Fellow travellers they are, but not different. Total control. Its only a matter of who is in control.
Open Thread – Tuesday 17 May 2022
- Bumtree #6
- Meme of the Day #68
- Open Thread – Mon 6 May 2024
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
Natural Instinct May 7, 2024 8:15 am BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ABC Natural Instinct has agreed to a lifetime pension…
Be thankful that it was nothing serious D.
All those puny university students supporting hamas, those that haven’t already converted to islam will be saying their inshallahs quick…
Calli is the Cat’s travelogue queen.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Patrick Cross.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Trip to Ely today was a short drive through the flat fenlands; those peat fields are dark brown when ploughed and tremendously fertile. They are just like the Dutch polders, some of them even here in Britain now below sea level because drying out the peat has shrunk down the land. There is a big movement to ‘restore’ the fens back to wetlands for birds and ‘nature’ etc. Good luck with that; these fens now provide a substantial part of Britain’s grown foodstuffs. Who wants food and energy when you can have green virtue-signalling? says an exasperated Hairy when I tell him that.
We went first to the house where Oliver Cromwell the Lord Protector used to live. As this was all during the period my ancestral Huguenot Protestant family were active around these parts (1630-50) I was very interested in seeing where Cromwell lived and how his origins were in small scale gentry until he inherited more property and then became captive to ‘Elect’ Calvinist philosophies and saw his God-given calling in redressing the wrongs of the common man. Until he got waylaid by the profits to be made from the fen draining he actually supported the Fen Tigermen in their battle against the drainages. Then he changed his tune. The jury is always out on this Cromwell, as with his distant rellie, the Thomas Cromwell of Queen Elizabeth’s day. The battle against Divine Rights, always tricky.
We had lunch in the pub near the Cathedral, then hit the Ely Museum and spent too long there too. One thing I learned there was that during the C18th and C19th there was a lot of poverty and a lot of Opium Eating; there was a big trade in opium production and sale. Opium poppies grow so well here – as Calli has noticed re the big tissue-paper pink blooms in our cottage garden, which indeed are Opium poppies. Other poppies, smaller red ones, have naturalised on the sides of roadways.
We then discovered we’d left seeing the Cathedral too late as it was closed for an early Evensong. We will go again tomorrow, after our meeting re my church, and go inside, and enjoy again driving along the approach to this Great Ship of the Fens, a Romanesque splendour with turrets and filigree-stonework and other fancies not found elsewhere in Britain. We approached today with Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance music in our ears courtesy of Classic FM, followed by Chopin’s Pollonaise played by Vladimir Ashkenazy as we parked (free parking, unusual).
Cassie might be interested to know that during the Pied Piper removal of children from London during the Second World War that a Jewish school of both girls and boys were removed to be billeted in Ely. Some of these children were those brought in recently by the Kindertransports, having been sent from Europe to safety in Britain. There were quite a few problems with settling these children into British life and ways, as there was little understanding of their religion, of their food requirements, and they couldn’t speak any English. Some of the older boys refused to be billeted, ran away and slept on doorsteps until alternatives together were found. Eventually a hostel was organised for them.
None of these children ever saw their parents again. Just awful.
According to Gateway Pundit, Powerline and American Greatness the recently announced Ministry of Truth is going to be disbanded.
Another win for the good guys
Lol
Experience?
Perhaps.
AI definitely can tell race from X-Rays and Scans.
Biden & Co. are retreating and “pausing” the awful Disinformation Governance Board. It was such a bad idea and has attracted so much justified condemnation that they are canning it.
Powerline
It’s the teal, French navy would have been a far better colour.
The Teal independents could easily fail to win a single seat on Saturday – and with good reason
Bet AI can’t tell the difference between 57 varieties of freak.
take out the toilet and voilà you have an apartment fit for a king
But AI could pick 57 varieties of socks
ABC continues their NDIS campaign
more insidious vaccine spruiking
Pensioners with zero superannuation.
Paul Keating, please explain.
getting close to the Pal point
At the supermarket yesterday chicken drumsticks were $3 a kilo.
I’m pretty sure that was cheaper than a single kind of fruit or vegetable on offer, maybe a 4kg bag of potatoes might have worked out at under $3 per kilo, and yes at $8.90 for a 3 kg bag oranges just snuck under .
(In case any unwilling vegetarians are lurking).
Make Everyone the Same Again!
who knew 25% of the population were disabled? help me al-obi-wan-banese, you;re my only hope!
The latest episode of Lumumba-mania, which is now creating its own spinoffs (the Hun):
All right. Okay.
Ah. Here we go.
And did she actually secure those millions? If so, where are they? If not, why not? Is it possible she’s shit at it?
Getting closer to the mark.
It probably is a burden. A massive financial burden, perhaps because the person responsible for securing money for it (Peris) apparently didn’t do any of that. Interestingly, Peris seems to have gone down the ‘me or him’ path – judging by the very specific finger-pointing, at least.
Naturally, the piece is also shot through with references to Cyril Rioli and Hawthorn. As I suspect is the case here, that saga was also not as advertised.
There is a lot unsaid in this excremental piece of journalism.
Um, why would you have a bronze statue of Nova Peris at a football club HQ. How many goals did she score for the Bombers?
When she resigned?
Dan is coming for them.
Victorian government funds online pet census (Sky News, 19 May)
Climateers hate pet cats and dogs, they’re terribly bad for the planet and steadfastly refuse vegan food unless they’re starving.
That could be a deal breaker.
I mean, if the statue was modelled on her early days, no big deal.
But if it is based on her time at the Senate buffet, that is a lotta, lotta bronze.
Enjoy while it lasts, with grain prices to come it’s not going to last for long.
