prefect is involved since he is a shorter expert.
Was very interested when we visited Sihanoukville about 18 months ago to see the incredible amounts of building going on there — huge multi-storey buildings. All Chinese paid for. Using Chinese labour. The aim is to turn Sihanoukville into the “new Las Vegas” of the south. Money laundering anyone? Sadly, the locals are wrapt in the scheme. The see new avenues of employment, wealth and prosperity. My wife and I just found it incredibly sad.
Roger:
We are outnumbered by the frightened mob ‘clamouring to be led to safety’ as one bright chappie put it.
Unfortunately only the first rankers in the herd of lemmings are able to see the precipice. The rest can only have a magnificent view of the pack of arseholes ahead.
Macron getting up is , on the face of it, scary. His election will confirm his belief that destiny has annointed him ‘roi d’Europe’ replacing Merkel.
He will continue in his self appointed role of punisher of the UK. As a man lacking any moral principles, he is a genuine threat requiring someone other than a sugar daddy clown as UK PM.
Poland and Hungary will cop increased subversion.
On the positive side, the lavishly incompetent von der Leyen apparently detests him. EU pissing contests are always entertaining and ensure that the dictatorship never moves forward.
His renewable grandstanding will go nowhere. The Fogs are keen green until it costs, then ……
All considered, it is safe to say that he will be ineffective.
He ain’t no Merkel, and the Frogs ain’t Krauts.
After regaining consciousness at 10:30 am, eyes gummed shut, breath like a slops tray, thinking Oh God, Shirley not?
Followed by the timeless classic: It’s me, not you, I’m just not ready for a relationship…
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Ah! Living with integrity in total harmony with the environment.
Love Sancho and KD’s work.
Pure shit dribblers.
They know what they are attempting to do here, and they know they are bullshitting.
So do many.
If you went to your cenotaph in any year prior to 2020, KD and his little cock smoking mate didn’t have an issue with it.
Do it in 2020 and you’re a grifter.
Somebody using Anzacs for their own political process.
Illogical emotional bullshit, of course it is.
No one should be able to order an Australian to stay away from a cenotaph on Anzac day, and those that attempt to do so should have been ignored and disobeyed.
Maybe if everybody hadn’t submitted and done what they were told, we wouldn’t be in the shit we are in.
Now you’re “allowed to go” you all pat yourselves on the back for going.
And don’t you love the morons like roger who believe it’s all over and has nothing to do with globalism, followed by a moron saying “preach it”.
If you can’t follow what is going on you are in denial.
There’s an election coming up, one third of the Nation is out of bounds to the unjabbed, and those not triple jabbed, still workplace mandates are in place and other restrictions here and there, and not one state has rescinded a state of Emergency.
You fuckers are extremely thick.
No wonder the sane have a short fuse these days.
You’re off your fucking rockers.
Mostly fine and sunny this weekend with maxima in the low 20s, the BOM informed me on Friday.
Instead we’ve had mostly overcast skies with occasional mizzle. It’s presently 14 but feels like 11, the BOM now advises me (and it does feel like 11, too), so I’ve just lit the fire.
We can do both, the wrong is not only private.
Yes Calli, first time.
I considered myself to be bullet proof, and denied what was happening for a few days. It does appear to be easing up so opportunities for playing the sympathy card may be short lived.
I should investigate the Scotch option. Maybe Doc Finlay was correct.
Macron got up like Biden got up.
Again those not in denial can see it a mile away.
The WEF Macron was always going to win.
Sco Mo’s been a good boy too.
Who thinks one of the uniparties won’t win outright with enough to form government?
FMD.
It’s so sad seeing formally average minds lost to denialism.
The BOM struggle a bit 2 days out. Like most experts they prefer 50 years.
Jim Jordan MOCKS Adam Schiff To His Face In Congress
Cohenite you got it wrong, JC is a short expert.
Amanda never imagined that after uprooting her comfortable, stable life to make room for her soulmate that he would decide to go his own way. They both agreed that their connection was unbelievably cosmic.
So why did he say no?
“Jason” may have been a ratbag but he clearly wasn’t a fool. If Amanda was prepared to walk out on her husband of 14 years and her two small kids just because she enjoyed getting her arse fucked off by a horny scrote, why should “Jason” rearrange his life on the assumption that she wouldn’t do it again?
Lizzie:
I wasn’t allowed to go last year. So I went.
I was allowed to go this year. So I didn’t.
Not that I’m a contrarian at all.
No way.
🙂
Doug Casey: the world is headed for chaos and radical change
“After regaining consciousness at 10:30 am, eyes gummed shut, breath like a slops tray, thinking …”
Help, Mr Wizard! Help, Mr Wizard!
rosiesays:
April 25, 2022 at 11:55 am
Plenty of green filth multi millionaires in Kooyong.
