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Progressivism arose from liberal northern Protestantism in the post-Civil War period, not what would later come to be known as evangelicalism.
The queen referred to her life at the start of her reign in the unusual terms of ‘whether it be short or long’.
Look, I’ll be happy if we get through it all without someone shitting in someone else’s bed.
Good speech by Charles as ever. He’ll be a good king, more fun than mummy. More like grandmama.
To be fair indoor we all had the same: a tennis ball with a leather cover. I never liked them, too light. You could get them to swing like bananas though, which was fun.
I was just a wee lad in ’77. My only fashion crime from that time was a hot pink shirt.
One of the few things Dutton has got right so far.
Until he accepts that most of the electorate understands that being hated by the Australian media is a badge of honour that he should wear proudly which most people share, he is simply adding to the terms of government it will take for the LNP to regain power.
My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade. The 2022 election was a disaster for the LNP, which lost 19 seats. There is also now a buffer of 19 seats between the LNP’s 58 and the ALP 77 seats — and most of that buffer is loony left teals and Filth in rich inner suburban doctor’s wives seats that I reckon will never come back to the LNP.
The ALP will be kept in power for the foreseeable future by Green-leaning inner suburban rich people — the athiest Simon Holmes a Court demographic that believes in scientific fairy tales like global warmening.
The LNP needs to start building a coalition of the outer suburban, aspirational middle class or it will be in the wilderness for a lot longer than a decade — an ambition that Dutton has thankfully enunciated.
The width of the flare was proportionate to the height of the platform shoe. And the tightness of the pants.
Everyone who was there knows this. 🙂
Addendum: 2022 AEC state of the parties: ALP 77, LNP 58.
The last two years have destroyed the public image of Australia.
Yep, a country with politicians as venomous as the fauna.
Credlin’s column today roasted the Government’s inaction over providing cheap, reliable electricity over the past decade.
Remind me again who Ms Credlin and hubby work/ed for?
They seem to think we don’t notice.
I was able to get away with a body shirt.
With neither its charm nor its intelligence.
How many buttons did you leave undone, Zulu? 🙂
The Beloved favoured Levis western cut shirts, the ol’ cowboy wannabe.
Ha ha.
They’ll be lucky to see the Term out.
Labor is a dying Party of Oldsters stuck in the Whitlam Era.
There ain’t enough Doctors Wives, the Chinese, Vietnamese and Africans all live in a handful of electorates, so they’re no help, women voters don’t like standing in breadlines, write them off, and The Greens have pinched the Youth Vote.
All Peter Dutton has to do is avoid a discussion on Nuclear Power, sack any idiot that talks about that, Economic Rationalism or restarting the Climate Wars and he’s home and hosed for twenty years.
They’ve given Gilmore to Labor on those figures, but it’s still in play for the Liberal Party.
Albanese has only 76, so he’s on wood before he ever starts.
Yep. I wuz there. O happy days of yore. The idiotic fashions matched the politics.
By 1980 though I had met the Hairy One and we both set out turning conservative.
The Liars will self destruct in that time.
Albanese has only 76, so he’s on wood before he ever starts.
Sad as it may be for m0nty-fa, AnAl can’t afford to institute a federal ICAC. It only takes one Craig Thomson, and how many potential Craig’s are there among the Liars?
With the pearloid press stud buttons? I miss them.
Looking at reportage so far, all is sweetness and light for Labor on Sky News.
Turn it off, says Hairy as Albanese’s and Wong’s adventures in Asian climes comes on.
I want to see what they are saying about it, say I.
What they are saying is that relatonships are being ‘re-established’.
I didn’t know they were dis-established.
They are all falling into line over the narrative.
Viz – The good guys are back in charge and all is well with the world.
Ambulances – fixed; gas shortages – fixed; wages – fixed; hospitals – fixed.
So I did turn it off. What’s the point in seeing more of this?
I’m with Tom. It could take ten more years for the true electoral rot to set in.
The MSM have abandoned half their prospective customers.
I don’t ever see reason for getting another TV.
Weird how they’ve all gone lefty.
I concur.
I read Nikki Gemmel’s piece in the Australian Magazine and nearly threw up.
It was a total panegyric unworthy of the name of anything like fair or informed ocomment.
O brave new world that hast Labor in it, escaped from the foul hell we suffered before it.
Don’t deliberately make yourself sick, says Hairy. She’s poison.
Much worse than Philip Adams.
And we pay for this?
Do you know last night we nostalgically watched BBC news. Once you accept that the climate narrative is absolutely part of everything you might as well watch it for some of their better shows. Hairy agrees with someone in Australia who said the ABC makes the BBC look fair and balanced, and it is true that at least the BBC try to have occasional alternative viewpoints represented. Not sticking up for them too much, because they too can be sickening, but there is that. Also, the UK is much further down the damage track than we are here, with Labor taking it up with a crusading vengeance, so even the BBC has to recognise the underlying swells of discontent.
