Nailed it.
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Those crewing are not employed by yacht owner or skipper. If yachties had same rules and regs as farmers or…
Except Calli that many professional sports claim to be a workplace now. Amateurs just have bad luck but professionals attract…
From the Best Pie list. Best Vegetarian / Vegan Pie Forster Bakehouse (Forster, NSW) – Cauliflower Cashew Mornay Pie Best…
Sport will be treated differently to paid employment. Each yacht will be covered by its own insurance, as well as…
Most childcare problems can be sorted by
.a. Allowing couples to income split.
.b. Removing the Gillard inspired insanity of “childhood learning” and returning to daycare center models. No glorified education qualifications needed for grot wrangling.
Any other intractable problems vexing the minds of our ‘best and brightest’ I can solve inside 5 minutes?
A report from the RAND Corporation, back in 2019
Key points:
The “bleeding” of Russia shall be achieved with the use of the following measures:
– Hindering Russian natural gas exports to Europe by opposing pipeline renovations and manipulating world oil prices;
– Encouraging the brain-drain and seeking to exacerbate further Russia’s demographic crisis;
– Providing lethal aid to Ukraine;
– Promoting regime-change in Belarus;
– Using disinformation to diminish foreign and domestic support for the RF’s leadership;
– Increasing the size of the US nuclear arsenal (the fact that this breaks several treaties between the US/RF is not mentioned);
– Exploiting tensions in the southern Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan);
– Challenging the RF’s presence in Moldova;
– Controlling the Black Sea, ultimately preventing the RF from claiming territorial waters around Sevastopol.
What is truly key here is the following: what RAND had stated – and published, as early as 2010 – on the matter of Ukraine, has all happened.
the direct result of “gender equity”, herding women into the workforce
There are any number of family and hobby farmers who will sell you a whole/half/quarter beast butchered to your requirements for a reasonable price. Check out the internet.
People up the road got the electricity connected the year I was born. I remember stay at their place once and getting to chew on a galah.
We’re getting back there. I had been worried about my rabbit problem. Seems more like an asset now!
Heres an example of a “brilliant’ mind talking about childcare.
‘Postcode lottery’: The suburbs where families are living in ‘childcare deserts’
Modelling provided to NSW Treasury shows that 568,700 NSW children (or 35.2 per cent) aged four and under live in a childcare desert, which researchers define as an area with fewer than 0.333 childcare places per child.
Childcare affordability has been seen as an impediment to women returning to the workforce, with federal Education Department figures projecting that daycare fees will rise 4.1 per cent a year for the next four years, far outstripping inflation.
An extensive policy will be presented to cabinet’s expenditure review committee, with options that could include increased subsidies to families to improve affordability as well government-run services in areas that are lacking in availability.
I was aware of that when I posted about theFauci visit to the Vatican before the pandemic, and that’s way before you were dumb enough and so ill informed and ignorant at to chose death by Gates, JC.
It’s a pity you can’t trust anything coming out of the largely unvaxxed North Korea, where COVID is raging, according to reports. It would make a good benchmark for ascertain the usefullness of vaccines in other jurisdictions. But we’ll never really know.
I suspect there are several analogous reports in Chinese and Russian describing similar strategies for use in the US and Australia, which also have been occurring. Not at all thinking of a suddenly popular colour, really I’m not, would never think of such a thing!
Putin still leaving dead Russian soldiers abandoned on Ukrainian soil, not bothering to ID them, not repatriating their remains, and not informing their families. No honour, no valour. Meanwhile the Russian Orthodox church is blessing rockets which will be invariably used against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and even apartments. What a sick cult!
There’s no point in expanding immigration if we don’t let Australia become any more industrialised or developed than it is now.
What are we going to do, make them as miserable as we are?
No, I was talking about in China.
Exactly
Comrades in arms all, marching towards Maoist revolution.
The only reason why montell is correct is because everything woke turns to shit.
Yes.
Two unit complex.
She owns one outright and has an interest in the other with her brother.
Probably enough Owners Corp votes to swing it.
Covid is raging!
Covid is raging!
Asymptomatic cases or the horrifying terror of a runny nose…..
But do we ask ourselves why commo countries like NK are not heavily vaccinated?
I mean the commo globalists at war with us are surely pushing the vaccine on westerners…..
Just a question to the denialists.
Do the heavily brainwashed minds of the vaxxed ever contemplate these things?
Humans have been taking care of each others’ kids since the dawn of time.
So what’s stopping them now, Childcare isn’t compulsory?
Get the State involved, and presto!, bum-wiping and story time become insanely expensive.
There’s gotta be Regulation, even you agree on that?
In reality, it’s not in a child’s best interests for them to be looked after by strangers for more than a few hours per week
Because communism is so well known for producing surpluses. Even I know that one.
Ed.
Time to pony up your resources and make a killing
https://www.domain.com.au/-abattoir-road-geraldton-wa-6530-2017480885
Tier 2 Export Abattoir ***Mutton, Ram, Goat, Lamb*** POTENTIAL TO CONVERT TO CATTLE
An AQIS approved Tier 2 export plant capable of processing up to 2000 small stock a day.
Operating since 1995 has an excellent international reputation for being Western Australia’s premier exporter of processed rangeland goat and mutton, meat importers and distributors for quality and consistency of supply.
dipstick
The only way for the Grammar schools to avoid this is to reject any and all public funding. The minute they started accepting government largesse was the moment that they started marching lockstep with Stalin.
Show me anywhere in the world where the price of the Maoist revolution hasn’t been piles of corpses and mountains of skulls.
Typical Trump supporter:
rickw, a pal of mine owns one of those Hummels. Yet to fly and converted to nosewheel as he doesn’t have a taildragger endorsement. A few laser guided 68mm rockets under the wings and you can have a guerilla air force.
What benefit did the tax payer derive from this deal?
The same one we, mug taxpayers, always get when the maaates & gummint have a mutual fellating session ….. SFA! .. lol!
Not sure if it was Fed/State or a combination that did the deal as the land is/was part of the Western Sydney 2000 Olympics field events (baseball ect) complex & Western Sydney Parklands (of which pieces go private, frequently) ..
Someone loves the Ranga.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ozraeliavi/status/1525240839739678720
Correct pronunciation of Sikh as well.
With “the end is nigh” written on them?
That’s their basic message after all, the useless sanctimonious hypocritical bought and paid for bimbos.
How is anyone supposed to take an ignorant privileged airhead like Spendathon seriously?
Our democracy, if it could be dignified with such a term, is smashed beyond repair.
There’s no point in expanding immigration if we don’t let Australia become any more industrialised or developed than it is now.
Look at where the Transfer Payments end up and you’ll have the answer to why there’s bipartisanship on a Big Australia.
