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Let’s blame half the population. A lot easier than having any form of accountability or transparency with a incompetent &…
Cassie made some excellent points comparing the virtue signalling from one instance of violence to another. Your trolling is very…
Yep.
BAM!
Quinella!
Trifecta!
Third Test. Pomland.
NZ made 329, easy peasy Japanesey.
The Poms are 6/55. Glorious.
How are you, gentlemen.
All your top 10 are belong to us.
You have no chance to survive.
Make your post.
World news · 57 minutes ago
Looks out window.
Blinding flash of light and curtains burst into flames.
“No this can’t be happening, the fact checkers dispro \/ E D
Deus vult.
Roe v Wade overturned 6 – 3
Techno Fog @Techno_Fog · 5m
Good. I can sleep on that and check the fallout in the morning.
Tim Pool @Timcast · 9m
Cue the “mostly peaceful riots”.
They’re open enough to release the news early in the day, as opposed to the Friday 5:00 PM release.
dover0beachsays:
June 25, 2022 at 12:16 am
SCOTUSblog
@SCOTUSblog
· 2m
THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.
Deus vult.
Excellent!
Now for the baby-murderer riots….
Thomas is a mensch.
I remember in previous abortion debates being told that Roe will never be reversed. Same re Obergefell. Never let people black pill you. Never let defeatism set in. Make them eat their words.
Krispy Krakkers Krunched
Must Be Jelly (William Clarke — dec.)
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Probably going to regret it, but who or what is “Titus”
Here’s a comment from Unz Review on the Roe vs Wade Decision:
WhoaWaitaMinute says:
June 24, 2022 at 5:58 pm GMT • 50 minutes ago • 100 Words ?
Hmm
Could be the character in the Jiggs comic strip: Titus Canby?
Sorry.
I can’t answer that.
Titus forbids it.
very funny guys. fortunately, I can survive without knowing about Titus.
Certainly not going to waste a second trawling back to find out the origin.
???
‘some sort of an emoticon ‘
Young man regrets having testes removed.
Anguish of young man who had sex organs removed on NHS then regretted it the same day… as he SUES NHS over gender reassignment surgery
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10947483/Anguish-young-man-sex-organs-removed-NHS-regretted-day-SUES-NHS.html
Well, well. well.
This should be good for a couple of months worth of rioting.
Worthwhile just to hear the lamentations of the Left as two of their sacred cows are led to the slaughter pen.
feelthebern says:
June 25, 2022 at 5:35 am
He must be joking, surely?
What did he think cutting off his jewels mean?
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/birx-had-a-tough-day-in-congress?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
Leak the Younger certainly is a masterful portrait cartoonist.
The sneering hate in Lidia’s eyes
https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/what-makes-some-men-so-obsessed-with-barely-legal-girls-a292e2b13e1c
To answer your question: FERTILITY.
I can’t imagine trying to start a family with an infertile woman.
BARELY LEGAL! PEEDOHFILES! REE!
Err, honey, you call your blog thing the smart-space. What sort of marriageable man wants to come home from an “economically attractive” job to that self indulgence???
The other day I watched a weird video where an 18 year old man takes home a 45 year old woman…
Americans should have left a heap of those (guns, abortion, etc) issues to the States. That’s what the constitution actually says to do, BTW.
Thank you Tom, you do a great service to Cats.
when public health officials and agencies stridently told america that the covid vaccines would be a “dead end for the virus” and stop infection and spread, upon what did they base that claim and how did they get it so wrong?
The Bureaucratic Class makes wrong decisions as a core competency. What normally doesn’t happen is their arrogance, ignorance and incompetence being put on full display.
Americans should have left a heap of those (guns, abortion, etc) issues to the States. That’s what the constitution actually says to do, BTW.
Same with Australia, the NFA short circuited the independence of the states. If it wasn’t for the NFA most states would have walked away from the presumption of firearm owner guilt.
Looking at Garrison’s cartoon the first thing that came to mind over the AU and AG flags of the armies* marching on the dollar was that Australia and Argentina are threatening the US. On second thoughts, at the turn of the 20th century both Aus and Argentina were at the top of the rich countries list so this may have had some truth then.
Today, Argentina is a basket case and we are not far behind.
Yes I know, silver and gold. What, no bitcoin?
I don’t get Knight’s cartoon. What have I missed?
Hildegard von Blingin’ comes out with another banger:
House of the Rising Sun.
“My father was a gambling man, down in Orleans…”
https://youtu.be/emyE_GQNFW4
Here, Crossie.
Thanks Tom, though I doubt that Dan is a sinking ship. Liberals are too stupid to profit from this.
Trump will be considered one of the most historically important presidents.
Without a doubt.
‘Slap in the face’: independents furious at PM’s decision to cut advisory staff from four to one
Getting on with the important stuff.
Last night rosie posted something about Pirate Petey having a book deal with Miss Higgins.
I did not know this, I wasn’t paying enough attention. From 21/6/22.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/lisa-wilkinsons-husband-peter-fitzsimons-link-to-brittany-higgins-book-deal-could-be-explored-at-trial/news-story/4b71b9d9034deaa7d5459c3e54d26867
*The Project host Lisa Wilkinson’s husband Peter FitzSimons’ role in securing a lucrative book deal for former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins could be explored at her sexual assault trial.
