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In like Flynn?
Good Moaning Troops
Looks like it’s Silver and Bronze in the Jugulum Household
It’s quiet in here, i like the new paint scheme but i don’t think the dadoes are making a comeback. Why does one of the rooms have shag-pile carpet on the walls?, how very odd.
The rumpus room has a very 70’s retro-vibe happening, but the sign on the entrance is probably superfluous to any sense of decor, seriously, calling a space “Uncle Pervy’s Play Room” is a tad creepy.
Fifth again!!!
Good moaning one and all.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Weird old situation today.
ProPublica is a lefty news organisation that Bill Gates has become the biggest donor.
It’s always publishing articles that just so happen to be supportive of Bill Gates positions & investments.
But this weeks email has 4 stories that are anti uranium & the nuclear industry.
Something that Bill Gates has spent billions (with Buffett & Larry Fink) promoting & investing in.
I can see ProPublica having funding issues in the future.
An excellent read of which an extract follows.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/lozza-is-a-legend/
TMZ reporting Olivia Newton-John has passed.
RIP.
Olivia was perfect for the role of ‘Sandy’ in Grease.
RIP.
Hot on the heels of trying to blockade Kaliningrad, some big wig from Lithuania is making the trip to Taiwan.
Is Lithuania the next Ukraine where the US taxpayer funds are washed through?
Discuss.
feelthebern says:
August 9, 2022 at 6:29 am
Lithuanians are still clinging to the grandiose idea that they’re the decedents of the Teutonic knights.
Sure they are, look what happened to those knights.
73, with a long history of cancer.
The next instalment of zealotry, every bit as bad as that of early 2020 when people were falling over themselves to blame deaths on covid, will no doubt be just around the corner.
Waiting for the Daily Expose’s take on this. If they haven’t been shut down by The Man, that is.
Thank you Tom
a new thread and a photograph of the last Catallaxy catch-up.
noice
Thanks Tom – I worry about Ramirez sometimes
Major blue going on in the Oz:
Leave me alone: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pleads with ‘bully’ Peter FitzSimons
Will be interesting to see when they shut down the comments.
Interesting – the Oz comments were open at 2 this morning but have now all disappeared.
The missus had to go to the (bomb site) house yesterday to open up for the painters while I went to Babylon to do real work.
They stood her up citing a Religious Holiday as the reason.
Late yesterday she was crowing about how getting up early makes for a very productive day and delivered a 1/2 hour list of all her achievements.
No kidding, I says. You know it was a builder’s RDO dontcha?
Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73 after 30 year long battle with cancer
The Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur and activist passed away on Monday morning local time surrounded by family and friends at her home in California, according to her husband.
Newton-John is best-known for starring in the 1978 musical “Grease” alongside John Travolta, as the-girl-next-door Sandy, who trades her ankle-length skirt and prim and proper hair for skin-tight black pants and a perm.
She went on to win four Grammys and had five number one hits and ten top ten hits. She also had two number one albums in the 1970s.
She was also passionate about the environment and animal rights, and devoted much of her time and celebrity to charities after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992.
Her husband John Easterling said in a statement: “Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.
“Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.
“Olivia is survived by her husband John Easterling; daughter Chloe Lattanzi; sister Sarah Newton-John; brother Toby Newton-John; nieces and nephews Tottie, Fiona and Brett Goldsmith; Emerson, Charlie, Zac, Jeremy, Randall, and Pierz Newton-John; Jude Newton-Stock, Layla Lee; Kira and Tasha Edelstein; and Brin and Valerie Hall”.
The British-born and Australian-raised star dedicated a number of albums and concerts to raise funds for research and early detection of the disease, including the construction of a health centre named after her in her adopted home Melbourne.
“I don’t like to say ‘battled’,” a defiant Newton-John told Australia’s Channel Seven TV in September 2018 after revealing she had been diagnosed with cancer for a third time.
“I like to say ‘win over’, because ‘battled’ sets up this anger and inflammation that you don’t want.”
Her hit role as Sandy in “Grease” resonated with audiences worldwide, and continues to capture hearts decades after the movie was released.
“Making it was fun but you never know with movies if audiences are going to go with it or not, even if you love it,” she said in a Forbes interview in 2018.
“It is incredible that it is still going but it’s not even just that, it’s showing no signs of stopping. You say “Sandy and Danny” and people instantly know what you’re talking about.” Grease remained the highest-grossing musical for three decades, with Newton-John and Travolta maintaining a close relationship long after the film was made.
“She was my favourite thing about doing Grease,” Travolta said in an interview to mark the film’s 40 anniversary in 2018.
There was no one else “in the universe” who could play Sandy, he said of Newton-John, who turned 29 during the making of Grease and later revealed she had to be convinced by Travolta to take up the role after self-doubts that she was too old to play a teenager.
“If you were a young man in the 70s…, if you remember that album cover with Olivia with that blue shirt on, with those big blue eyes staring at you,” Travolta recalled.
“Every boy’s, every man’s dream was: ‘oh I would love for that girl to be my girlfriend’.” Her career would span from singer and actor, to author and philanthropist in the coming decades, with her passion for cancer research at the forefront, championing natural therapies, including medicinal cannabis in the treatment of cancer.
She performed into her late 60s, until her latest diagnosis, including a two-year residency in Vegas, a 2015 tour with Australian music legend John Farnham and even recording a Club Dance track at 67 with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi.
“I have done everything, and the icing on the cake as well,” she said, reflecting on her career.
“So I feel grateful for anything that happens now.”
She is in the audience in the Bee Gees concert DVD of about 2005(?) with her daughter, who looks about 12. They play a bit from Grease on the backscreens and Olivia puts her hand over her daughter’s eyes momentarily. Very funny.
incredible
Dilbert
We needed more pillaging women though.
FitzSimons’ researchers will have been whipped into action by now, drafting up his latest tome – ‘How I Saved The Blacks’.
Chapter One: I Went to Cobar Once
Two: Saving Uppity Black Women From Themselves
Three: They Don’t Know What They Want, by Jingo
Four: Of Course I’m Right
Tom Elliot interviews Matthew Guy, Guy is a train wreck. Jeff Kennett gave a terrible interview to Jon Faine that was a big factor in his losing the following election. Guy follows in his footsteps.
https://omny.fm/shows/drive-with-tom-elliott/tom-elliotts-extraordinary-exchange-with-matthew-g
Good morning, condemned traitors.
Only 38 months to go. We can save money and spare the yard arm.
EWPs.
ONJ seems to have been that rare bird, a genuinely nice person in that scummy industry.
I’ve never read of anyone having a bad word to say about her. What a contrast with the backbiting, publicity seeking all round whores that typify ‘show biz.’
She made it to the top and avoided the usual pitfalls with grace and style.
Vale, Olivia.
Anti science deep green anti civilisational shills.
Voodoo science.
That Bruegel looks very modern for 1564 Dover. Fascinating.
In this case he is spot on.
This has the potential to go very pear shaped for the GOP.
Yep. As opposed to (the Hun):
Heche, the lunatic pretend lesbian who tried to raise her profile by becoming Ellen DeGeneres’ ‘partner’, was pilled-up and seen with a bottle of vodka in her car’s cupholder before being recorded at flying down a suburban street at 145 kph immediately before ploughing through a T-intersection and into a house, destroying it and burning the remnants.
Baldwin’s take:
And:
Heche was that fucked up she repeatedly tried to get off the ambo stretcher. Fortunately, she was badly burned and will spend months in hospital.
The company you keep, Alec.
