Also sends some people psycho. I’m not joking. Systematic Review Reveals Many COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Experienced New-Onset Psychosis (7 May)
Open Thread – Tue 26 July 2022
Without googling where in Australia is the West Coast Hotel and why?
Sloan speculates that the ratings agencies have not downgraded Victoriastani debt on the assumption that the Cth would be obliged…
Some Rafah residents heeding the warning. One you probably won’t see much in the MSM. COGAT: Int’l orgs told us…
We are currently looking at an Indian Ocean cruise from Capetown along the West Coast of Africa to some interesting…
NZ is trying the same scam, now that we have a communist fed, no doubt we are next cab off the rank
Pretending Has Consequences – Western Media and Western Govt Continue Saying, Falsely, Global Food Crisis Caused by Russia
July 25, 2022 | Sundance
It’s not about taxing boomers more.
If you tax income earners less, they spend & invest more.
If you tax unproductive assets more, the capital becomes a lot more productive.
This is where the real wealth gap is generated.
Not some household earning 400k.
Sure they’re part of the 1-2%.
It’s not about that anymore.
It’s about tax laws that benefit the top 0.5% & few others.
Free range chickens must nervously look at the sky for predatory hawks all the time.
We always know when an eagle or a hawk is circling – the chooks dash into their chicken coop!
How they know – when their heads are always down pecking at grass, insects etc – I can’t imagine.
One giveaway are squawks from magpies and even noisy miners who will give chase to the predators in their domains.
Maybe they don’t know what being Christian means apart from “wasting” your Sunday on meeting with a group of other weirdos and reading some outdated book filled with strange ideas.
thefrollickingmolesays:
July 26, 2022 at 8:52 am
The paleface/longnose/tax leach tribe assembles for action.
Looks like we already have an indigenous “voice” in Parliament?
Yeah true. I just used Boomers as a lazy shorthand for the asset rich because so many are. Towing a caravan behind a $100k Landcruiser makes you a bit of a target in my book.
Looks like we already have an “indigenous” voice in Parliament?
AMA President on ABC this morning calling for mask mandates.
The lord high doctor should book a visit to a supermarket and see if he can buy tissues to blow your nose first.
Starve a cold to feed a fever.
ftb – economics isn’t very good about having much to say about dynamic effects. As you rightly observe, the opportunity to change your circumstances is really more important than your current circumstances.
Irish too.
Great Reset: Government to Target Farmers with Carbon Emissions Cuts of Around 28 Per Cent (24 Jul)
You’d think the might’ve learned something from their own history, but no. Progs never learn, they just edit out the history bits they don’t like.
Mmmyes.
The swift smackdown of “birthing parent” and now something of a defence of religious concientious objection to Gay Worship.
Short’n is positioning.
He knows that when hard economic times hit (whether it be inflation, recession or that old ’70’s favourite stagflation), vanity SJW projects will take a backseat.
Nothing will make heads explode more than coming home from a hard days work which doesn’t quite pay the bills, turning on the TV to be lectured by some whimpering activist from Paddington about how hard their life is.
When the voters start dropping off in outer suburbs, Short’n will be waiting.
ML
People might be beginning to rankle at governments farming out decisions to others rather than think (and take responsibility) themselves.
We might as well vote in the ‘experts’ and do away with politicians altogether.
If they don’t want to take on responsibility, they should stay on the backbench.
Not at all. I haven’t viewed Russia as an enemy since 1991. I don’t see any real ‘Western’ interest involved in what is a regional conflict between two powers that were united a generation ago.
Ditto Dover. I visited Russia during the glasnost/perestoika upheaval.
It was a real thrill as our plane approached “mother Russia”, and the commonality of our cultural heritage was clear in the treasures the communist regime amazingly preserved – the Armoury of the Kremlin, with the faberge treasures etc, the magical palace of Catherine the Great and the treasures of the Hermitage in Petersburg. But I also loved almost all the ordinary Russians I met – big hearted people who knew by the 1980s that they had been deceived by past regimes.
I am not attempting to erase the atrocities that occurred by Russians upon Russians. The Soviet experiment is a lesson to us all. But they are not an evil people. The debacle occurring in Ukraine is a geopolitical struggle in which there are no angels at the highest level on either side.
What do you mean “we” paleface?
Australia has no business being anywhere near this centuries old shit-fight.
Or never stand for Parliament at all.
Arky says:
July 26, 2022 at 11:28 am
I haven’t viewed Russia as an enemy since 1991
Why am I hearing the ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ music?
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Irrelevant.
If Australia was at war with NZ tomorrow, I would support Australia. Australia is my home.
I’ll repeat. It is not in the interest of the West, no matter what regime we are under, for Russia to get too comfortable munching off parts of neighbouring nations. This being their third such outing in recent years.
Full stop.
And whatever monkey pox riddled, fascist clown show currently rules over us, does not change one iota where my loyalties lie.
It’s really simple ‘bern.
If I get a domestic planning or building permit, I must start work within two years or the permit has to be renewed.
If developers had to have set completion (not commencement) milestones or lose their planning approval, they would get their arses into gear. By completion, I mean COO and cleared defects lists.
Finally, what sayeth Matt Kean?
Finally: Who gives a fuck what that fuckwit says?
You people need to put tribalism aside, buy Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and get on board with the team.
Love JoNova,
Wokism is just another cycle of the bossy righteous social climber, and it will be defeated, not when we take them seriously, but when we laugh at them.
Another big tree being lopped over the back street. It is the one where the magpies nest. Breaks my heart. But it is all to clear the skies so the solar panels work on the new maccas box that has been built on the block. There won’t be a tree left in viewing distance soon.
the opportunity to change your circumstances is really more important than your current circumstances.
Now you’re talkin’, Bear.
Looking at the QUAD forum former prime minister scummo (how I love the sound of that) is attending in Tokyo the only ones with anything to say worth listening to are Stephen Harper and John Key.
Two killed, ‘multiple shooting scenes’ in Langley, Canada
Police warned people to stay away from the centre of a Canadian city after a gunman apparently gunned down homeless people.
Very true BoN.
You’d think the might’ve learned something from their own history, but no. Progs never learn, they just edit out the history bits they don’t like.
The plant diseases that delivered the potato famine are not gone and still evolving.
These imbeciles who think you can cut back agriculture to accomodate climate change have no concept that weather, pest and disease shocks are a certainty in given production zones most years.
It takes a decade to breed resistance into plants and quick fixes like chemicals are also subject to resistance pressure.
Put enough cost and risk into production and you will have a disaster in a year when multiple failures coincide. Better dead than fed to save the world.
The late, lamented Infidel Tiger will never be gone as long as you’re at the Cat, Humphrey.
