Yes. Yours is way better.
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Excellent. Seb Gorka in Trump cabinet.
Zaf, that’s the lame and gay “people of Springfield” tune by some soy douche. This is the original house banger.…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lTF6Jzav8wk Eating the cats.
Roads, rates and rubbish. Or not (the Tele): Clover Moore’s City of Sydney council will donate $22,000 to Rising Tide…
Louisiana abortion law allows abortions in cases where “the unborn child is deemed to be .medically futile”
The list of medically futile exceptions includes both Acardia and Anencephaly.
The woman in the original myth could have gotten an abortion in Louisiana.
Lysander above said Arizona.
mOron, your aggressive support for the killing of unborn children and thereby the onward sale of their little body parts is sickening. And you don’t have to be a religious nut to object to the horror of killing unborn kids. You just have to be sensible which we know you are certainly not.
That was the joke.
As usual its not that there arent opportunities available, its that they arent being parachuted exactly where they want to be screwing over blokes who may have decades more experience than them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-17/female-fifo-workers-more-women-needed-improve-conditions/101339550
West Australian Minister for Mines Bill Johnston says gender quotas and targets should be more broadly adopted by the mining and resources industry.
“All the evidence globally is that gender quotas work because the idea of the quota is to change the culture of a business,” he said.
…
From her perspective, simple changes like ensuring there are sanitary bins, female bathrooms and female-only gyms and classes could make a big difference.
“Some sites are starting to get the hang of it … seeing more and more female-only gyms popping up on site is fantastic,” Ms Hitchens said.
“It makes a big difference knowing you can walk into a gym or other places and know it’s a safe space with other women around.”
Liz Cheney’s Concession Speech May Have Violated Campaign Finance Rules
Soon-to-be former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) may have violated Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules at her concession speech due to an in-kind donation she apparently received from a former TV executive who advises the January 6 Committee.
CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported earlier Tuesday evening that Cheney’s anticipated losing speech would be set against a dramatic backdrop and filmed by James Goldston, the former ABC News president who is also advising the January 6 Committee.
Anyone who films a candidate may generally do so, under the protections of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, if the film crew is producing a video especially for a candidate, that counts as a service provided to the campaign.
Goldston’s services, including his crew, are probably worth tens of thousands of dollars. Moreover, Zeleny reported that Goldston is filming Cheney as a favor — as a “friend.” Hence his contribution would be an in-kind contribution to Cheney.
The FEC rules on in-kind contributions provide:
Moreover, the current limit on contributions is $2,900 per cycle.
Hence not only would Goldston’s services have to be reported to the FEC on Cheney’s campaign filings, but they also likely exceed the campaign finance limits. She could face an investigation and fines from the FEC if she is found to be in violation.
Spot on Bern,.
“The first move of fascists over history, Lizzie, is to declare their opponents to be communists and thus treasonous non-citizens.”
And the first move of fascists over history, m0nty-fa, is to declare their opponents to be fascists and thus treasonous non-citizens.
But communists and fascists are feathers of the same (left) wing. Idiot.
The richest, most elitist county in Wyoming. I’m shocked!
OldOzzie, laws/rules/conventions only apply to those who are running against corporate Democrats.
There have been green candidates booted off ballots in situations where there was a fear of them splitting the vote.
And even though AOC is a joke, the DNC tried to hobble her in her original primary against the bigwig Dem.
Teton County
Teton means tits in Spanish.
Liz Cheney is tits up in Wyoming.
I went to a significant commercial development worksite yesterday. An amazing development when finished. When I was in the site office signing in I saw the CFMEU representative wander thru. It was like seeing a fly land in your beer. You may or may not be able to get it out but either way you know it’s been there and defiled the place.
Turtlehead, fuck off.
Barry, do you have any idea why Jews applaud when their El Al flight lands safely? FMD.
PS: Hijacking El Al planes was the founding strategy of anti-Israeli Arab terrorists. The last El Al hijacking was in 1968 because the Jews have taken care of the problem.
It’s done elsewhere too, not only on El Al.
It’s done elsewhere too, not only on El Al.
When planes take off from Melbourne?
I love El Al….flown it once. Safest airline in the world. The air hostesses are tough…trained in case there’s a problem from someone with one of those “legitimate grievances”. The cabin crew are locked in the cockpit for the trip, so as to prevent anyone from “visiting them”.
“Tomsays:
August 17, 2022 at 3:08 pm”
Thank you.
No, it doesn’t.
What is the pressing need of the mother in this instance that would justify deliberately killing the child? Have you furnished any? That is, beyond saying the child is missing parts of its brain, implying that it is thus entirely worthless and consequently a burden on its mother.
The arguments presented never refer to Scripture but you run this line because you are playing to the prejudices of your supporters who are dense and ignorant and have never familiarized themselves with the arguments of their opponents.
Not that I’ve noticed, but many years back taking off from KSA had Brits erupting in cheers after clearing Saudi airspace on BA. The pilot used to announce it. Break out the lager!
CNN’s take on today’s Wyoming primary:
But shed no tears for Liz Cheney. Her star has never shone more brightly.
Cheney is the breakout star of this summer’s blockbuster TV series: the hearings of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. As the vice chair and one of only two Republicans with the mettle to serve on the committee, Cheney has been granted the lead in hearings that have methodically and dramatically revealed the role that Trump and his sidekicks played in the violent attempt to overturn the election of Joe Biden.
FMD
Link below if you want to look further. I’d advise against it.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/13/opinions/liz-cheney-wyoming-primary-january-6-committee-enda/index.html
WA Mines Minister Bill Johnston wants gender quotas on mine sites.
I will be all for it when a little dolly bird can do a 12 hour shift operating a pushleg jumbo air drill.
The name of the condition affecting that woman’s baby was acrania.
Apropos of nothing much, talk of El Al etc…file this one under ‘Pissing off people I like to see pissed off’ – describing tabbouleh, hummus, pita bread etc as Israeli foods works a treat.
I missed the scare quotes. What else is it if not a child?
The sequence of acrania anencephaly begins with acrania,
I’ve also seen it on Garuda and Ethiopian Airlines, so I don’t think it’s specifically Jews…
A cool little story.
What a great outcome.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/16/teenager-saves-best-mate-bitten-by-shark-off-western-australias-mistaken-island
A Western Australian teenager is being congratulated for his quick thinking and bravery after jumping into action and saving his best mate after a shark attack on Monday.
Conner Shirley was spearfishing off Mistaken Island, south of Albany, on Monday with his friend Luke Pascoe, 17, who was bitten by what they believe was a great white shark.
Shirley acted fast, carrying Pascoe on his back across the rocks for 2km and making a tourniquet from his dive belt to stop the bleeding, before driving him to the hospital.
Quadruple Vaxxed Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Tests Positive for Covid
71-Year-Old Quadruple Vaccinated Jill Biden Tests Positive for Covid-19
This is my shocked face :O
LOL.
Oh yeah, that’s a real blockbuster. Just like how CNN’s ratings are through the roof.
Mettle has nothing to do with it. They were handpicked by Nancy Pelosi because they would play the role assigned to them in this show trial masquerading as a committee.
Cheney’s done. No more Cheneys and Bushes in influential positions within the GOP. That’s a very good start.
“Hardly raising to the level of dad jokes…”
Like…
I came into a lot of money recently – that’s why they fired me from my job at the bank.
