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Today’s Tucker Carlson Tonight focuses on the Democratic Party’s latest wind-up toy, Janet Yellen, an economist who knows zero about what she was hired to specialise in, the US economy.
But she’s big on the party’s compulsory study topic, intersectionality, which has made her dumber and more dangerous as treasury secretary than she was as CEO of the Fed.
Knuckle Dragger
Arjun Rudd, step up. He is by far the worst movie villain ever, because he had Patsy Kensit thrown off a pier.
Good thing too. Patsy could practice that appalling South African accent she did underwater. Glug, glug, glug…..
I believe that there was not the tsunami of gay people getting married when it was passed that we were assured of happening.
But, then, Australian statistics have long been overstating the number of gay people in Australia anyway. I believe they insist it is 10% of the population. The CDC in the US comes up with 3%. The Australian statistics are based on survey questions like “Have you ever wondered if you are gay?” or “Have you ever felt any attraction to someone of the same sex?”
Ignore the rest of their lives of that 10% where there is absolutely nothing gay-ish going on and instead take the answers to those questions as definitive. Perhaps assume that they are gay but have been shamed by society and religion and patriarchy into denying it.
If they restricted themselves to asking “You like rogering blokes?” and we would see a tapering off to 3% – or lower. Quite possible the CDC is merely less unreliable than our institutions.
I remember of course, being scoffed at for mentioning the WEF here two years ago, and for a good year or so after,…. I think KD still refuses to acknowledge the now widely accepted proven truths to this day, but how far along the way are the rest of you going, kicking and screaming against the obvious truths?
Here
s GC honing in weekly on WEF players here in Australia.
here
Read it once.
Saw the movie.
Got the t-shirt.
I’ll take my chances.
As we all keep being told , “love is love”, right?
Ah, Big George.
Look forward to his maiden speech as a PHON senator.
You’re a sad fuck Sancho, sitting here in nowhere’sville doing nothing and slagging off at all who do.
You’ve been doing it for years.
Pathetic little man.
You’ve got some real issues.
Sancho – I’ve tried to be polite and as responsive as I can, but I am not at liberty to answer. Sorry.
Don’t be silly, Sanchez. It’s written in the bible that uncle Fester cannot answer any questions about metals in vaccines at any Catallaxy press conferences. It’s haram.
Stuth, get in the freaking truck and STFU. I want to hear at least half a dozen attempts at engine braking over the next couple of hours.
Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease Is Highly Prevalent in the Postacute COVID Syndrome
How does one “engine brake” in an electric prime mover?
(This question not addressed to the resident scientists, coz they don’t know jack squat, nor to truckies, coz wtf would they know? But is instead addressed to actual experts, smart guys who know it all – like a teenager would)
Blowharding much, driller?
Let’s forget the engine braking in a prime mover and try to focus on how difficult it is to figure out GST on bets. Not even PWC has been able to crack that code. It’s impossible, right?
Translation: “I don’t even know what engine braking is”
Thank you.
Drills
Also, please knock off the bullshit abrevs such as cuz and prolly (for probably). It’s fucking stupid and really annoying swill. It’s dickheadish and for a blowhard that’s never a good look.
It doesn’t happen like this though.
Normal people don’t even believe partial birth abortions exist, that’s why they get allowed, because they can’t believe it’s true so they don’t oppose it.
Most people are not aware of what the lunatic fringe is pushing, either to troll righties or actually try some Gramscian cultural Marxism to create a fake crisis and offer up communism as a solution.
About 5-10 younger blokes than me, some fathers, most if not all left of me agreed on the weekend “don’t smack kids ever” is as dumb as hell.
99% of society can oppose something and it can still become law. The 99% honestly have no idea how much Marxist activists hate them.
People are more normal than we give them credit for. They have NFI what bills are before Parliament, even the educated ones.
And also those fact checking comments. A big blowhard like you don’t need no fact checking.
Wait until Victoria bans natural gas. 🙂
I’m struggling with the criticism of the Queen in relation to the degradation of society within the UK.
It is a constitutional monarchy and the monarch has very limited avenues available to them – to warn or encourage after consultation. They reign but they do not rule. She has overseen the change for the worst in much the same way as we all have, but with even greater limitations as she can’t be seen to kick up a stink over any of parliament’s decisions.
In many ways, her failures have been with her own family, and even that is tenuous.
Of course, I would be delighted to take up the position of Absolute Monarch should it be offered.
😀
Currently in NSW, in perfect conditions, the > 100% installed wind and solar, is supplying 25% of electricity:
https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem#price-demand
HBBear:
I don’t think you know how right you are, HBB.
Inflation, stagflation, Iran about to get the bomb, and the Gulf states worried as hell about the US backing them – which appears to be the non event of the year.
Just one threat from Iran to Saudi and they will stop pumping.
Smartest thing you’ve said.
Head a truck convoy of anti left wing white men to Canberra and you soon learn not only how much they hate you but also who they are and how entrenched they are.
That’s why when everyone was losing their shit about a cold virus and allowing anti human Marxists to jab them, some of us could see through it immediately.
Of course this made me a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist and yet those towering intellects like JC, rushed out and got a time bomb injected into him.
Now he just sits here abusing all and sundry, full of bigotry against what he perceives as the lower classes.
Delusion.
Arrogance.
Ignorance.
It’s just too embarrassing to contemplate a transport industry type who drinks instant coffee is vastly smarter, more clued in about the world, has vastly more life exoerience than he can ever get before..tick…tick…. boom.
Bruce O’Newk:
They may do, but it doesn’t fit the narrative so will be ignored in the august pages of Trud and Pravda.
I expect the gay percentages are quite susceptible to being manipulated. Compare, “Have you ever participated in an NRL team bonding exercise?” to “Do you walk the dog in your house?”.
