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You can’t issue bonds without revenues.
Depends how you define it. If you say tariff is only if applied to foreign goods coming in then yes,…
don’t know what this means. It means you’re a Communist.
No, they weren’t. They were communist all the way through, and Tian An Men massacre occurred in 1989, and they…
There is a big difference between NPR and the ALPBC.
Nobody is forced to pay for NPR.
Name Something you won’t find at the Border
linked with
Hiring Border Patrol Agents to stop an Invasion on America
But don’t they realise…Biden’s declared it a National Health Emergency!
Opinion: Concerns About FBI Raids Have Been Overblown And There’s No Need To Wor—Hang On, There’s A Knock At The Door
Head further down the coast to Torquay and Anglesea and you’ll run into the retirees from western Vic.
There’s not a chance that I could walk down the streets in these towns and not run into someone I know or they know someone I know.
A.F Branco Deep State
Why #DarkBrandon Meme Crashed Twitter
Black Pigeon Speaks
JK Rowling’s death threat as she’s told ‘you’re next’ after support for Salman Rushdie | Headliners
GBNews
Texas poll: Democrats’ losses among Hispanics are only just beginning
It’s nothing new anymore to point out that Hispanics in Texas are in the middle of a political realignment. Rep. Mayra Flores’s (R-TX) special election victory in South Texas this summer established this phenomenon as something quite real. But now, we have some polling data specifically for Texas Hispanics from which we can judge the size and scope of Democrats’ problems. The short version is that they’re already in big trouble, but there’s a lot more room for their situation to get worse in the coming months and years.
Patrick Ruffini of Echelon Insights, Leslie Sanchez of Impacto Group, and well-known pollster Lance Tarrance have released results from a survey of 1,200 Hispanic voters in Texas. First of all, they found the two parties in a dead heat ahead of the election this fall — 43% to 43%. Within the South Texas subsample, Democrats’ mere 2-point lead implies that Republicans could carry all three of the three congressional districts in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Keep in mind that, not long ago, these seats were originally created by Republicans specifically to concentrate Democratic votes.
But that’s just the starting point for the transformation that is occurring. The numbers below the fold evince a lot of upside that hasn’t been realized yet in terms of party politics.
For example, fully 61% of these Hispanic respondents were “bothered by the direction” of the current ultra-woke Democratic Party. What are these voters’ top pet peeves about today’s Democrats? The fact the party “supports government welfare handouts for people who don’t work” (18%) and “socialism” (14%) and “focuses mainly on race and gender issues” (12%). Respondents gave the Republican Party a 15-point lead over Democrats as the party more associated with “hard work,” an 8-point lead as the party more supportive of small businesses, and a 7-point lead as the party better for fixing the immigration system.
So, when it comes to specific issues, this demographic group is definitely waking up to the reality of today’s Democratic Party.
“What Difference Does It Make?”
Socialist Mop
@socialistmop
With the FBI’s raid of Trump’s private residence, I wanted to repost a video that I did back in 2016 showing James Comey of the FBI letting Hillary off the hook for mishandling classified info. Insane hypocrisy!
Check out “What Difference Does It Make?”
A damning report from the FBI has concluded that Alec Baldwin did pull the trigger of the gun that killed cinematographer on the set of Rust – despite him repeatedly stating that he did not.
Daily Mail
Florida has unveiled a new license plate featuring the Gadsden flag.
Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the new license plate in a July tweet.
From the Comments
– The irony of a governor issuing a license plate that has the anti-government flag is not lost on me
– Historically it is not anti-government but pro-American Patriot. It was designed by Col. Gadsden with the help of Ben Franklin and flew on American navy ships during the American Revolution.
Not guilty…obviously trying to work the system as much as possible.
The suspect accused of stabbing author Sir Salman Rushdie has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges after the attack in Chautauqua, upstate New York, on Friday.
Hadi Matar, 24, has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, and was arraigned on the charges last night at Chautauqua County Jail.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges and has been remanded without bail after being moved from the New York State Police barracks in Jamestown after the attack on Friday.
Daily Mail
He did it after the FBI said the Gadsden and Betsy Ross flags are indicators of violent extremism.
Fine trolling Mr De Santis!
Leaked FBI Memo: Gadsden Flag, Other Symbols Are Signs Of Militia Violent Extremists (11 Aug)
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/08/new-yorks-voter-matrix-an-alternate-structure-within-voter-rolls/
Who to believe, Alec Baldwin or the FBI?
Neither. Is that possible?
The former head of the ADF says senior defence force personnel should not be asked to become “amateur psychiatrists” to help their juniors get through tough times.
Speaking amid the release of the interim report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, Sir Peter Cosgrove has also said new recruits need to be more tightly screened to ensure they are not predisposed to mental health problems.
“Do we need to do different things, more discriminating things in terms of recruiting so that we obviously look keenly to see if we have people with incipient issues that would put them at odds with a life in the defence force?” the former governor-general said.
“That sounds a little bit, I don’t know, selective or elitist; but I think we’ll all agree that life in the defence force is always going to be stressful.
“That’s the nature of it when you put on your nation’s military uniform — navy, army or air force.
Could he be hinting at trannies signing up for free services, and so on?
Daily Tele
Ah, the wonderful, fair and balanced US national broadcaster NPR:
In doing so Florida joined the other 6 US states where such plates have been are offered for years including Arizona, Texas, Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama and Virginia (where coincidentally NPR is headquartered so you would think they might have seen on or two of them before).
So why pick on Florida? Because the progressive’s attempt to de-legitimatize DeSantis is well underway and any excuse will do no matter how twisted from reality, and NPR is rabidly progressive.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-to-bring-in-tens-of-thousands-more-migrants-as-it-eyes-bargain-with-union-movement-20220812-p5b9hf.html
I haven’t read one single positive comment to this. Not one.
Housing crisis? Rent crisis? Overcrowding ? Hospital crisis? Not a problem when the big $$$$ ponzi is threatened.
“The suspect accused of stabbing author Sir Salman Rushdie has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges after the attack in Chautauqua, upstate New York, on Friday.”
Well of course he’s pleaded “not guilty”. He has “legitimate grievances”, after all.
Politicians and big business are our enemies
Democracy is so broken-
The Left is now anti-union. What they do though is co-opt the uni educated union staffers to suppress their own rank and file.
Biden administration abolishes ICE labor union (13 Aug)
As soon as the members become a threat to the fascist Left they get purged. We saw exactly that with Setka and the CFMEU.
Speaking of big business this is certainly my experience over the last 20 yearsDo you think your company cares about you? Do you think going above and beyond for people who don’t know your name is going to save your job come the next round of outsourcing to New Delhi? Do you think your employer goes above and beyond for you?
Here’s what you do: Turn up on time. Do your job. Do it right. Do whatever is asked of you provided it’s lawful, reasonable and within your contract. Do not one thing more than that. Hard work is a virtue. Allowing yourself to be exploited is the functional equivalent of walking around with a ‘kick me’ sign stuck to your back. It’s not virtuous, it’s self-debasing.
Why should you debase yourself to prop up the economy of a country that hates you? That taxes you to pay for the social care of wealthy pensioners. That makes you fund the retirements of baby boomers with a state pension you’ll likely never see.
bern, 6.53:
Y0u bet. Gold standard.
You forgot his terribly debilitating mental illness. It would be cruel and unusual punishment to incarcerate such a poor suffering guy. Oh wait, no one has mentioned that yet? Drat, I’m getting too far ahead of the MSM, must be more patient.
Yeah right.
The original Stars and Stripes is racist.
These deep state nuts don’t want to live in America, they want to live in Utopia.
Faux-democracy certainly is. Anyone who takes a step back and a long un-blindered look at both Oz and the US should recognize that they are both heavily progressive/socialist at this point.
Take progressive taxation rates as just one example. A purer example of socialist wealth redistribution would be hard to find short of outright theft.
Or a company that hates you and anyone who isn’t part of the hive.
Google execs threaten workers with layoffs: ‘There will be blood on the streets’ (13 Aug)
I suspect that might also be about getting the drones back into the office rather than working from home because fear of bat crud and arse pox. On the other hand it must be a drag to work for a company so evil that they dropped their motto “don’t be evil”.
THEIR utopia , dotty.
Which is nothing like a sensible person would want to live in. Some kind of warped, depraved , communist style shithole that would drive any thinking person insane.
The WaPo Has Trump Now: The Walls Are Closing In!
from
Newly released government documents show Donald Trump scratched the floor of the Lincoln Memorial in 2020
And it is not Babylon Bee
You always know you’re in for a treat when a mainstream media story starts with, “Newly released government documents….” These documents are apparently from 2020, but they give the Washington Post another reason to write a story on Donald Trump. You see, when Trump held a campaign town hall in 2020 at the Lincoln Memorial, the National Park Service had to provide security, and had left scratches on the pink marble floor.
We’re suddenly supposed to care about this when the Left spent the entire Trump administration trying to tear down statues of historical American figures, including Abraham Lincoln in the form of the Emancipation Monument.
Oh, and it was a Fox News event, which makes it even worse.
– Replying to @washingtonpost
Meanwhile, @KamalaHarris supported bailing out rioters who burned Minneapolis to the fcking ground….
– Where was the Washington Post when lefties were vandalizing statues of Thomas Jefferson and Francis Scott Key for months? What happened to “it’s insured”?
Makka you missed the Labor voter crisis.
DIY capital punishment:
A sex offender died after ‘chugging’ a cloudy liquid from a water bottle in a Texas court after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a child.
Edward LeClair, 57, started drinking the liquid after the jury found him guilty on the first count and continued glugging as the other counts were read on August 11.
He had been facing five counts of child sexual assault against one victim, which took place in 2016 according to Denton County Jail.
Daily Mail
Anyone who takes a step back and a long un-blindered look at both Oz and the US should recognize that they are both heavily progressive/socialist at this point.
