Open Thread – Weekend 25 June 2022
1,289 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 25 June 2022”
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Have you registered handmaids.com.au yet?
This was doing the rounds on the internet yesterday, Rakemeister.
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Everyone wants to see Justice done, riiiiiiight???
Which means a Trial is held.
So, why not shut the fuck up about Lisa until after the Trial?Contempt means interference with the ability of the court to provide a just trial. You either mean this in which case you’re a fucking idiot; or you don’t in which case you’re a pain in the arse troll.
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Our youngest children are twins. When they were born in the early 2000s it was probably the most exhausting time our lives.
The worst part was that a very close relative of my wife was pregnant with twins and decided to abort them. She did this because she didn’t want to miss our on an overseas trip.
When we were told (after the “termination”), we looked at our infant daughters with wonder but sadness. We would have offered to take them, look after them and give them back when she could look after them. But they were already gone.
The person who terminated has exhibited no guilt or sorrow, only her own brand of narcissistic delusions that the spirits of the two babies still live on somehow.
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Indolentsays:
June 27, 2022 at 8:10 pm
The Daily MailAnthony Albanese unleashes at US judges’ controversial decision to scrap the right to get an abortion as the PM explains why he is so against the move: ‘It is a setback for women’
LOL. Another ‘Pollie’ who hasn’t read the US Constitution which is written in plain English. I have a copy and have read it. Nowhere does it mention abortion. I can lend that copy to ‘Elbow’ so that he can read it on his extensive World travels. It doesn’t take long to read though. On the other hand, I have tried reading the Australian Constitution. I failed as it is so complicated and tedious to read. You really do need to be a Constitutional Lawyer expert to understand it.
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Dotsays:
June 27, 2022 at 7:49 pm
JohnPretty sure Ed knows he is wrong.
He has spent the better part of 10 years trolling this site as a fake conservative in name only.
And he couldn’t even fake it half convincingly. His maaaaate “Scotty” did a far more convincing imitation, at least while he was supervised properly on OSB.
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Ed Casesays:
June 27, 2022 at 8:03 pm
The case is known by Higgins, not the accused who becomes readily known through Higgin’s extensive notoriety.What does this gobbledygook mean?
Is English your first language?Still with the appalling reading comprehension. You and Homer P need to start out again at pre-school, and spend a dozen years trying to learn anything.
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Don’t the ignorant people behind these things realise they are…. breaking the law?
The Hun:
Former Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu has been shot in Sydney’s inner west and is believed to be fighting for life. Nazlioglu had been found not guilty of the execution murder of Comanchero boss Mick Hawi in 2018.
It is understood Nazlioglu was shot multiple times in Walker St at Rhodes around 7pm this evening and has been rushed to Westmead Hospital.
My God. If only that farmer in Cobar had given his .410 to the Government.
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Matersays:
June 27, 2022 at 8:02 pm
It wasn’t all that long ago when Monty was advocating the denial of healthcare services to “anti-vaxxers” because they were “being deliberately stupid about it”.His message being; those who chose not to take appropriate precautions should suffer the full consequences.
Consistency is not his strong suit.
LOL. I did not know this. Well for me not having been jabbed by an experimental emergency approved drug, I am suffering the full consequences of my rational decision. That is, I continue to keep hold of my ‘top notch’ immune system, one that has not been compromised by these doses. Not only that, but I have yet to contract this virus thingy. Not had the Flu since 1972 either and I don’t get the annual Flu jabs. Gargling with red wine and then swallowing seems to work for me and kind of makes me feel quite happy after a few glasses. Happy days or is it daze?
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Another ‘Pollie’ who hasn’t read the US Constitution
Amazing the number of Australian people you meet that think they understand the American constitution better than the US Supreme Court. The guns thing usually draws them out. Wonder how many of the journalists have actually even read the decisions that they are hyperventilating about.
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Mater says:
June 27, 2022 at 8:18 pmPregnancy isn’t a contagious disease, so your analogy falls over.
Given you clearly didn’t understand it, I’m sure it does, in your eyes.
Mater, is it true that you were absent from this blog, because you were writing a book? “Numbers Bob and Ho Chi Minh – their part in my victory?”
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Thanks for sharing that. I found it quite upsetting.
Sorry about that, Cassie. I don’t think I’m a great dad and feel that parenthood is hard, but even with four little kids in the house at the time, we would have gladly raised them.
My wife took it hard but is ok now. The woman who aborted is still delusional and narcissistic, twenty years later. What also hurts is that we knew parents who either could conceive or struggled to conceive who would’ve been great parents of those twins.