Unemployable bludgers and dependent mothers funnel their money to the Banks, Corporate Farmers and Corporate Grocers.
I wonder did Bernard Salt see this coming. Airhead females voted in by airheads. This will be huge.
There’s not a lot that gets past Australia’s most boring man – apart from pretty much everything of any consequence.
An AQIS approved Tier 2 export plant capable of processing up to 2000 small stock a day.
Where’s the 2000 small stock?
Ans. On a fucking ship to the Middle East.
Dickhead.
Eh, Sad Case, try leafletting your neighbours with the news that you’ll look after their kids in your home for a fee.
You’ll very soon make the acquaintance of the State, its operatives and fine books.
It’s a pity they never completed your lobotomy. Being reduced to the acuity of a parsnip would generate generate sympathy. The tape worm brain you’re harbouring at the moment doesn’t cut it.
I wonder did Bernard Salt see this coming. Airhead females voted in by airheads. This will be huge.
All newspapers, Media, Television, Advertising is directed at Women.
Albanese’s selection as a candidate over PeanutHead, and their entire Campaign, has been aimed at winning the Female Vote.
Q: Where’s the 2000 small stock?
A: Being sold for higher prices
No need to thank me for your introduction to basic economics Ed.
Here’s your first target and then your second. For aesthetic reasons alone, both are crying out to be obliterated (NaDT).
Ha ha.
At least I’m not taking CIA money for publishing a shit magazine.
Shatterzzz like the perfectly good stadiums they ripped down and then shoved hundreds of millions into a black hole we’ll never know how deep the rot goes. Same in Townsville where they built a brand new stadium on highly polluted old rail yards that a local developer & Devine Ltd picked up for a steal then made a motza off selling to the council, meanwhile the old stadium in a better part of town for fans could have been redeveloped at a fraction of the cost.
I saw V’landys getting all hot under the collar recently again. I think we are well past the need to remove public funding of professional sport, let ’em stand on their own feet.
Zip @ 6:57am.
Another sad and disgusting story brought about by these criminals in govt, health, the media.
Honestly, if the minor, right-of-centre parties don’t get up enough to bring on an inquiry into this entire debacle, then it will have to come from the weight of numbers of people injured by these jabs and from the removal of basic human rights to decide for oneself on health needs.
Morrison was on the teev this morning – somewhere in an outer suburb of Melbourne promising money for, iirc a playground?
He had the hide to say, in reference to a bunch of kids playing in the park where he was, that despite the lockdown(s), “they were now getting on with their lives – for them, coming together in play, it was all put aside and being forgotten.” With the message to their parents and everyone else: “we’re moving on as well from the last two years.”
I will never forget how he told the country back in early July, iirc, last year that Australia does not mandate vaccines.
What a Bunch of Dogs – “My Body My Choice” – Boy are their Choices Lousy
My goodness cops are utter scum. Just out on my run saw a porker with his car parked in a no stopping zone right on the edge of a corner of a main road pointing his radar at unsuspecting motorists and (no doubt) fining them for exceeding the speed limit by 2-3kms p/h.
What sort of a brain damaged moral vacuum thinks engaging in such an activity is in any way acceptable?
Yes, remember it well. The exact quote was “we haven’t mandated vaccines, except when we have”.
Reading about the African Slave Trade to the United States.
The beancounters in Boston had worked out that the optimal vertical distance between decks for transporting slaves was 3 feet 3 inches and they required a floor space of 13 inches square.
The last ship landed at Charleston in 1858, it left Africa with 600, arrived in South Carolina with 465.
The n’Drangheta are objectively better and contribute more to society.
I will never forget how he told the country back in early July, iirc, last year that Australia does not mandate vaccines.
Your mate Albanese has said he will Mandate Covid Vaccination.
How long has it taken you to forget that?
Not sure if this is Pailine .. episode 27 but current & one I haven’t seen before .. enjoy!
https://youtu.be/pg-tzLFN2PA
Coronavirus ‘ghosts’ found lingering in the gut
This is very weird. I can only think of one way this can be happening.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Mice live longer and lose weight while eating more when FGF21 is present
The amino acid will be methionine. I’m not sure this would work with humans because some studies indicating post 60 years boosting protein intake helps.
Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Rodney Carter said incorporating more Indigenous languages into place names would give “country back its voice again”.
“For me, it’s decolonising. It’s liberating,” he said.
I’m guessing Rodney isn’t bothered by cultural name appropriation .. LOL!
Shatterzz
I don’t know about incoming mail from the US but I’ve been sending parcels to the US since forever, no issues in the last nine months.
‘Nuther one.
Nephew of slain gangster ‘Brownie’ Ahmad gunned down (Terror, 14 May, paywalled)
Making the RoP great again.
What would that be? This is an intriguing mystery to the uninitiated.
Restaurateur offered $13k to attract workers, but no one applied
Melbourne restaurateur Liam Ganley was so desperate for staff he offered young Brits free flights, accommodation and sponsorship – worth about $13,000 in total – but did not get a single applicant.
“Some of the decisions made here are finally catching up with us,” Mr Ganley told AFR Weekend, referring to Victoria’s long COVID-19 lockdown.
“There’s a lot of negative sentiment toward Victoria in Europe, it got a lot of airtime on the news.
“People were saying to us, ‘why I would go that prison?’ Now it’s a big job to convince people to get over here. We were getting abused and had to take the ads down.”
The Irishman runs St Kilda bars Freddie Wimpoles and The Fifth Province, Prahran steakhouse Angus & Bon, as well as the newly revamped Bay Hotel on the Mornington Peninsula.
He used to get stacks of CVs from backpackers and recalls having to turn people away daily. But chronic staffing shortages – he has lost up to 30 per cent of his workforce – due to a lack of working holidaymakers has forced him to reduce trading at two venues to five days a week.
Mr Ganley said he was just about ready to give up advertising jobs on SEEK. He is also faced with the rising cost of utilities and produce.
“It’s harder to trade now than in the middle of COVID. We need to reduce the red tape, scrap the visa application fees [currently $495], and get people over here because we’re running out of options to get employees,” he said.
In the six months since Australia reopened its border on December 15, 69,225 working holiday visas have been granted, according to the Department of Home Affairs.
Of those, only 24,725 have entered Australia, which means there are 44,500 people with valid visas still offshore. By comparison, 269,859 working holidaymakers arrived in Australia in calendar year 2019.
The federal government refunded the $495 visa fee for visa holders who arrived in Australia between January 19 and April 19 to entice working holidaymakers back. There has been no word of an extension
Bare bones
Bryce Edwards, executive chef at Fitzroy eateries Transformer and Vegie Bar, said his venues were running on bare bones and sometimes had to cancel whole days of bookings if too many staff members were sidelined with COVID-19.
