Good point Roger- I recall something about a secret deal between the British and rog senior military. Hateful people. Just…
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Howzaaaaat.
pretty good
The third comment here but with all those preferences that I have, then It’s first place at the end of the day for me.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Peter Brookes.
Andy Davey.
Graeme Bandeira.
Dave Simonds.
Michael Ramirez.
Henry Payne.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne #2.
Tina Norton.
Bob Moran.
I hold no preferences, because I put an ‘e’ on the end of the pig’s sty, and thus I am very bad as pulled up by Dr. BG and enthused over by eight upticks, for with an ‘e’ the sty has to be a stye in the eye, which I used to get quite a lot as a child. That sort of stye is usually due to Staphylococcus Aureus aka Golden Staph, which was around a lot in my pre-antibiotic childhood. The word ‘sty’ however, Dr. BG, may I assure you, can stand alone, or it can combine into pigsty, a noun in itself, which usage I am happy to follow as you direct. As you can see above though, I have used it separately with the pig being in possession as demonstrated by the apostrophe.
Our particular sty, called The Sty in brochures and on the gate, is supremely comfortable and elegant, with classic rural views, but a century ago it certainly housed many pigs. Today it even has underfloor heating, an idea pinched from the Romans two millennia ago around here.
Speaking of whom, we saw the Roman exhibit in the York Minster today. In the 1980’s when the main tower started to give way once again at the base (which it had done a lot in the past) they went for broke in fixing it for once and for all, digging into the foundations and discovering that the fourth main column of the square tower was the only one not built on the foundations of York’s major Roman fort, thus causing a wobble, like a chair with a bad leg. A lot of digging and many tons of concrete stabilised the tower. A happy side-effect was a lot of Roman archaeology being revealed which now forms an underground museum, open to all who pay the twelve pounds entrance to the Cathedral. You also get a free tour given by a very amusing and knowlegeable chap, and free entrance to this museum, as well as being able to admire the best collection of medieval stained glass-in-situ to be found in Europe. York has been an archbishopric (of sorts) since the earliest days of the Roman Christian revival in Britain, a rival to Augustine’s seat at Canterbury. This heritage shows in the way later generations viewed this town, so significant to Rome and to Christianity. Various conquerers and kings have held parliaments here.
Constantine the Great was proclaimed here in York by his troops on this very spot following the death of his father the General Constantius Chlorus, says the museum, and I am suitably impressed, standing there somewhat footsore myself from trooping around just as those soliders in their hard leather sandals must have been. For Christianity, the rest was to follow – first the Edict of Toleration, and then Constantine’s deathbed baptism, sealing the deal between the Christian Church and the Imperial Roman State that was fully charged by 381AD under the reign of Theodosius 1. Gibbon blamed this linkage for the fall of Rome, but that was hardly fair; so much else was also happening by then.
I wasn’t sure the Hairy would enjoy the guided tour when I suggested it, but in the event he did enjoy it, for the excellent commentary and also because he felt it was so good to be amongst a group of international travellers again – people from Chile, the US, Africa, Singapore and the Philippines as well as some Brits and us from Oz. People are on the move all over the world again. Bravo.
Thanks for the toons, Tom. Always appreciated.
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Thanks Tom. Always enjoy the toons and when I first joined the Cat it was through you found the Week in Pictures.
Other thanks to the travellers who post. Most recently Rosie, Liz and Calli on their adventures in Europe, UK and around Oz. Keep it up as it adds to the variety of the blog.
Have enjoyed the recent political commentary and diversity of opinions and thanks to our host for making it possible.
Now back to bed for a few more hours sleep.
Andy Ngô exposes SICKO claiming to be the uncle of a slain Uvalde student accusing Gov. Abbott of horrible things (SOOO many idiot blue-checks fell for it)
36th episode of Battlestorm is up – the continuing advances by South West Front in the north, and the opening of the Don Front against 4th Rumanian Army.
That definition of insanity quote is not from Einstein. It came from Narcotics Anonymous apparently.
From the US Naval Institute:
Kanyon breaks all the traditional nuclear deterrence and classification rules. It is a nuclear-powered weapon, therefore possessing theoretically unlimited range. It has the potential to be both a strategic and tactical nuclear weapon and does not fall within the weapon definitions of the New START treaty.
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS: Democrats Introduced Bill to Get Police Out of Schools – Despite Slaughtered Children (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/blood-hands-democrats-introduced-bill-get-police-schools-despite-slaughtered-children-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-05-27
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Announces It Will Not Conduct Immigration Enforcement in Uvalde, Texas at this Time After Mass Shooting.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/bidens-department-homeland-security-announces-will-not-conduct-immigration-enforcement-uvalde-texas-time/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-05-27
Surely this becomes an impeachable offence for the Democrats?
One of the weirdest things happened to me today, which makes me now 99.9899% certain we’re living in a simulation.
I had an issue with the Apple TV remote and was messing around with it for a while as the Apple one wouldn’t work but the LG one did. Eventually, I realized the issue was that the remote needed recharging. Anyway, I began to mess around the various channels and ended up on HBOmax. We were about the go out but our kid was getting ready so I started a doco about Woody Allen’s family making accusations against him.
We were about 15 minutes in and I turned off the tv.
The three of us were walking down Park Ave talking about the show. Our kid spots Woody Allen on the sidewalk walking the opposite way. I look at him and he looks back at me while continuing to walk the other way. He’s an old little runt.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/police-uvalde-texas-cowards-incompetent-slaves-doctrine/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-05-27
George Alexopoulos.
Cue spooky music.
It meant the prophesy was true; one wonders the extent to which it was self-fulfilling.
Woody Allen was creepy all his life.
There is something about him.
Irish stew in the name of the law.
Jubilee scandal: Royal Military Police arrest six Irish guards days before Queen’s parade (27 May)
Those bear fur hats are quite capacious, and not the sort of place you’d usually check for interesting chemicals.
Hey JC was Woody thinking the same thing. Another thing, about the energiser cars, I saw an S Tesla, one of the locals traded his 3 Tesla. They are quite nice looking, not like the 3 series.
