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The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
The headline painting, The Morning, reminds me of the great scene in the 2005 adaptation of our Jane’s Pride &…
Excellent crop of toon theree today, Tom. They have such a lot to work on since the big win.
Page.
I don’t want to start arguments.
I will merely say that:
#1. IF I was a small small Kirkstall-size town copper, and IF I then happened to mention to one of the long-term residents there that ‘two drug lords live just down the road’, I would expect the following – or a variant thereof – as a response, with volume as desired:
‘Wellwaddayafuggindoinaboutityauselessgunt, waddamataxespayinfor?’
System ate my post about Pope going to Canada to beg for forgiveness from the Man-Child Emperor.
Would never again own a rental property, especially in this State.
Just a sample:
https://www.vcat.vic.gov.au/news/changes-law-about-renting-home-during-covid-19
Paul Krugman Confesses: “I Was Wrong About Inflation”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/paul-krugman-confesses-i-was-wrong-about-inflation
Krugman student, Philip Lowe, was unavailable for comment.
#2,
‘Big weed busts’ are apparently not done by the local coppers in small towns. They are said to work with the high-falutin’ detective types from the bigger nearby towns or the smoke, but their names are not on the charge sheets.
The results from any significant drug seizure are certainly not left in small town police stations. They are weighed, photographed, samples taken and then incinerated, sometimes on the spot in the cases of large plantations. There is no Indiana Jones-style warehouse anywhere loaded to the rafters with packed-up and seized choof.
If any small-town cop starts handing out meticulously recorded property seized by other coppers to local fuckwits he is either Robin Hood or bent, and in either case monumentally stupid. What you certainly don’t do is mouth off about it, especially to nurses who are notorious for failure to keep their collective traps shut about anything.*
Anecdotally, it was said that there are three things that will bring you undone in that line of work, all starting with P. Piss, Paperwork and Property.
*Important note. I am not saying Sal’s mum is a liar. I am saying that if the tale as related is correct, the small town copper was pumping his own tyres up with A Grade bullshit, potentially expecting some attention.
Wow, a church service being robbed is a new low for New York.
It was being live streamed.
If Adams doesn’t act after this you may as well burn NY to the ground & start again.
What?
Jesus. Another one of the many False Crests of Stupid, brought to you by that cockhead Andrews. He’s just doing this to take the piss by now, surely. It never ends.
Catch of the day.
It goes back to the old ‘Nazis weren’t socialists because they didn’t OWN the means of production’ argument.
Hitler was smart enough to know that you don’t need to, you just need to be able to control it via the power of the State.
Andrews is just following the playbook.
From The Telegraph. Jason Foolinsky. His comments are interesting and he’s correct about what the Liberals should focus on. Apparently Foolinski was a guest speaker at the Friedman Conference last week. So, in the light of his electoral drubbing, Foolinski suddenly finds his inner conservative/inner Liberal, this is the same Foolinski who penned, with Pirate Man, the new Republican model. Pity Foolinsky didn’t speak up whilst in parliament.
Jason Falinski says Liberals should focus on western Sydney next election
The Federal Liberals’ focus at the next election should be on beating Labor in western Sydney rather than trying to reclaim waterfront electorates taken by teals, says an ex-Coalition MP who lost of a teal.
Former Liberal MP Jason Falinski says the Liberal Party was a “victim to circumstances” which led to some voters turning away from the party at the federal election in May. “We hadn’t been able to run a proper government agenda because we’d been busy saving the nation, both on a health and economic front,” he told Sky News Australia. “It was a bit like a long car trip on a holiday, people just wanted to get out of the car and stretch their legs.”
The federal Liberals’ focus at the next election should be on beating Labor in western Sydney rather than trying to reclaim waterfront electorates taken by the teals, according to an ex-Coalition MP, who lost to one of the Climate 200-backed independents.
The former member for Mackellar on Sydney’s north Jason Falinski said the Liberals needed to “start fighting for the support” of young Australians and new migrants.
“Our message of hope and opportunity resonates more with young people than the bulls–t intersexual totem pole that they are being offered by the Left,” Mr Falinski told The Daily Telegraph.
“And if you are a migrant to this country, we are the natural party for you,” he said.
Mr Falinski said if he was Liberal Party federal director, “I’d be focused more on western Sydney seats than I would be on the Climate 200 seats”.
The Coalition needed to reject the idea of quotas, he said, and instead mirror the UK conservatives by starting a “candidates’ school” to bring in new talent.
He said he believed Peter Dutton could win the next election.
“I’ve been incredibly impressed by his performance as (Opposition) leader thus far including his mild rebuke of members of his team for criticising Anthony Albanese for going overseas to represent Australia.”
Mr Falinski revealed that he had never been close to former prime minister Scott Morrison.
“I have a professional relationship with him, but I have no relationship with him … (we) would speak maybe twice or three times a year. That was it.”
Mr Falinski said he took from that “prime ministers are very busy.”
Mr Morrison was very close with 20-25 MPs in a “prayer group,” Mr Falinski said.
“I was never invited” despite being Catholic, he said.
Mr Falinski said that the teals were bringing about the “Americanisation” of Australian politics by spending millions of dollars per seat and using “psychographic” profiling of voters.
He said about $520,000 was spent on his 2022 campaign, up from $36,000 in 2019.
The office of his vanquisher, Sophie Scamps, confirmed it spent $1.4m; her campaign raised $700,000, which was matched by Climate 200.
Mr Falinski said outlay by other groups drove the total teal financial support in Mackellar “way north of $2 million”.
Dr Scamps’s office said Mr Falinski’s campaign spend didn’t include the benefit of the Liberals’ national advertising.
Mr Falinski, who said it was unlikely he would recontest Mackellar, is now working at the aged-care equipment company he co-owns with his brother and preparing to begin lecturing in behavioural economics at UTS.
He is also involved in the Blueprint Institute think tank with state education minister Sarah Mitchell’s ex-chief of staff David Cross.
“Things would have get to pretty bad for me to run again,” he said.
Firstly, Foolinski is right with his description of the “Americanisation of Australian politics”. I was and remain disturbed with the way Svengali Simon and his Stepford Skanks threw money around in seats like Warringah, Mackellar and Wentworth. Here in Wentworth I witnessed campaign tactics I’ve never ever seen before in Australian politics.
Secondly, I find Foolinsky’s sly digs at Morrison interesting. What’s becoming clear is that Morrison was both a dictator and a bully and he was completely lacking in any core principles.
Footage of the church service being robbed.
https://twitter.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1551300989625503745?s=20&t=hBicglBRvOPczyDVQ4yHDw
To be fair, Lenin had the idea first.
Lenin – The Tax in Kind
This is actually a very good article from Medium.
It outlines how low IQ journalists (BIRM) were mostly covering for Amber Turd.
https://medium.com/@izze112299/i-attended-the-johnny-depp-vs-amber-heard-trial-here-is-the-truth-b210ed6ad1de
Glad I didn’t go.
For some, the k-hole is the way to pass the time.
For Dot, it’s medium.
Obligatory lunatic article.
https://medium.com/@colinhwray/im-scared-i-m-angry-8c0d4a3e6ca
Yep. America has fallen to Christian fascists.
Stirring up my Christian fascist allies is how I pass my time, Brother Bern.
Has Ofjaycee delivered your linen yet?
Some ambiguity here.
Are we talking about:-
.1 A copper who is posted to a small sized town? Or …
.2 A copper who is the size of a small town?
Which reminds me. Has anyone heard from Luke Cornelius of late?
BBS from last night re Birx and the person behind her.
Michael Senger has a follow on at his substack.
“ Matt Pottinger: The Intelligence Agent Who Shut Down America
The Manchurian candidate?”
He won’t act, not seriously. It’s open season.
Lifesite news 22 Jul lists 76 churches and pregnancy centres vandalized or hit with arson since Dobbs. Then there’re the 50 or so churches burned down in Canada after the dead children hoax. No prosecutions there either that I know of.
I’d give links but got internal service errored.
Highlights from Dot’s second link:
And:
It’s either a WEF-level plan to massively populate the world, possibly to ensure a population base of tunnel slaves, or the more traditional WEF-level plan to depopulate the world for the elites’ benefit.
Either way, there’s some mixed messaging going on. Someone should do something.
About to post a Rear Window column in full.
So get your scroll fingers ready if not interested.
If you personally donate over a certain amount (thresholds differ state to state) your donation is going to be publicly available.
Not so with industry super.
I wonder why that was included.
Could it be that the only people in the group were ones that could be trusted not to leak to the press?
Big super’s $85m political war chest
APRA documents detail super fund payments to political entities surged in election years.
Last Monday, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones was incensed by this column’s examination of the new Labor government’s draft regulations that seek to overhaul year-old superannuation laws enforcing disclosure of political donations and payments made by funds.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg had separately claimed on Twitter that the draft regulations (released late on a Friday afternoon) aimed to “hide super fund political donations & their payments to unions”.
“Oh my God, Laura!” was Jones’ riposte to Sky News’ Laura Jayes when asked about his draft regulations, which, if passed, mean payments and donations to parties will no longer be itemised but displayed only in aggregate. The definition of a related party, in a $3 trillion system typified by a web of related parties and personal political connections, will also be watered down.
