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Report: Surprising Private Message Trump Sent to Merrick Garland After Mar-a-Lago Raid Revealed
Welp, now it’s getting really interesting, America. “It,” of course, being the FBI raid on Donald and Melania Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago. As reported by several sources on Sunday, the former president sent a private message to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday, prior to a Justice Department afternoon news conference. Grab the popcorn: The contents of that message have now been revealed.
Shortly before the press conference, a person close to Trump reached out to an official at the Justice Department to deliver a message to Garland. As reported by The New York Times, the message Trump wanted to be passed to Garland reads:
The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?
Let the speculation begin, which I will gladly start.
Aside from the stunned look on my face when I first read the message, I said to myself, “You gotta be kidding me.” No way does this fit Trump’s persona, particularly when The Donald does battle with the legions who despise him. Then I wondered, assuming the message is genuine, why would he send it? To Merrick Garland, of all people? Was it a legit question out of legit concern?
Was Trump truly concerned with the country being “on fire” — a fire with the left he stoked throughout his presidency and in the aftermath of the 2020 election — and was he truly wondering what he could do to “reduce the heat”?
Or, was it a ploy by Trump to appear reasonable to Garland as part of an attempt to engineer some sort of amends? I don’t know — and neither do any of us — so I will not speculate.
Don’t misunderstand; I’m not suggesting any of the above would have been wrong on Trump’s part, but questions remain — the reason being, it simply doesn’t add up; it is the antithesis of the Donald Trump some have come to know and love over the last seven years.
And as we reported on Thursday, the key question remains:
Why did the FBI raid Mar-a-Lago just two months after Trump secretly received a grand jury subpoena for classified documents belonging to the National Archives, and then voluntarily cooperated by turning over the asked-for documents? He also surrendered security surveillance footage of his private storage locker and aided federal agents and a senior Justice Department lawyer in searching the locker, according to multiple people present, some of whom said Trump cooperated extensively.
What changed over the course of two months?
If Trump willingly and extensively cooperated, and the DOJ later decided to seek additional information, including, perhaps, documents Trump failed to provide the first time, why not issue a second subpoena rather than conduct a full-blown raid? These are legitimate questions, while a bit rhetorical, as well, given the past unacceptable tactics of former FBI head James Comey against Trump.
The decision by Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice to conduct a raid on Mar-a-Lago appears neither justified, based on what we know, nor does it track with the DOJ’s past non-decisions in situations not involving Donald Trump. If Garland’s “final okay,” which he made clear he alone gave during his Thursday news conference, was based on Trump’s alleged removal of classified material from the White House, that would appear to be a blatant double standard of justice.
Where was the raid on Hillary Clinton‘s home, after a software manufacturer bragged that his product — Bleachbit — was used to delete more than 33,000 emails from a private email server Hillary used for official State Department business, in clear violation of government policy? Incredibly, Hillary later claimed the deleted emails contained only personal, non-work-related subjects like yoga sessions and the planning of her daughter Chelsea’s wedding.
Yet Donald Trump’s private residence is raided, just two months after he voluntarily cooperated with a secret subpoena. Moreover, previous violations of the Presidential Records Act have generally been punished by administrative fines; certainly not by raids on former presidents’ homes and/or criminal prosecution.
Maybe there are legitimate reasons for the clear double standard in Trump’s case that have not yet been revealed. Then again “maybe” the raid on Mar-a-Lago was just the next episode of the TDS-riddled Democrat Party’s never-ending witch hunt against Trump.
A witch hunt that began before Donald Trump was even sworn into office.
Breaking; Essendon’s hopeless AFL coach Ben Rutten has been sacked.
Psays:
August 15, 2022 at 12:14 pm
Cannot put up the link.
Kari Lake is now speaking live on RSBN in Arizona.
Ron DeSantis is coming on next
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/happening-now-fl-gov-ron-desantis-rally-support-trump-endorsed-candidates-kari-lake-blake-masters-rsbn-live-stream-video/
If every hefty American – or Australian, for that matter – actually got off their arse and stopped blaming CoRporAtions, McDonalds, teachers, the internet and infomercials for being morbidly obese disease magnets, they wouldn’t need fake weight loss pills.
If someone can explain to me why these things will magically make you ‘healthy’, and in the face of years if not decades of deliberate sloth it would be greatly appreciated.
Put. Down. The. Fork.
Bullshit they did. I will flay gummint’s skin and hang it from flagpoles for many things. Many, many things, but not this.
Even if people believed that ‘government caused this weight gain crisis with the Food Pyramid’, why the necessity to paint themselves as victims?
‘Oh, it’s the government’s fault I am a cellulite-riddled subcutaneous fat museum. Woe is me. What’s that? Go outside? Walk around for a bit? Decide, of my own free will not to have that sixth cheeseburger? Preposterous – there’s no way I can write letters to the editor blaming other people for my own shit level of personal responsibility if I did that.’
The ultimate cop-out, if all else fails, is of course ‘Oh, all my family are heavy’, or the truncated version: ‘But muh genes.’ Anyone running that line should be looking in the mirror, each and every day, not liking what they see and saying to themselves: ‘This is my fault.’
Don’t blame the market for responding to weak people’s shit demands.
Link on Rumble not allowed here re Kari Lake and Ron DeSantis.
OldOzzie says:
August 15, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Thank you. I tried three times with no luck.
Who Knew? Liz Cheney’s Husband’s Law Firm Represents Hunter Biden in DOJ’s Grand Jury Probe
Anyone with even a passing interest in Wyoming “Republican” Representative Liz Cheney’s stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome and her apparent willingness to flush her political career down the toilet as a result, has to wonder: Is Cheney’s obsession with Trump based solely on her disdain for The Donald, or is she a raging Democrat trapped in the body of a very bad Republican impersonator?
With just 48 hours remaining (as I write) before Cheney is likely destroyed by Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman in Tuesday’s Wyoming primary — Cheney presently trails Hageman by 30 points — reports confirm that Cheney’s husband, Philip Perry, is a partner in a law firm that represents Hunter Biden in a Department of Justice grand jury probe. Trump-appointed U.S. prosecutor David Weiss is investigating Hunter and his various associates for tax violations and lying to law enforcement about illegally purchasing a firearm.
Perry’s partner Chris Clark represents Hunter in the “grand jury investigation regarding tax issues,” his company biography says.
As reported by Breitbart, Perry owns between a $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 million stake in the firm, according to Cheney’s 2020 Personal Financial Disclosure. Moreover, as noted by Breitbart, Latham & Watkins is a Democrat “powerhouse, which employs attorneys who have donated more than half a million dollars to President Biden’s 2020 campaign.” And according to Federal Election Commission records, Clark himself gave $3,800 to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
So… are we looking at a mere coincidence, or is this a classic case of If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck? I report, you decide. For now, anyway.
Here’s where the “plot” thickens.
Just kidding; I’m not a conspiracy theorist. That said, check it out — via Breitbart:
Another failed experiment with South Australians. You’d think people would have learned by now.
P,
another link – https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/14/watch-ron-desantis-speaks-at-turning-point-usa-unite-and-win-rally/
PEAK TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
Of course, that is a risky prediction, given that the Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to become more acute on a daily basis. But for now, this may represent a peak (or nadir). Former CIA Director Michael Hayden suggests–I don’t think there is any other plausible interpretation–that Donald Trump should be executed for giving nuclear secrets to the Russians, a claim for which there is, to say the least, zero evidence, and which is absurd on its face:
Gen Michael Hayden
@GenMhayden
Sounds about right.
12 Aug
Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953:
That tweet is actually three days old, but if you look at Hayden’s Twitter feed it consists of nothing but insane, over the top Trump hatred. Hayden is unbalanced, and the thought that he was once in charge of the CIA is frightening. It should be noted that Hayden was also one of the dozens of former security officials who falsely claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop showed all the signs of Russian disinformation–an outright lie.
We live in truly bizarre times.
Not the ones I get – 50mg slow release Tramadol. Maybe the oxy type ones used for cancer patients, although even that seems a stretch. I doubt it.
My GP has to phone the Health Department once a month to get an ‘authorisation’ for a medication that I will need until I die. And, it is at the bottom of the scale for junkies. But, it keeps the phone answerers in the Health Department in a job.
As usual, the bureaucrats just use dodgy ‘statistics’ and their own prejudices and preferences to make the rules. They are worried about diversion of opioids – how about narrowing the search by deleting old people with chronic pain conditions (a large percentage) and looking at younger people with alleged “back pain.” And their doctors.
A bit of targeting. Well, well, I wonder which untouchable groups that might ‘stigmatise,’
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The question for the day, does m0nty eat Krispy Kreme with a fork? The answer is rhetorical coz everyone knows he empties them into the trough to chow down.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 11:24 am
[As for (a), sometimes regulatory systems operate on the basis that a decision is not effective till written, or communicated, but sometimes they don’t – sometimes a decision is valid when taken and communications/written records are just practical/evidentiary considerations.
What a load of rubbish.
Poor old ignorant shiteater. In fact, a distinction between validity of decisions and written recording or communication of the decisions is very normal. That’s why minutes of a governing body are just a record, not a prerequisite to carrying out of a decision. As a basic example see ss 174 and 175 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, and the High Court’s decision in Ex Parte Hooper, (1926) 37 CLR 368.