“We always relied on working holidaymakers, but we never realised how much,” Mr Edwards said. “We need to entice them back.”
Jia-Yen Lee had to close her Richmond-based Vietnamese restaurant, Anchovy, for four days in the last two weeks.
She said the widespread staffing shortage had exposed an overreliance on foreign workers. But rather than trying to entice them back, Ms Lee said the industry needed to focus on developing the domestic workforce.
“Hospitality is often seen by locals as a stepping stone and not a proper career path,” Ms Lee said. “Being a chef, let alone a waiter, isn’t seen the same way as being a sparky or a chippy.”
Restaurant and Catering Australia chief executive Wes Lambert said the food service industry lost nearly 100,000 workers during the pandemic and had not recovered them.
Local workforce
He agreed with Ms Lee that a two-pronged approach was needed to grow a local workforce while also encouraging internationals to return.
Australia’s global reputation for closed borders would take both time and advertising to undo, Mr Lambert said, adding that both state and federal governments needed to think outside the square.
One such example could be the South Australian Tourism Commission’s campaign to draw 200 young British working holidaymakers to Australia, announced in late April, with £10 ($17) return flights to Adelaide, channelling the post-war migration scheme.
This was a clever move that made headlines in the UK, according to an industry leader, but won’t be enough to solve chronic job shortages in hospitality.
I wonder how often proud indigene Rodney Carter gets mistaken for the bloke on the $2 coin?
Not every often, I’d guess, even if standing on one leg and gazing into the far horizon
Rabz says: May 14, 2022 at 12:05 pm
Hmmmm, no results.
Removing the quotes find lots of august institutions assuring me that nobody was forced to take them as the vaccinations were not mandatory… and simultaneously in many States it was legal for organisations to require vaccination, while MurdochMessages told us “What you won’t be able to do without the COVID-19 vaccine”.
They weren’t forced in the sense that you were for several months expected to give up many aspects of life and possibly income if you didn’t get jabbed. So not like force at all!
Accept the doublespeak, vote for the Uniparty.
Shatterzz
I don’t know about incoming mail from the US but I’ve been sending parcels to the US since forever, no issues in the last nine months.
I collect stamps and have had a few, “Sorry, PO not accepting mail for OZ at the moment due to BAT FLU”, over attempted purchases between last September & this February .. they have resumed now ..
Well the mucosal compartment of the immmune system is largely separate from the immune system of the body’s interior.
Possibly the jabs were suppressing virus on the inside, but they never created antibodies in the mucosal compartment so the virus can still get a foothold there?
Okay, I dunno, but do I get a scratch’n’sniff sticker for trying?
OldOzziesays:
May 14, 2022 at 12:03 pm
What a Bunch of Dogs – “My Body My Choice” – Boy are their Choices Lousy
The blonde on the right would probably scrub up OK in a nice dress and makeup.
Young Poms are the most likely to be unvaccinated since the crud barely affects young people, and they’ll be quite aware of all the dead soccer players.
I suspect requiring two vaccinations and one or two boosters will be prominently listed as a required condition of entry, especially to Victoria. Plus having to wear masks all day in such jobs. Which may well be more reasons why they’re not coming.
What sort of a brain damaged moral vacuum thinks engaging in such an activity is in any way acceptable?
Cop lives next door. While taking out front recently he mentioned he was changing jobs. Mrs Eyrie asked if he was going to Traffic. He replied that no, he was trying to retain some vestiges of humanity.
Nephew of slain gangster ‘Brownie’ Ahmad gunned down
Any chance we can deport all of these “families” to an island somewhere where they can fight it out?
Are they all the beneficiaries of Australia’s benevolence in precious years?
300,000 permanent visa holders and 60,000 Australian residents left Australia when the lockdowns and mandatory jabbings started, they won’t be coming back. Ongoing mandatory jabbings in Victoria, where three jabs is now required to be employable, means that no Brits will go there.
A display of contemptible moral cowardice. One of many.
Australians distrust Morrison so much they’re prepared to make Anthony Albanese Prime Minister.
Except BoN there are no vaccine requirements to enter Australia, or to wear masks in the hospitality industry.
I think Victoria is just seen as a place that treats residents like rubbish.
Each Way Elbow’s heritage getting serious scrutiny, again, over at Michael Smith News.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/compare-contrast-albaneses-electoral-nomination-form-dated-15422-with-what-he-told-the-abc.html
There is also plenty of work in the UK and it’s summer there.
I remember talking to my Irish landlady in 2015, her nieces and nephews had gone to work in Dubai and Australia because of earlier high unemployment in Ireland but were going home because things had improved.
Perhaps the hospitality industry should be spruiking and offering assisted fares in Spain and Portugal who have, or had, much higher youth unemployment.
Part of Andrews’ strategy to crush businesses whose staff are not easily unionised.
Yes, I don’t think it is so much what is written into the regs today.
It is the uncertainty that Hunchback and Slugger could lock people down on a whim and trap people here with no means of earning an income or getting out.
That risk might be overstated now, but it doesn’t matter. That is the perception after two years of knee-jerk bullshit, and it is hard to shake.
Remember, most of these backpackers will have a network of people who are here or have been here recently. That will be their source of information, not some bullshit “Welcome Back!” video on the Victorian Government website.
No thanks.
I came here to get away from them.
Who wants their tapas and tempranillo served by a Spaniard?
I’ve been telling people we are not going to see the revival of tourism, working holiday, and possibly students because it was well publicised overseas just how quickly Australia went full on totalitarian state. The article posted at the top of the page is just showing how true it is.
Oh, and booting the world No. 1 tennis star didn’t help either. The government admitting he had everything in order to enter the country, but kicking him out anyway had people questioning why they’d make the effort to get here when that could be them.
My bad
Hospitality industry in Vic still requires double dosed.
Let’s see if that gets eased if Dannite luminaries can’t get their fair trade organic soy lattes. Getting your booking at the Vegie Bar cancelled must be already causing intense suffering.
They weren’t forced in the sense that you were for several months expected to give up many aspects of life and possibly income if you didn’t get jabbed.
Still cant work on a WA minesite without proof of vaccination.
Because “science’.
Or mcClows tiny tiny weenis which he is compensating for.
Of course no-one in the hospitality industry would ever dream of offering people cash employment.
Bullshit.
Mandatory as far as Government goes, means they can force yo0u to take it.
I’ve knocked back plenty of work the past 25 years over the issue of employers insisting on Hep B vaccination and Q-Fever vaccination.
I didn’t get the KillShot either, but i’m still doing alright.
Albanese says you’re getting the Shot [whether you want it or not].
Kamala Harris says you’ll get the shot or you’ll be shot,
and Scotty Morrison says it’s not Mandatory.