As are the EU, GB and Canada. We’re fucked.
The world is in big trouble not becasue of natural causes but political reactions and insane policies.
Stupid chancer gets a decent kicking (the Hun):
That old chestnut.
Ms Bhelley claimed her injuries caused pain, restricted her movement and limited her attendance of concerts and her temple.
Quality of life: Check. Religion card: Check.
Uh huh.
Potentially, this is a ‘takes one to know one’ arrangement.
‘Aaaaaah! Whiplash! Whiplash!’ Hahaha.
Came across a 4foot red belly whilst out riding this morning .. thought August was still hibernation but, apparently, not! ..
Now this is a sign I’ve got no problems with ..!
https://ibb.co/kJWnwfD
Leaked FBI document
THE BCP REPORT
Very ironic that the person who claims to have majored in weather science in the 70s asserts that ALL macro economics is bunk.
Hallward, take a bow.
Sparking public anger and trapping their dads! Chinese officials’ kids flaunt their wealth and dads
China Insights
The phenomenon of flaunting wealth in China is contagious. This was demonstrated multiple times last month. What is likely to be the golden line of the year in 2022 is this sentence: “My Dad’s Revenue from Corruption in a Day Is More Than What All Of You Earn In A Year.”
Chinese official media outlets intended to use one video to promote positive energy in society. For a while, “the second uncle” became a synonym for warmth and positive energy on the Chinese Internet.
But the awakened Chinese have seen that under the banner of communism, the princes and princesses of Zhou and Wang alike, who rely on the shade of their dads, have a firm grip on the channel of social mobility. Children of ordinary Chinese people, even if they are good and have worked very hard, will inevitably become the “second uncle”, crippled by the “four injections” and locked up firmly at the bottom of society.
Dystopia.
Where they rule, pull all the strings, and control every aspect of your life.
People mentioning Warren Zevon above.Check out his live album “Stand in the Fire”.he toured with his guitarist and a Warren Zevon tribute band.Great album.
Youngest kooka was chortling in victory on the back fence yesterday, she’d caught a lizard. So there is certainly some reptilian movement going on. I think it might be because with the la Nina minimum temperatures are warmer than usual, even though maximums are cooler. The influx of humidity from the Tasman Sea moderates things, at least that is what I’ve been thinking.
In the last fortnight an excellent event occurred – young kooka’s great granny reappeared in the territory immediately to the north of the Cafe kookas’ territory. I haven’t seen her for about 5 years since she moved away, but I know it was her because she flew down from a power pole and landed on my hand with alacrity. No other kooka would do that. So when I’m out walking if she sees me she gets a solid dinner of Coles mince, which should help for the breeding season. The current Cafe female is her granddaughter.
This is more like the Whiplash we need.
Caution – James couldn’t sing too well back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN6TjsBeJsM
miltonf, I linked to that as well. It’s all part of ‘The Great Malaise’.
Tavistock gender clinic ‘to be sued by 1,000 families’
Gee, nobody could have seen that comin huh?
Speaking of bangers, Dr Mark Felton with another one:
Did Hitler Have a Son?
Examining the mystery of whether Hitler fathered an illegitimate son while serving in France in WW1.
13 Aug 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN6zPcP0zAQ
So much for Elbow’s election promise to keep migration low and skill up Australians.
Hey JC – follow the link and then watch the embedded video. I think you will find it very entertaining.
https://stockhead.com.au/the-secret-broker/the-secret-broker-you-know-how-to-squeeze-me-you-know-how-to-please-me/
The comment in response to DeSantis unveiling the Gadsden Flag license plates:
It is almost axiomatic that the left’s greatest hates are also the things they understand least. And they will bend over backwards trying to reconcile two errors just so they can keep their ignorance intact.
Brilliant – For Rent: 327 Square Foot Apartment With 5 Rooms—Thanks to Robot Furniture
With the push of a button, a messy bedroom becomes a spotless living room. America’s housing crisis isn’t going away, but technology that allows small spaces to serve multiple purposes could help.
Why make your bed, when you can simply make your bed go away?
Our homes are, as comedian George Carlin put it, just a place for our stuff. But what if, asks a new generation of startups, all that stuff could just…disappear?
Inventors, architects and designers all over the world have lately converged on ways to do just that. Their technology can make parts of apartments and homes, and all their contents, slide out of view at the touch of a button. Former researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ex-Apple and Tesla engineers toiling in San Francisco and a design and architectural firm in Spain are among those devising what can only be described as robotic furniture. And it’s already rolling off the factory floor and into the domiciles of students, church program directors and celebrity couples like Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.
These systems include beds that, on voice command, float into the ceiling to reveal couches, and artificial-intelligence enabled cameras to track where your belongings are stored.
For now, most of these playthings are for the rich, with some of these installations costing $40,000 for a single room. But the goal of many of the people involved is to make this technology ubiquitous. Some of these home systems can cost as little as $5,000 apiece and are already installed in apartments with rents as low as $1,000 a month, in places like Durham, N.C. and Buffalo, N.Y.
The promise of robotic furniture is that it can turn single rooms into multipurpose spaces. To the extent that they work, they could help blunt the rise in what Americans pay for housing, and alter where they are able and willing to live.
It’s probably not a coincidence that this technology is breaking into the mainstream at a time that is not unlike the early 1900s, when America also faced housing problems. That era inspired William Murphy, who was living in cramped quarters in San Francisco, to invent the bed that shares his name and tucks away into a cabinet or wall.
The Murphy bed allowed a small apartment’s main living area to double as both bedroom and living room. It became a cultural touchstone in its time because there was a genuine need for more versatile furniture in small spaces.
Now again, as people spend more time at home, inventors are becoming creative about solving problems of cost and space.
A version of one such system, from Boston- and New York City-based Ori, is already on the market and could eventually become more widespread thanks to a partnership with furniture behemoth IKEA in 2019, says Ori CEO Hasier Larrea. An IKEA spokesman confirmed the two companies are still working together on what has proved to be a “complex project.”
Push-button transformation
Here are the problems the leaders of robot furniture companies, and their partners, say they want to solve:
For decades, America hasn’t built enough housing to keep up with demand. And despite the pandemic’s flight to suburbs and small towns, demand for housing in America’s cities has continued to grow, with rents all over the country setting new records.
Americans are working anywhere but where they used to, and more often than not, at home. Office occupancy rates remain below 50% in much of the country.
So what’s a city-dwelling, part-time-working-from-home, cash-strapped millennial to do? The most obvious answers—find a tinier space or take in more roommates—are made more challenging by the rise of remote work, and everything that comes with it. The places we inhabit, once primarily where we started and ended our days, are becoming the places we spend most of our waking hours, and where we work, exercise and collaborate, putting a premium on every inch of living space.
Ori’s room-changing devices can be activated by touch, voice, and an Ori-built app. They can be moved manually, too, should power fail.
This is where Ori comes in. Mr. Larrea began exploring the concept of living-bigger-with-less back in 2011 as a researcher at MIT’s City Science group. In 2015 he started Ori, and today the company’s motorized, moving furniture systems are in about 500 apartments in more than 30 U.S. cities, he says, with thousands more scheduled to be installed in the next two years.
The idea isn’t just to make small apartments feel bigger, but to make them more functional. That means clearing away furniture and storage when it’s not in use. What was once a bedroom can, in less than a minute, become a proper living room or home office.
Cities where Ori’s robotic furniture has taken root go beyond the usual suspects of New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, in part because apartments in desirable urban neighborhoods have become relatively expensive in a growing number of cities in the U.S.
Take, for instance, Fort Worth, Texas. In a 54-unit building called CoHo Fort Worth, in a neighborhood close to a medical campus and dense with bars and restaurants, 43 of the units are equipped with “Ori Pocket Studios.” Each of these is basically a giant piece of furniture that can glide to and fro on a small track installed along a wall. It includes an entertainment center and shelves on one side, and reveals additional storage and a bed on the other. It responds to touch, voice, and an Ori-built app. It can be moved manually, too, should power fail.
These systems attempt to overcome shortcomings of prior efforts at hidden furniture through their design, and not just through automation, says Matt Bischoff, investment director at Watermark Equity Group, the company that built CoHo Fort Worth. For instance, unlike a Murphy bed, Ori’s beds don’t need tidying up before being stowed away.
“If somebody’s coming over, you can just push a button and you’re hiding your messy bedroom or closet,” says 31-year-old Kasi Bailey, whose part-time jobs include planning child and family programs at her church, and who moved into a studio in the CoHo building in late July. Her one concern about the apartment was that the technology would have problems, being so new, but so far she hasn’t had any issues, she adds.
All that comes with an average rent of $1,100 a month, compared with the typical $1450 a month for a studio in the area, says Mr. Bischoff. There’s a simple reason for that: CoHo Fort Worth apartments average 335 square feet, whereas other studios in the area are around 600 square feet. By making better use of that smaller space, renters save, but Watermark also makes more per square foot on rent, adds Mr. Bischoff.
The smaller size of these apartments hasn’t been a deterrent to renters. The entire building, save two apartments, was fully leased within a month of finishing construction, a process that would normally take up to six months, says Mr. Bischoff.
Ori’s systems start at $5,000 for a “pocket closet” that expands in about 10 seconds from something the size of a large dresser into a space the size of a walk-in closet. Its “cloud bed,” which rises to the ceiling to reveal living space beneath, costs about $10,000.
Marie Kondo In Your Ceiling
If Ori is the IKEA of robotic furniture, then Bumblebee Spaces is its more-exclusive, luxury cousin. Staffed almost entirely by ex-Apple and Tesla employees, the company’s desks, beds, and storage options all reside in the ceiling of a living space. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are both investors in the company and have installed its systems in their home.
The company is focused not just on making rooms that clear themselves of clutter so you can do yoga, but also on creating software that catalogs everything you own.