A week or so ago I posted about the malaise I see all about me. The local High School students not applying for part time jobs with local employers, the other businesses that just can’t get workers, local cleaning companies offering $50/hour, no applicants. Seems it’s a bit of a world wide thing. The damage caused by governments responding to wuflu may take decades to be fully exposed. Here’s a couple of posts via Instapundit, the whole western world is in a period of malaise, laziness and sloth.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/06/quiet-quitting-why-doing-the-bare-minimum-at-work-has-gone-global
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/if-things-get-hard-they-just-quit
Even though Moon Festival is officially a month away, the Asian bakeries are selling moon cake already.
It’s a heavy time of year rolling from truffle season to a bit of Christmas in July to Moon Festival.
At least one notch on the belt.
Shots the Hell Up!, Nobody is Anti-Vaxx But Anti-Reality Leftists (Who Can’t Define ‘Woman’) Redefined ‘Vaccine’ to Silence Us
it is a privilege to care about inflation!
you all have no idea how lucky you are!
Vince Langman
@LangmanVince
The Democrats destroyed millions of small businesses with illegal Covid lockdowns. Now they’re hiring 87,000 IRS agents to go after the one’s who managed to survive
Pure evil
Mad Meg was on the wall of the library at high school, along with Dali’s Melting Watch, Picasso’s Charnel House and Goya’s Witches Sabbath. The librarian noticed I looked at them often and gave me a book on modern art. I have been ever grateful. Today Mad Meg could be construed as a conservative looking at the world around them, wondering how?
Reminds me of Dellingpole’s “..and the knife went in….” said by perps who take no responsibility for their actions.
All pipeline gas into Europe from Russia is at 102mill mcm/d.
Multi year lows.
The arb between North American & European gas is at all time highs.
Poor fella my europe.
Ha!
I used to have Mad Meg as the wallpaper on my computer.
Monkeypox vaccines have arrived in Victoria. Here’s how the rollout will work
No, really, don’t thank me, Victorian Cats…
It’s a great painting – I have never seen it in the flesh. Only ever been to Bruges, so maybe a bit more of Belgium should be on my Bucket List.
Women and power…it may be a picture of our next parliament. The pillaging part is correct, at least.
Wifey was almost in tears telling me.
Totally. This working from home caper is laughable. You can’t have call centre operators working from home.
“Leave me alone: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pleads with ‘bully’ Peter FitzSimons”
I have several thoughts about this…..
Senator Price should never have agreed to be interviewed by such a low life parasitic cockroach called Peter FitzSimons, and that’s being a rather unfair to cockroaches. Both the lowlife cockroach and his vile cane toad wife are shit stains on Australian public life, oh which reminds me, I’m still waiting for the cane toad missus to be charged for what she did a few months ago when she prejudiced a forthcoming trial but who am I kidding? This cane toad and her putrid husband always get a free pass on everything…don’t they? Remember when he called a black man “a gorilla”? Did he suffer any career censure? Nope. Rules for thee but not for me. This same hypocrite has spent decades using the “race card” against others but he calls a black man a “gorilla” and nothing happens. Only two weeks ago, this piece of human garbage was called out for his commentary regarding the Manly Seven, because earlier this year this same piece of human garbage had supported the Muslim AFL player, Haneen Zreika, when she refused to wear the Pride Jersey, but being the anti-Christian bigot that he is (didn’t stop him from sending his children to a Christian school though), he offered no such support for the Manly Sven and instead wrote comma riddled, ineligible columns for Nine Newspapers screeching at and lambasting the Christian players who refused to wear the “Pride” jersey. In one of his screeds on the Manly Seven, showing just how profoundly dumb he is (so much for his Knox education) and deliberately confusing Christianity with Islam, he lambasted the Manly Seven for being happy to wear logos from alcohol and gambling sponsors, clearly his Knox education didn’t teach him that that neither Judaism nor Christianity ban gambling or alcohol.
If anything, he and his wife are appropriate representatives of just how this country has fallen. I know there are many progressive “celebrities” in the UK and US who are sanctimonious hypocrites but they do often possess some talent whereas here in Oz we’re saddled with untalented verminous hypocrites like FitzSimian and his cane toad missus, both of whom lack any talent whatsoever.
I await the denunciations of the cockroach’s behaviour from those two female warriors, Missy Higgins and Missy Tame, but I reckon we’ll only hear only silence from both, because the aggrieved woman in question, Senator Price, is of the wrong political side and I’m pretty sure Ms Higgins will be loathe to bite the hand that’s fed her and will continue to feed her (court case depending), youse all know what I’m talking about, that juicy book deal that’s apparently in the pipeline, and goodness me, who could have organised such a deal for Missy Higgins?
Rant over.
Does the rest of Ramirez’ newspaper share his affliction, or is it something upon which he is at odds with it and the readers?
Theodore Dalrymple if I remember correctly…
Struth, mate, could this be true????
“The ability to suppress the scope and the scale of the vaccine injuries and deaths is starting to slip,” said Kory. “The ERs, the neurologists, cardiologists, oncologists, they’re seeing too many diseases in young people that they’ve never seen before—heart attacks, strokes, sudden deaths, and cancers. And you cannot suppress that. You cannot continue to suppress that.”
Kory said doctors in the system are now openly talking about the vaccines as a cause of injury.
Besides the massive number of adverse events reported in VAERS, 8,808 claims have been made to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) as of July 1. It is currently the only program to compensate individuals harmed by adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/protocol-for-vaccine-injured-focuses-on-spike-protein-and-helping-patients-recover-dr-pierre-kory_4648481.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
100 EV’s mysteriously destroyed in fire in India
In early June an incident of extreme-climate change-policy hit a car park in India at 5am.
UPDATE: As commenter DLK says it’s a case of “sudden vehicle death syndrome (SVDS)”.
Imagine if this happened in an apartment block basement while people slept above it?
As many as 30 new e-rickshaws, 50 old e-rickshaws, 10 private cars, 2 scooters and a motorcycle were gutted due to the fire spreading through the parking lot. The Delhi Fire Department received the call at 5 AM.
Apparently Jacinta is being used by tHe RacIStS.
Bonus:
It seems a lot of white saviours are disappointed Jacinta isn’t playing her allotted role.
No comments I see and the comment I made was rejected at the outset — every comment I have made in the last three months has been rejected not that I go to the Australian very often anyway the Sunbather keeps the subscription he now pays so fair enough
The Chief Apologises
Scot Squad – BBC Scotland Comedy
Errr, no.
That was Anthony Daniels, aka Theodore Dalrymple.
Snap, duk.
It’s important because it is a significant insight into the mindset of perps who see themselves as victims. Dr (for a real doctor he is) Daniels deserves the credit.
Jab jab booster.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/41-of-covid-19-deaths-in-san-diego-fully-vaccinated-andor-boosted-299514c4
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/whistleblower-l-nurse-reveals-c19-patient-mistreatment-and-vaccine-injuries-830f45ec
Mmmm, no more writers’ festivals for you.
The word for today is plaisanterie.
Gina Rinehart and the I.P.A., no less.
Feel the Bern
Re Lithuania – Agreed – concerned they are being pushed by the globo labor parties and rotten money flowing through.
Just to note – Lithuanians are Prussians – only other surviving Prussian is Latvia.
Keep it blonde and blue eyed and organised.
Re ONJ – cant stand how they talk about her as the black leather clad beauty in Grease.
Seriosuly – who dresses like that and us boys like her in normal clothes – with white socks and pony tail with that look on her face that butter would melt.
Nice allies
Well if the WEF doesn’t want the proles to drive cars it means we walk a lot.
So it’s perfectly sensible for car companies to make shoes.
Supercar Manufacturer McLaren Dives Into Fashion With $450 Sneakers (8 Aug)
On the other hand you’d have to sell a lot of shoes to match one high performance muscle car.
Good to see Richard Dennisssss and Teh Ponds Institute on the 6pm News last night. Still Australia’s most respected independent think tank.
His insights into political correctness were magnificent also
I missed this yesterday.