Neither of which will be serving in Congress after 3 Jan. Wonder if there is a lesson there?
We (as in the passengers) applauded when our captain pilot turned up to take our flight to Brisbane from Sydney.
Without nipples breasts are pointless.
Israel offered the use of their counter terrorist units – the Germans refused, saying their police were capable of carrying out the mission.
In the 1980s, I remember Chinese passengers not only applauding, but STANDING and applauding as our Air China 737 burst through cloud into the sunshine at cruising altitude en route from Chengdu (Sichuan province) to Guangzhou (Canton). Chengdu is immersed in cloud six months of the year, locals reckon. Just as well they invented Sichuan tucker, which is unbeatable.
The “child” has no functioning brain. It feels no pain because there is no brain to register it. It is never going to become a human person with cognitive abilities. It will die within minutes of being born.
Treating it as on the same legal status as the mother is completely ludicrous. But that is what your religious ideology dictates.
The name of the condition afflicting munty is fat fuck leftism. No known cure. Common as dog shit but not as useful.
Monty.
Please check the actual definition of the medical condition claimed.
Can vary from having a brain (damaged) to nothing.
Id hate to see you accused of just making shit up which is easily googled or anything.
It would spoil your reputation as an ace researcher and rock ribbed reliable source of factual and up to date information, valued for its accuracy.
If Montys mum had known he was going to grow into a landwhale who went online touting for publicly funded baby mincing (up to the point of birth) would that have been enough for her to have terminated him?
I suspect the reason the doctors wouldn’t give the Louisiana woman an abortion is because the baby was viable right up to birth, even though it was guaranteed to die soon after.
Alaska numbers are in
Alaska has moved to a ‘best 4 go to the finals’ sort of primary so they seem a bit anti-climax but Palin advances and Tshibaka is giving RINO Murkowski a close race which bodes well for Nov.
SUPER GLUE WAS INVENTED BY ACCIDENT, TWICE
Super Glue, also known as cyanoacrylate, was originally discovered in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover, who by the way died last month on March 26th, 2011. Coover was attempting to make clear plastic gun sights to be put on guns used by Allied soldiers in WWII. One particular formulation he came up with didn’t work well for gun sights, but worked fantastically as an extremely quick bonding adhesive. Surprisingly, despite the commercial potential of such a product, Coover abandoned that formulation completely as it obviously wasn’t suitable for his current project, being too sticky.
Nine years later, in 1951, now working at Eastman Kodak, Dr. Coover was the supervisor of a project looking at developing a heat resistant acrylate polymer for jet canopies. Fred Joyner was working on that project and at one point used the rediscovered Super Glue and tested it by spreading ethyl cyanoacrylate between a pair of refractometer prisms. To his surprise, the prisms became stuck very solidly together. This time, Coover did not abandoned the cyanoacrylate (Super Glue), rather, he realized the great potential of a product that would quickly bond to a variety of materials and only needed a little water to activate, which generally is provided in the materials to be bonded themselves.
Super Glue was finally put on the market in 1958 by Eastman Kodak and was called the slightly less catchy name of “Eastman #910”, though they later re-named it “Super Glue”. Eastman #910 was soon licensed to Loctite who then re-branded it again to a somewhat uninspired name of “Loctite Quick Set 404”.
“Israel offered the use of their counter terrorist units – the Germans refused, saying their police were capable of carrying out the mission.”
Yep.
Makes sense. A supernova often collapses into a black hole.
And black holes suck a lot.
Aside from what mole just wrote, why would it be ‘ludicrous’ to treat the child with respect until it died and not as something to be discarded and as a inconvenience?
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Bye bye @Liz_Cheney. On the bright side at least you won’t have to pretend to be from Wyoming anymore.
I don’t care for the idea of killing ppl who disagree with me. I prefer to argue with them, to present facts and reason. It has worked well in the West for a long time. But when my opponents refuse to debate, shut down discussion, rely on force to get their way, why, force it must be.
So m0nty, it’s going to be the Pinochet solution for you, because it’s all you’ve left us. HoP time coming up. I really don’t care for it, but your tribe has ruled out the peaceful options.
I don’t like El Al, mainly because everyone always applauds when the plane lands. I find that offputting to say the least.
The Greeks also do this regardless of the airline branding.
You would know how, as part of “Operation Wrath of God” – the retribution wreaked by Israel – Israeli commandos, commanded by one Ehud Barak – raided PFLP Headquarters in Beirut? They were disguised as hippies – Barak was alleged to have been wearing “falsies”, and a “Dolly Parton” wig?
I don’t care for the idea of killing ppl who disagree with me. I prefer to argue with them, to present facts and reason.
People is one thing Dr BG. We’re talking communists here.
“The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation were a mindless bunch of jerks who were first up against the wall when the revolution came.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Shirley that shark couldn’t have been serious.
On arriving at the Cafe at the End of The Universe and finding a party going on:
“Is this the Afterlife? Looks more like an Apres Vie.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide again.
Go Air Sinai from Cairo. Unmarked, unannounced on the airport boards, the planes sit on the runway awaiting their passengers. Luggage is inspected and those entering the plane must first point to their luggage for loading.
The planes apparently never leave to schedule, but in a window.
Always a treat to finally get to Tel Aviv without an STA calling card.
“Life? Don’t talk to me about Life!”
Marvin the android.
“You would know how, as part of “Operation Wrath of God” – the retribution wreaked by Israel – Israeli commandos, commanded by one Ehud Barak – raided PFLP Headquarters in Beirut? They were disguised as hippies – Barak was alleged to have been wearing “falsies”, and a “Dolly Parton” wig?”
I do indeed, many years ago I met Ehud Barak when he was here in Oz. Mossad managed to plant an English woman in Beirut who conducted surveillance on the various PLO operatives for months Barak dressed as a woman…..they landed in the darkness of night.
Back in the Soviet era, internal flight planes were set up like train carriages, with fixed tables!
And I now know why. Olympic landing on Crete – so hard it left parts of the plane on the runway.
Of course we clapped. 😀
You sound depressed, Anchor.
Have a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and give your bath towel a hug.
And the hosties were all graduates of the Moscow School of Customer Service. Not much has changed.
I’ve got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side 🙁
Media is back to anonymous, one-source stories on Trump that we can’t trust anymore
David Marcus
New York Post
It feels like old times. In the wake of the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, the mainstream media are in a feeding frenzy the likes of which we haven’t seen since he exited the White House. The usual suspects, like The New York Times and Washington Post, which spent the four years of Trump’s presidency consistently and spectacularly beclowning themselves, are at it again. Dare we say that it has “all the hallmarks” of media incompetence?
Take The Washington Post: Using its signature anonymous single-source style, it broke the alleged news that Trump was in possession of documents “related to nuclear weapons.” What exactly does that mean? Honestly, based on Post’s coverage of Russiagate, when so many “bombshells” fizzled when the details emerged, you have to wonder if it’s the White House pastry chef’s recipe for nuclear chocolate cake.
The Times, meanwhile, informs us that Trump sought to send a secret message to Attorney General Merrick Garland, this according to — wait for it — “a person familiar with the exchange.” A person. This is basically the journalistic equivalent of “My cousin’s girlfriend knows a guy.”