Utter the phrase: “Bumblebee, give me my watch,” and a box will descend from the ceiling with your watch nestled within. It’s all thanks to cameras and artificial intelligence trained to catalog hundreds of household objects, says Sankarshan Murthy, CEO of Bumblebee. Basically, you don’t have to remember where you put any of your stuff, he adds.
Bumblebee’s system, with over 100 now installed, requires a support structure and power system as well as sufficient ceiling height. Just adding this structure and a disappearing drawer starts at about $12,000, while a fully tricked out room can cost as much as $40,000.
Madrid-based Beyome, which is owned by the same family as construction group Kimak, is gearing up to manufacture, at scale, the maximalist version of the transforming home. That system, dreamed up by architectural design firm (and partner company) Enorme Studio, requires a complete retrofit of a home. The result is entire walls that move, with built-in beds, tables, and the like. Imagine waking up in the morning, for example, and transforming two private bedrooms into a family room, or into a dining room plus a study, or a bedroom, dining room and study.
This approach was born of long experience with clients, says Rocío Pina, director of Enorme. In Spain about a third of all apartments and homes are less than 650 square feet, and are often shared by roommates or whole families. For these kinds of tenants, just maximizing the use of space isn’t enough. Privacy is key too, and just shifting furniture about within a room doesn’t grant that—only actual walls with proper doors.
That’s why Enorme opted for the extra expense and complexity involved in making whole walls move. The company has rolled out a handful of prototype units in Madrid, and has contracts to expand elsewhere.
Outfitting a home with the Enorme system is comparable to the cost of fully refitting and refurbishing an apartment in Spain—or about 1,000 euros per square meter, says Íñigo Moreno, CEO of Beyome.
Beyome’s transforming apartments include walls that move on ceiling-mounted tracks, as well as beds and tables that fold away.
These companies are the latest to test the field of “architectural robotics,” a term invented by Cornell professor Keith Evan Green. While Mr. Green is enthusiastic about the commercialization of the discipline he helped pioneer, he warns that the success of these startups is hardly a foregone conclusion. History is littered with companies that tried to make robots accessible to everyday users, from Rethink Robotics’ attempts to bring programmable “cobots” into small businesses to Jibo, which tried to bring a “social” robot into the home.
But should Ori, Bumblebee, Enorme and their future competitors succeed, Dr. Green’s research suggests it could spur broader changes in home living. Once people accept that their home can gain new capabilities, not unlike adding functions to a smartphone via a new app, they could be more willing to invite other kinds of digital enhancements into their homes, such as robots intended to allow the elderly to stay in their homes longer.
Techno-utopianism aside, it’s worth remembering the Murphy bed never really took off. Today it’s known mostly as a punchline in cartoons and a classic Charlie Chaplin scene. True to our founding principles, as soon as Americans can afford more space, they go for it. Today the median new home in America is 2½ times as large as at the turn of the previous century, when Mr. Murphy came up with his bed.
miltonf, I linked to that as well. It’s all part of ‘The Great Malaise’.
snap sfw- it struck a lot of chords with me I must admit. What sickens me is with all the showboating about aborigines and wimmin, they still treat employees with absolute contempt. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Shocking.
Came across a 4foot red belly whilst out riding this morning .. thought August was still hibernation but, apparently, not!
While the snakes appear here virtually on cue from 1st September in virtually every year that I can remember, neighbours have reported snakes (red bellies & eastern browns) a few weeks ago.
I have been on the lookout on my regular walks around the property, and have now concluded my weeding in tight places in the gardens. I just can’t face the renovation of our snake netting on the outside of the fences surrounding the house grounds. It is a horrible job as it must be fixed to the very bottom of the wires and you need too get on hands and knees. There must be at least 200m of fencing to attach it to, maybe more.
We seem to be a snake heaven, and would see on average 6 snakes a year – most attempting to enter the gardens. Last year I had somewhat nervous encounters with 2 snakes on my walks. One – an eastern brown – detected me long before I approached him, and thankfully, stopped in his advance. The other dived under the cattle grid, and I was unable to return directly to the house for firepower & had to walk an extra 2km! When I finally returned with husband and gun (we couldn’t risk him to be left there as I traverse it regularly) he had vanished. Husband fired shot into the ground, & he suddenly appeared from the grid (heaven knows how he evaded us seeing him) in an aggressive move. Rapidly despatched.
You will live in your pod, eat bugs, own nothing and be happy.
Importing their voting base.
Four foot?
That would make it a lizard then, wouldn’t it?
Sorry. I should not be punishing your ears.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 14, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Brilliant – For Rent: 327 Square Foot Apartment With 5 Rooms—Thanks to Robot Furniture
Hey when we returned to Sydney from Melbourne, my wife and I lived in our 340 sq ft 1 bedrm flat in Harbord, that we had bought when in Melbourne
Could swing a cat and hit all 4 walls, but short walk to beach and great interim till house finally built
Youse takes what you can!
Love the concepts shown
ROFLMAO with bells and whistles.
Bowen: Opportunity to make more solar panels in Australia (Sky mainpage headline, 14 Aug)
That last sentence is glorious, my sides hurt. He thinks lithium is used in solar panels….
The B’Obvious –“The Vaccine does NOT Work”
If we’ve all been jabbed and millions have had the virus at least once – why are so many of us being poleaxed by a bout of Covid?
Brilliant.
When parenting was defacto handed over to the state’s education organs, the rot began. Children , now adults, were educated to believe in Govt to solve all their problems rather than themselves. The nanny state. So trusting in Govt has led to the shitmess this world and in particularly Oz now finds itself.
And even if it was, wouldn’t it involve that evil mining industry to acquire it? You know, the planet rapers?
He is also apparently unaware manufacturing of anything in this country required reliable base-load power!
JMHsays:
August 14, 2022 at 12:26 pm
That last sentence is glorious, my sides hurt. He thinks lithium is used in solar panels….
He is also apparently unaware manufacturing of anything in this country required reliable base-load power!
And Labor Unions that won’t go on strike and destroy the Industries they work for!
Mr Bowen said Australia has much of the natural resources required to build the panels, such as lithium.
More evidence that we are governed by psychopathic cretins. Unis have so so much to answer for BIRM. They incubate and cosset this garbage. Garbage courses for garbage people.
I’m amused that the Victorian Liberal Party is now to the left of the ALP.
Vic opposition promises free public transport for healthcare workers (Sky headline, 14 Aug)
I’m almost sure they’ll now fall over themselves to vote for you Mr Guy.
Ok, no, I think he makes rocks look smart.
Well that explains why they wanted to bring in more workers from overseas.
Mining things like lithium, no 6 year old in Australia will be prepared to do the work.
CBS Mornings Blames Climate Change for the Increasing Number of Fat Kids (VIDEO)
Meanwhile
what those kids could grow up to look like
Something Sensible for once from SMH
High school phone ban ‘more urgent than ever’ amid pressure on teens
A blanket ban on mobile phone use in NSW high schools is “more urgent than ever” after years of academic disruption and soaring screen use during the COVID-19 pandemic, warns the psychologist who led the 2018 review into mobiles in schools.
Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg told the Herald that restricting phones in secondary schools is critical to cut distraction, deal with rising cyberbullying and help students catch up academically after months of isolation.
A blanket ban on mobile phone use in NSW high schools is “more urgent than ever” after years of academic disruption and soaring screen use during the COVID-19 pandemic, warns the psychologist who led the 2018 review into mobiles in schools.
Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg told the Herald that restricting phones in secondary schools is critical to cut distraction, deal with rising cyberbullying and help students catch up academically after months of isolation.
From the Comments
– And at Parliament Question time……
– My son started year 7 this year. He is not interested in mobiles phones, prefers to sit and chat. He was disappointed at how all the kids went straight onto phones at recess and lunch. There are 200 kids in year 7 at his school. How do kids get to know each other and form new friendships if glued to a phone?
– This is similar to what my daughter experienced in yr 7 (now in yr 8). Unfortunately, when everyone around you is on their phone they can’t help but get swept up by it.
You should have seen her birthday party this year…about 15 kids sitting in a pizza restaurant all staring at their phones.
Speedboox. I didn’t know about the history of shorting. Very funny.
The dude is right though, you really need to be very careful about shorting as the risk is asymmetrical. 100% vs unlimited. That doesn’t really apply to currencies though.
Do you think our horrid Australian Govt (of any stripe) gives a shit about you when they happily make policies designed to;
– suppress your ability to earn more?
– make it much easier for your employer to import labour that competes with yours?
– allows Business to dodge having to train and develop Australians and
upskill their employees?
– creates yet more pressure on health services, rents, housing affordability?
And all the while this is going on , these low life scum waste billions of taxpayer hard earned running up mountains of OUR debt on idiotic vanity schemes like renewables, white elephant desal plants, grants to the queer and deviant industry, the abo industry etc etc. While feathering their own nests.
Feudalism.
Oh god.
Now, here’s a better suggestion: zap all the (high) schools into oblivion.
Schools in Australia are just a giant daycare and indoctrination complex.
Most people after achieving literacy and numeracy would be better be apprenticed to a scientist, engineer, tradesman or a business owner.
Qualifications can still be run by private bodies. As could literacy and numeracy.
Increasing super will suppress wages growth for a while.
Feudalism.
Agree
And now for something completely different.
Art for the Man Cave 😀
Feudalism?
1. What is the difference between a farmer and a serf?
2. Where medieval serfs and ceorls better off (more free) than we are?
3. What’s the difference between a serf and a slave?
Anyone else getting this message when trying to post or did I upset the server somehow?
JC says:
August 14, 2022 at 1:05 pm
That doesn’t really apply to currencies though.
Understood. But thought it would provide you some interest and amusement.
The dealer commenting on the TV was getting very animated. Can’t help but wonder if he was staring into the abyss of significant shorting losses.
I see Matt Guy has woken from his slumbers to pronounce his latest brain fart. Sharp as a tack is our Matt.
