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There will be a plastic dog turd gap?
I’m humane. It’s cold in January in DC.
Thune, who is a pro-life evangelical Christian, spoke about his faith with EWTN earlier this year: Pro-Life Republican Senator John…
Brough is superior.
duk at 6.58:
Yep. The tried and tested Faulty business model.
stupidity is the dna of the bugmen class
2. 22LR is by far the most popular of the smaller vermin weapons.
Remember to that in extremis .22 LR can be reloaded. Matches and acetone.
If you’re looking at worst case scenario’s and you’re not using 22LR, .223 and/or .308, your assessment is flawed.
.22 magnum, .223 and 30.06…
the intergenerational trauma will persist for a thousand years!
what is the date in China today?
sfw:
Effing WHAT THE HELL?
Bright sparks in QLD Treasury implementing a land tax grab during a housing crisis.
At the same time Palaszczuk wants people with granny flats to rent them out to strangers.
“Groogs shows no topic is off limits when it comes to wrongology.”
The dozy little pustule is jealous of all the attention Monty has been commanding lately.
Dude, oh no you DIDN’T: Man in Iran learns the hard way he cannot just SLAP a woman because things are DIFFERENT right now (watch this)
Tom Waits — 16 shells
Flying Duk:
That’s what I’ve been telling the Financial Wizard (J.C.) for the last 18 months.
They all find different ways to get to the hyperinflation destination but they get there in the end.
Vote NO on proposition 24!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fXyeQ1hnSY
Bar Beach Swimmersays:
September 24, 2022 at 10:06 am
Cohenite, I can’t understand why you would suggest to change the GG’s title to El Presidento.
I suggested that to upset head prefect who I know wants to replace the GG with himself and he wants to be called the Grand Poobah.
If I understand correctly what you said, the Australia Act of 1986 removes the GG’s powers to ceremonial only?
No; I said the GG’s powers in the Constitution are well defined; his powers also include reserve powers which are powers by convention and have been recognised by the HC as flowing from his/her/gender inclusive’s explicit powers. Those powers do not flow from the Monarchy.
Surely, the GG still has the reserve powers because of the connection to the Crown. And by changing the name that, presumably, would no longer require the Queen’s assent to the PM’s nomination – so a big change.
The reserve powers do not flow from the Queen but are inferred from the explicit powers as defined in the Constitution. The HC recognises these reserve powers as being necessary to implement the explicit powers.
The real point is The Australia Act severed all capacity for the UK to determine Australia’s laws and politics and made the Queen’s role symbolic.
Buy guns, gold, steam turbines and machinetools?
Bern really, they’re selling cyber insurance. Wow!
Dannings Warehouse
…hasn’t aged a bit
Bwah ha ha ha.
Every time his head pops up I start looking for Stadler and Waldorf.
Maybe it was a trans woman, in which case all bets are off.
I dunno mate. Maybe its a vote for Jonny Farnham to be Prez?
More likely the China coof.
Nahh was thinking of a sluggy. There just isn’t enough/any rabbits close to home, and I wouldn’t hunt them with an air gun anyway.
Shit tons of Indian Myna’s around here to keep me fed for years.
Their continual complaints about past trauma reflect a lack of resilience, an inability to walk towards the future. As dubious as happiness studies are one of the surprising findings is that individuals who go through massive trauma manage to lift themselves up and find new meaning and purpose in their lives. As Confucius says, “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Or the Japanese proverb, “Fall down twice stand up three times”. Perhaps if indigenous people instead of being preoccupied with their own culture bothered to adopt lessons from other cultures they might find a way forward.
In our social circles we soon tire of the person who keeps harking back to past grievances, who never forgives and never rises to the challenge. At some point we push them away because we know their attitude is a millstone around their neck. We either grab life by the throat and make it work for us or we fall into a pit of despair from which we can never see the light to lead us to a better future.
Aboriginals prove that Darwinism applies to cultures as well.
In the furthest corners of the net, and as duk predicted earlier this morning, there are revised dates for ‘the event’.
Be watching between 21 and 25 September, apparently. Use bits of cardboard with pin holes in them.
Hold a garage sale for your prepped-up excess dunny roll and chili cans at your peri;.
Peril. At your peril.
Some form of electronic disturbance may have affected the keyboard.
Bern really, they’re selling cyber insurance. Wow!
We’ve knocked it back for years but we thought why not this year.
perinium?
Spilled whisky into your keyboard again hey?
Wow Wong’s statement to UN full of aboriginal crap. Also referenecing Doc Evatt. Ukraine again…
Yawn. Even Dodson couldn’t keep awake…
The most succesful indigenous people have done just that. Dare I say that assimilation was basically a sound and humane policy? No living culture stands still, as aboriginal activists seem to imagine, and we can’t go back to pre-1788 times and make it so.
Does any normal person really think this is a bout Aboriginals?
Meme………..and I immediately thought of some posters on this blog.
She flagged this “we have much to learn from the noble savages” nonsense at the beginning of her tenure.
Mind you, on the diselines she told China to reign Putin in, so there is that.
Brilliant comment John H.
A bit of sake, straight from the Home Islands. It’s all good.
Be entertaining to see how many delegates were in the audience.
Speaking to an empty hall?
7 things I wish knew about woodworking before I started.
That column from (Dammit) Janet is great. It’s an idea that had crossed my mind before and doubtless others here as well.
Another issue is that the transmission of knowledge previously done family or community is now being taken over by less invested and less competent ‘official’ bodies which offer standardised but less effective skills. Stuff you used to learn from your father or the lessons you and your friends blundered through growing up – the learning was as important as the lesson.
And some things are not taught at all, especially if they have a whiff of masculinity about them. Because the authorities don’t like so no one may.
As Janet says, Australians do like to think of themselves as rugged outdoorsman. They even love sitting outside rather than inside restaurants. But they were paralysed en masse by the risk of getting sick. Look at a different reaction was to SARS. This time people were terrified of a bug as if it was not a disruptive protein fragment, but instead a microscopic tear in the fabric of our universe that separates it from unlife, which wraps itself in malice and spread amongst us carried by mere words.
