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Standard DemoCrap – Hypocrisy: Fetterman Puts His Own Kids in Private School, While Standing in the Way of Vouchers
“especially when they have the appearance of a prepubescent girl running around the fence line of the concentration camp, thumbing her nose at the inmates.”
When did that ever happen?
Thanks for self identifying.
Retired FBI boss disassembles Trump search warrant: Feds ‘going to regret this’
Retired Assistant Director Kevin Brock says FBI didn’t exhaust other means or appear to have established probable cause for search.
Biden is a filthy grub- always was. A liar and a grifter. Zero personal accomplishments other than self enrichment. The senator for MBNA. Shamed out the ‘rat nomination in 1988. To think that deadshits in Delaware have actually voted for this piece of human garbage for decades. To think to that the shitty uni there made that tired old tart (I’m being polite) a ‘doctor’.
Travel blogs are like all other posts.
If you like, read.
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And…now you know why I was cleaning the oven yesterday. House sitters. A conga line of them. Today, it’s scrubbing floors, airing beds and packing. 😀
Now I REALLY don’t know why you cleaned it.
Dare I say that it’ll look like Satan’s Outhouse after a bunch of HouseSitters finish with it.
And…speaking of packing…when did we get so old? The number of pills and potions has quadrupled since that first foray to Italy twenty years ago. Our bags will rattle with it all, and hopefully we won’t be pinged as drug dealers.
Interesting, even, amazingly my life is my own and after more than six months penned in Dan Andrews Melbourne ‘concentration camp’ I went overseas as soon as I was able to do so, and commented about it as I always have, despite knowing that struth and twostix would continue their abuse of me, just dialed up to eleventy.
Neither of them, living in rural Queensland and perhaps outer Brisbane had any idea what it was like living in Melbourne and frankly what business was it of theirs telling me what I was and wasn’t allowed to do anyhow?
Both have far more in common with Dan Andrews and SS-Untersturmführers than I ever will.
Alan Dershowitz predicts DOJ will not indict Trump after affidavit’s release
The Justice Department released the affidavit on Friday, but heavily redacted large portions of the document
Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Friday that he doubted the Justice Department would indict Donald Trump after the agency released the affidavit that accompanied the search warrant authorizing the FBI’s search of the former president’s Florida estate.
“I’m gonna make a prediction here,” Dershowitz said on the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show. “If no more evidence comes out, based on what’s in the un-redacted portions of this affidavit, President Trump will not be indicted. I don’t think Garland is going to indict him for technical violations of these kinds of statutes that look very similar to what happened with Hillary Clinton.”
“I think the same standard has to apply to a Republican candidate as to a Democratic candidate,” Dershowitz continued.
Dershowitz went on to criticize the FBI search for going beyond the scope of the warrant’s authorization.
“The search was very broad, much broader than I think the warrant permitted,” Dershowitz stated. “I didn’t see anything in the warrant that would justify searching Mrs. Trump’s closet, or even searching the locked safe.”
He further asserted his belief that the Trump team would file motions to release more of the affidavit.
Good to see passive aggressive being honest for once.
My children and their families, Mater. I like to set a good example of cleanliness and order. Which they then dutifully ignore.
feelthebern says:
August 28, 2022 at 8:03 am
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Calli, Rosie, Lizzie
As feelthebern says
Travel blogs are like all other posts.
I follow If you like, read.
I guess you know the calibre of some by how long they hold their petty grudges based on what appear to be deliberate misinterpretations of other people’s point of view.
callisays:
August 28, 2022 at 8:07 am
My children and their families, Mater. I like to set a good example of cleanliness and order. Which they then dutifully ignore.
Summarises My Wife’s approach to Live-in Grandkids and me – Pure Failure
Another One?!?
‘My Son Hunter’ Director Davi Tells Story About ‘Backpack with Drugs and *Another* Laptop’ Allegedly Left at House Hunter Rented
Does This Make Four?
Not all passengers have to wear masks.
Meet Clark, the 19-year-old bald eagle spotted traveling through airport security (26 Aug, via Surber)
Just say you identify as a bald eagle, and that your pronouns are squawk/screech.
You got a nazi pass while tbousands of VICTORIANS like nurses etc stood their ground agsinst tyranny and did not comply or submit.
You participated in and hekped enforce an apartheid state.
You gloated about doing so and even in your kast few posts are suggestung mask wearing is no problem.
You’re one sick bitch notafan.
Ok, Rosie, let’s check the tapes:
Last night:
Really?
And on the same day, the ultimate naivety, given the comment above:
And six months after saying that government racking up ‘vax percentage’ was ok, if it was the only way for them to save face, we get this outrage:
What did you think the government was going to do to rack up numbers?
I knew what was going to happen. So did Struth.
Yes, yes, have a go at me for keeping these quotes (you’ve done it before), but how about you just stop shifting your story.
Daily Mail
Here’s the unfortunate truth
Notafan and millions like her fucked Victoria and Australia .
But there are millions that didn’t.
I’m meeting a surprising amount and ALL of the people I work with are unjabbed .
All except the young bloke think like me.
He didn’t take it because he’s mother threatened to kill him if he did.
Smart woman.
I’m getting a whole lot of unjabbed pro mosos at my Sunday jam sessions.
Suggesting I am a lone crazy is just a mechanism for some of you in this denialists bubble to cope with what you’ve done
There are miklions like me.
Suck it up princesses.
Albo and Shaq. I was waiting for Rob Stich to say a few words.
This is why satire is dying.
Not commenting on petty squabbles. I’m a slow reader and still misread comments. Missing the context is common. Leaving out words that change the context as well. Some jump to conclusions without reading the whole comment. Reading my comments before posting often looks a lot better than after posting. I think this is because the thoughts of what we want to say are still in our heads and haven’t seen the light of day until seeing it with other comments.
feelthebern says:
August 28, 2022 at 6:15 am
The old joke about “$1.00 for making a chalk mark, $9,999.00 for knowing where to put it” comes to mind.
The absolute dribbke from norafan is quite insulting to everyone’s intelligence.
She is actually trying to make you believe that using her Nazipass was a personal medical decision
A lot of that bullshit going around.
If it was all a medical decision. …why use the path.
The fact that she craps on like this really should see a few more pull her up for insulting their intelligence.
But they won’t.
I wonder why.
Now off to get organised for the jam with sane people.
No struth, you cop flack because your such an obnoxious whinger. Taking the vaxx is supporting apartheid? What fkg drivel. You have the same boring bitch and moan for near 2 years. Just stfu will you. You’re nobody’s conscience.
Use the PASS.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
August 28, 2022 at 12:47 am
FMD, the fucking arseholes had an audit this week and they were still fucking asking me questions. WTF? That fucking 7 months after they fired me.
Part of me hopes you declined to respond when questioned rickw.
The whole of me hopes that you answered, after quoting (and having accepted) a grossly high consultancy fee.
From THE WEEK IN PICTURES: BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION
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Fuck off makka.
Taking the vax and using your pass is exactly supporting apartheid you great wanker.
Makka, time to get on board!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ
Lockdown and the price of suppressing dissent
In times of crisis, we need more debate – not less.
‘You must stay at home.’ That simple instruction from prime minister Boris Johnson, issued before the first Covid lockdown in March 2020, changed the fate of the nation forever.
You might have imagined that in a democratic country such as Britain, a decision of this magnitude would not simply have been imposed by executive fiat. That the shutting down of schools, the economy and society might have been something worth debating and discussing. But for much of the pandemic, lockdown was never subjected to proper scrutiny, even though its harms were obvious from the start.