Sbs with an election update, Pauline looks home and hosed.
ABC was declaring the Tasmanian seat of Lyons a hold for Labor MP Brian Mitchell.
Mr Mitchell told news agency AAP while he was “quietly confident” of a win, there were still thousands of postal and absentee votes to count.
Ranga, Arma
Weird or what!
You missed the most likely:
it was a simulation staged for political purposes by the FBI.
The cops were just following orders in blocking access to the “scene”.
While this is the most sinister explanation, at least it doesn’t require dead children.
Lizzie
Loved to read your description of the ruins of the York tower. Made me very nostalgic for travel – but particularly travel visiting archaeological sites. My dear husband has always been so patient with my obsession & we have seen many significant sites. I doubt if we will see many, if any, in the future. For so many reasons – but particularly the imminent eruption in Europe.
This is very emotional for me this morning. Yesterday I attended a Requiem Mass for an old school friend who became quite a celebrated Chronicler of politics in Canberra &. Menzies expert. Many Lib heavies were there, including the old man himself (not Menzies!) who knew how to defeat Labor.
But the wonder for me was the appearance of our old Ancient History teacher . Blow me down – he would be 85 but didn’t look like a day over 65! A schoolmate who was also taught, like me and the deceased, by this teacher was there – he is now a Professor of Ancient History.
The Requiem Mass must have been two hours long. All solemn ritual, & very beautiful – except for the suffocating incense.As usual, the final music from Elgar had me sobbing. I remarked to my old teacher & old school friend how beautiful the ritual was in an age of Profanity. They looked at me in astonishment, for they are unbelievers and Greens to boot.
I wake up this morning longing to return to my valley.
Also at that link, the figures for Gilmore [Andrew Constance 286 votes ahead of the Labor Member] have been unchanged since Tuesday.
Now 250 votes ahead
Labor is battling to get to 76 Seats, would the AEC put a finger on the scales?
Or does that only occur in U.S. Elections?
Australia is now in the hands of the inner city elites, don’t know how it can be reversed, too many people clustered in the main cities outnumber and outvote the rest of us. Tim Quilty’s plan for a new state is a start but we need more states with distributed populations. The uniparty will never let it happen if they can help it.
https://www.tallyroom.com.au/47855
So the plan for Sri Lankan illegal immigrants now is to arrive on our shores, get knocked up immediately and then go to Biloela.
ALP already unlocking the door.
Looking at the non Liberal Tasmanian Seats, Labor only managed 29% of the vote in Lyons, the Greens 11%, Lambie Network 10%.
Franklin is their best Seat in Tasmania, they get 36% and the Greens get them over the line.
In Wilkie’s Seat of Clark, the figure is only 18%, Wilkie got an absolute Majority in 2019, dropped 4% this time.
The 5 Tasmanian Seats used to go to Labor when they won Government,
I’d say the Labor Party is in a lot of trouble on the Right from The Greens and they’ve gotta keep feeding Lambie too.
I think I get a lot of disagreement and opposition from people who have too much trust in their fellow man, espcially leftists, and what they are truly out to achieve and what they are capable of.
Many of you know that I led a convoy that taught me a great deal about just how bad the media are, and have spent much of my life travelling Australia for work and have much to do with aboriginal communities and know first hand just what lefties will do to aboriginal people for their own sick reasons.
So when I say this next thing, people will call me a conspiracy theorist, and yes I could be wrong BUT
My take on the shootings in Texas.
The left are at war with the west.
Full stop.
No ifs and no buts.
They are at war with the west and the western white people that created it.
And western white people did create it.
When you are at war with these people you attempt to take down their defences, to disarm them.
People dying, children and women are just collateral damage all sacrificed for the greater good.
Some lefties believe that what has to be done must be done to save the planet…….their superiors are power and money hungry , godless evil.
If they need to incite another school shooting to get the guns from the citizens they will do it.
And the police will be ordered to stay put.
And the MSM will then do their jobs.
Nothing in this world has changed.
He who has the guns has the power.
None of their new tech control methods they plan to introduce can work without a disarmed citizenry.
That’s why I have alway said that the fight against the globalist Communists (for that is what they are at the WEF) will be fought in the USA.
And all we can hope for now is the brave there to come forward, the Trumps etc to stand up and face this age old evil again.
If you think the left would not incite a school shooting you do not know them.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, I have witnessed it for myself.
Some of you also have if you are honest.
The control they have over aboriginal communities is all encompassing and complete and the most disgusting, miserable, violent, disease ridden shitholes on this planet.
These people are kept this way to further the power grab of the left.
Human life is of no concern and in many cases , it’s despised and loathed.
It is there only to be used.
Do you really scoff when I say they’d be inciting massacres right now?
I’m sure you will.
And that’s why they are winning.
Looking at the closest three remaining Gilmore, Lyons and Deakin I noticed Gilmore had 127,000 eligible voters, Deakin 112,000 and Lyons 85,000.
Seems a little uneven to me.
Very funny Bob Moran this morning.
Thanks Tom.
It’s fantastic that Lizzie is safe in the UK, not a hint of trouble.
The end is nigh!
Tech start-up Bolt fires about 300 people after moving to four-day work week
Just a few months ago tech start-up Bolt was the place to be, with the perk of a four-day work week. This week, it let go a third of its staff.
From The Oz….more election wrap up….from Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Election 2022: Change agents at teal heart not all ex-Liberals
Of the dozens of suburbs that turned teal last Saturday, turfing six Liberal moderates out of parliament and contributing to the downfall of the Morrison government, beachside Avalon on Sydney’s northern beaches was the tealest of them all.
But electoral analysis by The Weekend Australian has disproved the widespread belief that all of the new Climate 200-backed independents picked up the majority of their votes from disaffected Liberal voters.
In the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, the swing against Josh Frydenberg was smaller than the swings against each of the Labor and Greens candidates, while in another three teal victory seats, the swing against the sitting Liberal was smaller than the combined swing against Labor, the Greens and all other candidates.