Lawyers acting for Bruce Lehrmann, the man charged with one count of sex without consent, disclosed the likelihood they will pursue the issue during a legal hearing on Tuesday to request a temporary delay in the matter over pre-trial publicity.
Mr Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
During the hearing, Mr Lehrmann’s barrister Steve Whybrow revealed that best-selling author Peter FitzSimons had been subpoenaed.*
Re. the SCOTUS decision, I wonder if this is the spark similar to the shell fired from Fort Johnson over Fort Sumter?
Lol, bet the Teals didn’t see that coming.
Hell hath no fury like someone promised a cushy taxpayer funded job who doesn’t get one.
“Trump will be considered one of the most historically important presidents.”
Yep…..which is why the left remains intent in destroying him.
If you live in NY state, nothing changes re abortion.
Knuckle Draggersays:
June 25, 2022 at 12:03 am
Third Test. Pomland.
NZ made 329, easy peasy Japanesey.
The Poms are 6/55. Glorious.
Not so fast. At the end of Day 2 the English have fought back nicely. Glorious…………………….
“Dr Faustussays:
June 25, 2022 at 7:35 am”
I have to say, I read this late last night and I laughed and thought…..good. Despite disliking Albanese and the new government, I thought to myself well at least he’s got some balls, unlike the previous three Liberals PM and particularly the most recent Liberal PM who may have made a similar decision on a Friday morning and then quickly capitulated by Friday night, because that’s the legacy of the Morrison government….one of craven capitulation on every effing thing.
As for the outrage from the cross-benchers, I really think Svengali Simon and his Teal Stepford babes really thought that they’d be holding the balance of power and they really swallowed the nonsense that they’d be really important in Canberra. Some things are sweet. I suspect the likes of Princess Allegra, Ryan and the other Teal mediocrities will become bored, very quickly.
Titus is being used because Struth’s not around.
Not so fast. At the end of Day 2 the English have fought back nicely. Glorious…………………….
I know who I’d rather watch bat.
Poms scoring at nearly double the rate. NZud – 2.8 Poms – 5.6
dover0beachsays:
June 25, 2022 at 12:16 am
SCOTUSblog
@SCOTUSblog
· 2m
THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.
Deus vult.
There never was a Constitutional right to abortion as the US Constitution does not refer to abortion anywhere in the Document. The original Supreme Court decision should have never been made. This is all about the Rule of Law.
There is NOTHING in the Constitution that guarantees any right to an abortion. There is a huge difference between STATUTORY law and CONSTITUTIONAL law. The former is acceptable as long as it doe NOT violate the latter. This decision is throwing it back to the States BECAUSE this is a matter for STATUTORY law – not CONSTITUTIONAL any more than putting up a stop sign by the local municipality.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/roe-v-wade-overruled-statutory-v-constitutional/
This is the biggest issue in the US.
Who needs Zuck bucks when the Feds are bankrolling it.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections/
Oops that is double the rate.
Poms are 5.3 after another check.
Yes it is about constitutional law and about how the political establishment wanted to pretend that the tenth amendment of the Bill of Rights didn’t exist. The States, or their peoples have the right to decide over such matters.
This is the best thing to happen in America since Trump was elected.
Aspiring rappers on tour.
It’s amazing to see the stupidity of the pro-abortion left howling from states that have legislated rights allowing abortion. Can those people read?
InterestIng remarks about Roe v Wade result in USA saying women now have lost rights over their choices for their bodies.
Really
Here are some
Always use contraception .
Make him use contraception this to prevent STDs
No sex buy a vibrator
If raped then allow a abortion. .
BTW what was the democratic percentage of judges .?
Iam a feminist from way back but what brought this change was the extreme s that pro abortionists went allowing abortion after first trimester .
Any way about time men took some responsibility it takes two to tango.
???
We never stop taking responsibility. Check back in when the power goes out and your garbage remains uncollected!
they should ask for the matter to be dismissed due to no longer possible to get a fair trial
Just saw Lisa Wilkinson at the link provided.
She’s the Nancy Pelosi of Australian media.
The overturning of Roe vWade is a surprise which I would not have predicted.
It is maybe an indication of a fightback against the “Rights” generation which puts personal “rights”above all else.
It was always unbelievable that decision to abort at 24 weeks & sometimes beyond was supported.
Tomsays:
June 25, 2022 at 7:17 am
Here, Crossie.
Report comment
I find it very interesting that the Victorian State Deputy (to Dan the bent Sheriff), the Police Minister and the Health Minister are all not standing again at the upcoming November 2022 State Erections (Elections). They must have all been looking at the latest increasing pitchfork and axe sales at Bunnings…………………lol
macron?
m0ntysays:
June 24, 2022 at 9:51 pm
Do you mean our points of view would be metaphorically beaten to a pulp after vigorous debate and we’d have to withdraw from the arena cowed and never to return?
Yes.
m0ty-fa has direct experience of this, having been forced “from the arena [of his own blog] cowed and never to return”. He even seems proud of his defeat by his allies on the left.