Indeed, the harms of lockdown are becoming clearer by the day. The near-collapse of the NHS, the crisis in education and runaway inflation can all be traced back, at least in part, to March 2020. And while the Russian invasion of Ukraine has since sparked a global energy crisis, lockdown is part of what left us so vulnerable to its effects.
After all, the lockdown was the biggest shock to the UK economy in the history of industrial capitalism.
And in the words of one High Court judge, it was ‘possibly the most restrictive regime on the public life of persons and businesses ever’. Many of its awful impacts were predictable and predicted.
But at the time when lockdown was announced, anyone who raised a peep of complaint about this novel and draconian policy was shouted down or shoved aside. Any green shoots of dissent were trampled on. Fears about the economy were denounced as greedy. Fears about liberty were dismissed as selfish. Any and all calls for some relaxation of the rules were condemned as reckless and lethal.
Just as we were told to ‘Stay at home’, we were also instructed to stop asking questions and ‘Follow the science’. ‘The science’, we were told, favoured lockdown, and that was that. Scrutinise the experts and you were a Covid denier – you were spreading dangerous misinformation that could get people killed.
This week, we learned that this shushing of debate and silencing of questions went right to the top of government. Speaking to the Spectator, former chancellor Rishi Sunak claims that even he was unable to get a hearing for his concerns about lockdown.
An omerta on lockdown harms was quickly established in the spring of 2020. Ministers were told not to talk publicly about potential trade-offs. According to Sunak: ‘The script was, oh, there’s no trade-off, because doing this for our health is good for the economy.’
Worse still, Sunak says there was no internal discussion in government about many of the inevitable harms, such as ‘missed [doctor’s] appointments, or the backlog building in the NHS’. And when he raised concerns about children missing out on schooling, he was met with stony silence. Sunak says the government made no efforts to calculate or assess the costs of lockdown – the most consequential policy of our lifetimes.
calli, you’re welcome. We just went out for bit to catch the end of the Human Powered Vehicle race.
Highfields High School girls team came in first and the Highfields Open team (girls allowed) second in their class.
Our impressions was of a bunch of good smart. well behaved kids. Which is just as well as they are going to be the ones to unbreak the world. That’s their job.
The road rager still thinks its his way or the highway. Vote 1, Ken Worth. Even fat cloive rejected the raving. This from a guy who thought jackie jaqui was ok. Furniture sales must be slow. I’ve heard he does the long and winding road, except his version is the short straight and narrow. Rosie must throw herself on the Altar of Anzac Shrine, write 100 times the Constitution according to St Ruth to atone for perceived failings. Have I missed anything?
Vicki, don’t put too much store on raising the height of the roosts for your chooks. Foxes can climb and jump far higher than you might think. Saw one in the inner city not long ago climb a large elm to watch us eating our lunch. No branches for the first 5m but a jump and scramble got the fox up into the tree.
Reading between the redacted lines: What affidavit tells us about DOJ’s Trump intentions
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Predictably, it was much nothing about ado.
To what should be the surprise of no one, the Justice Department so thoroughly redacted the affidavit supporting the FBI’s raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate that the exercise was pointless. DOJ has given us nothing about the monumental decision to execute a search warrant at the home of a former American president — unprecedented in US history.
In the absence of information, we are left with speculation. Here are a couple things worth observing:
Interestingly, one of DOJ’s principal arguments against disclosing the FBI’s warrant affidavit, an argument that plainly persuaded Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, was the need to avoid unfair prejudice to uncharged persons. Of course, the uncharged person at issue here is former President Trump.
To indict or not
To the contrary, the ardor to keep the affidavit largely redacted, to protect witness identities and to shield the substance of the sensitive information that was seized at Mar-a-Lago, makes perfect sense if the Justice Department does not plan to indict the former president.
Of course, the Biden Justice Department has shown itself to be very responsive to the demands of Democrats’ progressive base. As the midterms approach, if the left’s rabid insistence on a Trump indictment gets intense enough, all bets are off.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor.
College football is back.
Living their best lives.
https://twitter.com/stevecofield/status/1563617312875241472?s=20&t=V-W82zPP_TSrFLC2JDls2w
If getting the clotshot was truly a personal MEDICAL decision and you didn’t think people should be coerced into taking it, you’d get the shots and then refuse to use the vax pass.
Here’s Karl Denninger this morning:
It wasn’t hard for me to figure out early on that the odds of success with these jabs were near zero. Let’s put the strikes up against them in the original case, before anything was known:
mRNA had never worked, and was not new. For ten years+ it had been tried as a vector mechanism for a whole host of indications, mostly in cancers. It had never remained targeted enough and was not safe; it failed every trial. Yet suddenly, magically, “the answer” had come down from the mountain. If you believed that I have a bridge for sale.
The unexplained corruption of the process was clear before rollout. Specifically we knew technology transfer happened before Covid was declared to be here, but it was specific to Covid, and wound up being the basis of the proteins in the jabs. How can you do something when you don’t know about it? This made clear they did know about it and panicked because whatever their original plan was for testing it got short-circuited. It is never a good idea to trust someone who is panicking especially when they try to hide that fact from you.
Nobody had ever successfully vaccinated against a coronavirus, and it wasn’t for lack of trying. Every single attempt historically had failed and most had killed the animals under test. When that is your record the odds you’re right when you claim a “breakthrough” aren’t very good and, given said history proving it via strict and unquestionable proof ought to be the only acceptable standard.
The facts wound up being even worse in that not only are the shots demonstrably dangerous but in addition it appears they do serious damage to your immune system at least specific to Covid, and perhaps generally. That is if you took them you’re likely to get the virus multiple times where if you didn’t, and then get infected, the evidence is that your protection is durable and may be permanent, at least against severe outcomes. That’s not conjecture at this point — its the evidence in the statistics and what’s worse is that the so-called “protection” against severe disease also seems to disappear over time in the jabbed as well.
What’s completely unknown at this point is whether that damage is permanent. It might be.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker-Nad
RTWT
Guess Who – 13% strike again – Deadly NYC hit-and-run driver had beef over love interest, witness says
Not the Amish!
One of the many many sad outcomes from the COVID lock downs is the 1000’s upon 1000’s of young, poor Americans who never had the opportunity to get out of their shitty broken communities by way of a sports scholarship.
Sure, the big schools mainly kept their programs in place but that’s only a part of the picture.
OldOzzie for the Poms especially the 2ndWW was a doddle compared to what has happened now. War is obvious with killing and destruction. Destruction of the mind is far worse. Fascism has been shown to be just beneath the surface and most certainly its your next door neighbour and immediate family.
More fkg drivel. And seriously, who gives a fk what some US blogger raves on about? Everyone acts as they see fit, in their own interests and for their own reasons. This I’m holier than thou bs is just garbage, pure garbage.
Net Zero Bankrupts Britain
The Wall St Journal’s Editorial Board has written a pithy condemnation of Britain’s Net Zero obsession, holding it directly responsible for the fact that up to a third of Britons are about to be plunged into poverty thanks to unaffordable energy bills. “The underlying cause of Britain’s energy misery is its fixation with climate goals, especially the ambition to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050,” it says.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/27/wall-st-journal-editorial-net-zero-bankrupts-britain/
The Reasons for the Redactions on the Mar-a-Lago Raid Affidavit Were [REDACTED]
The transparency of the Biden administration is truly unprecedented. Not only did the Department of Justice (DOJ) release a worthless redacted version of the search warrant affidavit that prompted the raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, the DOJ redacted its reasoning for the redactions.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed the FBI’s search warrant, denied the DOJ’s request to keep the affidavit confidential but approved the redactions that rendered the censored affidavit virtually useless.