I’m struggling with the criticism of the Queen in relation to the degradation of society within the UK.
I understand the limitations on the queen but if she is even unable to voice objection, criticism or concern about what has gone on during her reign, then what is the point of her?
https://www.royal.uk/coronation-oath-2-june-1953
Madam, is your Majesty willing to take the Oath?
And the Queen answering,
I am willing.
The Archbishop shall minister these questions; and The Queen, having a book in her hands, shall answer each question severally as follows:
Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?
Queen. I solemnly promise so to do.
Archbishop. Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?
Queen. I will.
Archbishop. Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?
Queen. All this I promise to do.
Then the Queen arising out of her Chair, supported as before, the Sword of State being carried before her, shall go to the Altar, and make her solemn Oath in the sight of all the people to observe the premisses: laying her right hand upon the Holy Gospel in the great Bible (which was before carried in the procession and is now brought from the Altar by the Arch-bishop, and tendered to her as she kneels upon the steps), and saying these words:
The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.
Then the Queen shall kiss the Book and sign the Oath.
The Queen having thus taken her Oath shall return again to her Chair, and the Bible shall be delivered to the Dean of Westminster.
The Decent Duke supports the same utter nonsense regarding the climate as does his tampon brained sire and Dickhead Duke* sibling. He may yet learn but I hold onto no expectation.
See also: Earthshot Prize.
* Not anywhere as big a hypocrite on the matter however.
LOL, Stuth the head of the convoy. He’s Rubber Duck now.
Does he use deodorant though? It could be stuth mistook “hatred” for people holding their nose with his arm resting on the open window.
Rush out? Naaa.
Stuth, started the abuse earlier today and began the ethnic abuse in the past. Now that the dumb redneck kunt receives return volley, he accuses people of bigotry. What a dishonest redneck piece of shit.
From Daily Mail article. Well done to Fordham and NSW Premier. People need to call into radio stations and write to Editors about ditching mandates. However there was an article in CM today that shows the experts are looking forward to the next vaccine to impose on us.
I regret to say I wrote about this subject to IPA earlier in the year. I joined IPA 2 years ago as I saw they were good in taking on lockdowns. Despite three emails about the mandates I won’t be renewing my membership as not impressed by the 2 replies I got and in one case no reply.
“Premier Dominic Perrottet’s announcement that Covid vaccine mandates are coming to an end in the state has been welcomed by radio host Ben Fordham.
Mr Perrottet said he had ‘made it very clear that we are ending vaccine mandates’ and had met with top bureaucrats to ask them to do so.
‘They are working through those risk-based assessments and I expect them to come back to me shortly,’ he said. ‘I expect them to implement my direction.’
Fordham said on 2GB: ‘The worm appears to be turning on the issue of vaccine mandates. And this is an important step in learning to live with the virus.’
He pointed out that thousands of Australians are still banned from working, including unvaccinated teachers who are on full pay while sitting at home”.
The sly groggers are still active in the Kimberley region of WA.
A Derby woman was recently caught with a Toyota Tarago loaded with 22 cartons of Emu Export and 17 litres of Bundy rum headed to the dry community of Fitzroy Crossing, about 90% aboriginal population.
Her haul would have cost her about $2000 to buy retail, and the probable sale price would have been close to $10,000.
Your tax dollars at work in the community.
calli says:
June 8, 2022 at 2:57 pm
Of course, I would be delighted to take up the position of Absolute Monarch should it be offered.
Too late. I have already accepted the post. And be careful about your next post – the crime of high treason is still on the books.
🙂
ev’s do regenerative braking
“As you slow the speed of an electric vehicle, regenerative braking engages the motion of the wheels to act as a sort of crankshaft, sending energy to the motor via rotation of the motor shaft.
This transfer of energy from the wheels to motor slows the vehicle down, often rapidly, and is why EV owners refer to ‘one pedal driving’; ie. they rarely use the brake pedal.
The rotation that is applied from wheels to motor opposes the movement of the motor shaft and creates a counter electromotive force, or back EMF. In short, the reverse force on your motor’s magnets, converts rotational energy into electrical energy.
Yes, she promised to do her best within the confines of the law of the land. She did it solemnly before God and the people and I have no doubt she took the vows seriously.
In the same way, I made certain vows at my children’s baptisms. And carried out the promises to the best of my ability. The children didn’t all magically turn into Christians. They had to do that for themselves by obeying the call.
We won’t ever know what conversations have taken place between her Prime Ministers and herself – unless the PM spills the beans. The monarch is not allowed to interfere with Parliament in any way, and if they try it on they’re in a world of trouble.
I don’t know if she’s a “good” woman or not. The image is carefully cultivated. The fact that her son is to succeed her very soon is an inevitability – Charles will soon learn to keep his trap shut. The Banqueting House still stands, and there’s still a big vacant patch just outside it as a reminder.
Been in an electric Prime Mover?
It feels quite odd. No engine noise – but all the other noises are still there & some much easier to hear.
To say it is like driving a (very) large dodgem car is the closest I can get to describing the feeling, though that really isn’t quite right.
A Derby woman was recently caught with a Toyota Tarago loaded with 22 cartons of Emu Export and 17 litres of Bundy rum headed to the dry community of Fitzroy Crossing, about 90% aboriginal population.
Sounds awful and she deserves punishment.
Now if she was trying to sell Stella Artois and and Dimple/Chivas then it would be ok.
Calli
Just as Voltaire said that the English execute the occasional admiral (referring to the execution of Admiral Lord Byng on the quarterdeck of his own flagship), so the occasional king should also be, if not executed, confined to the Tower for the term of his natural life.
A man has been charged for going armed in public, assault, and discharging a firearm causing danger, after allegedly shooting a gun into the air before being disarmed by another person in an unnamed Aboriginal community in West Daly, NT Police said.