I’ve managed to avoid most of the coverage of the albo government, but the little I have seen has been fawning with SFA substance on how he will address real problems for the productive classes.
You know the ones, food, fuel, power inflation. The things that will bite the working class hard.
After Coles brought in two weeks leave for trannies, Woolworths had to respond.
Now they’ve done so.
First look: Flagship Woolies “health and wellness” revamp (Daily Terror, 5 June, paywalled)
IGA is looking better and better, although I wish they’d be more reliable in providing currawong mince. On the other hand my local IGA supplies yummy Habanero and Carolina Reaper hot sauces not available elsewhere.
If you pay for the Weekend Australian, that’s your business, but it doesn’t make any sense.
My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade. The 2022 election was a disaster for the LNP, which lost 19 seats. There is also now a buffer of 19 seats between the LNP’s 58 and the ALP 77 seats — and most of that buffer is loony left teals and Filth in rich inner suburban doctor’s wives seats that I reckon will never come back to the LNP.
1 week of power outages in Newtown and Clovelly will have the teals and sundry greens being tarred and feathered. The psychology is a smug, comfortable utterly divorced from reality one which is as sustainable as an array of solar panels in Perisher in mid winter. Whether the LNP has the wit and courage to capitalise on the imminent shit-show is another question as is whether the average punter has the balls to act like the left do and start acting violent towards the filth and liars.
My press stud buttons were all actual pearl.
So I was told.
Looking at reportage so far, all is sweetness and light for Labor on Sky News.
Outsiders is holding the line.
Albanerse can’t outflank The Greens to the Right, so he’ll go Left, into Liberal Party territory.
Once he goes there, he’s fucked.
It won’t take long either, unless Liberal ginger Groups start spruiking Nuclear Power, Economic Rationalisation, restarting the Climate Wars or going within a million miles of IR.
Oh no the concoctions are thick and fast but not from me.
1. I’m not a “liberal”, because you conflate the term with progressivism.
2. “Typical fashion…” purely rhetorical.
3. You have been on a Vlad Bae love fest for quite a while. It doesn’t *own libs* to side with Putin.
4. I am not basing my arguments on what Catholics and protestants believed in the 1960s. I quoted a Baptist source from the 1979s, post Row v Wade.
5. The philosophical underpinning of progressivism was middle class evangelical protestantism. The “inner light” of people turned into a utopian ideal.
6. I have been otherwise told: it’s not the mainline protestants OR it is the mainline. Which one is correct?
That’s absurd because (true) liberalism has always had notions of minors, capacity to consent and eschewing public education and parental choice.
It’s not about harm, it is about consent and protection of minors. Harm as an issue is relevant but not a first principle.
No. It came from somewhere.
Progressivism did not come from classical liberalism.
Good lord.
1970s
Roe
….
For Cats with an interest in history – I’m finding this book fascinating reading.
Sacré bleu – this is why I love my Levi’s jackets with the “industrial buttons”, press stamped as they are.
The copper ones are (very) boring, but the industrials are a perfect match for the Soviet Grey and Olive Drab corduroy jackets.
These li’l details matter, Cats. 🙂
Historical context is your friend.
Northern Protestantism fresh from moral ictory in the Civil War.
ictory?
victory!
Beery – the width of the flare, is like the elusive quality of mercy.
Best forgotten at the nearest available opportunity, along with the stacked heels and all the rest of that monstrous decade, which I’m totally not into.
Hahaha. After a week in power, Elbow is already telling Australians to lower their expectations, like the Democrats in the US, because he can’t fix their problems.
I think Head Case is right — the Australian electorate is already regretting its decision to change brands.
However, after the past decade’s Turnbullian sabotage, I have total faith in the LNP’s ability to fuck up its path back to power.
Albanerse?
How about Albanarse?
and side-burns
Snickers & Albanarse, the Dynamic Duo.
Tom – best not to dwell on it.
I’m still trying not to break out the flamethrower every time I hear that dreaded phrase “Prime Minister Albansleazey”.
Bizarre parallel universe time. With no end in sight.
Meanwhile, Charming Jim has turned into Grim Jim. Just like that, after a Treasury briefing.
Do you expect Albo to serve a full term as PM?
ScoMo did so, but he was the first since the iPhone came out.
I’m betting Tanya Plibersek will be sharpening the big knife within eighteen months.
Mutton chops are the preferred “pretending we are not sporting a weird*” when we might just be.
*Weird – a contraction of “weirdo with a beard”.
Please!
Not while I’m cooking dinner.
KRuddy’s amendments make both UniParty leaders immune from challenge during the term of government.
Russell Brand – It Begins
… virtually immune …
But he’ll still have his very prominent jug ears and stupid ugly mug.
