Her instagram is Miranda at opera
Open Thread – Tues 13 Sept 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
Steve going from the repulsive hell creature to a few clips below – young lady Miranda singing Ava Maria. there…
“have you tried global warming?” Why would I need to try global warning? I was quoting Waleed Ali verbatim. If…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3yuh3agNYQ&pp=ygUvcmVkIHJpdmVyIHJvY2sgam9obm55IGFuZCB0aGUgaHVycmljYW5lcyBzdGVyZW8%3D Red River Rock, Johnny and the Hurricanes. One from my late parents collection.
Factions at work….
Hmmm. Mrs TE scored right when she booked us into Amish country for some days – they all hate Biden.
However, now she has landed us in Boston. Lots of three storey houses, with us in one, in an AirBnB operated by two mad gay boys. The entire house is decorated in pot plants, mirrors, amateur paintings, and various themes. We are in a nautical room which has an oar in one corner; four mirrors, and 18 plants.
We went for a walk around the neighbourhood last night, and counted four BLM signs. Not exactly a poverty-stricken neighbourhood but lots of rubbish in yards and business lots. We must be in Democrat country.
I’ve theorised before that much of the motivation for supporting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine among the fringe right, is a belief that Putin is literally the only thing standing between us and compulsory Drag Queen Story Hour for everyone. A huge chunk of the animus towards Ukraine and the cheering of Putin’s initial gains is based on this underlying sentiment. So Putin’s invasion of Ukraine must be a success so as to cause the collapse to the liberal world order, from which Putin and Xi will step up to the plate and and cancel the woke agenda.
It’s certainly a worldview. Not many people share it outside Twitter and the op-ed staff of the New York Post – in fact virtually none of the combatants fighting on both sides in Ukraine would put it in their top 10 – but it does help explain why some people have thrown in their lot with an absolute dud in Putin.
Real Deal, if you’re going down a Python road, do a count of how many of their sketches would land them in trouble if they were made today.
…resisting the continuing colonization and erasure of our people by being elected to the colonial Parliament, and being paid by the colonial taxpayer…….
KD – The old Cat was a haven for SF readers, of which Sinc was the foremost. Sadly we seem to’ve lost the great tradition.
Well I did mention Jack Vance and the Demon Princes the other day and got castigated by head prefect for my trouble.
This part of the Pirhana Brothers would have ended up on the cutting room floor:
..
The last 2.5 years has understandably discombobulated and angered people to such an extent that it seems reasonable to them that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
This is not how the world really works, of course.
Also there seems to be a weird contrarian thing going on, that if the Democrats were going on and on about Russian collusion and election interference wrt Trump, and that was all bullshit, then if Trump is a good guy, by a distributive process, logically Putin must be a good guy too.
Either that, or they are married to smoking hot Russian orthodox blondies.
Latham says the republic movement will fail, as any campaign against it will be based on the memories of the Queen.
Also:
Would you vote for Australia to become a republic?
Yes 15%
No 79%
Depends on the type of republic 4%
Unsure 2%
Vote here – Daily Mail
Almost zero fire control, I counted at least one friendly fire hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuPiv2MT3N8
If it’s the latter, I forgive them.
After all, that’s a hell of a lot better reason to do something stupid than, say, getting toxic shit injected in you for the sake of a stupid job.
If Charles had the intelligence to step aside for William, then the Monarchy would have been saved. We would have a fantastic coronation, the tabloids would have rocked it and life would go on.
As it is now, it’s only a matter of time and hello Republic.
Selfish, idiotic prick.
It would have been feckless for Charles to step aside. What reason would he do so?
Obviously the Russian collusion theory was a bunch of hooey which fails to line up with the fact that Trump tried to block Nordstream and pulled out of the Iran deal, whereas Biden the genius greenlighted both.
What Amish community are you in, TE? Lancaster? Shipshewana?
Stayed at a town called Leola Village, not far from…tee hee…Intercourse. Fabulous place.
Watched an interesting movie on F Scott Fitzgerald when he was in the military and about to go to war in WW1. He appears to be a very interesting character. Eisenhower was his garrison commander.
He died at the age of 46
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald
Speaking of SF-
Chugging through “The Diamond Age”, Neal Stephenson. Contains a lil too much you go girl!, but recommended for cyberpunk invention and Rand rightness
We were in Lancaster, Calli. Stayed at a sort of Amish guesthouse called Bird-in-the-Hand.
We went to Intercourse yesterday. Lots of cackling en route of course. Got a nice photo of two Amish young ladies with their babies sitting under a big town sign. They thought it amusing too. Apparently was named after “the meeting of two roads” or something like that.