Poor man’s meat as it is now I’m afraid, how the world turned eh?
Used to be a treat on Sundays once a month maybe, instead of lamb chops, and look at the reverse prices now.
Peris is of course well-known for her absolute insistence on using money intended for others on herself.
Using funds provided for her ‘ambassadorship’ by Athletics Australia in 2014 to bring foreign athletes to our shores so she could root them. 100% above board, according to her at the time.
Imagine being ‘forced to work’ when you should have been lolling around for twenty thirty years?
One of my old customers worked in retail five hours a week until her early eighties, because they wanted to, and the retired are apparently the back bone of volunteer organisations, so the idea that pensions are for those no longer capable of working seems outdated .
Calls for pensioners to be able to work more hours tax free appear at odds with the being forced to work rally cry.
And obviously Keating’s super for everyone has gaping holes.
I did wonder if the dispute was more about Essendon’s failure to come to the nepotism party, than about “respeck”.
Who know what the future will hold?
Cheap as chips chicken drumsticks have been available for a long time.
Anh Do mentioned them as a staple growing up in ‘The Happiest Refugee’ and they put the lie to forced vegetarianism.
Chicken is a vegetable in my book.
Of course, when Peris was on her international paid-for-by-others strange pipe hunt, she was also a Federal Labor senator.
Can’t remember the last time we had chicken.
Used to love KFC of old, combined with chips from Maccas, that was so long ago I can’t even remember when.
WILL NATO AND BIDEN START WW III? ONLY IF WE LET THEM!
By Howell Woltz -May 16, 2022
LIVING IN THEIR KILL ZONE – I CERTAINLY HOPE THE GLOBALISTS DO NOT WIN THIS DEBATE!
SO, WHAT CAN WE DO?
I’m so glad you asked, as there is almost nothing we can do, but we have some unexpected allies in stopping the provocation that NATO and America’s uniparty of Marxist Dems and RINOs – the ones trying to provoke WW III – may not have expected to object to their plot.
But let’s start with a few NATO facts:
FACT – It takes all 30 members of NATO to unanimously approve the addition of a new member, which is in this case the non-nation of Ukraine.
There are also certain requirements of a financial nature – including actual nationhood – and a test for corruption.
FACTS – Ukraine (a territory, not a nation) is kept alive at this point by the corrupt Biden regime trying to start a war there to cover up its own crimes, and Ukraine is rated as the third most corrupt place on earth.
Ukraine can’t pass the fitness test – and its pimp-maestro, Zelenskyy, is demanding $12 billion per month from his fanboys to keep the doors open to their money laundering/p@do paradise – and it looks like he gets it!
And in doing so, they are driving those of us who will die first headlong into a conflict with one of the world’s nuclear powers of note – Russia.
HOW SO?
EU and U.S. leaders openly encouraging more nations bordering Russia to enlarge NATO, will force Putin to act and do so decisively – which will likely involve EMPs exploded above European cities to knock out all communications.
Acting as the fuse in this game of international chicken – where two fools race toward certain death seeing who will veer first – both the Finnish and Swedish governments announced they want to slither into NATO as well.
Good to see the supermarket folk are concerned about inflation! .. popped into Coles this morning for my usual “homebrand” bread .. $1.90 a loaf .. it was $1.65 on Tuesday .. LOL!
shatterzzz says:
May 19, 2022 at 7:55 am
Coming to you frozen, courtesy of Ireland wholesale bakeries.
Everything’s coming up chicken this morning.
Well there goes Disney’s Fantasia. All those dark skinned dancing female hippos…
Woke Professors Claim the Word ‘Obesity’ Is Racist (Newsmax, 18 May)
They’re going to have their work cut out. The thesaurus that lives here on my desk has a truly colossal whopping number of racist synonyms they’ll have to cancel too.
Woah!
Head over the Michael Smith News and check out Holmes a Prick making a right cock of himself intimidating a Lib woman.
He’s just sunk the wood ducks.
I don’t suppose there is a chance that maybe the white kid just hated the black kid for personal reasons. Ah, but then there would not be that warm feeling that washes over you (no, not urine) from condemning white racists.
I can’t keep up.
It seems like only yesterday* that B-Double swimsuit models were something to be celebrated and admired.
Now calling someone a Big Rig is a bad thing?
…
* I just checked. It was only yesterday.
What’s stopping you from going to Maccas and KFC Gabor?
That will give that Nina Jankowicz woman time to record another Mary Poppins ditty on Tik Tok: Let’s Go Fly a Kite.
If homeland bread comes from Ireland then it’s a fuel cost factor.
I’m getting charged ‘fuel levies’ for outbound international parcels
Maybe, but I doubt it.
Pissing on someone’s stuff is a low, demeaning act.
And calling him “boy” which has slavery connotations.
No sympathy, really.
KFC is not the same hasn’t been for many years, or my taste had changed, as to Mac’s chips I can make my own now, not like in my student years.
“Farmer Gezsays:
May 19, 2022 at 8:04 am
Woah!
Head over the Michael Smith News and check out Holmes a Prick making a right cock of himself intimidating a Lib woman.
He’s just sunk the wood ducks.”
I watched it last night. It’s actually quite disturbing. Junior is no different from his late father. Apples never ever fall far from the tree. Coerce, bully and intimidate those who disagree with you. I note his Stepford puppets remain silent.
Common sense.
I’m sick of the playing with words.
Does the professor wanting the word obesity banished want all the health programs for obesity related health issues abolished too?
According to Gateway Pundit, Powerline and American Greatness the recently announced Ministry of Truth is going to be disbanded.
Another win for the good guys
Likely just rebranded.
Not going away.
Sancho Panzer says:
May 18, 2022 at 10:09 pm
… a white student who was filmed drunkenly urinating on the desk of a black neighbour in a male halls of residence.
