Someone yesterday on cat said against Moira and pro voice. I bet a renewables flog too.
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- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
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Thanks Tom.
Just out of idol curiosity, was Wilson for or against Moira Deeming?
Pope Francis Warns of ‘Devastating Effects of Climate Change’ the nasty old turd is a sick joke
Steve Kelley.
don’t forget about the truth ministry
because it has not forgotten about you
munty
What they want is to pump up gun sales.
You know what “pumps up gun sales”? DemonRat presidents. Look at the data for the O’Bambi years, and last year under Creepy Joe. Huge increases, far beyond anything the NRA could hope for.
PS, munty, you should get a gun. Then, even though you are too weak and wimpy to do what you desire, “Punch a Nazi”, you could shoot one instead. But you would probably miss through your incompetence.
Timely.
A man has just been charged with cracking a bloke’s skull with a didgeridoo after the “Dreamtime” game at the MCG last Saturday night.
The MCC and Plod have tap-danced around this one for days, hoping it would go away, but it didn’t.
“Very difficult to track him down*”.
“Maybe he didn’t attend the game but was waiting outside the ground”.
How many people take a didgeridoo to the footy? For those who aren’t aware, rigid poles over 1.2m are banned by the AFL, mainly to keep massive flags out of the the ground.
So, four days later, an arrest is made.
And, in “But We Already Knew That” news, he was one of the paid “Welcome to Country” grifters.
….
* If anyone else says something remotely offensive, they know your seat number and name within an hour, and Plod is knocking on your door before breakfast.
Stupid comment.
I’ve never paid any attention to a gun lobby. I’ve no idea what the ‘gun lobby’ wants.
I’ve zero interest in any ‘conventional wisdom’ on firearms.
I think for myself (perhaps a novel concept for lefties)
I’ve little time for anti-gun crazies (that would be your mob)
great moments in bad messaging
lesson number 2,741 in why the cure for bad people is free speech
Further to my post at 12:37, I believe it was a semi-automatic didgeridoo.
Covid Lies: Variants of Concern and the Only Way Out is Universal Vaccination
Hint: they want more gun sales.
They make money off rubes who think they will overthrow the government with a handgun some day.
Meanwhile there are mass shootings every day in America. Every day.
begging the question
again, begging the question
you’re too stupid to argue here
m0nty says:
May 25, 2022 at 12:41 pm
I’ve no idea what the ‘gun lobby’ wants.
Hint: they want more gun sales.
They do, just like the arms industry loves a good war. Some killing of innocents is more acceptable than than others.
Can’t run a country yet thinks he can control the world.
Tired old cliche Monty that accounts for an extreme minority.
Ffs, are you really this dumb, or are you just trolling for the sake of spirited debate?
You seriously believe the pro-gun lobby is comprised entirely of gun salesmen?
If that were so, how would their sales improve when hyperventilating anti-gun crazies apply political pressure to ban guns every single time some moron takes a few minutes break from slaughtering poor people in ghettos & gangsters, and shoots a few lower-middle class people?
M0nty’s objection to gun ownership would be nothing to do with BLM being unable to burn down a business, or beat the owner to death, if a store has a couple of capable looking blokes with an AR-15 in the doorway.
Dorpers.
Always the best choice for conscience free meat eating because no one cares if the bastards are carved up.
Apply the same logic the ‘climate change’ lobby, Monty.
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US after heart disease and cancer. Ahead of shootings. By a multiple of four.
Perhaps, to ensure no one ever dies of anything untoward, munty can start working on banning stethoscopes and scalpels. Oh, and vaccines might be worth a look as well.
You forgot about Pedro and his herom, Gez.
I don’t carve them.
I boil them until they fall to bits.
I didn’t say entirely, but it is undeniable that the gun industry donates millions of dollars to the NRA every year, plus they spend millions more on advertising in NRA publications.
You forgot about Pedro and his herom
He’s been known to talk unkindly about their less tolerable attributes.
listen you stupid boy, earlier you also said , “Meanwhile there are mass shootings every day in America. Every day.”
you semantic toss-pot
Bunnings in Melbourne have reported a shortage of rakes for last month. Apparently needed to remove the stupid from blogs.
There are many people who agree with Lott—especially in the fields of criminology and economics. But it appears the majority of researchers who work in the field say Lott’s wrong: that his analyses are misleading, that they skew data to favor certain outcomes, and that his research methods don’t stand up to scrutiny. If they did, his critics say, Lott would still be published in academic journals, or doing his research out of a university instead of a non-profit called the Crime Prevention Research Center.
That link is emotive claptrap. Lott is published; I linked to one of his recent papers on mass shootings above. Being continually wrong and arrogant while doing so makes you the pain in the arse you are.
The facts are these: in the US once you take away black on black and hispanic gun crime the rate of gun crime and deaths is about the same as in Australia. But in Australia in the Western suburbs of Sydney rates of gun crime is approaching what it is in some of the demorat hellholes in the US; why: islamic gang crime. In Australia, particularly NSW, since Port Arthur gun ownership has increased but overall gun crime has decreased.
It is also a fact that mass shootings are curtailed better by armed private citizens then by police.
…that his research methods don’t stand up to scrutiny. If they did, his critics say, Lott would still be published in academic journals, or doing his research out of a university…
Exactly! Just like people who question “climate science” are always able to get their work published in “academic journals” and get gigs at unis. There’s never been a single instance of cancel culture against dissentients from wokedom – no, never, not once.
It’s an access issue we’re told.
Stop doping boys and young men with Ritalin and SSRI’s.
mutley is a scare wittle wabbit that wants the state to pwotect him from all bad stuff
Tucker: Biden divided the country in a moment of deep pain
Tucker Carlson and Will Cain react to President Biden’s response to the Texas elementary school shooting on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #Tucker
In Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders sweeps the GOP primary for governor
At 39, Sanders ran an unprecedented campaign for the job once held by her father, former Gov. Mike Huckabee. Boosted by an early endorsement from Trump and a record-breaking $14 million campaign war chest, Sanders cruised to an easy victory Tuesday night over former talk radio host Francis “Doc” Washburn.
In November, Sanders will face Democrat Chris Jones, a Baptist minister and MIT-educated nuclear engineer who emerged from a crowded Democratic primary field as an early frontrunner.
No matter who ultimately wins, the general election will be a historic one; Jones would be the state’s first Black governor, Sanders would be the first woman elected to the post.