What else do you want Scotty to do, draw you a fucking picture, hold your hand, and dress you in the morning?
I do but only in Spain. I thought you came here to get away from the windmills.
Bend over to insert pineapple. Then kick it till his nose bleeds.
Bluey at 1:20.
Yes.
Djokovic.
Your average backpacker sees that and thinks, “Whoa! They can cancel the visa of the world #1 tennis player on a whim? What hope would I have?”
Exactly. It’s not like he’s from some minor sport, he’s one of the most recognised sportsmen in the world. End of the day, Australia is the arse end of the world. It’s expensive to get here, expensive to live here and if we have demonstrated that sort of capricious behavior why wouldn’t you go, well, just about anywhere else?
What else do you want Scotty to do
Withdraw the emergency powers he granted himself and use the power of the pursestrings to force the States to follow suit.
The first has been done ( https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Scrutiny_of_Delegated_Legislation/Scrutiny_of_COVID-19_instruments) the second hes completely MIA on.
In addition he needs to build a time machine go back 2 years and neck himself to prevent the mongloidism he subjected Australia too from occurring in the first place.
I don’t mind Rub’n’Tug mandating vaccination as long he doesn’t mind the vaccination I give him in return. I somehow think he won’t like the side effects.
Regards the Fairsky dining room picture at MichaelSmithNews,
both the women look like hookers, the older guy sitting next to Albanese’s mother looks a bit like Lennie McPherson.
Sorry to change the subject. How is that multiculturalism going for you?
Nephew of slain Sydney underworld figure Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad shot dead
Always was and always will be the result bad immigration policy.
These bikie killings are all part of a channel 9 conspiracy to put together another Underbelly series.
Which after the first series re the Morans were abominations.
As for scomo and the LNP, they were lost as soon as they drank the cloimet choinge coolaid. From my perspective the LNP have deteriorated ever since Turdbull knifed Abbott, they are so close to becoming the greens that they deserve to be thumped in this election, PML.
It looks like the FT has gotten the scoop re the US requesting ceasefire talks with Russia.
Most other reports appear to be after the FT broke the news.
How come this isn’t getting the coverage it should be.
The FT is not some fringe outlet.
Voting System for the Senate this time is:
6 numbers above the line or a minimum of 12 below the line.
LNP in Qld are recommending One Nation # 2
LDP #3
UAP [Palmer] #4
Values Party # 5
Australian Democrats # 6
The AEC is giving out tiny pencils.
I’d recommend bringing your own pen if you’re voting PrePoll.
You lot just sit around here praising ScoMo.
Albanese will win not off how useless ScoMo is, but because Albanese! Is such a superstar.
He’s probably the smartest Australian to ever have lived.
Our small tourist town has several cafes, two pubs and a couple of takeaway places. All of them are opening on limited hours as they can’t get staff, they are lucky to open four days a week, including the bakery. A couple of factors keep coming up, the cost of housing, there has been a huge influx of people buying up property and prices have almost doubled in the past two years, so the few rentals available are very expensive. Throw in lots of sit down money, vax mandates and masks etc and there’s not many workers available, plus more than a few have moved elsewhere in search of cheaper rent.
Can’t see things getting back to normal for many years, if ever.
I’m playing on the “fragments” idea rather than the whole virus. That suggests a possible retrovirus type function where fragments of the RNA are transcribed to become DNA in structures called amplicons, which lie outside our genome and nucleus. There are 2 studies which indicate this possibility. One of the references notes that while they detect viral RNA they cannot generate the virus from those fragments and that in the patients they find different elements of the virus but no indication that of all the viral elements in the patients.
I’m guessing DOT, it takes a lot of reading to dig into this stuff and in these days I’m no longer so inclined.
What cant go on wont go on…
Surely??
https://www.takimag.com/article/carlyle-style/
I went to dinner at designer Carolina Herrera’s house the other evening and the next day read how swanky Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side, starting with the Herrera boutique, has lowered the lights and opens the doors by appointment only due to brazen daytime shoplifting. Carolina’s place has been robbed so many times it now pretends to be shuttered. The designer herself told me that if someone looks suspicious and is refused entry, it is deemed racist and she could be sued. Her swankiest handbag sells for 4,500 big ones, and a brazen thief picked up four or five of them recently and then ordered the doorman to open it for him. No one dared refuse him. Nearby Chanel and Prada, one block down from me, are also tightly locked up with more security guards than clients.
As you’re here DOT this might interest you. Turkesterone is an unusual supplement. Next to zero research on it but many report good muscle gains with it. What studies are available suggest other benefits.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-red-dawn-email-dump-february-march-2020/
What i like about this Brownstone article is that it NAMES the bureaucrats and others who manufactured this disastrous response to the Wuhan outbreak.
Inflationary question.
True or False? :
When I have some answers, I will reveal who the proponent and the contrarian were on that old exchange, with the contrarian being more familiar to readers here.
ukronazis must be close to collapse
This is truly a sign the real estate bubble is shortly to become rubble.
Regional increase in house price in one year features a place so shit welfare recipients regularly knock back houses in the area.
https://reiwa.com.au/the-wa-market/regional-wa/
Rangeway 79.2%
meet the neighbors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWWhuDiP1Xg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXT5My2YwOo
whats the rancid old bat worried about? that she will be ignored.
NFA nails it.
Dot says:
May 14, 2022 at 2:13 pm
You lot just sit around here praising ScoMo.
Albanese will win not off how useless ScoMo is, but because Albanese! Is such a superstar.
He’s probably the smartest Australian to ever have lived.
Comedy gold, FMD.
I recently chained myself to a chair and watched the 2-parter on Melissa Caddick.
Excruciating the way they stretched that one out.
Very simple story.
Dodgy “Financial Advisor” caught with fingers in the till and goes off The Gap.
The end.
Tragic for those involved but, in aggregate, not a massive amount of money.
They beat it up to make her look like some sort of amalgam of Mata Hari, Bernie Madoff and Tony Mokbel (escape by yacht).
Absolute bilge.
Yet another anti-Uniparty political orphan at the Speccie. The last two paragraphs follow:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/tweedlescomo-and-tweedlealbo/
the utter madness of the leftoid wymisnsis
Yep.
Just looked through the Australian “Mansion” magazine.
I concluded that some of the smart money at the top end was headed for the bench to sit this one out.
both the women look like hookers, the older guy sitting next to Albanese’s mother looks a bit like Lennie McPherson.
Which might make the other bloke, a young, .. Joe Tripodi .. LOL!
Very simple story.
Dodgy “Financial Advisor” caught with fingers in the till and goes off The Gap.
Fun fact.
The accountant that “audited” the super funds is still operating to do this day.
Pending the appeal of their banning being completed.
