Ciao bongiorno

Well, hello there.

I still can’t comment. Everything ends up in moderation.

Elon goes off the lefty reservation and the predictable happens…

Elongate | Power Line (20 May)

A woman has made a hearsay allegation against Elon Musk, claiming that on a company airplane in 2016, he exposed himself to and propositioned a flight attendant.

To which Elon replies as any guy should…

Musk challenges private jet sex accuser to describe intimate body parts after sexual misconduct allegations (21 May)

Elon Musk called the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct a “far-left actor” who has “a major political axe to grind” — and challenged her to verify her claims by describing a part of his anatomy “not known by the public.”

Maybe the suddenly outraged wymminse could draw us a picture.

Elon Musk called the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct a “far-left actor” who has “a major political axe to grind” — and challenged her to verify her claims by describing a part of his anatomy “not known by the public.”

Shane Bourne moved from ABC “comedy” to “drama” about a medical insurance company. In one episode, he asked a woman accusing a doctor of forcing her into oral sex whether the accused was circumcised or not. Her claim collapsed at that point.

No idea how much the make-over cost but if it were me I’d be after my money back ..!

He didn’t have a makeover – he just finally lost his baby fat.

FTR, I think he looks better… or did at the start of the campaign – he looks worse when he’s agitated, which was happening a lot with some journalists.

Am I out of moderation yet? Come on dover, lift ya game!

Petros, we didn’t even do that during WW2 when the country was in an existential crisis. It won’t happen now. The majors will go to another election if neither can form a stable government.

and challenged her to verify her claims by describing a part of his anatomy “not known by the public.

Let’s assume she’s lying. If she calls his bluff and puts out a false description, then he’s going to have to make it known to the public to refute her. I don’t want to know about that.

AnAl popping west every week, but never donning flouros, is a good sign that he desperately needs urban seats Swan-Hasluck-Cowan-Curtin

I’m Freeeeeeeeee!

Reposting because it was moderated (twice) in the old thread:

Not sure how the Teal “independents” will do in general, but a lot of talking heads on the tele seem to think Tim Wilson is a goner. It’d be worth the laugh to see it happen, I guess.

Anyway, I find it hard to care who wins, as we don’t have a conservative party, and despite Paul Murray insisting the contrary, ScoMo’ll sign away our sovereignty to WHO. The phuk-knuckle was boasting about it before vehemently denying it.

Anyway… my prediction is still Coalition with an increased majority. Mostly because I like being contrarian… but here’s hoping parties like LDP and PHON cause havoc in the senate.

Fleeced and 2dogs, out of moderation. Welcome, Fleeced.

Thanks, dover. Though I had to reveal my secret identity.

Made it into the Senate Top Fifty!

Big news:

Catholic bishop bars communion to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over abortion rights support.

The archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is Catholic, can no longer receive the sacrament of communion because she has declined to back down from her push for abortion access.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone wrote in a public post Friday that his “many requests” have not been accepted to speak with Pelosi, who is from San Francisco, since she vowed to keep Roe v. Wade. The archbishop said he communicated to Pelosi on April 7 that, should she not publicly repudiate her “advocacy for abortion ‘rights” or refrain from referring to her faith in public, he would have no choice but to deny her communion.

The archbishop referred to the Catholic Church’s Cannon 915, which says that, “Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.” The Chatecism of the Catholic Church is against abortion.

“As you have not publically repudiated your position on abortion, and continue to refer to your Catholic faith in justifying your position and to receive Holy Communion, that time has now come,” the archbishop wrote. “Therefore, in light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco to be ‘concerned for all the Christian faithful entrusted to [my] care’ … by means of this communication I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publically repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance.”

Is anyone detecting a Gough “It’s Time” mood? I am not.

Jonova has the perfect cartoon for this.

Country VIC:

The clear blue skies are once more crisscrossed with contrails.

Such and obvious sign of Freedom and Carbon “Pollution” must stick in the craw of our the oppressing political and bureaucratic classes.

I’m detecting more of a “I hate them all” mood, but especially amongst disaffected Libs.

Yep, “which arseholes do I vote for besides the uniparty arseholes?”

You can’t fuck all of the people all of the time.

HoR: I couldn’t bring myself to put the sitting member below Greenfilth

Always put Greens last. Always. Sitting member second last, but Greens last.

I have to say, the LNP’s sloganeering this time around has been particularly rubbish. ‘It won’t be easy under Albanese’? You missed the part where you explain why. Stop insulting my intelligence.

As for ‘there’s a hole in your costings dear Labor’ etc – really? Their platform looks to be about as artlessly costed as the LNP’s. And if you have to go back to the Howard era to spruik your bona fides as the most reliable steward of the nation’s finances, that is pretty piss poor.

By the way, the teal running in my electorate is clearly giving heartburn whoever replaced Julie Bishop in my electorate. (I know her name but I just don’t care enough to mention it.) Her pamphlets explain all of the ways the coalition’s been nice to illegal immigrants, all of the good work they’ve done about the ‘climate crisis’ and the environment and so forth.

Thank you for reminding me what a bunch of craven, principle-free weathervanes the Liberals are.

