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Teal MPs find their appetite for pork-barrelling
Joe AstonColumnist
Jun 28, 2022 – 6.17pm
Our agile colleague Phil Coorey broke the story on Friday that the independent MPs in federal parliament were hopping mad at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for reducing their allocation of personal advisers to one each. In the previous parliament, Scott Morrison granted each independent MP four advisers. Bear in mind, these adviser positions are over and above the four full-time electorate officers allocated to every MP and senator.
Five days have elapsed, yet the crossbenchers’ outrage burns like a wildfire. In The Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday, Kooyong MP Monique Ryan warned that Albanese’s decision was “likely to encourage” the teal machine to run candidates against Labor MPs in 2025. As if they’re not going to anyway!
Ryan also tweeted her gripe that “the independents in parliament don’t have massive party machines behind them.” Er, yeah, wasn’t that supposed to be their selling point?
The reporting of this entire issue has been somewhat loaded. The Herald explained that Albanese “had cut [the independents’] staffing allocation to a quarter of what it was in the previous parliament, leaving them with only one adviser each to work through reams of legislation. The crossbench MPs will all retain four lower-paid and less specialised electorate advisers, who deal with constituency matters, rather than legislation, media and stakeholders.”
By this rendition of what’s happening here, the independents employ four full-time dogsbodies capable of nothing more complex than answering the landline or booking a Comcar. In the offices of government and opposition backbenchers, who do you think works through legislation and deals with the media and other stakeholders? These electorate officers, of course.
In reality, Albanese is cutting the teal independents’ personal staff from eight to five. There are members of the shadow cabinet with only five staff (so one allocated adviser), and in their portfolio, they are “the party machine” for the entire Coalition party room.
Why on earth would Ryan or Zali Steggall need – let alone feel so deeply entitled to – eight full-time staff in their service? There are working monarchs of middle European powers who operate a royal court with smaller retainers.
With such open-handed resources, the crossbenchers have employed some world-class advisers in recent years. Liberal defector Craig Kelly had Frank Zumbo, who is currently on trial for indecent assault. One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts kept Sean Black as his adviser even after he’d been charged with rape (and later convicted). Pauline Hanson’s principal adviser is James Ashby, who was temporarily banned from Parliament House after a physical altercation with a senator and whose 2012 legal action against former speaker Peter Slipper and the Commonwealth cost him $4.5 million in legal fees.
But back to the teals, and Ryan’s threat was explicit: give me my staff or I’ll target ALP seats. This only underlines the madness of Albanese doing so. Why would the Labor government provide abundant resources to the teal’s re-election campaigns and, far worse, the extension of their franchise to Labor electorates? If Simon Holmes a Court wants even more seats in the Australian parliament, he should damn well buy them himself.
As a force in the 47th parliament of Australia, the teals are dead on arrival, borne out by the fact they’ve been ruthlessly filleted at the outset by a Labor leader who went through an entire election campaign too afraid to lay out any major policy.
Their volcanic reaction also demonstrates the inauthenticity of the teals’ insufferable righteousness. Their cherished community-based values system was disposable the first moment something came between them and a taxpayer-funded entitlement.
All forms of pork barrelling are abhorrent, except when it’s the over-funding of their headquarters. So much for doing politics differently.
Quality Joe.
Quality.
There is a misbelief that a divorce is 50/50, but if a marriage lasts under 7 years it is what the parties bring to the marriage, adjusted for children, and over 7 years it is only the starting point, and usually ends up 75/25. You can guess who gets the 25.
The key aspect are kids.
A divorce specialist I know told me they will not take on work that doesn’t involve children.
Not enough money in it.
You want a long term, multi year annuity stream.
No kids means it wraps up relatively quickly.
They are minted (mainly from their own divorce) so they have the luxury of being choosy when it comes to work.
Turkey Backs NATO Membership for Finland, Sweden
Turkey has agreed to allow Sweden and Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ending a dispute that slowed an expansion of the alliance.
So what did Turkey get in return?
Australia should learn from Turkey.
What does Australia get in return for getting balls deep in Ukraine at the request of the US?
The Laydee Pages are feral today..
https://thesannilark.medium.com/the-dark-side-of-being-a-woman-who-knows-how-to-keep-a-man-13a24853a4e1
Just read the intro to the article. No intimacy and a hot and cold personality. She doesn’t want traditionalism either. With respect and being totally objective, she’s not very attractive either.
https://medium.com/wholistique/get-the-guy-make-him-yours-and-other-propaganda-da7c5b65d17b
‘Get the Guy’, ‘Make Him Yours’ and Other Propaganda
I don’t think you were trying to get that one guy. You want a chimera of every man you have ever dated. Now men have to be as smart as a doc, brave as a fireman, wealthy like a banker, macho as a pro boxer, pretty as a model and buff like a bodybuilder. Funny like a comedian, good with kids like the teacher you dated and so on.
You will never find a man like that.
If a couple loves each other and committed, they don’t cheat.
Either said bloke has a harem or his wife is in an open relationship and he isn’t.
This doesn’t even consider children.
https://medium.com/@jzamora111900/mansplaining-and-mens-entitlement-to-control-women-3fa81ca7bb9c
Calculus
Linear algebra
How gutters are cleaned
etc
Men are generally better at maths and have a higher mean IQ, get over it.
I almost believe divorces ought to be legislated to be dealt with as a collaborative law process.
One day. Low costs. Final. No more lawyering.
You know who I am, you all know how I make my living.
Yeah, you try chumming some this shit.
some of!
I swear Android Spellwrecker is getting worse than the damned iPad!
feelthebern says:
June 29, 2022 at 6:37 am
My thoughts exactly, never trust Erdogan.
I remember I happened to be near the family law courts at Dandenong once and what struck near was all the lawyers’ offices nearby. Like flies feasting on carrion. A loathsome ‘profession’.
Just think that unis from Darwin to Hobart spew out hundreds of these parasites every year all looking for something to do.
Oh boy, multiple parties are posting on twitter everything Turkey got.
What a deal by Turkey.
Wow.
That’s Seinfeldian.
Larry David could “eXpOsE DRuMpF!!!1” but really illustrate how much of a clown show the J6 committee is.
No one else could. Maybe Norm. The massive fag he was.
How do I know Norm was gay?
A university professor once showed me how logic works.
For example, do you own a dog kennel?
Mmmm. From the first linked piece:
No worries, Tickets. You are evidently so fantastically awesome that blokes gravitate to you like hookers to construction sites on pay Friday lunchtimes. The tiniest hope of being able to play in the magic sandbox keeps them on the leash. Got it.
Yeah but nah nah yeah nah. You are the exact sort of ‘It Girl’ that one would enter into conversation with, letting her think that another one’s one the hook, before saying something along the lines of:
‘Wow. What sort of makeup do you use?’ (Thus displaying an eye for detail as well as identifying with the female being)
‘Why?’
‘Because you need another bucket of it or to change brands, you hideous pig.’
In the ideal circumstance one would then either walk directly into a strip club, or ostentatiously start checking one’s Tinder matches while still seated.
Gorilla Channel.
For example, do you own a dog kennel?
One of Norm’s best bits.
I’m watching Anthony Cumia take the piss out of the limo story.
I’ve asked his show clipper to put it on youtube.