But, adding insult to injury, the DOJ redacted its own reasoning for the redactions:
Good technique. That would have hurt. Love Sam Hyde.
EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian Woman, Inna Yashchyshyn, Who Impersonated a Rothschild at Mar-a-Lago Is Almost Certainly a Deep State Plant
Roaring laughing watching Elbow being dwarfed by American basketballer Shaq O’Neill: the little pipsqueak looks like Shaq’s glovepuppet.
Elbow has no idea what he’s doing. His polling will go south faster than Lord Trumble’s.
What’s that foul stench?
Why it’s Fran Bailey.
She thinks she can be rehabilitated by having a crack at ScoMo.
Word to the wise Fran, no one has given a shit about you for over a decade.
Biden just promised never to let an election be stolen ‘AGAIN’ — so which election was stolen?
Green Energy at its Finest
On the other hand, 2nd division QAFL would rate its tits off, purely for the hilarity.
e.g.
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0.1.1
Makka, Denninger has been right all along and doesn’t stand to make any money, retain prestige/job/social standing by what he writes.
Back in early 2020 when Operation Warp Speed was announced he did the research and said that the vaccines weren’t going to work.
In early 2021 when the vaxxes were being put into people in the US some of his commenters noted that when given to the oldies in their local nursing homes, a bunch of oldies suddenly died. The 32 year old nurse in Tennessee who fainted on live TV when getting the vax was dead less than 3 weeks later, or so it seems. He did also mention the dangers of OAS and Dr Geert van den Bosche who actually is virus and vaccine expert was tearing his hair out that they were vaccinating into a pandemic as it would just encourage variants that would escape the vax, which has been proved correct.
Where do you get your information from? The Government, the AMA and the ABC?
I’m going to need to do an oil change on my scroll wheel.
The longer this all unfolds, the more I come to the conclusion that everyone, EVERYONE, has glaring blind spots that they don’t even know exist, but which with a little prodding, others can find.
It’s an interesting phenomenon.
The least interesting people to talk to are those who haven’t even gotten to step one of wondering what their own blind spots are and why they have them.
Nice little earner in England as the electricity gets cut off. Pole fuses pulled or switchboard fuses removed. For a small fee replace them. Specially good for rented places as the arseholes have trouble seizing property. Cost the energy companies a motza. At least in gaol you’ve got no power costs. They can’t stick everyone in gaol.
Apple TV+
Announces New Show ‘Clintons In Cars Killing Witnesses’
Silenced healthcare workers speak out publicly for the first time
Here’s what silenced healthcare workers from all over the world want you to know and why they aren’t able to speak out directly.
They are afraid to come out publicly due to intimidation tactics such as loss of job and/or license to practice medicine.
Unvaccinated healthcare workers are extremely upset with the medical community. They feel they have been treated unfairly.
It is the vaccinated workers who are getting sick with COVID, but it is the unvaccinated who are punished with constant testing, restrictions, and threats of losing their jobs.
The COVID shots are a disaster. Even for the elderly which is supposed to be the most compelling use case, death rates in elderly homes went up by a factor of 5 after the shots rolled out. Each time the shots are given, the deaths spike. Nobody is talking publicly about this. It’s not allowed.
One nurse with 23 years of experience says she’s never heard of anyone under 20 dying from cardiac issues until the vaccines rolled out. Now she knows of around 30 deaths.
“I have been a nurse for 36 years. I have NEVER witnessed people in their 20s and 30s having strokes, atrial fibrillation, or cardiomyopathies until the Covid vaccines. I work in cardiology. When I mention that someone should look at the vaccines as a possible reason, I am immediately silenced and told, “It is NOT from the vaccine.””
Thousands Dead After Ben Shapiro Casually Strolls Through Whole Foods
Neil Oliver, As the Elites Pivot Away from COVID, Now, Right Now, is the Time to Confront the Other Stuff
August 27, 2022 | Sundance
Video + Transcript
Electric cars will be more expensive to run than petrol.
Insert that Home Alone kid’s surprised face here.
Average Lifetime Earnings Of A Gender Studies Grad Rise To $10,000
On the upside, once the electrickery grid collapses that issue is no longer relevant.
Not to mention that race huckstering slag burney, who presumably is about four foot nothing.
pretty sure you’ve fallen already Sancho.
Any Cats used – Dyson Air Purifiers: What Are They Best For?
This was the one single point for me (still unvaxxed).
Who’s the boss?
Jenny Wood
@Woody2Jenny
US Open today but Novak was not allowed to play because he is unvaccinated. Does anyone notice? Moderna is a sponsor of the US Open.
A great way to finish the Church
By Dr Philippa Martyr -August 27, 2022
Who Is Shelling The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant?
A Journalist Finally Asks The Question
During a Special Online Briefing on Thursday with U.S. Ambassador Denise Jenkins, the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the State Department, Dmitry Kirsanov, from Russia’s TASS News Agency, asked her who was shelling the plant. Here is the relevant part of the transcript.
MODERATOR: Thank you, ma’am. The next question, again, to a journalist who is raising their hand from Dmitry Kirsanov, who is from the TASS News Agency.
QUESTION: Hi. Thank you for doing this. Can you hear me okay?
MODERATOR: Yes, we hear you.
AMBASSADOR JENKINS: Yes.
MODERATOR: Good morning, Madam Secretary. I have two separate questions. First, who is shelling the station? And secondly, while we have you here, could you update us on the talks or consultations or discussions, if you prefer, between the Russians and the Americans on the New START, on the issues pertaining to the inspections resumption? Thank you so much.
AMBASSADOR JENKINS: I’m not able, at this point, to make any confirmation about the shelling and where it’s coming from.
Bear in mind that the United States has been surveilling the Ukraine via satellites and aircraft since before Russia invaded. One would think that if the Russians were shelling the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (despite having their troops stationed there), and falsely accusing the Ukrainians of doing it, Ambassador Jenkins or one of her colleagues would be quick to refute the Russians by showing satellite- or surveillance aircraft-gathered evidence of artillery hitting the plant from Russian-controlled territory.
On the other hand, if the Ukrainians are shelling the largest nuclear power plant in Europe with American-supplied artillery, you’d think someone in the U.S. government would ask them to cut it out.
Yep.
EV Owners Left Shocked After China Begins Shutting Down Charging Stations (25 Aug, via Climate Depot)
By “forced” I think they mean forced by the government, from other versions of the story that I’ve seen. Which will happen here too when the supply situation is critical.
Can’t store electricity, can store petrol. By contrast if the petrol situation gets iffy you will see jerry cans disappear from the camping stores, as the punters fill and store them ahead of shortages.
Thank you P, that was a lovely comment. I don’t share pics of my kids on social media but JC can attest that they are extremely cute. And yes, they are going to a nice little Catholic school. Book Week was fun, the girl went as Elsa of course, and the boy went as Ayrton Senna – he has a book about him.
Answering rosie’s question: the girl was crying because she really wanted the Hawks to win and make finals. She kept saying “it was just practice” because she is five and can’t handle big emotions yet. But she perked up afterwards.
As for the rest of you, please show a bit of class.