But there’s no conspiracy here, according to Jones, who decried the criticism as “the longest running scare campaign in the history of superannuation”.
That’s, er, conveniently forgetting the industry’s own long-running scare campaign that bamboozles savers into thinking they won’t have enough money for a comfortable retirement.
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia’s own public forecasting tool, the dubious “Retirement Standard”, was criticised by Mike Callaghan’s Treasury review in 2020 as having “several shortcomings”, particularly that its forecasts were based on what the top 20 per cent of earners would allegedly need for a comfortable retirement.
Indeed, ASFA’s recommended $640,000 for a couple and $545,000 for a single person, constituted “a standard of living higher than that experienced by most Australians during their working lives”.
Specifically incorrect
Super Consumers Australia, which, unlike ASFA, isn’t a cash-for-comment factory, last week produced research suggesting a medium-spending target of $258,000 would suffice a single person who wants a comfortable retirement. But don’t expect this to dampen the super sector’s demands for more of your earnings.
Nevertheless, we digress. According to Jones, he made it “very, very clear that any donation would have to be specifically declared, that any expenditure in funding to a business or a union or industrial association would have to be specifically declared”.
This is specifically incorrect. Treasury’s own explanatory statement says the regulations will “remove itemised disclosure of certain expenditure” and funds will be “required to disclose an aggregate”, thus “protecting the commercial sensitivity of payments”. When The Australian Financial Review asked Jones to clarify his remarks, we heard nothing back.
The prudential regulator is investigating super fund payments to parties and, thanks to some nifty freedom of information work by our Wealth Editor Aleks Vickovich, we got one of 81 documents that form the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s inquiries.
Here, aggregated data taken from the Electoral Commission shows a total $85.5 million in non-donation and non-gift payments by 51 funds to political entities and associates over the past five years.
Curiously, there is little rhyme or reason to the scale of payments. AustralianSuper, the biggest fund, made $8 million of payments, while the much smaller Cbus, now chaired by Wayne Swan, chalked up $11.2 million. The absolutely minuscule First Super, chaired by CFMEU heavy Michael O’Connor, managed $10.8 million.
Two other micro-funds, TWU Super, the former home of current Labor senator Tony Sheldon, recorded $5 million in payments, while LUCRF Super, recently chaired by United Workers Union national secretary Tim Kennedy, made $4.2 million in payments.
Oddly enough, the 2018-19 financial year ranks the highest in terms of gross payments of the most recent five financial years. The $40.2 million worth of payments in fiscal 2019 is two-and-a-half times the next most expensive year, being the $16.8 million recorded in 2020-21.
Surely, there is no coincidence that both financial years were ones in which a federal election took place. Now, that doesn’t just sound like a long-running campaign – sounds like an expensive one!
In addition, if Mr Falinski is such a great Christian and felt slighted that he wasn’t invited to the PM’s prayer group, why would he say so?
Wouldn’t he bear the exclusion quietly and take it to the One who rules on these things?
Deeply unimpressive.
Anyone, like Foolinsky, who fancies behavioural economics is scum. These kind believe their role is to manipulate the masses to their will. Marxist scum the lot of them. Worse. They think it moral.
The office of his vanquisher, Sophie Scamps, confirmed it spent $1.4m; her campaign raised $700,000, which was matched by Climate 200.
Mr Falinski said outlay by other groups drove the total teal financial support in Mackellar “way north of $2 million”.
Screeches from the fascist left about “buying votes” in 5 … 4 … 3 …
A couple of weeks ago my missus and her old friend saw a Qantas holiday package in Fiji and decided to go (seven nights). Booked online all ok, then due to fly out on the Tuesday she had delay it 24 hours (unexpected problem). Called Qantas, I heard all the conversations, the woman on the phone on this call and all others was Asian, sounded Phillipino but may’ve been from somewhere else, none of the people she spoke to could speak fluent English.
Anyway Qantas woman accepted the change of flight and said she would email it to wife. No email so much later in the day wife calls Qantas to confirm, Qantas said she should’ve received email but confirmed the change to the following FRIDAY!. She stated that it was supposed to be on the Wed but Qantas woman wouldn’t accept that, wife asked that woman listen to taped call but told that the change was definitely for the Friday. Not wanting to lose anymore of her booked holiday, wife found a flight with Fiji Air on the Wed, booked and confirmed.
Wife then rang Qantas to cancel Friday flight, again an Asian woman with poor English. Woman kept asking if she wanted to cancel holiday and flights, wife very patiently explained, no, she just wanted to cancel outbound flight on Friday, everything else to be left the same. Eventually Qantas woman understands and says she will cancel Friday flight and issue a credit for it. Confirmation email arrives and wife finds all her flights cancelled but not holiday, calls Qantas to say she needs the flight home and told, too late as she had cancelled it and no room left on flight. The saga continues.
We will make a formal complaint to Qantas but who the hell is running their bookings? No one she spoke to had English as a first language and the accents were very difficult to understand and the women answering the phones obviously struggled to understand the Australian accent. Missus is in Fiji now, due home on Wednesday, see if she makes it.
KD
It wasn’t the Driller’s mother. Walter Dali reckoned his mother did. I called it out as laughable crap and the Driller being the regular dishonest fuckwit and oppositional dickhead that he is challenged me with that old chestnut… the “lived experience” crap. FMD, he’s an imbecile.
Unions get their payoff.
Backlash over building watchdog changes (Sky News, 25 Jul)
Labor’s plan to immediately strip back the Australian Building and Construction Commission watchdog has received backlash from business and employer groups.
Employer groups are demanding more information on how the sector would be regulated and warned the changes could weaken drug and alcohol testing requirements.
The ABCC may be a toothless tiger but the unions cannot accept even the slightest oversight from a watchdog. It’s an irritation and an affront to their egos. So day one after the election I’m sure they had a nice leetle chat with Albo pointing out all their yummy money they gave to the cause.
‘My government has hit the ground running’, says Elbow.
Yes…straight into a Green wall by the looks.
Their ABC rehashes a pre-election story:
Coalition government’s pre-election carbon credit shake-up created ‘sovereign risk’, department warned
It also gutted the $55/t price of carbon credits by dumping $12/t term contracts into the market – reducing the market price to $30 – $35/t. Making
energypollution cheaper.The victims: investors in carbon farming projects that create the carbon credits – including:
It’s a tedious detail to a story that broke back in March, probably only interesting to climate activists, or energy wonks.
But it highlights:
• How artificial and fragile the renewable energy market is;
• The scale of the policy levers that Ministers can pull;
• The drivers of the corruption of Australia’s political system.
Get ready for wholesale changes as the Albanese Government pushes back the other way, to ‘repair the damage done by the former government’. (And placate the Teals’ voters.)
Too cheap to meter…
Via Cassie:
Who is he trying to kid? They get a tick for standing up to China. But apart from “ordering” nuke subs after throwing out with the bath water Turnbull’s frenchies, there are not many “cups” on the mantal.
The fact is it wasn’t Falinski and the rest of the party and parliament that was saving us from the coof.
Morrison sidelined them all – and they said nothing and did nothing – as he went in boots and all with the premiers.
In fact I’m still left wondering what they did do throughout all this time. One thing I do know is that they didn’t need to “do” anything – because they were still getting paid.
SFW
If qantas now has Philippine call centre, the firm is fucked. They’re the most terrible liars I’ve ever had the misfortune to deal with. They just lie.
Try and see if qantas has a chat site because at least you can save it.
It’s not just qantas. The entire global airline system is rooted. Buy a private jet if you can afford it. 🙂
yes, birx is lying about her vaccine stance
and yes, we have the receipts.
Minus the hollow log parachute.
Ker-splatt!
Monkeypox? Hepatitis? Sudden Adult Death Syndrome? Something is very wrong and it’s because of the Covid-19 Vaccines
“Morrison sidelined them all – and they said nothing and did nothing – as he went in boots and all with the premiers.”
Yep, and they stood back and said nothing, absolutely nothing, when those same jack boots were used to kick Arndt, Kelly, Christensen, Porter, Laming and Tudge. And none of them, not one of them, not Stoker, not Foolinsky, not Karma Sharma, not any of them, spoke up about what was being done to the Australian people. The only two who did were Kelly and Christensen and we saw how Morrison treated them, even siding with Labor and the Greens to silence them.
KD at 6:57.
Regarding local cops telling “trusted confidantes” in the community about drug barons* down the road. Apart from the “waddya gonna do about it” angle, it is not good policing practice to farm out your intel to anyone.
Unless, of course, you are deliberately dropping dodgy red-herring info into the ear of a known blowharding gossip, knowing it will get back to your target.
KD at 7:16.
Everything you say is on the money. Again, probably a nobody blowharding to impress, or suicidally stupid.
…
* “Drug baron”. An expression not heard outside MSM newsrooms.
They moved it from Hobart to the Philippines just prior to coof.
Only big wig customers get to talk to one of the Aussies still employed in Tassie.
Apart from the observation that “saving the nation” is a “a proper government agenda”, they didn’t even do that.
Unless “saving” means billions peed up against a wall, the people imprisoned in their homes and forced to submit to unsafe drugs to remain employed.
We would have been far better off had they not attempted to “save” us.
Stoker was also at the conference opining on where the Libs went wrong.