Australians like to think they are still that mettle that forged the nation between the hammer of burning sun and an anvil hard dry land, or who won a reputation for martial prowess from the crumbling arid fortress of Tobruk to the vine choked muddy tracks of New Guinea.
But those Australians had instincts and resources much regulated away now. Their lives had already been a proving ground, and indeed some had died along the way, but the rest were people we will likely never see again.
sidelines
Yes, the nanny state has much to answer for.
Urbanisation has also been a big factor in diluting the Australian character.
For shame, didn’t you read Greg Craven’s comment that “Indigenous souls will be broken” if there is no “Voice?”
So a rehashing of Turnbull’s – the
nation’smy heart was broken, moment.Just like with the republic “debate,” it always comes down to trying to bully either with tears or abuse.
But those Australians had instincts and resources much regulated away now. Their lives had already been a proving ground, and indeed some had died along the way, but the rest were people we will likely never see again.
This isn’t an accident.
She flagged this “we have much to learn from the noble savages” nonsense at the beginning of her tenure.
She would be a very low rated chattel and wouldn’t get to pretend to be a bloke.
Ask a progressive “why are you denying them the right to evolve, that’s racist”.
The most succesful indigenous people have done just that.
I think Thomas Sowell has an excellent piece on the Scottish realising that their culture was largely shite in comparison to English culture.
They went on to meticulously copy and improve English culture and essentially went on to become “Englands” greatest generation of scientists, engineers, inventors and industrialists.
Transcript of the Wong chap’s New York dalliance
https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/transcript/press-conference-new-york
Biden’s gas scam
The essence is this: for passenger cars, which dominate the nation’s highways and city streets, ethanol alcohol is not fuel. It takes up space in your tank; over time, it corrodes the engine. Other than that, it evaporates. You will not get any mileage out of ethanol; diluted ethanol is simply vodka, and if you fill your tank with vodka, it will not run. The engines of our passenger cars are designed to run on petrol, a product made out of oil and not out of quickly fermented wheat, sugarcane, and the like, as is ethanol.
The difference in mileage is quite significant — ca. 25%. Nobody notices because one cannot get pure gas anymore, and thus comparison of the mileage is eliminated.
I drive a BMW x1, which takes premium gasoline, so I filled the tank with commercial pure premium 93 (at $9.20 per gallon), and verified the effect by driving from Mt. Shasta to Berkeley and back: it took a full tank of Bidengas versus ca. 5/8 of a tank of commercial pure premium. Upon further experimentation, I found that one gets approximately 25% less mileage out of a tank of Bidengas by comparison with mileage on pure gasoline, depending on the terrain.
Rumor has it ethanol also corrodes the engine. The rumor, unsurprisingly, comes from those who have a bare view of what happens to car engines that run on ethanol — i.e., mechanics and those of us who often make basic repairs themselves — those who drive tractors, agricultural equipment, use gasoline-run small equipment for their yards, etc.
The only way one can get ethanol-free premium nowadays is by purchasing it wholesale in cans, not at the pump. Incidentally, California eliminated the access of passenger car drivers to this gas by banning gas canisters that fit the passenger car tank snout. Crafty!
From the Comments
– The author needs to get out of California. I know several places where I can fill up my vehicle with pure gasoline without ethanol. It is more expensive, but I use it for my small engines. Maybe I will do that test.
– Where I live in Kansas there are a couple of small mom and pop places that pride themselves on selling non ethanol gas. It averages about 30 cents higher than the ethanol blends but it’s well worth it because I do notice a significant improvement in my mileage when using it. I won’t use anything else in my mowers, weed eaters, etc.
Is there any part of so called ‘Aboriginal culture’ that has advanced civilisation in any form?
The American 13% strike again
Family of NYC domestic violence victim found dismembered in suitcases rips apartment building for not doing more
The aunt of Dasia Johnson, 22, criticized the security guards at the Linwood Street apartment building for not prohibiting her abusive boyfriend from entering the location after witnesses saw him beating her in the hallways and the police were called numerous times, according to neighbors.
“They dropped the ball here,” the aunt, who declined to share her name, said by phone.
Johnson also had an active restraining order against her boyfriend and he’d previously been arrested for coming to the apartment in March to pick up his belongings, law-enforcement sources said.
“They know their tenants. They opened the door for him,” the aunt added. “She didn’t have no other boyfriend. They didn’t do enough. They could have prevented him from coming in there… They’re security, they’re trained to put somebody down. There is ways to stop him from coming in.”
From the Comments
– The family blames the apartment building? She had shown signs of abuse for years. There’s no way they didn’t know about it. They didn’t do anything but they expect random strangers to.
Personal responsibility seems to have gone on permanent vacation.
– Sometimes its more constructive to take a look in the mirror. And ask yourself “Maybe i should of done more?”, than spending it on valuable time placing the blame on someone else… But no money from a lawsuit there!
– Security won’t let someone in that doesn’t belong unless the tenant allows them. Blaming security is just pure laziness.
And if they had a restraining order, they should have provided a copy to the security to make them aware.
Rumor has it ethanol also corrodes the engine. The rumor, unsurprisingly, comes from those who have a bare view of what happens to car engines that run on ethanol
Ethanol is hydroscopic which facilitates corrosion of metal components, all elastomeric components need to be of a type that can resist.
Some smart arses in Majuro started importing E10 in iso tanks from New Zealand, wrecked a whole lot of outboard motors and small engines.
Family of NYC domestic violence victim found dismembered in suitcases rips apartment building for not doing more
It’s a tactic encouraged by the cultural Marxists.
John H
A few points on that.
I’ve always considered a hunter gatherer society backward but likely to be resilient and adaptable. I have nothing really to go on except a hunch. About a decade ago, I read that we spend around $30 billion a year on the “industry”. I’m a little more suspicious about human behavior. If you continue to throw a bunch of money ( in this case a humongous pile) by guilt trippers, you’re going to propagate a vicious cycle of whining and gilt trips.
And yes, in the 20 century an ethnic group absorbed such unspeakable violence to the extent that very large percentage of the group was wiped off the face off the earth. Jews have built a truly resilient little country out of the desert and they stand at the top of professional and income strata wherever they live. So the ancient atrocities shtick is complete bullshit. Anyone buying this baloney is either in the industry or trying to start one.