The whiny voice of course, being an added bonus. Always helps when attempting to apportion the blame for your irredeemable idiocy elsewhere.
#timetoresurrectandyleigh
You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.
Fresh from saving the environment.
eschewing public education, supporting parental choice
Elon Musk Just EXPOSED Klaus Schwab & World Economic Forum..
She’s doing it now, for goodness’ sake. Albansleazey has unrepentantly humiliated her over the last six (?) months.
Hell hath no fury like a labore wymminzes scorned.
Bear, I think the Liars leader is immune from challenge in government and opposition.
Effectively Il Duce for life.
Pancho – they can only be overthrown during a labore conference?
Kruddles was very specific about the circumstances where a “koo day tah” might be allowed to take place.
Speaking of, whatever happened to poor ol’ Piggy Howes?
It’s the Labor Party…where there’s a will there’s a factional power broker who’ll prevail upon Elbow to resign, should it be deemed necessary, for the party’s sake, with a suitable inducement.
Say what you like about the 70’s.
At least we could afford backsides for our swimsuits.
Let’s hope so.
An inequitable distribution of the pain is the surest way to awaken righteous anger.
I think this might have been mentioned before, but it does rather speak for itself.
CEO of large Spanish pharma company bought a fake vaccine card
I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg. How many of those make decisions about our lives at Davos do you think have actually taken the poison being pushed on us?
And to think we were embarrassed about a wedgie!
PM Albanese could be ejected if 75% of ALP parliamentarians vote to do so.
60% when in Opposition.
You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.
Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy control the Sydney grid with Endeavour concentrated in Sydney’s West and Ausgrid looking after the luvvies. Each has the capacity to shut down sections of its grid and/or demand high consumers like Tomago shut down in shortages. No doubt there will be politics in it but why should the LNP give a rats if the Teal electorates are hit as frequently as the outer West or Newcastle or Wollongong?
sunday special … countdown
30 minutes until beef bourguignon
https://www.lecreuset.co.za/recipes/beef-bourguignon/
adjustments:
dont use the roast rub. you wont need it if you brown the meat properly.
add 1 bouquet garni (made of a handful of fresh parsley, thyme, 4 fresh bay leaves)
not a few sprigs … a hand full !!
tie it up with twine
take all the celery tops and lay them on top of the stew under the lid for the duration then remove them at the 3 hr mark along with the bouquet .
cook another 30 minutes with the lid off for colour and flavour
use cast iron !!!
how 70’s is that?
Excellent!
Hope you have a Brandy Alexander cheesecake for dessert.
Progressivism did not come from classical liberalism.
It came from Marxism. The Frankfurt School was disappointed that Marx’s purely economic analysis had been refuted by history’s failure to produce widespread revolutions of the proletariat. The Frankfurt School wanted to smash the West so it set about smashing the cultural bases of the West with a view to enabling a Marxist revolution to succeed.
Oh and btw, “Protestantism” and “evangelical Protestantism” aren’t synonyms.
Our electricity provider has just sent us an email advising that our rate will double. The suggestion – we find another supplier.
Have other Cats had this?
Love BB – had it for dinner last night, in fact. Daughter likes it with fettuccine noodles, but I prefer it with a baked potato smothered in sour cream, pepper and chives.
I still use the Womens’ Weekly recipe cards from the ’70s. A few tweaks here and there – brown sugar instead of white – but the family love it as it’s been served for almost 40 years. And, as they say, when you’re on a good thing…
There will be rolling street battles before that happens.
I’m now going alien and volcanic.
The War of the Worlds (1978)
Journey to The Centre of The Earth (1974)
Oops, I’ll just go put that on Rabz radio thread where it was supposed to be…
the only thing better than Gourmet Traveller …
Nanna Tech
first class, all the WW recipes are tried and tested by nannas or they don’t get published
Jorgesays:
June 5, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Oops, link to The Philosopher’s Zone not working, ABC Radio National.
And thats a good thing.
like I needed an excuse to buy more brandy
Elbow is the left’s Australian puppet in exactly the same mould as the puppet president of the US: deliver the left’s wishlist or be arseholed without ceremony. The Slovenian Slag is this year’s Julia Gillard: the designated hired assassin if the left doesn’t get what it wants.
Ooh! I have the most fabulous GT Christmas Pud recipe.
Use it every year.
Tom, after the 2007 election a mate and I thought that the next Coalition PM hadn’t been born yet. In 2010 the Liars nearly lost power except for the machinations of a couple of dick independents.
Not even, Rabz.
I think it is a vote of the “members”.
Or BSU’s* as they are known.
….
Branch Stacking Units.
Hmm … I’ll swap you for Father Geoff Riley’s recipe
I don’t think I ever made that equivocation.