Well, I have seen the horrible Diocletian’s palace and the tomb where they turfed out his wretched corpse and laid the martyred Saint Dominius to rest in its place.
So ends the tyrant.
Been there, TE. Do they still whirl around on the scooters?
There was some good outlet shopping up the road. I went there for the quilts, natch.
Saw a few scooters. Lots of horses and buggies. It is enormous pumpkin season, or something like that. I drove Mrs TE to a few quilting places of course. Luckily I had my Civil War books to retire to a rocking chair on their verandahs.
And you have to see Paradise, and also eat a gigantic Amish pretzel.
Ender
Hard to believe they’re so close to NYC and yet so far in the way they live. Their closely aligned sect- I can’t recall their name sell quilts. Wifey still has one.
Charles’ moment of road rage in N Ireland is understandable. It must be awful living like a puppet on the public string.
His face shows it. Grim.
Anne is much more serene. She seems to zone out.
No, it is that. We’re heading there (US) for Thanksgiving and just can’t wait. Try their pumpkin pie with a sprinkling of nutmeg on top served with either cream or ice cream. It can’t be beat.
Mennonites, JC.
Oh yea. Ender.
Mennonites?
From a different sect altogether. Possibly reads Sun Tzu.
Diocletian thought he was doing the right thing. Galerius was bloodthirsty, Diocletian was merely earnest. He didn’t understand economics but he had the decency to “voluntarily” retire like an old republican consul.
Peter Santenello:
In the heartland of America is a special place the beats to a different drum. Holmes County, Ohio is arguably home to the biggest Amish and Mennonite community in the world, and how they live is fascinating. Join me and a local (Josh) as we dive into the culture of this mysterious and special place.
Inside Largest Amish/Mennonite Community – First Impressions ??
Oops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MClv6aL7TEw&t
As it is now, it’s only a matter of time and hello Republic.
Selfish, idiotic prick.
No way. A Republic stinks more than ever!
It’s “the elites” vision of a Republic and pretty much everyone I speak to has had a gut full of these hypocritical dip-shits.
The “COVID response” did a vast amount of damage to the elite.
Dinner tonight, I thought this was a nice streetscape:
https://imgur.com/gallery/8q6Y9PF
Ha! TE got there first.
It’s only Wiki but it’s a fair outline. Fortunately, I don’t have to judge Diocletian. Let’s just say I don’t think much of him.
Diocletian was merely earnest. He didn’t understand economics but he had the decency to “voluntarily” retire like an old republican consul.
Diocletian was an engineer, his methodical and consistent approach meant that no complete Bible has ever been found that predates his rule. He very nearly succeeded in wiping out the early Church.
Thanks for your kind words, Anchor What. Personally, I would love to see Gab commenting regularly here again. She is always concise and full of information and interest. The same for Philippa.
And I see Helen is about to retire. She has earned it.
The pillow guy gets FBI’d, third world level intimidation of political opponents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhuyX4uU2A
Bruce mentioned Orion’s Belt up thread.
Who knew it was so very beautiful?
Interesting contrast between Hubble and Webb images.
Johannes Leak.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Bob Gorrell.
. a bloodthirsty Satan –
Thanks, Tom.
Vis a vis Qantas – a very close relative has the unenviable task of working in the complaints department at Qantas – I was told on the weekend that every single thing we hear and see in the media is true only worse.
The Beloved was on the phone this morning to Qantas. It was like calling the asylum. He had to have a couple of goes before the person on the other end spoke rudimentary English.
They’re a disgrace.
Totally agree post COVID Tinta. Colleague been chasing missing points for a fully flex fare 9 months, Indian/Asian call centres for a gold FF. Finally got another non answer the other day & gave up.
My experiences not much better. I avoid the call centre now. I have always been a bigger user of the Q’link DHC8’s than the parent though and they haven’t changed much.
As for the woke bs someone mentioned last night. Always sorta been there, especially with the international arm but more passive. I used to just ignore it. I agree with whoever posted it that since 2019 it has increasingly been in your face. That is irritating me but VA are no better, first welcome to “didyabringyourgrogalong” country I heard was on VA and that would go back well before all this crap was widespread…
Interesting that Jetstar hasn’t picked it up though….