Could these juicy details rushed into print turn out to be true? Maybe. Do the American people have good reason to believe they aren’t true given the recent track record of the liberal press? Absolutely.
After all, we watched these selfsame media treat the farcical Steele dossier like it was the fifth gospel and spend years clinging to the Russian-collusion hoax. We watched them not only bury the Hunter Biden laptop story just days before the 2020 election but smear the journalists who broke that very real story as dupes promoting Russian disinformation.
This print first, ask questions later approach is why Gallup found a record-low 16% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers and just 11% do in TV news. There are probably communicable diseases that are more popular than the news media at this point. Back in 2014, before Trump broke the brains and standards of everyone with a journalism-school degree, both those questions had media trust about 10 points higher.
“So now you’ll only be fatally electrocuted for 4½ seconds.”
You get a choice if it catches fire – wait 5 seconds and hope you don’t get burnt or poisoned, or get out immediately and risk electrocution.
But you can’t choose an ICE car – at least then you’d have the choice between killing an African baby in 100 years because climate change, instead of killing one now because poisoned or disfigured by mining crap to make you feel good.
‘Cause, you know, 100 years ago they already knew the dangers of Nigerian internet scams, and they did nothing, so here we are. You can do better, right? For the kids – won’t you think of the kids? The ones going to be born in 100 years are so much more important than the ones trying to survive now. Because you are evil, having no choice in being born in a first world country. And being evil – you should feel guilty about that. It’s not Kim Jong Il’s fault, or Xi’s fault, or even Vlad’s fault – it’s yours. For being born “rich”. Bastard. How dare you?
Sky News a minute ago:
Liz Cheney has an impeccable record of voting on gun rights!
Anchor Whatsays:
August 17, 2022 at 4:14 pm
“Life? Don’t talk to me about Life!”
Marvin the android.
“42”
The answer to life, the universe, and everything
Mathematics researcher Drew Sutherland helps solve decades-old sum-of-three-cubes puzzle, with help from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
A team led by Andrew Sutherland of MIT and Andrew Booker of Bristol University has solved the final piece of a famous 65-year old math puzzle with an answer for the most elusive number of all: 42.
The number 42 is especially significant to fans of science fiction novelist Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” because that number 42 is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”
Booker also wanted to know the answer to 42. That is, are there three cubes whose sum is 42?
Why, oh why, did I ever lose Wyoming?
Why, oh why, did I ever have to go?
Tune:
(1947) – Dinah Shore
So we supposedly need diversity taskforces and strategies for the mining industry. But the wharfies get a clause in an industrial agreement stipulating that 70 per cent of new employees must be family or friends of the existing workforce and our army of diversity champions looks the other way.
Speaking of diversity, is anyone taking donations for a rainbow jersey for that champion of diversity Brett Finch?
They were at the wrong island, apparently.
From the critic.
Looks like their constitution was as rubbery as ours one it was exposed to a bit of creative legalese
https://thecritic.co.uk/canadas-voyage-down-the-slippery-slope/
After the initial 2015 decision, the then newly elected Liberal government passed legislation that did attempt to place strict boundaries around assisted suicide eligibility. This legislation would have restricted access to mentally competent adults with “enduring and intolerable suffering” and in cases where natural death is “reasonably foreseeable”. It also mandated a ten day reflection period. But this legislation, specifically the notion that death must be reasonably foreseeable, was struck down by a Quebec court in 2017 as too restrictive, and Canada now has a “medical assistance in dying” (ominously referred to as MAID) in which competent adults whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable are eligible if they have a “grievous and irremediable medical condition”. Next year, Canada will begin allowing mentally ill individuals to qualify for assisted suicide under this formulation, and it is likely that this autumn the government will receive a parliamentary report recommending that children deemed competent (“mature minors”) should also be eligible.
But remember, no slippery slopes, they are a fallacy.
The problem with “42” – it might have been the answer, but no one knew the question.
Always ask the right question. 😀
You are treating the mother with no respect, and treating her body as a convenience.
Calli. From the ever reliable source of Wiki.
calli – 42 = (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
but Sutherland and Booker ran the computations over several months, but the final successful run was completed in just a few weeks. When the email from Charity Engine arrived, it provided the first solution to x3+y3+z3=42:
Respect doesn’t extend to allowing a parent to murder their own children, as we thankfully found out in Adelaide yesterday.
14mins of the corporate media covering for Liz Cheney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP30okjpCko
It’s not working !!
NYT Cuts Ties With Reporter Who Called For ‘Killing,’ ‘Burning’ Jews ‘Like What Hitler Did’
The New York Times has cut ties with a fixer in the Gaza Strip after his Facebook posts calling Jews “the children of dogs” and expressing support for the late Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler resurfaced.
Fady Hanona has worked with multiple major news outlets to aid their reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hanona was listed as a contributor in six of the NYT’s eight stories written on the latest conflagration between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in the Gaza Strip.
The NYT apparently ended its relationship with Hanona on Friday, according to The Times Of Israel. The fixer has a history of making anti-Semitic statements, and the media watchdog Honest Reporting uncovered a slew of Hanona’s Facebook posts in which he called for “killing” and “burning” Jews “like Hitler did,” according to translations of the posts preserved by Honest Reporting. The date of the post is unclear.
You are always, forever begging the question.
Fetal personhood is not the law.
Any Kittehs up for this one?
Great opening by Tucker. Jaw-dropping corruption involving FBI and D0J. Just incredible.
What a ridiculous riposte.
It’d be nice if they could do the CIA, DHS, FDA, EPA, and of course the IRS.
They’re just as evil. And if anyone still believes the CIA in particular keeps to its supposed international brief they’ve got rocks in their head.
This is nothing less than the exercise of raw power. Hear anyone in the media talking about voter suppression?
He could write it at the bottom of contracts and there is not a court in the land that would not hold it as at least as characteristically defining as a signature.
Not at all. It strikes at the heart of the matter. Your movement’s ultimate goal is fetal personhood, a legal unicorn which if enshrined in law would create through implication all sort of restrictions of the freedom of women, turning them into mere vessels for procreation.
I mean, women couldn’t be allowed to drink alcohol because they might have gotten pregnant four weeks ago and not know it yet, thus they would be harming the full person growing inside them. Same for anything that is potentially harmful to a fetus. IVF and birth control would probably also become illegal.
All of your arguments are premised on fetal personhood. That is why you refer to the “child” instead of fetus. Full handmaiden stuff, that’s your end game.
Farmer Gez says: August 17, 2022 at 3:03 pm
The Spanish meaning aside, that is the meaning in French, the language that particular “Teton” was named by early French fur trappers.
My favourite line. Superb irony.
Pantsed.
Edge cases like ancephaly highlight the intransigence and illogic of the conservative position.
Using such “edge cases” to obtain an unlimited “right” to abortion, at any time until birth, for any reason highlights the intransigence and illogic of the “liberal” position. Remember that Roe vs Wade originally provided for abortion only in the first trimester. The creeping tactics of the pro-aborts eventually extended it to an aborted baby that Kermit Gosnells described as “big enough to walk to the bus stop with me”.
Provide a guarantee that only the “edge cases” will be included, then maybe some movement might happen, but as long as the intransigent pro-aborts want and push for an unlimited “right”, there will be resistance.
Viktoriastan is completely knackered. All Conservatives evacuate now!