I don’t find it disturbing at all. It is to be expected. Just one of the reasons I think homos should not be in positions of power. They have no control whatsoever. Poor decision makers.
Great headlines just keep coming today.
https://brownstone.org/articles/delete-the-k-in-monkeypox/
You mean the team that by all accounts wants us poorer or even dead? The team that is hellbent (literally) on making our kids think they are not who they are and chop their bits off and then profit of life-long medication they will need? That wants to replace us with cheaper and more obedient labour (note – we are not people to them, just another resource)? The team that wants to control what you do, eat, say or even think (wear your rainbow jersey, you bigot!)? This team?
Love JoNova,
Wokism is just another cycle of the bossy righteous social climber, and it will be defeated, not when we take them seriously, but when we laugh at them.
mc
July 26, 2022 at 6:33 am · Reply
Nothing is funny anymore, all jokes are microagressions.
OldOzzie
July 26, 2022 at 9:27 am · Reply
Even noted in America – Australian Rugby Players Revolt After Being Told to Wear Gay Pride Jersey
With a bit of Humour in the Comments
Boys, Boys don’t go down the slippery slope of dropping your soap.
And maps. All of the maps printed for the ADF come from China. They know the detailed lay of the land better than anyone who lives here.
Consider he was pushing 40 at this stage… amazing.
I don’t think we should wish a monkeypox on all homos houses. The bath house crew parading down Oxford St before heading off for a good rogering are a small, albeit highly visible, element of the gay community (whatever that might mean). A mate from school was gay and moved to Sydney. I would be as comfortable sitting down and having a beer with him as anyone. He was/is a very funny bloke.
This just ignores that the three conflicts involve former parts of the Russian Empire and then Soviet Union.
Izzy had a wife, strong father with church clout, lots of family. All super-supportive. On top of that he’d been around a while & knew his own mind.
The experience & ability to hold up under the pressure the Australian system can bring to bear, may be very different for a bachelor, younger & not confident of their place, in a strange country, family all back on the island & not really understanding the cultural secularism & permissiveness of Australia.
Ken Wyatt, formerly the member for Hasluck in WA, saw his role as primarily representing the indigenous rather than his electorate. Hasluck was lost to Labor in 2022.
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Did you read my comments at all?
If you did, you would understand that isn’t the team at all.
Whatever the current regime is, however awful it is, doesn’t change at all the geopolitical interests of the West, which if you live in the West, which I assume you do, are your interests.
This is why, even after Napoleon III was captured, under the fledgling French Republic, the war again Prussia continued. Because whether you were for Napoleon or the Republic, you don’t want a bunch of fucking Krauts running around Paris.
Shorten is a political animal.
He thought there were votes in criticising conservative Christians in 2019.
He learned there aren’t. Hence his turnaround since.
Apparently if we don’t validate them we are responsible for the mental illness and suicide that often accompanies homosexuality, particulary among the young.
It’s not an argument as much as an attempt at emotional blackmail.
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Under this logic, the UK should immediately invade half the world.
Empire is over.
Either you support the rights of independent nations to exist with border integrity or you don’t.
If Russia wanted some Ukrainian territory it could have negotiated with Ukraine for it and paid them the going price for such if Ukraine agreed. The going price being that which Ukraine was willing to sell for.
That’s called the rule of law. Which if it is to exist for us must also exist between nation states.
Either you support the rights of independent nations to exist with border integrity or you don’t.
Coming up next, Arky supporting the Solomon Islands relationship with China.
In the sealed* section he tells Australia & the US to piss off.
*sealed because the language gets a little blue.
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I sure don’t think we get to invade the Solomons.
Match or exceed the deal offered by China or suck it up.
Those are the two legal and morally correct choices.
If the last two years hadn’t happened you would still be able to see that clearly.
My woke science bingo card catches on fire.
Reducing sugar consumption to achieve climate and sustainability goals (25 Jul)
Reducing sugar consumption would have important benefits in the fight against climate change, as well as in the recovery from the health and economic crises associated with the coronavirus pandemic. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) that analyses the potential climate and sustainability co-benefits of reducing sugar consumption through redirecting existing sugar cropland to alternative uses.
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Achieving this reduction in sugar consumption would likely involve a similar approach that has helped the EU considerably reduce its tobacco consumption over the past decades: education and policies aimed at behavioral change, with a serious role for taxation.
Okaaay, not eating sugar will fight climate change and save us from heinous bat crud. And it’s as bad as tobacco. Sure. Believe it implicitly. At least they didn’t say it’s racist, sexist and homophobic too.
Tom, once again thanks for your posting the cartoons, great stuff mate. I usually miss them because its too hard for me to follow the Open Thread. I cant handle all the different stuff and ideas coming so fast, good as it is, I am lysdexic or something and my brain starts frying.
Dover, is it not possible to have a spot where Tom’s daily posting can be accessed by the tunnel vision tragics, without causing exploding neurons?
I ask this in all seriousness, Arky.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian POWs were repatriated after WW2, straight into the Gulag system simply on the rational that they were traitors, based on the fact that they allowed themselves to be taken alive.
Do you think it was a good idea for them to fight for ‘Mother Russia’ simply because it was their ‘home’? Was it to their benefit, or detriment? Did their system deserve their patriotic allegiance?
A country is more than just the dirt it sits on. My patriotism is not blind, nor is it unconditional.
One might argue about the lesser of two evils when conflict breaks out, but that is to be judged on a case by case basis. After what I’ve seen here in the last three years, I’d not longer swear to defend Australia against all enemies (as dictated by our politicians). I might very well find myself fighting ‘Tories’.
In the Twitter link above re this Kamala Harris on the outcome of Supreme Court’s decision on Roe vs Wade is so out of her depth. At first she speaks of ‘women who are pregnant’, saying that there are a lot of them in America (! no kidding?) then realises her mistake given wokeness and quickly finishes by sympathising with ‘folks’ who are pregnant. If she gets in, the looney flake clips will be even more fun than the clips of bumbling disintegrating Biden.
If Australia was invaded tomorrow, I wouldn’t do shit to defend it.
I’d be on boat/plane out of the joint.
Anyone thinking there would be a resistance type defence is a knuckle head.
The public servants & plod would be the ones carrying out the invaders demands with more gusto than they did over 2020 & 2021.
Unpopular opinion but Blue Chips is a fine movie.
Of course it will be racist, sexist and homophobic, Bruce. Used to be produced on plantations by slaves, women are hooked on it in the form of cake and chocolate, and something so racist and sexist just has to be homophobic too. They’ll think of a reason. Comes with the territory.
If you tax unproductive assets more, the capital becomes a lot more productive.
The government, in its infinite magnitude has gone hell for leather in the other direction.