Our culture has a disease. Everywhere you turn hedonism is pushed on kids, evil is sold as good, God is shunned, parents & faith are undermined, morality is laughed at and yet folks wonder why such horror happens on a regular basis. Guns 50 yrs ago didn’t change, our culture did.
m0ntysays:
May 25, 2022 at 12:41 pm
I’ve no idea what the ‘gun lobby’ wants.
Hint: they want more gun sales.
They make money off rubes who think they will overthrow the government with a handgun some day.
Meanwhile there are mass shootings every day in America. Every day.
More gun sales? Vote for DemonRat presidents, they send sales through the roof.
Mass shootings every day? What proportion are by gangbangers in inner city areas, using illegal firearms
On topic (the NT News):
Unhelpfully, the NT News also published a series of photos of Mr Kellett wearing shades and a singlet, and posing with up to three longarms in the one photo. One has him with a rifle in each hand and a shotgun across his chest, and another has him aiming an under/over shotty straight into the camera lens.
I’d be screaming long and loud if I was on Kellett’s defence team.
Well, there is a hierarchy of warnings, obviously, and that is at the high end.
Understandable.
Any more holes in the plaster and the NT Housing Trust might keep his bond (not really).
Hang on to your hats, folks…
Seems those loveable guys & gals in Wuhan were monkeying about with the monkeypox genome late last year.
Experts say the current outbreak outside of Africa suggests the virus has mutated and become more transmissable.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but there’s no shortage of material about for those who are so inclined.
The Texas school shooter …
May have already been posted
Likes to wear girls clothes?
Texas shooter has a distinct trans wannabe look.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he targeted children because of the Republican campaign to protect them from critics of the ‘transgender’ cult.
This, apparently, was never entertained by the Founders and every subsequent generation.
Quickest confirmation of a theory ever.
John of Melsays:
May 25, 2022 at 1:15 pm
Our culture has a disease. Everywhere you turn hedonism is pushed on kids, evil is sold as good, God is shunned, parents & faith are undermined, morality is laughed at and yet folks wonder why such horror happens on a regular basis. Guns 50 yrs ago didn’t change, our culture did.
“We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst”. [CS Lewis, “The Abolition of Man”, 1943.]
Monty:
The school is a restricted firearms zone – in other words, the teachers and pupils have been renered defenceless by the organs of the State.
Your solution of ‘gun control’ leads directly to the results you don’t want as a parent, but demand as a Leftist.
To you, these kids and teachers are a political statement just waiting to be made.
Will you change your mind when your children are in school?
Zyconoclastsays:
May 25, 2022 at 1:30 pm
The Texas school shooter …
May have already been posted
Likes to wear girls clothes?
Early reports said he was a gang banger; maybe they rejected him because he was a cross dresser.
I’m going to be interested in how this arsehole got the gun. Death total now 22.
Get out of the Russo-Ukraine War, it cannot be won and Russia will not lose what it has taken…
Biden loses the New York Times Editorial Board.
for your esafety we have filed this in the forgetery
Horrific Elementary School Shooting in Ulvalde, Texas, 19 Students Killed and Two Teachers
May 24, 2022 – Sundance
According to officials and media reporting from Texas. Fourteen eighteen nineteen children and a teacher two teachers have been killed at a Texas elementary school by an 18-year-old gunman who was then shot dead by police. The shooting happened in Ulvade, Texas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott held a press conference naming 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School, as the gunman who shot and killed 14 Robb elementary school students and one teacher on Tuesday afternoon.
From the Comments with the Trans Images
and more detail
Salvador Ramos, Uvalde School Shooting Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Roger
No, it’s not him. People controlling his teleprompter think they can.
Thanks, Boambee John. Spot on!
The word ‘historic’ has been as degraded as the word ‘hero’ when applied to athletes good at their game.
‘Historic’ in the sense of marking or causing a shift in history has been lost. Maybe because we don’t really have good historic events we celebrate any more, only historic bad events we don’t want to dignify.
Not wishing to say anything against Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, or Chris Jones, but if they win the election is it really going to change Arkansas? Or is it more of a matter that she would be the first winner who happened to be a woman, or he the first who happened to be Black, in the same sense that someone surnamed Zoobington would be the first governor whose name started with ‘Z’.
There is no big deal in women or Blacks or Hispanics or Irish or whatever winning anything. But still we are meant to celebrate the first woman pilot, the first woman pilot in this company, then the first woman pilot in that company, as if all these achievements are the same.
And worse, women and gays and Muslims (should I not put those last two together?) are actively promoted by corporations over more talented people merely to prove ‘diversity’ and we are meant to treat it in the same way as if they had done through sheer grit and merit against the prevailing culture.
I find it impossible to be enthusiastic about any of this stuff any more: I just assume its the grand pantomime.
Doubtless proving the urgency of submitting to the transgender cult.
It will be so inclusive!
From the Comments with the Trans
Unfortunately mentally unstable people are often drawn to cults or movements.
The certainty of the message brings some degree of order and structure to their disjointed mental state.
Opening here for someone trying to anchor a party for the Real Battlers:
Australia’s most expensive suburbs now vote Labor or for ‘teal’ independents – with the Liberal Party holding not one of these ultra elite postcodes in an unthinkable development.
In a major realignment of Australian politics, Labor is increasingly becoming the party of well-off electorates near city centres and with saltwater views.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Party represents outer suburbs in the mortgage belt including Penrith in western Sydney and Caboolture north of Brisbane.
Sorry – should have put the link to the Daily Mail
“shall not be infringed”, I believe were the words used
Those photos of the shooter from Instagram – is that flag he is posing with the Trans-Cholesterol-HDL flag?
Hillary & friends. It’s time.
and
Epsteining by Hillary
with
MAY 24, 2022
HOWIE CARR: Unraveling Hillary Clinton’s Russia hoax … starting with Michael Sussmann.
In a just world, Sussmann would already be in prison. But he’s a Democrat apparatchik in Brandon’s America, so the fix is in, more than somewhat.
If you doubt me, consider the D.C. jury listening to the evidence.
One juror acknowledged he’d contributed to Hillary’s campaign. Another thought she had but couldn’t remember. Another is a former bartender who donated to AOC. Still another juror’s husband worked on Hillary’s 2008 campaign, and yet another supports defunding the police.
Yet they all got onto the jury. After the trial started, still another juror recalled that her daughter was on some private-school crew team with the sleazy Sussmann’s kid.
The judge told her not to worry about it and refused to excuse her.
Who’s the judge, you ask?