Police media manager Rob Cross said that about 9.30am on Monday, the 23-year-old man was allegedly walking around the community with a firearm following an alleged disagreement with another man.
“One shot was allegedly fired into the air before another community member disarmed the man,” he said.
Mr Cross said he continued to make threats and police arrested him after a chase.
He said the man was charged with going armed in public, assault, discharging a firearm causing danger, carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, and possessing and using a firearm whilst unlicensed and was remanded to appear in court on Tuesday.
Mr Cross did not respond to a question about what community the man was in and why that information was not released. He also did give details of the alleged assault.
Communities in the area that have police stations are Peppimenarti and Wadeye. The latter has been the scene of ongoing riots and violence on the last few months with many houses destroyed and hundreds of people displaced.
NT Independent
I think the Driller is now drinking in the afternoon.
The Stuth has never said he controls a electric prime mover.
Drat, missed the important bit: “to encourage the others”.
Janus Electric, based on the NSW Central Coast, is about to road test the world’s first patented exchangeable battery for heavy vehicles.
Developed by professional engineers led by co-founder Bevan Dooley and transport operators, Janus says its batteries remove the need for heavy electric vehicles to plug in and charge for 12 hours.
Instead the revolutionary solution can be swapped out in three minutes with a ready to go battery, thereby increasing vehicle utilisation.
Lex Forsyth, Janus Electric’s general manager, said the exchangeable battery is a game-changer for the transport industry globally.
“Janus Electric has solved the scale, price-point and battery technology challenge for conversion to electric,” said Forsyth, who takes the covers off the first proto-type – an electric converted Kenworth T403 – at the Brisbane Truck Show from May 13-16.
“We want to lead the transition to electric heavy vehicle road transport in Australia, and we want Australian businesses to be at the forefront of this next phase of road transport globally.”
Forsyth tells Big Rigs that although the 2m x 1.2m lithium batteries cost $120,000 apiece, Janus has devised a per-use business model to keep upfront investment at a minimum for operators.
Users either pay $110 per battery use, or $140 per 24 hours. Instead of charging the batteries themselves, operators simply swap them out for a freshly-charged option at one of the charge-and-change stations along the initial Brisbane-Sydney trial route.
Forsyth said the stations will be located strategically to coincide with mandatory driver fatigue breaks, initially located at Hemmant in Brisbane, Taree and Coffs Harbour on the Pacific Highway, and Prestons in Sydney.
“Ultimately there will be a national network of change and charge stations,” he said.
Forsyth estimates that your average B-double would get between 400-500km per charge, depending on loads, and other variables, with some smaller applications going as far as 600km.
So how does that compare with running the same rig on diesel from Sydney to Brisbane?
According to Forsyth’s modelling, running a diesel prime mover cost around $980 along that route, while the Janus battery system would cost somewhere between $525 and $550, including battery hire for the day.
Forsyth said the cost to convert a prime mover to the battery-powered system is $85,000.
But he says users will break even in just a year, assuming you can sell that same engine for $20,000, and you make 250 runs a year from Brisbane to Sydney in the converted truck to reap the associated cost savings.
Forsyth said it takes less than a week for Janus to convert any existing heavy duty prime mover into an electric vehicle.
This means fleet operators can cost-effectively undertake mass electrification of their entire fleet for the same cost of re-working a diesel engine,” he said.
“There are substantial cost savings to fleet electrification. The Janus solution can deliver up to a 30 per cent reduction in maintenance and operating costs. There are positive benefits for the drivers fatigue management and overall health and well-being with the Janus conversion from diesel to electric through the reduction of vibration, noise and harmful fumes.”
Forsyth said the next step is to further test another four prototypes currently being converted, with the aim of generating 250,000km of additional performance data.
These test vehicles will be on the Pacific Highway from later this year
“I regret to say I wrote about this subject to IPA earlier in the year. I joined IPA 2 years ago as I saw they were good in taking on lockdowns. Despite three emails about the mandates I won’t be renewing my membership as not impressed by the 2 replies I got and in one case no reply.”
I was once a member of the IPA. I was due to renew my membership in March/April 2020, just after the notorious censure in the senate of Bettina Arndt which every sitting Coalition senator supported. Since then I haven’t bothered to renew my membership and I probably never will. Every time I’ve thought about renewing I remember how the IPA refused to speak up to defend Arndt and her free speech. I know for a fact that they declined to help her. Bettina Arndt received help from Toby Young’s Free Speech Union….in the UK. I am a member of Toby Young’s organisation. Some things are unforgiveable.
None of that would have gone into the fridge back at the station?
loaded with 22 cartons of Emu Export and 17 litres of Bundy rum
Ha, they missed the pallet of Woodstock!
Zyconoclast
Been keeping an eye on those electric trucks.
I think they might work well on the East Coast with generally shorter haul routes.
When i looked before they were a little vague on range with various load weights which i didnt like.
The hot swap batteries are a good idea though, exactly what cars would need to hit good convenience levels. Drive in, battery swapped in 5 minutes by a new charged one.
There is another small thing about the Queen, for what it’s worth. And it might not be worth much.
She shared the indignities which the “experts” foisted upon the British people at her husband’s funeral. Masked and alone.
It may be purely symbolic, like her role, but she did it. Which makes those gargantuan bottoms sitting on the treasury benches and their party even more reprehensible.
Ah. The clock’s ticked over to Ahm Just a Wukkin Blue-Collar Non-Cow-Tower o’clock.
Of course this made me a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist
No. ‘They will kill us all, and those who survive will wish they were dead‘ (your words) made you a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, along with your repeated assertion that every single person who got jabbed – regardless of circumstance would be dead within 18 to 48 months*.
The koo dettat, the bing-bong driver assist tech being monitored 24/7 by Indians and the belief all voting in the election results went to Chai-nerr for approval – hence the lack of ‘FiGht’ numbers was all just funny.
