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Cheese brained Cheesehead probably thought making the four year old Saskatoonian added verisimilitude.
Note how they fell into line during covid.
Yom Kippur, eh?
…the day’s observances consist of full fasting and ascetic behaviour accompanied by intensive prayer as well as sin confessions.
Marine carries on like Pork Chop, bitch slapped by Aussie Hero, goes on the nod, later has big cry to the cops.
Yeah, that’s the Marines.
When someone is impatient and says, ‘I haven’t got all day,’ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
– George Carlin
It would be presented to the court if there was, you dill.
Always loved the after parties we’d go to in NYC.
KD @5:05………with cocks texta’d on their faces
And their fucking glasses texta’d inside and out.
Ed Casesays:
October 4, 2022 at 6:38 pm
The discussion was around the lack of physical evidence which no-one heavied no-one about.
How do you know there is no physical evidence?
You don’t, you just made it up.
Looks like a few here have an axe to grind.
I wonder why?
You didn’t read my earlier comment, did you? Too bound up in grinding your own political axe.
I think this week will tell but I doubt it. The troops defending in that area have been solid this last month.
Johnny Rotten says:
October 4, 2022 at 6:45 pm
That is either a stupid or incomplete quote.
You can have all day to live but not a whole day to waste arguing with stupid people.
And you’ve met some, have you?
On Sky tonight Peter Dutton was asked about CPAC and how some Liberals were heckled…
“there’s an element there of One Nation, Palmer supporters and extreme right elements” that is frankly on the fringe of the political debate”.
Thanks Peter, I will never vote for you.
A professor of mathematics sent a fax to his wife:
Dear Wife,
You must realise that you are 54-years-old, and I have certain needs which you are no longer able to satisfy.
I am otherwise happy with you as a wife, and I sincerely hope you will not be hurt or offended to learn that by the time you receive this letter, I will be at the Grand Hotel with my 18-year-old teaching assistant. I’ll be home before midnight.
Your Husband.
When he arrived at the hotel, there was a faxed letter waiting for him that read as follows:
Dear Husband,
You, too, are 54-years-old and by the time you receive this letter, I will be at the Breakwater Hotel with the 18-year-old pool boy. Since you are a mathematician, you will appreciate that 18 goes into 54 more times than 54 goes into 18.
Therefore, don’t wait up.
“…the day’s observances consist of full fasting and ascetic behaviour accompanied by intensive prayer as well as sin confessions.”
Yes, no food, no fluid, no sex, but afterwards lots of food, lots of fluid and lots of sex (between married couples…of course).
Fasting never looks so welcome as when you’re presented with a slice of haggis and you’re expected to eat it.
Which I did. Don’t die wondering.
A man was sitting on a park bench on a sunny day. A mother pushing a pram walks past.
End of joke.
Ed: Marine carries on like Pork Chop, bitch slapped by Aussie Hero, goes on the nod, later has big cry to the cops. Yeah, that’s the Marines.
What would you know Ed?
Ever met one?
I commanded US Marines in a combat theatre, and they are some of the finest troops I’ve ever seen. In the war I was involved with there were 36 countries in the Multi-National Force – Iraq, so I reckon there was a good selection on display.
Care to give me some examples of USMC cowardice, if that’s what you’re implying?
Ender
How were your travels in NYC? What did you did. just a summary.
So Dutton is a sellout too?
Enjoy your popularity with people who will never like you, will always mock you and will never, ever vote for you.
That’s the thing about Peter, he’ll stand up for what’s right.
Great move too, Jacinta Price and the other moobs who made speeches are left high and dry and looking like dopes.
That was what he was implying, but now that you have called him out and put him in a position where he would need stronger evidence than actual combat experience with marines, so he will soon start implying something else.
I see the Essendon CEO resigned.
Peter told the truth about CPAC.
If conservative “virtues” [like removing the top marginal Tax rate for millionaires earning over 150,000 Pounds/year] are so popular in Australia, why haven’t some of them started up a Conservative Party here?
Perhaps worth a post, db. He has released a rather whiny statement.
https://twitter.com/DavidZita1/status/1577204443896242177
Should have stuck to marginal area farming..
Well Dutton’s pretty explained why he stayed on board the Trumble-Scumo abomination. He was a fully signed up part of it.
Sancho Panzer says:
October 4, 2022 at 6:27 pm
Good as a lockable shed, but that’s it.
Yes, never understood the container thing for a house. By any reasonable standard you’d need at least a dozen 40 footers (and likely more) which will require much welding to put the units together then lots of cutting to remove unnecessary walls plus plumbing, electrical, roof/guttering, insulation, solid slab, anchoring (all as you said)………
It just all seems rather pointless. Those large sheds would be a better option, that also have much higher ceilings, and there are designs that even ‘look’ like a house. Some even come with pre-insulated walls from my understanding.
Must be that I’m not trendy or edgy enough. You too Sancho.
He was forced to resign because of his religious views, Fatboy. Views, he claims he may not even share with the church on different matters. If the shoe was on the other foot, you’d be squealing like a pregnant whale.
Wheesh’d wee lassie.
It’s braw, wi beeps and a dram.
Rubbish!
The guy was on Licensed premises, misbehaved, made a direct death threat, came off second best, calls the Law.
This is heroic behaviour?
What’s the full story, was abuse of women involved?
What next, will you be blaming brave Australian Diggers for the Battle of Brisbane?
Would you believe Crikey’s correspondent at the conference – who was in the audience for the Minchin/Stoker/McQueen panel – got it right?
He said the Libs are alienating their base by not listening to them.
Someone who writes for Crikey has more insight into the Liberal Party’s problems than Peter Dutton.
There’s a presumption in the Higgins case that Lehrmann must have had sex with her because that’s what blokes do with drunk girls. He denies any sexual contact took place at all.
Higgins is hardly a femme fatale. Would he risk his new relationship for her?
Sexism is at the core of this case but it’s not on the male side.
His stint as NAB CEO was bad enough for his rep, let alone the religious stuff.
He resigned from a voluntary position, there is no crime here.
He can cry into his porridge all he likes, but he made the decision.
We’re in a very similar situation to the yookay- people overwhelmingly endorse a nominally conservative-nationalist party which shits all over them. That party is punished (deservedly) and something even worse (hard to believe it’s possible) wins by default. Here it’s anal, there it looks like it will be the empty suit, the sharp London lawyer.
It was untenable, you ridiculous lardball. In fact, he religious views and convictions have absolutely zero to do with an entity who’s entire existence is to kick a football around a freaking oval.