His name is Christopher “Casey” Cooper, appointed by Obama after his service on the Obama 2008 transition team. After law school, he worked in the DOJ with the defendant — what a coincidence!
Later the judge was also employed in the same law firm as … Eric Holder, Obama’s self-described “wingman” as attorney general.
Our ruling class is rather incestuous.
Meanwhile, in the socialist paradise of Canberra education:
Calwell High to undergo formal review process as part of school’s ‘improvement journey’
Year 7 and 8 students at Calwell High School were barred from attending school in term one after WorkSafe ACT found an “untenable”, violent and unsafe situation. In a letter sent to parents earlier this week, Calwell High School principal Megan Altenburg said an independent review would begin on Tuesday, 31 May.
and
While school reviews are a “regular practice” for ACT public schools, this specific one is being conducted following the lifting of a WorkSafe ACT prohibition notice which had blocked Year 7 and 8 students from attending campus for four weeks.
and
Year 7 and 8 students at Calwell High School were barred from attending school in term one after WorkSafe ACT found an “untenable”, violent and unsafe situation. Photo: Calwell High School.
The Tuggeranong school where students were banned from attending campus after allegations of extreme bullying, violence and dire teacher shortages will undergo a formal review process.
and
While school reviews are a “regular practice” for ACT public schools, this specific one is being conducted following the lifting of a WorkSafe ACT prohibition notice which had blocked Year 7 and 8 students from attending campus for four weeks.
and
Inspectors found a school rife with violence where chronic staff shortages meant teachers were regularly required to teach large cohorts of students – at one time up to 70 – with little assistance. Those same teachers were regularly subjected to sexualised behaviour, abuse and threats, and assaults by students.
One teacher was left with a dislocated shoulder, several broken teeth, welts to the lower arm and bruising to their back after trying to intervene to stop one student from assaulting another. Another staff member locked themselves in a cupboard, crying uncontrollably due to the pressure.
and
Parents were initially told students would need to be at home due to COVID-induced teacher shortages which have affected many public schools this year.
All students spent the first week of Term Two at home as work commenced to make the campus safe before Year 9 and 10 students were able to return earlier this month.
The full article with lots of bollocks phrases disguising the above
Apparently Mungo Man and squeeze have been reburied at a secret location in defiance of an 11th hour court order.
Has Monty stated his position on abortion?
If not, could he do so now?
There’s a stench of hypocrisy in the room and we’d like it gone I am sure.
This is how the left roll.
Assume m0nster and I sit on a political spectrum, me at 1 and Fatboy at 10.
“We need a balance …”
I am forced, usually by law or social pressure to move to 3. m0nster stays at 10.
“Why won’t you compromise …”
Yep, I am at 6 and he is still at 10.
“Stick in the mud right-wing dinosaur. People are literally killing themselves because of attitudes like yours …”
You guessed it. I am at 9 and m0nster is still at 10.
“Why is the right being so divisive. Why won’t they acknowledge my rights …”
It’s over. I am at 10.
Oops. It’s not over. m0nster has moved to 13 on the continuum.
This morning, on hearing of the atrocity in Texas, even before the facts come out, the first thing Monty and his ideological ilk do is to rush to judgement by immediately attributing the blame on the NRA and US gun culture.
Yet whenever there’s an Islamic atrocity, the first thing Monty and his ideological ilk tell us is not to rush to judgement and not to immediately attribute blame on their religious ideology…and then we’re lectured with excuses such as mental illness, alienation, wicked white people and so on.
We’re told that we must look at the many reasons behind why these young men, radicalised by reading the Koran or going to the mosque, then go out and commit unspeakable acts of violence by knifing, decapitating, bombing, shooting and running over people.
Fair enough. However, as far as I’m concerned it works both ways. First, the Texas mass murderer, Salvador Ramos, wasn’t white, he was Latino. If the left are going to lecture us about acknowledging causes, then we also need to look at the causes behind what triggered Ramos’ evil carnage and it isn’t as simplistic as blaming the NRA or the constitutional right to bear arms. There’s a pattern here with gun violence in the US, most of the perpetrators are young men….black and white……who are no doubt also alienated and suffer from social dysfunction.
Whenever you’re in Israel you see guns everywhere and you feel safe, very safe.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised by Monty and his ideological ilk’s never ending inconsistencies. I’ll give them this, they’re very good at it.
Dutton is an ‘Aussie values’ kind of guy I believe. What we need is for him to listen to someone with a bit of a grasp of classical economics (the other kind does not work) and someone with a more classical view of the role of government. Here is simple syllogism for him:
Australians want to be prosperous.
Prosperity is the result of economic and social freedom.
Therefore Australians want economic and social freedom.
Forget what Labor says. Forget what the Greens say. Forget the ABC. Do what Howard did – his one true talent and secret to his longevity – speak over the naysayers and straight to Australians. It would be so refreshing, and invigorating to be told that we are not to be punished for someone’s idea of our sins but instead are entitled to be as happy as we want.
As I mentioned previously, I thought Getup (financed by left wing Americans) was going to oust Dutton.
Wouldn’t the easiest way to “make the campus safe” be to exclude the troublemakers?
Never owned one, Gez. What’s so bad about them?
Bribery.
Sancho
that’s post of the year!
Never owned one, Gez. What’s so bad about them?
A cross between a wombat and a goat.
They’ll get under or through anything and eat anything.
if you can’t see it, it didn;t happen
If America’s gun laws have been substantially the same for a very long time, and school shooting are a relatively recent phenomenon, shouldn’t people be looking for another root cause?
I see Senile Joe has jumped on the Monty wagon.
And the bodgey ideas that have crept into political discourse. Like Labor harping on about fortunate people and businesses paying their ‘fair share’.
Who decides what ‘fair’ is? Why, people get paid regardless of performance just by sitting there.
These wealthy individuals might be able to afford more tax but that does not make it fair.
Imagine someone who has made $1 billion. The government looks at them and says “They need to pay more, their ‘fair share’.”
Well, lets say to make this $1 billion their business will have had to have sold $20 billion of their product. That is they gave $20 billion worth of goods to customers. So far that is a balance.
In reality they gave people more than $20 billion worth of value because each sale was where a customer received something they valued more than the dollars they paid. The customers profited.
In order to do this the business paid the salaries and entitlements of all their employees. They paid other companies for what they needed and those companies also paid employees. This person’s business also paid money to accountants, certifiers, advertising companies, insurances etc. They paid the government for any number of registrations, certifications, fees and taxes.