Nationwide, voters at 12 booths in three different seats were so attracted to the teal option, the majority gave the independent their first preference.
In the quiet enclave of the sunburnt and the wealthy that is Sydney’s northern peninsula, four polling booths in Jason Falinski’s seat of Mackellar reported more than 50 per cent first preference votes for Sophie Scamps.
Avalon South recorded 56.3 per cent, the highest teal independent primary vote of any large booth in the country, followed by Avalon Beach (55.4 per cent), Bilgola Plateau (53.1 per cent) and Avalon (52.4 per cent).
Former state independent upper house member for Pittwater Alex McTaggart said Avalon was a wealthy, well-educated community that prioritised climate as a key issue. “Avalon’s right on the coast and the average young person here is involved in the surf or the surf club,” Mr McTaggart said.
“They see the effects of climate on the coast.”
Mr McTaggart said a federal anti-corruption commission and health – the nearest hospital is 22km away – were other issues on which Dr Scamps successfully campaigned.
Most of the teal independents picked up many of their votes from Labor or Greens voters. In Kooyong, the former Liberal treasurer’s primary vote fell by 6.3 per cent while Labor lost 11.1 per cent and the Greens 15 per cent.
In nearby Goldstein, where former ABC journalist Zoe Daniel overcame Tim Wilson, the swing against Labor almost hit 18 per cent, compared with the ousted Liberal MP’s 11.7 per cent.
The vote pattern was different in North Sydney, where Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman suffered a primary vote fall of 13.7 per cent, much larger than Labor’s 3.6 per cent and the Greens’ 5.7 per cent. And in Wentworth, teal victor Allegra Spender’s 38.8 per cent primary vote drew largely on the vote former independent Kerryn Phelps won in 2019 and Liberal MP Dave Sharma’s support. Labor and Greens votes held steady.
Redbridge executive director Kos Samaras, whose polling company undertook research for the Climate 200 candidates, said the location of polling booths influenced how the primary vote split. A high proportion of younger voters and renters translated into a stronger turnout for teals.
Four of the top five teal booths in Kooyong weres in Hawthorn, a suburb that mixes wealthy families in $20m mansions and students in rental apartments, while top of the list in North Sydney was Greenwich, another suburb with a high proportion of apartments. And Wentworth’s top booths were in renter-heavy Bondi, Paddington and Bronte
Dr Scamps had a campaign budget of $1.4m, half of which was raised from the community and the other half coming from millionaire climate activist Simon Holmes a Court’s fundraising war chest Climate 200.
Semi-retired teacher John Lettoof, 65, has lived in Avalon for 30 years and said he voted Greens one and Dr Scamps second due to concerns over climate change.
“You can just see it (climate change),” said Mr Lettoof, a keen surfer and fisherman.
“You know I could point behind me right now to the shellfish that are missing off the rocks – the pool is denuded, it‘s not full of life as it normally is.”
Dr Scamps’ campaign was also more youth-friendly, including a free concert on May 1 – called Election Beats – in Avalon’s Dunbar Park headlined by local artists Angus and Julia Stone, Lime Cordiale and comedian Dan Ilic. The event attracted about 1500 people. At the same time, Mr Falinski treated about 250 supporters to sausage rolls and beers at Cromer Golf Club.
The first-world problems of Avalon residents were satirised in 2015 in the film Avalon Now, which later became a web series, depicting a couple torn between pairing pinot gris or pinot grigio with barramundi for dinner.
There are many things to ponder here.
1. Falinsky was a dud. A dripping wet dud, one of Photios’ picks. Without a doubt some of the vote against him was a protest vote against his dudness. Falinsky the Dud now has lots of time to work on his much desired republic with his clown friends, Pirate Man and Lord Malcolm the Most Miserable. I’m sure Karma Sharma and Trent Zimmerboy will join him.
2. I’m glad Labor doesn’t require the votes of these Teals in the lower house.
3. The northern beaches is very white and very, very insular. When the boats start to arrive (it’s inevitable) and they’re brought to Oz, it’s time they were settled in places like Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth, Kooyong and Goldstein. The Northern Beaches…aka…the “Insular Peninsular” desperately requires a good dose of multiculturalism.
4. If I was a hysterical about climate change, I’d also be insistent that that we need to do more. The northern beaches has lots of prime locations for solar farms, particularly along the beachfronts. Whilst the electorate of Warringah has prime locations to erect windmills on the cliffs around Manly, Mackellar can be a hive of solar. And surely, if “semi-retired teacher John Lettoof”, keen surfer and fisherman that he is as well someone who, apparently, is “very concerned about climate change”, then he should be more than happy to dispense with his surfing and fishing and insist that the beaches now be used for solar battery farms….you know, to save the planet.
5. Why do I think that Mr Lettoof and others living on the “Insular Peninsular” are hypocrites? Why do I think it’s all about virtue signalling and not about action?
I know why.
David Rowe and Mark Knight are trying to put a spin on the naming of First Dog Toto.
“Pauline looks home and hosed.”
Some good news.
Sancho:
fuck off
I feel very dissatisfied with Australian citizens who think we should kowtow to a communist bully
Many Chinese Australians have expressed their dissatisfaction towards the former Coalition government for taking a strong stance against China, which some say had left them vulnerable to racial discrimination and verbal abuse.
Ms Liu said she understood the negative sentiments of the community when they heard their country of origin that they still felt affection for being constantly targeted by the Australian government
I see turnout for the election is up to 78%. Still not great, and down from the usual 91%.
Take the spin further.
Who are the picks for Heartless, Brainless and Cowardly?
And who is pulling the levers behind the curtain?
Fortunately Fake Glinda has been rocketed back to Scotland Island.
“They see the effects of climate on the coast.”
All they have is missing shellfish?
Maybe someone was hungry.
I doubt whether Oz will be following a yellowcake road any time soon.
So do I. A delightful sea breeze most of the time, with the nearby ocean ameliorating heat and cold.
Something poorer, overheated buggers further inland can only wish for.