*Now 10 to 40 months.
Missed a blockquote.
In my defence, I was laughing at the time.
Gold is not an inflation hedge.
If that can’t been accepted after the last 6 months, there is zero point engaging.
No chance, Zulu.
Country cops are scrupulous about publicly destroying sly grog.
Back in the good ol’ days a good proportion of that haul would have ended up in old mate’s fridges and the epic parties that followed were legendary, but today the police brass are red hot on “integrity checks” and no walloper who wants to keep his job would risk even a taste of the seized grog.
Enough to make you cry watching thousands of dollars worth of grog being flushed down the drain, but I reckon for every carton of sly grog seized, twenty more make it into the dry communities.
There is a vast network of back roads and tracks throughout the North West used by drug runners and sly groggers to deliver their loads. Profits are huge, penalties not so much.
The IPA got my money for a bit.
But too much running dead on key issues means I didn’t renew way, way back in 2018.
Sure they can’t cover every issue.
But I couldn’t see them covering any issue when I decided to bin them.
Be.
Not been.
What is “exoerience”? And where is Rex (Choo choo) Anger?
One of the Walton’s has bought the Denver Broncos.
You know the DNC is serious about tax reform when they address the tax breaks owning a sporting franchise gives the owners.
The other one is carried interest.
Until then, it’s all bullshit.
Rex is driving The Midnight Flyer.
mem:
It’s too late for the grid.
It will come down – hopefully in parts and able to be repaired, but there’s no guarantee of that. I understand the lead time for new dynamos is around the 6 year mark. I could be wrong and if so am happy to be corrected. God knows how they will be made with no power to run the factories.
As to the spares situation for transformers etc, are there any available? Can we make more?
I don’t honestly know, and the trillions of dollars the world has poured into the renewable scam looks like being a dead loss.
The Bronco’s trade means Bezos will get the Washington football team.
Great way to grease the palms of the DoD, taking all the shiny bums to the football.
Woodstock cans are transported under gued late at night, mole.
Sancho Panzer:
Cockpit overload – and coming to vehicles near you with the interminable bing bong warning shit that diverts attention away from traffic and toward the cars condition.
so the occasional king should also be, if not executed, confined to the Tower for the term of his natural life
This is true.
Especially if they are called Charles.
Charles Mk#I was a clown who lost his head.
Charles Mk#II was a clot who returned to the crown.
Charles Mk#III will doubtless distinguish himself in one way or the other.
Haha!
It’s nuts. The Beloved’s car shrieks if you leave the door open and the keys laying about in the console. Then it whines if you don’t put the seatbelt on fast enough.
The startup lecture screen is bad enough – warning you to drive safely and obey the road rules. Because it just knows you secretly want to be injured, killed or fined.
Milton F:
The Cult of ‘Managerialism’. Personified by that British cop who came to Australia and snowed everyone with the concept of the Traffic Cop in the morning and murder investigator in the afternoon.
Another disaster.
Just been reminded by the ABC that the most insufferable pompous arse ever to be Attorney General of the commonwealth is back on his high horse.
“I don’t know if she’s a “good” woman or not. “
I agree calli but I tell you what I do know, she is stoic and dignified, just like my grandparents were and she is among the last of a generation of men and women who were willing to fight and make sacrifices for the values that the young nowadays are willing to trample on and trash.
I remember watching her deal with the grotesque hysteria when Diana died. I think it was Peter Hitchens who once wrote that it was the Queen alone who retained her dignity during that week following Diana’s death…..when a nation lost its collective mind and became utterly unhinged, the outpouring of pornographic grief was absurd. Hitchens has written that then he realised that the Britain he knew and loved was gone….a nation of plodding stoicism. The way the Queen was treated that week back in September 1997 was hideous, which is why I’ve smiled watching her jubilee, the highlights being the Paddington Bear skit and the antics of her grandchildren.
The likes of her will never walk this planet again.
And as for a republic, I’ll take tampon Charlies any day over a republic spruiked by the likes of Pirate Man, Anthony Albanese, Grace Tame, Malcolm the most Miserable and all the rest of the scum that like to lecture and smear us and all a republic will do is provide yet another platform to be politicised by progressive so elites so they can continue to smear us and dictate to us. Imagine one of the aforementioned as president? No thanks, I’ll take the Charles Windsor followed by William Windsor.
Never heard of the IPA before reading Catallaxy Files.
Not as loony as the Australia Institute, but here’s the thing.
All their spokespeople, talking heads, appeared to be Flamers.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with being a flamer [according to SpongeBob],
but:
Is Flaming a core Liberal value?
I say:
No, it’s not, it’s pretty vicious, in my opinion.
Pedro the Loafer says:
June 8, 2022 at 4:22 pm
There is a vast network of back roads and tracks throughout the North West……
I am not a 4WD type person but a couple of mates are very much into that. They routinely pack up and ‘go bush’ for days/weeks on end. They think nothing of criss-crossing the country via obscure tracks and have been doing so for years. They have told me exactly what you said: there is a vast network of back roads and tracks and a well fitted out 4WD with a competent driver can effectively ‘go anywhere’.
I recall during the covid madness when WA’s McGowan said the state was to be closed, several Cats fell about laughing regarding the impossibility of sealing off the state by road. Their comments referred to the very large number of tracks from SA and NT into WA that would be impossible to monitor without expending enormous resources at ridiculous cost.
“callisays:
June 8, 2022 at 4:20 pm
There is another small thing about the Queen, for what it’s worth. And it might not be worth much.
She shared the indignities which the “experts” foisted upon the British people at her husband’s funeral. Masked and alone.
It may be purely symbolic, like her role, but she did it. Which makes those gargantuan bottoms sitting on the treasury benches and their party even more reprehensible.”