[..it’s up to you to prove it, not up to me to prove a negative.]
You are the one asserting that things work differently to how the government sees it.
No I’m not. You said “there’s always been a process” which makes Trump’s actions a “departure from the status quo”. You’ve stated no grounds for that except your ill-informed speculation about how the classification system might work. Newsflash! Sometimes a government agency’s highly generalised assertions that their actions were justified turn out to be wrong!
[That’s talking about documents in the possession of the Justice Department, not documents at Mar a Lago.]
Trump does not own national security documents just because he nicked them. They are still the property of the government. In particular, he does not get to sell them to the highest bidder.
Non sequitur alert! Try responding to the facts, m0nty.
Tramadol didn’t do much for me though I don’t think it was that higher dose. I seem to be pretty hit and miss with any sort of medication.
In particular, he does not get to sell them to the highest bidder.
The sugar trolls in his blood, they told him this as well.
Remember this is the same person who refused to lose weight, despite their morbid all consuming terror of the coof, and also was happy to have strangers ram cotton buds up his kids noses every time they got a sniffle to protect his morbidly obese carcass.
Low energy.
Sad
Many such cases.
What did he actually do though?
Funny that. The President doesn’t get charged, for being the boss!
The Mar-a-Lago Wave
The FBI raid on Trump’s estate has increased the chances of a red wave in November.
For most of 2022, Democratic voters have been far more ambivalent about participating in the fall midterms than their Republican counterparts. According to conventional Beltway wisdom, however, that enthusiasm gap has been narrowed by the recent Roe v. Wade ruling and the Jan. 6 hearings. It’s probable, though, that last Monday’s FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate will reestablish the Republican advantage. This unprecedented action will likely energize GOP voters and drown any increase in Democratic enthusiasm beneath a red tsunami.
The first poll to measure public response to the raid indicates that it has galvanized Republicans and Independents. A new survey conducted by the Trafalgar Group for Convention of States Action found that 83.3 percent of GOP voters and 71.7 percent of Independent voters are more motivated to vote in the midterms than they were before the FBI descended on Mar-a-Lago. Moreover, when asked who they believed was behind the FBI action, 76.7 percent of Republicans answered, “Trump’s political enemies,” and 53.9 percent of Independents agreed. A mere 11.9 percent of Democrats said that the search was politically motivated.
The survey also breaks down responses by ethnicity in the crosstabs, and the news isn’t good for Democrats. The share of Hispanics who said the Mar-a-Lago raid increased their motivation to vote in the midterms was a whopping 80 percent, while 69.9 percent said it was initiated by Trump’s political enemies. This suggests that this episode may well accelerate the increasing tendency of Hispanics to vote Republican. Their exodus from the Democratic Party began in earnest during the last election and it isn’t limited to any geographic location. As Ruy Teixeira of the American Enterprise Institute writes at the Wall Street Journal:
This is really funny.
Jeffrey Toobin Departing CNN To Expose Himself To New Audiences
Old Ozzie – we are talking about different things when it comes to medical services.
Cannot believe that this was actually published in the Paywallian
Mix medical professional snobbery and one-upmanship with political opportunism, drug company profiteering, and an unquestioning compliant media which is actually prepared to be the collective propaganda outlet of the ruling regime, and you have the social and economic disaster that was covid 19.
Minutes of board meetings are a lot different to “Trump thought this in his head years ago and didn’t tell anyone and now it is law”. You are pushing bullshit uphill, Tim N.
I’m going to not trust the bloke who made some self-serving bullshit up on the spot after months and months of not mentioning it when it might have helped. He is obviously lying, and you believe his lies. Pitiful.
MPs claim the most work-related tax deductions
Australia’s politicians, state governors and local councillors claimed six times as much in work-related tax deductions than the national average of every other occupation in the country, Australian Tax Office data shows.
But the Albanese government has no plans to wind back generous rules which allow MPs who maintain a Canberra residence to claim the cost on their tax return. In 2016, Labor said the practice did not meet community standards.
There were 4256 legislators who submitted tax returns in financial 2020 with each individual taxpayer claiming an average of $8974 in work-related expense deductions, an analysis of Tax Office data by The Australian Financial Review has found.
That amount is more than six times higher than the national average of $1446 and more than all of the 438 other occupation groups.
The cohort of legislators includes 782 members of state and federal parliaments, 3454 local councillors and 20 current and former state governors.
MPs reported an average total income of $273,363 to the ATO in the year ended June 2020. State governors earned $310,355 on average, while councillors made do with a more modest income of $72,854.
The average state or federal MP recorded a $46,817 gap between their average total income and average taxable income in 2019-20, which was the highest among the 1154 specific occupations included in the Tax Office’s annual tax statistics.
The gap could reflect a combination of deductions, losses from earlier tax years, and payments that are not considered assessable income, like exempt income and non-assessable non-exempt income.
After legislators, the next most prolific claimants of work-related tax deductions were surgeons, who claimed $7041, and other medical practitioners, who claimed $6800 on average.
By contrast, the average fast food cook claimed $245 in work-related expenses while the average cashier claimed $364 in deductions.
Federal MPs receive a base salary of $217,060 as well as a $32,000 annual electorate allowance, which is a taxable payment covering incidental expenditure incurred while discharging electorate responsibilities.
They can also choose to receive a private plated vehicle or a $19,500 annual payment known as an electorate allowance.
What’s in the affidavit monty?
Why should we believe the FBI after the falsified FISA docs regarding Carter Page?
I met Sally and her beautiful human yesterday.
Sally is a mongrel and has a degenerative disease with no use of her back legs.
Her owner devised a trolley and harness for her that allows her to go for a walk.
She was in the park sniffing and running with other dogs
Beautiful.
I don’t know, but this bloke makes an educated guess.
“Educated guesses”
That won’t do monty.
“People are Uniting and Saying We See what the Real Game Is – It’s the Weaponized Government Against Its Own People” – Liz Harrington Goes Off on The War Room: (VIDEO)
Here.
Been listening to a Beach Boys compilation – here –
What strikes me is the spirit of optimism and fun. What a contrast to rap and hate.
I visited before the rot set in. When San Fran was a clean, safe village with great bars and music. When Seattle was the last place you’d imagine would host riots.
California is without a doubt one of the most beautiful places on the planet, as anyone who has travelled there will attest.
Messing that up takes serious effort.
To the power of the universe and beyond!
Leftards are shit at politics. And the further left you go (e.g., the antifa-infested Democratic Party) the more hopeless they are. That’s the main reason they hate democracy: they have no idea how it works.
GreyRangasays:
August 15, 2022 at 12:35 pm
The ones our doc loves to dispense are the Palexia SR (slow release). Ive had some good results with endo/ crush and other injuries.
Not as zombie as morphine can be and less addictive then tramadol (apparently).
https://www.nps.org.au/medicine-finder/palexia-sr-sustained-release-tablets
Might be worth asking to trial them.
As a bonus you can stack panadol on top of them to get a nice synergy of effects.
Sloop John B?
I’m amused by Monty’s increasingly desperate and hysterical gotcha attempts.
Let’s recall that the Dems and their tools, like Mueller and the MSM, have been investigating Trump for six years now. With huge resources at their disposal. And still are with the ludicrous Jan 6 committee thingie. Yet the best they could do in all that time was to impeach Trump based on an actual fake news report in WaPo. The man is the cleanest cleanskin I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing.
That doesn’t preclude the Dems and their apparatchiks from being incompetent, which given the endless failures would seem to be the case.
But keep on Monty, don’t mind me.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/fbi-seized-records-protected-attorney-client-privilege-trump-raid-according-report/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-08-14
“the former president’s team was informed that boxes labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents—all seen on the final page of the FBI’s property receipt —contained information covered by attorney-client privilege.”
The FBI is behaving as if there will never be an accounting for their actions.
Chappell gone after 45 years, a mere puff of wind. The Fremantle doctor will blow for ever.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 12:48 pm
[In fact, a distinction between validity of decisions and written recording or communication of the decisions is very normal. That’s why minutes of a governing body are just a record, not a prerequisite to carrying out of a decision.]
Minutes of board meetings are a lot different to “Trump thought this in his head years ago and didn’t tell anyone and now it is law”. You are pushing bullshit uphill, Tim N.
Poor old shiteater. Why is it different, unless you can prove that Trump didn’t actually make the decision?
As another example, see section 357-60, Schedule 1, Taxation Administration Act. A taxpayer can “rely” on an ATO ruling (in the sense of using the ruling to defend against an assessment) even if it is proved conclusively that at the time of the acts on which the assessment is based the taxpayer was totally unaware of the ruling’s existence.
The distinction between the valid making of a decision and the practical means of implementing the decision is commonplace.
I’m going to not trust the bloke who made some self-serving bullshit up on the spot after months and months of not mentioning it when it might have helped. He is obviously lying, and you believe his lies. Pitiful.
Dot’s already deflated that one, so I won’t bother reiterating what he said.
Face facts m0nty. You made some stupid statements about the US classification system for which you had zero grounds, and your supposed “common sense” justifications are as ill informed as your original comments. You’ve beclowned yourself.