And I guess there are some on this forum in similar positions. My respect and thoughts with them.
The woman got her trip overseas. I hope it was worth it.
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BTW it is fairly well known planned parenthood in the US business model is to set young women up with contraception that is likely to fail, and then encourage them to use abortion as a form of contraception.
Preferably not until late in the pregnancy, so the body parts can be sold.
Seriously, PP and similar abortion clinics treat pregnant women like livestock, and people claim that the pro-lifers are the anti-women ones. -
Anthony Albanese unleashes at US judges’ controversial decision to scrap the right to get an abortion as the PM explains why he is so against the move: ‘It is a setback for women’
LOL. Another ‘Pollie’ who hasn’t read the US Constitution which is written in plain English. I have a copy and have read it.
not only that – he doesn’t seem to understand our federal/state arrangement either.
The US is now aligned with the way we deal with it in Oz – at the state level.
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Sorry about that, Cassie. I don’t think I’m a great dad and feel that parenthood is hard, but even with four little kids in the house at the time, we would have gladly raised them.
Good for you. Despite the difficulties I’m sure it would have been worthwhile for all.
I was at a function for Marcus Oldham Agricultural College a few days ago and one of the students had been asked to share the story of his life, as part of the scholarship winners thanking the College’s supporters.
An early part of the story was the day his dad sat the family down and said “there’s no easy way to say this, but your aunty has died”. His two cousins came to live with them, and as he put it, the family of four became a family of six, with mum and dad looking after the cousins as if they were their own.
Then came the harrowing bit. At 19 years of age he was the one who was at home when the police knocked on the door. He had to sit the family down and say “there’s no easy way to say this, but dad’s died”. He then had to run the farm while his mother looked after the younger kids till they finished school. He said he’d never have been able to do it, but the whole district rallied round to pitch in helping with the work and teaching him the tricks of the trade. However I can’t help feeling he also wouldn’t have been able to do it if he didn’t have his dad’s example over those previous years.
There’s a happy ending – when the extended siblings were all finished school he was able to go to Marcus on a scholarship. He’s now close to finishing, ready to go back and feeling fully confident that he’s now up to the task of running the farm himself.
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Anthony Albanese unleashes at US judges’ controversial decision to scrap the right to get an abortion as the PM explains why he is so against the move: ‘It is a setback for women’
LOL. Another ‘Pollie’ who hasn’t read the US Constitution which is written in plain English. I have a copy and have read it.
Well, he did plagiarise the script of an actor that was playing the part of The President of the United States..
Surely there’s very few more qualified to comment. 😉
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Weeping for the future.
Explaining the
First Blood
plot to the child I am now not so sure is my son who just got in from work, answering questions including but not limited to:
‘Why did he jump off the cliff? There’s a big tree there. He should have just climbed up.’
‘Why is he wearing a piece of canvas?’
‘Isn’t he an ex-Army guy?’
‘Oh shit. I would have done a better job stitching myself up.’He’d better go and pick his missus up before Trautman wanders in.
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If any of you want to see m0nty jumping a line of sharks with a rocket-powered shark, pop on over to The End of the Beginning post.
He’s started foaming about the alleged impending demise of the US EPA, harder than the average gunzel does when he lines up his camera on one of these things…*
(* The video is a pisstake. M0nty’s carry-on is quite real)
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Rex, you don’t understand the implications of West Virginia v EPA. Go do some reading.
I don’t need to “understand the implications,” Fat Man.
The fact you’re frothing about it more violently than a Victorian Department of Food Safety slug dropped onto a freshly salted floor tells me everything I need to know about the EPA as an ideological weapon and agenda tool for the Climate Change madness currently seeing its culmination under Sleepy Joe…
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BTW it is fairly well known planned parenthood in the US business model is to set young women up with contraception that is likely to fail, and then encourage them to use abortion as a form of contraception.
Preferably not until late in the pregnancy, so the body parts can be sold.
Seriously, PP and similar abortion clinics treat pregnant women like livestock, and people claim that the pro-lifers are the anti-women ones.It’s always projection.
Amy Coney Barrett has said out loud into a mic that she is concerned about the supply of babies for adoption, and thinks repealing Roe increases it. Alito (IIRC) also talked about it in his opinion.
It is the five Dobbs judges who are treating women like livestock.
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Also Fat Man,
I am supremely disappointed you haven’t once today been belt-fed about the impending SCOTUS decision on the federal (and thuss State-superseding) Constitutional right to be able to legally carry a concealed firearm in any US jurisdiction.