Donald Trump: Conservatives Must ‘Liberate’ America’s Children from ‘Sick’ Education System
Well, Labor did promise to do this, and you did vote for them:
Government winds back Australian Building and Construction Commission’s powers to ‘bare legal minimum’
According to Tony Burke, the evil ABCC managed all this bastardry by:
Just in time for the Great Reconstruction.
Good luck Australia.
Kamala Harris claims Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law prevents teachers from being ‘able to love openly’ and tears into ‘so-called leaders’ passing ‘immoral’ abortion bans
“Love openly”? Are we now getting to the heart of the matter? Are they teachers or predators?
SFW, there was an article published somewhere on Friday (I think) of an interview with a Qantas pilot. Name changed etc.
He reckoned he was laid off from them over the bat-flu period but now is back. Says is shambolic. Said that previously they were very much on the ball over timeliness of takeoffs etc but not so. Recent flight could not get the loading sheet from the ground crew, and could not get fresh water loaded, and passenger bags were not loaded.
And so on.
If Krugman keeps that up he is going to find himself cancelled at the van Wrongselen School of Wrongology. Never admit you were wrong. At worst go work at the UN (or UNESCO if you want to maintain the charade).
HUGE: Judicial Watch Reveals Biden Administration Is Still Sending Billions to Afghanistan – And They Refuse Access to Auditors to Investigate
As a landlord in Victoria, can one only offer 6 month leases. This could be a way around the new rules. Obviously, not ideal.
Not like Trump to understate the position.
Trump: Biden’s Damage More Than ‘5 Worst Presidents’ Combined
Yeah from the common cold you incompetent fuckwit.
Something guaranteed to bring on one of those road to Damascus moments.
The elite that has taken almost all the money is now after everything else as well | Neil Oliver
For those interested.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/07/why-im-glad-the-libs-lost/
Joe Biden got double vaccinated and boosted, but Hunter got all of the immunity.
Manly to be unmanly!
Manly will become the first club in rugby league history to wear a pride jersey – titled Everyone in League – to celebrate diversity and inclusivity in the NRL.
Rainbow colours will replace the traditional white piping on Manly’s jumper for Thursday night’s big game against Sydney Roosters at 4 Pines Park.
Boy, hasn’t rugby league come a long way.
Could you imagine this happening at Brookie in the 1970s?
As legendary songwriter Bob Dylan prophetically wrote, The Times They are A-Changin’.
“LGBTIQA people have always been a part of sport but haven’t always been allowed the visibility,” said former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who in 1995 became the first rugby league player to come out as openly gay.
“Honestly, I have been trying to get the NRL to have a pride round for the past three years and it still hasn’t got the traction it deserves.
This is becoming self-parody. Can you imagine a “pride round”.
Monty Python put it rather well – if the army was gay….
I kid you not.
A mega-wealthy friend of a relative bought a private jet a few years back.
Sold it after he discovered two “hidden” problems.
.1 He couldn’t stand upright in the cabin;
.2 It required multiple re-fuelling stops to go to New York or London;
JC:
Right. For the record, nobody’s mum is a liar.
Except mine. Mine said I could be anything I wanted to be, and I have yet to walk out at No.3 on Boxing Day at the G.
Mater,
If the landlord sells the property or moves back in, they can give the tenant 60 days notice.
Right on Calli, if that’s being saved, I don’t want it. Of course they weren’t being saved just carrying on as usual.
Will the real beneficiaries of super please stand up.
Oh for the days when the world didn’t care, and want to know, what went on in your bedroom.
need a bigger jet.
Fair enough, KD. Obviously some copper was just bullshitting her. Still, Walter ought have a better bullshit meter.
Austerity for thee but not for the ABC.
Just one of the reasons why Chalmers can’t afford to keep the fuel excise cut.
No.
But some are incredibly gullible.
Only after going through VCAT.
You are at the government’s whim.
You no longer have control of your property.
“- It is no longer possible for a landlord to give a tenant notice to vacate a rented premises.
– Applications for possession based on a notice to vacate, if made after 29 March 2020, will be rejected.
– A landlord can apply for a possession order if the tenant gave a notice of intention to vacate but has not left the premises.
– If a landlord wants to end a tenancy, the landlord can apply to VCAT for an order requiring the tenant to leave (termination order). At the same time, the landlord can also ask VCAT to make an order for the tenant to be evicted if they don’t leave as ordered (possession order). These applications can be made irrespective of any fixed-term agreement. If a current fixed-term agreement exists, VCAT may take this into account when deciding whether it is reasonable and proportionate to make a particular order. VCAT will consider whether to make a termination order only or a termination and possession order.”
The tenant can leave you hanging with 28 days notice. As a landlord, you have to apply to VCAT to do anything.
Rogersays:
July 25, 2022 at 8:47 am
“LGBTIQA people have always been a part of sport but haven’t always been allowed the visibility,” said former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who in 1995 became the first rugby league player to come out as openly gay.
Oh for the days when the world didn’t care, and want to know, what went on in your bedroom.
Oh for the days when the political left demanded that government keep out of peoples’ bedrooms!
The large font blockquoting is an offence against God and Man.
It might even be high treason.
I’ll check with the King of Norway next visiting day and circle back on that.
“My government has hit the ground running”. More like ” My government has hit the ground flailing, splat!” Straight into trying to be the worst government ever. We know you can do it.
We recently sold our city penthouse.
The discussion of the option to put it on the rental market was extremely short.
“No fucking way”.
Exactly Roger, people have always been part of sport, and their personal sexual preferences have zero to do with sporting activities.
Gay and lesbians’ biggest problem is their sexuality defines who they are.
Something I’ve suspected for a long time:
“This comparison of actual regional grid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2019 and 2021 shows increased use of wind and solar did not reduce emissions. … If it doesn’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions why are we using wind and solar?
…
Coal emissions should have fallen the same 7% generation did, but only fell about half as much as power plant efficiency fell.”
Overall, CO2 emissions declined only 0.8%. As I understand the data, this suggests that CO2 emissions would have declined more if there had been no wind or solar on the PJM grid.
The intermittency of solar and wind means that the backup generators run inefficiently, so that what is saved in CO2 emissions is immediately lost again due to the forced inefficiency from open cycle gas turbines and coal plant that have to cope with all the swings.
More Evidence of the Pointlessness of Wind and Solar | Power Line (24 Jul)
So basically renewable energy saves no CO2 emissions at all, when you add the life cycle CO2e from the turbines and panels themselves. Indeed they probably cause more CO2 to be emitted than if they’d never been erected in the first place.
Someone I know managed to get a tenant evicted during covid.
Going into the agent’s office and making threats against staff apparently is a tenant too far.
Albo can only achieve WGE status by adopting a tried and true process – the butcher’s paper, texta and celebrity wish-list method. With a beer coaster chaser.
Until then he must content himself with second-worst.
You mean you don’t live in the big smoke and have lived small town experience Sancho?
Or does Victorian small town not count?
This is where facebook comes in handy.
No, you don’t stalk people.
You get metadata and choose people who would turn white if they miss a credit card, rent or electricity bill. They would like to be landlords one day themselves. That creates a sort of moral parameter to how they treat other people’s property. A very subtle imprint of the golden rule.
So a young professional couple that don’t drink (or only one partner does) and want to get a loan from a bank, because they think mortgage broking is underhanded and they trust and feel comfortable with their bank making 4% interest on 100% levered funds.
I know a couple who would be perfect, but they moved to the 2nd gayest town in Vicco, Wooden End.
Upside is she is white collar and he is blue collar-technical into white collar.
These sort of people are rental gold.
…and I have BIDNERS of them…
If Australian living standards drop significantly under Elbow, he’ll be the worst, butcher’s paper or no butcher’s paper.
Tenancy is almost like a job.
You get rewarded for obedience, not excellence.
At the end of the day, if you make someone else’s job easier, you get rewarded, regardless if you are good at your job or not.
Article I referred to above…
A senior Qantas pilot has lifted the lid on the reality of flying a plane for the troubled airline after he returned to the skies following the height of the Covid pandemic.
Daily Mail
This decarbon thing, is this a shell game where greedy evil carbon polluter buys carbon credits from good, kind, even saintly creator of uncarbon who has a spare forest or three or even a hole in ground when he puts the bad bad carbon dioxide?
Your job being pay the agreed rent, don’t trash the premises, that kind of thing?
Dan’s sticky fingers all over this.
It all had to to do with getting the emergency powers bill through the upper house and buying the votes needed to achieve that end. After backing the bill, it was quid pro quo time for one and all.
Animal Justice scored the ‘right’ to have a pet in a rental property regardless of the landlord’s wishes.
Reason Party got prostitution ‘reforms’ that removed the onus on carnal consultants to insist that phrangers be used.
The Greens, well they were already in DanFilth’s corner, but have since been furthered pleasured with boons: shutting sawmills, further restrictions on logging etc
Transport Party, representing the taxi industry — don’t exactly know what crumbs fell on their plate, but you can be sure they bagged something tasty.
Thus does a tyrant’s wish become law in Victoria, where policy is crafted by the biggest crook to preside over the state since Tommy Bent.
Four upper house whores, Reason’s Fiona Patten the biggest slag of them all.
You’d think a half decent opposition could make something of this naked vote-buying. Alas, we have only Matthew “50% carbon reduction” Guy.
