Open Thread – Tues 3 May 2022


The Raising of Lazarus, Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet, 1701

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 4, 2022 5:35 pm

I don’t mind a good IPA — but the recent trend of over hopping everything and calling it an IPA is near criminal.

Exactly!

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 5:36 pm

I’m thinking Mr de Grouchy is not a smashed avo kind of guy (although socks and sandals is pretty hipster).

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 5:37 pm

Oh Thanks Bern. So there is a fingerprint thingi. Okay.

Sotomayor is too fucking stupid to write an opinion.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 4, 2022 5:40 pm

Hillary Clinton and the Durham Inquiry

The trial that begins in 12 days won’t tell us why she launched the Russia collusion hoax.

One question that won’t come up in a trial that starts later this month of a Democratic Party lawyer is the same question that arose in the wake of Nixon’s Watergate crimes, committed on his way to a landslide victory. Why, when Hillary Clinton was expected to trounce Donald Trump in 2016, did she devote campaign resources, always in short supply, to a risky, unnecessary and possibly illegal effort to smear Mr. Trump with the Russia-collusion slur?

Of course, the story ends in a five-star irony: The email case did resurface in a way even a paranoid Mrs. Clinton could never have anticipated, thanks to FBI chief James Comey and the underage sexting adventures of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner. Like the rest of us, Mrs. Clinton also only learned much later that Mr. Comey’s many strange actions in her case had been influenced by fake Russian intelligence that (in the untold story of 2016) he kept secret from his own bosses at the Justice Department.

Then again, these actions could have cost her the race only in conjunction with her own errors, like spending last-minute money running up her vote in states that weren’t in play, or tying up many of her key aides during the final months of the race on the Trump hoax project.

One defense Mr. Sussmann won’t be offering in his approaching trial is that the proffered evidence was accurate, perhaps to preclude CIA testimony that the info not only was false but doctored.

A judge has also ruled as inadmissible a Hillary Clinton tweet touting the Alfa bank allegation on grounds that her tweet amounts to “hearsay.” This is like saying a bag of money is “hearsay” in a bank robbery, when obtaining the bag of money was the whole purpose of the robbery.

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 5:40 pm

Get a stubby cooler – if they make them that small?

*chuckles

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 5:41 pm

In order to catch any future leaker they could change say one single word in any draft that’s handed out and keep a record of who has what. 

JC, I do a bit of work for a couple of organisations which are very sensitive about security.
The document control system has protections against printing, copying or on-forwarding.
Documents are numbered and mine have a yuuuge “SANCHO PANZER” watermark on every page.
I guess any security measure can be defeated, but it doesn’t look like SCOTUS has even rudimentary protections in place.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:41 pm

Not on everything yet, JC.
It’s proposed that all communication now has to have that.
It’s software that’s used in a lot of corporate advisory firms.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:42 pm

but it doesn’t look like SCOTUS has even rudimentary protections in place.

In some cases it’s still hand written notes between justices.

Helen Davidson (nmrn)
Helen Davidson (nmrn)
May 4, 2022 5:42 pm

Don’t touch Mt Pleasant Elizabeth. It used to be excellent, now its made to drink with food only and the whole bottle consumed at once. Bland.

100% agree. They used to release it as an aged semillion, which was lovely. Then in, I think, the early 20-teens, they changed to an ‘early release’ current vintage version. It has been very vin ordinaire ever since.

In good news, we did a clean out of the wine fridges last week and found a 2010 Paulette’s Polish Hill Riesling and a 2007 Penfolds St Henri that we forgot we had. Yummy!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 5:43 pm

Tongue-in-cheek yumour isn’t your strong suit, is it sfw?

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:44 pm

EU pulling the trigger on banning Russian oil.
Gas is still ok for now.
From the WSJ.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:45 pm

snap DB.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 5:49 pm

You know, if it is a leak, Im wouldn’t put it past Roberts. He’s a Bush appointment RINO and I’ve never trusted him.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:50 pm

Im wouldn’t put it past Roberts.

Biggest disappointment in the last 100 years.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 5:50 pm

Plus electric trains aren’t used for freight as a rule

The NSW Government Railways and Victorian Railways have historically begged to differ. Both have historically run significant tonnages of non-passenger trains under wires from Sydney to Gosford and over the Blue Mountains and from Melbourne to Bairnsdale, respectively. And much of Queensland’s coal haulage in the Galilee Basin and Blackwater systems is electrified to this day.

Economics and locomotive age and wear (NSWGR) and decrepit infrastructure (VR) were the sole reasons electric traction were abandoned.

Much of Europe runs almost exclusively electric traction for freight haulage.

DaFisk
DaFisk
May 4, 2022 5:51 pm

Speaking of abortion – one of Russia’s big challenges after it loses the war against Ukraine will be stabilising its population, and its very high rate of abortion is one of the main obstacles to this. Perhaps Putin, if he’s still alive after the war, can ask someone how Ukraine’s abortion rate got to be less than half of Russia’s, and what more can be done to support women in childbirth (I imagine bombing maternity hospitals is probably off the table).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233967823_Divergent_Trends_in_Abortion_and_Birth_Control_Practices_in_Belarus_Russia_and_Ukraine/download

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 4, 2022 5:52 pm

Yep and that 24 ton is just the trailer weights, a 37 ton prime mover would break every weight rule in the country
Nah, if it’s electric it will get an exemption. Got to save Gaia.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 5:54 pm

Also, regarding Yorkshiremen-

If you haven’t lived for 3 months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank, then you haven’t loved.

#Loogshureh!

Winston Smith
May 4, 2022 5:54 pm

Zyconoclast:

A group of US-based Apple employees have formed an organisation dubbed “Apple Together” and claim the initiative is “only driven by fear”.

The unnamed staff have sent an open letter to the executives of the multi-trillion dollar company and give six reasons why they believe the plan to get back to the office will fail.

They’ve self selected as “Next to Go” in the latest restructuring.
What is it about them that they assume because they are employees of a company, that they make policy?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 4, 2022 5:54 pm

Thanks for the heads up, GreyRanga.

cohenite
May 4, 2022 5:54 pm

Speaking of ruthlessly evil henchpersons.

Klaus Schwab’s daughter wants governments to use COVID policies for climate change (29 Apr, via Climate Depot)

This kunt looks like more of a NAZI then her triple chinned dad

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:56 pm

Investors in the commodity space are going to see a lot of reports soon regarding how even though xyz has been sold forward over the next 3/6/9/12 months at great prices, their diesel bill (amongst other inputs) are now being bought at almost spot prices.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 4, 2022 5:59 pm

This Payback Scammer dude is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvNo33j5Lw

Scammed the scammers out of 46k.

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2022 6:00 pm

Oh dear, Mr O’Keefe keeps on digging…..

“TV host Andrew O’Keefe warned by magistrate after explosion in court

One-time Australian TV game show king Andrew O’Keefe screamed at a magistrate, claiming he had “no interest in justice” and was threatened with contempt of court after he was again denied bail.

The 50-year-old appeared visibly distressed and frustrated as he faced Sydney’s Central Local Court on Wednesday afternoon via AVL from Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre.

Mr O’Keefe was hit with six charges in January after police alleged that he grabbed a woman by the throat, punched her and pushed her to the ground.

He pleaded not guilty to all charges, including intentionally choking a person without consent, three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

In the weeks after the arrest, police laid a further charge after they found Mr O’Keefe with 1.5g of marijuana. He has pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing a prohibited drug and is yet to be sentenced.

Through his lawyers, Mr O’Keefe has previously claimed that he was acting in self-defence and the victim of an assault himself. The complainant has not been charged with any offence.

Mr O’Keefe has been remanded in custody since his arrest and lost a bid for bail in the NSW Supreme Court in March.

Defence lawyer Sharon Ramsden presented a fresh application for bail on Wednesday, claiming there is a special circumstance of a bed being available at a long-term rehabilitation centre in Port Stephens.

