Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Tues 2 Aug 2022
- Bumtree #1
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- Open Thread – Weekend 27 April 2024
- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
Michael Ramirez. Oh dear.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
“First Nations?” Seriously? “Oldest living culture?” Seriously?
It’s sad because sociology can actually be a demanding and insightful discipline. Durkheim, Shils, Tonnes, Weber, etc. produced a substantive body of work.
Senator Thorpe is more stupid than she knows.
1) her idiocy in the Senate swearing-in process will do more to drive people away from “the voice” than she realises, and
2) her rallying cry for some sort of inquiry into violence against Aboriginal women will merely show that 95% of it comes from Aboriginal males.
Probably not surprising. Wiki tells us:
…back to Fitzroy High for Year 9, but left soon afterwards, at the age of 14.
– Her first job was working with her uncle Robbie Thorpe, at the Koori Information Centre at 120 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, which at that time was “a hub of Black political activity”
– She holds a Diploma of Community Development from Swinburne University of Technology, a graduate certificate in public sector management, and a Certificate IV Indigenous Leadership.
– She became a single mother at the age of 17.
– In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt, with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia, and A$55,000 owed to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence.
And then came the queer theorists, fat studies advocates and radical cyber feminists.
“Lambie was involved in an assault.” Standard tariff for assaulting another soldier used to be twenty eight days “In the jug”, not 20 months fvcking compassionate leave.
the Magnificent table-turning by Kari Lake on 60 minutes intellectual pygmy
You want zombie bacon?
Because this is how you end up with zombie bacon.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-a-way-to-restore-cell-functions-in-dead-pigs
To address the problem, a new system has been shown to restore some organ, cellular, and molecular function in dead pigs, and to preserve their tissues, even when the treatment is only initiated one hour after cardiac arrest.
The researchers adapted an existing technology called BrainEx, which has been shown to restore some function in isolated pig brains hours after death.
Their new system, called OrganEx, is intended for whole-body use in large mammals.
OrganEx has two components: a machine, and a fluid.
The machine is connected to the circulatory system. It creates a pulse similar to a heartbeat and oxygenates the fluid, similar to an ECMO. Where it stands apart is in the way it adds drugs to aid circulation and prevent clotting.
The machine also includes a number of sensors for important features of circulation like metabolism, hemoglobin, pressure, and flow.
It pumps synthetic fluid, mixed with the animal’s own blood at a 1:1 ratio, through the dead animal’s whole body. This fluid, unlike blood, is not made up of cells, although it is designed to protect cells from harm, and carry oxygen and drugs throughout the body.
Interesting stuff, will be great for transplantation.
And at least we know why Biden is able to stumble around and read cue cards.
Brain cell numbers had diminished in all treatment groups, except for OrganEx, where, in some sections of the brain, minimal damage had occurred, and in the prefrontal cortex, cells had been recovered to similar levels as the group that had not been exposed to warm ischemia.
An Aboriginal woman is 45 times more likely to experience domestic violence than a white woman. Violence patterns are passed on from parents to their children.
The writings by the early colonial ‘oppressors’ attested to that but hey! they were the colonisers what would they know right?
It is not merely the historical evidence of early contact with these communities that describes the horrific tribal violence inflicted upon Aboriginal women. Archaeological evidence also reveals terrible fractures to the skulls of women in pre settlement times.
Langton knows very well that Aboriginal society is patriarchal. The men dominated “ceremony” and consequently maintenance of “laws.” Lives were lost in fights over stolen women, including those of women who may have been “stolen”, but who were nevertheless often blamed for the infidelity and violation of tribal law.
Umbrella Corporation I presume???
The end of the world is near!!
The new AIMS annual survey is in with the shocking result that not only was last year a record, but this year is even better. There is more coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef than ever recorded. We’ve had four bleaching events in the last seven years, and record hottest ever heat, the highest CO2 levels recorded since we invented ways to record CO2, and yet, despite all that, the reef is thriving.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/climate-change-causes-record-coral-cover-what-if-we-get-too-many-reefs/
I congratulated The Guardian for finally coming around to Howard’s intervention.
Better late than never.
“I did not want to end up back in public housing with a child.”
Thus depriving the boy of his chance to be PM .. sad!
There is more coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef than ever recorded.
Come back, Mal .. all is forgiven! .. sarc ….
In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt, with over A$700,000 in debts
That’s an impressive tab given the year.
How good is the LUCKY COUNTRY! .. all sorts of educational certificates to reach bankruptcy * then
making a comeback thru the Green “machine” into a $200K + freebies gig ..
* how does DM lead to bankruptcy?
– She holds a Diploma of Community Development from Swinburne University of Technology, a graduate certificate in public sector management, and a Certificate IV Indigenous Leadership.
– In 2013, Thorpe was declared bankrupt, with over A$700,000 in debts, including monies owed to Indigenous Business Australia, and A$55,000 owed to the Australian Taxation Office. She said that her bankruptcy resulted from domestic violence.
DV not DM …………duuuuh!
If it were such an egregious there would be a steady deluge of lawsuits where the women showed they were being paid less for the same work. They would have the support of whole government departments dedicated to asserting their rights.
Has the ABC ever wondered why we don’t have that?
There would be headlines as high profile companies discovered they “couldn’t get away with it”, as a warning to everyone else.
It is like the stolen generations. A damnable injustice perpetrated by White Australia! We just can’t find any cases where White Australia actually did it.
A new low, even for the Alice:
A video has captured a naked man – who had allegedly just seriously assaulted a woman – holding his penis before climbing on top of a taxi and smashing the windscreen with his feet, then sitting on the roof of the car as the driver takes off.
The security video shot in Alice Springs shows the man wearing only casual shoes, and holding his penis with both hands, while jumping onto the bonnet of a taxi at a rank, before stomping on and breaking the glass of the windscreen in front of the driver’s face.
The car begins to drive off and the man then sits on the roof with his legs dangling over the windscreen, holding his penis again. The video ends there.
NT Independent
Russian billionaire Alexander Abramov claims he has suffered business losses and severe damage to his reputation in the months after the Australian government included him on a list of sanctioned individuals over the war in Ukraine.
