Open Thread – Wed 1 June 2022
1,418 responses to “Open Thread – Wed 1 June 2022”
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NPR
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The AR-15 is designed to blow targets apart. Its bullets travel with such velocity that they can decapitate an adult.Unfortunately, this Uvalde coroner has now seen first-hand what the weapon can do to children.
The utter crap that is written.
If he thinks a .223 can “blow targets apart”, let’s hope he never sees what a PowerShok slug from a 12g can do. He’d wet his little pantaloons.
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CM has article up about Qld Police Commissioner evidence in Supreme Court about Vax mandate for cops.
“Ms Carroll said when she encouraged staff to get vaccinated it was “extraordinarily difficult’’ to get high vaccination rates within the police service”.
So naturally she imposed a mandate to get higher Vax rate. No jab, no job is so much easier.
Looks like she was given a hard time as one of the SC’s said she had some homework to do and needed to find the information she relied upon that suggested cops at higher risk. She will return on Friday which I am guessing was not her original plan.
The article did not mention if she was given information or direction by Qld Health or sought guidance.
Based on the article it seems she had little to back up her decision imposing the mandate.
It’s not about health but all about getting high Vax rates.
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Just wait until ICAC starts.
Can’t wait.
Exquisite timing – imagine all the fuckups that 40+ neophyte ministers will make.Personally, I loathe grift and pork barrelling – and the entire concept of discretionary grants is ground-bait for corrupt conduct.
Having said all that, as a statutory body, you have to stomach the existence of yet another, uneasy political play pen.
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Apropos of earlier comment, another UAF brigade fed-up with being sent forward without cover sans officers:
Matt Davies
@MNormanDavies
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The stuff of mutiny or even fraggingThis also happens when an army runs out of officers and experienced NCOs: surviving shell-hierarchies become indispensable, held back whether they want to lead or not
Quote TweetDr.Snekotron
@snekotron
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To all the men of Glorious Ukropina who laughed at Russian officers dying at the front, this is what happens when officers are cowards who do not lead by example.Here, men of the 57th Brigade confront a battalion commander who refuses to ship out to the front with them.
Shitty situation all round.
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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
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Biden will be cutting off Pell Grants,school lunches & billions of other federal education dollars to any school or college that refuses to follow his new & radical transgender & LGBT policiesWhat a surprise. You don’t worship an idol of the Regime, no funding for you.
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At least he’s now “first” at something.
President @JoeBiden finally did it.
The lackluster leader’s approval rating has fallen below every president of the modern era at this stage of their term.
I have that nagging feeling the Albanian is going to end up like Hiden and because of Liar’s party rules about ditching leaders, they’re stuck with him. How funny would that be!.
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Well Cats, I’m in London at the start of a few weeks in Europe. Got here yesterday and it’s great. The flight not so much.
We took the 17 hour flight from Perth and it was mask hell. At the Qantas club they couldn’t have cared less but on the flight they were Nazis. I must have been chipped about eight times to put my mask back on. When we arrived they told us that masks must be worn when we exited the plane and kept on in the terminal. Fucking liars! The Poms do not have a mask mandate in the terminal or anywhere else for that matter. Embarrassing to see that well over half the flight complied with their stupid order. Interesting though, that we weren’t asked for a vaccine passport at either end. Maybe we will have to show it to be allowed to return. We’ll see.
In tourist London – Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square, Mayfair etc – I would estimate there are only about 1 per 1000 people wearing masks. Many cafes and shops don’t even have hand sanitiser. In other words, they are completely over it here. A far cry from Perth.
Went for a walk to see Queen Liz today but couldn’t get anywhere near her joint. Her Jubilee celebrations kick off tomorrow and the barricades are up already. Thousands of people were there just to see the preparations. London has flags everywhere – streets, cafes pubs – and it really is a magnificent sight. Despite the absurd levels of immigration, there is a national pride here that has gone in Australia. The first headline I saw today from Australia, was that a Liberal premier wants to change the date of Australia day. Disgraceful.