She also argued that more evidence had been served on Mr O’Keefe that outlined the “lack of injury” on the complainant.

“It is not my intention to rehash everything and waste your time,” Ms Ramsden told the court.

“There were further brief service items which support my client.”

Over the almost two-hour bail hearing, Mr O’Keefe was audibly frustrated over what was being said in court and said he could not see the court on his AVL screen.

A police prosecutor opposed the bail application and said there was “no new information” other than some photographs of the complainant.

“There’s not fresh circumstances in what has been put before the court … he has been in rehab nine times,” he said.

Mr O’Keefe spoke over the prosecutor to deny the allegations as magistrate Daniel Reiss warned him he would be “going backwards by speaking up”.

“That’s simply not true Your Honour,” Mr O’Keefe said, raising his voice.

“I’m just getting the truth out there.”

Mr Reiss said the significant difference between the previous bail applications was that there was now the chance to go to a long-term rehabilitation centre.

He told the court it was “troubling” that Mr O’Keefe’s alleged offending went on while already on bail.

The 50-year-old erupted in anger: “Alleged behaviour, Your Honour, nothing is confirmed.”

“Are you trying to sabotage your own application,” the magistrate replied.

Mr O’Keefe continued to interrupt and shake his head in frustration as Mr Reiss told the court of the 50-year-old’s mental health and drug issues.

Despite multiple pleas from Ms Ramsden to be quiet and only say something when spoken to, Mr O’Keefe continued.

Mr Reiss told the court that Mr O’Keefe had “significant attitudinal problems”.

“It’s not an attitudinal problem, it’s a technical problem,” Mr O’Keefe replied.

The magistrate warned that Mr O’Keefe was bordering on being in contempt of court.

“I’ve dealt with many defendants, some are psychotic and are not as hard to deal with as you. Someone with legal qualifications and 10 warnings should know how to deal with it,” Mr Reiss said.

“You’re a lawyer, there’s two sides to every story, you should know that.”

Mr Reiss said he was going to grant Mr O’Keefe bail to go to the rehabilitation centre until he witnessed his attitude in court.

That caused Mr O’Keefe to become enraged.

“I would have been inclined to grant bail if not for the ongoing behaviour of Mr O’Keefe in the court,” Mr Reiss said.

“Someone who is qualified as a lawyer and has been in court on several occasions, there have been several warnings.

“I am presented with a man who cannot be trusted with complying with directions.”

Mr Reiss denied bail, saying he was not willing to allow the “unacceptable risk” of letting Mr O’Keefe leave custody.

Mr O’Keefe gathered his papers and stood up before saying: “The transcript will say I was not arguing, I was trying to help you Your Honour.”

“You have no interest in justice,” Mr O’Keefe continued before storming out of the AVL suite.

Mr Reiss told Ms Ramsden that Mr O’Keefe would need to apologise to the court otherwise he would be found in contempt.

“There will be a contempt citation unless he retracts and apologises for his behaviour,” he said.

“He will need to retract that otherwise there will be contempt proceedings.”

Mr O’Keefe will return to court for a hearing in June.

After a successful 17-year partnership, Channel 7 dumped Mr O’Keefe following a series of public scandals and personal struggles that reportedly impacted production of hit game show The Chase Australia.

Before launching The Chase, Mr O’Keefe fronted Weekend Sunrise, Deal or No Deal, The Rich List and other prime-time specials, including the Logie Awards.

He was awarded an Order of Australia for his work on television and in the charity space, including as a former ambassador for anti-domestic violence organisation White Ribbon.”

Cassie Jaye could not be contacted for comment however I’m sure Mark Latham is enjoying the schadenfreude.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 6:01 pm

From “The Age.”

‘No-one in the tunnel,’ says former SAS soldier backing Ben Roberts-Smith in defamation case
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
May 4, 2022 — 1.31pm

A third former Special Air Service soldier has supported Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation case as the decorated former soldier rejects allegations he was involved in the unlawful execution of Afghan prisoners.

Person 29, a former comrade of Roberts-Smith and godfather to one of his children, backed his friend’s version of events about a key mission in Afghanistan as he gave evidence in Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.

Roberts-Smith alleges the newspapers defamed him in a series of articles in 2018 by suggesting he was a war criminal who was involved in the unlawful killing of unarmed Afghan prisoners. He denies all wrongdoing.

The media outlets are seeking to rely on a defence of truth and allege Roberts-Smith was involved in six such killings, including two at a compound dubbed Whiskey 108 in 2009. Person 29, whose identity cannot be revealed for national security reasons, was also present on that mission.

The newspapers have called SAS witnesses who have told the Federal Court that Roberts-Smith killed one of the men himself and directed a “rookie” soldier, dubbed Person 4, to kill the second man after both men were pulled from a tunnel at Whiskey 108.

Roberts-Smith has told the court that no men were found in the tunnel. He said the Afghan men who were killed by him and Person 4 on that day were enemy combatants killed lawfully in the heat of battle.

Person 29, who remains in the Australian Defence Force, told the court on Wednesday that he “came across basically a steel mesh grate that was covering … a hole in the ground, which ended up being a tunnel” and alerted other soldiers at Whiskey 108. He said another soldier, Person 35, volunteered to clear the tunnel.

He grabbed the back of Person 35’s pants as he entered the tunnel, he told the court, and it was about “15, 20 seconds before he wriggled to let me release him”.

“Person 35 communicated to me verbally that the tunnel was clear [of people] but there was, I think in his terms, there was a lot of shit in the tunnel,” Person 29 said, referring to a weapons cache.

Person 35 is also a friend of Roberts-Smith and has given similar evidence to the court.

“Did any fighting-age males come out of the tunnel?” Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Arthur Moses, SC, asked.

“No,” Person 29 replied.

Whether Afghan men were found inside the tunnel is a key issue in the trial. A serving SAS soldier dubbed Person 40, called to give evidence by the newspapers in March, told the court that two Afghan men were pulled from the tunnel at Whiskey 108 and “marched off to another area” for what he assumed was tactical questioning by Roberts-Smith and Person 35

A former SAS soldier dubbed Person 43 also gave evidence in March that he was involved in capturing an elderly Afghan man in the tunnel.

Yet another serving SAS soldier, dubbed Person 41, called by the newspapers in February, told the court that he saw Roberts-Smith execute an unarmed Afghan prisoner on the day in question and direct Person 4 to kill a second prisoner.

The trial continues.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
May 4, 2022 6:02 pm

Is WA this bad?

Qantas has announced it will commence direct non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025, with a landmark order for Airbus A350-1000 jets capable of the monumental task.

But West Australian veteran journalist Ben Harvey argues that the decision by Qantas to establish flights from London to Sydney makes flights to Perth virtually pointless.

‘There’s gonna be f**k all Londoners who want to come to Perth instead of Sydney… because Perth is to Sydney what Birmingham is to London,’ Harvey said.

‘The Poms have two choices, fly to Perth and then go four or five hours on a flight to the east coast because that’s where the cool stuff is, or fly direct to the cool stuff without being attacked by a meth zombie at an empty shop outside of the Hay Street Mall.’

One user said in response to Harvey’s statement: ‘Yep go to Sydney, Perth is horrendous at the moment.’

‘Nothing to see in Perth,’ wrote another. ‘This place is 20yrs behind. Best coastline with little accommodation.’

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 4, 2022 6:05 pm

Nah, if it’s electric it will get an exemption. Got to save Gaia.

Axle weights are supposedly set by simulated road wear tests, then the shit roads factor is put on top. That’s why Euro weights are all higher.
We’re all waiting on Makka’s solid state lithium batteries to change the game.
Most of the batteries are in proof of concept phase. Panasonic say it’s ten years away, so by then we’ll all be dead from climate change and warm beer.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 6:05 pm

Cronkite

WTF is Klaus Schwarz?