Come November’s election, the only sure result is that Victoria loses.
Must have committed suicide……………………
https://substack.com/redirect/86df1cbd-f510-4f71-90bc-e3d58c82ea4d?u=29685295
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/918b2352-6a24-45de-85a0-d8af3b152389?u=29685295
Not quite.
The “buying votes” was a charade.
It gave Dan and his Socialist Left minions the opportunity to push stuff through that they always wanted, but with extra added plausible deniability.
“We wouldn’t normally do this, but the pandemic made us do it”.
Or pretends to plant a tree in Nigeria.
Hey areff
Great name (Tommy Bent) for a crooked pol.
There’s a statue of him on Nepean Hwy still I think. It was there when I was growing up.
The entire global airline system is rooted. Buy a private jet if you can afford it.
There are multiple jet rental/leasing businesses around, even in Oz.
In the US that market is deep.
Yeah, JC. I believe the statue was moved to its current location, which is a curious one, as it is half-hidden in a nook where a sidestreet joins Nepean Highway. Discrete shame, perhaps.
It’s actually not a bad statue, and feminist Cats will be heartened to know it is the first public commission awarded to a female sculptor (whose name escapes me).
The Greens will attempt to block any new federal funding for existing coal and gas projects and could try to amend Labor’s first budget, party leader Adam Bandt says.
I can’t speak for Victoria, but in NSW & QLD, speaking from experience:
1) get a decent property manager;
2) make sure they do their work on tenant applications;
3) once you have a good tenant in place don’t get greedy on the rent.
Then sit back & enjoy.
Sure there are dip shit tenants but a lot of owners try to cut corners.
Apropos dot’s linked article above, Dobbs is revealing how evil these people are:
H/t: C.L.
In Qld recent changes, which are nowhere near as draconian have seen landlords exit the market. While it is a small sample size and anecdotal, there are 6 ex landlords in the 2 staffrooms in which I have worked this year (ex tradies) who between them have sold 15 or properties, and the new owners are owner occupiers.
Making a rental shortage worse.
Meanwhile, according to the government’s own statistics, Labor held electorates, headed up by the premier’s seat based in the low socio-economic suburb of Inala, have experienced the largest decline in public housing across the state over the last three years.
Another reason why that useless, gutless toff, the current NSW premier, parrotshit, should be tossed next year:
https://mailchi.mp/bernardgaynor/u9ceet3738-840862?e=ba26b3f55f
What they have done to Gaynor is beyond belief.
Everyone’s experience is different.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people that manage their own properties (not saying the people in the examples above are).
Unless your name is Triguboff lol.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
July 25, 2022 at 8:16 am
Unions get their payoff.
Backlash over building watchdog changes (Sky News, 25 Jul)
Labor’s plan to immediately strip back the Australian Building and Construction Commission watchdog has received backlash from business and employer groups.
Employer groups are demanding more information on how the sector would be regulated and warned the changes could weaken drug and alcohol testing requirements.
The ABCC may be a toothless tiger but the unions cannot accept even the slightest oversight from a watchdog. It’s an irritation and an affront to their egos. So day one after the election I’m sure they had a nice leetle chat with Albo pointing out all their yummy money they gave to the cause.
Labor blunts building watchdog as it speeds up IR changes
Relations between businesses and unions will be tested before the September jobs summit after the government expedited the promised decline of the construction industry watchdog and the building code it administers.
Employer and construction groups said the shock move would jeopardise the economic recovery by delaying and increasing the cost of vital infrastructure projects, and the opposition said that Labor had once again capitulated to its CFMEU paymasters.
“They will do anything to appease the CFMMEU and in doing so, will put Australia’s economic recovery at risk,” said shadow workplace relations minister Michaelia Cash.
The unions, however, hailed it as a move to restore equity and fairness to the building industry by removing measures “focused on wage suppression”. The code bans several controversial provisions from inclusion in workplace agreements.
Immediately, the unions gave notice that they would pursue conditions banned under the building code. These include paying labour-hire workers the same as full-time employees performing the same work, and infringing on managerial prerogative by stipulating, for example, who can and cannot be employed on a site, such as the number of apprentices and casuals.
“Changes to the code mean workers can now bargain for the basic principle of same job, same pay in enterprise negotiations,”? said Electrical Trades Union national secretary Michael Wright.
“The government’s sensible changes mean employers and workers will now be allowed to negotiate enterprise agreements with conditions including local jobs, apprentice numbers and safety measures.”
Labor went to the May 21 election promising to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the building code. The ABCC was introduced by the Howard government, all but abolished by the Rudd government, and reintroduced by the Turnbull government after using it as a trigger for the 2016 double dissolution election.
Legislation to abolish the ABCC is not scheduled until the end of this year, so as a “down payment”? on the election promise, Mr Burke announced that he would use regulations in the interim to gut the powers of the ABCC and effectively scrap the building code.
Under the changes, which come into effect tomorrow, the ABCC, which was set up to police union militancy on building sites, will have its powers stripped back “to the bare minium”?.
Its workplace safety role will be delegated to “appropriate health and safety regulators”?, and other roles, such as enforcing the Fair Work Act, will be handed to the Fair Work Ombudsman.
The ombudsman will take over the ABCC’s continuing litigation. The last time the ABCC was abolished, the Rudd government directed that all cases be settled without going to court.
Mr Burke said that “some of the things that the ABCC’s been doing, which I just think have been ridiculous rules, are gone altogether”?.
These include determining whether workers can put on their helmets, whether a safety sign could have a union logo on it, or whether unions could fly their flags on site.
Mr Burke said the building code had to go because it had prohibitions on enterprise agreement content not imposed on other industry sectors under the Fair Work Act.
These include “jump-up”? EBA clauses for labour-hire or subcontractor employees that require their pay to be the same as direct employees on a project; restrictions on contracting out or hiring casuals; bans on union flags, insignia, and posters at building sites; mandated hiring of full-time employees and apprenticeship ratios; and clauses requiring compulsory union consultation or agreement before management changes.
‘Backwards step’
Australian Industry Group CEO Innes Willox said the whole community should be concerned. “It is a backwards step for the fight against bullying and intimidation, and will add costs and delays to vital community infrastructure such as roads, hospitals and schools,”? he said.
“The Building Code is playing a vital role in ensuring that all participants in the construction industry comply with industrial laws and maintain high standards of work health and safety.”?
Master Builders Association chief executive Denita Wawn said abolishing the ABCC could not be separated from the economy and economic management. “Making changes to the industrial relations system is one of the strongest economic levers that any government has at its disposal and abolishing the construction industry watchdog will have substantial negative flow on effects,”? Ms Wawn said.
“Economic modelling by EY has found that scrapping a specialist construction regulator will drive up inflation just when the Reserve Bank is increasing interest rates to tackle inflation and will result in a reduction in economic activity by $47.5 billion by 2030,”? she said.
Australian Constructors Association chief executive officer Jon Davies said an industrial relations landscape that promoted improved productivity of the construction industry was essential, especially given the critical workforce shortages and record investment in infrastructure.
Troubled history of the sector
He understood that the same rules should apply to everybody and that the construction industry had “additional oversight”?, but it was “important that the pendulum not swing too far towards an unregulated environment that fails to recognise the unique and, at times, troubled history of the sector”?.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus said the code was one element of “highly divisive legislation” that “focused on wage suppression”. “It stopped progress on apprenticeships and skills in the construction industry and did nothing to address safety or wage theft,” she said.
“Taxpayers’ money was wasted on banning the Eureka flag and policing union posters on notice boards. It’s time to move on and spend our time and effort on the things that matters like addressing the cost-of-living crisis.
“Martin Monro, a non-executive director of commercial builder BESIX Watpac, and an adviser to the ACA, told The Australian Financial Review the politically polarised approach to managing industrial relations in the construction industry had slowed improvement in many of the areas where companies and unions agreed.
“The swinging pendulum approach to industrial relations that has certainly been the case in the country for the last three decades isn’t really helpful,” he said. “Every time there is a change and the pendulum swings, you do need to navigate your way back through the noise to get to the stuff that matters.”
NT under Labore recently introduced a “tenants have right to have a pet” variation into leases.
And just out in Very Silly News:
Surf Educators International Vice President Bruce ‘Hoppo’ Hopkins says many people migrating to Australia who don’t have a swimming background are “finding it difficult” at the beach.
He said the floating method is the “best way” to avoid drowning.
“It’s just getting that one message to especially people that don’t speak English that well and don’t understand the way the water works,” he told Sky News Australia.
Piercing the Electric Car Fantasy
But press beyond the typical economic illiteracy of leftists like Buttigieg who think having the government pay billions in subsidies makes something “cheaper,” and note that electrons aren’t printed out of thin air by the Federal Reserve like our fast-depreciating currency. With electricity rates rising fastest in those places that have overemphasized “renewable” energy such as California or Germany, it’s not clear that consumers will save much by driving a more expensive electric car and paying higher utility rates. And that’s if you can still fill it up with electrons whenever you want to. During recent power crunches, which are threatening to become endemic in the U.S. under the current policies of the Biden apparatchiks, grid operators have asked EV owners not to charge their vehicles in the evening, when power demand is highest and the time of day when most working people will want to charge their cars.