Abramov, who made his estimated $9 billion fortune in the steel industry, has launched legal action in the Federal Court against Australia’s then foreign affairs minister in an attempt to be removed from the list of business, military and political figures hit with sanctions in April.
.. and yet on ABC radio yesterday (yes, I know – but I was driving in the country) some wonk from the AIMS was still doom and gloom, because apparently the fast-colonising corals which moved in are, get this, more susceptible to future damage. There’s no half glass with these people, its all empty, all the time.
here it is. What a bunch of leeches.
I’m not impressed with his taxi hailing technique.
Perhaps he should try the traditional style by simply waving his hand.
there’s the real horror. Casual shoes!
On Thorpe
I thought bankruptcy disqualified you from standing? Does it have to be current or historical? And, if current, how did she become “unbankrupt?”
The new coral will form, then it will die. It has been ever thus.
These scientists do know about natural systems, don’t they? Or do they think everything lives forever?
if there really was a gender pay gap (for equal skill etc), do you think companies would be hiring more expensive males ?
Didn’t go with his suit either.
Scrolling above and noted comments about our Jacqui Jacqui being a single mum when in the Army.
Curious as to how the Army would accomodate a single mum and a bub.
Do they have a seperate barracks or do they get a flat or house supplied? Babysitter when at work?
Over to any ex military Cats, please.
Perhaps he should try the traditional style by simply waving his hand.
Well he would have, but it appears his hands were full.
Lidia Thorpe showed us all how to hail a taxi the other day, right?
Top Endersays:
August 5, 2022 at 3:02 pm
A new low, even for the Alice:
A video has captured a naked man – who had allegedly just seriously assaulted a woman – holding his penis before climbing on top of a taxi and smashing the windscreen with his feet, then sitting on the roof of the car as the driver takes off.
Running round in the nude in the NT sure gets you a great suntan.
On the corals – volunteer species are always the first to colonise. They are generally short lived but provide shelter and microclimate for longer lived species to re-establish. They get browsed, attacked by pests, all the usual perils.
This happens in areas after bushfire or clearing.
I don’t see why it would be any different for reefs.
Stick a fork in ’em, they’re done:
Young Liberals report blames election loss on climate inaction, inadequate female representation and opposition to a federal crime commission.
Well, domesticity came with the settlers, so it is kind of right.
Violence against women was here loooong before whitey turned up.
As for there being rallies and protests when a white woman is murdered – wtf? The most they can hope for is a line that they were murdered – perhaps (on a slow news day) a neighbour will tell a Channel 7 camera that “She was a lovely lady” or “She kept to herself” and that is it.
Does Lidia imagine that the death of an Aboriginal woman in the cities is not reported?
She sort of (unwittingly – always her best side) has a point. There is terrible violence in some communities. But if it is unreported on TV part of the reason is that it is far away. But there is also the problem that the killers are almost certainly also Aboriginal, and to protect the narrative of the helpless victim race, they must gloss over the actual victim women to avoid mentioning the helpless victim perpetrators.
There are areas of Sydney where violence against women is sadly more common. Wastelands steeped in booze and drugs, peopled by the feckless and the enervated without the initiative or will to improve their lot, where crime and violence in all forms is commonplace.
Sound like anywhere you know, Lidia?
I really missed out of the cultural delights of Alice Springs. I must go back and keep my eyes peeled.
Outwardly Glencore, one of the world’s largest producers and traders of thermal coal, is circumspect about the future of the commodity, commonly referred to as the world’s dirtiest fuel. A crushing energy crisis, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and years of underinvestment in new coal supply have seen the commodity surge to record highs of in and around US$400/t.
Asked about whether it would consider reversing its position on running down its coal production along with net zero targets by 2050 on an earnings call yesterday, CEO Gary Nagle said the company remained aligned with the positions of global governments.
“We will not divert from our plan to responsibly run down our coal business. We made a commitment to our stakeholders, we made a commitment to the world. It’s right for the world and we will continue down that path,” he said.
“It’s not negotiable. I mean, in an extreme event that all the governments of the world come together and say, we’re putting a pause on (responding to) climate change, and we need energy security and please produce more coal… yes, we would.
“I think that’s very unlikely to happen.”
Inwardly Glencore’s traders are probably running around the halls of its Swiss offices singing “coal, coal, coal, coal” the way Vikings lovingly sing about spam in the world of Monty Python.
For Glencore coal’s magic 2022 run has translated into a stunning 800%+ lift in earnings per share from US0.10c to US0.92c in the first half of 2022, with coal sales the backbone of a jump of 119% in adjusted first half EBITDA to US$18.9b.
Coal earnings rose like a phoenix from the CO2 emitting ashes, climbing from US$912m in the first half of 2021 to US$8.9b in the first half of 2022. Energy trading (up 344%) was also the biggest contributor to a 104% earnings lift in Glencore’s marketing division to US$3.7b. Metals and mining fell 17% as prices for hard commodities fell off.
Margins in Glencore’s coal operations rose a staggering 760% in the past year to US$160.8b. At spot levels, it will generate US$20b in earnings in 2022 at a margin of US$165/t. Glencore will pay US$4.5 billion back to shareholders including a US$3 billion share buyback, taking its capital returns for 2022 to around US$8.5b.
Glencore expects spot adjusted EBITDA of over US$32 billion in 2022, against US$21.3b in 2021.
https://stockhead.com.au/resources/ground-breakers-coal-coal-coal-and-coal-drives-800-earnings-lift-for-glencore/
Her needs outstripped her abilities.
No wonder she found a home with the greeds.
Before that the locals were beating the cr*p out of the weak and fearful in the bushland or under the stars.
Fortunately whitey brought nice houses with handy floorboards to rip up and use instead, thus saving precious time stripping the trees for weapons. And don’t forget bricks and iron bars. Excellent for a bit of “domestic” biffo.
The Great Barrier Reef has been on the point of oblivion for donkey’s years according to all these Uni based marine experts. “We must do something” they howl.
Next winter, right on cue, said marine experts and a bevy of attractive young “research assistants” book into the many luxury resorts along the Reef, buy up the latest scuba gear and underwater cameras on the taxpayer credit card and go “researching”. The accompanying 5 star dinners are just another burden the are forced to carry in this vitally important mission.
