Bob Moran.

Christian Adams.

Gary Varvel.

Matt Margolis.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
May 12, 2022 at 3:58 am

So it will cost us at least a hundred pounds each in return fares

Not disputing, but fares must have tripled since last year, we only paid 20 quid each way, ie 40 pounds return.

Matt Margolis #2.

Henry Payne.

Ben Garrison.

Kiev cites “force majeure” to halt a third of Russian transited gas flow to Europe, while Gazprom says there have been no issues that would justify the move : https://bit.ly/3wf3zaK

Both India and China increasing coal power by lots, while we have posturing pollies taking us down the wrong path, aided by complicit green left media.
Jo Nova has the numbers.

Looks like Paul Gallen’s slugging career may be over. A fighter, he came up against a boxer in Kris Terzievski.

Gallen’s style was similar to early Tyson without the blistering hand speed or evasion – crouch, move inside, short brutal left/right hooks upstairs and downstairs, with a few uppercuts thrown in. Break, repeat. Combined with a chin like concrete, he was extremely hard to get around.

Terzievski had him in height and reach, but that wasn’t the problem. The problem for Gallen was that Terzievski is a southpaw, and unlike all Gallen’s other opponents Terzievski also has outstanding footwork and ringcraft. He put Gallen where he didn’t want to be.

Terzievski got home on a unanimous decision, and then headed straight back to the sheds because he was absolutely fucked. Gallen stuck around for yonks before heading back, taking selfies with fight aficionados. Terrifying.

BREAKING: Senate Vote To Codify Roe V Wade Fails To Advance After GOP, Manchin Vote No

Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine

Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 11, 2022 at 9:56 pm
“Did you look at that article in Quadrant On-Line?”

Just read it. I know that area like the back of my hand. I know where Allegra lives.

There’s a reason why I call her Princess Allegra…she’s the personification of “do as I say, not as I do”….a total hypocrite and fraud.

I then recall a moment in a recent Sky News debate with local Liberal Dave Sharma, where each was asked what they were actually doing to allay the threat of climate change. Each candidate responded they had not installed solar panels. Neither drives an electric car. According to a report,

Also obvious from the street (through a gap in the front hedge) is a large Fujitsu inverter sitting beneath the front window. So, it would seem Allegra does not suffer for the climate cause during Sydney’s humid summer months but relaxes in air-conditioned comfort. Or perhaps she has found an energy provider who sources from wind farms or hydro only, not dirty coal.

24% pay rise for CEOs when workers are getting their wages suppressed is not justifiable under any circumstances. Don’t come the raw prawn, Tim N.

Translation of munty speak:

“I don’t really understand proper business, but I don’t like the whole vibe of the thing.”

Timothy Neilsonsays:
May 11, 2022 at 10:04 pm
Bloody hell, young people wanting to afford a house with a decent wage? Rampant communism!!

They’re in luck. Looking at prices around my area, apartments in inner Melbourne are sliding in price.

They can get in at the lower end of the market, work, earn, save, pay off the loan for that and then move on to something closer to their dreams.

Hmm, now that I put it that way, it sounds sort of familiar. I wonder if I know anyone who actually did that in the past…

Yep we did that 1 bedrm unit 3.4 squares Harbord- could swing a cat and hit all walls, and are trying to convince youngest and her husband living with us to purchase something in Mackay, rent out and have a place to retire to in the future.

Wife, unhappy with Bank interest, bought a year ago central Mackay, not in Flood zone, 2 Storey 121 sq m internal, 194 sq m total 2 Bedroom Townhouse for $275K, rented out for year at $385 per week within 5 days settlement

Salvatore

Belated Snap!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
May 11, 2022 at 11:32 pm
Anthony Albanese:

I believe good government can change people’s lives for the better. Good government can help people build their dreams and aspirations

If only there were even the slightest indication that AnAl and the Liars are in any way capable of providing “good government”! Even being just as bad as the Lieborals might be an improvement on the Liars’ last effort.

From one of my favourite thinkers. Lifted from the Speccie.