So after providing people with the things they want, after paying all those people their salaries and thus enabling them to pay taxes, and paying taxes themselves, the government turns around and says they are not doing enough.
And calling these successful people ‘fortunate’ or ‘lucky’? If they are it is because they made themselves so. It is not like playing the pokies. That is luck.
And we hear this from the mouths of people like Albo, Scomo, Plibbers etc.
If Dutton said he was going to slash subsidies for renewables when he gets in he would lose the green grifters sure but he would make new friends who are happy to generate electricity, as well as people who can now afford to run the aircon in summer.
Monty iirc is sad about abortion but cannot, as a man, stand between a woman (or a trans man) and her/his right to choose.
Yeah.
I was thinking more about things like stopping the boats, but bribery to try to paper over the hundreds of unintended consequences of a hundred clumsy tax regulations is a fair cop.
When you can’t bring yourself to farming goats.
Whoa. I have been on a roll.
Must be this new coffee – smooth, creamy, not bitter – and so strong in caffeine that when you look at the granules you can identify alkaloid grains extending into 5 or 6 dimensions.
I couldn’t help myself, ML.
I’m afraid JWH isn’t up there on my list of great PMs.
When I survey contemporary Australia, I see his work.
Oh!?
Monty, what say you?
Whatever you say about Howard, he would have been hoovering up those outer suburban middle income votes.
You can argue whether that was a philosophical position or naked opportunism.
The point is, today’s Liberal Party is embarrassed to be associated with what Sloane Rangers in the UK call “man in a white van” voters.
That is the real problem, Dave Sharma.
Not the failure to grovel even more at the feet of the doctors wives.
Then the gay lobby after that.
From the climate caper to the population ponzi.
Knew this would follow pretty quickly after a Labor victory. “Wealth tax”, new inheritance laws, even a tax on assets (other than land tax) ……all up for grabs.
We sold our business some considerable time ago, but we paid out all of the above over a long period. Profits from the business, and from the eventual sale of it, enabled us to invest in property before our eventual retirement. We are now totally self funded and rely on the government for nothing except to provide good government.
But watch Labor come out after anyone who who is self funding.
If m0nster’s mum had of had High Definition ultrasound, he would of been a goner.
Are you sure that’s just coffee in your cup?
Agree. But he lasted (much to the Left’s chagrin) by getting his message (merit notwithstanding) out.
And he fell when he gave into Climate hysteria.
Trump’s winning the Presidency and maintaining support afterward when every MSM pundit, newsreader, and weather presenter intoned day in and out upon how terrible he was was firmly rooted in him getting his message out. In fact I suspect more than a few people learned to distrust the MSM at the same time.
I’ve added in the transman bit but am certain Monty handballs responsibility for the final decision to mum.
I see John of Mel covered my point about what’s changed in the US?
Should have scrolled up.
we all know that the left’s idea of “fair share” is nothing short of 110%
Spill it, what brand?
The only fair rate of taxation is one the people themselves vote for, the government then cutting its cloth accordingly.
Toying with the idea of putting in an order to Research Chemicals myself as it happens.
Is munty still rabbiting on about the NRA/gun culture?
If he was even a half-wit, he would realise that the majority of shooting deaths in the US result from “gang culcha”, which is very largely a black inner-city problem, with some spill-over into inner-city Hispanics.
But he can never actually accept that openly, for fear of “cancellation” by Steve from Brisbane, Homer, and their like.
Tomsays:
May 25, 2022 at 1:53 pm
What’s the opposite of diversity? University.
Thanks, Boambee John. Spot on!
I must confess, it was stolen from either or both of Small Dead Animals or Instapundit.
The ankles?
Monty knows the basic facts are prior to the 1950’s and until recent years, children with guns was not uncommon.
Hunting and guns were everywhere then and massacres weren’t heard of.
Which therefore ELIMINATES the gun ownership as a problem.
The deterioration of western society caused by the godless left, is TOTALLY responsible for the mental sickness we now see showing up everywhere, from men who think they are women, and lost teenagers blowing people away.
Monty’s side, hypocrites and always projecting are COMPLETELY to blame for the societal ruin that causes these massacres.
Completely.
And then , without a brain to consult, blurts out crap about taking the guns off the mentally ill, without the slightest concept that the mentally ill are now in Government and armed to the teeth.
Firing on the unarmed here in Australia.
No one should be tolerating fuckheads like Monty anymore.
HE IS responsible for what our nation has been through and the worst that still to come.
And that worse would already be upon us if the good, law abiding citezens of the USA had given up their arms already.
Monty knows that.
That’s why only American Massacres happen.
The recent Sydney gang land shooting rates not a mention.
You tolerate human excrement like him and get upset with right wingers.
Says it all really.
Yeah Mother lode,
I’ve given you an uptick and you’re not spilling the beans.
Caffeine addicts are known to find out the addresses of holdouts and dump a few dorpers in their garden.
Monkeypox Explained Clearly
If America’s gun laws have been substantially the same for a very long time, and school shooting are a relatively recent phenomenon, shouldn’t people be looking for another root cause?
School shootings have been around for a long time. Arguably they are getting worse. In terms of deaths this is worse then Columbine and the Florida Stoneman High atrocity and is therefore the worst ever in the West with the Beslan massacre being the worst ever. Apart from Beslan, which was a terrorist attack, none of them have been done by girls or women.
Can’t see it myself. He spent $40 mil prosecuting combat soldiers for killing the enemy. The persecution has now been handed over to Labor.
Gonalo Lira
There Will Be No Insurgency In Ukraine Against Russia
Seems to reflect the New York Times, believe it or not.
I mean Gonzalo Lira
I described myself as anti-authoritarian not right wing these days. That frees me to poke fun at all the cranks regardless of affiliations.
Re the Georgia primaries today, Trafalgar tweeting they were the most accurate in some polls & the literally the worst (widest off the mark) in others.
If this doesn’t tell you that Georgia is on par with Illinois re shenanigans, what will.
I’d love to tell, but I can’t read it with my hand shaking and eyes twitching so much.
I mean his political persona. I will admit I have never looked that closely at him, it is just an impression.
I’d love to tell, but I can’t read it with my hand shaking and eyes twitching so much.
I can assure you that the Dorpers have a very steady eye as they line up your roses and fruit trees.
Confess!
From yesterday …
Let’s update ourselves on the electorate of Herbert.
Well, lookee here!
The AEC now shows it as having 72.82% turnout.