Wut?
Who would do such a thing?
The first year agricultural management student …
Oh, right.
Ag student.
As you were.
1962 Sydney Uni Colleges Freshers Steeplechase around the Uni late at night – St John’s has a 44 Gallon Drum of Cows Dung and Urine, the Ag Students had collected to dunk any fresher caught by the Sophs and Seniors – as well John’s had the fire hose out to hit you as you came up the grass embankment from the Oval
Could be that calli.
Or it might be eking out an existence on the OAP.
Next stop Urandangi, Calli?
Daily Mail. Peak stupidity, anyone?
Latham on AnAl .. LOL!
Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
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1h
In the log-cabin story why don’t we hear about the inheritance from the grandfather who owned a printing business at Mascot?
Back then subsidised inner-city housing was pretty good if you also had nice money in the bank and access to non-government schooling.
Truth.
Isa. Then we put on our hats with the corks and mosey on down to Birdsville.
Last day in the NT. It has been an eye-opener. I loved Darwin.
PHOTOS: Mexico’s Shelves are Stocked with Baby Formula amid U.S. Shortage
Full report expected on Birdsville, Calli. It’s on my bucket list.
When I sneakily observe people’s shopping trolleys filled with hideous, expensive items posing as food, it’s little wonder that they are 1) overweight and 2) broke.
rosie says:
May 19, 2022 at 8:17 am
Not sure how to respond to that remark, being in business, not retired if that would make any difference, and having a few quid I can only concur with others who stated that you ‘notafan’, rosie, are a nasty, unpleasant human being.
Your comment was quite uncalled for and in bad spirit.
Stepford puppets
That is a great description of them, Cassie.
Quite so.
The chicken is a source of very cheap protein (both meat and eggs).
We had a whole roast chicken last night.
Organic, free-range, home-schooled, gluten free, yada, yada.
1.5 kgs for $10.
And it isn’t finished yet.
Not saying the pissing guy was not an dickhead. In my experience stuff like this is diagnostic of dickheadedness. But not necessarily racist.
What the fuck are you on about Gabor?
It was simply an observation that people on the OAP opt for low cost options because they have no choice.
Are you in search of St Ruth upticks or something?
Sancho Panzer says:
May 19, 2022 at 8:33 am
Read back.
Calling him “boy” sort of gave the game away I think, and moved it from the “Uni hi-jinks” column to the “grubby racism” column.
Oh dear
You didn’t need to respond at all as it was a joke in line with the poor poor pensioner meme being run in the media of late and here this morning.
Not directed at you Gabor* as
I’m well aware you aren’t a pensioner (and that your dislike of me goes back to the good old days of Sinc cat, you let that out of the bag a few days ago, so don’t bother with the ‘concur with others’)
*after all Calli doesn’t know if your non consumption of KFC and Macca’s is the consequence of ‘common-sense’ it was just a general comment, as was mine.
I did.
You referenced Rosie’s comment at 8:17 which replied to calli earlier.
Nothing in there justifies your attack.
Nothing.
Cory is firing today.
Every single person I know who has had serious COVID symptoms has been double jabbed with the experimental injectables.
My many friends who have refused to accept the medical coercion have either had very mild or no COVID symptoms at all.
Of course it could all just be a coincidence but somehow I don’t think so.
I have discussed the Antibody Dependent Enhancement of mRNA vaccine trials previously. These problems led to the previous research never proceeding past trial stage.
Incredibly, the trial stage of this latest batch has been carried out across the entire world. Some of the problems attached to that are now becoming clear.
We already know of the heart problems, the blood clotting issues and various other ‘rare’ side effects that are uncharacteristically common to vaccine recipients.
SP
Nothing to do with the ‘low cost’ option., in case you can’t be bothered to scroll back.
Missing their time in the limelight, the epidemiologists are already calling for the “next government”, which I suppose they assume will be Elbow, to impose a sugar tax on soft drinks. And that’ll just be the start should he comply.
There’s no doubt many Australians are making poor dietary choices, but I despise the use of taxes to “nudge” human behaviour.
Whatever happened to the progressive belief in education?
Organic, free-range,
There’s a bloke that runs a big free range chook operation not far away and built a whole new facility.
The sheds are all climate controlled and the fencing for the free range areas is bomb proof when it comes to predators.
The chooks don’t go out of the sheds much as they hate being in the open.
Little safe houses in the enclosure are barely visited by the birds.
It’s a nature thing since chooks are jungle birds in origin.
The inflated current thing too.
Over at Jo Nova’s blog there is an excellent discussion of the WHO proposal for a global agreement for WHO control of international responses to pandemics.
There have been some extreme responses to this development on social media, but it is nevertheless a concerning development & is about to be signed by nations in the next week. It should have been a topic of discussion during our federal election – but, of course, it is not. The idiot media probably don’t even recognise it is happening, let alone that it is an important issue. I think it has only been reported in the Cairns News!
BTW One Nation has a petition to sign in relation to the WHO power grab. Sorry can’t send link as I am using a blasted IPad at the moment. A link can be found on one of the comments on Jo’s blog. It is attracting an enormous amount of signatures in a short time.
Slavery likely goes as far back as the first settled societies – when people realised that instead of killing someone you could make them work and help yourself to what they produced in excess of what they physically needed.
Or is there only one ‘slavery’ worthy of the name.
I do believe there are people who believe that when white people got to America they then, for the first time in history, instituted slavery, deliberately targeting Africans because white supremacy.