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/matthew-guy-is-literally-history/
I’ve seen the Grand Tetons. My conclusion is that the trappers were away from civilisation waaaaay too long.
This isn’t funny any more is it?
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1559635564248301568
Full handmaiden stuff, that’s your end game.
be gentle with monty.
Xies just binge watched the handmaidens tale again..
I loved the sections with the filth mines… It was literally Monty Python stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ztV8_uS_o
Take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Makka says:
August 17, 2022 at 3:13 pm
do you have any idea why Jews applaud when their El Al flight lands safely?
It’s done elsewhere too, not only on El Al.
Indeed. In Russia or Ukraine, the passengers applaud on landing. Not universal, but fairly common.
I also find it a bit off-putting but would add there is some justification if you have ever flown on a small domestic airline in Russia/Ukraine.
m0ntysays:
August 17, 2022 at 2:53 pm
It must be very inconvenient to come up against someone who isn’t an idiotic cardboard cutout.
There are a lot of those here, calli.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall who’s the most cardboard cut-out of all? Why, it’s m-0nty-fa, of course.
m0ntysays:
August 17, 2022 at 4:52 pm
[Respect doesn’t extend to allowing a parent to murder their own children]
You are always, forever begging the question.
Fetal personhood is not the law.
Where, and for what purpose?
Aren’t anti-abortion laws per se based on just such a recognition of foetal personhood?
And that’s not some kind of bizarre outlier in the law in any case. To give just one example, a child en ventre sa mere counts as a “life in being” for the purpose of the rule against perpetuities in most jurisdictions.
Pro tip m0nty – refrain from dogmatic unqualified generalities on subjects about which you are clearly vastly ignorant.
Stupid People News (the NT News):
Leading Edge Computers, you selfish pricks.
Two. Months.
Aaaand…..
There we go. Do they not have this ‘information’ already on teh webs somewhere? Starting to wonder who actually owned these things in the first place.
Then why didn’t you take it with you?
It’s unacceptable the business has been able to do what? Shut down? Lady, if you want to leave two laptops with someone and then go to the other side of the world for two months – well, perhaps you had too much….. Faith.
Yowser !
U.K. Inflation Tops 10%, Underlining Gloomy Outlook for Europe
U.K. inflation topped 10%, the highest rate among the G-7 countries, and is projected to rise further by the end of the year.
m0nty-fa
I suspect the reason the doctors wouldn’t give the Louisiana woman an abortion …
“Suspect”, that’s a solid reason right there. If the King of Wrongology “suspects” something, it is guaranteed to be wrong.
JC:
What have I done to raise your ire today, JC?
(Apart from just existing?)
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Are you noticing.
Just wait until the blackouts start rolling.
It’s going to be a northern winter of discontent.
It was a ridiculous riposte because I wasn’t assuming what was being debated.
I don’t particularly care for personhood arguments either way. It’s enough for me that the child is an individuated human being in order for it to deserve the protection of the law.
This is really pathetic. We’ve banned smoking in public places and your pretending that a mother smoking or drinking is unproblematic developmentally to the child? It’s not merely this sort of ridiculously shallow argument that is nauseating, how could we hold a parent responsible for having a drink when they are pregnant unawares? Where is the mens rea?
They really aren’t. You don’t need to posit ‘fetal personhood’ to confer the protection of the law to the child in utero; you simply need to accept that it is an individuated human being at an early stage of development.
State Fetal Homicide Laws
callisays:
August 17, 2022 at 4:17 pm
The Greeks also do this regardless of the airline branding.
And I now know why. Olympic landing on Crete – so hard it left parts of the plane on the runway.
Of course we clapped. ?
I once had to fly Olympic from Singapore to London, via Athens and Nicosia. Apart from the feel-up by Greek police in Athens, the most memorable moment was when the pilot dropped the landing gear approaching Heathrow. (Lowered doesn’t convey the sense of what happened.) The internal air pressure dropped by about 1.5 psi, as every passenger sucked in a deep breath.
Lysander, Bern, sorry for not seeing the ‘joke’ re Arizona. I’m not a dimwit, I was on my phone out and about and came late to this arvo’s party. Didn’t read backthread, that’s too difficult on the move when checking in for an odd moment but had briefly checked into Fox for news on Cheyney.
They simply steal your money if they don’t like what you – or your daughter – say.
Gonzalo Lira Retweeted
Blackrussian
@Blackrussiantv
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16 Aug
The mother of German journalist Alina Lipp, who covers events in Donbass, had to leave Germany for Russia after threats at home.
She had to escape because the German authorities closed her bank account. One day she couldn’t pay with a card or withdraw money.
The Valley of Greta as in Greta Thumbnail. Very instructive. The gerbil warming fanatics won’t necessarily change their views even if a decent percentage of the global population perishes as a result of this madness.
Cronkite always says to never give this scum an inch. He got that from me, and of course he’s right.
So the world was the Handmaid’s Tale until the 1970s?
That’s seriously loopy stuff.
dover0beachsays:
August 17, 2022 at 5:06 pm
Joel Pollak
@joelpollak
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Aug 16
They reject nearly 30% of the signatures to recall a radical Democrat, then expect people to believe < 1% of mail-in ballots in a general election are invalid.
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BREAKING: The effort to recall L.A. DA @GeorgeGascon has FAILED to qualify for the ballot. The Registrar-Recorders office announced only 520,050 of the 715k+ signatures it collected were valid. It needed 566,857. Details below. @FoxNews
This is nothing less than the exercise of raw power. Hear anyone in the media talking about voter suppression?
m0nty-fa tends to get very excited about any alleged Republican attempts at “voter suppression”. Things like photo ID and signature checking.
M0nty, where on earth have you been for the past few years? Watching the ABC, reading the SMH, and believing in unicorns, that’s where. Lovely kindly helpful Democrats all working for a good cause, and Trump devil-orange-man bad. There is no point my arguing with your wilful ignorance. The institutional deep swamp’s capture of the FBI is something you need to ponder on. Along with all of the other Democrat ‘get-Trump’ so far unsuccessful fabrications. That. Is. Not. Democracy.
O’Farrell was forced to resign after drinking a bottle of Grange he was given.
Why not McGowan?
Eyrie:
I think Eyrie has raised an important distinction here.
🙂
At least m0nty knows what a woman is. This is progress.
Uncle Fester
It’s not the same thing. It’s actually shocking that you don’t appreciate the difference between sharing a bottle of wine and or receiving an expensive bottle as a gift.
m0ntysays:
August 17, 2022 at 5:08 pm
Poor old shiteater.
“Personhood” at law is not some kind of fixed normative concept with absolutely the same meaning and consequences in all circumstances. It’s a descriptive term.
For example limited partnerships are recognised for income tax as having a capacity to sue and be sued by the ATO (being one of the normal fundamental attributes of legal personality) – see the Resource Capital Fund IV litigation in 2019 – whereas for most other purposes at law they aren’t recognised.
There’s nothing at all incongruous about the idea that an unborn baby can have certain legal rights but is not necessarily treated at law the same as either a child or a fully legally competent adult.
As for the examples m0nty gives …
I mean, women couldn’t be allowed to drink alcohol because they might have gotten pregnant four weeks ago and not know it yet, thus they would be harming the full person growing inside them. Same for anything that is potentially harmful to a fetus.