Yep…just think, the night before Phillip’s funeral Blob Johnson and his ghastly green wife CarrieAntionette were quaffing drinks and partying at Downing Street, sans masks of course.
Dickless
You are showing your homophobia again.
Javelin missiles are on the dark web for USD30k a piece. well done brandon
From “The Age.
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I was going to get to that if nobody else did.
One hopes standards haven’t been lowered due to concerns which are more political than operational.
Thank you Zulu. A bloke I know is moving with his missus to take up retirement in Thailand, on the basis his money will go further.
If that fails at least he can get high.
Thing is, dot, I’m not addressing normies in that comment, I’m addressing politically interested people online that simply don’t believe that A or B will in principle lead to X or Y, brush it off as ‘extreme’, or some sort of logical fallacy, and then when confronted with it occurring a few years down the line claim it is nothing to worry about anyway, or something to welcome, and then move along.
Quite so.
I’d be really, really careful cheering for an interventionist Monarch.
Be careful what you wish for with Jugears only a couple of years away from the Big Chair.
Lynda Moylan has conviction overturned after judge found pressing bottom against window not offensive
Shannon Hampton
The West Australian
A protester in a clown costume who pressed her “underwear-clad posterior” against the foyer window of a swanky office tower has had the last laugh after a judge saw the funny side of her “clownish behaviour” and threw out her disorderly conduct conviction.
Lynda Moylan was part of an Extinction Rebellion protest outside the QV1 tower on St Georges Terrace when she decided to “bring comic relief in the irreverent and provocative manner of a clown to lift the spirits of fellow protesters” in October 2020.
Ms Moylan, Supreme Court Justice Robert Mitchell said, “lifted the back of her skirt and petticoats and, for a few seconds, pressed her underwear-clad posterior against the foyer window of an office tower”.
“She moved in a ‘shimmying’ action for about six seconds,” Justice Mitchell said, based on viewing CCTV.
I wonder what her honour would think if the next defendant dropped his or her tonks and did a bare arsed shimmy in her direction.
Nothing changes here.
KD cherry picking and quoting his own words as if said by others.
Sancho the do nothing, sitting back ordering people to provide him with information …….while he does….nothing…..
As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Emotional bespoke can see the o is right next to the P on the keyboard but has to chime in anyway.
JC gets the truth served up to him so starts calling people c…nts.
While lying about the past.
Mentally destroyed failures …….destroyed by their own lack of character and sense of decency.
Is this is the best “save the planet” argument they’ve got?
Three simple mitigations:-
.1 Move tomato growing areas a couple of hundred kilometres from the equator;
.2 Move the growing season back or forward by a few weeks;
.3 Breed more heat tolerant cultivars;
.4 Any combination of the above.
Next …
Bourne1879, can you link to that Daily Mail article? I have had a quick look but cannot find it – and it would be big news even beyond NSW because it challenges the necessity of mandates in every state.
…but you try finding one of those post pak tubes to send it in!
Not sure anyone has ever shed a tear over Export hitting the drain. Unless they meant to buy Woodstock cans.
Seems unlikely since they cost US$250k new, each.
At only $30k they’d all get bought up in about five minutes by the Ukrainian Army.
Maybe they’re 3D printed knock-offs?
YouTuber 3D Prints “World’s First” Rocket Launcher And Fires At Target (8 Jun)
Trying to keep heavy weapons out of the hands of the public is going to be whack a mole, especially if lefty governments give incentives to people, such as being fascists like Trudy and Sneakers.
KD at 4:20.
Well, what else would you have concluded?
🙂
I could answer that, but Jesus says “No”.
the dark.web address is here
it does say from $30k
They can only be coming from the ukrainian army
The concert was a classic communist brainwashing exercise.
Put on by the state to help the state grab more power.
The little shit Prince William got up and got us all ready for daddy’s green WEF..ing reign, with the trees and forest growing all over the palace in the background.
A speech supposed to be about his grandmother turned into a climate cult Marxist lecture.
It even had Nuremburg lights pointing into the air….don’t tell me it was about the Blitz…….
It was quite disrespectful, and the Queen has a duty and powers she can use according to our constitution that she did not.
She can make all the pro nation, pro Commonwealth speeches she likes, without being political.
She can make all the pro Church of England Christian comments she likes.
There were many ways she could have forced the enemies of western civilisation to show their hand….she did nothing in that respect.
She did 90% of her job extremely well, and I often said the thing I love about the Queen is that I don’t know her personally, as it should be.
But that ten percent she didn’t do well was the most important bit.
Speaking up for the Commonwealth.
Praising the Commonwealth.
Making sure G G’s like ours did his duty.
Which he did not, and she had every right to remind him of his duties.
There was plenty she could have done which she did not.
It’s the right thing for the Queen to be above politics.
She is not above ensuring the continuation and health of the Relm.
That is her job.
And if doing so is seen as political, than politicians have crossed a line they should be nowhere near.
Some memes.
Haha, Winston get a load of this one.
Treasurer’s orders to energy operators (Daily Terror, 8 Jun, paywalled)
Yep Kean by name clueless by nature is now reported to be begging power companies to switch coal-fired power stations back on. I suppose it’s too much to ask that he decently resign for causing this stupid mess only to now do a full 180. Sigh.
Yes Hitchens’s essay comparing the death of Churchill in 1965 with that of that brain dead slag in 1997 was very good. I still can’t believe they played a trash pop song in Westminster Abbey.
Ha ha.
The Ukrainian Army is only in the market for free stuff, which it then sells on the Dark Web.
And speaking of clueless gooses.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers lauds ‘compelling’ economics behind renewables as he rules out nuclear energy in Australia (8 Jun)
What’s he done, do some calcs on a paper napkin? He’s been in government less than 3 weeks and reckons he can comprehensively say nukes don’t stack up? Where’s the economic feasibility study then Jim, I’m all eyes. Especially since the Chinese are building 150 of them by 2035, which they can do in just over five years each from first sod to first electricity.