Surely, the GG still has the reserve powers because of the connection to the Crown. And by changing the name that, presumably, would no longer require the Queen’s assent to the PM’s nomination – so a big change.
I should have added – in the constitution. The HC can read much into little. A change to the name in the document could lead the HC anywhere.
Look what happened when the HC decided that Mabo means connection to land and that created a right to stay in Australia, despite not having Australian citizenship.
Which the govt did nothing about – because it thought/knew that it would never get the legislative change through the Senate, and didnt even want to be seen to create a double dissolution trigger on it.
Thus providing great assurance to the nation that if the Voice was getting too big for its boots the parliament would just ignore it!
Surely the way to give Aboriginals immediate a #voice in Parliament would be for all ALP senators to stand down and be replaced by Aboriginals?
Stands to reason.
What ever you subsidise you get more of.
The only successful policy is a non-policy. You leave folks alone. You don’t fund professional whining nor professional guilt trips. People get by and they make do.
Somewhat surprisingly but not really surprisingly, the Hawforn ‘racism’ and ‘made me kill muh baybeee’ saga has had the arse dropped out of it after only 48 hours.
That would be for two reasons. One, Clarkson and Fagan et al have been inundated with very public support from long-standing marquee players. Burgoyne, the 350-game indig bloke for one, and the admitted loose unit Trent Croad for another. The Hun:
And:
The other reason is that there is extremely good mail – that does not appear in the media – this ‘whistleblower’ played VFL football for the Horks between 2011 and 2013 after being recruited from the APY lands in northern SA and the West Torrens magoos in the City of Hyphens.
He suffered from ‘knee injuries’, and at 169cm with 75kg on him he was bounced all over the place by everyone else on the ground, despite showing the odd flash of brilliance when given clear air to work in.
When he was recruited he couldn’t use a mobile phone, had never driven in a city and had only a basic command of the English language. Hawthorn reported paid for a tutor to improve those language skills.
What he did have, however, was the pull of ‘kin’ so common and so detrimental to indig footy players. He was delisted in 2013, and went back to SA putting his free English lessons to good use as an ‘indig development officer’.
Put simply, this entire thing is a load of shit and should be thrown in the bin.
After all, that is where the wealth is created.
It’s not the creation of wealth that matters, it’s the accumulation of wealth.
It’s like voting and counting the vote.
The WEF plan to REMAKE Mexico, US, and Canada’s borders EXPOSED! | Redacted with Clayton Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRSs3sTIi0Q
Cannibalism?
Agree with most things, but without an assimilation policy aboriginals would still be living on the fringes of towns. Barriers to their full participation in society needed to be removed. Once that was done they could get on with life like everyone else.
If you want to live longer become a Christian.
Power of the pulpit: Study suggests lower mortality rates for Black men 50+ who attend religious services (Phys.org/MedXpress, 23 Sep)
It’s entertaining that they try to wrap as much wokery into the article as they can, but the upshot is quite clear: black men do ‘way better if they are Christians.
Betcha the ABC doesn’t report this story.
Oh dear…monty – who swallowed the story whole even though it was his own team – will be most disappointed.
As long as it is not Ozeki One-Cup.
Speaking to an empty hall?
Yes Bruce was pretty empty.
Nice morning you Novacastrians put on for us on Lake Mac. Pity weather coming thru, was thinking about lunch at Wangi RSL. Looking at the water now from where I’m staying now at Coal Point. Not looking forward to jetting back to Melbourne tomorrow. ?
I still want to know which pool booted Eddie Betts and what the operators have to say about it.
Surely, if you’re a newsroom COS, it would be one of the first things you’d ask your hacks to determine.
Unless I’ve missed something, it looks a lot like the narrative-wrecking story that must not be questioned.
Freezing emoji fail…
KD at 11:50.
Possibly so.
But anything which involves giving that grub Clarkson a kick can’t be all bad.
Aborigines with no trace of “settler” ancestry.
Scientists at America’s top nuclear lab were recruited by China to design missiles and drones, report says
“China is playing a game that we are not prepared for, and we need to really begin to mobilize,” said Greg Levesque, the lead author of the report by Strider Technologies.
At least 154 Chinese scientists who worked on government-sponsored research at the U.S.’s foremost national security laboratory over the last two decades have been recruited to do scientific work in China — some of which helped advance military technology that threatens American national security — according to a new private intelligence report obtained by NBC News.
The report, by Strider Technologies – 32 Page PDF, describes what it calls a systemic effort by the government of China to place Chinese scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons were first developed.
Many of the scientists were later lured back to China to help make advances in such technologies as deep-earth-penetrating warheads, hypersonic missiles, quiet submarines and drones, according to the report.
Scientists were paid as much as $1 million through participation in Chinese government “talent programs,” which are designed to recruit Chinese scientists to return to China. Such talent programs have long been identified as a source of concern, but U.S. officials said they had not previously seen an unclassified report that described the phenomenon in such detail, naming specific scientists and the projects they have worked on.
The talent transfer “poses a direct threat to U.S. national security,” said Greg Levesque, a co-founder of Strider and the lead author of the report. “China is playing a game that we are not prepared for, and we need to really begin to mobilize.”
Although a former Los Alamos scientist pleaded guilty in 2020 to lying about his involvement in a China recruitment program, most of the conduct described in the report appears to have been legal. Moreover, U.S. officials and experts say most Chinese scientists who immigrate to the U.S. remain here — and many have made significant contributions to U.S. defense technology.
But current and former U.S. intelligence officials said the Strider report shows how the Chinese government has been using talent recruitment programs to acquire insights into U.S. technology to help build a military that poses a significant threat to U.S. national security. The officials added that China’s hard-line turn under President Xi Jinping is sparking a re-evaluation of the long history of scientific exchange between the two countries.
Put simply, this entire thing is a load of shit and should be thrown in the bin.
Ooh no.
Not until Clarkson and Fagan line up that greasy beanpole prick and give him the flogging he deserves.
Just wait until the official truth-telling gets underway.
They’re shills pretending to be genuine commenters.