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From Martin Armstrong –
From Martin Armstrong
Monarchy is the oldest form of government in the United Kingdom. Right up to the very last few days, Queen Elizabeth embodied the dignity of the British people and fulfilled her role as the impartial guardian of the people. In reality, the British monarchy represents the Head of State. The British “Monarchy in the UK is known as a constitutional monarchy; they yielded the ability to make and pass legislation to the elected Parliament. Once upon a time, Parliament was to represent the people. But ever since the rise of Marxism during the 19th century, Parliament no longer represents the people. It has devolved into not much more than a food fight in a high school cafeteria. Members hurl insults at one another, and the respect for civility has oddly flipped from Parliament back to the Monarchy.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/britain/queen-elizabeth-the-last-of-a-true-constitutional-monarchy/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
However, will the Monarchy survive under Charlie Boy?
Pro-tip Rickw: friendly fire – isn’t
More non-stop coverage of ‘Er Maj being horizontally ferried around England like the Grand Final cup in the weeks prior to the event itself.
Still better than watching Elbow, or more CGI slapped together and purporting to be footage straight from Ukraine.
The NT Indy:
Horrible. Possibly the first time in history that people have shared derogatory text messages about the people they come into contact with by virtue of their employment.
I get the Coronial process where underlying and uncontested background matters before a reportable death may have the capacity to influence recommendations made, but this is a pure virtue signal from counsel assisting.
If those are the worst texts they found, they’re not looking hard enough.
In the face of the enemy, beg for food and wag tail. Shih Tzu.
The Andrews Government. Always compassionate (the Hun):
If it saves just one life. In the same piece:
If it saves just one life.
How can you not get an MRI scan anywhere in Melbourne?
Traitors.
Look at what you’ve done to your country. Get a clot and die, the lot of you.
Don’t you dare sneer at me.
Council Assisting should read some of my texts on what I think of every arm of the Judiciary and what I would do with them. Rolfe’s texts read like a hymn book in comparison.
Paul Joseph Watson on “deboonking conspiracy theories” in …. Coronation Street!
https://youtu.be/joaed2Yn87o
Chris Kenny demonstrated poor knowledge of (or ardent agitprop about) the constitutional monarchy of the UK this week, saying it allocated huge power simply on the basis of heredity. Looks more like huge responsibilities with not much power, to me. It is a system which works better than most republics, and it depends on raising a family who are prepared to take on a job that, for all its trappings, is onerous.
His thrust was, as usual, to try and discredit anyone who objects to The Voice on the basis of discrimination in favour of one race.
Perhaps in future he should refrain from getting entangled in demonstrably political bodies. He knobbled himself by participating in a group which leaves him with no choice but to take the stance he has.
I guess it served as well to bolster his republican views. Chris is mostly good to watch or read, but sometimes he is simply on the wrong tram.
Still a pity dictator dan didn’t die falling down the stairs. Better still, alive and in pain for the rest of his miserable life. Readers will think I’m uncharitable but to a evil POS like him nothing is too bad.
I knew that was coming.
“When he makes bed and goes to work, eat anything laying around of value, especially the new sheets. Expand your chad empire of evil when masters influence wanes, contract to virgin good boy when he comes home with more treats.”
I think George VI actually used his full royal power briefly, only twice.
The United States is, of course, a constitutional republic.
The ardent republicans in this wide brown land would be well served to gaze upon the current state of the US before getting too screamy about adopting a variant of that system.
Don’t sneer, dear or is that a deer sneer?
Jeez, what did they do wrong in a previous life?
Most people would be condemned if full discovery was allowed on their text messages.
How much video is available of 3rd nations hurling abuse at police at Yuendumu to show disposition to attack officers.
I wonder if this site is on TheirABC’s hit list?
Ah yes, they are in the ‘if you can keep it’ phase of their republic
There is nothing QAnon about executive orders 13818 and 13848
If you don’t understand them (old school conservative) just say so.
“Latham says the republic movement will fail, as any campaign against it will be based on the memories of the Queen.”
Reading that piece in the Daily Mail about the monarch v the republic, Latham accurately described that buffoon Peter FitzSimons as someone “you wouldn’t even feed”.
Horrible. Possibly the first time in history that people have shared derogatory text messages about the people they come into contact with by virtue of their employment.
How do this enquiry get access to these texts? .. why would anyone give permission to access them? .. and of course, the obvious .. why is telling the truth so bloody awfie! .. did they expect “we luvs these wonderful noble people and their exceptionally good manners” messages to be cluttering the in-boxes .?
.. ‘course not! .. cos if they did they wouldn’t be publicizing them .. LOL!
Constantine could have been worse for Christianity than Diocletian.
He had to be put in line by the Bishops. He could have changed the eschatology that would have damaged the religion forever.
You’d run out of cheese, for a start.
Almost certainly Johanna.
Watched the movie My Son Hunter yesterday, excellent!