As I write this, I’m quaffing a M&S no 34 Bordeaux Claret that came in a plastic bottle. Superb drop!
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Anyhoo, while you’re waiting for Tom’s toons, sit back, relax and have listen to a track featuring, as Rabz would say, the greatest guitarist of his generation. Well, for a few years at least.
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Daily Dutton Deraangement from Peter Broelman.
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winsays:
June 2, 2022 at 5:00 am
Jupes in Londinistan . Thank You and I do hope you will have time to give us further vicarious enjoyment of the Queens Jubilee celebrations deliberately denied to us by our miserable media.The media, all media (except their ABC), rely on advertising revenue to survive. this includes magazines and newspapers, whose cover price basely covers the cost of printing and distribution. So to get an advertiser, the media needs to deliver eyeballs, and I suspect the demographic interested in the Jubilee are old pensioners, who spend nothing, that ain’t going to happen.
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Ahahahaaaaaaa.
Jury sides with Captain Sparrow.
This is what happens to petulant bints who leave grogans in your bed, and act in whatever manner they please believing themselves to be under the all-conquering umbrella of ‘but wimmin’.
Make no mistake, Depp’s a drug-fucked cockhead – but this mole’s very public actions and their consequences warm yer cockles.
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Anyone who thinks a Federal ICAC will not be used like the NSW iteration against the LNP or even right leaning minor parties is not serious in their argument.
I’m not against the idea but am to be convinced of it after seeing scalps from NSW and the lack there of from Victoria where on the surface corruption is now many times worse than anything Sir Jo presided over. Not to mention Queensland where the slimiest of Premiers the state has ever had just changed the laws in our Unicameral parliament to hobble it’s investigations into his government. Na Labor, Greens, Teals will be a protected species.
My take anyway and am off. Work beckons.
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“Rockdoctorsays:
June 2, 2022 at 6:38 am
Anyone who thinks a Federal ICAC will not be used like the NSW iteration against the LNP or even right leaning minor parties is not serious in their argument.”Yes and anyone living or who has lived in NSW knows this. But this is why the left want it. As for the flat blob here who’s salivating at the idea of it, if he was serious about corruption, federally and state, he’d have a lot to say about the endemic corruption in his home state of Victoria under Daniel Andrews…but he has nothing to say, nada, zero, zilch. He wants a federal ICAC so he and his ilk will have another tool to bludgeon the LNP, bludgeon small right leaning parties and bludgeon ordinary citizens whose crime is that they’re conservative or right of centre.
And if we do get a federal ICAC, one of its first investigations should be into Anthony Albanese and slug gate.
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Amber ‘Shit-the-Bed’ Heard post-trial (syndicated in the NT News):
I’m sad I lost this case. But I am sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American – to speak freely and openly.
The does not include the right to publicly call people rapists, you stupid stupid woman. One of Depp’s lawyers:
Ms Vasquez described Heard’s allegations as “false” and “defamatory”, adding that they had caused “irreparable harm” to Depp and “ruined his life”.
She blasted Heard for her “performance” in court, claiming the starlet used her acting experience to play “the role of her lifetime as a heroic survivor of brutal abuse.”
Ms Vasquez told jurors that during the six-week trial, they had seen Heard “sobbing without tears while spinning elaborate, exaggerated, fantastical” claims of domestic abuse.
“It was a performance,” she added. “She told you what she thinks you need to hear to convict this man as a domestic abuser and a rapist.”
‘Believe all women’ just copped a massive smack across the chops.
More importantly – Heard just made the attempts of women genuinely suffering the sort of thing she claims Depp inflicted on her to seek justice much, much harder, and for that alone she should be condemned.
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Weather girl speaks out on the filth-ridden urban death maze that is Braaaaghton (the Hun):
Bec Judd has spoken out after her spat with Premier Daniel Andrews over crime in Bayside.
Judd told The Australian: “I’m glad my voice has shone a light on the escalating aggravated burglaries in Bayside”.