Pelosi’s son who joined her on Taiwan trip holds Chinese tech stake – media
The House speaker admitted her son was an unlisted “escort” on the controversial trip
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. is the second-largest investor in Chinese telecom firm Borqs Technologies, a recent Daily Mail report has revealed. The younger Pelosi did not publicly disclose his stake in the $22 billion firm before accompanying his mother on the taxpayer-funded trip to Taiwan.
Upon learning that Pelosi Jr. had tagged along with his mother’s delegation, several Taiwanese politicians, including the former chair of the island’s financial supervisory commission, Tseng Ming-chung, have demanded to know whether the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party had a financial relationship with the Pelosi family and whether the congresswoman’s visit involved business interests.
The younger Pelosi was not listed as a member of the delegation and had no government post or other stated mission to carry out.
Pelosi is not only a major investor in Borqs, a player in the Chinese internet-of-things and 5G sector, but has also worked as a consultant for the firm, according to US Securities and Exchange Commission data provided by the Daily Mail. He was rewarded for his services with 700,000 shares in the firm, at which time his holdings were exceeded only by CEO Pat Sek Yuen Chan, the report says.
However, pro-reunification scholar Chiu Yi told Global Times that Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was also aimed at padding out her husband’s tech stock portfolio without triggering the suspicions that might arise from deploying an external financial advisor on such a mission. “Because of her busy schedule, Pelosi herself didn’t have much time and space to keep in touch with her husband in the US. She couldn’t let too many people know about their financial manipulation amid the Taiwan visit, and couldn’t even ask her secretary to do it, so she could only trust her son,” he told the Chinese outlet.
Indeed, Pelosi even went so far as to claim her son had no business dealings going on while he accompanied his mom around the island. “The husband runs the business in the US, Pelosi was in charge of causing trouble, and the son worked as an aide to Pelosi,” Chiu explained.
Another Taiwan-watcher cited by Global Times suggested the Pelosi family may be positioning itself to act as a middleman to American companies looking to establish factories in Taiwan. The congresswoman’s visit to a major Taiwanese chip factory came just days after Congress passed a bill aimed at subsidizing the US semiconductor industry, which sent chip stocks skyrocketing. Pelosi and her husband have been accused of insider trading regarding Paul Pelosi Sr.’s trades on tech giants Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet last month, which netted the family more than $5 million in profits.
And the “N0 Shit Sherlock” final statement
While the House speaker makes $223,500 annually in her government role, her net worth is estimated as high as $252 million, according to her own financial disclosures, leading many to speculate that her husband’s venture capital and financial consulting firm Financial Leasing Services feeds on insider information.
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August 14, 2022 at 1:30 pm
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Anyone else getting this message when trying to post or did I upset the server somehow?
3 times yesterday – tried loads of changing to try to see if I could identify what was causing the problem – no success
Keep it under the covers next time please.
As I said yesterday, the witch’s trip and China’s dummy spit was all pre-arranged theatre. Even that dill Biden knew it and wasn’t concerned. Designed to puff up Xi for the proletariat.
It happens to me too. I just go away and do something else. Fixed by the time I come back.
It seems to happen when the site is processing lots of comments and then my device remembers that I have been rejected and stops me commenting. I’ve tried to fix that by removing the error message from the history and it seems to work.
It may, of course, be all in my imagination.
Like a Dutch brain fart?
That Internal Server Error bit is interesting because moments later it allowed me to post that question with no problems.
Z,
It’s just the ASIO tap having a glitch.
I don’t know how Normie in his hot FJ drove around Newcastle, he was probably a better driver than the bloke in this video.
He stole an Audi and went for a drive around Newcastle not knowing that the dashcam was recording his exploits.
Stolen Audi R8 Damaged During Crazy Joyride
Serfs had an entitlement to land. An enviable state of given present levels of housing affordability.
https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record
JC at 1:05.
I used to see ads on TV for CFDs (Contracts For Difference).
The ads had a real macho tone.
“Are you a real man? Do you have balls? Do you like to back yourself? Use your skills to make a call and take a position!”
Not quite the wording but that was the underlying message.
I wonder how many people jumped in and lost their entire stake.
In case you wanted the ABC’s typically boneheaded take:
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago was a ‘nightmare’ environment for housing classified documents, experts say
Who are these “experts”? Here’s one – Mary McChord, former DOJ “official” (perhaps she ran the cafeteria, perhaps she was a senior counsel. Who knows, but I think the truth is closer to the former as if it were the latter they sure as hell would have said):
How the fuck would she know if these documents were held improperly there? Has she ever been there? This is pure speculation. She has no idea.
More speculation.
He doesn’t need to make a conscious decision to classify every single document. This can be done by category, and the category can be This Stuff I’m Taking Because I’m The President And I Can Declassify Whatever Executive Branch Material I Want In Whatever Way I Choose.
I note the FBI’s dodgy warrant didn’t specify every single document that could be seized (which would be a ridiculous imposition for a legitimate warrant). However, this ABC “expert” has double standards. Shocking, I know.
Incidentally, how many documents did Obama take with him when he left office, Ms McCord? He needed more than 15 boxes. More like 50,000 boxes. Did Obama make a “conscious decision” to declassify every one of those millions of documents? If so, he would have spend his entire 8 years in office declassifying the stuff he took to Chicago in at the end of his second term. Why isn’t Ms McCord all het up over this? And is she certain they are being stored securely, by her high standards? Never mind that, it isn’t a problem for the ABC’s “expert”. It’s okay when her people do it.
No shit. Is anyone suggesting he broke into the White House or some other government facility and removed these documents after he left office? This is a red herring intended to get rubes like monty all funny in the shorts. Same with the “no plausible argument” nonsense above. Trump removed these documents when he had complete authority to do so. They are, at the very least constructively but probably actually, declassified – unless Trump says he did not declassify them.
Ukraine struggles to find money to pay troops – WSJ
The promised Western aid is arriving too slowly, officials in Kiev complain
With Western financial help apparently slow to arrive, Ukraine has been forced to print money to pay its troops in the fight against Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko told the US outlet that it’s “a constant headache” for him to keep balancing the cost of the conflict and the lower tax revenues in an economy battered by almost half a year of fighting.
With around 60% of the budget being spent on the fighting, the minister said he has had to cut all unnecessary expenditures. But it’s still not enough, as tax revenues only cover 40% of government spending, the WSJ reports.
The Kiev authorities earlier said they needed $5 billion per month to run the country, and would not be able to cope without Western help. However, the grants and loans pledged to Ukraine by its foreign backers have been arriving slower than expected, according to the journal.
For example, the EU has so far provided only €1 billion out of €9 billion it promised to Kiev, with Germany resisting the idea of offering low-interest loans backed by guarantees from the bloc’s member states.
According to Marchenko, a lot of his time at work is spent trying to persuade Western governments to act faster. “Without this money, the war will last longer and it will damage economies more,” he explained.
Rostislav Shurma, an economic adviser to President Vladimir Zelensky, described the situation in harsher terms.
If Kiev acted as sluggishly at the West, “the Russians would be at the Polish border by now,” he told the WSJ.
“They don’t feel the war. That’s the problem. The only thing they feel in the EU is high prices,” Shurma said.
Due to the lack of funds, the Ukrainian Central Bank has no choice but to print more money to allow the government to pay the troops and purchase arms and ammunition in order to keep fighting.
This approach has been weakening Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia, which has already lost 30% since the launch of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, prompting a major spike in inflation.
Earlier this week, Sergey Kiriyenko, the deputy head of the administration of the Russian president, accused the authorities in Kiev of selling out their own people to fight on behalf of NATO.
“NATO will gladly fight against Russia ‘to the last Ukrainian’ as they say themselves without hesitance. Why not? They don’t feel sorry about it,” Kiriyenko said.
Speedbox
Look how fraught things are sometimes. When I first began to look at Atlassian it was trading at around 168 bucks a share and up to that quarter it hadn’t made a profit since the shitty company was listed.
It reported just over a week ago for the latest quarter. Revenue line improved a little.. (no biggie) and the loss just narrowed (big deal). Since the lows, this dog is now $283 a share. And thank God I wasn’t able to put on a short as the stock is too tight. By the way, the Bobbsey Twins appear to have found a way of preserving their cash flow. They do this by paying their staff in restricted stock for a decent portion of their comp. All good until it’s not. This dog should be selling for skeleton value.
??THE PIT REVEAL #4
Gregg discovered a database that had 1.8 million election workers’ and their children’s very private and detailed information.
Info like security passcodes, signatures, income, login credentials for poll watchers, or addresses, drivers licenses, banking info, times of their assigned shifts…
There was also voting info and schematics of the buildings and codes, etc.
The servers hosting this extremely private and detailed info were hosted by the CCP at a university in Wuhan, China
The goal? Build profiles of poll workers and then use different methods (bribes, blackmail, intimidation, etc) to ensure the election outcome they desired.
Looks like we got a Big Brother in Asia too…
https://t.me/SaveUtah
International interference in US elections …
Trump’s attorney is saying he did pretty much exactly that: he had a standing order that any documents he took to Mar-a-lago were declassified.
Travelling, using phone. Test
Ah yes. But, has he checked with mOron QC on this? I’m sure the learned fat lawyer will have something to say about that.
Winston Smith says: August 13, 2022 at 7:00 pm
True, though there are two entire skyscrapers missing + thousands of dead “people like us” (i.e. white collar office johnnies in professional CBD occupations)
& every day since that event, the Left have been in obtuse & treasonous denial.
The Federalist is saying the FBI has subpoenaed the security camera footage from Trump’s home meaning it can not be released until the FBI allows it.
Same as all the Jan 6th footage.
They’ve Only Just Worked This Out news (the Tele):
Yep. Because confidence in ‘the system’ was sky-high beforehand. Because people weren’t losing sleep wondering if their de-lidded and washed apple juice containers were ending up in landfill.