Nice work if you can get it.
“Young Liberals report blames election loss on climate inaction, inadequate female representation and opposition to a federal crime commission.”
Note how the three issues are all “Steal” issues. No wonder Albanese is laughing.
In a way, this is true.
Before the colonists, it was just considered ordinary family life.
““Domestic violence came with the invasion.””
How very Rousseau…if anything European colonisation helped protect Aboriginal women.
That video is more pro-active than most police in bringing the ne’er do well to book.
I feel like Xerxes watching the Persian disaster at Salamis unfold from his hilltop, directed to observe how Queen Artemisia had just sunk a ship which they (mistakenly) had taken to be Greek:
“Behold! My men have become women, and my women become men.”
Well, our static devices for monitoring behaviour in public spaces have become enforcers of law, and our enforcers of law become static devices for monitoring behaviour in public.
Perhaps I am being unfair, but my image of anyone who joins the Liberals when they are young is of an effete little sycophant (lapdog) looking for arse to kiss so they can rise to mediocrity.
In my uni days Young Labor, on the other hand, were mongrels. They were leftist idealists (i.e. wrong) but who felt they needed a machine to be effective.
The Sparts, Left Action, Young Socialists, etc were just rabid.
The amusing thing is that 1/16th Thorpe wouldn’t be Thorpe at all without the “invasion”.
She focusses her entire existence on a tiny part of her heritage and throws away the rest as garbage. It’s obsession, like forever mulling over that one famous ancestor, Derbeyfield style.
But it’s a nice earner, so it may just be opportunism and greed.
Most ex – servicemen have a horror story about D.V.A, – I’ve never had any problems – but D.V.A. does have some fairly monumental shonkies pulled on them. Did you know that a man can die, and leave three widows behind him? Doing guard duty, in a war zone, and being tapped on the shoulder by the duty officer can turn you into a hopeless alcoholic, stricken with PTSD? Shoot up the sergeants mess at Nui Dat – two of the sergeants died from their wounds – serve your time in gaol – submit a claim for PTSD?
Well I’ll be blowed! PM to take leave is the announcement. Don’t worry too much, he’ll be back in September to take over the reins again. Or should I have left out the apostrophe?
how did she become “unbankrupt?”
Not sure about other states but in NSW you just keep your head below the parapet for 3 years and all is forgiven …
tho I am surprised that owing the ATO money can be absolved thru bankruptcy .. I thought that once you owe the tax man you owe until it’s paid regardless ……
Top Endersays:
August 5, 2022 at 1:22 pm
I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology
In other words, she just made it up.
I did Sociology 101 about 40 years ago. It was about 80% made-up rubbish.
Overpaid woke jobs must be first for the chop
Public service jobs like diversity officer, sustainability manager and sensitivity reader have proliferated in recent years. Treasurer, if you’re looking for savings, start there
Claire Lehmann
Any chance of a post by someone?
Obviously generating interest as separate article
READER COMMENTS
‘To boost nation’s productivity, cull the bureaucracy’
Readers have their say on too many woke non-jobs, China’s latest neighbourhood bully act, and rumours of the reef’s death being greatly exaggerated.
Thanks in advance
As for there being rallies and protests when a white woman is murdered – wtf? The most they can hope for is a line that they were murdered – perhaps (on a slow news day) a neighbour will tell a Channel 7 camera that “She was a lovely lady” or “She kept to herself” and that is it.
Sort of.
ABC luvvie walking home in inner Melbourne gets murdered- wall to wall media hysteria, vigils, etc. (Jill Meagher).
Aspiring left wing comedian walking home in inner Melbourne gets murdered- wall to wall media hysteria, vigils, etc. (Eurydice Dixon).
(Hypothetically) a shop assistant walking home from Westfield Fountain Gate gets murdered in Narre Warren – you’re absolutely spot on.
Top Ender:
I haven’t scrolled all the way down yet, but it would appear there are lots of strange goings on in Darwin…
Lucky her dog didn’t bite her.
Top Ender says:
August 5, 2022 at 3:02 pm
A new low, even for the Alice:
On artistic merit, how does that rank against this?
And they – thoroughly indoctrinated in progressive dogmas – constitute a goodly part of the “talent pool” the Liberal Party of Australia will draw upon for future candidates.
It’s an inconvenient that there were those Aboriginal women who preferred European men as partners – they were generally treated much better….
Ted Cruz again, this time with the State Department Chief Diversity and Inclusion officer.
I think they are told to act clueless as there is no penalty for looking stupid.
dover0beachsays:
August 5, 2022 at 12:03 pm
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Dover, Arky at 12.15 am. This freezing started about four or five days ago. I found a workaround which failed this morning. When I used the workaround – either hitting “home” or “about” and then going to the comments r/h/s – about 5 of Tom’s came up but none of them took me to the cartoons on page 4. Came straight in just now and also, user name and email plus the ‘save my name’ tick on the comment window are now present..
shatterzzz says:
August 5, 2022 at 3:34 pm
tho I am surprised that owing the ATO money can be absolved thru bankruptcy .. I thought that once you owe the tax man you owe until it’s paid regardless ……
I believe ‘it depends’. Income tax debts greater than 3 years old are extinguished but not those newer. However, if the ATO has obtained a judgement in the courts (even for older tax debt), I don’t think that is extinguished. Child support and HECS debts are not extinguished nor are court imposed fines.
The Point of No Return
By Thomas Sowell
This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return — a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.
If there is one moment that symbolized our degeneration, it was when an enraged mob gathered in front of the Supreme Court and a leader of the United States Senate shouted threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying “You won’t know what hit you!”
There have always been irresponsible demagogues. But there was once a time when anyone who shouted threats to a Supreme Court Justice would see the end of his own political career, and could not show his face in decent society again.
You either believe in laws or you believe in mob rule. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the law or agree with the mob on some particular issue. If threats of violence against judges — and publishing where a judge’s children go to school — is the way to settle issues, then there is not much point in having elections or laws.
There is also not much point in expecting to have freedom. Threats and violence were the way the Nazis came to power in Germany. Freedom is not free. If you can’t be bothered to vote against storm-trooper tactics — regardless of who engages in them, or over what issue — then you can forfeit your freedom.