Will post if he does.
This person sounds like an ex lady pages reader:
Homeless owner lived with 61 cats in CAR in sweltering 40C heat couldn’t bear to be parted (16 Jun)
There’s a long way yet to go for It Girl, but her future sounds like it’ll feature cats. Lots of cats.
Does anyone else think that m0nty-fa’s “The mother has the absolute right to decide about her ‘clump of cells’ ” is getting very close to the ‘logic’ that Singer uses in his woeful attempts to justify ‘post-birth abortions’?
The J6 hearings have turned into total fan service.
It’s called self control.
Highly recommended. Helps you grow up.
This has to be satire.
If that’s what I wanted in a relationship, I’d find one of these new fan-dangled transgender females (with dick still attached).
In addition to the above (notably the lack of sex), I’d also get a life partner who could go drink for drink with me, use a street directory, and might have a fighting chance of understanding the difference between rimfire and centrefire.
Unluckily for her, most decent men are looking for more than that. Perhaps that explains her shitting attitude towards men.
Ed Casesays:
June 29, 2022 at 3:53 am
Kangaroo Court of Australia guy say that Barnaby Joyce was a big issue in Kooyong and Dr Monique Ryan tied Frydenburg to Joyce in her advertising.
Okay, the guy is a Labor Party shill and probably a Spook, but i’m disappointed not to have read about that aspect here.
If you want to tout the words of a Liars shill, that is your business. Why would any0ne else here (except m0nty-fa) wish to do so?
It seems that in the UK now, Lent, Passover and other traditional and very solemn religious days, weeks and months are old hat. There’s been a reformation in the UK, you might not have heard about it but the UK now has a new religion called “Pride”. Did you know that June is “Pride” month? Apparently it’s a time decreed by the UK’s new progressive and very zealous overlords to be a very sacred and spiritual month, so much so that it now appears that the once lofty Church of England has been replaced by a new and very compulsory state sanctioned religion called “Pride” and if you dare reject, criticise or mock this new sacred religion, you will be targeted by a new inquisition of Torquemada storm troopers such as the police, elite scum, the MSM and social media sewers who will screech for your censure, silencing, arrest, banishment and all round social decapitation. Whilst we now live in a time where there are no longer physical heads plonked on pikes outside the Tower of London to deter the population from treason, we do now live in a time where heads are figuratively plonked on pikes so as to deter the population from engaging in treasonous acts such as refusing to kowtow to Pride and other progressive orthodoxies. Those who object to “Pride” are the new non-conformists, the new recusants, and you will attract police interest and censure. Forget about out of control knifings in London and forget about working class white girls being ganged raped by Pakistani Muslim men in towns like Rotherham, Oxford and Oldham, what matters to the UK authorities and UK plod is ‘PRIDE”….”PRIDE”….”PRIDE”.
A few days ago, UK actor Laurence Fox, a man who does have some backbone and iron in his blood, posted on his Twitter account a swastika* made from LGBTQARSE flags. I regard that as a fairly accurate analogy so well done to Laurence Fox. But within minutes the confected outrage began, because the sinister religion of Pride will brook no criticism and so the fascist Torquemadas began their pursuit of Fox in earnest. You could hear the screeches and the screams from outer space. Fox was banned from Twitter. From the Daily Mail…
“Laurence Fox has returned to Twitter unrepentant after being suspended for posting a swastika made from LGBT flags.
Mr Fox, a 44-year-old actor turned campaigner, posted the picture of a swastika made out of four LGBT pride flags, saying the image reflected his belief that LGBT pride month is ‘enforced with a sense of hectoring authoritarianism’.
The tweet resulted in a sharp backlash, with Twitter temporarily freezing his account for violating their ‘hateful imagery’ policy, and a London Assembly member calling on the Met Police to investigate Mr Fox.”
One so called comedian wrote on Twitter “the existence of Laurence Fox is another reason to be pro abortion”. Don’t you just love progressives? They’re so caring and so compassionate.
More from the Mail…
“Mr Fox hit back at the London Assembly member’s intervention, however, accusing her of employing tactics reminiscent of those exercised by the Chinese Communist Party.
He wrote: ‘This is the UK, not China. Good to know you would like to see your political opponents prosecuted for “hate”, locked up and probably worse.
‘So thanks for proving my point for me,’ Mr Fox said.
In another tweet, Mr Fox shared a link to a satirical article entitled, ‘Scientists Discover Remote Island Untouched By Pride Month’.
Mr Fox captioned the tweet with the words: ‘Don’t cave in to the mob. Laugh instead.’
Access to Mr Fox’s Twitter account was restored this morning, with the polemicist and founder of The Reclaim Party telling his 310,500 followers that the LGBT pride flag has become a ‘holy flag’ that ‘cannot be criticised’.”
Laurence Fox, like Mark Latham here in Oz, doesn’t kowtow to baying fascist mobs. He refuses to apologise, he refuses to bend the knee, he refuses to be silenced.
* As for using a swastika to mock or criticise, only a few weeks ago, during the Jubilee celebrations, progressives took to Twitter and Facebook to post and share images of swastikas made from the Union Jack and a few years ago, on both Twitter and Facebook, progressives posted and shares images of swastikas made from the Brexit logo.
Finally, I must inform you all that last I heard those progressives who’ve compared the Jubilee and Brexit banners to the swastika have not been visited by the police, have not been banned from Twitter, have not been locked out of Facebook and have not been told by a so called comedian that “their existence is another reason to be pro abortion”.
Ah…the stench of progressive tolerance.
And have a penchant for small, fluffy canines.
I read both those articles. If they genuinely represent the authors’ experiences and attitudes, then my take is that they’re both trying desperately to explain and justify their horrible, loveless, ultimately lonely and pointless lives.
It’s a carapace that people wear to protect themselves from grim reality. Every ruined relationship adds a little bit more until they can’t see that it is they themselves who are the problem. It extends to other competencies too – like skill sets and managerial style. They leave a wake of ruin behind them in workplaces, clubs and the like.
A window into the mind of the sociopath.
Fuck off Bushie, or next time I’ll sic her onto you!
She’s got a mean lick on her. You know this to be true.
A little lunacy from The Daily Sceptic.
Chaps should click on that first hyperlink if no one is watching.
Macron buttonholes Biden to deliver some bad news on ME oil supply. In front of the media.
I’ll bring Woodstock next time.
It’s time to take down the Pride flag
With this eyesore flag flying on every street, London feels like a city under occupation.
London feels like a city under occupation. Cycling through town yesterday I saw a foreign flag fluttering from every major building. There it was on top of Drummonds on Charing Cross Road, the poshest bank in the land. It flew from the tallest building in Trafalgar Square, too. That structure, peering down on poor Nelson, had five flags in total: four Union flags and, in the middle of them, taking pride of place, seeming to assert its political primacy over the flapping Union Jacks, this new flag, this strange flag. I parked at Foyles to browse the new books section and there it was again, a vast banner draped over the entrance, reminding all who entered that there was a new power in town. Then there was Regent Street. Honestly, I have never seen anything like it. The entire boulevard was festooned with the new standard. Scores of them hung above the street, from building to building, in perfect militaristic formation, as far as the eye could see. It felt chilling.