Jim’s How to Vote card
Rewarding the Libs guarantees a further drift to the left

James Allan
14 May 2022

9:00 AM

When readers cast their eyes on this column the election will be a week or so away. To fend off the no doubt myriad readers inquiring ‘how will Jim vote?’, here’s my take on it.

To start I take you all back six years to the 2016 election. That was the one where I argued that it was better to punish the Turnbull lefty Libs and preference Labor; to send the Coalition for a spell in the political wilderness to re-group because they so richly deserved it. And that is what I did myself. I put the Greens last, the Libs second last, Labor third last and then just randomly picked the rest. That decision, by the way, looks better with the passage of time as each year since has seen the Liberal party drift ever further leftwards – on energy policy and the daft decision to sign up to the disingenuous net zero; on all freedom related issues; on running the biggest spending and biggest taxing government in our history; on ever-woker universities; the list goes on.

By the way, what I did is the only way to punish the Liberal party if, like me, you see them as a Liberal In Name Only vehicle that has sold out virtually all of its conservative principles. Yes, I know, some of my fellow Speccie writers are saying they will put the Greens last, then Labor, then the Libs, with all the top spots reserved for the minor parties. But doing that amounts to voting for the Liberal candidate in a preferential voting system like ours – and is a big reason why only one other country on earth employs this voting system of ours. It functions as a protection racket for the two main parties, Labor and the Libs. If you put the Libs above Labor, anywhere on the ballot, then it is overwhelmingly likely you have just voted for the Liberals. If you are in Trent Zimmerman’s constituency, you’ve voted for Trent. Ditto Dave Sharma’s. So at least be clear about what you’re doing and whether you can bring yourself to vote for this present Coalition government.

The other preliminary matter to mention is the Team Morrison claim that the government’s handling of the pandemic saved 40,000 lives. This is to defend itself against the charge that Australia’s pandemic response – on the ‘weld them in their homes’ end of the spectrum – condoned despotism, police brutality and heavy-handedness, preventing citizens from leaving the country, unbelievably massive government spending needed after government itself forced businesses to close (and that everyone knows is a main cause for the looming inflation, and for transferring wealth from the poor to the rich via asset inflation and from the young to the old via massive debts our grandchildren will be paying off); vaccine and mask mandates; and the rest.

So what do we make of the ‘we saved 40,000 lives’ claim? Let me be as polite as possible. It’s patent nonsense. It’s worse than disingenuously mendacious. It’s based on looking at Europe, arbitrarily picking a median country death rate per capita, then implicitly assuming Australia’s death rate would have been precisely what it was had we been situated in Europe. But it wouldn’t have been. No European country came close to our low Covid death tally. The European country that now has some of the best ‘excess deaths during the pandemic’ numbers is Sweden, the one country that did not lock down but focused on protecting the vulnerable, trusting individual citizens and not going down the China-inspired lockdown route. So its economy is doing better than most all of Europe and it did not rack up a huge debt burden for the kids and grandkids. What basis is there for picking a model that assumes away every variable to do with geography and being an island? (And haven’t we all had enough of models that were wrong every time throughout the pandemic, and always on the over-stating it side of the ledger so convenient to the authoritarian public health types?) Listen, Taiwan is in our neck of the woods. It was nothing like as despotic as we were. And its Covid deaths per capita were seven times lower than ours.

And anyway, British epidemiologists are already predicting that deaths caused by lockdowns (think missed health checks, suicides, super-charged alcoholism, what flows from a stuffed economy and two missed years of schooling, etc.) will be upwards of ten times higher than lives saved by locking down. It was a brutal, stupid, fear-mongering approach we took in this country. It opted to throw all freedom concerns out the window. Likewise all inter-generational fairness ones. It should not be rewarded.

So if, like me, you can’t vote Liberal because of the way the government handled the pandemic – which was to defer to Labor heavy-handedness always and everywhere – why can you? That is what voters will be asking themselves as they cast their ballots.