The parent of Energy Australia announced they wrote off $A1.5bill in energy hedges as part of the regulators stepping in.
If they’ve written them off, who was on the other side of the trade?
Also, just how much will be written off across all parts of the east coast energy stack due to the regulators stepping in to set the price?
Happened to her? Arec seems to be under the impression that unforeseeable circumstances conspired to fill her with pills so she rattled like a child’s toy, put a bottle of vodka in a cup holder from which she inadvertently drunk mistaking it for coffee, and sent her at breakneck speed down a street, near sending people flying, then careening onward into a house and bursting into flame.
Geez. Don’t you all just hate it when that happens?
I realise it’s Twitter, but there’s no attempt to engage with Jacinta’s arguments for her positions. She’s simply on the wrong side and therefore must be wrong.
Jack Posobiec ?? @JackPosobiec · 1h
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1556755674498998274
Emergency? What emergency? Oh, that one!
All people in NSW over the age of 12 are required to wear a face mask:
– at a public hospital or private health facility (including private hospitals and day procedure centres)
– in residential care facilities or hostels
– on public transport and public transport waiting areas (including in taxis and rideshare services)
– in a cruise terminal
– on a domestic commercial aircraft (including when the aircraft is flying above NSW).
If you are over the age of 12 and are a household or close contact of someone who has tested positive to COVID-19, you must also wear a face mask when you are in an indoor setting that is not your own home, including workplaces and tertiary education settings. School settings may have their own guidance for students which should be followed.
A person can remove their face mask in these settings if they are:
– eating or drinking,
– engaging in physical exercise,
– communicating with a person who is deaf or hard of hearing,
– engaging in work, and wearing the mask is a risk to the person’s, or another person’s, health and safety, or
– enunciation or visibility of the person’s mouth is essential, or
– the work is in an indoor area and no other person is in the area,
– asked to remove the covering as part of an identity check,
– required to remove the covering because of an emergency (!), or
– for the proper provision of goods or a service,
– in a vehicle alone or with a member of the person’s household,
– in a hotel, motel or other accommodation facility as a guest and is in their own room,
– in a public hospital or private health facility as a patient,
– in a residential care facility or hostel as a resident,
– in the process of getting married.
You need to wear your face mask again as soon as practicable after the reason for taking it off has ended.
Who does this woman think she is? The Leader of the Victoriastan Opposition?
Lode:
Yep. Baldwin was actually the victim during the ‘incident’ where ‘the gun just went off’ not that long ago. The death, via kinetic organ failure and blood loss of Whatsername the Hispanic (Latinx) woman is irrelevant.
Masks.
Memo to Australian conservatives such as Senator Price.
Two weeks ago, the garbage US media programme known as “The View” invited Governor Ron DeSantis to appear on the show. An invitation was sent to the Governor’s office stating how they would be “honoured” if the Governor appeared. LOL, interesting use of the word “honour”, no mention of the fact that various hosts of The View have spent years smearing and ridiculing the Governor, some recent “honourable” descriptions by The View’s hosts of DeSantis…..”Death-Santis, a fascist and a bigot” and “DeSantis is a negligent, homicidal maniac”.
So, Governor DeSantis’ response to invitation to appear on The View….NO.
I see the revolution has kicked off in the US. The FBI is raiding Trump’s Florida mansion.
Duk, Johanna:
yes you are right. Theodore Dalrymple it was.
My keyboard apologises for its mistake.
Zanetti
The leaked reports into Karma Sharma’s loss in Wentworth by Mr Peta Credlin in Teh Paywallian are good for a few LOLs. Apparently ScoMo was as popular as an incontinent Indian at the Hay truck stop car park.
NK is not going to Ukraine.
Then he went out and “accidentally” shot someone. Ah, good ol’ Hollyweird dirtbags.
9th August, 1945 – second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
P
That clip of Biden stumbling around trying to get his jacket on – give the man a break.
Every man of his advanced age, infirmity and mental decline has tried to put his hand into the inside pocket instead of the sleeve, missed several times, and had to call for help. Dropping the sunglasses as well is also par for the course for aged dodderers.
Luckily President Brandon has the whole US military at his disposal and Dr. Jill too.
Off to the Canberra airport for a week in Cairns, so will check on face masks etc etc. Flying Virgin Sturgeon.
Doesn’t help the get back to normal process – not that the ACT government wants that – when they have a flashing board beside the Monaro Highway every day saying “Protect yourself – wear a face mask”.
Very sad news about ONJ. As noted above, she certainly seemed to be a very decent person as well as a gifted performer. Vale.
Apart from being dazzlingly beautiful, even as a youngster ONJ had none of the airs and graces of other rising celebrities.
In the late 1960s, she and her squeeze at the time, Ian Turpie, were the stars at the Saturday night dance at the CWA hall in my little country town (population 300).
We were dazzled.
That was an almost unimaginably different and innocent world to the cynical shit show it has become.
Is Cricket Sustainable Amid Climate Change?
The warming of the earth, combined with the exhausting nature of the game, is raising questions about the future of the second most popular sport in the world.
I didn’t even know Olivia was seriously ill. Seems to be a week of legendary singers to leave us.
calli – I’ve maintained from the get go that face nappie mandates were all about humiliation and subjugation.
We see you, fascists.
ZK2A, the end of one world war and start of another?
Both Putin and Xi must be looking at this and the forthcoming mess in the US as a perfect time for them to strike.
Scary times ahead. And we thought two years ago the lockdowns were the worst we had to endure.
Hilarious! Back in your box Block!
TV shows labelled ‘condescending’ for Acknowledgement of Country
Indigenous leaders have blasted reality TV shows for this “condescending” move, saying it is being overused and devalued.
Indigenous leaders have blasted popular reality TV shows for using the Acknowledgment of Country, labelling the gestures “unnecessary” and “condescending” to Aboriginal people.
Channel 9’s The Block made the decision to show an Acknowledgment of Country before the new season premiere on Sunday night.
“The Block and the City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi, Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples as the traditional custodians of the land on which this production has taken place, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be, Kulin Nation land,” it said.
On Channel 10 on Sunday, The Masked Singer host Osher Gunsberg also began the show with the acknowledgment.
“We welcome you tonight from Gadigal land, a place of beauty and abundance, where the sandstone meets the sea,” Gunsberg said.
“We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this country, and elders past, present and emerging, and extend our respects to any to First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people joining us tonight.”
Gunsberg’s address on the show was in line with Ten’s decision to do an Acknowledgement of Country at the start of every series filmed in Australia.
It has done so for three years.
Foxtel’s Real Housewives Of Melbourne also did an Acknowledgement of Country on the show last year.
Wurundjeri elder Ian Hunter said the use of the acknowledgment was “totally unnecessary”.
“It should only be used where appropriate such as a citizenship ceremony,” Mr Hunter said.
“When too many people use it very lightly it devalues our ceremonial programs – it’s condescending.”
ACU social scientist Dr Anthony Dillon said the Acknowledgement of Country on prime time TV was a “tipping point”.
“While I don’t outright oppose it, I’m definitely not a fan of it,” Dr Dillon said.
“It’s become oversaturated, just like the warnings for Indigenous viewers on some stations that warn there could be images of deceased persons – it’s only applicable to very few people.”
In addition to doing the Acknowledgment of Country, The Block’s cast and crew have also undergone Indigenous cultural training in a bid to respect the land where the shows latest renovations are taking place.
Herald-Sun
Nice to see you back in top form, Bear.
Jacinta would be within her rights to make a complaint to police about FitzSimons.