AEC need to clarify turnout is interim until they finish the postal and absent counts.
No doubt the same thing happens every election until this time, someone, desperate to prove every thing that happens in the US, must also happen here, jumped the gun and started throwing around accusations.
We seem to have imported many CCP loyalists. Just what you would expect from Canbra. I’m sure many from Hong Kong, Vietnam and Taiwan would applaud a trough stance against the CCP
the scrutineers handbook
These people see climate change everywhere.
They are no different in thought pattern to all other conspiracy theorists, the scary thing is they have political power.
Buy a generator.
Thank you Cassie for this excellent summary – if I may include the dudness of Fiona Martin – I am so glad that Labor will not rely on the votes of the performing Teals and the grifting Greens, I am also glad the invisible risable Fiona Martin is no longer my representative – her replacement is a tiny little asian woman Sally Sitou — I will be very interested in reading the inaugural speeches of the Performing Teals to see how far back they have to go to to find a tale of woe, I know Dai Le is a living embodiment of overcoming adversity in her lifetime, as for the rest of the incoming newbies this parliament I sure will have us living in intersting times.
The left have been at war with the west since ww2.
Then since the Frankfurt school.
They have never rested.
They fight full of hate and loathing.
That hate is so overwhelming and drives them, as they know they can’t defeat a healthy western civilisation the old way, with armies.
That really got up their nose.
Many years ago, the thing that disgusted the MSM the most when they saw people like me on the stage adressing the punters at the protest, was that it was people like me.
They spat their venom at these fucking upstarts.
Who told middle aged white men they they should be heard!?
The concept that white men, blue collar white men were expecting to be heard, when they had caused all of this terrible western civilisation was beyond the pale…
It was not what we were saying (well it was but) that we dared have the audacity to say it, after all we should just be apologising prefusely for the mess of western cililisation and remain silent so our multiculti betters can fix the mess with a good bought of communism.
These are the people that told you to be scared of a cold virus.
They are at war with you.
The are not stupid (in the sense that you think they are), they are brainwashed by communists in university and they are at war with you.
And killing you, you disgusting white trash, is a net good for the world.
Especially if you are a right wing male.
They want you disarmed and then removed from the surface of the earth, or at the very least, silenced, shamed and enslaved.
And I will be called a conspiracy theorist for saying so.
That’s why I’d never let these types jab me in a month of Sundays.
You’d better stop this denialism and wake up to the mental sickness, to the true evil at war with you, or you’ll be doing insane things like taking boosters from these people.
How does one Virtue Signal with a Secret Ballot.
Whether Climate Change is real or not [it’s not], the reality is that
Australia has signed up to various International Agreements.
Reneging on International Agreements means Sanctions, means we get the South Africa treatment.
Walking away from International Agreements means we get Sanctions and the South Africa treatment.
There were 2 Options at this Election:
The Coalition would finesse NetZero to 26 million people’s advantage, the ALP would follow NetZero to the letter, to 26 million people’s great disadvantage.
Then Senator Canavan and Colon Boyce popped up and declared NetZero dead.
That was 2022’s Bob Brown Convoy moment.
Yeah, it mighta got Colon up in Flynn, but it took plenty of Liberals down in the Cities.
If the turnout number is continuing to increase Monty it is neither great or not great.
Was someone going for ‘Churchillian’?
Having a look at Dover’s painting, unlike some here I didn’t do a lot of travelling but the absolute highlight was a visit to Monet’s garden in late summer. A mate’s wife got sick of me hanging around their kitchen in Battersea and stuck me on the Eurostar for 3 days in Paris. I headed off from Gard du Nord and beat the Japanese and the hordes. Clearly most of the flowers were past their peak but most still had blooms. After a few hours I walked back into the village for duck confit and salad sitting in the sun. A perfect day.
The Right have been at war with the West since WW2. That’s why America brought all the Nazi scientists to the United States.
Ever heard of Werner von Braun, Sancho?
Course you have.
The Frankfurt School was a Twenties Fake Left Wing Push, they became the NeoCons in 1951.
Ms Liu said she understood the negative sentiments of the community when they heard their country of origin that they still felt affection for being constantly targeted by the Australian government
I am old enough to remember when Australians who showed affection for their former homelands in the UK and mainland Europe were sneered at and constantly targeted by the snooty members of the fascist so-called “progressive” left.
Very nice Bear.
I’ve only been to France in the off-season, Dec to March but Giverny looks fantastic.
giverny
Mme Zulu and I shared Monet’s garden with half a dozen – armed – French Marine paratroopers…
I suppose the UK slapped arbitrary bans on Australian goods, spied, and played lots of other little games that justified the sneering.
From “The Age.”
” if I may include the dudness of Fiona Martin”
Tinta….absolutely. My sister lives in the same electorate as you do, Reid. Martin needed voters like you and my sister but she was soooooooo execrable that my sister voted UAP and put Martin second last (The Greens were last).
For me personally, the only loss is Josh. Fiona “call the police” Martin, Katie Allen (for a doctor she is), Dave Karma Sharma, Trent Zimmerboy, Jason Foolinksi…..all gone and good riddance. It was the likes of them who damaged the Liberal brand. They crossed the floor (except Foolinski)….and the people repaid in kind.
I was thinking about the execrable Katie Allen this week. Whenever she appeared on Kenny, she’d be sitting in front of a bookcase (as everyone usually does) and she’d invariably have the following books behind her as a pointer to what she’d read or was reading….so I would usually spy books such as “Dreams from My Father” and “Becoming Michelle”.
What kind of Liberal gives prominence to such absolute shit? A “moderate” Liberal, that’s who.
They will not be missed.
Dickless
How does one Virtue Signal with a Secret Ballot.
By loudly proclaiming that you voted for the “virtuous” candidate, whether or not you did?
Reneging on International Agreements means Sanctions, means we get the South Africa treatment.
Walking away from International Agreements means we get Sanctions and the South Africa treatment.