MatrixTransformsays:
June 24, 2022 at 10:15 pm
Yes.
hey mUnty … you need some solar installed?
Is m0nty-fa going to take up the Solar Challenge? Cool (particularly in Melbun at this time of the year).
When their antics don’t move any votes they will drop it.
I can only assume the ALP polling shows something but, with the Gliberals being what they are, I’m still not confident of change. The minors
One could suppose they are doing out of conscience, except for the fact they are politicians and they are ALP.
The minors may gain seats in the upper house; less sure about the lower.
Monty, putting the mon in mong.
Many left wing women in the USA will be kicking their cats today. Lucky they have so many cats to choose from.
Re Roe,
and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.
The last four words will drive the DemonRats and the rest of the fascist left insane (well, even more insane than they currently are). They want to impose their preferences through unelected judges, not have to argue and win their case with the voters.
Se also: m0nty-fa.
virus did not originate from the wuhan lab they said
Women and children hardest hit isn’t going to work this time.
Better try women and trannies because men can get pregnant too.
Cassie – It’s easy to have balls when the entire MSM, public service, the frightbat chorus and Twitter are in lockstep support.
Much as I dislike ScoMo for his stupid greenery he tried to walk the safe beige path. Unfortunately that no longer exists. The Libs though are now solidly captured by the Turnbull wing and cannot do the only other thing that can possibly work, which is to hoist the black flag and run out the cannons.
In a letter sent to House of Representatives and Senate crossbenchers on Friday, Albanese – who as prime minister gets to set staff allocations across parliament – said he proposed to offer just “one additional full-time staff member at the adviser classification, in addition to your four electorate staff”.
Under the previous Coalition government, crossbenchers got up to four advisers, in addition to electorate staff.
The decision blindsided many on the crossbench, who had been optimistic of further expanding their staff numbers.
The Teal Ducks have been plucked? No hot and cold running lackeys (family members) paid from the taxpayer purse?
Yep Zipster.
The tide of the Ukraine war has bogged down into a battle of anecdotes.
Bear Necessitiessays:
June 25, 2022 at 8:34 am
Many left wing women in the USA will be kicking their cats today. Lucky they have so many cats to choose from.
Good job then that the Cats here will be alright. Although there are some Cats that have crept in here that need even more kicking – ‘Montypox virus’ and ‘Head Case’ for a start……………………….
I love the reports coming in because none of them ever use the term “so far”…I mean if you have survived a year, you’re in da clear!!!
And Aussie MSM lockstep in reporting what a setback this is for women – ignoring of course that 50+% of those killed by abortion are female.
Hi Graeme.
We have this …
… followed by this …
Oh, for a kinder, gentler blog.
bern
Snap on the Teal Ducks!
“Cassie – It’s easy to have balls when the entire MSM, public service, the frightbat chorus and Twitter are in lockstep support.
Much as I dislike ScoMo for his stupid greenery he tried to walk the safe beige path. Unfortunately that no longer exists. The Libs though are now solidly captured by the Turnbull wing and cannot do the only other thing that can possibly work, which is to hoist the black flag and run out the cannons.”
So what are you saying? Maybe you do but I don’t want a PM who walks the “safe beige path”. The writing was clearly on the wall almost as soon as the votes had been counted back in 2013. We’ve had nine years of a “safe beige path” and all it delivered us was………..an utterly shambolic electricity grid because the stupid fucking Liberals were too cowardly to tackle the climate scam, an education system where children come out not being able to read or write or do basic maths but are experts on how the world is going to end by 2030 and how a woman apparently can have a dick, an ABC that is more out of control than what it was back in 2013 and on an on it goes…..day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year of cowardice and capitulation from three so called Liberal PMs, be it on Section 18C all the way through to net zero emissions……and as for Higgins, Porter, Laming, Tudge and how Morrison handled that, don’t get me started, no wonder the left is laughing. All Morrison did was play right into their hands. I’ll take my hat off to the left, they know how to play the culture wars….superbly I might add.
Biden attacking justices and the court.
With this decision, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court shows how extreme it is, how far removed they are from the majority of this country. They have made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world. But this decision must not be the final word.
Not a shred of protocol or decency to be found in this corrupt old grifter.
Time to see if the majority of the US population value the separation of powers and the safeguards of the constitution or partisan anarchy produced by the executive.
Cassie
As for the outrage from the cross-benchers, I really think Svengali Simon and his Teal Stepford babes really thought that they’d be holding the balance of power and they really swallowed the nonsense that they’d be really important in Canberra. Some things are sweet. I suspect the likes of Princess Allegra, Ryan and the other Teal mediocrities will become bored, very quickly.
Only yesterday, m0nty-fa was gloating about waiting to see the Teal Ducks exerting power in Parliament. m0nty-fa is as useless at political prognostications as he is at everything else.
But, aaaaannnnnyyyy daaaaaayyy noooww!
He is right about ‘people of colour’ – around 50% of black pregnancies are aborted.
No, but then he didn’t write it either.
In any case, a momentous development.
swedish vaccine injury data
birx had a tough day in congress
What on earth could make anyone take an untested vaccine?
Where were the men?