A whole one pussent higher than yesterday.
The ABC says it is 72.8% counted.
Looks like yesterday’s conspiracy theories about boycotts and steals might be a bust (or at least will have to wait until the count is done).
I am sending a yuuuge serving of humble pie to whoever it was who called me the dumbest person here.
Enjoy!
‘As a new MLA, there’s no reason to be overseas’: Labor pollie Dheran Young traveling overseas while his electorate is under seige
by Christopher Walsh | May 25, 2022 | News, NT Politics | 0 comments
Labor Member for Daly, Dheran Young, is currently traveling overseas while the volatile “humanitarian situation” in Wadeye worsens by the day, with his ill-timed trip also wreaking havoc on Budget Estimates planning, which has seen meetings postponed because the government cannot fulfil its commitment of three committee members.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles did not respond to the NT Independent’s questions, including why Mr Young would travel overseas – and who was paying for it and where he went – while the biggest town in his electorate is under siege, with hundreds displaced after violence in the streets over the last couple of months.
Mr Young was first elected as MLA for the region just eight months ago in a by-election last September. His official travel is paid out of his electorate allowance of more than $85,000 per year, that is also meant to provide funds for community groups and residents at his discretion.
As Mr Young was packing for his excursion, the NT Independent reported on Friday that more than 400 people remained displaced from ongoing violence in Wadeye, with hundreds living in tents on the edge of town too afraid to buy food. Meanwhile, the school was forced to close after a teacher was assaulted and the health clinic was attacked, while children roamed the streets with homemade tomahawks in a scene that has been described as a “humanitarian situation”, by Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, but has not been resolved.
On Saturday night, a workshop was set on fire at a Wadeye business with flames threatening a nearby service station with fuel bowsers. More than 98 homes have been damaged from ongoing turmoil in the community with the majority of those uninhabitable and many set on fire.
More at NT Independent
I suspect he would have been sympathetic to the jackboot policing during the Coof.
So Rosie and me is off the hook then?
It is one of Kate’s standard lines at SDA.
A financial analyst I know called the Greens winning 3 seats a couple of months before the election was called.
His work was based on age, property sales (ie new people moving to the electorate) and a few other data points.
Even though the Greens are back to 2 from 3 with counting still going I am now looking through some of his body of work on a range of things.
Maybe he just got lucky & the data points were a coincidence.
But after elections, I like to trawl through some of the calls that were made, not the bad hot takes that are built around a narrative.
The chap also puts out horse & dog tips which I have no idea are good or bad.
The AEC now shows it as having 72.82% turnout.
Does this mean that 27% of the electorate are going to be sent please explains by the AEC?
What use is a gravy train if you can’t ride it.
To be replaced, immediately, if not sooner.
Dutton is an ‘Aussie values’ kind of guy I believe.
“Dudzy Biloela’s ” charismatic charm is on par with a cardboard box which, probably, makes him an ideal choice to head the, surviving, Liberal crop .. LOL!
Again due to the Left. Teaching of Christianity has been opposed by them so long that kids don’t get any sort of absolute morality. Instead they get encouraged to think that whatever they want is acceptable. Relativism, with them at the centre of it all. There’s little punishment to deter them and they no longer fear they’ll go to Hell if they do such an evil act. And with the endless drip drip of climate apocalyptia they are indoctrinated to think the world is ending soon anyway.
That’s out of a total of 400 dwellings, btw.
No.
The point is, the “turnout” figure is moving up all the time.
Because “turnout” as reported by the AEC is really votes counted so far.
So, during the count, turnout should obviously be calculated as counted votes plus uncounted votes.
The AEC aren’t doing that, so it’s turnout figure is misleading.
Once every last vote is recorded, the turnout figure will be correct.
And talk about chutzpah, the residents are now complaining about overcrowding as their now homeless relatives bunk at theirs. They and their apologists claim that it’s just typical racist inhumanity by Whitey.
Already happening.
Stopped in their tracks: Saboteurs blow up Putin rail plan as air force bombs 30 vehicles (24 May)
If the German Army couldn’t stop resistance fighters in Yugoslavia then Russia has no hope with the limited forces they have available.
Just wait until the Indigenous Voice to Parliament becomes a reality.
The humbugging will be dialled up to eleventy.
Energy security outweighing carbon for customers: Woodside CEO
Customer demand for energy to be low carbon “goes out the window” if it is not reliable and affordable, Woodside Energy chief executive Meg O’Neill has told an international audience of LNG executives.
She told the World Gas Conference in South Korea that after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, customers are “doubling down, saying let’s start with security and reliability – because we need energy to keep our lights on, to keep our homes warm, to keep our businesses running”.
Demand that energy must also be low carbon had temporarily taken a back seat for some customers, she said.
That was supported by Hee-Bong Chae, president and CEO of major Woodside LNG customer Korea Gas Corporation, who said that while the transition to low-carbon energy needed to accelerate in the long term, security of energy supply was the immediate priority.
“Right now it is time to decide between energy security and energy transition,” he said.
Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher pointed to a significant change in the dialogue around emissions reduction at the post-COP26 ministerial meeting in March amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the surge in crude oil prices, with the issue of energy security much more in evidence.
“Of course energy security was on the agenda, and it hadn’t been on the agenda at COP26 at all: I can’t remember anyone mentioning energy security,” Mr Gallagher said on a separate panel at the conference in Daegu.
He said that at government levels around the world there was a recognition of the complexity of the energy transition and the need to balance that with the need to provide reliable, secure and affordable energy.
New LNG projects
Woodside and Santos are both fighting hostile opposition from pressure groups, the public and some shareholders over their plans to invest billions of dollars in new LNG projects, including Woodside’s $16.5 billion Scarborough project in Western Australia and Santos’ $5 billion Barossa gas project off the northern coast that will supply replacement gas for Darwin LNG.
The climate pressures on the projects look set to grow under the new Labor government, as the Greens hold the balance of power in the Senate. But the projects are well supported by LNG customers, with Ms O’Neill saying recently that Woodside is fielding strong interest from potential buyers for LNG from Scarborough that it still has available.
She said gas was “playing in the sweet spot” in being able to be supplied reliably, at the same time as contributing to emissions reduction when it displaced coal in power generation.
“If you look at what a customer wants, the customer wants energy that is reliable, affordable and lower carbon, but if it’s not reliable and affordable lower carbon goes out the window.”