Look, I differ from most of my fellow Speccie writers in believing that no long-term good comes from rewarding a political party that positions itself a centimetre to the right of Labor. Over time the Libs do the work of Labor, it’s just a bit slower. Frau Merkel proved this in Germany. I believe we need a circuit breaker. It would have been better to have it six years ago. But now is better than later.

So my advice is this. If your local member is a Coalition MP who has been solidly conservative and stood up against despotism during the pandemic, vote for him or her. Otherwise, if it’s a so-called ‘moderate’ Lib, which over the past six years has meant a Labor-heavy type MP, preference that candidate below Labor’s and take your medicine now. It will only get worse if you don’t. And it will effectively reward the Liberal party’s ever-more-leftwards drift. That’s the truth of the matter.

Finally, I especially don’t agree with those commentators who think it’s important for the Libs to hold on to the posh inner-city constituencies with the most lefty Liberal MPs. If Britain, Canada and the US are anything to go by, these districts are doomed. Rich people now vote left more than right. Clinton and Biden took nearly all of the hundred wealthiest districts in the US. Boris can’t win in the posh inner cities. The Liberal party cannot hold these seats long term. Our voting system slows down the trend but it won’t stop it. The winning conservative coalition is the one Trump and Boris put together – small business types, the lower-middle and working class, outer suburbs, despisers of woke stupidity, and those not in thrall to the climate alarmists.

Sooner or later the Coalition will have to go down that path. I prefer sooner. And as for the Senate, vote below the line choosing individuals. We’ll need some right-leaning small party types to win there to lessen the awfulness of what’s coming.

m0ntysays:
May 11, 2022 at 8:59 pm
My bad, got the number wrong, Australian CEO pay was actually up 24% last year.

https://acsi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CEO-Pay-in-ASX200-Companies-2021-embargoed-13-July-2021.pdf

After being effectively flat for 6 years (pp13, average and median realised pay from 2014 to 2020)

You’ll also note on pp16 that the median reported pay took a big dive in 2020, back below 2007 levels, presumably due to the pandemic actions. So a big bounce back last year of +24% is returning to normality.

btw – their their fixed pay effectively follows CPI (pp20).

I believe good government can change people’s lives for the better. Good government can help people build their dreams and aspirations

Also sounds like he’s been reading Kamala’s speeches.

Da Fisk

Only dumb globalists want to double down on investing in China.

The phrase “dumb globalists” seems tautological?

Amusing country shopper stories.

Balding, Bearded ‘Minor’ Migrant Drug Dealer Revealed To Be Adult (11 May)

The man, a Moroccan national, had claimed to be just 17-years-old despite sporting a beard and appearing to be partially balding, but a medical forensic examination of his bones and teeth confirmed that he was lying about his age to French authorities.

Teenagers in the Middle East go bald so early these days.

Six Migrants All Claim To Be Father of Same Child To Obtain French Residency (11 May)

Six migrant men from the Ivory Coast have all claimed to be the father of one child in the northern French department of Manche in order that they would each be able to claim residency in France.

Wokerati gush about having two mothers, but that’s nothing on being sired by six fathers.

It appears “Long Covid” is the thing to be feared now that the disease itself isn’t doing much.

Sounds suspiciously like post viral syndrome (which I have had) but of course it must have a sexy new name. Unfortunately time is the cure, aided by lifestyle tweaks.

Also, much…much fear mongering yesterday about heart disease brought on by Covid. As the worst affected were the already sick and obese, I am not particularly surprised.

Rich people now vote left more than right. Clinton and Biden took nearly all of the hundred wealthiest districts in the US. Boris can’t win in the posh inner cities. The Liberal party cannot hold these seats long term. Our voting system slows down the trend but it won’t stop it. The winning conservative coalition is the one Trump and Boris put together – small business types, the lower-middle and working class, outer suburbs, despisers of woke stupidity, and those not in thrall to the climate alarmists.

Has James Allan been reading NewCat?

https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2016/August/Personal+Flight+Vehicles

50th USA state of Hawaii sees push to “take it back”.