Under what statute would that be a crime? Unless it’s a crime there would be no legal right for anyone to stop it happening – i.e. “wouldn’t be allowed” looks like classic m0nty bloviation. If the unborn baby did have full legal rights in respect of that issue (see my comment above) the mother might be liable in a civil action, but that would depend (under current law) in part on reasonable foreseeability – and to be honest if a woman can reasonably foresee she’s harming the unborn baby why shouldn’t she be liable?
IVF and birth control would probably also become illegal.
You fat shiteating imbecile. Although it’s possible for someone to have some sorts of duties in respect of possible future persons (e.g. unclosed classes in trust law), how could someone owe any legal duty to or in respect of a person who, if birth control worked, by definition never existed? On what basis could any action be founded on the hypothetical facts that if someone who got his end in hadn’t used a party hat they might still have had the bonk and that might have led to a pregnancy which might have naturally gone to term…? And what would be the liability to or in respect of an IVF baby for causing it to come into existence, or a baby from failed contraception for failing to prevent its existence?
Apparently O’Farrell didn’t even drink wine.
A bottle of Grange wasted.
Cassie, do you remember David Helfgott from your Perth days? His wife, Gillian Helfgott, died yesterday following a short illness.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-16/gillian-helfgott-wife-of-pianist-david-helfgott-dies-aged-90/101339284
I’ve sometimes wondered if there was a backdoor threat, what that threat was, & if the bottle of plonk was the best he could come up with as a reason to quit.
Resigning over receiving a bottle of plonk is a sick joke.
Those state laws don’t assume ‘personhood’. Personhood is a term of art.
In other news, I’m picking up my new “baby” tomorrow. High enough off the ground for Mum to get into easily. I wonder if it will have a bow on it? The last one did, but these are troubled times. 😀
Sounds like he would be better off inside applying for a nightfill job.
One of the most irritating and exasperating things about having John Howard back on our screens promoting a book is how he finds in every interview an opportunity to declare his disapproval of Trump.
The purported reason is failure to accept the result of the election. This is bullshit. Howard just doesn’t like the way Trump strides the stage, showing up the political class for the sinister liars they are.
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The killing of one person by another.
This hair you are splitting is not particularly relevant, since we are talking about US Republican lawmakers here who definitely do want to enact fetal personhood.
Dot asks whether the pre-Roe world was The Handmaid’s Tale… no, but the post-Dobbs world will be worse. Courts will appoint lawyers to act on behalf of unborn babies, prosecuting their mother for a whole range of sins. The implications of such a radical law are far-reaching.
This is like the old arguments we had on the Cat. You try to set the line just where you want it, but the movement you are a part of doesn’t care about your niceties. It goes much further. No rape exception. No incest exception. No 10-year-old girl exception. Close all of the clinics. Sack all the doctors who used to provide abortions. Ban it almost completely. Gaol or bankrupt anyone who wants to do any different. Ignore any uptick in maternal deaths as a price worth paying. This is the world you are cheering on.
JC, that is a superb parable for our times.
Messianic cults will always be with us, especially when they culturally dug in deep. Cargo cults, as seen in primitive New Guinea during the Second World War, the belief in the sudden arrival of good things (by aircraft in this case) if correct rituals (making airstrips and toy planes) are performed are simply one version of these and they still spring up from time to time. One might also say that the belief that ‘good things’ as opposed to any current miseries will happen if they are willed enough to happen, without thinking about how they will be achieved, also carries elements of messianic thinking. Humans are prone to it.
Followers rarely become disillusioned in their beliefs, they simply believe they have not performed the right rituals and sacrifices. I won’t be around to see it, but in my sadest moments I imagine the sorts of ways in which the current climate cult might work out, if not in an absolute die-off, always on the cards, then in an authoritarian world-wide political nightmare; not pretty.
The pamphleteers at Seven are huffing and puffing over ScoMo, conveniently forgetting their unashamed panic merchanting during 2020 and beyond.
They were sure we were all going to die, running red screens day after day. And not a peep from Labor.
They disgust me.
I’d suggest hiring the top hat.
Chairman Dan presumably thinks they’ll vote for the Greens anyway.
Crystal McKinnon, Meriki Onus charged over Black Lives Matters rally
Prosecutors have revealed why Black Lives Matters leaders were incorrectly told charges against them for organising a rally during lockdown were dropped.
Prosecutors say there was no conspiracy to drop protest charges against Black Lives Matters leaders before backflipping on the decision due to a communications bungle.
Earlier this year, Crystal McKinnon and Meriki Onus were told their charges for allegedly organising a Black Lives Matter rally in Melbourne’s CBD amid Covid restrictions would be withdrawn.
But prosecutors reneged on the assurance, claiming the police officer who made the decision was not authorised to do so.
Prosecutor Andrew Sim told Melbourne Magistrates’ Court that while it was “regrettable” the women had been misinformed, it was not a political decision.
“There’s no great conspiracy here about malfeasance,” he said on Wednesday.
“It was an error.”
He also said the women had been notified of an intention to withdraw charges, but noted it was just an intention, and the prosecution had the final say on how matters proceeded.
Barrister Felicity Gerry QC, acting for the women, accused prosecutors of misleading the court and argued there was an “unequivocal intent” to withdraw.
She also contended there were exemptions for breaking Covid rules such as in emergencies or if individuals had a reasonable excuse.
But Mr Sim rejected the claim.
“An emergency is I’ve got a sick kid (and) the children’s hospital is outside the 5km radius and I need to take them there,” he said.
Ms Gerry applied for a subpoena of police documents that she claimed would prove her clients had suffered injustice and an abuse of process.
But the application – which was opposed by Chief Commissioner Shane Patton – was rejected by Magistrate Andrew McKenna who said it did not have a “legitimate objective”.
Magistrate McKenna noted prosecution matters were often dealt with by various people who had differing views.
“The court is only concerned with what charge is before the court and whether it can proceed,” he said.
Ms McKinnon and Ms Onus did not attend Wednesday’s hearing as they were in mourning following the death of an Aboriginal man in Port Phillip Prison last week.
The women were charged for allegedly planning a BLM rally in Melbourne’s CBD that attracted around 10,000 protesters in June 2020.
The pair were accused of contravening the chief health officer’s directions which at the time banned public gatherings of more than 20 people.
The matter will return to court on October 5.
Herald-Sun
Years ago I visited one of the very remote islands in the Fiji group. After arriving at the airport I made my way to the small single engine plane that had the words “Island Air” hand painted on the side. I only had a small bag and a very large Fijian man with bare feet came up to me, took my bag and placed it in the baggage locker at the rear of the plane. I thought he was the baggage handler but he was also the pilot.
On the flight I was the only passenger and sat directly behind the pilot. On this particular day there was lots of low cloud and after take-off I noticed that we didn’t climb very high and were no more that about 600-700 feet above the sea. So, I’m looking over the pilot’s shoulder at the instruments and across the face of almost every instrument was a small red sticker saying “Inoperative”. Even the compass!
I realised the reason we were flying so low was so the pilot could see where he was going. If we climbed above the clouds, he would have no idea of his heading (plus level flight etc). I noticed that as we reached an island or atoll the pilot would turn left or right -we were literally ‘island hopping’ line-of-sight.