A: Because they are flogbags and mongs who dont understand anything.
B: Because inflating land values pulls the lever on rates & stamp duty which keeps the insatiable money hungry maws of the States a little under control. Plus loads of “scarcity” prices for every block they magnanimously allow to be ‘released” being worth so much more.
C: Both.
Its not so much favorable treatment of real estate as they have chosen to stab the crap out of everything else making housing the safest most value holding asset you can own.
Your choices are.
a: Start a business, with a 50% chance of failing and losing your stake, and have the pleasure of monkeypox carriers wanting to secrete their various rules/regulations all over it while taxing you for their “services”.
b: Buy property, pay rates, have it appreciate in value.
Not that it probably matters but am hearing there’s another Labor money skimming scandal going to hit Andrews Government in August… its on twitter but is from a source I know to be reputable…
As Ice Cube said pre the 2020 election.
What do we get if we vote for you?
Don’t be taken for granted.
bern
Remember The King against Sharkey.
What are you saying Dot?
I should be the fodder to protect the post colonial kleptocracy that Australia has become?
Anyone who is considering watching “Uncharted”? I have some words of advice: Don’t bother! It takes the requirement for suspension of disbelief to a whole … ummm … uncharted level! Tripe.
I would very faithfully execute what the lawful government of this country commands as they literally saved us from a GLOBAL PANDEMIC!
You’d have to hold yourself in high regard to think the governing class has not held up its end of the social contract.
It’s why Gladys Berejiklian was given flowers in the thousands each day.
She’s like our Princess Di.
The People’s Premier.
Looks like the Greens will get behind the Labor climate change target of 43% reduction. This after Labor came up with inserting a clause saying any future adjustments to this figure must be upwards.
Bring it on. Why stop there. Let’s find out what it’s like living in the third world.
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You didn’t pay any attention to the last two years at all, did you?
“… Cold showers by candle light is a small price to pay…”
Indeed – just as a handful of politicians hanging by their necks from lamp posts is also a small price to pay to ensure democracy and the enactment of the will of the people.
It’s a matter of perspective, isn’t it – what a “small price” is.
Well that was interesting. Just had a NAIDOC thing with my class. The lovely Indig lady did a really informal welcome, and she said she wanted to acknowledge our heritage as well. Could have knocked me down with a feather.
– Prime Minister Billy Hughes
Otherwise known as smashed avo farmers.
Biden Casts Doubt on Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Plan; China Now a Top Priority for British Intelligence
00:52 Biden Casts Doubt on Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Plan
03:12 Pentagon Head Raises Alarm on China Military Threat
04:40 China Now a Top Priority for British Intelligence
06:45 UK Hopefuls Sunak, Truss Debate Over China Stance
Labor thinks they can buttress their base against the Greens.
They can’t.
The Greens will carve out a 30% of the primary vote across the country with a couple of electoral cycles.
It’s the natural result of indoctrinated kids from the age of 4 onwards.
Madness! NOTHING the ridiculous Australian government does will change the weather.
on toast
De-programming a Greens voter in 10 years time will be similar to de-programming someone who was raised in a cult.
that’s more like it. Some mutual respect.
The ABC last week had a live broadcast from the Opera House.
The ‘welcome’ was a bloke who started off with some self mockery and went on with some small jokes about the ceremony. Very laid back and relaxed, not at all pompous or solemn. If only they were all like that.
Oh. So they’ve finally admitted that being a sugar addict is bad for you and the subsequent corpulence is a serious co-morbidity for Covid?
How about that.
Tying it to the religion of Climate Change is a bit rich, even for them. Maybe they should tap big corporates like Kelloggs and the like to reduce the huge amounts of sugar in their garbage products. But they won’t.
On the Manly fairies betting situation .. looked at a site I frequent it has Manly $4.10 to win .. Rorters $1.24 plus Manly getting 14 points start on handicap ….
on season form the pair should have been closer to even stevens tho Rorters generally get favouritism betting-wise .. so without the “bend-over” influence I’m summizing it would have been closer to Manly $2.35 win .. Rorters $1.60 with Manly receiving 5.5 thru the handicap ……
It was laughably one of the hardy subjects I was, ahem, subject to at Uni, but only because in exams you had to write about 6 full essays in two and a half hours.
The reality is that most marketing people are low IQ simpletons who are mesmerised by bright colours and lack the charisma to actually sell stuff personally.
Anyone watch the Dr John Campbell video about jabbing children?
Asking to see if it’s worth chewing up 20mins on.
Apart from the fact that I was born here, as were my children and pretty much all of my family…my patriotism is conditional on a simple fact.
I have been pretty much everywhere on this planet. And this is the best place by a country mile. It has its faults, naturally, but it is the best.
The only other place that’s slightly tempting is Wyoming…and that’s freezing half the year and sitting on a bloody great volcano.
😀
Just had a NAIDOC thing …….
have to disagree with whether it’s laidback/casual/whatever the “welcome to country” is still a piece of rubbish with no meaning except to make money .. sadly, like a lot of “woke” rubbish it has got itself ingrained into our society and far too many people are prepared to tolerate it!
I don’t care how it is dun! .. it has NO place in daily life .. like that “rag” that gummints State, Federal & Local have almost legitimized ……!
These people are so ignorant that they confuse Christians with Muslims.
Now I’m all for eliminating all conflict between the two religions, but thinking gambling and drinking are akin to sodomy in Christianity is the kind of epic fail that even the NRL bunker couldn’t muster.
Suggest you don’t move to Victoria.
As my brother in law will no doubt claim when I speak to him next, Many will be fisted this weekend. Apt.
Arizona.
I like it hot.
I know I’m preaching to the converted but Quadrant asks an interesting question about this Voice to Parliament:
-Since the 1960’s there have been numerous advisory groups to Parliament for indigenous causes with the latest being ATSIC. You don’t need to change the Constitution to create these so what is going on?
Jannie
Just use the find in page function and search Tom.
Alternatively just scroll til 4 am and Tom will be there, most of the time.
The ordinary man has no choice but to fight for his country.
He has neither the resources nor the ability to flee.
If people’s background is Methodist or similar they might assume drinking, gambling or even dancing are forbidden in Christianity.
I had an ex Methodist neighbour who said so anyhow.
I had the opportunity to chat to an Anabaptist from a particularly obscure sect while travelling recently. He was very shocked to hear we were going to 6pm mass on Saturday and then to the pub.
I laughed and said we were just going to have dinner, with maybe a glass of wine.
We ended up at the RSL instead so managed an evening of real debauchery, drinking and gambling.
He said he wasn’t even allowed to watch TV, though I’m not sure which bible verse covered that prohibition.