“We are thankful for low non-aggressive crime rates, the increasing nature of home invasion-type crimes in our local community is what makes residents, particularly women, feel unsafe.
“I welcome Operation Ibis and the extra 500 police promised to the people of Victoria.”
Operation Bin Chicken, targeting Brighton. Perfect.
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Um
Amber Heard was the abuser, gaslight Johnny and defamed him, falsely accusing him.
She should be in gaol, not whinging about her non existent right to defame and cause injurious falsehood.
For example a 192E (b) of the NSW Crimes Act – a financial disadvantage by deception, has the same culpability as plain old fraud (financial advantage by deception).
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the entire concept of discretionary grants is ground-bait for corrupt conduct
You will never get rid of this behaviour, but the way around this is to make it fair.
Provide every member with the HoR with an equal sized bucket of cash. Their pay and parliamentary expenses should also come out of this bucket, which they can set at the level they wish.
All fully disclosed, of course.
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From The Daily Telegraph…
“Woman’s plea to Anthony Albanese over claims new Labor MP has her nudes
A woman previously in an online relationship with Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale is angry over how her complaint was handled, pleading with Anthony Albanese to take up her case.
A young woman who is concerned a newly elected Labor MP still has intimate photos of her said she felt betrayed by the party and challenged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take up her case after she said the ALP tried to brush off her complaints about the alleged behaviour during the recent federal election campaign.
The woman, who has asked The Daily Telegraph not to reveal her identity, claimed she was in an intimate online relationship with Jerome Laxale, who recently won the seat of Bennelong for Labor by a thin margin of just 1,500 votes, from October 2020 to November of last year.
She alleges that Mr Laxale “asked me for private photos, nude photos, as well as suggestive photos” during the course of their exchanges but that she assumed he would delete them.
While she says the relationship ended amicably, the woman claims that when she went to work for Mr Laxale’s get out the vote effort in April as a friend and member of the union assigned to the campaign, rival Liberals made remarks to her claiming they had “seen the pictures on Jerome’s laptop”.
The woman said that when she raised her concern with the party after the initial incident, she was told “here’s the rule book, here you go.”
No suggestion is made that Mr Laxale inappropriately shared images, only that there are concerns around NSW Labor’s complaints processes.
In a formal complaint made to NSW Labor after the election the woman also claimed that after she raised the issue with Mr Laxale and other officials she was booted from the campaign and blocked from its social media channels.
Timeline: Laxale’s relationship
? First marriage ends “after 2019 state election”
? October 2020 to November 2021: Conducted online relationship with new woman
? Laxale later moves in with Jo Taranto (current partner): undetermined time to present
? 26 March 2022: Laxale’s candidacy announced
? 16 April 2022: Alleged incident at Emerton Shops (Liberal campaign volunteers said they “saw me on Jerome’s private laptop”):
? The woman raised issue with Laxale campaign team who acknowledged her complaint. He blocked her on social media and she was removed from the campaign. The woman was told there was a complaint against her.
? Made complaint to NSW Labor soon after – “she acknowledged it but didn’t do anything with it”. Then raised with head office. Was referred to sex harassment. rulebook
? 21 May – election
? 23 May – further formal complaint.A text message sighted by this newspaper from a campaign official to the woman read, “I want to ensure that you have all information available so that you can make an informed decision about how your would like your complaints to be dealt with,” and attached a number of Labor Party documents relating to rules and complaints.
It is also understood that the woman’s complaint raised the alarm among senior figures involved with the ALP’s NSW campaign who were concerned that if word of the issue got out it could derail their Bennelong campaign.
Mr Laxale was the subject of controversy during his campaign for Bennelong, with revelations that as Mayor of Ryde he failed to declare his friendship with a woman who would later become his partner after the dissolution of his marriage, and whose environmental charity received a small grant from Ryde City Council.
“They’ve put me in the dark and it really impacts me, not just my emotional wellbeing but my future prospects if those pictures come out,” she said.
“I want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to look into this personally.”