The day by day objectives of the two sides are quite different. Ukraine is seeking victories that can be publicly demonstrated. Russia is fighting a war of attrition and is more concerned about ratios than territory.
There’s another way of looking at it…he realised he was expected to betray his faith as a condition of holding the position.
Any other faithful Christian would have done the same.
The fault lies not with Thorburn, but with a society that tolerates the intolerant prog-left.
And the Libs wonder why they are deeply unpopular with many conservative/right voters.
No.
Someone who writes for Crikey has more insight into the Liberal Party’s problems than Peter Dutton.
Yes there really have NO idea- unreal. They live in a bubble with their ‘reality’ fabricated by the dinosaur meja. When you look at their ‘advisors’ it starts to make sense. I have been acquainted with some of these people and they really are useless.
Ed, your implication is that if one Marine misbehaved and acted in a cowardly way -I don’t know if he did or he didn’t, and nor am I interested – then all Marines routinely misbehave, and are cowards.
Examples please of when they do this, or indeed did so. You have nearly 250 years of their history to choose from.
Peter Dutton might as well be Malcolm Turnbull or Matthew Guy. He has no hope of winning an election because he believes in nothing. He’s a gutless sellout.
Correct Tom
A word of advice, Ed:
Don’t take on more than one interlocutor at a time.
Ed Casesays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:04 pm
“there’s an element there of One Nation, Palmer supporters and extreme right elements” that is frankly on the fringe of the political debate”.
That’s the thing about Peter, he’ll stand up for what’s right.
Great move too, Jacinta Price and the other moobs who made speeches are left high and dry and looking like dopes.
Richard Cranium continues to grind his personal political axe.
Which seems to envisage a Liberal Party much like the US DemonRats, but probably without the skill at electoral rorting.
Other than the crap caused by the war, the commodities boom is over folks. Get used to an eventual aussie Dollar at 50 cents, which is where it was just before the boom brought on by the developing economies. Iron ore is heading to 45 bucks.
Given American/ Western resolve to re-shore or to move out of China, the impact on Oz is potentially fucking massive.
It’s never even occurs to him that people support PHON and UAP because of one betrayal after another over the last 9 years. Not to mention what went under hoWARd and Fraser.
Horse face certainly revealing her true evil self- remember she was part of the bLIAR set before returning to NZ.
Elon Musk’s quite reasonable twitter poll which I posted earlier seems to have ruffled a few feathers.
If that’s the thanks he gets, maybe he will stop providing them with StarLink. Why should he risk it becoming a Russian target?
m0ntysays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:11 pm
Perhaps worth a post, db. He has released a rather whiny statement.
It would only seem “whiny” to someone who lacks even a basic understanding of Christian principles.
And thinks of AFL as a substitute religion.
For JC – re New York. Others may care to scroll by….
Found the weather overall hot and humid. This was ok by us except when you go down into the Metro subway system the heat climbed remarkably. Metro was fast and efficient.
Masks have disappeared almost everywhere. Saw signs here and there in NY at shop entrances but they appeared to be awaiting takedown. Public transport had the occasional sign or announcement but it was not enforced. About 10% of people on transport wearing them – almost none elsewhere.
In one place – ironically at the Statue of Liberty – we were told they were necessary. The bloke at the ticket counter said they were and offered to sell us two for a dollar. I told him we’ll cancel the ticket to see what happened – he gave them to me. But inside the airport-security style shed before you get on the ferry – much enforcement with signs and staff telling you they had to be put on. Once through security everyone took them off in the lines for the Statue ferry, and they were never seen again. Visited Ellis Island; the Immigration Processing Centre where so many new Americans started their life here.
Some other highlights of NY…
Architecture very interesting. Lots of iconic skyscrapers. Interesting to see the Batman movies architecture where NY is the permanent feature as “Gotham City” with much inspired by Roman, Art Deco or Gothic. Visited some old churches with graveyards dotted here and there amongst the towers. Walked “The Highline”- the old raised rail network, now gone, and converted to a walkway.
Did a three hour guided walk with a lifetime resident, who was contemptuous of some of the newer building styles. Saw some weird, including “The Vessel”, a copper-coloured six storey walk-up display icon at $60 million. Due to no serious safety features it was used for four suicides in 18 months and is now closed with no prospective future.
Visited a work colleague on USS Intrepid, a WWII aircraft carrier moored here as a museum ship. They have one of the 14 Concorde passenger liners on the wharf nearby. Mrs TE did a two hour water tour meanwhile. Iconic bridges, and usually 3-4 helicopters in the air all the time.
Did not eat much local except for Pig Beach, a smoked meat place – very good. We had a tiny apartment where we can do limited cooking and make sandwiches for days out. Local groceries not cheap but everyone likes to talk to “Aussies” and share tips.
Visited 9/11 significant memorials at the site. Firemans’ Mural perhaps the most thought-provoking – the heroes of the day, with 343 dying on duty.
Visited the NY Library – great interiors – and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They had a Degas gallery; two to Monet, and scores more, including a good arms and armour collection.
Did a three hour walk through Brooklyn, which is where we were staying.
Went to see the live stage play Moulin Rouge one night. Full on loud and colourful. Basic plot: the Moulin Rouge theatre in Paris around 1900 must be saved from financial ruin. Can Christian, a playwright from rural America, get something put together while at the same time finding true love with Sabine, the lead dancer from the show? It was set to modern music from the last 50 years, and would have contained bits of around 70 songs. Huge sets – we were allowed to take a photo – before curtain up; flashy lighting, and a cast of around 26 at 100% for 2.5 hours. Great!
Some observations about New York/Brooklyn. Hopefully without sounding patronising, we were struck by the cleanliness, friendliness, and the feeling of safety while there. Sure, we visited the tourist areas, and there were NYPD police everywhere and security guards omnipresent. We used the subway at least 30 times (unlimited metrocard) and buses – they were on-time and frequent. We were hot and sticky because of the weather, but the transport was air-conditioned. One thing I noticed was the medical staff on the Metro wearing their scrubs (blue uniform).
We had a 6x6m loft apartment in Brooklyn – beautiful area – not the expensive brownstone Heights area, but very nice. Including, taxes, Airbnb charge, cleaning charge, it cost about A$200/night. Had fridge, 2 hotplates, and micro/convec oven that did everything. Aircon included. Food seemed expensive and hard to find a supermarket – nothing like our Coles/WW’s.
Rarely saw anyone smoking – prohibited. However, sometimes we have nearly been overcome with dope smoke – entirely legal. Times Square had people openly smoking it with police loitering nearby.