It was, of course, the Pride flag. Or the Progress Pride flag, as it is now known, following the addition of new strips of colour to represent queer black and indingeous people, trans people and intersex people. Yes, the 0.02 per cent of the population who have indeterminate genitals now have a flag.
Spiked
Margaret Court’s record remains intact!
Serena Williams vs Harmony Tan LIVE: Tennis legend crashes OUT of Wimbledon (28 Jun)
Trust you to lower the tone. 😉
This is why people like Jimmy Dore are viewed as more dangerous by the DNC machine than anyone else.
The DNC can’t afford to have 5-10% of their base not turn up on election day.
Obama & Biden Lied About Codifying Roe v Wade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qnPU5vEQRY
One must ask that if the Teal’s are so stretched reading proposed legislation, why don’t they pool their resources?
Just how many independent interpretations do you need?
calli says:
June 29, 2022 at 7:39 am
Unlike the women he was used to being with, my feminine energy was intoxicating to men without me giving up too much of myself.
This has to be satire.
The female version of the bloke that thinks all girls fancy him.
I remember as a young man having friends report that that some girl was going to get me or I was infatuated with another. All surprising news to me and entirely constructed out of a convivial conversation.
The worst example I ever experienced was a married women directly flirting with me and sitting on my lap at a restaurant in full view of their husband. She succeeded in humiliating him and me at the same time.
burn it
Additionally, workplaces everywhere are now being bombarded with new initiatives calling on people to become an “LGBTQI+ Ally”.
When I first saw it, the term immediately struck me as militaristic, which is not really surprising as the push has been surreptitiously militant for a long while. Noticeable, of late, is the fact that they have now openly couched their pitch in such confrontational lingo. ‘If your not 100% with us, you are against us’ type of thing.
My experiences are that you are now no longer allowed to live and let live. Lines have been drawn. Diversity is valued…as long as it conforms.
How to be a good LGBTIQA+ ally – Melbourne University
Occupation indeed.
I’m a jack of all trades.
Re the cats in the car story linked by BoN.
Not one mention of the owners sex, it’s all this excruciating gender neutral bs. These people are insane.
Lol. Chick magnet!
No one has ever flirted with me, married or unmarried. I don’t blame them. 😀
Dot, please.
Those ladee’s pages articles are pure confection, the product of the fevered mind of some female version of m0nster sitting in a basement in their spinnaker sized Cottontails.
The vengeful, dominatrix relationships they would like to have had.
Trump limo lunging explained.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1541852843518345216?s=20&t=ssD66IGBdFoJPAkUJtDhVg
It’s good to see the J6 committee impolode.
ABC AM referring to “revelations” about Trump’s actions on Jan 6 rather than allegations.
Bill Leak picked it years ago.
No wonder they hated him for it.
“Optus, of course, denied that they have blocked Port25 of our departing emails.”
Don’t know why they would deny this – Telstra and many other ISPs are quite open that they do this.
If you connect using a secure mail port (eg, for gmail port 587 and use STARTTLS, others might use port 465 and SSL/TLS), you won’t have a problem.
It’s when you send mail to/from port 25 that they get upset – because you are going out on THEIR public IP, and if you send spam mail, they can get listed on spam lists as an “open relay” or “spam source”, and THEY get blocked – sometimes, their entire public IP subnet!
Also, if you try to connect to port 25 on a mail server that is not theirs, they are concerned that you are using unencrypted (and so easily faked) connections that might come back to them, and get one of the customer dynamic IPs spam listed.
If your supplier support SMTPS of one form or another, use that – you should anyway, and no ISP I am aware of blocks these connections, whereas a whole heap block traffic from and to port 25 for the reason listed above.
Next up…a special Voice to Parliament!
Beats the Daily Exposé hands down.
Why do some here (not to be confused with you lot), think Woodstock cans are any good. There’s less than 20 mils of crap bourbon in a $4 can. Buying the coke at less than a $1 a can and 20 mils of Woodstock is another $1. Besides its disgusting. Next thing you’ll be saying Pablo tastes good.
My cousin Pablo?
NATO will boost its rapid reaction force to 300,000 troops to deter Russia.
With an eye on China, NATO has also called 4 Indo-Pacific powers to its annual summit this year.
wion
Sancho Panzer says: June 29, 2022 at 8:52 am
Do we read this as you’re a very close family?
Ranga,
It makes good degreaser.
Que?
The irony of “pride month” is that pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Defined as:
Pride (Latin, superbia)
Pride (vanity, narcissism) —
A desire to be more important or attractive to others, failing to give credit due to others, or excessive love of self (especially holding self out of proper position toward God). Dante’s definition was “love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one’s neighbor.”
Seems about right.
‘Crashes’ being the operative word.
Always a solid girl, Serena turned up with a Wimbledon wildcard, built like a fridge, and was run off her feet by a novice Frog.
Sad to watch a great player on the way downhill.
Including Daniels? 😉
#Honk
Perth Trader:
My suspicions are that it’s a moderately sophisticated scam.
A bit like the water plants, the main objective is to spend tax money and for the perps to skim off the cream.
.1 Lack of wukkas. They will be imported from OS and immediately become Union Wukkas – and branch members with wage donations going back to the said Unions.
.2 High costs of staff. Yes. Well. Second layer of skimming with many many unionistas on the payroll an domiciled in other parts of the country but wukking from home.
.3 Equipment, services, training, all provided by Bruvvas etc.
.4 It will require Government -read Taxpayer – support in the initial years, say from 2023 to 2043.
.5 The abattoir will sell product to neighboring countries via local businesses who will be ‘friends’ and ‘family’ members of the Meat Wukkas Union.
At every stage of the operation, tickets will be clipped, funds dispersed, and fortunes made.
Then a study will show that it is not viable and will be closed down. Questions will not be asked in Parliament.
The British army chief, General Sir Patrick Sanders, speaking overnight in a speech broadcast on Sky, said the Army must prepare to mobilise to “meet the new threat we face: a clear and present danger that was realised on 24th February when Russia used force to seize territory from Ukraine, a friend of the United Kingdom.”
He added, “And we will see the first orders issued in Madrid tomorrow.”
Women are notorious for their readiness and wanting to talk and that they do so much more than men. Every little aspect of a relationship must be hashed and re-hashed, interpreted and re-interpreted, and the whole procedure only finished when new agreements on things the guy never worried about are made. Maybe this is fem-splaining.
In truth ‘mansplaining’ is, as I see it, not a male phenomenon, but a feminist one. It is not an instance where a man speaks in patronisingly simplistic terms to a woman merely because she is a woman.
It occurs when a feminist, configured to see the world as power structures, politics, rights, etc. embarks on a topic on which she is unfamiliar and utters utter shit, and the reason it is shit is explained with patience, not anger or rancour or irritation or dismissing. Patience – surely that is respect.
But, the umbrage the feminist feels at having to listen to someone else, to accept that they might know something that negates or vitiates some tortured claim that they made, that is what the charge of mansplaining is. And it is thrown with anger and contempt, intended to disqualify the man and to transform what he said into an offence.
I know I ‘mansplain’ when I talk to someone I do not know but whom I surmise is not as knowledgeable about a topic as I am. If they show through the quality of a question even getting a step ahead in the discussion I re-calibrate, and typically offer a mild apology if I came across as condescending pleading that I had simply had not gauged their proficiency properly. They always take this in good part and it is not a big deal.