Weird old system.
Found a Putin Joke
The last gasp of menopause for MacDowell.
Trump’s fault, of course.
things going swimmingly in unzed
Turkesterone, snicker. Nice try but nobody is going to fall for that one.
Holy shit, it actually exists.
Haha. This is from the daily Pentagon press briefing last night:
So Russia hasn’t been taking Slow Joe’s calls, nor Austin’s. And they’ve been trying and trying every day to get through. Now they have, yay!
Seems like Poot has as poor a view of the Usurper in the WH as we do.
Dotsays:
May 14, 2022 at 12:25 pm
This is very weird. I can only think of one way this can be happening.
What would that be? This is an intriguing mystery to the uninitiated.
There are quite a few papers, other than the one in “Nature” a few days ago, re the evidence for viral fragments of Covid lingering in the gut after initial infection. Prof. Bob Clancy has long argued re the role of mucosal transfer of virus to the gut. For this reason a good probiotic, like the bidfidum infantis strain in the product Meta Align is worth considering.
Textbook story of how humans populated America is “biologically unviable”
Not through the ice free corridor, perhaps a coastal route.
Comedy gold, FMD.
That one was put there for bait .Ed’ s fishing record ain’t too weighty .. LOL!
Seriously?
FMD!
Her fucking FSL rego was dodgy, straight off the bat.
My audit/accounting is done electronically.
I give read-only authorisation to my accountants/auditor and they create the books and do the audit from direct downloads from banks and ASX institutions.
The lesson out of this is anyone running funds and wanting to stick to paper accounting and audit needs to be put under a microscope.
Not just the gut, the fragments are found in other tissues.
Leftwing American sheilas are the fucking worst.
The accountant was clearly in on it.
Data feeds do 90% of the work for most.
No data feeds (she was running fake accounts) equals fraud.
For those interested, Pure Bullfit and Greg Doucette on youtube give an account of their experience with it. Both favourable but at first Pure Bullfit thought it was BS. When I checked on pubmed it was found to be protective against some pathologies. Because the effect was so strong for the above 2 people I’d be careful with it because anything that has such a pronounced metabolic effect may have a downside. There are Russian studies going back to the 1970’s but unfortunately so little research is available.
I’m celebrating that they are killing each other. They are spare parts.
Watch a couple of Warhammer 40k vids on YouTube & your feed gets flooded with them.
I’m celebrating that they are killing each other. They are spare parts.
It’s fine until they do it front of a van of kids at the footy one Saturday morning.
Or that’s what VicPlod found out.
Roger Franklin’s lament at Quadrant.
My twin grandees turned 2 this week …… youngest out of 8 of ’em ..
https://ibb.co/6WG8t3S
Notafan’s level of intellect..
The tourism industry should give the backpackers cheap fares to come over here……
Honestly, she must be working for one of the UNiparties.
You couldn’t be so dismissive of those not jabbed if you tried.
I bet she believes 99.9999999999 percent of Victorians are jabbed, because Dan told her so.
And triple jabbed.
But fuck Australians that can’t work, miss muffett of the public brainfart, couldn’t give a shit, other Australians should just spend to bring in back packers.
We let them vote.
Always remember that.
m0nty says:
Fatboy, we went through this at the old blog.
Part of our taxes is for education.
Parents of those kids pay taxes.
The amount the government sends to private schools per pupil is actually less that the amount spent on kids going to government schools. If the system as sovietized and all kids went to government schools, it would cost us a packet.
Shut up and get back in the basement. Covid is still around and you’re not allowed at ground level. Keep this up and I’ll dob you in the Brett Sutton for not obeying lockup rules for fatties.
rickw, a pal of mine owns one of those Hummels.
What sort of engine did he go with?
I was thinking of maybe a Briggs V twin and seeing if you could thread a reduction shaft between the cylinder banks to get it mounted lower down.
Would also give you the option of some sort of through propeller hub launching equipment!
I will never forget how [Morrison] told the country back in early July, iirc, last year that Australia does not mandate vaccines.
Mrs Speedbox has said she sees Morrison as a slut. I asked her what she meant and she said that Morrison goes from one person to another, all the time, changes opinion (like changing a dress) to suit the next environment and seems to have no real conviction to anything. Ethically and morally vague.
A rather pithy comment.
It’s amazing what a few YouTube videos of police clubbing citizens does to your attractiveness as a working holiday destination.
rickw, a pal of mine owns one of those Hummels.
What sort of engine did he go with?
Half VW, which is the recommended engine. IIRC about 37 hp. Direct drive. His has a perspex full canopy too.
Sancho Panzer:
Sorry it’s taken so long to get back to you – been in bed all day with a migraine.
I don’t have an answer to your question, apart from I think he’s become too involved in his position and – like the rest of us – there has has a lot of emotional capital invested in his position.
I know I’m still coming to terms with what nasty bastards have been under the rock that Fauci kicked over and who thought they could kick everyone in the guts while they were down.
I’d suggest Struth is ‘fear biting’ like a dog that has been kicked too many times, someone who gets too close to his position will get bitten.
I wouldn’t know – I’m not a psychiatrist.
The thought we all had of having a Labrador Puppy government, fat, happy and stupid, but doing its best to help, has been replaced by a bitter snarly handbag dog that has finally gotten out and sees itself as free to bite everything in its path.
While we may have known the truth intellectually, now we know it in our guts and that has been quite a revelation for many.
Mind you, I scroll past Struth because he has become angry and bitter and I would prefer to remember him as the Travelling Troubadour with lots of stories and stuff.
Hopefully this whole episode of the WZV and our governments dictatorial streak will come good.
But I don’t think it will.
I’ve been watching the Halo series, now up to episode 8. Quite good. It feels rather strange to playing video games with grey hair and failing cognition. Almost as strange as being the oldest in the local gym but pumping more iron than many there(new gym so not impressive because many newbies there). Injuries though, knee dodgy but not bad, strange pain in my left forearm, tweaked a muscle in my back two weeks ago, and when I get home I collapse on the bed waiting for a recharge.
I rather like Mrs. Speedbox. 🙂
LOL
I will review the data etc.
As is the will of our Emperor and the High Lords of Terra.
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IS IN THE ACCUSATION PHASE OF HOLDING TRIBUNALS FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
CDC: No Documents Supporting Claim Vaccines Don’t Cause Variants
last week the shrimp was holding out for unconditional rus surrender…
this week USD40b to carve up
stick to bikini shows
Archibald Prize: ‘Political gesture’ the art of cruelty
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN
What can one say to the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW? Stop it or you’ll go blind?
The intensity of the ideological self-indulgence would be amusing if it weren’t also so sad.