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2022 6:12 pm

Perhaps Putin, if he’s still alive after the war, can ask someone how Ukraine’s abortion rate got to be less than half of Russia’s, and what more can be done to support women in childbirth…

Cultivating the institutions of a civil society rather than cracking down on them might help.

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2022 6:12 pm

Gosh, such carelessness….deliberate or accidental? My money is on the former.

“Independent Despi O’Connor suspends campaign
Rebecca Borg

‘Teal’ Independent candidate for Flinders Despi O’Connor has suspended her campaign after she was made aware of a provision that could prevent her from being selected as a member of the House of Representatives.

Section 44 of the Australian Constitution states “any person who holds any office of profit under the Crown … shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a member of the House of Representatives”. It impacts Ms O’Connor due to her employment in the Victorian public school system.

“I acknowledge that this is something I should have considered,” Ms O’Connor said in a statement.
“Notwithstanding declaring my role as a teacher on all Australian Electoral Commission forms, this is one that still slipped through the gaps. I take full responsibility for filling in the form incorrectly.”

Ms O’Connor said while she loves teaching, she would give the role up in a “heartbeat” to represent Flinders.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 6:14 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:

May 4, 2022 at 6:00 pm

Oh dear, Mr O’Keefe keeps on digging…..

For someone who is (allegedly) a lawyer, he doesn’t understand the construction of his own application.
His lawyer is largely not disputing the facts, but is trying to run a “mental elf” defence.
His very unhelpful client keeps throwing his dollies out of the pram by screaming “alleged” about stuff his mouthpiece is already conceding to try to spring him.
There is a saying about people who represent themselves.

calli
calli
May 4, 2022 6:14 pm

A truly marvellous day out and about in the West MacDonnell ranges.

A quick search (Alice Springs Orogeny) will yield information on how ancient they are, the uplift and buckling occurring in the Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian. A seabed lifted high, folded and sheared and tipped on its side. And now eroded back to its roots, with a seamed and crumbling red rampart topping grass clad slopes.

In between are the gorges and waterholes, full of birds and glorious old ghost gums. The sandy shoals tell the story of recent rain – trees swept against the banks, dead vegetation resting many feet up in the branches. The entire journey is traversed by ephemeral streams, now dry and serene.

Off to Tennant Creek tomorrow, with a quick visit to the wildlife park and the telegraph station first.

This is the best time of year to visit. I wouldn’t want to be doing it in summer.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 4, 2022 6:16 pm

100% agree. They used to release it as an aged semillion, which was lovely. Then in, I think, the early 20-teens, they changed to an ‘early release’ current vintage version. It has been very vin ordinaire ever since.

Hunter semillon famously starts out as a light, even grassy, white and about 5 years turns nasty, only to emerge a couple of years later with richer honeyed flavours.

Sounds like they are giving you the earlier stage.

Winston Smith
May 4, 2022 6:17 pm

Oldizzie:

I hope many on the left will resist the urge to debunk or dismiss my cartoon and instead use it as an opportunity to understand why so many people feel it describes their experience.

So.
Having taken 20 years to work out the Left has taken him for granted and repeatedly lied to him about their aims, Colin has finally woken up.
Will it take another twenty years to apologise and make some degree of restoration to the damage caused to society?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 4, 2022 6:17 pm
Delta A
Delta A
May 4, 2022 6:17 pm

Oh come onsays:
May 4, 2022 at 4:37 pm

Good post, Oco. You’ve nailed it.

Those poor kids have taken on their weird personae to please their weird, attention-seeking mother*. They’ve been conditioned to dance to her depraved tune.

I’ve seen similar, in different manifestations, even with mature victims who, after a lifetime of submission – including abandoning marriages and even children – still yearn hopelessly for Mother’s affection and approval. In one instance, ‘Mother’ was an excellent Christian, attending church every Sunday and spouting Christian dogma ad infinitum. And she, alone, was responsible for the breakup of her daughter’s marriage and the alienation of her children and grandchildren.

I’m sure Mandy is no Christian, but her desperate attention seeking is no different to the case above.

*UnChristian thought, I know, but I wonder if Mandy has collected NDIS packages for her special children.

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 6:18 pm

Obviously Rex KD SP and all other mockers should be banned so that various unknown lurkers can be swayed the right way by the One True Profit.

only in the Byzantine corridors of your mind.

for the most part, nobody really comments much either way … but you four just can’t seem to shut up

today was un-readable infantile repetitive gibber

and … here you are still at it

when will you retarded white-hats realise that you’re the problem ?

ps. it’s only a bon mot the first time you say it. ya bunch of drones

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 6:20 pm

Perth is fine. Given the choice to spend the best part of a day to fly direct LHR-PER or go straight to Sydney I’m not sure I would bother either. Will be interesting how the fares compare.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2022 6:21 pm

Ms O’Connor said while she loves teaching, she would give the role up in a “heartbeat” to represent Flinders.”

The salary is better by about double, for a start.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 6:22 pm

*UnChristian thought,

Why? Delta.

cohenite
May 4, 2022 6:23 pm

WTF is Klaus Schwarz?

Klaus Schwab. This prick.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 6:23 pm

Good to see a cyclist coming off best in a crash for once. They are due a few wins.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 6:27 pm

Cassie earlier …

Mr Reiss said the significant difference between the previous bail applications was that there was now the chance to go to a long-term rehabilitation centre.

He told the court it was “troubling” that Mr O’Keefe’s alleged offending went on while already on bail.

He is not getting the message.
He still wants to be released to the custody of his shrink who will dutifully give him a tick after two weeks and spring him.
The beak is not buying it.
It is either secure re-hab or remand.
There is no Option C involving backdoor bail.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 4, 2022 6:28 pm

Good Lord! The heathens DoverBeach allows on this site is unbelievable.

Ahem.
xxxx

On a brighter note, as duncanm tells us, Abbey beers are tops for a cold evening.

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 6:28 pm

2007 Penfolds St Henri that we forgot we had

that is a seriously good drop !!

calli
calli
May 4, 2022 6:28 pm

Spotted at the Flynn memorial – a discarded blue mask.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 6:30 pm

when will you retarded white-hats realise that you’re the problem ?

And what solution do you propose to resolve this imaginary problem?
Of course, I guess it is a real problem if your objective is to run interference for your increasingly unhinged sponsor child.

Delta A
Delta A
May 4, 2022 6:32 pm

A truly marvellous day out and about in the West MacDonnell ranges.

Calli, if you have an hour or so to while away in Alice, I suggest the Alice Springs Telegraph Station. A great reminder of those early days, with excellent interactive displays.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 6:33 pm

For a Pom just wanting to thaw out for 2 weeks in Dec-Jan I would take Perth over Sydney every time. Horses for courses.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 6:34 pm

cohenite says:
May 4, 2022 at 6:23 pm

WTF is Klaus Schwarz?

Klaus Schwab. This prick.

I know, I was just kidding around. How about a pic of his nazi-looking daughter?

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 6:36 pm

A clean out of the wine fridges sounds like a very good idea. I shall have to have a word to my man.

Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2022 6:40 pm
Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 6:42 pm

The 50-year-old appeared visibly distressed and frustrated as he faced Sydney’s Central Local Court on Wednesday afternoon via AVL from Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre.

The dating scene disagrees with him, hopefully.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2022 6:42 pm

Hissy fit and major flounce:

One-time Australian TV game show king Andrew O’Keefe screamed at a magistrate, claiming he had “no interest in justice” and was threatened with contempt of court after he was again denied bail.

The 50-year-old appeared visibly distressed and frustrated as he faced Sydney’s Central Local Court on Wednesday afternoon via AVL from Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre.

Mr O’Keefe was hit with six charges in January after police alleged that he grabbed a woman by the throat, punched her and pushed her to the ground.