Will the sanctions be worse than economic suicide by ruinable electrickery? How are they working against Wussia? Have you purchased your White Flag of surrender yet?
The Coalition would finesse NetZero to 26 million people’s advantage,
With the so-called “Liberal” wets all returned? If you will believe this, ….
When did this fantasy of yours occur, SpongeBob?
By the way, the Labor Party is a Right Wing movement, your threadbombing can’t change that.
the only loss is Josh.
Nah, he’s a dick. No losh Josh.
Greens leader Adam Bandt says the party has a mandate to stop new coal and gas mines and warned the Labor government that it will use its balance of power in the Senate to introduce legislation to block new mines.
How long before Bum Bandit rubs AnAl’s nose in the number of Liars seats that were won only on Slime preferences?
“Labor government that it will use its balance of power in the Senate to introduce legislation to block new mines.”
This is where the Liberal party can make themselves very useful.
Mr Dutton, I’m sure, can put Australia’s best interests first.
Everything you need to know about the Teal phenomenon right there.
Struth, note I didn’t use Ken, that is the most sensible thing you’ve said in the last 2yrs. See you can do it. I think the ruling class are not left, right or anything. They use anyone, and the left are the easily lead. This Australian eCommissioner at Davos is not part of the ruling class. Just a pawn who thinks they have a seat at the table. If those attending WEF are functionaries they are the useful idiots. I’m not a conspiracy theorist except for what I see as the ruling class, whoever they are, stirring the pot everywhere, it doesn’t matter where as long as the status quo doesn’t continue. Power comes manipulating events like Biden being Prez. Everyone knows he’s not capable of running anything, but who exactly is running him, the swamp is not the answer. Who is running the swamp?
ABCcess appears to have just outright plagiarized the US democrats press release on the school shootings there.
Though this line made me laugh.
It is impossible to know what George Washington would make of an AR-15.
The revered father of the nation was once shot during America’s revolutionary war, and the four musket balls simply lodged in the fabric of his coat.
Through the magic of the internet i bring you George Washington’s ghost giving his opinion.
Dickless
When did this fantasy of yours occur, SpongeBob?
By the way, the Labor Party is a Right Wing movement, your threadbombing can’t change that.
Google the phrase “cultural cringe”, (very) young person of possible male characteristics.
The current Labor Party is a fascist movement, and thus Left Wing. Your thread bombing can’t change that!
“Greens leader Adam Bandt says the party has a mandate to stop new coal and gas mines and warned the Labor government that it will use its balance of power in the Senate to introduce legislation to block new mines.”
Good. The Liberal party must sit back and let Labor dalliance with the Greens. Getting into bed with the Greens has always been electoral suicide for Labor.
All those Hunter electorates that voted for Labor, you will reap what you sow.
Dr Grooglery heal thyself.
John Lettoof is no stranger to politics.
Giverny – arrive early. Really early, before the buses descend. Skip breakfast – most tour groups are still rolling out of bed or checking out the croissants.
Go to the water garden immediately (signs point the way, tunnel under road). Do not faff around near the house – you can do that later.
Take many…many photos in solitude. The bridge will be empty and photogenic.
Do not fall into the lake.
LOL at Cassie whining about the Northern Beaches. They spend generations voting for Liberals, but the first time they don’t you turn on them like mangy dogs.
The Liberal Party can’t function without its blue ribbon seats. Labor can go on without the inner city seats that the Greens are pinching, because they still have a bunch of safe seats in the working class suburbs. Where are the safe spaces for the Libs now? Tasmania, which is turning into one big retirement village? The Nats are fine but the Libs are in big trouble.
Points taken calli.
I’m sure one could have a very very early bowl of cereal though.
In an interview with a German newspaper published on the eve of this year’s Davos meeting, globalist nabob Klaus Schwab has conceded WEF memberships are down and the world is trending towards becoming multipolar rather than the globalist utopia/dystopia he’s spent 50 years promoting.
Someone break it gently to Struth.
Art is better appreciated with a growling tummy.
You are at one with the creative spirit starving in his garret.
Get a grip Monty.
The Australian electorate can be remarkably fickle.
And Labor will have its finger on the focus group pulse, always.
Three word slogan.
Stop the boats.
Might end up being ‘liberal lite’.
I’ll take your word on that, it’s really quite amazing that she would think Obama is a Liberal Party vote winner.
She was a Fake Moderate.
Interesting that no Teal stood against her, Higgins is the leafiest, wealthiest Seat in Melbourne by a bit.
Basically, she lost votes to the Right, i.e. Labor and The Greens.
Liberal, Labor, Greens got 92% of the Primary vote in a field of 8.
yep
been brewing for a couple of decades at least
two years ago somebody in this forum asked, “what the hell’s going on”
my answer today is same as it was then, “the commies are making their play”
Qantas Founders now. Wing walk amongst other stuff.
There was a big shindig there last night complete with fireworks. Hope I don’t trip over any late risers.
It is also funny that you lot imagine the working class with a very male slant: butch tradies holding sprocket wrenches, and FIFO mine workers with a shovel over the shoulder.
And yet, the median working class person in Australia these days is a nurse or a teacher, or a service worker at a small business. The Libs have to change their policies to appeal to those kinds of voters.
“The Liberal Party can’t function without its blue ribbon seats. Labor can go on without the inner city seats that the Greens are pinching, because they still have a bunch of safe seats in the working class suburbs.”
Actually fatso fascist, Labor won’t survive without its working class seats, Fowler’s gone, when Werriwa, the Hunter seats and so on go, Labor will be in a worse position that the Liberals, much worse.
Have you scoffed your morning donut yet? I’m sure you didn’t stop at one.
I doubt it since the Libs banned gas drilling off Newcastle a couple of months ago.
Dutton will have numerous wet white ants to deal with, just like Tony Abbott.
At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, at least Hitler got above 30% of the vote before claiming a mandate to ruin the country.
Hmmm…Working Class.
Blue collars, white collars, dirty and clean.
I just see productive and non productive. Builders/makers and those who serve them.
They’re all workers.
I sense a distant pivoting in The Force.