Always put Greens last. Always. Sitting member second last, but Greens last.

That’s been my modus operandi for decades, Fleeced.

Unfortunately, my sitting member was at the very top of the ballot, so will more than likely skate home because of the stupids.

Im down for a Lab landslide.

10 seat majority.
Basing it on 4,000,000 early votes from people lining up to kick scomo in the nads.

something like this.

C.L.:

Good to see Cat legend Fleeced back for the day.

Thanks, CL. Turned up on the Cat’s doorstep last night, but dover left me in the cold until this morning. LOL.

Oh come on:

I have to say, the LNP’s sloganeering this time around has been particularly rubbish. ‘It won’t be easy under Albanese’? You missed the part where you explain why. Stop insulting my intelligence.

Yep. No three or four word slogans this time. They copped flak for using them in the past, but only because they worked. That’s what irritated media the most, I think.

But what do the Libs even stand for now? \And warning people that things are going to get tough is bad strategy. People seem more inclined to vote Labor if they think they’ll be needing handouts.

UAP top of the ballot in The Tudgers electorate. It’ll be interesting to see how she goes. Avi interviewed her last week and asked about preferencing LNP second. She responded by suggestingn that UAP supporters were free to make their own minds up. I hope she makes a good showing, but Tudger is a lay down misere me thinks. 🙁

Never lived in anything approaching a swinging electorate, so the lower house is always a rather boring affair.

I have my fun in the Senate.

Here in Tasmania we have not only The Greens (by the eTruck load) but any number of greenies slyly pretending to be some “one issue” activist or another…but you know that if, heaven forbid, they found themselves on the red benches, they’d be indistinguishable from Greens (but even noisier).

While, deep down, I know that my vote will never trickle down far enough for it to matter, I at least have the pleasure of 20 minutes or so spent trying to select the most egregious to prop up the rest of my choices.

Sorry for my impact on the queue, by the way.

Just dropped a lazy 20 at Sportsbet on the coalition @ 3.70. Just because I can.

Whatever happens, as long as that faux yank imbecile KK gets the arse I’ll be happy.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/federal-election-2022/results

Labor 80, Coalition 63, Other 7, Greens 1

And me without a Ping Pong Ball

Deves, particularly, will be excoriated.

Even if she wins but Libs lose, that’s how they’ll spin it.

Meanwhile, Tim Wilson, who issued a children’s colouring book of him and his “husband” walking their gay dog, could lose his seat and it will be because… the Libs still weren’t far enough Left.

We really need third party conservatives to hold the balance in the senate. Though if that happens, Libs will just spend all of their time undermining them because they think they’re entitled to their seats. They prefer courting the Greens.

Anyway, I’m off to vote. This might take a while.

Frank, Pelosi can make a good confession on her death bed. A fine send off, then. And a warm welcome.

Shit, if you’re right shatterzzz, I better get on the drink early today to dull the pain!

The American 13% at Work Again

Duo attacks Bronx driver in brutal caught-on-video robbery

Vickisays:
May 21, 2022 at 11:47 am
For Old Ozzie:

Election 2022: Whoever wins, let’s hold our politicians to account

Thanks Vicki – Greatly Appreciated

Summed up

Yes, the most extraordinary, most ridiculous, most expensive peacetime catastrophe in this nation’s history passed unremarked upon. And this when Covid cases are soaring way beyond the numbers that saw us terrified and confined to our cages less than 12 months ago.

Dover, I suspect the clincher was Pelosi repeatedly lying about da quickening, Aquinas etc.
The Archbishop’s statement makes it clear that this constitutes egregious lying and extremely grave scandal.

But that is exactly the same bullshit that ‘Catholic’ Biden voiced as recently as a fortnight ago.

Mail-order spiders.

An exploration of global patterns of trade in arachnids reveals 1,264 species from 66 families (Phys.org, 20 May)

A small team of researchers with members from Thailand, Finland and China, has found that there is a very large and active trade in arachnids across the internet. In their paper published in the journal Communications Biology, the group describes their study of arachnid trade via the internet and possible repercussions of so many of the creatures being traded across the world.
…
To learn more about the global trade of arachnids, the researchers went straight to the source: online listings. In so doing, they found approximately 1,264 species for sale or trade. They suggest that far more are for sale than they found because they did not also track sales on social media sites. The researchers noted that the majority of the species they found for sale were not recognized as being traded by any governing or regulatory body—thus all such sales were perfectly legal. They also found what appeared to be a greater reward for sellers who have spiders with more colorful attributes—features which generally indicate that they are rare. They also note that most of those specimens they saw belong to species that are known to have long lifespans, with is another factor that can put a species at risk.

There you go: there’re apparently thousands of spider collectors who buy spiders on the internet. And they especially like long-lived colourful ones.

So if a lady invites you back to her house to show you her spider collection she may really have a spider collection.

Dover,
As a paying contributor to Da Kat can you please place Fleece back in moderation.

Thanks

Archbishop Cordileone Tells Priests That Nancy Pelosi Communion Denial Is ‘Pastoral, Not Political’
The archbishop explained to his priests that since September 2021, he has made several attempts to have a dialogue with Pelosi about her support for legal abortion.