Shaking and hiding in their homes from a cold virus.
Could not for a second work out that if the flu had disappeared, it was just being renamed.
Yearly wogs don’t disappear….they just get renamed.
Yet feminine hysteria took over so called men and women alike.
Now overall deaths are through the roof, and the unjabbed are hated for mentioning it……….
Sad fucks indeed.
You blew it.
And you blew it for you and your fellow countrymen.
That’s the raw unadulterated truth and it may be hard to swallow but it’s the truth.
THE TRUTH.
Western men have stepped away from their responsibilities of being head of the house, and it’s going to cost our entire civilisation.
“Monkeypox” is only circulating in Countries where the population have been given the Pfizer Vaccine & is being used to advance a Technocratic Great Reset
Daily Mail.
Today I learned that the piping in Rockefeller Plaza was stamped with swastikas as it came from Germany.
Sometime between 2015 & 2017 they were grinded off.
So preachy SNL was happy to film their show there & “show off” the swastikas for 40 years.
Pack of fucking hypocrites.
Less than one hour after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the state of Missouri banned the practice of abortion.
Many states such as Missouri had “trigger laws” on the books that were set to go into effect if the Supreme Court were to issue such a ruling.
On Friday, as the court issued its groundbreaking decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, Mississippi’s pro-life lawmakers finished their decades-long campaign to ban abortion in the state.
RTWT
Too many people see the right to elect representatives to legislate law as a mainstay of individual human rights.
Magna Carta and the rules of justice came well before any common voting rights ever emerged.
Destroy the public faith and respect for the judicial system and you destroy democracy at the same time.
Biden and his administration are anarchists without any awareness outside the ideology constraints of sectional interests.
Okay.
Um?
JC would comment about his ass cancer, but Titus forbids him.
Oh and those idolatry Catholics…Titus forbids it.
Further to “safe beige path” which worked a treat for the Coalition…NOT. I’d rather have a Coalition government that went down in flames trying to change things rather than just strolling along as Abbott, Turdbull and the King of Beige….aka Morrison….did all the way to the ignominy of 21 May 2022.
Cassie – If you read the rest of my answer you would see what I was saying. 😀
It’s abundantly clear from US experience that no centre now exists. Anyone who attempts to move there falls into a black hole and is lost. Has happened here over and over – like in Victoria and WA with wet Oppositions standing for nothing and shriveling to nothing.
But to be successful as a righty you have to be a Trump or a De Santis. Nothing else works. And when you do win like Campbell Newman you have to stay the path with determination and decisiveness.
Again the problem is RINOs and LINOs and NINOs undermining every decisive leader in the mainstream right parties. I don’t know what to do about that. The US with its presidential and primary systems has it so much better than us, since Tea Party insurgencies can and do happen. Not here, since any time some good candidate gets put up by the branch the Photios bunch comes in with a “captain’s pick”.
Yes, there will be a lot of people promised well paid jobs by crossbenchers feeling glum today. And, the crossbenchers who promised four people a job are now in the uncomfortable position of picking one and explaining to the others why they missed out. 🙂
This is the kind of basic self-preservation that coalition governments always seem to lack. You don’t give your opponents matches to burn your house down.
Wonderful.
Hopefully the same happens to Brereton.
“You don’t give your opponents matches to burn your house down.”
Liberty quote Johanna.
Some advice would be appreciated.
We live in what is classed as a remote area – even though we are only 3 hours from Sydney. As some of you will know we live most of our time on our farm & return to our home in Sydney regularly.
At the farm we have NBN satellite via Active8 for internet & mobile coverage is via Optus tower. About 6 months ago our service provider Optus stopped allowing us to send emails which they said were “spam”( though we could receive them) by blocking Port25. After a complicated session our local computer company rectified the problem. It has now reoccurred & this time they can’t fix it as they say Optusnet is refusing to relay outgoing emails to Active8.
Any ideas on how to resolve this? We have many skills – but computer technology is not one of them! I am incensed by this denial of service as I am a very active user of outgoing emails. I also regard it as an essential communication tool – especially our in the donga!
“Cassie – If you read the rest of my answer you would see what I was saying. ?”
I did read it.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Starlink.
The LDP have taken my suggestion of PAL (Party of Australian Libertarians).
This will be funny if it happens. If people don’t know who they are voting for, brand recognition may go a long way.
I like Liberty and Democracy, but??? is it memorable?
“Don’t be be a CHUMp, be a Goodo and vote for PAL!”
I think my faction (Fanatical Libertarians) may go to far, plus there are only 26 of us in all of Australia and plagiarism is rampant.
The Twelve Golden Words of Libertarian Fanaticism
WE MUST RESIST THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AND POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT AT ALL COSTS
They are seriously trying to turn what is most likely a side effect of the vaccine into the next “pandemic”.
kitten corner: hey, hey it’s the monkeypox
(i think maybe these people are monkeying around)
A whole swag of woke companies are falling over themselves to offer free travel for wymminses who wish to kill their baby in lefty state.
Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup Rush to Fund Abortion Travel (24 Jun)
DICK’S Sporting Goods Offers to Reimburse Employees for Abortion-Related Travel Expenses (24 Jun)
I wonder what would happen if ladies doing such a thing were then charged with manslaughter in Missouri and like states? Might be an elegant way to incentivize lefties to migrate permanently to enlightened places like California and leave righties in peace.
Struth
Western men have stepped away from their responsibilities of being head of the house, and it’s going to cost our entire civilisation.
Well, I’m the head of my house as I’m the only person in it. The dog (bitch) sometimes thinks that she’s the boss but I provide the food so she has to keep relearning her place in the Universe. I am the Alpha Male in my house and leader of the Pack. Pack of one I know, but it does count……………….
Not all of us
Vicki, I’m a technology dunce too, but can’t you change providers? What right does Optus have to designate your emails as “spam”? So if you want to say “happy birthday” to a relative in Sydney that’s “spam”? You should sue them, or at least get legal advice if there is no other service option.
Then, Cassie, you need to watch more pirate movies!
Maybe British navy movies too: the doctrine of the RN has long been to “steer towards the sound of the guns”. It worked, as British captains gained and retained the reputation of being mad buggers who’d fight unwinnable odds and still win despite mere impossibility. Maybe Trump read a lot of Alexander Kent and Patrick O’Brian novels when he was younger.
Thanks feelthebern. Yes, others near us have said they eliminated Active8 problems through Starlink. My concerns are the fact we have to get new Satellite dish (we have 3 dishes already – 2 obsolete!), new PowerPoint in roof cavity etc. & all done with instructions remotely.
We have been using our current setup with Optus (30 year customer) & Active8 (7 year customer). I refuse to accept that I now have to change providers.
I am an active member of an anti vax ( the Covid ones) group & send a great deal of correspondence out through emails. I am, of course, probably paranoid – but I hope it has nothing to do with this.
Bruce of Newk, you’ve stumped me. In the world of acronyms, what is a “NINO”?
Good to see vaccine mandates are apparently also being lifted here in QLD.
Hopefully about all over (except the neverending blather from the usual doomsday day predictors) .
Vicki, one other thought. Do you use a VPN? My emails stopped going out a couple of months ago and when I contacted my service provider, TPG, and after some toing and froing they advised that if the IP address changed, which is does with a VPN, then outgoing emails can be blocked. I was still receiving. They unblocked my service and I adjusted the settings on my VPN to cover only online sites, and not emails. It seems to be fine since.
If that’s not worthy of a contempt charge, what is?
Thanks Indolent! Yes – we are starting to feel pretty irate. We were astonished that our local “gurus” couldn’t fix it. They also suggested we convert to Starlink. I just find it hard to accept that a provider that you have had a business arrangement for decades can suddenly change the rules in this way.
Gotta say – after over 2 years of “refusal of service” in so many areas of our life – we are “over it”!
Husband says he can fix anything on a motor vehicle (except computer components!) whereas most people just rely on turning the key. But with computers – he just turns it on & relies on it working!
This is on the other cat but good enuf to share ‘ere .. LOL!
never , ever commandeer a woman’s motor-bike ..!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Sf6Iwmcv8Vyx/
Tomsays:
June 25, 2022 at 9:40 am
Bruce of Newk, you’ve stumped me. In the world of acronyms, what is a “NINO”?
Possibly “National in Name Only”? There are now some strange people claiming to be true blue bushy Nationals.
Tom – A National in name only. Barnaby held out for a long while but then rolled over on net zero because if he didn’t the NINOs would’ve rolled him. And now Littleproud is leader and the dark side’s victory is complete (ok, not entirely since he’s been pushing nukes lately, I’ll give him that.)
Some school outing.
Certainly beats being chucked down the hole to find out about The Golden Rivet.
From the last thread head prefect said this:
I reckon the NY gun thing was the Right’s pacifier in order to avoid turning Roe around.
SCOTUS can’t overturn Roe; what it can do is send it back to the states so each state implements its own laws. Federal law about abortion was never constitutional. The demorat outrage is entirely confected and election tactics, as usual.
Watching 1883 after Yellowstone.
Huge mistake in casting the Tim McGraw family, though Faith Hill does a just passable job.
McGraw is desperately bad and you feel sorry for the actors put beside him.
The narrator/character musings are trite and annoying.
The guides for the pioneer wagon train start to grate for sheer impractical stupidity.
Wagons are driven across a section of river with a driver and horses, chaos with loss of life as a result.
We see large ropes are available from other scenes. In real life the horses would be swum across and wagons dragged by the same horses with ropes using the sure footing on dry ground on the other bank.
I’ll keep watching but it’s a disappointment from the same writer as Yellowstone.
That comment about JC and Sancho mocking an obscure obtuse biblical claim was important enough to post twice.
Vicki, the other part of Starlink is the portability, you may only need one account for both locations provided you can cope with lugging your (smallish) antenna. Others are doing this even though it wasn’t officially permitted and it seems it shall eventually be normal anyway.
Perhaps start here if you wish to investigate. This guy is interested in using it while overlanding but the information may be of use to you.
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Robert+Pepper+Starlink
Can someone tell the incontinent incompetent that the Supreme Court agrees.
They are all for the majority deciding this in each state.