Tucker Carlson: The FBI Has Been Working On Behalf Of The Democratic Party
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TUCKER CARLSON: Every year since 1970s, the State Department has published a document called “World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers.” You probably haven’t read it, but it is interesting. It’s a detailed accounting of global arms sales, what weapons were sold and where they wound up after they were. The U.S. government published this report in the interest of transparency and then continued to publish it through multiple politically charged scandals and conflicts that would include through Iran Contra, two separate wars in Iraq and all 20 years that we occupied Afghanistan. A report like this would be especially useful to have right now and would be critical to have as the Biden administration sends billions in high-tech military equipment every month to corrupt oligarchs in Eastern Europe.
Where are all of those weapons systems going? We should know the answer to that, but we don’t know because this year, for the very first time in half a century, the Biden administration has stopped releasing that information. They never explained why they stopped. They just stopped and no one pushed them. Now you’d think this would be a scandal. If there’s one thing the news media exists to do, it’s to fight for the release of relevant government records because in a democracy, you have a right to know what is being done in your name, but not anymore. That information is classified, Mr. Citizen, so you don’t get to find out where those billions of dollars of weapons that you’re paying for are going. Who’s getting them? What are they doing with them? You don’t get to know.
You don’t get to learn about anything about Ashley Biden showering with her father. You can get arrested for that. You don’t get to know how many FBI assets were in the crowd on January 6 and what they were doing. As we just noted, you don’t get to read the affidavit justifying the FBI’s indefensible raid on the home of Joe Biden’s primary political opponent. In fact, you don’t even get to know why you’re not allowed to know because that information has been redacted too. What are you a Russian agent? Stop asking. Didn’t used to be this way at all. It’s unrecognizable. A lot has changed in a very short time.
So. it turns out, looking back 18 months, the 2020 election was the most consequential election of our lifetimes. You assume Joe Biden was incapacitated and couldn’t change much. Well, true, he is incapacitated, but the people behind him most definitely are not. They are more ideological and more aggressive than ever. Now it turns out among those people is our largest and most heavily armed federal law enforcement agency. That would be the FBI. The FBI is not allowed to insert itself into domestic politics. That would violate the U.S. Constitution. It is completely illegal, but for several years it has become increasingly clear that that is exactly what the FBI is doing, actively working on behalf of the Democratic Party, mocking the rule of law, subverting our democracy from within far more effectively than any foreign government ever could.
Be kind to the lady – her (Aboriginal ) father never knew of her existence until she was in her late teens, her mother abandoned her at birth, and they, again, weren’t reunited until Burney was in her late teens, at which time she discovered she had TEN brothers and sisters.
by that standard surely you’d be calling out sancho and rosie et al
your collective problem is that you don’t like what struth saying.
bad luck buttercup
but Sancho’s vehicle doesn’t have blind-spots
Albanese warning Australians “the world is watching” the progress of the inVoice.
Aside from his fellow socialist wreckers, the world couldn’t give two hoots.
But Anthony “Just Go Home”Albanese must really despise his countrymen.
In the terminology of illusionist Penn Jillette “Everybody got a gris-gris.”
He also says this in a video which I can’t find atm, not sure if it was part of a Bullshit episode or an interview.
Fuck you mUnty. And your kids. How’s that for class?
still, sh’e big enough to hide behind , heh mUnty?
Bing-Bong!
Hyper-bowl overload!
Bing-Bong!
m0ntysays:
August 28, 2022 at 10:05 am
Two beautiful children. You are most fortunate. I remember when both were born. I think they may be attending a Catholic school. I hope so.
Thank you P, that was a lovely comment. I don’t share pics of my kids on social media but JC can attest that they are extremely cute. And yes, they are going to a nice little Catholic school. Book Week was fun, the girl went as Elsa of course, and the boy went as Ayrton Senna – he has a book about him.
Monty,
Congrats – we just did Book Week with Grandkids at Local Catholic School and Private Primary Catholic
Kids looked great and we had lots of performance practices at night before the Day
As as F1 Petrol Head like the Ayrton Senna – my. youngest, Pig n Pug, next brother – Panda – Eldest Tyrannosaurus Rex
They have not proved themselves worthy of his magnificent presence, and inspired leadership…..
Motorcyclist In Florida Killed After Being Hit From Behind In Tesla
If the NHTSA is investigating Tesla’s Autopilot use around motorcycles, as we reported it was just days ago, they may want to hurry up.
That’s because yet another motorcyclist has died as a result of a an accident with a Tesla, this time in Boca Raton, Florida. It is unclear whether or not Autopilot was involved in the accident.
However, the incident is eeriliy similar to other incidents the NHTSA is already investigating wherein Teslas on Autopilot potentially fail to recognize motorcycles in front of them. In the incidents the NHTSA is looked at, “Teslas collided with motorcycles on freeways in the darkness.”
“As for the rest of you, please show a bit of class.”
Being lectured on “class” by someone who wrote the following words…..”rock spider”. And he thought that was a hoot. And worth remembering that he’s never apologised for those despicable words.
Don’t know about others but I won’t be lectured by someone about “showing class” when he’s yet to show any.
Worth the Read – President Trump Tried to Work Within the System
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/27/president-trump-tried-to-work-within-the-system/
I see home brew is back on supermarket shelves in a big way.
Cost of living devouring the beer budget.
A tribute and review of Sean Connery films. I prefer our own WolfanOz take on movies . But still a good read. Connery just turned 92 yrs old.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/happy_heavenly_birthday_sean_connery.html
h/t Poso
Lessons From the Bitter End: What General Wrangel Means for Americans Today
By Skip Tanner | August 27, 2022
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Always got one or two home brews after being co-opted as unpaid labour on the Old Man’s farm. Wouldn’t be my first choice but far from undrinkable. It pays to maintain low standards.
Student Debt Forgiveness Is Biden’s Bluto Moment
His plan will feed inflation and hurt him politically.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
If political moves received letter grades, Joe Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” mark might rank down there with the Deltas of “Animal House.” Think of it as the president’s Bluto moment.
In case the White House missed it, Democrats had recently been getting it together. After an 18-month food fight over the Biden agenda, the party finally united to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. It suckered spend-happy Republicans into passing a semiconductor bill that vulnerable Democrats could brag about back home. The left has successfully fanned fears on abortion, putting GOP candidates on the back foot. And Donald Trump is in the headlines—right where they want him.
Inflation remains voters’ biggest worry, and they understand Washington’s role in feeding it. Only recently they watched General Motors and Ford hike the prices of electric vehicles by $6,000 to $8,500—roughly pacing the $7,500 tax credit the Biden “inflation reduction” law bestows. Cause, effect.
Millions of American parents read Mr. Biden’s Wednesday loan announcement as news that they will be paying $10,000 more for tuition next year (and the year after that, and after that) as colleges reap the loan windfall.
The loan handout is a thumb in the eye to every American who went to trade school, got an apprenticeship, took out private loans to start a small business, or simply went to work—and now must not only grind out a living and keep up with inflation but cover the poor financial decisions of the college elite.
Sniff…bitter much?
I note Makka (but I could get a fine) is having a meltdown as well.
Funny stuff.
If only all that bile and emotion were put toards the ones that conned you into taking their death jab.
But it won’t be will it?
In excusing yourself you excuse them.
My fun with you who should have known better is just beginning.
That’s why I’m here.
In 2019 you claimed to be conservatives and pro western civilisation.
And you stuck up a flag as soon as the first gun was pointed at you.
You can’t change history while there are people like me around, so you attempt to erase people like me.
Fuck you.
There are more of us than you think.
Neil Oliver. Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yeppity yep yep:
..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTA90R9FMoQ
It’s not my way.
it’s the right way according to everyone from the founding fathers of the USA, and from the times of Magna Carta etc ,etc,and also embedded in our constitution.
To claim it is only my way is a cop out.