Octavio Simoes, CEO of US LNG player Tellurian, called for a pragmatic approach to the transition because of the lack of low-carbon alternatives to gas that can do the same job.
“Transition can be a dangerous word,” he said. “If we decide to transition to something that doesn’t exist today you will severely impact your energy security, because without energy there is no security.”
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Fat Cloive update.
The number of Court of Disputed Returns writs lodged by the notoriously rambunctious and litigious Mr Palmer currently sits at … zero.
On election night he threatened action “in at least one (unnamed) electorate” after saying he had “video of AEC officials taking votes home”.
Four days in and no video has surfaced. Fat Cloive says the video “is with his lawyers”.
FMD. Is it on Super8 Zapruder film?
If it was taken on a phone or any video camera produced this century it can be copied and distributed at the press of a button.
Maybe what we’ve got is a UAP flunkie stalking an AEC employee who was bringing the shopping home.
Who knows?
But it is time to back up the big mouth, Fat Bastard.
Meanwhile, the QLD government has just announced a $350m windfarm near Biloela, bringing the state’s investmen tin renewables to $10bn.
It will have the potential to produce 400 megawatts of power. When the wind is blowing. And there is no provision for a battery storage.
I think that if anyone can be bothered they can get an idea of turnout by looking at the AEC Tally Room.
For example, the Tally Room shows Melbourne as having 114,447 eligible electors.
It shows 70,308 votes (formal and informal) as having been counted, 35,630 envelopes as having been issued for various not in person votes, of which 16,744 have been received and 2,670 of those processed.
So it seems that the absolute maximum number of votes that can have been cast, if all remaining envelopes arrive, is 103,268. About 90%. No doubt in due course it will end up a lot less, i.e. not all envelopes will arrive.
Or maybe there’s something I’m missing. Probably easiest to wait a few weeks before the theorising resumes.
Well, it has no legislative weight.
Until a Judge Mordy type decides to reference it to knock over some awkward piece of black-letter law getting in the way of his judicial expressionism.
“But it is time to back up the big mouth, Fat Bastard.”
I think it’s high time Fat Bastard shut his big mouth.
thanks for all the fish and chips
How the UK population will look in a generation
Mr Gun Jumper
93.1 Boomer Street
The Last Holdout QLD 4444
Mr Nielsen.
I think that is correct.
I have a vague memory of looking at those numbers during the count in a prior election and figuring out that the AEC site was misleading.
It may be that the legislated definition of “turnout” (if such a thing is legislated) is “formal and informal votes counted divided by total enrolment”.
If so, this is only a sensible number when all votes are counted and shouldn’t be published whilst the count is in progress.
Australia Becoming Unlivable–BBC
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
This may come as news to the Aussies!
then
Perhaps somebody should have told their 19th ancestors!
THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.
A correspondent of the Grafton Observer Tue 13 Oct 1868 writes to that journal as follows:—
” From observations made by those who have had the best opportunities of forming a correct opinion, there is little doubt that Australia is subject to long periods during which dry seasons prevail, and again, intervals of some years, in which there is a preva-
lence of floods; and it may prove of interest to some of your readers to have before them a record of the observations made since the colony was first established, which bear upon this subject.
” I therefore append at foot, an account of all the recorded floods and droughts which have taken place since the colony was mind that these observations are of necessity confined to those districts which were settled at the various periods, and will not, until lately, refer to any part north of the Hunter or Port Macquarie.
” This table was for the most part prepared by Dr.Jevons, and I extracted it from a document in the Sydney Observatory.
“The theory of alternate long period or prevailing wet or dry seasons may be confirmed in the mind of any one who will observe the numerous small swamps in which there is a growth of gum trees, which must have required a period of at least fifteen years, during
which there was no standing water on the ground, and after they had attained their present growth, a succession of hot seasons has left sufficient water on the ground to kill them. “It is, of course, impossible to predict that any particular year will be wet or dry, but we may reasonably conclude that there is every probability of a greater number of dry seasons than floods during the next fifteen or twenty years, and those whose interests are likely to be affected either way, will, in my opinion, be acting prudently, by taking precautions rather against droughts than floods.
” I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
” THOMAS CARTER.
“Grafton, October 3rd.
DRY period.
1789 . Drought
1791 . Drought
1797 . Drought
WET PERIOD.
1799 . Flood
1800 . Flood
1801 . Flood
1805 . Flood
1806 . Flood
1808 . Flood
1809 . Flood
1810 . Flood
1811 . Do, slight drought
1812 . Flood
1814 . Severe drought
1815 . Severe drought
1816. Flood
1817 . Flood
1818 . Slight drought
1819 . Flood
1820 . Flood
1821 . Flood
DRY PERIOD.
1823 . Slight drought
1824. Slight drought
1826 . Flood
1827. Do., severe drought
1828 . Severe drought
1829 . Severe drought
1830 . Flood
1831 . Flood
1832 . Flood
1835 . Slight drought
1836. Slight drought
1837. Extreme drought
1838 . Extreme drought
1839 . Extreme drought
1840 . Flood
1841 . Slight drought
WET PERIOD.
1842 . Flood
1843 .. Flood
1844 . Flood
1845 . Drought
1846. Flood
1847. Flood
1848. Flood
1849 .Drought
1850 .Flood—drought
1851. Flood
1852. Flood
1853 . Flood
1856. Flood
1857. Do., slight drought
1859 . Flood
1861 . Flood
1862 . Flood
1863 . Flood
1864 . Flood
… has gone vewwy, vewwy quiet.
Didn’t even comment on his own guest post as far as I can see.
But, anyway, the internet is eternally forever, perpetual and shall not perish from the earth, so there is plenty of time to provide constructive counsel on erroneous analysis at our leisure.
Three years of Albo. Three years of monty. SBS Food might be a better option.
Not if Bruce Pascoe is a regular.
Oops missed out
” I therefore append at foot, an account of all the recorded floods and droughts which have taken place since the colony was established. It must be borne in mind that these observations are of necessity confined to those districts which were settled at the various periods, and will not, until lately, refer to any part north of the Hunter or Port Macquarie.
And how they sneered at anyone who dared to suggest a slippery slope!
The interesting thing for the broke Labor government of the NT is that they now have to replace 400 houses at Wadeye/Port Keats, or nasty white man oppressor colonialists R Us. Or Them.
Obvious solution. Ask the Feds, and then blame them when someone says quietly, “But what if the locals burn them down too?”
In other breaking news, Ford advertises in Car and Driver.
‘Well what else would you have concluded.’