Old and busted: Greta “got too creepy/old” Thunberg.
New and hot: Disposable “wise child” #15, photogenic and oh so pristine...
Afew years ago, the environmentalist Bella Lack travelled to Versova Beach, on the Mumbai coast, to stand on a huge heap of rubbish. Lack was 16 at the time and studying for her A-levels; she was also writing a book, The Children of the Anthropocene, in which she tells the stories of young people involved in projects that address the climate crisis. She was in Mumbai* to meet Afroz Shah, a lawyer who had taken it upon himself to clean thousands of tonnes of washed-up plastic from the beach. Shah had begun the project with no funding and no official support – only his 84-year-old neighbour had offered to help; to Lack, the task seemed impossible. “The problem facing us felt so big and insurmountable,” she wrote later, thinking of the beach but also of climate activism more broadly, “that I wondered whether I should stop with all the campaigning, the speeches, and just enjoy my teenage years while they lasted.”
…
Lack woke up to the problem as a 12-year-old, when she saw a documentary about the damage palm oil concessions have on orangutan habitats. “It was the most intense obsession,” she recalls. “I had posters of them” – the orangutans – “all over my room.”** Soon, Lack railed at school against deforestation, and she fell into campaigning; by 15 she was attending protests.
….
“When I was doing activism most intensely, at the age of 15, 16, I don’t think I ever went out,” she continues. “I was so immensely overwhelmed, it was all I could focus on.” For a while, she felt a deep responsibility to both help the world and help others help the world. “I got to a point of burnout, I think,” she recalls. “I was thinking, ‘I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. I’ve done my bit.’”***
*A long walk from home?
** Orangutans, ginger bastards seducing young girls into a life of mindless activism.
*** So a manic teenager on a crusade, that always works out well.
Anyone think if she was a touch less photogenic shed be getting a little less greenfellating as the new messiah?
https://apple.news/A5f8DssYlQ7GZp0ygTiFieQ
An unexpectedly considered assessment of China situation from…wait for it…..Kevin Rudd.
Don’t agree that Pelosi’s visit was unhelpful. But his assessment of Xi’s crackdown on Chinese billionaires accurate. He also underestimates Xi’s determination to restore the historic glories of historic and pre-colonial China.
I’ve had several cortisone injections over the journey, directly into the spine. They were marketed as being effective from between three to twelve months.
None of mine lasted for 48 hours, and one didn’t last to the doctor shop front door on the way out.
Mix medical professional snobbery and one-upmanship with political opportunism, drug company profiteering, and an unquestioning compliant media which is actually prepared to be the collective propaganda outlet of the ruling regime, and you have the social and economic disaster that was covid 19.
Where exactly in Paywallian , woolf?
Some dissenting commentators have been tolerated at the Oz – eg Adam Creighton, and of course the editor Steve Waterson. But they are still lonesome figures.
There’s more and more Ed October lingo being used by the fat communist who’s never spent a day on the shovel.
‘Educated guesses’, most likely’, ‘would have’ and so on.
The marks of the speculator.
“The DOJ and the FBI worked on this together, Dot. Use your brain.”
Hmm… using the same standard they set for HRC – that is, even though the law makes no mention of intent, she didn’t have any intent, so not going to charge her. This despite deliberate destruction of Blackberry’s with hammers and “scrubbing” the HDD of her unsecured server. That was clearly just “careless”, not “intentional”. Riiight.
Given Trump not only was completely responsive to all previous subpoena’s but also stated “If you want more, just ask!”, then Garland’s statement that they always use the “least intrusive” methods sounds like he’s maybe being a little careless with the truth. Sending a whole heap of FBI agents around to someone who has already been cooperating sounds like a political motive, not “standard procedure”. Of course, maybe he stopped cooperating, but no-one seems to have even suggested this yet, let alone provided evidence that this is so.
Double standards, much? Nah, just one standard – you’re with us or you’re against us. And Trump is definitely against them. Not hard to notice, if you pay attention.
Just spitballing here, but I think I’m on to something. After absolutely no research I make this observation.
The U.S’s Espionage Act is surely objectively based on the fact that it’s intention is directed towards spying therefore, pulling clauses etc out of the Espionage Act concerning the lifting of documents must be weighed against the probable cause part of any warrant that should in fact list spying in aid of either a foreign or domestic turnout of some sort.
So here it is; who was the recipient of the spy’s spying ? (A) Himself – he’s a double agent.
Defense: Spying on the spies that are spying on the spy is a testicle squeezing act of self-defense. The defense rests your Honor.
I now think I’ve got this fucking clown show covered.
More SovCit fun (the NT News):
Righto.
So far, so good:
Aaaaand here we go. The exact problem anti-vaccine mandate protestors had – the righteous cause being hijacked by dickheads, who used it for their own retarded ends.
Remanded for a week. Interestingly, there are a heap of chicks in prison, some with kids, and some who potentially don’t take kindly to people abducting other people’s kids. Perhaps getting her head ‘stuck’ in a linen press a few times might cause Ms Oldroyd to review her thought process on where is and isn’t safe.
SNAP!!!
A bloated tick sucking the lifeforce out of the populace
““the former president’s team was informed that boxes labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents—all seen on the final page of the FBI’s property receipt —contained information covered by attorney-client privilege.”
The FBI is behaving as if there will never be an accounting for their actions.”
It’s enough to make you believe there are some “good guys” in the FBI who deliberately took this sort of stuff, so as to taint the entire hoard with “fruit of the poison tree” doctrine. Now THAT would be funny – the establishment wanted “everything”, so the FBI agent deliberately took what should have been exempt to make the entire haul useless. “Just doin’ what y’ll said to do, boss!”
Thanks frollix, I forgot Palexia doesn’t work either. Knuckles I had 4 cortisone injections in my neck, lasted 3 weeks, then another 4 that lasted 3 days. 20k worth of titanium has helped but still have nerve damage. After being thrown how many thousands of times I’m not surprised. Didn’t think about it when young and foolishly carried on too long. Gets into your blood and can’t get it out.
It seems there is indeed a ghost or two in the machine as we are both getting blocked posts due to server error and now blocked emails reporting same. I sent an email to ‘[email protected]’ reporting the server errors. Received this in reply (24 hours later):
Ahh, malicious compliance.
Try the email on contact page, Zatara.
ScoMo retrospectively caught out declaring himself Grand Poobah of everything under Section 64 as the Great Plague of Xi-Fauci was kicking off. No cabinet or Nationals input at all, in fact, they had no idea he’d done it.
Holy rollers often have a god complex.
Will do Dover
THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF CRIME – It’s the Amish Again!
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension released its report on the state’s 2021 crime statistics late Friday afternoon. My colleague Bill Glahn was one of the few who noticed.
The BCA’s numbers indicate that in 2021, homicides were up 72% over 2019, the state’s last “normal” year. Aggravated assaults were up 63% over 2019, and robberies up 30%. Minnesota’s crime wave continues to worsen.
What I really want to focus on is the demographic numbers, specifically with regard to homicide:
The racial characteristics of murder in Minnesota are very similar to 2020. Of known victims, 123 were African American, or 65 percent of the total. Of known perpetrators (a single murder could have more than one), 209 (76 percent) were African American. Compare these figures to the share of African Americans in Minnesota’s population, which is less than 10 percent.
African Americans represent less than 10% of Minnesota’s population, but are 76% of the state’s murderers and 65% of its murder victims. These facts make nonsense of complaints by Black Lives Matter activists, and liberals generally, that law enforcement unfairly targets blacks, or that blacks are “over-represented” in arrests or any other metric.
Return to Sender
Return to Sender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5xxh5UX4U
Rap isn’t hateful.
Where I want to be.
Never leave me alone.
Gravel pit.
Get money (heh).
Do for love.
Big poppa.
No money, mo problems.
de la Soul were pretty wholesome without being lame.
Yes, because if there is one thing Australia needs right now, it is more Muslims.
What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, because if there is one thing Australia needs right now, it is more Muslims.
What could possibly go wrong?
It could be disastrous! There might be more sportspeople refusing to wear rainbow uniforms during Pride Rounds!
Oh, wait, that’s only a problem if they’re Christians. As you were. No problem at all.
So your argument now is “Trump totally declassified those nuclear secrets in his mind years ago without telling anyone so that is law and you can’t prove otherwise”.
This is the dumbest talking point of the Trump era.
Dot
“Boambee
Do you think the FAS documentation on the W87 and W88 is actually disinformation?”
The magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology was known as Aviation Leak. Some items were genuine leaks, others turned out to be disinformation. The trick was to work out which was which.
If I wasn’t using a phone I would give a good example, but typing on this is a pest.
This video is hilarious.
Chappell gone after 45 years
No one will miss that farking annoying upward inflection as as he prattled about himself.
But fair play for slapping down the even more annoying hanky head/
SUGAR TROLLS CRAWLING THROUGH MY VEINS
THIER SHOUTED MONGDOM DRIVES ME INSANE!!!
“Trump totally declassified those nuclear secrets in his mind years ago without telling anyone so that is law and you can’t prove otherwise”.
“The FBI raid on Trump’s estate has increased the chances of a red wave in November.