Exactly shatz. The fact is, the kids are being taught that Australia is the Abo’s country and white kids are only here because our forefathers were bad.
Absolutely fucking disgraceful.
Comparing Ukraine to some distant former British colony is absurd. The nearest analogy would be Scotland or Wales lost in circumstances where England was at its most vulnerable. And Scotland and Wales have greater claims to being actual nations than Ukraine in its present configuration.
Arizona is pleasant but filling with Californians.
It’s one thing to visit a place, and another to put down roots and stay. I have tremendous respect for my forebears who sailed from England in the early C20th. And even more for the ones who came below decks compliments of His Majesty.
As for the Pride Flag, this one suits me just fine.
All the other grubby junk is just weak tea.
“He said he wasn’t even allowed to watch TV…”
I like the ones who say they don’t use computers.
But have a car.
And a microwave oven.
And a washing machine.
And …
Everything has a computer in it – not because it needs one, but because it’s cheaper to make it with one than without. And then , once you have it anyway, you can add some nice extra features to help make it not destroy itself when the morons try to make it do things it’s not supposed to do etc.
Biden goes full Albo:
“I grew up in a household where if the price of gas went up we felt it”
Not sure that’s going to bring back the 75% of registered Kleptocrat voters who hate him.
43% reduction by 2030. For the cat experts how many coal fired power stations is that?
Amen! 😛
Methodists used to be very strict. Now, as Uniting Churchpersons, they are Woke.
Presbyterians are pretty much like Low Church Anglicans, except there is minimal hierarchy. No wine at Communion only grape juice, but little wafers rather than Tip Top.
Gambling frowned upon. Drinking to excess more so. Which is pretty standard because of all the other problems that lead from it.
Oh, and that “frowned upon” relates solely to people who are congregants.
Anyone else is welcome to do as they please, as per usual.
YouTube tells me there is a ritual to summon your guardian angel.
It’s an hour eighteen long.
I might save it for later.
Essential Poll numbers released today a shit sanga for Albo:
I also see the name of the Liberal Democrats has been deregistered as of today:
https://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/files/statement-of-reasons-liberal-democratic-party-s137-deregistration-statement-of-reasons.pdf
I been working under the hood of the site and run some optimizations. I hope this improves loading times and stops those 500 internal server errors we’ve been having.
It is impossible to post
Ok, we live in gender fluid times, so who the hell voted for Dick?
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/milton-dick-elected-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives/video/acde0699a54d74cc0365b864b83d9fe8
Keep trying, Indolent. Try cleaning up your browsing history of the error messages and see if that works.
Chemists create molecule that prevents tumor cells from spreading
Good to see Milton Dick has a substantial professional work history outside of the ALP machine.
Hahahahahahahaha!
A handful of potential debutants have rejected the opportunity to play their first NRL game joining their teammates boycotting Thursday’s match as Des Hasler apologises for the jersey fiasco.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt the Sea Eagles are scrambling to field a team before the 4pm deadline after a handful of would-be first timers knocked back a chance to play the game.
It is understood they did so on similar grounds to that of the seven Manly players who have also stood-down.
The latest is that even when it seems to be loading it just disappears into the ether.
Also, it doesn’t retain the user name.
My posts seem to be disappearing.
Five Libs not to vote for next time:
A call for parliamentarians to mask up against Covid-19 has been largely ignored by the Coalition on the first sitting day.
Prior to the commencement of the 47th parliament, the presiding officers had told MPs, Senators and staffers the use of face masks was “strongly encouraged”.
There was no mask mandate but the directive was clear. If you could not socially distance, cover up.
But come Tuesday morning when MPs and Senators filed into their relevant chambers, a stark difference was clear.
In the House, all Labor and Greens MPs were masked – except when at the despatch box or being sworn in.
But many of the Coalition chose not to wear one.
Darren Chester, Andrew Gee, Karen Andrews, Rowan Ramsey and former Speaker Andrew Wallace were the only Coalition MPs to cover up.
Perhaps they is why the neutralised him by putting him in the speakers chair.
One minor informed comment delivered in passing could unravel months, even years of Labor policy planning.
Kneel a handful is not enough, they’re not boobs. We have to show them we’re serious and the next lot have to remember.
I’ve tried clearing history.
It is impossible to post any content.
Pressies generally have a high view of the scriptures, which I respect, but they’ll do exegetical somersaults to try and prove that Jesus didn’t intend that wine to be used in communion.
As for the Methodists, many would have no doubt have been shocked to learn that John Wesley was a regular ale drinker all his life. He warned only against consuming “spiritous liquors”, namely gin, the abuse of which was, of course, a grave social problem at the time.
Brilliant about the Manly players, and the ones who are even rebuffing a long desired offer, on the grounds of conscience.
There will be any number of people at Manly scurrying about trying to work out what this damned ‘conscience’ this is.
Well your comments are appearing – by content do you mean links and/or large copy/pasted text?
Test-posting of pasted content:
On 18 August 1942 a Catalina flew from Cairns to drop supplies to the commandos on Timor. Flown by Flight Lieutenant Gil Thurston it returned with wounded men whose conditions prevented them waiting for sea transport. In December an 11 Squadron Catalina searched for the ill-fated HMAS Armidale.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
My appearance with the wonderful
@georgegalloway
on
@MoatsTV
last night.
It was a pleasure and privilege as always. GL
Worked for me….
Russians could have cut out the dangerous detour by simply refusing, and going straight to the gulags.
Same end result. Principles still in tact.
DeSantis: “Gender Affirming Care” Is A Euphemism For Castration And Sterilization
Indolent says:
July 26, 2022 at 2:39 pm
My posts seem to be disappearing.
Possible culprits:
-Climate change
-Covid
-Gender bias
-Incorrect pronouns
-Monkey pox
-Ukrainian Nazis
-Russian Imperialism
-Tony Abbott
Biden admin planning to define away ‘recession’ if GDP declines a second straight quarter
That’s quite a lot.
Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
Replying to
@paulanoukas
Nothing says “I care about you and your learning and totally don’t think of you as a biohazard” as a plexiglass shield in a classroom.
Indeed.
Raytheon’s Stingers are dead cheap on the dot ua eBay.
That intrepid bird man with the motorised hang glider, who likes to spoil the morning peace and quiet to go aviating, better not get within slant range after Friday,
if the parcel tracker is accurate.
You seem to be appearing now, Indolent.
It might be that some of your links are haram to WordPress. Try Tinyurl.
We really need octahedral dice like those geeks in days of old playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Seeing the fantastical, grotesque, and outlandish people and ideas stalking the world, Dungeons and Dragons would seem embarrassingly tame.
If the Voice representatives are elected by Aborginals will it be on the same election cycle as Federal elections ?