A proposed reverse onus of proof in NSW is disturbing.
Both Labor and the LNP are moving to introduce legislation designed to seize the assets and unexplained wealth of suspected criminals.
The person who loses their assets then has to prove they were not obtained using proceeds of crime.
Sure, they say only drug kingpins will be targeted. But I don’t trust government or police like I did in the good ol’ days. They will use these powers to come after anyone with a view that contradicts the government narrative.
If you can be arrested for thinking about protesting, then you can have your house taken away because the plod say you are a criminal – not a convicted criminal, just an assumed criminal.
Power corrupts.
No, it was an extensive cost-benefit analysis which is now filed in the same place the health “experts” put their covid research before locking down the country.
The shredder.
Err, Winston, are you suggesting that the reaction of the Nervous Nelly in the backseat was justified?
Remember, this aircraft is basically a forty year old design which has successfully launched and returned tens of thousands of times, including on rolling carrier decks in the dark with a single pilot in control.
In short, the panic-merchant in the back had no business going near the black and yellow handle without the pilot calling it.
The proof of this is the fact that, while they were floating gently back to earth, the Hornet was slowly rolling down the runway and coming to rest in a ditch – no explosion, no fire, nothing.
There was no cockpit overload. The navigator/weapons offer ran out of skills and equilibrium halfway through the take-off roll.
As both Roger and I queried, what the fuck is going on with RAAF selection processes that this would be considered “cockpit overload”.
Rogersays:
June 8, 2022 at 5:08 pm
We’ve all had a good laugh at that, but it raises serious questions about the selection processes for RAAF fast jet pilots.
I was going to get to that if nobody else did.
One hopes standards haven’t been lowered due to concerns which are more political than operational.
See also: SAS selection.
offer = officer.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/can-the-fbi-be-salvaged_4111405.html?utm_source=ai_recommender
No.
Apparently the attempted take off was a cock-up from the beginning, which accounts for why he didn’t notice the plane was veering off the runway at maximum speed – he was distracted by an instrument warning. The weapons systems officer then hit eject, which cut the power, leading to the jet eventually rolling to a stop some 900m away.
Geez. You start takeoff roll, get a warning (there was clearly enough runway to stop as the aircraft stayed on the airfield) and DON’T go to idle and hit the brakes?
I’ve known some RAAF instructors and all would be rolling their eyes.
Use socialist if ya like but it’s as effective calling ‘climate change’ sceptics denialist. Fascist! Is what puts em on the defensive.
If I was the Lithuanian, Polish or Moldovan Army I’d be buying these up as fast as I could for my own use. They won’t get a better price anywhere, certainly not from the US.
The price is so silly that it smells to me like a put on by a certain intelligence agency. They love doing stupid stuff like that. There’ve been some hilarious ones. Still, a sucker is born every minute, someone said. Probably in Russian before it was said in English.
Seriously I bet you’d get takers for $1 million. Easily. The IRGC would salivate to get as many as they could. The Chinese might also, even the Russians themselves. The tech is very attractive and you can never have too many examples to play with.
Fucking arseclown.
Speechless.
Politicians included?
This country sickens me.
What are Nuremberg lights? Ah, here they are (wiki):
Pesky WEF. Hiding in plain sight, even 650 years ago.
My tomato crop has failed miserably during the past two La Ninas. Usually, in tub or in ground, I have enough to give away after making sauce, chutney, soup base and passata, with green tomato pickles at end of the season.
Providing tomatoes receive ample water, they love summer heat.
Anyone still care to talk about the rule of law?
Translation: the politics are too hard for a Labor government to even consider it.
Settle! Dot it ain’t done yet unless you give up.
Knock it off, Struth.
Tomatoes are gross!
It’s never stacked up.
Chalmers is trolling for a response from National Party clowns like Canavan.
Hell, the Mexican cartels would just love to snap up Javelins for a million each. Certainly can afford them and would have lots of uses for one.
Wise old saying:-
Aviate, navigate, communicate.
In other words: first, keep the aircraft flying (in this case get it off the ground); then worry about where you are going and only then, talk to the people involved.
Oh, and the person who is not the pilot?
Keep your hands in your pockets.
Doesn’t it give you a sort of comfortable, warm, inner glow? No, me neither.
Found that to be deeply infused with pathos for some reason that is hard to articulate.
Bill Gates: Let Them Eat Fake Meat
Tech billionaire Bill Gates continues to tout the consumption of “synthetic beef” in “rich countries” as a solution to climate change.
On the basis of the evidence the family shouldn’t be here.
Having said that, I’ll go out on a limb and say their removal from Biloela was heavy handed and unnecessary. It has all the hallmarks of a Morrisonian manipulation for political gain.
Be that as it may, Elbow is now storing up wrath for himself when their appeals process ends.
A protester in a clown costume who pressed her “underwear-clad posterior” against the foyer window of a swanky office tower has had the last laugh after a judge saw the funny side of her “clownish behaviour” and threw out her disorderly conduct conviction.
If she looked like this would the judge be laughing?
They’ve had, what, seven appeals rejected?
Zyco, couldn’t you have included some form of warning?
Nope.
I was as popular as a fart in a church when I pointed out surefire strategy “overstay your visa, pop out a kid, appeal, appeal appeal until the kid is old enough, then ‘it’s unfair kid doesn’t know anything other than Oz’ , profit”
Which goes to the efficiency of our system for determining these matters.
Believe me, it irks me that so many resources are spent on failed asylum seekers when the average Australian has little recourse to legal support when needed.
Whoops!
The new M5 rifle for the US Army.
Sounds good – near peer infantry armour defeating round for starters. .277 composite SS/Cu case.