Leftards are shit at politics. And the further left you go (e.g., the antifa-infested Democratic Party) the more hopeless they are. That’s the main reason they hate democracy: they have no idea how it works.”
They may be shit at politics but they are damn good at elections.
Fatboy
Who packed the contents when Trump left the White House? Do we know? If not why not?
The West Australian has been campaigning recently against sexism in the mining industry. It has been using little journalistic tricks like sending a female reporter to Diggers and Dealers, the mining industry’s annual piss-up in Kalgoorlie, so she could report on being harassed. They even went as far as to put the photo of an accused rapist on the front page because he was a FIFO worker.
Today’s headline lets the cat out of the bag. They want quotas in the mining industry, apparently to stop sexism. But are they really that dumb? Could they really believe that an increase in women will lead to a decrease in complaints? Or are they hoping for the exact opposite, so they can mine the ‘sexist mining industry’ story for years to come?
m0nty-fa
“That’s the thing about bullshit: it may be true, it may not, who among us random dweebs on the Internet really knows, but you don’t care about credibility or the truth so you run with it anyway because it temporarily bolsters your argument.”
Look in the mirror, fvckwit. You are the exact mirror image of what you criticise, except that Zatara has some actual knowledge of the subject. You don’t.
monty believes there are ‘nuclear secrets’ involved and he accuses others of stupidity.
[Why is it different, unless you can prove that Trump didn’t actually make the decision?]
So your argument now is “Trump totally declassified those nuclear secrets in his mind years ago without telling anyone so that is law and you can’t prove otherwise”.
Poor old shiteater. I never said any such thing. I don’t know how the decision was made (if it was), or how it was documented or communicated (if it was), and have never made any assertions about those issues. I’ve just had to school you as patiently as I can that your flatulent bloviations about the US classification system were not only based on zero grounds, but also betrayed your total lack of knowledge about what rules for decision making, and practicalities of administering secrecy systems, are often like.
Re ‘Sloop John B’, here’s Al Jardine talking about how it came about and singing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYpiur8eVcU
vr at 1008
Spends a lot of he time on her back, with her heels braced against the sheets.
So you don’t know anything, but you think you can “school” me based on your extensive knowledge from being Johnny English or something. Yeah nah, you’re not a secret agent and you don’t have US security clearance. Back in your box, Tim N.
But he can’t say what’s in the affidavit, but the leakers aren’t lying nor are they breaching the National Security Act themselves.
Hmmmmm…..
A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years. The source is the MMWR report of August 11, 2022. The title alone shows just how deeply the about-face was buried: Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022.
The authors: “the CDC Emergency Response Team” consisting of “Greta M. Massetti, PhD; Brendan R. Jackson, MD; John T. Brooks, MD; Cria G. Perrine, PhD; Erica Reott, MPH; Aron J. Hall, DVM; Debra Lubar, PhD;; Ian T. Williams, PhD; Matthew D. Ritchey, DPT; Pragna Patel, MD; Leandris C. Liburd, PhD; Barbara E. Mahon, MD.”
It would have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall in the brainstorming sessions that led to this little treatise. The wording was chosen very carefully, not to say anything false outright, much less admit any errors of the past, but to imply that it was only possible to say these things now.
“As SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to circulate globally, high levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 illness (severe acute illness and post–COVID-19 conditions) and associated hospitalization and death. These circumstances now allow public health efforts to minimize the individual and societal health impacts of COVID-19 by focusing on sustainable measures to further reduce medically significant illness as well as to minimize strain on the health care system, while reducing barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.“
In English: everyone can pretty much go back to normal.
Focus on illness that is medically significant. Stop worrying about positive cases because nothing is going to stop them. Think about the bigger picture of overall social health. End the compulsion. Thank you. It’s only two and a half years late.
What about mass testing?
Forget it: “All persons should seek testing for active infection when they are symptomatic or if they have a known or suspected exposure to someone with COVID-19.”
Oh.
What about the magic of track and trace?
“CDC now recommends case investigation and contact tracing only in health care settings and certain high-risk congregate settings.”
Oh.
What about the unvaccinated who were so demonized throughout the last year?
“CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur, though they are generally mild, and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
Remember when 40% of the members of the black community in New York City who refused the jab were not allowed into restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, or theaters? Now, no one wants to talk about that.
Also, universities, colleges, the military, and so on – which still have mandates in place – do you hear this? Everything you have done to hate on people, dehumanize people, segregate people, humiliate others as unclean, fire people and destroy lives, now stands in disrepute.
Meanwhile, as of this writing, the blasted US government still will not allow unvaccinated travelers across its borders!
Not one word of the CDC’s turgid treatise was untrue back in the Spring of 2020. There was always “infection-induced immunity,” though Fauci and Co. constantly pretended otherwise. It was always a terrible idea to introduce “barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.”
The vaccines never promised in their authorization to stop infection and spread, even though all official statements of the CDC claimed otherwise, repeatedly and often.
You might also wonder how the great reversal treats masking. On this subject, there is no backing off. After all, the Biden administration still has an appeal in process to reverse the court decision that the mask mandate was illegal all along. “At the high COVID-19 Community Level,” the CDC adds, “additional recommendations focus on all persons wearing masks indoors in public and further increasing protection to populations at high risk.”
The problem from the beginning was that there never was an exit strategy from the crazy lockdown/mandate idea. It was never the case that they would magically cause the bug to go away. The excuse that we would lock down in wait for a vaccine never made any sense.
Monty
Do you still think the national archivist has Q clearance?
The guys who wrote the affidavit do, but they cannot view the seized documents?
…and the documents would “normally “ reside in the…national archives?
This is truly bizarre.
test
Guys
I’ve just seen a copy of the nuke document from Trump’s office!!!! It reads:
“Monty is a grade-A nuclear shiteater”
(Who is going to be so sick of #winning)
“Yes, because if there is one thing Australia needs right now, it is more Muslims.
What could possibly go wrong?”
Perhaps we should ask Salman for his opinion.
Canberra shooter…….
The man arrested over the shooting at Canberra Airport on Sunday afternoon (14 August) has been formally charged and is in custody. He made no application for bail.
Ali Rachid Ammoun, 63, is accused of using a revolver to shoot windows at the airport, causing chaos at the facility and sending it into lockdown.
He appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Monday (15 August) where he was formally charged with recklessly shooting at the airport, unauthorised possession of a .38/200 Smith & Wesson revolver and intentionally shooting the revolver to cause a named person fear for their safety.
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt and appearing over audio-visual link, Mr Ammoun said he understood each of his three charges.
His Legal Aid lawyer Tamzin Lee said he would not apply for bail and also said her client wanted the ABC to be excluded from the media-filled courtroom gallery.
Magistrate Robert Cook refused, saying, “this is an open court and the ABC have a right to report on such matters”.
There goes the insanity defence.
“Ali Rachid Ammoun”
That’s what goes wrong.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 2:24 pm
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So you don’t know anything, but you think you can “school” me based on your extensive knowledge from being Johnny English or something. Yeah nah, you’re not a secret agent and you don’t have US security clearance. Back in your box, Tim N.
Poor old shiteating mental defective. Nothing I’ve said is based on any claims to special knowledge.
I’ve just quoted you numerous laws on the public record which refute your fatuous bullshit about your “common sense” insights on how decision making systems work.
If you had any real information showing that the US classification system operates differently to those incontrovertible examples I’ve provided, you’re still at liberty to provide it.
GO!!!
The worst thing (one of) is the tactics they rolled out en-masse for an airborne impossible to stop ENDEMIC would actually work for the Schlong Covid.
Its focused in a small group.
Its harder to transmit (touch and open sores)
Its easier to detect.
Yet because its ‘political” because it hits a special snowflake group they will let it rumble on until it either burns out or actually becomes a serious population wide disease.
The political implications of calling for a cockdown on this small group is apparently larger than covid was.
Oh. Someone might want to tell the immigration minister, whose priority is to import more Muslims.
Good lord.
They effectively funneled billions to crime groups, spivs and rorters in the rush to get the NDIS money out the door.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-15/ndis-disability-taskforce-to-target-organised-crime-fraud/101332668
A police taskforce to hunt down organised crime groups exploiting the National Disability Insurance Scheme will be established by the government in coming weeks, the NDIS Minister says.
An investigation by Nine newspapers has alleged members of the Hamzy and Alameddine crime groups in Sydney and other organised criminal gangs have been rorting billions of dollars from the NDIS scheme.
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NDIS Minister Bill Shorten gave a scathing assessment, as he announced a multi-agency taskforce would be established to track down fraudsters.
“I think they’re literally gutless cowards,” Mr Shorten told Nine this morning.
“They may think they’re tough, some of these organised crime people. They may boast amongst themselves how clever they are.
“The rest of Australia despises this. And what we’re going to do is make sure that the NDIS is only for the people who need it.”
Mr Shorten said he had warned the former government of massive fraud in the scheme.
He said he suspected there was exploitation and coercion by criminal gangs, but also that there may be people unconnected to organised crime who were padding bills and “robbing the scheme”.
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NDIS anti-fraud teams have recovered a small portion of the alleged billions that have been defrauded from the scheme, charging 18 people since 2020 with a total of about $14 million in alleged fraud.