That’s not surprising, it’s a Top Down curated operation all the way.
Me, I’d give way more credibility to the Musgrave Park Drones opinion
than to the likes of Professor Emeritus Greg Craven and the gang.
Assimilation may have had it’s faults, but it was a far more sound and humane policy then the Whitlam/Coombes brainfart that followed it.
A high-school English teacher reminded her class of the final exam that would be given the following day. She told the class that there would be no excuse for not showing up, except for serious injury or illness, or a death in the student’s immediate family. A smart-ass jock in the back of the room asked “What about extreme sexual exhaustion?” The entire class did its best to stifle their laughter and snickering. When silence was restored, the teacher smiled sympathetically at the student, shook her head, and sweetly said “Not an excuse. You can write with your other hand”.
Well said JC my thoughts too.
Necessity is the mother of invention & I saw a lot of ingenuity in 3rd world. No sit down money either so people got on with life. IMO some tough love needed but for it to be successful needs to come from their communities.
‘Hydroscopic’ or ‘hydrophilic’ or ‘hygroscopic’?
Razeysays:
September 24, 2022 at 10:58 am
What do you mean?
Just got back from a long walk, I decided to walk to my favourite French bakery in Surry Hills, and was staggered to see that the price of the bakery’s baguette has risen from $4.00 to $5.00 and pastries, once $4.00 and $4.50 are now $6.00. Anyway, I bought a baguette and a chocolate croissant and then walked to Taylor Square to get the bus back to Bondi Junction. Hanging around Taylor Square were men (gay men) with t-shirts emblazoned with the words “Tanya speaks for us”. I presumed that “Tanya” meant the one and only Ms Tanya Plibersek. I had to walk through them to cross the road and as I was walking through one of the males approached me and said “Tanya speaks for you” to which I responded “no, Tanya Plibersek most certainly does not speak for me”. He was nonplussed and he backed off.
Anyway, go the Swans.
Gays cant reproduce, so they recruit.
$6 for a croissant?
That’s from Coles, right?
I paid 18 bucks for a small white bread sandwich tray yesterday.
They were trying to recruit Cassie?
The ‘C’ and ‘P’ are nowhere near each other on my keyboard.
Were they spooks, Head? What do think?
you…
$7.80 for an Almond Croissant in Racecourse Rd. this morning.
It wasn’t bad, either.
I have to be seen to be believed.
– Queen Elizabeth II
I prefer not to speculate.
Almond Croissant is very homosexual, Head.
It seems she was holding “surgery” there this morning, Cassie.
You should have had a word with her.
They have to tell us this ‘truth’ because no sane investigation, examination of evidence, or assaying of facts could justify it.
“Tanya speaks for you” to which I responded “no, Tanya Plibersek most certainly does not speak for me”. He was nonplussed and he backed off.
What a dope. As if you want a ‘Pollie’ to speak for you. Every word that comes out of their gobs is a Big Fat Lie…………………
$7.80 for an Almond Croissant
Were they out of dainty macarons Ed?
Grand Final Day returns to September.
The AFL has [finally] done something right.
“It seems she was holding “surgery” there this morning, Cassie.
You should have had a word with her.”
She wasn’t there Roger, I couldn’t see her.
Report: 22 Starved to Death in One Day in Xinjiang; Blinken Meets Chinese Counterpart in New York
00:58 Report: 22 Starved to Death in One Day in Xinjiang
02:48 Blinken Meets Chinese Counterpart in New York
04:30 Gov. Desantis: ‘Stop China Influence’
06:33 Southeast Asia Outpacing Chinese Economic Growth
07:41 Treasury Official Aims at China’s Lending Practices
10:31 Hong Kong to End Mandatory Hotel Quarantine for Travelers
You know this how, pard?
None of that addresses the allegations in the Russell Jackson piece.
Clarkson has said he “refutes” the allegations, in a statement released very late on the day they were made… suggesting he was huddling with his lawyers.
It may come down to he-said-she-said, which is not going to please anyone. I suspect there were a fair few cultural misunderstandings involved, and whether they were deliberate or not is a matter of perspective.
Possibly the most important thing to remember here is that we’re not talking about the likes of Cyril Rioli or Chance Bateman here: the three kids involved did not make it to become stars. Whatever the coaches did or didn’t do, it didn’t work. These kids got washed out of the system, the process was a failure. Now, does that mean the coaches are culpable for what they are accused of? No, not necessarily. But it’s not as if there was a sacrifice made that led to success. It all went wrong, for whatever reason.
Cyril has been a celebrated success where transplanting a kid out of his culture and family support structures worked, at least on-field if not off. It doesn’t work, more often than not. This is true of most draftees and rookies no matter their skin colour, of course, it’s a cut-throat league where you can fail even before you start trying due to your body and/or mind not living up to your potential.
Hawthorn and Collingwood have copped it for examining their own sordid histories while the wounds are still bleeding. No club is lilywhite on this score. That doesn’t excuse it, and we all need to get better. Part of the process of getting better is acknowledging the sins of the past. No one is going to wear a black armband for “Ian” (not his real name) and his lost career. You can’t leave that situation the way it is and say that you have moved on.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill
Haha, I could teach this lady a thing or two. But I don’t think she’d like what I’d say.
Want noisy miners to be less despotic? Think twice before filling your garden with nectar-rich flowers (Conversation via Phys.org, 23 Sep)
They’d be astounded that the noisies here do not mob anything at all much. Kookas, fine no worries (they sit next to them), blue-faced honeyeaters, meh, magpies & currawongs: ignored. They’ve even started to be OK with the neighbours’ various cats. Crows and channel-billed cuckoos are about the only things they scream at now, and I don’t encourage either so that’s a rare event.
Only half a k up the road a kookaburra in the wrong place will get the treatment viciously.
And my local noisies are so successful in breeding that the suburb is now full of them, substantially displacing Indian Mynahs.
The secret of course is Coles bread. Nope, that particular datum ain’t going to be highly regarded by these researchers. 😀
A man comes home from work and finds his wife admiring her breasts in the mirror. He asks “What are you doing?” She replies “I went to the doctor today, and he told me I have the breasts of a 25-year-old”. The husband retorts “Well, what did he say about your 50-year-old arse?” She replies “Frankly dear, your name never came up”.
mutley is that you?