Opinions?
Expect we will see a lot of this. Albo’s political capital wouldn’t fill an egg cup.
Just commenting on someone’s post way up fred about Tampon Charlie.
He’s spruiking some mob producing masks for cattle to stop emissions of methane to stop gerbil warming.
How the fuck do they chew grass then? And get fat for juicy steaks or a carton of milk?
MALAYSIA
In light of current food supply shortage, Perak MB calls on people to grow vegetables, breed livestock for own consumption
I wouldn’t. It would be a lot of very unpleasant work, and I’d get RSI from signing death warrants.
And he’s decided to expend it on the Voice.
Can Kittehs tell me whether young females are painting on freckles because they’ve become fashionable, whereas once they were considered an imperfection and an embarrassment?
“Wheels up for Biloela, they’re going home”
To Sri Lanka?
Some discussion, on an old thread, about one Anthony Beevor. His new book on the Russian Revolution, and Civil War has just been released. I’ve dipped into parts of it, but it would seem to bear out a theme I’ve read elsewhere. The Tsarist regime might have been reactionary and brutal, but they were a Sunday school picnic compared to the reign of terror Lenin and the Bolsheviks unleashed.
Look on the bright side.
Attendance at the churches in Biloela that took up the cudgels for Nad’s family have collapsed.
Amateur baddies v. professional baddies.
Speaking of books, anyone interested in buying this tome? Nah, me neither.
Exactly. If the Libs can force a plebiscite on this issue, the ALP will be ripped apart.
The regime of Nicholas II was as enlightened as any that ever existed.
The martyred Alexander II was a Saint.
Antony Beevor is an establishment mouthpiece and a bullshit artist.
Rubbish.
If the Liberal Party take Graham Richardson’s advice and shill for Nuclear Power, they’ll be destroyed and it will serve them right.
Climate hysteria latest: Channel 7 reporting our coldest start to winter for 70 years.
Is there a smarmier, more duplicitous face-punchable arsehole currently in politics then matt kean, now sprouting coal.
Soylent Green is set in 2022.
Calli with your ability to destroy Western Civilisation I’m sure QE2 will be able to restore British society. I mean how hard can it be.
Laughed out loud, Head Case. Please leave politics to the experts.
Tom, it’s an Instagram-induced mania, like fake glasses (or, as I prefer to call them, Gravitas Goggles).
It’s supposed to create “skin positivity”, whatever that is.
The usual dumb stuff.
cohenite, littleproud followed by all the rest of them.
It’s certainly taking me back to the ’70s.
trying to get about 20k worth of high-tech widgetry from Poland.
promised 8 weeks
up to 12 weeks now and just told it will be another 4 weeks yet
This august journal used to be full of Supply Chain Deniers … where did they go?
rosie? sancho?
You’ve obviously asked him for his views on the HMAS Sydney then.
Dowloadable list of WEF Graduates, Young Global Leaders & Global leaders of Tomorrow. Plenty from Oz. ScoMo, Sarah two dads, GHunt, Costello,
list link at https://maloneinstitute.org/wef
cohenite @6:56pm
No there is not.
The most vile politician I can recall.
And there are some top contenders on all sides
It’s taking me back to the freezing winters of the 1960s.
Sarah Hanson-Young’s an agent of the WEF.
We’re all saved. Dunno what all the CaPital letters were all about.
One of the wounded teacher’s from the Texas shooting speaks out about the cops and their cowardice.
The teacher went on to strongly criticize the police for not taking faster action.
“They’re cowards,” Mr Reyes said. “They sit there and did nothing for our community. They took a long time to go in … I will never forgive them.”
I’m revising this, because it’s so funny.
All those Labor voters sitting around thinking
“If only the Liberal Party would go BallsOut for a Nuclear Power Station in my suburb, then i’d vote for them.”
I don’t remember the cold of those winters, but I have b&w photos of a toddler Roger in corduroy overalls and thick woollen jumpers to testify to it. I guess they worked fairly efficiently. Thanks mum!
Something lighter: Watch this rule-breaker trying to shoot a video get instant karma from an orangutan at a zoo in Indonesia
Almost as funny as watching a munky though shit at tormenting school kids at a South African zoo. The place had a dingo sitting on cement floor.
Avi coming up on Bolta.
The freezing winters of the 60’s. Oh yes.
We were layered up for school like eskimos. Spencer, Clydella shirt, serge box pleats, hand knitted pullover and wool blazer. Tights and gloves. And still cold. No wonder we all raced around the playground like lunatics! Skipping was “in” – fighting off frostbite.
The classrooms had deadly gas heaters – no flues. Bare floorboards, whistling wind in the cracks, ceilings a mile away basking in the warmth that shot up and stayed there while our teeth chattered.
Kids are so soft these days.
Curious, Grogs, this time last week you’d never heard of him.
All those deadly CO² emissions you’ve been generating from coal fired power stations.
Tech billionaire Bill Gates continues to tout the consumption of “synthetic beef” in “rich countries” as a solution to climate change.
Working with large documents in Word I am constantly reminded of how shit Bill was at his last job.
I remember it snowing in Melbourne when I was in primary in the 60s.
In the late 60’s, early 70’s the cold persisted. High school, the uniform was the same and still just as inadequate. We would congregate around the corner heater like frozen vagrants, tunics lifted to allow the warm air to caress our backsides – chilled from sitting on the wooden playground forms.
Years later I would see documentaries about the emperor penguins and their huddling technique. That was us.
I’d heard of his Cousin Split, but never realised that Anthony was an idiot.
So funny!
Half of Australians already think nuclear power is a good idea (8 Jun)
Haha, LOL it’s so funny that more than half Australians back it! Hilarious!
“The Tsarist regime might have been reactionary and brutal, but they were a Sunday school picnic compared to the reign of terror Lenin and the Bolsheviks unleashed.”