Random observations:
– no escalators etc in the subways – stairs everywhere. Very few large people so far – hard work getting around.
-clothes-wise a city of shorts and tops and trainers everywhere. I guess there must be ultra-smart working people there, but we didn’t see them. People out walking their dogs – poor things – saw only one exercise area with soil, most were concrete.
– one hour out of NY, there was a lake with caravans/huts with people enjoying canoeing, swimming etc. Amtrak was clean and comfortable.
Overall – we have both been there before – but New York was a most impressive city.
Here:
https://www.ft.com/content/e9e8c879-5536-4fbc-8ec2-f2a274b823b4
The preacher, in his Sunday sermon, used “Forgive Your Enemies” as his subject.
After a long sermon, he asked how many were willing to forgive their enemies.
About half held up their hands.
Not satisfied he harangued for another twenty minutes and repeated his question.
This time he received a response of about 80 percent.
Still unsatisfied, he lectured for another 15 minutes and repeated his question.
With all thoughts now on Sunday dinner, all responded except one elderly lady in the rear.
“Mrs. Smith, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?” “I don’t have any”.
“Mrs. Smith, that is very unusual. How old are you?” “Ninety-five”.
“Mrs. Smith, please come down in front and tell the congregation how a person can live to be ninety-five, and not have an enemy in the world…?”
The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, very slowly turned around and said “It’s easy, I just outlived the bitches”.
m0nty-fa
He resigned from a voluntary position, there is no crime here.
He can cry into his porridge all he likes, but he made the decision.
Is that something like “resigning” from an Economics course? And taking up J’isming instead?
If Andrew Thorburn was in a Polyamorous relationship with his wife, girlfriend, boyfriend and dog I don’t think he would have resigned. Actually he would be face of a new AFL campaign.
Ed’s sock is slipping, me thinks.
There was a certain retired School Principal who hated Marines with a passion, and went on endlessly about the Battle of Brisbane.
Leave the sport posts to people who understand it, old man.
“Perhaps worth a post, db. He has released a rather whiny statement.”
You’re a putrid disgrace. Are you ever capable of even the smallest amount of decency?
Clearly not.
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
– George Carlin
That cunt Xi has destroyed China, just like his pal has destroyed Russia.
China had a entrepreneurial bent. It now has European style demography (actually worse), and a political system bent on aggressive posturing and killing any form of free enterprise spirit. China is gonesky.
Actually finding out that Daniel Andrews was an Essendon supporter would chase more people away than their concerns about Andrew Thorburn.
JCsays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:32 pm
Other than the crap caused by the war, the commodities boom is over folks. Get used to an eventual aussie Dollar at 50 cents, which is where it was just before the boom brought on by the developing economies. Iron ore is heading to 45 bucks.
IIRC, it was about that level in the mid-1990s.
Oh yeah, teetering between 250 /300 kilos and requiring forklift to “walk” you out of the front door. You really understand sports.
m0ntysays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:40 pm
In fact, he religious views and convictions have absolutely zero to do with an entity who’s entire existence is to kick a football around a freaking oval.
Leave the sport posts to people who understand it, old man.
JC
Much as it grieves me to say it, m0nty-fa is correct on this occasion.
AFL is his religion.
So you did the long fast too?
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:41 pm
“Perhaps worth a post, db. He has released a rather whiny statement.”
You’re a putrid disgrace. Are you ever capable of even the smallest amount of decency?
Why would you expect someone who acts like an anti-Semitic fascist to have even the smallest amount of decency?
The problem is that the Liberal Party allowed the Labor Voting Australian Media to label them Right Wing and conservative and never pushed back.
The problem originated with Whitlam, he was a Socialist and did whatever he liked.
Example:
Hiring a Pakistani Arms Dealer to borrow $500 mil. [about $10 Bil in todays money] so he could pay the bills after Supply was blocked
Snedden didn’t quite get there in 1974, so some clowns had the bright idea of replacing him with Malcolm Fraser, another secret Socialist who also did whatever he liked, like importing the criminal underworld of Sidon and Tyre against all expert advice.
Anyhow, Fraser was painted as Right Wing, he won 2 huge Election victories, so no one talked about Liberal virtues anymore.
The period 1983-1996 was a total disaster for the Liberal Party, trying to spin itself as right wing and conservative, because:
Australians reject conservatism and the right wing politics that has always brought disaster to Europe.
Peter Dutton is awake to that, all he has to do is consistently stick to the Liberal line and he’ll do well.
No, of course I didn’t fast. I’m a lover, not a faster. There’s a huge get-together after the fast. That’s when we showed up.
JCsays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:42 pm
That cunt Xi has destroyed China, just like his pal has destroyed Russia.
China had a entrepreneurial bent. It now has European style demography (actually worse), and a political system bent on aggressive posturing and killing any form of free enterprise spirit. China is gonesky.
More than 50 years ago, Chin a was in the middle of the Great Proletarian Cultural revolution. Even in that shambles, I recall a work colleague commenting that the typical Chinese was more likely to want to run a small business than be a communist.
If that’s the thanks he gets, maybe he will stop providing them with StarLink. Why should he risk it becoming a Russian target?
I wouldn’t piss him off if I was a Uke. At a word he can turn their Starlink terminals into useless hunks of metal and plastic.
JCsays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:42 pm
That cunt Xi has destroyed China, just like his pal has destroyed Russia.
China had a entrepreneurial bent. It now has European style demography (actually worse), and a political system bent on aggressive posturing and killing any form of free enterprise spirit. China is gonesky.
More than 50 years ago, China was in the middle of the Great Proletarian Cultural revolution. Even in that shambles, I recall a work colleague commenting that the typical Chinese was more likely to want to run a small business than be a communist.
Funnily enough the best after party (Rosh Hashanah) I’ve been to was in a Trump Building ( I think it’s called Trump Plaza on about 3rd Ave and 68th Street. It was a very high floor – possibly the penthouse and it was absolutely palatial. The food was amazing.
It sounded like pretty mild stuff compared with stoushes at ALP conferences back in the 80’s and 90’s.
Cassie.
What is the Hebrew word for “imposter”?
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 4, 2022 at 6:54 pm
On Sky tonight Peter Dutton was asked about CPAC and how some Liberals were heckled…
“there’s an element there of One Nation, Palmer supporters and extreme right elements” that is frankly on the fringe of the political debate”.
