Snap, Zulu.

Great minds, Roger……

Indeed, 😀

Seriously…who’d be a policeman/woman in the NT under a Labor government?

Stock up on candles folks:

Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes becomes AGL’s largest shareholder

Roger says: May 3, 2022 at 7:27 pm

Seriously…who’d be a policeman/woman in the NT under a Labor government?

Quite so. Much more fun to be a policeman in Victoria under a Labor government.
In Victoria you’re able, with impunity, belt Gran, kick heads, cosh tradesmen, handcuff housewives, thump anybody.

Though be sure to take great care if conducting a traffic stop on a Porsche.

I thought Jessica Mauboy and the WEF were engineering food supply crises this week?

She’s tied up judging The Voice.

Klaus just can’t seem to get his scheduling right.

Which is odd…for a German.

I am not going to Tom level fan-boi over Jamie Kah, but today I saw what Tom has been talking about.
She can wring the last drop out of any horse on any track.
Picks the lines, doesn’t panic, doesn’t give up.
A champion horsewoman.
(Plus she converted $100 into $600 for me).

Why the GOP has already lost the mid-terms:

Election Integrity Dead: Killed in Court

5 minute read from Gatestone

Chinese owned Farmer Gez.
And a 4YO stallion.
Stallions are notoriously fractious in traffic.
Not this one.
As Tom says, she glides the pony through traffic with a minimum of fuss.

An observation:

At Whitfords Shopping Centre today, at least 20–25% of people (staff and customers) still wearing masks. Even in the underground car park. And in their cars. Alone.

Can I have a bucket of strength, please?

Can someone with more knowledge than I explain under what authority and by what mechanism Clive Palmer could force home loan interest to stay below three per cent?

Reserve bank would be the actual finance provider of the loans, with banks just taking a commission for providing the service.

You put me and many others to shame Bespoke…such foresight and kindness…you’ll go straight to heaven

I brought the Memsahib a lamb marking cradle for Mother’s Day one year – her birthday present was a Rhine cruise……

Not the cruise, since you selfishly went too.

We flew into Amsterdam, three weeks after September 11th, 2002. Some dullard wanted to know why the airport cops were carrying sub machine guns.

“What happened three weeks ago might have a lot to do with it?”

“Nah, sorry, what are you talking about?”

“Err, where are you from.”

“Melbourne.”

“Thank Christ I live on the other side of the Island to you.”

Four weeks later, flying out of Zurich, an obviously Muslim gentleman(?) objected – loudly – to the request by the Swiss airport security staff, that one of his wives remove her veil for a security check.
He was dragged off, with the muzzle of a Glock pistol jammed in his ear, to teach him a few manners.
Certain Aussie tourists gave the security staff a round of applause..

Get Ready for an Actual War

I’m convinced they want war, up to and including nuclear. Does anyone have a link to the meme of Obama’s 16 year plan? Because that is what we are seeing unfold before our eyes.

Twatter is still trading well below the bid of $54.20

Twitter, Inc. (TWTR)
NYSE – Nasdaq Real Time Price. Currency in USD

49.12-0.02 (-0.03%)

I think it means around an 86% probability it goes through

Can someone with more knowledge than I explain under what authority and by what mechanism Clive Palmer could force home loan interest to stay below three per cent?

Clive hasn’t got around to that small detail.

Presumably they’d make it law that nobody may charge more than 3% interest on a home loan.
They’re the government, they can make any law they wish.

If it is law that there is a maximum of 3% interest on a home loan, then nobody will charge above that.
It may take up to three seconds after the passing of that law for the home loan approval rate to drop to exactly zero.

Presumably they’d make it law that nobody may charge more than 3% interest on a home loan.
They’re the government, they can make any law they wish.

Umm no, the fat idiot couldn’t make it law because if the natural rate was above 3% folks wouldn’t lend. It would be subsided by the RBA most likely.

I’m not missing the point, driller. Your assumption that he’d go with a law is pretty stupid.
I’m just highlighting that fact. No reason to get all snarky and personal.

Your assumption that he’d go with a law is pretty stupid.

I made no such assumption.
You’d be such an easy mark for anybody who wrote a flashy prospectus that was longer than… oh… four sentences.

I made no such assumption.

Yea, really, what about this then?

Presumably they’d make it law that nobody may charge more than 3% interest on a home loan.

You’re assuming he’d do this and then babble on.

This is a great illustration why I no longer like having discussions with you. Among other reasons, you dissemble, bullshit and go into denial mode.

JC, you must be a proper autistic fuckwit.
No wonder you don’t associate with men, you’d last about five seconds.

Okay. I’m guessing I’ve embarrassed you again. Until next time dickhead.

No wonder you’re nicknamed Dunning-Krugman.
You are unable to discern between a hypothesis presented as part of general discussion, and a firm zealotic belief.
It takes a special kind of stupid to be that dumb.

You are that dumb.

Driller

Of course I can discern the difference. All I said was that the basis of your hypothesis was really stoopid.

Anyway, enuff now as this is getting boring.

Of course I can discern the difference.

You cannot.
Examples abound. This dumbarsery is how you get into such trouble on this blog & get wiped on the floor by whoever you foolishly challenge.
Most people learn from a thwack. You don’t.

All I said was that the basis of your hypothesis was really stoopid.

Exactly what I’d said one sentence later. You usually agree with my statements. I do not require the affirmation, but it’s handy to know you’re not a complete flog.

So, the reserve bank would need money.
Lotsa ones-and-zeroes money.
Which it would create out of the ether

Yes. The policy would be very inflationary if enacted. We have a lot of inflation coming, so more fuel on the fire.