Correct. The Tsarist regime used to exile political dissidents to Siberia and the Caucasus, where they could and would live quite comfortably. If you were exiled to Siberia under the Communists, life was not comfortable.
I’m so so sorry, I can’t answer that as the bible prevents me from doing so.
For me it’s very like the freezing winters of the mid-50’s on a 5-acre farm in the Mt. Druitt area in Sydney’s west as a thirteen year-old. Ice in the mornings on the pig trough water and crispy white frosted grass to walk over on my way to feed them. A cold mist over the creek and the dam. Icy hands from mixing up the pollen and bran with water for their food. Throwing some wheat out for my chickens and then bailing up Old Lady our Jersey cow and warming my forehead in her flanks blowing first on my hands to warm them up as I milked her. It was very, very cold.
The western suburb plains at that time were almost treeless. Large acre dairy and cattle grazing and some small scale scrabble farming. It was baking hot in summer (tar melting on the roads) and often below freezing in winter. Now these plains are covered in housing and full of trees. A firestorm in the making?
bespokesays:
June 8, 2022 at 6:08 pm
Tomatoes are gross!
Tomatoes can be used to tell if an intelligent person is also smart.
An intelligent person knows that a tomato is a fruit. A smart person knows not to put it in fruit salad.
H/T someone on the web, I forget where I read it. It could even have been here!
Haha, LOL it’s so funny that more than half Australians back it! Hilarious!
More than half of Australians back cuddly Bunny Rabbits too, not too many want a Bunny Rabbit Posse digging up their backyard.
Thinking about Fruits, eh, SpongeBob?
Having to smash the ice on the water troughs, in the mornings, so the sheep could get a drink.
And no one here had heard gypsum was poison or Bison could create topsoil from nothing till you arrived. It’s our loss.
You still haven’t reported in on your research regarding the “Eastern slave trade” either.
Dickless
Antony Beevor is an establishment mouthpiece and a bullshit artist.
But, apparently, not a spook?
I’m very suspicious of the Brits on Russia. Their meddling in the 19th C, via Concert of Europe, thwarted the Russians from capturing Constantinople and booting the Ottomans out of Europe if not further.
No, I’m saying there is, but there could some hope.
This worthless, disgusting example of human filth was voted out of office in San Fran.
Yea it’s him. his parents were terrorists.
Sounds good – near peer infantry armour defeating round for starters. .277 composite SS/Cu case.
Opinions?
I can’t believe it still has forward assist. If the round won’t chamber, somethings wrong. If you forward assist it, almost guaranteed not to extract when fired, little problem just became a big problem!
I have it on good authority that even the much shorter SA-Vic border was easily crossed.. ask me how I know 😉
Indeed. Chilka’s Story, the sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwicz by Heather Morris, tells of the extraordinary privations and cruel deaths suffered in those communist gulags by a sixteen year old girl, survivor of the Auschwicz group of young prisoners whose real lives are reconstructed by Morris in her sensitive albeit controversial recounting of a remembered tale gifted to her.
Ed Casesays:
June 8, 2022 at 7:44 pm
Thinking about Fruits, eh, SpongeBob?
You did spring to mind.
Many escaped from Siberia and made their way to Brisbane or San Fransicso, which were the two closest “European” ports. On Labour Day, 1919 a “battle” was engaged between Russian Bolskeviks and returned Diggers in South Brisbane, Merivale St. Most of the Brisbane Bolsheviks eventually returned to Russia, to be replaced by White Russians fleeing via Siberia. The latter established St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the 1920s, which still functions today.
If erzatz meat proves as fine a substitute for steak as margarine was for butter – I think I will pass
I still can’t get over the glue on eyelashes, particularly when it is a young girl that hasn’t worked out yet that less is more when it comes to face painting.
Francisco
Nice bit of verballing.
What I criticised (and continued to whenever we got a “St Ruth was right”) was the prediction made by Kenn Worth Road Ranger in early August 2020 that covid restrictions on transport would result in empty shelves within a week (two weeks tops).
Zero to do with your gadgets from Europe nearly two years later.
Can you point to where I have said anything else on supply chains apart from calling out St Ruth’s stupidity?
And, as it turned out, his ill-informed source within Colesworths.
If they are referring to 1952 I remember well that first winter of my high school years. All new uniforms were expensive and for winter I had only a blazer and of course the serge uniform but no jumper at that stage so I had to wear an old jumper under my white blouse. I remember the wind standing on the railway station after school going right through my body.
“Yea it’s him. his parents were terrorists.”
Yes and then he was raised by two other terrorists, Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn. Oh and guess who else was nurtured by the same Bill and Bernardine?
My HS English teacher haunts me.
It tells you everything how the MSM sit mum about these events.
Confirmed.
And next time turn your fucking lights on.
Cold morning reminiscence, gardener’s version.
Horror! Frost on the garden! Quick, turn on the water and wash it off before the sun hits it.
Nothing.
Water frozen in the hose. 🙂
That’s unfair ,Dover. You don’t know if shot himself in the head after he strangled himself with the rope around his neck.
SHUT. IT. DOWN!
FIRE. THEM. ALL!
JC.
Why do you let the bible dictate your every action?
For the guidance of wise men and the blind observance of fools.
And as Rabz has always said.
SALT THE EARTH
Err, wut?
They weren’t already?
FMD.
The shotty was in the boot of his car.
Not true. I haven’t called people that. I called you a redneck kunt. How ironic you’re protesting this when you started the ethnic abuse, you degraded piece of human junk.
And no, I’m not lying as I’d never retaliate in this way unless you started it.
Don’t like it? Then don’t start arguments with ethic abuse as I’m not going to stop now, you whitetrash heap of garbage.
aviate, navigate, bloviate
buy a battery drill yet you silly old shit-talker?