You can guarantee those so elected are going to be more on the left side of politics than the right. If they can delay legislation to consider the consequences for Aboriginals (pretty much most legislation would affect them) then it can hinder the work of the elected parliament. If a Coalition Govt is in power you can guarantee the Voice will do more to hinder their policies than if it were Labor.
Under no circumstances can this be let through.
“Since the 1960’s there have been numerous advisory groups to Parliament for indigenous causes with the latest being ATSIC. You don’t need to change the Constitution to create these so what is going on?”
Ran into Tony Abbott at the Melbourne Aquarium recently, he was at a display of baby dolphins and was feeding them. I told him how he disappointed me and that failed to do useful things. He turned me and said “I disagree, in fact I’m serving a youthful porpoise right now”.
Since we are flexing our linking muscles, and since Roger earlier made reference to explaining things to the young, I proffer this.
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Not when the argument you made was one of Ukraine being an ex- Russian empire possession.
You made no mention of proximity in the comments I was replying to.
The proximity argument is refuted in the Solomon’s analogy.
Neither the ex- empire possession nor the proximity arguments hold.
Ex- empire is refuted by the British Empire not currently looking to seize India or Boston, and the proximity argument is refuted by the fact that no one would support the Australian army suddenly backing Melaita Eagle force.
said “I disagree, in fact I’m serving a youthful porpoise right now”.
The Webley is in the drawing room sfw, you know what to do.
The changes made may take a little time to work.
The proximity argument you made is also refuted by the Falklands war.
Thatcher defended existing borders thousands of miles from the UK and proximate to Argentina, and in doing so defended the rule of international law.
If Argentina wanted the Falklands, they should have offered to buy them.
No doubt.
It fell to coach Des Hasler to make an apology today, which is a bit unfair, because (I think) he said neither he nor the players knew anything about it before the jersey was announced. He apologised to the players concerned and acknowledged that their “spirituality” was basic to their identity and should be respected.
Regarding the picture at the top – funny what a difference a couple of centuries make.
When it was painted it would have been seen as a terrible thing. The size, colours and shape of the conflagration as depicted would have filled hearts with a sense of appalling destruction.
Now if they went up today that same painting would be able to manifest a sublime warmth and sense of peace. The only thing you would worry about is whether they were able to lock the doors quickly enough.
From the Telegraph….I clearly remember V’landys putting the boot into Israel Folau back in 2019 and stating that Folau had no future in league. This Manly fiasco is blowing up in the faces of V’landys and co and all I can say is good.
“Speaking at the league’s women in league launch on Tuesday, NRL boss Peter V’landys said:
“One of the things I love about Australia is we have this freedom. We don’t live in Russia.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, we are treated equally. We’re not going to back away from that, but at the same time we respect the players’ position.
“Our policy, and it doesn’t matter who you are, I hope they change their minds because that is the beauty of rugby league — it is the greatest game for all.
“In my view, we’re all the same. We should recognise that. However, I do respect the Manly players’ right to freedom.
“This is not a political issue. This is about human beings and respecting watch other. I heard this morning this is a political issue. I don’t believe this is a political issue. I believe it is human beings being human beings.””
V’landy is a hypocrite.
And none too bright, if that’s the best he can conjure up by way of response.
Vlandys went on and on this morning trying to find the right words but just producing a contradictory, nonsensical word salad. A total bullshit artist.
New speaker Milton Dick wants parliament to be a safe space.Maybe he should change his name.
Scotland Yard has “effectively decriminalised” theft from cars, putting pressure on the new commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to take action.
An analysis by The Telegraph of Home Office data has shown that the Metropolitan Police solved just 05. per cent, 271 out of nearly 55,000 thefts from vehicles in London ast year.
Because of the size of the Metropolitan Police’s area, it accounts for nearly a quarter of all car thefts recorded by police in England and Wales.
Did I need to?
How does the Solomon’s analogy refute anything here?
Neither the ex- empire possession nor the proximity arguments hold.
That doesn’t refute anything. The fact that the British are not practically able to seize India or Boston now doesn’t mean that Russia is not either as a matter of principle or prudence able to seize Ukraine. The only thing that matters in seizing is whether it can accomplished it or not. Re the latter, as above. The fact that no one putatively supports it means zip so far the argument is concerned.
What is this 500 internal server error business?
I am having no problem on four different devices, and it is loading instantaneously.
Although I am using my Nazi-pass code to log in.
On a football forum I occasionally access , although its AFL comments on the Manly players.Site is infested with lefties so immediately the racism and bigotry comes out.Simple islanders who have been conned into the simple religion seems to be the conclusion or dumb islanders dont know any better.
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People can only refute the arguments you actually make, unless you want me to start attributing things to you that you have not written.
Personally, I hate it when people do that to me.
The cock that smokes opens its foreskin flaps to opine to lesser mortals.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/for-god-s-sake-aflw-and-folau-comparisons-miss-mark-on-manly-jersey-saga-20220726-p5b4ix.html
1. This is not the moral or legal equivalent of what Israel Folau did. The one-time Wallaby aggressively used his platform to spew bigotry, and continued to do so despite being warned not to.*
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o here is the next question, to the players themselves. What the hell is wrong with you blokes that you don’t get it? You are prepared to trash the entire Manly season on this issue alone? In a world where rugby league has led the sporting fraternity in making change, in making it clear that the game really is for all races, all genders, all sexualities, all religions you want to make a stand for …**
For what? Actually, while I’ve got you, can you explain it? And can we have a statement from the seven of you, to make clear your views, so we can all understand?
Your religion? I tell you nothing you don’t know when I say that it seems more than passing weird. Your jerseys, and the stadium you play in, are awash in alcohol and gambling advertisements – much of which pays for your salaries. On this, not a peep out of you, even though most with strong religious views take a dim view of both drinking and gambling.***
Equally, many of the players around you in the football world have had issues of domestic violence, of assaults, of criminal acts – all of which feature high in the list of sins. Still not a peep.****
So we have to ask. Does your religion countenance all of the above, but truly draw the line at showing support for the central idea that while some people are born with red hair and freckles, some with blond hair and vacant looks, some with black hair and darker skin, some are also born straight while others are born gay? That’s it! That is all that Manly wearing the rainbow jersey is saying. To put it in terms that might resonate, “We are all God’s little creatures, and we come in all shapes and sizes, all colours, all sexualities, so isn’t it all just wonderful!”
You are mostly from the wonderful Islander community, one that is beloved in the football community and wider still. Nevertheless, there really are shocking bigots who have attacked that community through nothing other than their own bigotry. How do you not get that your actions disgust most, but please many of the very same bigots who judge people on their race?****
It was put very well by the Kyle and Jackie O newsreader Brooklyn Ross, who is gay, on Tuesday morning.