Claiming that it was nearly impossible to amend the Constitution, Progressives advocated that judges “interpret” the Constitutional limits out of the way.
This was just the first in a long series of sophistries.
In reality, the Constitution was amended 4 times in 8 years — from 1913 through 1920 — during the heyday of the Progressive era.
When the people wanted the Constitution amended, it was amended. When the elites wanted the Constitution amended, but the people did not, that is called democracy.
Voters need to find out who is for or against mob rule, whether they are Democrats or Republicans. We are not going to be a free or decent society otherwise.
dover0beachsays:
August 5, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Sorry for the late replies, Dover. R/L. Yes. It was.
Rogersays:
August 5, 2022 at 3:44 pm
Perhaps I am being unfair, but my image of anyone who joins the Liberals when they are young is of an effete little sycophant (lapdog) looking for arse to kiss so they can rise to mediocrity
In early 60s was looking at joining the Liberal Party, but it was only because they had great functions and they were the best place to meet Good Looking Girls
I thought there is < 100 people with the pox?
10 News First
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#Breaking: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Health Minister Mark Butler have confirmed Australia has secured 450,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine by Bavarian Nordic.
The first delivery of about 22,000 doses will arrive in the country later this week. #auspol #monkeypox
Bankruptcy law applies to all debts once bankruptcy is declared , either by debtors petition or creditors petition.
The trustee gets paid, secured creditors next, unsecured (including ATO) get anything left.
Usually no one gets much. Except the trustee.
With the page turn now I lost my name and email save.
And you can be discharged from bankruptcy after 3 years and start again.
The Palestinian student who got murdered by an Aboriginal man in Reservoir got quite a bit of coverage.
‘Reclaim the night’ murders.
And you can be discharged from bankruptcy after 3 years and start again.
Matches the 3 year term for HOR.
Zyconoclast says:
August 5, 2022 at 4:02 pm
I thought there is < 100 people with the pox?
Yes. As at 2nd August there were 53 cases.
Lady twerking in Chicago on a police car vs naked bloke on a taxi in the Alice.
Hmmm.
I do know in our trip to the USA coming up I will be prepared due to my “training courses” in the NT.
(Tell a lie. In previous trips to the US it was noticeable how orderly it was. The meeja love to put alarmist isolated stuff on the teev.)
He was the original “aspiring rapper,” from memory.
shatterzzz
tho I am surprised that owing the ATO money can be absolved thru bankruptcy .. I thought that once you owe the tax man you owe until it’s paid regardless ……
Senator Thorpe might receive bigger tax bill this year than she expected. The mills of the ATO may grind slow, but they do grind woe.
He was the original “aspiring rapper,” from memory.
Not the original, just one of a long line of them.
Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subjects demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, ocurring just as they subject was “turning they(sic) life around.
Tell a lie. In previous trips to the US it was noticeable how orderly it was. The meeja love to put alarmist isolated stuff on the teev.
Going out at night in the USA is pretty safe, going out at night in the UK is genuinely dangerous.
I thought there is < 100 people with the pox? .
Yep, and they’re all gay men. Why do we need 450,000 doses? AusGov panicking again and doing crazy shit.
It will all be a white, racist, plot to bring her down…
On the advice of the doctor who can’t say what a woman is.
The NSW LNP is fucked. Kean will beat Elliot and keep the deputy and treasurer’s job and will become opposition leader when the LNP is reduced to about 10 in next March’s election.
Nothing will be learnt from WA, SA victoristan and soon NSW. They are beyond redemption and must be regarded as merely a faction of the alp/filth.
Going out in Victoria, anywhere, at anytime, had it’s perils, not all that long ago.
The ‘Brown Shirts in Blue’ were at the top of their game.
or as they used to call it, agrarian socialism
what there’s nearly half a million fags?!?!? I call BS
Some titles for the jaded. In the 1950s and 1960s there were some great magazines for red blooded men. Mans Peril was one of them and below is a sample of the outstanding articles to be found in just one edition:
Nympho Queens Who Rule the Mafia
Bizarre Sex Kicks of Jet-Set He Men
Kill Crazy Captain of Company C
Man Eating Cougars Wanted Our Flesh!
I Battled the Blood Hungry Hell Cultists
Eddie Bett’s story relates to a pre-season training camp run by the Adelaide Crows.
Players were subjected a “mind bending” exercise to reveal their secrets and history = supposedly in confidence – to focus on toughness and single mindedness for the coming season.
Confidences were betrayed in open session to all and sundry. Betts and some other aboriginal players felt they had betrayed family and clan.
Other players (non-aboriginal) were put through the same wringer and were pissed off by it. Josh Jenkins has now gone public about it..
A fuck up by someone in charge at Adelaide (probably the coach got sucked in) and the AFL tried to ignore it and probably instructed the AFL Players Assn to do likewise.
Not sure if it was the same camp where they did the fire walking and burnt players feet.
We are hurtling towards a socialist kleptocracy and there’s nothing out there to stop it, at least politically. It will pretend to be something else while there’s benefit in pretending. Soon there will be no need at all.
The LNP snakes have read the writing on the wall and it offers nothing for them unless they roll over and play at being “opposition”. The money and power will still be available, just not the principles which have long since fled and simply don’t matter any more.
I realised that when I was told I didn’t matter. And I don’t. “The Base” is meaningless.
Mammon is king.
Who got the Spotter’s Fee?
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The car begins to drive off and the man then sits on the roof with his legs dangling over the windscreen, holding his penis again.
If it wasn’t for the risk of being charged by police, my guess is that the second foot onto the bonnet would have resulted in a planted foot and penis holder exiting over the rear of the vehicle for some well earned gravel rash.
Barking Toadsays:
August 5, 2022 at 4:41 pm
Eddie Bett’s story relates to a pre-season training camp run by the Adelaide Crows.
And, commendably, Betts has said publicly that it wasn’t just the Aboriginal players, it was all players.
Unfortunate news for the grievance industry that a high profile indigenous person isn’t going to make every incident a racially divisive one.
Pedro, I am an Army brat so maybe old knowledge.