John Quiggin reckoned the Liberal party would cease to exist shortly after 2007 and Labor & the Greens would rule triumphantly for 1000 years.
Haha
No.
Any suggestions for the next radio show theme, cats?
And no, Christian Rock 1981 – 1997 is not an option.
Nor is Country and/or Western.
Or any other bollocky crap that might result in me invoking (cue spooky muzak …) the spirit of “Arks the Terrible”. 🙂
Roger at 6:56.
Thanks for the detail.
I got my terminology wrong. Tania Plibersek is the Slovenian Hag. My apologies.
Who has previously stated this, Cats? Some candidates:
.1 Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly
.2Perfesser von Wrongsolen
.3 The Murpharoo
.4 Pedro FitzSimians
.5 Denny Shanahan
.6 The Clennell
.7 mUttley
Hint – the answer, such as it is, lurks beneath your nose – and as we all know, the nose knows … 😕
Jug and washboard bluegrass 1930 – 1950 hasn’t had a run yet.
Sancho
You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.
Correct. It will happen in the suburban and regional city electorates. You know, the ones that m0nty-fa swears can never be won by the Coalition. The Liars might well hand them over on a silver platter, with rotating blackouts.
The joys of youtube – an ad for less than gruntled train drivers, FFS.
Like anyone with a functioning brain would give a rodents’.
Tell your stories walking, you fat communist bastards.
callisays:
June 5, 2022 at 6:36 pm
Say what you like about the 70’s.
At least we could afford backsides for our swimsuits.
But quite often no tops?
New Wave and Electronica.
Dunni why but both popped into my head immediately I saw your request Rabz. Must be something unfulfilled in my animal parts.
Dunno not dunni. Maybe dunni is a psychological thing but.
Which is why I’m buying a 7kva+ generator (preferably diesel) and getting the sparky son to wire up a 32amp connection to the house.
It’s not a matter of “if” we get blackouts, it’s a matter of “when” and I have to say the generator purchase was happening regardless of election outcome.
BTW, has Turnbull been arseholed yet?
If not, why not?
Agree with Cohenite upthread.
If the LNP start talking sensible energy policy while labor deals with what’s coming they could be back in sooner than later.
None of this prevents drag queen story hour or visits by children to drag shows when the children concerned are in the company of their parents.
“My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade. The 2022 election was a disaster for the LNP, which lost 19 seats. There is also now a buffer of 19 seats between the LNP’s 58 and the ALP 77 seats — and most of that buffer is loony left teals and Filth in rich inner suburban doctor’s wives seats that I reckon will never come back to the LNP.”
Depressing scenario Tom. If we omit the Teal electorates (like the one I live in), I suspect many seats won by Labor two weeks ago, such as Bennelong and Reid, will be won again by the Liberals in three or six years time. I’m comforted by the fact that Tony Abbott, when he became leader in 2009 went on to take the fight to Labor in 2010, resulting in a hung parliament and then onto his massive victory in September 2013.
The Teals? I don’t know, but here’s an insight into the electorate of Wentworth (and other Teal electorates). This afternoon I attended a function here in Wentworth with a friend. I had a long conversation with a well known Liberal who said that she had done a lot of pre-poll campaigning in Wentworth and in North Sydney. She was confronted every day with people babbling on about climate change but also…..wait for this….they didn’t like the fact that the Liberal Party is also beholden to the right, to Barnaby Joyce and to other National and conservative Liberals. So she would say to them “that’s parliamentary democracy, it’s a team, a broad church” and “what do you want? “Do you want to disenfranchise half of Australia?” And the response she invariably got to that last question was silence. It’s clear we now have a situation where progressive elite scum, like those who reside in Wentworth, Kooyong, Goldstein and North Sydney, want to silence and disenfranchise ordinary Australians.
Nothing is as seventies in the culinary sense as putting on a spread to impress that includes a display of Samboy chips somewhere in it. I have seen the cookery books, it existed once.
Has it ever been otherwise? All that hissing about the Murdochracy has been going on for as long as I can remember.
“BTW, has Turnbull been arseholed yet?
If not, why not?”
Because the Liberal Party is the Coward’s Party.
Rabz said:
Ah yes, stacked heels. I have one totally destroyed ACL thanks to a short trip down a stair one evening — before the drinkies even started! Bastard things.
Much as I hate the term, NSW batflu data is now more “granular”. Telling.
Ok Cats a new drinking game
Woo Hoo!
Watch the ABC for the evening and every time they mention climate change you have to drink a glass of red
( Or scotch and water for the weirdos)
So far I’ve gotta admit I’ve had a few …
And it’s only news and grand designs
Dotsays:
June 5, 2022 at 7:28 pm
Oh and btw, “Protestantism” and “evangelical Protestantism” aren’t synonyms.
I don’t think I ever made that equivocation.
