I reckon things got so tough in his 30s that he had to eat his own earwax to survive.

Eating dicks is more probable.

Ramos told the outlet that he was working when his mother called him to tell him what was going on. He called the local jail looking for his son, before realizing what had happened.

“They killed my baby man,” he said. “I’m never gonna see my son again, just like they’re not gonna see their kids. And that hurts me.”

Wow.

Just get back in here, Squire. You know you want to.

Absolutely. We need a Model B update.

China to consider building new police training facility in Solomon Islands

CCP laws and battery included!?

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/action-meghan-markle-netflix-need-content.html

on YT.

Lex Fridman’s Analysis of Putin and Ukraine

Okay, armchair Generals, did Lex get it right?

Also, you guys are too tough on m0nty. He started a business. In Australia of all places. That’s more than most people in this country can claim, and that’s without even checking whether the business succeeded. Give the guy credit for something.

My business eventually succeeded and lifted me out of poverty and into the middle class, then it grew more and my marriage vaulted me briefly into the 1%, before a business setback many years ago cut my earnings in half. I would consider myself upper middle class these days.

Class and Income aren’t necessarily related.
You’re a small business operator, you’re upper working Class, lower Middle Class, at best.
You can’t earn your way into the Upper Classes, that’s ridiculous.

You don’t know the details of most people who comment here lives to pass judgement on ‘who gets it’, Monty.

True, Rosie. But credit where it is due, M0nty has so far as I can see, and maybe I’m too accepting, given an honest account of his ups and downs in fortunes. I have to admire that, as most of us would know life isn’t plain sailing all the time. A lot here have lived through hard times and have seen the end result of economic chaos and decline, the outcomes of M0nty’s socialist direction. He’s also useful for pulling us up and asking us to question our prescriptions for a better life/economy. He is wrong-headed with his prescriptions, no doubt there, but he can reflect more than most trolls who come here. A voice from ‘the outside’ or ‘the other side’ should be ok here as a counterpoint.

Gives us something to spar with .rather than with each other?

I hear on the radio Nobodies Girl is blaming covid for her lose. Is there nothing covid can’t do.

Stinky activists get stinkier.

Animal rights activists ‘sprayed with cow poo’ after crashing beef expo in Durham (28 May)

The demonstration, which began in the early hours of Saturday, is said to have seen one protester taken to hospital after chaos unfolded outside Darlington Farmers Auction Mart (DFAM) in Co Durham. Photos showed mask-clad activists from the Animal Justice Project (AJP) standing on the roof of the building holding banners and spraying coloured smoke flares. A spokesperson for the group said campaigners have now been left “covered in excrement” after one event attendee allegedly used a sprayer to blast manure at them.
…
An AJP spokesperson told PA: “We’ve been sprayed with cow poo by one farmer using a machine.

“It has been a peaceful protest and a silent protest and we are overwhelmed and outnumbered by hundreds of angry farmers.”

They added: “It’s really violent and there was one farmer who went along and sprayed everyone’s clothes. Shouting, swearing, spraying us with manure, ripped the banners down. It’s absurd.”

Well you do want to put them out of business Mr Stinky, they might be a tad angry about that. Ok, maybe I shouldn’t call him Stinky, but there’s probably a fair amount of cross-over with the stinky Extinction Rebellion activists.

Ed Case says:
May 29, 2022 at 6:42 am

Unsure who the cartoonist is here.

solAri

Why in her electorate and nowhere else?

Indeed, the Vietnamese have been a solid Labor Voting bloc for more than a generation.

one of them asked if she was going to vote for Albanese, she admitted that she had no idea who Albanese was and had no interest in politics and juts donkey votes

well it could have been at lot worse

Sure to work.

UN Human Rights Chief Asks China to Rethink Uyghur Policies (28 May)

The U.N. top human rights official said Saturday that she raised concerns with Chinese officials about the impact of the broad application of counterterrorism and deradicalization measures on the rights of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in China’s Xinjiang region.

Michelle Bachelet, who visited Xinjiang as part of a six-day trip to China, said the visit was not an investigation but an opportunity to raise concerns with senior Chinese leaders and pave the way for more regular interactions to support China in fulfilling its obligations under international human rights law.