Recycling is not one of the three Rs that councils should concern themselves with.
If you’re going to mix everything together, it is pointless identifying stray lasagne containers. It’s also an excellent defence should local council muppets decide to fine ratepayers for it.
Sanchez
I think it was you replying to my Queensland motels comment. Did your relative find a motel (I think you said) she was looking for. The reviews on some of them are absolutely horrendous and the pics of filthy bedding? Lord almighty, local hotels in Mali would be more hygienic.
I wonder if they forget to mention anything about making copies. They aren’t the brightest.
As I understand it that footage isn’t theirs to control. A subpoena gets them a copy, assuming Trump doesn’t fight it in court. A judge might be able to seal it, but the FBI can pound sand.
Theoretically then, they should be returned ASAP to the rightful owner?
Feudalism: It’s your Count that votes.
Dunno.
Mrs P tried to give her some free advice on what a shithole it is and I think radio silence ensued.
This could mean she has accepted the advice that it is, in fact, a shithole but doesn’t want to admit she was wrong, or she is ploughing on regardless with her fingers in her ears.
Afghanistan all over again: Ukraine’s rampant corruption means the Western supply of weapons is likely to eventually backfire
US elites have thrown the country into a proxy conflict without properly evaluating the consequences
Viewed from afar, the extent of Ukrainian corruption appears to go far deeper than the recent shift in the narrative might suggest, and it might come back to bite the West as weapons sent to Kiev’s forces are disappearing with no account as to their whereabouts.
Just as it was with America’s support for the Mujahideen in the 1980s in fighting a proxy war against the Soviets, its backing of the Ukrainian government may one day reap a whirlwind. And just like its involvement in Afghanistan, decades ago, supporting the ‘enemy of my enemy’ involves dealing with shady characters and whitewashing their wrongdoings.
Following the onset of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the media very abruptly ceased its coverage of Ukraine’s seedy political underbelly – with dirty dealings that go all the way to the top. Even America’s sweetheart, Vladimir Zelensky, did not come away unscathed in those reports.
Just months prior to the conflict, mainstream publications, such as The Guardian, were reporting on Zelensky’s offshore connections, as exposed by the Pandora Papers. As detailed in the report, Zelensky, who campaigned for office on an anti-corruption platform, failed to disclose the extent of his offshore assets and his connections to some of the very oligarchs he promised to strip of political influence – and continued to treat everything as ‘business as usual’ once he came to power.
But for all the pomp and grandeur surrounding Zelensky, the issue of Ukraine’s corruption is once again rearing its head. Reality is setting in for many in the West – much of the funds and armaments directed towards Ukraine’s military are going unaccounted for, and average Americans and Europeans are paying the price for it. Literally.
It’s one thing for a politician to walk back on campaign promises, but Zelensky’s apparent corruption is becoming a liability for his Western supporters.
Ukrainian-born US congresswoman Victoria Spartz, one of the loudest cheerleaders for calling on the US government to support Ukraine, has been blowing the whistle on the Ukrainian authorities, including Zelensky. As detailed by CNN last week, Spartz has leveled numerous accusations against the Ukrainian government, drawing attention to its deep-seated corruption – and she’s asking questions about where all the funds are going.
But a facade as shaky as Zelensky’s can only be maintained for so long. With the economy spiraling into recession and inflation at record highs in both the US and UK, among other NATO countries, there’s only so much politicians are willing to do to maintain the narrative, especially as numerous US Democrats are struggling to hold onto their seats in the upcoming midterm elections.
Spartz isn’t alone in her criticism of the Ukrainian government and its corruption. CBS published a documentary called ‘Arming Ukraine’ detailing how much of America’s military aid to Ukraine has disappeared. Jonas Ohman, founder of the nonprofit Blue-Yellow, provides an assessment in the documentary that only as little as 30% of the military aid sent by the US ever reached the front lines.
The CBS documentary prompted a massive backlash from Ukraine’s loudest supporters on social media, with many demanding that the channel retract the report – all because it made Ukraine look bad. And CBS capitulated, putting out a retraction to state that the information was old and that the “delivery has improved.” The documentary is being “updated” accordingly. It’s anyone’s guess whether CBS got the call from on high, or if it simply caved in to the demands of Twitter users with Ukrainian flags in their profile.
Regardless of the retraction, the concerns are valid and echo those raised by US intelligence sources who told CNN in April that Washington has no idea where the weapons it’s sending are actually ending up.
“We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero,” said one of the sources. “It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time.”
Even more recently, in July, NATO and EU states demanded accountability from Ukraine for the weapons flowing into the country, noting that everything from MANPADs and rifle ammunition, to armored vehicles aren’t being properly tracked – if at all.
The Financial Times reported that NATO states called on Kiev’s leadership to establish detailed inventory lists and tracking for weapons supplied by the West.
“All these weapons land in southern Poland, get shipped to the border and then are just divided up into vehicles to cross: trucks, vans, sometimes private cars,” a Western official told the FT. “And from that moment we go blank on their location and we have no idea where they go, where they are used or even if they stay in the country.”
Daily Mail
If she is suggest taking a handy amount of bleach.
So I am going to have to hide my rubbish in 3 litre plastic Coke bottles then?
Well, I did see a Murphy Bed in a cheap apartment in Seattle in the 1970s. It was associated with, shall we say, residences at the bottom end of the scale.
As for the rest, it sounds like typical tech bois having fun. People looking for affordable accomodation don’t want or need voice-activated rearrangement of their homes, with the added danger of what happens when the thing stops working.
The idea may have some practical applications, but as the article says, most people prefer to pay for more space rather than gadgets.
The going estimate is roughly 30 million. That’s not counting the ones he had destroyed so nobody could ever see them.
“And yet the accumulation of recent congressional testimony has made it clear that the Obama administration itself engaged in the wholesale destruction and “loss” of tens of thousands of government records covered under the act as well as the intentional evasion of the government records recording system by engaging in private email exchanges” – 2014 Real Clear Politics article
Mmmyes.
She will exhibit total “stars in the eyes” idealism in roughing it to experience local First Nations culture.
Right up to the point she finds that pubic hair in the shower, or a yellowing toenail clipping embedded in the threadbare carpet.
Then she will be giving it to Fawlty on the front desk.
Old bloke says:
August 14, 2022 at 1:48 pm
…..he was probably a better driver than the bloke in this video. He stole an Audi and went for a drive around Newcastle not knowing that the dashcam was recording his exploits.
Drivers like that send a chill up my spine. Seriously, sooo fast in an urban setting and they have no idea how to control a car. His reaction times were pathetic – a monkey would do better. Yet at one point he reached 161km/h on the main road and in the side streets he was routinely 80-100 km/h. People (kids especially) just don’t expect cars to be travelling that fast on a quiet side street. Just a miracle that he didn’t have an accident resulting in somebody being hurt/killed.
Hat tip to Cassie, but everybody say it with me:
Stupid fucking Liberals.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/guy-s-new-chief-panned-state-liberals-in-preselection-speech-20220813-p5b9k6.html?btis
In other words, they’ve got a pretty good idea they are headed exactly the wrong direction. Mr. Guy pushes it anyway.
the Murphy bed never really took off
The late and much missed Weekly World News, famous for Bat Boy, Ed ‘pig-biting mad’ Anger, interviews with JFK’s ghost and demonically possessed toasters, gave those beds a bad reputation with its classic front-page headline:
“Dwarf trapped 19 days in folding bed”
Who would risk it after that?
The Bee strikes again.
Law & Order: Microaggressions Victims Unit
Apologies for last post, which named the wrong best-ever WWN front page headline.
The real winner, to be seen at the above link, is
“I Was Bigfoot’s Love Slave”.
But what would lazy teachers do then? No more “Look up (topic of the day) and prepare a 2 minute verbal summary while I do my on-line grocery shopping and catch up with Facebook friends.”
Why would the Feds want to suppress security camera footage of them executing a search warrant? Presuming everything’s above board, what’s the issue? I imagine m0nty (after hurriedly checking the day’s talking points memo) huffing and puffing about how some of these documents are tippety top secret and you can’t just have footage of them in the public domain, you know.
Hmm. I’m sure there is footage on YouTube of huge quantities of cash or gold being removed from one place and transported to another. Using the above logic, I can acquire the value this cash or gold holds simply by watching this footage!
Now, back to reality. What’s to be learnt from video footage of agents grabbing and bagging a bunch of files? Unless the agents were spectacularly reckless in their handling of these documents AND the Mar-a-Lago CCTV system uses an extremely sophisticated and complex camera setup capable of surveilling areas and capturing legible 11pt text on an A4-sized page when held at any angle, the footage will only display the conduct of the agents conducting the raid.
Anyway, it’s subpoenaed and can’t be released, eh? Well, you know who else has subpoena powers? A congressional hearing. We’ll see the footage soon enough – early next year by the latest.
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They will be playing the ‘agent safety’ and ‘Classified Sources and Methods’ angles I’d guess.
The real reasons are likely that footage is excellent Trump campaign advert material and could play a huge role in the next legal battles as well.
Oh come onsays:
August 14, 2022 at 2:47 pm
The Federalist is saying the FBI has subpoenaed the security camera footage from Trump’s home meaning it can not be released until the FBI allows it.
Is there a link to the Federalist article on this?
Mollie Hemmingway (big cheese at the Federalist) twitter.
Goods seized as evidence is normally returned at the conclusion of any proceedings.
Another interesting point is, since this material is declassified, can we make a FOI request for a copy?
Simple genius. Worthy of Wizard of Id. 🙂
Yeah the Left has its knickers in a twist today because they’re unhappy Trump released the warrant.
This is like two days or something after they screeched for Trump to release the warrant.
Apparently it had the names of the agents on it. Who then got fingered for their role in Wussians.
America First Republicans should go hard on this angle, even with classified stuff too.