His notification added that she may be admitted to Communion after having publicly repudiated her advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and having received absolution.

Archbishop Cordileone pointed out that the law he is applying in this situation, Canon 915, is found in the book of canon law that deals with the Church’s sanctifying office, rather than in “Book VI, which is the Church’s legislation on penal law.”

“Thus, this is not a sanction, or a penalty, but rather a declaration of fact: the Speaker is ‘obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin’ (canon 915). A sanction, on the other hand, such as excommunication, has its own particular process and reasons for being applied. This is quite distinct from the application of canon 915,” he explained.

Darn it…you’ll have to load up to pic #9; I think it’s worth it.

It was, Roger.
Bookmarked for later reference.

Here it is.

Caption: A woman searches for nails and other metal scraps from remains of burned houses that were gutted during a fire at a poor bayside village in the district of Tondo, Manila, Philippines.

That’s what poor, grim and gutsy look like, Albo. Spare us your houso whining.

Shit, if you’re right shatterzzz, I better get on the drink early today to dull the pain!

Whichever way it goes, I’ve got the bubbles on ice…

IN VICTORY, YOU DESERVE CHAMPAGNE; IN DEFEAT, YOU NEED IT.” — NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

‘It won’t be easy under Albanese’ is a tacit acknowledgement that the neowogboy is going to win.

Singo could have written better slogans and jingles in ten minutes.

Teal really is a sickening colour.
It’s the colour of the sky. Geez.

Can’t even get that right, monty. The sky is azure ( blue in case that’s too hard) and cyan (which is a greenish blue). You cannot get teal which is cyan and green.

If you want something more scientific check out Rayleigh scattering which is how the sun’s light interacts with molecules in the atmosphere. All the major constituent molecules in our atmosphere (oxygen, hydrogen, CO2 et al) shift that light towards blue. You would need to cool the sun down significantly to move light which peaks in the blue-violet end of the spectrum down to the yellow-green required to give us a teal sky.

We should hope and pray it doesn’t happen soon.

Snap, Kev!

The parliamentary party, almost entirely unknown to anyone not in Parliament House, is planning next Tuesday to expel its only MP from the western suburbs, Bernie Finn. This is allegedly because he is ill-disciplined. Yet the proximate cause is obvious – he is unfashionably pro-life and anti-abortion.

Areff’s brilliant piece on the Finn lynching and VicShitLibs here if you missed it.

I live in the western suburbs of Melbourne

Explains a lot…

How FBI bigwig aided and abetted Hillary Clinton plot

By Post Editorial Board

Who needs to spend millions on television commercials or Facebook ads if you’ve got friends in the FBI who can pull off a political dirty trick for you?

Just look how cozy Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann and FBI general counsel James A. Baker are in text messages revealed in Thursday’s testimony at Sussmann’s trial.

Can you meet tomorrow, Sussmann asks the high-ranking government official.

“OK, I will find a time,” Baker answers.

Does he need help getting into the building?

No, Sussmann answers, I have a badge to get into the Federal Bureau of Investigation. How convenient.

It was during this meeting that Sussmann peddled the false story that Donald Trump was secretly communicating with a Russian bank.

Sussmann obviously is guilty of the crime of which special counsel John Durham accuses him, lying to the FBI, despite his claims otherwise. He specifically says to Baker that he’s not coming in “on behalf of any client or company” when he was working for ­Clinton.

That was a long line. Cold, too.

Surprised to see Libs actually preference LDP #2 in the senate, based on what I said earlier… they’re still afraid of putting One Nation anywhere, though. The media convinced them it was racist years ago. LOL. Liberals are such mugs.

ALP is, of course, preferencing Greens #2 in the senate… but with Shooters and Fishers at #3 and then Animal Justice at #4. Then LDP at #5. LMAO. That’s almost balanced.

I dunno, if LDP gets enough first prefs, they might actually get a spot in NSW.

Fleeced says: May 21, 2022 at 12:53 pm

That was a long line. Cold, too.

Similar at my nearest democracy sausage factory.
The long line to get in was only the beginning.

The bloke looked up my name in my electorate, which I’d been voting in for over a decade, and my name wasn’t there. I checked in the neighbouring electorate in case the lines had shifted. Not listed there either. Had to make a Declaration vote which goes into the special ballot box on the table.

What an amazing co-incidence, you say stuff critical of the deep state on the Internet, a month later you’ve dropped off the electoral roll. Just an amazing random co-incidence, right?

And… the democracy sausage sizzle had run out of bread. But I don’t blame the deep state for that.

Idiots in charge of schools:

Woke prick doing his best to climb the woke PS ladder. Parasites in charge of schools.

In all my many many years of voting this is the first time I have seen a punch up at the polling booth.

If the government continues down the path it is on, we may see something worse than just a punch up in the years to come.

Mark Latham’s attack ad on Kristina Kennelly….

Daughter just confirmed that the annual Melbourne Uni ball seems to have been a COVID super spreader event, including her.

Australian Politicians and Bureaucrats COVID response is a pile of wrecked lives, suicides, cash and ego in the middle of a sea of COVID and Vaccine injuries.