She’s of course the Marxist-Leninist ex-President of Chile. Still it’s interesting that the UNHRC has managed to stir itself to criticize Chinese genocide, even if in the tiniest of ways. Maybe they’ll leave off condemning Israel quite so incessantly.

According to Pera credlin when votes added up left v right they are 49.3 left 49.7 for the right lot . Heard it discussed early morning in radio so stand to be corrected.

Milton, yep, taking an ill person can be ok but moving an injured person is not something you do without a lot of thought. I live four hours away and didn’t find out till the next morning. The Vic health system is literally falling apart in real time, at all levels. My wife works in an aged care facility, 30km from Wodonga and they have only been fully staffed maybe one day a fortnight since she started in Jan. They can’t get people, no cleaners, no PCA’s, no EN’s or RN’s. Just no staff.

The way we speak, our idioms and intonation patterns here in Australia aren’t really an indication of “class” as the structured British system might have been last century, with its rigid need to “place” people before any level of social interaction.

They are a product of where we live, where we went to school, and how our families talk. I can usually pick a Sydney (Upper) North Shore or E/S born and bred type. So many blow-ins and immigrants in those areas though – I’m surprised the “toff” voice persists, mostly manufactured by the insecure to fit into a particular set. One of my family speaks pure Ravenswood, the children do not, so it has disappeared there in a generation. There are other examples.

Moving from Sydney’s SW to the NS when I was very little, I detected a difference quite early in the piece, there was a distinct “Roseville Line”. All fading now.

In our Big Outback Adventure, through western NSW, Barossa, NT and now W Qld, it has been fun to sort the locals from the city types just on speech. And it has zero to do with “class” and everything to do with location.

They can’t get people, no cleaners, no PCA’s, no EN’s or RN’s. Just no staff.

Presumably the poor staff have to wear a mask all day. That would put a lot of people off, especially for low pay and manual labour. Then there’s the essential vaccinations which are multiplying like rabbits. Having to have all your vaccinations lined up and current even before applying would cause a lot of people not to bother.

BoN, that’s definitely part of it, my missus will refuse any further vaxxes, I didn’t want her to get the ones she already has, but that’s enough for her. I’m sure there’s many more in her position. Yet Andrews holds out with his vindictive spiteful mandatory jabs to work and the Vic Libs are silent.

Then there’s the essential vaccinations which are multiplying like rabbits. Having to have all your vaccinations lined up and current even before applying would cause a lot of people not to bother.

It’s a variation on what happened in Sri Lanka.
The Government there declared an overnight Transition to Organic Farming rather than a 25 year Transition.
Rioting is ongoing, starvation can’t be far away.
Here, Andrews gave workers in Essential Services a few weeks to either get vaccinated or fuck off.
Effectively, the end result is the same..

Ed Casesays:
May 29, 2022 at 5:46 am
My business eventually succeeded and lifted me out of poverty and into the middle class, then it grew more and my marriage vaulted me briefly into the 1%, before a business setback many years ago cut my earnings in half. I would consider myself upper middle class these days.

Class and Income aren’t necessarily related.
You’re a small business operator, you’re upper working Class, lower Middle Class, at best.
You can’t earn your way into the Upper Classes, that’s ridiculous.

Dickless pines for an end to social mobility, and a return to feudalism.

she admitted that she had no idea who Albanese was and had no interest in politics and juts donkey votes.

my experience with scrutineering is that the donkey vote is worth 10%

previously, when the ballot was in alpha order, it was worthwhile changing your name to Fred Aarons.

Will
I’d say the greens or the teals missed that vote. I think it’s good she didn’t register a formal vote. She’s less harm than the climate ideologues.

Looks fairly accurate

As does this

Thanks Tom!

Rabz says:
May 28, 2022 at 11:24 pm
Covering the Cocteau Twins

wow – thanks for that Rabz. Astonishing.

Ed Casesays:
May 29, 2022 at 6:42 am
Unsure who the cartoonist is here.

Unsure, but they’re here: https://home.solari.com/solari-toons/

Nobody’s girl

In her first interview since conceding defeat to independent Dai Le, Keneally said she was still deciding whether she would continue living in the electorate – despite vowing to do so whether she won or lost.

colour me surprised.