A small plus if Kristina wins is she’ll make a full set of mean girls with Tanya and Penny. Which will evolve into a hissing spitting cat fight of epic proportions in about 2 years time, when Albo gets so on the nose that the ALP looks for a replacement RGR-style. Stock up on popcorn well beforehand, if there’s anything left in the shops by then.
callisays:
May 19, 2022 at 8:20 am
Isa. Then we put on our hats with the corks and mosey on down to Birdsville.
Last day in the NT. It has been an eye-opener. I loved Darwin.
If you can, stay in the Birdsville Hotel – been there 6 times and never made it -closest, late Nov 1999 with Oz Mate and Irish Ex-Chairman from UK, Said to Ex-Chairman we will stay in the Pub, this time of the year no one there
Wrong, Lake Eyre Commission meeting in Pub, relegated to Campground, but invited back to Pub for Lake Eyre Commission Dinner – speaking to lady on right. (who had come from near Innamincka) at dinner table “that road from vis Cordillo Downs was really rough” – Reply “we didn’t drive, We Flew”
Then spoke to Lady on left – turned out to be National Parks and had come in via K1 and QAA Line and said “You do realise Mt Dare is closed for the Season” – we didn’t and as we had planned solo run by QAA-K1-Rig Road, had to change plans to Oodnadatta via QAA-K1-French Line – 1994 Series 80 4.5l EFI 3 up Solo, carried 210l used 205L and over 5 days saw not one other vehicle – only people at Dalhousie Springs
Sorry forgot the link.
https://www.corybernardi.com.au/posts/tempting-fate/
Chortle. “Common sense” in relation to non consumption of Maccas and Dirty Bird was about me. Brrrrr
Others can do as they wish, as usual. What tastes good to some tastes hideous to others. One of my kids won’t eat lobster. 😀
Yeah, but at least they walk and scratch which makes for BIGGER DRUMSTICKS compared with cage birds.
The point is, it is still really cheap meat at $7.50/kg, even with some bells and whistles in the chook shed priced in.
Someone in the next street over has a few chickens. They spend all day wandering around happily foraging up and down the street on the verge and in people’s yards. They’re fun and no one complains since we’re a very live and let live area. So I suspect the main reason they don’t come out much is the food is inside, not outside.
Farmer Gez re: chooks
Our girls actually love getting out of the coop – even though it is itself quite large. We allow them to range in an adjacent fenced off area which includes our vege garden (fenced but they sometimes fly in!) & one of our barns where they love to roam around & scratch into the dirt floor. Of late two of them have been escaping the outer fence & getting into the house grounds & gardens & after clipping their wings, we finally discovered that they were squeezing under the chicken wire. There little escapades have now been blocked.
Re the fear of open spaces – we have noticed that they flee for cover when hawks or eagles appear (rarely) in the sky above. They have an uncanny ability to know instantly when they appear.
Sounds like a great trip calli and the right time of year to be doing it.
Not for me though, not on my own, anyhow.
Maybe. But when riled up people aim to hurt, flinging words that they know will humiliate or cause pain. You might hurl the word ‘fat’ at someone to hurt them even though ordinarily you have no problem with portly peeps. Calling a short person a dwarf or an oomp-loompa. Stuff like that.
Not highbrow, probably something more to be embarrassed about than not. But some people really have low foreheads and big mouths.
Pissman may well be a racist. But the article seemed to be demonstrating its point by pointing out the school’s history, not the student’s.
Yes sancho
If you were really price conscious you’d be looking an nutrition/energy value which is why the forced vegetarian meme rings so hollow.
I noticed in an article linked here? the other day the Chinese prefer wheat over rice because it delivers more energy.
who knew 25% of the population were disabled? help me al-obi-wan-banese, you;re my only hope!
The problem is .. what qualifies as disabled? .. I live in a small “houso” estate (69 houses/units) and 85% of the adult tenants are on the “rorters” .. only one person has ever had any visible signs of a “disability” .. she uses a wheelchair .. lotz & lotza of boat-folk are/were placed on the “rorters” simply because “no-speaka-da-English” is/was considered an, overwhelming, impediment to looking for/finding work .. sooooo, problem solved!
After all, when your handing out other folks money cost isn’t a big concern, is it?
Anthony Albanese’s plan shows arrogance and lack of professionalism
Paul Kelly
Anthony Albanese’s announced plan for a two-person Albanese-Wong interim government is administratively untenable, politically flawed and unwise to be revealed pre-election.
The remark is an embarrassment. It suggests Albanese has failed to think through the transition to office of any Labor government. The ludicrous feature of the Albanese plan is that only two ministers would be sworn in and both would then immediately leave the country for the Quad meeting in Japan.
Albanese cannot be serious. This is absurd. The question immediately being raised is: where is the third man? Who runs the new government if the only two commissioned ministers are overseas?
The answer is Albanese must modify his plan, the obvious change being to also swear in Labor deputy Richard Marles who could serve as acting PM while Albanese and Penny Wong are in Japan. Albanese was involved in talks on Wednesday to sort out the mess. Indeed, it seems his declared position will be amended and fixed, with Marles being included. The duumvirate becomes a triumvirate. What next, can we ask?
How crazy to raise parallels with the Whitlam government ascent three days before the election. What was Albanese thinking? The last thing he needs is an invitation to compare his situation with that of Whitlam. Yet his remarks were presumptuous about the election result and highly arrogant.
Oz
DHS puts truth minstry on hold
Our lords and masters.
Sikh For Truth
@SikhForTruth
Swiss Military to Protect Schwab and Global Elites with 5,000 Troops and ‘No-Fly Zone’ for This Year’s Davos Summit.
vaccine adverse events data
You mean the multi decade campaign by ‘big food’ to demonise healthy food (meat, animal fat, salt) and replace it with industrial processed shite full of carbs and seed oils? … aided and abetted by our wise rulers and the captured medical profession and regulatory bodies (sound familiar??)… you mean that root cause?