I cant work out why all these sharks are appearing and eating all the chum we dumped in the water, a government spokesmong whimpered yesterday….
Fnarrr.
Never underestimate the hidden clout of the homo staffer lobby, either – even if at present they’re all sitting on inflatable ducky cushions, and with both single-use disposable ice packs at the ready and immaculate hair.
That’s the way, Peanut Head. Shame those well-established career criminals into not taking free government money dropped in their laps. Tell ’em that’s not what taxpayer money is for. That’ll do it.
He appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Monday (15 August) where he was formally charged with recklessly shooting at the airport, unauthorised possession of a .38/200 Smith & Wesson revolver and intentionally shooting the revolver to cause a named person fear for their safety.
If only he’d said, “Alec Baldwin” when asked his name .. LOL!
Please Mr Immigration minister, can we have some more of these please?
They may think they’re tough, some of these organised crime people. They may boast amongst themselves how clever they are.
The rest of Australia despises this. And what we’re going to do is make sure that the NDIS is only for the people who need it.
Peanut Head’s onto it now.
They’ll be in more trouble than a teenage girl at a Labor youth camp.
KD
Dont tell me you are going to bet against Bill “piss holes in the snow for eyes” Shorten against the combined intelligence, rat cunning and violent tactics of the organised crims?
Cant you see how scared they must be, seeing … checks notes… 14 million dollars recovered out of the billions stolen.
The rest of Australia despises this. And what we’re going to do is make sure that the NDIS is only for the people who need it.
The kick-back is soooo, bloody, good that here in Fairfield, NSW the NDIS providers have shopfront offices in the shopping malls .. rental that don’t come cheap! .. LOL!
The authorities react.
Never underestimate the hidden clout of the homo staffer lobby, either – even if at present they’re all sitting on inflatable ducky cushions, and with both single-use disposable ice packs at the ready and immaculate hair.
Ministers’ staffers are full of them. Do we recall Warren Entsch’s loyal staffer, the redoubtable Nathan Winn? You know, the expert in desk cleaning.
Point of Order: I don’t think you bend over backwards to deny the link between gay sex and Monkeypox.
Fraser’s Lebs. Again.
The Lion of Beaconsfield will not be lectured to by scruffy falafel munchers.
When it comes to eyes like two piss holes in the snow the QLD premier takes the ring.
“When you are playing a women’s grand final and the best player award goes to a male, there is something wrong.”
Daily Mail
BHP started talking female quotas some 4-5 years ago. All it’s done is ensure that many blokes throw in the towel at striving for promotion, so they pretend to work and get wads of bux for it still. So yeah, they really are that dumb.
The Lion of Beaconsfield
Any relation to the Aardvark of Beaconsfield? .. LOL!
Set up for this way from the get go.
When the first NDIS product off the line was ‘concierge’ services to guide recipients through the smorgasbord of options available (for a fee), it was clear to all that trays of money were being laid out.
NDIS anti-fraud teams have recovered a small portion of the alleged billions that have been defrauded from the scheme, charging 18 people since 2020 with a total of about $14 million in alleged fraud.
NDIS anti-fraud teams, obviously, training alongside the CentreLink anti-fraud mob going off their success rate(s) .. LOL!
Mmm…but I don’t think SloMo is bright enough to have come up with this himself.
Odds on someone advised him and he then went and asked dim bulb Porter if it was kosher.
NDIS providers have shopfront offices in the shopping malls
Plenty of tradies utes, Jim’s Mowing etc displaying the NDIS Provider details. Tax Agents, Financial Planners etc. All in on it for another revenue stream.
So surprising that those smarter and shiftier than Dodgy Bros. wouldn’t see the opportunity. They all had prior experience in Childcare.
“m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm
What’s in the affidavit monty?
I don’t know, but this bloke makes an educated guess.”
To call that shit “educated” would be much like calling a failure in Economics 1 a qualification.
At least $2,000,000,000 stolen and they have recovered $14,000,000. So, they have recovered less than 1%. Obviously, they have their best men working on this. Their Best Men.
We can relax now.
Which will be paid off, $10 per Centrelink payday, for the next several thousand years.
And yet, the disabled are still left eating beans on toast.
The NDIS was a sinecure for 22,000 middle class whites women to have an easy no work job as an APS for life.
2 clients per week!
The intent was to make disability insurance easier, now we have a hybrid freak from the bowels of Treasury and Dr Frankenstein’s lab.
How difficult is it to fail first semester economics?
Golf is bad for the planet.
French Climate Extremists Fill Golf Course Holes with Cement During Drought (15 Aug)
Maybe someone could let them know that cement is too.
How difficult is it to fail first semester economics?
If you hit uni with high school economics, commerce or business studies (or whatever they are called these days) it isn’t hard.
But if you spent your time at band camp maybe it would be.
The NDIS was a good idea that was always going to turn into a beetroot juice shit spray.
“So you don’t know anything, but you think you can “school” me based on your extensive knowledge”
m0nty-fa himself knows less than fvck all about the subject, but has spent all of today and much of yesterday pontificating about it. Then he complains when asked to justify what he has been saying.
The NDIS scheme was another early failure of the Abbott government. Upon getting elected in 2013 the Coalition had ample opportunities to rein it in and yet they did nothing. But you know what, “they did nothing” is a fitting epitaph for nine years of lousy Coalition governments.
thefrollickingmolesays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:36 am
Blog has montypox.
Having no dick he is a taker not a giver.
Harder than passing.
That is why I suggest people be a bit more wary of of the subtle snares of Monty-logic.
Short Willie on Sky now.
“We warned the government.’
Of course ya did peanut. Whose thought bubble was the NDIS?
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt and appearing over audio-visual link, Mr Ammoun said he understood each of his three charges.
His Legal Aid lawyer Tamzin Lee said he would not apply for bail and also said her client wanted the ABC to be excluded from the media-filled courtroom gallery.
I’m starting to like this fuckwit.
And I wonder what “consultancy fees” Govt drones received for shepherding the fraudsters through this Aladdin’s cave of taxpayer funded treasure?
https://www.brevity.com.au/blog/ndis-business-opportunities/
How profitable is NDIS?
The NDIS is a multi-billion dollar market that is tipped to expand significantly toward the $30B mark by 2025, making it one of the best business opportunities in Australia.
Heard something on the radio earlier about Peter Costello getting paid $300,000 by Packer for lobbying the Vic Gov, anyone know anymore details?
Fixing the NDIS rorting is easy.
Offer bounties & indemnities for whistleblowers.
There is no honour amongst thieves.
Toad
And what amendments did the Liars propose as the legislation went through Parliament?
Interesting. The .38/200 Smith & Wesson revolver is also known as the .38 S&W Short and the .38 S&W NP (New Police). Not many manufacturers make ammo for them anymore. If it’s an Australian WWII army issue, it could be worth big dollars to a collector.
Wonder where he got his hands on one of them?
the subtle snares of Monty-logic.
Up there with the alluring charms of Amy Schumer
The cut glass diction of Julia Gillard
The economic prediction skills of Paul Krugman
Please ban thefrollickingmole for that Amy Schumer monstrosity.
A few days ago, the fat fascist fool proclaimed that he “had a life”. Since then he has been pretty much full time here.
It seems that his “life” does not involve either his family or his business.
After leaving office with the government coffers overflowing (which really just means they were taking more in tax than they needed, but anyway) without ever winning the top job so coveted by him (and everyone else but he had at least delivered on his existing job), then watched the bacchanalian orgy of spending at all levels of government with excuses only the most devoted inebriate would think subtle enough to get away with, maybe after all this Peter thought, “Fuck it. Fuck them. They said they wanted the books balanced but when it comes down to it they really don’t. I grifting is the real game I’ll show them I can play that one too.”
Only 15%-20% fewer beans due to the ‘service fees’ charged.
Be like Therese Rudd.
Please ban thefrollickingmole for that Amy Schumer monstrosity.
Using the Alexandra Donkey Chompers criteria that means you just want to shag her.
I simply can’t believe these headlines about the NDIS. M0nty told us, actually lectured us, that the NDIS is the greatest piece of expenditure since the NBN. Gillard will be remembered for eternity for this amazing piece of governance, he said. Rorted by unions, Labor spivs and crooks? No chance says m0nty. This is there purely to benefit obese mentally ill types like his goodself.
The fat fuck is wrong about everything.
When will you borrow that neck tie m0nty?
There was movement at the kebab shop,
for the word had passed around
That the NDIS from Julia was there to play
And had joined other rort schemes-
near a billion to be found
So all the Mohs had gathered to the pay
All the tried bikie riders
Oops
Didn’t mean to post that. Work in progress or not.
There is a story (I suspect apocryphal) relating to the Battle of Marathon and the general Miltiades, specifically in how he was granted the prize as the second most valiant Greek on the day, but no one came first.
According to the story it was widely acknowledged among the Generals present (apparently the Athenian system was that Generals took daily turns to be in overall command rather than having a single one in command throughout the campaign) that Miltiades’ strategy was key to their success.
In the aftermath of the battle Generals would vote on who had been the most gallant, courageous, heroic soldier on the day. Each General voted himself first, and Miltiades second. So no one came first, but by unanimous decision Miltiades was second greatest.