Dotsays:
June 5, 2022 at 3:09 pm
I don’t know about the provenance or legitimacy of The Baptist Press, but, a mere none days after Roe v Wade:
….
If that is from a legitimate source and not some fraudulent shop, then I am going to associate evangelicals with abortion.
Embalmers and vaxed clients blood clots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvtGSt6fRk&t=0s
Meanwhile Yassminn Abdel-Magied who dumped on Australia and went to the UK to live is now dumping on the UK:
‘There are union jacks every where it’s like a waking nightmare’ Yassminn Abdel-Magied, a Londoner
the only thing better than Gourmet Traveller …
Are you effing kidding? Gourmet T is- and was- “buy trendy stuff and perch it on a plate”.
Delicious was a bit better, ie more dedicated to fabrication, but last it after the third album. Then it became “buy packaged stuff and mix it in a pot” commercial.
Now it’s been eclipsed by Coles’ own “buy our product, and here’s why it’s not a naff/unhealthy/fattening as you think”, free at the checkout.
…
Disclaimer, a good friend has gone from GT/Delicious to Taste to a trvael mag, as photo designer and layout. She got lotsa stories about the chef set.
Which is why I’m buying a 7kva+ generator (preferably diesel) and getting the sparky son to wire up a 32amp connection to the house.
It’s not a matter of “if” we get blackouts, it’s a matter of “when” and I have to say the generator purchase was happening regardless of election outcome.
Have a look at generators that run on gas. No long term storage problems. All liquid fuels can oxidise over time. If you go diesel, make sure you fill it over winter so you get winter spec diesel. If you fill in summer and it gets cold enough in winter you can have problems.
Watch the ABC for the evening and every time they mention climate change you have to drink a glass of red
Listen to News Radio in the morning and you’ll be too pissed to get the bread in the toaster.
I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg. How many of those make decisions about our lives at Davos do you think have actually taken the poison being pushed on us?
Vaccination is only for the peasants. Only the incredibly dumb of the Parasite Class took it.
Apparently, we are going to have a referendum on the “voice” and on the “republic”.
Back in the late 1990s Tony Abbott and others fearlessly fought the 1999 Turnbull republic. They won.
Will we see Liberals step up and fight the absurdity and racism that is the “voice” in the proposed referendum and will we see the Liberals fight the idea of being a republic or, will they cower and capitulate like they did on SSM, on euthanasia and on every other culture issue?
I think I know the answer to that question. Don’t know why I asked.
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.
I hope they pull the plug on Melbourne’s West. Contaminated soil, no jobs and no electricity could prove to be a potent combination with respect to finally getting some long overdue lamp post action.
Cassie,
As a simple country lad I have seen this first hand but would date it back to roughly 2009/10, the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd v Abbott time frame with the media going batshit over Abbott.
Even with family members which is sad. Covid has driven the wedge in further.
Exactly my comment the day after the election.
They despise people they deem “ordinary”. The glow from their backsides eclipses them.
Beertruksays:
June 5, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Meanwhile Yassminn Abdel-Magied who dumped on Australia and went to the UK to live is now dumping on the UK:
‘There are union jacks every where it’s like a waking nightmare’ Yassminn Abdel-Magied, a Londoner
Able Magpie won’t go back to Sudan, because she knows it is a shithole. So why does she want everywhere she lives to become a carbon copy of her original shithole?
Contaminated soil, no jobs and no electricity could prove to be a potent combination with respect to finally getting some long overdue lamp post action.
No food will do it.
Haha, the flags they’re a triggering!
Woman claims Union Jack leaves her feeling “very unsafe” as Jubilee row continues (4 Jun)
POC, like this unnamed lady, are scared by flags because reasons. There you go.
Even with my small farming operation I churn through ~10,000lt/year so there’s always fresh stuff but I know what you mean.
Years ago a mate and I went to pick up our headers from the last contracting job we’d done near Ballarat. There was summer fuel in the tanks of course but it was July and a frosty morning. Diesel like jelly till about mid morning!
Posted without comment:
Saw a quote today-
‘Sounds like Johnny Depp has acquired Heard immunity’
Are One Nation voters and proud of it.
I was glad they won. I had voted for a republic but nearing the end of the campaign I became fearful of how the process would work and who would be elected for the role.
I always followed the british royal family members and events in their lives but from a young age I was mindful that this was not our future. Still am of this mind but if I had to vote again today, in light of what I’ve seen and experienced in the last two and a half years, I would vote NO.
This is akin to someone terrified of sharks volunteering to go into a shark cage, being dropped over the side and then complaining that there are sharks while not asking to be let out of the cage, let alone be taken from the water.
‘No worries. I’ll go in the shark cage and into the ocean within that cage where there are millions of sharks which I am horrified by. In fact, I’ll live in the cage amongst all those sharks. However, if someone could do something about the sharks that would be spiffing.’