I do this with men and women.
And it is done to me. By men and women.
But then I do not have a hair-trigger ego primed to fire house-sized charge of self-importance.
Being old, short, overweight , grey and balding (and not rich which cancels those out), I certainly don’t have tickets on myself. Occasionally, however, after coming home from a gathering Mrs D abuses me because X or Y was flirting with me. I am obviously a bit autistic because I don’t notice.
Ah the opportunities I may have missed out on. 🙁
did BA.4-5 interacting with vaccines cause the death spike in portugal?
Scaffold Tissue and Nanowires Are Most Likely the Cause of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, says Dr. Ariyana Love
Ditto, occupational hazard of being a teacher though. 🙂
We took the 2 older boys (5 and 2) to see the new minions movies yesterday(interesting experience in a cinema full of kids) and I was explaining something to the oldest, and got “what years do you teach?” from a vacation care supervisor.
I’m not a tennis fan so don’t usually read/watch anything but did see the clip of Kyrgios spitting at someone during a game yesterday .. why isn’t this an instant disqualification? .. someone should have laid him out, then & there! .. maybe tennis officials/fans are just a wee bit too complacent!
I am finding that the concept of ‘flirting’ is remarkably subjective.
I have been my usual sickeningly personable and cheerful self to members of the opposite sex while ordering coffee, etc., and them subsequently joked at that I was allegedly ‘flirting.’ This confused me the first time it happened. Now I am merely bemused.
can covid vaccines cause more covid deaths while looking like they prevent them?
yes, they can. running through some math that people are not going to like.
and then subsequently joked at by my colleagues that I was allegedly ‘flirting’ with them.
Missing words and context.
Meant to add about Kyrgios .. you can pretend, all you like, your not a WOG cos your a celebrity but old habits die hard! .. WOGS are spitters ….. living in Fairfield, NSW its a normal everyday sight .!
Macron buttonholes Biden
I read that as “Macron Buttholes Biden”..
OH GOD NO!!!
Hardly news.
Player ranked 106 beats player ranked 1,204 in the first round.
Probably time to cease this farce of issuing the great Tub ‘o Lard a wildcard entry.
An alcoholic drinks whatever they can get their hands on.
A wine connoisseur drinks much less but with far greater appreciation and joy.
The connoisseur enjoys with far more faculties than the mere tongue could provide and their enjoyment has depth, while the alcoholics’ imbibing is ‘flat’. Pure biology.
The connoisseur’s discipline is also their joy.
Go hard or go home! Daily Tele:
Climate activists have run out of steam two days into a week-long protest, calling on supporters to rest up after 11 were arrested on Tuesday and eight released on bail from Monday’s actions.
Groogs and Kangaroo Court of Australia. I s’pose it was only a matter of time.
It’s a feint, honest… 🙁
As Iron Mike says everyone has a plan till they get punched in the head.
ngl
It sounds like SRR ranting.
Buildings valued at $1.2B on artificial island of Evergrande are targeted/China’s ugliest buildings?
China Insights
In addition to making money, entrepreneurs of big businesses in China have dreams too. The Ocean Flower Island project is the brainchild of the founder of Evergrande Group, Xu Jiayin. It’s said to be the world’s largest artificial island.
Unfortunately, the 39 residential towers on the island have recently been ordered to be demolished. The significance of this matter goes beyond the buildings themselves.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
June 28, 2022 at 11:38 pm
Well, don’t like to do this to y’all, but here’s a link to The Conversation’s take on ‘Elvis’, Baz Luhrmann’s latest glitz piece. This review puts it as I saw it, so ledger me up as giving points on artistic merit rather than ponderous truths. I’m putting it up here because it solves my lunchtime view in discussion of the end take. It’s just as I thought: it was a cross-cut between the Elvis actor and the real Elvis in performance just before he died, bloated with pills and food addiction. The vid of the real take is embedded in this review.
Enjoy. Elvis still had it in him to belt it out with feeling; and a sly sideways glance. Then he died.
Lizzie,
my wife and I saw Elvis monday evening and really enjoyed it – Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker amazing and the Elvis, Austin Butler excellent – Catherine Martin Costumes as per Moulin Rouge – Superb
And as you said above – the power of Elvis Voice in singing Unchained MelodyElvis still had it in him to belt it out with feeling had not diminished
However the headline “Macron Buttholes Turnbull” would be apt.
Miserable ghost is miserable.
Albanese ‘is not Scott Morrison and that’s a big advantage’, Malcolm Turnbull tells French media
Former Australian PM calls successor’s conduct over submarine deal ‘disgraceful’ ahead of Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Macron
Turnbull said Anthony Albanese, who will meet the French president in Paris on Friday, was honest and “never had a reputation for being deceitful and untruthful”.
…
“I have a good relationship with your president [Macron] and what I’d say about Anthony Albanese is that I’ve known him for a very long time, he’s on the other side of politics from me but we know each other well.
“He’s an honest man and he’s got a reputation for being honest. He never had a reputation for being deceitful and untruthful and he’s very competent. I think he will do well, I hope he does well.”
Turnbull was in Paris last week and returned to the French capital after travelling to London on Thursday and Friday. He said the timing of his visit was a “coincidence”.
But he said he had spoken to French government ministers and contacts at the Quai d’Orsay, the French foreign ministry.
…
ut Turnbull reiterated his view on Monday that Morrison’s conduct had been “shocking” and “disgraceful” and that he “sacrificed Australian honour, security and sovereignty”.
“I said at the time, my message to France and my friend President Macron was that with Mr Morrison, we may have a deceitful prime minister, but we are not a deceitful nation,” Turnbull said.
Time to set fire to Turdbulls membership card, preferably wile its still in the bloated turds pocket.
Bloated parasite demands ability to bloat more.
Andrew Barr says doubling ACT representation in Senate may be ‘appropriate’ in light of census
Population data could renew push to increase territory senate numbers, ACT chief minister says
You would be too if SloMo lived inside your mind!
If only someone had turned up with fire hoses, so they could take on water.
Yep the ACT is a parasite robber state. They have done untold social and economic damage to this wonderful country.
Turnbull said Anthony Albanese, who will meet the French president in Paris on Friday, was honest and “never had a reputation for being deceitful and untruthful”.
And maybe, just maybe, after AnAl lays out his sad tale(s) of growing up as a “houso” in a single parent family Macroon will feel pity and knock several hundred million off the sub compo payment .. LOL!
Aha. No Cat upticks for the piece on Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ I linked to last nite from The Conversation.
Can’t say I blame yerz all, because The Conversation embeds this at the end of it:
Hairy in 2014 told The Conversation he would no longer write his admired technical commentary pieces for them, importantly qualified to do so in his field though he was, due to their total climate orthodoxy. Begone, sez he. Youse are not fair dinkum about genuine science but are running a line.