You know what right and wrong is and what we all should do in the face of tyranny.
But you need to belittle that don’t you.
All that was not figured out by one Australian living in Queensland.
This you know.
To claim that righteous western behaviour and standing by the principles of the founders of the western world is my way, is to belittle it and give you an excuse to ignore it.
Mini Albanese’s close personal relationship with Shaq O’Neil is going to get a workout:
At this stage, the “referendum message” emanating from Albanese is:
1) You will vote for a Voice to be designed and implemented by the ALP and Adam Bandt;
2) It’s objectives, outcomes, and benefits are not very clear; and
3) It is racist to object.
Ms Burney agrees:
Naturally, the Uluru Statement is completely silent on the specifics.
Marcia Langton, on the basis of wide consultation within the Indigenous Industry, strongly disagrees with the Albo ‘slide it under the door’ approach.
We are all of us, indig and non-indig alike, being marinaded in political bullshit.
Not sure that Shaq O’Neil and the AFL/NRL orchestra is going to be enough to paper over the forthcoming disappointments.
I understand the quality has improved since the old days – less sugar, more malt and brewers rather than bakers yeast.
Father of a friend used to do his own scotch too – it was actually quite drinkable, as I recall.
What you fail to understand is that, in terms of objective truth, he has been right all along. As seems clear now, both Covid itself and the injectables are nothing more than weapons to damage and subdue us.
While I largely prefer to let people make their own decisions, I have also believed that, as with all matters crucial to our society, the individual needs to voice his/her beliefs. This has not been easy in the last few years, and is even harder – in a way- because many are now understanding the implications of their decision to trust “the experts”.
Therefore, I have largely supported Struth in the bulk of his claims. I am still “out to lunch” on the extent of deliberate planning on the part of “elites” to reduce the global population – which quite a few people hold. But I am increasingly uneasy about the role of so many organisations.
The truth will come out, I believe, sooner than I thought possible. The signs are there overseas – although Australia will probably remain the last outpost for the vaccine madness. The astonishing subservience of Australians to “experts” and bureaucrats has alarmed and disappointed me beyond what I thought possible.
The next big cab off the rank, to which conservatives seem oblivious, is the republic.
QEII will be gone in the next year or so, and the idiot next in-line isn’t smart enough to keep his gob shut about politics and just enjoy being as rich as all hell.
So the progressives will grab this opportunity, like they grab all opportunities, and will already have their arguments ready, already have the framing around the debate prepared, and will hit the ground running.
Meanwhile, conservatives will again be flat footed, will again allow the language to be manipulated ahead of the debate, clueless they are walking into a trap.
Here is what will happen: the progressives will get their new branch of government, appointed by themselves, or from a pool of candidates selected by themselves.
Conservatives will split, half trying to get a limited, popular elected replacement for the Governor General, the other half trying to retain retarded king chuckles.
Get ready for more government, more nepotism, more corruption, and get ready for a new flag that makes that awful maple leaf thing the Canadians have look almost classy. We’ll probably have a fucking rainbow and crescent moon on ours.
Vicki says:
August 28, 2022 at 11:21 am
The astonishing subservience of Australians to “experts” and bureaucrats has alarmed and disappointed me beyond what I thought possible.
+1000
Keep stocking up on Toilet Paper
Now – Finnish firm warns of toilet paper shortage
Energy costs continue to hold back production, Metsä Tissue says
Soaring energy costs across the EU are causing temporary stoppages at production sites and could lead to product shortages, the Finnish company Metsä Tissue warned on Friday.
“During the recent weeks, Metsä Tissue has had to curtail its production both in its Zilina and Kreuzau mills [Slovakia and Germany] for several days because of the high energy price peaks,” the company said in a statement
According to Metsä Tissue, further production freezes are likely as energy costs continue to rise. The company warned that the enforced stoppages are expected to impact consumers, as “substantial amounts of daily production losses will occur.”
The company operates a total of nine paper mills across Europe, and sells toilet and tissue paper under brands including Lambi and Serla. Its Nordic Market Director Jani Sillanpää warned that such items could be affected.
“There is a risk that there will be problems with paper volumes if this situation continues,” he said, adding that rising cost of production may also lead to toilet and kitchen paper becoming more expensive.
Earlier this week, German industrial lobby Die Papierindustrie warned that the natural gas shortage in Europe could lead to reduced production of toilet paper in Germany.
Wrong again road rager. When things didn’t turn out how you said and people picked it up, you got the shits like a schoolgirl and constantly berated one and all for not thinking you were the Messiah. One trip to the Anzac memorial the hiding on the couch does not count for fuck all. Fuck off, you know the rest.
While I largely prefer to let people make their own decisions
Making your own decisions is sooooooo 2019-ish .. LOL! .. as gummints’ (State & Federal) have proved since the BAT FLU hoax started! .. they make the decisions for you .. full stop! .. from lockdown enforcement via plod thuggery to BRADBURY’s, “There are no mandates under the gummint I lead BUT if you don’t do as your told (vaxxes) you won’t work, if you don’t wear your face nappy your wallet will be empty and you’ll shop when & where I let you too!”
‘course these, weren’t “mamdates” just guidelines for your own good .. LOL!
It will be an endless exercise in “white guilt” and demands for reparations..
Move over AWFL, you have competition.
World’s first green football club is moving the goal posts of what is expected from sporting institutions (Phys.org, 26 Aug)
In addition all the players are tranny, and no one ever scores a goal because that would be elitist.
If Elbow doesn’t get the inVoice up, he certainly won’t have the momentum to get his preferred model of a republic through.
Sanskrit is Paleo-Hebrew written in Persian text.
Some of the exiled Israelites were relocated to Anatolia though the Assyrians moved most of them through the Caucasus to the steppes and to Persia (those who hadn’t previously migrated to the Mediterranean colonies, i.e., Carthage). This is evidenced by Paul’s writing where he was told not to go to certain cities in Anatolia, yet the histories of the Church Fathers shows that Andrew and some of the 72 others went to those cities. That is because Paul’s commission was to go to the Gentiles whereas the other Apostles and the 72 others were told to go to the “lost sheep” of Israel only.
That is a strange claim given that the Turks were a Central Asian people who took control of Anatolia from its previous Greek rulers.
I might’ve made up the last bit.
TyraNnY never sleeps. 5.38 .am.:
The what? The Nightcliff Hotel? Where’s that? What’s that? No such thing as the Nightcliff Hotel. That’s strange, coming from someone who knows more about where people live than they do because they third-geared through it once.
Haha. ‘Nightcliff hotel’. Strike one.
You. Repeatedly, and coincidentally at the same time one of early crushes, Mr Bosi did. Strike two.
Strike three. Earlier today, an astute poster pointed out some goalpost shifting by rosie/notafan. This goes to the point I made yesterday evening, because you do exactly the same thing. Go on and on in relation to an issue for weeks and/or months, and when it all falls over not only claim you never said it, but that you are also the victim of a smear conspiracy. At 8.16 today:
Again with the totalitarian imagery. Do you mean the TikTok nurses poncing their way through empty EDs around Vicco? Or do you mean like this, at 6.09?:
That’s right. Blame the COWS.
That’s certainly the big risk. To the extent that a Uniparty exists, this would have to be a core ‘common issue’ within the Canberra elite.
I suspect (hope) that support for an elected HoS is confined to the nutter fringe of Republicans, rather than existing ‘wild’ in conservatives.
The prospect of an experimental third tier of government – based on President Dave Hughes, or Hamish Blake, or some other popular choice – is alarming.