A friend rang me to tell me that Princess Allegra went to synagogue today. Today and tomorrow is an important Jewish holiday…Shavuot so, Princess Allegra has made an appearance at a synagogue, fair enough, that’s what a local member should do. Anyway, apparently Princess Allegra has pledged her support for the Jewish community. That’s great Allegra, very nice however I do hope you take more care with who you employ in your electoral office. Remember your campaign worker Blair Palese? Ms Palese, smearer of Israel and spruiker of the BDS. But at least Princess Allegra doesn’t think that Trump’s decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem back in 2017 was to “satisfy his wealthy Jewish donors”…..they were the words of a another far more sinister Teal.
I may have said this before but my intention over the next three years is to hold Princess Allegra to account. The next time some far-left progressive hacks try a BDS campaign against anything Israeli, I’ll eagerly await Princess Allegra’s vocal condemnation, on the ABC, on SBS, in the Nine Newspapers and in The Malcolm Guardian. The next time Israel has to go into Gaza and the Jewish community here in Oz is subjected to ramped up lies, slander and physical threats (we get them all the time but it’s always worse when Israel has to take military action), I’ll eagerly await Princess Allegra’s vocal condemnation, on the ABC, on SBS, in the Nine Newspapers and in the Malcolm Guardian. I will expect Princess Allegra to not just talk the talk, which she’s pretty good at but more importantly I will expect Princess Allegra to walk the walk. We will see.
Rabz, was that in the sidebar?
The Poms just won their first Test with Stokes as skipper and that fairy boy (yet establishment favourite) Silverwood gone as coach.
Against NZ, so a proper team as well. Much more impressive.
Doves – it was indeed.
Thought it was very timeless, nonetheless.
She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”, adding: “I know that these flags are being put around for the Platinum Jubilee, but the reality is their presence taps into deep fears for POC (people of colour).
Have you considered fucking off permanently to some place they don’t display Union Jacks?
Naomi Wolf interview
NEW: Pfizer Releases More Documents
The Pfizer documents should see any number of heads roll but it’s hard to be optimistic when, after all this, they have just approved injecting babies with, to put it in the mildest terms, ineffective and dangerous concoctions, which are KNOWN to be such.
Words fail me, they honestly do.
Saints Andrew, George and Patrick? Plausible.
I have a theory.
Trumble allegedly kicked in a bundle of cash to the 2016 campaign.
I wonder if it was not so much a donation as a loan, to be called in anytime he felt like it.
A poison pill sword of Damocles donation.
“I have a theory.
Trumble allegedly kicked in a bundle of cash to the 2016 campaign.
I wonder if it was not so much a donation as a loan, to be called in anytime he felt like it.
A poison pill sword of Damocles donation.”
I think your theory is correct.
Yassmin appears not to have learned much. In short order she can get herself hated out the UK if she keeps going. After her screw up with the US visas she wont be welcome there and Australia is probably out of the question. It would be awful to see her without the hope a state to call home.
Not everyone was so fearful.
93.1% of the backing sing-persons and dance-persons at the Pladinum concert were persons of colour.
Which I just ditched because David Attenborough and Prince Willhelm started climate sermonising.
Meanwhile Yassminn Abdel-Magied who dumped on Australia and went to the UK to live is now dumping on the UK:
That horrible thing is only matched by Omar and Markel…..
Matrix (at 7.26 pm) this is the basic recipe. Must-have ingredients include dates, prunes and cranberries. If the link doesn’t work, google “How to make a boiled Christmas Pudding” by Emma Knowles.
Christmas Pud.
Saw yesterday one of the Navy’s supply ships now has a passageway – the longest on the vessel – named after some aboriginal “street”. It was the land route used to travel somewhere for a festival etc etc.
If I remember correctly the main passageway on Stalwart was George Street…
A couple of years ago I made a deal with Mrs P.
She liked to watch ABC News and we had Skah at that point.
The deal was this.
We start on their ABC at 7:00 but I get to flick to Skah as soon as they run a climate change story.
I think in three weeks we only got through to ABC sport and weather once.
Don’t forget the big donation by Turnbull to the barrier reef foundation that disappeared pronto O/S without batting an eyelid.
You know, if a Pom batterer chases a wide outswinger and slices it to gully and gets out, I wonder if Brendan McCullum will be hand-patting with a “better luck next time, old chum”.
Or, if they head oop North and get a greentop at Headingly or Old Trafford, will he “rest” the best swing bowler of the last generation?
Almost two Million (chump change apparently) and yes, this is why he has not been punted.
Expecting the gliberals to exhibit some semblance of a spine is like waiting for catastrophic human induced climate change to enter our lives.
That is, never.
She liked to watch ABC News and we had Skah at that point.
Couldn’t you get Telemundo?