An opportunity missed!
$7.80 for an Almond Croissant in Racecourse Rd.
Walk a bit further, past Mickey D’s and the bottle shop, and pick up some tasty camel steaks from the halal butcher.
Seriously, they’re not bad. And if you don’t like ’em, the souvlaki shop across the street is the best in the west
Yeah, we can’t all be the grandson of a Duke, born in a Palace and bear responsibility for Gallipoli,, Dunkirk and the Cold War.
Fred Sergeant is a gay rights activist who is now in his mid 70s. Fred lives in Vermont however he’s an old and well respected activist and he was one of the original gay men at the Stonewall protest back in 1969 in NYC. Fred has come out of retirement to protest the sinister and insidious nonsense that is “transgenderism”.
Anyway, two weeks ago Sergeant, during the Pride March in Vermont, a march that has now been completely hijacked by various queer perverts and fetishists, so Fred decided to stage a protest of his own, he attended the march alone and held up a sign with the words “black face/women’s face”, in other words (and I have mentioned this here before) that men who put on women’s face are as offensive as those who put on black face. There is no difference.
Sergeant was then approached by various perverts who were enraged at the comparison and one of them, some male dressed up in a mini skirt, fishnet stockings and wearing lipstick like Bette Davis’ character in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane” confronted Fred and so Fred said to the pervert “well, you’re not exactly the catch of the day”, so what did the pervert do? He physically assaulted Sergeant, an elderly man in his 70s. That’s what this transgender movement is all about, appropriation, violence, stereotypes and the erasure of women.
While I despise her politics, credit to Plibbers for making herself available to her electorate.
It should be a requirement of the office, as in the UK.
How ghastly.
I have a big post in moderation. Mods?
This kind of ideology always ends the same way – With moral relativism and the attempted elimination of a group’s ideological detractors. It is in the nature of zealots to destroy what they cannot control.
true of nearly all of the Personality Disordered.
especially the nasty ones
like Borderlines and Narcissists
…and they really really hate being defied
I’ve been told a Camel Wool beanie is the best at preventing frostbitten ears, Camel Milk is outta my price range at $29, but Camel Steaks?
Those things have massive back legs, so wouldn’t a Middle Cut of rump cover an area the size of the card table?
The Californian Supreme Court has now confirmed that bees are fish.
Bumblebees can be classified as ‘fish’ under California conservation law, court says (23 Sep)
Charles Dickens wrote that the law is an ass. Which probably means it is a fish also.
JCsays:
September 24, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Ed Case says:
September 24, 2022 at 12:17 pm
They were trying to recruit Cassie?
Were they spooks, Head? What do think?
Definite Flamers?
EXCLUSIVE: ‘This is a school, not a circus.’ Students join protestors outside Canadian school where trans teacher with oversize prosthetic breasts, as authorities consider introducing DRESS CODE to force her to tone down her look
. Transgender teacher Kayla Lemieux went viral when she was pictured wearing huge prosthetic breasts in the middle of shop class
. Lemieux is a tech teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School in an upscale residential neighborhood roughly 25 miles west of Toronto
. DailyMail.com can reveal that school board members voted to consider implementing a dress code on Wednesday
. This could mean that Lemieux may have to ditch the fabric-stretching prosthetic breasts, which sell online for as much as $1,000
. The district has defended Lemieux and said it would no longer answer questions about the issue as it is a ‘personnel matter’
Under pressure from fuming parents, the Halton District School Board (HDSB) issued a statement to explain that its hands are tied due to the province’s Human Rights Code.
‘The HDSB recognizes the rights of students, staff, parents/guardians and community members to equitable treatment without discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression,’ the board said in a statement. ‘Gender identity and gender expression are protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code.’
Minutes before the final bell on Friday, a small group of protesters showed up at the end of the school’s driveway, shouting for school officials to ‘protect our children.’
Across the street, several people held signs that spelled out ‘Inclusivity is no excuse for depravity.’ One person held up a sign that said: ‘Teacher’s personal propaganda has no place in the classroom.’
Most of the students who spilled out of the school’s numerous exits left to start their weekends but a group of mostly senior grade students joined the protest.
Police officers, facing a crowd that swelled to nearly 100, escorted vehicles out of the school parking lot.
‘Thank you for speaking up for us,’ one male student shouted before being handed a megaphone. ‘This is a school not a circus! We just want to learn!’
Another student told the protesters he doesn’t go to school to be ‘distracted.’
‘It’s so crazy that nobody is doing anything.’
Students who joined the fracas said they are bound by a dress code that prohibits visible nipples or genitalia so they are left wondering why the same rules don’t apply to Lemieux.
One of the protest organizers blasted the human rights code for protecting ‘a man who dresses up as a woman who has size Z fetish fake boobs.’
‘What are we doing to our children to allow this?’ he asked the crowd.
Protesters from a faith-based group called Action 4 Canada called for the principal and school board trustees to resign for failing to protect students.
It appeared that Lemieux was taken out of the school to the driveway of an adjacent YMCA childcare facility, where she was driven away from the scene.
Protesters have vowed to keep fighting and are planning more demonstrations.
At a meeting of the HDSB on Wednesday, trustee Tracey Ehl Harrison put forward a motion that ‘the director be requested to return to the board, by November 2022, a report addressing the various considerations regarding dress code.’
Lemieux is being protected at the school by both a private security firm and officers from the Halton Regional Police Service.
You really do know fvck all about history, don’t you, Grogs?
This whole ‘transgender’ abomination seems to be being driven from top down. It’s not only misogynistic it’s also misandristic. Makes me feel physically sick then maybe that’s part of the idea.
What the hell is Mrs JC doing?
The entitled turd, the relation of the dirty old woman from Baltimore aka the mafia princess, who is governor of cali make Jerry Brown look retrained and rational.
I charge $50 for a cut lunch of three sandwiches.
Julian Clary lives on them.
Won’t eat anything else.
Just driven into town and gone to every shop looking for pardypoys.
I eventually put forward the equation that 3-4 pardypoys equals one bigpoy.