Sending someone late night texts threatening to sue them could constitute using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
Vale ONJ…one of my favourites. This is hard, coming so soon after Judith Durham’s death. Just as an aside, some interesting info on Olivia, her father was a well known and respected professor of musicology here at Newcastle University. Olivia was halachically Jewish, her mother was the daughter of Max Born, the German physicist who fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Not if you’re in rural Australia and Labor is implementing it’s promises.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/doctors-will-move-from-rural-and-remote-areas-dpa
The most spectacular end to a Hollyweird career since Jimmy Dean and the Fast and Furious bloke.
Dear Lord, but some of these people are getting ahead of their stations in life. The absolute temerity(the Hun):
The piece specifically mentions The Block and Real Housemoles of Melbourne, of whom both have grovelled at that particular indig altar.
To add street cred, there’s a pic of Hunter in a wide-brimmed hat and wearing a roo skin. And:
With a bit of luck this stupid, invented fad will become the monkeypox of its time – relevant to only a tiny minority of people, and not spoken of in polite circles.
Snap TE!
To follow up from above.
News stories today of doctors leaving rural areas, applications for positions falling away sharply and being withdrawn as soon as the Labor scheme was opened.
Crossiesays:
August 9, 2022 at 9:25 am
9th August, 1945 – second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
ZK2A, the end of one world war and start of another?
Both Putin and Xi must be looking at this and the forthcoming mess in the US as a perfect time for them to strike.
Paul Couvret OAM JP (5 June 1922 – 5 July 2013) was a Dutch–Australian military veteran, New South Wales schoolteacher and local Councillor. He was a Councillor on Warringah Council from 1973 to 1995 and was Shire President from 1979 to 1983.
On 9 August 1945, Couvret was working in a sunken dock in Nagasaki Harbour when an atom bomb exploded six kilometres away. He dived under the ship he had been working on and was thus protected from the explosion.
Immigration to Australia
Upon being liberated by sailors of the US Navy on 11 September 1945, Couvret returned to service with the Dutch Navy, this time as a pilot in the Netherlands Naval Aviation Service.[2] His father had died in a Japanese prison in Bandoeng and his mother had died of starvation in a nearby women’s camp.
Therefore, at the end of 1945 he came to Australia for six months to assist with the evacuation of prisoners of war from the East. Couvret was eventually demobilised in July 1947 and then repatriated to the Netherlands. However, he decided to return to Australia, arriving in Sydney on the SS Volendam in January 1949, aged 27.
Too busy being political activists.
UK Doctors Push to ‘Decriminalise’ Abortion Up to Birth (8 Aug)
I had this weird memory that doctors must swear an oath to heal not harm. I must be mistaken.
Is the raid on Trumps property real news?
This should help fix the recruitment problems.
A group of retired military heavyweights has urged the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in higher education when the justices review a legal challenge to race-conscious admissions policies at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University.
The former officers argued in court papers that allowing colleges and service academies to consider race as a factor in admissions decisions helps the U.S. military achieve its goal of cultivating a diverse officer corps, which they said accrues benefits both within the ranks and in overseas operations.
Prohibiting race-conscious admissions, on the other hand, would threaten to undermine national security, the group argued in an amicus brief signed by 35 former top military leaders, including the highest-ranking military officers under former Presidents Trump, Obama, George W. Bush and Clinton.
?“History has shown that placing a diverse Armed Forces under the command of homogenous leadership is a recipe for internal resentment, discord, and violence,” the group wrote. “By contrast, units that are diverse across all levels are more cohesive, collaborative, and effective.”
Yes mole.
thefrollickingmolesays:
August 9, 2022 at 9:35 am
Is the raid on Trumps property real news?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11093449/FBI-agents-raid-Mar-Lago-Trump-says-home-siege-agents.html
Hr father was a man of many talents – during Wobbly Wobbly Two, he was working on the Enigma codes, at Bletchley Park.
Ok so its official.
In US politics it is now acceptable to go hard after the previous president, gloves off, all agency prosecution.
Its like the Dems dont think they will ever lose government agin.
Joe Biden Sends Dozens of FBI Agents to Raid Home of President Trump in Florida
August 8, 2022 | Sundance
So, Governor DeSantis’ response to invitation to appear on The View….NO
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It was better than that, Cassie. I can’t remember where I read it, but DeSantis’ Chief of Staff or whoever wrote back in the following terms (paraphrased):
“Dear (whoever)
Thank you for your invitation to Governor DeSantis to appear on The View.
I draw your attention to the following comments made by panellists about the Governor.
(Long list of abusive comments, calling him a racist, mysoginist, wanting blacks to be murdered, literally Hitler, sexist, fascist and so on.)
The Governor declines your invitation.”
And then they released it to the media.
That’s how you deal with these creeps.
I’m thinking more of the damage it can do to any referendum regarding a “Voice” to Parliament.
For what it’s worth, there’s a very sarcastic piece, over on “Dark Emu Exposed” about a bookshop, who persists in acknowledging the fact that they stand on Aboriginal Land.
Someone must be very close to exposing the Biden corruption cabal for this crazy and dangerous action.
There was a story that the Japanese military tried to kidnap the emperor to prevent him surrendering after the first atom bomb?
Why did Pelosi take her son to Taiwan?
No, it’s like they know that the RINOs are too flabby and fake genteel to do the same to them – a view which is supported by history.
The rule of law.
Hosted by quite possibly the stupidest women to have existed in human history, including Whoopsie “not rape, rape” Goldberg.
Akin to watching a slow motion train wreck. Trust me on this, I’ve had the misfortune to see various excerpts, including Whoopsie’s comments on the Holocaust (which resulted in her temporary suspension from the show) and some of their abuse of DeSantis, as posted above.
Gez, you have to suspect the Dems/FBI want to prompt scenes of mayhem and riot before the midterms and to do so solely for electoral advantage.
Disgusting – a subterranean new low from those illegitimate imbeciles.
Oaf, Max Hasting’s account of Japan’s final days has all the details:
https://www.amazon.com/Retribution-Battle-1944-45-Max-Hastings/dp/0307263517
Highly recommended
The NYPD is still hemorrhaging cops.
Ever-growing exodus figures show 2,465 police officers have filed to leave the department this year — 42% more than the 1,731 who exited at the same time last year, according to the latest pension fund stats obtained by The Post.
More disturbing is the fact that the number of cops hanging up their holsters early — before reaching 20 years for a full pension — has skyrocketed 71% this year from the year before (1,098 from 641).
After the dropping of the second atomic bomb, the night before the surrender, yes, there was an attempted coup, by a group of officers. I’ve got my copy of Max Hastings’s book somewhere…
Glad to see the FBI raiding Trump’s compound. Sounds like it was ostensibly about retrieving classified documents… but I am sure there would have been a lot of other incriminating stuff lying around.
Even for US TV aimed at a predominantly female audience The View is bad. Even Larry Emdur would be reluctant to appear on it.
Like I am sure a warrant less no knock search of your home would provide.
The solution to heating bills over the winter months is, obviously, to have an open fire.
All you need is an e-bike (the Hun):
And:
$200K is a trifling pittance, compared to the smugness produced from renewable transport. Mr Attard:
Damn straight. Be wary.
Is it Muellerween yet!?
ZK2A I watched Enigma last night fo the first time. It was crap, shit, merde and faeces. Now I know the book pushed the boundaries at the end, but it was a good story well told. The movie atrocious.
The problem with this is the bugmen are trying very hard indeed to make monkeypox “relevant” to us all, whether we like it or not.
Dr. Gottlieb: ‘Broaden Testing’ to Get Monkeypox ‘Back in the Box’ (Newsmax, 8 Aug)
Which means they want to test absolutely everyone endlessly just like they did with coof. So you go to the GP, you get tested, you go to visit an oldy in a nursing home you get tested. And vaccines mandatory for those wukkas.
One wonders though about the test method. Covid enters through the nose and the test is a nose swab. Monkeypox however infects a somewhat different part of the body, so will you have to be swabbed at the site of entry?