I am still voting for the UAP, though, because they are pro-nuke and this policy won’t get through.

If you don’t put UAP before the Libs, you are voting for Labor.

Will Piers Morgan revise his opinion that there’s “no evidence of voter fraud or a stolen election” after seeing “2000 Mules” or will he go on with the usual ego-trip?

Go forbid there was an election stolen live in front of their eyes and they missed everything. Why msm would have to confront reality of how incompetent they are or how climate activist they have become.

What a surprise.

International Energy Agency demands Worldwide Lockdowns to meet Climate Goals

Apparently tax revenues will ‘soar’ 10 billion
Budget’s $12bn cash splash on health services including nurses, paramedics
More nurses and paramedics will be hired under a $12bn investment in health services — but the newly released budget has revealed the West Gate Tunnel’s disastrous cost blowout. Herald Sun. paywalled

It really is quite amusing how transparent the Democrats are.

re. Roe v Wade leak.

It’s shocking how pathetic the Republicans are.

A rumour of a SCOTUS decision and the Dems turn out a massive protest.

The White House announces the Ministry Of Truth and no protest at all from the Republicans.

This is a comparison between such reactions to the total number of flu vaccines administered in the U.S. over an 11 year period and the Covid-19 vaccination campaign up to 11th Feb 22, and it’s not encouraging. The data is from VAERS.

Study finds Covid-19 Vaccination increases risk of suffering a Stroke by 11,361%

From “The Age.”

Curious incident of the dog in the daytime chews time in Ben Roberts-Smith case
Harriet Alexander
By Harriet Alexander
May 3, 2022 — 6.23pm

The arcane question of which Afghan soldier shot a dog in 2012 has been so thoroughly traversed in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against Nine newspapers that its particulars are elongating this already complex matter into something that resembles a string of uncooked sausages.

It’s worth explaining this in full because the upshot could discredit Roberts-Smith’s witnesses or, in the worst case, potentially implicate his legal team in colluding to provide a false alibi.

Let’s call it the curious incident of the dog in the daytime.

On July 31, 2012, a group of Australian soldiers and their Afghan partners were questioning locals in the Chora Valley while a large hound barked on a chain nearby. One of the Afghan soldiers turned around and shot the dog and the bullet ricocheted off the ground and into the leg of an Australian team commander who was coming through the doorway.

The Afghan soldier was later removed from the patrol.

Four witnesses for Roberts-Smith have sworn in their written outlines of evidence that the soldier in question was an individual known as Person 12, the most senior Afghan assigned to the patrol for that rotation.

Person 35 told the court last week that he was present during the shooting and among three senior officers who determined afterwards that Person 12 should be removed from the patrol. Under cross-examination by Nicholas Owens, SC, the barrister for the newspapers, Person 35 doubled and tripled down on his recollections. He had known Person 12 well, he said. They had trained together and had been out on a handful of jobs.

He would never mistake him for another soldier, Person 35 said under oath.

But then Owens asked Justice Anthony Besanko if he could continue his cross-examination in closed court, leaving a vacuum that could only be filled by the imagination. When the doors were thrown open again, the soldier stated that he had been mistaken and it was not Person 12 who shot the dog after all.

The reason this was significant is that the newspapers have alleged that Roberts-Smith directed Person 12, via an interpreter, to ask one of his men to kill an unarmed prisoner at Khas Oruzgan in October 2012. Under the rules of engagement, this is considered murder. It was originally Roberts-Smith’s case that he could never have done so because Person 12 was not on the relevant mission, having been kicked out of the patrol following the dog incident. Roberts-Smith did not include that in his final pleadings, but four of his supporters maintained in their written submissions that the dog incident involved Person 12.

The newspapers allege that for five soldiers to come up with an identical false story is clear evidence of collusion and they have been trying since early April to subpoena the documents related to the preparation of the witnesses’ written outlines of evidence. The court has denied the request on the basis that communications between lawyers and their clients are privileged unless there is clear evidence to suggest a fraud perpetrated on the court.

Roberts-Smith’s legal team has claimed that the allegation of collusion is a fanciful explanation for mistaken recollection and accused the newspapers of “throwing allegations around like confetti”.

However, when a second soldier, Person 27, who had also identified Person 12 in his outline of evidence, gave evidence on Tuesday morning, it fell from his lips that the first people to raise Person 12’s name in association with the dog shooting were in fact Roberts-Smith’s lawyers.

At that point, Justice Anthony Besanko ruled that the threshold had been crossed for lawyer-client privilege to be waived. Roberts-Smith’s lawyer agreed to hand over the documents used to prepare the witness statements.

These documents showed several iterations of the statement drafted for Person 27 by Roberts-Smith’s solicitors and his communications with them during the process. He told the court he had not been present during the incident and had never met Person 12. After a statement was drafted for him that named Person 12 as the shooter, he checked with the soldier who had been wounded and realised this was false. But he says he did not then change his statement because he had not realised it would be the final version submitted to the court.

This arcane avenue of questioning has days yet to run and the two other soldiers who named Person 12 as the dog shooter are yet to testify. It will be interesting to see how they tell their story.

He had no idea how the preference system works.

I spent a morning handing out HTV cards for a group running as independents for the West Australian Upper House a few years ago. I was surprised at the number of people with no idea of how the preference system works. I was taught the subject in High school, FFS.

He had no idea how the preference system works

I would expect that to be the rule, not the exception. A belief in democracy does not rely on the quality of individual voters.

Plenty to keep the US cartoonists busy. Bring on the clowns.