He pleaded not guilty to all charges, including intentionally choking a person without consent, three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

In the weeks after the arrest, police laid a further charge after they found Mr O’Keefe with 1.5g of marijuana. He has pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing a prohibited drug and is yet to be sentenced.

Through his lawyers, Mr O’Keefe has previously claimed that he was acting in self-defence and the victim of an assault himself. The complainant has not been charged with any offence.

Mr O’Keefe has been remanded in custody since his arrest and lost a bid for bail in the NSW Supreme Court in March.

Defence lawyer Sharon Ramsden presented a fresh application for bail on Wednesday, claiming there is a special circumstance of a bed being available at a long-term rehabilitation centre in Port Stephens.

She also argued that more evidence had been served on Mr O’Keefe that outlined the “lack of injury” on the complainant.

“It is not my intention to rehash everything and waste your time,” Ms Ramsden told the court. “There were further brief service items which support my client.”

Over the almost two-hour bail hearing, Mr O’Keefe was audibly frustrated over what was being said in court and said he could not see the court on his AVL screen.

A police prosecutor opposed the bail application and said there was “no new information” other than some photographs of the complainant.

“There’s not fresh circumstances in what has been put before the court … he has been in rehab nine times,” he said.

Mr O’Keefe spoke over the prosecutor to deny the allegations as magistrate Daniel Reiss warned him he would be “going backwards by speaking up”.

“That’s simply not true Your Honour,” Mr O’Keefe said, raising his voice. “I’m just getting the truth out there.”

Mr Reiss said the significant difference between the previous bail applications was that there was now the chance to go to a long-term rehabilitation centre.

He told the court it was “troubling” that Mr O’Keefe’s alleged offending went on while already on bail.

The 50-year-old erupted in anger: “Alleged behaviour, Your Honour, nothing is confirmed.”

“Are you trying to sabotage your own application,” the magistrate replied.

Mr O’Keefe continued to interrupt and shake his head in frustration as Mr Reiss told the court of the 50-year-old’s mental health and drug issues.

Despite multiple pleas from Ms Ramsden to be quiet and only say something when spoken to, Mr O’Keefe continued.

Mr Reiss told the court that Mr O’Keefe had “significant attitudinal problems”.

“It’s not an attitudinal problem, it’s a technical problem,” Mr O’Keefe replied.

The magistrate warned that Mr O’Keefe was bordering on being in contempt of court.

“I’ve dealt with many defendants, some are psychotic and are not as hard to deal with as you. Someone with legal qualifications and 10 warnings should know how to deal with it,” Mr Reiss said.

“You’re a lawyer, there’s two sides to every story, you should know that.”

Mr Reiss said he was going to grant Mr O’Keefe bail to go to the rehabilitation centre until he witnessed his attitude in court.

That caused Mr O’Keefe to become enraged.

“I would have been inclined to grant bail if not for the ongoing behaviour of Mr O’Keefe in the court,” Mr Reiss said.

“Someone who is qualified as a lawyer and has been in court on several occasions, there have been several warnings.

“I am presented with a man who cannot be trusted with complying with directions.”

Mr Reiss denied bail, saying he was not willing to allow the “unacceptable risk” of letting Mr O’Keefe leave custody.

Mr O’Keefe gathered his papers and stood up before saying: “The transcript will say I was not arguing, I was trying to help you Your Honour.”

“You have no interest in justice,” Mr O’Keefe continued before storming out of the AVL suite.

Mr Reiss told Ms Ramsden that Mr O’Keefe would need to apologise to the court otherwise he would be found in contempt.

“There will be a contempt citation unless he retracts and apologises for his behaviour,” he said.

“He will need to retract that otherwise there will be contempt proceedings.”

Mr O’Keefe will return to court for a hearing in June.

After a successful 17-year partnership, Channel 7 dumped Mr O’Keefe following a series of public scandals and personal struggles that reportedly impacted production of hit game show The Chase Australia.

Before launching The Chase, Mr O’Keefe fronted Weekend Sunrise, Deal or No Deal, The Rich List and other prime-time specials, including the Logie Awards.

He was awarded an Order of Australia for his work on television and in the charity space, including as a former ambassador for anti-domestic violence organisation White Ribbon.

Delta A
Delta A
May 4, 2022 6:43 pm

Keep making dicks of yourselves before an election, sneerers.

Struth, you come here every day and abuse us for our apathy, but you never tell us what we should be doing. Tell us:

WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?

cohenite
May 4, 2022 6:47 pm

This leak in the SC is another reason why the GOP will not win the mid terms. If it doesn’t generate enough social unrest to allow suspension of the mid terms then expect another manufactured crisis.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 6:48 pm

WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?

Eggsactly what does. Zero!

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 6:48 pm

And what solution do you propose to resolve this imaginary problem?

retard

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 6:50 pm

Look Cronkite, I’m not going to counter you because only you and Artie predicted the 20 election. However, the cannot suspend the mid-terms – at least I don’t think they can.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 6:50 pm
cohenite
May 4, 2022 6:51 pm

How about a pic of his nazi-looking daughter?

Sure.

Delta A
Delta A
May 4, 2022 6:58 pm

Why? Delta.

Not my place to judge, bespoke. But it’s sure darn hard not to.

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 4, 2022 7:02 pm

Don’t touch Mt Pleasant Elizabeth.

I used to be in the trade and that semillon was one of those consistent overachievers/undersellers – not so much a well-kept secret as I always tried to sell it, but it had a somewhat dowdy image. But people in the know knew it was a bargain and was great in the cellar, too. Pity to hear McWilliams has demoted it to just another meh white. Unsurprising, I guess, but still a pity. I bet an old hand died or retired at the winery.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 4, 2022 7:04 pm

Perth is , and will always be the ‘engine room’ and culture capital of Aust. We dont need direct flights to London .

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2022 7:04 pm

Sorry Cassie – didn’t scroll back.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 7:06 pm

retard

But, according to you we are already all retards, Matrix.

Stop being such a sheila and maybe tell us what you really think would solve the problem?

You know, in a manly way. Like you think Struth does…

Winston Smith
May 4, 2022 7:10 pm

Seriously, what’s an IPA?
Do they make booze?
I know they make Jamesons – I bought a couple of their bottles a fortnight ago.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 7:10 pm

Perth as the culture capital of Australia? Interesting take. It’s a tough place to be a mould in February.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2022 7:10 pm

calli says: Off to Tennant Creek tomorrow

If you’re after a drop, then get in before 4pm. From memory the bottleshop(s?) close then.

The Borella VC display at the Mining Museum is worth a look.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2022 7:12 pm

Section 44 of the Australian Constitution states “any person who holds any office of profit under the Crown … shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a member of the House of Representatives”. It impacts Ms O’Connor due to her employment in the Victorian public school system.

Gosh, such carelessness….deliberate or accidental? My money is on the former.

Given that she’s a teacher in the Victorian public school system, my money is on ignorance.

[No offence, Arky, but you’re an exception to the rule, as you know.]

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 7:13 pm

I disagree Delta. You have the skills to articulate concerns. If not it’s left upto those like myself that don’t.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 7:15 pm

If you want genuinely unloved and underrated wines develop a taste for fortifieds. Just right for fighting off winter chills.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 7:16 pm

You’re so childish at times, Cronkite.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 7:17 pm

“Perth is , and will always be the ‘engine room’ and culture capital of Aust.”

Pig’s arse, it’s all new money over there.

Nice trolling though.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 7:18 pm

I wouldn’t drink wine if ya payed me.
Gross stuff.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 4, 2022 7:24 pm

Frank….thats not trolling. Its a truth from us ‘cave dwellers’.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
May 4, 2022 7:24 pm

I’ll go along with Perth as an “engine room”, lotsa money changes hands along the Terrace but “culture capital”?

Spare me.

Although, Hank Marvin lives in Perth and has occasionally appeared unannounced at a pub gig.

That’s pretty high end culture.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2022 7:27 pm

I wouldn’t drink wine if ya payed me. Gross stuff.