Not sure that Shaq O’Neil and the AFL/NRL orchestra is going to be enough to paper over the forthcoming disappointments.
Gotta hand it to Labor if ya wants to get the message across loud & clear use sportsfolk from the two most dumbed down codes there is .. going off their TV “interviews” half can’t string sentences together and and more than 2 syllables without an “um or “ah” are commonplace ..
Mind, the adverts should be hilarious .. Latrine and his mate, Addo- Carr waxing lyrical about “coming together as one” will really swing the YES numbers .. LOL!
The Mayans (or a variant thereof) used to play a form of basketball with recently separated human heads.
Entirely biodegradable. Full marks.
Dr John Rebenak- everybody got their own little gris-gris
Monarchy is actually a really good form of government, except for one problem: heirs.
A good king or queen is inevitably followed by a useless scion.
Unfortunately monarchies where the king is elected never work, because the person elected is good at being elected, not good at being a monarch.
Which is pretty much what a republic is. Fortunately term limits can keep the damage down a lot of the time, which isn’t feasible with monarchies (unless you have an Oliver Cromwell available for shortening royal reign length and body length).
Just added the 30th thumbs up to this very astute comment.
Shaq O’Neil and his PM puppy reinforces my thoughts that Elbow is a non entity and will always seek the company of big personalities to cover his own persona of no consequence.
In three years time you’ll only see the bubbles on the surface, if he lasts that long.
Remarkably twisted exercise – murdering another man is acceptable, but no crimes against women or children.
Tomsays:
August 28, 2022 at 9:15 am
Roaring laughing watching Elbow being dwarfed by American basketballer Shaq O’Neill: the little pipsqueak looks like Shaq’s glovepuppet.
I thought Shaq also had the look of a man who had wandered into the wrong room while looking for the toilet. Politely shook hands with the man at the microphone, asked for directions and quietly continued on his way.
The media are making way too much of this chance encounter.
As for the rest of you, please show a bit of class.
Munty’s human shields didn’t work.
OldOzziesays:
August 28, 2022 at 11:38 am
You mentioned yesterday about the problems with having needles for all sorts of things. I don’t know if you would be able to have this inserted, but now for frequent canular and blood tests there is device used here in Brisbane called a Portacath. It gets around the needle problem.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/portacath
Thank you for at least replying, Calli, although there is much that I disagree with in your hostile reply. I agree you certainly defended me over my right to go on my cruise, but when various cruel satires about my cruising were abounding you happily went along with the pretence that you too could ‘take it’ when carefully offered a very soft satirical option. I have a bad memory of it, as I thought it was unkind and you should have spoken out then. Similarly, I thought your commentary after Johanna’s vicious swipe at me on Friday night (for the hundred thousandth time) was insensitive yet revealing. Perhaps that is all there was to it.
As Rabz has already suggested last night, further discussion is pointless.
I will simply wish you all the best and genuinely hope you have a good trip.
As for character commentary. Bern’s High Table comment above shows just the sort of nonsensical character assassination I have had to constantly deal with here, led by Johanna and with a crank support team. Bern is also delusional about my comprehension skills. They are excellent. It all depends on what aspects of particular commentary one is focussing upon and in what time frame.
Classy is as classy does, Bern.
He’s coming out with a blank video.
Albanese to release video marking 100 days in office (28 Aug)
It’s noteworthy that Albo’s tenure thus far has been all about fighting Tories, not actually governing Australia. Except for a couple of climate brainfarts. Consequently since his achievements of the first 100 days are insignificant the commemorative video will be blank.
Ok not blank. But certainly content-free.
Suggested DW documentary on Yew Chube:
Why your brain can’t comprehend climate change
Yeah…how’s Deutschland going right now?
This from Makka earlier …
And this …
Quite so.
Gez
In three years time you’ll only see the bubbles on the surface, if he lasts that long.
AnAl farting in the bath?
Dunno – few happy snaps from Cable Beach?
A good republic will have sortition, confederalism, recall elections, term limits, subsidiarity, jury nullification and sunset clauses on all legislation.
Out of context quoting.
I had already had my first vax by 25 July 2021, in early June in fact (at the urging of one of my children), so so my vaccine decision had nothing to do with mandates.
Secondly welcoming a vaccine percentage, once again for the record, that was only in the context as apparently the only visible way out of Andrews apparently endless cycle of lockdown easing and tightening, which I said already many times, but apparently that’s not a handy quote for the dossier.
I am not responsible in any way for Andrews deciding to go further and further into mandatory vaccines for more and more classes of persons, and why you think it’s a big deal is unfathomable.
No goal posts were shifted in this or previous comments and context is everything.
(Creepy dossiers is so Bosi though).
And ooh aah masks.
A good republic will have a President with powers similar to the Governor General today, including the “reserve powers” exercised by John Kerr in 1975 – we do NOT want a figurehead, “kissing babies and opening supermarkets.”
Much of that would require a re-examination of citizenship, which in modern representative democracies has become passive. That would be a good thing.
James Newburrie, around July 2021, thought voluntarily vaccination would be up around the 95% mark.
But some people would rather remain in hard lockdown (still).
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 28, 2022 at 12:07 pm
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Bern is also delusional about my comprehension skills. They are excellent.
Then why do you keep on wrongly believing that commenters are referring to you when they’re actually referring to something else?
I’m not having a go at your propensity for awarding yourself this sort of self-approbatory assessment. I’m asking this question absolutely seriously. It’s one you really ought to give some thought to.
Oh, God!
Now it’s victimology toppering.
Lizzie
Yesterday I ripped the Wests Tigers but used a comment of yours as a segue.
If you’re not coaching them, you shouldn’t have taken offence (are you actually Jason Taylor or Tim Sheens incognito???).
Anyway, up the mighty Redcliffe Dolphins!
Timothy, here are some straight answers to your query. Sometimes I simply get involved because the referent is unclear and it follows immediately on some issue that does have reference to me; that is a problem in pacey blogs, and someone like me, who has come under sustained attack here, is likely to simply mistake the referent. At other times, Timothy, there actually is a real issue that concerns me, or there is a sub-text raised with me in its fire. Then I have felt bound to defend myself.
I’ll say here, because it is relevant, that I think that Rosie has come under the similar sorts of unwarranted and sustained attacks and character assassinaton that I have received. Being female and stroppy is, as with me, part of it. She thus always has to seem on the defensive and make reference to past commentary. This is bad for any blog so to keep things happier I suggest some people lay off. Then those under attack could hold fire more readily rather than jumping the gun too.
that bastard stole my smoko rant
lol at this. Pompous much? I simply believe in my own wits, sweetie. Nothing wrong with that in a girl. They have got me into, and thankfully out of, a lot of trouble in my life.
And here’s Dot now using me as a segue. No worries, Dot.
I didn’t have a clue who those blokes were anyway.
Segue away to your little heart’s content.
only to stop you moaning every day
OldOzzie says:
August 28, 2022 at 11:38 am
Keep stocking up on Toilet Paper
I installed a bidet 25 years ago. Toilet paper is redundant in my home.
rosie says:
August 28, 2022 at 12:24 pm
James Newburrie, around July 2021, thought voluntarily vaccination would be up around the 95% mark.
But some people would rather remain in hard lockdown (still).
Only in the propaganda statements from the government and health bureaucrats, any person who actually believes that Australia had 95% vaxxed at any time please contact me as I have a very good bridge for sale.
as apparently the only visible way out of Andrews apparently endless cycle of lockdown easing and tightening
You can’t negotiate with terrorists.