True
This is a significant and emerging problem for the new government but it’s a problem of their own making. The situation in Sir Lanka hasn’t occurred in the last four weeks since this government was elected,” Mr Dutton told reporters on Thursday.
what it can do is send it back to the states so each state implements its own laws.
Isn’t that the point of the SCOTUS reversal? .. to return the decision to the, individual, States!
Do you have covid brain?
Nice to see glycolax bringing bonhomie and good cheer by the bucket load.
Even the ABC reported that the word on the streets of Colombo is if you make it to Australian territory you’ll “be kept on an island for a while” but then allowed to stay on the mainland and “live a happy life.”
the French Government continues the war against the burkini
Indolent- again, thank you for your advice.
As I said, we are digitally challenged- so the VPN is a bit of a mystery to us. But certainly your experience seems to echo ours. We have contacted Optusnet to unblock our service but the guy( who sounded Phillipino) didn’t seem to understand what we were telling him about Port 25 & the characteristic blocking of that Port. He said they will get back to us in 48 hours.!
Victorian Labor government is having an extraordinary number of retirements. Sick of being relentlessly bullied?
Also thanks Nelson! We really are resisting Starlink, although we know that eventually we will change over – in spite of the inconvenience.
I guess it is just that we are fed up with “denial of service”!!!!
At taxpayers’ expense.
I think the message is, it’s for governments to pass legislation?
Katy Barnett on the Supremes.
Husband has just required large piece of cake with morning tea as a result of having to deal with these internet problems.
Thank God he is dealing with it. He is a thousand times smarter than me with technical matters& also has more patience.
Thanks Rosie.
Isn’t it refreshing to see a conservative leader talk without the homilies and glib matey references to endear yourself to the plebs.
Dutton has started very well.
So the screechies can no longer have their “constitutional right to abortion”.
Nice that the waffling windbag imbeciles that magicked such a ridiculous concept into existence have finally been given a long overdue and well deserved smackdown.
Presumably the squawking is now audible in space.
Listening to a Goose Morristeen homily was akin to having your teeth pulled sans anaesthetic and that’s before he began wielding the ukulele – and he always spoke like he was suffering from severe constipation.
He will not be missed. Worst Prime Minister ever.
Even he doesn’t seem to miss being PM.
Nope
He’s Ingersoll Lockwood.
Yep, a convictionless nobody who did nothing , unless the object was to do exactly nothing. Spineless and utterly confused, the perfect leader of the SFL’s. The Mr Bean of Aussie politics, stumbling along from one clusterfk of his own making to the next. Grasping every opportunity to fail.
That’s because he no longer has to pretend to believe in anything.
You can argue that Roe and Casey were terrible decisions at law but still think there may be a converse argument relevant at the federal level against abortion with the 14th amendment (equal protection to all persons) as its basis.
Texas, I believe, has also moved to make abortion illegal.
I managed to never read or watch a Morrison address except for some brief moments trapped in a tyre shop waiting room during lockdown one.
I did, pre lockdown, comment here that he had the wishy-washy convictions I’d expect of a hillsong style Christian.
Dutton;
The empty covid camps are waiting for the new “residents”. How fortunate they were built?
On a US map its a central band of states from Texas moving north to the Canada border.
Six months to Christmas!
I thought I’d get a reminder in early to give you sufficient time to save for my present.
Newly appointed Justice, Count Dankula is winding them up to eleventy.
Cronkite
I’m happy to be wrong. I swear, I never thought they had it in them with all the leftist bullying going on.
It’s a huge win for the Right. Outside of elections, it’s the biggest win in 50 years.
The perfect venue to soak in the monstrous mediocrity.
I’ll never forget the time I witnessed a bunch of wallies I work with clustered around a computer monitor listening to the fat goose announce the first of the schlockdowns in March 2020.
“Why are you all listening to that idiot?”, which was met by a bunch of blank, bemused expressions, almost as if they’d just had the life sucked of them by merely listening to him.
Thank goodness it’s all now in the past. Now it’s time to enjoy being screwed over by an even more infuriating imbecile.
Indolentsays:
June 25, 2022 at 9:07 am
swedish vaccine injury data
Thanks Indolent. Some of the data in the link does indicate genuine problems with the vaxxes, so don’t take the following as any sort of rebuke.
The first graph, that shows the vaxxes causing about 3 times more deaths and serious health problems than all other pharmaceuticals combined, is meaningless without further info as to numbers of vaxx treatments and numbers of other pharmaceuticals taken. If more than 3 times as many Swedes have been vaxxed as have taken other pharmaceuticals, those stats would actually support vaxx safety.
Of course the further info may confirm the dangers of the vaxxes, but without that info there’s nothing that can be concluded from that graph.
Bat Cattitude is usually pretty good, so it’s a pity that on that issue it seems to have fallen for confirmation bias.
Starlink…
We recently installed it and it’s a dream. Easy to set up – literally plug and play. The power is required for the modem which is in your house so any PowerPoint will do. You don’t need it in the roof. Comes with long leads and you can get extra length if required. I’ve just got it sitting on the veranda at the moment but it can obviously be more permanently set up. It’s that portable that RVers use it now and have internet everywhere. NBN satellite is far inferior particularly the lag. Added advantage is you’re telling NBN to stick it up their arse!