“I feel like it’s sort of a double standard, the party all supported Brittany Higgins but when it comes to one of their own it’s different.”
When contacted by email and text message, Mr Laxale responded, “please contact NSW Labor.”
A NSW Labor spokesman said, “NSW Labor takes all complaints very seriously and treats them with the utmost confidentiality.”
Firstly, memo to this woman, don’t hold your breath. There’s one rule for Labor and another rule for the Liberals. Perhaps this woman should have a discussion with Emma Husar.
Secondly, look here, when federal ICAC comes into being, here’s its first case….
“Mr Laxale was the subject of controversy during his campaign for Bennelong, with revelations that as Mayor of Ryde he failed to declare his friendship with a woman who would later become his partner after the dissolution of his marriage, and whose environmental charity received a small grant from Ryde City Council.
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She alleges that Mr Laxale “asked me for private photos, nude photos, as well as suggestive photos” during the course of their exchanges but that she assumed he would delete them.
First of all, it was an on line relationship, whatever that is. The recipient could have been anyone. Anyone at all.
A woman dumb enough, vain enough, to send intimate selfies to some random internet person is now complaining that he might not have deleted them? Really?
There is a level of stupidity here that beggars belief. It’s also the old “look at me, look at me! How DARE you look at me!” caper. I see why Dot is so dismissive and wary of modern women.
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RTWT
Talking our Way out of Rocky Horror:
MAY 31, 2022
Why Gender Restoration is the Culture War
Part 1: Introduction
by Kilts KhalfanWill there be any culture left when the culture war is over? Our culture is what we hand on to our children, but the West isn’t having children. The birth rates are down, and people are wondering why we aren’t having babies. Our men and women aren’t making big families and our communities are becoming sterile and childless. This is a crisis that’s been building for generations. Sterility is the real climate change crisis of our time. The poles are melting but it’s not the ice caps, it’s the sex symbols.
We have trashed our sex symbols in only three generations. The icons of male and female have been ruined by equality of the sexes, and the West has become almost indistinguishable from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We’re being terrorized by maniacal transvestites who want a genderless future. And yet the men and women who are opposed to the destruction of their sex are not unifying to revolt and create families. Without cultivating families, we have no culture. So how were we spoiled and sterilized in the first place?
We dressed our children in pink and blue, but we didn’t colour their language. We forgot to talk to children as future mothers and fathers. How we talk to our children is how we cultivate them, and the LGBT cultists grooming your kids understand this. They want to destroy sexual dimorphism and warp gender from the cradle. Their obsession with linguistics and sexual identity hits the foundation of our civilization. It’s why they are in kindergartens to enforce their barbarous dialect on your children. Our mother tongue is under attack and the maniacs are on target. They understand what conservatives have forgotten: that masculine men and feminine women are created through language.
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She let him take pictures of her and he didn’t do anything them with them?
It’s worse than that.
‘I sent risque nekkid pics to someone I don’t know during an online relationship, which ended. I don’t know if they have been deleted. I made a lot of assumptions.
‘Behold me, your victim. Cash or direct transfer accepted.’
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It’s also the old “look at me, look at me! How DARE you look at me!” caper.
Heh. The latest trend in wearing backsideless bikinis is a good example.
Chicks at an NT waterhole – no bums in their cozzies, wearing t-shirts. The rear view was something to behold – wobbling bare cheeks for all the world as though they were naked from the waist down.
Dirty looks towards the elderly ogglers of course. They only wanted to attract the attention of the “right” type of man. Hilarious.
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October 2020 to November 2021: Conducted online relationship with new woman
So a bloke who has an “online” relationship with a woman (weird point #1)…
…asks her for porn (weird point #2 given the nature of said relationship)…
…she actually sends him some and he still has them even though he’s in a new relationship, this time with a “live in” partner (weird point #3)…
This bloke is now a labor MP.
Actually makes sense.
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I see in the comments on Cassies climate change thread that Ed Case will be getting the tax payer funded pension in three years time.
OAP?