No; and
No. Because an actual cricketer’s in charge. Would still have like to see Langer get the gig though, if only as a giant ‘Fuck You’ to the Cricket Australia halfwits.
empowering us to self-determination.
You know what every victim wants?
To be free and fully functioning individuals in the protections and values of Western society.
You know what they wish for their assaulters?
To fairly, and fully, feel the consequences of injuring the life and liberty of an individual.
So what are we talking about?
We’re talking about a constitutional democracy, with concise proscriptions upon infringing on an individual’s natural rights, written in common law.
How is the state going to act upon an individual?
Police first, court if necessary, detain and punish if warranted.
And what is the born-to-rule Left talking about?
Creating an unwieldy, opaque and inassailable Leviathan for an appointed ruling class to play checquers with the lives of men.
Some adverse comments recently about Yellowstone which I think is the best thing since Deadwood. Here’s some highlights; they begin with Dutton kicking some commie chunks off his property:
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1165770937554048
I think my winter heating woes might be alleviated somewhat.
The people over the back have had a yuuuge tree come down. They are glad to get rid of as much of it as I can take.
A new chain for the Stihl and a bit of fuel and I will be set.
“But it will have to dry out for a season” I hear you say.
Nup.
Dead as a Dodo and ready to go.
Not red gum.
But not $150 a metre either.
Rembert it took economic rationalism to get Labor past a decade in power. Far leftist Rub ‘n Tug ain’t no economic rationalist.
I think McCullum and Langer would be out of the same mould.
That is, if you are paid $800k to do a job, but you can’t retain a simple instruction in your head between leaving the pavilion and taking guard, and you get out as a result of forgetting that instruction, I will get up you.
thanks but damn, now I have to go and find Riley’s and transcribe it
I feel unsafe in the presence, online or otherwise, of communists. They are cool with killing as many as it takes to achieve their utopia, so their very existence means that I or my family could be murdered merely for insufficient exuberance.
Football jerseys with black and white vertical stripes make me feel “very unsafe” and cause me to clutch my wallet and car keys tightly.
Maybe buy her this for her birthday.
And yet those same jerseys make we want to take other people’s wallets* and car keys^.
*Hoping there’ll be dentists’ business cards in them.
^Commodores (manual) only.
Just overhearing some show my wife is watching upstairs, which has just claimed that Queensland settlers murdered an estimated 65 000 Aborigines during settlement.
I’m biting my tongue.
Pancho – think of this jersey instead.
A figurative ol’ lady. 🙂
Or this one …
There is a Facebook page “Low income, single dad cars” or somesuch.
It might be worth a look.
“Wow! I did not know Holden made panels in so many different colours!”
🙂
The Springsteen is strong in him.
Um
My mate who has become an anti Semites loon has now sent me links from *blue moon of Shanghai*.
Think Graeme Bird being pro China (and pro Russian) and not lazy.
*Both world wars were because of the shoes trying to destroy Chermany.
*Tianemen Square was America’s fault.
*The American Sniper guy was ordered to assassinate a baby and did so willingly.
Are Newcarstle fans any less thievey than Carringbush fans?
Although Newcarstle’s cheersquad leader probably isn’t a [Let’s just let the Courts decide that one shall we Sancho? … Dover].
Pol, I’d need to drop some serious LSD before contemplating such a monstrous concept.
Jeezus, Dot. Some of that shit turned my stomach!
Rabz at 10:44.
I just had cause to reflect on football jerseys last evening, whilst watching the AFL.
Inside the fence the jerseys were all M or L.
Outside the boundary the average seemed to be XXXL (48 Stout in Saville Row speak).
Dot.
You may want to consider finding a new mate.
Also … changing your address, phone number, TFN, fingerprints, ABN and Adairs Soft Furnishings loyalty card number.
The watchers and the doers.
A fundamental disconnect, to go all collectivist terminology.
excellence and equity: bursting the incompetence bubble
Any colour you like champ, just don’t spill your choccy milk on the seat covers!
He’s like a one trick pony. 95% repeat in the past two years.
Yeah, get a few things in a bag mate. We’re stayin’ at your uncle’s tonight.
Drunk blogging is not recommended – however:</strong
Our parents saw problems and overcome them.
Our generation created a society that creates the appearance of solving problems, but these problems have been created for the sole purpose of creating problems that can be solved by the creation of more problems…
sorry.
I can't do this any more.
Why aren't we dragging the idiots from Parliament House and hanging them from nooses?
You have grandies, Callie. What have you done to protect them?
The cost will be mothers who can watch their children die from appendicitis, or men who die from septicemia from a broken bone, or women who die in childbirth because the knowledge and practice of midwifery has been lost.