Winston Smiths link at 0626 has a link to good article. However in that article the first referenced article by Bad Catitude has an even better article which covers examples of where the original claims about Vax preventing infection etc came from (ie. Biden at CNN town hall, Fauci, head of CDC).
Unfortunately Oz media frequently quotes health experts as now saying it was always going to be a 3 Vax job. This is a blatant lie yet the media don’t even question it.
Glycocalyx sounds suspiciously like someone we know well. Welcome back fuckface. How’s the other blog going? You know the one you were always critical of.
Im sure you’ll burn down that bridge before too long … like you’ve done with everyone else, you depressed waste of space.
Bonhomie, from another drive-by dissatisfied lurker critic with nothing to contribute.
lotocoti – one of the collectivist numbskulls on that twatter thread seems to think the Count is a real judge.
How do these clowns even remember how to breathe?
He’s just getting started, KD. He hasn’t yet got to the Jew hatred, which will take a few more hours.
Who was the fucking idiot who gave rowe’s cartoon a tick?
This theme – which has been pursued for quite some time now by the Minstrel of Malcontent – is finally taking shape. Firming up, if you will.
It’s internet yapping from someone firmly not wearing the pants in Casa St.Ruth.
I strongly suspect the most-used phrase in that household is not ‘death camps’ or ’10 to 40 months’ or ‘stand and fight and fall’ but ‘Yes, dear.’ This august journal of record is merely an outlet that won’t get him in trouble.
That was you, Cronkite. I saw you do it.
Hooray! The people, not unelected Supreme Court justices, can now decide on the abortion issue through their US state governments as the US Constitution intended.
So, of course, the fascist American left and their violent street mobs are against it because it’s too democratic. No democracy for you, peasants! Let’s burn this place down! Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 25, 2022 at 7:45 am
“Trump will be considered one of the most historically important presidents.”
Yep…..which is why the left remains intent in destroying him.
The Historical Meaning of Donald Trump
The hysterical reaction to Donald Trump on the part of liberals, though, suggests that Trump may, indeed, have signified a radical action that cuts to the heart of things political in our country. It’s hard not to believe that after witnessing otherwise intelligent and informed individuals slip into Trump Derangement Syndrome and not relax for four full years. I don’t mean specific planks that offended them such as the Wall, controversial though they were. He had to have posed a more fundamental threat. That Establishment conservatives felt the same way as conventional liberals did reinforces that suspicion. Trump certainly upset the mainstream elite a lot more than did the progressive Bernie Sanders.
Think about how Trump himself told Americans that the party politics of Democrats versus Republicans was no such thing. As he declared right off in his inauguration speech, the leadership of both parties formed a faction of their own, and the American people were their piggy bank. They’d produced carnage across America and lined their own pockets. Don’t buy their political shows and fake news, he urged. D.C. is the home of uniparty swamp dwellers, and they’re playing the American people as suckers.
All the people sitting behind him on Day One, Democrats and Republicans both, realized instantly, “He’s not one of us, and he’ll never be one of us.” Trump made it very personal. They couldn’t avoid the calculation: “If he succeeds, we lose.” He told the Great Unwashed what they should never be told, that their leaders had a terrible track record, that their Ivy League degrees didn’t translate into competent statesmanship, and that they didn’t care about their own country and fellow citizens—and the people cheered.
This was bad, very bad. Suddenly, it seemed to the elite and everyone who wants to join them that their security and livelihoods were at risk. Draining the swamp and discrediting the media would take away their food and water. People wouldn’t trust their expertise anymore. The qualifications and experience on their lengthy resumes wouldn’t be so impressive. Statements such as “I was an undersecretary of -under President Y” might evoke a wry smile instead of a reverent nod. These people had worked all their lives in hypercompetitive settings to advance and succeed. They’d proven their excellence. They had the advanced degrees and political posts and distinguished by-lines as sure evidence, and this orange-haired blowhard dared to mutter, “You’re not so special.”
Infuriating, yes, and treacherous, too. On this point, our masters on the right and left could agree. As our Marxist would say, they had a system to maintain, made up of themselves, and Trump didn’t honor it and become a well-behaving member.
This is what makes him a radical force in American history.
The historical meaning of Donald Trump depends on this outcome. How many of the longstanding, high-ranking, well-remunerated denizens of the swamp will survive Trump populism? How many will still be in place, running the D.C. show, steering money, churning out words and speeches and interviews, winning re-election, and keeping Trump-ish individuals away? They have certainly lost their luster, and a good portion of the American public despises them, but they are still in tight control of the halls of power. In 10 years, or 20, will they still hold the reins?
Captain Obvious, from the Hun:
Yes. Yes, well.
Vicki says:
June 25, 2022 at 9:46 am
Husband says he can fix anything on a motor vehicle (except computer components!) whereas most people just rely on turning the key. But with computers – he just turns it on & relies on it working!
Vicki,
suggestion for your Husband re Motor vehicles and Computers
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and $129.95
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That was you, Cronkite. I saw you do it.
I am guilty of many things, but not that.