I mention this because this is how Australians see the priorities of government spending contra fiscal rectitude.
Everyone knows that spending must be cut. Everyone knows we cannot afford to pay for every hairbrained goofy program that forces its way into our world from the retarded universe. But everyone also knows that their own pet project is the one that must be preserved. Everyone’s thing – their own ‘General’ – wins the first prize, and financial responsibility – the Miltiades – is their second.
All the self-pleasuring schemes comes first, and the saddest thing is that politicians have discovered they can award all the first prizes by raiding the piggy banks of generations not even born yet.
sfwsays:
August 15, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Heard something on the radio earlier about Peter Costello getting paid $300,000 by Packer for lobbying the Vic Gov, anyone know anymore details?
Nine denies Costello was secret Packer casino lobbyist
Nine Entertainment has denied chairman Peter Costello worked as a “secret Crown lobbyist” for James Packer after the allegation was raised in a selection of the billionaire’s erratic emails leaked to the press.
According to the emails published by The Australian on Monday, Mr Packer claimed he’d hired Costello to be a casino lobbyist in 2011, helping him get “close to” the Victorian gaming minister. Nine said Mr Costello was an “adviser” to Mr Packer during that time, and refuted claims he was working as an unregistered lobbyist.
“Peter Costello did NOT lobby for CPH, he was an adviser to them on other business matters for a year in 2011 he has never been a registered lobbyist because he isn’t a lobbyist,” a spokesperson for Nine said.
But the airing of Mr Packer’s private emails puts the spotlight back on the former Crown owner, who has recently spoken about a desire to re-enter Australian public life for a so-called “meaningful and successful Act 3”.
Among the few emails aired were Mr Packer’s personal attacks on Mr Costello and Nine Entertainment’s managing director of publishing James Chessell. In one, Mr Packer also appeared to praise Nine’s Crown Unmasked report, a six-month investigation into his scandal-plagued company.
Dozens of emails sent
It’s understood Mr Packer has sent several dozen emails to Nine executives, including to Mr Chessell, since June after taking offence to the media group’s news coverage of his international business activities.
In an internal note published on Monday about the report into Mr Packer’s emails, Mr Chessell assured staff that now-Nine chairman never interfered in the group’s reporting about Crown casino.
“I never heard a word from Peter Costello about Crown Unmasked before, during or after publication/broadcast,” Mr Chessell wrote.
“I received another dozen emails from Packer last night.
“In the past he has copied in executives from competitors such as Seven and News. I hope he genuinely does make peace with Crown Unmasked and I wish him all the best.”
Mr Packer sold the Crown casino group to US private equity giant Blackstone in an $8.9 billion takeover in February this year.
Packer’s troubled past
The sale netted Mr Packer’s Consolidated Press Holdings $3.2 billion, coming off the back of years of scandal. In 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes? Crown Unmasked report into the troubled company, uncovered allegations that it had links to individuals or groups suspected of sex trafficking and drug importation.
During a government inquiry into the Crown casino in 2020, Mr Packer talked about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder when questioned about threatening emails he sent to an unnamed businessman.
Mr Packer appeared chastened at the time, calling the behaviour “shameful” and “disgraceful” and telling the inquiry he was being medically treated for the disorder.
Oh, whoever it was that posted the Damo and Darren link the other day…
FMD that was funny. I watched the other four as well. I swear I have seen people like that – on train platforms too!
Biden at the Beach: Bikes, Bad Dress, and Questions of Ethics
The minute that Joe Biden got two days of negative tests after having COVID, after being isolated for several days, he was immediately off on vacation to Delaware. He had one stop in Kentucky thereafter regarding the flooding in the state, then on Wednesday this past week, he was out the door again for another beach vacation to Kiawah, South Carolina.
Along on the trip was his wife Jill, his son Hunter, Hunter’s wife, and Hunter’s son, baby Beau, along with some of Joe’s other grandchildren.
They were met by protesters when they arrived on the island.
While Americans are being crushed under the boot of Bidenflation, Joe Biden and his family are staying at the $20 million oceanfront home of a political donor, Maria Allwin. According to the New York Post, Joe isn’t paying a dime and he’s done this in the past.
“They stayed here before and they’re not paying,” a source close to the family told the New York Post. “They’ve never paid. They’re just friends.”
Biden asked Allwin if he could stay at her home, the source told the Post.[….]
The White House frustrated reporters by offering little transparency about Biden’s South Carolina trip, which is expected to last through early next week.
But it sounds like he’ll be back early in the week — when he’ll go back to a three-day work week, calling early lids, then head off back to Delaware and the beach again.
A view only a gynaecologist might appreciate.
Lacks something of the artistry required to be otherwise.
Monty.
How does importing 200,000 workers assist the working class increase their bargaining power?
Labor vows to prioritise Australian jobs as it eyes migration boost
Annual intake could potentially rise from 160,000 to up to 200,000 places as businesses cry out for skilled workers
The federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, last week told ABC radio “it’s pretty clear that we need a bigger workforce”.
..
The federal Coalition backed expanding migration numbers but said Australian workers must be “first in the queue” for new jobs.
…
The Labor state government in Victoria and the Coalition in New South Wales backed increasing the nation’s skilled migration intake.
…
Its a big club, the uniparty, and you are not in it.
There’s no sainthood for Obama, National Archives in Trump FBI raid uproar
Accusations are flying fast and furious regarding last week’s FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. In my Wednesday piece for The Post, I noted that 30 million pages of Obama administration records had been trucked to Chicago. The Obama Foundation, working with the National Archives, promised to digitize and put them online. Almost six years after the records arrived at a Chicago-area warehouse, that hasn’t happened.
Trump revved up the controversy Friday when he asserted that Barack Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”
Trump has not revealed any source for his allegations that many of the papers were classified and that they had “lots” of “nuclear” material. The Obama Foundation and the National Archives have denied there are any classified documents in those records.
The media have largely sainted the National Archives in this ruckus. The agency issued a statement Friday: “As required by the [Presidential Records Act], former President Obama has no control over where and how [the archives] stores the Presidential records of his Administration.”
But the National Archives blocks access to official records at the behest of every former president and his designated officials.
Almost all the media coverage of this controversy has ignored or downplayed the dismal failure of the Presidential Records Act to reveal presidents’ records. A Washington Post analysis of the dispute on the 30 million pages conceded, “As with many issues of government transparency and document-sharing, it’s true that this is not great! You often have to wait years for requested documents, and this appears to be no exception.”
But journalists should be outraged by this perpetual stonewalling. Barack and Michelle Obama collected a $65 million advance for their memoirs, but Americans are still effectively prohibited from seeing his official records.
The Presidential Records Act requires people seeking information to file a Freedom of Information Act request. As Politico reported in March, “At many presidential libraries, the queues for processing FOIAs stretch for years,” and requests “involving classified information can take more than a decade.”
Obama boasted he had “the most transparent administration in history.” In reality, the Obama administration was as devious as the Nixon administration when it came to government secrecy.
In 2011, Obama’s Justice Department formally proposed to permit federal agencies to falsely claim that FOIA-requested documents did not exist. The American Civil Liberties Union complained that the plan perverted “a law designed to provide public access to government information to be twisted to permit federal law enforcement agencies to actively lie to the American people.”
Obama’s lawyers claimed a new veto power that turned FOIA into a travesty. White House Counsel Gregory Craig quietly notified all federal agencies in 2009 that “all documents and records that implicate the White House in any way are said to have ‘White House equities’ and must receive an extra layer of review, not by agency FOIA experts, but by the White House itself,” a congressional report noted. Politico observed in 2016 that in some cases, White House FOIA “referrals have led to years of delay.”
The Obama Foundation and the National Archives talk about digitizing those 30 million pages as if it were an almost unfathomable labor of Hercules. It took me less than five minutes searching online to find a Kodak scanner that can handle 150,000 pages a day. Buy 10 of those scanners, and the 30 million pages could easily be digitized within a month. The scanners cost $20,000 each, but the Obama Foundation has $560 million in assets and the top three employees receive more than $500,000 a year. It could easily find the money for the scanners if disclosure were the goal.
The Obama Foundation estimates that 95% of Obama administration records were “born digital.” They could be easily placed online — if disclosure were the goal. Will the National Archives insist on “reviewing” each page for spelling errors before it goes live on the Internet or what?
Obama’s machinations don’t make Trump trustworthy. The Justice Department has not yet revealed precisely what documents it seized at Mar-a-Lago and what legal charges may be filed. There are plenty of questions about the motivation of the FBI raid, the possible role of an FBI confidential informant and the alleged seizure of materials protected by attorney-client privilege
At this point, National Archives bureaucrats seem to have adapted the early motto of National Review, standing “athwart history, yelling Stop.” But as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wisely warned in 2012, “Lack of transparency eats away like a cancer at the trust people should have in their government.”
Too little, too late: Disband the CDC now
Dissolve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last week, the CDC released updated COVID-19 guidance. The agency now believes we should be taking an individual approach to mitigating our COVID risk. In layman’s terms, we are all Florida 2020 now.