“I’m not here to put hate on them,” he said. “We do Indigenous round. What if a group of white guys said, ‘Nah, I’m not playing this weekend.’ I want those players kicked out of [NRL]. We shouldn’t accept this.”
Your thoughts, gentlemen? What would you say if the white guys said that?*****
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5. And so to the space cadets, who say the whole thing is the moral equivalent of the young Islamic woman who quietly declined to wear the GWS Pride jersey earlier this year. Why didn’t we go hard on her, put her on the front and back pages, nyah, nyah, nyah? (Add poorly spelt abuse, and mix.) Nup.******
As I wrote at the time: “It’s regrettable, disappointing and surprising – given that she is already progressive enough to break down the barriers to be the first Islamic woman to play in the AFLW – and to have played in the Pride round last year, albeit without personally wearing the jersey. But it ain’t remotely Folau in terms of impact, and not a thousandth of it in terms of newsworthiness.”
Ditto this.
Her declining to do so, as a sole operator, as a young woman living at home with devout parents and playing AFLW as an aside to her studies really is regrettable but 1/100 on the scale of impact and newsworthiness.
These blokes, seasoned professionals earning millions between them, and destroying the Manly season because of it, is a tad more impactful and newsworthy, yes?
* He made his statements in his church, it took you and an army of twatter dorks to amplify it to 747 status.
** Not being forced to celebrate cock smokers.
*** Person who hates Christans tries, as usual, to plumb the depths of their deep knowledge of SFA for a ‘gotcha’. its not new, big, or clever, its just being a anti-religious bigot.
**** Did I miss the “purple and black give the missus a slap” round?
***** This is basically “you niggers get back on our plantation where you belong” shit.
****** Yup, the cock that smokes knows its a 2 faced flogbag, so trys a ‘Oh well I did…a little bit.. once.. but now is worse!!!!
Car theft ‘effectively decriminalised’ because police solve so few break-ins
Thieves get away scot free as officers prioritise other offences, leaving ‘no deterrence’ for stealing vehicles
An analysis by The Telegraph of Home Office data has shown that the Metropolitan Police solved just 05. per cent, 271 out of nearly 55,000 thefts from vehicles in London ast year.
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No. It doesn’t.
The thing that does refute your argument is that no one under the current international order would support them doing so if they could.
So what should we support Russia pulling some similar bullshit?
Greenies who love Gaia at Woke (Work)
Now Byron Bay’s wealthy NIMBYs want Splendour in the Grass BANNED – as images reveal piles of rubbish and muddied boots left behind by music festival ‘grubs'</strong>
. Massive clean-up effort under way at North Byron Parklands after Splendour
. Thousands of pieces of rubbish and unwanted belongings left by patrons
. Locals even found muddied boots scattered throughout the town 25km away
. People are calling for an end to the festival because it’s unsustainable
. Revellers waited up to six hours to get a bus out of the festival on Saturday night
. Attendees took to TikTok to reveal they waited until 6am on Sunday for a bus
. Videos show crowds of people packed in the freezing cold waiting for buses
To clarify, dover, are you arguing that might makes right in this instance?
Given how badly he read the Easy Flower case you would think Pirate Pete would not being weighing in on the merits of this one.
He really is an insufferably stupid man, only still nestled in Fauxfacts’ bosom because they are insufferably stupid too.
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Well, currently, that is yet to be shown one way or tother.
I guess, like the Argentinians, they will find out.
Interesting for Albo to be on the wrong side:
Radical climate activists have stormed Parliament House and sung a protested song on the steps of the foyer.
Dozens of young protesters from the Tomorrow Movement crammed on to the marble stairs early on Monday afternoon until police dragged them away.
‘Whose side are you on?’ they repeatedly belted out, appearing to ask politicians whether they represented the people or big business.
‘History will remember, which side are you on? Will you stand with us or the wealthy few?’ they continued.
The sudden, loud protest caused chaos just as police and security were preparing for the arrival of Governor-General David Hurley to open Parliament.
‘Police have stopped young people who have traveled to Canberra from sharing their stories in Parliament. Labor needs to listen to the community and deliver real solutions to climate, jobs and housing crisis,’ the group said.
‘History will remember you, Albo.
‘Our voices weren’t allowed in the building today. But will you listen to the young people who need so much more than weak targets? We need a real plan to address the climate, jobs and housing crisis.
Outside up to 100 more protesters were joined by Greens MPs to demand Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government do more to tackle climate change.
Greens senator Jordan Steele-John and independents Monique Ryan and David Pocock spoke with the protesters, and Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson made a speech in support.
Daily Mail
Hint to The Pirate.
Holding “a dim view” is ever so slightly different to considering homosexuality an abomination.
Nuance might be lost on him though. Probably since the French towelled him up long ago.
Shit, that is funny.
How good would it be if V-Landys and the Manly board had to eat a yuuuge helping of humble pie and revert to the traditional jersey just to field a side?
Or, here’s a radical thought. Give the players a small 2″ square patch of the jersey where they can express whatever personal thoughts they hold dear. Or even sell the space commercially for their own benefit. We would end up with a glorious assortment of rainbow patches, Maccas golden arches, swastikas, RSPCA logos, Comanchero’s patches, Christian crosses, skull and crossbones, Coke logos, you name it.
Gasp!
When does the J26 committee convene to take REAL EVIDENCES?
Radical climate activists have stormed Parliament House
Insurrection !!
snap.
Reality is sports are ‘inclusive’ without anyone having to wear any poxy pride shirt.
The crowd in the stadium aren’t segregated by race or religion and certainly not by sexual interests.
For sincere authentic Christians homosexual acts aren’t jumping out of the sin column, now or ever.
You promise the indigenous a Voice in parliament and suddenly everyone wants one.
Ball’s in your court, Elbow.
In the House, all Labor and Greens MPs were masked – except when at the despatch box or being sworn in.
But many of the Coalition chose not to wear one.
Darren Chester, Andrew Gee, Karen Andrews, Rowan Ramsey and former Speaker Andrew Wallace were the only Coalition MPs to cover up.
Sez it all.
FLAT WHITE
Liberals: stop chasing the Left into the abyss
Rocco Loiacono
There is an old saying that my supervising partner said to me when, in a previous life, I was employed as a junior lawyer in a large national law firm: ‘It’s okay to make a mistake, just don’t make the same mistake twice.’
It’s a saying the Liberal party across the country would be well served to heed. The only problem is, as usual, such sage advice is being ignored, and to its peril. It seems there are none so blind as those that will not see.
The Liberals are now not only out of government federally, but in every state and territory bar two. In New South Wales they govern in minority, and face an election in March next year.