Make it impossible for the swamp to do anything.
They know the grift is coming to an end soon and they haven’t been able to embezzle enough to give them the golden parachutes they were hoping to use when they bail the hell out of that shithole. Send more money, quick, we need it now! It’s…ah….it’s…for the troops! Yes, that’s it, we simply must pay the troops. Their welfare is of utmost importance to us, as evidenced by our willingness to place them in indefensible positions downrange of relentless Russian artillery bombardments, where they get torn to pieces. Imagine not paying them. It would be an outrage! Send money now!
Yep. I’d be particularly interested in the “President of France” document. Such assessments typically pull no punches, and seeing how the CIA aired Macron’s dirty laundry would be hilarious.
Mollie Retweeted
Julie Kelly ??
@julie_kelly2
“The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room.”
Same DOJ concealing 14k hours of surveillance video from Capitol on January 6.
Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
NEW: The surveillance footage the DOJ subpoenaed was for a 60-day period. According to a person familiar with the footage, it showed that after one instance in which the DOJ was in touch w Trump’s team, boxes were moved out of the storage area. https://nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/politics/trump-classified-material-fbi.html
From NY Times Link – FBI’s Tame Media Dog along with Washington Post
A spokesman for the former president, Taylor Budowich, said on Saturday, “Just like every Democrat-fabricated witch hunt previously, the water of this unprecedented and unnecessary raid is being carried by a media willing to run with suggestive leaks, anonymous sources and no hard facts.
Mr. Corcoran and Ms. Bobb showed Mr. Bratt and his team boxes holding material Mr. Trump had taken from the White House that were being kept in a storage area, the people said.
According to two people briefed on the visit, Mr. Bratt and his team left with additional material marked classified, and around that time also obtained the written declaration from a Trump lawyer attesting that all the material marked classified in the boxes had been turned over.
A short time after the meeting, according to people briefed on it, Mr. Bratt sent Mr. Corcoran an email telling him to get a more secure padlock for the room. Mr. Trump’s team complied.
The Justice Department also subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago recorded over a 60-day period, including views from outside the storage room. According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room.
That activity prompted concern among investigators about the handling of the material. It is not clear when precisely the footage was from during the lengthy back-and-forth between Justice Department officials and Mr. Trump’s advisers, or whether the subpoena to Mr. Trump seeking additional documents had already been issued.
Mr. Budowich said it was “no surprise that boxes may be moved in and out of a storage room.”
“That’s not news,” he said. “If there was actual concern, the D.O.J. could have asked, just like they had previously, and they would have, again, received full cooperation.”
In recent months, investigators were in contact with roughly half a dozen of Mr. Trump’s current aides who had knowledge of how the documents that had been kept at Mar-a-Lago were handled, two people briefed on the approaches said. At least one witness provided the investigators with information that led them to want to further press Mr. Trump for material, according to a person familiar with the inquiry.
There is plenty of recent case law that establishes the constitutionality of members of the public filming police when they’re going about their duties. It’s a 1A issue. I don’t see how these cases can be distinguished from the Mar-a-Lago raid being filmed by a CCTV network installed and operated the owner of the property. I can’t see how the Feds can get around this. I mean, they’ll try and there will be delays as a consequence.
But, like I said above, the footage will be obtained when the congressional hearings into all of this sleaze and overt corruption commence next year, and there won’t be a damn thing the Feds can do about it.
Very good, areff, but it’s not the headline of the century penned by The Age‘s foreign editor Bruce Kaplan when he was doing a funny money “mumble” at Max Newton’s Melbourne Sunday Observer in the 1970s.
The story was a beat-up of a beat-up stolen from the National Enquirer (USA) about the actress Jessica Lange supposedly falling in love with the machine that played the title role in the remake of King Kong: 144-point bold caps across two pages:
Exquisite. Timeless. Trashy.
Yes, They’re Going to Arrest Donald Trump. Deal With It.
If you haven’t yet come to terms with the fact that vile, power-abusing, Left-wing goblins are going to arrest former President Donald Trump, you’ve got your head in the sand. These people are unprincipled cage-fighters animated by their seething lust to destroy Orange Man Bad. Our upper echelon law enforcement has been transformed into an iron fist, and we’ve taken unprecedented blow after unprecedented blow for years now — presidential candidate Trump wiretapped, the Russia Hoax, two impeachments on the flimsiest of grounds, FBI raids of conservative journalists and political enemies (especially those in Trump’s orbit, including his attorneys Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani), and most recently, the reprehensible raid of the Trump family’s beloved home. Why on earth would you think these people will stop there?
And because it’s unimaginable to conservatives to politicize and weaponize the DOJ and FBI to this extent, we’ve been caught flat-footed every time the establishment demolishes yet another norm of American civility.
Did you think partisan Leftists are conducting all these endless trumped-up malicious prosecutions for fun? While that is undoubtedly part of it, there is now an all-out race to be the Historic™ first prosecutor to hack off a presidential scalp. The mad dash is on! Who will take that victory lap? Who will be the champion to bring the Party the coveted optics of a Trumpian perp walk and mugshot? Who will be the toast of the elite, with access-for-life to the best parties, jaunts, and boondoggles? Who will rake in all those fat book, Netflix, academic, and corporate appearance deals? Whose name will make it into the history books?
Attorney General Merrick Garland is in a strong position with his latest Mar-a-Lago panty raid tranche. But then again, New York AG Letitia James, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County, Ga., DA Fani Willis all have a solid start with their own trumped-up investigations. Either way, make no mistake: every one of these hacks is gunning for Trump’s head.
What has always been unimaginable in the United States is now pretty much guaranteed: Yes, there will be an indictment of a former president. Leftists are saying it out loud now. Obama wingman and former weaponized AG Eric Holder said as much on Thursday, in an interview with Joe Madison on SiriusXM:
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.
So, yes, sooner or later, someone is will get a grand jury or a judge to indict Donald Trump for something or other.
It’s possible that an arrest will be just the beginning. If the charade proceeds to a trial, it could drag on for years. And they will milk it as hard as they can for both media value and to sap Trump’s resources and ability to harm their agenda. Who knows? If the Leftists try Trump in a place like Washington, D.C., they might even get a conviction out of it. Maybe he’ll wind up in prison.
So what?
As my PJ Media colleague Greg Byrnes points out, Trump can still run for president, be reelected, and govern the country anyway. Business Insider agrees, citing multiple legal scholars.
Yes, it will be terribly unfair. Yes, a great man who has done nothing more than put America first will be unjustly persecuted. I really hope I’m wrong.
158 House Members Proxy Voted for $700 Billion ‘Inflation Reduction’ Act
The House of Representatives on Friday voted to pass the $700 billion “Inflation Reduction” Act, which would not reduce inflation, and 158 of the lawmakers voted by proxy.
The 158 lawmakers decided to vote by proxy at a time when there has been controversy surrounding the capability, as the Senate still required its members to vote in person.
House members have been allowed to vote by proxy, which means that one member of the House can cast a vote on behalf of an absent member. This type of voting started in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
But, instead of the proxy voting capability in the House ending as the coronavirus pandemic has improved around the country, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has extended it multiple times, citing the “public health emergency.”
So I’ll put that down as a vote for Iva Davies, then?
Heard a great quote on some podcast I listened to earlier:
What will happen with:
1. Mid term Congressional elections?
2. State gubernatorial races?
3. State legislatures?
The polls imply a modest Democrat victory overall.
If the Republicans are very successful, then the consequences could be historic.
Did the Justice Department Already Know That No Classified Docs Were at Mar-a-Lago?
As if the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home wasn’t controversial enough, the Department of Justice might have known that there were no classified documents at the home of the former president since last June. One of Trump’s attorneys verified that no classified documents remained on-site, but someone at the Justice Department appears to have disregarded it as federal agents swarmed the residence last Monday (via NYT):
It’s also clear that no one read the critical memo issued on January 19, 2021, wherein all documents related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation were declassified by Trump in the waning days of his presidency.
Damning political documents that make the Obama administration look bad are declassified—and then, the feds knock down the door at Mar-a-Lago. And now, we have memos showing that certain documents were either declassified or that none were present at Trump’s home. It looks like this circus just added another tent.
2022 FiveThirtyEight Election Forecast
THe GReaT MaR-A-LaGo RaiD…
RealClear Politics 2022 Election Maps
More useful than FiveThirtyEight IMO
Sundance broadens out
What was in the Trump Documents creating such fear in DOJ and FBI
Sundance
The Last Refuge
https://www.sott.net/article/470973-What-was-in-the-Trump-Documents-creating-such-fear-in-DOJ-and-FBI
I suspect there’s a decent chance this will happen. I’m trying to think of a better way to guarantee a Trump 2024 victory, and I’m struggling.
I also think there’s a decent chance they know this and will tread more carefully. Even if Trump is re-elected, they were able to manipulate him into doing their bidding and keep his wings clipped throughout his first term. Why not during his second? (This ought to be a question for those who would like to see Trump re-elected, too.)
They might realise the Mar-a-Lago raid was an overreach, that they need to back off in order to have a seat at the table if Trump returns in 2025, that if they double down now rather than make a tactical retreat, and Trump wins in 2024 anyway, he’s far more likely to tear them to pieces when in office. There will be no John Boltons, Bill Barrs, Mike Pompeos or – hell – Jared Kushners in Trump’s ear to protect them.
It really could go either way.
Bioengineered cornea can restore sight to the blind and visually impaired
Karin Söderlund Leifler
Linköping University
Thu, 11 Aug 2022
Researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig’s skin, which resembles the human cornea. In a pilot study, the implant restored vision to 20 people with diseased corneas, most of whom were blind prior to receiving the implant.
The study jointly led by researchers at Linköping University (LiU) and LinkoCare Life Sciences AB has been published in Nature Biotechnology. The promising results bring hope to those suffering from corneal blindness and low vision by providing a bioengineered implant as an alternative to the transplantation of donated human corneas, which are scarce in countries where the need for them is greatest.