Still, I don’t agree with one of the comments on the article made by a Conversation reader who got his comment up on their blog (a feat in itself given their brutal monitoring of comments). That reader, his dander up, said the review of Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ belonged in ‘Pseud’s Corner’, probably due to some post-modernist cultural studies usage of words such as ‘signalling’, legitimately used though in this piece. In my view, it is extraordinary how some readers hate writers who know how to use words effectively to conceptualise beyond the ordinary. To me this simply shows up the ‘plain English’ drabs who insist on denying the intellectual and imaginative possibilities of our amazing language. The Luhrmann reviewer was spot on. Not a pseud. Nor even a post-modernist. Just someone properly able to call a spade a glittering shovel and admire it for what it was.
Fairly recently the ABC had something on the Stawell abbs wanting to do a $50 million expansion, but running into problems caused by governments. Leaving aside it’s a miserable hole to work in, I can’t see any government supporting that when there’s an opportunity to line the pockets of the right people. As you’ve postulated above.
Related, there was also a piece somewhere recently about the Stawell brickworks likely having to close because they can’t get gas, although I can’t recall the why behind it. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s another Andrews government decision.
maybe back off the roids a tad
Tripling of gas prices overnight.
Via the ABC:
“The assertion by (Victorian) Premier Andrews and (federal) Minister Bowen that heavy industries can transition to renewable energy is complete and utter fantasy,” [MD John Collins] said.
Local Nationals MP Anne Webster said she feared a “rolling tsunami of closures of businesses at the very time when we are needing manufacturing to pick up in Australia”.
Yep. That’s Hairy’s excuse too.
Life is too short to drink cheap wine, he tells me.
Some very clever marketer invented that line.
SloMo must be such a disappointment for Lord Waffleworth. Still he did his job, Dutton is Leader of the Opposition.
Life is too short to drink cheap wine, wear badly fitting underwear, or tolerate the boring.
I wouldn’t want to see the size of the gas pipe going into a brickworks. When in Melbournibad our apartment complex had a recirculating hot water system with a 3 inch gas pipe going into it.
what I’d say about Anthony Albanese is that I’ve known him for a very long time, he’s on the other side of politics from me but we know each other well.
Bullshit. Turnbull is a far left winger.
Thought it might have something to do with the Andrews government crusade against gas, but that makes sense. Either way, that’s two of the major employers in the area with the mine shut down.
Can’t imagine people would be too happy to be told they’ll get some amorphous renewables job that’s yet to show up. The next Victorian government is going to have major issues to deal with. Don’t reckon either of the major parties are up to it.
Why can’t ACT residents vote as NSW? No senators for the parasites. Same for NT.
As we’re on words, or I am anyway, nice try Sancho.
Perhaps it’ll catch on.
Obnoxiousness is holding first place so far. 🙂
Lets see how long this Gravatar lasts until my facebook account is scrapped.
Bwah ha ha ha.
The great massed hordes of Sleeping Giants hit the streets and realised, “Fuck! There’s only twenty of us.”
Might I suggest that the group of twenty has splintered into 24 factions in the space of two days.
I am guessing that the mystical wizard poetry ladeee linked to here yesterday is issuing directions which will involve her getting all the publicity and others copping the criminal damage charges.
Obnoxiousicality?
Gotta laugh (or cry) at how the State gummint uses “creative” accounting methods to make a quid! ..
Yesterday I received a remiss from the Housing Commission informing me that the “market” value for rental in my area (Fairfield) has increased and so in line with this my “new” rental adjustment of an additional $10 per week (from $460 to $475pw) is now in effect.. (fortunately, since my youngest daughter moved out I only pay the OAP % set rate)
Now on where-you-live value this is probably correct but in reality what it means is that although this “houso” estate is completely separated from the “mac mansions” of the suburb your assessed as living in one of them .. Now, don’t get me wrong! .. I’m not living in a dump but what I do have in reality to the private sector is .. 4 walls with a roof on top! .. my place is basic design .. all indoors walls & ceilings are chipboard, all inside doors are hollow .. there is NO insulation in the ceiling just the roof tiles, rafters, wiring, pipes and then ceilings .. in winter you freeze, in summer you boil if you don’t have heaters/air con of your own ..
I’d hazzard a guess and reckon that most of the mac mansions garages have better, basic, insulation than my place but when it comes to rental assessment I is equal to the nearby $800k properties …..
Still it could have been worse, instead of a drug addled south western Sydney”houso” estate upbringing my kids could have suffered thru the “tuff” side of “houso” life .. private schooling & Camperdown .. LOL!
Dan’s response last week?
Let them use renewables
eat cake.No doubt there are high fives all round among the PRGuy brigade this morning at the savings in emissions.
…
Back to mud bricks, everyone.
DEBUNKED! Jan. 6 Committee “Surprise” Witness GETS CAUGHT – US Secret Service Sources DENY Trump Tried to Grab Steering Wheel — ARE WILLING TO TESTIFY!
NBC News White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted–
A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
At the end of the day it’s more often than not political ineptitude behind these trends.
After Weston Energy was forced from the market the brick company had no option but the “retailer of last resort”, Chinese owned Energy Australia, charging $37 a gigajoule.
when we were at uni we’d always as for a bottle of the cheapest lambrusco to go with our pizzas
PS ‘bern.
Thanks for posting the Joe Aston article on the Teals.
I think Labor are trying to force them to form a party and register with the AEC.
And then their funding will become transparent.
Roger Roger
Midland brick will be rubbing their hands with glee. Worked there from 89 to 94, never forget the smell.
I think Labor are trying to force them to form a party and register with the AEC.
I think they are an unregistered political party and there needs to be a byelection in their electorates plus penalties for them and their backers. Maybe even jail time. That would be fun.
The Green-Left Weekly Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM leads with how Trump interrupted watching the gorilla channel to seize control of the Presidential limousine and drive it into the White House. Mrs Snowcone to begin another 3 part Special.
I’d just like to say , that with no regret and a sense of pride , I was a chick magnet. Alas though age has dulled my magnet and I have had my powers curbed my interests in the opposite sex is still strong. I state this openly , with a sound mind and a realized understanding that in the future gravity will be my downfall.
Here’s your Latin phrase for the day:
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Concerning matters of taste, let there be no disputes.
Or, there’s nothing wrong with a cheap Lambrusco if you enjoy it.
From the Australian (no link)
Why can’t I stop laughing?
One should always drink the cheapest piss one’s palate will abide.
Which ensures an ongoing market for Emu Export (amongst others).
Someone might ask Jacquie Lambie what she thinks about Senate seats in proportion to population.
Miltonfsays:
June 29, 2022 at 6:53 am
Just think that unis from Darwin to Hobart spew out hundreds of these parasites every year all looking for something to do.
Surely you mean – “All looking for someone to do” and usually to win many $$$$ for themselves and their Clients.
One never spent much time on the wine list when dining at Uni from memory.
feelthebernsays:
June 29, 2022 at 6:15 am
Teal MPs find their appetite for pork-barrelling
Joe AstonColumnist
Jun 28, 2022 – 6.17pm
Great article, ftb.
It does highlight what a hopeless invertebrate ScoMo was. (Except when fragging conservatives.)
Did they say he punched a wall 35 years ago?
Donald Trump Denies Cassidy Hutchinson Allegations He Threw Food at White House Wall (28 Jun)
Oops food not fist. Next he’ll have bitten an onion with the skin on.
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Stop sucking your own dick, m0nty.
Seriously, you’re just spouting bogus shit from “progressive” propaganda outlets.”
No, Monty is quite correct about support for Roe.