Or had that wicked third leg of the conservative legal trifecta so far eluded you?
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Arrived back in Perth last night from a month in England and the Continent so thought I’d post a Covid mandate update for travelers.
Masks: Required at Perth airport on the way out. Not enforced at the Qantas club. Required and rigourously enforced on 17 hr Qantas flight to London (bastards). Not required at UK and European airports. Required and mildly enforced on Lufthansa, not required on British Airways, not required on LOT (Polish air). Not required in Qantas club Heathrow. Required and mildly enforced on Qantas flight to Singapore. Required but not enforced at Singapore airport. Required but not enforced on Qantas flight Singapore to Perth. Unsure if required at Perth airport on return. About 30% of staff were not wearing them, however announcements were made to “please wear your masks”, though it was not enforced.
Vaccine passports: Not required anywhere at all until our return flight. We had to fill out an online Digital Passenger Declaration. Like all digital government forms, it was not fit for purpose. Our address, passport number, vaccine status and itinerary were either already known or irrelevant but still took about an hour to fill out. We were told via email that all the information was complete, then, on the day of the flight, another email told us it was incomplete. We ignored the second email. Despite being told to print or take a screen shot of the completed DPD, it was not required at either end.
As far as Europe is concerned, Covid is a thing of the past. Other than the Lufthansa flight, there were no restrictions anywhere in England, Belgium or Poland. With the very rare exception of the odd idiot in a mask, it was as if the pandemic never happened. BTW we caught the ‘rona in Belgium. 5 days, 20 panadol and half a dozen lozenges and we were good to go.
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West Virginia v EPA is likely to prevent the federal US government from regulating. Full stop. Not just environmental issues but on anything.
No.
The US administration has much stronger administrative law powers than any Westminster government does.
You are seriously suggesting the President cannot make regulations regarding the US Navy. This for an example, is patently absurd.
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Sometimes ya gotta wonder about the “left” and their thought processing ability! .. LOL!
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West Virginia v EPA is likely to prevent the federal US government from regulating. Full stop. Not just environmental issues but on anything.
Oh my God, Fat Man!
You mean that the States will have to do what they were doing prior to Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency, and mostly look after themselves, up to and including forming their own consensus on mutual issues?!
And the Left now might have to inflitrate and manipulate 50+ State and Territory apparatus instead of just one?
No wonder you’re frothing.
Heaven forbid something similar happening here…
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West Virginia v EPA is likely to prevent the federal US government from regulating. Full stop. Not just environmental issues but on anything.
WV v EPA has one issue:
Whether, in 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), an ancillary provision of the Clean Air Act, Congress constitutionally authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to issue significant rules — including those capable of reshaping the nation’s electricity grids and unilaterally decarbonizing virtually any sector of the economy — without any limits on what the agency can require so long as it considers cost, nonair impacts and energy requirements.
Your ignorance is not endearing.
I wish you harm. Nothing personal because there is nothing personal about you; you’re a leftie.
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The world’s most powerful ute has finally arrived on Australian shores
The Ram TRX boats a 6.2L supercharged V8 that generates 702 horsepower
It is three-times more powerful than the popular Toyota HiLux
The TRX costs an eyewatering $199,950 plus on-road costs -
Speaking of people acting as if the ‘rona never happened. I saw a pro-abortion protest in Perth this arvo. A dozen or so mainly young harpies holding signs with pictures of coat hangers and the word ‘fuck’ prominent. They milled about the corner of Barrack and St Georges Terrace before ‘marching’ down the Terrace shouting “My body my choice”.
Yeah right. Where were they over the last 18 months during the vaccine mandates? But as far as the protest is concerned, it was sad and pathetic. Australia already has what SCOTUS just gave to the US people; the right for states to make their own abortion laws, and guess what, Australian legislators just love killing babies. What the fuck were they whinging about?
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Do some reading about non-delegation doctrine, you idiots.
I’m sure obuma slept with a copy of it under his pillow when he was instructing the IRA to prosecute conservatives.
The left control all the major bureaucracies: fbi, cia, doj, ira and epa. The left is a disease, destroying the West. It should be eradicated. Nothing personal, of course.
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The Doomsday Clock must be within range of Zeno’s endpoint:
Taiwan’s Message for China: We Have a Nuke-Like Weapon
I’m going to re-read some Jane while there’s still time.
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Required at Perth airport on the way out. Not enforced at the Qantas club. Required and rigourously enforced on 17 hr Qantas flight to London (bastards).