Now chaps, as the Romans used to say, de gustibus non est disputandum.

Or in modern parlance, each to his own poison.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2022 7:28 pm

Although, Hank Marvin lives in Perth and has occasionally appeared unannounced at a pub gig.

Wow! To experience that what would be seriously cool.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 7:32 pm

Struth, you come here every day and abuse us for our apathy, but you never tell us what we should be doing. Tell us:

WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?

I think it is summarised here.

Zipster
May 4, 2022 7:32 pm

Drbeen Medical Lectures

Increased Cardiac Arrest Emergency Events in Israel During Vaccination Period (Age 16-39)

25% Increase in Cardiac Arrests in 16-39 Years Old During the Pfizer Vaccination Period. Let’s review the strengths, weaknesses, and curiosities of this study/research.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 7:33 pm

Its a truth from us ‘cave dwellers’.

Yes, and I’m an expat currently domiciled in Tasmania so I don’t come at it from a position of superiority, but Perth has no culture worth speaking of.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 4, 2022 7:33 pm

Pedro….SBY, the ex president of Indonesia has a small abode on the river his kids lived in while at uni. here. SBY loved karioke , and his voice used to ‘ring’ out over the foreshore. ….great times.

Roger
Roger
May 4, 2022 7:34 pm

Virtually every British guitarist of the note in the ’60’s & ’70s cites Hank Marvin as an inspiration.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 4, 2022 7:35 pm

Pfffft….cultures over rated anyhow.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 7:35 pm

MatrixTransformsays:

May 4, 2022 at 6:48 pm

And what solution do you propose to resolve this imaginary problem?

retard

Any thoughts on the standard of debate here?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 7:40 pm

What’s a Hank Marvin?

Winston Smith
May 4, 2022 7:40 pm

JC:

You know, if it is a leak, Im wouldn’t put it past Roberts. He’s a Bush appointment RINO and I’ve never trusted him.

I’ve never liked him – he has all the marks of a sly, shifty, ‘I’ve just pissed in your pool’ spiv.
I’d really like to know what the shouting was about when he was hectoring the two Conservatives during some deliberations after the elections.
Anyone remember this?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
May 4, 2022 7:41 pm

Some barbarian female currently lurking at Casa Pedro and looking over my shoulder wanted to know “Who’s Hank Marvin?”
THIS! (Hank plays ‘Apache”)

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 7:42 pm

A tip for the Solomon Islands PM. The trick is to time your flight into exile to rendezvous with the proceeds of Chinese graft before the locals storm the presidential palace. A rookie mistake that so many make and and it never ends when you get it wrong.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 7:43 pm

Perth has a few celebrities in it’s midst. Hipster muso Bon Iver even wrote a song about it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GN9CqxKAY

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 7:47 pm

Rex Angersays:

May 4, 2022 at 7:40 pm

What’s a Hank Marvin?

He’s a mong and a retard.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 7:47 pm

Just about finished preping sixteen acres for grafting. Not hard work but boring.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 7:47 pm

Think one of the guys from The Clash also ended up in Perth. Don’t quote me on that.

Winston Smith
May 4, 2022 7:48 pm

Rex Anger:

Economics and locomotive age and wear (NSWGR) and decrepit infrastructure (VR) were the sole reasons electric traction were abandoned.

When I am imposed on this nation as it’s Rightful King, I shall make every train electrical with a Small Modular Reactor.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 7:49 pm

Ben Elton’s wife came from Perth too.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 7:49 pm

Yes, and I’m an expat currently domiciled in Tasmania so I don’t come at it from a position of superiority, but Perth has no culture worth speaking of.

The folks at Masters’ Dariries’ Yohghourt and Cheese Departments would respectfully beg to differ… 😉

#OhGod

132andBush
132andBush
May 4, 2022 7:50 pm

BoN @12:30ish re the electric truck.

Quick calc.

Assuming combination of city and hwy gives average 80 kph, that means 7 hours of driving. At 480 kW that is 4.8 x 7 = 33.6 Tesla 100 kWh batteries. They weigh about half a tonne each (I think it’s 1070 lb from memory). So that means 16.8 tonnes of batteries even before structurals, wheels and tyres and the motor itself.

If you assume the 80/20 rule (80% full is “full”, 20% of full is “empty”) that increases the battery weight to 28 tonnes. Which would fit that 37.2 ton figure.

That’s a lot of weight to carry around.

I’ve always said this AGW fraud has led to an incalculable misdirection of capital and raw materials.
This virtue signalling/subsidy harvesting joke is but another example.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 7:52 pm

Perth does serial killers pretty well, I’ll give it that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 7:53 pm

Franksays:

May 4, 2022 at 7:42 pm

A tip for the Solomon Islands PM. The trick is to time your flight into exile to rendezvous with the proceeds of Chinese graft before the locals storm the presidential palace. 

Don’t Ceau?escu it?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 7:54 pm

Franksays:

May 4, 2022 at 7:52 pm

Perth does serial killers pretty well, I’ll give it that.

Maybe.
But not in the same league as Adelaide.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 7:55 pm

When I am imposed on this nation as it’s Rightful King, I shall make every train electrical with a Small Modular Reactor.

Super Train! 😀

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2022 7:56 pm

Malcolm Roberts:

The RSPCA was set up with a worthy purpose, but it’s been rocked by scandals and allegations of corruption. There’s a real question over whether it deserves it’s tax-friendly not-for-profit status.

YouTube

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 7:57 pm

Perth does serial killers pretty well, I’ll give it that.

Adelaide first. Daylight second. At least you don’t have to pay tolls to dump the bodies in State Forests.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 7:57 pm

When I am imposed on this nation as it’s Rightful King

LOL!
No your place peasant!

Oh come on
Oh come on
May 4, 2022 7:57 pm

If you want genuinely unloved and underrated wines develop a taste for fortifieds. Just right for fighting off winter chills.

Fine Australian brandies traditionally punched above their weight and were not especially sought-after. A rare Australian brandy used to cost the same as a luxury brand VS cognac but be a far more complex and palatable beast. Not sure if that’s still the case.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 7:59 pm

Snap Bear.
Adelaide is the serial killer capital.
Daylight second.

Bruce in WA
May 4, 2022 8:00 pm

What’s a Hank Marvin?

This is a Hank Marvin!!

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 8:01 pm

Murdering someone for their Centrelink benefits would be looked upon very dimly in Perth. Not giving them an inside trading tip on the other hand …

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 4, 2022 8:03 pm

I think Adelaide is mainly housos and gays. Nothing much for most people to worry about.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 8:03 pm

But not in the same league as Adelaide.

Adelaide does two pass times well – serial killing and interbreeding.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:05 pm

H B Bearsays:

May 4, 2022 at 8:01 pm

Murdering someone for their Centrelink benefits would be looked upon very dimly in Perth. Not giving them an inside trading tip on the other hand …

Getting millilitres and fluid ounces mixed up when administering the elephant juice to Laurie’s pony is also something of a faux pas.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 8:06 pm

Perth does serial killers pretty well, I’ll give it that.

Perth serial killers have the grace to hang themselves, in the tronk, after being castrated with a kitchen knife..

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 8:07 pm

Any thoughts on the standard of debate here?

go on … make another stupid bing-bong noise to raise the standard

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 4, 2022 8:11 pm

The standard of debate, wit and rat infestation in here is world standard ,…none better.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:12 pm

Let me assert something once more, as to raise the standard of debate here:

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/03/open-thread-tues-3-may-2022/comment-page-2/#comment-230055

The only way to have low interest rates is to have balanced budgets and minimise government spending, open up competition and set M1 growth to GDP growth, with tolerance of short term inflation or deflation volatility.

(M0 cannot be targeted directly, bank leverage is a preferable market mechanism to active MP.)

Everything else is a lie.