Why not just buy the equivalent in bigpoys and go home?
Why was Churchill sacked as First Sea Lord if he wasn’t responsible for Gallipoli, captain?
I’ve killed over 140 indian mynas. Didnt even make a dent.
I charge $100.
High end fillings though.
The fun thing about the tranny with the gigantic rubber breasts is he’s a woodwork teacher.
There’ve been photos of him operating a circular saw very very carefully…
So my suggestion to these authoritehs is not to focus on his enormous tits (ok this is tough for men,’tis true, as all women know) but to work through the OHS implications. Could you imagine the mess if he got his prostheses caught in a drill press?
Meghan couldn’t believe there was no performance fee for her Royal visit to Australia. Quite the psychopath. Calling her trash is an insult to trash. Sounds like haz and the slag deserve each other.
“CODE to force her to tone down her look
What “her”? The pervert wearing the prosthetic breasts is a male. This pervert is not the problem here. The problem is the MSM and others who gaslight the lie that the pervert is a she.
Not a joke – this is the official US Space Force song.
UPDATE – thank you Underminder who writes:
Now where have I heard that tune before?
1984 Oceania Patriotic Song: The Hiking Song (Fictional Anthem)
Actually sounds like AFL Team Songs
AFL – Club Theme Songs – 2022 (Updated)
Roy Morgan poll finds 58% of ALP voters want Australia to remain a monarchy.
Perhaps that explains Elbow’s out of character performance since the Queen’s death?
Everyone works in an office now. What biscuits are in the tea room and how about that bastard in the cubicle three down.
Yeah, we can’t all be the grandson of a Duke, born in a Palace and bear responsibility for Gallipoli,, Dunkirk and the Cold War.
STFU ed.
Jamie Kah — three rides for three wins at Mornington.
She’s very good.
Basically, most chalkies are either Fruits, Flamers, Lezzos or Pederasts, though this one defies classification.
But, it’s a slippery slope.
Start banning gigantic tits and pretty soon you’ll have no teachers left.
SpaceNews
DoD to end procurements of geosynchronous missile-warning satellites
The Pentagon will start transitioning to a proliferated architecture of satellites in lower orbits
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Pentagon plans to end procurements of very large geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) infrared satellites that provide initial warning of ballistic missile launches anywhere on the globe. Over the coming years DoD will start transitioning to a proliferated architecture of smaller satellites in lower orbits, officials said Sept. 21.
“The path the Space Force is marching towards is that we won’t rely on those [GEO satellites] in the future,” Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear told reporters at the Air, Space & Cyber conference.
The agency, known as SDA, is developing a constellation of missile-tracking satellites using large numbers of small satellites in lower orbits. SDA next month will become part of the Space Force.
Tournear’s comments came a day after the Space Force’s top acquisition executive Frank Calvelli said DoD can no longer afford billion-dollar satellites that on average take seven years to develop while China is moving to build new constellations at a rapid pace. He specifically criticized the current Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) satellites that the Space Force is buying from Lockheed Martin at a cost of $7.8 billion for three GEO satellites and ground systems.
By comparison, SDA recently ordered 28 missile-tracking satellites for about $1.4 billion.
Next-Gen OPIR will be the last GEO missile-warning satellites to be acquired by the Defense Department, Tournear said. The plan is to launch all three between 2025 and 2028. Northrop Grumman separately is developing two Next-Gen OPIR polar satellites that have not yet transitioned to production.
After the three GEO satellites are launched, “the future will all be proliferated LEO with a semi-proliferated MEO to give you that resilience.” said Tournear. The Space Force plans to field a layer of medium Earth orbit missile-defense satellites.
“We’ll do away with the GEOs and the big, exquisite, expensive satellites,” said Tournear. “We’ll have this proliferated layer in LEO and MEO to provide missile warning and missile tracking.”
Current missile warning satellites, to be sure, will stay in operation for decades to come. There are today six Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellites in GEO and highly elliptical orbits that are projected to last two more decades. And the Next-Gen GEOs will be in orbit well past 2050.
The architecture will shift but missile-warning satellites can’t be turned off “because this is a no-fail mission that the U.S. is relying on the Space Force to provide,” said Tournear. “so we want to have that overlap … We want to make sure we have a firm handle and make sure that the LEO layer is working before we let go.”
GEO constellations will be part of the architecture for the lifetime of those satellites, he said.
The chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond told reporters on Wednesday that the missile-warning satellite architecture is being redesigned but insisted that current systems will stay in operation for as long as necessary.
“The challenge that we have in the space domain is that we operate all these capabilities for the world,” he said. “And you can’t tell the world I’m going to turn off GPS, or turn off missile warning and we’ll be back to you in about 10 years with new stuff.”
“We’re looking to diversify our architecture,” he said. “That will help us be more resilient .. But you’ve got to have a bridge,” Raymond said. “And so those are the discussions we’re having on how you balance risk as we transition from old to new.”
Razey – One year the mynas competed with the kookas for the Cafe’s salubrious penthouse.
Twice I saw kookas nail mynas at 40 kph dead on. They’d come up from below and behind and hit them with their beaks like a flying chisel.
The mynas both times fell over but shook themselves and after a half minute or so were back in action. Might even’ve been the same myna. ‘Tough’ isn’t enough of a word for those critters.
The war was a bloody draw: neither side got to use the nest box. But the next year the mynas were careful to avoid it and found somewhere else, and the kookas managed to raise two chicks.
Which brings in law enforcement, the judiciary and all cheered on by the leftard media. Which censors dissent and then victimizes the objectors as “extreme right”, Christians and bigots.
The point being that laws are being enacted by parliaments. Who are voted in by deceived and idiot punters. Govts show us that “equality” can be distorted beyond all belief to enable perverts, freaks and deviants being legally accorded the same respect as normies. A hell of a victory.
Fox Nation host and former ‘The Talk’ co-host looks back on being cancelled after defending longtime friend Piers Morgan on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews
Riiiiiight.
So, the issue isn’t Perverts teaching in Schools, it’s Freedom Of Speech?