Accommodation wouldn’t be an issue she would get a married quarter these days. Also non field force postings.
Theu AGM, at which the membership base will attempt to wrest control from the factions, is tomorrow.
That’s their last chance.
On the advice of the doctor who can’t say what a woman is.
Dumb fuck doesn’t know what a woman is, nor due diligence.
“callisays:
August 5, 2022 at 4:41 pm”
Well said.
Well, she is Tess-tifying.
Tucker Carlson shreds Soros-backed prosecutors #shorts
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Well, Cassie, it’s like this…
If a boyfriend, or even a friend, told me I didn’t matter to them and then tried to wheedle their way back into my good graces because they thought I had no other alternative, what do you think I’d do?
These jerks think I’m desperate. I’m not. And neither is a great proportion of The Base. Sure, there will be some needy rusted-ons, but they are ever diminishing.
Abusive relationships have to be walked away from. And, unlike Lot’s wife, you never turn back.
Conservatives aren’t like Labor’s True Believers. Principles matter.
If she was screaming ‘compo’ every five minutes, and potentially living in the bongo barracks – or if a baby was in the picture, as RD says, perhaps an unused married quarter.
Jacquie ‘Shagger’s Back’ Lambie would have had a couple of options.
Thanks OldOzzie @ August 5, 2022 at 3:53 pm
Sowell is always worth listening to.
The man really has a gift – or rather, we as an audience have a gift that we can hear and reflect on what he says, and the question is whether people have the intelligence to hear what he says.
Coal is dead…..isn’t it????????????????????/
In preparation for Sydney worldpride 2023.
Although the traditional Pride month in the northern hemisphere is June, Sydney WorldPride 2023 will be staged Friday 17 February – Sunday 5 March 2023 which is the traditional timing of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and of course, in the heart of the Australian summer!
Not only does Sydney WorldPride represent the first time the event will be staged in the southern hemisphere, but the 2023 festival coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first Australian Gay Pride Week, the 45th anniversary of the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the fifth anniversary of Marriage Equality in Australia.
Coal is dead…..isn’t it????????????????????/
Apparently the Great Barrier Reef was also. Maybe it is dead in the same way.
err, WTF – it took Jackie Jacqui 22 weeks to realise she was up the duff?
It’s instructive that the Dems are shoulder to shoulder now with Dick Cheney. You can barely tell them apart.
Politics isn’t a matter of conviction any longer. Our politicians have degenerated into the type I saw back in the 80’s in PNG. Nothing and no one stands in the way of a quick buck and a grab at power and influence.
A nice little earner with a chance to suction up some more dosh by way of committees and advisories and any other scheme they can get their filthy mitts on. And a heads up on developments and changes to legislation – the ultimate in insider trading.
They don’t even need to be smart any more. How else to explain why a rabid bankrupt non-entity like Thorpe can wield power and ram our traditions, traditions that she has benefited from, back in our faces? Or Hanson Young, or Jackie Jackie? They are worse than useless, they are malignant Jezebels.
And the men are no better. Oily, supine, mendacious, lazy, opportunistic. They disgust me.
They are worse than useless, they are malignant Jezebels.
Nail. Head.
Thank you Squire, I was wondering myself.
Mark you, this is someone who transferred to the Elephant Trackers (Military Police) because she wanted to join the Federal Police after discharge, so she became a traffic controller – wearing the reflective gauntlets, and making sure all the trucks in the convoy went the same way…..
I reckon there’d be close to 100,000 in Canberra. Half of them. their wives wouldn’t know. How does Head Homo keep getting elected.
shatterzzzsays:
August 5, 2022 at 3:34 pm
Not sure what goes on here. An acquaintance of mine, dependant on an Aged Pension, has a considerable debt to the ATO coming via the CSA which we know is part of the aforementioned body. The offspring for which the debt was accrued is now over 30 years of age and the principle of the debt, and more, has been long paid. The guy’s magnanimous pension is deducted fortnightly to recover “interest payments” apparently now in the tens of thousands of dollars. His fortnightly deductions have just been increased. Is this where we want to be?
“Although the traditional Pride month in the northern hemisphere is June, Sydney WorldPride 2023 will be staged Friday 17 February – Sunday 5 March 2023 which is the traditional timing of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and of course, in the heart of the Australian summer!”
Perfect conditions for “Schlong Covid”.
And the men are no better. Oily, supine, mendacious, lazy, opportunistic.
And again.
Lovely darts calli.
On fire today calli.
callisays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Interesting to see a push to remove Kean from the Deputy job in NSW. I doubt it will happen but even if it does, I suspect it’s too little, too late. KANAVAN FOR PM.
“callisays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:25 pm”
Perfect, just perfect calli.
From the ACT local mayor…..
Chief Minister Andrew Barr has called for the public commentary around monkeypox to be measured and respectful, saying it’s not just a gay man’s disease, it can affect anyone.
Fair chance if you’re not into the sport of punching the mud button you should be OK though.
Reminds me of the joke. Paddy and Mick are going home after getting plastered at the local pub. Mick looks at a dog in the gutter licking his balls. Mick says to Paddy “I wish I could do that”. “I think I’d pat him first” replies Paddy.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:36 pm
Clear message here for the smugglers handbook handed out to passengers. When you get there, fornicate, fornicate fornicate, Just get someone up the duff,
Democracy in the West is a rule of the woke, for the woke and by the woke.
The non-woke…that is most of us, don’t matter.
Renewed Driver’s Licence for 5 years this arvo. $192 for 5 years. Must say the operation was swift. 3 minutes max, “touch here with credit card sir” and seeya later. Now I know what sheep feel like in the shearing shed. I feel shorn.
It’s Friday. Lot’s wife, Jezebel…next it will be the ghastly Ahab.
If only they could all go mad and start eating the PH grass roof (Nebuchadnezzar).
I’m going all Biblical! 😀
From memory, this couple were advised that having children would not allow them to stay in Australia.
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley – always impressive to see a South Australian do well.
Cruz is a bulldog. He is relentless. And he he goes for the throat.
But as for Abercrombie-Winstanley: I wonder what would happen if a white male was made an officer for Diversity and Inclusion? The objections would be that a person already with access to all the supposed special rights cannot understand the gripes of the wounded. It could easily be argued that he understands them better because he actually exercises them.