How awful for you both, Jupes. I hope you still managed to reasonably evade the enforcement by holding a drink for most of the journey or ducking under a blanket to sleep mask free. We went Emirates and while they said masks were necessary no-one wore them all the time on the flight (in Business Class, I didn’t see into the main cabin on the A380 but I expect the disregard was similar). Most passengers around us completely disregarded masking, and we partied at the bar maskless with others unmasked – even a few of the staff dropped their masks down for that.
As you note, Covid was a nothingburger in the UK, and now you say on the continent too.
That stupid online form coming back in was definitely not fit for purpose; Hairy grappled with it online for an hour in the Lounge for his compliance before we departed and an hour at Dubai in the Lounge in transit for mine, to be ready for Sydney arrival (I had a happy time chatting to a Texas oil driller while he did that; love the way airports give opportunities like that). In the event, no-one asked for any print-outs we had and no-one asked anything about our vax status. Just sailed through the airport and home in a cab. All maskless.
Great to have you both back in Australia. BBQ at ours in Sydney soonest please.
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With the very rare exception of the odd idiot in a mask
Out where I am in Fairfield, NSW with a high SE Asian population face nappies are still being worn by about 70% of folk .. riding the bike daily and 2 out of 3 riders I see/pass are nappied up .. at least the local BAT FLU drive thru closed a week ago …… LOL! -
David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future. Absurdist body modification and surgery porn with his trademark animatronics. Bit of a ripoff of JG Ballard’s Crash but Léa Seydoux has magnificent cleavage. Would sort of recommend.
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WV v EPA has one issue:
Whether, in 42 U.S.C. § 7411(d), an ancillary provision of the Clean Air Act, Congress constitutionally authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to issue significant rules — including those capable of reshaping the nation’s electricity grids and unilaterally decarbonizing virtually any sector of the economy — without any limits on what the agency can require so long as it considers cost, nonair impacts and energy requirements.
Bugger. I was wrong in my assumption of the scale of the judgement on offer.
Never mind, I understand now exactly why our obedient little conduit to the Leftist Hive Mind is so berko tonight.
The key plank to Build Back Better and the Green New Deal that preceded it is about to be broken as thoroughly as Batman’s back, over the knee of a Bane-like SCOTUS.
When will the Fat Man be burning down his toaster and vandalising his kitchen with flung tins of baked beans in protest?
I’d like to donate him a few pallets, Soros-style… :
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Damn! Missed Top Ender on Bolt! Just turned on & he’s gone!
He was authoritative, calm and precise. Well done, TE!
His idea re renting a US nuclear sub and personnel and having our guys taught to use it is a good one.
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Amy Coney Barrett has said out loud into a mic that she is concerned about the supply of babies for adoption, and thinks repealing Roe increases it. Alito (IIRC) also talked about it in his opinion.
It is the five Dobbs judges who are treating women like livestock.
None of these women are forced to get pregnant, and once pregnant, give the inherent worth of the child as a human being, deserves either to be brought to term and raised by their mother and father, or provided up for adoption, in order to find someone who will care for them. No one in that circumstance is treated as chattel. The only circumstance where that is the case is the one where you destroy the child in utero as if it were an unwanted calf.
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Rex Angersays:
June 27, 2022 at 10:12 pm
If any of you want to see m0nty jumping a line of sharks with a rocket-powered shark, pop on over to The End of the Beginning post.He’s started foaming about the alleged impending demise of the US EPA, harder than the average gunzel does when he lines up his camera on one of these things…*
(* The video is a pisstake. M0nty’s carry-on is quite real)
LOL. I watched the video with the most memorable line being – “Listen to that HORN”
Nice looking 1953 Diesel Loco’ though.
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Nice looking 1953 Diesel Loco’ though.
I am not ashamed to confess that I will die happy once I have driven streamliner locos like these.
Aussie pioneer streamliner GM1 of 1951 has recently arrived into the care of Rail Beritage WA in Bassendean, and its restoration after some 15 years of sitting in the open in NSW has begun.* I look forward to highballing it in the near future. 🙂
* And that in itself, is a story for another time.
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Who has won the Cat Count for election 22? I need to send the prize out.
Official AEC results here – Labor won 77 seats.
People’s predictions. Cat Call for Election 22…
Predicted result out of 151 seats up for grabs. (76 to win)
Coalition to win:
Winston Smith 84
Knuckle Dragger 80
Tom 80 LNP, 70 the rest (Liars-Filth). Simon’s leg-openers: ZERO.