Uncle Roger finds the world’s worst biryani recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shg-tkQ9u40

johanna LOVE uncle Roger! 🙂

It truly is the icing on the cake that Rub’n’tug would have his majority if it wasn’t for parachuting in Nobody’s girl.

Former PM Tony Abbott launches new book on Christianity’s importance
The Catholic Weekly – May 28, 2022

Launching a new book on Christianity’s vital importance, former PM Tony Abbott noted that NSW had legalised euthanasia on the same day as the launch. This could only be described as a disaster, he said

Perfect closed-loop recycling.

Ready for beer made from urine? Gives ‘getting on the piss’ new meaning – Designed to battle water shortages (28 May)

‘NewBrew’ is made out of a liquid that is recycled from sewage, filtered, and pumped into Singapore’s water supply.

This 2022 version of NewBrew will be a “tropical blonde ale”, with a “smooth, toasted honey-like aftertaste.”

The beer, which was created by Singapore’s water agency, is now available in shops and bars to raise awareness about the country’s water scarcity challenges and the creative ways it has devised to address them.

“Scarcity” must mean “abundance” these days, since Singapore is an island state surrounded by water. Just add energy and you have perfectly pure H2O without resorting to filtering through kidneys.

why is it abos and other indigenous are encouraged to be proud to be part of a Nation, but white people are vilified for being nationalistic?

the left are mentally sick fucks.

Posted this before as Iam in Kooyong and had been to a meeting with Monique . she told one group a friend attendEd that she went into politics when her kids were worried they would not be able to ski anym ore . she arrived at our meeting in a Mercedes SUV with elaborate ski racks on top and then denied it two weeks later at polling booth line up . She could not answer any questions either .
I likened her campaigning to being haunted as she appeared every where on iPhone , i Pad posters everwhere a nd decided as the Italian word for haunt is Infestare that is what I am organising . All On right to infest her with complaints . Like can’t afford power Bill , shortages of … etc etc legallyb done but will make her life miserable ad she can’t afford to ignore .

Unless you’re Terri Butler, who went out still trying to score political points.

Labor are filthy on the Greens for taking South Brisbane in 2020, but it’s their own fault.
The Greens outflanked Labor to the Right while pretending to be of the Left, previously a Labor Party specialty.
As I keep saying, Labor is fucked [electorally speaking].

why is it abos and other indigenous are encouraged to be proud to be part of a Nation, but white people are vilified for being nationalistic?

because that’s what the left are pushing in the US and so it’s being imported here. Get a load of the old thief’slatest bit of mental vomit

Blairs law in action.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/28/how-australias-electoral-system-allowed-voters-to-finally-impose-a-ceasefire-in-the-climate-wars
How Australia’s electoral system allowed voters to finally impose a ceasefire in the climate wars
Michael Mann and Malcolm Turnbull
Preferential voting opened a pathway for independents to bypass the right’s hyperpartisan approach to climate policy

After the election, Rudd retained the same team of public servants who had been working on the ETS under Howard and they produced what Rudd called a carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS).

Murdoch has an even greater stranglehold on the Australian media. Yet several features of Australia’s electoral system made it resistant to Murdoch’s influence. The boundaries of parliamentary districts are set by an independent electoral commission and have been for generations – there are no gerrymanders. Voting is compulsory and participation is always well over 90%.

Miserable ghost is miserable.
Perfect opportunity for Dutton to expel the flatulent flogbag.

I still want to know why Howard encouraged and promoted Trumble.

Our mainstay goal should be that we both want and need to use much more energy.

Basically more energy = better standard of living.

Its not even controversial.
What is shitty is turds trying to stop exploitation of space resources and insisting we should all stay forever confined to earth.
All their scarcity hobgoblins they use to justify meddling and controlling are rooted once non terrestrial resources arrive.
Club of Rome is dead, cremated and shot into the heart of the sun 5 seconds after the first asteroid is made available for mining.

Cassie said

“ The electorate of Brisbane was held, until 2016, by the LNP’s Teresa Gambino. It’s bad sign for Labor and Liberal.”

Brisbane was held by Trevor Evans for the Liberal party until last Saturday.

Howard believed the Liberal Party should be a broad church.

I thought he was just saying that as an excuse for idiots like Georgiou and Broadbent.

I still want to know why Howard encouraged and promoted Trumble.