$200k buys a lot of 98RON. Even at todays prices.
Gorilla Channel subscriptions? Piss-soaked pillowcases?
A laptop chockers with Trump Jnr off his tits on coke, rooting hookers, calling his mother a c**t and his father a peddler, asleep with crack pipes hanging out of his mouth and details of Ukrainian ‘business deals’?
No?
Hahaha. The antipodean Twitter parrot has arrived to deliver the Democratic Party’s latest talking point — viz, we’ll do whatever it takes to stop Trump running in 2024.
The FBI had a warrant. And I am sure they didn’t barge the doors of Mar-a-Lago down.
They did bust open his safe though, LOL.
Zyco the retiring cops will have plenty of work in the security and protection business. Who can blame them.
All villains keep incriminating evidence in safes.
Trump stole mail in votes for Democrats in 2020, he was wearing a plum dressing gown in his study and he used the Presidential limo.
Powerline’s Geek in Pictures today also has a pretty amazing news graphic about police recruiting.
The logical question with all of this anti-cop stuff lately is “who’d want to be a cop?”
An the answer seems also to be logical: nobody.
Went to see the real Bletchely Park, and the tour guide was one of the girls who had worked there during the Second World War. There’s a memorial to the Polish code breakers.
Moreover, Il Scimmiot‘s article the other day imputed racism to Jacinta Price for which Jacinta would have cause of action in defamation.
Joanna @ 9:50, the RINOs would never “stoop” to defend the rule of law but everyone knows that Trump is running* this time for revenge and will exact it.
The junta has no choice but to try to take him out or they are toast. His success at the Republican primaries has forced their hand.
*Everyone knows he is running and is merely waiting for the conventional time to announce it.
Just got an ‘internal server error’ message. My comment (well, with the quotes) was long, so I’ll try again breaking it up.
And with this. NSW Liberals have lost the next election
NSW treasurer elected deputy Liberal leader
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been elected unopposed as the new deputy leader of the state’s Liberal party.
Government whip and member for Wollondilly Nathaniel Smith addressed the media from state parliament moments ago to announce Kean’s election to the position.
“I’m happy to announce there was only one candidate who stood for election,” he said.
“Our new deputy leader of the parliamentary Liberal party, who was elected unopposed, is the honorable Matthew Kean, member for Hornsby and Treasurer of NSW and Minister for Energy.”
All the Scooby Doo ones, at least.
This is a bloke who provided every tax return he’d ever lodged to anyone that asked, and refused to take the POTUS salary.
What did you think was in the safe, mUnter? The giant emerald from Romancing the Stone?
BREAKING: MAR-A-LAGO IS BEING RAIDED BY THE FEDS RIGHT NOW!
It was Professor Plump with the burner phone in the West Wing toilet.
A story at TheirABC illustrates the clash between Green ideology and reality:
and
The unfortunate residents of Lytton are discovering at first hand what the Green New Deal looks like.
Thanks areff and Zk2A, will get Hastings’ book and read up on the subject.
Unconfirmed reports that Hunter Biden accompanied the FBI on the raid and had the agents hold Trump down so he could donkey slap TFG with his nine-inch hawg.
Biden WH claims they had no idea about FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home until they ‘saw it on Twitter’ but ain’t NOBODY buyin’ it
I’ve lost the middle bit, can’t be bothered redoing it, but it includes solar panels for pavements (in Canada!) and the council telling you in detail how to build your house and what you can store on your property.
The poor bloody residents are guinea pigs, homeless ones, for the Green New Deal.
‘I’m a boy!’: Child, 4, born a female announces transition with a blue gender reveal cannon at Vancouver Pride Parade – with his grandmother by his side
Charlie Danger Lloyd, four, has wanted to be a boy since the age of two, according to his mother Alaina Bourrel, 27
The child’s mother said the moment was inspired by Charlie’s previous gender reveal before his birth
‘He wasn’t your typical little girl. He would play with other boys and the parents would say he was more of a boy than their own children,’ Bourrel said
Since starting his transition four months ago, Charlie has only been wearing clothes for boys and has also had his hair short
His parents say his confidence has surged
Now, THIS is an actual threat to democracy –> FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home (Trump statement screenshot)
Guys, there is no easy way to say it …
This is effed up.
This part really hits home:
‘I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delievered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it.’
Yes, yes they did.
Guess the FBI didn’t have time to visit Hunter Biden’s home.
Ahem.
This is approaching political persecution
Approaching?
Pretty sure we’re there.
Let’s hope we can all wake up before it’s too late.
This stuff is amusing since Mueller and his tribe of lawyers, with perfect cooperation from the FBI and other agencies, failed to find anything at all after two solid years of desperate effort. The Dem activist DAs in New York and Washington still haven’t found anything either. So this raid is a nothingburger, that’s all it can possibly be.
Unless of course they plant something then “find” it.
Will mUnty ever graduate from his undergraduate talking points? It like every year is 1st year Economics.
Steve Bannon on Fox News: White chief of staff approved Ron Klain approved the FBI raid on Mar a’Lago. The FBI was instructed to look for documents that could disqualify Donald Trump from running for president again in 2024. The Democratic Party is terrified of the possibility.
Nah, I think this is more like TheStorm™.
Was Pelosi on the raid in camo now she’s back from Taiwan? Oliver Stone directing?
Some of the story of the Japanese rebellion against the Emperor (footnotes can’t be put in by the site):
On Tuesday 14 August the Emperor met formally with the Cabinet, Supreme Council, and others, and the recording of the radio broadcast, onto vinyl records for replay over the national network, was fixed for later that night. In the afternoon a second battalion of Imperial Guards entered the Palace grounds, remaining in addition to the battalion already stationed there which would normally have changed out.
Later that night, as the recording apparatus was being prepared, all of the officers of the 302nd Air Corp were called to a meeting by one of the leaders, Captain Kozono of the Atsugi Air Group, where he exhorted resistance to giving in. He received what seemed to be enthusiastic support, but Kozono’s junior officers had received quiet orders from General Harada not to obey. At the same time Captain Sasaki, of the Yokohama Guards, was on his way to foment revolt within the Guards Headquarters at Sojiji Temple. He planned to issue arms to the men he found there. Neither knew of each other’s plot, and such disparate planning, as well as lack of senior leader, was a substantial reason for the failure of the revolt.
The actual bloody part of the attempted coup took place during that night. The NHK engineers had nervously set up a recording facility near the Emperor’s location, and planned to cut a vinyl record of his speech. The Emperor’s staff brought him to the studio, and the recording was made. But the first recording had some imperfections, and the Emperor requested another try. This was carried out, and the two records were now ready for broadcasting back at the main facility of the NHK the following day.
The recordings made by the Emperor, on the two discs, were stored overnight by the Emperor’s by-now fearful chamberlains in a small safe with papers piled in front of it: this kept them hidden. The concealment was a most fortuitous move. If they had been seized and destroyed an official announcement to the nation – presumably an altered version of the speech read by an announcer – would have lacked much of divine authority the voice of the Emperor would have imparted to his people, almost all of whom had never heard his voice before.
It was now the rebellion reached actuality. Around one in the morning the rebels Captain Uehara and Major Hatanaka visited two of the officers perceived as obstacles: General Mori and Lieutenant Colonel Shiraishi. In what seems to have been a very short confrontation the rebels assassinated them, utilising pistol and sword. Using the prize of Mori’s official seal, “Strategic Order No. 584” was sent to various units and regiments ordering their disposition. Shortly the Imperial Palace was controlled entirely by Imperial Guards, and 16 key men were imprisoned within the Palace grounds. Later this rose in number as more captives were taken and added to the lockup.