The poor making poor food choices seems to be a perennial problem.
Someone I knew used to teach life skills somewhere Footscray, how to grow plants from cuttings, shopping for value, simple cooking, that kind of thing.
And I remember another lady in the West who used to do home visits for stVdeP had clients who did not know what to do with a packet of flour, all they knew was heat and eat.
He is probably the stupidest man to ever lead an Opposition campaign to win government.
Of course he’s serious.
Straight to the point
Mark Latham is a bit like Bon Scott. He doesn’t give a fig anymore.
Didn’t Whitlam pull some sort of interim ministry stunt?
There’s a popular song amongst the blek population of South Africa “Kill the Farmer, kill the Boer…”
Knuckle Dragger says:
May 19, 2022 at 6:56 am
What, no Tim Tams?
Fund raising success.
Get Ato Boldon on the next flight in.
He and Lance Barnard ran Australia for three weeks after the December 1972 election.
Sancho Panzersays:
May 19, 2022 at 8:29 am
it’s little wonder that they are 1) overweight and 2) broke.
Quite so.
The chicken is a source of very cheap protein (both meat and eggs).
We had a whole roast chicken last night.
My wife (moths fly out when she opens her purse and we are one of the Dumb Self Funded Retirees) looks for Wollies specials (rare occasions when not at ALDI) and got end of day full Roast Chicken for $4 early this week
I said when eating, bit tough think that chicken had been running around the yard for a very long time – surprisingly she agreed.
Since ALDI Expressi Machine is finally giving up the Ghost, based on research went with DeLOnghi Nespresso Capsule Machine and as I only have Long Black, went with Woolworths Fairtrade Nespresso Compatible Coffee Capsules Intense 10 Pack
As I am a slack bloke and always shop online as too lazy to go to shops, with the Delonghi (Big Discount) having arrived from Myer Online, decided to order 10 packs Woolies Capsules $3.70 and being a cheapskate throw in a leg of Lamb, good steak and lamb chops (then advised wife of splurge) to get me over the free delivery first order $100 – being delivered this morning between 0827-0927) – Woolies changed the 10 capsules (which have now gone to $4.00) from Intense to Strong and I got a refund. don’t know why.
Calling him “boy” sort of gave the game away I think
boy, or ‘boetie’??
another ABC drum Lismore floods climate changy
Yes, with Lance Barnard.
Couldn’t wait two weeks for the votes to be completely counted.
That appetite for destruction needed to be sated.
Vicki
Re the fear of open spaces – we have noticed that they flee for cover when hawks or eagles appear (rarely) in the sky above. They have an uncanny ability to know instantly when they appear.
Son and DiL (suburban Sydney) have some bantams for their kids. The bantams for some reason get swooped by magpies.
Thanks Zulu and Roger.
Elbow really does want to be a repeat act.
Vegetarians and (God help us) vegans will often loudly lament the horrors of killing animals for our consumption. It is cruel, don’t you know.
I wonder how many animals in nature die of ‘old age’. I appreciate old age does not kill you but some illness of injury that exceeds the body’s ability to mend itself.
But how many are killed by predators – Nature red in tooth and claw with ravine! Sounds pretty nasty. How many are injured and must wait in pain for death? How many starve because at some point they are simply less able to get enough food – perhaps the years, perhaps a disease.
I suppose some animals die peacefully in their sleep, but I expect not many.
The near instantaneous death they receive if they are to be eaten by humans would seem far preferable.
Keneally ‘lacks knowledge’ about constituency
Quite an amusing thought .. it implies that folk out here in FOWLER, actually, think about KK as a person .. The vote will be for LABOR the candidate doesn’t matter .. Fowler is rusted-on Labor! ..
Ask as many local folk as you like and I’ll guarantee that 9 out of 10 can’t remember who the last member was, I can’t .. LOL!
the only Federal/State member that most folk in the Liverpool/Fairfield area could name, off-hand, is the “turtle” and only because he make enuf ridiculous statements to get frequent write-ups in the media ..
KK will win cos she’s Labor .. simples ………!
Daily Mail. The grim reality is dawning – Albo might have to cancel the removal truck….
From OldOzzie’s link
I keep mentioning the Obama/Clinton 16 year meme, which did include nuclear war and which was circulating at about the time Trump won (the first time). This was all planned.
America is now in the leading light in inciting a world apocalypse.
In Elbow’s world, Gough has replaced God.
He really is that stupid.
Looking at the replies to the tweet it all seems to be about what a needless and mean thing it is to say.
But it goes to the point. Albo is putting it out there as providing some sort of credibility. He wants people to vote for him partly on this basis. And pointing out that it is not true is very relevant.
If it was a matter of dredging up something from his past for the sake of smearing him that would be something else. If kids made fun of him at school because his teeth looked like a fence that a car had crashed through then that would be petty. But as soon as he started trading on the story, and it turns out it never happened, then lying and cynically manipulation make it very worthy of comment.
Somebody is worried, shaterzzz.
Apparently KKK’s opponent’s corflutes are attracting more than the usual amount of vandalism, with written commentary in Vietnamese added for good measure.
Ought to be a game. A bit like Simon Says.
Everybody takes turns saying “Keneally lacks knowledge about…” and you insert a word (any word will do, it will inevitably be true) and everyone nods their agreement. Occasionally you change the name and make a false statement. All the people who still nod lose.
Gough abolished slavery, gave women the vote and ended Australia’s war in Vietnam……
I thought those were things you twirled?
And it isn’t finished yet.
You are not trying hard enough
Accordingly deleted Duk.Please ignore ,ontablet in car.