Top Ender 79 (ineligible for prize)
Lizzie 78
Eyrie 78
Calli 77
Fleeced Libs to get between 76-80 seats
Rosie LNP by one; nothing for teals, 1 green 2 independents
Megan LNP chancers, morons and grifters B team to fall over the line by one from the LAB chancers, morons and grifters A team.
Roger LNP to win 73 seats (ALP 72) & form government with support of independents
Fair Shake Scomo as a minority government…after two weeks of recounts. He takes it by 2
Chris Put me down for 3?????Hung parliament
Delta A Hung parliament – 74 seats each – with Greens and One nation voting each way. Rebekha Sharkie (Centre Alliance) going with LNP.
Bar Beach Swimmer SFLs at 74, Liars at 66, the rest on the crossbench made up of the current crop, less Helen Haines (go sfw!) and the rest, fingers crossed, a combo of UAP/ON.
2dogs Hung parliament with about 65 each for the majors
Armadillo hung Parliament with one teal holding the balance of power
MatrixTransform Liars 67; Crossbench 13; LNP 71
EvilElviss hung, LNP 71, Lab 70, ferals (hopefully conservative…) 10.
132andBush hung but unworkable parliament and back to the polls before Christmas
Rickw Hung Parliament….. by an angry mob!Labor to win:
pete m Labor to win by 10 seats
thefrollickingmole ALP up by 10.
Behind Enemy Line 86 seats
Pedro the Loafer ALP by 5
Bruce in WA ALP by four
Rabz Labore at least 78 seats
Not Uh oh 78
Vagabond Liars (76) ahead of SFLs (70) by 6 seats but a crossbench of 5 loonies to make life interesting.
Cassie of Sydney two or three seats
Crossie Labor will squeak in
Leon L ALP + Greens + TEALS 90; LNP et al 61
Sancho Labor – 76; LNP – 73; Greens – 1; Teal – 1; UAP – 0 -
m0nty-fa
It’s always projection.
Amy Coney Barrett has said out loud into a mic that she is concerned about the supply of babies for adoption, and thinks repealing Roe increases it. Alito (IIRC) also talked about it in his opinion.
It is the five Dobbs judges who are treating women like livestock.
And Planned Parenthood is concerned about the continuing supply of “spare parts” for “research” purposes, from which PP makes a great deal of money.
It is planned Parenthood, and useful idiots like you, who are treating women like spare parts factories.
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m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 10:43 pm
Rex, it’s not even about the EPA. It’s about attacking the whole system of government. Read up a little, please.m0nty-fa now claims that the Supreme Court is about to abolish the US Constitution? Read up a little, please, and calm down. You are completely hysterical.
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m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 11:08 pm
West Virginia v EPA is likely to prevent the federal US government from regulating. Full stop. Not just environmental issues but on anything.Your ignorance is not endearing.
Oh! Shock! Horror! The unelected bureaucracy will no longer be able to make vast numbers of regulations that have the force of law! And theh enforce them without the approval of elected representatives! Shock Horror!
Then the Congress will have to take its Constitutional responsibilities, and instruments with the force of law will actually have to have the actual status of law! Shock Horror! The end of civilisation as the bureaucrats have known it! Shock! Horror!
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It is the five Dobbs judges who are treating women like livestock.
Livestock, really?
Livestock breeders take great efforts not to have unplanned pregnancies in stock.
Unwanted breeders are sterilised or slaughtered.
Stock with superior genetics are used to provide sperm and embryos to improve productivity.
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m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 11:16 pm
WV v EPA may come out overnight, so we may know tomorrow Australian time.I hope you lot are right on this one, because if you aren’t then things are going to devolvein America
m0nty-fa, I am surprised that, as a good Catholic, you are not familiar with the principle of subsidiarity, under which responsibility should be “devolved” to the lowest practical level.
Most of the problems of the modern world arise from excessive centralism (and I write this as a former Commonwealth public servant, where I have seen the problems that excessive centralism causes). A bit of devolution should increase our quality of administration.
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BJ, you are a former public servant? No wonder you are such a crashing bore.
Why aren’t you still a public servant? It’s practically impossible to get fired, I’ve heard. You are also borderline retarded*, so you’d qualify for special treatment.
* note I am not using this word as an insult, I am saying he is literally functionally retarded.
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“I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.”
Lauren Boebert went full theocracy, and proclaimed, “The church is supposed to direct the government” per the founding fathers.
The veil falls.
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