FMD, he said that! The lnp are shot to bits. The problem is they got about 33% of the primary vote last election while the liars got about 32%. Of the rest the majority went to the filth and the fucking teals. This nation is going to go through the degradation the eurotrash is now going through. A good article on that is here:
Facing the worst energy crisis since World War II as the cold-weather heating season starts, Europe continues to dither. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has presented a series of new European Union energy policies, including planned price caps, additional taxes on energy producers, establishment of a new European hydrogen bank, and new support for electric vehicles. European Union member states, meanwhile, are nationalizing utilities, setting electricity prices, and subsidizing consumers. These EU policies do not represent a significant departure from the policies that got the continent into the energy mess in the first place.
The fundamental problem is that Europe is still not facing the sources of its energy security crisis, preferring to blame outside forces for its current predicament. Von der Leyen and other European leaders point at Russia and its war on Ukraine for Europe’s energy woes. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s throttling of the gas taps has undoubtedly made things worse, but this will already be the third winter of Europe’s energy crisis. In the winters 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, Europe already experienced significant spikes in the prices of electricity and natural gas, as well as gas shortages that led to increased use of coal and fuel oil. European policymakers either did not take notice or preferred not to change course.
As long as so many people in Europe and elsewhere believe that the continent’s energy predicament is all about Putin, it helps to be very clear about the policies that led Europe to this crisis. Knowing what caused the problem is the first step to addressing it.
Europe’s crisis has been two decades in the making. Aiming to engineer a fast transition from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to renewable sources, European policymakers forced profound changes in the energy supply. At the same time, they ignored projections for continued demand for oil and natural gas, as well as the need for a reliable baseload fuel source to back up intermittent solar and wind. Many EU member states cut back domestic production of fossil fuels and constrained imports, with the notable exception of gas from Russia. Germany, which has significant gas deposits of its own, banned fracking—as did France and other countries. Over the past decade, European domestic production of natural gas has halved, and today imports make up 83 percent of Europe’s gas consumption.
Under pressure from activists and green parties, Germany and several other countries also chose to phase out carbon-free nuclear power, despite an impeccable safety record. Today, Europe’s proposed caps on gas and electricity prices, along with new levies on energy producers, will further restrict supplies while seeking to protect consumers from the high prices that could induce them to lower the thermostat and turn down the lights….
Is there an organization more disgusting, more dishonest , more fractious and venomous than the ABC?
They don’t mention what caused Pauline to reply. Lord, they’re fucking evil
Stop Sanchez. Non-Jewish friends are invited and welcome.
Wasn’t a reasonable twitter poll, but then he’s a romantic libertarian.
May as well have a twitter poll about the mess in Syria. Same issue.
The ethnic Ukrainians and the ethnic Russians now cannot live in the same place, there must be a separation. Otherwise there will just be blood and death for decades. The only thing up for grabs right now is where the border will be. Once it is established there will be a new Indian-style Partition.
Democracies and polls only work if the losers are of the loyal opposition. When it’s winner takes all, like this mess, Syria, Libya and like places then polls are worthless. Polls are rapidly becoming worthless in the US you might’ve noticed, because of the exact same problem.
I back neither side, but it’s totally obvious that the supporters can now no longer live side by side without one side totally dominating the other eg. as in Rwanda.
The ABC is evil, it’s also beyond reform.
Hmmmmm, interesting. Special Ed does need help.
Speedbox at 7:14.
On the container house thing.
Couple of years ago our builder turned up to plan for a reno we wanted done.
Normally a placid bloke but he was fuming.
He had just come from talking to a couple of container-house airheads.
Before their first meeting he asked about drawings.
Yes, we have drawings.
They turned up on site with 3-4 pages of rough sketches done by their Erkotect.
He explained building and planning approval to them, and also that he would need proper plans to quote.
Tried to explain that it would probably cost more to build a container house than an orthodox stick build.
They weren’t having it. Container houses are cheap and, besides, they wanted the rough industrial look.
The final straw came when he took them to look at second-hand containers.
Wifey complained that they were “dented and rusty”. Hmmm. New ones are gonna cost more. A lot more.
The clincher came when she wanted him to get containers with the same logos as the ones in the Erkotect’s drawings!
I think UKR showed in the last two months that RUS can’t win an attritional war with the numbers they had deployed which is why they mobilised 300K. And I think the attacks of Nordstream 1 and 2 indicated that the longer this goes the more dangerous this can become which makes me think RUS will want to decide the issue on the battlefield in the next 6-12 months.
Enjoyed your Big Apple update TE. Never been there.
The Brittany trial sounded boring. Pity the poor j’ismists who pulled the short straw on that one. Less fun than going through Ray Martin’s rubbish bin.
It might be helpful if somebody would even try. Howard was the last one to have a go.
Thanks Ender. Great reply, Hope you guys had a wonderful time.
How’s the compiling of the evidence against the US Marines going, Ed?
Wasn’t there a security guard who says she found La Higgins, on the couch of the office, conscious, breathing, eyes open? No scream of “Oh my God, what happened to me?”
Had reason to use VLine service today. No work so practice bowls at Bendigo which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
Train to Melbourne had 5 carriages, which I think is normal for this route, leaves hourly Bendigo to Melbourne.
What struck me was looking at the train, you could count on one hand the amount of passengers heading down. Yes there will be more along the way but old conductor mate was strafing the aisle with mask fully intact. FMD what a sight to behold.
Trump legal
A lawsuit was filed today against CNN, the once prestigious news channel that has devolved into a purveyor of disinformation, defamation, and Fake News, at a level which the American Public, and indeed the World, will not even believe is possible. For years I have watched this take place, often in disbelief, but the time has finally come to hold CNN responsible and legally accountable for their willful deception and defamatory statements made about me and both, directly and indirectly, my strong, devoted, and patriotic supporters-People who love the United States of America, but have been treated very unfairly, at so many levels. “The Big Lie” that they constantly refer to is actually “The Big Lie” in reverse. They know that, and it will be proven in Court!
In the coming weeks and months we will also be filing lawsuits against a large number of other Fake News Media Companies for their lies, defamation, and wrongdoing, including as it pertains to “The Big Lie,” that they used so often in reference to their disinformation attack on Presidential Election of 2020.
Likewise, we may bring appropriate action against the Unselect Committee of January 6th because, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence, they REFUSED to investigate the massive Presidential Election Fraud which took place, but only investigate and harass the people and Patriots who complained and asked questions about it. The rigging and stealing of our Presidential Election was perhaps The Crime Of The Century, and look at what is happening to our Country now!