Because, if you read it, it says you can’t perform an abortion after viability.
That is what most people want – if not even sooner.
Texas says “heartbeat” which is about 6 weeks.
Florida says 15 weeks.
Roe says, IIRC, about 23-28 weeks – if fetus can survive outside the womb (with medical support as per premmies if required), then you can’t kill it. And the FDA definition of “abortion” is “termination of a pregnancy that does NOT result in a live birth”, so therefore “abortion” is not allowed. You can deliver the fetus VERY early and so terminate the pregnancy, but you can’t kill the fetus at that stage.
So when the MSM says “80% support for Roe!” it’s true – but not the California style 8 months etc, only until, to various degrees, it’s considered a “real” person. They don’t say that, and imply that California style “up until birth” is meant, which is clearly wrong – even the polling they cite shows this to be true, if you go to their source and read the actual questions and answers.
Monty is wrong about the gerrymanders though – NY is one noticeable example where ridiculous Democrat gerrymanders have been tossed out by the courts – courts with a definite left lean to the judges. They were just too blatant.
On the other hand, republican states like Florida and Texas have had their maps allowed by the courts.
And when you look at them, the Republican ones seem reasonable on their face, while the Democrat ones are clearly very, very odd – check out proposed maps for Texas (which look somewhat “square” or basically just sized to suit, with maybe some funny shapes due to suburb boundaries, but whatever) vs NY (where there is a “stripe” down one side, then a leap across some water and a “stripe” down somewhere else, with adjacent areas that would seem to be a logical part of the same area gone to another district). Sorry Monty, Dems do much more blatant gerrymandering than Repubs do.
And you will also notice that when the Dems do redistricting, any claims of a gerrymander are rejected as “racist!”, while when Repubs do it, it’s the gerrymander itself that is “racist”.
Same as elections, right? DJT was “illegitimate” and it was de rigor to contest the results and to send alternate sets of electors, or pressure them to change their vote, but when anyone questions the 2020 results, or sends an alternate set of electors (as they are constitutionally allowed to do!) they are a “threat to democracy!”. When the protesters entered the Capitol in 2017, that was a “protest”, but when they entered in 2020, it was an “insurrection”.
It’s all spin and bluster because they know the MSM will cover for them. Any objective look at these things will easily and clearly show the truth, but anyone partisan can easily distort things to mean whatever they want. And they do.
I say the elimination of the ACT may be ‘appropriate’ in light of performance.
Are there pics of Trump wearing ‘budgie smugglers’ , eating a onion , while punching a wall and saving a koala from a bush fire?
callisays:
June 29, 2022 at 7:55 am
I read both those articles. If they genuinely represent the authors’ experiences and attitudes, then my take is that they’re both trying desperately to explain and justify their horrible, loveless, ultimately lonely and pointless lives.
It’s a carapace that people wear to protect themselves from grim reality. Every ruined relationship adds a little bit more until they can’t see that it is they themselves who are the problem. It extends to other competencies too – like skill sets and managerial style. They leave a wake of ruin behind them in workplaces, clubs and the like.
The Dunning-Kruger effect has an EQ parallel.
Riccardo Bosi on line 2.
Lambrusco? Sheer looxury!
Ladies’ favourite at uni was a little bubbly called “Skip ‘n’ Go Naked”.
Sadly, they never did.
Re cheap wine.
There is only one definition of a good wine. It’s a wine that you enjoy.
(Len Evans I think.)
Um…
Rasmussen Poll: 50 Percent Support SCOTUS Abortion Ruling (28 Jun)
Thirty eight percent would be about the proportion of lefty nutters these days.
Never go full Bosi. Even you mUnty.
JMH:
A link for your post – The operator of South Australia’s Tesla big battery has been fined $900,000 after a software glitch left it unable to help stabilise the grid.
It is true, Kneel, that the Democrats are now implementing state gerrymanders in the small amount of deep blue states where they have a supermajority, after the Republicans led the way. I guess their reasoning is that you can’t come to a knife fight with a spoon. Disarming on principle is just going to hurt their cause so they’re playing by the (stupid) rules.
That doesn’t justify gerrymandering. SCOTUS may allow it but that doesn’t mean it’s right. SCOTUS doesn’t have much of of a moral imperative any more.
If a private business made a mistake like this in the US or Australia they could be sued into oblivion.
https://thereload.com/new-california-ag-website-leaks-massive-trove-of-gun-owner-private-information/
Rasmussen LOL.
Well, Pauline Hansen got jailed. I’d say claiming to be an independent while really being an unregistered party is fraud.
Brilliant – What a Bunch of Incompetents
Anthony Fauci says that he’s experienced rebound in Covid symptoms after taking a Pfizer’s antiviral Paxlovid – which studies now show is NOT effective for people who are vaccinated
– Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he’s on his second course of Paxlovid after testing positive again for Covid-19
– According to Pfizer’s own data, the drug is limited in its abilities to fight Covid-19 in a vaccinated person
– The CDC issued a warning about Covid-19 rebound symptoms after taking Paxlovid in May 2022
– A UC San Diego study found that patients who were experiencing Covid rebound symptoms suffered because Paxlovid did not get to enough infected cells
I’m impressed, Fat Man.
You actually sounded like you believed that.
Please pass on my compliments to whomever is currently writing the Javascript you download into your brainstem each morning- Xe/Xir has figured out how to tweak Xis’/Xer’s EMOTE.SINCERITY parameters to a tee…
#Drone
The operator of South Australia’s Tesla big battery has been fined $900,000 after a software glitch left it unable to help stabilise the grid.
Let me guess – they’d run the battery down selling at peak and power hadn’t got cheap enough to recharge it yet. It has nothing to do with the windfarm.
JMH:
Thank you, Winston.
It’s perfectly okay when the Left does it…
…Right up to the point where the Folks In Charge decide it’s diluting the brand.
The Democrats would drop all support for abortion if they were able to have the unborn counted as voting for them the same way they do the dead.
The fact that they would be betraying the pro-choice mobs would not be an issue. They only support one group or another out of their own opportunism, never out of principle (even bad ones).
Besides, after a few talking heads suddenly discover that they were opposed to abortion all along the rest of the herd will follow suit.
Then they will start screaming that Conservatives have always been pro-abortion and overturning Roe v Wade was all to advance their baby-killing agenda.
Rough quote from Murray Tyrrell, ” if you like it, drink it.” he was commenting on wine snobs.
Let me guess – they’d run the battery down selling at peak and power hadn’t got cheap enough to recharge it yet. It has nothing to do with the windfarm.
No.
It was a software glitch.
It was actually a Tesla problem.
The fine was 3.6mill or 3.8.
Up until the regulator setting the price the battery was making approx. 2mill a month.
If the SA battery follows the business model of a lot of US batteries I know about, they have a floor of approx 20%.
Post that, they don’t sell power into the grid.
Piker. Don’t give up so easily. Get to the gym.
m0ntysays:
June 29, 2022 at 11:03 am
More fake news from m0nty.
Note he hasn’t actually given even one specific example of such a gerrymander.
Could it be that he can’t?
Spoiler alert:
Timothy Neilsonsays:
June 28, 2022 at 10:33 pm
Do we have a “reverse Wivenhoe” effect here?