But, alas, they couldn’t bring themselves to award the Archibald Prize to the best picture when there was the irresistible temptation of a work by a black artist whose subject was a black woman. As a bonus, they got a reference to the Lismore floods.
In the process, they have gratuitously insulted Robert Hannaford yet again. His self-portrait is clearly the outstanding work in this year’s exhibition, far better than the winner on any set of criteria: it demonstrates much greater mastery of the technical art of painting, but also and more importantly it is superior in character, sense of inner life and humanity.
I have been in touch with many professional artists over the past week and the quality of Hannaford’s painting was obvious to all of them.
To overlook Hannaford again feels pointed, like a deliberate act of cruelty as well as stupidity. But it seems the trustees simply couldn’t bear to select an artist who happened to be male and white. It is as though, in some perverse logic, Hannaford had to be made to pay for all the imagined wickedness of humans who fall into those two categories.
He becomes a scapegoat immolated by rich and privileged people to make a show of dubious contrition for their own privilege.
But beyond the personal insult to a distinguished artist who has too often been overlooked in favour of third-rate pictures, the trustees have made it clear they have no interest in supporting good art; they are only concerned to make vacuous political gestures, in the process once more rewarding the most over-rewarded categories of artists in Australia today.
The result is a travesty, and it is further evidence to support my suggestion that the Archibald be transferred to more competent judges. It should be selected and judged by a panel – however constituted – of professional portrait painters, the kind that people actually commission when they want a good portrait.
These painters could be counted on to choose both the finalists and the eventual winner on more solid criteria than rich would-be progressives whitewashing their wealth with smug ideological choices.
Christopher Allen is The Australian’s national art critic
Excellent point. This virtue-signalling is everywhere in the Arts world.
Most literary awards, for example, are dominated by the seeming need to give the prizes to entries according to who they were written by, not whether they are any good.
Pagind Dr Freud emergency inpatient for you…
and I turn around and it’s, like, a roomful of men. Like, a sea of men*. It flashed** on something that was personal for me***. And I dropped to my knees****.”
*Sea of men… sea men?… semen??
** Semen-flashing
*** Semen-flashing-onto your person?
**** Oh COME ON MAN… this cannot be real…
The key here is that the USD$ is the world’s reserve currency, so when the Fraud-in-Chief issues $trillions in debt and the Fed Reserve prints money that increases the supply by 37% in one year, all those government agencies and contractors and welfare recipients and planned parenthood and all the other “infrastructure” providers are now have lots of $ to buy, for example, petrol (gas as they call it), bidding up the price of petroleum products at the same time as supply is restricted due to supply chain issues and production/exploration restrictions in the USA. Same goes for most other commodities.
Next is $40B for Ukraine, which will spend it (minus the kickbacks) on the international market.
I asked her what she meant and she said that Morrison goes from one person to another, all the time, changes opinion (like changing a dress) to suit the next environment and seems to have no real conviction to anything.
Way back in 2010 I heard Morrison speak at The Sydney Institute & was impressed with his affirmation of the Australian cultural values at a time when the Islamic element in our community was making its cultural imperatives felt. I thought he represented Middle Australia. So, after Malcolm’s demise, I though he would be a better “fit” for the Liberal Party than Peter Dutton.
Boy, was I wrong!!! At this point in time, the only viable members of the Coalition I would want to see in a leadership role are Peter Dutton or Matt Canavan.
It shits me when they call it a “sophisticated fraud”.
No it isn’t.
It is like betting on Saturday’s races on Sunday.
Add in some photo-shop, a good printer and a line of patter about how you picked the investments and voilà!
Winner!
I could go a bit of inquisitional burn the heretic, purge the unclean, of our political class….
Especially its owners.
And now it will be given the green dream (no pun intended).
They took the line of least resistance, allowed themselves to be wedged by the rabid premiers and did absolutely nothing about it. Instead they chomped on their supporters. Now they want us to forget.
Once bitten…
Turkesterone
I didnt like that scene in midnight express.
‘bern earlier.
Er, yes.
Particularly when the MO of that particular chap was to use a sawn-off shottie for knockdown and a handgun for the coup de grâce*.
The knockdown shots ensured the kids took home some of dad on their footy jumpers.
…
* Not to be confused with a coup d’état.
Different thing.
Don’t trust the myths of biology
Being a woman has absolutely nothing to do with tits
WOKE WORLD
By
Titania McGrath
May 2022
Ahaha!
I’m now feeling extra special…I think.
Thanks TFM.
Winston at 3:37.
Actually I don’t have any view on the the validity of the various reasons people got vaxxed (or not, as the case may be).
It is their call to make.
Totally theirs.
OK, Colonel Berka – I’ll be honest here -the quote was truncated for convenience. However, I did hear it with my own two ears – on Sky.
“We haven’t mandated vaccines, except when we have (at which point Morristeen proceeds to identify all the vaccine mandates in various “industry” sectors”, e.g. aged care).
The quote is accurate even if truncated. I was actually surprised at the gall of the fat useless moron that he could make such a statement and think people wouldn’t identify the obvious absurdity and dishonesty. They really do think we are as stupid as they are.
Orwell 1, Collectivism 0 (again).
You should’ve read your own link…
“KYIV, May 13 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has reiterated an offer to hold direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and said Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine should be the starting point for any discussions.”
…ie unconditional surrender. 😀
calli.
There is one seemingly harmess word in the description of women which you should not google to find out.
You will beg for Warhammer 40K vids if that infests your search engine.
John H, bump up your NAD/NMNs.
Also, if feasible, adopt an adult dog.
Will de-age you 10 years.
Quite. Sly Tatiana was not being complimentary.
I’m not going to get Paramount plus.
I’ve got until the end of May to start my free 12 months of Disney plus.
Maybe after that.
By then Star Trek Discovery would have become full on DNC propaganda.
The starting point for negotiations, that Russia withdraw from Ukraine, can be a position that allows for dialogue as to how, precisely, Ukraine as such may be constituted, and under what provisos. Not altogether a futile declaration.
Areff:
Income splitting for MARRIED couples.
If it’s not on the Party Platform, they’re not serious.
rickw:
Another bright idea for Redneck Prepper Central! I shall look up the rules for keeping bunnies.
Turkesterone probably works because the deboonkers on wikipedia don’t like it.
Government are like an employer or employee union – they are your pet scorpion.
I don’t know why Dover glorifies this huckster.
The USD is virtual currency anyway. What’s wrong with localism?
What’s the solution? Lindsay Graham and beltway neocons forever?
Eff off.
Adam Bandt & The Greens on their power-sharing deal with Labor
Saturday, 14 May 2022
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What’s the solution?
Languishing in a Kampuchean jungle while penning paeans to Goose Morristeen.
Just kidding – it’s HOP Time. 🙂
Doocy maybe tall but she’s a short arse even for a woman.