Right now, electric vehicles make up about 1 percent of America’s car fleet. If they pose challenges for the electric grid already, what will the challenges look like if the EV fleet reaches 50 percent of the auto fleet as Biden proposes?
A recent little-noticed report from Volvo punctures this green myth – 51 page PDF, even though the very green Volvovians try very hard to obscure this conclusion. The report notes what a number of neutral analysts have pointed out for some time now: EVs are more material-intensive than old-fashioned gasoline-powered cars, requiring more steel, aluminum, copper, and other rare earth minerals and specialty products like magnets that must be mined (which environmentalists oppose) and require an energy-intensive process to manufacture into shiny EVs. And that’s before you get to the huge quantity of lithium needed for the batteries.
Thus it is eye-popping when Volvo admits that the carbon footprint for the manufacturing of its C40 Recharge electric car is 70 percent higher than its comparable internal combustion version of the car (the XC40). But not to worry, says Volvo: you’ll make up the higher manufacturing emissions when you drive the emission-free EV far enough.
How far? Kudos to Volvo for calculating that: at the world’s average electricity sourcing today, a C40 driver would need to drive his car 68,000 miles to reach a break-even carbon footprint with a gasoline-powered model. The average American drives about 14,000 miles a year, and thus would need to drive his Volvo EV almost five years before reaching a lower carbon footprint
My acquaintance changed agents, new agent was the one that got rid of the dud and replaced with a very good tenant.
The destruction wrought by governments of both stripes – that should be a hint that the differences are purely cosmetic (like trying to sell a black horse to a zoo by saying it is a new breed of zebra that has black stripes on a black background) – probably cannot be directly reckoned. And so much damage extends way beyond the economic.
There is that saying that science advances one death at a time. I have a suspicion that any rehabilitation in Australian politics will have to follow the same funereal pace as one muck-born hunchbacked low-life after another is booted from the political sphere and gravitates toward lecture tours (where they will give heroic but fictitious accounts of themselves), tell-all book deals, and jobs on company boards to whom they have peddled their actual past of ready duplicity as a potential asset.
Imagine being a politician – being one of that mercifully small demographic that dare not make jokes at the expense of insurance salesmen and second hand car dealers for the irony.
New Puritans will realise the last laugh is on them
NICK CATER
This year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival began with a less-than-sparkling, expletive-laden welcome to country ceremony that screened on the ABC for a full seven minutes.
It was accompanied by a lecture by Steph Tisdell, an Indigenous woman who identifies as a comedian. Tisdell’s “sense of social justice matched with her formidable intelligence enables her to deliver social insights that challenge cultural stereotypes in a way that is hilarious”, boasts her website. There was little evidence of that hilarity as she reprimanded those who find welcome to country awkward. “You can think of it as awkward or you can think of it as (expletive) getting off easy. A lot of damage was done. All we’re asking for is 10 seconds of recognition at the start of your (expletive) Easter parade.”
Welcome to the new age of puritanism where stand-up comedy has been replaced with performative piety. It doesn’t have to be funny, it just has to contribute to the fight against systemic evils and the creation of a less shameful society.
Like Hollywood directors, artists and athletes, comedians are no longer tasked with delivering enjoyment for its own sake. They must convey the correct moral and political message or risk being deplatformed.
The enthusiasts driving this culture of moral conformity have more in common with their 17th- and 18th-century puritan forebears than they care to imagine. In 1707, Benjamin Colman, a Congregational church minister in Boston, published a comprehensive guide to sober mirth not dissimilar to the rules that seem to apply at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. “Let it be pure and grave, serious and devout, all of which it may be and yet free and cheerful,” he instructed. He admonished the use of “carnal and vicious mirth” and “idle or impertinent mirth”. The man who uses mirth in a licentious manner abandons “the gravity of reason and acts the part of a frolic colt … He roars and frisks and leaps”.
Not surprisingly, the requirement comedians be both earnest and funny is threatening to kill off the business altogether. In 2008, comedy movies accounted for 25 per cent of Hollywood box-office takings. Ten years later comedy was reduced to just 8 per cent. Comedy box-office receipts had more than halved even as overall revenue had grown larger.
These striking comparisons between puritans old and new are drawn in a new book by US conservative commentator Noah Rothman. Others have compared today’s progressive ideology to a fundamentalist new religion replete with dogma, liturgy and conformity with a narrative of sin and redemption. Rothman goes further, explaining earlier generations of puritans sought more than personal salvation. They were engaged on a utopian, messianic mission not dissimilar to the people we today consider as woke. Puritanism was more than a religious creed, “it was also a program for society” furthered by the good work of the righteous. Any activity not seen as useful to the cause was regarded with contempt. Actively seeking personal salvation meant being active in the world.
The imperative for public activities to be useful and not merely fun has overtaken America’s National Football League, beginning with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s 2016 kneeling protest against almost everything American during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner.
The NFL took a stand against the protest in a desire to preserve the sport as a politics-free zone. In 2020, however, within a week of the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, the NFL issued a grovelling statement beginning with the words, “We were wrong”. The protests were “emblematic of the centuries of silence, inequality and oppression of black players, coaches, fans and staff”.
The new puritans bring their morality to bear on the food we eat. The production of meat and other animal products is causing global warming, they claim. The world must move to a vegan diet supplemented only by bugs, the only type of fauna considered to be acceptable for human consumption. The absence of meat is seen as a virtuous form of self-denial.
“Proponents of this sort of thing seem constitutionally incapable of arguing in favour of a bug-heavy diet because you might actually like it,” writes Rothman. “For the New Puritans, a smug sense of self-satisfaction is the most delicious dish of all.”
The demonisation of food reached absurdity with Raj Patel’s condemnation of apple pie in The Guardian last year. Since apple pie is a version of an English pumpkin pie recipe, it is both appropriative and sullied by the legacy of English colonialism. Sugarcane is a by-product of the exploitation of black Caribbean labourers, claims Patel. Apples owe their origins to the Spanish colonists who brought this Central Asian fruit to North America in their quest to pilfer the continent’s bounty. Patel is a crusader for “food justice”. He writes: “The history of the US food system has always, however, been one of struggle.”
Holidays for the sake of rest, recreation and familial gatherings are equally problematic. If Americans insist on taking a break on the fourth Thursday in November it must be given a greater purpose. “Thanksgiving Day should be known as National Land Theft and American Genocide Day,” writes Huffington Post contributor Nicole Breedlove.
Rothman’s hopeful message is that this state of mass confusion will not last forever. It cannot be countered by politicians, since the New Puritans are engaged in a moral crusade that allows no compromise. Our system of government is designed to frustrate all-or-nothing demands, force trade-offs and water down grandiose initiatives. Politicians can neither force cultural change nor resist it.
If Rothman is right, however, and we are witnessing a puritanical revival rather than the rise of a conventional political movement, there is hope that it will be consumed sooner rather than later by its own risibility. Earlier incarnations of puritanism ended when its proponents became laughing stock. Indeed, the very word puritan was coined as an insult. Their heirs have become “the very portrait of fastidious busybodies”, writes Rothman. “The consequences of their actions may be deadly serious, but these are not serious people. They are worthy of mockery. Mock them.”
He says a quiet resentment is breeding that will one day fuel a backlash. In an era of earnest, unfunny comedy, perhaps we will have the last laugh.
The last laugh will be on the so-called “comedians”. People actually paying money to be told off is not a business model that works. Ricky Gervais is perhaps the only one out there pushing back against this.
Inside Energy
Published by the Caesar Rodney Institute
Center for Energy & Environment
RE: New evidence renewables don’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions – 4 Page PDF
This comparison of actual regional grid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2019 and 2021
shows increased use of wind and solar did not reduce emissions. Wind and solar electric generation are
actually poor technologies no one would use without permanent government mandates and massive subsidies
and taxes that are adding $1 billion a year in power cost. They are also unreliable, non-recyclable, have
negative environmental impacts, have shorter productive life spans than alternative power sources, and take
up a lot of ground. If it doesn’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions why are we using wind and solar?
The PJM regional electric grid serves over 65 million people in thirteen states. It is the largest such
regional grid providing 22% of the countries electric power.
Table 1 below shows how generation from various technologies changed from 2019 to 2021, Key changes are:
• Natural gas replaced coal almost one to one as it has been doing so for about the last decade
• Special oil based backup generators ran significantly more often
• Total carbon based generation stayed about the same at over 60% of total generation
• Zero emission nuclear generation fell over 2%, and hydro fell about 5%
• Combined wind and solar generation grew about 30% replacing lower nuclear and hydro generation
plus covering a 0.2% increase in total regional generation, but still only equaled about 4% of total
production despite over a decade of mandates and subsidies
• Overall the emissions fell 0.8%, a small improvement
wokeism is nothing but nihilism applied to culture
Pet variation in leases, does that mean they can keep 2 crocodiles?
One sign of hope – teachers seem to love kneading and molding children into whatever disfigured shape their latest undergraduate cause demands, but even more than abusing children they love time off. When offered the choice between indoctrinating the innocent and staying at home putting their couches and remote controls through their trials, they opted for the one that left two adjacent fossae separated by stained mountain range on their sofa cushions.
Perhaps more children yet will be saved by the laziness of the Teachers Federation’s membership.