The Unselect Committee has refused to acknowledge, as was done by the Biden Inspector General at the Department of Defense, and others, that days ahead of January 6th, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout the Country. That offer of National Guard was rejected by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor Bowser of Washington, D.C.-the law requires their request, they failed to make one, and in turn failed the Country.
I am proud to file today’s lawsuit in order to begin the process of standing up to Fake News and the Mainstream Media.
Couldn’t be bothered scrolling up, I would think it has been mentioned.
Essendon new CEO barely in the job for a day before he is hounded out for his religious beliefs.
If he and Essendon had a fucking spine, they would have gave these pricks an up yours, which would have been an unlubed fist in the arse.
So the Left win again. They get a scalp and as Cassie reported from CPAC, conservatives wonder why they lose. FMD
Getting rid of the ALPBC won’t be done in a Big Bang like Brexit. Most people neither watch/listen to it or care. And have a benign 1960’s view of the place. Constant attack is required to make its very existence illegitimate.
Richard Cranium
Hiring a Pakistani Arms Dealer to borrow $500 mil. [about $10 Bil in todays money] so he could pay the bills after Supply was blocked
Only money appropriated by Parliament can legally be used for such purposes.
Sancho Panzersays:
October 4, 2022 at 7:58 pm
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 4, 2022 at 6:54 pm
On Sky tonight Peter Dutton was asked about CPAC and how some Liberals were heckled…
It sounded like pretty mild stuff compared with stoushes at ALP conferences back in the 80’s and 90’s.
Ask Peter Baldwin about the 1970s.
No need for any of that.
He’s guilty. Even a trial is surplus when you know he’s guilty.
Court proceedings aren’t a total waste though, coz they’re a fantastic feeder to lotsa media coverage.
Seven weeks of trial = Seven weeks of blackening his name & sobbing for poor Britonny and her ordeal.
What church is Thorburn part of?
Forgive me please, I’m not up to date on this one.
What are his religious beliefs?
The Lieborals regard politics as dirty and beneath them. Like leaving the lights on while having sex.
Wasn’t the whole issue of the Khemlani money was that it was to be repaid in one lump sum – principal and interest – twenty years after the loan was to have been taken out?
Well said, BB.
A good portion of those 300K will have been rejected as unfit for active service.
The rest probably aren’t that enthused about their predicament.
Meanwhile, the rich and connected and those with good jobs have been seeking exemptions if they already haven’t left the country on one way tickets.
That leaves the 10 000 the Kremlin itself reported to have volunteered, but they will be put under poor leadership.
Which all leaves Putin with few options other than 1) the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, the consequences of which would seal his fate; or, 2) revising his victory conditions down.
My money is on the latter.
Black Ball
Looks like the bloke was given two choices.
The job or his faith.
The internet has made it unnecessary Bear even if it were any good which it is not. As for SBS, same again maybe even more so. You don’t need George Dunniecan telling you about lesbianese bang bangs.
Mark McLinden was an average NRL player back in the late 90’s/early 00’s. He ran onto the field during the NRL Grand Final in a T-Shirt with ‘No Oil and Gas’ on the front and ‘For our Children’ on the back. His residence was stated as Mullumbimby which explains a bit. Also could be a bit of CTE starting to come through.
There have been a couple of instances overseas of self immolation in the US and Europe over the last few months for the ‘Climate’. I’m wondering when it will start occurring here? There are too many of the cultists around now for it not to occur.
Is this the one?
https://cityonahill.com.au
You can give that church a google review.
What a time to be alive.
Millions of federal dollars have continued flowing into EcoHealth Alliance, the New York-based nonprofit under heavy scrutiny for its role in funneling public money to a key laboratory in China for bat coronavirus research that many believe may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
these ppl must be charged with crimes against humanity and slowly electrocuted on live stream.
Bruce of N
Democracies and polls only work if the losers are of the loyal opposition. When it’s winner takes all, like this mess, Syria, Libya and like places then polls are worthless. Polls are rapidly becoming worthless in the US you might’ve noticed, because of the exact same problem.
I back neither side, but it’s totally obvious that the supporters can now no longer live side by side without one side totally dominating the other eg. as in Rwanda.
The DemonRats in the US and the Liars/Slime here have pretty much reached the same position. Republican or Coalition governments are routinely treated as illegitimate, regardless of the actual votes.
See also Hungary, Sweden and Italy for the EU reaction to the “unmentionables” winning elections. (And also Austria some years ago).
How do you self immolate without hydrocarbons? Sounds uncomfortable.
the worst possible ordeal, caught pissed and spread legged
Add Italy and Brazil just in the last month.
The Victorian disease is metastasizing. It has long been obligatory, under Chairman Dan and hsi ALP predecessors, to be either a Stalinist or a sexual pervert -and preferably both – to get a job (or is that’job’?) on the taxpayers’teat there. (Just look at their woke judiciary.) The cancer is now spreading to football clubs and the private sector.
Top Endersays:
October 4, 2022 at 8:25 pm
How’s the compiling of the evidence against the US Marines going, Ed?
He’s looked at some examples, and (regretfully) had to concede that Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin Reservoir, Da Nang and Hue don’t help his argument. He is now trying more recent times.
Actually the Thornburn controversy and Daniel Andrews’ words have handed Matthew Guy a rolled gold opportunity to attack Andrews and stand up for freedom of conscience.
I look forward to Guy’s master-stroke hard hitting response to Andrews.
Gluten again?
I look forward to Guy’s master-stroke hard hitting response to Andrews.
You win the inter webs today.
You also owe me a keyboard.
Essendon doesn’t have a spine.
They have a women’s team apparently full of lesbians and an official alphabet people supporters’ group.
Like virtually every other entity in big sport and big business, they’ve been commandeered for the cause of subverting the traditional values of God & family.
In his enthusiam for the club he’s apparently followed since childhood, Thorburn naively thought their “inclusivity” extended to faithful Christians.
He’s been severely disabused of that erroneous notion in the space of 24 hrs.
I’ve started streaming a 5 part doco of a pom travelling from Russia to Iran.
It’s a few years old.
It’s him & what looks to be one camera/drone guy & a guide.
Absolutely poverty he’s travelling through.
Here is the statement. It’s not whiny at all.
Looks like persecuting Christians is back on the menu fellas.
Not to mention that depraved “children and family event” in Moonee Ponds that was showcasing disgusting and depraved groomers transsexuals. Thankfully that was shut down.
I’m looking forward to God annihilating the West as it has become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
Nuking us from orbit is the only way.
Nuking us from orbit is the only way.