Kido was advised of the revolt as soon as it commenced. He tore up relevant secret documents and flushed them down the toilet in his quarters. Then he and Imperial Household Minister Ishiwatari hid in a bomb shelter underneath the building. The rebels searched for him and also the recording of the Emperor advising of the intention to surrender. Presumably once they had obtained it they would have destroyed it so it could not be broadcast then or in the future. Other rebels also searched Radio Tokyo.
Various incidents of revolt began to take place around the city. Leaflets were distributed arguing for continued resistance. But the Premier was the main target. The rebels were intent on killing Suzuki. In short order his official residence and then his private house were visited and set on fire; the former being doused just after the Premier and his staff left. Suzuki, despite his 77 years, was adept at keeping one step ahead – almost literally in some moments – of his pursuers. Thus the coup failed. Its main symbolic leader, General Anami, hearing of the failure of the combined effort, committed suicide around 430am.
Around seven am, with smoke from Privy Council President Baron Hiranuma’s house – also set on fire – drifting across the city, an implied signal of the failure of any coup was broadcast across the radio network: the official broadcast would take place at noon. The recording discs had not been found, despite vigorous searches by some of the Guards. Major Hatanaka and Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki were reduced to distributing leaflets outside the Imperial Palace, the former on a motorcycle and the latter on a horse. Nothing further eventuated. Almost as the opening address was being made the two killed themselves in front of the Imperial Palace, using their personal weapons.
This was not the end of the matter however. Popular reaction amongst civilians was not altogether one of positive acquiescence. It varied from meek acceptance, to angry rejection, to the allocation of blame. Professor Ienega cites examples of teachers blaming students for not trying hard enough for the country, and people saying that this was not a defeat but a postponement of revenge.
Medical Doctor Michihiko Hachiya, who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, noted that confusion reigned, with all sorts of rumours abounding. These included stories that Allied cities in the USA were being destroyed by Japanese forces using the same type of bomb; Japan had turned the tide of the war, or that conversely the nation was about to be invaded. One rumour was true: the Emperor was addressing the nation, and Hachiya heard the broadcast, although the reception and volume were both bad and he only made out some essential words, being told afterwards at a medical staff assembly that the country was surrendering. He also noted that many people – in fact with all of the responses he noted – cried out publicly and loudly for the war to be continued.
The military attitude was similar. Given the nature of armed service, it was often in accordance with their tradition of lethal response. At Kodama pilots loaded torpedoes onto planes and attempted to take off. They were deterred by Major General Nonaka. Another attempt at aerial attacks was foiled by General Masao Yoshizumi, the chief of the Military Affairs Bureau. On the 17th August the Mito Army Air Division attempted a revolt.
Toland records that an actual attack on Allied units did take place, probably on the afternoon of the 15th, in the hours following the Emperor’s broadcast. Eleven “small bombers” took off from Oita Air Base on Kyushu, flying south to attack the Allied war effort at Okinawa. The attack was organized by Admiral Ugaki, and personally led by him. The bombers were two-man machines (perhaps Val divebombers), and Toland records that when Ugaki took the rear seat of the lead plane the displaced crewman became indignant and insisted on climbing in too. Four of the aircraft turned back with engine trouble, but the remaining planes reached Okinawa and seven dived into their targets.
Located at Atsugi, Captain Kozono, who had not garnered earlier overall support, seems to have been in sufficient command to order aircraft into the air probably prior to the Emperor’s broadcast. According to Frank he eventually was restrained on mental grounds and the propellers were removed from the aircraft in his charge. Toland reports that aircraft flown by crews from Atsugi Air Base dropped leaflets across Tokyo accusing the Suzuki government of misleading the Emperor.
On 24 August there was an attempt by military students to occupy the Kawaguchi broadcasting station. It was stopped by General Shizuichi Tanaka, commander of the Eastern region of the army, who convinced the rebellious officers to leave. Tanaka committed suicide nine days later. Up until MacArthur’s landing on 30 August, at Atsugi, plans and attempts to attack enemy forces continued. Frank notes that fighting between Japanese and Soviet forces along the Manchurian border did not cease until the end of August.
Senior diplomat Toshikazu Kase, who wrote the final communiqué to the Allies advising that Japan was willing to surrender, was in situ for the weeks following the decision. He observed much more that what has been listed so far in terms of rebellion.
During the first few weeks following the surrender the planes of our Navy Special Attack Corps several times flew over Tokyo and dropped leaflets which read, ‘Don’t surrender. Don’t believe the imperial rescript. It is a false document.’ Posters appeared and handbills were circulated in busy streets which denounced the jushin for misguiding the Emperor and delivering the nation to the Allies. Lacking in organization, however, such resistance to peace collapsed in a few days’ time.
Kase also noted a rebellion by 400 troops who seized “Ueno Hill in the centre of the city.” Another group took possession of Atago Hill. Both were induced to disperse. Many of the leaders committed suicide, some with hand grenades. Toland says there were 10 “young men” in the Atago Hill incident. They all blew themselves up with hand grenades after singing the national anthem. On 20 August another planned coup to seize the Imperial Palace once more was prevented. On 26 August a plan to use aircraft to attack Allied ships was stopped.
Admiral Yonai, Navy Minister in various cabinets, and Navy Minister in the Suzuki Cabinet, said later in his interrogation:
One thing that was a great source of worry to me at the end of the war was this: The Imperial Rescript was issued on August 14th and broadcast on the 15th; and being deeply concerned for what young officers in the Navy might do, I took every possible measure to forestall possible untoward incidents, and I believe that I was more or less successful, and the same may be said with regard to the Army. But after all, the thing that made it possible to avoid serious trouble of any kind was the power of the Emperor rather than anything that I or the Army were able to do. During my long career as Navy Minister I probably never worried so much as I did during the period from the 14th to about the 23rd of that month, and I felt greatly relieved when we were able to go through this period without any serious trouble in the Navy.
The war ended, but not for everyone. In 1944, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda had been sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare. Unfortunately, he was never officially told the war had ended; so for 29 years, Onoda continued to live in the jungle, ready for when his country would again need his services and information. Eating coconuts and bananas, and evading searching parties he believed were enemy scouts, Onoda hid in the jungle until he finally emerged from the dark recesses of the island on March 19, 1972.
Other soldiers fought on unknowingly on small abandoned islands in the Pacific; one man in Indonesia, and two in Thailand – the latter not being found and induced to give in until 1991.
Link to book
Hunter Biden Breathes Sigh Of Relief As FBI Raid Team Passes By His House On Way to Mar-A-Lago
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — High-level Chinese asset and sex trafficker Hunter Biden breathed a sigh of relief this evening as an FBI raid team passed by his West Palm Beach vacation home to raid Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago.
“Whew! Thought they had me for a minute there,” Biden sighed, according to sources before going back to smoking crack with a hooker on a pile of cash freshly delivered by Chinese agents. “Glad to know the FBI is still working for my Dad!”
The FBI arrived at Mar-a-Lago shortly after, but things got awkward after the FBI raid team ran into the FBI evidence planting team due to a scheduling mistake.
Joe Kent wins GOP primary in WA and defeats RINO incumbent.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 9, 2022 at 10:34 am
This stuff is amusing since Mueller and his tribe of lawyers, with perfect cooperation from the FBI and other agencies, failed to find anything at all after two solid years of desperate effort. The Dem activist DAs in New York and Washington still haven’t found anything either. So this raid is a nothingburger, that’s all it can possibly be.
Unless of course they plant something then “find” it.
The FBI arrived at Mar-a-Lago shortly after, but things got awkward after the FBI raid team ran into the FBI evidence planting team due to a scheduling mistake.
I see Trump complained that there was no difference between today’s raid and Watergate.
I mean, yeah, I can see the similarities. In both cases, the Republican Party office holders were all criminals and the Republican President committed treason.