Howard was always from the Right Wing of the Liberal Party, in other words, he isn’t really a Liberal.
Turnbull is a Right Winger too, it was obvious from the way that Tony Abbott won the leadership off Turnbull that Abbott was an opportunist and wouldn’t last long.
What Howard couldn’t know was that Labor would roll Rudd a few months later and save Abbott’s leadership.
So, it made sense [from Howard’s POV] to encourage Turnbull to stay on, and when Abbott’s leadership imploded, as it was always going to, Turnbull was able tom turn the ship around.
If it hadn’t been for MediScare, Turnbull woulda held all those Seats that Abbott lost.

Michael Mann and Malcolm Turnbull

Notorious hockeysticker and miserable ghost are an item?
And published in the Grauniad…
Figures.

Fresh Study Proves COVID Shots Damage Long-Term Immunity to COVID
Moderna quietly admitted last month that the vaccine skeptics have been right all along.

You’ve probably heard of the spike proteins in the coronavirus right now, and the fact that the mRNA shots give you a gigantic dose of spike protein antibodies to fight it off. That’s entirely true – for about four months. That’s when the effectiveness of the shots vanishes completely and, then, you have to get on the booster shot rollercoaster. For those who haven’t figured it out yet, Big Pharma wants to make permanent booster shots a thing, rather than going back to the drawing board and trying to create a shot that actually provides long-term protection against COVID.

But the shots don’t provide any nucleocapsid antibodies. After studying 30,000 people in a paper that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Moderna just quietly published, the evidence points to this truth: Because vaccinated people don’t receive any nucleocapsid antibodies from the shots, they can keep catching severe cases of COVID – over and over again.

Unvaccinated people don’t have this problem

Unless it’s a blow out, you can just as easily wait until the DRO makes their declaration and congratulate the winner

Conceding when your numbers are hopeless let’s your Scrutineers go home and kick back after a bastard of a week.
It’s the considerate thing to do.

Beach Boys.

More Blairs law.

Cockhead interviews a cockmongler.
Five Minutes with Fitz

‘That’s when I felt searing pain, not this’: Kristina Keneally’s perspective on her electoral loss

Fitz: Yes, yes, yes, but under the circumstances of all your colleagues forming a government while you lost Fowler, I am not being unkind when I say you must be bleeding? Did you weep on Saturday night after the results came through?

KK: No. I had a whiskey with some very close friends. My major fear early in the evening was that I would lose Fowler and that would be responsible for the ALP not winning government, so when that didn’t materialise, it helped. In terms of overall pain, this loss doesn’t get close to what I have known. The greatest loss in my life was when my daughter Caroline was still-born in 1999, the single most defining moment in my life. That’s when I felt searing pain, not this. True, at the moment, I feel that I am of the world, not in it – things are happening around me that I am observing which I am simply not a part of, and in that regard that sense of unreality is not dissimilar to when my daughter died, but there’s also a sense of calm. I know that there are far worse things in life than losing an election.
…

FMD miserable ghost rears it head again.
Fitz: Is it possible the window that opens for you will lead into the Vatican, that you, like Tim Fischer once did, will become Australia’s ambassador to the Holy See?

KK: When he was prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull offered it to me once already.

I haven’t used ebay for a long time now, had a couple of old books to sell, so I thought I’d list them. It’s a pain in the arse. Incredibly fiddly to post a listing compared to a few years ago. I reckon it will face away.

A huge Fuck You Very Much for both the ALP and LNP.

Incorrect.
Trevor Evans still got 38% of the vote and 47% of the Postal Vote.
The only question was whether Labor would win on Green preferences or The Greens would win on Labor Preferences.

• Squish candidates fielded by both Uniparties, backed up by an almost non-existent ground game.

Incorrect.
Labor’s candidate was a fairly presentable woman, Greens and LNP fielded Openly Gay candidates.
Greens won.

shatterzzz, what’s the story re stamp collecting? I gave mine to one of the daughters years ago, just because she liked it. Wasn’t a lot of good in mine but a few that were worth a few quid back in the 90’s.

Still interested to see if Ralph Babet gets up or not. Crikey doesn’t seem to like him so that’s in his favour.

The Eagles image also covers The Byrds.

Also, Stray Cats.