The new guidance suggests ending “test to stay” so kids exposed to someone with COVID-19 can remain in school. Of course, this was only related to known exposure. People are exposed to COVID all the time, but only children who were aware of that exposure were punished. Kids lost so much throughout the pandemic because of terrible, irrational CDC guidance like this.
The fresh guidance also says people without symptoms no longer need to be routinely tested.
And the CDC permits us to come within six feet of each other again. Finally! Husbands, tell your wives it’s on!
But most important, the agency has finally faced some truths about the vaccine that it should have long ago. “CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur.” And it’s admitted that “persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
Cities across the country fired teachers, firefighters, health-care staffers, police officers, sanitation workers and so many others because they refused to get vaccinated. Many of these people had worked through the early days of the pandemic — and contracted COVID many times over — while we baked banana bread and patted ourselves on the back for ordering from Uber Eats. Now the CDC acknowledges this was the wrong thing to do. Whoopsie!
The new guidance is all fine and good, sane even, but it’s August 2022 and fully absurd that the CDC is only now recognizing that people aren’t staying six feet apart and that a previous COVID-19 infection offers a layer of protection similar to the vaccine.
When COVID first hit our shores, we naturally looked to the CDC for direction. The agency may have previously offered its thoughts on how we should cook our burgers (well-done) and whether we should eat sushi (no), yet it was primarily in the background wagging its fingers at us while we ordered our steak medium-rare (another no-no).
But with COVID, its word became policy. In what should go down as one of the most disgusting moments in public health, the CDC allowed, with direction from the Biden White House, Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers chief, to craft school-opening policies that forced classrooms across the country to remain closed in winter 2021.
No one has been fired for this dereliction of duty. No one has even been openly chastised for allowing a special-interest group to control our health-care policy. This alone is why the CDC must go.
A health agency that refers to pregnant “people” instead of “women” is one we can’t take seriously anyway, but one that plays with semantics like this during a pandemic is broken and cannot be repaired.
I think we all need to commiserate with KD after the shocking murder of his honey bunny yesterday.
Hes been stoic about it, but the man can only take so much.
Even at 3am, in the laneway outside the kebab shop, better shag than Amy Scumer
/sad walrus noises
Please ban Lizzie for luring extremely stupid people back to frolickingmole’s horrific offering even when they knew better.
I’m still waiting for a list of providers to vacuum my parents’ house once a week while I’m away. So far it has been almost two months.
I’m not hopeful. I’d ask one of my Christian friends to do it, but they’re all busy doing kindly things for the elderly gratis. I can’t impose.
There is no point engaging a contract cleaner. It’s impossible as no one wants to do the work any more or they’re already on the government list and fully booked. If I was ten years younger I’d start up a business doing rentals maintenance – name your price.
The government has completely distorted the market with this garbage. All at our expense.
Speaking of gynaecologists, a ventriloquist and her talking monkey go for a checkup. Two minutes, pretty funny in a cringy Ricky Gervais sort of a way.
Montana Girl
11 YR OLD WHO SHOT ILLEGALS. Thanks FOX NEWS for reporting it.
A Shotgun-armed Preteen vs. Illegal Alien Home Invaders.
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.
It seems these crooks never learned two things:
They were in Montana.
Patricia had been a clay-shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor, to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old’s knee-crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he took during another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0’Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest
Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news? An 11-year-old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself against two murderous, illegal immigrants and she won.
She is still alive. Now THAT is Gun Control!
Good girl with a gun. 🙂
Any Cats know whether there is a limit on how long somebody can be employed on a Labour Hire contract? I seem to recall that an individual had a limit of 2 years before the individual should be offered the position (as a permanent employee) by the employer, or the position extinguished.
I didn’t think an employer can continue on a Labour Hire contract basis ‘forever’ but can’t find any references. Perhaps those provisions have expired.
Spokin’ Joe is wheely spiteful
By Miranda Devine
How convenient for Joe Biden that he is far from scrutiny on an extended vacation in a borrowed mansion in a secluded community on Kiawah Island, SC, the very week his attorney general unleashed a political firestorm by authorizing the FBI raid on the home of their shared nemesis, Donald Trump.
But the president couldn’t help a little subtle gloating as he rode a bike on the beach past the waiting media, flashing a cheery smile.
Asked about his vacation, he replied: “I’m enjoying it a great deal. I’ve been on the phone a lot, monitoring news reports.”
Yes, you can bet he is monitoring the news, with relish.
If there is one defining adjective for Biden’s presidency, it probably is spite. His consuming hatred for “the former guy”, whose name he often can’t bring himself to utter, is palpable.
He makes no secret of the fact that he despises Trump voters, too, all 74,223,369 of them. His unusual malice — fuelled by Trump-deranged historians he keeps inviting for endless “Socratic dialogues” in the White House — has had a corrosive effect on America.
If only Biden had been the unifying president he promised he would be, and shown a little grace in victory, commended Trump for Operation Warp Speed, perhaps, not spitefully unwound all his policies, not branded half the country “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists” in his inaugural speech, not sicced the FBI onto parents at school board meetings, not weaponized the federal government’s security apparatus against his political enemies, not supersized the IRS to go after the little guy, not tanked the economy and lied about absolutely everything.
Joe’s failure to unify
He might have lowered the temperature on Trump derangement and set a more generous-spirited tone befitting a generous-spirited nation.
A statesman with America’s best interests in mind would have cautioned against the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago or at least called for calm in a national address as soon as it happened. He would have been a president who is loved rather than reviled and mocked.
If only Biden had been the empathetic moderate that he pretended to be during the election campaign, we wouldn’t be at the perilous moment we are at today, with angry armed men in the hollers and the woods pledging civil war on TikTok, or storming an FBI office in Cincinnati, or ramming a burning car into the barricades at Capitol Hill, or God-knows-what in response to the Mar-a-Lago fiasco.
For them, Aug. 8, 2022, is a day that will live in infamy
We’ve had a flurry of leaks from the DOJ and the White House in an attempt at post-facto justification for this precedent-setting law enforcement overreach. It’s nuclear secrets. It’s Jared Kushner and the Saudis. Leak, leak, leak to the usual suspects.
But we’ve seen this playbook before. The Russia hoax, two impeachments, Alpha Bank, the Steele Dossier, Carter Page, the FBI lovebirds, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Michael Avenatti, Adam Schiff, and on and on relentlessly.
So, forgive us for being skeptical. When the same top Obama administration officials who ran the Russia hoax are now back in the White House and running the DOJ it’s hard not to believe they are up to their old tricks.
The Bureau is ‘broken’
The FBI is unrecognizable since he joined in 1972, Turchie says, when agents were blue-collar crime fighters, rather than privileged Ivy Leaguers with ideological baggage.
“The FBI as I knew it has collapsed. Discipline has broken down and it has become nothing more than a police agency for the Democratic Party.”
Today the FBI has lost that spirit of independence and Turchie doubts it will ever contradict the wishes of the Biden administration, no matter how wrong-headed and politically partisan.
Mar-a-Lago is the tragic proof.
That young lady would make a damnfine Kitteh!
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
He’s right, the truth is what gets people banned. Have you ever seen a flat-earther get deplatformed?
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Labor’s former base is on to them.
They’ll son be into high 20% primary vote territory & they’ll never form government in their own right again.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl: Isn’t Name Of Inflation Reduction Act “Almost Orwellian” Since It’s “Not Gonna Bring Inflation Down?”
Random act of Journalism in questioning White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “Isn’t it almost Orwellian? How can you call it the Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it’s not gonna bring inflation down?”
There is not much point asking questions of Karine Jean-Pierre. Her little act where she looks like she is trying to be patient, closes her eyes for a fraction of a second too long and then goes to the binder is totally not convincing, at all. An empty vessel in need of an acting coach.
Samantha Maiden
@samanthamaiden
Oh.
“Scott Morrison was (secretly) appointed by Governor-General David Hurley to take control of the entire Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 11-months before he scuttled an offshore gas project weeks out from the federal election.”
And, as with previous times, that silly grin of his will evaporate once it dawns on him (probably at 9:00 am every day for two weeks as if it is the first time) that the triumphalism of the MSM is not as well founded as it seemed at first.
They may eventually prevail – although Trump has been an elusive target for all these years and although I cannot speculate on how he will get out of the chicanery set up by whole departments of government and an MSM leaping with puppy-like energy and enthusiasm that it trickles piss, I have thought this many times before and Trump has repeatedly slipped through their grasping fingers.
But no matter what else, the proceedings as this all develops will end up inflicting damage on the kid-sniffer and some of his malign allies as casualties, and he will come out afterward even more diminished than he went in.
And he will realise it afresh every morning at about 9:00, after his strained weetbix and prune juice, for weeks.
Even now his depends are pushed to the limit every time he looks in the pantry and sees Corn Flakes and Coco Pops next to each other on the shelf.
And even if he cannot recall quite what has gone wrong he will be the butt of other people’s resentment that the star to which they thought they had harnessed themselves to soar to the highest reached of the corrupt Olympus that is home to the Democrat elite, instead crashes to Earth and no one seems to remember who they are.