Miranda Devine says on Fox News that the Maralago raid was a fishing expedition. I’m more cynical, the FBI can now claim to have found anything they want.
OldOzzie, pretty much my thinking.
I also meant to add, that’s why the raid had to be carried out when Trump was not there.
Past time for the Thief in Chief to have his grassy knoll moment. Then they can have the Cackler in Chief. What a corrupt bunch. I saw that clip of the Thief trying to put on his coat. Dr jill helped him then looked away in embarrassment. They must pump him up with drugs before he speaks most times. The rest of the time he must be a dribbling idiot.
hotair.com who are Anti-Trump report
The NY Times has a story up on what the raid was about:
The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.
Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action being taken to retrieve them…
The search took place on Monday morning, a person familiar with it said, although Mr. Trump claimed agents were still there many hours later.
The search was at least in part for whether any records remained at the club, the person familiar with the search said.
So it appears the purpose of the search was to grab records at Trump’s home. And Fox News is reporting the same thing.
FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is not related to Jan 6, but about “the taking of potential classified information” sources tell @davidspunt
That would all trace back to this story from February of this year:
So apparently the DOJ is convinced the 15 boxes weren’t everything kept at Mar-a-Lago. What the contents of those documents might be remains to be seen.
Trump does have a point about one thing that I think is basically correct. Democrats probably are worried about him running for office again. So this search may be totally legal but after having the FBI involved in the 2016 election, which Hillary complained about for months, having the FBI involved prior to the kickoff of the 2024 election seems like a dicey proposition.
Finally, here’s a CBS News report which also agrees this raid was about missing documents not about Jan. 6:
The Babylon Bee guys are simply amazing. ‘Way ahead of the curve. The MSM must hate them.
From reliable sources the ‘Ark of the Covenant’ was in the safe. Trump retrieved the Ark from the warehouse that it was stored in after Indiana Jones had retrieved it from the Nazi’s. He has been keeping it in his safe while he works out a safe way to harness its powers.
Now through the FBI, Joe now has it. Don’t open the Ark Joe!
Imagine this: you’re running the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential election campaign and you hear that, on the other side of the world, there’s a basement-dwelling geek who runs a fantasy football competition so blinded by personal hatred of anyone who isn’t a lefty he will distribute your talking points on hostile non-leftard blogs in Australia absolutely free of charge.
Do you: a) pay him pocket money for delivering votes that can’t be cast? b) write and thank him, knowing he could come into handy in 2024 when ballot-stuffing becomes a necessity to stop the Democratic Party being obliterated?
I’m tipping b). The Dems are going to need all the election riggers it can find in 2024 – wherever in the world they live.
Hope they eventually send you a cheque, Monty!
Hmm, let me see, what does it say here… Wray was appointed by a certain Donald Trump… whoa!
Of course…. same role as muzzles on dogs, bridles on horses, burkas on Afghani women…. to signify CONTROL
THE FBI RAIDS TRUMP
The New York Times reports that the FBI has executed a search warrant on Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account that, if accurate, would be a dramatic escalation in the various investigations into the former president.
The FBI has openly become an arm of the Democratic Party. This will not serve the Bureau well in years to come. But what was the pretext for the raid?
The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.
Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action being taken to retrieve them.
That is classic NYT “news” reporting. The Times cites the fact that Trump took a while to send documents to the National Archives–which he did some time ago–as justification for today’s raid.
Trump is certainly correct that all of this–the absurd “January 6” committee hearings, threats of criminal prosecution, and now this raid on his Florida home–is driven by the 2024 election. The Democrats impeached Trump twice, but that didn’t work. He leads Joe Biden in every 2024 presidential preference poll I have seen. So now they want to up the ante by arresting or indicting him on some trumped-up charge. That this is 100% about presidential politics, no one doubts.
I think this is unfortunate not only because it betrays our status as a banana republic, as Trump said, but also because it increases the likelihood that Republicans will rally behind Trump and he will be the Republican nominee in 2024.
If I thought the Democrats were this well-organized, I would suspect that today’s raid was part of their plot to ensure that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in 2024.
I sort of liked the idea of the mysterious powers of the Ark of the Covenant.
In reality I expect it was just a big box – how sad.
Permission to speak freely sir….
if diversity is a strength, what are ‘uniforms’ for?
The scandal that has become the focus of the audiophile world
At this point I’ve watched a bunch of longer videos about this whole thing from people on all sides. There are some audiophiles who are pretty clearly embarrassed by it. There are lots of non-audiophiles who are pointing out that the fixation on analog purity has created this whole situation. It’s not just the albums themselves, it’s the $10,000 turntables (or more) which some people buy to be part of this club. But a lot of people are just angry because they feel Mobile Fidelity lied to them. And having looked at the evidence I have to say I agree.
To be clear, MoFi never said “This record was produced from an analog master tape with no steps in between.” They were more clever than that. They simply advertised that their products were made from the original analog master tapes and year after year failed to mention that in many cases they had to make digital copies of those tapes in order to produce the albums they were selling to collectors.
There are a lot more angles to this scandal but I think the one I found most interesting was the fact that most people agree the MoFi records made from the digital copies of the master tape are pretty good. Not all of them of course but in some cases the MoFi pressing of an album is considered the best one available even by people like Mike Esposito, the guy who brought this to light. And that creates a pretty interesting dynamic where people who’ve really been devoted to the idea that analog material was the ultimate are now having to admit to themselves that some of their favorite “analog” albums were actually made from a digital source. Again, not everyone is able to deal with that revelation but some people are starting to reevaluate everything.
One YouTuber whose take I enjoyed made a simple point that sort of crystalized the whole thing. He pointed out that if some of these MoFi albums are great despite coming from a digital source then why not skip the vinyl completely? In other words, maybe true audiophiles should ditch expensive turntables and expensive records and just buy digital copies of the master tapes. Wouldn’t those be more true to the original sound without all of the physical steps involved in making a vinyl record?
Monty – You do realise that the GOP were undermining Trump appointments at every possible opportunity? Such that at one stage it was projected the Senate would take 11 years to approve all of Trump’s Administration appointments.
Then there are the moles.
Book: Mark Milley Wanted to Resign Under Trump but Stayed to ‘Fight from the Inside’ (8 Aug)
This is known in the trade as “treason in time of war”, since Trump was Milley’s superior and the US was in a formal state of war in a number of places, especially Afghanistan.
So do you approve of treason Monty? Do you?
Sancho Panzer:
I watched the nurses and teachers straight out of uni fall into that trap. Especially when the baby bonus was on. You couldn’t tell them, and there were several tragic outcomes. I won’t go into detail, but lives were ruined and lost for enough money for a weeks pissup, then the cycle continued.
Stupid, stupid girls who had no idea what they were getting into and the stories they were told in uni just set them up.
Just make sure she’s on the pill or better still an IUD or the implant – the pill can be stolen so she does fall pregnant.
In TE’s book excerpt the plotters did the right thing and spilt their guts onto the pavement outside the Imperial Palace. In a just world Milley and Wray would do the same onto the Capitol steps.
Re the terrible Matthew Guy interview, here’s some of the callers to the show after it.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1556626451541422080
Yes well Bruce, the GOP, as you say, have a lot of experience at undermining Senate appointments. As they are doing right now.
Your attempts to trivialise the charge of treason only tell on you.
If you missed it last time I posted it, Michael Anton’s They Can’t Let Him Back In, is must reading.
Yes Fatboy, all those charges that have accumulated since wussiagate.
Churchill to Bletchley Park director after visiting and meeting the “diverse” collection of people engaged in code breaking:
“I know I told you to leave no stone unturned when recruiting, but I didn’t expect you to take me literally.”