Anyone who wants to debate this, you’re my huckleberry.

rosie
rosie
May 4, 2022 8:14 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:14 pm

Here’s a thought.
If a blog is improved by the absence of me, KD, Rex and Rosie, how about this?
We agree not to go near the Furniture Store and people could go over there and watch their sponsor-child roam around unfettered by real world criticism.
Sound like a plan?

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:14 pm

Adelaide/SA is pretty decent on the serial killer population ratio, but honestly, I think Ohio has a far better class of serial killer hands down. They just do it better there. Damher partially ate his victims. He was from Akron OH.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 4, 2022 8:16 pm

Rose Hancock.
Perth royalty.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:17 pm

Perth Tradersays:

May 4, 2022 at 8:11 pm

The standard of debate, wit and rat infestation in here is world standard ,…none better.

How many blogs have you actually been to?
Is this it?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:19 pm

Yeah.
Putting your neighbour into the chow mein is next level.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:19 pm

(Norm sweating intensifies)

Very hard not to make a joke about Dahmer. I feel quite tense, like Albert Fish in a petting zoo.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:22 pm

Anyone who wants to debate this, you’re my huckleberry.

I do just on this point.

and set M1 growth to GDP growth

Dot, we’ve been through this before under early Volker. The fed targeted M3 and it just didn’t work. As you know, you set a target to nominal GDP and run with that. Run with that would be the Scott Sumner idea, which is to set up a functional futures market for nominal GDP and the Fed applies their rule against that.

You know this!

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:24 pm

Netflix is the serial killer Streaming par excellence. Every week they have a new series about one. I think the most recent was Gacey.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
May 4, 2022 8:25 pm

Sancho….my blog life before here was hollow and a dismal failure . I at times found myself in unrewarding situations in smokey , dimly lit chat rooms ….hang on. I’m sayin’ to much.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 8:26 pm
Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
May 4, 2022 8:28 pm

Male employees of Amazon should sue for equity and psychological damage for being denied time off and $4000 to go out of state to get an abortion

Men can have abortions, dontcha know.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:28 pm

Bespoke

That sounds eerily like our old USSR.

Real Deal
Real Deal
May 4, 2022 8:29 pm

I travelled home from my workplace through the backstreets of Newtown and Stanmore this afternoon.
Glancing up at telegraph poles I saw quite a few political party corflutes. I was distressed to see what appeared to be a number of Reason Party corflutes horribly vandalised. Purple paint, thick black texta on eyebrows and crudely drawn moustaches.
I was horrified and was going to report this travesty to the AEC.
However, when I looked closer I could see that it was just a normal untouched photograph of Jane Caro.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:31 pm

Perth Tradersays:

May 4, 2022 at 8:25 pm

Sancho….my blog life before here was hollow and a dismal failure 

Welcome to the sunlit uplands of bloggink.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 8:31 pm

Rose Hancock.
Perth royalty.

So was Eileen Bond…

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:33 pm

The chutzpah of these people.

Which people.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:34 pm

JCsays:

May 4, 2022 at 8:24 pm

Netflix is the serial killer Streaming par excellence. Every week they have a new series about one. I think the most recent was Gacey.

Gacey doesn’t get the recognition he deserves.
Could it be that he was a gay serial killer preying on teenage boys and young men?

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:38 pm

No kidding, I can’t understand how people take Europeans seriously. They’re just fucking lunatics. All of them. Anything to do with international relations etc and it’s a total fuck-up when they’re involved. I mean, in the space of 1914 to 1945, the fuckers killed 70 plus million. Add in the starvation episode in Russia and you heading to 100 million plus. Of course, that’s not counting the shit that went on before in the 19th century. They just fucking maniacs.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:39 pm

you set a target to nominal GDP and run with that

It’s too wishy washy. If it works (Sumner is short on detail) it is practically the same thing. I’m not really keen on introducing an artificial market mechanism beyond what is necessary. A central bank should really just mimic a free market clearinghouse bank issuing more currency as the marginal revenue on arbitrage equals the marginal cost of deprecating their own lending base – as a long term trend, would equal real GDP growth.

M1 as a target would work because it intrinsically includes bank leverage moving up or down and having a strict long term target with a short term tolerance for volatility factors in commodity movements and feedback error.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:40 pm

Gacey doesn’t get the recognition he deserves.
Could it be that he was a gay serial killer preying on teenage boys and young men?

Recently read that is the serial killer strain which is actually way off the planet in terms of proportion.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:41 pm

JCsays:

May 4, 2022 at 8:38 pm

No kidding, I can’t understand how people take Europeans seriously. They’re just fucking lunatics.
….
They just fucking maniacs.

Except for the Italians, right?

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:41 pm

Dot

Tell me what you do here.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:42 pm

TBH I like using futures markets as a way to figure out the “Taylor Rule” more than I like NGDP targeting.

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 8:42 pm

Dahmer was too, but he was into making compliant sex zombies by drilling holes in their foreheads and pouring acid in. Didn’t work. The point is it is a packed field and you have to work hard to stand out these days, Gacy just frocked up like a clown.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 8:43 pm

Indeed JC . Frightbats regardless of politics sound the same.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:45 pm

WWNGDPTD?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:45 pm

It is the stupidity of Adelaide serial killers which I find astounding.
Murdering someone to tap into Centrelink benefits.
Really?
There are easier ways.
Have these people not heard of the NDIS or Early Childhood Education?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 8:46 pm

Rose Hancock.
Perth royalty.

So was Janet Holmes a’Court.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 4, 2022 8:46 pm

Victoria has recorded its first “flurona” death after a woman in her 90s died due to contracting Covid-19 and Influenza simultaneously.

The unvaccinated elderly woman died in mid-January with the state recording five more cases of coinfections between January and March this year.

All additional “flurona” cases were vaccinated against Covid-19 but not the flu due to the vaccine being unavailable between the summer months.

Idiots!

Frank
Frank
May 4, 2022 8:46 pm

Have these people not heard of the NDIS or Early Childhood Education?

Tard ranching you reckon?

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:47 pm

Except for the Italians, right?

Absolutely not. They’re scumbags. It wasn’t even a given they were even going to enter the war on the side of the Allies in 1914. They waited a year to see which way the wind was heading and went with the allies.

Dude, the entire region is a late term abortion.

As for the Brits, it was basically one man who steered them in the right direction. If Churchill wasn’t there, the Brits would have sort an accommodation with the nazis. War would likely have come later I think, but the first thing would have been accommodation.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2022 8:47 pm

If a blog is improved by the absence of me, KD, Rex and Rosie, how about this?
We agree not to go near the Furniture Store

Hang on.

What’s the Furniture Store?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 8:48 pm

Gacey and Dahmer make Ted Bundy look like a Chartered Accountant who is President of the local Rotary Club.
Or a failed banana-fama.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 4, 2022 8:50 pm

Caro really is a standout. A true horror. Physically and spiritually ugly. A dead soul. Even worse than Wilkinson and that’s saying something.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:50 pm

Anyway the real point is there only way to get low interest rates is to kill inflation; balanced budgets, low government spending, competition and no easy money.

Robert Rubin was the best thing to come out of the Clintons.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:51 pm

It’s too wishy washy.

No it’s not. It’s real. We don’t transact in “M1”. We receive income and spend in nominal dollars and GDP is another way of describing nominal income. Recessions are caused by sudden drops in nominal (and not real) income.

duncanm
duncanm
May 4, 2022 8:52 pm

Indolentsays:
May 4, 2022 at 6:40 pm
Oliver Stone posted this to Facebook 20 minutes ago.

interesting stuff.

Speaking of nukes, I presume that the origin/design of a nuke can be determined post-explosion from the distribution of various isotopes in the fallout.

I would think it’d be pretty straightforward to identify the source and type of any (nu/un)clear weapon use.