It seems that the TPP gap between Liberal and Labor is rapidly diminishing in favor of the effin Libs. I hate both of them but this is why I cannot understand ‘pre poll’ voting. You could always vote early in certain circumstances but having polling booths open two or three weeks prior to election day is just dumb. So much can change in a couple of weeks that people may have voted differently on election day if they had waited. As expected Elbows lack of intelligence is becoming more obvious each day, but something 3 million people have already voted, that alone could be enough to give it to Labor. Why do we have early voting?
Auto checkup that should be reported.
Exactly sfw
My sister was asked why she was voting early.
‘Because I feel like it’
Good question. The original rationale was that it was for those who couldn’t get to a polling place on election day. Now it seems to be open slather.
If it’s any consolation, I think early voters are probably rusted on to their particular choice.
sfwsays:
May 19, 2022 at 9:37 am…….In Aust. if you vote early and change your mind , just vote a second time like 18000 people did last election.
And even though no teal candidate in the electorate pre poll station surrounded by a harem of teals, because a Kooyong or two might vote there.
Haha.
Yup. Karoly’s pet climate models so overhype CO2 that all the other variables are distorted to make the model hindcast temperature roughly correctly. So as soon as you project forward in time the output is ludicrous. No wonder they can’t forecast anymore.
As to the Lismore floods it’s amazing that global warming causes endless la Ninas, since I remember when they used to say it’d cause endless el Ninos instead. Several commentators also have mentioned how similar 2022 weather patterns are to 1974, which was also a back to back la Nina year. Of course 1974 was epicentre of the new Ice Age scare too, which is interesting.
Yes, I had the misfortune to hear it. Excruciating in its ugliness. What a simpering cuck.
mind blown again
China has made “important progress” on a hypersonic weapon that can hit moving targets like cars at extreme speeds. A team from the PLA Rocket Force University of Engineering is developing new heat-seeking technology for hypersonic weapons. The technology will help “significantly expand the scope of application of hypersonic weapons in a regional war”. Russia, US and North Korea have also tested hypersonic weapons, leading to fears of a new arms race.
just another media whore
My car broke down way in Rural NSW and Gough turned up, jiggled something in the engine and gave me a jump start.
Gave me a coffee too.
sfw
As expected Elbows lack of intelligence is becoming more obvious each day, but something 3 million people have already voted, that alone could be enough to give it to Labor. Why do we have early voting?
You answered your question before you asked it!
E69: Elon Musk on Twitter’s bot problem, SpaceX’s grand plan, Tesla stories, Giga Texas & more
The ukrofascismo donbas frontline are starting to look like swiss cheese.
Russia media is claiming around 1000 soldiers have now come out of azovstal with more to come.
Mark McGowan making an idiot of himself.
Just finished reading Harry’s War by Max Carmichael. Book is based on letters sent back from the front in WWI by a young man Harry Withers who grew up in Chiltern Valley NE Victoria. The letters were handed down in the family. Max has put context around the dates of the letters and engagements by AIF 21st Battalion.
Harry arrived at the front in May 1917 and made it through to the last armed engagement in October 1918. According to reports as part of a mortar party a sniper got him. So close but so far.
Well done to the author for pulling it together.
Our dollars are supporting these guys.
It may even be true, but it brings to mind the Russian video of the 1000 Mariupol “defenders” who “surrendered” about 5 or 6 weeks ago. It was much celebrated by Russiaphiles until some geeks noticed they were awfully clean and chubby for besieged defenders, and the new-looking unit badges on their uniforms were wrong…
This war is interesting because sorting real information from the intense and abundant propaganda on social media is so challenging.
Albo better hope the election comes soon. Another “gaffe” might be a problem. Gillard on steroids.
Guess who is taking care of the US baby food issue.
EVERYTHING you need to know about monkeypox: Strain ‘transmits through sex’ and is about as deadly as the Wuhan Covid variant — but a vaccine does exist
. Seven cases in UK could be tip of iceberg as health chiefs hunt for common link
. First time ever spreading in community and appears to be transmitting via sex
. Can kill one in 10 but milder strain is transmitting in UK, which kills one in 100
Is there a cure?
Because monkeypox is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, jabs for smallpox can also protect people from getting monkeypox.
Alice Cooper?
Gough went on to discover Pluto, successfully conduct the first pig heart transplant with a politician’s and invent the electric hover lawn mower.
Our dollars are supporting these guys.
That’s the power of Mong.
Regarding Pissman.
Look, I abhor racism in any form.
But it is possible that he is just an insensitive, low IQ blockhead.
His name sounds very Dutch, after all.
Hilarious! Doocy to Jean-Pierre After Jankowicz Resigns: “The Disinformation Board is Being Shut Down Because of Disinformation?” (VIDEO)
Chiltern Valley NE Victoria
I think the memorial in Chiltern has a nice 75mm French field gun.
Gough found a little girl’s teddy bear when it got lost on a camping trip.
Or was that just a TV ad?
But it is possible that he is just an insensitive, low IQ blockhead.
And what do normal people do when confronted with this type? Mock them mercilessly, play tricks on them, pay them back.
The answer to real or perceived racism is as a minimum indifference. The wailing and cries of racism only expose the inherent weakness of the supposed victims.
Gough helped me find my contacts once.
I though Gough transplanted a lawn mower for a politician’s heart.
Also extremely kind to Vietnamese refugees whom he heartily welcomed to his home town of Cabramatta.
If it’s any consolation, I think early voters are probably rusted on to their particular choice.
Or are highly motivated to stick a knife in the uni party.
‘Gough helped me find my contacts once’
After someone accidentally drank them too.
Very Labor thing to do.
Alice Cooper, you are just being facetious. She is Rosa DeLauro, 79yo Democrat from Connecticut.