“The results show that it is possible to develop a biomaterial that meets all the criteria for being used as human implants, which can be mass-produced and stored up to two years and thereby reach even more people with vision problems. This gets us around the problem of shortage of donated corneal tissue and access to other treatments for eye diseases”, says Neil Lagali, professor at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at LiU, one of the researchers behind the study.
Affordable
An estimated 12.7 million people around the world are blind due to their corneas, which is the outermost transparent layer of the eye, being damaged or diseased. Their only way of regaining vision is to receive a transplanted cornea from a human donor. But just one in 70 patients receives a cornea transplant. Furthermore, most of those who need cornea transplants live in low and middle-income countries in which access to treatments is very limited.
“Safety and effectiveness of the bioengineered implants have been the core of our work, says Mehrdad Rafat, the researcher and entrepreneur behind the design and development of the implants.
He is an adjunct associate professor (senior lecturer) at LiU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and founder and CEO of the company LinkoCare Life Sciences AB, which manufactures the bioengineered corneas used in the study.
“We’ve made significant efforts to ensure that our invention will be widely available and affordable by all and not just by the wealthy. That’s why this technology can be used in all parts of the world”, he says.
The cornea consists mainly of the protein collagen. To create an alternative to human cornea, the researchers used collagen molecules derived from pig skin that were highly purified and produced under strict conditions for human use. The pig skin used is a byproduct of the food industry, making it easy to access and economically advantageous. In the process of constructing the implant, the researchers stabilized the loose collagen molecules forming a robust and transparent material that could withstand handling and implantation in the eye. While donated corneas must be used within two weeks, the bioengineered corneas can be stored for up to two years before use.
– New surgical method
– Perfect vision
The next distraction squirrel being laid out by an administration surrogate.
Barb McQuade
@BarbMcQuade
Brilliant tactical move by DOJ on selecting statutes for the search. None of the crimes cited require the documents to be classified. Any claim by Trump that he declassified the documents is irrelevant.
So last week the surrogates were all about classified docs.
The start of this week it’s what a genius move etc etc etc.
Administration surrogates get the talking points then regurgitate them.
Criminal.
Baris is saying the GOP win in the house is looking at 40+.
His view/data is that the GOP typically polls poorer during the summer months but his reasoning is too long to go into here.
Take Baris, take Trafalgar & split the difference.
Yes, They’re Going to Arrest Donald Trump. Deal With It.
With the ongoing Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, I’m surprised that the Euros haven’t cancelled all aid. The Chernobyl disaster was frightening enough for Europe, there’s still vast tracts of land in the Ukraine and Belarus which will never be rehabilitated due to unsafe radiation levels, and the Zaporizhzhia plant is much larger, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe actually.
If that plant blows up then all of eastern Ukraine will be uninhabitable for many years, which is probably why they are shelling it, but the damage won’t be limited to Ukraine’s borders.
FBI Director Calls Legit Criticism Of Corrupt FBI ‘Violence,’ But We Weren’t Born Yesterday
Sign me up. I used to have 20/20 vision, probably got astigmatism by 25 (made it hard to shoot at night with a scope and spotlight), now creeping short sightedness.
Wonderful research.
House Democrats Refuse to Support Second Part of Manchin-Schumer Deal for Increased Energy Development and Permitting
August 14, 2022
Imagine how much sooner this would have been achieved in a socialist environment where effort, opportunity, and resources were not squandered in the pursuit of profit.
Remember the avalanche of new technologies from the Soviet Union when the Berlin Wall came down?
And Cuba! The genius in keeping all those 1950’s cars running!
Her is the ABC report of the firearms incident at Canberra airport this afternoon.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-14/canberra-airport-evacuated-after-gunshots-fired/101331900
Notice how many ABC reporters and producers happened to be there as passengers. Emissions reductions are for the great unwashed to make, not their exalted leftist ecocatastrophist selves.
I fully expect to start hearing that any criticism of the FBI or the DOJ is undermining the instruments of justice in America and thereby actually, if not formally, a criminal act.
Then it will be time to craft the appropriate laws to match that crime.
Exquisite. Timeless. Trashy.
Tom, if only the wider world was aware of the genius at work in the minds of those 84-point artistes.
Bern
You don’t like Rassie?
Sign me up. I used to have 20/20 vision, probably got astigmatism by 25 (made it hard to shoot at night with a scope and spotlight), now creeping short sightedness.
Ditto Dot.
Re the Boston Children’s Hospital- it wasn’t sure if it was for real or not. Apparently it is. What a fucked place. Giving Portland a run for its money.
You’re willing to take a first chance with pig’s gut sewn in your eye. Good luck fellas.
Oh come onsays:
August 14, 2022 at 3:48 pm
I wouldn’t rule out a Dem. arranged hit on Trump any time from now on with some poor unknown being the fall guy. Nothing is beneath the Democrats.
The Pies.
Three goals down at half time, and suffering the further hindrance of having to play in Monkeypoxopolis*.
*Sydney.
Tell me this is a joke…
Frances Grimstad MD, MS
Faculty, Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Frances Grimstad (she/her) engages in clinical and research work surrounding transgender and intersex reproductive health. She has been involved in trans health advocacy since her own adolescence, when she decided to pursue medicine to address disparities in care faced by these communities. Her interests center around optimizing reproductive health outcomes for both populations including hormonal and menstrual management, surgical care and family planning.
Test. Phone does funny things.
Shooter at Canberra Airport.
Seems no intention to shoot at people – just unloaded at the big window facing away from the tarmac.
Probably just wants bed & 3 square at the Stanhope Hilton. Or a bleedin’ loony.
I wouldn’t rule out a Dem. arranged hit on Trump any time from now on with some poor unknown being the fall guy. Nothing is beneath the Democrats.
Yep and that’s why I’m not confident about the mid terms either. If they can steel 2020 why not 2022. Just dial up the ballot stuffing to the required level.
Barking Toad says:
August 14, 2022 at 4:58 pm
Shooter at Canberra Airport.
Seems no intention to shoot at people – just unloaded at the big window facing away from the tarmac.
White middle aged bloke from photos and reports.
He would have to have had a licence for a pistol.
Plenty of fodder for the press to recycle leftist memes.
This will be the talk of the AFP and ACT Police break-out rooms and kale cafes (Toad, and The Hun):
Heroes will have been made today, the likes of which not seen in Canberra since the Great Kenworth Broomhandle Not-Shootout.
Italian ice cream maker in tears: “Today I received the electricity bill for July, € 5128. Last year I paid € 1371 in the exact same period consuming 200 kWh less! The kWh in 2021 cost 9 cents, today 53, increase of 468%!” It will be a very hot autumn in Italy and beyond.
It does show you why they have invested so heavily in getting all the democratic countries to try and move in concert.
Imagine if, for instance, the UK had stayed coal/gas/oil heavy while all the individual countries on the continent saw double/triple digit power price increases the further they got along their “power to cheap to meter” pathways.
I’m thinking the Pies run might have hit the skids. Five down and not looking like it.
Child abuse , pure and simple.
in a Children’s Hospital ? Promoting p3dofelia. Sick.
I’m okay with that. They need a pantsing to stay grounded ahead of the finals.
Plus that peroxided embarrassment Ginnivan has done a hammy, so that’s another win.
On that mad witch doctor and its castrating & deforming kids.
It was mad when it was an adolescent, and has used the madness to inflict it on others.
Dismantling the Gender and Sex Binary to Enhance Medical Care: A Conversation with Dr. Frances Grimstad
JL: More generally, what sparked your interest in trans health advocacy?
I was born and raised in San Francisco, and I came out as a queer person in middle school. As someone who spent much of my adolescence involved in advocacy, most of my core friend circle through that period became predominately queer and trans folks who were also interested in advocacy.
Around high school, I started to realize that my trans-identified peers had far greater disparities and barriers to overcome than I did as a queer person. And so, while I was working in this broader LGBTQ advocacy space as a high school student, I realized that where I could leverage my work and my focus was as an accomplice to the trans advocacy movement.
JL: In pursuing this kind of goal, how can we leverage non-binary concepts of gender and sex to enhance medical care? You’ve mentioned this idea of “anatomic inventories,” what do you mean by that?
One of the first things to do is to really start off by recognizing that we don’t have a binary society, and so our idea of putting things into neat bins of “women” and “men,” in some ways, gets us more into trouble than it gets us out of trouble. The original goal of that was to recognize that not all people are the same, so we can’t just say there’s one human population with monolithic health care needs and outcomes. Instead, we started by separating health care and research approaches into women and men, then race, and then age, and so on and so forth with finer and finer categories. And we also now know that just saying “men” and “women” is still not enough to understand how healthcare experiences may be different, or how we might be able to stratify risk.
Now, let’s actually take a step back and ask, why did we stratify as men or women to begin with? Well, we did that because we know that some people have hormones that are estrogen versus testosterone, and some people have ovaries while others have testes; those are things that we categorize. But what if, instead of me delivering a baby and noting that there’s a vagina, and assuming thereafter that there are ovaries that produce estrogen and that there’s a uterus, I take this more in a stepwise fashion? I know I delivered a baby with a vagina. That’s all I know at that point in time, and as the baby gets older, if they menstruate, then now I know the baby also has a uterus and estrogen and ovaries.
This anatomic inventory helps us to understand that not all people who were born as men or women, or who identify as men or women, have the same bodies. When we assume a certain anatomy and physiology based on a sex assigned at birth, it may not always be accurate. And as medical people, our goal is to not work off of assumptions—our goal is to actually use concrete information which we have. So what I love about the anatomic inventory is that it takes the gender and the sex out of it, and it says, “What anatomy do you actually have?” And then it also allows me to differentiate between what a patient used to have, what they have now, and what they want.