That doesn’t mean, of course, that any such investigation would be allowed or published, if Oliver’s theory were to pan out.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:52 pm

a woman in her 90s

Quick! Bring back a police state!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2022 8:52 pm

Off to Tennant Creek tomorrow, with a quick visit to the wildlife park and the telegraph station first.

Don’t drink the water.
Don’t stay at the motels on either side of town.
Don’t go out after dark.
Bottle shops close at 2.00 p.m.
Don’t swim in the Mary Ann Dam (or Lake, depending on who you talk to).
Keep a three-foot star picket handy.
Get a breakfast bacon and egg muffin from the Mobil servo on the way out.
Under no circumstances attempt a Golden Heart burger from the servo at the intersection of Paterson Street (the highway) and Peko Road.
Keep going until you get to Threeways and stay there.

rickw
rickw
May 4, 2022 8:52 pm

One of my old mates from work died of cancer yesterday. Roughly 2 months from diagnosis to lights out. Bugger!

We did so much good work together. Fuel hydrant extension work in Cairns sticks in my memory. We’d start work at 2pm, getting ready for drain down. System would be emptied by 8pm, ready for the welders. The welders would have it cut in and welded up by midnight, absolute guns. We’d do the flood up and flushing and be standing out the front of Troppo’s night club by 2am, scoff down a B747 hot dog each and then go have some beers. I have a photo of him neck deep in the water in a valve pit on the international finger there, we lifted the lid of to the valve pit to find it full of water, while we’re working out how long it will take to pump out he hops in and swims to the valve and closes it, with a big silly grin on his face!

Last big job we did together was the 3 month long commissioning on the Adelaide Airport hydrant. We stuck in 6 months worth of hours in 3 months. The bar bill was horrendous! We got as sunburned as hell no matter what we did, until we found a sunscreen that resembled Wattyl Solarguard, we were all crook for weeks from the Adelaide water, until someone fessed up and we all said “same”, came right within a day switching to bottled water.

He started back in the day’s of RDO’s and never took them. So when he retired he had about 2 years of RDO’s to work through. This meant a big and long trip up north in his “company vehicle”, one of the pipeline patrol Nissan 4WD’s, fuck knows how he ever planned to explain damage to a Melbourne pipeline patrol vehicle…. In Cape York. He dropped in and saw me in Cairns on his way through, I was managing Cairns at the time.

He got some good overseas trips as well. Got to do some fuel hydrant work in Tahiti. He would crack me up because he would make a point of calling the depot manager (chef du depot) The Chef of The Depot, Chef being pronounced per cook in his best Aussie accent.

He managed the Jet supply into Melbourne airport for a long time, then managed the whole operation for a while. Nightmare job, much less storage than now, he maintained a hand drawn chart that showed inputs and outputs and projected exactly how many hours we were away from stock out. Did that for years.

His best mate worked for Vicrail Northern area, most of the pipelines ran in the railway easements. There wasn’t many problems he couldn’t get sorted with a quick call this his mate.

A bloody good bloke.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:54 pm

Robert Rubin was the best thing to come out of the Clintons.

I had a chat with him at a Starbucks on Lex. I worked with a couple of dudes who worked for him at Goldsack, which is how I started the conversation. He was a short dude, really short.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 8:56 pm

They do hens night tours of Dahmers hunting grounds.

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 8:56 pm

Sound like a plan?

love the construction you just built
did you have a designer or did you thunk it up yourself?

here’s a plan.
you cartel members stop trying to pre-think everything

try to be circumspect
or thoughtful

maybe try to even be reasonable

maybe, I dunno, stop making repetitive gibbering noises

… you know … to improve the standard

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 8:56 pm

Except for the Italians, right?

Nah, they’re just refreshingly honest about it.

Some of the sexiest fast cars in the world are made by the offspring of an Italian tractor company.

And a young racing car engineer working for Alfa Romeo by the name of Enzio Ferrari said to his erstwhile employers “Fuck you! I can do better!”

And ended up being owned by Fiat. An utterly unremarkable purveyor of motorised biscuit tins now owned by Chrysler.

All very maniacal Italian. 🙂

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:57 pm

Rick

That’s pretty unusual these days dying from cancer two months after a diagnosis.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 8:58 pm

And ended up being owned by Fiat. An utterly unremarkable purveyor of motorised biscuit tins now owned by Chrysler.

I think they merged with the frogs.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 8:59 pm

maybe, I dunno, stop making repetitive gibbering noises

If only you could explain what that even means…

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 8:59 pm

They do hens night tours of Dahmers hunting grounds.

h y b r i s t o p h i l i a

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

Hybristophilia is a sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes,[1] a paraphilia in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed a crime. The term is derived from the Greek word hubrizein (????????), meaning “to commit an outrage against someone” (ultimately derived from hubris ?????, “hubris”), and philo, meaning “having a strong affinity/preference for”.[2] In popular culture, this phenomenon is also known as “Bonnie and Clyde syndrome”.[3]

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2022 8:59 pm

A bloody good bloke.

A damn shame he’s gone, by the sound.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 9:00 pm

Stellantis: Merger of Fiat-Chrysler and Peugeot groups

19 Jan 2021 — The merger between Fiat Chrysler Group and Peugeot Group is to be named Stellantis. Ben

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 9:00 pm

Mong.
Tard.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 9:01 pm

One of my old mates from work died of cancer yesterday. Roughly 2 months from diagnosis to lights out. Bugger!

Late diagnosis, or just an aggressive form?

rickw
rickw
May 4, 2022 9:02 pm

I mean, in the space of 1914 to 1945, the fuckers killed 70 plus million. Add in the starvation episode in Russia and you heading to 100 million plus. Of course, that’s not counting the shit that went on before in the 19th century. They just fucking maniacs.

Indeed, they shouldn’t get a free pass just because they can build a decent cathedral over a couple of centuries, and then bomb the shit out of it during the next scheduled war.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 9:02 pm

Hybristophilia is a sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes,

The worst of these depraved evil scum apparently receive sacks of correspondence from sheilas wanting to marry them. How fucked is that. It’s not unusual either.

rickw
rickw
May 4, 2022 9:03 pm

Late diagnosis, or just an aggressive form?

Aggressive liver.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2022 9:04 pm

maybe, I dunno, stop making repetitive gibbering noises

Repetitive?

Like daily unsolicited wordwalls either cut and pasted from bonzo sites without understanding what he’s writing (REPORT THIS AD), or telling everyone they’re doing to die (11-41 months), or calling them shallow cock smokers and to get fucked, or really bad Alinskying (again, after reading the dodgy corner of teh webs) or the current self-reflective stage where it’s ‘you’ll all be sorry’?

Every single day, for months?

Is that the repetitive gibber you’re referring to?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 9:04 pm

Aggressive liver

That’s rough. 🙁

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 9:07 pm

The worst of these depraved evil scum apparently receive sacks of correspondence from sheilas wanting to marry them. How fucked is that. It’s not unusual either.

No, it’s not.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 9:10 pm

Is that the repetitive gibber you’re referring to?

Probably not.
Lotta sadness.
The sponsor child is falling apart after the 15,000 litres fell on the campfire and he needs shoring up.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2022 9:10 pm

maybe try to even be reasonable

What is unreasonable is the daily unasked-for talking points from the aspiring yet failed Leader of The People that millions upon millions of Australians are fuckwits, and that those millions should have all done certain things to make his world a better place, and to hell with the circumstances of everyone else.

I will not speak for others – but I am nice. I am nice all the time. Until it is time to not be nice*. And that time is after months upon months of the same repetitive gibber from someone who demands others do what he will not.

If and when that happens, I’ll take the piss out of the Man With Potential Greatness allllllll fucking day.

*ROADHOUSE.

Dot
Dot
May 4, 2022 9:11 pm

If I transact in cash, it’s still part of M1 and GDP itself can be a nebulous concept.

The problem is endogeneity. Who decides what the NGDP target is? I’m not convinced it can’t be gamed.

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 9:14 pm

Matrix.