This is what happens when the undergrad tutorial is mainstreamed. Again, why the 14th amendment is as relevent as ever.
That’s an outstanding comment you’ve posted/linked. OldOzzie !
It’s funny because what the dude did was try to keep most of his promises whenever he could after navigating all the obstacles and boy were there obstacles.
It was something like :
I think though it’s time for DeSantis. The old orange trooper may be too old.
Hot off the press. Brussel Sprouts $5.99 a bag. Now I didn’t notice if it was a kg but the bag was big and I figure if people can eat them a kg is the way to go.
A comment below Dover’s .
Some of them are just plain evil. Others are just fucking stupid.
Oh God
Saltrush!
Random pallets of bricks appearing in streets around the US now.
It would appear carefully planned spontaneous protests are on the cards.
Way more than just one.
This came up at Birthday Brunch discussion yesterday for Daughter-in-law who was discussing with Youngest Daughter – My Wife and I said “What!”
Here to stay or will they go away? Either way, NFTs have transformed Australian art
In a world awash with acronyms, there’s one that has a particular power to make hackles rise, especially in the arts: NFT. Even spelled out – non-fungible token – it remains obscure, an unpoetic intruder from deep tech. Difficult to understand, difficult to access (unless you’re a so-called digital native), surrounded by jargon and hype, NFTs, for those who favour “real” art in the “real” world, are infinitely off-putting, a nuisance they hope will disappear. As one gallerist, speaking off the record, put it, “It has no f—ing relevance to art and it does my head in. The prices that are out there, it’s just such BS.”
That gallerist may well be experiencing a warm flush of schadenfreude now in light of the recent cryptocurrency crash. Amid the collapse, the backlash against cryptocurrencies – which some critics have labelled as nothing more than a Ponzi scheme – has been swift and severe. But does the crypto-crash signal the end of NFT “art”? That’s a wish that looks unlikely to be granted any time soon.
“We’ve actually seen an uptick in sales since the crash,” says Michelle Grey, the Sydney-based co-founder of Culture Vault. The online platform seeks to sell “high-quality” NFTs rather than the more insipid examples circulating: notably the “bored apes” the international celebrity set has taken up with glee, and which are more akin to nightclub medallions of old – offering exclusive membership – than anything resembling art.
Culture Vault is attempting to counter NFT scepticism by enlisting emerging and established artists, Australian and international, whose work has traction – among them Reko Rennie, the Huxleys, Romance Was Born, Stephen Ormandy and Shantell Martin. With the plunge in the value of cryptocurrencies, these artists’ NFTs have suddenly become more affordable in real dollar terms.
“We’ve been so busy making art that we didn’t know there was a crypto crash,” says Will Huxley, one half of the brilliantly creative duo the Huxleys, who have just finished performing at Melbourne’s recent Rising festival.
A disclaimer: I own an artwork by the Huxleys, a real-life photograph called Nervous Wreck. It’s irresistibly, splendidly, camp, and features Will and Garrett in gaudy wigs, gold bodysuits, turquoise-painted faces, flamboyantly tumbling out of the smoking wreckage of a gold-painted vintage sedan. Culture Vault has minted a 30-second NFT video and soundscape of the same scene – kind of like the photo come to life. In May, that NFT cost $310 on Culture Vault. After the crypto crash, the price has dropped to $109.
The Currency cuts to the core of the NFT quandary – where is the line between art and currency, currency and art? What matters more to you, the digital or the physical? And what, ultimately, will be worth more, not just in monetary terms, but culturally?
Will we be sighing in front of an NFT in a hundred years’ time as we do before Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, van Gogh’s Sunflowers, or Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s Big Yam Dreaming? Or will NFTs have passed into the shallow grave of obsolete technologies, like VHS and Beta?
Oh well. I guess it’s time for them to fuck around and find out.
Scroll down, take a look at Nancy Pelosi. Her face is melting.
Tom at 11:19.
My “Hi Bird” was just a backhanded swipe at the dickhead making that post.
I think JC and Rabz are onto who it is, recognizing the high level “bonhomie and good humour”.
just got assaulted with some overt faggot ad from quickbooks
what is wrong with companies
Anguish of young man who had sex organs removed on NHS then regretted it the same day… as he SUES NHS over gender reassignment surgery
Man = Adult
He needs to lose the case.
I said this all along.
Forget Mexican walls and various other fripperies.
Appointing a swag of fifty-something black letter Constitutional traditionalists to the Supreme Court will far outlive any legacy of Obumbi and the Crimtons.
They’ll be here for as long as Macca’s is cause that’s the market its aimed at. For my money an amateur original is better than a print of anything unless its a numbered print that has had care taken with the reproduction.
PAL – it will catch the dyslexic ALP voter.
When I saw that I thought just another case of today where I can do anything I want with no consequences cause its always someone else’s fault. That being said anyone under the age of consent has a good case and I hope the parents, doctors and lawmakers get done. Not going to happen. You and I will be paying forever.
Lotocoti – it was an experiment. I went in wondering how long it would be before some idiot mistook him for the real deal. Wasn’t long, at which point I stopped wading through the sewer.
Sorry Tom; accidently hit the report button on your Leak link.