Apparently racism lies at the heart of any criticism of that Lord of the Rings prequel.
Oopsie.
The show runners subsequent self abasement session with the Irish Times is paywalled.
I’m still un vaxed. This is dew to my boss knowing not to ask. For many doing the same work it was a requirement. No superannuation no shares or assets to fall back on.
I would have if it was a requirement to for access to my grandkid.
Impose a vaccine mandate on the operators, and threaten to bring in overseas staff.
Instapundit would be on the list.
That Stiglich toon
should be Sleepy Joe falling on the graph columns like he did on the aeroplane stairs. Maybe that’s what Stiglich was aiming for but it didn’t seem that way to me.
Just saw this:
She is claiming that Aboriginal society was matriarchal? It was not organised enough to really be any kind of ‘-archal’. In any event, to whatever extent it was it is pretty clear the guys were running the show.
Generally when there is a matriarchy (especially in nature) it means the males leave the group to find mates – the females remain (and define) the group (or pride, or herd, or pod). Most human societies in historical times have been headed by males, and thus daughters are the ones sent out to join other families.
Judism is matrilineal. I am not sure if the tradition is for young males to marry into other families (leaving the females at home where the bloodline is nurtured).
Perhaps Ms Coe is referring to some new Pascoean myth of a major matriarchal resistance to patriarchal whitey.
It would be a shame for historical Aboriginal women who for whatever reason stood up against injustices brought to them and theirs by sadly inevitable malign elements from white society, to have their deeds and motivations denied and embellished versions pressed into the service of a mere political movement.
MAHA – Make America Hate Again
Brought to you by the Great Divider Hiden Biden
Who’s Extreme?
Like me, you probably have been flabbergasted by Joe Biden’s attempt to paint Republicans as violent extremists. Biden’s attacks reflect an alternate reality that seems to come from some other universe.
This 55 sec video (via InstaPundit) does an excellent job of exposing the insanity of Biden’s worldview:
Supported by Dr? Jill
Jill Biden Thinks It’s Un-American To Oppose Porn in School Libraries
Knuckle Dragger says: September 15, 2022 at 7:01 am
Not just any old static MRI, it was quoted as “functional MRI” which basically means a small low-res movie of fluids and electrical activity in the brain area. fMRI captures change over time, unlike normal MRI.
Yeah, which simply changes the question to “How can you not get an fMRI scan anywhere in Melbourne?”
Pacific Islands remain divided on deep-sea mining as trial begins to extract precious metals from ocean floor
Seabed mining has been in the works for a long time. It’s been slow coming because of the obvious potential to cause huge environmental damage.
Although a (curiously neutral) ABC product, this story is full of warning signals. Not the least being a mining entrepreneur wrapping himself in the flag of urgent decarbonisation in a ‘get the fuck out of the way’ declaration.
This is the start of a bad thing happening.
Matrilineal family knowledge systems make sense in low information societies, cos it’s easier to remember who came out of which mother, rather than who knocked up which mother ten months ago. Also inheritance by nepotism, for similar reasons.
However a female descent chart does not preclude rule by a male gerontocracy- and yes by rule you can pencil in abuse, assault, forced marriage, abortifacients and infanticide.
Ms Coe said in the fundraising email she comes from “a proud line of matriarchs and warriors who have resisted the continuing colonisation and erasure of our people, country and culture.”
Unbelievable! .. how with media (especially “our” ABC) connivance you get from a motley collection of wandering nomad neanderthals ekeing out an existence following their prey across the land to a ..
“a proud line of matriarchs and warriors who have resisted the continuing colonisation and erasure of our people, country and culture.”
And no one in our hallowed education institutes squealz … “BULLSHIT” in capitals .. FFS!
rickw’s link to imgur lured me into clicking on a few more images from that Friedman-forsaken cesspool. Such as this one [content warning, seems a bit Bolsh-y] https://imgur.com/gallery/MebFeMd
The only way those dozen people can get rich without thousands of customers also benefiting from your work is if you work for literal organized crime. The work of the bottom tier and frontline staff does not only benefit the head honcho, and to suggest otherwise is a hateful socialist fantasy.
Dr Faustus says: September 15, 2022 at 8:09 am
We had to destroy the island village to save the island village?
m0ntysays:
September 14, 2022 at 10:27 pm
PARIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin’s chief senvoy on Ukraine told the Russian leader as the war began that he had struck a provisional deal with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia’s demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO, but Putin rejected it and pressed ahead with his military campaign, according to three people close to the Russian leadership.