Fucking funny.
The greatest liar of all time, Sancho of the slip lane thinks he has a right to dish out humble pie to anyone, while he sits here,24/7, a jabbed compliant moron who scoffed at everything that has now come true, like the WEF’s reality.
Get back in your bow, fucktard, some of us have memories.
If anyone has to eat humble pie, there’s no way on god’s green earth, a do nothing wrongologist like you will be serving it up sunshine.
And for the record.
I’m still on Twostix’s side.
Something’s note right in AEC town.
He’s checking it out while you sit here playing with your dicks.
The notations on the AEC site were ambiguous, leading the casual reader to believe all the votes (by whatever method) were included in the tally.
Perhaps the IT manger was coerced to present it that way. 😀
I’m on the “side” of the truth. The simple, unadorned truth. However unpalatable.
Here’s two scoffers who virtually denied the influence of the WHO and the WEF, scoffed at the suggestion this wasn’t anything other than just panicked Australian Pollies.
Now look what’s going on.
These drop kicks need to eat a fucking bakery full of humble pie, before they start preening their spoof soaked feathers and strutting about the place.
What the fuck were the last two years of destruction about?
Every second person I know has COVID or the flu.
Totally normal flight interstate except for the face nappies.
We could have just gone straight to this two years ago you stupid fucking arseholes.
Pretty much, yep.
And what exactly is that “something” which is note (sic) right in AEC town, champ.?
Present the EVIDENCES.
Which electorates, which Senate ballots, which candidates?
(We prefer CHRISTIAN websites, but SECULAR ones are acceptable).
….
Oh, and “Everyone I know voted for Fat Cloive” is not EVIDENCES.
Don’t tell the sneerers, but sometimes you have to go look for it, not sit back and wait for others to do the work while they bludge and sneer and sit on this one blog 24/7.
After years you can still count the links and contributions brought here by slip lane on one hand.
Kenny out-argued by FBI agent about the latest school massacre in the US. Kenny ban all guns, FBI guy security to schools while preserving the 2nd. This arsehole shooter was a hispanic trannie. There’ll be no mention of that. But if he had been a white guy it’d be wall to wall white supremacy.
What the fuck were the last two years of destruction about?
a trial for climate lockdowns
Why does it take so bloody long to count votes?
Refrigerators are unknown in Indonesia, eh?
Dickhead.
Well what else would you have concluded?
In other news, now at Longreach.
The road from Boulia was finally open, but added many…many klms to our original Birdsville – Longreach via Windorah.
The paddocks are green – not that typical grey-green so iconic of Australia, but an almost lime green, so lush is the growth. I saw what I thought to be smoke rising from about 1/2 km away. It rose, moved sideways and then disappeared. I realised then that it was a cloud of budgies. We saw brolgas and kites also.
Tomorrow we go to the Hall of Fame, tonight checking out the Tav. Staying at the Staging Post – out the front and in the yard are a stack of old conveyances. Their old springs make my backside sore just imagining the jolting over unmade roads. Our forebears were made of tougher stuff than I.
OldOzziesays:
May 25, 2022 at 4:59 pm
Great post. The stupid LNP lost because of the abc. And the teals were propped up by the abc.
Er, you haven’t had much exposure to unionised labour, have you?
They haven’t got covid.
They are all getting colds and flus as their immune systems fail.
My co driver on the cane is now down, and yes he was jabbed.
They’re all getting sick.
But if anyone still has a brain left in their head, they might be able to tell us where all those colds and flus disappeared to when Covid came to our shores , WITH EXACTLY THE SAME SYMPTOMS.
Brainwashed Australia.
They’re catching colds that they once took codral for and kept working.
Can’t have people doing that while you try to destroy their civilisation.
Ed …Refrigerators require constant reliable electrickery….you’ll learn all about this shortly.
From what I can gather, the only thing not quite right in AEC town is the notation on the spreadsheet.
I gave a tongue in cheek opinion last night – illiterate meets innumerate. But possibly very inclusive. Or diverse.
Government employees appear to be heading that way.
Kenny also gung-ho over the indigenous voice and sneers at Jacinta while supporting burney who doesn’t trust a referendum.
ABC: ‘Tamil Asylum Seekers.’ Their claims were rejected but that doesn’t bother the ABC.
You haven’t been standing too close to a 5G tower by any chance, have you?
The only people around here who are well are the unjabbed.
Constantly well, and doing fine.
And there is more of them than I thought.
tick, tick, tick……..
Employers like mine, who are also unjabbed, are working out very quickly who is more reliable now.
So as you took the jab to save your jobs, you’ve actually made yourselves less employable, by constantly catching colds you call covid, and have to hide at home.
Fuckwits all.
The greatest Darwinian experiment of all time.
Election Result – What Now?!
ACL – Australian Christian Lobby
Well, it has no legislative weight.
Until a Judge Mordy type decides to reference it to knock over some awkward piece of black-letter law getting in the way of his judicial expressionism.
Law, brought to you by the medium of interpretive dance.
Looking at the description of Dorpers, fat, useless, busting through anything to stuff their faces etc.
Has anyone checked to see if Monty needs shearing?
Does Pedro know he may be harboring a cuckoo in his mob?
Yes.
The term “turnout” (votes counted/voters enrolled) is misleading when published mid-count.
And their own definition doesn’t describe the term accurately either.
Thoughts and prayers.
As I said, rank denialist stupidity like this gives you no right to be serving humble pie up to anyone else.
It’s all conspiracy theory, ostrich boy, nothing happening at all.
Not many.
How many people are directly employed in Meat Processing?
Well, there’s ringers, truckdrivers, Slaughtermen, Gutters, labourers, a couple of good for nothing lazy Muslims, boners [heh], packers, fitters, electricians, boiler attendants, Fellmongrels, more truckdrivers, cold store workers, Shop butchers and apprentices, cashiers, wharf labourers, merchant seamen, salesmen, i’ve probably missed a fair few, but you get the general idea …
I do hope there is enough Humble Pie to go around.
This makes no sense as a moral position. If abortion is wrong (something to be ‘sad’ about) then no one has a ‘right’ to choose it. No one argues that rape is ‘sad’, but that they cannot stand between a person and their ‘right’ to rape another. If it is a moral wrong, than no one has a right to do it.
good thing the adults are in charge of the white house
munty
ICYMI, consider the reality that the majority (probably, in truth, the vast majority) of shooting deaths in the US relate less to NRA/gun culture than to the gang culcha of the inner cities, predominantly black, with some overflow into the Hispanics.