A right to a pet can be superseded by the strata by-laws.
Which means cat or small dog ok but great dane no.
(if it’s a unit of course).
Number one thing a property manager will look for is a LinkedIn profile.
If an applicant has one versus an applicant that doesn’t have one, guess who’s getting the lease.
Yes that is very discriminatory.
I remember when we used to open events with the Lord’s Prayer.
Wouldn’t that be fun now? Heads would explode all over the place.
Dover it concerns me that this important post about renewables not reducing CO2 emissions may get lost. Is it possible to make it a stand alone page?
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:04 am
Something I’ve suspected for a long time:
“This comparison of actual regional grid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2019 and 2021 shows increased use of wind and solar did not reduce emissions. … If it doesn’t reduce carbon dioxide emissions why are we using wind and solar?
…
Coal emissions should have fallen the same 7% generation did, but only fell about half as much as power plant efficiency fell.”
Overall, CO2 emissions declined only 0.8%. As I understand the data, this suggests that CO2 emissions would have declined more if there had been no wind or solar on the PJM grid.
The intermittency of solar and wind means that the backup generators run inefficiently, so that what is saved in CO2 emissions is immediately lost again due to the forced inefficiency from open cycle gas turbines and coal plant that have to cope with all the swings.
More Evidence of the Pointlessness of Wind and Solar | Power Line (24 Jul)
So basically renewable energy saves no CO2 emissions at all, when you add the life cycle CO2e from the turbines and panels themselves. Indeed they probably cause more CO2 to be emitted than if they’d never been erected in the first place.
Crayola has joined the woke brigade with a vengeance
The latest to fall is Crayola, which for no reason whatever decided that the way to celebrate crayons—a product associated with children—was to rhapsodize about a bearded lady who likes color.
We learned about Ms. Julian Gavino through Crayola’s Facebook page. There’s nothing in the post about actual Crayola products. It’s all a celebration of an unhealthy-looking, mentally ill (with gender dysphoria), bearded lady in a wheelchair:
I’m not the only one who finds unpleasant Crayola’s pointless “transgender” virtue signaling. Although there were plenty of posts along the lines of “thank you for showcasing someone so brave,” quite a few people managed to have their say about the irrelevance and inappropriateness of the Facebook post:
“I don’t care what color a person is or who they identify as but don’t shove this down our children’s throats! Let children be children as long as possible!”
“Really inappropriate content for children. Usually I buy a ton of supplies to donate, this year we will be leaving Crayola out of the donation. Kids don’t need to be taught about sexual preference or changing genders while trying to color.”
“Ok…he checks a few boxes..BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH CRAYONS! CRAYOLA gone woke, watch its stocks plummet.”
Science too, if you look at the science news each day. The tsunami of unscience in the science news means there’ll have to be a lot of deaths before it gets back to reality.
Can they run off? New term “Runology”: Tens of thousands of Chinese riches plan to emigrate
China Insights
China’s peculiar conditions have given rise to new terms. For example, “lying flat” and “Bai Lan” are used to describe the current situation for many Chinese people, that is, people, especially young people. Now a third new term has emerged: “runology,” or the science of fleeing. The term originates from RUN in English. More and more wealthy Chinese are anxiously researching how they can flee China. Whether they will succeed is a big question.
Netizens commented: “Those who took the first-class seats have already seen the iceberg… and those who took the third-class seats are still feeling proud and wonderful.”
Diogenessays:
July 25, 2022 at 9:55 am
I can’t speak for Victoria, but in NSW & QLD, speaking from experience
In Qld recent changes, which are nowhere near as draconian have seen landlords exit the market.
As soon as our (quite good) tenant gave notice of departure early last year, we sold our Queensland rental property. It wasn’t even advertised before it had a buyer.
Good agents, both as rental managers and sellers, but the headaches were too much for the effort involved.
I am convinced that progressives’ idea of comedy long ago abandoned humour or insights into the funny ways of the world. Their audiences do not laugh at these things.
Progressive comedians do not make people laugh at a joke or (perhaps a little self-consciously) at an observation about people and their manners. They whoop with hate. They are swept up in a group activity of sadism, mercilessly torturing a person they despise. In the festival it is only images but the immersion in the group is real and feeling contagious.
Remember that frightbat who, in her column, wished that Tony Abbott’s dick fell off in the shower and was washed down the drain. I cannot help but think that she would laugh as heartily if she saw it happen. How many jokes at someone’s expense would you really want to see?
It would be easy enough to make a joke while watching on TV about Elbow as he disembarks the RAAF plane after the latest jaunt, grinning from ear to ear at the plane door, stepping forward aaaand falling straight down, face first, onto the tarmac. Low comedy but there you are. But if it actually happened you would not laugh. If you found out he was uninjured or only slightly injured you might laugh – because it was not serious. If he was gravely injured you would not find it funny.
I think many progressives would laugh if it had been ScoMo – and he was more one of them than one of us.
If Biden had been seriously injured after his spill at Brandon Falls it wouldn’t be funny. You might think he deserved some sort of karma for what he had done to people, but it would not be funny.
‘The CCP Uses America’s Culture Against Us’: Jon Pelson on China’s Huawei Threat | China in Focus
He said the floating method is the “best way” to avoid drowning.
Certainly better than the sinking method!
Anything progressives do is regressive.
Swedish Rent Control Exposes The Problem With Government Price Controls (24 Jul)
Betcha when the inevitable happens, whereby rents skyrocket, that Dan the CFMEU Man and Ponygirl propose rent controls.
Oops, forgot to not blockquote the blockquote. It’s come to this: we have to now fight inflation of blockquotes as well as groceries.
LGBTIQA people have always been a part of sport but haven’t always been allowed the visibility,” said former Manly forward Ian Roberts, who in 1995 became the first rugby league player to come out as openly gay.
Appropriate! .. Manly RL have added a rainbow stripe to their jersey to recognize LGDTIQA-whatever folk ..
For some reason, without the usual media-wide’thugby” craving for publicity ………
I thought you were welcoming us to “country.”
Be that as it may, the local ABC radio station has taken to referring to “first peoples” rather than “first nations”. I have no idea of this is due to an official directive or is in (shock!) response to listeners’ complaints about the divisiveness and dishonesty of the latter term, but it’s a small step back from the in your face propaganda the ABC normally dishes out.
Fine by me, so long as I can get a tax refund for not watching it.
‘Just switch channels’: Labor Minister Michelle Rowland urges Australian taxpayers to stop watching the ABC if they don’t like the content (25 Jul)
Michelle Antoinette should look at what happened when her namesake told plebs to suck it up.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
July 25, 2022 at 11:39 am
Fine by me, so long as I can get a tax refund for not watching it.
‘Just switch channels’: Labor Minister Michelle Rowland urges Australian taxpayers to stop watching the ABC if they don’t like the content (25 Jul)
I’d like double my tax back, backdated for 50 years.
Daily Mail.
The SMH & Al Jazeera are both reporting that foreign investors in Chinese stocks are becoming bearish due to Xi’s policies and the uncertainties they provoke, not just in the l market but on the street. The government was last week reportedly trying to censor news about large scale protests against the Chinese banking sector; seems there’s a lot of mortgage stress about.
Shirley a goods kick in the nuts would have sufficed. Shooting should be reserved for politicians that refuse to hang their fellow travellers.
Good on Stan Grant getting the permanent Q&A gig.
It’s about time the ABC had some diversity on their flagship shows.
From Cassie’s post at 7.30ish.
This takes the biscuit for the most meaningless consecutive words of political tripe ever served up as the reason for losing a winnable election.
Apart from the young Australians and new migrants you
believehope and pray you can attract to your new and improved LNP, how about you explain how you failed the so many disaffected Australian voters who would have happily voted LNP if the brain dead parasite scum masquerading as conservatives and currently running the party had actually offered a sensible, even conservative-ish alternative.It’s almost entirely your team’s fault, Jason, that we have the current Prime Moron and his untalented B team making decisions the consequences of which we will be battling to live for decades. But you just carry on writing this sort of meaningless nonsense for the MSM so you can feel that much better for being the bestest politicians ever that only lost power because ‘circumstances’.
If they really expect to do better next time then these LNP ‘victims’ of the Teal wave need to take a damned sight better look at themselves and how they got beaten than this load of unadulterated tosh.
no escape from the eye in the sky
I’m being genuine regarding Stan Grant.
For all their preaching about diversity, the place is full of aging, white, green voting lefties.
They do not practice what they preach.
more to the story?
Ted Cruz revealed his pronouns to audience of students.
“My name is Ted Cruz and my pronoun is Kiss my arse!”
Large helpings of patronising chatter there.
However, it must be said that recently arrived migrants, particularly sub-continentals feature heavily in drowning stats.
Reading the coroner’s report yesterday into the “accidental” drowning of the wannabe gangster’s bride, considerable time was devoted to whether or not warning signs at the beach were “compliant”. There were signs there which warned against swimming and advised that it was not a patrolled beach, but the logos were not the most current version.
So picture this.
People turn up to the beach.
One says, “Hey, there’s a warning sign about rips and currents!”
Another says, “Nah. She’ll be right. Those logos aren’t up to date.”
FMD.
All the more reason the ABC should be a subscription service, Bruce.
His first show as full time presenter will be from the Garma festival in Arnhem land.