Just a gues. Is your attempt to reason with the ‘cartel’ because you no struth is beyond reasoning?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 9:15 pm

Sucking up to the fvcking Greenies…

Farmers blindsided as Federal Labor’s secret and ‘reckless’ plan to ban live sheep exports is unveiled
Cally Dupe and Adam PoulsenCountryman
Wed, 4 May 2022 6:05PM

WA sheep farmers have been blindsided after Federal Labor’s secret plan to ban live sheep exports was unveiled, saying the “reckless” move would decimate a $136 million industry and cost thousands of jobs.

An animal rights group lifted the lid on Labor’s position on the live sheep trade on Wednesday, after Federal shadow agriculture minister Julie Collins repeatedly told farmers and media the party would announce its welfare policy “later in the campaign”.

Labor made its position clear in an animal welfare survey conducted by the Australian Alliance of Animals, with the organisation’s CEO Jed Goodfellow on Wednesday revealing the party had ticked a box to say it would ban live sheep exports if elected on May 21.

The national animal protection charity asked all political parties to consider banning the trade within three years, a move supported by The Greens, the Animal Justice Party and the Sustainable Australia Party but knocked back by the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation.

Labor took the policy to the 2019 Federal election, promising to phase out the controversial trade over five years if elected and proposing farmers target the domestic processing sector instead.

The move would have massive ramifications for WA graziers, who export more sheep than anywhere else in Australia to markets in the Middle East such as Kuwait, UAE, Oman and Israel.

The national trade is worth $136m and employs about 3500 people across the supply chain — 80 per cent of them are based in WA — with 603,048 sheep exported from ports across Australia last financial year.

Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud slammed Ms Collins and the Labor Party for first telling animal activists what farmers and industry had been trying to find out for weeks.

He said Australia’s $1.5b northern cattle industry — which is built almost entirely on the live export of cattle to Indonesia and Vietnam, and still recovering after the 2011 live export ban — would be targeted next.

“The fact Labor was prepared to tell activists before farmers, whose livelihoods they are destroying, about a ban is a window into how an Albanese government would treat farming families in this country,” Mr Littleproud said.

“This would beginning of the end not just for sheep exports but also beef which they banned previously, costing the Australian taxpayers over $900m in compensation and trashing our reputation with Indonesia.

“Labor is offshoring animal welfare standards of live sheep exports to countries in Africa, rather than leading the world on animal welfare that we are doing here.”

York farmer Peter Boyle said banning live export would be the “demise” of WA’s sheep industry, and the trade was vital to give farmers another market to sell sheep not suitable for local processing.

He has exported thousands of sheep from his farm since 2005 and said staff-strapped processors were already struggling to keep up with the amount of sheep required to be slaughtered in WA

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 4, 2022 9:16 pm

Speaking of comedy value:

Mr Reiss said he was going to grant Mr O’Keefe bail to go to the rehabilitation centre until he witnessed his attitude in court.

That caused Mr O’Keefe to become enraged.

“I would have been inclined to grant bail if not for the ongoing behaviour of Mr O’Keefe in the court,” Mr Reiss said.

Cop that, you whiny little flog.

JC
JC
May 4, 2022 9:17 pm

No, it’s not.

Dot , get a load of this.

When you hear about a young man receiving loads of love letters, marriage proposals and even a plea from a woman wishing to have his baby, you might first think of a rock star, famous actor or powerful politician — not an accused killer. And yet, it’s Joran Van der Sloot who is making headlines today by bragging to the press about the number of women enamored with him. “One of them even wants me to get her pregnant,” he told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. There is no trusting claims by an admitted liar like Van der Sloot, but feverish female attention isn’t at all unusual in high-profile murder cases — and I called up an expert to better understand why.

Scott Peterson received a marriage proposal during his first day on Death Row. “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, a rapist, serial killer and Satanist — and serious catch in some eyes, apparently — was inundated with mail from romantic admirers; and he even married while behind bars. Robert Chambers, the so-called Preppie Killer, is said to have had so many female fans attempting to smuggle him contraband that he had to be transferred to another facility. The attractive and charismatic Ted Bundy — a necrophiliac who confessed to more than 30 murders — was so notoriously popular with women that the rather dubious claim that he received 200 love letters a day still circulates. Even John Wayne Gacy Jr., who raped and murdered 33 young boys, netted significant female attention.

https://www.salon.com/2010/06/23/van_der_sloot_proposals/

Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2022 9:21 pm
Indolent
Indolent
May 4, 2022 9:24 pm

Normalizing perversion

The reasons for the Left’s perverse sexualizing of very young children make sense only if you are sexually neurotic. None of it makes sense if you are a rational, healthy, sexually normal person. For example, what is to be gained by first graders learning about drag queens and transsexuality? How is a child’s life improved, how is the culture improved when children whose brains are not physically equipped to process such information get exposed to it? If it is the hope of sexualizers that children will be more accepting of perversity, to what end?

bespoke
bespoke
May 4, 2022 9:24 pm

Anyway I do think like all frightbats Struth gets off when people fight over him, Matrix.
So that’s all from me
Good night. Fresh start tomorrow.

Delta A
Delta A
May 4, 2022 9:25 pm

rickwsays:
May 4, 2022 at 8:52 pm

A very fine tribute to your friend, rickw.

Thanks for posting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 4, 2022 9:38 pm

“I would have been inclined to grant bail if not for the ongoing behaviour of Mr O’Keefe in the court,” Mr Reiss said.

Deal Then No Deal?

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2022 9:44 pm

Today, entitled ABC and ALP flunkey, luvvie and all round mediocrity Rhys Muldoon, called Dave Sharma on Twitter a “fake Jew”. Hmm, that’s what I call some chutzpah from a real fake, a fake who’s had to rely on a taxpayer funded corporation to produce his sludge that no one watches. Whatever I think of the member for Wentworth, he was an accomplished diplomat and I rather sit opposite Dave Sharma at a function than a progressive ALPBC fart.

Anyway, some wag has already updated Muldoon’s Wikipedia page…

“Rhys Muldoon (born 17 October 1965) is an Australian actor, labor party member, anti-Semite, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, music, theatre and radio. Since 2012 he has starred as Mark Oliver in House Husbands.”

I love it, wonder who long it will last on Wikipedia? In the meantime, a very accurate description.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
May 4, 2022 9:45 pm

Fully concur with Delta A above, rickw.

There are a lot worse epitaphs than being remembered by your mates as a hard working bloke who didn’t mind a coldie after knockoff time and as a bit of a ratbag..

Condolences.

MatrixTransform
May 4, 2022 9:47 pm

Is your attempt to reason with the ‘cartel’ because you no struth is beyond reasoning?

I’m not trying to reason with anybody
what I’m doing is pointing out what hypocritical tossers they’re being

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 4, 2022 9:48 pm

The perfect power nap exists. This is what it looks like
By Flic Everett
May 3, 2022 — 3.21pm

If anything about the pandemic has been positive, it’s the rise of the nap. Freed from office life, many adopted the siesta, snoozing after lunch and working slightly later to compensate. Advocates swear by its restorative and mood-improving benefits – in fact, napping has gained so much positive press, global firms including Google, Nike and Ben & Jerry’s now provide “sleep pods” with soothing soundscapes, or dedicated napping spaces at HQ for their snoozing staff.

This is a question I’ve been asking for years. When we were borrowing customs from other cultures, to make up the multicultural society, where’s the fool who passed up on the siesta?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
May 4, 2022 9:49 pm

I’m not trying to reason with anybody
what I’m doing is pointing out what hypocritical tossers they’re being

Lolwut?

Cassie of Sydney
May 4, 2022 9:50 pm

“Delta Asays:
May 4, 2022 at 9:25 pm
rickwsays:
May 4, 2022 at 8:52 pm

A very fine tribute to your friend, rickw.”

+ 1

Thanks for posting.

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