Ed Casesays:
September 24, 2022 at 1:25 pm
Basically, most chalkies are either Fruits, Flamers, Lezzos or Pederasts, though this one defies classification.
But, it’s a slippery slope.
Start banning gigantic tits and pretty soon you’ll have no teachers left.
Two and a Half Men – Boobra’s Mom [HD]
Jake drew a picture of a classmate with big boobs: Barbra ‘Boobra’ Schmidt. Alan has to see the principal to talk about it. While sitting outside the principle’s office, he meets Boobra’s mother.
“Could you imagine the mess if he got his prostheses caught in a drill press?”
My thoughts ran towards flammability.
Scientists at America’s top nuclear lab were recruited by China to design missiles and drones, report says
Like this guy?
Are you mad? Head is the funniest bot that ever came out of a lab.
Head, ignore them. Don’t ever change and strive to be how you were originally programmed.
the Clinically Insane Rights Code
Indeed. crocodile tears, spittle and cats flying in all directions
The left’s Space Force motto isn’t ‘ad astra’ it’s ‘ad aspidistra’.
I think Optus is in a world of pain.
They just admitted they waited 24 hours before advising customers of the data spill*, and then only via media, not by direct contact.
Helloooo! Most of your custom is mobile phones! Send them a text you fuckwits!
I reckon banks will go them to make good losses in that first 24 hours.
And, as expected, Girl Guide CEO went with the Ruby Princess defence … “(sob) everyone is working really, really hard (sob)”
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* It’s not a data ‘breach’. That implies defences were broken down. This was simply incompetent spilling of data.
Um…
Poll result: Should Meghan and Harry return to Royal fold under Charles? YOU VOTED (22 Sep)
I take this to mean the fee offered is exactly what the service is worth.
the CCP gift that keeps on giving
And so two of the AFL’s small handful of teams that exist outside the suburban tribal bubble that dominates the competition face off in a grand final: the South Melbourne Bloods transplanted into Sydney as the Swans, an idea forced on the league in the 1980s when it became apparent – before the current era of sports rights megabucks – that there wasn’t enough money in the game to sustain all of the old VFL clubs; and Geelong with its tolerant, sleepy country membership for whom the tribal footy warfare of the Collingwoods and Richmonds of the world is frightening and alien.
Swans fans are Sydney theatregoers, for whom a marketing idea like the big goal-scoring full-forward — Buddy Franklin or Plugger Lockett — is essential to keep them interested.
Cats fans, on the other hand – win or lose today – will still be lining up in round one next year to cheer on their team because for them – unlike the feral suburban armies of the Pies and Tigers – footy isn’t life or death.
So victory today will have to come from the players themselves as there’s no demand for a flag from ferals over the fence. And there is no doubt who is the better coach and motivator – premiership coach John Longmire, who won Sydney’s last premiership as coach in 2012.
Geelong’s Chris Scott won the 2011 premiership for Geelong – his first year as coach. But that premiership was handed to him by Geelong’s outgoing coach, Mark “Bomber” Thompson, and there will be no consequences for Scott if he loses today as there is no feral army of supporters demanding victory.
Cats fans are still sated by premierships in 2007, 2009 and 2011. With scarcely a grumble, they went 44 years without a flag between 1963 and 2007. There’ll be no demand for another one before the middle of the century.
It’ll be Sydney by five points in 2022 because no-one in Geelong could care less.
How many do you sell?
This is the collectivist fallacy. Aborigines are individual human beings and behave in various ways. When two cultures meet, sensible ppl on each side talk to the others to see if they’ve got any good ideas worth copying. As Roger points out, many aborigines have done exactly this and are now just ordinary Australians like you and me.
Assuming they are all like the whingers is just wrong. The whingers are actually also copying our ideas, just the bad ones.
From where arose the ‘acknowledgement to country’ currently broadcast every morning on the national ABC? It was never proposed as a public policy-it just appeared one morning. Who approved it, and why?
How does the Aboriginal industry acquire the same status as respect for the Lord God?
Drillsie
Thanks for the toppering. Do folks get a discount on the 50 buck sangas if they had to endure filthy sheets? Just asking for a future motel patron.
I mean it. This is beyond insanity as it’s an example of what brainwashing can achieve.
Did anyone see this?
My pleasure.
There is no discount. A cut lunch is available only to my patrons.
They can go & ask their motel. I cater only to my guests, not somebody else’s.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis: the Kremlin, Kennedy and the threat of nuclear war” Max Hastings has a new title to be released on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Dude, she goes on strike sometimes. What can I do as she makes really good sangas.
I just recommended to a friend that she should check her credit rating (she’s an Optus customer).
I’ve never done it myself, so is https://www.clearscore.com/au a site I should suggest she use?
Did anyone see this?
https://rumble.com/v1l9dmf-climate-activist-accidently-sets-himself-on-fire-at-tennis-match.html
Border Town Puts Up ‘Martha’s Vineyard’ Sign In Hopes Government Will Come Pick Up All Their Illegal Immigrants
Chuckle!
Jamie Kah — five rides for four winners at Mornington.
JCsays:
September 24, 2022 at 1:32 pm
STFU ed.
Are you mad? Head is the funniest bot that ever came out of a lab.
Head, ignore them. Don’t ever change and strive to be how you were originally programmed.
Ok. I reckon 40% of what it says makes sense. But when I say STFU it means nothing; I just like saying it. STFU head prefect.
Let me stop you right there, Tom.
I worked in that area for nearly ten years.
Generally, you couldn’t meet a more parochial, entitled, insular bunch of yokels than the good burghers of Geelong.
Please, enough with the “quiet satisfied demeanour” of Cats supporters.
The last 15 years has seen a relentless troughing campaign to chisel cash out of various governments to build and re-build Kardinia Park at a cost of several hundred millions.
To subsidise the entertainment of the face-painted cat’s whiskers brigade (and buy votes).
As many as we can make.
It’s a high end clientele – races, polo, etc.
Why do you charge only $33 per sandwich?
Ed Casesays:
September 24, 2022 at 12:40 pm
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill
Yeah, we can’t all be the grandson of a Duke, born in a Palace and bear responsibility for Gallipoli,, Dunkirk and the Cold War.