Gabriel, blow the trumpets.
I’m not sure the Big Guy will be required based on present trajectory. These things have a habit of moving in cycles. No real sign of a turning point from where I’m sitting.
BJ – The problem is the Left have now got religion. Bigly. So they regard the Right as not only wrong but evil (we aren’t, but that’s how they think.) Furthermore they now think unless they’re in control the planet will be destroyed and the human race will perish. That’s a powerful incentive for anything goes.
Consequently the political dynamics in the West are turning into MENA – for the same reason. In MENA you have a political/religious movement which believes they have manifest destiny and that their opponents are evil.
The result in MENA is that there are no democracies. Only two forms of government are possible: miserable theocracy or military dictatorship. The latter are better than the former but that’s about all you can say.
Since the Left in the West is also rapidly turning into an intolerant millenarian religion it’s the same for us. It’s inevitable until the new religion faceplants sufficiently. I hope it will, but I think that will require a good chunk of a century – not unlike Soviet communism.
Wynn Bruce
It would be a connumdrum for them. The guy in the US succeeded (see Wynn Bruce link).
Tennis flamer
The guy at Roger’s farewell wasn’t successful.
I remember back in the 80’s they had deprogrammers for Moonies. There might be money in deprogramming the climate cultists in the future.
Tucker’s interview today with Greenwald on the election in Brazil was interesting. Greenwald said the results in the Presidential and other contests showed the polls heavily favoured the Leftist candidates while the actual results in some cases where 20pts different.
I’ll correct a little by saying countries like Morocco and Jordan are technically monarchies but also effectively military supported and empowered ones. Or they’d collapse.
BoN – the number of people prepared to defend (or even acknowledge) the West’s Christian heritage could be counted on one hand.
The ABC is evil, it’s also beyond reform.
It might be helpful if somebody would even try. Howard was the last one to have a go.
Little johnnie did nothing; as I’ve said little johnnie is shaping as the front runner for the worst PM ever:
1 Disarmed Australia
2 Initiated alarmism in Australia through his Kyoto implementation
3 Failed to do anything about the abc even when he had majorities in both houses
4 Persuaded turdball to stay in the lnp
5 Gave away Australia’s gas to the chunks in a contract at the lowest price possible and without an inflation clause in it even though the fucking thing was for 30 years
For the record, I’m probably an atheist but the church (or more properly battling it) was central to the development of the common law.
I fear the situation is terminal. On the one hand Tucker puts forward cogent arguments that a nuclear war is imminent. Then Gutfeld spends the first 20 minutes of his program hilariously analysing the canadian teacher who is wearing the world’s largest prosthetic tits.
This is Flak Jacket Johnny’s legal background manifesting itself.
Just as you’d never allow an accountant to actually run anything, even less should you allow a lawyer to be in charge.
Cohenite
Correct
So with Thorburn going by the wayside, I can only think of one alternative. Bachar Houli.
An Essendon old boy who had Muslim prayer rooms introduced at the MCG.
Sure, his religion sez death to homos and subjugation of the ladies, but that’s fine among our footy fuckwits, as long as it’s the correct minority group. Rabz doctrine required
Could someone tell me how any catholic priest thinks it’s within the laws and teachings of the church to grant Dan Andrews communion or even count him in their congregation.
Isn’t that a piss take? I genuinely can’t be bothered finding out. It does seem to have a touch of the Max Klingers about it.
Isn’t that a piss take?
Or as Gutfeld said, a milkshake.
How old? John Bell?
Ok, not John Bell. They didn’t have cameras in 1722. 😀
Would be interesting to compare the two journeys.
Ooh yeah, they’ve been running that lie for a while, giving the impression that Hanson woke up one morning, raced across town, kicked Faruqi out of bed and told her off just for fun.
The fact of the matter is, Faruqi could call for people to be burned at the stake and the ABC would make excuses for her.
One must ask what role Gillon McPolo-Pony played in all this.
Only if she offset the emissions.
Tina McQueen is a fucking moron. She doesn’t want to acknowledge that the Liberals fucked up….big time.
Afaik Andrews is not a church goer*, yes, he fronted up at Bert’s funeral for Holy Communion.
*long interview at the Age a few years ago ‘I don’t pray to the church’.
“Sure, his religion sez death to homos and subjugation of the ladies, but that’s fine among our footy fuckwits, as long as it’s the correct minority group. Rabz doctrine required”
Well said BB. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Salvatore
Just as you’d never allow an accountant to actually run anything, even less should you allow a lawyer to be in charge.
And definitely not a suburban solicitor.
The American Medical Association seems to be in favour of mutilating children. As well as against free speech, of course, but that almost goes without saying these days.
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Indeed there was.
Ed – what are your views on Miatas?
the Truth about Dan Andrews, a comprehensive list at the ACL website
Yes fuckwits is what they are- that Demitriou was a particularly nasty one
Bill Muehlenberg
refer of course to Australia’s most flagrant misotheist and Christophobe, Dan Andrews
Boambee John at 5.48:
That last sentence. Perfect.
If Brih-neee was now an Deputy Undersecretary (snork) of Something, this would never have seen the light of day and it would have been put down as the cost of doing business.
If it happened at all.
Andrew is just you typical Monash marxist
and why hasn’t the Catholic Church excommunicated Andrews? Piss poor and gutless. I reckon Mannix would have.
a Catholic piece by Dr Martyr I stumbled across
Hunter Biden committed ‘fraud’ against business partners, Tony Bobulinski tells Tucker Carlson
JR’s quoted piece at 6.26:
Germany: ‘Well, it’s taken 70 years and we introduced the most severe anti-semitism legislation in the world. I think we’re well on the way to making ourselves a better place after 1945.’
Merkel: ‘Welcome, one million people who’ve had their arse kicked by Israel and who’d blow it off the map if given the chance. Make yourselves at home. Don’t worry about learning the language, or any of that shit!’
Germany: ‘Righto, we’re off to the races again.’
Andrews’s excommunicated himself by his public stance on abortion.
He would never have been premier in a world inhabited by Dr Mannix’s generation.
We’ve got the premier of our post Christian generation.
You could say the same thing about UKR mobilisation and yet they’ve had no trouble mobilizing something in the order of 1/4-1/2 a million with a third of the population. I don’t think 3ooK will be any problem.
Russians getting a whooping in the northern areas of Kherson.
Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I’m dead – the NT News:
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that’s it hangin’ on the shed!
ALTOGETHER NOW!