“that you lot imagine the working class with a very male slant: butch tradies holding sprocket wrenches, and FIFO mine workers with a shovel over the shoulder.”
What a load of bullshit.
BJ I don’t know why the liars pander to the green slime. The slime are never going to side with anything conservative. The teals are ex-liberal that drank the cool aid. Personally I think the teals would particularly want to have anything to do with the unwashed greens. They’re simply not our class. I haven’t checked whether the teals and greens had a high primary vote in the same electorate or the teals took the green vote.
rosiesays:
May 28, 2022 at 8:15 am
I feel very dissatisfied with Australian citizens who think we should kowtow to a communist bully
Many Chinese Australians have expressed their dissatisfaction towards the former Coalition government for taking a strong stance against China, which some say had left them vulnerable to racial discrimination and verbal abuse.
Ms Liu said she understood the negative sentiments of the community when they heard their country of origin that they still felt affection for being constantly targeted by the Australian government
So Ms Liu et al can’t seem to differentiate between China / Chinese people and the CCP government? So why did so many Chinese emigrate to Australia post-gold rush? There’s more billionaires and millionaires there than here, so it can’t be for economic reasons.
I wonder what it could be? I guess if you are that offended that your ‘homeland’ is being insulted, then there really is only one option………
We have enough political problems here without pandering to the sensitivities of people who aren’t really loyal to this country.
Allegedly Big spender is an economist*
Makes moaning noises about reform then has the cure…
Spender is adamant we must significantly increase migration – at least temporarily – to deal with staff shortages caused by COVID-19 border closures. She has floated the figure of 220,000 a year instead of the current 160,000, with 70 per cent being skilled migrants.
*Fucktard edition
“you lot”
There’s nothing like fascists dehumanising others. It makes it easier for them to send those who dissent off camps, gulags and executions.
I hope you then sat back, puffing on a Gauliose, with your beret sitting at an impossibly jaunty angle.
You did wear a beret, right?
Labor can go on without the inner city seats that the Greens are pinching, because they still have a bunch of safe seats in the working class suburbs.
Sez munty with all his fingers and toes crossed, and a knot in his dick. There are many, many, votes there for the Liberals to harvest, with the correct approach.
The serving members of the Irish Guards have been held on suspicion of dealing an illegal substance, as well as running a loan shark operation. The drug sting was led by the Royal Military Police and has taken several months to organise.
Strange? .. I read elsewhere last night, forget where, but it said they were arrested for stealing & selling guns & other armaments (hand grenades ect) ……..!
Help help I’m being oppressed, they cry, as I fling the terrible insult of *checks notes* “you lot”.
Harden up, princesses.
A bit tongue in cheek to attract the media but he’s making serious points.
https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-jeremy-clarkson-worried-about-cannibalism-food-shortages-20220518
Davos should be turned into the BBQ of the vanities.
According to the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Collective) Elbow has had a “stellar” first week as PM.
Perhaps that was because he was out of the country for most of it?
And at least he didn’t salute the POTUS.
However, they warn it will get harder for him from here.
You think?
Dickless
Basically, she lost votes to the Right, i.e. Labor and The Greens.
How many times must you be told that they are fascists, and therefore Left Wing?
While he is nowhere near as bad as the others I would put him in the “part of the problem” column. A big government conservative in the Father of Middle Class Welfare mould.
It was you Monty that claimed there was a fine line between a tradie and a houso in creating a working class stereotype.
Teachers would no doubt self identify as middle class.
I agree ‘service workers’ in aged care retail etc make up a good percentage of the aspirationals in the outer burbs these days.
Many of them are first and second generation immigrants and if Labor dramatically increases the cost of living through 2030 policies and undermining family values they’d better watch out.
callisays:
May 28, 2022 at 9:00 am
Hmmm…Working Class.
Blue collars, white collars, dirty and clean.
I just see productive and non productive. Builders/makers and those who serve them.
They’re all workers.
As the “Only true conservative on the blog”, munty has difficulty relating to these groups.
there’s a sale on down at Total Tools where you might pick up a whole set of sprocket wrenches.
hurry down before they’re all gone
Montys brain, imagining mechanics and miners, animated
“that you lot imagine the working class with a very male slant: butch tradies holding sprocket wrenches, and FIFO mine workers with a shovel over the shoulder.”
No, this is a clear example of you projecting.
You could be the subject of a case study into ideological capture.
Also:
I note that none of these could or would be a NET tax payer.
A what?
I’ll tell you what she is: a shill for big business.
About 100k a year sometimes.
Spender is adamant we must significantly increase migration –
More serfs are needed to service the genTeal aristocracy of the best postcodes.
You lotting is simply stupid.
Should be obvious even to a labor party paving stone, that opinions on this blog are somewhat diverse.
more in a good year
Do these tradies cycle to work, m0nster?
I think Monty meant sprocket wenches.
If Josh was the answer the Liberal Party was asking the wrong question.
MatrixTransformsays:
May 28, 2022 at 9:11 am
sprocket wrenches
there’s a sale on down at Total Tools where you might pick up a whole set of sprocket wrenches.
hurry down before they’re all gone
As the “Only true conservative on the blog”, munty is not familiar with these odd varieties of tools. He will ask his man to explain what minor error he seems to have made.
A what?
We call them ratchets or sockets.
Monster’s been watching too much US tv.
What’s wrong with this, you raging feminist intellectual?
Would you like a world without sewerage, motor vehicles, minerals or energy?
Rogersays:
May 28, 2022 at 9:13 am
Allegedly Big spender is an economist*
I’ll tell you what she is: a shill for big business.
But only one Big Business – subsidy harvesting!
‘I was misled… I am livid’: Texas Gov. Abbott claims Uvalde cops LIED to him about why they failed for an HOUR to take down teen elementary school shooter as fury mounts at police
Farmer Gezsays:
May 28, 2022 at 9:13 am
Spender is adamant we must significantly increase migration –
More serfs are needed to service the genTeal aristocracy of the best postcodes.