The only way out of Andrews insanity was mass civil disobedience.
I went through the ring of steel every weekend on the Hume for a year. Not stopped once and there may have only been a handful of others that did the same.
The only real barrier to freedom was in peoples minds.
Andrews and Sutton and Fauci and Biden supporters everywhere.
1. Get vaccinated; or
2. Get locked down.
3. And btw, it’s not either or, just in case you failed to get it.
I installed a bidet 25 years ago. Toilet paper is redundant in my home.
Repurposing a Karcher doesn’t count!
When I had renos done a few years ago I had a Toto Washlet installed, with the bidet built into the loo. Best decision ever.
Surely sortition would make recall elections oxymoronic?
Another thing that would make recall elections unnecessary: the end of parliamentary privilege re slander, and / or the quick and full enforcement of common law re corruption or incompetence.
Another mindworm which has been bugging me- someone pointed out that the appointment of the Ministry need not necessarily come from the ranks of parliament. Can we imagine a unicameral parliament where members represent their (geographical, not racial or bonkpreferencial) constituency, and a minister for Defence comes from the Army?
Of course, I’m also imagining that the New Australian Catallaxian Republic has no function other than national security and the financing of such. The senate and state governments are dissolved, and local governments administer only utilities, policing, and safety-net health housing and employment.
Ahem, dover…
Liberty Quote.
Look, as even M0nty knows and by his continual presence shows, this is an interesting very open and largely self-regulating blog with lots of good links and some crackling wit and well-considered wisdom, which makes up for the personal animosities that pull it down. In spite of which, I’d like to be here less, to read and write more and ease off for a bit.
It’s nothing personal. 😀
I feel it would act as a quality control measure.
Nice to see Collingwood v Carlton at Victoria Park. Granted it’s VFL or reserves but bit of nostalgia.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 28, 2022 at 12:52 pm
[your propensity for awarding yourself this sort of self-approbatory assessment]
lol at this. Pompous much? I simply believe in my own wits, sweetie. Nothing wrong with that in a girl. They have got me into, and thankfully out of, a lot of trouble in my life.
As I said, I wasn’t having a go at you about it. But since you’ve chosen to take it up…
“Believe in” is not a synonym for “make a great parade of”. In civilised circles there’s a tacit understanding that it’s poor form to extol one’s self-perceived virtues, talents, accomplishments or good deeds*. If some crass low-rent braggart announces that they are “excellent” at something, others present will quite often nod politely rather than create a scene. However, the braying of the braggart creates a somewhat awkward situation, like the host’s dog running in and backing one out on the carpet. I’ll assume that your self-adulatory anecdotes and other self-boosting pronouncements largely true, though given you’ve admitted to dissembling about your age and “Hairy’s” nationality there’s no compelling reason to do so, but with this aspect of civilised behaviour truth isn’t an absolute defence.
*As evidence I cite the history of this blog and the old site.
Think about this site and its predecessor and ask yourself whether any other commenter has posted anywhere near the reams of autobiographical self-approbation with which you deluge the threads. I’ll give you the late and unlamented numbers, but I can’t think of anyone else whose self-extolling output is within the same order of magnitude as yours. Do you really think that other commenters couldn’t tell of their successful struggles against adversity, scholarships and academic prizes, high marks at uni, successful careers, awards and accolades received [from others, I mean, not self-bestowed], and other accomplishments and admirable exploits? (And, if they wished, their wealth and affluent lifestyle?) Assuming you’re not quite so vain as to assume that you’re superior to other commenters, might you not wonder why you’re the only one who engages anywhere near so incessantly in that kind of self-advertisement? At the same time you could ask yourself whether it is really other people’s fault that you keep on assuming wrongly that they’re talking about you. The two issues may not be unconnected.
I thought this story today was interesting.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott labels Andrews government as ‘one of the worst’ Australia has had ahead of election (28 Aug)
Normally Mr Abbott is ready to fall over himself to avoid offending anyone, so for him to be this caustic about Dan the Fascist ALP Man is quite unusual. Maybe in his retirement Tony is reading Dover’s Cat.
Hi Timothy,
thanks for the shout out earlier in the thread.
Regarding your comment above, having not been online for a while because of internet problems out here in the sticks, now that I’m operational again, it’s interesting to see Lizzie Borden is still whacking our Calli.
At my count, correct me if I have missed any, it has been four whacks so far. Only thirty-six to go.
Funny, previous comment never showed up. When victim groups collide there are some odd outcomes.
Policeman explains why he has to remove lesbians from a pride parade because they are causing
friction with trannies. The dykes aren’t having it and the trannies seem unhinged.
Good to see you here, Black Ball. You’re welcome here any time as far as I’m concerned.
Maybe it was the second link that did it. Care of SDA.
Booster shots, Canadians being smugly subversive.
Saying “let them eat cake” didn’t work out so well last time.
So why are you banging on about it?
Is it because you believe further discussion by those who disagree with you is pointless, and they should vacate the field of play to give Last-Word Lizzie clear air?
As for the Great Cruise Contretemps (h/t Rabz), it should be dead and buried also. But since you raise it, have you wondered why people gave you a bit of curry over that? I believe many saw a very smug attitude beforehand, confident in the belief that if anything went wrong, someone in the vast array of Top Table chums would send in extraction team.
When that didn’t happen they were quite happy to remind you.
Let it go, FFS.
Ouch
John Connor II
August 28, 2022 at 12:34 pm · Reply
Electric vehicle repair estimate!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbBYuNfWQAAdtPF?format=jpg&name=medium
Sell it for parts and buy a gas guzzler!
Monty: don’t cry darling, it’s only a game.
Daughter: it’s not that daddy, it’s the donuts. You could of at least given me one.
Sunday scrolling.
Freudian slip? Joe Biden he wants to “make sure no one has the opportunity to steal an election AGAIN.”
CrazyOldRangasays:
August 28, 2022 at 1:55 pm
Sunday scrolling.
Just catching up, having watched replay Belgian F1 Qualifying, before sitting in the Sun sipping a Bundy & Coke, listening to some Rock & Roll – watching water dragon go in and out of pool, and 16 midget Gardenia O SO FINE™ low ground cover plants, bought online, start to bud
Life is Relaxed and Good
Outstanding meme:
OldOzziesays:
August 28, 2022 at 1:56 pm
Freudian slip? Joe Biden he wants to “make sure no one has the opportunity to steal an election AGAIN.”
Funny things:
One of the blokes on site has a reasonably difficult to pronounce name. One of the UK expats decided to solve the problem by Christening him “Dave”. What cracks me up is that all the Chinese blokes now call him “Dave”. 🙂
And what, exactly, is that supposed to mean?
Are you having a go at me?
Connections in space and time.
Open these in separate tabs and flip between them.
It could be the same design was uniquely optimal for both these locations, Brisbane and Kolkata.
Or it could be that people educated in civil engineering in England between 1880 and 1910 tended to arrive at the same conclusions. Both https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Frederick_Palmer (partner in the company that designed the Howrah Bridge and later chief engineer of Port of Calcutta) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Louis_Pratley (designer of the Jacques Cartier Bridge which was copied by Bradfield for Brisbane) were in that same area and timeframe.
But enough about $35K worth of pebblecrete.
Mate you gonna let him talk to you like that? He’s weak as piss. Just go on over there and smack him. I’m backing ya, I’m coming in over the top.
/St. Ruth
Pogriasays:
August 28, 2022 at 1:40 pm
Glad your internet’s back up. Hope it stays that way.
You buy something, you get motivated to find out the history.
..