FFS girls, you have a choice – you can be on the front lines resisting the society that wants you ensconced in a chadour,
I watched an Aboriginal women and her child die because she had ‘agency’ about her decision to pull cones and drink rum until RFDS were able to sedate her and evacuate her to Brukken ‘ill.
Is this what you want?
You can talk about pronouns or you can talk about survival.
You have a choice – fight or fucking die.
I’m over you simplistic idiots – educated beyond your intellectual capacity – you are the enemy, and that’s what you always wanted, isn’t it?
Don’t any of you understand the reality of the society that is being created for you?
I can’t do this any more.
How do you deal a 10 year old Aboriginal girl knocking on your door, at midnight, offering to sleep with you and ” whatever you want” just so she doesn’t have to put up with multiple ‘uncles’ having their way with her? How the hell can you look into a child ‘s eyes and tell her that she is safe?
What the Hell is wrong with you people that you aren’t enraged by this?
Fuck you Christians and your supercilious “I am morally superior to you”.
I’m not sorry. I’m prepared to do my bit.
I can rescue multiple kids from this but it will mean I’m in the sights of the Industry.
I don’t really give a fuck about about the sociological aspects of the problem, but until you’ve held a ten year old child in your arms, protecting her from predatory “uncles” then you don’t know Jack shit about the Communities
Jesus. (and I’m not a Christian,) how badly badly have you stuffed up that we have ended up at
this place?
Format fuck.
f>= ).
There’s a white middle-class looking white dude living on the street in our neighborhood. He doesn’t fit the typical profile of a vagrant in his physical appearance and I’ve been really curious about the guy. I went out to get a coffee this morning and came across him at the corner of Lexington and 72nd street. He was busily writing on a yellow pad while sitting down on some sort of stool. Curious, I asked him what he was writing and he began yelling that it was none of my goddamn fucking business. I told him I agreed but was still curious- but because I was smiling and non-threatening he simmered down. He then asked me where from and when I told him, he went on a tirade against Rupert Murdoch telling me how evil he was. I asked what he did and was told he was a professional writer and taught journalism at a university. He said he wrote for ABC (American obviously) CBS and CNN.
He gave me his name suggesting I google him and here he is pissing against a doorway.
Here : https://nypost.com/2015/08/27/homeless-man-back-to-ranting-and-peeing-on-giulianis-block/
Johannes Leak.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Morten Morland.
Peter Schrank.
A.F. Branco.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
This is the sort of dangerous thinking that ends up in recession and perhaps depression.
Energy is a basic necessity. If the price spikes, it will invariably mean people reduce consumption elsewhere in order to satisfy this specific basic demand. In other words, the impact of a price spike is dis-inflationary as it lowers demand elsewhere. Tightening monetary policy because of a government induced energy shortage is exactly the wrong thing to do. Increasing energy supply, thereby stabilizing prices is. A price spike is the market signal to produce more.
Let the market signal work.
The problem is as is well known, ideology gets in the way.
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I’m not sure it is ideological, Gabor. I think it’s a lack of understanding -particularly in the economics profession and economics writers. A disturbing number view price movements – especially price hikes as inflation when it may not be. They view price stability as heavenly, when it may not be if the expected response will be a monetary tightening or loosening. In fact you want price signalling in the economy and you need to differentiate between inflation and changes in relative prices.
In fact, inflation is not rising prices but the diminution of the value of the currency.
This is what the Libs saddled us with.
Dilbert
Dilbert 2
Looks likely evan more grapes will be left to rot next harvest due to shrinking market.
Mrs D purchased the Women’s Weekly 5 ingredient cookbook.
Every single recipe had some trendy and hard to find ingredient like *Pzofjfurka (a yoghurt like product made from the milk of Ugandan Yaks, can be be purchased from any good African Grocer). While the prep and cooking took no time, the hunt for ingredients would have taken all day.
* Obviously not real but the sort of thing that was everywhere.
I’m staying in an old dilapidated country hotel, only place we could book because of a local event.
Heating is via radiators on the wall. Must be costing a fortune to run.
My tiny single room must not have been let for a long time, it comes with a hand basin and the cold tap has been running for so long there is a large dark brown stain on that side of the basin.
The gnarled old maintenance man fiddled with it and turned it off, took him a couple of minutes and I wondered why he hadn’t done it before.
The hotel has two ‘gents’ bathrooms and, finally, a ‘ladies’ right around the other side of the hotel so a long traipse down a cold corridor. Last night as I wandered out to sit on the chilly verandah to watch the world go by, a lady dressed only in a towel came out of her next but one room and slipped into the nearest gents. Don’t tell anyone she begged, I won’t I promised back.
I’m not complaining, in fact, I like it very much, it’s like stepping back several decades.
Is “One Man’s Terrorist Another Man’s Freedom Fighter”?
Rosie
Sounds like the pub at Lakes Entrance.
Don’t ask me how I know. 🙂