Are you using “service” in the agricultural sense?
A real tradie uses the correct sized socket. And a 3 foot length of pipe. If speed is of the essence, reach for the gas axe.
By definition there are no left wing economists.
In Uvalde, A Picture Is Emerging Of Extreme Cowardice And Incompetence Among Local Police
Straying very close to parody territory with that.
Much like a Daily Snail woe-is-us story the other day
on the rising cost of living in the UK.
Their go tos included a struggling sustainable lifestyle expert*, a coffee expert**
and the owners of something called a beauty and holistic therapy business***.
*Had to be a piss take.
**Presumably, coffee expert is how you rebrand yourself when you’re 37 and still doing an after school job at the local caff.
*** Just no.
Ha. Got it.
It’s all done by magic, silly.
It needs to stop selecting fake Liberals in those Seats.
Labor need those Electorate Offices in the Inner Cities for organising.
Griffith and Ryan are University Electorates.
Labor can never afford to lose Griffith and they’ve missed their best opportunity to pick up Ryan for the first time at a G.E.
The Liberals are competitive everywhere, they just had some fake liberals camped in their safest seats.
Elsewhere, Bert Van Manen was easily returned in Forde, lot of hardscrabble areas there, same as Peter Dutton’s electorate.
The problem for the Liberals was that Scotty wouldn’t make a decision he didn’t want to make.
He shoulda punted Deves when Matt Kean raised the alarm, he mighta saved a few people and won a couple of seats from Labor.
The Economic Doom-Loop Has Begun
Don’t be fatuous Jeffrey.
Disney must know this series is going to suck, so they have picked the diversity hire as the “oh its racists who dont like it”.
Despite the fact that as a new character (as opposed to changing the sex/race of an established one for shits and giggles) she should be fine. (as long as she can act ok)
https://thepostmillennial.com/lucasfilm-prepped-star-wars-actress-against-racist-blowback-for-obi-wan-role
She does seem woefully lacking in the ability to keep her yawp shut rather than reveal her lack of knowledge, which is likely to irritate fanbois more.
In her interview with the Independent, the “Obi-Wan” actress tackles diversity issues in the franchise. “To me, it’s long overdue. If you’ve got talking droids and aliens, but no people of colour, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s 2022, you know. So we’re just at the beginning of that change. But I think to start that change is better than never having started it.”
She does have a point though.
All the storm troopers are white on the outside…
“We Could See A Million Layoffs Or More” – Here Comes The Job Market Shock
Well, I know what it isn’t.
It isn’t flabby football fantasists hiding indoors and acquiring capitalist cash while preaching Marx.
H B Bearsays:
May 28, 2022 at 9:19 am
A real tradie uses the correct sized socket. And a 3 foot length of pipe. If speed is of the essence, reach for the gas axe.
I can remember standing (or,rather, jumping) on the end of a longer pipe, to tighten the wheel nuts on buses back in the 1960s.
lotocoti – hard to tell. I would give them the benefit of the doubt but I’m not sure they deserve it.
KD
Would you like a world without sewerage, motor vehicles, minerals or energy?
It’s all done by magic, silly.
The Davos mob certainly seem to think so. Could be a shock ahead for them.
From ye olde fred…
Instead they sat around all day and into the night scratching their arses while the decision makers made no decisions at all.
Disney snared in a SoCal corruption scandal, trying to ‘influence public policy’
If one were to search for a before-its-time-standout of diversity and inclusion, look no further than the ‘wretched hive of scum and villainy’ that is The Mos Eisley cantina.
So – to summarise; fuck off, girly.
Dickless
The problem for the Liberals was that Scotty wouldn’t make a decision he didn’t want to make.
He shoulda punted Deves when Matt Kean raised the alarm, he mighta saved a few people and won a couple of seats from Labor.
Or he mighta notta.
The Northern Beaches…aka…the “Insular Peninsular” desperately requires a good dose of multiculturalism.
definitely not! .. I live in a “houso’ enclave and am the only English as a 1st language resident in my street , nowadays .. my son lives, beachside, on the Central Coast, one of the sort after areas full of the over a million dollar properties & WHITE, WHITE, WHITE folk everywhere! ..
an absolute joy to visit grandees and enter another world from my multicultural, welfare obsessed area and you want to pollute it wiv me next door types ( can’t call ’em neighbours cos I haven’t spoken to anyone nearby in 20 years .. language problems LOL!) .. shame. shame. shame!
The liberal case for gun ownership
Yep, increasing unskilled Migration was always a plank of the Menzies Liberal Party to drive wages down.
Hey you lot……
A lot of Yanks were very happy Trump didn’t listen to this “already defeated” garbage.
And we have all the resources.
Mind sets like this are the reason this country is fucked.
Funny how this bloke sees Australia exactly as it is, and lots of Australians still don’t get it.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/cartoons/johannes-leak-cartoons/image-gallery/de8f7d34d6dcf6dbb2f01239663cedd7
the best kind of virtue signaling is phony virtue signaling
france edition
Perhaps all those little black people far away could do it for them. You know, the ones who dig up the things for mobile phones and EV batteries.
Yes. Yes, those people can do that. Don’t bring them near me, though. Yuck.
Working class reimagined.
Until May 28, 2022 at 8:57 am, the term “working class” was used to describe people employed as labour in unskilled/semi-skilled work.
Boom!
He doesn’t know any men
… likes to make sure that the company he keeps are all equals
Interesting tidbit on Twitter, throwing our entire election into question.
The WEF had its hands all over our election.
Shit they go the paywall up, sorry.
Dickless
PS, the “few people” mighta included some of those “fake Liberals” you keep talking about.
Hey you lot…
Heavy delusion here.
Alinsky was right wing!
Asian security company Certis worked with ‘their partner’ the AEC to secure Australian election
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Albanese flags relief as power bills rise as much as 95pc
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signalled additional cost of living relief as the global energy crisis hits Australia, with some households in NSW warned that their power bills will rise by as much as 95 per cent.