A few days later I flew back to the main island of Fiji and although it was with the same airline it was a different plane. On the return flight, there were two other passengers (and a live chicken in a box).
Also from Danistan:
An accused grave robber charged with stealing skulls has died from illness before facing court.
Tristan Hearne, 41, was facing seven charges for exhuming corpses and damaging burial plots at Footscray Cemetery but did not show up to his first court hearing on Wednesday.
Victoria Police later confirmed Mr Hearne had died, saying his death was not being treated as suspicious.
“Police will prepare a report for the Coroner,” a statement said.
Lines can be set and adhered to. Societies would never have functioned at all in any way otherwise.
On contentious issues there has to be argument and clarity in lawmaking and freedom to speak. Decisions are made by democratic means. There will always be dissent and some confusion and slippage in positions. That is the nature of humans as we live together in groups. Always has been. Democracy is difficult and imperfect, but there is no better substitute. Bringing Roe vs Wade decisions back to smaller polities is a good thing, not a bad one. Open societies need to argue.
I gave you an uptick for that, Lizzie.
Sure, and let the unborn baby sue the bar she drank in, and the brewer. Totally logical.
I’m not speaking on behalf of Republican lawmakers.
This is hysterical. Fatboy must be getting fractious as feeding time approaches, heaven forbid his handlers become tardy slinging those glazed hams over into his enclosure.
Haven’t liberals literally argued for this re smoking for decades.
Ah, Wellington. About an hour out of Bathurst. Been there a couple of times visiting a friend who used to live there.
There is an Aboriginal ‘settlement’ there (government housing) where, when my friend lived there, nobody paid their electricity bills. This was back when electricity was affordable.
People in town who didn’t pay their bills eventually got cut off, but not this mob. Every time it was tried, the cries of ‘racist’ cowed the company and other Powers That Be to back off. This went on for years.
Eventually, the company wrote off the debts (amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars) and started everyone off with a clean slate. This was in the late 1990s.
Poor white people in the town and surrounds had to pay their bills.
If you wanted a formula for fomenting racism, this is it.
Nice caves, though.
Stay away from the theatre.
particular “Teton” was named by early French fur trappers.
Beaver?
m0nty-fa at 1802
And that process of setting the line is different how from gradually extending a limited first trimester right to an absolute right for an abortion at any time until (perhaps beyond) birth, for any reason, at any time? Because that is what happened eventually with R v W.
Victorian emperor Daniel Andrews, facing an election in three months, has invited “rich-listers” to a $4500-per-head dinner with him, according to a Page 7 splash on today’s Herald Sun, but the ALP isn’t advertising it because of allegations that Andrews has taken bribes from a land developer named John Woodman.
McClown thinks there’s no-one alive who remembers the ALP’s WA Inc scandal so he’s doing whatever it takes to guarantee him eternal political life.
If only the local Perth newspaper monopoly wasn’t an ALP sycophant and was willing to pursue the corruption of WA’s ruling class. Fuck you, Sandgropers: you’ll get what you’re given and vote for whoever we say.
Thank you, Roger.
Ballerina curtsey to you.
I can still do those well. 🙂
Monty: The government must compel people to have medical procedures I approve of because Im an obese slug with gravy for blood who wont lose weight and I FEEL like Im at risk.
Also monty: The state cant compel ladies to carry babies to term REEEEEE!!!!
So what is it monty, bodily autonomy or the state deciding whats best for you?
When the dates came and went, the believers simply turned on the nonbelievers, blaming their lack of faith for the prophecies not being fulfilled. Again, this is something we see with the environmental movements in the West.
This is baked into the shit being said already.
The elites will be ashamed that we failed them as they fly off to another global conference.
Elbow graced Brisbane with his presence today, boosting the enormously expensive cross river rail project.
Meanwhile, surveys reveal that WFH is becoming a permanent arrangement for office workers.
One of the problems though, Lizzie, is that we can no longer have rational discussions about such issues. Opposing sides are entrenched & on a war footing from the get go.
Sweeps Week on FBI TV!
National news media and federal law enforcement are now as indistinguishable in America as in any autocratic country anywhere
‘End of the Republican Party’: Lincoln Project moans Liz Cheney’s defeat to Harriet Hageman and says it will spark downfall of GOP as furious Democrats warn ‘Liz is here to stay’
Numbers c. 40% reported.
Enough to make an inner suburbs-cbd rail project duplicating existing commuter routes redundant, I would think.
Somebody pinch his skull.
Like SSM? Like that?
Ironic, given that Lincoln was an actual tyrant.
“Ironic, given that Lincoln was an actual tyrant.”
Yep…he suspended habeas corpus.
Who cares?
Using a common cold strain to act like a Little Khrushchev through, he can be whipped silly for that.
Sounds fine to me.
Purge the RINOs and rename it the MAGA Party.
Honest Abe speaks.
A democracy dog. An election injection. Sweet warm pilling meat.
https://youtu.be/-XNFokmDKrE
DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT! Fucking POLLING!
He’s coming back and there’s nothing they can do to stop him
Declared martial law, and placed civilians in front of military tribunals, without Congressional approval.
Yep…he suspended habeas corpus.
TaliDan tried to but failed.
The monster’s got his ugly head down but he’ll be back up when the coast clears.
Tried civilians in military courts.
Imposed the military draft.
Expanded the power of the executive branch of government far beyond what was envisioned in the Constitution on the pretext of the war emergency.
He was preciely what the founding fathers feared.
precisely
And snap, Zulu!
Bloody hell. Howard’s on Blot.
He looks like Gollum. No ballistic vest today, by the look.
Thanks KD.
Riiiiight, you’re the true Scotsman. The leaders of your movement don’t represent you.
And yet you will defend them on here to your last breath when presented with the anecdotal consequences of their radically extreme laws.
Farmer Gezsays:
August 17, 2022 at 6:33 pm
particular “Teton” was named by early French fur trappers.
Beaver?
How I Met Your Mother – Beaver Hand Puppets | FOX Home Entertainment – 1 min 13 secs
or
“The Beaver Song” [[Full Song + Performance]] – How I Met Your Mother
with
Two Beavers are Better Than One
Crikey! Just saw something on the TV about NSW floods, etc etc, (former) Reichfuhrer Fuller was speaking, didn’t catch what his role was.
The main point: re the floods, Shane Fitzsimmons, formerly of the Fire Brigade & now boss of “Resilience NSW” oversaw what is arguably the most spectacular example of being asleep at the wheel & being caught totally & completely with your pants down anyone would ever see.
Pearl Habour on the 7th Dec 1941 was at least shocked into action when the Imperial Japanese Navy began dropping bombs. Shane Fitzsimmons & “Resilience NSW” (supposed to be ready for floods) continued slumbering.
So Resilience NSW gets disbanded & everybody gets sacked.
Except for the boss (y’know, the one responsible for the world-class stuff-up)
He remains on the payroll.
He should be eternally grateful it is the NSW public service. In a real world business he’d have been summarily dismissed. (He’d also have been on about half the pay)
I’m reading a very good biography of U.S. Grant that touches on the issue if Lincoln’s disregard for “civil rights.”
In less enlightened times those rare and unfortunate anencephalic babies were known as
Until 1986
Only Morticia Addams and Lily (I forget her surname) would be happy with such news.