For example, if I have someone who’s 50 years old and they’re coming to me for a surgery, and I see on their screen that they have an F (female) symbol, I’m likely going to order a urine pregnancy test because I’ve assumed that an F means they have a uterus means they have ovaries means that they have a chance of pregnancy. But what if I instead used an anatomic inventory and saw that this person used to have a uterus, but they had a hysterectomy 10 years ago? Then there would be no point in ordering a urine pregnancy test.
For the same reason, if I had a patient who was born without a uterus and had a vagina, to have that person go through many medical encounters where every single time they’re asked to take a urine pregnancy test despite the fact that they might have significant anxiety around not being able to carry a pregnancy, could be very traumatic for them. These incorrect assumptions then lead to bad patient care.
Anatomic inventories move away from that binary. That translates into things like research: let’s take one of the largest breast cancer surveys out there, where their inclusion criteria was identification as female, and they tracked your risk of cancer. If you’ve got hundreds of thousands of people participating in a research study and you know that trans people make up 0.6% of the population, you’ve got to assume that at some point, some of those people probably weren’t assigned female at birth, and some might be intersex! So how does that change our interpretation of the data if we know they don’t all have the same genetics, or hormonal exposure? By moving, again, towards the idea that we are looking at what people had and what people have now and getting away from the idea of sex and gender, we can actually move towards studies that better reflect true population risk.
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Im not saying burning mad women as witches was a good thing… but sometimes theres a tingling in my kindling for a dose of peasant justice.
Outsiders continues to plunder concepts raised on this blogue earlier in the week.
Then again, maybe non collectivists have similar thought patterns.
Heaven forbid that should be so. We are all individuals! 🙂
LOL.
Gee, I don’t know. It’s a mystery.
Could this halfwit “doctor” please explain to me why we need Oxygen to breathe and not some other atom?
It seems discriminatory to me.
Criminalizing Opposition in a Pseudo-Republic
Harvard is totally cool with all that insane evil but then what would you expect from an institution that hosts The Kennedy School of Government. What do they study? Bootlegging? Ballot stuffing?
REVEALED: Terrified man managed to drive from the scene after gunmen opened fire on his car and killed the two mums in his backseat – as Sydney gangsters ‘throw out the rulebook’ by targeting women
– Driver managed to drive a kilometre from shooting after escaping gunmen
– Two women shot dead in heart of gang war territory in Sydney’s southwest
– Police continue to investigate potential motives alongside Homicide Squad
– The two women were found inside a car in Revesby about 8.50pm on Saturday
One resident described the terrifying moment he saw three vehicles rush down the street and emergency services leap into action to try and save the women.
‘The first police car turned up, the two guys got out, everything calmed down,’ he said.
‘Straightaway, everything calmed own. These two policemen went to work on the lady, and they got out of the car, and they worked so hard on her.’
A 16-year-old girl was also in the car and was ‘incredibly shaken’ but not physically injured.
All four people in the car are understood to be casual associates of one another.
Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, NSW Police Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty said the attack appeared to be ‘planned’ and blasted the attackers.
‘This is an appalling attack on two women. They have lost their lives. It was a planned murder, an assassination really, and it’s happened in a public street in Sydney,’ he said.
Mr Doherty said the attackers had broken an ‘unwritten law’ amongst organised crime to ‘not touch women or family’.
You would not own an Audi in Sydney
Cultural enrichment.
Sydney is so lucky.
OK Cats, it’s time to lay down some profound truths. My truth.
When growing up, my ol’ man listened to the ALPBC and read the Silly Moaning Haemorrhoid daily.
Both used to aggravate him big time. Yet, he persisted, he even taught me how to read using the SMH when I was four.
Gave up on the SMH habit over a decade ago (thanks, Barkin’ Betty and Adolf Horror) yet over the last two and a half years, I have been consuming more chiple jay than quite possibly at any time in my life.
Without it I would never have discovered Miss Ellie and Miss Maggie. If the ALPBC was shut down, as I so fervently wish, there would be a new void in my existence.
Hypocrisy is no easy habit to break, Cats. 😕
It is said that sporty Beamers are the go.
Been thinking about putting a few dollars on Trump to win the next US election. Looked at Betfair, Sportsbet and TAB. The odds seem pretty low at the moment, I think they’ll get better as the charade in the US continues, any ideas people?
Indolentsays:
August 14, 2022 at 5:25 pm
Criminalizing Opposition in a Pseudo-Republic
Under this Lot I would not! give Trump much chance to live!
For almost a decade and a half now, the American “republic” has been decaying to the defining condition of a one-party state – that is, the total merger of the ruling party and the state. Last night, the dirty stinking rotten corrupt US Department of Justice signed off on a raid on Mar-a-Lago, so we’ve now moved into hardcore banana-republic territory: the regime’s cops are busting into the home of the opposition leader. We’re told this is because Trump took some “classified” documents with him when he left Washington. Yeah, that’s always a pretext for an armed raid: You could ask Hillary Clinton or Sandy Berger.
The FBI has been getting more brazen about its political thuggery this last year, increasingly relaxed about putting its thumb on the democratic scale. As my old pal from Hillsdale days, Joy Pullman, notes in a column written pre-Mar-a-Lago:
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.
Mission accomplished – and all while too many stars of the rube right were still insisting that there are just a few bad apples at the top, I know the rank-and-file, they’re salt of the earth, straight-shooting G-men, they gave me this cute lapel pin, etc, etc. There are no straight-shooting G-men: Who do you think are manning the raids, you chumps? Where are the whistle-blowers? Or even the guys who say, “No thanks, I didn’t sign up for this”? It’s a wholly corrupted institution and has been for the best part of a decade. The default position for what’s left of the opposition party ought to be that the FBI is beyond reform, and will be replaced by a new agency with vastly circumscribed powers.
Instead, I see Kevin McCarthy is now threatening Merrick Garland with an “investigation” and ordering him to preserve all documents. Ooooooh!
As for Trump, well, on The Mark Steyn Show three days after the “election” I suggested:
It’s my view that after the Biden regime takes power, as in many coup situations, they will want to have the previous leader arrested. I’m being perfectly serious here. It is the intention of the Democrat Party to put Trump in jail. So, when he launches the ‘Trump News Network’, it’s gonna need to be based out of Costa Rica or the Turks and Caicos or somewhere.
My advice is to take Ms Rubin and her chums at their word…
Even if they never succeed in gaoling him, they will surely use the “peaceful transition” to put in place a couple of decades’ worth of litigation-without-end. Come to that, can he even trust the Secret Service agents they’ll assign to him?
He will never be a ‘normal’ former president – because they are determined to exclude him from those ranks.
Oh, but don’t worry, says McCarthy, there’s that Big Red Wave coming in November.
Yeah, right. A throwaway line from The Mark Steyn Show of December 15th 2020:
By the way, when they mention Covid and 2022, that’s code for: ‘Yeah the US midterms are gonna get stolen too.’
Worth mentioning again there’s up to 23 trillion tonnes of coal under the North Sea.
Just needs the will to extract some of it.
sfwsays:
August 14, 2022 at 5:38 pm
Been thinking about putting a few dollars on Trump to win the next US election- any ideas people?
Alive?
The suburb I was born, went to school and grew up in. Last lived there in 2001.
Transformed out of all recognition and not in a good way, thanks to mass immigration and the quislings responsible for it.
calli says:
August 14, 2022 at 5:33 pm
Cultural enrichment.
Sydney is so lucky.
For some, defrauding the NDIS just doesn’t generate enough money.
Rabz – I used to consume the jays also, double and triple. We should start an AA but called JJJ, for recovering addicts.
They got too nutty so I stopped. These days we have the YT sidebar though. Lots of interesting stuff gets listed on it, and YT seems to’ve extended it recently as well.
Rowan Dean attacks, in a seemly way, little johnnie’s new book, a sense of balance, and in that book little johnnie’s attack on Trump.
Howard has not only fucked conservatism in this nation he personifies why it is fucked everywhere. Howard thinks conservatism can succeed because there are rules and equally important because those rules are fair and that part of that fairness is decorum, manners and politeness. Howard has as much insight into the brave new leftie world as a rat does as it tries to nibble cheese in a rat trap. He is a character in a Jane Austen novel without that great lady’s insight into human nature.
For the left there are no rules, only power. Trump knew this but even he underestimated how vicious the left are and to what lengths they will go to to stay in power. Western society succeeded because it contained the left, but because the modern conservatives like little johnnie ignored the lessons of the past, WW11, communism, they thought Western society had an inherent resistance to the left and all that was needed to preserve it was to practise fairness and balance and respect your political opponents. To say this is naive is say biden is demented. Incrementally the left has taken over because idiots like little johnnie would not get down and dirty. Trump did and little johnnie’s sense of balance and decorum could not tolerate this. No matter the lies against Trump and the electoral corruption all little johnnie saw was Trump’s uncouthness and unwillingness to accept the umpire’s decision. No matter that the umpire was Hunter Biden.
Howard is fool who’s pernicious influence is still rattling through the LNP. His legacy is turdball, kean and the soon to be obliteration of every state LNP government.
P:
Neil Oliver:
‘It’s hard to tell yourself you’ve been taken for a fool but open your eyes’
Transcript + video at CTH
I think Neil Oliver has cracked the code.
Nothing our Governments and Leaders are doing is tackling the problems our society faces, and everything they are doing is making them worse.
And every problem we face has its roots in government action or inaction. Every one of them.
Bruce – when the djs are not waffling and their frigging infuriating collectivist nooze* isn’t being broadcast it’s actually quite tolerable – apart from the odd dose of heavy metal.
JJJ was at it’s best from about 1980 to 1985. Lots of seriously awesome Ozzie stuff as well.
*Primal scream therapy, at least, especially on a Monday morning. The goal is to be audible in space at some point before departing this earthly realm. 🙂
That is not how any of this works, you colossal idiots.