Sheridan is correct about coal:
The Australian
Coal is booming but you won’t hear about it at the ABC (theaustralian.com.au) GREG SHERIDAN 3RD OCTOBER 2022 626 COMMENTS
Having seen the disastrous economic & social outcomes of Europe’s energy crisis, Australia, perversely, perhaps uniquely, is determined to inflict similar damage on itself. The decisions of the Queensland government & AGL, to get rid of coal-generated electricity by 2035 will likely be, if implemented fully, disastrous. I say “likely” because it’s possible that some great technology fix may show up in the meantime. But based on what we know of technology today, these moves mean much higher electricity prices & in time almost certainly unreliable supply & intermittent crises.
Nothing is certain, of course, least of all the future. But if as a nation we wanted to replicate the European mess, this is the way we’d go about it. There are times in Australia when the plain truth is so unfashionable that almost no one speaks it. Here is one simple truth about Australia. We are a wealthy society – with first-class hospitals, affluent universities that can indulge their postmodern critical theory nuttiness, modern transport, modern if ineffective defence forces, a vast welfare system & everything else – for one reason: we make an enormous amount of money exporting commodities. But the anti-fossil fuel sentiment has become so great that now there is a corporate wariness even about gas exploration & development. Yet we are completely dependent on coal & gas ourselves, as well as for export income.
Incidentally, substituting gas for coal has been the main way many developed nations have actually reduced their greenhouse gas emissions. However, remark this central fact which is never allowed into the debate. Coal is booming. That’s right. Coal is booming. I am indebted to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute website for highlighting two recent international reports that make this clear, one from the International Energy Agency & one from BloombergNEF.
No rhetoric or argument could be as powerful as the facts. So let me offer you a selection of facts from these reports. Last year, global coal-fired electricity jumped a staggering 8.5 per cent, far in excess of the 5.6 per cent rise in total global power generation. Overall, never in human history has more electricity been generated by coal. Yet how many times per day do we hear on the ABC that the world has turned away from coal.
Coal is booming but you won’t hear about it at the ABC,
coal? Whenever I’m on an ABC panel & point out that coal is booming, I cause the most terrible conniptions among my fellow panellists & ABC hosts. It’s as though I’ve committed a morally shocking crime of modern heresy speak. But there’s something else. Their view of climate change is religious but, while fervently religious, it’s also intellectually fragile & if they admit certain unarguable facts, such as global coal use, the whole dogmatic structure underlying their world view threatens to collapse. Thus, the moral panic in the reaction.
But I digress. Some more fun facts. The majority of countries pledged to phasing coal out altogether actually increased their coal-fired power production in 2021. Coal, in fact, accounted for the majority of the global net energy increase in 2021. It’s not only in Australia that climate change happy-talk bears only a glancing relationship with reality.
One of the special wrinkles in the Australian debate is the way we ignore Asia. Here are the 10 top countries, in order, for coal power expansion in 2021: China, India, Vietnam, South Africa, The Philippines, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Japan. Eight out of 10 of those nations are in Asia. Economic growth is still centred much more in Asia than anywhere else.
Power usage tracks economic growth & coal use tracks overall power usage. Those basic equations haven’t changed. When people talk airily about the world transitioning away from fossil fuels, what they are really describing, so far at least, is that Europe has cut fossil fuels a bit & is in crisis as a consequence, while the US has partly moved from coal to gas. There’s a lot of renewable energy being installed as well, vast amounts in fact. If your story is only about the uptake of renewables, you can produce an alternative set of facts that seem pretty impressive. But you can’t pretend that coal, gas & other fossil fuels have suffered absolute decline.
In 2021 coal surged not only absolutely but also proportionally. It’s also fair to remember that 2021 was a special case. The world economy was recovering from Covid, droughts produced shortages of hydro-electricity & Russia caused high gas prices in Europe. But every year is a special year.
Not only that, long-term trends do not suggest the world is ditching coal either. Indonesia relied on coal for 49 per cent of its power in 2012 & 61 per cent in 2021. The Philippines went from 39 per cent coal power in 2012 to 59 per cent in 2021. Indonesia & The Philippines are high-population, big-growth economies as far as the eye can see. Of course, they themselves are small fry compared with China & India, still the fastest-growing big economies in the world. Between them they accounted for 83 per cent of new coal power in 2021.
According to Climate Action Tracker, China increased its greenhouse emissions by 11 per cent from 2015 to 2021. In the same period, the US, that world imperialist neoliberal terrible progenitor of every Western ill, which moreover was ruled for most of that time by Donald Trump, reduced its emissions by 6 per cent. Much of that was switching from coal to gas.
Yet the Australian green-left demonises gas almost as wildly as it demonises coal. Coal provided 64 per cent of China’s energy in 2021. Despite being told endlessly by wish-fulfilment-addicted government climate agencies that China is committed to action on greenhouse gases – I’ve often in ABC appearances encountered that amiable chimera, the China national carbon market – China is expanding coal massively. The Wall Street Journal reports the Global Energy Monitor assessing that by July 2022 China had 258 separate coal-fired power stations, involving 515 individual units, proposed, permitted or under construction. Further, the vast majority of zero-emissions energy the world does have is either nuclear or hydro.
Chris Bowen scoffs at nuclear energy. He might want to let France’s Emmanuel Macron in on the joke. The French President won re-election promising 14 new nuclear power plants. France gets 70 per cent of its electricity from nuclear & is the world’s biggest electricity exporter. Nuclear is much more reliable than hydro. Sometimes it doesn’t rain & some countries, like Australia, are topographically difficult for hydro.
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan deserves praise for introducing a bill to remove the legal prohibition on nuclear energy in Australia.
Our greenhouse emissions are down to about 1 per cent of the world’s total. Bankrupting our economy won’t help the global climate. We should gradually reduce our emissions & replace high-emissions energy with lower-emissions sources such as gas, or zero-emissions sources such as nuclear. And before that, we should occasionally allow the facts to participate in the debate.
GREG SHERIDAN, is The Australian’s foreign editor.
Top 5 Comments off some 626 GUFFAWER The Australian needs to include in its front page the NEM dashboard which shows live energy generation data to show its readers the generated energy of coal & gas compared to solar & wind. Never has wind & solar ever achieved over 30% intermittent power. NEVER. Like264
William It appears that, again, coal (coking & energy) has pipped iron ore as our most valuable export earner. Who would have thought it? Like 208
Earl Britain imports 62,000T per day of wood chips to burn in their power stations. Wood chips are classified as renewables. Much less efficient than coal with higher emissions. Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life here. Like 293
Winston S Too many supposedly educated and intelligent Australians believe we can have all our electricity generated from wind and solar without huge increases in cost & huge decreases in reliability. The awful reality, when it comes, will be a very nasty surprise. Like 241
Htn Dutton should hammer this issue. If the LNP committed to nuclear NOW, Dutton would mop the floor with Albanese at the next election. Like 227
m0nty-fa has not yet learned the military adage that events on the battlefield are never either as good or as bad is the initial reports claim.