Is the movie “This Is England”* a good movie or is it more of the predictable “Facha killed me boy down a col’mie” dross?
*No. Not up there. Not really. It’s Danelaw. Learn how to speak properly.
‘Can’t comment’: Anthony Albanese dodges awkward Andrew Charlton question
Anthony Albanese has been grilled about an important detail that has been revealed about one of his candidates, but it seems he wasn’t in the loop.
Anthony Albanese has been grilled about potential hypocrisy over a legal oversight by his candidate for Parramatta, Andrew Charlton.
Today The Daily Telegraph reported that Dr Charlton, a former economic adviser to prime minister Kevin Rudd, had listed a rental in Woollahra, owned by his wife, as his place of residence.
Dr Charlton was enrolled at neither his current property in Parramatta nor his previous residence in Bellevue Hill.
“Today my wife and I have updated our enrolment details,” he said when the Telegraph contacted him for comment.
“We both lead very busy lives and this was an oversight, for which I take responsibility and apologise.”
This follows a controversy involving the LNP’s candidate for Lilley, Vivian Lobo, and calls from Labor for him to be disendorsed.
Mr Lobo has been accused of claiming to live in Lilley while allegedly residing outside the electorate. The Australian Electoral Commission has referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police.
Mr Albanese previously called that a “very serious issue”.
At a media conference in Darwin this morning, the Labor leader was asked about the situation involving his own candidate.
“Your candidate for Parramatta has admitted that he had an oversight in regard to electoral laws. I’m talking about Andrew Charlton,” said Channel 9’s Jonathan Kearsley. “Given what you said about the Coalition’s candidate–”
“What? Detail,” Mr Albanese interjected, apparently unaware of the story.
“He said he was listed at his wife’s rental property under the electoral rules. Now, given what you said about the candidate for Lilley, is there a case of double standards here?” Kearsley said.
“I’m not aware of the issue you raised, so I can’t comment,” Mr Albanese said.
That wasn’t the end of it. Another reporter, the AFR’s Tom McIlroy, followed up on the initial question at the end of the presser.
Don’t know if I entirely agree with this random you tube comment, but it makes more sense than that pommy spook dover has a twitter feed from.
It may not be correct, but it is a good thing to reflect upon.
JCsays:
May 14, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Doocy maybe tall but she’s a short arse even for a woman.
Liked the Comments
– Oh look, Ken and Raggedy Ann are breaking up
– MIDGET on the right… I mean LEFT
JC – now that the Psaki Psycho has scuttled off to CNN, how long do you think the staggeringly stupid black lesbian will last?
Again, it’s the moral vacuum concept – what sort of grasping useless imbecile would willingly attach them self to the most illegitimate administration in US history?
We no longer need to wonder (not that I would have).
Popcorn time – macro and organic, thanks Sofia, there’s a buena niña. 🙂
Depends on your perspective, Pol. If you like seriously graphic depictions of ultra-violence in the UK on persons of minority heritage, then you’ll love it.
I was utterly sickened by it, if that’s any consolation. So much so, I refused to watch the subsequent series.
Rabz, the lezzo will probably last a long time. Other than Doocy, and his questions were mostly dismissed by the midget, there was never any real encounters from the sheep. They just accepted what the short arse said. I can’t imagine any entanglements from the gallery of incompetents seeing she’s female, a lezzo and black. 🙂 She ticks all the boxes.
My oldest grandchild turned two this week too.
I can tell you that Charlton comes from a privileged background, because the cost of the data he used on trade economics at the time (at the NBER)would have been hideously expensive for a lowly Australian university professor.
Published in 2007…
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries…
I wanted to use PC survey data on outward Australian FDI and it was going to cost me 75k.
He analysed (apparently) 650,000 multinational subsidiaries at the SITC 3 and 4 digit level.
He may have cured a form of cancer with the cost of his data collection alone.
Funnily enough, I had read a du Pont scion’s PhD on a similar topic at ANU…it wasn’t that impressive.
Is the movie “This Is England”* a good movie
It is a curates egg.
good in parts.
I havent seen the last 1/4 or so though so I dont know if they went full ” THE MESSAGE” in that section.
It was a fairly reasonable look at how a kid could join a subculture and then see an asshole take over.
Little like Romper Stomper in that respect.
Is the movie “This Is England”* a good movie or is it more of the predictable “Facha killed me boy down a col’mie” dross?
depends on which one your looking at .. there is a 2nd world war documentary made mid 1940s and then there is the series, actually, 3 seperate mini series made 5 years apart following the same half dozen characters 1980. 1985, 1990 .. fairly bleak look at life in the Midlands ..
one of those hooks -you-in-hoping-things-will-get-better tales but ……… not recommended if your trying to brighten yourself up .. LOL!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480025/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
This guy is unbelievable.
International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
MAY 2007 – WORKING PAPER13118
AUTHOR(S) – Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm level data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 2004 and 1999, which enables us to present both cross-country and industry…
The description is being padded out or he ran the stats programme on deep blue.
I’ve crashed fairly new PCs simply from too much collinearity in a simple model a few times.
The foremost minds in the labore pardee’s economics brains trust.
Makes me ashamed to be an economist (again). 😕
Epitome of a Whingeing POM
Lewis Hamilton warned he could be banned from F1’s prestigious Monaco Grand Prix
Hamilton, who sported eight rings, three watches, four necklaces and two earrings at the press conference, spoke passionately on the issue, claiming it felt like a “step backwards” for the sport.
“It seems unnecessary to get into this. I am here to be an ally of the sport – we have bigger fish to fry,” he said.
Mercedes’ main man wears the most jewellery on the circuit and had claimed he is unable to remove his earrings and nose ring, which he wears in the car while racing.
He is therefore keen to hold talks with the FIA president Mohammed bin Sulayem on the matter, making it clear he does not want to become embroiled in a public dispute.
Kravitz is of the belief that the FIA could throw the book at Hamilton if he fails to comply with their regulations – even if it means preventing him from racing in Monaco after the Spanish Grand Prix.
“So there is a little storm brewing. Hamilton has said they can fine me whatever they want, but it’s not as simple as that,” he continued.
“If the FIA decide to not scrutineer the driver, which it looks like they can do, they can stop Lewis from going out of the pit lane at the beginning of Friday practice because he has not been scrutineered – the driver is now effectively scrutineered in the same way as a car is.
From the Comments – remember UK Hamilton Press Worship Site
– The man has lost it . If they say you must wear his rings and stuff he would complain and say no, big headed loser should retire and irritate someone else the controversial hunting fool. How can any sane person take him seriously.
– Is Lewis looking for a way out of this season while appearing to be a victim ? No sign of his car being competitive any time soon and he does not like it when he isn’t first.