Seems pretty easy to avoid. Don’t have sex with monkeys.
She is Rosa DeLauro, 79yo Democrat from Connecticut.
How do these freaks stay in power?
WHO could push aside Australian police and take over in a contrived pandemic
Letter to the Editor
I’m not sure if I have worked it out but the United Nations have a long-term contract with Thuraya satellite phones.
The urban police cars in Queensland have been fitted with Thuraya antennas. Are the UN forces going to compulsory acquire the Australian government vehicles and push the Australian police aside if there is a health emergency after the 22 may 2022 when the Australian government signs the new pandemic WHO legislation that allows the World Health organisation and UN troops to govern Australia in a Health emergency?
I been working on it for 3 days. I noticed the urban police cars are being fitted with Thuraya satellite antennas, seamed strange to me as they have VHF radios with phone capabilities on the GSM network.
I went down the rabbit hole and this is my conclusion.
Maybe I’m wrong Maybe I’m spot on.
https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/47323
Franksays:
May 19, 2022 at 10:28 am
Alice Cooper, you are just being facetious. She is Rosa DeLauro, 79yo Democrat from Connecticut.
Man is that Ugly
I like the comment
This is who’s overseeing the baby Formula crisis for Congress.
I’m a guessing she also has a gingerbread house in the forest.
We used to get daily updates on Kung Flu stats.
I just hear we have had 14 deaths in the “latest reporting period”.
What is a “reporting period”?
A day?
A week?
A cubit?
An imperial rood?
What?
Back in Southern England sampling some of the great Anglo Saxon contributions to Western culture:
Pub steak and kidney pie.
Bangers in pastry boats slathered in heavy gravy and served with mash.
The landlord’s in-house bitter.
Enormous greasy breakfast with baked beans.
No wonder they ruled the world.
They can’t do chips however.
AEC not yet proven where election writs have been advertised as required by Electoral Act
It seems the Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers has been unable to provide proof of where the election writ has been published as required under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
Dale Holmes writes that the AEC has been unable to state which newspapers have published the writs, therefore a huge question mark hangs over the legitimacy of the federal election on Saturday.
https://t.me/DaleHolmes1985/1084
154 Writs for election of members of House of Representatives
(1) A writ for the election of a Member of the House of Representatives or for a general election for the House of Representatives shall be addressed to the Electoral Commissioner.
(2) Only 8 writs shall be issued for each general election, namely:
(a) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from New South Wales;
(b) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from Victoria;
(c) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from Queensland;
(d) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from South Australia;
(e) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from Western Australia;
(f) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from Tasmania;
(g) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from the Australian Capital Territory; and
(h) a writ that relates to the members to be elected from the Northern Territory.
(3) The 8 writs issued for a general election shall be issued on the same day.
(4) Where a writ for an election to be held in a Division, or each Division, in a State or Territory is received by the Electoral Commissioner under subsection (1), the Commissioner shall:
(a) endorse on the writ the date of its receipt;
(b) advertise receipt of, and particulars of, the writ:
(i) in not less than 2 newspapers circulating generally in the State or Territory; or
(ii) if there is only one newspaper circulating generally in the State or Territory—in that newspaper;
(c) take such steps as the Commissioner considers appropriate to advise the Divisional Returning Officer or each Divisional Returning Officer, as the case requires, of the particulars of the writ, including the dates fixed by the writ; and
(d) give such directions as the Commissioner considers appropriate to the Divisional Returning Officer or each Divisional Returning Officer, as the case requires, in relation to the holding of the election.
(5) Where a writ for an election to be held in a Division or Divisions is received by the Electoral Commissioner under subsection (1), the Commissioner may, where he or she considers it appropriate, advertise receipt of, and particulars of, the writ, in a newspaper or newspapers circulating in the Division or in some or all of the Divisions, as the case requires.
153 Writs for election of Senators
(1) A writ for the election of Senators shall be addressed to the Australian Electoral Officer for the State or Territory for which the election is to be held.
(2) Where a writ for an election of Senators is received by the Australian Electoral Officer for a State or Territory under subsection (1), the officer shall:
(a) endorse on the writ the date of its receipt;
(b) advertise receipt of, and particulars of, the writ:
(i) in not less than 2 newspapers circulating generally in the State or Territory; or
(ii) if there is only one newspaper circulating generally in the State or Territory—in that newspaper;
(c) take such steps as the officer considers appropriate to advise each Divisional Returning Officer in the State or Territory of the dates fixed by the writ; and
(d) give such directions as the officer considers appropriate to each Divisional Returning Officer in relation to the holding of the election.
The AEC has been contacted for comment with this request:
‘To Tom Rogers
Australian Electoral Commissioner
Dear Sir,
Could you please provide information relating to the publication of the writs for a general election as required under section 153 and 154 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
eight writs have to be published, could you please advise in what newspapers, location and date of publication.
Thank you
J O’Toole
Editor Cairns News May 18, 2022?
Would a handy be OK?
It seems the Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers has been unable to provide proof of where the election writ has been published as required under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
ATAGI style. The Australian bureaucracy is fat and rotten to the core.
Would a handy be OK?
Check with munty.
hard to grasp why little American babies are going hungry when there are so many men available for chestfeeding
Humans have the gut of a dog not the gut of a goat. We are meat eaters primarily. Trying to run us on the wrong fuel denies millenia and ends in failure. It is what it is, (at the risk of mixing my metaphors) dont ask a shark to apologise for being a shark.
On a related note, my mothers obese terrier has been switched to a new ‘diet food’ by the vet – here are the first 8 ingredients: Chicken meal, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Wheat, Soybean Meal, Whole Grain Sorghum, Chicken Fat, Cracked Pearl Barley, Whole Grain Corn…. (all up thats over 60% carbohydrate)
No wonder the dog is fat – its being fed the wrong fuel just like humans, and for the same reasons – big food can make their processed shit anywhere in the world and store it virtually indefinitely.