A newspaper in WA publishing enough identifying information for crooks to steal from firearm owners has had SWA done about it AFAIK. Then again, it was tacitly encouraged by the WA government and police.
m0ntysays:
June 29, 2022 at 11:04 am
Rasmussen LOL.
Mr Zero-cred strikes again.
Zero facts and logic isn’t really better than fake “facts” and fallacious logic, m0nty. Although you’re wasting less pixels, I suppose.
SCOTUS doesn’t have much of of a moral imperative any more.
It has a legal imperative, an impeccable one. The left always think they have the sole claim to morals. The opposite is the case.
Clearly, it wasn’t Passion Pop…
Is Cool, JMH – I’m getting used to this search function on the intarwebs thingy.
I’ve only ever used it for looking up photos of peoples – mainly wymminses – who others mention. It’s surprising what you find when you append ‘ great tits‘ to someones name. I thought there were none available, but surprisingly, they’re for sale on ebay.
Another take:
California AG Releases Personal Information of Gun Owners to Intimidate Them (Daniel Greenfield, 28 Jun)
It’s interesting that the private company is being blamed when it looks like the um, problem may actually be with the Cali AG’s department.
I have a good relationship with your president [Macron] and what I’d say about Anthony Albanese is that I’ve known him for a very long time, he’s on the other side of politics from me but we know each other well.
Turdballs claims to be on “the other side of politics” from AnAl! Chutzpah to the nth degree.
It’s the can that makes the difference. Trust me.
when we were at uni we’d always as for a bottle of the cheapest lambrusco to go with our pizzas
I find the delicate flavor of the pineapple on the pizza balances out the slight kero undertones of the bottom of the barrel* lambrusco.
*(possibly South Australian bank vault barrels)
Eyriesays:
June 29, 2022 at 11:09 am
The operator of South Australia’s Tesla big battery has been fined $900,000 after a software glitch left it unable to help stabilise the grid.
Let me guess – they’d run the battery down selling at peak and power hadn’t got cheap enough to recharge it yet. It has nothing to do with the windfarm.
The court heard HPR had breached national electricity rules between July and November 2019 after it made offers to the Australian Energy Market Operator and was paid to provide market ancillary services which it could not provide.
Maybe when Lord Waffleworth says he’s on the other side of politics to Albo he means being a Research Assistant to Tom Uren is beneath him.
The Daily Expose, whose web address used to be for a British mechanic’s shop, outdoes itself – as demonstrated in the link at 9.27:
Who is Dr. Love, you ask?
Having established that firm ground – the highlights:
In reference to an image of wibbly pink things in a test tube, held by someone in suitably scientific blue rubber gloves:
The questions begged by both of these sentences are ‘why?’ and ‘what the fuck are you on?’ Then the second-generation naturopath escalates:
I suspect Dr. Love might be experiencing unwanted electrical activity in her head and body.
Herein appears a picture of what seems to be dried pasta with a piece of yellow cotton running through it, along with this:
I believe the image below that was shared by Mike Adams on InfoWars, shows a gold nanowire.
The piece then goes to mention:
And:
There was also the standard pop-up with ‘One Day to Go Before We Are Shut Down And Give Us Money’ in it.
Believe. Believe.
Missed blockquoting one of the lines.
Apologies. Was laughing at the time.
same here.
It would be great if the scrutiny Barilaro is under was applied to all similar roles.
Elbow is a Trotskyite, while Mal is more of a Maoist.
NFT market is collapsing with sales down more than 87% from it’s ATH!
It’s just so sad to see somebody spend so much money on something that isn’t real – Karen Boeker (Beanie Baby expert)
Our story begins in 1993. Ty Warner, Founder of a toy company Ty Inc. created these innocent-looking stuffed animals for kids. But what started as a simple $5 toy mass-produced in China became such a craze that people were paying thousands of dollars to collect them.
Looking back, it’s almost unbelievable that people were willing to pay thousands of dollars for a $5 mass-produced toy. But then again, just looking around, we can see the same trends repeating all over again.
Speculators are paying more than 6 figures for an image of a rock in the hope that down the line its value is going to increase.
Investors are justifying the value by arguing that these are Non-Fungible (as in, one of a kind that cannot be duplicated). The irony is that this is exactly the same argument investors in Beanie Babies made stating that their toy was going to be one of a kind that others will buy for a fortune down the line.
It’s the classic case of the greater fool theory where you are buying an overpriced asset in the hope that someone will be willing to pay even more for it later on.
Given that the Bitcoin is down more than 60% YTD and the whole crypto market is going through another halving, let’s see how the NFT market is doing and whether there is some hope for a bounce-back – or would it go the way of Beanie Babies?
The most disgusting allegations from Cassidy Hutchinson overnight were that Trump has ketchup on his steak. History’s greatest monster.
Hairyplanes.
Venus Aerospace unveils its new dart-like Mach 9 hypersonic plane design (28 Jun, via Instapundit)
Nuclear-powered ‘sky cruise’ to house 5,000 guests on ‘nonstop flight’ around world (28 Jun)
The latter is particularly silly, since I have to wonder how the passengers would get food delivered if the beast never touches down. On the other hand I like the style of these people in stretching imagination.
Apparently it’s called “the blue flu”….
All officers rostered to work the night shift at Casuarina Police station called in sick last Saturday because of dissatisfaction with issues in the NT Police broadly
More at the NT Independent
H B Bearsays:
June 29, 2022 at 10:54 am
Andrew Barr says doubling ACT representation in Senate may be ‘appropriate’ in light of census
I say the elimination of the ACT may be ‘appropriate’ in light of performance.
At the risk of arousing m0nty-fa from his sulks at my very existence, my belief after many years there is that the ACT should be reduced to the Lodge, the Parliamentary Triangle, ANZAC Parade, the AWM, ADFA and the RMC/Duntroon Field Firing Range. The rest should revert to NSW.
Biden Admin Signs Five Year Lease to House Illegal Alien Children at Luxury $42K Per Year Private School Campus in North Carolina.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/biden-admin-signs-five-year-lease-house-illegal-alien-children-luxury-42k-per-year-private-school-campus-north-carolina/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-06-28
duncanmsays:
June 29, 2022 at 11:44 am
when we were at uni we’d always as for a bottle of the cheapest lambrusco to go with our pizzas
same here.
How about Phorphy Pearl
PS – took a Temperance Pledge when I was 15 to not drink till 21. as I did not like beer – so no drinking at Uni – being in Sydney Uni Eng Faculty and at John’s was popular as designated driver – made up for lost years since, but still not Beer Drinker
Well played, Erdogan. He simply asked to NATO to offer up the Kurds for slaughter for Finnish and Swedish entry and they said, fine.
M0nty – You’re clearly in great danger of being contaminated by Cattish outlook. Next you’ll also be eating onions with the skin on. Be warned: the Party will have you up for thoughtcrime if you continue like this.
Laws interviewed Zelda, the stripper who runs Blockade. Zelda and a couple of supporters who rang after her are very dangerous people. They are fanatics who can parrot back alarmist slogans and shibboleths and make them sound rational. Zelda threw around the 97% nonsense and another idiot said O2 levels had halved in the last 100 years due to fossil fuels. Laws doesn’t have the wit or knowledge to refute them and is content to attack them on the basis of the usual complaints like interrupting traffic. At least Laws got out of the O2 idiot that he had suffered a bad marriage breakup and that he was clinically insane.