– After dressing up in all pink at the last GP and this, he’s completely lost the plot!
– Spoilt rich kid with no talent left hanging on the tails of better drivers now,
– Hamilton, the only black man on the Planet who thinks he really is, point of order, his mother is WHITE.
– Wow! This man truly has no idea what a real job in real life means, not only did I have to get rid of my earrings, nose stud etc I also had to cut my hair short, that’s just for a min wage job. You are earning millions , is it too much to ask for to remove your stupid jewellery….which by thd way looks extremely stupid.
Bluey says:
May 14, 2022 at 3:41 pm
I rather like Mrs. Speedbox. ?
She is a gem, that’s for sure.
And last night, she arrived back from Russia. As best as she can remember, the flight was good but said she slept much of the way between Dubai and Bris. I suspect the exhaustion (funeral, legal, other arrangements, cleaning up her late mother’s apartment etc.) finally caught up.
She did bring home a few trinkets including a couple of ‘Z’ car stickers. She says that many/most cars in Russia now have this sticker on them. The Z is in the colours of St George (orange and black).
She was saying that most people believe President Putin is sick. Nobody seems to know with what, but on TV he doesn’t ‘look right’.
Real estate in Kislovodsk is becoming more expensive. As I mentioned in my posts, Kislovodsk is a resort town focussing on the health industry especially spas and the like. Seems that the folk of Moscow and St Petersburg have decide that rather than just visit, they will buy a residence (dacha). Kislovodsk has always been a popular ‘get away’ location but the real estate purchase trend by non-local residents is accelerating.
And a cup of coffee at a local outdoor cafe is 250 rubles! That’s about $5.25 in AUD which is an outrageous price by Russian standards. Nothing to do with the war – locals tell her the price has been going up for the past couple of years but she/we haven’t been there because of covid. The tourists have a lot to answer for!
Prices of other items such as normal food and clothing are largely unaltered from previously. The spa and health resorts are fully booked and the souvenir shops are trading well. All things considered, a prosperous and buoyant small city.
I don’t get a kick so high up would be more powerful than a punch to the head. But then I’m not in the UFC.
Ferguson gets jaw kicked and is KO’ed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qgL_WvWBYU
Just to check, this is the “this is England’ I watched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoJx6t97RE
Nationalism never leads anywhere good. Love your country? Why? It’s just where you happened to be born.
Someone who thinks that a “country” is just a geographical location has missed the point by a considerable margin.
Pride in a flag? What did your flag ever do?
I don’t think anyone takes pride in the mere existence of a piece of red white and blue designed cloth. Someone who doesn’t understand the concept of a “symbol” is clearly suffering some sort of deficiency.
True pride can only come from good works of good people.
It’s not quite clear what is being said here. If it refers to good work done by others, why can’t we take pride in the achievements of our fellow Australians? If it refers to good works done by the person feeling “pride”, that’s a very dangerous thing to encourage.
The is no glory in death.
No, but there is glory in being willing to die for a good cause.
There is no strength in murder.
What does that have to do with pride in one’s country?
Live a life that creates real reasons to be proud.
Why is that inconsistent with pride in one’s country? In fact mightn’t pride in one’s country help with that? The motive of doing good in order to bring credit on a group to which one belongs (country, family, whatever) is very real.
If all you have to be proud of is your nation, you truly have nothing to be proud of.
Another logic fail. “Pride in one’s country” is not synonymous with “pride in nothing except one’s country”.
The Ashcroft blundering into various personages on a London High Street I can deal with.
sfw:
Same here.
Two bakeries – one shuts after lunch.
Multiple pubs and I’ve noticed permanent bar staff moved jobs.
IGA has many, many, open positions.
I wouldn’t mind doing a bit of shelf stacking just for the social contact but the paperwork is horrendous.
Dover,
Please ban Timothy for trying to paint monty in a favorable light.
Is it just me or do the tealies greatly resemble an exclusive club of bored, wealthy, white, women, earnestly seeking relevance? And, where is their DIVERSITY???
Is Lisa Wilkinson living in some kind of alternate reality?
The Project host’s latest rallying cry against women’s magazines and ‘trashy gossip websites’ that ‘bring out the worst in human nature’ is somewhat surprising for one simple fact: She was in charge of Dolly and Cleo for 15 years.
These hugely influential magazines were built upon images of conventionally attractive, predominantly white females alongside articles that encouraged body hatred, pitted women against each other and sent the constant message ‘you’re not quite good enough’.
Under Wilkinson’s leadership, both magazines reached record sales and made huge profits with hundreds of thousands of Australian women reading them every month.
But it appears Wilkinson would prefer to keep this inconvenient truth stashed away in the archives.
Daily Mail
Perhaps this is more of a job befitting of Dr Bukkake’s area of expertise.
I gave up on formula one once my brother’s copies of road and track stopped being slung my way.
Many, many moons ago. Why anyone bothers is beyond me.
Tim Blair: “The new formula one engines sound like sad robots toiling in an industrial laundry.”
Marvin agrees. “Brain the size of planet and they ask me to take you up to the bridge – call that jerb satisfaction, I asks ya?”
I think Charlton might be a BS artist.
360 million data points for his model if it was only a univariate regression.
Lobo has a house in Everton Park, about a half hour drive from the Electorate Office in Nundah, on the NW margin of Lilley.
It’s empty, that’s the home address he gave the AEC.
He actually lives in Windsor, on the NE margin of the seat of Brisbane, close to the heart of Lilley.
The Australian made a big deal out of this, so Labor musta been felling nervous about holding the seat.
Still raining in Brissie, Labor will be in trouble if Palaszczuk lets Wivenhoe and Somerset go before May 21.
Margaret Atwood … in the Atlantic of course.
So he’s pulling the same dishonest stunt as KKK and Perfesser Charlton? Are the ALPEC onto the latter two?
Naaaah, fugggeddaboooditttt, you little people …
F1 used to be cool.
1985 Adelaide, Ayrton Senna’s qualifying lap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXRtXft_sk
Lotus-Renault 97t, with Senna and his teamate, Elio de Angelis showing us how to control the monstrous 1200bhp V6 turbo engines in the mid 80’s, when the economy boomed and F1 drivers required huge balls to drive a car like that 🙂
🙂 🙂 🙂
Massive Dumbocrat corruption.
Last time Labor only won Lilley by 9oo votes, no doubt stolen.
They were also in trouble in Blair, and solid Labor booths in Moreton showed big swings against them.
Colonel Crispin Berka:
Inflation is simply the printing/manufacturing of excess money supply over growth/efficiency.
There have been thousands of world renown economists who dispute this. Not one of them were correct.
You may find their bleached bones in front of the Brick Wall of Economic Reality.