Instead it must go to the aggrieved, who see these rights from the outside. Who must surmise what these special rights are.
And from what we see these imagined ‘rights’ are quite ridiculous. It is the flights of fancy as to what someone can do, overlaid with someone else can do, and the gap between them is called injustice.
Look at ‘Da Pay Gapp’. Someone thinking about all the stuff they could do with the money that some guy makes, superimposed on the reality of what they actually do, and the difference is prejudice or injustice or whatever.
And all based on reward, and no consideration of responsibility – of the 80 hours weeks, of the bearing of failure, of the risks taken. Of the ulcers, of the broken marriages and so on. All invisible from their point of view.
Point is that they think only the angry self-ascribed outsider can do this, not a person who has lived it.
Eyriesays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:47 pm
Great line in The Magnificent Seven from Eli Wallach’s bandit character: “If God didn’t want them shorn, he wouldn’t have made them sheep”. You there Wolfman at the movies?
Reminds me of the joke. Paddy and Mick are going home after getting plastered at the local pub. Mick looks at a dog in the gutter licking his balls. Mick says to Paddy “I wish I could do that”. “I think I’d pat him first” replies Paddy.
Or……….
“I bet you can’t do that!”
“Hold the dog.”
tyrant big mad
The fact that the press have been unable to find that heterosexual monkeypox “survivor” to make into the face of the disease tells you pretty much all you need to know.
Paddy asks Mick why do you have a large bandage on each of your ears.
Mick says I was doing the ironing and the phone rang. I accidentally put the iron to my ear.
Paddy asks what happened to your other ear?
Mick says I had to call the ambulance. ..
Standards slip rapidly once you leave the metropolitan area. I would have thought a leather loafer would have been appropriate.
True story.
The Government of Eire was advised that, to be qualify for entry into the EEC, they would have to appoint a Commissioner of Equal Opportunity, to investigate claims of sexual discrimination.
The position was duly advertised – with separate pay-scales – for men and women…
WorldPride just as Lent begins. How instructive.
Orban really socks it to them. There’s a link in the item to his full speech.
NEWS SUMMARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 8/4/2022 HUNGARY’S LEADER VIKTOR ORBAN BLASTS GLOBALISTS IN DALLAS SPEECH, BANK OF ENGLAND ISSUES RECESSION WARNING, FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS CHARGES OVER DEADLY LOUISVILLE NO-KNOCK RAID
Barking Toadsays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:58 pm
The Irishman was asleep in the gutter (no offence, I identify as both Irish and porcine) with a pig when a rather prurient woman was walking by. She said “You can tell the one who boozes by the company he chooses and with that the pig got up and walked away”.
Labor a bit touchy about being seen as weak on border control:
An Australian Border force ship, which intercepted a people smugglers’ boat carrying 46 Sri Lankans, has docked in Colombo port in what is believed to be the first Australian deportation by sea of Sri Lankan asylum seekers.
Sri Lankan naval authorities confirmed the ABF Ocean Shield arrived in Sri Lankan waters outside the high security port in the Sri Lankan capital about 9am Friday morning (local time) and offloaded the Sri Lankan returnees.
But Sri Lankan navy operations director Prasanna Mahawithana told The Australian authorities there had been expecting the Ocean Shield, having been made aware of the interception by the ABF and would process the returnees, who were likely to be charged with immigration offences and face court in the capital.
Matt Canavan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrqX5N0VTBw
Zipstersays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Tucker Carlson shreds Soros-backed prosecutors #shorts
The fact that soros still has a heartbeat says all you need to know about the world. That and the fact the sheeple vote for these POSs.
Hearkens back to line by the Empower Tiberius in reference to taxation
Dover
Bit of irony here. I interpret this as meaning there will be more people abstaining from meat during Lent, given that these trendy crowds are very closely cross fertilised.
@Topender
If courts or Capital there still be.
Jihad Watch
Geller
Just booked my first interstate trip since..er.. 2019.
Apart from having to put shoes, trousers & a coat on, is there anything else a bloke should know about Sydney? (i.e. mask or vaccination rules)
Well, this is no surprise from Labor .. champions of rubbish decisions .. FFS!
Wonder how long they’ll be calling Biloela home before the “big smoke” beckons? ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-05/qld-biloela-tamil-family-nadesalingam-granted-permanent-visas/101306510
Calli:
I’d put good money on the bulk of them being similar to the Soviet ‘Plan’ product.
Antibiotics made in excess of planned and budgeted production. Bonuses all round for fulfilling quota. The bottles and vials probably contained little more than distilled water.
is there anything else a bloke should know about
Clean underpants – in case you’re in an accident. Ask ya mum.
eli wallach ann jackson Gosh those names bring back memories , I met them both
Barking Toad says: August 5, 2022 at 6:58 pm
You’re advising two layers of clothing?
Thanks for the heads up. A bloke forgets just how cold it gets down south, need two layers of clothes… crikey!
LGBT groups demand action on Monkeypox, says the BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62425720
Well they could start by shutting down the bathhouses.
@Toad
Shades of Barry McKenzie. Haven’t heard it for years. Thank God, the vernacular is still alive somewhere.
@Old Lefty
Or alternatively the government supported LGBetc groups.
Just booked my first interstate trip since..er.. 2019.
Apart from having to put shoes, trousers & a coat on, is there anything else a bloke should know about Sydney?
Best avoided Friday 17 February – Sunday 5 March 2023.
Best avoided Sunday 5 Aug 2022 forever…………..
I have a feeling that Peta Credlin reads the Cat. Just a feeling.
Wonder how long they’ll be calling Biloela home before the “big smoke” beckons? ..
They’ll be in Brissy or Sydney within a month.
I have a vague memory of someone being able to create an EMP without nuclear weapons – something to do with explosively crushing different types of metal together.
If China is sending non nuclear weapons over Taiwan, could they be trying for a sucker punch of Taiwans defences, despite them being already hardened against the electromagnetic pulse?
Roger says: August 5, 2022 at 7:14 pm
Er.. yeah.
That’s Seven months away. Trip is next week. I should be outta town on time.