“Garma is a talking place where the nation asks itself hard questions about who we are. It is an honour to take the helm of Q+A from there,” Grant said.
Diversity… good and hard.
Have you ever been hated or discriminated against?
The CCP banking ombudsman has intervened:
China meltdown: Xi sends TANKS out as furious uprising breaks out on streets of Henan
Looks like the poor bastard sacrificial offering has been selected:
An early morning last bowl of rice in the offing.
The “private financial group” slips away.
Mortgage strikers receive a message.
Xi gets a third term.
Harmony is restored in the Middle Kingdom.
Druggies and bogan towns? A neighbour 4 along from my holiday house is a bogan and mild druggie. Gainfully self employed, had a meth head helping him but went postal. Police charging through mine and neighbours backyards after this guy. The bogan neighbour is standing in my backyard watching the melee. I asked him why he was in my backyard and before he answered told him to f off. He looks at me like he’ll smack me around a bit but with the coppers nearby goes home. The meth head made good his escape. Several years later I turn the corner nearby and here’s bogan stopped in the road. I pulled out not knowing if he was going to move or not. Said bogan mouths off. I say get fucked with which he jumps out of his wagon, comes round to my door and says “what did you say”. Get fucked. He grabs my shirt wit his left hand and goes to punch me. I held his arm out straight so he couldn’t move it and put pressure on his elbow. He had that oh shit look then. We looked at each other for a moment and he says are you going to let my arm go? I reply, I’m deciding if im going to dislocate it or not. Ha.
Perhaps they should change the motto of the PLA from ‘Serve the People’ to ‘Squash the People.’
Perhaps they should change the motto of the PLA from ‘Serve the People’ to ‘Squash the People.’
Good motto for VicPig too.
A few years back some feral kids broke in to us and a few neighbours. Well they didn’t actually break in coz the back door looked like it was locked but if you pulled from the inside it appeared locked but from the outside it would open. The ltch didn’t properly engage. Anyway the made a mess nothing like the neighbours though. Stole a ps4 player from us. They got caught at another place. No prosecution. Following year i saw them heading for the beach on their bikes. They left them on the grass and went down the track. So I drove over their bikes. Payback is so sweet.
Ranga – I now have a plot idea for Breaking Bad the Sequel!
Ex army guy gets into altercation with local ‘business’ kiddie, kiddies elbow is dislocated. Street boss offers army guy a contract to train his kiddies in moves. They then take over all the local ‘businesses’ with their newly learned moves. You could get three or four seasons out of the idea easily. Might also get a bit of advertising dosh from the IDF if you base the choreography on krav maga.
The enthusiasts driving this culture of moral conformity [Welcome To Country] have more in common with their 17th- and 18th-century puritan forebears than they care to imagine.
For sure.
Hawked by rentseekers.
Moral busybodies as fellow travellers.
Polite audience as useful idiots.
But I’m thinking now that the “Living and working on Wallydali land” that I’m seeing so often on twittter and the ABC is also very sharply aligned to the erosion of private property. If you concede that the First Nationses were brilliant custodians, careful curators, and spiritual maintainers of a patch, then you start granting automatic entry to farmers’ groups for the right identifiers, then you get a land council to table an unscheduled report on a fertilizer plant, then you fabricate a Voice To Parliament with frontline outrage rights and maybe even outright veto… I can imagine some idiot PM signing a treaty in the near future… and so I can imagine the near future where the terms of clearing, building, fertilizing, burning, re-wilding, regenerative farminging, re-zoning, fallowing, are all dictated to landowners by “traditional owners”.
Oops double impacted the blockquote. Sorry.
Master your appetites lest ruin befall you, on Earth and in the next life.
Tom, check your email.
I wonder if Elbow pays much attention to what’s going on in the old country?
Outgoing PM ‘Super’ Mario Draghi leaves Italy with a cost of living crisis due to the highest inflation in the EU, a small & medium business bankruptcy crisis and the most expensive wholesale electricity prices in Europe.
Draghi is cut from different political cloth to Albanese, but he made the mistake of ignoring the basic concerns of ordinary Italians and pushing through an agenda determined by his ideological presets. Albanese seems to be on the same course.
Payback is so sweet.
A chap I know had the little dinghy he used to tow around behind his boat stolen.
The plod said don’t expect us to find it.
A week later he sees the dinghy dragged up on the side of the river so he swims over from his boat & reclaims it.
A couple of days later the plod get in touch & tell him that he shouldn’t have done what he did because he left a group of kids stranded for hours & they could potentially charge him.
No mention of the theft in the first place by the plod.
Kohn. A shallow Kokksmoker if ever there was one.
Further regarding the bogan. When I was renovating the kitchen I’d ha v e a break and practice with a bokken (wooden sword) and a bokuto (staff) out the back. I only train slowly as too many sore bits and occasionally move quickly. Well I saw bogan watching me from his balcony. After a couple of weeks he comes over. Can you show me? How do you move fast? Come back when you’re not angry and have some self respect. I’ve noticed a slight change in attitude since. My attitude is I don’t forgive, I don’t forget but I accommodate.
Horseshit.
FTB, the claim by the cops makes no sense. He shouldn’t have reclaimed his dinghy which he finds on the shore? Absurd. It’s interpretations of the law like this that offend commonsense that lead to people losing confidence in the law.
Er…with what?
feelthebern says: July 25, 2022 at 12:49 pm
“I have no idea what you coppers are on about – besides, you don’t deal in stolen dinghies, so why are you even bothering to talk to me? Good day to you”
Horseshit. Not the story, plod’s snivelling to the punter.
It’s his boat. Not only is he entitled to take it back, but to use reasonable and proportionate force (it is said in certain circles) if necessary to do so.
If a crook was hanging by an occy strap off the edge of a cliff, and the owner of said strap wandered up and said ‘Hey, that’s my strap’, took it back and the crook fell 300 metres before being impaled by rocks and the carcass eaten by dogs, then there’s possibly a charge of Something Something available.
Until then, there’s fuck all they can charge the boat owner with. Jesus wept.
But not in the circumstance described.
Dot, Dover and Roger.
Snap.
I have no idea how that happened. Wasn’t meant to have been there.
Again, Jesus wept.
And Sal. Snap.
Jesus now weeping tears of rage.
Snap, Dot Dover & Roger.
sfw….
Qantas have call centres in South Africa and Fiji and the Tassy one for Platinum and above.
There have been may reports in FF Forums about Qantas cancelling entire bookings when only one leg needed to be changed.
The other issue is that they don’t issue tickets for changes that involve partner airlines within the 24hour time frame, leading to…..the entire booking being cancelled. This is made worse with all the cancellations meaning more people are having to make changes.
Some people are also reporting that even an enquiry about making changes has led to a cancellation. Not sure if this is a system or training issue.
Could be worse….there is one guy that had a $7000 Business class trip SYD-BNE-Doha-Athens, booked and ticketed via Qantas. They got him as far as Brisbane but as the flight was delayed he missed the international flight. Qantas put him in a hotel overnight with instructions to turn up the next day. When he did they told him that there was no flight for him anywhere… not even back to Sydney. Just abandoned. He bought economy tickets on another airline for $6000.
Bon I started training no 2 son with sticks before he was 3. Nearly 5 he goes to kids birthday party. Birthday boy gets first 2 wacks at the pinata. Son goes second. Lollies everywhere. He had to go last at subsequent parties. At 5 he made the King of Norway look like a rank beginner. No 3 son 10 yrs old at karate training steps to side of front kick attack, son does kidney punch, 3rd Dan drops to ground. Dad has big smile on face.
Great minds…!
Dinghies aren’t as good as trucks or trains.
“One of the directors for George Soros’ Open Society Foundations who specializes in public health, Sebastian Köhn, shares in the Guardian how he had sex with multiple men in a weekend for NYC Pride & contracted both #monkeypox & gonorrhea. He blames the system for failing him.”
This is why the West is collapsing.
This is why Islam is laughing at us.
This is why Islam will destroy us.
Quaintarse fly late to Auckland so they park there overnight as its cheaper than parking in Aus. Also arrive late so no connecting flights to miss and have to passengers up at their cost.
RepMTG
If Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids getting it?
Rachel Wolensky MD has trouble speaking English in her 21 second video clip.
So, when Parliament resumes tomorrow I am guessing some cultural MPs will be wearing traditional “gowns” and exposing their private parts?
What should the first question of Question Time be? I’m thinking:
“Will the Prime Minister outline if he intends to spend more time in Australia?”
We’re destroying ourselves.
Romans 1 makes for instructive reading at such a time.
dover0beachsays:
July 25, 2022 at 1:00 pm
FTB, the claim by the cops makes no sense. He shouldn’t have reclaimed his dinghy which he finds on the shore? Absurd.
Simple response. “I’m sorry officer, I thought it must have not been tied up properly, and had drifted there. Or are you agreeing that the kids did steal it?”
I think the expression is, “Go ahead. Make my day”.
What we got here is one of two things:-
.1 a very officious “one with the lot” type who would be very comfortable in a VikPlod mask enforcement squad; or
.2 someone who is connected with one of the kids involved.
Either way, that isn’t going to court.
As KD said earlier, one thing which brings Plod undone is paperwork.