These people are very dangerous because they are capable of doing anything for their beliefs; that includes corrupting young school kids and rioting, or violence. The real danger is however that our pollies like kean and the turtle support their views. Australia is in for a very difficult few years.
Australia is in for a very difficult few years.
Hopefully.
Two responses.
m0ntysays:
June 29, 2022 at 10:58 am
I think they are an unregistered political party and there needs to be a byelection in their electorates plus penalties for them and their backers. Maybe even jail time. That would be fun.
Riccardo Bosi on line 2.
m0nty-fa clearly hasn’t read their bleats about staff, which indicate that they see themselves as a collective group, ie, a party.
m0ntysays:
June 29, 2022 at 11:03 am
It is true, Kneel, that the Democrats are now implementing state gerrymanders in the small amount of deep blue states where they have a supermajority, after the Republicans led the way. I guess their reasoning is that you can’t come to a knife fight with a spoon. Disarming on principle is just going to hurt their cause so they’re playing by the (stupid) rules.
That doesn’t justify gerrymandering. SCOTUS may allow it but that doesn’t mean it’s right. SCOTUS doesn’t have much of of a moral imperative any more.
The phrase “are now implementing” is deliberately deceptive. The DemonRats have been implementing gerrymanders for well over a century, and are now continuing to implement them. The Repubs are following, not leading.
If m0nty-fa truly believes what he wrote, then he is so massively ignorant of US politics that he should confine his future discussions of politics to events around the Melbun City Council. Even there, he might be struggling, but fewer observers would realise it.
Another Voice needed!
The time has come for members of the Third Wave of immigrants who arrived in this country to gain their own Voice to parliament and be recognised in the Constitution.
The Australis Statement from the Sea, named after the ship Australis, that brought so many migrants to these shores, calls for recognition of Third Wave citizens, the many Wogs, Huns, Balts, Poms, Paddys and other migrants who arrived here after World War II.
More at Quadrant
m0ntysays:
June 29, 2022 at 11:46 am
The most disgusting allegations from Cassidy Hutchinson overnight were that Trump has ketchup on his steak. History’s greatest monster.
This was known while Trump was president, but our resident US politics eggspurt missed that because he was too focused on Wussia, Wussia, Wussia, Muellerween, Thanksmueller, etc.
Trump also likes his steak well done.
The WORLD is in for MANY difficult years.
Well played, Erdogan. He simply asked to NATO to offer up the Kurds for slaughter for Finnish and Swedish entry and they said, fine.
The US state department will add it to their schedule post Ukraine being turned into a smoking ruin.
So that’s where my missing Nano-wriggler swarm ended up!
KD, I want details. All of them. Addresses, geospatial coordinates, inner leg measurements. Whatever you have.
That patchouli-scented harridan has gone and sliced up some of my Nano-wrigglers like they were bits of soggy pasta, and I am not happy about it.
And worse, she’s making up stories about them!
#CrueltyToNano-WrigglersIsWrong
#RetributionIsComing
I’m surprised JC hasn’t already been in here to comment on Cassidy being a “looker” with a “nice rack”. His usual sort of gear.
There’s particularly silly, then there’s Dahir Insaat silly.
His Ultra Mega Super Drone Copter
could be the game changer the Ukies have been looking for.
https://andrewromanviews.blog/2022/06/26/russias-war-has-started-the-great-u-turn/
No.
It was a software glitch.
Don’t be buying any bridges.
Is she? Beats being a 700 lb oaf.
took a Temperance Pledge when I was 15 to not drink till 21
Part of Confirmation? The bishop, sly and joyless bugger, slipped that into the liturgy when I got the cheek slap.
In relation to drinking whatever you can get your hands on, older readers will remember John Arlott, a cricket commentator, who was reputed to get through 6 litres of red a day.
I remember an article by Peter Mcfarline, a sportswriter who apparently finished only a couple of cans behind Rod Marsh on the plane to England talking about dinner with Arlott.
He got there a bit early as Arlott was selecting teh 6 bottles of red yhey were going to drink over dinner.
A true legend who died at a ripe old age.
Mach 9 aircraft. I can see the point for a missile but an aircraft?
Supersonic transport only needs Mach 2.0 to 2.2 to be useful. Think a longer range super Concorde. Do the numbers on Sydney – LA and reverse.
The other nuclear powered thing brings to mind Skyholm from Poul Anderson’s “Orion Shall Rise”.
Investors are justifying the value by arguing that these are Non-Fungible (as in, one of a kind that cannot be duplicated). The irony is that this is exactly the same argument investors in Beanie Babies made stating that their toy was going to be one of a kind that others will buy for a fortune down the line.
It exists for the same reason most of the arts market exists.
A form of money laundering and payments for goods delivered of a more smokeable/injectable/snortable variety.
C O P E
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony-should-be-the-end-of-donald-trump
…and Hillary Clinton is the natural, rightful successor. Okay. Good chat.
m0ntysays:
June 29, 2022 at 12:06 pm
I’m surprised JC hasn’t already been in here to comment on Cassidy being a “looker” with a “nice rack”. His usual sort of gear.
He may have made reference to your “rack” in the past, but, be assured that the words “nice” and “looker” did not appear.
The WORLD is in for MANY difficult years.
As Ayn Rand wrote ” you can ignore reality but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality”.
We’ve been ignoring reality for nearly three decades or so since the end of the Cold War.
Old Ozzie:
Jeez, mate. That’s tough luck. My commiserations. Is there any time off for rotten behavior with that sentence?
assured = comforted.
Welp, pickling is a well-known preservative method… 🙂
Inquiring minds would like to know how Trump was seizing the wheel of “the beast” when there is a bulletproof partition between his section and the front.
Can you be charged with perjury for reporting hearsay to that committee or is that a “we can say any shit we want at one remove” card?
areffsays:
June 29, 2022 at 12:18 pm
took a Temperance Pledge when I was 15 to not drink till 21
Part of Confirmation? The bishop, sly and joyless bugger, slipped that into the liturgy when I got the cheek slap.
Nope – temperance group came to school and as I did not like beer, and only had sherry at home, happy to sign – looking at the state of my mates over those 6 years of sobriety, probably a good move for me.
I will have another bottle of majella coonawarra shiraz 1999 tonight to celebrate (purchased at Cellar Door Majella Coonawarra in 1999 at 5pm as they were closing returning from Solo 4WD across Simpson)
Bottle Sunday night was smooth – agreed by Son-in-law
Trump had his pet Gorilla/Insurrection Strategist rip the bulletproof partition away.
America’s economic crisis is simple and stark: its political leaders have created trillions of dollars in debt that can never be repaid. So the only option they had in the wake of the 2020-22 Kung Flu epidemic (at which Washington threw trillions of borrowed dollars) was to create runaway inflation* to eat the debt, impoverishing everyone in America but themselves.
Tucker Carlson Tonight.
*Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull’s chosen successor as leader of the Stupid Fucking Liberals, did the same to Australia, just not on the same disastrous scale.
Perjury is perjury. Is there the fault element and physical element?
The exception regards to swearing an oath to the committee or not.