The Morning Briefing: Liz Cheney’s Concession Speech Was a Mentally Ill Cry for Help
Top O’ the Briefing
Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Even Sebastian’s viral tap dancing video wasn’t capturing the attention of the International Charo Fan Club nominating committee.
For once, the polls were not just right, but really, really right. Liz Cheney’s political career met its inevitable ignominious end last night. The drubbing was spectacular, a most decisive end to the political tenure of the woman who just last year was the third most powerful Republican in Congress.
The race was called for Hageman about 14 seconds after the polls closed. What followed were a few hours of every leftist media outlet in America making Cheney out to be the bravest American woman since Rosa Parks.
Lizzie herself thought she was more like Lincoln. Spencer covered her concession speech over at Townhall:
The big difference that Cheney doesn’t grasp in this comparison is that Lincoln didn’t need to save our union from himself.
The Lincoln stuff wasn’t enough, however. She then went on to let us know that this embarrassing loss of hers reminds her of — I kid you not — Ulysses Grant. More from Spencer:
At this point, I half expected our girl Liz to continue the Civil War theme by offering to torch Atlanta so she could liken herself to Sherman as well.
The fact that this woman is having praise lavished upon her by the “enemy of the people” media is appalling. It’s low even for those perpetual bottom-feeders. “People’s Pundit” Rich Baris put it well:
In a saner time, Liz Cheney would be ostracized by both parties for this kind of lunacy. Instead, we’ve got people from every big mainstream news outlet in America saying that Cheney’s almost 40-point defeat means that she should run for president in 2024. You could present that scenario to a classroom full of fourth graders and they’d laugh you out of the room. My latest VIP column examines why “Cheney ’24” isn’t going to be a thing.
Goodbye and good riddance to Elizabeth Lynne Cheney, her daddy, and any other vestiges of Bush family influence that may be lurking in the GOP.
O’Farrell resigned because he made a statement to ICAC which ,upon checking, he accepted was false. I always wondered why the bloke who gave him the wine kept the receipt for so long.
mUnty, you know you’re insane, right?
The main point: re the floods, Shane Fitzsimmons, formerly of the Fire Brigade & now boss of “Resilience NSW” oversaw what is arguably the most spectacular example of being asleep at the wheel & being caught totally & completely with your pants down anyone would ever see.
Shane Fitzsimmons represents pretty much everything that is wrong with bureaucrats. All about “process”, & nothing about effective action. Yet takes himself immensely seriously. He must have a pretty watertight contract not have been given the boot completely.
Given the allegations that Grant was overly fond of the bottle, is that the wisest comparison to make?
“Old blokesays:
August 17, 2022 at 5:52 pm
Cassie, do you remember David Helfgott from your Perth days? His wife, Gillian Helfgott, died yesterday following a short illness.”
I do. I remember him from community functions and in the early 1980s, around 1981/1982 he played professionally at a nightclub called “Ricardo’s”.
Donald Trump Jr. leads gleeful MAGA Republicans celebrating Liz Cheney’s primary loss as he tweets meme of her serving his father meal at McDonald’s with a sign saying: ‘Now hiring RINOs’
‘At last reckless cyclists will be held accountable for their behaviour’: Britons hail planned shake-up of road laws that could see bike-riders forced to have number plates, insurance and observe 20mph speed limits
We have to put the brakes on reckless riders: One way or another, these menaces of the road have got the idea that they can do what they like. Well, it’s time we did something about it, writes MELISSA KITE
I was flown about East Timor by 2 memorable ‘carriers’:
1) The Singaporeans, who flew old style Hueys, wore reflective aviator sunglasses, had catchy callsigns like ‘Tuna’ on their flying helmets, and would circle slowly down in the fog until ‘Wallaby Pad’ came into view.
2) The Russians, who were all middle aged alcoholics (we fished one out of the harbour after drinking methanol), flew Mi8s, did nothing about ‘weight and balance’ … you just climbed in and chucked your gear in a pile in the back, and (I swear its true) really did do the ‘safety brief’ as ‘Safety brief – we crash, we die – thankyou!’
Move Over, Hunter Biden
Pelosi takes her investment banker son along on taxpayer-funded Taiwan trip.
Wed Aug 17, 2022 Robert Spencer
You think Hunter Biden is bad? You’re right, he is. But in the shady-sons-of-the-above-the-law-political-elites sweepstakes, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Absolut) could be giving Old Joe Biden and his crack-addled porn hound a run for their money. Nancy’s son, Paul Pelosi, Jr., who is not a government official or a member of her staff, accompanied her on her recent nail-biting trip to Taiwan, the one that got the People’s Republic all riled up.
Oh, and young Paul happens to be involved in the lithium mining industry; Taiwan is a leading producer of lithium batteries. As with Hunter Biden’s Air Force One trip to Old Joe’s latest vacation, the question must be asked: are the political elites just mocking us now by flaunting their above-the-law status?
On Monday, Fox News’ Jesse Watters blew the whistle on Paul Pelosi, Jr.’s Taiwan trip, noting Paul Pelosi’s name “wasn’t listed as part of the official delegation.” Watters added: “They didn’t want you to know Paul went to Asia with his mom, but if you look closely at the photos, there he is, Pauly P. Jr., about as unqualified as Hunter with all the big dogs there in Asia. He was also caught by foreign photographers in Singapore and Japan.”
The establishment media, as always true to its mission of covering for corrupt Democrat politicians anytime, anyplace, anywhere, didn’t notice that Paul Pelosi was present on the taxpayer-funded junket. Watters noted acidly: “He was even wearing the same purple tie he wore when he went to Ukraine. Oh, you didn’t know he went to Ukraine?”
He pointed out that Pelosi herself had taken some pains to conceal Paul Jr.’s presence: “You won’t find any trace of this on the speaker’s website because she didn’t want you to know about Pauly Jr.”
Addressing Pelosi, Watters asked: “What was your son doing there? He’s not an elected official. He’s not an advisor to Nancy. He doesn’t even live in Washington, but he was greeted as royalty by the president of Taiwan.”
Why would the president of Taiwan fawn over a private citizen, the son of an elected official? Well, as it happens, “Pauly Jr. Is on the payroll of two lithium mining companies and Asia just happens to be a lithium gold mine and Taiwan just happens to be a world leader in lithium battery production. He’s also heavily invested in Singapore’s energy sector. Wasn’t that another stop on Nancy’s trip?”
As if all that weren’t enough, Paul Pelosi, Jr. also has business interests in South Korea. “Just a few months ago,” says Watters, “his company struck up an EV battery deal there. What do you know, Nancy went to South Korea also.”
Faced with Watters’ curiosity about Paul Pelosi’s presence on the trip, Pelosi’s office took a page out of Richard Nixon’s book and stonewalled it: “We’ve been calling and emailing the speaker’s office all day to confirm this. They won’t pick up the phone or write back.” Did you think they would offer some explanation? Come on, man! The rules are for the rubes.
Nancy Pelosi is a key member of Washington’s political elite class. She doesn’t have to answer to the peasants. As long as they keep electing Democrats and sitting by passively as the elites’ gravy train keeps rolling, they have served their purpose. But our rulers, our moral superiors, certainly don’t have to account for their actions to us.