“according to three people close to the Russian leadership”. Oh, lookee, the Wussian disinformation leakers use the same formulation as the FBI disinformation leakers. What a coincidence.
And m0nty-fa falls for both lots, hook, line and sinker.
China accuses IAEA of issuing a ‘lopsided’ report on AUKUS nuclear submarines plan
Whether the AUKUS nuclear submarine project is the way for Australia to go is above my pay grade.
But China appears to be suggesting it’s effective.
The only way those dozen people can get rich without thousands of customers also benefiting from your work is if you work for literal organized crime.
Given that the 2 examples in the text both refer to State gummint employment who does she suppose these “2 dozen rich folk” are? …….. weird!
Wiradjuri and Badu Island woman Lynda-June Coe.
Coe? Where have I heard that name before? Related tom Paul Coe?
• Some Pacific countries and environmental advocates strongly oppose mining, fearing it will destroy ecosystems
Shirley, all these islands will be underwater by the time the mining getz underway so why do they care? .. Oooops! .. No royalties if there isn’t anyone there to claim ’em .. duuuuuuh!
Dover, please ban GreyRanga.
Such fawning and overt idolatry of a politician shouldn’t be tolerated here.
Yet chooses to be known as Lynda-June Coe.
Seafloor dredging, factory fishing – pretty much the same thing?
A cynic might say that Mr Barron is opening the market for Pacific Island environmental indulgences.
Win-win-win.
.. need I ask why the ABC is promoting an organisation that is clearly far-left / activist / anti-democratic?
Here’s a quick list of their activities: https://checkmyads.org/branded/
Its all “election fraud disinformation”, “russia russia russia”, “Steve Bannon is the devil incarnate”
132, have to agree. I spend way too much time here. Bye the way I have a signed photo and T shirt too.
For shame, don’t you know Aborigines lived in high rise apartment towers, and invented broad acre agriculture?
Do your worst Dover, but please don’t call me munty. I implore you. If nothing else, I was young and naive.
On the one hand, nicking him for going armed with eggs in public is a joke.
On the other, the pre-emptive lifting denied him the opportunity to receive
an attitude adjustment from The Mobb.
Ban all G&T drinkers.
lol
I would beg to differ.
Mr. Dorante-Day has pitched it too high and therefore has stretched his credibility to breaking point.
He clearly isn’t well versed in the art of grift from decades of practice.
Start slowly.
A slip on a lettuce leaf in Coles.
Then shake-down a blog owner with claims of online bullying.
Followed by the $30k roof painting for pensioners scam.
Then – and only then – are you ready for the big one. The claim of Royal lineage.
I reported that ad, did I do good?
Exactly..
I support full and unfettered free speech – but realise it may come with consequences.
Doubt that eschatology is open to change or that it was open to change either by Constantine or Diocletian.
Sure.
Laura Jayes had a touch of the Kamalas in describing the two queues filing past the Queen’s coffin.
They are not just promoting this organisation, duncanm. They are actively participating in its campaign. It is a clear breach of the Charter, but any regard for that document disappeared long ago.
Calli defends notafan and her ilk as just holding different view on things.
Hitler had a different view of things too.
Unfortunately there is right and wrong. Good and evil.
Noting the sneerers avoiding maters thread like the plague. ….
Sneeeeer!
And scoff!!
Hi Charlie…
Just as you may wonder how long Australia will go on tolerating all this malarkey, Albanese is back in the media waffling on about “sharing this continent with the worlds oldest continuing culture.” The world’s oldest continuing culture is that of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa – some 120,000 years -twice the length of time of the Australian Aborigine.
Bing-Bong!
Everyone is Hitler!
Bing-Bong!
It is also the first reverse and, hopefully, dose of reality for the globalist overlords who have managed to infiltrate and corrupt every single institution, right down to kindergarten, who view us as chattel to be manipulated or disposed of and plan a future I have no wish to be part of. Unfortunately not conspiracy theory but right out in plain sight and rubbing our noses in it.
Interesting rego in Melbourne this morning. V PANZR.
That’s my brother, Vladimir.
Sancho check with Dot about eschatology.
I would be very surprised if lawyers and judges did not have in-jokes or cathartic images for people they must deal with. And given the overweening self-regard that permeates the law profession, you can bet they have slurs for tradies, single-mums, honest people on lower incomes etc – everyone that makes them work or who is an affront to their soft manicured hands.
And yes, I have just presented a distasteful parody of lawyers there too, even though it would not be the rule among them.
But they like rules.
Denmark ENDS Covid vaccinations for almost everyone under 50.
There seems to be less commenting here these days
Where’s choo choo?
How many boosters are you getting?