Don’t worry about the magistrate. I am imagining this Plod turning up to court to brief a police prosecutor who has a tonne of druggies, shoplifters, car thieves and random other detritus in front of him for the day, with a charge sheet containing some obscure “reckless endangerment” charge and zero evidence stapled to the back.
The piece I would particularly like to be a fly on the wall for would be this:-
Prosecutor : “Wait! Wut? I’m confused. Whose boat is it again?”
Which would be followed by a short, sharp, “Don’t waste my fucking time” speech, with a follow up call to the dickhead’s boss at close of play.
That is so sick Cassie. They wear their deviancy as a badge of honour. I have a right to be a sicko. What do they expect?
And how!
It’s the full catastrophe; stupid people, careless people, indifferent people, people following the rules rather than commonsense. A unprepared, poorly coordinated NY/CDC health system, not properly geared up to address Sebastian Köhn’s needs in a timely way.
Oddly, Sebastian himself, who has apparently ‘worked in sexual health’ for a long time, has no insight into the “huge failure” of engaging in high risk casual sex in the midst of an outbreak he knew about: “I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men...”
The ruin in this one is only partially down to his appetites.
Mostly because he’s a twat.
An in other news, I am absolutely gobsmacked (even though, yes, it is Victoria) that Andrews is still Premier after the rorts revealed last week. I mean, seriously, Fatty O’Barrell resigned over one fucking bottle of wine and Andrews and Cabinet have appointed non-experienced people to senior roles based on factional preferences.
Send the fucking asteroid. Now.
And my point, Roger, was that I had made that perfectly clearly by calling it ‘an approach’.
But I do take your point of emphasis, one found in most conservative writers whom I have read too, that there is no founding ideology of ‘shoulds’ about conservatism, just a call for clear-sightedness about changes and a desire to keep those things that have value, both moral and economic (for economies have to be moral too).
On that point about the moralities of economics and business, I found something interesting to read in the last weekend’s Australian Magazine, which is usually quite a feat, for it is regularly full of various sorts of rubbish. This last weekend brought an edited by the author extract of a book by Duncan Mavin just out, called ‘The Pyramid of Lies’. It summarises the spectacular rise and fall of a somewhat fake business empire in the supply chain banking business, where a capital group funded quick payments to suppliers which the purchasers could repay at leisure. Queensland farmer’s son Lex Greensill, after working in banking in the UK, formed Greensill Capital, becoming the driving force behind it all, working as hot salesmen do on image and presentation (high flying contacts, private aircraft and classy tailoring to suit fine watches). Money in didn’t match money out, in spite of the names on the board, including ex-PM David Cameron and our own red-shoes gal of foreign affairs Julie Bishop, and Maurice Thompson, previous head of US Citygroup in the UK. Invitees flocked to extravagant dinners at the Savoy or at to meet ups at Davos WEF or in the gardens of The Palace, for Lexie was a huge fan of Royalty, receiving his CBE from Prince Charles. Lex, with ‘conservative’ gravitas and chutzpah, proudly photographed besuited and cross-legged with similarly suited Cameron in a desert-camp meeting with a dubious Saudi Sheik (which might have run alarm bells), held it all together; until he didn’t.
“.. major backers wrote down multibillion-dollar investments to zero … Months after Greensill’s collapse, billions of dollars belonging to investors were still missing”.
No charges so far, investigations ongoing.
It would make a great movie.
I’ll clarify my late-night weigh-in to the small town druggies and derroed debate.
The reason why I name checked my sainted mother was, if there was a serious disruption to the trade of recreational reefer material, it would show up pretty definitely in the ER. Young experimenters would reach for dodgier stuff, habitual “self-medicators” would reach for other barbituates, chancers would tread on toes, biffo between friends at parties. Scariest, psychosis. Almost impossible to deal with, and a horror for the nurses.
Again, I’m not advocating for prohibition, although I do regard marijuana as probably the most damaging thing particularly to young brains, if only for it’s ubiquity and cool kudos. (I caught up with a mate ont thr weekend with a disturbing story… I’ll type that out later)
Story from emergency doctor was there were mitigating actions quietly taken by a few old hand policemen- such as when tearing up a big bush plantation an odd patch from another known operator would be deliberately ceded, car inspections to leavers’ do’s, campsites and festivals would be lax for a while, personal usage pleas would be guessed at and ceded rather than weighed and notated, and overnight lockups would have personal belongings handed back without too close an inspection.
We hadn’t been able to run a proper government agenda because we’d been busy saving the nation
China
We hadn’t been able to feed the proles because we’d been busy saving the nation
Captain Smith
We hadn’t been able to miss the iceberg because we’d been busy getting to port on time
USA/Demonrats
We hadn’t been able to have competent policies because we’d been busy saving the election.
Mongstralia
We hadn’t been able defund the ABC because we’d been busy censuring conservatives.
Cassie of Sydney says:
July 25, 2022 at 1:19 pm
Defenestration?
Also, don’t forget Bacha bazi
And south Asian r@p3 gangs rampaging their way through the UK for decades.
I’m giving this a yeah, nah.
The new Putin class chess robot plays to win…
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/24/chess-robot-grabs-and-breaks-finger-of-seven-year-old-opponent-moscow
https://youtu.be/l295j5IifeE
Skynet smiles.
Good to see that Monty has found a creative outlet which allows him to branch out from trolling all day.
Actually my first question in QT tomoz would be to the Deputy Prime Minister (of Victoria);
“Has the Deputy Prime Minister been involved in or aware of the corruption that has been exposed in the Victorian Labor Party.”
If the press won’t raise it locally, the Feds should assist their Vic colleagues (as fucking useless as they are) Federally.
My own Hairy, who has worked at board level in examination of capital markets and their funding, was not surprised. Yes, he knew about Greensill, he said. People get too taken in by appearance rather than substance, was his view of it. Flying too high, too fast, and calling himself a ‘fintech’ when he had very little tech about his financial business – all fake.
Breaking news:
The jury is back in record time with a verdict in R vs Bern’s mate.
Not guilty on all.
I can almost guarantee when asked what the charges would be, the answer would have been, “We’ll think of something”.
This is the point to whip the phone out, press record, and ask the question again.
I see Loser Wiltinson is back in Oz and back into The Project.
Australian National IQ has decreased significantly.
Greens Leader Adam Bandt says Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reductions target is “very weak” arguing it will not ensure warming is kept below 1.5 degrees.
If Bandit was even vaguely familiar with the Gerbil Worming theory, he would know that the world “Carbin Budget” is the key issue, and that the inevitable development of coal fired generation in China and India means that the “Budget” will inevitably be breached, regardless of any actions taken by Australia.
He should then turn what passes for his mind to adaptation, since mitigation is a dead end. But he won’t, because this is not, and never has been, about the klimate. It is all about gaining absolute political power.
Drops Dot bait….
The question I’m a 54-year-old woman, divorced for three years. My experience of men for this time has been pretty awful. I feel used and played. I want to ask you about the role mobile phones play in relationships, particularly how they can be used to maybe allow people to cheat. When I was in my 20s, they didn’t exist and communication between me and my then-husband was straightforward and I really did trust him. It’s only since divorce that I have come across such horrible behaviour. Is this something to do with my age group? It seems that men my age think it’s OK to treat women like sweets in a shop, not giving any care about feelings after initially pledging very convincingly that they do. The last one, who I thought was all right, lied about being supportive and used me to help him through some kind of breakdown, then feeling much better went away on a cycling holiday and slept with someone he met, telling me quite proudly about it and his plans to take that forward. What’s going on? What’s wrong with me and what do I need to learn please, as I feel lost with this? My foray into internet dating has been so dire that I’m reluctant to try again. Is there any hope for women around my age?
Beware advice that starts..
Philippa’s answer Let’s start with the most important thing – there’s nothing wrong with you.
Real advice: You are old and probably dont bring anything great to the relationship. Have you considered joining a convent or becoming a recluse whos desiccated cat defiled corpse will be found a decade after your inevitable unnoticed demise when the stack of mail left at your door presents a fire hazard?
Huh? What’s all that about Sancho (or is it taco? :P)
Keep in mind, cops actually do stuff exactly as Grey Ranga stated. They don’t need a connection to the kids or to be officious.
Likely not.
On the contrary, do worry about the Magistrate. Those dickheads are capable of anything.
(Call this my “lived experience”)
Apart from puritannical hyper-moralism, lack of restraint is the foundation of modern leftism. Do whatever feels good.
It’s also the foundation of social media. Everyone can now have their own personal website that publishes whatever they like, curated by leftists hellbent on culture change.
Narcissism and self-gratification without end.
Jeebers…I’d put it down to a cop being a blow hard.
Not much more than that.
Even if you accept the theoretical premises, anything Australia does not going to help.
Too small and insignificant, unless we collapse our economy completely and kill everyone off, and even then rampant natural bushfires would simply take over wider areas producing CO2.
station has taken to referring to “first peoples” rather than “first nations”.
Doesn’t aboriginal mean first peoples?
Mobile phones should be immediately banned.
For Shame! Don’t you know that many ‘First Nations” people consider the use of the term ‘Aborigine’ racist? Aboriginal people are a diverse group of individuals and use of the term ‘Aborigine’ has negative connotations imposed during colonisation and can perpetuate prejudice and discrimination..