Is Mike Baird-time’s & the Stupid effing Liberal party’s business-killing pseudo-prohibition & early lockdown still in effect?
Eyriesays: August 5, 2022 at 7:24 pm
They’re Sri Lankan.
Melbourne will be their concrete jungle of choice.
I’ll add to that outstanding passage.
The rot includes the hangers on in the private sphere. The already wealthy who hover like so many flies around a cow pat, getting the inside running and/or influence on decisions etc etc.
From what I’ve seen this parasitic swarm is also worse than ever, thanks mainly to the climate scam.
Sal, wear a skin tight powder blue suit and brown shoes with no socks. Man bun optional.
You don’t want to stand out from the normies in Sydney.
Patrick Kellysays:
August 5, 2022 at 5:32 pm
That’s atrocious! .. as a, long time, OAP I’ve always thought the OAP untouchable by garnishee! .. bloody thing is low enuf to try and make ends meet without gummint bodies being able to access it .. FFS!
Pedro the Loafer says: August 5, 2022 at 7:32 pm
Pedro, you give wise advice.
I’ll write that one down, lest I misremember it on the day.
With your guidance I may surpass my previous high in Sydney, when the nature of my attire led a trio of security guards to assume I was a supporter of Nick Xenophon who’d strayed from a nearby Xenophon street demonstration.
Once the payment hits your account it is no longer considered inalienable.
Unheard: What happened to Jordan Peterson
This bloke does not get how implacable the radical left is.
He still thinks they can be reasoned with, or there’s some middle ground to be found.
Doesn’t like that JP dug in over the Twatter ban and has hardened his overall approach.
He’s a sanctimonious fool who is more than ready to run up a white flag.
He’s the reason the left win.
Hold onto your ankles.
They’re Sri Lankan.
Melbourne will be their concrete jungle of choice.
Harris Park, next station to Parramatta, is a Sri Lankan enclave, as well ! ..
No reparations – dream on Albo. Oh, and the oldest continuous civilization is NOT the Aborigine.
The blog is so rooted with tech problems.
Barking Toad at 4:41.
No, the fire-walking debacle at the Adelaide Crows was years before.
But, yes, these “challenge camps” have been all the go in professional sport for a while, with a scaled back version being used in the corporate world.
Usually run by dubious snake-oil salesmen using simplistic homespun psychology.
I reckon this type of thing is now dead in the sporting world, and probably corporate as well.
“132andBushsays:
August 5, 2022 at 7:46 pm”
He’s a sanctimonious fool who is more than ready to run up a white flag.
He’s the reason the left win.
Yep, David Fuller is a progressive lightweight. I’ve never liked him.
One law for plod another for ordinary folk .. Someone should have been charged with manslaughter .. immediately .. not being investigated .. how on earth could, so called, TRAINED plod feel threatened into using weapons .. I know he had a knife but one leg, wheelchair bound & dementia .. given 3 minutes he’s of probably fallen asleep .. FFS!
A 93-year-old dementia sufferer with one leg died after police officers pepper-sprayed and shot him with a Taser inside his care home.
Tanya Jones, assistant chief constable of Sussex police, said: “We want to express our sympathies to the family and friends of Mr Burgess.
“We are providing every assistance to the IOPC to allow for a thorough investigation and for the family to receive the answers they need.”
Never heard of him, but the collarless shirt aroused my suspicions immediately.
Go on…call me superficial!
JCsays:
August 5, 2022 at 7:52 pm
The blog is so rooted with tech problems.
I wonder what the problems is?
Again iMac – macOS Monterey ver 12.5 Chrome/Firefox Adblock with and without VPN, Safari mo AdBlock all working with no problems whatsover
I’ve had no problems today.
Weird.
Nor I.
20 Percent Of The USAF’s B-2 Force Is Deployed ‘Down Under’
The B-2 deployment to Australia comes as the USAF ramps up its presence in the Indo-Pacific region amid growing tensions with China.
Recent imagery obtained by The War Zone from Planet Labs shows four USAF B-2 Spirit stealth bombers lined up at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Amberley airbase in Queensland. Considering the USAF currently only operates 20 B-2 bombers, the photo provides an unprecedented glimpse from space of one-fifth of the service’s entire B-2 fleet deployed ‘down under.’ That being said, it will likely become a very normal sight as the U.S. and Australia work more closely to deter China.
The photo highlights the growing presence of USAF B-2s in Australia in recent months – signaling the U.S.’ commitment to maintaining stability within the Indo-Pacific amid growing tensions with China. The four B-2s currently stationed at Amberley were sent from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, to support a Pacific Air Forces Bomber Task Force. Two B-2s arrived at Amberley on July 10, while another two B-2s arrived on July 12. While B-2s have visited Australia before, this is the first deployment of B-2s to the country as part of the Bomber Task Force (BTF), according to Janes. USAF and RAAF flyers have focused on “training missions and strategic deterrence missions” since the four USAF B-2s arrived at Amberley as part of the Enhanced Cooperation Initiative under the Force Posture Agreement between the U.S. and Australia.
The first pair of B-2s to arrive at Amberley will remain there “throughout the months of July and August and are planning to be involved in various Australian Defence Force (ADF) exercises such as Exercise ‘Koolendong’ and Exercise ‘Arnhem Thunder,’” an Australian Department of Defense spokesperson said. Exercise Koolendong 2022 wrapped up at the end of July.
Recommended reading.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/losing-trust-in-the-science/
No.
You’re very perceptive.
Very depressing news, Tells me that they don’t have much.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, August 4, announced that Moscow has been assessing whether the United States was behind the research and experiment that leaked the novel SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 disease as well as the monkeypox virus as several Pentagon-operated Biolabs were discovered in Ukraine. It is possible that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was behind the creation of the COVID-19 virus that claimed millions of lives worldwide.
That’s atrocious! .. as a, long time, OAP I’ve always thought the OAP untouchable by garnishee!
Once the payment hits your account it is no longer considered inalienable.
i thought a “garnishee” was against a specific source of income not your bank account ..
shirley if it was used against a bank account all you’d do is empty the account and send any regular incoming monies elsewhere …… that’d be the “houso” way, anyway .. LOL!