When the economy truly tanks, when inflation corrodes the value of what money he might get, he will discover that pensioners are in fact a very low priority for governments.
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Perrottet didn’t fall for the trap the “independent” infrastructure body set.
The ongoing Parramatta infrastructure spend continues.
If he shelved it, the ALP would have gone to town on it every day until the next state election.
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A young woman who is concerned a newly elected Labor MP still has intimate photos of her said she felt betrayed by the party and challenged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take up her case after she said the ALP tried to brush off her complaints about the alleged behaviour during the recent federal election campaign.
Rowe will be right onto this.
I can see it now – a picture of Morrison, Dutton and Abbott handing a bucket of faeces to poor Albo, saying “We are stupid people who hate Australians and are jealous of the economic genius that Labor is about to bring to bear.”
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So Warren is blaming the electricity providers for the price of electricity. This despite the fact government has done everything they could to disincentivise cheap reliable electricity to instead send arcs of electrons across to the electrodes of the Renewables Frankenstein* that they have assembled from the lifeless parts of Green promises.
I gather that, for example, when a renewable shows the least spark of life the reliables have to disconnect to that extent. The reliables are thus denied the opportunity to charge for the power – everything must make way for the cosseted little upstart who is in no way up to the task.
When they say Renewables have provided 13% of supply, what they mean is that they worked 13% of the time.
*Yes, I know Frankenstein was the doctor not the monster, but I am appealing to the 1950’s style monster that has the bolts on its neck and the flat head, which was invariably called ‘Frankenstein’.
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A morning thought. I think it’s time we threw it back. I’m tired, very tired, of the right turning the other cheek. Of course the woman above was a fool but Mr Laxale is now the member for Bennelong. The next time there’s a rape allegation against a Labor MP, as was the case back in 2014, if the Liberals do the decent thing and keep shtum about it, like they did back in 2014, then they’re fools who never ever deserve to be in government again.
Just look at what was done to Cardinal Pell, to Christian Porter, to Andrew Laming, to Alan Tudge, to the accused in the Higgins’ case. All have had their lives/careers destroyed.
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Love is love.
Stop the Spread by Not Having Sex, UK Tells Monkeypox Sufferers (1 Jun)
British officials have told those suffering from monkeypox that they should abstain from sex in the hopes of curbing the spread of the disease.
Those showing symptoms of the monkeypox virus should avoid having sex with other people, government experts have advised those suffering from the disease.
The advice comes as officials confirm that an additional 71 cases of the rare disease were confirmed in the UK on Monday, with the current outbreak disproportionately affecting the country’s so-called “MSM” population, which stands for “men who have sex with men”.
Saying “a pox on the MSM” now has more than one connotation.
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callisays:
June 2, 2022 at 7:56 am
And another thing. Those chicks were sitting at a cafe with their bare *rses on chairs that others would have to use
This is a job for Troy Buswell.
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Dot
I don’t want to live in a mafia run fascist state.
Neither does monti-fa(scist), unless his side is running the Mafia. But he does want each and every person who disagrees with his politics to be hounded from pillar to post under a Mafia/fascist system run by his ideological associates.
Like most leftists, monti-fa’s personality comprises large elements of hatred, hypocrisy, envy and fear, and the first and last of those dominate. Look at his behaviour since he crawled out of his hole just before the election. He hates those who disagree with him politically, and fears that, in power, they will behave like his side.
He could vent his emotions at his own blog, but like a puffed up Mussolini, he craves an audience. At his own blog, he would have Steve from Brissy and Homer P chiding him for perceived ideological impurities, and Rex A pulling his chain, but no other audience, and so he is here.
Every time he appears, he should be treated as he so richly deserves.
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These are you could say something about anything allegations.
Marginal targeted solar panel roasted pork.
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“The Albanese government has promised $2.2b for the rail loop, but Victoria wants $9.3b more”
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Remember those ‘green audits’ which iirc resulted in zero people implementing the ‘advice’ received?
everything government touches turns to rorts
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