Since February of 2021, the Liberals have been decimated in Western Australia, South Australia, and federally. On each of those occasions, the Liberals tried to out-left the Left and went all-in with the #MeToo approach on ‘health advice’.
It did them no good.
To paraphrase the words of Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest: ‘To lose one election may be regarded as a misfortune: to lose more looks like carelessness.’ Yet the Victorian Liberals under Matthew Guy seem determined to stay in opposition by making the same mistakes.
Melbourne was the world’s most locked-down city over 2020 and 2021, yet, throughout all that time, the so-called conservatives in Victoria, just like their federal counterparts, refused to defend fundamental rights and freedoms. They refused even when a pregnant mother was arrested in her house in her pyjamas for posting on social media her opposition to lockdowns, when grandmothers were being harassed in parks, when people were being fired at with rubber bullets. I could go on. Nor do I recall the Liberals in Victoria at any time standing up for common sense against the extreme social agenda of the Andrews government.
Now, refusing to learn the lesson that the climate luvvies will never vote Liberal, and in the face of the worst energy crisis (and, as a result, the highest power prices) in the country, Matthew Guy has vowed to halve emissions by 2030, which goes even further than the federal Labor government’s reduction target.
Announcing a 50 per cent cut in emissions is, yet again, a classic case of trying to appeal to those who will never vote for the Coalition parties, all the while alienating their voting base even more.
The Western Australian Liberals went to the state election last year with more ambitious targets than WA Labor to close coal-fired power stations by 2025, and not offer any challenge to the ‘health advice’ at a time when Premier McGowan locked up 2.5 million people over one positive Covid test. The outcome? Premier Mark McGowan has a huge majority in both houses (the Libs hold only two seats in the lower house), which means he can do as he pleases, and that has included, among other things, ramming through legislation to extend the state of emergency until January 2023.
Victorians want to be rid of Andrews, but that can only be achieved if Matthew Guy learns the lessons of the past and forgets the nonsense that is focus group polling and offers true centre-right product differentiation, with properly thought-through, realistic and costed policies.
The Liberals in NSW, seemingly under the spell of Matt Kean, are sleepwalking toward defeat at the polls in March. But it’s not only Kean’s obsession with renewable energy that will spell trouble for Dominic Perrottet, but his government’s obsession with other Woke causes which, as Mark Latham pointed out as only Mark Latham can, has led to that state having the fastest falling school academic results in the world.
If the Liberals really want to learn some lessons and avoid making the same mistakes, they have a couple of examples they could follow.
First, there is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who, as James Allan wrote in these pages, is brave (in the proper sense of the word). He stood up against the public health know-alls and fear-porn press, refusing to stage a lockdown, and shunning mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and the demand for school closures. Guess what? With an older population, Florida outperformed New York and California on Covid criteria – meanwhile on all economy and freedom measures Florida is outperforming nearly every other state. And see how his popularity went up after he took on Disney’s wokeness and virtue signalling, in stark contrast to the Liberals in this country who, sheeplike, give in to cancel culture at every opportunity.
DeSantis is successful precisely because he does not cave in to the focus group approach to politics. Instead, he has values and is prepared, as John Howard did, to argue for them and convince voters of their benefits.
Second, there is outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who, in his final speech to the House of Commons as PM, seemed to suggest he had learned from his mistakes. In what could be the best-ever summary of core centre-right principles, this was his advice to his successor:
‘[S]tand up for freedom and democracy everywhere. Cut taxes and deregulate wherever you can to make this the best place to live and invest. Focus on the road ahead but always remember to check the rear-view mirror. And remember, above all, it’s not Twitter that counts, it’s the people that sent us here.’
When the Liberals look in the rear-view mirror they will see three electoral beatings because they forgot about their principles and the people that put them there. If they don’t learn the lesson that you can’t win an election by being a poor imitation of your opponents, since voters will go for the real thing every time, then they face many long years in the wilderness, to the detriment of this country’s prosperity and its democracy.
Dr Rocco Loiacono is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University Law School. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Curtin University.
It’s different when they do it.
It’s sinister, Vicki. I want to see their ugly mugs.
On another, but similar topic, you mentioned a Vicks inhaler product. Could you please repeat its commercial name so I can get some?
I knew the Pirate would weigh in before the Cocksmoker crowed thrice.
Err, so a “wrongdoing” is not measured by the gravity of the offence, but only if it is noticed?
If it is newsworthy?
Had to laugh Frolics, I read the newsreader was only ghay on Tuesdays. Nothing much surprises me these days.
I see ICE cars are going to be banned in Australia from 2030, at least the sale of new ones.
We’ll see about that.
(I’m planning to buy a new one in 2025 and again in 2029.)
https://twitter.com/cioccolanti/status/1551552072348078080
A graph of the deaths from various vaccines over the last few years. Tell you anything?
Muslima gets the honorary progressive badge from bandanna noggin.
She must be so proud.
Men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men has been the very mark of decadence and deviance since forever. Hell, the left has used the charge of ‘crossdresser’ to smear J Edgar Hoover constantly.
But in the last few years, a blink of an eye historically, progressives have decided that it is in fact a beautiful thing. Better than being straight. Better than a person with a penis thinking himself a man, and a person with ladyparts thinking they are a woman.
But it has only been very recent that they have had this attitude.
So it makes it all the more laughable, that posture of theirs where they sold and admonish people who did not change their minds in sync with these leftists. There is no question that it might be the left that has wandered into a strange terrain, no. And forget the possibility that maybe they are the ones who are out of sync – every lefty knows that everything they do is right merely by virtue of it being what they do.
Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Fidel, even Chavez, none of their heroes ever gave any hint of thinking this trans stuff was acceptable. As far as I know they never even talked about it. They certainly did not promote the cause. I wonder how they explain that?
The cock that smokes opens its foreskin flaps to opine to lesser mortals.
This whatt happens when you believe the media! .. LOL!
They told him the missus was off to LA for several months but she’s back inside a fortnight .. no wonder the bloke is upset and needs someone/anyone to take it out on .. LOL!
Poor “pirate” just adjusting the “red” and settling down to a night with “The Project” and a purve on Carrie and Waleed when the door bell dongs and before the butler can warn ‘im down the hallway shrillz .. “Honey, I’m home”
From Daily Mail. Well done Dutton.
Two leaders, one mask: The photo that sums up Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s very different views on Covid – as just seven Coalition MPs wear them in Parliament while ALL of Labor does
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton shook hands at a Canberra church service
The PM Mr Albanese wore a mask but opposition leader Mr Dutton did not
Labor has strongly advocated Australians wear masks indoors, but no mandate
Mr Dutton strongly opposes mandates and believes masks are a choice
Divide stark in House of Representatives where masks were polar opposites
Calli – the gremlins on the site have finally struck & I have not been able to post a reply to you – hope this works.