This time, however, the heat was turned up a bit high, and so finally on Wednesday, Pelosi did deign to address the question of why she brought her lithium-mining son along to lithium country and nearly provoked a world war in doing so. “His role was to be my escort,” she insisted. “Usually, we [invite] spouses, not all could come, but I was proud he was there.” She emphasized that her son didn’t engage in any business dealings during the trip.
As is always the case with the Democrat elites, everything was as honest as the day is long.
80s era Perth had the Old Melbourne Hotel in the city which had the benefit of air conditioning. Upstairs was a seedy mafia dive posing as a night club, can anyone remember the name?
At last, Leviathan gobbles up another victim.
Someone told me that the cops in Hobart monitor the cycle lanes to make sure the people with electric bikes are peddling, ticketing those that are not. I hope it’s true.
How many of Biden’s new IRS agents will be packing heat — and how many of us will they target?
An audit notice from the IRS is scary. Up to 87,000 more IRS agents in the “Inflation Reduction Act” President Joe Biden signed Tuesday is troubling. And the IRS stockpile of 4,600 guns and 5 million rounds of ammunition is downright unnerving.
How many of the new agents will be packing heat? Democrats won’t say.
The IRS arsenal of 4,600 guns includes 3,282 pistols, 621 shotguns, 539 rifles, 15 fully automatic weapons and four revolvers.
It’s unclear who agents plan to shoot at. A recent IRS job posting says applicants must “be willing to use deadly force.”
Democrats voted in lockstep to take $80 billion from taxpayers to supersize the IRS. A possible 87,000 new agents are a force larger than the combined personnel on all 11 US aircraft carriers. Four times the number of Border Patrol agents. Enough to fill every seat in Madison Square Garden four times.
Why does the IRS have guns and play police officer? The agency got into the policing business in 1919 and over time became abusive, conducting armed raids on innocent small businesses exposed in 1997 and 1998 congressional hearings.
Democrats won’t tell you there are significant criminal-justice ramifications to giving the IRS this much money and power.
As inspector general reports detail, the IRS doesn’t respect your privacy or the concept of due process. Evidence-handling practices are abysmal. Handing the IRS a huge pile of cash won’t change the agency’s culture.
The IRS’s official government watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, has flagged severe problems with IRS gun management in numerous audits over the years.
“There is no national level review of firearms training records to ensure that all special agents meet the qualification requirements,” TIGTA noted in a 2018 report. “Special agents not properly trained in the use of firearms could endanger the public, as well as their fellow special agents, and expose the IRS to possible litigation over injuries or for damages.”
Another TIGTA report found that in a three-year period (fiscal years 2009 to 2011), IRS agents fired their guns accidentally on more occasions than they fired them intentionally.
The bill contains 14 times the amount of funding for “enforcement” — such as audits — as for “taxpayer services” — such as answering the phone. It even provides money for new cars for agents, though the inspector general found the fleet is already too large and the IRS can’t prove the cars are used strictly for official business.
In other words, it failed its own audit.
The law also shovels more taxpayer money toward new IRS “office rent” though 53% of IRS employees never set foot into an office because they “work from home.” How many of these are expected to pack heat and “be willing to use deadly force”?
Biden and the Democrats say they’re simply targeting the rich and corporations. But there are only 700 or so billionaires. The rest of the country is you and me.
Piano bar? The Aurora?
Got out of the car in Sydney Rd Brunswick one night.
Fucking cyclist meandering along pretty slow in the bike lane.
I shut the door and pressed myself back to the car so the mong could pass.
slowly he traveled.
like slower than walking pace
and while I’m waiting for the retard to pass he starts ding-ding-dinging
fuck this, I thought and gave the bastard the shoulder for being such a turd
he made a great show of wobbling and managed wobble into a heap in front of my parked car
he whipped out the mobile presumably to ring 000
my missus was freaking, omg, omg he’s calling the Polis
Oh fuck him, I said, what will he say? I just ran into a pedestrian?
Karma Sharma, ex MP for Wentworth, was on Credlin tonight (Chris Smith is standing in for Credlin). The subject of Liz Cheney’s loss came up. Karma Sharma, the great Liberal (sarcasm alert) was bemoaning the fact that Donald Trump and his allies “have the upper hand in the GOP” and then this joke of a former member for Wentworth said that “Cheney stood up for principles” and that “no one could diminish Cheney’s conservative credentials”.
I fell of my couch laughing.
not the onion
What are you bloviating about? The leaders of the anti-abortion movement aren’t Republican lawmakers. And nothing you’ve presented is ‘radically extreme’.
Thanks, not ringing any bells. Probably too long ago.
The FBI has fallen along way from his more credible days, when Mulder and Scully tracked aliens, rather than the far more elusive white supremacist insurrectionists.
Imagine if Mulder had turned up to his boss in the FBI with a soccer mum spray painted grey and black marbles pushed into her eyesockets, and insisted she was an alien. Much the same as what they are doing with the supposed insurrectionists.
And that monster Jodie Foster, who pursued and ultimately killed Buffalo Bill. The sheer bigotry of treating a transsexual as a criminal. If he was a murderer, it is because straight patriarchal society made him so. His victims were the real criminals, and him their hapless victim.
respectfully dover, you cannot reason with the unreasonable
None of those Guardian jokes got an actual chuckle, but this one did.
MT:
fuck this, I thought and gave the bastard the shoulder for being such a turd
he made a great show of wobbling and managed wobble into a heap in front of my parked car
he whipped out the mobile presumably to ring 000
my missus was freaking, omg, omg he’s calling the Polis
Oh fuck him, I said, what will he say? I just ran into a pedestrian?
omg, MT, you’re not the other half, are you?
Perth, from the mid 1970’s to the early 1980’s, had the best nightlife in Australia…
““no one could diminish Cheney’s conservative credentials”.”
Memo to Dave Sharma….
I suppose Cheney’s “conservative credentials” are just like your “conservative credentials” Dave. Remember when….
1. In January 2021 you supported Donald Trump being booted off Twitter.
2. Last year you and your wet mates pressured Scumbag to ban offshore oil and gas drilling here in NSW.
3. Last year you and your wet mates pressured Scumbag to adopt “net zero emissions”.
4. In February of this year you and your wet mates crossed the floor to vote against the Religious Freedom Bill.
5. In April of this year you supported your great “conservative” mate, Matt Kean, with his smears against Katherine Deves when she was preselected for Warringah. You even agreed with Kean that she should be disendorsed.
And yet Dave, despite all of the above “conservative” actions, you and your wet mates still lost your seats on 21 May 2022, and by the end of March 2023, your great mate Matt will be jobless.
Oh and Dave, what happened on January 6 2021 last year wasn’t, as you so quaintly described it tonight on Credlin, an “insurrection”….it was a riot.
You want to know what’s wrong with the Liberal Party…..YOU.
Now fuck off.
I used to go there on a Tuesday night (from memory) when he played there. He’s going to miss Gillian.
no, but I’d like to buy him a beer
Yes they are. They are leading the charge to pass these laws.
Current abortion laws in many US states make no exceptions apart from the health of the mother. This position is supported by a tiny minority only.
Fetal personhood is a concept Republican lawmakers want to pass, but is supported by no majorities anywhere. Even in red states you can’t find a majority. The bills they are going to put up will be theocratic and fascist. But of course they are shielded from democratic accountability by massive gerrymanders.
Are you tired of defending these weirdos yet?