Of course she did. Richmond is in classic what we here call ‘Teal’ territory – Hairy’s brother lives in Richmond near Richmond Park. It is swanky very upper middle class to super-weathly in parts. The link to this newest (and far more attractive) than Greta climate dolly shows an improvement – she is more generally concerned with matters ‘environmental’ – plastics, saving elephants and orangutans, deforestation etc than just totally obsessed with a climatic catastrophe (although there is there with her too). She will possibly grow out of it all as she gets older.
Methinks if there’s anything positive left of Scumbag Morrison’s political legacy, it’s sinking faster than the Titanic.
Can’t decide it it’s a good thing or not. Do they end up doing a coalition with the greens or do they suck up to independents. Or right out of left field, coalition with the Liberals.
Spokin’ Joe is wheely spiteful
Morrison himself is a skid mark, brushed off the Canberra porcelain by the electorate.
However, one of Ms Maiden’s tweeters makes a reasonable point:
Why not?
Has someone just realised this? This has been common knowledge since 2012, ten years ago.
The American ambassador was in Benghazi to meet the Turkish ambassador, the Libyan arms were sent to Syria via Turkey.
The last person to meet Christopher Stevens, the USA ambassador was the Turkish ambassador. By the time he left the compound after the meeting, all the surrounding streets were blocked by the jihadists preparing for their attack. The Turkish ambassador would have driven through one of these roadblocks, why didn’t he call Christopher Stevens and warn him of what was about to happen?
Coalition with the Greens.
Electoral poison.
That may depend upon the legal advice he was given.
Cassie of Sydney says:
August 15, 2022 at 6:26 pm
Methinks if there’s anything positive left of Scumbag Morrison’s political legacy, it’s sinking faster than the Titanic.
I agree but it sticks in the gullet to hear the ABC marvelling at the measure whilst TaliDan closed parliament and threatened the general population with his VicPol goons all supposedly acting under direction of an unelected expert committee who were in fact little more than a front for his megalomaniac edicts.
I’d say the convections of democracy were breached more grievously in the states than by Morrison’s ego trip.
To make amends for my Amy picture.
A classic glamour shot from the Pireli calendar, you know, the one with all the hot chicks
The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as “The Cal”, is an annual trade calendar which has been published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli since 1964. The calendar has a reputation for its choice of photographers and models and featured glamour photography from the 1980s until the 2010s.[1]
I’m borrowing that.
😀
Here I was thinking that the Liberals might get there act together and be out of power for two terms. Wrong. The Liberals will be at of power for at least a decade and probably longer. They’ll now become, just like the Liberals in WA, Victoria, South Australia, QLD, and soon to be NSW, the official party of opposition.
Poor old Bob Menzies, he must be rolling in his grave.
I see Dan is hot for more immigration.
It’s the only trick he’s got left.
Prepare for another million by 2027, Melburnians.
Like Kamala and the appalling trannie in charge US Federal Health, she’s been pulled out of Pandora’s diversity box without even a second thought. All great examples of what you get from Democrat posturing that puts identity before character and competence.
“I agree but it sticks in the gullet to hear the ABC marvelling at the measure whilst TaliDan closed parliament and threatened the general population with his VicPol goons all supposedly acting under direction of an unelected expert committee who were in fact little more than a front for his megalomaniac edicts.
I’d say the convections of democracy were breached more grievously in the states than by Morrison’s ego trip.”
I don’t disagree but Morrison should have spoken up about what was happening in states like Victoria however he chose not to. Why? Because he was too concerned with his image. The National Cabinet was a disaster and Morrison chose to legitimise Megalomaniac Dan and Maggot McClown. Morrison wanted to be liked, his legacy is that now he’s rightly despised.
Some comment upthread about older women being invisible.
I don’t agree. We are not. Don’t buy into that narrative.
Jesus Christ mole.
The National Cabinet was a disaster and Morrison chose to legitimise Megalomaniac Dan and Maggot McClown. Morrison wanted to be liked, his legacy is that now he’s rightly despised.
Absolutely.
What did he “conserve”?
Slowing spacktarded things down by 2 years over the life of your government while having the same policies ‘but a bit slower” is a well deserved ticket to oblivion.
He set up the (illegal) National Cabinet and then sat back and watched us being abused by it. He empowered the local dictatorships. I’ve been calling him a traitor for months and see no reason to change my view. Whoever he was representing, it was not us.
I’m not greatly up to speed on what Morrison did with the GG during the first stages of ‘the pandemic’. However, it seems to me not unrealistic for him to consider assignment of major authority to himself rather than ‘experts’ or Ministers lower down the food chain should the situation become drastic.
Cassie is right that the more egregious thing was for him to create a National Cabinet and refuse to manage it properly. He should have used some of his powers (new or not) to intervene for the general good so many times during 2020 and 2021. He let the Premiers run with it, and did nothing to halt the border closures, nor the worst of the police outrages, let alone the loss of human rights re the jab.
It would seem to be showcasing the tyres.
Jesus Christ mole.
Please, no blaspheming.
Its not that sort of blog.
Thanks for that mole.
mole
Like Crom, to hell with you.
In a complete, diametric opposite to mole’s photographic journeys today, I had my very last parent/teacher interview thisngy this afternoon.
The PE teacher and Jessica Alba (in her prime) doppelganger I may have previously mentioned is teaching the son and heir something something.
Magnificent. Just magnificent. A1, top shelf, rolled gold stalking material.
Well, Mole, she’s no great beauty but she’s a nice normal looking woman whom many a man would like to get to know better.
I may have a certain personal interest in saying this, but a little bit of tummy on a girl, such as this one has, is no bad thing. She is not a stick insect and I think that shot is pretty attractive as such things go. Far better than the offending one shown previously.
In my good books again. We older ladies do have those, good books. And sometimes still a few good looks. Certainly not invisible. 🙂
Bluey
“Or right out of left field, coalition with the Liberals.”
Coalition/amalgamation with the left of the Lieborals and Nationals, then the left of the Liars and the Teal ducks join the Slime, and the social conservative part of the Liars join the rumps of the Lieborals and Nationals to hold the balance of power in both houses.
Consider my efforts a palate cleanser for your good self then KD.
Dot.
Please cant we be civil about this.
frank.
Another man of taste and style I see.
Mother Lode
Yes, a regular 18 wheeler.
His agents haven’t finished shaking me down?
On a similar topic, I recently had cause to reconsider a statue that I saw a few weeks ago. Initially it was quite impressive, and even, dare I say it, inspirational, though it will not be long before such an opinion counts as thoughtcrime.
Yet on a sober review, it rates as glitzy propaganda. You see it does not really show the final broader picture. What happened to these three purveyors of truth? Manning was found out, put in prison, and was so crazy he got his dangly bits cut off while still inside. Assange has for all practical purposes been under illegal detention for a decade, probably gone crazy by now too. And Snowden, well he’s not in prison but is in exile, living relatively well off in Russia, and is basically the odd one out in this line up, possibly due to his early escape, tech knowledge, and a few good Chinese fortune cookies.
So to take a snapshot of all of these upstanding folk before the blowback had reached them is just not telling the whole story. The fourth chair is empty, and with these examples as guidance one is tempted to assume it will stay empty.
I am off now to practice being invisible in the kitchen where Hairy has taken over all cooking.
He simply doesn’t see me. Although I am perfectly visible elsewhere.
Despite regarding SloMo as a complete waste of space it seems I overestimated him.
More cynical than that, I think.
Any challenge to what they say can instantly be depicted as racism or homophobia or whatever – shifting the focus from the inadequacy of the doggerel they puked up instead to the ridiculous sideshow distraction of blackophobia or dykophobia or bloke-in-a-dress-phobia which no one really takes seriously but which they would never dream of publicly treating less seriously than the Holocaust.
Morrison was Turnbull’s whore — Trumble’s surrogate in the Lodge tasked with executing the World Economic Forum policy agenda of his predecessor.
Kevin Rudd was a just a rubbish prime minister, not a self-enriching crook like Trumble, who was and is Washington DC-level corrupt.
When you’re trying to keep quacks on the putting green and conceal the high cost of healthcare in this country, having large numbers of people discover the true cost of healthcare would certainly rate as a crisis.
A very ancient god, Dot. An Odin type.
Crom in old Irish simply means ‘dark’, a term often reserved for Odin/Eiddyn, who is also called ‘the dark god’. Crom is a capricious fellow, a nasty piece of work, for Christians certainly had an intense dislike of him and gave him a very bad press (likely deserved). He is associated with the ancient stone circles, one famous circle in Ireland in particular; his name aligns to an Arthur variant in Cromarty, a area in lower Scotland, where the Cromarty Bridge passes over an island known for aeons back as ‘The Dark Isle’. His name may, I speculate, relate anciently to the Indo-European root word for time,
expressed in Greek as Chronus, and from which of course we create chronometer, chronology and many other ‘time’ words.
It is indeed disturbing that you know these images even exist.
As bad as the federal and state responses to covid were, I’d beware of positing that granting more power to the federal government, the executive council or the office of the PM is the answer. Subsidiarity is generally to be preferred to centralisation of authority and power, even – or especially – in a democracy as small as ours.
Throwing my Arthurian ‘cloak of invisibility’ on now heading towards the kitchen.
Arthur had one of those. So did the god ‘Bran’, meaning Raven. What a coincidence. 🙂