Gough invented sex with women.
Whooaaa!
Ozzie!
Cairns News?
Really?
Almost half of President Biden’s Twitter followers are FAKE, audit reveals as Elon Musk puts deal to buy Big Tech giant on hold over bots
. Just over 49% of Twitter followers of the official @POTUS account are fake
. The same analysis found that more than 14 million accounts who follow Biden’s personal @JoeBiden handle are also either fake or insufficiently active
Gough went onto compose 6 symphonies (not the usual 8 to be a master but a good effort nonetheless), discover the automobile left turn indicator and patent the dodgy shopping trolley wheel..
according to wiki the writs relate to the dissolution of parliament, is there another kind of writ?
I voted early.You are only supposed to be able vote early if you come under one of the enumerated reasons , disabled etc etc.
I was asked if I was entitled to vote early and answered”yes”.
End of inquisition.
china of course would never launch another pandemic, even as a precursor to a strike on taiwan
The scary thing about the Biden fake twitter bot followers story is that it implies that there are still ten million odd real people that do follow him.
Only if that vision gets a run in the MSM.
Jab jab booster booster mask mask?
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/16/study-finds-correlation-between-mask-compliance-and-covid-deaths/
Apparently the Romans brought the pie to England but used oil in the pastry.
English use of butter and lard raised the pie to perfection.
Enough of people tempting me to visit the UK.
or is these writs?
Ok, here is Mark McGowan (via Matt Walsh).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JdsmGM4QMkw
Would a handy be OK?
With rubber gloves and a promise to call tomorrow morning.
And Post-It Notes.
Don’t forget he invented Post-It Notes.
Again with the danger hair.
Body piercings too.
Probably.
That’s a question I’m prepared to leave unanswered.
And who can forget the Whitlam Clothes Hoist?
Or the Gough-Victor Lawn Mower.
Or Whitlam Foods Pine-Lime Splice and Chiko Roll.
Every cloud has a silver lining. When the UN takes over our medical response management, the state health officers will be redundant, so we won’t have Sutton, Chant and the other imbeciles on our TV every night.
There will also be some savings to our federal budget, the Commonwealth will no longer be obliged to pay repatriations and funeral costs for those injured and killed with whatever toxins the UN injects into us. Further savings will be made as we no longer need the TGA.
Rosie, the Cairns News Constitutional Lawyer is saying the writs weren’t advertised properly in a newspaper.
I think we should leave the Liar mythology to an expert. Mavis.
A lot of the best Constitutional Law comes out of FNQ. Particularly front bars.
Lard in pie pastry is almost mandatory, but butter will do at a pinch.
Oil in pastry is a gay sacrilege.
I think we are angry in this case because the Cairns News wasn’t chosen as the journal of record for publication of the writs.
Interesting, DHS Pauses Disinformation Governance Board, Ministry of Truth Head Nina Jankowicz Removed
May 18, 2022 – sundance
Interesting background discussions today, very interesting. There are some aspects to the Washington Post story about DHS abandoning, at least temporarily, the Dept of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board.
WaPo represents the CIA public relations/narrative engineers, so it doesn’t come as a surprise they would be the announcing outlet for the leaked information. There’s also an interesting aspect in who was selected to write the article, Taylor Lorenz, the conscripted narrative engineer and lead on-line counterintelligence/propaganda pusher. [LINK]
However, beyond the background intelligence motive; and accepting the expressed intent of the DHS ministry of truth effort; notice the picture Lorenz published to accompany the notification (see above).
“Nina Jankowicz … works in a press room at Volodymyr Zelensky’s campaign headquarters in 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine.” Quite telling.
The takeaway from the above data points, outlines how long the DHS has been planning to use the conflict in Ukraine to advance the agenda of the State Dept and intelligence apparatus (CIA). When combined with the rapid response from big tech search engine notifications about removing on-line content that contradicted the official position of the U.S. government toward the Ukraine conflict (Google and DuckDuckGo), what we see is a very fulsome picture of how the U.S. government advanced propaganda was being constructed.
Perhaps publishing them on the newfangled internet thingo meets the constitutional requirements.
Or does the legislation specify it must be on paper in a paper newspaper?
Interesting, DHS Pauses Disinformation Governance Board, Ministry of Truth Head Nina Jankowicz Removed
One of the good things about this election campaign is that the press pack has not laid a single glove on either candidate. Access journalism is completely ineffectual, gaffes mean nothing. The polls twitched a little Albo’s way during the campaign and have now reverted back to where they were at the start. Everyone has made their minds up already about Morrison.
It would be beyond all hope that Kristina Keneally may lose in Fowler. If her support is collapsing the ALP are in a bind. KK’s schtick is to act natural, that is to be a sassy, loud seppo with mouth wide open and working while not listening to anybody. The more she does that in Fowler the worse she sounds.
If they try and keep her on ice and fly her under the radar (I know, two stupid metaphors in one sentence), then Dai Le can attack her integrity with impunity.
The more Keneally opens her yawning pie hole the better Dai Le looks.
Keneally may hold on but if she lost it would be worth the Libs losing.
must be in two newspapers or if the state or territory only has one newspaper then that one.
I heard it was Gough who trained Elvis to flip burgers and Roger More to use the Thick Shake machine when they faked their deaths to change their careers.
Whaddaguy!
Everyone has made their minds up already about Morrison.
By “everyone”, Monty, that must mean you’ve made your considerable mind up. Well Stump me!
Check out the video to see Bush’s faux pas.