Just got back from the Pub and I see this shite written by Head Case, a suitable Case for Treatment.
How can Churchill be responsible for the Cold War you dope? The USSR did that with their takeover of Eastern Europe. You are a Left Wing Nut Job with NFI. Go and play in the traffic with your Commie mates. If you have any mates that is……………………………
It sounds like a lunatic act if you put it like that.
I believe the Reuters and AP style guides would translate this as:
It is the indigenous activist argument that is being addressed. They are the ones who claim to represent indigenous people and they commit the collectivist fallacy. We have to challenge those arguments because they paint indigenous people as lacking the ability to improve their lives unless collectivist approaches like truth telling and the voice are instantiated. That activists believe such nonsense reflects a lack of insight into human behavior and how it can be modified. The data is clear that indigenous people have extraordinarily high rates of pathology(diabetes, kidney failure, infections), drug and alcohol problems, and family breakdown. Those are problems of individual behavior. That can only be changed through intervention in individual lives not symbols and recounting of past atrocities.
‘hygroscopic’
Oops. It absorbs atmospheric water vapour which then tends to drop out due to temperature changes.
“Just now, one of the finest tennis players of all time, Roger Federer, was about to play his last match when this young climate activist ran onto the court and lit his arm on fire. Don’t worry. He’s fine. This is the face of climate narcissism”
“climate narcissism”, a very apt description Mr Shellenberger. And this narcissistic attempt at self immolation proves once and for all that this whole climate doomsday scam is a cult and its adherents are religious lunatics, it’s just as sinister and dangerous as cults like Scientology, the Moonies, and Ananda Marga.
Speaking of dangerous cults, I remember how in 1978, a young woman from Sydney, who was a member of Ananda Marga, set fire to herself as a form of protest in Geneva Switzerland. She burnt to death.
There’ll be more of this.
His t-shirt said “END UK PRIVATE JETS”, which I thought was great fun.
It’ll be Sydney by five points in 2022 because no-one in Geelong could care less.
Who cares about GAY FL. Spurs v La Arse is the Big Game in London on October the first. Go you Yids and COYS…………………………………………………..
mutley is that you?
Trans Teacher With Giant Fake Breasts DEFENDED By School Board
The Jimmy Dore Show
Not munty, it’s a wood shop teacher, there’s one photo of it with its fake tits slung either side of a cross cut saw. If it was munty, there would be severed fingers all over the classroom.
I’ll have the arm of activist, waiter.
Medium rare.
clicking through rumble to Twitter, it is quite deliberate setting own arm on fire, but it’s not really about the planet, it’s about their stomachs, apparently climate change will result in crop failure, sounds like they have a lot in common with those in fear of the global elite.
Thanks rickw – I don’t usually get the chance to play pedant, and there was a possibility also that it was a use of hydroscopic with which I was unfamiliar.
Anyway, I can now update the signature panel on my workplace emails to include “Knows what hygroscopic means”.
I can overwrite the part that used to say “Ovens and stovetops cleaned. 8:00 am to 5:00 pm” which is just as well as I am crap at cleaning.
But it was a quote from Sun Tzu.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
– Lao Tzu
Ban domestic flights!
International are fine because we have to attend international climate conferences.
Sancho, I grew up 60 kms away. I now live 30 kms away.
For everyone who isn’t a fan, the Geelong football club is a joke: talent to burn, but can’t get it done in finals.
That being said, they’re off to a hot start today. This is the last chance for the current group to get a flag before they’re pensioned off. It looks to me like last week’s hot prelim against the Pies has taken it out of the Swans.
GAFL is on. Good time to slip down to Bunnings.
They’re only singeing off their forearm hairs.
From now on, I’ll believe in The Prophet Muhammad.
I decided to go to the local Mosque for the first time, to see what it was all about. I sat down and the Imam came up to me, laid his hands on my hand and said “By the will of Allah the All Mighty, and the Prophet Muhammad, you will walk today”. I told him I was not paralysed. He came back and laid his hands on me and repeated the same thing. Once again, I told him there is nothing wrong with me.
After the prayers, I stepped outside and my car was gone!
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Ha!
For a lot of people UK has acquired a different association.
People like him will be saying “Why doesn’t he like Ukraine jets?”
I know a teacher with b…
[Let it go, bespoke]
I may be drunk, My Lady, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
– Winston Churchill
Was supposed to watch the game with family but they are coping so badly they’ve switched to ‘You’ve Got Mail’.
Don’t want to watch that either.
Turkeys getting crunched …
They talk about human rights when it suits the narrative.
But when it comes to resisting an experiment gene medication all of a sudden we have no human rights.
rosiesays:
September 24, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Ban domestic flights!
International are fine because we have to attend international climate conferences.
Who is we kemosabe?
Observations from the pub in Busselona:
No break in the pre-game chat, but scattered applause after the blue-haired sheila sung the anthem.
Rabzsays:
September 24, 2022 at 3:06 pm
Turkeys getting crunched …
I like Roast Turkey along with roast spuds and Yorkshire Pudding.
Yep, climate change(TM) causes crop failure because of lack of fertilizer (nitrogen is bad m’kay?), carbon farming (because actually growing something on the land would mobilize da holy sequestered carbon) and biofuels (since cars eat more than people do, if you put food into them).
Between the greens banning fertilizer, pushing biofuel and taking land out of production I think the loss of net available food tonnage will be more than a little significant.
Warm up the cranberry sauce.
You might be over-egging the “Yorkshire” pudding, Rotten.
Churchill was “on the throne” one morning, when a Parliamentary messenger knocked on the lavatory door, and informed Churchill that the Lord Privy Seal – a man who Churchill detested – wished to see him intermediately.
“Tell the Lord Privy Seal” was the reply “that I am currently sealed to my privy, and I can only deal with one shit at a time.”
Cats got the birds?
One of the few nice things about Goolag is they’re very switched on to such things. Sticking Geelong Sydney into it will give you this:
Which is up from 1.1 (7) a few seconds previously. Paging Plugger: does he still have his boots?
Summer is upon us .. Fairfield re-opened its outdoor 50mts pool today .. 20 laps .. not bad for 74 .. LOL!