I never knew of this. John Moses Browning invented almost the whole lot. Winchester, Colt, Remington, FN designs, gas fed automatics.
The entire American firearms industry relied on this one bloke who would knock out new designs every couple of months for decades:
..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vXhtPdTGWY
Bwahahaha. The Magna Carta! FMD, it’s the vibe.
The downside of spreading all that chook pellet fertiliser on the garden – blowies!
First blowfly of the season spotted and dispatched.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/are-health-officials-backtracking-on-covid-19-narratives_4646119.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRCWWRWS&
And half the population consider him a savant while the other half a criminal. Weirder still, the two halves divide along lines delineated by the best approach to taxation policy.
Shame I bought that new car – this is the way of the future.
Spreading chook poo pellets should be one of the last jobs you do before driving to the airport for a minimum two week holiday.
Do you really think that other commenters couldn’t tell of their successful struggles against adversity, scholarships and academic prizes, high marks at uni, successful careers, awards and accolades received [from others,
Well I couldn’t, cant find any on that list that I have struggled successfully against!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/unusual-toxic-components-found-in-covid-vaccines-without-exception-german-scientists_4673873.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRCWWRWS&
35 hours over 8 days .. one metre long, 1 000 pieces -2 .. never name your cat BRANDON! .. duuuh!
last week just before the storm he jumped on the garden table, sent it flying and sank the TITANIC .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/vcvQTq8
Calli at 2.53 pm
Two butterfly species for the season today but no blowies. Yet!
Re, I think – Big Nambas – about the ability of foxes to climb:
Yep, I keep telling husband about this & I don’t think he believes me. But they continue to impress me with their ingenuity and perseverance. I would never have believed that a fox as small as the one curled up on my doormat (little blighter!) after eating my chooks could move a rock as big as it did.
I believe the last assault on my chookpen a year or so ago was via a climb up the chicken wire – some 7 feet – and in through a gap in the overhead netting. This time, I am trying to persuade husband to install bird netting – the tiny black holed one – over the top of the pen. I have watched snakes and other predators get hopelessly caught in this stuff. In fact, some years ago we came home to find an actual fox hanging upside down in the netting over a fruit tree. He had obviously been after the birds that had got under the net and were eating the fruit. In lunging at the birds, he had caught his legs in the netting and couldn’t extricate himself.
As husband noted, that fox had a baleful look on his face and knew he was a goner when the gun appeared.
Normally Mr Abbott is ready to fall over himself to avoid offending anyone, so for him to be this caustic about Dan the Fascist ALP Man is quite unusual. Maybe in his retirement Tony is reading Dover’s Cat.
As much as I like Tony, the person, I think he betrayed his base as a PM. Just as the Libs do today – he tried to be a PM for 100% of the population. Bugger that! You are elected on a platform which, amongst other things, promises to maintain the ideals and beliefs of your ideological supporters.
Tony still likes to be Everyman. This is not what we need today. We need men of steel who will stand up to the fools who, if left to their devices, will hasten the ruination of this country. Canavan is the prototype – but will there ever be any more off that line?
Timothy,
you can’t go past Starlink.
Indeedy yes. Bwahaha.
The original issue of that document by King John in 1215 was to placate and give rights to not the common man, but the very ‘elites’ that nuffers squeal about today. The flow on effect was that the ordinary houso of the time got an even worse deal than they already had.
John reneged on it anyway, leading to the First Barons’ War (note – not the First Commoners’ War). His young bloke, Henry III reissued a dumbed-down version of it to try and stop further rebellions, which didn’t work, and his son Edward I reissued it again to obtain more taxes from – yep – the common man.
There are only three of the more pissweak clauses in it still force, all in the UK. The absolute entirety of the rest was gradually repealed over time in favour of actual democratic processes.
The only places where it is still spoken of with any sort of reverence is in Sovereign Citizen Land, and various ‘trusted blogGer’ sites – because the people at those sites and their (adherents) will believe anything they are told.
Vicki: Don’t know if they’ve been eradicated, but at one point there were foxes living in the roof of the old grandstand at Flemington race course. Burt Bryant sometimes joked about his broadcast-box neighbours, and they sure didn’t achieve that elevated perspective by taking the lift.
When I took Elsie, Scourge of Mice, to the vet a couple of years ago, there was woman there waiting to adopt a kitten. She’d found her previous cat headless and much chewed in the garden after an apparent encounter with a fox.
Want to see lots of foxes. Drive past the Newport tank farm in the wee hours and, guaranteed, you’ll see at least two, either dashing to the grassy verge of the Yarra with a mind for lapin au naturale, or dashing back triumphant with the main course.
They are sooooo brazen. I’ve seen a pair having a boxing match on the Glenferrie Road footpath just down the hill from Scotch. Pity they’re such pests.
From WIP earlier this morning:
Australia is the 11th happiest nation on earth and the division between the top Finland and is very narrow. Finland = 7.84, Australia = 7.18.
The index was so accurate it took into account one very unhappy individual who was catatonic Australia doesn’t produce it’s own sprocket sets.
Nearly all the other 10 top happiest nations were in Northern Europe and I’m guessing that after what’s going on with the war/ energy etc we’ll be close to the top in 2023.
Happiness index.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
Over more than ten years here I have commented honestly about many things that suit a centre-right blog, as well as sometimes, note sometimes only, interspersing my comments with either travel blogging or some illustrations taken from my life. As others do, and as others have in the past commended me for doing. I am no more frequent a commenter than many here, and far less so than some others. This is old ground, worked over long ago on this blog. Sinc called it the politics of envy. It is also about unfair cherry picking against a disliked individual, an attempt at de-legitimization worthy of the worst of the left.
I have raised certain matters to do with academia or my personal life and domestic situation intermittently and as illustration, certainly not in any spirit of self-aggrandizement, over a long period when I have mainly commented on quite different matters. Exactly as others do.
Drop it Timothy and keep the blog in better shape with your often good contributions.
Knuckle Draggersays:
August 28, 2022 at 3:21 pm
Your account of the history of Magna Carta is largely accurate, though section 39 did guarantee some due process to all “freemen”, not just to the barons (but admittedly not to the housos).
But it was still an important step forward because it was the first public clear confirmation that the law applied limits to the power of the King i.e. to what today is the executive government. A lot flowed from that.
The pursuit of happiness. A very worthy ideal. It requires freedom, for a start.
If that is taken into account then our quotient next year is likely to be lower, not higher.
During my lifetime, I’ve seen executive government almost disappear and the administrative state take over. 911 , I think, had a great deal to do with it. I can’t see how this toilet is going to be unblocked very easily.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
August 28, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Self awareness thermostat still jammed on zero degrees Kelvin.
Just as the most recent example, declaring your comprehension skills to be “excellent” isn’t “self-aggrandisement”?
And if you think other people comment about themselves to the same extent and in the same manner as you, why not name a few? After all, if your behaviour is so above board I’m sure they won’t mind.
But in fact there aren’t any and haven’t been except numbers.
As Rutherford would later put it, lex (is) rex.
And he would likely have hanged for it but for his death from natural causes.
The only thing I disliked about Iron Mike was his hot pink convertible Roller, parked outside a cigar bar in Midtown. I’d often see the monstrosity parked there walking on my home. The plate was “TYSON”. I’m not 100% sure it was him as I never saw him driving it, but I reckon it was a good guess.
Note Russia > Ukraine.
Michael Smith News blog has been offline all day.
Michael was released from hospital with an unspecified illness just a few days ago.
Anybody know if he is having tech problems or something else?
He is normally very punctual with updates and new articles.