On Friday, Mr Albanese ruled out adopting a UK-style tax on the profits of oil and gas companies to provide relief for households but acknowledged that energy prices were adding to cost of living pressures.
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £5 billion ($8.9 billion) windfall tax to help fund a £15 billion support package for British families hit by rising prices.
“No, we won’t be going down that track,”? Mr Albanese said.
Some customers face 95pc rise
The cost of living pressures come as NSW household customers of power retailer Electricity in a Box have been told of a 95 per cent increase in their bills. Gas prices have surged four-fold for two textile manufacturers in Melbourne as the global energy crunch finally slams home.
The extraordinary price increases provide evidence that the regulated rise in electricity tariffs of up to 18 per cent announced this week is only a pale shadow of the dark energy price crisis starting to grip Australia, which has been described by one energy user as “frightening”?.
They have dashed hopes that homes and businesses will escape the crisis that has plagued European markets, pushed homes into energy poverty and closed energy-intensive manufacturing plants.
The crunch also increases the complexity of the emissions reductions task for Australia’s new Labor government, already under pressure on climate commitments and which had promised before the election – as had the Coalition – lower energy prices under its watch.
At Electricity in a Box, which has about 3000 household customers, chief executive Morgan Duncan said the electricity market was “broken”?, with soaring wholesale prices that showed no sign of abating.
The Photo you didn’t see of Meghan Markle
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Saturday, 28 May 2022
Thank you Bagman.
“Sprocket wrench” was a gag, thanks for making it funny.
The problem with your male-oriented stereotypes of the working class, Dot, is that you misunderstand how to appeal to it. The working class is mostly women, so if the Libs want to get their votes they will have to change a lot.
It is impossible to know what George Washington would make of an AR-15.
Try the novel, THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH by Harry Turtledove an alternate history tale involving 20th century South African mercenaries travelling back in time and supplying the Confederacy with AK47s ..
very enjoyable .. ‘the South wins the War” novel …..
Who broke it?
m0ntysays:
May 28, 2022 at 9:35 am
“Sprocket wrench” was a gag, thanks for making it funny.
Suuuuuure munty, we believe you, but we lot are sooooo much better than those other people that you avoid in the street.
…and what do they want?
Albanese? Wong? Kristina Kenneally?
LOL
Yeah, it’s the market’s fault. *shakes head and walks away*
Not Post Gold Rush, during the Gold Rush.
You’re talking 170 years ago.
Huh?
Working class
Like the genTeal ladies, Monty is reimagining the class system.
How bourgeois.
Power price spike ‘just the start’ as smaller energy retailers struggle with surging wholesale market
Aaand the fault belongs to:
Odd then that mine mouth power stations – such as Loy Yang, Millmerran, Kogan Creek, and Callide – have long-term, CPI-based coal supply contracts, not affected by the Russia-augmented international thermal coal price.
Someone is being a touch truthy…
Arguably, that also describes nurses and teachers. I remember the old days when the entrance scores for those two professions were very low.
Gez
munty has been reimagining the whole political system for years. That’s why he’s the “Only true conservative” on the blog. He keeps changing the definition of everything until it matches his political preferences.
See also his re-definition of Menzies as a muntian “progressive” on the No Likely Comeback thread.
Albanese and Wong are some of the most popular politicians in the country, Dot. KK not so much, and good riddance tbh.
They certainly won’t warm to Mr Potato Head.
Sure monty
Gals with B.Ed & MA or B Nurs/M Med Sci want to be called “unskilled labour”. They demand to have it in their EBAs and want to talk with Albo about it over a beer.
Have you had your shot of Clonazepam & Thorazine today?
labour in unskilled/semi-skilled work.
Arguably, that also describes nurses and teachers. I remember the old days when the entrance scores for those two professions were very low.
munty does another re-definition. Any teachers/nurses here care to comment?
PS, talk about living in the past! Nurses do things these days that only doctors did not many years ago, as do ambulance paramedics.
Good Lord, monty; that’s leading with your chin like a dreadnaught.
Correct, though belonging to the Reactionary/Fascist extreme.
No Working Class person in their right mind is voting for that, so he had to maintain a Man Of The People persona.
Bob Brown did the same, the mask slipped when he made his
Fellow Earthians in the Parliamentary forecourt and his handlers brought out the hook.
In the vein of Andrew O’Keefe, doubtless this is someone or something else’s fault (the Hun):
One or more of these cockheads need to be nailed upside down over the entrance to TV network buildings, as a reminder that past ability (in Slater’s case, world class talent) does not translate into a lifetime free pass.
monty’s mental health issues and lack of purpose are the same as Karl Marx’s.
As Weber would describe him, he belongs to the leisure class. He’s too stupid to relate to other people.
Older teachers get pay commensurate with the middle class, but young teachers – of which there are many, if. It a majority – still get paid poorly in comparison. Not sure what it’s like with full time nurses but many nurses are casual or part time and this don’t earn enough to be truly middle class.
The fact that credentialism has crept into teaching and nursing does not necessarily mean that they can be thought of as highly paid.
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mUnty would be right at home around the Gillard family kitchen table reliving the glories of 1950 Welsh miners strikes.
Yeh, the Tradie pays for the Houso to sit on his arse and whinge about why he needs more money for smokes and bourbon.
labour in unskilled/semi-skilled work.
Arguably, that also describes nurses and teachers. I remember the old days when the entrance scores for those two professions were very low.
Not sure if my dil would agree she’s just qualified as a nurse after 4 years of study & exams in between raising 4 kids under 7 ……
Rubbish.
You might be on $500 grand/year operating a Tower Crane on a Melbourne High Rise, but you’re still Working Class, comrade.
Correct.
Entrance to Teachers Training College was below Matriculation to University scores, you could enter Nursing as a Trainee after Year 10.
Teachers Salary in Qld for 1964:
[State] Primary School-1,100 Pounds/year
” High School – 1,200 ” /year.
Shen Yun couldn’t get a theatre booking in Brisbane and put their show “China Before Communism” on in Toowoomba’s Empire Theatre.