Cronkite
There’s a theory about Uncle George, which is pretty credible. In a recent recent interview , Uncle George was asked very clearly why he supported some of these wacky DA’s. His answer appeared to be totally incoherent strongly suggesting he had zero idea what was going on.
He’s 91.
The theory is that the money being distributed has a partial payback angle for the person or people responsible in the family office. They’re getting a cut. Sounds plausible.
20 Percent Of The USAF’s B-2 Force Is Deployed ‘Down Under’
Very depressing news, Tells me that they don’t have much.
I read the 20% as part of the number stationed on Guam .. not the entire fleet …….
Holidaying with family in Sri Lanka before Christmas.
I think they got a nice sum through go fund me and children need to meet their grandparents.
A Voice to parliament would be an advisory body only and would not involve reparations to Indigenous Australians, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
Then why does the referendum wording give parliament the ability to determine the “powers” of the “voice”?
Whether “powers” is intended to have its plain English meaning or its legal technical meaning (and tell me an activist Court wouldn’t choose the one which gives the “progressives” the most latitude), why does a pure “advisory” body need “powers”. If it said “such powers as are necessary for a purely advisory function” that mightn’t be an issue (though tell me an activist Court wouldn’t give that a wide operation), but why is it just open ended?
20 Percent Of The USAF’s B-2 Force Is Deployed ‘Down Under’
Very depressing news, Tells me that they don’t have much.
I read the 20% as part of the number stationed on Guam .. not the entire fleet …….
I read a different article to OLD OZZIES which wasn’t as detailed .. I stand corrected!
tho surprised the USAAF would station that amount of a specific aircraft fleet on foreign soil
I don’t know shatterzzz, you sound like you’re fit enough to work part-time if the pension isn’t sufficient for your needs.
20 Percent Of The USAF’s B-2 Force Is Deployed ‘Down Under’
Very depressing news, Tells me that they don’t have much.
They built 21 B-2’s. One was crashed on takeoff leaving 20. Knew a lady who worked on the wind tunnel when they were building it. Have a genuine Northrop model shop display model of one on the shelf above me .
ooops, sorry, should be specific : year 17 Feb 2022 to Sunday 5 Mar 2023.
I reckon you will survive. Take an umbrella.
It says ashram to me.
Holidaying with family in Sri Lanka before Christmas.
I think they got a nice sum through go fund me and children need to meet their grandparents.
Go Fund Me? .. didn’t they make a bundle out of compensation off the mug tax payers thru their various court trips .. the sort that the average, mug, Oz tax payer can’t afford .. FFS!
The four B-2s currently stationed at Amberley were sent from the 509th Bomb Wing
The Hiroshima/Nagasaki attacks unit. I wonder if any of their aircraft is named Enola Gay or Bocks Car?
shatterzzz
You deserve what you get in Harris Park but surely Wentworthville should have been immune, Alas not. Only five or six householders in my street would now be considered neighbours, Speakers of English are a rarity, Sad. The larger the influx the quicker the locals move out. We are empty nesters, so the following doesn’t matter to me but I will say that I wouldn’t be happy sending my, then, young boys to school with kids that were from a totally different culture and encouraged to speak a different language at home,
There’s a theory about Uncle George, which is pretty credible. In a recent recent interview , Uncle George was asked very clearly why he supported some of these wacky DA’s. His answer appeared to be totally incoherent strongly suggesting he had zero idea what was going on.
He’s not biden who has no brain or morality. Soros knows what he is doing. So does Gates and the other tech billionaires. They’re a combination of misanthropy and vanity. It’s not rocket science: spiteful kids with money and power because our pollies have caved, except for Trump, DeSantis, our Pauline. Whether they’re being used by the Frankfurt School/commies or vice-versa is irrelevant.
ditto, which is why it is so very important that contributors keep adding their ideas and reporting back what their communities think about current trends.
I don’t know shatterzzz, you sound like you’re fit enough to work part-time if the pension isn’t sufficient for your needs.
I’m fit enuf to work full-time + umpteen hours O/T but I promised myself after being conned into work-for-the-dole voluntary stuff in my early 60s ( after Cancer) and realising it was nothing more than free labour for the charities involved (Foodbank NSW & Salvos) that once I turned 65 that would be it ..
never again .. retirement is retirement as far as I’m concerned ..!
Yeah, just like the Trade union Movement, and the Daffodil Growers Society, and all the other lobby groups, they are all advisory bodies not requiring reparitions, eh?
I watched the German warmie lady, I think a 23 minute YouTube record for me.
Nuclear is too expensive and scary (except in France and other countries that have nuclear already) and one day uranium will run out, or perhaps not, depending on technology advances.
Wind and solar takes up too much space and simply doesn’t work well enough in countries which don’t get sufficient sun and wind (obviously).
Hydro also not suitable for everyone.
Coal and gas, probably, but we can’t really tell, could be killing millions of people with good old pollution (just guessing!), and of course carbon polluting bad, very bad.
If she wasn’t a warmie she’d admit in terms of reliability, cost (including the loss of thousands of acres no longer available for other purposes), footprint (yes we don’t need to rip out millions of carbon eating trees and plants for wind and solar farms) coal is best.
Was worth watching and I shared it, thank you.
The Treasury’s answer to economic problems seems to be to increase
GDP (ie tax base) via increased immigration. This has been an ongoing policy under all governments. What does it do for Australians?
Only five or six householders in my street would now be considered neighbours, Speakers of English are a rarity, Sad.
I haven’t had anyone (can’t call ’em neighbours cos) living within 20 houses of me who use English as a 1st language (other than the kids) in 20 years! .. other than when my youngest visits my usual daily English use is, basically, “please & thank you” with shop assistants ….
I reckon you will survive. Take an umbrella.
Hazmat suit may be the better option
What advantage is it for USAF to have everybody at home in mainland US?
What does it do for Australians?
Fuck All. The cities have been transformed into unliveable ant hills.
Patrick Kellysays:
August 5, 2022 at 8:47 pm
The Treasury’s answer to economic problems seems to be to increase
GDP (ie tax base) via increased immigration. This has been an ongoing policy under all governments. What does it do for Australians?
For the general public, SFA. For the “connected” ones, opportunities for grift and graft.