Sure.
RUS sent in the dam busters.
EU physics denial has come home to roost
In the UK House of Commons, a conservative member, Sir Christopher Chope, MP, proposes a Bill to require the Secretary of State to establish an independent review of disablement caused by COVID-19 vaccinations, and the adequacy of the compensation offered to persons so disabled, and for connected purposes as described recently on the website of the UK MP.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/moves-in-uk-parliament-for-covid-19-vaccine-injury-law-inaugural-session-d7237ee5
What’s quite interesting about COVID-19 and a nascent, growing vaccine injury movement in the United States and select countries such as the U.K. and some countries in Europe is the prominent role conservatives are playing in the effort. Typically, it’s been the left to liberals that have championed the cause for consumer rights and consumer protection, particularly against industry such as Big Pharma. Just think of Ralph Nader as the archetypical traditional example of an advocate that would stand up for individuals. Ideologically, the liberal to extreme left have been far more opposed to large corporate power running amok in U.S history than Republicans.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/helping-covid-19-vaccine-injured-patientsliberals-conservatives-can-join-in-on-the-effort-195c7310
Who owns the No.1 source of mainstream news Reuters?
denmark bans the boost in under 50’s
Wasn’t there a Japanese general executed over that principle, despite neither ordering the war crimes committed by troops under his command, nor being able to effectively exercise his command(ie no communications with those troops)?
Health Feedback publishes a flawed “fact check” on the Epoch Times clot article
Waiter! There’s a Nazi in my word salad.
Perhaps try to engage with the topic, any topic, Sancho. Being snide, sneering, smarmy and inclined to picking at at scabs is not healthy, even if it not deadly.
Ah, the Ben Roberts-Smith case must be going poorly.
Dark humur is nessersary for those that deal with shit things on a daily basis to prevent themselves being consumed by it.
I don’t know the details, but the past history of the Andrews government sugests one should never underestimate their ability to fuck things up. Pardon the French this early in the day.
Campaigning against rising gang shootings is the sort of despicable populist tactic
worth noting by the BBC.
The Australian carrying a reminder to NSW cops that protest is a right in democracies.
It’s needed now because anti monarchists are gearing up for action around the time of the public holiday.
Until now there was no need to remind us of our rights. No threat could be seen.
Diogenessays:
September 15, 2022 at 9:26 am
Whether or not these higher commanders did breach that duty is a matter of evidence. It is for investigators, prosecutors and, potentially, the courts to make that determination.
Wasn’t there a Japanese general executed over that principle, despite neither ordering the war crimes committed by troops under his command, nor being able to effectively exercise his command(ie no communications with those troops)?
Yamashita, for atrocities committed by Japanese forces under his command in the Philippines in 1944-45. Tried and executed by the Americans.
Had that trial not occurred, however, the British would have tried and executed him for the “Sook Ching”, the massacres of Chinese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Figures for the dead there range up to 70,000, and there is no doubt that tens of thousands were killed.
Real Deal, if you’re going down a Python road, do a count of how many of their sketches would land them in trouble if they were made today.
T.E. the Stan/Loretta character in Life of Brian for a start. I think John Cleese has talked about that somewhere.
There would have to be many that would get cancelled today. One I remember was the “Pepperpots” who were based on Mary Whitehouse in the UK. They had screechy voices and complained about everything.
One sketch showed them storming a performance of Shakespeare’s Othello as he is with Desdemona. They whack him over the head with handbags shrieking “Don’t worry dear, we won’t let the d*rkie touch you”. I doubt the Beeb would show that now. I have the whole series on DVD. Haven’t watched it for years.
It’s funny in the UK that is only now the usual bleeding hearts have discovered that the public nuisance laws are anti free speech. The very same laws used to stop “transphobic” comments are now being used against the “not my king” protesters
‘He Was Standing Up For America’: Think Tank Leader Says The Right Still Needs Trump
. Former President Donald Trump’s disposition is at least as important as his actual policies, according to Tom Klingenstein, Claremont Institute chairman.
. Trump’s hostility to the media and to political correctness, along with his unabashed pro-America attitude, have been key to the transformation of the conservative movement and are exactly what the present moment requires, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
. “Trump had a particular constellation of assets that fit the moment when we’re in a war. And that’s what prudence is … it’s not about assessing him in a vacuum, it’s about assessing him in the context of the current circumstances,” Klingenstein said.
“What you hear frequently is ‘Gee, I like Trump’s policies but I don’t like the rest of him,’ and my thought is that it’s the rest of him that really inspired the movement,” Klingenstein told the DCNF. “Yes, I agree with many or most of his policies, but what I think was so unusual was his courage. Can you imagine what it would take to stand up to the kind of abuse he was subject to?”