Could money be behind this?

ABC – of course.

TE, maybe the native Hawaiians can cosy up to the CCP?

Hawaii is a lefty demesne which routinely has the highest electricity prices in the US. If the Chinese take over they’d build a coal fired power station and make electricity affordable.

H B Bearsays:
May 12, 2022 at 8:50 am
That’s because the shallowest are the majority who watch MAFS or some such crap and think its real.

You could argue Kochie gave us KRuddy.

My missus said that years ago when she saw Sloppy Joe being all matey with Krudd. Seem to recall they went to Kokoda together, very much doubt they walked it though. Neither had the energy. How the SFL thought Joe and Krudd together was a good idea, heaven knows, but I guess that’s why their the SFL.

Defence case will rest on character of Chris Dawson

Mr Dawson’s barrister Pauline David told the court on Monday she had received the brief of evidence in April and was still going through its 11,000 pages and a vast array of other material.

Oz

Lol. I presume the Dem’s KKK is now off the hook as “most extreme”?

So what people are saying about struth is that he’s wasting his time screaming hysterical abuse at people for things that can’t be changed, failing to make any feasible suggestions as to what should be done now (other than about voting, on which people here pretty much all agree anyway), and alienating people who in fact largely agree with him and might be persuaded to take his advice if he had any plausible advice to give.

The suggestions are numerous.

Like get fucked.

Kneel, however bad you thought it was, making you comply, you made things worse.
Don’t blame everyone else.
Here’s a tip.
When you stand at the pearly gates and St Peter and you are looking at your life, everybody else won’t be being judged, you will be.
“They were all doing it” doesn’t cut it in a Christian, individual responsibility world, something that until this happened many now confirmed hypocrites of this blog, declared themselves aligned to.
Until it was put to the test.
Immediate fail.

I point out the obvious, as again seen with the excited way denialists latch onto Monty, again subject matter then being able to be talked about that isn’t the most important stuff they wish to ignore, and all sideline theatre garbage.

Secondly, this “it’s all done and dusted approach ” so what struth is banging on about is over…history can’t be changed, is at best naive and ignorant, and at worst, complicit.
So you’ll still have to confront the choices you ran away from by getting the jab.
You just fucked up two years and entrenched tyrannical power in doing so.

Then immediately after this comment was made in comes the wicked witch of the green tick jet-set, telling all there’s no moral issue or problem with participating in apartheid against those holding the line for freedom, because according to her convenient new set of values, joining in and being a good Nazi, is all about freedom to choose!!

There is mental sickness here is born of self excuse.
Trying to twist the truth regarding their own piss poor performance in the civic and moral responsibility arena, all sorts of insanities get put forward.

My point.
Accept what you have done because this is not over, and until you get back to reality, you are lost to evil, and excuse it, and as this blog proves, deny it’s existence and stick your head in the Ukraine or Monty sands.
And while that’s the case, you are SFA use to your loved ones, your country or your fellow man.
The enemy is on our shores, in our parliaments and swamps, not in Russia.
And Monty coming in all of a sudden to keep you talking about irrelevences WHILE THAT IS THE CASE……and you all fall for it, proves my point.

Madonna has decided to sell X rated digital scans of herself as NFTs.
Monroe standing over the steam vent suddenly seems so wholesome… but it looks like the slippery slope of whoring for fame has plunged us into timewave zero where it’s only a matter of days before some bint goes from trending, to oversharing, to flashing, and somehow buy themselves enduring political credibility as they go.

Matrix is pretty much spot on.

In any such competition MT would be at least several galaxies distant in the original comment writer’s rear view mirror.

Cohenite-
Have you got enough good years in you to get with the Lib Dems and build it up from grass roots? Their constitution is a bit of a worry- and their lead senate candidate here is trying to cruise on the counterculture zeitgeist, which I reckon is a badly judged tactic- but I reckon their core beliefs should be a uniting point for, for instance, heapsa Cats.