Sure is.
Steve Trickler posted this link on Adam’s blog.
A lone US bomber flew from the USA directly to the Baltic Sea near Nordholm Island then changed course to Germany. It didn’t land in Germany, it was refuelled mid-air which took over an hour, then it returned to the USA, once again flying near Nordholm Island.
The flight path is tracked by some flight tracker package, the bomber didn’t land in Europe so no European nation can be accused of being an accomplice.
It would be interesting to compare the time line from the two explosions recorded by the Swedish seismologists with the times this bomber passed over the two pipelines. They were blown up over an hour apart which is probably the time taken to refuel.
Russia will not go quietly with this sabotage.
Russians getting a whooping in the northern areas of Kherson.
Interesting that someone so unbattleworthy is so fascinated by it!
Why are you covered in cream, jam and sugar dusting? I was standing next to munty when he got hit!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to release the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines.
The FDA says it is barred from releasing medical files, but a drug safety advocate says that it could release the autopsies with personal information redacted.
The refusal was issued to The Epoch Times, which submitted a Freedom of Information Act for all autopsy reports obtained by the FDA concerning any deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccination.
Russia will not go quietly with this sabotage.
Nor might Europe.
Special loves a knob. He identifies with it.
Not a single comment on Trump statement, legal action.
This blog continues to be off the pace….
I’m not sure NamBob could have gone all this time without mentioning the war. He’s not Basil Fawlty you know.
Custard – It’s just trolling by Trump. Libel laws in the US are so overwhelmingly slanted towards the MSM that he has no chance. He’s famous y’know, and you can say anything you like about a famous righty if you’re a journo. Fortunately that hasn’t penetrated to lower personages like Mr Sandmann, who has taken the MSM to the cleaners. Yum!
It’s still worth him doing it, but the whole legal effort will be so slow it won’t get anywhere before 2024.
Andrew Thorburn sort-of-hypothetical.
Bear with me here, remembering that Scott Morrison – while Prime Minister of this wide brown land – was an active member of a super-Christian arrangement, of which its adherents are described by some as happy-clappers.
Thorburn had shit tins of time in the banks – CBA, St.George, BNZ. And was CEO of NAB. ‘Resigned’ from NAB in 2019, just as the final damning report of the Banking RC was handed down.
Suppose Etherdun not only shortlisted Thorburn, but gave him the job without all the due diligence they should have, and suppose someone around the highest end of the banking profession had a word to the EFC Board after word of his appointment got out that Thorburn dodged actual jail time, exchanged for resignation during the negotiation process?
Suppose the Board, with the benefit of new information decided the risk wasn’t worth the reward, told him to resign, said ‘here’s some cash for your trouble, now fuck off’ and just suppose Thorburn is putting his religion up as a shield?
Morrison had his haters for religious reasons alone, but was able to run an entire country for three years with effectively the same belief system as Thorburn. A football club with an overtly Christian boss isn’t really that big a deal, and shouldn’t have resulted in the schemozzle it did.
Mah spidey-sense is tinglin’, Maw.
Exactly.
CNN may choose their words more carefully when there’s hundreds of millions of liability hanging in the wind.
Yep.
I admit it Custard.
You’ve lapped me twice.
I am sooo off the pace.
Btw I’m assuming you mean him suing CNN.
Would be nice if that led to CNN’s extinction.
One can hope. I wonder if he’ll sue the ABC…?
KD.
It is far simpler than that.
Essington appointed a chap (Scott) as coach who is in with the in crowd at AFL House.
I suspect the AFL and Scott didn’t like the cut of Thorburn’s jib so planted a ginned up story about him and forced him out.
I expect a Wymminses of Colour to be announced as CEO within days.
gigawatt laser
Fair enough point as well.
Either way, this bloke’s religion has been the subject of manufactured outrage, and is waaaay out of all proportion as the reason for him getting the arse.
He seems awfully certain we’re going to war.
The timing works if the mid terms are what matters.
I can think of quite a few ways since I’m a chemist.
Thermite might do pretty well. That’s Fe2O3 and Al.
How about sulfur and hypochlorite? A little too stinky?
Or white phosphorus? That could well be very satisfactory.
Wake up Cats!
And going to bed myself.
Bacon fat and an arc welder?
Why? What’s going on?
Unless there’s something we’re not told here, far from being a jailable offence, this actually is justified, nay, called for.
A few points that are a struggle to reconcile, or to accept
1/. a US Marine playing up in a pub. These are the politest blokes on this planet.
2/. a US Marine running to teacher after he couldn’t finish a fight he started.
Got a niece that lives in a 40 foot container. When she was teaching in the country had it delivered to a rented site, then covid, wouldn’t get jabbed, got a job as teacher/nanny home schooling on a farm. Container on the farm overlooking the ocean. She loves it.
Hoovie flying through heavy flak for his for EV review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbJ7PFlnH8
Ron DeSantis responds to Kamala Harris’s ‘equity’ comments
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a few phone calls between Windy Hill and Docklands.
Daily Mail.
Farmer Gez:
That’s an easy one, FG.
The ‘catholic priest’ isn’t actually ‘catholic’ or a ‘priest’ – he’s one of Satans ring ins and takes his orders from down below.
No mention of Mr. Lehrmann’s emotional state during the giving of evidence.
She cried throughout – that settles it. He’s guilty.
MiltonF:
That’s because the church are practising (?) politics, not faith.
And that’s why Church attendances are falling, and the Godless Greens is rising.
Unusual execution methods… watching a chinese fantasy ..series love between fairy and devil .. I know chewing gum for the brains but enjoyable non the less… The head honcho of the Moon tribe sentences his brother to death by lightening. Strikes summoned by a big dude banging on a big drum.
What the UK should (but will not) do to address the energy crisis.
https://mailchi.mp/7d89c4e29bdd/what-the-uk-should-but-will-not-do-to-address-the-energy-crisis-stch8v6cxz?e=47ee5c4c98
Joe Aston is on the pace.
He has a column on Thorburn.
Will post the lot later.
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
Dave Simonds.
Michael Ramirez.