Klingenstein credited Trump with exposing — not creating — the divide in our country, as well as what he characterized as corruption in the media and in intelligence agencies. This perspective has been echoed by others affiliated with the National Conservatism movement: that Trump helped expose challenges facing America and that clear-eyed conservatives need to shift their focus to meet the present moment.
“He showed us that we’re in a war. And he smoked out rats: the media, we now know, is corrupt. We knew it was biased, but now we know it’s absolutely corrupt. We now know that the intelligence agencies — which we thought were biased — we now know that they’re corrupt,” he said.
“This is a period of self-loathing: we teach our children to hate America. So having someone like Trump who’s unreservedly, unabashedly pro-American, is very very important,” he said. “Political correctness is a prohibition on defending America. If you say things like ‘American exceptionalism,’ thats taboo, so when he was standing up against political correctness he was standing up for America.”
“Trump has an absence of white guilt. He never apologizes,” he said. “White guilt is killing us because it’s driving affirmative action and outcome equality, where all groups have to be equal based on their proportion of the population. He’s the antidote to that. Most Republicans have white guilt … that makes it difficult even for those on the right to really defend America, and we on the right are still very, very fearful of being called a racist. Trump is not. “
Sure.
A couple of companies have recently advertised “Our call centres are in Australia.”
Not Quaintarse of course.
Does he speak thspanish too?
and I hear from reliable sources very close to those involved that there is a cheap bridge for sale over a major harbour
there’s certainly enough sub continentals here now for that
Franx thinks he’s being a clever Sun Tzu but the tactic is hilariously obvious.
Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows – 15/09/22
Pergolesi – Stabat Mater
Fortunately for James Hird, community attitudes to injections of armfuls of unknown substances have softened considerably.
SURE!!!
Lots of comedians I think?
I remember Billy Connolly in Australia talking about being at bondi when the shark alarm went off: “I thought it was the fucking Japanese! I don’t trust them at all. They’d have us all singing ‘Kawasaki’ by the end of the day.” 😛
Diogenes.
That wouldbe Yamashita you are thinking of.
Carried the can for massacres carried out by navy marines in Phillipines.
Real reason for hanging was probably because he humiliated the Allies with the Singapore campaign.
I think Bernie and Elton put it best.
‘Don’t let the Sun Tzu go down on me’
Surely Cervantes ought not be so dishonoured as to be associated with having created a snide character to act as a hero’s foil. For, although not ‘the man’, the foil was himself a hero and a man of integrity. That was the creation, surely.
Interesting rego in Melbourne this morning. V PANZR.
There should be a whole set of them: PANZR I, II, III, IV, V !!
Dover, would you classify this as low rent trolling?
Insightful. Watson does a good job.
Of course government control of propaganda in soaps would never happen in Australia.
We simply throw over a billion dolls p.a. to a broadcaster to do the leftists work.
Ron DeSantis Sends Two Planes Of Migrants To Martha’s Vineyard, Follows Through On Promise
Nationalising the gas company will magically create more gas? These people are not serious people.
Heh. Spot on.
My brood af ardent lefty grandchildren stop short when I say “Yeah, bring on a republic and we can elect a Trump to head of state”.
Oh they are serious. Serious about controlling all the levers.
Happily the ABC’s viewership has only ever been a fraction of Home & Away.
I was speculating the other day that the European energy crisis would see the spectre of the nationalisation of firms arise from the dim past.
Meanwhile, Thomas Friedman has apparently come out strongly for drilling & fracking in the NYT.
OK, I’ll ask the question.
What do EOs 13818 and 13848 mean, what is their goal, and are they still valid/operational?
Following on your mention of them, I searched for them on line and have a basic understanding.
But – hasn’t the nominated 45 days been passed and therefor 13848 is now redundant?
A plain English summary for me would be helpful.
Happily the ABC’s viewership has only ever been a fraction of Home & Away.
Well, there’s more factual accuracy and intellectual rigour in Home and Away.
Ladies and gents, aboriginal royalty! Charles and Camilla love-child claimant doubles down:
As they mourn, Mr Dorante-Day, whose wife Elvianna and children are Indigenous Australians, said his family would be partaking in sacred Aboriginal cultural practices.
Daily Mail – scroll down
Sure.
If they are his biological children then why are his children indigenous? We would previously have said with intuitive arithmetic, that they are half-indigenous (and half-white). The two halves adding up to one.
Now they are just ‘indigenous’.
But then they must also be ‘white’.