I wonder if the Trump camp will release the warrant. Probably not, as it would talk a lot about probable cause for crimes committed by his people. But hey, they’re not particularly smart.
I saw a meme last year on a photo of Joy Behar (lead skank on The View) that if the COVID virus had a face it’d be Joy Behar’s
TE – The scene was a riff on the return of the ark after the Philistines captured it, where some guys got curious and had a peek inside (1 Samuel 6:19). Didn’t go well for them. That whole episode was very interesting since when the Philistines captured it and took it home with them they were struck with a disease: “an outbreak of tumours” which went from city to city. So they sent the box back.
My immediate thought about the “tumours” is they might be better regarded as “buboes”, and the disease could well have been our old friend yersinia pestis. Which laid waste to Byzantium during the Plague of Justinian about 1500 years later.
Munster never graduated kindy.
m0ntysays:
August 9, 2022 at 9:59 am
Glad to see the FBI raiding Trump’s compound. Sounds like it was ostensibly about retrieving classified documents… but I am sure there would have been a lot of other incriminating stuff lying around.
Aren’t you dead yet. I don’t mean mentally because obviously you’ve been brain dead for years.
There is a patch sewn into Marxism to cover one of its many holes which goes under the name ‘authenticity’.
They believe that people belonging to victim classes can have their attention diverted from their authentic selves by distractions and bright coloured objects. Mind you, it is only their attention that is diverted. Their underlying insecurities and anxieties continue to gnaw at their soul, and their innermost nature is changed – merely starved.
This is why, even though wukkaz have never had it so good and are content to have colour TV’s and two cars, their own homes, holidays overseas, nice clothes and so on (or sew on), they are not really happy. They are deep down on agony. If this illusory satisfaction was wiped away they would revert to their truest yearning – to partake in collective ownership of the means of production.
You can’t ask wukkaz what they want. They don’t know. Only 20 year old spotty middle-class inner-urban activists do.
(We all have collective ownership in the nature reserves scattered around our cities – don’t you get more satisfaction from being a part owner in those than in your own backyard?)
A true marxist believes that people don’t know what they want. The marxist knows what people want – and the more they deny it the more certain it is. This theoretical leap was always going to be an easy one to make -marxists have long disdained democracy.
Jacinta may be an Aborigine, she may have first hand experience of the misery so many Aborigines live in, she may be utterly earnest in her wishes to improve their lot and a tireless advocate in their cause – but that is because she has been blinded by whitey and patriarchy.
What could she know?
What’s the bet they passed Economics 101?
The cope and seethe around here is at high levels today.
I wonder which of Don’s capos ratted him out this time?
One feels Pirate Pete may have met his match.
But seriously folks, the shit coming from the fat little turd aside, the cancerous raid on Trump is just the beginning. The mid terms are gone and the real insurrection has really started. DeSantis will be next and that may be interesting because unlike Trump, DeSantis has a big National Guard at his disposal. I mean there is no coming back from this. The FBI/DOJ/CIA know if the GOP now got back in power many at the top of these gestapo organisations would be in the firing line so the gloves are off.
The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends
A two-tier justice system is not a justice system. It is a totalitarian system. Its purpose is not justice but population control.
On Thursday, Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder decided it was the time to bring the subtext of the Jan. 6 show trials and related domestic security state activities into the open.
“My guess is that by the end of this process, you’re going to see indictments involving high-level people in the White House, you’re going to see indictments against people outside the White House who were advising them with regard to the attempt to steal the election, and I think ultimately you’re probably going to see the president, former president of the United States indicted as well,” Holder told SiriusXM host Joe Madison.
Holder noted that the U.S. Department of Justice he formerly headed is working with the illegally constituted Jan. 6 Commission towards this goal. We know these entities are also working with the FBI, whose head bit his thumb at congressional oversight repeatedly in a public hearing last week.
Locking Up Opposition Politicians Is What Putin Does
An indictment of former President Donald Trump would be a breathtakingly authoritarian turn. It would amount to the U.S. security state refusing to accept “no” from America’s voters yet again. An indictment would be an unelected and unaccountable federal agency overruling voters’ two-time rejection of impeachment through their elected representatives.
This is the core danger of the administrative state: Its now open propensity to go rogue. It is apparently hellbent now on turning the United States into a banana republic.
Democrats called Donald Trump a fascist, authoritarian, and wannabe dictator for chants at his rallies of “Lock her up,” referring to his opponent Hillary Clinton. At the time, leftists pointed out that imprisoning, interrogating, investigating, and otherwise using government resources to harass and prosecute one’s political opponents was the mark of tyrannical regimes such as Vladimir Putin’s and Adolf Hitler. “Democracies don’t lock up political opponents,” the Washington Post editorial board told us in 2016.
That is still true when the ones pushing the interrogations, investigations, entrapments into committing felonies, show trials in unusual venues with no cross-examination or due process, early morning home raids, excessive detainment, and asymmetrical punishments are Democrats. Democrats are trashing republican institutions, expectations, and guarantees for political purposes, most visibly now in their Jan. 6 effort to destroy the lives of protestors largely charged with misdemeanors and to expand Spygate tactics more broadly.
Spygate Is Setting Up Field Offices In Swing States
In Michigan, the FBI openly meddled in the upcoming election by affecting the selection of candidates, arresting and charging the formerly leading Republican candidate for governor for misdemeanors. The FBI raided Ryan Kelley’s home while polls showed him leading the primaries. In the primary election last week, he came in fourth.
The Jan. 6 Committee is now demanding documents and interviews with Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor Doug Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6, 2021 rally. The sole allegation against him is that he walked past “police lines,” which could mean anything, as the scene was chaotic and police were woefully understaffed.
This means Mastriano is being targeted for peacefully exercising his rights to free speech and public assembly. The Jan. 6 Committee won’t allow him to record their planned interrogation, a basic feature of legal self-defense and impartial justice. In fact, selectively excerpted video clips and quotes from these secret interrogations have been a constant feature of the commission, further reinforcing its use as a political weapon against the right rather than a pursuit of justice.
Asymmetric Justice Is Injustice
Put all of this against the systematic refusal of Democrat DAs, judges, and juries to prosecute people who openly engage in political violence from the left. In 2020, leftist rioters who coordinated across state lines and in far greater numbers and criminal activity than Jan. 6 attendees firebombed federal buildings, murdered people, looted, burned down downtowns, and assaulted police officers. Of course, essentially nobody involved in perpetrating the Spygate setup of an American president has been brought to justice, most recently including Michael Sussmann.
This summer, a leftist group has allegedly attacked two dozen pro-life maternal care centers in multiple states and a congressional office and promises to continue, but Wray couldn’t provide almost any information on alleged FBI investigations into it. Despite an assassination attempt on one Supreme Court justice this summer, the DOJ has still not filed charges against the people harassing and threatening justices and their families at their homes. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland failed for weeks on end to enforce laws against such harassment of justices, creating the conditions for the aggression to intensify.
This is unacceptable, and Wray and Garland should be fired. They won’t be, though, and that’s the problem.
Equality Under the Law Is the Nonviolent Way Out
Remember, 75 million people voted for Trump in 2020. This isn’t some fringe Davidian cult, it’s half of the nation’s voters. Democrats are scaring them, for good reason. And Republicans are doing jack nothing to calm things down.
We’re watching federal agencies use their powers not to catch criminals but to criminalize peaceful political views and actions. We’re witnessing a growing campaign to lock people up for their opposition to the ruling political party, which is not only profoundly un-American but profoundly dangerous societally. This is the prosecution of a political cold civil war that could very easily heat up again in another January 6-like outburst, or worse.
People who HAVEN’T been raided by the FBI:
– Pedophiles associated with Jeffrey Epstein
– Hillary Clinton
– Hunter Biden
– Eric Swalwell for sleeping with a Chinese spy