Your recommendations on how this problem can be solved, noting that the inner cities are usually under DemonRat control.
Prepare for an avalanche of Australian media idiocy on gun rights.
Confiscating guns doesn’t make communities safer. It transfers gun ownership to criminals who acquire their weapons illegally and proliferates mass killings.
Gun confiscation is popular with the left because it is the dumbest option. Leftards are the dumbest people ever born.
For instance, who’s killing all those people in Chicago all the time – Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians?
In LA there was a particular problem with Koreans.
Shooting looters.
fuck off
tickets of yrself … you’d barely get 3rd
Ed busy be-monging itself again…
(old figures 2015)
Meanwhile, nationwide surveys conducted by the Indonesia Statistics Bureau BPS have found increasing household ownership, rising by 3 percentage points per year from 48% in 2015 to 57% in 2018.
40% of households have no refigeration.
265million people, lets guess 5 people per household.
53, 000 households
times by .4
21,200,000 households, or 106,000,000 individuals without it.
You are a low rent spastic with no redeeming features at all arent you?
IMO no man has the moral authority to demand a woman carry a pregnancy that she does not want. It is her body, her choice. If I wanted the child as its father, I should have chosen a woman who was willing to deliver a child.
If your kids attend a Christian school then you might find the vid by ACL interesting.
Looks like another young man without adequate parents and so granny cops it this time. Sad.
Are you calling the left wing elites dumb as well?
They know exactly why they need to confiscate guns while still arming the government.
Our enemy is our government.
That’s communism.
Tyranny, whatever you like to call it, either an outside government is at war with a nation, or it’s own government is.
Either way, disarming us is what our enemies are obsessed with.
Also, it is disingenuous of db to bring up morality when the abortion bans in some US states include rape, incest and ectopic and other pregnancies where the mother’s life is at stake. There is no morality behind these laws, merely misogyny and ideology.
You don’t have any first hand experience of the AEC, do you.
The United Nations’ Aids agency has called some reporting on the monkeypox virus racist and homophobic, warning of exacerbating stigma and undermining the response to the growing outbreak.
wion
Alas, legal rights and natural rights (and wrongs) do not always align.
If I wanted the child as its father, I should have chosen a woman who was willing to deliver a child.
And if you desperately want the kid and she changes her mind 8 months in you are happy with the smush and flush option.
We live in an age on near universal contraception, barring the few outliers which account for a vanishingly small % of abortions bearing a child can be avoided before sperm meets egg.
Preventing unwanted pregnancy should be the priority. For a start women can just say no.
If I wanted the child as its father, I should have chosen a woman who was willing to deliver a child.
As if a fat little turd could pick and choose sheilas.
The Associated Press
@ap
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4m
The gunman in the Texas school rampage was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent who rushed to the scene without waiting for backup, a law enforcement official says. The agent was wounded but was able to walk out of the school.
Respect.
Worth repeating given that there are many instances of the black clad special ops ninjas failing to go over the top when their moment came, whilst never failing to put their boot on the face of an innocent protester.
Can you provide some relevant links please, not some vox pop sites.
Thank you
Groogs is pro mutton and heard “I’ve been to Bali too” on the radio once (he thinks).
very un-post-modern
:down-thumb (that’s not the vibe)
Albo.
Can he be a better salesman for the people smugglers than Kevini Rudd?
Hes already advertising
Jim Chalmers indicates ‘substantial progress’ on returning Murugappan family to Biloela
Interim home affairs minister to discuss arrangements with PM to grant family visa and permit their return to Queensland town
Fucktards.
next boatload of dead ‘fugees is the murugappan payoff.
What ones?
housands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region.
The Xinjiang Police Files, as they’re being called, were passed to the BBC earlier this year. After a months-long effort to investigate and authenticate them, they can be shown to offer significant new insights into the internment of the region’s Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities.
Their publication coincides with the recent arrival in China of the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, for a controversial visit to Xinjiang, with critics concerned that her itinerary will be under the tight control of the government.
The cache reveals, in unprecedented detail, China’s use of “re-education” camps and formal prisons as two separate but related systems of mass detention for Uyghurs – and seriously calls into question its well-honed public narrative about both.
Xinjiang Police Files
Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China’s Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders’ direct involvement in the mass internment campaign.
rickw, I’m not sure the Koreans shot anyone. They just stood on top of their property obviously ready to defend it with an AR-15. Looters and rioters may be stupid but even a stupid person knows what an AR is.
calli, I don’t think they send their finest to the AEC.
Look, my gut feel is that final turnout figure will be down by an appreciable amount, but nothing like the 25%-ish figures thrown around yesterday.
The theory advanced yesterday that the then current count represented actual final turnout is a total bust.
It depends.
Even though all the seats have roughly the same number of voters [107,000], safe seats where there was no real contest are counted and packed up by the end of the week.
Seats where the result is close, the AEC releases a coupla hundred Postal votes today, none tomorrow, 150 on friday, have the weekend off, it goes on for weeks, meanwhile The Australian shows an unchanging result every day [ALP leading by 2,987], then when all the LNP scrutineers have gone home, say 4 pm on thursday 3 weeks later, 3500 Postal votes arrive, they’re counted in 15 minutes, and the result is declared the following Monday:
ALP win by 245 votes.
Their AEC:
Keeping Australia’s best Convict Traditions Alive In 2022
I loved Rosie’s sarc about how Gaia is brought to tiny tears by people who won’t comply with climate dictates. Well, Gaia must be weeping buckets in Britain, for this stuff is everywhere here, and ordinary people are getting very fed up with it, but still mostly see it as a cross they have to bear.
The resistance is still low and mostly futile, for this new religion has been drummed hard into the population. The latest in the ‘mustn’t grumble’ stakes is the announcement that electricity prices will increase next month by about a third for everyday households. Ten million people will be tipped into ‘energy poverty’ claims the news on Classic FM, but never fear, the government is making special provision for three million of these. So that’s alright then? Shame about the other seven million? I murmur to Hairy as we drive through this seasonally normal green and pleasant land. Let alone those who even if not tipped into poverty would like to do other things with their money.
The climate religion here is priming us well for a return to Labor’s Australia. If there is not some serious pushback on the indoctrination processes in Australia about this scam then we Straylians may look forward to similar energy-driven economic chaos too. With the Albytross (H/t JMH) around our necks it is certainly on its way now. Pushback is all we have left. We must organise some.