The nasal spray is called First Defence – it is a new German product from Vicks.
‘A graph of the deaths from various vaccines over the last few years. Tell you anything’
Several things;
but mostly that a lot of people have no idea what VAERS is and that many many millions more got vaccinated in 2021 than in the decades before.
“Specifically, a report to VAERS does not mean that a vaccine caused an adverse event.”
what vaers is
Thank you. Consider it bought. 😀
All Pirate Pete’s views are dim.
Or, perhaps more accurately, are Dim’s.
Identity is a beautiful thing.
Two leaders, one mask: The photo that sums up Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s very different views on Covid – as just seven Coalition MPs wear them in Parliament while ALL of Labor does
Not at all. Circle back to what I said: Comparing Ukraine to some distant former British colony is absurd. The nearest analogy would be Scotland or Wales lost in circumstances where England was at its most vulnerable. And Scotland and Wales have greater claims to being actual nations than Ukraine in its present configuration.
It’s not merely distance that is relevant here.
Again, that doesn’t refute anything. Half the world would be indifferent, just as over half the world is indifferent to what is happening in Ukraine apart from wanting it settled as soon as practicably.
I’m not going to join your team, arky. I think they’re a bunch of scumbags. Australia is not at war with Russia, although a few slimy elements of the parasitic class would like us to be.
No. Just saying that whether one is supported or whether one can accomplish something is a matter of contingency.
A recession is generally defined as two negative GDP quarters. Get a look at what CNN said recently.
The American left is attempting to redefine words and meanings along with terms we’ve understood for a long time.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/30/economy/recession-economists-nber/index.html
Dozens of young protesters from the Tomorrow Movement
Is this a deliberate pisstake?
If anyones on twatter see if they have an account and ask if this is their theme song?
It’s guess the Ethnicity time again
The problem with New York: Teen, 16, BATTERS cop in Manhattan subway station and is freed less than 24 hours later under lax bail laws
or
Here we go again! Shocking moment Florida cops are forced to break up brawl between rival groups of kids at parking garage near Universal Orlando – just days after THAT viral family feud at nearby Disney Worldhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11048585/Video-shows-cops-break-brawl-kids-parking-garage-near-Universal-Orlando.html
The Daily Telegraph has learnt the Sea Eagles are scrambling to field a team before the 4pm deadline after a handful of would-be first timers knocked back a chance to play the game.
I’m not sure of the hard & fast numbers rule but from memory I recall some debate during the lockdown(s) thugby fiasco regarding players having BAT FLU and the NRL coming out and saying that there has to be X amount ofrecognized , registered, 1st grade players per team not just throw in a reserve team.
I think Channel 9 was threatening breach of TV contract after some team listed lotz of players who had never played 1st grade as starters …..
might has always in international affairs, made right. anyone who think otherwise knows nothing about history
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You spent numerous posts defending Russia based on their previous possession of Ukraine under a communist regime, the USSR, because they border on the place, and now just because they can.
None of this has legitimacy in law or morality.
I assumed they had been tricked by pranksters into adopting the name.
Or maybe they’re really that clueless?
Yep, pretty much true. Another way of describing the International Order is International Power Politics. Same as having a reserve currency. The reserve currency is held by the fuckers with the biggest guns.
Tonight’s bran muffin is tomorrow’s movement.
Not interested in ‘teams’.
I only know.
Putin is the bigger idiot but not by much.
It’s hell for the people involved but not the leaders.
End it know.
Vicki at 4.08 pm
Calli, I picked it up at Safeway yesterday.
Gonzo Lira a close fan of Gorgeous George?
Oh dear.
In such things I was amused by this one:
“Worse…than the Soviet Union”: Even Chomsky Sounds Off on Censorship, Silencings in America (25 Jul)
When you have pure-grade communists like Chomsky and Galloway saying its all got too much for them, we’re really in strife.
No, no, I haven’t said they can just because they can. I said matters of contingency don’t matter so far as the argument is concerned. As in: whether or not the ‘international community’ support X does not make any argument re X right or wrong.
Putin is the bigger idiot but not by much.
It’s hell for the people involved but not the leaders.
End it now.
About my stance as well.
Unfortunately its the most belligerent who gets to decide when “now” is and both sides leaders are ready to fight to the last man.
Our “side” locked down for 2+ years for covid, but would rather declare a global emergency over monkeybuttpox rather than “stigmatize” the group 98% of cases are concentrated in.
Thats where we are as a nation right now.
Not serious people.
Plus Hiden is doing exactly what I predicted he would do after scuttling from Afghanistan like a whipped cur, and finding a new proxy fight/client he can “win” with and reassure the failed military establishment they were right in Afghanistan, its just the war was wrong.
Uncle Fester
Chomsky has always been a leftwing libertarian and has always supported free speech, you unknowledgeable hallucinating twat. Leftwing libertarianism by definition makes you a crazy fuck, but he’s never been against free speech and has always supported it. Seriously, is there anything you’re ever right about these days, you propagandizing bullshit artist.
Chomsky quote from back yonder.
Brought back to reality with a thump this afternoon. Where else but Vicdanistan. Went to sign up at a new gym only to find out that if I am unvaccinated, as I am, I must do a supervised RAT in the lobby each time I attend.
I was caught by surprise and didn’t have the wit to ask if they require similar tests from all those clients who haven’t had third or fourth jabs.
Because I had Covid six weeks ago they graciously allowed that perhaps I wasn’t spreading the plague right now and granted an exemption, but only for three months from the date of my infection.
Having returned home I realised that I couldn’t justify handing over large sums of money to a business that discriminates in this illogical and unfair way. So will cancel. Pity as it is just around the corner and highly recommended.
Anywhere else this sort of thing is happening?
CharlieP , they took your word you did?
Daily Mail -Anybody know how to link to this article – interesting images…
A Chinese consular official in Northern Ireland on Monday contrasted the approach of Beijing to the crisis in Ukraine with that of the US and its allies, in particular those in Western Europe facing energy shortages due to the effects of their anti-Russian embargoes. Zhang Meifang has previously served in the US and Canada, and is one of many Chinese diplomats that have come to use memes and cartoons to communicate with the West.
She had posted another meme with the same punchline on Saturday, this time telling Europeans that “Americans won’t pay for your gas bills.”
Zhang Meifang???
@CGMeifangZhang
China government official
C’mon Europeans, Americans won’t pay for your gas bills.
Second one was pretty good too!
The U.S. keeps slashing for #Freedom, #Democracy and #HumanRights (Pic from
@luowill1978)
Radio check, over.