Who knows?
Only multi millionaires can afford the costs of living “green”.
Thirteen arrested but none charged with murder over fatal stabbing in Adelaide’s North Terrace
No descriptions so either 6th nations or suds.
He did?
Thankfully a paywall prevented me from reading the piece. I hope she likes cats.
Truly terrifying vision that one, cold too. Good work, thanks.
Winston I think I’m still coming to terms with the fact that JH left the country in worse shape than when he took over from Keating.
Ed Casesays:
April 25, 2022 at 12:22 pm
A STOLEN ELECTION: State Totals Minus Illegal Ballot Trafficking Numbers Give President Trump Decisive Victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI
News at 11.
Trump was a do nothing windbag, though he did manage to pardon
Susan B. Anthony
Jack Johnson
a Timber Rattlesnake Smuggler
a host of Jewish scammers, including Charles Kushner
a few black Bank Robbers and Coke Dealers
and Roger Stone.
Dickless goes full-on “progressive”. You never do that!
From OCO’s link at 2.04 pm:
Soulmate? Pantsmate, more like. Bad luck for the husband and kids.
This article is supposed to be expressing something positive, in the warped world of me! me! me!
Most adults with a bit of interest in sex have had these kinds of encounters. You’re not unique, precious. The difference is in how you deal with them.
Used Labor/Labour fat ladies continue to dominate the very worst elements of the UN scam.
In one day I saw the putrid Helen Clark advising the CCP’s Tedros which terrified me, but then I saw a ghost: Fat Sharan Burrow scoffing cream cakes at one of Gillard’s education boondoggles.
They just continue to use our money to piss on us.
It has indeed been interesting to see how many different people have started telling you to “fuck off” of late, Struth…
bit of escalation
Used Labor/Labour fat ladies continue to dominate the very worst elements of the UN scam.
In one day I saw the putrid Helen Clark advising the CCP’s Tedros which terrified me, but then I saw a ghost: Fat Sharan Burrow scoffing cream cakes at one of Gillard’s education boondoggles.
They just continue to use our money to piss on us.
Add Triggs formerly of the human ‘rights’ commission now polluting Geneva.
This is amanda of the loins of passion. She is now a life-coach. My main concern with superficial fucktards like this idiot, is they vote.
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
The caption says:-
Well, yes.
Got the tickets to prove that?
Or is this just another case of Stuf cant spel?
They reproduce.
Those eyes frighten me.
Like a shark spotting a tasty seal.
Or a hostess, the last cream bun…
Jason just didn’t like bingo wings.
Winston Smithsays:
April 25, 2022 at 3:23 pm
Boambee John:
If it happens, it won’t be a separation of the north and south, but the north-east and west from the rest. Possibly with parts of the NE and west splitting from their current states to join the bulk of the nation.
Yes, but that would be so untidy. My inner Montgomery would be appalled at such a messy map.
Better that he be appalled than that many millions should be forced to stay in a “marriage” they no longer desired.
Eyriesays:
April 25, 2022 at 3:45 pm
I think we can all see why the “soulmate” moved on from Amanda.
He wanted a dirty weekend, she wanted an extended Mills and Boon novel?
You’re an irrelevent, little triple jabbed, submissive bitch of McGowan, Choo Choo.
He’s penetrated you three times.
He owns your arse.
Western Australian Nurses and many woman who remain unjabbed and out of work, have more integrety and balls than you’ll ever have.
Your nipping like some little mutt on the side lines means nothing.
Life-coach, eh?
A person who committed adultery, abandoned her family and then writes about it all in a newspaper article, no doubt causing them to relive the most traumatic time in their lives, is advising people on how they should live their lives.
Hey St Ruth still spraying venom I see- don’t you have better things to do with your time?
???? — Over the past days, a pro-Russian video was massively broadcasted on France’s social media channels, since a few days before the presidential election.
Haven’t you got something better to do than ask stupid questions?
Sancho Panzersays:
April 25, 2022 at 4:48 pm
cohenitesays:
April 25, 2022 at 4:44 pm
This is amanda of the loins of passion. She is now a life-coach. My main concern with superficial fucktards like this idiot, is they vote.
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
The caption says:-
Amanda Trenfeild.
Life Coach.
Always Open.
Well, yes.
She forgot to put the word “Legs” ahead of “Always”.
If it happens, it won’t be a separation of the north and south, but the north-east and west from the rest. Possibly with parts of the NE and west splitting from their current states to join the bulk of the nation.
Pretty much as Kurt Schlichter envisaged it in his novels.
This one will die alone at 9.30am on a dreary Tuesday in a state government housing unit with a mug of Coolabah Classic Dry White in her hand,
I assume Cask?