Interesting, Joe Manchin Questions DIA Berrier and DNI Haines About Whether Ukraine Can Win, DIA Confirms We are in a Proxy War With Russia

May 11, 2022 – Sundance

The next Democrat and Lincoln Project presidential candidate for ¹2024, Joe Manchin, questions Defense Intel Agency (DIA) Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines about whether Ukraine can actually win the current war with Russia. It’s an interesting exchange because none of the DeceptiCon senators will usually approach the issue.

What Berrier is saying is affirming we are in a direct proxy war. So long as the United States remains the essential fighting force behind the Ukrainian military, they can achieve a stalemate. However, if the United States withdraws support, Russia will win. DIA Berrier is saying directly the U.S. can only achieve a stalemate in Ukraine. WATCH:

Lib Dems and grass roots, these things do not go together.

Ah yes monty, Team Teal is as grass roots as the estate of Robert Holmes a Court.

Like having a private golf course on a manor you own. Lots of Bermuda and couch.

Bulldust and you know it’s bulldust. When you come here do try and be an adult and not some adolescent.

You can tell that the Teals are actually Liberal wets, because you lot hate them so much.

I don’t trust single-seat polls. Daniel and Ryan are still pushing it uphill.

It’s deves versus Deves.

Ah yes monty, Team Teal is as grass roots as the estate of Robert Holmes a Court.

Fully agreed on that point, Dot. The Teals are not lilywhite grass roots candidates, with HaC money behind them. Then again, neither are Liberal wets as a rule.

The LNP only has itself to blame for shutting out small-l liberal women from their old mates club. These women have found a vehicle with a few bucks behind it. That’s politics.

m0ntysays:
May 12, 2022 at 11:01 am
Ah yes monty, Team Teal is as grass roots as the estate of Robert Holmes a Court.

Fully agreed on that point, Dot. The Teals are not lilywhite grass roots candidates, with HaC money behind them. Then again, neither are Liberal wets as a rule.

The LNP only has itself to blame for shutting out small-l liberal women from their old mates club. These women have found a vehicle with a few bucks behind it. That’s politics.

Credit where credit is due. That said munty, why don’t you apply the same level of substance to just about everything else you scribble.

The Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case has been banned from the Federal Court’s YouTube channel
Ah well, there’s still Depp v Heard.
… and U.S. v Maxwell has been deep-six’d. Funny how there apperas to be nothing, nada, zilch, not even a racey airport softmax based on testimony from “sources close to the Epsteins”, “disgruntled former employees”, and “now-rebuffed school chum friend”.
…it’s almost like the reading public don’t want to know the names of the trafficked or the identities of the clients.

Ken Worth standing at the Pearly Gates, St Peter asks him what he has done to justify entry? Well I saved Austr..a..l. , Just a moment says St Peter, I have to put my earplugs in.

The LNP only has itself to blame for shutting out small-l liberal women from their old mates club. These women have found a vehicle with a few bucks behind it. That’s politics.

The small-l girls would destroy the joint if allowed.
They’re not as mad as the greens but share their total disconnection with the nuts and bolts drivers of a robust economy, and that’s not tourism by the way.
On the same basis we should be having a medical/health lead recovery considering the obscene sums thrown into this unsatisfiable pit. Services don’t match production.

Leon Cameron – Gawn!

First coach to fall for 2022. Who’s next?

The small-l girls would destroy the joint if allowed.

D’you reckon giving women the vote was a mistake, Gez?

The problem with saying that the LNP need to abandon the leafy rich suburbs and focus on the working class is that the LNP is filled with rich bastards from the leafy suburbs who hate the working class and run policies designed to oppress them.

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OldOzziesays:
May 12, 2022 at 10:05 am
Joe Biden Labels Donald Trump “The Great MAGA King”

We’ve gone from Deplorable, to MAGA, to Ultra MAGA and now The GREAT MAGA.

We shall celebrate our latest elevation with the dance of The Great MAGA King below:

You forgot to add your song, Old Ozzie!

I got you, mate. 😉

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2uRLJZxINAQ

#Shadilay

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