Why multiple locations and why no “Proud”?
https://patelpatriot.substack.com/p/devolution-addendum-series-part-5?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Here you go OSC.
Hedging bets.
Mr Panzer at 8.57:
Oh no, not at all. He’s gone the other way – moon-shotting his way to untold fame and riches by using his ‘indigenous’ children to make a buck.
The Project must surely run a two-hour special on him.
Ah yes, the Magnitsky Act. You can tell this is straight GRU propaganda, because the Magnitsky Act is the number one priority for Putin and his billionaire mates. He would stop the war in Ukraine tomorrow if it meant the West agreed to drop the Magnitsky Act.
My brood of ardent lefty grandchildren stop short when I say “Yeah, bring on a republic and we can elect a Trump to head of state”. – OSC
And there’s the rub. What they want is President Grace Tame or President Adam Goodes, with no real power but carte blanche to hector and scold.
Were a US-style presidency on the table, you bet!
Apart from a line-item veto, we could get, just possibly, an outsider, a native Trump, to shake things up.
Because of its utter incompetence for the past decade, the Essendon Football Club has poisoned the water in the coaching department for anyone who isn’t club champion James Hird.
If the Dons appoint Hird to the vacant senior coach position, the club acquires one of Aussie Rules’ best football brains to run its campaign for another premiership – Essendon being tied with Carlton as the AFL’s winningest club with 16 flags.
Hird’s appointment as senior coach would also unleash a hurricane of rage from media hacks like Caroline Wilson, the daughter of a former Richmond club president, who blamed Hird, then Essendon senior coach, for the 2012 “drugs” scandal, when Essendon hired an alleged sports “scientist”, Stephen Dank, to push questionable “supplements” among Essendon players.
Fortunately, Essendon’s new president, Dave Barham, a TV sports right entrepreneur, isn’t a leftard zombie like Wilson and knows than Essendon members couldn’t care less about the optics – they just want another flag, in fact, demand one.
Bring on the media shit fight –guaranteed to motivate Dons players like nothing else if Hird gets the job. Us and them on steroids – literally.
Geez Tom, is there any topic on which you don’t take the side of cheats and blaggards?
Monty, anything that upsets lefty fuckwits like you and Caroline Wilson is a surefire winner with AFL footy fans, who are sick of their game being hijacked by political activists.
It certainly does seem like there is a disconnect between Essendon fans and the rest of humanity, who understand that Hird returning would be exactly the wrong thing to do.
I mean, we are only trying to save you from yourselves. Destroying your club all over again to own the libs may sound like fun, but it’s not going to end well for anyone.
Thank you Custard.
Blackguards, you simpleton.
Murdoch Derangement Syndrome. Abbott Derangement Syndrome. Trump Derangement Syndrome. And now Hird Derangement Syndrome.
Bring it on!
Blackguards, you simpleton.
ROFL!
Shush KD, it’s in the dictionary.
From your very own link, mUnter:
I learnt classical English, not the twisted dialect you seem to have picked up.
If you use Urban Dictionary for anything other than comedy value, you place yourself squarely in the ‘dunderhead’ category.
Just checking out the latest mid term climate outlooks.
Sorry if already noted but it’s been estimated the undersea volcano which erupted near Tonga not long ago punched an amount of water vapour into the stratosphere equivalent to 10% of whats already in that layer of the atmosphere.
I’m guessing that will affect things for a year or two in the southern hemisphere.
Yes 123Bush. There was a news item on recently showing the reason we are getting bright orange sunsets is due to that volcano – and is meant to last several years…
So, I demand VOLCANO ACTION NOW.
It’s closer to scab picking/ teasing. Annoying but tolerable.
And I can confirm from some academic subscriptions I have to etymological dictionaries… blaggard does not exist.
Just like Trump did not “appoint judge Reinhart.”
Munty -> do you have permanent scars across your face from the constant rakes?
Abbott and DeSantis busing and flying illegals to sanctuary cities and now Martha’s Vineyard is just brilliant politics.
Language is not defined in a book anyway. One of the fundamental lessons of post-modernism, that.
Ah yes, the Magnitsky Act. You can tell this is straight GRU propaganda, because the Magnitsky Act is the number one priority for Putin and his billionaire mates. He would stop the war in Ukraine tomorrow if it meant the West agreed to drop the Magnitsky Act.
Our source in the Kremlin, m0nty-fa, knows, because he takes the minutes of all meetings involving the Poot. Nothing else is ever discussed except the Magnitsky Act.
PS, why GRU (military intelligence)? Why not the FSB, successor to the KGB?